Of Diseases in the Head; and first for paine in head through Heat.

INternal Medicaments appro­priated to this distemper are the distilled waters of roses, of violets, purslain, water lillies, nightshade, gourds: Conserves of roses, violets, citron, water-lilly flowers, sirrups of the same, condited lettice: Of these may be framed julips, and potions, as need requires, as for example.

Take sirrup of violets, one ounce and a half; barly water ten ounces, oxys [...]c­char; half an ounce: mix it for two or three doses. or

Take sirrup of violets, one ounce and a half, of water-lillies and endive, each si [...] [Page 2]drams, water of lettice, succhory and en­dive, each two ounces, make it a julip for two doses; emulsions may be made of the four greater cool seeds, poppy and lettice. as

Take of the four greater cool seeds husked half an ounce, of white poppey two drams, barley water half a pound, lettice water three ounces, water-lilly water and rose water each two ounces, syrup of violets, an ounce and a half, mix them.

For an Electuary.

Take of the Conserves of violets and roses, each one ounce, of water lillies and condited lettice, each half an ounce, spec. dia marg. frigid, half a dram, with sirrup of violets, make it an Electuary.

For outward Medicaments, for hot di­stempers in the head.

Take oyle of violets, roses and nym­phea, each an ounce, waters of roses, let­lice and sengreen, each two ounces, vi­negar half an ounce, make thereof an [Page 3]Epithema to be applied to the forehead.

For a Liniment for the same.

Take juice of lettice and plantain, each half an ounce, muscilage of the seeds of fleawort, drawn with lettice water an ounce, oyle of red roses and water lillies, each one ounce and a half, boyl them till the juice be consu­med, and make of it a Liniment for the temples and forehead.

Vnguents are also proper for this distemper, of which I commend this that follows.

Take oyle of roses one ounce and an half, of poppy half an ounce, juices of sengreen & nightshade, each one ounce, vinegar half an ounce, boyl them till the juices be consumed, and then adde of white and red sanders, each half a dram, muscilage of the seeds of flea wort half an ounce, camphire dissolved in rosewater six grains, wax as much as will serve to make it an oyntment.

Of distempers in the head, caused by cold.

When a disease springs from a con­trary [Page 4]cause, use a contrary remedy so [...] the cure, though many medicines wo [...] sympathetically, and effect the cure th [...] way, yet more do it by antipathy: Th [...] distemper must be resisted in the begin­ning, and then it may easily be m [...] ­stered, but if it reigne long, till it get [...] it were an habit, the cure will be pe [...] ­formed with great difficulty, if [...] all. Simple medicines conducing he [...] unto, are piony roots, gathered th [...] Moon decreasing, and the roots of fen­nel, orris, cloves, aristolochia, angelic [...] white dittany and valerian: And of leave [...] use rosemary, marjoram, rue, betony [...] sage, hysop, balme, calamint, organy pennyroyal, primroses: The flowers o [...] stoechas, are in this much commended which carryeth away black, choller an [...] flegme, cleanseth the brain nerves an [...] organs of the senses, resisteth all disease thereof being used either in potion, b [...] decoction, or fomentation.

A Composition for cold distempers of the Head.

Take roots of piony and cloves, ea [...] [Page 5]two drams, marjoram, betony and sage, [...]ach one handfull, flowers of stoechas, two pugils, rosemary, lavender, each one [...]ugil, seeds of annis and fennel, each [...]ram, boyl them in a quart of fountain water till a third part be consumed, then [...]et it three hours in a hot place, and then train it; and adde to the colature of su­ [...]ar three ounces, and clarifie it for a ju­ [...]p, and in the boyling, hang in a cloth of [...]loves, mace and cinnamon, each half [...] dram, nutmeg two scruples.

A Cephalick powder for the Head and Catharres.

Take nutmegs, cardimoms, cinamon, [...]ignum aloes, each one dram, piony seeds [...]nd coriander prepar'd, each two drams, [...]pecies diambrae, and dia mosco dulcis, [...]ach one dram, white amber half a dram; make thereof a powder.

For a Bolus for the Head-ach.

Take of the Conserves of betony and [...]age, each one ounce, mithridate two scruples; make it a Bolus for two doses [Page 6]to be taken at two nights going to be [...]

For loss of Sleep.

Take sirrup of poppy and nympha [...] each one ounce, lettice and purslain w [...] ­ter, each one ounce and a half, speci [...] di [...] margarit frigid. half a scruple; m [...] them, and take it going to bed at twice.

A Julip for the same and to cause Rest.

Take violet and lettice water, each one ounce and a half, confect. alkerme [...] half a scruple, sirrup of poppy and vi [...] lets, each half an ounce; mix them fo [...] one draught.

For the Vertigo.

Take of the Conserves of lilly co [...] ­vally, betony, sage, rosemary, of each one ounce, of marigolds, half an ounce species diambrae, diamosch. dul. each o [...] dram, carroway seeds, cloves, cubeb [...] nu [...]meg, each half a dram, oyle of ci [...] ­namon two drops with sirrup of stoe cha [...] or rose water and sugar; make it into a [...] Electuary, whereof take the quantity [...] nutmeg, morning and evening.

Against Melancholly.

Take diacatholicon an ounce, confe­ction hamech, a dram and a half, dis­solve it in a sufficient quantity of the wa­ter of borrage, balme and harts-tongue, and strain it for one draught.

A potion for the Hypochondriach Me­lanco [...]ly.

Take roots of cichory, borrage, scor­zonera, polipody, bark of the roots of capers, each two drams, roots of asara­bacca one dram, of the leaves of balme, betony, ceterach, fumitory, maidenhair, camedryos, each half a handfull, cen­taury the less, sea wormwood, each one pugil, of the cordial flowers two pugils, citron pill, two drams, annis and sennel seeds each one dram, sena, and dodder of time, each three drams, raisins one ounce infuse them in a close vessel, in a hot place, and afterwards boyl them in balneo, to the colature adde of the juices of roses, borrage, and sumotery, each four ounces, sugar one pound; mix [Page 8]them, and make it a cleer drink, whereof take about 4. ounces at a time.

An external application for pains in the head, and to cause rest in Phrensyes.

Take two handfulls of dog bryar leaves, four spoonfulls of wine vineger, as much breast milk, a nutmeg sheed small, infuse these in a dish, upon a cha­fing dish of coals, and apply it to each side of the head upon the temples.

For the Vertigo and to restore lost Me­mory, and to comfort the Brain.

Take eyebright with the flowers, half an ounce, mace prepared with vinegar one dram, coriander prepared 4. scruples, betony one scruple, cubebs half a scru­ple, white sugar candy six drams, make them all into a fine powder, of which take in the morning one dram, upon a piece of bread first dipt in maligo wine, or with a poched egge.

Of the Drunken Head-ache.

This too too common distemper the Ethicks call a voluntary madness, and [Page 9]phisically it's termed morbus officialis, an official disease, it being the office of too much drink to disturb first the Brain and internal senses; and afterwards to leave its dire effects in every member of the body; it obstructs the ventricles of the Brain, with the relaxation and softness of the Nerves, caused by the ascention of a multitude of vapours, elevated from the excess of meat and drink, or wine and strong drink especially: This pro­duceth various effects according to the diversity of mens natures; of which it is not my purpose to treat here, nor to prescribe Medicines for to encourage Drunkards; since in this perverse Age, Vice is degenerated into Virtue, (I mean it is reputed so) it being counted an inci­vility, and sometimes worse to refuse to pledge a health: But I would advise all men to beware of this mischeif, yet if it chance to surprize them, use this follow­ing Julep.

For the Drunken Head-ache.

Take of the seeds of Cabbages, plan­tain, purslain, each one dram; corian­der prepared half a dram, hartshorn burnt, a dram and an half: Make thereof a fine powder, whereof take one dram in the juice of lemons, oranges, sirrup or conserve of quinces or barberryes.

Or the following Julep.

Take of the powder before prescri­bed, one dram, sirrup of citrons, one ounce and an half, of quinces one spoon­full, waters of savory and endive, each an ounce and an half; mix them for a Julep.

The following Electnary I also commend for the same distemper, and likewise good to prevent Drunkenness, if you take of it before drinking.

Take Conserves of roses, rob of ribes, that is of currans, of barberryes, each half an ounce, of bitter almonds blanch­ed and bruised twelve, cabbage seeds one dram, red roses one dram, with the [Page 11]sirrup of water lilies, make them all into the sorm of an Electuary.

Of a Bruise or blow on the Head, or hurt thereof by a fall.

In the cure hereof, have these three things alwayes before your eyes: First, endeavour to mitigate the pain: Second­ly, to hinder apostemation; and thirdly, if there be a wound, to have a care to the cure of it; and regulate the patient by due order of dyet: If there be repletion in the body, then opening of a vein is convenient; but if age and strength will not admit of that, then have erecourse to the use of Clisters; to prevent an infla­mation by evacuation of the humours that way. as,

Take Pellitory, mercury, centory the less, with the flowers, sena half a hand­full; boyl them in fountain water, and in half a pint of the decoction dissolve half an ounce of the Electuary, called be­nedicta laxativa, two drams of oyle of roses, and a little salt, and give it for a Clister.

For a discussing and digesting plaister for the Head.

Take Camonile, melilot, southern­wood, and marjoram, each one hand­full, red roses dryed, wheat bran, meal of beans, lupines & barley; each half an ounce, mirtles and cipress nuts, in num­ber fifteen, or for want thereof, two drams of balaustins, bruise what is to be bruised, and boyl them with their juice, till the hearbs be soft, then work them together in a mortar, till they come to the forme of a Cerote, to which in the end adde a little oyle of camomile and dill; then beat it again and apply it hot to the place affected.

Eor he Phrensy.

This affection sometimes followeth a Feaver, and it sometimes is in the sub­stance of the Brain: For the cure it is good to use frictions and ligatures to the extremityes, to hinder the ascention of the humours: Lotions are likewise pro­per to be used to the Feet.

There must be also used in this case, both Clisters and Bloud letting; though not by admittance, yet by compulsion; and the Clister must be held in with a cloth, and to be repeated after bloud­letting.

A good Clister for the Phrensy.

Take Mallows, and marsh mallows, both herbs and roots, pellitory, mercu­ry, and sena, each one handfull, barley one pugil, five prunes, manna half an ounce, seeds of gourds and sennel, each one dram; decoct them all in a sufficient quantity of water, and in the Colature dissolve in it half a pint, of diacassia half an ounce, benedict. laxativa three drams, solutive sirrup of roses three spoonfulls, oyle of violets one ounce and an half, the yolk of one egge; mix them for a Clister to be injected at any time: Then on the next day after bloud letting, use this La­xative.

Take solutive sirrup of roses simple, two ounces, sirrup of villets six drams, [Page 14]borrage water one ounce, lettice and anniseed water, each one ounce and a half; mix them for a potion.

An Apozeme for the Region of the forehead.

Take leaves of Lettice, plantain and vervain, of each an handfull, roses and violets, each two pugils, red saunders two drams, seeds of plantain and sorel, each two drams, six poppy heads; de­coct them in equall parts of water and wine vinegar, wherein dip linnen clothes or a spunge, and apply it to the region of the forchead.

Another frontal for the Forehead in the Phrensie.

Take of the distilled waters of red Roses, lettice, vervain, betony and wa­ter lillies, each two ounces, of plantain and nightshade water, each one ounce, of juice of purslain and sengreen, each one ounce and an half, wine vinegar one ounce; mix them, and therein dip warm linnen clothes and apply it to the forehead: This is singular good fo such [Page 15]as are distracted with raging Feavers.

For the Lethagy.

This is the prodromus, or forerunner of the Appoplexie, and consequently of death it self: For cure hereof Castoreum is much commended to be given in drink with Oxymel: or thus,

Take of Castoreum, two scruples, mace one scruple; powder them very fine, and give this powder in betony water, and sirrup of citrons.

An excellent secret for the Lethargy.

Take the conserves of Rosemary flow­ers, and primroses, each half an ounce, of roses three drams, of aromaticum ro­satum, one dram, laetificans Galeni, half a dram, with sirrup of Stoechas, and juice of citrons; reduce them into the forme of an Opiat; whereof may be given, the quantity of a nutmeg at a time.

An excellent Powder to be used against the disease called Caros, which is excessive drousiness, and profound sleepiness, which stupifies the senses, and hurts the action of the principal parts.

Many have I known so subject to this distemper, that at all times and in all pla­ces wheresoever they have sate down they have fallen asleep, but for remedy of his evil.

Take Nutmegs, mace, galanga, each two drams, citron pill, cinnamon, the true costus, of each one dram, the flow­ers of stoechas, roses, rosemary and ca­momile, each one dram and a half, sche­nanth, spike and lavender, each half [...] dram, Castoreum one scruple; bruise them into a ross powder, and in a fine linnen bag, apply them to the Corona [...] Sutor, which is that which women call the mold of the head; if it be sewed, o [...] quilted in a fine cloth, the patient may wear it at any time either at home o [...] abroad under a Cap.

Having now prescribed a remedy for too much sleeping; I have provided helps for them also, who are subject to too much watchings, how they may procure sleep.

Pills to cause Sleep.

Take species diambrae two scruples, diamorsc. dul. half a dram, white amber one scruple, ambergrease three grains; mix them, and with sirrup of citron pills, make four and twenty pills thereof, whereof let the patient take three, going to bed.

For the same intention, I commend the following Electuary.

Take of the Conserve of water Lillies half an ounce, styrax Calamita one scruple, pearls prepared two scruples, ambergrease and musk, each one grain; with sirrup of violets; make them a mixture, which may be reserved in a glass for your use, when occasion requires, taking the quantity of an hazel nut.

A Decoction profitable for the same intention, especially where too much watching have caused a distillation of Rheume upon the Lungs.

Take two Dates, three heads of white Poppy; make a decoction there of in a [...] sufficient quantity of Lettice water to three ounces, then strain it, and dissolve in the Colature half an ounce of sugar o [...] roses; which give for a potion whe [...] need requires.

Observe alwayes in these kind of di­stempers, these remedies are not to be exhibited, before the humour be eva­cuated by purgations; especially if the affect be with matter, and much vapours are ascended to the head, which as there be diversity of causes which pro­cure distempers to the head, so there is needfull various kinds of purgations, as the diversity of the cause requries.

For the Hypochondriac Melancholly.

Take sirrup of Fumotery half an ounce, of endive and betony two drams, juice of [Page 19]citrons one spoonfull, waters of cichory, dodder and sumotery, each one ounce, and a little cinnamon water; which mix for a potion, and use it as often as occasion requires.

For the Vertigo First [...]ake this purging Bolus, viz.

Take of Diacassia three drams, hiera pi [...]ra two drams, rhabarb in fine powder one scruple; make it into a Bolus with a little sugar.

Then use the following Electuary to re­press the vapours from the Head.

Take of the conserve of piony flow­ers, half an ounce, conserve of marjoram one ounce, of roses two ounces, mar­melad of quinces one ounce, citron pill half an ounce, one mirobalan embelic, half an ounce of rob de ribes, coriander prepared one dram, fennel seeds anni­seeds and piony roots, each half a dram, red coral one dram, Mastich one scru­ple, with sirrup of citrons make it an [Page 20]Electuary, whereof take the quantity of a nutmeg after supper and dinner.

For singing and noise in the ears, which causeth deafness.

Take white Hellebore, Castoreum, each two drams, costus a dram and an half, rue and marjoram, each one dram, bitter almonds five drams, Euphorbium half a dram; let them be bruised and boyled in wine over a gentle fire an hour, then strain it and drop thereof into the ears; and let the patient receive the va­pour of this decoction, into the ears. or

For noise in the Ears.

Take oyle of Bayes three ounces, strong vinegar one ounce and a half, Castoreum in powder half an ounce, ju­niper berryes one dram and an half; let them boyl in a close vessel till the vine gar be consumed, then strain it through a cloth, and drop of it into the ears; but in all administrations to these parts, ob­serve his rule.

