The preparation of this Nitre vnto more subtili­tie, sharpenes, drines and heat, is after three sortes ensuing.

SPread this Nitre thinne in a platter of glased earth or of pewter. So set it in the hoat Sunne, and attend it vntill it be parched white and not molten, and so it will come into fine white poulder or floure as Aphron Nitrō. And hereby getteth it somewhat more subtilenes and lesse gummines, and may be named puryfied Alphron Nitron.

The second waie.

GEt a new earthen pot glased within, & fitted with a co­uer (to close it, that no ashes come therein) hauing such an handel as thereby with your tongues or pliers you may (when it is in your firie furnaice) take of the couer, to looke into your pot, and againe at your pleasure couer it. [Page 3] Fill that pot halfe full with this Nitre. And set that pot with the Nitre therein and the couer thereon in a wide fornace for this purpose, raised with two walles on either side a foote high from the ground, left open through betweene those two sides before and behind. Grate that ouerthwarte with barres of iron, ech barre a finger widenes from other, and thereon aboue those barres aswell before as behinde, as also one eche side, wall it vppe square halfe a yarde more of height. And let the widenes of the furneys within, be such, as your pot being set in the middest of your fornace may haue roome on euerie side of your fornace halfe a foote: not forgetting to tra­uers your fornace within, with two sufficient barres where­on to place your pot halfe a foote aboue your foresaide yron grate: and that you haue to couer the vpper mouth of your fornace with tiles, bricke, or yron plates, to be couched vppon yron roddes or barres, loose and remoueable for the purpose. These thinges thus reddie, fill your fornace with deade char­coales, first halfe a foote heigth from the grate. Then place your pot vpon the two barres in the middest of your fornace: hauing your pot (as aforesaide) halfe full of Nitre, and co­uering your pot with the couer fitted for it, poure in more dead charcoales to fill the voide roome on euerie side about your pot, vp as high about your pot, as your Nitre filleth your pot within, and somewhat more. Then kindle your charcoales leisurely beneath and aboue: closing the foreparte and hinder part of the vent vnder the grate, with loose brickes or tyles, so as the winde vnder, come not vp to vehement at the first. But that your pot take heat by litle and litle encreasing. And it were not amisse that your pot were emptie (but yet co­uered) vntill the coales be all fiered, and your pot nealled red hot. And then to put in your Nitre vnto the halfe fulnes of your pot (as aforesaide) and so couer your pot, and also the vp­per mouth of your fornace, with the couers thereto prepared. So yet, as there is vent-hoales left, one at euerie corner, and one in the middest. And then pul away the closure of your nea­ther vents vnder the grate of your fornace, that the fire may [Page] haue ful quickning by the grate: And as the experience of the worke wil teach you) suffer your Nitre to melt & dry vp & tost, so farforth as the colour become black & not yet white againe. Then take vp your pot, first aboue your coales, with plying tongues or hooks fit for you purpose: Then higher vpon the vpper barres of your furneys: And lastlie vpon hoat ashes, and scrape out your Nitre with a faire yron ladle fit thereto, and braie it into fine poulder, and reserue it. It hath then, lesser moysture and gummines, & more subtilitie, and more heating and drying facultie, then the first way aforesaide.

The thirde way of more Calcination to make this Nitre, yet more sharpe and subtile, then the o­ther two waies aforesaide.

USing the selfe same way last afore prescribed: when this Nitre hath taken such heat, as the melting and heauing thereof hath ceased, and that your Nitre is dried and burned beyond blacke collour, and become againe perfit collour: vse it as is aforesaide in withdrawing it from the fire. And after that it is taken out of your pot, bray it lightlie, and reserue it to vse: Equiualent vnto Nitre called Bawrak of Armenie: howbeit not astrictiue without mixture of astrictiue medicines as aforesaide.

By the which aforesaide complexion, qualitie and faculties: this Nitre hath (aswell otherwise as in medicine) the manifolde and sundrie operations and vertues, particularly (for example) declared hereafter, besids a great many moe then I set forth,

Outward reamedies to fordoe foulenes and diseases of the skinne: as tawnie steynings, Sunnebur­ning, [Page 4] freckles, dusknes, iaundises, yellow, greene, and blacke, wheales and white whelks, cholerick, melancholicke, & flegmatike euaporations, ill colour or complexion by sicknes called Atrophe, which commeth of ill conuertion and assimula­tion of the nourishment: and to restoore the skinne and complexion to the natiue bewtie. Also to remoue and fordoe, skurffe, dandruffe, skales, skalles, scabbes, pimples, pushes, maunge, ringe­wormes, tetters, byles, buttons, drie lepries, and such effectes.

FIrst that (that for those purposes) of antiquitie, Ni­tre aswell as Aphron Nitre, and Bawrak, hath bene (of ordinarie vse in Baines and hot houses) dissolued in warmed water, or in warmed lie made of the ashes of vine­shreddes or of rosyers, or of sweete bryers, or of brābles, or of willowes, or of rosemarie, or of sage, or of hysope, or of lauen­der, or of thyme, or of bayes, or of such like, or else in a yonge boy childes vrine vndistilled, or rather distilled: or else in vi­negre, or rather in distilled vinegre, or in iuyces of verie sowre Orrēges, or rather in iuyces of lymmōs, or else dissolued with clarified white honie, and (after three dayes seasoning) laide on by night, or else in like sorte dissolued with hennes greace, or capons greace, or swannes greace: or oyles of sweete al­mondes & of bittre almondes, (three or foure dayes afore mi­xed and seasoned together) I say with anie of those liquours or iuycees, laid on at night, and washed of in the morning with rosewater, or with water of beaneflowers, or with the cleare broth of barlie meale, of wheate branne and mallowe rootes: (For to scoure and clense the heare, the face, the skinne, and the rest of the bodie, from rankenes of smell, and from fumo­sities, [Page] sweate, soyle, steyning and dusknes of the skinne, and to for­doe freckles, spottings, tawnynes, Sunneburning, morphewes, iaun­dizes, discolorings, scurffe, dandruffe, scales, scalles, scabbes, maunge, pushes, pymples, ringewormes, tetters, roughnes, and all such deformities and affectes of the skinne) it is touched by ma­nie auncient authours, insomuch as (amongest others) S. Ierome in an Epistle to a Gentlewoman, saith: Although thou wash thy skinne with Nitre, and rubbe it neuer somuch with the herbe called Bawrak or Bowrik, what auayleth it, if yet thou remaine filthie with sinne?

And to those purposes also, some doe dissolue Nitre in distilled whaye, or in distilled Goates milke: or else doe temper it with the brooth and fatnes of figges: or else with the fine meale of the knottes of the rootes of Aaron called cuckow pyutle or the knottes of rootes of serpentine called dragon or snakegrasse: nine times sooked in rosewater and eche time dryed by the Sunne or ouer a sooking fire: or with meale of lupynes: or or with oyle of bitter almondes, and lay it on all night, and on the morning wash it of, as aforesaide.

