CHOICE and RARE. EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSIC AND CHIRURGERY OR ● Discovery of most approved Medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of Men, Women and of Children, together with an Antidotary of Experiments never before Published. ●ound out by the Study and experience of Thomas Collins Student in Physic near the City of Gloucester. LONDON, ●●●nted by I. T. for Francis Eglesfield, at the sign or the Mari-gold in Paul's Churchyard. 1658. To the honourable and truly vertucus gentlewoman, Mistress URSULA BUCKE, health, honour, happiness and Heaven. WHen I had compiled, and with much diligent and industrious Labour collected into one volume, most of all the choice, select and approved medicinable Remedies, for most diseases as are incident to the bodies of men, of women ●nd children, together with an Antidotary of Medicaments universal, all which ●eing the secret observable and approved experiments of the most excellent Physiti●ns, as well Modern as Ancient; I was then advertized by certain friends no less judicious than learned; who reviewing t●●●●me, and conceived it to be a piece of ●uch worth as is not ordinarily obvious of ●ny yet extant in the like kind, to cause it to be published; To whose importunacy I condescended, although otherwise intended, and to private use; Considering Non nobis solum n●ti sumus etc. And as then revolving to whom I might devote this subject, and could Commemorate not any more than your worthy sel●, since you are a favouress of the Muses, esteeming and honouring all good literature and learning so, that only I desire to present it unto your Tuition, which resolving of your favourble acceptation, that you would be pleased to let it pass forth under your worthy name, although the Quantity of the volume, the manner of handling, or the Author be not in any wise proportionable t● your unvalued and unparalelled worth; ye● the subject in itself is worthy and honourable; All which I desire to refer unto your discreet censure and favourable approbation who am, Mistress, yours devoted in all humble observance Tho▪ Collins Courteous Reader, WHat hath been the Experience of the Ancients, and of those of latter days for the Benefit of the health of man, you are here Presented with. Cast but your eye upon the first part of this Experience, And you'll see Remedies for the distempers of men and women from head to the Inferior parts: And having seen how youth and old age are supplied with meet and convenient Remedies for health, Peruse the second part and there thou wilt, in like order, find the helps of Infancy, that so Childhood may not altogether be lest remediless vnde● the burden of its many tedious and irksome distempers. From whence there is but one little st●p to an Antidotary ●raught with many excellent General remedies; All which, what ever hath been the Labour of the Author in collecting them, Take thou and Use freely to the commodious benefit of the health of thyself and of thy friends and Neighbours. Farewell. These Books are printed for Fran. Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Marigold, in Paul's Churchyard. 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A poplexy to cure page 15 Aposthema, and to cure Aposthema persons 52 appetite to procure 70 ague quartane 80 ague tertian 86 In time of the fit. ibid. ague of a long continuance 84 ●●ch in the back 67 96 97 135 after-pain of a woman delivered 1●7 ●f●er-burden of a dead child ibid. ●reath that is stinking to destroy 41 ●reath to make swee● 42 43 ●reath that is short 51 52 ●rest, the diseases 44 ●rest that is sore to break it, ibid. 56 57 ●rest to heal 53 ●rest to keep from breaking 53 54 ●rest to skin that is raw 54 ●rest that is hard ib. ●rest that is broken 55 ●oling in a woman's breast 56 ●lood to cleanse 88 ●owes diseased 91 Back weak 97 Back over ho● 98 Consumption 9 47 60 Chest stopped 48 Cough of the Lungs 58 Cataplasm 63 Choler to ●v●id ●● Colic ●● Caudle for one with child 1● Cough and Phlegm ●● Deafness to cure 32 33 34 35 3● Dropsey to cure 74 75 12 Delivery of a woman quick 12 Deliver a woman of a dead child 12 Diarrhea, or the humeral flux 1● Epilepsy of children 1● Eye diseased with Gummy matter 1● Eye weeping ib. 18 23 25 2● Eyes to keep clear and cool, and to take away th● redness, and kill the itching 17 18 22 23 2● Ey●id overturned 1● Eyes swollen 2● Eyes pained ib. 21 3● Eye grown hard ●● Eyes troubled with a humour 2● Eyes cured by Mr Davis water 2● Eye troubled with a mote 2● Eye with a pearl in it 2● Eye sight to restore ibid. Eye with a pin or web in it 3● Ear that hath a noìse in it 31 4● Ear pained ibid. Ear that hath an imposthume in it 3● Falling sickness 11 12 13 1● Fainting 6● Fever 81 82 83 8● Fever to cool ibid. Fundament to cure 92 93 Flux 102 103 Flux humoral to stop ibid. 104 119 Flux cured by an Irish Medicine ibid. Flux that is desperate and bloody 105 106 Flowers to suppress 120 Flux red in women 123 Flux of the Matrix 120 118 French Pox 100 Gall diseased 75 76 Gonorrhoea 98 100 Green sickness 1●2 Gout 128 131 132 133 134 Head ache 1 3 5 6 7 8 9 Head ache extreme ib. 4 Head ache for ever to cure 7 Head, to purge 9 28 Head to expel cold out of it 9 Hearing hindered through pain of the head 33 Hearing 35 36 Hoarseness 50 Heart weak 64 Heart trembling 65 Heart beating ibid. Heart that hath an ache, or troubled with worms ib. Impostume 62 jaundice 77 jaundice black ibid. julep for the Liver 73 ●tching to kill 17 Kings evil 50 51 Liver diseased 72 73 Lues Venera 100 Legs swollen 113 Migraines 7 Mouth 43 Madness 66 Melancholy 78 Matrice 119 120 Matrice to cleanse 126 Mother 120 124 125 Menstruus overflowing 121 Menstruus to provoke 122 Miscarrying to prevent 26 Murr and cough 50 Milk coagulating in the breast 56 Nose that stinketh 41 43 Nature to restore 97 Nature to preserve from wasting 99 Oil for an ache 135 Oil for the Palsy 10 Ointment for an ache in the back 97 Palsy 10 Phegm 4● 58 59 Phtysick 57 58 61 63 Pox 100 Piss well 111 Powder to restore Nature and preserve it 97 Plaster for the Gout 131 Pulvis ducis for the stomach 70 Rheum 45 Rupture 92 93 Reins to restore that are sore 98 101 Running of the Rains 99 Rains to mundify 108 Sight to preserve 9 17 Sight dim 19 20 25 Sight decayed 26 Sight to get though blind 28 29 S●itch in the side 63 Swooning 66 Stomach that is weak 67 Stomach troubled with wind ib. 69 Stomach cold 68 70 Stomach pained ibid. Stomach to comfort after vomiting 68 Stomach to clear 69 Stone 77 106 108 Ston● in the Reins 107 Stone to break 109 An ointment for the back, if the Stone come away painful 109 Stone to slip with a Pultis 110 113 114 Sir Traver William's receipt for the stone 114 Stone to prevent ibid. 115 S●one in the kidneys 117 Sciatica 134 135 Spee hiess with the Palsy 10 Tooth ache 39 37 40 Teeth rotten and stinking 38 Tooth ache never to vex you more 39 T●eth lose 40 Teeth to leave aching, or fa●l out 40 Teats of a woman impostumed 57 Terms to bring down 122 Voice hoarse 44 Voice hoarse of long continuance ibid. Vein broken to knit 69 Urinal that is sharp 111 V●in that is hot and burning 112 Urinal that is foul or red 113 Urinal to provoke ibidem Vomiting 68 White and Weakness of nature 124 125 Wheesing in the Chest 48 Water for the sight 18 27 Water that is precious for many sicknesses 10 Walnuts preserved for a cough & a consumption 47 Windy Colic 91 Web in the eye 24 A Table of the Remedies for children's Diseases. For the Diseases of the head 139 For the diseases of the eyes 143 For the diseases of the ears 145 For the diseases of the Teeth and Mouth 146 For the diseases of the neck throat and breast 149 For the diseases of the Stomach 151 For the diseases of the Navel 156 For the diseases of the reins and bladder 158 For ruptures 159 For the small pox and measles 162 For agues and fevers. ibid. For the diseases of the Cod's 166 For the Shingl●s 166 For burning and scalding 169 For to kill and destroy louse. Also the manner how to make divers sorts of most precious Waters, Balsams, Oils, with other rare and excellent Medicines, with their uses, Virtues, and wonderful Operation●, page 175▪ to the end. CHOICE and RARE EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSIC AND CHIRURGERY. The Head, the remedies for its distempers. Headache. Here followeth the brief description of inward and outward diseases of the body, with the most wholesome and expert Remedies for the Cure thereof. And first of the sickness of the Head. ANd it is to be noted, that the cure or remedy must be appropriated according to the nature and cause of the grief, which if it be not rightly considered, it would be but vain to apply any Medicine: and therefore the right judgement of an expert Physician is very requisite & needful in such cases as you may plainly conceive; for the multiplicity or diversity of causes in some diseases, maketh the cure of more difficulty: as also the methodical way of applying the same, in observation of the circumstances of the Patient's age, constitution, strength, sex and the like, which must of necessity be observed in the administering or prescribing of all medicines, that should take effect perfectly to cure, etc. And now Headache chanceth oftentimes of divers and sundry causes, as of blood, choler, phlegm or melancholy, or of ventosity, and sometime of heat of the Sun, or of too grea● cold of the air. If it come of blood; the Cephalick vain o● the right arm is to be cut or opened; if the pai● continue, on the vain of the forehead on tha● side the pain is, then lay upon the place ●yl o● Roses, Vinegar and Rose-water, or a bag wit● Roses, sprinkled with Rose-water. And it is to be noted aswell in this cause a● all other, that if his belly be hard and bound first ye must give him an easy Clyster, or else o● Cassi● newly drawn out of the Cane, or some other easy Laxative to provoke the duty of th● Womb, else all applications of medicines wil● be nothing worth at all. If the Headache proceed of Choler, there 〈◊〉 sharp pain and heat, chiefly on the right side o● the Head. Ye must give him morning and evening, 〈◊〉 drink S●rup of Violets, with a mean draught 〈◊〉 Endive Water in a glass, or of Cummin wa●●● s●dden and cooled again: And instead of the Syrups you may drink water of Endive, Succory, Purslain and Nenuphar mixed together, 〈◊〉 one of them by himself, two or three days at even and morn: Then give a dram of Pilulae sine quibus at night to bedward, or about midnight, and the day following keep you i● your chamber. Instead of these Pills▪ it is good every morn to take an hour before Sun a medicine to drink, that shall be made of half an ounce of Succo Rosarum, mixed with two ounces of Endive water. Instead of the said Succo Rosarum ye may take half an ounce of Dia prunis Laxative, and ye must take heed in giving such purgations, that the patient be strong, for if he be weak, ye may give him but half of the said pills or of the other Laxatives. And if in diminishing the quantity of the said medicines it worketh not with the patient, as it should, it is convenient to give him a common Clyster. Another remedy for the same pain. Ye must lay thereon a linen cloth moisted in Rose-water, Plantaine-water, Morrel-water & Vinegar, or else take the juice of Lettuce and Roses and a little Vinegar, and warm it together, and dip therein a linen cloth, and lay it to the pain. For an extreme Headache. Pound Euphorbium with Vinegar, and if the grief be on the right side of the head, then ●ay it on the left, or on the right when the pain ●s on the left side, for it mitigates all pain very excellently, but we must suffer the same to continue thereon no longer than the space of saying a Pater Noster, and then wash it off. Another. Take nine or ten pieces of Zeduaria being small, cut it in parcels, or else pound it somewhat grossly; infuse thereon clear water, and the● put it into a glass, and madesie clouts therein of the breadth of two fingers, and apply them on the forehead and temples of the same, and the same being dried moisten them again. For burning Headache. Take a handful of Houslick, beat it with woman's milk, and with a little Rose-water, ti'● it be like unto a poultis or pap, and therewith anoint your head. For shooting in the Head. Pound Poppy-seed with yolks of eggs till 〈◊〉 be like paste, and lay it on the grief. Against continual Headache, and singing of the Ears. Beat Elder leaves and Rose-leaves, with o● of Ivy-leaves one amongst the other, and depress the juice thereout; tie these leaves o● the head, and with the juice thereof anoint th● head. For headache in the forepart. Take Eldre leaves made hot between tw● stones, and applied to the temples. And for the better understanding of the sickness, chancing in the head, ye shall know, that sometime it chanceth because of other diseased members, as of the stomach, or of the mother, of the rheums of the Liver, or of the Spleen, and not of any cause of the head itself; therefore ye ought to cure such sickness by helping of the same members as shall be showed here following. And ye may know that the headache comes of diseases; of the stomach, when the patient hath great pain in the stomach; of the Mother, when the woman feeleth great pain in her belly; of the reins, when there is a great pain in the back; of the Spleen when he feeleth pain and heaviness under the left side; of the Liver when the pain is on the right side, about the Liver which is beneath the ribs. Remedies appropriate to the head of what cause soever the pain is. Take a handful of Betony, an handful of Camomile, and an handful of Vervine leaves picked, stamp them and seethe them in black wort, or in Ale for lack of it, and in the latter end of the seething put to it a little Cummin braid, the powder of a Hartshorn and the yolks of two eggs, and Saffron a little, stir them well about, and lay a plaster hot over all his forehead and temples. This is an excellent remedy also for the Megrim, it shall pierce the better if ye add a little Vinegar. Another. Make a plaster of Bean flower, Lineseed, and oil of Camomile, or in lack of it Goos● grease or Duck's grease, and rub the place with Aqua vitae, and after lay the plaster hot upon it. Another. Take Wormwood brayed well and boiled in water, and bind it to his temple upon the grief: It will mitigate the pain and cause him to have a pleasant sleep. Another. Take a spoonful of Mustardseed, and another of Bay berries make them in powder, and stamp them with a handful of earth worm● split and scraped from their earth, and a little oil of Roses or of Camomile, or Capc●s grease, and lay it to the grief. Also it is good to take the juice of Ivy-leaves mixed with oil and Vinegar, and so rub therewith your temples and your nostrils. Pills for a●l pain of the head although inveterate. Take Aloes epat. washed three ounce. Bryon▪ M●stic. elect ana. one ounce. Diagrv●. hwee drams. Let it ●e consected with juice of Coleworts. The dose from two Scruples, even unto four. It taketh away all pain of the head, and rejoiceth and comforteth the memory. To remedy all manner of Headache and Megrim. Camomile, Betony, Vervine leaves of each an handful, stamp them, seethe them in white Wine or Ale, adding thereto pounded Cummin-seed a little, three spoonful of Vinegar, the yolks of two Eggs and a little Saffron, fiat Emplastrum & appona●ur fronti, etc. & sanabis. A remedy teaching that one shall never feel Headache. Take Pills of Aloes succotrine made in powder, and mixed with the juice of Coleworts, the bigness of a Bean at a time. For the Headache. Take Wormwood and Camomile of each like much, one handful, and as much of Maidenwort, and a half penny w●rth of Cummin, and make it into powder and cast it together, and put it into a cloth of the breadth of a span, and warm it against the fire, and then lay it to his head, etc. For the Headache or Megrim. Take Rosemary, Lavender flowers, winter Savory, Camomile, Bays and Lavender, with both new and old Mints and Fennil, seethe all these together in running water, and put thereto a good handful of Bay Salt, then take some of the same liquor, herbs and all, and wash your feet twice therewith every morn and even, for the s●ace of four days; and in so doing it will take away any pain of the head, although it be never so extreme or grievous. This hath been proved. Another. Take Majerom-water, and hold your nose over it, and then draw your wind hard unto ●ou, until such time as the wind hath entered into your ●ose divers times, and your head will cease aching speedily. For Dizziness in the head. Take Pilulae Cochiae one ounces, temper it with twenty drops of oil of Anniseeds, and make seven pills of it, and swallow them and keep warm in your Chamber till it have done working, then eat any warm broth, made of Veal, Mutton, or Chicken, and comfortable Herbs. After this purge so used, this Electuary following. Take Betony-flowers, and Rosemary-flowers, three ounces, powder of Carduus benedictu● leaves, powder of Marigold leaves one ounce, boil them with one pound of beaten Sugar, and half a pint of Bugles-water, and Marjerom-water, and Betony-water, and Balm-water of each two ounce, boil together over a gentle fire to the thickness of honey, and use thereof as much as a Nut morning and evening till it be spent▪ Probat. Chew every morning Cloves fasting, or whole Mace, and use Coriander Comsits or the seeds prepared, and use after meat Marmalade of Quinces to cl●se the stomach, and repress the vapours that fume up thence to the brain. For the Headache and ●o stop the rheum. Dry Wheat-bran, and beaten Henbane seed, and put them in a bag, and lay them warm to the nape of the neck. To dry up and draw rheum out of the head. A quilt made with Bay-salt, dry Sage and Cummin is good for the rheum to draw it out and waste the humours, and in like case is the leaves and flowers of Mustardseed, bruised and so laid to the crown of the head. To purge the head and preserve the sight. Drink Beer every morning a good draught fasting, wherein the roots of Dog fennel or Motherwort is steeped, the roots somewhat bruised, and it will presently work in your eyes and head. To expel a cold stomach or head, and to expel a Consumption or either of them. Take a pint of white wine Vinegar, and half a pound of the best fine hard Sugar, mix them and a head of Garlic trimmed clean, & bruised to mash, than put them altogether into a pipkin and boil them softly till half be wasted, and take thereof morning and evening a small quantity. It will help the cold, and expel a consumption. An oil to cure the cold Palsy and shaking Palsy. Take a young cub Fox, case him and gut him, and chop him in pieces and boil him in three gallons of water with a great handful of Her be-grace bruised, and ever as the first scum ariseth scum it of, and cast it away, and all the rest of the scum and fat which riseth, scum into a fair glass as long as you can get any, and cover the glass close and anoint the place with the said ointment where the Palsy beginneth▪ and you shall be cured And to anoint the sha●ing Palsy cureth it in a short time. For quaking hands. Take Fennel, Rue, and Wheat-bran, seethe them in water and wash th● hands therewith, also to wash thy hands in Claret wine is excellent for the same, being often proved. For them which a●e speechless with the Palsy. Take sharp Mustard and give it to drink in Ale or Beer warm; also Primrose roots cut in slices, and a slice l●id under the tongue, will help in the like case. A precious water against many sicknesses. Take Nutmeg, Cloves, Cresses-seed, Cubeb● Maces: Grains, Ginger and Cinnamon, of each alike much, and beat th●m to powder, and put them in white wine a Limbeck, and distil them with a soft fire. This water drunk fasting helpeth all cold sicknesses, putteth away all diseases in the eyes and redness and watering: It helpeth the Spleen, the Liver, the Fistu●a in the body, the Palsy, the cold Gou●, the Palsy, with many other diseases, and much comforteth the stomach. For the falling Sickness Take a good handful of single Peony, stamp them in a pottle of white wine, having in it some Saffron within a cloth; then give three spoonful of this three days before the change of the Moon and three days after the change, the day of the change being not reckoned for one. Take three spoonfuls of this three mor●ings, and three nights, press well the juice ou● of the roots. Hang a Peony root as near the heart as you can. Another. Take the weight of half a crown in silver, or half an ounce of red Fox Gloves, and the like weight of Southernwood, let them lie twelve hours a steep in a pint of Ale, then strain it, and give it blood warm fi●st and last, do so for three da●es together about the time of the Moon your fit comes. If it be for a child, ● pint may be given at four draughts, it maketh the party sick but it cureth. For the Falling sickness or disease near unto it. Take one once of Peony root dried and finely beaten, and put it in a pint of Ale ●r Beer or both, boil it and drink it morn and evening, an● it will help you. It is proved. For the Falling sickness. Take three nails made in the Vigil of Saint john Baptist, commonly called Midsummer eve, drive them in the ground so deep, that they be not seen in the place where the sick party fell, naming the party's name whiles it is in doing. It will drive away the disease which Misaldus credibly reported. A powder against the Falling sickness. Take of Crystal prepared one dram. Of red Coral prepared two scruple●. Of Pearl prepared one scruple. Of Oriental Smaragd prepared half a dram. The half part of which is one dose in the water of our Lady's thistle. Cae●ar accounted this for a great secret, and with which men that were somewhat aged, as also those which have been long subject to this disease after purgation, were cured. Zacutus Lufitanus witnesseth and reporteth, de Prax. Med. adm lib. observat. 20. that he hath seen many, and also of great age, having this disease of the Falling sickness, having tried many remedies, as well of an hidden as manifest quality, which nothing profited or availed them, only with the syrup made of the green leaves of Tobacco and honey, to have been cured, taking of the same three ounces three hours after supper for forty days; if gree● Tobacco 〈◊〉 wanting, dry of good note, or the best, may be used instead thereof. Another excellent Remedy for the salling evil. Take a good handful of Peony roots, and a handful of Misselto that groweth upon a blackthorn, and a handful of Polypodium, otherwise called in English Oakefearn, and two good handful of Selendine, if it be possible it may ●e had, and stamp them very well, and then ●et them to steep either in Ale or Beer for the ●pace of two hours or more, and then put it in●o your earthen pot, where it maybe kept close ●rom any air, and let the party grieved drink a ●ood draught thereof every morning fasting, ●nd last in the evening, and let him use it for ●he space of fourteen or fifteen days, and by Gods help it will cure him in short space. Against the Epilepsy of Children. Take Coriander prepared, Mustardseed, Nutmegs of each half a dram, Piony-seed seven ●rams, Diptamni two drams, make thereof a ●owder, and let it be given in the morn with ●ot wine. Another expert against the Epilepsy. Take red Co●al, the forepart of the skull of a man, of grains of Peony, of each one ●ram, mix it and make a powder thereof, of which powder must be given at three times, at morn, noon, and night with some broth or ●ome water appropriated, and if it help not at once, then renew it in the same manner and ●ose as before. It is found that many things have a natural virtue against the fa●li●g evi●, not of any quality elemental, but by a singular property, or rather an influence from heaven, which almighty God hath given unto things here on earth, as by these and other Saphires, Smargdes, red Co●al, Peony, Misseltoe of the Oak ●aken in the Month o● March and the Moon decreasing▪ Time, Savin, Dill and the stone found in t●e belly of ● young Swallow and others; these or one o● them hanged about the neck of the child, saveth and preserveth it from the said sickness. Take ●he root of Peony, and make it in●o powder, and ●ive it the child to lick in a little pap and Sugar. They that are of age may eat of it a good quantity at once, and likewise of the black seeds of the same Peony. Item the purple Violets that creepeth o● the ground in gardens with a long stalk, and i● called in English Heartsease, drunk in water o● in water and honey, helpeth this dis●ase in ● young child: moreover the muscle of the Oak razed and given in milk, and water and honey is good. Also ye may still a water of the flowers of Lined, it is a tree call in Latin Tilia, take the same flowers, and distil a water, and let the patient drink thereof now and then a spoonful, it is a good remedy. Item, the root of the Sea-thistle called Erigum in Latin, eaten in broth or drunken, 〈◊〉 exceeding good. Some w●ite that Cichory is a singular remed● for the same disease, it is meant by wild Cichory growing in corns. The flowers of Rosemary ●ade a Conserve hath the same effect in curing this dis●ase. I could declare many other remedies commended of Authors, but these are sufficient. For the Falling sickness. Take the skull of a dead man, which is cleanly tak●n out of the grave pulverizate very s●all, add also hereunto five or six Peony kernels well pounded, take hereof in the morn one d●am with wine, and it is for this disease one of the best remedies. An excellent Medicine sor the Apop●exia and Falling sickness. Take Aqua vitae perfectly rectified without phlegm, one pint, oil of Vitriol one spoonful, mix th●m and let the patient drink thereof every morn one spoonful, and he shall be holpen, although he have had it ten years and ●●ll every hour. And for Apoplexia, ye shall give it in the said order, but if he cannot drink it so, ye shall give it as you think good, so that he have it in his body, and presently he shall amend, although he have had i● a long while and were lame over all his body, etc. For the Falling Evil. Take the secundum of a boy child, dried to powder in an Oven, and the forepart of a dead man's skul● wash'● in water of Betony, and the seed or root of Peony dried into powder, and of Galingale, all into several portions, to the quantity of a spoonful of each, mo●e or less, in the distilled water of Cowslipe flowers according to the strength of the patient, and give to drink, drink three days together, and then rest three days, and then drink it three days together again, then rest three days, and so till he have took it nine days. The Eyes, The Remedies for its distempers. A Medicine to take all gummy matter or filth out o● the Eyes. TAke Housleek, otherwise called Singreeen, and stamp it well, and strain it through a fine linen cloth, and with the juice thereof wash the eyes often, and it will both clear the sight and purge the eyes from all manner of filth and matter. A powder for weeping and running eyes. Take red Coral one dram, Tutia half an ounce, and burn them in a vessel of earth, then put into it fine Pearl half a dram, and beat it small into fine powder in a stone mortar, and search it through silk, and put of it into the eye morning and evening, and close up the eye till 'tis dry. This is a great secret, and is excellent for a pearl and dimness of sight. For the Sight. ● marvellous good water to recover the Eye sight ●he same being 〈◊〉 by any cause whatsoever▪ Take three drams of Tutia made into ●hall powder, an● like quantity of Aloes ●paticum, and three drams of fine Sugar, 〈◊〉 ounces of Rosewater, and as much white ●ine, mingle all these together and put them to a glass, and stop it close, and set it to and in the Sun by the space of a month ●●●rring it together once every day. Then ke the quantity of six drops at a time of the me water, and drop it into your eyes both orn and even, and so continue for a short ace, and it will cause your sight to come a●in, and be as clear and as perfect as ever it as before. This hath been proved by one hat recovered his sight, having lost it a mo●th before it was ministered unto himself. most singular good Medicine to keep the Eyes clear, cool, and from redness, and to kill the Itching of them. Take a good handful of Housleck, and two andfuls of Plantain, and stamp them well together, and strain them, then let the juice and and settle for a little space, and when it ●well settled, power out the clearest from the ●sidue; and put thereto half as much red ose water as is of the juice, and half a quarter 〈◊〉 white Sugar candy beaten to fine powder, and then take a piece as big as a Walnut, or somewhat more of Lapis Calaminaris, and let it slake ten or twelve times in the same water and let the patient take four or five drops a● he lieth upright in his bed thereof, and put i● into his eyes and it will help him. This hat● been proved. For running eyes of a cold. Take Tutiae ten drams, Coralli rubri, mirabola● citrini, succo●●▪ aloes alike two drams, piperis ha● a dram fiat pulv, and put often into the eye. Here is a precious water for the sight, and for th●● that be fair clear blind. Take Smallach, red Fennel, Rue, Vervin● Betony, Cinqfoile, Pimpernel, Eu●race, Sag● Selendine, of each a quartern of a pound, an● wash them clean, and stamp them and d● them in a clean brazen pan, and take fi●●e●● Pepper corns and bruise them all to powder and cast them to the Herbs, and a pint of goo● white wine, and three spoonful of life honey and five spoonfuls of a man-childs' urine that 〈◊〉 innocent, and boil them altogether on th● fire a little, and strain them. A Medicine for them that may not well see and if the eyes be red. Take the white Ginger, and rub it on ● Whetstone in a clean basin, and take there●● as much Salt as thou hadst of the powder, an● temper them with white wine, and let it stan● ●n the basin all a day and a night, then do that clear that standeth above into a clean glass, ●nd anoint thine eyes a little therewith when ●hou goest to bed with a soft feather and do so often, and forsooth he shall be hole on warrantise. For them that the Eyelids be over-turned beneath. Take Arnement and honey, and the white of eggs, of all alike much, and temper them together, then take hurden of Flax, and wet ●hem in water, and wring out the water clean, ●nd lay these three things on the Hurds plasterwise; And if evil blood be within thy eyes, ●t shall drive it out and heal them. De ophtha●mia. There happeneth sometime debility and ●ulness of sight which must be holpen according to the divers causes thereof as followeth. Take Fennil, Vervine, Celidone, Rue, Eye-●right, and Roses, of every one of them alike much, a●d distil them as ye would distil Rose-water, and use thereof a little in your eyes, ●oth in the morn, and when ye go to bed. A water proved to clarify the dimness of sight: Take the juice of Fennil, of Celidony, Rue, ●nd Eye-bright, of each two ounces, honey an ●unce and hal●, Aloes, Tutiae, and Sarcoc●lle, of ●ach half an ounce, the gall of a Capon, Chick●n or Cock, two drams, Nutmegs, Cloves and Saffron, of each a dram, Sugar candy six drams, put all into a Limbeck of glass and distil it, and of this water put in your eyes once in a day. For the same. Ye must use every day to eat Nutmegs, and to take once in a week a Myrabolane condite. Take green Walnuts, liu●ks and all from the tree, with a few Walnut leaves, and distil thereof a water to drop into ●our eyes. Pills good for the sight. The pills sine quibus, assuaged with Trochisk● of Agarick and Pi●ulae Lucis are excellent good to purge the brain, and comfort the sight. For swelling of the Eyes. Take a Quince and seethe it in water till it b● soft, then pair it and bruise it, and mix i● with the yelk of an egg, and the crumbs o● wheat or white bread steeped in the said water and put thereto a little woman's milk, and tw● penny weight of Saffron, bray them altogether and l●y it over the forehead and the eyes. To resolve gummy matter in the eyes y● shall use to wash your eyes oftentimes wit● th● juice of Hou●leek, otherwise called Sen●green. For great pain of the eyes. Take an ounce and an half of oil of Roses the yelk of an egg, and a quarter of an ounce o● Barley flower, and a little Saffron, mix all togeher and put it between two linen clothes, ●nd lay it to the pain. Another. Take crumbs of wheaten bread or white an ●unce, and seethe it in Nightshade or Morrel-●ater, then mix with the said bread two yolks ●f eggs, oil of Roses and Camomile, of each ●n ounce and a half, Mucilage of Lineseed an unce, and use it as aforesaid. Another. Take six leaves of Henbane and roast them, hen beat them very well in a Mortar and lay him to the pain. For redness of the Eyes. In the beginning of the redness, lay upon ●he eye Tow dipped in the white of eggs, but et the