Primroses

Primroses must be distilled leaves and flowers.

Fennel.

Fennel must be distilled both herb and root.

Hysop.

Hysop must be distilled Herbs and Flowers.

Camomile.

Camomile must be distilled Herb and flowers.

Walwort.

Walwort the Herb and the Root, and stamp them.

Strawberries.

Strawberries the fruit stamped with Vineger.

Mulberries.

Mulberries, stamp the fruit, and mix with it Vineger, and so still them.

Wormwood:

Wormwood must be gathered in May, then stamp it, and lay it in strong Vineger to steep, and so still it.

Celendine.

Celendine must bee distilled both herbs, flowers and roots.

Fumetory.

Fumetory must be distilled Herbs and Flowers.

To distil Damask Water.

Take a peck of Rose leaves▪ and three handful of dry Lavender, two handful of Marjoram, one penny worth of Ireos, i. e. Oris pow­der, and Damask powder two ounces, one penny worth of Cloves; put all these things together into two pottle of Conduit water, and let it stand in steep seven dayes, and then still them.

A Water to take out the Sawce or Flegme out of the face of a Man or Woman.

Take a pint of Rose water, and put into it an ounce of good brim­stone, and let them stand so together for the space of six weeks, incor­porating them in a glass; and stir them every day, and let them stand in the Sun the six weeks daily; then take a feather or a faire linnen cloth, and so wash it by the space of fourteen dayes; and it shal take it away outwardly; but the Patient all these fourteen dayes must drink Whey mixt with Water of Fumetory, and that will take away the root and cause inwardly.

To make a Water called Maids-milk, good for the Canker and saucy Flegm.

Take a certain weight of powder of Licorice, and boil it in good Vineger, then take it and still it in a Stillatory, and keep it in a ves­sel of glasse; then take as much of Sandiver and do in the same man­ner, but seeth this in fair clear water, and stil it as you did the other; but you must not still both Waters in one Stillatory, for if you do, the last will be best. And when these Waters be made, put each Water by it self, and when you list to occupy it, put three drops of the one to three drops of the other, and if it be as it were fair curds of milk then it is good. This Water is good to make the skin neshe, and the vi­sage fair, it is good for all risings in a mans Yard, for the Canker and sawcy flegme.

To make a red water that is precious for all manner of sores.

Take tanwesse a gallon, of the first wort a quart, of lye made with wood ashes a quart, vineger a quart; mix all these together, then take a quarter of Roch allom, and a quarter of tops of madder, and mingle them well together, then set them on the fire, and stirre them boiling for a very small space, then put it into an earthen pot and cover it till you need; it is good for all manner of sores both new and old.

A water for divers sores.

Take the urine of male children, or else white wine vineger that is very sowr, for that is best, and put into the vineger wood ashes, and unquenched lime, and seeth them together, until the third part or more be sodden in, then let it coole and stand still till it be clear, then take sal Armoniack, sal Gemme, sal Nitre, and allom plumme of each a like much, make them in fine powder, and cast them into the decoction and stop it will.

This water killeth any canker, it destroyeth wenns, webs in the eye, dead flesh and such like.

An Intret that will heale any wound that is green; the intret must be powred into the wound blood warme. Try it with a Cocks head.

Take a good handful of Betony vervain and pimpernel of each a like much, beat them in a mortar small, and seeth them in a gallon of white wine to a pottle, and then strain it through a strai­ner, and cast away the herbs and put the liquor again into the pot so for to boile, and cast a pound of clean rosen or of clean cood resolved in a little of the same liquor and cast thereto, and let them seeth together, then take an ounce of virgins wax, and resolve it in womans milk that suckleth a manchild, and cast thereto, afterward put thereto an ounce of mastick, and an ounce of Frankinsence, and let them boil together till it be wel melted, then take it from [Page 91] the fire, and put thereto half a pound of Turpentine, and stirre it wel til it be cold, then take up that that fleeteth above, and annoint thy hands with oyle Olive or with fresh grease, and bath it well against the fire as thou wouldest do wax til it be wel mingled, and then keep it, for it is precious.

Ointments to cleanse wounds, and heale and recover the flesh.

Egrimony beaten and mixed with old Bores grease or oyle, and laid upon the sore, purgeth it in an instant; and cleanseth the flesh.

Plantane, Weybred, Hysop, Southernwood, Woodbinds, and Rue.

Wax, Rosen, Hony, Allom, white Frankinsence, Verdegreece and Guilts grease.

Ad vermes excutiendos de quocunque ulco vel vulnere.

Accipe succum lanceolatae, pentorobon, & Egrimoniae, & coque cum melle tamdiu ut spissetur, adde pulverem viti albi, & be­n [...] comistae; tolle ab igne ut infrigidetur, & licinium ibi intinctum, ulco ubi vermis est intromittatur, & post horam exient vermes & in licinio invenies, tunc locus lavetur cum urina pueri virginiis & cum aceto, & extergatur.

Ad probandum utrum caro in ulcere sit mortua vel non.

Fac Unguentum de melle sebo arietino & succo plantaginis, & pone super ulcum, & invenies carnem mortuam nigram, & bonam carnem pulchram.

For a bruise or straine.

Take the grounds of ale or beere, and wheat branne, and chick­weed, and lay it to the grief three times a day upon a red cloth of a reasonable thicknesse.

To make conserve of rhadish roots.

Take the roots and scrape them clean in pieces as long as a fingar, and lay them in water two daies, and change the water two times in a day, at noone and at night; and for ten pounds of roots, take six pound of sugar, and a pint of Rosewater, and a pint of clear water, and boil them together halfe an hour, then put in the roots and let them boile together two hours.

Conserve of Cherries.

Take for ten pound of Cherries, six pound of sugar; and a pint of Rose water, and a pint of common water, and then take your sugar, your Rose water, and your common water, and set them over the fire, and stirre them well till they melt, and then put in your cherries, and let it boile an houre, and then put it up.

Orange parings.

Take the parings of Oranges, and lay them in water three daies, and three nights, and change the water every day once, and then take for four pounds of parings, three pounds of sugar, and a pint of common water, and seeth it together an houre, and then take it from the fire, and let it coole half an houre, and then put in the Orange parings, and let them boile together three houres softly, and then &c.

To make marmalade.

Take quinces and pare them; and pick out the cores and seeth them very tender in water, and strain them through canvas of eight pence the elle, and let them stand in the vessel wherein they be strained, then take of the water that they are sodden in, and take the white of [Page 91] two eggs, beat them, and put them into the same water, then take sugar and put thereto, and let them seeth together halfe a walme, then strain it through a blanket linnen, then put the syrup and the Quinces together, and boil them till they be very thick, and stirre it well for burning, and put it into a box. For two pound of quin­ces one pound of sugar.

For deafenesse.

Take an ounce of oyle of wormwood, and put it in an earthen porrenger, and put to it the green blades of onions shred small, so many as that oyle will cover, set it on the embers, and let it sim­ber a while, then take it off, and strain it, and put it up in a glasse, and drop a drop or two into the ear, and keep it warm stopped with little wool.

For any Ʋlcer.

Take sheeps dung, and shred it smal, and sheeps suet, and shred it smal, and boil them in plantane water, then strain them and put it up in a pot, and make pledgits, and lay to the sore.

A medicine to heale all Aches, except the Gout; and it will ease the paine thereof, coming of any cold. Mrs. Dinne of Heydon.

Take Rosemary flowers, Thime, Lavender, Dill, Baume, Brooklime, Yarrow, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Plantane, Nightshade, he [...]b Robert, Lingua S [...]rpentina, Pollipody of the Oak, Woodbinds, Daisies and Comfrey, of every one of the said herbs two handfuls.

All these herbs must be cut smal, and put into a pottle of ver­juice, and so let the herbs steep in it all night, and the next mor­ning put them into a pan and set them on the fire, then take fine wax one pound, one pound of Collifony, a pint of Oyle O­live, a pound of Pitch, and a pound of May butter; and so seethe all these things together, until they bee well melted, [Page 94] and take heede you stirre it well for running over; then take a gallon of fair water in a clean vessel, and so straine it over the wa­ter, and there let it remain until it be cold, then take May butter, and oyle olive, and make it up in rolls.

Probatum est.

A Medicine for the Rheume to drink dayly, or when you will.

Take a handful of Rosemary, a handful of sage, and a handful of Betony, bind them together with a thred; and when your Ale or bear hath wrought, and is ready to be clayed or bunged up, then put in the herbs with a nutmeg finely beaten in powder; if your vessel contain above six gallons, then put in two nutmegs, and keepe it close stopped till you drink it, this is most excellent by ex­perience against the Rheume.

The receipt of the green oyntment; good for Stitches and Aches.

Take Rue, Sage, Rosemary and Bay leaves, of each halfe a pound, of Camomile and Dill, Lavender, pick of each two hand­fuls, chop all these smal, and beat them in a mortar so small as you can, and put to them three pints and more of good sallet oyle, and stirre them together, and put them into an earthen panne co­vered, and let it stand nine dayes, then put them into a broad pan, and put thereto three pounds of Deer suet, or else so much of Sheeps suet that hath been sweetly tried; but you must put in the suet first with the herbs, then let them boil together upon a soft fire, al­waies stirring them with a hasel stick, until you feel the herbs pearch­ing, which wil ask three hours or thereabouts; then take them off and straine them into some other pan, and so save them in pots or boxes while you have occasion to use them: this is to be made in May or June for all the year.

For a Stitch.

Take the leaves of he Hull for the man, and for the Woman the leaves of the shee Hull, and air them very dry, and beat them to pow­der, and put thereof in your broth or drink, that is very good to br [...]ak the Stitch be it never so great.

To make a Pompillion which is good for all manner of Aches.

Take a gallon of popler buds before the leaves be fully grown, beat them in a mortar, and put thereto four pounds of May butter; beat them all together and let them stand a rarifying nine dayes, then boile it softly and strain it through a strong lin­nen cloth put into an earthen pot, and preserve and annoint the place where the ach is.

The Black Salve.

Take of wool oyle one pint, of white lead finely beaten and searced one pound, of Wax halfe a pound being cut in sma [...] pieces, then set the wax and oyle upon the fire, until the wax be melted, then put thereto the lead, stirring it alwaies upon a soft fire, having regard lest you spill thereof in the fire, for if you do you lose all, for it will not leave burning till all in the pan be consumed: and when it hath boiled til it be changed as black as pitch, then take it off and coole it in the aire, stirring it still til it be so stiffe you can stir it no longer, then you may take it out and make cakes therof, and keep it for your use. This salve is good for the Ach in the back, or for any other place of the body, for the Gout and swelling in the leggs, if you take a linnen cloth and dip it in, being melted and made hot, and so apply it to the place, keeping it thereto so long as it will abide on; then you must take anew and use it in the same wise and so apply it, until you find ease; it is also very good for bruises and sores.

For the Canker, never so great.

Take a good handful of Woodbind leaves, the flowers, pick them but wash them not, and a handful of red Sage of vertue un­washt, stamp them both together in a mortar, straine out the juice as hard as you can, put it into a little pipkin, and put thereto as much allom as a good hasel nut, and a quantity of English honey, boile these all together and stirre it stil, and as it doth rise, scum off the white scum stil with a feather; and when it is well boiled▪ take [Page 94] it off, stirring it till it be cold, and when you will occupie thereof, take a little and warme it in a sawcer and annoint the place with your finger, eating nothing in an hour after, and if the Canker be very much eaten, then use to annoint it also before you goe to bed, not drinking after it.

For the stinging of a venemous beast, or biting of a mad dogge.

Take five or six dragon leaves, or some of the roote, stampe therewith a little bay salt, and lay them on a cloth to the place that is hurt.

For the black Jaundies.

Take for one man three penny worth of liquorice, two penny worth of cummin, three penny worth of red fennel roots with the crops, a good handful of white endive, a pottle of good Ale; take the liquorice and the Cummin, searce them and beat them, beate the red fennel root with the crops thereof, and the handful of en­dive, boil them in the Ale from a pottle to a quart, give it to the patient to drink it as warm as he may drink it, he must not drinke in four hours after if he may forbear it, and must exercise himselfe all the day after, that he may have occasion to sweat.

An excellent good Balme.

Take of the best Aqua vitae halfe a pound, of the clearest Tur­pentine six ounces, of oyle of Roses one pound and a halfe, of Ole [...]m P [...]tros [...]linum one ounce, boil them all together til the Aqua vitae be consumed, adding in the end a quarter of an ounce of fine allom, as much mastick beaten into smal powder: and last of all in as subtil powder as may be made of Verdegreece, a quarter of an ounce, ever stirring it, but boile it no longer after the Verdegreece is in; if you keep it in a glasse stopped, it will last twenty years in his vertue; when you will have a wound glue quickly together, warm this balm in a sawcer, and with a little lint wash the wound; then close it together, and in a short space it wil incarne and glue the wound together, if it be your chance to slit a wound, wash if first [Page 97] with this, and it will cause it to grow together in short time.

For the worms.

Take Aloes Saccatrin [...], Harts horn burnt and beaten to powder, worm-seed, of each a like, and drink it with Muscadine or Malm­sie; you may take it in a Caudle.

For a pin and web.

Take a handfull of Hemlock, and stampe them small, put thereto a good deale of bay salt, and beat them together, if the pinne and web be in the right eye, bind it to the left wrist, if in the left eye, to the right wrist.

A Gargle for the throat.

Take a few Plantane leaves, of the stones of raisins, of the rind of pomegranates, seethe them in faire water, and straine them; then put thereto a little clarified honey, and seethe it a­gaine.

To make oyle of Worms, which is good against wrinches and shrinking of sinnews.

Take a pottle of good sallet oyle, four handfuls of red Rose buds, the yellow cut away, two handfuls of the flowers and leaves of dil, set them in the Sunne a rarifying, then take a pint of worms called the towches, slit them, and scowr them in water, and then in white wine; boile them in the oyle with the h [...]rbs on a soft fire a good space, then strain them and preserve it in pots; it wil be kept seven yeares.

For the Frenzy.

Take the juice of Smallage, verjuice or vineger, oyle of Vio­lets or roses put together in a vessel of glasse over the fire, and lay it hot to the patients side, but scumme it first.

For Tetters.

Take hannybee burnt and made in powder, and mingle it with the juice of the root of affodil, and it wil be a sufficient ointment for it.

A Medicine to lay to the wrist for the Ague.

Take Featherfew, Sage and bruise them, an half penny worth of pepper, a little spoonful of Chimnie soot, and the white of an egge, mingle them together, and lay it to the wrist.

For the Canker.

Take a pint of Woodbind water, a spoonful of honey, as much roach Allom as a hasel nut, and two or three crops of Rosema­ry, as much Sage, and the rind of a pomgranate, and let them seethe together until almost halfe be consumed, and then wash the sore withal three or four times every day luke warm, til it be whole, with a fair linnen cloth, and his finger, and so rub till it bleede; but at every washing he must change his cloth, and this wil heal it.

Probatum.

To heal or cleanse any old or new wound or sore.

Take greene Ashen bowes, and burn them to ashes, then take three pottles of running water, and so make thereof lie, then take that lie and put therein one pottle of Bartwaies, then set it on the fire, and take one pound of roch allom, and halfe a pound of madder and beat them to powder, then put the powder into the lye, and let it boil till half be wasted, and let it stand nine dayes, and it will be clear and fine.

For sinnews that be shrunk.

Take three spoonfuls of water of snailes that beare their hou­ses on their backs, and as much womans milke, as much May­butter, mingle these together, and make an ointment, and lay it to the sore.

To make a common Glister.

Take mallows, violet leaves, beets, mercury and parietary, of every of them a handful, of wheat bind an handful and a half, and boil all these together in a little water till they be tender, then presse them and strain them, and to a pint of the decoction, put an ounce of Cassia Fistula ready drawn, two ounces of clarified honey, the weight of a groat of salt, and three ounces of sweet sallet oyle, all these well mixt and conveniently, it may be well applyed for a glister.

To stanch blood.

Take parsley, and bray it with the black colly of a brasse pot tha [...] is used to the fire, and lay it to the wound or broken veine; or if you bleed at the nose, put it into your nose.

To cure the bloody flux.

Against the bloody flux of the wombe, mingle a little sugar and a dram of mastick at the most, and give it to the patient, and after that give him Rose water, or wine, or mastick that cloves have beene sodden with.

For them that pisse blood.

Take Ambrose, Saxifrage, Parsley, with the rootes of wild tansey and water cresses, even portions, stamp them all together, and strain them, and temper it with a young Cows milk, and drink it four or five times morning and evening; this is a principal medicine.

To make one sleep.

Take five or six spoonfuls of womans milk which giveth a man­child suck, as much red Rose water, mingle them together; then take a cloth the breadth of the forehead, and the length to the tem­ples, and wet the cloth therein, and when it is wel wet, wring some­what of the liquor out, for over much wetting the face, and so lay the cloth over the temples, and ever as it drieth wet it again with the liquor.

For the same.

Take womans milk, red Rose water, and vineger made of red wine, and mingle them all together, but somewhat lesse of the vi­neger then of the other, and the medicine is very good if the heat be very great.

For the same.

Take a spoonful of oyle of Roses, as much Rose water, halfe a spoonful of red vineger, temper them all together, and with a soft cloth annoint the patients forehead.

A Water for the eyes.

Take a stone which you shall buy at the Apothecaries, called Lapis caluminaris, burne it in the fire at the least six or seven times red hot, then quench it in white wine, then beat the stone to powder in a morter till it be fine, then put it into the wine and strain it together through a fair linnen cloth, when it is cold, put two or three drops into one of your eyes, and lie still up­on the same side so long as you can, then dresse the other eye as be­fore, you must take of the stone the quantity of a big walnut to a pint of wine, and seeth the stone together with the wine till halfe be consumed, then put it in a viol of glasse, and it wil last six months.

For the same: proved.

Take Lapis Caluminaris halfe a pound of the whitest you can get, burn it in the fire red hot, then take a pint of white wine of Anjou, and put the stone in the wine, and let it lie therein till it be cold; againe put in the fire as hot as before, put it into the wine, then take it out and let it dry, and then grind as much as you intend to do or occupie of it, into powder very smal, take the powder in a pewter dish the quantitie of a nut, and put thereto halfe a pint of the said wine so stirred, put it into a glasse bottle un­wickered, and when you occupie it, shake it, and with a feather put it into your eyes two or three drops, holding after your eyes very close, lying upright, not going into the wind two hours after, and in the heat of the year lay out the stone in the Sun, and it will preserve it.

A water for a running Canker.

Take two gallons of faire water, and almost a peck of good ashes, boil it til you have a strong and slippery lie, then take it from the fire and straine the liquor from the ashes, set the liquor to the fire againe, and put to it a dish ful of bay salt of a pint, a handful of wormwood, as much Centry, a quarter of a pound of white lupines, boile them all together a good while, when you use it, make it hot, and take two pretty bolsters of cloth, foure times double a piece, wet the bolsters in it, and wring it in your hands somewhat dry, and bath it so sundry times at a dressing, then say on your clout and roll it up all hot: you shall know a Can­ker or a Gangrena by the stench.

To make a purgation for a dog.

Take an ounce of Simcodds of Alexandria, you must lay them in steepe in a quart of running water; you must bruise your Simcodds, put thereto an handful of Mercurie, of violet leaves and mallows a handfull of each, the weight of two groats of annis seeds bruised, they must lie in steepe all night, in [Page 102] the morning take them out and seeth them from a quart to a pint, you must take halfe a pound of blanched Almonds beat and strained with the said liquor; when you will give it him, you must put in an ounce and a halfe of Syrup of Roses, and luke warme, fasting, give it him, and he must fast after it three houres.

Mr. Docter Coldwell his medicine for the dropsie. Approved.