Never admit above three or 4. drops [Page 21]at a time of any medicine to be applyed into the ears, for a great quantity espe­cially of any oleaginous matter is hurtfull; therefore alwayes let your applications be very liquid that they may the easier pass in and out, and not stick within to offend the head; and apply all things warm only, neither hot nor quite cold, and alwayes when you use any new me­dicine or dressing, be sure to cleanse the parts well that no filth remain of the old.

For grievous pains in the Ears.

Warme new Milk is good to be drop­ped into the Ears, so is the white of an egge, being beat first into an oyle o li­quor, and the oyle of sweet almonds, and the oyle of the seeds of white poppy.

A Composition for pain in the Ears.

Take of new Brest Milk if it can be had, two ounces of the whites of eggs beaten half an ounce, goose grease a dram; mix and work them together and drop into the ear, a drop or two at a time warme; oyle of earth wormes is very [Page 22]profitable for this grief, a drop or two thereof being dropped into the Ear.

For the same, an excellent experiment.

Take a great Onion, and make it hol­low, and put therein of Castoreum and Euphorbium, each half a scruple, opium six grains, and fill it up with oyle of bitter almonds, oyle of dill, or such like; and rost it under the embers; then press out the juice and strain it; and use it a drop or two at a time.

For a Catharre.

The defluction of humours, from the head to the inferiour parts, is generally called a Catharre. Those that would be acquainted with it; let them contrary to their use, but go wet and cold in their heads and feet, & they may quickly have a companion that they cannot be so soon rid of again: It is usually the forerunner of a Consumption, destroying the lungs by the distillation of humours, like as rain dropping into an house through the roof, rots the wood and timber and whatever it falls upon within.

To cleanse and evacuate the humour in a Catharre.

Take of the whitest Agarick half a dram, of rhabarb a dram, manna a half an ounce, ginger a scruple and a half, diagry­dium three grains; bruise and infuse them all in waters of annis and fennel, each three ounces; boyle it gently, and strain it, and in 4. ounces of the liquor dis­solve two spoonfulls of solutive sirrup of roses, and one spoonfull of cinnamon water, and give it the patient warme in the morning.

Pills to suppress the Rheume.

Take of the mass of pills Cochie and Mastichine, each one scruple, Agarick trochscated a scruple and a half, Trochis alhandali 4. scruples, with the infusion of gum dragon in cinnamon water; make it into pills and rowle them in the pow­der of lignum aloes, and take one at a time, using them often; and that the matter may be driven downwards from the superiour parts, take a scruple of these [Page 24]pills going to bed, or more or less ac­cording to the condition of the patient; and in the morning take as much more, drinking after in a draught of Maligo wine.

For stoppings of the Breast and difficulty of Breathing.

Take Licorice half an ounce, elecam­pane five drams, raisins stoned, and fat figs, each one ounce, jujubes half an ounce; make of these a decoction in the waters of scabious and hyssop, each half a pound, flowers of the sloe-tree, and an­niseed, each three ounces; in seaven ounces of strained liquor dissolve of manna five drams, and adde to it a spoon­full of cinnamon water, strain it all through a linnen cloth, and let the pa­tient take half of it in the morning fasting, and the remainder the day following.

A Drink to strengthen the Heart and resist Poyson.

Take Cinnamon two drams, cloves, nutmegs, mace, [...]grains, cardamoms, [Page 25]each one dram, zeadoary three drams, citron pills, galanga cubebs, long pepper, each half a dram; bruise them grosly, and infuse them 24. hours in a linnen bag, in two quarts of the best wine ad­ding one pound of pure fine sugar, where­of let the patient drink every day a draught before dinner.

For trembling of the heart.

Take of the five opening roots, each half an ounce, cichory one ounce, bark of Tamariske & citron pills, each one dram and an half, tops of wormwood, cardus benedict. sage, each one handfull, of the cordial flowers, each one dram; bruise them and infuse them in wine, and drink of it as occasion requires.

A cordial Electuary to comfort the heart.

Take two handfulls of Borrage leaves, as much bugloss, one handfull of endive, rosemary, time, savory, hyssop, each half an handfull; boyle these in three pints of fair water till half be consumed, then strain it, and adde one pound and an half [Page 26]of sine sugar, a few cloves, half an ounce of cinnamon, and a quarter of an ounce of ginger finely beaten; then to boyl it to the thickness of honey, and take as much as a hazel nut in a morning when need requires.

For the Ptisick an approved secret.

Take a pint of Honey and put to it an ounce of flower of licoris, a quarter of a pound of currans bruised, an ounce of sweet fennel seeds bruised, and a dram of the flower of elecampane; stir all these together over the fire into the honey, and so reserve it for use, taking the quantity of a nut at a time.

An opening Drink, helping shortnes of Breath.

Take two quarts of running water, put into it two handfulls of unset hyssop, and tops of rosemary, scabious, lung wort and maidenhair, each a handfull, 10. figs sliced, a root or two of elecampane; boyl it to a quart, and sweeten it with sugar candy, and drink it as occasion requires.

A Diet drink to cleanse the bloud, open the Liver and Spleen, and is excel­lent against the Scurvy, Dropsie and Consumptions.

Take Egrimony, speed well, liverwort, scurvy grass, water cresses, each a good handfull, of monks rhabarb and red mad­der, half a pound, horse radish, liquorice, sassafras, each 4. ounces, sena 7. ounces, sweet fenel seeds an ounce, 4. nutmegs; pick and wash the herbs and roots and bruise them, and put them in a bag in three gallons of Ale, letting it work in the Ale, and at 4. dayes old drink a pint of it every morning, and at 4. in the af­ternoon.

An excellent potion for the Plague in the Guts, and all Feavers and distempers of Melancholly and adust Choler.

Take Sena 6. drams, rhabarb two drams, cremor tartari half a dram, sweet fennel seeds a dram, a little cinnamon, infuse them all night in half a pint of white wine, in the morning set it on the [Page 28]fire till a boyl, and then strain it, and dis­solve in it over the fire an ounce of man­na, then strain it again, and adde to it an ounce of solutive sirrup of roses, and so drink it, and about two hours after drink some thin broth.

For a Canker, or any heat in the Mouth.

Take of red Sage and Rue, each an handfull, of sorel and groundsel, each half an handfull, cut the herbs small and stamp them in a wooden mortar, then take roach allom the quantity of a wal­nut, white coperas as much as a hazel nut, and burn them together, take also as much coperas and allom unburnt, stamp this with the herbs very small, then boyl them in a pint of running water, with three spoonfulls of English hony, till half be consumed, then let it run through a strainer into an earthen veslel. when it is cold put it in a glass, and when you use it you must gargle with it hot 3. times aday; you may lay some of the herbs that remain in the strainor to the forest places if you see cause.

For the htat of the Vrin.

Take the rinds of Hazel, sleep them in ale or beer, and drink it for your first and last draught every day and at any other time of you please.

Another for the same.

Distill Purslain in a common still, and drink of that water a quarter of a pint e­very morning, sweetned with white su­gar candy.

For a Strain causing one of spet bloud.

Take a pint of good Sack, and set it on the fire, and put into it a good piece of fine sugar, let it so stand till it be ready to burn, (burn it not) then brue into it the yolks of 4. new laid eggs, strain it (bruing it continually till it be like a caw­dle, then drink a draught thereof first and last both morning and night: Sirrup of Comphrey is likewise very good for the same purpose.

Another for a Strain.

The powder of Corral and powder of rock amber beads, each half a dram, [Page 30]make them up into past with a little gum dragon, conserve of red roses; this you must eat morning and evening, and be ware of violent stirring, wine, women, and meats with pepper.

For a Flux.

Put one ounce of whole Pepper into a quart of new milk, boyl it unto a pint, and drink half a pint thereof every morn­ing, and fast three hours after it.

For the Pin or Web, or any other Rheum in the Eyes.

Take two new laid Eggs, make a hole in the crowns, put the whites, into a sawcer, then put away the yolks, and take one of the shells and wash it with fair water, and put half the white into it, then put in as much white coperas as a peace, and so much roch allome, then fill the egshell up with the rest of the white, the hole of the crown of the egge must be no bigger then a two pence, that you may put it up with a little white dow, then wrap it in wet paper, and rake it up in [Page 31]warm embers till it be very hard, (and if it be an hour in rosting it is the better) then strain it very hard through a strong cloth, drop one drop of this water into your eye lying on your back, morning and night, and also at 4. of the clock if need be.

Another for the Eyes.

Take of Hogs grease very new 2. oun­ces, steep it in rose water six hours, then wash it twelve several times in good-whitewine, wherein lapis caluminaris hath been quenched 11. times, let the grease sleep six hours in the last of the wine, then take Tutia well prepar'd and finely powder'd one ounce, of the stone Hematitis well washed a scruple, of aloes well washed and made into pow­der twelve grains, powder of pearle three grains; mix all this in your grease with a little fennel water, till it come to a per­fect salve, put as much as an ordinary pins head, into the corners of both eyes [Page 32]next the nose, and anoint the eyelids therewith when you are in bed.

For Rheume in the Eyes.

Take white Archangel flowers, and put them into sallet oyle, and heat them upon a chasing dish with coals, and lay them to the nape of the neck as hot as you can suffer them.

For blear'd and watry Eyes.

Take a quarter of a pint of the purest running water, and put it into a vial of glass, and put thereto 2. drams of the best white coperas, being first beaten into very fine powder, then put thereto three or 4. spoonfulls of red fennel water, (or for want thereof as many of the newest sprigs of red fennel growing next the root) this being done lute up your vial close, and set it in a skillet of fair water and warme it so till it begin to boyle, then take it out and so keep it for your use, let the patient morning and evening have a drop dropped into the eye.

For a pin or Web in the Eye.

Take Nightshade, Balme, red nettles and vervain, each a like quantity, and a good handfull of bay salt, and beat them altogether, and if the right eye be sore, lay it to the left wrist, and so on the con­trary; If you make it in May or June, it will keep all the year.

For Heat in the Eyes.

Take the white of a new laid Egge, beat it very well, then let it stand and set­tle, and take a spoonfull of the clearest thereof and as much breast milk, and so much red rose water as both of them, mingle them together, put them into a glass, and when you use it, warme a little thereof bloud warme, and dip two rags (folded three or four times double) being very fine and bind on the eyes when you go to bed, and in the day time wash therewith your eyes as often as you please.

A Water for sore Eyes.

Take six drams of Tutty, made into [Page 34]fine powder, as much aloes in powder, as much fine sugar, a pint and a half o [...] whitewine, as much white rose water put all these into a pottle glass, stop it ve­ry close and sun it a month, shaking it ve­ry well twice or thrice a day and so keep i [...] for your use.

An Electuary for a Consumption.

Take Elecampane roots one pound wash and scrape them clean, cut them i [...] little square pieces, then take of radishe [...] one quarter of a pound, slice them thi [...] and as many wardens as the weight o [...] both these, slice them thin likewsie, min­gle them altogether laying them in laine [...] in a pipkin, and put between every lain [...] of them some honey, lute up the pipki [...] close with past, bake it in an oven with houshold bread.

A pint of Honey may be enough for this, when it is cold beat it to a pulp, in a stone mortar, and take it at night an [...] mornings as an Electuary.

A Julip for a Consumption, or any weak body.

Take a Capon that is fleshy and not fat, dress him clean, cnt him into about ten pieces, wash him in white wine, cut every piece by it self, put into every piece a small skewer that the flesh may not touch the bottome, then put them into a jugge with a narrow mouth that will hold three pints or a pottle, then put to it twenty raisins of the sun stoned, 4. dates quartered, two large maces, a sprig of rosemary, stop it up close with a cork, then lute it with paste and tye a cloth o­ver that also, that no aire get in, then set the jugg in a pottle of water, & set bricks a­bout it that it may not stir, so let it boil six hours at the least, keep the pot full of wa­ter to the neck of the jug, which may be done by having other water ready heated to fillit, then take it out of the pot, and when it hath cooled half an hour pour out the julip, if there be any fat in the top, take it off, put to this ten grains of amber [Page 36]grease in powder stir them together, and so put it up in your glass, and take three spoonfulls of this at a time, warme [...] when you go to bed, if the patient be to [...] hot, put less or leave quite out the ambe [...] grease.

An electuary for the Consumption of the Lungs.

Take a pint of Hony, set it on th [...] fire and skim it clear, put thereto two or three ounces of searc'd licoris, as much anniseeds well dryed, half a grain o [...] long pepper, the lungs of a Fox beate [...] and searc'd, two or three leaves of Col [...] foor cut like Tobacco, and a quarter o [...] an ounce of the root of burdock, boil th [...] till it grow somewhat gluttinous, tak [...] hereof (on a knives point) morning an [...] night, in your bed and other times yo [...] please, letting it go leisurely down.

For a Cough or shortness of breathing.

Take a quart of running water, boyl [...] therein a handfull of unset Hyssop, till [...] come to a pint, strain it and put thereto [...] [Page 37]quarter of an ounce of licorice sliced, half a handfull of raisins of the sun sliced, two figs, two dates, sweet-fennel seeds and an­niseeds half an ounce, boyl these till al­most half be consumed, then let it run through a strainer and sweeten the liquor with white sugar candy to your liking, so drink of it four spoonfulls at a time bloud-warm, in the morning a quarter of an hour before you rise, and at night when you are in bed lie on your back and let it go leisurely down.

A Sirrup for a Consumption and the Cough.

Take two hanefulls of Elecampane, slice it thin, boyl it in fair water half an hour, shifting it two or three times, then take two or three handfuls of coltsfoot, two or three hand fulls of liverwort, one of hartstongue, and two handfulls of e­gremony, one of maidenhair, a quarter of a handfull of maiden hyssop, an ounce of China roots sliced, two ounces of li­corice sliced, a spoonfull of anniseeds, a [Page 38]good handfull of raisins of the sun sto­ned, 4. or 5. figs sliced, two spoonfulls of French barley bruised, and boiled in two or three several waters; put all these into a pottle of running water, boi [...] them untill more then half be consumed, and strain the liquor from the drugs, and put in your elcampane boiled be­fore, and a pound and a half of sugar, boil it to a sirrup and keep it in a galley pot for your use.

Another for the like.

Nettle seed and Elecampane dried and beaten small, and make them into an Electuary with honey, and give the pa­tient every morning.

A China broth for the Consumption.

Take three quarts of fair running wa­ter, put it in a pipkin and set it over the fire till it be ready to seeth, then take it off and put into it a small handfull of China and another of Sassafras chips then stop it up close, and let it infuse upon em­bers 24. hours, then take a middle sized [Page 39]Cock chicken, and flea off the skin, and cut it open in the back and take out the garbage, and beat it with a pestle, let it touch no water but put it into the China liquor and put to it six or seven leaves of colts foot and a little maidenhair, thirty raisins of the sun stoned, and a little stick of mace, then let these boyl together till half be consumed, let it be strained again very hard, set it on the fire, boyl it and skim it again, make it sweet with sugar and lemons, or sower, as rhe patient likes it, and let him take of this a good draught morning and evening, and at four of the clocke in the afternon if he please.

For the Chin Cough.

Take a handfull of Rue, and stamp it, then mingle it with English honey and make it into a kind of Conserve, give it mornings and evenings, and afternoons and nights to bedward, as much at a time as a damosin.

Another.

Roast an Egge rare, dress it and put as [Page 40]much flower of brimstone into it, as will lie upon a twopence, mix it well toge­ther, and let the patient sup it every mor­ning fasting.

A Broth for the Spleen.

Take of Couch or grass roots, succo­ry roots and fennel roots, of each half an ounce, of the bark of caper, and bark of tamarisk, each two drams, currans and capers (washed from the salt) each three drams, boyl these in the belly of a chic­ken with a branch of time and put in the bottome of a white loaf in the boiling.

