Medical Recipes
C. 1750

A
For an Inveturate ague - 51
Ditto-92:78 56
Ditto a Plaster for ague - 93
A Bitter drang Wh for an ague 95
For an Astma - 138-128
Almon Milk - 133
to Cure St Anthonys Fire 129
B
B - Mrs Buxton 
For a Bruise on ye Breast &c - 31 35
For a Broken Chin - 32
For Dr - 33
to draw a sore Milk Breast 39
For being Bound - 45
Viper Broth - 46
To destroy Buggs 46
To Stop Bleeding - 79
Viper Broth - 81
For Shortness of Breath - 82
For a Cruise - 95
Liquid Balsom 108 109
Thurlinton Balsam of Life 109
to Stop Violent Bleeding in
Courses - 122
For a Burn - 127 128
To Stop Bleedin at the nose - 143
for a Blite - 148
for Inward Bleeding - 149
a Bitter - To help Digestion - 150
for Blindness - 145


For a Cold C
Horseness &
For a bad Cough 21:153
77 51:27 35
a Canker in the mouth 30
a Syrup for a Cough & Cold 38
a Cancker in the mouth 44
For a Consamption 83:4 84:49
A Cistus for a Cough - 57
From Dr Ratclife Do
For a Cough 64:65:82:93:119:140
For Chilblain by 141
For a Cancer or Sharp Humour 64
For the Collick in the Stomack 69 86
the Hearts horn drink for a Loosness 70
a Composing Draught 72
For Corns 47:78
For the Collick 81 87
For a Contraction of the Nerves 87
For a Chin Cough 93:119 132
Turners Ceret 82
the Red Cordiall - 114
For a Conjunctive Cough 139
For a Billious Collick 152
D
For a Dropsey - 18 101 115
Stoutons Drops - 24
the Febrifuge or the Salt
or wormwood Draughts 39
Dr Daille Drops 69
For a deafness - 113
an Extranary & never
Faling Medicine for Dropsey 129
For the bite of a Mad dog - 135
a Diet Drink - 148

E
For a pain in the Ear 31
For Sore Eyes: [cross out] 139: 26
Eye Water Miss Jennings 41
For the Evill 68-
For an Inflamation in the Eyes 79
a most Excellent receip for Eyes occationed
from the Small Pox or any Sharp Humour 111
for a nervous Disorder in the Eyes 124
For Weak Eyes Du-
a Water for Sore Eyes: old Lady H 125
Tobacco for the Eyes 147
Do for a Blemish in the Eyes
For a Dimness of Sight - 152
F
a Fomentation-21
for an Inflamation in
Blisters - 23
For a Fever - 83 28
For a Nervous Fever Du +
Dr James
Du For a Fever or ague - 40
For the Farsy - 50
For the Bloody Flux - 57
For Fitts 58 drops ditto-
Museleum in a fever} 59
For a Feverish Heat} 
For Faintings - 74
Rice gruele in Fevers & Loosness 83
For a red & pimled Face 103
a wash for the Face 104
To Clear the Face & prevent
mole spotts - 105
For an Intermitting Fevers 1010


G
Electuary for Green Sickness {65
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for the Green Sicknes 49 50 15
for a Glister from ye Sword 15
a Flooding Glister-16
a Glister for ye Collick & Condulsion 17
a Glister in a Fever & Hepbourn 31
For Collick & Gripes - 32
For the Gripes - 33
For the T.CH or Gripes in Horses 34
For ye Gout 61:91 41
[cross out]
a gargle for a Sore Mouth 50 46
greesy Heels in Horses - 77
For the gravill 149:97:96:80:142
H
for a Humour in the Legg 44
For a hoarseness & Cough - 51
For a Whoisness 64
For a violent Humour 66
a Powder for the Hands
to make them white 105
a paste for the Hands - 107
to cure Horses greesy Heels - 119
for a Horses Cold - 146

J
For the Itch - 29
For an Inflamation by Bleeding 39
For the Jaunidice 88:132:142 53
Jelly Broth for a Consumption 85
for the Itch - 105
for any thing or tuning Sore or a
Scurfy head - 117
a very Strenghtning Jelly - 43
For Histericks & Lowness of
Spirrits - 124
K
For the kings Evil or
Scrophulous Cases - 34

L
For a Large Cutt - 7
for a Leprosey 6 88 
To Make Lukatellies
Balsom - 13
For easy Labour - 18
to make Lime water 55
to Stop Looseness & vomiting
Dr Longerman - 44
Dr from S_Hans Sloane 59
For the Lungs & Stomach 69
For a Sore Leg - 130 72
For a loosness or Flux - 82
For a Lame Legg - 126
Dr Dallies water for Sore Leggs Do
To assuage a Swelling in ye Leggs 127
M
a Certain Cure in the Hydrophobia 
or Madness &c a by a Bite 32-135
an Electuary to prevent miscariages 37 71
Milk water for a Consumtive Cough 84
To preven Miscariages-121
a mulsion of ye Strangury - 153

R 
For Low Spirits & Nervous disorder 78
Nervous Drops 134
For a Numbness 144:135
To [cross out] Brace the nerves 138
O
Oyle of Charity - 9
Oyentment for Rickets - 32
Oyentment for Scald Head - 10
Oyentment of Tobaco - 12
Oyentment for Eyes - 12
Oyentment of tatty - 12
Oyentment for Rickets 22
Oyentment for Piles 48 - 14
[cross out]
a green Oyntment for a scald or
Burn - 10
Oyle of Bowles for ye Eyes - 20
the green Oyntment in mag. - 22
Burnt Oyle for a Scald or burn 23
Oyntment for a Foundered
Horse on a Tender Hoof 56
an Excelent Oyntment to dispence
any Swelling & Cancerous
Humours in the Breast 1:17
for a Numbness in the Limbs 134
Mrs Morris Exelent Oyntment 136

P 
Plaster for ye Stomach - 3
P: - of Basilocon - 4
P: - for ye Bely a flux - 4
P: - for an Ague - 5
P - for ye Brest nurse [illegible] - 5
P - for Issue the [illegible] 21227
P - for ye Stomach - 7
P - for Sore breast - 8
P - for ye the tempells - 3
P - from Mr Hides - 3
P - for Eyes - 3
Purge for Head - 19
Pills for ye whites - 16
for the Piles 24:73:130 30
for the Plague 52
Histerick Pills - 75
Turpintine Pills for a weakness 81
a Plaister for a Consumption 85
for a Pluricy - 86
a Purge-90
Medicine & method for ye Small Pox 111
an Exterornary Poultice - 118
in the Small Pox to be taken 131
a Plaster to prevent miscaring 131
Gaskin Powder - 137
a gains Phlem - 150
for a Pluritick pain in ye side 151
Q
P
For the Palsey - 151

R 
For the Rhumatism 70/122:134:31:135: 153
For the Rickits 66
For the Scurvy & Rhumatism 90
a Speedy Cure for the Rhumatism 118
S
Black Salve - 1
Ms Box Tearcloth - 2
gallon Salve - 1
Cap Veber Tearcloth - 2
Lip-Salve 138 - 6
White Tearcloth - 5
Salve for King Evill 6
Eye Salve - 6
Scald or Burn - 8
Sore Bretst Excelent 49 - 10
For the Seat Coming down - 16
for a sprain 38 42 44 107 18
Dr 130 131:132 - 19
For a Sore Throat - 19
For Hornet Sting or Sore Throat 20
For a Sprain or Bruise - 23
Spermacity Draughts 27
For the Scurvy & Leprosy 89 25
a Breast Salve 29
For a Sharp Scorbutick Hunger 37
To take out Spots occationed
by Lemons - 44
For a Swelling - 48
For the Strangury - 49
For Shortness of Breath dropsy gout 54
For a pain [cross out] the Side 55
For a Swelling in the Face 57

T
For Sore Throats 27:47:45 51:69 77 81 139
For a Tetter - 45-42
For to Preserve ye Teeth 144:45
For the Tooth ache 46 62 65,66
to Clean the Teeth Do 46
Turners Ceret - 82
Liniament for a Sore Throat 112
For a pain in the Teeth 63
a Powder to whiten & Fasten Teeth 119
[cross out]
V
Unguenitnm. Album - 4
for Venoms & Sores in hand & foot 29
for the vapours & gidiness 53
to Stop Vomiting - 48
For vapors or dimness of Sight &
numnesses - 105
For vapers & Lowness of Spirits 150
For a Vomit - 150

W
Baggs for ye Worms - 17
Johnsons Cordiall Water 25
Milk water pt Docr Cromwell 26
Mouth Water-34
a Fistula water - 40
Chalybeatsm Restorative Med wine 43
To Cure warts & Corns - 49
To Make Cinamon water 61
For a great weakness in ye Joint 61
Reyson whey - 73
Vapour water - 75
For weaknesses in woman} 
in Extream weakness } 76
For weakness & inward 
bleeding - 77
For the worms 119 154 - 89
nurse Bonnifield Milk water
for weaknesses - 107
To Cure & take off a when - 1010
Plague water - 123
Surfict water - 139
X

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1.
The Black Salve
Take 4 ounces of the fineness red lead and half a pint
of the best sallett oyl, and mix them very well in a Skellet
then set it one a slow fire to boyl very gradually tell it
begins to turn blackish, then trie it with a ragg, if it
ran through it will be to thin, if it be black and thick
that it stick to your finger a litle not to much take
the skellet of the fire and put in as much palm of sity
as will lyon a half crown and keep it stirring tell you
think it is well melted, then poure it into galley pots when
you use it for a sore spread it on a ragg but if it be
for a pain in the limb or back then spread on a gentile
lam leather it will keep 4 or 5 year it is good for a cutt 
or a bruise or a chapt lip or a pain in the back or side
take a little & put into a small galley pot by it self and
put in as much more palm of sity as will ly on a half crown
and keep for sore nipels or a burn or any thing you 
would have heal it is good for a blister when it in 
inflamed.
you most have your lead at the apothecary finely
searched
From My Mother The Yallow Salve
Take 4 ounces of venus turpentine 3 an 1/2 of a ounce
of harrows grease 3:1/2 half a ounce of the best yallow
bees wax shaved very thin then set on a slow fire in
a skillet to melt then put in your barrows grease &
let it be melted when it is melted take it of the fire
and stiring in your turpentine last last warm them
all together then pour it into galley pots for your use
this is a grate drawer it is good for a boyl or sore breast
from my Mother

2
Mrs Boxes Searcloth
1/2 a pint of Sallet oyle
1 ounce of barrows grease
2 ounce of Oyle Scorpion
1 ounce of Grays of badgers Grease
1 ounce of Urchin or hedghog's grease
4 or 5 ounce of Red lead
Boyle all these together over a gentle fire to a
Searcloth then try it with a peace of donlas till
you find it will bare when ready dip in peices of
Dowlas whilst it is hot and lay them on pewter diskes
or plate ogled till they are cold and hard
Gap Vebors Searcloth Agrat Drawer
Take half a pint linseed Oyl
3 ounces of white lead
And mix them together and boyl it till it turns black
and then try it with a ragg whether it will stick
it it will it is enough then dip in your ragg and 
bowle them up for your use and keep them in a
damp place
A Plaister for ye Stomach & Consumption
Take one ounce of burgemy peich 
One ounce of roson.
One ounce of bees wax
This is good for any strain 
or bruise ach or pain applyed to the grieved
parts
Melt them in a little earthen pipking then put in
3 quarters of an ounce of ordenary turpentine half
an ounce of oyl of mace Spread it on a peice [cross out]
of leather cut of it for the stomach and grate a little
nutmeg on it before it is cold it must be renewed every
three week


3
A Plaster for Sore Eyes
Take betony hemlock feather few chamomel of each
half a handfull shred them very small then take 2 ounce
of bole almoniak finely powder stird and mix all these in
half a pound of tar and lay it on new hempen cloth [cross out]
as it comes from the weaver, that has never bin washed,
lay it on each temple and the top of the head shift
it with new 3 times a week, and every time taking new cloth
if you find it to thin you must put in more of the herbs &
powder the hair must be shaved of where the plaister is
laid on, the plaister on the top of the head must be pritty
large to cover the top of the head
from my Mother Mrs Hides Plaister
Take a quarter of a pint of the best Sallet oyl
2 peny worth of frankincense 
2 peny worth of roson & 2 peny worthy of venus pitch
2 peny woth of bees wax
then put these in a new pinking to boyl tell all be melted
then take it of stiring till it hath done boyling, then
drop in 2 peny worth venus turpentine stiring it till
it is coal enough to be put into galley pots it will
cure any cut or sore when you use it melt it and dip lint
in if the wound be deep
A Plastter for Temple
Take mastek dragon blood marr an equal quantyty
of them bean flower as much as will make it into a
Salve with the white of egg well beat this is good for
the head ake

4
A Plaister of Basilocon
Take 6 ounces of turpintine
5 ounces of frankincense
6 ounces of Clear pitch
9 ounces of yallow bees wax
6 ounces of roson
6 ounces of beef suet
1 pound and 4 ounces of sallet oyl
Dissolve them on a gentle fire and strain it
into your galley potts
Unguemtum Album
Take 8 ounces of the best olive oyl
12 ounces of hogs grease
4 ounces of white wax
6 or 7 ounces of Serous washed in rose water
4 drams of Camphere
Let your hogs grease & wax be melted first and
put into a pot then put in your serous & oyl
and your Camphere and keep it stiring till
it is Cold
Plaister for the Belly for a flux
Take the old marmalade of quince 2 parts
of that and one of diacordian and a little
Cinnamon on the top of your Plaister and
Margent it round the edge of your leather
with diapalme plaister for a flux

5
White Searecloth
Take the Caul of a Sheep and shred it fine then
put it into a pipking and a quarte of a pint of rose
water and let it boyl all together a while, then strain
it from the skins then put it in your pipking again
to warm you must have your raggs raedy to dip in
when you have dip the raggs hold them so the fire
so drop of some of the fat from them when they
are hot you must lay them on pewter dishes to cool
smooth them with your hands a role them
up for ye
from my Mother Ague Plaister
Take a dram of Frankincense
a dram of Mastick
a dram of Myrth
Mix all these together and then take a spoonfull
of all them and ado the bigness of a walnut of venus
Turpintine, & let it melt over a fire or spirit
frame till it is all well melted then have your
leather redy to be spread for the size of the 
persons rist it should be layd on be for the 3 fits
When the plaisters are spread throw some of the powder
of mastick on the top let it by on a month
from my Mother Morse Oakes Plaister for a breast
Take 2 ounces of linseed oyl and 2 peny worth of diapalme
3 ounces of virgin wax and half an ounce of palm of
Sity and long spoonfull of hungary water boyl all
these togerther till it is of a good thickness then
spread it on a linnen cloth

6 
The Lips Salve
Take Half a pound of hogs larde a quarter of
a pound of Vergin wax 1/2 a qrarter of a ounce of
oyl of Sessamy or Essings of Lemon melt all
these togerher then put in as much alkamet root
as will make it of a good red then put it
into your nots or fauces for use add 2 ounces of very good Pomatium
& strain it through a sive 
from Mr Heattcote of Hackney
Eye Salve
Take May Butter will clarified in the sun 2 pound
1/4 of an ounce of vargin wax 1 ounce of Lapiss Fatie
finely powdered 2 drams of campher
Disolve all these together in a pewter dish over a 
gentle fire, when they they are well mixt and melted
put in 2 spoonfull of red rose water then take
it off the fire & stir it till cold keep it in
a gally pot close covered with a skin and leather
use it night and Morning put into the Eye the
bigness of a pea and hold the Eye Lid down while
melted it is good for hot and cold Rhumes pin
or web.
You must use it to both Eyes tho but one be
ill and wash your Eyes after with red rose
water from Mr Heathcote Hackney
A Salve for the Kings Eviell
Tak an ounce of bees wax in ounce if rosson and as
much sweet oyle as they both contain and simer
them together in a pipking till they are all melted
Nurse Bonifeld

7
To Make Issue Plaster
Take Diackilan & pound Resin 1/2 a pound
yallow wax 1/2 a pound Turpentine 2 ounces
Take all these and melt them in a pipking, and
let it stand till it is cold the next day heat it
and pour some one a plate, and set it over a
lamp to keep hot, then take your paper draw
over the top but be sure you dont let it come on
both sides take care you dont melt the plate
for it is very apt to doe
Mr Tanner For A Large Cut or Wound
Where there hapens to be a large Cut and no Surgin
at hand - take some warm milk and wash the wound
and when you have done that shake some of flower
into it and then fill the wound with dry lint and
cover it with a diackalnm of plaster and send them
to the Surgeon
Mr Tanner
A Plaster for the Stomak
Take of burgany Pitch and beef wax and oyl of mace a
quarter of an ounce of each and mix them together
Stiring them all the while and when you think them well
mixt spread them upon lether and grate sum nutmeg
upon it and lay it on your stomah this is for a stabing
at your stomak

8
For the Leprosey
Take a pound of tar and half a pound of fresh buter
put into an earthen pot and beat them well together
with a hassell stick which must be very well heated
at the fire often that the tar and batter may mix
well, and with the same hassell stick well treated lay
it all over the place affected doe this every day
for a fortnight together, this cured a woman that
hath had the Leprosey for 30 years it shead all her
skin and she was like a new born child
A Plaster for a Sore Breast
Take 1/4 of a pound of white leade and 1/2 pound of
bees wax and 1/2 a pound of sallet oyle put the oyle
and wax together stirr them over the fire till they
are all melted then put in the lead and stirr them
till thay boyl and boyle them 2 hours and half
keep it stirring of from the fire till it is
cold then put it in to pots for use
For a Scald or Burn
Take Diapalma Plaster 4 ounces melt it in a 
Pipking and pour into it 6 ounces of oyl of
Elder that will make it into anointment as
much Spermasity as will ly on a half crown,
and let all simer together, & let it stand to be
cold & spread it on a rag
Tanner 

9
The Oyl of Charity
Take of Rosemary sweet majoram Lavender wormwood
Cammomoil and the flower Rue bay leaves the youngest
Charity valeretum of each a handfull, well pickt & but
not washed chopp them & beat them in a morter all together
then put them into a quart of good Sallat oyl
add to them an ounce of cloves half an ounce of mace
half an ounce of nutmegs beat them small & put them 
[cross out] to the oyl and herbs
Put them in a stone ragg, and stopp it up with wood
flax & what else necessary to keep out all aire tye 
a leather over it and set it in a horse dunghill for
thirty days then strayn it out and keep it in a bottle
close stoped for your use
Tis good to take inward for bruises given between
four or ten drops according to the age or Constitution
of the pary it must be given in a spoonfull
of rosset drink and a draught of rosset drink after
it and so to be taken as you find over twelve
hours between if you doe repeat it, it is good for
sore brest so anoint them and for swelling or wounds
or ackes comeing of cold coughs it is good for
deafness to warm 2 or 3 drops & put into the ear
tis good to anoint a bruise as well as take it inwardly
tis good for little heat or pimples or cut fingers
& so forth
Cosen Duncomb

10
For A sore Breast
Take Hony & spread it on lawne paper and then
throw some fine pepper on the top of it, this is good to
brake a breast or a sweling and hath done a grate deel of
good in such like case
A Green Oyntment for Scalds or Burn
Take house leek one pound elder tops night shade
ground Ivy plantain mellolet and sage of each half
a pound shread them and braise them well then put them
in a pan and add oyle 3 pints and may butter 2 pound
yallow wax one pound rosin eight ounces turpentine
4 ounces and let all these boyle together, then clear 
them of into your potts
An Oyntment to Cure a Scald Head
Take a New lay'd Egg and make a hole in it and put
out all the meat them fill the shell 3/4 quarters full
of the best live Honey, then take as much white
coperas as will lye on a three pence and put it to
the honey then sett it on a fire coals and boyle it together
a pritty while and skim it now, and then, with the edge
of a knife, when it is boyled up to the top and you think
it is well mixed with the boyling, take it of and
straine it and put it in to a gally pot and anoint the
plase that is greeved and keep it for your use. 
this my Mother knows hath cured severall

12
The Oyntment of Tobaco from Co Ash
Take Tobacco leaves 3 pounds bruise them, oyle of
olive 2 pound wax 10 ounces rosin 4 ounces Turpentine
2 ounces boyle all these together till the herbs begin
to be a litle Crisp then strayne it into potts
An Oyntment for the Eyes
Take of bole almoniack mashed in rose water
one ounce lapis calaminaris washed in eyebright water
Tatty prepared of each two drams: pearls in very fine
powder half a dram camphire half a scraple opium
five grains fresh butter mashed in plantane watter
as much as is sufficient to make it into an oyntment
according to art, it is exceeding good to stop hot
whame that fall down into the eyes the eyelids being
but Anoynted with it
Oyntment of Tatty
Take of Tatty prepared two ounces laxis calaminaris
often burnt and squenched in planting watter an ounce
make them being finely powdered into an oyntment
with a pound and a half of oyntment of Roses
it is a cooling during oyntment appropriated to
the eyes to dry up hot salt humours that flows
down the thither, the Eyelids being anointed with it