Take very strong Alewort, five or six gallons, one ounce of Annis seed, three ounces of Carrot seed, three good roots of Har­tichoak wel washed, then slit them in pieces, then must you put your seeds and roots into the Alewort in an earthen vessel, so set it on the fire, and let it not seeth too fast, but until halfe your liquor be spent, then must you cleanse it through a strainer, and so set it a cooling; then you must put very good yest in it; all this being done, put it into a sweet pot, and by any meanes drink no o­ther drink til you be whole: This Medicine helped one Wye of Kent.

A medicine for the Cough.

Take a quarter of a pint of Malmsey, and a good quantitie of fresh butter and a Nutmeg, and put it in a fair dish, so boil it on a chafingdish of coales till it come to be a salve, and so annoint your stomack with it against the fire; then take a Colewort leafe and hold it against the fire, and take a little butter and melt it, and with a feather rub it over the leafe, and so lay it to your stomack, and it shall cure you. Proba­tum.

To make a Tysand for them that be stopped in the stomack.

Take a gallon of fair running water, halfe a handful of outlan [...]sh barley, or three handfuls of English barley, hull [Page 103] it as you doe wheat to make firmity: take a stick of liquorice cut small and bruised and scraped, two spoonfuls of annis seedes and bruise it, also a handful of parsley roots scraped, and the pith pulled out, and cut in pieces an inch long, half a score of figgs clo­ven into halfes, a pound of raisins of the Sunne the stones pul­led out, halfe a pound of prunes, a quarter of a pound of currans; put all these things into the water aforesaid, and let them seeth til half the water be consumed, then take it and strain it into another pot to boile it again in, and put thereto a little vi­neger and Rose water, so much as you shal think fit, a pretty deal of Sugar candy, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, and a little Set­wel, and let them all boile a while together, and drink thereof blood warme morning and evening first and last, and you shal find great ease.

An approved Medicine for a swelling.

Take womans milk, and the pap of an apple, the crums of a Manchet, and make thereof a poultesse and lay it to the sore, and for a quinsie you may put thereto a little sallet oyle or oyle of Roses.

To stanch bleeding of a wound.

Take the powder of brown paper, and put thereof into the wound and lay upon it upon it the white of an egge.

A medicine for the heate of the eyes.

Take a new laid egge open at the top, and put out all that is in it, and fil the shel ful of the juice of housleek, and let it boile upon embers, and scumme it with a feather, boiling it til it be very clean, then put to it as much allom as the quantity of a hazel nut while it is boiling, and then wash your eyes there­with.

A medicine for the plurisie.

Take a handful of flax seed, and seeth it in milke till it be thick like a salve, and spread upon cloth, and lay it to the same side where the paine is two or three times, till the patient find ease.

A medicine to stanch blood.

Take the dung of a hog hot, and apply it to the wound, and it will stanch the bleeding presently.

For the same.

Take unset Isope and stamp it and strain it, without washing, and put it into the nostrils of the partie, and so into the wound or any o­ther place that bleedeth.

For a Canker or an old sore.

Take a pottle of white wine, as much running water, a hand­ful of plantane leaves, a handful of hony-suckle leaves, a handful of Betony, a handful of Rosemary, and a handful of Broome; boile all these together till halfe the liquor be consumed, then put in a penny worth of Allom, and when all is boiled together, put in a penny worth of Camphire, and preserve the same in a strong earthen pot.

A medicine for the Ptisick of the Lungs.

Take a gallon of sweet whey, a handful of Solomon, roots and all, a handful of Avent roots and all, and two handfuls of Longwort which groweth in a garden, roots and all, an handful of Bullocks song­worts, of the youngest leaves; then take your whey, and cla­rifie it on the fire, wash the herbs and scrape the rootes very cleane, but slit the rootes of the Avents and the Longworts, then seeth them all together in the whey, until one quart of the [Page 105] Whey be consumed, and drink thereof when you go to bed at night if you can, and in the morning fasting. Use this all the month of May.

A Medicine for wind or hurling in the head, or an Impostume.

Take a handful of Marigold leaves, stamp them and strain them, then take a little black wool, and dip it into the juice of the Mari­golds, then put it into your eare, preserve it so that you warme it not.

An excellent Plaister for all manner of aches, for as soon as the Plaister is on, the ache is gone.

Take unwrought Wax two pound, Deers suet half a pound, Fran­kinsense four pound, Cloves two ounces, Mace two ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Rosen, Turpentine, running Pitch four ounces, melt that which is to be melted, and beat the rest to powder, mingle them well together on a soft fire, except the Cloves, Mace and Saf­fron; then take a pottle of red Wine, and by little and little poure it into the Salve, stirring it well together, when it is molten, strain it into a clean pan; then strow in your powders, Cloves, Mace and Saffron, stir it well together a good while, and let it stand till it be cold; then make it up in roles; when you have occasion to use it, strike it on leather, and lay it on the sore place.

A Vomit for short breath, or stopping in the Brest.

Take a dram and half of powder of Betony, with five measures of water, that is, about a goblet full, and drink it fasting.

A Medicine for the Collick passion.

Take two drams of the powder of Betony, with three or four Pep­per cornes, drink these with old wine warmed.

A Medicine for the Bloody-Flux.

If it be by weakness of heart, or disposition to swound by heat that is in the members of the bulk, take Sugar of Roses with Rose water.

A Medicine for faintnesse of the heart or swounding.

Drink Rose water, and bedew your face therewith. Also Rose water is good to put in Oyntments for the face; it taketh away spots and smoothes the skin: and dry Roses smelled at the nose, comfort­ [...]th the braine, and quickneth the spirits.

To stay Vomiting.

Seeth Roses in Vineger, and wet a spunge therein, and lay it to the stomack.

A Medicine for the Falling Evil.

Seeth three drams of the juice of Rue, with a little wine, and give the Patient to drink.

A Medicine for a sudden swelling or strain.

Take milk and new cowe dung, and boil them together till it be thick, and then make a Plaister, and lay it to the sore till the swelling be asswaged.

The Kings Medicine for the Plague.

Take a handful of Sage of vertue, a handful of Herbagrace, a hand­ful of Elder leaves, stamp them in a Mortar, and strain them through a linnen cloth with a quart of White-wine, and a quantity of White wine-vineger; mingle all these together, and drink thereof a spoon­ful every day nine dayes together; and after the first spooneful you shall be safe for twenty four dayes. And if it fortune that one be strucken with the Plague before he hath drunk the Medicine, then take this aforesaid with a spoonful of the Water Scabious, and a spoonful of Betony water, and a quantity of fine Treakle, and put them all together and drink it, it will expel all the Venom; and if it fortune the Botch doth appear, then take the leaves of red bram­bles, and the leaves of Elder, and Mustard-seed, and stamp them to­gether, and make a Plaister thereof, and lay it to the Sore, and it will draw out all the Venom, and so cure it by the grace of God.

For the Mother.

Take three or four handfuls of Fern that growes upon houses, and seeth it in Rhenish-wine, then put it into a linnen cloth, and so hot as you may suffer it, lay it to the Navil four or five times.

To make one sleep.

Take powder of Mastick and temper it with Vineger, and annoin [...] the pulses of the head and hands.

For a shaking Ague.

Take an earthen pot with hot water, and let the Patient lay him­selfe downe and cover him warm, and this pot fast at his feet, and it will put away the shaking.

A Medicine to stop a Lack.

Take a new laid egg, and put the white clean away from the yolk, and put to it half a spoonful of Aqua Composita; you must stir them well together, and give it the Patient to sup up, and it will stop it.

A Water for a sore mouth, or any other Sores.

Take a handful of Daisies, as much of Violet leaves, a handful of Avens, and as much of Sowthistle, a little Mugwort, a handful of Bryar leaves, and a little Rosemary; seeth all this in running water, and put a little Allom in the seething, when it is half sodden away, then put three pence weight of the powder of Bole armoniack, a little honey, and so let it seeth a walm or two, then strain it, and in time of year put in Rose leaves, and Columbine leaves.

A Medicine for the Morphew in ones face.

Take new milk, the crums of white-bread, Red-rose leaves caked, and a Lemmon or two shred, steep them altogether and distil them in a Limbeck and use the water as is appointed.

A Medicine against Melancholy.

Take the bone in a Harts heart beaten into powder and drink [...]t in White-wine.

To make a Derge for the Lungs.

Take a quantity of Anniseeds, and Licoras, Alla Campana, Su­gar Candy, Date stones, of every one a like, a little Ginger; take and beat all these in a mortar, saving the Date stones, beat them by themselves, and then sift them through a searce, and it will be powder.

For bleeding at the Nose.

Take half a pint of running water, and a pint of milk new from the Cow, two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water and a little Sugar, and seeth it unto a pint, and then drink it in a morning fasting luke-warm.

For the Flux.

Take Plantane seed, and drink them either with Beer or Red­wine morning and evening for two or three dayes.

For the Morphew.

Take Fumetory, and make thereof a posset, and drink of the pos­set Ale in the morning fasting, sweating two hours after it; after sweating, take and drink the powder of Sene, and Anniseeds, and Sugar, sodden in Ale, a good draught the same morning.

Then take a new laid egge steeped in White-wine-vineger twen­ty four hours, and prick the same egg and annoint the Morphew with that which cometh out.

A Fume for the Head, to be applied to the Ear.

Take a quart or more of White-wine; boile in that a good handful of Camomile Herbs and flowers together, two spoonfuls of Commin seeds bruised a little, then put all this boiled into a stone pot or jug, with a narrow mouth; you may make a cover of paste for it, or of clay, and a hole in it to put a Swans quil therein; through this quil you shall take the Fume so hot as you can suffer it in at your ear; and so long as the liquor doth send any hot breath, which will be about half an hour, then with a warm linnen cloth wipe away the moisture from the Ear, and stop it with wool, dipped in Oyl of bitter Almonds warm: do this in the mornings only, and let the wool abide in the ear till the next morning.

Another Fume of Vineger, to be applyed at the Nose.

Take a pint of White-wine-vineger, put to it two spoonfuls of Bean-flower, and let it stand. Use it thus:

Take a tile stone or brick red hot out of the fire, and powre a lit­tle of this Vineger being stirred (that the flower may mingle with it) upon the tile or brick; hold your head over it, and take the fume at your nose five or six times every morning and evening; this should be done in your Bed-Chamber, that the fume may alter the aire thereof also.

Another Fume to be taken at the Nose.

Beat Amber into gross powder, and pot so much as you can take up with two fingers upon hot embers; take the smel thereof only at your going to bed, and let your night-quoif be perfumed with it.

An excellent Mellilote Plaister for hard swel­lings or to cure sores.

Take green Mellilote bruised, ten handfuls, boil it in a pottle of White-wine to the wasting of half the Wine, and strain it; then put thereto of Rosen one pound, of Wax as much, sheeps tallow four ounces, of Turpentine three ounces, of Mastick one ounce; and boil all save the Mastick unto the wasting of the juice more then half; then bruise other six handfuls of Mellilote, and put them to while it is boiling, and stir it well till it hath had one walme or two; then take it from the fire, and strain it while it is [Page 110] hot through a strong cloth until the stuff and Gums with the juice be all come out, and when you may handle it, put thereto your ounce of Mastick finely powdered; then make it in roles, mingling your Mastick in the handling thereof.

To make Oyle of Hemp, good to drive out the Ague from any outward part of the body.

Take green Hemp gathered in May and shred it very small, then boil it in fresh butter, till you think the strength of the Herb be boil­ed out therein, strain it through a cloth into some pot or pipkin, and annoint the place where the swelling or Ague is, with the Oyntment [...]hafed in against the fire.

To make Oyle of Swallowes, good for all manner of Aches.

Take ten or twelve young Swallowes ready to flye, stamp them in a stone Mortar with their feathers and guts together, with Lavender Cotten, Balm, Speermint, red Sage, Camomile, Wild Strawberry leaves and wild Time, of each a handful; but let these herbs ly one day unwashed after they be gathered; and then stamp them all toge­ther with the Swallowes til no feather be left whole, put thereto a good quantity of May-butter or fresh butter, and let all stand one night in the Mortar; the next day boil all these together very softly three quarters of an hour or an whole hour, then strain it through a clean linnen cloth into a clean Vessel, and keep it for your use.

An approved Medicine for a sore brest, or an Ague sore, that will both draw and heal.

Take the yolks of four new laid egs, put thereto a spoonful of Vi­neger, of Oyl of Roses three or four spoonfuls, of Bean-flower one spoonful, stir and beat them well together that no flower be seen, then set it on a few coales keeping it stirring till it be somewhat thick, then if the brest or sore be hard or swelled, annoint it with Oyl of Roses, or the thinnest of the Plaister with your hand very warm▪ and make a Plaister of the stuff and lay it on the sore so far as the hardness or redness goeth, so warm as they may well suffer it, and keep it warm, [Page 111] dressing it thus every day; and if it be taken in time, it wil heal it with­out breaking.

A Soveraign Water for an old Sore.

Take six penny worth of Roach Allom, and as much green Co­peras, put them in an earthen Vessel and boil them on a strong fire of coals so long until it be grown to be a stone; then take a pretty piece of that, and beat it into powder, and set on a quart of fair run­ning water upon the fire, and when the water is ready to seeth, put in a little of the powder, and it will fry like Oyl, and so long as it doth fry, put in a little and a little, for when the water is strong e­nough, it will fry no more; then take a little of the water and wash the sore, but it must be luke warme, and then wet your lint in the same; but if it be an old sore that is festered, and full of dead flesh, put of the powder into the sore.

A Soveragn [...] Remedy to draw out a thorn, or for an old sore, the Gout or Siatica.

Take Rosen half a pound, and as much of Perrosen, of Virgins wax half a pound, of Olibanum four ounces, of Mastick 4 ounces, of Camphire 3 drams, of Turpentine 3 ounces. Then take all your gums aforesaid, every one by themselves; then take your tallow and your wax, and relent them together on the fire; that done, put your Rosen, then your Perrosen, then your Olibanum, and last of all your Ma­stick; and when all is relented together on a soft fire of coales, then strain it through a strong canvas cloth with two sticks so hard as you can into a pottle of White-wine, then relent it over the fire a­gain; and then take it off and let it cool, and when it is almost cold, annoint your hands with Oyl of Almonds, and work it into roles like roles of Wax; and in the time of working thereof, cast in your Camphire beaten into fine powder; you must beat two or three Almonds finely scraped with your Camphire, or else a wild nut beaten together.

An Oyntment good for Aches, Bruises, Stiches, Cricks, Gouts and lameness, and starkness of sinewes.

Take in May Sage and Rue of each one pound, Bay leaves and Wormwood of each half a pound, Rosemary two handfuls; all these Herbs must be shred so small as may be; then put thereto, of sheeps suet clean picked from the skin three pound, fine shred also; then stamp all these in a Mortar of stone so long til they come unto one substance, then take it forth, and put it into a fine b [...]sen or pan, and put thereto of sweet Oyle Olive a pottle, and work it well together, that it be well mixed; then cover it close, that no aire come unto it the space of seven dayes; then take and set it on a soft fire, and let it seethe softly, alwayes stirring it till the leaf or herb be parched; then strain it through a canvas cloth, and after put thereto of the Oyl of Spike one or two ounces, and stir it, and when it is cold, put it up in fair broad mouthed pots, and reserve it for your use.

For a green Wound or cut.

Take Valerian a good handful, and stamp it with White wine, that you may stamp out all the juice; then take Rosen and beat it to powder, and put the juice to the Rosen, and then boil them together, then take it off the fire and powre out the liquor from it, and take half so much Wax as Rosen, and Sallet Oyl only as much as you think wil suffice to melt all together with a soft fire; then take it off the fire, and put in a spoonful of Turpentine, and stir it together, and keep it.

To make Oyle of Exceter.

First you must gather a pound of Cowslip-flowers in May, and picked clean, you must put them into a fair Vessel of glasse, and so much Oyl Olive as will cover them, then cover your glasse close until you may gather all these herbs following; viz. Calamint, Saint Johns wort, wild Sage, Egrimony, Southernwood, Wormwood, Pe­niroyal, Lavender, Pellitory of Spain, Parietary, Rosemary, Camomile, Her [...]ff leaves, Bayes, the youngest Lilly flowers, Wild-Oliver, Sin­green red Mints, of each a handful; all these Herbs must be gathered in the midst of June. Then put them all in as much White-wine as will cover them, but first dry the blossomes from the oyl between your hands; then stamp all your herb [...] together, and seeth them in the Oyl, and then steep them in white-wine one night, then put the Oyl [Page 113] and them together, and seeth them til a quantity of the Wine be boiled away; then strain them and put the oyle in a glasse, for there is no other vessel will hold it.

When you do boil these herbs, you may put more Oyl to them; It is good for all old Diseases that are in the sinews, for wrenches, strains, or any old disease.

To make Swallowes Oyntment.

Take twenty Swallowes, Camomile, Lavender Spike, Balm, Strawberry strings, Valerian, Tutsan leaves, Sages of Arfice, strings of Vine, Roman Wormwood, French Mallowes, knotted grass, Wal­nut leaves, Howfe, Ribwort, Rosemary tops, Honey-suckle leavs, Plan­tane, red Rose leaves, Lavender Cotten, tops of Bayes, of each a handful, stamp them all together, and then put in halfe a pint of Sallet oyl, and a quart of Neatsfoot Oyle, halfe a pound of Cull [...]n Wax and some cloves beaten small, then boil it on the fire the space of six hours, and then strain it through a canvas cloth into a dish till it be cold, and make a little hole in the middle that the water and bloud may soak out.

To make a green Salve to heal any sore.

Take a pound of Rosen, half a pound of Turpentine, one pound of Cullen Wax, or Maiden Wax being not wrought, halfe a pound of Sheeps tallow molten and strained, twelve spoonfuls of fine Sallet Oyl, and melt all together on the fire; then take Smallage, Plan­tane, Orpine, Bugle, Valerian, of each three handfuls, and a good handful of Rugwort; chop all these smal, and grind them af­terward in a Mortar, then put it into the liquor on the fire, and let them seeth all together on the fire half an hour, and in the seething put a good quantity of Rose water, then strain it through a canvas cloth into a dish or platter.

A precious Salve for a sore, wound or malady.

Take Rosen and Perrosen, of each half a pound, of Virgins Wax and Frankinsence, of each a quarter of a pound, Mastick one ounce, Hearts tallow a quarter of a pound, Camphire two drams; melt that which is to be melted, and powder that which is to be powdered, and searse it very fine, and boil them over the fire, and then strain them over the fire through a canvas cloth into a pottle of White-wine, then boile the wine with the other Ingredients together; then let it [Page 114] cool till it be no hotter then blood, then put thereto a quartern of Turpentine, evermore stirring it til it be through cold; but ever­more beware your stuff be but blood warm when you put your Tur­pentine to it, for if it be hot, it marreth all the stuff; and make it up in roles, and keep it to your use. The best, and most precious Salve that can be made.

It hath these properties, It healeth old and new wounds, it suffe­reth no corruption nor ill flesh; it healeth all head-aches, all singing in the brains, all Impostumes in the head or body, swellings in the ears or cheeks, sinewes, stomack, or sprent, pricking with a thorn, it draweth out broken bones, it helpeth the bitings of venemous Beasts, it healeth all manner of Botches, Festers and Noli me tangere, ache in the liver, reyns or spleen, swellings of members and Inflammations.

An Oyntment for one that hath a bruise from a horse.

Take Elder flowers, and beat them smal in a Mortar with Bean­flower bolted very fine; grind them together til they are very smal, then take them forth and put them in a glasse, and put thereto Sal­let Oyl, and so let it stand until you have need of it, for the older it is, the better it is; and therewith annoint the Patient against the fire.

A perfect way to cool and help the liver, and to take away the pain of the heart-burning.