For a Flux.

Take bark of an Oak from the tan­ners, grind it to powder and searce it, put it into new milk and byl them very well together, eat of this pap every mor­ning and what other time you please.

Another being also good for a weak back.

Take Bread that hath been baked half a year at the least, grate it, put it into a quart of new milk with a good stick of cinnamon, and a good piece of isinglass, [Page 41]boyl it to a pint, and thereof morning and evening you may eat what you please.

For a weak back or the whites.

Take an ounce of Cinnamon, one ounce of white comphrey roots, one ounce of polipodium of the oke, three ounces of white sugar candy, make all these into powders, then mingle them together, and take so much at a time thereof as will lie upon a sixpenny piece, every morning for the space of five dayes, and so likewise in the afternoon, and drink a draught of red wine an hour after every taking, this may be taken longer if there be cause.

A Plaister for swelling of the Stones.

Take a pretty quantity of Cows dung, and seeth the same in milk, then make a plaister thereof, and lay it meetly hot up­on the swelling.

Another.

Take Comminseed, Anniseed and Fenegreek, of each a like portion, seeth [Page 42]them in ale, and stamp them, and temper them with fresh May butter, or a little oyle of olive, and so apply it to the sore.

Another for swelling in the Stones in the beginning of the grief.

If there be much inflammation in the Cods, you may make an ointment of plantain the white, the yolk of an egge, and apply it to the grief twice or thrice in a day, when the pain is intollerable and the party of good age, and of a strong complexion, (if the premises will not help) make a plaister after this sort, viz.

Take Henbane leaves a good handfull, mallow leaves a handfull and a half, seeth them well in clear water, then stamp them and stir them, and with a little of the broth, bean flower, barley flower, oyle of roses and camomile sufficient, make it up, and put it on the swelling lukewarme, henbane is good as Avicen saith, to dissolve the hardness of the Stones by a secret quality.

Take new Milk and white bread, grate it mallows and red rose leaves, of each a handfull, then chop them and boil them together, till it be thick, then put in honey and common turpentine, spread it on a cloth and apply it to the sore.

Another.

Take a quart of fair water half a pint, of oatmeal, two handfulls of smalledge, half a handfull of red nettles, boil all these well together being first chopt, and put in about a quarter of a pound of sheeps suet minced, stir them well on the fire, and apply part thereof as hot as the patient can suffer it.

For an Ague in the Breast, as also to dry up the Milk.

Take good Aquavite, linseed oyle, warm them in a dish upon a chafingdish with coals, dip therein two cloths cut fit for the Breasts, and lay them on the Breasts, as hot as can be endured; lay also a little lump of flax two under each arme, [Page 44]being well dryed and warme, and so dress the Breasts therewith both morning and evening.

For a Swel'd Face.

Take Rosemary leaves mince them, boil them with milk and oatmeal to a pultice, then put thereto a spoonfull of honey, apply it as oft as there is cause, and as hot as the patient can suffer it.

For any ordinary Soreness.

Take a pint of Ale yest, as much groundsel as comes to 2. or 3. handfulls, and as much houshold leven as the quan­tity of an egge, set the yest upon the fire, and then crum the leven into it, and let it boil a little while, then put in the herbs, and the roots of them, and let it be boyled thick, and lay some of it on a cloth every morning, and this will both draw and break and heal.

For a Fistula.

Take a handfull of Sage, wash it, pick and shred it, boil it in a pint of milk, till it be tender, then take a pennyworth of [Page 45]flax seed, beat it to powder, and when the sage is tender thicken the milk with the flaxseed, when it is bruised put thereto a pennyworth of oyle of roses, use this two or three dayes twice aday.

For a Felon or Boyl.

Take half a pint of new Milk, and put some grated bread into it, boil them toge­ther, then put thereto a handfull of smal­ledge, and as much southernwood be­ing chopped fine, so boyl them to a pul­tice, when it is boiled stir into it almost a spoonfull of castle soap scraped.

Sirrup of Sider.

Take of French Barley one spoonfull, boil it in several waters, of madder root, asperagus root, red dock root, each two drams thin sliced, Ceterach epithimum, each half an ounce, polipody six drams, maidenhair two pugills, the tops of hops a quarter of a handfull, egremony and fumitory, each half a handfull, sweet fennel seeds, anniseeds, each one dram bruised, mechoacan one dram and a half, [Page 46]the juices of 4 handfulls of scurvy grass, & of two handfulls of watercresses infuse all these in 3. pints of sider (made of pippins & pearmains) one night, in the morning boil them over a gentle fire, untill a pint or thereabouts of the liquor be left, strain it thorow a linen strainer into a bason: Take three ounces of this decoction and infuse into it being warm, half an ounce of the best Rha. thin sliced, and two scruples of chosen cinnamon bruised 24. hours in a silver cup well covered, the next morning strain out the liquor from the Rha. put into the rest of the former decoction: This decoction being mixed with the infusion and juices put into a skillet with a pound of powder sugar and the white of an egge well beaten and mi­xed with some of the liquor, this don, set it on a fire of hot coals, when it boils up take it from the fire, and strain it through a cotten strainer, then the skillet being clean washed again, put in your liquor and let it boil over a gentle fire unto the [Page 47]consistence and height of a sirrup: The dose or quantity to take of this Sirrup may be one ounce and a half every morn­ing, and it will be the more effectual if you adde one scruple of Cremor Tartari.

For a Burn or Scald.

Take three handfulls of the green rind of elder, as much green goose dung, beat these and boil them a pretty while in a pound of fresh butter, strain it out very hard, and keep it in an earthen pot, stir it till it be almost cold and when you use it melt thereof and anoint the sore with a feather, and lay a primrose leaf next the sore.

Another.

Take Barrows grease, sengreen, chop them and bil them altogether, then strain it and use it.

For the Mother.

Take a great red Onon, and cut a round hole therein, and fill it with black soap, and roast it in embers till it be soft, and apply it to the navel as hot as may be.

For the same,

Give the patient a good draught of fair water and wheat flower mingled toge­ther, and burn partridge feathers before them in a chafing dish with coals.

A pretious ointment good for all kind of Sciaticaes, dry itches, strains of si­news or veins, for any scalding with gunpowder, shingles, blisters, venoms.

Take Organy, mints, thyme, hyssop, spike leaves and flowers, wormwood, feather few, orpen, sage, vervain, costma­ry, betony, mary golds, stems and flowers, of each of these a good handfull, and of valerian two good handfulls; take the tenderest part of these leaves from the hard-stalks, stamp them very small, and seeth them in a clean pan with two pound of barrows grease finely tryed, and 4. ounces of deers suet, stir it diligently the space of an hour, then strain it into a clear pan, let it stand all night, next morning let out the water underneath the ointment, taking none but the purest [Page 49]of it, set it on the fire again, melt it, skim it clear, put thereto 4. ounces of deers suet, then take it of, let it stand all night as before, then warme it a little, then pour it out on a clean board, cleanse the bottom of it very clean, so you may keep it for your use 7. years.

A Glister.

Take posset-drink a pint and a half, boil therein Mallows, violet leaves and lettice, of each half a handfull, camo­mile flowers and a little anniseeds bruis­ed; let it boil half away, strain out the liquor very well, and put thereto sirrup of roses, and sirrup of violets, of each two spoonfulls, course sugar three spoonfulls, so make a Glister.

Another.

Take Mallows, beets, mercury, vio­let leaves, pellitory of the wall, and course wheat bran, of every one a handfull, of camomile flowers or the leaf it self, half a good handfull, of fennel seeds bruised two spoonfulls, boil them in a quart of [Page 50]fair water, till more then half be consu­med, then strain it well, and dissolve therein 4. spoonfulls of sallet oyle, (or for want thereof as much butter) and two ounces of course sugar: but if the party be troubled with wind, you may adde thereto a spoonfull of bay-berries bruis­ed, and sheeps feet, sodden with the wool on.

Another.

Take three quarters of a wine pint of Milk warme from the Cow, keep it in the same temper by setting it in a skillet of hot water till you have dissolved therein two ounces of diacatholicon, and two ounces of red sugar, and put it into a bag, &c.

Another Glister.

Take a pint of Milk, a quart of beer, and make clear posset drink thereof, take off the curd, then put therein of annis­seeds, and sweet fennelseeds each two ounces, boil these to half a pint or some­what more, strain it out very hard, and [Page 51]put thereto two ounces of brown sugar candy and a little bay salt with two spoonfulls of oil of olive.

Another.

Take an ale-quart of Barley water, made with cool herbs and raisins (as you make it usually to drink) set it on the fire; then flea a small cock chicken (be­ing still warme) and draw it, break all the bones, so put it into that water, with a handfull of endive, as much violet leaves, a succory root and a parsley root, one ounce of fennel seeds bruised, boil all these to half a pint, then strain it out hard, and beat into it the yolks of two new laid eggs, one ounce of sugar candy, and two spoonfulls of oyle of sweet almonds, and so apply it.

All these Glisters to be taken in the body neither too hot, nor yet too cold, (as milk from the cow) and unless in cases of necessity they are to be given a­bout 4. of the clock in the afternoon, and about two hours after the patient is to [Page 52]drink a draught of mace ale; when it hath done working they must go warme and early to bed after a light sup­per.

For aches, bruises, gouts, stiches, lame­ness, cramps, &c.

Take Sage, Rue, of each one pound, of wormwood and bayes each half a Pound, sheeps suet clean picked three Pound; all these must be stamped toge­ther till none of the suet be seen, but all one; then put thereto of oyle olive pure and sweet a pottle, and work it well together, and after put it into a fine bason, and cover it and let it stand eight dayes, and then take it out, being moul­dy as it is, break it into a brass pan, ma­king a soft fire under it, alwayes stirring it till the herbs begin to become crack­ing and hard, and then take it off, and set it a little while to cool, then strain ir, and when it is strained, put into it an ounce of oyle of spike, and anoint the geies therewith warme.

For the falling sickness.

Take that part of a womans Scull that groweth on the hinder part of the head, (it is whiterthen the rest of the scull) beat it very fine, and give the party (in sirrup of violets) as much as a pease at a time.

To draw the ague from any sore or in the leggs.

Take Wormwood and henbane, each a handful, shred them into a quart of milk, put in a handfull of red rose leaves, and as much beaten oatmeal as will make it a pultice, a good quantity of swines grease, and when it is well boiled apply it to the sore very hot.

For an old sore that runneth with thin substance.

Take a pint of running water and a pint of whitewine vinegar; boil therein a new piece of hollan, thus bath with this liquor a place a hands breath above the sore, and lay the cloth on the same place, and this you must do morning and even­ing untill the cure be wrought.

For swelling of the knees or any other place that cometh of wind.

Take a quantity of Sack, put therein some rosemary and a little pepper grosly beaten, put them all into a stone jugg, stop it close, and let it boil softly until half be consumed, then bath the place there­with that is grieved as hot as may be, then dip a linnen rag and bind it on the place two or three times aday, keep it warme.

To dissolve any knob or hard swelling in the face or elsewhere.

Take of the whitest Frankinsence, and the white of an egge, beat them to a salve in a stone mortar, spread a plaister therewith, and so apply it to the place grieved.

Unguentum aureum.

• 1. Violet leaves and flowers.
• 2. Primrose leaves and flowers.
• [Page 55]3. Cowslip leaves and flowers.
• 4. Elder leaves and flowers.
• 5. White Lilly flowers.
• 6. St. Johns Wort.
• 7. Rag-wort.
• 8. Mug-wort.
• 9. Sage.
• 10. Neppe.
• 11. Smalledge.
• 12. Margerome.
• 13. Lavender.
• 14. Southernwood.
• 15. Rosemary.
• 16. Rose leaves blown.
• 17. Rue.
• 18. Lavender-Cotten.
• 19. Featherfue.
• 20. Tansie.
• 21. Lovage.
• 22. Mynts.
• 23. Camomil.
• 24. Thyme.
• 25. Clarye.
• 26. Oak of Jerusalem.
• [Page 56]27. Penniroyal.
• 28. Safron of the willow.
• 29. Hyssop.
• 30. Balme.
• 31. White Mynts.
• 32. Marygolds.
• 33. Piony leaves.
• 34. Bay leaves.
• 35. Dill.

Take of each of the above named herbs and beat them in a mortar, and put them in a pan, with a pottle of sweet sal­let oyle, and a quart of white wine, then set it over the fire, and let it boil softly untill the wine be consumed, stirring it all the while, then take it from the fire and let it cool, then strain it through a linnen cloth and keep it in a glass; and when you anoint herewith, you must chafe it in by the fire, and apply next to the place the bladder of a hog, that the cloth drink not up the oyle.

For a Ringworm in the neck.

Take hounds dung that is white and [Page 57]dry, stamp it, put it in an earthen pot, with wine untill it be thick, spread a plaister therewith an lay it on the sore, and let the patient bloud under the tongue.

For the Sciatica or other ach.

Take a quart of the oyle of Trotters, and put thereto three handfulls of neppe, two handfulls of camomil, boil them all on a soft fire, till it be very green, then strain out the herbs, and put into it an ounce of ginger finely beaten and sear­ced, and stir it together as it cooleth; chafe the place that is grieved against the fire with this ointment both morning and evening.

For a Scarre felstered with bloud.

Taka Liturgy of gold 4. ounces, oyle olive, young swines grease, each of them two ounces, green coperas a quarter of an ounce, ceruce half an ounce; seeth them altogether on the fire (continually stir­ring them with an ashen stick, the bark pilled off) put it being in the boiling [Page 58]three ounces of white wax, when it [...] boiled to a pure white, take it off st [...] stirring it till it be cold, then anoint you [...] hands with oyle, and work it up by roll [...] wrap it in an oyled paper and keep it in [...] close box.

A green salve to heal any sore.

Take Beares grease white washed and well drained half a pound, of the leaves and flowers of S. Iohns wort, of knot­grass, of each of these a handfull, of ash­en leaves to handfulls, beat them first very small, and then mingling them with the grease beat them again, and boil them stirring them a good space, then put in two ounces of yellow wax, and a spoonfull of turpentine, so let them boil a little, &c.

A Salve for a new wound.

Take Elecampane, english to bacco, the great orpin, Jacobs ladder, each half a handfull, beat these in a mortar very fine, then put to them above half a pound of barrows grease, beat them well together [Page 59]untill the grease be very green, and then set them on a soft fire, a good space, stir­ [...]ing it continually: then put to them yel­low wax and rozen, of each one onnce, [...]urpentine a spoonfull, camphire and al­ [...]oes, of each a little quantity, boil them [...]ltogether, then take them off and strain them, &c.

A medicine for the Ague to apply to the Wrists.

Take leaves of red Sage, as much rue, and about twenty leaves of stock gilli­ [...]lowers; cut all these very small upon a trencher, then take two pieces of calves deather (about 4. fingers breadth, &c.) and spread the same with venice turpen­tine, and upon the turpentine spread the aforesaid herbs, and upon the herbs you must scrape a nutmeg, so lay it to the wrists, an hour before the fit, and when you perceive the fit to be coming, let the party eat a toste sopped in aquavite and pepper.

An approved mediciue for the Gr [...] Sickness.

Take one ounce of the filings of ste [...] and lay it in soak 4. dayes in the best wi [...] vinegar, then set it before the fire to dr [...] and then beat it to powder and searce [...] very small, then take two ounces of a­niseeds, and beat them and searce the [...] small, and one ounce of fine sugar beate [...] and searced, then mingle them together and put into it a spoonfull of fine powder of red coral, there must be twice a [...] much of these anniseeds and sugar a [...] there is steel, to be done by weight.

They must take it in a morning fast­ing, as much as will lie upon a knive [...] point at three times, and as much mor [...] two hours before supper, and use mode [...] rate exercise after it till they sweat, and [...] when they have done all, then take [...] purge.