whites be well beaten first with Rosewater, or with Plantaine-water. Another. Take red Roses and seethe them, and let ●hem be set warm to your eye. This taketh ●way spots of blood that sometime chanceth ●n the eyes: also it is good for all diseases of ●he eyes, and it is good for redness of the ●yes that cometh by striking or any such violence. If at any time there happen a spot or ●lemish in the eye by a stroke, ye must by and ●y lay to it Tow wet in Rosewater and in whites of eggs, and after the pain is mitigated; ye must lay to it a Plaster upon the eye made of a raw egg, Barley flower, and the juice or Mucilage of Mallows, and then if the eye be not holpen of the said blood, ye must lay to it a plaster both dissolutive, defensive, and partly appeasing the pain, which must be made of Wheat flower, the juice of Mallows, Mint●● and smallage, and the yelk of an egg. Of hardness that hath been long in the eye. Take a scruple of Aloes succotrine and mel● it in water of Selendine at the fire, then receive the fume of it, and afterward, wash the eye with Fennel-water. Another. Take the powder of Cummin mixed wit● wax like a plaster, and lay it upon the eye. Another. Take Roses, Sage, Rue, Celidony, of each alike much, with a little Salt, and distil 〈◊〉 water, and put thereof a drop or two in you● eye morning and evening, instead of that w●ter it is good to take juice of Vervine, Rue and a little Rosewater. For all redness of the eyes▪ Take the bigness of a Nut of white Copp●ris, and a scruple of Ireos and powder it and mix it with a glassful of well water, than put two o● three drops in your eyes. For the same. Water of strawberries made and put in the ye is good. A singular powder that drieth and takes away the redness of the eyes. Take Tutiae preparatae an ounce, and Timonie ●alf an ounce, pearls two drams, red ●oral a dram, and an half, powder all these ●hings very fine and keep it in a box o● Tin ●nd use it. For to stop watering of the eyes. Take a plaster of powder of Mastic, fine Frankincense, Bole-armoniack, and Gum ●ragagant with white of egg● mixed together, ●nd lay to the forehead and Temples. Also it ●s good to lay ventoses on the Nape of the ●eck. Also ●t is good to make a colliery to put ●nto the eyes as followeth. Take Tutiae preparat. and the stone called Lapis Hematites of each a dram, Aloes half a dram, Pearls and Camphire of each a scruple, powder them all very fine, and mix them in ●hree ounces of water distilled of the knops of Roses and thereof make a colliery. Also for to stop all humours descending to the eyes, these things aforesaid are good mixed w●h rain water, wherein Olibanum or Frankincense hath been ●odden. For webs of the eye. It may easy be holpen in young folk, but 〈◊〉 aged person's it is very hard; And in the beginning ye must mollific them with a decoct● on of the flowers of Camomile, Mellilote, 〈◊〉 cool Leaves, receiving the fume of the 〈◊〉 decoction within the eyes, and th●n put there in a little powder made with Sugar candy Sa●gemme, and egg shells brent, and after distil into them woman's milk, with the decoction of Fenugreeke. Another singular receipt for webs in the eyes. Take snails with the shells on, and 〈◊〉 them eight times, and distil them in a common Stillatory, then take Hares galls, 〈◊〉 Coral and Sugar-candy with the said wate● distil them again, and put every morning a● evening a drop into your eyes. Another. This water is made of white Copperis, S●gar candy, and Rosewater, with whites of egg sodden hard, and strained through a Lin● Cloth, and put into your eye after din and at night to bedward. To stay the humours that fall in the eyes. Take Mastic, Sanguis draconis, the whi● of an egg, and Rosewater, of every one a sm●● quantity mixed them altogether, and make a ●la●ster thereof, and spread it on a piece of velvet and lay it to the temple vain, and let it ●ick ●here till it fall of itself. To clear the eyes that be dim of sigh●. Take the Juice of Caprifolium, or wood●inde, and dry it in the sun till it come to a ●●e powder, after it is pounded, strained, and ●rought to fine powder, blow some of it ●to the eyes and it will help God willing. The Juice of Caprifolium, is called at the apothecary's Lycium, you ought not to wash ●he woodbind before the straining, especially ●hen you make Lycium for the eyes. To destroy Rheum that it fall not into the eyes. Take raw beef a fair slice, as broad as your and and lay it in a pewter platter, and put to as much aqua vitae as will cover the beef, and ●t it on a chaffing dish of coals, let it boil in ●qua vitae until it be ready, as though it should ●e eaten, then take it out of the Aqua vitae, ●nd lay it to the neck of the grieved party, ●nd there let it remain and use it, and it will ●ive the Rheum that doth offend the eyes. ●roved. Master Davies water, for the clearing of the eye sight being much decayed. Take two great handfuls of eye bright when is well sprunge up, and in full flowering, and ●●e handful of Balm, and still them together, ●nd scum the water nine days, then use every morning to wash your eyes, and eyebrows therewith and use so quarterly nine days t'other, and it will cause you in short space to read without spectacles, if you have used spectacles before time. Probat. To draw a mote out of the eye. Take white soap, and scrape a little of it into a Saucer, and dry it by the fire, very dry, and then put it into a little fair water, but make it not too thin, put it into the sore eye with a feather and its good for man or beast, Probat. A cure for the sight decayed. Take 3. pints of barley flower finely bolted, make paste thereof with fair water, or with distilled water of Tormentil, and make your paste stiff and roll it like venison pastry, and fill it full of the leaves, flowers, and Wires of Tormentil, and put thereto one penny of life-hony, and close it and bake it with Cakes, and when it's baked, break it in small pieces, and put it in a steane pot of ale of three gallons and drink no other drink neither at meat, nor any other times, for the space of two months, and this shall restore the sight if possible. Pro●at. A powder to clear ●he sight much decayed and near gone. Take of the powder of eye-bright made of the leaves and Flowers stripped together and ●o fine powder four ounces, of Mace one ●ince, mingle them and take thereof, the ●ight of three pence before meat. water to preserve the eyesight which hath been commended to be the best in the world. Take Hepatis hircini sani & recentis 4. ounces, l●mi Aromatici melli, one half ounce, succi a one scr●ple, Aquae Celidoniae, six drams, we feniculi, aquae Verbenae, aquae Euphragiae of ch 4. drams, Pi●eris longi, Nucis Moschat, iGario●orum of each grains fifteen, Croci, grains two, ●is Rerismarini aliquantulum, contusi Pugillum ●is, Sarcocolle, Aloes Hepatice one scruple, of e gall of a Hen, and of a Capon of each ●ee drams, honey of roses one dram, mingle 'em, and distil them in a glass, still first brui●g them and putting to them one quarter of ounce of the best refined Sugar. Some three four drops in each eye at a time is thought ●ficient, it's also a fine smelling water with a atle smell, not very easily perceived, nor ●elling far off. It's not much matter, whether 〈◊〉 Liver of the Kid be of a he Kid, or a ●e Kid, but of the two, the he Kid is ●ought to be the better. A preservative for the eye sight. Make comfits of Turnepseeds, and eat a ●re of them after dinner, and supper, as ●ny immediately after the said meats It was ●ected that nine or ten of the said Comfits ●ould be eaten, after meals, they are to be ●led in Sugar. To purge the head and preserve the sight. Drink beer every morning a good draugh●●asting, wherein the roots of dog fennel o● Motherwood is steeped, the roots somewhat bruised, and it will presently work in your eye● and head, Probat. For all Infirmities in the eyes. Take ground Jvy called Cill give by the ground alias Ale-hoof, Celendine and Daisies the Flowers, leaves and roots of each one o● these herbs, and a like quantity of the● stamped and strained, and a little Sugar, an● red rose water put thereto, and dropped wit● a feather into the eyes, it taketh away all inflammation and spots, scabs, scales, Itch, sma●●ing, or any grief whatsoever in the eyes, y●● although the sight were almost gone. A g●od water for sore eyes. Take a pint of running water, half an ha●●ful of Singrene Leaves and a little of unicorn horn, and boil it all together and pour out ● water and wash the eyes therewith. Proved. A precious Medicine for the eyes, than which no better be, for though a man had been ten years, within eleven d●yes he shall be stored to his sight again of very truth. Take smallach, brown fennile, vervin 〈◊〉 ●etonie, avence, pimpernel, strawberry wis●, Filago, Eufrace, C●lendine, Sage, of e●● alike much and lay them all a night to sleep in a child's urine that is a virgin, and after put ●t into a mortar and put seven corns of pepper and stamp it small and temper it with the s●me ●rine aforesaid, and then strain it and keep it in boxes and anoint the eyes in the morning and Evening. For sight of the eyes lost, how to restore the same, and to clear the eyes and to help the dimness of t●em. Take Eye-bright water made of all the whole Eye-bright and anoint the eyes ofte●▪ and eat often the powder thereof and drink the water, use it long, sanat. To cleanse the eyes and do away the pearl. Take the red Roses and Maidenhair, and Rue, Vervine, Eusrace, Endive, and Sing●e●n, Hill-worte, red Fennel, ●f each alike three ounces and wash them clean, and lay ●hem in white wine all day, and all night, and a●●●r distil them. And the first will be like gold, and the second like silver, and the third like Eawm, this is for the eyes, a worthy water and a good, etc. To restore their eyes that are as though they did see and yet see not. The decoction of Tormentil daily drunk three Months, and no other drink, and the same Tormentil every night laid pla●ster wise on the eyes, doth it pro certo. To kill the pin or web in the eye. Take leaves of Celendine and stamp the● well and strain them, and with a feather 〈◊〉 one drop of the same Juice into the eye of the patient and it will presently help. A very good Medicine to kill a pearl or web●e the eye. Take a good quantity of three leaved gra●● that beareth the honey suckles▪ and bruise● well in a Mortar, or else in a wooden dish, and then strain it, & let the party grieved put some of the same Juice into his eye, and by using this twice or thrice a day, for the space of si●, or seven days together it will help him. A good Medicine for eyes that be bloodshot and red. Take Housleek and stamp it well, then take a new laid egg, and make a hole in the one end of it, and draw out all the meat of it, and put the Juice of Housleek into it, and set i● on the Embers, and so distil it, and scum it clean with a feather, and at night when you go ●o bed, Let a drop thereof fall into your eye, with the feather, lying upon your back, and this will presently help you. For eyes that runn●. Take Occulus Christi and Celendine, red fennil, and daisies, and stamp them together i● a Mortar and take the Juice and put it into the eye. For the apple of the eye. Take the juice of Terfylle, the yelk of an egg a pretty portion of honey, and the milk of a woman, flour of wheat, and make a plaster, and l●y thereto till it be whole. The Ears: Remedies for all diseases in the ears. For noise and sounding of the Ears. TAke Pilulae Cochiae, or fetidae because the sound is of ventosity or Phlegm, and before ye take the said pills, It is good to drink three ounces of Fennel water, two hours before meat, four or five days: After the operation of the said pills ye must dip a tent in oil of Rue, Castor or of salt with the juice of Leek●, and often in the morning fasting to hold his ear over the decoction of Marjerom, Rue, Wormwood, Camomile and Melilote. For pain in the Ears. Goose-grease with a little honey suageth the pains of the Ears. Item, oil of Almonds especially of the bitter Almonds hot. ●em, If there be water in the Ears, it shall be had out with a little Goose-grease, and the juice of Onions; sometimes there chance●● deafness by wind which is in the Ear, the which causeth winckling in the Ear, and then one must put a little Aloes in hot water, or in white wine and distil into the Ear, than put a little Euphorbium in powder into his Nose for to make him to neese, and avoid as much humours as ye can. Sometime deafness cometh 〈◊〉 Phlegm which when it is old, it is uncurable▪ but when it beginneth it must be purged a● ha●h been said in the remedy of the sound o● the Ears; then take powder of Bay berries, and s●ethe it in oil of Lilies, and put it warm into ●our Ear, and a little black wool to stop the Ear with, that no air ●nter. An approved Medicine for Deasn●ss. Take sweet Salad oil half a pound, add to it Wormwood, Sorrel, Aniseed, Perwinckle, of each one dram, dry all to powder, the powder of old Roses one ounce, as much of Coloquintida boiled in the said oil, strain and use it three drops into the Ear at a time warm. To recover the lost hearing or deasness in the Ear. Take Civet a grain, Musk one grain, and good Tar one scruple, mix all these together▪ and put it into a fine linen cloth or piece of silk, and bind it fast with a thread, and put it into the Ear cloth and all, and bind the thread about the top of the Ear, and so wear it in the ear, and thou mayest take it forth, when thou wilt, it doth then help the h●ad, and recover the hearing. A sovereign Medicine for the pain and buzzing in the head which hindereth the hearing. Take a Clove of Garlic, and pill it clean ●nd make three or four holes in the midst of it ●nd dip in it a little English honey, and put it ●nto your Ear, and put a little black wool in ●st●r it, & for that night let the patient lie up●n the contrary side, and let the ea● that is stopped be upright, and the next night following ●et him use the other ear in like sort, and lie ●n the other side as before; and so let him al●r it every other night, and use it for the ●ace of eight or nine days together; and this ●ill expulse all ill humours out at his nose▪ eale ●he pain and restore the hearing. An experienced medicine for deafness in the head. Take Bay leaves, Bay berries, Betony and ●ticades, of each ●of them one handful, and ●eethe them in white wine, till one hal● be consumed, but if it be an aged person use Malmesy instead of white wine, and then put it ●●to a vessel that hath a narrow mouth and let ●he patient hold his ear upon it, it being unlopped, so that he may suffer the same, ●eing neither too hot nor too cold; then take ●yl of bitter Almonds, and put three or four ●ops into his ears, and then stop it close with ● lock of sheep's wool that groweth between ●he Sheep's Legs, and if he put a little Musk, 〈◊〉 Civet, it will be the better. This was proved. A present Remedy for one that cannot hear. Take an Hedgehog, and flay him, and ro●● him, and let the patient put some of the grea●● into his ear, and he shall recover his hearing in short space: This hath holpen those that could not hear almost any thing at all, and hath bee●●roubled with this impediment for the space of twenty years and yet were holpen with this. Medicine. An excellent good Medicine for deafness in the head. Take a quart of Malmesy, and a quarter 〈◊〉 pint of clear running water, a pennyworth of Cummin, and eight or nine leaves of Beton●▪ and boil them altogether until half the liquor be consumed, then take the pot wherein the Medicine is boiled and cover it close with ● Tunnel, bind it close about the verge o● brim whereby the heat may not issue forth● then put a quill into the other end of the Tunnel, and let the patient hold his ear close that the heat may ascend up into his head, and when he is weary of holding the one ear, let him turn the other to the same place; and whilst the heat is ascending up into one of his ears, let the other be well stopped with black wool, and let him also apply hot clothes to keep in the heat on the other side of his head whilst the Medicine worketh, and let both sides be used alike, and let the patient use this three times a day, that is to say, at morn, noon and night, and so continue it for the spa●e of eight or nine days together; and during all which space he must abstain from any open air, and doubtless this will help him, for by experience it is known, that it hath cured both men and women that were above fifty years of age. For deafness or noise in the head, an excellent remedy. Take of the juice of a Radish root a pretty quantity, of the oil of bitter or sweet Almonds, with a pretty deal of Colocynthis, and warm all these together in a little white wine, and when it is well mingled and bloodwarm, then pour a drop of it warm into thine ear; and this using the patient shall be remedied. Good for the ●earing. The juice of Betony cast into the ear lukewarm, is very profitable against the pains of deafness or other impediments of the ears. Item, The fat of a Fox doth greatly cure the pain of the ears: also the juice of Hyssop mixed with oil and bloodwarm put into the ears, taketh away the painful aches of the ears. For to make a man hear. Take a red Onion and pick out the top, and fill it full of fair hot Hens grease▪ and lay the top on again, and roast it in the Embers till it be tender, and then quish out the oil into the ears of the sick man or woman, and then stop the ears with black wool. An approved Medicine for deafness. Take sweet Salad oil half a pound, add to it Wormwood, Sorrel, Anniseeds, Perwinkle, of each alike one dram, dry all to powder, the powder of the old R●ses one ounce, as much of Coloquintida boiled well in the said oil, strain it and use it three drops at a time in the ear warm. Another approved. Take oil of Castory, and of bitter Almonds and of Roses, let them be boiled in Aqua vit● till the Aqua vitae be wasted or consumed, and so distil a drop at a time into the ear. For deafness, and for an Impostume of the ear, to break it, a rare secre. Take the juice of young Elder buds, and the inner rind thereof, either of them and use, it helpeth. For a man that may not well hear. Take the block of an Ash, and lay it to the fire, and gather the water that cometh out o● both ends of the block, and the juice of Jubarbe and white wine, the grease of Eel, of all these alike much, and seethe them well together, and put it into his ears till he be whole, etc. The Teeth, Remedies for all their diseases. Remedy for the Toothache. PAain of the Teeth (as Galen saith) among other pains that are not mortal, is the most ●ruel and grievous of them all. It may come divers ways, of a cold or hot cause; If it come of a hot cause, the Gums are red and very hot, wherefore it is very good to hold in his mouth water of Camphire, or to seethe a little Camphire in Vinegar, and hold in his mouth; also take Henbane roots, and seethe them in Vinegar and Rose-water, and hold in his mouth. If it come of cold causes, since in such cas●s oft times there distilleth abundance of water into the mouth, purge it with Piulae cochiae, afterwards keep in your mouth warm wine wherein hath been sodden Pellitory, Mints, and Rew. Another. Take the middle bark of Elder, Salt and Pepper, of each alike much, and stamp them together, and lay it to the sore teeth. Item, Gum of Ivy with a little Lint dipped ●n Vinegar or Aqua vitae, applied is very good. For rotten and stinking Teeth▪ Stamp a quantity of Sage, with as mu●● Salt, and make thereof pretty pasties, b●● them in an Oven until ●hey wax black, a● with the powder thereof wash well your tee●● both mornings and evenings. Take the inner ri●de of Elder, and the inn● rind of the withwind, and the inner rin●● of woodbind, then shred it small, and pou●● it small, than pound into it powder of Pep●● and a little salt, and pound it again, then put i● into a linen cloth and bind it fast a piece ● big as a Damson, & hold it between the for● teeth, let the moisture run out, when it do●● stint running, then take another ball so made▪ and hold it between your teeth doing the like and at the third or fourth ball it will help if ●● come of rheum, but if it come of blood, yo● must let them bleed. The decoction of Colocynth with s●rong Vinegar taketh away the pain of the teeth. To draw Teeth, take the brains of an Hare▪ and seethe them in red wine, and therewith anoint the Teeth, that you would have ou●, and they will fall out without pain. I●em, The Gum of Ivy tempered with wax, and put to a pained tooth, will draw it out without pain. To draw a tooth without pain, rub it and none other with powder of the Gum of Ivy. A water to keep the teeth from stinking. Take long Pepper▪ Mints▪ Purslane, Aristology ro●unda, salve green, seethe all together in wine, and use to wash thy teeth, and it will ●eep them both white and sweet. For the Toothache. Take a spoonful of Aqua vitae, and a spoonful of Triackle, half a spoonful of Pepper in fine powder, boil all these together upon a Chaffing-dish of coals, and then put it into a box, and put it into the Tooth where the pain is. Fill the hollow Tooth with the gum of Ivy, it will take away the Toothache. Touch the Tooth that acheth with the root of water Crowfoot ' incontinent it taketh ●way the pain and breaketh the tooth. In ● vehement ach, put a little of the juice of ground Ivy in thine ear, on that side as thy ache is, it will a little grieve thee, but incontinent thy Teeth shall cease aching. Put the powder of red Coral in the hole of thy Tooth, and it will fall out by the root. Put Henbane seed upon coals, and receive the smoke thereof into thy teeth by holding t●y mouth over it. It killeth the worms and assuageth the pain; this hath be●n proved. That thy Teeth never ache, take the powder that cometh of filing of an Heart's horn, and let it seethe in water in a new earthen pot, and so put it into thy mouth where thy grief is. A medicine that the Toothache shall never vex you mor●. Take twenty leaves of Ivy, a little long Peppe●, and boil them with a handful of Salt in old wine, and then put the liquor when it is well boiled into your mouth on that side that is vexed with the ache, and you shall prove that the ache shall be destroyed in sempiternum. A most expert and true Medicine for the pain of the Teeth and presently easeth the pain. Take Lupins dried, let it be a little rubbed in your hands, after put it into strong Vinegar, and boiled a little, then strain it, and press it out, of which wash the mouth and gums, for it is wonderful. For a Tooth that is loose. Take Gum of Ivy, and red Vinegard, and boil them together in a Pewter Saucer, till they be molten together, wet therein a clou●, and put down the Tooth therewith, etc. To help the Toothache of any sort. Ivy berries sodden in white wine or in Vinegar, this water being strained. To fasten Teeth, and to purge the head. The roots of Pellitory of Spain chewed in the mouth, & fiet pro certo▪ To make a Tooth ●eave aching, or to fall out. Stamp Neppe, and put it into a cloth, and lay it on the Tooth, and it wil● either leave ●king or fall out. The Nose, The Remedies for its diseases. Remedies for stinking of the Nose. TAke Cloves, Ginger, and calamint of each a like, and seethe them in white 〈◊〉, and therewith wash thy Nose, after put ● powder of Piretrum to provoke you to 〈◊〉▪ and if there be repletion of Phlegm in ●e head, first ye must purge it with pills of ●ochiae, or of Hyena Picra, also if the stinking ●ome f●om the stomach, fi●st help the stomach, as shall be said hereafter in the remedies ●f the stomach. The Mouth, Remedies for its diseases. To destroy a stinking breath. TAke three handfuls of Cummi● beat them in a mortar to powder, then take a pottle 〈◊〉 wine, and put the powder into it, and let it ●ethe till it come to a quart, then drink first ●nd last of this wine by the space of fifteen ●ayes, as you may suffer it▪ Probatum est▪ To make a sweet breath. Take the juice of Mints▪ or the wate● Rue, Cummin, Coliander, Liquorice, Cinnamon, alike four ounces, seethe all these 〈◊〉 wine, and give them to dr●nk that hath 〈◊〉 stinking breath, and surely it shall be s●eet. Another for the same. Take the powder of Sage one ounce, 〈◊〉 marry blossoms three ounces, Cloves and Gil●● flowers five drams, Cinnamon one dram and half, Nutmegs one dram and a half, Mus● little quantity, then take as much as is sufficient to make the said Compositions into Corporation like unto Marmelade, and ea●● this fasting, and at night a little quantity a● time, so shall your breath be sweet, And you go into any suspicious place of the pe●●lence or any other corrupt air, if you take ● this next your heart, it shall defend you fro● the jeopardy thereof. For stench in the mouth. Take Pulial Mountain, make powder thereof, and eat it fasting. Another. Take Costmary, drink it every day fasting wash thy teeth every night when thou go● to bed with Vinegar. Another. Take the juice of Gladin with old wine, and wash thy mouth every morning and evening. Another. Take Mastic and Incense, and seethe it in sweet wine and drink thereof early and late▪ Another for the stench in the Nose. Take the juice of Mints, and put it into ●hy Nose. Another. Drink the juice of Rue, and five leaved Grass. Another. Take the juice of Ivy, mingled with wine ●nd oil Olive▪ Probat. To take away stinking of the mouth. Ye must wash his mouth with water and Vinegar, and chew Mastic a good while, and then ●ash thy mouth with the decoction of Anni●eeds, Mints and Cloves sodden in wine. Ye must wash your mouth before and after meat ●ith warm water, for to cleanse the mouth, ●nd to purge the humours from the Gums ●hich descend out of the head, it is good ev●ry morning fasting to wash your mouth, and to ●ub the Teeth with a Sage leave, pills of Citron, or with powder made of Cloves and Nutmegs, forbear Lettuce, Raw fruit, all tart meats, and the chewing of hard things. Also ●ll meats of evil digestion and vomiting. The Breast, Remedies for distempers thereof. Remedies for diseases of the breast. And first for hoarseness of the voice ye 〈◊〉 avoid all eag●r, salt, and s●arp things, an● sleeping by day, too much watching, grea● cold, much speaking, and too l●ud crying: 〈◊〉 sweet things are good as apples sodden wi●● Sugar, great raisins, Figgs, Almond milk, whi●● pills, Sugar candy, and the juice of Liquorish For a hoarse voice. Take the broth of red colewort a●● mingle it with s●ven or eight Penidies, and a● ounce of Syrup of Maidenhair and give un●● the patient wh●n he goeth to bed. Another. Take Diairis simple and eat a Lozenge o● the same at morning and at night. For hoarseness of long continuance. Take Raisins, Figgs, Sugar, Cinnamon, an● Cloves of every one a little, seethe them i● good wine, of the which ye shall give to drin● morning and evening, two ounces at a ti●● except he have a fever; It is good to take ●orning, and evening a fpoonful of the Syrup of Ju●ubes mixed with a root of Liquerice in ●anner of a Lohoch. A Syrup for Cough, rheums, Catarrhs, and other like diseases. Take Althaea leaves seven handfuls, stamp them in a mortar, then take a pot that will hold seven pints, boil in it these ●hings following▪ Liquerice two ounces, Sage, Rosemary, Cardu●s benedictus, figs, raisins, barley flower, of each a handful succory leaves and roots, a handful; let all these boil one hour and a half, then let it cool so that you may strain it, then take the water, and put in two or three pounds of French Mallows setting it to boil on the fire again three hours or more, then strain it as you did before, then take the decoction and set it on the fire with as much honey or little less, taking off the scum when it hath boiled a good space, ad● to it one ounce, or as much as you wil● of Cinnamon; Then take it immediately from the fire putting it forth and covering it close. This secret is so excellent that if a man use it in winter, warming it when he taketh it, it is not possible for him to be vexed with C●ugh, rheum, Catarrhs, and like diseases. A Medicine for the Cough. Take the yelk of an Egg▪ and put it into an empty Egg shell, and put to it five grains weight of the powder o● Saffron▪ and roast the same very rear, and to bedward sup it off warm, being well stirred together, it cureth the Cough or giveth much ease. Against the Cough. Take Anniseeds Licquerice of each an ounces Hyssop one handful, sugar candy, four ounces, strong beer three pints, boil altogether till half be consumed, then strain forth the simples and give the patient every night, when he goeth to bed four ounces warm. For an old Cough. Take Elicampane roots and boil them tender, than pound it in a wooden mortar, then rub it in through an hair sieve, then take clarified honey, and lay a course in the bottom of a stean then a course of sliced wardens, than a course of the Elicampane and so again as long as you please; And then put the stean into a● oven and bake them two or three hours, then take it two or three times a day, a spoonful at a time▪ Another for a Cough with a rheum. Take Brown sugar candy and put it pounded into a calf's bladder, and lay it in spring water 24 hours, than cut the bladder and eat 't with a Liquorish stick as the Cough doth trouble you. ●pre●erve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption. ●ake a pound of Walnuts before they be 〈◊〉, and pa●e them very thin, then steep 〈◊〉 in water a night, then boil them in run●● or standing water, until they be so tender ●ou may put an hard rush through them; 〈◊〉 stick in each end of every Walnut a 〈◊〉; Then lay them hot together in a ●●ney Bason, then take a pound and a half ●ugar and strew upon them hot, and cover 〈◊〉, and let them lie covered all night with●he warmth of the fire; And the next day 〈◊〉 them up, and put them into a pot. A good Syrup for an old Cough, and it mundi●eth the breast and the Lungs and for pain under ●he side coming of cold. ●ake Liquerice scraped and bruised two ●ce●, Maiden hair one ounce, of Hyssop dried 〈◊〉 an ounce, put all this into four pint● of ●●ing water, and let them stand in that wa●●● 〈◊〉 one day and one night, and then seethe 〈◊〉 till half the Liquor be consumed, than 〈◊〉 the Liquor from the herbs, and put in- 〈◊〉 Liquor pure English honey, white 〈◊〉 and Penidies each of these eight ounces water five drams, boil all this with an easy 〈◊〉 till it come to the thickness of a Syrup 〈◊〉 always as the scum ariseth gather it off, 〈◊〉 keep it to your use. For wheesing in the Chest Take a Toast of bakers bread and pour 〈◊〉 let oil on it, upon either side as you wo●●● butter a toast, & strew heaten Sugar on eit●●● side and use it first and last till you find ea●● For delivering from Phlegm. Take Hyssop and parsely and stamp the● temper them with wine, or Ale, and drink 〈◊〉 night and morning. Another for wheesing of the Chest Take spring water one quart, put to it 〈◊〉 ounce of white Sugar candy, and two ounce of Liquerice pared and cut small in shive●● and half an ounce of pure Cinnamon a litt●● bruised, let them steep in the water all night drink of it first and last, until it be ●pent. P●●bat. Remedies for the Cough. Take Hyssop, great raisins, and figs of ex●●● a handful, Liquerice an ounce, boil them 〈◊〉 water till the third part be wasted, than gi●● it him to drink twice a day in the morning two hours before meat, and at night one ho●● before supper, & immediately after it is goo● to eat a Lozenge of Diairis, or Diapenidion. Another remedy. Take Sugar candy, white pills of Diairis, and ●iagragant of every one, an ounce, Liquerice too drams, make a powder and let him eat a ●oonful thereof morning, and evening, and ●rink after it three ounces of water of Hyssop ●r of scabious with Sugar and without Sugar. In stead of these waters ye may take the ●roth of red coal words without salt. Another remedy. Take Syrup of Liquerice, and of Hyssop, ●nd drink it evening and morning with a ●tisan, or of one of the same Syrups with a spoonful of Ptisan is good. Another. Take powder of Diairis simple and Lique●●ce, of each a dram weight, and with four ●unces of Sugar make an Electuary to be ●aten first, and last after meat. It is good to take Lohoc sanum with a stick ●f Liquerice at the coughing, and after ●eat. And there is another Loch called ●och de pino as good at all times as the ●ther is. And it is good to anoint the breast ●orning and evening with oil of Lilies, sweet almonds, and May butter without salt. Remedy against the cough coming of a hot cause. Take Syrup of violets, and of Jubes and drink thereof morning and evening with a little Ptisan sodden. For the same. It is good to take first and last a Lozenge of Di●tragagant and afterward to drink draught of good Ptisan. A good receipt against the Cough. Take the root of Elicampane, Horehound, Hollihock of each alike much, seethe the●● altogether