But if those affectes be deepe rooted, and doe require stronger scouring out: Then put oken ashes, and vnquenched lyme, in a meisshing tubbe, the one cowched by course vpon the other by seuerall layes or couches, beginning at the nethermost with the ashes and leauing vppermost with the ashes. Then poure therein hoat water, or rather the warmed vrine of yong boy children, in quantitie sufficient (to wit) so much licour, as the ashes and lime will receiue, to be but filled with the licour to the vpper ashes. And if you take yong boy childes vrine, it may be had at the schooles, setting vesselles for that purpose. Then (after sufficient steeping with the ashes and lime) boyle that mixture together, and lastelie braine and let runne the lie into a receiuing vessell, and let it settle to become cleare, and then (by a spyggot somewhat higher thē the groundes settled) draw the cleare lye from the troubled groundes, and boyle that cleare lye downe againe vnto such wasting and strength, that it can beare an egge. Then distill it into a limbeck (if you wil) [Page 5] and put by, the weaker licour which droppeth first, & reserue for your purpose the strongest licour that distilleth the first weaker water: And vnto so much of that strong distilled wa­ter, or else vnto the strong Lye it selfe vndistilled (so much as will couer the bottom of an earthen boyling pipking, or skillet well glased within, and fitted with a couer of the same stuffe, and so set ouer a soft fire of wood coales) melt therein, for e­uerie pinte of that strong distilled water, or strong Lye, two pound weight of chosen Sope not ranke nor stinking. And thē cast thereto by little and little, twise so much weight of Nitre as your sope weyed) and as the Nitre is all dissolued therein, boile them altogether to the wasting of the said distilled water or lycour of Lie. Foreseeing that your boyllyng vessell be but a third part full of them all, least they fome ouer.

This done, take it from the fire, and slurre it still with a sticke or splatter vntill it be come colde and stiffe. Then forme your stuffe into flat pellets or small round balles: and put thē on a fayre borde to drie and to harden in the winde and sha­dowe, and reserue them to wet (at sundrie times as you shall neede) with iuyce of lymondes or of soure Orenges, or with distilled vynegre, or with distilled vrine of yong boy children, or with the flewgme water of distilled wine. And with the slyme of one of those pellets or balles so moisted, rubbe the stayninges or spottes of the skinne, suffering it to lie on a rea­sonable space: And then wash it of with broath of barlie floure, or of wheate braune boylled with stamped rootes of mallowes, or with distilled water of the coddes and flowers of beanes, or of roses, or of whaye distilled.

And to the selfe same purpose is succinctlie taught by Galene. To take (as aforesaide) to partes of Nitre and one parte of Sope, tempred with sufficiēt quātity of strong Sope Lye cal-Capitellum, and to make them into tro [...]skes or pelletes to be dryed and reserued to be vsed as aforesaide. And this out­ward medicine is for effectes of the skinne, of harde remouing.

An other waie more delicate, and for tender skin, [Page] which leysurely remoueth such affectes, and also doth smooth and bewtifie the skinne.

STeepe chosen Gumme Tragacanthe of the purest and whittest a night and a daie in rosewater, then put thereto of this Nitre, and a curtesie of Camphere. And season and incorporate them together, and by night laye it on, and wash it of in the morning as aforesaide.

An other for the same, of stronger effect.

TAke chosen Gumme Tragacanth, of the whytest and purest, one portion, distilled rosewater, or rather strōg vinegre distilled with red roses either freshe or drie, thrise or foure times so much as the weight of the Gumme, & therein steepe your gumme vntill it soften and dissolue there­in: Adde fine poulder of the knottes of Aaron rootes, or of Dragon rootes, seauen times sooked in rosewater, and euery time dryed againe by the Sunne: Also fine poulder of sweete preos roote: And fine flowre of Rice: of euerie of those three, asmuch as the weight of your Gumme. Then put so much Ni­tre as your gumme and rootes and riseflowre (altogether) weyed, and ouer a soft fire, mixe and temper them together: alwayes stirring them vntill the Nitre melte, and that the compound lastlie (after washing of the ouerplus of the rose­water) be apte to become stiffe (which shall be knowne by proofe of a droppe let fall on a marble stone to coole: if being colde it become stiffe) thē sprinckling into your mixture a cur­tesie of Camphere, and so mixing that with stirring, take it from the fire, and still stirre your mixture vntill it become colde and stiffe.

So forme it into washing balles, and dry them in the winde and shadow, not forgetting (at the first) to dissolue a curte­sie of muske, ciuet, and Ambergreyce, in your aforesaid rose­water, or distilled roseuinegre for the more pleasauntnes of the smell. Howbeit that the rosewater, and the yreos roote, of [Page 6] themselues, are sufficient of pleasaunt odour. And whereas Gumme Tragacanth (either for deerenes or for scarcitie shal­be forborne) there, the slime of the harebell roote, otherwise called Ierubell or Hiacynthus, may serue in steede of that gumme.

The vse of those balles, is to moist one of them at night in warmed rosewater, or in warmed water of the floures and coddes of beanes, or (for more effect) in distilled stronge vi­negre rosate, or in iuyces of distilled lymondes, or of sowre o­renges distilled and purified by the feltre: And at going to bedde, smeere the affected places of the skinne, yea, and ouer all the face, with the slime of your moysted ball, suffring it to lye one all night, or lesse space, as the medicine to the ten­dernesse of the skinne is tolerable. And then alwayes washe and skoure it of with some of the waters aforesaide. These balles in hotter water, may serue to wash & scoure the bearde, the face and the heares of the heade, in steede of sope-balles adorate.

A lotion of washing to fordoe ringe-wormes, and tetters.

TAke of Nitre 3. dragmes, of common salt one dragme, of distilled water of the rootes of soure-dockes foure ounces, of vinegre of squilla one ounce, dissolue and and mixt them togeather: And ech time of the vse of them (be­ing warmed and well mixed) moisten a cloth or sponge there­in and rub therewith the places affected.

An oyntment or plaister to foredoe harde knobbes, buttons, or cornes wheresoeuer they be in the face, or other partes of the skinne.

TAke Nitre, Salgemme, or digged salte, leaues and ten­der croppes of hysope, and penyrioll, of eche a like por­tion: [Page] Braie them fine and soft, and ouer a moderate fire en­corporate them in Gerate rosate. The receipte thereof I neede not to receiue vnto you (cosen) that are an Apothecarie, and apply it to the place affected.

An other oyntment for the same.

TAke Nitre, Alume du plume, seedes of Basill or Dey­inum, leaues and tender toppes of greene penyroiall, and Costus Indiane, of eche a like portion: Bray them soft and fine, & ouer a soft fire mixe them with hennes greace, or capons greace, or swannes greace, or ducks greace, and anoynt the places affected.

An other oyntment to fordoe the buttons of lepree faces.

TAke burned Nitre, burned alume, & calcined Tartar, of ech one ounce & a halfe, browne yellow Litarge, and the ingredience of the vnguent citrine (which I neede not receite to you chosen being an Apothecarie) of ech foure ounces, of Ceruce washed, two ounces of iuyces of Lymonds, of rootes of Enula campana, of the rootes of Soure-docke, of rootes of Cyclamine, and rootes of Dragon or serpentine. And rootes of Aaron or cuccow pyntell, of euerie of them (as often infuzed in rosewater and dryed againe in the Sunne as afore described) fiue ounces, vinegre of squilla, water of plantine, water of purcelane, of eche three ounces, and of oyle of com­plete roses, a pinte, vse them according to your art, and en­corporate them togeather, and therewith annoint the place affected.

To mundifie and heale vlcers in the face.

TAke Nitre, and ouer a soft fire (and in an emptie vessell set within an other vessell full of boyling water) dissolue it [Page 7] with honie and cowes mylke, and annointe the vlcers of three with.

An experte oyntment for cure of maunge, ringe-wormes, scabbes, and eating soores.

TAke Nitre, brymestone, and Maiorane, otherwise called Margerome, of eche a dragme, beate and sifte the Nitre and brimestone into fine poulder, and braye the Maiorane fine and soft, mixe them, and temper them with oyle rosate, and therewith annoint the places affected.

A linement or enoynting, effectuallie good against Itche, and breaking out of all the bodie.

MElte Nitre and brimestone together which (being colde) commeth to be harde as a stone, braie that a­gaine into fine poulder, and with greace make a salue, or smeering for the purpose aforesaide, or else bathe it on with yong boy childes vrine, or with the broath of meale of lypynes and wheate branne.

A lotion or washing for the same.