Purging-Diet Ale for the Dropsie, Scur­vy, to open the Liver and Spleen.

Take Dock roots, madder roots [Page 61]horse radish roots, smalledge roots, po­ [...]pody of the oak, sarsaparilla, caper & ta­marisk roots, of each 2. ounces; of agri­mony, maidenhair, ceterack, tamerisk, [...]curv ygrass, brooklime, water-cresses, green wormwood, each one good hand­ [...]ull, sena six ounces, hermodactills and mechoachan, thabarb, agarick, each one [...]unce; anniseeds, sweet fennel seeds, [...]oots of fassafras and licorice, each one [...]unce, cinamon, ginger, mace, each [...]alf an ounce; prepare these and put [...]hem into a thin bolter bag, with two [...]adds of steel, and hang in 4. gallons of new ale, letting them work together with a pint of the juice of sea scurvy grass, and as much of water-cresses.

They are to drink morning and even­ing large draughts, so as to work 3. or 4. times daily, also morning and evening to take two or three pills of steel.

Bleed the patient first at the liver right arme vein, and let out seven ounces of bloud, &c.

To purge the Spleen.

Take Ceterack, liverwort, miden hair, of each a handfull, polipody of t [...] oak six ounces; sena, bark of capers, [...] marisk, ash and bay each one oun [...] and roots of fennel, licorice and sm [...] ledge, as much seeds of sweet fenne [...] and nettles each two drams; boil a [...] these in two quarts of the juice of scun [...] grass and watercresses, till all be ver [...] thick, keeping it clean skimmed [...] then strain it and infuse in it over a gent [...] fire, of rabarb thin sliced one ounc [...] ginger sliced two scruples, safron a dram [...] strain it very hard, and set it over the fir [...] again, and put into it half a pound o [...] prunes clean washed with a pound and [...] half of sugar, and a branch of rosema [...] being stewed; take 4. or 5. spoonfull [...] and 3. or 4. prunes in the morning, and at going to bed.

Agreen salve for any kind of ach, sore strain, bruise or wound.

Take two pound of Mutton and Bee [...] [Page 63]suet tryed together, and two pound of yellow rosen, two pints of neats-foot [...]oyle, and as much verdigrease bruised as [...]will cover it, and put them altogether in­to a brass kettle, and set them over a cleer fire to boil a good pretty while, and stir it till it be well melted, and turn green, then [...]ut the clearest of it out into a pipkin, and so it will keep a year or two; if you will have it to draw a sore, you must put a lit­tle more rozen into it, if it be to anoint any part that is bruised or streined, or any [...]ch, then you must chafe it in with your hand, against the fire, and lay a warm cloth upon it, &c. Probatum.

The yellow Salve good for any Sore.

Take Turpentine and Rozen each two ounces, and bruise them very small, and put them into an earthen red pipkin, of bees wax one ounce, cut it very small, of neats-foot oyle two ounces, set them all on hot embers, stir them so, as they may incorporate, skim it very clean, and take heed they boil not.

A Drink for the Rickets.

Take a handfull of the bark of Ivy, [...] much of the bark of ash, a good handf [...] of tamarisk, put it into two gallons [...] beer, and when it is a fortnight old, l [...] the child drink it with meat, and at [...] times for six weeks or two months sprin [...] and fall.

To this quantity of drink slice a [...] ounce of Rhabard, and put it in with th [...] bark.

A Direction for the Plague.

Take three pints of malmsey (or [...] Muscadell) and boil therein sage and ru [...] each a handfull, till a pint be wasted, the [...] strain it and set it over the fire again, an [...] put to it three penniworth of long pep­per, and half an ounce of ginger, and [...] quarter of an ounce of nutmegs, all be [...] ­en together, so let it boil a little altoge­ther, then put therein 4. penniworth o [...] mithridate, two penniworth of treacl [...] and a quarter of a pint of the best ang [...] lica water.

Keep this carefully, and take of it morning and evening, a spoonfull or two if you be already infected, and swear up­on it, if not, then take once aday one spoonfull, half in the morning and half in the evening all the plague time: this is (if God please) sufficient, for there was never man, woman or child, that it de­ceived. It is not only good for the com­mon Plague called the Stiches, but for the small Pox, Measles, Surfets, and o­ther the like diseases.

The Snail Water.

Take a peck of garden Snails, and wash them in a great bowl of beer. Then make your chimney very clean, and pour out half a bushel of charcole on the fire, & when they are kindled throughly, then with a shovel make a hole and pour in the Snails, scutter some of the fire a­mongst them, and so let them roste as long as you hear them make a noise, then take them out, and with a knise and a course cloth, pick them and wipe all the [Page 66]green froth from them very clean, then put them into a stone mortar and bruise them shells and all, take also a quart o [...] earth wormes, slice them and scour them with salt, then wash them and bea [...] them to pieces in a stone mortar, then (the pot being made very clean, upon which you set your Limbeck) put them into it, and about two handfulls of ange­lica laid in the bottom, and two handfulls of selendine upon that, then put in a quart of rosemary flowers, and also put in of rosemary flowers, and also put in of egrimony bearsfoot, dock roots, of the bark of barbara tree, woodsorrel and betony, of each two handfulls, rue half a handfull, fenegreek & turmerick, each an ounce, saffron well dryed and beaten to powder the weight of six pence, then pour in three gallons of the strongest ale you can get, great measure and cover your pot, and let it stand so all night in the place where you mean to put fire un­der it in the morning, then put to them three ounces of cloves beaten to powder [Page 67]before you put fire to it, and put thereto six ounces of harts-horn grated or filed to powder before you weigh it, you must not stir it after the harts horn is put into it, least it go down to the bottom, then set on the limbeck, and receive your wa­ter in pints, or it may be distilled in bal­neo, the first water is the strongest, and it must be received by it self, the last is the smallest, and may be amended by put­ting in of the strongest when it is used.

The water must be given to the pa­tient in the morning, who must fast two hours after it, and not sleep but use mo­derate exercise upon it, or it may be given bet wixt meals two hours before each meal, he must take two spoonfuls of the strongest with 4. spoonfulls of ale or white wine, and when you give the smal­lest sort, you may give as much water as drink.

A Purge yet comfortable both for the Spleen and Liver.

Take a knuckle of Veal and cut away [Page 68]all the flesh and fat, then break all the bones and wash them very clean, put it into a pipkin to a gallon of water, set it a seething, scum it so long as any thing will arise, then put to it a quarter of a pound of raisins of the sun stoned, and half as many currans, two fennel roots, three parsley roots, one succory root, half a handfull of burrage, as much succory and endive, a like quantity of violet leaves and straw berry leaves, half a hand­full of liverwort, as much scabius, let all these boil together till half of the broth be consumed, then take it off the fire, put in­to it half an ounce of the best sena a quar­ter of an ounce, of epithimum half an ounce of tamarisk, then set it on hot embers and let it infuse three hours, then take it and strain it into a bason, and take it for your use; this will serve 4. dayes to take warm at seven of the clock in the morning, and at 4. in the afternoon.

For any pain in the Ears.

Take a quart of new Milk, and put [Page 69]therein a good quantity of cloves bruised as will make it strong, then set it on the fire in a clean skillet, and let it boil till it hath taken all the strength out of the cloves, then take it boiling hot off the fire, and put it into a narrow mouthed pot, and hold it to the Ear of the party that the sume may go into the head, and if it be cold heat it again, use this for an hour together or more, as you shall find cause.

Te heal a Fistula, or any old Canker or Sore.

Take a gallon of Smiths water strain­ed through a cloth, then take half a grain of white coperas, and 4. penniworth of camphire, boil them together till the third part of the water be consumed, cleanse it into a bottle or glass, if it be a fistula, cleanse it with a squirt and so wash it to the bottom, dip a cloth in the water being warmed and lay upon it, roul a­bove and beneath the place that it go no further, if it be not an open sore or a can­ker [Page 70]only, wash it and dip a cloth and lay it on warm, and dress it thrice aday, and by Gods grace it will heal it.

A General Cordial for the Catharh and Consumption.

The particulars are these; Avens, mousear, verven, S. Johns wort, red sage, plantain, hyssop, herb John, violet leaves, betony in the wood, rosemary, smalledge seed an ounce, two ounces of elecam­pane roots sliced thin, worm wood, ma­rygold and the leaves, balm of the finest, spearmint.

Take of each of these herbs a pound weight, and infuse them in nine gallons of strong ale, a day and a night, then draw it through a limbeck, and you shall have an excellent water, which when you purpose to drink of it put in some sugar.

It is good generally for any disease of the head and body and much strengthening the stomach, drink it at all times as you [Page 71]will drink strong water, and God bless it to you, Amen.

For Swelling in the Knees.

Take Rue and Burrage, and stamp them together with hony, and so apply it to the Knees.

A purging Diet-drink, good against the Scurvy, Dropsie, and also to re­store and strengthen the body, to be used spring and fall.

Take Sassafras, lignum rhodium and mace, each half an ounce, china roots one ounce, licorice six ounces, anniseeds 4. ounces, Roman wormwood, sage, rosemary, betony, balm, mugwort, tor­mentil roots, Lady mantle, egrimony clotsfoot, sanacle, mouseare, scabius, herb Robert, ragwort, marsh mallow roots, and columbine roots, of each of these one handfull; cut and bruise the wood and roots, break or cut the herbs; boil all in six gallons of strong ale-wort, till two gallons be consumed, then put the woods and herbs into six gallons [Page 72]more of second wort, boil that likewise with a few hops, and strain it out, and put in an ounce of rhabarb, and three ounces of sena, so set it on working and tun it up with a rha [...] and sena bag, drink thereof once, twice, or thrice in a day as ye find cause, after ten dayes standing.

For an Impostume in the head, Dropsie, Feaver, and all manner of aches and Impostumes in the head.

Take Spikenard two penniworth, grind it, and boil it with vinegar, when it is boiled and cold, put to it honey and mustard a sawcer full, mingle them to­gether, use a spoonfull at once, hold it in your mouth two Creeds, then let it out into a bason, use this when you go to bed, three dayes together.

Pro Gonorkaea, ad purgand. Renas.

Rec. Cassia fistula extract. sirrup de Nymphea two ounces, rhab. pul. two drams, fiat electuar. recept. mane in pos­set. cum vino albo, 4. dies.

Post rec. A quarosar. rub. one pound, [Page 73]album de ovo recent. saccharum album & muscat. 9. s.

For old wounds, Vlcers, Cancers, Scabs, Itch or Fistula's.

Take Virginia Tobacco stalks one pound, spring water one gallon, boil it to three pints, put it into a bottle, the lon­ger you keep it the better, the way to use it is to wet a linnen cloth in the water a little warmed, and so bath well the wound or place, do so morning and evening.

For the M grim.

Take Betony, vervain, camomile, featherfue, wormwood, rosemary, each alike, put them into a bag, and seeth them in white wine, and lay them to the head as hot as you can suffer it.

The Oyntment for Reumatick Eyes.

Take hogs lard well tryed 3. ounces. set to steep in red rosewater six hours, then wash it twelve times in whitewine wherein lapis Tutia and lapis Calumina­ris hath been quenched, then adde the Caluminaris and Tutia being beat red [Page 74]hot and quench'd in whitewine (as be­fore six times, each an ounce, lapis he­matitis two scruples, aloes twelve grains, seed pearl prepared six grains, mix it very well together and adde a little fennel wa­ter as much as shall be necessary to make it liquid enough.

Anoint the eye lids herewith, it will take away spots or any thing that grow­eth about the eyes.

For a Quinzy.

Take album Grecum pul. a handfull of rue beat small, boil them in sweet sallet oyle till they become thick, then spread it on a cloth, plaister-wise, and apply it to the sore from ear to ear.

Against the trembling of the Heart, and Convulsion fits.

Take powder of Gold 1. penniworth, six penny weight of Amber, six penny weight of pearl, six penny weight of co­ral, bezoar five grains, half an ounce of piony root, twelve penny weight of a scull of an anatomy, pul. take as much as [Page 75]will lie upon a six pence in a spoonfull of endive water every morning, and drink a good draught after it.

Take Cassia one ounce, Rha. pul. ten grains, sirrup. violar. recept in posseto cum vino albo.

To boil Turpentine.

First wash it, then boil it in plantain or rose water till it come to the consistence of wax, then take it out and reserve it, make pills; take 3. or 4. when you go to bed.

For miscarrying, and to stop the Reds.

Take Claret wine a quart, mousear, shepherds purse, each a handfull, boil it altogether with a stick of cinamon, and sweeten it with sugar, and drink a draught of it often warme.

To stay vomiting bloud, by reason of an inward bruise.

Quench Steel in Milk and drink it of­ten; or take sperma-ceti in any warm drink, once or twice.

For a Vomit.

Take roch Allom one ounce pul. and put it into half a pint of small beer, let it stand warm all night, and in the morning strain it, and let the patient drink it off, this fetcheth flegme off the stomach.

Another.

Take five grains of Stibium in pow­der in 4. or 5. spoonfulls of whitewine, and let it stand all night, and in the mor­ning take the wine clean from the sti­bium, and drink it fasting, and when it hath once wrought, take posset drink between every vomit.

To break a Boyle or Felon.

Take a great Onion, cut the top, and take so much out of it as you may fill it up with half a spoonfull of Jeans treacle, and cover it with the piece again, bind it with a thred, and rost it in the embers in a brown paper, and when it's rosted, break it and mingle it together, and lay some of it to the Boyl which you would have broken.

For a Child with a broken Belly.

Take Polipody of the wall, Juniper berryes, comphrey roots, the skin of the yolk of an egg, dry all these and beat them together, then put them in a pint of good ale, and give it every day warm.

For the falling sickness.

Take Gold, pearl, coral, and bezoar, and amber, each 4. scruples, piony seeds as much, and single piony roots alike quantity, pul. omnes, and take as much of the powder as will lie on a groat, in a spoonfull of white endive water every morning fasting, untill a quarter of the water be in such manner spent.

For the Collick.

Take Figgs good store, and new mu­stard made with vinegar, stamp them well together, and put them into a linen bag, and as hot as you can suffer it lay it on, and hold it to the navel and belly.

For bleeding at Nose.

Take Hemp or hempen halter, and hold about your neck.

A water to take away Wheals, Pushes, Kernels, Swellings, Bunches, and Warts.

Take oyle of Bayes two pound, white Frankinsence, Mastich, gum arabick and turpentine, each three ounces, beat those things which may be beaten, then min­gle them altogether, distill them in a lim­beck, and after put into the water half a pound of the ashes of earth burned, and then distill it again, and keep it as a trea­sure to bestow on your best friends.

A Water for the Head-ach, and to cause rest in weakness or Child-bed Women.

Take Primrose leaves and wood be­tony, each one handfull, steep them twelve hours in as much new milk as will cover them, then distill them toge­ther; then in Cowslip time, steep in this water two good handfulls of cowslip flowers, and one good handfull of unset hyssop, so let it stand 4. hours, then still it altogether, and give six or eight spoon­fulls [Page 79]at a time warme with a little sugar.

An oyntment to asswage a swelled sore Breast, or any other swelling.

Take Egrimony and boil it in butter or hoggs lard to an ointment, and there­with anoint the swelled Breast; also e­grimony boiled in milk and thicked up with bread, and put a little honey into it, and laid to the Breast, asswages a hard swelled breast.

For bleeding Gumms.

Take the thin shaving of the inside of a piece of Spanish leather and hold be­tween the Gumms stayes it.

For the dead Palsie.

Take 4. penniweight of the Horn that groweth in the inside of a horses Knee, dryed and beat to powder, give it with two spoonfulls of the juice of the green leaves of blew periwinkles in a fit, and let them drink a draught of hot sack after it, do this every other day for three dayes, and tie the string of this perewinkle on the dead member, and [Page 80]shift it every other day; these strings cure the cramp, being tyed on the grie­ved place.