13
To Make Lucatellis Balsome
Take 3 pints of the best Oyle of olive half a pound
of bees wax two ounces of Red Landers, a pound of venice
turpentine, one dram of cochenile, one ounce of true 
natural balsom, one ounce of oyle of Johnsworth, half a pint
of sack, half a pint of dammask rose water, cut the 
wax, then put it into earthen pan, so bigg as may
hold all the ingredients and set it on a chaffindish,
of coles melt it & let is boyle [illegible], then put in your Oyle,
which must before be beaten, with the sack till thay be
so incorporated, that there is no separation but
remember to save, 2 or 3 spoonfulls of your sack out,
then make it boyle a little & take it of & stirre
it, then set it on again, and so doe 3 times, & as it
boyles take a little up in a spoon to see if the sack
spends, then put in your Turpentine which must be
washed, till it be white, in the rose water and all the water
drained from it, then lett it boyle a little taking it of
some times to see if the sack be spent then put in
the oyle of St. John worth stiring it all together then
put in your cochenile which must first be beaten very
small, in a brase morter & boyled in the sack tht
was left out & that & the fire and stirre it till
it is cold, then set it on the fire and make it
scalding hot, then take if of & stirre, in your sanders
all the while you are throwing them in then take it of 
the fire againe, & keep it stirring till it be pretty coole
then put in your balsome and keep it stiring till it is as

14
Thick as hot starch if the balsome be put in hot
it will be hard & not so good for use
from my mother
An Oyntment for the Piles
Take one handfull and a half of elder leaves one handfull
of violet leaves half a hand late sumer savory a little rose mary
one head and a half of [illegible] & one branch and a half
of orpin shred one pound and half a fresh butter with
out salt and add to these some pileworth roots but rose
leaves & flowers which will be bitter, boyle all in butter untill
the Strenth of the Herbs is out then straine it as hot as
possible you can through a canvas and put it over the 
fire & let it seethe and scume it clean as it riseth &
when it is clear from the thick froth slice in to it
a piece of bees wax half as bigg as egg then let it
seeth again and scum it, [cross out] and pour it out into an
Earthen pan and when god rise it spread some of this
oyntment on a linnin cloth and lay it to the part
which paineth all night and if your Piles be inward
you must use this in the nature of a dopositary keep it
in a coole seller and it will be pretty stiffe
Together with the medicine above, the said St John
Chamsante did at a convenient seasone before the use
of the oyentment bathe the part with his warm urin
before the making use of the chamber pot it must be
made warm before the fire that it may be through
warm when you apply it

15
Memormadam that these 2 application eased &
recovered him when he was in great paine & much
danger by the piles and found no benefit by the 
physicians perscriptions; from my Aunt of Hackney
For Green Sickness
Take of the pouder of Steel one ounce prepaired
of the conserves of the leaves of mugwort
2 ounces of syrrup of the five roots as much
as is sufficient to mix it into an Electuary & 
then take the bignes of a chestnut every morning
for 2 months
from cosen Jess
For a Glister
Take 16 spoonfull of milk 12 spoonfull of sack 
and make sack whay of it then take a new lay'd
egg and only the yolke of it, some double refined
suger a piece of metradate as big as a wallnut and mix them all
together but take care that it dont turn to
curds & whay for then it wont doe it all, half
a pint is enough for a grown body a quarter of
a pint for a child is enough
from Mr Sandbauer

16
A cure for the Seate coming Down; losen Ash
Take the sole of a shoue only cut the heele of it; it 
must be one that hath a very sweaty foot put into 
a clear fire and when it is red hot take it out &
when it is cold beat it to pouder and sift it and
keep it in a glass for use. 
First when you use it wash the seate with cold 
watter and then throw some of this powder all over it
then put it gentley up with a cloth, then lett the
party sett & till a good while warm and this will 
cause it from coming down any more
aproved by My Mother
Goody Hanods pills
Take Cypress Turpentine half an ounce Rubarb
2 drams white amber halfe a dram Peruvian balsom
one Scruple make them into 6 Pills of each one dram
to every dose add 6 graines of Sweet Mercury let them
take 6 every night for the whites
from my Mother
Flooding Glister
Take a handfull of plantain leaves and a handfull
of red roses leaves and boyl them in 3 pints of milk
till it comes to one pint then straine it out from
the yerbs and then make use of it
from Mrs Price the midwife

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A Glister from Mr Porter
Take a good hanfull of rue a good hanfull of
cammomille yearbs & flowers & a hanfull of fenell
a quarter of an ounce of aniseeds & coliander seeds,
caraway seeds & fennill seeds cut your yearbs and
bruise your seeds, then take a quart of milk &
boyle all these things in it till it comes to a
pint then strain it of, then take a pint of that
liquor and put in good hanfull of salt 2 Large
spoonfulls of brown sugar, then strain it & put 
in 3 spoonfull of oyl take care you dont use it
to hot, for the colick and Convulsions
Bags for the Wormes
Take Rue Southern wood Lavin Wormwood featherfal
cammomile leeks of all a good Handfull shread them
grosly heat them thoroughly in a pan with an oxe's
gall you must have a long thin bag to put them in
from the throat below the Navell let it be [cross out]
renewed in 4 or 5 hours,
And give a glister sweetened with honey very 
sweet
from my grandmother

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For a spraine
Take 2 quarts of ye stronggest beer you can and a
handfulls of Rosemary and 2 handfull of bay salt &
boyle all these together and bathe the sprain
if it be inwardly take balm posset drink
from my Mother
For a dropsey
Take a sheeps head and brake it into pieces and boyle
it with the woole on, and march mallows and ordinary
mallows roots and leaves and when it is well boyled let
the party have it put into the close stoole and set
it as hot as thay can bare it and as long as it
is conveniant and so use this at several times, this has
done good
Old Mr Dawsen 
For to Cause easy Labour
Take 1 ounce of Succus, of Carmis 2 ounces of sirup
of Clove Gillsflower 2 ounce of Sirup of Rasbery
Take all these & mix them all together & shake
them well and take one spoonfull every morning for
one month before hand and if this quanty doth
rot Larve mix more
from my Mother

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A purge for the Head
Take some of ye roots of milde white primroses
and stomp them very well but first wash them
clean and dry them in a cloath and young tops 
of 2 or 3 sprig of sweet margrum with them and
when thay be well stamped then straine out the
Juice and when you have a mind to purge your
head hold it back and let sombody pour up
a thimbell full up your nose and it will purge
your head and make you spitt abundantly 
as soon as you have done spiting take somthing
hot and goe to bead
For A Spraine
Take rye flower & make it into a pan
cake with Chamberly and lay it on as
hot as you can bare it
from my sister Heathcote
For a Sore throat
Take one Head of horseleeke and one ounce
of oyle of white Roses and boyle it in to
an oyntment and spread a new piece of 
flanell and lay this on the throught and
this will give you ease

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Mr Gold oyle of Dowlas for a Webbing Eye
Take a long stripit of dowlis & role it with your
fingers & leave a hole in the midle of it, then take
a plate & set it upright set it on fire to burn
& the oyle will remaine or the plate but be sure
that you take care [cross out] that the ashes do not [cross out] 
git among it, then take a fether & Fast draw it
through the eye & then, where the pearl is you 
must stay some time between your doing of it
for if you doe it to fast, it will leave a
flaw [cross out] on the sight at first, this has cured
his daughter he told my father himself
A poltise from Mr Coope for a sting of a Hornet or sore Throat
Take Camimile and frye it in new batter without
Salt this is the best thing for a hornet sting or a
Sore throote to aswage it, with out braking, I have
seen it made use of, severall times
and this I have seen done take Brandy & 
dip camimile in brandy when an inflamation
has come with a sprain or a rench or bruise and
that hath taken it a way

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A Fomentation for an Inflamation
to prevent a mortification
Take Rue, wormwood Rosemary & camomile
of each a handfull wood Ashes two-
Pound boile them in Six quarts of water
to four pour of the liquor clear when
settled and when used add one pint of brandy
or Rum or any other Speritos Liquor of
the strenght of brandy you must Dip in Some
flanell & squized Dry & apple'd
very Hot
from Mr Cotsworth,
Losinges for a Cough
Take a pound of double refined Sugar, & an Ounce of red
Roses & a Lemon, grease your Lemon very thin & mince it as
Small as you Can & mince the roses the Same & make these
into Losinges & take Some when your Cough is Troublsom
Issue pease
Take 1 Ounce of blue Vitrol Stone desolve it in half a pint
of water take a quarter of pint of pease & put them
into the water & let them Simmer over the fire till they
are turned green then take them out & dry them for use

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To Make the Green Oyntment in May
Take wormwood march sage common Mallows and
marisk mallows of each a modrate handfull chop
them a litle but not to small and take a pound
of butter out of the churn with out washing or
any salt only Let the butter milk be very well
Get out set it one a sloe fier in a skellet with
your chop herbs and let it boyle till the herbs
be crisp then strain it through a hare sive
into galley not and keep it for years use
it is good for to dissolve a Swelling or for a sore
breast in a lying in or a fall where the skin is of
or a kick of a horse or a crick in the neck or 
a bruise it will keep 5 or 6 years, a proved by
My Mother
Oyntment for the Rickets
Take 3 pints of black snaills a pound of may butter
out of the churn with out washing or salting 
and boyle them together till they be very hard
and the butter be very clear oyle then strain it
through a hare sive into gally pots when you
use it melt it and Anoint the joints but
not tutch the back bone
from my mother
Spanish flyes
Take a qt of an Ounce of white wax & the bigness of a wale nutts
of Spanish flyes work them well together, & this will make a very
good Issue as well as Costick

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For A Spraine or bruise
Take of oyle of swallow and oyle of roses an equall
quantyty and anoint the place very well by the fire
and then take the white of eggs and a piece of
allom beat with the eggs and the allom well
together tell it is like a salve then spread it one
a pease of cloth then lay it on the spraine
but you must anoint it every day and lay the same
thing on againe but fresh 
For an Inflamation in a blister
Take half a pint of the best sallit oyle source
or beas wax 2 ounces of palm of sity, take 
care that it is not to stife it must be melted
all together & put into a pott it is good for a burn
or scall, spread it on a cloth.
you must burn your oyle first
Burnt Oyle for a Scald or Burn
Take of the best Sallet oyle and dip a holond ragg
into it till the ragg be wett then take the tongs and
hold the ragg with them then with a pease of paper
set it on fire and let it drop into some silver
thing for it will melt any pewter if it be but a litle
you want then with a small bit of a ragg you may let it
drop in a spoone but you may keep it half a year or
longer you must anointe the burn or scald with the 
oyle 2 or 3 times a day it will take the fire out
of a blister and give you ease

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Electuary for ye Green Sickness
Take 2 ounce of fine pouder of steel Prepared 2 ounces
of powder or brimston 2 ounces of trackell
1 hole nuttmeg grated, or as much ginger as the
quanty of a nutmeg, mix all these into an Electuary
and take the quantity of a nutmeg morning & night
this quantity generally cures but a double quantity never 
faills
from Mrs Hase
An Electuary for the Piles
Mrs Potter
Take 3 ounces of Lenitive Electuary half an ounce of
Flower of Brimstone & one ounce of Syrrup of Violets
Mix them together & take the quantity of a nutmeg once
or twice a Day. 
To Make Stouton's Drops or Dr Ratcliff Bitter Tinture
Take the rine of six right Sevile oranges pared very thin
without any white one ounce of Gention Sliced
half or 2 Drams a quarter of an ounce of English Saffron & one
[cross out] Dram of Cochineal bruised very much, infuse
these in a quart of night french brandy & let it Stand
Eight days or ten stiring it Every day then pour it from the Drags Thro a Lane Sive ad to this 2 penny worth
of Snake root the Ounce of yeadory roots & one nutmeg
Take a Tea Spoonfull in a glass of wite wine 2 hours before dinner
the Same in the afternoon or take it in water is as good

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Colln Hannock's Receipt for the Scurvy and leprosy
Sorrel Roots 
Madder Roots
Monk Rubarbe
of Each half a pound
The leaves of Scabius 
and Agrimony
of Each four hadfulls
Senna 
Hermodaclos 
Sarsaparella 
Anniseeds 
Sweet fennele Seeds 
Each four Ounces
put the Druggs into one Bagg and the rest in another
Bagg in four gallons of New Ale wort and when it
has Stood four Days begin to Drink it, a pint Every
morning for a man and half a pint every morning 
for a woman.
Johnsons Cordiale Water
Take 8 handfulls of Cardus 6 handfull of Mint 4 of Balm 2 handfulls
of Worm wood and 1 1/2 Ounce of Anniseeds & 2 quarts
of Brandy still it in a cold still then put into Every quart
bottle 3 or 4 [cross out] small peices of Loaf Sugar, if your still be small
divide it into two and cut your herbs in different short
you may put in 1 ounce of Cardimum Seeds bruised

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An Ointment for the Eyes from Mrs Fawsel 
4 Ounces of may Butter without Salt
1 Ounce of Virgins wax
1/2 an Ounce of Tutty
2 Scruples of Camphire
2 Spoonfulls of Rose water
Mix all together in a pewter Bason & melt ym Softly
keeping it Stiming till all be melted then take it off
the fire & Stir it till cold then put it into a Gally pot
tye it up Close & it will keep 3 or 4 years, when you
use it take a little peice & rub it on the out side of 
your Eyes when you go to Bed
For Sore Eyes from Mr Parkes
put a half penny worth of white Copperas in
a quart of Spring water let it Stand 3 Days & then
its fit for eye you must Drop a little into both Eyes
going to rest
Milk Water pr Doct Cromwell
Take 2 handfulls of Cardus 2 handfulls of mint 2 handfulls of
Balm 1 handfull of Rue 1 handfull of wormwood Still all these
in 4 quarts of water and take 3 quarts from them and 
mix them all together

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To Make Spermacity Draught
Take a quarter of an ounce of Spermacity and half an
ounce of white Suger beat very fine together then mix it
with the yolk of an Egg and 8 ounces of black cherry
water or penny Royall water or any other Simple water
that you like & take half at night and the other in the
morning
For a Bad Cough
Lady Betty Heathcote
Take a vere old Fowle & Stuff it with a pound of Currants & a
Stick of Liquorish Sliced, boile it in a gallon of water till it
Comes to a quart & take of this-
An Excellent Remedy for a Sore Throat
Take five spoonfulls of Syrup of Elderberries and mix in the spoonfull
of Honny and as much Salt Pounell in Powder as will lye on a Shilling
take a Tea spoonfull of this as often as you can
For a Sore Throat from Mrs Bush
Take bole alminack, burnt allum, powder of mirth & Honny
mix it into an Electuary rub the part agrived with your Finger
or a Small Soft brusch, with this Electuary as often as you Can
For a Sore Throat Ditto
Take some ruff amber to Smoke in a pipe you must make the
Pipe Red Hot & put in the Amber & hold it on one Side that it

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may not run out of Stop the Pipe, then Draw in all the
Smoke you Can & repeat it two or Three Times-
For a Fever 
Dr Beade at Bath
Take the finest Perudion Bark two ounces, Virginian
Snake root two Drams, boyled over a gentle fire from
five pounds to a quart, adding half a Dram of
Cochinel when tis almost boyles Enough, Strain it
& of the Strained Decoction take three ounces-
Peoney water Compound, half an ounce, Spirrit of 
Lavender half a Dram, mix for a Draught which
may be taken Every Six hours when the fit is off
For a nervous Fever from Dr Ledderdale
Take one ounce of Powder of Jesuit Bark and five
ounces of Sal Volatile oleosum Infuse E'm in a Bottle
with a Glass Stopper about a Fortnight then press off
the Tinture and filtre it thro thin Cappeper for use
Take one Tea spoonfull of this in two large spoonsfull
of Febrifuge Every Four hours, & as the Fever 
Decreases, take it Three times a Day, & So Lessened
to twice a Day

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To Make a Breast Salve yt never fails Mrs Fawset
Take two pounds of Mutton Suet half a pound of Rosin half
a pint of Sallet oyl (Such as is used for leeks whtn the mutton is fry'd)
put it into Sauce pan with the Oil & Rosin mixing them
well & stirring them into a Clean Earthen pann let it Stand
a little to Coole then beat with a Spoon till it looks white
& it will keep a year or two then put in in Gally potts for use
it heals all milk Sores in Breasts by Heating it & Dipping
fine Cloths in it laying ym as hot as may be indured to the
griev'd part, it Cures bruises in any part of the Body & is
very good for a Burn when the fire is out half ye quantity is Enough
For Venoms & Sores in Hand or Foot &c: from Mr Kerishan
of knot grass & Rue each a Small handfull boil them in
a wine quart of Ale or of Ale & Small bees fill at least
half is consumed, let ye Paticnt Drink if fasting two 
hours before & after it & keep him self warm for Some time
after one Draught will Commonly do Service if ye be
occasion for Repetition let be with an infervalle of 48 hours
For the Itch from Dr Hepborn
Two ounces of white Hellibore boil'd in a quart of water to
a pint, & quarter of an ounce of ginger let the person
wash them Selves before the Fire night & morning for 
four or five times


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For a Canker in the Mouth Dr Hepborn
Take Spirits of Vitriol & with a fine Rag apply it to the
parts effected night & Morning till it heals if the Canker
is too far gone for the Spirit to bring it off in a white
Skin then apply the Oil of Vitriol in the Same manner
but the Spirit is generally Strong Enough
For the Rheumatism
Take 30 Drops of Spirit of Turpintine Dropt on a Lump 
of Sugar drinking any Liquor you like after it, take this
three nights Successively going to Rest 25 Drops is Sufficient
for a woman it will not hurt if the Patient is afflicted
with the Gravile but rather be of Service
For the Piles Dr Rateliff
Conserve of Violets two ounces, Conserve of Red Roses
one ounce Crabs Claw prepered & flower of Sulpher of
Each a Dram with a Sufficient quantity of Syrup
of marshmallows to make it into a Soft Electuary
Take a bit ye Size of an nutmeg fasting
Oyntment for the Piles
Take wood Lice & fry them in oyl & anoint the part Effected
Do for the Piles & for being very much bound
Take a handfull of Hay & put it in a Close Stool & Pour hot
water upon it & sit over it

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A Glister in a Fever Dr Hepbourn
Take half an Ounce of Castell Soap an ounce of Double
Loaf Suger & 3 quarters of a pint of milk than boyle it
till the Soap is melted & stirr in a bout an ounce of
butter
For a Bruise on the Breast Mrs Norton
Take your owne water & Set it on the Fire and put in
two pieces of Scarlet Cloth and apply it warm to your Breast
first one piece & then the other for 9 nights together & let 
one of the pieces remain on all night you may bathe your breast
as long as you like and as warm as you Can, to be done the
night the Hurt is received or as Soon after as you can
For a pain in the Ear
Take half a pint of Claret a quarter of a pint of wine Vinager
put in Some Sage Rue Rosemary let it boyle up, put it into 
a new mugg & hold your Ear Close, So that the Steem
may be Sure to go in as it Cooles heat it a gain & a gain
& when the Strenght is pretty well wasted wrap your
head very warm & go to bed
For the Rheumatism
Take 30 Drops of Spirits of Etheriale Turpintine Drops on a lump
of Suger drinking any Liquor you like after it take this

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Three nights sucessively going to rest 25 drops is sufficent 
for a women it will not hurt if the Patient is
afflicted with the gravill but rather be of Service
A certain cure in the Hydrophobia Madness &c a.-
Take Native Cinnabar & Factitious Cinnabar finely
powder'd of Each 24 Gains. the Strongest musk 16 grains
rub them well together & give the whole for one Dose in
a Small tea Cup of arrack or Brandy as soon as possible
after the Bite and another Doze 30 Days after, but if the
Symtoms are come on two Dozes must be taken in an hour
& half, it produces a Considerable Drowsiness-
For a Broken Chin
Take a piece of Cambrick Paper which is that Sort
that pieces of Cambrick are Rap't up in & dip it
in Brandy very wet & lay it upon the Bruised place
For a Month or Six weeks & never take it of but
Bind it up with a Rag till it is quite well
For Colick & Gripes Sr. Hans Sloane
Take of Alexiteriuss Milk water 6 Ounces, of Strong
Cinnamon water 3 Ounces of Diascordium, 6 drams
of Syrup of Clove gily flowers half an Ounce, mix

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them let the patient take 3 Spoonfull Imediately
and after Every Vomit
Take of Diascordium one Scruple of Venice Treacle
15 grains gascoigne powder half a Scruple Rhubarb
roasted 9 grain Syrup of Dryed Roses as much as
is Sufficient to make it into a Bolus to be taken
at night, Drinking upon it 3 Spoonfulls of the above
prescribed mixture-
Sr H Sloane Mixture for ye Gripes
Take Alexiteriale Milk Water 4 Ounces
Compound Peony water 1 Ounce
Liquid Laudanum 20 Drops
Syrup of Cloves 3 Drams
Mix all these together, Take two
Spoonfulls after Every loose Stool
An Excellent Receipt For a Broken Chin or
any Bruise by Mr Chiseldon
Take the white of an Egg & beat it very well then put Some
of the best Olive Oyl & beat together then put as much
Bole armoniack to it as will make it into a pretty thick