TAke the fine poulders of Nitre and of sulphure vine, or else of sulphur commune, bayled together, with brused sorell rootes in vinegre, and with a cloath or spunge, dipped in that licoure, rub the places affected, or else cut a Lymond or sowre Orenge by halfe ouerthwarte, and thereon bestowe of that lycoure with those poulders, and with the innerside of oke of those halfe Lymonds or Orenges, rubbe the places affe­cted. Or ese take the foresaide poulders of Nitre and bryme­stone molten togeather, and with a yonge boy childes vrine, or with broath of meale of lupines and of wheaten branne, or with wine (mixed warme) dippe therein a sponge, and bathe and soke the places affected.

[Page] In like manner, mixe Nitre with vinegre distilled or vndi­stilled, or with iuyce of lymondes or of sowre Orenges, or put the poulder of Nitre on the moyst inward part of lymons, or cyterone or sowre Oranges cut ouerthwart, and rubbe the places affected with the iuyce. In like manner, bruse and steepe Nitre and salt, in vertioyce of vynes or of crabbes, and laie one the places affected with Itche, or with Tetters or ringe-wormes or pushes or pimples new come out.

An effectuall plaister and lotion or washing for the Affectes aforesaide.

MIxe Nitre with a yonge boy childes vrine, and with a pestell of fine red copper bray and fret them long to­gether in a morter of fine red copper, set & contynued ouer hoat ashes made hoat by fire or ouer hoat sande, or the hoat Sunne, vntill the mixture doe become thicke, and then so taken out, and put in an earthen glased platter and dryed in the Sunne or ouer hoat sande (still turning it ouer and ouer with a splatter) vntill it corne like to small wormes or at least vntill it be made into fine poulder, and when you will vse it, mixe it with Therebyntine, and applie it in plaister to the af­fectes aforesaide.

It cureth pushes called surferters, skuruie & scalie drie leprees, and filthie maungines, and all such breaking out: Applying it on by night, and one the morning wyping it of with a sponge dip­ped in warme barelie broath, or warmed broath of wheaten branne boyled with brused rootes of mallowes, and the place washed after with rosewater, or with water of flowres and coddes of beanes, or such like.

The same emplaister or washing. Applyed to the foreheade and swolne browes, doth remeadie the swolne browes. Take heede to winke while it is in laying on, and also while it is in washing of, least the sharpenes of the medicine it selfe (or mi­xed with the broath) doe smarte and fret the eyes.

A lotion or lynement for bringing out, and for out­warde healing of the small pockes, measelles, whealkes, and pushes.

MIxe Nitre with iuyces of Hysope, Marigoldes, & Camo­mell, and therewith temper oyle of bitter almondes, and with the lyniment enoint the skinne, or else burne Nitre white (as aforesaide) and quence it hoate in rough tasted wine, then temper it with oyle of bitter almondes, and anoint the bodie, after bayne.

For healiing and sealing vp of rank lepree breaking out.

TEmpre Nitre with vittrioll, and with viridae Aeris called verdegres or greene canker of copper or brasse, and laye it one the places affected, This (if it were with licour or greace, or oyle or gumme) aggreeth verie neere with that working of Nitre in a copper morter, as aforesaide. But either of them are to be washed of with decoction of wheate branne broilled with bru­sed mallowe rootes and afterwardes with rosewater, or other waters of delaying and claryfying facultie.

For opening, riping, drawing and mundifying of carbuncles sores, and for cure of suspecte fellon sores with hollow brimmes, deepe sores, and all vlcers in generall.

TEmper Nitre with Therebyntine and apply it thereto for salue, &c.

A lotion vnto the cankring, creeping and spredding of malitiouse vlcers and sores.

[Page]TAke vinegre drawne through quicke lime afore vnquenched and therewith mixe Nitre, and so wash the sores.

An other lotion, and emplaister to fordoe deformi­ties of scuruie & dry scalie eating lepres, maung, tetters, ringewormes, itches, and deformed neiles.

DIssolue Nitre in stronge distilled vynegre, and therewith first rubbe the saide deformities, and then laie to them bru­sed rootes of sorell, or of Sorell du boys, or of Sowre-dockes, boyled in vinegre, or steeped and tempered rawe in vinegre.

An oyntment to heale the skinne broken out of pu­trified salt fleugme, be it one the face, or elsewhere on the rest of the bodie.

TEmper Nitre with old barowes greace, or else rather with oyle of roses, and waxe in forme of a lynement or smering & therewith anoint the places affected.

An other lotion for the Itche.

DIssolue Nitre and alume with distilled vinegre, or with water of Scabious, and therewith rubbe and washe the places affected.

A lotion or rubbing for Itche, Maunge and Scuruie leprees.

RUbbe the places with poulder of Nitre, mixed with dogges vrine when it may be come by, and it helpeth those effectes,

A liniment to fordoe freckells in the face, & other places of the skinne.

DIssolue Nitre with Galbanum, in strōg distilled vinegre or in iuyce of lymondes or sowre Orenges, and rubbe & smeere [Page 9] the places affected, and after it hath lyen on by night, washe it off euerie morning as is aforesaide.

A drinke for the Iaundyze

MIxe a sponefull of Nitre ech morning with a draught of wine, and drinke it fasting.

A lyniment or lotion for the st [...]yning of the Iaun­dize (after right cure) vsed inwardes

DIssolue Nitre in distilled vinegre, & with a sponge rub & scoure the skinne at night going to bedde, & eche morning wash it off▪ as aforesaide.

A liniment or lotion delicate to fordoe Morphews, darke and white.

DIssolue Nitre with white wine (if not with distilled vine­gre, or with iuyces of Lymondes, or of sowre Orenges) and therewith rubbe the places deformed, at going to bedde, and one the morning wash it of as aforesaide.

Likewise for the white morphewes.

MIxe Nitre with the iuyce of the herbe and rootes of that wilde kinde of Ciquorie, called Condrilla or Caudarilla, or Seralia, but with vs called Dent de Lion, or else take ho­nie with Trociske or paste of the same hearbe and rootes, and temper therewith distilled vinegree, or iuyce of Lymonds, or of sowre orenges, and rubbe the places so steyned, at going to bedde, and in the morning washe and skowre it of, as afore mentioned.

An other lotiō or washing for the white Morphew.

TAke Nitre with creta cimolea (a chalke so named which you knowe) dissolue them in distilled vinegre, and rubbe them in the Sunne vpon the places affected.

For such as are discolered by the sicknes called A­trophia, in that their nourishment is not natu­turally conuerted.

DIssolue Nitre in warme water, and vse it to baine them therewith, it is good for them.

To fordoe the rancke smell of the armeholes, and other the clensing partes of the body, and foldes of the skinne.

DIssolue Nitre in warme water, and with a sponge or lyn­nen cloath dipped therein, bath and skowre awaie the swet and rank humours and fumosities expulsed by nature through those loose clensing partes.

In generall.

TO bayne with warme water, with onely Nitre therein dissolued, or adding what other sortes of medicines simple or compounde, acording the diuersitie of the cause: dath clense, and supple, and smoth, and bewtifie the skinne. And healeth, the Itche, and Maunge, and skuruie or drie skalie Lepree: Reformeth colde and moyst distemperances, Hydropisyes, be­nommings and other diseases of the synewes motiue and sen­sitiue, caused through coldenes, slymines, clammines, con­gelation, clynging, cluddering, stopping, stuffing, compres­sion, distention, contraction, crampes or stitches, and slack­nes or paralisie. Moreouer cureth streightnes of breath and weising in the wine pipes, catarres and distillations from the heade. Remedieth rawnes of the stomak pasted or sobbed with fleugme. Redresseth the cold and ouermoist distemperance of the Liuer, Spleene, Kydneyes, Matrice, and Genitories, deuideth, vnstoppeth, and skowreth away, the slymie cling­ing and pasted chokeings and stuffinges in them moderatlie heateth & comforteth them, & apteth the Matrice vnto concep­tion.