in white wine, with a dozen of sat Figgs and a little Liquorice, drink of it a draught every day twice. For the Cough and Murr. Take Aqua vitae a sufficient quantity, temper it with Sugar candy. A Medicine for hoarseness in the throat. Take three or four figs and cleave them in two every one, and then put into them ● pretty quantity of Ginger finely beaten into powder, and then roast them upon a clean hearth or tile stone, and then let the party eat them as hot as possible he can; This har● holpen some that have been troubled with hoarseness four or five years together before. To heal the S●r●f●●a or disease called the King eull Take barley clowre, liquid pitch, wax and o●● ●live in equal quantity boil it altogether with child's Urine and brought to a plaster and applied. Fiet. To cure the King's evil. Mistress Athinson, the wife of the man elsewhere mentioned, at the same time as her Hus●and was cured of a broken vein, affirmed that ●her certain knowledge, the roots of Hounds●●ngue cut in the shape of dice and put into a ●●nen bag of about two inches square un●●l it be almost full, and hang it about the neck ●f the party grieved to lie upon the pit of ●e stomach, and let it be renewed once in two 〈◊〉 three days, as the virtue decays, It will ●reak the disease, if not broken; if broken it ●●ll cure it, especially if it run brown water, white then with more difficulty. Against shortness of wind. Shortness of wind proceedeth ofttimes of phlegm that is tough and clammish, hanging ●●on the lungs, or stopping the conduits of the ●●me, being in the hollowness of the breast, or 〈◊〉 catarrhous humours that drop down into the ●ungs, and thereby cometh straitness of drawing of breath, which is called of Physician's dyspnoea, or Asthma. And when the patient candiot bend his neck down for fear of suffocation, ●s called Orthopnoea, for every one of these disease's there be very wholesome Medicines de●ared before. The receipt for Asthma. Take an ounce of great raisins picked from the kernels, two figs, the meat of a Date, dry Hyssop, maidenhair, Liquerice and the lungs 〈◊〉 a Fox washed in wine water, of scabious of every one a dram, Penidies two ounces with Syrup of Liquerice; Let all be incorporated and make a Loch to eat a good whil● after meat, with a stick of Liquerice. To cure Asthmatick persons. Take Lowes a●as in Latin Porcelliones and burn them to white powder upon a little stone and make them into an Electuary with life honey is excellent against the disease called Asthma. An ointment for shortness of breath. Take two ounces of oil of sweet Almonds one of May butter unsalted, a little Saffron and of new wax and make an ointment, wherewith ye shall anoint the breast morning and evening. To break a sore breast. Take a Lily root, and a piece of leave● s●ethe it in milk until the lily be very 〈◊〉 a●d plaster like, and so as warm as the par●● can suffer it lay it morning and evening. ●o keep the breast from breaking, if it be not too far gone. Take clay that is without stones, and knead 〈◊〉 with sharp vinegar, the y●lks of two eggs a ●ittle English Saffron, and work it into the clay ●nd so take as much as will cover the redner of ●t, you must use it cold, some breasts will have ●o colour and such are not lightly saved from ●reaking. To heal the breast. Take as many Mallows as will into a charger, ●nd chop them, and seethe them in ru●●i●g ●ater till they be tender, pour the wa●er from ●hem and put them into a pottle of good Ale-dr●ggs, and a penny loaf of leaven br●●d ●g●ated with a quart of white wine, let th●se ●eethe together till you think it be thick ●nough, then put thereto half a quarter of a ●ound of Deer suet, and lay it to the sore as ●ot as the party can suffer it, morning and ●vening, and after that the heat be such as it ●ryeth, this will help any sore in the breast or ●ny other places. You must wash the place being broken with white wine at every dressing. To heal any kind of ache or sore breast. Pair off a cap of the root of white bryony ●nd make a hole in the root as hollow as you ●an, and cover the root close with the cap you ●ut off, or with a piece of a tile-stone and cover ●ll again with earth, letting it still grow, and three days after open the said root, and the hole will be full of water, then take that water and put it in a glass and anoint the place where the grief is, and use it. A plaster for a sore breast. Take wheat meal, and pure life honey and clarified bores grease, of each like portions boil them a little and make a plaster and lay thereto. Probat. A medicine to skin a woman's sore bre●t which is ●aw. Take a pint of sweet thick cream, and put it into a pan with three spoonfuls of the juice of brown fennel, boil it to an oil, and therewith anoint the sore breasts morning and evening till it be whole, Probat. To help the hardness in women breasts. Wheat flower, honey oil olive and the juice abundantly of yellow Gilly flower, together with the juice of rue. Sanat. For the aching of a woman's breast. Take Cinquefoil or five leaved grass, and stamp them with swine's grease, and make thereof a plaster, and lay it to well brayed together and it will take away the aching. Another for the same. Take and boil Rue and put there to flower ●f wheat and make thereof a Plaster and lay hereto. ●●r women's breasts, or swelling that cometh by cold in child birth. Take and lay Chickweed upon a Tyle●one, and rose leaves upon, Chickweed upon the rose leaves again, so that h●re be of them two or three leaves, then ●●rinkle it with vinegar, and boil all these ●pon the tyle-stone; And when it's well boiled, take another Tile and lay upon tha●, and ●ut it asunder and lay to the swelling and it ●ill take away the pain. ●n approved Medicine for them that ha●e cold in their breasts. Take oil of Camomile and Aqua composi●●, ●ingle them together against the fire; chafe ●●e breast well withal that it may enter into ●●e Stomach and veins: This hath holpe●●any. ●pproved Medicine for a sore breast that is broken. Take Mallows and boil them with sheep allow till they be very tender, then strain it ●●d keep it in boxes and, if the breast have ●eed to be tented, take a piece of the stalk of ●●e Mallows that are ●●dden, and tent it withiel, this is proved. For bolning of a woman's breast. Take apples of the oak and stamp them with oil and lay it to the bolning. For a very sore breast. Take Hartshorn or a Bull's horn for need, and grate it into a pint of good white wine, and give the woman to drink thereof, and le● her sleep upon the same Medicine and it shall cease. For coagulation of milk in a woman's breast. Take Eg●miony, Vervine, Fennel, and bray it altogether and lay it thereon, and be whole, etc. A Sovereign Medicine for a sore breast. Take a pottle of smith's water, the elder it is the better, if it smell a little, so much the better, also you must take a quarter of a pound of old alum, and white salt as much as ye can hold on the two fingers from the second joint forth, two handfuls of Sage, two Heads of housleek put all these into the water and seethe it till it come to a quart, then let it stand with the Herbs in it, and wash the sor● breast well with the Herbs, and the wate● twice a day, and at every time ye wash it lay upon the sore, or sores, green Sage leaves till it be whole, this hath been proved and healed a breast so sore as it was thought uncurable. Ye must warm the water and Herb● every ●ime ye dress the breast. A medicine for the woman● breasts if the sore 〈◊〉 of Mil●. Take Mallows as ye get to be holden in a charger, and cut them small, and seethe them ●n a Gallon of running water, and when they ●esodden soft, put thereto a potile of the ●ro●nds ●f Ale, and a quart of white wine, ●nd two penny white loaves, cutting off the ●rusts leavened, make it thick, and put into it ●eers Sue●, or Sheep's Sue●, and lay it upon a ●lew cloth or linen cloth, and lay it warm to ●he sore breast every day as long as its sore, ●nd it shall be healed by the grace of God. A plaster for a postume on women's Teats. Take Linseed, and seethe it well and long 〈◊〉 fair running water, then take fresh Shee●s ●allow, and fry the Linseed therein, and e●●n as hot as ye may suffer it, lay it thereon. Remedies for the Pthisick. Pthisis is an ulceration of the lungs, by ●hich all the body falleth into Consumption, 〈◊〉 such cas●, that it wasteth all save the slain, y●●ay know him that hath a Pthisick, for ●rom 〈◊〉 to day he waxeh ever leaner and drier, ●nd his hair falleth, and hath ever cough, and fits sometimes matter and bloody strings withal. And if that which he spiteth be ●ut into a basin of water, it falleth into the bottom, for it is so heavy. A remedy. Take two ounces of Pimpernel in powder, and thereof make an Electuary with Sugar, and use it every morning two drams with Pimpernel water three ounces. Water of Snails distilled, is proved good to them that be Pthsicke, every morning in drink, and for all them that are dry and lean. Another. First take a quantity of running water, and boil it half away. The ingredients that you are to put into the composition, are two ounces of Anniseeds, one ounce of Coliander seeds, one ounce of Liquerice sliced, one ounce of Sugar candy, one handful of Coltsfoot, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, one quarter of a pound of ●iggs, and one handful of Liverwort, a handful of Maidenhair, a quantity of Hartstongue, and two pennyworth of Dates. The composition made and put into the water, boiled hal● a way, take it and strain it, and scum it, sweeten it and drink it. For the cough and consumption of the lungs. Take Fox Lungs fresh killed, pull them from the Windepipes and the strains which hang by the same; then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine lukewarm three or four times until they be clean from the blood, th●n dry them in a pot in an Oven after the ba●c● drawn forth, so well dried, beat them to powder. Take Anniseeds, Fennel seeds, Maiden hair● of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs, beat all these together to fine powder, and see the s●me well mingled; take also a like weight of Liquorice, as the Fox lungs or som● deal more, and lay it in water fourteen hour●, first clean scraped and a little bruised, then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed, and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice, and with the liquor seeth as much fine Sugar beaten s●all as he weight of the receipt amounteth unto, till it thick like a Syrup, then put to this Syrup as it cooleth, all your powder, well stir●ing and incorporating the same altogether, and so keep it for your use. P●ohatum est. Take the lungs of a Fox dried, the juice of Liquerice, Maidenhair, Fennelseed, of ●ach ● like four ounces, make it in Sugar sodden in water as much as will suffice, some make it with the juice of Myrts, and then it is comfortable for the stomach, this is a present remedy for a Consumption. For the Phlegm and Cough. Take an handful of Coltfoot, of Liquerice shaved and bruised two ounces, an handful of Maidenhair, of Aniseed three ounces L●t it be boiled in three pound of fountain ●r Spring water till half be consumed, strain it and then put into it three ounces of white Sugar. Give thereof five spoonfuls for the space of eight days warmed. For a Consumption. Take Syrup of Lemons half dram. Syrup of Coltsfoot Syrup of Hyssop, alike one ounce. Syrup of Liquerice one ounce. Floris Sulphuris half a scruple. Spirit of the seed of Fennel, four drops, and mix it all together. For the Consumption. Take a handful of Rosemary tops, a handful of red Sage, a handful of Horehound, a handful of Plantain leaves, a handful of Hyssop, a handful of winter Savory, a pint of English honey, a pint of running water, half a pound of blue Figs, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, a stick of Liquerice, boil all these in a new pipkin, with a cover to it, cut them small, and put them into the pipkin, and let it boil softly un●il it be half consumed, then take and strain it through a cloth very well, then give the party four spoonfuls morning and evening. Another excellent for the same. Take a quarter of pure red Rose-water, put it in a pewter platter or basin, set it over a Chasfing dish of coals, take clean Anniseeds, and bruise them a little in a Mortar, put thereof into your Rose-water a good handful, and put also of sliced Liquerice, bruised and tore in 〈◊〉 three or four stick, and as much of Par 〈◊〉 roots, the pith taken out, bruised, and sliced 〈◊〉 put therein, than last put in a good spoon●●● of the tender crops of Hyssop, so let them 〈◊〉 from a quart to a pint, still bruising them 〈◊〉 a spoon as they boil, and when it is ●●fficient boiled, strain it into a glass, and take ●●ereof warm in the evening a pretty draught, 〈◊〉 two hours after, and before meat fast two 〈◊〉, use this, it hath done wonders. etc. ●he Sides, Remedies for their distempers. ●eu●isie, A thing most certain to remedy the greatest pleurisy possible. TAke the delicatest Apple, that may be had, make an hole therein, pull out the 〈◊〉, if it may be, not breaking the Apple, 〈◊〉 which hole put in Olibanun of the best the quantity of three or four grains, and cover the 〈◊〉 of the Apple, than put the Apple into 〈◊〉 embers, there to soaken till it be tender but it must not burn,) then break the apple, 〈◊〉 the Olibanum into four or five pieces, and give it, the patient to eat, and forthwith 〈◊〉 Impostume of the pleurisy breaketh, and 〈◊〉 patient recovereth Pro certo oil of scor●ons anointed often to the griefs vatet ●wrod●. See that you apply withal thin Cakes made with the said oil, and the flaying 〈◊〉 driest hot, one after another, one at once and anointing the grief, before any cake 〈◊〉 laid on with the said oil hot, and thus the 〈◊〉 cakes oil and hot ashes breaketh the Impostume of the Pleurisy. For to cure an Impostume, which groweth in the 〈◊〉 side of the ribs of the side, when no other Me●ic●●● will cure the same. Take Pipins, and bruise them, and strays the juice thereof, to the quantity of a prett● draught, and put thereto a dram of the juice 〈◊〉 the herb called bearfoot, and give it to th● grieved to drink, and it shall presently hel● him. Another good Medicine. Take Aqua vitae and Capon's grease, of each of them a pretty quantity and boil them together: then take a little black wool, and 〈◊〉 it therein and lay it hot as may be suffered to the stomach of the party grieved and it will ease him very speedily. To destroy an Impostume and an● swelling. Take the roots of Hollihock, sod till they be very soft and the water half consumed and more, then put into the same water the flower of Linseed, fenugreck, a like much, seethe it until the water do rope, than put the said ●ollihock roots to it being well pounded, and add a handful of barley meal, and fry them all ●ith boars grease, and if you will, you may ●dd sheep's suet, apply it hot, Probatum est. A Cataplasm. Take the flowers of Camomile, Melilote of ●ach one handful, of the leaves of Rue, Mar●row, Nepthe, of each one pugil, of the seeds 〈◊〉 anise two drams, of the Laurel berries ●hree ounces, boil it moderately, pound it, 〈◊〉 as much ho●y as is sufficient and apply it. Another. Stamp, Mallows roots well sodden, than 〈◊〉 butter, honey, and pigeon's dung very well ●ixt, et fiet. For the stitch. Anoint the place with oil of Melilot, and ap●ly Melilot plaster to the place, upon a piece of Leather, and change it once a week. An experienced good Medicine for a pleurisy. Take Brooklime, sheep's suet and a little fair ●unning water, and fry them together in a frying pan, and make a plaster thereof and lay it ●he side of the patient▪ and it will draw forth ●ll the corruption; This hath been proved. The Heart, Remedies for its Distempers. Remedies for weakness and feebleness of the heart. GIve him that hath a feeble heart and ready to saint, either for fever or extreme hea● the w●ight of a French crown of Trochisk of Camhire, with wine of Pomegranates and lay upon his left side Limon dipped in water of roses and vinegar; In stead of these Tr●hisks, ye may use a Electuary called Diamargariton frigidum, every morning a lozenge. And it is good to give him for the same feebleness conserve of Roses, violets, water lilies mingled together, and after to drink water of Sorrel, and to smell Roses, water lilies, rose-water and vinegar. Other while and most often debility of heart chanceth of a cold and dry cause, and is without fever with great fear and heaviness, the remedy whereof is this. Take an Electuary called Diamoschum and use every morning a Lozenge▪ and drink after it a little good wine or Bugloss water, and anoint the breast with oil of Spikenard, Moreover use once in a week before meat the weight of half a crown of good triackle, or Mithridate so it be well tempered with a little white wine and with a few maces. For beating or trembling of the heart. If it be without offence; Take two drams 〈◊〉 the third part of Elect. de gemmis, then 〈◊〉 two or three ounces of Bugloss and ●awme mixed together▪ For the same. It is good to drink every morning three ●●nces of water of Bugloss, wherein hath ●een sodden cloves. And it is good to drink in a Morning four ●unces of Julep made of half a pound of ●awm water and three ounces of Sugar. For the same. It it good to drink every morning 3. ounces 〈◊〉 water of Bugloss wherein hath been sodden ●oves; And it is good to drink in a morning 〈◊〉 ounces of Ju●ep made of half a pound of ●arm water, and three ounces of Sugar. The confection of Diajacinthy is singular and ex●●llent for trembling of the heart, but it is for ●oble men, not for poor folk. ●or ache at the heart which are commonly a knot of worms. Take unset leeks one handful chopped small ●●d fry it with butter and bay salt, and lay it 〈◊〉 the stomach upon a napkin. Take a pint of white wine, English liquerice 〈◊〉 sugar, boil it together in a pot close stopped take it fasting To help a mad body. Take the Flowers of Rosemary, of Burrag● and of the roots of bugloss of each a pound Sa●●ron two drams, of Quinces four ounces, 〈◊〉 the best white wine a quart, mix them together, let them stand a day, put them over th● head fifteen days in an Horsmixon the mou●● of the glass not covered quite, then distil it Then take of it first and last a dram at a tim● It is a precious secret, it helpeth the trembling of the heart. For them that swound or are faint-hearted. Take Rosemary, Sage, Betony, and Marjerom of each an handful, seethe them in a gallo● of fair water till a quart be consumed, the● take away the herbs, and put to the said wate● a pint of good honey, then scum it well, the● put in an ounce of Staechades tied in a fair linen cloth, Let it seethe a little, than tak● out the Staechades, and add an ounce of Cinnamon, three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegs, and as much in Ginger in powder, drink it warm thrice every day six or seven days, ●●fiet: A potion for sainting. Take of the confection of Alchermes two drams, of garden blue violet water and excellent red rose water of each two ounces, and Syrup of violets two ounces and an half, and Syrup of Lemons one ounce▪ mingle them well together and take hereof four or five spoonfuls at a time when you see eause or when you please. The Stomach, Remedies for all pains of the stomach. For weakness of the Stomach. TAke Pilulae Stomachiae two or three hours before meat, more or less according to 〈◊〉 quantity of the fullness of the stomach, 〈◊〉 after give him every morning, two hours 〈◊〉 o'er meat, and one hour after supper, at every me a Lozenge of an Electuary called Diaga 〈◊〉 ga, or another called Diacinimum which 〈◊〉 consume ventosities and with their com●●●table heat, drive away the cold and windy complexion of the stomach. For windiness of the stomach. Take in a morning two hours before meat a lozenge of Aromaticum rosat. and if ye have 〈◊〉 aching stomach, and cold, take every morn 〈◊〉 a Lozenge of Dianis●, or Diacinimum, and drink after it a spoonful of wine. A present remedy for pain and ache in the stomach. Maidenhair, bruised, plastered and laid to 〈◊〉 stomach sanat. To help the pains of the stomach a rare secret. Take every night last three drams of 〈◊〉. For a windy and cold stomach. Take Aromaticum Garyophillat. one ounce. Electuar de aromatibus, one ounces Et Diattrion piperion, one ounce. Mix it together and take it first and last ● the quantity of three Nut kernels. For pain of the stomach. Take two drams of Diacinna●on of Dianist, 〈◊〉 Diagalanga, and drink it with a little goo● wine an hour or two before meat, drink a little Castor with good wine. Another. Drink two hours before meat three or 〈◊〉 ounces of the decoction of Mints, Anni●● seeds, cummin and fine frankincense. Also drink an Electuary ca●led Arcu●aticum whereof receive one Lozenge every m●rnin● fasting. To comfort the stomach after vomiting. It is good to give unto the patient ever● morning an ounce of Syrup of wormwood, 〈◊〉 Mints; instead of which it is convenient 〈◊〉 take a Lozenge as Azromaticum rosatum, or Di●galanga. For the same. Take evening and morning three hours before meat two Cloves in powder with a spoonful of the Juice of mints, or half a spoonful 〈◊〉 Rue dried with a little wine Also it is good to take powder of Cloves, 〈◊〉 d lignum aloes to the weight of a crown with 〈◊〉 in, two hours before meat. ●n excellent purgation to avoid choler for men of all ages. Take half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn▪ dram of good Rhubarb infused a night in sh〈…〉 of Endive with a little spikenard an● an ●unce of Syrup of violets, mix all these things ●ith three ounces of Ptisan, or whey and ●●rink it warm. A Medicine for wind in the stomach. Take a spoonful of honey, and two spoonfuls of rose-water, and set them upon a Chaffing 〈◊〉 sh of coals, and as the scum ariseth take it ●ith a feather till be clear. Then take it off ●●e fire, then take a groa●s weight of long ●epper, as much of white, as much of black ●●d as much of cummin seed, as much of ginger ●●d beat all together in a Mortar not very 〈◊〉 all and put them into a box; Then put in 〈◊〉 any and rose-water unto them, and mix them together with a knife, and eat them after din●er, as much as a pease, and you may keep it as ●●ng as you will, and ever as it drieth, put ●hereto more honey clarified with rose water. To clear the stomach▪ Take stale Ale and boil it, and put it two branches of Hyssop to boil with it, and drin● first and last. A notable sauce to procure an appetite in them whic● be brought low to get them a stomach. Take Vine leaves and stamp them, a●● strain them and put in Sugar to the juice, a●● Cinnamon powder with Sippets of manche● boil them as sorrel sops, eat them with chicken or what you will. It is excellent 〈◊〉 a fever or other sicknesses. To make Pulvis ducis out of Master Cogans Caj 〈◊〉 of the weakness of the stomach. pag. 194. Pulvis Ducis as he saith is usually ●●de of on ounce of Sugar, and one ounce of Cinnamon finely powdered both, and then mixed togegether; And this Pulvis Ducis being mingled the quantity of one dram with half a pint o● Aqua vitae, well tempered together, and thr●● pints of rose-water, and so let run twice o● thrice through an Hippocrates bag, an● thereof take ofttimes in the week one spoonful in the morning fasting especially in winter time is excellent good for a bad stomach of cold cause. A drink for a bad stomach. Brew Beer or Ale, and when you ton i● before it work take a pound of wormwood and as much of the roots of red docks, the pi 〈◊〉 taken out and washed, and put them in a bag● with a stone to make it sink, and hang the drink and drink it in the morning fast 〈◊〉 g and at four of the clock in the afternoon. Probatum. Another for the stomach▪ ●●ke cakes like apple cakes, or Pasties in 〈◊〉 or May, and fill them full of wormwood, 〈◊〉 bake them hard; the paste must be of ●eat meal undressed, and brew a stand of strong 〈◊〉 beer, And when it's turned and given 〈◊〉 e ●urging, ●ak●●he ●akes when they be 〈◊〉 d, and cut them into quarters, and put ●●em into the barrel, and stop it up close, and ●hen it's settled and clear, drink a bowl full draught in the morning fasting, and so use 〈◊〉 heat in the stomach which maketh the throat sore. ●●ke an handful of Columbine Leaves, and a ●●ndfull of Cuarrnts, boil them in a pin●e of ●●w milk, then take out the Currants and the ●eaves, and shred them together, And eat ●●e Currants and the leaves, and then sup the ●ilk as hot as you can. The Liver, Remedies for its distempers. Against stopping of the Liver, called opila●i● DRink every morning the Syrup of Oxy●● sqyllitick, wi●● half a d●augh● o● more 〈◊〉 of the decoction of the roots of Small● Fennel and Parsely. Another for stopping of the Liver. Take Venice Turpentine to the quantity a bean, and put it into a spoon until it do m 〈◊〉 and then put there to a li●●le white sugar, 〈◊〉 let them eat of it every day fasting. Take a good handful of iver wort t●● groweth upon stones, and another of fumitory with as much heart's tongue, and drink the every day twice. The liver of an hare dried good for all diseases of the Liver, also for t●● heat of the Liver seethe Barberries in whe●● and drink them. Remedy. If it come of gross blood, give the patie● Medicines that do pierce and are subtle, as is wi●● of Pome-granates, Srup of Endive, with t●● decoction of Cicers; Then let him blood 〈◊〉 the Liver vein, and everymorning eat a L●●zeng of Triasan●ali. Sometime the said oppilation cometh of ●●bundance of som● humour viscous, co●d and 〈◊〉 egmatick stopping the veins of the ●iver, ●●d then the Urine as clear as water, and then ●●e patient must use the Syrup above written ● viz.) Oxymel scylliticum. A julep for heat of the Liver. Take half a pound of rose water, one quar●●r of wa●er of Endive, and five ounces of ●●gar, make a Julep, of which you shall drink ●●sting a good draught, And if he will needs ●rink between meals, Let it be mingled with ●●o parts of the wa●er of the w●ll, and if ye ●●ill have it more cooling a●d unto it two ●unces of vinager, or the juice of Pomegranate. In stead of the said medicine, too cost●● for poor folk, you may make b●les of half ●n ounce of Cassia, and three drams of the electuary de succo rosarum and eat it three ●ours after midnight, and steep it, and so drink ●●, mix the said boles with whey, or Endive ●ater and drink it at five in the morning, but ●eep not after it. A drink to cool the Liver. Take an ounce of Sena Alexandrina, a farthing worth of Anniseeds, and a sarthing worth ●f Liquerice, and a dram of Rhubarb de Spain, ●nd make a powder of the s●me, with half an ●unce of Polypodie of the oak, when the ●owder is fine, boil it in three pints of white ●ine, before you do put it in, make ready ●hree roots, that's a Fennel root, a parsley root, a Mallow root washed fair and clean, bruise these three roots and boil them in white wine, from three pints to a pint upon a still fire, and be s●re to stir it about, and let not the flame nor smoke come to it. This purgeth the Liver, and spleen, then strain it through a clean cloth and drink in the morning fasting, in the second day of M or the first day of Sagittari●s, And when ye drink it, take a brown toast and wet it in vinegar and sm●ll to it, & fiet. A good receipt for the dropsy. Take the salt of Wormwood three day's i● a month, a spoonful at a time, and you shall feel the dropsy water fall into your legs, every time you may take it away by setting your legs up to the knees in hot water. To purge dropsy water abundantly, for the shedding o● nature called Gonorrhaaea, verbatim, out of Master Cogan, Pag. 5. in Flower deluce. Take a new laid Egg, pouring out the white, put into the yelk so much of the root of Flower deluce, as was of the white after, set the same Egg into the Embers, which being sufficiently warmed sup off fasting in the morning; And the patient shall after send forth abundance of water, and so be eased of the dropsy. Or else you may take a dram or two o● the dry root made into powder and drunk in wray clarified, ●or its good also to p●r●e the dropsy water; And if you put a little Cinnamon to the juice of Flowerdeluce in the ●●g yelk its a very good medicine for the ●●dding of nature as hath been often proved. For the Dropsy or Tympany. Take the flower of Dane wort and of the ●●●ves, and distil them in a stillatory, and ●●●nk four or five spoonful at a time with the 〈◊〉 er of Herb grace; in six or seven spoonfuls 〈◊〉 white wine, one spoonful of the water of ●●●b grace will serve; This is the excellentest medicine one can give, for this will void the 〈◊〉 ere out of the belly by usage. Prob●t. by 〈◊〉 ere for which property of danewort Gerard's Herbal. The Gall. Against diseases of the Gall. He gall is placed in the hollowness of the Liver to receive the superfluity of cho 〈◊〉 and to send it to the bowels to be avoid 〈◊〉 ●ith the gross excrements to the intent to 〈◊〉 see the blood of the said choler; To the 〈◊〉 ch cometh oppilations in the parties about 〈◊〉 he liver, or beneath it, in itself n●xt the 〈◊〉 else, causing great pain, by reason whereof 〈◊〉 choler turneth again into the liver, and 〈◊〉 e is mingled with the blood, and spread 〈◊〉 ad into the veins of all the body, and 〈◊〉 death a disease named jaundice, Ictiritia. If the Jaundice happen in an Ague befo 〈◊〉 the seventh day. It is great danger of his li●e but if it appear on the sixth day, being a da● judicial or critic of the ●gu., o● after, it is very good sign. And th●n ye must succo● Nature with refreshing and di●●sting the ch●●ler with Syrup of violets given in the mor●●ing, Syrup of Endive with water of Cicho 〈◊〉 Aft●r this purge choler, and then give hi● a Lozenge of Triasand●l with Rhubarb ev●●● morning, two hours before meat, and d 〈◊〉 a little water of Endive, and Cichory afore 〈◊〉 said Lozenge. Moreover it is good to hath the Liver, 〈◊〉 wash the patient's eyes with vinegar, and 〈◊〉 man's milk, an● drink a Ptisan made of b 〈◊〉 I querice, prunes and roots of Fennel. 