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Oyntment, Spread it upon a Cloth & lay it over the leg, & Sore
& repeat it till it is well, this has been used with great
Success by Mr Chiseldon but it will be proper to take
half an Ounce of Linetive Electuary Every day of Some 
other phisick
For the Kings Evil to Scrophulous Cases [cross out]
Bruise the Stalks & Leaves of Water Parsnips maple in 
Stone Morter & Squeeze the Juice through a Cloth Mix
four large Spoonfulls with the like quantity of Milk
& drink it in a Morning, fasting two Hours after it
& Continue it untill well
the Right water Parsnips grow in the midle of waters
& Rivers, but those that grows on the Banksides are
Poysonous & Care must be had to avoid them
For the Fett in Horses or Gripes
- Put 40 Drops of Laudinum into warm ale & let them drink it
To make mouth water
Take a Spoonfull of Spirrit of scurvy grass, a Tea spoonfull
of Tinture of Myrh put to them a bowl half a pint of decayed red
port Shake it well & wash your mouth with half a Spoonfull
of it Every morning fasting

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For a lump in the Breast by a Bruise to prevent a Cancer
Take a little Salt & put into it as much Saffron as you can
take up with 3 fingers & boyle it, then take Some new muslin
Dip it in the Liquor & lay it warm up on the Breast Shifting 
it Severall times then keep the Breast warm wet a piece
of Scarlet Cloth this must be done twice a day till the
Lump is gone, the muslin must be new Every third time,
it must be applied as soon as possible after the Blow or Bruise
this Cured a young Lady when she had got a large lump in
her Breast by a Blow
Miss Lyells Reicpt for a Cough
Take two Ounce of Diacodium two ounces of Balsom of John
one ounce of Aqua Mirabilis
A Recipt for any Sore Breast & has Cured a Confirm'd Cancer
The Person must keep a strict Diet Eat no Sort of Salt meat nor
Strong Dishes particularly Avoid Spices Salt Vinegar and
all inflamitary Food, the Drink at Meals must be Shifly a 
little Sack with water no Frensh wine or Spiritous liquor
the Person must Drink a Phity an Made of Sarsaparilla
about a quarter of a pint 3 or 4 times a day Made with two
ounces of the afore said Root Boyled in two quarts of water
to ones & then straind, at the Same time must be taken
milipedes bruisd two Hundred in a Day, begining with a
less quantity & in Creasing as the Stomach will bear

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if the Person Should be Costive take a little Manna just
Enough to keep the Body open during the Said Course Bathe 
the part with Boys Urine very well twice a day, dipping
Flanells & apply after Bathing also a Scarlet Cloth wet
with the urine, Care must be taken the Boy be of Healthy
Strong & wholesom Parents & about Seven years old, let it
be milk warm
N3 a person in Lady Betty Egertons Family has been Cured
when her Breast was so bad that Mr Peirce the Surgion at
Bath though there was an absolute necessity to Cut it off
& the day was actually fixd for the operation, She used
the above Remedy for 4 months, but found a Senceable
alteration in 6 weeks: if there is a Sore, use Linnen
next the parts & Flannell over it which is to be wore Constantly
Mr Plunket who is a very Eminent man for Cureing
Cancers is to be heard of at the Bay Tree in bear binder Lane
this Receipt was given one as a certain cure by Mrs 
Lehook Janu 18th: 1752

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An Electuary to prevent Miscariage
Take the Electuary of Sasaphras Candid Ginger of Each
One Ounce perl & red Corrall preperd Each a dram &
half, red Roses in Powder one dram Syrup of Cloves
as Much as is Sufficient to make an Electuary to be
taken the bigness of a Nutmeg Every Morning & at 
5 in the afternoon
For a Sharp Scurbutick Humour with runing Heats
& pimples
Take the fresh Root of Red Dock & take the finest Red
Rub'd Brick & make a deep dent or hole in it then take
the Strongest vinigar & put it in the dent or hole then 
take the dock Root & Rub it in the hole with the 
vinegar till it Comes to a froth, then anoint the
person with the Froth all over the Heat & pimples
Severall night, Runing, but they must take Some Red
or gascongne Powder those nights they are anointed
& afterwards they must take a little phisick which is innocent
& Cooling, this was perscrib'd by a Grand Viziers
phisition to a person in Turkey who was very bad next to
a Leprosey & Cured & it has been made use off this good Success
in England

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A Syrup for a Cough & Cold
Take a penneth of Dryed Hore Hound & boyle it in 2 or 3
quarts of water till it comes to 3 pints then take to Every
pint of the Liquor one pound of your Five penny Clay'd
Sugar & boyle it into a Syrup take a spoonfull of this
2 or 3 times a day or when your Cough is Troublesome
An oyntment for the Eyes from Mrs Fawset
4 Ounces of May Butter
1 Ounce of Virgins wax
1/2 an Ounce of Tutty
2 Scruples of Camphire
2 Spoonfulls of Rose water
Mix all together in a pewter Bason & melt them
Lastly keeping it Stiming till all be melted then take
it of the fire & Stir it till cold, then put it into a gally 
pot & tye it up Close, & it will keep 3 or 4 years when you
use it take a little peice & rub it on the outside of your
Eyes when you go to Bed.
For a Bad Sprain Mr Chiseldon
Take an equall quantity of oyl & vinigar & make it into
a poltice with otemeal let it be warm & lay it on ye part
repeat it when it groes Dry

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Mr Scribo
For an Inflamation by a Hurt got by Bleeding
Take some Hogs Lard & dry it down then Cap it
very thick quite round the arm & repeat it till
the Inflamation is gone it is a Certain Cure
To draw a Sore Milk Breast
Take 2 large Turnips & boyl them & Sqeese
them between 2 trenchers to get out all the water
then mix it into a poltice with hogs lard or
fresh butter with out Salt & change it twice
a day & when the breast is broke put on a healing
plaster
The Febrifuge or the the Salt of Wormwood Draughts
Take 2 Drams of Salt of Wormwood put it into
the Juice of one large Lemmon or two Small ones
when it has done boiling or hissing add 9 Spoonfulls
of penny Royall water & Tenn of Milk water & Sweeten 
it with a little Double refined Suger to your taste
add 2 or 3 Spoonfulls of Brandy put it in a pint
bottle & fill it up with plain water Take Four 
Spoonfulls Every 6 hours

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Mrs Fawset 
A Fistula Water good to Clean
any Sore in Man or Horse
upon a Red hot hearth where you burn wood, Clean
Swept, put two Ounces of Rock alum & one Ounce
of white Coperas burn ym till Dry then beat ym
in a morter with two Ounces of Bole armoniack
Take a pint of Spring water boil'd very fast, where
you have taken it of the Fire take as much of the 
powder as will lay upon an Old Shilling or 140 grains & put into
the water let it Stand till Cold & Bottle it up for use
it will keep Seven years you must heat it very hot
but not boil it, to wash the wound, NB it will not heal
false, it you would have the water very strong you
must abate of the quantity of Bole = Remember always 
in all waters to Shake the Bottle
For a Fever or ague Dr James
An Ounce of Jesuits Bark half an ounce of Gentian
Root a Drachm of Saffron & a Drachm of Cochineale
powder all these & divide them into Sixteen parts
to take one Every 3 hours in a gill of red wine fill
finish 2 Days after take an Ounce of Salts & 3 days
after that, repeat the Same once in 4 hours to prevent 
& return of the Fever or ague

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An Eye water From Miss Jenning
48 the Same 
by mistake
Take three Ounces of Plaintain water
Six Drops of Spirits of Rosemary
Five Grains of Sal: amoniac
wash the Eye Three or four times a day with the
Eye water, & at night when you goe to bed dip
Dip a bit of fine Cambrick Double & lay upon your
Eye & if you have any Pricking or pain in your Eye
then Lay a bit of fine Rag Spread with venice
Treacle upon the wet Rag & bind them Down
An Infalluable Cure for the Gout 
gentian } Roots
aristolochia or Berthwort 
germander } Tops & Leaves
Century 
ground pine 
These Ingredients must be well Dryed beaten to powder
Seperately, & Siffted thro: a fine Lawn Sieve then Mix together
Equall quantity of Each by weight & take of the
mixture one Dram Every Morning in what vehicle you
like best for Six Months, 3/4 of a Dram for three Months
more & 1/2 Dram for three Months more, then 1/2 a dram
Each other day for a year

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For a Titter
Take the Oldest Tallow Candle that you Can get then Spitt
in your Hand &  let it drop in your hand then work it
with your fingers till it be a Salve then anoint
the place where the Titter is & it will certainly take
it away, gout it into a gally pot it will keep-
For a Sprain
Take a quarter of a pound of Bay Salt as gr of a pound
of Castile Soap make a Lather in a pint of water
Bathe & Stoop it with Flannell as hot as you Can
bear it & lap a piece of Flannell Round it this
has Cured after it has been Three Months under Surgions
Care
For a Fever upon the Spirrits or nerves
Take one Ounce of the best Peruvien Bark in Powder
put it in a Vial & put to it 5 Ounces of Sal: Volatile
oliosum, let it Stand 48 hours shaking it very often
then Filther it for use Take a Tea Spoofull in three
large Spoonfulls of Febrifuge. Every 3 or 4 hours
till the Fever abates then twice a day till you have
taken 3 ounces of Bark then rest a week, & repeat
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Chalybeatum Restorative Steel wine
Take Clear Filings of needles one ounce the Juice
of 4 Sour oranges, Let them Stand 24 hours then
add one quart of white wine, a quarter of an ounce
of Cinnamon, one Dram of Cloves two scruples of
mace half a Dram of Saffron, this is a very 
Serviceable Composision for many purposes & will
infallibly cure a green Sickness in hypochondriacs 
Melancolly & all Affections of the Spleen it will do
much good, & after Fevers or any distemper that
Spoils the Juices, This will greatly again restore
them to their due warmth & Vigour if you mix it
with Some Viper wine it will be a Higher Cordiall still
A Very Strenghtning Jelly 
Mrs Braison
Take a neets fore foot pick it Clean from the bones put it
into a pan with a gallon of Milk a quarter of a pound of 
Brown Sugar Candy & grate one nutmeg into it Set in it the oven
with Bread then Strain it off while it is hot & when it is Cold
Cut out a good Spoonfull & put it into half a measure of milk
& Set it on the fire til it is desolved and Drink that quantity
the first thing in the Morning & the last at night

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For a Sprain
Dr Ward
Take half a pound of Salt & half a pound of Allum
Boyle it in a gallon of water to two quarts then
put in your Sprained Leggs or hands as hot as you
Can bear it & hold it in till quite Cold, twice doing
it, will Make a perfect Case
For a Humour in the Leg
Dr Ward
Take Some Milk & boile it put in some fullers 
Earth & make it into a poltice & lay it warm 
on the part a greeved & let it lye on all night
repeat it till well
For a Cancker in the Mouth
Take a like quantity of white Borax Burnt Allum &
white Sugar Candy well Powdered & fine Siffted, & with
this powder rub the Canckerd part twice or thrice a 
Day & then a little after wash the Mouth as oft as
you please with the Juice Robert an herb so Called
To take out Spotts occationed by Lemon
Take Salvolatile & Run the Spott with it will take 
it out

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an Excelent Receipt for a Sore throat
Take Some honey in a large Silver Spoon
& boyle it & Scim it & take of it, as often as
you Can it is a Certain Cure Do take [cross out]
a little piece of Salt of Prunell & Cary it under
your Tong it will Draw a Rhum Spit it out best 
Swallow as little as you Can- it is an Excellent thing
For a Tetter
Take a Sheet of white writing Paper devide it 
in Severall Pieces then Role them up as tight
as you Can & Set them up End ways on a Pewter
plate & Set the Paper on fire & as it burns
there will Come out an oyly Matter on the plate
take that & anoint the Tetter with it is is
a Certain Cure when repeated
For being Bound
if you Cannot go Easy to Stool taken handfull
of hay & put it in the Close Stool pour hot water
up on it & Sit over it it will Certainly make you
go & Easy
For to Preserve the Teeth
Take Guaicum chips 2oz boyled in 3 Pints of water
to a quart - or Take The Gum & put it in a quart of water
to one ounce of guaicum

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For the Tooth ake
4 Drams of Allum & drams of mastick 2 Drams
of Frankinsens, 2 drams of mirth put in to a pint of white wine and
Shake it Every Morning & hold it in your Mouth
the Ingredients must be beat very fine
To Clean the Teeth
Take Bole Almenack & Dragons Blood & mertle &
white Boracks an Equale quantity, allum & brick
dust the Same, Mix all these together & keep them
Dry they must be very Finely beat This is good 
for the gums & Teeth
A gargle For a Sore Mouth Mr Paux
Take Bramble leaves Stub Sorrel Honey Suckle Leaves
2 or 3 pieces of Allum Sweeten it with Honey
Viper Broth
half a Chicken & a whole viper put into 3 pints
of Cold water boiling it over a gentle Fire till it
Comes to a quart then Strain it for use
To Destroy Buggs
Pelitory of the wall will bring all the Buggs to it
& they may be Burnt the next Morning

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To Cure Warts & Corns
Rub them with Onion & Salt & bind Some on when
you go to Bed, be Sure you do not let it Come to yr 
Eyes, Continue this till they are gone it never fails
For a Sore Throat Dr Hepbourn
Take 25 or 30 Gains of Gum Guaiacum mix it with
as much Sugar & a little of the yolk of an Egg
Take it when you go to Bed & Drink Jack whay
after it the next night take 21 grains in the Same
manner & if you are not quite well 20 Grains the
Third night the Dr Said he never knew it fail
To Stop a loosness & Vomiting Dr Langerman
Take an Equal quantity of Venice Treakle and
Balsom of Peru & Set it over the fire then Rub it
all over your Stomack a good while as hot as you
Can bear it it is a Certain Cure
For the Strangury
Disolve an Ounce of Gum Arabic Powder'd in three
Pints of Barly water and Drink up plentifully of it
if it is not like'd alone you may add a little milk
& Sugar 

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From Miss Jenning
An Eye water
Three Ounces of plantain water
Six Drops of Spirrits of Rosemary
five grains of Sal ammoniac
Wash the Eye three or four times a day with
the Eye water, & at night when you go to bed
dip a bit of fine Cambrick Double & lay up on
your Eyes and if you have any pricking or pain
in your Eye then lay a bit of fine rag spread
with Venice Treacle upon the wet rag & bind 
them down
For a Swelling
Take chickweed & round mallos & boil them in
Suit a good while then lay them on the place
take a poltice
An Oyntment for the Piles
two Drams of myrh one ounce of Frankincence a
quarter of a pound of Honey one ounce of the oyl 
of Roses put them in a new Pipkin & Set them
over a Slow fire keeping it Stirring till it Comes
to an oyntment when it is Cold spread it upon a
Cloth & apply it to the place agrieved

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For a Consumtion
Take the Lungs of a Fox and dry them in a Chimny
Corner till it will grate fine & take as much of
that Powder as will lye on a Six pence in the 
best old Maligo Urine that you Can get you must
Mix it in a Spoonfull of that & after it 3 more
this must be taken fasting but if the person Cannot
take it in the Morning, Then at night it is an 
Effectually Cure if taken in time
an Excellent Salve for a Sore Breast 
Lady Morgans 
Cook Eli Phillips
Take Oyl of Roses Oye of Lallys Oyl of Cammomile 
Oyl of Elder Old Castile Soap Black Basilicon &
& Brandy Bees wax & Honey of Each one Penny worth
melt them all together & keep them for use
to be spread on Black Brown Paper when used
For the Green Sickness
Mrs Hase
Take 2 ounces of prepared Steel 2 Ounces of 
Brimstone 2 Ounce of Comon treakle, beat all
these together very well then take the bigness
of a nutmeg in the Morning & at 5 a Clock in
the afternoon

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Mrs Wordsworth
An the other the Same
Take Conserve of hips One Ounce conserve of Rattan 
wormseeds 2 Ounces of Steel prepared with
Sulphur One Ounce Make these into an Electuary
with Sirrup of Orange peel take the quantity 
of a Nutmeg twice a day for a Month or Six
weeks drinking a Common glass of white wine
bittered with Rhubarb & gentian
For a gargell for the Mouth & Throat
Take Sorrill wood bine Leaves plantain Leaves
Black berry Leaves violet Leaves of Each a handfull
boil it in a quart of water to a pint then Strain
it, & take a lump of Allum the bigness of a Small
Nut & put it in & Sweeten it with Honny & So 
Gargel your Mouth & Throat with it
For the Farsy in Horses
Birthwort Powdered, give as Much as will
lye upon a Shilling Every feed of Corn The Corn
a little wet give this a Month or Six weeks to
geather

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For a whoarshness & Cough 
Lady Stampe
Take the whites of 3 New layed Eggs a quarter of
a pint of red Rose water as much Spring water
4 Ounces of white Sugar Candy finely beaten mix
them together, & beat it with a whisk to a froth
take it off as it rises & put it into a China bason
So do till all Comes to a froth then let it Stand
till it Comes to a Sirrup To keep it in a bottle
& take a Spoonfull at a time Every 2 hours 
it Cools & Comforts the lungs
For a Cough.
Miss Lyells
Take Two Ounces of Diacodium Two Ounces
of Balsom of Totre One Ounce of Aqua Mirabilis
For an Inveturate Ague 
Dr Chenies
Take Six Drams of Jesuits Bark two drams
of Salt of Steel One dram of Snake Root
made up into Pills with gum dragon & Four 
to be taken Morning & night
a Certain Cure for a Sore Throat
Take a little Honny boil & Scum it in a Spoon & take it

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an Old Experience Recip for the Plague
Take 3 pints of Malmsey (or Canary Sack) & boil in it
one handfull of Sage & as much Rue till one pint
be wasted a way then Strain it & Set it over the fire
a gain & put there to one dram of long pepper
half an Ounce of Ginger & a quarter of an Ounce of
Nutmeggs all well beaten together then let it boyle
a little & put thereto one dram & a half of the thin
date, one dram of venice Treackle & a quarter of
a pint of Aqua vita or hot Angelica water
keep this as your life above all wordly treasure
take it always Morning & Evening three Spoonfuls
at Each time if The party be diseased if not Morning
is Sufficient
For a Shortness of Breath
Take an Equal quantity of Summer Savory & Red nettle 
Tops & drink it as you do Tea Morning & after noon
or when you are Thirsty you may drink it Cold & Sweeten
it with a little Sugar

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For the Jaundice
Take 3 new Black glased two Ear'd Potts made of Cousdung
which holds a quart, then take one of the potts & put
into a pint of the Strongest Stale Stout Bear
then get a large Rusty key or hinge the more Rusty
the better, put it in the Fire & make it Red hot
then Squench it 3 times & drink it Fasting, do
this 3 Mornings & Every time in a new pot
The Potts you may have at queen High if not they
will make them
you must not be Surprised for it will work
both ways which Carries off the Cause, it Infaliably
Cures tho: it be turned to the Black Jaundice
For the Vapours & gidiness in the head
Take a quarter of a pint of mint water as much 
Salt of wormwood as will lye on a Six pence & one 
Spoonfull of Syrrup of Lemons From this Medicine
Lady Humpheries found great benifit
For the Leprosey
Take of the Bark of Elm tree & boil it in Small Bear
& drink it for a month together

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For the Jaundice
Take a good handfull or more of the green Leaves that
grows on the Stalks of Artichokes Squeeze the Juice
out of them & take two Spoonfulls thereof in a 
morning fasting & the Same quantity three hours 
after dinner, which being of a thick Substance &
very bitter you may put a Spoonfull of Mointain
or white wine with it
For the Same
Take Sheep dung 1/4 of an Ounce to a pint of water
& take a Small glass of it morning & night
after it has been steep'd 2 days
For a Shortness of Breath, dropsey, & gout
Put half a pint of Mustard Seed in a bottle & put a quart
of white wine to it & after 2 days, drink Every Morning
a quarter of a pint fasting, & take nothing for two hours
after it fill up the bottle with as much wine as you took
out, if you add a good Stieck, or two of Hors Radish cut
small & scraped, it is a fine Medicine for a dropsey
or the gout in the Stomack
Do for Shortness of Breath
Take half an Ounce of need fyling put it into a pint of
Sack & Let it Stand a Month or as you have ocation & 

