R C Oil rubbed upon the branches & stems of fruit trees, destroys the insects & increases the fruit buds. It is used successfully upon the stems of carnations & guard them against the depredations of the ear-wig [illegible] Sir G. McKenzie Mr John [Linning] [illegible[ [illegible] grow in [illegible] [illegible] [&] in [illegible] [land] [tooth] [atke] cured by Mr [Grey??e] [potheker] in [illegible] [illegible] London [nere] Sadlers Hall by burning the [illegible] in the [illegible] An effectual remedy for [nursing] chilblains one ounce of white copperas dissolved in a quart of water & occasionally applying to the affected parts will utterly remove the most obdurate blains N.B. This application must be used before they break otherwise it will do injury Cure for cancer Crowfoot root toothache or blister [illegible] arsenic sprinkled upon them & calcined. Styles ([illegible]) A booke containeing many rare and excellent receites very necessary for the restauration of the body to perfect health O quanta radicum! quanta et herbarum virtus! Letere, et istis non [isti], est idem, ac si dicerem, negilgere et abuti Quisque silet bona parta aliis, peccando repeccati labitur in culpam qui sinit ista mori. for the [illegible] in the 69 padge In a sore throat Take oil olives & spirits of turpentine rub the throat with the mixture [illegible] flannel Double quantity of oil [illegible] spirits For a cold & cough one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre. one drachm of elixir of vitirol. 60 drops of laudanum 3 tea spoonsfull of honey: thirty drops of the mixture to be taken three times a day 1 A precious oyntment for all aches *Take twelve penny [worth] of gratia dei and six penny [worth] of [norue] oyle and penny [worth] of salot oyle melt all [these] together on a chafeing dish of [coles], and [illegible] it for your [use] To ease all aches, and especially of any sort of the gout take [acornes] without the shell or [huske] lay them in stronge vinegre 24 [illegible] then take them out and dry them in an oven not very hot, or in the [sunne] then beat them to pouder, and take two penny waight of it, & put it into a sauser full of [illegible] water & drink it. For all manner of tooth ach. Take the [rootes] of [illegible], [seethe] them in [illegible], then wash your mouth once in a mounth & it will keepe your tooth from akeing. A soveraigne medicine for the tooth ach Take the [illegible] of young broome & [skinne] and then take off the [illegible] [skinne] 9 [budds] of sage, 9 of rosemary, 9 [rootes] of [daytes], a [litle] quantity of the [outter] most skinne of [illegible] a penny worth of pepper, and some what more in quantity of bay salt than pepper; breake all these together in a mortar very small; then take soo much vinegre as will [illegible] on them, then boyle it all in a peuter dish upon a chafeing dish of [coles] untill it lookes very black, then [wash] the gumes with it in the mornings fasting, & at night wash them again & the mouth also with the liquor of the same [herbes] alwayes as hot as you can suffer it, and lay some of the same herbes upon the place [illegible] all night An oyntment for the same. take soft lavander [??nip] [pellito??e], [???ther] wood, som [illegible] primroses and sage of [illegible] an equall quantity, bruise them and take the [illegible] [therof] to the quantity of halfe a pint, & boyle them in a pint of oyle [olive], after they be well boyled put them to a litle water and soe make an oyntment of them for the same paine 3 For the tooth ach take a quantity of pennyroyall & [illegible] it with bay salt, take a little therof in a linen cloath and lay it to the tooth for the [spase] of an hower, then take soe much more and [illegible] it as longe there, and after wards more, and more; this will allay the ach & draw out the paine For the tooth ach. take angelico, [fetherf??e], [illegible] seed, oyle of bitter almonds, pound these in a morter, then drop two dropps of the [illegible] into the contrary [illegible] to that side where the payne lyes, keepe your selfe warme, & ly on that side uyour payne is, and bind your head as hard as possible you can endure For an ach where noe swellinge is *take oleum petrolinum, it lookes very [cleene], somewhat greenish, & smells much like oyle of [illegible]; with this annoynt the place payned and [chafe] it well. For the head ach. take [illegible] betony, and [warme] wood 4 and seethe them, then there with wash in all the sick mans head then make a plaster for his [mould] in this manner. Take the same herbes, when they be sodden wring out the [illegible], then grind them in a morter very small, and [temper] them with the sayd liquor againe, & put thereto a quantity of wheaten [branne] to hold in the liquor, then make a garland of a [illegible], and bind his head therewith then lay the plaster on the mould within the garland, as the party may suffer it with a [illegible] & a cap [above]: doe this but three times & it will helpe him For all manner of aches impostumes & cankers. Take [rosin] ][prof??] of each halfe a pound, take virgin wax and frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, an ounce of masticke, a quarter of a pound of hearts tallow, 3 drames of comfry, melt that with it to be melted, and beate the rest into pouder, then boyle all together, & straine it through a cleane cloath into a [p?ble] of white [wine], then boyle it all untill the [wine] be consumed, then let it coole a litle, and put then to a quarter of a pound of turpintine & [stirre] it together untill it be cold, & make it up in [roules], & keepe it to use 5 A good seare cloath for aches. take halfe a pound of red lead and boyle it in a pinte of oyle [olive] untill it bee thick, and soe use it For the tooth ach take a litle gun-pouder put into a fine linen cloath, the same beeing put into the hollow tooth, or hold betweene the tooth soo that it touch the aleing tooth, it [puts] a way the payne [p??ently]. For the tooth ach. take sage & peillitory, seethe them in vinegar, and keepe this in the mouth as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Boyle [illegible] in vinegar, wash the tooth therewith, & it quickly taketh away the payne. another. the leaves of sage layd on & to the tooth that [aketh] taketh away, the payne & comforteth the tooth that are hurt through cold, that they be not more put to greife or payne thereby. For the tooth ach. If you touch the tooth that [illegible] with water [cresses], [incombinent] it taketh away the payne, & it breaketh the tooth. 6 Alsoe the roots of sparage stamped and layd onto the akeing tooth, will draw it out without payne. Alsoe straw-berry leaves chewed take away the tooth ach. probatum est. Alsoe the roote of mouse-eare put into the hollowness of the tooth taketh away the paine. [D. lt] Chambers receite for the tooth ache or payne in the gumes. take a quantity of wood-bind leaves a quantity of rhue, a quantity of violet leaves, a quantity of the pills of pomegranades, and a litle allome, boyle them together in faire well water, and wash your gumes with the water thereof. An excellent remedy for the tooth ach. take a daysie roote & scrape it cleane, then [pare] it round sugar-loafe-fashion fitt to put into the same, and [illegible] after it sheepes woole to keep it fast in, and it will cure you in a very short time For the head ach. Make a posset of small ale & take of the suds, bake a quantity of the best figgs 7 split them & boyle them in the posset drink with a third of liquorice split For the head ach. In the extreme paine, take a good quantity of rhue, make it very hot till it be almost dry, betweene two tiles, then put it between the fould of a cloath, and soe bind it to the [illegible] [pt] of the head. For the head ach. Take fennell & seeth it in water & wash the head therewith, & it assuageth the paine. For an ach. take spare mint 3 handfulls [illegible], take 2 l of [illegible] may butter [unmashed] [temper] them together & roule them in roules, put them in a pipkin & cover it close & set it in a coole sellar 9 dayes, then boyle & after straine them & put them to one ounce of bees wax, & put it up for all the yearse to annoynt them that have any aches. For the tooth ach. take a litle rosemary & bay salt & stamp them together, put it in a linen cloath and lay it to your tooth or gumes. A notable secret for all incurable aches and all paines in the joynts. take all [illegible] whole pound a [illegible] rasteth off (the later the better) cast a way the stalks taking nothing but the hornes, rub the same in [shin??s] or [peeres], then sooth the paine in a gallon of faire water, untill all be come to a pint or somewhat more, then cast away the [peeres] of [horne], & let that in the vessel stand untill it be cold, [illegible] then will be like a jelly; [illegible] you will use of this, warme it in a [saucer], then annoynt the [greened] plate therewith by the fier, evening & morning, and let it [drinke] in by the heate of the fier, and in 9 or 10 dressings it will helpe & heale it thoroughly for [ever] The Leaden Plaster The vertue of it this beeing applied to the stomach [illegible] a good appetite, to the [sick], & taketh away all greifes of the stomach; applied to the belly it easeth the [collick]; it causeth the flowers of [??emen] in great abundance; applied to the [reines] it bindeth the [illegible] & taketh away heate, & strengthens wonderfully the [illegible] & sinewes; it drawes out a [illegible] in the flesh, & breakes and heales all [fellows] & impostumes, and generally healeth all [wormes], & easeth all aches in the body To make the Plaster take a pound of oyle olive, halfe a pound of red lead, a quarter of a pound of white lead beaten to fine powder, 5 ounces of Spanish sope, let them be well incorporated 9 in an earthen pot well glazed before you set it to boyle, then set it on a soft fier of coles an hower & an halfe continually stirring it with a stick, then make the fire somewhat greater, untill the red colour turns to greene, and leave not stirring untill it come to the colour of oyle, but [more] darke; then drop a litle upon a table with a stick, & when it is cold if it come of without sticking it is well boyled, then put in halfe an ounce of [swines] grease & a litle oyle of bayes, then make the plaster thus. Drop a cloath into the pot & hold it in your hands untill it be cold, then [plaine] it upon a table, & if it be [stirking] or breaking out in a litle more swines grease, but if not, it is well. This plaster will last good 7 yeares, applying it to the place [greined], if every morning you take it and mixe it with a cloath For the shakeing Ague Take [fatherfue], new, betony, dandelion, of each three cropps, stamp them together & drinke them with ale. For the ague Take the herbe polipodium with groweth like forme upon a [illegible], lime; marygold leaves, of each a handfull; put them into a quart of ale, [this] stale, seeth it together to a pint, then straine it, & set it on the fier againe untill it seeth then 10 put into it a spoonfull of bruised pepper & drinke this when the fit cometh upon you, & by the grace of god it will helpe you. For the ague Take halfe a dozen of [flipps] of alder greene, & younge, takeing of the [rusty], rind first, [stire] of the [next] greene rind to the wood, & take of this a good handfull and shred it small & pound it in a morter halfe an hower, then infuse it into a pint of very stronge vinegar, let it steepe therein for 7 or 8 howers, then straine it, & give it the party to drinke fasting 3 spoonfulls, nor eate or drinke for 2 howers after, use this three or foure times not only in the morning but at night alsoe & it will, by gods helpe, drive away the ague. For the ague in the brest Take periwincle, [fothersue], alder budds, time, bayes, red sage, rosemary, ale hoofe, daysie mores, orgamen, lavander, smalage, rice, longe woort, black mary goulds, of each a like quantity, shread all these and ground them with sweet lard, and let them stand together nyne dayes after, and then boyle them For the ague in the brest Take red sage, smalage, fatherfue, periwincle, alder buddes, of each a handfull, shread them small & put them into milke 11 & boyle them well together, then [shirk] it with oate meale, and laye this poltis to the woomans brest. A syrup against a longe ague; choller, fleame, appilationes of the side, and the iaundies. Take the [iuyce] of endive & smalage of each halfe a pint, of the [iuyce] of pepper & burrage of each a pint, seeth & clarifie them with whites of eggs, then put therein 2 ounces of rose leaves dryed, halfe an ounce of pared liquorice, cut into small peeces, [illegible] [illegible] the waight of 10d, aniseed, fennell seed, smalage seed, of each the waight of 1s-6d, finely bruised, then take 4 pintes of the [iuyce] thus strained & put to it 2 [q] & a halfe of fine white suger & seeth it to the hight of a syrup. For the burning ague. Take a pottle of water & halfe a pint of vinegar, endive, succory, fine leaved grasse, violet leaves, and strawberry leaves of each an equall quantity, seeth these to a quart, pout there to halfe a pound of sugar, & drink thereof morning and eveninge. A good pleruative against the pestilentiall ague. Make a posset, & boyle the ale thereof with [sed?mell] rootes untill they be soft, then 12 take 12 spoonefulls of the ale, & put thereto 3 spoonefulls of vinegar with a penny worth of treakle mixed therewith, soe drinke it warme as you may. A good medicine for a sore brest. Take a handfull of grease beech, halfe a pound of [comeing] seed, halfe a pound of fresh butter boyle them well together, then straine it and make a salve thereof. For bleeding at the nose. Take betony and salt & mingle them together, & put them in the nose, & it will [sop]. For bleeding at the nose. Take the roote of warme wood & make it very cleane, & chew it a good space. To staunch blood. Chew the roote of a nettle, but swallow it not downe, & without doubt it will staunch, for but keepe it in the mouth, & you cannot loose any blood. To staunch blood primrose leaves stamped & layd to the place that bleedeth, stanch the blood & [illegible] To staunch blood. Take periwincle & chew it in your mouth and it will helpe you. To staunch blood The powder of nettles snuffed into the nostrills staunch blood incontinent 13 To staunch bleeding in any place saveing the nose. Take [house] mosse and lay it to the cut or wound, & it will staunch the bleedinge. For spitting of blood. The powder of dry mulberries is the best remedy. For a paine in the belly or toughnes of the stomack. Take wild time a handfull, an halfe penny worth of aniseed bruised, & soe much liquorice 2d worth of sena alexandrina 2d worth of sugar, boyle these in 3 pings of malmesy untill it come to a quart, then straine it & drinke thereof a good draught first & last morninge & eveninge. For a payned back. Take unguentum rosatum & chafe their bark therewith evening and morning; and lay this plaster [following] to it. Take of fothensue, tansy & howse [leeke] of each a handfull, shread them and stampe them fine, then fry them with a sauserfull of [howy] & 2 ounces of pigeon dunge till it be plaster wise, & soe ly it to your back. For a greivous payned back. The leaves & rootes of egrimony, mugwort, & betony stampt with old grease & vinegar, and a plaster thereof applied to the bark will put the payine quite a way beeing used 3 or 4 times. 14 For a weaknes or payne in the back. Take the string of the back of a [veale], 4 dates minced small, the yolkes of 4 eggs, boyle these in [mustad] all together, eate of this next your heart in the morninge, abstaineing untill diner time. A plaster for the heat of the back Take the broad white lilly leaves which grow in water ponds, sew them after the manner of a plaster fit to cover the reines of the bark, then spread the quantity of an ounce of oyle of [oforoses] there upon, & bind it close to the reines of the bark, & let it ly 28 howers, untill such time as the [vertue] bee quite dryed out of it For the biteing of any venomous beast. Take plantan and drinke iuyce thereof & take plantan & celendine of each a like quantity, stampe & temper them with stale [illegible] & lay to the sore, & it will assuage the swelling and draw out the venome For the biting of a venomous beast. Take the patients water and the iuyce of centry, & give it the party to drinke, this helpeth both man and beast. or take fennell or [illegible] & seeth it in butter & give it the patient to drinke. For the same 15 Take the seeds of bettony & make powder thereof & drinke it [illegible] then take bettony stamped & fry it with grease & lay it to the sore, it will draw out the venome, & assuage both the swellinge and paine. For the same Take plantan & stampe it in red [illegible] and a clove of garlick, stamp them together & lay it plaster wise to the wound; but drinke plantan or celendine tempered in old wine. For the same Take garlick salt & [illegible], bruise & mixe them well together, & lay them to the sore, & drinke one of the afore sayd liquors. Fro the same. Take lylly rootes, dubble daytes, isop, rosemary wild sage stamp & straine them, then put to the iuyce a spoonefull of aqua vitae & treacle & drinke this with ale or milke. For stinginge. Take a burre roote milke and salad oyle stamp them together and annoynt the place, & give the patient salad oyle to drinke. For stinging of Adders. Take [dragons] & drinke it, alsoe stampe dragons and lay it to the place, & it will draw out the venome, & ease the payne. To stanch blood. Take vine leaves & dry them & make powder & put it into the wound, & it will cease. 16 or take the bird called the kings fisher, bake him in an over after the bread is drawne with the fethers, gutts, & all, then beate him to powder & lay it to the wound. Or take the fethers downe of the belly of an [hare], it doth the same. To stanch bleeding at the nose Bind the temples with a list about the head soe that the vaines may not [illegible] theire course, & drinke the iuyce of smalage, and lay a perum oake leafe under his tongue, but [fast] let him chew the leafe in his mouth. To staunch bleedinge take a litle fine white sugar, & as much raddle, beate them together to small powder & lay them on the wound, then lay on these a cleane cloath burned to ashes, shirk, A salve to ripen & heale botch, boyle, or adder. Take white castile soape & very rusty bacon a litle quantity cut very small, stampe them together in a wooden dish with a wooden pestle for the space of 6 howers untill they bee throughly incorporated, like a salve, then spread some of it [illegible] upon a linen cloath & lay it to the greife, changing it evening & morning: it will continue good longe if you [box] it up close For a boyle that is rotten & breaks not Take softed cheese and bores grease, that 17 is remelted, stamp them together, & fry them a litle, and lay it to the boyle as hot as it can be suffered, and at the farthest it will breake within 4 plasters. A good drinke for weaknes in the body, & for the wind collick. Take betony & great plantan of each, an handfull, comeing seed & liquorice of each an halfe penny worth stamped, bopyule these together in a quart of stale ale to the halfe, then straine it & drinke it warme first & last. an oyntment for the same. Take [neats] foote oyle, barrowes grease, aqua vita, & the iuyce of maces strayned mixe them together in equall quantities, then take part thereof & coate it hot in a porringer, & annoynt betwixt the shoulders, but chase it well in before the fier, use this 5 or six times. Against all evills in the body. Take rosemary flowers, put them in a linen cloath & boyle them in faire cleene water to the halfe, soe coole it, & drinke it. A diet drinke to coole and purge the body. Take sarzaperilla 8 ounces, saxifrage 2 ounces, guairi 4 ounces, coriander seed 2 ounces, cena a quantity conformable, 18 stire them & infuse them into 10 quartes of runing water all night, to morrow put in liquorice 2 ounces, aniseeds 2 ounces, boyle all together to 6 quarters, & let the patient drinke a quart a day thus, halfe a pinte in the morning, halfe a pinte at 4 of the clock in the after noone, and the other pint at meales. An easie purge to coole the body. Take pillele gregatine and drame and a scruple, let them be made up into 5 or 6 pills, & take them all early in the morning; it is excellent to purge choller & fleame of the stomack. Another stronger purge. Take diagredian halfe a drame in a litle white wine, take it early in the morning fasting, walke upon it in your chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth Another slighter purgation Take halfe a pound of prunes & stew them in water over a soft fier, then [illegible] forth the liquor into another pot, then take a quantity of liquorice, a quantity of ginger with a litle sinnamon, then a pretty quantity of cena, & stew all these together over a soft fier in the pot where the liquor is, then straine it into the [prunes]. 19 thein the morning fasting let the patient take 3 or 4 of the prunes with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the liquor next his heart putting a litle sugar upon them; let him not eate for an hower or two after, & then a litle comfortable broth, & this will give him a stoole or two, & be exceeding refrigerative for the body. For greifes in the body. Take a pottle of runing water, an handfull of liquorice well scraped, cut, & bruised in a mortar, an handfull of anniseeds, an handfull of parsly, seedes, an handfull of rennet [illegible] sope, an handfull of mouse eare, an handfull of mother of [illegible], put these into the water, & boye it from a pottle to a quart, then straine it from the herbes, & put to it the quantity of a wallnut of sugar candy then drinke [five] spoonefulls of it every eveninge & morninge A plaster for broaken bones Take brooke lime, chick weed, smalage & ground fill, & stampe them together, then put thereto comeing seed powder, then take sheepes tallow melted & fry it [therein] when it is well fryed put to it wheate branne & good [lyes] of wine, & stirre it well together, & lay it hot alwayes to soe sore To draw out broaken bones Take virum, betony, rew, stamp & straine the, & with [illegible] meale make a salve of the iuyce thereof 20 To keepe bookes from vermine. Take the flowrs of rosemary & put them amongst bookes or cloathes, & they will not come there. For the brayne. [also] the pouder of betony in the pottage. An oyntment for any outward bruise Take flowers of elders, when the are ready to fall, grind them small in a morter, in the grinding pot to soe many spoonefulls of [beans] flower, as that be handfulls of the elder flowers, & a good quantity of salet oyle, mingle them well, then put them into an open mouthed glass, & let them stand in the sunne a mounth; this will keep 3 or 4 yeares, & when it mayeth dry, put more oyle to it: & when you would use this oyntment heate some of it in a saucer, & amongst the [bruise] & lay some of the flowers upon it; this will [illegible] in foure or five dressings This drinke cureth all sorts of sores or bruises, be they never soe old; heales woemens brests, which are thought incurable, and if any bane be putrified, it will make it fall away in scales, If there be any impostume in the body, it will cause it to breake outwardly, and likewise if there be any corruption in the body, it taketh away the ach in the stomack, which divers have after they have taken a litle cold. Take agrimony 2 handfulls, mild angelica, betony, wild daysie rootes, & leaves, [???wort] bramble leaes, benewort, fields bugle, [sanicle], [illegible], dandelion, scabions, mug wort, worms wood, & [illegible] of each a handfull; boyle all these small shread in three gallons of water, until the herbs be very tender; you may put into it halfe a pint of clarified hony; give of it 3 times a day 4 21 or 5 spoonefulls warme, that is in the morning fasting, at 2 in the after noone, & at gooing to bed, & drinke not an hower before or after. For any payne, bruise, or ach. Take mugworte & mallowes, of each 2 handfulls, a handfull of [loudage] 3 leaves of, two or three branches of lavander cotton, as much goose grease as an ey, or more, halfe a pint of salet oyle, as much fresh & unsalted butter as an egge, as much deeres suet, as a wall nut, boyle these together, till the herbes be [turned] then strayne the herbes & if you please you may apply them as a bath For a burne or scauld. Take a good handfull of grundall, 12 heads of house leeke, stamp them small as greene [illegible], then take a pint of sheepes dunge, & as much goose dunge, then take a pottle of hoggs lard, & stampe all together, untill it be soe green that you can see noe lard, then make it [illegible] in a ball, & let it stand all night, then in the morning boyle it a litle, straine it, & keepe it. For the same. Take 2 ounces of oyle of roses, 3 ounces of creame, an ounce of pure hony, & boyle it all together, & keepe it [illegible] your use. For the same. Take halfe a pound of [singreeme] or house leeke, a pound of [illegible] madam, halfe a pound of the [rines] of greene elder, halfe a pound of red bramble leaves, halfe a pound of marshmallows, or comon mallow leaves, stampe these together, & take the iuyce, & boyle it on coles, with a pound of salet oyle, or oyle of roses water, & 4 ounces of clarified gooses suet, & 2 ounces of fresh [illegible], let it boyle till the iuyce be almost wasted & let it coole; apply it on white paper to a burne or [illegible] our an [illegible] or [locoram] to an ulcer. 22 For a canker in the mouth. Take the pouder of the roote of celendine, dryed roses, vinegar, [wax], water of hony [suckles], seeth them together till they be [shirk], & annoynt the place by thereof Or [illegible] the iuyce of plantan, wood bind, a litle [roch] [allome], vinegar, & rose water, & wash the mouth. Or take a quantity of sage, a good quantity of [roch] [allome], seeth them in faire running water, & wash the mouth therewith every morning fasting & neither oats nor drinke for an hower after! For a canker Take a handfull of [un] [set] [leekes], & [illegible] rootes, & 16 or 20 litle branches of [yarrow], lay them in white wine until they be very soft, then straine & clarifie them, & drinke every morning & evening three or foure spoonefulls, blood warme, & abstaine from [fruite] for a time For a canker in an old sore. Take a pint & a halfe of red rose water, as much plantan mater, seeth them together, with as much white mercury as a hazle nutt, let them seeth six [illegible], then [stume] it cleane with a fether, & keep it in a glasse for your use, for an approved medicine: & when you will use it, warme 4 spoonefulls, & wash the sore, & lay a cloath 3 or 4 double wet therein upon the sore; & if you feele it too [illegible] lay three or 4 spoonefulls at aforesayd, of mercury water with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, & as much of plantan water: put not this water in any silver vessell, for by reason of the poyson it will [illegible] For a canker in the body. shread the rootes of dragons, dry & make them into pouder; then take the waight of 9 pence of the pouder, & put it into faire hot water, let it stand a night, in the morning power out the water, & put in white wine, & boyle it well, & drinke of it warme, & it will cure you. For a canker in a woamans brest Take [illegible] dunge, pouder of burned wheate hony, virgin wax, barly & beane flower, & linseed seeth [chase] all together in wine or vinegar, putting 23 thereto rames [tallow], & make thereof a plaster, & lay it to the brest; a very good receite To make the black salus, or for a carbuncle take rusty baren, & black sope, pound them together, & make them up in a roule, & soe use it. For the stone or wind collick. Take a quantity of the spriggs of [gardame] or wild time, a quantity of [samshore], [illegible] with the blossomes if you can, parsly, pellitory of the wall speedwell, [peresthome], sarsifrage, [dew] hony, [illegible], radish rootes, alder budds, red roses, or red rose [illegible] the leaves thereof, [cop] [shese] small, & mixe them together, then take a good handfull of cow dunge, & mixe the herbes therein, then set it in the sunne, turneing it 9 dayes, untill you see the watry moysture dry, then distill it, the sairest water is best let your herbes dry a day before you mixe them; this is to be made in May, or the beginning of June. for the wind collick Take a peece of fine [bumbast], & dry it in the [illegible] soake of [illegible], but let it bee good & pure, then put the bumbast in the [naule], & it will ease you speedily For the collick & stone, & for the mother Take fennell seed, coriander seed, carroway seed parsly seed, ground fill seed, [galingall] seed, of each an ounce, the leaves & [codd?] of [seny] an ounce, of [shignall] a quarter of an ounce, & as much tyme, make all these into pouder, & [search] it, & drinke of it in good ale, or white wine first & last, & in all the [illegible] you eat with the meat, this is very good For the collick plurissis, or impostume in the side. Take 3 handfulls of brooke lyme, that groweth in the river, chop it small with halfe a pound of sheeps or deeres suet, & boyle it in three pints of running water, till it be [shird], that you may plaster it on a cloath, & soe apply it to the place grieved, & against it is cold, have more in readinesse, to put there on. [24] For the wind collick & stone Take milke of a cow that grayseth upon the [illegible] distill it in the mounth of May, because then the herbes have most vertue, drinke six spoonefulls fasting, but if your stomach be weake, put to it a spoonefull of gynger finely beaten, & a litle white wine. A present remedy for the wind collick. Take white wine & good salot oyle, & mixe them together, & drinke thereof now & them. Or take bay-leaves with one white when they are opened, & make it pouder & drinke it with white wine. For the wind collick. Take eg-shells, wherein chickens have been hatched beate them to pouder, then take a penny worth of parsly, a litle aniseeds, halfe a pint of [mustadell], put the rest therein, then heat a flint stone, put it therein, untill the medicine be reasonable warme, & drinke it of, & you shall find ease. For the cough Take a pint of rose water, 2 penny worth of anniseeds, as much of liquorices [faire] [illegible], & make them each into pouder, then take halfe a pound of pure white sugar, & a litle of the pouder of the roote of alecampane boyle all these in the soft water, untill it be [shird], & a [illegible] For the murry or cough. Take a posset with ale, put therein the bignes of 2 wallnuts of sugar candy, & a stick or two of liquorice finely shread, & let them boyle a litle in the ale, then straine the posset, & drinke of it morning & eveninge. For a cough. Stamp garlick with barrowes or hoggs grease, & make it shird like an oyntment & annoynt the soles of the feet, & the back bone. very good. For a perilous cough. Take sage, rue, [camein], pepper, boyle the with hony and eate thereof morning & eveninge. 25 For a greate cold or cough. Take the pouder of rosemary leaves, & put hony thereto, eate it fasting, & when you goe to bed. probatum est. For a cold Take nettle seed, seeth it in oyle, & annoynt the foote & handes there with. For a consumption. Take sesame mynt, rosemary, red fennell, mayden [illegible] sope, of each 2 croppes, sweet marjorame, penny royall, 3 branches, halfe a pound of blew [currants] boyle all these in a pottle of running water, untill it come to a quart; then put to it a quart of white wine & a litle quantity of liquorice, boyle these with the rest againe; & drinke of it morning & evening. For a consumption. Take a fat sow pig, put it into a faire skillitory with sesame [illegible], red fennell, & [nipps] of each, halfe a spoonefull, faire & cleane dates 9, the stones taken out, a handfull of greate [resines] cleane, mashed, 2 or three [reasons], the stones picked out, halfe a quarter of [mace], put all these into the pellitory, & distill them together on a soft fier, then put it in a faire glasse, & set it in the sunne 9 dayes, & soe drinke of it at your pleasure. Annother for the same. Take a young pig too fat, but well flesht, [illegible] him, & wash & dry hi as cleane as you can, then quarter him, & put him with the head and foote into an earthen pottle pot, put thereto a quart of mustadell, or [bastand], or instead of it a quart of running water, ad thereto dates, prunes, resines, currants, of each a quarter of a pound, cynomon rimes, whole [mace] of each halfe an ounce, sugar candy 2 ounces, succory a handfull; mayden haire blood wort, linen wort, [illegible] tongue, violet [illegible] berry leaves, of each halfe a handfull, 2 or 3 fennell rootes the pith taken away; sweet margorame [26] [longuebeese] [alias] cows tongue of each halfe a handfull, put all shels into the pot, & stop it close with past, then put the pot into a bottle of faire water, let it boyle 24 howers & as the water consumeth, put in more being made hot; then let the liquor run through a fine cloath & take a spoonfull at once, & put into the broth, & [illegible]. For chill bleanes or kibes. Take 4 ounces of was, 3 ounces of the best resins an ounce of turpentine, 5 ounces of fresh grease, infuse all these together upon a litle fier. For costivenesse Take a peece of browne bread & bast it, & shread it over with black sope, as you doe butter, & apply it to the [naule] as hot as you can suffer. To fret out dead flesh. Take the pouder of pepper, & lay it to the wounds where the dead flesh is. A diet drinke To 3 gallons of ale take some 6 ounces, ashen [begbernells] 2 ounces, bay berries hulled 2 ounces & a halfe, 3 ounces [illegible] pulled; of the rootes of polipodium, of the oake 5 ounces, fennell seeds an ounce & a halfe, anniseed an ounce, saxifrage sliced thinne an ounce bruise all [illegible], save the [same] which, if the body be hard to worke on, and the [illegible] betwixt the hands, soe it will worke the stronger, mingle all these together in a dish, & put them into a canvas bag, somewhat thinne, to let those ingredients into the ale, then with a stone or peece of lead in the bag to keepe it from swimming, the bag being fast tyed, put it into the vessell of ale soe tyed that it sinke not to the bottom, nor swimse on the top, but hang in the midle, but before you put in the bag, the ale must be [turned] up in a vessell of 4 gallons, & when it hath done workeing put in your bag & after it hath wasted a litle shut up the bunge close & clay it, & after 48 howers or 60 howers you may draw, & drinke thereof leting the bag hang in it untill the last. This may be done morning & evening for 10 dayes, or more, or lesse as you thinke good. [27] For the dropsie. Take halfe a bushell or elder leaves, & as much of water cresses leaves, chop them together, & boyle them well in 6 gallons of water then straine it & drinke thereof: these may be gathered in March, Aprill, or the mounth of May. for the dropsy approoved. Take the iuyce of agrimony, wild sage, thistle, & water cresses, of each, an ounce, & knead three cakes of barly flower with it, then make [maybe] of a bushell of barly mault & breake each cake into three [illegible] & put them in the [illegible], & drinke thereof first & last. For the hot dropsie, or flux. Drinke the water of [?plantan] For the dropsie Eate & drinke of [?andine] in decoction: or the roote of elder [illegible] & drinke is very good. For deafenesse Take hony of roses, iuyce of rue, oyle of bitter almonds, put these together, & drop 2 or 3 droppes into the eare, & stop it with black wood. For a noyle or rumbling in the eare. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, halfe as much of the iuyce of rue, 6 droppes of the [illegible] that [????eth] put of greene ash, burned, mixe these together, & drop a drop or 2 into your eare, & use it probatus est. For the same & to kill any worms in the eare. Take the iuyce of betony, horehound or worme wood warme it, & drop it in, it cures you & kills any worms. For the paynes [imgostumation] or deafenes. Drop the oyle of bitter almond warmed into the eare. Or take greene [elme], & put it into the fier, & [illegible] the water that comes out of the [ends], to a pritty quantity, put to it a spoonffull of wine, & the grease of a black [illegible], then put the liquor after it is well boyled into a vessell of glasse, drop of this [warme] into the eares & in 3 or 4 dayes it will helpe you. Or take a black [illegible], & put it in a cloath, & [stram] salt on him, & when he hath [illegible] himselfe well in the salt, prick him 28 with a needle, & let the water run into a glasse, & put 3 or 4 dropps thereof into your ear cold; then take comon marjorome, stampe it, & drinke a litle of the iuyce of it, & put a litle of it into the nostrills; As soone as the snayles be [illegible] [that] must bee used, or else they will dy. A medicine for deafenes. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, & the milke of a woeman, that gives a boy suck, of each a like portion, the milke of [gitten] almones, & every night, when you goe to bed, take 3 dropes warme into the eare, which [thus] upright, & change the eare every night, and take the wooll, that growes between the [browes] of a black sheepe, & stop the eare in which you drop the medicine, which is excellent to restore the heareinge For one that cannot heare. Take an [illegible], [flea] him, & [rest] him, & keepe the grease that dropped from him, & put it into the eares, & it will recover you. probatus est. For deafenesse. Take camomile, mellilote, margerome, [calamynt] [illegible] pennyroyall, [illegible], mynts, of each a hands full, boyle them together in faire running water, the [illegible] of an hower, then dip a sponge in the same water, & hold it to your eares, as hot as you can suffer, what the heate may enter into your head, then take cotton, & stop your eares close, that noe cold can possible enter into your head. To avoyd drunkannesse. Take betony, & make it into pouder, & eate it, and you shall not be easily drunke. To helpe disgestion. Take the outer rind of a limon, the white taken quite away, shread & [mince] it very small put to it the waight of 4d of fine cynomon powder, & put twice the waight of sugar candy as all the other waight, let the sugar candy be bruised mixe all together & eate thereof on a knifes poynt still before meales. A syrup to helpe disgestion & ease faults comonly in the liver Take agrimony, liver wort, [endime], of each halfe a pound 29 full, 6 parsly rootes, all mashed [cleane], & put into 3 pints of faire running water, then seeth it untill halfe be consumed; straine it, & put a small quantity of vinegar therto, that it may last thereof, & put to it a stick of cynomon bruised, & a [conuement] quantity of sugar, then set all on the fier, & boyle it againe, & when it hath boyled take it of, & beeing almost cold put it in a glasse, & drinke thereof morninge and eveninge For a noyse in the head or eare. [illegible], colt foote leaves cleane, stampe them in a morter, take out the iuyce, then boyle it, & [illegible] it as longe as any greene cometh on the top thereof, drope of it into the eare, & it will helpe you at three or foure dressings. For the eyes. P: 175. To cleere the eye sight Take fennell, rue, eye bright, tormentill, betony, roses, [illegible]-shistles, pimpernell, celandine, oculus christi & the herbe called hylagopiony, smalage, wood bind, [vine] leaves, agrimony, of each one handfull, distill them with a soft fier, & use it. For all the evills in the eyes. Take wood bind, eyebright, pimpernell, red fennell, [mell] worte, daysies, sengroome, red rases, of each, a handfull; mayden haire celendrine, wild tansy, of each 2 handfulls; infuse them in white wine 24 howers, then distill them, & use the water. To keepe back humors from the eyes. Take beanes, the outer rime or skinne beeing pulled of: bruise them, & [illegible] them with the white of an egge, or with mastick, & lay a plaster to the temples A pouder for blood shoten eyes. Take of [illegible] 2 drames, dragons blood one drame stampe them & [illegible] them finely, & out a very litle of it into the eye; this is excellent, probatus est. 30 For the same Take 5 leaves grasse, temper it with swines grease & a litle salt, & bind it to the eye that is sore. For sore eyes: or canker if it be strained Take halfe a vyall of faire water from the spring, & put thereto soe much [white] [ceporesse] as a big beane, & [shake] them together untill the [ceporresse] be consumed, then drop of this water with a fether into the eyes, & in 2 or 3 dropping the will be cured. To take away the blood or rednes of the face and eyes, of what humour soener. Stampe worm-wood with the white of an egge & lay it over the eyes, & it will halpe them [illegible] est. A remedy for sore eyes, that burne and itch, often prooved. Take in a perringer halfe a pint of white wine, 2 penniworth of lapis caliminaris, & heate it in the fier very hot, & then [quench] it in the wine, dea 6 7, 8, or 9 times, then straine it twice, & eveninge & morninge put alitle of it into the eyes. For watry eyes. To eate every day a litle betony is very good. Another for the eyes. Gather red [illegible], [bath] them in cleane water, & take of the top the grease, & with that annoynt the eyes early in the morning, & late in the eveninge A singular water for diseases in the eyes, & to clarifie the sight Take greene wallnutts husked & all from the tree with a few wall nutt leaves, & distill thereof a water, & drope of the same into your eyes. For sore eyes. Take celendine, rue, plantan, annis, & as much of fennell as all the other herbes, stampe these in a new earthen pot, then let it stand 48 howers, then straine it & annoynt the eyes evening & morninge For bleared eyes Take the iuyce of worm-wood, & mingle it with water made of the white of an egge, put it into the eyes, & it will helpe you. 31 For a white haw in the eye. Take the grease of an hare, & lay it to the eyes good. For a pinne or web in the eye Take an egge, & rest it hard, & the white all whole put in it as much white ceporesse as a pease, & all hot wringe it, [illegible] through a cloath, & let it drop into the eye this for young & old is a good approoved remedy. Or take betony, straine it & temper it with water, or with white wine warmed, drinke it 10 dayes, & it will destroye the web. For eyes that burne. Take the pareing of an apple cut something thick, & the inside layd thereto at night when you goe to bed, beeing soft [illegible] helpeth the same speedily For moyst eyes Take the leaves of betony, the roote of fennell, seeth them together, & wash the eyes with the water thereof. Or take water of the decoction of tyme & wash the eyes often [thorowly], it dryes [illegible] the teares or watrynes of the eyes. probatus est. For rhumish eyes. Take a red [cole] leafe, annoynt it with the white of an egge beaten well, when you goe to bed lay it to your eyes, & let it ly all night, use [illegible] often. An excellent remedy for a pin or webbe, redness, watring or sorenes of the eyes. Take the white of an eg, & beate it exceedinge well, then [illegible] of the froath cleane, then put into the white, beeing very cleane, a pritty quantity of rose allome being in fine pouder, & [illegible] let it stand awhile, & it will turne all to a water then preserve it for your use to drop into any [illegible] eye, & you shall find it an excellent remedy For a perle in the eye Take halfe a handfull of ground, as much of wild daysie rootes, with a litle white sugar candy beate them together & take the iuyce thereof & drop it into the eye morninge & eveninge. 32 For a pinne or web in the eye. Take a pritty quantity of the stalkes, cropps, & leaves of the herbe called christopher in the beginninge of of May, put thereto a good quantity of may butter without salt, put them well stamped in a peuter dishe, & set it in the sunneshine for the space of 2 or three mounthes, if it will not be rotten any sooner, when it is rotten & as an oyle set it one more in the sunne, & melted straine it, then drop is much of it into the eye, as a small pinnes head, & let the patient hold up his head for the space of a quarter of an hower; this is a very soveraine medicine, but it must be made & mingled in May; yet it may be strained either in May, June, July or August. For the emreds Bath it with malmsy & comein, & put it up with hot cloathes to it, & [trusse] it up hard. For the emrods an approoved and an especiall oyntment Take a handfull of pile-worte, which must be gathered in Aprill, shread it, & put thereto 3 ounces of fresh butter, which keepe untill May in a coole earthen pot; in May take 2 pounds of May butter, ad to it red bramble leaves, elder leaves, sage leaves, fennell, rostmary, mellilot, levage, of each a handfull, camomile mallowes, of each alsoe a handfull, & a litle house leeke, ship these very small boyling them together in the earthen pot untill the herbes feele crispy, then take them out & straine them, & keepe the oyntment for your use. Excellent for the emrods and piles. And if you mixe this oyntment the quantity of a quarter of a pound with an ounce of varnish, it healeth a burne wonderfully For a feaver which is burneing. Take a roote or two of sedwell, [shave] it cleane, the crops of [illegible], & mild tyme, the leaves of marygoled with the blossomes annyseed bruised, the quantity of a spoonefull, soe much comein, 33 & soe much cloves bruised, egrimony, bay leaves, & speare mynt, of each a handfull, a quarter of a pound of resines stoned, stampe them all well together, the herbes being stamped before, boyle them all in a pottle of malmsy, & in the boyleing put thereto some alexandria bruised an ounce, a ways of white ginger bruised, 4 ounces of sugar, boyule them to a quart, then straine it, & drinke of it first & last. A good drink to drinke in the fervent heat take the posset drinke made of ale, boyle it with [surrory] burrage, buglasse, the leaves & blossoms of marygoles, annyseed, sugar, straine it and drinke it; you may use the same herbes in the broth. Or take white wine & milke, annyseed & liquorice distilled, & use to drinke it. An excellent barly wine to cure or coole the heate of the liver or any heate in a feaver. Take a pint of barly water, a pint of white or reneish wine, halfe a pinte of red rose water halfe a pint of burrage water, a quarter of a pint of [surrory] water, the iuyce of 3 good limones, bruise all these, with soe much sugar as will sweeten all well, & drinke thereof at your time. probatus est. For the spotted feaver an excellent receite Take [cardius], marigole flowers, angelica roote, tormentill roote, of each a small handfull, hartshorne, & [i?ery], of each halfe an ounce, boyle these in 3 quarts of posset drinke, till halfe be consumed, then strayne it, & sweet it with the syrope of [scrabiosse], syrope of gilly flowers, & syrope of limons, of each an ounce & a halfe, but if it be not sweet enough, take sugar candy. A posset drinke for the same. Take [three] pints of new milke, 3 pints of small 34 ale, 4 spoonefulls of rose vinegar, stirre them together, the set it over the fier, untill the curd rises, take of the curd, & with the cleane posset drinke, boyle the herbes mentioned in the former recipe in the posset drink then with 2 spoonefulls of this posset drinke mixe halfe a drame of [illegible] ale, & halfe a drame of treacle, & well mixed, give it to the [illegible] parsly 3 nights together, two spoonefulls at a time. For the fallinge sicknes. Take the pouder of the stones of a [swallow]; or 5 leaves grasse, drinke 33 dayes together; the iuyce of [cowstipps] drunken 9 dayes together; or the heart of a [storte] boyled in water, & the broth drunke, & the heash eaten, the blood beeing first cleane drawne out or the liver of a partridge; or the flesh of a doe dryed & made into fine pouder, & drunke with wine or ale. Every-one of these by gods grace helpeth the falling sickness or [epu?ency]. For the same, & divers other diseases. Take young swallowes, burne them whole, & make pouder of them, mingle it with castoreum, & a litle fine [aysell] that cometh of the gall, you may buy it at the apothecaries, distill water thereof, & drinke of it fasting 9 dayes; It is good for the frensy, the [illegible] & falling [illegible], if you have not had it many yeares; it makes a good colour, clenseth the belly & stomacke, helpes the [palesy], cures cold ioynts & sinewes, & a quotidian feaver; but give it not to a woeman with child; it helpes sores & sicknes of the heart, causes one to sleepe well, to make water, deffrayeth paine where it is annoynted, & preformes a man from drunkennesse. For a fellon very good. Take the iuyce of fetherfue & smalage, of each 3 spoonefulls, as much wheat flower as will make it thick, a wall nuts bignes of black sope, worke it together till it be like [salve], & lay it to the finger, & sponge it every day once at the least, & it will take away the payne & helpe you quickly for a fellon or other sor. Mixe sope with a litle salt & lay it to, it will heale the fellon perfectly. 35 A syrope to breake fleame Take [illegible], mayden haire of each a handfull, a stick of scraped & bruised liquorice, seeth these in a potle of faire running water, till halfe be consumeth, then straine it, & put to it halfe a pound of sugar beaten, then seeth it to the hight of a syrope, & take 3 or 4 spoonefulls of it evening & morninge with soe much white wine or beere, or ale. probatus est. To open the pipes, & breake fleame. Take a quart of conduit water, then take annyseed 2 ounces, a bunch of liquorice bruised, put them into the water, then take alicompane rootes, harts tongue, horehound, liver wort, of each a like much, & a top or two of pennyroyall, boyle all these in the liquor till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & drinke of it luke warme, with a litle ginger. Or take a gallon of water, & a pound of hony boyle them & scume of the froath as it boyles, & [well] boyled put to it cynamon bruised small, then strume it through a jelly bag, & ut it into a glasse & drink thereof. To voyd & destroy cleane. Take parsly [mastic] fennell seed, pellitory, [?sope] seeth them in good ale with liquorice & a quantity of clarified hony, & use to drinke it To destroy fleame. Make powder of betony, & take thereof with hony soe much as will make 2 or 3 pellets, swallow them downe whole when you goe to bed; very good. A posset to purge fleame strongly. Take [?sope], lavander cotton, & rosemary of each 3 cropps, beate them small & mixe them in the morter with stale ale then straine it & put thereto a litle treacle; & as your milk riseth put in the strained liquor, & let it stand a litle; then eate the curd, & drink the whey A strong purge for fleame & superfluous humes. Take diagredian halfe a drame, in a litle white wine, take it early fasting, walke upon it in the chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth. To stop the bloody flux. Put a peece of rose allome in boyling milk, take of the [curd], drinke the whey very hot, & if you can eate the curd. 36 For the bloody flux. Boyle [holy-hanke] rootes in wine, & straine it, & drink it; but if the party have an ague, then let the rootes be [fed] in water, with plantan leaves & strained. probatus est. To stop the flux. Blaunched almons sod with hony till they be black, & eaten fasting restraine the flux of the belly wonderfully, but more if they be not blaunched. Eate St Johns water, & you shall find it a very stronge helpe against the flux of the belly. Or eate [beames] sod in vinegar. Or the stalke of a cole warte rosted in embers; or the liver of any beast sod in vinegar, & eaten, refraineth the flux & blood. Water of plantan drunke, is very good both for the flux & the hot dropsy. Mr Halls receite to make his pouder & oyntment to cure a fistula. Take bassorminate, & a greater quantity of white coporosse, beate & rub them well together in an iron morter, & grind it after with a painters [?ane] & soe make it pouder & apply it; and make the oyntment thus. Take the budds of the poplar tree, at theire first comeing, which is in March, or the beginning of of Aprill, take of them a part, & the two leaves of hoggs suet; shread the suet small, & put it in a ketle, & let it boyle a litle, then put in your poplar budds, & let them boyle halfe an hower together, stirre them for burning soe, then strayne it into an earthen pot, & when it is cold cover it, & [illegible] poplar budds, are they that make the populear; where [illegible], that you must use the leafe, when it shootes forth first, when it is no bigger than a [gilly] flower. For forgetfullnesse or drousinesse. The gall of a crane made warme in a leaden vessell, doth throughly, & lightly stirre up the diseased body, if the nap of the neck be annoynted therewith. The sent or smell of dog [fennell] taketh away sleepe. [sauime] beaten & sod in vinegar & layd plaster wise to the [hinder] part of the head [awakes] those that are heavy with sleepe: And [illegible] doth better [quicken] forgetfull persons, than the [smoke] of a mans [haire]. 37 For a pimpled face. Mix3e the iuyce of lylly rootes & vinegar together, of each a like quantity, annoynt the face therewith evening & morninge, for the space of 9 or 10 dayes. To helpe the rednes of the fac. Seeth the rootes of lyllies in water, & morning & evening wash the face therewith, & soe rub it well. For a pimpled face. Take a pinte of white wine, a quarter of an ounce of white coporesse, halfe an ounce of allome, halfe a quarter of an ounce of camfire, & as much brimstone, as a big hasle nut, beate all these in a morter very small, & put it into the wine then shake it all together halfe an hower & let it stand 2 dayes before you use it. It will keepe good a whole yeare. A speciall remedy for the gout. Take wax & refine by equall portions, & more of sheepes tallow, then take plantan, ribworte, equall portions, stamp them & straine the iuyce out, & let it stand all night, in the morning put of the cleere water that stands above, & put all in a pan & boyle it very well, untill all be melted, then straine it into a possett wherein you will keepe it, & when you feele the greife make a plaster & lay it thereto. To allay the ach of any gout what soever. Take ackorne kernells, steepe the 24 howers in strong vinegar, then take them, & dry them in an oven or the sunne, soe that the be not burned, then beate them into pouder, & take 2 penny waight of it, & put it into a cleane saucer of faire water, & drinke it. For the goute. Take sage, parsly, fennel, rue, lavander, of each an equally portion, as much of broome flowers, as all the rest, grind them all together in a morter, & fry the well in may butter, straine it, & let it stand 2 dayes & 2 nights; after wards sooth therein white wine & let it boyle after the [cake], & gather the flower above & heate it in a pan, & put to the pouder of frankincense & virgine wax & mixe the together; this oyntment is best. 38 To make haire grow where never any was. Take an onyon, & bore a hole in an elme tree & when the sap cometh up, then stop the hole with a peg, and soe take out the water with a spoone, & put it into a pot, & use to annoynt the bare place with a fether. To take away haire. Take the ashes of a cole-worte stalke made into a plaster, or use the ashes of a greene frogge burned & made into a lye, the haire being washed through falls away. Or take [horse] leeches & burne them to pouder, & mixe it with [illegible] & use to rub the place. Or annoynt the place with the milke or blood of a bitch, & hare will not grow there. For payne in the head. Mustard seede, or the leaves of it bruised, & layd hterto takes away the payne: there is no better remedy. For a payne in the head. Rub worme-wood well [brayed] & boyled in water & bind it to the temples upon the greife, which will presently mittigate the payne, & cause you to take a pleasant sleepe. To purge the head. Take the seede of [stanesacer], beate it to fine pou pouder, then put the pouder in a linen cloath, & make thereof a litle ball as big as a hazle nut, & put it in your mouth & roule it up & downe & chew it betweene the teeth, & hold downe the head the space of an hower, & it will purge the head & gumes, & keepe your teeth from aleinge. Or snuffe up the iuyce of [illegible] worte into your nostrills; then purgeth the head & helpeth any old paine. Or rub a marygold leave betweene your fingers & put it into your nose, & let it stay there a good space & it will bring out the [rhume], & ease your head. or take comes milke, & primrose iuyce, & with a quill blow up into your nostrills; it will purge the head. Or snuffe up the iuyce of a ground [illegible] Pills to purge the head. Dry maioram & dry it to pouder, mixe it with ginger pouder, & take a rosted onyon, poill it & stamp it with the pouders, & make pills as big as pease, put them into your nose; & water will flow thereout, & ease your paine. 39 For the dazleing of the head. [Broth] pulliall, & lay it to the temples. probatus est. A salve to cure a sore head. Take 12 of the fairst oyster shells you can get, wipe them very cleane, lay the upon a cleane hearth & a very hot charcole fier over them, burne them to ashes, then put them into a quarter of a pinte of [trotter] oyle compounding them with two penny worth of quick silver, & an ounce of brimstone, & it will be best to keepe a quarter of a pint of this oyle by it selfe; the party greived, must have a cap of [canuas], & you must cut away the haire neere to the sore; then annoynt the place with this medicine every morning, & at night with the oyle alone. for the heart burninge Take the crops of fennell, chew then in your mouth sicking & swallowing the iuyce, spit out the rest. For the straitenes at the heart with cold. Seeth figgs in wine, & scume it well, then put thereto 2 drames of the pouder of [dotany] & drinke thereof first cold, & last hot; [Alsoe] for a woeman that goes with a dead child, let her drinke the pouder of [dotany] in wine. And being thus take it causeth iron or wood to come out of a mans body. For the hearinge Take an apple, rost it softly, take the softest of it & pout it upon a linen cloath or cotton, & put it in your eare, when you goe to bed: it is excellent. For the yellow jaundyes. Take turmerick & as much [illegible] beate the to pouder, as much alsoe of the iner barke of a barbery tree, with a quantity of english saffron in pouder, mixe all together, & drinke it in posset ale, 3 or 4 dayes together fastinge. For the black iaundies. Take sage, rosemary, of each a handfull, bruise & straine the iuyce of them into a litle stale ale, 40 & take a saucer of very good vinegar, & put therto as much treacle as a nutte, & beate it in the vinegar, untill it be incorporated, then put thereto as much as a nut, chase them together untill it bee blood warme, & soe drinke of it: this is very good. For the yellow iaundies. Take stale ale, & put therein a [gad] of fier hot steele, take of the fome, & put therein a quantity of [inory] shread, a quantity of graynes, & of english saffron pounded together, & drink it 9 times first & last. For falling of the tuola. Mixe salt & bruise pepper together, & lay it on the end of your thumbe, & put it up there nose. for the iaundies. take red wormes well washed within & without, dry them & make them pouder, or boyule them in the broth, makde with chicken, mutton, or veale, & great resines endive, surrory rootes & herbes, parsly rootes, violet leaves, & burrage, ty the worms in a faire linen cloath, of the bignes of a great walnut, & soe let them boyle in earth or stone, but not in brasse. For the iaundies or morphew. Take the yellomost dark rootes you can get, scrape & wash them cleane, take out the pyth, stire them [thinne], & put them into white or renish wine in a cup close covered, put to it halfe a dozen crops of speare mynts, & let it stand 24 howers, & two howers before you drinke your broth, drinke of this in the morninge fastinge. For the yellow & black iaundies & for the greene sicknes. For the yellow iaundies take of [inory] made into small pouder or halfe an ounce, turmerick 3 quarters of an ounce, english saffron the waight of 4d, all beaten to fine pouder, mixe these together, & drinke a quantity of them morning & evening with stale ale: 41 And for the black iaundices take the same, but first purge [melancholy]; for the greene, the same medicine is alsoe very good. To ripen an impostume. Take worme wood, mallowes, mug-worte of each a good handfull, stampe & mingle them together, with a quarter of a pound of hoggs grease, fry them, & put to them a handfull of wheat branne, a litle wine, & 4 ounces of hony, then boyle them till they be thick, then lay it hot to the sore. To breake an impostume. Boyle lylly rootes & an onyon in cleere water, untill they bee very soft & tender, then stampe and fry them in hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. For an imposture in the body. Take [centry], rosemary, worme wood, hore hound, & make them into a syrop with white wine; take there of, & it will cause the impostume to goe down wards, & when it is breaken, drinke of the same syrope but let it bee always warme. A water distilled in the winter good for impostumes in the lungs & stomack etc. Take alicampane, lylly, flower [doluce] of each 3 rootes, a good quantity of rosemary, as much of sage, half as much of gardaime tyme, & of [rue]; cut the rootes in small peeces, & beate them with the herbes in a morter, untill they b e well mixed, then put thereto an ounce of liquorice cleane scraped, & cut into small peeces, & bruised in a morter, as much annyseed & fennel cleansed & lightly bruised, halfe soe much grasse beaten pepper, infuse all these in a gallon of white wine, or stronge ale, & soe distill it. this is alsoe good for the dropsy, the collick, to comfort the heart, helpe the braine against the aopolexy & dissolves grosse [humers] & fleame 42 takeing but one spoonefull every weeke fasting in summer, & two in winter. For the itch or scab. Take 2 penny worth of the oyle of bayes, halfe a pound of black sope, a penny worth of brimstone, mixe these together & annoynt the scabs therewith. A sweete oyntment to kill the itch Take oyle of bayes, quicksilver, barrowes grease temper them together, & annoynt the party therewith. A [merualous] good & secret receite & of small charge to cure swelled knees & leggs, red & full of humours; often approoved. Take a hoggs skinne if you can, ox also a white lambes skinne, or a kidds skinne, cut a peece of it as broade as the palme of your hand, or some what more, melt it in a pan on the fier, with those things in it; refine of a pine tree 2 pounds galbanu 2 ounces, mastick an ounce, milke, [cynet], amber of each 6 graynes or more; breake the mastick betweene two papers, & melt the refine & galbanu in a pan & melted put the masticke to it, stirre it that it burne not, then spread it hot upon the skinne halfe a finger thick, then take 12 or 15 of the litle beastes called mounkes peason sowes, the ly under stones in moyst places, stamp them in a morter, with a litle barrowes grease, make thereof an oyntment & lay it upon the plaster, & heated lay it under the knee, or calfe of the leg, hard bound for 2 or 3 dayes; if the leg be hairy, shave it away; & if the plaster hath made litle bladders, prick them & mixe them, & wash them with wine wherein the decoction of egrimony, [olive] leaves, & plantan hath beene made, & mixe & dry them againe & make cleane the plaster, & stirre the oyntment a litle & lay it on againe. Doe this every 2, 3, or 4 dayes & the plaster will draw to it in short time a great quantity & will take away the inflamation, rednes, & swelling; If there be a wound heale it with a plaster. 43 For kibes. Take a litle resine, pound it to pouder, mixe it with the grease of a tallow candle, like a salve, make a plaster & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For a laske. Cut of the head a great onyon pick out the [mide??], & fill the hole with frankinsense, & english saffron beaten to gether to pouder, & cover the hole with the top cut of, & rost it in embers, as a [wa?den], & well rosted, take out the core, & lay the hole to the naule; when it is cold take another. A drinke for the same. Take the rime of a pomegranate, 2 or 3 acornes, without the shells, & dry the kernells, put thereto annyseed a spoonefull, a [rays] of good ginger, beate these together to pouder, & mixe all together, & drink of it with red wine where in halfe a dozen wafer cakes have been sod; drinke it together warme three or foure times in a day. For a laske etc. The leaves of knot grasse boyled in wine or water stay all manner of laskes, & fluxes of the belly, the bloody flux, flowers, spiting of blood, & all fluxes of blood For the same. Take 2 handfulls of wheate flower, ty it in a faire white cloath, seeth it in water, which must first boyle before you put in the flower, let it boyle, till it be soe hard, that you may cut it into slices, then dry the slices in an oven, & beate them to pouder & put it in milk, broth or the like Or take the fish of a dozen of great [?entish] [cysters], dry them in a cloath, then strew on both sides beane flower & fry them in sweet butter, untill they bee hard, & eate them, & drinke a cup of [re?bers], or allegant, as you can get. Or take a new tile stone, make it red hot, & take a nutmeg beaten to pouder, & beate into it 5 or 6 yolkes of eggs, bake it on the tile, & eate it, & put a red hot gad of steele into a cup of ale, & [scrap] chalke to it, & drinke 44 For the same. Take a very good nutmeg, wrap it in a browne paper, rost it & eate it very hot, & imediately drinke a good draught of wine of [resbers], doe this 2 or 3 times. Or take a buckes [pisle] & make it into pouder, & drinke it with red wine. An outward medecine for an extreame laske Take halfe a pound of [illegible], beate it very fine & [searve] it, a halfe an ounce of cynomon used in like manner, then take a pint of red wine & bouyle those in it, & make a pultis; then take 2 peeces of red cloath or scarlet & spread it on the, & apply it hot to the belly, beneath the naule, every quarter or halfe an hower one after another Ane xcellent receite for a laske. Take a quantity of gume arabick as much as a hazle nutt, moysten it in the mouth, & as it moystens, swallow it downe, I mean that which moystens & doe this 3 or foure mornings together fasting & it will infallably helpe you. A [tisan] to open the lights. Take a quart of pure barly, a pottle of pure runing water, a good quantity of liquorice, annyseeds, & great reasines, with some figgs, boyle all these to the halfe then straine it, & make it pure good boyle it againe, with the whites of 2 eggs, & take it first & last. For the megram. Take betony, wild thistles, of each a handfull, 6 crops of [singreene], the white of a new layd egge, beate it & take of the cleene, a handfull of wheate branne, mingle all together & put them in a faire linen cloath, & lay it to your fore-head 3 nights, & let the old plaster ly still, & it will help you. A drinke for the same in perill. Take good red wine or mustard oil, & put to it, annyseed, liquorice, figgs, comein, hore-hound, [?sope], tyme, or gamont, alicampane roots, wild sage, herbs tongue, 45 mayden haire, of each a like quantity, put all into a limbeck & distill it after the manner of aquavitae. To procure myrth or chearefullnes The water of burnage drunke with wine makes a man chearefull: it is hot & moyst. Or take a quart of white wine, a pojnd of lye pith of an [oxes] bark, parsly roots, fennell rootes, of each, 2 handfulls, boyle alltogether untill the wine be halfe wasted, then straine it, & drinke 9 or 10 spoonefulls thereof morninge & eveninge, for the space of 9 or 19 dayes; this is very good For the mother or spleene. Make pouder of hore-hound, & eate & drink of it dayly. Or take parsly rootes & fennell the roots & budds of sparages, the crops of tyme, a like quantity of each, boyle them in 7 pints of water, & a pint of hony, & make thereof a syrop; use this 6 dayes; after that infuse a drame or halfe a drame of rubarbe in white wine whey, or in this syrop all night, if the syrope be made thinne; & drinke of it. To cause the meazles or pos to come forth. Boyle a handfull of figgs or pox to come forth. Boyle a handful of figgs, cleane wiped, in a pint of stale ale, untill halfe be wasted, & drink a draught of it, warme [illegible] with the pouder of english saffron. For the morphew. Make a posset with [fennitory] drinke of it in the morninge in your bed, & sweate 2 howers after it; then take annyseeds, pouder & the pouder of [same] & sugar, & drinke of it the same morning, then take a new layd egge steeped 24 howers in vinegar, then prick it with a pinne, & take that with cometh forth, & annoynt the morphew with it & it will goe away. For stopping in the milt. Take [peach] leaves, camomile, yarrow, folgenfue broune fennell, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, of each a handfull, stamp the, & fry it in a litle fresh 46 butter, & lay it warme to the belly, & the side, from the pit of the stomack downeward, & roule it fast on the plaster, or that which is layd plaster wise let it ly 12 howers, then remoove it, & annoynt the place with the oyle warme, & chafe the place before a good fire half an hower at a time. For swelling of the members or stones. Take a rose cake, holy hanke, violet leaves, camomile of each a handfull, a good quantity of comein beaten to pouder or flower, boyle these in faire runing water, untill it be some what thick, & lay it plaster wise thereto: when they are almost boyled enough, pull the rose cake to peeces, & let it boyle on. For a great heate in the mouth. Take a pinte of water, the quantity of a nut of white allome, as much sage, & a spoonefull of hony, boyule alltogether & wash your mouth therewith. A good medicine for an oncome. Take a pint of milke, put therein an halfe penny worth of english saffron dryed & beaten to pouder, with crumes of light bread, soe much as will make it thick; in the boyling put thereto the yolkes of 2 eggs raw, beaten with a litle milke, skinne it continually, when it is thick take a part & spreade it on a linen cloath, & lay it to, changing it twice a day & in the remooveing of every plaster, annoynt the place with this followinge. Take halfe a pint of may butter, put it to comein seed beaten, & mixe it To assuage the swelling of an oncome. Take a pint of white wine, & a good quantity of wheate flower or meale, boyle them together untill they be thick, & lay it to the sore places Or take ground sill, [pinny] ornell, mallowes of each a like, fry them in fresh grease a good space, & lay ti plaster wise to the greived place. 47 Alsoe it is exceeding good to put to the aforesayd oyntment (where it is marked in the [margrine] with this note [symbol]) halfe an ounce of the iuyce of rue, & boyle it with the may butter & cumein seed beaten to pouder & [illegible], stir it, & let it seeth a litle, then use it. A good drink for the pestilence. Take syrop of violets, [sewell], endive, & sower lymons, of each alike mixe them with burrage water, & a [tysane] made of barly with the pouder of [boles?minake] For the [illegible] Take [rue], burned, folgenfue, of each a handfull, a quantity of [illegible], the [illegible] & roots of dragons, wash the cleane, & put them into a potle of running water, boyle it, fill halfe the water be washed, & let it stand untill it be almost cold, straine it thereto sagarrandy, & if you drinke it before the month doe appeare, buy gods grace there is no daunger. A preservative & curative against the sicknes, or plague. Take a new layd hennes egge, & make a hole in the crowne, draw out all the white, & leave the yolke & fill up the shell with english saffron whole, then dry the egge by the fier, or in an oven, when the bread is drawne, soe long till the shell be black & burned, & the rest [illegible], & dry, & beate it to pouder, & put to it the same waight of mustard seed pouder, then adde to it dittany turmentill nux vomica, of each a drame pouder each by it selfe, & then put them all together, & put to it rue, piony, zedoary, camfire, fine treacle, of each, equall portions, soe that the waight of these 5 be as much as all the rest, beate all together in a morter, for the spece of 2 howers, untill they be well incorporated in a lumpe, then glasse it up, set it in a cold place, couvred with a leafe of gold; it will last 30 yeares without corruption, 48 & is of an inestimable value; one halfe penny waight will [illegible] some one from the plague; the waight of a barly coarne half a [memalous] strength to defend the body. but if you be [illegible] to take it before letting blood take 2 or 3 graynes; but after blooding take a whole scruple, or 2, or 3, if your strength will [serve], tempered with wine, for a hot, bakeing; & in a great cold take a litle quantity, & sweate thereupon; I have knowne the sick utterly desperate, not being able to retaine any thinge, yet takeing 2 scruples of this, mixed with a litle aqua vitae, the vomiting hath ceased, & nature recovered, & the sick body escaped the daunger of death. An emplaster for the same. Make it of oyle olive 20 ounces, new wax, [litarge] of gold, litarge of silver, [venere] cerisse, of each 4 ounces, myrrh [galso] an ounce, [venere] tereb. 4 ounces, a soe make it [illegible] The vertue of this emplaster 1 It cures all sores & greifes, soe that the [bone] be [illegible] 2 All swelling leggs, [exceeding] of deafnes, be it with [blew] or other wise 3 All impostumes, swellings, inflamations [exceeding] of [falls] or bruises; & like wise for the touch of any venomously thinge. 4 All [illegible], & boyles in any part of the body 5 All sores, & [botches] caused by venery or gonerhea etc. & all [scabes] in the body or hands. 6 The fistula, be it never soe great & old 7 The plague, laying it presently upon the place where the sore is 8 All sorts of dropsies, swellings or breakings out of the leggs or feete, that you cannot weare hose or shoes. 9 All burnings, although with gunpouder. 10 All cutts, [thrusts] or stabbs with rapier or dagger. 11 All bitings of venomous beastes or mad doggs. 12 All itches & [scabbs] in the head of man or woeman 13 The white [scab], be it never soe bad. 14 All warts, [ringwormes], & [fellons] in any part of the body. 15 The kinges evill. 16 The cancer, [provided] soe, that it be layd to in 49 time, before it comes to the heart of the party All apostumes & fistulas in the eares 17 All sores on the feete 18 All superfluous flesh that growes between the nayles 19 of the fingers or toes. All itch although in the fundament 20 All [var??sities] in the hand, & all such sores, & greifes 21 although they came of loose venery. All sore eyes, inflamed, or rheumetike with white 22 water, that they cannot open them. Alsoe St Anthonyes fier. 23 Alsoe it cures the gangrene, [presently] applied. 24 [illegible] all [puthes], spotts, wartes, freckles, in the 25 face or brow. A preservative from the plague. Take herb grace, elder leaves, red burrage leaves, sage, of each a handfull, bruise & stamp them, & put the iuyce of them into a quart of white wine, & put a quart of grated ginger into it, & let it stand a whole night, then drinke of it 9 mornings fastinge one after an other, & by gods grace it will keepe you from being infected Or take the pouder of [boleorminate] & [sheai??] mingled together very well. An excellent preservative in the plague time to expell it from the house. Take olibanum, mastick, wood of aloes, beniamin, [storae], wadanum, cloves, [ir??per], make of them a perfume, & sprinkle it with vinegar, & alsoe take the greene braunches of quince trees in your chamber, & sprinkle them with vineger & rose water. An electuary very precious against the plague. Take 20 wall nutts, 14 fat figgs, herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, [illegible] eye, scabions, of each a handfull, 2 ounces & a halfe of pomegranate potasicke, alias the blessed bird, halfe an ounce of aristochia [songa], an ounce of aristochia rotunda, a handfull of the leaves of ditany, 3 drames of bay berries, 2 drames & a halfe of the pouder of harts tongue 3 drames of mace, a drame of the salt of the sea, 50 2 drames of nux vomica, a handfull of the flowers of buglasse, stamp them together in clarified hony, & eate a drame thereof every morning fastinge. For the dead paulsy, or numbenes in the ioynts or bones. Take rosemary topps, red sage topps of each a hand full, a pint of good maulmsy, halfe a pint of [neath] foote oyle, boyle them together & stop it close, & annoynte the place with it warme. probatus est. For the paulsy in the hands. Wash your hands in cold water, wherein is sage, and let them dry of them selves. For the paulsy. If any man doubt of the paulsy, let him eate every morninge 3 mustard seeds, & 3 pepper cornes, and use it day by day. OR take the flowers, leages, & rootes of comstipps, stampe them, & lay them in a linen cloath, & warme them very hot, & lay them to the nap of the neck, & to the sores, when those gro cold, lay to warmer, 2 or 3 times; and stamp sage & lay it in like manner to the pulses or wristes. For the same. Take spanish St Omers onyons the cores taken out, & fiull them up with good aqua vitae & with them well, then straine them, & if they bee to dry, put to them in the straining a litle more aqua vitae, keepe this oyle, & annoynt the patient evening & morning: it is very good. For a pluricy: vide pag: 23. For the piles or whites an excellent salve. Take pile wort, gathered in Aprill, chop it small & temper it with a litle butter to preserve & keepe it till May; then take 2 pounds of may butter, red bramble leaves, mallowes, ale [cost], elder leaves, rostmary, house leeke, fennill, [?rset] isop topps, mellilate, & ale [hoose], chop the herbes very smal & knead them in the butter, then put it in an earthen pot, & set it in the hot sunne for the space of 51 6 rootes, then boyle it on a gentle fier stirring it, & when the herbes are crispy it is enough, then staine it purely from the herbes & put a quarter of a pound of wax thereto. If you ad to this salve white varnish it is an excellent salve & a very souveraigne remedy against any burne or scald what soever; & without the varnish it cures the piles. For the same Take the blossoms & budds of archangell, if it be for a man, it must be the red, for a woeman the white, boyle them in white wine, with a [bull] [oxe] pith, strayne the herbes, & lay them to the place greived, & drinke the liquor sweetened with sugar candy, 2 spoonefulls at a time in the morning & eveninge, if the party be aged take the more. To make on pisse freely. Take parsly seed, alexander seed, the rootes of tansy in winter, or the leaves in sumer of each a handfull, boyle them in a pottle of good ale, & let it stand untill it bee cold, then straine it, & make a posset of the liquor, & drinke of it but let the curd alone. Or seeth barly, liquorice, & violets in water 5 or 7 howers, then straine it, & drinke first & last. For those that cannot retaine or hold theire water. Take with vineger & water when you goe to bed the blader of a goate, sheepe or bull made into pouder. Or take 3 dayes together at the weane of the moone the blader of a fresh water fish. or the braine of a hare taken in wine. or drinke the blader of a sow pig made into pouder. or the blader of a [ber?] made into pouder. or fill boards rosted, & eaten are very good for any one that hath the distillation of urine soe take then pouder in drink or [illegible] 52 For the same. Burne goates tallow, & make it into pouder, and put it into the patients pottage. Or lay a tile upon hot coles, & lay theron a grates goose cut in peeces, & give it time to melt then beate it to pouder, & take in a spoone a little with warme milke or pottage evening & morninge fastinge. Or take 2 parts of castorium, one pt of nutmeg beate them to pouder, & with a litle syrope make pills & take one every night when you goe to bed. For one that is poysoned. Take wall worte barke, pare away the outer rime, beat it to pouder, lay it in ale or water all night, then straine it, & drinke it fasting & you will vomit up the poyson. For the Rhume. Weare a scarlet cap smoaked with frankinsense or storax, & take a spoonefull of the syrope diacodion, & hold it in your mouth a quarter of an hower after you be in bed, or more, then spit it out: but if you have the murre, then you must swallow it downe. Or dry & beate a handfull of bay salt, & put to it a handfull of branne dryed a litle, mixe them, & sow them in a linen bag, or two, & heate them hot over a chafeing dish of coles, & lay them to the mould of the head, behind & before, & doe this 3 or 4 times in a dressinge. To make a water in perill. Take 3 gallons of the lyes of sack, or maulmesy, or both, liquorice, aniseeds, of each a pound, coriander seed, carroway, galingall, spikenard, set wall or sed wall, of each an ounce, resines of the sunne a pound, figgs halfe a pound, synomon 4 ounces, penny royall a good handfull, camomile, mynts, [vuset] time, fennell, [vernin], 53 saxifrage, dill, hore hound, of each halfe a handfull, allicampane roots 2 ounces, infuse all these into the lyes 24 howers, before you set you limbeck, let them not be 4 gallons & more, & draw out of this 5 pintes of the strongest, & when it is 4 dayes old put to it a good quantity of rose leaves, & let it stand 10 dayes, & then stragne it, & put to it halfe a pound of resines of the sunne, the stones picked out, & 4 ounces of figgs of Algrye, & let it stand 14 dayes, then cleane it, & stop it up close. Doctor Smithes water for the same. Take a gallon of the stronge spanish wine, three quarters of a pound of liquorice, & as much of anniseed, distill them as you doe aqua vitae, then take a quarter of aqua vitae, & as much rose water, 2 ounces of liquorice, & as much aniseed. If you will you may let this stand 24 howers, & then straine it. For the rhume. Take olibanum, 3 perles; wrap them up in [conserve] or roses, & swallow them downe, as pills, when you are ready to sleepe; but take this not a bove 2 nights together; the three perles must be of the bignes of small pease. For the same. Take [isope] rosted in embers, & lay it to the head. Or if it proceed of a cold cause, take hot calamynt & mother [illegible], bray them, & lay them to the temples, or any place of the head. Ro cast into the mostrills the iuyce of colewort; this purgeth the head from rhume For a rupture Take mond royall, bone worte, shepheard purse, knot grasse, of each a handfull, stamp them together & put the into a pint of the drinke prescribed in the 20th page & 4th receite: then take them, & straine them into the same drinke, & give it as the other. If you use the water above mentioned, for wounds or sore brests or other sores you may put instead of one of the gallons of water, a gallon of white wine, & annoynt the place with oyle of [illegible] worte For the ricketts. Take rosemary, bay leaves, camomile, tops of lavender, the 2 rines of ale [goose], [illegible] isope, [sowed] tyme, of each a handfull, shread them and beate the in a morter, boyle it in a pound of butter fresh the space of an hower; straine it & annoynt the childs sides, knees, & downe to the feete, every evening & morning for a quarter of an hower; this oyntment is to be made in May. A drinke for the rickets. Take the roote of fox [fearne], it hath a clove like garlick; take 5 of these cloves, bruise the & put it into a halfe a pint of milke, boyle it to a quarter of a pint, & drinke of it every morning fasting & fast halfe an hower after: when you have used this a pritty while, then take in the same manner 7 cloves; & when the child will not take it any longer in milke; bake it in an oven, & beate it to pouder & give it the child in [beere]. A syrope for the rickets. Take a quart of running water mayden haire, sage of Jerusalem, coltsfoote, of each an ounce, an ounce of the shaved roots of fox fearne, liquirice shred anniseed bruised, of each halfe an ounce, a handfull of cleane picked liver worte, 20 figgs shred, boyle all these well together to the halfe, & straine it, & put to it a pound & a halfe of fine sugar, 2 drames of prepared perle, 3 leaves of gold, let these boyle well together, then straine them, & give the child one spoonefull first in the morning, & one last at night. 55 To stop the running of the reines Take [cypris] turpentine, the quantity of a wallnut, conserve of roses a quarter of an ounce, halfe a quarter of an ounce of cynomon beaten, 2 or 3 ounces of white sugar candy, red & yellow sanders a quarter of an ounce of each, white sanders alsoe. Another for the same. Take white sanders a quarter of an ounce, yellow sanders halfe an ounce, red sanders 3 quarters of an ounce, beate them well together in a morter, ad an ounce of conserve of red roses, & beate all againe, then take soe much venice turpentine washed in plantan water, as will bring it to the stiffenes of a pill, & take thereof the quantity of a hazle nut in the yolke of an egge new layd; take this 3 mornings together, then cease 3 dayes, & soe by 3 dayes together, untill 9 dayes be expired; then take a plaster of diapalma, apply it to the bark, & let it ly till it fall of of it selfe. The vertues of rosemary. Boyle the leaves in white wine, & wash the face, beard & browes, & you shall be faire; put the leaves under the beds head, & you shall be delivered from all evill dreames. Bray the leaves to powder, & lay it on a camber, & it will kill it. Make a box of the wood, & smell to it, and it will preserve your youth. If the leggs be swelled with the gout, boyle the leaves in water & bind them to the swelling in a linen cloath, & it will helpe you. Boyle the leaves in [strange] vesell, & bind them to the stomack & it helpes all evills. The wood or stalkes burnt to pouder keep the teeth from all evills, if you put it in a linen cloath & rub your teeth therewith [56] For the stone. Take pouder of [s??nes] berries, pouder of [damsenes], pouder of saxifrage, of each a litle much, & drinke it with posset ale. Another Take [unset] time, camomile, of each 2 handfulls, rosemary betony, of each one handfull, 3 handfulls of cinckfole, boyle them in a pottle of sack & a pint of clarified hony unto a quarter, & take it in the morning 6 howers before you eate, & soe last at night. For the stone Take a spoonefull of coriander seed, 2 spoonefulls of parsly seed, & 2 of broome seed, alexander seed, groundwell seed of each a handfull, beate the to pouder, & [searce] them; then take a quantity of white wine & put therto a handfull of parsly roote & leaves in summer in winter the rootes only, a handfull of pellitory on the wall, halfe a handfull of wild mallowes, a handfull of water cresses, boyle all from a quart to a pint, straine it, & then put in the fore sayd pouders, & drinke it milke warme first & last. Another very good. Take a quart of good red wine, put thereto 3 ounces of sugar, halfe an ounce of comein seed whole, seeth all together from a quart to a pint, then straine it & use it cold first & last: very good. Or take [illegible], unset leekes, beane cods, resines, saxifrage, still these herbes [illegible], then take a like portion of the waters, & soe much maulmesy as the waters bee in all & distill the together & keepe that water in a glasse, & drinke 4 spoonefulls of it with a spoonefull of the pouder of good ginger. For the stone in the blader Drinke [turmarick], bayes, [longe] pepper, ground sill, and cloves. an emplaster for the stone. Take parsly, tyme, unset leekes, penny royall, 57 camomoke, vervine, pellitory of the well, saxifrage [clyners], of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pinte, & lay it to the belly. Or take worme wood & camomile of each a handfull, boyle them in a pinte of malmesy untill it be consuned to the halfe & apply it. A distilled water for the stone, to be made in the end of May or begining of June. Take pellitory of the wall, saxifrage, parsly, mother of time, of each 5 handfulls, 12 [redice] rootes small ones, stire the rootes & stamp the herbes, & lay them in a gallon of new milke & soe distill them. Some take but one handfull of each of the herbes & 5 or 6 rootes. then take 6 spoonefulls of the water, & six spoonefulls of white wine with a litle sugar, & a litle nutmegs shred therein, & take it blood warme, thrice together in 3 mornings, & this only in the space of 3 weekes, & ride or walke upon it 3 howers, & after you have drunke this, eate halfe a good nutmegge. To breake the stone Drinke the pouder of egge shells, probatus est. Or take the pouder of the rootes of red nettles put a spoonefull thereof into a draught of white wine, & drinke it something warme, use it every day untill the stone be broaken & consumed. For the stone. Seeth a pinte of holly berries in good ale, till the ale be consumed, then straine it, & put to it a litle butter, drinke thereof 5 or 6 spoonefulls, & within halfe an hower you will make water, if ever any medicine will cause it. For the same Take a good deale of mug roote, stamp it & wring out the iuyce & drinke every day the quantity of a cuppe full. probatus est. The gume of cherries doth breake the stone & leassen the gravell wonderfully. Or distill strawberries & mingle the water with good maulmesy & drinke it. 58 Or take a red hot flint, put it in a quart of white wine, cover it close, & let it boyle, & drinke it cold. For the stone. Take ale, white wine, of each a pint, a quarter of a pint of parsly water, [gramwell] seed, coriander seed, of each a penny worth beaten, a handfull of mother of time, as much pellitory of the wall, halfe an ounce of parsly seed, boyle alltogether on a soft fier untill it come to halfe a pint or therabout Or take mead parsly, pellitory on the wall, anniseeds, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint, & drinke thereof in the morning fastinge, & walke upon it. A purge against the stone or gravell, by Mr Groves. Take a drame of pulvis sanctus, halve an ounce of syrop of roses, steepe them in a penny worth of white wine, & drinke it of & you shall find great ease. Or squeese the iuyce of 2 lymons through a fine cloath, put thereto 4 or 6 spoonefulls of good sallet oyle, with a litle quantity of sugar, drinke it of in a morning, & walke upon it; this is most excellent to provoke urine. Another for gravell. Take a good draught or two of new ale out of the fat, with some fresh butter in it, & walke an hower or 2 upon it, & it will cause you to voyde much gravell & stones. Or take 3 or 4 red hearing-cobbs, dry them & pound the to pouder & all wayes use those of either in the drinke or pottage, or in both . For the stomack payned with heat burneing. Take rose water, sorell iuyce purified, of each a pint, mixe them, ad thereto a quantity of anniseeds, with sugar, boyle all untill halfe be consumed, & take 3 spoonfulls at a time every eveninge and morninge, & at other times alsoe if need requires soe to doe. 59 To breake fleame about the stomack. Take the iuyce of fennell & a quantity of hony, boyle the untill it be thick, & drinke thereof every eveninge and morninge. This cleeneth the stomack. Or take parsly rootes, fennell rootes the pyth taken out, wild tyme, isop, an herbe like liver worte which groweth in an oake, of each a good handfull pick them cleane, seeth them in a pottle of running water to a quart, & with this water make almon milke, & sweeten it with sugar, & drinke of it as oft as you please. For the squincy in the throate. Boyle the iuyce of fennell in hony very well, untill the iuyce be consumed, & use it. Or take halfe a handfull of the rootes of white lillies, or as much as will make a plaster, halfe a pint of milk, halfe a spoonefull of treacle, stampe all together, & make it as hot as you can suffer, spreading it on a cloath, lay it to your throate. A gargle for the squincy. Take 2 spoonefulls of mustard, a spoonefull of hony a pritty quantity of a white doggs [turd] finely [searced], a quantity of strawberry or plantan water, gargle your throate with this: afterwards gargle the throate & mouth with syrop of mulberries or blackberries, & carduus water warmed. To lay outwardly for the squincy. Take a white doggs turd pounded small, a quantity of hony, a quantity of wheat flower, the yolke of a new layd egge, beate all together, & spread it on a peece of leather or browne paper, & lay it outwardly to your throate. A pultis for the squincy Take the rootes of holy [hartes], the rootes of mallowes, of each a handfull, the pith taken out; camomile, violet leaves, & flowers, of each a handfull chop them small, & boyle the in a pint of faire water, 60 put to it fennigreese meale linseed, [illegible] barly, of each halfe an ounce, boyle it to a pultis, then put into it halfe an ounce of oyle of camomile, halfe an ounce of oyle of sweet almons & spread it & lay it to warme, change it once in 6 howers. For shrinkeing of the sinues. Take marsh mallowes, rosemary topps of each a handfull, stamp them together, then [illegible] them in may butter melted & mingle them, then let it stand 10 dayes, then seeth it well on a soft fier, then straine it, & keepe it in a stone pot. For shrinking of the vaines or sinues. Take a quantity of fine mustard made with white wine vineger, a quantity of maulmesy, a quantity of cynomon, boyle all together, & with this [chase] the place then take chick weed wrap it in a browne paper & rost it untill it bee soft, & lay it on the place greived, as hot as you can suffer it. For a prick in the sinues with a nayle, knife, or thorne. Heate oyle of roses well & lay it upon the place very hot & bind black wooll upon it. probatus est. For the same if the hole be stopped. temper boulted wheat flower with wine, & boyle it together, till it be thick, & make a plaster of it, & lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it. For one that cannot sleepe. Stamp bay berries in a morter & lay them all about your head in a cloath. or take egrimony, & put it under your head, & you will sleep untill it be taken away or take a handfull of hempe seed, wash it cleane, & dry it against the fier, then beate it to powder then straine it with a quantity of new ale, & make a [illegible] through a strainer then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it warme. This is alsoe good for the black jaundyes. Or make pouder of the white topps or seeds of lettice, & temper it with woemans milke, & the white of an egge & lay it to the temples of the head, & you will sleepe. Or drinke this pouder in milke. 61 For one that cannot sleepe. Take 5 branches of arkangell, 7 of white wort, & 11 of the leaves of sedwell, pound the together & straine them with as much drinke as will make a posset, & make a posset with the sayd liquor & molke, and drinke the posset ale when you goe to bed. For the spleene. Take endive, harte tongue, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, smallage, fennell, parsly, of each 2 rootes, anniseed, comein seed, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, seeth these in 3 pints of water, & the third part of a pint of white wine vineger, to the halfe, & when it is cold, straine it, & with a litle sugar every morning drinke a good draught thereof fasting & let it be blood warme, when you take it & boyle it in stone or earth, not in brasse To clense the spleene. Take harts tongue, wild hopps, lettice, burrage, [illegible] flowers of fumitorrae & parsly roots, seeth all these in whay, when they are well sodden, clarifie the whay with white of eggs, straineing it, & keepe it & drinke it first & last during a mounth & it will halpe the spleene, & clense the blood, & comfort the body many wayes. To make one slender. Take fennell, & seeth it in water, & drinke the water last at night, & first in the morninge. For the sciatica. Take the oyle of a fox, oyle of camomile, of each a like quantity, take neats foot oyle & aqua vitae twice soe much, put all together, & warme them, & annoynt the place greived by the fier. To make one soluble or loose. Make broth of veale, mallowes, violet leaves, & great resins stoned, then straine it, & take a quantity thereof fasting & fast 2 howers after it 62 For a stinkeing breath. [illegible] to drinke vernine tempered with wine. Or seeth gardaime mints in vineger, & wash your mouth therewith, after wards rub your mouth, gumes and & teeth with the pouder of mynts; it is very good. For the straitenes of wind. Take an earthen pot of a gallon, put therein faire water, & a cocknell of a yeare old, then take fennell rootes faire scraped the outer rind being taken away, alsoe the rootes of parsly, [illegible] harts tongue liver worte, & dandelion, put all into the pot, boyle it a good space, & put to it a quantity of greate resines,m & prunes, & boyle it, till the cocknell be boyled in manner to peeces, then straine it, & drinke thereof first in the morninge, & an hower before supper, & use it thus soe longe as you shall think good. For the same Take a penny worth of the smallest griggs or [eeles], chop them very small & boyle them in ale, made without hopps, put thereto 3 pounds of sugar candy, an halfe penny worth of liquorice, as much of graynes, boyle all together & sup it up as a sponge. For a short wind. Seeth mallowes, mercury, & burrage with a peece of parke, & drinke the broath with white wine or whay made of milke. For a paine in the side. Take wild tyme, penny royall, runing water, saxifrage, [mouse??d], of each halfe a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint with iuniper berries halfe a handfull bruised, put to it 2 spoonefulls of fine sugar, straine it & drink of the liquor first & last, & take it as you have need 63 For a stitch ]Take the great red poppy flowers, that stick & grow in corne, distill them as you doe roses, & take a draught of the water blood warme with old ale or wine, drink it twice or thrice at any time. Or take 2 or 3 handfulls of camomile flowers or of the herbes, & as much worme wood, some mallowes, a good handfull of rosemary, seeth all in a gallon of water till halfe be consumed, then put it into a dry blader of an oxe or cow, & lay the blader to the place greived as hot as you can suffer it, & when it is almost cold, warme it againe, or rather take 2 bladers, & when one is cold, lay to the other, that is hot Another for a payne in the side. Take a few oates & parch the, a good handfull of fethersue, a quantity of pigeons dunge, dry all these in may butter, & in a bag, or limon cloath lay it to your side, as hot as you can suffer it. For a swellinge. Take worme wood, broome, of each halfe a armefull, burne them to ashes, & put them into a cleene posset drinke made of white wine with 4d worth of iuniper berries, & boyle it all together, then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it; let the posset drinke be a quart in quantity. For a surfet Take worme wood & red mynts, strew them well with salt, & boyle them in vineger, with crumes of browne bread, & sew it in a linen bag, & lay it hot to the stomack; this will helpe you. For a tetter. Take a penny worth of mercury sublimate, put it into a glasse with a quarter of a pint of faire water; & let it stand, & wash the tetter therewith evening & morning, & let the water dry up of it selfe. Or take mercury sublimate & boleorminate, & make them into powder & mixe it with faire water in the hands, & lay it on the tetter beeing cleared. 64 Or beate glasse to fine pouder, mixe it with black soape, & annoynt the sore therewith. For tilicke Take a quart of faire water put thereto isope, hore hound of each halfe a handfull, mayden haire a handfull, liquorice halfe a pound grossely bruised seeth them in the water to the halfe, then straine it, & put to the liquor 4 ounces of penny [deyes]: mace, cynomon, ginger, nutmeggs, of each halfe an ounce, 4d waight of longe pepper, beate these together to fine pouder, & put them into the liquor, & make with fine wheat flower a cake, and bake it, & eate thereof For the same Boyle a quart of good ale, & scume it cleane, put to it a good quantity of anniseeds, a stick of liquorice bruised, 3 figgs, a peece of sugar candy, boyle them untill it come to a pint, & drinke of it for the space of 7 or 8 dayes. Or boyle the flowers of rosemary in goats milke, then let it stand in the ayre well tendered a whole night, & drink there of A water to scower corrupt teeth. Take vineger& hony with the pouder of allome, & boyle them together, & wash them therewith, & it will [scowere] them & take a way the paine To make a tooth fall out Take red [illegible], white horse haire, & a water frog, dry them in an oven, & make pouder of them, & which tooth you will have out, wet the top of the finger in the milke of a bitch, & then dry your finger in the pouder, & lay it on the tooth, & it will fall out. For a timpany Take a gallon of faire runing water from the spring, set it over the fier in a sweet vessel, then take an ounce of coriander seed, an ounce of anniseed, 65 ly then in sunday cloathes; take alsoe a pound of resins of the sunne, wash them & pick the, & put them into another cloath, a quart of each [madds], [scower] this as you would doe [illegible], [slice] & cleanse them in many waters, till they be white, & boyle all in the sayd water, till almost halfe the water be consumed, & straine it into a faire vessell, use to drinke it evening & morning, & after meales a good draught reasonable warme, & by gods grace it will helpe you. A white salve for a wound. Take gume [elemy], venice turpentine, a like quantity in waight of each, with soe much mutton suet & fresh grease, the suet wtice soe much as the grease, melt all together, but let them not seeth, then straine the, & beate the together till it is cold. An oyntment to coole & comfort a wound. Take a quantity of oyle of roses, a quantity of boleorminate in pouder, the whites of 2 eggs, beate them a good space together, then lay it on a cloath, & lay it about the wound. For a cut or chop. Take burgundy pich a quarter of a pound, 2 penny worth of turpentine, yellow wax 2 ounces, frankincense 2 ounces, 2 spoonefulls of aqua vitae, boyle these in an earthen pipkin, until they be well melted, stirring them continually, & spread it on browne paper or thin lether, & lay it to the place greived, & let it ly until it fall of. A precious salve to heale any sore or greene wound. Take resine, [illegible], of each halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of virgine wax, sheepes suet & deeres suet of each a quarter of a pound, 66 [olibanum] a quarter of a pound, mastick halfe a pound, beate these to pouder, which may be beaten, & put them in a pan with the wax & suet, & when it is well melted, straine it into a pottle of white wine, or seeth it in a quart, & let it coole a litle, then put in camfire whole, turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, & straine it, till it be cold, & seeth it againe. Another better Take resine, burgundy pich, of each halfe a pound, virgin wax, sheeps suet, deeres suet, of each a quarter of a pound, mlet all together, with a litle white wine, & stire it continually, then put in an ounce of mashed frankincense, olibanum, venice turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, myrrhe an ounce, 2 drames of camfire the 3 [illegible] must be last put in, & all well beaten, nor let it stay long on the fier after these are put in, then straine it through canvas into a bason, & before you straine it put into the bason a quart of white wine, then let it coole, & soe make it up into roules, & if you will keepe it, lay it alwayes in white wine, & it will keep 7 yeares For a cut Take isope & the [illegible] of [carduus] [bened???] & put it to the cut, & it will heale it. To get out of the flesh wood or iron. If it be deepe in, & cannot be got out, dip a [tent] in the iuyce of valerian, & put it in as deepe as you can, & ly the herbe varerian stamped upon the sore, & a cloth upon it, this drawes out wood, iron, or any thinge else, & healed the wound. For a cut. wash the sore with the iuyce of isope, & dip lint therein, & lay it thereto. A pultis for any greivous sore or wound. Take a quart of milke, a penny white leafe grated (& annoynt the [illegible] first with capons grease) two 67 ounces of red rose leaves, boyle all well together, put to it 2 penny worth of venice turpentine, boyle it but a litle, then put in 2 spoonefulls of good hony, the yolkes of 2 eggs, well beaten, 4d worth of spermacete, put in these two last in the cooleing A balsome to cure greene wounds. Take a pint of the best oyle, 4 ounces of bees wax, 4 ounces of turpentine, an ounce & a hlafe of mumia, oyle of St Johns wort, alias aspericu, 2 ounces of alconet rootes, & boyle all well together. To take away warts or cornes. Lay upon the wart or corne brimstone as much as a pinns head, & let it burne, till it come to the roote, then take it away, it is but litle or noe paine upon a warte Or take a silke thread, ty it straite about the wart, & let it be till it come of. probatus est. To kill wartes Lay doves dung in vineger, & annoynt the therewith. or rub [parsalone] on it, & it pulls it up by the roots; Or take ashe [illegible], & mixe it with vineger, & apply it on the wartes. Or stamp wood [bind] leaves, & lay them thereto; use this but 6 times, & it will destroy the warts. For wormes in the hands. When your hands itch, rub them untill the water & skinne be broaken, then take gunpouder & rub them with your spittle. For a wenne. Bind the wenne fast, then take verdigrease, sulphure, sope, oyle of eggs, allome, hony, of each a quantity, temper them together, & lay it thereto, & it will take away the wenne, & heale it without doubt. 68 For a woeman in travaile, that wants [shrowes] Take ditany, halfe an ounce of cloves, a good quantity of cashey 2 worte of spermacete, boyle all in a pint of white wine, & then sweeten it with sugar, & give it to the woeman to drinke. To spout into the yard. Seeth barly & claryfied hony together, till the barly doe breake, then straine it, & put it into the spoute, & use it. 69 for the [??atteta] Take pitch [illegible] in pouder at [trb] 2 frankinsence roote brused [trb] 3 [illegible] [suett] [trb] 2 saffron in pouder two ounces mace & [illegible] an [zr] [illegible] [illegible] the [suett] rosin an frankinsence then the pitch then add the [spices] with an ounce of [illegible] seeds & of [illegible] in powder ziii. make a [buskin] of white calves lether and in the [sope] [illegible] of [spices] the plaister halfe an [illegible] [thus] Laye it on the [illegible] of the pained side & weare it 29 or 30 daies & [illegible] without opening it at all Mr [Solk??e] at the [illegible] in [illegible] makes this plaister [70] Mustard whey Recipe for rheumatism Take of the best durham mustard seed 3 oz boil it gently in three pints of water till reduced to one; then add one pint of skimmed milk & strain it thro a small sieve; this produces the whey Take a tea cup full of this whey, luke warm, every morning 77 The second booke of admirable & most approoved receites. For any greife or payne in the head, except the pox. Take red roses, camomil floweres, mellilote, calamynt, of each two handfulls, seeth them in 40 pound of water & good wine, until halfe bee consumed, & with this being hot let the patient wash his leggs from the knees downe ward every night & morning, and his armes from the elbowes downeward; hee must bee empty stomack’t, or at least not very full. For the head ach which continueth. Take leaves of black [illegible] & gray them with vinegar, oyle, 7 wine, of each a like quantitie seeth these together, & annoynt the fore head, & temples, & it will bringe ease. For the head ach. If the patient himself his head [cleaveth] asunder, by reason of the extreame payne, take [illegible] & make iuyce of it, which you shall mingle with oyule of roses, and with a linen cloath annoynt gently his nostrills, temples, & forehead, & if 78 the payne bee very vehement, lay some of it upon the scull of his head. For the head ach. Take the braine of a crow, & seeth it, & then eate it there is noe payne of the head soe great or old but this will helpe it. For the megram happening soudenly Take bengewine bray it with vinegar, & annoynt the forehead with it & your temples. For itching in the head. Take a sheepes gall, mixe it with white chalke, & therewith rub your head, & let it dry upon it For scabbs of the head. Take a bulls gall mingle it with vinegar & having made it luke warme, rub your head with it, & it will helpe you. To kill the scurfe in the head. Take an handfull or [rew], halfe an ounce of quick brimstone seeth it with old wine, & wash your head with it; but first wash your head with luke warme water & it will cure you. To kill lice Mingle whay & vinegar together, drinke of it [certayne] dayes, & they will dy & noe more breede. Against distillation of the brayne and heavines of the head. Samp beete rootes, & take theire iuyce, & receive it up into your nostrills, & it will cause all the humours of the head to descend, and soe it will draw them out. 79 For the griefe of the scull Take the resin of the pine tree, that is white 20 drames of aloes powder one ounce, mixe them together and boyle them on a soft fier, & after adde of gume elemi one ounce, & make a [cerat] which you must lay upon the greife. For a grief in the yead that hinders sleepe. Take warme [illegible] well stamped, boyle it in water, & bind it to the temples upon the greife, this will take away the greife & cause perfect sleepe. For the old inveterate greife of the head Take of gume arabick, of myrrh, of saffron, of [euphorbium], of each 3 drames, stampe them all together, & mixe them with the white of an egge well beaten, then apply it to the temples & forehead. A remedy for the [surte] of the scull. Take the iuyce of pimpernell, & wash, therein peeces of linen cloath, & put them oftimes upon the [illegible], & it will quickly be healed. A precious oyntment for the rupture of the scull. Take opopanake, [?dellium], amoniack, of each 3 drames, rosin, gume elemi, of each one ounce, olibanum, [miesa], sarcacolla, of each one drame & an halfe, oyle of roses 4 ounces, wa 2 ounces, first dissolve the gumes into vinegar & straine them then beate the rest to fine powder, & make an oyntment thereof 80 To remedy the cumotion of the brayne when the patient hath lost his speech. Take red roses, the leaves & fruite of myrtle, pomo granat flowers, calamas aromaticus, gallia muscata, lignu aloes, of each a drame, barly meale 3 ounces; boyle the in red wine, & rose water as much as suffereth, then put thereto one graine of maske, & make a plaster to lay upon the head, but first cut away the haire with a sharpe rasor. To remedy the disease called vertigo Take nutmegs & cloves of each a drame, setwall 2 scruples, gentian one scruple, red roses, yellow sanders, of each one drame & an halfe, of aloes cicotrine 6 drames of chosen rubarbe 3 drames, bray all [severally] into pouder by it selfe, & when they are melted, wet it by sprinkling a litle rose water, then let ti dry & doe thus 7 times, then with syrop of violets make a past of pills, of which take a scruple in evening an hower before meale, & you shall see a mervilous good successe. To purge melancholy humours, & to remedy the payne of the yhead. Take 2 pounds of polipodium, the leaves of cene 25 ounces, tamarindes one pound, mayden haire 4 handfulls resings stoned 5 ounces, burrage flowers & violets of each 2 handfulls, melone seeds 4 ounces, synamon one ounce & an halfe, ginger, salt gema, of each 7 drames, the iuyce of [luxius] 4 pounds, the iuyce of endive 2 pounds, raine water 30 pounds, mixe all together, and boyle 81 them, untill the fourth part bee consumed, then straine it, & make into the sayd decoction 12 infusions of fresh roses gathered in the morning, & for every infusion put in 7 pounds of roses, & put thereto of sugar 8 pounds, & make a syrop: the rose of which is, to give 4 ounces (more or lesse, according to the disposition of the pson, that shall use it) dissolved with cordiall waters, or with water of luxius & fumitery. Another for the vertigo. Take a quantity of white hore hound, one penny riall, & alitle salt, let them be byled with water in an earthen pot, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & put unto it a quantity of hony, & boyle it againe till it be thick, & for the space of 7 mornings give the patient one or 2 spoonefulls at at ime. To cure scotomia & vertigo, the paulsie & all inward diseases, & to consume the superfluous humours of the head. Take of caraway seede, anniseed, [ameos], parsly seed, smalage seed, betony, cumin, calamynt, pulegium, [slope], spikenard, pepper, ginger, sage, rue, centrum, gallie, eye bright, incense, mastick, safron, of all the [mirabolanes], but the greater quantity of citrines, cynamon, squinant, of each halfe an ounce, of margerome, folium, basill, cardamomes, [galingell], riquorice, of each 2 ounces, pound them into very small powder, of the which take in 82 all your meales, but more in the winter than in other parts of the yeare. For the payne in the head, reynes of the back, loynes, & matrix Take greene [savine] 5 ounces, of the fruite of cypres 65 drames, rosemary flowers milfoyle, matricaria, fenigreeke, lime seede, of each 6 ounces, infuse the sayd herbes to become tender for the space of three dayes in the water, then put thereto 9 ounces of oyle, & boyle it untill the water be consuned then strayne it through a linen cloath, then put to it of was, patch, spayne, turpentine, galbanum, mastick, of each 5 ounces, of storax, calamymt, spikenard, of each one pound, of balme 4 ounces, bruise what is to be bruised, & mixe every thing together & wettinge it with the spatter make an oyntment. To heale bruising of the head, with broaken bones or with out Take old white wine or hony, salt, brimstone, betony, of each a like quantity, bray them, make a plaster & lay it to the sore And if a bone be broaken that the blood is entred in at some small fissure, then take rye meale, & meale of oates, of each 5 drames, the iuyce of plantan and one drame & an halfe, laxicium acutum one drame, & make a plaster therof with good maulmesy. For a payne in the head. Take betony roots brayed, boyle the in old oyle & a litle wine, & annoynt the place with this warmed. 83 Another for the same. Take old oyle, & mixe it with euperbium pouder 3 or 4 graynes, & annoynt the sore place, the boyd beeing first purged, & the head alsoe, but let the head be purged by drawing up into the nose the iuyce of rue; But if the payne be caused through heat, having first purged or opened a vaine, annoynt the greife with this following Take the iuyce of sower grapes 2 ounces, the dreggs of [yuke] halfe an ounce, saffron 5 graynes, mixe them & make a liniment. To remedy the greife of the head & neck. Take the oyle of sweet almonds 3 ounces, the meale of marsh mallowes halfe an ounce wax as much as suffereth, then make an oyntment at the fier & annoynt the [plie] morning & eveninge For the rupture of the scull. Take of plantan seed 3 ounces, laxaciu acutum 4 ounces, the meale of black beanes as much as you please, beate these into pouder, & boyle them with very stronge wine & lay of this twice a day to the wound. For the same. Take of gume elemi 3 drames, of resin 4 drames, of wax 6 ounces, oyle of roses 2 ounces & an halfe; armoniack 2 ounces, turpentine 3 ounces & 5 drames, rye meale as much as suffireth with wine & wax make a plaster. For the falling sicknes. Take germaunder gathered in May when it 84 when it is in blossome, dry it in the shade, and make it into pouder, & when you will use it take the yolke of an egge or two, beate them, with a spoonefull of the pouder into the, then seeth it, & give the patient it to eate, this doe norning & evening for 8 dayes; & abstaine from wine, woemen, beanes, pearse, fitches, [tanes] salads, salt meats, & all things of hard disgestion. It is a notable remedy. To kill lice. Annoynt the goad with lard, on barrowes grease, or with oyle of bayes. For ach in the head Lay a peece of fresh beefe to the map of the neck probatum est. For a payne in the head. Boyle celedonie in vinegar, & beate it, & after tye it upon the fore-head. probatu est. For the falling sicknes Boyle isope in water & origanum & [stecados], & mix it with syrop of worme wood, & drinke thereof [Some] after the party is purged with pills for the stomach use methridate & treakle 7 or 8 dayes together. Let the pty drinke a potion made with squilla, & pvoke him to vomit with a quill or fether: you must boyle the squilla in vineger & make oxamell, & drinke of it, & after that use syrop of worme wood. The iuyce of common rue put into the [pties] nostrills is good therefore Take the roote of white vines, & hang it about his neck; it cureth the greife. Or take a bores bladder with his water in it dryed in an oven, & drinke every day 85 the quantity of a beane with oximell, it is excellent Or make pouder of the roote of piony, & the seed thereof, of each a like quantity drinke thereof every day 3 with oximell squillitike, in which isope hath beene boyled. probatus est. To cause one to speake that hath lost his speech in his sicknes. Stampe worme wood, & temper the iyyce with water, then straine it, & put of this liquor into his mouth with a spoone. probatus est. For the falling sicknes. Take a penny leafe of white bread & three penny worth of beefe of a steere bullock of the [nearer] side, fry it, & lay it to the brow of the patient a mounth together. probatus est. For one that is luniticke. Take box leaves, & flower [delure] rootes stired, dry them both in an oven or over a chafing dish, & beate them to pouder, & eate or drink it. To provoake sleepe. Take oyle of water lillies, & oyle of poppie & mixe them with a litle oppium, & annoynt the fore head & temples there with. For a sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, sincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, red fennell, red bramble leaves, mary gold leaves, keepe all these together, & strayne them, then put to it allome & hony, & mixe them well, & wash your mouth with it. probatus est. For a bruise for ones head by a blow. Stampe egrimony & mixe it with hony & make 86 a plaster therwith, & it will heale it. For a cold rhume. Dry penny royall in a pan & lay it to his head day. For a payne in the head. Boyle celidony in vinegar & beate it, then binde it upon the fore head. probatus est. The colours of urine. Alba, or white urine. White urine & cleere, as well water, [betoakeneth] [undefyling], & [rawnes]; & in sharpe feavers it is deadly. without feaver it betoakeneth in man or woeman agreevaned in the reynes, & sometimes [childinge]. Lactea or milke like urine, Urine lactick & thick standing is more perilous in men than woemen, in sharpe fevers is death. Above & beneath darke about & in that [midest] cleere signifyed the dropsy. [illegible] [make] only in the uper part signifies the gout in the body: & if the motyes be in the grownds, it signifies the gout in the lower part of the body. Glaucea, or lanthorne like urine Signified if it be cleene a [so?inge] or under putting of the mylth, through a [wicked] water that turnes from the lunges betweene the maw & the milt, that will rot all it comes by, and often times it ingenders & causes the dropsie. 87 Curapos urine Is a sign of corrupt humors, as a boling dropsy in the body, & in the limbes, or the face \Pale urine Signifies a feeble stomack, a great [leting] of the second disgestion for [corfainne]. Black urine above Signified the wasting of the quarterne feaver & quenching all kindled heate with darknes within signified drynes, if it be pale; if greene or burning feaver. But black in the ground signifies [clausium] of [menstris] & looseing of the gutts. And urine b lack in a feaver, if the urine bee full, for the most part it signifieth death. To cure old sores. Take the iuyce of white lilly leaves, a litle vinegar & hony to the quantity of the iuyce boyule them & lay it to the sore. probatus est. For a fistula. Take pimpernell & [mullin?] of each a like quantity of the iuyce, & wash therewith the infected parts. For wounds or rotten sores. Take milfoyle & [sanicle], boyle them in water, & strayne them through a limon cloath, & with the decoction mixe the meale of [fen?greeke] with the fat of a goate, & halfe as much oyle olive, dissolve them at the fier, & put to them wax, & make an oyntment. 88 To cleere ones eye sight Take a hot barly leave, rub it in the midle & sprinkle thereon the pouder of caraway seed & hold it hot before your eyes. The [pumystone] beaten & put in the eyes cleeneth them: the doth allome, & tutty. A medicine for swellinge. Take two gallons of stronge ale before it is clensed, a platter full of scurvy grasse, & pound & stampe it with the ale, then strayne it & let them worke together an hower or 2, then take halfe an ounce of white sanders, as much nutmegs, & three penny worth of safron, beate them together & put them all into the ale & let it worke, when it is two dayes old drink thereof every morning fasting & at meales as long as it lasteth, & if you find no helpe in drinking this quantity make as much more & use it dayly. probatus est. Remedyes for the eyes Take the longes or lights of a barrow hog, with all the appurtinances & seeth it in water, then hold your eyes over the smoake of it, in three or 4 times it will cure you. For dark eyes Annoynt the eyes with the iuyce of dragon leaves. Or make iuyce of betony, & mixe it with wine beeing hot, & put thereof into your eyes. A notable experiment for the web in the eye. Take scraped liquorice, good ginger, galingall fennell seed, [siler] of the mountaine, parsly 89 seed, of each an ounce, of rue & eye bright both dryed, amoniack, ameos, carpobalsamum, turbith, of each 2 drames, of sene 3 drames, longe pepper a drame, aloes epatake a drame, cynomon, nutmeggs, cucubes, carroway, of each a drame, of sugar as much as will suffice, & mixe them, the dosse of it is a spoonefull at once with hot wine. Sore eyes. Or take bullocks gall mixed with hony & put it into the eye. Or take the pouder of cuttle bones. But of all take cuttle bones & boyle them in water, & gather the grease of it, and annoynte the eyes thereof. probatus est The iuyce of an onion mixed with [sherry] & put into the eye cureth a web in the eye. Agarick is good for the eyes. The iuyce of ground [illegible] tempered with brest milke, & put into the eye cureth the web in the eye. Or yarrow iuyce used the same way. Another very good. Take of agarick 20 drames, cynomon 8 drams spike nard 20 drames, mastick 38 drames compound them with hony, & eate thereof every day. probatus est. Or take a dryed sheepes braine mixed with hony, & put of it into the eye. Or take a bullocks gall, assafetida one drame, baguamum 5 ounces, dissolve them in a glasse, & dry them, & make thereof a pouder. 90 For a perle in the eye. Take the iuyce of fennel & mixe it with hony, 7 oyle of balsome, & drop it into the eye. probatus est. Or mouse dunge dryed to pouder, & put into the eyes cureth the web. Cathrina auri vel argenti confort hebedini oculorum. To put away the white in the eye. Take oyle of alcanua, which is the dregs of wine being very old when it is beaten to oyle. Eate eye bright to cleene the eyes. Or purge the eyes with ierapigra. Cynomon is alsoe good. or oyle of fenngreeke annoynted on the eyes. Make iuyce of rosemary & mixe it with hony & annount the eyes. or make iuyce of ground [illegible] & put it into the nostrill on that side which greife is. or six leaves of ground [inie] & a braunch of celydony, bray them & mixe them with brest milke, & straine it through a cloath, & put of it into the eye, doe soe thrice, & keepe the eye three dayes from the light. probatus est. For the web in the eye. Beate capons grease upon a paynters stone, & grind coparose as small as may bee, & mixe them, & going to bed put a litle of it into the eye three nights; if the web be old put in more of the ceparase. probatus est. Or temper sarcacolla with white wine, & put of it into the eye. For bleared eyes. Take a quart of white wine, & put it into a cleane panne, & put thereto an ounce of pouder of salt gemma, & let them boyle 91 together a litle, then take them from the fier & set them in house dunge, & cover it with another panne, & cover it after with house dunge, & let it stand 3 dayes, then take it out of the dunge & power out the cleaneth into a vessell through a linen cloath, & put it into a viall, & with a feather drop of it into the eye that is sore at evening in bed. probatus est. For watery eyes. Beate the white of an egge, & take the oyle thereof & annoynt the eyes gooing to bed; or lay it thereto on a linen cloath, or wet two therein & lay them to your eyes. A most precious water to cleere the eyes, and to cure a perle. Take smalage, red fennell, rue, vervine; egrimony, cincfole, pimpernell, [enfrace], betony, sage, colydony, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & stampe them, then put them into a brasse panne, & take the pouder of 15 pepper cornes, & beate them & a pint of good white wine, & put it to the herbes, with 3 spoonefulls of pure hony, & five spoonefulls of the wine of a man child, mixe them well, & let them boyle alitle, then straine it through a linen cloath & put it into a glasse, & stoppe it very close, untill you use it, & with a fether put of it into the eye, & when it is dry temper it with white wine; it cureth one in 15 dayes if [ever] he shall see. probatus est. For a web in the eye. Take pimpernell water & fennell water, the iuyce of valerian of each alike proportion, & 92 put of it with feather into the eye. probatus est. OR take the marrow of a goose winge & burned allome pouder, temper them; & put it into the eyes with a fether 3 or 4 times; then use the water afore sayd, & it will kill the greatest web in the eye that may bee. Thinges good for the eyes. To eate early in the morning of myrabolames [condited], & eate the [meats] of them long in the mouth Nutmeg is most excellent for the eyes. Take alsoe fennell seeds, put it into boyled sugar & eate therof. Worme wood wine is very good. Or rue boyled in wine; eate but [slender] suppers, gargarige with vinegar of squillas, [especially] fagter you be purged. [cloves] are good, and to eat asparagus & betony. To eate the braynes of partridge is good; or rape leaves, or often to chew eye bright. An excellent receite to quicken the sight. Take fennell seed made soft & steeped, & then dryed, & adde to it soe much pouder of cynomon, & halfe soe much good sugar, and use it dayly. Or beate the white of an egg untill it bee cleere, then take iuyce of fennell croppes, mixe them & put it into the eye. For darknes in the eyes & bloodynes. Make pouder of aloes, & mixe it with the white of an egge, & lay it thereto. For an humour flowing to the eyes. Take [beanes] & pull of the skinnes, & confect them with the white of an egge, & lay them to. or else take them & chew them. 93 For a payne in the eyes. Boyle the rootes of fennell in water in a pot, & put a drop thereof into the parties eye. For watery eyes. Put a drop of the parties owne urine into his eye. very good. To take away a great spot in the eye. Take the roote of celendine, & beate it with rose water, & put it into a bag, & hang it up, & put a drop of that, which distilleth, into the eye. For payne in one eyes First purge the party with pills of aurie, or pills of the 5 kinds of mirabolanes, or with pills sine quibus esse nolo: after take one & [illegible], heate them on a tile, & put them betweene a linen cloth, & lay them on the eyes. Bumbast wet in fennell water 2 qts, & one pt of the iuyce of rue, is good layd to hot eyes. Or [illegible] and eg, & take the white, & put it betweene bumbast, & lay it hot to the eyes. The braynes of an hare rosted & well incorporated with wine, is good eaten. Oyle of [ba?m[ & oyle of [eld??] mixed with peritony & black pepper & the [rine] of a pine tree & [cyple?se] nutts. For such as pisse in bed whose urine runeth from them unwittingly. Boyle coming & drink thereof warme. Or take the sea crabes & beate them & drinke thereof fasting with wine. Or take the bladder of a sow & dry it to pouder & drinke it Boyle dry rose leaves & drinke of it; or of oximell drunken; or boyle dill & drinke of it; or parsly boyled in water & drunke is good. 2 . 2 94 For the fallinge sicknes When you see one fall of this greife, perfectly cut the parties girdle in two, whilst the [illegible] is upon him, & burne it in two parts that the partie know not therof, & let him never see it after, & he shall be red of his greife. For the collick Take hemp seed, dry it, & grind it to pouder & take a spoonefull thereof, & put it into ale and drinke it: it will make you goe to stoole easily. it is alsoe good for a flux taken in the same manner. For the yellow iaundies, & to provoke an appetite. The pouder afore sayd is a speciall remedy either eaten or drunken. For the tooth ach Take dandelion the quantity of a nut brayed, & put it into a limon cloath & layed to the tooth gooing to bed. but walke an hower that the iuyce may sinke into the tooth. probatus est. To east the paine & ach of the gout Take an handfull of rue, & a great deale of the leaves of white wine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto iuyce of house leeke, & of [illegible], & boyle them with a bullocks gall a litle quantity, & a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many snailes well beaten, & being well boyled, straine it & keepe it to your use, for it is a speciall good oyle for the same. A medicine for the eyes that are white. Take of [illegible] washed 10 drames, sarcacolla grasse 3 drames, dragagant a drame, opium halfe a drame make thereof a soft substance & use it. An orange-colour pouder for the eyes. Take of sarcacolla, with it a gume 10 drames, aloes 2 drames of saffron, myrre one drame, licium 95 2 drames, beate them all, then use this pouder. A pouder for the eyes which are white. Take white sarcacolla which is white, fat, & put it into brest milke, & set it in the shade till it dry & then beate it very well take of this 3 [illegible] & add therto of syife merminthe 2. dramis beate them well again & keep them and put of it into [illegible] eye when need requires. To purge. Take the waight of 1b of ales cicatrine, cloves the waight of 4d beaten severally, mixe them in the hand with a litle wine vinegar till it be hard then make pills thereof the waight of 4d or 6d & take them with the pap of an apple or hony, if you take it before supper, it will worke in the night, if after supper the next day. probatus est. To cure the collick. Take pouder of bullocks dunge, & give it to the [glie] unknowne in pottage, or straine the dunge, & give it the pty to drinke; this last is best. A [resolv?ace] plaster to ly 4 or 5 dayes before it is remooved Take resin, was halfe a drame [roth?s] gall, [strong] beere or ale, coming seed & rue leaves, 2 drames, black sope one drame, mutton suit & turpentine 3 drames, boyle these to the forme of a plaster 7 spread it something thick over a cloath, & sew it fast about the member that is swelled or waters, as herpes miliaris or oedema, & for all [soulme] & rankling ulcers, & as the water runeth out & the swelling [starteth], bind the plaster hard againe for 4 or 5 dayes. sepe probatus est. 96 Remedies for the eares; or for deafenes. Take vinegar hot & drop it into the eares fastin, ad thereto the iuyce of mints, oyle of bitter almands, & of the nutts of persica warme, & drop it into the eare. Or hold your ear over the [illegible] of hot water, in which was boyled penny royall, & worme wood. these helpe the heareing. Or boyle worme wood in water & bath the eare with the decoction. or when a goate is newly killed, take a [horne] & fill it with the urine of the goate, & hang it up in the smoake nyne dayes, & put thereof into the eares. Or take an onion, & make it hollow, & fill it with oyle, & the iuyce of rue, & lay its [illegible] againe, & put the onion into the embers, untill it be well boyled, & put of that oyle into the eare. Or put into the eare the blood of a goate beeing warme. Or put into the eares the iuyce of scabiase mixed with a litle quantity of oyle of bitter almonds. To purge filth out of the eares. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & distill it into the eares. Or take fileings of iron & mixe it with sharp vinegar, boyle it & put it into the eares. probatus est. For the head ach. Boule celydony in vinegar, & beate it, then bind it to your fore head, & it will ease you. Or beate maioram, & presse out the iuyce & suck it up into the nose. probatus est. or take red [illegible] stamped, & with the iuyce annoynt the temples. For the megram. Take three or 4 spoonefulls of aqua vita, & a quantity of boulted flower, & mingle them well till it be thick, as a plaster, then take pouder of pepper halfe soe much as the flower; & mingle them & spread it on whit lether, & lay to each pt of the temples a plaster, let it ly a day & a night, doe this 3 dayes. 97 For experience in the urine. Black urine In great quantity with a cloud of black therein notes great broyling of heate in the body, heavines, lack of sleep & blooding at the nose in time to come. Pale urine Some what greene betoakeneth the feaver called medium enutium propter melancholiam. Urine pale & some white in it signifies a feaver called minorem enutium propter flenium. Urine pale with a curcle like [leade] & resolutions of kinds, that is called spermatis, notes the falling evill. Urine pale with holdith colour signifies the feaver aschitem. Urine pale redish colour signifies a feaver called synochius. Urine pale with white small [things] therein, & gobbet with black [things] mingled [illegible] the stranguary Urine pale with round [things] having longe games or small white moates, as be in the sunne beames signifieth the gout called aterica To clense the eares from matter & filth. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & put it into the ptes eare. For the gomory passion Beate lettice seed, & drinke thereof with water. Or beate a peece of lead flat, & bind it to the [illegible] bark; hen bane seeds & mandragorus seed of each a part; of opium a tenth part, boyle them in oyle in a double glasse, & with wax make an oyntment [wherewith] anoynt the parties bark & [pri??e] paste, wet well in wine, oyle of roses, & oyle of balme & lay it thereto. Probatus est. or take the leaves & flowers of agnus castus, & boyle them in vinegar & ad thereto a litle castoreum, & make a plaster & lay it to the [privy] pts. 98 An oytment for an ach. Take 5 drames of an oxes gall & boyle it well & strume it, put thereto of hony 2 drames, boyule it againe to the halfe or more, & annoynt the ach there with untill you find ease. probatus est. More of urine. urine pale with white as ashes, & black resolutions promises wind over throwne of man or woman. Urine pale with small [things] as ashes & black signifies the suffocation of the [mone], & with holding of the [mensters] Urine white & thinne as water with streakes & as a [illegible] in the bottome betoakeneth the disease of the spleene. Urine white & thinne alltogether paleish betoakeneth the dropsy. Urine white & thinne & a great quantity betoakeneth much drinkinge. Urine white & thinne & a litle with red gravell betoakeneth ash in the wombe & in the reines, called nefresin. Urine with greene circles signifies the frensy. Urine white & thinne with greate [fa?nes] in the ground signifies a disease in the reynes, that one cannot hold his water, it is called diabitem. Urine white with white motes in it signifies arterica passio. Urine white with a great black circle signifies sicknes caused by melancholy. Urine white with a leadish circle signifies the falling evill. Urine white with a waterish circle signifies schomam, that is a disease or wind in the head that makes the sick party fall. Urine white & pale above signifies an ill liver. Urine white & thinne as in the feaver signifies death. Urine white signifies old and child hood. Urine rubra. 99 Urine bloody signifies the bladder is hurt with some filth that is therein. Urine of a woeman that is faire, & cleere, if it shine like silver if it casteth off & hath noe [illegible] to [meale], it signifies that the woeman is with child. Urine of a wooman that hath a golden colour & is cleere & heavy signifies shee hath lust to man. Urine of man or wooman that hat the feaver ague, that hath a black gathering in the one half of the urinall is a true toaken of death. Urine of a mayde that hath noe fellowship with a man is faire & cleere, & without any [wem] Urine of a man: every man is whole and sound whose urine in the [mornetide] is white, before meale red, & after meale white. For a greate heate in man or woeman. Take [endive] water, burrage water, & worme- wood water of each 4 drames, temper them with conserve of roses & drinke it eveninge and morninge To kill a fellon Take the rootes of termentill & drinke the iuyce. The roote of termentill expelleth poyson and alsoe venome. To heale a wound. take sanicle, milfole, bugle, equall proportions, beate them in a morter, & with beere or rather wine temper them & give it to the party to drink twice a day till [illegible] Bugle keepeth the wound open, milfole cureth it, and fanicle healeth it. For the tilick. Take isope, hore hound, & harts tongue & boyle the in a quart of pale ale to a pint, & drink it. 100 For the goute Make a stronge brine with salt, that it carry an eg & being hot put thereto your leg, or hand. For cloathes that be mouldy & stained Seeth stockfish & take of the water being warme, & lay the cloath in it all night, & in the morning make it cleane, with dry, comes to its colour againe. For the morghew Take white wine isope & blaunched almonds, then stamp the isope & almonds, & lay them in the wine then boyle it & drinke of it 9 dayes first & last. For a tertian feaver. Take the iuyce of dandelion, & the iuyce of worme wood, & drinke of it before the fit comes. For the dropsy. [illegible] the [party] drinke the seeds of [denills] bitt 9 dayes & hee shall bee well To make one have a good colour in the face. Eate dry figgs, & drinke harmell; origanu is good. or gume of the cherry [illegible] drunken with wine early. Alsoe acetum squillitick drunken. Syrop of squillas. Agarick, or safron, or ginger in pouder is good. Isope pouder is good drunken. Cicer eaten; or calamus aromaticus or any hot milke from the cow mixed with sugar is good. For an ach Take young cropps of alder, stampe them, and take of the iuyce thereof three parts, & a fourth part of black soape, beate them well together, untill they be a salve or an oyntment, & lay it thereto & it will ease the ach. probatus est. To cleare ones eyes. Beate the white of an eg till it be cleere s 101 & skinne of the upper part after it hath stood a while, & mixe the oyl of it which is under most with the iuyce of fennell croppes well together, & put of it into the eye, & wet flax therein, & lay it on the eye. probatus est. A plaster for the hardnes and windines, which is under the spleene. Take of rue 10 drames, of nitrum called banrach, [hease] mynt, or water mint dryed, of each 3 drames, armoniack 8 drames, the armoniack must be dissolved in old wine, whereof you must make the [soft], & make of them a plaster, & lay it to the place. probatus est. To provoke sleepe. Take oyle of dill, oyle of poppy, oyl of mandragors, or the oyle of froggs, & annoynt the temples. Remedies for the face, as morphew, bunninges, bleeding at the nose & others. ake the whites of 2 eggs, 2 ounces of tutia alexandrina, two ounces of quick lime washed in [illegible] waters, an ounce of new wax, oyle [resete] as much as shall suffice, make of this an oyntment & use it. To stanch bleeding at nose. Take great chit pease, & lay them upon a tile upon coles, untill they bee dry, make pouder of them, & put of it into your nose & it will cease from bleedinge. For a red face. Take foure ounces of the kernells of peaches, 2 ounces of gourd seed make thereof an oyle where with annoynt your face evening and morninge. probatus est 102 To make the face faire. Take rosemary flowers, boyle them in white wine, & wash your face with it, & use to drinke of it, soe shall your face be faire & your breath sweete. To take spotts out of the face Take 2 ounces of the iuyce of lemons, & two ounces of rose water, 2 ounces of silver sublimed, & soe much of coruse, put all together, & make an oyntment, & annoynt your face with it night & morning, after annoynt it with butter. Another. Make oyle of the white of an eg, & take an ounce of it, & halfe an ounce of coruse, 2 drames of quick silver, & a drame of canfire, mingle those, & annoynt your face with it. For the squinancy Boule worme wood in vineger, & gargarize with it. Or boyle figgs & the rines of pomegranads in water, & gargarize with it. For the morphew. Take an ounce of verdigrease, an ounce of quicke brimstone, make them into pouder, as small as may bee, & take two fat sheeps heads, make them cleane, & take out the braynes, then wash them & seeth them till they be tender, then let it coole, & gather the fat there of, & temper it with the sayd pouder, & make an oyntment of the same, but let it not come neere any fier, but with cold oyntment annoynt the sick party. probatus est. For a flux of blood at the nose Take rue & mixe it with oyle, & put it into the nose; or take gume arabick & olibanum 103 & mixe them with vineger & lay it thereto. Or take woole & out it into the white of an eg, & lay it to his face & fore head. OR wet woole in the iuyce of night shade & lay it to or mixe rue with vineger & lay it to the nose. Or take an eg shell burned, & take of it one part, & of [galls] halfe soe much, & blow it into the nostrills. Or ty the privy partes. For the jaundies. Boyle tamariske in vineger, & drinke it To keepe the mouth whole & sound from greifes Before & after meale wash your mouth with hot water, this dryeth up the humours dependinge into the iawes from the head; use to rub your tooth with pouder made of cloves & nutmeggs, & spike nard every day fasting, it clenseth the stinking of the mouth. Or if you dissolve a litle mastick in oyle of roses, & annoynt the pallate of the mouth, it preserveth it from hurt. Alsoe an hares head burned to pouder, & put into a canker in the mouth, or other greife therein cureth it probatus est. To stanch blood. Take the herbe sigillum salamonis, & smell thereto oftimes, & as long as you have it you shall not bleede. To remoove melancholy. Take of epithymum 3 iiij, of lapis lazuli, of agarick, of each 3 ij, of scamony 3 j, of cloves pp, make pouder of all these, & take every weeke of this pouder 3 ij. probatus est. For coldnes in the stomack. Make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, mixe 104 these together, & lay ot thereto. To ingender flesh. Take of sarcocolla 2 parts, frankincense one part, beate them, & mixe them, & apply them to the sore. To incarnate & clense ulcers. Take sarcocolla & mix it with hony, & to dry a sore mixe it with the white of an egge or milke; it will alsoe eate away dead flesh out of ulcers. For scabbes Boyle braune with vineger, & make a plaster. It is good for hot impostumes boyled with rue, & made a plaster of; And for sore brestes which proceed from abundance of milke. To purbe evil from the brest. [illegible] braune in water all night, in the morning straine it & boyle it with oyle of almons & mixe it with sugar; it cureth evill in brestes. To ripen impostumes & hard swellinges. Take [lenen] bouled in milke, & lay thereto. To cure a leper. Boule tamariske in water; & drinke often of it To heale wounds hard to be cured. Use oleum philosophorum. To incarnate a wound. Use unguentum triafarmacum. For old sores. Use unguentum Aegypticum magnum. To expell wind in the boyd. Use electuary of aloes; or aromaticum gariofilatium; diaciminum aromaticum nardium; trifera surraceneca; & trifera muscatai dianisium electuarium Judi; aromaticum rosatum. 105 For the tooth ach. Take iuyce of ground iuie, & put of it into that side of the eare, on which the teeth ake, & you shall wonder at the ease it will bring you. To heale rotten & putrified wounds. Mixe aloes with dragons blood & myrre, & lay it to. For the goute. Take the leaves of the herbe grace, & make iuyce thereof, & boyle it with a bullocks gall, & greene snaggs without shells, put it on paper & lay it thereto. A plaster to ease the gout or any other greate swelling or ach. Take 3 yolkes of eggs, fresh butter, & saffron a pritty quantity dryed, make it into pouder, the iuyce of singreene, iuyce of mugwort, & the iuyce of ground sill, mixe them with wheate flower, & boyle all together very softly upon coles, ever skinneing it, & make a plaster of this poltis, & lay it to the sore. For the tooth ach or iawes. Make iuyce of daysies rootes & all, & put of it into your eare, & stop it with black wooll. Annoynt your iawes with oyle of exeter & your temples alsoe Remedyes for the neck, throate, mouth and teeth. For the kinges evill. Take colts foote roote & all well stamped, mingle it with flax seed & barrowes grease, make a plaster & lay it thereto, change it twice a day, & all the [sores] may be dissolved into sweate, & after they be heated, wash often the place with white wine for the space of ten or fifteene dayes. 106 For the same. Take the [stones] of an horse, put the in a fier [illegible] amoungst embers & coles untill they may bee beaten to pouder, give the patient to drinke of the sayd pouder in white wine the quantity of 2 penny waight, doe this 21 days, & doubtles he will cast out of his mouth all the ordure & filth of the evill. For kernells in the throate. Dry, camomill & make it in pouder mingle it with hony, take the morning a spoonefull, & as much at night, swallowing it gently, use it till you be well. For the squinsie Take a pound of scabius water, aqua vitae an ounce mixe them, &lay it upon the sore. Or bake swallowes in an oven & beate them to pouder, & lay it through all the mouth if yiou can, if not mingle it with hony proset], & alitle flower of amilum, & put it into his mouth leting it goe downe of it selfe. Or take th eoyle of violets, put 2 or 3 drops of it into white wine with the which wash & gargle in your throate oftimes. For the kinges evill. Take conuse, on white leade well stamped 4 ounces, oule olive 8 ounces, boyle them together 5 or 6 howers stirre it continually, & when it is black it is boyled enough; then spread it upon a linen cloath, & lay it upon the sore place; if the sore be broaken it will be healed quickly, if not this will alsoe resolve & loose & shortly heale it throughly To breake botches, impostumes, catarres, or sores comeing in the throate. Take dry dunge of an asse, & of swallowes make thereof pouder, & put of it into water or in hot wine, & gargle or wash your throate often with it. 107 To fasten loose teeth. Take frankinsense, mastick, & pills of pomegranate, an equall quantity & make thereof a pouder, & when you goe to bed wash your teeth with a litle good wine, then lay of the sayd pouder to your teeth. excellent. To make teeth white. Take mallow rootes, rub your teeth with them dayle. Or take a snuff of wheate bread, burne it to coles, & make pouder thorogh to scower your teeth with all, & wash them after with faire well or condit watr pbatus. To fasten loose teeth Take a litle myrre & temper it with wine & oyle & wash your mouth with it. To keepe one from vomiting. Drinke the iuyce of worme wood. For those that spit blood. Make a cake of fine ry flower, & being baked let the party eate of it as hot as he can endure. For those that vomit up theire meate againe. Take tender leaves of an ash, seeth them in stronge vineger, & stampe them, & make thereof a plaster, & lay it upon the stomack, or belly. For the tooth ach. Boyle the leaves & rootes of chickweed in water & there with wash your mouth & hold of it in your mouth. To mitigate the payne in childrens teeth. Mixe buter & hony, & rub the childes teeth therewith it taketh away the payne & bitein thereof. For the tooth ach and the rhume. Boyle wine & nettles & wash your mouth therwith Or burne salt & mixe it with vineger, & wash your mouth therewith. [Mu??ell] fryed & layd to the teeth takes away the tooth ach. Or make pouder of a cowes heele, & boyle it in water & wash 108 your teeth therewith. or to wash your mouth in the iuyce of alder flowers cureth the tooth ach Take alsoe a red hot brick, & lay on vineger, & hold your mouth over it. probatus est. For swelling in the cheeke. Take an earthen [illegible] made hot, & lay it to your cheeke. To make teeth come out of children easily Annoynt theire gumes with goates milke, or the braine of an hare or cony; or with gumes grease or mixe the brayne of beastes with wine, & drinke thereof. or annoynt them with butter only, or also mixed with hony. Pouder of doggs tooth mixed with hony easeth young children when they breed teeth; if you annoynt them therewith, it helpeth ulcers and other sores in the mouth or iawes. A stone found in the head of a steere, or bark of a nayle is good. Or annoynt his iawes with hony & salt mixed; this easeth the payne of teeth breeding. The iuyce of liquorice held in the mouth is alsoe good. For a sore throate. Take oyle of lyllies, oyle of camomill, & oyle of dill of each an ounce, make them het & annoynt the throate therewith, & wet black wooll in it, & lay it to the sore throate. To breake a sore in the throate. Take snaggs with shells & all, & beate them & plaster them thereto, this ripeneth it very fast. Or take sheepes [??tles] & fry them with sheeps tallow & lay it hot to the throate, & when it waxeth cold remoove it & lay on another plaster. Or dry worme wood & beeing warme lay it to the sore throate. Or make a lniment with doggs dunge dryed mixed with hony & annoynt the throate round about But if the matter remaine very hard still, take diaculu dissolved with hennes grease, & lay it thereto. 109 Or else make this plaster. Take unguent de altea of mussilage, of [line] seeds, of fenigreek seed, of each two drames, of the mer substance of cassia fistula of butter, of leaven, of figges, of oyle of sweet almons, & of these make a plaster & lay it to the place. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunken is very good. For the brest and stomack & cough. Take the iuyce of parsly, pouder of comyn, brest milke, mixed all together, then give it the child to drink & make after ward this oyntment followinge. Take lineseed, fenigreeke, seeth them in water & straine them, & mingle the substance of the herbes with butter, & annoynt the childs brest it being warme. For a cough. Take brimstone pouder halfe an ounce, put it into a new layd eg, soft rosted, mingle it well, then put to it [benge] wine the bignes of a chit pease, lightly stamped, & drinke it in the morning at the breakfast, & take as much againe at night going to bed, it will helpe you at twice or thrice doeing soe. but if the cough have held you long, take of it oftener. Or take an handfull of isope, & boyle it to the third part of the water you boyle it in, and mixe hony with the water, & drinke it fastenge. To keepe the stomack well. Take hot water & vineger, & vomit once a mounth. Or eate resins with the stones fasting. To preserve the stomack. Boyle worme wood & spikenard in beere, & drinke it or make a plaster of aloes & mastick, & lay it to the stomack. For h ardnes in the stomack. Boyle worme wood in beere, & drinke it, it purgeth the stomack from all grose humours. Or drinke syrop of roses with a litle wood of aloes. Or mustard seed rosted & beaten, & drunken with water. 110 Or take fasting 3 drames of the electuary of the wood of aloes & of rubarbe; it comforts the stomack, & helps disgestion, purgeth fleame & procureth a good appetite & removeth wind from the stomack. Alsoe to helpe disgestion, annoynt the stomack with the oyle of mastick. For a cough. Take 2 or 3 heads of garlick well [mundisied], stampe them well & put to them hoggs suet, & stampe it well all together & at night when you goe to bed, warme well the soles of the feete & annoynt them well with this; then warme them againe, as hot as you can suffer, & rub them well apritty space, & beeing in bed, let your foot be bound warme with linen cloaths, & rub alsoe the small of your leggs with the sayd oyntment in three nights it will cure you, be the cough never soe vehement For hardnes of woemens brests after they be brought to bed. Take wheate branne, & seeth it with iuyce of rue & lay it upon the brestes. this is alsoe good against the biteing of venomous beastes. To make woemans milke increase. Take fennell seed, seeth it in barly water, & drink it. Chit pease boyled in water & broaken, are alsoe good. For a woemans sore pap that hath a canker in it. Take the fenn of a white goose, & the iuyce of celendine mixed, & lay it to, & it will kill the canker. For swelled pappes. Take mouse dunge, & mixe it with rayne water, & bath the papps with it. Alsoe goose grease mixed with oyle of roses & rose leaves is good layd thereto. or goose grease [alone] annoynting the papps therewith. For an impostume in woemens pappes. Wet a spunge in oxicrate beeing warme, & wring it, & lay it to, & bind it fast. or beate bread, greene pantary, wax, & oyle together, & with this annoynt the [agreivance] 111 For sore pappes, boches, or boyles. Take mallow leaves, & worme wood, of each a great handfull, seeth them in water till they bee tender as the pap of an apple, then lay them abroad that the water may runne from them, then chop them small, then stamp them with a pound of hoggs grease, & temper all till you cannot discerne the one from the other, & luke warme lay it plasterwise to the sore papps, or other sores. probatus est. For ach in woemens pappes. Take mints & stampe them & make a plaster with ry flower, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To cause a woemans milke to increase Make iuyce of vervine & fennell & drink it often For an extreame cough. Take rosemary powder & mixe it with hony, and use to eate it. probatus est. A remedy for the teeth. Take white roses & [illegible] seeds, of each a drame, white sanders, white amber, white margarets, of each a scruple, mastick, cynomen, of each halfe a drame, beate them all alitle, & ad thereto a litle hony of roses, & mixe them well; at night wet your finger in this mixture, & rub your teeth, & early in the morning wash them with white wine in with the root of the flower doluce dryed must bee boyled, then pick them with a tooth pick of the wood of the mastick tree. For the tooth ach. The roote of vervine, mallowes, or cut mallowes is very good. Things very good for the teeth. Sage; organy; mynts; [li??ius]; the head of an hare burned; tamariske; the rine of an ash; water wherein olives have beene pickled; vervine 112 chewed; the young springes of a bramble bush dock rootes chewed; vineger squilsticke; harts horne burned; the dreggs of oyle (called amurca) olive leaves: To provoke an appetite; & to purge ill humors. Make a sauce with sage, parsly, vineger, & alitle pepper, beate them & mixe them together. To provoke good disgestion. Make a plaster to the stomack of pouder of mace, mastick in pouder, & mixe them with oyle of roses, & wax at the fier. For a weake stomack. Boule mace in fennell water, then ad alitle wine, & straine it, & give it to the pty the liquor to drinke. For swelled pappes. Take the meale of flax seed, the meale of lentills temper them with oyle of roses & saffron, and lay it there to. Or take hore hound, leaves of elder, poppie leaves, that are white, worme wood, rue, dodder, & make them hot, & lay them to. Or eggs mixed with oyle of roses layd to the papps. Or make an oyntment thus. Take olibanum, worme wood seed, mastick, lentill meale, of each three drames, of wax 4 drames, oyle of roses 6 drames, & make an oyntment. For hot humours that trouble woemens brestes, & cause them to swell. Annoynt the swelling with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses equall proportions, then make very vine pouder of nitrum, & lay it wet with the former liquor but if it [illegible] of a cold humour, take meale of fenigreeke with the iuyce of parsly & elder mixed For woemens brests which are raw. Take raw quince kernells, & lay them in runing water & lay them to. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunke with aysell. probatus est. 113 For a cold stomack. Boyle wild margorame in flesh broth, or make pouder of it, & drinke it with mustadell, maulmsy or sack; and beeing warme wet a spunge therein, as hot, as you can suffer it, & wringe out the wine, & soe lay the hot spunge to the cold stomack, that cannot disgest meat, it breakes wind; & pusheth urine. For swelling & ach in the brestes. Take mallowes & worme wood, boyle the in water, & presse the water from the pouder, & grind them with hogs grease, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it to the brests; it helpes one in 3 or 4 dayes. probatus est. To make a leane body fat. Abstaine from salt meats, sharp & pricking thinges; take milke, new cheese, almons, fish & nutts, pine kernells, hazle nutts, grapes, hennes, young pigeons rosted & fat, or baked, good wine, use [myrth] at meales, let blood & purge seldome, bath after your meat be disgested, be not too hungry, eate much, drinke litle, & especially [illegible] wine; be not lightly angry, sorrowfull or heavie hearted, use not woemen kind much; temperate exercise, & rubbing, use all sweet & virtuous things, for they fatten. A good medicine to make one fat. Blanch almons, & hazle nutts, white poppy seed, the greene graine of which turpentine is made, dissolve all in butter & sugar, of the with let him eate alitle evening & morning, & drinke after it good wine. To purge melancholy. Abstaine from blooding, [venus] is very hurtfull: these things are good: burrage, buglasse, time, epithymum, scolependria the greater & lesse, capers, tamariske, spilidum, sweet wines, hoggs, [custuba], mirabolanes, polipodum, cane, lapis lazuli 114 To clense a sore. Take the iuyce of smalage mixed with barly meal & lay it on the sore. probatus est. To make a drying plaster for a sore or canker. Take beane meales of orobus of each a like portion & mixe them with [acetesy], & a litle salt, & make a plaster thereof. probatus est. To ease the payne of the gout Take an handfull of rue, a great many of the leaves of the white vine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto the iuyce of house leeke, & of orgine and boyle them with a bullocks gall, a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many of the snaggs, well beaten in a dish & boyle all these together [illegible] & straine them, & keepe that oyle to your use, to annoynt the place therewith. To kill a canker in the mouth or face. Take mercury sublimate, & boule it with vineger, or white wine, & wash your mouth or face therewith And when you will have it healing take sublimate & put camfire to it, & boyle it in water of hony suckles, & it will heale the canker. For a sore legge through a bruise. Take milke & boyle it, &make a posset of it with [alome] & take the curd pritty hot & lay it thereto: this heated a leg, that was hurt with a cart that ranne over it. For a great heat one hath to quench his thirst. Take endive water, burrage water, worme wood wat of each 4 ounces & mixe them with conserve of roses, & drinke of it evening & morning. probatus est. For the rhume & head ach. Take rue, red [illegible], worme wood of each an handfull, let them parch in a frying pan untill they bee crackling dry; then put them into a linen bag 115 of a handfull breade & a spanne longe, & put the bag of herbes againe into the frying panne, and warme them very well, & lay it to your left side, under the short ribbs, & ly downe a time upon it, & when the bag waxes cold warme it againe & lay iut there to doe soe 4 or 5 times. probatus est. For a cough or straitnes in the brest. Take figgs & isope stamped well together, then bouyle them in hony, & eate of it fasting. probatus est. To make one lusty & stronge that is weake. Take pouder of calamint, & put of it into your broth, & drinke, & use to eate & drink of it. probatus est. For one that is taken lame in any member. Boyle in a pinte of maulmsy the dunge of an horse cold, about 3 yeares old, a litle waxe, & well boyled, put thereto a quantity of comein in pouder, and lay this to the place. probatus est. To stay the flowers in a woeman. Take betony, neppe, pellitory of spayne & isope stampe them together & give her of this to drinke in all three mornings fastinge. probatus est. To stop a woeman of bleedinge after her child birth Take small stamped fethersew & give it her to drinke. probatus est. For an ague. Take sheapherds purse, fethersew, pepper, & the white of an egge beaten all together, & lay it to the wrists. For the head ach in an ague. Take betony, camomill, & rosemary of each a handfull, fry them in a spoonefull of hony, lay the hot to the place. probatus est. To destroy a canker or fellon. Beate plantan small & put thereto hony, & a litle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, & apply it. probatus est. 116 A speciall remedy for the greene sicknes. Take a quart of claret, 3 spoonefulls of hony boyle & skime it cleane, put to it a quarter of a pound of quibibs, or lesse, halfe an ounce of cynomon, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, boyule all well together to a pinte, & straine it into three pintes of aqua vitae, put to it halfe a pound of sugar, & brew them well together in two potts, & keepe it in a glasse bottle, & put thereto some [tornaset] to colour it, & drinke a spoonefull first & last. To cure melancholy. Take hot goates milk, if you be bound in the body. Or boyle wormewood & drinke it alsoe fasting. use stronge glisters. Or boyle coloquintiada with oyle & hony, & let the party blood. Purge the party with 3 iiij of h iera, take thereof thrice in a mounth, & stay 10 dayes betweene every time. to heale daungerous ulcers. Take burrage & mixe it with things good for this purpose, & lay it thereto. To heale woundes Take oaken leaves, & bruise them on a stone, & lay them thereto. probatus est. Or bruise peartree leaves & lay the to the wound. For knotts in the flesh and arteries. Take old cheese, & boyle it with the shankes of hoggs, & make them into past, & lay it to. probatus est. To cure new wounds. Take new cheese & beate it, & lay it thereto, & lay upon it a [s?ell] or vine leafe. Or burne a spunge, or lay it to dry. For ulcers. Burne old [shoes], & lay the ashes to the ulcer. To cure deepe and hollow ulcers. Take oyster shells & make pouder of them & lay it thereto, beeing first burned, it causeth flesh to grow in those places, mixe it with hoggs grease & lay it to the hollownes. 