THE Kitchin-Physician: OR, A GUIDE FOR GOOD-HOUSEWIVES IN Maintaining their Families in health.  
Wherein are described The Natures, Causes, and Symptoms of all Diseases inward and outward, incident to the Bodies of Men, Women, and Children.  
Prescribing natural, useful, and proper Medicines both in Physic and Chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy Cure of the said Distempers.  
Adorned with Sculptures, showing the proper place of every Distemper in the Body.  
Published for the common good of City & Country, By T. K. Doctor in Physic.  
London: Printed for Samuel Lee, Stationer, over against the Post-Office in . 1680.   

To the READER.  
I Have here set before your view, a prospect of the rich Garden of Nature, adorned with nothing but its own simple qualities; which at first was not obliged to any of the Learned to Translate it into Galenical Compositions, or any Artificial Experiments, but was made use on by our forefather's, for their relief in Sickness and Malady, long before Physic was brought into a Profession, and the Professors of it courted by the Ignorant, when they received (in ordinary and common Distempers) little more than a bare Compliment from them, save only referring them to their Mother Nature, the true and original Healer of such Diseases. And although this small Attempt may receive Opposition from some mean-spirited Physicians, whose Interest may be invaded by the Publication of it, and who are Impostors of Physic, with pretended Universal Medicines: Yet my design is, (though bred up a Physician) to leave this as a Legacy to my Country, before my grey hairs go down to the Grave, purely to make them their own Physicians in cases not dubious, nor requiring the utmost improvement of Nature, into a well-digested and consulted conclusion of Art. And by the way, I would not have the Reader think, that I have the least ill Opinion of the Elaborate Inventions, and ingenious Experiments of the Learned, in bringing Physic to the utmost perfection; for I have a great adoration for all such worthy Improvers of Nature: but I am not of Opinion, that their assistance is necessary in common and ordinary distempers, which many times the diligent Nurse, or Housewife, by her plain and common Experience in Herbs and Plants, cures, when they by their sublime and too high strained applications, leave the Patient in a desperate condition. And therefore I hope these my poor endeavours will be kindly entertained by such of my Countrymen as will not entertain prejudice thereto beforehand; and do not fear that any Learned Physician will think ill of this Publication, (especially if what it contains be true and certain, as I hope it is) his Business and Employment being of a far higher nature, De ordine Naturae, and seeming rather by his great attempt, as it were, to dispute with our great Mother herself, in matters where she is sometimes at a Ne plus ultra. This I thought good to premise to the sober Reader, and hearty wish that it may answer my honest design therein. Farewell.  
T. K.   

A TABLE of the several Distempers incident to the Bodies of Men and Women, answering the before-going Cut; to which the several Paragraphs in the ensuing Book do likewise particularly refer, in Arithmetical order.  