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Take Every Morning 40 drops more or Less as
you think proper dropt into 3 or 4 Spoonfuls of
Maligo wine & drink it fasting
To Make Lime water
A Pound of Oyster Shells Powder when Burnt, put 
to is a gallon of water warm Let it Stand 24 hours
Stirring it about three times then Filter it off
Clear & keep the Bottles Close Cork'd & drink half 
a pint a bout three or 4 times a day just warm
you may put a little Milk to it if you like it
The Oyster Shells Must be Burnt Red Hott & 
when Cold ground to Powder in a Morter
it is a great Sweetner of the Blood & good for the gravell
For a Pain on the Side
proceeding from gravell 
Sr Hans Sloane
Take chamomile violet Mallow leaves of Each
4 handfulls chamomile Flowers two handfulls-
Mix these Sliced & Cutt & put into two Baggs boile
These Baggs in water & wring one of them Clear of the 
water & apply it as warm to the part affected as you 
can bear it, Let is lye on till it Cools then apply the
other after the Same Manner & alternatively til the pain
a bates- in Such a Case take 20 grains of Pamacelty

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a little Sugar & 21 grains of Powder of Pearl & drink
after it a Cup of Hops or Milk water
Oyntment for a foundered Horse or a Tender hoof 
2 ounces of Mastick
2 pound of Hogs Lard
2 pound of Turpentine
4 ounces of Populeon
2 ounces of Dialther
Boyled together & Scumed Clear
anoint the Crownet of the Hoof & now & then
the whole Hoof
For an aque
Take a Spoonfull of Flower a Spoonfull of Salt a
Spoonfull of Pepper beat mixt up into a poltice with
Spirrits to be put on the wrist an hour before the Fit
repeat it 3 times the Poltice not to be taken of till fresh
be put on a never Failing Medicine
an other ditto
Take one Spoonfull of Lemon Juice one pint of muld
wine to be taken in the Cold & Hot fitt repeat it 3 times
if requisite
an other Ditto
Take an Ounce of flower of Brimstone & divide it

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into three parts & take one part Every Morning
in half a pint of ale or a quarter of a pint of white
wine begin to take it an hour before you Expect
the Fit & go direct to Bed
For a Swelling in the Face
Take Chamomile flowers & Sentuary topps
of Each half a handful Cadus Seed bruised 2
drachms, wormseed 2 Scruples infuse these
in a pint & half of Spring water Scalding hot
let them Stand one hour Strain it & keep it
for your use a diet drink
For the Bloody Flux
Take Black Berrys when they are Red & inclining
to turn Black & bake or dry them in an Oven then
Powder them & take as Much as will Lye on a 
Shilling
a lintus for a Cough
Take an Ounce of oyl of Sweet Almonds an ounce
of Syrup of ground Ivy an Ounce of Syrup of Citern
Mix them all together & take a Spoonfull of it
going to rest & any time when the Cough is troublesome
an Electuary for a Cough from Dr Ratcliffe
Take Conserve of Red Roses, of Hips, of Each an Ounce & half

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Gum Olibanum in Powder two Drams 5pt of Sulphar
twenty Drops Syrup of white Poppies a Sufficient
quantity to make them into an Electuary
For Fitts
The lights of a Cow Calf, warm out of the Body with
out washing, to be Sliced & Baked in a Slow Oven &
beat to Powder in a Stone Morter & Sifted thro a 
Lawn Sive
One Spoonfull to be taken in a Glass of white wine
& water Every Morning fasting one hour after in the 
Months of March, & October & at five in the
afternoon, nether Eating nor drinking for an
hour after NB The paler tis' dryid the better
a Tea Spoon a dose for a child
The patient Should know know what the medium is
drops for Fitts
Half a pint of French Brandy 2 drams of Assafatida
& as Much wood Sot as will lie in an Egg Shell let them
Stand together ten days Shaking it 3 or 4 times in a day
then Strain it of & keep it in a Bottle Close Stop't 
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stomach if it agrees tolerable well, but if other
wise only once & this for three weeks then you
Should rest & at the Change of the Moon it Should
be repeated for 3 or 4 days
Museleum in a Fever
Take a quarter of an Ounce of quince Seed half
a pint of water Simmer it over the fire till it
is a gelly Then Strain it thro a fine Lawn & put 
to it two Ounces of Syrup of Rasberries it is
plasent & good in a Fever to take now & then in 
a Tea spoon
For a Feverish Heat
a Spoonfull of Lemon Juice as much Salt of
wormwood as will lie on a Sixpence & two 
Spoonfulls of Milk water
For a looseness & Vomiting
Sr Hans Sloane
Take of Alexiteriass Milk water 6 Ounces of Strong
Cinnamon water 3 Ounces Diascordium 6 drahms
Syrup of Clove gilly flowers half an Ounce mix them
& take 3 Spoonfulls Imediately & after Every Vomit
The Bolus
Take of Diascordium one Scruple of Venice Treackle

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15 grains gascoigne Powder half a Scruple Rhubarb
Rosted 9 grains Syrup of Dryed roses as Much
as is Sufficient to Make it into a Bolus to be
taken at Night Drinking after it 3 Spoonfulls
of the perscribed Mixture if the looseness be
very Violent take about 8 Spoonfulls of
Heartshorn drink & 2 Drams of diascordium
& make of it a Clyster to lye in the Body as
long as it Can be kept without uneasyness
Se No 33
For the Strangury
Sr Hans Sloane
Take a handfull of Mallows Either roots or Leaves
boyl it in 3 pints of water to one quart Sweeten
it with Sugar & drink a large draughts Mixed
with one half of milk
Ditto from Mrs goodier
Take as smart or goose Tong & a good handfull of
Parsley Roots or Leaves & two quarts of new ale &
boyle it very well together & drink large Draugts of
it as often as you Can or you May Still the Herbs
for winter to be ready on occation

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To Make Cinamon water
Take one gallon of Brandy 4 Ounces of Cinamon
a quarter of an Ounce of Cloves & Some Double
Refined Suger, Do take one Dram of Oyl of 
Cinamon to a gallon of the best Brandy & drop 
it on Double refined Sugar & put it into ye Brandy
& let it Stand a few days before you use it &
then Mix it with Some Simple waters otherwise
it will be too Strong
For a great weakness in the Joints
Take 3/4 of a pound of right Durham Mustard-Seeds 
& boyl it in three quarts of Spring water
till it Comes to one quart then Strain it thro
a cloth & anoint the Joints Every Night going
to Bed laping a flannel to keep it warm
you must not bruise the Seeds but boyle them whole
For the gout
Take a Dozen large Cloves of garlick or Eighteen
Small ones put into a quart of Brandy let it stand
Twenty Four Hours & take Three Spoonfulls fasting
in the Morning & at night going to Bed as the
Liquor is reduced add dayly the quantity you take 
from it till you have added a pint

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For the Teeth
Take one pint of Old Verjuce boyle it, as Soon
as it boyls put in half an Ounce of Rochlellum
half a Dram of Cochenial & boyle it till it is
wasted to half a pint then Coole if for use
Ditto
Take two penny worth of Honey a peice of
Allum as big as a walnutt Burn the Allum very
well beat it in a morter put to it two penny worth
of Bole arminiem put them together in half a 
pint of Vinegar & boyle it a very little
Ditto
To a full pint of very Strong Sage Tea add
a quarter of a pound of Honey of Bole Armenien
& Allum of Each one penny worth & one 1/4
of a pint of Strong Vineager wash your mouth
with it morning & night
Ditto a gargell
Take one quart of Verjuice 2 Ounces of Allum one
handfull of Red Sage the Rind of one Lemon one
large Spoonfull of Honey boyle all these together
till a third part be wasted

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For a pain in the Teeth
Take half a pint of white wine Vinegar an Ounce of
Rock Allum a piece of white Sugar Candy, the bigness
of a large walnut, a large handfull of ground Ivy
boyle these together till it Comes to a quarter of a pint
& wash your Mouth with it if it is too Sharp for your 
Gumse Mix a little water with it when you use it
No. 54
For a Shortness of Breath
put half a pint of Mustard Seed in a bottle put to it a
quart of white wine, & after 2 Days drink Every Morning
half a pint of it fasting and do not Eat or drink for 2
hours after it, & put in as much wine in the Bottle again
as you have taken out, till it Comes to a pint
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For the Same Ditto
Take half an Ounce of Needle filings & put it into a
pint of Sack & let it Stand a Month or as you have occation
Take Every Morning 40 Drops More or Less as you think
fit, Drop 2 into 4 Spoonfulls of Malligo & drink it fasting
For A Tisick
Take oxeye deases make a Possis & boyle Some of the
oxeye deases in the Posset drink then Strain it & beat
a yolk of an Egg in it when it is Coole, Drink half a pint
when you go to bed & if very bad as much in the Morning

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For a Whorsness 
Take a Pipping Roast it & if you please butter it & sweeten
it with Suger Candy & put it in water & make lambs
woole & drink it going to bed
For a Cough
Take at night when you go to bed, as Much Powder of Burnt
Hearts horn as will lye upon a New Shilling in a little Milk
Till you find your Self better 
Syrrup of Vinegar For a Cough
Mrs. Wricklesworth
Take a Pottle of fair water two buglas roots two Suckery
Roots one fennell root one parsly one handfull La lendine
one handfull of Colts foot leaves pull the pith out of the 
Roots & wash them Clean, boyle all in the water till half
be Consumed then Strain it & to half a pint of this-
Liquor take half a pint of vine Vinegar & one pound
of Suger boyl it to a Syrrup-
Tis good against the heat of the Liver on to take of it
in a Burning Fever or to Cut the hard flegm & Choller 
it provoketh Urin it Cooleth & quencheth thirst & keepeth
The body Soluble
Losinges For a Cough
Take a pound of Double refined Suger & an Ounce of red Roses &
a lemon pare your Lemon very thin & mince it as Small as
you can the Roses must be dry & minced as Small also

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For the green Sickness
Take on handfull of Stinking ovris & put it Clean=
Pick'd into a quart of water & let it Just Simmer over
the fire then Strain it & Sweeten it with Hony & drink
a quarter of a pint of this Mixed with 3 or 4 Spoonfulls
of renish or white wine Every Night & Morning
it is an Extraordinary Medium both Cleansing &
Strenghtning when this quantity has been taken rest
14 days & repeat it again
an other
Take one Ounce of Powder of Steel, One Ounce of
Allecampain 2 Ounces of Hony & 2 Ounces of Treakle
Mix these well with half a pint of Double Still'd-
Anniseed water take a Spoonfull in the Morning 2
hours before breakfast Stirring after it & one Spoon 
full at night going to bed
For a Cough
Take A hoof & braise it in a Stone Morter & to half
a pint of Juice put half a pound of Hony & boyle it
to a Syrrup
For the Teeth Sr Hans Sloane
Red Corall prepared Armenian Bole burnt Heartshorn
prepared of each 3 drams fine Myrth in Powder one Dram
Two Scruples of Dragons blood Hony of Roses a Sufficient
quantity to make it into a dentifrice

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For the Tooh Ack 
Into 2 Drams of rectified Spirrits of wine Disolve
Camphyr one Dram prepared Opium five grains
add Oyl of Box ten drops Mix them well & keep
them Close Stopt, if for a hollow tooth 4 or 5 drops
on a little Cotton to be put into the tooth or over it as
far as the gum, if not hollow 6 or 4 drops or more
on a little Cotton to be put into of Ear on the side of 
the pain, if in a quarter of an hour it be not allayed
the Same quantity to be reapplyed, Nb it has never yet
happened to have occation to apply it the 3d Time
For the Rickets
Take 3 pints of Black Snales a pound of May Butter
Out of the Churne with out Salt or washing & boyle
them together till they be very hard & the butter a
very Clear Oyl then Strain them out & keep the Oyl
in a gally pot & when you use it melt it & onint
the Joints but not touch the back bone
For a Violent Humour next to a Leprosey
Take a Breast or Loyn of Mutton & Roast it & baist it with
Tar and Catch the Driping Clear from the gravy & anoint the 
Person where ever Effected with it

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For Chilblains
Take a Turnip & Cut it in pieces & boyl it in water
to pap & wash the Chilblains in the water the Turnips
was boyled in & bind on the Turnips when you go to bed
& it will Cure them even if the are broke
For a Cancer of Sharp Humour in the Blood 
Mr Morton
Take the Corns of Stone Horses Feet, put them in a Bagg
& hang them in a Chemney for an Oven will dry them too
Much when they are dry grate off the Ruff part, Powder
the remainder, put five times as Much as will lay upon
a Shilling into a quart of white wine let it Stand two 
days take a quarter of a pint of it a little warm
going to bed & as much two hours before Rising
Shaking the bottle tis to be took till the person
finds benifit which will generally be when they
have took five or Six Bottles they must not Eat any
thing Salt, or Lower, Nor put their hands in Cold water
while they are taking it, the Effects are only Breathing
Sweats, NB if it is only for a Sharp humour it will
not be necessary to take it in [cross out] a morning & it is
likely three or four will be Sufficient
For a Leprosey
Take of the Bark of Elm tree & boyl it in Small bear

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half a pound to a quart of drink, & drink it for a Month
together this is a Certain Cure
For the Evill
Take Some Rye Meal & Make it into a Past then
make it into a Pasty & fill it very full of Sage of Vertin
then Bake it with Bread 2 or 3 times till it will beat to Powder
an Other for the Same the Salve
Take an Ounce of Bees wax & an Ounce of Clear Rosson
& as much Sweet Oyl as they both Contain & Simmer
them together in a new Pipkin till they are both melted
For the Drink
Take 4 Ounces of Lignumwity 4 Ounce of Sassafrags
2 Ounces of Saxafrass 4 Ounces of China Root 1 Ounce
Red Landers 1 Ounce of white Sanders one ounce
Hearts horn chavings 1 Ounce of Ivory Chavings
Take all these & put them in a new Pipkin with 20 
quarts of water, let it boyl almost away then put in
as much more & do the like, then put in as much 
more & let it boyl half a way, then take it off & put in 
half a pound of Resons of the Sun & half a pound of figs
sliced & 2 Ounces of Liquorish Sliced let it Stand till it be
Cold then Strain it & drink freely of it

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Doctor Daille's Drops
ʒ V1111 Sp Sal Volatile oleosum Sylvi
Cum Sp: Sal Ammoniaci
For a Sore Throat
Take 12 Ounces of Salt Peter beaten to fine Powder
put it into a Cruseple & Set it on a Chafin dish of Coles
when it is Melted put into it between your Fingers 2
penny wait of Powder Blew & two penny wart of Sulfer
Stiring it with a hot wire then put in two penny wart
more of Sulfer to Clear it then Heat a Bellmetle
Skillet & pout it into it & let it Stand till it is Cold
then take a bit as big as a Pea & as it dissolves-
Swallow it
For the Lungs & Stomach
Take 6 Figgs 2 Ounces of Reasons of the Sun Stoned
half an Ounce of Liquorish half a Handfull maiden-Haire 
half a handfull of Spotted lung worth one Scruple 
of Anneseeds boyle these with a Handfull of french
Barley in 3 pints of water till 1/3 by Consumed
For the Collick in the Stomack
Take 2 Ounce of Rue 2 Ounces of wormwood make it into
an Electury or Conserve with one Nuttmeg Roasted & grated
then take the bigness of a nutmeg at Night; & if you take it
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Dr Hepborn
For a Sore Throat 
Take 25 or 30 grains of Gum guaiacum mix it
with as much Suger & a little of the yolk of an
Egg, take it when you go to bed & drink Such way-
after it the next night take 21 grains in the Same
manner & if you are not quite well 20 grains The 
Third night the Doctor Said he never knew it fail
For the Rhumatism Mrs Morton
Take 4 Ounce of gum guaicum beat it fine put it
into a quart Bottle put to it one pint of the best
Brandy let it Stand in the Sun or before a Moderate
fire for ten days to Settle & pour it into phialls
as you have occation to use it Take two Tea Spoonfulls
in a glass of Spring water which must be first Sweeten
with a lump of Load Sugar giving to rest & if it purges
more then three times omit a night or lessen your
quantity Continue taking it for a Month or Six weeks
The Heartshorn drink for a Loosness
Take 3 pints of water & one Ounce of Burnt Heartshorn
let it boyle a little then put in half a Soul of a penny
white Loaf half a nutmeg a blade of mace & [cross out]
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you May Sweeten it with Syrrup of quinces, & you
may put in a spoonfull of plague water or a little Red wine
if you like it 
Read drink for the Same
Take a quart of plantin water & squence a Steel
in it till it is half boyled away as much wine as 
water a blade of mace a Sprig of burnit & mint a
lump of Suger & boyl all together a little & drink 
a Cup of it now & then
To Prevent a Miscarage
Take half a pint of Plantin water half a pint of Small Cinamon
water half a pint of red Rose water a Small handfull
of Pomegranite flowers Thicken all these with the yolk's
of two Eggs Simmer them over the Fire & Sweeten them
with double refined Sugar Take half a pint at night, half
a pint next morning the other half pint the Following
night just before the time of Miscarrying, Take it at
Them times they used formerly to Miscarry att
a Purging Syrup 
old Mrs Hanlys
Take a large Handfull of the Green & Roots of the Herb
Called Mercury & as much of Mallows & half a handfull
of Parsley Roots take the Pith out of them take [cross out] an
ounce of Caraway Seeds & an Ounce of Anniseeds put all
these into a quart of water & set it over the Fire in a 

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Pipkin till more then half is boyled a way then Strain it
out get two quarts of Buckthorn berrys & put them
in a Earthen pot close Stoped Set it in an Oven & bake it
with Household Bread then take the Pulpe & put to it
the liquor add a pound of Course Suger & boyl it up to a
good Syrup, if you add half a Nutmeg to it it will
prevent griping, to a Man you Must give according
to his Strenght 2:3 or 4 Spoonfulls to a child a spoonfull
or a Spoonfull & half let them take it in a Draught of
posset drink & drink in the working of it posset drink
For a Sore Leg
Dr
Take childers or goose grass bruise it & take three
spoonfulls of the Juice Every Morning in a glass
of white wine for nine mornings first taking 
the purging Syrup
a Composing Draught
Take as much as you can hold between your fingers
of Parsey flowers & half a handfull of green Balm
2 or 3 tops of Spear Mint & infuse them in a quart
of Red wine let it Stand 48 hours then Strain it
off & put in 2 Ounces of white Sugar Candy & drink
a glass at going to rest

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Mrs Talbot
For the Piles 
Take 2 or 3 handfulls of Black berry leaves & put them
in a quart of Spring water boyl it till it Comes to a pint
Sweeten it with a Spoonfull of Clay'd Suger & take one
half of it warm at Night & the other in the morning
a Fine Cooling Purge 
Mrs Lilly
Take an Ounce of Cream of Tarter and Pour over it a
pint of boyling Milk do this the night before you design
to take it in the Morning Strain the whey Clear from
the Curds & disolve an Ounce of manna in the whey 
& drink it a little warm
Raison whey for Breakfast 
Mr Wilson
a quarter of a pound of Raisons chopt Small boyl'd in a
quart of Milk till the goodness boyl'd out of em then
Squeeze in the Juice of half an orange or Lemon & Strain
it thro a Sieve & drink it warm in winter & Cold in Sumer
To make Bleu water
Take a pound of the best Salt armoniack in lumps
& put it into a Clean Copper or brass Skillet or pot
& put to it one gallon of Clear water let it Stand 3 days 
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Till the Salt is all dissolved then put it into bottles 
for use it is good for all Manner of Sores it takes
off all Manner of Redness & heals of the Face good
for chapt Lips & Sore Throats Cancers in the Mouth
you May warm it at first & make it weak with
a little water but by degrees bring it to the Strongest
For Faintings
Sr Hans Sloane
Take Black Cherry water 6 Ounces Compound
Bryony water 3 Ounces, assafeatida Castor bound
up in a noddle of Each half a dramme Suger
as much as is Sufficient to Make it into a Julep
then take 6 Spoonfulls at a time in faintings
on other for the Same
Take of Black cherry water four Ounces Rue water 
2 Ounces Compound Bryony water 2 ounces Spirrit
of Lavender half an Ounce fine Suger two drams
The Spirrits
Take Salvolatile 4 drams Tinture of Castor 20 drops
Spirrits of Lavender a dram mix all together 
& take 21 drops in Sickness-
For Faintings & inward bruyses
Mr. Dawson
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Salvolatile Oliosum 12 Drams, put into a Bottle
Shake it frequntly for five or Six Days afterwards
Pour it off Fine & take 20 or 25 drops in a glass of white
wine Cherry or Canary
Dapour water
Take Black Cherries Eight pounds & beat them in a Stone
Morter take Sack three quarts Brandy one quart Castor one
Ounce Galleny ale Squinantle otherwise Call'd Camells Hay
of Each one Ounce Spicknard Contra yerva Species-
Liberantes Herns Berries of Each half an Ounce Bytron
prile Borage flowers Bugloss Camomile Cowslips Clove gilly-flowers 
Rose Mary Marygold, The flowers of Each two Ounces
Lillies of the Valley two Ounces Myrhe one Scruple let these
infuse 48 hours in an Earthen Pott then distile it in a Coole
still keep it for your use
Histerick Pills
Assafetida Cut Small Lassron finly Powdered Castor in fine
Powder Galbanum Cut Small of Each of these half an Ounce
a quarter of an Ounce of Oyle of Amber put it all into a
little marble Morter with as much venice treatle as you
find will make it stiff Enough to make up into pills, tho
it is best to keep in a gally pott & make it up as you use
it into pills as bigg as a pea sacke one Every Night for
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Convultion falling Sickness or any diseases in the Head
They have been of great Service to lying in women &
have been given with great Success to Such as after
long illness have been in Convulsion & thought to be
dying with trick coughs & are of very great use in all
Lowness of Spirits & weakness of Nerves
For weaknesses in woman with Flooding
or for a Cough
Take three Ounces of Conserve of Red Roses & one
Ounce of Lucatellus Balsom mix them together &
take about the bigness of a Small Nut Morning & Evening
drinking half a pint of Cows Milk after Each dose
For a Person in Extream Weakness
Take dulcifyed Spirit of Niter to begin with tenn
or fiveteen Drops once a day & if is agrees Increase
to 30 or 35 three times a day the person may take
it in milk, water, wine & water green Tea or any 
other Liquor that is not Strong all other Medicine
must be left off it is not proper to be given to any
body above fifty or any that is Subject to the diabetes
To Make Salts to Smell too
Take Sal Armoniack & Potashes of Each an Equal quantity
the Potashes to be the finest & whilest you Can get