〈◊〉 if when the fever is passed the Jau●dize ta 〈◊〉 still, the patient must drink water of 〈◊〉 r●ll and fennel, with the Syrup of oxysa●●h 〈◊〉 composit. Jaundice sometimes cometh without a fever, and may be healed thus, drink ev 〈◊〉 morning four ounces of the decoction of Honorio 〈◊〉 hound made in white wine; Ye may let 〈◊〉 drink seven, or eight days together in 〈◊〉 morning a good dra●ght of the decoction Politrichon or maidenhair. The decoction of woodbin●e, or the water of it distilled a common still is a sovereign medicine ●●r said disease. Another singular Remedy. Take cow's milk, and white wine of 〈◊〉 a pint, and distil them in a still, keep 〈◊〉 water a month, and then give it the 〈◊〉 ●hree ounces in the morning two hours before ●●at, and likewise after supper when he goeth to bed. A ●●medy for the jaundice and strangury and dyssury and straitness of breath, and to break the stone in the bladder. A●ian●hes otherwise called Gallitricum in English Maidenhair, or maidenweed (the leav●s ●re i●e Coliander) sodden in pure water, or in ●ine, and therewith make a Syrup with Sugar ●nd when ye seethe it, put in the root ●f Fennel, march the branches and leaves of 〈◊〉 ●me or Borwo●t and give it with wi●e, ●nd thou shalt see the marvellous cures in ●hese disease's. A perfect help of the black jaundice. The powder of shell snails eaten, and ●runken killeth the black Jaundice pro certo. For the yellow jaundice. Take one handful of Chickweed, and stamp 〈◊〉 and strain it into a draught of Ale and use 〈◊〉 three days fasting, and last. Probat. The Spleen. For does e●ses of the Spleen. IN oppilations caused of a hot humour's must give the pati●●t four or five m●rnin● fasting Syrup of Endive water, and Heart● tongue, than a purgation made thus. A purgation to avoid Melancholy. Take an ounce of Succo Rosarum, and thr●● ounces of the decoction of the roots of C●●●parus and Har●stongue and ●ake a drink, t●● which ye may minister in a good day to tak● purgations for Melancholy. Drink Syrup of Staechadoes or Heartstongue● or oxym●l diureticum w●th water of the decoction of H●●●stongue, Epithyme, s●allag● roots, parsley root●, Tamariscus and mints ●r else only with the decoction of hear●s tongue, and roots, of Capers▪ And the● after purge from such Melancholy hum●● with an ounce of Diaca●holicon, and tw● drams of Dia●ena▪ dissolved in three ounce of the said decoction or water of wormwood or Heartstongue; And aft●r this ye must anoint the side of the spleen with oil of ●lies, o● of Dill, or anoint the said side with Dialthe●. An expe●t medicine for all diseases of the spleen. Take the leaves and cod ●f Sena, the bark● of an Ash tree, scraped and cut, Maidenhair Hartstongue and Liquerice, seethe them all i● clear whey, and after they be strained drink of it twice or thrice till he be amended. For the spleen that is great and aching. Take the bark of the clefts of ●he ash, a●d cleanse them▪ and bruise them well in a mor●a● and seethe them well in white wine from a pottle to a quart, and of that liquour milk warm; drink at morning and at evening the quantity of seven spoonfuls and thou shalt be whole. For diseases o● the Spleen. Ye must give Syrups and purgations, a● is aforesaid, and to be let blood of the vein Sal●ar●lla, and after dive●s times to apply Ven●oses upon the spleen without scarifying▪ Afterwards ye must lay ●n it a lift w●t in good ●ineger▪ an keep it there so long as he●t re●aineth in the said lift, and warm it three or ●our times, Afterward anoint the spleen with Dial●hea and so continue four or five days, and other four or five days lay upon the plaster made of two ●unces of gum Armoniac dissolved in vinegar and spread upon Leather; And if by the aforesaid things the patient be not eased, the Doctors of Physic ●a● that he must receive the Medicines again ●t the lest once every month for half a y●ar together. An approved Medicine for the Spleen. Eat Capers and drink after them the water ●n a smith's coal trough, sanat pro certo. An approved Medicine to take away an ag●● though a Quartain. Take of Bay-salt a spoonful, of the blackest soap as much; pepper finely beaten, n●ng●e those in the yelk of an new laid Egg, adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisins of the sun stoned, with a spoonful of red Sage chopped small, apply it plasterwise to the wrists before the fit. For the Spleen. Doctor Butler of Cambridge did use to prescribe ten raisins o● the fun, torrified o● parched upon a clean Tile stone by the fire, until they did swell and then to be eaten fasting. A diet drink for the Liver and Spleen. Take a handful of red Dock roots, and make them clean, and a handful of Tamarisk, boil them together in a quart of clear posset Ale, and drink it morning fasting, and after walk or use some other exercise for one hour or more. Doctor Simons Medicine proved both for the Ag●● and Quartane. Take Southernwood and minse it small, and put salad oil into a saucer and put the herb to it and let it be an hour or two in it, then let them simper a little upon the fire, then take it and anoint the wrists and soles of the feet and the nape of the neck and down between the shoulders, and this must be done before the ●it comes, in three times doing they shall be ●hole. For the Fever. Take a pint of stale ale o● Malmsey and ●oil in it powder of Sage and powder of ●inger, and drink it a little before the shaking. For the Quartan proved by Doctor Simons. ●a●e a red d●ck root and slice it and lay it i●●almesy four and twenty hours and drink it ●very day fasting. For the Ague. Take a posset made of milk and clarified ●ith a good deal of Camomile that the strength ●ay be in the posset ale, and then let the sick ●ri●k of it. An approved Medicine for the Ague. ●ake three spoonfuls of Aqua composita, and six spoonfuls of Malmsey and put ther● to a quantity of long pepper beaten and as much grains, 〈◊〉 it as you would d●es a cup of ale with ●●nger a●d Nutmeg, and when the co●● is upon▪ ●●e sick, give him a good draught to drink▪. For a fever quartan. Take a handful of Maydenhair, and choice Myrrh one ounce, drink with water, and in the same water mix a little treacle, and give to the patient with a fasting stomach, and so continue, and he shall be certainly cured. For the Ague. Take a handful of Rue, a ●ed onion: be●● them small together with the glare of an Egg, and lay it to the wrist. An approved medicine to take away an Agu●▪ Take of bay-salt a spoonful, of the blackest soap as much, pepper finely beaten, mingle these in the yelk of a new laid egg, adding thereto of Aqua vitae with some raisin● of the sun stoned, with a spoonful of red 〈◊〉 chopped small; Apply it plasterwise two hours before the fit. For a burning fever, a medicine approved ●●ue. Take six spoonfuls of fair running water and put it into a fair glass or other vessel, an● put thereto one spoonful of bay salt 〈◊〉 picked from filth, and let the salt melt 〈◊〉 the said water, then put to it a pretty quantity of Saffron finely beaten, and let the patient drink thereof in the beginning of his hear● and it will lay the heat, and in short spac● drive away the fever, and the sooner if th● sick be made soluble or loose bellied; and thi● approved to be true. Another for a burning fever. Take a handful of C●llendine, a handful of bay salt, an hard egg, and a raw egg, a r●sted onion, and a raw onion stamped altogether, and make two plasters, and bind them to the soles of your feet, and with two plasters you shall have remedy. A medicine to precure sleep in a fever. Take of the seeds of white p●ppie two spoonfuls, of the white seeds of L●ttice being t●e best one spoonful, make them into powder and drink it going to bed in a draught of clarified M●ce ale warm, and it will cause quiet sleep; the ordinary use is two small spoonfuls to bedward. Probat. For the fever in Angine, and for bloody matter. Seeth parsley in white milk, and p●t the ●ot milk to cold butter, and it will be a posset, you must use that posset ale first and last a week together, It cu●eth also such as ●ake bloody water. To make a breath to cool one in a fever. Ta●e fair water, and put thereto French barley, boil until the water be red, th●n pour the red water from it, and put into barley the hot water, some Liquorice, some cooling herb, as Violet leaves, and strawberry leaves, and put in some Lettuce seeds, and let it boil until the barley be very so●t, then strayn the barley from it, and let it cool, and when it's cold, put in some vinegar and sugar, and so drink it: you must put in your vinegar and Sugar as you drink it. For an Ague of long continuance. Take of Se●a two ounces, of Polypody o● the oak half an ounce, Bay-berries half an ounce, of Fenel seeds half an ounce, of Aniseeds half an ounce, of Liquerice half an ounce, one red Dock root the pith taken ou●, of scurvy grass one handful, and a half, bruise all this together in a mortar, than put them in a Linen bag and hang them in a gallon of n●w ale three days, then drink thereof near a pint at eight in the morning fasting, and at four in the afternoon till all be out. A remedy to cure the new Ague and to cleanse the stomach by vomit. Take a dram of pure Tobacco and open the the Lea●, if it be in roll, and st●ep the leaves of the said dram all night in half a pint o● white wine, then strain it and drink it next your heart, and ●ast two hours after, and you shall have you● stomach well purged and cleansed of Phlegm and choler. This will our English garden Tobacco do. Probatum also either steeped green but especially the dry Leaves of it, as with esseth Mr. parkinson's Herbal. For an Ague if it be given before the first fit. Take Dandelion, stamp and strain it, and ou● treacle or Mithridate to the juice, and drink it on your good days two or three days as your good days do fall out, and it will h●lp, for it hath been proved many ●imes. An excellent plaster to put away the Ague fit, either Quotidian or tertian. Take a good spoonful of Bay salt▪ as much frankincense bruised both so small as you can and put to them the bigness of an egg of the root of white Briony, and half an handful of smallage, let the Briony and smallage be both pounded together, and put with them your bay salt and Frankincense, and lay it to both your wresty of your arms a hand breadth, so cold as may be two hours before the course of your fit▪ being spread a good thickness on two fai● clothes. Let it be unremoved twenty four hours, then renew it; This helped a dozen at one time in my Lord Harringtous house. A plaster to put away the new Ague. Take the middle bark of a walnut tree well steeped in rose vinegar, th●n stamp it with a spoonful of bay salt, and one spoonful of Olibanum, and lay it on a cloth, spread well and thick to the left hand wrest le●in● it lie there four and twenty hours. Probatum. What to give one in the fever or Ague▪ Give them one dram of Theriaca Andromac●● mix it with one ounce of Conserves of Red roses, and with dragon water, or water of Cardu●● Benedictus two ounces, with one ounce of Syrup of Lemons, and take of this mixture one spoonful in your extremity at a time. Le● blood, if need require, the sixth day of you● sickness, in the Hepatica vein six or seve● ounces. For a tertian Ague, a sovereign drink proved. Take vervine, and Mouseare, and Camomile one handful, boil them in a quart of Ale to a pint, and strain it into a pot, and when your cold fit is upon your, drink a good draught of it, and in two drink it will help. Prebatum. For an ague. Juice of Wormwood and sugar, doth help the ague in short time. A special medicine for the Ague. Drink at the coming of the cold fit the distilled water of Germander and it helpeth surely. To cure a fever. Take spring water, and boil it either in silver or other clean skillet, or in a pewter pot set in hot water, and let it only boil and no more, and then cool it, And let the patient make it his drink until the fever be gone, and if the party have a choice palate, put in a little white sugarcandy to take away the taste of the water. A diet drink for the Scorbutum or scurvy, and to put away the malum habitum corporis. Pr●batum. Take seven gallons of good middle ale wort and put it into a pan, with seven handfus of Scurvy grass, or for want thereof take three handfuls of pepper, three handfuls of water Cresses, and three handfuls of Brooklime, boil these, being fair washed and pulled in pieces, in the water until six gallons remain, than order it as you would order beer, and ton it up in a barrel having ready a fine linen bag, wherein put a stone or plum with three ounces of Sena and one ounce of fine Rhubarb cut in small slices, with the powder of grains, long pepper, anniseeds, fennel seeds, and Liquorice scraped and bruised flat, one half ounce of spicknard and galingal vera beaten small, one two ounces of the wood and rind of pure sassafras, half an ounce or one ounce, if the wood be not v●ry good, cut in small pieces, then sow them all in the bag, and fasten a long double strong thread to the bag, and hang it so in the barrel near the tunning hole, see that it touch not the bottom by two inches, fasten the thread to the top of the barrel, than put barm to your said ale, and after purging, stop it up close, and after three days s●tling drink continually of this drink, and no other so long as it lasteth, and ●at to your breakfast and supper pottage made of water Cresses and brooklime made with veal or mutton, and eat what good meat you best like, see it be rabbit, Capon, Mutton, or Ve●●l d●y roasted, continue this diet twenty days or so long as your drink lasteth good, and this by God● grace will recover your health and abate the swelling of the ●p●een, and cure perfectly the scorbutum or Lassitudo in man or woman. The signs of this disease which comes of Melancholy, are certain s●eckles appearing on the hand the arms and legs, which will go away suddenly and come again, the teeth are as it were eaten with cankers about the gums, apt to bleed and impostume, & they wax loose, a weariness of the whole body and werin●ss of the Legs, with a swelling in them towards night, and the stomach decreaseth by little and little, and the patient, if he have not help in time, falleth into a dropsy or consumption. A good drink to cleanse the blood. Take water Cresses four hands Is, Brooklime two handfuls scurvy g●ass, half a peck, sena two ounces. Rhubarb an ounce and a hal●, Liquerice an ounce, sweet fennel seeds two ounces, he middle ba●k or ● barb●ry t●ee an ounce, new wort three ga●lo●s, Bruise all that is to be bruised, Cut the Bubarb in thin slices and cut the Herbs small, and put all together into a bag made o bou●el Cl●ath, and let it hang in the drink five days before you give it to the party, and then cause him to take it every morning fasting, and about the clock ●n the afternoon. This drink is good against the scurvy, whosoever takes this drink spring and fall▪ needs no other Medicine. A very good drink against the scurvy, Take yellow Dock roots finely sliced, Horsradish roots bruised small, of each a pound and a half, Succory roots their piths taken ●ut four ounces, Egrimony and fun●itory of each four handfuls, water cresses six handfuls, Scurvy grass a peck, ginger bruised one ounce▪ Nutmegs one ounce and half, Anniseeds and sassafras r●ots of each one ounce, wash and pick and dry the herbs with a cloth, stamp them altogether in a stone Mortar, and wring ●ut the juice and put the Herbs after they are strained with the r●st of the simples into a ●ag made of bowtel cloth, and hang them in ● Vessel of five gallons of new ale, and put in the ju●ce that was strained out of the Herbs, ●nd let it stand four or five days, and then drink every morning fasting and every evening half a pint at a time, and if the party please let him make new drink thereof some ●ime in the day. To make a laxative beer of scurvy grass taught by Mr. Doctor Butler unto the Lady Finch, which takes away the swelling of the eggs and stomach, ad makes to sleep well. Take Fennel and Partly roots wash it, scrape ●t and slice it, and the piths taken out, alike four ounces, green asparagus roots, whole fo● ounces, steep all this twenty four hours in quart of White wine and mix them with half 〈◊〉 pound of scurvy leaves, clean picked wate● Cresses, brooklime, Egrimony each 〈◊〉 drams, wrap all these leaves and roots in ● cloth, and lay them in a pie of thick rye past● made without butter, and bake them tw● hours in an oven, after cut open the pie and le● the Herbs and roots cool, bruise the roots and Herbs with the inside of the rye pie in a mortar, take Sa●saparilla sliced in the midst, c● short and bruised, Polypodium, Sena Alex. bruised a little three ounces, of Rhubarb thin slice● one half ounce, of sweet fennel & Carroway seed● of each one ounce, white fennel seeds bruise● one half ounce▪ Liquerice scraped and thin sliced one ounce mix all these ingredients together, and put them into a bag, run them 〈◊〉 in two gallons and a half of beer, let the● work together for the first day, and as they work, let one squeeze the juce out of the ba● twice, and t●ice the second day, let the ba● hang continually in the drink by a thread to the bung, then stop the vessel close. When 〈◊〉 days old, drink three quarters of a pint ●● once two hours before dinner, and two hours before supper, use to eat the sprigs of Asparagus in a salad often times or the roots boiled 〈◊〉 aforesaid in white wine and water. A Medicine for a surfeit. Take a handful of Wormwood, an handful of Sage, an handful of Centory, a handful o● Mints and seethe them in a quart of Ale, or beer, and drink it blood warm in the morning fasting. The Bowels. Diseases of the Bowel●. THe Colic and Iliaca passin come oftentimes both from one cause, that's to say of the oppilation of the bowels, and are diseases very eager and sharp, and almost importable of pain, whereof many times followeth defection of the strength with variety of medicines, ye ought incontinent to help them First when the said pains come by stopping of the belly, you must give him a mollificative Cl●ster made of the decoction of Mallows, Violets, beers, aniseed and Fenugreek, with Cassia and common honey and oil olive, and afterward the Herbs of the said Clyster bruised▪ and fried ●ayed hot betwixt two linen Clothes, and applied to the belly, but if the pain cease not give him a suppository long enough made of honey and Sal gem. For the wind Co●ick. If it come through windiness, and then the pain is changeable and moving from place to place, and is known also by the rumbling which is a noise in the bowels, with griping ●nd great pain. A suppository for the wind Colic. Take a dram of Rue in fine powder, and half a d●am of cun min dried and powdered, and with honey scummed make a suppository. A plaster. Take two handfuls of rue in fine powder, mirth and Cummin powdered of each half ● ounce; four yolks of Eggs and make two plasters with honey, and lay the one at night and the other in the morning upon the belly. Water of Camomile or a decoction of the ●ame drunken is good. Also a dried Acorn i● powder and given to drink in white wine is very good. To cure a rupture in the belly. Take the root of male comphry ground into powder, one d●am of Polypodium of the oak as much of the root thereof, of white daisy mor●s as much; And as much of the root o● Osmund which g●oweth in brooks all beaten into fine powder, mingle them together, and give the same to the patient to drink the space of nine days every morning, together with four spoonfuls of Malmsey, all this while let the patient wear the iron hoop with the truss and leave off the truss until three week's a●ter he is perfectly whole. For the Fundament coming out. Take Aloes, Mirrbe ana. one ounce, terend● terantur subtiliter and cribrentur, And anoint the Fundament with the oil of Almonds, and lay of t●is powder thereupon, and wit● a scarlet ●●ot● hot put up the fundament: this used will h●lp with God's g●ace. ●o a man's Fundament when it comes out ● true Medicine. Take red nettles and stamp them well, and put them into an earthen p●t and pu● to them a portion of wine and seethe it well and give it the patient to drink. A special good Medicine proved to heal a rupture or broken man, Probat. First pu●ge him with easy purg●tions and let him keep good and strait diet ●●ll ●he matter be up within his body. Then take the juice of Polypodie of the oak, of daisies, comp●ry, Avens and Be●ony, in the winter, take the juice of the root● and all of each one handful, stamp them, and strain them without other Liquour: And put the same juice into a quart of stale Ale, and drink a quantity thereof evening and morning blood warm for nine days, keeping good diet, and sure trussing; you may put Sugar candy to it if you will, Probat. Against ruptures or burstings. Take the Herb and root of Cranesbill dry it, make it into very fine powder, and give one spoonful every morning fasting, & every night when he goeth to bed in red wine, or claret wine, for xxi. day's together. It cureth miraculously, but in aged persons to mix with it the powder of red s●ails, those that that are without shells dried in an oven, This medicine never faileth although the rupture be great and of continuance. It likewise profiteth much those that are wounded in their bodies, The decoction of the herbs made with wine, prevaileth mightily in healing inward wounds; All this hath been well proved. If ye know the pain of the belly cometh through wind, apply upon it a great ventose, without incision, for by that means the pain will surely go away or diminish: If not it showeth that it is caused of some other humour as Phlegm or choler. A purgation for Colic coming of Phlegm. Take five drams of Diaphaenicon, three ounces of Wormwood water, and make a drink, the which received fasting four or five hours before meat is very profitable. For pain of the Colic coming of Choler. If the said pain come of choler which is known by the application of hot things, the pain increaseth, ye must make a Clyster of violets, or give him half an ounce of succo rosarum with Ptisan, Endive water, or wine. And the next morning let him drink a Ptisan of the decoction of prunes and violet Flowers, and anoint the belly with oil of violets, or wet a linen cloth in cold water, and lay it thereupon, and if the pain ●●me of cold ye must anoint his belly with of bays and goose grease. For the wind Colic. ●t is good to drink the Syrup of Elecam●●, & to wear a plaster upon the belly made ●●ony, Wormwood and Aloes, Pilulae Co●● are very good for the said disease, especi●●● when the Cl●ster doth not suffice to ●ge the cause of the same. Also Diamuscum 〈◊〉 Diacinnamum, are very good Electuaries, if ●ake one of them a Lozenge fasting 2 hours ●ore meat; Likewise it is good to take ●hridate with a little white wine, or with decoction of Camomile four or five hours' 〈◊〉 dinner, if his belly be naturally lax, or ● by some suppository or Clyster. 〈◊〉 Back and Reins, The Remedies of their distempers. A purgation for Choler coming of Phlegm. ●●ke five drams of Diaphaenicon, three ounces Wormwood water, and make a drink, the ●●ch received fasting four or five hours afore ●t is very profitable. ●scour, cleanse and cool the reins of the Back▪ ●ake half a pound of brown Sugar candy, and one pint of Endive water, and another pint of red rose water, boil all th●se together from a quart to a pint, and until it come to thick Syrup, which then put into a fair g●as● and keep it to thy use. This Syrup cleanseth the Reins and cook●● the heat thereof, It must be taken fasti●● chiefly and last towards bed, yet it may be use as occasion serves. For a pain in the back. Take a quart of w●ite wine, and a quar● of running water, Then take of the cr●p, 〈◊〉 Rosemary as much as both the ha●ds can cla●● seethe them till half be consumed, t●en tak● Sugar grains, as ye think good, and drink 〈◊〉 first and last. For ache in the back. Take a good onion or two and roast the● in the Embers, then stamp them and stra●● out the juice, and mix it with as much Malme● as juice, and drink thereof blood warm fir●● and last, Probat. Another. Take Egrimony, and Mugwort both leav●● and roots, and stamp them small, than ming● them with good Dears su●t, then smear 〈◊〉 anoint the place therewith very warm, and ●●ter bind it up. A good ointment for the back and restorative for the same. Take the mosel of a Hart or Stag, and make powder of it, and boil it in white wine with Bursa Pastoris, knot grass, plantain and Comphry, and when it's well boiled, strain it and let it cool, and it will be a Jelly, And if you will eat of it, put to it Sugar, Cinnamon and Saffron, for its a great restorative so eaten, also with the Jelly aforesaid, anoint a weak back on either side the back bone, and chafe it well in, but do not anoint the back bone with the hand, use it thrice a week to bedward till you be well, Probat. For the weakness of the small of the back. Take one handful of Balm, one handful of clary, wash them not, they must be gathered in the heat of the day, dry them in an oven and make them into power, the powder will be green, if it be done right, then lay a new laid egg into the fire, Let it be not half roasted, then put into it as much of the powder as will lie upon the point of a broad knife, and so eat it. A powder to knit and restore nature well proved. Take the roots of Tormentil, the best of them are red when they are broken, take of the powder of these roots two parts and the third par● of fine Galingale in powder, and of the powder of red mints as much as of the Galingale, and mingle them, and use of this powder in your broths, and meats, and Sauces. Pro Gonorrhaea. Take Aqu. Calendulae extractae ex foljis florum, et bibe singulis diebus Cochlearia tria & sanus evades. To restore a man that wasteth, and for soreness of the reins. Take sperma caeti and powder of mints and use to drink this with a spoonful of red rose● water and make it luke warm, the sperma caeti, will relent anon, for this is a sovereign Medicine. For heat in the back. Take the white of an Egg, a little red rose water, and a little Nutmeg, beat it well together and drink it mornings. It's an admirable thing to cool it. For feeble reins. Take Burr roots and stamp them, and boil th●m in stale Ale, and drink thereof at evening hot, and at morning cold. To preserve nature from wasting. Take acorns and steep them three days in wi●e vinager, and dry them, and let him drink the powder; the cup is as good, if not better than the Acorn its self, so they may be both together. For the running of the reins. Take an handful of Cumphry, a handful of Clary, and so much of Mousear, boil them in a quart of red wine, with powder of Cinnamon, Saund●rs and Sugar, and drink a good ●raught of thi● fasting. For the running of the Reins. Take white wine, rose-water, Plantain ●ater of each alike much in Quantity one ●●arter of a pint, two Nutmegs grated, two ●enny worth of Cinnamon pounded, and as●uch of Bolearmony as a Nut beaten ●inal, the ●hite of an Egg beaten to oil and put together, and for three days use it not, but every 〈◊〉 shake it together in a glass, and then take ● morning and evening, provided that you 〈◊〉 a Syringe now and then, either with white ●ne or else rose water, together or several, ●nd this is a special remedy for the running of 〈◊〉 reins often times proved. To knit a broken Vein. One Master Atkinson having a broken vein his back could not be cured by any Doctor, 〈◊〉 home to die; having a continued issue of 〈◊〉 The Person of the parish advised him take a spoonful of the juice of Plantain ●ing, which he did three or four times and was cured and is well, and verifies this in J●ly, 1652. For the help of the disease called the French pox. Take two penny worth of white wine and 〈◊〉 penny worth of honey, one penny worth o● Ro●h aflame, these three sorts to be boiled together, and the same to be placed where 〈◊〉 gri●f doth lie or most offend. A Diet drink ●o cure Lues venerea or any desperse disease in man's body. Take seven gallons of spring water in ●rom p●t, and put into it Sar●aparilla flic● and bruised three ounces, set it on the 〈◊〉 and let it infuse or boil very gently two hou●● th●n p●t into it f●ur ounces of chosen 〈◊〉 leaves and cod, and half an ounce of 〈◊〉 beaten to powder and half an ounce Stychad●s, and as much of Epithymum, of cho●●● liquorice scraped, sliced and bruised flat t● ounces, of Camomile flowers one o●nce, 〈◊〉 them into a pot and let them boil all together one hour or more, then take it from the 〈◊〉 ●●d strain it into an earthen pot, and 〈◊〉 and till it be cold then pure it and 〈◊〉 bottles and drink thereof morning and e●●ing, a reasonable good draught. A● morbum Gallihidropicum & cetera. Acci, e vini albi pounds 96 alias gallons▪ 〈◊〉, lib. ss gy●yrrhiz. iib. 2. Sea● 〈◊〉, ●ib. ●. Cert●ci● guiaci lib. 2. Colo●●● one ounce, coque in balneo Mariae per 24. horas, i● non ●●aporet, & exprime, Colaturae ad Mit●ridatum optimum, one ounce, per du●s dies, bibat ●●antum potest & nihil comedat per quatu●r 〈◊〉, postea comedat semel in die & postea comedat 〈◊〉 in die. Perficitur cura in duodecem diebus. Pain of the reins is called Nephretica passio. And cometh of some stone or gravel, and it is most like unto the Colic in cu●e, but in ●ourses they be clean contrary, ●or the Colic beginneth of the lower pa●ts on the right s●de and goeth up to the higher parts on the 〈◊〉 side o● the belly, and it lieth rather more ●●rward then backward, but Ne●h●etica Passio beginneth chose above descending downward, and ever lieth more toward the back; Also Nephretica is pain●uller a sore meat, and the Colic is more grievous after. And ofte● the Colic chanceth suddenly but Neph●●tica contrary, for commonly it cometh by little and little, and evermore before one shall fe●l pain of the back with difficulty of urine, Item there is more difference, for the Colic showeth dryness as it were coloured, but Nephretica is clear and white like water, afterward waxeth thick and then appeareth in the bottom of the v●ssel, like red sand or gravel. Remedy ●or pain of the reins. You must use things aperitive to cause you to make water, but afore ye ought to lose the belly in taking an ounce of Cassia, an hour before meat: but if your belly be hard or bou●d you must take a Clyster before you take the said Cassia. In stead thereof you may take Cow's milk, with two yolks of Eggs in manner of a Clyster, the Clyster must be great in quantity. Drink water of Pellitory, of Cresses or of roots aperitive, the which waters are good to purge the gravel and stone. Likewise a very good Electuary, for the ●●me Philantropos, or Lithontripon, if one take ● dram or two after operation of a Clyster of Cassia, or a pill of ante Cibum and after to drink one of the s●id waters or else a little white wine warmed. If ye will make a Julep, take water o●●intes and of Ba●m of each half a pound, Sugar a quartern and make a Julep of the which one may drink evening and morning after mea● a dra●ght. Every morning is good to take a Lozenge of the Elect. that followeth. A nob●e Electuary for the flux. Take powder of Diagalanga a dram and a half, of red coral and Mastic, of each a scruple, Tr●chiskes of Terra sigillata half a d●am the barks of Citrons confite and quinces, of each one three drams, sugar dissolved in water of Mints four ounces, make an Electuary. O●ls of Wormwood, Mint and of Narde and Mastic are very wholesome to anoint withal the belly and the stomach for the said flux, And the things declared of the flux Lienteria be very good in this case taking ever after meat a morsel of Marmalade. Red wine is very good in this flux to drink at meat with the water of a smith, and likewise all spices are good in this case. Medicines to restrain the flux of what cause s●ever it be. Take the Peisel of an hart and dry it into powder, and drink it, the water of Oakbuds, or the very acorns dried and made in powder, and drunk in ●ed wine, is very good▪ Remedy f●r the flux humoral, called Diarhaea. The said flux ought not to be restrained a sore the fourteenth day, i● nature be not v●ry much enfeebled, And sometime it cometh of hot causes, as of colour, and then the patient must drink be●ore his meat Syrup of Ribs, Syrup of roses or syrup of Quinces, and very smith's water. After ye have purged the principal matter o● the disease the second Intention shall be by and by to stop the said Issue. To stop the said flux. Take trochiskes of white Amber and make them in powder, and give a dram every morning, and anon after drink an ounce or two o● plantain water. Instead of those Trochi●kes he may make a powder of Sanguis draconis, Bole armony, white amber, and red coral, drinking one dram with plantain water, as is aforesaid. Another Medicine to staunch the said flux. Take two ounces of old conserve of Roses, of the seed of plantain two drams, Sanguis draconis, Bole armony, of every one a dram and a half, white Curtal and red one dram, make a confection with Syrup of Myrtles and give it to drink morning and evening two hours afore meat at every time ●he quantity ●● a mean chestnut. An Irish Medicine to stay any flux. Take a handful of Sage, chop it small and put thereto the yolks of eggs, and fry them with as little butter as may be, and eat them as hot as you can, and drink not of 4 hours, and in four days after it helpeth. For the b●oody flux. Take ●owder of Comphry, and make toasts of wheat bread, and put them in red wine, a●d powder of Cinnamon therewith, and also eat it alone. To cure the bloody flux. Take of Rubard grated one ounce, hartshorn burnt and made into powder half a dram, mix them with Conserves of red Roses, of the last year and make thereof two or three boles, and let him take it at once, this scoureth away the cause of the flux and bindeth him presently after. To cu●e any dangerous flux which is ●f ●orce to bring a man in danger of a consumption. Take fine wheat flour bolted finely, and tie it in a linen cloth of the bigness of two eggs; and boil it in a pottle of running water, with a handful of mother of time, wh●n it is half boiled away, then take up the flour whhich will be hard, and in looking upon the flour you must take of a skim which will be on it, then take some of the said flour and thicken a quantity of new milk, boiled as a thin flour meat, and drink it as ye see cause until you have recovered strength. This will recover a man of the bloody flux, even when he is t●ought past help, and also to roast an egg stone hard, and ●lit it and lay it hot to the fundament, stayeth any monstrous flux, and to wear napkins hot, and to keep them as hot as one can well endure to the navel and fundament, shi●ting them as they grow cold, is excellent in th●s case. For the bloody flux. Woman's milk drunk nine days togethe●●●sting, cureth the bloody flux in any: Another for the same. Note that the powder of Misselden of the oak given in red wine, helpeth that Flux, ●●hatum. A sure experiment to cure the bloody flux, when a man avoideth as it were black gobbets of flesh. Take Cumphry, Knotgrass, shepherd's purse, Cinqufoil, Plantain, Ribwort, strawberry leaves, one handful, the middle rind of a black thorn, & of cinramon one half ounce broken in small pieces, boil all these in a pot of spring water, with a wheat bread crust unto a quart, and clarify it, and put nine spoonfuls of wine vinegar unto it with sugar, and make a julep, drink thereof morning and evening, not drinking after of two hours. Probatum. The Bladder, Remedies, for its Distempers. A medicine for the stone. Take grommel seed, pa●sley seed, red nettle Seed and saxifrage all these made in powder by even portions, or else take the Juice of al● these