An oyntment for the face, to make the skinne smooth, egall, sticke, and suppell, fordoing the duskenes of the skinne, and yelding the com­plexion cleare transparent.

TAke of seedes of psillium otherwise called Fleworte, a dragme, oyle of Tartar three ounces, steepe them together three dayes in a glased vessell, then put the seedes with the oyle in a little long lynnen bagge bounde strong at the necke, and wring it downwardes betweene two stickes, and gather so the slime or muscilage that commeth through the lynnen, and mixe that slime with an ounce of oyle rosate, and therein dis­solue Nitre and Salgemme, of eche a dragme, so enoynt the face therewith at night going to bed, and washe it of in the morning with rosewater or beane flowres water or broath of wheate branne and barlye meale decoct with Mallow rootes, setled and drawne cleere from the groundes by an hole perced aboue the groundes, or with such like.

An other oyntment to the same purpose & effecte.

TAke oyle of the marrowe of Hartes bones two ounces, oyle of the marrow of a gelded calfe two ounces, oyle of Gourde seedes one ounce, Uenice Therbyntine washed well and often in rosewater halfe an ounce, Goattes suet halfe an ounce, new waxe three dragmes, melte first the waxe in a double vessell as afore specified, then adde and melte therewith the Goates suet then adde and melte therewith y^e Therbyntine, then adde the saide oyles, and mixe and temper them well, then adde and temper therewith the poulders of Masticke and of burned Nitre, of eche two dragmes, and stirre and incor­porate them well altogethrr, taking it from the fire, and still stirring them vntill they be colde, and with that oyntemente enoynte the face at night going to bedde, and in the morninge washe it of with water of wheate branne and Mallowes, as aforesaide.

To cherish the growing of the heares, and to cause them to become fayre and yellow naturally

TEmper Nitre and rawe stamped Lupynes with warme water, and therewith ordinarilie washe the heares and rootes of them.

Likewise for the same.

TAke the fleugme water of Aqua-vitae drawne of wine, and of it, with ashes of the woode and leaues of Iuie burned, make Lye, and with that Lye warmed, dissolue Nitre, and Labdanum, adding oyle of sweete Almondes, of the which mixture (daylie and often during lx. dayes, at eche time war­med) sponge and moysten the heares and the rootes of the heares, and it will yelde them faire and yellow naturally frō the rootes.

Likewise for the same.

TAke the barke or outwarde parte of cane rootes halfe an ounce, and Aphron Nitre, halfe an ounce, mixe them with pix Liquida (it is not Tarre: you cosen, doe know the right pix Llquida) and rubbe that lyniment on the place being of­ten shauen.

An other for the same.

TAke Aphron Nitre, white pepper, Ginger, Muscaerda, or Mousduong, Alcionium (of which I can well furnishe you) ashes of Goates houes, iuyce of Thapsia, and Mirra of eche a like deale, braye them well, and mixe and incorporate them with Goates gall, and vse it as aforesaide, washing it off with Lye of dulce and tender woode or with Nitre sope, which is made of egall patres of sweete sope and of Nitre dis­solued and encorporated together.

For falling off, or pilling of the heares.

DIssolue Nitre with wine Maluesie, or Bastarde, or Mus­kadell, or like sweete wine, and therewith rubbe the [Page 11] places pilde of haire, or which by the heate or itching are like to pill, cisting first those places lightly ouer with the point of a penne-knife, or skratching Skalpell, and after, rubbe and ap­plye thereon, the rawe leaues of beetes, and the vse hereof will bring againe the heare to growe.

To fordoe vermine, Nittes, Skurffe, Dandruffe, Scales, mattring Skalles, and drie Skalles in the heade.

DIssolue Nitre, and terra Samia in oyle of Raddish seedes, and therewith rubbe the places a affected.

An other for the same

TAke Nitre with meale of Lupynes, or with hennes galle, or Partriche gall, or with stronger galle, also poulder of Staphisagre, and distilled vrine of a boye childe, mixe them and let them all season together: And therewith rubbe the rootes of the heares and places affected, and after, washe it off as aforesaide, it doth fordoe those affectes, and clenseth the heares and the rootes of them, and yeldes them a cleere colour.

A medicine to skoure and heale the moysture and mattering skalles of the head.

DIssolue Nitre in white vinegre, or in a boy childes vrine di­stilled or vndistilled, or with iuyce of a Lymonde, & mixe therewith poulder of Olibanum (which is the masculine Frankencence (and rubbe it one the places affected.

Another for the same.

TAke tosted Nitre (which is the seconde way of preparinge afore spoken of) sprinckle it one the places affected, and and rubbe it with a red Onyon, or with Bulbus esculentus, cut ouerchwarte, &c.

An oyntment for the same.

TAke Aphoron Nitre, Frankencens, fine poulder of Lead­dessage, vine buddinges, and Mirrhe, braie them well eche by themselues, and mixe them with vinegre and oyle of Mir­tilles asmuch as sufficeth, so make an oyntment, and vse it to the places affected.

Likewise for the same.

TAke Nitre and Uitrioll of eche a dragme, dissolue them in oyle, and make an oyntment to be vsed for the like effect vp­pon the rootes of darke colored heares, but not vnto such as haue bright coloured heares.

Likewise.

TAke Aphron Nitre, Alume du plume, Staphisagre, Oli­banum, Rocket seedes, Uittrioll, of eche a dragme, Sul­phur viue vi. dragmes, Rue three croppes, braie them fine eche by themselues, and mixe them with vinegree and oyle of Bayeberies, or of Mirtilles, asmuch as sufficeth, and so make an oyntment, to vse vnto the rootes of darke coloured heares, but vnto bright coloured heares, leaue out the Uit­trioll.

An oyntment for skalles on the heade and for dandruffe.

TAke Nitre meale of cicers, meale of Fenegreke, wheate branne, poulder of Mirtilles, and brused mustard seedes, of eche two ounces, oyle Oliue asmuch as sufficeth, vinegre and water, of eche a little, make an oyntement and enoynt the the heade, first shaued and washed and then rubbed drie with a roughe cloath.

A washing medicine for the same.

TAke Aphron Nitre, Uittrioll, of eche a like, dissolue them in warme wine, asmuch as sufficeth, and with a spong dip­ped [Page 12] and wronge out, rubbe the rootes of the heares there with (at the least once euerie wecke) if the heares be blacke.

But if the heares be yellow or bright, then vse this medicine.

TAke Nitre, and whyte Arguill (which as you knowe, is the harde effectes of Lyes cleauing to the sides and heades of white wine vesselles, or Rheynish wine fattes) poulder of a Pumice, and meale of Lupynes, of eche a like deale, boile them in white wine, and vse it with a sponge vnto the rootes of the heares, as aforesaide,

An other oyntment to fordoe Vermine and Nittes in the heade, and other hearie places.

TAke poulders of Nitre, Staphisagre, and of rootes of white elleborus, of eche a like deale, boyle them in asmuch oyle of Radish seedes as sufficeth, and in a bayne (after swea­ting and cleansing of the head or hearie partes affected) rubbe one that oyntment.

An other oyntment for the same.

TAke Nitre, and the red orpyment called Sanderake of eche a like deale, and of Staphisagre, asmuch as of both the o­ther, heate and sifte them fine, and temper them with oyle & vinegre asmuch as sufficeth, and enointe the rootes of the heares as aforesaide.

To cleane the teath.

TAke Nitre burned as aforesaid, vntill it become first black and lastlie white againe, and therewith rubbe the teeth. and it skowreth them and restoreth them their natiue coloure.

For the tooth-ache.

Boyle Nitre with wine and pepper, and holde that licour in the mouth.

Likewise.