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To prevent a Miscariage
Take Shepperds Purse a good Handfull & Steep it in 
Claret & drink it
For weakness an Excellet Receipt for inward Bleeding
Take the Juice of Stinging Nettles & the Juice of 
plantine leaves of Each a like quantity & fill a wine
glass full & drink 2 or 3 glasses of it in a day, &
take the bigness of a Hastell Nut of the best Lucatellus 
Balsom morning & night it will Intake 
ably Cure to a pint of Claret Squnch'd, with a piece of
Red Hott Iron & put 9 Spoonfulls of Each of the 
Juices & Mix it together
For a Sore Throat
Make a large Toast pretty hard then lay it on a Pewter
plate & pour Some hot Vingar to Soak the Toast then
put it on a double Cloth & put it as warm as you can bear
it to your Throat all Night the Toast must Lye next the Throat
To Cure Horses Greesy Heels
Take a pound of green Soap & a pint of Vinegar
gently boyled in a pipkin & kept Close & applyed to ye parts 
For a grand Cold Cough or Horsness
Take a quart of milk & put in it a good handfull of penny-Royale 
& a good Stick of Liquorish cut in Small Slices

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& boyle them together a good while till the Vertue
is boyled out then turn it with as much Ale as will
Turn it Clear & Strain the Curds & So drink half
a pint Every Morning & Night & it will do its Effect, 
Salt of worm wood will Stop any Vomit
An Excelent Receipt for Corns
Venice Turpentine 2 Spoonfulls Honey one
Spoonfull, Bees wax two Ounces melt them all
together
For an Ague
Take 3 drams of Jesuite Bark to Each dram of Bark put
3 large Spoonfulls of Brandy & let the Person take it
when the fit is off four or five hours before they-
Expect the return at Every half hour one till all
be taken this need be given but once going to bed
at the first dose, if they perceive their Stomach Sick
give them a Vomit the day before they take this-
For Low Spirits & Nervous Disorder
Take of Saffron & Corrall Powder 3 penny worth of Each
& as much flower of Liquorish as will Lye on a Shilling put it
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To Stop any Bleeding by a Cut or otherwise
Take Ponk or Agarick which is an excresence that
groeth on the Ock Tree & when dryed looks like a 
piece of Lether Scrape or Cut Some of it in thin
pieces & Tye it on the Bloody place it will Imediately
Stop it, but in Case you Cannot get this take the
Puffs that grow in the grass & Comes up like
mushrooms & turns Brown & is full of Fine dust
or Powder that will as Effectuall Stop the Bleeding
as the other by applying it to the Cut
an Other
Take the Powder out of the molly Puffs that 
grows in the grass Feilds Like mushrooms & when
ripe are full of Brown dust, apply it & it will 
Certainly stop any Bleeding
For an Inflamation in the Eyes
Take a New Lay'd Egg boild [cross out] prety Hard & peel the hand
Shell from it then cut [cross out] it in half the long way
& Lay one piece in the nape of your Neck & the Other
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Draw like a Blister but not Break the Skin it must
be put on at night, & repeated till the Eyes are well
this has Cured when all other aplications Failed
it must be Shifted when it runs, Every other day or Every day
if it Draws much
Mr Robinson
at dorkin
For a Palpatation of the Heart & Cowness of Spirits
Take an Ounce of Salvalatile & put to the safe of it a large
Hasell Nutt of Camphir & when disolved take 40 drop
night & morning or any time when Sick or faint
in a glass of montain wine & water
To Raise Low Spirrits & Nervous disorder
Take of Saffron & Corrall Powder of Each three
penny worth & as much Flower of Liquorish as will
Lye on a Shilling put it into a pint of Strong Montain 
wine & drink a glass when ever you find 
yourself disordered
For the Gravill
Take one dram of Spemacelty & the yolk of a new Lard
Egg & mix it well together the put one Ounce of
white wine to it & take it two or Three time, will
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For a Sore Throat for Man & Horses
Take Cow Dung as hot as you Can get it or make it hot
again & put it to the Throat & find it on repeat it till
The Throat is better it is a Certain Cure
For the Collick
Take 2 Ounces of Rhubarb 2 Ounces of Anniseeds, 2
Ounces of Carraway Seeds 2 Ounces of Cardamum
Seeds Six penny worth of Saffron put them into
a gallon of Brandy & Stirr it Everyday for Ten days
then Strain it off
Turpintine Pills for a weakness
Take 1/2 an Ounce of Sieroturpintine & 1/2 an Ounce of
beat Sinnamon a Nutmeg grated work it all together
if that Sinnamon is not Enough to make it into Pills
then add a little More roleing them up you must
keep them in powdered Cinnamon, take two Pills
at night & two in the morning till they are all gone
Viper Broth
Take half a chicken & a whole viper put into 3 pints
of Cold water boiling it over a Gentle Fire till it
Comes to a quart Then Strain it for use
the Same in 46

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Mrs Wriklesworth
To Cure a violent Loosness or Flux
Take two Ounces of Chripts Logwood boyl it in a quart
of Milk & a quart of Spring water till almost half
is wasted then Strain it through a Sive let it Stand to
be Cold then Scum it, take half a pinth warm Night & Morning
if this don't do repeat it after omiting it 2 or 3 days
approved by Dr Grow, & it is an Infalluable Cure
For a Shortness of Breath
Take one head of Garlick & peel it then boil it or while &
Shift the water & boil it in more untill it be soft then mash
it Small & put ye Juice of 3 lemons & 3 Ounces of white
Sugar Candy & then boil it a little together of this take
as often as you please a little at a time in a Tea Spoon
it gives present Ease
For a Cough or Shortness of breath
Take one Ounce of Syrrup of Colts foot, one of Syrrup
of maiden Hair one ounce of Syrrup of Ale hoof two Ounces
of Linseed Oil fine drawn Mix all together take a Spoonfull
at night going to bed Shaking it first
Turners Ceret
Take fresh May butter & yellow wax of Each 3 pounds & half
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Calaminaris finely levigated 2 pound 10 Ounces
Melt the butter wax & Oil together to which when Strain'd
add the Powder gradually Stirring it all the time till
it grows Cool
To make rice gruell in a Fever with a Loosness
Take 2 Spoonfulls of rice & 2 quarts of water & a
Stick of Cinnamon & 3 Cloves & Some hartshorn let
it boil 2 hours at least till it Comes to one quart, you 
May put in a glass of Jack or white wine which you 
think most proper or leave it out Sweeten it with a little
Suger
For a Severe Fever
Take 20 grains of red Powder & Mix 5 grains of 
Campfer with it & let them take it Every 3 hours-
For a Very deep Consumption
Take Something more then half a pint of scim Milk put
into it a lump of Loaf Sugar about the size of a Small
wallnutt then take Eleven Snails wipe them Clean & breake
the Shells off then put them into the Milk & as Much
red Rose Leaves as will lye heapt upon a Crown piece
put it over the fire & let it Simmer till the Snails are
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take it off & Strain it & drink it three Mornings together
& leave it off three So Continue it till better
A Milk Water for a Consumtive Cough
Take a Calves gather Shit at the Pipes wipe them Clean
but wash them Not Cut them the whole gather into bitts
as big as the End of your Thumb put them into an ordinary
Rose Still with a gallon of New Milk put to them Oak
of Jerusalem Lung wort Scabious Liver wort & Hartstonge 
of Each an Handfull Small Cut, Snails one Hundred
Cleansed & Slit distill them in a Rose still with a Soft
Fine Sweeten the water with Manus Christi, with
Pearles, or white Suger drink it in the Morning
Fasting & at four a Clock in the afternoon the Quantity 
as the Stomack will bear keep it in a Cool place
a Water for a Consumption
Take 2 quarts of Snail Shells wash them in water
& dry them in a Cloth & Crack them put them into a
gallon of New Milk with a good handfull Maiden haire
as much Colts foot as Much agrimony the like quantity
of Hysop & a pound of Hony Still all them together &
give a wine glass full twice or thrice a day Sweetned
with white Sugar Candy

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To Make a plaster for a Consumption
Take 2 Ounces of Rossen 2 Ounces of Burgundy pitch
& 2 Ounces of Bees wax one Ounce & half of Turpentine
One Ounce of Oyl of Mace beat the Rossin & Share the
other things as directed Then Melt them together upon
a Slow fire keep it with Continuall Stirring let them
have one boyle, pour them rough upon the plaisters
& when they are allmost Cold grate Some nutmeg upon
them & lay them to the pitts of the Stomack this is a good
for any Strain or bruise ack or pain applyed to the
grieved part it must be put on Leather & prick'd
full of holes-
Jelly Broth for a Consumption
Take a knocle of Veal & Flee a young Cock then
put these into a Clean pipkin with 9 quarts of water
with one blade of mace let your water be above the
meat the depth of your hand then let this Simer
over a Clear fire 7 hours at least but be sure not to
boyl, you must be perpetually Skiming it or it will
taste greasy, after you See it is Enough Strain it thro
a very Clean Sive you may keep it in a Cool place
a week & be good for Eating

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For a Plurisy
Take 20 grains of Dryed goats Blood which Comes from
Switzerland, Every 4 hours then Every 6 hours then
twice a day then once a day till the pain is quite
abated, this Cured Ms Sloane when all the docters gave
him Over
For a Plurasy
Take a lump or two of Stone Horse dung as Fresh
& hot as you Can get it & Steep it in white wine
a little while & drink a quarter of a pint repeat it
till the pain is quite gone, this seldom Ever failed
A Syrrup for a great Cold upon ye Lungs
Take a pint of the Juice of Ale hoof & half a Pound 
of Honny & boyl it to a Syrrup
For the Colick in the Stomack 
Take 2 Ounces of Rue 2 Ounces of Roman wormwood make
them into an Electuary, or Conserve, one nutmeg toasted
& grated into them
Take the Bigness of a nutmeg at Night & drink spaw 
of Pyrmont water with it
the Same in 69th page

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For a deafness
Take a Right Midling Lilacs Eele & put it in a wide
Mouth glass that will hold a gallon & tye 8 or 9 Feverall
Papers & leathers to that no Breath or aire May Come
in & Set it in a Horse dunghill five weeks then the
Eele will be dissolved into a fine oyle pour it Out &
Stop it Close & keep it for use, when you use it drop
it into your Ear twice a day for Severall days it
has Cured to admiration
if you Can get a Life Hare & catch the water it
makes & drop it in your Ears & dip Some Cotton in it
& put it in your Ears it never fails Curing
For the Colick
Take 2 Ounces of Senna half an Ounce of Anniseeds
half an Ounce of fennel Seeds half an Ounce of Civill
Orange Peel 15 Cloves boyl all these together in a pint
and half of Spring water till it Comes to a pint, when
it is Cold Sweeten it with 2 Ounces of Syrrup of damask
Roses
For a Contraction of the Nerves
Take a quarter of a pound of Badgers Grece a quarter of a
pound of Oyl of Earthworms a quarter of a pound of Oyl
of St Johns worth
heat all these in a New Earthen pipkin & by a fire going
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a new bit of flanell after using this Medicine
For the Jaundice
Take a dram of Saffron & a little Honny & as much 
flower as will Make it up in a Ball, you must do it
in a Brass Ladle & apply it to the Navell for Severall
Nights going to rest till you find the distemper a bates
Ditto
take Sheeps dung a quarter of an Ounce to a pint of
water & let it Stand 2 days then take a small glass
of it Morning & Night for a good while
Do-
for a Child of 2 years old take 5 grains of Rhubarb
& 20 grains of Old Castill Soap & let it be taken every
other Night
Ditto 
Take 9 Spoonfulls of Succary & 3 Spoonfulls of honey
& mix it in 3 half pints of Ale or white wine
take one third fasting in the Morning Shacking
the bottle & the Second Third two hours after Supper
and the last Third the Next Morning Just warm'd
For a Leprosey
Take off the Bark of elm tree & boyl it in Small beer 1/2 a pound
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For the worms
Mrs Rainer	
Take an Ounce of Hieripicra & Steep it in a pint
of Jack Close in a Bottle 2 or 3 days, then take
it and give a child 2 or 3 Spoonfulls
an other From Mrs Ashe
Take on Ounce & an half of wormseed
the best Senna half an Ounce
fine Rhubarb a quarter of an Ounce
Rhue dryed 1/2 quarter of an Ounce
Hertshorn Ivory & Coralina Each 1/4 of a dram
Coriander Seeds 1/4 of a Dram
Beat them into powder & Sift them through a fine Sive
give to a Child of 6 or 7 years old as much as will lye
on a Sixpence & So Proportionably
For the Scurvy
Mrs Rainer
Take 2 handfull of dandilion 2 handfull of Sorrell
one handfull of Sage, one Good Lemon Sliced Peel & all
Cut the herbs & beat them in a Stone Morter put them
in a glass with a litte Suger & it will Clarifies
Take a wine glass full in a morning or at meal
or in beer by it Self

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For the Scurvy & Rhumatism
Take Cinabar of Antimony half an Ounce
gum guaiacum three Drams, diaphoretick
antimony Six Drams, Ethiops Minerall 3 drams,
Compound powder of Cerum root three Drams,
Conserve of Garden Scurvy grass one Ounce,
Sirrup of Elder berries a Sufficient quantity
to make it into an Electuary, take the quantity
of a Nutmeg twice a day drinking after it a
Draught of [cross out] Decoctin of Raspings of
Guaiacum of Lignumulity which is the Same thing
an other for the Same
Take a Handfull of Scurvy grass a stick of Horse reddish
Scraped 2 Ounces of winter Bark 3 Spoonfulls of mustard
Seed bruised, put them into a Bottle of white mountain wine
& let it Stand 3 Days then take a glass of it night & morning
the Same Ingredients will Serve again to be filled up again
an other Do For a Purge
Take One Ounce of gum guaiacum beat it grosly & put it into
half a pint of Rum let it Stand a Few days to Settle
then take a lump of Suger & put it in a Cup of water
let it melt, then take a Tea Spoonfull or two & put it
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For the Gout
Take four Ounces of the best Jalape Grosly powdered
a dram of Cloves, rectified Spirit of wine one pint
Infuse them in a gentle heat or only near the fire
Take half a Common Spoonfull of this tinture in any 
Collick or Gout in the stomach in two or three spoonfulls
of mountain wine or Sherry Increase of lessen
the quantity of this according to the age or Strength
of the patient or violence of the Disease
an other
Take one Ounce Rhubarb of the best, 
half an Ounce True Cassumenar Root
half an Ounce of Angelico Root Spanish
half an Ounce Zedoary Root
2 Drams Centaury minor
2 Scruples Saffron English
To be Steep'd in 2 quarts of mountain wine
and after 3 or 4 days standing to drink Every night
& morning 1 or 2 Ounces of it
an Other
a proved by Mr Blackall
Take 5 handfulls of Green Broom one pound of Frensh
Barley 1/2 a pound of Raisons of the Sunn Stoned 1/2 a
pound of the best Figgs, of anniseed Carraway Seeds
& Liquerish Sliced of Each 4 Ounces, boil all these
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half boyled a way letting it Stand till near Cold
Then Strain it & put it in Bottles for Drinking, 1/2
a pint at Night & as Much in the Morning is the 
usiall Draught
Fol: 76 the same by mistake
Salts to Smell too
Take Sal Armoniack & Pott ashes of Each an Equall
quantity, the Pott ashes to be the finest & whitest you 
Can get
For an Ague
Take a quarter of a pint of Sack a quarter of a pint of
Lemon Juice Sweeten it to your taste warm it & 
drink it two hours before you Expect the fit, & if
not in bed go to bed before you take it roast a Citile
Orange & Cut it in two & Stuff Each half with Tobacco
& bind it on upon the inside of each wrist at the Same
time they drink the Sack & Lemon Juice, about 3 hours
after give them Some warm Sage Tea made small
to Drink So to 3 or 4 times, they must lye till they have
Sweated well & are grown Cool again, & if they have
anything of the Fitt till tis gone off keep very warm
after you rise that day, if once dont Cure they Should take
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a Plaster for an Ague
Take of Bole armoniack Venice Turpintine Olibanum
Frankincense long Pepper an Equall Propotion &
one nutmeg mix it all together & spread it on a round plaster
to be laid on the Belly an hour before the fit Comes
For a Chine Cough
Take 7 figgs & cut them open & fill them with mustard
Seeds then put them into a pint of Clarret
then Set it on the fire till it be half boiled a way
then take up the figgs & bruise them with a Spoon till
they be in an Electuary then Morning & Evening
give the Child a little in a Spoonfull of the Clarrit
Take 2 Ounces of oyl of Sweet Almons & one Ounce
of Syrup of Violets & one Ounce of Syrrup of Vinegar
mix all these in a glass bottle & Shake it well together
then give the Child now & then a Spoonfull
For a Cough
Take 4 Ounces of Oyle of Sweet Almonds 2 Ounces of 
Syrup of Maiden Haire a little flower of Brimston 1/4 of an 
ounce of Spirma City, Made into a Lintus with 6 ounces
of white Suger Candy
The Balsamick Syrup
2 Ounces of Tolu 12 Ounces of Spring Water or any of the
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hours then Strain it, when Cold disolve in it 20 Ounces of fine
Sugar So as to Make it into Syrun without heat
Take of the Balsamick Syrup & Diacodium of Each 4 Ounces
Aqua Mirablis 2 Ounces Mix these, take 2 Spoonfulls
at Night & One two or three times a day when the Cough
is Troublesom
For a Consumption
Take half a pound of Raisons of the Sun Stoned a quarter of
a pound of Figgs as quarter of a pound of Honny half an Ounce
of Lucatellus Balson half an Ounce of Powder off steel, half
an ounce of flower of Elecampane a Nutmeg greated
a pound of Double refined Sugar Stirred & pounded all
together in a Stone Morter pouring to it a pint of Sallet Oyle
by degrees take a piece as big as a nutmeg 3 or 4 times
a day & Every Morning in a glass of Old Malaga Jack, with
the yolk of a New laid Egg in it One Morning put into it
as Much flower of Brimstone as will lye on a Silver groot
the other Morning as Much flower of Elecampane, So Change
it Every Morning
For a Consumptive Heat
Take 2 Ounces of pearl Barly 2 Ounces of Heartsborn Shavings
One Ounce of orange Root not Candid, 2 quarts of water
boyle it till it is Tender Rub it thro a Sive & to half a pint
put 2 Spoonfulls of Milk Sweeten it to your taste with Conserve
of Roses of Sugar drink it twice a day

Ldy Heathcote
Miss Heathcotes
St James's Ague 

ten spoonfull of salt
Do of all one Dosolve 
in a Large spoonfull
of vinegar & apply 
to the tooth


Lenetive Electuary 2 ounces
Milk of Sulphure 1/2 an ounce
syrup of Roses as much as will
mix them together take the
Quantity of more if there be
occasion at night going to bed



one ounce of Compound Pioney water
One Ounce Spirit of Lavender



From Mr Tanner for a burn
Ointment of Elder, 1 ounce palme of City &
diapalmay, a ruffe to make it into
a Salve
as much as will ly on half
a crown



Cypress Turpentine half an Ounce Rhubarb, two
Drams white amber halfe a Dram Peruvian Balsom
one Scruple make them into Six Pills of each one
Dram to Every dose add six grains of Sweet Mercury
let them take six every night



The Breast Oyles
Take of Oyle of Lillies, Camomile, Roses,
& Elder of Each one Ounce; Castile Soap,
black Basilicon, & Yellow wax of Each 
one Ounce; Honey & Brandy of Each
4 Ounces

Breast Oils

for the Gravell
4 Drachms of Spermi
Ceti bruised or beat
with half a yolk of an Egg
in a Morter & Exceding
fine ad to it by Degrees
4 ounces of white wine
i:e: half a pint divide it in
four equall parts take
them on the Couse of 24 Houres
Hollands Geneva & water
is a very great Diuratick
Balsam of Capevi, 25 Drops twice 
in the Day