Take Endive, Succory, Burrage, Buglosse roots and leaves of either half a handful, green Polipody, Poppey roots two ounces, twelve Damask Pruins, one ounce of Currans, seethe them in three pints of fair running water to a quart, then mingle with it one ounce and an half of Sene leaves, half an ounce of fine Rubarb sli­ced, and tye it slackly in a piece of fine linnen cloth; seeth them to­gether ten or twelve walm [...]s; then take it from the fire, and when they be almost cold, strain them easily through a cloth, but crush be­tween your fingers hard three or four times the Rubarb; then min­gle with this liquor the juice of Lemmons and Sugar, so much as will make it pleasant. Take at the first the quantity of half a wine pint luke warm fasting, and fast two or three hours after it; if it give above three stools in one day, drink less the next day.

To make an excellent good Water for many Diseases.

Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine, then take Ginger, Ga­lingale, [Page 115] Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Mace, Anniseeds, Fennel seeds, Carraway seeds, of every of them a dram; then take Sage, Mints, red Roses, Time, Pelitory of the wall, Rosemary, Wild-Time, Wild Marjoram, Penniroyal, Camomile, Lavender, Rosasolis, Adments, Piony, Montane, of each a handful; then beat all the Spices smal, and bruise all the Herbs, then put all into the Wine, and let it stand stil therein twelve hours, stirring it divers times. Then stil it in a Limbeck, and keep the first water by it self, for it is the best; then will there come a second water, which will be good, but not so good as the first Water, which must be kept likewise by it self; and this water will be the better, if it be set in the Sun all the Summer; and you must draw of the first Water but a pint, and of the se­cond as far as it will run.

For the Stone.

Take the blood of a Fox and make it in powder, and drink it in Wine, and without doubt it shall destroy the Stone; and if you wil not believe, take a stone and put it into the blood of a Fox, and it will break.

To make Balm Water of the best.

Take two gallons of strong Ale, two pound of Balm, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, and a quarter of a pound of Licoras bruised in­to powder; put all these into a pot, and let them stand twelve hours stopped very close; after it hath stood so long, then still it in a Lim­beck; but in any wise you must take heed your fire be not too hot at the first; save the first half of the Water by it self, for that wil be the best; and after the first half (so neer as you can ghesse,) is stilled, take away the fire for the space of half an hour, and then adding to it again a soft fire, the rest will be a quart, and that is the most it will make in the whole.

A Water for the Plague.

Take Rue, Egrimony, Wormwood, Celendine, Sage, Bawm Rosemary, Mugwort, Dragons Pimpernel, Marygold, Fetherfew, Bur­ ▪net, Sorrel, and you must have them of like weight; then soak them in the best White-wine you can get two or three nights, and after wring the herbs from the Wine, and distil the Herbs by themselves; and after still the Wine, and this is good for Agues; put it not to the water of the herbs, for that with a little Treakle or Mithridate shall drive away sickness from the heart.

For a prick with a thorn.

Take Southernwood, and stamp it and mingle it with Boars grease and lay the same to it, and it wil both draw and heal.

For the swelling to take it away.

Take a handful of Mallowes, and almost half a handful of Chick­weed, shred these small, and seeth them in a quart of fair running water, and thick them with Barley meal, stirring it till it be thick, then lay it unto the swelling twice a day as hot as the Patient can a­bide it.

To make a Balm, which will heal a green Wound within four and twenty hours.

Take two spoonfuls of white Turpentine, and one spoonful of run­ning water, and beat it together until it be very white, a little Oyle of Roses, and beat all these together, and you may keep it good four­teen dayes, but no longer; if it be a wound, dip lint in the same, and lay upon it▪ if it be a thrust or prick, make a Tent, and dip your Tent in the same.

For burning or scalding.

First wash the wound; take Sage and seeth it in running water, and it will take away the heat immediately; then take Sage and Hartstongue and Sheeps dung, and fry it with Sheeps suet, and an­ [...]oint it with a feather.

For the biting of a mad Dog.

Take Garlick, Salt and Rue, and stamp them all together after the manner of a Plaister, and lay it to the wound, and give the Patient Treakle to drink three times a week.

For the biting of a Hound or Dog.

Take Mint, and salt it well, and lay it to the wound, and it shal heal wonderfully fair.

For the cutting of Sinews or Veins.

Take knot worms▪ and stamp them, and lay them to the wound in Plaister wise.

To stanch the strong bleeding at the Nose.

Take an eg, and put out all the meat, and set the shel in the fire un­til it be black, and then make fine powder of the same, and with a quil blow it into the nose, and it will stanch the bleeding.

To make a Water to help Sheep, though they be infected.

Take a pottle of running water, and put therein a good handful of Herbagrace, and as much Ground-Ivy, and as much of the greene pill of Elders, the outside being first scraped away; then boil all these together til it be a quart; then strain it, and wring the juice well out of the Herbs; then put the water, and three penny worth of Treakle, and a penny worth of English Saffron beaten fine, and stir them all well together; then give to every sheep two spoonfuls of the same Water.

An approved Medicine for the Stone.

Take a gallon of new milk from a red Cow, and thereto put one handful of Pellitory of Wall, one handful of Wild Time, one hand­ful of Saxifrage, and a handful of Parsley, two or three Rhadish roots sliced, a quantity of Phillippe Pendelow, roots and all; steep all these in the night, the next morning distil the milk with the Herbs, with a moderate fire.

The use of taking the Water.

Take of the Water six spoonfuls, and of Rhenish or White-wine five or six spoonfuls, a little Sugar, and some slices of Nutmegs, make it luke warm, and drink it fasting, and fast after it three hours, using temperate exercise; take twice or thrice together every fortnight if need requireth.

For uncurable aches, and pains in the Joints.

Take all the whole horn that a Buck casts off, the later, the better, cast away the scraps, leave nothing but the horn, cut the same in pieces then seeth the same in a gallon of fair water til it be come to a pint, or something more, then cast away the pieces of the horn, and then let [Page 118] in the vessel stand until it be cold, which then will be like a jelly. And when you will ocupy thereof, warm some of that in a sawcer, and then annoint the place therewith by the fire morning and even­ing, and let that drink in by the heat of the fire, and it will heal in nine or ten dressings. This is very true.

For falling or bruising a mans body.

Take Egrimony, Betony, Sage, Plantane, Ivy leaves, Roses, Parsley, stamp them together, and mix Wine thereto, give it the Patient of­ten to drink till he be whole. A true and tryed Medicine.

For the Palsie.

Take Lavender and seeth it in running water, and then strain it, then drink half a pint daily first and last for the space of a fortnight, and it will heal them.

For the Ach in the huckle bone, called the Sia [...]ica.

Take a pound of good black Soap, one pint of Aquavitae, halfe a pint of Sallet Oyl, and a quarter of a pint of the juice of Rue, seeth them all together over an easie fire, until it be something thick, & that it may be made in a plaister, then spread some thereof upon a piece of leather, and apply it to the ache or pained place, and let it ly thereon three dayes and three nights, and then if the pain be not gone, apply such another plaister thereto, and let it ly as long as the former, and it wil help it certainly.

To take the Ague out of any sore.

Take an ounce of Fennegrick, as much of Lin seed, two or three spoonfuls of Wheat-flower, a pint of new milk; beat the seeds several, and boil them til they be in thickness that you may spread it in man­ner of a plaister.

An approved Medicine for the bloody Flux.

Take a pint of Milk newly milked or more, and the inner rind of an Oaken bark, and some of the inner rind of a black thorn, and three roots of Plantane, three roots of wild Daisies, the powder of a Panter so much as you can take upon an Angel, and two or three sprigs of Time, then boil them a good while all together, and then put therein some sticks of Cinamon, and half a Nutmeg, and a little Sugar can­dy, so let them boil, and then take three sheets of fair paper, and break them, and let them boil with the rest, and then put in eight or nine bramble leaves, and then take another sheet af paper, and put therein, [Page 119] and three little pieces of wheaten bread, and let it boil after a good while, and strain it through a cullender into a cup, and drink it fasting in a morning, at noon and at night for the space of two or three daies together.

To make Oyl of Cream for burning or scalding.

Take a quart of Cream and seeth it til the Cream be divided from the Whey, and then scum off the Cream, and lay it in a fair dish, and when you wil use of it, take a little of it in a sawcer; and melt it, and then annoint the place that is scalded under your Ivy leaves and up­on them, but first you must boil your Ivy leaves till they be soft, and lay them on the fore twice a day.

To make Aqua Mirabilis & pretiosa.

Take Gallingale, Cloves, Cubebs, Ginger, Cardamoms, Mace and Nutmegs, of each one dram, and of the juice of Celendine eight ounces, and mingle all the powders with the said juice in a pint of A­quavitae, and three pints of White-wine, and put all these together in a Stil of Glasse, and let it stand so all night, and on the morrow di­stil it with an easie fire as may be.

Of all Waters this is the best, for it dissolveth flegm in the Longs without any grievance, and healeth and helpeth the perished Lungs, and for other divers griefs about the stomack and the Lungs, a most approved water. In the Summer use one spoonful once a week, and in the winter two spoonfuls.

To make Rosa Solis Water.

Take a gallon of the best Aqua Composita, and put it into a gallon glasse, and put thereto a pottle of the herbs called Rosa Solis cleane picked, and put it in the Sun three or four dayes being close stopped, then take an ounce of Cinamon bruised, an ounce of Ginger bruised, a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruised, two sticks of Licorice scraped and bruised, one pound of white Suger candy, and twenty Dates cut in smal pieces, and put them into another gallon glasse, and put thereto your Aqua Composita, strained from your Rosa Solis.

To make Aquavitae.

Fil a pottle ful of clean red wine, and put therein the powder of Ci­namon, Cloves, Ginger, Parietary, Nutmegs, Gallingale, Spikenard, Mace, Quinbilois, Grains, Sage, Mints, Rue, Calamint, Long-pepper, [Page 120] Carraway, Pennyroyal, Cummin, Fennel seeds, Smallage, Parsley, Horewood, of each a like quantity, of Dragons more or less as you wil have it: stil all the waters in a Limbeck with a soft fire; and look that the Stillatory be wel luted or pasted, so that no aire get out, and make your fire of coales, and reform the water out of a Limbeck into a glasse.

For all manner of bruises, swellings and broken bones.

Take Brooklime, Chickweed, Mallowes, Smallage, Groundsel, stamp them with Sheeps tallow, Swines grease and Cummin; put ther [...]to Wine Lees and Wheat bran; fry them together, and lay it to the grief hot.

A Drink good for Bruising.

Stamp Egrimony, Bitony, Sage, Plantane, Ivy-leaves and Parsly together, mix Wine therewith, and give it the Patient often to drink.

Against Burning.

Stamp Maidenhair, and seeth it in fresh butter, strain it, and annoint the Patient therewith.

Another.

Beat Oyl Olive with water til it wax very white, and annoint the place therewith, or take black or gray Soap and lay it to the sore.

An Oyntment for burning with Gun-powder, or scalding.

Take a quart of Boars-grease, two handfuls of Groundsel, two or three heads of Houseleek, and stamp the Herbs together, then put to it two handfnls of Sheeps dung new, and two handfuls of Goose dung, stamp them all together, and fry them, and being hot strain it into an earthen pot, and with the liquor annoint the burned place.

An excellent Receipt to make Wormwood-water.

Take two gallons of Sack-Lees, two gallons of Ale, half a pound of Licoras, halfe a pound of Annisee [...]s, four handful of Wormwood, [Page 121] one handful of raisins of the Sun, and nine or ten figs, and let them stand one day and one night, and then stil them in a Limbeck.

In the curing of a wound five things are to be observed or noted.

First, To take away the thing that sticketh in the wound, as arrow, bullet, thorne, or any such like thing.

Secondly, To joyne those parts of the wound, which do not shut or close together.

Thirdly, To keep close that which you have so shut together.

Fourthly, To preserve the substance of that part.

Fifthly, To stay and mitigate all evil accidents.

A potion to stanch blood.

Take Lapis hamatites one ounce, Bole Armoniack, Dragons blood, of each an ounce, Manus Christi an ounce, Plantane water two ounces, let a potion be made.

To stanch blood outwardly.

Take Frankinsence and alloes, of each two ounces, the white of an egge, Rose water a little, and beat them together, then take fine flax, and some hair of Hares skin, and make a pleget, and dip it in the aforesaid liquor, and then apply it unto the wound.

Another way to stanch blood.

Take Bole Armoniack one ounce, Terrasigillata one ounce, of flower of wheat three ounces, of Gypsus and slaked lime, of each four ounces, of Frankinsence and alloes, of each one ounce, make thereof a powder, and mix it with the white of an egge, and use it accor­ding to art.

To break the Plague sore.

Take bramble leaves, elder leaves, and Mustard seed, stamp them together, make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the fore, and it will draw out the venome, and heale the sore.

An excellent medicine for a Plague sore.

Take a Cock Pullet, Chicken or Pidgeon, and pluck off [Page 122] the feathers of the taile and rumpe, then lay the bare of the pullet to the sore, and the pullet wil gape and labour for life, and at the length die, and continue and lay other pullets as long as any die, for when the poison is drawn out, the chicken that is laid to it will live, the sore presently will swage; the first pullet will make the plague sore very soft, whereas before it was very hard, and the other wil draw out the venome.

To make King Edward the third his Pomander against the plague.

Take of Labdanus fined one ounce, of Storax Calaminta dissol­ved, Roses, Cloves, Mace, of each half a penny weight; of Amber one penny weight, of Cinamon and Camomile the weight of five pence, and dissolve them to powder, of musk one penny weight; you must dissolve the Labdanus with Mirrhe and virgins wax, and all things as is aforesaid made to powder, and mingle them together with oyle of bay, and let them be heated on the fire, then let it stand while it be cold, and make your balls of what quantity you wil.

To draw the sore of the plague.

Take two Lily roots, and a handful of sowre dough, two handfuls of mallowes, one handful of linseed, stamp all these together smal, and boile it in a quart of wine lees til it be thick, then lay it an inch thick upon leather broaderthen the sore, and let the borders of the lea­ther be plaist [...]red with Shooe-makers wax to make it cleave, and it shal bring out the botch in 24 hours, and break it shortly.

For the Plurisie.

Take brook-lime, sheeps suet, and a little fair water, fry them together in a frying pan, and make thereof a plaister, lay it to the patients side, and it wil draw out the corruption; the best remedy against the Plurisie is to be let blood.

A good medicine to bring forth the smal Pocks, Meazels or purples

Make a posset of Ale with milk the curd being taken off, put therein a handful of red fennel, and the same being sodden toge­ther, strain it; put thereto a quantity of a Nutmeg, of fine treakle, a little setwal, and a little English Saffron, and being mingled to­gether, give the patient to drink warm.

For him that cannot hold urine.

The braine of an Hare given in wine to drinke, causeth the patient after divers times received, to hold his urine; Filberts roasted are wholesome against the distillation of the same; the like doth Galingale beaten to powder, and drunk with a little white wine or Ale; also the lights of a kid eaten, and some part plaister wise thereof bound about the Navel, doth with-hold the distillati­tion of Urine.

To take away the spots of the smal Pocks.

Take an ounce of Oyle Olive, half an ounce of Venice Turpen­tine, half an ounce of Sperma ceti, melt them together when it be­ginneth to boil, take it from the fire and let it cool; rub therewith the black spots, and continue the same til the holes be filled.

For the Quinsie in the throat.

Take elder leaves, bay salt and Cummin, beat it together, and put it in a cloth, and lay it to the grief warme, and let it be chan­ged once in 24 hours, and it wil cure you.

To purge the reins.

Wash halfe an ounce of Venice Turpentine, in plantane or Rose water, then mix that with fine Sugar, make thereof four or five balls, and eat three fasting in a morning; some use to drink a little white or Rhenish wine after.

To destroy a ringworm.

Take a red dock root and pare it, and then lay it in vineger till it be wel steeped, then rub well upon the ringworm; if the ring­worm be very rank, take powder of brimstone and put it in vinegar, temper them wel together, and [...]ub the ringworm withal, and it wil destroy it very quickly.

Another for the same.

Take Gumme with which you make ink, put it in vineger, and let it remain there until it be melted, and then annoint the ring­worm therewith, and it wil destroy it; but there is nothing better then the leaves and juice of Wicotiane.

Against the Rheum in the Head.

Stamp the roots of white Beets, and strain the juice thereof into a glasse, and put the quantity of half a spoonful thereof into your nose fasting in a morning, closing your eyes in the time of the working thereof, and stopping your nose, it shall break the rheum into your mouth abundantly, opening the passage of the head without grief; beware that you let not the rheum go down, but spit it out, lest it of­fend your inner parts.

An excellent Medicine for Sinews that be shrunk.

Take a handful of Smallage, as much of Mallows, stamp the herbs together, and mingle them together with Neats-foo [...]-oyl, and let them so stand five or six dayes, then boil it a quarter of an hour, and strein it through a cloth, and anoint the Patient therewith.

For a cold Stomack.

Take a crust of brown bread, and toste it against the fire so hot as you can suffer it, wet it well in strong Vineger, and lay it to your stomack.

For the Winde in the bottom of the Stomack.

Take the branches of Fennel, stamp and strein it, put thereto a little Treakle, white Sugar, Anniseed-powder and Cinamon-powder, mingle it together, and eat of it many times in the day.

Good for the Stomack.

Red Mint, red Rose leaves dryed, Cummin, Sugar, Sage, Worm­wood, Mints, Calamint, To vomit every quarter, or in great Hunger: To stand after meat, take Galingale, Nutmegs, Pepper, Mastick.

A Medicine for a Stitch.

Take Malmsey luke-warm, and the powder of Cummin, and drink it.

To asswage a sting or present swelling.

Anoint the place swelled with oyl de Bay, and after that is dried in, take new Butter, white Wine and Bean-flower, thick it upon the fire, and make a Plaister thereof.

A Medicine not onely to cure or break the Stone, but also to purge the same, that you shall never be pained with the same again, if you use the same daily.

Take the rowes of red Herrings, and prickle Holly leaves, drie them in an Oven, and beat them severally to powder, then searce them, and put them together (of each a like quantity) then put to it the powder of Grounsel and Broom-seed, of each half as much as of the other powders; mingle all these powders together, and drink in white Rhenish-wine, Ale or Beer, morning and evening, a good spoonful of this powder: you may use this powder in Broths or Pot­tages, the oftner the better; you must keep the powder alwayes drie in a pipkin by the fire, or otherwise.

To cause one to sleep.

Take four spoonfuls of pure Rose-water, and as much Vineger, two spoonfuls of oyl of Roses, half a handful of Rose-leaves made in powder, then take crums of leavened wheaten bread, and make a Plaister of all this, and lay it cold upon the Temples and fore-head.

Another.

Take a Rose- [...]ake upon a Chafing-dish of Coals, with a little Vi­neger, sprinkle a little powder of Cummin on the Rose-cake as you warm it, then lay the Rose-cake to the Temples of the sick, and it will cause sleep, and ease the head-ache.

For a Strein.

Take Pisse, and put thereto Brook-lime and Sheeps suet, [Page 126] and boile them wel together, and bath the patient therewith so hot as he can suffer it, then lay the herbs upon a red cloth and lay it to the strain very hot.

A salve for wounds and sores to draw, cleanse and heal wounds of sinnews, joynts, impost humes, Cankers, and to draw out a thorn or Iron.

Take of Betony, Vervain, Pimpernel and plantane, of each a handful; stamp these herbs together, and seethe them in a gallon of wine, until two parts be consumed, then strain it and set it on the fire again, and put thereto pitch, rosen and virgins wax, of all the quantity of a pound, by even portions, and three drammes of Ma­stick in powder, and seeth it til it be thick, then take it from the fire, and put thereto a quantity of Turpentine, stir it til it be cold and use it.

For cooling of a sore.

Taking the juice of Sorrel, Marigolds, and mallows, and as much vineger as the juice is, wet a cloth therein, and lay it to the sore, and shift it as it drie [...]h.

For scabs, itch, and wormes.

Annoint your self with the water that droppeth from the vines.

For wambling of the stomack.

Take fennel and smallage roots, of each a like quantity, min­gle them with wine, and drink thereof.

A good powder for the strmack.