Herbs, and of Lettuce and endive of all juices alike much and strain it through a Cloth and set● it in a vessel on the fire, And take half so much of honey, as of the Juices and cast them all together and seeth them till they be thick, and keep it safe as Treasure, for this is a gracious Electuary for the stone, Of the cure of the stone in the Reins and bladder. To break the stone, Take the kernels that are within sloes and dry them on a tilestone, then make of them a powder by itself, After that take the roots of Alexander, parsley, parietary and Hollihocke, of every one alike much and seethe them all in white wine or in the broth of Chickens, then strain them out into a clean vessel, and when ye drink of it add as much of the said powder, as ye think convenient, half a silver spoonful or more, for without doubt it hath great effect in bringing out the gravel. Another expert medicine. There groweth in the galls of some open a certain yellow stone, sometimes, in bigness of a Walnut somewhat long and brittle, if ye take that stone and make of it a powder, and eat it in your pottage, the weight of one scruple, or more according to your strength, It is a singular Medicine for them that cannot pi●s for stopping of the conduits; Another singular Medicine. Take the seed of smallage, parsley, Lo●vage vage, and Saxifrage, the roots of Philipendula, cherry stones, gromel seed and broom seed, of every one alike much, make them in fine powder, and when ye be diseased of the stone, eat of this powder a spoonful at once in pottage or broth of Chickens, and eat nothing after in two or three hours. A goodly syrup to mundify the reins. Take the broth of a young chicken sodden till the bones fall asunder three pound, Melon seed a little bruised an ounce, parsley roots and Alexander roots three ounces, Damask prunes, Sebesten of each six in number, great raisins half an ounce, clean Liquerice ●o drams, water of Borage, endive and hops of each three drams, and with sufficient white sugar boil them all unto the consumption of half and mor● and afterward strain them and make a goodly syrup. This is a thing of excellent operation and an high secret in mundifying the reins, and keep right diet, the dose of it is one Cyath or a little cupful in the morning early and sleep after it a little, if ye would have the foresaid Syrup to purge more choler than put in a dram of fine Rhubarb with a litter cassia. A powder for the stone and Colic or either of them. Imprimis Carawayseeds two ounces. Gromel seeds two ounces. Anniseeds two ounces. Rhubarb two ounces. Liquerice four ounces. Parsl● seeds two ounces. Fenn●l seeds two ounces, dried in an oven, Elecampana roots dried as the Rhubarb, else neither of them will beat to powder, bruise all these very small and Put to them as much sugar as the quantity of them all and searce them through a sieve, than every morning take an heaped spoonful and put in your broth or what you like best. If you cannot away with the Gromel, put the more into of the other seeds, for that doth more prevail either against the stone or Colic. This receipt hath often been proved to be good either for the stone or Colic. Another for the stone and to break it. Take ripe elder berries and distil then, and drink the water with sugar and it shall break and come out in one night, Probatum. Some four ounces of the water will serve at a time. For the stone which letteth a man to make water, Take Southernwood stamp it small and temper it with small Ale and use to drink it every morning fasting and it shall break the stone. When you have used this drink eight or nine times together, then put a little Galbanum into the end of your yard and that will draw out the stone. An ointment for the back if the stone come painfully from you. Take red dock roots and May butter and beat them together in a mortar very well and fry a little in a frying-pan and then strain them and anoint the back. A Pultis to cause the stone to slip when it's broken. Make a Pultis of oatmeal, and white wine vinegar, and after its made put to it a convenient quantity of Aqua composita, and apply it to the place where you feel the stone to lie, and it will cause the stone to slip forward or downward. A medicine to avoid the stone in the bladder. Take a pint of white wine, and put it in a pan and boil it, and put thereto as much powder of Nutmegs, and drink it with Ale evening and morning, and you shall be whole, Probat. For the stone. Take Coliander seed, Parsley seed, Broom seed, Allexander seed, the seed of Asnen keys, Hasel nut keys, red bramble berries, Ivy berries, of each of them alike quantity, and dry them, & beat them to fine powder altogether and searce them fine, Let the party make a posser of white wine as clear as may be, and put in as much of this powder as will go into an hazel nutshell and take it three or four mornings together fasting, and if you please you may seethe your powder in your posset drink and so take it, probat. Also the Syrup of Althaea commonly called the Syrup of Mallows, and put in posset drink, and drink it and it will cause water presently, Probat. A Sovereign Medicine for them that cannot piss, well proved by the Lady of Northumberland. Take Alexander seeds and Parsley seed of each alike much, and beat them together in a Mortar, and seethe it in Malmsey, and seethe withal unset time, and parsley Leaves and seethe it from a pottle to a quart, and strain it, drink it warm. To make one make water presently. Take the inner skin, or pill o● the Gizem ●f a Dove, dry it to powder, and give it to drink with white wine, I think the skin of one Gizern is scarce enough. To procure a man to piss well. Take the kernels of Ash keys dried and made into fine powder, and drink a scruple of the powder fasting in seven spoonfuls of white wine warm. To procure urine that is stopped. Take borage roo●s mundified and sliced, and boil them in clarified posset Ale, made with Ale and white wine, and drink a good draught thereof with a little Sugar at any time in your infirmity. Probat. A special receipt to help sharpness of urine. Make Posset drink of a pint of milk, and a pint of Ale, then take three roots of Housleek, and pick the leaves, stamp and strain them, and put the juice into the posset drink, Let it boil a walm or two, then drink it warm at any time of the day morning and evening, but not at meals, and as oft as you think good. An Injection for burning of urine. Take of fountain water four pound. Passul▪ exacinat. five ounces, foliorum Plantaginis five handful: foliorum fragariae, Poligoni, rosarum one pulgil, quatuor seminum frigid. majorum mundatorum one ounce, Aluminis three ounces, boil them and add two pound of the decoction Mellis rosati colati, six ounces, I doubt the Allume is of the most for smarting, which if it be, somewhat les●e may be put in next the Mel rosarum. I think the less to be with the most, but that is a good wholesome, cleansing, healing and mitigating thing, so that there can be no hurt with it, but the waste of it. A powder for the heat of urine. Take Seminis Portulac● one ounce, Endivi● Seminis, Lactucae, Scariolae, acetosae, one half dram, Seminum communium frigidor▪ majorum one ounce, Papaveris albi, half one ounce, Sacchari ad duplum, f●at tra●ea; And a little before dinner and supper eat a spoonful of this powder for this purpose, but if the patient have a shaking ague withal then the coldness of the powder is apt to draw on the 〈◊〉 and to make his fits come often as hath been proved. F●r them which make very foul or red water. Take the juice of Ribwort, and drink it warm with Ale once or twice a day, also for man that pisseth blood seethe garlic in water till two parts be wasted, and let him drink ●f that water and he shall be whole. To provoke urine and a assuage the belly. Dry Pellitory into powder, and drink a spoonful of the powder in white wine first and ●ast, and it shall assuage you, you may take ●esl● sometimes, as now and then half a spoonful with a Mess of pottage or broth. A receipt for the stone. Drink the distilled water of bean flowers at ●●l times when you feel heat in your back, ●hich will bring away all gravel and loose ●ones, it's not good to use it too often, lest ●● should break the stones too fast. ● good Medicine for one that cannot piss by reason of the stone. Take snails that carry shells, a good hand●●, lay them in the fire, and they will creep ●ur of their shells, then take the shells and beat ●hem to powder and let the party drink the ●owder in some posset ale, or such like drink. For the stone. Take white Saxifrage roots, Parsley, Pierstone, the Kernels of Ashen keys, of each an handful, of Ringus roots two handfuls, bruise them well in a Mortar, and then boil them with si● gallons of Ale or beerwort so long as wort is usually boiled, then put all into a v●ssel, and when it shall be stale enough drink every morning next your heart half an ale pint. This being very often or every day taken, you shal● never be troubled with the stone, though you had been much troubled with it before. A receipt for the stone used by Sir Trever Williams. Take the quantity of a Walnut of the best Leaven and half so much of bay salt, put them together in a pint of milk and stir them with a spoon until they dissolve; Then let them stand covered all night, then strain it, and drink it in the morning, fast one hour after and for that space keep yourself walking. To prevent the stone. Take a penny pot worth of white wine, and put into it the quantity of a small nut of the finest castle soap scraped very small, and then warm it a little by the fire, and then drink it, and walk after it one hour, take this two days in a week, or in a month as you find yourself by your water. To make a water for the stone. In the Month of May, or in the beginning of June, when oxen go to grass, you shall take of their dung not too fr●sh, nor too dry, which you shall distil fair and softly, that it may not smell of th● smoke, into some vessel▪ of glass. Then take two or three Radish roots cut into small pieces, and put the radishes so cut into a vial and fill it with greek or good white wine, or good strong Malmsey, letting it stand in the sun close stopped all one day, and one might; And then take one part of that wine, and two parts of the water of ox dung, half a pint of Strawberry water, three or four drops of Lymons juice or Citrous juice, and let there be of all half a glassful or somewhat more, into the which you shall put a piece of Sugar to taste it withal, which Medicine must be given in the morning and the patient must walk after it, you must also incorporate inh●s water this powder following, or else this Medicine is of small effect. The powder for the stone: Take the seeds of blue violets or march violets, and the seeds of common Burrs with their ●ittle seed and all, or ripe burrs, put them to dry in a oven, for else it will be hard to stamp them ●o powder, then stamp them with their seed. ●his done take a quick hare and strangle her ●hat no drop of blood be lost, with a strong ●ord, put him so whole or in pieces into an ●●arthen pot close stopped, the feet, head, guts, skin and all, and so let the pot in a 〈◊〉 that the Hare may be burned to powder, and then stamp your Hare with your other two powders of Burr and violets, and dry oaken leaves well beaten to powder four ounces, of dry Saxifrage or of Sampire one pound beaten to powder, bay-berries five ounces Let all these things be well beaten to powder, sisted and well mingled together. Give unto the patient so much as will lie upon a groat, making him to drink it to his breakfast in the morning fasting, in white wine. And let him do this o●t-times, It's the most exquisitest thing in the world: And although both new as ●ell as old Physicians have very well traveled for this disease of the stone and Strangury, yet this is the best and soveraignest thing that can be given to a Christian man. Both the water going before, and this powder must be applied as one medicine, so it seemeth that this powder may be taken either in white wine, or in the aforesaid water, or in white wine mingled with the said water, or in the said water without any white wine, which is thought to be the best, the said water being accounted so precious for this purpose, and of purpose distilled for this use as appeareth in the end of the receipt of the said water. Note Mr. Louth saith, that the very blood 〈◊〉 the Hare dried to powder & drunk with white wine is excellent for the stone, and in red wine for women's diseases for the superfluity of the flowers, Probat. For the stone in the back, bladder, Kidneys and stomach. Take the roots of Philipendula, that's to say the round knots thereof, gather them after Lamma● and grate them and take it in Ale, or white wine. The cold diuretics are the best for the stone, when diuretics are to be used for it or f●r any other obstructions of the Kidneys which are the four cold seeds, the greater, Semen Alkakengi, radix graminis & acetosae. And therefore is cited Valeseus who saith that nothing is more excellent for the stone than Vinum Alkakengi or the distilled water thereof, and to use the wine in winter, and the water in summer, the branches and fruit of Alkakengi being in equal portions mixed and then bruised and then put into the wine, which must be used when the effect cometh from a cold cause, And the reason is that the hot diuretics, which are wont to be used against the stone do increase the hot distemperature engendering the stone; And therefore what good the said hot diuretics do one day, they do hurt another. And the cold diuretics are not only good for the present evil but do also resist the efficient cause and do stay the generation of the said stone. Thus much out of Valeseus as aforesaid, Whereby I gather that in a hot cause the water of the said Alkakengi is best and fittest and to use the wine and ale, for he prescribeth the win● when the effect proceedeth from ● cold cause, and also the wine in winter, and the water in summer, which observe, whether th● stone may proceed of a cold cause, obstructions of slime may, therefore for the stone the water is likely to do best, the wine in winter may be good as he saith, and for s●ime the wine may be good or better, if cold slime without biting heat, but it seemeth the coldness which he Commends i● the coldness of the diverticks; and if the ●ffect do pr●ce●d f●om a cold, than the wine may do well ●r b●st wi●h it. Als● Mr. ●ogan in his chap●e● of the p●eservati●● 〈◊〉 cu●● of the stone in the kidneys, and bladder, ●●th that the water of glamen or Couchgrass with a little pure thin wine is a si●gula. Medicine for that purpose, also he saith that win● of Alkakengi, is a good preservative, or the fruit condited with sugar. Thus much for the stone. The Womb, its remedies. For the flux of the w●mb. In all fluxes of the belly, cause the excrements to be duly searched, for if the disease be such, that the meat cometh forth, as it was received, or not half digested, the said Flux is called Lienteria, if great abundance of watery humours have their I●●●e below, the said Flux is named Diarhaea, which is as much to say as Flux humoral, and if blood or matter appear with the excrements in the sickness, than they call it dysenteria, which is a great disease and dangerous fo● to cure. Take the rinds of Mirabolane cirtin ba●e● ●●e dram, Rhubarb a little dried, half a dram, ●rup of quinces one ounce, water of plantain three ounces, mingl● altogether & let the pati●●t drink th●m, ●our hour●s before meat, and ●hen give him a Clyster Retentive made thus, ●ake oil of roses or quinces, of mastic of ●ach ●e three ounces, ●ole armoniac in powder a ●●ains, meddle altogether & give it as a Clyster, here is to be noted that the Clyster: that ●e given to stop a Flux must be very little in quantity. Ye may heal the Flux dysenteria as the flux ●um●ral, and take afore your re●ast two drams ●f conserveses of quinces, and he ought to drink ●●ter wherein hath been quenched gads of ●eel, ye must avoid diversity of meats. A purgation for the flux humoral. Take two drams of Mirabolanes dried on tile, half a scruple ●f Agarick in trochisk, half ● ounce of Syrup, of Mints, or two ounces of ●●ater of bawm, and make a potion to be revived three or four hours afore meat. For the suffocation of the matrice. The matrice in a woman oftentimes mounteth ewards the midriff and the stomach with intolerable pain & is called suffocation, because 〈◊〉 it is choked, overcharged with some evil ● superfluous matter, as by stopping of due ●g●tions or too much abstenence of Venus, ●hereby often chanceth shortness of breath, ●●in of the head, swooning, trembling of the ●●art, contraction of members, and otherwhiles ●●th without remedy. A drink for pain of the mother. Take one dram of Mithridate and dissolve in an ounce and a half of water of wormwood and give it her to drink afore she go to me● four hours. Another to provoke the flux of the Matrice. See the Marigolds, nept and savine in good al● and drink it with a good quantity of Saffr● and a little honey and sugar. Item fifteen bla● seeds of Peony drunken in wine with safir● purgeth the Matrice of humours, and other f●teen of the red seeds stauncheth it again or another Flux of ●he mother. These Herbs a● good to purge the Matrice, Rue, Peony, Savin● Betony, nept, Valerian, Maydenhair, Hor● hound, Savary, Parsley, Gromel, Alisader, Marigolds, smallage and Time. The Terms or flowers, their Remedies. F●r suppression or retaining of the flowers or M●●struus. If the blood be too gross and thick you mu● every month give her the syrup of sumito●● with the decoction of borage and bugloss a●● ●ther bathe herself with fresh water hot. And ●hen she goeth out of the bath into the bed ●e must receive the aforesaid Syrup and de●●tion of the Herb called Rubea tinctorum or ●●adder, s●dden in clear water. In stead of Sy●ps ye may take the very juice or decoction the Herbs. And if the woman's blood be slimy, cold, ●nd Phlegmatic, than she must drink Syrup of stechadoes and of oxymel diuretic and afterwards take the pills called Faetidae and of Aquae ●●rick, and every morning after she must ●●ke a dram of Trochiskes of M●rrhe with two ●●nces of the decoction of juniper berries ●d thereupon drink two ounces of water of ●●gwort. Moreover it is a proved & expert Medicine, ● give the first day of the new Moon a ●●im of powder made of Borax, which the●●ldsmiths do occupy, with as much Cinnamon ●●d a little water of smallage. It is good to help and provoke the said purtion by such things as open, which must be ●en at such time of the Moon as the said wo●●n were wont to have the same. ● the overflowing of the menstruus and for the retaining of the same. To provoke the terms a most expert medicine, and secret. A certain herb called ●●ri●n, not that with co●s and stones in the ●●t, but that which hath a root like the hand ● man with fingers, and the root of one ●● drieth and groweth in the end of the ●●r, the other a green root; Take three leaves, otherwise one or two, otherwise thre● green roots of that Herb daily and give it fo● nine days in broth, or roasted or fried without broth as you will and it shall effect, an● give of the dry roots in the same and the● shall cease, etc. A most approved Experiment to provoke the Menstruiss. Take of tryphera magna the quantity of great Nut, and put to it the Shall gem the quantity of a filbird nut, let them be mixed an● tempered with white wine, or eat it with Rue● For the dropsy and to provoke the flowers a●● urine. Cantharideses (the head and other things t●ken away,) burned and brought to a powder the dose is a dram with white Wine in th● evening, Probatum est. Item, a gum called Serapine, mixed with t●● juice of Savine or Centory, and it causeth a dea● child to issue forth. To bring down women's terms. Bruise the roots of Celendine and wear the in your socks, next to your bare feet, and will cause them to break and come down wit● in four days or less in plentiful manner which then presently take away. A medicine for the green sickness and to cause●● flowers. Take Nep, unset Hyssop, Lavender Cotte● ●ngelica leaves, mother of time, French Mal●wes, Germander, Fetherfew, of each a good ●ndful, boil them in two gallons of spring ●ater to one gallon, then strain it, then put to two good sticks of Liquerice scraped and guised flat, and one pint of pure clarified ●●y, then boil it again four or five walmes ●●d drink thereof fasting and one hour before ●pper, and use exercise. A medicine to stop over much abundance of Flowers. Take Shepherds purse, knotgrass, and red ●changel, a little quantity, pound them a●der and not all together, then take the juice each of them, and put one spoonful of ●●e juice of every one of them into six spoon●●● of stale Ale, for Ale is better than Beer this case, and drink it of, and use this drink ●orning and evening. To make this Electuary, take red Coral in ●●e powder two ounces & a half, white Coral fine powder two ounces, Sanguis Draconis fine powder three ounces, put to it two ●●nces of conserve of red roses and mingle ●●em well together; of this Electuary, first take ●●e quantity of three beans morning and ●●ening to bedward, and within one quarter of hour after take of the drink aforesaid cold, warm will hinder the force of it, this is a ●●ble Electuary and drink in that case. For the red Flux in women. Take a dram of Persicum Philonium in a sufficient quantity of plantain water to carry down as a Vehiculum, which is the Physicians word to carry things down, drink this fasting and anoint the Navel and the belly about the Navel and all the back over with Vnguentum Comit●ssae, & make two plasters the one for th● belly about the Navel, and the other, for th● other for the whole back parts and appl● them thereto and wear them nights and day●● for a good while, you must take the Phy oniu● Persicum divers days together in manne● aforesaid for four or five days together and stay to see what good you find, if you hav● not found it stay before, and if it be n●● stopped, than you must take it again and 〈◊〉 the ointment and plaster still until it sto● and if this will not help it and stop it, n●thing will do it, as one Master Ber●ington ●● confidently assure out of his own practice. For the whites proved. Take a pint of spring water and stone the● in half a pound of prunes and put ther● with them two spoonfuls of sugar, and ●● morning's together drink three or four spoonfuls of the water, and fast an hour after. For rising of the M●ther. Take some knops of Amber otherwise led Succinum, and cast them upon a chaf● dish of coal● until they make a great smooth and then hold your mouth open over chaffing dish and receive the fume 〈◊〉 as you can, and cast a good, linen cloth ab● your head and face to keep in the fume that as little go by as may be. A specia medicine for the mother or wind or spleen which riseth about the heart. Take Fenugreek, Liquerice, Fennel seeds, Anniseeds, Alexander seeds, co●●ander seeds prepared, Parsley seed one ounce, and beat them together; then take Cinnamon half an ounce and saffron one scruple and beat them to powder altogether, and temper with clarified honey or sugar making thereof an Electuary and eat of it morning and evening. Probat. A medicine for the whites and weakness of nature. Take the whites of four Eggs dried and made into powder, two Nutmegs, ●he weight of six pence in Cinnamon, the weight of two pence in Mace, the weight of ten pence in ●ed Saunders make all these into fine powder and take of this powder as much as will lie on a six pence in a rear egg or with Muscadine or mace ale, and sometimes broth every morn●ng for a months' space together; for your di●t forbear milk, butter, roots, and Herbs, claret and w●ite wine, and especially pigeon's flesh. To cure the Mother. Take Gr.ii. of Musk in conserve of Gillyflowers ●nd it must be taken inward, It will melt in ●our mouth. A good Medicine for one that feareth to miscall with child. Take yarrow and stamp it and strain th● juice and three spoonfuls of new milk war● from the cow, mingle them together an● sweeten with sugar. To make a caudle to strengthen one that is with child and is weak. Make a caudle with whites of Eggs and ● y●lks, and boil in it a stick of Cinnamon, whic● rose leaves, and white Archangel flowers, an● hartshorn; boil all these together and so drin● it. To make a woman have a quick delivery and sma●● pain. Take leaves of Betony, stamp them an● strain them, or else make powder of them an● give the woman to drink in a little water. To cleanse the matrix after the Childbirth. Take a quart of Claret. Wine and burn i● and set it on the fire again, and as it boileth p●● into it 2. or 3. spoonful of Embers, than stra●● it from the ashes this do two or three time● then powder it with powder of Sugar and suc● Syrups as are fit for the woman's body, if s●● be hot and costive, Syrup of Violets, but if s●● be Laxative not that but Syrup of cowslips, 〈◊〉 good to give her in broth oil of sweet A●monds. To drive away the after pain of a woman. Take mother time, picked clean from the stalk and shred small, the quantity of a spoonful, and put to it as much salt as the quantity of a hazel Nut, and put it in a draught of broth or caudle and give it the Woman to drink immediately after she's delivered, the sooner the better, the Herbs must be raw. A medicine to fetch away a dead child's after burden. Take a handful or two of Mugwort stamped ●● chopped which you please, then take a quantity of barley meal and mingle it with a little fair water set over the fire, and boil till it be ●o thick to spread on a cloth, then put into it some barrows grease as much as an Egg, and so 〈◊〉 and spread it on a cloth and lay it beneath the Navel of the woman and not above in any ●●●e, and assoon as it hath brought away anything, take it away, for it maketh that way as ●●ng as it's on, and will bring away that which ●● should not bring, if it lie on after thats gone which you would have away. A present remedy for a woman that travaileth with child. Take Hyssop, Vervine and Betony of each ●●e handful, stamp them well and temper ●hem with stale Ale, then strain it, and wring ●ut the juice and give a good draught thereof 〈◊〉 her to drink, and she shall be delivered with speed, and the child saved and she both, fo●●ts proved. To deliver a woman of a dead child. Take Camomile and give it in clear posset drink, is good to ease t●e pain, colic or griping pain of the body, stamp it and strain it in● to white Wine, and give it a woman that hath a dead child within her and it will cause he● presently to be delivered. The Gout. Remedies for the Gout. THe pain in the joints of a man's body as in the hands and feet is generally calle● Arthritis or gout, which proceedeth sometime of debility of the sinews being lashed and unable to consume the humours that continually Flow unto them. And for the most part they are derive● from the member Mandant, that is to say th● brain, for he is very gross and engendereth every humour in himself, by reason whereo● much of the said humours are derived into the Nuke and muscles of the back, and from thence they descend into the feet or to th● Hucklebone or else into the hands. Remedy. And since all the said kinds come or are caused of one beginning, and for the better expedition in that, we will be brief, ye shall first take away the superfluous moisture of the brain, which is the root and fountain of all the said diseases, and that ye may do four manner of ways. The first observance is of diet inclining to dryness and to avoid all fullness of meat and drink, and not to sleep in any wise after meat. And ye must beware that ye eat no vaporous meats nor thin Wine, nor drink much after supper; And if perchance the pain be very sharp it shall be wholesome to abstain from all kinds of wine, and ●o use himself to small drink which thing if he cannot do, let him drink Claret wine mixed with a good quantity of water. The second is to purge the brain once a month with the one half of Pills of Cochia ●nd another half of Pills of Assajareth and in ●ime of harvest and of summer with Pills 〈◊〉 quibus and Pil. imperial. Whereof ye shall give one dram the night before the full Moon, ●nd the day following ye may give him to eat little broth of Cicers, with a little quantity of raisins of the sun. The third is to repress ●he sums that ascend into the brain after ●eat, which thing may be done by eating a ●●ttle dredge made of Aniseed and Coriander. The fourth is to perfume the brain with certain things comfortative as for example thus. Take fine frankincense, Sandrach and Mastic, ●f every one an ounce, of Lignum Aloes a d●●m, make them all in gross powder and perfume therewith stupes made of Flax or o● Cotten and lay upon the head; And when ye● have by this means well and duly comforted the brain and defended the original cause o● the said disease, ye shall proceed to take away the matter conjoynt that is descended into the sinews and ye shall begin thus. First ye must preserve the body from in ● gendering of humours, in taking every morning next your heart a conserve made of Alcherine● and of Flowers of Rosemary mingled with ● little Nutmeg and Mastic, and if ye be 〈◊〉 power, ye may drink a good draught o● hippocras or other spiced drink after meat●, 〈◊〉 dinner and at supper. Secondly ye shall understand that whosoever doth intend to be holpen of the Gout, he must every year 〈◊〉 purged two times, prepa●ing fi●st the matte● to digestion with Syrup of Staecadoes and duobus radicibus with the one half of waters of Sage primroses and Marjerom in manner of spiced ●ulep with Cinnamon, taken five continual mornings, two hours after ye eat any other meat, And after that ye must receive a dra●● of pills called Arth●eticae or Hormodactyl, or o● both together equal portions, or take half 〈◊〉 ounce, of Diacarthami two hours after night and of Diaturbith, of every two drams wit● a little Syrup of Hyssop. The rest of the said curation, shall be accomplished with the applying of divers loca● remedies, whereof there be sundry sorts her● declared, ye ought to rub the place that is sor● with oil of roses and a little vinegar, and after sprinkle upon the same, fine powder o● Myrtles. Another plaster also as hereafter followeth, A plaster for the gout. Take the Emplaster called Melilot, two ounces, of Populeon, an ounce and an half, red roses, myrtles and Flowers of Camomile, of every one a dram, make a plaster and lay upon the gouty joint. Another. Take oil of roses, crumbs of bread, yolks of Eggs, and cow's milk with a little Saffron, seethe them a little together, afterward spread them upon clouts, and lay upon the sore. Another. Make Lie of the Ashes of Rosemary or of oak or of bean-stalks, and boil it in sage, mol●in, prime rose, Camomile and Melilor, and receive the fume upon the sore place, or wet clouts in the said decoction, and lay them upon the pain. All the said Remedies are very good, to assuage the pain of the gout, after the which done, it is good to go about the comforting of the joints and sinews, and to that intent apply oil of Camomile, and of Althaea or Holihock, oil of a Fox, oil of earth worms, oil of primrose, turpentine, wherewithal or with one or two of them, ye may anoint the sore place, and comfort both the joints and sinews marvellously: also this ointment that followeth, is singular good for the same purpose. T●ke five or six handfuls of Walwort, and seethe them well in wine, then strain them and with a little wax, oil of spick, and Aqua vit● make an ointment, wherewith ye must anoint the place morning and evening every day. Medicines for the gout appropriate in all cases. Take Cowes dung and seethe it in sweet milk, and lay a plaster to the gout hot, also the yolks of eggs, woman's milk, linseed and Saffron, altogether in a plaster suageth the diseases of the gout And if ye be disposed to break the skin, and so let the humours issue, as by such many one is eased ye shall make a plaster of b●ack soap and Aqua vitae, which will blister it without any great pain. Also very old hard cheese cut and sodden in the broth, of a gamon of bacon, and afterward stamped with a little of the br●th and made in manner of a plaster, is a singular remedy for diseases of the gout, and was first practised by Galen the prince of all Physicians. A Medicine to ease the gout and to bring down any swelling in feet, leg, ●r arm. Take a quart of milk f●om the Cow and crumb into it a penny white Loaf and put into 〈◊〉 as much Dears suet as a pullet's egg, and boil ●t to the thickness of a pultis, and spread it w●ll and thick on a cloth, so broad as will cover the g●ie and renew it once in twenty four hours, and if your pa●n cease not use it so as long again, and it will cure the grief and draw out