Boyle Nitre and brused Leeke seede with vinegre or with wine, and holde that licoure in the mouth.

Or else.

Boyle Nitre & brused Leekes, with vinegre, or with wine and hold that licour in the mouth.

For an olde ache in the head.

TAk Nitre, with the iuyce of the leaues and beries of Iuie and snuffe that mixture into the nosethrilles, ann then shed vpon the head vinegre beaten with oyle Rosate or else Oxir­hodinum.

Or else rather.

Temper Nitre with iuyce of Iuye leaues and beryes and with honie and with oyle of Camomill, and snuffe vp that mi­xture into the nosethrilles.

And therewith also for the same.

Enoint the heade with the saide mixture, tempered with vinegree Rosate, and with oyles of Camomell & of Uioletts, and oyle Rosate Omphacyne, which is (as you knowe) oyle of vnripe Oliues made with buddes of vnripe Roses.

For the eares akeing, & mattering, or hauing noise or hissing or ringing in them. And also to clense the eares from stopping or stuffing, and to a­mende the hearing.

PUt (warmed) into the eares, the saide mixture of Nitre, with the iuyce of the leaues and berries of Iuie, and with the oyles of bitter Almondes, of Cammomill, of Uiolettes & of complet Roses.

Or else.

Mixe and dissolue Nitre with warmed wine, or with Aqua­vitae, or with oyle of bitter Almondes, or with distilled vine­gre, [Page 13] or (onely) with warme water and iuyce of Onyons, and so droppe it warme into the eares.

Or for the same.

Blow the drie poulder of Nitre with a quill into the eares.

For bleared eyes, pynne, webbe, and skarres in the eyes, or for white, growen betweene the circle and blacke of the eye, and to remoue dymnes of of the eyes, and to sharpen the eye sight.

TEmper Nitre with honie of Roses, or else boyle Nitre in wine Maluesie vnto the halfe, and delaye it with Rosewa­ter, or with Endiue water, or else boyle Nitre with figges, in barely water, and put any of those mixtures (colde) into the corners of the eyes.

For bleeding at the nose.

MIxe Nitre with Silphium or Assa fetida, and hold it to the nose to smell thereto.

Or else.

Receiue into the nose, the steme of vapour of Nitre boy­led in water.

To helpe the deformities of the neyles.

DIssolue Nitre with wine Maluesie, in the cuppe or barke of pomegranate, set vpon hot ashes, and dip clowtes there­in, and apply them vpon the deformed neyles.

For cure of the Squinancie or strangles.

BOyle Nitre with Uiolet flowers, and temper that broath with honie of Uiolets, and therewith mixe pix liquida or Cedria, and gargle that mixture, and by little and little, let downe some of it.

Or else.

Dissolue Nitre with broath of Hysope and figges, and gar­gle [Page] it, and by little and little let it downe.

Or else.

Gargle the decoction of Nitre, Uiolet flowers, Lupynes, & poulder of yong Swallowes, and of their nests: myxed with honie of Uiolets.

Also.

Applie outwardes: honie of violets, and oyle of Uiolettes, tempered with Nitre, and with meale of Lupynes & poulder of yonge Swallowes, & of their nestes, and Album grecum, or rather excrementum pueri infantis.

Or else.

Mixe Nitre with decoction of wormewood, adding oyles of Uiolets, and of wormewood, with honie of Uiolettes: and meale of Lupynes, poulder of yong Swallowes, or of Swal­lowes nestes: Album graecum & excrementum pueri in­fantis, and emplaister this compounde outwardes.

For paralisie of the tongue

BOyle Nitre with Sage, and posca: or water, vinegre & salte, and put that mixture to leuen with doa, and so make that doa in bread, and let the patient vse to eate that breade.

For the which also of auncient time: Nitre, hath bene vsed as­well in the leauening and seasoning of breade: as also in the mosting or smering ouer of the breade, when they did put their breade into the Ouen, for to cause the breade baked, to haue a fayre shyning glosse.

For other paralisies and slacknes of the Sinewes, and for priuation of the facultie of sense or mo­uing of the sinewes, and for stitches, crampes, conuulsions, distortiōs, wrying, shrinking, crowch­ing or tying forwardes, backewardes, or side­wardes, of the sinewes, and for all such like [Page 14] greefes or defaultes of the sinewes and faculties motiue and sensitiue.

VSe bathes or fomentations, with sponges or clowtes dipped in the boyling of Nitre in salt water, or of Nitre boylled with water and salte, together with Sage, Lauan­der, Rosemarie, Thyme, Hysope, Organie, Penyriall, Sa­uerie, elder leaues, Danewort, myntes, Horehounde, deade nettels, enula campana rootes, Oken polipodie rootes, or such like, enointing the affected places (first and last) with the Oyle of castorie, or else with the Oyles of Spyke, and of Ma­sticke tempered with the poulder of Castorie.

Or (in causes requiring lesse vehemence) as wrenches of sinewes, or greefe and anguish of sinewes:

Temper Nitre with barrowes greace, or with oile of roses, and waxe, and so enointe the places greued.

A bathe to the feete, verie wholsome for the feete, the sinewes, the head, and all the bodie to be v­sed once or twise weekelie, in the morning or e­uening, before meale, and at going to sleepe.

TAke red Rose leaues, fresh or drie, Cammomell, Betonie, Organie, Sage, Rue and Asarum of eche an handefull, put them into a lynnen bagge, and knit the bagge, and so boile the same in water sufficientlie. Then cast thereto two pounde and an halfe of Nitre, and a fistfull of bay salt (while the bath is yet on the fire) and when they are dissolued in the bath: vse that bathe, sufficientlie warme or temperately hot, it may serue a long while (to be heate and bathed in) from time to time, vntill the licour be consumed.

For stifenes of greefe of the Rompe, the hippe-ache, or Sciatica, or such like.

GIue glisters of Nitre with broath of Daneworte, or of barke of the rootes of elder, and of rootes of enula cāpana ▪

To ease the hurte of other partes of the bodie.

ENOyte the ioynctes or other partes grieued afore a fire or in the hoat Sunne, with flower of Nitre, and fine poulder of brymstone, boyled together in the water of the Smythes trough, which hath gotten qualitie and taste of quenching of fiered yron, and participation of the Seacoale nature.

Or else for the same.

Boyle Nitre with Rue rootes, or with Turnepes toge­ther with leaues and barke of Elder, or Daneworte, and therewith bath or vse fomentation vnto the grieued partes a­fore a fire, or in the hoat Sunne.

For vncumbring and clensing of the Lunges, and breastbulke, and for remedie of hoarsenes, olde coughe, and toughe coughe, stright breath, wei­sing in the windepipes, heauines of the breaste, and sighing.

BOyle Nitre with Hysope and figges, and with that broathe, mixe the iuyce of rawe Colewortes, and licke downe that mixture with a spone, by little and little, holding open the mouth, and leaning backewardes, that the drawe­ing in of the breath may let down the licour by little and little into the weasand pype and Lunges.

Or else for the same.

Take Nitre with iuyce of rawe Colewortes, and Hysope, and vse it as aforesaide.

Or else for the same.

Dissolue Nitre with posca, or with water and vinegre, wherein the hearbe Melissa (otherwise called Apiastrum, commonlie called balme) in good quantitie hath bene stam­ped, and boyled with figges, and with great raysings clensed from the kernelles, and the licour of that broath wrong out, to be vsed as aforesaide.

Or else for the same.

Dissolue Nitre with honie of Uiolets, and broath of balme leaues, and vse it as aforesaide.

Or else for the same.

Dissolue Nitre with iuyces of Hysope and horehound, and with broath of honie, or of figges, or of great raysons clensed from their kernelles, or of iuyce of Liquorice, and vse it as a­foresaide.

Or else for more effect to the same.