Take powder of fennel, Annis-seeds and Elicampana, temper them with Aqua vitae, and dry them again, and eat a quantity thereof evening and morning. This Powder breaketh flegme, ope­neth the brest, and causeth good digestion, and causeth him which useth the same to look young again.

An excellent Se [...]recloth.

Take two penny worth of oyle of Turpentine, then weigh it, afterwards take Bores grease, sheeps suet, unwrought wax and ro­sen, of each so much as the oyle of Turpentine weigheth, remember to clarifie the bores grease, and sheeps suet, but each severally; then melt all together, and keep it close to use.

An excellent medicine for the Stone.

Take broomseed, ash-keys, hop-berries, otherwise called wilde eglantine, stone crop, saxifrage, orange pills, the lights of a Fox, the crops of red thime, the crops of red nettles, the crops of red oaks in the spring, and elder flowers; dry these eleven by the fire, beat them to powder, and put of every one the like quantity together, and mingle them wel, take hereof at a time as much as may be contained in a hazel nut shel, and put it into a cup of ale or beer (as you like best to drink) over night, and let it stand covered, and in the morning stir it wel and drink it fasting, and afterward use some moderate exercise, and abstain from meat and drink three or four hours.

For the Stone in the reins or bladder.

Take the shel of an egge where a chicken hath been hatched, bea­ten to powder, this drunk with white wine, breaketh the stone in both places.

It is held for a great secret, that a piece of glasse burnt seven times, and seven times quenched in Saxifrage water, afterwards beaten smal, and drunk in white wine, breaketh the stone wheresover.

For swelling about the fingers or nails, or the joynts.

Take flower, the yolk of an egge, hony and Hogs grease, beat it to powder together, and make a plaister.

For a sore Throat.

Stamp Collombine and Cinquefoile, and strain them with milk and drink.

To draw out a thorn.

Take the bark of Hawthorn, and seeth it in red wine, til two parts be consumed, then pour out the wine and stamp the bark small, and temper it with bores grease, fry them together, and make a plaister, and apply it so hot as you can suffer it.

To fasten the teeth, and cleanse them.

Wine or water wherein the leaves of a damsen tree, or the rind of the root hath been sodden, fastneth the teeth, and keepeth the mouth from all paine.

To cleanse the Teeth.

Seethe the roots of vervaine in old wine, and wash your teeth therewith, and it wil cleanse them and fasten them.

For the Tooth ach.

Dry Ivie berries and beat them to powder, put it in a fine linnen cloth, and lay it to the aking tooth.

To pluck out a tooth.

Seeth the brains of a Hare in red wine, and therewith annoint the tooth, and it wil fall out without paine.

To make a Tooth fall out without paine.

Put in the hollow tooth ashes of wormes, or of Mousedung, or of a Backs tooth, or put in the juice of great Celendine, o [...] the brain of a Patridg, and annoint the tooth on the outside; or the pow­der of red corral put into the hollow, wil make it fal out.

Another to cleanse the teeth.

Take Sage, wild Marjoram, Rosemary, of each one handful, pel­litory of Spain, Ginger, cloves and Nutmegs, of each the weight of two French Crownes, sprinkle it with white wine; still it and wash your teeth therewith.

Another.

Rub your teeth with honey, and the ashes of a vine that never [...]are grapes, or steep mallow roots a day in water, afterward wrap them in paper, and dry them in embers, or else put them in the o­ven when the bread is drawn out, rub the the teeth therewith, and continue it, for there is nothing that lesse offendeth the teeth, and cleanseth better in time.

To cease vomiting.

Take red mints, sage, womans milk or Cows milk, stampe and straine it together, give it to the patient to drink cold, and the vo­mit shall cease.

A powder for the Collick and Stone.

Take wild Thime, garden Thime, Meadow parsley, garden parssy, ashen keyes, watercresses, red mint, stone crop, growel, of each a like much, dry them like hey, and beat them to powder, and [Page 129] let the patient drink thereof in posset ale or caudel, and it wil helpe him of the collick presently.

To make a Searcloth.

Take a pint of sallet oyle, halfe a pound of red lead finely bea­ten, boil these together til they be black, then put to it a quarter of a pound of virgins wax shred small, and let it melt, then dippe your clothes in it and smoth them, and keepe them for Sear clothes, but before you put in the virgins wax, drop some of this upon a sawcer, and if it come off clean, then it is boiled enough, and when your clothes be dipped, hold them over a panne of water, till they be cold, then stretch them out upon a board wet with milk, and sleek them with a sleek stone, then roule them up and keepe them for very good searcloths to lay to any sore when it is near whole, to draw the ach and venome from the bone, and it is good to dissolve any hard swelling.

To make Rosemary water.

You must use this water in all points, as you do the balm water, but in stead of balme you must take a pound and halfe of Rosemary flowers, tops and all, and as much red mint, you must lay some bricks or weights upon the cover of the Limbeck, or else the strength of the water wil burst it open; you must keep the body of the Lim­beck very temperate with wet cloths, and keep cold water in the top of it.

To make Cinamon water.

Take a gallon of Gascoine wine, one pound of very good Cina­mon and bruise it, one pound of fine sugar, one handful of Borage flowers picked from the green husk, one handful of red Roses the white taken from them, one handful of Buglosse flowers; lay all these in steepe four and twenty hours in a brasse pan, stopping it ve­ry close, that there can come no aire out of it, then set it upon the fire, and when it begins to seeth, set on your Limbeck, and stop it very close with rie paste, remembring when it is very hot, to put out that water, and put in cold, laying on the out side, and on the bottom of the Limbeck wet clothes.

To make Irish Aqua vitae.

Take to a quart of raw Aqua vitae, a quarter of an ounce of Ginger fliced, a few raisins of the Sun stoned, two or three Nut­megs sliced, a good quantitity of Sugar, halfe a dozen of Cloves [Page 130] bruised, three or four good sticks of liquorice bruised, three or four dates sliced, you must let it stand 14 or 15 dayes before you drink it, and then it wil come to his colour, the older it is, the better it is.

For the clearnesse of the sight of the eyes.

Take Fennel, Vervain, Roses, Celendine and rue, of each two ounces, and distil water of them, for this water is wholesome for all manner of sore eyes, and it is called water Lambard.

A medicine for an Ach or sinnew that is shrunk▪

Take a handful of the tops of Rosemary and Camomile, take them and chop them small; boil them in a posnet, and put in a good deale of Aqua vitae, and a good deale of May butter; and when they be boiled, strain them.

For an Ancombe.

First take halfe a handful of herb grace, a good halfe handfull of ragwort, two or three parsley roots, blades and all, and take out the pith, stamp them with Bores grease with a little bay salt, and so use it to the patient.

For the pain or heat in the eyes:

Take seven roots of daisies, leaves and all, and half a handful of pearl wort, and seven plantane leaves, wash them all clean, stamp them and strain them into the white of a new laid egge beaten well together, take a little flax and wet it wel in the same, and when you go to bed, bind it on with a cloth, likewise two hours in the mor­ning before you rise.

To make the smal Pocks come forth.

Take two penny worth of Saffron, and put it into two little b [...]gs, and lay it under the arm holes, and it shall bring them forth.

An excellent powder against the worms.

Take of the best Aloes Cicatrina, of the lesser centry, of worme seeds, of each an ounce, of dried wormwood halfe an ounce, make them into fine powder, and give it either in Malmsey or milk, the quantity which is to be given, is from hal [...]e a dramme to a dram [...] and a halfe.

To clear the voice.

Mustard seed put into dry figs, and given to the patient to eat in the evening, doth dissolve the grosse humors, openeth the stopping of the lights and the conduits of breathing, and cleareth the voice.

To make vineger.

Put into your wine a little salt, pepper and sowre leaven min­gled together; or heat a tile or steele often, and put it in wine▪ or put in a rhadish root stampt, or put the roots of beets stampt in­to the wine; but you must not have your vessel full of beer or wine that you mean to turn to vineger, for if the vessel be full, it will hardly turne the vineger.

A Water to digest melancholy.

Take Borage, Landebeef, i. e. Bugloss, Harts tongue, Calamint, Centurie, Scabious, Thime, Isop, Savory, Mugwort, Rose­marie, the flowers of the tenderest Woodbind, of each a like quan­tity; distil them and drinke the water morning and evening, first and last.

To cleanse blood.

Take Borage, landebeefe, Fumitory, Scabious, Tor­mentil, the roots of parsley, Rosemarie, pimpernel, avens, Mar­joram and Baulme, distil them, and drinke thereof morning and evening.

A water to coole the liver.

Take Endive, Liverwort, Pennyroial, Fumetory, Scabious, Sorrel, water of Lillies, Borage, Sanders, Lettice, Pu [...]slane, Vi­ [...]lets and red vineger, and distil it.

For all manner of Worms.

Take grownsel and plantane with the rootes, stampe them and straine them with Malmsey, give it to the Patient to drinke [...]hree dayes together, and it wil kill all manner of wormes.

For Worms.

The scraping of a Harts horne drunk in a little vineger▪ [Page 132] killeth the wormes or else the rind of a Pomegranate, and the roots of an ash sodden in white wine or ale, of each a like quan­titie and drunk fasting in the morning, killeth the worms wonder­fully.

For a wound that is healed above, and sore underneath.

Take barley meale, the white of an egge and honey, and mingle them together, and make a plaister therewith, and apply it to the fore.

To bring wounds that rankle, into good temper, and to cease the burning and aking.

Take the juice of Smallage and plantane, of each a like quantity, honey and the white of an egge, a like quantitie; put thereto boulted flower; and stirre it together til it be thick, let it come to no fire, but apply it cold to the sore, and it wil cease the aking, cleanse the wound, and heal it fair, and bring it into very good temper.

An hasty healer of wounds.

Take Frankinsence, and as much fine rosen beaten to smal powder, and put thereto a little oyle of Roses, and mingle it well till it bee soft like oyntment, and apply it with lint.

To make a drink that healeth all wounds, without plaister or ointment.

Take Sanacle, Millefoil, otherwise called Yarrow, and Bugle, of each a like quantitie; stampe it, and temper it in white wine, and give it to the patient to drinke thrice a day and it wil cure him; for bugle keepeth the wound open, and yarrow cleanseth it; but Sanacle may not be given in any case to him that is wounded in the head, for it will kil him; but it may be given to him that is wounded in any part of the body else, and it will heale it.

To stanch the bleeding of a wound.

Mingle Bole Armoniack with the white of an egge, and lay [Page 133] it to the wound or in time of necessity, a collope of Martimas beefe or bacon broiled upon the coals, and lay it to the wound, and Bole Armoniack laid to it when it is first hurt, stancheth the blood.

To take away warts.

Purcella rubbed upon the warts, pulleth them up by the roots, of his owne propertie; also an oak Apple stamped and tem­pered with good tart vineger, destroyeth warts and tetters.

For an Angnaile.

Mell Galbanum, Turpentine, and red wax melted in an O [...]ster­shell; drop thereof a little, so hot as you can suffer it, being fi [...]st pared; and clap thereon a piece of Leather, or else first droppe it on the Leather, and then apply it; or else cut away the corne, and droppe thereon a droppe or two of black snaile, being pricked with a pinne, and put thereto the powder of San­difer.

To make Wormwood water.

Take of the young crops of Wormwood two pound, of liquo­rice sliced and a little bruised, halfe a pound, as much Annis­seed; steepe it all night in foure gallons of strong Ale, and af­terwards distill it.

To kill childrens wormes.

Give them to eate Rubarbe preserved, or Peach flow­ers preserved, or the juice of a Citron, or Lemmon, or powder of Carduus Benedictus, or the decoction of it, the seede of Egrimonie, with the juice mingled and made in little pills is very good.

To make clarret water.

Put into a pinte of Aqua vitae, three ounces of Cinamon scraped very small, the space of three dayes afterwards straine it softly through a linnen cloth, then put to it an ounce of Sugar, and the third part of old Rose water, keepe it in a glasse bottle wel stopped to your use. This water is verie good for a woman after her travell to keep her from swounding, vo­miting, weaknesse of the stomack, shortnesse of the winde, to [Page 134] make one voide water, and for most womens diseases.

To draw a bullet out of a wound.

Make a tent of a piece of a quince, or for lack of quince, of Marmalade dipped in oyle of eggs put it in the wound, and it wil draw out the bullet.

To restore wine that is sowre.

The seede of porret keepeth wine from sowring, and if it bee sowre, it restoreth it againe, Cabbage rootes will also turn sowre wine, or vinegar to wine, as some write; how truly, the experi­ence will shew; I cannot tell.

To joyne cut sinnews.

The rootes of white Lillies beaten with honey, joyneth sinnews together that are cut, the leaves also, and flowers of grown­sell beaten and mingled with fine powder of Frankinsence, healeth all wounds, and especially of the sinnews.

For a Stitch in the side and stomack.

Take some leaven, Rose leaves, Rose water and vineger, a little mints, and the tops of Wormwood, boile them all toge­ther till they bee thick like a plaister, then spread it on a linnen cloth, and put upon the plaister some nutmeg grated, and lay the plaster to the bare skinne where the paine is.

An excellent medicine for the run­ing of the reines.

Take of red Amber the weight of six pence, of red coral in pow­der two ounces, of garden cresset seedes one ounce, tenne inches of the pith of an ox back, four cap dates, taking away the cap and inner skin, one stick of Cinnamon, four ounces of fine Sugar, boile all these together in a quart of Muscadine, from a quart to a pint and halfe, then straine it into a cleane bason, putting to it two spoonfuls of red Rose water after it is strained, and it will bee a jelly, so you may eat it as you eat jelly, or you may warme it, and [...]ake two spoonfulls at a time, as many times a day as you will, the [...]fter the better.

To kill any Canker.

Take the blar of a Slow tree a good quantity, and put thereto wa­ter, and seeth them together until they be thick and black; and put thereto honey, and stir and temper them with Vineger, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the sore where the Canker is

For the Scurvy.

Take Scabious, Plantane, Watercresses, Bitony, of each a handful, and as much salt Scurvy-grass as of all the rest in quantity; wash them clean and stamp them in a fair bowl when they are well swing­ed in a cloth from the water. This done, when they are well beaten, put to four quarts of Beer or Ale; then strain it into a close bottle, then bruise three or four cornes of long Pepper, and put it into the bottle, and drink of it every day three or four times in the day, ever shaking your bottle before you take your draught, because of the sub­stance and strength of the drink; and it shal cure the Patient by the grace of God.

The tokens of this Disease is; They shal be lame, in great ache and rottenness in their flesh, their teeth fall out, and so impaired in strength, that they shall seem past all recovery, and very faint, not able to feed themselves; and yet I have seen this Medicine cure them.

Ʋnguentum album Camphoratum.

Take of the Oyl of Roses one pound and a half, of white Wax two ounces, of Cerus made in fine powder six ounces, six whites of eggs, of Camphire dissolved in Rose water two ounces. Make your Oyntment after this manner, Melt your Wax and Oyl of Roses to­gether on the fire; and when they be melted put them in a brazen Mortar, and stir them about with the pestle until they be through cold, then sprinkle your Cerus lightly on it until it be all in, then mix and stir them wel together, and put in your Camphire, and last of all your whites of eggs, stirring them and compounding them sufficiently to­gether. So your Oyntment is made.

The Black Oyntment.

Take of fine Oyl Olive one pound and a half, of new Wax four ounces, of black Rosen, stone pitch, and Gum Seraphive of each two ounces; Mastick, Olibanum, Galbanum, Frankinsence, Turpentine, of each an ounce; dissolve your Galbanum and your Gum Seraphive in strong Vineger, and cleanse them from their drosse; then beat [Page 136] your Mastick, Olibanum and your Frankinsence into fine powder, then melt your Oyl, Wax, Pitch and Black Rosen all together; and when they be wel melted, put in all your othe [...] things; and so your Oyntment is made. The Vertue: it hath force to draw, and also to make whole.

For a Bruise.

Take Camomile one handful, half a handful of Bay salt, as much Wheat-bran, and besprinkle all these with Vin [...]ger and fry them in a pan, and lay them to the bruised place so hot as you can.

A Water for a sore mouth or a Fistula.

Take a pint of Red-wine-vinegar, half a pound of honey, two oun­ces of Allom, one ounce of Verdigreece, and four penny worth of Cam­phire, boil them all together. This observe, that when you put in your Verdigreece the Medicine wil look green, but in any wise let it boil until the scum look red like brine, (I say, as the scum of brine) scumming it.

To help a mans Members that do swell.

Take a pint of Ale and a farthing Manchet of white-bread, and grate it very smal, and put it to the pint of Ale, and put to it three spoonfuls of honey and a handful of Rose leaves, and boil them til they be plaister thick; and then bind the plaister to the grief softly and surely for remaining, and let lye two dayes and three nights, and it wil asswage the swelling, and mollifie the hardneffe thereof.

To make a red Plaister; that will dry up a Wound and soder flesh together.

Take a pound of old Swines grease, a quarter of a pound of the juice of Plantane, a quarter of Celendine, and boil them together and strain them through a cloth: take four ounces of Mastick, and a little Ro­sen; then take Bole Armoniack, Sandragon or Sineper, each 5 drams, also Frankinsence and Colosane each 4 ounces, take them, and min­gle them together, and put thereto 4 ounces of Turpentine. And this Oyntment is good.

For the clearness of the eye-sight.

Gather red snails and seeth them in clean water, and gather off the grease, and put it in a Viol, and annoint therewith the eyes earely in the morning and late in the evening.

Another.

Take red Roses, Smallage, Rue, Vervain, Meadow hair, Enswage, En­dife, Sengreen, Hilwor [...], red Fennel, Celendine, of each a quantity, and wash them clean, & lay them in good White-wine a day and a night, and then distil them. The first water wil be like Gold, the second like Silver, the third like Allom. This Water is very good for all manner of sor e eyes, for a Web, Pearle or haw.

A Medicine for the swelling of the eyes that cometh of cold, and for bleared eys, and for clearing the eye-sight.

Take Egrimony, the leaves of Vervain Fennel, Rue, Roses, and put them in a Stillatory, and sprinkle on them good White-wine, and distil it, and if you wil make it strong, put to it the leaves of Gali­tri num, and another Herb called M [...]rsus Galinae, that is to say in English, Chickweed, that beareth a red flower.

A good Plaister and Medicine for an ache, and to draw out bruised blood, and for all manner of griefs.

Take salt Bacon of an old Swines flitch▪ and melt it in a pan, and let it stand a while til the salt be fallen down to the bottom; then take the clear away, and put it in a pan, and as much Virgins Wax, and put Rickets and Mastick thereto, but first grind them to powder and weld them together; and ever stir them wel, and when that is cooled, that you may put your finger therein, then put thereto as much p [...]wder of Brimstone as them both, and stir it wel til it be thick as honey, and put it in boxes, and when thou hast need, do it on a cloth or [...]eather, and lay it to thy wound

A Medicine for a child that is scalded with its own wa­ter, or for a womans brest that is curdled.

Take Wax and Dears suet, and Lavender Spike, and boil them to­gether, and let it stand til it be cold, and it wil be a Salve. A pre­sent Remedy.

To make Oyl of Camomile.

Take the flowers of Camomile a handful▪ and put them into a pint of Oyl, and cover it close, and set it in the Sun six dayes, then set a skillet of water over the fire, and let it seeth; then set your pot of oyl [Page 138] therein, and let it seeth four or five hours; then take out your pot and strain your Oyl, and put fresh flower thereto, and so set it other seven dayes in the Sun; then put it into the water as is aforesaid, and strain it again, and put fresh flowers thereto, and set it eighteen dayes in the Sun, and keep it all the year with those flowers; and when you list to occupy it, strain as much as will serve your turn. This Oyle is good to repel all swellings, bruises, and to take away hardnesse, ceasing the pain.

To make Oyl of Bay.

Take your Barberries, and use as your Camomile is used aforesaid; and for other Oyls, take the herbs, flowers, using them as the other a­foresaid.