For the Gout, Stiches, and to open obstru­ctions, most excellent.

Take half a pound of red Saunders, and steep it in a pint and a half of white wine, let it steep all night, the next morn­ing strain it and drink it, do this two or three dayes together, then forbear it as long, after take it again, in half a score times taking it hath cured those of the Gout, which for three years together have not been able to go; it doth work upwards and downwards 3. or 4. times, and will for a little time make them sick, but is most harmless.

For a Plurisce of wind.

Take Horse dung, camomile and par­sley fryed with butter and vinegar, and apply it as hot as may be suffered divers times; or wet rye meal with the sick par­ties water, and make a cake of it, slit the cake in the middle, and spread with [Page 81]London treacle, and apply it to the side.

For the Wind, Mother, or Convulsions.

Take Coral, Amber and Jeat, each alike weight, beat them into fine pow­der, take the quantity of an hazel nut, and put it into a spoon with some caw­dle or broth, take two or three spoon­fulls, eat not in two or three hours after.

A sover agin water for old Vlcers.

Take two penniworth of pure white coperas, put it into a pint of cleer spring water, set it on a soft fire, that it may only simmer, take off the scum with a feather, so soon as the coperas is dissol­ved, take it off and put it into a glass or stone bottle; the longer it is kept the bet­ter it will be.

Ʋse this defensive Plaister.

Bole Armonick, the white of an egg, and white wine vinegar; to keep the ori­fice open put into the wound gentian wood.

A Purge.

Take Manna one ounce and a half, [Page 82]dissolve it in clarified whay, and drink it in the morning fasting, use it two or three dayes as you see cause.

For heat in the Back.

Take juice of Lemons and vinegar, and dip a cloth in it, and apply it to the Back oftentimes.

For the Head-ach.

Take oyle of Wormwood, strong vi­negar and rose water, and mingle them together and boil them, and lay them as hot as you may suffer it.

To dry up a Sore that issues with water.

Take Ale or Beer, boil in it sage till it be strong, then put in a quantity of allom and honey, and bath the part ill affected, and lay of the sage leaves that were boi­led on the sore place.

For the Mother.

Take about Michaelmas time, the ripest and rankest nettle seeds you can get, dry them in the sun or in an oven, and so [Page 83]keep them close in a paper, and when the patient feels the Mother to rise, take a spoon heaped of these seeds beat in a mortar, in white wine or beer and let them drink it.

For the Piles.

Take white Starch pul. and put on the Piles; or a great onion, rost it, spread it flat, and spread it over with mithridate, and apply it warm.

For the Rickets.

Take sallet Oyle one pint, camomile with the flowers three handfulls, strip it from the stalks, boil one handfull first in the oyle and take it up, then the second, and the third, then put the camomil in­to two bags, and anoint the sides stroak­ing it downward with the oyle, then lay on the bags warm, anoint it twice aday where the knots are, and lay speedwell in their drink continually, then take a purge of Rha. five or six grains pul. in posset, use it nine dayes together, then cease a fortnight, and use it again.

An Oyntment for the Rickets.

Take Rosemary, Bay leaves, Camo­mile, tops of lavender, alehoof, unset hyssop, each one handfull shred together and beat in a mortar, and boiled together in a pound of fresh butter an hour, then strain it out, and with this anoint the child, his sides, knees, and down to his feet, evening and morning a quarter of an hour; this must be made in May.

Take cloves of Fox-fern root, alias os­mond, bruised and boiled in milk, take it in the morning fasting and and fast an hour after it, or make the root into pow­der and give it in beer.

A Sirrup for the Rickets.

Take running water one quart, Mai­denhair, sage of Jerusalem, coltsfoor, each one ounce, licorice sliced, anniseeds brui­sed each an ounce and a half, Fox-fern root sliced one ounce, liverwort one handfull, twenty figgs sliced; boil all these to the half, then strain it, put to it [Page 85]fine sugar one pound and a half, peatle prepared three ounces; boil altogether, then strain it, and give the child one spoonfull first and last.

Pills to stay vomiting and cleanse the stomach.

Take Alloes siccatrina, adde to it nut­meg grated, two or three drops of sal­let oyle, as much aquavite, and a little sirrup of roses, when 'tis dissolved toge­ther, put a drop of oyle upon your fin­gers, make it into pills, whereof take two in a morning.

To make the Palsie oyle to anoint twice aday for any benummedness.

Take Neats foot oyle, rosemary tops. sweet marjoram two handfulls, lavender tops or leaves before it shoot to blow, two handfulls, red sage one handfull; chop them small, and put them to the oyle, and let it boil apace till the herbs be changed, and the ointment of a fair green colour, then strain it out and keep [Page 86]it in a glass stopt for use, it will last seven years in its full force and virtue; adde to it camomile, wormwood, time and hyslop.

For the Stone in the Kidneys, and them that make bloudy water.

Take milk and make a clear posset, wherein boil a handfull of plantain, a stick or two of licorice, a slice or two of comphrey root, drink them off first and last, and sometimes drink the juice of plantain either by it self or in beer.

Take also pills of Turpentine washt in plantain water, and made up in pills with gum arabick, and rapt up in sugar and swallowed.

For a Burn or Scald.

Take Thorn-apple leaves, stamp them or cut them small, and boil them in Hogges lard to any oyntment. Pro­batum.

For the Falling—sickness.

Take a Jay, pull off the feathers, then take out the gutts, and fill it full with cominseeds and anniseeds, and then bake it till it is dry to beat to powder with the head on and leggs, drink this in porrage or ale.

Flos Vnguentorum.

Take Rozen, per rozen each a pound and a half, virgins wax and frankinsence each a pound and a quarter, mastich one ounce, harts tallow or deers suet 4. pound, camphire two ounces; melt that which is to be melted, and pound that which is to be pounded, and sift it fine, and boil them over the fire, and then strain them through a canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine, then boil them all with the other ingredients to­gether, then let it cool to bloud warm, then put to them a quarter of a pound of turpentine, stirring it till it be thorough [Page 88]cold, and make it up in rolls, and keep it to your use, as the best and most preci­ous salve that can be made.

The Virtues.

This medicine is good for all manner of diseases that are written hereafter, viz. for old wounds, and it is most cleansing and well soken, and gendreth flesh and healeth more in a week, than any other in a month, and suffereth no corruption in a wound, nor no evill flesh to be gen­dred therein, it's good for the head-ach and singings in the brain, for all manner of impostumes, for sounding in the ears, and sinews sprung or cut, and draweth out a broken bone or thorn, or any o­ther thing that is in a wound; it is good for biting or stinging of a venemous beast, and it healeth all manner of bot­ches without, it is good for a fester, can­ker, noli me tangere, it draweth out all ach of the liver, spleen or reins, healeth [Page 89]the emrods, and is a good cearcloth for gouts and pestilent diseases.

Another flos Vnguentorum.

Take Rozen, per rozen each a pound and half, olibanum, dears suet, white wax, of each 4. ounces, mastich and mirtle, each an ounce, venice turpentine two ounces, whitewine a pottle, your wax and suet being finely shred, must be first molten upon a soft fire; then put in your rozen and per rozen, and stir them well till they be melted, then strain the stuff into a hot pan, then have ready your olibanum, mastich and mirrhe, ground small and finely searced, and let it all melt together, your white wine be­ing somthing warm, pour in by little and little, then take it from the fire, and put in your turpentine, and stir it, and last of all, your camphire being in powder, and stir it till it be cold, then make it up in rolls, and keep it in red leather to your use.

The manner how to cut the Plaisters to cure these Diseases, are

For the Navel, three inches square.

To stop the Flux of the Belly.

For the Reins, six inches long and four inches broad.

For the Flux of the Reins.

For the stomach, four inches broad and six deep.

For the wind or pain in the stomach.

For shortness of Breath or Tissick.

Take eight or nine heads of Garlick, according to the constitution of the party, peel and cut off the ends of each clove, and put them into a pipkin, with a quarter of a pound of butter unsalted, boil it till the Garlick turn red, then run it through such a thing as a milk strainer, [Page 91]then put it into a pipkin again, with a quarter of a pound of butter more un­salted, and the best honey one pound, boil it till the skim is well risen, then take it off and skim it, and strow in an ounce of the powder of Elecampane roots, then let it boil three or 4. Walms, take it off the fire, and stirre in the pow­der of six penniworth of Saffron, from the first to the last, you must stirre it while it is boiling, except the time while the skim of the Honey is rising; eat the quantity of a small nutmeg every morn­ing.

Scabs in Childrens heads.

Take fresh Butter, and boil in it Sute of a chimney (where there is no seacole burned) till it be black, and therewith anoint the head, 'twill heal it though there be holes that you may turn your finger in the head.

For a swelling or bruise.

Take elder stampt and fryed with [Page 92]chamber lye and fresh butter, and laid all over, taketh away the swelling or bruise.

For the Lungs and Gonorhea.

Take Craw fishes boiled in milk, and eaten, and the milk drank first and last and in the afternoon, sweetned with su­gar.

For a perilous Cough.

Take Sage, Rue, Comin and powder of pepper, and seeth them in honey, and make of them an Electuary, and use then also a spoonfull evening and morning.

Stinging of an Adder or Snake.

Take and drink the distilled water of dragons, or if you have none thereof the juice, also stamp dragons and lay to the place, &c.

To procure easie delivery.

Take Hyssop, Vervain and Betony, each one handfull, stamp them very small, and strain them in good stale Ale, and let the patient drink a good draught [Page 93]and it will help her presently without danger.

To heal a Scald or Burn

Take Barley meal with the juice of red fennel, make a Plaister thereof, and lay it on the sore, and it will draw out the corruption and heal it.

To stay a Flux of Bloud.

Take Willow leaves and bark, boil it in wine, and drink it.

For the noise in the ears, or Tongue swelled.

Boil Figgs in water, and let the pa­tient drink thereof.

To purge the Head with Sena.

Take Sena pul. one ounce, ginger one ounce, twelve Cloves, fennel seeds two ounces, cinnamon and tartar, each an ounce and a half pul. omnes; take there­in white wine, a dram after supper.

For Itch, Scabs and the like.

Take and decoct Fumitory in Ale a quart, then infuse in it sena an ounce and a half, raisins of the sun stoned, anniseeds [Page 94]bruised, and a little ginger, drink it with sirrup of roses.

Balsome for wounds, swellings, veno­mous bitings, and apostamations, old sores and fretting ulcers, &c.

Take oyle of Olive a quart, S. Johns wort, betony, centory and self-heal, each 2. handfulls, stamp them, & mingle them well, and so let it still in a glass all sum­mer, and strain the oyle from the herbs and so use it; adde to it tobacco flowers.

To heal watering Eyes.

Take red Rose water two ounces, and put it into a bowl-glass, then take male frankinsence, put it on the point of a knife into a candle of virgins wax untill it begin to melt, then still dip it in the water at least a hundred times, untill it turn thick like balme, distrain it through a sine linen cloth, & anoint your eyes therewith.

To expell Rheume in the face.

Take the white of an Egge beat to an [Page 95]oyle and skimmed, then temper it with the wool of a Coneys skin to a plaister, warm it on coals and apply it to the tem­ples and the grieved place and bind it on fast with a cloth.

For the Collick or griping in the belly.

Take seed of Carduus benedictus stamped, and drunk in posset ale, or any other drink doth help the grief.

Passion of the Heart.

Take juice of Bugloss two ounces, cleanse and purifie it at the fire, mix it with white sugar candy two ounces, and let the patient drink it every night going to bed ten nights together.

To purge Choler.

Take sirrup Violarum cum agaric. in­fused in Barley water, or broth of a hen.

Apurge for the Kings evil.

Take Lignum Vitae 4. ounces, infuse it on embers in 4. quarts of spring water 24. hours, then adde to it Polipodian 4. ounces, sena two ounces, anniseeds [Page 96]and sweet fennel seeds, each an ounce and a half, burrage, bugloss and For gloves, each one handfull, boil it away to the half; then give 4. or 5. spoonful [...] to a child every morning, for eight daie [...] together sweetned with sugar.

For the Dropsie.

Take Broom, Betony, Balme, each three handfulls, put it into three gallons of ale-wort, when it is ready to be stopt up, let it stand a week, and then drink it con­stantly a week together, or a fortnight.

A Medicine for the Dropsie.

Take horse Radish roots sliced long wayes thin two ounces, sweet fennel seeds bruised two ounces, smalledge and fennel roots sliced each an ounce, the tops of time, winter savory, sweet mar­joram, water cresses, nettles, each one handfull; boil these in three pints of wa­ter and three pints of wine, a quart of canary and a pint of muscadine, close [Page 97]covered till half be consumed, so remove it from the fire, and let it settle 3. hours, then strain it, and into every draught put in one ounce of sirrup of the five roots, it must be taken thrice aday, in the morn­ing, and at three in the afternoon, and fast an hour after it, if the patient have the scurvy also, adde to the draughts two spoonfulls of the juice of scurvy grass, when the patient is ready to drink it.

The Oyntment for the Dropsie.

Take wal wort and Elder leaves, sweet marjoram and water cresses, penniroyal, each one handfull cut and bruised, and set them to seeth in a quart of sweet sallet oyle half an hour, then let them stand in the vessel three dayes, then again heat them, and strain it hard out, and put in as many more of the said herbs, and seeth them as before and strain it, do so the third time, and keep them as an ex­cellent oyntment, let the swollen body be anointed herewith once in three [Page 98]dayes, and that in the morning by a goo [...] fire, stroaking it downwards an ho [...] together.

For a sore Breast in great anguish.

Take dung of Geese, the newest you can get, and a little leaven and a little time, stamp them together, and lay the [...] to the Breast.

For a Bruise.

Take red Nettles, and a quantity [...] bay salt, bruise them together, and la [...] them to the sore or bruise, this is to la [...] to incontinently after one is bruised, an [...] often changing it will take away the pa [...] and heal the bruise.

To stay bleeding at Nose.

Take the bone of a Carps head, kee [...] it till it be dry, then beat it to powder and take a little of the bloud of the party and beat it to powder, then mingle it to­gether, and put it in a little ale or beer an [...] let them drink it one or twice,

For the same.

Let the party drink wine Vinegar pint.

For a cold Stomach and hot Liver.

Take half a pint of white wine, as much Fumitory water, let them have one walme together, and sweeten it with sir­ [...]up of violets, take of it as you see cause.

For the Falling sickness.

Take Piony roots in ale pul. drink it morning and evening, take the jay pow­der in portage, and drink ale before it.

An Oyntment for the spleen or a sprain, or for wind, or stitch in the side, and good for a bruise.

An old Judge going from his horse back, broke a vein, and spit bloud and pist bloud, and this oyntment cured him by anointing him.

Take S. John's wort two handfulls, sweet marjoram, sweet basil, mints or speremints, of the flowers of lavender, spike and red rose leaves, of each one handfull, maudlin and wild time, each half an handfull, compound them well [Page 100]together in a stone mortar, then put into them a pint of the best sallet oyle in a ves­sel close stopt, and set it in a place where it may have moderate heat 14 dayes then strain it, and put into it half a pint of malmsey, nutmegs half an ounce, large mace an ounce and a half, and pretty quantity of cinnamon, boil a [...] these together till the liquor be nigh hall spent, and strain it out.

For pain in the Head.

Chew mace in your mouth and hol [...] it that the fume may ascend, and smell to spikenard.

For the same.

Take Vervain, vinegar and honey mingle them well together and drink [...] oftentimes fasting.

For the Megrim.

Seeth a little quantity of Aloes and mastick in whitewine, and drink thereof.

Against Drunkenness.

Take before you drink twelve spoon­fulls [Page 101]of Betony water, and after drink as [...]uch as you will.

For the falling sickness and Lethargy.