Take Aphron Nitre (which is the fine meale or flowre of Nitre) and Galbanum, and Therbyntyne of eche a like deale, mixe and forme them in pilles, the muchenes of a beane, and hold one of those pilles longe vnder the tongue, to mixe there­of asmuch as may be with the moysture of the mouth to des­cende downe the weysande pype as the breath is drawne in the mouth being hold open and leaning backwarde as aforesaide, and lastlie swallow it, and so renewe the like at sundrie times or (if it be lothsome) lappe it in pappe of a rosted apple but­tered with suger, and swallow it downe, and so continew that remeadie to fordoe the olde coughe, weising in the windpipes, streitnes of breath, and heauines of the breast, and sighing.

Likewise for heauines of the Lunges and cause of sighing.

DRinke downe (by little and little) &c. Nitre dissolued with ptizane.

Also for the same.

The vse of Nitre bayne as aforesaide is good for those af­fectes.

To clēse the stomak of filth & encōbrāce of slyimy and clinging humours, & lothsomenes & to re­medie suffocation, windynes, heauing, gnawing & [Page] torment, of the stomake, vnderbulke, and bowells.

A Dragme of Nitre with honie of Roses, or with common honie, taken by the mouth, skowreth downe the fecces and filth of the stomake, and so riddeth the fulsomenes and lothsomenes, and restoreth appetite.

For the same.

Mixe Nitre with Oximel de radicibus, and brused pep­per, and brused Anyseseedes, or Dilleseedes, and poulder of red meadowe Mintes, and poulder of Yreos roote, or of galanga roote, compound them in forme of an electuarie, and eate thereof.

Also for the same.

Make lyniment or fomentation of the region of the stomak with Nitre and iuyce, or decoction of Mintes, Rue, Dill, Cummine, complete Roses, bitter Almondes, and Rue.

For suffocation or strangulation by such sliemy & clinging matter in the stomak or in the veynes or cōduittes betweene it, & the Liuer or Splene.

DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis, or onely with pos­ca, or warme water, vinegre and salt, or else in warmed wine.

Or else for the same.

Make Almond milke of sweete Almondes and bitter Al­mondes, brayed and drawne with the decoction of Nitre, Ca­momel Flowers, Uiolets, Borage, Buglosse, Balme-hearbe red Mintes of the meadow, Roseleaues, and Lazer or Assa dulcis, and drinke thereof.

Also for the same.

In the same Almonde milke and decoction warmed, dippe sponges and make warme bathing or fomentation on the re­gion of the Stomake, Liuer, and Spleene, enointed first with the oyles of bitter Almondes, Camomell, Dill, Rue, and complete Roses.

Likewise for the same.

Drinke a dragme of Nitre, with broath of Rue, red Roses and Dill or Commin, or with the oyles aforesaide, receiue it downe.

Likewise for the torment of the stomak and bowels.

DRinke Nitre, and Balme-hearbe, with warmed wine, or with Ale warmed, or with warme water.

To vnstoppe and discombre the Liuer, from the distentions, stuffinges and chokings of the con­duites thereof.

DRinke Nitre with broath of Cicorie, Endiue, Dent de Lion, adding in the broathe a few red Rose leaues, and on the region of the Liuer, emplaister or enoynt Nitre with oile of bitter Almonds, oyle Rosate, and vinegre of Roses where­in fiered steele is often quenched.

Also giue glisters with the saide decoctions, and with the oyles of bitter Almondes, and of Cammomell, and with ho­nie of Roses: dissoluing therein an ounce of Nitre at a time.

To asswage and ease the swelling or stuffing and hardenes of the Spleene.

TAke Nitre, and Caper rootes, and Fenegreke seedes brayed, with also a curtesie of red rose leaues, fresh or dry. Boyle them in water, adding Rose vinegre, or simple vine­gre wherein fiered steele hath bene quenched, & with sponges or peeces of soft frise, make outward bathing and supyling on the region of the Spleene, enointed first with oyles of Cam­momell, of Dill, of complete Roses, of vnripe Roses, of sweete Almondes, of bitter Almondes, & of Capers, or pro­ceede by degrees & turnes of mollifying, rarifiying, and re­soluing, alwayes mixing the comfortatiues.

Also.

Make an Oximell or syrupe of honie Rosate, or of common [Page] honie well clarifyed, adding vinegre Rosate or simple vine­gre wherein fiered steele is often quenched as aforesaide: boi­ling therin Nitre, Fenegreeke seedes brused, red Rose leaues, & Capers both fruit and barkes of the rootes, & receiue downe by the mouth a sponefull euerie morning fasting.

Also.

Eate downe Nitre with figges and Capers.

Or else.

Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope.

And also for the same.

Make emplayster to the region of the Splene of stamped figges mixed with Nitre, Hysope, and fruites and rootes of Capers, tempred with vinegre Rosate, and vinegre of El­ders, or with symple vinegre, wherein fiered steele hath bene often quenched, and much the better if the place be first as a­foresaide, softened by degrees with hennes greace, or capons greace, oyle of Cammomell, oyle Rosate complete, oyle of sweete Almondes, oyle of Dill, oyle of bitter Almondes, oyle of rootes of Capers, ech after other, alwayes mixing stee­led vinegre, and some oyle of vnripe Roses, or else some deco­ction of Willowe barkes.

Likewise.

Enoynte the region of the Spleene with Nitre, meale of Fenugreke seedes, or of Lupynes, steeled vinegre, oyles Ro­sate Omphacine, and also complet, oyles of sweete Almonds and of bitter Almondes, oyles of Cammomell, of Dill, of El­ders, and of rootes of Capers, or such of them, as (for the purpose) shalbe conuenient.

For gurgling, heauing, and torment of the vnderbulke.

MAke warme bathing or fomentation vnder the bulke of the chest and shorte ribbes, with sponges or with softe [Page 17] fryze cloutes, dipped (one after an other) in white wine boy­led with Nitre, Cammomell flowers, Marigolde flowers, Borage, Buglosse, Languedebeof, Hysope, Dill, Mugwort, Balme-hearbe, and a curtesie of saffron, annointing first the place with oyles of Uiolets, of Cāmomell, of sweet Almonds, of bitter Almondes, and of Roses complete.

Also for the same.

It auaileth to drinke that decoction, with Nitre, and poulder of Amber and Lazer, or Assa dulcis.

Or else for the same.

To drinke Nitre it selfe with sugar, or without sugar were it but with warme drinke, or warme whaye, or warme water.

For the Illiacke passion, (to wit, the torment of the vpper bowels and gutts.)

DRinke the like decoction of Nitre, Cammomell flowers, Marigolde flowers, Hysope, Basill minte, balme-hearbe, poulder of Yreos roote, and Galanga roote, and Lazer or Assa dulcis, adding brused seedes of Parslie, Fenill, Anyse, Dill, and Cummin, and that broath to be made in Almonde milke drawne of sweete Almondes and of bitter Almondes.

Also for the same.

Make outwardlie on the greeued place, a hoat bathing or fomentation with the same decoction: first enoynting on the place grieued the oyles of Cammomell, Dill, and of bitter Almondes.

Likewise for the same.

Drinke a dragme of Nitre in warmed wine, or in other warmed licour, conuenient, with Rue croppes, or with Dill, braunches and seedes, or with Cummin seedes, or Annyse seedes.

For the Collicke passion.

VSe the selfe same remedies inwardes by the mouth: and outwardes by hot bathing and fomentation and enointings [Page] as afore described, for the Ilyake passion.

Moreouer.

Giue glisters of Nitre with the like decoctions and oyles.

For the Hydropsie.

Eate Nitre with figges and Hysope.

Also.

Stampe Nitre with figges and Hysope, and applie it play­sterwise one the bellie and other partes affected.

Or else.