1. HOw to clear the Face.  
2. How to take away Sunburning from the face.  
3. Of Freckles, Spots, or  
4. Wrinkles in the Face.  
5. How to soften the roughness of the Skin, and take away the Chaps of the Lips and Hands.  
6. How to make your hands that are yellow and wrinkled, smooth.  
7. How to take away Wa●●●  
8. To lessen the appearance of a vein between the Eyes.  
9 How to cure a Red Face.  
10. Against Burning and Blistering.  
11. How to cure the Pox, and ulcerations proceeding from thence.  
12. To make Pock-holes smooth.  
13. To take away Scabs and Scurf which eat into the skin.  
14. Against White Scabs or Sores.  
15. How to remedy the shedding or falling of the Hair.  
16. How to make white or grey hairs black.  
17. How to kill Nits and 18. Lice.  
19 How to cure the stinging of Venomous Beasts.  
20. A perfect cure for the Headache, occasioned by Heat, Cold, or Drunkenness.  
21. A Cure for the Ulcers of the Skull.  
22. How to cure Madness.  
23. To cure the Lethargy.  
24. To proc●●● Sleep.  
25. To cure the giddiness of the Head.  
26. How to cure the Falling Sickness, and to be preserved from it.  
27. How to cure the dead Palsy.  
28. How to cure the Apoplexy.  
29. How to cure the shaking Palsy.  
30. How to strengthen the Eyes.  
31. To cure 〈◊〉 that are subject to water.  
32. To cure weeping Eyes, and Humours that fall down into them.  
33. To take away the Redness of the Eyes.  
34. To cure the Inflammation of the Eyes.  
35. To take red spots out of the Eyes.  
36. To cleanse the Eyes from all filthy matter.  
37. To take spots and webs out of the Eye.  
38. To take away the pain of the Eyes.  
39 To cure the pain of the Ears, proceeding from hot causes.  
40. A Remedy for Thickness of Hearing.  
41. Against Deafness.  
42. Against Worms in the Ears.  
43. Against Noise in the Ears.  
44. How to cure little Boils or Ulcers behind the Ears.  
45. Against the Swelling or Kings-evil in the Neck.  
46. Against the stopping of the Nose.  
47. How Humours that run out of the Nose may be stopped.  
48. A remedy against Sneezing.  
49. A Medicine to recover the Smelling, when 'tis lost or corrupted.  
50. To staunch the excessive Bleeding of the Nose.  
51. To cure the Boils and Ulcers of the Nose.  
52. A Remedy against the stinking of the Nose.  
53. A Remedy against the stinking of the Mouth.  
54. How to cure an Ulcerous Mouth.  
55. To cure excessive slabbering.  
56. How to cleanse the Teeth, and keep them sound.  
57 To fasten lose Teeth.  
58. Of Hollow Teeth.  
59 A Remedy against the Toothache.  
60. Of sharp Teeth.  
61. A cure for a stinking Breath.  
62. A cure for the Squinancy.  
63. Against Hoarseness.  
64. Against Pursiness, or shortness of breath.  
65. A Remedy for a Cough.  
67. A cure for the Pleurisy.  
68 A cure for a Consumption.  
69. A cure for the Passion of the Heart.  
70. A Remedy against Faintness.  
71. A cure for a constant Ague.  
72. For a quotidian Ague.  
73. For a Tertian Fever.  
74. For a quartan Ague.  
75. For Shaking, and in an Ague.  
76. Thirst, in an Ague.  
77. A cure for the Plague, and swelling So●● thereof.  
78. A Remedy for hanging Breasts.  
79. A cure for an Ulcerated Breast.  
80. How to breed and increase Milk.  
81. To dry up Milk.  
82. A Remedy to prevent any evil which may come by the Biting of Adders, or other venomous Creatures.  
83. A Remedy against the Hiccough.  
84. A cure for Belching.  
85. To strengthen the stomach.  
86. A cure for a Nauseating stomach.  
87. An help against Vomiting in an Ague.  
88 A cure for an aching stomach.  
89. A cure for the Worms.  
90. A cure for the griping of the Guts.  
91. A Remedy against all Obstructions.  
92. A cure for the Flux.  
93. A Remedy for the bleeding of the Paps.  
94. A cure for the pain of the Paps.  
95. A cure for an hot Liver.  
96. How to cure the Obstructions of the Liver.  
97. A Remedy for the Jaundice.  
98. A cure for the Black Jaundice.  
99 A cure for the Dropsy.  
100 A cure for the Obstruction of the Spleen.  
101. A Remedy for the pain of the Spleen.  
102. A cure for the Colic, occasioned by Gravel.  
103. A Remedy for the Stone in the Reins.  
104. For the Stone in the Bladder.  
105. A Remedy for hot Pissing.  
106. A cure for those who cannot hold their Urine.  
107. A Remedy against drop-pissing.  
108. A Remedy against painful Pissing.  
109. A cure for the Inflammation of the Privy-Members.  
110. A cure for an Inflamed Womb or Matrix.  
111. For the Rising of the Mother.  
112. For the sinking downward of the Mother.  
113. A Remedy for the White Flux.  
114. For an excessive Menstrual Flux.  
115. For the stopping of the Monthly Flux.  
116. How to take away Barrenness.  
117. A Remedy against Miscarrying.  
118. To procure Ease in hard Labour.  
119. To ease pangs or Throws after Childbearing.  
120. A Remedy against the perturbation of the Mother.  
121. For a Rupture.  
122. A cure for the Gout.  
123. For a Red swelling.  
124. For a windy Swelling.  
125. A Remedy against Apostems, tumors, or hard swell.  
126. Against Ulcerous Swell.  
127. A cure for the Itch.  
128. For Boils and Ulcers.  
129. Ulcers of the Nails. 130. Bad Ulcers.  
131. Cancer. 132. Knobs.  
133. For a Fall. 134. Bruises.  
135. Fresh Wounds. 136. All kind of Wounds.  
137. Shot-Wounds. 138. Stamped Sinews.  
139. Stung Sinews.  
140. Sinews cut through.  
141. Inward Wounds.  
142. Biting of a Mad Dog.  
143. Biting of a Serpent.  
144. Kibes on the Heels.  
145. Stinking Feet.    

THE Kitchin-Physician: OR, A guide for good Housewifes', In maintaining The Health of their Families.  
AS it is necessary for the preservation of Health, to keep our Houses neat and cleanly; so we should be careful to keep our Bodies free from putrifying Diseases. And because the Faces of Men (especially of Women) are (more than any other part of the Body) exposed to view; I will write of Medicines which adorn that part, by adding Comeliness and Beauty thereunto. Beauty is a blessing which every one ought to preserve, and not to neglect.  