Take oyle of Castor to anoint the [...]ead.

For a worm in the stomach.

Take Neppe; stamp it and mingle it with white wine, and give it the patient when he is grieved.

For scalding, burning, itch, scabs, scald head, or any heat.

Take Butter unwasht, melt it scalding not, then pour it into fair spring water, and with a spoon labour it and wash it untill the butter grow cold, then gather the butter together, and pour out that water, and put fresh water to the butter, till you find your butter very white, then work your water out of the butter, then work in the powder of brimstone finely beaten, untill your butter be stiff and looks yellow with it, then take camphire and the feed of pompeons clean picked and husked, grind the camphire and [Page 102]them together, and work it to the butter, if you will skin any burn or seald with it, adde to it the powder of a rotten post, else not.

For the Piles approved.

Take a little piece of Scarlet and burn it, and beat it to powder and searce it, and put to it a little honey, and anoint the part with a little piece of scarlet, like­wise take horehound and hagtaper in powder fasting 4. or 5. morning toge­ther.

For a Chin Cough.

Take the burre of an Eglantine tree and dry it to powder, and drink it in pos­set drink.

Leaden Plaister.

Take two pound and 4. ounces of oyle of olive the best, good red lead one pound, white lead one ponnd, beaten into dust, spanish soap three ounces, in­corporate them in an earthen pot, and when the soap cometh upward put it up­on a small fire of coals, continuing it an [Page 103]hour and a half, stirring it with an iron stick, then drop of it upon a trencher, if it cleave not it is enough, spread it on clothes, or lay it on a board till it cools, then roll it up, it will last twenty years, the older the better.

The Virtue of this Plaister.

The same laid on the stomach pro­vokes appetite, and takes away any grief in the stomach, its a present remedy for the Collick, being laid on the belly, and upon the back, it's good for the bloudy Flux, Gonorr. and all weakness in the back, for women with child to wear all the time they are with child, if they find any weakness; it healeth all swellings, bruisings and aches, it breaks felons, pu­shes, and other impostumes, and healeth the same; draweth out any rotten hu­mour, not breaking the skin, and applyed to the fundament healeth any disease there growing; the same laid on the head is good for the Evelo, head-ach, [Page 104]and the eyes, easeth corns, the gout, and for a strain, Probatum.

For a bruise on the Stones.

Take Mud of a Grind-stone and oyle of roses tempered together and spread on a cloth, and apply it to the place grieved, vinegar and water boiled together and wet clothes dipt in it, and laid above a sore stayes the humour, and makes it heal the better.

For the Dropsie.

Take Hyssop, Time, water cresses and calamint, each two handfulls, fennel one handfull, Radish roots 4. or 5. taken out of the ground fresh, slice them thin, licorice, anniseeds and comminseeds, each two ounces, boil all these together in a pan or pot with the quantity of three galions of fair running water, till a third part be consumed, then put in a pottle of sack, strain it all through a linnen cloth, then put it into a stone or glass bottle close stopt, drink of it every morning, and at 4. of the clock in the afternoon, [Page 105]and as you find good of it, continueit.

To cool the Liver.

Take Barley water, cast away the first, and in the second boil Cinquefoil, bur­net, strawberry leaves, burrage, sorrel, egrimony, each one handfull, boil it from a pottle to three pints and something more, strain it, and adde to it sirrup vio­lar. two spoonfulls, rose water 1. spoon­full, drink it morning and evening, it cools the liver, and make the body so­luble.

For the displacing the Mother or Whites with a Serringe.

Take Cinnamon bruised one ounce, pomgranet flowers three ounces red rose water a quarter of an ounce, boil these in a pint and a half of red rose wa­ter, till half be consumed, then adde red wine half a pint, and strain it for your use.

A Receipt of Pills.

Take white Amber, Mastick, each one ounce, aloes the best two ounces and a [Page 106]half, agaric two scruples, aristolochia the round and true one scruple, make them all in fine powder, and with a little juice of betony or sirrup, make them in pills, make five of a dram, and take two, three or five, going to bed.

They preserve the stomach from in­ward hurt, and suffer no ill humours to putrifie in it, for they cleanse, mundifie and strengthen the heart, stomach and head, makes the party cheerfull, they purge the Reins and Matrix, and helps the eyes, they are safe without any dan­ger.

For a sore Throat.

Take Plantain, boil it in running wa­ter to a pultis, and clap it to with a cloth; this cured one that could hardly speak, scarce swallow, and made him bring pieces of stinking flesh out of his throat.

An oyntment for a joint Ague.

Take Colewort leaves chopt and boiled in butter to an oyntment, strain it and anoint the place ill, or boil ale to an [Page 107]and anoint the place with it, the same is good for chilblanes.

To skin Nipples.

Take Bay leaves laid on the Nipples skins them; unguentum album skins the Nipples.

For the same.

Take pure fine Sugar and burnt Al­lone, and plantain water, and a little red rose water; boil altogether to a sirrup, dip fine rags in it, and lay about the Nip­ples till it be whole, likewise butter and wax, and lay it on the Nipples, being melted together.

Vnguentum album.

Take Hoggs Lard and wash it in plan­tain water, or red rose water, and mingle them together with white Cerus.

Gargle for the throat for flegme.

Take Mustard a spoonfull, three or 4. spoonfulls of white wine, mingle them together, use it every morning for flegm; likewise vinegar and water, is good for [Page 108]the same; but if it be for the palsey, take mustard and white wine vinegar, and honey, and gargle at night going to bed warm.

For the Morphew.

Take Pippins and Elder berries baked together, or you may still it and drink the water, because you cannot have the berries at all times.

Fainting fits in Lying Inne.

Boil Harts horn and Saffron in ale or beer, and put a little sugar to it, adde to it a little winter savory.

For the Cramp.

Take Hoggs dung boiled in sallet oyle.

To purge the Head.

Take pill Cochie a dram to an ordi­nary body.

For Children.

Take pill Mastichine, a pill or two for a Child.

Electuaries purging.

Take for Choller elect. de Succo ro­ar for Flegme dia Phenicon, for Melan­holy confect Hamec.

For the Palsie and to stay Rheum.

Take a quart of Ale, boil it in lavender, and put to it a little butter and sugar, this drink morning and evening.

For the yellow Jaundies most excellent in great extremity.

Take English Saffron two penniworth in powder, two penniworth of tur [...]e­rick in powder, and two penniworth of mace in powder, mingle it with as much fine sugar as you like to your taste, eat e­very morning and evening as much in the pap of an apple as three nuts; if you take a purge of rhabarb after it is good, or use rhab. in powder with the rest.

For one that pisses bloud.

Take oyle of sweet Almonds, new drawn, and put a little fine sugar into it, or white sugar candy, and take it of it first and last.

Likewise turpentine washt in plantain water, and made up in pills with a little rose leaves, and a little coral.

A Drink for the Plague.

Give the party (finding himself sick) be­fore he sleep six spoonfulls of Aquavitae, and therein a spoonfull of beaten Gun­powder, and so let him sweat upon it.

To cure a Plague sore.

This belongs to Chirurgical operati­ons; and care must be taken at first to avoid repercussives, and apply attra­ctive medicines.

A Plaister to ripen a Plague sore.

Take twelve fat Figgs, well beaten, one ounce, Nitre five drams, pulp of raisins 4. drams, honey two dreams, wheat meal one dram, treacle 4. scruples, with a sufficient quantity of oyle of ca­momile, work it into an emplaister, and apply it to the pestilential bubo.

Another pultis or cataplasme which doth draw and ripen tumours and buboes in the groin.

Take Mallows herb and root, sca­bious, [Page 111]southernwood, rue, each one handfull, roots of marsh mallows one ounce, fresh gathered white lilly roots, and onions peeled, each three ounces; boil them in milk to a convenient thick­ness, strain it, and adde to the colature, bean and wheat meal macerated in vine­gar each one ounce, linseed and fene­greek, each half an ounce, orris three drams, figgs and raisins bruised, each one ounce and half, pigeons dung one ounce, leaven six drams, the yolks of two eggs; barrow hogs lard, gum ammoniacum dissolved in vinegar 15. drams, oyle of scorpions one ounce, treacle a dram and an half; mix and boil them all together into a pultis, and apply it warm to the sore at it's first appearing, and renew it every six hours.

To break the sore.

Take salt Butter, half an ounce, white mustard seed two drams, garlick 1. dram, a little oyle of camomile; make hereof [Page 112]a pultis and apply it warm, spread it upon a cabbage leaf, and let it lie on 4. or 5. hours, and then if the matter be soft and the skin not broken, open it with a lancet or potential cau [...]cry of Cantharides.

When the Tumour is opened, it must be dili­gently cleaused, for which ose a decoction of Aristolo­chia the round, Agrimony, self-heal, parsley roots and g [...]tian, which boil in equal parts of wine and water, and adde a [...] it a little honey, which cleanse away the poiso­nous matter.

Then use Tents to the Ulcer with proper unguents, and lay on it a defensive plaulet; and after the sore is cleansed and the putrefaction drown away use a conso­lidating plaister, for which purpose this is proper.

A Consolidative plaister for a Plague sore.

Take dryed leaves of Aristolochia the round one once, mastich, frankinsence, myrrhe, each two drams, aloes, siccatrin one dram, lytharg. 4. scru­ples, red lead one scruples, meal of lupines one dram; powder them very fine, then dissolve deers suet one ounce, hoggs grease half an ounce, oyle of S. John's wort six drams, turpentine washed half an ounce, wax three ounces, incor­porate them over a gentle fire to the consistence of a plaister, which renew twice a day.

An approved Cearcloth for Aches.

Recip. Burgandy pitch a pound, white Virgins wax a quarter of a pound, white Frankinsense two oun­ces, let the Frankinsense be beaten and searced very small, then take the wax and the pitch and melt them in two several pipkins, and when they are melted pour the wax into the pitch, then strow in the frankinsense, stir them well together, pour all out into a bason of fair water, and work it up into rowls, with your hands an­nointed with butter for sticking.

Experienced secrets, particularly appropriated to Wowen.

For stopping of the Terms, with pains in the back, belly, and other Symptoms.

Take of the best Rubarb three drams, of anniseeds two pugils (a pu­gil is as much as you can take up be­tween your forefingers and thumb) water of mugwort and penny royal, [Page 128]each three ounces, infuse the rubarb and seeds in the water, and let it boil gently, then strain it through a lin­nen cloath, and to it add two ounces of solutive sirrup of roses, and one spoonful of cinamon water, and take it in the morning fasting.

To make a Womans privity straight and narrow as a Maid.

In honest vvomen this is not to be discommended, for too much am­plitude and laxity of this part, is of­tentimes the cause of barrenness, and sometimes of falling out of the womb, and renders them ingrateful to their husbands.

It may be amended by purging af­ter the birth, and vvith fomentations, baths, liniments, and astringent pes­saryes; as a fomentation with Al­lom vvater, and the decoction of a­stringent plants.

Take comphrey roots, bole armo­niac, sanguis Draconis, balaustes, al­lome, [Page 129]mastick each half an ounce, powder them, and make thereof a pessary with cotton, and annoint it vvith oyl, and put it up.

A fomentation for the same.

Take oaken leaves, plantaine, each half a handful, comphrey roots, al­lome each one ounce, pomgranate pills, balaustins, sumach, each half an ounce, boil them in water, and fo­ment the part with the decoction.

A wench that made a trade of of­ten selling her Maiden head, used this decoction for a bath, which so closed up her pudenda, that she pas­sed for an untouched Virgin, to ad­miration.

Of pustule's, tumors, and scabs about womens privy members.

Though this be most common to those that are infected vvith the French Pox, yet others may be af­fected with it proceeding from adust, malignant and sharp humours.

If it come from the Pox, take a­way the poysonous cause of the Pox, or else all your labour will be in vain to goe about to cure it.

But come it how it vvill, it is a troublesome and filthy malady, rebel­lious, lasting, and hardly cured but vvith care and difficulty; and what man soever accompanies such a wo­man, shall be infected therewith.

To cure pushes and scabs about wo­mens privy places.

First prepare the humors vvith convenient medicaments, as borage, suchory, endive, fumotery, and such like: Thence proceed to purging with sena, sirrup of apples, of violets, of roses solutive.

Take Diacatholicon, and confe­ctio. hamech. Also use pills de fu­maria.

But if you find it proceeds from the Pox, or excessive Venery, use the decoction of guiacum and sarsa pilla, [Page 131]making proper additions, and use oyntments proper for scabs and man­giness. Or,

Take three ounces of fresh hogs grease, and two ounces of Juice of sumetiry, half an ounce of quick­siver well kill'd, ceruse, litharge, of each one dram, incorporate them well in a leaden morter, till they be vvell mixed into an unguent.

For Hemerods about the mouth of the womb.

Take the poplar Oyntment, oyl of roses, sweet almonds and new but­ter, of each half an ounce, saffron a scruple, and the yolk of an egg, mix them for an ointment.

For the same.

Take muscilage of quince seeds, and marsh-mallows, each half an ounce, oyl of roses, hens grease, each one dram, a dram of safron, mix them in a leaden morter.

A Pultis for the same.

Take marsh-mallow roots, three ounces, white lyllies an ounce, mal­low leaves and henbane, each half an handful, dill seeds two drams, boil them soft and bruise them, add to them powder of the flowers of camomile and melilot, flower of linseed & fenegreek, each one ounce, oyl of sesamum, three ounces, safron a dram, make thereof a pultis.

For Ʋlcers in the neck of the Womb.

Take comfry roots, bistort, each one ounce, leaves of planten, horse-tayle, shepherds purse, sanacle, mous-ear— yarrow, each one hand­ful, red rose flowers half a handful, boyl them in a sufficient quantity of water, and use the decoction for an injection.

For a Cancer in the womb.

Take oyl of violets five ounces, juice of ripe nightshade berries four [Page 133]ounces, ceruse washed two ounces, burnt lead washed, prepared tutia, each one ounce, frankinsense half an ounce, wax five ounces, mix them well in a leaden morter with a leaden pestle, till they change colour.

For inflamations in the womb.

Inflamations in the womb are very dangerous, and oftentimes prove deadly to women with child, there­fore care must be used to apply apt remedies in the beginning of the di­stemper: if the heat be much, take of the leaves of sengreen, purslain lettice, planten, endive, nightshade, water-lillies, vine leaves, Venus na­vel-wort, of each of these half an handful, boyl them in sharp wine till they be soft, then take and pound them, and add two ounces of barley meal, and two drams of bala stins, a dram of bole-armoniac, and a lit­tle oyl of roses, make it a pultis, and apply it to the region of the womb.

An unguent for heat and inflama­tion in the womb.

Take diachilon plaister two oun­ces, of the juice of Venus navel-wort, and planten, each half an ounce, oyl of roses one ounce, Saccharum Sa­turni a scrupple, work them in a lea­den morter into an ointment.

A Pessary for the same.

Of the juices of the forementio­ned plants, with the oyl of roses, and the like, may be formed pessaries very proper for this purpose.

For a Bath for the same.

Take of the forementioned herbs, and of mallows, marsh mallows, mugwort and fenegreek, of each what quantity you will; make a de­coction thereof in a sufficient quan­tity of water, and let the patient sit in it warm.

Injections for to cool the womb.

New milk and rose-water toge­ther injected into the womb with a [Page 135]serringe have a good effect, or you may take leaves of planten, Venus navel-wort, water-lillies, and lettice, each one handful, red roses, two pugils, boyl them in water, and add to the decoction an ounce of oyl of mirtles, and half an ounce of vine­gar, and inject it.

For a Rupture of the womb.

Take wax, turpentine, goose grease and butter, each one dram, honey, deers suet, oyle of roses, ma­stick, ceruse, tallow, each two drams, mix them and apply it inwardly in form of a pessary, and outwardly an­noint the parts with it, and apply it as a plaister.