117 For an inflamation in the throate Eate two dayes together [lu?ius] with your meale with leavened bread, & drinke old wine, then take your [wone] dunge, & dry it & use it thereto, or else boyle in water a henne & a partridge, & wash the place with the broth thereof. For rotten sores. Take lapis phrygius, & put it into the sore; or mie it with vineger, or wine sodden with water. To stanch bleeding. Take gypsum, make it soft, & mixe it with wheat flower which hangeth on the mill walles & the white of an egge & lay it thereto. [?anes] [illegible] cut very small, & layd to, is very good For the plague. Drinke often of the urine of children For ulcers in the feete or hands. Wet a linen cloath & ty it thereon, & as often as you pisse, let it drop on the place. For bieting of snakes or vipers. Take goats dunge mixed with vineger, & lay it thereto For hard swelling, the squincy, dropsy, or spleene. Take goats dunge mixed with barly flower, & wine, & water boyled together, & lay them thereto. For a greate cough. Take apples called pippins, & boyle them in faire water, & mixe the liquor with sugar, & drinke often of it. probatus est. To dry rhume in the matrix or vulva. Boule penny royall & figs in vineger, & gargarige it or boyle pennryall with figgs in beare or ale, and drinke thereof If it [illegible] too cold, make a fomentation of the decoction, it dryeth the moystnes of the matrix. 118 An oyntment for the remes that ae hot. Take of oyle, of water lillies, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, of each [illegible] red sanders 3g cynomon 3 [illegible] vineger [illegible] & with a litle wax make an oyntment. For a laske. Take an eg rosted rare, put to it a litle aqua vitae soe [skinne] it well together, & let it rost a little longer and then eate it. For the wormes Take boulted wheate flower, as much as will ly upon three [illegible] of gold, put it into a glasse poure into it as much well water as will keepe the flower, & make it looke like milke, & as thinne, & give it the child to drinke, this will cause him to [voyd] them. To stay the flux. Lay 3 or 4 sowes eares in red wine a day & a night, & then drinke of it. To kill the wormes. Make an hole in an orange as big as a penny & squeese the liquor out, & put into the empty orange ouyle of bayes, iuyce of rue, iuyce of worme wood, treacle, flower of [lu?ius], seeth all this a time, then put it into a dish & annoynt the naule, stomack, temples, nostrills, & the uttermost part of the pulses. For wormes. If the child be soe litle, that it can receive [?athing] at the mouth, take aqua vitae, where with wash or wet the stomack or brest of the child, then poure over the places the pouder of fine myrres, & lay the child a time downe, with his brest upward; & you shall see that the wormes will come forth dead. For the collicke Eate dayly 5 or 6 peach kernells before dinner or supper, with salt & bread, these comfort the brest & stomack, ease the collick, & kill all sort of wormes. Or eate sallads made of mugworte, or mother worte, or eate it in your pottage; sweet margerome is alsoe very good for it. 119 A glister for the collick. Take fresh ashes dunge, boyle it in white wine, put to it a handfull of anniseed, a litle oyle of camomile a litle oyle of capers, with a handfull of branne, boyle them halfe a quarter of an hower, & take them from the fier & presse out the substance, & soe make a glister of it. For the collicke Take the iuyce of ripe barberyes, halfe a glasse full, put to it somuch red currall powder as will ly upon two [greates], & give the patient to drinke thereof. For the stone collicke. Make pouder of virga aurea, put a spoonefully of it into a new layd eg soft rosted & drinke it of fastinge, & eate not in 4 howers after, this will cause you to make water in a quarter of an hower, & using it 10 or 12 times you shall voyd the stone. For the flux or laske. Take in claret [pa?ick] beaten & stamped & drinke it. or boyle it in milke & eate it evening & morninge. To kill wormes. Make flower of dryed lupines, & knead it with hony & lay it upon the childes stomack. For the wormes Take oyntment of rondelesio, & such things as loosen the belly; such as be made of sower, bitter & [oppulsuo] modirines to wit: the iuyce of both the persicars, or the leaves of persica arbor z:j oyle of bitter almons, or of absinthio, zij petroleum ziij a litle vineger, & bullocks gall, of wheat flower upon the mill walls [illegible] mixe these together & ad thereto terebinth or [illegible] as much as shall suffice, & make an oyntment & lay it to the naule. For the flux. Take blaunched almons, boyle them in hony till t hey be black & eate thereof fasting; it is excellent good. but it will be stronger if the almons be not blaunched Or make bread of meale as it comes from the mill, & eate thereof, this is the last remedy. 120 Or else take St Johns worte, or the seed, & make a suppository with opiu, this is stronger than the other. Or boyle old cheese, & drinke the water, or dry the cheese after & take a drame of it; this is the strongest of all Oaken leaves distilled & drunke, stayeth a laske. For the collick. Boyle pigeon dung in wine, & make a plaster of it, probatus est For the bloody flux when nothing else will stay it. Take a pan full of charcole hot from the fier, put it into a chafeing dish, & set it in a close [illegible], & when you goe to the stoole, sit downe over the coles, & doe it upon the coles, that the smoake may ascend to you, it will cure you in twice or thrice doeing. probatus est. For rankling of an ague sore. Take a red cloath, & seeth it in your owne urine, & as hot as you can suffer, lay it to the greived place. probatus est For the collicke Take the iuyce of bullocks dunge, & drinke it. or make it into pouder & drinke it. probatus est. For the flux of menstruas. Drinke the pouder of pomegranate flowers; or also boyle the flowers; & drinke thereof. For the dropsie Take elder rootes mixed with oximell, & drinke it continually, or give the pty a grame of euphorbium, to purge his body. Or take pigeons dunge, an ounce of [illegible], rubarb called piganum [illegible] with oximell. or put upon the swelled belly mitrum [beaten]: or salt, & [rost] [exesinse] or wash your selfe well with sea water, & drinke litle. or rub the belly with parched salt & drinke vineger of squilla. For the stomacke. To have an hungry stomacke, take sower crabbes, & boule them in vineger, & straine them, & put therto sugar & pouder of ginger, & boyle all together, & put it into a gally pot, & use it morninge and eveninge. probatus est. 121 For stoping in the throate. Make powder of columbins, & mixe it with aqua vitae and rose water, & drinke it. For the dropsie. Take the seed of morfus diaboli strained, & drinke of it with white wine nine dayes. For to provoake vomiting. Take mustard 2 drames, spuma nitri called banrach 1 [illegible] & condiss danich beaten all, then sift them, and drinke them with dill water, & oximell. Or take mustard & put thereon the heads of radishes, eate it, & drinke after it warme water & hony, this will cause you to vomit, by putting a foeather into your mouth. or take of nux vomica 3 ij & mixe it with hony, & dissolve it with hot water, & drinke of it when you would vomit A restaurative for a weake stomacke. Take longe pepper, graines, saffron, of each 2 penny worth; beate them to pouder, then take a cock chicken, & beate it to a [collice], with the 3 pouders put to it, & three yolkes of egges, hard rosted, and give it to the weake persone. probatus est. For the sharpenes and payne in the tongue or mouth: for the pluricy or tilick. Hold in your mouth diadragantum frigidum, untill it be dissolved; you may have it redy made at the apothecaries For a very sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, cincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, mary gold leaves, stampe all these, & put thereto allome & hony, & boyle them together, & wash your mouth therewith. probatus est. To lift up the tuola. Boyle an eg very hard, & pull of the shell, & wringe it alitle, & lay it to the crowne of the head. or burne the rostes of cooles & put of the pouder into the vuola & it will lift it up by drying up the humor that caused it to fall 122 For cold in the stomack, and cold rhume in the head. Take pills of storax, & swallow them downe. Or make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, & lay it to the stomack. For the pestilence. Terra sigillata drunke with wine treakle the greater, take thereof early in the morning a scruple with sweete wine aqua vitae, iuyce of lemons, & iuyce of 3 leaved grasse. Or take leavened bread tosted, wet it with rose wine vineger, or the iuyce of the wild vine, untill the tost drink it up, then put thereon cynomon pouder & eate that tost early in the morninge. A preservative against the plague. Take of methridate 3 ii specierum diambre, & [calloms] rescription called galeni letisicantem, of each 3, 5, [diardo] [illegible] white sugar 3 ounces, with water of [acekosy]; make litle tables, & gild the, & take every day, [one] Or take 2 dry figgs, 2 nutts, leaves of rue [illegible] beate all together with alitle salt, & eate of it fasting; excellent. Or take this electuary; sweet almons stamped, dry figgs, [illegible] leaves of rue 20, graynes of iuniper 5, beate them with rose wine vineger, & make an electuary, & take an ounce of it in the morninge. For the cough & straytnes in the brest. Take dry figgs, & isope & stamp them well together, then boyle them with hony & drinke of it fasting pbatus est To stay rhume. Take of pouder of worme-wood & mynts, of each alike portion layd upon a tost of whit bread (with crust not be tosted browne) steeped, or rather but wet in maulmsy eate this or tow of them in the morninge fast two yeares after it; you may lay sugar over the pouder. For the tooth ach. Stampe 2 cloves of garlick, & ty it to your wrist on that side that your toothaketh, & it will draw away all payne. Or boyle isope in vineger, & wash your mouth with the liquor & it will ease the payne presently. If the tooth be yellow, fill it with the gume of an [illegible] tree. 123 for a sore throate. Take the inward barke of a wallnut tree, rosemary croppes, & 2 or 3 good figgs slit asunder, boyle them well with white wine, & drinke the liquor. probatus est. To heal choppes in the gumes & lippes. Take mastick pouder mixed with the white of an egge. pbatus est. For the tooth ach. Take woodbind, & columbine leaves, pound, & straine them, & put to it allome water, then dip a cleane linen cloath therein, & hold it to the tooth that aketh. probatus est. To bring forth childrens teeth easily Annoynt the gumes with hony, & salt mixed together. To ease the payne under the ribbs, speene, & reynes. Eate oftimes almons. For hardnes of the sinewes. Take the marrow of a deere, or calfe, & annoynt the place. For the lithargy. Take a spoonefull of castoreum, & as much of white pepper, & as much of mellicrate, & give it to the party. To provoke [menstrues] [illegible] the party blood in the foote, then give her to drink of castoreum with penny royall or calamynt. pbatus est. but it must be given with wine & water boyled together, & soe drunke. For the collick. Drink aloes pouder; or take hiera antidogum; or treacle; or phylomum; or boyle parsly rootes and fennell rootes in water, & drinke thereof. Or boyle branne in wine, & put it into a linen bag, & rub your belly well & lay the bag thereto. Or take brimstone, comine resins stoned, mixe them with wine, & beate them together, & put them into a linen cloath, & lay it to the stomack, naule, backe, or privy parts. Or drinke two spoonefulls of oximell, & annoynt the parties back bone with oyle of rue, or oyle of bayes. For the goute. Take opium, castoreum of each zij of saffron z [illegible] 124 agragate them together with [water], wherein galls have beene boyled, & lay it thereto. But if the payne increase annoynt the place with stronge vineger, wherein horsemints & origanum have beene boyled. An excellent pouder to eate dead flesh. Burne [reach] allome, of myrabolanes, citrines, [illegible] sigillata, flowers of pomegranate, of each 2 drames, pouder of mercury, pouder of red corall, of each 2 drames, mixe them together, & use thereof. probatus est. Remedies for the back, reynes, loynes, liver and the spleene. For all manner of inflamations in the liver, swelled leggs, & inflamed hands. Take flower of barly, or amilum, seeth it halfe an hower in comon water, straine it, & put it into another pot, put to it a few mallowes, surrory, hopps, endive burrage, seeth all together untill it be dissolved, ad to it an ounce of sandall; then straine all, & take in a linen cloath two nutts full of cassia extracts, & put that [illegible] to it, pressing it with your fingers, that the substance thereof may issew into the strayned water as it heateth, then put to it [sope] as much as you will; then take every morning of this lying in your bed a litle glasse full, with your brest upward, then lay a linen cloath upon your stomack; [sleep] if you can, & take a litle of it after you are up, & have done your necessities; this must be done in sumer, & not in winter. For an ach. Take 3 parts of the iuyce of young elder croppes, & a fourth part of black sope, beate these together till it be a salve or oyntment, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For a payne in your reynes, flanke; & all other greifes. Take 3 quarters of an ounce of storax liquida, capons grease, goose grease, ducks grease, of each 5 drames, of oyle roses 4 drames, red wax 2 drames, melt these with h alfe a drame of butter & soe mingle them, & then put to it the storax, spread it on a cloath, & lay it upon the greife. 125 For the spleene. Every thing that is conduceing to make one fat is good. Boyle worme wood in beere & hony or take dry figges, & boyle them in mellicrate, beate & mixe them with worm wood, & lay it thereto. Or take caper roots, an ounce, vineger a pritty deale, water a part, boyle them together to a third part, & drinke 4 or 5 spoonefulls at a time. Or take young roots of ground [inie] boyled in wine, drink it. Or take mirabolanes, & [??pple] the in vineger, & beeing made thick, lay it thereto. Or ty them to the spleene of a soe, or kid. or beate the fruite of tamariske, then boyle it & lay it thereto. Or the rootes of capers, boyled in vinegar & put into a linen cloath & layd thereto gives great ease in one dayes space. An excellent remedy for a stitch Take a dishfull of hot embers, & sprinkle them with a litle wine vineger, & put them into a linen bag, & soe apply it hot to the side, & being cold, warme it againe in a platter, or else take new ones as before. For a payne in the side, & to open the spleene. Take an handfull of the midle greene rine of greene ash bowes, & infuse it into a pinte of white wine halfe a day & a night; in the morning drinke of it fastinge, & walke & fast, 2 howers after. A restaurative Take a pinte of white [barstard], 2 yolkes of eggs, white sugar candy an ounce, 2 penny worth of white saunders, the waight of 4d of [Ambin] pouder, boyle a peece or two of gold in I t, & boyle it to 3 quarters of a pinte beate the yolkes of eggs with the wine & put them in last for curdlinge, & drinke of it morning & evening. A singular remedy for the pluricy. Beate halfe a pound of the roote of scabious, of red corall 2 ounces, sugar as much as will suffice to make a syrop thus. Boyle the sugar a good time then put thereto halfe a pint of the iuyce of scabious, your pouder of corall, boyle the well straine it, & drinke a good draught thereof. Or drinke the iuyce of rue. 44 126 Or beate figgs with hoggs grease, or salet oyle & implaster it thereto. or boyle marsh mallow rootes, fenigreek seed, flax seed & wheate, & incorporate them well, & lay it thereto. this cureth either plurisy or palusie. Or take the meale of fenigreeke seed, flax seed and linen, & make bread of it with butter, bake it & lay it hot to the plurisy. probatus est. To cause one to voyde fleame. Take unstoned raysins of the sune, & beate them with the pouder of endive & alitle hony, & eate thereof For an inpostume, or to cure a canker Mixe raysins with beane meale & comeme, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it thereto. A water against dead flesh, & to heale any sore. Take white caperes, camfire at your discretion, burne them in a fier pan, & make pouder thereof, then take belsorminate a pritty peece, & make it into fine pouder, then take running water, seeth it & scume it over the fier, & put in all your powders, & let it boyle againe, & soe stand a while, & the pouder will sinke to the bottome, then put it iinto a cleane glasse. this applied to the sore fetches out dead flesh, scowers the wore faire, & will bringe it to perfect healinge. probatus est. To kill a fellon Beate [illegible] soote very small, & mixe it with black sope, and lay it thereto. probatus est. For all manner of goutes. Take pellitory of spaine & seeth it in water, or white wine, & lay it to the goute, this assuages both swelling & your ach. An oyntment for the ioynts. Take 5 or 6 handfulls of wallnut, seeth it well in wine then straine it, & with alitle wax, oyle of spike, & aqqua vitae make an oyntment, and every day annoynt the place evening & morning. probatus est. For swelling without breaking the skinne. Boyle barly meale in red wine, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto warme. probatus est. 127 For the goute 6 Make a stronge brine with water & salt that will bare an eg, & put the part greived into it as hot as you can endure, & as it cooleth take hotter; an excellent remedy. To make away wartes. Take great wormes, & boyle them well, & let it stand until it be cold, then take of the fat, & annoynt the wartes. For the gout in the ioyntes. Take endive water, the iuyce of holy [hanke] rootes, oyle of roses & camomile, barly flower, holkes of eggs, & a litle safron, mixe the together, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For an extreame ach. Lay hemolcks upon a tile, then upon them a slice of [illegible] cheese, then hemlockes againe over the cheese, then lay the tile upon embers to stew, & being throughly hot, lay it plaster wise to the greife, & use it oftimes, when you take of the plaster, wipe the water from the place & if neede require lay it on againe. probatus est. For the sciatica. Take ship pitch & ammoniack, & mixe the well together, & lay it thereto. this is very good. For the goute. Take [flea] worte, boyle it, & bath the place; it taketh away the payne very [???ainly]. Or take the roote of a wild [curumer] & [braune], beaten, & lay it thereto, this taketh away the swelling & hardnes thereof. Or take turpentine, resine, & wax, treacle & aqua vitae, boyle them, & spread it on a linen cloath some what warme, with a litle butter on the boarde where you spread it, & lay the plaster to the greife. Or boyle stockfish & lay it on skinne & all as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Take the iuyce of ground [inie], & put of it into the eare on the same side the payne is: the effect is wonderfull. For the sciatica Make an oyntment of [illegible] & oyle, wherein coloquintida hath beene boyled with aloes, tapsia, apopinax 8 [illegible. Precepts for the goute. If the gout be cold & without swelling or redness & taken 128 with an extreame paine, use vaporations with [fryed] salt, put into a bag, & after cover the place which [illegible] well wet & moystened in hot sweet oyle. Or fomentate the place with the decoction of mallows hot & boyled with fenigreeke flax seed, & calamynt. If [these] helpe not, if [illegible] [illegible], let him blood, & oyle hot fomentations made with sea water, or comon water ading thereto salt; [illegible] goeing to stoole, & use hot things; or use oyle of bayes; & after 40 dayes use [diasamicon], or diapopinaceum, or diaspermaton. After youl leave the bathes use nitrum; euforbium,; adarace, & pouder of pepper, layinge them to the place, or else pouder of bay berries. An oyntment for the same. Take squilla, rue, rootes of wild curumer, two pts of water & one of old oyle, boyle them untill the water only remaynes, then cast away the herbes, put thereto pouder of nitrum, euforbium, adaraco, pepper & bay berries, use these, & purge with [helebores]. For a rupture. Take drinke made of comfry & muria eate not too much, especially if you engender wind, drinke not too much, use not much venery, keep the belly loose with glisters or suppositories: & sometimes goeing to diner take halfe an ounce of cassia with broth of a pullet, or tamarindes, or diacartamus tempered with the sayd broth or other liquor. Take of sanguis draconis, bolearminake, [scabiese], mumia, cypers nutts, of each an ounce, anise water cresses dryed, of each 6 drames, of great [consounds], & the [lesser], & the midle, & the wild vine, of each an ounce, & an halfe; make a pouder, & take thereof with the decoction fog round [iuie], & [con??und], called the knights [illegible] Or take pouder of valerian early & late a drame & an halfe at once, with red wine. Or make pouder of water cresses dryed, & give it to the party with milke, wherein [stones] or iron have been quenched. Alsoe [illegible] the roote thereof cut & tempered with red wine, & drunke continually cureth every rupture; Liver wort used soe worketh the same effects. Or take of the three sorts of confound, of both kinds of [scabiose], plantan, valerian, pimpernell, of each an ounce, cypers nutts, nut megs, cynomon, comeine, coriander 129 prepared, of each, halfe an ounce, frankincense mastick, terra sigillata, bolearminate, gume dragan of each 3 drames [illegible] [stiptiis] lotor duaw, aquae lib: 4 potest addi [cirma]: concisi et [illegible] es fiet ficri [allmodu] [illegible] An emplaster for the same Take cypers nutts, accasia, galls, pomegranate [stones], of each a drame; myrre, sarcacoll, frankinsense, gume arabick, of each 3 drames, dragons blood, bolearminate, [roch] allome, ales, mumia, of each 2 drames, make a fine pouder, & mixe it with vineger, & emplaster it thereto, & [trusse] it straite up. If after the gout vex the place, and be hard amoungst the sinewes. Make a plaster thereto of hard diaculum made soft in warme water, & layed thereto. For runneing of the reynes. Take an ounce of mastick make it into fine pouder, & put it into a quart of ale, & boyle it untill a quarter be wasted, then take it of & let it stand till it bee cold, then take the upermost & drinke it pbatus est. Or take comfry & make pouder thereof, & temper it with the iuyce of morrell, & wet a linen cloath therein, & lay it to the [yare], reynes, & members. pbatus est. To stay a laske Take [hares] furre, [illegible] seed, plantan seed, rose seed, flowers of pomegranates, seeds of St Johns wort, of each a drame, of dragons blood, mastick, of each 4 drames, venece turpentine, 2 drames & make it up wiuth plantan iuyce. Or take fasting mastick 3 drames, with rayne water, it comforteth the stomack & all ptes. Or take 3 drames of dragons blood, with plantan iuyce. For the extreame payne of the goute. Take a drame of opium pouder & safron pouder, mixed with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses, & layd to, is excellent. For all swelling what soever. Take a pottle of wormes washed, put the in to a pint of white wine, seeth the alitle, then put therein a pint of sallet oyle, & let these boyle together untill the wine be consumed, then straine it & put that oyle into a cleane vessell, & set 130 it on the fier, & put into it an ounce of deeres suet, & as much sheepes suet, & halfe an ounce of wax scraped therein, melt all these, & apply it. probatus est. For the dropsie. Drinke the seedes of morfus diaboli with white wine 9 dayes. For a burninge ague. Take 10 snayles with their shells, a great handfull of hemlocks, halfe an hand full of bay salt, beate them very well together, then lay the one halfe to the base soles of the foote, & the other halfe to the other; lay it not to until the heate hath beene on the party an hower, then let it ly on 8 howers, it helpes one within a day & a night; & may be applied to a child. For one that never had a child. Take a handfull of mercury, as much of ground [illegible], chop them small & straine them with beere, or boyle them with pottage with some red sanders, & drinke of it every day For a dropsy either hot or cold. Take worme wood, pettimorell, fetherfue, [spurge], wall worte, of the roote of each halfe a pound; of fennell parsly, isope, sago, smalage, arnias, mynts, water cresses, hore hound, endive, liver wort, greene barke of elder, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & pound them in a morter, then put them into an earthen pot, & put thereto 2 gallones of white wine, or good [worte], which is not turned; seeth it till it come to a gallon, then straine it through a haire sieve into a faire vessell, wash the earthen pot, & put the liquor into it againe, & cover it, & give the party halfe a pint at a time. use it first & last, at evening hot, at morning cold, let him take nothing for 3 dayes but bread & pottage made with billers, white wine, & oatemeale; And take 2 pound of sage washed cleane, & put it into a coffin of dough made of wheate meale, & when it is baked, beate it in a morter & then put it into a faire cloath and the cloath [illegible] a waight of three pounds, & hang it in a gallon pot of stone, & fill it up with white wine or stale ale, & cover it, & let the party drinke of it & noe other drinke whilst it lasteth, & that spent, make ready more, & drinke alsoe of it first & last; & after three dayes let him eate any 131 convenient meale, but noe drinke but this prescribed let him alsoe blood in one or two vaines. probatus est to be a singular and most excellent receite. Remedies for cankers, emrods, piles, and boyles. For the emrods or piles. Boule greene elder in water untill it be dissolved, then take a peece of red cloath, a litle biger, then the palme of your hand, & stretch it along upon the palme of your hand, & lay the elder leaves upon the emrod, as hot as may be suffered, having alitle before layd uipon them a litle oyle olive; then take away the cloath & leaves, & in like manner lay on others, & soe others as long as you may, & then let him sleepe if he can. For a boyle or botch. Take crumes of bread, raysings dryed in an oven, & well stamped, butter, eggs suet, [leven], cowes milke, & a litle saffron; make of all this an oyntment & lay it to the sore, putting first a litle safron pouder upon the very place, where you will have it breake & upon that lay the plaster, leaving it soe untill night, & changing it evening & morning, soe shall you make is [soome] ripe, & breake, then dresse it with oyle roses & the yolkse of eggs one whole day; after this purge away the filth with some drawing oyntments, finally lay to it the oyntment of aloes & tutia, or or some consolidatine or healeing oyntments. Or beate bay salt into pouder, then sift it, & incorporate it with the yolke of an egge, & lay it thereto. this is good for a plague sore; sape probatum. To resolve a fellon or boyle or bock in the beginninge Cut an orange in the midle then take a litle [illegible] in a dish & pisse upon it, then wringe it in your hands, & put to it a litle comon salt, beaten to pouder, & lay it hot to the sore, putting upon the sayd [tome] halfe an orange 132 & bind all this on, changing it evening & morning, & the [illegible] mater will [soudainly] dissolve. For impostumes, boches, cankers & other sellings. Take barly & branne, & seeth them untill they be like to a plaster very thick, then lay it upon the sore. To ripen an impostume, boch, fellon, or any swelling sore. Take hoggs grease, or lard, & lay it to the sore, very good For a canker approoved. Take myrre, mastick, & dragons blood, pound the together then take the marrow of a red [stere], & pound all together, & make it into a roule, & when you use it, make a plaster upon a new linen cloath, or leather. Pouder of [illegible] will open a wound; & pouder of centory will heale it To breake a boch or boyle. Take grownd [sill] & capons grease; & grind the together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. probatus est. Or take, worme wood, mallowes, wheate flower, lineseed & hony, seeth them all together in wine, & make a plaster, & bind it thereto very hot. probatus est. For the measles in young children. Take iulip, violets 2 ounces, rose water 4 ounces, oyle of vitriole 4 graynes, mixe them, & drinke it cold. this is a rare medicine. To kill a tetter. Annoynt the tetter with the iuyce of woodbine leaves, pbatus est To kill a canker or fellon. Take plantans beaten small, hony, alitle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, mixe these, & lay them thereon. To take away a wenne. Annoynt the wenne but three nights with the blood of a [tench] & it will fall away. probatus est. An oyntment for scabbes or ring wormes. Take the iuyce of the yellow daffodill, iuyce of dragons, iuyce of fennell, which is sower, of each 2 ounces, hogges grease halfe a pound, bouyle these together, untill the iuyces be boyled away, then put it into a morter, and mie it well with tartar, & fileings of lead, & that with [st??beth] on an oven or furnesse mouth, verdigrease, the ashes of a gourd, of each 2 drames, an ounce of quicksilver [killed] with fasting spittle, & as much vineger as shall suffice to incorporate all & make an oyntment of them. 133 For the shingles. Take moyst pigeons dunge, & barly meale, mixe them together & lay it to the sore then lay worte leaves about them, & let these ly a day & a night; then lay a fresh plaster: for 3 plasters will cure you bee the shingles never too greivous. probatus est. To kill a canker. Take running water, & water out of the smithes forge, & put therein rosemary, sage, honysuckle leaves, a good peece of rose allome, & hony, boyle them well together, & wash the place therewith, then make pouder of sage & smalage & lay upon the sore. probatus est. To cure an ague. Take briony, or the roote of white wine, called vitis alba, cut, & beate it in a morter with frankinsense bay salt, & turpintine, & lay it to your wristes. probatus est. To cure a burne with fier. Take sheepes tallow, & hennes dunge, fry them together, & straine out the iuyce, & annoynt the place. For swelled hands. Make a plaster with cow dunge, mixed with hony & vineger, & lay it thereto, when it is hard. For the dropsie. Take chick-week, ale, & oatemeale, make pottage thereof, & use it 9 dayes, & every day fresh. probatus est. For ach in the wombe. Take tansy, rue, & souther wood, eate it fasting. For the stone in the reynes Boyle baellium of arabia, & drinke thereof, it [p???eth] [illegible] & expelleth wind. For a strangury, & such as cannot make water. Boyle the rootes & leaves of plantan in white wine, & drinke it. or boyle [radice] rootes in white wine, & ad pou of hares furre burned & drinke thereof, it is a prefect remedy for the same. 134 To kill the swine pox. Take a handfull of wild tansy, worme wood, marygold leaves of each as much wash 7 dry them betweene a cloath cut & fry them with butter, and take the iuyce, & annoynt the pox there with For a burne or scald. Take creame, & fleece therein the midle rine of witch-hazle, or the rime of elder, & annoynt the place. To kill a tetter. Burne rushes upon a latine bason, & with the oyle which cometh thereof annoynt the tetter often. probatus est. A present remedy for the collick. Take wallnutts without the shells, seeth them in white wine, strayne it, & put in as much sugar candy as will sweeten it, & drinke it. probatus est. To take away wartes. Stamp egrimony & celendine with [illegible] it be thick. probatus est. For the mether. Take greene broome toppes stamp & temper them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. For ach in the feete with travailinge. Mixe stamped comein seeds with oyle olive, & annoynt the soles of the feete, & bind thereto a red [cole] leafe. For all manner of goutes. Take brimstone pouder, [grind] it with oyle olive on a stone & annoynt the gout before the fier. or take a red snayle, put it into an earthen pot, & put thereto salt, untill it bee melted, & therewith annoynt the place before the fier. To quench ones thirst. Take the roote of [loveage], stamp it & temper it with water, & drinke it 3 mights goeing to bed. probatus est. To stanch the menstruall blood in woemen. Take a toade dryed, & put it into a bag, & hang it about the woemans neck. probatus est by Mr May. To provoke the flowers. Take myrre, & cynomon of each zj of savine [illegible] parsly seed, smalage seed, spike nard, asarum, of each [illegible] make of all these a pouder, & take of it 3 [illegible] with the iuyce of eringus. It is good to take it with some liquor. For an itch. Take brimstone pouder & temper it with aqua vitae & salet oyle, & annoynt the scabbes therewith. probatus est. For the emrods. [illegible] sage in oyle of roses put it into a linen bag & lay it hot to 135 To make one soluble. Take raysins of the sunne, steepe them a night in water & hony, in the morning eate 20 or 30 of them with 2 spoonefulls of the liquor to 8 spoonefulls of water a spoonefull of hony For a laske. Take a new layd eg, break the shell & put out the white & keepe the yolk in the greater part of the shell, & put thereto a good deale of [veriayce], & stirre it together on the fier, & after wards [illegible] it up. probatus est. For paynes in the belly, & especially of such whose naule comes out. Take the pouder of burnt galls, mixe thereto the rine of a pine tree, or frankincense & the white of an eg, & lay it to. For paynes in the belly. Drinke the roote of aristologia; or dry comein seed, & take thereof 2 spoonefulls, with 8 spoonefulls of water or wine. Or chew comeing seed & swallow it downe. or bay seeds taken out of the skinne & made into pouder, & drinke thereof 9 spoonfulls with wine. or eringus rootes with wine, or elder boyled & drunke with sine. To make one laxative Take wheate branne, boyle it in water, & straine it; & take blanched almons, beate them in a morter & temper the with the water, & drinke it, or make it into a porrige. probatus est. For a payne in the stomack, for vomiting, the collick, in the spleene or liver, or the ague by fleame. Take anniseed 2 drames, mastick, spike, aromaticum, of each a drame, boyle them & drinke thereof. For the stomack payned, & cannot disgest, for an ague by cold, for appilations & the collick. Take of spike a drame, galingall 2 drames comin 3 drames, boyle them & drinke there of. To cure the idstillation of the urine. Take dayly in your drink psillicum, with oyle of roses. Or anacardina, methridate, & ieragelein. Alsoe trifera minor mixed with wallnutts & frankincense For the over much flowing of urine. Butterd milke, or iuyce of pomegranates drunke. Take acasia, 3 ij dragagant 3 j [illegible] dryed roses 3 iij beleorminate 3 iiij gume arabick 3 ij beate them 136 & sift them, & make it up with musilage of psallium, and take it with cold water. Or make a plaster with barly meale, vineger, & oyle of roses, & lay them to your back. Or drinke charned milke & milke hot from the cow. An oyntment for the same. Take frankincense 3 iij acasia, hipoquistides, labdanum, of each 3 iiij oyle of roses an ounce, [populeon] z ij pound then well in a morter & annoynt the reynes & privy partes therewith. Or take oyle of water lillyes, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, gume arabick the lesser cold seeds, red sanders, wallnutts dryed to pouder, roses, frankincense, myrre, cypres, galingall, cynomon enula make pouder of them. To stay the flux of urine. Take the litle skinnes of the [mames] of hennes, dry them to pouder in the skinne; a drame thereof; olibanum, dryed wallnutts, pomegranate flowers, galls, of each 3 drames, make a pouder of it all, & take of it fasting with cold water & hony of roses. For swelling in the codds. weare about your neck a parsnippe roote; or take bay leaves & rue leaves, & beate them together and lay them thereto. probatus est. To make one pisse. Drinke tansy & camomile iuyce with white wine. probatus est. To stay the flux of urine. It is very good to eate the lunges of a kidde. Or boyle barly & cast away the first red water, & fill it with fresh water, & boyle it again then straine it, & put to the liquor letice water, & endive water & drinke thereof after it is; but when it bouyleth put in myrtle leaves, & mithridate, or treakle. Pilles for those that pisse in bed. Take myrre, castoreum, costus, tormentilla wallnut shells, peritony, of each halfe an ounce, beate the & make them up with water of myrre moyst; or with the iuyce of myrkles, or [illegible], & after steepe take a drame, or a drame & an halfe. An excellent pouder for the same. Take [horse] mynt, that growes in the water, [peleuy] of the mountaine, 137 of each 3 drames; myrre a drame & an halfe, [cypresse], mustard seed, cardomomum, cypresse nutts, frankincense of each a drame, make it up with hony, & take the quantity of a nutt goeing to bed Or take a sheepes bladder & spread it upon a hot tyle, stone, or iron plate, & being dryed to pouder, drink thereof with water & vineger but it is farre better to drinke it with red wine made hot alitle. Or take chimolea (which is a certaine earth brought out of spaine) beate it small, & temper it with bullocks gall, & emplaster it on the [privities], & the back bone. For an ach or swelling in the knee. Take rue & loveage, stampe & mixe them together with hony, then fry them, & lay them warme to. pbatus est. To kill small wormes in the belly. Dry rue to pouder, & drinke of it dayly; Or eate it in broth first & last. or put it into wine & warme it & drinke thereof. probatus est. To kill the greater wormes. Make pouder of betony & savine, & put of it into hot water, & drinke of it some what warme. probatus est For a wrench. Boyle milke grated manchet, & fresh butter, or hogs grease together, untill it be thick, & lay it hot thereto. For one that is taken lame. Take a pint of maulmsy, [stond] horse dunge, a litle wax, boyle alltogether well, then put thereto a quantitye of comein pouder, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To provoke the menstrues. Take a head of garlick pilled, & put it into the matrix; it rpovoketh nightily. To bring out the pox, plague, meazles or other payne about the heart. Take 5 leaves of sage, 5 blades of safron dryed, & make them into pouder, a fig cut into small peeces boyle all these in faire water, drink it often. pbatus est. For one that is broaken Beate an onyon with mutton grease, & a litle oxe gall, & put it into a linen cloath, and lay it thereto. probatum est. 138 To provoke the menstrues in woemen. Take a lilly roote rosted in embers, then beate it & mixe it with oyle, & put thereof into the matrix. Or drinke lylly seedes, & it will bringe forth a dead child [perfectly]. Or boyle pennyroyall, & bake the matrix, it taketh away the swelling of the matrix; or drunken, or put into the matrix doth the same: soe doth calamynt or parsnipps, either drunken, put up, or fomentated. Sage boyled & drunken, or put up bringeth forth the [secundine]. To heale the emrods. Dry or burne dill seeds, & mixe it with hony, & layd thereto health them. Or take fileings of iron, & confect it with mullen, & lay it to, is most excellent. Or take old bumbast, & wet it in water wherein dill hat beene boyled, & after dry the bumbast, & mixe the [arse] therewith, & then make a suppository of it. Or take rosemary leaves bruised, & make a plaster, & lay it to the emrods. Or comon dirt healeth the flux of the emrods. Or make pouder of eg shells where in chickens have been hatched, & drinke it with white wine fasteing: this healeth them perfectly. If the emrods hange out is payne you much. Take old linen & hard pich, & upon this plaster lay the pouder of parsly rootes, & mastick, & lay this plaster thereto probatus ets. To stay the laske. Drinke acasia; or make a suppository of it, with soe much opium. Or boyle horehound with wine & oyle, & beate them well together, & emplaster it to the place about the privy members. probatus est. Or boyle or fry a sheepes liver with wax & eate of it hot, it stayeth the flux perfectly. Or boyle cowes milke, & put therein a peece of iron or a flint stone, & let them boyle well, & drinke thereof: this is a perfect remedy. Take beares grease: or wine & a new layd eg, with a litle salt & drinke of it fasting, & soe the second day, & fast a long hower after. Or drinke the pouder of tormentill, or the decoction of that [illegible] For those that spit blood. The gume of the peach tree, called gum persici {illegible] to the is [excellent], & [illegible] the matter in the lungs 139 For an old or new sore Take red leade, turpentine, oyle olive, & barrowes grease, boyle it until it bee stiffe upon a stick, then straine it, & put it into a vessell to keepe it in, & & make a plaster upon a linen cloathe & lay it to. To stay urine. Drinke the braine of a haire with wine. galbanu with wine drunke is good. soe is galingall soe used. To cure a burne. Take a raw eg, & lay it upon soft wooll: it is a most rare secret, to dry the sore. or annoynt it with [bola??iral] To stay the running of mans nature. Drinke the water wherein lenteles are boyled: hemp seeds, coriander seed, purslane seeds, charned milk upon it is sower: but take the water wherein these seeds are boyled. Or make plasters of hen bane, opium, camfire, the mustilage of flea worte, purselane, & oyule of poppie, oyle of roses, or oyle of [myrtles]. Or coriander seed, & water lilly seedes dryed. Purge from challer, let blood, & puoke to vomit. those hot things are good to dry up mans seed. rue, & his seed, agnus castus, calamynt, euforbiu comein; all things to dry up mans seeds must be taken with acetosum. Or take pine kernells, [shaled] & fryed & sifted, of [bdellium], of each 3 x. pomegranate flowers, red roses of each 3 w beate them & sift them & use them. [Chinconna] sayth that pine kernells loose their vertue by dryinge. Another for the same. Take dill seeds 3 iij letice seed, purselame seed of each 3 iiij & drinke them with water of lenteles. Or take letice seed 3 ij of [illegible] rue seed 3 j pomegranate flowers 3 ij seeds of lagnus castus 3 j all this for one dosse. Or take old conserve of roses 2 ounces put it into a morter & temper it with pouder made of pomegranate flowers, myrre in pouder, frankincense, mastick in pouder, anniseeds in pouder, comein in pouder, rue dryed to pouder, margerome dryed 140 to pouder, & sugar, & compound them well takeing of each a like quantity & litle portion & [morria] & soe eate of it dayly., probatus est L [Mr] May: remember to ad in the beating bolearminate of the [best] For a burne with fier. Take the yolke of an egge, or the whits of egges tempered with salet oyle, play it thereto. probatus est. Or take mutton suet, & hennes dunge, & fry the together, then straine out the iuyce through a cloath, & annoynt the burne therewith. probatus est. For the dropsie. Take the shaveings of sheepes skinnes, or [illegible] skinnes, & boyle them in water untill they bee thick as glew, & put it in a cloath, & bind it about your body. probatum est. For swelled feete or hands. Boyle elder leaves in water, & put thereto salt, & bath the swelling therewith. Boyule elder leave in oyle & wine & lay the thereto. To provoke the menstrues. Take coles, & lay thereon storax, & let the woeman sit over the fume thereof; it is good. To stay flux of urine. Take graynes of myrtle, wallnutts, frankeincense, comein, cypresse, of each a part beaten, & take with old wine 2 drames. Or take the leaves of myrtle dryed. Allome, leaves of aleanna, of each a part, boyle them with wine, & drink thereof an ounce at a time in the morning. Or take wallnutts, & steepe them in wine vineger 24 howers, & fry them in a panne then beate them & [take] thereof ten drames. Or take [currall], myrtle, frankincense, storax, dry the, pound them, & mixe them with hony and wallnutts dryed to pouder. Or take the wet end of a pulled cork, & burne it to pouder, & use of it twice or thrice a day. Or the stones of a hedgehog dryed to pouder: it is excellent good. 141 For a burne nerely done. Annoynt the place well with mustard, & good store, this will fetch out the fier, & heale it. To cure scabbes. Take litange beaten to pouder, gume tragagant, vitriole, equall proportions, incorporate them, with wine vineger, put them into a glasse & stop it close, & bury it in a moyst place amounth, & then annoynt the place therewith. All these are good to cure a burne. Hoggs grease, marse mallowes, acasia, [ince], allome, mayden haire, beete, burnt lether, white lillies, elder leaves, [inie], St Johns wort, wild letice, mallowes, an eg, plantan, [grose] leeks, sheepes dunge, pigeons dunge, and frankeincense. For swelled knees. Take rue & [loudage] stamped well together, mingle it with hony, & fry all together, & lay this plaster to the sore, somewhat warme, & the ach & swelling will cease. For ach or sores Take the rootes of holy haukes, seeth them tender, then grind them in a morter, & put thereto a quantity of wheate flower, & mingle them well together, & fry it with oyl olive, & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For biteing of an adder. Stampe, then temper centory with water & drink thereof, it is good for man & beast. OR stamp rue & temper it with oyle olive, & lay it thereto. For the plurisie. Make an hole in a mellow apple, & take away some within, & put therein 2 or 3 graynes of olibanum, then cover the apple againe, with the first peece out of, & rost it in the embers till it grew tender, then bruise it into 4 parts with the olibanum & eate it; it will instantly cause the apostume to breake,. probatus est per Roserum May. Or take the flower that sticks on the mill sides, make of it part with water, & soe make litle cakes 5 5. 142 of the bignes of a greate, bake them or fry them with oyle of scorpions, lay one very hot to the greise, rubbing it with oyle of scorpions, & when one cake is cold take another, doe soe 10, or 15 times, & in short time the apostume will breake, & you shall spit it forth. Or take a white leafe [leafe] very hot, & open it in the midle, spread upon both sides treakle, & bind both parts to the sides of the body upon the greife, let it rost 24 howers, or untill the postume breaks, which hath beene within 2 howers, & the bread beeing taken away, you shall voyld the putrifaction of the apostume. Or a bores tooth scraped into wine & drunke breakes the apostume of the plurisie. For an ach or bruise. Take [netes] foote oyle a pottle, an oxes gall, a pint of aqua vitae, as much rose water, bay leaves, rosemary stripped from the stalks, strawberry leaves, rootes & [wiers], lavander cotton, lavander spike, of each a handful, beat them small 7 put them into the sore sayd [stu??e], & boyle it on a soft fier in a panne of two gallons, but beware the flamme touch it not, & being well boyled, take it of & strayne it, but take not the bottome of it, & soe annoynt you therewith. For the plurisy & shortnes of breath. [pound] astrologia purgeth grasse humes from the lunges. For an old cough. Swallow downe the bignes of a leafe of myrre, it is excellent, & helpes from other paynes in the brest. Scrabigle is good for the lungs, & against the plurisy. For hardnes, & paynes in the arteryes & vaynes. Melt amoniack with vineger lest it burne, or beate it in a morter with vineger & lay it thereto. Mixed with nitrum oyle, it is good for a sciatica. mixed with vineger it is good for the spleene that is hard. Mixed with hony or pich, annoynting the [illegible] it helpes the hardnes. For a stitch. Take berryes or leaves of holly beate & mie them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. 143 For the sciatica Wringe out the iuyce of new horse dunge, & dry put to it a quantity of stronge vineger, & fry it, & as hot as may be put it into a linen cloath, & lay it to the greise; when it waxeth cold heate it againe with new vineger, & soe 3 or 4 times. probatus est. Or take a quart of the dreggs of very stronge ale, & a pint of wheat branne, boyle them together, & as hot as may be lay it to the place all night. probatus est. A notable oyntment to cure scabbes. Take a pint & a halfe of good wine, brimstone 3 ounces, frankencense 2 drames, salt 3 ounces, the roote strutium, alias condisi 4 ounces, white wax an ounce & a halfe; in the end of the boyleing ad liquid storax, a drame & a halfe, boyle all untill the [thine] part of halfe be confirmed, then let it settle & congele, & annoynt the palmes of your hands & where any scabs are. For a hot humour in the legge. Beate well the whits of eggs, & scume them cleane then take the iuyce of howse leeke & put to it, & annoynt the place. For paynes in the eares & head. Take 3 pounds of rue, bruyse it small, & boyle it with 3 pounds of salet oyle, untill a thine part bee wasted, & that the oyle wax greene, then strayne it through a cloth, & keepe this oyntment for your use. probatus est. For swelling in the codds. Take pouder of barly meale & good hony, fry them together, & make a plaster & lay it all about the codds, & bind it that it fad not of. probatus est. but remember to ad pouder of comein to it, when you fry it. For all manner of wrenches, bruises & swellings. Take 8 ounces of yellow wax, oyle of roses 8 ounces (bruce 8 ounces, camfire a drame, cut your wax small) & put it into a skellet with the oyle, & boyle them on a soft fier, alitle, then put in your [coruce] small beaten, & boyle these 3 a little, & when you perceive it somewhat yellow, put in your camfire beaten small, & boyle it a litle, then that make a [illegible] cloath, what is left make in roules for your use 144 An oyntment for all old & daungerous wounds. Take celandine, louvage, sage, scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them in a morter, & temper them with sheepes tallow, & oyle olive, of each a pound, let it stand in a vessell 9 dayes, then seeth it in a skellet, untill the herbs goe to the bottome, then strayne them, & set it over the fier, & put thereto two ounces of wax but in sumer 3 ounces, then put an ounce of mastick in pouder, frankincense, verdigrease, of each an ounce boyle it all together untill it be greene, when it is taken from the fier put to it an ounce of aloes epatike in pouder For a fellon. Take black sope, a chickens foot, ground sill, the yolke of an egge & bay salt beaten all together, untill it bee like a plaster, then lay it on. Protabus est. The excellent new plaster. Take smalage called apium, plantans, & betony, of their iuyce a pound, put it into a panne, & put thereto a quarter of a pound of new wx, halfe a quarter of frankincense white, & cleane, halfe a quarter of pitch, & refine, boyle them in the iuyce, & stirre it well, take it of & stirre it, & straine it, then take an ounce of turpintine, & temper it together & being cold hather it, & it is made; chafe it betweene your hands before you spread it. this doth many & great cures. A soveraigne medicine for a stich. Take rosemary & binds tongue, the leaves & berryes of [kn??] jelly, dry all these in the mounth of may June, or July, & make pouder of them, as fine as can be made, & drinke thereof for your stich. probatus est. For a dropsy swelling in the belly. Take flower dolure called gladin, stamp the roote small, & temper it with good ale, & boyle new milke, & put to it, as you would make a posset, & soe drink a good part fresh made on the morrow fasting. For swelling at the heart. Take goose dunge stamped with [eysill], & lay it to [illegible] To take away rednes in the leg or face. Take new warme goose dunge, lay it to the legge which hate an old bruise, & it shall take it away the same doe to the face. 145 To make the face well coloured & faire. Take the marrow of the bone of a swines foot, temper it with warme water, & annoynt the face. To make a cleere voyce. Fry elder flowers in the sunne, let it not rayne on them, make pouder thereof, & temper it with red wine, & drinke thereof. For gnawing in the wombe. Stampe red cole word, & take comein & vineger, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. To make flesh grow in all manner of wounds. Take turpentine 4 ounces, hony halfe an ounce, pouder of white frankencense one drame, safron the third pt of a drame take enough of the oyle of roses, & wax, & make a salve thereof. To clere the matter, & cause flesh to grow. Take turpentine, hony of roses strained, of each 4 ounces, myrre, [surcecell], of each 3 drames, barly meale an ounce, the yolke of an eg, halfe a drame of safron, mixe thm, & set it on the fier, & stirre it well, & when it is luke warme, put thereto the yolke of an egge. To stanch a greate fluxe. Take towne cresse & fry cropps of wood bind, which beareth the small hony suckles, stamp them in warme red wine, & drinke thereof first & last; & eate each day 5 greene leekes, or 3 at the least, with hot bread, drinke nothing but red wine, & let it be hot, used this 3 dayes, & it will certainely cure you. probatus est. To stay the over flowing of urine Drinke a hares braynes with beere or gallanu with wine. rost hazle nutts & take them. or take [gadingall]. For the mother which is fallen. Beat netle leaves, & put them into the matrix very good. Nettle seedes drunk in wine helpe the wombe swelled & [cheaked] up. Soe doth a sufumigation of myrre. Make a plaster of fearne, or worme wood & lay it to the naule. Or take cloves, treacle, & [illegible] dissolved into wine, drunke hot, it helpeth the hardnes of the mother. [rue] beaten & boyled in oyle with hennes grease & goose grease layd hot to, before & behind helpeth the matrix perfectly. Burne turpentine, & [receine] the sunne at the mouth of the matrix, it helpeth the hardnes thereof. 146 To cure a tertian ague. Take mellileke, celendine, white peppis, black poppy, salt & nettle beaten strongly together, & layd to the pulse pbatus est. Drinke the iuyce of plantans before the fit [co??eth] Drinke the iuyce of pimpernell when the fit is upon you; theis cureth the ague. probatus est. Drinke the iuyce of surrory or smalage. probatus est. [illegible] beaten cobwebbs about your nose, excellent. Or by garlick about the body helpeth a quotidian. pbatus est. To stop a mervailous great flux, if any thing will. Take a pint of milke as it comes from the cow in a faire vessell, & set it on the fier, & bind fast as much [rech] allome in a lumpe, as will equall the bignes of three cherry stones, & seeth it in the milke, untill it curdle like a posset, then take the curd & eate it, & drinke the whay, all at a meale, & drinke noe other drinke ly warme first on one side then the other, doe this three times. probatus est. To stay the excessive running of urine. Take mithridate & treacle, & drinke thereof with wine, & annoynt the codds & parts about them with oyle of castor, & oyle of lillyes mixed together. To heale a greene wound. Take sage, isope, rue, worme wood, camomile, astrologia, which is round, betony, mugworte, wild tansy, egrimony, vervine, plantan scabiose, rib worte, pimpernell, southerwood, of each a handfull, stamp them small, then take a quart of oyle, & a pound of butter, & put it into a pan & boyle or fry the herbes well therein, then put thereto frankincense & myrre, & straine them well, then put therein the iuyce of watercresses, & it is made. For swelling or ach in the feet Make a glewell of oatemeale & milke, then ad the iuyuce of singreene & sheepes suet, let them boyle till it be thick, then make a plaster upon a cloath, & lay it all about the sore, as warme as may be. pbatus est. An oyntment to strengthen the reynes. Take oyle of the water lilly, oyle of violets, of each halfe an ounce, red sanders a drame, cynomen halfe a drame, vineger halfe an ounce, with a litle waxe & soe make an oyntment therewith. 147 For such whose water goes fro them by dropping. [ ?igella] fryed is good. Burne comein, & ty it in a linen cloath, & smell thereto; it is a perfect remedy. To purge fleame & comfort the stomack & nerves. Take the pouder of agaricke, & drinke oximell for three or foure dayes, evening & mnorning. For aches, the sciatica, & bruises. Take white lead a quarter of a pound, coruce an ounce & a quarter, beaten small, salet oyle halfe a pinte put the oyle into a pipkin, set it on the fier, & when it boyles put in the coruce, & straine it well, & boyle it till it looke cleene, as water, then put in the white lead, & stirre it till it be black, & cold spread it, & ly it thereto. To know whether the stone be in the blader or in the reynes. Take the herbe morsus galind, chick wood, boyle them in water & enmplaster it upon the [pr??ie] partes, & the yarde, & if the payne increaseth, the stone is in the blader, if not, it is in the reynes. For the stone. The rine & berryes of the bay tree drinke breaks the stone. Or take 7 heads of garlick, boyle them long in water, & drinke thereof 3 dayes, & if it will breake the stone. Or boyle the leaves of [em?la] campana in wine, & plaster them thereto. To breake the stone. Drinke the iuyce of limons; Or annoynt the privy partes with the grease of a fox. Or take pellitory beaten & made hot, & layd to the privityes. Or take radice rootes, & make roules thereof, the number of tenne, or more, & put them into white wine all a night & drinke of that wine in the morning fastinge untill the stone come forth. The reynes, dunge, & the blood of an part; & the pouder of the paine of an part is excellent for the stone. To stay the whites. Take a pottle of water, halfe an ounce of cynomon 148 pills of pomegranate halfe an ounce, knot grasse halfe a handfull, boyle these till the water come to a pinte & make candles thereof, for three mornings, take the thine part every morning probatus est. The vertue of oximel. It is to purge fat & grosse fumes, & for knottes in the flesh & artiryes. To comfort one that is weake. Take 3 sheepes hearts, & cut of the fat from them, stire them & wash them cleane from the blood with red rose water, then dry them with a linen cloath, & put in the out side of each heart 6 cloves, after they have been steeped a night in red rose water, then take the striggs of rosemary, the leaves being pulled of, & lay them in a clean earthen panne, upon which striggs lay the hearts, & put to them more red rose water, after the have been steeped a night, & put to the new red rose water 6 ounces of white poudered sugar, & cover the panne with a white paper, & over that a linen cloath, & ty them fast, & set the panne in an oven to bake with bread, & being baked take the liquor from the hearts, & drinke it often it hath done very much good to weake [illegible] For the quarterne ague Goe to bed halfe an hower before the fit comes, let there be coles set by the bed side, & drinke with mustadell or maulmsy as much assurabacca as will ly upon two crownes of gold, the wine must be luke warme, then be covered very warme, & [illegible] the more you vomit the better it is, as you sweat be mixed with warme cleathes. Then take sage, rue, & sheapherds purse, of each a like quantity, stamp them, & sprinkle them well with white wine vineger, & bind it to your wristes, let it ly soe a day, & the next day take it of, when the fitt comes againe, lay on to your wrists as be fore, & take of the sayd drinke, & sweate as before, and withall when your fit is of & you coole, you may rise if you will, but let the fit be well over; 149 This is fir a tertian ague alsoe & by gods helpe you shall be cleere from it at three times thus doeing as is mentioned. For an ague Make iuyce of camomile, & mixe it with oyle, & annoynt the back bone, & the pulps before the fitt cometh, & you shall be cured perfectly Or take 2 handfulls of nettles cobwebbes & bay salt, of each an ounce, beate them well together, & in the beateing, put therto of fasting spittle, & make of it 4 plasters, & lay it to the pulses or wristes. probatus est. [hemlock], rag-weed & bay salt well beaten together, & layd to the wristes cureth an ague. Or make a kake of flower & the [pitients] wrime, bake it then burne it & cast it away. For the head ach in an ague. Take a long onyon, out of the crowne, core it & fill it full of the pouder of frankencense, then cover it, & rost it, & crushed together lay it to the nappe of the neck. For a quarterne ague drinke beere for a tertian drink cold water. A laxative pouder. Take of [se?e] halfe an ounce in pouder, a quantity fo spikenard bruised, an ounce of ginger pouder, bruise them well all together, & [searce] them, then put a pirtty quantity thereof into the pap of an apple, & eate it towards bed time To dissolve wind in the stomack. Boyle enulacampana rootes in wine & drinke it. Or make pouder thereof, & drink it in wine; or mixe this pouder with cynamon pouder & drinke it with wine. A very excellent water to heale all sores possible to be healed. Boyle faire water & take it from the fier, & then 150 make this pouder following take of [reach] allome halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of greene vitrioll seeth these in the water, and stirreing it, let it seeth till it be dry, then beate it to small pouder; of this pouder cast into the sore, where is dead flesh or proud flesh; or lay a litle lint thereupon, & a plaster of flos unguentorum above layd, & remoove it not in 12 dayes, till it come away freely & easily Or seeth a quantity of water as before, & taken from the fier put therein the afore sayd pouder, & let it seeth a while, then put it into a cleane vessell, & keepe it for your use To remedy shrunken sinewes Take water cresses, camomile, of each a handfull, grind them small, & fry them with wheat meale, & hony, & lay it very hot thereto. To cure a hot impostume take wheaten creame, & boyle it in water & oyle & make thereof a plaster. Or take the oyle of camomile, dill, & bayes, of each an ounce, put therto a litle wax & make thereof an oyntment. Or to make a mollificative unguent for the same, take musilage, holy hauke, fenigreeke seed, flaxseed, of each an ounce, of old oyle, hennes grease, oyle of lillies, oyle of bayes, oyle of camomile, of each a like portion, a litle butter with waxe, & confort these into an oyntment, & [preserve] it; But if the party have a fully body, & full of humours, then purge him first, according to the humours, which oppresse the body; & afterwards lay this mollificative oyntment thereto. Or make a plaster for the same; take oyle of roses, & balsominake, & mixe them together. Or take a handfull of mallowes; of worme-wood, & roses, of each 5 ounces, barly, branne an ounce, oyle of camomile a fourth part, boyle them then beate them, & make a plaster thereof. 151 For biteing of a mad dogge. Beate fennell with water, & lay it thereto. To cure an old sore legge. Take butter & fry it, & put thereto refine in pouder, & fry them together, & apply it. probatus est. To kill an itch in the legge Take hony, boleorminake, & greene coperesse, grind them small, & annoynt the leg therewith three dayes together. Or take red lead, coruse, boleorminake, & a litle coporesse, grind them small with vineger & barrowes grease, & put thereto the yolk of an eg, & annoynt the leg therewith. pbatus est. Emplasters to breake a sore or to draw forth venome Take figgs, [grees], wwheat beaten, equally portients, beate them all together, & lay it thereto. with stoned resines & hony; or sparrowes dunge mixed with hoggs grease; or glasse beaten small & mixed with turpintine; oyle boyled with ashes; Or take cantharides 10 in number, an ounce of refines, of [illegible] an ounce & a halfe, scabiose, the herbe doggs tongue, consolida the greater, antepharmaci, of each an ounce, incorporate them with oyle of lillies: but if you will make it stronger, ad thereto salt & vervine, caked columbina herba, & rue, of each two drames. Or take auripigmentum, pepper, of each two drames, 10 figgs & hony sufficient to make a plaster. Alsoe galbanu, white lilly rootes, mans dunge, consolida the greater, ground betweene two stones. Or [levon] 4 ounces, mustard seed, rue, scabiose, worme-wood, of each a handfull, white illly rootes a third part, vitrioll two drames, cantharides 10 in number, galvanu an ounce rotten nutts 3, oyle of white lillies sufficient; boyle the herbs & roots in the oyle, & ad the other ingredients allowing to art & ake a plaster 152 Temperate plasters. Take of marshmallowes 2 ounces, a head of a lylly roote, branne of flax seed, of each an ounce & a halfe, boyle them in water, & beate them well with [leven] & old hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. Or take 2 handfulls of branne not throughly sifted, & boyle it in vineger. Or vervine mixed with oyle of roses & vineger. Or onyons boyled in butter, adding therto figgs, & [leven], with oyle of camomile. Or take mallowes, & marshmallowes, & frabiose of each a handfull, boyle the herbes in common water, with the with incorporate branne beat the herbes, & mixe them all together, with an ounce of hennes grease, & as much of oyle of camomile, safron halfe a drame, this is a most delicate & excellent plaster. Or take scabiose, the herbe doves foote, cicory, & consolida the greater. Or an emplaster made with apopanax beaten with resines stoned. Or assa, nitrum, & rue mixed with hony. or annoynt it with treacle, & lay thereon onyons & mallowes boyled together. To make a greene salve. Take celydony, [Le??age], [sa?ery], scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them small in a morter, & temper it with sheepes tallow & oyle olive, of each a pound let it stand in a cleane vessell 9 dayes, & then boyle them untill the herbes sinke to the bottome, then straine it, & set the iuyce over the fier, if you make it in winter put but 2 ounces of wax thereto, if in sumer take 3, then put thereto pouder of mastick frankencense, and verdigrease, of each an ounce, & boyle alltogether untill it bee greene, then take it downe, & put thereto an ounce of aloes opatike in pouder; this is an excellent salve for all old wounds or sores. 153 A soveraine remedy for sore or cut. Take a litle fine flax, & alitle hoggs grease, & choppe them small, & make a plaster thereof. A water to heale a sore or cut. Take red fennell, red sage, isope, rosemary, daysy leaves, saffron, [neppe], & allome, of each a like quantity, save only the daysy leaves, more then of any other, boyle them, & straine them, & apply it. Unguentum jacobi, vel emplastru jacobi Take of lapis calaminaris a pound, of the magnet stone, an ounce, of terra sigillata an ounce, boleorminake an ounce, litarge of gold an ounce, mummia an ounce, of the [liver] of a [wether] a pound, camfire halfe an ounce, and of turpentine as much as will suffice Finis Deo gras 154 To make aquamirabalus Take gallingall cubibs cardimons and [illegible] mace nuttmegs ginger cloves and synamon of each of all theas a dram beat them into avery fine pouder then [take] the iuce of sallendine on pinte and a quantity on pinte of white wine 3 pints putt all this into a still and lett them steepe togather on night then still itt with a temperate fire when it is [illegible] [illegible] in a [illegible] bags of [illegible] in the glass then sweeten it with sugar as you pleas 157 The third booke of admirable good receites. For the head ach. Take elder leaves, made hot between 2 tile stones, & lay them hot to the forehead & temples. A salve good to draw the head. Take gume elemy, turpentine, of each a quarter, as much fresh grease & melted suet, melt these together & straine it, & beat it till it be cold. For a paine in the head, sorenes in the eyes, for rhume, & all moyst humors. ake a gallon & a halfe of faire water from the fountaine, steepe therein an ounce of some, 3 ounces & a halfe of saxaperilla, [skined] & scraped thinne, an ounce of liquorice, scraped & [skined], let them steep 24 howers, then boyle away the [illegible] part, then put in an ounce of armadeculas seaton small in a morter, & set it on the fier againe, & let it have but one [whame], you must rrink this 20 dayes together & eate soft meate & bread & resines of the sunne For the tooth ach, or rhume in the eyes. Take a pound of stone pitch, 3 or 4 ounces of [illegible], 8 ounces of resin, 4 ounces of frankincense, melt all together, & straine it, then beate to pouder 4 ounces of comein seed, & seare it, then take halfe an ounce of cloves, 2 ounces of labdanum, one quarter of an ounce of saffron, beate these together, & put them to the rest which are melted, & boyle it a litle, then take it from the fier, & keepe it with stirring, untill it bee thick enough to make up in roules, & then put it into an earthen pot & ‘ keepe it for your use. 158 For the tooth ach. Take iuy berries well sodden in vineger or white wine; sup up some of the liquor hot, & when it is cold, spit it out: this helpeth the tooth ach. For the same. take a pinte of white wine vineger, a handfull of barberries bruised, boyle them together till some be consumed, then put thereto a spoonefull of pap or well beaten, let them boyle together, * as hot as you can suffer gargle it on that side the paine is, & spit it out, & soe use it 3 or 4 times. For an ague. take a handfull of mousegrease, & boule it in a quart of white wine, & good ale, & boyle it, till it be halfe consumed, then straine it, & sweeten it with hony & sugar & drinke it, before the ague [illegible] to come, then ly downe covered with as many cloathes as you can suffer, & when you beginne to burne, take posset ale, made with these herbes; burrage, endive, dandelyon, cinafole, violets, & fennell, & take noe other drinke during the time of the fit, use this 5 or 6 times. For the shakeing ague take a hennes egge, take out the white, & fill the shell with aqua composita, & drinke it up perfectly, or else it will dry up the yolke, & ly downe, for you will vomit perfectly; this will helpe you without doubt, for it hath often beene [pro?ed]. For an ague: hang this subscribed about your neck, but noe body must looke on it but hee that writes it Before the gates of Jerusalem comeing on a soudaine [illegible] Genl Jesus Christ sayd on to Peter, why lyest thou here, peter sayd, I ly sick of an ague, Jesus answered him, rise & dismisse 159 it, this evill ague beeing dismissed he sayd I beseech thee [illegible] Jesus, that whosever hath these words about them the evill ague hot or cold may not hurt them; be it done as you hast desired, Have mercy upon me olord, & deliver me o Lord from agues & all evill in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen. For an ach or stitch. Take a pound of glack sope, 2 or three handfulls of [culver] or pigeons dunge, yoolkes of egges, lineseed, feny greeke seed, of each 2 or 3 ounces, boyle all these in cowes milk, & make a plaster thereof; then take new crow foote, alexanders, of each 2 or 3 handfulls, bruise them & make a plaster & lay it to the place where the ach or stitch is. For bruised stones take mallowes, colemorte, of each a like much, seeth them, then bruise them, & doe away the water, & put the herbes in a pan, & put thereto barly flower, & the yoolke of an egge, & fry them together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. For a black or blew face with a blow. take hemlock, & distill it, & not the place therewith the space of an hower, doe it with a cloath, & let the water be warme. To stanch the bleeding of a wound. Take a handfull of hot horse dunge, bind it fast to the wound, the space of 2 days & 2 nights. probatus. To stanch bleeding at the nose. [chese] words (confumatum est) written in the fore good of the pty that bleeds much [illegible] same bleed, stayeth it. To take away the burning caused by gunpouder. take hony, black sope, of each halfe a pound, two 160 ounces of bay salt beaten to pouder, boyle all alitle, then put it in a faire put or box, & when you use it, lay it on a linen cloath, & apply to the place eveninge & morninge. For a payne or heate in the back take sanders & rose leaves, lay them in rose water a whole night, then wash your back therewith it takes away the paine, heate, & comforteth very much the reines. For weakenes in the back. take a brest of mutton, & boyle it in milke, & put therein a good quantity fo whtie archangell blossomes, & when the mutton is soden drinke the milke, & eate the mutton, not having eaten any thing before, that day. For a sore brest Take a penny worth of white coporesse, halfe a pint of white wine, seeth the wine, then put it into a pot, & put the coporesse to it, and annoynt the sore therewith every evening & morninge For choped hands Beate the whtie of an egg, & mie it with the pouder of mastick & annoynt the hands therewith. For a consumption Take the hinder part of a bore pig, with the stones cleane scraped, put it into a pot, with 2 gallons of running water, let it boyle a good hower then put in (when it is scumed) a handfujll of cleary [chops] of rosemary, as much tyme, eat them alsoe seeth therein a good time with a pound of rasines & a pound of prunes halfe a pound of dates small cut, & strained into a linen cloath, & [illegible] till the dates be tender, then grind them in some of the liquor, & straine it into the pot, then take ahandfull of the 161 pitch of an oxes back picked & washed, then seeth the pth in some of the piggs broth, then cut the skinne of the pith, & straine it into the rest, & let the rest be [thicked] therewith, & let all seeth together, then power all into a colinder, & after through a strainer, then take a quantity of sanders finely beaten, & afew cloves & mace, to [amend] the tast, & let all stand alitle together, then straine it through a fine linen cloath, & drinke thereof evening & morning, as yoiur stomack will beare it. For the collick & stone take fotherfew, doves dunge, pellitory of the wall, of each a handfull, wring the herbes in [sunder], & fry all in fresh butter, then put all in a linen bag, & lay it to the greife as hot as you can suffer it, & it will put the payne from that place, & when you feele it remoove, apply this thereto, & it will in short time drive it quite away. To heale a cut or greene wound take soe much turpentine as an egge, & beat it well with the yolkes of two eggs, then lay it on lint, & dayly dresse the wound, & it will cure it. To heale a cut or bruise. take herbe grace, sene, plantan leaves, [orpine], hemlock, valerian, tustan, rag wort, gratia dei, mallowes, of each a great handfull, then take 6 pounds of sheepes a pound of turpentine, bruise the herbes, & put all into a great pot, & let it boyle, straineing it often, & if it rise up, take it of, least it run over, then set it on again, & doe thus 3 or 4 times untill it be well sod, then straine it through a course cloath, & when it is all most cold, make it up into roules or cakes, & you may keep it 2 or 3 yeares very good. 162 A water to heale all wounds in a short time. take a pound or as much as you please of new yellow wax, melt it, then put it into a pan or dish, wherein must be maulmesy, mustardell, or white wine, then take it out of the wine & melt it againe, then power it againe upon the same wine, doeing thus 7 times; then take the same wax, & melt it on the fier, & mixe it with a handfull of [bricke] finely beaten to dust, incorporate these together, & put it into a crooked necket viall of glasse, with didistillers call, a bag pipe, clay it up to the midest of the neck, & let it distill first with a litle fier, for the space of 8 howers, then after make your fier greater, & at last very great, after the oven & all is cold againe, you shall take the water out of the recipient, & power it into a viall well stopped with wax & [illegible] cloath, soe that it neither take vent, nor stand neere the sune or fier; for it is of soe fine a subatance, that it would fly & imediately vanish. you must not & moysten the wound with this water, & bind a cloath thereupon, steeped in the same water, It is also good for shrunk sinewes,, and if this water be well & naturally distilled the second time, it is of soe fine & [pierceing] a substance, that it will pierce through the palme of your hand in a moment. For the cough or tisick. Boyle penny royall in milke & a peece of sweete butter, & suck it through a ring with a quill. For the cough of the longes. take 3 pints of running water, halfe a pound of Portugall sugar, 9 figgs, anniseeds & liquorice bruised, of liquorice a spoonefull, anniseeds but halfe a spoonefull, a handfull of resines of the 163 sunne, cleane washed & stoned, a penny worth of mayden haire, with a quantity of ispo, & coltfoot, boyle all together, till halfe or more be consumed, then straine it through a fine cloath, & take every morninge two spoonefulls luke warme To put away the crampe. The fingeres rubed between the toes, goeing to bed, especially when the toes smell most, & the fingers are most swelled. For deafenes. Take good [sinet], & put it into the eares. To bring any quick thing out of the eares. Take a white leafe hot out of the oven, & breake it in the [midest], & apply it to the eare. For breake the flowers. Take a potle of sea water, a potle of white wine a pinte of bay salt, 3 handfulls of hemolck, boyle them all in a new earthen pot, to the halfe, then take of, & fit close over it covered close with cloaths round about, when it is cold, heate it againe, & soe goe to bed, & cover your selfe warme, & the flowers will breake. To breake the flowers. Take a gallon of water from the spring, a pound of resines stoned, 3 ounces of liquorice, cleare it, & take out the pith, 3 fennel rootes, that have not borne seed, & take out the pith, 3 alicampane roots, if they be small, if great but one, & still it, & take out the pith, then take halfe a pint of barly & boyle all together, till it be consumed to a quart, & drinke thereof every morning & evening 8 spoonefulls at a time beeing warmed, as hot as you can well drink it. To stay the flowers. take 3 pints of red wine, a litle of the pill of pomgranate, with 4 of the flowers, sinomon, sugar candy, halfe a handfull of red rose leaves, with some seeds, boyle these 164 alltogether until they come to a quart. For the bloody flux. take three hawthorne berries, bruise & straine them into milke, with 2 or 3 sheetes of white paper, & a quantity of cynomon pouder, & boyle all together making it thick like pap, & straine it, & lay it to the greife. A pultis for the hot goute. Take the mosse of hazle, which is towards the sunne, spread it small, & boyle it in stronge ale grounds, then thick it with wheate meale, untill it be thick to make a plaster, & lay it to the payne as hot as you can suffer it, & use it, & you shall find ease. To make white hands. Take sparrowes dunge, mixed with warme water, & wash therewith; or take the rootes of nettles soe in the same water. For the jaundies. Take selidony one pound, liquorice a quarter of a pound, a gallon of water, shave & bruise the liquorice well, & seeth all together to a pottle, and drinke thereof fastinge. For the black iaundies. Shell snayles rosted & dryed to pouder, & a spoonfull at a time drunke in ale, & soe used ten dayes together, cureth the black iaundies. A gargarisme for falling of the tuola. Take the waters of sage, wood bind, & plantan distilled, of each a like quantity, boyle them with some hony, & scume it cleane, & put into it a litle burnt syrop of mulberries with it, & when you neede gargarige therewith all cold, Alsoe the greene [illegible] of the flower de luce sowed about one neck or throate is very good both to keepe up the pallate, & to helpe the almonds of the throate. 165 A tisan to clense the liver. Take liver wort, harts tonge, of each a handfull, isop, long wort, betony, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, alicampane, fennell, parsly, of each one roote, a pritty quantity of anniseeds, & liquorice, a handfull of resines of the sunne, stoned, two dates cutt, boyle these in 3 quarts of runing water, to the hald, then straine it, & drinke a good quantity luke warme morning & evening. For the liver that is wasted. Take a gallon of runing water, an once of liquorice bruised, harts tongue, violet leaves, sowthistle, sorell, & endive water. To make lozings Take halfe a pound of fine sugar, & melt it in 3 or 4 spoonefulls of rose water, a good handfull of rosemary flowers finely cut, boyle these as high as manus christi. and handing fine sugar, strew it thereupon, as you doe manus christi. Or you may take the blew leaves of violet flowers, & use them instead of the rosemary; or else red gylly flowers, takeing on ly the red, & cutting away the white; this is farre better, then the iuyce. For the morphew. Take a penny worth of brimstone flower, & temper it in a saucer of wine vinegar, untill you shall see or pceive noe brimstone, & in bed annoynt your selfe therewith, for 2 or 3 nights together, and this will cure you. probatus est. 166 To place the mother. Take rosemary, mynts, mallowes, seeth them in white wine & water, & keepe the pot close, that the breath goes not out, while it is seething, then warme your self ready to goe to bed, & sit over it 5 nights together, then other 5 nights take a chafeing dish & the pouder of myrre, mastick, labiam, frankencense, & sit over the brath thereof, & it shall establish & settle the mother againe. To remoove the mother or spleene. Take the newest dunge of a pig, fry it in barrowes grease, or fresh butter, spread it on a cloath the breadth of one hand, covering it with a cloath, & set your fundament upon it as hot as you can suffer, doe thus 3 times, & keepe your selfe warme after it. Or take wild sage, maydens haire, heartes tongue, clary, dry them & make thereof pouder, & use to drinke it in good ale or beere. A water for a sore mouth. Take a pottle of white wine, a quarter of a pound of clarified hony, 2 ounces of white coperesse, with sage, rosemary, & wood bind leaves, spread the herbes small, & let it boyle to the halfe , then straine it, & when you will use it, make it hot, & wash your mouth therewith. A water for melancholy & trembling of the heart. Take of the flowers of rosemary, burrage, & rootes of buglasse of each a like, of saffron a drame, of the [illegible] 4 ounces, of good white wine well digested & cleered 2 pints, mixe 167 these together, & let them stand 24 howers, but put them in a glasse, & then bury the glasse body in house dunge for 15 dayes, then draw it out, & distill according to art 2 or 3 times over, the quantity to be administered is a drame. For melancholy proceeding from the spleene. Once a weeke take fasting in warme porridge a spoonfull of pouder of time finely [searced]; twice a weeke take 7 spoonefulls of harts tongue water warmed, with a litle sugar, take this last a day or two after the other, & you must stay a day betwixt the takeing of the harts tongue water. The harts tongue leaves must be gathered that day the moon changes, below the sunne riseth, & then distill them. To restore comfort & nature. Take handfull of mallowes, half a handfull of mercury ty them with a thread, & boyle them in 3 pints of water, with prunes, resines, & a cock chicken, let them seeth till it be soft, then straine it from the liquor, stamp it, & put to it a quantity of sanders, & mace, & let it boyle with the cock, & eate of the same. For the greene sicknes. Take a pottle of ale, seeth it, & scume it, then put to it fennell rootes, parsly rootes, harts tongue, liver wort, of each a handfull, liquorice & anniseeds of each 2 ounces, french barly bruised, red currants, of each 2 handfulls; boyle all, till halfe the ale be wasted, then straine it, & drinke of it in the morning, & the after noone, alwayes fasting 2 howers after you please to take it. 168 Doctor Turners receite for the plague. Take pimpernell, scabies, egrimony, sentury, harts tongue, liver wort, betony, dragons, angelico, sage, rosemary, costmary, mayden haire, [sidrake], tormentill, turmorick, angention, worm wood, carduus benedictus, red rose leaves, lay all these in steepe a night in a [ranary] wine. For the piles.’ Take treacle, & lay it upon a browne paper, & soe lay it on the sore. For a pin, web, or perle in the eye. Crate white ginger on a whetstone, & beate it with a litle coperosse, when you goe to bed put some of it into the eye with a quill, when it hath beene there a litle, take ground iuy, stamped & strained with fresh milke, & put 3 or 4 drops into the eye evening & morning, after the ginger hath beene in the eye halfe an hower. To remoove the web or spots in the eyes. Take stock gilliflower leaves, daysy roots, of each halfe a handfull, a spoonefull of by salt, beate the well together, & lay it upon both the wristes, betwixt a [laune] or thinne cloath, & use it 2 or 3 nights when you goe to bed; this is Doctor Turners. probatus est. For the paulucsy. Take rosemary, sage, herbe maudlin, of each a handfull, camomile flowers 3 handfulls, & with salot oyle make an oyle thereof, as you make oyle of roses, & annoynt the patient. A water for the skinne the privy place, if it be gone. Take a quart of springe water, violet leaves, columbine leaves, cinafole leaves, valerian, 169 & rose leaves, if you can, of all together as many as you can gripe in the your hand, spread them small, & put thereto a spoonefull of hony, the waight of 12 d of aristologia, boyle alltogether, till 3 parts be consumed, & warme it when you use it. An especiall oyntment to annoynt the small pox, when the be full come out. Take a [postret] of seething water from the fier, & set a dish with sweete eating butter upon it to melt, then power the butter into a bason of faire cold water, & cold, take of the upermost of the butter, with a spoone, & put it into a faire dish againe, & melt & use it as before 3 times; then put up the cleere of the butter into a gally pot or glasse, & when you use it, take a litle in a saucer, and melt it as before, soe that it come not neere the fier, & with a feather annoynt the places very often both day & night, that the scabs may never be dry, & soe long as any rednes ariseth anywhere annoynt the places, let not the pty come neere any fier with his face, nor take any [illegible], but keepe him soe, that his face may alwayes be warme, untill all the daunger bee past. For running of the reines. Take a penny worth of currants the like of dates 6 yolkes of eggs, a good quantity of clary, fry all these in fresh butter [unwashed], & make collops or fritters thereof, & eate 3 or 4 of them warme. For weakenes of the reines of the back. Take comfry, clary, [neppe], archangell, of each a like quantity, the pith of an oxes bark, boyle these in running water, the herbes being cut small, put therewith a litle sugar candy to sweeten it. For a fistula. Take greene coporesse halfe an ounce, mercury sublimate a quarter of an ounce, good allome an ounce, 170 a quart of running water, seeth these together till all bee dissolved, & keepe it in a glasse for your use. For the same. Take running water, allome, treacle, hony, hony suckles, elder leaves, wild sage & barke, all sod together, & strained, & with a silver pipe spoute of this water to the wound. A plaster for a fistula. Take refine turpentine, wax, of each 3 ounces, barrowes grease a quarter of a pound, frankincense halfe an ounce dissolved, set it on a soft fier, & make thereof plasters, & plegets, & apply it. For all swellings Take ground sill, chilliment, daysies, rubarbe, pettimorrell, bruise & stampe them, & set them over the fier, let them boyle well, & as hot as you can suffer lay it to the sore; probatus. For swellinge. Chop water cresses very small, & put them into the lyes of white wine, & put thereto a handfull of wheaten branne, & sheepes tallow, then seeth all together untill it bee thick, then make a plaster & lay it to the swelling, but let it first stand to coole & pottle 24 howers. Or take the iuyce of morell, alias nightshade, & the curd of an hot posset well beaten, together, make a plaster thereof & lay it to the swelling. For an ach or swelling in the knees. Take [rew] & loverage, & stamp them together with hony, then fry them, & lay the plaster warme thereto, & it will cure you. For those that sweat too much. Take line seed & letice, stamp it together, & lay it to the stomack; use it till it helpe you. For the stomack. Take worme wood, red roses, crumes of bread, wine 171 vineger, boyle it on a chafeing dish of coles, then put it in a bag, & lay it to your stomack, and noe doubt but it will cu re you. A salve for all sores. Take a pint & a halfe of oyle olive, a pint of turpentine, a pinte & an halfe of [illegible] a quarter of a pound of unwrought wax. halfe a pound of sheepes tallow, 2 handfulls or rag wort, 2 of plantan, & 2 of orpine, cut the herbes small, boyle all together, softly, & alwayes stirreing it, untill it be well mingled, then take it of, & straine it through a stronge canvas cloath. To draw wood or iron out of the flesh. Stamp valerian & ty it with a linen cloath to the flesh, wherein is wood or iron, & it will draw it forth. For a straine with a dry cough. Take isope, pimpernell, penny royall, 2 [chernes] of saffron, 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice, a handfull of scabies, boyle all together with some violets, lettice, & beetes, & make it in posset ale, & drinke of it first and last. An especiall and approoved water called aqua-composita, for a surfet, or for a colde stomack. Take a handfull of rosemary, a good roote of alicampane, a painfull of isop, a handfull of sage halfe a handfull of time, 6 or 7 cropps of sweet margerome, liquoice, aniseeds, of each 8 ounces, harts tongue, century, hore hound, of each a handfull, red mints, penny royall, not a handfull of each, cut & wring these herbes in sunder, take out the pith of the alicampane, & [stire] the roote, put all in a brasse pot with 3 gallons of stronge ale, & one gallon of wine lies, cover the pot close & let it stand all night; then set it on the 172 fier, till it beginns to boyle, then take it of, & set the limbeck upon the pot, & stop it close with past, the foote of the limbeck must be fit for the mouth of the pot, & the pot not too full, least it make the aqua composita looke thick, & the limbeck must be kept with cold water upon the top, with a temperate fier under, & when it beginnes to drop 6 spoonefulls, cast heat away, the rest is both & strongest, & let it runne, soe lone as it continues in one strength, when it waxeth weaker, take the first away, & set another glass under, & let it runne, soe longe as it runneth cleere, nor waxeth whiten, then the former, when it changeth, take another glasse, & let it sunne soe longe as it can; & upon you will make now put this last into the still againe: you must take good heed, upon the change is, that aire enters not the limbeck. To clense an old sore. Take bilders, rag wort, & if you can, the burs of greene oaken leaves, of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine, & a quart of water, & put therein as much as an egge of allome, boyle it to the half, then straine it, & use to wash the sore therewith, & wet lint therin, & lay it upon the sore twice a day. For a fresh sore or wound. Take an ounce of oyle of roses, an ounce of turpentine, & a litle verdigrease, then waigh as much as will make a plaster, & lay it thereon. For a sore that will not heale. Take rosewater, red wine vineger, of each a like quantity, wet a fine linen cloath therein, lay it on the sore, till it is faire, then apply some other plaster, thereto, that will heale it. For the squinsy in the throate. Take the dodder tort, the tops of century made in pouder, mixe it with hony, & make a plaster & apply it. 173 A drinke for the stone. Time & parsly soden in white wine, & strained & to agood draught, put a spoonefull of white sope, this drunken helpeth the stone. Or take the midle rine of a cherry tree, stamped, & strained, & the iuyce put into a little white wine, warmed, & drunke up, helpeth the stone. Or take a handfull of holly berries, sodden in a pint of good ale to the halfe, then straine it, & put thereto a litle butter, & drinke 5 or 6 spoonefulls thereof at a time. For the tooth ach. Take iuie berries well sodden in vineger, or white wine, & the hot liquor kept in the mouth till it be cold, & then spit out, helpeth the tooth ach. To keep the teeth from rotting. Salt gold in in the mouth under the tongue, in the morning, untill it be melted to water, & the teeth rubbed therewith, preserveth the tooth. For a sore throate. Take the rootes of pellitory of spaine, wash them faire, [stire] & boyle the with halfe a handfull of sage, & a spoonefull of hony in claret wine, & take one spoonefull of it at a time. For a vomit. Take the pouder of the rootes of pellitory of spaine, & put it in a figge, or resine, & eate it. To breake the wind in the belly. Take of the seeds of comein, fennell, anniseed, of each a like quantity beaten to pouder, & sodden in wine, & drinke a good draught thereof, first & last, for 4 or 5 dayes together very good For running of the water. Take a penny worth of white allome, crops of sage, & rosemary & motherwort, wood bind leaves 174 2 handfulls, hony 2 spoonefulls, boyle these in running water, till they be soft, then straine it into a cleane vessell, & use it with a spoute. For those that cannot hold theire water. Take a mouse [illegible], soft her, & make pouder therefo & drinke it all at one time, this is a perfect & infailable remedy. For a weake body, the water of a capon. Spread the flesh of a capon, takeing cleare away the skinne, & all the fat; then wash it well in buglasse water, then adde thereto consomme of violets, of burrage, & buglasse of each an ounce & a halfe, conserve of roses an ounce, leafe gold 6 in number, mixt all together, & distill it according to art, & take a spoone full of that distillation often in comfortable breathes. A speciall water for sore eyes. Take a gallon of faire running water, put it into a faire earthen pot, or pan, put thereto soe much white coporesse as an egge, & cover it, & let it stand a night, that the coporesse may melt, then scume it with a fether, & power all the rest of the water in to an other faire vessell, excepting the grounds, then put a pint of white rose water thereto, & put it in glasses, & set it in the sunne, the space of a mounth, then clense it through a faire linen cloath, & use it. To cheere the eye light. Take the water of red snayles, as much of the iuyce of fennell, as much of woeman’s milke, temper them together, put of this in the eyes, at evening, & take some of this water & soe much of the iuyce of glyrine & make as it were a plaster thereof, & lay it about the eyes all night, & on the morrow wash them well with cleare & cleane water. 175 For bloodshotten eyes, or blemished sight. Take the iuyce of hawthorne cropps, the white of an egge, mixe them together, then take cotton, & wet it therein, & lay it to the eyes. p: 29. To make conserves, preserves, oyles, syroppes, purges & many other usefull things. Conserves. To make conserve of quinces. Take faire great quinces, pare & core them, to 8 pounds of them take 2 gallons of water when the water is blood warme put into it the whites of 2 eggs, beaten & stirre them in the water, then put 8 pounds of sugar to it, & when it doth seeth, take it of, & let it runne through a peece of white kersy, then set it over the fier againe, & scume it as longe as any doth arise, then put in y our quinces, & let them seeth untill they be soe tender, that you may straine the liquor & all through a good thick peece of canvas, then seeth it again till it be soe stiffe that it will stand on a box or dish, & not stick thereto when it is cold, but come cleane away, if it will not doe soe, seeth it longer; & you must stirre it continually. 176 To conserve greene wallnutts. Take green wallnutts, when they be as big as a date, cut them longe wayes asunder, then set them on the fier with sugar in a pot let them boyle tender, then take them in a platter, & make your syrope thus. Take red, or white wine & put into it 2 ounces of cynomon pouder, the pouders of ginger & anniseeds, of each halfe an ounce, sanders [an] ounce, sugar halfe a pound, resines, currants, rice flower, of each 2 ounces, draw them all through a strainer, then put them into a pot, & set it on the fier, & let is iust boyle, then put them into a faire vessell, & serve them up. these are good for the iaundies, morphew, & especially for the palucsie takeing one of the every day nex your heart. To make conserve of barberries. Pick the barberries cleane, & put the into a pewter ;pot, & stop it close, then put that pot into a brasse pot, or kettle, filled up with water, & let it boyle 2 or 3 howers, till the barberries be tender, then let them be cold & straine the, then bole the pulse upon a quick fier, till it be as thick as marmolade, then having fine sugar in pouder, sweeten it, according to your likeing, the sugar must boyle very litle, because of the [illegible] To make conserve of roses, or any flowers. Take red rose budds, clip the whites of, stampe them small, take to each pound of flowers, three pounds of sugar, finely beaten, mixe all well together; And in like manner, take the buds, or fine flower-leaves of any flower. To make conserve of rosemary flowers. To every ounce of rosemary flowers, take 2 ounces of sugar, & some cynomon, beat them small together & put it into a glasse & cover it & set it in the sunne, when it is most hot, & let it stand 3 or 4 weekes. 177 To preserve barberries take [fane] bunches of barberries, or none at all, pick out the stones, with a needle, to every halfe pound, take a pound & a halfe of sugar, [faire] & beaten to pouder, & melt the sugar with a quarter of a pinte of rose water, & melted take it from the fier, & when it is halfe cold, put in your barberries, & mixe all well, then boyle it up with a quick fier, alwayes regarding the colours that they doe not ever boyle, least they be black, then put the out of the pan with [illegible] into a bason, & put the up cold. To preserve cherries. Take a quarter of a pint of rose water, a pound of sugar, boyle these, & skinne it untill it be cleane & let it coole then put thereto a pound & a quarter of cherries boyle it with a quick fier, until it bee thick, as a ielly, & skinne it continually, then take it of, least it loose the colour. To preserve quinces. take quinces as soone as you can after they bee gathered, take the yellowest & smallest about the crowne, waigh out 6 pounds, & put them in a brasse pan, with the stalke and downward soe close as one may stand by an other, then put to them 6 pounds of fine sugar in pouder, & a quart of rose water, or faire conduit water, seeth it with a quick fier, that the quinces may be tender before the syrop be thick, when they waxe tender you may somewhat abate the fier scume it as it riseth, but breake not the gummes, & turne the often, least the grow black by lying [illegible] To preserve damsons, or other plumes. to the above sayd liquor, & with sugar make the same syrop, & put thereunto a pound of damsons, boyle them with a very soft fier, 3 or 4 howers, and scume them continually. 178 To make red marmelade. Pare & core your quinces, & put them into cold water, & to every pound of quinces, take somany pounds of sugar; first put the sugar in water, & make it into syrope, & when it is cold put in the quinces, soe that the syrop cover the quinces, & 2 inches over, then cover it, & let it boyle as fast as it is possible, till they be very red & tender, & the liquor be somewhat thick, then straine it into a stone morter, & after boyle it till it come to a marmelade, stirring it alwayes, then box it hot: in this manner you may make marmelade of peares, or any other fruites. To make white marmelade. Take ripe & yellow quinces, seeth them in water, with a gentle fier, till they be tender, then take them up & let them coole & pare them, & take the fine pulse, of the quinces, & for every pound a pound of sugar fine, & finely beaten to pouder, boyle up the pulpe as stiffe as marmelade, then put in your sugar, & let it but melt, & soe boxe it up hot. To make dry marmelade, of peaches. Pare peaches, & cut them from the stones, & minse the finely, & lay them in steepe in rose water, then straine them with the water through a course cloath, into the pan you will seeth the in; to clarifie 2 pound of peaches take on pound of sugar finely beaten, put some of it into the pan, but keepe the rest to mould with; then set on the pan, & skinne it till it be thick, that the thick will stand upright, then lay it in a dish in lumpes, when it is cold, mould it abroad with the rest of the sugar, & print the, & kake them on march paine, & keepe the where fier is. 179 To dresse peaches whole. Beate peaches, & pill them, & to 3 pounds of peaches take 2 pounds of sugar, with as much water as is necessary for the syrope, & clarify the same with the whites of two eges breake the sugar in peeces, & put all in the pan but the peaches & let it boyle on a quick fier; when it is scumed cleare, put in the peaches, & let it boyle to the thicknes of a syrope if you will, put in a spoonefulls or more of rose water, then take up the peaches, & put the into faire water potts, or any other soe they bee cleane. To dresse oranges. take the greatest oranges, [shave] then thinne, & quarter them in the top, & take out the meate let them be in water 48 howers, & change the water 3 times a day, then parboyle them in their waters 3 times, & let the water still seeth, before you put them in, & take to every 3 oranges a pound of sugar, & to every pound of sugar a pint of water, & a pint or two [ever] at all, then put the water into the pan & breake therein 2 or 3 whites of eggs, and beate them together till they be on a froath, then set on the pan, & put in the sugar beaten in small peeces, & let it seeth with a quick fier & when it boyleth, scume it cleane, & put in the oranges, let them seeth a good while, then take them up, & straine the syrop, & set it on the fier againe, & put in a good quantity of rose water, & let it seeth a good space, then put in the oranges againe, & let them seth till they bee tender, & the syrop as thick as you will have it, & when it is cold, put it up in potts. 180 To dresse plumes blew or yellow. Gather the plumbes dry, to every pound take 3 quarters of a pound of sugar in pouder, take the plumes & mixe them one by one with a linen cloath, & soe lay them in the pan of earth & cast sugar on them, the sugar throughly melted set the pan on the fier, when they beginne to breake, turne them, & scume them cleane, let them seeth on a quick fier, when they be neere ready, it will be thick to the spoone, then take them of, & skinne them as longe as any riseth, & when you see them broaken or part uncoated, take a cloath & take of their coates whilst they be warme, & when they be almost cold, put them in potts, & [prick] papers, & lay them over them. To make all manner of conseites. Take any kind of seeds, or ginger, cynamon, or orange pills or any other spices minced in small peece, & put any kind of these into a greate pan, with 2 [eares]; then take sugar, & clarify it, seething it, till it will crumble betweene your fingers, then take the pan of seeds, having in readines a ladle with a hole in the midst, & a pinne in the hole, then fill the ladle with hot sugar, & let one hold it over the pan of seeds, & draw the pinne in the hold a litle, soe that the sugar may runne out as small as a thread, as it runneth, shake the pan with seeds, over the fier, as you would [wime] corne, & soe shake it till it be dry & hard, & take another ladle full of sugar, doe with it as before, till they be as big as you would have them, & if the seeds in the beginning stick together, rub them 181 in sunder with your hands; to colour these, take a quarter of a pound of [br?] sill, shaved thinne, & 10 lime stones, [unquenched], & lay them in water, till they be quenched, then let the water potle, & take of the cleanest thereof, & put the bra sill therein, & boyle it, then close it, & put thereof to your sugar, with you will have coloured. To make ginger bread. Take a pound of sugar, an ounce & a halfe of cynomon, 2 ounces of ginger, a spoonefull of anniseeds, as much fennell seed, beat them all into pouder, then take a quarter of a pound of almons blanched, beate them in a morter, & put in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the pouder afore sayd, & some of the almons beaten, & beate the together, till they be stiffe like past, then mould some of the pouder, & spread it abroad in cakes, as thinne as you can, & soe put them upon your moulds, then cut them with your knife, & as you make the cakes, put on pouder enough that they stick not to the mould, then pull them of from the mould, & lay them to dry. To make sugar plate of quincdes, roses, violets, or what else. Take quinces, pare them, & cut them in small peeces, & put them in paper baggs, & soe dry them in an oven, till they will beate to pouder; And thus you may make pouder of roses, violets, or what you lift to have the plate to tast of: then take the afore sayd pouder or any of these pouders, & put thereto a litle of the pouder of the gume, called dragagan, which must be layd in water all night, the pouder of the quinces, & the sugar must bee 182 beaten, & searced severally, & the gume put to the [quince] pouder beaten, & the sugar to them, as you beate them, & when it is soe that you may make it in plates, print the & dry them, & if you will have them tast of [muske], put a drame into the water wherein you steepe the gumme To make good bisket. Take a pound of fine flower twice boulted, a pound of fine sugar finely beaten, then take a faire boule dish, or bason, & breake therein 12 new layd eggs, keeping forth only 6 of the whites, beate the eggs well together, then put in the flower, & sugar, stirreing it still with a flat stick, & by stirring, worke into the same stuffe 2 ounces of anniseeds, & as much coriander seed, & well mixed, put of the same into moulds, annoynting them before with sweete butter, then put them in to the oven, which must be noe hotter, than for [manchet], as the bisket swelleth, prick it with a great pinne, which you may set in the end of a pritty longe stick; you may if you please put into it 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, or lesse, as you like. To make short sweete cakes. Take fine wheat flower, & put it in a earthen pot close stopped, & bake it in an oven, then [soarch] it through a fine [searner], the flower will aske as much bakeing as a [?enfer] pastry, then take clouted creame, or sweete butter, & sugar, cloves, mace, saffron, yoolkes of eggs, pout all into the creame, & temper them, then put to the flower, & soe make the cakes, the past will be short, therefore make the litle & lay paper under them. 183 To make artificiall balme. Take the iuyce of singreene, put it in an egge shell, set it over the hot embers, boyle the iuyce, & scume it cleane, till it be white & cleare, then put it into a faire pan, & put thereto a quart of oyle of bayes, & set it over the fier, & put thereto pouder of frankincense, myrre, mastick, & olibamum, of each an ounce, verdigrease 2 drames, then set the oyle on the fier, till it bee warme, & then put thereto the pouders, & stirre them well together, till they be dissolved, then straine it, & put it in pouter bottles. To make syrope of violets. Take a pint of water of violet leaves distilled, a pound & a quarter of sugar, boyle it thicker then ordinary syrop, then pick of the finest leaves of the violets, stampe & straine them, & take halfe a pint of it, & put into the former, soe boyle it, & stirre it about, let it not seeth, put it in glasses, not hot, & when it is cold stoppe them. To make syrope of roses. Take a quarte of damaske rose water, & put therein as many damask rose leaves as the water will containe, put both into a pouter pot, then into an earthen, or brasse pot of water, let them stand very hot all day, but not seeth, the next day take the roses out, & mixing them into the liquor, & put in fresh leaves, [five] dayes together, as before, lastly boyle this liquor to the thicknes of a syrop, with sugar, a pound & a quarter of sugar to each pint of liquor. 184 To make syrope of endive. Take a pint of the iuyce of endive, clarifie it, & boyle it with 3 quarters of a pound of white sugar, on a soft fier, to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of safron. Take endive water, & a quantity of saffron finely beaten, to color it, & let it ly a night, then seeth it, & straine it, then seeth it againe, with sugar to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of worme wood. Take fine withered wormewood, 6 ounces, rose leaves dryed 2 ounces spike nard, 3 drames of the iuyce of quinces a quart of old white wine a quart; bruise the rose leaves, spike nard, & wormewood, & steepe them in the wine, with the iuyce for the space of 24 howers in a marble vessell, or an earthen pot, seeth it to the halfe on a soft fier, & soe straine it, then put thereto a pint & a halfe, or a quart of good hony, & seeth it againe to the hight of a syrop, you may take sugar in stead of hony, if you please. To make syrope of rosemary flowers. Take distilled water of rosemary flowers cleane picked, boyle it on the fier, then straine then put in sugar, & boyle it to a syrop. To make syrope of tyme. Take the cropps of 2 ounces of time, dry colamynts, & mynts, of each 5 drames, annyseed, fennell seed, parsly seed, damen seed, of each halfe an ounce, great resines stoned, 4 ounces & a halfe, seeth all in six pints of water, till the resines be sodden, after put in the herbes, & the the seeds, & seeth it to the halfe, then straine it, & set the liquor on againe, & put to it 2 pounds of hony, or sugar, & seeth it to the hight of a syrop. 185 To make syrop of mynts. Take a pint of the iuyce of mynts, a quarter of the iuyce of sweet pomegranates, & a quart of the iuyce of meane pomegranates, that is between sweete & sower, & a pound & a halfe of sugar, & seeth these to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of the rines of oranges & limons. Take a pound of the rines of oranges, or limons, when they be new & fresh, & put them into 5 pints of faire running water, seeth it to 3 pints, then straine it, & with a pound of sugar seeth it to the thickness of a syrop, & when you take it from the fier, put to it 4 graines of muske. This syrop strengtheneth the stomack, graine, & heart, if the disease proceed of cold, it alsoe maketh a sweet breath; soe doe the rines of oranges & lymons made into conserves, if the bitternes be first taken away. To make a dish of cleere ielly. Take calves foot, an old cock, a knuckle of veale, or a pig, which of these you please; & set it on the fier in a pot, & skinne it that noe fat be left thereon, & soe let it boyle a while, then take out the meate, & put in the turnesall; when it is boyled enough, you shall know by putting a litle of it into a saucer, & if it stand, take out the turnesall, & put in a good deale of cynomon, a rays of ginger & a nutmeg, all well bruised, & 12 whole cloves, with good store of sugar, 6 whites of eggs, beaten till they be as white as snow, & let the pot stand [on] awhile, & scume of the whites of the eggs, & cast them away, then put all into a ielly bag, & put it through as often as you please, till it be faire & cleare, then dish it, & serve it up. 186 To make white ielly or of other colours. Take calves foot, scald the, & wash the in 3 [severall] waters, stire them & take out the bones & fat, then lay them in water a night, & shift them thrice, then put them into a pot with a knuckle of veale shred & the bones taken out, boyle them in 3 gallons of water, then put in a quart of white wine, & let it boyle till part be consumed, scume it with a fether, then let it runne twice through your ielly bag, then put it in to a faire earthen pot, season it with nutmegs bruised, shred ginger, bruised cynomon, & a litle salt, then let it boyle a [illegible] or 2, then take the whites of 8 eggs, or 10, & put them in when it seetheth, then let it runne through a jelly bag softly, 2 or 3 times, if you will have it of amber colour, put in a little saffron before the eggs, if you will have it red, put in claret wine, & [turasad]; if you will have of all three, put in one, & let it coole, & soe of all three a dish. To make jelly of harts horne. Take 3 halfe pints of faire runninge water, halfe a pinte of white wine, 2 ounces of harts horne shaved, let it boyle softly in a pipkin close covered, till it come to a pint, then straine it, & put to it a litle shred ginger, & cyonomon sticks, the next day take of the top, & leave the bottome, & put it in a skellet, & put to it fine sugar, & a top of sweet marierome, halfe a spoonefull of red rose water, a litle iuyce of limon, & orange, & stem it a litlle while, then put it through a jelly bag, with a litle rosemary sprige, in the bottome of the bag. This ielly is to be eaten cold; but for the more speedy remedy of a consumption melt this ielly againe, and drinke it somethinge warme. 187 To make aqua vitae. Take 3 quarters of a pound of liquorice, halfe a pound of anniseeds, boyled, infuse them in a gallon of wine all night, the next day distill the in a limbeck, this is aqua vitae. Or take 4 gallons of stronge ale, a pound of liquorice, as much of anniseeds, a pottle of wine lyes, sage, isope, horehound, of each 3 handfulls, rosemary, tyme, fennell, of each 2 handfull, halfe a handfull of harts tongue leaves, & a great root of olicampane, & soe distill them in a limbeck. To make stronge aqua vitae. Take harts tongue, linen wort, red mynts, balme, horehound, orgamen, browne fennell, rosemary, cincvole, of each a handfull, angelico a quarter of a handfull, annyseeds a pound grosse bruised, liquorice a pound cut & well bruised, infuse all these in 8 gallons of strong ale, & let it stand 12 howers, stirring it often about, then distill it in a limbeck; the first pottle will be very stronge, & you may have almost a pottle of the second, but that will be a great deale smaller. To make aqua composita Take 4 gallons of strong ale, anniseeds, liquorice, of each halfe a pound, sugar 3 penny woth, harts tongue, & alicampane roots, of each a handfull, mynts fennell, parsly, pennyroyall, isope, sage, rosemary, tyme, wormewood, mugwort, of each a handfull, beate the spices, & stire the herbes lightly, & infuse them in the ale 24 howers, stirring it often, then put all into a limbeck, & close it that noe ayre got out, keepe a temperate fier, till the limbeck beginnes to warme, then keepe your fier low, & when it beginneth to droppe then keepe the limbeck moyst with a wet cloath, & keepe always cold water in the top. 188 To make balme water. Take wormewood, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, carduus benedictus, balme, angelica, reasons of the sunne, stoned, of each a handfull; liquorice, annyseeds, of each a quarter of a pound, a quantity of tameresse, & mayden haire, infuse all these in 2 gallons of stronge ale, then distill it, and draw out of it a quart of the best water. To make wormewood water. Take 2 gallons & a halfe of stronge ale, liquorice shred & bruised, annyseeds, sifted & bruised, of each halfe a pound, 2 great handfulls of the crops of wormewood, put all into the ale, & let it stand 24 howers, stirreing it often, & stopping it close, then distill it in a limbeck, & draw out a gallon of water, then put to the water an ounce of cynomon bruised, 2 ounces of nutt meggs, halfe an ounce of great mace, as much of ginger, all well bruised, & soe let them steepe, then distill the sayd gallon of water with these ingredients on a soft fier; and soe preserve it. To make ipocras water. Take 8 ounces of fine cynomon pouder, cloves, nut meggs, of each an ounce, 2 ounces of ginger, 4 d waight of graines, all made into fine pouder, put all into 5 quarts of claret wine, & let it infuse 3 or 4 dayes, stirring it often; then put all into a stillettory, & distill it with a soft fier, but take heed you still not the stuffe too dry but keepe it moyst, from burning too; take out all the ingredients & straine it into a cleane bason, & set it on a chafeing dish of coles, putting as much sugar into it, as you shall thinke good, then stirre it till it be as thick as treacle, this is good for a cold stomack, & the pomes thereof dryed well is good sauce for a shoulder of [illegible]. 189 To make rosa solis a principall restaurative Take the herbe rosafolis as much as will fill a pottle pot, in must be gathered in June or July, you must not touch it with your hands, but take it by the stub, & it will come up by the roots, nor wash it, for then the leaves will wither, & pick of the dead leaves: this herbe growes in low medewes, & [marrish] ground; put to this quantity a pottle of aqua vita in to a large vessell, & let it stand close stopped 3 dayes, & 3 nights, at the least, then straine it, into a glasse or pouter pot, put to it then a pound of sugar small beaten, & halfe a pound of liquorice, beaten small, into fine pouder, halfe a pound of dates stoned, & cut in small peeces mixe all together, & stop the glasse close; drinke of this at night to bed ward halfe a spoonefull, with ale, and as much in the morninge fastinge, for there is not the weakest body in the world that taketh nature or strength, or that is cast into a consumption, but this will restore him againe, & cause him to be stronge & lusty, & to gaine a mervalous hungry stomack, & very shortly, if he use this 3 times together, he shall feele great comfort, & as he feeles himselfe he may use ut. To make anniseed water. Take 12 gallons of aqua vitae, 3 pounds of anniseeds, halfe a pound of liquorice, a pound of dates, 2 pounds of resines of the sunne, steepe these 24 howers, then draw [illegible] gallons thereout, & then you shall perceive it to runne white (If you will doo lesse, take accordinge to the quantity you [illegible]) & then take 7 pounds of white 190 sugar, & put it to the 7 gallons of liquor, in a runlet, & shake them well together, & let it stand 4 dayes, then you may drinke it. Aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderful vertue. Take galingall, cloves, quibibs, ginger, mellilot, cardimon, mace, nutmeggs, of each a drame, halfe a pint of the iuyce of celidon, mingle all these together, & make a pouder of them with the sayd iuyce, & a pint of good aqua vitae, & 3 pints of white wine; put all these into a pellitory of glasse, & let it stand all night, then distill it on as easy a fier as can possible bee made. The vertues of this water. 1 It dissolveth the swelling of the lunges, though the lunges be perished & wounded it helpeth the. 2 It will not suffer the blood to putrify, nor shall you ever need to be let blood if you but use this water 3 It takes a way the heart burning. 4 It preserves from melancholly. 5 It confoundeth floame, soe that it shall not gane dominion over nature. 6 It expelleth rhume 7 It profiteth the stomack. 8 It preserveth youth in its own state, 9 It ingendereth a good colour, and preserveth the visage 10 It preserveth the memory. 11 It destroyeth the [palnesy] in the limbes & tongue. 12 It releeves either man or woeman laboring towards death if you give them but one spoonefull Of all waters artificiall it is the best; In sumer use one spoonefull in a weeke fasting. in winter two. 191 Doctor Stevens water. Take a gallon of Gascoyne wine, ginger, cynomon, nutmegs, cloves, graines, anniseed, fennell seed, carroway seed, of each a drame, then take sage, mynts, red worts, time, pellitory, rosemary, wild time, camomile, lavander, of each a handfull, bray the herbes & spices, & put all in the wine, & let it steepe 12 howers stirring it often, then still it in a limbeck, & keepe the first water by it selfe, for it is the best; & keepe the second, it is good, but not like the first; The vertues of this water. It comforteth the vitall spirits. 1 It helpeth inward diseases that 2 proceed from cold. It helpeth the shakieing of the paluesy. 3 It cureth the contraction of the synewes. 4 It helpeth woemen to conception that are barren 5 or fruitelesse. It cureth the wormes in the belly. 6 It helpeth the cold cough. 7 It helpeth aches. 8 It comforteth much the stomack 9 It cureth the cold dropsy 10 It helpeth shortly the stinking of the breath 11 It preserveth him in good likeing, that 12 [illegible] it sometimes, & not often. It preserveth youth. 13 With this water Doctor Stevens preserved him selfe, untill he was soe old, that he could neither goe nor ride, but lay bed [illegible] 5 yeares, It is much better standing in the sune all sumer. The water of life. Take balme leaves & stalkes, burnet leaves & flowers, rosemary, red sage, isope, tarragon, 192 turmarick leaves & rootes, rosa folis leaves, red roses, carnations, tyme, the stringes that grow upon [savery] red fennell leaves, red mynt rootes, of each a handfull; put all these herbs in a glazed earthen pot, & put soe much white wine as will cover them, & let them soake therein 8 or 9 dayes; then take cynomon, sugar, nuttmeggs, of each an ounce, of cloves & saffron a litle, great resines, ginger of each a pound, dates halfe a pound. the hinder part of an old coney; a good fleshy running capon; the red flesh with the sinewes of a leg of mutton, 4 young pigeons, 12 larkes, the yolkes of 12 eggs, a loafe of white bread cut in soppes, muscadell or bastard, soe much as shall distill these thinges at one time in a limbeck, & put to it methridatum 2 or 3 ounces, soe much perfect treacle, & distill it with a temperate fier, & keepe the first water by it selfe, & the second alsoe, & when there cometh noe water, that is stronge, put more wine upon the stuffe, & distill it againe, & you shall gane another good water; you must keep the water in a double glasse. The vertues of this water. 1 It is restorative to the principall members. 2 A defence against the pestilential diseases. 3 It cures the paluesy. 4 It cures the dropsy. 5 Helpeth the spleene 6 Cureth both black and yellow iaundies. 8 Cureth the wormes. 9 Expelleth an ague. 10 Suppresseth swellings 11 Easeth the pestilentiall thirst. 12 Expelleth melancholly. 193 13 Strengthens the spirits, & strings of the braine. 14 Releeves the heart. 15 Comforts the stomack. 16 Strengthens the liver. 17 A spoonefull 2 or 3 by it selfe, or in ale, 18 beere or wine & sugar helpeth digestion, 19 breaks the wind, stops the laske, & bindeth not. To make aurum potabile. Take rose folis, distill it till you have a potle of the water, then take a quart of it, & let it be infused with more of rosa folis, & a quarter of a pound of sugar candy, small beaten, two stickes of liquorice scraped well, & thinne shred 7 dates stoned, a handfull of rose leaves steeped with a pint of maulmesy or mustadell, let it stand all together in a glasse or peuter pot 48 howers stoped soe close, that no ayre can get out, & distill it; soe done, take you r other halfe of the rosa folis water, & use it in all points as you did the first, if you will have much thereof; this last stilling must be in a stillatory of glasse; it will last 3 or 4 yeares if it be stopped close. It is good against great consumptions. To make worme wood wine to drinke. Take small wine, or reneish wine raked, put thereto 2 kinds of worme wood, speare mynts a dock roote, that is almost yellow, faire striped, & the pith taken out, & stired, put all into the wine, & if it stand a day or more before you drinke it, it will be better; this is to be drunke 3 howers before you take any [broath]. To make hony of roses. Take hony & seeth it well, & scume it cleane, 194 & put cleane picked roses therein small choped, without [beades], or knobs, seeth the till the colour of the hony be browne, & savereth of the roses, & is thick, & then it is done. you may keepe it 5 years. It is comfortable & may be given to those that are weakened by sicknes. To clarifie hony. Take hony twice soe much water, boyle them softly, diligently, scumeing it, till halfe be consumed, & as it is boyleing, put in soe many whites of egges, as you clarifie pounds of hony, then straine it through a linen cloath whilst it is hot, then boyle it againe to a convenient thicknes. To clarifie sugar Take a pound of sugar, & a pint of water, & seeth them on a soft fier in a latine or copper bason, then to every pound of sugar to bee clarified take the whites of 2 egges, with a litle quantity of water, & a small bundle of rosemary twigges, which must be beaten together with a soft fier till halve be consumed, & turned into a fome, which must be put into the pot wherein the sugar & water boyle, cast in alsoe the egges broaken with your hands, & let them seeth on a soft fier, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & having made the pot cleane, boyle it againe, into the thicknes almost of a syrope for when it runnes a bout your finger like bird lime, it is enough but if you clarifie sugar, wherein you intend to boyle or put other things, then let it not boule to this thicknes after it is strained, before you put in those things, with [one] [illegible] for a medicine, or for any other receive whatsoever 195 To make pompillian Take poplar budds, 2 pounds, lard 4 pounds, beate them fine together, then let it rot 3 weekes, afterwards put thereto the leaves of poppy, mandrake, bramble, nightshade, [prict] maddam, lettice, burdock, violet, of each 2 ounces, & beate these herbes with the above sayd, & boyle it well, with a pint of white wine, untill the wine & the iuyce of the herbes be consumed, then straine it, & let it stand, untill it bee cold; & preserve it for your owne best use. To make manus christi Take sugar finely beaten, & put it in a skellet with rose water, & let it boyle, stirring it, & in the boyleing put in the white of an ege well beaten, & scume it as longe as any ariseth, when it begines to cleere, put in perle finely beaten to pouder, & alsoe gold, stirre it still, untill it be very white, & soe thick it: it will abide upon what you lay it on. A plaster called gratia dei. Take the iuyce of betony, vervine, pimpernell, of each a pound waight, un wrought wax a pound, resine halfe a pound, parafine, frankincense of each 3 ounces, small pouder of catophenia halfe a pound, sweet sheepes tallow halfe a pound, of bastard a pint boyle them till it be thick, then straine it, boyle it againe with 2 ounces of oyle loive & all the pouders above sayd, boyle it softly halfe a quarter of an hower, 196 then cast it into a peuter dish or bason, till it be cold, then take it out, & roule it up in lether or parchment, & keepe it for your use. It is good for wounds, cuttes or for stabbes, or any such like. To make melquorum, or quodmell. good to comfort & clense the stomack. Take 10 pounds of well clarified hony, a pound of the iuyces of roses, put them in a [vessell], when they beginne to boyle put in 4 pounds of roses small shread, & boyle all untill the iuyce be consumed, & stirre it very well. To make oyle of exceter. Take a pound of cowslipe flowers, in the mounth of May, stampe them in oyle olive, as much as will serve them, & soe let them stand in a pot untill the midle of June, then take salamynts, herbe [john], sago, egrimony, worme wood, red ambrose, fennell, pellitory, celidon, rew, red rowes, southerwood, lavander, rosemary camomile, pellitory of Spaine, fennell leaves, the flowers of lillies, stamp them together, soe small as you can, then take the flowers above sayd, & wringe them out of the oyle, & put the iuyce into the other herbes, & grind them all together, & put them in white wine, & steepe them 24 howers, then set them on the fier in a pan, & boyle them till all the water be boyled out of the wine & herbes, with a soft fier; then take a spoonefull, & if there be noe water in the spoone, it is boyled enough, then straine it in a glasse or peuter pot, for noe other vessell will hold it, it will last 3 or 4 yeares; It is good for the palusy & gout: in the sumer annoynt your selfe by the sunne, in the winter by the fier 197 To make oyle of cloves. Take a pound of the pouder of cloves, put to it 3 pound of almons scraped, & beaten, mixe the well together, then sprinkle on each pound an ounce of white wine, letting it ly in a masse together, for the space of 8 dayes, putting it in an earthen pan, which heate soe longe, untill you cannot hold your hand therein then put it in to square bags, wronge hard, untill all the whole substance of the oyle be come forth The vertues of oyle of cloves. 1 It revives the spirits very much. 2 Putts away melancholly. 3 It hath all the vertures of a balme. 4 It heales fresh and greene wounds. 5 It stayeth [throwing] of blood, & water out of a wounde. 6 It conforteth the naturall parts within. 7 It purgeth melancholly blood. 8 It comforteth the heart. 9 It recreates & cleares the head, & especially solveth the gyddynes of the head. 10 It helpes the weakenes of the sight. To make oyle of anniseeds. Take halve a pound of anniseeds, bray the grosse, & put soe much water thereto as will cover them, which after power into a copper [cucurbite], then set on the limbeck, or head closed luted in the ioynt about, with standing, & to purtifie 3 or 4 dayes, then distill it with a soft fier, soe that the water by which the oyle passeth be very cold, when the oyle shall fall into the receiver, untill it be together like camphire: then take all in a cloath & the water will [illegible] through out not the oyle, which dissolve in a broad mouthed glasse set in a stove as hot [illegible]. 198 To make a purge Take the midle rine of a white ashe, steepe it in all a night, in the morning drinke a good draught of the ale. Another purge. Take the roote of mechoacan, beate it into fine pouder, & take thereof a drame & a halfe, & drinke it in 4 or 5 spoonefulls of sack, very timely in the morninge, then perfectly drink a good draught of sack after it, & shortly it will make you purge easily. A gentle purgation. Take a pottle of clairfied whay, put therein a great handfull of hearts tongue, as much of mayden haire of liver wort, violet leaves, burrage, of each a great handfull, barberries, [illegible], of each 2 ounces, boyle all to [leste] then halfe by much, & use to drinke it fasting 3 mornings together, twice or thrice in the yeare. To purge with all. Take a spoonefull of Castile sope, put thereto as much sugar candy, & boyle it in a pinte of malmesy put a peece of butter in to it, & after it hath boyled, straine it, & drinke it milke warme, halfe of it in the morning fasting, & the other halfe at night. An excellent good purge. Take very good scamony (which beeing wet with ones tongue will become milke) beate it to very fine pouder, which will be done the better if you annoynt the end of the [postell] with a drop or 2 of any sweete oyl, as almons, nutts, or sallet oyle, then waigh out 199 10 graines of this fine pouder, & with a knife upon a plate incorporate it with the quantity of two nuttmegs conserve of barberries, doe this over night, when you will take it in the morninge, that the conserve may bite & correct the better, in the morninge eate it up takeing warme broath 2 or 3 howers after as in other purgations, it will worke easily upon thinne humours. If you had rather gave it in a potion, then after the conserve hath bitten it 10 or 12 howers, dissolve it in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of white wine, or rose water, or [com?on] water, stirreing it well, & [illegible] it of cleere, this will tast like sugar & the iuyce of lymons with rose water, & will worke as well as the other only in regard, that some of the substance will remayne behind, & come not into the cleene liquor, you may in crease the quantity of scamony 3 or 4 graynes & take 13 or 14, where in the former you tooke [illegible] 10. If you had rather take it in a pill, then take halfe an ounce of scamony finely poudered, & drop 3, 4, or 6 drops of oyle of vitrioll upon it, stirre & incorporate it together with a wooden spatula, till it come into a masse of pills; if 3, 4 or 6 dropes be not enough, take more, but be sure to take as litle as you need as must; for the oyle of vitrioll will make it to grow continually softer, & will [over] moisten it too much of this masse of pilles, you may take 13 or 16 graines, at one time in 2 litle pilles. 200 To make gunne pouder. Take for a tryall a pound of salt peter, & a pound of brimstone & halfe a pound of cole, made of cole wort stalkes, or pure brant cole of fine willow: if you will make if fine quickly, dry it first, then put them all together, & sprinkle them with aqua vitae, or very good vineger, till it be very moyst, that you are about to make it into balles, then take a meale [sine], & put it in, [illegible] it too & fro over a faire cloath, & that will fall through in [cornes], then dry it & soe shall you make good pouder, or before you moysten it, spread it upon a broad thing in the sunne, beeing hot, that is very good & in the summer the best time to make it in To make lute. Take of the best & finest chalke, to which adde the drosse of iron, brought to fine pouder, & the comon whitest ashes, thorne flax, & horse dunge, & mixe these by art together. A gargle. Take throught mort, bramble budds, plantan leaves, red rose leaves, of each a handfull, isope, orgamen, rosemary, sage of each a handfull, seeth these in 2 quarts & halfe a pinte of water, to a quart, then straine it & put to it 4 spoonefulls of hony, & boyle it well againe; gargle this often, warme, this is good for a sore throate. A pleasant water for linen. Take 2 pounds of spike, as much rose leaves, 201 a pound of rostmary, halfe a pound of [maudlin], halfe a pound of balme, 2 handfulls of pennyroyall, 4 ounces of mace, a quarter of a pound of arras, lay all these in claret wine, & put it into a pet close stopped, for the space of 24 howers, & at the [spoute] of your limbeck gave a fine linen cloath, into which put a graine of muske, & amber greece, through which let the water droppe, you may alsoe put into your pot the pouder of bayes. For a staine in cloathes. Take the water wherein lavander cotton is sodden; this takes away any spot or staine in cloathes or cloath, or other thinge, if the stained place be rubbed therewith. probatus est. A receipt to make the [weapon] salve Take the fatt of a [her] beare, killed in the time of his [brownst] in the wildernes 7 ounces thereof. Take the fatt of a wild beare filled in the brownst 7 ounces thereof,. These 2 fatts must bee melted together, upon a coale fyer softly, and being melted powre the same fatt upon cleane water, then the drosse thereof will fall to the bottome, and the [purest], will swime on the toppe of the water, [take] the same and dry it with a cleane cloath, the older these fatts [shalke] the better they are to bee used. Take rayne wormes which come out of the ground after a shore of rayne, either in Aprill or in May at the new moone, dry them in the sunne then beate them to powder, 4 ounces thereof. Take bludstone 202 Take bloudstone, beaten small to powder. 4 onces thereof. Take 3 ounces of red saunders the reddest thereof; Take [browte] or kings hearth, the leaves thereof beaten smale to powder one once. Take the moss of a dead mans skull, beaten to powder, 1 ½ ounces all these are to bee weighed according to the order before, and mingled together, then take the2 fatts and sett them upon a [coale] fyer, and let them melt softy being melted together then strew the powder upon the fatt and stire them together and lett it be cold and gee putt into some box, made of [mettle] and then you shall have a strong and wonderfull salve which will [illegible] decay the older it is the better it is to bee used. If any man will heale with this salve, hee must take the weapon, and putt it into the wound, and make the same flesh to bleed and if it bee a thrust, then annoynt the weapon from the joynt towarde the handle; If it bee a blow, annoynt from the edge to the [backe] of the same and then bind the weapon very carefully, that noe dust come into it and bind it in such sorte that the salve bee not rubbed offe, and being annoynted and bound upp in cleane linnen, lett the weapon bee layd up neither too hott nor too cold and att any hand bind new lynnen aboute the waepon, that hath not beine used about a woman’s body and when a man doth annoynt the weapon, hee must not accompany any woman, if hee doe, hee must neither annoynt the weapon, nor come next the same, and if the wounds bee dangerous then lay the point of the wagon 203 weapon against the riseing of the sunne and annoynt the same once in 4 or 6 dayes, not too thick nor too thinne and bind the weapon with some new linnen cloath, or else some that hath not been used about a womans body. If a man will know whither there bee anger of death in a man wonded; Take sandell and bloudstone and strew it on the weapon and the weapon will sweat, if it sweat water, then it is a singe of death, if the sweat bee red like bloud, then there is no danger, but a signe of healting the wounded, must keepe a good dyett both for eating & drinking, and keepe not company with women, and the wound must be washed with a manns [lye] 2 or 3 tymes a day with a feather to wash out the corrupted matter, and then dipp in a running water with a peece of lynnen cloath and wring out the water and lay the same lynnen cloath upon the wound without putting in of any [illegible] to the wound bee it never so deepe; (by Gods helpe) and it shall bee whole in 14 dayes without putting the party wounded to death paine smart or swelling. If the party wounded chances to [??isorder] his body and thereby the wound to rage, and grow fyry, then take the leaves of black bramble bryers, put them in vinegar with a little allome and boyle them together and then [illegible] upon the aforesaid lynnen cloath which lyes on the wound, and the party hurt shall find ease [illegible] of his smart or paine. If a man bee shott with a bullet and can [gett] bullet then use the same an other weapon or if that the bullett bee cutt out of the body, then annoynt the knife or instrument so fare as the same hath beene in the wound and by Gods helpe, it shall both helpe and heale: if the bullett bee not to bee had, then take the [illegible] wherewith the powder was putt into the peece and annoynt it upwardes 2 or 3 tymes very well, and 204 And then putt it often into the [?inne] that that may be annoynted within, and bind that as aforesayd, then take the [?inne] and annoynt it on the outside along, as farr as the bullet went into the place where it lay, and then bind it as aforsayd. If a man bee hurt, and another man run away with the weapon; then forme a peece of wood like the weapon, then renew the wound with the same wooden weapon that it bleed, then wipe offe the bloud and annoynt the same as aforesaid and (by God’s helpe) it will heale any hurt. In the same manner may a man heale any old hurts or soares lett them bee of what kind [sooner] if they bee open soares, scrape the old soare with an instrument made of wood untill the bloud comes then use the sayd instrument as aforesaid To stay bloud, take the mosse of a dead man’s head or skull and lay that upon the wound that bleedes and it will staye bleeding presently. It is good to doe so before you annoynt the weapon, and the [part?e] hurt must not have the weapon untill hee bee whole and sound for if hee doo meddle with the weapon hee will fynd much payne and smarte Tho. Soyles The Author An alphabeticall index of all the receites contained in this litle volume. Ach For an ach. 1, 5, 7, 8, 21, 98, 100, 124, 127, 141, 142, 147, 159, 191. A pretious oyntment for all aches 1, 4 for all incurable aches 7 for ach in the gumes 6 for ach in the head 3, 6, 157 for the head ach that continues 77, 78, 84 for any ach of the head except the pox 77 for the head ach in an ague 149 for ach or swelling in the foote 146 for ach in the feet by travailing 134 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 170 for ach where noe swelling 26, 3 for ach in the stomack 20 for ach of the teeth 1, 2, 3, 5, 94, 157, 158, 173 Ago for one in the agony of death 190 Agu for an ague 10, 115, 133, 148, 149, 158, 192 Agu for a burninge ague 11, 130 for the ague in the brest 16 for the ague by floame 135 for a longe ague 11 for the pestilentiall ague 11 for a quarterne ague 148 for a tertiary ague 100, 146 for the shakeing ague 9, 158 Ant for St Anthonies fier 49 Apo for all apostumes in the eares 49 App to procure an appetite 8, 112 Art for a paine or hardnes of the arteries 142 Bac for heate in the back 160 for payne in the back 13, 4, 82, 160 for weakenes in the back 160 Bel for gnawing in the belly 145 for paynes in the belly 13, 135 Bit for biting of a mad dog 151 for biteing of any venomous beastes 14, 15 for all biteing with venomous beastes or mad dogges 48 for bitinge of snakes or vipers 15, 157, 141 Bla for a black or blew face with a blow 159 Ble To staunch bleeding at the nose 159 To staunch bleedinge in any place, but the nose 13 To staunch bleedinge of a wound 159 Blo To staunch blood 12, 15, 16, 101, 102, 103, 115, 117 To staunch the menstruall blood 134 for the preservation of the blood 190 for those that spit blood 13, 107, 122, 138, Bod for greifes of the body 19 against all evills of the body 17 To coole & purge the body 17, 18 for a corrupt body 20 for weakenes of the body 17 Bon for broaken bones 19 To make putrified bones fall away in scales 20 Boo To keepe bookes from vermine 20 Bot Boy For botches or boyles 106, 131, 132 To ripen & heale botch, boyle or any adder 16 for a boyle that is rotten & breaks not 16 To resolve botch, boyle, or fellon in the beginninge 131 for a boyle in any part of the body 48 Bra for the braine 20 Against distillation of the braine 78 for comotion of the braine for want of sleep 80 to strengthen the braine 192 Bre for shortnes of breath 142 for a stinkeing breath 62, 192 Bre for the breast 109 for a sore brest 12, 110, 111, 112, 160 for ach in a woemans brest 111 for hardnes of woemens brestes after they be brought to bed 110 for swelling in the brest 110 for a canker in the brest 11 for an [illegible] stume in the brest 110 for a raw brest 112, 113 To heale a sore brest, though incurable 20 To purge evill from the brest 104 Bro for one that is broaken 53, 128, 137 Briu for a bruise 20, 21, 142, 147 for an outward bruise 20 for all manner of bruises 143 for a bruise in the head 82 for a bruise in the legge 114 To heale a bruise 161 for bruised stones 159 Bun for the bunninges 101 Bur To cure a burne 21, 133, 134, 140, 141 To cure a burne, although with gun-pouder. 48, 159 Can for a canker, or fellon 22, 48, 115, 126, 132 133 for all manner of cankers 4 for a canker in the body 22 for a canker in the brest 22 for a canker in the eye 30 for a canker in the mouth or face 22, 114 for a canker in an old sore 22 Cat for a catarre 106 Che for swelling in the cheekes 108 To procure cheerefullnes 45 Chi for chill bleanes 26 Cho for choller 11 Cod for swelling in the coddes 137, 143, 46 Col for the collick 8, 23, 94, 95, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124 for the wind collick 17, 23, 24 for the stone or wind collick 23, 24 for the collick and stone 161 for the collick in the spleene or liver 135 for a cold or cough 25 Coo To coole and purge the body 17, 18 Con for a consumption 25, 160, 186, 193 Cor for cornes in the feet 49, 67 Cos for costivenes 26 Cov for a cough 24, 109, 110, 111, 115, 117 122, 162, 191 for an old cough 142 for a perilous cough 24 for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the cough of the lunges 162 Cra To put away the crampe 163 Cut for a cut 65, 66, 153, 161 for all sortes of cuttes 48 Dea for deafenes 27, 28, 39, 96, 163 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124 Die an excellent diet drinke 26 Dis for inward diseases 191 Against pestilentiall diseases 192 To helpe disgestion 28, 112, 193 for distillation of the wine 135 Dro for the dropsy 27, 28, 100, 117, 120, 121, 133, 140, 144, 191, 192, 130 for the hot dropsy 27 for drousines 36 for hot on cold dropsy 130 Dru To anoyd drunkennes 28 Ear remedies for the eares 96, 97 vide deafenes Ear for all fistulas in the eare 49 for a noyse or rumbling in the yeare 27, 29 for payne in the eare 27 To bring any quick thing out of the eare 163 To kill a worme in the eare 49 Emp Emplastrum Jacobi 153 Emplasters temperate 152 Emr for the emrods or piles 32, 50, 51, 131, 138. 168 Eye for all evills in the eyes 29 to take away from the eyes any blood or rednes 30 for a canker in the eye 30 for sore eyes 30, 157, 174 for sore eyes that burne & itch 30, 31 for sore eyes, inflamed, or rhumiticke with white water that they cannot open 49 for a white [hare] in the eye 31 To keepe back humors from the eyes 29 for blood shotten eyes 29, 30 for rhume in the eyes 157 for an humore flowing to the eyes 92 To remoove spottes in the eyes 168 To cleere the eye sight 29, 30, 88, 90, 91 92, 100, 174 for darke eyes 88, 92 for a pinne, web, or perle in the eye 31, 32, 88, 90, 91, 168 Eye for bleared eyes 30 90 To quicken the eye sight 92 for payne in the eyes 93 for watry eyes 30. 31. 91. 93 for eyes that are white 94, 95 Fac for a pimpled face 37 To take rednes out of the face 101, 144 To take away blood or rednes of the face 30, 37 To take spottes out of the face 102 To make the face faire 102 for the face black & bew with a blow 159 To make a good colour in the face 100 145, 190 Fal for the falling sicknes 34, 94, 83, 85 Fat To make a leane body fatte 113 Fea for a burneing feaver 32, 33, 130 for the spotted feaver 33 for a tertian feaver 100 Fee for breaking out or swelling of the feete 48 for ach or swollen feete 140, 146 for any ulcers in the feete or handes 117 Fel for a fellon 34, 99, 115, 144, 169, 170 To resolve a fellon in the begininge 131 Fie for St Anthonies fier 49 Fis for a fistula 36, 87 for a fistula be it never soe great & old 48 for all fistulas in the eare 49 Fla for payne in the flanke 124 Fle To breake fleame 35, 59 To confound fleame 34, 83, 84, 85, 94, 190 To cause one to voyde vleame 11, 35, 126, 147 To ingender flesh 104 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124, 126 To draw wood or iron out of the flesh 171 for superfluous flesh betweene the fingers 49 Flo To stay the flowers of woemen 115, 103 To breake the flowers 163 To provoake the flowers 8, 134, 137, 138, 140 Flu To stay the flux 8, 118, 119, 145, 146 for the bloody flux 35, 36, 120, 164 To stay the flux of urine 136, 139, 140, 145, 146 For for forgetfullnes 36 Fre for freckles 49 Fru To make a wooman fruitfull 130, 191 Gan for the gangrene perfectly applied 49 Gom for the gomery passion 97 Gou for the goute 37, 100, 105, 123, 127, 164, 196 for all manner of goutes 126, 134 for the goute in the ioyntes 127 for ach or payne of the goute 1, 37, 114, 129, 94 Gra for gravell 58 Gre for the greene sicknes 40, 116, 167 Gum for to heale chops in the gumes or lips 123 Hai To take away haire 38 To make haire grow where never any was 38 Han for hands that are chopped 160 for inflamed hands 124 for swelled hands 140 To make the hands white 164 for ulcers in the hands or feete 117 Hea for payne in the head 38, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 96, 114, 115, 143, 157 for the head ach 3, 6, 7, 77, 84 To cleene the head 197 for dazling of the head 39 for an old inveterate greife of the head 79 for heavines of the head 78 To cure a sore head 39 To draw the head 39 To purge the head 38 for a bruise in the head 82, 85 for greife in the head hindering sleepe 79 for a great heate 8, 99 for heate in the back 14, 160 for the heareinge 39 To comfort the heart 193, 197 for the heart burneinge 39, 190 for trembling of the heart 166 for straitnes of the heart with cold 39 for swelling at the heart 144 Hum Against all ill humours what soever in the body 112 for all moyst humours 157 for an hot humor in the legge 143 Jau for the jaundies 39, 40, 94 Jau for the black jaundies 39, 164 for the yellow jaundies 39, 40, 94 for both black & yellow jaundies 40, 192 Imp for an impostume 8, 11, 104, 106, 132, 126 To cure an hot impostume 150 for all manner of impostumes 4 To ripen an impostume 41 To breake an impostume 20, 41 for an impostume in the body 41 for an impostuem in the lunge & stomack 41 for impostumes, proceeding of bruises 48 for an impostume in the side 23 Inf for an inflamation 117 for inlamations proceeding of bruises 48 Joy for the joyntes 126 for payne in the joyntes 7 Itc for the itch 42, 134 for itch in the head 78 for all itches in the head 48 for all itches, although in the fundament 49 To kill the itch in the leg 151 Juo for the falling of the Juola 40, 121, 164 Ker for kernells in the throate 106 Kib for kibes 26, 43 Kin for the kinges evill 48, 105, 106 Kne for ach or swelling in the knees 42, 137, 141 Kno for knottes in the flesh arteryes 116 Lab for a woeman in labor that wants [throwes] 68 Lam for one that is tkaen lame Las for a laske 43, 44, 118, 119129, 135, 138, 193 Leg for all manner of inflamations in the legges, liver, or hands 124 for an hot humor in the legge 143 To take away rednes in the legge 144 To cure an old sore legge 151 for swelling in the legges 42 for breaking out, or swelling of the legges 48 for the swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Leo To cure a leper 104 Lig To open the lightes 44 Lic To kill lice 78, 84 Lik To preserve on in good likeing 191 Lip To heale choppes in the legges or gumes 123 Lit for the lithargy 123 Liv To comfort the liver 193 To cleanse the liver 165 To helpe faults in the liver 28 Loo To make one loose or laxative 61, 135, 149 Loy for payne in the loynes 82 Loz To make lozinges 165 Lun for one that is lunitike 85 Lun for the lunges that are [peirched] 190 Mat for payne in the matrix 82, 133 for dry urine in the matrix 117 Mea To cause the meazles to come forth 45 Meg for themegrame 44, 78, 96 Mel Against melancholly 80, 103, 113, 116, 166, 190, 192, 197 To purge melancholly blood 197 for melancholly [preeding] from the spleene 167 Mem for swelling in the members 46, 137, 143 To preserve the memory 190 Men To provoake the menstrues 134, 137, 138, 140 Mil To c ause woemans milke to increase 110, 111 for stoppeing in the milt 45 Mir To cause mirth & cheerefullnes 45 Mor for the morphew 45, 100, 101, 102, 165, 40 Mot for the mother 134, 145, 166 To remoove the mother or spleene 166 To place the mother 166 Mou for a sore mouth 121, 166 To preserve the mouth [sound] 103 for sharpenes in the mouth or tongue 121 for a great heat in the mouth 46 Mur for the murry, or cough 24 Nat To restore nature 167 To comfort the naturall parts within 197 To stay the runing of mans nature 139 Nav for the navell, that comes out 135 Nay for superfluous flesh, groweinge betweene the nayles 49 Nec for greife in the neck or head 83 Ner To comfort the nerves 147 Nos for bleeding at the nose 12, 16 Onc for an oncome 46 To assuage the swelling of an oncome 46 Opp for oppilations of the side 11 Oxi The vertue of oximell 148 Pal for the paluesy 50, 168, 190, 191, 192, 192 for the dead paluesy 50 for the paluesy in the hands 50 Pla Pay for any payne 21 for a payne in the back 13, 14, 160 for a great payne in the back 13 for payne in the gumes 6 for payne in the ioyntes 7 for payne in the side 62, 63 Per for a perle, linne, or web in the eye 31, 32, 88, 8990, 91, 168 Pes for the pestilence 47, 48, 122, 192 Pil for the piles or emrods 50, 51, 131, 168 Pim for a pimpled face 37 Pin for a pinne, in the eye, vide perle. Pip To open the pipes, & breake fleame 35 Pis for those that cannot pisse 133, 136 To make one pisse freely 51 for those that pisse in bed 93, 136 Pla for the plague 117, 122, 168 A preservative against the plague 49 for the plague, where the signe is 48 A preservative & curative against the plague 46 An excellent preservative in the plague time, to expell it from the howse 49 Plasters very temperate 152 Plu for a pluricy 23, 124, 125, 141, 142 Pox to cause the post to come forth 45 for the small pox, when they be full out 169 To kill the swine pox 134 Poy for one that is poysoned 52 Pri To skinne the privy place, if it be gone 158 Pur To purge & coole the body 17, 18 Pus for any push, or boyle, in any part of the body 48 Ran for rankleing in an ague sore 120 Rei for payne in the reines 82, 123, 124 for runneing of the reines 55, 129, 169, 26 for the stone in the reines 133, 169 To strengthen the reines 146 for the reines that are hot 118 Res A restaurative 125, 189, 192 Rhu for cold rhume in the head 122 for rhume in the eyes 157 for dry rhume in the matrix 117 for the rhume 52, 53, 86, 107, 114, 122, 157, 190 Rib To ease the payne in the ribbes, feines, & spleene 123 Ric for the ricketts 54 Rin for a ringe worme 48, 132 Ros The vertue of rosemary 55 Rup for a rupture 53, 128, 137 for a rupture in the scull 79, 83 Sal To make a greene salve 152 Sca for scabbes 42, 48, 104, 132, 141, 143 for all scabbes in the head 48 for the white scabbe 48 for scabbes in the head, & to kill the [scuase] 78 for a scald 21, 134 Sci for the sciatica 61, 127, 143, 147 Scu for a greife in the scull 79 for a rupture in the scull, or the surt 79, 83 Shi for the shingles 133 Sid for the side 11 for a payne in the side 62, 63, 125 Sig To cleene the sight 88, 90, 91, 92, 100, 174 To quicken the sight 92 for weakenes of the sight 197 Sin for hardnes of the sinewes 123 for contraction of the sinewes 191 for shrunken sinewes 60, 150 To strengthen the sinewes 8 for a prick in the sinewes 60 Sle To provoake sleepe 60, 61, 101 To make one slender 61 Sol To make one soluble 61, 135, 149 Sor To cure all sorts of sores 20, 65. 171 for a sore that will not heale 172 To cure all sores and greifes if the bone be not hurt 48 for old sores 87, 104, 126, 139, 151 for rotten sores 87, 105, 117 To breake a sore 151 for a sore in the brest 160 for a sore mouth 165 To get wood or iron out of a sore 66, 171 for all sores possible to be healed 149 for rankleing of an ague sore 120 To clense a sore 114, 172 Spi for the vitall spirittes 191 To revive the spiritts 197 to strengthen the spiritts 193 Spe To recover the speech lost by sicknes 85 Spl for the spleene 45, 61, 101, 117, 123, 125, 140, 192 To cleanse the spleene 61 To remoove the spleene 166 Spo To remoove spotts from the eyes 168 Squ for the quincy 59, 102, 106, 117, 172 Sta for all sortes of stabbes 48 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To staunch bleeding vide bleeding; blood. Ste Against sterrility of a woeman 130 Sti for stingeinge 15 for stingeing of vipers, snakes etc. 15, 117, 141 for a stitch 63, 125, 142, 144, 159 Sto for the stomacke 8, 109, 112, 120, 121, 147, 170, 190, 191, 193, 196 for coldnes of the stomack 103, 113, 122, 171 for the stomack payned with heat burning 58 To breake fleame out of the stomack 59 for ach in the stomack 20 for hardnes of the stomack 13 for payne in the stomack 135 To dissolve wind in the stomack 149 for the stone 56, 57, 58, 147, 173 To breake the stone 57, 147 Sto To know if the stone be in the bladder or reines 147 for the stone in the reines 133 for the stone in the bladder 56 for swelling of the stones or members 46 for the stones that are bruised 159 for stoppeing in the throate 121 Str for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the strangury 133 for straitnes of wind 62 To make one lusty & stronge that is weake 115 Sur for a surfet 63, 171 Swe for one that sweates much 170, 192 for swellinge 63, 88, 126, 132, 180, 95 for all swelling what soever 129, 143, 170 for swelling in the codds 137, 143 for ach or swelled hands or feet 140, 146 for swelling at the heart 144 for swelling in the hands 133 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 141, 170 for swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Tee To keepe the teeth from rotting 173 for corrupt teeth 64 To fasten loose teeth 107 To mittigate the payne of childrens teeth 107 To bring childrens teeth forth easily 108, 123 To make teeth white 107 Too for the tooth-ach 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 94, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 122, 127, 157, 158, 173 for all manner of tooth-ach 1 To make a tooth fall out 64 Tet for a tetter 48, 63, 132, 134 Thi To quench the thirst 114, 134 for the pestilentiall thirst 192 To draw a thorne out of the flesh 8 Thr for any inflamation of the throate 117 for a sore throate 108, 123, 173, 200 To breake a sore in the throate 108 for a woeman in travaile, that wantes throwes 68 for all thrustes with rapier or dager 48 Tim for a timpany 64 Tis for the tilick 64, 99, 121, 142, 162 Toe for superfluous flesh growinge betweene the fingers & toes 49 Ton for sharpnes in the tongue or mouth 121 Vai for shrinkeing of the vaines 60 To strengthen the vaines 8 Ven for botches or sores caused by venery, 48, 49 To draw forth venome 151 for the touch of any venomous thinge 48 Ver for the disease called vertigo 80, 81, 197 Vis To preserve the visage, or [illegible] 190 Vit to comfort the vitall spirits 191 Ung Unguentum Jacobi 153 Vom A vomit 173 To provoake vomitinge 121 Against vomiting 107, 135 Wov A white salve for a wound 65 To coole & comfort a wound 65 for a greivous wound, or sore 66 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To heale all wounds in a short time 162 Yar for carnosities in the yard 49 To spoute a water into the yard, to coole & cleanse etc. 68 You To preserve youth 190, 191 Cure for the rheumatism – [to the] The second index alphabeticall B. To make good bisket 182 To make artificiall blame 183 C. To make short sweet cakes 182 To clarifie hony, & sugar 194 To make all manner of conseits 180 To make conserve of barberryes 176 To make conserve of quinces 175 To make conserve of greene wallnutts 176 To make cons: of roses, or any flowers 176 To make cons: of rosemary flowers 176 D. to dresse oranges 179 To dresse peaches whole 179 To dresse plummes either blew or yellow 180 G. to make a gargle 200 To make ginger-bread 181 To make gratia dei, a plaster 195 To make gunne-pouder 200 H. To clarifies hony 194 To make hony – of roses 193 J To make cleene jelly 185 To make jelly of harts horne 186 To make white or other coloured jelly 186 > to make lozings 165 To make lute 200 A pleasant water for linen 200 M. To make manus-christi 195 To make dry marmelad of peaches 178 To make red marmelad 178 To make white marmelad 178 To make melquorum, or quodmel 196 O. To make oyle of anniseeds 197 To make oyle of cloves 197 To make oyle of exiter 196 P. To preserve barberries 177 To preserve cherries 177 To preserve damsons, or other plumes 177 to preserve quinces 177 To make pompilion 195 To make severall purges 198, 199, 95 S. To make sugar plate of quinces, roses, violetts, or any other such like 181 To make syrop of endive 184 To make syrop of myntes 185 To make syrop of roses 183 To make syrop of rosemary flowers 184 To make syrop of saffron 184 To make syrop of tyme 184 To make syrop of violetts 183 To make syrop of worme wood 184 To make syrop of the rines of oranges and limons 185 for a staine in cloathes 201 for stayned cloathes or mouldy 200 V. A vomit 173 W. To make anniseed water 189 To make aqua composita 187 To make qua vitae 187 To make stronge aqua vitae 187 To make aurum potabile 193 To make balme water 189 To make ipocras water 188 To make water of life 191 To make aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderfull vertue 190 To make rosa [solis] 189 To make Doctor Stevens water 191 to make worme wood water 188 To make worme wood wine to drinke 193 A pleasant water for linen 200 Finis An exelent [illegible] to make a [grene] oyntment [for] [illegible] Take speiremint [illegible] wormwood [rosemare] balm lavender cotton and agremony of [illegible] of these a great handfull 2 [illegible] of fresh butter out of the [illegible] [illegible] the butter to melt on the fier and stamp the [illegible] then put them in one quarter of an ounce of [ma??] [illegible] boyle those [illegible] well [for] halve an [our] till it [illegible] [grow] uppon a soft fier then sett it [close] and [illegible] it out from the [illegible] then set the [illegible] pt on the fier againe & scum it then you may keep it for your use all the [yeare]. To make the [blake] salve for [illegible] [illegible] for [illegible] [illegible] [before] mentioned Take a pinte of the best salet oyle 4 [illegible] of red [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of white when the is warm uppon the fier put in the [illegible] then keepe it [illegible] till it boyle a [illegible] as pitch then put into it 2 ounces bees wax & let it boyle 6 or 7 let it cold a litle then put it into a after the [illegible] [illegible] the pts [pained] [illegible] [illegible] in with the [gren] oyle at night when you got to bed the next morning before the fier draw downe with your finger a drop or 2 of oyle of amber uppon the [place] most pained then [illegible] on your plaster made of the blake salve 7 lett it lye till it falls of 1 pound of white lede 1 pound of [?ide] lede 2 pound and a halfe of sallett oyle 12 onces of cassall sope R C Oil rubbed upon the branches & stems of fruit trees, destroys the insects & increases the fruit buds. It is used successfully upon the stems of carnations & guard them against the depredations of the ear-wig [illegible] Sir G. McKenzie Mr John [Linning] [illegible[ [illegible] grow in [illegible] [illegible] [&] in [illegible] [land] [tooth] [atke] cured by Mr [Grey??e] [potheker] in [illegible] [illegible] London [nere] Sadlers Hall by burning the [illegible] in the [illegible] An effectual remedy for [nursing] chilblains one ounce of white copperas dissolved in a quart of water & occasionally applying to the affected parts will utterly remove the most obdurate blains N.B. This application must be used before they break otherwise it will do injury Cure for cancer Crowfoot root toothache or blister [illegible] arsenic sprinkled upon them & calcined. Styles ([illegible]) A booke containeing many rare and excellent receites very necessary for the restauration of the body to perfect health O quanta radicum! quanta et herbarum virtus! Letere, et istis non [isti], est idem, ac si dicerem, negilgere et abuti Quisque silet bona parta aliis, peccando repeccati labitur in culpam qui sinit ista mori. for the [illegible] in the 69 padge In a sore throat Take oil olives & spirits of turpentine rub the throat with the mixture [illegible] flannel Double quantity of oil [illegible] spirits For a cold & cough one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre. one drachm of elixir of vitirol. 