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Syrrup of Violets
Take 8 Ounces of Violets, when they be picked & bruised
in a Stone Morter then put them into a pint of water
which Must be boyling hot Cover them & let them Stand
for an hour in a Skillit of hot water keeping the water
boyling, then Strain it out & to that Liquor put 2 pounds
of Double refined Suger beaten & Searcht then set it
in a Skillet of water & let it Stand till all the Suger is
Melted & the Syrup of what thickness you would have it
For a Bruise Either inward or outward
Dr Lower
Take 30 grains of Crabs Eyes 30 grains of Dragons Blood
30 grains of Rhubarb all powder'd fine 60 grains of
Spermicity Mix with them 2 Drams of white Suger
Candy powder'd, & take all this at 3 times mix'd in a
little warm Ale & drink a draught after it take
it night & morning you must repeat it twice or thrice
as you have occation
A Bitter Draught for an Ague
Take Cardus one penny worth Roman Wormwood one penny worth
Iention two penny worth, Bark half an Ounce Just Bruised
Rhubarb a quarter of an Ounce grated Steep all together in
3 quarts of mountain wine four days & then strain it into bottles 
& take a wine glass at allelven in the Morning & at 4 in the afternoon
12 days-

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For an Itisterick 
Dr Dod
Take Conserve of Roman Wormwood Pervian Bark
in Powder, of Each One Ounce Venice Treacle a quater
of an Ounce Powder de galteta of Species Diambra
with out perfume of Each one dram, Russia Castor
in Powder forty Grains, Salt of Amber twenty Grains,
Compound Syrup of Peonys Enough to make it into an
Electuary, Dose, the quantity of a Nutmeg thrice a day
add oyl of Nutmeg 5 Drops
For the Gravill
Lady King
Take the Roots of Comfery A sparges Parsley & fennell of
Each One handfull & a small handfull of gravil Grass
wash them well & Scrape the Roots boyle them in a gallon
of water till tis Consumed to a quart strain it & make a
Syrup, of which, drink two or three Spoonfulls in a glass of
french wite wine or Renish, in the Morning & as Night
as you goe to Bed
An Other
Take an Ounce of the best Castile Soap, three Drams of the
best Rhubarb grated very fine beat these two Ingredients
in a morter very well then drop in forty drops of Etheriall oyl
of Turpintine beating the Ingredients over again make up
this mass into moderate pills four where of are a Dose
two to be taken at night & two in the morning Drinking a
glass of Renish or mountain wine after Each Dose

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a Glister For the Gravill
Take one pint of milk Turned with half a pint of Jack
boyl in the whey two penny worth of Juniper berries-
Cammomile Flowers & Glister Seeds put in 2 Spoonfulls
of Glister Sugar then Strain it and put it into the Bladder
with a quarter of a pint of linseed oyl
The Electuary for the Gravill
Cashia Newly Drawn ℥iss
Pul Rhaburb Opt. ʒiss Cypruse Terpintine
well washt Seven Drams, Spee: Diatragacanth 
ssridg ℈i Pul: Liquoriss-ʒss
Mix these together in a good quantity of Syrup 
of Marsmallos take of this the quantity of a good Walnutt
in a Morning fasting & Drink a good quantity of plain
posset drink Immediatly after it, one hour after 
Make a possit with white wine with Syrup of marsmallos
then walke & Eate what you please
For the Gravell
Mrs Slide
Take half a pint of Parsley water & 6 penny worth of oyle & 
Juniper berries Sweeten it with Syrup of Marsmellos & drink
it at twice as warm as you Can, it Seldom fails to give Ease
if not repeat it again
an Other
Take the Skin that holds the gissards of Pidgeons wipe it Clean

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without washing & dry them & beat it to Powder &
take as Much as will lye upon a Shilling in or Glass
of wine this has been tryed with good Success by old 
Lady Macklesfild
an Other
Mr Scribo
Take better then half a pint of white wine Sweeten it
with an Ounce of Syrup of Marshmallos & Scrape into
it the red of Nine or Eleven reddishes then boyl it all
together then Strain off & drink it, it Seldom Ever
fail
A Powder for the Stone proved by ye Bishop of Lyncoln & Pope Silvester
Take of the Seed of Grommett & Saxifrass of Each 1 Ounce
of filipendule 1/2 an Ounce of white Amber, Corall
white & red, of Each 2 drams, Make all this into a
fine powder mingle them together, give the patient
One Spoonfull in broth, this Cures the Stone & it
never admits of a return, Pope Silvester gave that Doctor
that perscrib'd it to him & 300 pt. Annum for Even 
an other for the Stone
Take 2 New lay'd Eggs & Dry the Shells between 2 tyles till you
Can beat them to powder So fine that you may Sift it thro
a piece of Lawn, then take a quart of white wine & put it
in a pan that holds a Gallon then take 2 or 3 flints & heat

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them in the fire read Hott then take them out & quench
the wine with them as quick as you Can one after an 
other, So take the powder all in a Spoon & drink a
Draught of Posset drink after it
A Stil'd water for the Stone
Take wild time Saxafrayes Pellotory of the wall
& Parsley, of Each a good handfull two good horse Redish
& Three others Radish Roots Scrape & Slice the Roots
Pick your herbs Clean, but not wash them grat them all
in Steep in a Gallon of New Milk & let it Lye 24 hours
if the wether be Cold, if hot, but all Night, & So put all
into an Ordinary Still, it will run three quarts or near
Take Six Spoonfulls of this water & Six of white wine
& Scrape a good Deal of Nutmeg, mingle them all together
& Sweeten them well with Loaf Sugar & drink it three
Mornings together fasting it must be taken 3 Mornings 
before the full of the moon, or three Mornings after
the Change or anytime when you feel pain
A lead Salve
Take two pounds four Ounces of Olive Oil a pound of
white & a pound of red lead both [cross out] to be beat, or ground
very fine, twelve ounces of Spanish Soap Shaved very thin
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is well Glased when you See the Soap Comes upwards
Set it on a Slow fire that is free from Smoke let it
Continue there an hour & half till it is turned from gray
to Oil Colour or darker, then drop Some of it upon a piece
of wood & if it does not Stick to the finger it is Enough
pour it into water & when it is Cold put it down Close
in a gally pot, it will keep 20 years indeed the Older
it is the better, the pot that you Make this quantity
in ought to hold ten or twelve pints-
The Virtues & use of this Salve
Laid to the Stomach it takes away pains & provokes 
appetite, to the Belly it Cures the Collick & Conducive
to Conception, to the Rains, the Bloody flux, running of
the Rains, Heat of the Kidneys, & weakness or pain
in the Back, applyed to the Fundament it Cures the Piles
it disperses Swellings, Draws out the blackness, & heals
a bruise, laid upon the temples it takes away the headache,
& is good for the Eyes, a Plaister of this will
Cure a Sore throat, pain in the teeth or Swelled face
it breaks fellons pushes & imposthumes & heals them
it draws out humours without breaking the Skin, & it
will heal any wound by washing it Every day with warm
Soap Sudds & laying on a fresh plaister, it is Excellent 


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for burnings taking out the fire & heating them without
any other application, it also drys up the Milk in 
womens Breast
For a Dropsy
Miss Blackall
Take a quart of the Juice of Pellitory of the wall & Clarify
it well to which add three pounds of Clarifyed Hony, then
boil it to a Syrup of a [cross out] 
Just Consistance, two Moderate Spoonfulls of the 
Syrrup in a wine of Glass full of french white wine at
night going to Rest & in the Morning two or three
Hours before Rising is admirable in a dropsy shortness
of Breath gravill or any other obstrution it is
a very gentle purge a moderate Sweat as great
deuretick it usally has a good Effect in three days
fasting, which uses a pint of wine, for no Medicine
in a dropsey Should be taken in much Liquor, but I
never knew it fail of Success in Six or Nine days-
Continuance & may be repeated when the patient finds
him self fill with water, great Care Must be taken
Not to burn the Syrup in the boiling for that intirely
Changes the opening quallity it is best to make it in
the month of may the herbs then being it most perfection
& it is best to gather it in the dry, & the Hony Should

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be old & free from mixture NB the Juice is Clarified
by Setteling it over a gentle fire till the Scum rises
perfecly on the Top, & then let it pass through a Flannell
the Hony is Clarified by Melting & Scuming without 
Straining-
an Other
Take a handfull of Scurvy Grass, a handfull of green
broom a handfull of red Sage a handfull of wormwood
& a quarter of a peek of rye Flower & make it into
a paste & dry your herbs very dry, then take your paste
& role it out to be as a pasty then put your herbs in
to it & let it be Baked with bread & when it is Baked
you must have a Bag to put it in, after it is broke
into pieces then take 2 gallon of ale & 2 or Small
Bear & put it into a Steam & let it Stand 2 days, &
drink half a pint at a time as often as you Can
there is in My Cookery Book an other Exterordinary recipt
for the Same in No 9
An other
Mrs Flodier
Take the inner Bark of Elder & when you Cut it off
the Free you Must Cut it downwards, when the outward
bark is off you must Scrape the inside downwards,
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hand & put it into one penny worth of all
ale & let it infuse for 12 hours, then Strain it
through a fine Cloth, drink the liquor So drained
fasting-if it does not purge the first time
repeat it that day & night but if it does you need
only repeat it in 3 Months-if the Patient
fills again repeat the Medicine
NB if cut upwards tis an Emetick
For a Red or Pimpled face
Take half an Ounce of the best Rhubarb beaten very
fine a quarter of an Ounce of Senna powdered
very fine as many of the best Currans as will Suffice
to work the afore Said Powders into a Conserve
by beating & Mixing them well together in a Stone
Morter, after it is well mixt moysten it with
Syrup of Roses at your Pleasure put it up in a
Gally Pott & take the quantity of a Nutmegg Every
morning, Except it work above twice or thrice
in which Case you may take it but every other
morning-
The wash to be used with it
Take a pint of white wine & put it in a quart bottle
then put to it half an Ounce of flower of Brims Stone

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Shaking the Bottle Every day, but particularly
about a quarter of an hour before you use it
when it is pretty well Setled which it will be in 
that time, wash with the upper & Clearest part
there of, this use frequently in a day as you See
cause you must also put into the Bottle a 
Piece of Camphire about the bigness of a
nutmeg tyed up in a Rag
A Wash for the Face
Take a quart of rain water or any Soft water
in which dissolve 4 Ounces of Powder of Salt peter
take 4 Ounces of Bitter Almons & Just boyle them
in a Small quantity of water that you May peal
the Skine off & beat them very fine & add the Salt
& water to it by a little at a time, So that it May
be very well mixt it must be Strained through a
Towell & well pressed, beat what is left over again
& mix it in the Same Manner as before that you 
may get all the goodness out of the Almons then you
may add to the Strained Liquor half a pint of Brandy
a little Camphire about the Sive of a Hassel Nult, if you
like it a little Scented add about an Ounce of Hungary water
or Hony water & Stop it Close, it will keep a year in a Coole
place

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To Clear the Face & prevent mole spots
Take half a pint of Soft water one penneth of Salt
of Tarter & boil it let it Stand till Cold then put
in a Spoonfull of Camphirated Spirrits & half
a gill of oyl of Sweet Almons
A Powder for the Hands to make
them white
Take your frensh kidney beens & bitter Almons an
Equall part & put them Seperately in vineagar
for 3 days then take them out & dry them, then
beat them in a morter very fine, then take
Some Rice & Locke it in goats Milk then dry it
& pound it then mix it all together, & to Every 
pound of this Powder put half an Ounce of mirth
& a little Camphir
For the Itch 
Take an Equall quantity of Sulfer of Brimstone &
Sulfer of Viver Mixt with Sweet Oyle of the Juice
of Lemon make it into a Linnement & anoint the Palme 
of your hands & wrist with it or any part of your Body 
For vapers arisng in the Head with dimness of Sight &
Numnyses 
Dr Willis

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The pills
Take Stomack pills with Gums 2 Drachms: Castor half
a Scruple, Tarter of Vitriole one Scruple of Balsom of Peru
a Sufficient quantity to Make them into 20 pills
where of 4 are to be taken at night & one in the Morning
following, repeating them once in 6 or 4 Days-
The Confaction
Take Compound powder of Aron Roots Ditamus of
Greete of Each 2 Drachmis Male Piony Roots one Ounce
Zedoary, Eicampanas, Contrayeiva Roots of Each one
Drachm, Species Diambra, pearle prepared, Ivory red
Coralle of Each one Drachm, Electuary of Sassafras-
with out Musk 2 Ounces, white Sugar dissolved in a 
Suffitient quantity of Male piony water 4 Ounces
Make these into a Confection & take the quantity of a
Walnut in the Morning & at 5 in the afternoon drinking
upon it a little less then a quarter of a pint of the distilled
water as followeth
The distilled water
Take Mislatoe of the aple tree Sage Rosemary Lavendar
Betony of Each 3 handfulls, Aron Leaves Scurvy grass both Sorts
Brooke lyme, water Cresses of Each 4 handfulls, Angelica
Roots Male Piony Roots of Each Six Ounces Capt winters
Bark two Ounces the outward vine of a lemon & 6 Oranges

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all being well Cut & bruised add to them Aron water
4 pounds Black Chery water & Malligae wine of Each
2 pounds distill them in a Cold Still, after the pills 
are taken, they must Continue taking this distilled water
instead of their ordinary drink
Nurse Bonnifield Milk water
A gallon of Milk Six handfulls of Ale hoofe & a 
pound of Conserve of Red Roses a pint of Jack & the
whites of twenty Eggs half an Ounce of Cinamon
& half an Ounce of Nutmegs to be Stilled in a Cold
Still for weaknesses
For a Sprain
Lady Hicks
Take one pound of burgendy Pitch half a pound of
white Virgins wax a quarter of a pound of Male
Frankincence finely beaten to Powder then boil them
till they are well Melted in a new Pipkin & put it
into Cold water then put them into Rolls & Cover them
with white Paper & keep them for your use
A Paste for the Hands
Take 1/2 a pound of Bitter Almonds lay them in Cold water
untill they will Blanch then blanch them & beat them

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in a Stone Morter very fine, then take a quarter of a pint
of Damask Rose water as much Jack, a pint of Bullocks
Gall Let the gall on the fire let it boil about half a way
Scuming it very Clean then take the yolks of four Eggs
beat very well & mingle it all together let it boyl whilst 
it be very Stiff & it will keep the better
A Liquid Balsom
Mrs Hartopp
Take of Sarsaprilla Slices & bruised three Ounces, of fine
Spirits of wine one quart let these Stand together in a 
wide Mouth Bottle well Stopt for 3 days in the Sun, then
Strain Out the liquor very Hard and add to it four Ounces
of Gum Guaiacum Digest it again three days as before
and then Straining the Liquor add an Ounce & half of
Balsom of pere digest it again three days more &
then Shaking the Bottle pour the liquor into Small Vials,
Cork & Seal them down
wash any wound with this, Laying over it any Sort of 
Stealing plaister Binding it well upon the part, repeat
it night & morning it will Cure the wound when there is
no Loss of flesh, ten or twelve Drops Every Morning taken
for a week in Spring water Cures a Vain Broken in the Stomach
it Cures the Rhumatism take a Tea Spoonfull of this Balsom
in a gill of warm water & Sweeten it with Suger

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To Make the Liquid Balsom
Mr. Du Boyse
Take Balsom of Peru half an Ounce, Storax Calamit
One Ounce, Spirit of Benjamin one ounce
Oyl of Sweet Almonds, purest Frankinsence, Choicest
Myrrh, Roots of angelica, Flowers of St Johnworth, of Each
a quarter of an Ounce Rectified Spirit of wine half a pint
Put these into a Bottle in a warm place of Continuall
heat, Such as under Bakers Oven for Six weeks Shaking
it often an other so 41 in my Cookery Book approved Mrs Taylor
Thurlingtons Balsom of Life
Take Balsom of Peru One Ounce
Storox Callamik 2 Ounces
Egnatwith Sweet almonds 3 ounces
Aloes acetria 
Mirrith The Gaicorest  
Frankinsense 
Root of Angelico 
Flower of St Johns worth 
Spirits of wine one pint 
of Each 1/2 Ounce
Pound the Druggs well put all with the Spirits of
wine in a quart Bottle well waxt Down, & let it Stand
in the Sun all the Dog days then Strain it through a
fin Cloth & keep it well Stopt for use

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For an Intermitting Fever
from Mrs Evelyn
Take one Drachm of Bark, One Drachm of Common
wormwood mixt together in Tinture of Snake root
make these into two Bolusses one of which to be taken
when the fit is off the other Six hours after 
a Vomit Should be taken first
To Cure & to take off a Whenn 
Take a Horse Hair & tye it gently Round & tighter
by degrees when it begins to be Sore put a poultis to
it made of a half penny Role & a pint of new Milk
boyl it well together then put in a little Saffron
& let it boyle together again if the whene be not too
large this quantity will Make these Poultisses, put
one of them in a fine double Cloth & lay it on as hot
as they Can bear it & Just before it is put on take a fether
& with a little oyl Rub over the poultis Cloth on that Side
next the whenn & put it on it must be repeated 2 or 3 times
a day or as you find it draws & fresh put on at Night
an Other
Take your Comon Snalls in Shells & prick the Snalls with a
pin & rub your whenn, with the Liquor that comes from it

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A Most Exclent receipt for the Eyes occationed
from the Small Pox, or for any Sharp runing humour 
Take a little new wooden Bowl put in the whites of two new
Layd Eggs & take Some Allum & rub it round the
Bowl till it Turns to a Curd not too hard, & put ye Curds
[cross out] between double Clothes & bind it upon the Eyes
& when it is taken off wash the Eyes with New Milk
this must be repeated till the Eyes are well, at the 
Same time they Must take gentle phyisick & if the
Humour is very Sharp with a great runing then a
Blister must be Laid on the Back & when taken off keep
it runing, take a Collard Leaf prick it full in holes & 
Clap it between your hands & Just warm it & lay it on it
must be often Shifted which will make it run the better so
do, till it begins to heal
From Dr Dougless
The medicine & methode for the Small Pox
Mrs Hide
& Lady payton
Take half an Ounce of Methridale to two Ounces of
Conserve of wood Sorill Mixt well together with a
knife on the Back of a Pewter plate till it is very fine
give the quantity of a large Bolus in Strong Milk water
or Smalest plague water, or Cardus, to a man or woeman
Morning & Evening the first & last thing they take to
Children a Smaler quantity Proportionable to their age

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in Case of Danger May be given 3 times a day or oftner
& must be Continued till the Pox begin to dye & Shell
off no other medicine must be given with it the
Person must be kept in bed all the time in a moderate
Breathing Sweat, which the Medicine in Clines to
& Composes to rest, Bleeding, Blistring nor any Evacuation
is allow'd Nor Broth's or any flesh or diet but very thin
water grewill with out Bread or Salt a Spoonfull
of milk may be Sometimes put into it For Drink they
may take Plentifully of Posset drink made of fresh
Small bear Strain'd from the Curds put in a few
Raisons Stoned a little Sliced liquorish Some Marygold 
flowers dryed & Heartshorn Shavings of all a
Moderate quantity of Posset drink, boyl them in Small
bear with a bit of toasted bread in it to which put
a little Sack with Some Saffron in a bit of muslin hung
in it May be Sometimes allowed them to take a little of it
great Care must be taken they take no Cold nor must
get out of Bed till the Height of the distemper is over
or Shift their linnen
a Lineament for a Sore throat
Take a heap'd Tea Spoonfull of Honey & of Bole Almonick
Burnt Allum & Powder of Mirth of Each as Much as will

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lye on a Shilling Mix all together into a Soft
Liniament & anoint with it the Inside of the Throat with
a Feather
Syrup of Turnips
Take a peck of Turnips pare them & put them in an
Earthen pot, put to them one quart of Isop water one
pound of raisins of the Sun Stoned, half a pound of 
Figgs Sliced 2 ounces of Liquorish & Slice it very
thin [cross out] one handfull of Penny Royall
one of the young tops of rosemary two ounces
of Coliander Seeds 2 ounces of Caraway Seeds bruised
put all these to the Turnips with one handfull or
better of the leaves of Colts foot, tye a double paper
over them & bake them with househould bread
when you draw it out of the Oven press it very dry
to every pint of this Liquor put one pound of Sugar
& boil it up into a Syrup
For a Deafness
Take a wright Silver Midling Ele & put it in a wide mouth
glass that will hold a gallon & tye 8 or 9 Papers So that
not a breath of air may Come in & Set it in a Horse dung