1. Of Medicines and other Remedies which are appropriated to the Skin, Hair, and Teeth.  
For the Cleansing of the Bodies of Men and Women, Bathe are very useful, and may be thus made.  
Take of Sage-leaves, Flowers of Lavender, and Roses, of each one handful, with a little Salt; let all these boil in Fountain or Riverwater to a Bath.  
Or, take Rose-water, Wine-Vineger, and Salt, of each a little; let them boil together in common water, (as much as in your discretion you shall think sufficient) until there remain two or three Pails: afterward put a Wheaten-Roll or Loaf therein; then rub the whole Body with the same: and after you have so done, go into a lukewarm Bath, and remain there as long as you can.  
Or, take water of Orange-flowers, Red and White Roses, of each one ounce, six Lemon-Pills, Cloves a quarter of an ounce, Flower de Luce of Florence the eighth part of an ounce; let these Ingredients soak five or six hours in the aforesaid waters; then strain them through a clean cloth, and add thereunto five Pints of sweet Almond-Milk; these being mingled together, are for the washing of your Body, (having first bathed in a Bath of lukewarm water.)  
The virtues of these Baths are these: They comfort the Sinews, they take away all foulness of the skin, they exhilerate and refresh the Spirits. These and the like are useful for Men and Women: but the following Ingredients are most proper for Women, forasmuch as their chiefest virtue is to make the Face fair, to procure and preserve Beauty; of these Embellishments men have no need. And they may be performed without Painting-stuff, which impaireth Beauty. These waters are made of such things, that (for the most part) are gotten in Gardens. Painting is pernicious; for it is the cause of wrinkles; of a stinking breath, of black and lose teeth, of redness of Eyes, weakness of sight, deafness, and other infirmities, which happen to those who paint their faces, and take more care to appear (by that impudent means) beautiful, than to preserve the Health of their whole bodies. These are the evil effects of the use of Sublimated White-lead, and such like things, which are as dangerous as: the Plague. And now I will show▪  

How to make the face Beautiful, White, Smooth, and Red.  
By the use of these following Beautywaters, Ladies may preserve their Complexions, with safety to their Health.   

An excellent Water.  
Take of white and smooth shaled Beans, one pound, let them soak nine or ten days in Whitewine; then (having pounded them sufficiently in a Stone-Morter) put them again into the said Wine, adding thereto, of Goat's Milk two quarts, of Flour of Rice half a pound, the whites of twelve Eggs: all this you must set over a little fire in a Colb, or Stilling-glass. With this stilled water the Face is to be washed at night when you go to Bed.   

Another Water.  
Take a wheaten Loaf of two pounds, the whites of eight or ten Eggs, strong Vinegar according to discretion; mix these all together, and being put into water, still them through a glass.   

Another Water.  
Take twenty four Eggs, and having washed them clean, break them, and beat them, shells, yolks, and white, well together, adding thereto, white-Wine two pints, Goat's Milk one pint, Flour of Beans one handful: put these into hot water, than still them through a Colb or Stilling-glass. Let this water thus stilled, stand fifteen days in the Sun, than it will be fit for your purpose. When you use it, warm a little of it, and dissolve therein Burra, Sugar-Candy powdered, of each a like quantity: with this you must wash your Face in the Morning and at Night.   

Another Water.  
Take the Crum of White-bread, Flowers of Lilies, Roses, of each one pound; Elderberries, Flour of Beans, of each half a pound; strong Wine-Vinegar, Goat's Milk two pints, the whites of four Eggs; distil them together through a Glass, as above, in hot water.   

Another Water.  
Take five Lemons and cut them in pieces, three Apples, Sugar, Alum, of each an ounce; distil them through a Glass, as before.   

Another Water.  
Take the Roots of Pignuts being well washed, cut them into small slices, and put them into a glazed pot, (containing five English pints) half full, twelve Eggshells well washed and bruised, one pint and somewhat more of White-Wine, Rain and Riverwater, until the pot be full; let all these boil together, until a third part be boiled away, adding thereto the crumb of a small white Loaf, Spanish Green of the bigness of a Bean. Bind all these in a little bag; bray or bruise the said Decoction on a Tile, while it is lukewarm, at last put into it one ounce of Sugar. Wet a fine cloth therein, and wash your face at Night and in the Morning, without wiping it.   