60 drops of laudanum 3 tea spoonsfull of honey: thirty drops of the mixture to be taken three times a day 1 A precious oyntment for all aches *Take twelve penny [worth] of gratia dei and six penny [worth] of [norue] oyle and penny [worth] of salot oyle melt all [these] together on a chafeing dish of [coles], and [illegible] it for your [use] To ease all aches, and especially of any sort of the gout take [acornes] without the shell or [huske] lay them in stronge vinegre 24 [illegible] then take them out and dry them in an oven not very hot, or in the [sunne] then beat them to pouder, and take two penny waight of it, & put it into a sauser full of [illegible] water & drink it. For all manner of tooth ach. Take the [rootes] of [illegible], [seethe] them in [illegible], then wash your mouth once in a mounth & it will keepe your tooth from akeing. A soveraigne medicine for the tooth ach Take the [illegible] of young broome & [skinne] and then take off the [illegible] [skinne] 9 [budds] of sage, 9 of rosemary, 9 [rootes] of [daytes], a [litle] quantity of the [outter] most skinne of [illegible] a penny worth of pepper, and some what more in quantity of bay salt than pepper; breake all these together in a mortar very small; then take soo much vinegre as will [illegible] on them, then boyle it all in a peuter dish upon a chafeing dish of [coles] untill it lookes very black, then [wash] the gumes with it in the mornings fasting, & at night wash them again & the mouth also with the liquor of the same [herbes] alwayes as hot as you can suffer it, and lay some of the same herbes upon the place [illegible] all night An oyntment for the same. take soft lavander [??nip] [pellito??e], [???ther] wood, som [illegible] primroses and sage of [illegible] an equall quantity, bruise them and take the [illegible] [therof] to the quantity of halfe a pint, & boyle them in a pint of oyle [olive], after they be well boyled put them to a litle water and soe make an oyntment of them for the same paine 3 For the tooth ach take a quantity of pennyroyall & [illegible] it with bay salt, take a little therof in a linen cloath and lay it to the tooth for the [spase] of an hower, then take soe much more and [illegible] it as longe there, and after wards more, and more; this will allay the ach & draw out the paine For the tooth ach. take angelico, [fetherf??e], [illegible] seed, oyle of bitter almonds, pound these in a morter, then drop two dropps of the [illegible] into the contrary [illegible] to that side where the payne lyes, keepe your selfe warme, & ly on that side uyour payne is, and bind your head as hard as possible you can endure For an ach where noe swellinge is *take oleum petrolinum, it lookes very [cleene], somewhat greenish, & smells much like oyle of [illegible]; with this annoynt the place payned and [chafe] it well. For the head ach. take [illegible] betony, and [warme] wood 4 and seethe them, then there with wash in all the sick mans head then make a plaster for his [mould] in this manner. Take the same herbes, when they be sodden wring out the [illegible], then grind them in a morter very small, and [temper] them with the sayd liquor againe, & put thereto a quantity of wheaten [branne] to hold in the liquor, then make a garland of a [illegible], and bind his head therewith then lay the plaster on the mould within the garland, as the party may suffer it with a [illegible] & a cap [above]: doe this but three times & it will helpe him For all manner of aches impostumes & cankers. Take [rosin] ][prof??] of each halfe a pound, take virgin wax and frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, an ounce of masticke, a quarter of a pound of hearts tallow, 3 drames of comfry, melt that with it to be melted, and beate the rest into pouder, then boyle all together, & straine it through a cleane cloath into a [p?ble] of white [wine], then boyle it all untill the [wine] be consumed, then let it coole a litle, and put then to a quarter of a pound of turpintine & [stirre] it together untill it be cold, & make it up in [roules], & keepe it to use 5 A good seare cloath for aches. take halfe a pound of red lead and boyle it in a pinte of oyle [olive] untill it bee thick, and soe use it For the tooth ach take a litle gun-pouder put into a fine linen cloath, the same beeing put into the hollow tooth, or hold betweene the tooth soo that it touch the aleing tooth, it [puts] a way the payne [p??ently]. For the tooth ach. take sage & peillitory, seethe them in vinegar, and keepe this in the mouth as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Boyle [illegible] in vinegar, wash the tooth therewith, & it quickly taketh away the payne. another. the leaves of sage layd on & to the tooth that [aketh] taketh away, the payne & comforteth the tooth that are hurt through cold, that they be not more put to greife or payne thereby. For the tooth ach. If you touch the tooth that [illegible] with water [cresses], [incombinent] it taketh away the payne, & it breaketh the tooth. 6 Alsoe the roots of sparage stamped and layd onto the akeing tooth, will draw it out without payne. Alsoe straw-berry leaves chewed take away the tooth ach. probatum est. Alsoe the roote of mouse-eare put into the hollowness of the tooth taketh away the paine. [D. lt] Chambers receite for the tooth ache or payne in the gumes. take a quantity of wood-bind leaves a quantity of rhue, a quantity of violet leaves, a quantity of the pills of pomegranades, and a litle allome, boyle them together in faire well water, and wash your gumes with the water thereof. An excellent remedy for the tooth ach. take a daysie roote & scrape it cleane, then [pare] it round sugar-loafe-fashion fitt to put into the same, and [illegible] after it sheepes woole to keep it fast in, and it will cure you in a very short time For the head ach. Make a posset of small ale & take of the suds, bake a quantity of the best figgs 7 split them & boyle them in the posset drink with a third of liquorice split For the head ach. In the extreme paine, take a good quantity of rhue, make it very hot till it be almost dry, betweene two tiles, then put it between the fould of a cloath, and soe bind it to the [illegible] [pt] of the head. For the head ach. Take fennell & seeth it in water & wash the head therewith, & it assuageth the paine. For an ach. take spare mint 3 handfulls [illegible], take 2 l of [illegible] may butter [unmashed] [temper] them together & roule them in roules, put them in a pipkin & cover it close & set it in a coole sellar 9 dayes, then boyle & after straine them & put them to one ounce of bees wax, & put it up for all the yearse to annoynt them that have any aches. For the tooth ach. take a litle rosemary & bay salt & stamp them together, put it in a linen cloath and lay it to your tooth or gumes. A notable secret for all incurable aches and all paines in the joynts. take all [illegible] whole pound a [illegible] rasteth off (the later the better) cast a way the stalks taking nothing but the hornes, rub the same in [shin??s] or [peeres], then sooth the paine in a gallon of faire water, untill all be come to a pint or somewhat more, then cast away the [peeres] of [horne], & let that in the vessel stand untill it be cold, [illegible] then will be like a jelly; [illegible] you will use of this, warme it in a [saucer], then annoynt the [greened] plate therewith by the fier, evening & morning, and let it [drinke] in by the heate of the fier, and in 9 or 10 dressings it will helpe & heale it thoroughly for [ever] The Leaden Plaster The vertue of it this beeing applied to the stomach [illegible] a good appetite, to the [sick], & taketh away all greifes of the stomach; applied to the belly it easeth the [collick]; it causeth the flowers of [??emen] in great abundance; applied to the [reines] it bindeth the [illegible] & taketh away heate, & strengthens wonderfully the [illegible] & sinewes; it drawes out a [illegible] in the flesh, & breakes and heales all [fellows] & impostumes, and generally healeth all [wormes], & easeth all aches in the body To make the Plaster take a pound of oyle olive, halfe a pound of red lead, a quarter of a pound of white lead beaten to fine powder, 5 ounces of Spanish sope, let them be well incorporated 9 in an earthen pot well glazed before you set it to boyle, then set it on a soft fier of coles an hower & an halfe continually stirring it with a stick, then make the fire somewhat greater, untill the red colour turns to greene, and leave not stirring untill it come to the colour of oyle, but [more] darke; then drop a litle upon a table with a stick, & when it is cold if it come of without sticking it is well boyled, then put in halfe an ounce of [swines] grease & a litle oyle of bayes, then make the plaster thus. Drop a cloath into the pot & hold it in your hands untill it be cold, then [plaine] it upon a table, & if it be [stirking] or breaking out in a litle more swines grease, but if not, it is well. This plaster will last good 7 yeares, applying it to the place [greined], if every morning you take it and mixe it with a cloath For the shakeing Ague Take [fatherfue], new, betony, dandelion, of each three cropps, stamp them together & drinke them with ale. For the ague Take the herbe polipodium with groweth like forme upon a [illegible], lime; marygold leaves, of each a handfull; put them into a quart of ale, [this] stale, seeth it together to a pint, then straine it, & set it on the fier againe untill it seeth then 10 put into it a spoonfull of bruised pepper & drinke this when the fit cometh upon you, & by the grace of god it will helpe you. For the ague Take halfe a dozen of [flipps] of alder greene, & younge, takeing of the [rusty], rind first, [stire] of the [next] greene rind to the wood, & take of this a good handfull and shred it small & pound it in a morter halfe an hower, then infuse it into a pint of very stronge vinegar, let it steepe therein for 7 or 8 howers, then straine it, & give it the party to drinke fasting 3 spoonfulls, nor eate or drinke for 2 howers after, use this three or foure times not only in the morning but at night alsoe & it will, by gods helpe, drive away the ague. For the ague in the brest Take periwincle, [fothersue], alder budds, time, bayes, red sage, rosemary, ale hoofe, daysie mores, orgamen, lavander, smalage, rice, longe woort, black mary goulds, of each a like quantity, shread all these and ground them with sweet lard, and let them stand together nyne dayes after, and then boyle them For the ague in the brest Take red sage, smalage, fatherfue, periwincle, alder buddes, of each a handfull, shread them small & put them into milke 11 & boyle them well together, then [shirk] it with oate meale, and laye this poltis to the woomans brest. A syrup against a longe ague; choller, fleame, appilationes of the side, and the iaundies. Take the [iuyce] of endive & smalage of each halfe a pint, of the [iuyce] of pepper & burrage of each a pint, seeth & clarifie them with whites of eggs, then put therein 2 ounces of rose leaves dryed, halfe an ounce of pared liquorice, cut into small peeces, [illegible] [illegible] the waight of 10d, aniseed, fennell seed, smalage seed, of each the waight of 1s-6d, finely bruised, then take 4 pintes of the [iuyce] thus strained & put to it 2 [q] & a halfe of fine white suger & seeth it to the hight of a syrup. For the burning ague. Take a pottle of water & halfe a pint of vinegar, endive, succory, fine leaved grasse, violet leaves, and strawberry leaves of each an equall quantity, seeth these to a quart, pout there to halfe a pound of sugar, & drink thereof morning and eveninge. A good pleruative against the pestilentiall ague. Make a posset, & boyle the ale thereof with [sed?mell] rootes untill they be soft, then 12 take 12 spoonefulls of the ale, & put thereto 3 spoonefulls of vinegar with a penny worth of treakle mixed therewith, soe drinke it warme as you may. A good medicine for a sore brest. Take a handfull of grease beech, halfe a pound of [comeing] seed, halfe a pound of fresh butter boyle them well together, then straine it and make a salve thereof. For bleeding at the nose. Take betony and salt & mingle them together, & put them in the nose, & it will [sop]. For bleeding at the nose. Take the roote of warme wood & make it very cleane, & chew it a good space. To staunch blood. Chew the roote of a nettle, but swallow it not downe, & without doubt it will staunch, for but keepe it in the mouth, & you cannot loose any blood. To staunch blood primrose leaves stamped & layd to the place that bleedeth, stanch the blood & [illegible] To staunch blood. Take periwincle & chew it in your mouth and it will helpe you. To staunch blood The powder of nettles snuffed into the nostrills staunch blood incontinent 13 To staunch bleeding in any place saveing the nose. Take [house] mosse and lay it to the cut or wound, & it will staunch the bleedinge. For spitting of blood. The powder of dry mulberries is the best remedy. For a paine in the belly or toughnes of the stomack. Take wild time a handfull, an halfe penny worth of aniseed bruised, & soe much liquorice 2d worth of sena alexandrina 2d worth of sugar, boyle these in 3 pings of malmesy untill it come to a quart, then straine it & drinke thereof a good draught first & last morninge & eveninge. For a payned back. Take unguentum rosatum & chafe their bark therewith evening and morning; and lay this plaster [following] to it. Take of fothensue, tansy & howse [leeke] of each a handfull, shread them and stampe them fine, then fry them with a sauserfull of [howy] & 2 ounces of pigeon dunge till it be plaster wise, & soe ly it to your back. For a greivous payned back. The leaves & rootes of egrimony, mugwort, & betony stampt with old grease & vinegar, and a plaster thereof applied to the bark will put the payine quite a way beeing used 3 or 4 times. 14 For a weaknes or payne in the back. Take the string of the back of a [veale], 4 dates minced small, the yolkes of 4 eggs, boyle these in [mustad] all together, eate of this next your heart in the morninge, abstaineing untill diner time. A plaster for the heat of the back Take the broad white lilly leaves which grow in water ponds, sew them after the manner of a plaster fit to cover the reines of the bark, then spread the quantity of an ounce of oyle of [oforoses] there upon, & bind it close to the reines of the bark, & let it ly 28 howers, untill such time as the [vertue] bee quite dryed out of it For the biteing of any venomous beast. Take plantan and drinke iuyce thereof & take plantan & celendine of each a like quantity, stampe & temper them with stale [illegible] & lay to the sore, & it will assuage the swelling and draw out the venome For the biting of a venomous beast. Take the patients water and the iuyce of centry, & give it the party to drinke, this helpeth both man and beast. or take fennell or [illegible] & seeth it in butter & give it the patient to drinke. For the same 15 Take the seeds of bettony & make powder thereof & drinke it [illegible] then take bettony stamped & fry it with grease & lay it to the sore, it will draw out the venome, & assuage both the swellinge and paine. For the same Take plantan & stampe it in red [illegible] and a clove of garlick, stamp them together & lay it plaster wise to the wound; but drinke plantan or celendine tempered in old wine. For the same Take garlick salt & [illegible], bruise & mixe them well together, & lay them to the sore, & drinke one of the afore sayd liquors. Fro the same. Take lylly rootes, dubble daytes, isop, rosemary wild sage stamp & straine them, then put to the iuyce a spoonefull of aqua vitae & treacle & drinke this with ale or milke. For stinginge. Take a burre roote milke and salad oyle stamp them together and annoynt the place, & give the patient salad oyle to drinke. For stinging of Adders. Take [dragons] & drinke it, alsoe stampe dragons and lay it to the place, & it will draw out the venome, & ease the payne. To stanch blood. Take vine leaves & dry them & make powder & put it into the wound, & it will cease. 16 or take the bird called the kings fisher, bake him in an over after the bread is drawne with the fethers, gutts, & all, then beate him to powder & lay it to the wound. Or take the fethers downe of the belly of an [hare], it doth the same. To stanch bleeding at the nose Bind the temples with a list about the head soe that the vaines may not [illegible] theire course, & drinke the iuyce of smalage, and lay a perum oake leafe under his tongue, but [fast] let him chew the leafe in his mouth. To staunch bleedinge take a litle fine white sugar, & as much raddle, beate them together to small powder & lay them on the wound, then lay on these a cleane cloath burned to ashes, shirk, A salve to ripen & heale botch, boyle, or adder. Take white castile soape & very rusty bacon a litle quantity cut very small, stampe them together in a wooden dish with a wooden pestle for the space of 6 howers untill they bee throughly incorporated, like a salve, then spread some of it [illegible] upon a linen cloath & lay it to the greife, changing it evening & morning: it will continue good longe if you [box] it up close For a boyle that is rotten & breaks not Take softed cheese and bores grease, that 17 is remelted, stamp them together, & fry them a litle, and lay it to the boyle as hot as it can be suffered, and at the farthest it will breake within 4 plasters. A good drinke for weaknes in the body, & for the wind collick. Take betony & great plantan of each, an handfull, comeing seed & liquorice of each an halfe penny worth stamped, bopyule these together in a quart of stale ale to the halfe, then straine it & drinke it warme first & last. an oyntment for the same. Take [neats] foote oyle, barrowes grease, aqua vita, & the iuyce of maces strayned mixe them together in equall quantities, then take part thereof & coate it hot in a porringer, & annoynt betwixt the shoulders, but chase it well in before the fier, use this 5 or six times. Against all evills in the body. Take rosemary flowers, put them in a linen cloath & boyle them in faire cleene water to the halfe, soe coole it, & drinke it. A diet drinke to coole and purge the body. Take sarzaperilla 8 ounces, saxifrage 2 ounces, guairi 4 ounces, coriander seed 2 ounces, cena a quantity conformable, 18 stire them & infuse them into 10 quartes of runing water all night, to morrow put in liquorice 2 ounces, aniseeds 2 ounces, boyle all together to 6 quarters, & let the patient drinke a quart a day thus, halfe a pinte in the morning, halfe a pinte at 4 of the clock in the after noone, and the other pint at meales. An easie purge to coole the body. Take pillele gregatine and drame and a scruple, let them be made up into 5 or 6 pills, & take them all early in the morning; it is excellent to purge choller & fleame of the stomack. Another stronger purge. Take diagredian halfe a drame in a litle white wine, take it early in the morning fasting, walke upon it in your chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth Another slighter purgation Take halfe a pound of prunes & stew them in water over a soft fier, then [illegible] forth the liquor into another pot, then take a quantity of liquorice, a quantity of ginger with a litle sinnamon, then a pretty quantity of cena, & stew all these together over a soft fier in the pot where the liquor is, then straine it into the [prunes]. 19 thein the morning fasting let the patient take 3 or 4 of the prunes with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the liquor next his heart putting a litle sugar upon them; let him not eate for an hower or two after, & then a litle comfortable broth, & this will give him a stoole or two, & be exceeding refrigerative for the body. For greifes in the body. Take a pottle of runing water, an handfull of liquorice well scraped, cut, & bruised in a mortar, an handfull of anniseeds, an handfull of parsly, seedes, an handfull of rennet [illegible] sope, an handfull of mouse eare, an handfull of mother of [illegible], put these into the water, & boye it from a pottle to a quart, then straine it from the herbes, & put to it the quantity of a wallnut of sugar candy then drinke [five] spoonefulls of it every eveninge & morninge A plaster for broaken bones Take brooke lime, chick weed, smalage & ground fill, & stampe them together, then put thereto comeing seed powder, then take sheepes tallow melted & fry it [therein] when it is well fryed put to it wheate branne & good [lyes] of wine, & stirre it well together, & lay it hot alwayes to soe sore To draw out broaken bones Take virum, betony, rew, stamp & straine the, & with [illegible] meale make a salve of the iuyce thereof 20 To keepe bookes from vermine. Take the flowrs of rosemary & put them amongst bookes or cloathes, & they will not come there. For the brayne. [also] the pouder of betony in the pottage. An oyntment for any outward bruise Take flowers of elders, when the are ready to fall, grind them small in a morter, in the grinding pot to soe many spoonefulls of [beans] flower, as that be handfulls of the elder flowers, & a good quantity of salet oyle, mingle them well, then put them into an open mouthed glass, & let them stand in the sunne a mounth; this will keep 3 or 4 yeares, & when it mayeth dry, put more oyle to it: & when you would use this oyntment heate some of it in a saucer, & amongst the [bruise] & lay some of the flowers upon it; this will [illegible] in foure or five dressings This drinke cureth all sorts of sores or bruises, be they never soe old; heales woemens brests, which are thought incurable, and if any bane be putrified, it will make it fall away in scales, If there be any impostume in the body, it will cause it to breake outwardly, and likewise if there be any corruption in the body, it taketh away the ach in the stomack, which divers have after they have taken a litle cold. Take agrimony 2 handfulls, mild angelica, betony, wild daysie rootes, & leaves, [???wort] bramble leaes, benewort, fields bugle, [sanicle], [illegible], dandelion, scabions, mug wort, worms wood, & [illegible] of each a handfull; boyle all these small shread in three gallons of water, until the herbs be very tender; you may put into it halfe a pint of clarified hony; give of it 3 times a day 4 21 or 5 spoonefulls warme, that is in the morning fasting, at 2 in the after noone, & at gooing to bed, & drinke not an hower before or after. For any payne, bruise, or ach. Take mugworte & mallowes, of each 2 handfulls, a handfull of [loudage] 3 leaves of, two or three branches of lavander cotton, as much goose grease as an ey, or more, halfe a pint of salet oyle, as much fresh & unsalted butter as an egge, as much deeres suet, as a wall nut, boyle these together, till the herbes be [turned] then strayne the herbes & if you please you may apply them as a bath For a burne or scauld. Take a good handfull of grundall, 12 heads of house leeke, stamp them small as greene [illegible], then take a pint of sheepes dunge, & as much goose dunge, then take a pottle of hoggs lard, & stampe all together, untill it be soe green that you can see noe lard, then make it [illegible] in a ball, & let it stand all night, then in the morning boyle it a litle, straine it, & keepe it. For the same. Take 2 ounces of oyle of roses, 3 ounces of creame, an ounce of pure hony, & boyle it all together, & keepe it [illegible] your use. For the same. Take halfe a pound of [singreeme] or house leeke, a pound of [illegible] madam, halfe a pound of the [rines] of greene elder, halfe a pound of red bramble leaves, halfe a pound of marshmallows, or comon mallow leaves, stampe these together, & take the iuyce, & boyle it on coles, with a pound of salet oyle, or oyle of roses water, & 4 ounces of clarified gooses suet, & 2 ounces of fresh [illegible], let it boyle till the iuyce be almost wasted & let it coole; apply it on white paper to a burne or [illegible] our an [illegible] or [locoram] to an ulcer. 22 For a canker in the mouth. Take the pouder of the roote of celendine, dryed roses, vinegar, [wax], water of hony [suckles], seeth them together till they be [shirk], & annoynt the place by thereof Or [illegible] the iuyce of plantan, wood bind, a litle [roch] [allome], vinegar, & rose water, & wash the mouth. Or take a quantity of sage, a good quantity of [roch] [allome], seeth them in faire running water, & wash the mouth therewith every morning fasting & neither oats nor drinke for an hower after! For a canker Take a handfull of [un] [set] [leekes], & [illegible] rootes, & 16 or 20 litle branches of [yarrow], lay them in white wine until they be very soft, then straine & clarifie them, & drinke every morning & evening three or foure spoonefulls, blood warme, & abstaine from [fruite] for a time For a canker in an old sore. Take a pint & a halfe of red rose water, as much plantan mater, seeth them together, with as much white mercury as a hazle nutt, let them seeth six [illegible], then [stume] it cleane with a fether, & keep it in a glasse for your use, for an approved medicine: & when you will use it, warme 4 spoonefulls, & wash the sore, & lay a cloath 3 or 4 double wet therein upon the sore; & if you feele it too [illegible] lay three or 4 spoonefulls at aforesayd, of mercury water with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, & as much of plantan water: put not this water in any silver vessell, for by reason of the poyson it will [illegible] For a canker in the body. shread the rootes of dragons, dry & make them into pouder; then take the waight of 9 pence of the pouder, & put it into faire hot water, let it stand a night, in the morning power out the water, & put in white wine, & boyle it well, & drinke of it warme, & it will cure you. For a canker in a woamans brest Take [illegible] dunge, pouder of burned wheate hony, virgin wax, barly & beane flower, & linseed seeth [chase] all together in wine or vinegar, putting 23 thereto rames [tallow], & make thereof a plaster, & lay it to the brest; a very good receite To make the black salus, or for a carbuncle take rusty baren, & black sope, pound them together, & make them up in a roule, & soe use it. For the stone or wind collick. Take a quantity of the spriggs of [gardame] or wild time, a quantity of [samshore], [illegible] with the blossomes if you can, parsly, pellitory of the wall speedwell, [peresthome], sarsifrage, [dew] hony, [illegible], radish rootes, alder budds, red roses, or red rose [illegible] the leaves thereof, [cop] [shese] small, & mixe them together, then take a good handfull of cow dunge, & mixe the herbes therein, then set it in the sunne, turneing it 9 dayes, untill you see the watry moysture dry, then distill it, the sairest water is best let your herbes dry a day before you mixe them; this is to be made in May, or the beginning of June. for the wind collick Take a peece of fine [bumbast], & dry it in the [illegible] soake of [illegible], but let it bee good & pure, then put the bumbast in the [naule], & it will ease you speedily For the collick & stone, & for the mother Take fennell seed, coriander seed, carroway seed parsly seed, ground fill seed, [galingall] seed, of each an ounce, the leaves & [codd?] of [seny] an ounce, of [shignall] a quarter of an ounce, & as much tyme, make all these into pouder, & [search] it, & drinke of it in good ale, or white wine first & last, & in all the [illegible] you eat with the meat, this is very good For the collick plurissis, or impostume in the side. Take 3 handfulls of brooke lyme, that groweth in the river, chop it small with halfe a pound of sheeps or deeres suet, & boyle it in three pints of running water, till it be [shird], that you may plaster it on a cloath, & soe apply it to the place grieved, & against it is cold, have more in readinesse, to put there on. [24] For the wind collick & stone Take milke of a cow that grayseth upon the [illegible] distill it in the mounth of May, because then the herbes have most vertue, drinke six spoonefulls fasting, but if your stomach be weake, put to it a spoonefull of gynger finely beaten, & a litle white wine. A present remedy for the wind collick. Take white wine & good salot oyle, & mixe them together, & drinke thereof now & them. Or take bay-leaves with one white when they are opened, & make it pouder & drinke it with white wine. For the wind collick. Take eg-shells, wherein chickens have been hatched beate them to pouder, then take a penny worth of parsly, a litle aniseeds, halfe a pint of [mustadell], put the rest therein, then heat a flint stone, put it therein, untill the medicine be reasonable warme, & drinke it of, & you shall find ease. For the cough Take a pint of rose water, 2 penny worth of anniseeds, as much of liquorices [faire] [illegible], & make them each into pouder, then take halfe a pound of pure white sugar, & a litle of the pouder of the roote of alecampane boyle all these in the soft water, untill it be [shird], & a [illegible] For the murry or cough. Take a posset with ale, put therein the bignes of 2 wallnuts of sugar candy, & a stick or two of liquorice finely shread, & let them boyle a litle in the ale, then straine the posset, & drinke of it morning & eveninge. For a cough. Stamp garlick with barrowes or hoggs grease, & make it shird like an oyntment & annoynt the soles of the feet, & the back bone. very good. For a perilous cough. Take sage, rue, [camein], pepper, boyle the with hony and eate thereof morning & eveninge. 25 For a greate cold or cough. Take the pouder of rosemary leaves, & put hony thereto, eate it fasting, & when you goe to bed. probatum est. For a cold Take nettle seed, seeth it in oyle, & annoynt the foote & handes there with. For a consumption. Take sesame mynt, rosemary, red fennell, mayden [illegible] sope, of each 2 croppes, sweet marjorame, penny royall, 3 branches, halfe a pound of blew [currants] boyle all these in a pottle of running water, untill it come to a quart; then put to it a quart of white wine & a litle quantity of liquorice, boyle these with the rest againe; & drinke of it morning & evening. For a consumption. Take a fat sow pig, put it into a faire skillitory with sesame [illegible], red fennell, & [nipps] of each, halfe a spoonefull, faire & cleane dates 9, the stones taken out, a handfull of greate [resines] cleane, mashed, 2 or three [reasons], the stones picked out, halfe a quarter of [mace], put all these into the pellitory, & distill them together on a soft fier, then put it in a faire glasse, & set it in the sunne 9 dayes, & soe drinke of it at your pleasure. Annother for the same. Take a young pig too fat, but well flesht, [illegible] him, & wash & dry hi as cleane as you can, then quarter him, & put him with the head and foote into an earthen pottle pot, put thereto a quart of mustadell, or [bastand], or instead of it a quart of running water, ad thereto dates, prunes, resines, currants, of each a quarter of a pound, cynomon rimes, whole [mace] of each halfe an ounce, sugar candy 2 ounces, succory a handfull; mayden haire blood wort, linen wort, [illegible] tongue, violet [illegible] berry leaves, of each halfe a handfull, 2 or 3 fennell rootes the pith taken away; sweet margorame [26] [longuebeese] [alias] cows tongue of each halfe a handfull, put all shels into the pot, & stop it close with past, then put the pot into a bottle of faire water, let it boyle 24 howers & as the water consumeth, put in more being made hot; then let the liquor run through a fine cloath & take a spoonfull at once, & put into the broth, & [illegible]. For chill bleanes or kibes. Take 4 ounces of was, 3 ounces of the best resins an ounce of turpentine, 5 ounces of fresh grease, infuse all these together upon a litle fier. For costivenesse Take a peece of browne bread & bast it, & shread it over with black sope, as you doe butter, & apply it to the [naule] as hot as you can suffer. To fret out dead flesh. Take the pouder of pepper, & lay it to the wounds where the dead flesh is. A diet drinke To 3 gallons of ale take some 6 ounces, ashen [begbernells] 2 ounces, bay berries hulled 2 ounces & a halfe, 3 ounces [illegible] pulled; of the rootes of polipodium, of the oake 5 ounces, fennell seeds an ounce & a halfe, anniseed an ounce, saxifrage sliced thinne an ounce bruise all [illegible], save the [same] which, if the body be hard to worke on, and the [illegible] betwixt the hands, soe it will worke the stronger, mingle all these together in a dish, & put them into a canvas bag, somewhat thinne, to let those ingredients into the ale, then with a stone or peece of lead in the bag to keepe it from swimming, the bag being fast tyed, put it into the vessell of ale soe tyed that it sinke not to the bottom, nor swimse on the top, but hang in the midle, but before you put in the bag, the ale must be [turned] up in a vessell of 4 gallons, & when it hath done workeing put in your bag & after it hath wasted a litle shut up the bunge close & clay it, & after 48 howers or 60 howers you may draw, & drinke thereof leting the bag hang in it untill the last. This may be done morning & evening for 10 dayes, or more, or lesse as you thinke good. [27] For the dropsie. Take halfe a bushell or elder leaves, & as much of water cresses leaves, chop them together, & boyle them well in 6 gallons of water then straine it & drinke thereof: these may be gathered in March, Aprill, or the mounth of May. for the dropsy approoved. Take the iuyce of agrimony, wild sage, thistle, & water cresses, of each, an ounce, & knead three cakes of barly flower with it, then make [maybe] of a bushell of barly mault & breake each cake into three [illegible] & put them in the [illegible], & drinke thereof first & last. For the hot dropsie, or flux. Drinke the water of [?plantan] For the dropsie Eate & drinke of [?andine] in decoction: or the roote of elder [illegible] & drinke is very good. For deafenesse Take hony of roses, iuyce of rue, oyle of bitter almonds, put these together, & drop 2 or 3 droppes into the eare, & stop it with black wood. For a noyle or rumbling in the eare. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, halfe as much of the iuyce of rue, 6 droppes of the [illegible] that [????eth] put of greene ash, burned, mixe these together, & drop a drop or 2 into your eare, & use it probatus est. For the same & to kill any worms in the eare. Take the iuyce of betony, horehound or worme wood warme it, & drop it in, it cures you & kills any worms. For the paynes [imgostumation] or deafenes. Drop the oyle of bitter almond warmed into the eare. Or take greene [elme], & put it into the fier, & [illegible] the water that comes out of the [ends], to a pritty quantity, put to it a spoonffull of wine, & the grease of a black [illegible], then put the liquor after it is well boyled into a vessell of glasse, drop of this [warme] into the eares & in 3 or 4 dayes it will helpe you. Or take a black [illegible], & put it in a cloath, & [stram] salt on him, & when he hath [illegible] himselfe well in the salt, prick him 28 with a needle, & let the water run into a glasse, & put 3 or 4 dropps thereof into your ear cold; then take comon marjorome, stampe it, & drinke a litle of the iuyce of it, & put a litle of it into the nostrills; As soone as the snayles be [illegible] [that] must bee used, or else they will dy. A medicine for deafenes. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, & the milke of a woeman, that gives a boy suck, of each a like portion, the milke of [gitten] almones, & every night, when you goe to bed, take 3 dropes warme into the eare, which [thus] upright, & change the eare every night, and take the wooll, that growes between the [browes] of a black sheepe, & stop the eare in which you drop the medicine, which is excellent to restore the heareinge For one that cannot heare. Take an [illegible], [flea] him, & [rest] him, & keepe the grease that dropped from him, & put it into the eares, & it will recover you. probatus est. For deafenesse. Take camomile, mellilote, margerome, [calamynt] [illegible] pennyroyall, [illegible], mynts, of each a hands full, boyle them together in faire running water, the [illegible] of an hower, then dip a sponge in the same water, & hold it to your eares, as hot as you can suffer, what the heate may enter into your head, then take cotton, & stop your eares close, that noe cold can possible enter into your head. To avoyd drunkannesse. Take betony, & make it into pouder, & eate it, and you shall not be easily drunke. To helpe disgestion. Take the outer rind of a limon, the white taken quite away, shread & [mince] it very small put to it the waight of 4d of fine cynomon powder, & put twice the waight of sugar candy as all the other waight, let the sugar candy be bruised mixe all together & eate thereof on a knifes poynt still before meales. A syrup to helpe disgestion & ease faults comonly in the liver Take agrimony, liver wort, [endime], of each halfe a pound 29 full, 6 parsly rootes, all mashed [cleane], & put into 3 pints of faire running water, then seeth it untill halfe be consumed; straine it, & put a small quantity of vinegar therto, that it may last thereof, & put to it a stick of cynomon bruised, & a [conuement] quantity of sugar, then set all on the fier, & boyle it againe, & when it hath boyled take it of, & beeing almost cold put it in a glasse, & drinke thereof morninge and eveninge For a noyse in the head or eare. [illegible], colt foote leaves cleane, stampe them in a morter, take out the iuyce, then boyle it, & [illegible] it as longe as any greene cometh on the top thereof, drope of it into the eare, & it will helpe you at three or foure dressings. For the eyes. P: 175. To cleere the eye sight Take fennell, rue, eye bright, tormentill, betony, roses, [illegible]-shistles, pimpernell, celandine, oculus christi & the herbe called hylagopiony, smalage, wood bind, [vine] leaves, agrimony, of each one handfull, distill them with a soft fier, & use it. For all the evills in the eyes. Take wood bind, eyebright, pimpernell, red fennell, [mell] worte, daysies, sengroome, red rases, of each, a handfull; mayden haire celendrine, wild tansy, of each 2 handfulls; infuse them in white wine 24 howers, then distill them, & use the water. To keepe back humors from the eyes. Take beanes, the outer rime or skinne beeing pulled of: bruise them, & [illegible] them with the white of an egge, or with mastick, & lay a plaster to the temples A pouder for blood shoten eyes. Take of [illegible] 2 drames, dragons blood one drame stampe them & [illegible] them finely, & out a very litle of it into the eye; this is excellent, probatus est. 30 For the same Take 5 leaves grasse, temper it with swines grease & a litle salt, & bind it to the eye that is sore. For sore eyes: or canker if it be strained Take halfe a vyall of faire water from the spring, & put thereto soe much [white] [ceporesse] as a big beane, & [shake] them together untill the [ceporresse] be consumed, then drop of this water with a fether into the eyes, & in 2 or 3 dropping the will be cured. To take away the blood or rednes of the face and eyes, of what humour soener. Stampe worm-wood with the white of an egge & lay it over the eyes, & it will halpe them [illegible] est. A remedy for sore eyes, that burne and itch, often prooved. Take in a perringer halfe a pint of white wine, 2 penniworth of lapis caliminaris, & heate it in the fier very hot, & then [quench] it in the wine, dea 6 7, 8, or 9 times, then straine it twice, & eveninge & morninge put alitle of it into the eyes. For watry eyes. To eate every day a litle betony is very good. Another for the eyes. Gather red [illegible], [bath] them in cleane water, & take of the top the grease, & with that annoynt the eyes early in the morning, & late in the eveninge A singular water for diseases in the eyes, & to clarifie the sight Take greene wallnutts husked & all from the tree with a few wall nutt leaves, & distill thereof a water, & drope of the same into your eyes. For sore eyes. Take celendine, rue, plantan, annis, & as much of fennell as all the other herbes, stampe these in a new earthen pot, then let it stand 48 howers, then straine it & annoynt the eyes evening & morninge For bleared eyes Take the iuyce of worm-wood, & mingle it with water made of the white of an egge, put it into the eyes, & it will helpe you. 31 For a white haw in the eye. Take the grease of an hare, & lay it to the eyes good. For a pinne or web in the eye Take an egge, & rest it hard, & the white all whole put in it as much white ceporesse as a pease, & all hot wringe it, [illegible] through a cloath, & let it drop into the eye this for young & old is a good approoved remedy. Or take betony, straine it & temper it with water, or with white wine warmed, drinke it 10 dayes, & it will destroye the web. For eyes that burne. Take the pareing of an apple cut something thick, & the inside layd thereto at night when you goe to bed, beeing soft [illegible] helpeth the same speedily For moyst eyes Take the leaves of betony, the roote of fennell, seeth them together, & wash the eyes with the water thereof. Or take water of the decoction of tyme & wash the eyes often [thorowly], it dryes [illegible] the teares or watrynes of the eyes. probatus est. For rhumish eyes. Take a red [cole] leafe, annoynt it with the white of an egge beaten well, when you goe to bed lay it to your eyes, & let it ly all night, use [illegible] often. An excellent remedy for a pin or webbe, redness, watring or sorenes of the eyes. Take the white of an eg, & beate it exceedinge well, then [illegible] of the froath cleane, then put into the white, beeing very cleane, a pritty quantity of rose allome being in fine pouder, & [illegible] let it stand awhile, & it will turne all to a water then preserve it for your use to drop into any [illegible] eye, & you shall find it an excellent remedy For a perle in the eye Take halfe a handfull of ground, as much of wild daysie rootes, with a litle white sugar candy beate them together & take the iuyce thereof & drop it into the eye morninge & eveninge. 32 For a pinne or web in the eye. Take a pritty quantity of the stalkes, cropps, & leaves of the herbe called christopher in the beginninge of of May, put thereto a good quantity of may butter without salt, put them well stamped in a peuter dishe, & set it in the sunneshine for the space of 2 or three mounthes, if it will not be rotten any sooner, when it is rotten & as an oyle set it one more in the sunne, & melted straine it, then drop is much of it into the eye, as a small pinnes head, & let the patient hold up his head for the space of a quarter of an hower; this is a very soveraine medicine, but it must be made & mingled in May; yet it may be strained either in May, June, July or August. For the emreds Bath it with malmsy & comein, & put it up with hot cloathes to it, & [trusse] it up hard. For the emrods an approoved and an especiall oyntment Take a handfull of pile-worte, which must be gathered in Aprill, shread it, & put thereto 3 ounces of fresh butter, which keepe untill May in a coole earthen pot; in May take 2 pounds of May butter, ad to it red bramble leaves, elder leaves, sage leaves, fennell, rostmary, mellilot, levage, of each a handfull, camomile mallowes, of each alsoe a handfull, & a litle house leeke, ship these very small boyling them together in the earthen pot untill the herbes feele crispy, then take them out & straine them, & keepe the oyntment for your use. Excellent for the emrods and piles. And if you mixe this oyntment the quantity of a quarter of a pound with an ounce of varnish, it healeth a burne wonderfully For a feaver which is burneing. Take a roote or two of sedwell, [shave] it cleane, the crops of [illegible], & mild tyme, the leaves of marygoled with the blossomes annyseed bruised, the quantity of a spoonefull, soe much comein, 33 & soe much cloves bruised, egrimony, bay leaves, & speare mynt, of each a handfull, a quarter of a pound of resines stoned, stampe them all well together, the herbes being stamped before, boyle them all in a pottle of malmsy, & in the boyleing put thereto some alexandria bruised an ounce, a ways of white ginger bruised, 4 ounces of sugar, boyule them to a quart, then straine it, & drinke of it first & last. A good drink to drinke in the fervent heat take the posset drinke made of ale, boyle it with [surrory] burrage, buglasse, the leaves & blossoms of marygoles, annyseed, sugar, straine it and drinke it; you may use the same herbes in the broth. Or take white wine & milke, annyseed & liquorice distilled, & use to drinke it. An excellent barly wine to cure or coole the heate of the liver or any heate in a feaver. Take a pint of barly water, a pint of white or reneish wine, halfe a pinte of red rose water halfe a pint of burrage water, a quarter of a pint of [surrory] water, the iuyce of 3 good limones, bruise all these, with soe much sugar as will sweeten all well, & drinke thereof at your time. probatus est. For the spotted feaver an excellent receite Take [cardius], marigole flowers, angelica roote, tormentill roote, of each a small handfull, hartshorne, & [i?ery], of each halfe an ounce, boyle these in 3 quarts of posset drinke, till halfe be consumed, then strayne it, & sweet it with the syrope of [scrabiosse], syrope of gilly flowers, & syrope of limons, of each an ounce & a halfe, but if it be not sweet enough, take sugar candy. A posset drinke for the same. Take [three] pints of new milke, 3 pints of small 34 ale, 4 spoonefulls of rose vinegar, stirre them together, the set it over the fier, untill the curd rises, take of the curd, & with the cleane posset drinke, boyle the herbes mentioned in the former recipe in the posset drink then with 2 spoonefulls of this posset drinke mixe halfe a drame of [illegible] ale, & halfe a drame of treacle, & well mixed, give it to the [illegible] parsly 3 nights together, two spoonefulls at a time. For the fallinge sicknes. Take the pouder of the stones of a [swallow]; or 5 leaves grasse, drinke 33 dayes together; the iuyce of [cowstipps] drunken 9 dayes together; or the heart of a [storte] boyled in water, & the broth drunke, & the heash eaten, the blood beeing first cleane drawne out or the liver of a partridge; or the flesh of a doe dryed & made into fine pouder, & drunke with wine or ale. Every-one of these by gods grace helpeth the falling sickness or [epu?ency]. For the same, & divers other diseases. Take young swallowes, burne them whole, & make pouder of them, mingle it with castoreum, & a litle fine [aysell] that cometh of the gall, you may buy it at the apothecaries, distill water thereof, & drinke of it fasting 9 dayes; It is good for the frensy, the [illegible] & falling [illegible], if you have not had it many yeares; it makes a good colour, clenseth the belly & stomacke, helpes the [palesy], cures cold ioynts & sinewes, & a quotidian feaver; but give it not to a woeman with child; it helpes sores & sicknes of the heart, causes one to sleepe well, to make water, deffrayeth paine where it is annoynted, & preformes a man from drunkennesse. For a fellon very good. Take the iuyce of fetherfue & smalage, of each 3 spoonefulls, as much wheat flower as will make it thick, a wall nuts bignes of black sope, worke it together till it be like [salve], & lay it to the finger, & sponge it every day once at the least, & it will take away the payne & helpe you quickly for a fellon or other sor. Mixe sope with a litle salt & lay it to, it will heale the fellon perfectly. 35 A syrope to breake fleame Take [illegible], mayden haire of each a handfull, a stick of scraped & bruised liquorice, seeth these in a potle of faire running water, till halfe be consumeth, then straine it, & put to it halfe a pound of sugar beaten, then seeth it to the hight of a syrope, & take 3 or 4 spoonefulls of it evening & morninge with soe much white wine or beere, or ale. probatus est. To open the pipes, & breake fleame. Take a quart of conduit water, then take annyseed 2 ounces, a bunch of liquorice bruised, put them into the water, then take alicompane rootes, harts tongue, horehound, liver wort, of each a like much, & a top or two of pennyroyall, boyle all these in the liquor till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & drinke of it luke warme, with a litle ginger. Or take a gallon of water, & a pound of hony boyle them & scume of the froath as it boyles, & [well] boyled put to it cynamon bruised small, then strume it through a jelly bag, & ut it into a glasse & drink thereof. To voyd & destroy cleane. Take parsly [mastic] fennell seed, pellitory, [?sope] seeth them in good ale with liquorice & a quantity of clarified hony, & use to drinke it To destroy fleame. Make powder of betony, & take thereof with hony soe much as will make 2 or 3 pellets, swallow them downe whole when you goe to bed; very good. A posset to purge fleame strongly. Take [?sope], lavander cotton, & rosemary of each 3 cropps, beate them small & mixe them in the morter with stale ale then straine it & put thereto a litle treacle; & as your milk riseth put in the strained liquor, & let it stand a litle; then eate the curd, & drink the whey A strong purge for fleame & superfluous humes. Take diagredian halfe a drame, in a litle white wine, take it early fasting, walke upon it in the chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth. To stop the bloody flux. Put a peece of rose allome in boyling milk, take of the [curd], drinke the whey very hot, & if you can eate the curd. 36 For the bloody flux. Boyle [holy-hanke] rootes in wine, & straine it, & drink it; but if the party have an ague, then let the rootes be [fed] in water, with plantan leaves & strained. probatus est. To stop the flux. Blaunched almons sod with hony till they be black, & eaten fasting restraine the flux of the belly wonderfully, but more if they be not blaunched. Eate St Johns water, & you shall find it a very stronge helpe against the flux of the belly. Or eate [beames] sod in vinegar. Or the stalke of a cole warte rosted in embers; or the liver of any beast sod in vinegar, & eaten, refraineth the flux & blood. Water of plantan drunke, is very good both for the flux & the hot dropsy. Mr Halls receite to make his pouder & oyntment to cure a fistula. Take bassorminate, & a greater quantity of white coporosse, beate & rub them well together in an iron morter, & grind it after with a painters [?ane] & soe make it pouder & apply it; and make the oyntment thus. Take the budds of the poplar tree, at theire first comeing, which is in March, or the beginning of of Aprill, take of them a part, & the two leaves of hoggs suet; shread the suet small, & put it in a ketle, & let it boyle a litle, then put in your poplar budds, & let them boyle halfe an hower together, stirre them for burning soe, then strayne it into an earthen pot, & when it is cold cover it, & [illegible] poplar budds, are they that make the populear; where [illegible], that you must use the leafe, when it shootes forth first, when it is no bigger than a [gilly] flower. For forgetfullnesse or drousinesse. The gall of a crane made warme in a leaden vessell, doth throughly, & lightly stirre up the diseased body, if the nap of the neck be annoynted therewith. The sent or smell of dog [fennell] taketh away sleepe. [sauime] beaten & sod in vinegar & layd plaster wise to the [hinder] part of the head [awakes] those that are heavy with sleepe: And [illegible] doth better [quicken] forgetfull persons, than the [smoke] of a mans [haire]. 37 For a pimpled face. Mix3e the iuyce of lylly rootes & vinegar together, of each a like quantity, annoynt the face therewith evening & morninge, for the space of 9 or 10 dayes. To helpe the rednes of the fac. Seeth the rootes of lyllies in water, & morning & evening wash the face therewith, & soe rub it well. For a pimpled face. Take a pinte of white wine, a quarter of an ounce of white coporesse, halfe an ounce of allome, halfe a quarter of an ounce of camfire, & as much brimstone, as a big hasle nut, beate all these in a morter very small, & put it into the wine then shake it all together halfe an hower & let it stand 2 dayes before you use it. It will keepe good a whole yeare. A speciall remedy for the gout. Take wax & refine by equall portions, & more of sheepes tallow, then take plantan, ribworte, equall portions, stamp them & straine the iuyce out, & let it stand all night, in the morning put of the cleere water that stands above, & put all in a pan & boyle it very well, untill all be melted, then straine it into a possett wherein you will keepe it, & when you feele the greife make a plaster & lay it thereto. To allay the ach of any gout what soever. Take ackorne kernells, steepe the 24 howers in strong vinegar, then take them, & dry them in an oven or the sunne, soe that the be not burned, then beate them into pouder, & take 2 penny waight of it, & put it into a cleane saucer of faire water, & drinke it. For the goute. Take sage, parsly, fennel, rue, lavander, of each an equally portion, as much of broome flowers, as all the rest, grind them all together in a morter, & fry the well in may butter, straine it, & let it stand 2 dayes & 2 nights; after wards sooth therein white wine & let it boyle after the [cake], & gather the flower above & heate it in a pan, & put to the pouder of frankincense & virgine wax & mixe the together; this oyntment is best. 38 To make haire grow where never any was. Take an onyon, & bore a hole in an elme tree & when the sap cometh up, then stop the hole with a peg, and soe take out the water with a spoone, & put it into a pot, & use to annoynt the bare place with a fether. To take away haire. Take the ashes of a cole-worte stalke made into a plaster, or use the ashes of a greene frogge burned & made into a lye, the haire being washed through falls away. Or take [horse] leeches & burne them to pouder, & mixe it with [illegible] & use to rub the place. Or annoynt the place with the milke or blood of a bitch, & hare will not grow there. For payne in the head. Mustard seede, or the leaves of it bruised, & layd hterto takes away the payne: there is no better remedy. For a payne in the head. Rub worme-wood well [brayed] & boyled in water & bind it to the temples upon the greife, which will presently mittigate the payne, & cause you to take a pleasant sleepe. To purge the head. Take the seede of [stanesacer], beate it to fine pou pouder, then put the pouder in a linen cloath, & make thereof a litle ball as big as a hazle nut, & put it in your mouth & roule it up & downe & chew it betweene the teeth, & hold downe the head the space of an hower, & it will purge the head & gumes, & keepe your teeth from aleinge. Or snuffe up the iuyce of [illegible] worte into your nostrills; then purgeth the head & helpeth any old paine. Or rub a marygold leave betweene your fingers & put it into your nose, & let it stay there a good space & it will bring out the [rhume], & ease your head. or take comes milke, & primrose iuyce, & with a quill blow up into your nostrills; it will purge the head. Or snuffe up the iuyce of a ground [illegible] Pills to purge the head. Dry maioram & dry it to pouder, mixe it with ginger pouder, & take a rosted onyon, poill it & stamp it with the pouders, & make pills as big as pease, put them into your nose; & water will flow thereout, & ease your paine. 39 For the dazleing of the head. [Broth] pulliall, & lay it to the temples. probatus est. A salve to cure a sore head. Take 12 of the fairst oyster shells you can get, wipe them very cleane, lay the upon a cleane hearth & a very hot charcole fier over them, burne them to ashes, then put them into a quarter of a pinte of [trotter] oyle compounding them with two penny worth of quick silver, & an ounce of brimstone, & it will be best to keepe a quarter of a pint of this oyle by it selfe; the party greived, must have a cap of [canuas], & you must cut away the haire neere to the sore; then annoynt the place with this medicine every morning, & at night with the oyle alone. for the heart burninge Take the crops of fennell, chew then in your mouth sicking & swallowing the iuyce, spit out the rest. For the straitenes at the heart with cold. Seeth figgs in wine, & scume it well, then put thereto 2 drames of the pouder of [dotany] & drinke thereof first cold, & last hot; [Alsoe] for a woeman that goes with a dead child, let her drinke the pouder of [dotany] in wine. And being thus take it causeth iron or wood to come out of a mans body. For the hearinge Take an apple, rost it softly, take the softest of it & pout it upon a linen cloath or cotton, & put it in your eare, when you goe to bed: it is excellent. For the yellow jaundyes. Take turmerick & as much [illegible] beate the to pouder, as much alsoe of the iner barke of a barbery tree, with a quantity of english saffron in pouder, mixe all together, & drinke it in posset ale, 3 or 4 dayes together fastinge. For the black iaundies. Take sage, rosemary, of each a handfull, bruise & straine the iuyce of them into a litle stale ale, 40 & take a saucer of very good vinegar, & put therto as much treacle as a nutte, & beate it in the vinegar, untill it be incorporated, then put thereto as much as a nut, chase them together untill it bee blood warme, & soe drinke of it: this is very good. For the yellow iaundies. Take stale ale, & put therein a [gad] of fier hot steele, take of the fome, & put therein a quantity of [inory] shread, a quantity of graynes, & of english saffron pounded together, & drink it 9 times first & last. For falling of the tuola. Mixe salt & bruise pepper together, & lay it on the end of your thumbe, & put it up there nose. for the iaundies. take red wormes well washed within & without, dry them & make them pouder, or boyule them in the broth, makde with chicken, mutton, or veale, & great resines endive, surrory rootes & herbes, parsly rootes, violet leaves, & burrage, ty the worms in a faire linen cloath, of the bignes of a great walnut, & soe let them boyle in earth or stone, but not in brasse. For the iaundies or morphew. Take the yellomost dark rootes you can get, scrape & wash them cleane, take out the pyth, stire them [thinne], & put them into white or renish wine in a cup close covered, put to it halfe a dozen crops of speare mynts, & let it stand 24 howers, & two howers before you drinke your broth, drinke of this in the morninge fastinge. For the yellow & black iaundies & for the greene sicknes. For the yellow iaundies take of [inory] made into small pouder or halfe an ounce, turmerick 3 quarters of an ounce, english saffron the waight of 4d, all beaten to fine pouder, mixe these together, & drinke a quantity of them morning & evening with stale ale: 41 And for the black iaundices take the same, but first purge [melancholy]; for the greene, the same medicine is alsoe very good. To ripen an impostume. Take worme wood, mallowes, mug-worte of each a good handfull, stampe & mingle them together, with a quarter of a pound of hoggs grease, fry them, & put to them a handfull of wheat branne, a litle wine, & 4 ounces of hony, then boyle them till they be thick, then lay it hot to the sore. To breake an impostume. Boyle lylly rootes & an onyon in cleere water, untill they bee very soft & tender, then stampe and fry them in hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. For an imposture in the body. Take [centry], rosemary, worme wood, hore hound, & make them into a syrop with white wine; take there of, & it will cause the impostume to goe down wards, & when it is breaken, drinke of the same syrope but let it bee always warme. A water distilled in the winter good for impostumes in the lungs & stomack etc. Take alicampane, lylly, flower [doluce] of each 3 rootes, a good quantity of rosemary, as much of sage, half as much of gardaime tyme, & of [rue]; cut the rootes in small peeces, & beate them with the herbes in a morter, untill they b e well mixed, then put thereto an ounce of liquorice cleane scraped, & cut into small peeces, & bruised in a morter, as much annyseed & fennel cleansed & lightly bruised, halfe soe much grasse beaten pepper, infuse all these in a gallon of white wine, or stronge ale, & soe distill it. this is alsoe good for the dropsy, the collick, to comfort the heart, helpe the braine against the aopolexy & dissolves grosse [humers] & fleame 42 takeing but one spoonefull every weeke fasting in summer, & two in winter. For the itch or scab. Take 2 penny worth of the oyle of bayes, halfe a pound of black sope, a penny worth of brimstone, mixe these together & annoynt the scabs therewith. A sweete oyntment to kill the itch Take oyle of bayes, quicksilver, barrowes grease temper them together, & annoynt the party therewith. A [merualous] good & secret receite & of small charge to cure swelled knees & leggs, red & full of humours; often approoved. Take a hoggs skinne if you can, ox also a white lambes skinne, or a kidds skinne, cut a peece of it as broade as the palme of your hand, or some what more, melt it in a pan on the fier, with those things in it; refine of a pine tree 2 pounds galbanu 2 ounces, mastick an ounce, milke, [cynet], amber of each 6 graynes or more; breake the mastick betweene two papers, & melt the refine & galbanu in a pan & melted put the masticke to it, stirre it that it burne not, then spread it hot upon the skinne halfe a finger thick, then take 12 or 15 of the litle beastes called mounkes peason sowes, the ly under stones in moyst places, stamp them in a morter, with a litle barrowes grease, make thereof an oyntment & lay it upon the plaster, & heated lay it under the knee, or calfe of the leg, hard bound for 2 or 3 dayes; if the leg be hairy, shave it away; & if the plaster hath made litle bladders, prick them & mixe them, & wash them with wine wherein the decoction of egrimony, [olive] leaves, & plantan hath beene made, & mixe & dry them againe & make cleane the plaster, & stirre the oyntment a litle & lay it on againe. Doe this every 2, 3, or 4 dayes & the plaster will draw to it in short time a great quantity & will take away the inflamation, rednes, & swelling; If there be a wound heale it with a plaster. 43 For kibes. Take a litle resine, pound it to pouder, mixe it with the grease of a tallow candle, like a salve, make a plaster & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For a laske. Cut of the head a great onyon pick out the [mide??], & fill the hole with frankinsense, & english saffron beaten to gether to pouder, & cover the hole with the top cut of, & rost it in embers, as a [wa?den], & well rosted, take out the core, & lay the hole to the naule; when it is cold take another. A drinke for the same. Take the rime of a pomegranate, 2 or 3 acornes, without the shells, & dry the kernells, put thereto annyseed a spoonefull, a [rays] of good ginger, beate these together to pouder, & mixe all together, & drink of it with red wine where in halfe a dozen wafer cakes have been sod; drinke it together warme three or foure times in a day. For a laske etc. The leaves of knot grasse boyled in wine or water stay all manner of laskes, & fluxes of the belly, the bloody flux, flowers, spiting of blood, & all fluxes of blood For the same. Take 2 handfulls of wheate flower, ty it in a faire white cloath, seeth it in water, which must first boyle before you put in the flower, let it boyle, till it be soe hard, that you may cut it into slices, then dry the slices in an oven, & beate them to pouder & put it in milk, broth or the like Or take the fish of a dozen of great [?entish] [cysters], dry them in a cloath, then strew on both sides beane flower & fry them in sweet butter, untill they bee hard, & eate them, & drinke a cup of [re?bers], or allegant, as you can get. Or take a new tile stone, make it red hot, & take a nutmeg beaten to pouder, & beate into it 5 or 6 yolkes of eggs, bake it on the tile, & eate it, & put a red hot gad of steele into a cup of ale, & [scrap] chalke to it, & drinke 44 For the same. Take a very good nutmeg, wrap it in a browne paper, rost it & eate it very hot, & imediately drinke a good draught of wine of [resbers], doe this 2 or 3 times. Or take a buckes [pisle] & make it into pouder, & drinke it with red wine. An outward medecine for an extreame laske Take halfe a pound of [illegible], beate it very fine & [searve] it, a halfe an ounce of cynomon used in like manner, then take a pint of red wine & bouyle those in it, & make a pultis; then take 2 peeces of red cloath or scarlet & spread it on the, & apply it hot to the belly, beneath the naule, every quarter or halfe an hower one after another Ane xcellent receite for a laske. Take a quantity of gume arabick as much as a hazle nutt, moysten it in the mouth, & as it moystens, swallow it downe, I mean that which moystens & doe this 3 or foure mornings together fasting & it will infallably helpe you. A [tisan] to open the lights. Take a quart of pure barly, a pottle of pure runing water, a good quantity of liquorice, annyseeds, & great reasines, with some figgs, boyle all these to the halfe then straine it, & make it pure good boyle it againe, with the whites of 2 eggs, & take it first & last. For the megram. Take betony, wild thistles, of each a handfull, 6 crops of [singreene], the white of a new layd egge, beate it & take of the cleene, a handfull of wheate branne, mingle all together & put them in a faire linen cloath, & lay it to your fore-head 3 nights, & let the old plaster ly still, & it will help you. A drinke for the same in perill. Take good red wine or mustard oil, & put to it, annyseed, liquorice, figgs, comein, hore-hound, [?sope], tyme, or gamont, alicampane roots, wild sage, herbs tongue, 45 mayden haire, of each a like quantity, put all into a limbeck & distill it after the manner of aquavitae. To procure myrth or chearefullnes The water of burnage drunke with wine makes a man chearefull: it is hot & moyst. Or take a quart of white wine, a pojnd of lye pith of an [oxes] bark, parsly roots, fennell rootes, of each, 2 handfulls, boyle alltogether untill the wine be halfe wasted, then straine it, & drinke 9 or 10 spoonefulls thereof morninge & eveninge, for the space of 9 or 19 dayes; this is very good For the mother or spleene. Make pouder of hore-hound, & eate & drink of it dayly. Or take parsly rootes & fennell the roots & budds of sparages, the crops of tyme, a like quantity of each, boyle them in 7 pints of water, & a pint of hony, & make thereof a syrop; use this 6 dayes; after that infuse a drame or halfe a drame of rubarbe in white wine whey, or in this syrop all night, if the syrope be made thinne; & drinke of it. To cause the meazles or pos to come forth. Boyle a handfull of figgs or pox to come forth. Boyle a handful of figgs, cleane wiped, in a pint of stale ale, untill halfe be wasted, & drink a draught of it, warme [illegible] with the pouder of english saffron. For the morphew. Make a posset with [fennitory] drinke of it in the morninge in your bed, & sweate 2 howers after it; then take annyseeds, pouder & the pouder of [same] & sugar, & drinke of it the same morning, then take a new layd egge steeped 24 howers in vinegar, then prick it with a pinne, & take that with cometh forth, & annoynt the morphew with it & it will goe away. For stopping in the milt. Take [peach] leaves, camomile, yarrow, folgenfue broune fennell, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, of each a handfull, stamp the, & fry it in a litle fresh 46 butter, & lay it warme to the belly, & the side, from the pit of the stomack downeward, & roule it fast on the plaster, or that which is layd plaster wise let it ly 12 howers, then remoove it, & annoynt the place with the oyle warme, & chafe the place before a good fire half an hower at a time. For swelling of the members or stones. Take a rose cake, holy hanke, violet leaves, camomile of each a handfull, a good quantity of comein beaten to pouder or flower, boyle these in faire runing water, untill it be some what thick, & lay it plaster wise thereto: when they are almost boyled enough, pull the rose cake to peeces, & let it boyle on. For a great heate in the mouth. Take a pinte of water, the quantity of a nut of white allome, as much sage, & a spoonefull of hony, boyule alltogether & wash your mouth therewith. A good medicine for an oncome. Take a pint of milke, put therein an halfe penny worth of english saffron dryed & beaten to pouder, with crumes of light bread, soe much as will make it thick; in the boyling put thereto the yolkes of 2 eggs raw, beaten with a litle milke, skinne it continually, when it is thick take a part & spreade it on a linen cloath, & lay it to, changing it twice a day & in the remooveing of every plaster, annoynt the place with this followinge. Take halfe a pint of may butter, put it to comein seed beaten, & mixe it To assuage the swelling of an oncome. Take a pint of white wine, & a good quantity of wheate flower or meale, boyle them together untill they be thick, & lay it to the sore places Or take ground sill, [pinny] ornell, mallowes of each a like, fry them in fresh grease a good space, & lay ti plaster wise to the greived place. 47 Alsoe it is exceeding good to put to the aforesayd oyntment (where it is marked in the [margrine] with this note [symbol]) halfe an ounce of the iuyce of rue, & boyle it with the may butter & cumein seed beaten to pouder & [illegible], stir it, & let it seeth a litle, then use it. A good drink for the pestilence. Take syrop of violets, [sewell], endive, & sower lymons, of each alike mixe them with burrage water, & a [tysane] made of barly with the pouder of [boles?minake] For the [illegible] Take [rue], burned, folgenfue, of each a handfull, a quantity of [illegible], the [illegible] & roots of dragons, wash the cleane, & put them into a potle of running water, boyle it, fill halfe the water be washed, & let it stand untill it be almost cold, straine it thereto sagarrandy, & if you drinke it before the month doe appeare, buy gods grace there is no daunger. A preservative & curative against the sicknes, or plague. Take a new layd hennes egge, & make a hole in the crowne, draw out all the white, & leave the yolke & fill up the shell with english saffron whole, then dry the egge by the fier, or in an oven, when the bread is drawne, soe long till the shell be black & burned, & the rest [illegible], & dry, & beate it to pouder, & put to it the same waight of mustard seed pouder, then adde to it dittany turmentill nux vomica, of each a drame pouder each by it selfe, & then put them all together, & put to it rue, piony, zedoary, camfire, fine treacle, of each, equall portions, soe that the waight of these 5 be as much as all the rest, beate all together in a morter, for the spece of 2 howers, untill they be well incorporated in a lumpe, then glasse it up, set it in a cold place, couvred with a leafe of gold; it will last 30 yeares without corruption, 48 & is of an inestimable value; one halfe penny waight will [illegible] some one from the plague; the waight of a barly coarne half a [memalous] strength to defend the body. but if you be [illegible] to take it before letting blood take 2 or 3 graynes; but after blooding take a whole scruple, or 2, or 3, if your strength will [serve], tempered with wine, for a hot, bakeing; & in a great cold take a litle quantity, & sweate thereupon; I have knowne the sick utterly desperate, not being able to retaine any thinge, yet takeing 2 scruples of this, mixed with a litle aqua vitae, the vomiting hath ceased, & nature recovered, & the sick body escaped the daunger of death. An emplaster for the same. Make it of oyle olive 20 ounces, new wax, [litarge] of gold, litarge of silver, [venere] cerisse, of each 4 ounces, myrrh [galso] an ounce, [venere] tereb. 4 ounces, a soe make it [illegible] The vertue of this emplaster 1 It cures all sores & greifes, soe that the [bone] be [illegible] 2 All swelling leggs, [exceeding] of deafnes, be it with [blew] or other wise 3 All impostumes, swellings, inflamations [exceeding] of [falls] or bruises; & like wise for the touch of any venomously thinge. 4 All [illegible], & boyles in any part of the body 5 All sores, & [botches] caused by venery or gonerhea etc. & all [scabes] in the body or hands. 6 The fistula, be it never soe great & old 7 The plague, laying it presently upon the place where the sore is 8 All sorts of dropsies, swellings or breakings out of the leggs or feete, that you cannot weare hose or shoes. 9 All burnings, although with gunpouder. 10 All cutts, [thrusts] or stabbs with rapier or dagger. 11 All bitings of venomous beastes or mad doggs. 12 All itches & [scabbs] in the head of man or woeman 13 The white [scab], be it never soe bad. 14 All warts, [ringwormes], & [fellons] in any part of the body. 15 The kinges evill. 16 The cancer, [provided] soe, that it be layd to in 49 time, before it comes to the heart of the party All apostumes & fistulas in the eares 17 All sores on the feete 18 All superfluous flesh that growes between the nayles 19 of the fingers or toes. All itch although in the fundament 20 All [var??sities] in the hand, & all such sores, & greifes 21 although they came of loose venery. All sore eyes, inflamed, or rheumetike with white 22 water, that they cannot open them. Alsoe St Anthonyes fier. 23 Alsoe it cures the gangrene, [presently] applied. 24 [illegible] all [puthes], spotts, wartes, freckles, in the 25 face or brow. A preservative from the plague. Take herb grace, elder leaves, red burrage leaves, sage, of each a handfull, bruise & stamp them, & put the iuyce of them into a quart of white wine, & put a quart of grated ginger into it, & let it stand a whole night, then drinke of it 9 mornings fastinge one after an other, & by gods grace it will keepe you from being infected Or take the pouder of [boleorminate] & [sheai??] mingled together very well. An excellent preservative in the plague time to expell it from the house. Take olibanum, mastick, wood of aloes, beniamin, [storae], wadanum, cloves, [ir??per], make of them a perfume, & sprinkle it with vinegar, & alsoe take the greene braunches of quince trees in your chamber, & sprinkle them with vineger & rose water. An electuary very precious against the plague. Take 20 wall nutts, 14 fat figgs, herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, [illegible] eye, scabions, of each a handfull, 2 ounces & a halfe of pomegranate potasicke, alias the blessed bird, halfe an ounce of aristochia [songa], an ounce of aristochia rotunda, a handfull of the leaves of ditany, 3 drames of bay berries, 2 drames & a halfe of the pouder of harts tongue 3 drames of mace, a drame of the salt of the sea, 50 2 drames of nux vomica, a handfull of the flowers of buglasse, stamp them together in clarified hony, & eate a drame thereof every morning fastinge. For the dead paulsy, or numbenes in the ioynts or bones. Take rosemary topps, red sage topps of each a hand full, a pint of good maulmsy, halfe a pint of [neath] foote oyle, boyle them together & stop it close, & annoynte the place with it warme. probatus est. For the paulsy in the hands. Wash your hands in cold water, wherein is sage, and let them dry of them selves. For the paulsy. If any man doubt of the paulsy, let him eate every morninge 3 mustard seeds, & 3 pepper cornes, and use it day by day. OR take the flowers, leages, & rootes of comstipps, stampe them, & lay them in a linen cloath, & warme them very hot, & lay them to the nap of the neck, & to the sores, when those gro cold, lay to warmer, 2 or 3 times; and stamp sage & lay it in like manner to the pulses or wristes. For the same. Take spanish St Omers onyons the cores taken out, & fiull them up with good aqua vitae & with them well, then straine them, & if they bee to dry, put to them in the straining a litle more aqua vitae, keepe this oyle, & annoynt the patient evening & morning: it is very good. For a pluricy: vide pag: 23. For the piles or whites an excellent salve. Take pile wort, gathered in Aprill, chop it small & temper it with a litle butter to preserve & keepe it till May; then take 2 pounds of may butter, red bramble leaves, mallowes, ale [cost], elder leaves, rostmary, house leeke, fennill, [?rset] isop topps, mellilate, & ale [hoose], chop the herbes very smal & knead them in the butter, then put it in an earthen pot, & set it in the hot sunne for the space of 51 6 rootes, then boyle it on a gentle fier stirring it, & when the herbes are crispy it is enough, then staine it purely from the herbes & put a quarter of a pound of wax thereto. If you ad to this salve white varnish it is an excellent salve & a very souveraigne remedy against any burne or scald what soever; & without the varnish it cures the piles. For the same Take the blossoms & budds of archangell, if it be for a man, it must be the red, for a woeman the white, boyle them in white wine, with a [bull] [oxe] pith, strayne the herbes, & lay them to the place greived, & drinke the liquor sweetened with sugar candy, 2 spoonefulls at a time in the morning & eveninge, if the party be aged take the more. To make on pisse freely. Take parsly seed, alexander seed, the rootes of tansy in winter, or the leaves in sumer of each a handfull, boyle them in a pottle of good ale, & let it stand untill it bee cold, then straine it, & make a posset of the liquor, & drinke of it but let the curd alone. Or seeth barly, liquorice, & violets in water 5 or 7 howers, then straine it, & drinke first & last. For those that cannot retaine or hold theire water. Take with vineger & water when you goe to bed the blader of a goate, sheepe or bull made into pouder. Or take 3 dayes together at the weane of the moone the blader of a fresh water fish. or the braine of a hare taken in wine. or drinke the blader of a sow pig made into pouder. or the blader of a [ber?] made into pouder. or fill boards rosted, & eaten are very good for any one that hath the distillation of urine soe take then pouder in drink or [illegible] 52 For the same. Burne goates tallow, & make it into pouder, and put it into the patients pottage. Or lay a tile upon hot coles, & lay theron a grates goose cut in peeces, & give it time to melt then beate it to pouder, & take in a spoone a little with warme milke or pottage evening & morninge fastinge. Or take 2 parts of castorium, one pt of nutmeg beate them to pouder, & with a litle syrope make pills & take one every night when you goe to bed. For one that is poysoned. Take wall worte barke, pare away the outer rime, beat it to pouder, lay it in ale or water all night, then straine it, & drinke it fasting & you will vomit up the poyson. For the Rhume. Weare a scarlet cap smoaked with frankinsense or storax, & take a spoonefull of the syrope diacodion, & hold it in your mouth a quarter of an hower after you be in bed, or more, then spit it out: but if you have the murre, then you must swallow it downe. Or dry & beate a handfull of bay salt, & put to it a handfull of branne dryed a litle, mixe them, & sow them in a linen bag, or two, & heate them hot over a chafeing dish of coles, & lay them to the mould of the head, behind & before, & doe this 3 or 4 times in a dressinge. To make a water in perill. Take 3 gallons of the lyes of sack, or maulmesy, or both, liquorice, aniseeds, of each a pound, coriander seed, carroway, galingall, spikenard, set wall or sed wall, of each an ounce, resines of the sunne a pound, figgs halfe a pound, synomon 4 ounces, penny royall a good handfull, camomile, mynts, [vuset] time, fennell, [vernin], 53 saxifrage, dill, hore hound, of each halfe a handfull, allicampane roots 2 ounces, infuse all these into the lyes 24 howers, before you set you limbeck, let them not be 4 gallons & more, & draw out of this 5 pintes of the strongest, & when it is 4 dayes old put to it a good quantity of rose leaves, & let it stand 10 dayes, & then stragne it, & put to it halfe a pound of resines of the sunne, the stones picked out, & 4 ounces of figgs of Algrye, & let it stand 14 dayes, then cleane it, & stop it up close. Doctor Smithes water for the same. Take a gallon of the stronge spanish wine, three quarters of a pound of liquorice, & as much of anniseed, distill them as you doe aqua vitae, then take a quarter of aqua vitae, & as much rose water, 2 ounces of liquorice, & as much aniseed. If you will you may let this stand 24 howers, & then straine it. For the rhume. Take olibanum, 3 perles; wrap them up in [conserve] or roses, & swallow them downe, as pills, when you are ready to sleepe; but take this not a bove 2 nights together; the three perles must be of the bignes of small pease. For the same. Take [isope] rosted in embers, & lay it to the head. Or if it proceed of a cold cause, take hot calamynt & mother [illegible], bray them, & lay them to the temples, or any place of the head. Ro cast into the mostrills the iuyce of colewort; this purgeth the head from rhume For a rupture Take mond royall, bone worte, shepheard purse, knot grasse, of each a handfull, stamp them together & put the into a pint of the drinke prescribed in the 20th page & 4th receite: then take them, & straine them into the same drinke, & give it as the other. If you use the water above mentioned, for wounds or sore brests or other sores you may put instead of one of the gallons of water, a gallon of white wine, & annoynt the place with oyle of [illegible] worte For the ricketts. Take rosemary, bay leaves, camomile, tops of lavender, the 2 rines of ale [goose], [illegible] isope, [sowed] tyme, of each a handfull, shread them and beate the in a morter, boyle it in a pound of butter fresh the space of an hower; straine it & annoynt the childs sides, knees, & downe to the feete, every evening & morning for a quarter of an hower; this oyntment is to be made in May. A drinke for the rickets. Take the roote of fox [fearne], it hath a clove like garlick; take 5 of these cloves, bruise the & put it into a halfe a pint of milke, boyle it to a quarter of a pint, & drinke of it every morning fasting & fast halfe an hower after: when you have used this a pritty while, then take in the same manner 7 cloves; & when the child will not take it any longer in milke; bake it in an oven, & beate it to pouder & give it the child in [beere]. A syrope for the rickets. Take a quart of running water mayden haire, sage of Jerusalem, coltsfoote, of each an ounce, an ounce of the shaved roots of fox fearne, liquirice shred anniseed bruised, of each halfe an ounce, a handfull of cleane picked liver worte, 20 figgs shred, boyle all these well together to the halfe, & straine it, & put to it a pound & a halfe of fine sugar, 2 drames of prepared perle, 3 leaves of gold, let these boyle well together, then straine them, & give the child one spoonefull first in the morning, & one last at night. 55 To stop the running of the reines Take [cypris] turpentine, the quantity of a wallnut, conserve of roses a quarter of an ounce, halfe a quarter of an ounce of cynomon beaten, 2 or 3 ounces of white sugar candy, red & yellow sanders a quarter of an ounce of each, white sanders alsoe. Another for the same. Take white sanders a quarter of an ounce, yellow sanders halfe an ounce, red sanders 3 quarters of an ounce, beate them well together in a morter, ad an ounce of conserve of red roses, & beate all againe, then take soe much venice turpentine washed in plantan water, as will bring it to the stiffenes of a pill, & take thereof the quantity of a hazle nut in the yolke of an egge new layd; take this 3 mornings together, then cease 3 dayes, & soe by 3 dayes together, untill 9 dayes be expired; then take a plaster of diapalma, apply it to the bark, & let it ly till it fall of of it selfe. The vertues of rosemary. Boyle the leaves in white wine, & wash the face, beard & browes, & you shall be faire; put the leaves under the beds head, & you shall be delivered from all evill dreames. Bray the leaves to powder, & lay it on a camber, & it will kill it. Make a box of the wood, & smell to it, and it will preserve your youth. If the leggs be swelled with the gout, boyle the leaves in water & bind them to the swelling in a linen cloath, & it will helpe you. Boyle the leaves in [strange] vesell, & bind them to the stomack & it helpes all evills. The wood or stalkes burnt to pouder keep the teeth from all evills, if you put it in a linen cloath & rub your teeth therewith [56] For the stone. Take pouder of [s??nes] berries, pouder of [damsenes], pouder of saxifrage, of each a litle much, & drinke it with posset ale. Another Take [unset] time, camomile, of each 2 handfulls, rosemary betony, of each one handfull, 3 handfulls of cinckfole, boyle them in a pottle of sack & a pint of clarified hony unto a quarter, & take it in the morning 6 howers before you eate, & soe last at night. For the stone Take a spoonefull of coriander seed, 2 spoonefulls of parsly seed, & 2 of broome seed, alexander seed, groundwell seed of each a handfull, beate the to pouder, & [searce] them; then take a quantity of white wine & put therto a handfull of parsly roote & leaves in summer in winter the rootes only, a handfull of pellitory on the wall, halfe a handfull of wild mallowes, a handfull of water cresses, boyle all from a quart to a pint, straine it, & then put in the fore sayd pouders, & drinke it milke warme first & last. Another very good. Take a quart of good red wine, put thereto 3 ounces of sugar, halfe an ounce of comein seed whole, seeth all together from a quart to a pint, then straine it & use it cold first & last: very good. Or take [illegible], unset leekes, beane cods, resines, saxifrage, still these herbes [illegible], then take a like portion of the waters, & soe much maulmesy as the waters bee in all & distill the together & keepe that water in a glasse, & drinke 4 spoonefulls of it with a spoonefull of the pouder of good ginger. For the stone in the blader Drinke [turmarick], bayes, [longe] pepper, ground sill, and cloves. an emplaster for the stone. Take parsly, tyme, unset leekes, penny royall, 57 camomoke, vervine, pellitory of the well, saxifrage [clyners], of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pinte, & lay it to the belly. Or take worme wood & camomile of each a handfull, boyle them in a pinte of malmesy untill it be consuned to the halfe & apply it. A distilled water for the stone, to be made in the end of May or begining of June. Take pellitory of the wall, saxifrage, parsly, mother of time, of each 5 handfulls, 12 [redice] rootes small ones, stire the rootes & stamp the herbes, & lay them in a gallon of new milke & soe distill them. Some take but one handfull of each of the herbes & 5 or 6 rootes. then take 6 spoonefulls of the water, & six spoonefulls of white wine with a litle sugar, & a litle nutmegs shred therein, & take it blood warme, thrice together in 3 mornings, & this only in the space of 3 weekes, & ride or walke upon it 3 howers, & after you have drunke this, eate halfe a good nutmegge. To breake the stone Drinke the pouder of egge shells, probatus est. Or take the pouder of the rootes of red nettles put a spoonefull thereof into a draught of white wine, & drinke it something warme, use it every day untill the stone be broaken & consumed. For the stone. Seeth a pinte of holly berries in good ale, till the ale be consumed, then straine it, & put to it a litle butter, drinke thereof 5 or 6 spoonefulls, & within halfe an hower you will make water, if ever any medicine will cause it. For the same Take a good deale of mug roote, stamp it & wring out the iuyce & drinke every day the quantity of a cuppe full. probatus est. The gume of cherries doth breake the stone & leassen the gravell wonderfully. Or distill strawberries & mingle the water with good maulmesy & drinke it. 58 Or take a red hot flint, put it in a quart of white wine, cover it close, & let it boyle, & drinke it cold. For the stone. Take ale, white wine, of each a pint, a quarter of a pint of parsly water, [gramwell] seed, coriander seed, of each a penny worth beaten, a handfull of mother of time, as much pellitory of the wall, halfe an ounce of parsly seed, boyle alltogether on a soft fier untill it come to halfe a pint or therabout Or take mead parsly, pellitory on the wall, anniseeds, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint, & drinke thereof in the morning fastinge, & walke upon it. A purge against the stone or gravell, by Mr Groves. Take a drame of pulvis sanctus, halve an ounce of syrop of roses, steepe them in a penny worth of white wine, & drinke it of & you shall find great ease. Or squeese the iuyce of 2 lymons through a fine cloath, put thereto 4 or 6 spoonefulls of good sallet oyle, with a litle quantity of sugar, drinke it of in a morning, & walke upon it; this is most excellent to provoke urine. Another for gravell. Take a good draught or two of new ale out of the fat, with some fresh butter in it, & walke an hower or 2 upon it, & it will cause you to voyde much gravell & stones. Or take 3 or 4 red hearing-cobbs, dry them & pound the to pouder & all wayes use those of either in the drinke or pottage, or in both . For the stomack payned with heat burneing. Take rose water, sorell iuyce purified, of each a pint, mixe them, ad thereto a quantity of anniseeds, with sugar, boyle all untill halfe be consumed, & take 3 spoonfulls at a time every eveninge and morninge, & at other times alsoe if need requires soe to doe. 59 To breake fleame about the stomack. Take the iuyce of fennell & a quantity of hony, boyle the untill it be thick, & drinke thereof every eveninge and morninge. This cleeneth the stomack. Or take parsly rootes, fennell rootes the pyth taken out, wild tyme, isop, an herbe like liver worte which groweth in an oake, of each a good handfull pick them cleane, seeth them in a pottle of running water to a quart, & with this water make almon milke, & sweeten it with sugar, & drinke of it as oft as you please. For the squincy in the throate. Boyle the iuyce of fennell in hony very well, untill the iuyce be consumed, & use it. Or take halfe a handfull of the rootes of white lillies, or as much as will make a plaster, halfe a pint of milk, halfe a spoonefull of treacle, stampe all together, & make it as hot as you can suffer, spreading it on a cloath, lay it to your throate. A gargle for the squincy. Take 2 spoonefulls of mustard, a spoonefull of hony a pritty quantity of a white doggs [turd] finely [searced], a quantity of strawberry or plantan water, gargle your throate with this: afterwards gargle the throate & mouth with syrop of mulberries or blackberries, & carduus water warmed. To lay outwardly for the squincy. Take a white doggs turd pounded small, a quantity of hony, a quantity of wheat flower, the yolke of a new layd egge, beate all together, & spread it on a peece of leather or browne paper, & lay it outwardly to your throate. A pultis for the squincy Take the rootes of holy [hartes], the rootes of mallowes, of each a handfull, the pith taken out; camomile, violet leaves, & flowers, of each a handfull chop them small, & boyle the in a pint of faire water, 60 put to it fennigreese meale linseed, [illegible] barly, of each halfe an ounce, boyle it to a pultis, then put into it halfe an ounce of oyle of camomile, halfe an ounce of oyle of sweet almons & spread it & lay it to warme, change it once in 6 howers. For shrinkeing of the sinues. Take marsh mallowes, rosemary topps of each a handfull, stamp them together, then [illegible] them in may butter melted & mingle them, then let it stand 10 dayes, then seeth it well on a soft fier, then straine it, & keepe it in a stone pot. For shrinking of the vaines or sinues. Take a quantity of fine mustard made with white wine vineger, a quantity of maulmesy, a quantity of cynomon, boyle all together, & with this [chase] the place then take chick weed wrap it in a browne paper & rost it untill it bee soft, & lay it on the place greived, as hot as you can suffer it. For a prick in the sinues with a nayle, knife, or thorne. Heate oyle of roses well & lay it upon the place very hot & bind black wooll upon it. probatus est. For the same if the hole be stopped. temper boulted wheat flower with wine, & boyle it together, till it be thick, & make a plaster of it, & lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it. For one that cannot sleepe. Stamp bay berries in a morter & lay them all about your head in a cloath. or take egrimony, & put it under your head, & you will sleep untill it be taken away or take a handfull of hempe seed, wash it cleane, & dry it against the fier, then beate it to powder then straine it with a quantity of new ale, & make a [illegible] through a strainer then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it warme. This is alsoe good for the black jaundyes. Or make pouder of the white topps or seeds of lettice, & temper it with woemans milke, & the white of an egge & lay it to the temples of the head, & you will sleepe. Or drinke this pouder in milke. 61 For one that cannot sleepe. Take 5 branches of arkangell, 7 of white wort, & 11 of the leaves of sedwell, pound the together & straine them with as much drinke as will make a posset, & make a posset with the sayd liquor & molke, and drinke the posset ale when you goe to bed. For the spleene. Take endive, harte tongue, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, smallage, fennell, parsly, of each 2 rootes, anniseed, comein seed, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, seeth these in 3 pints of water, & the third part of a pint of white wine vineger, to the halfe, & when it is cold, straine it, & with a litle sugar every morning drinke a good draught thereof fasting & let it be blood warme, when you take it & boyle it in stone or earth, not in brasse To clense the spleene. Take harts tongue, wild hopps, lettice, burrage, [illegible] flowers of fumitorrae & parsly roots, seeth all these in whay, when they are well sodden, clarifie the whay with white of eggs, straineing it, & keepe it & drinke it first & last during a mounth & it will halpe the spleene, & clense the blood, & comfort the body many wayes. To make one slender. Take fennell, & seeth it in water, & drinke the water last at night, & first in the morninge. For the sciatica. Take the oyle of a fox, oyle of camomile, of each a like quantity, take neats foot oyle & aqua vitae twice soe much, put all together, & warme them, & annoynt the place greived by the fier. To make one soluble or loose. Make broth of veale, mallowes, violet leaves, & great resins stoned, then straine it, & take a quantity thereof fasting & fast 2 howers after it 62 For a stinkeing breath. [illegible] to drinke vernine tempered with wine. Or seeth gardaime mints in vineger, & wash your mouth therewith, after wards rub your mouth, gumes and & teeth with the pouder of mynts; it is very good. For the straitenes of wind. Take an earthen pot of a gallon, put therein faire water, & a cocknell of a yeare old, then take fennell rootes faire scraped the outer rind being taken away, alsoe the rootes of parsly, [illegible] harts tongue liver worte, & dandelion, put all into the pot, boyle it a good space, & put to it a quantity of greate resines,m & prunes, & boyle it, till the cocknell be boyled in manner to peeces, then straine it, & drinke thereof first in the morninge, & an hower before supper, & use it thus soe longe as you shall think good. For the same Take a penny worth of the smallest griggs or [eeles], chop them very small & boyle them in ale, made without hopps, put thereto 3 pounds of sugar candy, an halfe penny worth of liquorice, as much of graynes, boyle all together & sup it up as a sponge. For a short wind. Seeth mallowes, mercury, & burrage with a peece of parke, & drinke the broath with white wine or whay made of milke. For a paine in the side. Take wild tyme, penny royall, runing water, saxifrage, [mouse??d], of each halfe a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint with iuniper berries halfe a handfull bruised, put to it 2 spoonefulls of fine sugar, straine it & drink of the liquor first & last, & take it as you have need 63 For a stitch ]Take the great red poppy flowers, that stick & grow in corne, distill them as you doe roses, & take a draught of the water blood warme with old ale or wine, drink it twice or thrice at any time. Or take 2 or 3 handfulls of camomile flowers or of the herbes, & as much worme wood, some mallowes, a good handfull of rosemary, seeth all in a gallon of water till halfe be consumed, then put it into a dry blader of an oxe or cow, & lay the blader to the place greived as hot as you can suffer it, & when it is almost cold, warme it againe, or rather take 2 bladers, & when one is cold, lay to the other, that is hot Another for a payne in the side. Take a few oates & parch the, a good handfull of fethersue, a quantity of pigeons dunge, dry all these in may butter, & in a bag, or limon cloath lay it to your side, as hot as you can suffer it. For a swellinge. Take worme wood, broome, of each halfe a armefull, burne them to ashes, & put them into a cleene posset drinke made of white wine with 4d worth of iuniper berries, & boyle it all together, then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it; let the posset drinke be a quart in quantity. For a surfet Take worme wood & red mynts, strew them well with salt, & boyle them in vineger, with crumes of browne bread, & sew it in a linen bag, & lay it hot to the stomack; this will helpe you. For a tetter. Take a penny worth of mercury sublimate, put it into a glasse with a quarter of a pint of faire water; & let it stand, & wash the tetter therewith evening & morning, & let the water dry up of it selfe. Or take mercury sublimate & boleorminate, & make them into powder & mixe it with faire water in the hands, & lay it on the tetter beeing cleared. 64 Or beate glasse to fine pouder, mixe it with black soape, & annoynt the sore therewith. For tilicke Take a quart of faire water put thereto isope, hore hound of each halfe a handfull, mayden haire a handfull, liquorice halfe a pound grossely bruised seeth them in the water to the halfe, then straine it, & put to the liquor 4 ounces of penny [deyes]: mace, cynomon, ginger, nutmeggs, of each halfe an ounce, 4d waight of longe pepper, beate these together to fine pouder, & put them into the liquor, & make with fine wheat flower a cake, and bake it, & eate thereof For the same Boyle a quart of good ale, & scume it cleane, put to it a good quantity of anniseeds, a stick of liquorice bruised, 3 figgs, a peece of sugar candy, boyle them untill it come to a pint, & drinke of it for the space of 7 or 8 dayes. Or boyle the flowers of rosemary in goats milke, then let it stand in the ayre well tendered a whole night, & drink there of A water to scower corrupt teeth. Take vineger& hony with the pouder of allome, & boyle them together, & wash them therewith, & it will [scowere] them & take a way the paine To make a tooth fall out Take red [illegible], white horse haire, & a water frog, dry them in an oven, & make pouder of them, & which tooth you will have out, wet the top of the finger in the milke of a bitch, & then dry your finger in the pouder, & lay it on the tooth, & it will fall out. For a timpany Take a gallon of faire runing water from the spring, set it over the fier in a sweet vessel, then take an ounce of coriander seed, an ounce of anniseed, 65 ly then in sunday cloathes; take alsoe a pound of resins of the sunne, wash them & pick the, & put them into another cloath, a quart of each [madds], [scower] this as you would doe [illegible], [slice] & cleanse them in many waters, till they be white, & boyle all in the sayd water, till almost halfe the water be consumed, & straine it into a faire vessell, use to drinke it evening & morning, & after meales a good draught reasonable warme, & by gods grace it will helpe you. A white salve for a wound. Take gume [elemy], venice turpentine, a like quantity in waight of each, with soe much mutton suet & fresh grease, the suet wtice soe much as the grease, melt all together, but let them not seeth, then straine the, & beate the together till it is cold. An oyntment to coole & comfort a wound. Take a quantity of oyle of roses, a quantity of boleorminate in pouder, the whites of 2 eggs, beate them a good space together, then lay it on a cloath, & lay it about the wound. For a cut or chop. Take burgundy pich a quarter of a pound, 2 penny worth of turpentine, yellow wax 2 ounces, frankincense 2 ounces, 2 spoonefulls of aqua vitae, boyle these in an earthen pipkin, until they be well melted, stirring them continually, & spread it on browne paper or thin lether, & lay it to the place greived, & let it ly until it fall of. A precious salve to heale any sore or greene wound. Take resine, [illegible], of each halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of virgine wax, sheepes suet & deeres suet of each a quarter of a pound, 66 [olibanum] a quarter of a pound, mastick halfe a pound, beate these to pouder, which may be beaten, & put them in a pan with the wax & suet, & when it is well melted, straine it into a pottle of white wine, or seeth it in a quart, & let it coole a litle, then put in camfire whole, turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, & straine it, till it be cold, & seeth it againe. Another better Take resine, burgundy pich, of each halfe a pound, virgin wax, sheeps suet, deeres suet, of each a quarter of a pound, mlet all together, with a litle white wine, & stire it continually, then put in an ounce of mashed frankincense, olibanum, venice turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, myrrhe an ounce, 2 drames of camfire the 3 [illegible] must be last put in, & all well beaten, nor let it stay long on the fier after these are put in, then straine it through canvas into a bason, & before you straine it put into the bason a quart of white wine, then let it coole, & soe make it up into roules, & if you will keepe it, lay it alwayes in white wine, & it will keep 7 yeares For a cut Take isope & the [illegible] of [carduus] [bened???] & put it to the cut, & it will heale it. To get out of the flesh wood or iron. If it be deepe in, & cannot be got out, dip a [tent] in the iuyce of valerian, & put it in as deepe as you can, & ly the herbe varerian stamped upon the sore, & a cloth upon it, this drawes out wood, iron, or any thinge else, & healed the wound. For a cut. wash the sore with the iuyce of isope, & dip lint therein, & lay it thereto. A pultis for any greivous sore or wound. Take a quart of milke, a penny white leafe grated (& annoynt the [illegible] first with capons grease) two 67 ounces of red rose leaves, boyle all well together, put to it 2 penny worth of venice turpentine, boyle it but a litle, then put in 2 spoonefulls of good hony, the yolkes of 2 eggs, well beaten, 4d worth of spermacete, put in these two last in the cooleing A balsome to cure greene wounds. Take a pint of the best oyle, 4 ounces of bees wax, 4 ounces of turpentine, an ounce & a hlafe of mumia, oyle of St Johns wort, alias aspericu, 2 ounces of alconet rootes, & boyle all well together. To take away warts or cornes. Lay upon the wart or corne brimstone as much as a pinns head, & let it burne, till it come to the roote, then take it away, it is but litle or noe paine upon a warte Or take a silke thread, ty it straite about the wart, & let it be till it come of. probatus est. To kill wartes Lay doves dung in vineger, & annoynt the therewith. or rub [parsalone] on it, & it pulls it up by the roots; Or take ashe [illegible], & mixe it with vineger, & apply it on the wartes. Or stamp wood [bind] leaves, & lay them thereto; use this but 6 times, & it will destroy the warts. For wormes in the hands. When your hands itch, rub them untill the water & skinne be broaken, then take gunpouder & rub them with your spittle. For a wenne. Bind the wenne fast, then take verdigrease, sulphure, sope, oyle of eggs, allome, hony, of each a quantity, temper them together, & lay it thereto, & it will take away the wenne, & heale it without doubt. 68 For a woeman in travaile, that wants [shrowes] Take ditany, halfe an ounce of cloves, a good quantity of cashey 2 worte of spermacete, boyle all in a pint of white wine, & then sweeten it with sugar, & give it to the woeman to drinke. To spout into the yard. Seeth barly & claryfied hony together, till the barly doe breake, then straine it, & put it into the spoute, & use it. 69 for the [??atteta] Take pitch [illegible] in pouder at [trb] 2 frankinsence roote brused [trb] 3 [illegible] [suett] [trb] 2 saffron in pouder two ounces mace & [illegible] an [zr] [illegible] [illegible] the [suett] rosin an frankinsence then the pitch then add the [spices] with an ounce of [illegible] seeds & of [illegible] in powder ziii. make a [buskin] of white calves lether and in the [sope] [illegible] of [spices] the plaister halfe an [illegible] [thus] Laye it on the [illegible] of the pained side & weare it 29 or 30 daies & [illegible] without opening it at all Mr [Solk??e] at the [illegible] in [illegible] makes this plaister [70] Mustard whey Recipe for rheumatism Take of the best durham mustard seed 3 oz boil it gently in three pints of water till reduced to one; then add one pint of skimmed milk & strain it thro a small sieve; this produces the whey Take a tea cup full of this whey, luke warm, every morning 77 The second booke of admirable & most approoved receites. For any greife or payne in the head, except the pox. Take red roses, camomil floweres, mellilote, calamynt, of each two handfulls, seeth them in 40 pound of water & good wine, until halfe bee consumed, & with this being hot let the patient wash his leggs from the knees downe ward every night & morning, and his armes from the elbowes downeward; hee must bee empty stomack’t, or at least not very full. For the head ach which continueth. Take leaves of black [illegible] & gray them with vinegar, oyle, 7 wine, of each a like quantitie seeth these together, & annoynt the fore head, & temples, & it will bringe ease. For the head ach. If the patient himself his head [cleaveth] asunder, by reason of the extreame payne, take [illegible] & make iuyce of it, which you shall mingle with oyule of roses, and with a linen cloath annoynt gently his nostrills, temples, & forehead, & if 78 the payne bee very vehement, lay some of it upon the scull of his head. For the head ach. Take the braine of a crow, & seeth it, & then eate it there is noe payne of the head soe great or old but this will helpe it. For the megram happening soudenly Take bengewine bray it with vinegar, & annoynt the forehead with it & your temples. For itching in the head. Take a sheepes gall, mixe it with white chalke, & therewith rub your head, & let it dry upon it For scabbs of the head. Take a bulls gall mingle it with vinegar & having made it luke warme, rub your head with it, & it will helpe you. To kill the scurfe in the head. Take an handfull or [rew], halfe an ounce of quick brimstone seeth it with old wine, & wash your head with it; but first wash your head with luke warme water & it will cure you. To kill lice Mingle whay & vinegar together, drinke of it [certayne] dayes, & they will dy & noe more breede. Against distillation of the brayne and heavines of the head. Samp beete rootes, & take theire iuyce, & receive it up into your nostrills, & it will cause all the humours of the head to descend, and soe it will draw them out. 79 For the griefe of the scull Take the resin of the pine tree, that is white 20 drames of aloes powder one ounce, mixe them together and boyle them on a soft fier, & after adde of gume elemi one ounce, & make a [cerat] which you must lay upon the greife. For a grief in the yead that hinders sleepe. Take warme [illegible] well stamped, boyle it in water, & bind it to the temples upon the greife, this will take away the greife & cause perfect sleepe. For the old inveterate greife of the head Take of gume arabick, of myrrh, of saffron, of [euphorbium], of each 3 drames, stampe them all together, & mixe them with the white of an egge well beaten, then apply it to the temples & forehead. A remedy for the [surte] of the scull. Take the iuyce of pimpernell, & wash, therein peeces of linen cloath, & put them oftimes upon the [illegible], & it will quickly be healed. A precious oyntment for the rupture of the scull. Take opopanake, [?dellium], amoniack, of each 3 drames, rosin, gume elemi, of each one ounce, olibanum, [miesa], sarcacolla, of each one drame & an halfe, oyle of roses 4 ounces, wa 2 ounces, first dissolve the gumes into vinegar & straine them then beate the rest to fine powder, & make an oyntment thereof 80 To remedy the cumotion of the brayne when the patient hath lost his speech. Take red roses, the leaves & fruite of myrtle, pomo granat flowers, calamas aromaticus, gallia muscata, lignu aloes, of each a drame, barly meale 3 ounces; boyle the in red wine, & rose water as much as suffereth, then put thereto one graine of maske, & make a plaster to lay upon the head, but first cut away the haire with a sharpe rasor. To remedy the disease called vertigo Take nutmegs & cloves of each a drame, setwall 2 scruples, gentian one scruple, red roses, yellow sanders, of each one drame & an halfe, of aloes cicotrine 6 drames of chosen rubarbe 3 drames, bray all [severally] into pouder by it selfe, & when they are melted, wet it by sprinkling a litle rose water, then let ti dry & doe thus 7 times, then with syrop of violets make a past of pills, of which take a scruple in evening an hower before meale, & you shall see a mervilous good successe. To purge melancholy humours, & to remedy the payne of the yhead. Take 2 pounds of polipodium, the leaves of cene 25 ounces, tamarindes one pound, mayden haire 4 handfulls resings stoned 5 ounces, burrage flowers & violets of each 2 handfulls, melone seeds 4 ounces, synamon one ounce & an halfe, ginger, salt gema, of each 7 drames, the iuyce of [luxius] 4 pounds, the iuyce of endive 2 pounds, raine water 30 pounds, mixe all together, and boyle 81 them, untill the fourth part bee consumed, then straine it, & make into the sayd decoction 12 infusions of fresh roses gathered in the morning, & for every infusion put in 7 pounds of roses, & put thereto of sugar 8 pounds, & make a syrop: the rose of which is, to give 4 ounces (more or lesse, according to the disposition of the pson, that shall use it) dissolved with cordiall waters, or with water of luxius & fumitery. Another for the vertigo. Take a quantity of white hore hound, one penny riall, & alitle salt, let them be byled with water in an earthen pot, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & put unto it a quantity of hony, & boyle it againe till it be thick, & for the space of 7 mornings give the patient one or 2 spoonefulls at at ime. To cure scotomia & vertigo, the paulsie & all inward diseases, & to consume the superfluous humours of the head. Take of caraway seede, anniseed, [ameos], parsly seed, smalage seed, betony, cumin, calamynt, pulegium, [slope], spikenard, pepper, ginger, sage, rue, centrum, gallie, eye bright, incense, mastick, safron, of all the [mirabolanes], but the greater quantity of citrines, cynamon, squinant, of each halfe an ounce, of margerome, folium, basill, cardamomes, [galingell], riquorice, of each 2 ounces, pound them into very small powder, of the which take in 82 all your meales, but more in the winter than in other parts of the yeare. For the payne in the head, reynes of the back, loynes, & matrix Take greene [savine] 5 ounces, of the fruite of cypres 65 drames, rosemary flowers milfoyle, matricaria, fenigreeke, lime seede, of each 6 ounces, infuse the sayd herbes to become tender for the space of three dayes in the water, then put thereto 9 ounces of oyle, & boyle it untill the water be consuned then strayne it through a linen cloath, then put to it of was, patch, spayne, turpentine, galbanum, mastick, of each 5 ounces, of storax, calamymt, spikenard, of each one pound, of balme 4 ounces, bruise what is to be bruised, & mixe every thing together & wettinge it with the spatter make an oyntment. To heale bruising of the head, with broaken bones or with out Take old white wine or hony, salt, brimstone, betony, of each a like quantity, bray them, make a plaster & lay it to the sore And if a bone be broaken that the blood is entred in at some small fissure, then take rye meale, & meale of oates, of each 5 drames, the iuyce of plantan and one drame & an halfe, laxicium acutum one drame, & make a plaster therof with good maulmesy. For a payne in the head. Take betony roots brayed, boyle the in old oyle & a litle wine, & annoynt the place with this warmed. 83 Another for the same. Take old oyle, & mixe it with euperbium pouder 3 or 4 graynes, & annoynt the sore place, the boyd beeing first purged, & the head alsoe, but let the head be purged by drawing up into the nose the iuyce of rue; But if the payne be caused through heat, having first purged or opened a vaine, annoynt the greife with this following Take the iuyce of sower grapes 2 ounces, the dreggs of [yuke] halfe an ounce, saffron 5 graynes, mixe them & make a liniment. To remedy the greife of the head & neck. Take the oyle of sweet almonds 3 ounces, the meale of marsh mallowes halfe an ounce wax as much as suffereth, then make an oyntment at the fier & annoynt the [plie] morning & eveninge For the rupture of the scull. Take of plantan seed 3 ounces, laxaciu acutum 4 ounces, the meale of black beanes as much as you please, beate these into pouder, & boyle them with very stronge wine & lay of this twice a day to the wound. For the same. Take of gume elemi 3 drames, of resin 4 drames, of wax 6 ounces, oyle of roses 2 ounces & an halfe; armoniack 2 ounces, turpentine 3 ounces & 5 drames, rye meale as much as suffireth with wine & wax make a plaster. For the falling sicknes. Take germaunder gathered in May when it 84 when it is in blossome, dry it in the shade, and make it into pouder, & when you will use it take the yolke of an egge or two, beate them, with a spoonefull of the pouder into the, then seeth it, & give the patient it to eate, this doe norning & evening for 8 dayes; & abstaine from wine, woemen, beanes, pearse, fitches, [tanes] salads, salt meats, & all things of hard disgestion. It is a notable remedy. To kill lice. Annoynt the goad with lard, on barrowes grease, or with oyle of bayes. For ach in the head Lay a peece of fresh beefe to the map of the neck probatum est. For a payne in the head. Boyle celedonie in vinegar, & beate it, & after tye it upon the fore-head. probatu est. For the falling sicknes Boyle isope in water & origanum & [stecados], & mix it with syrop of worme wood, & drinke thereof [Some] after the party is purged with pills for the stomach use methridate & treakle 7 or 8 dayes together. Let the pty drinke a potion made with squilla, & pvoke him to vomit with a quill or fether: you must boyle the squilla in vineger & make oxamell, & drinke of it, & after that use syrop of worme wood. The iuyce of common rue put into the [pties] nostrills is good therefore Take the roote of white vines, & hang it about his neck; it cureth the greife. Or take a bores bladder with his water in it dryed in an oven, & drinke every day 85 the quantity of a beane with oximell, it is excellent Or make pouder of the roote of piony, & the seed thereof, of each a like quantity drinke thereof every day 3 with oximell squillitike, in which isope hath beene boyled. probatus est. To cause one to speake that hath lost his speech in his sicknes. Stampe worme wood, & temper the iyyce with water, then straine it, & put of this liquor into his mouth with a spoone. probatus est. For the falling sicknes. Take a penny leafe of white bread & three penny worth of beefe of a steere bullock of the [nearer] side, fry it, & lay it to the brow of the patient a mounth together. probatus est. For one that is luniticke. Take box leaves, & flower [delure] rootes stired, dry them both in an oven or over a chafing dish, & beate them to pouder, & eate or drink it. To provoake sleepe. Take oyle of water lillies, & oyle of poppie & mixe them with a litle oppium, & annoynt the fore head & temples there with. For a sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, sincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, red fennell, red bramble leaves, mary gold leaves, keepe all these together, & strayne them, then put to it allome & hony, & mixe them well, & wash your mouth with it. probatus est. For a bruise for ones head by a blow. Stampe egrimony & mixe it with hony & make 86 a plaster therwith, & it will heale it. For a cold rhume. Dry penny royall in a pan & lay it to his head day. For a payne in the head. Boyle celidony in vinegar & beate it, then binde it upon the fore head. probatus est. The colours of urine. Alba, or white urine. White urine & cleere, as well water, [betoakeneth] [undefyling], & [rawnes]; & in sharpe feavers it is deadly. without feaver it betoakeneth in man or woeman agreevaned in the reynes, & sometimes [childinge]. Lactea or milke like urine, Urine lactick & thick standing is more perilous in men than woemen, in sharpe fevers is death. Above & beneath darke about & in that [midest] cleere signifyed the dropsy. [illegible] [make] only in the uper part signifies the gout in the body: & if the motyes be in the grownds, it signifies the gout in the lower part of the body. Glaucea, or lanthorne like urine Signified if it be cleene a [so?inge] or under putting of the mylth, through a [wicked] water that turnes from the lunges betweene the maw & the milt, that will rot all it comes by, and often times it ingenders & causes the dropsie. 87 Curapos urine Is a sign of corrupt humors, as a boling dropsy in the body, & in the limbes, or the face \Pale urine Signifies a feeble stomack, a great [leting] of the second disgestion for [corfainne]. Black urine above Signified the wasting of the quarterne feaver & quenching all kindled heate with darknes within signified drynes, if it be pale; if greene or burning feaver. But black in the ground signifies [clausium] of [menstris] & looseing of the gutts. And urine b lack in a feaver, if the urine bee full, for the most part it signifieth death. To cure old sores. Take the iuyce of white lilly leaves, a litle vinegar & hony to the quantity of the iuyce boyule them & lay it to the sore. probatus est. For a fistula. Take pimpernell & [mullin?] of each a like quantity of the iuyce, & wash therewith the infected parts. For wounds or rotten sores. Take milfoyle & [sanicle], boyle them in water, & strayne them through a limon cloath, & with the decoction mixe the meale of [fen?greeke] with the fat of a goate, & halfe as much oyle olive, dissolve them at the fier, & put to them wax, & make an oyntment. 88 To cleere ones eye sight Take a hot barly leave, rub it in the midle & sprinkle thereon the pouder of caraway seed & hold it hot before your eyes. The [pumystone] beaten & put in the eyes cleeneth them: the doth allome, & tutty. A medicine for swellinge. Take two gallons of stronge ale before it is clensed, a platter full of scurvy grasse, & pound & stampe it with the ale, then strayne it & let them worke together an hower or 2, then take halfe an ounce of white sanders, as much nutmegs, & three penny worth of safron, beate them together & put them all into the ale & let it worke, when it is two dayes old drink thereof every morning fasting & at meales as long as it lasteth, & if you find no helpe in drinking this quantity make as much more & use it dayly. probatus est. Remedyes for the eyes Take the longes or lights of a barrow hog, with all the appurtinances & seeth it in water, then hold your eyes over the smoake of it, in three or 4 times it will cure you. For dark eyes Annoynt the eyes with the iuyce of dragon leaves. Or make iuyce of betony, & mixe it with wine beeing hot, & put thereof into your eyes. A notable experiment for the web in the eye. Take scraped liquorice, good ginger, galingall fennell seed, [siler] of the mountaine, parsly 89 seed, of each an ounce, of rue & eye bright both dryed, amoniack, ameos, carpobalsamum, turbith, of each 2 drames, of sene 3 drames, longe pepper a drame, aloes epatake a drame, cynomon, nutmeggs, cucubes, carroway, of each a drame, of sugar as much as will suffice, & mixe them, the dosse of it is a spoonefull at once with hot wine. Sore eyes. Or take bullocks gall mixed with hony & put it into the eye. Or take the pouder of cuttle bones. But of all take cuttle bones & boyle them in water, & gather the grease of it, and annoynte the eyes thereof. probatus est The iuyce of an onion mixed with [sherry] & put into the eye cureth a web in the eye. Agarick is good for the eyes. The iuyce of ground [illegible] tempered with brest milke, & put into the eye cureth the web in the eye. Or yarrow iuyce used the same way. Another very good. Take of agarick 20 drames, cynomon 8 drams spike nard 20 drames, mastick 38 drames compound them with hony, & eate thereof every day. probatus est. Or take a dryed sheepes braine mixed with hony, & put of it into the eye. Or take a bullocks gall, assafetida one drame, baguamum 5 ounces, dissolve them in a glasse, & dry them, & make thereof a pouder. 90 For a perle in the eye. Take the iuyce of fennel & mixe it with hony, 7 oyle of balsome, & drop it into the eye. probatus est. Or mouse dunge dryed to pouder, & put into the eyes cureth the web. Cathrina auri vel argenti confort hebedini oculorum. To put away the white in the eye. Take oyle of alcanua, which is the dregs of wine being very old when it is beaten to oyle. Eate eye bright to cleene the eyes. Or purge the eyes with ierapigra. Cynomon is alsoe good. or oyle of fenngreeke annoynted on the eyes. Make iuyce of rosemary & mixe it with hony & annount the eyes. or make iuyce of ground [illegible] & put it into the nostrill on that side which greife is. or six leaves of ground [inie] & a braunch of celydony, bray them & mixe them with brest milke, & straine it through a cloath, & put of it into the eye, doe soe thrice, & keepe the eye three dayes from the light. probatus est. For the web in the eye. Beate capons grease upon a paynters stone, & grind coparose as small as may bee, & mixe them, & going to bed put a litle of it into the eye three nights; if the web be old put in more of the ceparase. probatus est. Or temper sarcacolla with white wine, & put of it into the eye. For bleared eyes. Take a quart of white wine, & put it into a cleane panne, & put thereto an ounce of pouder of salt gemma, & let them boyle 91 together a litle, then take them from the fier & set them in house dunge, & cover it with another panne, & cover it after with house dunge, & let it stand 3 dayes, then take it out of the dunge & power out the cleaneth into a vessell through a linen cloath, & put it into a viall, & with a feather drop of it into the eye that is sore at evening in bed. probatus est. For watery eyes. Beate the white of an egge, & take the oyle thereof & annoynt the eyes gooing to bed; or lay it thereto on a linen cloath, or wet two therein & lay them to your eyes. A most precious water to cleere the eyes, and to cure a perle. Take smalage, red fennell, rue, vervine; egrimony, cincfole, pimpernell, [enfrace], betony, sage, colydony, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & stampe them, then put them into a brasse panne, & take the pouder of 15 pepper cornes, & beate them & a pint of good white wine, & put it to the herbes, with 3 spoonefulls of pure hony, & five spoonefulls of the wine of a man child, mixe them well, & let them boyle alitle, then straine it through a linen cloath & put it into a glasse, & stoppe it very close, untill you use it, & with a fether put of it into the eye, & when it is dry temper it with white wine; it cureth one in 15 dayes if [ever] he shall see. probatus est. For a web in the eye. Take pimpernell water & fennell water, the iuyce of valerian of each alike proportion, & 92 put of it with feather into the eye. probatus est. OR take the marrow of a goose winge & burned allome pouder, temper them; & put it into the eyes with a fether 3 or 4 times; then use the water afore sayd, & it will kill the greatest web in the eye that may bee. Thinges good for the eyes. To eate early in the morning of myrabolames [condited], & eate the [meats] of them long in the mouth Nutmeg is most excellent for the eyes. Take alsoe fennell seeds, put it into boyled sugar & eate therof. Worme wood wine is very good. Or rue boyled in wine; eate but [slender] suppers, gargarige with vinegar of squillas, [especially] fagter you be purged. [cloves] are good, and to eat asparagus & betony. To eate the braynes of partridge is good; or rape leaves, or often to chew eye bright. An excellent receite to quicken the sight. Take fennell seed made soft & steeped, & then dryed, & adde to it soe much pouder of cynomon, & halfe soe much good sugar, and use it dayly. Or beate the white of an egg untill it bee cleere, then take iuyce of fennell croppes, mixe them & put it into the eye. For darknes in the eyes & bloodynes. Make pouder of aloes, & mixe it with the white of an egge, & lay it thereto. For an humour flowing to the eyes. Take [beanes] & pull of the skinnes, & confect them with the white of an egge, & lay them to. or else take them & chew them. 93 For a payne in the eyes. Boyle the rootes of fennell in water in a pot, & put a drop thereof into the parties eye. For watery eyes. Put a drop of the parties owne urine into his eye. very good. To take away a great spot in the eye. Take the roote of celendine, & beate it with rose water, & put it into a bag, & hang it up, & put a drop of that, which distilleth, into the eye. For payne in one eyes First purge the party with pills of aurie, or pills of the 5 kinds of mirabolanes, or with pills sine quibus esse nolo: after take one & [illegible], heate them on a tile, & put them betweene a linen cloth, & lay them on the eyes. Bumbast wet in fennell water 2 qts, & one pt of the iuyce of rue, is good layd to hot eyes. Or [illegible] and eg, & take the white, & put it betweene bumbast, & lay it hot to the eyes. The braynes of an hare rosted & well incorporated with wine, is good eaten. Oyle of [ba?m[ & oyle of [eld??] mixed with peritony & black pepper & the [rine] of a pine tree & [cyple?se] nutts. For such as pisse in bed whose urine runeth from them unwittingly. Boyle coming & drink thereof warme. Or take the sea crabes & beate them & drinke thereof fasting with wine. Or take the bladder of a sow & dry it to pouder & drinke it Boyle dry rose leaves & drinke of it; or of oximell drunken; or boyle dill & drinke of it; or parsly boyled in water & drunke is good. 2 . 2 94 For the fallinge sicknes When you see one fall of this greife, perfectly cut the parties girdle in two, whilst the [illegible] is upon him, & burne it in two parts that the partie know not therof, & let him never see it after, & he shall be red of his greife. For the collick Take hemp seed, dry it, & grind it to pouder & take a spoonefull thereof, & put it into ale and drinke it: it will make you goe to stoole easily. it is alsoe good for a flux taken in the same manner. For the yellow iaundies, & to provoke an appetite. The pouder afore sayd is a speciall remedy either eaten or drunken. For the tooth ach Take dandelion the quantity of a nut brayed, & put it into a limon cloath & layed to the tooth gooing to bed. but walke an hower that the iuyce may sinke into the tooth. probatus est. To east the paine & ach of the gout Take an handfull of rue, & a great deale of the leaves of white wine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto iuyce of house leeke, & of [illegible], & boyle them with a bullocks gall a litle quantity, & a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many snailes well beaten, & being well boyled, straine it & keepe it to your use, for it is a speciall good oyle for the same. A medicine for the eyes that are white. Take of [illegible] washed 10 drames, sarcacolla grasse 3 drames, dragagant a drame, opium halfe a drame make thereof a soft substance & use it. An orange-colour pouder for the eyes. Take of sarcacolla, with it a gume 10 drames, aloes 2 drames of saffron, myrre one drame, licium 95 2 drames, beate them all, then use this pouder. A pouder for the eyes which are white. Take white sarcacolla which is white, fat, & put it into brest milke, & set it in the shade till it dry & then beate it very well take of this 3 [illegible] & add therto of syife merminthe 2. dramis beate them well again & keep them and put of it into [illegible] eye when need requires. To purge. Take the waight of 1b of ales cicatrine, cloves the waight of 4d beaten severally, mixe them in the hand with a litle wine vinegar till it be hard then make pills thereof the waight of 4d or 6d & take them with the pap of an apple or hony, if you take it before supper, it will worke in the night, if after supper the next day. probatus est. To cure the collick. Take pouder of bullocks dunge, & give it to the [glie] unknowne in pottage, or straine the dunge, & give it the pty to drinke; this last is best. A [resolv?ace] plaster to ly 4 or 5 dayes before it is remooved Take resin, was halfe a drame [roth?s] gall, [strong] beere or ale, coming seed & rue leaves, 2 drames, black sope one drame, mutton suit & turpentine 3 drames, boyle these to the forme of a plaster 7 spread it something thick over a cloath, & sew it fast about the member that is swelled or waters, as herpes miliaris or oedema, & for all [soulme] & rankling ulcers, & as the water runeth out & the swelling [starteth], bind the plaster hard againe for 4 or 5 dayes. sepe probatus est. 96 Remedies for the eares; or for deafenes. Take vinegar hot & drop it into the eares fastin, ad thereto the iuyce of mints, oyle of bitter almands, & of the nutts of persica warme, & drop it into the eare. Or hold your ear over the [illegible] of hot water, in which was boyled penny royall, & worme wood. these helpe the heareing. Or boyle worme wood in water & bath the eare with the decoction. or when a goate is newly killed, take a [horne] & fill it with the urine of the goate, & hang it up in the smoake nyne dayes, & put thereof into the eares. Or take an onion, & make it hollow, & fill it with oyle, & the iuyce of rue, & lay its [illegible] againe, & put the onion into the embers, untill it be well boyled, & put of that oyle into the eare. Or put into the eare the blood of a goate beeing warme. Or put into the eares the iuyce of scabiase mixed with a litle quantity of oyle of bitter almonds. To purge filth out of the eares. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & distill it into the eares. Or take fileings of iron & mixe it with sharp vinegar, boyle it & put it into the eares. probatus est. For the head ach. Boule celydony in vinegar, & beate it, then bind it to your fore head, & it will ease you. Or beate maioram, & presse out the iuyce & suck it up into the nose. probatus est. or take red [illegible] stamped, & with the iuyce annoynt the temples. For the megram. Take three or 4 spoonefulls of aqua vita, & a quantity of boulted flower, & mingle them well till it be thick, as a plaster, then take pouder of pepper halfe soe much as the flower; & mingle them & spread it on whit lether, & lay to each pt of the temples a plaster, let it ly a day & a night, doe this 3 dayes. 97 For experience in the urine. Black urine In great quantity with a cloud of black therein notes great broyling of heate in the body, heavines, lack of sleep & blooding at the nose in time to come. Pale urine Some what greene betoakeneth the feaver called medium enutium propter melancholiam. Urine pale & some white in it signifies a feaver called minorem enutium propter flenium. Urine pale with a curcle like [leade] & resolutions of kinds, that is called spermatis, notes the falling evill. Urine pale with holdith colour signifies the feaver aschitem. Urine pale redish colour signifies a feaver called synochius. Urine pale with white small [things] therein, & gobbet with black [things] mingled [illegible] the stranguary Urine pale with round [things] having longe games or small white moates, as be in the sunne beames signifieth the gout called aterica To clense the eares from matter & filth. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & put it into the ptes eare. For the gomory passion Beate lettice seed, & drinke thereof with water. Or beate a peece of lead flat, & bind it to the [illegible] bark; hen bane seeds & mandragorus seed of each a part; of opium a tenth part, boyle them in oyle in a double glasse, & with wax make an oyntment [wherewith] anoynt the parties bark & [pri??e] paste, wet well in wine, oyle of roses, & oyle of balme & lay it thereto. Probatus est. or take the leaves & flowers of agnus castus, & boyle them in vinegar & ad thereto a litle castoreum, & make a plaster & lay it to the [privy] pts. 98 An oytment for an ach. Take 5 drames of an oxes gall & boyle it well & strume it, put thereto of hony 2 drames, boyule it againe to the halfe or more, & annoynt the ach there with untill you find ease. probatus est. More of urine. urine pale with white as ashes, & black resolutions promises wind over throwne of man or woman. Urine pale with small [things] as ashes & black signifies the suffocation of the [mone], & with holding of the [mensters] Urine white & thinne as water with streakes & as a [illegible] in the bottome betoakeneth the disease of the spleene. Urine white & thinne alltogether paleish betoakeneth the dropsy. Urine white & thinne & a great quantity betoakeneth much drinkinge. Urine white & thinne & a litle with red gravell betoakeneth ash in the wombe & in the reines, called nefresin. Urine with greene circles signifies the frensy. Urine white & thinne with greate [fa?nes] in the ground signifies a disease in the reynes, that one cannot hold his water, it is called diabitem. Urine white with white motes in it signifies arterica passio. Urine white with a great black circle signifies sicknes caused by melancholy. Urine white with a leadish circle signifies the falling evill. Urine white with a waterish circle signifies schomam, that is a disease or wind in the head that makes the sick party fall. Urine white & pale above signifies an ill liver. Urine white & thinne as in the feaver signifies death. Urine white signifies old and child hood. Urine rubra. 99 Urine bloody signifies the bladder is hurt with some filth that is therein. Urine of a woeman that is faire, & cleere, if it shine like silver if it casteth off & hath noe [illegible] to [meale], it signifies that the woeman is with child. Urine of a wooman that hath a golden colour & is cleere & heavy signifies shee hath lust to man. Urine of man or wooman that hat the feaver ague, that hath a black gathering in the one half of the urinall is a true toaken of death. Urine of a mayde that hath noe fellowship with a man is faire & cleere, & without any [wem] Urine of a man: every man is whole and sound whose urine in the [mornetide] is white, before meale red, & after meale white. For a greate heate in man or woeman. Take [endive] water, burrage water, & worme- wood water of each 4 drames, temper them with conserve of roses & drinke it eveninge and morninge To kill a fellon Take the rootes of termentill & drinke the iuyce. The roote of termentill expelleth poyson and alsoe venome. To heale a wound. take sanicle, milfole, bugle, equall proportions, beate them in a morter, & with beere or rather wine temper them & give it to the party to drink twice a day till [illegible] Bugle keepeth the wound open, milfole cureth it, and fanicle healeth it. For the tilick. Take isope, hore hound, & harts tongue & boyle the in a quart of pale ale to a pint, & drink it. 100 For the goute Make a stronge brine with salt, that it carry an eg & being hot put thereto your leg, or hand. For cloathes that be mouldy & stained Seeth stockfish & take of the water being warme, & lay the cloath in it all night, & in the morning make it cleane, with dry, comes to its colour againe. For the morghew Take white wine isope & blaunched almonds, then stamp the isope & almonds, & lay them in the wine then boyle it & drinke of it 9 dayes first & last. For a tertian feaver. Take the iuyce of dandelion, & the iuyce of worme wood, & drinke of it before the fit comes. For the dropsy. [illegible] the [party] drinke the seeds of [denills] bitt 9 dayes & hee shall bee well To make one have a good colour in the face. Eate dry figgs, & drinke harmell; origanu is good. or gume of the cherry [illegible] drunken with wine early. Alsoe acetum squillitick drunken. Syrop of squillas. Agarick, or safron, or ginger in pouder is good. Isope pouder is good drunken. Cicer eaten; or calamus aromaticus or any hot milke from the cow mixed with sugar is good. For an ach Take young cropps of alder, stampe them, and take of the iuyce thereof three parts, & a fourth part of black soape, beate them well together, untill they be a salve or an oyntment, & lay it thereto & it will ease the ach. probatus est. To cleare ones eyes. Beate the white of an eg till it be cleere s 101 & skinne of the upper part after it hath stood a while, & mixe the oyl of it which is under most with the iuyce of fennell croppes well together, & put of it into the eye, & wet flax therein, & lay it on the eye. probatus est. A plaster for the hardnes and windines, which is under the spleene. Take of rue 10 drames, of nitrum called banrach, [hease] mynt, or water mint dryed, of each 3 drames, armoniack 8 drames, the armoniack must be dissolved in old wine, whereof you must make the [soft], & make of them a plaster, & lay it to the place. probatus est. To provoke sleepe. Take oyle of dill, oyle of poppy, oyl of mandragors, or the oyle of froggs, & annoynt the temples. Remedies for the face, as morphew, bunninges, bleeding at the nose & others. ake the whites of 2 eggs, 2 ounces of tutia alexandrina, two ounces of quick lime washed in [illegible] waters, an ounce of new wax, oyle [resete] as much as shall suffice, make of this an oyntment & use it. To stanch bleeding at nose. Take great chit pease, & lay them upon a tile upon coles, untill they bee dry, make pouder of them, & put of it into your nose & it will cease from bleedinge. For a red face. Take foure ounces of the kernells of peaches, 2 ounces of gourd seed make thereof an oyle where with annoynt your face evening and morninge. probatus est 102 To make the face faire. Take rosemary flowers, boyle them in white wine, & wash your face with it, & use to drinke of it, soe shall your face be faire & your breath sweete. To take spotts out of the face Take 2 ounces of the iuyce of lemons, & two ounces of rose water, 2 ounces of silver sublimed, & soe much of coruse, put all together, & make an oyntment, & annoynt your face with it night & morning, after annoynt it with butter. Another. Make oyle of the white of an eg, & take an ounce of it, & halfe an ounce of coruse, 2 drames of quick silver, & a drame of canfire, mingle those, & annoynt your face with it. For the squinancy Boule worme wood in vineger, & gargarize with it. Or boyle figgs & the rines of pomegranads in water, & gargarize with it. For the morphew. Take an ounce of verdigrease, an ounce of quicke brimstone, make them into pouder, as small as may bee, & take two fat sheeps heads, make them cleane, & take out the braynes, then wash them & seeth them till they be tender, then let it coole, & gather the fat there of, & temper it with the sayd pouder, & make an oyntment of the same, but let it not come neere any fier, but with cold oyntment annoynt the sick party. probatus est. For a flux of blood at the nose Take rue & mixe it with oyle, & put it into the nose; or take gume arabick & olibanum 103 & mixe them with vineger & lay it thereto. Or take woole & out it into the white of an eg, & lay it to his face & fore head. OR wet woole in the iuyce of night shade & lay it to or mixe rue with vineger & lay it to the nose. Or take an eg shell burned, & take of it one part, & of [galls] halfe soe much, & blow it into the nostrills. Or ty the privy partes. For the jaundies. Boyle tamariske in vineger, & drinke it To keepe the mouth whole & sound from greifes Before & after meale wash your mouth with hot water, this dryeth up the humours dependinge into the iawes from the head; use to rub your tooth with pouder made of cloves & nutmeggs, & spike nard every day fasting, it clenseth the stinking of the mouth. Or if you dissolve a litle mastick in oyle of roses, & annoynt the pallate of the mouth, it preserveth it from hurt. Alsoe an hares head burned to pouder, & put into a canker in the mouth, or other greife therein cureth it probatus est. To stanch blood. Take the herbe sigillum salamonis, & smell thereto oftimes, & as long as you have it you shall not bleede. To remoove melancholy. Take of epithymum 3 iiij, of lapis lazuli, of agarick, of each 3 ij, of scamony 3 j, of cloves pp, make pouder of all these, & take every weeke of this pouder 3 ij. probatus est. For coldnes in the stomack. Make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, mixe 104 these together, & lay ot thereto. To ingender flesh. Take of sarcocolla 2 parts, frankincense one part, beate them, & mixe them, & apply them to the sore. To incarnate & clense ulcers. Take sarcocolla & mix it with hony, & to dry a sore mixe it with the white of an egge or milke; it will alsoe eate away dead flesh out of ulcers. For scabbes Boyle braune with vineger, & make a plaster. It is good for hot impostumes boyled with rue, & made a plaster of; And for sore brestes which proceed from abundance of milke. To purbe evil from the brest. [illegible] braune in water all night, in the morning straine it & boyle it with oyle of almons & mixe it with sugar; it cureth evill in brestes. To ripen impostumes & hard swellinges. Take [lenen] bouled in milke, & lay thereto. To cure a leper. Boule tamariske in water; & drinke often of it To heale wounds hard to be cured. Use oleum philosophorum. To incarnate a wound. Use unguentum triafarmacum. For old sores. Use unguentum Aegypticum magnum. To expell wind in the boyd. Use electuary of aloes; or aromaticum gariofilatium; diaciminum aromaticum nardium; trifera surraceneca; & trifera muscatai dianisium electuarium Judi; aromaticum rosatum. 105 For the tooth ach. Take iuyce of ground iuie, & put of it into that side of the eare, on which the teeth ake, & you shall wonder at the ease it will bring you. To heale rotten & putrified wounds. Mixe aloes with dragons blood & myrre, & lay it to. For the goute. Take the leaves of the herbe grace, & make iuyce thereof, & boyle it with a bullocks gall, & greene snaggs without shells, put it on paper & lay it thereto. A plaster to ease the gout or any other greate swelling or ach. Take 3 yolkes of eggs, fresh butter, & saffron a pritty quantity dryed, make it into pouder, the iuyce of singreene, iuyce of mugwort, & the iuyce of ground sill, mixe them with wheate flower, & boyle all together very softly upon coles, ever skinneing it, & make a plaster of this poltis, & lay it to the sore. For the tooth ach or iawes. Make iuyce of daysies rootes & all, & put of it into your eare, & stop it with black wooll. Annoynt your iawes with oyle of exeter & your temples alsoe Remedyes for the neck, throate, mouth and teeth. For the kinges evill. Take colts foote roote & all well stamped, mingle it with flax seed & barrowes grease, make a plaster & lay it thereto, change it twice a day, & all the [sores] may be dissolved into sweate, & after they be heated, wash often the place with white wine for the space of ten or fifteene dayes. 106 For the same. Take the [stones] of an horse, put the in a fier [illegible] amoungst embers & coles untill they may bee beaten to pouder, give the patient to drinke of the sayd pouder in white wine the quantity of 2 penny waight, doe this 21 days, & doubtles he will cast out of his mouth all the ordure & filth of the evill. For kernells in the throate. Dry, camomill & make it in pouder mingle it with hony, take the morning a spoonefull, & as much at night, swallowing it gently, use it till you be well. For the squinsie Take a pound of scabius water, aqua vitae an ounce mixe them, &lay it upon the sore. Or bake swallowes in an oven & beate them to pouder, & lay it through all the mouth if yiou can, if not mingle it with hony proset], & alitle flower of amilum, & put it into his mouth leting it goe downe of it selfe. Or take th eoyle of violets, put 2 or 3 drops of it into white wine with the which wash & gargle in your throate oftimes. For the kinges evill. Take conuse, on white leade well stamped 4 ounces, oule olive 8 ounces, boyle them together 5 or 6 howers stirre it continually, & when it is black it is boyled enough; then spread it upon a linen cloath, & lay it upon the sore place; if the sore be broaken it will be healed quickly, if not this will alsoe resolve & loose & shortly heale it throughly To breake botches, impostumes, catarres, or sores comeing in the throate. Take dry dunge of an asse, & of swallowes make thereof pouder, & put of it into water or in hot wine, & gargle or wash your throate often with it. 107 To fasten loose teeth. Take frankinsense, mastick, & pills of pomegranate, an equall quantity & make thereof a pouder, & when you goe to bed wash your teeth with a litle good wine, then lay of the sayd pouder to your teeth. excellent. To make teeth white. Take mallow rootes, rub your teeth with them dayle. Or take a snuff of wheate bread, burne it to coles, & make pouder thorogh to scower your teeth with all, & wash them after with faire well or condit watr pbatus. To fasten loose teeth Take a litle myrre & temper it with wine & oyle & wash your mouth with it. To keepe one from vomiting. Drinke the iuyce of worme wood. For those that spit blood. Make a cake of fine ry flower, & being baked let the party eate of it as hot as he can endure. For those that vomit up theire meate againe. Take tender leaves of an ash, seeth them in stronge vineger, & stampe them, & make thereof a plaster, & lay it upon the stomack, or belly. For the tooth ach. Boyle the leaves & rootes of chickweed in water & there with wash your mouth & hold of it in your mouth. To mitigate the payne in childrens teeth. Mixe buter & hony, & rub the childes teeth therewith it taketh away the payne & bitein thereof. For the tooth ach and the rhume. Boyle wine & nettles & wash your mouth therwith Or burne salt & mixe it with vineger, & wash your mouth therewith. [Mu??ell] fryed & layd to the teeth takes away the tooth ach. Or make pouder of a cowes heele, & boyle it in water & wash 108 your teeth therewith. or to wash your mouth in the iuyce of alder flowers cureth the tooth ach Take alsoe a red hot brick, & lay on vineger, & hold your mouth over it. probatus est. For swelling in the cheeke. Take an earthen [illegible] made hot, & lay it to your cheeke. To make teeth come out of children easily Annoynt theire gumes with goates milke, or the braine of an hare or cony; or with gumes grease or mixe the brayne of beastes with wine, & drinke thereof. or annoynt them with butter only, or also mixed with hony. Pouder of doggs tooth mixed with hony easeth young children when they breed teeth; if you annoynt them therewith, it helpeth ulcers and other sores in the mouth or iawes. A stone found in the head of a steere, or bark of a nayle is good. Or annoynt his iawes with hony & salt mixed; this easeth the payne of teeth breeding. The iuyce of liquorice held in the mouth is alsoe good. For a sore throate. Take oyle of lyllies, oyle of camomill, & oyle of dill of each an ounce, make them het & annoynt the throate therewith, & wet black wooll in it, & lay it to the sore throate. To breake a sore in the throate. Take snaggs with shells & all, & beate them & plaster them thereto, this ripeneth it very fast. Or take sheepes [??tles] & fry them with sheeps tallow & lay it hot to the throate, & when it waxeth cold remoove it & lay on another plaster. Or dry worme wood & beeing warme lay it to the sore throate. Or make a lniment with doggs dunge dryed mixed with hony & annoynt the throate round about But if the matter remaine very hard still, take diaculu dissolved with hennes grease, & lay it thereto. 109 Or else make this plaster. Take unguent de altea of mussilage, of [line] seeds, of fenigreek seed, of each two drames, of the mer substance of cassia fistula of butter, of leaven, of figges, of oyle of sweet almons, & of these make a plaster & lay it to the place. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunken is very good. For the brest and stomack & cough. Take the iuyce of parsly, pouder of comyn, brest milke, mixed all together, then give it the child to drink & make after ward this oyntment followinge. Take lineseed, fenigreeke, seeth them in water & straine them, & mingle the substance of the herbes with butter, & annoynt the childs brest it being warme. For a cough. Take brimstone pouder halfe an ounce, put it into a new layd eg, soft rosted, mingle it well, then put to it [benge] wine the bignes of a chit pease, lightly stamped, & drinke it in the morning at the breakfast, & take as much againe at night going to bed, it will helpe you at twice or thrice doeing soe. but if the cough have held you long, take of it oftener. Or take an handfull of isope, & boyle it to the third part of the water you boyle it in, and mixe hony with the water, & drinke it fastenge. To keepe the stomack well. Take hot water & vineger, & vomit once a mounth. Or eate resins with the stones fasting. To preserve the stomack. Boyle worme wood & spikenard in beere, & drinke it or make a plaster of aloes & mastick, & lay it to the stomack. For h ardnes in the stomack. Boyle worme wood in beere, & drinke it, it purgeth the stomack from all grose humours. Or drinke syrop of roses with a litle wood of aloes. Or mustard seed rosted & beaten, & drunken with water. 110 Or take fasting 3 drames of the electuary of the wood of aloes & of rubarbe; it comforts the stomack, & helps disgestion, purgeth fleame & procureth a good appetite & removeth wind from the stomack. Alsoe to helpe disgestion, annoynt the stomack with the oyle of mastick. For a cough. Take 2 or 3 heads of garlick well [mundisied], stampe them well & put to them hoggs suet, & stampe it well all together & at night when you goe to bed, warme well the soles of the feete & annoynt them well with this; then warme them againe, as hot as you can suffer, & rub them well apritty space, & beeing in bed, let your foot be bound warme with linen cloaths, & rub alsoe the small of your leggs with the sayd oyntment in three nights it will cure you, be the cough never soe vehement For hardnes of woemens brests after they be brought to bed. Take wheate branne, & seeth it with iuyce of rue & lay it upon the brestes. this is alsoe good against the biteing of venomous beastes. To make woemans milke increase. Take fennell seed, seeth it in barly water, & drink it. Chit pease boyled in water & broaken, are alsoe good. For a woemans sore pap that hath a canker in it. Take the fenn of a white goose, & the iuyce of celendine mixed, & lay it to, & it will kill the canker. For swelled pappes. Take mouse dunge, & mixe it with rayne water, & bath the papps with it. Alsoe goose grease mixed with oyle of roses & rose leaves is good layd thereto. or goose grease [alone] annoynting the papps therewith. For an impostume in woemens pappes. Wet a spunge in oxicrate beeing warme, & wring it, & lay it to, & bind it fast. or beate bread, greene pantary, wax, & oyle together, & with this annoynt the [agreivance] 111 For sore pappes, boches, or boyles. Take mallow leaves, & worme wood, of each a great handfull, seeth them in water till they bee tender as the pap of an apple, then lay them abroad that the water may runne from them, then chop them small, then stamp them with a pound of hoggs grease, & temper all till you cannot discerne the one from the other, & luke warme lay it plasterwise to the sore papps, or other sores. probatus est. For ach in woemens pappes. Take mints & stampe them & make a plaster with ry flower, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To cause a woemans milke to increase Make iuyce of vervine & fennell & drink it often For an extreame cough. Take rosemary powder & mixe it with hony, and use to eate it. probatus est. A remedy for the teeth. Take white roses & [illegible] seeds, of each a drame, white sanders, white amber, white margarets, of each a scruple, mastick, cynomen, of each halfe a drame, beate them all alitle, & ad thereto a litle hony of roses, & mixe them well; at night wet your finger in this mixture, & rub your teeth, & early in the morning wash them with white wine in with the root of the flower doluce dryed must bee boyled, then pick them with a tooth pick of the wood of the mastick tree. For the tooth ach. The roote of vervine, mallowes, or cut mallowes is very good. Things very good for the teeth. Sage; organy; mynts; [li??ius]; the head of an hare burned; tamariske; the rine of an ash; water wherein olives have beene pickled; vervine 112 chewed; the young springes of a bramble bush dock rootes chewed; vineger squilsticke; harts horne burned; the dreggs of oyle (called amurca) olive leaves: To provoke an appetite; & to purge ill humors. Make a sauce with sage, parsly, vineger, & alitle pepper, beate them & mixe them together. To provoke good disgestion. Make a plaster to the stomack of pouder of mace, mastick in pouder, & mixe them with oyle of roses, & wax at the fier. For a weake stomack. Boule mace in fennell water, then ad alitle wine, & straine it, & give it to the pty the liquor to drinke. For swelled pappes. Take the meale of flax seed, the meale of lentills temper them with oyle of roses & saffron, and lay it there to. Or take hore hound, leaves of elder, poppie leaves, that are white, worme wood, rue, dodder, & make them hot, & lay them to. Or eggs mixed with oyle of roses layd to the papps. Or make an oyntment thus. Take olibanum, worme wood seed, mastick, lentill meale, of each three drames, of wax 4 drames, oyle of roses 6 drames, & make an oyntment. For hot humours that trouble woemens brestes, & cause them to swell. Annoynt the swelling with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses equall proportions, then make very vine pouder of nitrum, & lay it wet with the former liquor but if it [illegible] of a cold humour, take meale of fenigreeke with the iuyce of parsly & elder mixed For woemens brests which are raw. Take raw quince kernells, & lay them in runing water & lay them to. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunke with aysell. probatus est. 113 For a cold stomack. Boyle wild margorame in flesh broth, or make pouder of it, & drinke it with mustadell, maulmsy or sack; and beeing warme wet a spunge therein, as hot, as you can suffer it, & wringe out the wine, & soe lay the hot spunge to the cold stomack, that cannot disgest meat, it breakes wind; & pusheth urine. For swelling & ach in the brestes. Take mallowes & worme wood, boyle the in water, & presse the water from the pouder, & grind them with hogs grease, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it to the brests; it helpes one in 3 or 4 dayes. probatus est. To make a leane body fat. Abstaine from salt meats, sharp & pricking thinges; take milke, new cheese, almons, fish & nutts, pine kernells, hazle nutts, grapes, hennes, young pigeons rosted & fat, or baked, good wine, use [myrth] at meales, let blood & purge seldome, bath after your meat be disgested, be not too hungry, eate much, drinke litle, & especially [illegible] wine; be not lightly angry, sorrowfull or heavie hearted, use not woemen kind much; temperate exercise, & rubbing, use all sweet & virtuous things, for they fatten. A good medicine to make one fat. Blanch almons, & hazle nutts, white poppy seed, the greene graine of which turpentine is made, dissolve all in butter & sugar, of the with let him eate alitle evening & morning, & drinke after it good wine. To purge melancholy. Abstaine from blooding, [venus] is very hurtfull: these things are good: burrage, buglasse, time, epithymum, scolependria the greater & lesse, capers, tamariske, spilidum, sweet wines, hoggs, [custuba], mirabolanes, polipodum, cane, lapis lazuli 114 To clense a sore. Take the iuyce of smalage mixed with barly meal & lay it on the sore. probatus est. To make a drying plaster for a sore or canker. Take beane meales of orobus of each a like portion & mixe them with [acetesy], & a litle salt, & make a plaster thereof. probatus est. To ease the payne of the gout Take an handfull of rue, a great many of the leaves of the white vine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto the iuyce of house leeke, & of orgine and boyle them with a bullocks gall, a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many of the snaggs, well beaten in a dish & boyle all these together [illegible] & straine them, & keepe that oyle to your use, to annoynt the place therewith. To kill a canker in the mouth or face. Take mercury sublimate, & boule it with vineger, or white wine, & wash your mouth or face therewith And when you will have it healing take sublimate & put camfire to it, & boyle it in water of hony suckles, & it will heale the canker. For a sore legge through a bruise. Take milke & boyle it, &make a posset of it with [alome] & take the curd pritty hot & lay it thereto: this heated a leg, that was hurt with a cart that ranne over it. For a great heat one hath to quench his thirst. Take endive water, burrage water, worme wood wat of each 4 ounces & mixe them with conserve of roses, & drinke of it evening & morning. probatus est. For the rhume & head ach. Take rue, red [illegible], worme wood of each an handfull, let them parch in a frying pan untill they bee crackling dry; then put them into a linen bag 115 of a handfull breade & a spanne longe, & put the bag of herbes againe into the frying panne, and warme them very well, & lay it to your left side, under the short ribbs, & ly downe a time upon it, & when the bag waxes cold warme it againe & lay iut there to doe soe 4 or 5 times. probatus est. For a cough or straitnes in the brest. Take figgs & isope stamped well together, then bouyle them in hony, & eate of it fasting. probatus est. To make one lusty & stronge that is weake. Take pouder of calamint, & put of it into your broth, & drinke, & use to eate & drink of it. probatus est. For one that is taken lame in any member. Boyle in a pinte of maulmsy the dunge of an horse cold, about 3 yeares old, a litle waxe, & well boyled, put thereto a quantity of comein in pouder, and lay this to the place. probatus est. To stay the flowers in a woeman. Take betony, neppe, pellitory of spayne & isope stampe them together & give her of this to drinke in all three mornings fastinge. probatus est. To stop a woeman of bleedinge after her child birth Take small stamped fethersew & give it her to drinke. probatus est. For an ague. Take sheapherds purse, fethersew, pepper, & the white of an egge beaten all together, & lay it to the wrists. For the head ach in an ague. Take betony, camomill, & rosemary of each a handfull, fry them in a spoonefull of hony, lay the hot to the place. probatus est. To destroy a canker or fellon. Beate plantan small & put thereto hony, & a litle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, & apply it. probatus est. 116 A speciall remedy for the greene sicknes. Take a quart of claret, 3 spoonefulls of hony boyle & skime it cleane, put to it a quarter of a pound of quibibs, or lesse, halfe an ounce of cynomon, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, boyule all well together to a pinte, & straine it into three pintes of aqua vitae, put to it halfe a pound of sugar, & brew them well together in two potts, & keepe it in a glasse bottle, & put thereto some [tornaset] to colour it, & drinke a spoonefull first & last. To cure melancholy. Take hot goates milk, if you be bound in the body. Or boyle wormewood & drinke it alsoe fasting. use stronge glisters. Or boyle coloquintiada with oyle & hony, & let the party blood. Purge the party with 3 iiij of h iera, take thereof thrice in a mounth, & stay 10 dayes betweene every time. to heale daungerous ulcers. Take burrage & mixe it with things good for this purpose, & lay it thereto. To heale woundes Take oaken leaves, & bruise them on a stone, & lay them thereto. probatus est. Or bruise peartree leaves & lay the to the wound. For knotts in the flesh and arteries. Take old cheese, & boyle it with the shankes of hoggs, & make them into past, & lay it to. probatus est. To cure new wounds. Take new cheese & beate it, & lay it thereto, & lay upon it a [s?ell] or vine leafe. Or burne a spunge, or lay it to dry. For ulcers. Burne old [shoes], & lay the ashes to the ulcer. To cure deepe and hollow ulcers. Take oyster shells & make pouder of them & lay it thereto, beeing first burned, it causeth flesh to grow in those places, mixe it with hoggs grease & lay it to the hollownes. 