For weakness of the womb.

Take seeds of wilde parsnips, cu­min, annise, carrots, each one dram, roots of angelica and lovage, each half a dram, cloves, galanga, cyna­mon, each one dram and an half, make hereof a pouder, whereof take [Page 136]as much as will lye upon a groat morning and evening, in wine or any other liquor.

For itching of the womb and privy parts.

I have known some women so troubled with this malady, that they could seldom keep their hands from it; the truth is, this is an evil more troublesom then dangerous. But for the cure:

Take allom, nitre, and flower of brimstone, each six drams, staves­acre one ounce, work them well to­gether with vinegar of roses and fresh butter into an ointment, and there­with rub the place.

Fine flower of brimstone, and fresh butter unsalted, with the juice of a lemon wrought together into an ointment, will cure the itching alone, and is also excellent to kill crab-lice, and will cure the itch all over the bo­dy if it be not too foul; then purging must be used with it.

For grievous pains in the womb. A Glister.

Take mercury, mugwort, cala­mint, penny-royal, each one hand­ful, of the flowers of camomile and melilot, each half an handful, lin­seed and fenegreek each half an ounce, decoct them in fair water, and to a pint of the strained liquor add of the electuary of hiaera simplex, and Benedict. laxativ. each half an ounce, oyl of water lillies two ounces, electuary of bay-berries half an ounce, and give it.

An excellent pouder for all pains and gripings in the womb and umbili­car parts.

Take roots of angelica, master­wort, zedoary, each one dram, white dittany, annise-seeds, carrot-seeds, cumin-seeds, schoenanth, each half a dram, cloves and mace, each one scruple, sugar the weight of them all, make it a pouder, whereof let [Page 138]the Patient take a dram at a time in wine, or any other convenient li­quor.

To drive down the termes an Electuary.

Take of the conserves of betony, lavendar, balm, borrage, each one ounce, condited roots of pimper­nel, and condited orange-pill half an ounce, oyles of cynamon and fennel­seeds, each three drops, make hereof an electuary with syrrup of mug­wort.

To stay the overflowing of the Courses, an Electuary

Take conserve of red roses two ounces, oak leaves; and tormentil, each one ounce, planten-seeds, and red corral, each one dram, Lapis haematis prepared half a scruple, with the juice of yarrow make it an Electuary.

A pouder to stop the Terms.

Take mastick and red corral pre­pared, [Page 139]each one dram, pearls prepa­red, and smarage, each one scruple, amber and lapis haematis, each half a scruple, make it a fine pouder.

For the plague in the Guts.

Take annise-seeds, fennel, bay-berries, juniper-berries, tormentil, bistort, balaustins, pomgranate pills, each one ounce, rose leaves, a hand­ful, boyle them in milk, strain it, and add the yolk of an egg, six grains of Laudanum dissolved in the spirit of mint, prepare it for a glister, and give it warm.

For the same accompanied with a violent loosness.

Take a pint of red wine, fountain-water a pint, cynamon bruised one ounce, boyl them till half be con­sumed, then take three new-laid eggs boyled very hard, take out the yolks and beat them very fine with the de­coction, strain it, and drink warm three spoonfuls every hour.

An hysterick plaister for fits of the Mother.

Take Agnus castus-seeds a dram and an half, of all the kindes of san­ders, each one dram and an half, white roses in pouder one dram, gum Tacamahaca a dram, musk three grains, turpentine, wax, and lauda­num, sufficient to make it a plaister, which spread and apply to the belly upon the region of the womb.

A pouder for the Mother.

Take carrot-seeds, cumin and wild parsnip-seeds, each one dram, make it into pouder, whereof give a dram at a time upon the approach­ing of the fit.

An Electuary for the same.

Take conserve of marjoram, of rosemary-flowers, bugloss, each two ounces, treacle, mithridate, each two drams, species of diacinin, and diamosch. each one dram, syrrup of mugwort make it an electuary.

To procure easie delivery.

Take savin, Aristolochia the round, [...]ochis of mirrh castoreum, each one [...]ram, cinamon and root of assara­ [...]acca, each half a dram, safron a scruple, give a dram at a time in sa­ [...]in water.

An excellent secret to help barren­ness, and procure easie deli­very.

Take darnel and burn it, and let the woman receive the fume through a tunnel; and take barly meal, dar­nel, mirrh, safron and frankinsense, and apply it pultis wise upon the bel­ly, it helps conception, and procures easie delivery.

The buds of the Sun-flower before [...] blossome, boiled and eaten with butter, vinegar and pepper, do migh­tily excite to venery, and provoke [...]ust more than the Artichoke.

Nettle seeds are good for the same purpose; so is garden cresses and [Page 142]rocket, eaten with lettice and pur­slaine.

A pessary made of the herb Mer­cury, and worn in the matrix, streng­thens the parts, comforts the womb, and stirs it up fit to conceive.

Of the white Feaver, Maids di­sease, or green sickness.

This is caused by obstuction of the vessels about the womb, when maids come to ripe age, and the natural seed begins to abound, exciting their desires to joyn in fellowship with men, for want whereof the humors ascend to the greater veins, and do stupifie the brain sometimes to sim­plicity, most times to forgetfulness, and many times to raging madness, and do also vitiate the whole mass of blood, which brings them to a pal­lid complexion.

This we must endeavour to help by Physick, when the maid cannot get her desired cure.

These pills for this purpose I com­mend.

Take of the masse of the Pill cal­led hiera, with agarick one dram and an half, pills of opopanax three drams, extract of rubarb, centory the lesse, gentian root, each one dram, steel prepared four drams, cuckow pintle root prepared, tartar vitriola­ted each two scruples, Chymical oil of wormwood one scruple, oil of ci­namon and cloves each six drops, sir­rup of the five opening roots, suffici­ent to make it into a masse for Pills; of every dram hereof make six Pills, and let the patient take two every morning, and as many at four a Clock in the afternoon, drinking af­ter it a draught of wormwood wine, or wormwood beer, and exercise af­ter it an hour.

The leaves of hagtaper or mullen, which grows common enough in the Countrey, are good for maids to [Page 144]vvear in their shooes, to draw down their Courses, the stopping vvhereof brings no small evil unto them.

To them that cannot so well swal­low pills, I prescribe some open­ing Sirrups and Decoctions.

An opening Decoction for the Green sickness.

Take roots of sichory, madder and licorice clensed, each half an ounce, annis and sennel seeds each two drams, harts tongue one handful, da­mask roses and borrage flowers, each half an handful, saffafras shaved thin one ounce, raisins stoned one ounce and an half, cynamon halfe a dram, boyl them together in a suf­ficient quantity of fountain vvater, until a third part be vvasted, and let the patient drink thereof as often as she pleases. To make it the more grateful to the taste, you may sweet­en it with sirrup of Lemons, or for vvant thereof suger may serve the turn.

An opening and attennating Sirrup for the Green sickness.

Take of the juice of succory and mugwort, both clarified, each five ounces, of the before mentioned de­coction eight ounces, juice of barbe­ries four ounces, suger candy one pound, make them a sirrup, the dose vvhereof may be every morning two ounces, vvith three ounces of cyna­mon vvater.

An Electuary for the Green sick­ness.

Tak juice of Elder berries boiled to a just consistence vvith suger, which the Apothecaries call Rob, four ounces, bay berries dried and powdered one ounce, two nutmegs, burnt harts horn one dram, species dearrhod. four scruples, vvhite am­ber half a scruple, sirrup of cichory one ounce and an half, so mix them vvell together into a soft Electuary, vvhereof she may take the quan­tity [Page 146]of a nutmeg twice or thrice a day.

Capers and broom buds are good for them to eat with their meat that are troubled with this distemper.

There are outward means also to be used for the green sickness, as oint­ments and plaisters.

An ointment for the Green sick­nesse.

Take oil of spiknard, and of bit­ter almonds each two ounces, juice of mugwort an ounce, vineger half an ounce, set it on the fire till the moisture be consumed, and add to it in powder spiknard, squinanth and assarabacca root each one dram, and with a little wax make a liniment of it, wherewith anoint the region of the liver, and the parts about the vvomb.

Or else use this Ointment.

Take oyl of sweet almonds and capers, of camomile and dill, each [Page 147]two ounces, of orris and wormwood each one ounce and an half, of vine­ger of roses one ounce, juices of rue, alexanders and mint each one ounce and an half, boil them till the juices be consumed, and then put to it powder of squinanth and spike, of each a dram, with ducks grease and a little wax make it an ointment, vvherewith anoint the region of the Liver, the womb, and all the privy parts, rubbing it vvell about the lips and mouth of the same, and then use this plaister.

A plaister for the Green sickness.

Take camomile, melilot, southern­wood, ground-pine each one ounce, parsly seeds, tops of vvormwood, flowers of the lesser centory, each two drams, powder them all, and take one dram of spike dissolved in Aqua vitae, and with a little oil of marjoram and roses, and a suffici­ent quantity of vvax, make it a [Page 148]plaister, which lay on the region of the Liver.

For such as cannot hold their wa­ter.

Take hogs and sheeps bladders, hares stones, cocks throats, each half an ounce, acorns two scruples, leaver of nepp and mace, each one scruple, make it a powder, whereof give half a dram at a time in vvater of Oake leaves.

The stones of bores, and the claws dried to powder and given, are very good for this purpose.

Also Diacinamom; and Frankin­sense drunk in wine is commended, calamints, mints, acorn cups, burnt ivory, mace, gum, arabick, and oak­en bark applyed hot to the peri­neum.

A Plaister for such as cannot hold their water.

Take frankinsense one ounce, la­danum, mastich, burnt ivory, acorn [Page 149]cups, each three drams, lignum, aloes and cinamon, each one dram, styrax calamita, two drams, juice of mints four ounces, wax enough to make it a plaister, spread this plai­ster upon linnen or leather, and lay it above the privy members upon the place where the hair grows, and un­der the Gods as far as the Funda­ment.

For the French Pox an excellent method.

First begin vvith a purging potion.

Take of the decoction of tama­rind six ounces, which infuse six hours upon hot coals, sene half an ounce, rubarb two drams, hermo­dactills half a dram, cassia new­ly drawn out of the canes one ounce.

Let it boil a wlam or two at the end of the infusion, straine it, and add to the liuqor confectio hamec, elect. cariocostinum, each [Page 150]one dram and an half, spirit of tur­pentine half a scruple, and let the patient take it fasting, keep vvarm after it, and take posset drink as it works.

Then after a day or two take of the masse of the pills of fumitory, aurea, each one dram, pill cochie two drams, meercurius dulcis three drams, rosin of jollap two scruples, spirit of turpentine six drops, and vvith conserve of vvormwood a suf­ficient quantity, make it into forty Pills, vvhereof take three at a time every other day.

Then proceed to Dyet drink, which make thus:

Take Lignum vitae eight ounces, bark of the same two ounces, sassa­fras one ounce, sarsa parilla four oun­ces, liquorice two ounces, juniper berries one ounce, cynamon two drams, coriander seeds four drams, boil it in two gallons of vvater till [Page 151]one be consumed, strain it and drink it for an ordinary drink.

For a foul running of the Reins, a poisonous Clap.

Take Prick-madam, one handful, quince seeds, rue, agnus castus, plantain each one ounce, tormentil roots half an ounce, red rose flow­ers two pugils, vervaine one pugil, juice of Lemons six ounces, vvater of the tree mallow flowers one pint and an half; infuse the herbs in the vvater four days, letting them ma­cerate vvith the gentle heat of a bath, then strain it, and reserve it for use. The dose is morning and evening three spoonfuls.

An Electuary for the Running of the Reins.

Take conserve of red roses, red corral prepared, harts horn pre­pared each one scruple, ballaustins two scruples, mix them and take the [Page 152]quantity of a nutmeg twice or thrice a day.

An Ointment for the same.

Take oyl of roses, mastich, and myrtles, each one ounce, balaustins half a dram, with a little vvax, make it an unguent, wherewith anoint the privy members, and all the parts a­bout them.

If coldness of the members ac­company the distemper, then anoint the privy parts vvith oyl of vvorm­wood, mastich and mynts, and oint­ment of marsh mallows; but if the yard and parts be over hot, wash them vvith vvhites of eggs, planten vvater, and juice of lemons, and a­noint them vvith oyl of water lillies; use also the vvater of the sperme of frogs, and if the stones swell vvith heat, make a pultis vvith barley meal, oyl of lillyes, milk and ducks meat, and bind on the cods.

To cool and take away the sharp­ness of the matter in the Running of the Reins.

Take of all the saunders oyl of vvater lillyes, the unguent popule­on, juice of nightshade each a suffi­cient quantity, camphire half a scru­ple, mix them vvell and bind them upon the genitals.

If the flowing matter be vvatry and thin, then use such things as are drying and strengthning, and do help the digestive virtue of the stones, and correct the vvatriness of the seed, as species Aromatic. rosat. sirrup of mints.

To correct the watriness of seed in Gonorrhea.

Take mints and Roman vvorm­vvood each one handful, agnus ca­stus seeds, myrtle berries and rose flowers, each two drams, boyl them in red vvine, and sweeten it with su­gere; take it often.

For the same.

Take old conserve of red roses one ounce and an half, amber and red corral prepared each one dram, cloves, mace, frankinsense, each one scruple, with sirrup of myrtles make it an Electuary.

Or use this powder in red wine to thicken the seed, and strength­en the stones.

Take mastich, frankinsense each one dram, amber half a dram, cory­ander seeds two drams, vine leaves, mints each half a dram, sugar of ro­ses one ounce, make it a fine pow­der.

For Ʋlcers in the bladder or reins, caused by Venery.

Take polipody of the Oak, and licorice sliced, each half an ounce, of the four greater cool seeds each one dram, violets and borrage flowers each two pugils, jujubes half an ounce, damask prunes an ounce, rai­sins [Page 155]half an ounce, sena two ounces and an half, infuse them one night in barly water, in the morning boil and strain it, afterwards in a suffici­ent quantity of the decoction dissolve an ounce and an half of Manna, cas­sia new drawn three ounces, boil them to the thickness of an opiate, adding in the end half an ounce of rubarb in powder. The dose is an ounce to be taken in the morning once a week.

For Ʋlcers in the Bladder or Reins.

Take of cassia two ounces, manna one ounce, pulpe of sebestins and ta­marinds each one ounce, of the mu­scilage of flea-wort six drams, of the four greater cool seeds, each one dram, juice of licorice two drams; with sirrup of roses solutive make it an opiate. The dose is an ounce in a morning.

An Electuary for the French Pox.

Take guiacum wood finely pow­dered, and powder of sarsaperrilla, each one ounce, species diatrion san­talon, and diarrhod. abbatis each two drams, conserve of suchory six ounces; with sirrup of suchory make in an Electuary.

For Ʋlcers in the yard, caused by the Pox.

Take oyl of sweet almonds, oint­ment of roses each three ounces, wax an ounce, mercury precipitate half an ounce, mxi them for use. For the itching under the prepuce and the top of the yard, make a decoction vvith ducks meat and pomgranate pills, and wash the place there­with.

To ease the grievous pains of the yard, got by a Clap.

Take mallows, marsh-mallows, linseed, dill camomile flowers, and [Page 157]mellilot each a handful, boil them in vvater and foment the yard and stones vvith the liquor, then lay on the boiled herbs pultis vvise upon the parts.

The women may also use this de­coction for the same purpose, inje­cting it into the Matrix with a Ser­ringe, and applying it pultice wise outwardly.

A plaister for the stone in the Bladder.

Take oil of spike, camomile and dill each six drams, oil of scorpions half an ounce, Ammoniacum, Bdelli­um, pitch dissolved in vinegar each half an ounce, olibanum three drams, euphorbium one dram, incorporate them into a plaister, and apply it up­on the bottom of the belly.

A plaister for Caranles on the neck of the bladder.