streaks o● blood. This medicine cured one in such extremity and pain of the gout, when he continually crved, and could neither go nor ride; and never grieved since so perfectly was he cured. For l●gs swollen of any manner of disease. Take pellitory and seethe it well in white Wine and wash the leg● in the water, and lay the Herbs about the L●gs plasterwise and it will assuage within five hours. P●obatum est. For the gout. Take half a peck of snails, a quart of bay salt, and put them in a bowl and bruise them together, then take them and put them in a bag, and let them drop in any thing so you preserve the oil. To cure and ease the gout. Apply to the gouty place, a pultiss made of barley and brooklemp hot in the time of extremity and let it lie twenty four hours. A pultis of barley to assuage swelling in the legs to mollify the hardness, Boil in a gallon of water, one quart of hulled barley very tender, and put therein a good Allume stone, and being tender, drain the water from it, and to bedward lay it on a cloth a good thickness and lay it over the swelling reasonable warm, leeting it lie twenty four hours, and u●e it three or four daye● together Probat. For the Gout: Take Caro Costinum an ounce and dissolve 〈◊〉 in white wine, and drink it about half a pint and use the party as after a purge, and th● effect is wrought by purging, approved by many Gent. A medicine for the Sciatica. For a man take the urine of a man child● and let it stand in some vessel for nine daye● and then separate the clear urine from th● thick, and put it into a vessel, and put to th● clear urine a good quantity of the juice 〈◊〉 Cullerage, male Culrage, which hath spotte● leaves of a black colour, and boil it together till half be consumed, and it will be an ointment, with which anoint the patient by th● fire, and he shall be cured, which hath been often tried. And for a woman take the urine of a female child, and of the ●uice of Culrage without spots and do as for the man. An experienced medicine for the Sciatica. Take Jvy, Mugwort, walwort and the Inner rind of an Elder tree, and seethe them in fair water with a good quantity of salt, and bathe the sore place well therewith three or four times a day for the space of nine days together, and doubtless this will cure it▪ An excellent oil for an ache only to be made in the month of May, oil of Rosemary Flowers. Take a thin glass of a pottle, and fill the glass ●ull of Rosemary Flowers very finely and purely picked, put no liquor at all thereto but the pure Flowers only, and stop the glass very close that no air get therein, then set the said glas● in the sun against a wall out of the wind, and there let it stand all the said month of May▪ In the end of May you shall ●ind the said Flowers dissolved into a very s●eet oil, which oil clarify it into another glas●●rom the grounds; And this said oil stop close and keep it diligently, for its an excellent and proved remedy, against any manner of ache in the Joints or otherwise. A powder for the Sciatica. Take Betony Ce●taury one two ounces, Dit●anie, rue, one 6▪ ounce make all these into fine powder seared and kept in a box, the dose to be given is one dram in a draught of white Wine bedward to sleep, Probatum. A plaster f●r all aches and pains in any part of the body. Take a quarter of a pound of pure Rosen, and unwrought wax, Dears suet, or sheep's suet of equal quantity, melt them altogether, three or four spoonfuls of Salad oil, black soap of the bigness of a Walnut, stir all together, take it from the fire, put in your Linen first made fi● for the place grieved, then hang them on a string till it be cold. It will take away the pain and disease, use it to any par● of the body where th● pain is, whether in the joints, swellings, Sciatica, often proved upon myself▪ I will not leave the use of it f●r gold. children's Diseases. The Head, Remedie●●or the Distempers of their Heads. For the apostume of the brain and swelling. IN which cases the child cannot rest and is ever loath to have his head touched cryeth and vexeth itself as it were in a Frenzy. Remedy. Make a bath of Mallows, Camomile and Lilies sodden with a sheep's head till the bones fall, and with a sponge or soft clouts all to bathe the head of the child, in a cold apostume with the broth hot as may be suffered, but in a hot matter, with the broth luke warm, or in the cooling and after the bath set on a plaster thus. Take Fenugreek, Camomile, wormwood, of every one a handful, seethe them in a close vessel till the third part be consumed, then stamp them in a mortar and stir them, to the which ye shall put of the same broth again enough to make a plaster wi●h a little bean flower, yolks of Eggs and Saffron, adding to them fresh butter or duck's grease, sufficient, and apply it; in a cold matter let it lie a day but in a hot cause ye must remove it every six hours. For swelling of the head, Which cometh of a windy matter, which is manifest to the sight by the swelling or puffing up, and pressed with the fing●r there remaineth a print, which is a sign of wind and viscous humours, ye shall heal it thus; Take an handful o● f●nnel, Smallach and di●l, and seethe them in water in a close vessel, afterward stamp them, and wi●h a little Cummin and oil of bitter Almonds make it up and lay it often to the child warm; In default of oil of Almonds take goose grease adding a little vinegar. And it is good to bathe the place with a s●ft cloth or a sponge in the broth of these Herbs. Rue, Time, Marjoram Hyssop, Fennel, Dill, Cummin, Salintra, Mints, Radish roots, rocket, or some of them, ever taking heed that there drop not the Medicines in the babes eyes, mouth or ears. For scales and ulcers in the Head▪ If ye see the scales like shells of oysters, blac● and dry cleaving upon the ●kin one within another, ye may make a fomentation of ho● and moist herbs, as Fenugreck, Holihock, Bear● breech, Linseed and such other sodden, all 〈◊〉 some of them, in the broth of neat's feet, an● so to bathe the scres, And after that apply 〈◊〉 soft plaster of the same Herbs with goose grease or butter, using this still till ye see th● scab removed: and then wash it with the juic● of Horehound, Smallach and Betony sodot● together in wine, and after the washing pu● upon it powder of Myrrh, Aloes, and Frankincense, or hold his head over a chaffing dish 〈◊〉 coals wherein ye shall put frankincense an● Saunders in powder. But if ye see the scab very sore and mattery with great pain an● burning of the h●ad ye shall make an ointment to cool the matter thus. Take whi●e Led and Litarge of each fiv● drams, lie made of the ashes of a vine thre● drams, oil of roses an ounce, wax an ounce melt the wax first then put to the oil, and li● with the rest, and in the end two yolks o● Eggs, make an ointment and lay it to the head. This is the composition of Rasis. Another. Take Betony, groundsel, plantain, Fumitory and daisies, of every one like much stamp them, and mingle them with a pound of fresh swine's grease, and let them stand closed in a moist place eight days to putrify, then fry them in a pa●, and s●●ain them in a clean vessel and ye shall have a green ointment of singular operation for the sa●d disease and to qu●nch all unkind heats of the body, also ye must use to shave the head, whatsoever things ye do lay unto it. If there do lack cleansing of the sores and the child wounded, ye shall do well to make ointment of a little Turpentine, bull's gall and honey and lay upon the sores. The juice of morrel, daisy leaves and groundsel fried with grease and made in an ointment, cooleth all unkind heats and p●stules of the head. Moreover the child's head may not be kept hot for that is sometimes the cause of this disease. Sometimes there breedeth in children's heads as it were little warts or Knobs somewhat hard and cannot be resolved by the said Medicines. An excellent remedy for warts or Knobs of the head. Take Litarge and white lead of each a like quantity, of brimstone and quick silver quenched with spittle▪ of each a less quantity, twice as much oil of Roses and a spoonful or two of vinegar, mix them all together on a Marble till they be an ointment and lay it on the head, and when it hath been dry an hour or two, wash it off with water wherein was sodden Marjerone Savory and Mints, use it thus twice a day morning and evening till ye see it whole▪ This thing is also good in the other kind o● scales. Rhasis description. Anoint the forehead and temples of th● child, with oil of violets and vinegar, putting a drop or two into the Nostrils, and if y●● can get any Syrup of Poppy give to the child● to lick, and then mak● a plaster of oil o● Saffron, lettuce and the juice of poppy, o● we● clouts in it and lay it overthwart th● temples Also the seed● a●d the heads of Poppy ca●led Ches●uls stamped with Rose-water, an● mixed with with woman's milk, and the whit● of an Eg● beaten altogether and made into ● plaster causeth the child to receive his natural sleep. Also an ointment made of the seed of poppy and the heads one ounce, oil of Lettuc● and of Poppy of each two ounces, make a● ointment and use it. They that cannot get these oils may tak● the Herbs or juice of Lettuce, purslane, hous● leck and poppy and with woman's milk, make a plaster and lay it to the forehead. Oil of Violets, of roses, of Nenuphar ar● good, and oil of Populeon, the broth of Mallows sodden and the juice of water plantain. The cure of a palsy in a child is not like to that in elder age, for the Sinews be very nesh and tender and they ought to have a much weaker medicine, evermore regarding the power of the sickness, and the virtue or debility of the grieved patient. 〈◊〉 shall be good for the nurse to eat a Electuary made after this sort. Take mints, Cinnamon, Cummin, rose leaves▪ dried Mastic, fen●gr●ck, valerian Ameo●, dor●●ici zed●arii, clove●, Sa●●ders and lignum aloes, of ev●ry one a d●a●▪ Mu●k half a dram, make an Electuary with clarified honey and let her eat it, and give the child● as much as half a nut every day to swallow. A p●aster. Take an ounce of wax and a dram of Euph●●bium at the Apothecaries, and temper it with oil olive on the fire, & make a cerecloth to comfort the back bone and sinews Take lie of ashes and seethe therein bay-berries and as much peony seeds in a close vessel to the third part, and wash the child often with the sa●●. I●em, a bath of savoury, Marjoram, time, Sage, Nepte, Smallage, and mints or some of them is very good and wholesome, Also to rub the back of the child and limbs with oil of Roses and spike mixed together warm and in stead of it ye may take oil of bays. Of the Cramp or Spasmus. This disease is often seen among children and cometh very lightly, as of debility of the Nerves and cords, or else of gross humours, that suffocate the same, the cure of which i● delared by Authors to be done by frictions and ointments that comfort the sinews, and dissolve t●e matter, as oil of Flower de luce and the roots of Peony▪ ●tem. oil of Camomile, Fenugreck and Melilote, or the herbs sodden, Betony, wormwood, Vervine and time are exce●ding g●od to wash the child in, I●em, the plaster of Euphorbium written in the Cure of the Palsy. Of Starkness and stiffness of the Limbs. When a young child● is so taken with a cold I esteem it best to bathe the body in luke warm water wherein hath been sodden Marjoram and time, Hyssop, Sage, Mints an● such other good and comfortable herb●, then to relieve it with meats of good nourishment according to the age and necessity, and if need be when ye see the limbs yet stark make an ointment after this form. Take a good handful of nettles and stamp them, then seethe them in oil to the third part in a double vessel, keep that ointment in a dry place, for it will last a great while and it is a singular remedy ●or the stiffness that cometh o● cold, and whoso anointeth his hands and f●et with it in the morning shall not be grieved with cold all the day after. The seeds of nettles gathered in Harvest and kept for the same intent, is exceeding good sodden in oil, or fried with swine's grease, which thing is also very good to heal the kibes of heel, called in Latin Perniones. When the cause cometh not by extreme cold but of ●ome other affection of the sinews and cords, i● best to make a bath or a fomentation of ●erbs that resolve and comfort the sinews ●ith relaxation of gross humours. The Eyes, Remedies for their Distempers in Children. ●●mours, and to open the pores, as by example thus. Take Mallows, Hollihock and dill of each a ●●ndful or two, seethe them in the water of ●eat●feet, or in the broth of flesh without 〈◊〉, with a handful of bran and Cummin, in ●hich ye shall bathe the child as warm as he ●ay suffer, and if ye see necessity▪ make a ●●aster of the same Herbs and lay it to the 〈◊〉 with a little goose grease, or duck's grease, it may be got, oil of Camomile, of Lilies and 〈◊〉 dill, clothes wet in the said decoction and 〈◊〉 about the members helpeth. Of blood ●●otten eyes and other infirmities. The cause is often too much crying, for the ●hich drop into the eye a little of the juice Morrel, otherwise called Morel, and to ●noint the forehead with the same, and if 〈◊〉 eye swell, to wet a cloth in the juice and 〈◊〉 white of Eggs, and lay it to the grief. 〈◊〉 the humour be clammish and tough and cleaveth to the corners of the eye, so that the child cannot open them, af●er his sleep it shall be removed with the juice o● Housleek dropped on the eye with a feather▪ When the eye is bloodshot it is a singular remedy to put in the blood of a young p●g●on, or a dove, or a partridge, ●●ther hot from the bird or else dried and made in powder as subtle 〈◊〉 may be possible▪ A plaster for swelling and pain of the eyes. Take Qu●ices a●d crumbs of white bread and seethe it in water till they be soft, the● stamp them, and with a little 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 yolks of two Eggs, make a plaster to th● child's eyes and ●o●ehead; ye may let him receive the fume o● that decoction. It is als● good in the Meg in. For watering eyes. Hartshorn brent in powder and washe● twice, Guiacum otherwise called Lignum Sanc● Corticum thuris▪ Antimony, of each one part, mus● the third part of one part make a fine powder and use it with the juice or water of Fennel. The Ears, Remedies for Distempers of the Ears of Children. For pain in the Ears, IT is good to drop into the Ears the juice 〈◊〉 organy and milk. For swelling in the Ears. Painter's oil, which is oil of Linseed is exceeding good for the swelling of the ear●, and for pain in the ears of all causes. If ye see the Apostume break and run, ye may cleanse it with the juice of smallach, the white of an Egg, barley flower and honey, which is a common plaster to mundify a sore. When the ●ars have received water or any ot●er liquour, It is good to take and stamp an onion, and ●ring out the juice with a little goose grease, ●nd drop it hot into the ears as may be suffered and lay him down on the contrary side an ●our, after that cause him to neese if his age ●ill suffer with a little pellitory of Spain, or ●eesing powder, and then incline his ear downward that the matter may issue▪ For worms in the Ears. Take Myrrh aloes and the seed of Colocynthis ●●lled Coloquintida at the Apothecaries, a quantity of each, seethe them in oil of roses, ●nd put a little in the Ear. Myrrh hath a great virtue to remove the stench that is caused in ●he ears by any putrefaction, and the better 〈◊〉 oil of bitter Almonds, or ye may take the 〈◊〉 of wormwood with honey and salt 〈◊〉. For wind in the Ears and tinkling. Take Myrrh, and Spicknard, Cummin, Dill 〈◊〉 oil of Camomile and put a drop into the 〈◊〉 Ea●s. They that have not all these may take some of them, and apply it according to discretion. To amend deafness ye shal● make an ointment of a Hare's gall, and the grease or dropping of an Eel, which is a sovereign thing to recover hearing. For sneezing out of measure. Anoint the head with the Juice of Purcelaine, Sorrel and nightshade, or some of them and make a plaster of the white of an Egg and the juice, with a little oil of roses, and emplaster the forehead and temples with the milk of a woman, oil of roses and vinegar a little. The Teeth. To help the breeding of them. IF it come of cold Rheum, make a plaster o● Mastic, Frankincense, Myrrh, wine, an● apply it to the former part of the head. ●fume of the same received in flax and laid upon the child's head is wholesome. To procure easy breeding of Teeth. Anoint the gums with the brains of an har● mixed with as much capon's grease and hone● or any of these things alone is exceeding goo● to supple the gums and the sinews And when the pain is intolerable wi●● Apostume or Inflammation of the gums, m●k● an ointment with oil of Roses with the ju●●● of Morrel otherwise called nightshade, and in lack of it anoint the jaws within with a l●ttle fresh butter and honey. For lack of th● har●s brain ye may take the conni●●, for they be also of the kind of hares, wh●se Maws are of the same effect in Medicine as the Maws of Ha●es. If the gums apostume or swell with so●t flesh full of matter and painful, the best shall be to anoint the sore place with the brain of an ha●● and C●pons grease, equally mixed together, and after that ye have used this once or twice, anoint the gums and apostumations with honey. If this help not t●ke turpentine mixed with a little honey in equal portion. And make a bath for the head of a child in this manner following. Take the flowers of Camomile & dill of each an handful, and seethe them in a quart of pure running water until they be tender, and wash the head afore any meat every morning, for it purgeth the superfluity of the brain, the seams of the skull, and withdraweth humours from the sore place, finally comforteth the brain and all the virtue's animal of the child. The mouth, The Remedies of its Distempers in Chidrens. To cause easy breeding of Teeth. TAke red Coral hanged about the neck, where upon the child should often labour his gums, It helpeth children of the falling evil, and is very good to be made in powder and drunken against all manner of bleeding of the nose or Fundament. Remedies for the canker in the mouth of Children. Take dry red roses and Violets, of each a like quantity, make them in powder and mix them with a little honey, this medicine is very good in a young sucking child, and many times healeth without any other thing at all. But if there be great pain and heat in the sore, ye shall make a juice of purcelaine, lettuce and nightshade and wash the sore with a fine piece of silk, this will abate the brenning, assuage the pain, and kill the venom of the ulcer, but if ye see the Cank●r yet increase with great corruption, and matter ye shall make an ointment after this manner. Take Myrrh, galias, or in default of them open apples, dried Frankincense, of each a like much, of the black berries growing on the bramble, taken from the bush while they be green, the third part of all the rest, make them all in powder and mix them with as much honey and saffron as is sufficient and use it. Another stronger Medicine for the Canker in the mouth of Children. Take the root of Celidonie dried, the rind of Pomegranate dried, red Coral in powder, and the powder of an hartshorn, of each alike, ●och al●o●n a little, fi●st wash the place with wine, or warm water a●d honey, and afterward put on the aforesaid powder, very fine and subtle. The Neck, the throat and breast, Remedies for their Distempers in Children. Another singular medicine for the Canker in the mouth of all ages. TAke Hyssop, Sage, rue, of each one good handful, seethe them in wine and water to the third part, then strain them out and put in it a little white Copper as according to the necessity: that is to say when the sore is great put in the more, when it is small ye make take the less, then add to it a quantity of honey clarified and a spoonful or two of good Aqua vitae, wash the place with it, for it is a singular remedy to remove the malice in a short while, which done ve shall make a water incarnative and healing thus. Take Ribwort, Betony and daisies of each a handful, seethe them in wine and water, and wash his mouth two or three times a day with the same juice. Of Quinsy and swelling of the Thr●at. The Quinsy is a dangerous sickness both in young and old, It is an inflammation of the neck swelling and great pain, sometime it lieth in the very threat upon the Weasand pipe, and then it is exceeding perilous, for it stoppeth the breath and strangleth the patient an●n, otherwhiles it breaketh out like a bouch on the one side of the neck, and then also with very great difficulty of breathing, but it choketh not so soon as the first doth, and it is more obedient to receive Curation. The signs are apparent to sight, that the Child cannot cry, neither swallow down his meat and drink without pain. Remedy. It is good to anoint the grief, with oil of Dill or oil of Camomile and lilies, and to lay upon the head hot clouts dipped in the waters of rosemary, Lavender, and Savory, the chiefest remedy commended of Authors in this outrageous sickness, is the powder of a swallow brent with feathers and all, and mixed with honey, whereof the patient might swallow down a little and the rest anointed upon the pain. I●em, another experiment for the quinsy, and swelling under the ears. Take the Mushroom that groweth upon an Elder Tree, called in English Jews ears, heat it against the afire and put it hot in any drink, the same drink ●s good and wholesome for the Quinsy. Some hold opinion that who so useth to drink with it shall never be troubled with this disease, and therefore carry it about with them in journeys. Of the Cough. Stamp blaunched Almonds and wring them out with the juice of Fennel, or water of Fennel and give it the child to feed with a little sugar. First anoint his head over with honey and press his tongue with your finger, holding down his head that the same may issue. Against the great Cough and heat in the body. Take heads of white poppy and gum D●agagan●, of each alike much, long cucumber seeds as much as all, seethe them in whey with raisins and Sugar, and let the child drink of it twice or thrice a day luke warm or cold. The Stomach, Its Remedies in Children. For straitness of wind. AGainst the straitness of wind which is no quinsy, the consent of Authors do attribute a great effect to Linseed made in powder, and tempered with honey, for the Child to swallow a little at once. For vomiting. It is very good to wash the stomach with warm water of roses, wherein a little Musk hath been dissolved▪ for that by the odour and natural heat giveth a comfort to all the spiritual Members; And than it is good to r●st a Quince tender, and with a little powder of Cloves and Sugar, and give it to the Child. To eat Conserve of Quinces wi●h a little Cinnamon and Cloves, is singular good for the same intent, also ye may make a juice of Quinces, and give the Child to drink with a little Sugar. An ointment for the stomach. Take Gallia Moschata at the Apothecaries xx. grain weight, myrrh a very little, make it up in ointment form with oil of Mastic and water of roses sufficient. To recover an appetite lost. Take a good quantity of rank and lusty Rue and seethe it in a pint of vinegar to the third part or less and make it very strong, whereof if it be a child, ye may take a tossed of brown bread and stamp it with the same vinegar, and lay it plasterwise to the stomach, and for a stronger age, besides the plaster, let him sup morning and evening of the same vinegar. This is also good to recover a stomach lost by coming to a fire after a long journey, and hath a singular virtue to restore a man that swooneth. For a yeaxing or hicket. Make him vomit with a feather or by some other light means, that done, bring it asleep and use to anoint the stomach with oil of Castor, Spike, Camomile and Dill, or two or three of them joined together warm. For Colic and rumbling in the guts. Wash the child's belly with hot water wherein hath been sodden Cummin, Dill and Fennil, after that ●ake a plaster of oil and wax and clap it hot upon a cloth to the belly. Remedy for the flux in a child. First make a bath of Herbs that do restrain, as of plantain, St. john's weed called Hypericon, Knotgrass, Bursa pastoris, and other such or some of them, and use to bathe him in it as hot as ye may well suffer them, then wrap him in with clothes and lay him down to sleep. And if in twice or thrice using the belly be ●o● stopped, ye may take an eggs yelk hard roasted & grind it with a little Saffron, Myrrh and wine, made a plaster and lay to the ●a●il hot, if this succeed not, Take powder of Knotgrass, or the juice there of in a posset drink, or a plaster of the same herb and of shepherd's purse, Bolea●mony and the juice of plantain with a little vinegar, and wheat slower is exceeding good in this case. Another. Take Sorrel seed and the kernels of great Raisins, dried Acorn cups, and the seeds of white poppy of each two drams, saffron a good quantity, make them in powder and temper them with the juice of quinces or Syrup of red Roses, this is a sovereign Medicine in all fluxes of the womb. The pizzle of an hart or stag dried in powder and drunk, is of great effect in this case, which is also approved▪ in the Liver of a beast called in English an otter, The stones of him drunk in powder a little at once, thirty days together, hath healed men for ever, of the falling evil. For stopping and hardness of the belly. In this case ye must always put a little honey in the child's meat, and let the nurse give him hon● to su●k upon his fing●r, and if this will not help, than the next is to mixed a little fine and clear Turpentine with honey, and so to r●solv● it in a saucer, and let the child sup of it a little. The gall of an ox or cow laid upon a clout on the ●avil causeth a child to be loose bellied, likewise an emplaster of a rostad onion, the g●ll of an ox and butter laid upon the belly as hot as he may suffer it. If these will not help ye sha●l take a li●●l● Cotto● and dipped in the said gall put it in the Fundament. And ●t ●s to be noted, that a natural flux is nev●r to be feared a●o●e the seventh day, and except there issue blood it ought not to be stopped afore that time. Remedies for worms in Children. The herb that is found growing upon oysters by the sea side is a singular remedy to destroy worms, and is called ●herefore of the greeks Scolitabotani, that is to say the herb that killeth worms. It must be made in powder, and given with sweet milk to the child to drink. The Physicians call the same herb Corallin●. To kill worms in Children. Take red currants and lay them in vinger of white wine, and let them remain one night steeped in the vinger, and take sugar and make it sweet and take two or three spoonfuls and give the patient to eat and this will make them come away. For worms in the belly or Stomach a most excellent approved Medicine. Take the green buds of Elm, and fry them with fresh butter and lay it hot to the belly or stomach and it presently cur●th the grieved and will cause the worms to avoid. For worms. Take powder of Centory, Carduus Bene●ictus, and Lavender co●ton, one ounce, and towards the full of the M●on, give one scruple, with wort or pure treacle to bedward and it helpeth, also you may spread thereof on the rough side of Leather cut round like a trencher for fruit, and lay it on the child's navel and warm clothes aloft. To kill and avoid chest worms. Take great raisins, pick out the stones and fill them with powder of Myrrh, and give the child fasting and he shall find ease presently. A singular receipt to kill worms. If the child be of age, or of strong constitution, ye may make a few pills of Aloes, and the powder of wormseed, then wind them in a piece of a singing loaf, and anoint them over with a little butter, and let them be swallowed down whole without chewing. The N●vil, It● Remedies. For swelling of the Navel. TAke Spike, or Lavender, half an ounce, make it in powder, and with three ounces of fine and clear Turpentine temper it in an ointment, adding a portion of oil of sweet Almonds. But if it come of crying take a little bean flower, and the ashes of fine lin●en clouts burned, and temper with red wine and honey and lay to the sore. A Plaster for swelling of the Navel. Take Cowes dung and dry it in powder, barley flower and bean flower of each a portion, the juice of knot grass a good quantity, Cummin a little, make a plaster of all and set it to the Navel. Take Cowes dung and seethe it in the milk of the same Cow and lay it the grief. This is also marvellous effectual to help a sudden ache or swelling in the Legs. For the stone in Children. Though it be very hard to be cured, yet in the beginning it is healed thus. First let the nurse be well dieted, or the child if it be of age, abstaining from all gross meat, and hard of digestion, as is Beef and Bacon, salt meats and cheese, then make a powder of the root of Peony dried and minister it with as much honey as shall be sufficient, or if the child a●hor honey make it up with sugar molten a little upon the coals, and give unto the child more or less according to the strength twice a day till ye● see the urine pass easily, ye may also give it in a rear Egg▪ for without doubt it is a singular remedy in Children. Reins and Bladder, Their Remedies in Children. An ointment for the same. OIl of Scorpions, if it may be gotten, is exceeding good to anoint wi●hall, the Members and the neither part of the belly, right against the Bladder. A singular bath for the same intent. Take Mallows, holihock, Lily roots, Linseed and Parietary of the wall, seethe them all in the broth of a sheep's head, and therein use to bathe the child oft times, for it shall open the straitness of the Conduits that the stone may issue, suage the pain and bring out the gravel with the urine, but in more effect when a plaster is made and laid upon the reins and belly, immediately after the bathing. A plaster for the stone. Take Parietary of the wall one portion and stamp it, Doves dung another portion and grind it, then fry them both in a pan with a good quantity of fresh butter, and as hot as may be suffered, lay it to the belly and back, and from four hours to four let it be renewed, this is a sovereign medicine in all manner of ages. Item, another powder which is made thus, Take the kernels or stones that are found in the fruit called Mespiles or of some Meddlers, make them in fi●e powder, which is wonderful good to break the stone without danger, both in old and young. The Chestworms dried and made in fine powder, taken in the broth of Chickens or a little sugar, helpeth them that cannot make their urine. Of pissing in the bed, A powder. Take the wezand of a cock, and pluck it, than burn it to powder, use it twice or thrice a day, the stones of an hedgehog is of the same virtue powdered, Item▪ the claws of a goat made in powder drunken or eaten in pottage. Ruptures. Of bursling. IF it be not utterly incurable it may be healed after this sort. First lay the patient so on his back that his head be higher than his heels, then take and reduce his bowels with your hand into due place, afterward ye shall make a plaster to be laid upon the Cod and bound with a Lace round about the back, after this form. Take Rosin, Frankincense, Mastic, cummin, Linfeed and Aniseed of every one alike, powder of Osmund roots, that is to say, of the ●road fearn the fourth part of all, make a plaster with sufficient oil olive and fresh swine's grease, and spread it on a Leather, and let it continue except a great necessity, two or three weeks, after that apply another like till ye see amendment, In this case it is very good to make a powder of the ears of an hare and to temper it with sugar, or conserve of roses and give it to the child every day. If it be about the age of seven years ye make make a singular receipt in drink to be taken every day twice thus. Take Matfellon, Daisies, Comfery and Osmunds' of every one alike, feethe in the water of a smith's forge to the third part in a vessel covered on a soft fire, then strain it and give to drink of it a good draught at once morning and evening. The Fundament, or right Gut, the falling of the Fundament. If the gut called Rectum Intestinum hath been long out or swollen, that it cannot be reposed, or by coldness of the air hath been so congealed, the best counsel is to set the child on a hot bath made of the decoction of Mallows, Ho●●●hock Linseed and the roots of Lilies, wherein ye shall bathe the Fundament with a soft clout or sponge, and when the place is suppled thrust it in again, which done then make a powder thus. A powder for falling of the Fundament. Take the powder of an hartshorn brent, the cups of Acorns dried, rose Leaves