Another Water.  
Bore the Stem (or Trunk) of a Birch-Tree with an Iron Bore, and much water will run out of it, which is useful on this occasion, and also to take away Sun-burning. There are many other Waters that clear the Face, which I pass by for brevity sake; I shall only add hereto   

The Dove or Pigeon-water, which is made thus.  
Take two white Pigeons, pluck them, draw out their guts, throw them into a Stilling-glass, upon a rank of leaves of Ash-herb, (called Fraxinella, or wild Ditany,) Lambs Tongue two handfuls: lay them upon the floor, then add thereto fresh Butter four ounces, Oil of sweet Almonds three ounces, Buras, Champher,  Alum, and Sugar Candy powdered, the crumb of a white Loaf, the whites of twenty five Eggs, two handfuls of the kernels of Grapes, Goat's Milk four pints. Let these soak ten or twelve hours in the stilling-glass, well stopped. Let it distil slowly in a water-Bath (or balneo Mariae) put the divided Water into Flasks, in a cool Cellar, then strain it through a clean and fine Cloth. Wash your face with this water in the morning and at night with a little cloth.  
Besides these waters, there are also divers Ointments of great use: and Oils and Pomades.   

Ointment.  
Boyl two Eggs hard, cut them in the midst, take out the yolk, fill the hollow with the powder of  Wine-stone; join the half parts together, and tie them with a thread; put them into a dish, and set them in a moist Cellar. The Wine-stone will melt, whereby the moistness running through the white of the Eggs, will alter (together with that which comes thereby) to an Oil, such as you desire.  
Oil of the Acorns of an Oak, being pressed out, as that of Almonds, and mingled with that of the Eggshells, is useful to make the face beautiful. Also  
Oil of Myrrah, made like the Oil of Wine-stone, with the white of Eggs. Also There is an Ointment made of the Marrow of the Bones of a Wether, and is thus to be extracted.  
Take of the bones of a Wether, (when 'tis full Moon) as much as you please, let them boil long in water, then break them in pieces. Let them boil again in the water three or four hours, then take them from the fire, and let them be cold; then gather the fat which will swim upon the the water, and Anoint your Face therewith at night when you go to bed, and the next morning. Wash it off with the water of Bean-Blossomes, or of Flower-de-luce.  
Another Ointment is made of Pigeons dung, and camphered Rose-water.   

Another Ointment or Pomade.  
Take Goats grease half a pound, fresh unmelted Hog's grease four ounces, cut into small pieces; put it into a glazed earthen pot, with a Pippin cut in pieces, Juice of Orange, Rose-water a glass-full, white-Wine half a glass-full; put the pot upon the fire, and let it boil a little. When the Grease is melted, and incorporated with the Apple, strain it through a Sieve, or Serse, into an earthen pot glazed, and half full of fresh water. When it is cold, take it out, and wash it five or six times in Rose-water, every time renewing the water. To a Pomade.   

Another excellent Pomade.  
Take Goats grease two ounces, Pippins two, Flower-de-luce Roots of Florence one ounce, a whole Lemmon; chop the grease, and cut the Apples and Roots in pieces. Add thereto, of the Marrow of a Wether's feet two ounces. Let it boil together in a sufficient quantity of Rose-water, in a glazed pot, upon a gentle fire, until the Lemon be consumed, keeping the pot well covered. Then take it from the fire, and strain that which is in the pot through a clean cloth; you must pound that which is gone through, and mix that which is pressed out fresh, without fire, with the Oil of Sweet Almonds. When it is mingled together, then wash it with water of Bean-flowers, white Flower-de-luce, Roses, of each the like quantity. This being well mixed, and made, you may keep in a glass well covered. With this excellent Pomade you may Anoint your Face at night, and wash it off the next day in the morning with Rain-water.    

2. How to take away Sun-burning.  
The Face may be preserved from the burning of the Sun, and from Cold, by these following Salves and Medicines.  
Take Goats grease half a pound, being first washed in clear water; pound it in a little Mortar, then boil it in Rose-water, and after strain it through a fine cloth; with Oil of Sweet Almonds one ounce, Sugar-Candy a quarter of an ounce, new white Wax as much as is enough. Boil all these in a glazed pot, over a soft fire, to the convenient thickness of a Salve, stirring it about continually, that it may become white, and be kept from burning. Being boiled, it must be kept in a Glass (close stopped) for the use of a Salve.  
For the same use serveth also a Salve made with Mastic, and with the Marrow of an Hart, or Ox. An Ointment of Mastic with harsh Oil, the water of the white of Eggs.  
A Pomade made with white wax, Camphor, and Oil of Sweet Almonds, pressed out with fire; this Pomade takes away Sun-burning.   