117 For an inflamation in the throate Eate two dayes together [lu?ius] with your meale with leavened bread, & drinke old wine, then take your [wone] dunge, & dry it & use it thereto, or else boyle in water a henne & a partridge, & wash the place with the broth thereof. For rotten sores. Take lapis phrygius, & put it into the sore; or mie it with vineger, or wine sodden with water. To stanch bleeding. Take gypsum, make it soft, & mixe it with wheat flower which hangeth on the mill walles & the white of an egge & lay it thereto. [?anes] [illegible] cut very small, & layd to, is very good For the plague. Drinke often of the urine of children For ulcers in the feete or hands. Wet a linen cloath & ty it thereon, & as often as you pisse, let it drop on the place. For bieting of snakes or vipers. Take goats dunge mixed with vineger, & lay it thereto For hard swelling, the squincy, dropsy, or spleene. Take goats dunge mixed with barly flower, & wine, & water boyled together, & lay them thereto. For a greate cough. Take apples called pippins, & boyle them in faire water, & mixe the liquor with sugar, & drinke often of it. probatus est. To dry rhume in the matrix or vulva. Boule penny royall & figs in vineger, & gargarige it or boyle pennryall with figgs in beare or ale, and drinke thereof If it [illegible] too cold, make a fomentation of the decoction, it dryeth the moystnes of the matrix. 118 An oyntment for the remes that ae hot. Take of oyle, of water lillies, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, of each [illegible] red sanders 3g cynomon 3 [illegible] vineger [illegible] & with a litle wax make an oyntment. For a laske. Take an eg rosted rare, put to it a litle aqua vitae soe [skinne] it well together, & let it rost a little longer and then eate it. For the wormes Take boulted wheate flower, as much as will ly upon three [illegible] of gold, put it into a glasse poure into it as much well water as will keepe the flower, & make it looke like milke, & as thinne, & give it the child to drinke, this will cause him to [voyd] them. To stay the flux. Lay 3 or 4 sowes eares in red wine a day & a night, & then drinke of it. To kill the wormes. Make an hole in an orange as big as a penny & squeese the liquor out, & put into the empty orange ouyle of bayes, iuyce of rue, iuyce of worme wood, treacle, flower of [lu?ius], seeth all this a time, then put it into a dish & annoynt the naule, stomack, temples, nostrills, & the uttermost part of the pulses. For wormes. If the child be soe litle, that it can receive [?athing] at the mouth, take aqua vitae, where with wash or wet the stomack or brest of the child, then poure over the places the pouder of fine myrres, & lay the child a time downe, with his brest upward; & you shall see that the wormes will come forth dead. For the collicke Eate dayly 5 or 6 peach kernells before dinner or supper, with salt & bread, these comfort the brest & stomack, ease the collick, & kill all sort of wormes. Or eate sallads made of mugworte, or mother worte, or eate it in your pottage; sweet margerome is alsoe very good for it. 119 A glister for the collick. Take fresh ashes dunge, boyle it in white wine, put to it a handfull of anniseed, a litle oyle of camomile a litle oyle of capers, with a handfull of branne, boyle them halfe a quarter of an hower, & take them from the fier & presse out the substance, & soe make a glister of it. For the collicke Take the iuyce of ripe barberyes, halfe a glasse full, put to it somuch red currall powder as will ly upon two [greates], & give the patient to drinke thereof. For the stone collicke. Make pouder of virga aurea, put a spoonefully of it into a new layd eg soft rosted & drinke it of fastinge, & eate not in 4 howers after, this will cause you to make water in a quarter of an hower, & using it 10 or 12 times you shall voyd the stone. For the flux or laske. Take in claret [pa?ick] beaten & stamped & drinke it. or boyle it in milke & eate it evening & morninge. To kill wormes. Make flower of dryed lupines, & knead it with hony & lay it upon the childes stomack. For the wormes Take oyntment of rondelesio, & such things as loosen the belly; such as be made of sower, bitter & [oppulsuo] modirines to wit: the iuyce of both the persicars, or the leaves of persica arbor z:j oyle of bitter almons, or of absinthio, zij petroleum ziij a litle vineger, & bullocks gall, of wheat flower upon the mill walls [illegible] mixe these together & ad thereto terebinth or [illegible] as much as shall suffice, & make an oyntment & lay it to the naule. For the flux. Take blaunched almons, boyle them in hony till t hey be black & eate thereof fasting; it is excellent good. but it will be stronger if the almons be not blaunched Or make bread of meale as it comes from the mill, & eate thereof, this is the last remedy. 120 Or else take St Johns worte, or the seed, & make a suppository with opiu, this is stronger than the other. Or boyle old cheese, & drinke the water, or dry the cheese after & take a drame of it; this is the strongest of all Oaken leaves distilled & drunke, stayeth a laske. For the collick. Boyle pigeon dung in wine, & make a plaster of it, probatus est For the bloody flux when nothing else will stay it. Take a pan full of charcole hot from the fier, put it into a chafeing dish, & set it in a close [illegible], & when you goe to the stoole, sit downe over the coles, & doe it upon the coles, that the smoake may ascend to you, it will cure you in twice or thrice doeing. probatus est. For rankling of an ague sore. Take a red cloath, & seeth it in your owne urine, & as hot as you can suffer, lay it to the greived place. probatus est For the collicke Take the iuyce of bullocks dunge, & drinke it. or make it into pouder & drinke it. probatus est. For the flux of menstruas. Drinke the pouder of pomegranate flowers; or also boyle the flowers; & drinke thereof. For the dropsie Take elder rootes mixed with oximell, & drinke it continually, or give the pty a grame of euphorbium, to purge his body. Or take pigeons dunge, an ounce of [illegible], rubarb called piganum [illegible] with oximell. or put upon the swelled belly mitrum [beaten]: or salt, & [rost] [exesinse] or wash your selfe well with sea water, & drinke litle. or rub the belly with parched salt & drinke vineger of squilla. For the stomacke. To have an hungry stomacke, take sower crabbes, & boule them in vineger, & straine them, & put therto sugar & pouder of ginger, & boyle all together, & put it into a gally pot, & use it morninge and eveninge. probatus est. 121 For stoping in the throate. Make powder of columbins, & mixe it with aqua vitae and rose water, & drinke it. For the dropsie. Take the seed of morfus diaboli strained, & drinke of it with white wine nine dayes. For to provoake vomiting. Take mustard 2 drames, spuma nitri called banrach 1 [illegible] & condiss danich beaten all, then sift them, and drinke them with dill water, & oximell. Or take mustard & put thereon the heads of radishes, eate it, & drinke after it warme water & hony, this will cause you to vomit, by putting a foeather into your mouth. or take of nux vomica 3 ij & mixe it with hony, & dissolve it with hot water, & drinke of it when you would vomit A restaurative for a weake stomacke. Take longe pepper, graines, saffron, of each 2 penny worth; beate them to pouder, then take a cock chicken, & beate it to a [collice], with the 3 pouders put to it, & three yolkes of egges, hard rosted, and give it to the weake persone. probatus est. For the sharpenes and payne in the tongue or mouth: for the pluricy or tilick. Hold in your mouth diadragantum frigidum, untill it be dissolved; you may have it redy made at the apothecaries For a very sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, cincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, mary gold leaves, stampe all these, & put thereto allome & hony, & boyle them together, & wash your mouth therewith. probatus est. To lift up the tuola. Boyle an eg very hard, & pull of the shell, & wringe it alitle, & lay it to the crowne of the head. or burne the rostes of cooles & put of the pouder into the vuola & it will lift it up by drying up the humor that caused it to fall 122 For cold in the stomack, and cold rhume in the head. Take pills of storax, & swallow them downe. Or make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, & lay it to the stomack. For the pestilence. Terra sigillata drunke with wine treakle the greater, take thereof early in the morning a scruple with sweete wine aqua vitae, iuyce of lemons, & iuyce of 3 leaved grasse. Or take leavened bread tosted, wet it with rose wine vineger, or the iuyce of the wild vine, untill the tost drink it up, then put thereon cynomon pouder & eate that tost early in the morninge. A preservative against the plague. Take of methridate 3 ii specierum diambre, & [calloms] rescription called galeni letisicantem, of each 3, 5, [diardo] [illegible] white sugar 3 ounces, with water of [acekosy]; make litle tables, & gild the, & take every day, [one] Or take 2 dry figgs, 2 nutts, leaves of rue [illegible] beate all together with alitle salt, & eate of it fasting; excellent. Or take this electuary; sweet almons stamped, dry figgs, [illegible] leaves of rue 20, graynes of iuniper 5, beate them with rose wine vineger, & make an electuary, & take an ounce of it in the morninge. For the cough & straytnes in the brest. Take dry figgs, & isope & stamp them well together, then boyle them with hony & drinke of it fasting pbatus est To stay rhume. Take of pouder of worme-wood & mynts, of each alike portion layd upon a tost of whit bread (with crust not be tosted browne) steeped, or rather but wet in maulmsy eate this or tow of them in the morninge fast two yeares after it; you may lay sugar over the pouder. For the tooth ach. Stampe 2 cloves of garlick, & ty it to your wrist on that side that your toothaketh, & it will draw away all payne. Or boyle isope in vineger, & wash your mouth with the liquor & it will ease the payne presently. If the tooth be yellow, fill it with the gume of an [illegible] tree. 123 for a sore throate. Take the inward barke of a wallnut tree, rosemary croppes, & 2 or 3 good figgs slit asunder, boyle them well with white wine, & drinke the liquor. probatus est. To heal choppes in the gumes & lippes. Take mastick pouder mixed with the white of an egge. pbatus est. For the tooth ach. Take woodbind, & columbine leaves, pound, & straine them, & put to it allome water, then dip a cleane linen cloath therein, & hold it to the tooth that aketh. probatus est. To bring forth childrens teeth easily Annoynt the gumes with hony, & salt mixed together. To ease the payne under the ribbs, speene, & reynes. Eate oftimes almons. For hardnes of the sinewes. Take the marrow of a deere, or calfe, & annoynt the place. For the lithargy. Take a spoonefull of castoreum, & as much of white pepper, & as much of mellicrate, & give it to the party. To provoke [menstrues] [illegible] the party blood in the foote, then give her to drink of castoreum with penny royall or calamynt. pbatus est. but it must be given with wine & water boyled together, & soe drunke. For the collick. Drink aloes pouder; or take hiera antidogum; or treacle; or phylomum; or boyle parsly rootes and fennell rootes in water, & drinke thereof. Or boyle branne in wine, & put it into a linen bag, & rub your belly well & lay the bag thereto. Or take brimstone, comine resins stoned, mixe them with wine, & beate them together, & put them into a linen cloath, & lay it to the stomack, naule, backe, or privy parts. Or drinke two spoonefulls of oximell, & annoynt the parties back bone with oyle of rue, or oyle of bayes. For the goute. Take opium, castoreum of each zij of saffron z [illegible] 124 agragate them together with [water], wherein galls have beene boyled, & lay it thereto. But if the payne increase annoynt the place with stronge vineger, wherein horsemints & origanum have beene boyled. An excellent pouder to eate dead flesh. Burne [reach] allome, of myrabolanes, citrines, [illegible] sigillata, flowers of pomegranate, of each 2 drames, pouder of mercury, pouder of red corall, of each 2 drames, mixe them together, & use thereof. probatus est. Remedies for the back, reynes, loynes, liver and the spleene. For all manner of inflamations in the liver, swelled leggs, & inflamed hands. Take flower of barly, or amilum, seeth it halfe an hower in comon water, straine it, & put it into another pot, put to it a few mallowes, surrory, hopps, endive burrage, seeth all together untill it be dissolved, ad to it an ounce of sandall; then straine all, & take in a linen cloath two nutts full of cassia extracts, & put that [illegible] to it, pressing it with your fingers, that the substance thereof may issew into the strayned water as it heateth, then put to it [sope] as much as you will; then take every morning of this lying in your bed a litle glasse full, with your brest upward, then lay a linen cloath upon your stomack; [sleep] if you can, & take a litle of it after you are up, & have done your necessities; this must be done in sumer, & not in winter. For an ach. Take 3 parts of the iuyce of young elder croppes, & a fourth part of black sope, beate these together till it be a salve or oyntment, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For a payne in your reynes, flanke; & all other greifes. Take 3 quarters of an ounce of storax liquida, capons grease, goose grease, ducks grease, of each 5 drames, of oyle roses 4 drames, red wax 2 drames, melt these with h alfe a drame of butter & soe mingle them, & then put to it the storax, spread it on a cloath, & lay it upon the greife. 125 For the spleene. Every thing that is conduceing to make one fat is good. Boyle worme wood in beere & hony or take dry figges, & boyle them in mellicrate, beate & mixe them with worm wood, & lay it thereto. Or take caper roots, an ounce, vineger a pritty deale, water a part, boyle them together to a third part, & drinke 4 or 5 spoonefulls at a time. Or take young roots of ground [inie] boyled in wine, drink it. Or take mirabolanes, & [??pple] the in vineger, & beeing made thick, lay it thereto. Or ty them to the spleene of a soe, or kid. or beate the fruite of tamariske, then boyle it & lay it thereto. Or the rootes of capers, boyled in vinegar & put into a linen cloath & layd thereto gives great ease in one dayes space. An excellent remedy for a stitch Take a dishfull of hot embers, & sprinkle them with a litle wine vineger, & put them into a linen bag, & soe apply it hot to the side, & being cold, warme it againe in a platter, or else take new ones as before. For a payne in the side, & to open the spleene. Take an handfull of the midle greene rine of greene ash bowes, & infuse it into a pinte of white wine halfe a day & a night; in the morning drinke of it fastinge, & walke & fast, 2 howers after. A restaurative Take a pinte of white [barstard], 2 yolkes of eggs, white sugar candy an ounce, 2 penny worth of white saunders, the waight of 4d of [Ambin] pouder, boyle a peece or two of gold in I t, & boyle it to 3 quarters of a pinte beate the yolkes of eggs with the wine & put them in last for curdlinge, & drinke of it morning & evening. A singular remedy for the pluricy. Beate halfe a pound of the roote of scabious, of red corall 2 ounces, sugar as much as will suffice to make a syrop thus. Boyle the sugar a good time then put thereto halfe a pint of the iuyce of scabious, your pouder of corall, boyle the well straine it, & drinke a good draught thereof. Or drinke the iuyce of rue. 44 126 Or beate figgs with hoggs grease, or salet oyle & implaster it thereto. or boyle marsh mallow rootes, fenigreek seed, flax seed & wheate, & incorporate them well, & lay it thereto. this cureth either plurisy or palusie. Or take the meale of fenigreeke seed, flax seed and linen, & make bread of it with butter, bake it & lay it hot to the plurisy. probatus est. To cause one to voyde fleame. Take unstoned raysins of the sune, & beate them with the pouder of endive & alitle hony, & eate thereof For an inpostume, or to cure a canker Mixe raysins with beane meale & comeme, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it thereto. A water against dead flesh, & to heale any sore. Take white caperes, camfire at your discretion, burne them in a fier pan, & make pouder thereof, then take belsorminate a pritty peece, & make it into fine pouder, then take running water, seeth it & scume it over the fier, & put in all your powders, & let it boyle againe, & soe stand a while, & the pouder will sinke to the bottome, then put it iinto a cleane glasse. this applied to the sore fetches out dead flesh, scowers the wore faire, & will bringe it to perfect healinge. probatus est. To kill a fellon Beate [illegible] soote very small, & mixe it with black sope, and lay it thereto. probatus est. For all manner of goutes. Take pellitory of spaine & seeth it in water, or white wine, & lay it to the goute, this assuages both swelling & your ach. An oyntment for the ioynts. Take 5 or 6 handfulls of wallnut, seeth it well in wine then straine it, & with alitle wax, oyle of spike, & aqqua vitae make an oyntment, and every day annoynt the place evening & morning. probatus est. For swelling without breaking the skinne. Boyle barly meale in red wine, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto warme. probatus est. 127 For the goute 6 Make a stronge brine with water & salt that will bare an eg, & put the part greived into it as hot as you can endure, & as it cooleth take hotter; an excellent remedy. To make away wartes. Take great wormes, & boyle them well, & let it stand until it be cold, then take of the fat, & annoynt the wartes. For the gout in the ioyntes. Take endive water, the iuyce of holy [hanke] rootes, oyle of roses & camomile, barly flower, holkes of eggs, & a litle safron, mixe the together, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For an extreame ach. Lay hemolcks upon a tile, then upon them a slice of [illegible] cheese, then hemlockes againe over the cheese, then lay the tile upon embers to stew, & being throughly hot, lay it plaster wise to the greife, & use it oftimes, when you take of the plaster, wipe the water from the place & if neede require lay it on againe. probatus est. For the sciatica. Take ship pitch & ammoniack, & mixe the well together, & lay it thereto. this is very good. For the goute. Take [flea] worte, boyle it, & bath the place; it taketh away the payne very [???ainly]. Or take the roote of a wild [curumer] & [braune], beaten, & lay it thereto, this taketh away the swelling & hardnes thereof. Or take turpentine, resine, & wax, treacle & aqua vitae, boyle them, & spread it on a linen cloath some what warme, with a litle butter on the boarde where you spread it, & lay the plaster to the greife. Or boyle stockfish & lay it on skinne & all as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Take the iuyce of ground [inie], & put of it into the eare on the same side the payne is: the effect is wonderfull. For the sciatica Make an oyntment of [illegible] & oyle, wherein coloquintida hath beene boyled with aloes, tapsia, apopinax 8 [illegible. Precepts for the goute. If the gout be cold & without swelling or redness & taken 128 with an extreame paine, use vaporations with [fryed] salt, put into a bag, & after cover the place which [illegible] well wet & moystened in hot sweet oyle. Or fomentate the place with the decoction of mallows hot & boyled with fenigreeke flax seed, & calamynt. If [these] helpe not, if [illegible] [illegible], let him blood, & oyle hot fomentations made with sea water, or comon water ading thereto salt; [illegible] goeing to stoole, & use hot things; or use oyle of bayes; & after 40 dayes use [diasamicon], or diapopinaceum, or diaspermaton. After youl leave the bathes use nitrum; euforbium,; adarace, & pouder of pepper, layinge them to the place, or else pouder of bay berries. An oyntment for the same. Take squilla, rue, rootes of wild curumer, two pts of water & one of old oyle, boyle them untill the water only remaynes, then cast away the herbes, put thereto pouder of nitrum, euforbium, adaraco, pepper & bay berries, use these, & purge with [helebores]. For a rupture. Take drinke made of comfry & muria eate not too much, especially if you engender wind, drinke not too much, use not much venery, keep the belly loose with glisters or suppositories: & sometimes goeing to diner take halfe an ounce of cassia with broth of a pullet, or tamarindes, or diacartamus tempered with the sayd broth or other liquor. Take of sanguis draconis, bolearminake, [scabiese], mumia, cypers nutts, of each an ounce, anise water cresses dryed, of each 6 drames, of great [consounds], & the [lesser], & the midle, & the wild vine, of each an ounce, & an halfe; make a pouder, & take thereof with the decoction fog round [iuie], & [con??und], called the knights [illegible] Or take pouder of valerian early & late a drame & an halfe at once, with red wine. Or make pouder of water cresses dryed, & give it to the party with milke, wherein [stones] or iron have been quenched. Alsoe [illegible] the roote thereof cut & tempered with red wine, & drunke continually cureth every rupture; Liver wort used soe worketh the same effects. Or take of the three sorts of confound, of both kinds of [scabiose], plantan, valerian, pimpernell, of each an ounce, cypers nutts, nut megs, cynomon, comeine, coriander 129 prepared, of each, halfe an ounce, frankincense mastick, terra sigillata, bolearminate, gume dragan of each 3 drames [illegible] [stiptiis] lotor duaw, aquae lib: 4 potest addi [cirma]: concisi et [illegible] es fiet ficri [allmodu] [illegible] An emplaster for the same Take cypers nutts, accasia, galls, pomegranate [stones], of each a drame; myrre, sarcacoll, frankinsense, gume arabick, of each 3 drames, dragons blood, bolearminate, [roch] allome, ales, mumia, of each 2 drames, make a fine pouder, & mixe it with vineger, & emplaster it thereto, & [trusse] it straite up. If after the gout vex the place, and be hard amoungst the sinewes. Make a plaster thereto of hard diaculum made soft in warme water, & layed thereto. For runneing of the reynes. Take an ounce of mastick make it into fine pouder, & put it into a quart of ale, & boyle it untill a quarter be wasted, then take it of & let it stand till it bee cold, then take the upermost & drinke it pbatus est. Or take comfry & make pouder thereof, & temper it with the iuyce of morrell, & wet a linen cloath therein, & lay it to the [yare], reynes, & members. pbatus est. To stay a laske Take [hares] furre, [illegible] seed, plantan seed, rose seed, flowers of pomegranates, seeds of St Johns wort, of each a drame, of dragons blood, mastick, of each 4 drames, venece turpentine, 2 drames & make it up wiuth plantan iuyce. Or take fasting mastick 3 drames, with rayne water, it comforteth the stomack & all ptes. Or take 3 drames of dragons blood, with plantan iuyce. For the extreame payne of the goute. Take a drame of opium pouder & safron pouder, mixed with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses, & layd to, is excellent. For all swelling what soever. Take a pottle of wormes washed, put the in to a pint of white wine, seeth the alitle, then put therein a pint of sallet oyle, & let these boyle together untill the wine be consumed, then straine it & put that oyle into a cleane vessell, & set 130 it on the fier, & put into it an ounce of deeres suet, & as much sheepes suet, & halfe an ounce of wax scraped therein, melt all these, & apply it. probatus est. For the dropsie. Drinke the seedes of morfus diaboli with white wine 9 dayes. For a burninge ague. Take 10 snayles with their shells, a great handfull of hemlocks, halfe an hand full of bay salt, beate them very well together, then lay the one halfe to the base soles of the foote, & the other halfe to the other; lay it not to until the heate hath beene on the party an hower, then let it ly on 8 howers, it helpes one within a day & a night; & may be applied to a child. For one that never had a child. Take a handfull of mercury, as much of ground [illegible], chop them small & straine them with beere, or boyle them with pottage with some red sanders, & drinke of it every day For a dropsy either hot or cold. Take worme wood, pettimorell, fetherfue, [spurge], wall worte, of the roote of each halfe a pound; of fennell parsly, isope, sago, smalage, arnias, mynts, water cresses, hore hound, endive, liver wort, greene barke of elder, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & pound them in a morter, then put them into an earthen pot, & put thereto 2 gallones of white wine, or good [worte], which is not turned; seeth it till it come to a gallon, then straine it through a haire sieve into a faire vessell, wash the earthen pot, & put the liquor into it againe, & cover it, & give the party halfe a pint at a time. use it first & last, at evening hot, at morning cold, let him take nothing for 3 dayes but bread & pottage made with billers, white wine, & oatemeale; And take 2 pound of sage washed cleane, & put it into a coffin of dough made of wheate meale, & when it is baked, beate it in a morter & then put it into a faire cloath and the cloath [illegible] a waight of three pounds, & hang it in a gallon pot of stone, & fill it up with white wine or stale ale, & cover it, & let the party drinke of it & noe other drinke whilst it lasteth, & that spent, make ready more, & drinke alsoe of it first & last; & after three dayes let him eate any 131 convenient meale, but noe drinke but this prescribed let him alsoe blood in one or two vaines. probatus est to be a singular and most excellent receite. Remedies for cankers, emrods, piles, and boyles. For the emrods or piles. Boule greene elder in water untill it be dissolved, then take a peece of red cloath, a litle biger, then the palme of your hand, & stretch it along upon the palme of your hand, & lay the elder leaves upon the emrod, as hot as may be suffered, having alitle before layd uipon them a litle oyle olive; then take away the cloath & leaves, & in like manner lay on others, & soe others as long as you may, & then let him sleepe if he can. For a boyle or botch. Take crumes of bread, raysings dryed in an oven, & well stamped, butter, eggs suet, [leven], cowes milke, & a litle saffron; make of all this an oyntment & lay it to the sore, putting first a litle safron pouder upon the very place, where you will have it breake & upon that lay the plaster, leaving it soe untill night, & changing it evening & morning, soe shall you make is [soome] ripe, & breake, then dresse it with oyle roses & the yolkse of eggs one whole day; after this purge away the filth with some drawing oyntments, finally lay to it the oyntment of aloes & tutia, or or some consolidatine or healeing oyntments. Or beate bay salt into pouder, then sift it, & incorporate it with the yolke of an egge, & lay it thereto. this is good for a plague sore; sape probatum. To resolve a fellon or boyle or bock in the beginninge Cut an orange in the midle then take a litle [illegible] in a dish & pisse upon it, then wringe it in your hands, & put to it a litle comon salt, beaten to pouder, & lay it hot to the sore, putting upon the sayd [tome] halfe an orange 132 & bind all this on, changing it evening & morning, & the [illegible] mater will [soudainly] dissolve. For impostumes, boches, cankers & other sellings. Take barly & branne, & seeth them untill they be like to a plaster very thick, then lay it upon the sore. To ripen an impostume, boch, fellon, or any swelling sore. Take hoggs grease, or lard, & lay it to the sore, very good For a canker approoved. Take myrre, mastick, & dragons blood, pound the together then take the marrow of a red [stere], & pound all together, & make it into a roule, & when you use it, make a plaster upon a new linen cloath, or leather. Pouder of [illegible] will open a wound; & pouder of centory will heale it To breake a boch or boyle. Take grownd [sill] & capons grease; & grind the together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. probatus est. Or take, worme wood, mallowes, wheate flower, lineseed & hony, seeth them all together in wine, & make a plaster, & bind it thereto very hot. probatus est. For the measles in young children. Take iulip, violets 2 ounces, rose water 4 ounces, oyle of vitriole 4 graynes, mixe them, & drinke it cold. this is a rare medicine. To kill a tetter. Annoynt the tetter with the iuyce of woodbine leaves, pbatus est To kill a canker or fellon. Take plantans beaten small, hony, alitle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, mixe these, & lay them thereon. To take away a wenne. Annoynt the wenne but three nights with the blood of a [tench] & it will fall away. probatus est. An oyntment for scabbes or ring wormes. Take the iuyce of the yellow daffodill, iuyce of dragons, iuyce of fennell, which is sower, of each 2 ounces, hogges grease halfe a pound, bouyle these together, untill the iuyces be boyled away, then put it into a morter, and mie it well with tartar, & fileings of lead, & that with [st??beth] on an oven or furnesse mouth, verdigrease, the ashes of a gourd, of each 2 drames, an ounce of quicksilver [killed] with fasting spittle, & as much vineger as shall suffice to incorporate all & make an oyntment of them. 133 For the shingles. Take moyst pigeons dunge, & barly meale, mixe them together & lay it to the sore then lay worte leaves about them, & let these ly a day & a night; then lay a fresh plaster: for 3 plasters will cure you bee the shingles never too greivous. probatus est. To kill a canker. Take running water, & water out of the smithes forge, & put therein rosemary, sage, honysuckle leaves, a good peece of rose allome, & hony, boyle them well together, & wash the place therewith, then make pouder of sage & smalage & lay upon the sore. probatus est. To cure an ague. Take briony, or the roote of white wine, called vitis alba, cut, & beate it in a morter with frankinsense bay salt, & turpintine, & lay it to your wristes. probatus est. To cure a burne with fier. Take sheepes tallow, & hennes dunge, fry them together, & straine out the iuyce, & annoynt the place. For swelled hands. Make a plaster with cow dunge, mixed with hony & vineger, & lay it thereto, when it is hard. For the dropsie. Take chick-week, ale, & oatemeale, make pottage thereof, & use it 9 dayes, & every day fresh. probatus est. For ach in the wombe. Take tansy, rue, & souther wood, eate it fasting. For the stone in the reynes Boyle baellium of arabia, & drinke thereof, it [p???eth] [illegible] & expelleth wind. For a strangury, & such as cannot make water. Boyle the rootes & leaves of plantan in white wine, & drinke it. or boyle [radice] rootes in white wine, & ad pou of hares furre burned & drinke thereof, it is a prefect remedy for the same. 134 To kill the swine pox. Take a handfull of wild tansy, worme wood, marygold leaves of each as much wash 7 dry them betweene a cloath cut & fry them with butter, and take the iuyce, & annoynt the pox there with For a burne or scald. Take creame, & fleece therein the midle rine of witch-hazle, or the rime of elder, & annoynt the place. To kill a tetter. Burne rushes upon a latine bason, & with the oyle which cometh thereof annoynt the tetter often. probatus est. A present remedy for the collick. Take wallnutts without the shells, seeth them in white wine, strayne it, & put in as much sugar candy as will sweeten it, & drinke it. probatus est. To take away wartes. Stamp egrimony & celendine with [illegible] it be thick. probatus est. For the mether. Take greene broome toppes stamp & temper them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. For ach in the feete with travailinge. Mixe stamped comein seeds with oyle olive, & annoynt the soles of the feete, & bind thereto a red [cole] leafe. For all manner of goutes. Take brimstone pouder, [grind] it with oyle olive on a stone & annoynt the gout before the fier. or take a red snayle, put it into an earthen pot, & put thereto salt, untill it bee melted, & therewith annoynt the place before the fier. To quench ones thirst. Take the roote of [loveage], stamp it & temper it with water, & drinke it 3 mights goeing to bed. probatus est. To stanch the menstruall blood in woemen. Take a toade dryed, & put it into a bag, & hang it about the woemans neck. probatus est by Mr May. To provoke the flowers. Take myrre, & cynomon of each zj of savine [illegible] parsly seed, smalage seed, spike nard, asarum, of each [illegible] make of all these a pouder, & take of it 3 [illegible] with the iuyce of eringus. It is good to take it with some liquor. For an itch. Take brimstone pouder & temper it with aqua vitae & salet oyle, & annoynt the scabbes therewith. probatus est. For the emrods. [illegible] sage in oyle of roses put it into a linen bag & lay it hot to 135 To make one soluble. Take raysins of the sunne, steepe them a night in water & hony, in the morning eate 20 or 30 of them with 2 spoonefulls of the liquor to 8 spoonefulls of water a spoonefull of hony For a laske. Take a new layd eg, break the shell & put out the white & keepe the yolk in the greater part of the shell, & put thereto a good deale of [veriayce], & stirre it together on the fier, & after wards [illegible] it up. probatus est. For paynes in the belly, & especially of such whose naule comes out. Take the pouder of burnt galls, mixe thereto the rine of a pine tree, or frankincense & the white of an eg, & lay it to. For paynes in the belly. Drinke the roote of aristologia; or dry comein seed, & take thereof 2 spoonefulls, with 8 spoonefulls of water or wine. Or chew comeing seed & swallow it downe. or bay seeds taken out of the skinne & made into pouder, & drinke thereof 9 spoonfulls with wine. or eringus rootes with wine, or elder boyled & drunke with sine. To make one laxative Take wheate branne, boyle it in water, & straine it; & take blanched almons, beate them in a morter & temper the with the water, & drinke it, or make it into a porrige. probatus est. For a payne in the stomack, for vomiting, the collick, in the spleene or liver, or the ague by fleame. Take anniseed 2 drames, mastick, spike, aromaticum, of each a drame, boyle them & drinke thereof. For the stomack payned, & cannot disgest, for an ague by cold, for appilations & the collick. Take of spike a drame, galingall 2 drames comin 3 drames, boyle them & drinke there of. To cure the idstillation of the urine. Take dayly in your drink psillicum, with oyle of roses. Or anacardina, methridate, & ieragelein. Alsoe trifera minor mixed with wallnutts & frankincense For the over much flowing of urine. Butterd milke, or iuyce of pomegranates drunke. Take acasia, 3 ij dragagant 3 j [illegible] dryed roses 3 iij beleorminate 3 iiij gume arabick 3 ij beate them 136 & sift them, & make it up with musilage of psallium, and take it with cold water. Or make a plaster with barly meale, vineger, & oyle of roses, & lay them to your back. Or drinke charned milke & milke hot from the cow. An oyntment for the same. Take frankincense 3 iij acasia, hipoquistides, labdanum, of each 3 iiij oyle of roses an ounce, [populeon] z ij pound then well in a morter & annoynt the reynes & privy partes therewith. Or take oyle of water lillyes, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, gume arabick the lesser cold seeds, red sanders, wallnutts dryed to pouder, roses, frankincense, myrre, cypres, galingall, cynomon enula make pouder of them. To stay the flux of urine. Take the litle skinnes of the [mames] of hennes, dry them to pouder in the skinne; a drame thereof; olibanum, dryed wallnutts, pomegranate flowers, galls, of each 3 drames, make a pouder of it all, & take of it fasting with cold water & hony of roses. For swelling in the codds. weare about your neck a parsnippe roote; or take bay leaves & rue leaves, & beate them together and lay them thereto. probatus est. To make one pisse. Drinke tansy & camomile iuyce with white wine. probatus est. To stay the flux of urine. It is very good to eate the lunges of a kidde. Or boyle barly & cast away the first red water, & fill it with fresh water, & boyle it again then straine it, & put to the liquor letice water, & endive water & drinke thereof after it is; but when it bouyleth put in myrtle leaves, & mithridate, or treakle. Pilles for those that pisse in bed. Take myrre, castoreum, costus, tormentilla wallnut shells, peritony, of each halfe an ounce, beate the & make them up with water of myrre moyst; or with the iuyce of myrkles, or [illegible], & after steepe take a drame, or a drame & an halfe. An excellent pouder for the same. Take [horse] mynt, that growes in the water, [peleuy] of the mountaine, 137 of each 3 drames; myrre a drame & an halfe, [cypresse], mustard seed, cardomomum, cypresse nutts, frankincense of each a drame, make it up with hony, & take the quantity of a nutt goeing to bed Or take a sheepes bladder & spread it upon a hot tyle, stone, or iron plate, & being dryed to pouder, drink thereof with water & vineger but it is farre better to drinke it with red wine made hot alitle. Or take chimolea (which is a certaine earth brought out of spaine) beate it small, & temper it with bullocks gall, & emplaster it on the [privities], & the back bone. For an ach or swelling in the knee. Take rue & loveage, stampe & mixe them together with hony, then fry them, & lay them warme to. pbatus est. To kill small wormes in the belly. Dry rue to pouder, & drinke of it dayly; Or eate it in broth first & last. or put it into wine & warme it & drinke thereof. probatus est. To kill the greater wormes. Make pouder of betony & savine, & put of it into hot water, & drinke of it some what warme. probatus est For a wrench. Boyle milke grated manchet, & fresh butter, or hogs grease together, untill it be thick, & lay it hot thereto. For one that is taken lame. Take a pint of maulmsy, [stond] horse dunge, a litle wax, boyle alltogether well, then put thereto a quantitye of comein pouder, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To provoke the menstrues. Take a head of garlick pilled, & put it into the matrix; it rpovoketh nightily. To bring out the pox, plague, meazles or other payne about the heart. Take 5 leaves of sage, 5 blades of safron dryed, & make them into pouder, a fig cut into small peeces boyle all these in faire water, drink it often. pbatus est. For one that is broaken Beate an onyon with mutton grease, & a litle oxe gall, & put it into a linen cloath, and lay it thereto. probatum est. 138 To provoke the menstrues in woemen. Take a lilly roote rosted in embers, then beate it & mixe it with oyle, & put thereof into the matrix. Or drinke lylly seedes, & it will bringe forth a dead child [perfectly]. Or boyle pennyroyall, & bake the matrix, it taketh away the swelling of the matrix; or drunken, or put into the matrix doth the same: soe doth calamynt or parsnipps, either drunken, put up, or fomentated. Sage boyled & drunken, or put up bringeth forth the [secundine]. To heale the emrods. Dry or burne dill seeds, & mixe it with hony, & layd thereto health them. Or take fileings of iron, & confect it with mullen, & lay it to, is most excellent. Or take old bumbast, & wet it in water wherein dill hat beene boyled, & after dry the bumbast, & mixe the [arse] therewith, & then make a suppository of it. Or take rosemary leaves bruised, & make a plaster, & lay it to the emrods. Or comon dirt healeth the flux of the emrods. Or make pouder of eg shells where in chickens have been hatched, & drinke it with white wine fasteing: this healeth them perfectly. If the emrods hange out is payne you much. Take old linen & hard pich, & upon this plaster lay the pouder of parsly rootes, & mastick, & lay this plaster thereto probatus ets. To stay the laske. Drinke acasia; or make a suppository of it, with soe much opium. Or boyle horehound with wine & oyle, & beate them well together, & emplaster it to the place about the privy members. probatus est. Or boyle or fry a sheepes liver with wax & eate of it hot, it stayeth the flux perfectly. Or boyle cowes milke, & put therein a peece of iron or a flint stone, & let them boyle well, & drinke thereof: this is a perfect remedy. Take beares grease: or wine & a new layd eg, with a litle salt & drinke of it fasting, & soe the second day, & fast a long hower after. Or drinke the pouder of tormentill, or the decoction of that [illegible] For those that spit blood. The gume of the peach tree, called gum persici {illegible] to the is [excellent], & [illegible] the matter in the lungs 139 For an old or new sore Take red leade, turpentine, oyle olive, & barrowes grease, boyle it until it bee stiffe upon a stick, then straine it, & put it into a vessell to keepe it in, & & make a plaster upon a linen cloathe & lay it to. To stay urine. Drinke the braine of a haire with wine. galbanu with wine drunke is good. soe is galingall soe used. To cure a burne. Take a raw eg, & lay it upon soft wooll: it is a most rare secret, to dry the sore. or annoynt it with [bola??iral] To stay the running of mans nature. Drinke the water wherein lenteles are boyled: hemp seeds, coriander seed, purslane seeds, charned milk upon it is sower: but take the water wherein these seeds are boyled. Or make plasters of hen bane, opium, camfire, the mustilage of flea worte, purselane, & oyule of poppie, oyle of roses, or oyle of [myrtles]. Or coriander seed, & water lilly seedes dryed. Purge from challer, let blood, & puoke to vomit. those hot things are good to dry up mans seed. rue, & his seed, agnus castus, calamynt, euforbiu comein; all things to dry up mans seeds must be taken with acetosum. Or take pine kernells, [shaled] & fryed & sifted, of [bdellium], of each 3 x. pomegranate flowers, red roses of each 3 w beate them & sift them & use them. [Chinconna] sayth that pine kernells loose their vertue by dryinge. Another for the same. Take dill seeds 3 iij letice seed, purselame seed of each 3 iiij & drinke them with water of lenteles. Or take letice seed 3 ij of [illegible] rue seed 3 j pomegranate flowers 3 ij seeds of lagnus castus 3 j all this for one dosse. Or take old conserve of roses 2 ounces put it into a morter & temper it with pouder made of pomegranate flowers, myrre in pouder, frankincense, mastick in pouder, anniseeds in pouder, comein in pouder, rue dryed to pouder, margerome dryed 140 to pouder, & sugar, & compound them well takeing of each a like quantity & litle portion & [morria] & soe eate of it dayly., probatus est L [Mr] May: remember to ad in the beating bolearminate of the [best] For a burne with fier. Take the yolke of an egge, or the whits of egges tempered with salet oyle, play it thereto. probatus est. Or take mutton suet, & hennes dunge, & fry the together, then straine out the iuyce through a cloath, & annoynt the burne therewith. probatus est. For the dropsie. Take the shaveings of sheepes skinnes, or [illegible] skinnes, & boyle them in water untill they bee thick as glew, & put it in a cloath, & bind it about your body. probatum est. For swelled feete or hands. Boyle elder leaves in water, & put thereto salt, & bath the swelling therewith. Boyule elder leave in oyle & wine & lay the thereto. To provoke the menstrues. Take coles, & lay thereon storax, & let the woeman sit over the fume thereof; it is good. To stay flux of urine. Take graynes of myrtle, wallnutts, frankeincense, comein, cypresse, of each a part beaten, & take with old wine 2 drames. Or take the leaves of myrtle dryed. Allome, leaves of aleanna, of each a part, boyle them with wine, & drink thereof an ounce at a time in the morning. Or take wallnutts, & steepe them in wine vineger 24 howers, & fry them in a panne then beate them & [take] thereof ten drames. Or take [currall], myrtle, frankincense, storax, dry the, pound them, & mixe them with hony and wallnutts dryed to pouder. Or take the wet end of a pulled cork, & burne it to pouder, & use of it twice or thrice a day. Or the stones of a hedgehog dryed to pouder: it is excellent good. 141 For a burne nerely done. Annoynt the place well with mustard, & good store, this will fetch out the fier, & heale it. To cure scabbes. Take litange beaten to pouder, gume tragagant, vitriole, equall proportions, incorporate them, with wine vineger, put them into a glasse & stop it close, & bury it in a moyst place amounth, & then annoynt the place therewith. All these are good to cure a burne. Hoggs grease, marse mallowes, acasia, [ince], allome, mayden haire, beete, burnt lether, white lillies, elder leaves, [inie], St Johns wort, wild letice, mallowes, an eg, plantan, [grose] leeks, sheepes dunge, pigeons dunge, and frankeincense. For swelled knees. Take rue & [loudage] stamped well together, mingle it with hony, & fry all together, & lay this plaster to the sore, somewhat warme, & the ach & swelling will cease. For ach or sores Take the rootes of holy haukes, seeth them tender, then grind them in a morter, & put thereto a quantity of wheate flower, & mingle them well together, & fry it with oyl olive, & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For biteing of an adder. Stampe, then temper centory with water & drink thereof, it is good for man & beast. OR stamp rue & temper it with oyle olive, & lay it thereto. For the plurisie. Make an hole in a mellow apple, & take away some within, & put therein 2 or 3 graynes of olibanum, then cover the apple againe, with the first peece out of, & rost it in the embers till it grew tender, then bruise it into 4 parts with the olibanum & eate it; it will instantly cause the apostume to breake,. probatus est per Roserum May. Or take the flower that sticks on the mill sides, make of it part with water, & soe make litle cakes 5 5. 142 of the bignes of a greate, bake them or fry them with oyle of scorpions, lay one very hot to the greise, rubbing it with oyle of scorpions, & when one cake is cold take another, doe soe 10, or 15 times, & in short time the apostume will breake, & you shall spit it forth. Or take a white leafe [leafe] very hot, & open it in the midle, spread upon both sides treakle, & bind both parts to the sides of the body upon the greife, let it rost 24 howers, or untill the postume breaks, which hath beene within 2 howers, & the bread beeing taken away, you shall voyld the putrifaction of the apostume. Or a bores tooth scraped into wine & drunke breakes the apostume of the plurisie. For an ach or bruise. Take [netes] foote oyle a pottle, an oxes gall, a pint of aqua vitae, as much rose water, bay leaves, rosemary stripped from the stalks, strawberry leaves, rootes & [wiers], lavander cotton, lavander spike, of each a handful, beat them small 7 put them into the sore sayd [stu??e], & boyle it on a soft fier in a panne of two gallons, but beware the flamme touch it not, & being well boyled, take it of & strayne it, but take not the bottome of it, & soe annoynt you therewith. For the plurisy & shortnes of breath. [pound] astrologia purgeth grasse humes from the lunges. For an old cough. Swallow downe the bignes of a leafe of myrre, it is excellent, & helpes from other paynes in the brest. Scrabigle is good for the lungs, & against the plurisy. For hardnes, & paynes in the arteryes & vaynes. Melt amoniack with vineger lest it burne, or beate it in a morter with vineger & lay it thereto. Mixed with nitrum oyle, it is good for a sciatica. mixed with vineger it is good for the spleene that is hard. Mixed with hony or pich, annoynting the [illegible] it helpes the hardnes. For a stitch. Take berryes or leaves of holly beate & mie them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. 143 For the sciatica Wringe out the iuyce of new horse dunge, & dry put to it a quantity of stronge vineger, & fry it, & as hot as may be put it into a linen cloath, & lay it to the greise; when it waxeth cold heate it againe with new vineger, & soe 3 or 4 times. probatus est. Or take a quart of the dreggs of very stronge ale, & a pint of wheat branne, boyle them together, & as hot as may be lay it to the place all night. probatus est. A notable oyntment to cure scabbes. Take a pint & a halfe of good wine, brimstone 3 ounces, frankencense 2 drames, salt 3 ounces, the roote strutium, alias condisi 4 ounces, white wax an ounce & a halfe; in the end of the boyleing ad liquid storax, a drame & a halfe, boyle all untill the [thine] part of halfe be confirmed, then let it settle & congele, & annoynt the palmes of your hands & where any scabs are. For a hot humour in the legge. Beate well the whits of eggs, & scume them cleane then take the iuyce of howse leeke & put to it, & annoynt the place. For paynes in the eares & head. Take 3 pounds of rue, bruyse it small, & boyle it with 3 pounds of salet oyle, untill a thine part bee wasted, & that the oyle wax greene, then strayne it through a cloth, & keepe this oyntment for your use. probatus est. For swelling in the codds. Take pouder of barly meale & good hony, fry them together, & make a plaster & lay it all about the codds, & bind it that it fad not of. probatus est. but remember to ad pouder of comein to it, when you fry it. For all manner of wrenches, bruises & swellings. Take 8 ounces of yellow wax, oyle of roses 8 ounces (bruce 8 ounces, camfire a drame, cut your wax small) & put it into a skellet with the oyle, & boyle them on a soft fier, alitle, then put in your [coruce] small beaten, & boyle these 3 a little, & when you perceive it somewhat yellow, put in your camfire beaten small, & boyle it a litle, then that make a [illegible] cloath, what is left make in roules for your use 144 An oyntment for all old & daungerous wounds. Take celandine, louvage, sage, scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them in a morter, & temper them with sheepes tallow, & oyle olive, of each a pound, let it stand in a vessell 9 dayes, then seeth it in a skellet, untill the herbs goe to the bottome, then strayne them, & set it over the fier, & put thereto two ounces of wax but in sumer 3 ounces, then put an ounce of mastick in pouder, frankincense, verdigrease, of each an ounce boyle it all together untill it be greene, when it is taken from the fier put to it an ounce of aloes epatike in pouder For a fellon. Take black sope, a chickens foot, ground sill, the yolke of an egge & bay salt beaten all together, untill it bee like a plaster, then lay it on. Protabus est. The excellent new plaster. Take smalage called apium, plantans, & betony, of their iuyce a pound, put it into a panne, & put thereto a quarter of a pound of new wx, halfe a quarter of frankincense white, & cleane, halfe a quarter of pitch, & refine, boyle them in the iuyce, & stirre it well, take it of & stirre it, & straine it, then take an ounce of turpintine, & temper it together & being cold hather it, & it is made; chafe it betweene your hands before you spread it. this doth many & great cures. A soveraigne medicine for a stich. Take rosemary & binds tongue, the leaves & berryes of [kn??] jelly, dry all these in the mounth of may June, or July, & make pouder of them, as fine as can be made, & drinke thereof for your stich. probatus est. For a dropsy swelling in the belly. Take flower dolure called gladin, stamp the roote small, & temper it with good ale, & boyle new milke, & put to it, as you would make a posset, & soe drink a good part fresh made on the morrow fasting. For swelling at the heart. Take goose dunge stamped with [eysill], & lay it to [illegible] To take away rednes in the leg or face. Take new warme goose dunge, lay it to the legge which hate an old bruise, & it shall take it away the same doe to the face. 145 To make the face well coloured & faire. Take the marrow of the bone of a swines foot, temper it with warme water, & annoynt the face. To make a cleere voyce. Fry elder flowers in the sunne, let it not rayne on them, make pouder thereof, & temper it with red wine, & drinke thereof. For gnawing in the wombe. Stampe red cole word, & take comein & vineger, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. To make flesh grow in all manner of wounds. Take turpentine 4 ounces, hony halfe an ounce, pouder of white frankencense one drame, safron the third pt of a drame take enough of the oyle of roses, & wax, & make a salve thereof. To clere the matter, & cause flesh to grow. Take turpentine, hony of roses strained, of each 4 ounces, myrre, [surcecell], of each 3 drames, barly meale an ounce, the yolke of an eg, halfe a drame of safron, mixe thm, & set it on the fier, & stirre it well, & when it is luke warme, put thereto the yolke of an egge. To stanch a greate fluxe. Take towne cresse & fry cropps of wood bind, which beareth the small hony suckles, stamp them in warme red wine, & drinke thereof first & last; & eate each day 5 greene leekes, or 3 at the least, with hot bread, drinke nothing but red wine, & let it be hot, used this 3 dayes, & it will certainely cure you. probatus est. To stay the over flowing of urine Drinke a hares braynes with beere or gallanu with wine. rost hazle nutts & take them. or take [gadingall]. For the mother which is fallen. Beat netle leaves, & put them into the matrix very good. Nettle seedes drunk in wine helpe the wombe swelled & [cheaked] up. Soe doth a sufumigation of myrre. Make a plaster of fearne, or worme wood & lay it to the naule. Or take cloves, treacle, & [illegible] dissolved into wine, drunke hot, it helpeth the hardnes of the mother. [rue] beaten & boyled in oyle with hennes grease & goose grease layd hot to, before & behind helpeth the matrix perfectly. Burne turpentine, & [receine] the sunne at the mouth of the matrix, it helpeth the hardnes thereof. 146 To cure a tertian ague. Take mellileke, celendine, white peppis, black poppy, salt & nettle beaten strongly together, & layd to the pulse pbatus est. Drinke the iuyce of plantans before the fit [co??eth] Drinke the iuyce of pimpernell when the fit is upon you; theis cureth the ague. probatus est. Drinke the iuyce of surrory or smalage. probatus est. [illegible] beaten cobwebbs about your nose, excellent. Or by garlick about the body helpeth a quotidian. pbatus est. To stop a mervailous great flux, if any thing will. Take a pint of milke as it comes from the cow in a faire vessell, & set it on the fier, & bind fast as much [rech] allome in a lumpe, as will equall the bignes of three cherry stones, & seeth it in the milke, untill it curdle like a posset, then take the curd & eate it, & drinke the whay, all at a meale, & drinke noe other drinke ly warme first on one side then the other, doe this three times. probatus est. To stay the excessive running of urine. Take mithridate & treacle, & drinke thereof with wine, & annoynt the codds & parts about them with oyle of castor, & oyle of lillyes mixed together. To heale a greene wound. Take sage, isope, rue, worme wood, camomile, astrologia, which is round, betony, mugworte, wild tansy, egrimony, vervine, plantan scabiose, rib worte, pimpernell, southerwood, of each a handfull, stamp them small, then take a quart of oyle, & a pound of butter, & put it into a pan & boyle or fry the herbes well therein, then put thereto frankincense & myrre, & straine them well, then put therein the iuyce of watercresses, & it is made. For swelling or ach in the feet Make a glewell of oatemeale & milke, then ad the iuyuce of singreene & sheepes suet, let them boyle till it be thick, then make a plaster upon a cloath, & lay it all about the sore, as warme as may be. pbatus est. An oyntment to strengthen the reynes. Take oyle of the water lilly, oyle of violets, of each halfe an ounce, red sanders a drame, cynomen halfe a drame, vineger halfe an ounce, with a litle waxe & soe make an oyntment therewith. 147 For such whose water goes fro them by dropping. [ ?igella] fryed is good. Burne comein, & ty it in a linen cloath, & smell thereto; it is a perfect remedy. To purge fleame & comfort the stomack & nerves. Take the pouder of agaricke, & drinke oximell for three or foure dayes, evening & mnorning. For aches, the sciatica, & bruises. Take white lead a quarter of a pound, coruce an ounce & a quarter, beaten small, salet oyle halfe a pinte put the oyle into a pipkin, set it on the fier, & when it boyles put in the coruce, & straine it well, & boyle it till it looke cleene, as water, then put in the white lead, & stirre it till it be black, & cold spread it, & ly it thereto. To know whether the stone be in the blader or in the reynes. Take the herbe morsus galind, chick wood, boyle them in water & enmplaster it upon the [pr??ie] partes, & the yarde, & if the payne increaseth, the stone is in the blader, if not, it is in the reynes. For the stone. The rine & berryes of the bay tree drinke breaks the stone. Or take 7 heads of garlick, boyle them long in water, & drinke thereof 3 dayes, & if it will breake the stone. Or boyle the leaves of [em?la] campana in wine, & plaster them thereto. To breake the stone. Drinke the iuyce of limons; Or annoynt the privy partes with the grease of a fox. Or take pellitory beaten & made hot, & layd to the privityes. Or take radice rootes, & make roules thereof, the number of tenne, or more, & put them into white wine all a night & drinke of that wine in the morning fastinge untill the stone come forth. The reynes, dunge, & the blood of an part; & the pouder of the paine of an part is excellent for the stone. To stay the whites. Take a pottle of water, halfe an ounce of cynomon 148 pills of pomegranate halfe an ounce, knot grasse halfe a handfull, boyle these till the water come to a pinte & make candles thereof, for three mornings, take the thine part every morning probatus est. The vertue of oximel. It is to purge fat & grosse fumes, & for knottes in the flesh & artiryes. To comfort one that is weake. Take 3 sheepes hearts, & cut of the fat from them, stire them & wash them cleane from the blood with red rose water, then dry them with a linen cloath, & put in the out side of each heart 6 cloves, after they have been steeped a night in red rose water, then take the striggs of rosemary, the leaves being pulled of, & lay them in a clean earthen panne, upon which striggs lay the hearts, & put to them more red rose water, after the have been steeped a night, & put to the new red rose water 6 ounces of white poudered sugar, & cover the panne with a white paper, & over that a linen cloath, & ty them fast, & set the panne in an oven to bake with bread, & being baked take the liquor from the hearts, & drinke it often it hath done very much good to weake [illegible] For the quarterne ague Goe to bed halfe an hower before the fit comes, let there be coles set by the bed side, & drinke with mustadell or maulmsy as much assurabacca as will ly upon two crownes of gold, the wine must be luke warme, then be covered very warme, & [illegible] the more you vomit the better it is, as you sweat be mixed with warme cleathes. Then take sage, rue, & sheapherds purse, of each a like quantity, stamp them, & sprinkle them well with white wine vineger, & bind it to your wristes, let it ly soe a day, & the next day take it of, when the fitt comes againe, lay on to your wrists as be fore, & take of the sayd drinke, & sweate as before, and withall when your fit is of & you coole, you may rise if you will, but let the fit be well over; 149 This is fir a tertian ague alsoe & by gods helpe you shall be cleere from it at three times thus doeing as is mentioned. For an ague Make iuyce of camomile, & mixe it with oyle, & annoynt the back bone, & the pulps before the fitt cometh, & you shall be cured perfectly Or take 2 handfulls of nettles cobwebbes & bay salt, of each an ounce, beate them well together, & in the beateing, put therto of fasting spittle, & make of it 4 plasters, & lay it to the pulses or wristes. probatus est. [hemlock], rag-weed & bay salt well beaten together, & layd to the wristes cureth an ague. Or make a kake of flower & the [pitients] wrime, bake it then burne it & cast it away. For the head ach in an ague. Take a long onyon, out of the crowne, core it & fill it full of the pouder of frankencense, then cover it, & rost it, & crushed together lay it to the nappe of the neck. For a quarterne ague drinke beere for a tertian drink cold water. A laxative pouder. Take of [se?e] halfe an ounce in pouder, a quantity fo spikenard bruised, an ounce of ginger pouder, bruise them well all together, & [searce] them, then put a pirtty quantity thereof into the pap of an apple, & eate it towards bed time To dissolve wind in the stomack. Boyle enulacampana rootes in wine & drinke it. Or make pouder thereof, & drink it in wine; or mixe this pouder with cynamon pouder & drinke it with wine. A very excellent water to heale all sores possible to be healed. Boyle faire water & take it from the fier, & then 150 make this pouder following take of [reach] allome halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of greene vitrioll seeth these in the water, and stirreing it, let it seeth till it be dry, then beate it to small pouder; of this pouder cast into the sore, where is dead flesh or proud flesh; or lay a litle lint thereupon, & a plaster of flos unguentorum above layd, & remoove it not in 12 dayes, till it come away freely & easily Or seeth a quantity of water as before, & taken from the fier put therein the afore sayd pouder, & let it seeth a while, then put it into a cleane vessell, & keepe it for your use To remedy shrunken sinewes Take water cresses, camomile, of each a handfull, grind them small, & fry them with wheat meale, & hony, & lay it very hot thereto. To cure a hot impostume take wheaten creame, & boyle it in water & oyle & make thereof a plaster. Or take the oyle of camomile, dill, & bayes, of each an ounce, put therto a litle wax & make thereof an oyntment. Or to make a mollificative unguent for the same, take musilage, holy hauke, fenigreeke seed, flaxseed, of each an ounce, of old oyle, hennes grease, oyle of lillies, oyle of bayes, oyle of camomile, of each a like portion, a litle butter with waxe, & confort these into an oyntment, & [preserve] it; But if the party have a fully body, & full of humours, then purge him first, according to the humours, which oppresse the body; & afterwards lay this mollificative oyntment thereto. Or make a plaster for the same; take oyle of roses, & balsominake, & mixe them together. Or take a handfull of mallowes; of worme-wood, & roses, of each 5 ounces, barly, branne an ounce, oyle of camomile a fourth part, boyle them then beate them, & make a plaster thereof. 151 For biteing of a mad dogge. Beate fennell with water, & lay it thereto. To cure an old sore legge. Take butter & fry it, & put thereto refine in pouder, & fry them together, & apply it. probatus est. To kill an itch in the legge Take hony, boleorminake, & greene coperesse, grind them small, & annoynt the leg therewith three dayes together. Or take red lead, coruse, boleorminake, & a litle coporesse, grind them small with vineger & barrowes grease, & put thereto the yolk of an eg, & annoynt the leg therewith. pbatus est. Emplasters to breake a sore or to draw forth venome Take figgs, [grees], wwheat beaten, equally portients, beate them all together, & lay it thereto. with stoned resines & hony; or sparrowes dunge mixed with hoggs grease; or glasse beaten small & mixed with turpintine; oyle boyled with ashes; Or take cantharides 10 in number, an ounce of refines, of [illegible] an ounce & a halfe, scabiose, the herbe doggs tongue, consolida the greater, antepharmaci, of each an ounce, incorporate them with oyle of lillies: but if you will make it stronger, ad thereto salt & vervine, caked columbina herba, & rue, of each two drames. Or take auripigmentum, pepper, of each two drames, 10 figgs & hony sufficient to make a plaster. Alsoe galbanu, white lilly rootes, mans dunge, consolida the greater, ground betweene two stones. Or [levon] 4 ounces, mustard seed, rue, scabiose, worme-wood, of each a handfull, white illly rootes a third part, vitrioll two drames, cantharides 10 in number, galvanu an ounce rotten nutts 3, oyle of white lillies sufficient; boyle the herbs & roots in the oyle, & ad the other ingredients allowing to art & ake a plaster 152 Temperate plasters. Take of marshmallowes 2 ounces, a head of a lylly roote, branne of flax seed, of each an ounce & a halfe, boyle them in water, & beate them well with [leven] & old hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. Or take 2 handfulls of branne not throughly sifted, & boyle it in vineger. Or vervine mixed with oyle of roses & vineger. Or onyons boyled in butter, adding therto figgs, & [leven], with oyle of camomile. Or take mallowes, & marshmallowes, & frabiose of each a handfull, boyle the herbes in common water, with the with incorporate branne beat the herbes, & mixe them all together, with an ounce of hennes grease, & as much of oyle of camomile, safron halfe a drame, this is a most delicate & excellent plaster. Or take scabiose, the herbe doves foote, cicory, & consolida the greater. Or an emplaster made with apopanax beaten with resines stoned. Or assa, nitrum, & rue mixed with hony. or annoynt it with treacle, & lay thereon onyons & mallowes boyled together. To make a greene salve. Take celydony, [Le??age], [sa?ery], scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them small in a morter, & temper it with sheepes tallow & oyle olive, of each a pound let it stand in a cleane vessell 9 dayes, & then boyle them untill the herbes sinke to the bottome, then straine it, & set the iuyce over the fier, if you make it in winter put but 2 ounces of wax thereto, if in sumer take 3, then put thereto pouder of mastick frankencense, and verdigrease, of each an ounce, & boyle alltogether untill it bee greene, then take it downe, & put thereto an ounce of aloes opatike in pouder; this is an excellent salve for all old wounds or sores. 153 A soveraine remedy for sore or cut. Take a litle fine flax, & alitle hoggs grease, & choppe them small, & make a plaster thereof. A water to heale a sore or cut. Take red fennell, red sage, isope, rosemary, daysy leaves, saffron, [neppe], & allome, of each a like quantity, save only the daysy leaves, more then of any other, boyle them, & straine them, & apply it. Unguentum jacobi, vel emplastru jacobi Take of lapis calaminaris a pound, of the magnet stone, an ounce, of terra sigillata an ounce, boleorminake an ounce, litarge of gold an ounce, mummia an ounce, of the [liver] of a [wether] a pound, camfire halfe an ounce, and of turpentine as much as will suffice Finis Deo gras 154 To make aquamirabalus Take gallingall cubibs cardimons and [illegible] mace nuttmegs ginger cloves and synamon of each of all theas a dram beat them into avery fine pouder then [take] the iuce of sallendine on pinte and a quantity on pinte of white wine 3 pints putt all this into a still and lett them steepe togather on night then still itt with a temperate fire when it is [illegible] [illegible] in a [illegible] bags of [illegible] in the glass then sweeten it with sugar as you pleas 157 The third booke of admirable good receites. For the head ach. Take elder leaves, made hot between 2 tile stones, & lay them hot to the forehead & temples. A salve good to draw the head. Take gume elemy, turpentine, of each a quarter, as much fresh grease & melted suet, melt these together & straine it, & beat it till it be cold. For a paine in the head, sorenes in the eyes, for rhume, & all moyst humors. ake a gallon & a halfe of faire water from the fountaine, steepe therein an ounce of some, 3 ounces & a halfe of saxaperilla, [skined] & scraped thinne, an ounce of liquorice, scraped & [skined], let them steep 24 howers, then boyle away the [illegible] part, then put in an ounce of armadeculas seaton small in a morter, & set it on the fier againe, & let it have but one [whame], you must rrink this 20 dayes together & eate soft meate & bread & resines of the sunne For the tooth ach, or rhume in the eyes. Take a pound of stone pitch, 3 or 4 ounces of [illegible], 8 ounces of resin, 4 ounces of frankincense, melt all together, & straine it, then beate to pouder 4 ounces of comein seed, & seare it, then take halfe an ounce of cloves, 2 ounces of labdanum, one quarter of an ounce of saffron, beate these together, & put them to the rest which are melted, & boyle it a litle, then take it from the fier, & keepe it with stirring, untill it bee thick enough to make up in roules, & then put it into an earthen pot & ‘ keepe it for your use. 158 For the tooth ach. Take iuy berries well sodden in vineger or white wine; sup up some of the liquor hot, & when it is cold, spit it out: this helpeth the tooth ach. For the same. take a pinte of white wine vineger, a handfull of barberries bruised, boyle them together till some be consumed, then put thereto a spoonefull of pap or well beaten, let them boyle together, * as hot as you can suffer gargle it on that side the paine is, & spit it out, & soe use it 3 or 4 times. For an ague. take a handfull of mousegrease, & boule it in a quart of white wine, & good ale, & boyle it, till it be halfe consumed, then straine it, & sweeten it with hony & sugar & drinke it, before the ague [illegible] to come, then ly downe covered with as many cloathes as you can suffer, & when you beginne to burne, take posset ale, made with these herbes; burrage, endive, dandelyon, cinafole, violets, & fennell, & take noe other drinke during the time of the fit, use this 5 or 6 times. For the shakeing ague take a hennes egge, take out the white, & fill the shell with aqua composita, & drinke it up perfectly, or else it will dry up the yolke, & ly downe, for you will vomit perfectly; this will helpe you without doubt, for it hath often beene [pro?ed]. For an ague: hang this subscribed about your neck, but noe body must looke on it but hee that writes it Before the gates of Jerusalem comeing on a soudaine [illegible] Genl Jesus Christ sayd on to Peter, why lyest thou here, peter sayd, I ly sick of an ague, Jesus answered him, rise & dismisse 159 it, this evill ague beeing dismissed he sayd I beseech thee [illegible] Jesus, that whosever hath these words about them the evill ague hot or cold may not hurt them; be it done as you hast desired, Have mercy upon me olord, & deliver me o Lord from agues & all evill in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen. For an ach or stitch. Take a pound of glack sope, 2 or three handfulls of [culver] or pigeons dunge, yoolkes of egges, lineseed, feny greeke seed, of each 2 or 3 ounces, boyle all these in cowes milk, & make a plaster thereof; then take new crow foote, alexanders, of each 2 or 3 handfulls, bruise them & make a plaster & lay it to the place where the ach or stitch is. For bruised stones take mallowes, colemorte, of each a like much, seeth them, then bruise them, & doe away the water, & put the herbes in a pan, & put thereto barly flower, & the yoolke of an egge, & fry them together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. For a black or blew face with a blow. take hemlock, & distill it, & not the place therewith the space of an hower, doe it with a cloath, & let the water be warme. To stanch the bleeding of a wound. Take a handfull of hot horse dunge, bind it fast to the wound, the space of 2 days & 2 nights. probatus. To stanch bleeding at the nose. [chese] words (confumatum est) written in the fore good of the pty that bleeds much [illegible] same bleed, stayeth it. To take away the burning caused by gunpouder. take hony, black sope, of each halfe a pound, two 160 ounces of bay salt beaten to pouder, boyle all alitle, then put it in a faire put or box, & when you use it, lay it on a linen cloath, & apply to the place eveninge & morninge. For a payne or heate in the back take sanders & rose leaves, lay them in rose water a whole night, then wash your back therewith it takes away the paine, heate, & comforteth very much the reines. For weakenes in the back. take a brest of mutton, & boyle it in milke, & put therein a good quantity fo whtie archangell blossomes, & when the mutton is soden drinke the milke, & eate the mutton, not having eaten any thing before, that day. For a sore brest Take a penny worth of white coporesse, halfe a pint of white wine, seeth the wine, then put it into a pot, & put the coporesse to it, and annoynt the sore therewith every evening & morninge For choped hands Beate the whtie of an egg, & mie it with the pouder of mastick & annoynt the hands therewith. For a consumption Take the hinder part of a bore pig, with the stones cleane scraped, put it into a pot, with 2 gallons of running water, let it boyle a good hower then put in (when it is scumed) a handfujll of cleary [chops] of rosemary, as much tyme, eat them alsoe seeth therein a good time with a pound of rasines & a pound of prunes halfe a pound of dates small cut, & strained into a linen cloath, & [illegible] till the dates be tender, then grind them in some of the liquor, & straine it into the pot, then take ahandfull of the 161 pitch of an oxes back picked & washed, then seeth the pth in some of the piggs broth, then cut the skinne of the pith, & straine it into the rest, & let the rest be [thicked] therewith, & let all seeth together, then power all into a colinder, & after through a strainer, then take a quantity of sanders finely beaten, & afew cloves & mace, to [amend] the tast, & let all stand alitle together, then straine it through a fine linen cloath, & drinke thereof evening & morning, as yoiur stomack will beare it. For the collick & stone take fotherfew, doves dunge, pellitory of the wall, of each a handfull, wring the herbes in [sunder], & fry all in fresh butter, then put all in a linen bag, & lay it to the greife as hot as you can suffer it, & it will put the payne from that place, & when you feele it remoove, apply this thereto, & it will in short time drive it quite away. To heale a cut or greene wound take soe much turpentine as an egge, & beat it well with the yolkes of two eggs, then lay it on lint, & dayly dresse the wound, & it will cure it. To heale a cut or bruise. take herbe grace, sene, plantan leaves, [orpine], hemlock, valerian, tustan, rag wort, gratia dei, mallowes, of each a great handfull, then take 6 pounds of sheepes a pound of turpentine, bruise the herbes, & put all into a great pot, & let it boyle, straineing it often, & if it rise up, take it of, least it run over, then set it on again, & doe thus 3 or 4 times untill it be well sod, then straine it through a course cloath, & when it is all most cold, make it up into roules or cakes, & you may keep it 2 or 3 yeares very good. 162 A water to heale all wounds in a short time. take a pound or as much as you please of new yellow wax, melt it, then put it into a pan or dish, wherein must be maulmesy, mustardell, or white wine, then take it out of the wine & melt it againe, then power it againe upon the same wine, doeing thus 7 times; then take the same wax, & melt it on the fier, & mixe it with a handfull of [bricke] finely beaten to dust, incorporate these together, & put it into a crooked necket viall of glasse, with didistillers call, a bag pipe, clay it up to the midest of the neck, & let it distill first with a litle fier, for the space of 8 howers, then after make your fier greater, & at last very great, after the oven & all is cold againe, you shall take the water out of the recipient, & power it into a viall well stopped with wax & [illegible] cloath, soe that it neither take vent, nor stand neere the sune or fier; for it is of soe fine a subatance, that it would fly & imediately vanish. you must not & moysten the wound with this water, & bind a cloath thereupon, steeped in the same water, It is also good for shrunk sinewes,, and if this water be well & naturally distilled the second time, it is of soe fine & [pierceing] a substance, that it will pierce through the palme of your hand in a moment. For the cough or tisick. Boyle penny royall in milke & a peece of sweete butter, & suck it through a ring with a quill. For the cough of the longes. take 3 pints of running water, halfe a pound of Portugall sugar, 9 figgs, anniseeds & liquorice bruised, of liquorice a spoonefull, anniseeds but halfe a spoonefull, a handfull of resines of the 163 sunne, cleane washed & stoned, a penny worth of mayden haire, with a quantity of ispo, & coltfoot, boyle all together, till halfe or more be consumed, then straine it through a fine cloath, & take every morninge two spoonefulls luke warme To put away the crampe. The fingeres rubed between the toes, goeing to bed, especially when the toes smell most, & the fingers are most swelled. For deafenes. Take good [sinet], & put it into the eares. To bring any quick thing out of the eares. Take a white leafe hot out of the oven, & breake it in the [midest], & apply it to the eare. For breake the flowers. Take a potle of sea water, a potle of white wine a pinte of bay salt, 3 handfulls of hemolck, boyle them all in a new earthen pot, to the halfe, then take of, & fit close over it covered close with cloaths round about, when it is cold, heate it againe, & soe goe to bed, & cover your selfe warme, & the flowers will breake. To breake the flowers. Take a gallon of water from the spring, a pound of resines stoned, 3 ounces of liquorice, cleare it, & take out the pith, 3 fennel rootes, that have not borne seed, & take out the pith, 3 alicampane roots, if they be small, if great but one, & still it, & take out the pith, then take halfe a pint of barly & boyle all together, till it be consumed to a quart, & drinke thereof every morning & evening 8 spoonefulls at a time beeing warmed, as hot as you can well drink it. To stay the flowers. take 3 pints of red wine, a litle of the pill of pomgranate, with 4 of the flowers, sinomon, sugar candy, halfe a handfull of red rose leaves, with some seeds, boyle these 164 alltogether until they come to a quart. For the bloody flux. take three hawthorne berries, bruise & straine them into milke, with 2 or 3 sheetes of white paper, & a quantity of cynomon pouder, & boyle all together making it thick like pap, & straine it, & lay it to the greife. A pultis for the hot goute. Take the mosse of hazle, which is towards the sunne, spread it small, & boyle it in stronge ale grounds, then thick it with wheate meale, untill it be thick to make a plaster, & lay it to the payne as hot as you can suffer it, & use it, & you shall find ease. To make white hands. Take sparrowes dunge, mixed with warme water, & wash therewith; or take the rootes of nettles soe in the same water. For the jaundies. Take selidony one pound, liquorice a quarter of a pound, a gallon of water, shave & bruise the liquorice well, & seeth all together to a pottle, and drinke thereof fastinge. For the black iaundies. Shell snayles rosted & dryed to pouder, & a spoonfull at a time drunke in ale, & soe used ten dayes together, cureth the black iaundies. A gargarisme for falling of the tuola. Take the waters of sage, wood bind, & plantan distilled, of each a like quantity, boyle them with some hony, & scume it cleane, & put into it a litle burnt syrop of mulberries with it, & when you neede gargarige therewith all cold, Alsoe the greene [illegible] of the flower de luce sowed about one neck or throate is very good both to keepe up the pallate, & to helpe the almonds of the throate. 165 A tisan to clense the liver. Take liver wort, harts tonge, of each a handfull, isop, long wort, betony, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, alicampane, fennell, parsly, of each one roote, a pritty quantity of anniseeds, & liquorice, a handfull of resines of the sunne, stoned, two dates cutt, boyle these in 3 quarts of runing water, to the hald, then straine it, & drinke a good quantity luke warme morning & evening. For the liver that is wasted. Take a gallon of runing water, an once of liquorice bruised, harts tongue, violet leaves, sowthistle, sorell, & endive water. To make lozings Take halfe a pound of fine sugar, & melt it in 3 or 4 spoonefulls of rose water, a good handfull of rosemary flowers finely cut, boyle these as high as manus christi. and handing fine sugar, strew it thereupon, as you doe manus christi. Or you may take the blew leaves of violet flowers, & use them instead of the rosemary; or else red gylly flowers, takeing on ly the red, & cutting away the white; this is farre better, then the iuyce. For the morphew. Take a penny worth of brimstone flower, & temper it in a saucer of wine vinegar, untill you shall see or pceive noe brimstone, & in bed annoynt your selfe therewith, for 2 or 3 nights together, and this will cure you. probatus est. 166 To place the mother. Take rosemary, mynts, mallowes, seeth them in white wine & water, & keepe the pot close, that the breath goes not out, while it is seething, then warme your self ready to goe to bed, & sit over it 5 nights together, then other 5 nights take a chafeing dish & the pouder of myrre, mastick, labiam, frankencense, & sit over the brath thereof, & it shall establish & settle the mother againe. To remoove the mother or spleene. Take the newest dunge of a pig, fry it in barrowes grease, or fresh butter, spread it on a cloath the breadth of one hand, covering it with a cloath, & set your fundament upon it as hot as you can suffer, doe thus 3 times, & keepe your selfe warme after it. Or take wild sage, maydens haire, heartes tongue, clary, dry them & make thereof pouder, & use to drinke it in good ale or beere. A water for a sore mouth. Take a pottle of white wine, a quarter of a pound of clarified hony, 2 ounces of white coperesse, with sage, rosemary, & wood bind leaves, spread the herbes small, & let it boyle to the halfe , then straine it, & when you will use it, make it hot, & wash your mouth therewith. A water for melancholy & trembling of the heart. Take of the flowers of rosemary, burrage, & rootes of buglasse of each a like, of saffron a drame, of the [illegible] 4 ounces, of good white wine well digested & cleered 2 pints, mixe 167 these together, & let them stand 24 howers, but put them in a glasse, & then bury the glasse body in house dunge for 15 dayes, then draw it out, & distill according to art 2 or 3 times over, the quantity to be administered is a drame. For melancholy proceeding from the spleene. Once a weeke take fasting in warme porridge a spoonfull of pouder of time finely [searced]; twice a weeke take 7 spoonefulls of harts tongue water warmed, with a litle sugar, take this last a day or two after the other, & you must stay a day betwixt the takeing of the harts tongue water. The harts tongue leaves must be gathered that day the moon changes, below the sunne riseth, & then distill them. To restore comfort & nature. Take handfull of mallowes, half a handfull of mercury ty them with a thread, & boyle them in 3 pints of water, with prunes, resines, & a cock chicken, let them seeth till it be soft, then straine it from the liquor, stamp it, & put to it a quantity of sanders, & mace, & let it boyle with the cock, & eate of the same. For the greene sicknes. Take a pottle of ale, seeth it, & scume it, then put to it fennell rootes, parsly rootes, harts tongue, liver wort, of each a handfull, liquorice & anniseeds of each 2 ounces, french barly bruised, red currants, of each 2 handfulls; boyle all, till halfe the ale be wasted, then straine it, & drinke of it in the morning, & the after noone, alwayes fasting 2 howers after you please to take it. 168 Doctor Turners receite for the plague. Take pimpernell, scabies, egrimony, sentury, harts tongue, liver wort, betony, dragons, angelico, sage, rosemary, costmary, mayden haire, [sidrake], tormentill, turmorick, angention, worm wood, carduus benedictus, red rose leaves, lay all these in steepe a night in a [ranary] wine. For the piles.’ Take treacle, & lay it upon a browne paper, & soe lay it on the sore. For a pin, web, or perle in the eye. Crate white ginger on a whetstone, & beate it with a litle coperosse, when you goe to bed put some of it into the eye with a quill, when it hath beene there a litle, take ground iuy, stamped & strained with fresh milke, & put 3 or 4 drops into the eye evening & morning, after the ginger hath beene in the eye halfe an hower. To remoove the web or spots in the eyes. Take stock gilliflower leaves, daysy roots, of each halfe a handfull, a spoonefull of by salt, beate the well together, & lay it upon both the wristes, betwixt a [laune] or thinne cloath, & use it 2 or 3 nights when you goe to bed; this is Doctor Turners. probatus est. For the paulucsy. Take rosemary, sage, herbe maudlin, of each a handfull, camomile flowers 3 handfulls, & with salot oyle make an oyle thereof, as you make oyle of roses, & annoynt the patient. A water for the skinne the privy place, if it be gone. Take a quart of springe water, violet leaves, columbine leaves, cinafole leaves, valerian, 169 & rose leaves, if you can, of all together as many as you can gripe in the your hand, spread them small, & put thereto a spoonefull of hony, the waight of 12 d of aristologia, boyle alltogether, till 3 parts be consumed, & warme it when you use it. An especiall oyntment to annoynt the small pox, when the be full come out. Take a [postret] of seething water from the fier, & set a dish with sweete eating butter upon it to melt, then power the butter into a bason of faire cold water, & cold, take of the upermost of the butter, with a spoone, & put it into a faire dish againe, & melt & use it as before 3 times; then put up the cleere of the butter into a gally pot or glasse, & when you use it, take a litle in a saucer, and melt it as before, soe that it come not neere the fier, & with a feather annoynt the places very often both day & night, that the scabs may never be dry, & soe long as any rednes ariseth anywhere annoynt the places, let not the pty come neere any fier with his face, nor take any [illegible], but keepe him soe, that his face may alwayes be warme, untill all the daunger bee past. For running of the reines. Take a penny worth of currants the like of dates 6 yolkes of eggs, a good quantity of clary, fry all these in fresh butter [unwashed], & make collops or fritters thereof, & eate 3 or 4 of them warme. For weakenes of the reines of the back. Take comfry, clary, [neppe], archangell, of each a like quantity, the pith of an oxes bark, boyle these in running water, the herbes being cut small, put therewith a litle sugar candy to sweeten it. For a fistula. Take greene coporesse halfe an ounce, mercury sublimate a quarter of an ounce, good allome an ounce, 170 a quart of running water, seeth these together till all bee dissolved, & keepe it in a glasse for your use. For the same. Take running water, allome, treacle, hony, hony suckles, elder leaves, wild sage & barke, all sod together, & strained, & with a silver pipe spoute of this water to the wound. A plaster for a fistula. Take refine turpentine, wax, of each 3 ounces, barrowes grease a quarter of a pound, frankincense halfe an ounce dissolved, set it on a soft fier, & make thereof plasters, & plegets, & apply it. For all swellings Take ground sill, chilliment, daysies, rubarbe, pettimorrell, bruise & stampe them, & set them over the fier, let them boyle well, & as hot as you can suffer lay it to the sore; probatus. For swellinge. Chop water cresses very small, & put them into the lyes of white wine, & put thereto a handfull of wheaten branne, & sheepes tallow, then seeth all together untill it bee thick, then make a plaster & lay it to the swelling, but let it first stand to coole & pottle 24 howers. Or take the iuyce of morell, alias nightshade, & the curd of an hot posset well beaten, together, make a plaster thereof & lay it to the swelling. For an ach or swelling in the knees. Take [rew] & loverage, & stamp them together with hony, then fry them, & lay the plaster warme thereto, & it will cure you. For those that sweat too much. Take line seed & letice, stamp it together, & lay it to the stomack; use it till it helpe you. For the stomack. Take worme wood, red roses, crumes of bread, wine 171 vineger, boyle it on a chafeing dish of coles, then put it in a bag, & lay it to your stomack, and noe doubt but it will cu re you. A salve for all sores. Take a pint & a halfe of oyle olive, a pint of turpentine, a pinte & an halfe of [illegible] a quarter of a pound of unwrought wax. halfe a pound of sheepes tallow, 2 handfulls or rag wort, 2 of plantan, & 2 of orpine, cut the herbes small, boyle all together, softly, & alwayes stirreing it, untill it be well mingled, then take it of, & straine it through a stronge canvas cloath. To draw wood or iron out of the flesh. Stamp valerian & ty it with a linen cloath to the flesh, wherein is wood or iron, & it will draw it forth. For a straine with a dry cough. Take isope, pimpernell, penny royall, 2 [chernes] of saffron, 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice, a handfull of scabies, boyle all together with some violets, lettice, & beetes, & make it in posset ale, & drinke of it first and last. An especiall and approoved water called aqua-composita, for a surfet, or for a colde stomack. Take a handfull of rosemary, a good roote of alicampane, a painfull of isop, a handfull of sage halfe a handfull of time, 6 or 7 cropps of sweet margerome, liquoice, aniseeds, of each 8 ounces, harts tongue, century, hore hound, of each a handfull, red mints, penny royall, not a handfull of each, cut & wring these herbes in sunder, take out the pith of the alicampane, & [stire] the roote, put all in a brasse pot with 3 gallons of stronge ale, & one gallon of wine lies, cover the pot close & let it stand all night; then set it on the 172 fier, till it beginns to boyle, then take it of, & set the limbeck upon the pot, & stop it close with past, the foote of the limbeck must be fit for the mouth of the pot, & the pot not too full, least it make the aqua composita looke thick, & the limbeck must be kept with cold water upon the top, with a temperate fier under, & when it beginnes to drop 6 spoonefulls, cast heat away, the rest is both & strongest, & let it runne, soe lone as it continues in one strength, when it waxeth weaker, take the first away, & set another glass under, & let it runne, soe longe as it runneth cleere, nor waxeth whiten, then the former, when it changeth, take another glasse, & let it sunne soe longe as it can; & upon you will make now put this last into the still againe: you must take good heed, upon the change is, that aire enters not the limbeck. To clense an old sore. Take bilders, rag wort, & if you can, the burs of greene oaken leaves, of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine, & a quart of water, & put therein as much as an egge of allome, boyle it to the half, then straine it, & use to wash the sore therewith, & wet lint therin, & lay it upon the sore twice a day. For a fresh sore or wound. Take an ounce of oyle of roses, an ounce of turpentine, & a litle verdigrease, then waigh as much as will make a plaster, & lay it thereon. For a sore that will not heale. Take rosewater, red wine vineger, of each a like quantity, wet a fine linen cloath therein, lay it on the sore, till it is faire, then apply some other plaster, thereto, that will heale it. For the squinsy in the throate. Take the dodder tort, the tops of century made in pouder, mixe it with hony, & make a plaster & apply it. 173 A drinke for the stone. Time & parsly soden in white wine, & strained & to agood draught, put a spoonefull of white sope, this drunken helpeth the stone. Or take the midle rine of a cherry tree, stamped, & strained, & the iuyce put into a little white wine, warmed, & drunke up, helpeth the stone. Or take a handfull of holly berries, sodden in a pint of good ale to the halfe, then straine it, & put thereto a litle butter, & drinke 5 or 6 spoonefulls thereof at a time. For the tooth ach. Take iuie berries well sodden in vineger, or white wine, & the hot liquor kept in the mouth till it be cold, & then spit out, helpeth the tooth ach. To keep the teeth from rotting. Salt gold in in the mouth under the tongue, in the morning, untill it be melted to water, & the teeth rubbed therewith, preserveth the tooth. For a sore throate. Take the rootes of pellitory of spaine, wash them faire, [stire] & boyle the with halfe a handfull of sage, & a spoonefull of hony in claret wine, & take one spoonefull of it at a time. For a vomit. Take the pouder of the rootes of pellitory of spaine, & put it in a figge, or resine, & eate it. To breake the wind in the belly. Take of the seeds of comein, fennell, anniseed, of each a like quantity beaten to pouder, & sodden in wine, & drinke a good draught thereof, first & last, for 4 or 5 dayes together very good For running of the water. Take a penny worth of white allome, crops of sage, & rosemary & motherwort, wood bind leaves 174 2 handfulls, hony 2 spoonefulls, boyle these in running water, till they be soft, then straine it into a cleane vessell, & use it with a spoute. For those that cannot hold theire water. Take a mouse [illegible], soft her, & make pouder therefo & drinke it all at one time, this is a perfect & infailable remedy. For a weake body, the water of a capon. Spread the flesh of a capon, takeing cleare away the skinne, & all the fat; then wash it well in buglasse water, then adde thereto consomme of violets, of burrage, & buglasse of each an ounce & a halfe, conserve of roses an ounce, leafe gold 6 in number, mixt all together, & distill it according to art, & take a spoone full of that distillation often in comfortable breathes. A speciall water for sore eyes. Take a gallon of faire running water, put it into a faire earthen pot, or pan, put thereto soe much white coporesse as an egge, & cover it, & let it stand a night, that the coporesse may melt, then scume it with a fether, & power all the rest of the water in to an other faire vessell, excepting the grounds, then put a pint of white rose water thereto, & put it in glasses, & set it in the sunne, the space of a mounth, then clense it through a faire linen cloath, & use it. To cheere the eye light. Take the water of red snayles, as much of the iuyce of fennell, as much of woeman’s milke, temper them together, put of this in the eyes, at evening, & take some of this water & soe much of the iuyce of glyrine & make as it were a plaster thereof, & lay it about the eyes all night, & on the morrow wash them well with cleare & cleane water. 175 For bloodshotten eyes, or blemished sight. Take the iuyce of hawthorne cropps, the white of an egge, mixe them together, then take cotton, & wet it therein, & lay it to the eyes. p: 29. To make conserves, preserves, oyles, syroppes, purges & many other usefull things. Conserves. To make conserve of quinces. Take faire great quinces, pare & core them, to 8 pounds of them take 2 gallons of water when the water is blood warme put into it the whites of 2 eggs, beaten & stirre them in the water, then put 8 pounds of sugar to it, & when it doth seeth, take it of, & let it runne through a peece of white kersy, then set it over the fier againe, & scume it as longe as any doth arise, then put in y our quinces, & let them seeth untill they be soe tender, that you may straine the liquor & all through a good thick peece of canvas, then seeth it again till it be soe stiffe that it will stand on a box or dish, & not stick thereto when it is cold, but come cleane away, if it will not doe soe, seeth it longer; & you must stirre it continually. 176 To conserve greene wallnutts. Take green wallnutts, when they be as big as a date, cut them longe wayes asunder, then set them on the fier with sugar in a pot let them boyle tender, then take them in a platter, & make your syrope thus. Take red, or white wine & put into it 2 ounces of cynomon pouder, the pouders of ginger & anniseeds, of each halfe an ounce, sanders [an] ounce, sugar halfe a pound, resines, currants, rice flower, of each 2 ounces, draw them all through a strainer, then put them into a pot, & set it on the fier, & let is iust boyle, then put them into a faire vessell, & serve them up. these are good for the iaundies, morphew, & especially for the palucsie takeing one of the every day nex your heart. To make conserve of barberries. Pick the barberries cleane, & put the into a pewter ;pot, & stop it close, then put that pot into a brasse pot, or kettle, filled up with water, & let it boyle 2 or 3 howers, till the barberries be tender, then let them be cold & straine the, then bole the pulse upon a quick fier, till it be as thick as marmolade, then having fine sugar in pouder, sweeten it, according to your likeing, the sugar must boyle very litle, because of the [illegible] To make conserve of roses, or any flowers. Take red rose budds, clip the whites of, stampe them small, take to each pound of flowers, three pounds of sugar, finely beaten, mixe all well together; And in like manner, take the buds, or fine flower-leaves of any flower. To make conserve of rosemary flowers. To every ounce of rosemary flowers, take 2 ounces of sugar, & some cynomon, beat them small together & put it into a glasse & cover it & set it in the sunne, when it is most hot, & let it stand 3 or 4 weekes. 177 To preserve barberries take [fane] bunches of barberries, or none at all, pick out the stones, with a needle, to every halfe pound, take a pound & a halfe of sugar, [faire] & beaten to pouder, & melt the sugar with a quarter of a pinte of rose water, & melted take it from the fier, & when it is halfe cold, put in your barberries, & mixe all well, then boyle it up with a quick fier, alwayes regarding the colours that they doe not ever boyle, least they be black, then put the out of the pan with [illegible] into a bason, & put the up cold. To preserve cherries. Take a quarter of a pint of rose water, a pound of sugar, boyle these, & skinne it untill it be cleane & let it coole then put thereto a pound & a quarter of cherries boyle it with a quick fier, until it bee thick, as a ielly, & skinne it continually, then take it of, least it loose the colour. To preserve quinces. take quinces as soone as you can after they bee gathered, take the yellowest & smallest about the crowne, waigh out 6 pounds, & put them in a brasse pan, with the stalke and downward soe close as one may stand by an other, then put to them 6 pounds of fine sugar in pouder, & a quart of rose water, or faire conduit water, seeth it with a quick fier, that the quinces may be tender before the syrop be thick, when they waxe tender you may somewhat abate the fier scume it as it riseth, but breake not the gummes, & turne the often, least the grow black by lying [illegible] To preserve damsons, or other plumes. to the above sayd liquor, & with sugar make the same syrop, & put thereunto a pound of damsons, boyle them with a very soft fier, 3 or 4 howers, and scume them continually. 178 To make red marmelade. Pare & core your quinces, & put them into cold water, & to every pound of quinces, take somany pounds of sugar; first put the sugar in water, & make it into syrope, & when it is cold put in the quinces, soe that the syrop cover the quinces, & 2 inches over, then cover it, & let it boyle as fast as it is possible, till they be very red & tender, & the liquor be somewhat thick, then straine it into a stone morter, & after boyle it till it come to a marmelade, stirring it alwayes, then box it hot: in this manner you may make marmelade of peares, or any other fruites. To make white marmelade. Take ripe & yellow quinces, seeth them in water, with a gentle fier, till they be tender, then take them up & let them coole & pare them, & take the fine pulse, of the quinces, & for every pound a pound of sugar fine, & finely beaten to pouder, boyle up the pulpe as stiffe as marmelade, then put in your sugar, & let it but melt, & soe boxe it up hot. To make dry marmelade, of peaches. Pare peaches, & cut them from the stones, & minse the finely, & lay them in steepe in rose water, then straine them with the water through a course cloath, into the pan you will seeth the in; to clarifie 2 pound of peaches take on pound of sugar finely beaten, put some of it into the pan, but keepe the rest to mould with; then set on the pan, & skinne it till it be thick, that the thick will stand upright, then lay it in a dish in lumpes, when it is cold, mould it abroad with the rest of the sugar, & print the, & kake them on march paine, & keepe the where fier is. 179 To dresse peaches whole. Beate peaches, & pill them, & to 3 pounds of peaches take 2 pounds of sugar, with as much water as is necessary for the syrope, & clarify the same with the whites of two eges breake the sugar in peeces, & put all in the pan but the peaches & let it boyle on a quick fier; when it is scumed cleare, put in the peaches, & let it boyle to the thicknes of a syrope if you will, put in a spoonefulls or more of rose water, then take up the peaches, & put the into faire water potts, or any other soe they bee cleane. To dresse oranges. take the greatest oranges, [shave] then thinne, & quarter them in the top, & take out the meate let them be in water 48 howers, & change the water 3 times a day, then parboyle them in their waters 3 times, & let the water still seeth, before you put them in, & take to every 3 oranges a pound of sugar, & to every pound of sugar a pint of water, & a pint or two [ever] at all, then put the water into the pan & breake therein 2 or 3 whites of eggs, and beate them together till they be on a froath, then set on the pan, & put in the sugar beaten in small peeces, & let it seeth with a quick fier & when it boyleth, scume it cleane, & put in the oranges, let them seeth a good while, then take them up, & straine the syrop, & set it on the fier againe, & put in a good quantity of rose water, & let it seeth a good space, then put in the oranges againe, & let them seth till they bee tender, & the syrop as thick as you will have it, & when it is cold, put it up in potts. 180 To dresse plumes blew or yellow. Gather the plumbes dry, to every pound take 3 quarters of a pound of sugar in pouder, take the plumes & mixe them one by one with a linen cloath, & soe lay them in the pan of earth & cast sugar on them, the sugar throughly melted set the pan on the fier, when they beginne to breake, turne them, & scume them cleane, let them seeth on a quick fier, when they be neere ready, it will be thick to the spoone, then take them of, & skinne them as longe as any riseth, & when you see them broaken or part uncoated, take a cloath & take of their coates whilst they be warme, & when they be almost cold, put them in potts, & [prick] papers, & lay them over them. To make all manner of conseites. Take any kind of seeds, or ginger, cynamon, or orange pills or any other spices minced in small peece, & put any kind of these into a greate pan, with 2 [eares]; then take sugar, & clarify it, seething it, till it will crumble betweene your fingers, then take the pan of seeds, having in readines a ladle with a hole in the midst, & a pinne in the hole, then fill the ladle with hot sugar, & let one hold it over the pan of seeds, & draw the pinne in the hold a litle, soe that the sugar may runne out as small as a thread, as it runneth, shake the pan with seeds, over the fier, as you would [wime] corne, & soe shake it till it be dry & hard, & take another ladle full of sugar, doe with it as before, till they be as big as you would have them, & if the seeds in the beginning stick together, rub them 181 in sunder with your hands; to colour these, take a quarter of a pound of [br?] sill, shaved thinne, & 10 lime stones, [unquenched], & lay them in water, till they be quenched, then let the water potle, & take of the cleanest thereof, & put the bra sill therein, & boyle it, then close it, & put thereof to your sugar, with you will have coloured. To make ginger bread. Take a pound of sugar, an ounce & a halfe of cynomon, 2 ounces of ginger, a spoonefull of anniseeds, as much fennell seed, beat them all into pouder, then take a quarter of a pound of almons blanched, beate them in a morter, & put in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the pouder afore sayd, & some of the almons beaten, & beate the together, till they be stiffe like past, then mould some of the pouder, & spread it abroad in cakes, as thinne as you can, & soe put them upon your moulds, then cut them with your knife, & as you make the cakes, put on pouder enough that they stick not to the mould, then pull them of from the mould, & lay them to dry. To make sugar plate of quincdes, roses, violets, or what else. Take quinces, pare them, & cut them in small peeces, & put them in paper baggs, & soe dry them in an oven, till they will beate to pouder; And thus you may make pouder of roses, violets, or what you lift to have the plate to tast of: then take the afore sayd pouder or any of these pouders, & put thereto a litle of the pouder of the gume, called dragagan, which must be layd in water all night, the pouder of the quinces, & the sugar must bee 182 beaten, & searced severally, & the gume put to the [quince] pouder beaten, & the sugar to them, as you beate them, & when it is soe that you may make it in plates, print the & dry them, & if you will have them tast of [muske], put a drame into the water wherein you steepe the gumme To make good bisket. Take a pound of fine flower twice boulted, a pound of fine sugar finely beaten, then take a faire boule dish, or bason, & breake therein 12 new layd eggs, keeping forth only 6 of the whites, beate the eggs well together, then put in the flower, & sugar, stirreing it still with a flat stick, & by stirring, worke into the same stuffe 2 ounces of anniseeds, & as much coriander seed, & well mixed, put of the same into moulds, annoynting them before with sweete butter, then put them in to the oven, which must be noe hotter, than for [manchet], as the bisket swelleth, prick it with a great pinne, which you may set in the end of a pritty longe stick; you may if you please put into it 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, or lesse, as you like. To make short sweete cakes. Take fine wheat flower, & put it in a earthen pot close stopped, & bake it in an oven, then [soarch] it through a fine [searner], the flower will aske as much bakeing as a [?enfer] pastry, then take clouted creame, or sweete butter, & sugar, cloves, mace, saffron, yoolkes of eggs, pout all into the creame, & temper them, then put to the flower, & soe make the cakes, the past will be short, therefore make the litle & lay paper under them. 183 To make artificiall balme. Take the iuyce of singreene, put it in an egge shell, set it over the hot embers, boyle the iuyce, & scume it cleane, till it be white & cleare, then put it into a faire pan, & put thereto a quart of oyle of bayes, & set it over the fier, & put thereto pouder of frankincense, myrre, mastick, & olibamum, of each an ounce, verdigrease 2 drames, then set the oyle on the fier, till it bee warme, & then put thereto the pouders, & stirre them well together, till they be dissolved, then straine it, & put it in pouter bottles. To make syrope of violets. Take a pint of water of violet leaves distilled, a pound & a quarter of sugar, boyle it thicker then ordinary syrop, then pick of the finest leaves of the violets, stampe & straine them, & take halfe a pint of it, & put into the former, soe boyle it, & stirre it about, let it not seeth, put it in glasses, not hot, & when it is cold stoppe them. To make syrope of roses. Take a quarte of damaske rose water, & put therein as many damask rose leaves as the water will containe, put both into a pouter pot, then into an earthen, or brasse pot of water, let them stand very hot all day, but not seeth, the next day take the roses out, & mixing them into the liquor, & put in fresh leaves, [five] dayes together, as before, lastly boyle this liquor to the thicknes of a syrop, with sugar, a pound & a quarter of sugar to each pint of liquor. 184 To make syrope of endive. Take a pint of the iuyce of endive, clarifie it, & boyle it with 3 quarters of a pound of white sugar, on a soft fier, to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of safron. Take endive water, & a quantity of saffron finely beaten, to color it, & let it ly a night, then seeth it, & straine it, then seeth it againe, with sugar to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of worme wood. Take fine withered wormewood, 6 ounces, rose leaves dryed 2 ounces spike nard, 3 drames of the iuyce of quinces a quart of old white wine a quart; bruise the rose leaves, spike nard, & wormewood, & steepe them in the wine, with the iuyce for the space of 24 howers in a marble vessell, or an earthen pot, seeth it to the halfe on a soft fier, & soe straine it, then put thereto a pint & a halfe, or a quart of good hony, & seeth it againe to the hight of a syrop, you may take sugar in stead of hony, if you please. To make syrope of rosemary flowers. Take distilled water of rosemary flowers cleane picked, boyle it on the fier, then straine then put in sugar, & boyle it to a syrop. To make syrope of tyme. Take the cropps of 2 ounces of time, dry colamynts, & mynts, of each 5 drames, annyseed, fennell seed, parsly seed, damen seed, of each halfe an ounce, great resines stoned, 4 ounces & a halfe, seeth all in six pints of water, till the resines be sodden, after put in the herbes, & the the seeds, & seeth it to the halfe, then straine it, & set the liquor on againe, & put to it 2 pounds of hony, or sugar, & seeth it to the hight of a syrop. 185 To make syrop of mynts. Take a pint of the iuyce of mynts, a quarter of the iuyce of sweet pomegranates, & a quart of the iuyce of meane pomegranates, that is between sweete & sower, & a pound & a halfe of sugar, & seeth these to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of the rines of oranges & limons. Take a pound of the rines of oranges, or limons, when they be new & fresh, & put them into 5 pints of faire running water, seeth it to 3 pints, then straine it, & with a pound of sugar seeth it to the thickness of a syrop, & when you take it from the fier, put to it 4 graines of muske. This syrop strengtheneth the stomack, graine, & heart, if the disease proceed of cold, it alsoe maketh a sweet breath; soe doe the rines of oranges & lymons made into conserves, if the bitternes be first taken away. To make a dish of cleere ielly. Take calves foot, an old cock, a knuckle of veale, or a pig, which of these you please; & set it on the fier in a pot, & skinne it that noe fat be left thereon, & soe let it boyle a while, then take out the meate, & put in the turnesall; when it is boyled enough, you shall know by putting a litle of it into a saucer, & if it stand, take out the turnesall, & put in a good deale of cynomon, a rays of ginger & a nutmeg, all well bruised, & 12 whole cloves, with good store of sugar, 6 whites of eggs, beaten till they be as white as snow, & let the pot stand [on] awhile, & scume of the whites of the eggs, & cast them away, then put all into a ielly bag, & put it through as often as you please, till it be faire & cleare, then dish it, & serve it up. 186 To make white ielly or of other colours. Take calves foot, scald the, & wash the in 3 [severall] waters, stire them & take out the bones & fat, then lay them in water a night, & shift them thrice, then put them into a pot with a knuckle of veale shred & the bones taken out, boyle them in 3 gallons of water, then put in a quart of white wine, & let it boyle till part be consumed, scume it with a fether, then let it runne twice through your ielly bag, then put it in to a faire earthen pot, season it with nutmegs bruised, shred ginger, bruised cynomon, & a litle salt, then let it boyle a [illegible] or 2, then take the whites of 8 eggs, or 10, & put them in when it seetheth, then let it runne through a jelly bag softly, 2 or 3 times, if you will have it of amber colour, put in a little saffron before the eggs, if you will have it red, put in claret wine, & [turasad]; if you will have of all three, put in one, & let it coole, & soe of all three a dish. To make jelly of harts horne. Take 3 halfe pints of faire runninge water, halfe a pinte of white wine, 2 ounces of harts horne shaved, let it boyle softly in a pipkin close covered, till it come to a pint, then straine it, & put to it a litle shred ginger, & cyonomon sticks, the next day take of the top, & leave the bottome, & put it in a skellet, & put to it fine sugar, & a top of sweet marierome, halfe a spoonefull of red rose water, a litle iuyce of limon, & orange, & stem it a litlle while, then put it through a jelly bag, with a litle rosemary sprige, in the bottome of the bag. This ielly is to be eaten cold; but for the more speedy remedy of a consumption melt this ielly againe, and drinke it somethinge warme. 187 To make aqua vitae. Take 3 quarters of a pound of liquorice, halfe a pound of anniseeds, boyled, infuse them in a gallon of wine all night, the next day distill the in a limbeck, this is aqua vitae. Or take 4 gallons of stronge ale, a pound of liquorice, as much of anniseeds, a pottle of wine lyes, sage, isope, horehound, of each 3 handfulls, rosemary, tyme, fennell, of each 2 handfull, halfe a handfull of harts tongue leaves, & a great root of olicampane, & soe distill them in a limbeck. To make stronge aqua vitae. Take harts tongue, linen wort, red mynts, balme, horehound, orgamen, browne fennell, rosemary, cincvole, of each a handfull, angelico a quarter of a handfull, annyseeds a pound grosse bruised, liquorice a pound cut & well bruised, infuse all these in 8 gallons of strong ale, & let it stand 12 howers, stirring it often about, then distill it in a limbeck; the first pottle will be very stronge, & you may have almost a pottle of the second, but that will be a great deale smaller. To make aqua composita Take 4 gallons of strong ale, anniseeds, liquorice, of each halfe a pound, sugar 3 penny woth, harts tongue, & alicampane roots, of each a handfull, mynts fennell, parsly, pennyroyall, isope, sage, rosemary, tyme, wormewood, mugwort, of each a handfull, beate the spices, & stire the herbes lightly, & infuse them in the ale 24 howers, stirring it often, then put all into a limbeck, & close it that noe ayre got out, keepe a temperate fier, till the limbeck beginnes to warme, then keepe your fier low, & when it beginneth to droppe then keepe the limbeck moyst with a wet cloath, & keepe always cold water in the top. 188 To make balme water. Take wormewood, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, carduus benedictus, balme, angelica, reasons of the sunne, stoned, of each a handfull; liquorice, annyseeds, of each a quarter of a pound, a quantity of tameresse, & mayden haire, infuse all these in 2 gallons of stronge ale, then distill it, and draw out of it a quart of the best water. To make wormewood water. Take 2 gallons & a halfe of stronge ale, liquorice shred & bruised, annyseeds, sifted & bruised, of each halfe a pound, 2 great handfulls of the crops of wormewood, put all into the ale, & let it stand 24 howers, stirreing it often, & stopping it close, then distill it in a limbeck, & draw out a gallon of water, then put to the water an ounce of cynomon bruised, 2 ounces of nutt meggs, halfe an ounce of great mace, as much of ginger, all well bruised, & soe let them steepe, then distill the sayd gallon of water with these ingredients on a soft fier; and soe preserve it. To make ipocras water. Take 8 ounces of fine cynomon pouder, cloves, nut meggs, of each an ounce, 2 ounces of ginger, 4 d waight of graines, all made into fine pouder, put all into 5 quarts of claret wine, & let it infuse 3 or 4 dayes, stirring it often; then put all into a stillettory, & distill it with a soft fier, but take heed you still not the stuffe too dry but keepe it moyst, from burning too; take out all the ingredients & straine it into a cleane bason, & set it on a chafeing dish of coles, putting as much sugar into it, as you shall thinke good, then stirre it till it be as thick as treacle, this is good for a cold stomack, & the pomes thereof dryed well is good sauce for a shoulder of [illegible]. 189 To make rosa solis a principall restaurative Take the herbe rosafolis as much as will fill a pottle pot, in must be gathered in June or July, you must not touch it with your hands, but take it by the stub, & it will come up by the roots, nor wash it, for then the leaves will wither, & pick of the dead leaves: this herbe growes in low medewes, & [marrish] ground; put to this quantity a pottle of aqua vita in to a large vessell, & let it stand close stopped 3 dayes, & 3 nights, at the least, then straine it, into a glasse or pouter pot, put to it then a pound of sugar small beaten, & halfe a pound of liquorice, beaten small, into fine pouder, halfe a pound of dates stoned, & cut in small peeces mixe all together, & stop the glasse close; drinke of this at night to bed ward halfe a spoonefull, with ale, and as much in the morninge fastinge, for there is not the weakest body in the world that taketh nature or strength, or that is cast into a consumption, but this will restore him againe, & cause him to be stronge & lusty, & to gaine a mervalous hungry stomack, & very shortly, if he use this 3 times together, he shall feele great comfort, & as he feeles himselfe he may use ut. To make anniseed water. Take 12 gallons of aqua vitae, 3 pounds of anniseeds, halfe a pound of liquorice, a pound of dates, 2 pounds of resines of the sunne, steepe these 24 howers, then draw [illegible] gallons thereout, & then you shall perceive it to runne white (If you will doo lesse, take accordinge to the quantity you [illegible]) & then take 7 pounds of white 190 sugar, & put it to the 7 gallons of liquor, in a runlet, & shake them well together, & let it stand 4 dayes, then you may drinke it. Aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderful vertue. Take galingall, cloves, quibibs, ginger, mellilot, cardimon, mace, nutmeggs, of each a drame, halfe a pint of the iuyce of celidon, mingle all these together, & make a pouder of them with the sayd iuyce, & a pint of good aqua vitae, & 3 pints of white wine; put all these into a pellitory of glasse, & let it stand all night, then distill it on as easy a fier as can possible bee made. The vertues of this water. 1 It dissolveth the swelling of the lunges, though the lunges be perished & wounded it helpeth the. 2 It will not suffer the blood to putrify, nor shall you ever need to be let blood if you but use this water 3 It takes a way the heart burning. 4 It preserves from melancholly. 5 It confoundeth floame, soe that it shall not gane dominion over nature. 6 It expelleth rhume 7 It profiteth the stomack. 8 It preserveth youth in its own state, 9 It ingendereth a good colour, and preserveth the visage 10 It preserveth the memory. 11 It destroyeth the [palnesy] in the limbes & tongue. 12 It releeves either man or woeman laboring towards death if you give them but one spoonefull Of all waters artificiall it is the best; In sumer use one spoonefull in a weeke fasting. in winter two. 191 Doctor Stevens water. Take a gallon of Gascoyne wine, ginger, cynomon, nutmegs, cloves, graines, anniseed, fennell seed, carroway seed, of each a drame, then take sage, mynts, red worts, time, pellitory, rosemary, wild time, camomile, lavander, of each a handfull, bray the herbes & spices, & put all in the wine, & let it steepe 12 howers stirring it often, then still it in a limbeck, & keepe the first water by it selfe, for it is the best; & keepe the second, it is good, but not like the first; The vertues of this water. It comforteth the vitall spirits. 1 It helpeth inward diseases that 2 proceed from cold. It helpeth the shakieing of the paluesy. 3 It cureth the contraction of the synewes. 4 It helpeth woemen to conception that are barren 5 or fruitelesse. It cureth the wormes in the belly. 6 It helpeth the cold cough. 7 It helpeth aches. 8 It comforteth much the stomack 9 It cureth the cold dropsy 10 It helpeth shortly the stinking of the breath 11 It preserveth him in good likeing, that 12 [illegible] it sometimes, & not often. It preserveth youth. 13 With this water Doctor Stevens preserved him selfe, untill he was soe old, that he could neither goe nor ride, but lay bed [illegible] 5 yeares, It is much better standing in the sune all sumer. The water of life. Take balme leaves & stalkes, burnet leaves & flowers, rosemary, red sage, isope, tarragon, 192 turmarick leaves & rootes, rosa folis leaves, red roses, carnations, tyme, the stringes that grow upon [savery] red fennell leaves, red mynt rootes, of each a handfull; put all these herbs in a glazed earthen pot, & put soe much white wine as will cover them, & let them soake therein 8 or 9 dayes; then take cynomon, sugar, nuttmeggs, of each an ounce, of cloves & saffron a litle, great resines, ginger of each a pound, dates halfe a pound. the hinder part of an old coney; a good fleshy running capon; the red flesh with the sinewes of a leg of mutton, 4 young pigeons, 12 larkes, the yolkes of 12 eggs, a loafe of white bread cut in soppes, muscadell or bastard, soe much as shall distill these thinges at one time in a limbeck, & put to it methridatum 2 or 3 ounces, soe much perfect treacle, & distill it with a temperate fier, & keepe the first water by it selfe, & the second alsoe, & when there cometh noe water, that is stronge, put more wine upon the stuffe, & distill it againe, & you shall gane another good water; you must keep the water in a double glasse. The vertues of this water. 1 It is restorative to the principall members. 2 A defence against the pestilential diseases. 3 It cures the paluesy. 4 It cures the dropsy. 5 Helpeth the spleene 6 Cureth both black and yellow iaundies. 8 Cureth the wormes. 9 Expelleth an ague. 10 Suppresseth swellings 11 Easeth the pestilentiall thirst. 12 Expelleth melancholly. 193 13 Strengthens the spirits, & strings of the braine. 14 Releeves the heart. 15 Comforts the stomack. 16 Strengthens the liver. 17 A spoonefull 2 or 3 by it selfe, or in ale, 18 beere or wine & sugar helpeth digestion, 19 breaks the wind, stops the laske, & bindeth not. To make aurum potabile. Take rose folis, distill it till you have a potle of the water, then take a quart of it, & let it be infused with more of rosa folis, & a quarter of a pound of sugar candy, small beaten, two stickes of liquorice scraped well, & thinne shred 7 dates stoned, a handfull of rose leaves steeped with a pint of maulmesy or mustadell, let it stand all together in a glasse or peuter pot 48 howers stoped soe close, that no ayre can get out, & distill it; soe done, take you r other halfe of the rosa folis water, & use it in all points as you did the first, if you will have much thereof; this last stilling must be in a stillatory of glasse; it will last 3 or 4 yeares if it be stopped close. It is good against great consumptions. To make worme wood wine to drinke. Take small wine, or reneish wine raked, put thereto 2 kinds of worme wood, speare mynts a dock roote, that is almost yellow, faire striped, & the pith taken out, & stired, put all into the wine, & if it stand a day or more before you drinke it, it will be better; this is to be drunke 3 howers before you take any [broath]. To make hony of roses. Take hony & seeth it well, & scume it cleane, 194 & put cleane picked roses therein small choped, without [beades], or knobs, seeth the till the colour of the hony be browne, & savereth of the roses, & is thick, & then it is done. you may keepe it 5 years. It is comfortable & may be given to those that are weakened by sicknes. To clarifie hony. Take hony twice soe much water, boyle them softly, diligently, scumeing it, till halfe be consumed, & as it is boyleing, put in soe many whites of egges, as you clarifie pounds of hony, then straine it through a linen cloath whilst it is hot, then boyle it againe to a convenient thicknes. To clarifie sugar Take a pound of sugar, & a pint of water, & seeth them on a soft fier in a latine or copper bason, then to every pound of sugar to bee clarified take the whites of 2 egges, with a litle quantity of water, & a small bundle of rosemary twigges, which must be beaten together with a soft fier till halve be consumed, & turned into a fome, which must be put into the pot wherein the sugar & water boyle, cast in alsoe the egges broaken with your hands, & let them seeth on a soft fier, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & having made the pot cleane, boyle it againe, into the thicknes almost of a syrope for when it runnes a bout your finger like bird lime, it is enough but if you clarifie sugar, wherein you intend to boyle or put other things, then let it not boule to this thicknes after it is strained, before you put in those things, with [one] [illegible] for a medicine, or for any other receive whatsoever 195 To make pompillian Take poplar budds, 2 pounds, lard 4 pounds, beate them fine together, then let it rot 3 weekes, afterwards put thereto the leaves of poppy, mandrake, bramble, nightshade, [prict] maddam, lettice, burdock, violet, of each 2 ounces, & beate these herbes with the above sayd, & boyle it well, with a pint of white wine, untill the wine & the iuyce of the herbes be consumed, then straine it, & let it stand, untill it bee cold; & preserve it for your owne best use. To make manus christi Take sugar finely beaten, & put it in a skellet with rose water, & let it boyle, stirring it, & in the boyleing put in the white of an ege well beaten, & scume it as longe as any ariseth, when it begines to cleere, put in perle finely beaten to pouder, & alsoe gold, stirre it still, untill it be very white, & soe thick it: it will abide upon what you lay it on. A plaster called gratia dei. Take the iuyce of betony, vervine, pimpernell, of each a pound waight, un wrought wax a pound, resine halfe a pound, parafine, frankincense of each 3 ounces, small pouder of catophenia halfe a pound, sweet sheepes tallow halfe a pound, of bastard a pint boyle them till it be thick, then straine it, boyle it againe with 2 ounces of oyle loive & all the pouders above sayd, boyle it softly halfe a quarter of an hower, 196 then cast it into a peuter dish or bason, till it be cold, then take it out, & roule it up in lether or parchment, & keepe it for your use. It is good for wounds, cuttes or for stabbes, or any such like. To make melquorum, or quodmell. good to comfort & clense the stomack. Take 10 pounds of well clarified hony, a pound of the iuyces of roses, put them in a [vessell], when they beginne to boyle put in 4 pounds of roses small shread, & boyle all untill the iuyce be consumed, & stirre it very well. To make oyle of exceter. Take a pound of cowslipe flowers, in the mounth of May, stampe them in oyle olive, as much as will serve them, & soe let them stand in a pot untill the midle of June, then take salamynts, herbe [john], sago, egrimony, worme wood, red ambrose, fennell, pellitory, celidon, rew, red rowes, southerwood, lavander, rosemary camomile, pellitory of Spaine, fennell leaves, the flowers of lillies, stamp them together, soe small as you can, then take the flowers above sayd, & wringe them out of the oyle, & put the iuyce into the other herbes, & grind them all together, & put them in white wine, & steepe them 24 howers, then set them on the fier in a pan, & boyle them till all the water be boyled out of the wine & herbes, with a soft fier; then take a spoonefull, & if there be noe water in the spoone, it is boyled enough, then straine it in a glasse or peuter pot, for noe other vessell will hold it, it will last 3 or 4 yeares; It is good for the palusy & gout: in the sumer annoynt your selfe by the sunne, in the winter by the fier 197 To make oyle of cloves. Take a pound of the pouder of cloves, put to it 3 pound of almons scraped, & beaten, mixe the well together, then sprinkle on each pound an ounce of white wine, letting it ly in a masse together, for the space of 8 dayes, putting it in an earthen pan, which heate soe longe, untill you cannot hold your hand therein then put it in to square bags, wronge hard, untill all the whole substance of the oyle be come forth The vertues of oyle of cloves. 1 It revives the spirits very much. 2 Putts away melancholly. 3 It hath all the vertures of a balme. 4 It heales fresh and greene wounds. 5 It stayeth [throwing] of blood, & water out of a wounde. 6 It conforteth the naturall parts within. 7 It purgeth melancholly blood. 8 It comforteth the heart. 9 It recreates & cleares the head, & especially solveth the gyddynes of the head. 10 It helpes the weakenes of the sight. To make oyle of anniseeds. Take halve a pound of anniseeds, bray the grosse, & put soe much water thereto as will cover them, which after power into a copper [cucurbite], then set on the limbeck, or head closed luted in the ioynt about, with standing, & to purtifie 3 or 4 dayes, then distill it with a soft fier, soe that the water by which the oyle passeth be very cold, when the oyle shall fall into the receiver, untill it be together like camphire: then take all in a cloath & the water will [illegible] through out not the oyle, which dissolve in a broad mouthed glasse set in a stove as hot [illegible]. 198 To make a purge Take the midle rine of a white ashe, steepe it in all a night, in the morning drinke a good draught of the ale. Another purge. Take the roote of mechoacan, beate it into fine pouder, & take thereof a drame & a halfe, & drinke it in 4 or 5 spoonefulls of sack, very timely in the morninge, then perfectly drink a good draught of sack after it, & shortly it will make you purge easily. A gentle purgation. Take a pottle of clairfied whay, put therein a great handfull of hearts tongue, as much of mayden haire of liver wort, violet leaves, burrage, of each a great handfull, barberries, [illegible], of each 2 ounces, boyle all to [leste] then halfe by much, & use to drinke it fasting 3 mornings together, twice or thrice in the yeare. To purge with all. Take a spoonefull of Castile sope, put thereto as much sugar candy, & boyle it in a pinte of malmesy put a peece of butter in to it, & after it hath boyled, straine it, & drinke it milke warme, halfe of it in the morning fasting, & the other halfe at night. An excellent good purge. Take very good scamony (which beeing wet with ones tongue will become milke) beate it to very fine pouder, which will be done the better if you annoynt the end of the [postell] with a drop or 2 of any sweete oyl, as almons, nutts, or sallet oyle, then waigh out 199 10 graines of this fine pouder, & with a knife upon a plate incorporate it with the quantity of two nuttmegs conserve of barberries, doe this over night, when you will take it in the morninge, that the conserve may bite & correct the better, in the morninge eate it up takeing warme broath 2 or 3 howers after as in other purgations, it will worke easily upon thinne humours. If you had rather gave it in a potion, then after the conserve hath bitten it 10 or 12 howers, dissolve it in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of white wine, or rose water, or [com?on] water, stirreing it well, & [illegible] it of cleere, this will tast like sugar & the iuyce of lymons with rose water, & will worke as well as the other only in regard, that some of the substance will remayne behind, & come not into the cleene liquor, you may in crease the quantity of scamony 3 or 4 graynes & take 13 or 14, where in the former you tooke [illegible] 10. If you had rather take it in a pill, then take halfe an ounce of scamony finely poudered, & drop 3, 4, or 6 drops of oyle of vitrioll upon it, stirre & incorporate it together with a wooden spatula, till it come into a masse of pills; if 3, 4 or 6 dropes be not enough, take more, but be sure to take as litle as you need as must; for the oyle of vitrioll will make it to grow continually softer, & will [over] moisten it too much of this masse of pilles, you may take 13 or 16 graines, at one time in 2 litle pilles. 200 To make gunne pouder. Take for a tryall a pound of salt peter, & a pound of brimstone & halfe a pound of cole, made of cole wort stalkes, or pure brant cole of fine willow: if you will make if fine quickly, dry it first, then put them all together, & sprinkle them with aqua vitae, or very good vineger, till it be very moyst, that you are about to make it into balles, then take a meale [sine], & put it in, [illegible] it too & fro over a faire cloath, & that will fall through in [cornes], then dry it & soe shall you make good pouder, or before you moysten it, spread it upon a broad thing in the sunne, beeing hot, that is very good & in the summer the best time to make it in To make lute. Take of the best & finest chalke, to which adde the drosse of iron, brought to fine pouder, & the comon whitest ashes, thorne flax, & horse dunge, & mixe these by art together. A gargle. Take throught mort, bramble budds, plantan leaves, red rose leaves, of each a handfull, isope, orgamen, rosemary, sage of each a handfull, seeth these in 2 quarts & halfe a pinte of water, to a quart, then straine it & put to it 4 spoonefulls of hony, & boyle it well againe; gargle this often, warme, this is good for a sore throate. A pleasant water for linen. Take 2 pounds of spike, as much rose leaves, 201 a pound of rostmary, halfe a pound of [maudlin], halfe a pound of balme, 2 handfulls of pennyroyall, 4 ounces of mace, a quarter of a pound of arras, lay all these in claret wine, & put it into a pet close stopped, for the space of 24 howers, & at the [spoute] of your limbeck gave a fine linen cloath, into which put a graine of muske, & amber greece, through which let the water droppe, you may alsoe put into your pot the pouder of bayes. For a staine in cloathes. Take the water wherein lavander cotton is sodden; this takes away any spot or staine in cloathes or cloath, or other thinge, if the stained place be rubbed therewith. probatus est. A receipt to make the [weapon] salve Take the fatt of a [her] beare, killed in the time of his [brownst] in the wildernes 7 ounces thereof. Take the fatt of a wild beare filled in the brownst 7 ounces thereof,. These 2 fatts must bee melted together, upon a coale fyer softly, and being melted powre the same fatt upon cleane water, then the drosse thereof will fall to the bottome, and the [purest], will swime on the toppe of the water, [take] the same and dry it with a cleane cloath, the older these fatts [shalke] the better they are to bee used. Take rayne wormes which come out of the ground after a shore of rayne, either in Aprill or in May at the new moone, dry them in the sunne then beate them to powder, 4 ounces thereof. Take bludstone 202 Take bloudstone, beaten small to powder. 4 onces thereof. Take 3 ounces of red saunders the reddest thereof; Take [browte] or kings hearth, the leaves thereof beaten smale to powder one once. Take the moss of a dead mans skull, beaten to powder, 1 ½ ounces all these are to bee weighed according to the order before, and mingled together, then take the2 fatts and sett them upon a [coale] fyer, and let them melt softy being melted together then strew the powder upon the fatt and stire them together and lett it be cold and gee putt into some box, made of [mettle] and then you shall have a strong and wonderfull salve which will [illegible] decay the older it is the better it is to bee used. If any man will heale with this salve, hee must take the weapon, and putt it into the wound, and make the same flesh to bleed and if it bee a thrust, then annoynt the weapon from the joynt towarde the handle; If it bee a blow, annoynt from the edge to the [backe] of the same and then bind the weapon very carefully, that noe dust come into it and bind it in such sorte that the salve bee not rubbed offe, and being annoynted and bound upp in cleane linnen, lett the weapon bee layd up neither too hott nor too cold and att any hand bind new lynnen aboute the waepon, that hath not beine used about a woman’s body and when a man doth annoynt the weapon, hee must not accompany any woman, if hee doe, hee must neither annoynt the weapon, nor come next the same, and if the wounds bee dangerous then lay the point of the wagon 203 weapon against the riseing of the sunne and annoynt the same once in 4 or 6 dayes, not too thick nor too thinne and bind the weapon with some new linnen cloath, or else some that hath not been used about a womans body. If a man will know whither there bee anger of death in a man wonded; Take sandell and bloudstone and strew it on the weapon and the weapon will sweat, if it sweat water, then it is a singe of death, if the sweat bee red like bloud, then there is no danger, but a signe of healting the wounded, must keepe a good dyett both for eating & drinking, and keepe not company with women, and the wound must be washed with a manns [lye] 2 or 3 tymes a day with a feather to wash out the corrupted matter, and then dipp in a running water with a peece of lynnen cloath and wring out the water and lay the same lynnen cloath upon the wound without putting in of any [illegible] to the wound bee it never so deepe; (by Gods helpe) and it shall bee whole in 14 dayes without putting the party wounded to death paine smart or swelling. If the party wounded chances to [??isorder] his body and thereby the wound to rage, and grow fyry, then take the leaves of black bramble bryers, put them in vinegar with a little allome and boyle them together and then [illegible] upon the aforesaid lynnen cloath which lyes on the wound, and the party hurt shall find ease [illegible] of his smart or paine. If a man bee shott with a bullet and can [gett] bullet then use the same an other weapon or if that the bullett bee cutt out of the body, then annoynt the knife or instrument so fare as the same hath beene in the wound and by Gods helpe, it shall both helpe and heale: if the bullett bee not to bee had, then take the [illegible] wherewith the powder was putt into the peece and annoynt it upwardes 2 or 3 tymes very well, and 204 And then putt it often into the [?inne] that that may be annoynted within, and bind that as aforesayd, then take the [?inne] and annoynt it on the outside along, as farr as the bullet went into the place where it lay, and then bind it as aforsayd. If a man bee hurt, and another man run away with the weapon; then forme a peece of wood like the weapon, then renew the wound with the same wooden weapon that it bleed, then wipe offe the bloud and annoynt the same as aforesaid and (by God’s helpe) it will heale any hurt. In the same manner may a man heale any old hurts or soares lett them bee of what kind [sooner] if they bee open soares, scrape the old soare with an instrument made of wood untill the bloud comes then use the sayd instrument as aforesaid To stay bloud, take the mosse of a dead man’s head or skull and lay that upon the wound that bleedes and it will staye bleeding presently. It is good to doe so before you annoynt the weapon, and the [part?e] hurt must not have the weapon untill hee bee whole and sound for if hee doo meddle with the weapon hee will fynd much payne and smarte Tho. Soyles The Author An alphabeticall index of all the receites contained in this litle volume. Ach For an ach. 1, 5, 7, 8, 21, 98, 100, 124, 127, 141, 142, 147, 159, 191. A pretious oyntment for all aches 1, 4 for all incurable aches 7 for ach in the gumes 6 for ach in the head 3, 6, 157 for the head ach that continues 77, 78, 84 for any ach of the head except the pox 77 for the head ach in an ague 149 for ach or swelling in the foote 146 for ach in the feet by travailing 134 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 170 for ach where noe swelling 26, 3 for ach in the stomack 20 for ach of the teeth 1, 2, 3, 5, 94, 157, 158, 173 Ago for one in the agony of death 190 Agu for an ague 10, 115, 133, 148, 149, 158, 192 Agu for a burninge ague 11, 130 for the ague in the brest 16 for the ague by floame 135 for a longe ague 11 for the pestilentiall ague 11 for a quarterne ague 148 for a tertiary ague 100, 146 for the shakeing ague 9, 158 Ant for St Anthonies fier 49 Apo for all apostumes in the eares 49 App to procure an appetite 8, 112 Art for a paine or hardnes of the arteries 142 Bac for heate in the back 160 for payne in the back 13, 4, 82, 160 for weakenes in the back 160 Bel for gnawing in the belly 145 for paynes in the belly 13, 135 Bit for biting of a mad dog 151 for biteing of any venomous beastes 14, 15 for all biteing with venomous beastes or mad dogges 48 for bitinge of snakes or vipers 15, 157, 141 Bla for a black or blew face with a blow 159 Ble To staunch bleeding at the nose 159 To staunch bleedinge in any place, but the nose 13 To staunch bleedinge of a wound 159 Blo To staunch blood 12, 15, 16, 101, 102, 103, 115, 117 To staunch the menstruall blood 134 for the preservation of the blood 190 for those that spit blood 13, 107, 122, 138, Bod for greifes of the body 19 against all evills of the body 17 To coole & purge the body 17, 18 for a corrupt body 20 for weakenes of the body 17 Bon for broaken bones 19 To make putrified bones fall away in scales 20 Boo To keepe bookes from vermine 20 Bot Boy For botches or boyles 106, 131, 132 To ripen & heale botch, boyle or any adder 16 for a boyle that is rotten & breaks not 16 To resolve botch, boyle, or fellon in the beginninge 131 for a boyle in any part of the body 48 Bra for the braine 20 Against distillation of the braine 78 for comotion of the braine for want of sleep 80 to strengthen the braine 192 Bre for shortnes of breath 142 for a stinkeing breath 62, 192 Bre for the breast 109 for a sore brest 12, 110, 111, 112, 160 for ach in a woemans brest 111 for hardnes of woemens brestes after they be brought to bed 110 for swelling in the brest 110 for a canker in the brest 11 for an [illegible] stume in the brest 110 for a raw brest 112, 113 To heale a sore brest, though incurable 20 To purge evill from the brest 104 Bro for one that is broaken 53, 128, 137 Briu for a bruise 20, 21, 142, 147 for an outward bruise 20 for all manner of bruises 143 for a bruise in the head 82 for a bruise in the legge 114 To heale a bruise 161 for bruised stones 159 Bun for the bunninges 101 Bur To cure a burne 21, 133, 134, 140, 141 To cure a burne, although with gun-pouder. 48, 159 Can for a canker, or fellon 22, 48, 115, 126, 132 133 for all manner of cankers 4 for a canker in the body 22 for a canker in the brest 22 for a canker in the eye 30 for a canker in the mouth or face 22, 114 for a canker in an old sore 22 Cat for a catarre 106 Che for swelling in the cheekes 108 To procure cheerefullnes 45 Chi for chill bleanes 26 Cho for choller 11 Cod for swelling in the coddes 137, 143, 46 Col for the collick 8, 23, 94, 95, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124 for the wind collick 17, 23, 24 for the stone or wind collick 23, 24 for the collick and stone 161 for the collick in the spleene or liver 135 for a cold or cough 25 Coo To coole and purge the body 17, 18 Con for a consumption 25, 160, 186, 193 Cor for cornes in the feet 49, 67 Cos for costivenes 26 Cov for a cough 24, 109, 110, 111, 115, 117 122, 162, 191 for an old cough 142 for a perilous cough 24 for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the cough of the lunges 162 Cra To put away the crampe 163 Cut for a cut 65, 66, 153, 161 for all sortes of cuttes 48 Dea for deafenes 27, 28, 39, 96, 163 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124 Die an excellent diet drinke 26 Dis for inward diseases 191 Against pestilentiall diseases 192 To helpe disgestion 28, 112, 193 for distillation of the wine 135 Dro for the dropsy 27, 28, 100, 117, 120, 121, 133, 140, 144, 191, 192, 130 for the hot dropsy 27 for drousines 36 for hot on cold dropsy 130 Dru To anoyd drunkennes 28 Ear remedies for the eares 96, 97 vide deafenes Ear for all fistulas in the eare 49 for a noyse or rumbling in the yeare 27, 29 for payne in the eare 27 To bring any quick thing out of the eare 163 To kill a worme in the eare 49 Emp Emplastrum Jacobi 153 Emplasters temperate 152 Emr for the emrods or piles 32, 50, 51, 131, 138. 168 Eye for all evills in the eyes 29 to take away from the eyes any blood or rednes 30 for a canker in the eye 30 for sore eyes 30, 157, 174 for sore eyes that burne & itch 30, 31 for sore eyes, inflamed, or rhumiticke with white water that they cannot open 49 for a white [hare] in the eye 31 To keepe back humors from the eyes 29 for blood shotten eyes 29, 30 for rhume in the eyes 157 for an humore flowing to the eyes 92 To remoove spottes in the eyes 168 To cleere the eye sight 29, 30, 88, 90, 91 92, 100, 174 for darke eyes 88, 92 for a pinne, web, or perle in the eye 31, 32, 88, 90, 91, 168 Eye for bleared eyes 30 90 To quicken the eye sight 92 for payne in the eyes 93 for watry eyes 30. 31. 91. 93 for eyes that are white 94, 95 Fac for a pimpled face 37 To take rednes out of the face 101, 144 To take away blood or rednes of the face 30, 37 To take spottes out of the face 102 To make the face faire 102 for the face black & bew with a blow 159 To make a good colour in the face 100 145, 190 Fal for the falling sicknes 34, 94, 83, 85 Fat To make a leane body fatte 113 Fea for a burneing feaver 32, 33, 130 for the spotted feaver 33 for a tertian feaver 100 Fee for breaking out or swelling of the feete 48 for ach or swollen feete 140, 146 for any ulcers in the feete or handes 117 Fel for a fellon 34, 99, 115, 144, 169, 170 To resolve a fellon in the begininge 131 Fie for St Anthonies fier 49 Fis for a fistula 36, 87 for a fistula be it never soe great & old 48 for all fistulas in the eare 49 Fla for payne in the flanke 124 Fle To breake fleame 35, 59 To confound fleame 34, 83, 84, 85, 94, 190 To cause one to voyde vleame 11, 35, 126, 147 To ingender flesh 104 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124, 126 To draw wood or iron out of the flesh 171 for superfluous flesh betweene the fingers 49 Flo To stay the flowers of woemen 115, 103 To breake the flowers 163 To provoake the flowers 8, 134, 137, 138, 140 Flu To stay the flux 8, 118, 119, 145, 146 for the bloody flux 35, 36, 120, 164 To stay the flux of urine 136, 139, 140, 145, 146 For for forgetfullnes 36 Fre for freckles 49 Fru To make a wooman fruitfull 130, 191 Gan for the gangrene perfectly applied 49 Gom for the gomery passion 97 Gou for the goute 37, 100, 105, 123, 127, 164, 196 for all manner of goutes 126, 134 for the goute in the ioyntes 127 for ach or payne of the goute 1, 37, 114, 129, 94 Gra for gravell 58 Gre for the greene sicknes 40, 116, 167 Gum for to heale chops in the gumes or lips 123 Hai To take away haire 38 To make haire grow where never any was 38 Han for hands that are chopped 160 for inflamed hands 124 for swelled hands 140 To make the hands white 164 for ulcers in the hands or feete 117 Hea for payne in the head 38, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 96, 114, 115, 143, 157 for the head ach 3, 6, 7, 77, 84 To cleene the head 197 for dazling of the head 39 for an old inveterate greife of the head 79 for heavines of the head 78 To cure a sore head 39 To draw the head 39 To purge the head 38 for a bruise in the head 82, 85 for greife in the head hindering sleepe 79 for a great heate 8, 99 for heate in the back 14, 160 for the heareinge 39 To comfort the heart 193, 197 for the heart burneinge 39, 190 for trembling of the heart 166 for straitnes of the heart with cold 39 for swelling at the heart 144 Hum Against all ill humours what soever in the body 112 for all moyst humours 157 for an hot humor in the legge 143 Jau for the jaundies 39, 40, 94 Jau for the black jaundies 39, 164 for the yellow jaundies 39, 40, 94 for both black & yellow jaundies 40, 192 Imp for an impostume 8, 11, 104, 106, 132, 126 To cure an hot impostume 150 for all manner of impostumes 4 To ripen an impostume 41 To breake an impostume 20, 41 for an impostume in the body 41 for an impostuem in the lunge & stomack 41 for impostumes, proceeding of bruises 48 for an impostume in the side 23 Inf for an inflamation 117 for inlamations proceeding of bruises 48 Joy for the joyntes 126 for payne in the joyntes 7 Itc for the itch 42, 134 for itch in the head 78 for all itches in the head 48 for all itches, although in the fundament 49 To kill the itch in the leg 151 Juo for the falling of the Juola 40, 121, 164 Ker for kernells in the throate 106 Kib for kibes 26, 43 Kin for the kinges evill 48, 105, 106 Kne for ach or swelling in the knees 42, 137, 141 Kno for knottes in the flesh arteryes 116 Lab for a woeman in labor that wants [throwes] 68 Lam for one that is tkaen lame Las for a laske 43, 44, 118, 119129, 135, 138, 193 Leg for all manner of inflamations in the legges, liver, or hands 124 for an hot humor in the legge 143 To take away rednes in the legge 144 To cure an old sore legge 151 for swelling in the legges 42 for breaking out, or swelling of the legges 48 for the swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Leo To cure a leper 104 Lig To open the lightes 44 Lic To kill lice 78, 84 Lik To preserve on in good likeing 191 Lip To heale choppes in the legges or gumes 123 Lit for the lithargy 123 Liv To comfort the liver 193 To cleanse the liver 165 To helpe faults in the liver 28 Loo To make one loose or laxative 61, 135, 149 Loy for payne in the loynes 82 Loz To make lozinges 165 Lun for one that is lunitike 85 Lun for the lunges that are [peirched] 190 Mat for payne in the matrix 82, 133 for dry urine in the matrix 117 Mea To cause the meazles to come forth 45 Meg for themegrame 44, 78, 96 Mel Against melancholly 80, 103, 113, 116, 166, 190, 192, 197 To purge melancholly blood 197 for melancholly [preeding] from the spleene 167 Mem for swelling in the members 46, 137, 143 To preserve the memory 190 Men To provoake the menstrues 134, 137, 138, 140 Mil To c ause woemans milke to increase 110, 111 for stoppeing in the milt 45 Mir To cause mirth & cheerefullnes 45 Mor for the morphew 45, 100, 101, 102, 165, 40 Mot for the mother 134, 145, 166 To remoove the mother or spleene 166 To place the mother 166 Mou for a sore mouth 121, 166 To preserve the mouth [sound] 103 for sharpenes in the mouth or tongue 121 for a great heat in the mouth 46 Mur for the murry, or cough 24 Nat To restore nature 167 To comfort the naturall parts within 197 To stay the runing of mans nature 139 Nav for the navell, that comes out 135 Nay for superfluous flesh, groweinge betweene the nayles 49 Nec for greife in the neck or head 83 Ner To comfort the nerves 147 Nos for bleeding at the nose 12, 16 Onc for an oncome 46 To assuage the swelling of an oncome 46 Opp for oppilations of the side 11 Oxi The vertue of oximell 148 Pal for the paluesy 50, 168, 190, 191, 192, 192 for the dead paluesy 50 for the paluesy in the hands 50 Pla Pay for any payne 21 for a payne in the back 13, 14, 160 for a great payne in the back 13 for payne in the gumes 6 for payne in the ioyntes 7 for payne in the side 62, 63 Per for a perle, linne, or web in the eye 31, 32, 88, 8990, 91, 168 Pes for the pestilence 47, 48, 122, 192 Pil for the piles or emrods 50, 51, 131, 168 Pim for a pimpled face 37 Pin for a pinne, in the eye, vide perle. Pip To open the pipes, & breake fleame 35 Pis for those that cannot pisse 133, 136 To make one pisse freely 51 for those that pisse in bed 93, 136 Pla for the plague 117, 122, 168 A preservative against the plague 49 for the plague, where the signe is 48 A preservative & curative against the plague 46 An excellent preservative in the plague time, to expell it from the howse 49 Plasters very temperate 152 Plu for a pluricy 23, 124, 125, 141, 142 Pox to cause the post to come forth 45 for the small pox, when they be full out 169 To kill the swine pox 134 Poy for one that is poysoned 52 Pri To skinne the privy place, if it be gone 158 Pur To purge & coole the body 17, 18 Pus for any push, or boyle, in any part of the body 48 Ran for rankleing in an ague sore 120 Rei for payne in the reines 82, 123, 124 for runneing of the reines 55, 129, 169, 26 for the stone in the reines 133, 169 To strengthen the reines 146 for the reines that are hot 118 Res A restaurative 125, 189, 192 Rhu for cold rhume in the head 122 for rhume in the eyes 157 for dry rhume in the matrix 117 for the rhume 52, 53, 86, 107, 114, 122, 157, 190 Rib To ease the payne in the ribbes, feines, & spleene 123 Ric for the ricketts 54 Rin for a ringe worme 48, 132 Ros The vertue of rosemary 55 Rup for a rupture 53, 128, 137 for a rupture in the scull 79, 83 Sal To make a greene salve 152 Sca for scabbes 42, 48, 104, 132, 141, 143 for all scabbes in the head 48 for the white scabbe 48 for scabbes in the head, & to kill the [scuase] 78 for a scald 21, 134 Sci for the sciatica 61, 127, 143, 147 Scu for a greife in the scull 79 for a rupture in the scull, or the surt 79, 83 Shi for the shingles 133 Sid for the side 11 for a payne in the side 62, 63, 125 Sig To cleene the sight 88, 90, 91, 92, 100, 174 To quicken the sight 92 for weakenes of the sight 197 Sin for hardnes of the sinewes 123 for contraction of the sinewes 191 for shrunken sinewes 60, 150 To strengthen the sinewes 8 for a prick in the sinewes 60 Sle To provoake sleepe 60, 61, 101 To make one slender 61 Sol To make one soluble 61, 135, 149 Sor To cure all sorts of sores 20, 65. 171 for a sore that will not heale 172 To cure all sores and greifes if the bone be not hurt 48 for old sores 87, 104, 126, 139, 151 for rotten sores 87, 105, 117 To breake a sore 151 for a sore in the brest 160 for a sore mouth 165 To get wood or iron out of a sore 66, 171 for all sores possible to be healed 149 for rankleing of an ague sore 120 To clense a sore 114, 172 Spi for the vitall spirittes 191 To revive the spiritts 197 to strengthen the spiritts 193 Spe To recover the speech lost by sicknes 85 Spl for the spleene 45, 61, 101, 117, 123, 125, 140, 192 To cleanse the spleene 61 To remoove the spleene 166 Spo To remoove spotts from the eyes 168 Squ for the quincy 59, 102, 106, 117, 172 Sta for all sortes of stabbes 48 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To staunch bleeding vide bleeding; blood. Ste Against sterrility of a woeman 130 Sti for stingeinge 15 for stingeing of vipers, snakes etc. 15, 117, 141 for a stitch 63, 125, 142, 144, 159 Sto for the stomacke 8, 109, 112, 120, 121, 147, 170, 190, 191, 193, 196 for coldnes of the stomack 103, 113, 122, 171 for the stomack payned with heat burning 58 To breake fleame out of the stomack 59 for ach in the stomack 20 for hardnes of the stomack 13 for payne in the stomack 135 To dissolve wind in the stomack 149 for the stone 56, 57, 58, 147, 173 To breake the stone 57, 147 Sto To know if the stone be in the bladder or reines 147 for the stone in the reines 133 for the stone in the bladder 56 for swelling of the stones or members 46 for the stones that are bruised 159 for stoppeing in the throate 121 Str for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the strangury 133 for straitnes of wind 62 To make one lusty & stronge that is weake 115 Sur for a surfet 63, 171 Swe for one that sweates much 170, 192 for swellinge 63, 88, 126, 132, 180, 95 for all swelling what soever 129, 143, 170 for swelling in the codds 137, 143 for ach or swelled hands or feet 140, 146 for swelling at the heart 144 for swelling in the hands 133 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 141, 170 for swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Tee To keepe the teeth from rotting 173 for corrupt teeth 64 To fasten loose teeth 107 To mittigate the payne of childrens teeth 107 To bring childrens teeth forth easily 108, 123 To make teeth white 107 Too for the tooth-ach 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 94, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 122, 127, 157, 158, 173 for all manner of tooth-ach 1 To make a tooth fall out 64 Tet for a tetter 48, 63, 132, 134 Thi To quench the thirst 114, 134 for the pestilentiall thirst 192 To draw a thorne out of the flesh 8 Thr for any inflamation of the throate 117 for a sore throate 108, 123, 173, 200 To breake a sore in the throate 108 for a woeman in travaile, that wantes throwes 68 for all thrustes with rapier or dager 48 Tim for a timpany 64 Tis for the tilick 64, 99, 121, 142, 162 Toe for superfluous flesh growinge betweene the fingers & toes 49 Ton for sharpnes in the tongue or mouth 121 Vai for shrinkeing of the vaines 60 To strengthen the vaines 8 Ven for botches or sores caused by venery, 48, 49 To draw forth venome 151 for the touch of any venomous thinge 48 Ver for the disease called vertigo 80, 81, 197 Vis To preserve the visage, or [illegible] 190 Vit to comfort the vitall spirits 191 Ung Unguentum Jacobi 153 Vom A vomit 173 To provoake vomitinge 121 Against vomiting 107, 135 Wov A white salve for a wound 65 To coole & comfort a wound 65 for a greivous wound, or sore 66 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To heale all wounds in a short time 162 Yar for carnosities in the yard 49 To spoute a water into the yard, to coole & cleanse etc. 68 You To preserve youth 190, 191 Cure for the rheumatism – [to the] The second index alphabeticall B. To make good bisket 182 To make artificiall blame 183 C. To make short sweet cakes 182 To clarifie hony, & sugar 194 To make all manner of conseits 180 To make conserve of barberryes 176 To make conserve of quinces 175 To make conserve of greene wallnutts 176 To make cons: of roses, or any flowers 176 To make cons: of rosemary flowers 176 D. to dresse oranges 179 To dresse peaches whole 179 To dresse plummes either blew or yellow 180 G. to make a gargle 200 To make ginger-bread 181 To make gratia dei, a plaster 195 To make gunne-pouder 200 H. To clarifies hony 194 To make hony – of roses 193 J To make cleene jelly 185 To make jelly of harts horne 186 To make white or other coloured jelly 186 > to make lozings 165 To make lute 200 A pleasant water for linen 200 M. To make manus-christi 195 To make dry marmelad of peaches 178 To make red marmelad 178 To make white marmelad 178 To make melquorum, or quodmel 196 O. To make oyle of anniseeds 197 To make oyle of cloves 197 To make oyle of exiter 196 P. To preserve barberries 177 To preserve cherries 177 To preserve damsons, or other plumes 177 to preserve quinces 177 To make pompilion 195 To make severall purges 198, 199, 95 S. To make sugar plate of quinces, roses, violetts, or any other such like 181 To make syrop of endive 184 To make syrop of myntes 185 To make syrop of roses 183 To make syrop of rosemary flowers 184 To make syrop of saffron 184 To make syrop of tyme 184 To make syrop of violetts 183 To make syrop of worme wood 184 To make syrop of the rines of oranges and limons 185 for a staine in cloathes 201 for stayned cloathes or mouldy 200 V. A vomit 173 W. To make anniseed water 189 To make aqua composita 187 To make qua vitae 187 To make stronge aqua vitae 187 To make aurum potabile 193 To make balme water 189 To make ipocras water 188 To make water of life 191 To make aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderfull vertue 190 To make rosa [solis] 189 To make Doctor Stevens water 191 to make worme wood water 188 To make worme wood wine to drinke 193 A pleasant water for linen 200 Finis An exelent [illegible] to make a [grene] oyntment [for] [illegible] Take speiremint [illegible] wormwood [rosemare] balm lavender cotton and agremony of [illegible] of these a great handfull 2 [illegible] of fresh butter out of the [illegible] [illegible] the butter to melt on the fier and stamp the [illegible] then put them in one quarter of an ounce of [ma??] [illegible] boyle those [illegible] well [for] halve an [our] till it [illegible] [grow] uppon a soft fier then sett it [close] and [illegible] it out from the [illegible] then set the [illegible] pt on the fier againe & scum it then you may keep it for your use all the [yeare]. To make the [blake] salve for [illegible] [illegible] for [illegible] [illegible] [before] mentioned Take a pinte of the best salet oyle 4 [illegible] of red [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of white when the is warm uppon the fier put in the [illegible] then keepe it [illegible] till it boyle a [illegible] as pitch then put into it 2 ounces bees wax & let it boyle 6 or 7 let it cold a litle then put it into a after the [illegible] [illegible] the pts [pained] [illegible] [illegible] in with the [gren] oyle at night when you got to bed the next morning before the fier draw downe with your finger a drop or 2 of oyle of amber uppon the [place] most pained then [illegible] on your plaster made of the blake salve 7 lett it lye till it falls of 1 pound of white lede 1 pound of [?ide] lede 2 pound and a halfe of sallett oyle 12 onces of cassall sope R C Oil rubbed upon the branches & stems of fruit trees, destroys the insects & increases the fruit buds. It is used successfully upon the stems of carnations & guard them against the depredations of the ear-wig [illegible] Sir G. McKenzie Mr John [Linning] [illegible[ [illegible] grow in [illegible] [illegible] [&] in [illegible] [land] [tooth] [atke] cured by Mr [Grey??e] [potheker] in [illegible] [illegible] London [nere] Sadlers Hall by burning the [illegible] in the [illegible] An effectual remedy for [nursing] chilblains one ounce of white copperas dissolved in a quart of water & occasionally applying to the affected parts will utterly remove the most obdurate blains N.B. This application must be used before they break otherwise it will do injury Cure for cancer Crowfoot root toothache or blister [illegible] arsenic sprinkled upon them & calcined. Styles ([illegible]) A booke containeing many rare and excellent receites very necessary for the restauration of the body to perfect health O quanta radicum! quanta et herbarum virtus! Letere, et istis non [isti], est idem, ac si dicerem, negilgere et abuti Quisque silet bona parta aliis, peccando repeccati labitur in culpam qui sinit ista mori. for the [illegible] in the 69 padge In a sore throat Take oil olives & spirits of turpentine rub the throat with the mixture [illegible] flannel Double quantity of oil [illegible] spirits For a cold & cough one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre. one drachm of elixir of vitirol. 