dried, goats claws brent, the rind of a Pomegranate and of galls, of every one a portion, make them in powder and strew on the Fundament. It shall be the better if ye put a little on the gut, afore it be reposed in his place, and after it be settled to put more of it upon the Fundament, then bind it with hot Linen clothes, and give the child quinces or a roasted warden to eat with Cinnamon and Suggar. Another good powder for the same. Take galls, Myrrh, Frankincense, Mastic, and Aloes of every one a little make them in powder and strew on the place. Another good Remedy. Take the Wool from between the Legs or the neck of the sheep which is full of sweat and ●at, then make a juice of unset Leeks, and dip the wool in it, and lay it to the place as hot as may be suffered, and when it waxeth cold remove it, and apply another hot, this is a very good remedy for the falling of the Fundament. If the child provoke many times to siege and can expel nothing, that disease is called of the greeks Tenesmos for the which it shall be very good to apply a plaster made of garden Cresses, and of Cummin in like quantity, fry them in butter, and lay it on the belly as hot as he may suffer it. Small Pox and Measils in Children and their cure. To avoid ill humours in a child of tender years. TAke a quantity of Liquerice, Anniseeds, and small raisins, with a handful of Hyssop boiled in white wine and strained, also Linseeds beaten into small powder and rolled up in honey in pills, divers of them, and cause the child to swallow down two or three o● them in a day. For children that breed the Pox and Measils. Take a piece of fair fat pork that is young and seethe it in fair water, and no salt thereto Let it seethe until it be tender then take i● out and keep the broth, and wash the child therewith and it will make the Pox an● Measils' come fair out and keep the sores fro● pockers and blemishes. A medicine for the small Pox. Take oil olive and a good handful of the re● berries of the white Brioni●, and two handful of the Leaves of yarrow chopped small an● bruised with the berries, boil them lea●● surely in the oil till it be greenish, than strai● it into a glass, and being cold cover it clo●● and with a feather anoint the face and eye therewith, and any part of the body you wil● ●f you have no oil, for need you may take ●●ream and stamp and strain the berries and ●●rrow, and blood warm anoint the place ●ith a feather, but let the pox be come out ●●st five days, lest they stick in again. ● medicine for the small Pox in the throat, or any ill or soreness in the throat. Take and roast an apple that is cored, and fill 〈◊〉 the hole thereof with fine Sugar candy ●●ten, and so eat the butter and pulp of it ●●rm and it giveth you present help. To keep the small pox out of the throat. Take Diaprunis the quantity of a good Nut●●gg, and dissolve it in broth, and give it ●●●o the party grieved in the morning fasting. For chafing of the skin. In the beginning ye shall anoint the places ●●th fresh Capon's grease, then if it will not ●●al make an ointment and lay to the place. An ointment. Take the root of Flower-deluce dried, of 〈◊〉 roses dried, Galingale, and Mastic, of each ●●ke quantity, beat them into most subtle ●●wder, then with oil of Roses or of Lin●●●d make a soft ointment. Item, bean flower, barley flower, and the ●●wer of fitches' tempered with a little oil of ●es maketh a sovereign ointment for the ●●me intent. Of small Pox and Measils. The best and most help in this case is not 〈◊〉 meddle with any kind of Medicines, but 〈◊〉 nature ●ork her operation, notwithstanding if they be too slow in coming out, it shall b● good for you to give the child to drink s●●●den milk and saffron, and so keep him close an● warm, but in no case to administer any thin● that might repress the swelling of the skin, 〈◊〉 to cool the heat that is within the Members. If the weals be outrageous and great, 〈◊〉 decoction of water Betony is approved go●● in the said disease, Likewise the ointment made mention of in the cure of scabs is ●●●ceeding wholesome after the sores are rip●● moreover it is good to drop into the patien● eye, five or six times a day a little rose Fennel water, to comfort the sight, left it hurt by continual running of the matter; T●● water must be ministered in the Summer co●● and in the winter luke warm. The same ro●●●water is good to gargoyle in the mouth if t●● child be then pained in the throat; And l●● the conduits of the nose should be stopped● is expedient to let him smell often to a spun wet in the juice of savoury, strong vinegar an● little rose-water. Fevers in Children, their cure. To take away the spots and scars of the small pox and measils. THe blood of a Bull, or of a hare is much commended of Authors to be anointed ●ot upon the scars, and also the liquor that ●●●eth out of sheep's claws, or goat's claws ●o● in the fire. Fevers. If the Fever use to take the child with a ●●●at shaking and after hot, whether it be ●●tidian or Tertian; it shall be singular good ●o give it in drink the black seeds of Peony ●●de in fine powder, seared and mingled with ● little sugar. Also take plaintain, fetherfew 〈◊〉 Vervine and bathe the child in it once or ●●ice a day, binding to the pulses of the hand ●●d feet a plaster of the same Herbs stamped, ●●d provoke the child to sweat afore the fit ●ometh. Some counsel in a hot Fever, if be a ●●ak patient, to take dry roses and powder ●●em, then temper the powder with the juice 〈◊〉 Endive or Purcelain, rose water and barley ●●wer and make a plaster to the stomach. Item, an ointment for his temples, arms, and ●●ggs, made of oil of roses and Populeon, of ●●ch alike much. A good Medicine f●r the ague in Children. Take Plantain with the root & wash it, th● seeth it in fai● running water to a thi●d pa●● whereof ●e shall give it a draught, if it be 〈◊〉 age to drink, with sufficient Sugar, and lay t●● s●dden Herbs as hot as may be suffered the pulses of the hands and feet, this m●●● be d●ne a little afore the fit, after cover with clothes. The oil of nettles is exceedi●● good to anoint the members in a cold shaki●● ague. Cod's, The cure of their Di●●stempers in Children▪ Of the swelling of the Cod's. TAke a quart of good Ale and set it on 〈◊〉 fire to seethe with the crumbs of bro● bread strongly leavened and a handful Cummin or more in powder, make a plas●●● with all this and sufficient bean flower and ●●●ply it to the grief as hot as may be suffered. Another. Take Cowes dung, and seethe it in mi●● then make a plaster and lay it meetly hot 〈◊〉 on the swelling. Another. Take Cummin, Anniseeds, and Fenugreek of each a like portion, seethe them in Ale and stamp them, than temper th●m with fresh May ●utter, or else oil olive and apply to the sore. Another. Take Camomile, Holihock, Linseed and Fenu●●reek, seethe them in water and grind all together, then make a plaster with a handful of ●ean flower. Another in the beginning of the grief. If there be much inflammation or heat in the ●odds, ye may make an ointment of plantain, ●he white and yelk of an Egg and a portion of 〈◊〉 of Roses, stir them well about and apply it 〈◊〉 the grief twice or thrice a day: when the ●in is intolerable and the child of age or of ●●rong complexion, if the premises will not ●elp, ye shall make a plaster after this sort. Take Henbane leaves a handful and an half, ●●llow leaves an handful, seethe them well in ●ear water then stamp and stir them, and ●ith a little of the broth, bean flower, barley ●ower, oil of roses and Camomile sufficient, ●ake it up and set it on the swelling luke ●arm. Henbanes is exceeding good to resolve ●he hardness of the stones by a secret qua●●tie, notwithstanding i● it come of wind, it ●●all be better to use the said plasters that are ●ade of Cummin. Shingles, their Cure. Of the Erisipelas or Shingles. THe remedies for burning are also good in this case, Take at the Apothecary's o● unguent. Galeni an ounce and half, oil of rose● two ounces, unguent. Populeon one ounce, th● juice of plantain and nightshade one ounce o● more, the whites of three Eggs, beat them all together and ye shall have a good ointment for the same purpose. Item, the dung of a Swan or goose, with the white and yelk of an Egg is good, Item, dove● dung stamped in salt, oil or other is a singular remedy for the same purpose. Of burning and scalding. When ye see a member burnt or scalded Take a good quantity of time, which is mad● of water and salt not too exceeding eager o● strong, but of a mean sharpness, and with ● clout or sponge, ●ath the member in it cold at least blood warm, three or four hour● together, the longer the better: for it shal● assuage much of the pain, open the pores cause also the fire to vapour and give a grea● comfort to the weak member, then anoint th● place with one of these Medicines. Take oil of roses one part, sweet cream tw● parts, honey half a part, make an ointment an● use it. Item, a sovereign Medicine for burning and scalding, is thus made, take a dozen or more of hard roasted Eggs, and put the yolks in a pot on the fire by themselves without liquor, stir them and bray them with a strong hand, till there arise as it were a froth or spume of oil to the mouth of the vessel, then press the yolks and reserve the Liquor, this is called oil of Eggs, a very precious thing in the aforesaid cure. Irem, the juice of Lilies five parts, and vinegar one part, honey a little, maketh an excellent Medicine, not only for this intent but for all other kinds of hot and running Ulcers. Whatsoever you use must be laid to bloodwarm, Also for avoiding of a scar, keep that place moist with medicine. An approved Medicine for a burning, or for a child that falls into the fire and burns any part of it. Take Hens dung, or Capon's dung, and ground Ivy and stamp them together, then take sheep's suet and fry the dung and Herbs withal and strain it, and where the burning is ●noint it two or three times a day, till it be whole and keep the Salve in a box, to use it at ●eed, Probat. For a bourn or a sca●d. Take Mousear, a good handful, of Primrose leaves an handful, Fearn roots an handful, ●ound these together and boil them in thick ●ream till it come to a butter, then strain it, ●nd so anoint the place. Another for the same. Take the yellow Moss or scurse of an Ashbough and put into cream and boil it to butter. Of consumption or leanness. When a child consumeth or waxeth lean without any cause apparent there is a bathe commended of Authors, to wash the child many tim●s & is made thus. Take the head and feet of a weather, seethe them till the bones fall asand●r, use to bathe the child in this Liquor, after anoint him with this ointment following. Take butter without salt, oil of Roses and of Violets of each an ounce, the fat of raw pork half an ounce, wax a quarter of an ounce, make an ointment wherewith the child must be rubbed every day twice, this shall with good feeding increase his strength by the grace of God. Lice. To destroy Lice. MAke a Lavatory to wash, scour the body twice a day thus, take brine and strong ly● o● a●hes of each a like portion, wormwood a handful▪ ●eethe them a while and after wash the body with the same liquor. A goodly Medicine to kill them. Take the grounds or dregs of oil, Aloes, wormwood, and the gall ●f a Bull or of an ox, make an ointment: which is singular good for the same purpose. Item, Stavisacre, Brimstone and vinegar is exceeding good. It is good to give the patient often in his drink powder of an hartshorn brent Stavisacre with oil is a marvellous wholesome thing in this case. An expert Medicine to drive away Lice. Take the grounds and dregs of oil, or in lack of it fresh swine's grease, a sufficient quantity, wherein ye shall cha●e an ounce of quicksilver till it be all sunk into the grease, then take powder of Stavisacre, searce and mingle all together make a girdle of woollen list meet for the middle of the patient and all to anoint it over with the said Medicine, then let him wear it continually next his skin, for it is a singular remedy to chas● away the vermin. The only odour of quicksilver killeth louse. For scabbiness and Itch. Take water of Betony two good handfuls, daisy leaves & Alehoof, otherwise called Judmur or ground ivy, of each one handful, the red Dock roots two or three, stamp them all together a●d grind them well, then mingle them with fresh grease and again stamp them, Let them so stand eight days to putrify till it be hoar, then f●y them, and strain them out and keep for the same intent; This ointment hath great effect both in young and old, and that without repercussion or driving back of the matter, which should be a perilous thing for a young child●. The water Betony alone is a great Medicine to quench all unkindly heats without danger, or the seething of it in clear well water to anoint the Members. Another remedy for scabs and Itch. Take the roots of Docks and fry them in fresh grease, then put to a quantity of Brimstone in powder, and use to rub the places twice or thrice a day. Brimstone powdered and supped in a rear Egg, healeth the scabs, which thing is also very good to destroy worms. A goodly sweet soap for scabs and itch. Take white soap half a pound and steep it in sufficient rose-water till it be well soaked, then ●ake two drams of Mercury sublimed, dissolve it in a little rose-water, labour the soap and the Rose water well together, and afterward put in a little mu●k, or civet and keep it. T●is soap is exceeding good to ●ure a great scab or itch, and without peril, but in a Child shall suffice to make it weaker of Mercury. Another approved Medicine for scabbiness and Itch. Take Fumitory, dock roots, scabious and the roots of Walwort, stamp them all and set them in fresh grease to putrify, th●n fry them and strain them, in which Liquor you shall put turpentine a little quantity, brimstone and frankincense very finely powdered and sifted a portion, and with sufficient wax make an ointment on a soft fire, this is a singular remedy for the same purpose. And if need be to make a bath of Fumitory, centaury, Featherfew, tansy, wormwood & Sage alone, if ye see the cause of the itch or the scab to be worms in the ●kin, for a bitter decoction shall destroy them and d●y up the moisture of the sores. Ad scabiem tam si●cum quam humidum praesens Auxilium. Take the roots of Elecampane and of dock ana. and scrape them clean and wash the●, cut them into small slices, and seethe them in vinegar until they be soft, than pound th●m very small as is possible, Then take thereof a pound and of, Barrowes grease, of common Sivil oil, ana three ounce. Of new wax one ounce, Of quicksilver mortified, of Turpentine washed ana two ounces, Of common salt, half an ounce. Melt your oil, your ●arrowes grease, and your wax together, then put in your roots prepared and after your Quicksilver, then strain it and in the end put in the Turpentine and salt made in powder, but it were more safe to leave out the quicksilver and to pu● instead thereof three ounces of the juice of Lemons, both be good, but the former more vehement. A clear and white water, that will heal in five days at the most all manner of scabs aswell inward as outward. Take plantain water two glassful, rose water, one glassful, of the water of the flowers of Citrons or O●anges half a glassful or less, put all together into a clear pan or Vial of glass, and put to it one ounce of Mercury sublimated, beaten into fine powder, and beat it well with fasting spittle and put to the aforesaid water●, then let it boil fair and softly a qua●t●r of an hour, take it from the fire and let it cool, than put it into some Vial and wash the scabby places at night with it, and let it dry of itself, And let them alone so the next day without washing them, and wash them again the third day, but not the fourth day, and the first and second time they are washed, it will make all the scabs in the body break forth; And at the third time you shall have it so dried up that you shall find all neat and clean within and without. This water maketh the flesh white, It's good for the Pox, the Gout & many other infirmities, and namely for that the sublimate is good to eat away all the evil and corrupt flesh, and all dead flesh and to heal wounds incurable. Here followeth the making and description of divers Waters, Balsams, or Balms and other rare and excellent Medicines with their use and wonderful operations and virtues. To make the precious Quintessence of the learned Mathiolus as followeth. TAke of Cinnamon two ounces, of Ginger four drams, of each sort of Saunders six drams, of Cloves, Galingale, Nutmegs, of each two drams and a half, of Mace and of of Cubebs of each one dram, of both kinds of Cardamomum and of the seed of Nigella Komana of each three drams, of zedoary half o●e ounce, of the seeds of Annis, sweet F●nnel, wild Carrots and Basil, of each two drams, of the roots of Angelica, Liquerice, great Valerian called setwall, Calamus odoratus, of each two drams, of the Leaves of Setarie or clary time, Neppe, and pennyrial, min●es, wild time, sweet Marjoram, of each two dram●, of red roses, of Flowers of Sage, Betony, Rosemary, Stechados, Buglos, borage of each one half an ounce, of the rinds of Citrons three drams, of the powder of Amber, Aromaticus rosatus, Diamos●hi dulcis, Diamargariton, Diarh●don Abbatis, Electuarium de gemmis, of each of these three drams. Beat all these together to powder that are to beaten; And steep them together in 12. pound of the best Aqua vitae made of excellent wine in a glass vessel, but Doctor Stephen's water is better than Aqua vitae, letting all these things so steep there 15. days together, keeping all the while the mouth of the glass v●ry close stopped, continually▪ Afterward put on your Limbeck of glas●, & still this there, a balm o● water temperately making very close the head of the still that no breath may get out; And keep the stilled water in another fair glass v●ss●l▪ and put thereto of sweet Saunders cut small, two ounces, and put into it of the best Musk and Amber grease, both knit in a fair thin cloth, of each half one scruple, of pure clear Syrup rosat▪ one pound, then shake all these together in the glass, till the Syrup and water in the glass be well tempered together, then shut the glass very close with wax and pa●chment and so let it rest in some close place 15. days together, and after 15. days clear it into another glass, and keep this for a noble Medicine and right excellent, whose singular virtues are as followeth. The use and virtues of the Quintessence devised by the famous Mathiolu●. This Quintessence if your use to drink of it, and especially if ●hey which have cold bodies pestered with cold moist humours do daily drink one spoonful or two of this water, It taketh away inward rottenness, it preserveth, nourisheth, and repaireth and defendeth, increaseth and prolongeth li●e, And doth not only nourish natural heat and keep it in his strength, but also doth quicken and regenerate the vital spirit, it warmeth the stomach and and the brain, and sharpeneth the wit, It purifieth the eyesight and refresheth the memory, It healeth the rawness of the stomach and swelling that cometh of wind, swimming of the head, the falling sickness, faintness, Melancholy passions, beating and trembling ●f the heart, sounding, slumbering and the pain of the belly and sides above the Navel, about which the Liver and the spleen lieth, also one ounce weight hereof, with a convenient quantity of fine treacle or Mithrida●um mingled with it and put into a Clyster for those which have the colic which cometh of cold and wind and ministered, presently healeth it; And to be short it is, being used, of a m●st excellent remedy ●gainst all cold diseases or griefs. And marvellously preserveth the life and lusty estate of man, known and approved a true and present remedy to restore the speech lost, & good for the mother wherewith women be often grieviously vexed, and being given to a person that is even now ready to pass from this life, it so long retaineth him in life, that it shall seem miraculous to the beholders, To make a precious oil, wherewith to cure the obstructions of the Liver and the sp●een, which is of force to help the same, when the said grief cannot be cured by any other mean● or Medicine. Take the rust of an Anchor, or Anchors of ships craped of which file asm●ch quantity as you list and this ru●● being ground or beaten into very fine powder, steep it in very sh●r● white vinegar▪ in a balm of warm water in a glass vessel so as long until you see the vinegar be tur●ed very red with the rust aforesaid, Then pour the said vinegar the clearest from the grounds into another vessel and keep it diligently, then pour more vinegar upon the said ground or residens & steep it as before in your balm of warm water until it be red also, then clear it as you did the first and likewise keep it. And yet again steep more vinegar upon the same grounds again and again, steeping and in all such things continuing as you did before until you see that the vinegar will be no more stained red; Then pour all your said red steeped vinegar into a glass still, and put your still into a furnace, and cover it with hot ashes and still it until all the vinegar be stilled out as other stilled water will be, and keep it, then take the glass or still out of the furnace and break it, and take the substance which lieth in the bottom and pound it small and put it into another glass vessel, and put to it the common water fresh distilled and let that steep again in warm balm as before, the space of two days, then take all out and let it drop thorough a Jelly bag, and save all that Liquor in a pure vessel and keep it until it be grown unto a salt, which salt again beaten into powder and put the same into a glass with a crooked neck which the common distillers called a Retort & st●ll it as you do a balsamis, and with a very strong fir● you shall out of the same still an oil, which oil will be in colour red; which receiving keep diligently, for you shall have hereof a rare and excellent Medicine. The use and virtues of the said oil followeth This oil prevaileth against all manner of obstructions of the Liver and spleen. And when these obstructions cannot be healed nor cured by any other means then will this oil heal and cure the same. The manner how to administer the same to the patient. First the grieved must be purged by the advice of a learned Physician with such a purgation as hath a property to attenuate the humours and draw down the belly, which done you shall give the patient that is obstructed in the Liver, of this oil the weight of one dram, first mingling it with a pretty quantity of the water of Endive, or Succory or Egrimony, and if you seek to help the spleen, take the like quantity of this oil and give it as before to drink with the water of Maiden hair, ●r of Wal-fearn, or of Tamariss, which is an Herb so called, this Medicine is of an approved truth. An Antidote or confection called Theodoret● Anacardies taken out of Nicoia●s Myrepsus a Greek Author. Take of spici nardi fol. which is a leaf of India, Cloves, Saffron, Cinnamon, Epi●hymi, which is a Herb like a round Lace growing in some Countries upon time, the flowers of Mucus odora●us which the Apothecary's call Squinantum, Myrabolanorum, which is a little hard fruit and somewhat long, of each of these three drams, of Aloes flavae twelve drams, of Chestnuts, Ginger, Mastickes of each one dram, of Ir●●s the best, six drams, Anacardij, Agarici, of each one dram, of the roots of Asarabacca half a dram, of the seeds of parsley one dram, of Costus half a dram, of pepper three drams, of Fennel seed one ounce▪ of the juice of Fennel one ounce, pound ●he green Fennel in a mortar and then soak or infuse the same in vinegar three days, then seethe it well and strain it handsomely. And let all the other things be well pounded and made in a powder and finely seared, to the which add or put as much clarified honey or sugar as shall suffice, and seethe all together unto a reasonable thickness that is until the Medicine be brought unto the thickness of honey or treacle. The effects of this medicine followeth. This medicine is good for any strong disease, as for the falling evil, for those that be vexed with an evil spirit, for the headache, for the diseases of the breast, for the pleurisy, shortness of wind, the inflammation ●r Apostumation of the ●●ngs, And those that have sour belching and also for ●hose that have an evil disease about their stomach or belly, It is profitable also to those that have a languishing after a long disease, and that have an ill colour, It helpeth those that have the yellow Jaundice, and that have the dropsy proceeding from the Lungs, It helpeth the phthisic and pain of the reins of the back, And the continual grief of the colic, it strengtheneth them that be troubled in all their body, it helpeth also the inordinate strange and long diseases and agues that cometh by course, and with order, if it be given between the courses, It eases the gout of the feet if it be given before the accidents come●, and in especial it profi●eth much for women's diseases, in which number are accounted the Strangury or the purching that happeneth through the mother, or the suffocation of the mother or troubles of the same, And it profiteth also those women with child that are in danger of abortion, It looseth also the belly, It healeth the stirring or rising of the mother, the inflammation also and raging of it; And to speak absolutely and in ●ew words it is the gift of God, for whosoever shall use it to eat of it shall find good success. And any shall use it once or twice in the spring time and harvest, so he offend not over much in diet, he shall not be subject to diseases, for taking fasting the quantity of a filbert nut, it will soon dissolve all evil humours. The making of a precious water called for the virtue Aqua mirabilis and Pre●iosa, otherwise the admirable water of England. Take Galingale, Cloves, Cubebs, Ginger, Meli●ote, Cardamomum, Macis, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, of each of these a dram, then take of the juice of Celendine half a pint. Mix all the spices being beaten together into the powder with the said juice of Celendine, Then take a pint● of good Aqua vitae and three pints of good white wine or sack, and put all together into a stillatory of glass & let it stand infused a night, and in the morrow distil it with a very sober fire, the first pint that cometh is best, the rest that runneth i● good but not so good as the first. The virtue of this water. This water hath a secret nature, it dissolveth the swelling o● the Lungs without any grief, and the Lungs being perished it presently cure●h it, and it comforteth and suffereth not the Lungs to putrify, he shall not need to be let blood that useth it, and suffereth not the heart to ●e hot, neither melancholy or Phlegm to be about it, nor to have domination above nature. It also expelleth the rheum and p●rfecteth the stomach and comforteth youth in its own estate, engendereth a good colour and keepeth and comforteth the visage and memory, helpeth the palsy of the Limbs and tongue. And this water to be given to any person in extremity one spoonful delivereth them. Of all waters artificial it is the best, in summer use fasting once a week the quantity of a spoonful and in the winter you may take two spoonful to prevent the diseases and sicknesses aforesaid. A marvellous water to heal the leprosy and all spots of the face or elsewhere and to make one look young and to have a good colour. Take the filing of gold, silver, iron, brass, lead and the powder of Storax and put all together to sleep a whole day in the urine of a maid male child● being warm, and as long in pure white wine, and the third day in the juice of Fennel, the fourth day in whi●es of Eggs, then take all the liquor with the filings and powder and still it with a slow fire, and keep the water in a glass and it shall have all the virtues before specified. By a day is meant xxiiii. hours. A comfortable water or medicine for these diseases as followeth, that is to say, it cureth the sto●● in the bladder and the reins of the back, It helpeth a stinking breath, it comforteth and helpeth the spirits and inward diseases that cometh of cold. It is good for the stomach and shaking palsy, and cureth the contraction of the ●●ewe● and helpeth the conception of women that are barren, It killeth worms in the body, it helpeth the cold Cough, it comforteth the stomach much, it cureth the cold Dropsy; whoso useth this Medicine every month and not too often it will make him seem young again. Take a gallon of good and pure gascoin wine of the best you can get, Ginger Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Galingale Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Cinnamon Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Nutmegs Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Grains Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Cloves Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Maces Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Anniseeds Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Carrawayseeds Of every of them a like quantity, that is to say a dram weight of each of them. Then take Sage, Mints roses, pellitory, rosemary, of every of them gather an handful and most of the roses, rosemary, wild time, Camomile Lavender p●nyroyal, Then break the spice small and bruise the Herbs and put all the wine, and let it stand twelve hours and stir it divers times together in the wine and still it by a Limbeck and keep the first water by it s●lf, for it is the best, and keep the s●cond by itself, but not s● good as the first, and use this as you have need thereof. A water called the mother of the balm. Take Turpentine six pounds, olibanum two ounce, Aloes citrine, cub●bs, Mastic, Cloves, galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs of everich one ounce, gum of the fig-tree and of the juice, of each three ounces, then make the drugs in powder and put all into a Limbeck of glas●, w●ich you must join to the capitel with hot flower ashes and whites of eggs, so that no breath come out, and let it still with a slow fire, ●nd the first water will be white and clear, the second like honey and the third like bawm, which you shall receive into three receptories. These be of virtue as they be in order, they will burn in fire and a drop will turn a vessel of milk as Bawm itself will, two drops thereof poured into the ears will take away the great noise that some have in their head●, likewise in the eyes will heal all watery and red eyes and other diseases of the face, it c●reth any imposthume, green wounds and ulcers, scabs and all other superfluous humours and the toothache, ye any fistula or canker in nine days, also the no●i me tangerea, the small pox if you wash the places therewith, it is good for all old hurts and for dry blows of staves or stones, It heals, strengtheneth, and all other things, rectifieth the sinews, it is so hot and penetrative that it will run through your head without grief to you, It healeth all pain● of the Legs and joints, with all other diseases that come of cold and it is as precious as bawm itself. To make the water of life. Take Balm leaves and stalks, Burnet leaves and flowers, a handful, of Rosemary, tormentil Leaves and roots, rosa solis, a handful, red roses a handful. Carnations a handful, Hyssop a handful and ●smuch of time, red strings t●at grow upon savery one handful, red Fennel Leaves and roots, red mints a handful, p●t all these Herbs in a great pot of earth glassed, And put thereto as much white wine as will cover the herbs, and let them soak therein eight or nine days; Then take an ounce of Cinnamon, as much ginger, as much of Nutmegs, Cloves and sadiron a little, a quantity of Anniseeds, of great raisins one pound, half a pound of dates, the hinder part of a good old Coney, a good fleshy running Capon, the red flesh with the sinews of a leg of mutton, four young pigeons, a dozen of Larks, the yolks of twelve Eggs, a loaf of white bread, cut in sops in Muskadel or bastard ●s much as sufficeth to distil all these things at once in a Limbeck, and put thereto Mithridate two or three ounces or else as much perfect treacle and distil it with a moderate fire. And keep the first water by itself, and the second alone, and where there cometh no more water with strings, then take away the Limbeck and put into the more wine upon the same stuff, and still it again, and you shall have another good water and 〈◊〉 shall remain good in the first ingredience of this water. You must keep this wa●er in a double glass warily, for it is restorative of principal Members, and defendeth against all pestilential diseases and against the palsy, dropsy, spleen yellow or black Jaundice, worms agues and sweatings and pestilential sorrows, melancholy, and strengtheneth and forti●ieth the spirits and strings of the brain, the heart and Stomach and the Liver, taking a spoonful or two or three at a time, by itself or with Ale or wine and Sugar, it helpeth digestion and breaketh wind, stoppeth lask and bindeth not▪ To make water of Rosemary. Take Rosemary flowers and in the midst of May ere the sun arise in the morning, take the Rosemary and strip the Leaves from the stalks and take four or five great roots of Elecampane and an handful or two of Sage and beat the Rosemary the roots and Sage together in a stone mortar till they be very small, ●h●n take it up and take three ounces of Cubebs and half a pound of Anniseeds and beat the spices in a mortar of brass every spice by itself, then take all the Herbs and all the spices and put them in four or six gallons of white wine, than put all these spices herbs and wine in an earthen pot and stop the pot close so that no air come thereto with a cover, made of earth, and set the same pot in the ground by the space of fifteen days, then take it and still it in a stillatory of tin otherwise called a Limbeck with a soft fire. A notable water of great virtue. Take Fennel, Eyebright, Endive, Betony Silermontain, Rosemary, rue, Maidenhair of each an handful and let all these steep in good white wine xxiiii. hours, and afterward distil all together and keep the first water as silver, the second as gold, and the third as bawm, This will heal all swelling and running of the ears and falling of the hairs off the head and brows, it healeth all diseases of the eyes, and killeth the worms in the teeth and maketh the breath sweet, It breaketh the imposthume in the head, if it be put into the ears with bombast, a cloth steeped therein and laid upon the stomach easeth the pains of the same, and likewise mollifieth the hardness of the spleen. Also it taketh away all spots of the face, if you mingle a little thereof with white wine, and put thereto a little Roch Allom. An excellent water against the Colic the mother and all pains in the belly. Take Cinnamon two drams, Cloves two drams, galls one dram, grains two drams, Nutmegs one dram, beat all these to gross pow●er and put them in a stillatory covered over ●ith Muscadel or good Malmesy and let it stand so xxiiii. hours, than still it with a slow f●re and you shall have a very sweet and wholesome water which you shall use thus. Take ● cup of pleasant and strong wine and pour five or six drops of this water into it and let the patient drink it up, also four or five drops thereof poured into a great quantity of warm water will make it have a pleasant smell to wash hands or other things. To make a special Aqua composita to drink for a cold or suffet in the stomach, well proved. Take a handful of Rosemary and a good root of Elecampana and an handful of Hyssop half an handful of time, half a handful of Sag● six good crops of red Mints and as many 〈◊〉 penyrial, half a handful of Hore●ound, six crop of Marjerom, two ounces of Liquerice we●● bruised, as much Aniseed, and take three galons of good strong Ale and take all the sai● Herbs wring asunder, and put them into th● Ale in a brass pot well covered and close an● let them stand till they begin to boil, the● take them from the fire and set upon it you Limbeck and stop it just with paste that ther● cometh no air out and so keep it forth with soft fire as Aqua vitae is made, put more thereto, half an handful of red Fennel, half handful of Hartstongue and half an ounce 〈◊〉 Maces. A marvellous Ba'm made by art most laudable. Take fine turpentine one pound, of oil of bay four ounces, o● galbanum four ounces, of gu●● arabic four ounces, of pure Frankincense, 〈◊〉 Myrrh, of gum Jvy and of Lignum aloes, 〈◊〉 each four ounces, of Galingale, zedoary, o● Ginger of the white Dittany of leaves of Conjoli●● minor, of Nutmegs, of Cinnamon of each on dram, of Musk and Ambergrease of each on● dram▪ all these b●at together, pour upon 〈◊〉 pints of the best Aqua vitae distil it secundu● ar●em. The virtues are th●se, it breaketh and dissolve ●n the st●ne in the kidneys, causeth th● patient to piss, which otherwise is letted 〈◊〉 a piece of flesh, it helpeth consumption, sciatica, or ache in the head, fowl scurse, wounds i● the head, It helpeth the pleurisy. Give on dram with water at a time helpeth any swel●ng in any part of the body, the coldness in ●●e head, it helpeth hot sickness aswell as cold. Take a borage more, and boil him in half pint of wine▪ and half a pint of rose-water, 〈◊〉 drunk fasting in the morning. It come 〈◊〉, the heart and brain, it healeth the memory and wit, it purgeth the evil blood, recovereth Phrensiness. 