Take of the best aloes two drams, aristolochia and mirrh each half a [Page 158]scruple, tutia prepared half a dram, liquid styrax enough to make it a plaister.

A drink to cool the heat of the Ʋrine.

Take seeds of poppy, lettice, en­dive, and the four greater cool seeds each half an ounce, sebestens in num­ber seven, boil them in a sufficient quantity of water till half be consu­med, then strain it, and in four oun­ces of the strained liquor dissolve one ounce and an half of the sirrup of water-lillyes, and give it for a dose.

An outward application to cool the heat of the Ʋrin, and inflama­tions of the Bladder, Reins and privy members.

Take of the distilled water of wa­ter lillyes three ounces, of the wa­ters of violets and house-leek each one ounce, juice of nightshade and house-leek each one ounce, brest-milk [Page 159]one ounce and an half, oyl of violets one ounce, mix them, and dip therein hot cloths and apply them wet upon the members underneath the cods, and above upon the bot­tom of the belly.

To mundifie unlcers in the bladder, and ease pains of them and in the yard, it is good to inject Cows milk warm with a Serringe, or you may take the water of milk distilled, with barly vvater and fine sugar, and inject it into the yard vvith a Ser­ringe.

But to dry and consolidate the Ulcer after it is clensed, use this con­soliative vvith a Serringe.

take the whites of four eggs well beaten, to which add bole armo­nick and dragons blood each two scruples, muscilage of flea-wort and womans milk each two ounces, pow­der that which is to be powdered, [Page 160]mingle all well together, and inject it with a Serringe.

Take also this Electuary to heal the pains of the Ʋlcer.

Take lohoch of poppy, diatrag­canth, frigid. each half an ounce, bole armonick one dram, pouder the bole armonick very finely, mix it, and make an electuary with a little sirrup of violets.

Of Pissing Blood.

This generally proceeds from Ul­cers in the reins and bladder, and sometimes is caused by falls, blows and bruises; sometimes cleer blood is avoided, and sometimes blood mixed with corruption; sometimes watry blood, and sometimes blood like stinking clots of flesh.

An Ointment for pissing blood.

Take oyl of mirtles and roses each six drams, balaustins, pomgranate pills, siumach, bole armonick each two scruples, pouder what is to be poudred, and with a little wax make it an unguent, wherewith anoint the reins.

A Potion for the same.

Take sirrup of violets, myrtles each six ounces, waters of planten, purslain and endive each twelve ounces, mix them, and drink hereof often.

To cure a Priapismus.

A Priapism is an immoderate and continual erection and standing of the Yard, without any desire or ap­petite to venery, or ejection of seed, wherein it differs from another pas­sion [Page 162]of the yard called Satyria­sis, in which there is, besides the standing of the yard, a coiti­on and emission of the seed with pleasure.

In the cure hereof the patient must be careful to avoid such things as ge­nerate and increase windiness, and to use such things as dissolve and break wind, outwardly foment the yard with this fomentation.

Take penny royal, origany, each half an handful, carawayes, ameos, anni-seeds, fennel-seeds, cumyn-seeds each two drams, boyl them in a suffi­cient quantity of water till half be consumed, then dip in it a spong, and therewith foment the yard.

To cure the continual standing of the yard, proceeding from too much heat of the gential members.

In this case the patient must shun [Page 163]all such things as ingender heat, and use cold things: It is very good to hold the yard in cold water, and to anoint the root of the yard with cool oyls, as with oyl of roses, water-lillyes, and a little vinegar.

It is good also to wear a plate of lead, vvith a hole through it, for to put the yard thorow upon the pecten above the yard, and let it come un­derneath, fitting it to the place.

Vomiting is likewise proper for this distemper, but not Purging.

A gentle vomit, working without harm, which I alwayes use.

Take an ounce of assarabacca roots, boyl them in a pint of water till half be consumed, then strain it, put to it two ounces of simple oxi­mel, and giveit for a vomit; but before the patient takes the vomit, take a hen and boil her, making [Page 164]cleer broth, and having the broth in readiness, about a quarter of an hour after the patient hath taken the vo­mit, let him drink a draught of the broth, and so drink between every vomit until it hath done working. Those that cannot get hen broth, may use cleer posset drink in stead of it.

In the distemper of a Priapisme, let the patient be sure to abstain from wine and diuretick medecines, and apply to the loyns and privy members this Pultis following:

Take nightshade, purslain, lettice, water lillyes, boil them in water till they be tender, then pound them, and apply them hot to the privy members.

For Feavers.

To cure a Sanguine Feaver.

Take sirrup of endive an ounce [Page 165]and an half, of bugloss half an ounce, waters of lupines, endive and bugloss each an ounce, mix it, and take it in the morning.

Another digestive in the begin­ning of a Feaver.

Take sirrup of wood-sorrel an ounce and an half, sirrup of endive half an ounce, distilled water of prunes, endive and sorrel, each one ounce, mingle them, and take there­of at twice.

The distilled water of prunes I have alwayes used with excellent success in most Juleps for all Feavers, which you may easily prepare and keep by you, to be ready upon all ac­casions.

Take prunes what quantity you please, bruise them and distil them in a common still: And at any time, when occasion requires, you may [Page 166]give of this water alone with a little sugar, if you have nothing else to add with it.

But usually I prepare it thus:

Take prune water four ounces, juice of oranges two ounces, sirrup of gilliflowers two ounces, a few drops of spirit of vitriol, mix it, and let the patient drink two or three spoonfuls at a time.

You may likewise keep juice of oranges at all times in readiness by you; taking good store of oranges when they are most plenty, and press out their juice, claryfie it, and put it in a glass vessel with a tap hole at the bottom, and cover over the juice about an inch thick at the top with sallet oyl, so you may preserve your juice fresh as long as you please, drawing it out at the bottom when you have occasion to use it.

In the beginning of a Feaver have a special regard to the constitution of [Page 167]the body; if the body be pletho­rick, or if blood or choller abound, let your principal remedy be blood­letting; vomiting, and clisters also are very proper: Then give such things as cool the heat, as fair water with the juice of lemons, barberris, currans, pomgranates or quinces.

The distilled waters of endive, purslain, succory, sorrel, strawber­ries, borage, bugloss, violets, roses, with which you may mix any of the sirrups of the same herbs, flowers or juices.

In the beginning of Feavers the conserve of wood-sorrel taken with Diascordium mixed together, is of ex­cellent use; you may take of the same conserve an ounce, diascordi­um a dram, mix them and take it at twice; or you may take the con­serve and sharpen it with oyl of vi­triol, and eat it at any time against thirst.

This following Sudorifick is with good success given in the beginning of Feavers.

Take water of cichory and elder flowers each equal parts, in which infuse harts-horn burnt and poudred a dram and an half, strain it, and dis­solve in the liquor sirrup of fumitory an ounce, juice of citrons two spoon­fuls, salt of wormwood one scruple, Bezoar stone eight grains, mix it and give it in the morning fasting, warm, to provoke sweat.

Outwardly use this Epithema to the region of the heart.

Take rose water three ounces, bo­rage and bugloss water each two oun­ces, vinegar of roses half an ounce, juice of Lemons two drawms, red san­ders one dram, lignum aloes, half a [Page 169]dram. Dip linnen cloths herein and apply them to the region of the heart, and anoint the reins with oyl of roses and violets.

For a putrid Feaver, a Bolus to open the Belly.

Take cassia, manna, pulpe of ta­marinds each halfa dram, oyl of an­niseeds three grains, diagryd, four grains; give them for a Bolus.

It is very proper in this case also, to give a Clister; which prepare thus:

Take leaves of mallows, violets, pellitory, mercury, camomile flow­ers each one handful, pearl barley, half an handful, boil them in a suf­ficient quantity of water, and in six ounces of the colature dissolve cassia one ounce, sirrup of roses solutive half an ounce, oyl of violets or roses two ounces, the yolk of an egg and a [Page 170]little salt, mix them for a Clister and put it up.

After the body is thus lenified, forthwith have recourse to blood­letting, as the most necessary and best remedy; afterwards if the Pa­tient be very dry, give him a Julep with prune water, sorrel water, and juice of lemons and oranges, and spi­rit of vitriol.

An Emulsion to cause rest in Feavers.

Take of the decoction of sassafras four ounces, two dates stoned, boyl and strain them, and to the liqor add an ounce of white poppy seeds bruised, half an ounce of gourd seeds, and sweeten it with sirrup of wild poppy flowers.

A Cordial Potion

Take water of borage and bugloss powers each five ounces, cynamon water half an ounce, sirrup of le­ [...]ons and citrons each an ounce, spe­ [...]ies liberant a dram, diamag, frig, a scruple, give hereof a draught warm three or four times an hour.

For a Quotidian Feaver.

Take manna an ounce and an half, and dissolve it in hen broth, adding a little mace, strain it and drink it using it many dayes together.

For Chollerick bodies use this following Potion, in a quo­tian, tertian, or quartan.

Take damask prunes in number ten, tamarinds an ounce, sebestins [Page 172]jujubes each in number ten, raisins an ounce and an half, five dates, flowers of violets, borage and bu­gless each one pugil, gourd seeds half an ounce, decoct these in suf­ficient quantity of water and in the decoction infuse rubarb a dram and an half, myrobalans citrine two drams, ginger one scruple, strain it and put to it an ounce of solutive sirrup of roses, and give it the patient in the morning warm.

In quartain Feavers, an excellent Potion to purg by Ʋrin.

Take of the five opening roots each half an ounce, Carduus benedi­ctus, harts-tongue, tops of worm­wood each one handful, flowers of borage, bugloss, violets, roses, each half a handful, flowers of the lesser centory a pugil, sena half an ounce, rubarb three drams, citron and o­range [Page 173]pills each one dram, cynamon half a dram, diagrid. six grains.

Let these be all cut and sliced ve­ry small, and then tyed up in a fine linnen cloth or bag, which infuse in white-wine, and let the patient drink thereof every morning fasting a good draught.

For quartain Feavers, and Me­lancholy bodies.

Take sirrup of violets, bugloss, bo­rage, and fumitory each one ounce; waters of purslain, fumitory harts­tongue, borage, bugloss each one ounce and an half, make it a Julep for three doses.

A Decoction provoking Sweat and Ʋrin, good in tertian Feavers.

Take roots of parsley, sparagus, [Page 174]Kneeholm, nettles each one ounce, orris, elecampane each half an ounce, twelve bayberries, flowers of camo­mile, tops of dill each a pugil, cala­mint, penny-royal each half a hand­full, seeds of comin, annis, fennel, and citrons each one dram, decoct all in a good quantity of water, and let the patient drink of it often.

For a burning Feaver.

Take the distilled waters of cicho­ry, sorrel, wild poppey, betony each one ounce and an half, rasberry wine one ounce, sirrup of the juice of citrons, lemons, barberrieseach half an ounce, yellow sanders half a dram, give of it often three or four spoonfulls at a time.

For a Hectick Feaver.

To keep the belly open take of the [Page 175]decoction of pruins four ounces, wherein dissolve manna an ounce, let them be so hot as to boyl up, then strain it, and drink the li­quor.

Afterwards for the Hectick, use this Electuary every day.

Take conserve of roses and violets each half an ounce, cassia newly drawen and boyled up with sugar five drams, species Aromat. rosat. half a dram, chymical oyl of anni­seeds three grains, temper it together for an Electuary; it will keep open the belly, and strengthen the heart, brain, and liver.

For the Pestilence.

In the time of the Plague it is good for preservation to use fumigations, which you may prepare after this manner:

Take red roses, mirtles, citron citron pills, all the saunders of each two drams, mirrh, storax, calamita, gum dragon, gum arabick each one dram, camphire a scruple, a little musk, dissolve the gums in rose-wa­ter and vinegar, mix and work them all together into a mass, and form little rolls or troches of them, which being dryed, you may carry about you, and burn of them upon coals when you have occasion.

Pills to be used in Plague time.

Take aloes six drams, mirrh three drams, safron one dram, rubarb two drams, agarick trochiscated one dram, zcloves edoary, seeds of citrons peeled each one scruple, ci­tron dill half a dram, tormenti roots, red saunders each a dram and an half, oriental bole washed and prepared two drams, camphire half a [Page 177]scruple; reduce all these into a fine powder, and with the sirrup of the juice of citrons make them into a mass, of which form pills of the bigness of a pease. The dose is four Pills in a morning.

To comfort the Spirits, let the sick drink often of this fol­lowing Julep.

Take waters of endive, sorrel, bo­rage, bugloss, balm each equal parts, seeds and pills of citrons each two drams, harts-horn burnt and prepared five drams, boyl them gently, strain it, and to the cola­ture add sirrup of citrons, juice of currans each equal parts, make it a Julep, adding a little cinamon water, and let the Patient drink of it often.

A Sweating Potion to be given in the beginning of the disease as soon as one is infected with the Plague.

Take tormentil roots, white dit­tany, red coral, bole armonick pre­pared, terra sigillata, each one dram, gentian root, vervaine each one dram and an half, safron a scruple, make all these into a powder, where­of take one dram, treacle half an ounce, sirrup of scabious and mug­wort each one ounce and an half, water of Carduus Benedictus, four ounces, mix it, and give it the sick party warm, and let him go to bed and sweat well.

An Electuary for the Plague, to be taken every day.

Take juice of scabious, scordium, [Page 179] Carduus Benedictus each two drams, Andromachus treacle three drams, citron seeds blanched a dram and an half, with sirrup of the juice of bar­berryes a sufficient quantity, over a gentle fire, make it into an Electu­ary, whereof let the sick party take a dram at a time, more or less, as you find the operation of it: endea­vour to sweat upon it, and continue provoking sweat with Carduus pos­set drink, according as the patients strength can bear it.

This following causes sweat, and abates the sense of the parts.

Take of the best treacle a dram, sirrup of wild poppy flowers one ounce, give it in two ounces of Car­duus water.

In all diseases whatsoever, labour to shun all vehement affections of the mind, as Angar and Sorrow, and [Page 180]stedfastly six your hope upon our Heavenly Father, the Great Physi­cian, despising the World, in respect of him who worketh all things for the best to them that fear him. Use his Means with praise and thanksgiving, and patiently wait for his blessing upon them. To whom be all Ho­nour and Glory, for ever. Amen.

A Plaister to resolve cold and windy tumors in the J [...]ynts.

Take oil of dill half a pound, rosin of the pine tree two pound, common rosin three pounds, new wax one pound, the powders of comin and barberries of each one pound, melt what is to be melted, and then strain it, and put in your powders.

For the bitting of a mad Dog.

Take galbanum, opopanax, saga­penum [Page 190]each half a dram, euphorbi­um, florentine, orris, aristolochia the round, gentian roote each one dram, crawfish shell, two drams, wax suffi­cient, turpentine two ounces, mix them for a plaister.

A Plaister for poisoned wounds, bitings, and stingings of Serpents.

Take barberry meal and bean meal, each ten drams, licoras, marsh­mallow roots, pitch, each five ounces, white-wax and goose-grease each ten ounces, incorporate them with old oil and urin of a maid child sufficient for a plaister.

A Plaister for the swelling of the Cods.

Take Bdelium, opopanax, saga­onum dissolved in vineger, each [Page 200]half an ounce, muscilage of marsh­mallows, linseede and fenegreeke each two drams and an half, flow­ers of camomile and melilot each three drams, beam meal three ounces butter half an ounces; with the de­coction of figs and mallows, make it a plaister.

A Plaister to ripen Venereous Buboes.

Take mallow and violet leaves, each two handfuls, roots of marsh mallows half a pound, white lilly heads four ounces, boil them in a suf­ficient quantity of water, and be [...] them small, adding thereunto whe [...] and barly meal each a sufficient quan­tity, common oil and butter ea [...] three ounces, hogs-lard two ounce and an half, the yolks of two e [...] mix them for a plaisters.