60 drops of laudanum 3 tea spoonsfull of honey: thirty drops of the mixture to be taken three times a day 1 A precious oyntment for all aches *Take twelve penny [worth] of gratia dei and six penny [worth] of [norue] oyle and penny [worth] of salot oyle melt all [these] together on a chafeing dish of [coles], and [illegible] it for your [use] To ease all aches, and especially of any sort of the gout take [acornes] without the shell or [huske] lay them in stronge vinegre 24 [illegible] then take them out and dry them in an oven not very hot, or in the [sunne] then beat them to pouder, and take two penny waight of it, & put it into a sauser full of [illegible] water & drink it. For all manner of tooth ach. Take the [rootes] of [illegible], [seethe] them in [illegible], then wash your mouth once in a mounth & it will keepe your tooth from akeing. A soveraigne medicine for the tooth ach Take the [illegible] of young broome & [skinne] and then take off the [illegible] [skinne] 9 [budds] of sage, 9 of rosemary, 9 [rootes] of [daytes], a [litle] quantity of the [outter] most skinne of [illegible] a penny worth of pepper, and some what more in quantity of bay salt than pepper; breake all these together in a mortar very small; then take soo much vinegre as will [illegible] on them, then boyle it all in a peuter dish upon a chafeing dish of [coles] untill it lookes very black, then [wash] the gumes with it in the mornings fasting, & at night wash them again & the mouth also with the liquor of the same [herbes] alwayes as hot as you can suffer it, and lay some of the same herbes upon the place [illegible] all night An oyntment for the same. take soft lavander [??nip] [pellito??e], [???ther] wood, som [illegible] primroses and sage of [illegible] an equall quantity, bruise them and take the [illegible] [therof] to the quantity of halfe a pint, & boyle them in a pint of oyle [olive], after they be well boyled put them to a litle water and soe make an oyntment of them for the same paine 3 For the tooth ach take a quantity of pennyroyall & [illegible] it with bay salt, take a little therof in a linen cloath and lay it to the tooth for the [spase] of an hower, then take soe much more and [illegible] it as longe there, and after wards more, and more; this will allay the ach & draw out the paine For the tooth ach. take angelico, [fetherf??e], [illegible] seed, oyle of bitter almonds, pound these in a morter, then drop two dropps of the [illegible] into the contrary [illegible] to that side where the payne lyes, keepe your selfe warme, & ly on that side uyour payne is, and bind your head as hard as possible you can endure For an ach where noe swellinge is *take oleum petrolinum, it lookes very [cleene], somewhat greenish, & smells much like oyle of [illegible]; with this annoynt the place payned and [chafe] it well. For the head ach. take [illegible] betony, and [warme] wood 4 and seethe them, then there with wash in all the sick mans head then make a plaster for his [mould] in this manner. Take the same herbes, when they be sodden wring out the [illegible], then grind them in a morter very small, and [temper] them with the sayd liquor againe, & put thereto a quantity of wheaten [branne] to hold in the liquor, then make a garland of a [illegible], and bind his head therewith then lay the plaster on the mould within the garland, as the party may suffer it with a [illegible] & a cap [above]: doe this but three times & it will helpe him For all manner of aches impostumes & cankers. Take [rosin] ][prof??] of each halfe a pound, take virgin wax and frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, an ounce of masticke, a quarter of a pound of hearts tallow, 3 drames of comfry, melt that with it to be melted, and beate the rest into pouder, then boyle all together, & straine it through a cleane cloath into a [p?ble] of white [wine], then boyle it all untill the [wine] be consumed, then let it coole a litle, and put then to a quarter of a pound of turpintine & [stirre] it together untill it be cold, & make it up in [roules], & keepe it to use 5 A good seare cloath for aches. take halfe a pound of red lead and boyle it in a pinte of oyle [olive] untill it bee thick, and soe use it For the tooth ach take a litle gun-pouder put into a fine linen cloath, the same beeing put into the hollow tooth, or hold betweene the tooth soo that it touch the aleing tooth, it [puts] a way the payne [p??ently]. For the tooth ach. take sage & peillitory, seethe them in vinegar, and keepe this in the mouth as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Boyle [illegible] in vinegar, wash the tooth therewith, & it quickly taketh away the payne. another. the leaves of sage layd on & to the tooth that [aketh] taketh away, the payne & comforteth the tooth that are hurt through cold, that they be not more put to greife or payne thereby. For the tooth ach. If you touch the tooth that [illegible] with water [cresses], [incombinent] it taketh away the payne, & it breaketh the tooth. 6 Alsoe the roots of sparage stamped and layd onto the akeing tooth, will draw it out without payne. Alsoe straw-berry leaves chewed take away the tooth ach. probatum est. Alsoe the roote of mouse-eare put into the hollowness of the tooth taketh away the paine. [D. lt] Chambers receite for the tooth ache or payne in the gumes. take a quantity of wood-bind leaves a quantity of rhue, a quantity of violet leaves, a quantity of the pills of pomegranades, and a litle allome, boyle them together in faire well water, and wash your gumes with the water thereof. An excellent remedy for the tooth ach. take a daysie roote & scrape it cleane, then [pare] it round sugar-loafe-fashion fitt to put into the same, and [illegible] after it sheepes woole to keep it fast in, and it will cure you in a very short time For the head ach. Make a posset of small ale & take of the suds, bake a quantity of the best figgs 7 split them & boyle them in the posset drink with a third of liquorice split For the head ach. In the extreme paine, take a good quantity of rhue, make it very hot till it be almost dry, betweene two tiles, then put it between the fould of a cloath, and soe bind it to the [illegible] [pt] of the head. For the head ach. Take fennell & seeth it in water & wash the head therewith, & it assuageth the paine. For an ach. take spare mint 3 handfulls [illegible], take 2 l of [illegible] may butter [unmashed] [temper] them together & roule them in roules, put them in a pipkin & cover it close & set it in a coole sellar 9 dayes, then boyle & after straine them & put them to one ounce of bees wax, & put it up for all the yearse to annoynt them that have any aches. For the tooth ach. take a litle rosemary & bay salt & stamp them together, put it in a linen cloath and lay it to your tooth or gumes. A notable secret for all incurable aches and all paines in the joynts. take all [illegible] whole pound a [illegible] rasteth off (the later the better) cast a way the stalks taking nothing but the hornes, rub the same in [shin??s] or [peeres], then sooth the paine in a gallon of faire water, untill all be come to a pint or somewhat more, then cast away the [peeres] of [horne], & let that in the vessel stand untill it be cold, [illegible] then will be like a jelly; [illegible] you will use of this, warme it in a [saucer], then annoynt the [greened] plate therewith by the fier, evening & morning, and let it [drinke] in by the heate of the fier, and in 9 or 10 dressings it will helpe & heale it thoroughly for [ever] The Leaden Plaster The vertue of it this beeing applied to the stomach [illegible] a good appetite, to the [sick], & taketh away all greifes of the stomach; applied to the belly it easeth the [collick]; it causeth the flowers of [??emen] in great abundance; applied to the [reines] it bindeth the [illegible] & taketh away heate, & strengthens wonderfully the [illegible] & sinewes; it drawes out a [illegible] in the flesh, & breakes and heales all [fellows] & impostumes, and generally healeth all [wormes], & easeth all aches in the body To make the Plaster take a pound of oyle olive, halfe a pound of red lead, a quarter of a pound of white lead beaten to fine powder, 5 ounces of Spanish sope, let them be well incorporated 9 in an earthen pot well glazed before you set it to boyle, then set it on a soft fier of coles an hower & an halfe continually stirring it with a stick, then make the fire somewhat greater, untill the red colour turns to greene, and leave not stirring untill it come to the colour of oyle, but [more] darke; then drop a litle upon a table with a stick, & when it is cold if it come of without sticking it is well boyled, then put in halfe an ounce of [swines] grease & a litle oyle of bayes, then make the plaster thus. Drop a cloath into the pot & hold it in your hands untill it be cold, then [plaine] it upon a table, & if it be [stirking] or breaking out in a litle more swines grease, but if not, it is well. This plaster will last good 7 yeares, applying it to the place [greined], if every morning you take it and mixe it with a cloath For the shakeing Ague Take [fatherfue], new, betony, dandelion, of each three cropps, stamp them together & drinke them with ale. For the ague Take the herbe polipodium with groweth like forme upon a [illegible], lime; marygold leaves, of each a handfull; put them into a quart of ale, [this] stale, seeth it together to a pint, then straine it, & set it on the fier againe untill it seeth then 10 put into it a spoonfull of bruised pepper & drinke this when the fit cometh upon you, & by the grace of god it will helpe you. For the ague Take halfe a dozen of [flipps] of alder greene, & younge, takeing of the [rusty], rind first, [stire] of the [next] greene rind to the wood, & take of this a good handfull and shred it small & pound it in a morter halfe an hower, then infuse it into a pint of very stronge vinegar, let it steepe therein for 7 or 8 howers, then straine it, & give it the party to drinke fasting 3 spoonfulls, nor eate or drinke for 2 howers after, use this three or foure times not only in the morning but at night alsoe & it will, by gods helpe, drive away the ague. For the ague in the brest Take periwincle, [fothersue], alder budds, time, bayes, red sage, rosemary, ale hoofe, daysie mores, orgamen, lavander, smalage, rice, longe woort, black mary goulds, of each a like quantity, shread all these and ground them with sweet lard, and let them stand together nyne dayes after, and then boyle them For the ague in the brest Take red sage, smalage, fatherfue, periwincle, alder buddes, of each a handfull, shread them small & put them into milke 11 & boyle them well together, then [shirk] it with oate meale, and laye this poltis to the woomans brest. A syrup against a longe ague; choller, fleame, appilationes of the side, and the iaundies. Take the [iuyce] of endive & smalage of each halfe a pint, of the [iuyce] of pepper & burrage of each a pint, seeth & clarifie them with whites of eggs, then put therein 2 ounces of rose leaves dryed, halfe an ounce of pared liquorice, cut into small peeces, [illegible] [illegible] the waight of 10d, aniseed, fennell seed, smalage seed, of each the waight of 1s-6d, finely bruised, then take 4 pintes of the [iuyce] thus strained & put to it 2 [q] & a halfe of fine white suger & seeth it to the hight of a syrup. For the burning ague. Take a pottle of water & halfe a pint of vinegar, endive, succory, fine leaved grasse, violet leaves, and strawberry leaves of each an equall quantity, seeth these to a quart, pout there to halfe a pound of sugar, & drink thereof morning and eveninge. A good pleruative against the pestilentiall ague. Make a posset, & boyle the ale thereof with [sed?mell] rootes untill they be soft, then 12 take 12 spoonefulls of the ale, & put thereto 3 spoonefulls of vinegar with a penny worth of treakle mixed therewith, soe drinke it warme as you may. A good medicine for a sore brest. Take a handfull of grease beech, halfe a pound of [comeing] seed, halfe a pound of fresh butter boyle them well together, then straine it and make a salve thereof. For bleeding at the nose. Take betony and salt & mingle them together, & put them in the nose, & it will [sop]. For bleeding at the nose. Take the roote of warme wood & make it very cleane, & chew it a good space. To staunch blood. Chew the roote of a nettle, but swallow it not downe, & without doubt it will staunch, for but keepe it in the mouth, & you cannot loose any blood. To staunch blood primrose leaves stamped & layd to the place that bleedeth, stanch the blood & [illegible] To staunch blood. Take periwincle & chew it in your mouth and it will helpe you. To staunch blood The powder of nettles snuffed into the nostrills staunch blood incontinent 13 To staunch bleeding in any place saveing the nose. Take [house] mosse and lay it to the cut or wound, & it will staunch the bleedinge. For spitting of blood. The powder of dry mulberries is the best remedy. For a paine in the belly or toughnes of the stomack. Take wild time a handfull, an halfe penny worth of aniseed bruised, & soe much liquorice 2d worth of sena alexandrina 2d worth of sugar, boyle these in 3 pings of malmesy untill it come to a quart, then straine it & drinke thereof a good draught first & last morninge & eveninge. For a payned back. Take unguentum rosatum & chafe their bark therewith evening and morning; and lay this plaster [following] to it. Take of fothensue, tansy & howse [leeke] of each a handfull, shread them and stampe them fine, then fry them with a sauserfull of [howy] & 2 ounces of pigeon dunge till it be plaster wise, & soe ly it to your back. For a greivous payned back. The leaves & rootes of egrimony, mugwort, & betony stampt with old grease & vinegar, and a plaster thereof applied to the bark will put the payine quite a way beeing used 3 or 4 times. 14 For a weaknes or payne in the back. Take the string of the back of a [veale], 4 dates minced small, the yolkes of 4 eggs, boyle these in [mustad] all together, eate of this next your heart in the morninge, abstaineing untill diner time. A plaster for the heat of the back Take the broad white lilly leaves which grow in water ponds, sew them after the manner of a plaster fit to cover the reines of the bark, then spread the quantity of an ounce of oyle of [oforoses] there upon, & bind it close to the reines of the bark, & let it ly 28 howers, untill such time as the [vertue] bee quite dryed out of it For the biteing of any venomous beast. Take plantan and drinke iuyce thereof & take plantan & celendine of each a like quantity, stampe & temper them with stale [illegible] & lay to the sore, & it will assuage the swelling and draw out the venome For the biting of a venomous beast. Take the patients water and the iuyce of centry, & give it the party to drinke, this helpeth both man and beast. or take fennell or [illegible] & seeth it in butter & give it the patient to drinke. For the same 15 Take the seeds of bettony & make powder thereof & drinke it [illegible] then take bettony stamped & fry it with grease & lay it to the sore, it will draw out the venome, & assuage both the swellinge and paine. For the same Take plantan & stampe it in red [illegible] and a clove of garlick, stamp them together & lay it plaster wise to the wound; but drinke plantan or celendine tempered in old wine. For the same Take garlick salt & [illegible], bruise & mixe them well together, & lay them to the sore, & drinke one of the afore sayd liquors. Fro the same. Take lylly rootes, dubble daytes, isop, rosemary wild sage stamp & straine them, then put to the iuyce a spoonefull of aqua vitae & treacle & drinke this with ale or milke. For stinginge. Take a burre roote milke and salad oyle stamp them together and annoynt the place, & give the patient salad oyle to drinke. For stinging of Adders. Take [dragons] & drinke it, alsoe stampe dragons and lay it to the place, & it will draw out the venome, & ease the payne. To stanch blood. Take vine leaves & dry them & make powder & put it into the wound, & it will cease. 16 or take the bird called the kings fisher, bake him in an over after the bread is drawne with the fethers, gutts, & all, then beate him to powder & lay it to the wound. Or take the fethers downe of the belly of an [hare], it doth the same. To stanch bleeding at the nose Bind the temples with a list about the head soe that the vaines may not [illegible] theire course, & drinke the iuyce of smalage, and lay a perum oake leafe under his tongue, but [fast] let him chew the leafe in his mouth. To staunch bleedinge take a litle fine white sugar, & as much raddle, beate them together to small powder & lay them on the wound, then lay on these a cleane cloath burned to ashes, shirk, A salve to ripen & heale botch, boyle, or adder. Take white castile soape & very rusty bacon a litle quantity cut very small, stampe them together in a wooden dish with a wooden pestle for the space of 6 howers untill they bee throughly incorporated, like a salve, then spread some of it [illegible] upon a linen cloath & lay it to the greife, changing it evening & morning: it will continue good longe if you [box] it up close For a boyle that is rotten & breaks not Take softed cheese and bores grease, that 17 is remelted, stamp them together, & fry them a litle, and lay it to the boyle as hot as it can be suffered, and at the farthest it will breake within 4 plasters. A good drinke for weaknes in the body, & for the wind collick. Take betony & great plantan of each, an handfull, comeing seed & liquorice of each an halfe penny worth stamped, bopyule these together in a quart of stale ale to the halfe, then straine it & drinke it warme first & last. an oyntment for the same. Take [neats] foote oyle, barrowes grease, aqua vita, & the iuyce of maces strayned mixe them together in equall quantities, then take part thereof & coate it hot in a porringer, & annoynt betwixt the shoulders, but chase it well in before the fier, use this 5 or six times. Against all evills in the body. Take rosemary flowers, put them in a linen cloath & boyle them in faire cleene water to the halfe, soe coole it, & drinke it. A diet drinke to coole and purge the body. Take sarzaperilla 8 ounces, saxifrage 2 ounces, guairi 4 ounces, coriander seed 2 ounces, cena a quantity conformable, 18 stire them & infuse them into 10 quartes of runing water all night, to morrow put in liquorice 2 ounces, aniseeds 2 ounces, boyle all together to 6 quarters, & let the patient drinke a quart a day thus, halfe a pinte in the morning, halfe a pinte at 4 of the clock in the after noone, and the other pint at meales. An easie purge to coole the body. Take pillele gregatine and drame and a scruple, let them be made up into 5 or 6 pills, & take them all early in the morning; it is excellent to purge choller & fleame of the stomack. Another stronger purge. Take diagredian halfe a drame in a litle white wine, take it early in the morning fasting, walke upon it in your chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth Another slighter purgation Take halfe a pound of prunes & stew them in water over a soft fier, then [illegible] forth the liquor into another pot, then take a quantity of liquorice, a quantity of ginger with a litle sinnamon, then a pretty quantity of cena, & stew all these together over a soft fier in the pot where the liquor is, then straine it into the [prunes]. 19 thein the morning fasting let the patient take 3 or 4 of the prunes with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the liquor next his heart putting a litle sugar upon them; let him not eate for an hower or two after, & then a litle comfortable broth, & this will give him a stoole or two, & be exceeding refrigerative for the body. For greifes in the body. Take a pottle of runing water, an handfull of liquorice well scraped, cut, & bruised in a mortar, an handfull of anniseeds, an handfull of parsly, seedes, an handfull of rennet [illegible] sope, an handfull of mouse eare, an handfull of mother of [illegible], put these into the water, & boye it from a pottle to a quart, then straine it from the herbes, & put to it the quantity of a wallnut of sugar candy then drinke [five] spoonefulls of it every eveninge & morninge A plaster for broaken bones Take brooke lime, chick weed, smalage & ground fill, & stampe them together, then put thereto comeing seed powder, then take sheepes tallow melted & fry it [therein] when it is well fryed put to it wheate branne & good [lyes] of wine, & stirre it well together, & lay it hot alwayes to soe sore To draw out broaken bones Take virum, betony, rew, stamp & straine the, & with [illegible] meale make a salve of the iuyce thereof 20 To keepe bookes from vermine. Take the flowrs of rosemary & put them amongst bookes or cloathes, & they will not come there. For the brayne. [also] the pouder of betony in the pottage. An oyntment for any outward bruise Take flowers of elders, when the are ready to fall, grind them small in a morter, in the grinding pot to soe many spoonefulls of [beans] flower, as that be handfulls of the elder flowers, & a good quantity of salet oyle, mingle them well, then put them into an open mouthed glass, & let them stand in the sunne a mounth; this will keep 3 or 4 yeares, & when it mayeth dry, put more oyle to it: & when you would use this oyntment heate some of it in a saucer, & amongst the [bruise] & lay some of the flowers upon it; this will [illegible] in foure or five dressings This drinke cureth all sorts of sores or bruises, be they never soe old; heales woemens brests, which are thought incurable, and if any bane be putrified, it will make it fall away in scales, If there be any impostume in the body, it will cause it to breake outwardly, and likewise if there be any corruption in the body, it taketh away the ach in the stomack, which divers have after they have taken a litle cold. Take agrimony 2 handfulls, mild angelica, betony, wild daysie rootes, & leaves, [???wort] bramble leaes, benewort, fields bugle, [sanicle], [illegible], dandelion, scabions, mug wort, worms wood, & [illegible] of each a handfull; boyle all these small shread in three gallons of water, until the herbs be very tender; you may put into it halfe a pint of clarified hony; give of it 3 times a day 4 21 or 5 spoonefulls warme, that is in the morning fasting, at 2 in the after noone, & at gooing to bed, & drinke not an hower before or after. For any payne, bruise, or ach. Take mugworte & mallowes, of each 2 handfulls, a handfull of [loudage] 3 leaves of, two or three branches of lavander cotton, as much goose grease as an ey, or more, halfe a pint of salet oyle, as much fresh & unsalted butter as an egge, as much deeres suet, as a wall nut, boyle these together, till the herbes be [turned] then strayne the herbes & if you please you may apply them as a bath For a burne or scauld. Take a good handfull of grundall, 12 heads of house leeke, stamp them small as greene [illegible], then take a pint of sheepes dunge, & as much goose dunge, then take a pottle of hoggs lard, & stampe all together, untill it be soe green that you can see noe lard, then make it [illegible] in a ball, & let it stand all night, then in the morning boyle it a litle, straine it, & keepe it. For the same. Take 2 ounces of oyle of roses, 3 ounces of creame, an ounce of pure hony, & boyle it all together, & keepe it [illegible] your use. For the same. Take halfe a pound of [singreeme] or house leeke, a pound of [illegible] madam, halfe a pound of the [rines] of greene elder, halfe a pound of red bramble leaves, halfe a pound of marshmallows, or comon mallow leaves, stampe these together, & take the iuyce, & boyle it on coles, with a pound of salet oyle, or oyle of roses water, & 4 ounces of clarified gooses suet, & 2 ounces of fresh [illegible], let it boyle till the iuyce be almost wasted & let it coole; apply it on white paper to a burne or [illegible] our an [illegible] or [locoram] to an ulcer. 22 For a canker in the mouth. Take the pouder of the roote of celendine, dryed roses, vinegar, [wax], water of hony [suckles], seeth them together till they be [shirk], & annoynt the place by thereof Or [illegible] the iuyce of plantan, wood bind, a litle [roch] [allome], vinegar, & rose water, & wash the mouth. Or take a quantity of sage, a good quantity of [roch] [allome], seeth them in faire running water, & wash the mouth therewith every morning fasting & neither oats nor drinke for an hower after! For a canker Take a handfull of [un] [set] [leekes], & [illegible] rootes, & 16 or 20 litle branches of [yarrow], lay them in white wine until they be very soft, then straine & clarifie them, & drinke every morning & evening three or foure spoonefulls, blood warme, & abstaine from [fruite] for a time For a canker in an old sore. Take a pint & a halfe of red rose water, as much plantan mater, seeth them together, with as much white mercury as a hazle nutt, let them seeth six [illegible], then [stume] it cleane with a fether, & keep it in a glasse for your use, for an approved medicine: & when you will use it, warme 4 spoonefulls, & wash the sore, & lay a cloath 3 or 4 double wet therein upon the sore; & if you feele it too [illegible] lay three or 4 spoonefulls at aforesayd, of mercury water with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, & as much of plantan water: put not this water in any silver vessell, for by reason of the poyson it will [illegible] For a canker in the body. shread the rootes of dragons, dry & make them into pouder; then take the waight of 9 pence of the pouder, & put it into faire hot water, let it stand a night, in the morning power out the water, & put in white wine, & boyle it well, & drinke of it warme, & it will cure you. For a canker in a woamans brest Take [illegible] dunge, pouder of burned wheate hony, virgin wax, barly & beane flower, & linseed seeth [chase] all together in wine or vinegar, putting 23 thereto rames [tallow], & make thereof a plaster, & lay it to the brest; a very good receite To make the black salus, or for a carbuncle take rusty baren, & black sope, pound them together, & make them up in a roule, & soe use it. For the stone or wind collick. Take a quantity of the spriggs of [gardame] or wild time, a quantity of [samshore], [illegible] with the blossomes if you can, parsly, pellitory of the wall speedwell, [peresthome], sarsifrage, [dew] hony, [illegible], radish rootes, alder budds, red roses, or red rose [illegible] the leaves thereof, [cop] [shese] small, & mixe them together, then take a good handfull of cow dunge, & mixe the herbes therein, then set it in the sunne, turneing it 9 dayes, untill you see the watry moysture dry, then distill it, the sairest water is best let your herbes dry a day before you mixe them; this is to be made in May, or the beginning of June. for the wind collick Take a peece of fine [bumbast], & dry it in the [illegible] soake of [illegible], but let it bee good & pure, then put the bumbast in the [naule], & it will ease you speedily For the collick & stone, & for the mother Take fennell seed, coriander seed, carroway seed parsly seed, ground fill seed, [galingall] seed, of each an ounce, the leaves & [codd?] of [seny] an ounce, of [shignall] a quarter of an ounce, & as much tyme, make all these into pouder, & [search] it, & drinke of it in good ale, or white wine first & last, & in all the [illegible] you eat with the meat, this is very good For the collick plurissis, or impostume in the side. Take 3 handfulls of brooke lyme, that groweth in the river, chop it small with halfe a pound of sheeps or deeres suet, & boyle it in three pints of running water, till it be [shird], that you may plaster it on a cloath, & soe apply it to the place grieved, & against it is cold, have more in readinesse, to put there on. [24] For the wind collick & stone Take milke of a cow that grayseth upon the [illegible] distill it in the mounth of May, because then the herbes have most vertue, drinke six spoonefulls fasting, but if your stomach be weake, put to it a spoonefull of gynger finely beaten, & a litle white wine. A present remedy for the wind collick. Take white wine & good salot oyle, & mixe them together, & drinke thereof now & them. Or take bay-leaves with one white when they are opened, & make it pouder & drinke it with white wine. For the wind collick. Take eg-shells, wherein chickens have been hatched beate them to pouder, then take a penny worth of parsly, a litle aniseeds, halfe a pint of [mustadell], put the rest therein, then heat a flint stone, put it therein, untill the medicine be reasonable warme, & drinke it of, & you shall find ease. For the cough Take a pint of rose water, 2 penny worth of anniseeds, as much of liquorices [faire] [illegible], & make them each into pouder, then take halfe a pound of pure white sugar, & a litle of the pouder of the roote of alecampane boyle all these in the soft water, untill it be [shird], & a [illegible] For the murry or cough. Take a posset with ale, put therein the bignes of 2 wallnuts of sugar candy, & a stick or two of liquorice finely shread, & let them boyle a litle in the ale, then straine the posset, & drinke of it morning & eveninge. For a cough. Stamp garlick with barrowes or hoggs grease, & make it shird like an oyntment & annoynt the soles of the feet, & the back bone. very good. For a perilous cough. Take sage, rue, [camein], pepper, boyle the with hony and eate thereof morning & eveninge. 25 For a greate cold or cough. Take the pouder of rosemary leaves, & put hony thereto, eate it fasting, & when you goe to bed. probatum est. For a cold Take nettle seed, seeth it in oyle, & annoynt the foote & handes there with. For a consumption. Take sesame mynt, rosemary, red fennell, mayden [illegible] sope, of each 2 croppes, sweet marjorame, penny royall, 3 branches, halfe a pound of blew [currants] boyle all these in a pottle of running water, untill it come to a quart; then put to it a quart of white wine & a litle quantity of liquorice, boyle these with the rest againe; & drinke of it morning & evening. For a consumption. Take a fat sow pig, put it into a faire skillitory with sesame [illegible], red fennell, & [nipps] of each, halfe a spoonefull, faire & cleane dates 9, the stones taken out, a handfull of greate [resines] cleane, mashed, 2 or three [reasons], the stones picked out, halfe a quarter of [mace], put all these into the pellitory, & distill them together on a soft fier, then put it in a faire glasse, & set it in the sunne 9 dayes, & soe drinke of it at your pleasure. Annother for the same. Take a young pig too fat, but well flesht, [illegible] him, & wash & dry hi as cleane as you can, then quarter him, & put him with the head and foote into an earthen pottle pot, put thereto a quart of mustadell, or [bastand], or instead of it a quart of running water, ad thereto dates, prunes, resines, currants, of each a quarter of a pound, cynomon rimes, whole [mace] of each halfe an ounce, sugar candy 2 ounces, succory a handfull; mayden haire blood wort, linen wort, [illegible] tongue, violet [illegible] berry leaves, of each halfe a handfull, 2 or 3 fennell rootes the pith taken away; sweet margorame [26] [longuebeese] [alias] cows tongue of each halfe a handfull, put all shels into the pot, & stop it close with past, then put the pot into a bottle of faire water, let it boyle 24 howers & as the water consumeth, put in more being made hot; then let the liquor run through a fine cloath & take a spoonfull at once, & put into the broth, & [illegible]. For chill bleanes or kibes. Take 4 ounces of was, 3 ounces of the best resins an ounce of turpentine, 5 ounces of fresh grease, infuse all these together upon a litle fier. For costivenesse Take a peece of browne bread & bast it, & shread it over with black sope, as you doe butter, & apply it to the [naule] as hot as you can suffer. To fret out dead flesh. Take the pouder of pepper, & lay it to the wounds where the dead flesh is. A diet drinke To 3 gallons of ale take some 6 ounces, ashen [begbernells] 2 ounces, bay berries hulled 2 ounces & a halfe, 3 ounces [illegible] pulled; of the rootes of polipodium, of the oake 5 ounces, fennell seeds an ounce & a halfe, anniseed an ounce, saxifrage sliced thinne an ounce bruise all [illegible], save the [same] which, if the body be hard to worke on, and the [illegible] betwixt the hands, soe it will worke the stronger, mingle all these together in a dish, & put them into a canvas bag, somewhat thinne, to let those ingredients into the ale, then with a stone or peece of lead in the bag to keepe it from swimming, the bag being fast tyed, put it into the vessell of ale soe tyed that it sinke not to the bottom, nor swimse on the top, but hang in the midle, but before you put in the bag, the ale must be [turned] up in a vessell of 4 gallons, & when it hath done workeing put in your bag & after it hath wasted a litle shut up the bunge close & clay it, & after 48 howers or 60 howers you may draw, & drinke thereof leting the bag hang in it untill the last. This may be done morning & evening for 10 dayes, or more, or lesse as you thinke good. [27] For the dropsie. Take halfe a bushell or elder leaves, & as much of water cresses leaves, chop them together, & boyle them well in 6 gallons of water then straine it & drinke thereof: these may be gathered in March, Aprill, or the mounth of May. for the dropsy approoved. Take the iuyce of agrimony, wild sage, thistle, & water cresses, of each, an ounce, & knead three cakes of barly flower with it, then make [maybe] of a bushell of barly mault & breake each cake into three [illegible] & put them in the [illegible], & drinke thereof first & last. For the hot dropsie, or flux. Drinke the water of [?plantan] For the dropsie Eate & drinke of [?andine] in decoction: or the roote of elder [illegible] & drinke is very good. For deafenesse Take hony of roses, iuyce of rue, oyle of bitter almonds, put these together, & drop 2 or 3 droppes into the eare, & stop it with black wood. For a noyle or rumbling in the eare. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, halfe as much of the iuyce of rue, 6 droppes of the [illegible] that [????eth] put of greene ash, burned, mixe these together, & drop a drop or 2 into your eare, & use it probatus est. For the same & to kill any worms in the eare. Take the iuyce of betony, horehound or worme wood warme it, & drop it in, it cures you & kills any worms. For the paynes [imgostumation] or deafenes. Drop the oyle of bitter almond warmed into the eare. Or take greene [elme], & put it into the fier, & [illegible] the water that comes out of the [ends], to a pritty quantity, put to it a spoonffull of wine, & the grease of a black [illegible], then put the liquor after it is well boyled into a vessell of glasse, drop of this [warme] into the eares & in 3 or 4 dayes it will helpe you. Or take a black [illegible], & put it in a cloath, & [stram] salt on him, & when he hath [illegible] himselfe well in the salt, prick him 28 with a needle, & let the water run into a glasse, & put 3 or 4 dropps thereof into your ear cold; then take comon marjorome, stampe it, & drinke a litle of the iuyce of it, & put a litle of it into the nostrills; As soone as the snayles be [illegible] [that] must bee used, or else they will dy. A medicine for deafenes. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, & the milke of a woeman, that gives a boy suck, of each a like portion, the milke of [gitten] almones, & every night, when you goe to bed, take 3 dropes warme into the eare, which [thus] upright, & change the eare every night, and take the wooll, that growes between the [browes] of a black sheepe, & stop the eare in which you drop the medicine, which is excellent to restore the heareinge For one that cannot heare. Take an [illegible], [flea] him, & [rest] him, & keepe the grease that dropped from him, & put it into the eares, & it will recover you. probatus est. For deafenesse. Take camomile, mellilote, margerome, [calamynt] [illegible] pennyroyall, [illegible], mynts, of each a hands full, boyle them together in faire running water, the [illegible] of an hower, then dip a sponge in the same water, & hold it to your eares, as hot as you can suffer, what the heate may enter into your head, then take cotton, & stop your eares close, that noe cold can possible enter into your head. To avoyd drunkannesse. Take betony, & make it into pouder, & eate it, and you shall not be easily drunke. To helpe disgestion. Take the outer rind of a limon, the white taken quite away, shread & [mince] it very small put to it the waight of 4d of fine cynomon powder, & put twice the waight of sugar candy as all the other waight, let the sugar candy be bruised mixe all together & eate thereof on a knifes poynt still before meales. A syrup to helpe disgestion & ease faults comonly in the liver Take agrimony, liver wort, [endime], of each halfe a pound 29 full, 6 parsly rootes, all mashed [cleane], & put into 3 pints of faire running water, then seeth it untill halfe be consumed; straine it, & put a small quantity of vinegar therto, that it may last thereof, & put to it a stick of cynomon bruised, & a [conuement] quantity of sugar, then set all on the fier, & boyle it againe, & when it hath boyled take it of, & beeing almost cold put it in a glasse, & drinke thereof morninge and eveninge For a noyse in the head or eare. [illegible], colt foote leaves cleane, stampe them in a morter, take out the iuyce, then boyle it, & [illegible] it as longe as any greene cometh on the top thereof, drope of it into the eare, & it will helpe you at three or foure dressings. For the eyes. P: 175. To cleere the eye sight Take fennell, rue, eye bright, tormentill, betony, roses, [illegible]-shistles, pimpernell, celandine, oculus christi & the herbe called hylagopiony, smalage, wood bind, [vine] leaves, agrimony, of each one handfull, distill them with a soft fier, & use it. For all the evills in the eyes. Take wood bind, eyebright, pimpernell, red fennell, [mell] worte, daysies, sengroome, red rases, of each, a handfull; mayden haire celendrine, wild tansy, of each 2 handfulls; infuse them in white wine 24 howers, then distill them, & use the water. To keepe back humors from the eyes. Take beanes, the outer rime or skinne beeing pulled of: bruise them, & [illegible] them with the white of an egge, or with mastick, & lay a plaster to the temples A pouder for blood shoten eyes. Take of [illegible] 2 drames, dragons blood one drame stampe them & [illegible] them finely, & out a very litle of it into the eye; this is excellent, probatus est. 30 For the same Take 5 leaves grasse, temper it with swines grease & a litle salt, & bind it to the eye that is sore. For sore eyes: or canker if it be strained Take halfe a vyall of faire water from the spring, & put thereto soe much [white] [ceporesse] as a big beane, & [shake] them together untill the [ceporresse] be consumed, then drop of this water with a fether into the eyes, & in 2 or 3 dropping the will be cured. To take away the blood or rednes of the face and eyes, of what humour soener. Stampe worm-wood with the white of an egge & lay it over the eyes, & it will halpe them [illegible] est. A remedy for sore eyes, that burne and itch, often prooved. Take in a perringer halfe a pint of white wine, 2 penniworth of lapis caliminaris, & heate it in the fier very hot, & then [quench] it in the wine, dea 6 7, 8, or 9 times, then straine it twice, & eveninge & morninge put alitle of it into the eyes. For watry eyes. To eate every day a litle betony is very good. Another for the eyes. Gather red [illegible], [bath] them in cleane water, & take of the top the grease, & with that annoynt the eyes early in the morning, & late in the eveninge A singular water for diseases in the eyes, & to clarifie the sight Take greene wallnutts husked & all from the tree with a few wall nutt leaves, & distill thereof a water, & drope of the same into your eyes. For sore eyes. Take celendine, rue, plantan, annis, & as much of fennell as all the other herbes, stampe these in a new earthen pot, then let it stand 48 howers, then straine it & annoynt the eyes evening & morninge For bleared eyes Take the iuyce of worm-wood, & mingle it with water made of the white of an egge, put it into the eyes, & it will helpe you. 31 For a white haw in the eye. Take the grease of an hare, & lay it to the eyes good. For a pinne or web in the eye Take an egge, & rest it hard, & the white all whole put in it as much white ceporesse as a pease, & all hot wringe it, [illegible] through a cloath, & let it drop into the eye this for young & old is a good approoved remedy. Or take betony, straine it & temper it with water, or with white wine warmed, drinke it 10 dayes, & it will destroye the web. For eyes that burne. Take the pareing of an apple cut something thick, & the inside layd thereto at night when you goe to bed, beeing soft [illegible] helpeth the same speedily For moyst eyes Take the leaves of betony, the roote of fennell, seeth them together, & wash the eyes with the water thereof. Or take water of the decoction of tyme & wash the eyes often [thorowly], it dryes [illegible] the teares or watrynes of the eyes. probatus est. For rhumish eyes. Take a red [cole] leafe, annoynt it with the white of an egge beaten well, when you goe to bed lay it to your eyes, & let it ly all night, use [illegible] often. An excellent remedy for a pin or webbe, redness, watring or sorenes of the eyes. Take the white of an eg, & beate it exceedinge well, then [illegible] of the froath cleane, then put into the white, beeing very cleane, a pritty quantity of rose allome being in fine pouder, & [illegible] let it stand awhile, & it will turne all to a water then preserve it for your use to drop into any [illegible] eye, & you shall find it an excellent remedy For a perle in the eye Take halfe a handfull of ground, as much of wild daysie rootes, with a litle white sugar candy beate them together & take the iuyce thereof & drop it into the eye morninge & eveninge. 32 For a pinne or web in the eye. Take a pritty quantity of the stalkes, cropps, & leaves of the herbe called christopher in the beginninge of of May, put thereto a good quantity of may butter without salt, put them well stamped in a peuter dishe, & set it in the sunneshine for the space of 2 or three mounthes, if it will not be rotten any sooner, when it is rotten & as an oyle set it one more in the sunne, & melted straine it, then drop is much of it into the eye, as a small pinnes head, & let the patient hold up his head for the space of a quarter of an hower; this is a very soveraine medicine, but it must be made & mingled in May; yet it may be strained either in May, June, July or August. For the emreds Bath it with malmsy & comein, & put it up with hot cloathes to it, & [trusse] it up hard. For the emrods an approoved and an especiall oyntment Take a handfull of pile-worte, which must be gathered in Aprill, shread it, & put thereto 3 ounces of fresh butter, which keepe untill May in a coole earthen pot; in May take 2 pounds of May butter, ad to it red bramble leaves, elder leaves, sage leaves, fennell, rostmary, mellilot, levage, of each a handfull, camomile mallowes, of each alsoe a handfull, & a litle house leeke, ship these very small boyling them together in the earthen pot untill the herbes feele crispy, then take them out & straine them, & keepe the oyntment for your use. Excellent for the emrods and piles. And if you mixe this oyntment the quantity of a quarter of a pound with an ounce of varnish, it healeth a burne wonderfully For a feaver which is burneing. Take a roote or two of sedwell, [shave] it cleane, the crops of [illegible], & mild tyme, the leaves of marygoled with the blossomes annyseed bruised, the quantity of a spoonefull, soe much comein, 33 & soe much cloves bruised, egrimony, bay leaves, & speare mynt, of each a handfull, a quarter of a pound of resines stoned, stampe them all well together, the herbes being stamped before, boyle them all in a pottle of malmsy, & in the boyleing put thereto some alexandria bruised an ounce, a ways of white ginger bruised, 4 ounces of sugar, boyule them to a quart, then straine it, & drinke of it first & last. A good drink to drinke in the fervent heat take the posset drinke made of ale, boyle it with [surrory] burrage, buglasse, the leaves & blossoms of marygoles, annyseed, sugar, straine it and drinke it; you may use the same herbes in the broth. Or take white wine & milke, annyseed & liquorice distilled, & use to drinke it. An excellent barly wine to cure or coole the heate of the liver or any heate in a feaver. Take a pint of barly water, a pint of white or reneish wine, halfe a pinte of red rose water halfe a pint of burrage water, a quarter of a pint of [surrory] water, the iuyce of 3 good limones, bruise all these, with soe much sugar as will sweeten all well, & drinke thereof at your time. probatus est. For the spotted feaver an excellent receite Take [cardius], marigole flowers, angelica roote, tormentill roote, of each a small handfull, hartshorne, & [i?ery], of each halfe an ounce, boyle these in 3 quarts of posset drinke, till halfe be consumed, then strayne it, & sweet it with the syrope of [scrabiosse], syrope of gilly flowers, & syrope of limons, of each an ounce & a halfe, but if it be not sweet enough, take sugar candy. A posset drinke for the same. Take [three] pints of new milke, 3 pints of small 34 ale, 4 spoonefulls of rose vinegar, stirre them together, the set it over the fier, untill the curd rises, take of the curd, & with the cleane posset drinke, boyle the herbes mentioned in the former recipe in the posset drink then with 2 spoonefulls of this posset drinke mixe halfe a drame of [illegible] ale, & halfe a drame of treacle, & well mixed, give it to the [illegible] parsly 3 nights together, two spoonefulls at a time. For the fallinge sicknes. Take the pouder of the stones of a [swallow]; or 5 leaves grasse, drinke 33 dayes together; the iuyce of [cowstipps] drunken 9 dayes together; or the heart of a [storte] boyled in water, & the broth drunke, & the heash eaten, the blood beeing first cleane drawne out or the liver of a partridge; or the flesh of a doe dryed & made into fine pouder, & drunke with wine or ale. Every-one of these by gods grace helpeth the falling sickness or [epu?ency]. For the same, & divers other diseases. Take young swallowes, burne them whole, & make pouder of them, mingle it with castoreum, & a litle fine [aysell] that cometh of the gall, you may buy it at the apothecaries, distill water thereof, & drinke of it fasting 9 dayes; It is good for the frensy, the [illegible] & falling [illegible], if you have not had it many yeares; it makes a good colour, clenseth the belly & stomacke, helpes the [palesy], cures cold ioynts & sinewes, & a quotidian feaver; but give it not to a woeman with child; it helpes sores & sicknes of the heart, causes one to sleepe well, to make water, deffrayeth paine where it is annoynted, & preformes a man from drunkennesse. For a fellon very good. Take the iuyce of fetherfue & smalage, of each 3 spoonefulls, as much wheat flower as will make it thick, a wall nuts bignes of black sope, worke it together till it be like [salve], & lay it to the finger, & sponge it every day once at the least, & it will take away the payne & helpe you quickly for a fellon or other sor. Mixe sope with a litle salt & lay it to, it will heale the fellon perfectly. 35 A syrope to breake fleame Take [illegible], mayden haire of each a handfull, a stick of scraped & bruised liquorice, seeth these in a potle of faire running water, till halfe be consumeth, then straine it, & put to it halfe a pound of sugar beaten, then seeth it to the hight of a syrope, & take 3 or 4 spoonefulls of it evening & morninge with soe much white wine or beere, or ale. probatus est. To open the pipes, & breake fleame. Take a quart of conduit water, then take annyseed 2 ounces, a bunch of liquorice bruised, put them into the water, then take alicompane rootes, harts tongue, horehound, liver wort, of each a like much, & a top or two of pennyroyall, boyle all these in the liquor till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & drinke of it luke warme, with a litle ginger. Or take a gallon of water, & a pound of hony boyle them & scume of the froath as it boyles, & [well] boyled put to it cynamon bruised small, then strume it through a jelly bag, & ut it into a glasse & drink thereof. To voyd & destroy cleane. Take parsly [mastic] fennell seed, pellitory, [?sope] seeth them in good ale with liquorice & a quantity of clarified hony, & use to drinke it To destroy fleame. Make powder of betony, & take thereof with hony soe much as will make 2 or 3 pellets, swallow them downe whole when you goe to bed; very good. A posset to purge fleame strongly. Take [?sope], lavander cotton, & rosemary of each 3 cropps, beate them small & mixe them in the morter with stale ale then straine it & put thereto a litle treacle; & as your milk riseth put in the strained liquor, & let it stand a litle; then eate the curd, & drink the whey A strong purge for fleame & superfluous humes. Take diagredian halfe a drame, in a litle white wine, take it early fasting, walke upon it in the chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth. To stop the bloody flux. Put a peece of rose allome in boyling milk, take of the [curd], drinke the whey very hot, & if you can eate the curd. 36 For the bloody flux. Boyle [holy-hanke] rootes in wine, & straine it, & drink it; but if the party have an ague, then let the rootes be [fed] in water, with plantan leaves & strained. probatus est. To stop the flux. Blaunched almons sod with hony till they be black, & eaten fasting restraine the flux of the belly wonderfully, but more if they be not blaunched. Eate St Johns water, & you shall find it a very stronge helpe against the flux of the belly. Or eate [beames] sod in vinegar. Or the stalke of a cole warte rosted in embers; or the liver of any beast sod in vinegar, & eaten, refraineth the flux & blood. Water of plantan drunke, is very good both for the flux & the hot dropsy. Mr Halls receite to make his pouder & oyntment to cure a fistula. Take bassorminate, & a greater quantity of white coporosse, beate & rub them well together in an iron morter, & grind it after with a painters [?ane] & soe make it pouder & apply it; and make the oyntment thus. Take the budds of the poplar tree, at theire first comeing, which is in March, or the beginning of of Aprill, take of them a part, & the two leaves of hoggs suet; shread the suet small, & put it in a ketle, & let it boyle a litle, then put in your poplar budds, & let them boyle halfe an hower together, stirre them for burning soe, then strayne it into an earthen pot, & when it is cold cover it, & [illegible] poplar budds, are they that make the populear; where [illegible], that you must use the leafe, when it shootes forth first, when it is no bigger than a [gilly] flower. For forgetfullnesse or drousinesse. The gall of a crane made warme in a leaden vessell, doth throughly, & lightly stirre up the diseased body, if the nap of the neck be annoynted therewith. The sent or smell of dog [fennell] taketh away sleepe. [sauime] beaten & sod in vinegar & layd plaster wise to the [hinder] part of the head [awakes] those that are heavy with sleepe: And [illegible] doth better [quicken] forgetfull persons, than the [smoke] of a mans [haire]. 37 For a pimpled face. Mix3e the iuyce of lylly rootes & vinegar together, of each a like quantity, annoynt the face therewith evening & morninge, for the space of 9 or 10 dayes. To helpe the rednes of the fac. Seeth the rootes of lyllies in water, & morning & evening wash the face therewith, & soe rub it well. For a pimpled face. Take a pinte of white wine, a quarter of an ounce of white coporesse, halfe an ounce of allome, halfe a quarter of an ounce of camfire, & as much brimstone, as a big hasle nut, beate all these in a morter very small, & put it into the wine then shake it all together halfe an hower & let it stand 2 dayes before you use it. It will keepe good a whole yeare. A speciall remedy for the gout. Take wax & refine by equall portions, & more of sheepes tallow, then take plantan, ribworte, equall portions, stamp them & straine the iuyce out, & let it stand all night, in the morning put of the cleere water that stands above, & put all in a pan & boyle it very well, untill all be melted, then straine it into a possett wherein you will keepe it, & when you feele the greife make a plaster & lay it thereto. To allay the ach of any gout what soever. Take ackorne kernells, steepe the 24 howers in strong vinegar, then take them, & dry them in an oven or the sunne, soe that the be not burned, then beate them into pouder, & take 2 penny waight of it, & put it into a cleane saucer of faire water, & drinke it. For the goute. Take sage, parsly, fennel, rue, lavander, of each an equally portion, as much of broome flowers, as all the rest, grind them all together in a morter, & fry the well in may butter, straine it, & let it stand 2 dayes & 2 nights; after wards sooth therein white wine & let it boyle after the [cake], & gather the flower above & heate it in a pan, & put to the pouder of frankincense & virgine wax & mixe the together; this oyntment is best. 38 To make haire grow where never any was. Take an onyon, & bore a hole in an elme tree & when the sap cometh up, then stop the hole with a peg, and soe take out the water with a spoone, & put it into a pot, & use to annoynt the bare place with a fether. To take away haire. Take the ashes of a cole-worte stalke made into a plaster, or use the ashes of a greene frogge burned & made into a lye, the haire being washed through falls away. Or take [horse] leeches & burne them to pouder, & mixe it with [illegible] & use to rub the place. Or annoynt the place with the milke or blood of a bitch, & hare will not grow there. For payne in the head. Mustard seede, or the leaves of it bruised, & layd hterto takes away the payne: there is no better remedy. For a payne in the head. Rub worme-wood well [brayed] & boyled in water & bind it to the temples upon the greife, which will presently mittigate the payne, & cause you to take a pleasant sleepe. To purge the head. Take the seede of [stanesacer], beate it to fine pou pouder, then put the pouder in a linen cloath, & make thereof a litle ball as big as a hazle nut, & put it in your mouth & roule it up & downe & chew it betweene the teeth, & hold downe the head the space of an hower, & it will purge the head & gumes, & keepe your teeth from aleinge. Or snuffe up the iuyce of [illegible] worte into your nostrills; then purgeth the head & helpeth any old paine. Or rub a marygold leave betweene your fingers & put it into your nose, & let it stay there a good space & it will bring out the [rhume], & ease your head. or take comes milke, & primrose iuyce, & with a quill blow up into your nostrills; it will purge the head. Or snuffe up the iuyce of a ground [illegible] Pills to purge the head. Dry maioram & dry it to pouder, mixe it with ginger pouder, & take a rosted onyon, poill it & stamp it with the pouders, & make pills as big as pease, put them into your nose; & water will flow thereout, & ease your paine. 39 For the dazleing of the head. [Broth] pulliall, & lay it to the temples. probatus est. A salve to cure a sore head. Take 12 of the fairst oyster shells you can get, wipe them very cleane, lay the upon a cleane hearth & a very hot charcole fier over them, burne them to ashes, then put them into a quarter of a pinte of [trotter] oyle compounding them with two penny worth of quick silver, & an ounce of brimstone, & it will be best to keepe a quarter of a pint of this oyle by it selfe; the party greived, must have a cap of [canuas], & you must cut away the haire neere to the sore; then annoynt the place with this medicine every morning, & at night with the oyle alone. for the heart burninge Take the crops of fennell, chew then in your mouth sicking & swallowing the iuyce, spit out the rest. For the straitenes at the heart with cold. Seeth figgs in wine, & scume it well, then put thereto 2 drames of the pouder of [dotany] & drinke thereof first cold, & last hot; [Alsoe] for a woeman that goes with a dead child, let her drinke the pouder of [dotany] in wine. And being thus take it causeth iron or wood to come out of a mans body. For the hearinge Take an apple, rost it softly, take the softest of it & pout it upon a linen cloath or cotton, & put it in your eare, when you goe to bed: it is excellent. For the yellow jaundyes. Take turmerick & as much [illegible] beate the to pouder, as much alsoe of the iner barke of a barbery tree, with a quantity of english saffron in pouder, mixe all together, & drinke it in posset ale, 3 or 4 dayes together fastinge. For the black iaundies. Take sage, rosemary, of each a handfull, bruise & straine the iuyce of them into a litle stale ale, 40 & take a saucer of very good vinegar, & put therto as much treacle as a nutte, & beate it in the vinegar, untill it be incorporated, then put thereto as much as a nut, chase them together untill it bee blood warme, & soe drinke of it: this is very good. For the yellow iaundies. Take stale ale, & put therein a [gad] of fier hot steele, take of the fome, & put therein a quantity of [inory] shread, a quantity of graynes, & of english saffron pounded together, & drink it 9 times first & last. For falling of the tuola. Mixe salt & bruise pepper together, & lay it on the end of your thumbe, & put it up there nose. for the iaundies. take red wormes well washed within & without, dry them & make them pouder, or boyule them in the broth, makde with chicken, mutton, or veale, & great resines endive, surrory rootes & herbes, parsly rootes, violet leaves, & burrage, ty the worms in a faire linen cloath, of the bignes of a great walnut, & soe let them boyle in earth or stone, but not in brasse. For the iaundies or morphew. Take the yellomost dark rootes you can get, scrape & wash them cleane, take out the pyth, stire them [thinne], & put them into white or renish wine in a cup close covered, put to it halfe a dozen crops of speare mynts, & let it stand 24 howers, & two howers before you drinke your broth, drinke of this in the morninge fastinge. For the yellow & black iaundies & for the greene sicknes. For the yellow iaundies take of [inory] made into small pouder or halfe an ounce, turmerick 3 quarters of an ounce, english saffron the waight of 4d, all beaten to fine pouder, mixe these together, & drinke a quantity of them morning & evening with stale ale: 41 And for the black iaundices take the same, but first purge [melancholy]; for the greene, the same medicine is alsoe very good. To ripen an impostume. Take worme wood, mallowes, mug-worte of each a good handfull, stampe & mingle them together, with a quarter of a pound of hoggs grease, fry them, & put to them a handfull of wheat branne, a litle wine, & 4 ounces of hony, then boyle them till they be thick, then lay it hot to the sore. To breake an impostume. Boyle lylly rootes & an onyon in cleere water, untill they bee very soft & tender, then stampe and fry them in hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. For an imposture in the body. Take [centry], rosemary, worme wood, hore hound, & make them into a syrop with white wine; take there of, & it will cause the impostume to goe down wards, & when it is breaken, drinke of the same syrope but let it bee always warme. A water distilled in the winter good for impostumes in the lungs & stomack etc. Take alicampane, lylly, flower [doluce] of each 3 rootes, a good quantity of rosemary, as much of sage, half as much of gardaime tyme, & of [rue]; cut the rootes in small peeces, & beate them with the herbes in a morter, untill they b e well mixed, then put thereto an ounce of liquorice cleane scraped, & cut into small peeces, & bruised in a morter, as much annyseed & fennel cleansed & lightly bruised, halfe soe much grasse beaten pepper, infuse all these in a gallon of white wine, or stronge ale, & soe distill it. this is alsoe good for the dropsy, the collick, to comfort the heart, helpe the braine against the aopolexy & dissolves grosse [humers] & fleame 42 takeing but one spoonefull every weeke fasting in summer, & two in winter. For the itch or scab. Take 2 penny worth of the oyle of bayes, halfe a pound of black sope, a penny worth of brimstone, mixe these together & annoynt the scabs therewith. A sweete oyntment to kill the itch Take oyle of bayes, quicksilver, barrowes grease temper them together, & annoynt the party therewith. A [merualous] good & secret receite & of small charge to cure swelled knees & leggs, red & full of humours; often approoved. Take a hoggs skinne if you can, ox also a white lambes skinne, or a kidds skinne, cut a peece of it as broade as the palme of your hand, or some what more, melt it in a pan on the fier, with those things in it; refine of a pine tree 2 pounds galbanu 2 ounces, mastick an ounce, milke, [cynet], amber of each 6 graynes or more; breake the mastick betweene two papers, & melt the refine & galbanu in a pan & melted put the masticke to it, stirre it that it burne not, then spread it hot upon the skinne halfe a finger thick, then take 12 or 15 of the litle beastes called mounkes peason sowes, the ly under stones in moyst places, stamp them in a morter, with a litle barrowes grease, make thereof an oyntment & lay it upon the plaster, & heated lay it under the knee, or calfe of the leg, hard bound for 2 or 3 dayes; if the leg be hairy, shave it away; & if the plaster hath made litle bladders, prick them & mixe them, & wash them with wine wherein the decoction of egrimony, [olive] leaves, & plantan hath beene made, & mixe & dry them againe & make cleane the plaster, & stirre the oyntment a litle & lay it on againe. Doe this every 2, 3, or 4 dayes & the plaster will draw to it in short time a great quantity & will take away the inflamation, rednes, & swelling; If there be a wound heale it with a plaster. 43 For kibes. Take a litle resine, pound it to pouder, mixe it with the grease of a tallow candle, like a salve, make a plaster & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For a laske. Cut of the head a great onyon pick out the [mide??], & fill the hole with frankinsense, & english saffron beaten to gether to pouder, & cover the hole with the top cut of, & rost it in embers, as a [wa?den], & well rosted, take out the core, & lay the hole to the naule; when it is cold take another. A drinke for the same. Take the rime of a pomegranate, 2 or 3 acornes, without the shells, & dry the kernells, put thereto annyseed a spoonefull, a [rays] of good ginger, beate these together to pouder, & mixe all together, & drink of it with red wine where in halfe a dozen wafer cakes have been sod; drinke it together warme three or foure times in a day. For a laske etc. The leaves of knot grasse boyled in wine or water stay all manner of laskes, & fluxes of the belly, the bloody flux, flowers, spiting of blood, & all fluxes of blood For the same. Take 2 handfulls of wheate flower, ty it in a faire white cloath, seeth it in water, which must first boyle before you put in the flower, let it boyle, till it be soe hard, that you may cut it into slices, then dry the slices in an oven, & beate them to pouder & put it in milk, broth or the like Or take the fish of a dozen of great [?entish] [cysters], dry them in a cloath, then strew on both sides beane flower & fry them in sweet butter, untill they bee hard, & eate them, & drinke a cup of [re?bers], or allegant, as you can get. Or take a new tile stone, make it red hot, & take a nutmeg beaten to pouder, & beate into it 5 or 6 yolkes of eggs, bake it on the tile, & eate it, & put a red hot gad of steele into a cup of ale, & [scrap] chalke to it, & drinke 44 For the same. Take a very good nutmeg, wrap it in a browne paper, rost it & eate it very hot, & imediately drinke a good draught of wine of [resbers], doe this 2 or 3 times. Or take a buckes [pisle] & make it into pouder, & drinke it with red wine. An outward medecine for an extreame laske Take halfe a pound of [illegible], beate it very fine & [searve] it, a halfe an ounce of cynomon used in like manner, then take a pint of red wine & bouyle those in it, & make a pultis; then take 2 peeces of red cloath or scarlet & spread it on the, & apply it hot to the belly, beneath the naule, every quarter or halfe an hower one after another Ane xcellent receite for a laske. Take a quantity of gume arabick as much as a hazle nutt, moysten it in the mouth, & as it moystens, swallow it downe, I mean that which moystens & doe this 3 or foure mornings together fasting & it will infallably helpe you. A [tisan] to open the lights. Take a quart of pure barly, a pottle of pure runing water, a good quantity of liquorice, annyseeds, & great reasines, with some figgs, boyle all these to the halfe then straine it, & make it pure good boyle it againe, with the whites of 2 eggs, & take it first & last. For the megram. Take betony, wild thistles, of each a handfull, 6 crops of [singreene], the white of a new layd egge, beate it & take of the cleene, a handfull of wheate branne, mingle all together & put them in a faire linen cloath, & lay it to your fore-head 3 nights, & let the old plaster ly still, & it will help you. A drinke for the same in perill. Take good red wine or mustard oil, & put to it, annyseed, liquorice, figgs, comein, hore-hound, [?sope], tyme, or gamont, alicampane roots, wild sage, herbs tongue, 45 mayden haire, of each a like quantity, put all into a limbeck & distill it after the manner of aquavitae. To procure myrth or chearefullnes The water of burnage drunke with wine makes a man chearefull: it is hot & moyst. Or take a quart of white wine, a pojnd of lye pith of an [oxes] bark, parsly roots, fennell rootes, of each, 2 handfulls, boyle alltogether untill the wine be halfe wasted, then straine it, & drinke 9 or 10 spoonefulls thereof morninge & eveninge, for the space of 9 or 19 dayes; this is very good For the mother or spleene. Make pouder of hore-hound, & eate & drink of it dayly. Or take parsly rootes & fennell the roots & budds of sparages, the crops of tyme, a like quantity of each, boyle them in 7 pints of water, & a pint of hony, & make thereof a syrop; use this 6 dayes; after that infuse a drame or halfe a drame of rubarbe in white wine whey, or in this syrop all night, if the syrope be made thinne; & drinke of it. To cause the meazles or pos to come forth. Boyle a handfull of figgs or pox to come forth. Boyle a handful of figgs, cleane wiped, in a pint of stale ale, untill halfe be wasted, & drink a draught of it, warme [illegible] with the pouder of english saffron. For the morphew. Make a posset with [fennitory] drinke of it in the morninge in your bed, & sweate 2 howers after it; then take annyseeds, pouder & the pouder of [same] & sugar, & drinke of it the same morning, then take a new layd egge steeped 24 howers in vinegar, then prick it with a pinne, & take that with cometh forth, & annoynt the morphew with it & it will goe away. For stopping in the milt. Take [peach] leaves, camomile, yarrow, folgenfue broune fennell, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, of each a handfull, stamp the, & fry it in a litle fresh 46 butter, & lay it warme to the belly, & the side, from the pit of the stomack downeward, & roule it fast on the plaster, or that which is layd plaster wise let it ly 12 howers, then remoove it, & annoynt the place with the oyle warme, & chafe the place before a good fire half an hower at a time. For swelling of the members or stones. Take a rose cake, holy hanke, violet leaves, camomile of each a handfull, a good quantity of comein beaten to pouder or flower, boyle these in faire runing water, untill it be some what thick, & lay it plaster wise thereto: when they are almost boyled enough, pull the rose cake to peeces, & let it boyle on. For a great heate in the mouth. Take a pinte of water, the quantity of a nut of white allome, as much sage, & a spoonefull of hony, boyule alltogether & wash your mouth therewith. A good medicine for an oncome. Take a pint of milke, put therein an halfe penny worth of english saffron dryed & beaten to pouder, with crumes of light bread, soe much as will make it thick; in the boyling put thereto the yolkes of 2 eggs raw, beaten with a litle milke, skinne it continually, when it is thick take a part & spreade it on a linen cloath, & lay it to, changing it twice a day & in the remooveing of every plaster, annoynt the place with this followinge. Take halfe a pint of may butter, put it to comein seed beaten, & mixe it To assuage the swelling of an oncome. Take a pint of white wine, & a good quantity of wheate flower or meale, boyle them together untill they be thick, & lay it to the sore places Or take ground sill, [pinny] ornell, mallowes of each a like, fry them in fresh grease a good space, & lay ti plaster wise to the greived place. 47 Alsoe it is exceeding good to put to the aforesayd oyntment (where it is marked in the [margrine] with this note [symbol]) halfe an ounce of the iuyce of rue, & boyle it with the may butter & cumein seed beaten to pouder & [illegible], stir it, & let it seeth a litle, then use it. A good drink for the pestilence. Take syrop of violets, [sewell], endive, & sower lymons, of each alike mixe them with burrage water, & a [tysane] made of barly with the pouder of [boles?minake] For the [illegible] Take [rue], burned, folgenfue, of each a handfull, a quantity of [illegible], the [illegible] & roots of dragons, wash the cleane, & put them into a potle of running water, boyle it, fill halfe the water be washed, & let it stand untill it be almost cold, straine it thereto sagarrandy, & if you drinke it before the month doe appeare, buy gods grace there is no daunger. A preservative & curative against the sicknes, or plague. Take a new layd hennes egge, & make a hole in the crowne, draw out all the white, & leave the yolke & fill up the shell with english saffron whole, then dry the egge by the fier, or in an oven, when the bread is drawne, soe long till the shell be black & burned, & the rest [illegible], & dry, & beate it to pouder, & put to it the same waight of mustard seed pouder, then adde to it dittany turmentill nux vomica, of each a drame pouder each by it selfe, & then put them all together, & put to it rue, piony, zedoary, camfire, fine treacle, of each, equall portions, soe that the waight of these 5 be as much as all the rest, beate all together in a morter, for the spece of 2 howers, untill they be well incorporated in a lumpe, then glasse it up, set it in a cold place, couvred with a leafe of gold; it will last 30 yeares without corruption, 48 & is of an inestimable value; one halfe penny waight will [illegible] some one from the plague; the waight of a barly coarne half a [memalous] strength to defend the body. but if you be [illegible] to take it before letting blood take 2 or 3 graynes; but after blooding take a whole scruple, or 2, or 3, if your strength will [serve], tempered with wine, for a hot, bakeing; & in a great cold take a litle quantity, & sweate thereupon; I have knowne the sick utterly desperate, not being able to retaine any thinge, yet takeing 2 scruples of this, mixed with a litle aqua vitae, the vomiting hath ceased, & nature recovered, & the sick body escaped the daunger of death. An emplaster for the same. Make it of oyle olive 20 ounces, new wax, [litarge] of gold, litarge of silver, [venere] cerisse, of each 4 ounces, myrrh [galso] an ounce, [venere] tereb. 4 ounces, a soe make it [illegible] The vertue of this emplaster 1 It cures all sores & greifes, soe that the [bone] be [illegible] 2 All swelling leggs, [exceeding] of deafnes, be it with [blew] or other wise 3 All impostumes, swellings, inflamations [exceeding] of [falls] or bruises; & like wise for the touch of any venomously thinge. 4 All [illegible], & boyles in any part of the body 5 All sores, & [botches] caused by venery or gonerhea etc. & all [scabes] in the body or hands. 6 The fistula, be it never soe great & old 7 The plague, laying it presently upon the place where the sore is 8 All sorts of dropsies, swellings or breakings out of the leggs or feete, that you cannot weare hose or shoes. 9 All burnings, although with gunpouder. 10 All cutts, [thrusts] or stabbs with rapier or dagger. 11 All bitings of venomous beastes or mad doggs. 12 All itches & [scabbs] in the head of man or woeman 13 The white [scab], be it never soe bad. 14 All warts, [ringwormes], & [fellons] in any part of the body. 15 The kinges evill. 16 The cancer, [provided] soe, that it be layd to in 49 time, before it comes to the heart of the party All apostumes & fistulas in the eares 17 All sores on the feete 18 All superfluous flesh that growes between the nayles 19 of the fingers or toes. All itch although in the fundament 20 All [var??sities] in the hand, & all such sores, & greifes 21 although they came of loose venery. All sore eyes, inflamed, or rheumetike with white 22 water, that they cannot open them. Alsoe St Anthonyes fier. 23 Alsoe it cures the gangrene, [presently] applied. 24 [illegible] all [puthes], spotts, wartes, freckles, in the 25 face or brow. A preservative from the plague. Take herb grace, elder leaves, red burrage leaves, sage, of each a handfull, bruise & stamp them, & put the iuyce of them into a quart of white wine, & put a quart of grated ginger into it, & let it stand a whole night, then drinke of it 9 mornings fastinge one after an other, & by gods grace it will keepe you from being infected Or take the pouder of [boleorminate] & [sheai??] mingled together very well. An excellent preservative in the plague time to expell it from the house. Take olibanum, mastick, wood of aloes, beniamin, [storae], wadanum, cloves, [ir??per], make of them a perfume, & sprinkle it with vinegar, & alsoe take the greene braunches of quince trees in your chamber, & sprinkle them with vineger & rose water. An electuary very precious against the plague. Take 20 wall nutts, 14 fat figgs, herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, [illegible] eye, scabions, of each a handfull, 2 ounces & a halfe of pomegranate potasicke, alias the blessed bird, halfe an ounce of aristochia [songa], an ounce of aristochia rotunda, a handfull of the leaves of ditany, 3 drames of bay berries, 2 drames & a halfe of the pouder of harts tongue 3 drames of mace, a drame of the salt of the sea, 50 2 drames of nux vomica, a handfull of the flowers of buglasse, stamp them together in clarified hony, & eate a drame thereof every morning fastinge. For the dead paulsy, or numbenes in the ioynts or bones. Take rosemary topps, red sage topps of each a hand full, a pint of good maulmsy, halfe a pint of [neath] foote oyle, boyle them together & stop it close, & annoynte the place with it warme. probatus est. For the paulsy in the hands. Wash your hands in cold water, wherein is sage, and let them dry of them selves. For the paulsy. If any man doubt of the paulsy, let him eate every morninge 3 mustard seeds, & 3 pepper cornes, and use it day by day. OR take the flowers, leages, & rootes of comstipps, stampe them, & lay them in a linen cloath, & warme them very hot, & lay them to the nap of the neck, & to the sores, when those gro cold, lay to warmer, 2 or 3 times; and stamp sage & lay it in like manner to the pulses or wristes. For the same. Take spanish St Omers onyons the cores taken out, & fiull them up with good aqua vitae & with them well, then straine them, & if they bee to dry, put to them in the straining a litle more aqua vitae, keepe this oyle, & annoynt the patient evening & morning: it is very good. For a pluricy: vide pag: 23. For the piles or whites an excellent salve. Take pile wort, gathered in Aprill, chop it small & temper it with a litle butter to preserve & keepe it till May; then take 2 pounds of may butter, red bramble leaves, mallowes, ale [cost], elder leaves, rostmary, house leeke, fennill, [?rset] isop topps, mellilate, & ale [hoose], chop the herbes very smal & knead them in the butter, then put it in an earthen pot, & set it in the hot sunne for the space of 51 6 rootes, then boyle it on a gentle fier stirring it, & when the herbes are crispy it is enough, then staine it purely from the herbes & put a quarter of a pound of wax thereto. If you ad to this salve white varnish it is an excellent salve & a very souveraigne remedy against any burne or scald what soever; & without the varnish it cures the piles. For the same Take the blossoms & budds of archangell, if it be for a man, it must be the red, for a woeman the white, boyle them in white wine, with a [bull] [oxe] pith, strayne the herbes, & lay them to the place greived, & drinke the liquor sweetened with sugar candy, 2 spoonefulls at a time in the morning & eveninge, if the party be aged take the more. To make on pisse freely. Take parsly seed, alexander seed, the rootes of tansy in winter, or the leaves in sumer of each a handfull, boyle them in a pottle of good ale, & let it stand untill it bee cold, then straine it, & make a posset of the liquor, & drinke of it but let the curd alone. Or seeth barly, liquorice, & violets in water 5 or 7 howers, then straine it, & drinke first & last. For those that cannot retaine or hold theire water. Take with vineger & water when you goe to bed the blader of a goate, sheepe or bull made into pouder. Or take 3 dayes together at the weane of the moone the blader of a fresh water fish. or the braine of a hare taken in wine. or drinke the blader of a sow pig made into pouder. or the blader of a [ber?] made into pouder. or fill boards rosted, & eaten are very good for any one that hath the distillation of urine soe take then pouder in drink or [illegible] 52 For the same. Burne goates tallow, & make it into pouder, and put it into the patients pottage. Or lay a tile upon hot coles, & lay theron a grates goose cut in peeces, & give it time to melt then beate it to pouder, & take in a spoone a little with warme milke or pottage evening & morninge fastinge. Or take 2 parts of castorium, one pt of nutmeg beate them to pouder, & with a litle syrope make pills & take one every night when you goe to bed. For one that is poysoned. Take wall worte barke, pare away the outer rime, beat it to pouder, lay it in ale or water all night, then straine it, & drinke it fasting & you will vomit up the poyson. For the Rhume. Weare a scarlet cap smoaked with frankinsense or storax, & take a spoonefull of the syrope diacodion, & hold it in your mouth a quarter of an hower after you be in bed, or more, then spit it out: but if you have the murre, then you must swallow it downe. Or dry & beate a handfull of bay salt, & put to it a handfull of branne dryed a litle, mixe them, & sow them in a linen bag, or two, & heate them hot over a chafeing dish of coles, & lay them to the mould of the head, behind & before, & doe this 3 or 4 times in a dressinge. To make a water in perill. Take 3 gallons of the lyes of sack, or maulmesy, or both, liquorice, aniseeds, of each a pound, coriander seed, carroway, galingall, spikenard, set wall or sed wall, of each an ounce, resines of the sunne a pound, figgs halfe a pound, synomon 4 ounces, penny royall a good handfull, camomile, mynts, [vuset] time, fennell, [vernin], 53 saxifrage, dill, hore hound, of each halfe a handfull, allicampane roots 2 ounces, infuse all these into the lyes 24 howers, before you set you limbeck, let them not be 4 gallons & more, & draw out of this 5 pintes of the strongest, & when it is 4 dayes old put to it a good quantity of rose leaves, & let it stand 10 dayes, & then stragne it, & put to it halfe a pound of resines of the sunne, the stones picked out, & 4 ounces of figgs of Algrye, & let it stand 14 dayes, then cleane it, & stop it up close. Doctor Smithes water for the same. Take a gallon of the stronge spanish wine, three quarters of a pound of liquorice, & as much of anniseed, distill them as you doe aqua vitae, then take a quarter of aqua vitae, & as much rose water, 2 ounces of liquorice, & as much aniseed. If you will you may let this stand 24 howers, & then straine it. For the rhume. Take olibanum, 3 perles; wrap them up in [conserve] or roses, & swallow them downe, as pills, when you are ready to sleepe; but take this not a bove 2 nights together; the three perles must be of the bignes of small pease. For the same. Take [isope] rosted in embers, & lay it to the head. Or if it proceed of a cold cause, take hot calamynt & mother [illegible], bray them, & lay them to the temples, or any place of the head. Ro cast into the mostrills the iuyce of colewort; this purgeth the head from rhume For a rupture Take mond royall, bone worte, shepheard purse, knot grasse, of each a handfull, stamp them together & put the into a pint of the drinke prescribed in the 20th page & 4th receite: then take them, & straine them into the same drinke, & give it as the other. If you use the water above mentioned, for wounds or sore brests or other sores you may put instead of one of the gallons of water, a gallon of white wine, & annoynt the place with oyle of [illegible] worte For the ricketts. Take rosemary, bay leaves, camomile, tops of lavender, the 2 rines of ale [goose], [illegible] isope, [sowed] tyme, of each a handfull, shread them and beate the in a morter, boyle it in a pound of butter fresh the space of an hower; straine it & annoynt the childs sides, knees, & downe to the feete, every evening & morning for a quarter of an hower; this oyntment is to be made in May. A drinke for the rickets. Take the roote of fox [fearne], it hath a clove like garlick; take 5 of these cloves, bruise the & put it into a halfe a pint of milke, boyle it to a quarter of a pint, & drinke of it every morning fasting & fast halfe an hower after: when you have used this a pritty while, then take in the same manner 7 cloves; & when the child will not take it any longer in milke; bake it in an oven, & beate it to pouder & give it the child in [beere]. A syrope for the rickets. Take a quart of running water mayden haire, sage of Jerusalem, coltsfoote, of each an ounce, an ounce of the shaved roots of fox fearne, liquirice shred anniseed bruised, of each halfe an ounce, a handfull of cleane picked liver worte, 20 figgs shred, boyle all these well together to the halfe, & straine it, & put to it a pound & a halfe of fine sugar, 2 drames of prepared perle, 3 leaves of gold, let these boyle well together, then straine them, & give the child one spoonefull first in the morning, & one last at night. 55 To stop the running of the reines Take [cypris] turpentine, the quantity of a wallnut, conserve of roses a quarter of an ounce, halfe a quarter of an ounce of cynomon beaten, 2 or 3 ounces of white sugar candy, red & yellow sanders a quarter of an ounce of each, white sanders alsoe. Another for the same. Take white sanders a quarter of an ounce, yellow sanders halfe an ounce, red sanders 3 quarters of an ounce, beate them well together in a morter, ad an ounce of conserve of red roses, & beate all againe, then take soe much venice turpentine washed in plantan water, as will bring it to the stiffenes of a pill, & take thereof the quantity of a hazle nut in the yolke of an egge new layd; take this 3 mornings together, then cease 3 dayes, & soe by 3 dayes together, untill 9 dayes be expired; then take a plaster of diapalma, apply it to the bark, & let it ly till it fall of of it selfe. The vertues of rosemary. Boyle the leaves in white wine, & wash the face, beard & browes, & you shall be faire; put the leaves under the beds head, & you shall be delivered from all evill dreames. Bray the leaves to powder, & lay it on a camber, & it will kill it. Make a box of the wood, & smell to it, and it will preserve your youth. If the leggs be swelled with the gout, boyle the leaves in water & bind them to the swelling in a linen cloath, & it will helpe you. Boyle the leaves in [strange] vesell, & bind them to the stomack & it helpes all evills. The wood or stalkes burnt to pouder keep the teeth from all evills, if you put it in a linen cloath & rub your teeth therewith [56] For the stone. Take pouder of [s??nes] berries, pouder of [damsenes], pouder of saxifrage, of each a litle much, & drinke it with posset ale. Another Take [unset] time, camomile, of each 2 handfulls, rosemary betony, of each one handfull, 3 handfulls of cinckfole, boyle them in a pottle of sack & a pint of clarified hony unto a quarter, & take it in the morning 6 howers before you eate, & soe last at night. For the stone Take a spoonefull of coriander seed, 2 spoonefulls of parsly seed, & 2 of broome seed, alexander seed, groundwell seed of each a handfull, beate the to pouder, & [searce] them; then take a quantity of white wine & put therto a handfull of parsly roote & leaves in summer in winter the rootes only, a handfull of pellitory on the wall, halfe a handfull of wild mallowes, a handfull of water cresses, boyle all from a quart to a pint, straine it, & then put in the fore sayd pouders, & drinke it milke warme first & last. Another very good. Take a quart of good red wine, put thereto 3 ounces of sugar, halfe an ounce of comein seed whole, seeth all together from a quart to a pint, then straine it & use it cold first & last: very good. Or take [illegible], unset leekes, beane cods, resines, saxifrage, still these herbes [illegible], then take a like portion of the waters, & soe much maulmesy as the waters bee in all & distill the together & keepe that water in a glasse, & drinke 4 spoonefulls of it with a spoonefull of the pouder of good ginger. For the stone in the blader Drinke [turmarick], bayes, [longe] pepper, ground sill, and cloves. an emplaster for the stone. Take parsly, tyme, unset leekes, penny royall, 57 camomoke, vervine, pellitory of the well, saxifrage [clyners], of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pinte, & lay it to the belly. Or take worme wood & camomile of each a handfull, boyle them in a pinte of malmesy untill it be consuned to the halfe & apply it. A distilled water for the stone, to be made in the end of May or begining of June. Take pellitory of the wall, saxifrage, parsly, mother of time, of each 5 handfulls, 12 [redice] rootes small ones, stire the rootes & stamp the herbes, & lay them in a gallon of new milke & soe distill them. Some take but one handfull of each of the herbes & 5 or 6 rootes. then take 6 spoonefulls of the water, & six spoonefulls of white wine with a litle sugar, & a litle nutmegs shred therein, & take it blood warme, thrice together in 3 mornings, & this only in the space of 3 weekes, & ride or walke upon it 3 howers, & after you have drunke this, eate halfe a good nutmegge. To breake the stone Drinke the pouder of egge shells, probatus est. Or take the pouder of the rootes of red nettles put a spoonefull thereof into a draught of white wine, & drinke it something warme, use it every day untill the stone be broaken & consumed. For the stone. Seeth a pinte of holly berries in good ale, till the ale be consumed, then straine it, & put to it a litle butter, drinke thereof 5 or 6 spoonefulls, & within halfe an hower you will make water, if ever any medicine will cause it. For the same Take a good deale of mug roote, stamp it & wring out the iuyce & drinke every day the quantity of a cuppe full. probatus est. The gume of cherries doth breake the stone & leassen the gravell wonderfully. Or distill strawberries & mingle the water with good maulmesy & drinke it. 58 Or take a red hot flint, put it in a quart of white wine, cover it close, & let it boyle, & drinke it cold. For the stone. Take ale, white wine, of each a pint, a quarter of a pint of parsly water, [gramwell] seed, coriander seed, of each a penny worth beaten, a handfull of mother of time, as much pellitory of the wall, halfe an ounce of parsly seed, boyle alltogether on a soft fier untill it come to halfe a pint or therabout Or take mead parsly, pellitory on the wall, anniseeds, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint, & drinke thereof in the morning fastinge, & walke upon it. A purge against the stone or gravell, by Mr Groves. Take a drame of pulvis sanctus, halve an ounce of syrop of roses, steepe them in a penny worth of white wine, & drinke it of & you shall find great ease. Or squeese the iuyce of 2 lymons through a fine cloath, put thereto 4 or 6 spoonefulls of good sallet oyle, with a litle quantity of sugar, drinke it of in a morning, & walke upon it; this is most excellent to provoke urine. Another for gravell. Take a good draught or two of new ale out of the fat, with some fresh butter in it, & walke an hower or 2 upon it, & it will cause you to voyde much gravell & stones. Or take 3 or 4 red hearing-cobbs, dry them & pound the to pouder & all wayes use those of either in the drinke or pottage, or in both . For the stomack payned with heat burneing. Take rose water, sorell iuyce purified, of each a pint, mixe them, ad thereto a quantity of anniseeds, with sugar, boyle all untill halfe be consumed, & take 3 spoonfulls at a time every eveninge and morninge, & at other times alsoe if need requires soe to doe. 59 To breake fleame about the stomack. Take the iuyce of fennell & a quantity of hony, boyle the untill it be thick, & drinke thereof every eveninge and morninge. This cleeneth the stomack. Or take parsly rootes, fennell rootes the pyth taken out, wild tyme, isop, an herbe like liver worte which groweth in an oake, of each a good handfull pick them cleane, seeth them in a pottle of running water to a quart, & with this water make almon milke, & sweeten it with sugar, & drinke of it as oft as you please. For the squincy in the throate. Boyle the iuyce of fennell in hony very well, untill the iuyce be consumed, & use it. Or take halfe a handfull of the rootes of white lillies, or as much as will make a plaster, halfe a pint of milk, halfe a spoonefull of treacle, stampe all together, & make it as hot as you can suffer, spreading it on a cloath, lay it to your throate. A gargle for the squincy. Take 2 spoonefulls of mustard, a spoonefull of hony a pritty quantity of a white doggs [turd] finely [searced], a quantity of strawberry or plantan water, gargle your throate with this: afterwards gargle the throate & mouth with syrop of mulberries or blackberries, & carduus water warmed. To lay outwardly for the squincy. Take a white doggs turd pounded small, a quantity of hony, a quantity of wheat flower, the yolke of a new layd egge, beate all together, & spread it on a peece of leather or browne paper, & lay it outwardly to your throate. A pultis for the squincy Take the rootes of holy [hartes], the rootes of mallowes, of each a handfull, the pith taken out; camomile, violet leaves, & flowers, of each a handfull chop them small, & boyle the in a pint of faire water, 60 put to it fennigreese meale linseed, [illegible] barly, of each halfe an ounce, boyle it to a pultis, then put into it halfe an ounce of oyle of camomile, halfe an ounce of oyle of sweet almons & spread it & lay it to warme, change it once in 6 howers. For shrinkeing of the sinues. Take marsh mallowes, rosemary topps of each a handfull, stamp them together, then [illegible] them in may butter melted & mingle them, then let it stand 10 dayes, then seeth it well on a soft fier, then straine it, & keepe it in a stone pot. For shrinking of the vaines or sinues. Take a quantity of fine mustard made with white wine vineger, a quantity of maulmesy, a quantity of cynomon, boyle all together, & with this [chase] the place then take chick weed wrap it in a browne paper & rost it untill it bee soft, & lay it on the place greived, as hot as you can suffer it. For a prick in the sinues with a nayle, knife, or thorne. Heate oyle of roses well & lay it upon the place very hot & bind black wooll upon it. probatus est. For the same if the hole be stopped. temper boulted wheat flower with wine, & boyle it together, till it be thick, & make a plaster of it, & lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it. For one that cannot sleepe. Stamp bay berries in a morter & lay them all about your head in a cloath. or take egrimony, & put it under your head, & you will sleep untill it be taken away or take a handfull of hempe seed, wash it cleane, & dry it against the fier, then beate it to powder then straine it with a quantity of new ale, & make a [illegible] through a strainer then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it warme. This is alsoe good for the black jaundyes. Or make pouder of the white topps or seeds of lettice, & temper it with woemans milke, & the white of an egge & lay it to the temples of the head, & you will sleepe. Or drinke this pouder in milke. 61 For one that cannot sleepe. Take 5 branches of arkangell, 7 of white wort, & 11 of the leaves of sedwell, pound the together & straine them with as much drinke as will make a posset, & make a posset with the sayd liquor & molke, and drinke the posset ale when you goe to bed. For the spleene. Take endive, harte tongue, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, smallage, fennell, parsly, of each 2 rootes, anniseed, comein seed, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, seeth these in 3 pints of water, & the third part of a pint of white wine vineger, to the halfe, & when it is cold, straine it, & with a litle sugar every morning drinke a good draught thereof fasting & let it be blood warme, when you take it & boyle it in stone or earth, not in brasse To clense the spleene. Take harts tongue, wild hopps, lettice, burrage, [illegible] flowers of fumitorrae & parsly roots, seeth all these in whay, when they are well sodden, clarifie the whay with white of eggs, straineing it, & keepe it & drinke it first & last during a mounth & it will halpe the spleene, & clense the blood, & comfort the body many wayes. To make one slender. Take fennell, & seeth it in water, & drinke the water last at night, & first in the morninge. For the sciatica. Take the oyle of a fox, oyle of camomile, of each a like quantity, take neats foot oyle & aqua vitae twice soe much, put all together, & warme them, & annoynt the place greived by the fier. To make one soluble or loose. Make broth of veale, mallowes, violet leaves, & great resins stoned, then straine it, & take a quantity thereof fasting & fast 2 howers after it 62 For a stinkeing breath. [illegible] to drinke vernine tempered with wine. Or seeth gardaime mints in vineger, & wash your mouth therewith, after wards rub your mouth, gumes and & teeth with the pouder of mynts; it is very good. For the straitenes of wind. Take an earthen pot of a gallon, put therein faire water, & a cocknell of a yeare old, then take fennell rootes faire scraped the outer rind being taken away, alsoe the rootes of parsly, [illegible] harts tongue liver worte, & dandelion, put all into the pot, boyle it a good space, & put to it a quantity of greate resines,m & prunes, & boyle it, till the cocknell be boyled in manner to peeces, then straine it, & drinke thereof first in the morninge, & an hower before supper, & use it thus soe longe as you shall think good. For the same Take a penny worth of the smallest griggs or [eeles], chop them very small & boyle them in ale, made without hopps, put thereto 3 pounds of sugar candy, an halfe penny worth of liquorice, as much of graynes, boyle all together & sup it up as a sponge. For a short wind. Seeth mallowes, mercury, & burrage with a peece of parke, & drinke the broath with white wine or whay made of milke. For a paine in the side. Take wild tyme, penny royall, runing water, saxifrage, [mouse??d], of each halfe a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint with iuniper berries halfe a handfull bruised, put to it 2 spoonefulls of fine sugar, straine it & drink of the liquor first & last, & take it as you have need 63 For a stitch ]Take the great red poppy flowers, that stick & grow in corne, distill them as you doe roses, & take a draught of the water blood warme with old ale or wine, drink it twice or thrice at any time. Or take 2 or 3 handfulls of camomile flowers or of the herbes, & as much worme wood, some mallowes, a good handfull of rosemary, seeth all in a gallon of water till halfe be consumed, then put it into a dry blader of an oxe or cow, & lay the blader to the place greived as hot as you can suffer it, & when it is almost cold, warme it againe, or rather take 2 bladers, & when one is cold, lay to the other, that is hot Another for a payne in the side. Take a few oates & parch the, a good handfull of fethersue, a quantity of pigeons dunge, dry all these in may butter, & in a bag, or limon cloath lay it to your side, as hot as you can suffer it. For a swellinge. Take worme wood, broome, of each halfe a armefull, burne them to ashes, & put them into a cleene posset drinke made of white wine with 4d worth of iuniper berries, & boyle it all together, then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it; let the posset drinke be a quart in quantity. For a surfet Take worme wood & red mynts, strew them well with salt, & boyle them in vineger, with crumes of browne bread, & sew it in a linen bag, & lay it hot to the stomack; this will helpe you. For a tetter. Take a penny worth of mercury sublimate, put it into a glasse with a quarter of a pint of faire water; & let it stand, & wash the tetter therewith evening & morning, & let the water dry up of it selfe. Or take mercury sublimate & boleorminate, & make them into powder & mixe it with faire water in the hands, & lay it on the tetter beeing cleared. 64 Or beate glasse to fine pouder, mixe it with black soape, & annoynt the sore therewith. For tilicke Take a quart of faire water put thereto isope, hore hound of each halfe a handfull, mayden haire a handfull, liquorice halfe a pound grossely bruised seeth them in the water to the halfe, then straine it, & put to the liquor 4 ounces of penny [deyes]: mace, cynomon, ginger, nutmeggs, of each halfe an ounce, 4d waight of longe pepper, beate these together to fine pouder, & put them into the liquor, & make with fine wheat flower a cake, and bake it, & eate thereof For the same Boyle a quart of good ale, & scume it cleane, put to it a good quantity of anniseeds, a stick of liquorice bruised, 3 figgs, a peece of sugar candy, boyle them untill it come to a pint, & drinke of it for the space of 7 or 8 dayes. Or boyle the flowers of rosemary in goats milke, then let it stand in the ayre well tendered a whole night, & drink there of A water to scower corrupt teeth. Take vineger& hony with the pouder of allome, & boyle them together, & wash them therewith, & it will [scowere] them & take a way the paine To make a tooth fall out Take red [illegible], white horse haire, & a water frog, dry them in an oven, & make pouder of them, & which tooth you will have out, wet the top of the finger in the milke of a bitch, & then dry your finger in the pouder, & lay it on the tooth, & it will fall out. For a timpany Take a gallon of faire runing water from the spring, set it over the fier in a sweet vessel, then take an ounce of coriander seed, an ounce of anniseed, 65 ly then in sunday cloathes; take alsoe a pound of resins of the sunne, wash them & pick the, & put them into another cloath, a quart of each [madds], [scower] this as you would doe [illegible], [slice] & cleanse them in many waters, till they be white, & boyle all in the sayd water, till almost halfe the water be consumed, & straine it into a faire vessell, use to drinke it evening & morning, & after meales a good draught reasonable warme, & by gods grace it will helpe you. A white salve for a wound. Take gume [elemy], venice turpentine, a like quantity in waight of each, with soe much mutton suet & fresh grease, the suet wtice soe much as the grease, melt all together, but let them not seeth, then straine the, & beate the together till it is cold. An oyntment to coole & comfort a wound. Take a quantity of oyle of roses, a quantity of boleorminate in pouder, the whites of 2 eggs, beate them a good space together, then lay it on a cloath, & lay it about the wound. For a cut or chop. Take burgundy pich a quarter of a pound, 2 penny worth of turpentine, yellow wax 2 ounces, frankincense 2 ounces, 2 spoonefulls of aqua vitae, boyle these in an earthen pipkin, until they be well melted, stirring them continually, & spread it on browne paper or thin lether, & lay it to the place greived, & let it ly until it fall of. A precious salve to heale any sore or greene wound. Take resine, [illegible], of each halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of virgine wax, sheepes suet & deeres suet of each a quarter of a pound, 66 [olibanum] a quarter of a pound, mastick halfe a pound, beate these to pouder, which may be beaten, & put them in a pan with the wax & suet, & when it is well melted, straine it into a pottle of white wine, or seeth it in a quart, & let it coole a litle, then put in camfire whole, turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, & straine it, till it be cold, & seeth it againe. Another better Take resine, burgundy pich, of each halfe a pound, virgin wax, sheeps suet, deeres suet, of each a quarter of a pound, mlet all together, with a litle white wine, & stire it continually, then put in an ounce of mashed frankincense, olibanum, venice turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, myrrhe an ounce, 2 drames of camfire the 3 [illegible] must be last put in, & all well beaten, nor let it stay long on the fier after these are put in, then straine it through canvas into a bason, & before you straine it put into the bason a quart of white wine, then let it coole, & soe make it up into roules, & if you will keepe it, lay it alwayes in white wine, & it will keep 7 yeares For a cut Take isope & the [illegible] of [carduus] [bened???] & put it to the cut, & it will heale it. To get out of the flesh wood or iron. If it be deepe in, & cannot be got out, dip a [tent] in the iuyce of valerian, & put it in as deepe as you can, & ly the herbe varerian stamped upon the sore, & a cloth upon it, this drawes out wood, iron, or any thinge else, & healed the wound. For a cut. wash the sore with the iuyce of isope, & dip lint therein, & lay it thereto. A pultis for any greivous sore or wound. Take a quart of milke, a penny white leafe grated (& annoynt the [illegible] first with capons grease) two 67 ounces of red rose leaves, boyle all well together, put to it 2 penny worth of venice turpentine, boyle it but a litle, then put in 2 spoonefulls of good hony, the yolkes of 2 eggs, well beaten, 4d worth of spermacete, put in these two last in the cooleing A balsome to cure greene wounds. Take a pint of the best oyle, 4 ounces of bees wax, 4 ounces of turpentine, an ounce & a hlafe of mumia, oyle of St Johns wort, alias aspericu, 2 ounces of alconet rootes, & boyle all well together. To take away warts or cornes. Lay upon the wart or corne brimstone as much as a pinns head, & let it burne, till it come to the roote, then take it away, it is but litle or noe paine upon a warte Or take a silke thread, ty it straite about the wart, & let it be till it come of. probatus est. To kill wartes Lay doves dung in vineger, & annoynt the therewith. or rub [parsalone] on it, & it pulls it up by the roots; Or take ashe [illegible], & mixe it with vineger, & apply it on the wartes. Or stamp wood [bind] leaves, & lay them thereto; use this but 6 times, & it will destroy the warts. For wormes in the hands. When your hands itch, rub them untill the water & skinne be broaken, then take gunpouder & rub them with your spittle. For a wenne. Bind the wenne fast, then take verdigrease, sulphure, sope, oyle of eggs, allome, hony, of each a quantity, temper them together, & lay it thereto, & it will take away the wenne, & heale it without doubt. 68 For a woeman in travaile, that wants [shrowes] Take ditany, halfe an ounce of cloves, a good quantity of cashey 2 worte of spermacete, boyle all in a pint of white wine, & then sweeten it with sugar, & give it to the woeman to drinke. To spout into the yard. Seeth barly & claryfied hony together, till the barly doe breake, then straine it, & put it into the spoute, & use it. 69 for the [??atteta] Take pitch [illegible] in pouder at [trb] 2 frankinsence roote brused [trb] 3 [illegible] [suett] [trb] 2 saffron in pouder two ounces mace & [illegible] an [zr] [illegible] [illegible] the [suett] rosin an frankinsence then the pitch then add the [spices] with an ounce of [illegible] seeds & of [illegible] in powder ziii. make a [buskin] of white calves lether and in the [sope] [illegible] of [spices] the plaister halfe an [illegible] [thus] Laye it on the [illegible] of the pained side & weare it 29 or 30 daies & [illegible] without opening it at all Mr [Solk??e] at the [illegible] in [illegible] makes this plaister [70] Mustard whey Recipe for rheumatism Take of the best durham mustard seed 3 oz boil it gently in three pints of water till reduced to one; then add one pint of skimmed milk & strain it thro a small sieve; this produces the whey Take a tea cup full of this whey, luke warm, every morning 77 The second booke of admirable & most approoved receites. For any greife or payne in the head, except the pox. Take red roses, camomil floweres, mellilote, calamynt, of each two handfulls, seeth them in 40 pound of water & good wine, until halfe bee consumed, & with this being hot let the patient wash his leggs from the knees downe ward every night & morning, and his armes from the elbowes downeward; hee must bee empty stomack’t, or at least not very full. For the head ach which continueth. Take leaves of black [illegible] & gray them with vinegar, oyle, 7 wine, of each a like quantitie seeth these together, & annoynt the fore head, & temples, & it will bringe ease. For the head ach. If the patient himself his head [cleaveth] asunder, by reason of the extreame payne, take [illegible] & make iuyce of it, which you shall mingle with oyule of roses, and with a linen cloath annoynt gently his nostrills, temples, & forehead, & if 78 the payne bee very vehement, lay some of it upon the scull of his head. For the head ach. Take the braine of a crow, & seeth it, & then eate it there is noe payne of the head soe great or old but this will helpe it. For the megram happening soudenly Take bengewine bray it with vinegar, & annoynt the forehead with it & your temples. For itching in the head. Take a sheepes gall, mixe it with white chalke, & therewith rub your head, & let it dry upon it For scabbs of the head. Take a bulls gall mingle it with vinegar & having made it luke warme, rub your head with it, & it will helpe you. To kill the scurfe in the head. Take an handfull or [rew], halfe an ounce of quick brimstone seeth it with old wine, & wash your head with it; but first wash your head with luke warme water & it will cure you. To kill lice Mingle whay & vinegar together, drinke of it [certayne] dayes, & they will dy & noe more breede. Against distillation of the brayne and heavines of the head. Samp beete rootes, & take theire iuyce, & receive it up into your nostrills, & it will cause all the humours of the head to descend, and soe it will draw them out. 79 For the griefe of the scull Take the resin of the pine tree, that is white 20 drames of aloes powder one ounce, mixe them together and boyle them on a soft fier, & after adde of gume elemi one ounce, & make a [cerat] which you must lay upon the greife. For a grief in the yead that hinders sleepe. Take warme [illegible] well stamped, boyle it in water, & bind it to the temples upon the greife, this will take away the greife & cause perfect sleepe. For the old inveterate greife of the head Take of gume arabick, of myrrh, of saffron, of [euphorbium], of each 3 drames, stampe them all together, & mixe them with the white of an egge well beaten, then apply it to the temples & forehead. A remedy for the [surte] of the scull. Take the iuyce of pimpernell, & wash, therein peeces of linen cloath, & put them oftimes upon the [illegible], & it will quickly be healed. A precious oyntment for the rupture of the scull. Take opopanake, [?dellium], amoniack, of each 3 drames, rosin, gume elemi, of each one ounce, olibanum, [miesa], sarcacolla, of each one drame & an halfe, oyle of roses 4 ounces, wa 2 ounces, first dissolve the gumes into vinegar & straine them then beate the rest to fine powder, & make an oyntment thereof 80 To remedy the cumotion of the brayne when the patient hath lost his speech. Take red roses, the leaves & fruite of myrtle, pomo granat flowers, calamas aromaticus, gallia muscata, lignu aloes, of each a drame, barly meale 3 ounces; boyle the in red wine, & rose water as much as suffereth, then put thereto one graine of maske, & make a plaster to lay upon the head, but first cut away the haire with a sharpe rasor. To remedy the disease called vertigo Take nutmegs & cloves of each a drame, setwall 2 scruples, gentian one scruple, red roses, yellow sanders, of each one drame & an halfe, of aloes cicotrine 6 drames of chosen rubarbe 3 drames, bray all [severally] into pouder by it selfe, & when they are melted, wet it by sprinkling a litle rose water, then let ti dry & doe thus 7 times, then with syrop of violets make a past of pills, of which take a scruple in evening an hower before meale, & you shall see a mervilous good successe. To purge melancholy humours, & to remedy the payne of the yhead. Take 2 pounds of polipodium, the leaves of cene 25 ounces, tamarindes one pound, mayden haire 4 handfulls resings stoned 5 ounces, burrage flowers & violets of each 2 handfulls, melone seeds 4 ounces, synamon one ounce & an halfe, ginger, salt gema, of each 7 drames, the iuyce of [luxius] 4 pounds, the iuyce of endive 2 pounds, raine water 30 pounds, mixe all together, and boyle 81 them, untill the fourth part bee consumed, then straine it, & make into the sayd decoction 12 infusions of fresh roses gathered in the morning, & for every infusion put in 7 pounds of roses, & put thereto of sugar 8 pounds, & make a syrop: the rose of which is, to give 4 ounces (more or lesse, according to the disposition of the pson, that shall use it) dissolved with cordiall waters, or with water of luxius & fumitery. Another for the vertigo. Take a quantity of white hore hound, one penny riall, & alitle salt, let them be byled with water in an earthen pot, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & put unto it a quantity of hony, & boyle it againe till it be thick, & for the space of 7 mornings give the patient one or 2 spoonefulls at at ime. To cure scotomia & vertigo, the paulsie & all inward diseases, & to consume the superfluous humours of the head. Take of caraway seede, anniseed, [ameos], parsly seed, smalage seed, betony, cumin, calamynt, pulegium, [slope], spikenard, pepper, ginger, sage, rue, centrum, gallie, eye bright, incense, mastick, safron, of all the [mirabolanes], but the greater quantity of citrines, cynamon, squinant, of each halfe an ounce, of margerome, folium, basill, cardamomes, [galingell], riquorice, of each 2 ounces, pound them into very small powder, of the which take in 82 all your meales, but more in the winter than in other parts of the yeare. For the payne in the head, reynes of the back, loynes, & matrix Take greene [savine] 5 ounces, of the fruite of cypres 65 drames, rosemary flowers milfoyle, matricaria, fenigreeke, lime seede, of each 6 ounces, infuse the sayd herbes to become tender for the space of three dayes in the water, then put thereto 9 ounces of oyle, & boyle it untill the water be consuned then strayne it through a linen cloath, then put to it of was, patch, spayne, turpentine, galbanum, mastick, of each 5 ounces, of storax, calamymt, spikenard, of each one pound, of balme 4 ounces, bruise what is to be bruised, & mixe every thing together & wettinge it with the spatter make an oyntment. To heale bruising of the head, with broaken bones or with out Take old white wine or hony, salt, brimstone, betony, of each a like quantity, bray them, make a plaster & lay it to the sore And if a bone be broaken that the blood is entred in at some small fissure, then take rye meale, & meale of oates, of each 5 drames, the iuyce of plantan and one drame & an halfe, laxicium acutum one drame, & make a plaster therof with good maulmesy. For a payne in the head. Take betony roots brayed, boyle the in old oyle & a litle wine, & annoynt the place with this warmed. 83 Another for the same. Take old oyle, & mixe it with euperbium pouder 3 or 4 graynes, & annoynt the sore place, the boyd beeing first purged, & the head alsoe, but let the head be purged by drawing up into the nose the iuyce of rue; But if the payne be caused through heat, having first purged or opened a vaine, annoynt the greife with this following Take the iuyce of sower grapes 2 ounces, the dreggs of [yuke] halfe an ounce, saffron 5 graynes, mixe them & make a liniment. To remedy the greife of the head & neck. Take the oyle of sweet almonds 3 ounces, the meale of marsh mallowes halfe an ounce wax as much as suffereth, then make an oyntment at the fier & annoynt the [plie] morning & eveninge For the rupture of the scull. Take of plantan seed 3 ounces, laxaciu acutum 4 ounces, the meale of black beanes as much as you please, beate these into pouder, & boyle them with very stronge wine & lay of this twice a day to the wound. For the same. Take of gume elemi 3 drames, of resin 4 drames, of wax 6 ounces, oyle of roses 2 ounces & an halfe; armoniack 2 ounces, turpentine 3 ounces & 5 drames, rye meale as much as suffireth with wine & wax make a plaster. For the falling sicknes. Take germaunder gathered in May when it 84 when it is in blossome, dry it in the shade, and make it into pouder, & when you will use it take the yolke of an egge or two, beate them, with a spoonefull of the pouder into the, then seeth it, & give the patient it to eate, this doe norning & evening for 8 dayes; & abstaine from wine, woemen, beanes, pearse, fitches, [tanes] salads, salt meats, & all things of hard disgestion. It is a notable remedy. To kill lice. Annoynt the goad with lard, on barrowes grease, or with oyle of bayes. For ach in the head Lay a peece of fresh beefe to the map of the neck probatum est. For a payne in the head. Boyle celedonie in vinegar, & beate it, & after tye it upon the fore-head. probatu est. For the falling sicknes Boyle isope in water & origanum & [stecados], & mix it with syrop of worme wood, & drinke thereof [Some] after the party is purged with pills for the stomach use methridate & treakle 7 or 8 dayes together. Let the pty drinke a potion made with squilla, & pvoke him to vomit with a quill or fether: you must boyle the squilla in vineger & make oxamell, & drinke of it, & after that use syrop of worme wood. The iuyce of common rue put into the [pties] nostrills is good therefore Take the roote of white vines, & hang it about his neck; it cureth the greife. Or take a bores bladder with his water in it dryed in an oven, & drinke every day 85 the quantity of a beane with oximell, it is excellent Or make pouder of the roote of piony, & the seed thereof, of each a like quantity drinke thereof every day 3 with oximell squillitike, in which isope hath beene boyled. probatus est. To cause one to speake that hath lost his speech in his sicknes. Stampe worme wood, & temper the iyyce with water, then straine it, & put of this liquor into his mouth with a spoone. probatus est. For the falling sicknes. Take a penny leafe of white bread & three penny worth of beefe of a steere bullock of the [nearer] side, fry it, & lay it to the brow of the patient a mounth together. probatus est. For one that is luniticke. Take box leaves, & flower [delure] rootes stired, dry them both in an oven or over a chafing dish, & beate them to pouder, & eate or drink it. To provoake sleepe. Take oyle of water lillies, & oyle of poppie & mixe them with a litle oppium, & annoynt the fore head & temples there with. For a sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, sincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, red fennell, red bramble leaves, mary gold leaves, keepe all these together, & strayne them, then put to it allome & hony, & mixe them well, & wash your mouth with it. probatus est. For a bruise for ones head by a blow. Stampe egrimony & mixe it with hony & make 86 a plaster therwith, & it will heale it. For a cold rhume. Dry penny royall in a pan & lay it to his head day. For a payne in the head. Boyle celidony in vinegar & beate it, then binde it upon the fore head. probatus est. The colours of urine. Alba, or white urine. White urine & cleere, as well water, [betoakeneth] [undefyling], & [rawnes]; & in sharpe feavers it is deadly. without feaver it betoakeneth in man or woeman agreevaned in the reynes, & sometimes [childinge]. Lactea or milke like urine, Urine lactick & thick standing is more perilous in men than woemen, in sharpe fevers is death. Above & beneath darke about & in that [midest] cleere signifyed the dropsy. [illegible] [make] only in the uper part signifies the gout in the body: & if the motyes be in the grownds, it signifies the gout in the lower part of the body. Glaucea, or lanthorne like urine Signified if it be cleene a [so?inge] or under putting of the mylth, through a [wicked] water that turnes from the lunges betweene the maw & the milt, that will rot all it comes by, and often times it ingenders & causes the dropsie. 87 Curapos urine Is a sign of corrupt humors, as a boling dropsy in the body, & in the limbes, or the face \Pale urine Signifies a feeble stomack, a great [leting] of the second disgestion for [corfainne]. Black urine above Signified the wasting of the quarterne feaver & quenching all kindled heate with darknes within signified drynes, if it be pale; if greene or burning feaver. But black in the ground signifies [clausium] of [menstris] & looseing of the gutts. And urine b lack in a feaver, if the urine bee full, for the most part it signifieth death. To cure old sores. Take the iuyce of white lilly leaves, a litle vinegar & hony to the quantity of the iuyce boyule them & lay it to the sore. probatus est. For a fistula. Take pimpernell & [mullin?] of each a like quantity of the iuyce, & wash therewith the infected parts. For wounds or rotten sores. Take milfoyle & [sanicle], boyle them in water, & strayne them through a limon cloath, & with the decoction mixe the meale of [fen?greeke] with the fat of a goate, & halfe as much oyle olive, dissolve them at the fier, & put to them wax, & make an oyntment. 88 To cleere ones eye sight Take a hot barly leave, rub it in the midle & sprinkle thereon the pouder of caraway seed & hold it hot before your eyes. The [pumystone] beaten & put in the eyes cleeneth them: the doth allome, & tutty. A medicine for swellinge. Take two gallons of stronge ale before it is clensed, a platter full of scurvy grasse, & pound & stampe it with the ale, then strayne it & let them worke together an hower or 2, then take halfe an ounce of white sanders, as much nutmegs, & three penny worth of safron, beate them together & put them all into the ale & let it worke, when it is two dayes old drink thereof every morning fasting & at meales as long as it lasteth, & if you find no helpe in drinking this quantity make as much more & use it dayly. probatus est. Remedyes for the eyes Take the longes or lights of a barrow hog, with all the appurtinances & seeth it in water, then hold your eyes over the smoake of it, in three or 4 times it will cure you. For dark eyes Annoynt the eyes with the iuyce of dragon leaves. Or make iuyce of betony, & mixe it with wine beeing hot, & put thereof into your eyes. A notable experiment for the web in the eye. Take scraped liquorice, good ginger, galingall fennell seed, [siler] of the mountaine, parsly 89 seed, of each an ounce, of rue & eye bright both dryed, amoniack, ameos, carpobalsamum, turbith, of each 2 drames, of sene 3 drames, longe pepper a drame, aloes epatake a drame, cynomon, nutmeggs, cucubes, carroway, of each a drame, of sugar as much as will suffice, & mixe them, the dosse of it is a spoonefull at once with hot wine. Sore eyes. Or take bullocks gall mixed with hony & put it into the eye. Or take the pouder of cuttle bones. But of all take cuttle bones & boyle them in water, & gather the grease of it, and annoynte the eyes thereof. probatus est The iuyce of an onion mixed with [sherry] & put into the eye cureth a web in the eye. Agarick is good for the eyes. The iuyce of ground [illegible] tempered with brest milke, & put into the eye cureth the web in the eye. Or yarrow iuyce used the same way. Another very good. Take of agarick 20 drames, cynomon 8 drams spike nard 20 drames, mastick 38 drames compound them with hony, & eate thereof every day. probatus est. Or take a dryed sheepes braine mixed with hony, & put of it into the eye. Or take a bullocks gall, assafetida one drame, baguamum 5 ounces, dissolve them in a glasse, & dry them, & make thereof a pouder. 90 For a perle in the eye. Take the iuyce of fennel & mixe it with hony, 7 oyle of balsome, & drop it into the eye. probatus est. Or mouse dunge dryed to pouder, & put into the eyes cureth the web. Cathrina auri vel argenti confort hebedini oculorum. To put away the white in the eye. Take oyle of alcanua, which is the dregs of wine being very old when it is beaten to oyle. Eate eye bright to cleene the eyes. Or purge the eyes with ierapigra. Cynomon is alsoe good. or oyle of fenngreeke annoynted on the eyes. Make iuyce of rosemary & mixe it with hony & annount the eyes. or make iuyce of ground [illegible] & put it into the nostrill on that side which greife is. or six leaves of ground [inie] & a braunch of celydony, bray them & mixe them with brest milke, & straine it through a cloath, & put of it into the eye, doe soe thrice, & keepe the eye three dayes from the light. probatus est. For the web in the eye. Beate capons grease upon a paynters stone, & grind coparose as small as may bee, & mixe them, & going to bed put a litle of it into the eye three nights; if the web be old put in more of the ceparase. probatus est. Or temper sarcacolla with white wine, & put of it into the eye. For bleared eyes. Take a quart of white wine, & put it into a cleane panne, & put thereto an ounce of pouder of salt gemma, & let them boyle 91 together a litle, then take them from the fier & set them in house dunge, & cover it with another panne, & cover it after with house dunge, & let it stand 3 dayes, then take it out of the dunge & power out the cleaneth into a vessell through a linen cloath, & put it into a viall, & with a feather drop of it into the eye that is sore at evening in bed. probatus est. For watery eyes. Beate the white of an egge, & take the oyle thereof & annoynt the eyes gooing to bed; or lay it thereto on a linen cloath, or wet two therein & lay them to your eyes. A most precious water to cleere the eyes, and to cure a perle. Take smalage, red fennell, rue, vervine; egrimony, cincfole, pimpernell, [enfrace], betony, sage, colydony, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & stampe them, then put them into a brasse panne, & take the pouder of 15 pepper cornes, & beate them & a pint of good white wine, & put it to the herbes, with 3 spoonefulls of pure hony, & five spoonefulls of the wine of a man child, mixe them well, & let them boyle alitle, then straine it through a linen cloath & put it into a glasse, & stoppe it very close, untill you use it, & with a fether put of it into the eye, & when it is dry temper it with white wine; it cureth one in 15 dayes if [ever] he shall see. probatus est. For a web in the eye. Take pimpernell water & fennell water, the iuyce of valerian of each alike proportion, & 92 put of it with feather into the eye. probatus est. OR take the marrow of a goose winge & burned allome pouder, temper them; & put it into the eyes with a fether 3 or 4 times; then use the water afore sayd, & it will kill the greatest web in the eye that may bee. Thinges good for the eyes. To eate early in the morning of myrabolames [condited], & eate the [meats] of them long in the mouth Nutmeg is most excellent for the eyes. Take alsoe fennell seeds, put it into boyled sugar & eate therof. Worme wood wine is very good. Or rue boyled in wine; eate but [slender] suppers, gargarige with vinegar of squillas, [especially] fagter you be purged. [cloves] are good, and to eat asparagus & betony. To eate the braynes of partridge is good; or rape leaves, or often to chew eye bright. An excellent receite to quicken the sight. Take fennell seed made soft & steeped, & then dryed, & adde to it soe much pouder of cynomon, & halfe soe much good sugar, and use it dayly. Or beate the white of an egg untill it bee cleere, then take iuyce of fennell croppes, mixe them & put it into the eye. For darknes in the eyes & bloodynes. Make pouder of aloes, & mixe it with the white of an egge, & lay it thereto. For an humour flowing to the eyes. Take [beanes] & pull of the skinnes, & confect them with the white of an egge, & lay them to. or else take them & chew them. 93 For a payne in the eyes. Boyle the rootes of fennell in water in a pot, & put a drop thereof into the parties eye. For watery eyes. Put a drop of the parties owne urine into his eye. very good. To take away a great spot in the eye. Take the roote of celendine, & beate it with rose water, & put it into a bag, & hang it up, & put a drop of that, which distilleth, into the eye. For payne in one eyes First purge the party with pills of aurie, or pills of the 5 kinds of mirabolanes, or with pills sine quibus esse nolo: after take one & [illegible], heate them on a tile, & put them betweene a linen cloth, & lay them on the eyes. Bumbast wet in fennell water 2 qts, & one pt of the iuyce of rue, is good layd to hot eyes. Or [illegible] and eg, & take the white, & put it betweene bumbast, & lay it hot to the eyes. The braynes of an hare rosted & well incorporated with wine, is good eaten. Oyle of [ba?m[ & oyle of [eld??] mixed with peritony & black pepper & the [rine] of a pine tree & [cyple?se] nutts. For such as pisse in bed whose urine runeth from them unwittingly. Boyle coming & drink thereof warme. Or take the sea crabes & beate them & drinke thereof fasting with wine. Or take the bladder of a sow & dry it to pouder & drinke it Boyle dry rose leaves & drinke of it; or of oximell drunken; or boyle dill & drinke of it; or parsly boyled in water & drunke is good. 2 . 2 94 For the fallinge sicknes When you see one fall of this greife, perfectly cut the parties girdle in two, whilst the [illegible] is upon him, & burne it in two parts that the partie know not therof, & let him never see it after, & he shall be red of his greife. For the collick Take hemp seed, dry it, & grind it to pouder & take a spoonefull thereof, & put it into ale and drinke it: it will make you goe to stoole easily. it is alsoe good for a flux taken in the same manner. For the yellow iaundies, & to provoke an appetite. The pouder afore sayd is a speciall remedy either eaten or drunken. For the tooth ach Take dandelion the quantity of a nut brayed, & put it into a limon cloath & layed to the tooth gooing to bed. but walke an hower that the iuyce may sinke into the tooth. probatus est. To east the paine & ach of the gout Take an handfull of rue, & a great deale of the leaves of white wine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto iuyce of house leeke, & of [illegible], & boyle them with a bullocks gall a litle quantity, & a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many snailes well beaten, & being well boyled, straine it & keepe it to your use, for it is a speciall good oyle for the same. A medicine for the eyes that are white. Take of [illegible] washed 10 drames, sarcacolla grasse 3 drames, dragagant a drame, opium halfe a drame make thereof a soft substance & use it. An orange-colour pouder for the eyes. Take of sarcacolla, with it a gume 10 drames, aloes 2 drames of saffron, myrre one drame, licium 95 2 drames, beate them all, then use this pouder. A pouder for the eyes which are white. Take white sarcacolla which is white, fat, & put it into brest milke, & set it in the shade till it dry & then beate it very well take of this 3 [illegible] & add therto of syife merminthe 2. dramis beate them well again & keep them and put of it into [illegible] eye when need requires. To purge. Take the waight of 1b of ales cicatrine, cloves the waight of 4d beaten severally, mixe them in the hand with a litle wine vinegar till it be hard then make pills thereof the waight of 4d or 6d & take them with the pap of an apple or hony, if you take it before supper, it will worke in the night, if after supper the next day. probatus est. To cure the collick. Take pouder of bullocks dunge, & give it to the [glie] unknowne in pottage, or straine the dunge, & give it the pty to drinke; this last is best. A [resolv?ace] plaster to ly 4 or 5 dayes before it is remooved Take resin, was halfe a drame [roth?s] gall, [strong] beere or ale, coming seed & rue leaves, 2 drames, black sope one drame, mutton suit & turpentine 3 drames, boyle these to the forme of a plaster 7 spread it something thick over a cloath, & sew it fast about the member that is swelled or waters, as herpes miliaris or oedema, & for all [soulme] & rankling ulcers, & as the water runeth out & the swelling [starteth], bind the plaster hard againe for 4 or 5 dayes. sepe probatus est. 96 Remedies for the eares; or for deafenes. Take vinegar hot & drop it into the eares fastin, ad thereto the iuyce of mints, oyle of bitter almands, & of the nutts of persica warme, & drop it into the eare. Or hold your ear over the [illegible] of hot water, in which was boyled penny royall, & worme wood. these helpe the heareing. Or boyle worme wood in water & bath the eare with the decoction. or when a goate is newly killed, take a [horne] & fill it with the urine of the goate, & hang it up in the smoake nyne dayes, & put thereof into the eares. Or take an onion, & make it hollow, & fill it with oyle, & the iuyce of rue, & lay its [illegible] againe, & put the onion into the embers, untill it be well boyled, & put of that oyle into the eare. Or put into the eare the blood of a goate beeing warme. Or put into the eares the iuyce of scabiase mixed with a litle quantity of oyle of bitter almonds. To purge filth out of the eares. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & distill it into the eares. Or take fileings of iron & mixe it with sharp vinegar, boyle it & put it into the eares. probatus est. For the head ach. Boule celydony in vinegar, & beate it, then bind it to your fore head, & it will ease you. Or beate maioram, & presse out the iuyce & suck it up into the nose. probatus est. or take red [illegible] stamped, & with the iuyce annoynt the temples. For the megram. Take three or 4 spoonefulls of aqua vita, & a quantity of boulted flower, & mingle them well till it be thick, as a plaster, then take pouder of pepper halfe soe much as the flower; & mingle them & spread it on whit lether, & lay to each pt of the temples a plaster, let it ly a day & a night, doe this 3 dayes. 97 For experience in the urine. Black urine In great quantity with a cloud of black therein notes great broyling of heate in the body, heavines, lack of sleep & blooding at the nose in time to come. Pale urine Some what greene betoakeneth the feaver called medium enutium propter melancholiam. Urine pale & some white in it signifies a feaver called minorem enutium propter flenium. Urine pale with a curcle like [leade] & resolutions of kinds, that is called spermatis, notes the falling evill. Urine pale with holdith colour signifies the feaver aschitem. Urine pale redish colour signifies a feaver called synochius. Urine pale with white small [things] therein, & gobbet with black [things] mingled [illegible] the stranguary Urine pale with round [things] having longe games or small white moates, as be in the sunne beames signifieth the gout called aterica To clense the eares from matter & filth. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & put it into the ptes eare. For the gomory passion Beate lettice seed, & drinke thereof with water. Or beate a peece of lead flat, & bind it to the [illegible] bark; hen bane seeds & mandragorus seed of each a part; of opium a tenth part, boyle them in oyle in a double glasse, & with wax make an oyntment [wherewith] anoynt the parties bark & [pri??e] paste, wet well in wine, oyle of roses, & oyle of balme & lay it thereto. Probatus est. or take the leaves & flowers of agnus castus, & boyle them in vinegar & ad thereto a litle castoreum, & make a plaster & lay it to the [privy] pts. 98 An oytment for an ach. Take 5 drames of an oxes gall & boyle it well & strume it, put thereto of hony 2 drames, boyule it againe to the halfe or more, & annoynt the ach there with untill you find ease. probatus est. More of urine. urine pale with white as ashes, & black resolutions promises wind over throwne of man or woman. Urine pale with small [things] as ashes & black signifies the suffocation of the [mone], & with holding of the [mensters] Urine white & thinne as water with streakes & as a [illegible] in the bottome betoakeneth the disease of the spleene. Urine white & thinne alltogether paleish betoakeneth the dropsy. Urine white & thinne & a great quantity betoakeneth much drinkinge. Urine white & thinne & a litle with red gravell betoakeneth ash in the wombe & in the reines, called nefresin. Urine with greene circles signifies the frensy. Urine white & thinne with greate [fa?nes] in the ground signifies a disease in the reynes, that one cannot hold his water, it is called diabitem. Urine white with white motes in it signifies arterica passio. Urine white with a great black circle signifies sicknes caused by melancholy. Urine white with a leadish circle signifies the falling evill. Urine white with a waterish circle signifies schomam, that is a disease or wind in the head that makes the sick party fall. Urine white & pale above signifies an ill liver. Urine white & thinne as in the feaver signifies death. Urine white signifies old and child hood. Urine rubra. 99 Urine bloody signifies the bladder is hurt with some filth that is therein. Urine of a woeman that is faire, & cleere, if it shine like silver if it casteth off & hath noe [illegible] to [meale], it signifies that the woeman is with child. Urine of a wooman that hath a golden colour & is cleere & heavy signifies shee hath lust to man. Urine of man or wooman that hat the feaver ague, that hath a black gathering in the one half of the urinall is a true toaken of death. Urine of a mayde that hath noe fellowship with a man is faire & cleere, & without any [wem] Urine of a man: every man is whole and sound whose urine in the [mornetide] is white, before meale red, & after meale white. For a greate heate in man or woeman. Take [endive] water, burrage water, & worme- wood water of each 4 drames, temper them with conserve of roses & drinke it eveninge and morninge To kill a fellon Take the rootes of termentill & drinke the iuyce. The roote of termentill expelleth poyson and alsoe venome. To heale a wound. take sanicle, milfole, bugle, equall proportions, beate them in a morter, & with beere or rather wine temper them & give it to the party to drink twice a day till [illegible] Bugle keepeth the wound open, milfole cureth it, and fanicle healeth it. For the tilick. Take isope, hore hound, & harts tongue & boyle the in a quart of pale ale to a pint, & drink it. 100 For the goute Make a stronge brine with salt, that it carry an eg & being hot put thereto your leg, or hand. For cloathes that be mouldy & stained Seeth stockfish & take of the water being warme, & lay the cloath in it all night, & in the morning make it cleane, with dry, comes to its colour againe. For the morghew Take white wine isope & blaunched almonds, then stamp the isope & almonds, & lay them in the wine then boyle it & drinke of it 9 dayes first & last. For a tertian feaver. Take the iuyce of dandelion, & the iuyce of worme wood, & drinke of it before the fit comes. For the dropsy. [illegible] the [party] drinke the seeds of [denills] bitt 9 dayes & hee shall bee well To make one have a good colour in the face. Eate dry figgs, & drinke harmell; origanu is good. or gume of the cherry [illegible] drunken with wine early. Alsoe acetum squillitick drunken. Syrop of squillas. Agarick, or safron, or ginger in pouder is good. Isope pouder is good drunken. Cicer eaten; or calamus aromaticus or any hot milke from the cow mixed with sugar is good. For an ach Take young cropps of alder, stampe them, and take of the iuyce thereof three parts, & a fourth part of black soape, beate them well together, untill they be a salve or an oyntment, & lay it thereto & it will ease the ach. probatus est. To cleare ones eyes. Beate the white of an eg till it be cleere s 101 & skinne of the upper part after it hath stood a while, & mixe the oyl of it which is under most with the iuyce of fennell croppes well together, & put of it into the eye, & wet flax therein, & lay it on the eye. probatus est. A plaster for the hardnes and windines, which is under the spleene. Take of rue 10 drames, of nitrum called banrach, [hease] mynt, or water mint dryed, of each 3 drames, armoniack 8 drames, the armoniack must be dissolved in old wine, whereof you must make the [soft], & make of them a plaster, & lay it to the place. probatus est. To provoke sleepe. Take oyle of dill, oyle of poppy, oyl of mandragors, or the oyle of froggs, & annoynt the temples. Remedies for the face, as morphew, bunninges, bleeding at the nose & others. ake the whites of 2 eggs, 2 ounces of tutia alexandrina, two ounces of quick lime washed in [illegible] waters, an ounce of new wax, oyle [resete] as much as shall suffice, make of this an oyntment & use it. To stanch bleeding at nose. Take great chit pease, & lay them upon a tile upon coles, untill they bee dry, make pouder of them, & put of it into your nose & it will cease from bleedinge. For a red face. Take foure ounces of the kernells of peaches, 2 ounces of gourd seed make thereof an oyle where with annoynt your face evening and morninge. probatus est 102 To make the face faire. Take rosemary flowers, boyle them in white wine, & wash your face with it, & use to drinke of it, soe shall your face be faire & your breath sweete. To take spotts out of the face Take 2 ounces of the iuyce of lemons, & two ounces of rose water, 2 ounces of silver sublimed, & soe much of coruse, put all together, & make an oyntment, & annoynt your face with it night & morning, after annoynt it with butter. Another. Make oyle of the white of an eg, & take an ounce of it, & halfe an ounce of coruse, 2 drames of quick silver, & a drame of canfire, mingle those, & annoynt your face with it. For the squinancy Boule worme wood in vineger, & gargarize with it. Or boyle figgs & the rines of pomegranads in water, & gargarize with it. For the morphew. Take an ounce of verdigrease, an ounce of quicke brimstone, make them into pouder, as small as may bee, & take two fat sheeps heads, make them cleane, & take out the braynes, then wash them & seeth them till they be tender, then let it coole, & gather the fat there of, & temper it with the sayd pouder, & make an oyntment of the same, but let it not come neere any fier, but with cold oyntment annoynt the sick party. probatus est. For a flux of blood at the nose Take rue & mixe it with oyle, & put it into the nose; or take gume arabick & olibanum 103 & mixe them with vineger & lay it thereto. Or take woole & out it into the white of an eg, & lay it to his face & fore head. OR wet woole in the iuyce of night shade & lay it to or mixe rue with vineger & lay it to the nose. Or take an eg shell burned, & take of it one part, & of [galls] halfe soe much, & blow it into the nostrills. Or ty the privy partes. For the jaundies. Boyle tamariske in vineger, & drinke it To keepe the mouth whole & sound from greifes Before & after meale wash your mouth with hot water, this dryeth up the humours dependinge into the iawes from the head; use to rub your tooth with pouder made of cloves & nutmeggs, & spike nard every day fasting, it clenseth the stinking of the mouth. Or if you dissolve a litle mastick in oyle of roses, & annoynt the pallate of the mouth, it preserveth it from hurt. Alsoe an hares head burned to pouder, & put into a canker in the mouth, or other greife therein cureth it probatus est. To stanch blood. Take the herbe sigillum salamonis, & smell thereto oftimes, & as long as you have it you shall not bleede. To remoove melancholy. Take of epithymum 3 iiij, of lapis lazuli, of agarick, of each 3 ij, of scamony 3 j, of cloves pp, make pouder of all these, & take every weeke of this pouder 3 ij. probatus est. For coldnes in the stomack. Make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, mixe 104 these together, & lay ot thereto. To ingender flesh. Take of sarcocolla 2 parts, frankincense one part, beate them, & mixe them, & apply them to the sore. To incarnate & clense ulcers. Take sarcocolla & mix it with hony, & to dry a sore mixe it with the white of an egge or milke; it will alsoe eate away dead flesh out of ulcers. For scabbes Boyle braune with vineger, & make a plaster. It is good for hot impostumes boyled with rue, & made a plaster of; And for sore brestes which proceed from abundance of milke. To purbe evil from the brest. [illegible] braune in water all night, in the morning straine it & boyle it with oyle of almons & mixe it with sugar; it cureth evill in brestes. To ripen impostumes & hard swellinges. Take [lenen] bouled in milke, & lay thereto. To cure a leper. Boule tamariske in water; & drinke often of it To heale wounds hard to be cured. Use oleum philosophorum. To incarnate a wound. Use unguentum triafarmacum. For old sores. Use unguentum Aegypticum magnum. To expell wind in the boyd. Use electuary of aloes; or aromaticum gariofilatium; diaciminum aromaticum nardium; trifera surraceneca; & trifera muscatai dianisium electuarium Judi; aromaticum rosatum. 105 For the tooth ach. Take iuyce of ground iuie, & put of it into that side of the eare, on which the teeth ake, & you shall wonder at the ease it will bring you. To heale rotten & putrified wounds. Mixe aloes with dragons blood & myrre, & lay it to. For the goute. Take the leaves of the herbe grace, & make iuyce thereof, & boyle it with a bullocks gall, & greene snaggs without shells, put it on paper & lay it thereto. A plaster to ease the gout or any other greate swelling or ach. Take 3 yolkes of eggs, fresh butter, & saffron a pritty quantity dryed, make it into pouder, the iuyce of singreene, iuyce of mugwort, & the iuyce of ground sill, mixe them with wheate flower, & boyle all together very softly upon coles, ever skinneing it, & make a plaster of this poltis, & lay it to the sore. For the tooth ach or iawes. Make iuyce of daysies rootes & all, & put of it into your eare, & stop it with black wooll. Annoynt your iawes with oyle of exeter & your temples alsoe Remedyes for the neck, throate, mouth and teeth. For the kinges evill. Take colts foote roote & all well stamped, mingle it with flax seed & barrowes grease, make a plaster & lay it thereto, change it twice a day, & all the [sores] may be dissolved into sweate, & after they be heated, wash often the place with white wine for the space of ten or fifteene dayes. 106 For the same. Take the [stones] of an horse, put the in a fier [illegible] amoungst embers & coles untill they may bee beaten to pouder, give the patient to drinke of the sayd pouder in white wine the quantity of 2 penny waight, doe this 21 days, & doubtles he will cast out of his mouth all the ordure & filth of the evill. For kernells in the throate. Dry, camomill & make it in pouder mingle it with hony, take the morning a spoonefull, & as much at night, swallowing it gently, use it till you be well. For the squinsie Take a pound of scabius water, aqua vitae an ounce mixe them, &lay it upon the sore. Or bake swallowes in an oven & beate them to pouder, & lay it through all the mouth if yiou can, if not mingle it with hony proset], & alitle flower of amilum, & put it into his mouth leting it goe downe of it selfe. Or take th eoyle of violets, put 2 or 3 drops of it into white wine with the which wash & gargle in your throate oftimes. For the kinges evill. Take conuse, on white leade well stamped 4 ounces, oule olive 8 ounces, boyle them together 5 or 6 howers stirre it continually, & when it is black it is boyled enough; then spread it upon a linen cloath, & lay it upon the sore place; if the sore be broaken it will be healed quickly, if not this will alsoe resolve & loose & shortly heale it throughly To breake botches, impostumes, catarres, or sores comeing in the throate. Take dry dunge of an asse, & of swallowes make thereof pouder, & put of it into water or in hot wine, & gargle or wash your throate often with it. 107 To fasten loose teeth. Take frankinsense, mastick, & pills of pomegranate, an equall quantity & make thereof a pouder, & when you goe to bed wash your teeth with a litle good wine, then lay of the sayd pouder to your teeth. excellent. To make teeth white. Take mallow rootes, rub your teeth with them dayle. Or take a snuff of wheate bread, burne it to coles, & make pouder thorogh to scower your teeth with all, & wash them after with faire well or condit watr pbatus. To fasten loose teeth Take a litle myrre & temper it with wine & oyle & wash your mouth with it. To keepe one from vomiting. Drinke the iuyce of worme wood. For those that spit blood. Make a cake of fine ry flower, & being baked let the party eate of it as hot as he can endure. For those that vomit up theire meate againe. Take tender leaves of an ash, seeth them in stronge vineger, & stampe them, & make thereof a plaster, & lay it upon the stomack, or belly. For the tooth ach. Boyle the leaves & rootes of chickweed in water & there with wash your mouth & hold of it in your mouth. To mitigate the payne in childrens teeth. Mixe buter & hony, & rub the childes teeth therewith it taketh away the payne & bitein thereof. For the tooth ach and the rhume. Boyle wine & nettles & wash your mouth therwith Or burne salt & mixe it with vineger, & wash your mouth therewith. [Mu??ell] fryed & layd to the teeth takes away the tooth ach. Or make pouder of a cowes heele, & boyle it in water & wash 108 your teeth therewith. or to wash your mouth in the iuyce of alder flowers cureth the tooth ach Take alsoe a red hot brick, & lay on vineger, & hold your mouth over it. probatus est. For swelling in the cheeke. Take an earthen [illegible] made hot, & lay it to your cheeke. To make teeth come out of children easily Annoynt theire gumes with goates milke, or the braine of an hare or cony; or with gumes grease or mixe the brayne of beastes with wine, & drinke thereof. or annoynt them with butter only, or also mixed with hony. Pouder of doggs tooth mixed with hony easeth young children when they breed teeth; if you annoynt them therewith, it helpeth ulcers and other sores in the mouth or iawes. A stone found in the head of a steere, or bark of a nayle is good. Or annoynt his iawes with hony & salt mixed; this easeth the payne of teeth breeding. The iuyce of liquorice held in the mouth is alsoe good. For a sore throate. Take oyle of lyllies, oyle of camomill, & oyle of dill of each an ounce, make them het & annoynt the throate therewith, & wet black wooll in it, & lay it to the sore throate. To breake a sore in the throate. Take snaggs with shells & all, & beate them & plaster them thereto, this ripeneth it very fast. Or take sheepes [??tles] & fry them with sheeps tallow & lay it hot to the throate, & when it waxeth cold remoove it & lay on another plaster. Or dry worme wood & beeing warme lay it to the sore throate. Or make a lniment with doggs dunge dryed mixed with hony & annoynt the throate round about But if the matter remaine very hard still, take diaculu dissolved with hennes grease, & lay it thereto. 109 Or else make this plaster. Take unguent de altea of mussilage, of [line] seeds, of fenigreek seed, of each two drames, of the mer substance of cassia fistula of butter, of leaven, of figges, of oyle of sweet almons, & of these make a plaster & lay it to the place. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunken is very good. For the brest and stomack & cough. Take the iuyce of parsly, pouder of comyn, brest milke, mixed all together, then give it the child to drink & make after ward this oyntment followinge. Take lineseed, fenigreeke, seeth them in water & straine them, & mingle the substance of the herbes with butter, & annoynt the childs brest it being warme. For a cough. Take brimstone pouder halfe an ounce, put it into a new layd eg, soft rosted, mingle it well, then put to it [benge] wine the bignes of a chit pease, lightly stamped, & drinke it in the morning at the breakfast, & take as much againe at night going to bed, it will helpe you at twice or thrice doeing soe. but if the cough have held you long, take of it oftener. Or take an handfull of isope, & boyle it to the third part of the water you boyle it in, and mixe hony with the water, & drinke it fastenge. To keepe the stomack well. Take hot water & vineger, & vomit once a mounth. Or eate resins with the stones fasting. To preserve the stomack. Boyle worme wood & spikenard in beere, & drinke it or make a plaster of aloes & mastick, & lay it to the stomack. For h ardnes in the stomack. Boyle worme wood in beere, & drinke it, it purgeth the stomack from all grose humours. Or drinke syrop of roses with a litle wood of aloes. Or mustard seed rosted & beaten, & drunken with water. 110 Or take fasting 3 drames of the electuary of the wood of aloes & of rubarbe; it comforts the stomack, & helps disgestion, purgeth fleame & procureth a good appetite & removeth wind from the stomack. Alsoe to helpe disgestion, annoynt the stomack with the oyle of mastick. For a cough. Take 2 or 3 heads of garlick well [mundisied], stampe them well & put to them hoggs suet, & stampe it well all together & at night when you goe to bed, warme well the soles of the feete & annoynt them well with this; then warme them againe, as hot as you can suffer, & rub them well apritty space, & beeing in bed, let your foot be bound warme with linen cloaths, & rub alsoe the small of your leggs with the sayd oyntment in three nights it will cure you, be the cough never soe vehement For hardnes of woemens brests after they be brought to bed. Take wheate branne, & seeth it with iuyce of rue & lay it upon the brestes. this is alsoe good against the biteing of venomous beastes. To make woemans milke increase. Take fennell seed, seeth it in barly water, & drink it. Chit pease boyled in water & broaken, are alsoe good. For a woemans sore pap that hath a canker in it. Take the fenn of a white goose, & the iuyce of celendine mixed, & lay it to, & it will kill the canker. For swelled pappes. Take mouse dunge, & mixe it with rayne water, & bath the papps with it. Alsoe goose grease mixed with oyle of roses & rose leaves is good layd thereto. or goose grease [alone] annoynting the papps therewith. For an impostume in woemens pappes. Wet a spunge in oxicrate beeing warme, & wring it, & lay it to, & bind it fast. or beate bread, greene pantary, wax, & oyle together, & with this annoynt the [agreivance] 111 For sore pappes, boches, or boyles. Take mallow leaves, & worme wood, of each a great handfull, seeth them in water till they bee tender as the pap of an apple, then lay them abroad that the water may runne from them, then chop them small, then stamp them with a pound of hoggs grease, & temper all till you cannot discerne the one from the other, & luke warme lay it plasterwise to the sore papps, or other sores. probatus est. For ach in woemens pappes. Take mints & stampe them & make a plaster with ry flower, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To cause a woemans milke to increase Make iuyce of vervine & fennell & drink it often For an extreame cough. Take rosemary powder & mixe it with hony, and use to eate it. probatus est. A remedy for the teeth. Take white roses & [illegible] seeds, of each a drame, white sanders, white amber, white margarets, of each a scruple, mastick, cynomen, of each halfe a drame, beate them all alitle, & ad thereto a litle hony of roses, & mixe them well; at night wet your finger in this mixture, & rub your teeth, & early in the morning wash them with white wine in with the root of the flower doluce dryed must bee boyled, then pick them with a tooth pick of the wood of the mastick tree. For the tooth ach. The roote of vervine, mallowes, or cut mallowes is very good. Things very good for the teeth. Sage; organy; mynts; [li??ius]; the head of an hare burned; tamariske; the rine of an ash; water wherein olives have beene pickled; vervine 112 chewed; the young springes of a bramble bush dock rootes chewed; vineger squilsticke; harts horne burned; the dreggs of oyle (called amurca) olive leaves: To provoke an appetite; & to purge ill humors. Make a sauce with sage, parsly, vineger, & alitle pepper, beate them & mixe them together. To provoke good disgestion. Make a plaster to the stomack of pouder of mace, mastick in pouder, & mixe them with oyle of roses, & wax at the fier. For a weake stomack. Boule mace in fennell water, then ad alitle wine, & straine it, & give it to the pty the liquor to drinke. For swelled pappes. Take the meale of flax seed, the meale of lentills temper them with oyle of roses & saffron, and lay it there to. Or take hore hound, leaves of elder, poppie leaves, that are white, worme wood, rue, dodder, & make them hot, & lay them to. Or eggs mixed with oyle of roses layd to the papps. Or make an oyntment thus. Take olibanum, worme wood seed, mastick, lentill meale, of each three drames, of wax 4 drames, oyle of roses 6 drames, & make an oyntment. For hot humours that trouble woemens brestes, & cause them to swell. Annoynt the swelling with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses equall proportions, then make very vine pouder of nitrum, & lay it wet with the former liquor but if it [illegible] of a cold humour, take meale of fenigreeke with the iuyce of parsly & elder mixed For woemens brests which are raw. Take raw quince kernells, & lay them in runing water & lay them to. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunke with aysell. probatus est. 113 For a cold stomack. Boyle wild margorame in flesh broth, or make pouder of it, & drinke it with mustadell, maulmsy or sack; and beeing warme wet a spunge therein, as hot, as you can suffer it, & wringe out the wine, & soe lay the hot spunge to the cold stomack, that cannot disgest meat, it breakes wind; & pusheth urine. For swelling & ach in the brestes. Take mallowes & worme wood, boyle the in water, & presse the water from the pouder, & grind them with hogs grease, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it to the brests; it helpes one in 3 or 4 dayes. probatus est. To make a leane body fat. Abstaine from salt meats, sharp & pricking thinges; take milke, new cheese, almons, fish & nutts, pine kernells, hazle nutts, grapes, hennes, young pigeons rosted & fat, or baked, good wine, use [myrth] at meales, let blood & purge seldome, bath after your meat be disgested, be not too hungry, eate much, drinke litle, & especially [illegible] wine; be not lightly angry, sorrowfull or heavie hearted, use not woemen kind much; temperate exercise, & rubbing, use all sweet & virtuous things, for they fatten. A good medicine to make one fat. Blanch almons, & hazle nutts, white poppy seed, the greene graine of which turpentine is made, dissolve all in butter & sugar, of the with let him eate alitle evening & morning, & drinke after it good wine. To purge melancholy. Abstaine from blooding, [venus] is very hurtfull: these things are good: burrage, buglasse, time, epithymum, scolependria the greater & lesse, capers, tamariske, spilidum, sweet wines, hoggs, [custuba], mirabolanes, polipodum, cane, lapis lazuli 114 To clense a sore. Take the iuyce of smalage mixed with barly meal & lay it on the sore. probatus est. To make a drying plaster for a sore or canker. Take beane meales of orobus of each a like portion & mixe them with [acetesy], & a litle salt, & make a plaster thereof. probatus est. To ease the payne of the gout Take an handfull of rue, a great many of the leaves of the white vine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto the iuyce of house leeke, & of orgine and boyle them with a bullocks gall, a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many of the snaggs, well beaten in a dish & boyle all these together [illegible] & straine them, & keepe that oyle to your use, to annoynt the place therewith. To kill a canker in the mouth or face. Take mercury sublimate, & boule it with vineger, or white wine, & wash your mouth or face therewith And when you will have it healing take sublimate & put camfire to it, & boyle it in water of hony suckles, & it will heale the canker. For a sore legge through a bruise. Take milke & boyle it, &make a posset of it with [alome] & take the curd pritty hot & lay it thereto: this heated a leg, that was hurt with a cart that ranne over it. For a great heat one hath to quench his thirst. Take endive water, burrage water, worme wood wat of each 4 ounces & mixe them with conserve of roses, & drinke of it evening & morning. probatus est. For the rhume & head ach. Take rue, red [illegible], worme wood of each an handfull, let them parch in a frying pan untill they bee crackling dry; then put them into a linen bag 115 of a handfull breade & a spanne longe, & put the bag of herbes againe into the frying panne, and warme them very well, & lay it to your left side, under the short ribbs, & ly downe a time upon it, & when the bag waxes cold warme it againe & lay iut there to doe soe 4 or 5 times. probatus est. For a cough or straitnes in the brest. Take figgs & isope stamped well together, then bouyle them in hony, & eate of it fasting. probatus est. To make one lusty & stronge that is weake. Take pouder of calamint, & put of it into your broth, & drinke, & use to eate & drink of it. probatus est. For one that is taken lame in any member. Boyle in a pinte of maulmsy the dunge of an horse cold, about 3 yeares old, a litle waxe, & well boyled, put thereto a quantity of comein in pouder, and lay this to the place. probatus est. To stay the flowers in a woeman. Take betony, neppe, pellitory of spayne & isope stampe them together & give her of this to drinke in all three mornings fastinge. probatus est. To stop a woeman of bleedinge after her child birth Take small stamped fethersew & give it her to drinke. probatus est. For an ague. Take sheapherds purse, fethersew, pepper, & the white of an egge beaten all together, & lay it to the wrists. For the head ach in an ague. Take betony, camomill, & rosemary of each a handfull, fry them in a spoonefull of hony, lay the hot to the place. probatus est. To destroy a canker or fellon. Beate plantan small & put thereto hony, & a litle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, & apply it. probatus est. 116 A speciall remedy for the greene sicknes. Take a quart of claret, 3 spoonefulls of hony boyle & skime it cleane, put to it a quarter of a pound of quibibs, or lesse, halfe an ounce of cynomon, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, boyule all well together to a pinte, & straine it into three pintes of aqua vitae, put to it halfe a pound of sugar, & brew them well together in two potts, & keepe it in a glasse bottle, & put thereto some [tornaset] to colour it, & drinke a spoonefull first & last. To cure melancholy. Take hot goates milk, if you be bound in the body. Or boyle wormewood & drinke it alsoe fasting. use stronge glisters. Or boyle coloquintiada with oyle & hony, & let the party blood. Purge the party with 3 iiij of h iera, take thereof thrice in a mounth, & stay 10 dayes betweene every time. to heale daungerous ulcers. Take burrage & mixe it with things good for this purpose, & lay it thereto. To heale woundes Take oaken leaves, & bruise them on a stone, & lay them thereto. probatus est. Or bruise peartree leaves & lay the to the wound. For knotts in the flesh and arteries. Take old cheese, & boyle it with the shankes of hoggs, & make them into past, & lay it to. probatus est. To cure new wounds. Take new cheese & beate it, & lay it thereto, & lay upon it a [s?ell] or vine leafe. Or burne a spunge, or lay it to dry. For ulcers. Burne old [shoes], & lay the ashes to the ulcer. To cure deepe and hollow ulcers. Take oyster shells & make pouder of them & lay it thereto, beeing first burned, it causeth flesh to grow in those places, mixe it with hoggs grease & lay it to the hollownes. 