Temper Nitre, with garden Snayles stamped shelles and all, such as feede on hearbes hot and drie, as Rosmarie, Sage, Lauender, Thyme, Organie, Basill, Sauerie, Pe­nirorall, Towne-cresses, Hysope, Parcelie, and such like. Adding fine poulders of Baye-salte, Cloues, Mace, Nutte­mukes, Mastik & Frankencens, tempering them all with vi­nigre Rosate quenched with steele, and apply it plaisterwise, and so let it remaine on, vntill of it selfe it fall of, and then re­newe it (from time to time) vntill the swelling be abated, & the distemperance be amended.

Also for the same.

Giue Nitre in glister with decoction of Daneworte (hearbe and rootes) or of the berries, leaues, and inner rinds of barkes of the bowes and rootes of Elder tree, and rootes of gladen A­corns, or Yreos, therewith boyled, or poulder of either of those rootes thereinto cast.

Also for the same.

Use Nitre baynes made either with the saide decoction, or else at least with salt-water.

For Nitre bayne by qualitie and vertue doth (more effec­tually then salt baine) remedie all colde and moyste distempe­rances, and by the subtilitie and penetration vnto to the depth, [Page 18] doth carrie therewith the vertue of heating, deuiding, vn­stopping, euaporating, and drying, aswell as of dispersing, wasting, extenuating, mundification, abs [...]ersion, skowring, and auoyding. Wherefore, Nitre serueth properlie against Hydropsies, Gontes, dolowres of sinewes, Paralysies, Crā ­pes, Stitches, shorte breath, Cough, thicknes of the eye­sight, sounding & wattring of the eares, Scabbes, Maunge, &c.

For to asswage and abate inflamation, swelling and anguish of the Coddes.

STampe Nitre with great Raysons (be they vnkerneled, or not) brayed verie small and softe, and mixing therewith a competent portion of oyles of Uiolets and Roses, warme it, and applie it in cataplasme or pultes.

To dispare or swage other swellings, inflammati­ons and inflations, or heauings outward.

TEmper Nitre with the pulpe of Casia fistularis, honie of Uiolets, honie of Roses, oyle of Uiolets, oyle of Roses complete, oyle of Cammomell, and iuyces of Cammomell, Marigoldes, and Elders.

And if the euill be inwardes.

Drinke Nitre with broathe of Cammomell flowers, Ma­rigolde-flowers and Uiolet-flowers, adding also Roses, or Cicorie, or Dent de lion, &c.

For Carnosities or knobbes growing in the conduit of the yearde, or in the purse of the coddes.

TEmper Nitre with ashes of vine twigges, and steeled vi­negre and apply it on the outside, and vsing that medicine, it shall disperse and consume those carnosities and knobbes.

To breake the stone in the kidneyes and bladder, & and to vnstoppe and discharge the stuffing and chokeing there, and in the conduits of the vrine: And for mundifying of soores in the kydnyes and bladder.

TAke by mouth Nitre with Oximell of Raddish, adding ho­nie of Roses, or poulder of red Roses.

Or else in like sort.

Swallowe downe Nitre with pulpe of Cassia fistularis drawne with the broth of a Coney farced with Parsley and Cammomell.

Or else in like sorte.

Swallowe downe Nitre and poulder of Rhwebarbe, tem­pred with conserue of Roses, & with Cassia fistularis drawne as aforesaide.

And moreouer also for the same.

Enoynte the region of the Kidneyes and downe from the Reynes aloft by the Hippes and Flankes, as the conduits of the vrine doe descende, and betweene the coddes and the fun­damente, with the fat of Conyes kydneyes, mixed with Nitre.

And also.

Put into the fundament a Suppositorie made with Nitre, fat of Coneyes kydneyes, and iuyces of Cammomell and of Parslye hardened with sufficient quantity of honie of Uiolets and of Roses and tallowe of a bucke Goate molten together.

And also.

Giue glisters in sufficient quantitie of Nitre, with Cassia fistularis and broathe of a Coney farced with Cammomell, Maidenhaire, Parsley, Raddish, Sampier, Saxifrage, and such like, adding honie of Roses and of Uiolets and oyle of Cammomell.

For to supple and dissolue the Cake or hardenes growen in the substance of the Matrice, and for remedie of suffocatiō & tortures of the Matrice, and to open and clense and apte the Matrice vn­to conception, and to procure it the benefit of the ordinarie and monthlie auoidance.

GIue Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell, herbe Mercurial, Hysope, and Mugworte to drinke.

Or else.

Farce those hearbes with Nitre in the bodie of an old Cock weried with longe chasing, and vnfeathered while it is aliue: Then strangled with salte, and cast forthwith into colde wa­ter: and then to be farced with Nitre, and those hearbes: and boyled according to Arte, and giue the broath of that Cocke to drinke.

Or else.

Boyle Nitre with those hearbes, in wine and giue it to drinke.

Or else.

Dissolue Nitre, with Lazer or Assa dulcis, or Belzoynye, by steeping and warming them in wine, and giue it to drinke.

Or else to the poorer sort.

Giue drinke of Nitre it selfe with those hearbes, boylled in warme water, or with warme water mixed with a curtesie of vinegre, or with wine.

Likewise.

Use iniections, or pessaries, into the matrice, of Nitre mi­xed and dissolued with iuyces of Hysope, Marigoldes, Cam­momell, Mugworte, Motherworte, herbe Mercuriall, and olye of bitter Almondes, and therein dissoluing Galbanum, Assa dulcis or Belzoynie, and a curtesie of Ambregrise, or Aliapta museata.

And likewise outwardlie.

Applie emplaisters, or vse enoyntmentes, or bathinges of Nitre with the like herbes, decoctions, gummes, and oyles.

To smooth the wrinckles of womens bellies after childing.

[...]Ray Nitre with the leaues of Idianthose or black maiden­haire in a stone morter, with a boy childes brine, and ther­with let them vse to bath their bellyes.

To bring the blood, and plumnes and supplenes vnto anie member decated and wythered by not receiueing nutriment.

TAke blacke pitche, waxe, and Colophonie of eche thrce ounces, melt them, and put thereunto an ounce of Tharre, an ounce & an halfe of Nitre, three dragmes of Sulphure vif, poulders of pepper, and of Aderge, of ech two dragmes, Bel­zoynie two dragmes, Euphorbium or Catharides halfe a dragme, Labdanum an ounce, oyle of sweete Almondes and oyle Ciprine, of eche an ounce, mixe them according to Arte, and make a liquide sticking plaister syreade on leather to put on, and to plucke of againe often times after it cleueth.

To procure sweating.

DRinke Nitre with iuyces of Cammomell and Marigoldes in warme posset-ale.

Also.

Enointe the skinne with Nitre, mixte with oyles of Cam­momell and of bitter Almondes, and lye downe lapped warme with cloathes.

To stay immoderate sweating.

DIssolue and temper Nitre with poulder of drie Iris, in oyle Rosate Omphacine, adding vinegre Rosate, or other vine­gree steeled, and anoynt the place to much sweating.

To supple and nimble the stifenes and wearines of the lymmes.

ENoynte the lymmes with Nitre dissolued with oyle, and a fourth part of vinegre.

Or rather

Enoynte the lymmes with Nitre onelie dissolued with oyle of Cammomell.

Or else.

With a sponge dipped in warme broathe of Cammomell, and Marigold-flowers, or Elder leaues, boyled in wine or Ale and Nitre therein dissolued: adding hennes greace, or ca­pons greace, or oyle: supple and bath the lymmes afore a fire, or in the warmth of the Sunne.

To preuent the grudg or cold shrugge or shakeing, inuading with the accesse of fits of Feuers.