A very good and gentle Glister.

Take two drams of Sene, one dram of Anniseeds, half an ounce of Polipody, Hollioak, Mercury and Camomile, of each a handful, two handfuls of Barley; and seethe all these in two pints of running water, til it come to a pint; then strain it, and put to it of Jera-Composita two drams a spoonful of hony, and one of the Oyl of Ca­momile, a little salt, a piece of butter.

A Water very good and comfortable for a cold sto­mack▪

Take a gallon of good White▪wine, and these Spices following, Ginger, Galingale, Anniseeds, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Fennel­seeds, Caraway seeds, of each one dram; bruise them somewhat smal; and these Herbs following, Rosemary, Wild-Time, Wild-Marjoram, Organ, Puvedge, Mometaies, Camomile and Lavender, of each a handful, Sage, Mints, red Roses, Time, Pellitory, as much as of the other abovesaid; then put them all into an earthen pot with the Wine, and let them stand twelve hours, stirring them about often­times; then distil them in a Limbeck, and keep a pint of the first Wa­ter, the which is the principal, by it self; and the next by it self; then use one spooneful of this Water, with Beer or Ale, for it hath preserved many of a long time.

To make a Woman that hath a dead child within, imme­diately to be delivered.

Take of a Bulls gall the quantity of an Almond, and mix with it two spoonfuls of Wine; and let her drink it, and she will avoid it strait.

For the swelling of the Cods.

Take the powder of Cummin seed, and Barly meal, with hony of each a like quantity, fry them together with a little sheeps suet, and bind the same as a Plaister all about the Cods, and it will help it.

To help a stinking breath that cometh from the stomack.

Take two handfuls of Cummin seed, & beat it to powder, then seeth it in a pottle of White-wine till half be wasted; then give the party a good draught thereof first and last as hot as he may suffer it; and it will make him have a sweet breath within fifteen dayes. Probatum.

The root of Pellitory of Spain chewed between the teeth, will purge the head, and fasten the teeth very well, so that it wil help the head and tooth-ache if it be used four or five times in a day two or three dayes together. Probatum est.

The gall of a Partridge annointed once in a month on the Arte­ries of the head Temples, so that it may penetrate and sink in, doth profit very much for the confirming of the memory.

Ʋnguentum de Althaea.

Take of March-Mallow roots two pound, of Linseed, or Flaxseed, and of Fennegrick, of each a pound, Oyl Olive four pounds, of Wax one pound, Venis Turpentine three ounces, of Rosen six oun­ces; beat your roots and your seeds, and put them into a gallon of fair water, and let them infuse four dayes, then seeth it on the fire until it appear a viscous and skinny Musculage; then strain it, and take off the said Musculage, and put it into your Oyle, and let it boile over the fire till the watry substance be consumed. Then add to your Wax and your other things, when they be all melted to­gether, your Oyntment is made.

It is good against all swellings whatsoever, it will dissolve and sof­ten. It is hot and moist, and therefore in hot causes it ought to bee allayed with Oyl of Roses and Populion.

Ʋnguentum Aureum.

Take of yellow Wax six ounces, Oyle of Olive two pound and a half, Rosen and stone Pitch, of each two ounces and a [...]alfe, Tur­pentine two ounces, Frankinsence and Mastick, of ea [...]h half an ounce [Page 140] Saffron two drachmes, and then make up your Ointment. It doth join together wounds safely and soundly, and hath also an especial effect in the curing and cicatrising of all Ulcers.

The Egyptian Oyntment.

Take of Verdigreece made into fine powder five ounces, fine Ho­ney clarified fourteen ounces, of strong Wine-vineger seven ounces, boil all together on the fire, continually stirring them until it be thick and it look of a purple colour, then your Oyntment is made: It is most excellent against old wounds, it taketh dead flesh from a Sore without any pain.

An approved distilled Water against Deafnesse.

Take of the juice of Betony and Onions, of each six ounces, of Rosemary-leaves two handfuls, oyl of bitter Almonds four ounces, and one white grosse Eele chopt and cut into small pieces; mix them together, and distil it, and the Water which cometh thereof keep in a clean glasse, and drop two or three drops thereof into your Ear four or five nights together.

An excellent Plaister to splint a broken Leg or Arm.

Take of fine Myrrh, Dragons blood, Olibanum minima, of each two ounces, of Terrasigillata, Bean-flower or Bean-meal, Mil-dust, of each four ounces, bole Armoniack six ounces, make all into fine powder, mix and compound them well together, and keep it close in a Bladder till you have occasion to use it; and when you have need to use of the said powder, mix some of it with the whites of Eggs, and make it in the form of a soft Plaister; and the Leg or Arm being set as it ought to be, spread this same Plaister on Tow, and apply it to the grief round about, so splint it accordingly, and by Gods grace you shall have good successe.

A most excellent Confection which is very good for many inward Diseases, especially for all Fluxes of Blood, from whence soever they flow; also for them which have great pain in their Backs and Liver.

Take of Cinamon, Cassia lignea, opium, of each two drachms, Mirrh, [Page 141] white Pepper, black Pepper and Galbanum, of each one dram, let them be stamped and mixed with a little clarified Honey, and made in a lump; give thereof at night two round Pils somthing bigger then a Pease in the pap of an Apple, and let not the party drink in two hours after, you may give it three nights together without danger, if the party be strong; if he be of a weak constitution, give it every other night.

An excellent Oyl of Balm.

Take of fine cleer Turpentine one pound, and put it into a glasse, and warm it over a soft and easie fire until it wax liquid, and put therein by little and little with mixing or stirring it, the powder of Frankincense five Dramms, of the powder of Lignum Aloes, Ma­stick, Cloves, Galingal, Cinamon, Mace and Cubebs, of each two drams, the leaves of Ivy made into powder six drams; put all the pow­ders together, and mix them all with the said Turpentine, made li­quid as before; and when they be well incorporated together, set on the head of the Limbeck, and stop all the joints of the same very wel, and set it on the ashes, and put under it an easie fire; and when it beginneth to distil, let it drop away a little, for the first drops are lit­tle worth; then put the receiver to the nose of the Limbeck, and close them well together that no Oyl get forth; then at the first will come forth a cleer and white Water, which keep by it self; then will come forth a second Water, which is better, of a heavenly and airy colour, which keep by it self; then receive the third, which is best, which wil be yellow and thick like Honey; keep this also by it self: The first is called the Water of Balm, the second the oyl of Balm, the third is the true Balme.

The first vertue thereof is, that it burneth; the second is, that if you wash your face and nose therewith every day three times, it per­fectly cureth the rheum, it cleereth the sight, it comforteth the sinews, if you wash therewith the hinder part of the head, it comforteth the Memory: this doth purifie both flesh and fish, it bringeth an app [...] ­tite, it comforteth the stomack; if you take thereof morning and evening a drachm in white Wine, it consumeth the flegm, it cureth a stinking breath, as well coming of the stomack as of the brain; it cureth the biting of a Toad or Serpent, if you anoint the grieved place; it cureth any kind of Scab or Tetter▪ if you put three or four drops of it into your Ear, and suffer it there as long as you may, it [Page 142] cureth all swounings and noise in the head; if you mix this with an equal portion of Germander, onely the juice, and put thereof three or four drops four times a day into the Ear, it cureth any kinde of Deafnesse, it cureth blearing and watry Eyes; it cureth (if you wash therewith) all Imposthumes and superfluities, and it is good against cold Humours, all pains of the Teeth, and maketh them white; it cu­ [...]eth all wounds in the Head, being washed therewith thrice a day; all Fistulaes and Cankers, the Kings-evil, or any other biting sore, being washed therewith thrice a day; it cureth all Gouts that come of a cold cause, annointing it, and laying a linnen cloth dipt in it, and applied to the grieved place; it helpeth the Emrods, and falling out of the Fundament, it is good for all bruises by fall, or otherwise, and is good also for the Palsie.

Gallens cold Cerret.

Take of white wax one dramme, oyle of Roses four drams, melt them together, and when they are melted, take them from the fire, and stir them together til they be cold, then adde to it a quan­titie of white wine vineger, so stir it together in the vineger untill it bee white, and then it is made. It doth mightily cool all bur­ning Agues which doth come of the heat of the stomack and liver, if the stomack be annointed therewith; it is also good against pain in the head, if the Temples be annointed therewith; and also against paine and heat in the back if the back bone be therewith annointed.

Ceretum Santalinum.

Take of red Rose leaves twelve drams, red Sanders ten drams, of white and yellow Sanders, of each six drammes, Bole Armoni­ack seven drammes, white wax four ounces, Ivorie foure drammes, Camphire two drammes, oyl of Roses one pound, melt your wax and oyl together, your other things being made into fine powder, and mix all together. It doth most chiefly separate all flegmatick, distemperate and hot humors from the stomack, liver, and all other parts of the bodie.

A Powder for a cold stomack, which ex­pelleth all pains.

Take of chosen Cinamon two drams, Ginger half a dram, Cummia seeds, white pepper, Galingal and Cloves of each one dram, Mace one scruple, Nutmegs six grains, fine Sugar an ounce, and make [...] into fine powder.

An Ointment for the stomack.

Take of oile of Wormwood four ounces, oyle of Spikenard and Mastick of each two ounces, of Cloves dried, Cardamoms, Mints, Mace and Mastick of each two drams, of red Rose leaves four scru­ples; wax as much as is sufficient to make up your ointment ac­cording to art.

For an Ague.

Take Featherfew, Smallage, Celendine, Elder buds and herbe grace, of each a like quantity, stampe all these together, take a little Nutmeg, a little Frankinsence and bay salt, beate all these together, and lay it to the wrist bloud warme.

For a Felon.

Take Ragwort, Rue, and Bores grease, stampe them together and apply it to the grieved place.

For a Rupture.

Take Knotwort, Ribwort and Comfry, of each a good quantity; dry them and make them into powder severally, then take of each powder severally of like quantity, then take as much powder of Annis seeds finely searced as halfe your other powders, mingle all together and give the patient every morning in Malmsey as much as wil lie on a six pence; also the place must be annointed with oyle of Spike, and keep him wel trust, and apply the poultesse following.

A poultesse for a Rupture.

Take a pint of red wine, half a pinte of stone honey, a hand­ful of Wormwood, as much Rue, a penny worth of Cummin, bruise them and thicken it with a penny worth of beane meale wel bolted, make a plaister thereof on a linnen cloth, and lay it to evening and morning as hot as may be endured, within few dayes the wound or hole wil be more large and purged, and the matter that keepeth forth thereby mollified and made more easie to goe up; and after it be cleer up three dayes, and so kept with your truss, use the above­said drink, and keep the patient continually trussed.

For aches and swellings in the Knees coming of cold.

Take a quart of Malmsey, a handful of Thime, boil them together [Page 144] and when it is half boiled, put to it a good piece of sweet Butter, and boil altogether from a quart to a pinte, and when you go to bed bath your Knees therewith, and wet a cloth three or four double therein, and lay it to your Knees as hot as you can suffer it all night; use it seven or eight times and it will help you.

For Aches in your Legs, Arms and Shoulders.

Bruise a little Speerage, and lay it within a little round compasse upon the place which aketh, and it will raise a blister; then take off the speer-grasse, and lay on the place Ivy-leaves, and they will draw forth the Humour that causeth it.

Against all Agues.

Anoint the soles of your feet and hands with oyl of Scorpion, and likewise the Fore-head and Back-bone before the fit cometh; it cureth quotidian, tertian or quartan Agues.

To purge the Back, and to cleanse the Reins.

Take one Fennel root, two Par [...]ley roots, pith them, and put to it a handful of Pellitory of the wall, wash all very clean, and boil it in posset Ale, and drink it when you go to bed, and also if you awake at midnight.

For the heat of the Back.

Steep Sanders and rose-leaves in rose-water all night, then wash your Back with it, and it will take away the heat, and greatly comfort the Reins.

To cool and strengthen the Back.

Take oyl of Almonds, red rose-leaves, Violet-leaves and flowers, of each a like quantity, bruise them in a Mortar, and put all together in a glasse, and let it stand three or four days in the same; then anoint your back therewith, and it will both strengthen and cool it: Keep this Oyl well stopt, and renew it with roses three or four times, and it will last all the yeer.

For Biles, Felons or Ancoms.

Take Wheat-flower, Boars-grease, May-butter and Sage, stamp it all together, and make a Plaister thereof, and it will both ripen and draw it; and if it be fried it worketh the better: Or else take a pint of sweet Milk, set it on the fire, and put thereto Sheeps suet smal shred, [Page 145] a handful or two of Oatmeal small beaten, boil it till it be thick, then spread it on a fair linen cloth, and lay it on as warm as you can suffer it to the Sore, and it wil break it suddenly without pain: when it is broken, lay a little Turpentine on a piece of Leather pricked ful of holes, and it wil draw and heal it.

To keep a Brest from breaking, if it be not too far gone.

Take Clay without stones, and knead it with sharp Vineger and the yolks of two Eggs and a little English Saffron, and work it in the Clay; and take as much of it as wil cover the rednesse of the Brest, and use it cold. Some Brests have no colour, and such are not lightly saved from breaking; but if your brest be red, it is the better.

To break sore Brests.

Take white Lilly-roots and a piece of leaven, seeth them in Milk til the Lillies be very soft, then spread it plaister-wise on a linnen cloth, and as warm as the party can suffer it, say it to the brest morn­ing and evening.

To heat a Brest when it is broken.

Take a handful of Parsley, and a good slice of the fat of bacon, and stamp them together, and put the yolk of an Egg thereto, and plai­sterwise spread it on a cloth, and lay it to the brest; but the best thing for the cure of the brest is Wicotian stamped: whereof more here­after.

For a Cough.

Take a great Apple and cut out the Core, and put into the same a good quantity of butter, a little English Saffron dryed and beaten to powder, the quantity of a Nutmeg of suger-candie; which being done, cover the Apple, rost it soft, and eat it to bed-ward, and in the morning; but eat not in an hour after it.

For a Canker in a Womans Brest.

Beat Goos-dung and Celendine, and lay it to the sore, and it wil cleanse the Canker, flea the worm, and heal the sore.

For a Canker in the mouth.

Take the juice of Plantane, Vineger and Rose-water, and wash the mouth with it.

To kill a Canker in the body.

The roots of Dragons dryed and made into powder, and drink thereof in White-wine the weight of nine pence, fasting in the mor­ning, three dayes together.

For a Canker in the Hands or Joints.

Take the roots of Primrose, stamp it with clarified honey, and lay it on the Canker Plaister-wise, and change it morning and Even­ing till it be whole.

For the Dropsie.

Take Lumbardy and Lovage, stamp it, and make a posset there­of, and drink every morning the space of a month or six weeks; this cureth the Dropsie.

For the Pin and Web in the Eye.

Take a handful of Herb Bennet, two spoonfuls of Bay-salt, stamp them together, and lay them to the veynes of the wrist of the con­trary arm, and let it lye twenty four hours, and so use it four or five times.

For a stripe or rednesse in the Eyes.

Distil Strawberry leaves, and wash your eyes, and drop in a little thereof morning and evening.

To destroy Earwigs in a mans Ear.

Take the juice of Wormwood, Rue and Southernwood, of each a like quantity, put it into your ear and it will kil it, or any other ver­min that is creeping in the head, being used four or five times, so you stop your eares with some of the Herbs.

To cure the Emrods.

Take a handful of Parsley with the roots, stamp it wel, and put to it Oyl Olive, let it stand a day; then strain the juice from the drosse a [...] a [...]oint the grief against the fire, and keep him warm.

For the Bloody Flux.

Take a pint of Red-wine, the yolks of five new laid eggs, Cina­mon a good quantity, a little Sugar, a good quantity of the pill of a Pomegranate, dryed and beaten to powder; boil all these in a plat­ter til they be somewhat thick. Let the Patient drink of it morn­ing and evening, and as often in the day as his stomack will serve; and it wil stop him be his Flux never so great.

For the going out of the Fundament.

Stamp red Nettles, and boil them in an earthen pot in White-wine til half be consumed, let the party drink of it warm, and lay the Herbs to the Fundament as hot as he can.

To cure a Fellon.

Take yest that remaineth in the bottom of a barrel, a handful of Groundsel stamped, a good piece of the sourest leven that you can get, boil it together to the thickness of a Salve, and apply it to the Fel­lon as hot as you can suffer it, for it wil both break and heal it.

For Defluctions in the Eyes.

Lay upon your forehead a plaister made of Snails mingled with the powder of Frankinsence and Aloes well stirred til it become as thick as honey.

For a stie in the Eye.

The juice of great Celendine mingled with honey or wo­mans milk, taketh away the stie.

For sore Eyes that have a skin grown over the light.

Take a new laid egg, and put out the yolk, and the white, but not wipe the Cream out that doth hang on the shel; then take a handful of Clever grasse, stamp it and strain it with a little Orange water, and put it into the Eggshel, and set it in the Embers, and put to it a piece of white Copperas as big as a Hasel nut, and a little honey.

For the going out of the Fundament.

Heat Apostolicon at the fire, and touch the Fundament therewith and it shal go in incontinently; use this three or four times as it cometh out.

For the swelling of the Fundament.

Rosemary-leaves stampt and applyed with warm clothes, asswageth the swelling, being often applied to it.

For the Falling Sicknesse.

The powder of Harts-horn drunk with Wine, healeth it; so doth the Egg of a wilde Raven drunk with the juice of Rew.

For the Fistula.

Take Cloves, Pimpernel, Valerian, Mousear, herb Robert, Tansie, seeth it all in white Wine, and give it to the Patient to drink twice or thrice a day.

To purge and cut Flegm.

Take Eight spoonfuls of Rose-water, four spoonfuls of Conduit-water, two spoonfuls of white Wine-vineger, two ounces of fine sugar, boil all these in a porrenger on a Chafing-dish of Coals, scum it clean, and drink it luke-warm.

For spots in the Face.

Set a Lemon to the fire, and the water which wil sweat out of it cleereth the face from rednesse and spots.

For a Fistula.

Oyl of brimstone healeth Fistulaes, Tetters and Cankers of the Mouth, touching the sores with a fether dipt in the Oyl, but it is ve­ry painful to the Patient.

For the running of the Reins.

Take the Ladles of Acorns dried and beaten to powder, a spoonful of it, and drink it every morning in Ale warmed, and keep your bed two hours after.

For the Siatica.

Heat Cowdung in ashes in a vine leafe, or in a Cabbage leafe, and lay it to the grief.

For the noise in the head.

Take a Clove of Garlick, pil it, and prick two or three holes in it, and dipt it into fine hony, and put it into your eare, and put a little [Page 149] black wool after it, and lie on the contrary side each night, and so let it continue in your ear seven or eight dayes and it wil expel the hu­mors out the nose, and restore your hearing.

For the ring-worm in the head.

Let the ring-worme of the head be washed with strong vineger, and after sprinkle thereon the ashes of the rind of Woodbinds.

For the giddinesse in the head.

Wash the head with the decoction of three leaved grasse, and lay a plaister of the herb to the forehead; misselto stamped and laid plaster wise, draweth out corrupt humors of the head.

To kill lice in the head.

The powder of Harts tongue drunk in wine, doth suffer neither lice nor nits to live on the body, much lesse if it be made into oynt­ment.

For the heart.

Take Borage flowers, bugloss flowers, and red rose flowers, of each two drams and a halfe, Rosemary flowers, Dil, Violets, dry Balm, Mints, red coral, of each one dram, make a bag thereof in Sarcenet, for it is very good.

For the trembling of the heart.

Take the powder of Borage flowers, Nutmegs, white Amber, the bone of a stags heart and Cinnamon, mingle all together, of each a like quantity, and drink thereof in Beer, Ale or Wine, mor­ning and evening.

For the paine of the Emrods.

Make an ointment of oyle of Roses washed in Violet water, fresh butter, oyle of Lin-seed, the yolk of an egge, and a little wax, no­thing is better to asswage the paine, then the perfume of scrapings of Ivory.