117 For an inflamation in the throate Eate two dayes together [lu?ius] with your meale with leavened bread, & drinke old wine, then take your [wone] dunge, & dry it & use it thereto, or else boyle in water a henne & a partridge, & wash the place with the broth thereof. For rotten sores. Take lapis phrygius, & put it into the sore; or mie it with vineger, or wine sodden with water. To stanch bleeding. Take gypsum, make it soft, & mixe it with wheat flower which hangeth on the mill walles & the white of an egge & lay it thereto. [?anes] [illegible] cut very small, & layd to, is very good For the plague. Drinke often of the urine of children For ulcers in the feete or hands. Wet a linen cloath & ty it thereon, & as often as you pisse, let it drop on the place. For bieting of snakes or vipers. Take goats dunge mixed with vineger, & lay it thereto For hard swelling, the squincy, dropsy, or spleene. Take goats dunge mixed with barly flower, & wine, & water boyled together, & lay them thereto. For a greate cough. Take apples called pippins, & boyle them in faire water, & mixe the liquor with sugar, & drinke often of it. probatus est. To dry rhume in the matrix or vulva. Boule penny royall & figs in vineger, & gargarige it or boyle pennryall with figgs in beare or ale, and drinke thereof If it [illegible] too cold, make a fomentation of the decoction, it dryeth the moystnes of the matrix. 118 An oyntment for the remes that ae hot. Take of oyle, of water lillies, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, of each [illegible] red sanders 3g cynomon 3 [illegible] vineger [illegible] & with a litle wax make an oyntment. For a laske. Take an eg rosted rare, put to it a litle aqua vitae soe [skinne] it well together, & let it rost a little longer and then eate it. For the wormes Take boulted wheate flower, as much as will ly upon three [illegible] of gold, put it into a glasse poure into it as much well water as will keepe the flower, & make it looke like milke, & as thinne, & give it the child to drinke, this will cause him to [voyd] them. To stay the flux. Lay 3 or 4 sowes eares in red wine a day & a night, & then drinke of it. To kill the wormes. Make an hole in an orange as big as a penny & squeese the liquor out, & put into the empty orange ouyle of bayes, iuyce of rue, iuyce of worme wood, treacle, flower of [lu?ius], seeth all this a time, then put it into a dish & annoynt the naule, stomack, temples, nostrills, & the uttermost part of the pulses. For wormes. If the child be soe litle, that it can receive [?athing] at the mouth, take aqua vitae, where with wash or wet the stomack or brest of the child, then poure over the places the pouder of fine myrres, & lay the child a time downe, with his brest upward; & you shall see that the wormes will come forth dead. For the collicke Eate dayly 5 or 6 peach kernells before dinner or supper, with salt & bread, these comfort the brest & stomack, ease the collick, & kill all sort of wormes. Or eate sallads made of mugworte, or mother worte, or eate it in your pottage; sweet margerome is alsoe very good for it. 119 A glister for the collick. Take fresh ashes dunge, boyle it in white wine, put to it a handfull of anniseed, a litle oyle of camomile a litle oyle of capers, with a handfull of branne, boyle them halfe a quarter of an hower, & take them from the fier & presse out the substance, & soe make a glister of it. For the collicke Take the iuyce of ripe barberyes, halfe a glasse full, put to it somuch red currall powder as will ly upon two [greates], & give the patient to drinke thereof. For the stone collicke. Make pouder of virga aurea, put a spoonefully of it into a new layd eg soft rosted & drinke it of fastinge, & eate not in 4 howers after, this will cause you to make water in a quarter of an hower, & using it 10 or 12 times you shall voyd the stone. For the flux or laske. Take in claret [pa?ick] beaten & stamped & drinke it. or boyle it in milke & eate it evening & morninge. To kill wormes. Make flower of dryed lupines, & knead it with hony & lay it upon the childes stomack. For the wormes Take oyntment of rondelesio, & such things as loosen the belly; such as be made of sower, bitter & [oppulsuo] modirines to wit: the iuyce of both the persicars, or the leaves of persica arbor z:j oyle of bitter almons, or of absinthio, zij petroleum ziij a litle vineger, & bullocks gall, of wheat flower upon the mill walls [illegible] mixe these together & ad thereto terebinth or [illegible] as much as shall suffice, & make an oyntment & lay it to the naule. For the flux. Take blaunched almons, boyle them in hony till t hey be black & eate thereof fasting; it is excellent good. but it will be stronger if the almons be not blaunched Or make bread of meale as it comes from the mill, & eate thereof, this is the last remedy. 120 Or else take St Johns worte, or the seed, & make a suppository with opiu, this is stronger than the other. Or boyle old cheese, & drinke the water, or dry the cheese after & take a drame of it; this is the strongest of all Oaken leaves distilled & drunke, stayeth a laske. For the collick. Boyle pigeon dung in wine, & make a plaster of it, probatus est For the bloody flux when nothing else will stay it. Take a pan full of charcole hot from the fier, put it into a chafeing dish, & set it in a close [illegible], & when you goe to the stoole, sit downe over the coles, & doe it upon the coles, that the smoake may ascend to you, it will cure you in twice or thrice doeing. probatus est. For rankling of an ague sore. Take a red cloath, & seeth it in your owne urine, & as hot as you can suffer, lay it to the greived place. probatus est For the collicke Take the iuyce of bullocks dunge, & drinke it. or make it into pouder & drinke it. probatus est. For the flux of menstruas. Drinke the pouder of pomegranate flowers; or also boyle the flowers; & drinke thereof. For the dropsie Take elder rootes mixed with oximell, & drinke it continually, or give the pty a grame of euphorbium, to purge his body. Or take pigeons dunge, an ounce of [illegible], rubarb called piganum [illegible] with oximell. or put upon the swelled belly mitrum [beaten]: or salt, & [rost] [exesinse] or wash your selfe well with sea water, & drinke litle. or rub the belly with parched salt & drinke vineger of squilla. For the stomacke. To have an hungry stomacke, take sower crabbes, & boule them in vineger, & straine them, & put therto sugar & pouder of ginger, & boyle all together, & put it into a gally pot, & use it morninge and eveninge. probatus est. 121 For stoping in the throate. Make powder of columbins, & mixe it with aqua vitae and rose water, & drinke it. For the dropsie. Take the seed of morfus diaboli strained, & drinke of it with white wine nine dayes. For to provoake vomiting. Take mustard 2 drames, spuma nitri called banrach 1 [illegible] & condiss danich beaten all, then sift them, and drinke them with dill water, & oximell. Or take mustard & put thereon the heads of radishes, eate it, & drinke after it warme water & hony, this will cause you to vomit, by putting a foeather into your mouth. or take of nux vomica 3 ij & mixe it with hony, & dissolve it with hot water, & drinke of it when you would vomit A restaurative for a weake stomacke. Take longe pepper, graines, saffron, of each 2 penny worth; beate them to pouder, then take a cock chicken, & beate it to a [collice], with the 3 pouders put to it, & three yolkes of egges, hard rosted, and give it to the weake persone. probatus est. For the sharpenes and payne in the tongue or mouth: for the pluricy or tilick. Hold in your mouth diadragantum frigidum, untill it be dissolved; you may have it redy made at the apothecaries For a very sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, cincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, mary gold leaves, stampe all these, & put thereto allome & hony, & boyle them together, & wash your mouth therewith. probatus est. To lift up the tuola. Boyle an eg very hard, & pull of the shell, & wringe it alitle, & lay it to the crowne of the head. or burne the rostes of cooles & put of the pouder into the vuola & it will lift it up by drying up the humor that caused it to fall 122 For cold in the stomack, and cold rhume in the head. Take pills of storax, & swallow them downe. Or make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, & lay it to the stomack. For the pestilence. Terra sigillata drunke with wine treakle the greater, take thereof early in the morning a scruple with sweete wine aqua vitae, iuyce of lemons, & iuyce of 3 leaved grasse. Or take leavened bread tosted, wet it with rose wine vineger, or the iuyce of the wild vine, untill the tost drink it up, then put thereon cynomon pouder & eate that tost early in the morninge. A preservative against the plague. Take of methridate 3 ii specierum diambre, & [calloms] rescription called galeni letisicantem, of each 3, 5, [diardo] [illegible] white sugar 3 ounces, with water of [acekosy]; make litle tables, & gild the, & take every day, [one] Or take 2 dry figgs, 2 nutts, leaves of rue [illegible] beate all together with alitle salt, & eate of it fasting; excellent. Or take this electuary; sweet almons stamped, dry figgs, [illegible] leaves of rue 20, graynes of iuniper 5, beate them with rose wine vineger, & make an electuary, & take an ounce of it in the morninge. For the cough & straytnes in the brest. Take dry figgs, & isope & stamp them well together, then boyle them with hony & drinke of it fasting pbatus est To stay rhume. Take of pouder of worme-wood & mynts, of each alike portion layd upon a tost of whit bread (with crust not be tosted browne) steeped, or rather but wet in maulmsy eate this or tow of them in the morninge fast two yeares after it; you may lay sugar over the pouder. For the tooth ach. Stampe 2 cloves of garlick, & ty it to your wrist on that side that your toothaketh, & it will draw away all payne. Or boyle isope in vineger, & wash your mouth with the liquor & it will ease the payne presently. If the tooth be yellow, fill it with the gume of an [illegible] tree. 123 for a sore throate. Take the inward barke of a wallnut tree, rosemary croppes, & 2 or 3 good figgs slit asunder, boyle them well with white wine, & drinke the liquor. probatus est. To heal choppes in the gumes & lippes. Take mastick pouder mixed with the white of an egge. pbatus est. For the tooth ach. Take woodbind, & columbine leaves, pound, & straine them, & put to it allome water, then dip a cleane linen cloath therein, & hold it to the tooth that aketh. probatus est. To bring forth childrens teeth easily Annoynt the gumes with hony, & salt mixed together. To ease the payne under the ribbs, speene, & reynes. Eate oftimes almons. For hardnes of the sinewes. Take the marrow of a deere, or calfe, & annoynt the place. For the lithargy. Take a spoonefull of castoreum, & as much of white pepper, & as much of mellicrate, & give it to the party. To provoke [menstrues] [illegible] the party blood in the foote, then give her to drink of castoreum with penny royall or calamynt. pbatus est. but it must be given with wine & water boyled together, & soe drunke. For the collick. Drink aloes pouder; or take hiera antidogum; or treacle; or phylomum; or boyle parsly rootes and fennell rootes in water, & drinke thereof. Or boyle branne in wine, & put it into a linen bag, & rub your belly well & lay the bag thereto. Or take brimstone, comine resins stoned, mixe them with wine, & beate them together, & put them into a linen cloath, & lay it to the stomack, naule, backe, or privy parts. Or drinke two spoonefulls of oximell, & annoynt the parties back bone with oyle of rue, or oyle of bayes. For the goute. Take opium, castoreum of each zij of saffron z [illegible] 124 agragate them together with [water], wherein galls have beene boyled, & lay it thereto. But if the payne increase annoynt the place with stronge vineger, wherein horsemints & origanum have beene boyled. An excellent pouder to eate dead flesh. Burne [reach] allome, of myrabolanes, citrines, [illegible] sigillata, flowers of pomegranate, of each 2 drames, pouder of mercury, pouder of red corall, of each 2 drames, mixe them together, & use thereof. probatus est. Remedies for the back, reynes, loynes, liver and the spleene. For all manner of inflamations in the liver, swelled leggs, & inflamed hands. Take flower of barly, or amilum, seeth it halfe an hower in comon water, straine it, & put it into another pot, put to it a few mallowes, surrory, hopps, endive burrage, seeth all together untill it be dissolved, ad to it an ounce of sandall; then straine all, & take in a linen cloath two nutts full of cassia extracts, & put that [illegible] to it, pressing it with your fingers, that the substance thereof may issew into the strayned water as it heateth, then put to it [sope] as much as you will; then take every morning of this lying in your bed a litle glasse full, with your brest upward, then lay a linen cloath upon your stomack; [sleep] if you can, & take a litle of it after you are up, & have done your necessities; this must be done in sumer, & not in winter. For an ach. Take 3 parts of the iuyce of young elder croppes, & a fourth part of black sope, beate these together till it be a salve or oyntment, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For a payne in your reynes, flanke; & all other greifes. Take 3 quarters of an ounce of storax liquida, capons grease, goose grease, ducks grease, of each 5 drames, of oyle roses 4 drames, red wax 2 drames, melt these with h alfe a drame of butter & soe mingle them, & then put to it the storax, spread it on a cloath, & lay it upon the greife. 125 For the spleene. Every thing that is conduceing to make one fat is good. Boyle worme wood in beere & hony or take dry figges, & boyle them in mellicrate, beate & mixe them with worm wood, & lay it thereto. Or take caper roots, an ounce, vineger a pritty deale, water a part, boyle them together to a third part, & drinke 4 or 5 spoonefulls at a time. Or take young roots of ground [inie] boyled in wine, drink it. Or take mirabolanes, & [??pple] the in vineger, & beeing made thick, lay it thereto. Or ty them to the spleene of a soe, or kid. or beate the fruite of tamariske, then boyle it & lay it thereto. Or the rootes of capers, boyled in vinegar & put into a linen cloath & layd thereto gives great ease in one dayes space. An excellent remedy for a stitch Take a dishfull of hot embers, & sprinkle them with a litle wine vineger, & put them into a linen bag, & soe apply it hot to the side, & being cold, warme it againe in a platter, or else take new ones as before. For a payne in the side, & to open the spleene. Take an handfull of the midle greene rine of greene ash bowes, & infuse it into a pinte of white wine halfe a day & a night; in the morning drinke of it fastinge, & walke & fast, 2 howers after. A restaurative Take a pinte of white [barstard], 2 yolkes of eggs, white sugar candy an ounce, 2 penny worth of white saunders, the waight of 4d of [Ambin] pouder, boyle a peece or two of gold in I t, & boyle it to 3 quarters of a pinte beate the yolkes of eggs with the wine & put them in last for curdlinge, & drinke of it morning & evening. A singular remedy for the pluricy. Beate halfe a pound of the roote of scabious, of red corall 2 ounces, sugar as much as will suffice to make a syrop thus. Boyle the sugar a good time then put thereto halfe a pint of the iuyce of scabious, your pouder of corall, boyle the well straine it, & drinke a good draught thereof. Or drinke the iuyce of rue. 44 126 Or beate figgs with hoggs grease, or salet oyle & implaster it thereto. or boyle marsh mallow rootes, fenigreek seed, flax seed & wheate, & incorporate them well, & lay it thereto. this cureth either plurisy or palusie. Or take the meale of fenigreeke seed, flax seed and linen, & make bread of it with butter, bake it & lay it hot to the plurisy. probatus est. To cause one to voyde fleame. Take unstoned raysins of the sune, & beate them with the pouder of endive & alitle hony, & eate thereof For an inpostume, or to cure a canker Mixe raysins with beane meale & comeme, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it thereto. A water against dead flesh, & to heale any sore. Take white caperes, camfire at your discretion, burne them in a fier pan, & make pouder thereof, then take belsorminate a pritty peece, & make it into fine pouder, then take running water, seeth it & scume it over the fier, & put in all your powders, & let it boyle againe, & soe stand a while, & the pouder will sinke to the bottome, then put it iinto a cleane glasse. this applied to the sore fetches out dead flesh, scowers the wore faire, & will bringe it to perfect healinge. probatus est. To kill a fellon Beate [illegible] soote very small, & mixe it with black sope, and lay it thereto. probatus est. For all manner of goutes. Take pellitory of spaine & seeth it in water, or white wine, & lay it to the goute, this assuages both swelling & your ach. An oyntment for the ioynts. Take 5 or 6 handfulls of wallnut, seeth it well in wine then straine it, & with alitle wax, oyle of spike, & aqqua vitae make an oyntment, and every day annoynt the place evening & morning. probatus est. For swelling without breaking the skinne. Boyle barly meale in red wine, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto warme. probatus est. 127 For the goute 6 Make a stronge brine with water & salt that will bare an eg, & put the part greived into it as hot as you can endure, & as it cooleth take hotter; an excellent remedy. To make away wartes. Take great wormes, & boyle them well, & let it stand until it be cold, then take of the fat, & annoynt the wartes. For the gout in the ioyntes. Take endive water, the iuyce of holy [hanke] rootes, oyle of roses & camomile, barly flower, holkes of eggs, & a litle safron, mixe the together, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For an extreame ach. Lay hemolcks upon a tile, then upon them a slice of [illegible] cheese, then hemlockes againe over the cheese, then lay the tile upon embers to stew, & being throughly hot, lay it plaster wise to the greife, & use it oftimes, when you take of the plaster, wipe the water from the place & if neede require lay it on againe. probatus est. For the sciatica. Take ship pitch & ammoniack, & mixe the well together, & lay it thereto. this is very good. For the goute. Take [flea] worte, boyle it, & bath the place; it taketh away the payne very [???ainly]. Or take the roote of a wild [curumer] & [braune], beaten, & lay it thereto, this taketh away the swelling & hardnes thereof. Or take turpentine, resine, & wax, treacle & aqua vitae, boyle them, & spread it on a linen cloath some what warme, with a litle butter on the boarde where you spread it, & lay the plaster to the greife. Or boyle stockfish & lay it on skinne & all as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Take the iuyce of ground [inie], & put of it into the eare on the same side the payne is: the effect is wonderfull. For the sciatica Make an oyntment of [illegible] & oyle, wherein coloquintida hath beene boyled with aloes, tapsia, apopinax 8 [illegible. Precepts for the goute. If the gout be cold & without swelling or redness & taken 128 with an extreame paine, use vaporations with [fryed] salt, put into a bag, & after cover the place which [illegible] well wet & moystened in hot sweet oyle. Or fomentate the place with the decoction of mallows hot & boyled with fenigreeke flax seed, & calamynt. If [these] helpe not, if [illegible] [illegible], let him blood, & oyle hot fomentations made with sea water, or comon water ading thereto salt; [illegible] goeing to stoole, & use hot things; or use oyle of bayes; & after 40 dayes use [diasamicon], or diapopinaceum, or diaspermaton. After youl leave the bathes use nitrum; euforbium,; adarace, & pouder of pepper, layinge them to the place, or else pouder of bay berries. An oyntment for the same. Take squilla, rue, rootes of wild curumer, two pts of water & one of old oyle, boyle them untill the water only remaynes, then cast away the herbes, put thereto pouder of nitrum, euforbium, adaraco, pepper & bay berries, use these, & purge with [helebores]. For a rupture. Take drinke made of comfry & muria eate not too much, especially if you engender wind, drinke not too much, use not much venery, keep the belly loose with glisters or suppositories: & sometimes goeing to diner take halfe an ounce of cassia with broth of a pullet, or tamarindes, or diacartamus tempered with the sayd broth or other liquor. Take of sanguis draconis, bolearminake, [scabiese], mumia, cypers nutts, of each an ounce, anise water cresses dryed, of each 6 drames, of great [consounds], & the [lesser], & the midle, & the wild vine, of each an ounce, & an halfe; make a pouder, & take thereof with the decoction fog round [iuie], & [con??und], called the knights [illegible] Or take pouder of valerian early & late a drame & an halfe at once, with red wine. Or make pouder of water cresses dryed, & give it to the party with milke, wherein [stones] or iron have been quenched. Alsoe [illegible] the roote thereof cut & tempered with red wine, & drunke continually cureth every rupture; Liver wort used soe worketh the same effects. Or take of the three sorts of confound, of both kinds of [scabiose], plantan, valerian, pimpernell, of each an ounce, cypers nutts, nut megs, cynomon, comeine, coriander 129 prepared, of each, halfe an ounce, frankincense mastick, terra sigillata, bolearminate, gume dragan of each 3 drames [illegible] [stiptiis] lotor duaw, aquae lib: 4 potest addi [cirma]: concisi et [illegible] es fiet ficri [allmodu] [illegible] An emplaster for the same Take cypers nutts, accasia, galls, pomegranate [stones], of each a drame; myrre, sarcacoll, frankinsense, gume arabick, of each 3 drames, dragons blood, bolearminate, [roch] allome, ales, mumia, of each 2 drames, make a fine pouder, & mixe it with vineger, & emplaster it thereto, & [trusse] it straite up. If after the gout vex the place, and be hard amoungst the sinewes. Make a plaster thereto of hard diaculum made soft in warme water, & layed thereto. For runneing of the reynes. Take an ounce of mastick make it into fine pouder, & put it into a quart of ale, & boyle it untill a quarter be wasted, then take it of & let it stand till it bee cold, then take the upermost & drinke it pbatus est. Or take comfry & make pouder thereof, & temper it with the iuyce of morrell, & wet a linen cloath therein, & lay it to the [yare], reynes, & members. pbatus est. To stay a laske Take [hares] furre, [illegible] seed, plantan seed, rose seed, flowers of pomegranates, seeds of St Johns wort, of each a drame, of dragons blood, mastick, of each 4 drames, venece turpentine, 2 drames & make it up wiuth plantan iuyce. Or take fasting mastick 3 drames, with rayne water, it comforteth the stomack & all ptes. Or take 3 drames of dragons blood, with plantan iuyce. For the extreame payne of the goute. Take a drame of opium pouder & safron pouder, mixed with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses, & layd to, is excellent. For all swelling what soever. Take a pottle of wormes washed, put the in to a pint of white wine, seeth the alitle, then put therein a pint of sallet oyle, & let these boyle together untill the wine be consumed, then straine it & put that oyle into a cleane vessell, & set 130 it on the fier, & put into it an ounce of deeres suet, & as much sheepes suet, & halfe an ounce of wax scraped therein, melt all these, & apply it. probatus est. For the dropsie. Drinke the seedes of morfus diaboli with white wine 9 dayes. For a burninge ague. Take 10 snayles with their shells, a great handfull of hemlocks, halfe an hand full of bay salt, beate them very well together, then lay the one halfe to the base soles of the foote, & the other halfe to the other; lay it not to until the heate hath beene on the party an hower, then let it ly on 8 howers, it helpes one within a day & a night; & may be applied to a child. For one that never had a child. Take a handfull of mercury, as much of ground [illegible], chop them small & straine them with beere, or boyle them with pottage with some red sanders, & drinke of it every day For a dropsy either hot or cold. Take worme wood, pettimorell, fetherfue, [spurge], wall worte, of the roote of each halfe a pound; of fennell parsly, isope, sago, smalage, arnias, mynts, water cresses, hore hound, endive, liver wort, greene barke of elder, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & pound them in a morter, then put them into an earthen pot, & put thereto 2 gallones of white wine, or good [worte], which is not turned; seeth it till it come to a gallon, then straine it through a haire sieve into a faire vessell, wash the earthen pot, & put the liquor into it againe, & cover it, & give the party halfe a pint at a time. use it first & last, at evening hot, at morning cold, let him take nothing for 3 dayes but bread & pottage made with billers, white wine, & oatemeale; And take 2 pound of sage washed cleane, & put it into a coffin of dough made of wheate meale, & when it is baked, beate it in a morter & then put it into a faire cloath and the cloath [illegible] a waight of three pounds, & hang it in a gallon pot of stone, & fill it up with white wine or stale ale, & cover it, & let the party drinke of it & noe other drinke whilst it lasteth, & that spent, make ready more, & drinke alsoe of it first & last; & after three dayes let him eate any 131 convenient meale, but noe drinke but this prescribed let him alsoe blood in one or two vaines. probatus est to be a singular and most excellent receite. Remedies for cankers, emrods, piles, and boyles. For the emrods or piles. Boule greene elder in water untill it be dissolved, then take a peece of red cloath, a litle biger, then the palme of your hand, & stretch it along upon the palme of your hand, & lay the elder leaves upon the emrod, as hot as may be suffered, having alitle before layd uipon them a litle oyle olive; then take away the cloath & leaves, & in like manner lay on others, & soe others as long as you may, & then let him sleepe if he can. For a boyle or botch. Take crumes of bread, raysings dryed in an oven, & well stamped, butter, eggs suet, [leven], cowes milke, & a litle saffron; make of all this an oyntment & lay it to the sore, putting first a litle safron pouder upon the very place, where you will have it breake & upon that lay the plaster, leaving it soe untill night, & changing it evening & morning, soe shall you make is [soome] ripe, & breake, then dresse it with oyle roses & the yolkse of eggs one whole day; after this purge away the filth with some drawing oyntments, finally lay to it the oyntment of aloes & tutia, or or some consolidatine or healeing oyntments. Or beate bay salt into pouder, then sift it, & incorporate it with the yolke of an egge, & lay it thereto. this is good for a plague sore; sape probatum. To resolve a fellon or boyle or bock in the beginninge Cut an orange in the midle then take a litle [illegible] in a dish & pisse upon it, then wringe it in your hands, & put to it a litle comon salt, beaten to pouder, & lay it hot to the sore, putting upon the sayd [tome] halfe an orange 132 & bind all this on, changing it evening & morning, & the [illegible] mater will [soudainly] dissolve. For impostumes, boches, cankers & other sellings. Take barly & branne, & seeth them untill they be like to a plaster very thick, then lay it upon the sore. To ripen an impostume, boch, fellon, or any swelling sore. Take hoggs grease, or lard, & lay it to the sore, very good For a canker approoved. Take myrre, mastick, & dragons blood, pound the together then take the marrow of a red [stere], & pound all together, & make it into a roule, & when you use it, make a plaster upon a new linen cloath, or leather. Pouder of [illegible] will open a wound; & pouder of centory will heale it To breake a boch or boyle. Take grownd [sill] & capons grease; & grind the together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. probatus est. Or take, worme wood, mallowes, wheate flower, lineseed & hony, seeth them all together in wine, & make a plaster, & bind it thereto very hot. probatus est. For the measles in young children. Take iulip, violets 2 ounces, rose water 4 ounces, oyle of vitriole 4 graynes, mixe them, & drinke it cold. this is a rare medicine. To kill a tetter. Annoynt the tetter with the iuyce of woodbine leaves, pbatus est To kill a canker or fellon. Take plantans beaten small, hony, alitle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, mixe these, & lay them thereon. To take away a wenne. Annoynt the wenne but three nights with the blood of a [tench] & it will fall away. probatus est. An oyntment for scabbes or ring wormes. Take the iuyce of the yellow daffodill, iuyce of dragons, iuyce of fennell, which is sower, of each 2 ounces, hogges grease halfe a pound, bouyle these together, untill the iuyces be boyled away, then put it into a morter, and mie it well with tartar, & fileings of lead, & that with [st??beth] on an oven or furnesse mouth, verdigrease, the ashes of a gourd, of each 2 drames, an ounce of quicksilver [killed] with fasting spittle, & as much vineger as shall suffice to incorporate all & make an oyntment of them. 133 For the shingles. Take moyst pigeons dunge, & barly meale, mixe them together & lay it to the sore then lay worte leaves about them, & let these ly a day & a night; then lay a fresh plaster: for 3 plasters will cure you bee the shingles never too greivous. probatus est. To kill a canker. Take running water, & water out of the smithes forge, & put therein rosemary, sage, honysuckle leaves, a good peece of rose allome, & hony, boyle them well together, & wash the place therewith, then make pouder of sage & smalage & lay upon the sore. probatus est. To cure an ague. Take briony, or the roote of white wine, called vitis alba, cut, & beate it in a morter with frankinsense bay salt, & turpintine, & lay it to your wristes. probatus est. To cure a burne with fier. Take sheepes tallow, & hennes dunge, fry them together, & straine out the iuyce, & annoynt the place. For swelled hands. Make a plaster with cow dunge, mixed with hony & vineger, & lay it thereto, when it is hard. For the dropsie. Take chick-week, ale, & oatemeale, make pottage thereof, & use it 9 dayes, & every day fresh. probatus est. For ach in the wombe. Take tansy, rue, & souther wood, eate it fasting. For the stone in the reynes Boyle baellium of arabia, & drinke thereof, it [p???eth] [illegible] & expelleth wind. For a strangury, & such as cannot make water. Boyle the rootes & leaves of plantan in white wine, & drinke it. or boyle [radice] rootes in white wine, & ad pou of hares furre burned & drinke thereof, it is a prefect remedy for the same. 134 To kill the swine pox. Take a handfull of wild tansy, worme wood, marygold leaves of each as much wash 7 dry them betweene a cloath cut & fry them with butter, and take the iuyce, & annoynt the pox there with For a burne or scald. Take creame, & fleece therein the midle rine of witch-hazle, or the rime of elder, & annoynt the place. To kill a tetter. Burne rushes upon a latine bason, & with the oyle which cometh thereof annoynt the tetter often. probatus est. A present remedy for the collick. Take wallnutts without the shells, seeth them in white wine, strayne it, & put in as much sugar candy as will sweeten it, & drinke it. probatus est. To take away wartes. Stamp egrimony & celendine with [illegible] it be thick. probatus est. For the mether. Take greene broome toppes stamp & temper them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. For ach in the feete with travailinge. Mixe stamped comein seeds with oyle olive, & annoynt the soles of the feete, & bind thereto a red [cole] leafe. For all manner of goutes. Take brimstone pouder, [grind] it with oyle olive on a stone & annoynt the gout before the fier. or take a red snayle, put it into an earthen pot, & put thereto salt, untill it bee melted, & therewith annoynt the place before the fier. To quench ones thirst. Take the roote of [loveage], stamp it & temper it with water, & drinke it 3 mights goeing to bed. probatus est. To stanch the menstruall blood in woemen. Take a toade dryed, & put it into a bag, & hang it about the woemans neck. probatus est by Mr May. To provoke the flowers. Take myrre, & cynomon of each zj of savine [illegible] parsly seed, smalage seed, spike nard, asarum, of each [illegible] make of all these a pouder, & take of it 3 [illegible] with the iuyce of eringus. It is good to take it with some liquor. For an itch. Take brimstone pouder & temper it with aqua vitae & salet oyle, & annoynt the scabbes therewith. probatus est. For the emrods. [illegible] sage in oyle of roses put it into a linen bag & lay it hot to 135 To make one soluble. Take raysins of the sunne, steepe them a night in water & hony, in the morning eate 20 or 30 of them with 2 spoonefulls of the liquor to 8 spoonefulls of water a spoonefull of hony For a laske. Take a new layd eg, break the shell & put out the white & keepe the yolk in the greater part of the shell, & put thereto a good deale of [veriayce], & stirre it together on the fier, & after wards [illegible] it up. probatus est. For paynes in the belly, & especially of such whose naule comes out. Take the pouder of burnt galls, mixe thereto the rine of a pine tree, or frankincense & the white of an eg, & lay it to. For paynes in the belly. Drinke the roote of aristologia; or dry comein seed, & take thereof 2 spoonefulls, with 8 spoonefulls of water or wine. Or chew comeing seed & swallow it downe. or bay seeds taken out of the skinne & made into pouder, & drinke thereof 9 spoonfulls with wine. or eringus rootes with wine, or elder boyled & drunke with sine. To make one laxative Take wheate branne, boyle it in water, & straine it; & take blanched almons, beate them in a morter & temper the with the water, & drinke it, or make it into a porrige. probatus est. For a payne in the stomack, for vomiting, the collick, in the spleene or liver, or the ague by fleame. Take anniseed 2 drames, mastick, spike, aromaticum, of each a drame, boyle them & drinke thereof. For the stomack payned, & cannot disgest, for an ague by cold, for appilations & the collick. Take of spike a drame, galingall 2 drames comin 3 drames, boyle them & drinke there of. To cure the idstillation of the urine. Take dayly in your drink psillicum, with oyle of roses. Or anacardina, methridate, & ieragelein. Alsoe trifera minor mixed with wallnutts & frankincense For the over much flowing of urine. Butterd milke, or iuyce of pomegranates drunke. Take acasia, 3 ij dragagant 3 j [illegible] dryed roses 3 iij beleorminate 3 iiij gume arabick 3 ij beate them 136 & sift them, & make it up with musilage of psallium, and take it with cold water. Or make a plaster with barly meale, vineger, & oyle of roses, & lay them to your back. Or drinke charned milke & milke hot from the cow. An oyntment for the same. Take frankincense 3 iij acasia, hipoquistides, labdanum, of each 3 iiij oyle of roses an ounce, [populeon] z ij pound then well in a morter & annoynt the reynes & privy partes therewith. Or take oyle of water lillyes, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, gume arabick the lesser cold seeds, red sanders, wallnutts dryed to pouder, roses, frankincense, myrre, cypres, galingall, cynomon enula make pouder of them. To stay the flux of urine. Take the litle skinnes of the [mames] of hennes, dry them to pouder in the skinne; a drame thereof; olibanum, dryed wallnutts, pomegranate flowers, galls, of each 3 drames, make a pouder of it all, & take of it fasting with cold water & hony of roses. For swelling in the codds. weare about your neck a parsnippe roote; or take bay leaves & rue leaves, & beate them together and lay them thereto. probatus est. To make one pisse. Drinke tansy & camomile iuyce with white wine. probatus est. To stay the flux of urine. It is very good to eate the lunges of a kidde. Or boyle barly & cast away the first red water, & fill it with fresh water, & boyle it again then straine it, & put to the liquor letice water, & endive water & drinke thereof after it is; but when it bouyleth put in myrtle leaves, & mithridate, or treakle. Pilles for those that pisse in bed. Take myrre, castoreum, costus, tormentilla wallnut shells, peritony, of each halfe an ounce, beate the & make them up with water of myrre moyst; or with the iuyce of myrkles, or [illegible], & after steepe take a drame, or a drame & an halfe. An excellent pouder for the same. Take [horse] mynt, that growes in the water, [peleuy] of the mountaine, 137 of each 3 drames; myrre a drame & an halfe, [cypresse], mustard seed, cardomomum, cypresse nutts, frankincense of each a drame, make it up with hony, & take the quantity of a nutt goeing to bed Or take a sheepes bladder & spread it upon a hot tyle, stone, or iron plate, & being dryed to pouder, drink thereof with water & vineger but it is farre better to drinke it with red wine made hot alitle. Or take chimolea (which is a certaine earth brought out of spaine) beate it small, & temper it with bullocks gall, & emplaster it on the [privities], & the back bone. For an ach or swelling in the knee. Take rue & loveage, stampe & mixe them together with hony, then fry them, & lay them warme to. pbatus est. To kill small wormes in the belly. Dry rue to pouder, & drinke of it dayly; Or eate it in broth first & last. or put it into wine & warme it & drinke thereof. probatus est. To kill the greater wormes. Make pouder of betony & savine, & put of it into hot water, & drinke of it some what warme. probatus est For a wrench. Boyle milke grated manchet, & fresh butter, or hogs grease together, untill it be thick, & lay it hot thereto. For one that is taken lame. Take a pint of maulmsy, [stond] horse dunge, a litle wax, boyle alltogether well, then put thereto a quantitye of comein pouder, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To provoke the menstrues. Take a head of garlick pilled, & put it into the matrix; it rpovoketh nightily. To bring out the pox, plague, meazles or other payne about the heart. Take 5 leaves of sage, 5 blades of safron dryed, & make them into pouder, a fig cut into small peeces boyle all these in faire water, drink it often. pbatus est. For one that is broaken Beate an onyon with mutton grease, & a litle oxe gall, & put it into a linen cloath, and lay it thereto. probatum est. 138 To provoke the menstrues in woemen. Take a lilly roote rosted in embers, then beate it & mixe it with oyle, & put thereof into the matrix. Or drinke lylly seedes, & it will bringe forth a dead child [perfectly]. Or boyle pennyroyall, & bake the matrix, it taketh away the swelling of the matrix; or drunken, or put into the matrix doth the same: soe doth calamynt or parsnipps, either drunken, put up, or fomentated. Sage boyled & drunken, or put up bringeth forth the [secundine]. To heale the emrods. Dry or burne dill seeds, & mixe it with hony, & layd thereto health them. Or take fileings of iron, & confect it with mullen, & lay it to, is most excellent. Or take old bumbast, & wet it in water wherein dill hat beene boyled, & after dry the bumbast, & mixe the [arse] therewith, & then make a suppository of it. Or take rosemary leaves bruised, & make a plaster, & lay it to the emrods. Or comon dirt healeth the flux of the emrods. Or make pouder of eg shells where in chickens have been hatched, & drinke it with white wine fasteing: this healeth them perfectly. If the emrods hange out is payne you much. Take old linen & hard pich, & upon this plaster lay the pouder of parsly rootes, & mastick, & lay this plaster thereto probatus ets. To stay the laske. Drinke acasia; or make a suppository of it, with soe much opium. Or boyle horehound with wine & oyle, & beate them well together, & emplaster it to the place about the privy members. probatus est. Or boyle or fry a sheepes liver with wax & eate of it hot, it stayeth the flux perfectly. Or boyle cowes milke, & put therein a peece of iron or a flint stone, & let them boyle well, & drinke thereof: this is a perfect remedy. Take beares grease: or wine & a new layd eg, with a litle salt & drinke of it fasting, & soe the second day, & fast a long hower after. Or drinke the pouder of tormentill, or the decoction of that [illegible] For those that spit blood. The gume of the peach tree, called gum persici {illegible] to the is [excellent], & [illegible] the matter in the lungs 139 For an old or new sore Take red leade, turpentine, oyle olive, & barrowes grease, boyle it until it bee stiffe upon a stick, then straine it, & put it into a vessell to keepe it in, & & make a plaster upon a linen cloathe & lay it to. To stay urine. Drinke the braine of a haire with wine. galbanu with wine drunke is good. soe is galingall soe used. To cure a burne. Take a raw eg, & lay it upon soft wooll: it is a most rare secret, to dry the sore. or annoynt it with [bola??iral] To stay the running of mans nature. Drinke the water wherein lenteles are boyled: hemp seeds, coriander seed, purslane seeds, charned milk upon it is sower: but take the water wherein these seeds are boyled. Or make plasters of hen bane, opium, camfire, the mustilage of flea worte, purselane, & oyule of poppie, oyle of roses, or oyle of [myrtles]. Or coriander seed, & water lilly seedes dryed. Purge from challer, let blood, & puoke to vomit. those hot things are good to dry up mans seed. rue, & his seed, agnus castus, calamynt, euforbiu comein; all things to dry up mans seeds must be taken with acetosum. Or take pine kernells, [shaled] & fryed & sifted, of [bdellium], of each 3 x. pomegranate flowers, red roses of each 3 w beate them & sift them & use them. [Chinconna] sayth that pine kernells loose their vertue by dryinge. Another for the same. Take dill seeds 3 iij letice seed, purselame seed of each 3 iiij & drinke them with water of lenteles. Or take letice seed 3 ij of [illegible] rue seed 3 j pomegranate flowers 3 ij seeds of lagnus castus 3 j all this for one dosse. Or take old conserve of roses 2 ounces put it into a morter & temper it with pouder made of pomegranate flowers, myrre in pouder, frankincense, mastick in pouder, anniseeds in pouder, comein in pouder, rue dryed to pouder, margerome dryed 140 to pouder, & sugar, & compound them well takeing of each a like quantity & litle portion & [morria] & soe eate of it dayly., probatus est L [Mr] May: remember to ad in the beating bolearminate of the [best] For a burne with fier. Take the yolke of an egge, or the whits of egges tempered with salet oyle, play it thereto. probatus est. Or take mutton suet, & hennes dunge, & fry the together, then straine out the iuyce through a cloath, & annoynt the burne therewith. probatus est. For the dropsie. Take the shaveings of sheepes skinnes, or [illegible] skinnes, & boyle them in water untill they bee thick as glew, & put it in a cloath, & bind it about your body. probatum est. For swelled feete or hands. Boyle elder leaves in water, & put thereto salt, & bath the swelling therewith. Boyule elder leave in oyle & wine & lay the thereto. To provoke the menstrues. Take coles, & lay thereon storax, & let the woeman sit over the fume thereof; it is good. To stay flux of urine. Take graynes of myrtle, wallnutts, frankeincense, comein, cypresse, of each a part beaten, & take with old wine 2 drames. Or take the leaves of myrtle dryed. Allome, leaves of aleanna, of each a part, boyle them with wine, & drink thereof an ounce at a time in the morning. Or take wallnutts, & steepe them in wine vineger 24 howers, & fry them in a panne then beate them & [take] thereof ten drames. Or take [currall], myrtle, frankincense, storax, dry the, pound them, & mixe them with hony and wallnutts dryed to pouder. Or take the wet end of a pulled cork, & burne it to pouder, & use of it twice or thrice a day. Or the stones of a hedgehog dryed to pouder: it is excellent good. 141 For a burne nerely done. Annoynt the place well with mustard, & good store, this will fetch out the fier, & heale it. To cure scabbes. Take litange beaten to pouder, gume tragagant, vitriole, equall proportions, incorporate them, with wine vineger, put them into a glasse & stop it close, & bury it in a moyst place amounth, & then annoynt the place therewith. All these are good to cure a burne. Hoggs grease, marse mallowes, acasia, [ince], allome, mayden haire, beete, burnt lether, white lillies, elder leaves, [inie], St Johns wort, wild letice, mallowes, an eg, plantan, [grose] leeks, sheepes dunge, pigeons dunge, and frankeincense. For swelled knees. Take rue & [loudage] stamped well together, mingle it with hony, & fry all together, & lay this plaster to the sore, somewhat warme, & the ach & swelling will cease. For ach or sores Take the rootes of holy haukes, seeth them tender, then grind them in a morter, & put thereto a quantity of wheate flower, & mingle them well together, & fry it with oyl olive, & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For biteing of an adder. Stampe, then temper centory with water & drink thereof, it is good for man & beast. OR stamp rue & temper it with oyle olive, & lay it thereto. For the plurisie. Make an hole in a mellow apple, & take away some within, & put therein 2 or 3 graynes of olibanum, then cover the apple againe, with the first peece out of, & rost it in the embers till it grew tender, then bruise it into 4 parts with the olibanum & eate it; it will instantly cause the apostume to breake,. probatus est per Roserum May. Or take the flower that sticks on the mill sides, make of it part with water, & soe make litle cakes 5 5. 142 of the bignes of a greate, bake them or fry them with oyle of scorpions, lay one very hot to the greise, rubbing it with oyle of scorpions, & when one cake is cold take another, doe soe 10, or 15 times, & in short time the apostume will breake, & you shall spit it forth. Or take a white leafe [leafe] very hot, & open it in the midle, spread upon both sides treakle, & bind both parts to the sides of the body upon the greife, let it rost 24 howers, or untill the postume breaks, which hath beene within 2 howers, & the bread beeing taken away, you shall voyld the putrifaction of the apostume. Or a bores tooth scraped into wine & drunke breakes the apostume of the plurisie. For an ach or bruise. Take [netes] foote oyle a pottle, an oxes gall, a pint of aqua vitae, as much rose water, bay leaves, rosemary stripped from the stalks, strawberry leaves, rootes & [wiers], lavander cotton, lavander spike, of each a handful, beat them small 7 put them into the sore sayd [stu??e], & boyle it on a soft fier in a panne of two gallons, but beware the flamme touch it not, & being well boyled, take it of & strayne it, but take not the bottome of it, & soe annoynt you therewith. For the plurisy & shortnes of breath. [pound] astrologia purgeth grasse humes from the lunges. For an old cough. Swallow downe the bignes of a leafe of myrre, it is excellent, & helpes from other paynes in the brest. Scrabigle is good for the lungs, & against the plurisy. For hardnes, & paynes in the arteryes & vaynes. Melt amoniack with vineger lest it burne, or beate it in a morter with vineger & lay it thereto. Mixed with nitrum oyle, it is good for a sciatica. mixed with vineger it is good for the spleene that is hard. Mixed with hony or pich, annoynting the [illegible] it helpes the hardnes. For a stitch. Take berryes or leaves of holly beate & mie them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. 143 For the sciatica Wringe out the iuyce of new horse dunge, & dry put to it a quantity of stronge vineger, & fry it, & as hot as may be put it into a linen cloath, & lay it to the greise; when it waxeth cold heate it againe with new vineger, & soe 3 or 4 times. probatus est. Or take a quart of the dreggs of very stronge ale, & a pint of wheat branne, boyle them together, & as hot as may be lay it to the place all night. probatus est. A notable oyntment to cure scabbes. Take a pint & a halfe of good wine, brimstone 3 ounces, frankencense 2 drames, salt 3 ounces, the roote strutium, alias condisi 4 ounces, white wax an ounce & a halfe; in the end of the boyleing ad liquid storax, a drame & a halfe, boyle all untill the [thine] part of halfe be confirmed, then let it settle & congele, & annoynt the palmes of your hands & where any scabs are. For a hot humour in the legge. Beate well the whits of eggs, & scume them cleane then take the iuyce of howse leeke & put to it, & annoynt the place. For paynes in the eares & head. Take 3 pounds of rue, bruyse it small, & boyle it with 3 pounds of salet oyle, untill a thine part bee wasted, & that the oyle wax greene, then strayne it through a cloth, & keepe this oyntment for your use. probatus est. For swelling in the codds. Take pouder of barly meale & good hony, fry them together, & make a plaster & lay it all about the codds, & bind it that it fad not of. probatus est. but remember to ad pouder of comein to it, when you fry it. For all manner of wrenches, bruises & swellings. Take 8 ounces of yellow wax, oyle of roses 8 ounces (bruce 8 ounces, camfire a drame, cut your wax small) & put it into a skellet with the oyle, & boyle them on a soft fier, alitle, then put in your [coruce] small beaten, & boyle these 3 a little, & when you perceive it somewhat yellow, put in your camfire beaten small, & boyle it a litle, then that make a [illegible] cloath, what is left make in roules for your use 144 An oyntment for all old & daungerous wounds. Take celandine, louvage, sage, scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them in a morter, & temper them with sheepes tallow, & oyle olive, of each a pound, let it stand in a vessell 9 dayes, then seeth it in a skellet, untill the herbs goe to the bottome, then strayne them, & set it over the fier, & put thereto two ounces of wax but in sumer 3 ounces, then put an ounce of mastick in pouder, frankincense, verdigrease, of each an ounce boyle it all together untill it be greene, when it is taken from the fier put to it an ounce of aloes epatike in pouder For a fellon. Take black sope, a chickens foot, ground sill, the yolke of an egge & bay salt beaten all together, untill it bee like a plaster, then lay it on. Protabus est. The excellent new plaster. Take smalage called apium, plantans, & betony, of their iuyce a pound, put it into a panne, & put thereto a quarter of a pound of new wx, halfe a quarter of frankincense white, & cleane, halfe a quarter of pitch, & refine, boyle them in the iuyce, & stirre it well, take it of & stirre it, & straine it, then take an ounce of turpintine, & temper it together & being cold hather it, & it is made; chafe it betweene your hands before you spread it. this doth many & great cures. A soveraigne medicine for a stich. Take rosemary & binds tongue, the leaves & berryes of [kn??] jelly, dry all these in the mounth of may June, or July, & make pouder of them, as fine as can be made, & drinke thereof for your stich. probatus est. For a dropsy swelling in the belly. Take flower dolure called gladin, stamp the roote small, & temper it with good ale, & boyle new milke, & put to it, as you would make a posset, & soe drink a good part fresh made on the morrow fasting. For swelling at the heart. Take goose dunge stamped with [eysill], & lay it to [illegible] To take away rednes in the leg or face. Take new warme goose dunge, lay it to the legge which hate an old bruise, & it shall take it away the same doe to the face. 145 To make the face well coloured & faire. Take the marrow of the bone of a swines foot, temper it with warme water, & annoynt the face. To make a cleere voyce. Fry elder flowers in the sunne, let it not rayne on them, make pouder thereof, & temper it with red wine, & drinke thereof. For gnawing in the wombe. Stampe red cole word, & take comein & vineger, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. To make flesh grow in all manner of wounds. Take turpentine 4 ounces, hony halfe an ounce, pouder of white frankencense one drame, safron the third pt of a drame take enough of the oyle of roses, & wax, & make a salve thereof. To clere the matter, & cause flesh to grow. Take turpentine, hony of roses strained, of each 4 ounces, myrre, [surcecell], of each 3 drames, barly meale an ounce, the yolke of an eg, halfe a drame of safron, mixe thm, & set it on the fier, & stirre it well, & when it is luke warme, put thereto the yolke of an egge. To stanch a greate fluxe. Take towne cresse & fry cropps of wood bind, which beareth the small hony suckles, stamp them in warme red wine, & drinke thereof first & last; & eate each day 5 greene leekes, or 3 at the least, with hot bread, drinke nothing but red wine, & let it be hot, used this 3 dayes, & it will certainely cure you. probatus est. To stay the over flowing of urine Drinke a hares braynes with beere or gallanu with wine. rost hazle nutts & take them. or take [gadingall]. For the mother which is fallen. Beat netle leaves, & put them into the matrix very good. Nettle seedes drunk in wine helpe the wombe swelled & [cheaked] up. Soe doth a sufumigation of myrre. Make a plaster of fearne, or worme wood & lay it to the naule. Or take cloves, treacle, & [illegible] dissolved into wine, drunke hot, it helpeth the hardnes of the mother. [rue] beaten & boyled in oyle with hennes grease & goose grease layd hot to, before & behind helpeth the matrix perfectly. Burne turpentine, & [receine] the sunne at the mouth of the matrix, it helpeth the hardnes thereof. 146 To cure a tertian ague. Take mellileke, celendine, white peppis, black poppy, salt & nettle beaten strongly together, & layd to the pulse pbatus est. Drinke the iuyce of plantans before the fit [co??eth] Drinke the iuyce of pimpernell when the fit is upon you; theis cureth the ague. probatus est. Drinke the iuyce of surrory or smalage. probatus est. [illegible] beaten cobwebbs about your nose, excellent. Or by garlick about the body helpeth a quotidian. pbatus est. To stop a mervailous great flux, if any thing will. Take a pint of milke as it comes from the cow in a faire vessell, & set it on the fier, & bind fast as much [rech] allome in a lumpe, as will equall the bignes of three cherry stones, & seeth it in the milke, untill it curdle like a posset, then take the curd & eate it, & drinke the whay, all at a meale, & drinke noe other drinke ly warme first on one side then the other, doe this three times. probatus est. To stay the excessive running of urine. Take mithridate & treacle, & drinke thereof with wine, & annoynt the codds & parts about them with oyle of castor, & oyle of lillyes mixed together. To heale a greene wound. Take sage, isope, rue, worme wood, camomile, astrologia, which is round, betony, mugworte, wild tansy, egrimony, vervine, plantan scabiose, rib worte, pimpernell, southerwood, of each a handfull, stamp them small, then take a quart of oyle, & a pound of butter, & put it into a pan & boyle or fry the herbes well therein, then put thereto frankincense & myrre, & straine them well, then put therein the iuyce of watercresses, & it is made. For swelling or ach in the feet Make a glewell of oatemeale & milke, then ad the iuyuce of singreene & sheepes suet, let them boyle till it be thick, then make a plaster upon a cloath, & lay it all about the sore, as warme as may be. pbatus est. An oyntment to strengthen the reynes. Take oyle of the water lilly, oyle of violets, of each halfe an ounce, red sanders a drame, cynomen halfe a drame, vineger halfe an ounce, with a litle waxe & soe make an oyntment therewith. 147 For such whose water goes fro them by dropping. [ ?igella] fryed is good. Burne comein, & ty it in a linen cloath, & smell thereto; it is a perfect remedy. To purge fleame & comfort the stomack & nerves. Take the pouder of agaricke, & drinke oximell for three or foure dayes, evening & mnorning. For aches, the sciatica, & bruises. Take white lead a quarter of a pound, coruce an ounce & a quarter, beaten small, salet oyle halfe a pinte put the oyle into a pipkin, set it on the fier, & when it boyles put in the coruce, & straine it well, & boyle it till it looke cleene, as water, then put in the white lead, & stirre it till it be black, & cold spread it, & ly it thereto. To know whether the stone be in the blader or in the reynes. Take the herbe morsus galind, chick wood, boyle them in water & enmplaster it upon the [pr??ie] partes, & the yarde, & if the payne increaseth, the stone is in the blader, if not, it is in the reynes. For the stone. The rine & berryes of the bay tree drinke breaks the stone. Or take 7 heads of garlick, boyle them long in water, & drinke thereof 3 dayes, & if it will breake the stone. Or boyle the leaves of [em?la] campana in wine, & plaster them thereto. To breake the stone. Drinke the iuyce of limons; Or annoynt the privy partes with the grease of a fox. Or take pellitory beaten & made hot, & layd to the privityes. Or take radice rootes, & make roules thereof, the number of tenne, or more, & put them into white wine all a night & drinke of that wine in the morning fastinge untill the stone come forth. The reynes, dunge, & the blood of an part; & the pouder of the paine of an part is excellent for the stone. To stay the whites. Take a pottle of water, halfe an ounce of cynomon 148 pills of pomegranate halfe an ounce, knot grasse halfe a handfull, boyle these till the water come to a pinte & make candles thereof, for three mornings, take the thine part every morning probatus est. The vertue of oximel. It is to purge fat & grosse fumes, & for knottes in the flesh & artiryes. To comfort one that is weake. Take 3 sheepes hearts, & cut of the fat from them, stire them & wash them cleane from the blood with red rose water, then dry them with a linen cloath, & put in the out side of each heart 6 cloves, after they have been steeped a night in red rose water, then take the striggs of rosemary, the leaves being pulled of, & lay them in a clean earthen panne, upon which striggs lay the hearts, & put to them more red rose water, after the have been steeped a night, & put to the new red rose water 6 ounces of white poudered sugar, & cover the panne with a white paper, & over that a linen cloath, & ty them fast, & set the panne in an oven to bake with bread, & being baked take the liquor from the hearts, & drinke it often it hath done very much good to weake [illegible] For the quarterne ague Goe to bed halfe an hower before the fit comes, let there be coles set by the bed side, & drinke with mustadell or maulmsy as much assurabacca as will ly upon two crownes of gold, the wine must be luke warme, then be covered very warme, & [illegible] the more you vomit the better it is, as you sweat be mixed with warme cleathes. Then take sage, rue, & sheapherds purse, of each a like quantity, stamp them, & sprinkle them well with white wine vineger, & bind it to your wristes, let it ly soe a day, & the next day take it of, when the fitt comes againe, lay on to your wrists as be fore, & take of the sayd drinke, & sweate as before, and withall when your fit is of & you coole, you may rise if you will, but let the fit be well over; 149 This is fir a tertian ague alsoe & by gods helpe you shall be cleere from it at three times thus doeing as is mentioned. For an ague Make iuyce of camomile, & mixe it with oyle, & annoynt the back bone, & the pulps before the fitt cometh, & you shall be cured perfectly Or take 2 handfulls of nettles cobwebbes & bay salt, of each an ounce, beate them well together, & in the beateing, put therto of fasting spittle, & make of it 4 plasters, & lay it to the pulses or wristes. probatus est. [hemlock], rag-weed & bay salt well beaten together, & layd to the wristes cureth an ague. Or make a kake of flower & the [pitients] wrime, bake it then burne it & cast it away. For the head ach in an ague. Take a long onyon, out of the crowne, core it & fill it full of the pouder of frankencense, then cover it, & rost it, & crushed together lay it to the nappe of the neck. For a quarterne ague drinke beere for a tertian drink cold water. A laxative pouder. Take of [se?e] halfe an ounce in pouder, a quantity fo spikenard bruised, an ounce of ginger pouder, bruise them well all together, & [searce] them, then put a pirtty quantity thereof into the pap of an apple, & eate it towards bed time To dissolve wind in the stomack. Boyle enulacampana rootes in wine & drinke it. Or make pouder thereof, & drink it in wine; or mixe this pouder with cynamon pouder & drinke it with wine. A very excellent water to heale all sores possible to be healed. Boyle faire water & take it from the fier, & then 150 make this pouder following take of [reach] allome halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of greene vitrioll seeth these in the water, and stirreing it, let it seeth till it be dry, then beate it to small pouder; of this pouder cast into the sore, where is dead flesh or proud flesh; or lay a litle lint thereupon, & a plaster of flos unguentorum above layd, & remoove it not in 12 dayes, till it come away freely & easily Or seeth a quantity of water as before, & taken from the fier put therein the afore sayd pouder, & let it seeth a while, then put it into a cleane vessell, & keepe it for your use To remedy shrunken sinewes Take water cresses, camomile, of each a handfull, grind them small, & fry them with wheat meale, & hony, & lay it very hot thereto. To cure a hot impostume take wheaten creame, & boyle it in water & oyle & make thereof a plaster. Or take the oyle of camomile, dill, & bayes, of each an ounce, put therto a litle wax & make thereof an oyntment. Or to make a mollificative unguent for the same, take musilage, holy hauke, fenigreeke seed, flaxseed, of each an ounce, of old oyle, hennes grease, oyle of lillies, oyle of bayes, oyle of camomile, of each a like portion, a litle butter with waxe, & confort these into an oyntment, & [preserve] it; But if the party have a fully body, & full of humours, then purge him first, according to the humours, which oppresse the body; & afterwards lay this mollificative oyntment thereto. Or make a plaster for the same; take oyle of roses, & balsominake, & mixe them together. Or take a handfull of mallowes; of worme-wood, & roses, of each 5 ounces, barly, branne an ounce, oyle of camomile a fourth part, boyle them then beate them, & make a plaster thereof. 151 For biteing of a mad dogge. Beate fennell with water, & lay it thereto. To cure an old sore legge. Take butter & fry it, & put thereto refine in pouder, & fry them together, & apply it. probatus est. To kill an itch in the legge Take hony, boleorminake, & greene coperesse, grind them small, & annoynt the leg therewith three dayes together. Or take red lead, coruse, boleorminake, & a litle coporesse, grind them small with vineger & barrowes grease, & put thereto the yolk of an eg, & annoynt the leg therewith. pbatus est. Emplasters to breake a sore or to draw forth venome Take figgs, [grees], wwheat beaten, equally portients, beate them all together, & lay it thereto. with stoned resines & hony; or sparrowes dunge mixed with hoggs grease; or glasse beaten small & mixed with turpintine; oyle boyled with ashes; Or take cantharides 10 in number, an ounce of refines, of [illegible] an ounce & a halfe, scabiose, the herbe doggs tongue, consolida the greater, antepharmaci, of each an ounce, incorporate them with oyle of lillies: but if you will make it stronger, ad thereto salt & vervine, caked columbina herba, & rue, of each two drames. Or take auripigmentum, pepper, of each two drames, 10 figgs & hony sufficient to make a plaster. Alsoe galbanu, white lilly rootes, mans dunge, consolida the greater, ground betweene two stones. Or [levon] 4 ounces, mustard seed, rue, scabiose, worme-wood, of each a handfull, white illly rootes a third part, vitrioll two drames, cantharides 10 in number, galvanu an ounce rotten nutts 3, oyle of white lillies sufficient; boyle the herbs & roots in the oyle, & ad the other ingredients allowing to art & ake a plaster 152 Temperate plasters. Take of marshmallowes 2 ounces, a head of a lylly roote, branne of flax seed, of each an ounce & a halfe, boyle them in water, & beate them well with [leven] & old hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. Or take 2 handfulls of branne not throughly sifted, & boyle it in vineger. Or vervine mixed with oyle of roses & vineger. Or onyons boyled in butter, adding therto figgs, & [leven], with oyle of camomile. Or take mallowes, & marshmallowes, & frabiose of each a handfull, boyle the herbes in common water, with the with incorporate branne beat the herbes, & mixe them all together, with an ounce of hennes grease, & as much of oyle of camomile, safron halfe a drame, this is a most delicate & excellent plaster. Or take scabiose, the herbe doves foote, cicory, & consolida the greater. Or an emplaster made with apopanax beaten with resines stoned. Or assa, nitrum, & rue mixed with hony. or annoynt it with treacle, & lay thereon onyons & mallowes boyled together. To make a greene salve. Take celydony, [Le??age], [sa?ery], scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them small in a morter, & temper it with sheepes tallow & oyle olive, of each a pound let it stand in a cleane vessell 9 dayes, & then boyle them untill the herbes sinke to the bottome, then straine it, & set the iuyce over the fier, if you make it in winter put but 2 ounces of wax thereto, if in sumer take 3, then put thereto pouder of mastick frankencense, and verdigrease, of each an ounce, & boyle alltogether untill it bee greene, then take it downe, & put thereto an ounce of aloes opatike in pouder; this is an excellent salve for all old wounds or sores. 153 A soveraine remedy for sore or cut. Take a litle fine flax, & alitle hoggs grease, & choppe them small, & make a plaster thereof. A water to heale a sore or cut. Take red fennell, red sage, isope, rosemary, daysy leaves, saffron, [neppe], & allome, of each a like quantity, save only the daysy leaves, more then of any other, boyle them, & straine them, & apply it. Unguentum jacobi, vel emplastru jacobi Take of lapis calaminaris a pound, of the magnet stone, an ounce, of terra sigillata an ounce, boleorminake an ounce, litarge of gold an ounce, mummia an ounce, of the [liver] of a [wether] a pound, camfire halfe an ounce, and of turpentine as much as will suffice Finis Deo gras 154 To make aquamirabalus Take gallingall cubibs cardimons and [illegible] mace nuttmegs ginger cloves and synamon of each of all theas a dram beat them into avery fine pouder then [take] the iuce of sallendine on pinte and a quantity on pinte of white wine 3 pints putt all this into a still and lett them steepe togather on night then still itt with a temperate fire when it is [illegible] [illegible] in a [illegible] bags of [illegible] in the glass then sweeten it with sugar as you pleas 157 The third booke of admirable good receites. For the head ach. Take elder leaves, made hot between 2 tile stones, & lay them hot to the forehead & temples. A salve good to draw the head. Take gume elemy, turpentine, of each a quarter, as much fresh grease & melted suet, melt these together & straine it, & beat it till it be cold. For a paine in the head, sorenes in the eyes, for rhume, & all moyst humors. ake a gallon & a halfe of faire water from the fountaine, steepe therein an ounce of some, 3 ounces & a halfe of saxaperilla, [skined] & scraped thinne, an ounce of liquorice, scraped & [skined], let them steep 24 howers, then boyle away the [illegible] part, then put in an ounce of armadeculas seaton small in a morter, & set it on the fier againe, & let it have but one [whame], you must rrink this 20 dayes together & eate soft meate & bread & resines of the sunne For the tooth ach, or rhume in the eyes. Take a pound of stone pitch, 3 or 4 ounces of [illegible], 8 ounces of resin, 4 ounces of frankincense, melt all together, & straine it, then beate to pouder 4 ounces of comein seed, & seare it, then take halfe an ounce of cloves, 2 ounces of labdanum, one quarter of an ounce of saffron, beate these together, & put them to the rest which are melted, & boyle it a litle, then take it from the fier, & keepe it with stirring, untill it bee thick enough to make up in roules, & then put it into an earthen pot & ‘ keepe it for your use. 158 For the tooth ach. Take iuy berries well sodden in vineger or white wine; sup up some of the liquor hot, & when it is cold, spit it out: this helpeth the tooth ach. For the same. take a pinte of white wine vineger, a handfull of barberries bruised, boyle them together till some be consumed, then put thereto a spoonefull of pap or well beaten, let them boyle together, * as hot as you can suffer gargle it on that side the paine is, & spit it out, & soe use it 3 or 4 times. For an ague. take a handfull of mousegrease, & boule it in a quart of white wine, & good ale, & boyle it, till it be halfe consumed, then straine it, & sweeten it with hony & sugar & drinke it, before the ague [illegible] to come, then ly downe covered with as many cloathes as you can suffer, & when you beginne to burne, take posset ale, made with these herbes; burrage, endive, dandelyon, cinafole, violets, & fennell, & take noe other drinke during the time of the fit, use this 5 or 6 times. For the shakeing ague take a hennes egge, take out the white, & fill the shell with aqua composita, & drinke it up perfectly, or else it will dry up the yolke, & ly downe, for you will vomit perfectly; this will helpe you without doubt, for it hath often beene [pro?ed]. For an ague: hang this subscribed about your neck, but noe body must looke on it but hee that writes it Before the gates of Jerusalem comeing on a soudaine [illegible] Genl Jesus Christ sayd on to Peter, why lyest thou here, peter sayd, I ly sick of an ague, Jesus answered him, rise & dismisse 159 it, this evill ague beeing dismissed he sayd I beseech thee [illegible] Jesus, that whosever hath these words about them the evill ague hot or cold may not hurt them; be it done as you hast desired, Have mercy upon me olord, & deliver me o Lord from agues & all evill in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen. For an ach or stitch. Take a pound of glack sope, 2 or three handfulls of [culver] or pigeons dunge, yoolkes of egges, lineseed, feny greeke seed, of each 2 or 3 ounces, boyle all these in cowes milk, & make a plaster thereof; then take new crow foote, alexanders, of each 2 or 3 handfulls, bruise them & make a plaster & lay it to the place where the ach or stitch is. For bruised stones take mallowes, colemorte, of each a like much, seeth them, then bruise them, & doe away the water, & put the herbes in a pan, & put thereto barly flower, & the yoolke of an egge, & fry them together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. For a black or blew face with a blow. take hemlock, & distill it, & not the place therewith the space of an hower, doe it with a cloath, & let the water be warme. To stanch the bleeding of a wound. Take a handfull of hot horse dunge, bind it fast to the wound, the space of 2 days & 2 nights. probatus. To stanch bleeding at the nose. [chese] words (confumatum est) written in the fore good of the pty that bleeds much [illegible] same bleed, stayeth it. To take away the burning caused by gunpouder. take hony, black sope, of each halfe a pound, two 160 ounces of bay salt beaten to pouder, boyle all alitle, then put it in a faire put or box, & when you use it, lay it on a linen cloath, & apply to the place eveninge & morninge. For a payne or heate in the back take sanders & rose leaves, lay them in rose water a whole night, then wash your back therewith it takes away the paine, heate, & comforteth very much the reines. For weakenes in the back. take a brest of mutton, & boyle it in milke, & put therein a good quantity fo whtie archangell blossomes, & when the mutton is soden drinke the milke, & eate the mutton, not having eaten any thing before, that day. For a sore brest Take a penny worth of white coporesse, halfe a pint of white wine, seeth the wine, then put it into a pot, & put the coporesse to it, and annoynt the sore therewith every evening & morninge For choped hands Beate the whtie of an egg, & mie it with the pouder of mastick & annoynt the hands therewith. For a consumption Take the hinder part of a bore pig, with the stones cleane scraped, put it into a pot, with 2 gallons of running water, let it boyle a good hower then put in (when it is scumed) a handfujll of cleary [chops] of rosemary, as much tyme, eat them alsoe seeth therein a good time with a pound of rasines & a pound of prunes halfe a pound of dates small cut, & strained into a linen cloath, & [illegible] till the dates be tender, then grind them in some of the liquor, & straine it into the pot, then take ahandfull of the 161 pitch of an oxes back picked & washed, then seeth the pth in some of the piggs broth, then cut the skinne of the pith, & straine it into the rest, & let the rest be [thicked] therewith, & let all seeth together, then power all into a colinder, & after through a strainer, then take a quantity of sanders finely beaten, & afew cloves & mace, to [amend] the tast, & let all stand alitle together, then straine it through a fine linen cloath, & drinke thereof evening & morning, as yoiur stomack will beare it. For the collick & stone take fotherfew, doves dunge, pellitory of the wall, of each a handfull, wring the herbes in [sunder], & fry all in fresh butter, then put all in a linen bag, & lay it to the greife as hot as you can suffer it, & it will put the payne from that place, & when you feele it remoove, apply this thereto, & it will in short time drive it quite away. To heale a cut or greene wound take soe much turpentine as an egge, & beat it well with the yolkes of two eggs, then lay it on lint, & dayly dresse the wound, & it will cure it. To heale a cut or bruise. take herbe grace, sene, plantan leaves, [orpine], hemlock, valerian, tustan, rag wort, gratia dei, mallowes, of each a great handfull, then take 6 pounds of sheepes a pound of turpentine, bruise the herbes, & put all into a great pot, & let it boyle, straineing it often, & if it rise up, take it of, least it run over, then set it on again, & doe thus 3 or 4 times untill it be well sod, then straine it through a course cloath, & when it is all most cold, make it up into roules or cakes, & you may keep it 2 or 3 yeares very good. 162 A water to heale all wounds in a short time. take a pound or as much as you please of new yellow wax, melt it, then put it into a pan or dish, wherein must be maulmesy, mustardell, or white wine, then take it out of the wine & melt it againe, then power it againe upon the same wine, doeing thus 7 times; then take the same wax, & melt it on the fier, & mixe it with a handfull of [bricke] finely beaten to dust, incorporate these together, & put it into a crooked necket viall of glasse, with didistillers call, a bag pipe, clay it up to the midest of the neck, & let it distill first with a litle fier, for the space of 8 howers, then after make your fier greater, & at last very great, after the oven & all is cold againe, you shall take the water out of the recipient, & power it into a viall well stopped with wax & [illegible] cloath, soe that it neither take vent, nor stand neere the sune or fier; for it is of soe fine a subatance, that it would fly & imediately vanish. you must not & moysten the wound with this water, & bind a cloath thereupon, steeped in the same water, It is also good for shrunk sinewes,, and if this water be well & naturally distilled the second time, it is of soe fine & [pierceing] a substance, that it will pierce through the palme of your hand in a moment. For the cough or tisick. Boyle penny royall in milke & a peece of sweete butter, & suck it through a ring with a quill. For the cough of the longes. take 3 pints of running water, halfe a pound of Portugall sugar, 9 figgs, anniseeds & liquorice bruised, of liquorice a spoonefull, anniseeds but halfe a spoonefull, a handfull of resines of the 163 sunne, cleane washed & stoned, a penny worth of mayden haire, with a quantity of ispo, & coltfoot, boyle all together, till halfe or more be consumed, then straine it through a fine cloath, & take every morninge two spoonefulls luke warme To put away the crampe. The fingeres rubed between the toes, goeing to bed, especially when the toes smell most, & the fingers are most swelled. For deafenes. Take good [sinet], & put it into the eares. To bring any quick thing out of the eares. Take a white leafe hot out of the oven, & breake it in the [midest], & apply it to the eare. For breake the flowers. Take a potle of sea water, a potle of white wine a pinte of bay salt, 3 handfulls of hemolck, boyle them all in a new earthen pot, to the halfe, then take of, & fit close over it covered close with cloaths round about, when it is cold, heate it againe, & soe goe to bed, & cover your selfe warme, & the flowers will breake. To breake the flowers. Take a gallon of water from the spring, a pound of resines stoned, 3 ounces of liquorice, cleare it, & take out the pith, 3 fennel rootes, that have not borne seed, & take out the pith, 3 alicampane roots, if they be small, if great but one, & still it, & take out the pith, then take halfe a pint of barly & boyle all together, till it be consumed to a quart, & drinke thereof every morning & evening 8 spoonefulls at a time beeing warmed, as hot as you can well drink it. To stay the flowers. take 3 pints of red wine, a litle of the pill of pomgranate, with 4 of the flowers, sinomon, sugar candy, halfe a handfull of red rose leaves, with some seeds, boyle these 164 alltogether until they come to a quart. For the bloody flux. take three hawthorne berries, bruise & straine them into milke, with 2 or 3 sheetes of white paper, & a quantity of cynomon pouder, & boyle all together making it thick like pap, & straine it, & lay it to the greife. A pultis for the hot goute. Take the mosse of hazle, which is towards the sunne, spread it small, & boyle it in stronge ale grounds, then thick it with wheate meale, untill it be thick to make a plaster, & lay it to the payne as hot as you can suffer it, & use it, & you shall find ease. To make white hands. Take sparrowes dunge, mixed with warme water, & wash therewith; or take the rootes of nettles soe in the same water. For the jaundies. Take selidony one pound, liquorice a quarter of a pound, a gallon of water, shave & bruise the liquorice well, & seeth all together to a pottle, and drinke thereof fastinge. For the black iaundies. Shell snayles rosted & dryed to pouder, & a spoonfull at a time drunke in ale, & soe used ten dayes together, cureth the black iaundies. A gargarisme for falling of the tuola. Take the waters of sage, wood bind, & plantan distilled, of each a like quantity, boyle them with some hony, & scume it cleane, & put into it a litle burnt syrop of mulberries with it, & when you neede gargarige therewith all cold, Alsoe the greene [illegible] of the flower de luce sowed about one neck or throate is very good both to keepe up the pallate, & to helpe the almonds of the throate. 165 A tisan to clense the liver. Take liver wort, harts tonge, of each a handfull, isop, long wort, betony, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, alicampane, fennell, parsly, of each one roote, a pritty quantity of anniseeds, & liquorice, a handfull of resines of the sunne, stoned, two dates cutt, boyle these in 3 quarts of runing water, to the hald, then straine it, & drinke a good quantity luke warme morning & evening. For the liver that is wasted. Take a gallon of runing water, an once of liquorice bruised, harts tongue, violet leaves, sowthistle, sorell, & endive water. To make lozings Take halfe a pound of fine sugar, & melt it in 3 or 4 spoonefulls of rose water, a good handfull of rosemary flowers finely cut, boyle these as high as manus christi. and handing fine sugar, strew it thereupon, as you doe manus christi. Or you may take the blew leaves of violet flowers, & use them instead of the rosemary; or else red gylly flowers, takeing on ly the red, & cutting away the white; this is farre better, then the iuyce. For the morphew. Take a penny worth of brimstone flower, & temper it in a saucer of wine vinegar, untill you shall see or pceive noe brimstone, & in bed annoynt your selfe therewith, for 2 or 3 nights together, and this will cure you. probatus est. 166 To place the mother. Take rosemary, mynts, mallowes, seeth them in white wine & water, & keepe the pot close, that the breath goes not out, while it is seething, then warme your self ready to goe to bed, & sit over it 5 nights together, then other 5 nights take a chafeing dish & the pouder of myrre, mastick, labiam, frankencense, & sit over the brath thereof, & it shall establish & settle the mother againe. To remoove the mother or spleene. Take the newest dunge of a pig, fry it in barrowes grease, or fresh butter, spread it on a cloath the breadth of one hand, covering it with a cloath, & set your fundament upon it as hot as you can suffer, doe thus 3 times, & keepe your selfe warme after it. Or take wild sage, maydens haire, heartes tongue, clary, dry them & make thereof pouder, & use to drinke it in good ale or beere. A water for a sore mouth. Take a pottle of white wine, a quarter of a pound of clarified hony, 2 ounces of white coperesse, with sage, rosemary, & wood bind leaves, spread the herbes small, & let it boyle to the halfe , then straine it, & when you will use it, make it hot, & wash your mouth therewith. A water for melancholy & trembling of the heart. Take of the flowers of rosemary, burrage, & rootes of buglasse of each a like, of saffron a drame, of the [illegible] 4 ounces, of good white wine well digested & cleered 2 pints, mixe 167 these together, & let them stand 24 howers, but put them in a glasse, & then bury the glasse body in house dunge for 15 dayes, then draw it out, & distill according to art 2 or 3 times over, the quantity to be administered is a drame. For melancholy proceeding from the spleene. Once a weeke take fasting in warme porridge a spoonfull of pouder of time finely [searced]; twice a weeke take 7 spoonefulls of harts tongue water warmed, with a litle sugar, take this last a day or two after the other, & you must stay a day betwixt the takeing of the harts tongue water. The harts tongue leaves must be gathered that day the moon changes, below the sunne riseth, & then distill them. To restore comfort & nature. Take handfull of mallowes, half a handfull of mercury ty them with a thread, & boyle them in 3 pints of water, with prunes, resines, & a cock chicken, let them seeth till it be soft, then straine it from the liquor, stamp it, & put to it a quantity of sanders, & mace, & let it boyle with the cock, & eate of the same. For the greene sicknes. Take a pottle of ale, seeth it, & scume it, then put to it fennell rootes, parsly rootes, harts tongue, liver wort, of each a handfull, liquorice & anniseeds of each 2 ounces, french barly bruised, red currants, of each 2 handfulls; boyle all, till halfe the ale be wasted, then straine it, & drinke of it in the morning, & the after noone, alwayes fasting 2 howers after you please to take it. 168 Doctor Turners receite for the plague. Take pimpernell, scabies, egrimony, sentury, harts tongue, liver wort, betony, dragons, angelico, sage, rosemary, costmary, mayden haire, [sidrake], tormentill, turmorick, angention, worm wood, carduus benedictus, red rose leaves, lay all these in steepe a night in a [ranary] wine. For the piles.’ Take treacle, & lay it upon a browne paper, & soe lay it on the sore. For a pin, web, or perle in the eye. Crate white ginger on a whetstone, & beate it with a litle coperosse, when you goe to bed put some of it into the eye with a quill, when it hath beene there a litle, take ground iuy, stamped & strained with fresh milke, & put 3 or 4 drops into the eye evening & morning, after the ginger hath beene in the eye halfe an hower. To remoove the web or spots in the eyes. Take stock gilliflower leaves, daysy roots, of each halfe a handfull, a spoonefull of by salt, beate the well together, & lay it upon both the wristes, betwixt a [laune] or thinne cloath, & use it 2 or 3 nights when you goe to bed; this is Doctor Turners. probatus est. For the paulucsy. Take rosemary, sage, herbe maudlin, of each a handfull, camomile flowers 3 handfulls, & with salot oyle make an oyle thereof, as you make oyle of roses, & annoynt the patient. A water for the skinne the privy place, if it be gone. Take a quart of springe water, violet leaves, columbine leaves, cinafole leaves, valerian, 169 & rose leaves, if you can, of all together as many as you can gripe in the your hand, spread them small, & put thereto a spoonefull of hony, the waight of 12 d of aristologia, boyle alltogether, till 3 parts be consumed, & warme it when you use it. An especiall oyntment to annoynt the small pox, when the be full come out. Take a [postret] of seething water from the fier, & set a dish with sweete eating butter upon it to melt, then power the butter into a bason of faire cold water, & cold, take of the upermost of the butter, with a spoone, & put it into a faire dish againe, & melt & use it as before 3 times; then put up the cleere of the butter into a gally pot or glasse, & when you use it, take a litle in a saucer, and melt it as before, soe that it come not neere the fier, & with a feather annoynt the places very often both day & night, that the scabs may never be dry, & soe long as any rednes ariseth anywhere annoynt the places, let not the pty come neere any fier with his face, nor take any [illegible], but keepe him soe, that his face may alwayes be warme, untill all the daunger bee past. For running of the reines. Take a penny worth of currants the like of dates 6 yolkes of eggs, a good quantity of clary, fry all these in fresh butter [unwashed], & make collops or fritters thereof, & eate 3 or 4 of them warme. For weakenes of the reines of the back. Take comfry, clary, [neppe], archangell, of each a like quantity, the pith of an oxes bark, boyle these in running water, the herbes being cut small, put therewith a litle sugar candy to sweeten it. For a fistula. Take greene coporesse halfe an ounce, mercury sublimate a quarter of an ounce, good allome an ounce, 170 a quart of running water, seeth these together till all bee dissolved, & keepe it in a glasse for your use. For the same. Take running water, allome, treacle, hony, hony suckles, elder leaves, wild sage & barke, all sod together, & strained, & with a silver pipe spoute of this water to the wound. A plaster for a fistula. Take refine turpentine, wax, of each 3 ounces, barrowes grease a quarter of a pound, frankincense halfe an ounce dissolved, set it on a soft fier, & make thereof plasters, & plegets, & apply it. For all swellings Take ground sill, chilliment, daysies, rubarbe, pettimorrell, bruise & stampe them, & set them over the fier, let them boyle well, & as hot as you can suffer lay it to the sore; probatus. For swellinge. Chop water cresses very small, & put them into the lyes of white wine, & put thereto a handfull of wheaten branne, & sheepes tallow, then seeth all together untill it bee thick, then make a plaster & lay it to the swelling, but let it first stand to coole & pottle 24 howers. Or take the iuyce of morell, alias nightshade, & the curd of an hot posset well beaten, together, make a plaster thereof & lay it to the swelling. For an ach or swelling in the knees. Take [rew] & loverage, & stamp them together with hony, then fry them, & lay the plaster warme thereto, & it will cure you. For those that sweat too much. Take line seed & letice, stamp it together, & lay it to the stomack; use it till it helpe you. For the stomack. Take worme wood, red roses, crumes of bread, wine 171 vineger, boyle it on a chafeing dish of coles, then put it in a bag, & lay it to your stomack, and noe doubt but it will cu re you. A salve for all sores. Take a pint & a halfe of oyle olive, a pint of turpentine, a pinte & an halfe of [illegible] a quarter of a pound of unwrought wax. halfe a pound of sheepes tallow, 2 handfulls or rag wort, 2 of plantan, & 2 of orpine, cut the herbes small, boyle all together, softly, & alwayes stirreing it, untill it be well mingled, then take it of, & straine it through a stronge canvas cloath. To draw wood or iron out of the flesh. Stamp valerian & ty it with a linen cloath to the flesh, wherein is wood or iron, & it will draw it forth. For a straine with a dry cough. Take isope, pimpernell, penny royall, 2 [chernes] of saffron, 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice, a handfull of scabies, boyle all together with some violets, lettice, & beetes, & make it in posset ale, & drinke of it first and last. An especiall and approoved water called aqua-composita, for a surfet, or for a colde stomack. Take a handfull of rosemary, a good roote of alicampane, a painfull of isop, a handfull of sage halfe a handfull of time, 6 or 7 cropps of sweet margerome, liquoice, aniseeds, of each 8 ounces, harts tongue, century, hore hound, of each a handfull, red mints, penny royall, not a handfull of each, cut & wring these herbes in sunder, take out the pith of the alicampane, & [stire] the roote, put all in a brasse pot with 3 gallons of stronge ale, & one gallon of wine lies, cover the pot close & let it stand all night; then set it on the 172 fier, till it beginns to boyle, then take it of, & set the limbeck upon the pot, & stop it close with past, the foote of the limbeck must be fit for the mouth of the pot, & the pot not too full, least it make the aqua composita looke thick, & the limbeck must be kept with cold water upon the top, with a temperate fier under, & when it beginnes to drop 6 spoonefulls, cast heat away, the rest is both & strongest, & let it runne, soe lone as it continues in one strength, when it waxeth weaker, take the first away, & set another glass under, & let it runne, soe longe as it runneth cleere, nor waxeth whiten, then the former, when it changeth, take another glasse, & let it sunne soe longe as it can; & upon you will make now put this last into the still againe: you must take good heed, upon the change is, that aire enters not the limbeck. To clense an old sore. Take bilders, rag wort, & if you can, the burs of greene oaken leaves, of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine, & a quart of water, & put therein as much as an egge of allome, boyle it to the half, then straine it, & use to wash the sore therewith, & wet lint therin, & lay it upon the sore twice a day. For a fresh sore or wound. Take an ounce of oyle of roses, an ounce of turpentine, & a litle verdigrease, then waigh as much as will make a plaster, & lay it thereon. For a sore that will not heale. Take rosewater, red wine vineger, of each a like quantity, wet a fine linen cloath therein, lay it on the sore, till it is faire, then apply some other plaster, thereto, that will heale it. For the squinsy in the throate. Take the dodder tort, the tops of century made in pouder, mixe it with hony, & make a plaster & apply it. 173 A drinke for the stone. Time & parsly soden in white wine, & strained & to agood draught, put a spoonefull of white sope, this drunken helpeth the stone. Or take the midle rine of a cherry tree, stamped, & strained, & the iuyce put into a little white wine, warmed, & drunke up, helpeth the stone. Or take a handfull of holly berries, sodden in a pint of good ale to the halfe, then straine it, & put thereto a litle butter, & drinke 5 or 6 spoonefulls thereof at a time. For the tooth ach. Take iuie berries well sodden in vineger, or white wine, & the hot liquor kept in the mouth till it be cold, & then spit out, helpeth the tooth ach. To keep the teeth from rotting. Salt gold in in the mouth under the tongue, in the morning, untill it be melted to water, & the teeth rubbed therewith, preserveth the tooth. For a sore throate. Take the rootes of pellitory of spaine, wash them faire, [stire] & boyle the with halfe a handfull of sage, & a spoonefull of hony in claret wine, & take one spoonefull of it at a time. For a vomit. Take the pouder of the rootes of pellitory of spaine, & put it in a figge, or resine, & eate it. To breake the wind in the belly. Take of the seeds of comein, fennell, anniseed, of each a like quantity beaten to pouder, & sodden in wine, & drinke a good draught thereof, first & last, for 4 or 5 dayes together very good For running of the water. Take a penny worth of white allome, crops of sage, & rosemary & motherwort, wood bind leaves 174 2 handfulls, hony 2 spoonefulls, boyle these in running water, till they be soft, then straine it into a cleane vessell, & use it with a spoute. For those that cannot hold theire water. Take a mouse [illegible], soft her, & make pouder therefo & drinke it all at one time, this is a perfect & infailable remedy. For a weake body, the water of a capon. Spread the flesh of a capon, takeing cleare away the skinne, & all the fat; then wash it well in buglasse water, then adde thereto consomme of violets, of burrage, & buglasse of each an ounce & a halfe, conserve of roses an ounce, leafe gold 6 in number, mixt all together, & distill it according to art, & take a spoone full of that distillation often in comfortable breathes. A speciall water for sore eyes. Take a gallon of faire running water, put it into a faire earthen pot, or pan, put thereto soe much white coporesse as an egge, & cover it, & let it stand a night, that the coporesse may melt, then scume it with a fether, & power all the rest of the water in to an other faire vessell, excepting the grounds, then put a pint of white rose water thereto, & put it in glasses, & set it in the sunne, the space of a mounth, then clense it through a faire linen cloath, & use it. To cheere the eye light. Take the water of red snayles, as much of the iuyce of fennell, as much of woeman’s milke, temper them together, put of this in the eyes, at evening, & take some of this water & soe much of the iuyce of glyrine & make as it were a plaster thereof, & lay it about the eyes all night, & on the morrow wash them well with cleare & cleane water. 175 For bloodshotten eyes, or blemished sight. Take the iuyce of hawthorne cropps, the white of an egge, mixe them together, then take cotton, & wet it therein, & lay it to the eyes. p: 29. To make conserves, preserves, oyles, syroppes, purges & many other usefull things. Conserves. To make conserve of quinces. Take faire great quinces, pare & core them, to 8 pounds of them take 2 gallons of water when the water is blood warme put into it the whites of 2 eggs, beaten & stirre them in the water, then put 8 pounds of sugar to it, & when it doth seeth, take it of, & let it runne through a peece of white kersy, then set it over the fier againe, & scume it as longe as any doth arise, then put in y our quinces, & let them seeth untill they be soe tender, that you may straine the liquor & all through a good thick peece of canvas, then seeth it again till it be soe stiffe that it will stand on a box or dish, & not stick thereto when it is cold, but come cleane away, if it will not doe soe, seeth it longer; & you must stirre it continually. 176 To conserve greene wallnutts. Take green wallnutts, when they be as big as a date, cut them longe wayes asunder, then set them on the fier with sugar in a pot let them boyle tender, then take them in a platter, & make your syrope thus. Take red, or white wine & put into it 2 ounces of cynomon pouder, the pouders of ginger & anniseeds, of each halfe an ounce, sanders [an] ounce, sugar halfe a pound, resines, currants, rice flower, of each 2 ounces, draw them all through a strainer, then put them into a pot, & set it on the fier, & let is iust boyle, then put them into a faire vessell, & serve them up. these are good for the iaundies, morphew, & especially for the palucsie takeing one of the every day nex your heart. To make conserve of barberries. Pick the barberries cleane, & put the into a pewter ;pot, & stop it close, then put that pot into a brasse pot, or kettle, filled up with water, & let it boyle 2 or 3 howers, till the barberries be tender, then let them be cold & straine the, then bole the pulse upon a quick fier, till it be as thick as marmolade, then having fine sugar in pouder, sweeten it, according to your likeing, the sugar must boyle very litle, because of the [illegible] To make conserve of roses, or any flowers. Take red rose budds, clip the whites of, stampe them small, take to each pound of flowers, three pounds of sugar, finely beaten, mixe all well together; And in like manner, take the buds, or fine flower-leaves of any flower. To make conserve of rosemary flowers. To every ounce of rosemary flowers, take 2 ounces of sugar, & some cynomon, beat them small together & put it into a glasse & cover it & set it in the sunne, when it is most hot, & let it stand 3 or 4 weekes. 177 To preserve barberries take [fane] bunches of barberries, or none at all, pick out the stones, with a needle, to every halfe pound, take a pound & a halfe of sugar, [faire] & beaten to pouder, & melt the sugar with a quarter of a pinte of rose water, & melted take it from the fier, & when it is halfe cold, put in your barberries, & mixe all well, then boyle it up with a quick fier, alwayes regarding the colours that they doe not ever boyle, least they be black, then put the out of the pan with [illegible] into a bason, & put the up cold. To preserve cherries. Take a quarter of a pint of rose water, a pound of sugar, boyle these, & skinne it untill it be cleane & let it coole then put thereto a pound & a quarter of cherries boyle it with a quick fier, until it bee thick, as a ielly, & skinne it continually, then take it of, least it loose the colour. To preserve quinces. take quinces as soone as you can after they bee gathered, take the yellowest & smallest about the crowne, waigh out 6 pounds, & put them in a brasse pan, with the stalke and downward soe close as one may stand by an other, then put to them 6 pounds of fine sugar in pouder, & a quart of rose water, or faire conduit water, seeth it with a quick fier, that the quinces may be tender before the syrop be thick, when they waxe tender you may somewhat abate the fier scume it as it riseth, but breake not the gummes, & turne the often, least the grow black by lying [illegible] To preserve damsons, or other plumes. to the above sayd liquor, & with sugar make the same syrop, & put thereunto a pound of damsons, boyle them with a very soft fier, 3 or 4 howers, and scume them continually. 178 To make red marmelade. Pare & core your quinces, & put them into cold water, & to every pound of quinces, take somany pounds of sugar; first put the sugar in water, & make it into syrope, & when it is cold put in the quinces, soe that the syrop cover the quinces, & 2 inches over, then cover it, & let it boyle as fast as it is possible, till they be very red & tender, & the liquor be somewhat thick, then straine it into a stone morter, & after boyle it till it come to a marmelade, stirring it alwayes, then box it hot: in this manner you may make marmelade of peares, or any other fruites. To make white marmelade. Take ripe & yellow quinces, seeth them in water, with a gentle fier, till they be tender, then take them up & let them coole & pare them, & take the fine pulse, of the quinces, & for every pound a pound of sugar fine, & finely beaten to pouder, boyle up the pulpe as stiffe as marmelade, then put in your sugar, & let it but melt, & soe boxe it up hot. To make dry marmelade, of peaches. Pare peaches, & cut them from the stones, & minse the finely, & lay them in steepe in rose water, then straine them with the water through a course cloath, into the pan you will seeth the in; to clarifie 2 pound of peaches take on pound of sugar finely beaten, put some of it into the pan, but keepe the rest to mould with; then set on the pan, & skinne it till it be thick, that the thick will stand upright, then lay it in a dish in lumpes, when it is cold, mould it abroad with the rest of the sugar, & print the, & kake them on march paine, & keepe the where fier is. 179 To dresse peaches whole. Beate peaches, & pill them, & to 3 pounds of peaches take 2 pounds of sugar, with as much water as is necessary for the syrope, & clarify the same with the whites of two eges breake the sugar in peeces, & put all in the pan but the peaches & let it boyle on a quick fier; when it is scumed cleare, put in the peaches, & let it boyle to the thicknes of a syrope if you will, put in a spoonefulls or more of rose water, then take up the peaches, & put the into faire water potts, or any other soe they bee cleane. To dresse oranges. take the greatest oranges, [shave] then thinne, & quarter them in the top, & take out the meate let them be in water 48 howers, & change the water 3 times a day, then parboyle them in their waters 3 times, & let the water still seeth, before you put them in, & take to every 3 oranges a pound of sugar, & to every pound of sugar a pint of water, & a pint or two [ever] at all, then put the water into the pan & breake therein 2 or 3 whites of eggs, and beate them together till they be on a froath, then set on the pan, & put in the sugar beaten in small peeces, & let it seeth with a quick fier & when it boyleth, scume it cleane, & put in the oranges, let them seeth a good while, then take them up, & straine the syrop, & set it on the fier againe, & put in a good quantity of rose water, & let it seeth a good space, then put in the oranges againe, & let them seth till they bee tender, & the syrop as thick as you will have it, & when it is cold, put it up in potts. 180 To dresse plumes blew or yellow. Gather the plumbes dry, to every pound take 3 quarters of a pound of sugar in pouder, take the plumes & mixe them one by one with a linen cloath, & soe lay them in the pan of earth & cast sugar on them, the sugar throughly melted set the pan on the fier, when they beginne to breake, turne them, & scume them cleane, let them seeth on a quick fier, when they be neere ready, it will be thick to the spoone, then take them of, & skinne them as longe as any riseth, & when you see them broaken or part uncoated, take a cloath & take of their coates whilst they be warme, & when they be almost cold, put them in potts, & [prick] papers, & lay them over them. To make all manner of conseites. Take any kind of seeds, or ginger, cynamon, or orange pills or any other spices minced in small peece, & put any kind of these into a greate pan, with 2 [eares]; then take sugar, & clarify it, seething it, till it will crumble betweene your fingers, then take the pan of seeds, having in readines a ladle with a hole in the midst, & a pinne in the hole, then fill the ladle with hot sugar, & let one hold it over the pan of seeds, & draw the pinne in the hold a litle, soe that the sugar may runne out as small as a thread, as it runneth, shake the pan with seeds, over the fier, as you would [wime] corne, & soe shake it till it be dry & hard, & take another ladle full of sugar, doe with it as before, till they be as big as you would have them, & if the seeds in the beginning stick together, rub them 181 in sunder with your hands; to colour these, take a quarter of a pound of [br?] sill, shaved thinne, & 10 lime stones, [unquenched], & lay them in water, till they be quenched, then let the water potle, & take of the cleanest thereof, & put the bra sill therein, & boyle it, then close it, & put thereof to your sugar, with you will have coloured. To make ginger bread. Take a pound of sugar, an ounce & a halfe of cynomon, 2 ounces of ginger, a spoonefull of anniseeds, as much fennell seed, beat them all into pouder, then take a quarter of a pound of almons blanched, beate them in a morter, & put in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the pouder afore sayd, & some of the almons beaten, & beate the together, till they be stiffe like past, then mould some of the pouder, & spread it abroad in cakes, as thinne as you can, & soe put them upon your moulds, then cut them with your knife, & as you make the cakes, put on pouder enough that they stick not to the mould, then pull them of from the mould, & lay them to dry. To make sugar plate of quincdes, roses, violets, or what else. Take quinces, pare them, & cut them in small peeces, & put them in paper baggs, & soe dry them in an oven, till they will beate to pouder; And thus you may make pouder of roses, violets, or what you lift to have the plate to tast of: then take the afore sayd pouder or any of these pouders, & put thereto a litle of the pouder of the gume, called dragagan, which must be layd in water all night, the pouder of the quinces, & the sugar must bee 182 beaten, & searced severally, & the gume put to the [quince] pouder beaten, & the sugar to them, as you beate them, & when it is soe that you may make it in plates, print the & dry them, & if you will have them tast of [muske], put a drame into the water wherein you steepe the gumme To make good bisket. Take a pound of fine flower twice boulted, a pound of fine sugar finely beaten, then take a faire boule dish, or bason, & breake therein 12 new layd eggs, keeping forth only 6 of the whites, beate the eggs well together, then put in the flower, & sugar, stirreing it still with a flat stick, & by stirring, worke into the same stuffe 2 ounces of anniseeds, & as much coriander seed, & well mixed, put of the same into moulds, annoynting them before with sweete butter, then put them in to the oven, which must be noe hotter, than for [manchet], as the bisket swelleth, prick it with a great pinne, which you may set in the end of a pritty longe stick; you may if you please put into it 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, or lesse, as you like. To make short sweete cakes. Take fine wheat flower, & put it in a earthen pot close stopped, & bake it in an oven, then [soarch] it through a fine [searner], the flower will aske as much bakeing as a [?enfer] pastry, then take clouted creame, or sweete butter, & sugar, cloves, mace, saffron, yoolkes of eggs, pout all into the creame, & temper them, then put to the flower, & soe make the cakes, the past will be short, therefore make the litle & lay paper under them. 183 To make artificiall balme. Take the iuyce of singreene, put it in an egge shell, set it over the hot embers, boyle the iuyce, & scume it cleane, till it be white & cleare, then put it into a faire pan, & put thereto a quart of oyle of bayes, & set it over the fier, & put thereto pouder of frankincense, myrre, mastick, & olibamum, of each an ounce, verdigrease 2 drames, then set the oyle on the fier, till it bee warme, & then put thereto the pouders, & stirre them well together, till they be dissolved, then straine it, & put it in pouter bottles. To make syrope of violets. Take a pint of water of violet leaves distilled, a pound & a quarter of sugar, boyle it thicker then ordinary syrop, then pick of the finest leaves of the violets, stampe & straine them, & take halfe a pint of it, & put into the former, soe boyle it, & stirre it about, let it not seeth, put it in glasses, not hot, & when it is cold stoppe them. To make syrope of roses. Take a quarte of damaske rose water, & put therein as many damask rose leaves as the water will containe, put both into a pouter pot, then into an earthen, or brasse pot of water, let them stand very hot all day, but not seeth, the next day take the roses out, & mixing them into the liquor, & put in fresh leaves, [five] dayes together, as before, lastly boyle this liquor to the thicknes of a syrop, with sugar, a pound & a quarter of sugar to each pint of liquor. 184 To make syrope of endive. Take a pint of the iuyce of endive, clarifie it, & boyle it with 3 quarters of a pound of white sugar, on a soft fier, to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of safron. Take endive water, & a quantity of saffron finely beaten, to color it, & let it ly a night, then seeth it, & straine it, then seeth it againe, with sugar to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of worme wood. Take fine withered wormewood, 6 ounces, rose leaves dryed 2 ounces spike nard, 3 drames of the iuyce of quinces a quart of old white wine a quart; bruise the rose leaves, spike nard, & wormewood, & steepe them in the wine, with the iuyce for the space of 24 howers in a marble vessell, or an earthen pot, seeth it to the halfe on a soft fier, & soe straine it, then put thereto a pint & a halfe, or a quart of good hony, & seeth it againe to the hight of a syrop, you may take sugar in stead of hony, if you please. To make syrope of rosemary flowers. Take distilled water of rosemary flowers cleane picked, boyle it on the fier, then straine then put in sugar, & boyle it to a syrop. To make syrope of tyme. Take the cropps of 2 ounces of time, dry colamynts, & mynts, of each 5 drames, annyseed, fennell seed, parsly seed, damen seed, of each halfe an ounce, great resines stoned, 4 ounces & a halfe, seeth all in six pints of water, till the resines be sodden, after put in the herbes, & the the seeds, & seeth it to the halfe, then straine it, & set the liquor on againe, & put to it 2 pounds of hony, or sugar, & seeth it to the hight of a syrop. 185 To make syrop of mynts. Take a pint of the iuyce of mynts, a quarter of the iuyce of sweet pomegranates, & a quart of the iuyce of meane pomegranates, that is between sweete & sower, & a pound & a halfe of sugar, & seeth these to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of the rines of oranges & limons. Take a pound of the rines of oranges, or limons, when they be new & fresh, & put them into 5 pints of faire running water, seeth it to 3 pints, then straine it, & with a pound of sugar seeth it to the thickness of a syrop, & when you take it from the fier, put to it 4 graines of muske. This syrop strengtheneth the stomack, graine, & heart, if the disease proceed of cold, it alsoe maketh a sweet breath; soe doe the rines of oranges & lymons made into conserves, if the bitternes be first taken away. To make a dish of cleere ielly. Take calves foot, an old cock, a knuckle of veale, or a pig, which of these you please; & set it on the fier in a pot, & skinne it that noe fat be left thereon, & soe let it boyle a while, then take out the meate, & put in the turnesall; when it is boyled enough, you shall know by putting a litle of it into a saucer, & if it stand, take out the turnesall, & put in a good deale of cynomon, a rays of ginger & a nutmeg, all well bruised, & 12 whole cloves, with good store of sugar, 6 whites of eggs, beaten till they be as white as snow, & let the pot stand [on] awhile, & scume of the whites of the eggs, & cast them away, then put all into a ielly bag, & put it through as often as you please, till it be faire & cleare, then dish it, & serve it up. 186 To make white ielly or of other colours. Take calves foot, scald the, & wash the in 3 [severall] waters, stire them & take out the bones & fat, then lay them in water a night, & shift them thrice, then put them into a pot with a knuckle of veale shred & the bones taken out, boyle them in 3 gallons of water, then put in a quart of white wine, & let it boyle till part be consumed, scume it with a fether, then let it runne twice through your ielly bag, then put it in to a faire earthen pot, season it with nutmegs bruised, shred ginger, bruised cynomon, & a litle salt, then let it boyle a [illegible] or 2, then take the whites of 8 eggs, or 10, & put them in when it seetheth, then let it runne through a jelly bag softly, 2 or 3 times, if you will have it of amber colour, put in a little saffron before the eggs, if you will have it red, put in claret wine, & [turasad]; if you will have of all three, put in one, & let it coole, & soe of all three a dish. To make jelly of harts horne. Take 3 halfe pints of faire runninge water, halfe a pinte of white wine, 2 ounces of harts horne shaved, let it boyle softly in a pipkin close covered, till it come to a pint, then straine it, & put to it a litle shred ginger, & cyonomon sticks, the next day take of the top, & leave the bottome, & put it in a skellet, & put to it fine sugar, & a top of sweet marierome, halfe a spoonefull of red rose water, a litle iuyce of limon, & orange, & stem it a litlle while, then put it through a jelly bag, with a litle rosemary sprige, in the bottome of the bag. This ielly is to be eaten cold; but for the more speedy remedy of a consumption melt this ielly againe, and drinke it somethinge warme. 187 To make aqua vitae. Take 3 quarters of a pound of liquorice, halfe a pound of anniseeds, boyled, infuse them in a gallon of wine all night, the next day distill the in a limbeck, this is aqua vitae. Or take 4 gallons of stronge ale, a pound of liquorice, as much of anniseeds, a pottle of wine lyes, sage, isope, horehound, of each 3 handfulls, rosemary, tyme, fennell, of each 2 handfull, halfe a handfull of harts tongue leaves, & a great root of olicampane, & soe distill them in a limbeck. To make stronge aqua vitae. Take harts tongue, linen wort, red mynts, balme, horehound, orgamen, browne fennell, rosemary, cincvole, of each a handfull, angelico a quarter of a handfull, annyseeds a pound grosse bruised, liquorice a pound cut & well bruised, infuse all these in 8 gallons of strong ale, & let it stand 12 howers, stirring it often about, then distill it in a limbeck; the first pottle will be very stronge, & you may have almost a pottle of the second, but that will be a great deale smaller. To make aqua composita Take 4 gallons of strong ale, anniseeds, liquorice, of each halfe a pound, sugar 3 penny woth, harts tongue, & alicampane roots, of each a handfull, mynts fennell, parsly, pennyroyall, isope, sage, rosemary, tyme, wormewood, mugwort, of each a handfull, beate the spices, & stire the herbes lightly, & infuse them in the ale 24 howers, stirring it often, then put all into a limbeck, & close it that noe ayre got out, keepe a temperate fier, till the limbeck beginnes to warme, then keepe your fier low, & when it beginneth to droppe then keepe the limbeck moyst with a wet cloath, & keepe always cold water in the top. 188 To make balme water. Take wormewood, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, carduus benedictus, balme, angelica, reasons of the sunne, stoned, of each a handfull; liquorice, annyseeds, of each a quarter of a pound, a quantity of tameresse, & mayden haire, infuse all these in 2 gallons of stronge ale, then distill it, and draw out of it a quart of the best water. To make wormewood water. Take 2 gallons & a halfe of stronge ale, liquorice shred & bruised, annyseeds, sifted & bruised, of each halfe a pound, 2 great handfulls of the crops of wormewood, put all into the ale, & let it stand 24 howers, stirreing it often, & stopping it close, then distill it in a limbeck, & draw out a gallon of water, then put to the water an ounce of cynomon bruised, 2 ounces of nutt meggs, halfe an ounce of great mace, as much of ginger, all well bruised, & soe let them steepe, then distill the sayd gallon of water with these ingredients on a soft fier; and soe preserve it. To make ipocras water. Take 8 ounces of fine cynomon pouder, cloves, nut meggs, of each an ounce, 2 ounces of ginger, 4 d waight of graines, all made into fine pouder, put all into 5 quarts of claret wine, & let it infuse 3 or 4 dayes, stirring it often; then put all into a stillettory, & distill it with a soft fier, but take heed you still not the stuffe too dry but keepe it moyst, from burning too; take out all the ingredients & straine it into a cleane bason, & set it on a chafeing dish of coles, putting as much sugar into it, as you shall thinke good, then stirre it till it be as thick as treacle, this is good for a cold stomack, & the pomes thereof dryed well is good sauce for a shoulder of [illegible]. 189 To make rosa solis a principall restaurative Take the herbe rosafolis as much as will fill a pottle pot, in must be gathered in June or July, you must not touch it with your hands, but take it by the stub, & it will come up by the roots, nor wash it, for then the leaves will wither, & pick of the dead leaves: this herbe growes in low medewes, & [marrish] ground; put to this quantity a pottle of aqua vita in to a large vessell, & let it stand close stopped 3 dayes, & 3 nights, at the least, then straine it, into a glasse or pouter pot, put to it then a pound of sugar small beaten, & halfe a pound of liquorice, beaten small, into fine pouder, halfe a pound of dates stoned, & cut in small peeces mixe all together, & stop the glasse close; drinke of this at night to bed ward halfe a spoonefull, with ale, and as much in the morninge fastinge, for there is not the weakest body in the world that taketh nature or strength, or that is cast into a consumption, but this will restore him againe, & cause him to be stronge & lusty, & to gaine a mervalous hungry stomack, & very shortly, if he use this 3 times together, he shall feele great comfort, & as he feeles himselfe he may use ut. To make anniseed water. Take 12 gallons of aqua vitae, 3 pounds of anniseeds, halfe a pound of liquorice, a pound of dates, 2 pounds of resines of the sunne, steepe these 24 howers, then draw [illegible] gallons thereout, & then you shall perceive it to runne white (If you will doo lesse, take accordinge to the quantity you [illegible]) & then take 7 pounds of white 190 sugar, & put it to the 7 gallons of liquor, in a runlet, & shake them well together, & let it stand 4 dayes, then you may drinke it. Aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderful vertue. Take galingall, cloves, quibibs, ginger, mellilot, cardimon, mace, nutmeggs, of each a drame, halfe a pint of the iuyce of celidon, mingle all these together, & make a pouder of them with the sayd iuyce, & a pint of good aqua vitae, & 3 pints of white wine; put all these into a pellitory of glasse, & let it stand all night, then distill it on as easy a fier as can possible bee made. The vertues of this water. 1 It dissolveth the swelling of the lunges, though the lunges be perished & wounded it helpeth the. 2 It will not suffer the blood to putrify, nor shall you ever need to be let blood if you but use this water 3 It takes a way the heart burning. 4 It preserves from melancholly. 5 It confoundeth floame, soe that it shall not gane dominion over nature. 6 It expelleth rhume 7 It profiteth the stomack. 8 It preserveth youth in its own state, 9 It ingendereth a good colour, and preserveth the visage 10 It preserveth the memory. 11 It destroyeth the [palnesy] in the limbes & tongue. 12 It releeves either man or woeman laboring towards death if you give them but one spoonefull Of all waters artificiall it is the best; In sumer use one spoonefull in a weeke fasting. in winter two. 191 Doctor Stevens water. Take a gallon of Gascoyne wine, ginger, cynomon, nutmegs, cloves, graines, anniseed, fennell seed, carroway seed, of each a drame, then take sage, mynts, red worts, time, pellitory, rosemary, wild time, camomile, lavander, of each a handfull, bray the herbes & spices, & put all in the wine, & let it steepe 12 howers stirring it often, then still it in a limbeck, & keepe the first water by it selfe, for it is the best; & keepe the second, it is good, but not like the first; The vertues of this water. It comforteth the vitall spirits. 1 It helpeth inward diseases that 2 proceed from cold. It helpeth the shakieing of the paluesy. 3 It cureth the contraction of the synewes. 4 It helpeth woemen to conception that are barren 5 or fruitelesse. It cureth the wormes in the belly. 6 It helpeth the cold cough. 7 It helpeth aches. 8 It comforteth much the stomack 9 It cureth the cold dropsy 10 It helpeth shortly the stinking of the breath 11 It preserveth him in good likeing, that 12 [illegible] it sometimes, & not often. It preserveth youth. 13 With this water Doctor Stevens preserved him selfe, untill he was soe old, that he could neither goe nor ride, but lay bed [illegible] 5 yeares, It is much better standing in the sune all sumer. The water of life. Take balme leaves & stalkes, burnet leaves & flowers, rosemary, red sage, isope, tarragon, 192 turmarick leaves & rootes, rosa folis leaves, red roses, carnations, tyme, the stringes that grow upon [savery] red fennell leaves, red mynt rootes, of each a handfull; put all these herbs in a glazed earthen pot, & put soe much white wine as will cover them, & let them soake therein 8 or 9 dayes; then take cynomon, sugar, nuttmeggs, of each an ounce, of cloves & saffron a litle, great resines, ginger of each a pound, dates halfe a pound. the hinder part of an old coney; a good fleshy running capon; the red flesh with the sinewes of a leg of mutton, 4 young pigeons, 12 larkes, the yolkes of 12 eggs, a loafe of white bread cut in soppes, muscadell or bastard, soe much as shall distill these thinges at one time in a limbeck, & put to it methridatum 2 or 3 ounces, soe much perfect treacle, & distill it with a temperate fier, & keepe the first water by it selfe, & the second alsoe, & when there cometh noe water, that is stronge, put more wine upon the stuffe, & distill it againe, & you shall gane another good water; you must keep the water in a double glasse. The vertues of this water. 1 It is restorative to the principall members. 2 A defence against the pestilential diseases. 3 It cures the paluesy. 4 It cures the dropsy. 5 Helpeth the spleene 6 Cureth both black and yellow iaundies. 8 Cureth the wormes. 9 Expelleth an ague. 10 Suppresseth swellings 11 Easeth the pestilentiall thirst. 12 Expelleth melancholly. 193 13 Strengthens the spirits, & strings of the braine. 14 Releeves the heart. 15 Comforts the stomack. 16 Strengthens the liver. 17 A spoonefull 2 or 3 by it selfe, or in ale, 18 beere or wine & sugar helpeth digestion, 19 breaks the wind, stops the laske, & bindeth not. To make aurum potabile. Take rose folis, distill it till you have a potle of the water, then take a quart of it, & let it be infused with more of rosa folis, & a quarter of a pound of sugar candy, small beaten, two stickes of liquorice scraped well, & thinne shred 7 dates stoned, a handfull of rose leaves steeped with a pint of maulmesy or mustadell, let it stand all together in a glasse or peuter pot 48 howers stoped soe close, that no ayre can get out, & distill it; soe done, take you r other halfe of the rosa folis water, & use it in all points as you did the first, if you will have much thereof; this last stilling must be in a stillatory of glasse; it will last 3 or 4 yeares if it be stopped close. It is good against great consumptions. To make worme wood wine to drinke. Take small wine, or reneish wine raked, put thereto 2 kinds of worme wood, speare mynts a dock roote, that is almost yellow, faire striped, & the pith taken out, & stired, put all into the wine, & if it stand a day or more before you drinke it, it will be better; this is to be drunke 3 howers before you take any [broath]. To make hony of roses. Take hony & seeth it well, & scume it cleane, 194 & put cleane picked roses therein small choped, without [beades], or knobs, seeth the till the colour of the hony be browne, & savereth of the roses, & is thick, & then it is done. you may keepe it 5 years. It is comfortable & may be given to those that are weakened by sicknes. To clarifie hony. Take hony twice soe much water, boyle them softly, diligently, scumeing it, till halfe be consumed, & as it is boyleing, put in soe many whites of egges, as you clarifie pounds of hony, then straine it through a linen cloath whilst it is hot, then boyle it againe to a convenient thicknes. To clarifie sugar Take a pound of sugar, & a pint of water, & seeth them on a soft fier in a latine or copper bason, then to every pound of sugar to bee clarified take the whites of 2 egges, with a litle quantity of water, & a small bundle of rosemary twigges, which must be beaten together with a soft fier till halve be consumed, & turned into a fome, which must be put into the pot wherein the sugar & water boyle, cast in alsoe the egges broaken with your hands, & let them seeth on a soft fier, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & having made the pot cleane, boyle it againe, into the thicknes almost of a syrope for when it runnes a bout your finger like bird lime, it is enough but if you clarifie sugar, wherein you intend to boyle or put other things, then let it not boule to this thicknes after it is strained, before you put in those things, with [one] [illegible] for a medicine, or for any other receive whatsoever 195 To make pompillian Take poplar budds, 2 pounds, lard 4 pounds, beate them fine together, then let it rot 3 weekes, afterwards put thereto the leaves of poppy, mandrake, bramble, nightshade, [prict] maddam, lettice, burdock, violet, of each 2 ounces, & beate these herbes with the above sayd, & boyle it well, with a pint of white wine, untill the wine & the iuyce of the herbes be consumed, then straine it, & let it stand, untill it bee cold; & preserve it for your owne best use. To make manus christi Take sugar finely beaten, & put it in a skellet with rose water, & let it boyle, stirring it, & in the boyleing put in the white of an ege well beaten, & scume it as longe as any ariseth, when it begines to cleere, put in perle finely beaten to pouder, & alsoe gold, stirre it still, untill it be very white, & soe thick it: it will abide upon what you lay it on. A plaster called gratia dei. Take the iuyce of betony, vervine, pimpernell, of each a pound waight, un wrought wax a pound, resine halfe a pound, parafine, frankincense of each 3 ounces, small pouder of catophenia halfe a pound, sweet sheepes tallow halfe a pound, of bastard a pint boyle them till it be thick, then straine it, boyle it againe with 2 ounces of oyle loive & all the pouders above sayd, boyle it softly halfe a quarter of an hower, 196 then cast it into a peuter dish or bason, till it be cold, then take it out, & roule it up in lether or parchment, & keepe it for your use. It is good for wounds, cuttes or for stabbes, or any such like. To make melquorum, or quodmell. good to comfort & clense the stomack. Take 10 pounds of well clarified hony, a pound of the iuyces of roses, put them in a [vessell], when they beginne to boyle put in 4 pounds of roses small shread, & boyle all untill the iuyce be consumed, & stirre it very well. To make oyle of exceter. Take a pound of cowslipe flowers, in the mounth of May, stampe them in oyle olive, as much as will serve them, & soe let them stand in a pot untill the midle of June, then take salamynts, herbe [john], sago, egrimony, worme wood, red ambrose, fennell, pellitory, celidon, rew, red rowes, southerwood, lavander, rosemary camomile, pellitory of Spaine, fennell leaves, the flowers of lillies, stamp them together, soe small as you can, then take the flowers above sayd, & wringe them out of the oyle, & put the iuyce into the other herbes, & grind them all together, & put them in white wine, & steepe them 24 howers, then set them on the fier in a pan, & boyle them till all the water be boyled out of the wine & herbes, with a soft fier; then take a spoonefull, & if there be noe water in the spoone, it is boyled enough, then straine it in a glasse or peuter pot, for noe other vessell will hold it, it will last 3 or 4 yeares; It is good for the palusy & gout: in the sumer annoynt your selfe by the sunne, in the winter by the fier 197 To make oyle of cloves. Take a pound of the pouder of cloves, put to it 3 pound of almons scraped, & beaten, mixe the well together, then sprinkle on each pound an ounce of white wine, letting it ly in a masse together, for the space of 8 dayes, putting it in an earthen pan, which heate soe longe, untill you cannot hold your hand therein then put it in to square bags, wronge hard, untill all the whole substance of the oyle be come forth The vertues of oyle of cloves. 1 It revives the spirits very much. 2 Putts away melancholly. 3 It hath all the vertures of a balme. 4 It heales fresh and greene wounds. 5 It stayeth [throwing] of blood, & water out of a wounde. 6 It conforteth the naturall parts within. 7 It purgeth melancholly blood. 8 It comforteth the heart. 9 It recreates & cleares the head, & especially solveth the gyddynes of the head. 10 It helpes the weakenes of the sight. To make oyle of anniseeds. Take halve a pound of anniseeds, bray the grosse, & put soe much water thereto as will cover them, which after power into a copper [cucurbite], then set on the limbeck, or head closed luted in the ioynt about, with standing, & to purtifie 3 or 4 dayes, then distill it with a soft fier, soe that the water by which the oyle passeth be very cold, when the oyle shall fall into the receiver, untill it be together like camphire: then take all in a cloath & the water will [illegible] through out not the oyle, which dissolve in a broad mouthed glasse set in a stove as hot [illegible]. 198 To make a purge Take the midle rine of a white ashe, steepe it in all a night, in the morning drinke a good draught of the ale. Another purge. Take the roote of mechoacan, beate it into fine pouder, & take thereof a drame & a halfe, & drinke it in 4 or 5 spoonefulls of sack, very timely in the morninge, then perfectly drink a good draught of sack after it, & shortly it will make you purge easily. A gentle purgation. Take a pottle of clairfied whay, put therein a great handfull of hearts tongue, as much of mayden haire of liver wort, violet leaves, burrage, of each a great handfull, barberries, [illegible], of each 2 ounces, boyle all to [leste] then halfe by much, & use to drinke it fasting 3 mornings together, twice or thrice in the yeare. To purge with all. Take a spoonefull of Castile sope, put thereto as much sugar candy, & boyle it in a pinte of malmesy put a peece of butter in to it, & after it hath boyled, straine it, & drinke it milke warme, halfe of it in the morning fasting, & the other halfe at night. An excellent good purge. Take very good scamony (which beeing wet with ones tongue will become milke) beate it to very fine pouder, which will be done the better if you annoynt the end of the [postell] with a drop or 2 of any sweete oyl, as almons, nutts, or sallet oyle, then waigh out 199 10 graines of this fine pouder, & with a knife upon a plate incorporate it with the quantity of two nuttmegs conserve of barberries, doe this over night, when you will take it in the morninge, that the conserve may bite & correct the better, in the morninge eate it up takeing warme broath 2 or 3 howers after as in other purgations, it will worke easily upon thinne humours. If you had rather gave it in a potion, then after the conserve hath bitten it 10 or 12 howers, dissolve it in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of white wine, or rose water, or [com?on] water, stirreing it well, & [illegible] it of cleere, this will tast like sugar & the iuyce of lymons with rose water, & will worke as well as the other only in regard, that some of the substance will remayne behind, & come not into the cleene liquor, you may in crease the quantity of scamony 3 or 4 graynes & take 13 or 14, where in the former you tooke [illegible] 10. If you had rather take it in a pill, then take halfe an ounce of scamony finely poudered, & drop 3, 4, or 6 drops of oyle of vitrioll upon it, stirre & incorporate it together with a wooden spatula, till it come into a masse of pills; if 3, 4 or 6 dropes be not enough, take more, but be sure to take as litle as you need as must; for the oyle of vitrioll will make it to grow continually softer, & will [over] moisten it too much of this masse of pilles, you may take 13 or 16 graines, at one time in 2 litle pilles. 200 To make gunne pouder. Take for a tryall a pound of salt peter, & a pound of brimstone & halfe a pound of cole, made of cole wort stalkes, or pure brant cole of fine willow: if you will make if fine quickly, dry it first, then put them all together, & sprinkle them with aqua vitae, or very good vineger, till it be very moyst, that you are about to make it into balles, then take a meale [sine], & put it in, [illegible] it too & fro over a faire cloath, & that will fall through in [cornes], then dry it & soe shall you make good pouder, or before you moysten it, spread it upon a broad thing in the sunne, beeing hot, that is very good & in the summer the best time to make it in To make lute. Take of the best & finest chalke, to which adde the drosse of iron, brought to fine pouder, & the comon whitest ashes, thorne flax, & horse dunge, & mixe these by art together. A gargle. Take throught mort, bramble budds, plantan leaves, red rose leaves, of each a handfull, isope, orgamen, rosemary, sage of each a handfull, seeth these in 2 quarts & halfe a pinte of water, to a quart, then straine it & put to it 4 spoonefulls of hony, & boyle it well againe; gargle this often, warme, this is good for a sore throate. A pleasant water for linen. Take 2 pounds of spike, as much rose leaves, 201 a pound of rostmary, halfe a pound of [maudlin], halfe a pound of balme, 2 handfulls of pennyroyall, 4 ounces of mace, a quarter of a pound of arras, lay all these in claret wine, & put it into a pet close stopped, for the space of 24 howers, & at the [spoute] of your limbeck gave a fine linen cloath, into which put a graine of muske, & amber greece, through which let the water droppe, you may alsoe put into your pot the pouder of bayes. For a staine in cloathes. Take the water wherein lavander cotton is sodden; this takes away any spot or staine in cloathes or cloath, or other thinge, if the stained place be rubbed therewith. probatus est. A receipt to make the [weapon] salve Take the fatt of a [her] beare, killed in the time of his [brownst] in the wildernes 7 ounces thereof. Take the fatt of a wild beare filled in the brownst 7 ounces thereof,. These 2 fatts must bee melted together, upon a coale fyer softly, and being melted powre the same fatt upon cleane water, then the drosse thereof will fall to the bottome, and the [purest], will swime on the toppe of the water, [take] the same and dry it with a cleane cloath, the older these fatts [shalke] the better they are to bee used. Take rayne wormes which come out of the ground after a shore of rayne, either in Aprill or in May at the new moone, dry them in the sunne then beate them to powder, 4 ounces thereof. Take bludstone 202 Take bloudstone, beaten small to powder. 4 onces thereof. Take 3 ounces of red saunders the reddest thereof; Take [browte] or kings hearth, the leaves thereof beaten smale to powder one once. Take the moss of a dead mans skull, beaten to powder, 1 ½ ounces all these are to bee weighed according to the order before, and mingled together, then take the2 fatts and sett them upon a [coale] fyer, and let them melt softy being melted together then strew the powder upon the fatt and stire them together and lett it be cold and gee putt into some box, made of [mettle] and then you shall have a strong and wonderfull salve which will [illegible] decay the older it is the better it is to bee used. If any man will heale with this salve, hee must take the weapon, and putt it into the wound, and make the same flesh to bleed and if it bee a thrust, then annoynt the weapon from the joynt towarde the handle; If it bee a blow, annoynt from the edge to the [backe] of the same and then bind the weapon very carefully, that noe dust come into it and bind it in such sorte that the salve bee not rubbed offe, and being annoynted and bound upp in cleane linnen, lett the weapon bee layd up neither too hott nor too cold and att any hand bind new lynnen aboute the waepon, that hath not beine used about a woman’s body and when a man doth annoynt the weapon, hee must not accompany any woman, if hee doe, hee must neither annoynt the weapon, nor come next the same, and if the wounds bee dangerous then lay the point of the wagon 203 weapon against the riseing of the sunne and annoynt the same once in 4 or 6 dayes, not too thick nor too thinne and bind the weapon with some new linnen cloath, or else some that hath not been used about a womans body. If a man will know whither there bee anger of death in a man wonded; Take sandell and bloudstone and strew it on the weapon and the weapon will sweat, if it sweat water, then it is a singe of death, if the sweat bee red like bloud, then there is no danger, but a signe of healting the wounded, must keepe a good dyett both for eating & drinking, and keepe not company with women, and the wound must be washed with a manns [lye] 2 or 3 tymes a day with a feather to wash out the corrupted matter, and then dipp in a running water with a peece of lynnen cloath and wring out the water and lay the same lynnen cloath upon the wound without putting in of any [illegible] to the wound bee it never so deepe; (by Gods helpe) and it shall bee whole in 14 dayes without putting the party wounded to death paine smart or swelling. If the party wounded chances to [??isorder] his body and thereby the wound to rage, and grow fyry, then take the leaves of black bramble bryers, put them in vinegar with a little allome and boyle them together and then [illegible] upon the aforesaid lynnen cloath which lyes on the wound, and the party hurt shall find ease [illegible] of his smart or paine. If a man bee shott with a bullet and can [gett] bullet then use the same an other weapon or if that the bullett bee cutt out of the body, then annoynt the knife or instrument so fare as the same hath beene in the wound and by Gods helpe, it shall both helpe and heale: if the bullett bee not to bee had, then take the [illegible] wherewith the powder was putt into the peece and annoynt it upwardes 2 or 3 tymes very well, and 204 And then putt it often into the [?inne] that that may be annoynted within, and bind that as aforesayd, then take the [?inne] and annoynt it on the outside along, as farr as the bullet went into the place where it lay, and then bind it as aforsayd. If a man bee hurt, and another man run away with the weapon; then forme a peece of wood like the weapon, then renew the wound with the same wooden weapon that it bleed, then wipe offe the bloud and annoynt the same as aforesaid and (by God’s helpe) it will heale any hurt. In the same manner may a man heale any old hurts or soares lett them bee of what kind [sooner] if they bee open soares, scrape the old soare with an instrument made of wood untill the bloud comes then use the sayd instrument as aforesaid To stay bloud, take the mosse of a dead man’s head or skull and lay that upon the wound that bleedes and it will staye bleeding presently. It is good to doe so before you annoynt the weapon, and the [part?e] hurt must not have the weapon untill hee bee whole and sound for if hee doo meddle with the weapon hee will fynd much payne and smarte Tho. Soyles The Author An alphabeticall index of all the receites contained in this litle volume. Ach For an ach. 1, 5, 7, 8, 21, 98, 100, 124, 127, 141, 142, 147, 159, 191. A pretious oyntment for all aches 1, 4 for all incurable aches 7 for ach in the gumes 6 for ach in the head 3, 6, 157 for the head ach that continues 77, 78, 84 for any ach of the head except the pox 77 for the head ach in an ague 149 for ach or swelling in the foote 146 for ach in the feet by travailing 134 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 170 for ach where noe swelling 26, 3 for ach in the stomack 20 for ach of the teeth 1, 2, 3, 5, 94, 157, 158, 173 Ago for one in the agony of death 190 Agu for an ague 10, 115, 133, 148, 149, 158, 192 Agu for a burninge ague 11, 130 for the ague in the brest 16 for the ague by floame 135 for a longe ague 11 for the pestilentiall ague 11 for a quarterne ague 148 for a tertiary ague 100, 146 for the shakeing ague 9, 158 Ant for St Anthonies fier 49 Apo for all apostumes in the eares 49 App to procure an appetite 8, 112 Art for a paine or hardnes of the arteries 142 Bac for heate in the back 160 for payne in the back 13, 4, 82, 160 for weakenes in the back 160 Bel for gnawing in the belly 145 for paynes in the belly 13, 135 Bit for biting of a mad dog 151 for biteing of any venomous beastes 14, 15 for all biteing with venomous beastes or mad dogges 48 for bitinge of snakes or vipers 15, 157, 141 Bla for a black or blew face with a blow 159 Ble To staunch bleeding at the nose 159 To staunch bleedinge in any place, but the nose 13 To staunch bleedinge of a wound 159 Blo To staunch blood 12, 15, 16, 101, 102, 103, 115, 117 To staunch the menstruall blood 134 for the preservation of the blood 190 for those that spit blood 13, 107, 122, 138, Bod for greifes of the body 19 against all evills of the body 17 To coole & purge the body 17, 18 for a corrupt body 20 for weakenes of the body 17 Bon for broaken bones 19 To make putrified bones fall away in scales 20 Boo To keepe bookes from vermine 20 Bot Boy For botches or boyles 106, 131, 132 To ripen & heale botch, boyle or any adder 16 for a boyle that is rotten & breaks not 16 To resolve botch, boyle, or fellon in the beginninge 131 for a boyle in any part of the body 48 Bra for the braine 20 Against distillation of the braine 78 for comotion of the braine for want of sleep 80 to strengthen the braine 192 Bre for shortnes of breath 142 for a stinkeing breath 62, 192 Bre for the breast 109 for a sore brest 12, 110, 111, 112, 160 for ach in a woemans brest 111 for hardnes of woemens brestes after they be brought to bed 110 for swelling in the brest 110 for a canker in the brest 11 for an [illegible] stume in the brest 110 for a raw brest 112, 113 To heale a sore brest, though incurable 20 To purge evill from the brest 104 Bro for one that is broaken 53, 128, 137 Briu for a bruise 20, 21, 142, 147 for an outward bruise 20 for all manner of bruises 143 for a bruise in the head 82 for a bruise in the legge 114 To heale a bruise 161 for bruised stones 159 Bun for the bunninges 101 Bur To cure a burne 21, 133, 134, 140, 141 To cure a burne, although with gun-pouder. 48, 159 Can for a canker, or fellon 22, 48, 115, 126, 132 133 for all manner of cankers 4 for a canker in the body 22 for a canker in the brest 22 for a canker in the eye 30 for a canker in the mouth or face 22, 114 for a canker in an old sore 22 Cat for a catarre 106 Che for swelling in the cheekes 108 To procure cheerefullnes 45 Chi for chill bleanes 26 Cho for choller 11 Cod for swelling in the coddes 137, 143, 46 Col for the collick 8, 23, 94, 95, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124 for the wind collick 17, 23, 24 for the stone or wind collick 23, 24 for the collick and stone 161 for the collick in the spleene or liver 135 for a cold or cough 25 Coo To coole and purge the body 17, 18 Con for a consumption 25, 160, 186, 193 Cor for cornes in the feet 49, 67 Cos for costivenes 26 Cov for a cough 24, 109, 110, 111, 115, 117 122, 162, 191 for an old cough 142 for a perilous cough 24 for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the cough of the lunges 162 Cra To put away the crampe 163 Cut for a cut 65, 66, 153, 161 for all sortes of cuttes 48 Dea for deafenes 27, 28, 39, 96, 163 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124 Die an excellent diet drinke 26 Dis for inward diseases 191 Against pestilentiall diseases 192 To helpe disgestion 28, 112, 193 for distillation of the wine 135 Dro for the dropsy 27, 28, 100, 117, 120, 121, 133, 140, 144, 191, 192, 130 for the hot dropsy 27 for drousines 36 for hot on cold dropsy 130 Dru To anoyd drunkennes 28 Ear remedies for the eares 96, 97 vide deafenes Ear for all fistulas in the eare 49 for a noyse or rumbling in the yeare 27, 29 for payne in the eare 27 To bring any quick thing out of the eare 163 To kill a worme in the eare 49 Emp Emplastrum Jacobi 153 Emplasters temperate 152 Emr for the emrods or piles 32, 50, 51, 131, 138. 168 Eye for all evills in the eyes 29 to take away from the eyes any blood or rednes 30 for a canker in the eye 30 for sore eyes 30, 157, 174 for sore eyes that burne & itch 30, 31 for sore eyes, inflamed, or rhumiticke with white water that they cannot open 49 for a white [hare] in the eye 31 To keepe back humors from the eyes 29 for blood shotten eyes 29, 30 for rhume in the eyes 157 for an humore flowing to the eyes 92 To remoove spottes in the eyes 168 To cleere the eye sight 29, 30, 88, 90, 91 92, 100, 174 for darke eyes 88, 92 for a pinne, web, or perle in the eye 31, 32, 88, 90, 91, 168 Eye for bleared eyes 30 90 To quicken the eye sight 92 for payne in the eyes 93 for watry eyes 30. 31. 91. 93 for eyes that are white 94, 95 Fac for a pimpled face 37 To take rednes out of the face 101, 144 To take away blood or rednes of the face 30, 37 To take spottes out of the face 102 To make the face faire 102 for the face black & bew with a blow 159 To make a good colour in the face 100 145, 190 Fal for the falling sicknes 34, 94, 83, 85 Fat To make a leane body fatte 113 Fea for a burneing feaver 32, 33, 130 for the spotted feaver 33 for a tertian feaver 100 Fee for breaking out or swelling of the feete 48 for ach or swollen feete 140, 146 for any ulcers in the feete or handes 117 Fel for a fellon 34, 99, 115, 144, 169, 170 To resolve a fellon in the begininge 131 Fie for St Anthonies fier 49 Fis for a fistula 36, 87 for a fistula be it never soe great & old 48 for all fistulas in the eare 49 Fla for payne in the flanke 124 Fle To breake fleame 35, 59 To confound fleame 34, 83, 84, 85, 94, 190 To cause one to voyde vleame 11, 35, 126, 147 To ingender flesh 104 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124, 126 To draw wood or iron out of the flesh 171 for superfluous flesh betweene the fingers 49 Flo To stay the flowers of woemen 115, 103 To breake the flowers 163 To provoake the flowers 8, 134, 137, 138, 140 Flu To stay the flux 8, 118, 119, 145, 146 for the bloody flux 35, 36, 120, 164 To stay the flux of urine 136, 139, 140, 145, 146 For for forgetfullnes 36 Fre for freckles 49 Fru To make a wooman fruitfull 130, 191 Gan for the gangrene perfectly applied 49 Gom for the gomery passion 97 Gou for the goute 37, 100, 105, 123, 127, 164, 196 for all manner of goutes 126, 134 for the goute in the ioyntes 127 for ach or payne of the goute 1, 37, 114, 129, 94 Gra for gravell 58 Gre for the greene sicknes 40, 116, 167 Gum for to heale chops in the gumes or lips 123 Hai To take away haire 38 To make haire grow where never any was 38 Han for hands that are chopped 160 for inflamed hands 124 for swelled hands 140 To make the hands white 164 for ulcers in the hands or feete 117 Hea for payne in the head 38, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 96, 114, 115, 143, 157 for the head ach 3, 6, 7, 77, 84 To cleene the head 197 for dazling of the head 39 for an old inveterate greife of the head 79 for heavines of the head 78 To cure a sore head 39 To draw the head 39 To purge the head 38 for a bruise in the head 82, 85 for greife in the head hindering sleepe 79 for a great heate 8, 99 for heate in the back 14, 160 for the heareinge 39 To comfort the heart 193, 197 for the heart burneinge 39, 190 for trembling of the heart 166 for straitnes of the heart with cold 39 for swelling at the heart 144 Hum Against all ill humours what soever in the body 112 for all moyst humours 157 for an hot humor in the legge 143 Jau for the jaundies 39, 40, 94 Jau for the black jaundies 39, 164 for the yellow jaundies 39, 40, 94 for both black & yellow jaundies 40, 192 Imp for an impostume 8, 11, 104, 106, 132, 126 To cure an hot impostume 150 for all manner of impostumes 4 To ripen an impostume 41 To breake an impostume 20, 41 for an impostume in the body 41 for an impostuem in the lunge & stomack 41 for impostumes, proceeding of bruises 48 for an impostume in the side 23 Inf for an inflamation 117 for inlamations proceeding of bruises 48 Joy for the joyntes 126 for payne in the joyntes 7 Itc for the itch 42, 134 for itch in the head 78 for all itches in the head 48 for all itches, although in the fundament 49 To kill the itch in the leg 151 Juo for the falling of the Juola 40, 121, 164 Ker for kernells in the throate 106 Kib for kibes 26, 43 Kin for the kinges evill 48, 105, 106 Kne for ach or swelling in the knees 42, 137, 141 Kno for knottes in the flesh arteryes 116 Lab for a woeman in labor that wants [throwes] 68 Lam for one that is tkaen lame Las for a laske 43, 44, 118, 119129, 135, 138, 193 Leg for all manner of inflamations in the legges, liver, or hands 124 for an hot humor in the legge 143 To take away rednes in the legge 144 To cure an old sore legge 151 for swelling in the legges 42 for breaking out, or swelling of the legges 48 for the swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Leo To cure a leper 104 Lig To open the lightes 44 Lic To kill lice 78, 84 Lik To preserve on in good likeing 191 Lip To heale choppes in the legges or gumes 123 Lit for the lithargy 123 Liv To comfort the liver 193 To cleanse the liver 165 To helpe faults in the liver 28 Loo To make one loose or laxative 61, 135, 149 Loy for payne in the loynes 82 Loz To make lozinges 165 Lun for one that is lunitike 85 Lun for the lunges that are [peirched] 190 Mat for payne in the matrix 82, 133 for dry urine in the matrix 117 Mea To cause the meazles to come forth 45 Meg for themegrame 44, 78, 96 Mel Against melancholly 80, 103, 113, 116, 166, 190, 192, 197 To purge melancholly blood 197 for melancholly [preeding] from the spleene 167 Mem for swelling in the members 46, 137, 143 To preserve the memory 190 Men To provoake the menstrues 134, 137, 138, 140 Mil To c ause woemans milke to increase 110, 111 for stoppeing in the milt 45 Mir To cause mirth & cheerefullnes 45 Mor for the morphew 45, 100, 101, 102, 165, 40 Mot for the mother 134, 145, 166 To remoove the mother or spleene 166 To place the mother 166 Mou for a sore mouth 121, 166 To preserve the mouth [sound] 103 for sharpenes in the mouth or tongue 121 for a great heat in the mouth 46 Mur for the murry, or cough 24 Nat To restore nature 167 To comfort the naturall parts within 197 To stay the runing of mans nature 139 Nav for the navell, that comes out 135 Nay for superfluous flesh, groweinge betweene the nayles 49 Nec for greife in the neck or head 83 Ner To comfort the nerves 147 Nos for bleeding at the nose 12, 16 Onc for an oncome 46 To assuage the swelling of an oncome 46 Opp for oppilations of the side 11 Oxi The vertue of oximell 148 Pal for the paluesy 50, 168, 190, 191, 192, 192 for the dead paluesy 50 for the paluesy in the hands 50 Pla Pay for any payne 21 for a payne in the back 13, 14, 160 for a great payne in the back 13 for payne in the gumes 6 for payne in the ioyntes 7 for payne in the side 62, 63 Per for a perle, linne, or web in the eye 31, 32, 88, 8990, 91, 168 Pes for the pestilence 47, 48, 122, 192 Pil for the piles or emrods 50, 51, 131, 168 Pim for a pimpled face 37 Pin for a pinne, in the eye, vide perle. Pip To open the pipes, & breake fleame 35 Pis for those that cannot pisse 133, 136 To make one pisse freely 51 for those that pisse in bed 93, 136 Pla for the plague 117, 122, 168 A preservative against the plague 49 for the plague, where the signe is 48 A preservative & curative against the plague 46 An excellent preservative in the plague time, to expell it from the howse 49 Plasters very temperate 152 Plu for a pluricy 23, 124, 125, 141, 142 Pox to cause the post to come forth 45 for the small pox, when they be full out 169 To kill the swine pox 134 Poy for one that is poysoned 52 Pri To skinne the privy place, if it be gone 158 Pur To purge & coole the body 17, 18 Pus for any push, or boyle, in any part of the body 48 Ran for rankleing in an ague sore 120 Rei for payne in the reines 82, 123, 124 for runneing of the reines 55, 129, 169, 26 for the stone in the reines 133, 169 To strengthen the reines 146 for the reines that are hot 118 Res A restaurative 125, 189, 192 Rhu for cold rhume in the head 122 for rhume in the eyes 157 for dry rhume in the matrix 117 for the rhume 52, 53, 86, 107, 114, 122, 157, 190 Rib To ease the payne in the ribbes, feines, & spleene 123 Ric for the ricketts 54 Rin for a ringe worme 48, 132 Ros The vertue of rosemary 55 Rup for a rupture 53, 128, 137 for a rupture in the scull 79, 83 Sal To make a greene salve 152 Sca for scabbes 42, 48, 104, 132, 141, 143 for all scabbes in the head 48 for the white scabbe 48 for scabbes in the head, & to kill the [scuase] 78 for a scald 21, 134 Sci for the sciatica 61, 127, 143, 147 Scu for a greife in the scull 79 for a rupture in the scull, or the surt 79, 83 Shi for the shingles 133 Sid for the side 11 for a payne in the side 62, 63, 125 Sig To cleene the sight 88, 90, 91, 92, 100, 174 To quicken the sight 92 for weakenes of the sight 197 Sin for hardnes of the sinewes 123 for contraction of the sinewes 191 for shrunken sinewes 60, 150 To strengthen the sinewes 8 for a prick in the sinewes 60 Sle To provoake sleepe 60, 61, 101 To make one slender 61 Sol To make one soluble 61, 135, 149 Sor To cure all sorts of sores 20, 65. 171 for a sore that will not heale 172 To cure all sores and greifes if the bone be not hurt 48 for old sores 87, 104, 126, 139, 151 for rotten sores 87, 105, 117 To breake a sore 151 for a sore in the brest 160 for a sore mouth 165 To get wood or iron out of a sore 66, 171 for all sores possible to be healed 149 for rankleing of an ague sore 120 To clense a sore 114, 172 Spi for the vitall spirittes 191 To revive the spiritts 197 to strengthen the spiritts 193 Spe To recover the speech lost by sicknes 85 Spl for the spleene 45, 61, 101, 117, 123, 125, 140, 192 To cleanse the spleene 61 To remoove the spleene 166 Spo To remoove spotts from the eyes 168 Squ for the quincy 59, 102, 106, 117, 172 Sta for all sortes of stabbes 48 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To staunch bleeding vide bleeding; blood. Ste Against sterrility of a woeman 130 Sti for stingeinge 15 for stingeing of vipers, snakes etc. 15, 117, 141 for a stitch 63, 125, 142, 144, 159 Sto for the stomacke 8, 109, 112, 120, 121, 147, 170, 190, 191, 193, 196 for coldnes of the stomack 103, 113, 122, 171 for the stomack payned with heat burning 58 To breake fleame out of the stomack 59 for ach in the stomack 20 for hardnes of the stomack 13 for payne in the stomack 135 To dissolve wind in the stomack 149 for the stone 56, 57, 58, 147, 173 To breake the stone 57, 147 Sto To know if the stone be in the bladder or reines 147 for the stone in the reines 133 for the stone in the bladder 56 for swelling of the stones or members 46 for the stones that are bruised 159 for stoppeing in the throate 121 Str for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the strangury 133 for straitnes of wind 62 To make one lusty & stronge that is weake 115 Sur for a surfet 63, 171 Swe for one that sweates much 170, 192 for swellinge 63, 88, 126, 132, 180, 95 for all swelling what soever 129, 143, 170 for swelling in the codds 137, 143 for ach or swelled hands or feet 140, 146 for swelling at the heart 144 for swelling in the hands 133 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 141, 170 for swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Tee To keepe the teeth from rotting 173 for corrupt teeth 64 To fasten loose teeth 107 To mittigate the payne of childrens teeth 107 To bring childrens teeth forth easily 108, 123 To make teeth white 107 Too for the tooth-ach 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 94, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 122, 127, 157, 158, 173 for all manner of tooth-ach 1 To make a tooth fall out 64 Tet for a tetter 48, 63, 132, 134 Thi To quench the thirst 114, 134 for the pestilentiall thirst 192 To draw a thorne out of the flesh 8 Thr for any inflamation of the throate 117 for a sore throate 108, 123, 173, 200 To breake a sore in the throate 108 for a woeman in travaile, that wantes throwes 68 for all thrustes with rapier or dager 48 Tim for a timpany 64 Tis for the tilick 64, 99, 121, 142, 162 Toe for superfluous flesh growinge betweene the fingers & toes 49 Ton for sharpnes in the tongue or mouth 121 Vai for shrinkeing of the vaines 60 To strengthen the vaines 8 Ven for botches or sores caused by venery, 48, 49 To draw forth venome 151 for the touch of any venomous thinge 48 Ver for the disease called vertigo 80, 81, 197 Vis To preserve the visage, or [illegible] 190 Vit to comfort the vitall spirits 191 Ung Unguentum Jacobi 153 Vom A vomit 173 To provoake vomitinge 121 Against vomiting 107, 135 Wov A white salve for a wound 65 To coole & comfort a wound 65 for a greivous wound, or sore 66 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To heale all wounds in a short time 162 Yar for carnosities in the yard 49 To spoute a water into the yard, to coole & cleanse etc. 68 You To preserve youth 190, 191 Cure for the rheumatism – [to the] The second index alphabeticall B. To make good bisket 182 To make artificiall blame 183 C. To make short sweet cakes 182 To clarifie hony, & sugar 194 To make all manner of conseits 180 To make conserve of barberryes 176 To make conserve of quinces 175 To make conserve of greene wallnutts 176 To make cons: of roses, or any flowers 176 To make cons: of rosemary flowers 176 D. to dresse oranges 179 To dresse peaches whole 179 To dresse plummes either blew or yellow 180 G. to make a gargle 200 To make ginger-bread 181 To make gratia dei, a plaster 195 To make gunne-pouder 200 H. To clarifies hony 194 To make hony – of roses 193 J To make cleene jelly 185 To make jelly of harts horne 186 To make white or other coloured jelly 186 > to make lozings 165 To make lute 200 A pleasant water for linen 200 M. To make manus-christi 195 To make dry marmelad of peaches 178 To make red marmelad 178 To make white marmelad 178 To make melquorum, or quodmel 196 O. To make oyle of anniseeds 197 To make oyle of cloves 197 To make oyle of exiter 196 P. To preserve barberries 177 To preserve cherries 177 To preserve damsons, or other plumes 177 to preserve quinces 177 To make pompilion 195 To make severall purges 198, 199, 95 S. To make sugar plate of quinces, roses, violetts, or any other such like 181 To make syrop of endive 184 To make syrop of myntes 185 To make syrop of roses 183 To make syrop of rosemary flowers 184 To make syrop of saffron 184 To make syrop of tyme 184 To make syrop of violetts 183 To make syrop of worme wood 184 To make syrop of the rines of oranges and limons 185 for a staine in cloathes 201 for stayned cloathes or mouldy 200 V. A vomit 173 W. To make anniseed water 189 To make aqua composita 187 To make qua vitae 187 To make stronge aqua vitae 187 To make aurum potabile 193 To make balme water 189 To make ipocras water 188 To make water of life 191 To make aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderfull vertue 190 To make rosa [solis] 189 To make Doctor Stevens water 191 to make worme wood water 188 To make worme wood wine to drinke 193 A pleasant water for linen 200 Finis An exelent [illegible] to make a [grene] oyntment [for] [illegible] Take speiremint [illegible] wormwood [rosemare] balm lavender cotton and agremony of [illegible] of these a great handfull 2 [illegible] of fresh butter out of the [illegible] [illegible] the butter to melt on the fier and stamp the [illegible] then put them in one quarter of an ounce of [ma??] [illegible] boyle those [illegible] well [for] halve an [our] till it [illegible] [grow] uppon a soft fier then sett it [close] and [illegible] it out from the [illegible] then set the [illegible] pt on the fier againe & scum it then you may keep it for your use all the [yeare]. To make the [blake] salve for [illegible] [illegible] for [illegible] [illegible] [before] mentioned Take a pinte of the best salet oyle 4 [illegible] of red [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of white when the is warm uppon the fier put in the [illegible] then keepe it [illegible] till it boyle a [illegible] as pitch then put into it 2 ounces bees wax & let it boyle 6 or 7 let it cold a litle then put it into a after the [illegible] [illegible] the pts [pained] [illegible] [illegible] in with the [gren] oyle at night when you got to bed the next morning before the fier draw downe with your finger a drop or 2 of oyle of amber uppon the [place] most pained then [illegible] on your plaster made of the blake salve 7 lett it lye till it falls of 1 pound of white lede 1 pound of [?ide] lede 2 pound and a halfe of sallett oyle 12 onces of cassall sope R C Oil rubbed upon the branches & stems of fruit trees, destroys the insects & increases the fruit buds. It is used successfully upon the stems of carnations & guard them against the depredations of the ear-wig [illegible] Sir G. McKenzie Mr John [Linning] [illegible[ [illegible] grow in [illegible] [illegible] [&] in [illegible] [land] [tooth] [atke] cured by Mr [Grey??e] [potheker] in [illegible] [illegible] London [nere] Sadlers Hall by burning the [illegible] in the [illegible] An effectual remedy for [nursing] chilblains one ounce of white copperas dissolved in a quart of water & occasionally applying to the affected parts will utterly remove the most obdurate blains N.B. This application must be used before they break otherwise it will do injury Cure for cancer Crowfoot root toothache or blister [illegible] arsenic sprinkled upon them & calcined. Styles ([illegible]) A booke containeing many rare and excellent receites very necessary for the restauration of the body to perfect health O quanta radicum! quanta et herbarum virtus! Letere, et istis non [isti], est idem, ac si dicerem, negilgere et abuti Quisque silet bona parta aliis, peccando repeccati labitur in culpam qui sinit ista mori. for the [illegible] in the 69 padge In a sore throat Take oil olives & spirits of turpentine rub the throat with the mixture [illegible] flannel Double quantity of oil [illegible] spirits For a cold & cough one drachm of sweet spirits of nitre. one drachm of elixir of vitirol. 