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till five weeks & then the Ele will be disolved into a fine
oyl pour it out & Stop is Close & keep it for use, when
you use it drop it into the Ear twice a Day for Severall
days it has Cured to admiration
The Red Cordiall
Take one Gallon of French Brandy 2 pound & 3/4 of
Red Poppies 3 ounces of Snake Root 4 Ounces & a half
of Sweet fennill Seeds one Ounce & a half of Anniseeds
a little Jamaica Pepper 3/4 of a pound of Raisins of
the Sun, 1 1/2 dram of Saffron Steep all these but not the
Saffron in the Brandy a Month or more then Strain 
it thro a hare Sive pretty Dry & still the ingredients
in a Still, till they are dry & put the water you draw
from them to the Cordiall then dry the Saffron in a 
warm oven & rub it to Powder & put it into the Cordiall
Take Six Spoonfulls at a time, or more, if occation be
Sweeten it with Syrup of Clove Illy flowers or Sugar
forget not to Stone the Raisins & bruise the Seeds, & Snake
Root, before you put them in the Brandy, it is a rare
Cordiall to Sweat against the Sickness or Small Pox Measles
or ague fever griping in the gutts, or upon any occation what
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For the Dropsy from a Gentleman that was himself
Cured by it & Severall Tince
Cut a lemon round like a Screw & put into it as much
Turmenick as it will Contain, then roast the lemon
Cut it in half put it in a pint of the best white wine
take this quantity at Three times in the Morning & 
at 4 o Clock in the afternoon & the next morning
one dose has cured Severall
Syrrup of long Life it must be Made in May
Take of the Juice of Mercurialis or Mercury 4 pound the
Juice of barage one pound, Juice of buglass one pound, mingle
these with 6 pounds of Clarified Honey the whitest you can
get let them bail together, a boiling & pass them thro. a
new flannell bag infuse a pint & half of white wine, half
a quarter of a pound of Gentian roots & a quarter of a pound
of Iris or blew flower de luce let them Infuse 24 hours
then Strain it without Squeezing, then put this Liquor
to that of the herbs & Honey & then boil it to a Syrrup
you Must order your Matters So that one thing, Stays not
for an other but all be ready together, Take of this Syrrup
one Spoofull Every Morning
an Eminent officer in the great Army with charts the first
was Sent into Barbary had his quarters there assign'd him

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in an old gentlemans House with whome by great office
of Humanity he Soon Contracted a Singular friendship 
& Seeing him look very old yet very fresh & Vigorous
asked him how old he was who answered him 132 years
old & that till 60 he has been a good fellow taking little
Care of himself but that then he had begun to take a
spoonfull of Syrrup in the Morning fasting, which Ever 
Since kept him in health, being defined to impart that
receipt to his geust he freely granted it & the officer
return'd to his Country Made use of that Syrrup & with 
is preserved himself & many More yet kept the receipt
Secreet till having attain'd by his Syrrup to 92 years
of age he made a Scruple to Conceal it any longer
Syrrup of Clove Gilly flowers
Take your Clove gilly flowers Cut them from the white
Then take a pound of the flower & 2 pound of Double
refined Sugar & a pint of white wine or Jack & a
pint of Spring water then take 40 whole Cloves & put
them into an Earthen pot, the Cloves & Sugar all together
use it Close down & Set it in an Oven with tarts & let
it Stand all night, then strain it off & give it a boil then
put it into bottles but not Cork it This will keep 2 years & more

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For any Iching or runing Sore or Scurfy head
Take Vinegar & oyl of Each a quarter of a pint beat it
in a dish till it is mixt then put into it Brimstone
one penny worth Letharey of gold a Shillings worth
powdered & Serch'd Mix all these together put it into
a pot & keep it for use if it is only an Iching this
Cures it anoint the pasient three times against the 
fire, if it be a leprosey or Scurfy head then you must
take Cows pis warm & wash the place greeved till you
have Made it Raw, then anoint the place put on old 
Cloths about it, this do once Every day against a good
fire till it be killed
Mr Seaken
an Excelent Oyntment to disperce any Swelling &
Cancerours Itamour in the Breast
Take all the Fat you Can get Out of the large
geese, put it in a gally Pott, & put the Gally pott
into, a sauce pan with a little water to keep the
Sauce pan from burning Set it over a gentle fire
to melt, the fatt, it must not boyl, only hott Enough
to melt, then Strain it through a Muslin into a gally 
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An Exteronary Poultice for a wenn or Cancerous
Lump in the Breast or large Cores of Swelling on a Horses foot
Take a quarter of a pint of Milk & five or Six Tea
Spoonsfull of ground Lint Seed boyl it on a Slow
fire keeping it Stirring all the while till it Comes
to a Consistence then lay it on a piece of Double Cloth
& put a little Lintseed oil very thin on the Poultice
to prevent its sticking & apply it as warm as you
Can bear it with a fresh Poultice once or twice
a day as you find occasion
if for a Horse the quantity must be larger & Some
Turpintine mixt with it
it is an Infalluable & Safe Poultice for any hard
Swellings that wants Drawing, altho of many years
Standing.
a Speedy Cure for Rhumathism
Mrs Flodier
Take a very large Handfull of Tansy & boil it in a 
pint of Strong Mountain wine to half a pint & Drink 
it going to rest

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For Maw worms in Children
If a gire, give a glister made of Boys urin, if a
Boy it must be made of a girls urine
For a Chine Cough of a Hoopin Cough
Rub the childs Back Bone with Rum knight
and Morning by the Fire approved
For a Cough
Take 4 Ounces of oyl of Sweet Almons 4 Ounces of
white Sugar Candy 2 Ounces of Syrrup of Maiden hair
a little Brimstone Make these into a Lintus, Take
about a Tea Spoonfull Morning, & Evening or when
your Cough is Troubesom
To Cure Horses greesy Heels the Same in 77
Take a pound of green Soap & a pint of Vinager
gently boiled in a pipkin & kept close & apply'd
to the parts
a Powder to whiten & Fasten Teeth
Take Burnt Allum one Ounce Cream of Tarter
3 Drams of Dragons Blood one ounce of Corrall
prepared one Ounce of myrh one ounce mix altogether
& rub the Teeth Morning & Evening

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For a Cough
Miss Jennings
Take two ounces of Jam Raisons Stoned, two Ounces
of white Sugar Candy beat & Sifted, two Ounces of
old Conserve of Roses & 16 drops of Spirrit of Sulfer
beat alltogether into an Electuary, take the quantity
of a Nutmeg when Ever the Cough is Troublesom
For the Piles
Lady Morgan
Get the Sole of an old very Sweaty Shoe & put it in the fire
& burn it till it is red hott then take it out of the fire &
when Cold beat it to Powder & apply it to the part agreeved
Do
Take a handfull of Poppy tops & boil it in a pint of water
& apply it warm to the place afflicted 
Mr More
a Glister for the Piles
Mr St Hill
Take a large Handfull of Cammimell Flowers & boil them
in a pint of Milk & put in a Spoonfull of oil & a
Spoonfull of Brown Sugar
Mrs Evlyn
Tinture for the Epilepsy & all other Fitts &
nervous disorder
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Sliced two Ounces of Stone Soot, the hard Soot that
Sticks to the wale where nothing but wood is Burn'd
2 Ounces of powder of Eggshells when these ingredients
are Mix'd together in a glass Bottle Let it Stand 8 days
before you use it Shaking the bottle Every Day
the dose give for fits to a man is two large Spoonfulls
fasting in ye Morning 3 days before the new moon & 3
days after which Continue till the quart is taken
to a woman one Spoonfull & half to one of ten or twelve
years of Age one Spoonfull to a child of two ten drops
on loaf sugar, to a child in the month 5 drops in 
Small Bear this medicine must be given in the
Same Manner at the full moon too
To Prevent Miscariages
Mrs Richerson
Take a good handfull of fresh red Sage dipt in water
give it one Shake but not too dry beat it in a Stone
Morter very fine then press out the Juice through a
bitt of Muslin & drink a large Spoonfull in a Small glass
of Tent Every morning about an Hour before you rise
Repeat this for 9 mornings runing, then rest 9 Mornings
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then take it again the 9 mornings & rest for a month
Follow this Metho'd till you find Benefit
Ditto from Mrs Coope
Take Sheppeds purse a good handfull & Steep it in
Claret & Drink it
To Stop violent Bleeding in courses
Mrs Coope
Take a pint of Claret & put a piece of Red hot Iron in
it then take 9 Spoonfulls of the Juice of Nettles & the
Same quantity of plantain leaves & put it to the Wine
divide it in 3 parts & take it 2 or 3 times a day
For the Rhumatism a never Failing Medicine
Take 4 Balls of Stone Horse Dung 2 bunches of
Penny Royale Shread, 2 Ounces of Liquorish & two 
Spoonfulls of Mustard Seeds, Bruised, a quarter of
a pound of Raison Stoned a quarter of a pound of
Figgs Shread, Tye them up in a Cloth,make a Posset
Drink with 3 quarts of ale & a quart of milk
when the Curd is Strained from it, put in the Ingredients
give ale a gentle Simmer over the fire, then pour
it into an Earthen pan keep it Close Covered, let the 
Ingredients remain in till all is Drank, Drink
half a pint in the Morning fasting the Like in the after
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Plague Water
Take the Leaves of Rue Scordium Wormwood
Rosemary & Red Sage Sallendine the Leaves & Flowers
of Sentry, Mary Gold flowers Rosemary & Flowers
Rosasoles, the Leaves of Scabius, Egrimony, Cardis, the Leaves
& flowers of Bettany, Mugwort, Balm, Pimpernell
with the Purple flowers, Dragon flowers, the Leaves
& flowers of Lillies in the Valley of Each large
two handfull, the Roots flowers & Leaves of Scorcinary
[cross out] Two Handfulls, the Roots & Leaves of angelico
of Each Two handfulls, the Roots of Elicampaine
Ledinary Turmintell Piony Liquorish of Each a
handfull, Cut them & Pick them from the dirt & put
them into a deep Earthen Pan, put three gallons of Malt 
Spirits to them Cover them Close & let it Soake three
Days Stirring them now & then if this quantity don't
Cover the herbs, add another gallon of Spirits, & then 
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For a Nervous Disorder in the Eyes
Take of Rue Bittony Penny Royall Sassifrass Dill
Eye Bright Loveage Cinnamony of Each a quarter
of an Ounce made into fine Powder & mixt well together
and take the quantity that will lye on as
Sixpence in Broth gruele or what Meat for a Month
This has restored the Light after four years Loss-
For Weak Eyes
Camphorated Spirits of wine as high as it will bear
& as Many Drops of Compound Spirits of Lavender
as will Tinge it of a pale Red, To be apply'd by way
of Bathing Round the Eyes & on the Temples -
& This is only good where the optic Nerves is affecte'd
For Histericks & Lowness of Spirrits
Milk Water four Ounces, Rue water two Ounces
Compound Piony water One Ounce & half, Tinture
of Castor two Drams, Syrup of Saffron half an ounce 
mixt together, Take two Spoonfulls of it three times 
a day

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A Water For Sore Eyes
old Lady Heathcote
Take half a pint of Spring Water & the bigness of a
Small hassel Nut of white Copper as & as much powder
of Fishshew as will lye upon an old three pence or a 
New Sixpence & as Much hard Sugar as white Copper as
boil all them together in a Silver Tankard a quarter
of an hour then let it Stand till it be Cold & then put it 
into a glass bottle & when it is Settled Clear you May 
wash your Eyes & let a drop or 2 goe into your Eyes-
it is best for those Sore Eyes which are very redd, but
it will Clear the Sight of any Eyes
those things may be had at the Apothecary
Sweetning Powders
Take Powder of Crabs Eyes Ten grains, Powder of Pearl, 
& Corall, Each 5 grains Sugar of Pearl Ten Grains
this quantity is to be taken with Every half pint of 
Cesses Milk
For a Strain & great Strenghtness after a 
Broken Leg or Kneepans
Take Rosemary flowers Lavender tops Bay Leaves Heartshorn
Shavings, of Each one handfull, boil these in a Gallon 
of spring water till half be Consumed, bathe the parts 
Afflicted at Night going to bed for about a quarter of an hour
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flannell in the Stoope & wrap it round the part
do this Every Night till you find benifitts which will 
be in a little time
a Cure for a Lame Legg
Take a handfull of Red Sage
Do of--of Rosemary
Do--of Balm
Do--of Penny Royall
Do--of Sheeps Dung
2 Drams of Camphire, a quarter of Spirits of wine
Put these Ingredience together in 5 quarts of water
Boil them half a quarter of an hour, when you will,
use it, let it be warmed & put the Legg greeved in it
& Rub it well with the Herbs for about 8 Minutes
repeat it morning & night, when done wrap it in flannell
Every third day fresh Herbs
Dr Dallies L'Eau Blanche a water for Sore Leggs
4 aq: Calle viv: ℥viii aq:Ros: plantag:aa
℥iv Spir vini ℥ij Sacear: Latar Camphor aa
ʒi-Servse ʒi3
Cet la L'eau dont Mr Bosser cet ci Souvant Servi
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brilsere a la Jambe pour Ceringe dans les
gonorhe et pour les yeux ci on y ageoule la
tutia it est bon, Contre la gangrene, est tres bon
To Assuage a Swelling in the Legg
Take Some Rye flower with The Bran in it, Some
wormwood Chopt into it Some Garlick & put to it
about 2 Tea Spoonsfull of Salt & apply it as hot as
you can bear it Repeating to warm it when it grows 
Cold
A Most Excelent Receipt For a Burn
Take Some Oyl, or Burnt Oyl is best, & do the parts
that are Burn all over with it then take Some Carrots
or Potatos which you Can Soonest get & take off the
First Coat then Scrape as much as will Cover the Burn
Pretty thick & as it dryes put on fresh, Continue doing
this till all the fire is out, this will Cure in 24 hours
but is case you Cannot get Carots, or Potatos, then take
Some onions, & Stamp them, & lay them on repeating it
as it drys, which will be as good, if it Should afterwards
require a plaister put only the white cere cloth made of oyl
Virgins wax & a little Spermacet, or Turners Ceret, or the
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For a Burn, Infalluable
Clap it into Cold water & keep it in till the fire is out
if you do not like to do that, hold it in, or Bathe it with
Lamp Spirrits, Continuing it till the fire is out, it gives
no pain or Smart, on legs the Skin is off, but makes it quite
Easy as long as you hold it in the Spirrits till all the fire
is out, this I have Experienced with great Success, Even 
to a Burnt Eye, but that I did with 8 double fine Raggs
dip't in Brandy & lay'd it upon the Eye as wet as possible
& Shifting it pretty often, which in a few hours made a 
perfect Cure
For an Astma
Take a pint of Milk Do of Spring water Set it over a Slow
fire till its reduced to one pint then put in the quantity
of a Walnut of Minorea Honey take half a pint at night
warm in Bed & the other half pint two hours before
you Rise at Each time to be drank as warm as possible
N.B. avoid Salt Meat, Take a Tea Spoonfull of the Honey
in the afternoon & Do in the afternoon
For Do
Take a Large Handfull of Barbery Bark, 3 drams of Saffron
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Stoned, Infuse all these in a quart of mountain wine
with a Lemon Sliced in it & take a glass Every Morning
fasting, you may put a pint of wine to the Ingredients
when the first quart is used
An extraordinary & Never Faling Medicine
For the Dropsey
Take Some of the best Sallet Oil & bathe the
Swelled part off affected a good while warm before
the fire then put on a warm Piece of Flannell
& repeat it, till you find benifit & Cured. 
For a Sprain
Bathe Imediately the part afflicted with Spirrits
of Heartshorn till it appears Black, then make a Poltice
& Cook for Fo 19 or 38 Either of them are Extraordinary 
Good, after you have done with the Poltice [illegible] 125, & then a Strenthing
Plaster
For the Same
Take Some venice Treakle & mix a little old Rum with
it & bathe the parts afflicted with it & Spread Some
pretty thick upon Lether & put it on, This has Cured
after they have been 3 Months under the Care of Surgions
To Cure St Anthonys Fire
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Oil, One Ounce of Lime water, Beat them together
& annoint the affected parts with a fether when 
going to rest being made warm at first
A very good Plaister for a Sore Legg
Take Linseed oil about half a pint & apenneth of
Horse Turpintine & a piece of Bees wax, put this
on the Sore Then foment the Leg with warm
verjuce & role it with a Flannell wetted in the
verjuce repeat the Same Every Night till cured
In case the parts Should be Inflamed Make a Sceare
Cloth, made of a little oil & Some wax & a little
Spermacity melted together & dip in Some fine
Raggs & Layd on a Pewter plate till cold then
apply it to the part the above ingredients must be
melted together & put in gally pot & then Spread
[Cross Out]
For a Sprain of an ankle
Mr Hall
Take half a pound of Salt half a pound of Allum
half a pound of Soft Sope, boil them in two gallons
of water till it Comes to one, & then put your Ankle 
in as hot as you Can bare it Covering ye pan Over
with a Cloth to keep the Steam in, & when you take
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In the Small Pox to be taken
a handfull of Sheeps dung Steept in half a pint
of white wine, take a Small wine glass full at
a time
A Plaister to Prevent Miscarrying to be Spread
up on Thin Leather & apply'd to the Loins when young
with Child & to be Continued till quick
Take Cypress Nuts, & Galls of Each three Drams
Dragons Blood three drams Load Stone two Drams
Hearts flax Calein'd three Drams, Myrtle Berries
one Spoonfull Mastick Nutmegs & Olibanum of Each
2 Drams, Powder all these very fine then take Pitch
three Ounces, Rosin & Turpintine of Each two Ounces
melt these over a gently fire & when Cool Enough
Tht. in the Powders & Make it into two Rolls & put them
into a bladder being first Oil'd to prevent its Sticking
& being Exposed to the air
Mr Parkes
For a Sprain
Take two old kid gloves Cut them in Strips & 
put it into half a pint of Old Vergus & Set it on 
a Slow fire & let it Simmer till it becomes Like glue
put it in a gally Pot till Cold, then Spread on Kid Lether