To stop the Emrods.

Drinke a dram of the powder of red coral with plantane water, Porret leaves sod and laid to the place, asswageth the swelling and paines: the roots and leaves of little Celendine boiled, doth heale the Emrods, Piles, Cankers, Warts or hard swellings coming of cold.

To dissolve any hardness.

Boil red worms with Hogs grease and Oyle of Roses; annoint the place, and it will take away any hardnesse.

Against the yellow Jaundies.

Take a big Apple and cut off the top, so as it may cover the Ap­ple again, take out the core, and put into it sweet Butter, a good deal of Turmerick, and a little English Saffron, and roste it very tender, and let the Patient eat of it three or four mornings together, or more if need be.

Also take Celendine, English Saffron, and the powder of Ivory, and boil them in White-wine, and drink thereof a good quantity mor­ning and evening for seven or eight dayes.

For the black Jaundies.

Take the gall of a Raven, dry it, and grate it to powder, put a quantity of it in a spoon, temper it with Bear or Ale, and drink it fasting.

To ripen an Imposthume.

Take the roots and leaves of Mallowes, the roots of Lilies and crums of white-bread, boil all together and strain it, and put to it the yolk of an egg, and a little Saffron; but if the Imposthume be cold, you may add to the Plaister Alla-Campane roots, flowers of Camomile and a little leaven.

Secondly, Lay to it Wheat chewed a long time.

Thirdly, Oyl of Wax ripeneth Imposthumes, taketh away aches, comforteth and suppleth hard sinewes; and it is also good against the Palsie.

To stop the Lask.

Take a quart of Red-wine, Mints and Bawme, of each a handful, a good quantity of Pomgranate pills, a penny worth of Cinamon powdered; all these being boiled in the said Wine, make Almond milk of it, and drink of it sundry times.

For the Morphew.

Take the juice of Celendine, and mingle with it the powder of Brimstone, and lay it to cold where the Morphew is.

For the Mother.

Take out the core of a great Onion, and put thereto a little Oyl O­live and juice of Wormwood; then cover it, and lap it in a paper, and set it in the embers till it be soft; then take it out, and put in as much honey as it wil receive, and lay it to the bare Navel plaister wise, and let it ly there twenty four hours; then take a han [...]ful of Cinqfoil, boil it in White-wine, and let her drink thereof a good draught.

For a sore mouth.

Boil Cinqfoil in milk with a little Allom, and hold your mouth over the milk, and when it is blood warm, wash your mouth there­with, and gargarize your throat therewith.

For stubbing with a rusty nail.

Take Allom and white Honey-suckles, and make thereof an Oyntment with May butter, and put the said Oyntment in the sore, and lay it Plaister wise.

Fo the pricking of a Needle in a Joynt, the hole being stopped.

Take fine bolted flower, temper it with White-wine, Beer or Ale, boil it together til it be thick; and lay it to the sore as hot as he can suffer it, and that will both open the hole and draw out the filth, and close it up again.

For pricking in a sinew, with a needle or knife.

Heat Oyle of Roses and lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the place, and bind black wool about it and you shall have remedy and find ease.

To draw out a Nail or Thorn.

Heat Turpentine in an Oister shel, wet a little lint in it, lay it hot to the sore and change it often. If it begin to rankle, annoint the sore with the juice of Cinqfoil; or else take Beer or Ale, and let it boil til it be thick like a Salve, and then lay it plaister wise to the grief.

The first Salve of Tobacco.

Take a pound of the fairest leaves, wipe them clean with a dry cloth and stamp them; then take half a pound of sheeps suet, pull off [Page 152] all the skin, cut it smal and melt it; to the which put in your leaves stamp'd, but not strain'd, boil it with a very soft fire, or else in a kettle or pot of seething water, til all the watry substance be con­sumed, then strain it. This Salve is good for Wounds, Cuts, Can­kers, Scabs, Redness or Buttons in the face, because its vertue is to cleanse and dissolve, being not hindred by mingling with o­ther things.

The second Salve of Tobacco.

Melt Rosen, new Wax, and Turpentine, of each three ounces, when it is molten, put a pound of fair leaves stampt, but not strained, stir it well, and let it boil five or six hours, with a very soft fire, or else in a pot of fair water, till the watry substance be consumed; then strain it with a course linnen cloth, and put it againe into the Posnet with half a pound of Venice Turpentine, and stir it well, but let it not boil; when it is cold, put it up, and keep it close stop­ped.

The Vertue.

This Salve is better to make the flesh grow, and fasten wounds, and to dissolve Imposthumes and Swellings, to assage aches in the joynts or any other place.

The Balm of Tobacco.

Take Tobacco leaves, stamp them and strain them, put the juice into a strong glasse, with the like quantity of Oyl Olive, stop it ve­ry close, and set the glasse in boiling water, until it be all turned to Oyl; or else set it long in the Sun, or bury it six weeks or longer in a horse dung hill, but it must be very well stopt, or else it will have a very ill sent; and remove it from place to place: or if you wil, you may put it in the Oven two or three times in an earthen pot, after­wards strain it, and you shall have a Balm or Oyl of no lesse vertue then the quintessence of Tobacco, for all the effects this Herb can work any kind of way.

A Turgation for the Back.

Take a pint of White-wine, one ounce of Sene, four ounces of Raisons of the Sun stoned, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, three or four roots of Polipody of the Oak; put all these into the White-wine one whole night to steep, [...]h [...]n boil it til it come to one good draught, and let the Patient [...]rin: it luke warm

To make compound Oximel.

Take a pottle of good stone Honey, a pint and half of White-wine Vineger, a pottle or five pints of Spring-water, five Parsley roots, five Fennel roots, and five Smallage roots, the cores being taken out; then take the roots of Kneeholme two ounces, the roots of Aspera­gus one ounce, Fennel seed, Smallage Seed, of each half an ounce, these roots being shred, and the seeds somewhat bruised, must be steep­ed in a pottle or five pints of running water twenty four hours; then boile it in the water, from the said five pints to a quart; and be­ing strained, you shall put thereto your honey to be clarified and boiled therein; after put thereto your vineger, and let them, with a very soft fire, boil together till it come to the thickness of a Syrrup. A spoonful thereof taken every morning, doth cut and divide all grosse humors, purgeth the Liver, the Reins and the Spleen, taketh away all obstructions, moveth Urine, and provoketh sweat.

An Oyntment to be made in May, which is good for the stiffnesse of the Joints and shrinking up of Sinewes, for the pain in the Back, the stitch in the side, for the stopping of the Liver and Spleen, or Ague fallen in a­ny part of the Flesh, if it be taken before it grow to an Imposthume, for bruising and knots: it will also take away swelling and blackness.

Take Rue, Sage, Wormwood, Fetherfew, Bay-leaves and Plantane, of each a like quantity, beat them in a Stone Mortar till they be small; then take Neatsfoot Oyl, and put it to the herbs, and put these herbs in an earthen pot, and let them remaine rot­ting two or three months with the Oyle; then when you will try it, take more Neatsfcot Oyle and put it to the Herbs, so that the Herbs be so thick, that you be scant able to stir it; and set it on the fire in another Vessel, and let it simber three quarters of an hour, and stir it for fear of burning; then strain it, and keep it in pots for your use.

Oyle of Mastick.

Take a pint of Oyl of Roses, two ounces of Mastick beaten to powder, a quarter of a pint of Red-wine; boil all together till the Wine be consumed, then set it in a glasse in the Sun, and when you wil occupy it, strain it.

To make Oyl of Roses.

Take a pound and half of red Rose leaves, cut away the whites, and stamp them small, and put them in a glasse or earthen pot; put thereto a quart of Oyl Olive; and let the glasse be full of Oyl and leaves within an inch of the top, then stop it close with past [...], that no air come into it, and set the glasse in a pot full of Water, as high as the Oyl is, and no higher; and [...]et the glasse fast that it fal not, with some Hay under it that it break not, and let it seeth in the pot til the water be half wasted; then take the pot from the fire, and let the glasse stand in it without removing til it be cold, afterward take out the glass and pour out the Oyl, and put it in another glass, and put fresh Rose leaves to it. This manner is to be observed in making Oyl of all other Herbs.

Oyle of Almonds.

Take Almonds, blanch them and stamp them, and put them into an earthen pot with a cover of paste well stopt; then put it into a brasse pot that doth seeth with water, so it doth not overflow the earthen pot, and the heat of the water wil turn the Almonds into Oyle when it is strained. In this sort is made Oyl of all manner of kernels.

Oyl of Camomile.

Take the flowers of Camomile, stamp them, and seeth them in Oyl, and when they be well sodden, strain them through a cloth. This Oyle is good for Aches.

To make Oyl of Eggs.

Roste twenty or thirty Eggs hard, take off the whites, and rub the yolks in your hands, then fry them in an earthen pan leaded, with a soft fire, stir them often til they be red, then presse them, [Page 155] and you shal have abundance of oyle. This oyle is good for all manner of spots of the skin, to heal Tetters, Fistulaes or deep wounds, for aches, to make the skin smooth, for chops in the lips or hands, to take out spots of burnings▪ and to make hair grow.

To make Oyl of Roses without Oyl Olive.

Put red or Carnation Roses in a glass very wel stopped in a dung­hil the space of a month, and the oyle will be very sweet.

To make Oyl of Wheat.

Press your Wheat with a clean pair of very hot tongs, and the oyl that cometh from it is good for Fistulaes, Cankers, spots in the skin, and for scald heads using it alwayes warm.

To make Oyl of Anniseeds.

Take a good quantity of Anniseeds, cleanse it from all dust, then grind it, and beat it in a Mortar; when it is wel beaten, put in­to every pound of seed one onnce of water or wine, and beat it again till it be wel mingled, then put it into a frying pan, and stir it on the coals till it be so hot that you cannot suffer your hand in it; then take it out, and put it into a strong piece of course cloth, and presse it very well in such sort as you shall make oile of Anniseeds.

To make Oyle of Tartary.

Take the crust that sticketh on the sides of White-wine Ves­sels, for that is the best, beat it to powder, and then steep it in very strong Vineger; or if you have not Vineger, it may be done with­out steeping: wrap it in a Bullocks bladder, or hogs, or some other bladder, put it under the embers, and so let it remaine til it be white; you shall know if it be enough, if it look clear and burn your tongue a little, then put it in a linnen bag, made like an Ipocris bag, and hang it in some Cellar or moist place with a glasse under it to receive the oyle or water; but if it stil not, presse it out. The oyle healeth Tetters, Scald heads, and all manner of scabs, and taketh away all spots in the face, hindereth the falling of hair, and also maketh that grow which is fallen, and taketh spots out of lin­nen if it be rubbed with the oil thereof warm.

A Plaister to draw out broken bones out of any part of the body.

Take Betony, Vervaine and Rue, stamp them, and mingle them with honey, the white of an egg and Rye-meal, with a little Wheat-flower, and make a Plaister, lay it cold thereto, and it will draw out the bones, cleanse the wound, cease the aking, and asswage the rankling.

For the Palsie.

Take the powder of Poppy, of Pellitory of Spain and Ivy, of each one ounce, the powder of Sage two ounces; and let him use of this powder in his pottage.

For the lameness in the side coming of the Palsie.

Boil a great quantity of Sage and Hysop in running water, and bathe the side therewith, and bind the Herbs to it as hot as may be suffered.

A Medicine for the Palsie, that taketh away the speech.

Take Sage leavs and Primrose leavs, and if it be in the Winter, take Primrose roots, beat them together of like quantity, strain it with stale Ale, and give the sick a good quantity thereof to drink.

A Preservative for the Plague.

Take of Sage or Herbagreace, of Elder leavs or red Bramble leaves of each a handful, stamp them together, and strain them through a cloth with a quart of White-wine; then take a quantity of Gin­ger, mingle it together, and drink thereof morning and evening a spoonful.

A Medicine for the Rhume.

Take a pint of Red-wine-vineger, and half a pint of White-wine-vineger, a handful of the chips of Lignum vitae, of the roots of Polipodium two ounces, burnt Allom the bignesse of a Wall­nut; seeth all these together, till a quarter of it be sodden away, [Page 157] then strain it, and put thereto halfe a quarter of a pound of English honey, then seeth it again til the hony be melted, then put it into a glasse, and when you wil use it, put the quantity of two spoonfuls into a sawcer, and the bignesse of a hazel nut of English hony, and warm them together, then put a fine linnen cloth about your finger, and rub the roof of yourmouth as far as you can well reach, or the place grieved.

To take away pimples out of the face.

Take of Rose water, brimstone, very fine beaten, Coperas burned and beaten to fine powder, and starch a little quantitie, put all these together in a glasse close stopped, and when you would use it shake the glasse, and with a fine linnen cloth wipe your fa [...].

A purgation for flegme.

Take halfe a handful of Elder flowers, dried in the time of the yea [...], and put them into a mess of pottage, and it will move three or four stooles; your flowers must be dried in the shadow, and put up close in a box or earthen pot.

A very good salve for a sore, cut, or boile.

Take of mead wax, sheeps tallow and rosen of each halfe a pound, Perrosin and Frankinsence, of each four ounces, halfe a pound of Collifony, halfe a pint of Sallet oyle, a pint of Muscadine, Be­tony, Pimpernel and Vervain, of each half a pint of the water. First cut your wax and melt it, then beat your gums, and shred your Tal­low, and put it to your wax, letting it boile on a soft fire, then put in your juice with the wine and boil it, then strain it, and put in your oil and boile it a little longer.

The Composition of the most precious oile called Oleum Magistrale.

Take a quart of the best and oldest white wine that may be got­ten, of the oldest oyle Olive three pints, then put thereto these flow­ers and herbs, of Hypericon halfe a pound, Carduus benedictus, va­lerian, and the lesser sage, of each four ounces, of every one of these you shal take the flowers and the leaves, if it may be had, then let all these things steepe in the aforesaid wine and oile twenty four hours, and the next day boile them in a well nealed pot, or in a copper vessel upon a soft fire, until such time as the wine be all con­sumed, alwaies stirring it: after you have thus done, take it from the fire and strain it, and in the straining put in a pound and a halfe of good Venice Turpentine, and boil it together on a soft fire a quarter [Page 158] of an houre, then put thereto Olibanum five ounces, myrthe three ounces, Dragons blood one ounce, and let it boil til the gums be all dissolved, then take it up and let it stand until it be cold; then put it into a glasse bottle and let it stand eight or ten daies in the same, and so keep it for your use. The said Oyle, the older it is, the better, and of greater effect; you must apply it as hot as may bee, for by this means you shall the finelier pierce and heale the wound the sooner.

The manner to apply the same Oile according to the quality or dis­ease, doth consist in these things following; to the patient, to the [...]ound or disease, and to the diseased part.

First, the party must not keep straight diet in either eating or drink­ing for weakning of his body, but as he was accustomed before he was hurt; yet if it be a body filled with humors and given to a feaver or o­ther inconveniencies, he must use his meat and drink with discretion; if he drink wine, it must be allayed with water. 2. If the wound bee green the party ought to keep his bed, or at least his chamber, without taking any air which might hinder its operation. 3. He must keep an order in his lying, he must not alwaies lie on one side but turn as wel on the wounded side, as on the other, especially an hour before he be dressed, to the end the humors may descend to the griefe. 4. He must endure [...]he oyle as hot as he can, for it is the nature of the oyle to be applied seething hot, for the hotter, the stronger it is in operation., and he must abstain from the company of women, because it will bring a great inconvenience unto him; and not only for the time of his curing, but also twenty daies after if the wound be great.

A preparative to the said Oyle.

To prepare the wound before the applying of the said oyl, take good white wine, and boil it with a handful of incense, which is only to comfort, with which you shall wash the wound as hot as he can suffer it within and without, then wipe it very clean, with a linnen cloth, before you apply the oile which shal be shewed you, and the time when you shall apply it, and when the aforesaid washing shall not be used.

The time of dressing a wound.

It is necessary, that if the wound do come by any bitings or brui­sings, that they be dressed twice a day, and likewise by any other; that is to say, in winter at eight in the morning, and three in the after­noon; [Page 159] in Summer at ten in the morning, and at foure in the af­ternoone: if it be a green wound you shal not need to change it a­gain til next day at the same hour.

The difference of the diseases.

The wounds and diseases do differ: some are old and some new, some in one part, and some in another, as in the head, armes, or legs, and other parts, which cause the wounds to differ, as shall be shewed hereafter for the better understanding hereof.

The use of the implaister that is to be applied with the Oyl upon the diseased partie.

First, for wounds in the head, you shal shave away the haire two or three fingers broad about the place of the wound, then stay the blood with lint or tow dipt in the same oile, with the which you shal fil the wound, and upon that apply a linnen cloth two or three double which shal cover all the place as far as the hair hath been shaved a­way, being steeped in the prepared wine before mentioned, and af­terwards wrung out, then roll it up. This ought to be applied at the first dressing; also you shal note, that if the wound be very great and dangerous, by means whereof there may issue a flux of blood, you dress it but once a day the first and second dressing; and for the time forward at every dressing you shall wash the wound with the wine aforesaid, both within and without, keeping it very clean with a fine linnen cloth, then afterwards you shal fil the wound with oyle and cover it with lint steeped in the same, and upon that apply a linnen cloth two or three double round about, being dipped in the oyl, and then upon that again lay another cloth moistned in the said wine, and wrung out as aforesaid. This is the particular order of all manner of wounds, and must be used til such time, as you perceive the wound is upon healing, and then you must dip lint into the said oyl and apply it to the wound, and over that lay a plaister of Diacu­lum Magnum, and it shal close and heal it up perfectly.

Before you have throughly healed the wound, take this Experiment following.

Take of the five opening roots of each one ounce, of the roots of mader one ounce and half, of the leaves of Endive, Succory, Bo­rage, Buglosse and Egrimony of each one handful, of Carduus Be­nedictus, Nepe and Pennyroyal of each one handful and a halfe, of [Page 160] the three cordial flowers, of each a little handful, of Annis seeds, Fennel seeds and carra way seeds of each one ounce and a halfe, of Pollipodie of the Oak two ounces, of Cene three ounces, of Ear­thanus seeds beaten two ounces, boile all these in eight pints of faire water, til five pints of it be consumed; then cool it, straine it, and clarifie it according to art, and give every morning to the pa­tient four ounces luke warme, and observe the rule as you ought to do in taking a purgation; and in so doing you shal finish and heale your cure perfectly on warrantie.

A secret unknown for the purifying of, and clean­sing the skin of the face, or other parts of the body, distilled and approved.

Take six new laid eggs, half a pint of Malmsey and a young Piegeon not wholly feathered, halfe a pound of Cheese coming from the presse made of new milke, eight Oranges, oyle of Tar­tar foure ounces, Cerus made into powder one ounce, Gumme Arabick and Mastick, of each one ounce and a halfe, water of beane flowers eight ounces, rice foure ounces steeped in halfe a pin [...]e of Creame one day and a night, cut the Oranges in pieces, and stampe them a little, then put all together with the Creame and Rice, and distil the same with an easie fire, and keep the water distilled in a cleane glasse close stopped, and use to rub and wet your face therewith every evening when you go to bed, and every morning wash it clean with water distilled with beane flowers; use this four­teen daies or three weeks, and you shal find it an excellent thing.

To take spots out of the face.

Put seven eggs in most pure and strong white wine vineger, and let them lie so long therein til their shell be as soft as their inner skins, and mix therewith foure ounces of mustard seeds made into fine powder, then stampe or grind all together, and therewith let the face be often annointed: it is good before you use this ointment, to take an apozema which doth purge, open and qualifie the heat of the liver, and in short time it wil cure you.

To purge flegm.

Take liquorice, horehound, Isop, syrup of Roses, dried Violets [Page 161] and poppy, of each one ounce, and make thereof a syrup, and take it evening and morning on a liquorice stick.

An easie and general purge.