60 drops of laudanum 3 tea spoonsfull of honey: thirty drops of the mixture to be taken three times a day 1 A precious oyntment for all aches *Take twelve penny [worth] of gratia dei and six penny [worth] of [norue] oyle and penny [worth] of salot oyle melt all [these] together on a chafeing dish of [coles], and [illegible] it for your [use] To ease all aches, and especially of any sort of the gout take [acornes] without the shell or [huske] lay them in stronge vinegre 24 [illegible] then take them out and dry them in an oven not very hot, or in the [sunne] then beat them to pouder, and take two penny waight of it, & put it into a sauser full of [illegible] water & drink it. For all manner of tooth ach. Take the [rootes] of [illegible], [seethe] them in [illegible], then wash your mouth once in a mounth & it will keepe your tooth from akeing. A soveraigne medicine for the tooth ach Take the [illegible] of young broome & [skinne] and then take off the [illegible] [skinne] 9 [budds] of sage, 9 of rosemary, 9 [rootes] of [daytes], a [litle] quantity of the [outter] most skinne of [illegible] a penny worth of pepper, and some what more in quantity of bay salt than pepper; breake all these together in a mortar very small; then take soo much vinegre as will [illegible] on them, then boyle it all in a peuter dish upon a chafeing dish of [coles] untill it lookes very black, then [wash] the gumes with it in the mornings fasting, & at night wash them again & the mouth also with the liquor of the same [herbes] alwayes as hot as you can suffer it, and lay some of the same herbes upon the place [illegible] all night An oyntment for the same. take soft lavander [??nip] [pellito??e], [???ther] wood, som [illegible] primroses and sage of [illegible] an equall quantity, bruise them and take the [illegible] [therof] to the quantity of halfe a pint, & boyle them in a pint of oyle [olive], after they be well boyled put them to a litle water and soe make an oyntment of them for the same paine 3 For the tooth ach take a quantity of pennyroyall & [illegible] it with bay salt, take a little therof in a linen cloath and lay it to the tooth for the [spase] of an hower, then take soe much more and [illegible] it as longe there, and after wards more, and more; this will allay the ach & draw out the paine For the tooth ach. take angelico, [fetherf??e], [illegible] seed, oyle of bitter almonds, pound these in a morter, then drop two dropps of the [illegible] into the contrary [illegible] to that side where the payne lyes, keepe your selfe warme, & ly on that side uyour payne is, and bind your head as hard as possible you can endure For an ach where noe swellinge is *take oleum petrolinum, it lookes very [cleene], somewhat greenish, & smells much like oyle of [illegible]; with this annoynt the place payned and [chafe] it well. For the head ach. take [illegible] betony, and [warme] wood 4 and seethe them, then there with wash in all the sick mans head then make a plaster for his [mould] in this manner. Take the same herbes, when they be sodden wring out the [illegible], then grind them in a morter very small, and [temper] them with the sayd liquor againe, & put thereto a quantity of wheaten [branne] to hold in the liquor, then make a garland of a [illegible], and bind his head therewith then lay the plaster on the mould within the garland, as the party may suffer it with a [illegible] & a cap [above]: doe this but three times & it will helpe him For all manner of aches impostumes & cankers. Take [rosin] ][prof??] of each halfe a pound, take virgin wax and frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, an ounce of masticke, a quarter of a pound of hearts tallow, 3 drames of comfry, melt that with it to be melted, and beate the rest into pouder, then boyle all together, & straine it through a cleane cloath into a [p?ble] of white [wine], then boyle it all untill the [wine] be consumed, then let it coole a litle, and put then to a quarter of a pound of turpintine & [stirre] it together untill it be cold, & make it up in [roules], & keepe it to use 5 A good seare cloath for aches. take halfe a pound of red lead and boyle it in a pinte of oyle [olive] untill it bee thick, and soe use it For the tooth ach take a litle gun-pouder put into a fine linen cloath, the same beeing put into the hollow tooth, or hold betweene the tooth soo that it touch the aleing tooth, it [puts] a way the payne [p??ently]. For the tooth ach. take sage & peillitory, seethe them in vinegar, and keepe this in the mouth as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Boyle [illegible] in vinegar, wash the tooth therewith, & it quickly taketh away the payne. another. the leaves of sage layd on & to the tooth that [aketh] taketh away, the payne & comforteth the tooth that are hurt through cold, that they be not more put to greife or payne thereby. For the tooth ach. If you touch the tooth that [illegible] with water [cresses], [incombinent] it taketh away the payne, & it breaketh the tooth. 6 Alsoe the roots of sparage stamped and layd onto the akeing tooth, will draw it out without payne. Alsoe straw-berry leaves chewed take away the tooth ach. probatum est. Alsoe the roote of mouse-eare put into the hollowness of the tooth taketh away the paine. [D. lt] Chambers receite for the tooth ache or payne in the gumes. take a quantity of wood-bind leaves a quantity of rhue, a quantity of violet leaves, a quantity of the pills of pomegranades, and a litle allome, boyle them together in faire well water, and wash your gumes with the water thereof. An excellent remedy for the tooth ach. take a daysie roote & scrape it cleane, then [pare] it round sugar-loafe-fashion fitt to put into the same, and [illegible] after it sheepes woole to keep it fast in, and it will cure you in a very short time For the head ach. Make a posset of small ale & take of the suds, bake a quantity of the best figgs 7 split them & boyle them in the posset drink with a third of liquorice split For the head ach. In the extreme paine, take a good quantity of rhue, make it very hot till it be almost dry, betweene two tiles, then put it between the fould of a cloath, and soe bind it to the [illegible] [pt] of the head. For the head ach. Take fennell & seeth it in water & wash the head therewith, & it assuageth the paine. For an ach. take spare mint 3 handfulls [illegible], take 2 l of [illegible] may butter [unmashed] [temper] them together & roule them in roules, put them in a pipkin & cover it close & set it in a coole sellar 9 dayes, then boyle & after straine them & put them to one ounce of bees wax, & put it up for all the yearse to annoynt them that have any aches. For the tooth ach. take a litle rosemary & bay salt & stamp them together, put it in a linen cloath and lay it to your tooth or gumes. A notable secret for all incurable aches and all paines in the joynts. take all [illegible] whole pound a [illegible] rasteth off (the later the better) cast a way the stalks taking nothing but the hornes, rub the same in [shin??s] or [peeres], then sooth the paine in a gallon of faire water, untill all be come to a pint or somewhat more, then cast away the [peeres] of [horne], & let that in the vessel stand untill it be cold, [illegible] then will be like a jelly; [illegible] you will use of this, warme it in a [saucer], then annoynt the [greened] plate therewith by the fier, evening & morning, and let it [drinke] in by the heate of the fier, and in 9 or 10 dressings it will helpe & heale it thoroughly for [ever] The Leaden Plaster The vertue of it this beeing applied to the stomach [illegible] a good appetite, to the [sick], & taketh away all greifes of the stomach; applied to the belly it easeth the [collick]; it causeth the flowers of [??emen] in great abundance; applied to the [reines] it bindeth the [illegible] & taketh away heate, & strengthens wonderfully the [illegible] & sinewes; it drawes out a [illegible] in the flesh, & breakes and heales all [fellows] & impostumes, and generally healeth all [wormes], & easeth all aches in the body To make the Plaster take a pound of oyle olive, halfe a pound of red lead, a quarter of a pound of white lead beaten to fine powder, 5 ounces of Spanish sope, let them be well incorporated 9 in an earthen pot well glazed before you set it to boyle, then set it on a soft fier of coles an hower & an halfe continually stirring it with a stick, then make the fire somewhat greater, untill the red colour turns to greene, and leave not stirring untill it come to the colour of oyle, but [more] darke; then drop a litle upon a table with a stick, & when it is cold if it come of without sticking it is well boyled, then put in halfe an ounce of [swines] grease & a litle oyle of bayes, then make the plaster thus. Drop a cloath into the pot & hold it in your hands untill it be cold, then [plaine] it upon a table, & if it be [stirking] or breaking out in a litle more swines grease, but if not, it is well. This plaster will last good 7 yeares, applying it to the place [greined], if every morning you take it and mixe it with a cloath For the shakeing Ague Take [fatherfue], new, betony, dandelion, of each three cropps, stamp them together & drinke them with ale. For the ague Take the herbe polipodium with groweth like forme upon a [illegible], lime; marygold leaves, of each a handfull; put them into a quart of ale, [this] stale, seeth it together to a pint, then straine it, & set it on the fier againe untill it seeth then 10 put into it a spoonfull of bruised pepper & drinke this when the fit cometh upon you, & by the grace of god it will helpe you. For the ague Take halfe a dozen of [flipps] of alder greene, & younge, takeing of the [rusty], rind first, [stire] of the [next] greene rind to the wood, & take of this a good handfull and shred it small & pound it in a morter halfe an hower, then infuse it into a pint of very stronge vinegar, let it steepe therein for 7 or 8 howers, then straine it, & give it the party to drinke fasting 3 spoonfulls, nor eate or drinke for 2 howers after, use this three or foure times not only in the morning but at night alsoe & it will, by gods helpe, drive away the ague. For the ague in the brest Take periwincle, [fothersue], alder budds, time, bayes, red sage, rosemary, ale hoofe, daysie mores, orgamen, lavander, smalage, rice, longe woort, black mary goulds, of each a like quantity, shread all these and ground them with sweet lard, and let them stand together nyne dayes after, and then boyle them For the ague in the brest Take red sage, smalage, fatherfue, periwincle, alder buddes, of each a handfull, shread them small & put them into milke 11 & boyle them well together, then [shirk] it with oate meale, and laye this poltis to the woomans brest. A syrup against a longe ague; choller, fleame, appilationes of the side, and the iaundies. Take the [iuyce] of endive & smalage of each halfe a pint, of the [iuyce] of pepper & burrage of each a pint, seeth & clarifie them with whites of eggs, then put therein 2 ounces of rose leaves dryed, halfe an ounce of pared liquorice, cut into small peeces, [illegible] [illegible] the waight of 10d, aniseed, fennell seed, smalage seed, of each the waight of 1s-6d, finely bruised, then take 4 pintes of the [iuyce] thus strained & put to it 2 [q] & a halfe of fine white suger & seeth it to the hight of a syrup. For the burning ague. Take a pottle of water & halfe a pint of vinegar, endive, succory, fine leaved grasse, violet leaves, and strawberry leaves of each an equall quantity, seeth these to a quart, pout there to halfe a pound of sugar, & drink thereof morning and eveninge. A good pleruative against the pestilentiall ague. Make a posset, & boyle the ale thereof with [sed?mell] rootes untill they be soft, then 12 take 12 spoonefulls of the ale, & put thereto 3 spoonefulls of vinegar with a penny worth of treakle mixed therewith, soe drinke it warme as you may. A good medicine for a sore brest. Take a handfull of grease beech, halfe a pound of [comeing] seed, halfe a pound of fresh butter boyle them well together, then straine it and make a salve thereof. For bleeding at the nose. Take betony and salt & mingle them together, & put them in the nose, & it will [sop]. For bleeding at the nose. Take the roote of warme wood & make it very cleane, & chew it a good space. To staunch blood. Chew the roote of a nettle, but swallow it not downe, & without doubt it will staunch, for but keepe it in the mouth, & you cannot loose any blood. To staunch blood primrose leaves stamped & layd to the place that bleedeth, stanch the blood & [illegible] To staunch blood. Take periwincle & chew it in your mouth and it will helpe you. To staunch blood The powder of nettles snuffed into the nostrills staunch blood incontinent 13 To staunch bleeding in any place saveing the nose. Take [house] mosse and lay it to the cut or wound, & it will staunch the bleedinge. For spitting of blood. The powder of dry mulberries is the best remedy. For a paine in the belly or toughnes of the stomack. Take wild time a handfull, an halfe penny worth of aniseed bruised, & soe much liquorice 2d worth of sena alexandrina 2d worth of sugar, boyle these in 3 pings of malmesy untill it come to a quart, then straine it & drinke thereof a good draught first & last morninge & eveninge. For a payned back. Take unguentum rosatum & chafe their bark therewith evening and morning; and lay this plaster [following] to it. Take of fothensue, tansy & howse [leeke] of each a handfull, shread them and stampe them fine, then fry them with a sauserfull of [howy] & 2 ounces of pigeon dunge till it be plaster wise, & soe ly it to your back. For a greivous payned back. The leaves & rootes of egrimony, mugwort, & betony stampt with old grease & vinegar, and a plaster thereof applied to the bark will put the payine quite a way beeing used 3 or 4 times. 14 For a weaknes or payne in the back. Take the string of the back of a [veale], 4 dates minced small, the yolkes of 4 eggs, boyle these in [mustad] all together, eate of this next your heart in the morninge, abstaineing untill diner time. A plaster for the heat of the back Take the broad white lilly leaves which grow in water ponds, sew them after the manner of a plaster fit to cover the reines of the bark, then spread the quantity of an ounce of oyle of [oforoses] there upon, & bind it close to the reines of the bark, & let it ly 28 howers, untill such time as the [vertue] bee quite dryed out of it For the biteing of any venomous beast. Take plantan and drinke iuyce thereof & take plantan & celendine of each a like quantity, stampe & temper them with stale [illegible] & lay to the sore, & it will assuage the swelling and draw out the venome For the biting of a venomous beast. Take the patients water and the iuyce of centry, & give it the party to drinke, this helpeth both man and beast. or take fennell or [illegible] & seeth it in butter & give it the patient to drinke. For the same 15 Take the seeds of bettony & make powder thereof & drinke it [illegible] then take bettony stamped & fry it with grease & lay it to the sore, it will draw out the venome, & assuage both the swellinge and paine. For the same Take plantan & stampe it in red [illegible] and a clove of garlick, stamp them together & lay it plaster wise to the wound; but drinke plantan or celendine tempered in old wine. For the same Take garlick salt & [illegible], bruise & mixe them well together, & lay them to the sore, & drinke one of the afore sayd liquors. Fro the same. Take lylly rootes, dubble daytes, isop, rosemary wild sage stamp & straine them, then put to the iuyce a spoonefull of aqua vitae & treacle & drinke this with ale or milke. For stinginge. Take a burre roote milke and salad oyle stamp them together and annoynt the place, & give the patient salad oyle to drinke. For stinging of Adders. Take [dragons] & drinke it, alsoe stampe dragons and lay it to the place, & it will draw out the venome, & ease the payne. To stanch blood. Take vine leaves & dry them & make powder & put it into the wound, & it will cease. 16 or take the bird called the kings fisher, bake him in an over after the bread is drawne with the fethers, gutts, & all, then beate him to powder & lay it to the wound. Or take the fethers downe of the belly of an [hare], it doth the same. To stanch bleeding at the nose Bind the temples with a list about the head soe that the vaines may not [illegible] theire course, & drinke the iuyce of smalage, and lay a perum oake leafe under his tongue, but [fast] let him chew the leafe in his mouth. To staunch bleedinge take a litle fine white sugar, & as much raddle, beate them together to small powder & lay them on the wound, then lay on these a cleane cloath burned to ashes, shirk, A salve to ripen & heale botch, boyle, or adder. Take white castile soape & very rusty bacon a litle quantity cut very small, stampe them together in a wooden dish with a wooden pestle for the space of 6 howers untill they bee throughly incorporated, like a salve, then spread some of it [illegible] upon a linen cloath & lay it to the greife, changing it evening & morning: it will continue good longe if you [box] it up close For a boyle that is rotten & breaks not Take softed cheese and bores grease, that 17 is remelted, stamp them together, & fry them a litle, and lay it to the boyle as hot as it can be suffered, and at the farthest it will breake within 4 plasters. A good drinke for weaknes in the body, & for the wind collick. Take betony & great plantan of each, an handfull, comeing seed & liquorice of each an halfe penny worth stamped, bopyule these together in a quart of stale ale to the halfe, then straine it & drinke it warme first & last. an oyntment for the same. Take [neats] foote oyle, barrowes grease, aqua vita, & the iuyce of maces strayned mixe them together in equall quantities, then take part thereof & coate it hot in a porringer, & annoynt betwixt the shoulders, but chase it well in before the fier, use this 5 or six times. Against all evills in the body. Take rosemary flowers, put them in a linen cloath & boyle them in faire cleene water to the halfe, soe coole it, & drinke it. A diet drinke to coole and purge the body. Take sarzaperilla 8 ounces, saxifrage 2 ounces, guairi 4 ounces, coriander seed 2 ounces, cena a quantity conformable, 18 stire them & infuse them into 10 quartes of runing water all night, to morrow put in liquorice 2 ounces, aniseeds 2 ounces, boyle all together to 6 quarters, & let the patient drinke a quart a day thus, halfe a pinte in the morning, halfe a pinte at 4 of the clock in the after noone, and the other pint at meales. An easie purge to coole the body. Take pillele gregatine and drame and a scruple, let them be made up into 5 or 6 pills, & take them all early in the morning; it is excellent to purge choller & fleame of the stomack. Another stronger purge. Take diagredian halfe a drame in a litle white wine, take it early in the morning fasting, walke upon it in your chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth Another slighter purgation Take halfe a pound of prunes & stew them in water over a soft fier, then [illegible] forth the liquor into another pot, then take a quantity of liquorice, a quantity of ginger with a litle sinnamon, then a pretty quantity of cena, & stew all these together over a soft fier in the pot where the liquor is, then straine it into the [prunes]. 19 thein the morning fasting let the patient take 3 or 4 of the prunes with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the liquor next his heart putting a litle sugar upon them; let him not eate for an hower or two after, & then a litle comfortable broth, & this will give him a stoole or two, & be exceeding refrigerative for the body. For greifes in the body. Take a pottle of runing water, an handfull of liquorice well scraped, cut, & bruised in a mortar, an handfull of anniseeds, an handfull of parsly, seedes, an handfull of rennet [illegible] sope, an handfull of mouse eare, an handfull of mother of [illegible], put these into the water, & boye it from a pottle to a quart, then straine it from the herbes, & put to it the quantity of a wallnut of sugar candy then drinke [five] spoonefulls of it every eveninge & morninge A plaster for broaken bones Take brooke lime, chick weed, smalage & ground fill, & stampe them together, then put thereto comeing seed powder, then take sheepes tallow melted & fry it [therein] when it is well fryed put to it wheate branne & good [lyes] of wine, & stirre it well together, & lay it hot alwayes to soe sore To draw out broaken bones Take virum, betony, rew, stamp & straine the, & with [illegible] meale make a salve of the iuyce thereof 20 To keepe bookes from vermine. Take the flowrs of rosemary & put them amongst bookes or cloathes, & they will not come there. For the brayne. [also] the pouder of betony in the pottage. An oyntment for any outward bruise Take flowers of elders, when the are ready to fall, grind them small in a morter, in the grinding pot to soe many spoonefulls of [beans] flower, as that be handfulls of the elder flowers, & a good quantity of salet oyle, mingle them well, then put them into an open mouthed glass, & let them stand in the sunne a mounth; this will keep 3 or 4 yeares, & when it mayeth dry, put more oyle to it: & when you would use this oyntment heate some of it in a saucer, & amongst the [bruise] & lay some of the flowers upon it; this will [illegible] in foure or five dressings This drinke cureth all sorts of sores or bruises, be they never soe old; heales woemens brests, which are thought incurable, and if any bane be putrified, it will make it fall away in scales, If there be any impostume in the body, it will cause it to breake outwardly, and likewise if there be any corruption in the body, it taketh away the ach in the stomack, which divers have after they have taken a litle cold. Take agrimony 2 handfulls, mild angelica, betony, wild daysie rootes, & leaves, [???wort] bramble leaes, benewort, fields bugle, [sanicle], [illegible], dandelion, scabions, mug wort, worms wood, & [illegible] of each a handfull; boyle all these small shread in three gallons of water, until the herbs be very tender; you may put into it halfe a pint of clarified hony; give of it 3 times a day 4 21 or 5 spoonefulls warme, that is in the morning fasting, at 2 in the after noone, & at gooing to bed, & drinke not an hower before or after. For any payne, bruise, or ach. Take mugworte & mallowes, of each 2 handfulls, a handfull of [loudage] 3 leaves of, two or three branches of lavander cotton, as much goose grease as an ey, or more, halfe a pint of salet oyle, as much fresh & unsalted butter as an egge, as much deeres suet, as a wall nut, boyle these together, till the herbes be [turned] then strayne the herbes & if you please you may apply them as a bath For a burne or scauld. Take a good handfull of grundall, 12 heads of house leeke, stamp them small as greene [illegible], then take a pint of sheepes dunge, & as much goose dunge, then take a pottle of hoggs lard, & stampe all together, untill it be soe green that you can see noe lard, then make it [illegible] in a ball, & let it stand all night, then in the morning boyle it a litle, straine it, & keepe it. For the same. Take 2 ounces of oyle of roses, 3 ounces of creame, an ounce of pure hony, & boyle it all together, & keepe it [illegible] your use. For the same. Take halfe a pound of [singreeme] or house leeke, a pound of [illegible] madam, halfe a pound of the [rines] of greene elder, halfe a pound of red bramble leaves, halfe a pound of marshmallows, or comon mallow leaves, stampe these together, & take the iuyce, & boyle it on coles, with a pound of salet oyle, or oyle of roses water, & 4 ounces of clarified gooses suet, & 2 ounces of fresh [illegible], let it boyle till the iuyce be almost wasted & let it coole; apply it on white paper to a burne or [illegible] our an [illegible] or [locoram] to an ulcer. 22 For a canker in the mouth. Take the pouder of the roote of celendine, dryed roses, vinegar, [wax], water of hony [suckles], seeth them together till they be [shirk], & annoynt the place by thereof Or [illegible] the iuyce of plantan, wood bind, a litle [roch] [allome], vinegar, & rose water, & wash the mouth. Or take a quantity of sage, a good quantity of [roch] [allome], seeth them in faire running water, & wash the mouth therewith every morning fasting & neither oats nor drinke for an hower after! For a canker Take a handfull of [un] [set] [leekes], & [illegible] rootes, & 16 or 20 litle branches of [yarrow], lay them in white wine until they be very soft, then straine & clarifie them, & drinke every morning & evening three or foure spoonefulls, blood warme, & abstaine from [fruite] for a time For a canker in an old sore. Take a pint & a halfe of red rose water, as much plantan mater, seeth them together, with as much white mercury as a hazle nutt, let them seeth six [illegible], then [stume] it cleane with a fether, & keep it in a glasse for your use, for an approved medicine: & when you will use it, warme 4 spoonefulls, & wash the sore, & lay a cloath 3 or 4 double wet therein upon the sore; & if you feele it too [illegible] lay three or 4 spoonefulls at aforesayd, of mercury water with 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, & as much of plantan water: put not this water in any silver vessell, for by reason of the poyson it will [illegible] For a canker in the body. shread the rootes of dragons, dry & make them into pouder; then take the waight of 9 pence of the pouder, & put it into faire hot water, let it stand a night, in the morning power out the water, & put in white wine, & boyle it well, & drinke of it warme, & it will cure you. For a canker in a woamans brest Take [illegible] dunge, pouder of burned wheate hony, virgin wax, barly & beane flower, & linseed seeth [chase] all together in wine or vinegar, putting 23 thereto rames [tallow], & make thereof a plaster, & lay it to the brest; a very good receite To make the black salus, or for a carbuncle take rusty baren, & black sope, pound them together, & make them up in a roule, & soe use it. For the stone or wind collick. Take a quantity of the spriggs of [gardame] or wild time, a quantity of [samshore], [illegible] with the blossomes if you can, parsly, pellitory of the wall speedwell, [peresthome], sarsifrage, [dew] hony, [illegible], radish rootes, alder budds, red roses, or red rose [illegible] the leaves thereof, [cop] [shese] small, & mixe them together, then take a good handfull of cow dunge, & mixe the herbes therein, then set it in the sunne, turneing it 9 dayes, untill you see the watry moysture dry, then distill it, the sairest water is best let your herbes dry a day before you mixe them; this is to be made in May, or the beginning of June. for the wind collick Take a peece of fine [bumbast], & dry it in the [illegible] soake of [illegible], but let it bee good & pure, then put the bumbast in the [naule], & it will ease you speedily For the collick & stone, & for the mother Take fennell seed, coriander seed, carroway seed parsly seed, ground fill seed, [galingall] seed, of each an ounce, the leaves & [codd?] of [seny] an ounce, of [shignall] a quarter of an ounce, & as much tyme, make all these into pouder, & [search] it, & drinke of it in good ale, or white wine first & last, & in all the [illegible] you eat with the meat, this is very good For the collick plurissis, or impostume in the side. Take 3 handfulls of brooke lyme, that groweth in the river, chop it small with halfe a pound of sheeps or deeres suet, & boyle it in three pints of running water, till it be [shird], that you may plaster it on a cloath, & soe apply it to the place grieved, & against it is cold, have more in readinesse, to put there on. [24] For the wind collick & stone Take milke of a cow that grayseth upon the [illegible] distill it in the mounth of May, because then the herbes have most vertue, drinke six spoonefulls fasting, but if your stomach be weake, put to it a spoonefull of gynger finely beaten, & a litle white wine. A present remedy for the wind collick. Take white wine & good salot oyle, & mixe them together, & drinke thereof now & them. Or take bay-leaves with one white when they are opened, & make it pouder & drinke it with white wine. For the wind collick. Take eg-shells, wherein chickens have been hatched beate them to pouder, then take a penny worth of parsly, a litle aniseeds, halfe a pint of [mustadell], put the rest therein, then heat a flint stone, put it therein, untill the medicine be reasonable warme, & drinke it of, & you shall find ease. For the cough Take a pint of rose water, 2 penny worth of anniseeds, as much of liquorices [faire] [illegible], & make them each into pouder, then take halfe a pound of pure white sugar, & a litle of the pouder of the roote of alecampane boyle all these in the soft water, untill it be [shird], & a [illegible] For the murry or cough. Take a posset with ale, put therein the bignes of 2 wallnuts of sugar candy, & a stick or two of liquorice finely shread, & let them boyle a litle in the ale, then straine the posset, & drinke of it morning & eveninge. For a cough. Stamp garlick with barrowes or hoggs grease, & make it shird like an oyntment & annoynt the soles of the feet, & the back bone. very good. For a perilous cough. Take sage, rue, [camein], pepper, boyle the with hony and eate thereof morning & eveninge. 25 For a greate cold or cough. Take the pouder of rosemary leaves, & put hony thereto, eate it fasting, & when you goe to bed. probatum est. For a cold Take nettle seed, seeth it in oyle, & annoynt the foote & handes there with. For a consumption. Take sesame mynt, rosemary, red fennell, mayden [illegible] sope, of each 2 croppes, sweet marjorame, penny royall, 3 branches, halfe a pound of blew [currants] boyle all these in a pottle of running water, untill it come to a quart; then put to it a quart of white wine & a litle quantity of liquorice, boyle these with the rest againe; & drinke of it morning & evening. For a consumption. Take a fat sow pig, put it into a faire skillitory with sesame [illegible], red fennell, & [nipps] of each, halfe a spoonefull, faire & cleane dates 9, the stones taken out, a handfull of greate [resines] cleane, mashed, 2 or three [reasons], the stones picked out, halfe a quarter of [mace], put all these into the pellitory, & distill them together on a soft fier, then put it in a faire glasse, & set it in the sunne 9 dayes, & soe drinke of it at your pleasure. Annother for the same. Take a young pig too fat, but well flesht, [illegible] him, & wash & dry hi as cleane as you can, then quarter him, & put him with the head and foote into an earthen pottle pot, put thereto a quart of mustadell, or [bastand], or instead of it a quart of running water, ad thereto dates, prunes, resines, currants, of each a quarter of a pound, cynomon rimes, whole [mace] of each halfe an ounce, sugar candy 2 ounces, succory a handfull; mayden haire blood wort, linen wort, [illegible] tongue, violet [illegible] berry leaves, of each halfe a handfull, 2 or 3 fennell rootes the pith taken away; sweet margorame [26] [longuebeese] [alias] cows tongue of each halfe a handfull, put all shels into the pot, & stop it close with past, then put the pot into a bottle of faire water, let it boyle 24 howers & as the water consumeth, put in more being made hot; then let the liquor run through a fine cloath & take a spoonfull at once, & put into the broth, & [illegible]. For chill bleanes or kibes. Take 4 ounces of was, 3 ounces of the best resins an ounce of turpentine, 5 ounces of fresh grease, infuse all these together upon a litle fier. For costivenesse Take a peece of browne bread & bast it, & shread it over with black sope, as you doe butter, & apply it to the [naule] as hot as you can suffer. To fret out dead flesh. Take the pouder of pepper, & lay it to the wounds where the dead flesh is. A diet drinke To 3 gallons of ale take some 6 ounces, ashen [begbernells] 2 ounces, bay berries hulled 2 ounces & a halfe, 3 ounces [illegible] pulled; of the rootes of polipodium, of the oake 5 ounces, fennell seeds an ounce & a halfe, anniseed an ounce, saxifrage sliced thinne an ounce bruise all [illegible], save the [same] which, if the body be hard to worke on, and the [illegible] betwixt the hands, soe it will worke the stronger, mingle all these together in a dish, & put them into a canvas bag, somewhat thinne, to let those ingredients into the ale, then with a stone or peece of lead in the bag to keepe it from swimming, the bag being fast tyed, put it into the vessell of ale soe tyed that it sinke not to the bottom, nor swimse on the top, but hang in the midle, but before you put in the bag, the ale must be [turned] up in a vessell of 4 gallons, & when it hath done workeing put in your bag & after it hath wasted a litle shut up the bunge close & clay it, & after 48 howers or 60 howers you may draw, & drinke thereof leting the bag hang in it untill the last. This may be done morning & evening for 10 dayes, or more, or lesse as you thinke good. [27] For the dropsie. Take halfe a bushell or elder leaves, & as much of water cresses leaves, chop them together, & boyle them well in 6 gallons of water then straine it & drinke thereof: these may be gathered in March, Aprill, or the mounth of May. for the dropsy approoved. Take the iuyce of agrimony, wild sage, thistle, & water cresses, of each, an ounce, & knead three cakes of barly flower with it, then make [maybe] of a bushell of barly mault & breake each cake into three [illegible] & put them in the [illegible], & drinke thereof first & last. For the hot dropsie, or flux. Drinke the water of [?plantan] For the dropsie Eate & drinke of [?andine] in decoction: or the roote of elder [illegible] & drinke is very good. For deafenesse Take hony of roses, iuyce of rue, oyle of bitter almonds, put these together, & drop 2 or 3 droppes into the eare, & stop it with black wood. For a noyle or rumbling in the eare. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, halfe as much of the iuyce of rue, 6 droppes of the [illegible] that [????eth] put of greene ash, burned, mixe these together, & drop a drop or 2 into your eare, & use it probatus est. For the same & to kill any worms in the eare. Take the iuyce of betony, horehound or worme wood warme it, & drop it in, it cures you & kills any worms. For the paynes [imgostumation] or deafenes. Drop the oyle of bitter almond warmed into the eare. Or take greene [elme], & put it into the fier, & [illegible] the water that comes out of the [ends], to a pritty quantity, put to it a spoonffull of wine, & the grease of a black [illegible], then put the liquor after it is well boyled into a vessell of glasse, drop of this [warme] into the eares & in 3 or 4 dayes it will helpe you. Or take a black [illegible], & put it in a cloath, & [stram] salt on him, & when he hath [illegible] himselfe well in the salt, prick him 28 with a needle, & let the water run into a glasse, & put 3 or 4 dropps thereof into your ear cold; then take comon marjorome, stampe it, & drinke a litle of the iuyce of it, & put a litle of it into the nostrills; As soone as the snayles be [illegible] [that] must bee used, or else they will dy. A medicine for deafenes. Take the iuyce of [illegible] leekes, & the milke of a woeman, that gives a boy suck, of each a like portion, the milke of [gitten] almones, & every night, when you goe to bed, take 3 dropes warme into the eare, which [thus] upright, & change the eare every night, and take the wooll, that growes between the [browes] of a black sheepe, & stop the eare in which you drop the medicine, which is excellent to restore the heareinge For one that cannot heare. Take an [illegible], [flea] him, & [rest] him, & keepe the grease that dropped from him, & put it into the eares, & it will recover you. probatus est. For deafenesse. Take camomile, mellilote, margerome, [calamynt] [illegible] pennyroyall, [illegible], mynts, of each a hands full, boyle them together in faire running water, the [illegible] of an hower, then dip a sponge in the same water, & hold it to your eares, as hot as you can suffer, what the heate may enter into your head, then take cotton, & stop your eares close, that noe cold can possible enter into your head. To avoyd drunkannesse. Take betony, & make it into pouder, & eate it, and you shall not be easily drunke. To helpe disgestion. Take the outer rind of a limon, the white taken quite away, shread & [mince] it very small put to it the waight of 4d of fine cynomon powder, & put twice the waight of sugar candy as all the other waight, let the sugar candy be bruised mixe all together & eate thereof on a knifes poynt still before meales. A syrup to helpe disgestion & ease faults comonly in the liver Take agrimony, liver wort, [endime], of each halfe a pound 29 full, 6 parsly rootes, all mashed [cleane], & put into 3 pints of faire running water, then seeth it untill halfe be consumed; straine it, & put a small quantity of vinegar therto, that it may last thereof, & put to it a stick of cynomon bruised, & a [conuement] quantity of sugar, then set all on the fier, & boyle it againe, & when it hath boyled take it of, & beeing almost cold put it in a glasse, & drinke thereof morninge and eveninge For a noyse in the head or eare. [illegible], colt foote leaves cleane, stampe them in a morter, take out the iuyce, then boyle it, & [illegible] it as longe as any greene cometh on the top thereof, drope of it into the eare, & it will helpe you at three or foure dressings. For the eyes. P: 175. To cleere the eye sight Take fennell, rue, eye bright, tormentill, betony, roses, [illegible]-shistles, pimpernell, celandine, oculus christi & the herbe called hylagopiony, smalage, wood bind, [vine] leaves, agrimony, of each one handfull, distill them with a soft fier, & use it. For all the evills in the eyes. Take wood bind, eyebright, pimpernell, red fennell, [mell] worte, daysies, sengroome, red rases, of each, a handfull; mayden haire celendrine, wild tansy, of each 2 handfulls; infuse them in white wine 24 howers, then distill them, & use the water. To keepe back humors from the eyes. Take beanes, the outer rime or skinne beeing pulled of: bruise them, & [illegible] them with the white of an egge, or with mastick, & lay a plaster to the temples A pouder for blood shoten eyes. Take of [illegible] 2 drames, dragons blood one drame stampe them & [illegible] them finely, & out a very litle of it into the eye; this is excellent, probatus est. 30 For the same Take 5 leaves grasse, temper it with swines grease & a litle salt, & bind it to the eye that is sore. For sore eyes: or canker if it be strained Take halfe a vyall of faire water from the spring, & put thereto soe much [white] [ceporesse] as a big beane, & [shake] them together untill the [ceporresse] be consumed, then drop of this water with a fether into the eyes, & in 2 or 3 dropping the will be cured. To take away the blood or rednes of the face and eyes, of what humour soener. Stampe worm-wood with the white of an egge & lay it over the eyes, & it will halpe them [illegible] est. A remedy for sore eyes, that burne and itch, often prooved. Take in a perringer halfe a pint of white wine, 2 penniworth of lapis caliminaris, & heate it in the fier very hot, & then [quench] it in the wine, dea 6 7, 8, or 9 times, then straine it twice, & eveninge & morninge put alitle of it into the eyes. For watry eyes. To eate every day a litle betony is very good. Another for the eyes. Gather red [illegible], [bath] them in cleane water, & take of the top the grease, & with that annoynt the eyes early in the morning, & late in the eveninge A singular water for diseases in the eyes, & to clarifie the sight Take greene wallnutts husked & all from the tree with a few wall nutt leaves, & distill thereof a water, & drope of the same into your eyes. For sore eyes. Take celendine, rue, plantan, annis, & as much of fennell as all the other herbes, stampe these in a new earthen pot, then let it stand 48 howers, then straine it & annoynt the eyes evening & morninge For bleared eyes Take the iuyce of worm-wood, & mingle it with water made of the white of an egge, put it into the eyes, & it will helpe you. 31 For a white haw in the eye. Take the grease of an hare, & lay it to the eyes good. For a pinne or web in the eye Take an egge, & rest it hard, & the white all whole put in it as much white ceporesse as a pease, & all hot wringe it, [illegible] through a cloath, & let it drop into the eye this for young & old is a good approoved remedy. Or take betony, straine it & temper it with water, or with white wine warmed, drinke it 10 dayes, & it will destroye the web. For eyes that burne. Take the pareing of an apple cut something thick, & the inside layd thereto at night when you goe to bed, beeing soft [illegible] helpeth the same speedily For moyst eyes Take the leaves of betony, the roote of fennell, seeth them together, & wash the eyes with the water thereof. Or take water of the decoction of tyme & wash the eyes often [thorowly], it dryes [illegible] the teares or watrynes of the eyes. probatus est. For rhumish eyes. Take a red [cole] leafe, annoynt it with the white of an egge beaten well, when you goe to bed lay it to your eyes, & let it ly all night, use [illegible] often. An excellent remedy for a pin or webbe, redness, watring or sorenes of the eyes. Take the white of an eg, & beate it exceedinge well, then [illegible] of the froath cleane, then put into the white, beeing very cleane, a pritty quantity of rose allome being in fine pouder, & [illegible] let it stand awhile, & it will turne all to a water then preserve it for your use to drop into any [illegible] eye, & you shall find it an excellent remedy For a perle in the eye Take halfe a handfull of ground, as much of wild daysie rootes, with a litle white sugar candy beate them together & take the iuyce thereof & drop it into the eye morninge & eveninge. 32 For a pinne or web in the eye. Take a pritty quantity of the stalkes, cropps, & leaves of the herbe called christopher in the beginninge of of May, put thereto a good quantity of may butter without salt, put them well stamped in a peuter dishe, & set it in the sunneshine for the space of 2 or three mounthes, if it will not be rotten any sooner, when it is rotten & as an oyle set it one more in the sunne, & melted straine it, then drop is much of it into the eye, as a small pinnes head, & let the patient hold up his head for the space of a quarter of an hower; this is a very soveraine medicine, but it must be made & mingled in May; yet it may be strained either in May, June, July or August. For the emreds Bath it with malmsy & comein, & put it up with hot cloathes to it, & [trusse] it up hard. For the emrods an approoved and an especiall oyntment Take a handfull of pile-worte, which must be gathered in Aprill, shread it, & put thereto 3 ounces of fresh butter, which keepe untill May in a coole earthen pot; in May take 2 pounds of May butter, ad to it red bramble leaves, elder leaves, sage leaves, fennell, rostmary, mellilot, levage, of each a handfull, camomile mallowes, of each alsoe a handfull, & a litle house leeke, ship these very small boyling them together in the earthen pot untill the herbes feele crispy, then take them out & straine them, & keepe the oyntment for your use. Excellent for the emrods and piles. And if you mixe this oyntment the quantity of a quarter of a pound with an ounce of varnish, it healeth a burne wonderfully For a feaver which is burneing. Take a roote or two of sedwell, [shave] it cleane, the crops of [illegible], & mild tyme, the leaves of marygoled with the blossomes annyseed bruised, the quantity of a spoonefull, soe much comein, 33 & soe much cloves bruised, egrimony, bay leaves, & speare mynt, of each a handfull, a quarter of a pound of resines stoned, stampe them all well together, the herbes being stamped before, boyle them all in a pottle of malmsy, & in the boyleing put thereto some alexandria bruised an ounce, a ways of white ginger bruised, 4 ounces of sugar, boyule them to a quart, then straine it, & drinke of it first & last. A good drink to drinke in the fervent heat take the posset drinke made of ale, boyle it with [surrory] burrage, buglasse, the leaves & blossoms of marygoles, annyseed, sugar, straine it and drinke it; you may use the same herbes in the broth. Or take white wine & milke, annyseed & liquorice distilled, & use to drinke it. An excellent barly wine to cure or coole the heate of the liver or any heate in a feaver. Take a pint of barly water, a pint of white or reneish wine, halfe a pinte of red rose water halfe a pint of burrage water, a quarter of a pint of [surrory] water, the iuyce of 3 good limones, bruise all these, with soe much sugar as will sweeten all well, & drinke thereof at your time. probatus est. For the spotted feaver an excellent receite Take [cardius], marigole flowers, angelica roote, tormentill roote, of each a small handfull, hartshorne, & [i?ery], of each halfe an ounce, boyle these in 3 quarts of posset drinke, till halfe be consumed, then strayne it, & sweet it with the syrope of [scrabiosse], syrope of gilly flowers, & syrope of limons, of each an ounce & a halfe, but if it be not sweet enough, take sugar candy. A posset drinke for the same. Take [three] pints of new milke, 3 pints of small 34 ale, 4 spoonefulls of rose vinegar, stirre them together, the set it over the fier, untill the curd rises, take of the curd, & with the cleane posset drinke, boyle the herbes mentioned in the former recipe in the posset drink then with 2 spoonefulls of this posset drinke mixe halfe a drame of [illegible] ale, & halfe a drame of treacle, & well mixed, give it to the [illegible] parsly 3 nights together, two spoonefulls at a time. For the fallinge sicknes. Take the pouder of the stones of a [swallow]; or 5 leaves grasse, drinke 33 dayes together; the iuyce of [cowstipps] drunken 9 dayes together; or the heart of a [storte] boyled in water, & the broth drunke, & the heash eaten, the blood beeing first cleane drawne out or the liver of a partridge; or the flesh of a doe dryed & made into fine pouder, & drunke with wine or ale. Every-one of these by gods grace helpeth the falling sickness or [epu?ency]. For the same, & divers other diseases. Take young swallowes, burne them whole, & make pouder of them, mingle it with castoreum, & a litle fine [aysell] that cometh of the gall, you may buy it at the apothecaries, distill water thereof, & drinke of it fasting 9 dayes; It is good for the frensy, the [illegible] & falling [illegible], if you have not had it many yeares; it makes a good colour, clenseth the belly & stomacke, helpes the [palesy], cures cold ioynts & sinewes, & a quotidian feaver; but give it not to a woeman with child; it helpes sores & sicknes of the heart, causes one to sleepe well, to make water, deffrayeth paine where it is annoynted, & preformes a man from drunkennesse. For a fellon very good. Take the iuyce of fetherfue & smalage, of each 3 spoonefulls, as much wheat flower as will make it thick, a wall nuts bignes of black sope, worke it together till it be like [salve], & lay it to the finger, & sponge it every day once at the least, & it will take away the payne & helpe you quickly for a fellon or other sor. Mixe sope with a litle salt & lay it to, it will heale the fellon perfectly. 35 A syrope to breake fleame Take [illegible], mayden haire of each a handfull, a stick of scraped & bruised liquorice, seeth these in a potle of faire running water, till halfe be consumeth, then straine it, & put to it halfe a pound of sugar beaten, then seeth it to the hight of a syrope, & take 3 or 4 spoonefulls of it evening & morninge with soe much white wine or beere, or ale. probatus est. To open the pipes, & breake fleame. Take a quart of conduit water, then take annyseed 2 ounces, a bunch of liquorice bruised, put them into the water, then take alicompane rootes, harts tongue, horehound, liver wort, of each a like much, & a top or two of pennyroyall, boyle all these in the liquor till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & drinke of it luke warme, with a litle ginger. Or take a gallon of water, & a pound of hony boyle them & scume of the froath as it boyles, & [well] boyled put to it cynamon bruised small, then strume it through a jelly bag, & ut it into a glasse & drink thereof. To voyd & destroy cleane. Take parsly [mastic] fennell seed, pellitory, [?sope] seeth them in good ale with liquorice & a quantity of clarified hony, & use to drinke it To destroy fleame. Make powder of betony, & take thereof with hony soe much as will make 2 or 3 pellets, swallow them downe whole when you goe to bed; very good. A posset to purge fleame strongly. Take [?sope], lavander cotton, & rosemary of each 3 cropps, beate them small & mixe them in the morter with stale ale then straine it & put thereto a litle treacle; & as your milk riseth put in the strained liquor, & let it stand a litle; then eate the curd, & drink the whey A strong purge for fleame & superfluous humes. Take diagredian halfe a drame, in a litle white wine, take it early fasting, walke upon it in the chamber, & some 2 or 3 howers after eate a litle broth. To stop the bloody flux. Put a peece of rose allome in boyling milk, take of the [curd], drinke the whey very hot, & if you can eate the curd. 36 For the bloody flux. Boyle [holy-hanke] rootes in wine, & straine it, & drink it; but if the party have an ague, then let the rootes be [fed] in water, with plantan leaves & strained. probatus est. To stop the flux. Blaunched almons sod with hony till they be black, & eaten fasting restraine the flux of the belly wonderfully, but more if they be not blaunched. Eate St Johns water, & you shall find it a very stronge helpe against the flux of the belly. Or eate [beames] sod in vinegar. Or the stalke of a cole warte rosted in embers; or the liver of any beast sod in vinegar, & eaten, refraineth the flux & blood. Water of plantan drunke, is very good both for the flux & the hot dropsy. Mr Halls receite to make his pouder & oyntment to cure a fistula. Take bassorminate, & a greater quantity of white coporosse, beate & rub them well together in an iron morter, & grind it after with a painters [?ane] & soe make it pouder & apply it; and make the oyntment thus. Take the budds of the poplar tree, at theire first comeing, which is in March, or the beginning of of Aprill, take of them a part, & the two leaves of hoggs suet; shread the suet small, & put it in a ketle, & let it boyle a litle, then put in your poplar budds, & let them boyle halfe an hower together, stirre them for burning soe, then strayne it into an earthen pot, & when it is cold cover it, & [illegible] poplar budds, are they that make the populear; where [illegible], that you must use the leafe, when it shootes forth first, when it is no bigger than a [gilly] flower. For forgetfullnesse or drousinesse. The gall of a crane made warme in a leaden vessell, doth throughly, & lightly stirre up the diseased body, if the nap of the neck be annoynted therewith. The sent or smell of dog [fennell] taketh away sleepe. [sauime] beaten & sod in vinegar & layd plaster wise to the [hinder] part of the head [awakes] those that are heavy with sleepe: And [illegible] doth better [quicken] forgetfull persons, than the [smoke] of a mans [haire]. 37 For a pimpled face. Mix3e the iuyce of lylly rootes & vinegar together, of each a like quantity, annoynt the face therewith evening & morninge, for the space of 9 or 10 dayes. To helpe the rednes of the fac. Seeth the rootes of lyllies in water, & morning & evening wash the face therewith, & soe rub it well. For a pimpled face. Take a pinte of white wine, a quarter of an ounce of white coporesse, halfe an ounce of allome, halfe a quarter of an ounce of camfire, & as much brimstone, as a big hasle nut, beate all these in a morter very small, & put it into the wine then shake it all together halfe an hower & let it stand 2 dayes before you use it. It will keepe good a whole yeare. A speciall remedy for the gout. Take wax & refine by equall portions, & more of sheepes tallow, then take plantan, ribworte, equall portions, stamp them & straine the iuyce out, & let it stand all night, in the morning put of the cleere water that stands above, & put all in a pan & boyle it very well, untill all be melted, then straine it into a possett wherein you will keepe it, & when you feele the greife make a plaster & lay it thereto. To allay the ach of any gout what soever. Take ackorne kernells, steepe the 24 howers in strong vinegar, then take them, & dry them in an oven or the sunne, soe that the be not burned, then beate them into pouder, & take 2 penny waight of it, & put it into a cleane saucer of faire water, & drinke it. For the goute. Take sage, parsly, fennel, rue, lavander, of each an equally portion, as much of broome flowers, as all the rest, grind them all together in a morter, & fry the well in may butter, straine it, & let it stand 2 dayes & 2 nights; after wards sooth therein white wine & let it boyle after the [cake], & gather the flower above & heate it in a pan, & put to the pouder of frankincense & virgine wax & mixe the together; this oyntment is best. 38 To make haire grow where never any was. Take an onyon, & bore a hole in an elme tree & when the sap cometh up, then stop the hole with a peg, and soe take out the water with a spoone, & put it into a pot, & use to annoynt the bare place with a fether. To take away haire. Take the ashes of a cole-worte stalke made into a plaster, or use the ashes of a greene frogge burned & made into a lye, the haire being washed through falls away. Or take [horse] leeches & burne them to pouder, & mixe it with [illegible] & use to rub the place. Or annoynt the place with the milke or blood of a bitch, & hare will not grow there. For payne in the head. Mustard seede, or the leaves of it bruised, & layd hterto takes away the payne: there is no better remedy. For a payne in the head. Rub worme-wood well [brayed] & boyled in water & bind it to the temples upon the greife, which will presently mittigate the payne, & cause you to take a pleasant sleepe. To purge the head. Take the seede of [stanesacer], beate it to fine pou pouder, then put the pouder in a linen cloath, & make thereof a litle ball as big as a hazle nut, & put it in your mouth & roule it up & downe & chew it betweene the teeth, & hold downe the head the space of an hower, & it will purge the head & gumes, & keepe your teeth from aleinge. Or snuffe up the iuyce of [illegible] worte into your nostrills; then purgeth the head & helpeth any old paine. Or rub a marygold leave betweene your fingers & put it into your nose, & let it stay there a good space & it will bring out the [rhume], & ease your head. or take comes milke, & primrose iuyce, & with a quill blow up into your nostrills; it will purge the head. Or snuffe up the iuyce of a ground [illegible] Pills to purge the head. Dry maioram & dry it to pouder, mixe it with ginger pouder, & take a rosted onyon, poill it & stamp it with the pouders, & make pills as big as pease, put them into your nose; & water will flow thereout, & ease your paine. 39 For the dazleing of the head. [Broth] pulliall, & lay it to the temples. probatus est. A salve to cure a sore head. Take 12 of the fairst oyster shells you can get, wipe them very cleane, lay the upon a cleane hearth & a very hot charcole fier over them, burne them to ashes, then put them into a quarter of a pinte of [trotter] oyle compounding them with two penny worth of quick silver, & an ounce of brimstone, & it will be best to keepe a quarter of a pint of this oyle by it selfe; the party greived, must have a cap of [canuas], & you must cut away the haire neere to the sore; then annoynt the place with this medicine every morning, & at night with the oyle alone. for the heart burninge Take the crops of fennell, chew then in your mouth sicking & swallowing the iuyce, spit out the rest. For the straitenes at the heart with cold. Seeth figgs in wine, & scume it well, then put thereto 2 drames of the pouder of [dotany] & drinke thereof first cold, & last hot; [Alsoe] for a woeman that goes with a dead child, let her drinke the pouder of [dotany] in wine. And being thus take it causeth iron or wood to come out of a mans body. For the hearinge Take an apple, rost it softly, take the softest of it & pout it upon a linen cloath or cotton, & put it in your eare, when you goe to bed: it is excellent. For the yellow jaundyes. Take turmerick & as much [illegible] beate the to pouder, as much alsoe of the iner barke of a barbery tree, with a quantity of english saffron in pouder, mixe all together, & drinke it in posset ale, 3 or 4 dayes together fastinge. For the black iaundies. Take sage, rosemary, of each a handfull, bruise & straine the iuyce of them into a litle stale ale, 40 & take a saucer of very good vinegar, & put therto as much treacle as a nutte, & beate it in the vinegar, untill it be incorporated, then put thereto as much as a nut, chase them together untill it bee blood warme, & soe drinke of it: this is very good. For the yellow iaundies. Take stale ale, & put therein a [gad] of fier hot steele, take of the fome, & put therein a quantity of [inory] shread, a quantity of graynes, & of english saffron pounded together, & drink it 9 times first & last. For falling of the tuola. Mixe salt & bruise pepper together, & lay it on the end of your thumbe, & put it up there nose. for the iaundies. take red wormes well washed within & without, dry them & make them pouder, or boyule them in the broth, makde with chicken, mutton, or veale, & great resines endive, surrory rootes & herbes, parsly rootes, violet leaves, & burrage, ty the worms in a faire linen cloath, of the bignes of a great walnut, & soe let them boyle in earth or stone, but not in brasse. For the iaundies or morphew. Take the yellomost dark rootes you can get, scrape & wash them cleane, take out the pyth, stire them [thinne], & put them into white or renish wine in a cup close covered, put to it halfe a dozen crops of speare mynts, & let it stand 24 howers, & two howers before you drinke your broth, drinke of this in the morninge fastinge. For the yellow & black iaundies & for the greene sicknes. For the yellow iaundies take of [inory] made into small pouder or halfe an ounce, turmerick 3 quarters of an ounce, english saffron the waight of 4d, all beaten to fine pouder, mixe these together, & drinke a quantity of them morning & evening with stale ale: 41 And for the black iaundices take the same, but first purge [melancholy]; for the greene, the same medicine is alsoe very good. To ripen an impostume. Take worme wood, mallowes, mug-worte of each a good handfull, stampe & mingle them together, with a quarter of a pound of hoggs grease, fry them, & put to them a handfull of wheat branne, a litle wine, & 4 ounces of hony, then boyle them till they be thick, then lay it hot to the sore. To breake an impostume. Boyle lylly rootes & an onyon in cleere water, untill they bee very soft & tender, then stampe and fry them in hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. For an imposture in the body. Take [centry], rosemary, worme wood, hore hound, & make them into a syrop with white wine; take there of, & it will cause the impostume to goe down wards, & when it is breaken, drinke of the same syrope but let it bee always warme. A water distilled in the winter good for impostumes in the lungs & stomack etc. Take alicampane, lylly, flower [doluce] of each 3 rootes, a good quantity of rosemary, as much of sage, half as much of gardaime tyme, & of [rue]; cut the rootes in small peeces, & beate them with the herbes in a morter, untill they b e well mixed, then put thereto an ounce of liquorice cleane scraped, & cut into small peeces, & bruised in a morter, as much annyseed & fennel cleansed & lightly bruised, halfe soe much grasse beaten pepper, infuse all these in a gallon of white wine, or stronge ale, & soe distill it. this is alsoe good for the dropsy, the collick, to comfort the heart, helpe the braine against the aopolexy & dissolves grosse [humers] & fleame 42 takeing but one spoonefull every weeke fasting in summer, & two in winter. For the itch or scab. Take 2 penny worth of the oyle of bayes, halfe a pound of black sope, a penny worth of brimstone, mixe these together & annoynt the scabs therewith. A sweete oyntment to kill the itch Take oyle of bayes, quicksilver, barrowes grease temper them together, & annoynt the party therewith. A [merualous] good & secret receite & of small charge to cure swelled knees & leggs, red & full of humours; often approoved. Take a hoggs skinne if you can, ox also a white lambes skinne, or a kidds skinne, cut a peece of it as broade as the palme of your hand, or some what more, melt it in a pan on the fier, with those things in it; refine of a pine tree 2 pounds galbanu 2 ounces, mastick an ounce, milke, [cynet], amber of each 6 graynes or more; breake the mastick betweene two papers, & melt the refine & galbanu in a pan & melted put the masticke to it, stirre it that it burne not, then spread it hot upon the skinne halfe a finger thick, then take 12 or 15 of the litle beastes called mounkes peason sowes, the ly under stones in moyst places, stamp them in a morter, with a litle barrowes grease, make thereof an oyntment & lay it upon the plaster, & heated lay it under the knee, or calfe of the leg, hard bound for 2 or 3 dayes; if the leg be hairy, shave it away; & if the plaster hath made litle bladders, prick them & mixe them, & wash them with wine wherein the decoction of egrimony, [olive] leaves, & plantan hath beene made, & mixe & dry them againe & make cleane the plaster, & stirre the oyntment a litle & lay it on againe. Doe this every 2, 3, or 4 dayes & the plaster will draw to it in short time a great quantity & will take away the inflamation, rednes, & swelling; If there be a wound heale it with a plaster. 43 For kibes. Take a litle resine, pound it to pouder, mixe it with the grease of a tallow candle, like a salve, make a plaster & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For a laske. Cut of the head a great onyon pick out the [mide??], & fill the hole with frankinsense, & english saffron beaten to gether to pouder, & cover the hole with the top cut of, & rost it in embers, as a [wa?den], & well rosted, take out the core, & lay the hole to the naule; when it is cold take another. A drinke for the same. Take the rime of a pomegranate, 2 or 3 acornes, without the shells, & dry the kernells, put thereto annyseed a spoonefull, a [rays] of good ginger, beate these together to pouder, & mixe all together, & drink of it with red wine where in halfe a dozen wafer cakes have been sod; drinke it together warme three or foure times in a day. For a laske etc. The leaves of knot grasse boyled in wine or water stay all manner of laskes, & fluxes of the belly, the bloody flux, flowers, spiting of blood, & all fluxes of blood For the same. Take 2 handfulls of wheate flower, ty it in a faire white cloath, seeth it in water, which must first boyle before you put in the flower, let it boyle, till it be soe hard, that you may cut it into slices, then dry the slices in an oven, & beate them to pouder & put it in milk, broth or the like Or take the fish of a dozen of great [?entish] [cysters], dry them in a cloath, then strew on both sides beane flower & fry them in sweet butter, untill they bee hard, & eate them, & drinke a cup of [re?bers], or allegant, as you can get. Or take a new tile stone, make it red hot, & take a nutmeg beaten to pouder, & beate into it 5 or 6 yolkes of eggs, bake it on the tile, & eate it, & put a red hot gad of steele into a cup of ale, & [scrap] chalke to it, & drinke 44 For the same. Take a very good nutmeg, wrap it in a browne paper, rost it & eate it very hot, & imediately drinke a good draught of wine of [resbers], doe this 2 or 3 times. Or take a buckes [pisle] & make it into pouder, & drinke it with red wine. An outward medecine for an extreame laske Take halfe a pound of [illegible], beate it very fine & [searve] it, a halfe an ounce of cynomon used in like manner, then take a pint of red wine & bouyle those in it, & make a pultis; then take 2 peeces of red cloath or scarlet & spread it on the, & apply it hot to the belly, beneath the naule, every quarter or halfe an hower one after another Ane xcellent receite for a laske. Take a quantity of gume arabick as much as a hazle nutt, moysten it in the mouth, & as it moystens, swallow it downe, I mean that which moystens & doe this 3 or foure mornings together fasting & it will infallably helpe you. A [tisan] to open the lights. Take a quart of pure barly, a pottle of pure runing water, a good quantity of liquorice, annyseeds, & great reasines, with some figgs, boyle all these to the halfe then straine it, & make it pure good boyle it againe, with the whites of 2 eggs, & take it first & last. For the megram. Take betony, wild thistles, of each a handfull, 6 crops of [singreene], the white of a new layd egge, beate it & take of the cleene, a handfull of wheate branne, mingle all together & put them in a faire linen cloath, & lay it to your fore-head 3 nights, & let the old plaster ly still, & it will help you. A drinke for the same in perill. Take good red wine or mustard oil, & put to it, annyseed, liquorice, figgs, comein, hore-hound, [?sope], tyme, or gamont, alicampane roots, wild sage, herbs tongue, 45 mayden haire, of each a like quantity, put all into a limbeck & distill it after the manner of aquavitae. To procure myrth or chearefullnes The water of burnage drunke with wine makes a man chearefull: it is hot & moyst. Or take a quart of white wine, a pojnd of lye pith of an [oxes] bark, parsly roots, fennell rootes, of each, 2 handfulls, boyle alltogether untill the wine be halfe wasted, then straine it, & drinke 9 or 10 spoonefulls thereof morninge & eveninge, for the space of 9 or 19 dayes; this is very good For the mother or spleene. Make pouder of hore-hound, & eate & drink of it dayly. Or take parsly rootes & fennell the roots & budds of sparages, the crops of tyme, a like quantity of each, boyle them in 7 pints of water, & a pint of hony, & make thereof a syrop; use this 6 dayes; after that infuse a drame or halfe a drame of rubarbe in white wine whey, or in this syrop all night, if the syrope be made thinne; & drinke of it. To cause the meazles or pos to come forth. Boyle a handfull of figgs or pox to come forth. Boyle a handful of figgs, cleane wiped, in a pint of stale ale, untill halfe be wasted, & drink a draught of it, warme [illegible] with the pouder of english saffron. For the morphew. Make a posset with [fennitory] drinke of it in the morninge in your bed, & sweate 2 howers after it; then take annyseeds, pouder & the pouder of [same] & sugar, & drinke of it the same morning, then take a new layd egge steeped 24 howers in vinegar, then prick it with a pinne, & take that with cometh forth, & annoynt the morphew with it & it will goe away. For stopping in the milt. Take [peach] leaves, camomile, yarrow, folgenfue broune fennell, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, of each a handfull, stamp the, & fry it in a litle fresh 46 butter, & lay it warme to the belly, & the side, from the pit of the stomack downeward, & roule it fast on the plaster, or that which is layd plaster wise let it ly 12 howers, then remoove it, & annoynt the place with the oyle warme, & chafe the place before a good fire half an hower at a time. For swelling of the members or stones. Take a rose cake, holy hanke, violet leaves, camomile of each a handfull, a good quantity of comein beaten to pouder or flower, boyle these in faire runing water, untill it be some what thick, & lay it plaster wise thereto: when they are almost boyled enough, pull the rose cake to peeces, & let it boyle on. For a great heate in the mouth. Take a pinte of water, the quantity of a nut of white allome, as much sage, & a spoonefull of hony, boyule alltogether & wash your mouth therewith. A good medicine for an oncome. Take a pint of milke, put therein an halfe penny worth of english saffron dryed & beaten to pouder, with crumes of light bread, soe much as will make it thick; in the boyling put thereto the yolkes of 2 eggs raw, beaten with a litle milke, skinne it continually, when it is thick take a part & spreade it on a linen cloath, & lay it to, changing it twice a day & in the remooveing of every plaster, annoynt the place with this followinge. Take halfe a pint of may butter, put it to comein seed beaten, & mixe it To assuage the swelling of an oncome. Take a pint of white wine, & a good quantity of wheate flower or meale, boyle them together untill they be thick, & lay it to the sore places Or take ground sill, [pinny] ornell, mallowes of each a like, fry them in fresh grease a good space, & lay ti plaster wise to the greived place. 47 Alsoe it is exceeding good to put to the aforesayd oyntment (where it is marked in the [margrine] with this note [symbol]) halfe an ounce of the iuyce of rue, & boyle it with the may butter & cumein seed beaten to pouder & [illegible], stir it, & let it seeth a litle, then use it. A good drink for the pestilence. Take syrop of violets, [sewell], endive, & sower lymons, of each alike mixe them with burrage water, & a [tysane] made of barly with the pouder of [boles?minake] For the [illegible] Take [rue], burned, folgenfue, of each a handfull, a quantity of [illegible], the [illegible] & roots of dragons, wash the cleane, & put them into a potle of running water, boyle it, fill halfe the water be washed, & let it stand untill it be almost cold, straine it thereto sagarrandy, & if you drinke it before the month doe appeare, buy gods grace there is no daunger. A preservative & curative against the sicknes, or plague. Take a new layd hennes egge, & make a hole in the crowne, draw out all the white, & leave the yolke & fill up the shell with english saffron whole, then dry the egge by the fier, or in an oven, when the bread is drawne, soe long till the shell be black & burned, & the rest [illegible], & dry, & beate it to pouder, & put to it the same waight of mustard seed pouder, then adde to it dittany turmentill nux vomica, of each a drame pouder each by it selfe, & then put them all together, & put to it rue, piony, zedoary, camfire, fine treacle, of each, equall portions, soe that the waight of these 5 be as much as all the rest, beate all together in a morter, for the spece of 2 howers, untill they be well incorporated in a lumpe, then glasse it up, set it in a cold place, couvred with a leafe of gold; it will last 30 yeares without corruption, 48 & is of an inestimable value; one halfe penny waight will [illegible] some one from the plague; the waight of a barly coarne half a [memalous] strength to defend the body. but if you be [illegible] to take it before letting blood take 2 or 3 graynes; but after blooding take a whole scruple, or 2, or 3, if your strength will [serve], tempered with wine, for a hot, bakeing; & in a great cold take a litle quantity, & sweate thereupon; I have knowne the sick utterly desperate, not being able to retaine any thinge, yet takeing 2 scruples of this, mixed with a litle aqua vitae, the vomiting hath ceased, & nature recovered, & the sick body escaped the daunger of death. An emplaster for the same. Make it of oyle olive 20 ounces, new wax, [litarge] of gold, litarge of silver, [venere] cerisse, of each 4 ounces, myrrh [galso] an ounce, [venere] tereb. 4 ounces, a soe make it [illegible] The vertue of this emplaster 1 It cures all sores & greifes, soe that the [bone] be [illegible] 2 All swelling leggs, [exceeding] of deafnes, be it with [blew] or other wise 3 All impostumes, swellings, inflamations [exceeding] of [falls] or bruises; & like wise for the touch of any venomously thinge. 4 All [illegible], & boyles in any part of the body 5 All sores, & [botches] caused by venery or gonerhea etc. & all [scabes] in the body or hands. 6 The fistula, be it never soe great & old 7 The plague, laying it presently upon the place where the sore is 8 All sorts of dropsies, swellings or breakings out of the leggs or feete, that you cannot weare hose or shoes. 9 All burnings, although with gunpouder. 10 All cutts, [thrusts] or stabbs with rapier or dagger. 11 All bitings of venomous beastes or mad doggs. 12 All itches & [scabbs] in the head of man or woeman 13 The white [scab], be it never soe bad. 14 All warts, [ringwormes], & [fellons] in any part of the body. 15 The kinges evill. 16 The cancer, [provided] soe, that it be layd to in 49 time, before it comes to the heart of the party All apostumes & fistulas in the eares 17 All sores on the feete 18 All superfluous flesh that growes between the nayles 19 of the fingers or toes. All itch although in the fundament 20 All [var??sities] in the hand, & all such sores, & greifes 21 although they came of loose venery. All sore eyes, inflamed, or rheumetike with white 22 water, that they cannot open them. Alsoe St Anthonyes fier. 23 Alsoe it cures the gangrene, [presently] applied. 24 [illegible] all [puthes], spotts, wartes, freckles, in the 25 face or brow. A preservative from the plague. Take herb grace, elder leaves, red burrage leaves, sage, of each a handfull, bruise & stamp them, & put the iuyce of them into a quart of white wine, & put a quart of grated ginger into it, & let it stand a whole night, then drinke of it 9 mornings fastinge one after an other, & by gods grace it will keepe you from being infected Or take the pouder of [boleorminate] & [sheai??] mingled together very well. An excellent preservative in the plague time to expell it from the house. Take olibanum, mastick, wood of aloes, beniamin, [storae], wadanum, cloves, [ir??per], make of them a perfume, & sprinkle it with vinegar, & alsoe take the greene braunches of quince trees in your chamber, & sprinkle them with vineger & rose water. An electuary very precious against the plague. Take 20 wall nutts, 14 fat figgs, herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, [illegible] eye, scabions, of each a handfull, 2 ounces & a halfe of pomegranate potasicke, alias the blessed bird, halfe an ounce of aristochia [songa], an ounce of aristochia rotunda, a handfull of the leaves of ditany, 3 drames of bay berries, 2 drames & a halfe of the pouder of harts tongue 3 drames of mace, a drame of the salt of the sea, 50 2 drames of nux vomica, a handfull of the flowers of buglasse, stamp them together in clarified hony, & eate a drame thereof every morning fastinge. For the dead paulsy, or numbenes in the ioynts or bones. Take rosemary topps, red sage topps of each a hand full, a pint of good maulmsy, halfe a pint of [neath] foote oyle, boyle them together & stop it close, & annoynte the place with it warme. probatus est. For the paulsy in the hands. Wash your hands in cold water, wherein is sage, and let them dry of them selves. For the paulsy. If any man doubt of the paulsy, let him eate every morninge 3 mustard seeds, & 3 pepper cornes, and use it day by day. OR take the flowers, leages, & rootes of comstipps, stampe them, & lay them in a linen cloath, & warme them very hot, & lay them to the nap of the neck, & to the sores, when those gro cold, lay to warmer, 2 or 3 times; and stamp sage & lay it in like manner to the pulses or wristes. For the same. Take spanish St Omers onyons the cores taken out, & fiull them up with good aqua vitae & with them well, then straine them, & if they bee to dry, put to them in the straining a litle more aqua vitae, keepe this oyle, & annoynt the patient evening & morning: it is very good. For a pluricy: vide pag: 23. For the piles or whites an excellent salve. Take pile wort, gathered in Aprill, chop it small & temper it with a litle butter to preserve & keepe it till May; then take 2 pounds of may butter, red bramble leaves, mallowes, ale [cost], elder leaves, rostmary, house leeke, fennill, [?rset] isop topps, mellilate, & ale [hoose], chop the herbes very smal & knead them in the butter, then put it in an earthen pot, & set it in the hot sunne for the space of 51 6 rootes, then boyle it on a gentle fier stirring it, & when the herbes are crispy it is enough, then staine it purely from the herbes & put a quarter of a pound of wax thereto. If you ad to this salve white varnish it is an excellent salve & a very souveraigne remedy against any burne or scald what soever; & without the varnish it cures the piles. For the same Take the blossoms & budds of archangell, if it be for a man, it must be the red, for a woeman the white, boyle them in white wine, with a [bull] [oxe] pith, strayne the herbes, & lay them to the place greived, & drinke the liquor sweetened with sugar candy, 2 spoonefulls at a time in the morning & eveninge, if the party be aged take the more. To make on pisse freely. Take parsly seed, alexander seed, the rootes of tansy in winter, or the leaves in sumer of each a handfull, boyle them in a pottle of good ale, & let it stand untill it bee cold, then straine it, & make a posset of the liquor, & drinke of it but let the curd alone. Or seeth barly, liquorice, & violets in water 5 or 7 howers, then straine it, & drinke first & last. For those that cannot retaine or hold theire water. Take with vineger & water when you goe to bed the blader of a goate, sheepe or bull made into pouder. Or take 3 dayes together at the weane of the moone the blader of a fresh water fish. or the braine of a hare taken in wine. or drinke the blader of a sow pig made into pouder. or the blader of a [ber?] made into pouder. or fill boards rosted, & eaten are very good for any one that hath the distillation of urine soe take then pouder in drink or [illegible] 52 For the same. Burne goates tallow, & make it into pouder, and put it into the patients pottage. Or lay a tile upon hot coles, & lay theron a grates goose cut in peeces, & give it time to melt then beate it to pouder, & take in a spoone a little with warme milke or pottage evening & morninge fastinge. Or take 2 parts of castorium, one pt of nutmeg beate them to pouder, & with a litle syrope make pills & take one every night when you goe to bed. For one that is poysoned. Take wall worte barke, pare away the outer rime, beat it to pouder, lay it in ale or water all night, then straine it, & drinke it fasting & you will vomit up the poyson. For the Rhume. Weare a scarlet cap smoaked with frankinsense or storax, & take a spoonefull of the syrope diacodion, & hold it in your mouth a quarter of an hower after you be in bed, or more, then spit it out: but if you have the murre, then you must swallow it downe. Or dry & beate a handfull of bay salt, & put to it a handfull of branne dryed a litle, mixe them, & sow them in a linen bag, or two, & heate them hot over a chafeing dish of coles, & lay them to the mould of the head, behind & before, & doe this 3 or 4 times in a dressinge. To make a water in perill. Take 3 gallons of the lyes of sack, or maulmesy, or both, liquorice, aniseeds, of each a pound, coriander seed, carroway, galingall, spikenard, set wall or sed wall, of each an ounce, resines of the sunne a pound, figgs halfe a pound, synomon 4 ounces, penny royall a good handfull, camomile, mynts, [vuset] time, fennell, [vernin], 53 saxifrage, dill, hore hound, of each halfe a handfull, allicampane roots 2 ounces, infuse all these into the lyes 24 howers, before you set you limbeck, let them not be 4 gallons & more, & draw out of this 5 pintes of the strongest, & when it is 4 dayes old put to it a good quantity of rose leaves, & let it stand 10 dayes, & then stragne it, & put to it halfe a pound of resines of the sunne, the stones picked out, & 4 ounces of figgs of Algrye, & let it stand 14 dayes, then cleane it, & stop it up close. Doctor Smithes water for the same. Take a gallon of the stronge spanish wine, three quarters of a pound of liquorice, & as much of anniseed, distill them as you doe aqua vitae, then take a quarter of aqua vitae, & as much rose water, 2 ounces of liquorice, & as much aniseed. If you will you may let this stand 24 howers, & then straine it. For the rhume. Take olibanum, 3 perles; wrap them up in [conserve] or roses, & swallow them downe, as pills, when you are ready to sleepe; but take this not a bove 2 nights together; the three perles must be of the bignes of small pease. For the same. Take [isope] rosted in embers, & lay it to the head. Or if it proceed of a cold cause, take hot calamynt & mother [illegible], bray them, & lay them to the temples, or any place of the head. Ro cast into the mostrills the iuyce of colewort; this purgeth the head from rhume For a rupture Take mond royall, bone worte, shepheard purse, knot grasse, of each a handfull, stamp them together & put the into a pint of the drinke prescribed in the 20th page & 4th receite: then take them, & straine them into the same drinke, & give it as the other. If you use the water above mentioned, for wounds or sore brests or other sores you may put instead of one of the gallons of water, a gallon of white wine, & annoynt the place with oyle of [illegible] worte For the ricketts. Take rosemary, bay leaves, camomile, tops of lavender, the 2 rines of ale [goose], [illegible] isope, [sowed] tyme, of each a handfull, shread them and beate the in a morter, boyle it in a pound of butter fresh the space of an hower; straine it & annoynt the childs sides, knees, & downe to the feete, every evening & morning for a quarter of an hower; this oyntment is to be made in May. A drinke for the rickets. Take the roote of fox [fearne], it hath a clove like garlick; take 5 of these cloves, bruise the & put it into a halfe a pint of milke, boyle it to a quarter of a pint, & drinke of it every morning fasting & fast halfe an hower after: when you have used this a pritty while, then take in the same manner 7 cloves; & when the child will not take it any longer in milke; bake it in an oven, & beate it to pouder & give it the child in [beere]. A syrope for the rickets. Take a quart of running water mayden haire, sage of Jerusalem, coltsfoote, of each an ounce, an ounce of the shaved roots of fox fearne, liquirice shred anniseed bruised, of each halfe an ounce, a handfull of cleane picked liver worte, 20 figgs shred, boyle all these well together to the halfe, & straine it, & put to it a pound & a halfe of fine sugar, 2 drames of prepared perle, 3 leaves of gold, let these boyle well together, then straine them, & give the child one spoonefull first in the morning, & one last at night. 55 To stop the running of the reines Take [cypris] turpentine, the quantity of a wallnut, conserve of roses a quarter of an ounce, halfe a quarter of an ounce of cynomon beaten, 2 or 3 ounces of white sugar candy, red & yellow sanders a quarter of an ounce of each, white sanders alsoe. Another for the same. Take white sanders a quarter of an ounce, yellow sanders halfe an ounce, red sanders 3 quarters of an ounce, beate them well together in a morter, ad an ounce of conserve of red roses, & beate all againe, then take soe much venice turpentine washed in plantan water, as will bring it to the stiffenes of a pill, & take thereof the quantity of a hazle nut in the yolke of an egge new layd; take this 3 mornings together, then cease 3 dayes, & soe by 3 dayes together, untill 9 dayes be expired; then take a plaster of diapalma, apply it to the bark, & let it ly till it fall of of it selfe. The vertues of rosemary. Boyle the leaves in white wine, & wash the face, beard & browes, & you shall be faire; put the leaves under the beds head, & you shall be delivered from all evill dreames. Bray the leaves to powder, & lay it on a camber, & it will kill it. Make a box of the wood, & smell to it, and it will preserve your youth. If the leggs be swelled with the gout, boyle the leaves in water & bind them to the swelling in a linen cloath, & it will helpe you. Boyle the leaves in [strange] vesell, & bind them to the stomack & it helpes all evills. The wood or stalkes burnt to pouder keep the teeth from all evills, if you put it in a linen cloath & rub your teeth therewith [56] For the stone. Take pouder of [s??nes] berries, pouder of [damsenes], pouder of saxifrage, of each a litle much, & drinke it with posset ale. Another Take [unset] time, camomile, of each 2 handfulls, rosemary betony, of each one handfull, 3 handfulls of cinckfole, boyle them in a pottle of sack & a pint of clarified hony unto a quarter, & take it in the morning 6 howers before you eate, & soe last at night. For the stone Take a spoonefull of coriander seed, 2 spoonefulls of parsly seed, & 2 of broome seed, alexander seed, groundwell seed of each a handfull, beate the to pouder, & [searce] them; then take a quantity of white wine & put therto a handfull of parsly roote & leaves in summer in winter the rootes only, a handfull of pellitory on the wall, halfe a handfull of wild mallowes, a handfull of water cresses, boyle all from a quart to a pint, straine it, & then put in the fore sayd pouders, & drinke it milke warme first & last. Another very good. Take a quart of good red wine, put thereto 3 ounces of sugar, halfe an ounce of comein seed whole, seeth all together from a quart to a pint, then straine it & use it cold first & last: very good. Or take [illegible], unset leekes, beane cods, resines, saxifrage, still these herbes [illegible], then take a like portion of the waters, & soe much maulmesy as the waters bee in all & distill the together & keepe that water in a glasse, & drinke 4 spoonefulls of it with a spoonefull of the pouder of good ginger. For the stone in the blader Drinke [turmarick], bayes, [longe] pepper, ground sill, and cloves. an emplaster for the stone. Take parsly, tyme, unset leekes, penny royall, 57 camomoke, vervine, pellitory of the well, saxifrage [clyners], of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pinte, & lay it to the belly. Or take worme wood & camomile of each a handfull, boyle them in a pinte of malmesy untill it be consuned to the halfe & apply it. A distilled water for the stone, to be made in the end of May or begining of June. Take pellitory of the wall, saxifrage, parsly, mother of time, of each 5 handfulls, 12 [redice] rootes small ones, stire the rootes & stamp the herbes, & lay them in a gallon of new milke & soe distill them. Some take but one handfull of each of the herbes & 5 or 6 rootes. then take 6 spoonefulls of the water, & six spoonefulls of white wine with a litle sugar, & a litle nutmegs shred therein, & take it blood warme, thrice together in 3 mornings, & this only in the space of 3 weekes, & ride or walke upon it 3 howers, & after you have drunke this, eate halfe a good nutmegge. To breake the stone Drinke the pouder of egge shells, probatus est. Or take the pouder of the rootes of red nettles put a spoonefull thereof into a draught of white wine, & drinke it something warme, use it every day untill the stone be broaken & consumed. For the stone. Seeth a pinte of holly berries in good ale, till the ale be consumed, then straine it, & put to it a litle butter, drinke thereof 5 or 6 spoonefulls, & within halfe an hower you will make water, if ever any medicine will cause it. For the same Take a good deale of mug roote, stamp it & wring out the iuyce & drinke every day the quantity of a cuppe full. probatus est. The gume of cherries doth breake the stone & leassen the gravell wonderfully. Or distill strawberries & mingle the water with good maulmesy & drinke it. 58 Or take a red hot flint, put it in a quart of white wine, cover it close, & let it boyle, & drinke it cold. For the stone. Take ale, white wine, of each a pint, a quarter of a pint of parsly water, [gramwell] seed, coriander seed, of each a penny worth beaten, a handfull of mother of time, as much pellitory of the wall, halfe an ounce of parsly seed, boyle alltogether on a soft fier untill it come to halfe a pint or therabout Or take mead parsly, pellitory on the wall, anniseeds, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint, & drinke thereof in the morning fastinge, & walke upon it. A purge against the stone or gravell, by Mr Groves. Take a drame of pulvis sanctus, halve an ounce of syrop of roses, steepe them in a penny worth of white wine, & drinke it of & you shall find great ease. Or squeese the iuyce of 2 lymons through a fine cloath, put thereto 4 or 6 spoonefulls of good sallet oyle, with a litle quantity of sugar, drinke it of in a morning, & walke upon it; this is most excellent to provoke urine. Another for gravell. Take a good draught or two of new ale out of the fat, with some fresh butter in it, & walke an hower or 2 upon it, & it will cause you to voyde much gravell & stones. Or take 3 or 4 red hearing-cobbs, dry them & pound the to pouder & all wayes use those of either in the drinke or pottage, or in both . For the stomack payned with heat burneing. Take rose water, sorell iuyce purified, of each a pint, mixe them, ad thereto a quantity of anniseeds, with sugar, boyle all untill halfe be consumed, & take 3 spoonfulls at a time every eveninge and morninge, & at other times alsoe if need requires soe to doe. 59 To breake fleame about the stomack. Take the iuyce of fennell & a quantity of hony, boyle the untill it be thick, & drinke thereof every eveninge and morninge. This cleeneth the stomack. Or take parsly rootes, fennell rootes the pyth taken out, wild tyme, isop, an herbe like liver worte which groweth in an oake, of each a good handfull pick them cleane, seeth them in a pottle of running water to a quart, & with this water make almon milke, & sweeten it with sugar, & drinke of it as oft as you please. For the squincy in the throate. Boyle the iuyce of fennell in hony very well, untill the iuyce be consumed, & use it. Or take halfe a handfull of the rootes of white lillies, or as much as will make a plaster, halfe a pint of milk, halfe a spoonefull of treacle, stampe all together, & make it as hot as you can suffer, spreading it on a cloath, lay it to your throate. A gargle for the squincy. Take 2 spoonefulls of mustard, a spoonefull of hony a pritty quantity of a white doggs [turd] finely [searced], a quantity of strawberry or plantan water, gargle your throate with this: afterwards gargle the throate & mouth with syrop of mulberries or blackberries, & carduus water warmed. To lay outwardly for the squincy. Take a white doggs turd pounded small, a quantity of hony, a quantity of wheat flower, the yolke of a new layd egge, beate all together, & spread it on a peece of leather or browne paper, & lay it outwardly to your throate. A pultis for the squincy Take the rootes of holy [hartes], the rootes of mallowes, of each a handfull, the pith taken out; camomile, violet leaves, & flowers, of each a handfull chop them small, & boyle the in a pint of faire water, 60 put to it fennigreese meale linseed, [illegible] barly, of each halfe an ounce, boyle it to a pultis, then put into it halfe an ounce of oyle of camomile, halfe an ounce of oyle of sweet almons & spread it & lay it to warme, change it once in 6 howers. For shrinkeing of the sinues. Take marsh mallowes, rosemary topps of each a handfull, stamp them together, then [illegible] them in may butter melted & mingle them, then let it stand 10 dayes, then seeth it well on a soft fier, then straine it, & keepe it in a stone pot. For shrinking of the vaines or sinues. Take a quantity of fine mustard made with white wine vineger, a quantity of maulmesy, a quantity of cynomon, boyle all together, & with this [chase] the place then take chick weed wrap it in a browne paper & rost it untill it bee soft, & lay it on the place greived, as hot as you can suffer it. For a prick in the sinues with a nayle, knife, or thorne. Heate oyle of roses well & lay it upon the place very hot & bind black wooll upon it. probatus est. For the same if the hole be stopped. temper boulted wheat flower with wine, & boyle it together, till it be thick, & make a plaster of it, & lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it. For one that cannot sleepe. Stamp bay berries in a morter & lay them all about your head in a cloath. or take egrimony, & put it under your head, & you will sleep untill it be taken away or take a handfull of hempe seed, wash it cleane, & dry it against the fier, then beate it to powder then straine it with a quantity of new ale, & make a [illegible] through a strainer then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it warme. This is alsoe good for the black jaundyes. Or make pouder of the white topps or seeds of lettice, & temper it with woemans milke, & the white of an egge & lay it to the temples of the head, & you will sleepe. Or drinke this pouder in milke. 61 For one that cannot sleepe. Take 5 branches of arkangell, 7 of white wort, & 11 of the leaves of sedwell, pound the together & straine them with as much drinke as will make a posset, & make a posset with the sayd liquor & molke, and drinke the posset ale when you goe to bed. For the spleene. Take endive, harte tongue, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, smallage, fennell, parsly, of each 2 rootes, anniseed, comein seed, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, seeth these in 3 pints of water, & the third part of a pint of white wine vineger, to the halfe, & when it is cold, straine it, & with a litle sugar every morning drinke a good draught thereof fasting & let it be blood warme, when you take it & boyle it in stone or earth, not in brasse To clense the spleene. Take harts tongue, wild hopps, lettice, burrage, [illegible] flowers of fumitorrae & parsly roots, seeth all these in whay, when they are well sodden, clarifie the whay with white of eggs, straineing it, & keepe it & drinke it first & last during a mounth & it will halpe the spleene, & clense the blood, & comfort the body many wayes. To make one slender. Take fennell, & seeth it in water, & drinke the water last at night, & first in the morninge. For the sciatica. Take the oyle of a fox, oyle of camomile, of each a like quantity, take neats foot oyle & aqua vitae twice soe much, put all together, & warme them, & annoynt the place greived by the fier. To make one soluble or loose. Make broth of veale, mallowes, violet leaves, & great resins stoned, then straine it, & take a quantity thereof fasting & fast 2 howers after it 62 For a stinkeing breath. [illegible] to drinke vernine tempered with wine. Or seeth gardaime mints in vineger, & wash your mouth therewith, after wards rub your mouth, gumes and & teeth with the pouder of mynts; it is very good. For the straitenes of wind. Take an earthen pot of a gallon, put therein faire water, & a cocknell of a yeare old, then take fennell rootes faire scraped the outer rind being taken away, alsoe the rootes of parsly, [illegible] harts tongue liver worte, & dandelion, put all into the pot, boyle it a good space, & put to it a quantity of greate resines,m & prunes, & boyle it, till the cocknell be boyled in manner to peeces, then straine it, & drinke thereof first in the morninge, & an hower before supper, & use it thus soe longe as you shall think good. For the same Take a penny worth of the smallest griggs or [eeles], chop them very small & boyle them in ale, made without hopps, put thereto 3 pounds of sugar candy, an halfe penny worth of liquorice, as much of graynes, boyle all together & sup it up as a sponge. For a short wind. Seeth mallowes, mercury, & burrage with a peece of parke, & drinke the broath with white wine or whay made of milke. For a paine in the side. Take wild tyme, penny royall, runing water, saxifrage, [mouse??d], of each halfe a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine to a pint with iuniper berries halfe a handfull bruised, put to it 2 spoonefulls of fine sugar, straine it & drink of the liquor first & last, & take it as you have need 63 For a stitch ]Take the great red poppy flowers, that stick & grow in corne, distill them as you doe roses, & take a draught of the water blood warme with old ale or wine, drink it twice or thrice at any time. Or take 2 or 3 handfulls of camomile flowers or of the herbes, & as much worme wood, some mallowes, a good handfull of rosemary, seeth all in a gallon of water till halfe be consumed, then put it into a dry blader of an oxe or cow, & lay the blader to the place greived as hot as you can suffer it, & when it is almost cold, warme it againe, or rather take 2 bladers, & when one is cold, lay to the other, that is hot Another for a payne in the side. Take a few oates & parch the, a good handfull of fethersue, a quantity of pigeons dunge, dry all these in may butter, & in a bag, or limon cloath lay it to your side, as hot as you can suffer it. For a swellinge. Take worme wood, broome, of each halfe a armefull, burne them to ashes, & put them into a cleene posset drinke made of white wine with 4d worth of iuniper berries, & boyle it all together, then sweeten it with sugar, & drinke it; let the posset drinke be a quart in quantity. For a surfet Take worme wood & red mynts, strew them well with salt, & boyle them in vineger, with crumes of browne bread, & sew it in a linen bag, & lay it hot to the stomack; this will helpe you. For a tetter. Take a penny worth of mercury sublimate, put it into a glasse with a quarter of a pint of faire water; & let it stand, & wash the tetter therewith evening & morning, & let the water dry up of it selfe. Or take mercury sublimate & boleorminate, & make them into powder & mixe it with faire water in the hands, & lay it on the tetter beeing cleared. 64 Or beate glasse to fine pouder, mixe it with black soape, & annoynt the sore therewith. For tilicke Take a quart of faire water put thereto isope, hore hound of each halfe a handfull, mayden haire a handfull, liquorice halfe a pound grossely bruised seeth them in the water to the halfe, then straine it, & put to the liquor 4 ounces of penny [deyes]: mace, cynomon, ginger, nutmeggs, of each halfe an ounce, 4d waight of longe pepper, beate these together to fine pouder, & put them into the liquor, & make with fine wheat flower a cake, and bake it, & eate thereof For the same Boyle a quart of good ale, & scume it cleane, put to it a good quantity of anniseeds, a stick of liquorice bruised, 3 figgs, a peece of sugar candy, boyle them untill it come to a pint, & drinke of it for the space of 7 or 8 dayes. Or boyle the flowers of rosemary in goats milke, then let it stand in the ayre well tendered a whole night, & drink there of A water to scower corrupt teeth. Take vineger& hony with the pouder of allome, & boyle them together, & wash them therewith, & it will [scowere] them & take a way the paine To make a tooth fall out Take red [illegible], white horse haire, & a water frog, dry them in an oven, & make pouder of them, & which tooth you will have out, wet the top of the finger in the milke of a bitch, & then dry your finger in the pouder, & lay it on the tooth, & it will fall out. For a timpany Take a gallon of faire runing water from the spring, set it over the fier in a sweet vessel, then take an ounce of coriander seed, an ounce of anniseed, 65 ly then in sunday cloathes; take alsoe a pound of resins of the sunne, wash them & pick the, & put them into another cloath, a quart of each [madds], [scower] this as you would doe [illegible], [slice] & cleanse them in many waters, till they be white, & boyle all in the sayd water, till almost halfe the water be consumed, & straine it into a faire vessell, use to drinke it evening & morning, & after meales a good draught reasonable warme, & by gods grace it will helpe you. A white salve for a wound. Take gume [elemy], venice turpentine, a like quantity in waight of each, with soe much mutton suet & fresh grease, the suet wtice soe much as the grease, melt all together, but let them not seeth, then straine the, & beate the together till it is cold. An oyntment to coole & comfort a wound. Take a quantity of oyle of roses, a quantity of boleorminate in pouder, the whites of 2 eggs, beate them a good space together, then lay it on a cloath, & lay it about the wound. For a cut or chop. Take burgundy pich a quarter of a pound, 2 penny worth of turpentine, yellow wax 2 ounces, frankincense 2 ounces, 2 spoonefulls of aqua vitae, boyle these in an earthen pipkin, until they be well melted, stirring them continually, & spread it on browne paper or thin lether, & lay it to the place greived, & let it ly until it fall of. A precious salve to heale any sore or greene wound. Take resine, [illegible], of each halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of virgine wax, sheepes suet & deeres suet of each a quarter of a pound, 66 [olibanum] a quarter of a pound, mastick halfe a pound, beate these to pouder, which may be beaten, & put them in a pan with the wax & suet, & when it is well melted, straine it into a pottle of white wine, or seeth it in a quart, & let it coole a litle, then put in camfire whole, turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, & straine it, till it be cold, & seeth it againe. Another better Take resine, burgundy pich, of each halfe a pound, virgin wax, sheeps suet, deeres suet, of each a quarter of a pound, mlet all together, with a litle white wine, & stire it continually, then put in an ounce of mashed frankincense, olibanum, venice turpentine, of each a quarter of a pound, myrrhe an ounce, 2 drames of camfire the 3 [illegible] must be last put in, & all well beaten, nor let it stay long on the fier after these are put in, then straine it through canvas into a bason, & before you straine it put into the bason a quart of white wine, then let it coole, & soe make it up into roules, & if you will keepe it, lay it alwayes in white wine, & it will keep 7 yeares For a cut Take isope & the [illegible] of [carduus] [bened???] & put it to the cut, & it will heale it. To get out of the flesh wood or iron. If it be deepe in, & cannot be got out, dip a [tent] in the iuyce of valerian, & put it in as deepe as you can, & ly the herbe varerian stamped upon the sore, & a cloth upon it, this drawes out wood, iron, or any thinge else, & healed the wound. For a cut. wash the sore with the iuyce of isope, & dip lint therein, & lay it thereto. A pultis for any greivous sore or wound. Take a quart of milke, a penny white leafe grated (& annoynt the [illegible] first with capons grease) two 67 ounces of red rose leaves, boyle all well together, put to it 2 penny worth of venice turpentine, boyle it but a litle, then put in 2 spoonefulls of good hony, the yolkes of 2 eggs, well beaten, 4d worth of spermacete, put in these two last in the cooleing A balsome to cure greene wounds. Take a pint of the best oyle, 4 ounces of bees wax, 4 ounces of turpentine, an ounce & a hlafe of mumia, oyle of St Johns wort, alias aspericu, 2 ounces of alconet rootes, & boyle all well together. To take away warts or cornes. Lay upon the wart or corne brimstone as much as a pinns head, & let it burne, till it come to the roote, then take it away, it is but litle or noe paine upon a warte Or take a silke thread, ty it straite about the wart, & let it be till it come of. probatus est. To kill wartes Lay doves dung in vineger, & annoynt the therewith. or rub [parsalone] on it, & it pulls it up by the roots; Or take ashe [illegible], & mixe it with vineger, & apply it on the wartes. Or stamp wood [bind] leaves, & lay them thereto; use this but 6 times, & it will destroy the warts. For wormes in the hands. When your hands itch, rub them untill the water & skinne be broaken, then take gunpouder & rub them with your spittle. For a wenne. Bind the wenne fast, then take verdigrease, sulphure, sope, oyle of eggs, allome, hony, of each a quantity, temper them together, & lay it thereto, & it will take away the wenne, & heale it without doubt. 68 For a woeman in travaile, that wants [shrowes] Take ditany, halfe an ounce of cloves, a good quantity of cashey 2 worte of spermacete, boyle all in a pint of white wine, & then sweeten it with sugar, & give it to the woeman to drinke. To spout into the yard. Seeth barly & claryfied hony together, till the barly doe breake, then straine it, & put it into the spoute, & use it. 69 for the [??atteta] Take pitch [illegible] in pouder at [trb] 2 frankinsence roote brused [trb] 3 [illegible] [suett] [trb] 2 saffron in pouder two ounces mace & [illegible] an [zr] [illegible] [illegible] the [suett] rosin an frankinsence then the pitch then add the [spices] with an ounce of [illegible] seeds & of [illegible] in powder ziii. make a [buskin] of white calves lether and in the [sope] [illegible] of [spices] the plaister halfe an [illegible] [thus] Laye it on the [illegible] of the pained side & weare it 29 or 30 daies & [illegible] without opening it at all Mr [Solk??e] at the [illegible] in [illegible] makes this plaister [70] Mustard whey Recipe for rheumatism Take of the best durham mustard seed 3 oz boil it gently in three pints of water till reduced to one; then add one pint of skimmed milk & strain it thro a small sieve; this produces the whey Take a tea cup full of this whey, luke warm, every morning 77 The second booke of admirable & most approoved receites. For any greife or payne in the head, except the pox. Take red roses, camomil floweres, mellilote, calamynt, of each two handfulls, seeth them in 40 pound of water & good wine, until halfe bee consumed, & with this being hot let the patient wash his leggs from the knees downe ward every night & morning, and his armes from the elbowes downeward; hee must bee empty stomack’t, or at least not very full. For the head ach which continueth. Take leaves of black [illegible] & gray them with vinegar, oyle, 7 wine, of each a like quantitie seeth these together, & annoynt the fore head, & temples, & it will bringe ease. For the head ach. If the patient himself his head [cleaveth] asunder, by reason of the extreame payne, take [illegible] & make iuyce of it, which you shall mingle with oyule of roses, and with a linen cloath annoynt gently his nostrills, temples, & forehead, & if 78 the payne bee very vehement, lay some of it upon the scull of his head. For the head ach. Take the braine of a crow, & seeth it, & then eate it there is noe payne of the head soe great or old but this will helpe it. For the megram happening soudenly Take bengewine bray it with vinegar, & annoynt the forehead with it & your temples. For itching in the head. Take a sheepes gall, mixe it with white chalke, & therewith rub your head, & let it dry upon it For scabbs of the head. Take a bulls gall mingle it with vinegar & having made it luke warme, rub your head with it, & it will helpe you. To kill the scurfe in the head. Take an handfull or [rew], halfe an ounce of quick brimstone seeth it with old wine, & wash your head with it; but first wash your head with luke warme water & it will cure you. To kill lice Mingle whay & vinegar together, drinke of it [certayne] dayes, & they will dy & noe more breede. Against distillation of the brayne and heavines of the head. Samp beete rootes, & take theire iuyce, & receive it up into your nostrills, & it will cause all the humours of the head to descend, and soe it will draw them out. 79 For the griefe of the scull Take the resin of the pine tree, that is white 20 drames of aloes powder one ounce, mixe them together and boyle them on a soft fier, & after adde of gume elemi one ounce, & make a [cerat] which you must lay upon the greife. For a grief in the yead that hinders sleepe. Take warme [illegible] well stamped, boyle it in water, & bind it to the temples upon the greife, this will take away the greife & cause perfect sleepe. For the old inveterate greife of the head Take of gume arabick, of myrrh, of saffron, of [euphorbium], of each 3 drames, stampe them all together, & mixe them with the white of an egge well beaten, then apply it to the temples & forehead. A remedy for the [surte] of the scull. Take the iuyce of pimpernell, & wash, therein peeces of linen cloath, & put them oftimes upon the [illegible], & it will quickly be healed. A precious oyntment for the rupture of the scull. Take opopanake, [?dellium], amoniack, of each 3 drames, rosin, gume elemi, of each one ounce, olibanum, [miesa], sarcacolla, of each one drame & an halfe, oyle of roses 4 ounces, wa 2 ounces, first dissolve the gumes into vinegar & straine them then beate the rest to fine powder, & make an oyntment thereof 80 To remedy the cumotion of the brayne when the patient hath lost his speech. Take red roses, the leaves & fruite of myrtle, pomo granat flowers, calamas aromaticus, gallia muscata, lignu aloes, of each a drame, barly meale 3 ounces; boyle the in red wine, & rose water as much as suffereth, then put thereto one graine of maske, & make a plaster to lay upon the head, but first cut away the haire with a sharpe rasor. To remedy the disease called vertigo Take nutmegs & cloves of each a drame, setwall 2 scruples, gentian one scruple, red roses, yellow sanders, of each one drame & an halfe, of aloes cicotrine 6 drames of chosen rubarbe 3 drames, bray all [severally] into pouder by it selfe, & when they are melted, wet it by sprinkling a litle rose water, then let ti dry & doe thus 7 times, then with syrop of violets make a past of pills, of which take a scruple in evening an hower before meale, & you shall see a mervilous good successe. To purge melancholy humours, & to remedy the payne of the yhead. Take 2 pounds of polipodium, the leaves of cene 25 ounces, tamarindes one pound, mayden haire 4 handfulls resings stoned 5 ounces, burrage flowers & violets of each 2 handfulls, melone seeds 4 ounces, synamon one ounce & an halfe, ginger, salt gema, of each 7 drames, the iuyce of [luxius] 4 pounds, the iuyce of endive 2 pounds, raine water 30 pounds, mixe all together, and boyle 81 them, untill the fourth part bee consumed, then straine it, & make into the sayd decoction 12 infusions of fresh roses gathered in the morning, & for every infusion put in 7 pounds of roses, & put thereto of sugar 8 pounds, & make a syrop: the rose of which is, to give 4 ounces (more or lesse, according to the disposition of the pson, that shall use it) dissolved with cordiall waters, or with water of luxius & fumitery. Another for the vertigo. Take a quantity of white hore hound, one penny riall, & alitle salt, let them be byled with water in an earthen pot, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & put unto it a quantity of hony, & boyle it againe till it be thick, & for the space of 7 mornings give the patient one or 2 spoonefulls at at ime. To cure scotomia & vertigo, the paulsie & all inward diseases, & to consume the superfluous humours of the head. Take of caraway seede, anniseed, [ameos], parsly seed, smalage seed, betony, cumin, calamynt, pulegium, [slope], spikenard, pepper, ginger, sage, rue, centrum, gallie, eye bright, incense, mastick, safron, of all the [mirabolanes], but the greater quantity of citrines, cynamon, squinant, of each halfe an ounce, of margerome, folium, basill, cardamomes, [galingell], riquorice, of each 2 ounces, pound them into very small powder, of the which take in 82 all your meales, but more in the winter than in other parts of the yeare. For the payne in the head, reynes of the back, loynes, & matrix Take greene [savine] 5 ounces, of the fruite of cypres 65 drames, rosemary flowers milfoyle, matricaria, fenigreeke, lime seede, of each 6 ounces, infuse the sayd herbes to become tender for the space of three dayes in the water, then put thereto 9 ounces of oyle, & boyle it untill the water be consuned then strayne it through a linen cloath, then put to it of was, patch, spayne, turpentine, galbanum, mastick, of each 5 ounces, of storax, calamymt, spikenard, of each one pound, of balme 4 ounces, bruise what is to be bruised, & mixe every thing together & wettinge it with the spatter make an oyntment. To heale bruising of the head, with broaken bones or with out Take old white wine or hony, salt, brimstone, betony, of each a like quantity, bray them, make a plaster & lay it to the sore And if a bone be broaken that the blood is entred in at some small fissure, then take rye meale, & meale of oates, of each 5 drames, the iuyce of plantan and one drame & an halfe, laxicium acutum one drame, & make a plaster therof with good maulmesy. For a payne in the head. Take betony roots brayed, boyle the in old oyle & a litle wine, & annoynt the place with this warmed. 83 Another for the same. Take old oyle, & mixe it with euperbium pouder 3 or 4 graynes, & annoynt the sore place, the boyd beeing first purged, & the head alsoe, but let the head be purged by drawing up into the nose the iuyce of rue; But if the payne be caused through heat, having first purged or opened a vaine, annoynt the greife with this following Take the iuyce of sower grapes 2 ounces, the dreggs of [yuke] halfe an ounce, saffron 5 graynes, mixe them & make a liniment. To remedy the greife of the head & neck. Take the oyle of sweet almonds 3 ounces, the meale of marsh mallowes halfe an ounce wax as much as suffereth, then make an oyntment at the fier & annoynt the [plie] morning & eveninge For the rupture of the scull. Take of plantan seed 3 ounces, laxaciu acutum 4 ounces, the meale of black beanes as much as you please, beate these into pouder, & boyle them with very stronge wine & lay of this twice a day to the wound. For the same. Take of gume elemi 3 drames, of resin 4 drames, of wax 6 ounces, oyle of roses 2 ounces & an halfe; armoniack 2 ounces, turpentine 3 ounces & 5 drames, rye meale as much as suffireth with wine & wax make a plaster. For the falling sicknes. Take germaunder gathered in May when it 84 when it is in blossome, dry it in the shade, and make it into pouder, & when you will use it take the yolke of an egge or two, beate them, with a spoonefull of the pouder into the, then seeth it, & give the patient it to eate, this doe norning & evening for 8 dayes; & abstaine from wine, woemen, beanes, pearse, fitches, [tanes] salads, salt meats, & all things of hard disgestion. It is a notable remedy. To kill lice. Annoynt the goad with lard, on barrowes grease, or with oyle of bayes. For ach in the head Lay a peece of fresh beefe to the map of the neck probatum est. For a payne in the head. Boyle celedonie in vinegar, & beate it, & after tye it upon the fore-head. probatu est. For the falling sicknes Boyle isope in water & origanum & [stecados], & mix it with syrop of worme wood, & drinke thereof [Some] after the party is purged with pills for the stomach use methridate & treakle 7 or 8 dayes together. Let the pty drinke a potion made with squilla, & pvoke him to vomit with a quill or fether: you must boyle the squilla in vineger & make oxamell, & drinke of it, & after that use syrop of worme wood. The iuyce of common rue put into the [pties] nostrills is good therefore Take the roote of white vines, & hang it about his neck; it cureth the greife. Or take a bores bladder with his water in it dryed in an oven, & drinke every day 85 the quantity of a beane with oximell, it is excellent Or make pouder of the roote of piony, & the seed thereof, of each a like quantity drinke thereof every day 3 with oximell squillitike, in which isope hath beene boyled. probatus est. To cause one to speake that hath lost his speech in his sicknes. Stampe worme wood, & temper the iyyce with water, then straine it, & put of this liquor into his mouth with a spoone. probatus est. For the falling sicknes. Take a penny leafe of white bread & three penny worth of beefe of a steere bullock of the [nearer] side, fry it, & lay it to the brow of the patient a mounth together. probatus est. For one that is luniticke. Take box leaves, & flower [delure] rootes stired, dry them both in an oven or over a chafing dish, & beate them to pouder, & eate or drink it. To provoake sleepe. Take oyle of water lillies, & oyle of poppie & mixe them with a litle oppium, & annoynt the fore head & temples there with. For a sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, sincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, red fennell, red bramble leaves, mary gold leaves, keepe all these together, & strayne them, then put to it allome & hony, & mixe them well, & wash your mouth with it. probatus est. For a bruise for ones head by a blow. Stampe egrimony & mixe it with hony & make 86 a plaster therwith, & it will heale it. For a cold rhume. Dry penny royall in a pan & lay it to his head day. For a payne in the head. Boyle celidony in vinegar & beate it, then binde it upon the fore head. probatus est. The colours of urine. Alba, or white urine. White urine & cleere, as well water, [betoakeneth] [undefyling], & [rawnes]; & in sharpe feavers it is deadly. without feaver it betoakeneth in man or woeman agreevaned in the reynes, & sometimes [childinge]. Lactea or milke like urine, Urine lactick & thick standing is more perilous in men than woemen, in sharpe fevers is death. Above & beneath darke about & in that [midest] cleere signifyed the dropsy. [illegible] [make] only in the uper part signifies the gout in the body: & if the motyes be in the grownds, it signifies the gout in the lower part of the body. Glaucea, or lanthorne like urine Signified if it be cleene a [so?inge] or under putting of the mylth, through a [wicked] water that turnes from the lunges betweene the maw & the milt, that will rot all it comes by, and often times it ingenders & causes the dropsie. 87 Curapos urine Is a sign of corrupt humors, as a boling dropsy in the body, & in the limbes, or the face \Pale urine Signifies a feeble stomack, a great [leting] of the second disgestion for [corfainne]. Black urine above Signified the wasting of the quarterne feaver & quenching all kindled heate with darknes within signified drynes, if it be pale; if greene or burning feaver. But black in the ground signifies [clausium] of [menstris] & looseing of the gutts. And urine b lack in a feaver, if the urine bee full, for the most part it signifieth death. To cure old sores. Take the iuyce of white lilly leaves, a litle vinegar & hony to the quantity of the iuyce boyule them & lay it to the sore. probatus est. For a fistula. Take pimpernell & [mullin?] of each a like quantity of the iuyce, & wash therewith the infected parts. For wounds or rotten sores. Take milfoyle & [sanicle], boyle them in water, & strayne them through a limon cloath, & with the decoction mixe the meale of [fen?greeke] with the fat of a goate, & halfe as much oyle olive, dissolve them at the fier, & put to them wax, & make an oyntment. 88 To cleere ones eye sight Take a hot barly leave, rub it in the midle & sprinkle thereon the pouder of caraway seed & hold it hot before your eyes. The [pumystone] beaten & put in the eyes cleeneth them: the doth allome, & tutty. A medicine for swellinge. Take two gallons of stronge ale before it is clensed, a platter full of scurvy grasse, & pound & stampe it with the ale, then strayne it & let them worke together an hower or 2, then take halfe an ounce of white sanders, as much nutmegs, & three penny worth of safron, beate them together & put them all into the ale & let it worke, when it is two dayes old drink thereof every morning fasting & at meales as long as it lasteth, & if you find no helpe in drinking this quantity make as much more & use it dayly. probatus est. Remedyes for the eyes Take the longes or lights of a barrow hog, with all the appurtinances & seeth it in water, then hold your eyes over the smoake of it, in three or 4 times it will cure you. For dark eyes Annoynt the eyes with the iuyce of dragon leaves. Or make iuyce of betony, & mixe it with wine beeing hot, & put thereof into your eyes. A notable experiment for the web in the eye. Take scraped liquorice, good ginger, galingall fennell seed, [siler] of the mountaine, parsly 89 seed, of each an ounce, of rue & eye bright both dryed, amoniack, ameos, carpobalsamum, turbith, of each 2 drames, of sene 3 drames, longe pepper a drame, aloes epatake a drame, cynomon, nutmeggs, cucubes, carroway, of each a drame, of sugar as much as will suffice, & mixe them, the dosse of it is a spoonefull at once with hot wine. Sore eyes. Or take bullocks gall mixed with hony & put it into the eye. Or take the pouder of cuttle bones. But of all take cuttle bones & boyle them in water, & gather the grease of it, and annoynte the eyes thereof. probatus est The iuyce of an onion mixed with [sherry] & put into the eye cureth a web in the eye. Agarick is good for the eyes. The iuyce of ground [illegible] tempered with brest milke, & put into the eye cureth the web in the eye. Or yarrow iuyce used the same way. Another very good. Take of agarick 20 drames, cynomon 8 drams spike nard 20 drames, mastick 38 drames compound them with hony, & eate thereof every day. probatus est. Or take a dryed sheepes braine mixed with hony, & put of it into the eye. Or take a bullocks gall, assafetida one drame, baguamum 5 ounces, dissolve them in a glasse, & dry them, & make thereof a pouder. 90 For a perle in the eye. Take the iuyce of fennel & mixe it with hony, 7 oyle of balsome, & drop it into the eye. probatus est. Or mouse dunge dryed to pouder, & put into the eyes cureth the web. Cathrina auri vel argenti confort hebedini oculorum. To put away the white in the eye. Take oyle of alcanua, which is the dregs of wine being very old when it is beaten to oyle. Eate eye bright to cleene the eyes. Or purge the eyes with ierapigra. Cynomon is alsoe good. or oyle of fenngreeke annoynted on the eyes. Make iuyce of rosemary & mixe it with hony & annount the eyes. or make iuyce of ground [illegible] & put it into the nostrill on that side which greife is. or six leaves of ground [inie] & a braunch of celydony, bray them & mixe them with brest milke, & straine it through a cloath, & put of it into the eye, doe soe thrice, & keepe the eye three dayes from the light. probatus est. For the web in the eye. Beate capons grease upon a paynters stone, & grind coparose as small as may bee, & mixe them, & going to bed put a litle of it into the eye three nights; if the web be old put in more of the ceparase. probatus est. Or temper sarcacolla with white wine, & put of it into the eye. For bleared eyes. Take a quart of white wine, & put it into a cleane panne, & put thereto an ounce of pouder of salt gemma, & let them boyle 91 together a litle, then take them from the fier & set them in house dunge, & cover it with another panne, & cover it after with house dunge, & let it stand 3 dayes, then take it out of the dunge & power out the cleaneth into a vessell through a linen cloath, & put it into a viall, & with a feather drop of it into the eye that is sore at evening in bed. probatus est. For watery eyes. Beate the white of an egge, & take the oyle thereof & annoynt the eyes gooing to bed; or lay it thereto on a linen cloath, or wet two therein & lay them to your eyes. A most precious water to cleere the eyes, and to cure a perle. Take smalage, red fennell, rue, vervine; egrimony, cincfole, pimpernell, [enfrace], betony, sage, colydony, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & stampe them, then put them into a brasse panne, & take the pouder of 15 pepper cornes, & beate them & a pint of good white wine, & put it to the herbes, with 3 spoonefulls of pure hony, & five spoonefulls of the wine of a man child, mixe them well, & let them boyle alitle, then straine it through a linen cloath & put it into a glasse, & stoppe it very close, untill you use it, & with a fether put of it into the eye, & when it is dry temper it with white wine; it cureth one in 15 dayes if [ever] he shall see. probatus est. For a web in the eye. Take pimpernell water & fennell water, the iuyce of valerian of each alike proportion, & 92 put of it with feather into the eye. probatus est. OR take the marrow of a goose winge & burned allome pouder, temper them; & put it into the eyes with a fether 3 or 4 times; then use the water afore sayd, & it will kill the greatest web in the eye that may bee. Thinges good for the eyes. To eate early in the morning of myrabolames [condited], & eate the [meats] of them long in the mouth Nutmeg is most excellent for the eyes. Take alsoe fennell seeds, put it into boyled sugar & eate therof. Worme wood wine is very good. Or rue boyled in wine; eate but [slender] suppers, gargarige with vinegar of squillas, [especially] fagter you be purged. [cloves] are good, and to eat asparagus & betony. To eate the braynes of partridge is good; or rape leaves, or often to chew eye bright. An excellent receite to quicken the sight. Take fennell seed made soft & steeped, & then dryed, & adde to it soe much pouder of cynomon, & halfe soe much good sugar, and use it dayly. Or beate the white of an egg untill it bee cleere, then take iuyce of fennell croppes, mixe them & put it into the eye. For darknes in the eyes & bloodynes. Make pouder of aloes, & mixe it with the white of an egge, & lay it thereto. For an humour flowing to the eyes. Take [beanes] & pull of the skinnes, & confect them with the white of an egge, & lay them to. or else take them & chew them. 93 For a payne in the eyes. Boyle the rootes of fennell in water in a pot, & put a drop thereof into the parties eye. For watery eyes. Put a drop of the parties owne urine into his eye. very good. To take away a great spot in the eye. Take the roote of celendine, & beate it with rose water, & put it into a bag, & hang it up, & put a drop of that, which distilleth, into the eye. For payne in one eyes First purge the party with pills of aurie, or pills of the 5 kinds of mirabolanes, or with pills sine quibus esse nolo: after take one & [illegible], heate them on a tile, & put them betweene a linen cloth, & lay them on the eyes. Bumbast wet in fennell water 2 qts, & one pt of the iuyce of rue, is good layd to hot eyes. Or [illegible] and eg, & take the white, & put it betweene bumbast, & lay it hot to the eyes. The braynes of an hare rosted & well incorporated with wine, is good eaten. Oyle of [ba?m[ & oyle of [eld??] mixed with peritony & black pepper & the [rine] of a pine tree & [cyple?se] nutts. For such as pisse in bed whose urine runeth from them unwittingly. Boyle coming & drink thereof warme. Or take the sea crabes & beate them & drinke thereof fasting with wine. Or take the bladder of a sow & dry it to pouder & drinke it Boyle dry rose leaves & drinke of it; or of oximell drunken; or boyle dill & drinke of it; or parsly boyled in water & drunke is good. 2 . 2 94 For the fallinge sicknes When you see one fall of this greife, perfectly cut the parties girdle in two, whilst the [illegible] is upon him, & burne it in two parts that the partie know not therof, & let him never see it after, & he shall be red of his greife. For the collick Take hemp seed, dry it, & grind it to pouder & take a spoonefull thereof, & put it into ale and drinke it: it will make you goe to stoole easily. it is alsoe good for a flux taken in the same manner. For the yellow iaundies, & to provoke an appetite. The pouder afore sayd is a speciall remedy either eaten or drunken. For the tooth ach Take dandelion the quantity of a nut brayed, & put it into a limon cloath & layed to the tooth gooing to bed. but walke an hower that the iuyce may sinke into the tooth. probatus est. To east the paine & ach of the gout Take an handfull of rue, & a great deale of the leaves of white wine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto iuyce of house leeke, & of [illegible], & boyle them with a bullocks gall a litle quantity, & a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many snailes well beaten, & being well boyled, straine it & keepe it to your use, for it is a speciall good oyle for the same. A medicine for the eyes that are white. Take of [illegible] washed 10 drames, sarcacolla grasse 3 drames, dragagant a drame, opium halfe a drame make thereof a soft substance & use it. An orange-colour pouder for the eyes. Take of sarcacolla, with it a gume 10 drames, aloes 2 drames of saffron, myrre one drame, licium 95 2 drames, beate them all, then use this pouder. A pouder for the eyes which are white. Take white sarcacolla which is white, fat, & put it into brest milke, & set it in the shade till it dry & then beate it very well take of this 3 [illegible] & add therto of syife merminthe 2. dramis beate them well again & keep them and put of it into [illegible] eye when need requires. To purge. Take the waight of 1b of ales cicatrine, cloves the waight of 4d beaten severally, mixe them in the hand with a litle wine vinegar till it be hard then make pills thereof the waight of 4d or 6d & take them with the pap of an apple or hony, if you take it before supper, it will worke in the night, if after supper the next day. probatus est. To cure the collick. Take pouder of bullocks dunge, & give it to the [glie] unknowne in pottage, or straine the dunge, & give it the pty to drinke; this last is best. A [resolv?ace] plaster to ly 4 or 5 dayes before it is remooved Take resin, was halfe a drame [roth?s] gall, [strong] beere or ale, coming seed & rue leaves, 2 drames, black sope one drame, mutton suit & turpentine 3 drames, boyle these to the forme of a plaster 7 spread it something thick over a cloath, & sew it fast about the member that is swelled or waters, as herpes miliaris or oedema, & for all [soulme] & rankling ulcers, & as the water runeth out & the swelling [starteth], bind the plaster hard againe for 4 or 5 dayes. sepe probatus est. 96 Remedies for the eares; or for deafenes. Take vinegar hot & drop it into the eares fastin, ad thereto the iuyce of mints, oyle of bitter almands, & of the nutts of persica warme, & drop it into the eare. Or hold your ear over the [illegible] of hot water, in which was boyled penny royall, & worme wood. these helpe the heareing. Or boyle worme wood in water & bath the eare with the decoction. or when a goate is newly killed, take a [horne] & fill it with the urine of the goate, & hang it up in the smoake nyne dayes, & put thereof into the eares. Or take an onion, & make it hollow, & fill it with oyle, & the iuyce of rue, & lay its [illegible] againe, & put the onion into the embers, untill it be well boyled, & put of that oyle into the eare. Or put into the eare the blood of a goate beeing warme. Or put into the eares the iuyce of scabiase mixed with a litle quantity of oyle of bitter almonds. To purge filth out of the eares. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & distill it into the eares. Or take fileings of iron & mixe it with sharp vinegar, boyle it & put it into the eares. probatus est. For the head ach. Boule celydony in vinegar, & beate it, then bind it to your fore head, & it will ease you. Or beate maioram, & presse out the iuyce & suck it up into the nose. probatus est. or take red [illegible] stamped, & with the iuyce annoynt the temples. For the megram. Take three or 4 spoonefulls of aqua vita, & a quantity of boulted flower, & mingle them well till it be thick, as a plaster, then take pouder of pepper halfe soe much as the flower; & mingle them & spread it on whit lether, & lay to each pt of the temples a plaster, let it ly a day & a night, doe this 3 dayes. 97 For experience in the urine. Black urine In great quantity with a cloud of black therein notes great broyling of heate in the body, heavines, lack of sleep & blooding at the nose in time to come. Pale urine Some what greene betoakeneth the feaver called medium enutium propter melancholiam. Urine pale & some white in it signifies a feaver called minorem enutium propter flenium. Urine pale with a curcle like [leade] & resolutions of kinds, that is called spermatis, notes the falling evill. Urine pale with holdith colour signifies the feaver aschitem. Urine pale redish colour signifies a feaver called synochius. Urine pale with white small [things] therein, & gobbet with black [things] mingled [illegible] the stranguary Urine pale with round [things] having longe games or small white moates, as be in the sunne beames signifieth the gout called aterica To clense the eares from matter & filth. Take iuyce of alder leaves, & put it into the ptes eare. For the gomory passion Beate lettice seed, & drinke thereof with water. Or beate a peece of lead flat, & bind it to the [illegible] bark; hen bane seeds & mandragorus seed of each a part; of opium a tenth part, boyle them in oyle in a double glasse, & with wax make an oyntment [wherewith] anoynt the parties bark & [pri??e] paste, wet well in wine, oyle of roses, & oyle of balme & lay it thereto. Probatus est. or take the leaves & flowers of agnus castus, & boyle them in vinegar & ad thereto a litle castoreum, & make a plaster & lay it to the [privy] pts. 98 An oytment for an ach. Take 5 drames of an oxes gall & boyle it well & strume it, put thereto of hony 2 drames, boyule it againe to the halfe or more, & annoynt the ach there with untill you find ease. probatus est. More of urine. urine pale with white as ashes, & black resolutions promises wind over throwne of man or woman. Urine pale with small [things] as ashes & black signifies the suffocation of the [mone], & with holding of the [mensters] Urine white & thinne as water with streakes & as a [illegible] in the bottome betoakeneth the disease of the spleene. Urine white & thinne alltogether paleish betoakeneth the dropsy. Urine white & thinne & a great quantity betoakeneth much drinkinge. Urine white & thinne & a litle with red gravell betoakeneth ash in the wombe & in the reines, called nefresin. Urine with greene circles signifies the frensy. Urine white & thinne with greate [fa?nes] in the ground signifies a disease in the reynes, that one cannot hold his water, it is called diabitem. Urine white with white motes in it signifies arterica passio. Urine white with a great black circle signifies sicknes caused by melancholy. Urine white with a leadish circle signifies the falling evill. Urine white with a waterish circle signifies schomam, that is a disease or wind in the head that makes the sick party fall. Urine white & pale above signifies an ill liver. Urine white & thinne as in the feaver signifies death. Urine white signifies old and child hood. Urine rubra. 99 Urine bloody signifies the bladder is hurt with some filth that is therein. Urine of a woeman that is faire, & cleere, if it shine like silver if it casteth off & hath noe [illegible] to [meale], it signifies that the woeman is with child. Urine of a wooman that hath a golden colour & is cleere & heavy signifies shee hath lust to man. Urine of man or wooman that hat the feaver ague, that hath a black gathering in the one half of the urinall is a true toaken of death. Urine of a mayde that hath noe fellowship with a man is faire & cleere, & without any [wem] Urine of a man: every man is whole and sound whose urine in the [mornetide] is white, before meale red, & after meale white. For a greate heate in man or woeman. Take [endive] water, burrage water, & worme- wood water of each 4 drames, temper them with conserve of roses & drinke it eveninge and morninge To kill a fellon Take the rootes of termentill & drinke the iuyce. The roote of termentill expelleth poyson and alsoe venome. To heale a wound. take sanicle, milfole, bugle, equall proportions, beate them in a morter, & with beere or rather wine temper them & give it to the party to drink twice a day till [illegible] Bugle keepeth the wound open, milfole cureth it, and fanicle healeth it. For the tilick. Take isope, hore hound, & harts tongue & boyle the in a quart of pale ale to a pint, & drink it. 100 For the goute Make a stronge brine with salt, that it carry an eg & being hot put thereto your leg, or hand. For cloathes that be mouldy & stained Seeth stockfish & take of the water being warme, & lay the cloath in it all night, & in the morning make it cleane, with dry, comes to its colour againe. For the morghew Take white wine isope & blaunched almonds, then stamp the isope & almonds, & lay them in the wine then boyle it & drinke of it 9 dayes first & last. For a tertian feaver. Take the iuyce of dandelion, & the iuyce of worme wood, & drinke of it before the fit comes. For the dropsy. [illegible] the [party] drinke the seeds of [denills] bitt 9 dayes & hee shall bee well To make one have a good colour in the face. Eate dry figgs, & drinke harmell; origanu is good. or gume of the cherry [illegible] drunken with wine early. Alsoe acetum squillitick drunken. Syrop of squillas. Agarick, or safron, or ginger in pouder is good. Isope pouder is good drunken. Cicer eaten; or calamus aromaticus or any hot milke from the cow mixed with sugar is good. For an ach Take young cropps of alder, stampe them, and take of the iuyce thereof three parts, & a fourth part of black soape, beate them well together, untill they be a salve or an oyntment, & lay it thereto & it will ease the ach. probatus est. To cleare ones eyes. Beate the white of an eg till it be cleere s 101 & skinne of the upper part after it hath stood a while, & mixe the oyl of it which is under most with the iuyce of fennell croppes well together, & put of it into the eye, & wet flax therein, & lay it on the eye. probatus est. A plaster for the hardnes and windines, which is under the spleene. Take of rue 10 drames, of nitrum called banrach, [hease] mynt, or water mint dryed, of each 3 drames, armoniack 8 drames, the armoniack must be dissolved in old wine, whereof you must make the [soft], & make of them a plaster, & lay it to the place. probatus est. To provoke sleepe. Take oyle of dill, oyle of poppy, oyl of mandragors, or the oyle of froggs, & annoynt the temples. Remedies for the face, as morphew, bunninges, bleeding at the nose & others. ake the whites of 2 eggs, 2 ounces of tutia alexandrina, two ounces of quick lime washed in [illegible] waters, an ounce of new wax, oyle [resete] as much as shall suffice, make of this an oyntment & use it. To stanch bleeding at nose. Take great chit pease, & lay them upon a tile upon coles, untill they bee dry, make pouder of them, & put of it into your nose & it will cease from bleedinge. For a red face. Take foure ounces of the kernells of peaches, 2 ounces of gourd seed make thereof an oyle where with annoynt your face evening and morninge. probatus est 102 To make the face faire. Take rosemary flowers, boyle them in white wine, & wash your face with it, & use to drinke of it, soe shall your face be faire & your breath sweete. To take spotts out of the face Take 2 ounces of the iuyce of lemons, & two ounces of rose water, 2 ounces of silver sublimed, & soe much of coruse, put all together, & make an oyntment, & annoynt your face with it night & morning, after annoynt it with butter. Another. Make oyle of the white of an eg, & take an ounce of it, & halfe an ounce of coruse, 2 drames of quick silver, & a drame of canfire, mingle those, & annoynt your face with it. For the squinancy Boule worme wood in vineger, & gargarize with it. Or boyle figgs & the rines of pomegranads in water, & gargarize with it. For the morphew. Take an ounce of verdigrease, an ounce of quicke brimstone, make them into pouder, as small as may bee, & take two fat sheeps heads, make them cleane, & take out the braynes, then wash them & seeth them till they be tender, then let it coole, & gather the fat there of, & temper it with the sayd pouder, & make an oyntment of the same, but let it not come neere any fier, but with cold oyntment annoynt the sick party. probatus est. For a flux of blood at the nose Take rue & mixe it with oyle, & put it into the nose; or take gume arabick & olibanum 103 & mixe them with vineger & lay it thereto. Or take woole & out it into the white of an eg, & lay it to his face & fore head. OR wet woole in the iuyce of night shade & lay it to or mixe rue with vineger & lay it to the nose. Or take an eg shell burned, & take of it one part, & of [galls] halfe soe much, & blow it into the nostrills. Or ty the privy partes. For the jaundies. Boyle tamariske in vineger, & drinke it To keepe the mouth whole & sound from greifes Before & after meale wash your mouth with hot water, this dryeth up the humours dependinge into the iawes from the head; use to rub your tooth with pouder made of cloves & nutmeggs, & spike nard every day fasting, it clenseth the stinking of the mouth. Or if you dissolve a litle mastick in oyle of roses, & annoynt the pallate of the mouth, it preserveth it from hurt. Alsoe an hares head burned to pouder, & put into a canker in the mouth, or other greife therein cureth it probatus est. To stanch blood. Take the herbe sigillum salamonis, & smell thereto oftimes, & as long as you have it you shall not bleede. To remoove melancholy. Take of epithymum 3 iiij, of lapis lazuli, of agarick, of each 3 ij, of scamony 3 j, of cloves pp, make pouder of all these, & take every weeke of this pouder 3 ij. probatus est. For coldnes in the stomack. Make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, mixe 104 these together, & lay ot thereto. To ingender flesh. Take of sarcocolla 2 parts, frankincense one part, beate them, & mixe them, & apply them to the sore. To incarnate & clense ulcers. Take sarcocolla & mix it with hony, & to dry a sore mixe it with the white of an egge or milke; it will alsoe eate away dead flesh out of ulcers. For scabbes Boyle braune with vineger, & make a plaster. It is good for hot impostumes boyled with rue, & made a plaster of; And for sore brestes which proceed from abundance of milke. To purbe evil from the brest. [illegible] braune in water all night, in the morning straine it & boyle it with oyle of almons & mixe it with sugar; it cureth evill in brestes. To ripen impostumes & hard swellinges. Take [lenen] bouled in milke, & lay thereto. To cure a leper. Boule tamariske in water; & drinke often of it To heale wounds hard to be cured. Use oleum philosophorum. To incarnate a wound. Use unguentum triafarmacum. For old sores. Use unguentum Aegypticum magnum. To expell wind in the boyd. Use electuary of aloes; or aromaticum gariofilatium; diaciminum aromaticum nardium; trifera surraceneca; & trifera muscatai dianisium electuarium Judi; aromaticum rosatum. 105 For the tooth ach. Take iuyce of ground iuie, & put of it into that side of the eare, on which the teeth ake, & you shall wonder at the ease it will bring you. To heale rotten & putrified wounds. Mixe aloes with dragons blood & myrre, & lay it to. For the goute. Take the leaves of the herbe grace, & make iuyce thereof, & boyle it with a bullocks gall, & greene snaggs without shells, put it on paper & lay it thereto. A plaster to ease the gout or any other greate swelling or ach. Take 3 yolkes of eggs, fresh butter, & saffron a pritty quantity dryed, make it into pouder, the iuyce of singreene, iuyce of mugwort, & the iuyce of ground sill, mixe them with wheate flower, & boyle all together very softly upon coles, ever skinneing it, & make a plaster of this poltis, & lay it to the sore. For the tooth ach or iawes. Make iuyce of daysies rootes & all, & put of it into your eare, & stop it with black wooll. Annoynt your iawes with oyle of exeter & your temples alsoe Remedyes for the neck, throate, mouth and teeth. For the kinges evill. Take colts foote roote & all well stamped, mingle it with flax seed & barrowes grease, make a plaster & lay it thereto, change it twice a day, & all the [sores] may be dissolved into sweate, & after they be heated, wash often the place with white wine for the space of ten or fifteene dayes. 106 For the same. Take the [stones] of an horse, put the in a fier [illegible] amoungst embers & coles untill they may bee beaten to pouder, give the patient to drinke of the sayd pouder in white wine the quantity of 2 penny waight, doe this 21 days, & doubtles he will cast out of his mouth all the ordure & filth of the evill. For kernells in the throate. Dry, camomill & make it in pouder mingle it with hony, take the morning a spoonefull, & as much at night, swallowing it gently, use it till you be well. For the squinsie Take a pound of scabius water, aqua vitae an ounce mixe them, &lay it upon the sore. Or bake swallowes in an oven & beate them to pouder, & lay it through all the mouth if yiou can, if not mingle it with hony proset], & alitle flower of amilum, & put it into his mouth leting it goe downe of it selfe. Or take th eoyle of violets, put 2 or 3 drops of it into white wine with the which wash & gargle in your throate oftimes. For the kinges evill. Take conuse, on white leade well stamped 4 ounces, oule olive 8 ounces, boyle them together 5 or 6 howers stirre it continually, & when it is black it is boyled enough; then spread it upon a linen cloath, & lay it upon the sore place; if the sore be broaken it will be healed quickly, if not this will alsoe resolve & loose & shortly heale it throughly To breake botches, impostumes, catarres, or sores comeing in the throate. Take dry dunge of an asse, & of swallowes make thereof pouder, & put of it into water or in hot wine, & gargle or wash your throate often with it. 107 To fasten loose teeth. Take frankinsense, mastick, & pills of pomegranate, an equall quantity & make thereof a pouder, & when you goe to bed wash your teeth with a litle good wine, then lay of the sayd pouder to your teeth. excellent. To make teeth white. Take mallow rootes, rub your teeth with them dayle. Or take a snuff of wheate bread, burne it to coles, & make pouder thorogh to scower your teeth with all, & wash them after with faire well or condit watr pbatus. To fasten loose teeth Take a litle myrre & temper it with wine & oyle & wash your mouth with it. To keepe one from vomiting. Drinke the iuyce of worme wood. For those that spit blood. Make a cake of fine ry flower, & being baked let the party eate of it as hot as he can endure. For those that vomit up theire meate againe. Take tender leaves of an ash, seeth them in stronge vineger, & stampe them, & make thereof a plaster, & lay it upon the stomack, or belly. For the tooth ach. Boyle the leaves & rootes of chickweed in water & there with wash your mouth & hold of it in your mouth. To mitigate the payne in childrens teeth. Mixe buter & hony, & rub the childes teeth therewith it taketh away the payne & bitein thereof. For the tooth ach and the rhume. Boyle wine & nettles & wash your mouth therwith Or burne salt & mixe it with vineger, & wash your mouth therewith. [Mu??ell] fryed & layd to the teeth takes away the tooth ach. Or make pouder of a cowes heele, & boyle it in water & wash 108 your teeth therewith. or to wash your mouth in the iuyce of alder flowers cureth the tooth ach Take alsoe a red hot brick, & lay on vineger, & hold your mouth over it. probatus est. For swelling in the cheeke. Take an earthen [illegible] made hot, & lay it to your cheeke. To make teeth come out of children easily Annoynt theire gumes with goates milke, or the braine of an hare or cony; or with gumes grease or mixe the brayne of beastes with wine, & drinke thereof. or annoynt them with butter only, or also mixed with hony. Pouder of doggs tooth mixed with hony easeth young children when they breed teeth; if you annoynt them therewith, it helpeth ulcers and other sores in the mouth or iawes. A stone found in the head of a steere, or bark of a nayle is good. Or annoynt his iawes with hony & salt mixed; this easeth the payne of teeth breeding. The iuyce of liquorice held in the mouth is alsoe good. For a sore throate. Take oyle of lyllies, oyle of camomill, & oyle of dill of each an ounce, make them het & annoynt the throate therewith, & wet black wooll in it, & lay it to the sore throate. To breake a sore in the throate. Take snaggs with shells & all, & beate them & plaster them thereto, this ripeneth it very fast. Or take sheepes [??tles] & fry them with sheeps tallow & lay it hot to the throate, & when it waxeth cold remoove it & lay on another plaster. Or dry worme wood & beeing warme lay it to the sore throate. Or make a lniment with doggs dunge dryed mixed with hony & annoynt the throate round about But if the matter remaine very hard still, take diaculu dissolved with hennes grease, & lay it thereto. 109 Or else make this plaster. Take unguent de altea of mussilage, of [line] seeds, of fenigreek seed, of each two drames, of the mer substance of cassia fistula of butter, of leaven, of figges, of oyle of sweet almons, & of these make a plaster & lay it to the place. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunken is very good. For the brest and stomack & cough. Take the iuyce of parsly, pouder of comyn, brest milke, mixed all together, then give it the child to drink & make after ward this oyntment followinge. Take lineseed, fenigreeke, seeth them in water & straine them, & mingle the substance of the herbes with butter, & annoynt the childs brest it being warme. For a cough. Take brimstone pouder halfe an ounce, put it into a new layd eg, soft rosted, mingle it well, then put to it [benge] wine the bignes of a chit pease, lightly stamped, & drinke it in the morning at the breakfast, & take as much againe at night going to bed, it will helpe you at twice or thrice doeing soe. but if the cough have held you long, take of it oftener. Or take an handfull of isope, & boyle it to the third part of the water you boyle it in, and mixe hony with the water, & drinke it fastenge. To keepe the stomack well. Take hot water & vineger, & vomit once a mounth. Or eate resins with the stones fasting. To preserve the stomack. Boyle worme wood & spikenard in beere, & drinke it or make a plaster of aloes & mastick, & lay it to the stomack. For h ardnes in the stomack. Boyle worme wood in beere, & drinke it, it purgeth the stomack from all grose humours. Or drinke syrop of roses with a litle wood of aloes. Or mustard seed rosted & beaten, & drunken with water. 110 Or take fasting 3 drames of the electuary of the wood of aloes & of rubarbe; it comforts the stomack, & helps disgestion, purgeth fleame & procureth a good appetite & removeth wind from the stomack. Alsoe to helpe disgestion, annoynt the stomack with the oyle of mastick. For a cough. Take 2 or 3 heads of garlick well [mundisied], stampe them well & put to them hoggs suet, & stampe it well all together & at night when you goe to bed, warme well the soles of the feete & annoynt them well with this; then warme them againe, as hot as you can suffer, & rub them well apritty space, & beeing in bed, let your foot be bound warme with linen cloaths, & rub alsoe the small of your leggs with the sayd oyntment in three nights it will cure you, be the cough never soe vehement For hardnes of woemens brests after they be brought to bed. Take wheate branne, & seeth it with iuyce of rue & lay it upon the brestes. this is alsoe good against the biteing of venomous beastes. To make woemans milke increase. Take fennell seed, seeth it in barly water, & drink it. Chit pease boyled in water & broaken, are alsoe good. For a woemans sore pap that hath a canker in it. Take the fenn of a white goose, & the iuyce of celendine mixed, & lay it to, & it will kill the canker. For swelled pappes. Take mouse dunge, & mixe it with rayne water, & bath the papps with it. Alsoe goose grease mixed with oyle of roses & rose leaves is good layd thereto. or goose grease [alone] annoynting the papps therewith. For an impostume in woemens pappes. Wet a spunge in oxicrate beeing warme, & wring it, & lay it to, & bind it fast. or beate bread, greene pantary, wax, & oyle together, & with this annoynt the [agreivance] 111 For sore pappes, boches, or boyles. Take mallow leaves, & worme wood, of each a great handfull, seeth them in water till they bee tender as the pap of an apple, then lay them abroad that the water may runne from them, then chop them small, then stamp them with a pound of hoggs grease, & temper all till you cannot discerne the one from the other, & luke warme lay it plasterwise to the sore papps, or other sores. probatus est. For ach in woemens pappes. Take mints & stampe them & make a plaster with ry flower, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To cause a woemans milke to increase Make iuyce of vervine & fennell & drink it often For an extreame cough. Take rosemary powder & mixe it with hony, and use to eate it. probatus est. A remedy for the teeth. Take white roses & [illegible] seeds, of each a drame, white sanders, white amber, white margarets, of each a scruple, mastick, cynomen, of each halfe a drame, beate them all alitle, & ad thereto a litle hony of roses, & mixe them well; at night wet your finger in this mixture, & rub your teeth, & early in the morning wash them with white wine in with the root of the flower doluce dryed must bee boyled, then pick them with a tooth pick of the wood of the mastick tree. For the tooth ach. The roote of vervine, mallowes, or cut mallowes is very good. Things very good for the teeth. Sage; organy; mynts; [li??ius]; the head of an hare burned; tamariske; the rine of an ash; water wherein olives have beene pickled; vervine 112 chewed; the young springes of a bramble bush dock rootes chewed; vineger squilsticke; harts horne burned; the dreggs of oyle (called amurca) olive leaves: To provoke an appetite; & to purge ill humors. Make a sauce with sage, parsly, vineger, & alitle pepper, beate them & mixe them together. To provoke good disgestion. Make a plaster to the stomack of pouder of mace, mastick in pouder, & mixe them with oyle of roses, & wax at the fier. For a weake stomack. Boule mace in fennell water, then ad alitle wine, & straine it, & give it to the pty the liquor to drinke. For swelled pappes. Take the meale of flax seed, the meale of lentills temper them with oyle of roses & saffron, and lay it there to. Or take hore hound, leaves of elder, poppie leaves, that are white, worme wood, rue, dodder, & make them hot, & lay them to. Or eggs mixed with oyle of roses layd to the papps. Or make an oyntment thus. Take olibanum, worme wood seed, mastick, lentill meale, of each three drames, of wax 4 drames, oyle of roses 6 drames, & make an oyntment. For hot humours that trouble woemens brestes, & cause them to swell. Annoynt the swelling with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses equall proportions, then make very vine pouder of nitrum, & lay it wet with the former liquor but if it [illegible] of a cold humour, take meale of fenigreeke with the iuyce of parsly & elder mixed For woemens brests which are raw. Take raw quince kernells, & lay them in runing water & lay them to. For the tooth ach. The iuyce of yarrow drunke with aysell. probatus est. 113 For a cold stomack. Boyle wild margorame in flesh broth, or make pouder of it, & drinke it with mustadell, maulmsy or sack; and beeing warme wet a spunge therein, as hot, as you can suffer it, & wringe out the wine, & soe lay the hot spunge to the cold stomack, that cannot disgest meat, it breakes wind; & pusheth urine. For swelling & ach in the brestes. Take mallowes & worme wood, boyle the in water, & presse the water from the pouder, & grind them with hogs grease, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it to the brests; it helpes one in 3 or 4 dayes. probatus est. To make a leane body fat. Abstaine from salt meats, sharp & pricking thinges; take milke, new cheese, almons, fish & nutts, pine kernells, hazle nutts, grapes, hennes, young pigeons rosted & fat, or baked, good wine, use [myrth] at meales, let blood & purge seldome, bath after your meat be disgested, be not too hungry, eate much, drinke litle, & especially [illegible] wine; be not lightly angry, sorrowfull or heavie hearted, use not woemen kind much; temperate exercise, & rubbing, use all sweet & virtuous things, for they fatten. A good medicine to make one fat. Blanch almons, & hazle nutts, white poppy seed, the greene graine of which turpentine is made, dissolve all in butter & sugar, of the with let him eate alitle evening & morning, & drinke after it good wine. To purge melancholy. Abstaine from blooding, [venus] is very hurtfull: these things are good: burrage, buglasse, time, epithymum, scolependria the greater & lesse, capers, tamariske, spilidum, sweet wines, hoggs, [custuba], mirabolanes, polipodum, cane, lapis lazuli 114 To clense a sore. Take the iuyce of smalage mixed with barly meal & lay it on the sore. probatus est. To make a drying plaster for a sore or canker. Take beane meales of orobus of each a like portion & mixe them with [acetesy], & a litle salt, & make a plaster thereof. probatus est. To ease the payne of the gout Take an handfull of rue, a great many of the leaves of the white vine, that carrieth the red berry in hedges, & make iuyce of them, & put thereto the iuyce of house leeke, & of orgine and boyle them with a bullocks gall, a penny worth of spermacete & hoggs grease, & a good many of the snaggs, well beaten in a dish & boyle all these together [illegible] & straine them, & keepe that oyle to your use, to annoynt the place therewith. To kill a canker in the mouth or face. Take mercury sublimate, & boule it with vineger, or white wine, & wash your mouth or face therewith And when you will have it healing take sublimate & put camfire to it, & boyle it in water of hony suckles, & it will heale the canker. For a sore legge through a bruise. Take milke & boyle it, &make a posset of it with [alome] & take the curd pritty hot & lay it thereto: this heated a leg, that was hurt with a cart that ranne over it. For a great heat one hath to quench his thirst. Take endive water, burrage water, worme wood wat of each 4 ounces & mixe them with conserve of roses, & drinke of it evening & morning. probatus est. For the rhume & head ach. Take rue, red [illegible], worme wood of each an handfull, let them parch in a frying pan untill they bee crackling dry; then put them into a linen bag 115 of a handfull breade & a spanne longe, & put the bag of herbes againe into the frying panne, and warme them very well, & lay it to your left side, under the short ribbs, & ly downe a time upon it, & when the bag waxes cold warme it againe & lay iut there to doe soe 4 or 5 times. probatus est. For a cough or straitnes in the brest. Take figgs & isope stamped well together, then bouyle them in hony, & eate of it fasting. probatus est. To make one lusty & stronge that is weake. Take pouder of calamint, & put of it into your broth, & drinke, & use to eate & drink of it. probatus est. For one that is taken lame in any member. Boyle in a pinte of maulmsy the dunge of an horse cold, about 3 yeares old, a litle waxe, & well boyled, put thereto a quantity of comein in pouder, and lay this to the place. probatus est. To stay the flowers in a woeman. Take betony, neppe, pellitory of spayne & isope stampe them together & give her of this to drinke in all three mornings fastinge. probatus est. To stop a woeman of bleedinge after her child birth Take small stamped fethersew & give it her to drinke. probatus est. For an ague. Take sheapherds purse, fethersew, pepper, & the white of an egge beaten all together, & lay it to the wrists. For the head ach in an ague. Take betony, camomill, & rosemary of each a handfull, fry them in a spoonefull of hony, lay the hot to the place. probatus est. To destroy a canker or fellon. Beate plantan small & put thereto hony, & a litle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, & apply it. probatus est. 116 A speciall remedy for the greene sicknes. Take a quart of claret, 3 spoonefulls of hony boyle & skime it cleane, put to it a quarter of a pound of quibibs, or lesse, halfe an ounce of cynomon, a quarter of an ounce of ginger, boyule all well together to a pinte, & straine it into three pintes of aqua vitae, put to it halfe a pound of sugar, & brew them well together in two potts, & keepe it in a glasse bottle, & put thereto some [tornaset] to colour it, & drinke a spoonefull first & last. To cure melancholy. Take hot goates milk, if you be bound in the body. Or boyle wormewood & drinke it alsoe fasting. use stronge glisters. Or boyle coloquintiada with oyle & hony, & let the party blood. Purge the party with 3 iiij of h iera, take thereof thrice in a mounth, & stay 10 dayes betweene every time. to heale daungerous ulcers. Take burrage & mixe it with things good for this purpose, & lay it thereto. To heale woundes Take oaken leaves, & bruise them on a stone, & lay them thereto. probatus est. Or bruise peartree leaves & lay the to the wound. For knotts in the flesh and arteries. Take old cheese, & boyle it with the shankes of hoggs, & make them into past, & lay it to. probatus est. To cure new wounds. Take new cheese & beate it, & lay it thereto, & lay upon it a [s?ell] or vine leafe. Or burne a spunge, or lay it to dry. For ulcers. Burne old [shoes], & lay the ashes to the ulcer. To cure deepe and hollow ulcers. Take oyster shells & make pouder of them & lay it thereto, beeing first burned, it causeth flesh to grow in those places, mixe it with hoggs grease & lay it to the hollownes. 