3. How to take away Freckles and Spots.  
Take the Meal of Lupins, the Gall of a Goat, the Juice of Lemons, and white Alum; mingle these to a Salve: Anoint therewith the Spots and Freckles.  
Or, mingle together the Oil of Bitter Almonds, Honey, Roots of Flower-de-luce and Wax; then wet them with water of Bean-flowers, Orange, and Myrtle.  

Another Salve to take away Freckles, Rubies and Saphires which appear in the Face.  
Take water in which Rice hath been boiled, distilled water of Turpentine, with Oil of Wine-stone, one ounce of Mastic, half a Loaf (that is, a quarter of an ounce) of Camphor: mix these with the whites of Eggs.   

Another.  
Take distilled water of Radish-seed, and of great Spear-Root, (having been soaked before four days in the Sun in water,) stilled Oil of Eggshells, Oil which is pressed out of the Seed of Cotton-herb, the juice of the Root, and little Berries of Briony or wild Vine, the juice of Ladies-mark, with fig-bean-meal, (which is a kind of Pulse, of an harsh and bitter taste,) the fresh Flowers of Jasmin, (being rubbed in pieces upon the place of the distemper,) Pigeons dung, being soaked in strong Wine-vinegar, Meal of Fitches, and seed of the Herb Rocket, mingled with honey, oil and water of Roses, with fresh Butter, and Pignut-Roots, made to a Salve, Lentiles boiled soft, and mixed with the juice of Pomegranate.    

4. How to take wrinkles out of the Face and Hands, and to make them white.  
Take the Lees of Linseed oil, put it in Rain-water to soak.  
Or, take the juice of Lemons, and some corns of Salt, mixed together; wash the wrinkles of the face and hands therewith.   

5. How to take away the Chaps of the Lips and Hands.  
Take the white of an Egg, and beat it with the powder of Mastic.  
Or, take the Oil of the yolks of Eggs, or Oil of Wax, and anoint therewith the Clefts or Chaps.   

6. How to make the Hands that are Yellow and Wrinkled, smooth and white.  
Take two pounds of Melons, with their Skins or Rines, and a good quantity of Eggs without their shells: distil all this together, and keep the water, not only to wash your Hands, but your Face.  

Another smoothing Water.  
Take Goats Milk six pounds, white or red Roses, small yellow Prunes, of each three pounds; crumbs of a white loaf, two pounds; Roots of Flower-de-luce, two ounces: distil these in hot water, through a glass.  
Or, Boyl Roots of Nettles in Vinegar and white-Wine; wash your Hands with this Decoction at night when you go to bed, and the next morning wash them clean with fresh water and soap.  
Or, take fresh Butter, Oil of Sweet Almonds, Lambs Suet; let these soak ten or twelve hours together, then melt them over a little fire, in a glazed earthen pot, adding thereunto white wax, with a little Musk or Civet: make this into a Salve.  
Or sometimes you may wash your hands with sweet-sented water and soap, or with stilled water of Bread, or with water and Rolls of bread. To these waters you may add sweet-scented water, as water of Orange-flowers, Damask-water, or a little Oil of Cloves, Cinnamon, or the like.    

7. How to take away Warts off the Face or Hands.  
The juice of Lemmons killeth Warts, but better the water of the same juice, distilled through a glass. Or the juice which is pressed out of the Flowers and Leaves of white Wool-blade.  
Also the juice of the Leaves of great Spear-herb. Also wart-Cicory, either eaten in Salads, or laid upon the face or hands, or other parts, cures the same to admiration.  
Also the Milky juice of Wolveses Milk, and that of the wild figtree, Oil of Red Copper, or Spanish Green, Brimstone, the grease which is gotten from the old Cask of an Oyl-Vessel, made hot before a great fire, the juice that is pounded out of the sprouts of Purslane, (without the leaves) in a little Mortar, adding thereunto a little Salt; this will cause the Warts to vanish away in four or five days, when they are anointed therewith.  
Or, lay on the Warts the Powder of Savil, or white-Daffadil (Hermodactyl) with Honey, Vinegar, and Sea-Onion, mixed with the juice of Marigolds: sheeps-dung soaked in Vinegar, cureth hanging-Warts, being laid thereupon.   

8. To take away Blood-Veins in the Face.  
Sometimes a Vein appears unhandsomely between the Eyes, for which it is good to lay on the forehead this Plaster.  
Take Mastic one ounce, Sandalwood half an ounce, Margaret-flowers three quarters of an ounce; mix these together, and spread them upon Leather, with the fine filing dust of Steel. Upon the Vein you shall only lay Mastic and Sandalwood, renewing the Plaster once a day; rub also therewith the upper part of the Vein, for the better reception of the Remedy.   