Take of Sene one ounce, Agarick two drachms, Annis seeds one penyworth, one race of Ginger sliced, the flowers or tops of Borage a smal quantity, the Agarick must be thin sliced; put all these into a pint of white wine, cover it close and set it over the hot embers all night, and in the morning give it a little walm, so as it be made hot, and then straine it; then take it in the morning with foure spoonfuls of syrup of Roses, putting in a quarter of an ounce of Dia­phenican, and so take it two mornings; if you find the purge too strong for you at the first taking, leave out the Diaphenican at the second taking; but the Diaphenican is a very necessary thing, and of no danger.

The next day after you have purged, take a draught of Malmsey, but eat a quantity of Mithridate.

A Syrup for the Lungs and Cough.

Take of horehound three handfuls, liquorice two ounces, Maiden hair, Isop, Savory, Colts-foot and pennyroal of each one handful, Annis seeds and Fennel seeds of each one ounce and a halfe, raisins of the Sun stoned half a ponnd, figs twenty, a penny worth of Eli­campane; seeth all these in a pottle of running water, until it be sodden away, and then strain it, and put to it two pound of sugar, and a quart of hony clarified, seethe all these together til it come to a thick syrup, then take it off, and when it is almost cold, put a quantity of Arras powder to it, for it is an excellent Syrup.

To make oyle of Vitriol.

Take Vitriol, and make it into lime, and then put it into Aqua vitae, and let the Aqua vitae cover it and no more, and then distil it after art, then set it in the Sun to draw out the Aqua vitae, or else in a cold balneo, and when the water is clean out, distil the Vitriol againe, and you shall have the finest oyle of Vitriol that can be made; put into your Vitriol halfe a tile beaten into powder, for that wil cause the [...]ile to arise the better.

A Balsome to cure wounds.

Take of Turpentine one pound, of Aqua vitae eight ounces, of pure Frankinsence, of Mastick, of mirrhe and of Sarcocella of each one ounce, of oyle of bayes two ounces, all these being beaten and mixed together; put them into a retort strongly luted and set into ashes, and the fire made by degrees; there wil come forth water and oyl which you may save by a glasse funnel.

Probatum.

To make your Lute.

Take fat clay and horse dung, of each one pound, sinders of the Smiths anvil half a pound, mix these and work them together with broken beere, and in the working thereof mix a little bran, and the whites of two eggs, all these being tempered together, make a perfect lute.

Christ his Balme to cure wounds.

Take of Oyl Olive one pint, of old red wine three pints, mix these and distil them, add thereto of the liquor of St. Johns wort, six ounces, minium four ounces, distil the whole for a month in Balneo Mariae.

To make oyl of Tartar another way.

Take white wine lees and dry them, and beat them to powder, and fil a Gold smiths crucible, and set it amongst coles til it begin to wax black, then take it out of the fire and let it coole; then take it and bind it in a linnen bag, and hang it over the vapor of boiling water the space of this done, hang the bag in a glasse with a wide mouth, so that the bag touch not the bottome of the glasse, and the water or oile called Tartar wil drop down by little, and the sooner, if it stand in a very cold and moist Celler: this pow­der the Gold smiths do call Arguil.

A precious balme to cure wounds speedily.

Take of the flowers of Rosemary and St. Johns wort, of each one handful, put them together into a glasse bottle almost ful, then fil up the glasse with perfect oile, stop it close and set it in the sunne twen­ty daies and nights also, and when the oile hath gotten the colours of the flowers, strain it out, and put to it one dram of Ginger, and one scruple of Saffron dissolved in white wine, then set it in the Sun other twenty daies, and then keep it for your use as a precious jewel.

A water for the shaking palsie.

Take of bay berries, of Rue and of Sage, of each a like quan­titie, bruise, and distil and keep the water for ten daies; then di­stil that water again with Aqua vitae; after that they have been put together fourteen daies, with this water annoint the Temples, and wash the palms of your hands, and those parts that shake, morning and evening.

A special Balsome to cure Cankers, Fistulaes, Leprosies and the disease called Noli me tangere, by dressing it twice a day with this oyl, it healeth a Carbuncle or boil, being put into the wound, it bringeth out broken bones, and cureth ruptures.

Take of cleer Turpentine one pound, of white Incense four oun­ces, of Gumme Bdelium six ounces, of Bay berries four ounces, of Mastick, of Galingale, of Cinnamon, of Cloves, of Nutmegs, and of Cubebs, of each one ounce, mix them all together, and distil them in a glasse Limbeck.

The blessed balme or water for wounds.

Take of Cleer Turpentine one pound, of the whites of Eggs sod hard, fourteen ounces; rosen of the pine apple tree six ounces, of chosen mirrhe three ounces, gum of the Ivie tree two ounces; all these being by art brought to powder, and mixed together, put into a retort, and distil it according to art, which wil be done in four or five and thirty hours; of this you shall have water and oile; the oile blackish, which after the separation wil become red. This oyl besides curing wounds, it causeth hair to grow again on the head and beard; it also helpeth the paine in the back and reines which cometh by retention, by applying a glister prepared with a little of this oyle, for it worketh upon the Kidneys.

An excellent water for the Rheume.

Take of Isop, Savory, white horehound, Ireos, Lovage, Beto­ny, Sage, the leaves of trifoile, which hath maine thick, sweet leaves, as big as a nut, of each halfe a pound, all these being grosly bro­ken, put into a glasse bodie, on which pour so much of the strongest sack as wil cover it a finger thick, infuse it for three daies, and distil if.

To make Aqua realis.

Take of yellow brimstome, roach Allom, of salt gumme of each one pound, of boras and Mastick, of each one ounce, distilled vine­ger four ounces; these diligently beaten in a mortar and mixed toge­ther, and put into a glasse bottle wel luted, and continuing the fire greater and greater unto the end; this water wil be white and trou­bled, strain it through a linnen cloth, and keepe it in a glasse close stopped, putting into it two grains of musk, dissolved in half an ounce of Rose water, and after the setling wil this water be cleer and sweet. The vertue of this water is, it cureth all manner of ulcers, sores and griefs hapning within the mouth, by washing it therewith. It maketh the teeth white presently by taking a mallow root and dipping into this water, and rubbing the place with it.

A very good drink to scowr the reins, and to cause one to make water.

Take half a pint of Goats milk, of Thime and Parsly, of each half a handful, boil it in the milk and make thereof a posset with white wine, and then strain out the cleer and drink it.

Another Aqua realis for the Morphew.

Take of white Tartar, and salt Peter, of each two ounces, grind it to sine powder, and lay it on a heap, and make a hole in the midst of it, and put a live coal in it, and there wil come forth an oile, with it annoint the Morphew.

A singular medecine for the dimme and skinny eies, and for the pin and web therein.

Take a new laid egge, and break it in the lesser end, and take out all the substance of the egge very clean, then with a Knife cut the yolk asunder in the midst, then fil the shel with fair water, & put to it three grains of rectified white coperas, with four grains of fine sugar; then set it on the fire, and let it boil til the white scum be all risen up to the top, taking it up with a feather as it riseth; then pour it out into a glass til it be cold, then strain it through a fine linnen cloth, that the dregs may be severd from the water; use this water morning and evening, two drops in one eye at each time is sufficient.

A Medicine for the Tooth ach.

Take of the inner rind of Elder and Alehoof, of each one handful, Frankinsence a little quantitie, Ginger, Stavesacre, pepper, roach Allom and bay salt of each a like quantity, with as much Aqua vitae as wil boil the herbs soft, with one spoonful of hony: put it into a lin­nen bag, and heat it in Aqua vitae, and apply it to the gummes.

An oyntment for an ach or swelling between the joints or other place.

Take the herb called Semper vivum and cut in pieces, and distil it, whereof you shal have a pint of water, or neer so much, put the water into a pound of Turpentine to infuse it for foure and twenty hours; then distil the whole, whereof you shal have water and oile, temper them together warme, and so annoint the place grieved before the fire.

Probatum est.

An ointment to take away heat and blisters, and bladders of the smal pocks: take it in time.

Take one ounce of peach kernels burned and beaten to powder, the juice of plantane and housleek, of each halfe an ounce, of cerus a dram and a half, and make your oyntment hereof.

A singular potion for the gravel and stone, proved and found excellent.

Take a quart of white wine, of pessel seed, and cherry stones, of each a handful, beat them smal, and put them into the wine, and let it seethe til it come to a pinte, then take it off and strain it, the drink being warmed, drink thereof morning and evening, at each time four ounces.

A medicine for the flux, and loosenesse of the belly.

Take a pint of new milk, and put into it foure plantane leaves clean washed, and let them seeth a little together, then take six or se­ven blades of large Mace, and let it boile to halfe a pinte, then take out the leaves and wring them, and cast them away, and let the rest be your meat; then for your drinke take a pig of tenne or twelve daies old, stick him and flea him warme; then take the [Page 166] four quarters and four ounces of large Mace, and distil them in a Stil, first lay downe one quarter of pig, and then one ounce of mace &c. This water must be your drink according to the rules of Physick, for it hath been often approved true.

A special oyntment for the Itch.

Take of white lead one ounce, white coperas halfe an ounce, grind them on a marble stone to fine powder, then take a little black soap, with as much oyl olive as in the stirring together wil make an oint­ment, use this by annointing the wrist and hams of the thigh when you go to bed.

For a Stitch.

Take six bay-berries, and stamp them very smal, and put them into a quarter of a pint of white wine, warm it and drink it.

A water to procure sleep.

Take of white and black poppie seeds half an ounce, of white wine two drams, of the gal of a Hare as much, of pure Aqua vitae four oun­ces, let these be put together, and infused for three dayes, and then distil it in Balneo Mariae, one drop of this in a spoonful of Lettice water procureth sleep for one hour, two drops procureth two houres, &c.

A very good Poultesse.

Take of Mallows, Chickweed and Ivie lvaves, of each a hand­ful, chop them all together with a little sheeps Tallow, with one handful of meale, and four ounces of Cummin; let all be cut toge­ther, and boiled in milk.

A medicine for the Quinsey.

Take a pint of new milk as it cometh from the Cow, and set it on the fire in a posnet, then take a good handful of Sage, wash it clean and put it into the milk, let it boil til the sage be tender; then having two tiles indifferently hot, lay the sage between them and squee [...]e it a little, and apply it to the place grieved, keeping the neck very hot; then let the patient drink so much of the milk as he can. And he being gone warm to his bed, lying with that side upward which is grieved: pour so much of the milk into his [...]are as you can, using this morning and evening, and with Gods help he shall bee well speedily.

To make a tooth fall out.

Take the root of henbane, and rost it in the fire, and lay it to the tooth very hot and it wil fal out: the fittest is to stop the tooth if it be hollow, with a piece of the root.

A speciall water against the Stone in the reins or bladder.

Take of the seeds of Lemons and Oranges, of each four ounces, of Saxifrage three pounds, Balm, Philopendila▪ pellitorie of the wall, Sparagus, Crisom Isop, Fennel roots, parsley roots, of each two ounces; stamp them together, and make them into the forme of a liquid oyntment with the juice of Lemons, then distil it til the matter remain dry, the body being the day before purged of crude and viscous humors, then take of this water morning and evening four ounces four daies together, or more if need shal require; and you must refraine moist and cold meats.

To cure a Fistula.

Take the ashes of shooe leather very wel burned four ounces, green coperas four ounces, of burnt allom two ounces, then take a stone which you shal find amongst the Smiths sinders like Antimony, and it shi [...]eth like gold, take thereof two ounces beaten and ground very smal on a marble stone so fine as is possible; then put all together, and take of the second cream of Cows milk, and mingle with the powders, then make a tent of lint according to the sore, & annoint the tent, and put it into the mouth of the wound; and as it worketh, it wil dry the conduit of the Fistula, and bring it to a grosse substance, and make it to break out into boiles, as the pipe leadeth; and if the Fistula be in a fleshy place and deepe, it wil open it and draw it ou [...] cleane, but if it do run upon a bone, or between the ribs, it wil break it out in boiles as it runneth.

Probatum est.

To cure a Felon.

Take the crums of leavened bread, vineger, bay salt, black soape, deere suet, and a little rue, boile all these together, and being ve­ry hot, lay it to the sore.

A good Salve for many sores.

Take a pound of the juice of Betony, smallage and plant [...]ne, put it [Page 168] into a panne, of new wax three ounces, white incense, pitch and rosen, of each two ounces: boil these together til the juice be some­thing wasted; then take it from the fire, and strain it through a lin­nen cloth, and when it is almost cold, add to it three ounces of Tur­pentine, and temper it all together, make it up in rolls: if the wound be deep, wash it with warm white wine and hony boiled together, and if it need tenting, make one of Tow.

To cure an Ach.

Take of Sallet oyle and Aqua vitae of each one spoonful with an onion, beate them together very wel, strain them, and take the oyle thereof being warm and annoint the place.

To cure a sore mouth.

Take the leaves of hony suckles, sage and the tops of Rosemarie, and bruise them very wel, then boil it with hony, vineger, and burnt Allom and a little water, and wash your mouth therwith.

A Searcloth for old wounds.

Take a pint of Sallet oyle, halfe a pound of wax, as much red lead, a little sack; boile them til they look black, and then make your Searcloths; the wound being washed with white wine and honey boiled together healeth mightly.

A salve for a wound that festers inwardly.

Take Bores grease, vineger and honey, and boile them together a little, then take the powders of rosen and Frankinsence, and make a plaister or tent as the wound requireth, warm it, and lay it to, and when it is wel drawn, use the other salve. This is an especial salve to cure a prick with a thorn or nail.

A Poultesse to break a boil or bunch.

Take of Brooklime and smallage a good quantity, and seeth them wel in running water, with a sufficient quantity of oatmeale, and thereof make a plaister.

A very good Salve for a wound or sore, it also easeth the Gout.

Take of Rosemary, Groundsel, and mallow leaves of each a hand­ful, pu [...] them into a quart of fair water, and let them seethe till [Page 169] more then half be wasted; then strain it through a linnen cloth into some fair vessel standing upon a chasingdish of coals, then put to it a quantity of Sheeps suet clarified, unwrought wax, Sallet oyl and Turpentine; let it all boil til it be thick, and it wil make a Salve; then strain it through a cloth, and keep it for your use.

A Medicine for one that bleedeth inwardly.

Take a good quantity of the juice of Nepe, and let the Patient drink thereof, and it will cause him to cast up bloud presently.

An outward Medicine for Wormes.

Take Wormwood, Rue, Leeks and Fetherfew, and fry them with a little Ox-gal, and make a Plaister thereof, and apply it to the Navel.

To cure the Cramp.

Take Oile of Violets, Hollyoaks, and Swines grease, of each a like quantity, and make Oyntment of it, and with it annoint the place grieved.

The Water of Saint Johns wort.

This Water drunk morning and evening, two ounces at a time, prevaileth against the Apoplexy or depriving of senses; the Water mixed with the powder of the root, or Seeds or Water of Piony, and drunk thrice a day three ounces at a time, helpeth the Falling sick­nesse, also it prevaileth against the trembling of Members, if they be laboured with the same twice a day: this Water drunk with Red-Wine, helpeth all manner of fluxes of the belly; and being drunk morning and evening, healeth all manner of Wounds if they be wash­ed therewith, and applied often with a linnen cloth wet in it.

An excellent Salve for an old Sore.

Take of Lapis Chellonitis, Rosen, Wax, and red Bole, of each two ounces, sheeps suet four ounces, Camphire two penny worth; then take an earthen pot, and put in your Suet, Rosen and Wax, boiling them with a soft fire til they are molten; then take your Bole, and Lapis Chellonitis, beat it to powder, then put your Camphire into a mortar, and put to it two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl, bruising them toge­ther, then take your Rosen and Wax from the fire, and let it stand til it be cold; then take your powder with your Camphire, and mix them together stirring them with a clean stick til they be tl roughly cold.

To take away dead flesh quickly.

Take the juice of old Leeks, put into it a little of the powder of White-wine Lees, and with green Wax make a Sal [...]e, [...]d [...]pply it often to the sore; and to fret away a Wen, add to this a [...] drops of Oyl of Vitriol.

A good Water for a sore mouth or thr [...]at.

Take the leaves of Marsh Mallowes, and boil them in [...] and Honey, with a little Roach Allom, let it cool, and with it [...] [...]e mouth and throat.

To heal Ringworms, Cornes, and sores of the feet.

Take Liquid Allom and boil it in honey, and being clear, when it is hot, annoint the grief; but first let the grief be made neat for the purpose, as washed and cut.

A special Medicine for the Emrods.

Take an ounce of Frankinsence, bruise it a little; then take ano­ther ounce of the inner rind of Elder, and bruise them both together, and being well bruised, take a little quantity and put it into a cha­fing-dish of fresh coals, and let the Patient sit over them; and when that is out, put in more coals, and also of your Medicine by the space of an hour; and thus at three times using, all will be wel.

A very good Medicine for an Ague.

Take of Bay salt and of white Frankinsence, of each two ounces, Smallage one handful; beat all together, and lay it to your wrists two hours before the fit cometh.

A Medicine for the Siatica, or any ache.

Take in the beginning of May before the tenth day, the leaves and crops of young tender Broom, two great handfuls or more, and half a handful of the crops, pound them very smal with four or five spoonfuls of the sharpest Vineger you can get, and strain it through a linnen cloth, and put thereto half a pound of unwrought Wax, four penny worth of pure Mastick, and as much as a Tennis ball of Ro­sen, then put thereto a quart of Barrowes grease finely tr [...]ed, or Neats foot Oyle; boil all together in a Chafer on a soft fire, stirring it stil [Page 171] for the space of an hour, and then strain it through a cloth, and put it into a Gally pot or two, and keep it a year or two til you mean to use it; and when you use it, where your grief is most, take as much at once as a hasel nut, and chafe it upon your hand, and not by fire, and so rub and chafe your grief a quarter of an hour together, and if it dry in, take more as much as a Pease, and chafe it wel; then lay on it a hot linnen cloth, that is worn and soft; then lay on that a white cotton cloth a little warmed, and swathe it fast, and keep it warm all night; do thus twice or thrice together, and you shall find ease

An excellent Salve made of Soap.

Take a pint of Wine-vineger, and put it into a Bason, and set it on the coals, then take half a pound of Castle-Soap, and scrape it into the Vineger; and let it boil til the Soap be melted; then put to it two spoonfuls of Sallet Oyl or Neatsfoot Oyl, and let it boil half an hour; then add to it 4 ounces of common treakle, then let it boil softly til the Vineger be boiled away; it wil ask two hours, stirring it til it grow thick like a Salve, and that you shall know by dropping a little on a cold stone; and if you will make an Ointment hereof; then take a piece of this Implaister, and put it to any Oyl according to your purpose, and melt them together.

A Plaister for any Siatica, Gout, or Ache in the body, Limbs or Joints.

Take of new yellow Wax, of Deers suet, of Pitch and Olibanum, of each one pound, of Frankinsence two pounds, Mastick four oun­ces, beat all these gums very fine, every one by it self, and searce them through a fine hair Searce, so as you may get through all the sub­stance, keeping every gum severally; then take your Deer suet, Wax and Pitch, and set it over the fire in a brass pan, and then your Frankinsence til it be molten, and last of all your Mastick; you must observe that every Gum be severally molten before you put in another, and stir every Gum wel in the putting in, and when it be­ginneth to arise, and all the Gums well molten together, take it off the fire, if not, it wil all run over; then take a strong canvas cloth, and sowe it like a Jelly bag▪ and strain it through (your canvas must be somewhat fine) into a broad pan, that it may not stand past two fingers thick, and when it is cold you may make it up in Roles, and fold it up in paper, and keep it for seven yeers if you wil▪ Spread this Salve on a piece of leather, and lay it to the place grieved.

A Water for sore eyes that are cut or hurt.