117 For an inflamation in the throate Eate two dayes together [lu?ius] with your meale with leavened bread, & drinke old wine, then take your [wone] dunge, & dry it & use it thereto, or else boyle in water a henne & a partridge, & wash the place with the broth thereof. For rotten sores. Take lapis phrygius, & put it into the sore; or mie it with vineger, or wine sodden with water. To stanch bleeding. Take gypsum, make it soft, & mixe it with wheat flower which hangeth on the mill walles & the white of an egge & lay it thereto. [?anes] [illegible] cut very small, & layd to, is very good For the plague. Drinke often of the urine of children For ulcers in the feete or hands. Wet a linen cloath & ty it thereon, & as often as you pisse, let it drop on the place. For bieting of snakes or vipers. Take goats dunge mixed with vineger, & lay it thereto For hard swelling, the squincy, dropsy, or spleene. Take goats dunge mixed with barly flower, & wine, & water boyled together, & lay them thereto. For a greate cough. Take apples called pippins, & boyle them in faire water, & mixe the liquor with sugar, & drinke often of it. probatus est. To dry rhume in the matrix or vulva. Boule penny royall & figs in vineger, & gargarige it or boyle pennryall with figgs in beare or ale, and drinke thereof If it [illegible] too cold, make a fomentation of the decoction, it dryeth the moystnes of the matrix. 118 An oyntment for the remes that ae hot. Take of oyle, of water lillies, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, of each [illegible] red sanders 3g cynomon 3 [illegible] vineger [illegible] & with a litle wax make an oyntment. For a laske. Take an eg rosted rare, put to it a litle aqua vitae soe [skinne] it well together, & let it rost a little longer and then eate it. For the wormes Take boulted wheate flower, as much as will ly upon three [illegible] of gold, put it into a glasse poure into it as much well water as will keepe the flower, & make it looke like milke, & as thinne, & give it the child to drinke, this will cause him to [voyd] them. To stay the flux. Lay 3 or 4 sowes eares in red wine a day & a night, & then drinke of it. To kill the wormes. Make an hole in an orange as big as a penny & squeese the liquor out, & put into the empty orange ouyle of bayes, iuyce of rue, iuyce of worme wood, treacle, flower of [lu?ius], seeth all this a time, then put it into a dish & annoynt the naule, stomack, temples, nostrills, & the uttermost part of the pulses. For wormes. If the child be soe litle, that it can receive [?athing] at the mouth, take aqua vitae, where with wash or wet the stomack or brest of the child, then poure over the places the pouder of fine myrres, & lay the child a time downe, with his brest upward; & you shall see that the wormes will come forth dead. For the collicke Eate dayly 5 or 6 peach kernells before dinner or supper, with salt & bread, these comfort the brest & stomack, ease the collick, & kill all sort of wormes. Or eate sallads made of mugworte, or mother worte, or eate it in your pottage; sweet margerome is alsoe very good for it. 119 A glister for the collick. Take fresh ashes dunge, boyle it in white wine, put to it a handfull of anniseed, a litle oyle of camomile a litle oyle of capers, with a handfull of branne, boyle them halfe a quarter of an hower, & take them from the fier & presse out the substance, & soe make a glister of it. For the collicke Take the iuyce of ripe barberyes, halfe a glasse full, put to it somuch red currall powder as will ly upon two [greates], & give the patient to drinke thereof. For the stone collicke. Make pouder of virga aurea, put a spoonefully of it into a new layd eg soft rosted & drinke it of fastinge, & eate not in 4 howers after, this will cause you to make water in a quarter of an hower, & using it 10 or 12 times you shall voyd the stone. For the flux or laske. Take in claret [pa?ick] beaten & stamped & drinke it. or boyle it in milke & eate it evening & morninge. To kill wormes. Make flower of dryed lupines, & knead it with hony & lay it upon the childes stomack. For the wormes Take oyntment of rondelesio, & such things as loosen the belly; such as be made of sower, bitter & [oppulsuo] modirines to wit: the iuyce of both the persicars, or the leaves of persica arbor z:j oyle of bitter almons, or of absinthio, zij petroleum ziij a litle vineger, & bullocks gall, of wheat flower upon the mill walls [illegible] mixe these together & ad thereto terebinth or [illegible] as much as shall suffice, & make an oyntment & lay it to the naule. For the flux. Take blaunched almons, boyle them in hony till t hey be black & eate thereof fasting; it is excellent good. but it will be stronger if the almons be not blaunched Or make bread of meale as it comes from the mill, & eate thereof, this is the last remedy. 120 Or else take St Johns worte, or the seed, & make a suppository with opiu, this is stronger than the other. Or boyle old cheese, & drinke the water, or dry the cheese after & take a drame of it; this is the strongest of all Oaken leaves distilled & drunke, stayeth a laske. For the collick. Boyle pigeon dung in wine, & make a plaster of it, probatus est For the bloody flux when nothing else will stay it. Take a pan full of charcole hot from the fier, put it into a chafeing dish, & set it in a close [illegible], & when you goe to the stoole, sit downe over the coles, & doe it upon the coles, that the smoake may ascend to you, it will cure you in twice or thrice doeing. probatus est. For rankling of an ague sore. Take a red cloath, & seeth it in your owne urine, & as hot as you can suffer, lay it to the greived place. probatus est For the collicke Take the iuyce of bullocks dunge, & drinke it. or make it into pouder & drinke it. probatus est. For the flux of menstruas. Drinke the pouder of pomegranate flowers; or also boyle the flowers; & drinke thereof. For the dropsie Take elder rootes mixed with oximell, & drinke it continually, or give the pty a grame of euphorbium, to purge his body. Or take pigeons dunge, an ounce of [illegible], rubarb called piganum [illegible] with oximell. or put upon the swelled belly mitrum [beaten]: or salt, & [rost] [exesinse] or wash your selfe well with sea water, & drinke litle. or rub the belly with parched salt & drinke vineger of squilla. For the stomacke. To have an hungry stomacke, take sower crabbes, & boule them in vineger, & straine them, & put therto sugar & pouder of ginger, & boyle all together, & put it into a gally pot, & use it morninge and eveninge. probatus est. 121 For stoping in the throate. Make powder of columbins, & mixe it with aqua vitae and rose water, & drinke it. For the dropsie. Take the seed of morfus diaboli strained, & drinke of it with white wine nine dayes. For to provoake vomiting. Take mustard 2 drames, spuma nitri called banrach 1 [illegible] & condiss danich beaten all, then sift them, and drinke them with dill water, & oximell. Or take mustard & put thereon the heads of radishes, eate it, & drinke after it warme water & hony, this will cause you to vomit, by putting a foeather into your mouth. or take of nux vomica 3 ij & mixe it with hony, & dissolve it with hot water, & drinke of it when you would vomit A restaurative for a weake stomacke. Take longe pepper, graines, saffron, of each 2 penny worth; beate them to pouder, then take a cock chicken, & beate it to a [collice], with the 3 pouders put to it, & three yolkes of egges, hard rosted, and give it to the weake persone. probatus est. For the sharpenes and payne in the tongue or mouth: for the pluricy or tilick. Hold in your mouth diadragantum frigidum, untill it be dissolved; you may have it redy made at the apothecaries For a very sore mouth. Take herbe grace, worme wood, fethersue, sage, cincfole, yarrow, hony suckle leaves, mary gold leaves, stampe all these, & put thereto allome & hony, & boyle them together, & wash your mouth therewith. probatus est. To lift up the tuola. Boyle an eg very hard, & pull of the shell, & wringe it alitle, & lay it to the crowne of the head. or burne the rostes of cooles & put of the pouder into the vuola & it will lift it up by drying up the humor that caused it to fall 122 For cold in the stomack, and cold rhume in the head. Take pills of storax, & swallow them downe. Or make a plaster with storax, wax & oyle, & lay it to the stomack. For the pestilence. Terra sigillata drunke with wine treakle the greater, take thereof early in the morning a scruple with sweete wine aqua vitae, iuyce of lemons, & iuyce of 3 leaved grasse. Or take leavened bread tosted, wet it with rose wine vineger, or the iuyce of the wild vine, untill the tost drink it up, then put thereon cynomon pouder & eate that tost early in the morninge. A preservative against the plague. Take of methridate 3 ii specierum diambre, & [calloms] rescription called galeni letisicantem, of each 3, 5, [diardo] [illegible] white sugar 3 ounces, with water of [acekosy]; make litle tables, & gild the, & take every day, [one] Or take 2 dry figgs, 2 nutts, leaves of rue [illegible] beate all together with alitle salt, & eate of it fasting; excellent. Or take this electuary; sweet almons stamped, dry figgs, [illegible] leaves of rue 20, graynes of iuniper 5, beate them with rose wine vineger, & make an electuary, & take an ounce of it in the morninge. For the cough & straytnes in the brest. Take dry figgs, & isope & stamp them well together, then boyle them with hony & drinke of it fasting pbatus est To stay rhume. Take of pouder of worme-wood & mynts, of each alike portion layd upon a tost of whit bread (with crust not be tosted browne) steeped, or rather but wet in maulmsy eate this or tow of them in the morninge fast two yeares after it; you may lay sugar over the pouder. For the tooth ach. Stampe 2 cloves of garlick, & ty it to your wrist on that side that your toothaketh, & it will draw away all payne. Or boyle isope in vineger, & wash your mouth with the liquor & it will ease the payne presently. If the tooth be yellow, fill it with the gume of an [illegible] tree. 123 for a sore throate. Take the inward barke of a wallnut tree, rosemary croppes, & 2 or 3 good figgs slit asunder, boyle them well with white wine, & drinke the liquor. probatus est. To heal choppes in the gumes & lippes. Take mastick pouder mixed with the white of an egge. pbatus est. For the tooth ach. Take woodbind, & columbine leaves, pound, & straine them, & put to it allome water, then dip a cleane linen cloath therein, & hold it to the tooth that aketh. probatus est. To bring forth childrens teeth easily Annoynt the gumes with hony, & salt mixed together. To ease the payne under the ribbs, speene, & reynes. Eate oftimes almons. For hardnes of the sinewes. Take the marrow of a deere, or calfe, & annoynt the place. For the lithargy. Take a spoonefull of castoreum, & as much of white pepper, & as much of mellicrate, & give it to the party. To provoke [menstrues] [illegible] the party blood in the foote, then give her to drink of castoreum with penny royall or calamynt. pbatus est. but it must be given with wine & water boyled together, & soe drunke. For the collick. Drink aloes pouder; or take hiera antidogum; or treacle; or phylomum; or boyle parsly rootes and fennell rootes in water, & drinke thereof. Or boyle branne in wine, & put it into a linen bag, & rub your belly well & lay the bag thereto. Or take brimstone, comine resins stoned, mixe them with wine, & beate them together, & put them into a linen cloath, & lay it to the stomack, naule, backe, or privy parts. Or drinke two spoonefulls of oximell, & annoynt the parties back bone with oyle of rue, or oyle of bayes. For the goute. Take opium, castoreum of each zij of saffron z [illegible] 124 agragate them together with [water], wherein galls have beene boyled, & lay it thereto. But if the payne increase annoynt the place with stronge vineger, wherein horsemints & origanum have beene boyled. An excellent pouder to eate dead flesh. Burne [reach] allome, of myrabolanes, citrines, [illegible] sigillata, flowers of pomegranate, of each 2 drames, pouder of mercury, pouder of red corall, of each 2 drames, mixe them together, & use thereof. probatus est. Remedies for the back, reynes, loynes, liver and the spleene. For all manner of inflamations in the liver, swelled leggs, & inflamed hands. Take flower of barly, or amilum, seeth it halfe an hower in comon water, straine it, & put it into another pot, put to it a few mallowes, surrory, hopps, endive burrage, seeth all together untill it be dissolved, ad to it an ounce of sandall; then straine all, & take in a linen cloath two nutts full of cassia extracts, & put that [illegible] to it, pressing it with your fingers, that the substance thereof may issew into the strayned water as it heateth, then put to it [sope] as much as you will; then take every morning of this lying in your bed a litle glasse full, with your brest upward, then lay a linen cloath upon your stomack; [sleep] if you can, & take a litle of it after you are up, & have done your necessities; this must be done in sumer, & not in winter. For an ach. Take 3 parts of the iuyce of young elder croppes, & a fourth part of black sope, beate these together till it be a salve or oyntment, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For a payne in your reynes, flanke; & all other greifes. Take 3 quarters of an ounce of storax liquida, capons grease, goose grease, ducks grease, of each 5 drames, of oyle roses 4 drames, red wax 2 drames, melt these with h alfe a drame of butter & soe mingle them, & then put to it the storax, spread it on a cloath, & lay it upon the greife. 125 For the spleene. Every thing that is conduceing to make one fat is good. Boyle worme wood in beere & hony or take dry figges, & boyle them in mellicrate, beate & mixe them with worm wood, & lay it thereto. Or take caper roots, an ounce, vineger a pritty deale, water a part, boyle them together to a third part, & drinke 4 or 5 spoonefulls at a time. Or take young roots of ground [inie] boyled in wine, drink it. Or take mirabolanes, & [??pple] the in vineger, & beeing made thick, lay it thereto. Or ty them to the spleene of a soe, or kid. or beate the fruite of tamariske, then boyle it & lay it thereto. Or the rootes of capers, boyled in vinegar & put into a linen cloath & layd thereto gives great ease in one dayes space. An excellent remedy for a stitch Take a dishfull of hot embers, & sprinkle them with a litle wine vineger, & put them into a linen bag, & soe apply it hot to the side, & being cold, warme it againe in a platter, or else take new ones as before. For a payne in the side, & to open the spleene. Take an handfull of the midle greene rine of greene ash bowes, & infuse it into a pinte of white wine halfe a day & a night; in the morning drinke of it fastinge, & walke & fast, 2 howers after. A restaurative Take a pinte of white [barstard], 2 yolkes of eggs, white sugar candy an ounce, 2 penny worth of white saunders, the waight of 4d of [Ambin] pouder, boyle a peece or two of gold in I t, & boyle it to 3 quarters of a pinte beate the yolkes of eggs with the wine & put them in last for curdlinge, & drinke of it morning & evening. A singular remedy for the pluricy. Beate halfe a pound of the roote of scabious, of red corall 2 ounces, sugar as much as will suffice to make a syrop thus. Boyle the sugar a good time then put thereto halfe a pint of the iuyce of scabious, your pouder of corall, boyle the well straine it, & drinke a good draught thereof. Or drinke the iuyce of rue. 44 126 Or beate figgs with hoggs grease, or salet oyle & implaster it thereto. or boyle marsh mallow rootes, fenigreek seed, flax seed & wheate, & incorporate them well, & lay it thereto. this cureth either plurisy or palusie. Or take the meale of fenigreeke seed, flax seed and linen, & make bread of it with butter, bake it & lay it hot to the plurisy. probatus est. To cause one to voyde fleame. Take unstoned raysins of the sune, & beate them with the pouder of endive & alitle hony, & eate thereof For an inpostume, or to cure a canker Mixe raysins with beane meale & comeme, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it thereto. A water against dead flesh, & to heale any sore. Take white caperes, camfire at your discretion, burne them in a fier pan, & make pouder thereof, then take belsorminate a pritty peece, & make it into fine pouder, then take running water, seeth it & scume it over the fier, & put in all your powders, & let it boyle againe, & soe stand a while, & the pouder will sinke to the bottome, then put it iinto a cleane glasse. this applied to the sore fetches out dead flesh, scowers the wore faire, & will bringe it to perfect healinge. probatus est. To kill a fellon Beate [illegible] soote very small, & mixe it with black sope, and lay it thereto. probatus est. For all manner of goutes. Take pellitory of spaine & seeth it in water, or white wine, & lay it to the goute, this assuages both swelling & your ach. An oyntment for the ioynts. Take 5 or 6 handfulls of wallnut, seeth it well in wine then straine it, & with alitle wax, oyle of spike, & aqqua vitae make an oyntment, and every day annoynt the place evening & morning. probatus est. For swelling without breaking the skinne. Boyle barly meale in red wine, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto warme. probatus est. 127 For the goute 6 Make a stronge brine with water & salt that will bare an eg, & put the part greived into it as hot as you can endure, & as it cooleth take hotter; an excellent remedy. To make away wartes. Take great wormes, & boyle them well, & let it stand until it be cold, then take of the fat, & annoynt the wartes. For the gout in the ioyntes. Take endive water, the iuyce of holy [hanke] rootes, oyle of roses & camomile, barly flower, holkes of eggs, & a litle safron, mixe the together, & lay it thereto. probatus est. For an extreame ach. Lay hemolcks upon a tile, then upon them a slice of [illegible] cheese, then hemlockes againe over the cheese, then lay the tile upon embers to stew, & being throughly hot, lay it plaster wise to the greife, & use it oftimes, when you take of the plaster, wipe the water from the place & if neede require lay it on againe. probatus est. For the sciatica. Take ship pitch & ammoniack, & mixe the well together, & lay it thereto. this is very good. For the goute. Take [flea] worte, boyle it, & bath the place; it taketh away the payne very [???ainly]. Or take the roote of a wild [curumer] & [braune], beaten, & lay it thereto, this taketh away the swelling & hardnes thereof. Or take turpentine, resine, & wax, treacle & aqua vitae, boyle them, & spread it on a linen cloath some what warme, with a litle butter on the boarde where you spread it, & lay the plaster to the greife. Or boyle stockfish & lay it on skinne & all as hot as you can suffer it. For the tooth ach. Take the iuyce of ground [inie], & put of it into the eare on the same side the payne is: the effect is wonderfull. For the sciatica Make an oyntment of [illegible] & oyle, wherein coloquintida hath beene boyled with aloes, tapsia, apopinax 8 [illegible. Precepts for the goute. If the gout be cold & without swelling or redness & taken 128 with an extreame paine, use vaporations with [fryed] salt, put into a bag, & after cover the place which [illegible] well wet & moystened in hot sweet oyle. Or fomentate the place with the decoction of mallows hot & boyled with fenigreeke flax seed, & calamynt. If [these] helpe not, if [illegible] [illegible], let him blood, & oyle hot fomentations made with sea water, or comon water ading thereto salt; [illegible] goeing to stoole, & use hot things; or use oyle of bayes; & after 40 dayes use [diasamicon], or diapopinaceum, or diaspermaton. After youl leave the bathes use nitrum; euforbium,; adarace, & pouder of pepper, layinge them to the place, or else pouder of bay berries. An oyntment for the same. Take squilla, rue, rootes of wild curumer, two pts of water & one of old oyle, boyle them untill the water only remaynes, then cast away the herbes, put thereto pouder of nitrum, euforbium, adaraco, pepper & bay berries, use these, & purge with [helebores]. For a rupture. Take drinke made of comfry & muria eate not too much, especially if you engender wind, drinke not too much, use not much venery, keep the belly loose with glisters or suppositories: & sometimes goeing to diner take halfe an ounce of cassia with broth of a pullet, or tamarindes, or diacartamus tempered with the sayd broth or other liquor. Take of sanguis draconis, bolearminake, [scabiese], mumia, cypers nutts, of each an ounce, anise water cresses dryed, of each 6 drames, of great [consounds], & the [lesser], & the midle, & the wild vine, of each an ounce, & an halfe; make a pouder, & take thereof with the decoction fog round [iuie], & [con??und], called the knights [illegible] Or take pouder of valerian early & late a drame & an halfe at once, with red wine. Or make pouder of water cresses dryed, & give it to the party with milke, wherein [stones] or iron have been quenched. Alsoe [illegible] the roote thereof cut & tempered with red wine, & drunke continually cureth every rupture; Liver wort used soe worketh the same effects. Or take of the three sorts of confound, of both kinds of [scabiose], plantan, valerian, pimpernell, of each an ounce, cypers nutts, nut megs, cynomon, comeine, coriander 129 prepared, of each, halfe an ounce, frankincense mastick, terra sigillata, bolearminate, gume dragan of each 3 drames [illegible] [stiptiis] lotor duaw, aquae lib: 4 potest addi [cirma]: concisi et [illegible] es fiet ficri [allmodu] [illegible] An emplaster for the same Take cypers nutts, accasia, galls, pomegranate [stones], of each a drame; myrre, sarcacoll, frankinsense, gume arabick, of each 3 drames, dragons blood, bolearminate, [roch] allome, ales, mumia, of each 2 drames, make a fine pouder, & mixe it with vineger, & emplaster it thereto, & [trusse] it straite up. If after the gout vex the place, and be hard amoungst the sinewes. Make a plaster thereto of hard diaculum made soft in warme water, & layed thereto. For runneing of the reynes. Take an ounce of mastick make it into fine pouder, & put it into a quart of ale, & boyle it untill a quarter be wasted, then take it of & let it stand till it bee cold, then take the upermost & drinke it pbatus est. Or take comfry & make pouder thereof, & temper it with the iuyce of morrell, & wet a linen cloath therein, & lay it to the [yare], reynes, & members. pbatus est. To stay a laske Take [hares] furre, [illegible] seed, plantan seed, rose seed, flowers of pomegranates, seeds of St Johns wort, of each a drame, of dragons blood, mastick, of each 4 drames, venece turpentine, 2 drames & make it up wiuth plantan iuyce. Or take fasting mastick 3 drames, with rayne water, it comforteth the stomack & all ptes. Or take 3 drames of dragons blood, with plantan iuyce. For the extreame payne of the goute. Take a drame of opium pouder & safron pouder, mixed with whites of eggs, & oyle of roses, & layd to, is excellent. For all swelling what soever. Take a pottle of wormes washed, put the in to a pint of white wine, seeth the alitle, then put therein a pint of sallet oyle, & let these boyle together untill the wine be consumed, then straine it & put that oyle into a cleane vessell, & set 130 it on the fier, & put into it an ounce of deeres suet, & as much sheepes suet, & halfe an ounce of wax scraped therein, melt all these, & apply it. probatus est. For the dropsie. Drinke the seedes of morfus diaboli with white wine 9 dayes. For a burninge ague. Take 10 snayles with their shells, a great handfull of hemlocks, halfe an hand full of bay salt, beate them very well together, then lay the one halfe to the base soles of the foote, & the other halfe to the other; lay it not to until the heate hath beene on the party an hower, then let it ly on 8 howers, it helpes one within a day & a night; & may be applied to a child. For one that never had a child. Take a handfull of mercury, as much of ground [illegible], chop them small & straine them with beere, or boyle them with pottage with some red sanders, & drinke of it every day For a dropsy either hot or cold. Take worme wood, pettimorell, fetherfue, [spurge], wall worte, of the roote of each halfe a pound; of fennell parsly, isope, sago, smalage, arnias, mynts, water cresses, hore hound, endive, liver wort, greene barke of elder, of each a quarter, wash them cleane, & pound them in a morter, then put them into an earthen pot, & put thereto 2 gallones of white wine, or good [worte], which is not turned; seeth it till it come to a gallon, then straine it through a haire sieve into a faire vessell, wash the earthen pot, & put the liquor into it againe, & cover it, & give the party halfe a pint at a time. use it first & last, at evening hot, at morning cold, let him take nothing for 3 dayes but bread & pottage made with billers, white wine, & oatemeale; And take 2 pound of sage washed cleane, & put it into a coffin of dough made of wheate meale, & when it is baked, beate it in a morter & then put it into a faire cloath and the cloath [illegible] a waight of three pounds, & hang it in a gallon pot of stone, & fill it up with white wine or stale ale, & cover it, & let the party drinke of it & noe other drinke whilst it lasteth, & that spent, make ready more, & drinke alsoe of it first & last; & after three dayes let him eate any 131 convenient meale, but noe drinke but this prescribed let him alsoe blood in one or two vaines. probatus est to be a singular and most excellent receite. Remedies for cankers, emrods, piles, and boyles. For the emrods or piles. Boule greene elder in water untill it be dissolved, then take a peece of red cloath, a litle biger, then the palme of your hand, & stretch it along upon the palme of your hand, & lay the elder leaves upon the emrod, as hot as may be suffered, having alitle before layd uipon them a litle oyle olive; then take away the cloath & leaves, & in like manner lay on others, & soe others as long as you may, & then let him sleepe if he can. For a boyle or botch. Take crumes of bread, raysings dryed in an oven, & well stamped, butter, eggs suet, [leven], cowes milke, & a litle saffron; make of all this an oyntment & lay it to the sore, putting first a litle safron pouder upon the very place, where you will have it breake & upon that lay the plaster, leaving it soe untill night, & changing it evening & morning, soe shall you make is [soome] ripe, & breake, then dresse it with oyle roses & the yolkse of eggs one whole day; after this purge away the filth with some drawing oyntments, finally lay to it the oyntment of aloes & tutia, or or some consolidatine or healeing oyntments. Or beate bay salt into pouder, then sift it, & incorporate it with the yolke of an egge, & lay it thereto. this is good for a plague sore; sape probatum. To resolve a fellon or boyle or bock in the beginninge Cut an orange in the midle then take a litle [illegible] in a dish & pisse upon it, then wringe it in your hands, & put to it a litle comon salt, beaten to pouder, & lay it hot to the sore, putting upon the sayd [tome] halfe an orange 132 & bind all this on, changing it evening & morning, & the [illegible] mater will [soudainly] dissolve. For impostumes, boches, cankers & other sellings. Take barly & branne, & seeth them untill they be like to a plaster very thick, then lay it upon the sore. To ripen an impostume, boch, fellon, or any swelling sore. Take hoggs grease, or lard, & lay it to the sore, very good For a canker approoved. Take myrre, mastick, & dragons blood, pound the together then take the marrow of a red [stere], & pound all together, & make it into a roule, & when you use it, make a plaster upon a new linen cloath, or leather. Pouder of [illegible] will open a wound; & pouder of centory will heale it To breake a boch or boyle. Take grownd [sill] & capons grease; & grind the together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. probatus est. Or take, worme wood, mallowes, wheate flower, lineseed & hony, seeth them all together in wine, & make a plaster, & bind it thereto very hot. probatus est. For the measles in young children. Take iulip, violets 2 ounces, rose water 4 ounces, oyle of vitriole 4 graynes, mixe them, & drinke it cold. this is a rare medicine. To kill a tetter. Annoynt the tetter with the iuyce of woodbine leaves, pbatus est To kill a canker or fellon. Take plantans beaten small, hony, alitle pouder of burnt allome & vineger, mixe these, & lay them thereon. To take away a wenne. Annoynt the wenne but three nights with the blood of a [tench] & it will fall away. probatus est. An oyntment for scabbes or ring wormes. Take the iuyce of the yellow daffodill, iuyce of dragons, iuyce of fennell, which is sower, of each 2 ounces, hogges grease halfe a pound, bouyle these together, untill the iuyces be boyled away, then put it into a morter, and mie it well with tartar, & fileings of lead, & that with [st??beth] on an oven or furnesse mouth, verdigrease, the ashes of a gourd, of each 2 drames, an ounce of quicksilver [killed] with fasting spittle, & as much vineger as shall suffice to incorporate all & make an oyntment of them. 133 For the shingles. Take moyst pigeons dunge, & barly meale, mixe them together & lay it to the sore then lay worte leaves about them, & let these ly a day & a night; then lay a fresh plaster: for 3 plasters will cure you bee the shingles never too greivous. probatus est. To kill a canker. Take running water, & water out of the smithes forge, & put therein rosemary, sage, honysuckle leaves, a good peece of rose allome, & hony, boyle them well together, & wash the place therewith, then make pouder of sage & smalage & lay upon the sore. probatus est. To cure an ague. Take briony, or the roote of white wine, called vitis alba, cut, & beate it in a morter with frankinsense bay salt, & turpintine, & lay it to your wristes. probatus est. To cure a burne with fier. Take sheepes tallow, & hennes dunge, fry them together, & straine out the iuyce, & annoynt the place. For swelled hands. Make a plaster with cow dunge, mixed with hony & vineger, & lay it thereto, when it is hard. For the dropsie. Take chick-week, ale, & oatemeale, make pottage thereof, & use it 9 dayes, & every day fresh. probatus est. For ach in the wombe. Take tansy, rue, & souther wood, eate it fasting. For the stone in the reynes Boyle baellium of arabia, & drinke thereof, it [p???eth] [illegible] & expelleth wind. For a strangury, & such as cannot make water. Boyle the rootes & leaves of plantan in white wine, & drinke it. or boyle [radice] rootes in white wine, & ad pou of hares furre burned & drinke thereof, it is a prefect remedy for the same. 134 To kill the swine pox. Take a handfull of wild tansy, worme wood, marygold leaves of each as much wash 7 dry them betweene a cloath cut & fry them with butter, and take the iuyce, & annoynt the pox there with For a burne or scald. Take creame, & fleece therein the midle rine of witch-hazle, or the rime of elder, & annoynt the place. To kill a tetter. Burne rushes upon a latine bason, & with the oyle which cometh thereof annoynt the tetter often. probatus est. A present remedy for the collick. Take wallnutts without the shells, seeth them in white wine, strayne it, & put in as much sugar candy as will sweeten it, & drinke it. probatus est. To take away wartes. Stamp egrimony & celendine with [illegible] it be thick. probatus est. For the mether. Take greene broome toppes stamp & temper them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. For ach in the feete with travailinge. Mixe stamped comein seeds with oyle olive, & annoynt the soles of the feete, & bind thereto a red [cole] leafe. For all manner of goutes. Take brimstone pouder, [grind] it with oyle olive on a stone & annoynt the gout before the fier. or take a red snayle, put it into an earthen pot, & put thereto salt, untill it bee melted, & therewith annoynt the place before the fier. To quench ones thirst. Take the roote of [loveage], stamp it & temper it with water, & drinke it 3 mights goeing to bed. probatus est. To stanch the menstruall blood in woemen. Take a toade dryed, & put it into a bag, & hang it about the woemans neck. probatus est by Mr May. To provoke the flowers. Take myrre, & cynomon of each zj of savine [illegible] parsly seed, smalage seed, spike nard, asarum, of each [illegible] make of all these a pouder, & take of it 3 [illegible] with the iuyce of eringus. It is good to take it with some liquor. For an itch. Take brimstone pouder & temper it with aqua vitae & salet oyle, & annoynt the scabbes therewith. probatus est. For the emrods. [illegible] sage in oyle of roses put it into a linen bag & lay it hot to 135 To make one soluble. Take raysins of the sunne, steepe them a night in water & hony, in the morning eate 20 or 30 of them with 2 spoonefulls of the liquor to 8 spoonefulls of water a spoonefull of hony For a laske. Take a new layd eg, break the shell & put out the white & keepe the yolk in the greater part of the shell, & put thereto a good deale of [veriayce], & stirre it together on the fier, & after wards [illegible] it up. probatus est. For paynes in the belly, & especially of such whose naule comes out. Take the pouder of burnt galls, mixe thereto the rine of a pine tree, or frankincense & the white of an eg, & lay it to. For paynes in the belly. Drinke the roote of aristologia; or dry comein seed, & take thereof 2 spoonefulls, with 8 spoonefulls of water or wine. Or chew comeing seed & swallow it downe. or bay seeds taken out of the skinne & made into pouder, & drinke thereof 9 spoonfulls with wine. or eringus rootes with wine, or elder boyled & drunke with sine. To make one laxative Take wheate branne, boyle it in water, & straine it; & take blanched almons, beate them in a morter & temper the with the water, & drinke it, or make it into a porrige. probatus est. For a payne in the stomack, for vomiting, the collick, in the spleene or liver, or the ague by fleame. Take anniseed 2 drames, mastick, spike, aromaticum, of each a drame, boyle them & drinke thereof. For the stomack payned, & cannot disgest, for an ague by cold, for appilations & the collick. Take of spike a drame, galingall 2 drames comin 3 drames, boyle them & drinke there of. To cure the idstillation of the urine. Take dayly in your drink psillicum, with oyle of roses. Or anacardina, methridate, & ieragelein. Alsoe trifera minor mixed with wallnutts & frankincense For the over much flowing of urine. Butterd milke, or iuyce of pomegranates drunke. Take acasia, 3 ij dragagant 3 j [illegible] dryed roses 3 iij beleorminate 3 iiij gume arabick 3 ij beate them 136 & sift them, & make it up with musilage of psallium, and take it with cold water. Or make a plaster with barly meale, vineger, & oyle of roses, & lay them to your back. Or drinke charned milke & milke hot from the cow. An oyntment for the same. Take frankincense 3 iij acasia, hipoquistides, labdanum, of each 3 iiij oyle of roses an ounce, [populeon] z ij pound then well in a morter & annoynt the reynes & privy partes therewith. Or take oyle of water lillyes, oyle of roses, oyle of violets, gume arabick the lesser cold seeds, red sanders, wallnutts dryed to pouder, roses, frankincense, myrre, cypres, galingall, cynomon enula make pouder of them. To stay the flux of urine. Take the litle skinnes of the [mames] of hennes, dry them to pouder in the skinne; a drame thereof; olibanum, dryed wallnutts, pomegranate flowers, galls, of each 3 drames, make a pouder of it all, & take of it fasting with cold water & hony of roses. For swelling in the codds. weare about your neck a parsnippe roote; or take bay leaves & rue leaves, & beate them together and lay them thereto. probatus est. To make one pisse. Drinke tansy & camomile iuyce with white wine. probatus est. To stay the flux of urine. It is very good to eate the lunges of a kidde. Or boyle barly & cast away the first red water, & fill it with fresh water, & boyle it again then straine it, & put to the liquor letice water, & endive water & drinke thereof after it is; but when it bouyleth put in myrtle leaves, & mithridate, or treakle. Pilles for those that pisse in bed. Take myrre, castoreum, costus, tormentilla wallnut shells, peritony, of each halfe an ounce, beate the & make them up with water of myrre moyst; or with the iuyce of myrkles, or [illegible], & after steepe take a drame, or a drame & an halfe. An excellent pouder for the same. Take [horse] mynt, that growes in the water, [peleuy] of the mountaine, 137 of each 3 drames; myrre a drame & an halfe, [cypresse], mustard seed, cardomomum, cypresse nutts, frankincense of each a drame, make it up with hony, & take the quantity of a nutt goeing to bed Or take a sheepes bladder & spread it upon a hot tyle, stone, or iron plate, & being dryed to pouder, drink thereof with water & vineger but it is farre better to drinke it with red wine made hot alitle. Or take chimolea (which is a certaine earth brought out of spaine) beate it small, & temper it with bullocks gall, & emplaster it on the [privities], & the back bone. For an ach or swelling in the knee. Take rue & loveage, stampe & mixe them together with hony, then fry them, & lay them warme to. pbatus est. To kill small wormes in the belly. Dry rue to pouder, & drinke of it dayly; Or eate it in broth first & last. or put it into wine & warme it & drinke thereof. probatus est. To kill the greater wormes. Make pouder of betony & savine, & put of it into hot water, & drinke of it some what warme. probatus est For a wrench. Boyle milke grated manchet, & fresh butter, or hogs grease together, untill it be thick, & lay it hot thereto. For one that is taken lame. Take a pint of maulmsy, [stond] horse dunge, a litle wax, boyle alltogether well, then put thereto a quantitye of comein pouder, & lay it thereto. probatus est. To provoke the menstrues. Take a head of garlick pilled, & put it into the matrix; it rpovoketh nightily. To bring out the pox, plague, meazles or other payne about the heart. Take 5 leaves of sage, 5 blades of safron dryed, & make them into pouder, a fig cut into small peeces boyle all these in faire water, drink it often. pbatus est. For one that is broaken Beate an onyon with mutton grease, & a litle oxe gall, & put it into a linen cloath, and lay it thereto. probatum est. 138 To provoke the menstrues in woemen. Take a lilly roote rosted in embers, then beate it & mixe it with oyle, & put thereof into the matrix. Or drinke lylly seedes, & it will bringe forth a dead child [perfectly]. Or boyle pennyroyall, & bake the matrix, it taketh away the swelling of the matrix; or drunken, or put into the matrix doth the same: soe doth calamynt or parsnipps, either drunken, put up, or fomentated. Sage boyled & drunken, or put up bringeth forth the [secundine]. To heale the emrods. Dry or burne dill seeds, & mixe it with hony, & layd thereto health them. Or take fileings of iron, & confect it with mullen, & lay it to, is most excellent. Or take old bumbast, & wet it in water wherein dill hat beene boyled, & after dry the bumbast, & mixe the [arse] therewith, & then make a suppository of it. Or take rosemary leaves bruised, & make a plaster, & lay it to the emrods. Or comon dirt healeth the flux of the emrods. Or make pouder of eg shells where in chickens have been hatched, & drinke it with white wine fasteing: this healeth them perfectly. If the emrods hange out is payne you much. Take old linen & hard pich, & upon this plaster lay the pouder of parsly rootes, & mastick, & lay this plaster thereto probatus ets. To stay the laske. Drinke acasia; or make a suppository of it, with soe much opium. Or boyle horehound with wine & oyle, & beate them well together, & emplaster it to the place about the privy members. probatus est. Or boyle or fry a sheepes liver with wax & eate of it hot, it stayeth the flux perfectly. Or boyle cowes milke, & put therein a peece of iron or a flint stone, & let them boyle well, & drinke thereof: this is a perfect remedy. Take beares grease: or wine & a new layd eg, with a litle salt & drinke of it fasting, & soe the second day, & fast a long hower after. Or drinke the pouder of tormentill, or the decoction of that [illegible] For those that spit blood. The gume of the peach tree, called gum persici {illegible] to the is [excellent], & [illegible] the matter in the lungs 139 For an old or new sore Take red leade, turpentine, oyle olive, & barrowes grease, boyle it until it bee stiffe upon a stick, then straine it, & put it into a vessell to keepe it in, & & make a plaster upon a linen cloathe & lay it to. To stay urine. Drinke the braine of a haire with wine. galbanu with wine drunke is good. soe is galingall soe used. To cure a burne. Take a raw eg, & lay it upon soft wooll: it is a most rare secret, to dry the sore. or annoynt it with [bola??iral] To stay the running of mans nature. Drinke the water wherein lenteles are boyled: hemp seeds, coriander seed, purslane seeds, charned milk upon it is sower: but take the water wherein these seeds are boyled. Or make plasters of hen bane, opium, camfire, the mustilage of flea worte, purselane, & oyule of poppie, oyle of roses, or oyle of [myrtles]. Or coriander seed, & water lilly seedes dryed. Purge from challer, let blood, & puoke to vomit. those hot things are good to dry up mans seed. rue, & his seed, agnus castus, calamynt, euforbiu comein; all things to dry up mans seeds must be taken with acetosum. Or take pine kernells, [shaled] & fryed & sifted, of [bdellium], of each 3 x. pomegranate flowers, red roses of each 3 w beate them & sift them & use them. [Chinconna] sayth that pine kernells loose their vertue by dryinge. Another for the same. Take dill seeds 3 iij letice seed, purselame seed of each 3 iiij & drinke them with water of lenteles. Or take letice seed 3 ij of [illegible] rue seed 3 j pomegranate flowers 3 ij seeds of lagnus castus 3 j all this for one dosse. Or take old conserve of roses 2 ounces put it into a morter & temper it with pouder made of pomegranate flowers, myrre in pouder, frankincense, mastick in pouder, anniseeds in pouder, comein in pouder, rue dryed to pouder, margerome dryed 140 to pouder, & sugar, & compound them well takeing of each a like quantity & litle portion & [morria] & soe eate of it dayly., probatus est L [Mr] May: remember to ad in the beating bolearminate of the [best] For a burne with fier. Take the yolke of an egge, or the whits of egges tempered with salet oyle, play it thereto. probatus est. Or take mutton suet, & hennes dunge, & fry the together, then straine out the iuyce through a cloath, & annoynt the burne therewith. probatus est. For the dropsie. Take the shaveings of sheepes skinnes, or [illegible] skinnes, & boyle them in water untill they bee thick as glew, & put it in a cloath, & bind it about your body. probatum est. For swelled feete or hands. Boyle elder leaves in water, & put thereto salt, & bath the swelling therewith. Boyule elder leave in oyle & wine & lay the thereto. To provoke the menstrues. Take coles, & lay thereon storax, & let the woeman sit over the fume thereof; it is good. To stay flux of urine. Take graynes of myrtle, wallnutts, frankeincense, comein, cypresse, of each a part beaten, & take with old wine 2 drames. Or take the leaves of myrtle dryed. Allome, leaves of aleanna, of each a part, boyle them with wine, & drink thereof an ounce at a time in the morning. Or take wallnutts, & steepe them in wine vineger 24 howers, & fry them in a panne then beate them & [take] thereof ten drames. Or take [currall], myrtle, frankincense, storax, dry the, pound them, & mixe them with hony and wallnutts dryed to pouder. Or take the wet end of a pulled cork, & burne it to pouder, & use of it twice or thrice a day. Or the stones of a hedgehog dryed to pouder: it is excellent good. 141 For a burne nerely done. Annoynt the place well with mustard, & good store, this will fetch out the fier, & heale it. To cure scabbes. Take litange beaten to pouder, gume tragagant, vitriole, equall proportions, incorporate them, with wine vineger, put them into a glasse & stop it close, & bury it in a moyst place amounth, & then annoynt the place therewith. All these are good to cure a burne. Hoggs grease, marse mallowes, acasia, [ince], allome, mayden haire, beete, burnt lether, white lillies, elder leaves, [inie], St Johns wort, wild letice, mallowes, an eg, plantan, [grose] leeks, sheepes dunge, pigeons dunge, and frankeincense. For swelled knees. Take rue & [loudage] stamped well together, mingle it with hony, & fry all together, & lay this plaster to the sore, somewhat warme, & the ach & swelling will cease. For ach or sores Take the rootes of holy haukes, seeth them tender, then grind them in a morter, & put thereto a quantity of wheate flower, & mingle them well together, & fry it with oyl olive, & lay it to as hot as you can suffer. For biteing of an adder. Stampe, then temper centory with water & drink thereof, it is good for man & beast. OR stamp rue & temper it with oyle olive, & lay it thereto. For the plurisie. Make an hole in a mellow apple, & take away some within, & put therein 2 or 3 graynes of olibanum, then cover the apple againe, with the first peece out of, & rost it in the embers till it grew tender, then bruise it into 4 parts with the olibanum & eate it; it will instantly cause the apostume to breake,. probatus est per Roserum May. Or take the flower that sticks on the mill sides, make of it part with water, & soe make litle cakes 5 5. 142 of the bignes of a greate, bake them or fry them with oyle of scorpions, lay one very hot to the greise, rubbing it with oyle of scorpions, & when one cake is cold take another, doe soe 10, or 15 times, & in short time the apostume will breake, & you shall spit it forth. Or take a white leafe [leafe] very hot, & open it in the midle, spread upon both sides treakle, & bind both parts to the sides of the body upon the greife, let it rost 24 howers, or untill the postume breaks, which hath beene within 2 howers, & the bread beeing taken away, you shall voyld the putrifaction of the apostume. Or a bores tooth scraped into wine & drunke breakes the apostume of the plurisie. For an ach or bruise. Take [netes] foote oyle a pottle, an oxes gall, a pint of aqua vitae, as much rose water, bay leaves, rosemary stripped from the stalks, strawberry leaves, rootes & [wiers], lavander cotton, lavander spike, of each a handful, beat them small 7 put them into the sore sayd [stu??e], & boyle it on a soft fier in a panne of two gallons, but beware the flamme touch it not, & being well boyled, take it of & strayne it, but take not the bottome of it, & soe annoynt you therewith. For the plurisy & shortnes of breath. [pound] astrologia purgeth grasse humes from the lunges. For an old cough. Swallow downe the bignes of a leafe of myrre, it is excellent, & helpes from other paynes in the brest. Scrabigle is good for the lungs, & against the plurisy. For hardnes, & paynes in the arteryes & vaynes. Melt amoniack with vineger lest it burne, or beate it in a morter with vineger & lay it thereto. Mixed with nitrum oyle, it is good for a sciatica. mixed with vineger it is good for the spleene that is hard. Mixed with hony or pich, annoynting the [illegible] it helpes the hardnes. For a stitch. Take berryes or leaves of holly beate & mie them with stale ale & drinke thereof. probatus est. 143 For the sciatica Wringe out the iuyce of new horse dunge, & dry put to it a quantity of stronge vineger, & fry it, & as hot as may be put it into a linen cloath, & lay it to the greise; when it waxeth cold heate it againe with new vineger, & soe 3 or 4 times. probatus est. Or take a quart of the dreggs of very stronge ale, & a pint of wheat branne, boyle them together, & as hot as may be lay it to the place all night. probatus est. A notable oyntment to cure scabbes. Take a pint & a halfe of good wine, brimstone 3 ounces, frankencense 2 drames, salt 3 ounces, the roote strutium, alias condisi 4 ounces, white wax an ounce & a halfe; in the end of the boyleing ad liquid storax, a drame & a halfe, boyle all untill the [thine] part of halfe be confirmed, then let it settle & congele, & annoynt the palmes of your hands & where any scabs are. For a hot humour in the legge. Beate well the whits of eggs, & scume them cleane then take the iuyce of howse leeke & put to it, & annoynt the place. For paynes in the eares & head. Take 3 pounds of rue, bruyse it small, & boyle it with 3 pounds of salet oyle, untill a thine part bee wasted, & that the oyle wax greene, then strayne it through a cloth, & keepe this oyntment for your use. probatus est. For swelling in the codds. Take pouder of barly meale & good hony, fry them together, & make a plaster & lay it all about the codds, & bind it that it fad not of. probatus est. but remember to ad pouder of comein to it, when you fry it. For all manner of wrenches, bruises & swellings. Take 8 ounces of yellow wax, oyle of roses 8 ounces (bruce 8 ounces, camfire a drame, cut your wax small) & put it into a skellet with the oyle, & boyle them on a soft fier, alitle, then put in your [coruce] small beaten, & boyle these 3 a little, & when you perceive it somewhat yellow, put in your camfire beaten small, & boyle it a litle, then that make a [illegible] cloath, what is left make in roules for your use 144 An oyntment for all old & daungerous wounds. Take celandine, louvage, sage, scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them in a morter, & temper them with sheepes tallow, & oyle olive, of each a pound, let it stand in a vessell 9 dayes, then seeth it in a skellet, untill the herbs goe to the bottome, then strayne them, & set it over the fier, & put thereto two ounces of wax but in sumer 3 ounces, then put an ounce of mastick in pouder, frankincense, verdigrease, of each an ounce boyle it all together untill it be greene, when it is taken from the fier put to it an ounce of aloes epatike in pouder For a fellon. Take black sope, a chickens foot, ground sill, the yolke of an egge & bay salt beaten all together, untill it bee like a plaster, then lay it on. Protabus est. The excellent new plaster. Take smalage called apium, plantans, & betony, of their iuyce a pound, put it into a panne, & put thereto a quarter of a pound of new wx, halfe a quarter of frankincense white, & cleane, halfe a quarter of pitch, & refine, boyle them in the iuyce, & stirre it well, take it of & stirre it, & straine it, then take an ounce of turpintine, & temper it together & being cold hather it, & it is made; chafe it betweene your hands before you spread it. this doth many & great cures. A soveraigne medicine for a stich. Take rosemary & binds tongue, the leaves & berryes of [kn??] jelly, dry all these in the mounth of may June, or July, & make pouder of them, as fine as can be made, & drinke thereof for your stich. probatus est. For a dropsy swelling in the belly. Take flower dolure called gladin, stamp the roote small, & temper it with good ale, & boyle new milke, & put to it, as you would make a posset, & soe drink a good part fresh made on the morrow fasting. For swelling at the heart. Take goose dunge stamped with [eysill], & lay it to [illegible] To take away rednes in the leg or face. Take new warme goose dunge, lay it to the legge which hate an old bruise, & it shall take it away the same doe to the face. 145 To make the face well coloured & faire. Take the marrow of the bone of a swines foot, temper it with warme water, & annoynt the face. To make a cleere voyce. Fry elder flowers in the sunne, let it not rayne on them, make pouder thereof, & temper it with red wine, & drinke thereof. For gnawing in the wombe. Stampe red cole word, & take comein & vineger, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. To make flesh grow in all manner of wounds. Take turpentine 4 ounces, hony halfe an ounce, pouder of white frankencense one drame, safron the third pt of a drame take enough of the oyle of roses, & wax, & make a salve thereof. To clere the matter, & cause flesh to grow. Take turpentine, hony of roses strained, of each 4 ounces, myrre, [surcecell], of each 3 drames, barly meale an ounce, the yolke of an eg, halfe a drame of safron, mixe thm, & set it on the fier, & stirre it well, & when it is luke warme, put thereto the yolke of an egge. To stanch a greate fluxe. Take towne cresse & fry cropps of wood bind, which beareth the small hony suckles, stamp them in warme red wine, & drinke thereof first & last; & eate each day 5 greene leekes, or 3 at the least, with hot bread, drinke nothing but red wine, & let it be hot, used this 3 dayes, & it will certainely cure you. probatus est. To stay the over flowing of urine Drinke a hares braynes with beere or gallanu with wine. rost hazle nutts & take them. or take [gadingall]. For the mother which is fallen. Beat netle leaves, & put them into the matrix very good. Nettle seedes drunk in wine helpe the wombe swelled & [cheaked] up. Soe doth a sufumigation of myrre. Make a plaster of fearne, or worme wood & lay it to the naule. Or take cloves, treacle, & [illegible] dissolved into wine, drunke hot, it helpeth the hardnes of the mother. [rue] beaten & boyled in oyle with hennes grease & goose grease layd hot to, before & behind helpeth the matrix perfectly. Burne turpentine, & [receine] the sunne at the mouth of the matrix, it helpeth the hardnes thereof. 146 To cure a tertian ague. Take mellileke, celendine, white peppis, black poppy, salt & nettle beaten strongly together, & layd to the pulse pbatus est. Drinke the iuyce of plantans before the fit [co??eth] Drinke the iuyce of pimpernell when the fit is upon you; theis cureth the ague. probatus est. Drinke the iuyce of surrory or smalage. probatus est. [illegible] beaten cobwebbs about your nose, excellent. Or by garlick about the body helpeth a quotidian. pbatus est. To stop a mervailous great flux, if any thing will. Take a pint of milke as it comes from the cow in a faire vessell, & set it on the fier, & bind fast as much [rech] allome in a lumpe, as will equall the bignes of three cherry stones, & seeth it in the milke, untill it curdle like a posset, then take the curd & eate it, & drinke the whay, all at a meale, & drinke noe other drinke ly warme first on one side then the other, doe this three times. probatus est. To stay the excessive running of urine. Take mithridate & treacle, & drinke thereof with wine, & annoynt the codds & parts about them with oyle of castor, & oyle of lillyes mixed together. To heale a greene wound. Take sage, isope, rue, worme wood, camomile, astrologia, which is round, betony, mugworte, wild tansy, egrimony, vervine, plantan scabiose, rib worte, pimpernell, southerwood, of each a handfull, stamp them small, then take a quart of oyle, & a pound of butter, & put it into a pan & boyle or fry the herbes well therein, then put thereto frankincense & myrre, & straine them well, then put therein the iuyce of watercresses, & it is made. For swelling or ach in the feet Make a glewell of oatemeale & milke, then ad the iuyuce of singreene & sheepes suet, let them boyle till it be thick, then make a plaster upon a cloath, & lay it all about the sore, as warme as may be. pbatus est. An oyntment to strengthen the reynes. Take oyle of the water lilly, oyle of violets, of each halfe an ounce, red sanders a drame, cynomen halfe a drame, vineger halfe an ounce, with a litle waxe & soe make an oyntment therewith. 147 For such whose water goes fro them by dropping. [ ?igella] fryed is good. Burne comein, & ty it in a linen cloath, & smell thereto; it is a perfect remedy. To purge fleame & comfort the stomack & nerves. Take the pouder of agaricke, & drinke oximell for three or foure dayes, evening & mnorning. For aches, the sciatica, & bruises. Take white lead a quarter of a pound, coruce an ounce & a quarter, beaten small, salet oyle halfe a pinte put the oyle into a pipkin, set it on the fier, & when it boyles put in the coruce, & straine it well, & boyle it till it looke cleene, as water, then put in the white lead, & stirre it till it be black, & cold spread it, & ly it thereto. To know whether the stone be in the blader or in the reynes. Take the herbe morsus galind, chick wood, boyle them in water & enmplaster it upon the [pr??ie] partes, & the yarde, & if the payne increaseth, the stone is in the blader, if not, it is in the reynes. For the stone. The rine & berryes of the bay tree drinke breaks the stone. Or take 7 heads of garlick, boyle them long in water, & drinke thereof 3 dayes, & if it will breake the stone. Or boyle the leaves of [em?la] campana in wine, & plaster them thereto. To breake the stone. Drinke the iuyce of limons; Or annoynt the privy partes with the grease of a fox. Or take pellitory beaten & made hot, & layd to the privityes. Or take radice rootes, & make roules thereof, the number of tenne, or more, & put them into white wine all a night & drinke of that wine in the morning fastinge untill the stone come forth. The reynes, dunge, & the blood of an part; & the pouder of the paine of an part is excellent for the stone. To stay the whites. Take a pottle of water, halfe an ounce of cynomon 148 pills of pomegranate halfe an ounce, knot grasse halfe a handfull, boyle these till the water come to a pinte & make candles thereof, for three mornings, take the thine part every morning probatus est. The vertue of oximel. It is to purge fat & grosse fumes, & for knottes in the flesh & artiryes. To comfort one that is weake. Take 3 sheepes hearts, & cut of the fat from them, stire them & wash them cleane from the blood with red rose water, then dry them with a linen cloath, & put in the out side of each heart 6 cloves, after they have been steeped a night in red rose water, then take the striggs of rosemary, the leaves being pulled of, & lay them in a clean earthen panne, upon which striggs lay the hearts, & put to them more red rose water, after the have been steeped a night, & put to the new red rose water 6 ounces of white poudered sugar, & cover the panne with a white paper, & over that a linen cloath, & ty them fast, & set the panne in an oven to bake with bread, & being baked take the liquor from the hearts, & drinke it often it hath done very much good to weake [illegible] For the quarterne ague Goe to bed halfe an hower before the fit comes, let there be coles set by the bed side, & drinke with mustadell or maulmsy as much assurabacca as will ly upon two crownes of gold, the wine must be luke warme, then be covered very warme, & [illegible] the more you vomit the better it is, as you sweat be mixed with warme cleathes. Then take sage, rue, & sheapherds purse, of each a like quantity, stamp them, & sprinkle them well with white wine vineger, & bind it to your wristes, let it ly soe a day, & the next day take it of, when the fitt comes againe, lay on to your wrists as be fore, & take of the sayd drinke, & sweate as before, and withall when your fit is of & you coole, you may rise if you will, but let the fit be well over; 149 This is fir a tertian ague alsoe & by gods helpe you shall be cleere from it at three times thus doeing as is mentioned. For an ague Make iuyce of camomile, & mixe it with oyle, & annoynt the back bone, & the pulps before the fitt cometh, & you shall be cured perfectly Or take 2 handfulls of nettles cobwebbes & bay salt, of each an ounce, beate them well together, & in the beateing, put therto of fasting spittle, & make of it 4 plasters, & lay it to the pulses or wristes. probatus est. [hemlock], rag-weed & bay salt well beaten together, & layd to the wristes cureth an ague. Or make a kake of flower & the [pitients] wrime, bake it then burne it & cast it away. For the head ach in an ague. Take a long onyon, out of the crowne, core it & fill it full of the pouder of frankencense, then cover it, & rost it, & crushed together lay it to the nappe of the neck. For a quarterne ague drinke beere for a tertian drink cold water. A laxative pouder. Take of [se?e] halfe an ounce in pouder, a quantity fo spikenard bruised, an ounce of ginger pouder, bruise them well all together, & [searce] them, then put a pirtty quantity thereof into the pap of an apple, & eate it towards bed time To dissolve wind in the stomack. Boyle enulacampana rootes in wine & drinke it. Or make pouder thereof, & drink it in wine; or mixe this pouder with cynamon pouder & drinke it with wine. A very excellent water to heale all sores possible to be healed. Boyle faire water & take it from the fier, & then 150 make this pouder following take of [reach] allome halfe a pound, a quarter of a pound of greene vitrioll seeth these in the water, and stirreing it, let it seeth till it be dry, then beate it to small pouder; of this pouder cast into the sore, where is dead flesh or proud flesh; or lay a litle lint thereupon, & a plaster of flos unguentorum above layd, & remoove it not in 12 dayes, till it come away freely & easily Or seeth a quantity of water as before, & taken from the fier put therein the afore sayd pouder, & let it seeth a while, then put it into a cleane vessell, & keepe it for your use To remedy shrunken sinewes Take water cresses, camomile, of each a handfull, grind them small, & fry them with wheat meale, & hony, & lay it very hot thereto. To cure a hot impostume take wheaten creame, & boyle it in water & oyle & make thereof a plaster. Or take the oyle of camomile, dill, & bayes, of each an ounce, put therto a litle wax & make thereof an oyntment. Or to make a mollificative unguent for the same, take musilage, holy hauke, fenigreeke seed, flaxseed, of each an ounce, of old oyle, hennes grease, oyle of lillies, oyle of bayes, oyle of camomile, of each a like portion, a litle butter with waxe, & confort these into an oyntment, & [preserve] it; But if the party have a fully body, & full of humours, then purge him first, according to the humours, which oppresse the body; & afterwards lay this mollificative oyntment thereto. Or make a plaster for the same; take oyle of roses, & balsominake, & mixe them together. Or take a handfull of mallowes; of worme-wood, & roses, of each 5 ounces, barly, branne an ounce, oyle of camomile a fourth part, boyle them then beate them, & make a plaster thereof. 151 For biteing of a mad dogge. Beate fennell with water, & lay it thereto. To cure an old sore legge. Take butter & fry it, & put thereto refine in pouder, & fry them together, & apply it. probatus est. To kill an itch in the legge Take hony, boleorminake, & greene coperesse, grind them small, & annoynt the leg therewith three dayes together. Or take red lead, coruse, boleorminake, & a litle coporesse, grind them small with vineger & barrowes grease, & put thereto the yolk of an eg, & annoynt the leg therewith. pbatus est. Emplasters to breake a sore or to draw forth venome Take figgs, [grees], wwheat beaten, equally portients, beate them all together, & lay it thereto. with stoned resines & hony; or sparrowes dunge mixed with hoggs grease; or glasse beaten small & mixed with turpintine; oyle boyled with ashes; Or take cantharides 10 in number, an ounce of refines, of [illegible] an ounce & a halfe, scabiose, the herbe doggs tongue, consolida the greater, antepharmaci, of each an ounce, incorporate them with oyle of lillies: but if you will make it stronger, ad thereto salt & vervine, caked columbina herba, & rue, of each two drames. Or take auripigmentum, pepper, of each two drames, 10 figgs & hony sufficient to make a plaster. Alsoe galbanu, white lilly rootes, mans dunge, consolida the greater, ground betweene two stones. Or [levon] 4 ounces, mustard seed, rue, scabiose, worme-wood, of each a handfull, white illly rootes a third part, vitrioll two drames, cantharides 10 in number, galvanu an ounce rotten nutts 3, oyle of white lillies sufficient; boyle the herbs & roots in the oyle, & ad the other ingredients allowing to art & ake a plaster 152 Temperate plasters. Take of marshmallowes 2 ounces, a head of a lylly roote, branne of flax seed, of each an ounce & a halfe, boyle them in water, & beate them well with [leven] & old hoggs grease, & lay it hot thereto. Or take 2 handfulls of branne not throughly sifted, & boyle it in vineger. Or vervine mixed with oyle of roses & vineger. Or onyons boyled in butter, adding therto figgs, & [leven], with oyle of camomile. Or take mallowes, & marshmallowes, & frabiose of each a handfull, boyle the herbes in common water, with the with incorporate branne beat the herbes, & mixe them all together, with an ounce of hennes grease, & as much of oyle of camomile, safron halfe a drame, this is a most delicate & excellent plaster. Or take scabiose, the herbe doves foote, cicory, & consolida the greater. Or an emplaster made with apopanax beaten with resines stoned. Or assa, nitrum, & rue mixed with hony. or annoynt it with treacle, & lay thereon onyons & mallowes boyled together. To make a greene salve. Take celydony, [Le??age], [sa?ery], scabiose, of each a handfull, grind them small in a morter, & temper it with sheepes tallow & oyle olive, of each a pound let it stand in a cleane vessell 9 dayes, & then boyle them untill the herbes sinke to the bottome, then straine it, & set the iuyce over the fier, if you make it in winter put but 2 ounces of wax thereto, if in sumer take 3, then put thereto pouder of mastick frankencense, and verdigrease, of each an ounce, & boyle alltogether untill it bee greene, then take it downe, & put thereto an ounce of aloes opatike in pouder; this is an excellent salve for all old wounds or sores. 153 A soveraine remedy for sore or cut. Take a litle fine flax, & alitle hoggs grease, & choppe them small, & make a plaster thereof. A water to heale a sore or cut. Take red fennell, red sage, isope, rosemary, daysy leaves, saffron, [neppe], & allome, of each a like quantity, save only the daysy leaves, more then of any other, boyle them, & straine them, & apply it. Unguentum jacobi, vel emplastru jacobi Take of lapis calaminaris a pound, of the magnet stone, an ounce, of terra sigillata an ounce, boleorminake an ounce, litarge of gold an ounce, mummia an ounce, of the [liver] of a [wether] a pound, camfire halfe an ounce, and of turpentine as much as will suffice Finis Deo gras 154 To make aquamirabalus Take gallingall cubibs cardimons and [illegible] mace nuttmegs ginger cloves and synamon of each of all theas a dram beat them into avery fine pouder then [take] the iuce of sallendine on pinte and a quantity on pinte of white wine 3 pints putt all this into a still and lett them steepe togather on night then still itt with a temperate fire when it is [illegible] [illegible] in a [illegible] bags of [illegible] in the glass then sweeten it with sugar as you pleas 157 The third booke of admirable good receites. For the head ach. Take elder leaves, made hot between 2 tile stones, & lay them hot to the forehead & temples. A salve good to draw the head. Take gume elemy, turpentine, of each a quarter, as much fresh grease & melted suet, melt these together & straine it, & beat it till it be cold. For a paine in the head, sorenes in the eyes, for rhume, & all moyst humors. ake a gallon & a halfe of faire water from the fountaine, steepe therein an ounce of some, 3 ounces & a halfe of saxaperilla, [skined] & scraped thinne, an ounce of liquorice, scraped & [skined], let them steep 24 howers, then boyle away the [illegible] part, then put in an ounce of armadeculas seaton small in a morter, & set it on the fier againe, & let it have but one [whame], you must rrink this 20 dayes together & eate soft meate & bread & resines of the sunne For the tooth ach, or rhume in the eyes. Take a pound of stone pitch, 3 or 4 ounces of [illegible], 8 ounces of resin, 4 ounces of frankincense, melt all together, & straine it, then beate to pouder 4 ounces of comein seed, & seare it, then take halfe an ounce of cloves, 2 ounces of labdanum, one quarter of an ounce of saffron, beate these together, & put them to the rest which are melted, & boyle it a litle, then take it from the fier, & keepe it with stirring, untill it bee thick enough to make up in roules, & then put it into an earthen pot & ‘ keepe it for your use. 158 For the tooth ach. Take iuy berries well sodden in vineger or white wine; sup up some of the liquor hot, & when it is cold, spit it out: this helpeth the tooth ach. For the same. take a pinte of white wine vineger, a handfull of barberries bruised, boyle them together till some be consumed, then put thereto a spoonefull of pap or well beaten, let them boyle together, * as hot as you can suffer gargle it on that side the paine is, & spit it out, & soe use it 3 or 4 times. For an ague. take a handfull of mousegrease, & boule it in a quart of white wine, & good ale, & boyle it, till it be halfe consumed, then straine it, & sweeten it with hony & sugar & drinke it, before the ague [illegible] to come, then ly downe covered with as many cloathes as you can suffer, & when you beginne to burne, take posset ale, made with these herbes; burrage, endive, dandelyon, cinafole, violets, & fennell, & take noe other drinke during the time of the fit, use this 5 or 6 times. For the shakeing ague take a hennes egge, take out the white, & fill the shell with aqua composita, & drinke it up perfectly, or else it will dry up the yolke, & ly downe, for you will vomit perfectly; this will helpe you without doubt, for it hath often beene [pro?ed]. For an ague: hang this subscribed about your neck, but noe body must looke on it but hee that writes it Before the gates of Jerusalem comeing on a soudaine [illegible] Genl Jesus Christ sayd on to Peter, why lyest thou here, peter sayd, I ly sick of an ague, Jesus answered him, rise & dismisse 159 it, this evill ague beeing dismissed he sayd I beseech thee [illegible] Jesus, that whosever hath these words about them the evill ague hot or cold may not hurt them; be it done as you hast desired, Have mercy upon me olord, & deliver me o Lord from agues & all evill in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen. For an ach or stitch. Take a pound of glack sope, 2 or three handfulls of [culver] or pigeons dunge, yoolkes of egges, lineseed, feny greeke seed, of each 2 or 3 ounces, boyle all these in cowes milk, & make a plaster thereof; then take new crow foote, alexanders, of each 2 or 3 handfulls, bruise them & make a plaster & lay it to the place where the ach or stitch is. For bruised stones take mallowes, colemorte, of each a like much, seeth them, then bruise them, & doe away the water, & put the herbes in a pan, & put thereto barly flower, & the yoolke of an egge, & fry them together, & make a plaster, & lay it thereto. For a black or blew face with a blow. take hemlock, & distill it, & not the place therewith the space of an hower, doe it with a cloath, & let the water be warme. To stanch the bleeding of a wound. Take a handfull of hot horse dunge, bind it fast to the wound, the space of 2 days & 2 nights. probatus. To stanch bleeding at the nose. [chese] words (confumatum est) written in the fore good of the pty that bleeds much [illegible] same bleed, stayeth it. To take away the burning caused by gunpouder. take hony, black sope, of each halfe a pound, two 160 ounces of bay salt beaten to pouder, boyle all alitle, then put it in a faire put or box, & when you use it, lay it on a linen cloath, & apply to the place eveninge & morninge. For a payne or heate in the back take sanders & rose leaves, lay them in rose water a whole night, then wash your back therewith it takes away the paine, heate, & comforteth very much the reines. For weakenes in the back. take a brest of mutton, & boyle it in milke, & put therein a good quantity fo whtie archangell blossomes, & when the mutton is soden drinke the milke, & eate the mutton, not having eaten any thing before, that day. For a sore brest Take a penny worth of white coporesse, halfe a pint of white wine, seeth the wine, then put it into a pot, & put the coporesse to it, and annoynt the sore therewith every evening & morninge For choped hands Beate the whtie of an egg, & mie it with the pouder of mastick & annoynt the hands therewith. For a consumption Take the hinder part of a bore pig, with the stones cleane scraped, put it into a pot, with 2 gallons of running water, let it boyle a good hower then put in (when it is scumed) a handfujll of cleary [chops] of rosemary, as much tyme, eat them alsoe seeth therein a good time with a pound of rasines & a pound of prunes halfe a pound of dates small cut, & strained into a linen cloath, & [illegible] till the dates be tender, then grind them in some of the liquor, & straine it into the pot, then take ahandfull of the 161 pitch of an oxes back picked & washed, then seeth the pth in some of the piggs broth, then cut the skinne of the pith, & straine it into the rest, & let the rest be [thicked] therewith, & let all seeth together, then power all into a colinder, & after through a strainer, then take a quantity of sanders finely beaten, & afew cloves & mace, to [amend] the tast, & let all stand alitle together, then straine it through a fine linen cloath, & drinke thereof evening & morning, as yoiur stomack will beare it. For the collick & stone take fotherfew, doves dunge, pellitory of the wall, of each a handfull, wring the herbes in [sunder], & fry all in fresh butter, then put all in a linen bag, & lay it to the greife as hot as you can suffer it, & it will put the payne from that place, & when you feele it remoove, apply this thereto, & it will in short time drive it quite away. To heale a cut or greene wound take soe much turpentine as an egge, & beat it well with the yolkes of two eggs, then lay it on lint, & dayly dresse the wound, & it will cure it. To heale a cut or bruise. take herbe grace, sene, plantan leaves, [orpine], hemlock, valerian, tustan, rag wort, gratia dei, mallowes, of each a great handfull, then take 6 pounds of sheepes a pound of turpentine, bruise the herbes, & put all into a great pot, & let it boyle, straineing it often, & if it rise up, take it of, least it run over, then set it on again, & doe thus 3 or 4 times untill it be well sod, then straine it through a course cloath, & when it is all most cold, make it up into roules or cakes, & you may keep it 2 or 3 yeares very good. 162 A water to heale all wounds in a short time. take a pound or as much as you please of new yellow wax, melt it, then put it into a pan or dish, wherein must be maulmesy, mustardell, or white wine, then take it out of the wine & melt it againe, then power it againe upon the same wine, doeing thus 7 times; then take the same wax, & melt it on the fier, & mixe it with a handfull of [bricke] finely beaten to dust, incorporate these together, & put it into a crooked necket viall of glasse, with didistillers call, a bag pipe, clay it up to the midest of the neck, & let it distill first with a litle fier, for the space of 8 howers, then after make your fier greater, & at last very great, after the oven & all is cold againe, you shall take the water out of the recipient, & power it into a viall well stopped with wax & [illegible] cloath, soe that it neither take vent, nor stand neere the sune or fier; for it is of soe fine a subatance, that it would fly & imediately vanish. you must not & moysten the wound with this water, & bind a cloath thereupon, steeped in the same water, It is also good for shrunk sinewes,, and if this water be well & naturally distilled the second time, it is of soe fine & [pierceing] a substance, that it will pierce through the palme of your hand in a moment. For the cough or tisick. Boyle penny royall in milke & a peece of sweete butter, & suck it through a ring with a quill. For the cough of the longes. take 3 pints of running water, halfe a pound of Portugall sugar, 9 figgs, anniseeds & liquorice bruised, of liquorice a spoonefull, anniseeds but halfe a spoonefull, a handfull of resines of the 163 sunne, cleane washed & stoned, a penny worth of mayden haire, with a quantity of ispo, & coltfoot, boyle all together, till halfe or more be consumed, then straine it through a fine cloath, & take every morninge two spoonefulls luke warme To put away the crampe. The fingeres rubed between the toes, goeing to bed, especially when the toes smell most, & the fingers are most swelled. For deafenes. Take good [sinet], & put it into the eares. To bring any quick thing out of the eares. Take a white leafe hot out of the oven, & breake it in the [midest], & apply it to the eare. For breake the flowers. Take a potle of sea water, a potle of white wine a pinte of bay salt, 3 handfulls of hemolck, boyle them all in a new earthen pot, to the halfe, then take of, & fit close over it covered close with cloaths round about, when it is cold, heate it againe, & soe goe to bed, & cover your selfe warme, & the flowers will breake. To breake the flowers. Take a gallon of water from the spring, a pound of resines stoned, 3 ounces of liquorice, cleare it, & take out the pith, 3 fennel rootes, that have not borne seed, & take out the pith, 3 alicampane roots, if they be small, if great but one, & still it, & take out the pith, then take halfe a pint of barly & boyle all together, till it be consumed to a quart, & drinke thereof every morning & evening 8 spoonefulls at a time beeing warmed, as hot as you can well drink it. To stay the flowers. take 3 pints of red wine, a litle of the pill of pomgranate, with 4 of the flowers, sinomon, sugar candy, halfe a handfull of red rose leaves, with some seeds, boyle these 164 alltogether until they come to a quart. For the bloody flux. take three hawthorne berries, bruise & straine them into milke, with 2 or 3 sheetes of white paper, & a quantity of cynomon pouder, & boyle all together making it thick like pap, & straine it, & lay it to the greife. A pultis for the hot goute. Take the mosse of hazle, which is towards the sunne, spread it small, & boyle it in stronge ale grounds, then thick it with wheate meale, untill it be thick to make a plaster, & lay it to the payne as hot as you can suffer it, & use it, & you shall find ease. To make white hands. Take sparrowes dunge, mixed with warme water, & wash therewith; or take the rootes of nettles soe in the same water. For the jaundies. Take selidony one pound, liquorice a quarter of a pound, a gallon of water, shave & bruise the liquorice well, & seeth all together to a pottle, and drinke thereof fastinge. For the black iaundies. Shell snayles rosted & dryed to pouder, & a spoonfull at a time drunke in ale, & soe used ten dayes together, cureth the black iaundies. A gargarisme for falling of the tuola. Take the waters of sage, wood bind, & plantan distilled, of each a like quantity, boyle them with some hony, & scume it cleane, & put into it a litle burnt syrop of mulberries with it, & when you neede gargarige therewith all cold, Alsoe the greene [illegible] of the flower de luce sowed about one neck or throate is very good both to keepe up the pallate, & to helpe the almonds of the throate. 165 A tisan to clense the liver. Take liver wort, harts tonge, of each a handfull, isop, long wort, betony, penny royall, of each halfe a handfull, alicampane, fennell, parsly, of each one roote, a pritty quantity of anniseeds, & liquorice, a handfull of resines of the sunne, stoned, two dates cutt, boyle these in 3 quarts of runing water, to the hald, then straine it, & drinke a good quantity luke warme morning & evening. For the liver that is wasted. Take a gallon of runing water, an once of liquorice bruised, harts tongue, violet leaves, sowthistle, sorell, & endive water. To make lozings Take halfe a pound of fine sugar, & melt it in 3 or 4 spoonefulls of rose water, a good handfull of rosemary flowers finely cut, boyle these as high as manus christi. and handing fine sugar, strew it thereupon, as you doe manus christi. Or you may take the blew leaves of violet flowers, & use them instead of the rosemary; or else red gylly flowers, takeing on ly the red, & cutting away the white; this is farre better, then the iuyce. For the morphew. Take a penny worth of brimstone flower, & temper it in a saucer of wine vinegar, untill you shall see or pceive noe brimstone, & in bed annoynt your selfe therewith, for 2 or 3 nights together, and this will cure you. probatus est. 166 To place the mother. Take rosemary, mynts, mallowes, seeth them in white wine & water, & keepe the pot close, that the breath goes not out, while it is seething, then warme your self ready to goe to bed, & sit over it 5 nights together, then other 5 nights take a chafeing dish & the pouder of myrre, mastick, labiam, frankencense, & sit over the brath thereof, & it shall establish & settle the mother againe. To remoove the mother or spleene. Take the newest dunge of a pig, fry it in barrowes grease, or fresh butter, spread it on a cloath the breadth of one hand, covering it with a cloath, & set your fundament upon it as hot as you can suffer, doe thus 3 times, & keepe your selfe warme after it. Or take wild sage, maydens haire, heartes tongue, clary, dry them & make thereof pouder, & use to drinke it in good ale or beere. A water for a sore mouth. Take a pottle of white wine, a quarter of a pound of clarified hony, 2 ounces of white coperesse, with sage, rosemary, & wood bind leaves, spread the herbes small, & let it boyle to the halfe , then straine it, & when you will use it, make it hot, & wash your mouth therewith. A water for melancholy & trembling of the heart. Take of the flowers of rosemary, burrage, & rootes of buglasse of each a like, of saffron a drame, of the [illegible] 4 ounces, of good white wine well digested & cleered 2 pints, mixe 167 these together, & let them stand 24 howers, but put them in a glasse, & then bury the glasse body in house dunge for 15 dayes, then draw it out, & distill according to art 2 or 3 times over, the quantity to be administered is a drame. For melancholy proceeding from the spleene. Once a weeke take fasting in warme porridge a spoonfull of pouder of time finely [searced]; twice a weeke take 7 spoonefulls of harts tongue water warmed, with a litle sugar, take this last a day or two after the other, & you must stay a day betwixt the takeing of the harts tongue water. The harts tongue leaves must be gathered that day the moon changes, below the sunne riseth, & then distill them. To restore comfort & nature. Take handfull of mallowes, half a handfull of mercury ty them with a thread, & boyle them in 3 pints of water, with prunes, resines, & a cock chicken, let them seeth till it be soft, then straine it from the liquor, stamp it, & put to it a quantity of sanders, & mace, & let it boyle with the cock, & eate of the same. For the greene sicknes. Take a pottle of ale, seeth it, & scume it, then put to it fennell rootes, parsly rootes, harts tongue, liver wort, of each a handfull, liquorice & anniseeds of each 2 ounces, french barly bruised, red currants, of each 2 handfulls; boyle all, till halfe the ale be wasted, then straine it, & drinke of it in the morning, & the after noone, alwayes fasting 2 howers after you please to take it. 168 Doctor Turners receite for the plague. Take pimpernell, scabies, egrimony, sentury, harts tongue, liver wort, betony, dragons, angelico, sage, rosemary, costmary, mayden haire, [sidrake], tormentill, turmorick, angention, worm wood, carduus benedictus, red rose leaves, lay all these in steepe a night in a [ranary] wine. For the piles.’ Take treacle, & lay it upon a browne paper, & soe lay it on the sore. For a pin, web, or perle in the eye. Crate white ginger on a whetstone, & beate it with a litle coperosse, when you goe to bed put some of it into the eye with a quill, when it hath beene there a litle, take ground iuy, stamped & strained with fresh milke, & put 3 or 4 drops into the eye evening & morning, after the ginger hath beene in the eye halfe an hower. To remoove the web or spots in the eyes. Take stock gilliflower leaves, daysy roots, of each halfe a handfull, a spoonefull of by salt, beate the well together, & lay it upon both the wristes, betwixt a [laune] or thinne cloath, & use it 2 or 3 nights when you goe to bed; this is Doctor Turners. probatus est. For the paulucsy. Take rosemary, sage, herbe maudlin, of each a handfull, camomile flowers 3 handfulls, & with salot oyle make an oyle thereof, as you make oyle of roses, & annoynt the patient. A water for the skinne the privy place, if it be gone. Take a quart of springe water, violet leaves, columbine leaves, cinafole leaves, valerian, 169 & rose leaves, if you can, of all together as many as you can gripe in the your hand, spread them small, & put thereto a spoonefull of hony, the waight of 12 d of aristologia, boyle alltogether, till 3 parts be consumed, & warme it when you use it. An especiall oyntment to annoynt the small pox, when the be full come out. Take a [postret] of seething water from the fier, & set a dish with sweete eating butter upon it to melt, then power the butter into a bason of faire cold water, & cold, take of the upermost of the butter, with a spoone, & put it into a faire dish againe, & melt & use it as before 3 times; then put up the cleere of the butter into a gally pot or glasse, & when you use it, take a litle in a saucer, and melt it as before, soe that it come not neere the fier, & with a feather annoynt the places very often both day & night, that the scabs may never be dry, & soe long as any rednes ariseth anywhere annoynt the places, let not the pty come neere any fier with his face, nor take any [illegible], but keepe him soe, that his face may alwayes be warme, untill all the daunger bee past. For running of the reines. Take a penny worth of currants the like of dates 6 yolkes of eggs, a good quantity of clary, fry all these in fresh butter [unwashed], & make collops or fritters thereof, & eate 3 or 4 of them warme. For weakenes of the reines of the back. Take comfry, clary, [neppe], archangell, of each a like quantity, the pith of an oxes bark, boyle these in running water, the herbes being cut small, put therewith a litle sugar candy to sweeten it. For a fistula. Take greene coporesse halfe an ounce, mercury sublimate a quarter of an ounce, good allome an ounce, 170 a quart of running water, seeth these together till all bee dissolved, & keepe it in a glasse for your use. For the same. Take running water, allome, treacle, hony, hony suckles, elder leaves, wild sage & barke, all sod together, & strained, & with a silver pipe spoute of this water to the wound. A plaster for a fistula. Take refine turpentine, wax, of each 3 ounces, barrowes grease a quarter of a pound, frankincense halfe an ounce dissolved, set it on a soft fier, & make thereof plasters, & plegets, & apply it. For all swellings Take ground sill, chilliment, daysies, rubarbe, pettimorrell, bruise & stampe them, & set them over the fier, let them boyle well, & as hot as you can suffer lay it to the sore; probatus. For swellinge. Chop water cresses very small, & put them into the lyes of white wine, & put thereto a handfull of wheaten branne, & sheepes tallow, then seeth all together untill it bee thick, then make a plaster & lay it to the swelling, but let it first stand to coole & pottle 24 howers. Or take the iuyce of morell, alias nightshade, & the curd of an hot posset well beaten, together, make a plaster thereof & lay it to the swelling. For an ach or swelling in the knees. Take [rew] & loverage, & stamp them together with hony, then fry them, & lay the plaster warme thereto, & it will cure you. For those that sweat too much. Take line seed & letice, stamp it together, & lay it to the stomack; use it till it helpe you. For the stomack. Take worme wood, red roses, crumes of bread, wine 171 vineger, boyle it on a chafeing dish of coles, then put it in a bag, & lay it to your stomack, and noe doubt but it will cu re you. A salve for all sores. Take a pint & a halfe of oyle olive, a pint of turpentine, a pinte & an halfe of [illegible] a quarter of a pound of unwrought wax. halfe a pound of sheepes tallow, 2 handfulls or rag wort, 2 of plantan, & 2 of orpine, cut the herbes small, boyle all together, softly, & alwayes stirreing it, untill it be well mingled, then take it of, & straine it through a stronge canvas cloath. To draw wood or iron out of the flesh. Stamp valerian & ty it with a linen cloath to the flesh, wherein is wood or iron, & it will draw it forth. For a straine with a dry cough. Take isope, pimpernell, penny royall, 2 [chernes] of saffron, 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice, a handfull of scabies, boyle all together with some violets, lettice, & beetes, & make it in posset ale, & drinke of it first and last. An especiall and approoved water called aqua-composita, for a surfet, or for a colde stomack. Take a handfull of rosemary, a good roote of alicampane, a painfull of isop, a handfull of sage halfe a handfull of time, 6 or 7 cropps of sweet margerome, liquoice, aniseeds, of each 8 ounces, harts tongue, century, hore hound, of each a handfull, red mints, penny royall, not a handfull of each, cut & wring these herbes in sunder, take out the pith of the alicampane, & [stire] the roote, put all in a brasse pot with 3 gallons of stronge ale, & one gallon of wine lies, cover the pot close & let it stand all night; then set it on the 172 fier, till it beginns to boyle, then take it of, & set the limbeck upon the pot, & stop it close with past, the foote of the limbeck must be fit for the mouth of the pot, & the pot not too full, least it make the aqua composita looke thick, & the limbeck must be kept with cold water upon the top, with a temperate fier under, & when it beginnes to drop 6 spoonefulls, cast heat away, the rest is both & strongest, & let it runne, soe lone as it continues in one strength, when it waxeth weaker, take the first away, & set another glass under, & let it runne, soe longe as it runneth cleere, nor waxeth whiten, then the former, when it changeth, take another glasse, & let it sunne soe longe as it can; & upon you will make now put this last into the still againe: you must take good heed, upon the change is, that aire enters not the limbeck. To clense an old sore. Take bilders, rag wort, & if you can, the burs of greene oaken leaves, of each a handfull, boyle them in a quart of white wine, & a quart of water, & put therein as much as an egge of allome, boyle it to the half, then straine it, & use to wash the sore therewith, & wet lint therin, & lay it upon the sore twice a day. For a fresh sore or wound. Take an ounce of oyle of roses, an ounce of turpentine, & a litle verdigrease, then waigh as much as will make a plaster, & lay it thereon. For a sore that will not heale. Take rosewater, red wine vineger, of each a like quantity, wet a fine linen cloath therein, lay it on the sore, till it is faire, then apply some other plaster, thereto, that will heale it. For the squinsy in the throate. Take the dodder tort, the tops of century made in pouder, mixe it with hony, & make a plaster & apply it. 173 A drinke for the stone. Time & parsly soden in white wine, & strained & to agood draught, put a spoonefull of white sope, this drunken helpeth the stone. Or take the midle rine of a cherry tree, stamped, & strained, & the iuyce put into a little white wine, warmed, & drunke up, helpeth the stone. Or take a handfull of holly berries, sodden in a pint of good ale to the halfe, then straine it, & put thereto a litle butter, & drinke 5 or 6 spoonefulls thereof at a time. For the tooth ach. Take iuie berries well sodden in vineger, or white wine, & the hot liquor kept in the mouth till it be cold, & then spit out, helpeth the tooth ach. To keep the teeth from rotting. Salt gold in in the mouth under the tongue, in the morning, untill it be melted to water, & the teeth rubbed therewith, preserveth the tooth. For a sore throate. Take the rootes of pellitory of spaine, wash them faire, [stire] & boyle the with halfe a handfull of sage, & a spoonefull of hony in claret wine, & take one spoonefull of it at a time. For a vomit. Take the pouder of the rootes of pellitory of spaine, & put it in a figge, or resine, & eate it. To breake the wind in the belly. Take of the seeds of comein, fennell, anniseed, of each a like quantity beaten to pouder, & sodden in wine, & drinke a good draught thereof, first & last, for 4 or 5 dayes together very good For running of the water. Take a penny worth of white allome, crops of sage, & rosemary & motherwort, wood bind leaves 174 2 handfulls, hony 2 spoonefulls, boyle these in running water, till they be soft, then straine it into a cleane vessell, & use it with a spoute. For those that cannot hold theire water. Take a mouse [illegible], soft her, & make pouder therefo & drinke it all at one time, this is a perfect & infailable remedy. For a weake body, the water of a capon. Spread the flesh of a capon, takeing cleare away the skinne, & all the fat; then wash it well in buglasse water, then adde thereto consomme of violets, of burrage, & buglasse of each an ounce & a halfe, conserve of roses an ounce, leafe gold 6 in number, mixt all together, & distill it according to art, & take a spoone full of that distillation often in comfortable breathes. A speciall water for sore eyes. Take a gallon of faire running water, put it into a faire earthen pot, or pan, put thereto soe much white coporesse as an egge, & cover it, & let it stand a night, that the coporesse may melt, then scume it with a fether, & power all the rest of the water in to an other faire vessell, excepting the grounds, then put a pint of white rose water thereto, & put it in glasses, & set it in the sunne, the space of a mounth, then clense it through a faire linen cloath, & use it. To cheere the eye light. Take the water of red snayles, as much of the iuyce of fennell, as much of woeman’s milke, temper them together, put of this in the eyes, at evening, & take some of this water & soe much of the iuyce of glyrine & make as it were a plaster thereof, & lay it about the eyes all night, & on the morrow wash them well with cleare & cleane water. 175 For bloodshotten eyes, or blemished sight. Take the iuyce of hawthorne cropps, the white of an egge, mixe them together, then take cotton, & wet it therein, & lay it to the eyes. p: 29. To make conserves, preserves, oyles, syroppes, purges & many other usefull things. Conserves. To make conserve of quinces. Take faire great quinces, pare & core them, to 8 pounds of them take 2 gallons of water when the water is blood warme put into it the whites of 2 eggs, beaten & stirre them in the water, then put 8 pounds of sugar to it, & when it doth seeth, take it of, & let it runne through a peece of white kersy, then set it over the fier againe, & scume it as longe as any doth arise, then put in y our quinces, & let them seeth untill they be soe tender, that you may straine the liquor & all through a good thick peece of canvas, then seeth it again till it be soe stiffe that it will stand on a box or dish, & not stick thereto when it is cold, but come cleane away, if it will not doe soe, seeth it longer; & you must stirre it continually. 176 To conserve greene wallnutts. Take green wallnutts, when they be as big as a date, cut them longe wayes asunder, then set them on the fier with sugar in a pot let them boyle tender, then take them in a platter, & make your syrope thus. Take red, or white wine & put into it 2 ounces of cynomon pouder, the pouders of ginger & anniseeds, of each halfe an ounce, sanders [an] ounce, sugar halfe a pound, resines, currants, rice flower, of each 2 ounces, draw them all through a strainer, then put them into a pot, & set it on the fier, & let is iust boyle, then put them into a faire vessell, & serve them up. these are good for the iaundies, morphew, & especially for the palucsie takeing one of the every day nex your heart. To make conserve of barberries. Pick the barberries cleane, & put the into a pewter ;pot, & stop it close, then put that pot into a brasse pot, or kettle, filled up with water, & let it boyle 2 or 3 howers, till the barberries be tender, then let them be cold & straine the, then bole the pulse upon a quick fier, till it be as thick as marmolade, then having fine sugar in pouder, sweeten it, according to your likeing, the sugar must boyle very litle, because of the [illegible] To make conserve of roses, or any flowers. Take red rose budds, clip the whites of, stampe them small, take to each pound of flowers, three pounds of sugar, finely beaten, mixe all well together; And in like manner, take the buds, or fine flower-leaves of any flower. To make conserve of rosemary flowers. To every ounce of rosemary flowers, take 2 ounces of sugar, & some cynomon, beat them small together & put it into a glasse & cover it & set it in the sunne, when it is most hot, & let it stand 3 or 4 weekes. 177 To preserve barberries take [fane] bunches of barberries, or none at all, pick out the stones, with a needle, to every halfe pound, take a pound & a halfe of sugar, [faire] & beaten to pouder, & melt the sugar with a quarter of a pinte of rose water, & melted take it from the fier, & when it is halfe cold, put in your barberries, & mixe all well, then boyle it up with a quick fier, alwayes regarding the colours that they doe not ever boyle, least they be black, then put the out of the pan with [illegible] into a bason, & put the up cold. To preserve cherries. Take a quarter of a pint of rose water, a pound of sugar, boyle these, & skinne it untill it be cleane & let it coole then put thereto a pound & a quarter of cherries boyle it with a quick fier, until it bee thick, as a ielly, & skinne it continually, then take it of, least it loose the colour. To preserve quinces. take quinces as soone as you can after they bee gathered, take the yellowest & smallest about the crowne, waigh out 6 pounds, & put them in a brasse pan, with the stalke and downward soe close as one may stand by an other, then put to them 6 pounds of fine sugar in pouder, & a quart of rose water, or faire conduit water, seeth it with a quick fier, that the quinces may be tender before the syrop be thick, when they waxe tender you may somewhat abate the fier scume it as it riseth, but breake not the gummes, & turne the often, least the grow black by lying [illegible] To preserve damsons, or other plumes. to the above sayd liquor, & with sugar make the same syrop, & put thereunto a pound of damsons, boyle them with a very soft fier, 3 or 4 howers, and scume them continually. 178 To make red marmelade. Pare & core your quinces, & put them into cold water, & to every pound of quinces, take somany pounds of sugar; first put the sugar in water, & make it into syrope, & when it is cold put in the quinces, soe that the syrop cover the quinces, & 2 inches over, then cover it, & let it boyle as fast as it is possible, till they be very red & tender, & the liquor be somewhat thick, then straine it into a stone morter, & after boyle it till it come to a marmelade, stirring it alwayes, then box it hot: in this manner you may make marmelade of peares, or any other fruites. To make white marmelade. Take ripe & yellow quinces, seeth them in water, with a gentle fier, till they be tender, then take them up & let them coole & pare them, & take the fine pulse, of the quinces, & for every pound a pound of sugar fine, & finely beaten to pouder, boyle up the pulpe as stiffe as marmelade, then put in your sugar, & let it but melt, & soe boxe it up hot. To make dry marmelade, of peaches. Pare peaches, & cut them from the stones, & minse the finely, & lay them in steepe in rose water, then straine them with the water through a course cloath, into the pan you will seeth the in; to clarifie 2 pound of peaches take on pound of sugar finely beaten, put some of it into the pan, but keepe the rest to mould with; then set on the pan, & skinne it till it be thick, that the thick will stand upright, then lay it in a dish in lumpes, when it is cold, mould it abroad with the rest of the sugar, & print the, & kake them on march paine, & keepe the where fier is. 179 To dresse peaches whole. Beate peaches, & pill them, & to 3 pounds of peaches take 2 pounds of sugar, with as much water as is necessary for the syrope, & clarify the same with the whites of two eges breake the sugar in peeces, & put all in the pan but the peaches & let it boyle on a quick fier; when it is scumed cleare, put in the peaches, & let it boyle to the thicknes of a syrope if you will, put in a spoonefulls or more of rose water, then take up the peaches, & put the into faire water potts, or any other soe they bee cleane. To dresse oranges. take the greatest oranges, [shave] then thinne, & quarter them in the top, & take out the meate let them be in water 48 howers, & change the water 3 times a day, then parboyle them in their waters 3 times, & let the water still seeth, before you put them in, & take to every 3 oranges a pound of sugar, & to every pound of sugar a pint of water, & a pint or two [ever] at all, then put the water into the pan & breake therein 2 or 3 whites of eggs, and beate them together till they be on a froath, then set on the pan, & put in the sugar beaten in small peeces, & let it seeth with a quick fier & when it boyleth, scume it cleane, & put in the oranges, let them seeth a good while, then take them up, & straine the syrop, & set it on the fier againe, & put in a good quantity of rose water, & let it seeth a good space, then put in the oranges againe, & let them seth till they bee tender, & the syrop as thick as you will have it, & when it is cold, put it up in potts. 180 To dresse plumes blew or yellow. Gather the plumbes dry, to every pound take 3 quarters of a pound of sugar in pouder, take the plumes & mixe them one by one with a linen cloath, & soe lay them in the pan of earth & cast sugar on them, the sugar throughly melted set the pan on the fier, when they beginne to breake, turne them, & scume them cleane, let them seeth on a quick fier, when they be neere ready, it will be thick to the spoone, then take them of, & skinne them as longe as any riseth, & when you see them broaken or part uncoated, take a cloath & take of their coates whilst they be warme, & when they be almost cold, put them in potts, & [prick] papers, & lay them over them. To make all manner of conseites. Take any kind of seeds, or ginger, cynamon, or orange pills or any other spices minced in small peece, & put any kind of these into a greate pan, with 2 [eares]; then take sugar, & clarify it, seething it, till it will crumble betweene your fingers, then take the pan of seeds, having in readines a ladle with a hole in the midst, & a pinne in the hole, then fill the ladle with hot sugar, & let one hold it over the pan of seeds, & draw the pinne in the hold a litle, soe that the sugar may runne out as small as a thread, as it runneth, shake the pan with seeds, over the fier, as you would [wime] corne, & soe shake it till it be dry & hard, & take another ladle full of sugar, doe with it as before, till they be as big as you would have them, & if the seeds in the beginning stick together, rub them 181 in sunder with your hands; to colour these, take a quarter of a pound of [br?] sill, shaved thinne, & 10 lime stones, [unquenched], & lay them in water, till they be quenched, then let the water potle, & take of the cleanest thereof, & put the bra sill therein, & boyle it, then close it, & put thereof to your sugar, with you will have coloured. To make ginger bread. Take a pound of sugar, an ounce & a halfe of cynomon, 2 ounces of ginger, a spoonefull of anniseeds, as much fennell seed, beat them all into pouder, then take a quarter of a pound of almons blanched, beate them in a morter, & put in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of the pouder afore sayd, & some of the almons beaten, & beate the together, till they be stiffe like past, then mould some of the pouder, & spread it abroad in cakes, as thinne as you can, & soe put them upon your moulds, then cut them with your knife, & as you make the cakes, put on pouder enough that they stick not to the mould, then pull them of from the mould, & lay them to dry. To make sugar plate of quincdes, roses, violets, or what else. Take quinces, pare them, & cut them in small peeces, & put them in paper baggs, & soe dry them in an oven, till they will beate to pouder; And thus you may make pouder of roses, violets, or what you lift to have the plate to tast of: then take the afore sayd pouder or any of these pouders, & put thereto a litle of the pouder of the gume, called dragagan, which must be layd in water all night, the pouder of the quinces, & the sugar must bee 182 beaten, & searced severally, & the gume put to the [quince] pouder beaten, & the sugar to them, as you beate them, & when it is soe that you may make it in plates, print the & dry them, & if you will have them tast of [muske], put a drame into the water wherein you steepe the gumme To make good bisket. Take a pound of fine flower twice boulted, a pound of fine sugar finely beaten, then take a faire boule dish, or bason, & breake therein 12 new layd eggs, keeping forth only 6 of the whites, beate the eggs well together, then put in the flower, & sugar, stirreing it still with a flat stick, & by stirring, worke into the same stuffe 2 ounces of anniseeds, & as much coriander seed, & well mixed, put of the same into moulds, annoynting them before with sweete butter, then put them in to the oven, which must be noe hotter, than for [manchet], as the bisket swelleth, prick it with a great pinne, which you may set in the end of a pritty longe stick; you may if you please put into it 2 or 3 spoonefulls of rose water, or lesse, as you like. To make short sweete cakes. Take fine wheat flower, & put it in a earthen pot close stopped, & bake it in an oven, then [soarch] it through a fine [searner], the flower will aske as much bakeing as a [?enfer] pastry, then take clouted creame, or sweete butter, & sugar, cloves, mace, saffron, yoolkes of eggs, pout all into the creame, & temper them, then put to the flower, & soe make the cakes, the past will be short, therefore make the litle & lay paper under them. 183 To make artificiall balme. Take the iuyce of singreene, put it in an egge shell, set it over the hot embers, boyle the iuyce, & scume it cleane, till it be white & cleare, then put it into a faire pan, & put thereto a quart of oyle of bayes, & set it over the fier, & put thereto pouder of frankincense, myrre, mastick, & olibamum, of each an ounce, verdigrease 2 drames, then set the oyle on the fier, till it bee warme, & then put thereto the pouders, & stirre them well together, till they be dissolved, then straine it, & put it in pouter bottles. To make syrope of violets. Take a pint of water of violet leaves distilled, a pound & a quarter of sugar, boyle it thicker then ordinary syrop, then pick of the finest leaves of the violets, stampe & straine them, & take halfe a pint of it, & put into the former, soe boyle it, & stirre it about, let it not seeth, put it in glasses, not hot, & when it is cold stoppe them. To make syrope of roses. Take a quarte of damaske rose water, & put therein as many damask rose leaves as the water will containe, put both into a pouter pot, then into an earthen, or brasse pot of water, let them stand very hot all day, but not seeth, the next day take the roses out, & mixing them into the liquor, & put in fresh leaves, [five] dayes together, as before, lastly boyle this liquor to the thicknes of a syrop, with sugar, a pound & a quarter of sugar to each pint of liquor. 184 To make syrope of endive. Take a pint of the iuyce of endive, clarifie it, & boyle it with 3 quarters of a pound of white sugar, on a soft fier, to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of safron. Take endive water, & a quantity of saffron finely beaten, to color it, & let it ly a night, then seeth it, & straine it, then seeth it againe, with sugar to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of worme wood. Take fine withered wormewood, 6 ounces, rose leaves dryed 2 ounces spike nard, 3 drames of the iuyce of quinces a quart of old white wine a quart; bruise the rose leaves, spike nard, & wormewood, & steepe them in the wine, with the iuyce for the space of 24 howers in a marble vessell, or an earthen pot, seeth it to the halfe on a soft fier, & soe straine it, then put thereto a pint & a halfe, or a quart of good hony, & seeth it againe to the hight of a syrop, you may take sugar in stead of hony, if you please. To make syrope of rosemary flowers. Take distilled water of rosemary flowers cleane picked, boyle it on the fier, then straine then put in sugar, & boyle it to a syrop. To make syrope of tyme. Take the cropps of 2 ounces of time, dry colamynts, & mynts, of each 5 drames, annyseed, fennell seed, parsly seed, damen seed, of each halfe an ounce, great resines stoned, 4 ounces & a halfe, seeth all in six pints of water, till the resines be sodden, after put in the herbes, & the the seeds, & seeth it to the halfe, then straine it, & set the liquor on againe, & put to it 2 pounds of hony, or sugar, & seeth it to the hight of a syrop. 185 To make syrop of mynts. Take a pint of the iuyce of mynts, a quarter of the iuyce of sweet pomegranates, & a quart of the iuyce of meane pomegranates, that is between sweete & sower, & a pound & a halfe of sugar, & seeth these to the hight of a syrop. To make syrope of the rines of oranges & limons. Take a pound of the rines of oranges, or limons, when they be new & fresh, & put them into 5 pints of faire running water, seeth it to 3 pints, then straine it, & with a pound of sugar seeth it to the thickness of a syrop, & when you take it from the fier, put to it 4 graines of muske. This syrop strengtheneth the stomack, graine, & heart, if the disease proceed of cold, it alsoe maketh a sweet breath; soe doe the rines of oranges & lymons made into conserves, if the bitternes be first taken away. To make a dish of cleere ielly. Take calves foot, an old cock, a knuckle of veale, or a pig, which of these you please; & set it on the fier in a pot, & skinne it that noe fat be left thereon, & soe let it boyle a while, then take out the meate, & put in the turnesall; when it is boyled enough, you shall know by putting a litle of it into a saucer, & if it stand, take out the turnesall, & put in a good deale of cynomon, a rays of ginger & a nutmeg, all well bruised, & 12 whole cloves, with good store of sugar, 6 whites of eggs, beaten till they be as white as snow, & let the pot stand [on] awhile, & scume of the whites of the eggs, & cast them away, then put all into a ielly bag, & put it through as often as you please, till it be faire & cleare, then dish it, & serve it up. 186 To make white ielly or of other colours. Take calves foot, scald the, & wash the in 3 [severall] waters, stire them & take out the bones & fat, then lay them in water a night, & shift them thrice, then put them into a pot with a knuckle of veale shred & the bones taken out, boyle them in 3 gallons of water, then put in a quart of white wine, & let it boyle till part be consumed, scume it with a fether, then let it runne twice through your ielly bag, then put it in to a faire earthen pot, season it with nutmegs bruised, shred ginger, bruised cynomon, & a litle salt, then let it boyle a [illegible] or 2, then take the whites of 8 eggs, or 10, & put them in when it seetheth, then let it runne through a jelly bag softly, 2 or 3 times, if you will have it of amber colour, put in a little saffron before the eggs, if you will have it red, put in claret wine, & [turasad]; if you will have of all three, put in one, & let it coole, & soe of all three a dish. To make jelly of harts horne. Take 3 halfe pints of faire runninge water, halfe a pinte of white wine, 2 ounces of harts horne shaved, let it boyle softly in a pipkin close covered, till it come to a pint, then straine it, & put to it a litle shred ginger, & cyonomon sticks, the next day take of the top, & leave the bottome, & put it in a skellet, & put to it fine sugar, & a top of sweet marierome, halfe a spoonefull of red rose water, a litle iuyce of limon, & orange, & stem it a litlle while, then put it through a jelly bag, with a litle rosemary sprige, in the bottome of the bag. This ielly is to be eaten cold; but for the more speedy remedy of a consumption melt this ielly againe, and drinke it somethinge warme. 187 To make aqua vitae. Take 3 quarters of a pound of liquorice, halfe a pound of anniseeds, boyled, infuse them in a gallon of wine all night, the next day distill the in a limbeck, this is aqua vitae. Or take 4 gallons of stronge ale, a pound of liquorice, as much of anniseeds, a pottle of wine lyes, sage, isope, horehound, of each 3 handfulls, rosemary, tyme, fennell, of each 2 handfull, halfe a handfull of harts tongue leaves, & a great root of olicampane, & soe distill them in a limbeck. To make stronge aqua vitae. Take harts tongue, linen wort, red mynts, balme, horehound, orgamen, browne fennell, rosemary, cincvole, of each a handfull, angelico a quarter of a handfull, annyseeds a pound grosse bruised, liquorice a pound cut & well bruised, infuse all these in 8 gallons of strong ale, & let it stand 12 howers, stirring it often about, then distill it in a limbeck; the first pottle will be very stronge, & you may have almost a pottle of the second, but that will be a great deale smaller. To make aqua composita Take 4 gallons of strong ale, anniseeds, liquorice, of each halfe a pound, sugar 3 penny woth, harts tongue, & alicampane roots, of each a handfull, mynts fennell, parsly, pennyroyall, isope, sage, rosemary, tyme, wormewood, mugwort, of each a handfull, beate the spices, & stire the herbes lightly, & infuse them in the ale 24 howers, stirring it often, then put all into a limbeck, & close it that noe ayre got out, keepe a temperate fier, till the limbeck beginnes to warme, then keepe your fier low, & when it beginneth to droppe then keepe the limbeck moyst with a wet cloath, & keepe always cold water in the top. 188 To make balme water. Take wormewood, pellitory of the wall, egrimony, carduus benedictus, balme, angelica, reasons of the sunne, stoned, of each a handfull; liquorice, annyseeds, of each a quarter of a pound, a quantity of tameresse, & mayden haire, infuse all these in 2 gallons of stronge ale, then distill it, and draw out of it a quart of the best water. To make wormewood water. Take 2 gallons & a halfe of stronge ale, liquorice shred & bruised, annyseeds, sifted & bruised, of each halfe a pound, 2 great handfulls of the crops of wormewood, put all into the ale, & let it stand 24 howers, stirreing it often, & stopping it close, then distill it in a limbeck, & draw out a gallon of water, then put to the water an ounce of cynomon bruised, 2 ounces of nutt meggs, halfe an ounce of great mace, as much of ginger, all well bruised, & soe let them steepe, then distill the sayd gallon of water with these ingredients on a soft fier; and soe preserve it. To make ipocras water. Take 8 ounces of fine cynomon pouder, cloves, nut meggs, of each an ounce, 2 ounces of ginger, 4 d waight of graines, all made into fine pouder, put all into 5 quarts of claret wine, & let it infuse 3 or 4 dayes, stirring it often; then put all into a stillettory, & distill it with a soft fier, but take heed you still not the stuffe too dry but keepe it moyst, from burning too; take out all the ingredients & straine it into a cleane bason, & set it on a chafeing dish of coles, putting as much sugar into it, as you shall thinke good, then stirre it till it be as thick as treacle, this is good for a cold stomack, & the pomes thereof dryed well is good sauce for a shoulder of [illegible]. 189 To make rosa solis a principall restaurative Take the herbe rosafolis as much as will fill a pottle pot, in must be gathered in June or July, you must not touch it with your hands, but take it by the stub, & it will come up by the roots, nor wash it, for then the leaves will wither, & pick of the dead leaves: this herbe growes in low medewes, & [marrish] ground; put to this quantity a pottle of aqua vita in to a large vessell, & let it stand close stopped 3 dayes, & 3 nights, at the least, then straine it, into a glasse or pouter pot, put to it then a pound of sugar small beaten, & halfe a pound of liquorice, beaten small, into fine pouder, halfe a pound of dates stoned, & cut in small peeces mixe all together, & stop the glasse close; drinke of this at night to bed ward halfe a spoonefull, with ale, and as much in the morninge fastinge, for there is not the weakest body in the world that taketh nature or strength, or that is cast into a consumption, but this will restore him againe, & cause him to be stronge & lusty, & to gaine a mervalous hungry stomack, & very shortly, if he use this 3 times together, he shall feele great comfort, & as he feeles himselfe he may use ut. To make anniseed water. Take 12 gallons of aqua vitae, 3 pounds of anniseeds, halfe a pound of liquorice, a pound of dates, 2 pounds of resines of the sunne, steepe these 24 howers, then draw [illegible] gallons thereout, & then you shall perceive it to runne white (If you will doo lesse, take accordinge to the quantity you [illegible]) & then take 7 pounds of white 190 sugar, & put it to the 7 gallons of liquor, in a runlet, & shake them well together, & let it stand 4 dayes, then you may drinke it. Aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderful vertue. Take galingall, cloves, quibibs, ginger, mellilot, cardimon, mace, nutmeggs, of each a drame, halfe a pint of the iuyce of celidon, mingle all these together, & make a pouder of them with the sayd iuyce, & a pint of good aqua vitae, & 3 pints of white wine; put all these into a pellitory of glasse, & let it stand all night, then distill it on as easy a fier as can possible bee made. The vertues of this water. 1 It dissolveth the swelling of the lunges, though the lunges be perished & wounded it helpeth the. 2 It will not suffer the blood to putrify, nor shall you ever need to be let blood if you but use this water 3 It takes a way the heart burning. 4 It preserves from melancholly. 5 It confoundeth floame, soe that it shall not gane dominion over nature. 6 It expelleth rhume 7 It profiteth the stomack. 8 It preserveth youth in its own state, 9 It ingendereth a good colour, and preserveth the visage 10 It preserveth the memory. 11 It destroyeth the [palnesy] in the limbes & tongue. 12 It releeves either man or woeman laboring towards death if you give them but one spoonefull Of all waters artificiall it is the best; In sumer use one spoonefull in a weeke fasting. in winter two. 191 Doctor Stevens water. Take a gallon of Gascoyne wine, ginger, cynomon, nutmegs, cloves, graines, anniseed, fennell seed, carroway seed, of each a drame, then take sage, mynts, red worts, time, pellitory, rosemary, wild time, camomile, lavander, of each a handfull, bray the herbes & spices, & put all in the wine, & let it steepe 12 howers stirring it often, then still it in a limbeck, & keepe the first water by it selfe, for it is the best; & keepe the second, it is good, but not like the first; The vertues of this water. It comforteth the vitall spirits. 1 It helpeth inward diseases that 2 proceed from cold. It helpeth the shakieing of the paluesy. 3 It cureth the contraction of the synewes. 4 It helpeth woemen to conception that are barren 5 or fruitelesse. It cureth the wormes in the belly. 6 It helpeth the cold cough. 7 It helpeth aches. 8 It comforteth much the stomack 9 It cureth the cold dropsy 10 It helpeth shortly the stinking of the breath 11 It preserveth him in good likeing, that 12 [illegible] it sometimes, & not often. It preserveth youth. 13 With this water Doctor Stevens preserved him selfe, untill he was soe old, that he could neither goe nor ride, but lay bed [illegible] 5 yeares, It is much better standing in the sune all sumer. The water of life. Take balme leaves & stalkes, burnet leaves & flowers, rosemary, red sage, isope, tarragon, 192 turmarick leaves & rootes, rosa folis leaves, red roses, carnations, tyme, the stringes that grow upon [savery] red fennell leaves, red mynt rootes, of each a handfull; put all these herbs in a glazed earthen pot, & put soe much white wine as will cover them, & let them soake therein 8 or 9 dayes; then take cynomon, sugar, nuttmeggs, of each an ounce, of cloves & saffron a litle, great resines, ginger of each a pound, dates halfe a pound. the hinder part of an old coney; a good fleshy running capon; the red flesh with the sinewes of a leg of mutton, 4 young pigeons, 12 larkes, the yolkes of 12 eggs, a loafe of white bread cut in soppes, muscadell or bastard, soe much as shall distill these thinges at one time in a limbeck, & put to it methridatum 2 or 3 ounces, soe much perfect treacle, & distill it with a temperate fier, & keepe the first water by it selfe, & the second alsoe, & when there cometh noe water, that is stronge, put more wine upon the stuffe, & distill it againe, & you shall gane another good water; you must keep the water in a double glasse. The vertues of this water. 1 It is restorative to the principall members. 2 A defence against the pestilential diseases. 3 It cures the paluesy. 4 It cures the dropsy. 5 Helpeth the spleene 6 Cureth both black and yellow iaundies. 8 Cureth the wormes. 9 Expelleth an ague. 10 Suppresseth swellings 11 Easeth the pestilentiall thirst. 12 Expelleth melancholly. 193 13 Strengthens the spirits, & strings of the braine. 14 Releeves the heart. 15 Comforts the stomack. 16 Strengthens the liver. 17 A spoonefull 2 or 3 by it selfe, or in ale, 18 beere or wine & sugar helpeth digestion, 19 breaks the wind, stops the laske, & bindeth not. To make aurum potabile. Take rose folis, distill it till you have a potle of the water, then take a quart of it, & let it be infused with more of rosa folis, & a quarter of a pound of sugar candy, small beaten, two stickes of liquorice scraped well, & thinne shred 7 dates stoned, a handfull of rose leaves steeped with a pint of maulmesy or mustadell, let it stand all together in a glasse or peuter pot 48 howers stoped soe close, that no ayre can get out, & distill it; soe done, take you r other halfe of the rosa folis water, & use it in all points as you did the first, if you will have much thereof; this last stilling must be in a stillatory of glasse; it will last 3 or 4 yeares if it be stopped close. It is good against great consumptions. To make worme wood wine to drinke. Take small wine, or reneish wine raked, put thereto 2 kinds of worme wood, speare mynts a dock roote, that is almost yellow, faire striped, & the pith taken out, & stired, put all into the wine, & if it stand a day or more before you drinke it, it will be better; this is to be drunke 3 howers before you take any [broath]. To make hony of roses. Take hony & seeth it well, & scume it cleane, 194 & put cleane picked roses therein small choped, without [beades], or knobs, seeth the till the colour of the hony be browne, & savereth of the roses, & is thick, & then it is done. you may keepe it 5 years. It is comfortable & may be given to those that are weakened by sicknes. To clarifie hony. Take hony twice soe much water, boyle them softly, diligently, scumeing it, till halfe be consumed, & as it is boyleing, put in soe many whites of egges, as you clarifie pounds of hony, then straine it through a linen cloath whilst it is hot, then boyle it againe to a convenient thicknes. To clarifie sugar Take a pound of sugar, & a pint of water, & seeth them on a soft fier in a latine or copper bason, then to every pound of sugar to bee clarified take the whites of 2 egges, with a litle quantity of water, & a small bundle of rosemary twigges, which must be beaten together with a soft fier till halve be consumed, & turned into a fome, which must be put into the pot wherein the sugar & water boyle, cast in alsoe the egges broaken with your hands, & let them seeth on a soft fier, till the third part be consumed, then straine it, & having made the pot cleane, boyle it againe, into the thicknes almost of a syrope for when it runnes a bout your finger like bird lime, it is enough but if you clarifie sugar, wherein you intend to boyle or put other things, then let it not boule to this thicknes after it is strained, before you put in those things, with [one] [illegible] for a medicine, or for any other receive whatsoever 195 To make pompillian Take poplar budds, 2 pounds, lard 4 pounds, beate them fine together, then let it rot 3 weekes, afterwards put thereto the leaves of poppy, mandrake, bramble, nightshade, [prict] maddam, lettice, burdock, violet, of each 2 ounces, & beate these herbes with the above sayd, & boyle it well, with a pint of white wine, untill the wine & the iuyce of the herbes be consumed, then straine it, & let it stand, untill it bee cold; & preserve it for your owne best use. To make manus christi Take sugar finely beaten, & put it in a skellet with rose water, & let it boyle, stirring it, & in the boyleing put in the white of an ege well beaten, & scume it as longe as any ariseth, when it begines to cleere, put in perle finely beaten to pouder, & alsoe gold, stirre it still, untill it be very white, & soe thick it: it will abide upon what you lay it on. A plaster called gratia dei. Take the iuyce of betony, vervine, pimpernell, of each a pound waight, un wrought wax a pound, resine halfe a pound, parafine, frankincense of each 3 ounces, small pouder of catophenia halfe a pound, sweet sheepes tallow halfe a pound, of bastard a pint boyle them till it be thick, then straine it, boyle it againe with 2 ounces of oyle loive & all the pouders above sayd, boyle it softly halfe a quarter of an hower, 196 then cast it into a peuter dish or bason, till it be cold, then take it out, & roule it up in lether or parchment, & keepe it for your use. It is good for wounds, cuttes or for stabbes, or any such like. To make melquorum, or quodmell. good to comfort & clense the stomack. Take 10 pounds of well clarified hony, a pound of the iuyces of roses, put them in a [vessell], when they beginne to boyle put in 4 pounds of roses small shread, & boyle all untill the iuyce be consumed, & stirre it very well. To make oyle of exceter. Take a pound of cowslipe flowers, in the mounth of May, stampe them in oyle olive, as much as will serve them, & soe let them stand in a pot untill the midle of June, then take salamynts, herbe [john], sago, egrimony, worme wood, red ambrose, fennell, pellitory, celidon, rew, red rowes, southerwood, lavander, rosemary camomile, pellitory of Spaine, fennell leaves, the flowers of lillies, stamp them together, soe small as you can, then take the flowers above sayd, & wringe them out of the oyle, & put the iuyce into the other herbes, & grind them all together, & put them in white wine, & steepe them 24 howers, then set them on the fier in a pan, & boyle them till all the water be boyled out of the wine & herbes, with a soft fier; then take a spoonefull, & if there be noe water in the spoone, it is boyled enough, then straine it in a glasse or peuter pot, for noe other vessell will hold it, it will last 3 or 4 yeares; It is good for the palusy & gout: in the sumer annoynt your selfe by the sunne, in the winter by the fier 197 To make oyle of cloves. Take a pound of the pouder of cloves, put to it 3 pound of almons scraped, & beaten, mixe the well together, then sprinkle on each pound an ounce of white wine, letting it ly in a masse together, for the space of 8 dayes, putting it in an earthen pan, which heate soe longe, untill you cannot hold your hand therein then put it in to square bags, wronge hard, untill all the whole substance of the oyle be come forth The vertues of oyle of cloves. 1 It revives the spirits very much. 2 Putts away melancholly. 3 It hath all the vertures of a balme. 4 It heales fresh and greene wounds. 5 It stayeth [throwing] of blood, & water out of a wounde. 6 It conforteth the naturall parts within. 7 It purgeth melancholly blood. 8 It comforteth the heart. 9 It recreates & cleares the head, & especially solveth the gyddynes of the head. 10 It helpes the weakenes of the sight. To make oyle of anniseeds. Take halve a pound of anniseeds, bray the grosse, & put soe much water thereto as will cover them, which after power into a copper [cucurbite], then set on the limbeck, or head closed luted in the ioynt about, with standing, & to purtifie 3 or 4 dayes, then distill it with a soft fier, soe that the water by which the oyle passeth be very cold, when the oyle shall fall into the receiver, untill it be together like camphire: then take all in a cloath & the water will [illegible] through out not the oyle, which dissolve in a broad mouthed glasse set in a stove as hot [illegible]. 198 To make a purge Take the midle rine of a white ashe, steepe it in all a night, in the morning drinke a good draught of the ale. Another purge. Take the roote of mechoacan, beate it into fine pouder, & take thereof a drame & a halfe, & drinke it in 4 or 5 spoonefulls of sack, very timely in the morninge, then perfectly drink a good draught of sack after it, & shortly it will make you purge easily. A gentle purgation. Take a pottle of clairfied whay, put therein a great handfull of hearts tongue, as much of mayden haire of liver wort, violet leaves, burrage, of each a great handfull, barberries, [illegible], of each 2 ounces, boyle all to [leste] then halfe by much, & use to drinke it fasting 3 mornings together, twice or thrice in the yeare. To purge with all. Take a spoonefull of Castile sope, put thereto as much sugar candy, & boyle it in a pinte of malmesy put a peece of butter in to it, & after it hath boyled, straine it, & drinke it milke warme, halfe of it in the morning fasting, & the other halfe at night. An excellent good purge. Take very good scamony (which beeing wet with ones tongue will become milke) beate it to very fine pouder, which will be done the better if you annoynt the end of the [postell] with a drop or 2 of any sweete oyl, as almons, nutts, or sallet oyle, then waigh out 199 10 graines of this fine pouder, & with a knife upon a plate incorporate it with the quantity of two nuttmegs conserve of barberries, doe this over night, when you will take it in the morninge, that the conserve may bite & correct the better, in the morninge eate it up takeing warme broath 2 or 3 howers after as in other purgations, it will worke easily upon thinne humours. If you had rather gave it in a potion, then after the conserve hath bitten it 10 or 12 howers, dissolve it in 2 or 3 spoonefulls of white wine, or rose water, or [com?on] water, stirreing it well, & [illegible] it of cleere, this will tast like sugar & the iuyce of lymons with rose water, & will worke as well as the other only in regard, that some of the substance will remayne behind, & come not into the cleene liquor, you may in crease the quantity of scamony 3 or 4 graynes & take 13 or 14, where in the former you tooke [illegible] 10. If you had rather take it in a pill, then take halfe an ounce of scamony finely poudered, & drop 3, 4, or 6 drops of oyle of vitrioll upon it, stirre & incorporate it together with a wooden spatula, till it come into a masse of pills; if 3, 4 or 6 dropes be not enough, take more, but be sure to take as litle as you need as must; for the oyle of vitrioll will make it to grow continually softer, & will [over] moisten it too much of this masse of pilles, you may take 13 or 16 graines, at one time in 2 litle pilles. 200 To make gunne pouder. Take for a tryall a pound of salt peter, & a pound of brimstone & halfe a pound of cole, made of cole wort stalkes, or pure brant cole of fine willow: if you will make if fine quickly, dry it first, then put them all together, & sprinkle them with aqua vitae, or very good vineger, till it be very moyst, that you are about to make it into balles, then take a meale [sine], & put it in, [illegible] it too & fro over a faire cloath, & that will fall through in [cornes], then dry it & soe shall you make good pouder, or before you moysten it, spread it upon a broad thing in the sunne, beeing hot, that is very good & in the summer the best time to make it in To make lute. Take of the best & finest chalke, to which adde the drosse of iron, brought to fine pouder, & the comon whitest ashes, thorne flax, & horse dunge, & mixe these by art together. A gargle. Take throught mort, bramble budds, plantan leaves, red rose leaves, of each a handfull, isope, orgamen, rosemary, sage of each a handfull, seeth these in 2 quarts & halfe a pinte of water, to a quart, then straine it & put to it 4 spoonefulls of hony, & boyle it well againe; gargle this often, warme, this is good for a sore throate. A pleasant water for linen. Take 2 pounds of spike, as much rose leaves, 201 a pound of rostmary, halfe a pound of [maudlin], halfe a pound of balme, 2 handfulls of pennyroyall, 4 ounces of mace, a quarter of a pound of arras, lay all these in claret wine, & put it into a pet close stopped, for the space of 24 howers, & at the [spoute] of your limbeck gave a fine linen cloath, into which put a graine of muske, & amber greece, through which let the water droppe, you may alsoe put into your pot the pouder of bayes. For a staine in cloathes. Take the water wherein lavander cotton is sodden; this takes away any spot or staine in cloathes or cloath, or other thinge, if the stained place be rubbed therewith. probatus est. A receipt to make the [weapon] salve Take the fatt of a [her] beare, killed in the time of his [brownst] in the wildernes 7 ounces thereof. Take the fatt of a wild beare filled in the brownst 7 ounces thereof,. These 2 fatts must bee melted together, upon a coale fyer softly, and being melted powre the same fatt upon cleane water, then the drosse thereof will fall to the bottome, and the [purest], will swime on the toppe of the water, [take] the same and dry it with a cleane cloath, the older these fatts [shalke] the better they are to bee used. Take rayne wormes which come out of the ground after a shore of rayne, either in Aprill or in May at the new moone, dry them in the sunne then beate them to powder, 4 ounces thereof. Take bludstone 202 Take bloudstone, beaten small to powder. 4 onces thereof. Take 3 ounces of red saunders the reddest thereof; Take [browte] or kings hearth, the leaves thereof beaten smale to powder one once. Take the moss of a dead mans skull, beaten to powder, 1 ½ ounces all these are to bee weighed according to the order before, and mingled together, then take the2 fatts and sett them upon a [coale] fyer, and let them melt softy being melted together then strew the powder upon the fatt and stire them together and lett it be cold and gee putt into some box, made of [mettle] and then you shall have a strong and wonderfull salve which will [illegible] decay the older it is the better it is to bee used. If any man will heale with this salve, hee must take the weapon, and putt it into the wound, and make the same flesh to bleed and if it bee a thrust, then annoynt the weapon from the joynt towarde the handle; If it bee a blow, annoynt from the edge to the [backe] of the same and then bind the weapon very carefully, that noe dust come into it and bind it in such sorte that the salve bee not rubbed offe, and being annoynted and bound upp in cleane linnen, lett the weapon bee layd up neither too hott nor too cold and att any hand bind new lynnen aboute the waepon, that hath not beine used about a woman’s body and when a man doth annoynt the weapon, hee must not accompany any woman, if hee doe, hee must neither annoynt the weapon, nor come next the same, and if the wounds bee dangerous then lay the point of the wagon 203 weapon against the riseing of the sunne and annoynt the same once in 4 or 6 dayes, not too thick nor too thinne and bind the weapon with some new linnen cloath, or else some that hath not been used about a womans body. If a man will know whither there bee anger of death in a man wonded; Take sandell and bloudstone and strew it on the weapon and the weapon will sweat, if it sweat water, then it is a singe of death, if the sweat bee red like bloud, then there is no danger, but a signe of healting the wounded, must keepe a good dyett both for eating & drinking, and keepe not company with women, and the wound must be washed with a manns [lye] 2 or 3 tymes a day with a feather to wash out the corrupted matter, and then dipp in a running water with a peece of lynnen cloath and wring out the water and lay the same lynnen cloath upon the wound without putting in of any [illegible] to the wound bee it never so deepe; (by Gods helpe) and it shall bee whole in 14 dayes without putting the party wounded to death paine smart or swelling. If the party wounded chances to [??isorder] his body and thereby the wound to rage, and grow fyry, then take the leaves of black bramble bryers, put them in vinegar with a little allome and boyle them together and then [illegible] upon the aforesaid lynnen cloath which lyes on the wound, and the party hurt shall find ease [illegible] of his smart or paine. If a man bee shott with a bullet and can [gett] bullet then use the same an other weapon or if that the bullett bee cutt out of the body, then annoynt the knife or instrument so fare as the same hath beene in the wound and by Gods helpe, it shall both helpe and heale: if the bullett bee not to bee had, then take the [illegible] wherewith the powder was putt into the peece and annoynt it upwardes 2 or 3 tymes very well, and 204 And then putt it often into the [?inne] that that may be annoynted within, and bind that as aforesayd, then take the [?inne] and annoynt it on the outside along, as farr as the bullet went into the place where it lay, and then bind it as aforsayd. If a man bee hurt, and another man run away with the weapon; then forme a peece of wood like the weapon, then renew the wound with the same wooden weapon that it bleed, then wipe offe the bloud and annoynt the same as aforesaid and (by God’s helpe) it will heale any hurt. In the same manner may a man heale any old hurts or soares lett them bee of what kind [sooner] if they bee open soares, scrape the old soare with an instrument made of wood untill the bloud comes then use the sayd instrument as aforesaid To stay bloud, take the mosse of a dead man’s head or skull and lay that upon the wound that bleedes and it will staye bleeding presently. It is good to doe so before you annoynt the weapon, and the [part?e] hurt must not have the weapon untill hee bee whole and sound for if hee doo meddle with the weapon hee will fynd much payne and smarte Tho. Soyles The Author An alphabeticall index of all the receites contained in this litle volume. Ach For an ach. 1, 5, 7, 8, 21, 98, 100, 124, 127, 141, 142, 147, 159, 191. A pretious oyntment for all aches 1, 4 for all incurable aches 7 for ach in the gumes 6 for ach in the head 3, 6, 157 for the head ach that continues 77, 78, 84 for any ach of the head except the pox 77 for the head ach in an ague 149 for ach or swelling in the foote 146 for ach in the feet by travailing 134 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 170 for ach where noe swelling 26, 3 for ach in the stomack 20 for ach of the teeth 1, 2, 3, 5, 94, 157, 158, 173 Ago for one in the agony of death 190 Agu for an ague 10, 115, 133, 148, 149, 158, 192 Agu for a burninge ague 11, 130 for the ague in the brest 16 for the ague by floame 135 for a longe ague 11 for the pestilentiall ague 11 for a quarterne ague 148 for a tertiary ague 100, 146 for the shakeing ague 9, 158 Ant for St Anthonies fier 49 Apo for all apostumes in the eares 49 App to procure an appetite 8, 112 Art for a paine or hardnes of the arteries 142 Bac for heate in the back 160 for payne in the back 13, 4, 82, 160 for weakenes in the back 160 Bel for gnawing in the belly 145 for paynes in the belly 13, 135 Bit for biting of a mad dog 151 for biteing of any venomous beastes 14, 15 for all biteing with venomous beastes or mad dogges 48 for bitinge of snakes or vipers 15, 157, 141 Bla for a black or blew face with a blow 159 Ble To staunch bleeding at the nose 159 To staunch bleedinge in any place, but the nose 13 To staunch bleedinge of a wound 159 Blo To staunch blood 12, 15, 16, 101, 102, 103, 115, 117 To staunch the menstruall blood 134 for the preservation of the blood 190 for those that spit blood 13, 107, 122, 138, Bod for greifes of the body 19 against all evills of the body 17 To coole & purge the body 17, 18 for a corrupt body 20 for weakenes of the body 17 Bon for broaken bones 19 To make putrified bones fall away in scales 20 Boo To keepe bookes from vermine 20 Bot Boy For botches or boyles 106, 131, 132 To ripen & heale botch, boyle or any adder 16 for a boyle that is rotten & breaks not 16 To resolve botch, boyle, or fellon in the beginninge 131 for a boyle in any part of the body 48 Bra for the braine 20 Against distillation of the braine 78 for comotion of the braine for want of sleep 80 to strengthen the braine 192 Bre for shortnes of breath 142 for a stinkeing breath 62, 192 Bre for the breast 109 for a sore brest 12, 110, 111, 112, 160 for ach in a woemans brest 111 for hardnes of woemens brestes after they be brought to bed 110 for swelling in the brest 110 for a canker in the brest 11 for an [illegible] stume in the brest 110 for a raw brest 112, 113 To heale a sore brest, though incurable 20 To purge evill from the brest 104 Bro for one that is broaken 53, 128, 137 Briu for a bruise 20, 21, 142, 147 for an outward bruise 20 for all manner of bruises 143 for a bruise in the head 82 for a bruise in the legge 114 To heale a bruise 161 for bruised stones 159 Bun for the bunninges 101 Bur To cure a burne 21, 133, 134, 140, 141 To cure a burne, although with gun-pouder. 48, 159 Can for a canker, or fellon 22, 48, 115, 126, 132 133 for all manner of cankers 4 for a canker in the body 22 for a canker in the brest 22 for a canker in the eye 30 for a canker in the mouth or face 22, 114 for a canker in an old sore 22 Cat for a catarre 106 Che for swelling in the cheekes 108 To procure cheerefullnes 45 Chi for chill bleanes 26 Cho for choller 11 Cod for swelling in the coddes 137, 143, 46 Col for the collick 8, 23, 94, 95, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124 for the wind collick 17, 23, 24 for the stone or wind collick 23, 24 for the collick and stone 161 for the collick in the spleene or liver 135 for a cold or cough 25 Coo To coole and purge the body 17, 18 Con for a consumption 25, 160, 186, 193 Cor for cornes in the feet 49, 67 Cos for costivenes 26 Cov for a cough 24, 109, 110, 111, 115, 117 122, 162, 191 for an old cough 142 for a perilous cough 24 for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the cough of the lunges 162 Cra To put away the crampe 163 Cut for a cut 65, 66, 153, 161 for all sortes of cuttes 48 Dea for deafenes 27, 28, 39, 96, 163 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124 Die an excellent diet drinke 26 Dis for inward diseases 191 Against pestilentiall diseases 192 To helpe disgestion 28, 112, 193 for distillation of the wine 135 Dro for the dropsy 27, 28, 100, 117, 120, 121, 133, 140, 144, 191, 192, 130 for the hot dropsy 27 for drousines 36 for hot on cold dropsy 130 Dru To anoyd drunkennes 28 Ear remedies for the eares 96, 97 vide deafenes Ear for all fistulas in the eare 49 for a noyse or rumbling in the yeare 27, 29 for payne in the eare 27 To bring any quick thing out of the eare 163 To kill a worme in the eare 49 Emp Emplastrum Jacobi 153 Emplasters temperate 152 Emr for the emrods or piles 32, 50, 51, 131, 138. 168 Eye for all evills in the eyes 29 to take away from the eyes any blood or rednes 30 for a canker in the eye 30 for sore eyes 30, 157, 174 for sore eyes that burne & itch 30, 31 for sore eyes, inflamed, or rhumiticke with white water that they cannot open 49 for a white [hare] in the eye 31 To keepe back humors from the eyes 29 for blood shotten eyes 29, 30 for rhume in the eyes 157 for an humore flowing to the eyes 92 To remoove spottes in the eyes 168 To cleere the eye sight 29, 30, 88, 90, 91 92, 100, 174 for darke eyes 88, 92 for a pinne, web, or perle in the eye 31, 32, 88, 90, 91, 168 Eye for bleared eyes 30 90 To quicken the eye sight 92 for payne in the eyes 93 for watry eyes 30. 31. 91. 93 for eyes that are white 94, 95 Fac for a pimpled face 37 To take rednes out of the face 101, 144 To take away blood or rednes of the face 30, 37 To take spottes out of the face 102 To make the face faire 102 for the face black & bew with a blow 159 To make a good colour in the face 100 145, 190 Fal for the falling sicknes 34, 94, 83, 85 Fat To make a leane body fatte 113 Fea for a burneing feaver 32, 33, 130 for the spotted feaver 33 for a tertian feaver 100 Fee for breaking out or swelling of the feete 48 for ach or swollen feete 140, 146 for any ulcers in the feete or handes 117 Fel for a fellon 34, 99, 115, 144, 169, 170 To resolve a fellon in the begininge 131 Fie for St Anthonies fier 49 Fis for a fistula 36, 87 for a fistula be it never soe great & old 48 for all fistulas in the eare 49 Fla for payne in the flanke 124 Fle To breake fleame 35, 59 To confound fleame 34, 83, 84, 85, 94, 190 To cause one to voyde vleame 11, 35, 126, 147 To ingender flesh 104 To eate out dead flesh 26, 124, 126 To draw wood or iron out of the flesh 171 for superfluous flesh betweene the fingers 49 Flo To stay the flowers of woemen 115, 103 To breake the flowers 163 To provoake the flowers 8, 134, 137, 138, 140 Flu To stay the flux 8, 118, 119, 145, 146 for the bloody flux 35, 36, 120, 164 To stay the flux of urine 136, 139, 140, 145, 146 For for forgetfullnes 36 Fre for freckles 49 Fru To make a wooman fruitfull 130, 191 Gan for the gangrene perfectly applied 49 Gom for the gomery passion 97 Gou for the goute 37, 100, 105, 123, 127, 164, 196 for all manner of goutes 126, 134 for the goute in the ioyntes 127 for ach or payne of the goute 1, 37, 114, 129, 94 Gra for gravell 58 Gre for the greene sicknes 40, 116, 167 Gum for to heale chops in the gumes or lips 123 Hai To take away haire 38 To make haire grow where never any was 38 Han for hands that are chopped 160 for inflamed hands 124 for swelled hands 140 To make the hands white 164 for ulcers in the hands or feete 117 Hea for payne in the head 38, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 96, 114, 115, 143, 157 for the head ach 3, 6, 7, 77, 84 To cleene the head 197 for dazling of the head 39 for an old inveterate greife of the head 79 for heavines of the head 78 To cure a sore head 39 To draw the head 39 To purge the head 38 for a bruise in the head 82, 85 for greife in the head hindering sleepe 79 for a great heate 8, 99 for heate in the back 14, 160 for the heareinge 39 To comfort the heart 193, 197 for the heart burneinge 39, 190 for trembling of the heart 166 for straitnes of the heart with cold 39 for swelling at the heart 144 Hum Against all ill humours what soever in the body 112 for all moyst humours 157 for an hot humor in the legge 143 Jau for the jaundies 39, 40, 94 Jau for the black jaundies 39, 164 for the yellow jaundies 39, 40, 94 for both black & yellow jaundies 40, 192 Imp for an impostume 8, 11, 104, 106, 132, 126 To cure an hot impostume 150 for all manner of impostumes 4 To ripen an impostume 41 To breake an impostume 20, 41 for an impostume in the body 41 for an impostuem in the lunge & stomack 41 for impostumes, proceeding of bruises 48 for an impostume in the side 23 Inf for an inflamation 117 for inlamations proceeding of bruises 48 Joy for the joyntes 126 for payne in the joyntes 7 Itc for the itch 42, 134 for itch in the head 78 for all itches in the head 48 for all itches, although in the fundament 49 To kill the itch in the leg 151 Juo for the falling of the Juola 40, 121, 164 Ker for kernells in the throate 106 Kib for kibes 26, 43 Kin for the kinges evill 48, 105, 106 Kne for ach or swelling in the knees 42, 137, 141 Kno for knottes in the flesh arteryes 116 Lab for a woeman in labor that wants [throwes] 68 Lam for one that is tkaen lame Las for a laske 43, 44, 118, 119129, 135, 138, 193 Leg for all manner of inflamations in the legges, liver, or hands 124 for an hot humor in the legge 143 To take away rednes in the legge 144 To cure an old sore legge 151 for swelling in the legges 42 for breaking out, or swelling of the legges 48 for the swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Leo To cure a leper 104 Lig To open the lightes 44 Lic To kill lice 78, 84 Lik To preserve on in good likeing 191 Lip To heale choppes in the legges or gumes 123 Lit for the lithargy 123 Liv To comfort the liver 193 To cleanse the liver 165 To helpe faults in the liver 28 Loo To make one loose or laxative 61, 135, 149 Loy for payne in the loynes 82 Loz To make lozinges 165 Lun for one that is lunitike 85 Lun for the lunges that are [peirched] 190 Mat for payne in the matrix 82, 133 for dry urine in the matrix 117 Mea To cause the meazles to come forth 45 Meg for themegrame 44, 78, 96 Mel Against melancholly 80, 103, 113, 116, 166, 190, 192, 197 To purge melancholly blood 197 for melancholly [preeding] from the spleene 167 Mem for swelling in the members 46, 137, 143 To preserve the memory 190 Men To provoake the menstrues 134, 137, 138, 140 Mil To c ause woemans milke to increase 110, 111 for stoppeing in the milt 45 Mir To cause mirth & cheerefullnes 45 Mor for the morphew 45, 100, 101, 102, 165, 40 Mot for the mother 134, 145, 166 To remoove the mother or spleene 166 To place the mother 166 Mou for a sore mouth 121, 166 To preserve the mouth [sound] 103 for sharpenes in the mouth or tongue 121 for a great heat in the mouth 46 Mur for the murry, or cough 24 Nat To restore nature 167 To comfort the naturall parts within 197 To stay the runing of mans nature 139 Nav for the navell, that comes out 135 Nay for superfluous flesh, groweinge betweene the nayles 49 Nec for greife in the neck or head 83 Ner To comfort the nerves 147 Nos for bleeding at the nose 12, 16 Onc for an oncome 46 To assuage the swelling of an oncome 46 Opp for oppilations of the side 11 Oxi The vertue of oximell 148 Pal for the paluesy 50, 168, 190, 191, 192, 192 for the dead paluesy 50 for the paluesy in the hands 50 Pla Pay for any payne 21 for a payne in the back 13, 14, 160 for a great payne in the back 13 for payne in the gumes 6 for payne in the ioyntes 7 for payne in the side 62, 63 Per for a perle, linne, or web in the eye 31, 32, 88, 8990, 91, 168 Pes for the pestilence 47, 48, 122, 192 Pil for the piles or emrods 50, 51, 131, 168 Pim for a pimpled face 37 Pin for a pinne, in the eye, vide perle. Pip To open the pipes, & breake fleame 35 Pis for those that cannot pisse 133, 136 To make one pisse freely 51 for those that pisse in bed 93, 136 Pla for the plague 117, 122, 168 A preservative against the plague 49 for the plague, where the signe is 48 A preservative & curative against the plague 46 An excellent preservative in the plague time, to expell it from the howse 49 Plasters very temperate 152 Plu for a pluricy 23, 124, 125, 141, 142 Pox to cause the post to come forth 45 for the small pox, when they be full out 169 To kill the swine pox 134 Poy for one that is poysoned 52 Pri To skinne the privy place, if it be gone 158 Pur To purge & coole the body 17, 18 Pus for any push, or boyle, in any part of the body 48 Ran for rankleing in an ague sore 120 Rei for payne in the reines 82, 123, 124 for runneing of the reines 55, 129, 169, 26 for the stone in the reines 133, 169 To strengthen the reines 146 for the reines that are hot 118 Res A restaurative 125, 189, 192 Rhu for cold rhume in the head 122 for rhume in the eyes 157 for dry rhume in the matrix 117 for the rhume 52, 53, 86, 107, 114, 122, 157, 190 Rib To ease the payne in the ribbes, feines, & spleene 123 Ric for the ricketts 54 Rin for a ringe worme 48, 132 Ros The vertue of rosemary 55 Rup for a rupture 53, 128, 137 for a rupture in the scull 79, 83 Sal To make a greene salve 152 Sca for scabbes 42, 48, 104, 132, 141, 143 for all scabbes in the head 48 for the white scabbe 48 for scabbes in the head, & to kill the [scuase] 78 for a scald 21, 134 Sci for the sciatica 61, 127, 143, 147 Scu for a greife in the scull 79 for a rupture in the scull, or the surt 79, 83 Shi for the shingles 133 Sid for the side 11 for a payne in the side 62, 63, 125 Sig To cleene the sight 88, 90, 91, 92, 100, 174 To quicken the sight 92 for weakenes of the sight 197 Sin for hardnes of the sinewes 123 for contraction of the sinewes 191 for shrunken sinewes 60, 150 To strengthen the sinewes 8 for a prick in the sinewes 60 Sle To provoake sleepe 60, 61, 101 To make one slender 61 Sol To make one soluble 61, 135, 149 Sor To cure all sorts of sores 20, 65. 171 for a sore that will not heale 172 To cure all sores and greifes if the bone be not hurt 48 for old sores 87, 104, 126, 139, 151 for rotten sores 87, 105, 117 To breake a sore 151 for a sore in the brest 160 for a sore mouth 165 To get wood or iron out of a sore 66, 171 for all sores possible to be healed 149 for rankleing of an ague sore 120 To clense a sore 114, 172 Spi for the vitall spirittes 191 To revive the spiritts 197 to strengthen the spiritts 193 Spe To recover the speech lost by sicknes 85 Spl for the spleene 45, 61, 101, 117, 123, 125, 140, 192 To cleanse the spleene 61 To remoove the spleene 166 Spo To remoove spotts from the eyes 168 Squ for the quincy 59, 102, 106, 117, 172 Sta for all sortes of stabbes 48 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To staunch bleeding vide bleeding; blood. Ste Against sterrility of a woeman 130 Sti for stingeinge 15 for stingeing of vipers, snakes etc. 15, 117, 141 for a stitch 63, 125, 142, 144, 159 Sto for the stomacke 8, 109, 112, 120, 121, 147, 170, 190, 191, 193, 196 for coldnes of the stomack 103, 113, 122, 171 for the stomack payned with heat burning 58 To breake fleame out of the stomack 59 for ach in the stomack 20 for hardnes of the stomack 13 for payne in the stomack 135 To dissolve wind in the stomack 149 for the stone 56, 57, 58, 147, 173 To breake the stone 57, 147 Sto To know if the stone be in the bladder or reines 147 for the stone in the reines 133 for the stone in the bladder 56 for swelling of the stones or members 46 for the stones that are bruised 159 for stoppeing in the throate 121 Str for a straine with a dry cough 171 for the strangury 133 for straitnes of wind 62 To make one lusty & stronge that is weake 115 Sur for a surfet 63, 171 Swe for one that sweates much 170, 192 for swellinge 63, 88, 126, 132, 180, 95 for all swelling what soever 129, 143, 170 for swelling in the codds 137, 143 for ach or swelled hands or feet 140, 146 for swelling at the heart 144 for swelling in the hands 133 for ach or swelling in the knees 137, 141, 170 for swelled legges proceedinge of deafenes 48 Tee To keepe the teeth from rotting 173 for corrupt teeth 64 To fasten loose teeth 107 To mittigate the payne of childrens teeth 107 To bring childrens teeth forth easily 108, 123 To make teeth white 107 Too for the tooth-ach 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 94, 105, 107, 109, 111, 112, 122, 127, 157, 158, 173 for all manner of tooth-ach 1 To make a tooth fall out 64 Tet for a tetter 48, 63, 132, 134 Thi To quench the thirst 114, 134 for the pestilentiall thirst 192 To draw a thorne out of the flesh 8 Thr for any inflamation of the throate 117 for a sore throate 108, 123, 173, 200 To breake a sore in the throate 108 for a woeman in travaile, that wantes throwes 68 for all thrustes with rapier or dager 48 Tim for a timpany 64 Tis for the tilick 64, 99, 121, 142, 162 Toe for superfluous flesh growinge betweene the fingers & toes 49 Ton for sharpnes in the tongue or mouth 121 Vai for shrinkeing of the vaines 60 To strengthen the vaines 8 Ven for botches or sores caused by venery, 48, 49 To draw forth venome 151 for the touch of any venomous thinge 48 Ver for the disease called vertigo 80, 81, 197 Vis To preserve the visage, or [illegible] 190 Vit to comfort the vitall spirits 191 Ung Unguentum Jacobi 153 Vom A vomit 173 To provoake vomitinge 121 Against vomiting 107, 135 Wov A white salve for a wound 65 To coole & comfort a wound 65 for a greivous wound, or sore 66 To staunch the bleeding of a wound 159 To heale all wounds in a short time 162 Yar for carnosities in the yard 49 To spoute a water into the yard, to coole & cleanse etc. 68 You To preserve youth 190, 191 Cure for the rheumatism – [to the] The second index alphabeticall B. To make good bisket 182 To make artificiall blame 183 C. To make short sweet cakes 182 To clarifie hony, & sugar 194 To make all manner of conseits 180 To make conserve of barberryes 176 To make conserve of quinces 175 To make conserve of greene wallnutts 176 To make cons: of roses, or any flowers 176 To make cons: of rosemary flowers 176 D. to dresse oranges 179 To dresse peaches whole 179 To dresse plummes either blew or yellow 180 G. to make a gargle 200 To make ginger-bread 181 To make gratia dei, a plaster 195 To make gunne-pouder 200 H. To clarifies hony 194 To make hony – of roses 193 J To make cleene jelly 185 To make jelly of harts horne 186 To make white or other coloured jelly 186 > to make lozings 165 To make lute 200 A pleasant water for linen 200 M. To make manus-christi 195 To make dry marmelad of peaches 178 To make red marmelad 178 To make white marmelad 178 To make melquorum, or quodmel 196 O. To make oyle of anniseeds 197 To make oyle of cloves 197 To make oyle of exiter 196 P. To preserve barberries 177 To preserve cherries 177 To preserve damsons, or other plumes 177 to preserve quinces 177 To make pompilion 195 To make severall purges 198, 199, 95 S. To make sugar plate of quinces, roses, violetts, or any other such like 181 To make syrop of endive 184 To make syrop of myntes 185 To make syrop of roses 183 To make syrop of rosemary flowers 184 To make syrop of saffron 184 To make syrop of tyme 184 To make syrop of violetts 183 To make syrop of worme wood 184 To make syrop of the rines of oranges and limons 185 for a staine in cloathes 201 for stayned cloathes or mouldy 200 V. A vomit 173 W. To make anniseed water 189 To make aqua composita 187 To make qua vitae 187 To make stronge aqua vitae 187 To make aurum potabile 193 To make balme water 189 To make ipocras water 188 To make water of life 191 To make aqua mirabilis et preciosa of wonderfull vertue 190 To make rosa [solis] 189 To make Doctor Stevens water 191 to make worme wood water 188 To make worme wood wine to drinke 193 A pleasant water for linen 200 Finis An exelent [illegible] to make a [grene] oyntment [for] [illegible] Take speiremint [illegible] wormwood [rosemare] balm lavender cotton and agremony of [illegible] of these a great handfull 2 [illegible] of fresh butter out of the [illegible] [illegible] the butter to melt on the fier and stamp the [illegible] then put them in one quarter of an ounce of [ma??] [illegible] boyle those [illegible] well [for] halve an [our] till it [illegible] [grow] uppon a soft fier then sett it [close] and [illegible] it out from the [illegible] then set the [illegible] pt on the fier againe & scum it then you may keep it for your use all the [yeare]. To make the [blake] salve for [illegible] [illegible] for [illegible] [illegible] [before] mentioned Take a pinte of the best salet oyle 4 [illegible] of red [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] of white when the is warm uppon the fier put in the [illegible] then keepe it [illegible] till it boyle a [illegible] as pitch then put into it 2 ounces bees wax & let it boyle 6 or 7 let it cold a litle then put it into a after the [illegible] [illegible] the pts [pained] [illegible] [illegible] in with the [gren] oyle at night when you got to bed the next morning before the fier draw downe with your finger a drop or 2 of oyle of amber uppon the [place] most pained then [illegible] on your plaster made of the blake salve 7 lett it lye till it falls of 1 pound of white lede 1 pound of [?ide] lede 2 pound and a halfe of sallett oyle 12 onces of cassall sope