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For a Sprain in Fol: 130 The Same by
mistake
Take half a pound of Salt, half a pound of Cellum
half a pound of Soft Sope, Boil them in two
Gallons of water till it Comes to One, & then put
your ankle in it as hot as you Can bare it
Covering the pan over with a Cloth to keep the
Steam in & when you take your foot out rap it up
in flannell & go to Bed
For the Jaundice
Take Red Dock Root Scraped & Sliced, Barberry
Bark, of Each a Small handfull, 24 grains of 
Saffron, a handfull of Earthworms washed Clean
put all these into a quart bottle of white wine &
let it Stand 24 hours then Strain it off & Drink 
a quarter of a pint in the morning & as much in 
the afternoon
For a Hooping Cough
Bathe the Childs Back bone every Night with Rum
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For the Gravill
Take one Spoonfull of the Juice of Onions
one Spoonfulls of Juice of Cammamile one Spoonfull
of Sweet Oyl, two Spoonfulls Mountain wine,
all Mix'd together Sweetn'd with Honey and when
warmd'd to be Drank at a Draft it has a Tendency to 
keep the Body in good order & to lessen the obstruction
with a Divine Blessing attending
Almond Milk
Boil french Barly, till the Husks open then put a way
the water, & take More & boil it till the Barly be fully
Burst then take the water from the Barly & keep it till
it be Cold then take 20 Almons to make a pint of Milk
& Blanch them, & beat them very fine then take the last
water the barly was boyl'd in & put in Some Powdered
Sugar then Strain them through a Cloth being mixt
together & put in a Spoonfull of Rose water & So
give it the Patient to drink it is Cooling & Norishing
you may boil a Blade or 2 of mace with the Barly
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Dr Frewen of Oxfords Receipt
For a Numbness in the Limbs
Take opodeldock 3 Ounces Compound Spt. of Lavender
half an Ounce, Spirit of [cross out] Sal: ammoniac
with Lime, 2 Ounces Make an Ointment of these
& Rub the part affected Night & Morning
For the Rheumatism or Gout
Take One Ounce of Gum Guiacum 
half an Ounce of Cinabar of Antomony} in powder
4 Ounces Conserve of Itips
Mixt all together in an Electiory take as much as a large
Nutmeg Every Night drinking a glass of Pepper Mint water
after it
Nervous Drops
Spesies Diambere 3 Drams Tinture of Castor 12 Drams
Sal volatile Oliosum 8 Drams put into a bottle, Shake it
frequently for five or Six days afterwards pour it off
fine, & then add half the quantity to it again of the Liquid
& let it Stand the Same time then mix it alltogether
of white wine Cherry or Canary or Milk water of you
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Dr Frewen of Oxford & Receipt
For a Numbness in the Limbs
Opodeldock
in English
Liniments Saponaces 3 Ounces
Compound Spirits of Lavender 1/2 an Ounce
Spirit of Sal ammoniac with Lime, 2 Ounces
make an Ointment of these & Rub the Part affected
night & morning
For the Ruhmatism
One Ounce Gum Guaicum Infused in 4 or 5 Ounces
of Sallvolatile 2 Tea Spoonfulls in a glass
of water Morning & Night Sweeten the water
with a lump of Sugar before you mix it
For the Bite of a Mad Dog from Dr mead
Take of the Powder of Long Pepper & Powder of ash Colourd
ground liver worth of Each half a Drahm to be
taken night & morning for three days in Cows Milk
For the Bite of a Mad Dog
This Receip was taken out of Cathorp Curch in Six Lincoln
Shire the whole Town being bitten with a Mad Dog &
all that took this medicine did well & the rest died mad 
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Six Ounces Garlick pick from the Stalks & Bruised
Venice Treacle or methoidale & the Scrapings of 
Pewter of Each Four Ounces boil all these over
a Slow fire in two quarts of Strong ale till one
pint be Consumed, then Strain it off when Cold
& keep it in a Bottle Close Stop'd & give of it
Nine Spoonfulls to a Man or woman warm
Seven Mornings together Fasting, & let em fast
after it 2 hours, to a Horse or Cow give 15 Spoonfulls
to a Sheep or Dog 6 Spoonfulls-
This the author believes will not fail by gods
Blessing if it be given with in Nine Days after
the Bite of the Dog apply Some of the Ingredients
from which the Liquor was Strained to the bitten place
Mrs Morris Excellent Ointment for a Burn
or Scald to heal presently any Scald or burning with
fire, hot water, gun Powder, or whatsoever Else, being
presently applied, for then it worketh best, it Effects also
all blisters & breakings out what So ever & healeth with
out Doubt 
a point of olive oyle put into a Pipkin, then gather some
Sprigs of the Elder no bigger then the Top of your little Finger
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green till you have a good handfull & the youngest Leafs
of the Elder One handfull, plaintin & Lengreen Leafs of Each
one handfull bruise the herbs & put in the Oyle & the 6 part 
of a Pint of Strong wine vinegar 3 Spoonfull of urin
of a Tallow Cotton Candle about 2 Inches week & all
boil this together on a Soft fire half an hour Stirring
it now & then, Strain it thro a Course linnen Cloth
& put it into the Same Pipkin again, adding to it an
ounce & 1/2 of yellow wax let it Melt & Stirr it till it
be of the Consistence of an Oyntment when you use it
Spread it on a thin piece of Paper or fine Linnen Cloth
to make it green put in a handfull of Cammomile
To Make Gasking Powder
Take of the raggs of Pearle of Red Coral Crabbs Eyes
Heartshorn, white Amber, of Each of these one Ounce,
beat them Severally into fine Powder & Search them
together thro a fine Search, then take 5 Ounces of the
black tipps of Crabbs which you must beat & Search as 
the rest & 1/2 Ounce of the best bezoar done in the Same
Manner, weigh them all Severally & then mingle them
together in a China Bason, having Some Jelly of
Hearts horn ready made with Some Saffron Infused in it
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it Jelleys, & let it Stand till the next day, when it is
will mixt make it up into balls & dry them in the Sun 
& wrap em up Severally into Papers & keep em Close
The Crab claws are best if you Can get em before they
are boyl'd & when they are in Season, as May, or Septr.
This Powder is good in any Pestilential Distemper
as Fevers Small Pox Measles great Colds &c to a
man or woman 25, or 30, grains to a Child of 9 or 10
years old, 16, to a young Child 6 grains-
For an Astma or Shortness of Breath
The Ammoniacum Mixture
Two Drams of gum ammoniacum with 4 Ounces
of Hysop water of which take a Spoonfull at any
time when Breathing is Difficult
To Brace and Strenthning the Nerves
Elixar of Vitriol & Tinture of Bark Equal quantity
Take forty Drops in a glass of water twice a Day
A Time Lip Salve
Take 2 Ounces of Virgins wax two Ounces of Hog's
Lard half an Ounce of Spermacetty, One Ounce of oil
of Sweet Almons & two drams of Balsom of Peru
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Shred Small a little fine Sugar Simmer
them all together a little while then Strain it
off in little potts it is the finest Lip Salve in the 
word
For a Sore Throat
Take a Black Ribon & dip it in Some Spirrit
of Heartshorn & put it wet to the Throat
For Sore Eyes
Take a new glased Pipkin put in a quart of Spring
water or better & a handfull of Red Sage let it boil
very gently then Fry & dip in a piece of New Cloth
if it looks green it is Enough wash your Eyes 
with it at Night going to bed
For a Consumtive Cough
Take Some oringo Root & Make it into Sea & Drink
a quarter of a pint Mixt with a quarter of a pint
of Boiled Milk which must Stand to be Cold long
Enough to take off the Scum, then drink it in Stead
of Asses Milk Morning & afternoon it is as good

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For a Cough
Take one Lemon Boil it Tender but not Break or
Burst Cut it & take out the Juice & Soft Pulp from 
the Seed Strings & Rind put to this Pulp, 2 Ounces
of Sugar Candy Finely Beat 2 Ounces Oil of Sweet
almons, one Ounce of Syrup of Poppy Mix all
well together, & take a large Spoonfull when ever
the Cough is Troublesom
To Make Surfiet Water
From Mr James Lock
Take one gallon of the Best French Brandy Steep
Six good handfulls of red Poppy leaves 9 days
then wring them out dry, thro' a Course Cloth
& put into the Liquor 1 1/2 pound of Raisons of
the Sun, Stoned, 1 1/2 pound of Dates, the Stones
& white Skinnes taken out & Sliced very thin
one ounce of Mace, one ounce of anniseed Rub'd &
Dusted, One Ounce of Cinnamon one quarter of 
an Ounce of Cloves, One Ounce of Liquorish Sliced
These Must Steep 14 days, then take one pint of
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One pound of white Sugar Candy bruised, let
them Steep 2 or 3 days then Mix all together & Run 
thro a Jelly Bag, & bottle it up for use
NB 2 Ounces of the Sugar Candy may be left out
For the Chilblains
Take one Ounce of Venice Turpintine 3 Ounces
of old Lard a quarter of an Ounce of Bees wax
Sliced very thin put them into a Pipkin & 
melt them altogether & pour it into a gally pot
for use, Spread the oyntment on a Cloth & 
put it over the Chilblains, if they are broke
then put Some on a lint over the hold & a
large plaister over it, if you find the oyntment
to hard add a little more lard, it is good
for all cut fingers
For a Great Sweetner of the Blood
Bruise half a pint of Live Millipedes & put to them
a quart of mountain wine let it Stand 2 or 3 days
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of it in the Morning, another glass in the afternoon
& as you drink it add another pint of wine to the
millepedes So that three pints of wine on the whole
to the half pint of Millepedes, it may be drank two
or three Months are any benefit is found
For the Jaundice
Mr Freke Surgion
Take of Casteel Soap two Drachms of Rhubarb Powder'd
One Drachm of Nutmeg grated half a Drachm beat them
well together & make the Mass into Pills of a Moderate
Sixe of which take three or four Every day
From Mr Lance
For the Gravill
Turn a pint of Milk with half a pint of white wine
Strain of the Liquor & add to it two Spoonfulls of 
Salad Oyl & two of Syrrup of marsh mallows, mix
them well & Drink it warm going to Bed
To Strenghen the Nerves
put half an Ounce of Wild Valerian Powder'd in a Teapot
pour half a pint of boiling water upon it let it draw two hours
take 4 large Spoonsfull of this Tea twice a day, adding to Each dose
a little Sugar & 30 drops of Spirrits of Volat: Foetid ℥i

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For the Gravill
142 ye Same
by mistake
Turn a pint of Milk with half a pint of white wine
Strain off the Liquor & add to it two Spoonfulls of 
Sallad Oyl & two of Syrryp of marsh mallows mix
them well & Drink it warm going to Bed
An Exclent Receipt for an Asthma
Mr Waple
An Equal quantity of Cold drawn Linseed Oyl &
Syrup of marsh mallows mix'd well together
a Spoonfull taken 2 or 3 times a day
it has relieved in violent fitts near Expiring
To Stop Bleeding at the Nose
Take a piece of white Writing Paper & let the Person
Bleed upon it, & make it very wet with the Blood
then Clap it upon the Forehead & it will Stop the
Bleeding
For a Scrufelous & Leperous 
Take the fat of a Loin of Mutton [cross out] Roast [cross out] & Braisted
with Tarr, then anoint with the Drippings the 
Parts affected

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For a Contracted Joint or Numness
Take the yolk of a New laid Egg let it be beaten with a
wooden Spoon to the greatest Thinness, then by a Spoonfull
at a time add 3 Ounces of pure water agitating the Mixture
Continually that the Egg & water may be well Incorporated
this Liquor May be applied to the parts Contracted. Cold or
only Milk warm by a gentle Friction for a few Minutes 3 or 4
Times a Day
For a Dropsey
Take a handfull of Covegrass a handfull of Green Broom
a handfull Red Sage a handfull of wormwood & a quarter
of a Peck Rig flower & Make it into a Past, Dry your 
herbs very Dry, then take your Past & Role it out to be as
a Pasty & put your herbs into it, it Must be Baked with
Bread & when it is Baked have ready two Baggs to put it
in, all Broke to Pieces, then take 2 gallons of Ale & 2 formall 
Beer & put it into a Stean & let it Stand 2 Days & Drink
half a pint at a time as often as you Can
A good Receipt for the Teeth
the Same info 
Take a full pint of very Strong Sage Tea, add 1/4 of a pound
of Honey of Bole armenian & Allum of Each one penny worth
& or 1/4 of a pint of Strong Vineager, wash your Mouth with
it Morning & Night

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A Very Good Eye water
Mr Heartly
Dissolve an Ounce of white Copperas in a quart of
Snow water let it Stand two days then Strain it thro
a Doulas bag let it Stand another day & Strain it,
again, then boil it up in the Shells of new laid
Eggs, NB the Liquid Cleaving to the Egg Shells gives
virtue to the water-when thus boil'd let it Cool
& put it into a Bottle for use
Dab the Eyes well with linnen Rag twice a Day
if found too Sharp for the Eyes, it may be qualify'd
with a little addition of Rose water
An other
A Penny worth of Eye bright a Penny worth of Plantain
water, a Penny worth of white Rose water, a Penny worth
of Powder of Tulty, a Penny worth of Lapis Calaminaris
Put all these into a viol, Let it in a window in the Sun
for Severall days Shake it once a day, & when Ever you 
use it, an ancient Person who wasted her Eyes with it 
very often found great Benifit
For Blindness
Take a new Laid Egg & Set it in Embers till it is hard as a
hard Boiled Egg, then Peel of the Shell & take out the yolk

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& fill up the hole with the finest Loaf Sugar or white
Sugar Candy beat very fine & keep the Egg as hot as you 
Can, & as the Sugar Melts, Squize the Egg gently with
your hand & a Liquor will Drop from it, put a few
Drops in a Tea Spoon, & have it Drop into the Eye, or Eyes
[cross out] that are Blind, when you go to bed, it
will make it Smart, which it must do, or Else [cross out]
it will be of none Efect, a Lady of my acquaintance
who was taken quite Blind with one Eye, when she was
a girl, Mr Sharp the noted Surgion was applyed
to as her Eyes Look'd as the other, there being nothing
a miss to appearance, he told her there was a vain 
which Comes from the Neck & leeds to the Back part
[cross out] of the Ball of her Eyes which was the cause of
her being Blind, that vain being affected by some
great Cold, but would do nothing, but this Medicine
which She was advised by a good nurse to Say
Intirely Cured her & her Sight is now as perfect 
as the other not good for old People, & Decaed Eyes, or Nervous
Receipt for a Horses Cold
2 ouz of Syrup of maiden Hair, 2 ouz of Brown Sugar Candy
Powdered, 1/2 pint of Linseed oil Cold Drawn 1/2 pint of Jack
mix all together, to give him 1/2 any Morning & 1/2 [cross out]
the next Morning & no Cold water

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Tobacco for Dim Eyes
Wood of Aloes---Dm 1 1/2
Cortex Elasheria---1 1/2
Sasafras Bark--2
Gum Storax--1
Benjamin--1
Amber prepared--2
Flower of Eye bright--2
Rosemary--2
Lavender--2
will Cost 18--14 1/2
Tobacco 4 oz:
Bruise the wood & gums Seperately & 
lightly in a Morter So as to Mix all well
with the Tobacco to be Smoaked when you
please, but a pipe chiefly when going to bed
For a Blemish in the Eye, or a Skin growing on the Sight 
Take 2 Ounces of Cicuta Vulgarie, or the Common
Hemlock pound it in a Morter to which add a Thimble
full of Bay Salt, half a Tea Spoonfull of Powder of Salty,


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& as much Bole Armoniac as is Sufficient to make
it Spread Easy upon a piece of Black Silk
if but one Eyee is Affected it must be applied to
the Contrary Wish if both Eyes it Must be applied
to both Wrist, The Plaister must be applied to 
Each wrist & renew'd Every twelve Hours as long as
you have Occation washing your Eyes with the
Eye water at Proper Intervales as Mentioned at the 
Bottom Vix
Take Red Rosewater three Ounces Sulty & white
Sugar Finely Powdered of Each one ounce, shake
them well & let it Settle & wash your Eyes with a
fine Rag three or four times a day
Strengthening Oils for Sprains
Oil of Excesor
Peter
Worms
Camomile
Origanum
of Each an Equal quantity

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For a Blite
Take 2 handfulls of Sage in a quart of water
Boil them well together then take out the Sage
& put in 2 Ounces of Castell Soape & foment it
with flannell
then take of Spermacity One Drachm
white wax half a Drachm, Dissolve them
Over a Gentle heat, in one Ounce of Sweet Oil
adding when Dissolved 2 Drachm of Turners Ceret 
& anoint the parts affected
A Diet Drink
Take Sasaphras, Sasaprilla Cheiney Roots, Liqurish
Ivory & Heartshorn Chavings of Each One Ounce
Sweet Fennell Seed Coriander Seeds of Each half 
an Ounce Reasons of the Sun stoned two Ounces
two handfull of arckangel flowers, slice the Drugs
& bruise the Seeds, & boil all these in three quarts of
Spring water over a gentle fire Close Stopt, till it is
boiled half a way, then Strain it off & bottle it up &
let the Child Drink it for her Common Drink
Divide the Ingredients into 3 or 4 parts. & make it at
Severall times for fear it should be Lower before the 
Child can drink the whole quantity

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An Excelent Receipt to cure any Inward Bleeding
Take the Juice of Nettles & the Juice of Plantine of
Each a like quantity & fill a wine glassfull & Drink
two or 3 glasses of it in a Day, & take the Bigness of a
Hassell nut of the Best Lucatelus Balsom Morning
& Night twill Infallably Cure
An Excelent Receipt for the Stone or Gravill
Take of the Best Sallet oyl & the Juice of Lemons &
white wine of Each a like quantity & mix it well
together & fill a wine glass full & Drink it off the
first in the morning & last at Night, Continue this
for a month or Six weeks, tis an Infallable Cure
Dr Fothergil's Receipt for a Hoarshness
Powder of gum Dragon--3 Drams
Oil of Sweet Almons fresh drawn 1 1/2 oz
Syrup of Diacodium--1 1/2 oz
Made into a Linetus of which take a Small Spoonfull often
Simple Tinture of the Peruvian Bark--6 Drams
of the Paregoric Elixir--2 Drams
Accid of Elixir of Vitriol--1 1/2 Dram
Mix them & take 60 drops Every day in a little Wine
about an Hour before Dinner

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For Vapours & Lowness of Spirrits
Take one Ounce of assafetida one Ounce of Castor and
one ounce of Salvolatile Oliosum in Spirrits, & mix
them together, & take about 30 or 40 Drops in water
against Phlegm
To fast at night, in the morning take the Juice of a
Sour Crabbed Lemon Mixd with Oil of Almons & Some
Syrrup of Squills (alias a Sea Onion) take half a Spoonfull
& fast with it
A Bitter to help Disgestion
In one Ounce of Rhubarb Sliced & put it into five
half pints of white mountain wine & let it Steep
by the fire a day & a Night, then put in half an ounce
of the peel of Civill Oranges well Dried, & let it Stand
& Steep three Days by the fire side, then Drink a
wine glass, Just as you are or going to Dinner
To Vomit
In Case you Cannot get the vomitting Powder, Take a
large Spoonfull Steep'd of Flower of Mustard & Mix it
with a little water, or any Liquor, & if it does not operate
Soon mix up a little more, & drink it, it is very Safe, & never
fails

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For a Pluritick Pain in the Side
or a Healing Julip for Shortness of Breath
Take 2 Ounces of Oil of Sweet Almons put it in a 
Large glass or pint Bottle put to it 2 Tea Spoonfulls
of Spt of Heartshorn & half a pint of Small Cinamon
water & Shake it till it turn white, take 2 Ounces at
a time, 3 times a day in the morning, at 4 in the afternoon
& at night going to rest, it is very Proper to Bleed first
against Sweating at Nights of Weaknesses
Mr Waplle
Take a quart of Old Sypress wine or Canary pare the Rine
off one Lemon very Close Slice it & put it into the wine
with a Dram of Saffron put into a fine Ragg & Squize
it 2 or 3 times a Day with a Spoon, & take a Small Wine
glass twice a Day put in 3 or 4 lumps of Sugar-
For the Palsey
Take a live viper Cut the Head off & Skine it & Cut it
into Small Pieces & put it in a wide mouth Bottle
& Set it in a Skillet of water & let it Stew for Severall
hours till it yealds about a Cup full of Liquor, Take this
once a day till you are well

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Sr Hans Sloanes [illegible]
For a Dimness of Sight
Tak of Lapis Calaminaris a penny worth & Oil or fatt 
of vipers mixt up to the Consistant of thin paint
Spread it on a bit of old Cambrick, & dip a Clean bit
of Cambrick into Rose water lay that upon your
Eyes, & the oyntment Raggs upon it
Lady Betty Bedinfeilds receipt
For a Dropsey after She has been taped, this
Cured her
3 handfulls of the tops of Green Broom boyled in a
Gallon of Spring water Scim it till no more Scrum
Rises & when to boyled, put the Broom and water
into an Earthen pot, & keep it Close Covered for use
Take a large Spoonfull of whole mustard Seed
Every morning & night & after Each Spoonfull of
mustard Seed unbruised, take half a pint of the above 
Broom water
if the Mustard is Disagreable you may mix it up
with any Sort of Syrup-
For a Billious Collick
Take 25 grains of Hepocriciana Steept in wine for a
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Bark & a handfull of yellow nettles pour a Gallon
of Boiling water upon it & drink plentifull of it
in the vometing 
For the Rhumatism by mistake ye same fo; 90
Take One Ounce of winter Bark Sliced ounce of mustard
Seeds Bruised & a handfull of Scraped horse radish
put these into a quart of mountain whine & let it
Stand 48 hours, Shake the Bottles now & then, then 
Pour it of the Ingredients, & take four Spoonfulls of it
fasting & about Six in the afternoon
For a Violent Cough
Take 6 Ounces of Sweet fennel water
1 Ounce of Syrup of Balsom Shake them together
1 Ounce of Oyl of Sweet Allmons, Shake them
well together then add 2 drachms of
Salvolatile Shaking it well, it will make
a white Emultion
Take 3 or 4 Spoonfulls frequently as the
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a Great Strenghnes in weaknesses
Take the whites of one Egg beat it very
well & take off all the Froth, mix the Egg 
So beat, with a Spoonfull or two of white
wine & if you like it with the Juice of a 
Civill Orange & Sweeten it to your Taste
Repeat this Every day about 12 o Clock
till you grow Stronger
A Mulsion for the Strangury
Take a whole Handfull of Pearl Barly
to two quarts of water boil it to a quart
[cross out] shifting it, then Strain it off & put
two Ounces of Gum Arvaback & a few Blanched 
bitter almons finely Beaten & little nutmeg
water you must firs boil the Barly in 
a little water before you put the two quarts
to it

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Mrs Selckens Receipt for the worms
one Dram of Jalop Powdered
1/2 a Dram of Scamonea
20 grains of Calomelanos
1/4 of an Ounce of Crumbs of Bread that was
Baked the day before grated & Siffted
half an Ounce of 8 penny Sugar Dryd & Siffted
mix all these well together in a glass, or Serpentine
Stone morter & wet it by a Drop or two at a time
of Rose water, make it into a Paste & work it
a 1/4 of an Hour then Role them into long Roles
& Cut them into thin Cakes & mark them & let them
Lye to harden, this quantity makes two Dos: Cakes

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For the Strangury
Take 9 or 11 Drops of Oil of Turpentine and
put it in a Cup of warm ale & Drink it as
often as you find pain









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For ye Strangury 60
Do 155
a Purging Syrup 71
Salts to Smell too 46
a Syrrup for a great Cold on ye Lungs 86
Salts to Smell too 92
Syrrup of Violets 95
for the Stone 98 99
a lead Salve 99
The Balsamick Syrrup 93
Syrup of Turnips--113
Syrrup of long Life--115
Syrrup of Clove gilly flowers 116
For a Strain & great Strenghtner 125
Strengtning Powder Do-
a great Sweetner of ye Blood 140
For a Scurfelous & Leperous Humour 143
Strengthning Oils for Sprains 147
against Sweating--151
a great Strenghtner--153


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