〈◊〉 making of Venice Balsam and the virtues thereof. Take a handful of the flowers of Dogs●●ngue, of St. john Worst the flowers, a hand●●l, white wine somewhat more than a quarter 〈◊〉 a pint, of gum Elemie one ounce, five pennyworth of saffron, one pennyworth of venice ●urp●ntine, one ounce of Candied oil, or 〈◊〉 oil half a pint. If the flowers of the Herbs are not infused 〈◊〉 the oil, then boil it in the white wine by themselves, and then boil the gum Elemie in ●●e oil by itself, and then clarify it and cast ●way the dregs, and then boil it again all together, and last of all put in the saffron and 〈◊〉 Turpentine when you are ready to take 〈◊〉 boiling a little, and so clarify it again, ●nd when it is almost cold put it into a glass to ●●e: The best way is to infuse the flowers of the Herbs with red roses or Damask in salad ●●il for a year or less. The gum Elemie will ●●il in the oil a quarter of an hour, and after 〈◊〉 boiling it together it will be a quarter of a 〈◊〉 hour, the flowers are to be strained out, ●odden in wine or the oil. The virtues of it are as followeth. It will cure all diseases coming of cold, ei● pains or aches in the head, or the dea●ness i● the ear; the same Ballam 〈◊〉 warmed and anointing the place grieved and a warm cloth applied thereunto, And for t●e ears to lip ● little black wool in the same Balsam and 〈◊〉 then therewith. This is good for the g●av● and pain in making of 〈◊〉, and the Co● lick, to take the same in a little Mutton broth to the quantity of a great b●an and drink it every mor●ing fasting and an● in th● place grieved. Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broth before the fit comes. Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt, and for the mother, Anoint the le●t side therewith well war●●d and i● will dissolve all hardness, cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneyed and bladder, It c●reth all aches in what par● of the body soever, rubbing the place grieve● with a Cloth first well warmed and then anoint it with the same Balsam, being made warm▪ and bind the place with a warm Cloth afterward: It cureth all Lameness and shrinking of the sinews and all green wounds suddenly, It hath more virtues than I have here written. To make the most e●dellent water of Treacle or Mithridate, which is a most precious remedy against all outward and inward poisons or pestilence. Take of excellent venice treacle or Mithridate one pound, which put into three pounds of Ardent water rectified to be there digested in a furnace of Circula●ion, And in a circulating v●ss●l, the fire all that while be ver● soft and slender, which done pour it into a Cucurbite and put on the Alembick, and distil the same so long in a balneo Mariae as ye may see the Liquor issue out clear and bright, but when ye see the colour thereof become clear and yellowish then take away the receiver and keep that clear water by itself to be drank in such times of need as is aforesaid. To draw out another Liquor from the s●●is whence this Liquor was distilled, super●●ctum. Take the Cucurbite with the saecis from whence this liquor was distilled and lute the said still over, than set it upon Ashes and make a hot fire and draw from it such liquor as will distil, And receive the said liquor into a bladder, which set under the nose o● the Ale●bick and keep it and therewith anoint the skin or outward parts, and they shall be preserved from the Contagion, as aforesaid. To make Cinnamon milk or liquor, after another sort most precious for a restorative. Take the waters of Bugloss, borage, Balm, and of the lesser Centaury, of each a pound and an half, into the which put of Cinnamon wel● choice of the best sort two pound well beaten to powder first, which then steep in the said waters together in one glass vessel 15. days: And after that distil it upon hot ashes first with a lent fire so long as any Liquor will issue clear and fair, which clear liquor keep apart, but when ye see certain drops issue like unto whey or milk, then change the receiver and reserve therewith all that milk liquor by it sel●, for it is most excellent, of which if ye give unto any aged or weak person or to a woman in childbed thereof a spoonful, or a spoonful and a half, it doth wonderfully strengthen them. A ba'm for a wound. Take good white wine one pint, oil olive half a pint, St. john's Wort, Hypericon of every one half a handful, shred them small and boil in the oil and wine to the consumption of the wine, and then strain it and set it over the fire again, putting Frankincense and Mir●he in fine powder, always stir●ing in putting in the powder. And in the end put to it Turpentine and then strain it again into some glass, always remembering for every pound of of oil one ounce of Turpentine. This cureth wounds without tenting at all. A medicine for all manner of ulcers and sores, very pleasant, called Lytion. The making of virkin lytion is the juice of Capri foli. Lytion cureth the canker in the Matrice and in the skin and bones. Lytion is a principal medicine boiled with ho●y unto the thickness of honey, It may be made thus. Take the juice and set it in the sun for to dry that it may be powder, and this powder of Lytion serveth dark eyes, for it is called Luci●um ocu'o. It profiteth also Chirurgery & that is thus, Take the juice of Caprisolij by itself and put thereto as much clarfied honey and seerhe it unto the wasting of the honey, let it be kept unto the time of your use, and this availeth unto all fraudulent ulcers of the Legs, in such time of the year▪ if the herb be so dried that the juice will not be pressed out, th●n may the Leaves be infused in good white wine, or red, and then may the juiee be pressed our, for to know that Caprifolii aught not to be washed with water, but with this white wine and especially when there ought to be made Licium for the c●re of the eyes. Also Leaves of Caprifoli bruised by themselves with all his substance without meddling of any other thing put it upon an ulcer of a Leg desperate and sti●king and putting out foul blood, it cureth them marvellously, and this was proved in the Leg of a great man, having a pustule▪ in cu●ing of which all Medicines failed and with this only was cured. For to make Mermale. Take Camomile, Betony, Sage, hay how, sothernweed, Mugwort, wormwood, water cresses, Mallows, Holihock, Hor●ound, red nettle, Laurel leaves of each a good handful and half, and wash them and pick them clean and st●●p them small, and put there to May butter and temper them well together, then put thereto a pint of oil olive and m●ddle them well together, and then put them in an earthen pot, and cover it well and set it in a moist place the space o● seven days than put it in a clean pan and set it over the fire and let it fry well and stir it well with a slice that it cleave not to the bottom and then strain it and set it over the fire again and put thereto two ounce of virgin wax and four of weather's tallow melted, and boil them a little, then put thereto four ounces of fine Frankincense fine powdered and stir it well together till it, be well meddled and take it down▪ and strain it and let it cool, then karn and let the water and turn and cleanse it on the other side, and warm it, and a little scum it with a feather and do it in boxes, this ointment is precious for joints or for sinews and for many other diseases Diaflosmus. Diaflosmus is thus made. Take juice of smallage and wormwood, Mollein, Walwort, Speldearge, crowfoot, Melilote, dowfoot, Weybred, Mugwort, Avence, Daisies, Woodbine, Burris, honey suckles, of every of the juice of these Herbs take two ounces s●ve only of woodbind, thereof take three ounces, clarified honey, two pound and four ounces then mix your honey & your juice together and set it on an easy fire and boil and stir them so long, till it be well-nigh as thick as honey, that is m●lting, then take it from the fire and put it in an earthen pot and keep it to your use, for now it is called Capsimel honey of Molloin. But when ye will use of this most precious Medicine in Surgery, Take of this Capsimel four ounces, and of wheat meal three ounces, put these together and set them upon an easy fire, and all to stir it that it cleave not to the pans bottom, And when it is through hot, take it off, then take oil of clare or of roses & virgin wax of each three ounces, and mix them together, and then put all together and mix them well together, and when it begins to cool then put to it 2. ounces of Turpentine and stir it very well together and then it is called Diaflosmus Idem est quod Flosmus anc. Molleyn. Take of this byster and spread on stupes of clean Linen cloth without slyms or on carp, and lay it to a fistula in the Fundament, or to a Canker, marmole, fester, plague, wolf or noli me tangere and it healeth not only this, but every most horrible sore as bruises, rucomes, swellings and all others. A balm of great virtue. Take of Turpentine four ounce, of frankincense half an ounce, of Lignum aloes two drams, of Mastic, of Cloves, Galingale, of Cinnamon Zedoaria, of Nutmegs and of Cubebs of each two drams, of gum Elemie one ounce and a half This Baw● marvellously worketh, In that it putteth away both ways in applying of it both within and without the body, and many other incurable diseases as the Canker and the fistula, etc. A very precious Aqua vitae. Take Cinnamon half an ounce, Lignum aloes five dram●, Cubebs, Cloves, three drams and a half, galingale three drams, yellow Saunders, three drams and a half, red rose leaves dried four drams and a half, Nutmeg and Mace a dram, Musk half a dram, Amber greese ten grains, Syrup of the bark of Citrons, one pound, Syrup of Quinces half an pound, Aqu● vitae three pottles, powder those things which are to be powdered and put all together into an earthen pot well leaded, And let them stand and infuse the space of a Month, stirring them twice or thrice a day, then strain them and keep it close in a glass well stopped. This water restoreth Memory lost, strengtheneth the senses and comforteth the stomach. The Sublimated vine of Master Callus, Physician to the Emperor Charles the fifth is most admirrable, for the use thereof caused him to live 129 years without any disease, and is made thus. Take Cubebs, Cinnamon, Cloves, mace, and Ginger, Nutmegs and Galingula one three ounces, of Rhaberbe half an ounce, Angelica two drams, Mastic four ounces, Sage lib. 1. two ounces, first steep them in lib. two, ounces six of Aqua vitae which was six times distilled, then distil them all together, This wine comforteth the brain and memory, expelleth melancholy and breaketh the stone, provoketh appetite and reviveth weak spirits, and causeth a man to wax young and lusty, It may be taken twice a week and not above one spoonful at a time. A special julep made of white wine and sugar and rose-water, which comforteth and refresheth the body, much causing the spirits to wax lively. Put two pounds of Sugar in three pounds of white wine and one pound of red rose water, boil it till come almost to a Syrup, this Julep is so acceptable to nature that it supplieth the use of meat and drink. To make treacle water. Take three pints of Carduus water and put into it an ounce of hartshorn and boil it till it c●me to a quart, then take gentian roots, roots Elicampane roots, Cyperus roots, Rind of Pomegranates, of each a ounce beat them into gross powder, of the herbs o● Carduus and Angelica one ounce, of the flowers of rosemary, Marigold, By'r rage & Bugloss of each of them half an ounce also one pound of Venice treacle dissolved into six pints of whi●e wine and three pints of red rose water, infuse all these things xxiiii. hours together, this still in a glass still, or another still that stills with water. The virtue of this Triacle water. Take a spoonful or two at a time upon finding the stomach ill, or upon fears, or to drive away any thing from the heart, to restore the spirits and speech and swooning and ●ainting, ten grains in a spoonful of posset drink made of Ale going to bed is good against fears. For a Surfeit. Take the grounds of strong Ale two gallons, of the Lees of Sack two quarts, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, bruise them and put them together and distil the water, then put into the water an ounce of Cinnamon, a dozen bruised Cloves, one Race of sliced Ginger, a quarter of a pound of prunes dried fair but not washed, 2. quarts of thunder bags or corn rose leaves with the bottoms cut off. Then sun it a Month and if the water be not of a deep Crimson then renew the Leaves and sun them a while longer, take of these a spoonful at a time, an hour after a second, and an hour after a third. To make a drink for all manner of Fevers and Impostumes and for sickness in man's body. Take Hyssop, Rosemary, Violet Leaves, Vervine, Herb john, Mouseare Plantain, Avence Sage and fetherfew of each an handful and wash them clean and put them into a Mortar and bruise them a little and put them into an earthen pot that was never occupied. And put therein a gallon of good white wine and so let it stand all night covered and in the morning boil it till it come to a pottle, and let it run through a hair sieve, & put it into a clean vessel covered, and let the sick use these first and last nine days at evening warm, and at morning cold, every day and night half a pint, and he shall be whole by the grace o● God. A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doct●rs fo● a man past cure so judged. Take Hermodactils two ounces, Sarsaparillae four, of sassafras 2. ounces, Seen Alexandria four ounces, Liquerice one ounce, Anniseeds one ounce, long pepper, half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious: one great handful of Egrimony, half as much of betony, half a handful of water Cresses and brook lime, one great handful of scurvy grass of the Sea two great handfuls, of good N●timegs one ounce, Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bag and hanged in a barrel with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up, and let it stand and settle, eight days, then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it lambeth, your b●ead must be Baker's bread with Coriander and Anniseeds, your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun, and your diet drink, your dinner dry roasted Veal, Hen, Chicken, Mutton or rabbit, your supper as your breakfast, or some small repast of dry roasted 〈◊〉 or Rabber, continue this six weeks and beware of cold, and if you keep your chamber have merry Company, this Diet will cure any desperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be passed c●re. Probat. A Medicine for the sweat. Take three pints of Ale, one ounce of Sugar, six Sage leaves, boil all these together and scum them clean, And put therein a cr●st of white bread or a few crumbs and seethe then a pen●worth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot, or in a p●wter pot and drink nine or ten spoonfuls at your pleasure the twenty four hours, and sometime drink Ale blo●d warm with a penyw●ight of powder imperial at a time. Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel yourself sick or faint at your heart. Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the s●dden Ale aforesaid, or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours. Also eat no manner of spices but Mace only and drink no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours, take no manner of cold nor take not too many o● clothes but competent. To make the Queen's preservative. Take half an ounce of treacle, powder imperial two penny worth, of powder Sedwall a penny worth, mingle all these together and put it into a box and use it as aforesaid when need requireth, and old people may eat the quantity of a Nut to preserve them fasting in the morning. For them that are poisoned a remedy. Take the powder of Betony put in wine, a spoonful of powder to a draught of wine, a 〈◊〉 boiled by the fire being drunk doth help them presently that have drunk poison before, and whoso drink it in a morning fasting no poison can hurt him. A Medicine diminishing all kind of sickness if it be not unto death and prepareth the body for recovery of health. Take of the best treacle adding thereto a few drops of oleum Vitrioli and let it stand till thou use it, than any lying sick not unto death, give the weight of a French crown of the same Medicine and if he be not over weak give a little more; Let him drink it hot with wine in the morning fasting four hours before he eat, washing out of the cup also with wine, which being also taken and well covered in his bed and wrapped about his bead and all covered only his mouth: there let him sweat four hours as much as its possible and not sleep in any wise these four hours, Then change the sheets and let them be very dry and warm, then let him lie and not sweat before he rise or eat the space of three hours, then let him eat some good thing, and drink good old wine after his meat. Then afterward the Physician may use either Medicine both purgative or corroborative as the necessity and occasion requireth. This Medicine dim●nisheth the cause of all sickness and prepareth the body in the way of health speedily and never fails the Physician. See that he sweat plentifully without sudden cold and use good diet afterward. An oil of the Philosophers drawn out of Turpentine. Take of clear Turpentine eighteen ounces▪ of sweet yellow wax twelve ounces, of the ashes of the vine tree six ounces, these put all together into a Retortartly luted and fenced, which after the setting into the ashes distil according to art, maintaining a stronger and stronger heat unto the end of the work which you shall perceive by the neck of the Retort within wax curdled, which is a marvellous sign the distillation is performed. It healeth wounds in four times, dropping in the person that cannot piss two drams helpeth presently, It helpeth the stitch in the side and many other griefs, etc. For to make the white plaster. Take two pound and four ounces of oil Olive of the best, of good red lead one pound, of white lead one pound very well beaten into dust. then take 12. ounces of Spanish soap and incorporate these all together into an earthen pot well closed, and when they are well incorporated that the soap cometh upwards, put it upon a small fi●e of coals continuing the fire for the space of an hour and an half still stirring it with an iron or the end of a stick; Then make the fire a little bigger until the redness be turned into a grey colour, but you must not ●eave stirring it until the water be turned into oil somewhat darker, then drop it on a wooden trencher, if it cleave not unto the fing●r or trencher, then make it up in rolls, it will last twenty years, the older the better. The virtue of this plaster. The same being laid to the mouth of the stomach, helpeth digestion, taketh away the offence and grief that riseth in the stomach, It helpeth the Colic in the belly being applied thereto, It's good for the flux if it be applied to the reins of the back, It easeth the heat of the kidneys and weakness of the back, It helpeth all swellings and bruises and taketh away aches, it doth break ●ellons bushes, and other bushes and impostumes and healeth them, draweth out any running humour without breaking the skin, and applied to the fundament helpeth any diseases there growing, its good for the falling of the willow or palate being laid to the crown of the head. It also easeth the headache being applied to the temples or forehead, It's good against the rheum that falleth into the eyes, being applied to the belly of a woman, it helpeth conception. A plaster proved on Sir William Farrington Knight of a grievous Marmole, that was on his Leg and could not be remedied it was so horrible of stink till a French man healed it with this following. Take one pound of Litarge of gold, make powder of it as you can ●earse it, then take one quarter of oil of Roses and a pint of white wine and half a pint of urine well clarified and half a pint of vinegar and temper all these together on the fire, but put in the urine last, then make a plaster of it and lay to the Marmole and it will heal Marmole, Canker, fester, wound & all other sores▪ and if you put thereto one ounce of Virgin wax, Libanum and one ounce of Myrrh, it will be the more fine and the more precious, Probatum. A plaster called plaster Emanuel, chief for impostumes and other malodies, it hath more virtues than man can tell▪ I healeth wounds anon▪ Take Litarge one pound, and one dram of gum Armoniak, a dram of Galbanum, Myrrh two drams, Verdigreece one dram, Frankincense one dram, Bdellion one dram, Mastic half a dram, Opoponax half a dram, Aris●ol●gie three ounces, of old oil olive one pound and an half. Take the gums and beat th●m ●mall and fry them in a skillet on the fire and cleanse them, And then do thereto thy Litarge, and thy verdigreece and do in these things by and by one after another, always stir it well, and last put in the aristology and so boil it unto a plaster, this plaster may soon heal Marmole on the legs and all manner of diseases and impostumes, this plaster cometh of God and not of man. An approved Medicine against the plague, against Carbuncles, hot impostumes and such like, it will break them & expel the poison & causeth health, Take Ivy Berry's dried in the shadow and after dried and made into powder and drink them with plantain water, It hath helped the plague in two days. Probat. The party must sweat in bed and must change the linen being aired every four and twenty hours, It hath holpen the plague in one day and a night. An approved Syrup by the Lady Harrington. Take a pint of vinegar, and more than a pint of running water one pound of Sugar and let it seethe till the Sugar be melted, Then take a good quantity of Succory and put it to the vinegar and water, and let it seethe from a pint to half a pint. For Venom or poison. treacle in all causes especially Andromachus treacle with the Snakes flesh in it, And the root of Affodil▪ having in it virtue to quicken and strengthen, doth cherish the heart by defending it from poison and keeping it in strength. A Medicine for the plague or for any Ague. Take the best Mithridate half an ounce or one ounce, London treacle one ounce, Jeane treacle one ounce, powder of Saffron one scruple, Florum sulphuris or white brimstone in fine powder half an ounce, Mix all these well together with the distilled water of Wormwood to the form of an Electuary and give the patient to drink five spoonfuls of the Wormwood water with the Quantity of three Nuts of the aforesaid Electuary bloodwarm in bed and it certainly cureth the Ague or plague by sweat and driveth out the botch and saveth his life which is infected, Probat. To ripen and break the botch. Take the black roots of Crowfoot, pound them and lay on a Cloth to the risen, If the place be white it is deadly, but this plaster will presently etc. Against all pestilent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure, etc. Take the ●uice of scabious in Ale and give it to the patient warm with a little treacle, and take the root of Scabious stamped with swine's grease and spread it on a cloth cold as thick as you can, and lay it to the plague sore or any other imposthume, It must not be changed in twenty four hours. Scabious which is also called Devil's bit is best for the plague sore. To help assuredly divers diseases thats to say to preserve the body from all diseases being drank first and to kill Impostumes to make good colour, to resist the plague and to help it. to heal the Physic, it breaketh the stone in the reins, it h●lpeth the spleen, it purgeth the belly, It maketh good colour and expelleth all corrupt blood, It healeth wounds in the belly, it cleareth the sight. Take one pint of Gentian and two parts of Centaury, stamp them together and put white wine to them, Let them soak five days than distil them, keep the water distilled in a close vessel, use it first and last, It is comparable to gold. A Medicine for the Plague. Take a fair onion, make a hole in it and take out the Inner core, then take Dragon water, treacle and pepper and bruise them a little and put them into the onion, and roast the onion in the Embers and after bruise the onion and strain it with Malmsey and give it to the patient to drink. And if it be taken before the heart is infected, it's a present Remedy. Probat. For the canker in the body. Take the roots of Dragon and cut them in small pieces and dry them into powder▪ and seethe it in white wine very well and let the ●ick drink thereof three days together fasting and he shall be whole. For the Canker. Take an handful of woodbine and an handful of Sage, stamp and strain them and seethe them to the third part with honey and Allome till it be thick and wash the Canker therewith, To cure a Canker in the mouth. Take Rock allome and burn it and make it into fine powder, and scrape some Bolearmoniake into i●, and when you use it put drops of wine vinegar unto it a●d anoint the place. For the canker in the mouth the best way. Take two pennyworth of pure coral, as much as a walnut of roch allome and half as much of white Copperas and a pint of strong white wine vinegar, woodbine leaves, and sage leaves of each ten & one spoonful of bay-salt & half a spoonful of English honey, and a branch of Rosemary, boil all together till half be wasted, than strain and keep it in a glass, this water will remedy it in twice dressing When you wash your mouth put a little in a saucer and ●ash the Canker therewith but let none go down. A water to cure a Fistula. Take Bolearmoniake, Roman Vitriol, allome, of each two ounces, boil these in eight pound of water till half be consumed, with this you may wash any Fistula. A diet drink for a Fistula. Take Egrimony, self-heal, sanicle, Lady's Mantle, Madder, Hemp, Mugwort, Fetherfew, wild tansy brier tops one handful, Lignum, gi●acum lib. 1. Corticis ejusdem two ounces, In●use all in twelve pound of water twelve hours, then boil them to the third part, post concoctionem ad Mellis optimi lib. 1. or cola. A Medicine most excellent for the spitting of blood. Take a raw Eggshell and cast away the inner skin thereof, th●n dry it in such order as may be finely powdered, of which powder take two drams with three ounces of plantain water well mixed together. Or if you will have this remedy more effectual than give it five days together in the morning two drams of the same powder dissolved in this Syrup following, Take Syrupi de rosis siccis Syrup de portulaca Syrup de Myrtis one ounce, Misce. In like manner it's a fore Re●●edy aswell in the cure as in the preservation for the patient to chew in his mouth every morning fasting one scruple of Rhubarb torrified. For any sore which is poisoned with a contrary and unproper salve. Make a posset of white wine and ●ay th● cured thereof to the sore and it will take a● the malice away, so that another salve ma● work; Also take new milk from the Cow and wash the sore therewith and it will do the like. For any that is wounded to keep it from rankling▪ Take the juice of parsley and drink it, and it shall not rankle. Te heal an Impostume in the body. Dioscorides saith that Mints stamped and drunk with Ale destroyeth all Impostumes in the body. An ale salve to cure most sores. Take a quart of the first running of Alewort, boil it to a pint then put into it two ounces of fresh unsalted butter and so boil them to the thickness of honey, And if it chance the sore to have dead flesh, put in the salve an half penny worth of Allome Probat. To remove pain and exceeding dolour in an Impostume or wound. Apply the whites of Eggs or the whites and yolks together, being well wrought together with oil of roses, or else take the crumbs of wheat bread steeped in hot water and pressed out one pound, yolks of Eggs in number two. For Hemerods' that come forth. Take Wormwood and drink it fasting and make a plaster thereof and mingle with burnt garlic to powder and the sick shall be whole by God's grace. FINIS.