9 How to cure a Red Face.  
Wash it with water in which Chaff or straw of Barley or Oats hath been boiled.  
Or, Peach-kirnels four ounces, peeled Gourd-seed two ounces; pound and press them so hard, that Oil may come out of them to the substance of an Ointment, anoint therewith the Pimples and red places.   

10. How to heal Burning and Blistering.  
Against all burning and blistering occasioned by fire, make a Decoction of Radishes, which lie on unquenched Lime.  
Or, take an Onion roasted in the Ashes: or, Oil of Nuts with water: or, the yolks of Eggs beaten with Oil: or, Hens-dung mixed with Oil of Roses.  
Or, the Moss of an Haw-thorn-tree, the thinnest you can get; dry it in the Sun or Oven, make a powder thereof, preparing it with the Milk of a woman that giveth suck to a Male-child; make a Salve thereof, and anoint therewith the  place.  
Or, take salt-water or pickle, wet a linnen-cloth therein, and put it upon the  place.  
Or, take common Soap, Honey, and Butter, or juice of Onions, or Oil of Eggs.  
Or, let Loam, red Copper, or Spanish-green, or Pellitory of the Wall, or Camphor, be steeped in wine and water; pour it often out of one pot into another, then wet a cloth in this water, (that first is made lukewarm) and lay it upon the  place.  
Or, take the white of two Eggs, beat them with Oil of Nuts and Rose-water, adding thereto water wherein unquenched Lime hath been extinguished; stir it well about, and let the water stand until you have occasion for it. And to the end that no scar may remain after the burning is healed, you must wash the  place often with Lambs-tongue-water, in which a little Alum is dissolved.  
Or, you may use an Ointment of hogs-bread Roots▪ pounded with House-leek: but Brandy is better to wash the Scars of the  place, whether they be in the face or other parts of the body.   

11. How to cure the POX, and ulcerations thereof.  
Take water ten pints, quench therein rough iron, until the half be found in the water. Then lay therein to soak unquenched Lime one pound; strain it, and melt in that which is gone through or strained Camphor, Spanish-green, Red-copper, of each twenty Grains. This water is good to cleanse and dry the Ulcers.  
Or, boil clear water in a new earthen pot, and when it gins to boil, put therein unquenched Lime; then put it out into another new pot; then let it stand: scum it till it be clear; the Lime will remain in the bottom like a pap; then pour out the clear water, without stirring the Lime, and put it into a clean glass well stopped for use. In this water dip a little cloth, (the water being made lukewarm) and lay it upon the Ulcers instead of a Plaster, renewing it often.   

12. To take away Pockholes, and make the skin smooth.  
Take of the Oil of St. Johns-herb one ounce, Venetian Turpentine half an ounce; melt it in a glazed pot, and as soon as it gins to boil, take it from the fire, and work it into a Salve; anoint therewith the scars and spots, continuing to do so till the holes be stopped.  
Or, take the stilled water of the white of Eggs, boiled hard with shells; of Snails, of Calves, of Wethers, of Goats-feets, of Bean-flour, Dragonwort, (i. e. Serpentaria.) These waters you shall use single, or mingled together, and with that bathe the face when you go to bed, having prepared the same with the steam or smoke of warm water: or, decoction of the chaff of Oats, Oil of Dates, Flower-de-luce, Myrrah, (Pistacies.)  
Or, take three Ounces of the Oil of Flower-de-luce, Rosen, Capons-grease, of each one ounce; wash them well in Rose-water: add thereunto four whites of Eggs half boiled in their shells, Oil of Sweet and Bitter Almonds planched, of each one ounce; pound them in a Marble Morter, mingling therewith a quarter of an ounce of the powder of Melon-seed; work it to a Salve.  

Another.  
Take the Powder of Silver-scum,  Bones of a Calf, dry Reed-Roots, bitter Almonds, Pompey or Melon-seed, Radish-seed, Meal of Rice, Beans, Fig-beans, (a kind of Pulse of an harsh and bitter taste▪) Turkish-beans, white-Cicory, of each as much as you shall think fit or convenient: dissolve these in Rose-water, and mix them to a Salve.  
There is another Salve made with Oil of Almonds and Brimstone, with Ass' grease, juice of Reed-Roots and Honey; Roots of a white-Vine boiled in the Oil of Olives, the powder of a Crabfish burnt, the Ashes of Wine-stone, and of Myrrah; spread this Salve upon the face, being made wet with the steam or smoke of water. It is very useful to heal the scars and black-spots of the pox.    