Take of Ground-Ivy and three leav'd grass that beareth a red flow­er, of each one handful, stamp them together, and take a new laid Egge, and make a hole in the top, and pour out the meat, and fill it full of running water, and take a piece of white Coperas, as big as a Pease, and put it into the Egg shel with the water, and set it on the fire, and when it boileth, scum off the froth with a feather; then mingle it with the aforesaid herbs, and skimme it, and drop of the Water into the Eye three times a day, and it wil help you by Gods grace.

An Oyle for any Gout, Siatica or Ache.

Take a pottle of Sallet Oyle, and put it into a gallon glasse, then take one pound of Rosemary flowers, and bruise them in a Mortar, and so put them into the Oyl, and stop the glasse very close with Wax, and let it stand in the Sun til Midsomer, that you may have the rest of the Herbs belonging to it; and then take one pound of the buds of red Roses before they be much blowne, cutting away all the white and yellow tops, and refuse, having a full pound of them in weight: Then take half a pound of Dil, and half a pound of Saint Johns wort, only the flowers, half a pound of Vervain; bruise all these Herbs in a stone Mortar, and put them into that glasse of Oyle, and stop the glasse close againe, and then let it stand nine or ten dayes, or longer if need be, until there cometh a showre of raine, whereby you may gather Earth-wormes; then take a quart of those Wormes, the largest you can get, wash them, and scoure them with White­wine, and afterwards let them crawle up and downe a cloth or two, whereby they may become very clean from all their slime, this done, take those wormes with half a pound of Lavender Spike, and ten young Swallowes out of the nest, the fattest you can get, and beat them very small in a stone Mortar, till you cannot discern any fea­thers or guts at all, then put them into your glasse of Oyle, and stir them all together, and so let them stand a night or two; then take your Oyle and your Herbs, and all that is in your glasse, and put them into a fair pan or kettle, with a pint of the best Malmesey and half a pint of Aqua vitae, and set it over a soft fire of coals till the Aqua vitae and Malmesey be well wasted and consumed; then take it from the fire, and straine it through a strong linnen cloth [Page 173] that is new, and put that which you have strained into another faire pan, or if you will, some earthen Vessel or glasse; and so set it on the fire again, and when it boileth, put into it of Mastick fine­ly beaten to powder two ounces, with as many Cloves bruised, and a little quantity of Mace somewhat pounded and bruised together, and then let them boil all together with a so [...]t fire neer half an hour, and then take it off, and when it hath stood a while, and is something cool, put it into some close Vessel of glasse, somewhat thick, and so stop it very close againe with Wax, and so let it stand about nine or ten weeks; and after this you may take and use of it, but still to keep it close stopped with Wax. The herbs aforesaid must bee well squeezed and mingled together with the hand, and so to be used as a­foresaid.

This is to be made in the Spring when Rosemary flowers are full blowne.

A Remedy against the Plurisie.

Take an eating Apple, the best that can be gotten, and make a hole in it, taking away some part of it within, so that the hole pass not through, put into the hole three or four grains of Frankinsence, cal­led Olibanum, then cover again the said hole with the piece you took off first, and so roast it in the embers that it burne not, but that it may wax tender; then take it from the fire, and break it into foure parts with all the Frankinsence in it, and so give it to the Patient to eat, it will by and by cause the Imposthume to break, and heal it cleane.

For a Woman that hath a sore­nesse under her side.

Take Hilwort, Alesander, Parsley, Lovage, red Fennel, Smallage, Burnet and Grummel, of each a like quantity, and seeth them in white-wine till half be wasted, then strain it, and let the sick drink thereof first and last warm.

For the Megrim▪ Imposthume, Dropsie and Feaver in the Head, and for all manner of Aches in the Head.

Take of the Root of Pellitory of Spain four penny weight, of Spikenard a half penny weight, and grind them together, and boile [Page 174] them in good Vineger, and take a saucer ful of honey and five sau­cers full of Mustard, and mingle them together, and let the Pati­ent use thereof half a spoonful at once, and hold it in your mouth a pretty while, and then spit it out into a Vessel, and after take another, and do this ten or twelve times, and a good while after you have ea­ten, at noon, a little before even, wash, and after take ten or twelve more, spit into a bright bason, and when you go to bed, wash clean your mouth, and drink a draught, and go to bed; use this Medicine for three dayes.

For the Yellow Jaundies.

Take wormes called Mads, and cut them in pieces, and let them lye in Herbs all night to scoure themselves, then take them and rip them up, and wash the earth from them▪ and the slime both within and without, and dry them with a cloth; then take a hot tile stone and lay the wormes upon it til they are so dry as you may beat them to powder, and take of the powder in White-wine fasting in the mor­ning, and sweat after it.

To break a Carbunkle, and all other Botches beside.

Take Bay-salt, dry it, and beat it into powder and searce it through fine Tiffany, and incorporate it with the yolk of an egg, and lay upon the sore.

A Water for a sore mouth, and to wash a wound.

Take a gallon of running water, of Sage, Woodbind leaves and Celendine, of each one handful; boil all together til it be half con­sumed, then strain it, and put to it a quarter of a pound of Roach Allom finely beaten, and a pint of English honey, and boil it to the consumption of half, and so use it.

An Oyntment for a Tetter:

Take of green Coperas as much as a Walnut, of Allom halfe so much, and put them into a pint of running water, and boil it to the consumption of half, and annoint the Tetter with it twice a day, and keep warm.

For a swelling in the Neck.

Take Chervil, Vineger, Wax, and old grease, and melt them to­gether, and lay them to the pain as hot as you can abide it.

For swelling of a veine.

Take Wheat-flower, and the juice of Ash, with Sheeps suet, and make a Plaister thereof.

For a pain in the Yard, and swelling thereof.

Take Betony and seeth it in Wine, stamp it, and make a Plaister, and lay it thereto.

To take away Venom and Poison out of a Wound, made by some poisoned Arrow, or other Instrument.

Take Assa foetida and Galbanum, of each one ounce; and steep them in Vineger the space of a night; then set it to the fire to distil, and strain it through a linnen cloth, mixing with it two ounces of Unguentum Basilicum, and lay it to the wound, and it will draw un­to it selfe, and kil the Venom, that you may heal it with any other Plaister.

An Oyntment for aches in men or womens backs, or any other place.

Take a great brass pot ful of fair water, and set it over the fire; then take an earthen pot, and fil it full of black Snails, and cover it with a parchment skin, that no air come forth, and put it in the pot, so covered, with water, that it may seeth in the brass pot, and thereof wil come an Oyl which you must use where your grief is.

To make Emplaistrum Aureum, for all manner of Wounds.

Take Pitch, Grecia or Colofonia, and White Incense, of each a like quantity; let it be wel stamped and mixed with the whites of Eggs; then annoint a piece of Parchment with this, and wring the Wound wel with your two fingers to make the blood come forth, and lay the parchment upon it; bind it fast.

A Medicine for the Head-ach, and to cause one to sleep.

Take a piece of a Rose-cake, and cut it fit for the Head before, that is, the fore head, and take half a spoonful of Vineger, two spoonfuls of the juice of Lettice, and set it in a dish on a Chafingdish of coals, and heat the Rose cake in it; then press out a little between two trenchers and lay upon it the powder of Nutmegs, and apply it to the forehead.

The skinning Water that destroieth Tetters, the Serpigo, and such other Diseases, in any part of the body.

Take strong White-wine-vineger a quart, Litharge of Gold finely beaten and searced one pound, mix them together, and let them infuse in a vessel three or four daies, stirring them together twice every day; then let it settle a day, and take the clearest of it and put it in a Vial or double glasse.

The Congealer.

Take fair water a pint, Sal Gemmae two ounces, common salt a good spoonful, boil all until the Salts be dissolved, then put the clearest into a glasse.

The use of the Waters.

Take of the first water three parts, of the second one part and a little more, and put them together, and it will be an Oyntment; lay it on the place that you would have skinned, or on the creeping Tetter, and it will heal it. For a long Ulcer that lacketh nothing but skin­ning, and wil not be skinned, it will heal it.

A Powder for a Fistulae.

Take green Coperas, and burn it in a Goldsmiths Crucible, two ounces, red Mercury sublimed one ounce, grind them both together on a Marble stone, till they are become very fine and subtil.

The use of it in the time of the Cure.

Search the Ulcer with your probe to know the length and depth of it, that you may prepare your Tent, and annoint it over with Po­pulion, and dip the end in your powder; dresse it once in a day with powder, and other two dayes with Populion to remove the asker; and thus enlarge your Tent til the work be known to you: so long as it casteth a buckly or malt water, or gory, stinking or bloody matter, still use your powder until it come grosse and white matter; and then apply Mundifiers or Cleansers, whereof you shall be taught: The Ulcer cleansed, then use Incarnatives, as your green Balm and others, and rather shorten your Tent then otherwise til you are assu­red of the victory for sigillation, sealing or skinning: for which your Water above written is most excellent.

Lucatella his Balsom▪

TAke Venice Turpentine one pound, best Oyle Olive three pints, yellow wax eight ounces, of naturall Balsom one ounce, Oyle of St. Johns Wort, and red Sanders in Powder Ana one ounce, Sack six spoonfulls; first cut the Wax, and melt it on the fire, and then take it off, and put Turpentine to it, having first washed it in Damask Rose-water thrice, and having like­wise mingled the Sack and Oyle together, put altogether again over the fire, alwayes stirring it till it begins to boyl, and have a speciall care that it boyleth not over the fire, then let it cool for a night, and a day, or more, untill the Wine and watry sub­stance be all setled to the bottom, then make holes in the Cake, and let the water run all out at the holes, which being clean run foth, s [...]t it on the fire again, adding unto the Balsom, and St. Johns Wort, and when it is molten put to it the red San­ders, and stir it well, that it may incorporate, and when it first begins to boyl, take it off the fire, and stir it along time till it be grown thick, and cold: It is good for inward and outward wounds, annointing the parts about the soar: It healeth burning and scalding, and it healeth Fistulas and Ulcers being applyed warm with Lint.

An excellent Plaister to conglutinate a Wound.

TAke Burgundy Pitch, Brimstone, and Olibanum Ana one ounce, beat it severally to fine powder, and searce them, and mix it with such a proportion of the Whites of Eggs as will make the same to the firmness and substance of a Plaister, and apply to the Wound.

For a Rupture in a Child.

TAke Senacle, and bruise it in the hand till it be soft, and lay it to the place ill affected, put a thin clout and truss on it,

Probatum Cosin Newton.

An excellent Salve for Wounds.

TAke a pint of Rose-water, a quarter of a pound of fine white Cake▪ so [...]p, cut it smal, and stir it over the fire with the Rose [Page 178] water till it be molten and thick of a white colour, then put to it four ounces of Venice Turpentine, two ounces of white Frankincense in fine powder, and let it dissolve, then put in a pound of white Lead in fine powder, and stir it continually, and now and then put to it in the boyling a little Rose-water, that it may be of a whitish colour, boyl it at the least four hours.

To destroy Rats and Mice.

TAke a pennyworth of Rats-bane beaten and searced, a spoon­full of Oatemeal beaten and searced, as much clowted Cream as wil make it into a Past, Sugar half a spoonfull, work it very well together, and bake it in little thin Cakes on a Fire-s [...]ovell, first buttered that they may not stick to it.

For a Rupture in a Child or man, from Mrs. Eliz. Cha­non of Oystherg, Probatum.

TAke a quantity of Featherfew, and with fresh Butter washed make a Poultice, and apply it warm, and if that force it not back, then make use of a Snakes skin, and apply it, and it will do it.

The Plaister to the Poultice.

TAke burnt linnen a good quantity, and with honey, and Bean flour, make it into a Plaister, and spred it on Leather, and apply it, and wear a Truss.

The Powder to be given inwardly.

TAke of knot Grass and Shepheards Purse, and Doves foot, of each a like quantity, dry them, and make them into fine powder, mingle with it a little powder of Licorice and Ani­seeds, and give of it in Plantane water to the party broken in the morning fasting, the quantity of as much as will lye on a shilling.

A Medicine [...]pproved for the redness of the Eyes.

TAke a new-layd Egg, and break a hole in the top of it, and pour out all the meat of it, and fill up the shell with red Rose-water, and set it on the Coals, and put into it as much [Page 179] white Copperas as two little beans, and as it boyleth strike of the scum and froath of it with a feather, and when it hath boyled well, strain it through a fine linnen cloath, and let it stand and settle; then drop of the clearest into the eye, four or five times a day, but especially when you go to bed, if the humour fall a­bundantly into the eyes, then fill the hole of an hard Egg (when the Yolk is taken out) with Commin-seed bruised, and bay Salt, put it in a linnen cloath, and vvear it as hot as you can suffer it at the nape of the Neck.

A Dyet drink for the Spleen.

TAke of Violet leaves a large handfull, of Borrage leaves and Balm of each two handfuls, Borrage Roots sliced a handfull, of Tamarisk a handfull, and half Licorice scraped, and sliced tvvo ounces, a six pennyvvorth of Saffron, Raisons of the Sun stevved half a pound, put all these into a linnen Bag, and hang it in three or four gallons of nevv Beer vvhen it hath al­most done vvorking, and let it stand ten daies, and then drink a draught in the morning fasting, and at four of the Clock in the afternoon, and at night going to bed as long as it lasteth.

Probatum est.

The Cramp water.

TAke Wormvvood, Featherfevv, Sage, Spicknard, Perevvinkles Camomile, Savory, Rosemary, and Bayes, of each a like quan­tity, vvith tvvo spoonfuls of Aniseed, red Fennelseed, and Ca­ravvayseed, half a spoonfull of the povvder of Elacampane, put all these into a pot of strong beer over night, and the next day distill it in a Limbeck.

An approved Medicine for the Scurvey.

TAke of Clivers tvvo handfuls, of Watercresses, Sea purslane Sea-vvormvvood, Sea-beets, Catstail▪ and Egremony, of each three handfuls, of Licorice and Aniseeds, of each an ounce: Then brew seven or eight gallons of strong Ale, let it be vvell boyled and put into a Ferkin a vvorking all night, take out a boulfull of the Ale at night, and lay all these Herbs stamped, (the Annis and Licorice well bruised) in the boul all night to steep, and in the morning strain it all into the Vessell, and [Page 180] stop it up three or four dayes, and afterwards drink a good draught therof in the morning fasting, and at four in the after­noon, and at meals if your stomach will beare it:

Probatum est.

An approved Medicine for Convulsion fits.

TAke sweet Marjoram, C [...]press wood, the root of Piony and Ireos, & finely powder them, and searce it altogether likewise of a mans Skull two ounces double prepared, of the best Syrrop of Roses, with Agarick, six ounces of oyle of Dill, and Orrac [...], of each two ounces, powder of Piony one ounce, powder of Messeltoe of the Oake one ounce, Spirit of Amber two ounces, black Cherry-water a pottle.

First, purge the stomack gently with three spoonfuls every morning, for a fortnight together with the Syrrop, after the two first daies take an hour before as much of the Cra▪ Human, as will lye on a Groat, mixt with three spoonfuls of black Cherry-water: The third day as much of the Messelto with the water, and so continue it, but first take a little Lambskin with the Furr, and cut a little peece of it, as much as will cover the head from the forehead to the Crown, and no further, then take of the oyle of Dill and Ireos, and mix in it the four first powders, and make the same pretty thick, then bath some part of it into the Lamb­skin-furr, and bath the head well with the other part, from the forehead to the Crown, and then lay on the furr, but first warm the Oyles and Powders together in a Savvcer, bath the furr once a vveek, but the head once a day, and likevvise the pit of the Poll you must bath vvith the Spirit of Amber three drops at a time, keep your self laxative reasonable, and use no vvinndy mea [...], nor melancholick, but if it be possible those that feed on Hills, or Feilds, and Mutton and Lamb.

For a woman with Child.

LEt her take every day in the morning betimes as much of the Powder of Cra. Hum. Doubly prepared as will lye on a 3 d. mixt with two spoonfuls of black Cherry-water, not taking a­ny other thing within two hours after, and let her avoid windy meates, as Beef, Veal, Pigg, and wa [...]et-fowl; at night when she goes to bed, let her make Cherry posset-drink, and then boyl well in it Marjoram, red Sage, Hysop, and Bettony, of each half a handfull, strain it and drink it cold.

VVhen the Child is born, give it of the Cran. Hum. in one [Page 181] spoonfull of black Cherry-water, as much as will lye on a half­penny, and give of it every second day.

Hang about the Childs neck if it be a boy a root of single Piony, if a Maiden a root of double Piony bruised and put into a little bag, and let it be put under the left arme-pit by day, and hang down by night to the pit of the stomack.

Let the Nurse take of the same Posset-drink once a day for a month, as is prescribed for the mother, as a little black Cher­ry-water now and then a spoonfull at a time.

For the Worms in Children,

TAke a little Mithridate, and spread it on a peece of leather, and strew in it a little powder of Alloes, and on it four drops of Spirit of Wormwood, and apply it to the bottom of the stomack.

For a Rupture.

Juice of Cumphry drunk with beer fasting, the Rupture first put up cureth it.

An Oyle:

TAke a pint of Oyle made of the oldest Neets-feet that you can get, of the youngest Bay leaves a handfull, a pretty quantity of the tops of Rosemary, a little quantity of Camomile, two pennyworth of Cynamon, six Cloves, a little Mace, four drops of naturall Balsom, put altogether in a Skillet, and boyl it together along space, and stir it well, and then put in your naturall Balsom, and so take it off the fire, and let it stand till it be cold, and take of the clearest of it; Probatum. Goodman Hawken [...] of Ashill in Devonshire by himself and others.

Take a large quarter of a spoonfnll of the Oyle above written, and put it into halfe a pint of the strongest Beere you can get, beat it very well untill the Oyle be so wasted, as it appears up­on the top of the Beer no bigger then small pins-heads, then put into it the finest flour of red Wheat that you can get, and temper it so as all the clods of the flour may be brok [...]n, and set it on the fire, putting into it two spoonfuls of pure Honey, and let it boyl, stirring it continually, and in the boyling put to a pretty quantity of Barrows grease, let it boyl to the perfect con­sistance of a Poultice, and apply it as hot as the Patient can en­dure it on a linnen Cloath, first annointing the place affected with a little of the Oyle.

For Swelling and Aking of Knees.

TAke Crums of white-bread, and stamp them with Honey and Wine, and lay it therto.

To make Oyle of Elder-flowers

TAke Elder-buries when they be ripe and put them in an earthen pot, and set it in Hors-dung nine or ten daies, and therof you shall have an Oyle good for Aches.

For the heat in an Ague.

TAke Whey as it cometh from the Cheese, set it on the sire, and skim off all that shall rise of it, then take a handfull of Borrage, another of Buglas, another of five-finger, and seeth them all in the same Whey, and then put in two Whites of Eggs to clarify it, then strain it into a fair pot, and give it the Patient to drink when he is in his fit of hear; for this [...] know hath done much good by experience, it will keep him moist, and bring him to a very good temper, and let him not in the time of his sit have too much light, for it is very ill for the head: Proba­tum est.

For an Ach.

TAke the Gaul of an Oxe, and so much strong Aquavitae, and the juice of Wormwood, and boyl all these together, and then keep it in some clean Vessell, and when any man needeth therof, take some in a Sawcer and warm it, and take a linnen cloath folded round, and rub the Ach therwith as hard as you can.

A wonderfull Plaister for Soar Breasts.

TAke leaves of Mallows, and Wormwood, of each a handfull, boyl them in water untill they be as tender as the pap of an [...]pple, then lay them on a board, and let the water run from them clean, then cut them small with a Knife for they will not grind for fat, then stamp them with a pound of old Swines grease, and temper them together till you may not know the one from the other, this Plaister is most precious for soar paps that rot, of all others it matureth and moderateth not only the pain in the paps, bnt also in hard botches and Boils, under the Throat or Arm-holes, or in any place of the body where it lyeth hard in [Page 183] the flesh, this must be layd to luke-warm in a linnen double cloath changed twice a day, look substantially on this Plaister, for it hath no peer in such things.

To dry the milk of a womans Breasts.