DIssolue and temper Nitre with oyle oliue, or rather with oyle of bitter Almondes, or of Dill, or of Raddish seedes, or of Nettleseedes, or of Castorie, or of Spyke, or of Nardus, and annointe the chine of the backe, from the nape of the necke downe beneath the shoulder blades, and also the wrestes of the handes and the feete.

Or else.

Afore the accesse of the fit, procure to sweate, according the instructions aforesaide.

To laxe and scoure the bowells.

DRinke Nitre with poulder of Yreos in iuyce of rawe cole­wortes.

Or else.

Drink Nitre onely with iuce of rawe colewortes.

Or else.

Drink Nitre with the first broath of colewortes not ouer­boyled.

Or else.

Drinke downe a large sponefull of poulder of Nitre with warme water or with warme whey, or or with white wine, or with broath of great Raysons, or with warme water and honie.

Moreouer.

Nitre also so taken clenseth the stomacke and bowels of the clinging slymie filth and dirte cleuing thereunto, and riddeth the choking of the conduites and veynes, and warmeth and re­storeth them their natural operation, euaporing the sweltring heate and restoring naturall heate.

For burning or scalding.

TAke Nitre tosted (as aforesaid) vntill it become black, bray it then into fine poulder, and sprinckle it thick on the place burned or sckalded.

For the byting of a madde dogge, and for other venemous byting or stinging.

TEmper and melt Nitre with Roson, or with Therebyntine adding vinegre, and goosegreace, or swynes greace, and applye that treate for the beginning of the cure. And in the cō ­tinuance of y^e cure, driane vinegre through vnquenched lime, and temper that vinegre with Nitre, and with that lotion, soake and bath the wounde, and mixe also that lotion with the aforesarde treate to be still vsed to the cure.

Likewise.

Rube the wounde with Nitre tempered with dogges vrine, when it can be had.

Against the venome of Henbane receiued into the bodie.

DRinke Nitre dissolued with warme water, & with the sin­ger, or with a feather procure to vomite it vp, and so do efte­sones againe and againe.

Against the estonyeng venome of Mandragora taken into the bodie.

FIrst procure often vomite by the meanes aforesaide, with Nitre, and warme water, and honie. Then drinke largely of the bruage of stamped wormewood boylled in Mus­cadeli or Bastard or Maluesie, or other [...]at sweete wine, and the iuyce or broth of the saide herbe well streyned and wronge into the wine: and therein a good portion of Nitre dissolued, and the patientes heade to be sponged with vinegre and oyle Rosate: adding smelles hot and sharpe and Ranke to the nose, and causing the patient to exercise the bodie mightelie, and then also procure sweating as aforesaide.

Against the venome and strangling of vnkinde Mushrowmes eaten.

STampe and strayne the leaues and stalkes of Melissa other­wise called Apiastrum or balme herbe, with Pusca, or with vinegre water and salte, and in strayned licour, dissolue Nitre, and drinke it warme in large quantitie, and procure as afore­saide to yeelde it vp by vomit, and so do often againe & againe.

Against the venome, and vlceration, and strangu­lation and tormente caused by receieuing in­wardes, of Buprestes, or of other Cantharides.

DRinke Nitre with Lazer or Assa dulcis or Belzoynie, dis­solued & tēpred with warme water & honie, or with sweete wine, or with other wine and honie, warmed, and (as afore­saide) yeelde it vp by vomite; and so renewe it often, and then take troeiskes of Alkakengie with Almonde milke, or else take Almonde milke drawen with broth of Lettice, Uiolettes, Borage, Petimorell, Purcelane, Plantaine, great Reysons, the colde seedes, and such like.

Against the venome, and strangulation of Bulles bloode taken inwardes.

DRinke Nitre with Pusca and salte, or with water and vi­negre and salte, or with Aleger and salt warmed, and (after a while, by procurement as aforesaid, yelde it vp by vomite, and renewe that remedie againe and againe.

And vniuersallie, for all strangulations, or suffoca­tions, stuffinges, or obstructions, by anie of those causes, or cluddred blood, or, humors, grosse clā ­mie, slimie, clinging, pasted, or cleuing.

NItre, is an effectuall remedie for all those, aswell by ta­king it inwardes, as also to be bathed, enointed, emplai­stred outwardes. For (as aforesaid) it perceth, deuideth dis­solueth, subtileth, looseth, suppleth, rarifieth, enlargeth, ex­tenuateth, vnstoppeth, openeth, maketh waie, euaporeth, a­uoideth, skowreth, and clenseth, all such collections, congeal­lings, cludeeringes, suffocations, and encombrances, with­out anie extoriation or seltring, which Nitre of it selfe, doth ra­ther heale, then empaire.

And yet moreouer besides the foresaide vses of Nitre in medi­cine, it is seruiceable vnto other vses. As.

For soldring of golde, siluer, or copper, and to yeeld fayre colour vnto golde vnfine.

BRaie or rather fret Nitre, and some Alume du plume, with boy childes vrine, in a morter of pure red copper, with a pestell also of pure red copper, setting the morter ouer hot ashes, or ouer hot sande, or in the hot Sunne, vntill the mix­ture (togethers with the limell or fretting of the copper) be­comme (at the last) thicke & almost dry, then with a thinne chippe (or an other sit instrument) take it out of the morter, and also from the pestell, and drie it in the Sunne, on a gla­sed [Page 22] earthen dish, and so reserue it to be made into fine poulder, to the like vse as golde smythes and coppersmythes doe newe occupie Borace, and it yeeldes fayre colour vnto the mettall, by waie of cemtecing.

For sponginge or skouring of greace, or of filthie spottes or soyle out of silke or lynnen or bomba­zine, or wollen or leather.

SPonge with the foresaide Trociskes of Nitre and Sope dissolued, and vsed hot with a yong boye childes vrine distil­led or vndistilled, or with vinegre distilled, or white vinegre vndistilled, (or more speciallye) with iuyce of Lymondes, or of verie soure Orenges, repeating the doing thereof sundr [...] times if it so needeth.

For skowring and whytting of lynnen cloth, or lynnen yarne.

DIssolue Nitre in sharpe Lie made reasonable hot, & there­in steepe and washe the lynnen cloath or yearne, sundrie times, and lastlie rinse it out (as often as needeth in warme water, and spread and white it in the ayre and Sunne, accor­ding the ordinarie.

For skowring of woll, or of wollen cloath, or of wol­len yearne, from the soyle, greace and fatnes therein: whereby to make it apt to receiue and reteine Die: and moreouer to yeelde it soft and supple.

VSe Nitre in the same maner, first with Lie (rosonably hot not verie hat) and lastlie vse onely Nitre with warme water, and it so effectually suppleth, & softeneth, and rariefi­eth the wolle, and skowreth out the greacestnes and oylynes of the wolle: As (in deede the helpe of winestone named Arguille to fret and drie out the greacesines or fatnes of the wolle) or [Page] yet the helpe of Alume, or of copporas (to gumme the woolle, and to cause it to receiue, or to sooke in and receiue the die) shal be founde not onely superfluous, but also rather harmefulll, to the cloathes softnes and supplenes and fiuenes thereof, in that euerie of them, doe yeelde the woolle harde, stubborne, stiffe, rough, & brittle: So as of auncient time (while Nitre was to be had plenteouslie and of price not excessiue to much a­aboue the others) Nitre was vsed to that purpose, especial­lie, for the most precious cloathes and colours.

For to skowre & supple Buffe-leather, Shamois le­ther, and such like skinnes, to make them to be­come cleane, drie, suplle and soft.

NItre (vsed first with warme Lie, dulce, and not ouer sharpe, and then Nitre eftesones with warme water) doth that busines so well, as none better.

For to taw and make furres, supple and soft.

WAshe them in warme water with Nitre sope (afore des­cribed) & they shall become so softe and perfectlie supple: As (drying them at the fire, or neuer so manie times after wet and dryed) they shall not be hard nor stiffe.