13. To take away Scabs and Scurff, which eat into the skin.  
Take the juice of Purslain, Lambs-tongue, Nightshade, and Lemons; if this be not sufficient, then add thereto red Wine-stone: apply this mixture to the place eaten in by the Scabs.  
Or, lay the Root of the Herb Patient a soaking for one day, in strong wine-vinegar; cut it in slices, and with one of the slices chafe the fore place three or four times a day.  
Or, take of Aloes half a quarter of an ounce, Sublimate ten grains, water of Lambs-tongue-leaves, Nightshade, (as much as you shall judge sufficient) of each a like quantity; boil all these together, to the consumption of the half, and work them to an Ointment.  
Or, take Gum of the black-cherry-tree, a little Brimstone, and twice as much Salt; put these to soak in strong wine-Vineger, rub therewith the sore place, or chafe it in with fasting spittle, or with the gum which runs out of the Vine; but first mix them with Saltpetre, and pounded Tobacco, (viz. the juice and herb pounded together.)   

14. To take away white Scabs and Sores.  
Wash the Patient's head with Oxepipe, until it bleed, and then spread thereupon the Powder of the dung of a white hen, dried in an Oven.  
Or, Soot of the Chimney bruised, and mixed with strong Vinegar.   

15. How to prevent the falling of Hair, and to make Hair grow.  
Rub the bare place with Red-cloth until it bleed; then rub it with a Salve made of Honey, Flax-seed-Oyl, Powder of Gnats; roast these upon a Tile.  
Or, rub it with a Mouse-turd and Honey, or with  Nutshells, which are mixed with Wine and Oil.   

16. To make white or grey Hairs black.  
Take bruised Gall-nuts, fry them in an Iron-pan till they be very black, drop thereon (by little and little) the Oil of Olives, stirring it constantly till it be well incorporated: hold them over the fire till it be dry, then bruise them to powder, adding thereto Red-Copper, Rosemary, Crystal Salt, (Sal Gemmae) dried clay, or Pot-earth, and Cloves pounded small; this being done, take Alum, shells of Nuts and of Pomgranats, of each a like quantity; boil these in wine, until they be as black as Ink, then strain them, and put the aforesaid Powder therein; but first, before you apply it to the Head, moisten the Head with a very good Lye. Then wash it with this Wine, and keep it covered five or six hours, then rinse it with wine and water; then dry it, and the hair will continue black for five or six Months.   

17. How to kill Nits.  
Make a Decoction of the Lie of Wormwood, Acorns, and Nuts, in strong wine-Vineger.   

18. How to kill Lice.  
Chafe the place with the juice of brine, mixed with the Oil of Anis, or of Juniper, or with a Decoction of Lice-herb, (Staphisagria.) Or boil Bacon in a Leaded-pot, and white Frankincense, of each a like quantity, to the stifness of a Salve strain it, and keep it for your use.   

19 How to cure the stinging of venomous Beasts.  
If a Mouse, Spider, Fly, Wasp, Horseleech, or any venomous beast, by stinging or biting, have caused the flesh to swell, than you shall struck gently the place which is hurt, with the juice of Southern-wood, and the pain shall immediately cease, and the swelling also will diminish.  
Or, lay thereupon the dung of an Ox or Cow hot, or smear it with fasting spittle.   

20. A cure for the Headache.  
If it be occasioned by heat, you shall lay thereupon little slices of Gourd, or a fine cloth dipped in Rose-water, juice of Lambs-tongue, Nightshade, Lettuce, or Purslain put into white-Wine.  
Or, beat the white of two Eggs with Rose-water, wet Tow in it, and lay it to the forehead  
Or, wash your head with lukewarm water, wherein wine and Sage-leaves have been boiled, or Roses and Prune-flowers; with this Decoction wash the Legs and Feet. If the pains be so great that the understanding be prejudiced, then lay upon the top of the Head, forehead, and Temples, a Poultis of the white of an Egg, Bolus Armenius, sour Apples boiled; or in Betony-water and Wine-vineger: but if the pain proceedeth from Drunkenness, then make a small cushion of Venus' Hair and Roses, and bind it about the forehead: or you shall receive the vapour of boiled Coleworts: or as soon as the Head gins to ache, eat one or two bitter Almonds: or drink grated Hartshorn in River or Fountain-water, or mix it with the hair of the dog that bitten you.  
But if the Headache be occasioned by cold, then lay upon the Head little bags filled with Barley, and roasted-salt, Sage, Margerum, Thyme, Annis, and bay-berries, Juniper-berries, as hot as you can endure it.   

21. How to cure inveterate Headache, and Ulcers of the Skull.  
Roast in the ashes a little piece of the uttermost rind of an Onion, wet and sprinkled with the Oil of Roses, or Laurel-berries; put it into the Ear, on that side the pain is: it is also necessary to keep a good Diet, without which, all Remedies are in vain. Therefore in all kind of head-aches drink but little Wine, and eat but a little; let your Victuals be good, and such as will feed little; as the flesh of young Hens, Stewed Lettuce, Purslain and Sorrel, Milk of Sweet-Almonds, with peeled Barley: eat no windy Herbs, nor sodden-meat, nor Milk alone, which is very bad in this Distemper, and for all sorts of Agues: let the Patient discharge himself of all disturbances of Mind, neither let him read nor write much, but with quietness expect by God's Blessing the operation of these means.   

22. A Remedy against Madness.  
For the cure of Madness occasioned by hot sicknesses, bind on the Head the Lungs or whole Pluck of a Wether newly killed, or a Chicken or Pigeon split on the midst of the back; put it on the Patient's Head, or anoint the forehead (especially the Temples) with Oil of Roses, Vinegar, and Poplar-salve, or with the juice of Nightshade, Oil of Roses, and Wine-Vineger.   

23. A Cure for the Lethargy.  
Make a little cushion filled▪ with Coleworts boiled in Vinegar, and bind it on the forehead.  
Or, let the fume of strong-Vinegar ascend into the Patient's nostrils.  
Or, the sent of Rhue, and the seed of (Nigella) Partridge-feathers, old shoopatches, Ass-claws, or man's hair, burnt.  
Or, bind on the forehead a Plaster of Mithridate, and on the right Arm the Head of a Bat.   

24. To procure Sleep.  
Bind about the head a little cushion made of Lettice-seed, and juice of Nightshade, or Woman's Milk that gives suck to a Girl.  
Or, lay under the Pillowbere an Apple of Mandragora, or anoint the soles of the feet with the grease of a small Weazel.   

25. A Cure for the dizziness of the Head.  
If the Head be subject to giddiness, take Aquavitae, Syrup of Gillyflowers, or confection of Anacardina.   

26. A Cure for the Falling-sickness.  
To cure and preserve from the Falling-sickness, called also St. john's Evil, drink for Nine days together about half a drinking-glass of Petty-mullein, or Longwort, or the water of the flowers of a Sycamore-tree, or Coriander, or the Powder of Piony-seed, five or six days together.  
Or, rub the Head with a little stone which is found in the nest of a Swallow; or wear a Ring about the neck, or on the finger, in which the claw of an Elandt is enclosed; but let not the claw eat the flesh of the neck or finger. Also it will be cured, if you tickle or nip the neck under the great Tooth, or if you anoint their Lips with Man's Blood.   

27. How to cure the Dead-Palsey.  
To cure and preserve from the Dead-Palsey, drink in the winter a spoonful of Aquavitae and Sugar, and then eat a piece of White-bread; or instead of Aquavitae, Taret-water, (which we shall describe hereafter.)   

28. How to cure the Apoplexy.  
Chase the afflicted places with Oil of Bay-berries, and beaver's Wine; mingle therewith some Aquavitae; you may also use Cynnamon-water, or St. John's Herb, or preserved Sage, Rosemary, Field-Cypress, Balm, and Mithridate; make also dry-stewings, with a Decoction of Lavender, Balsam, and Margerum.   

29. How to cure the Shaking-Palsey.  
Drink for a great while, the Decoction of Field-Cypress, Petty-mallein, and Sage; eat also the kernels of Pine-Apples.   

30. How to strengthen weak Eyes.  
Take Fenickle, the Herb Vervin, Eye-bright, Rhue, and Roses, of each a little quantity; distil them, drop into the Eyes every morning and evening three or four drops of this water.  
Or, of the distilled water of Rotten-Apples; also 'tis good to receive the fume of the waters in which Fenile, Eye-bright and Rhue have been boiled; or to drink every morning half a glass of the wine of Eye-bright, or to prepare a Powder of dried Eye-bright with Sugar; take thereof every morning two or three spoonfuls before you eat.  
There is a stone to be found in an Oxgall, which being put into the Nostrils, will make the sight very clear.  
Also you may use Wine in the morning, made of Stone-Rhue-Roots.   

31. A Cure for the running of the Eyes.  
Lay a Plaster upon the forehead made of Snail-slime, beaten with Frankincense and Aloes, till it be as thick as Honey.   

32. A Cure for Weeping Eyes.  
All humours which fall into the Eyes may be dried up by a Decoction made of the leaves of Betony, Fenickle-root, and a little Frankincense; wash the Eyes therewith.  
Or, by a Decoction of Chervil; mix therewith the juice of Rue, with scumed honey.  
Or, bind behind the head Rolls of Amber, which have a great virtue to hinder the humour or Rheum that falleth down the Throat.  
Or, drop into the Eyes the distilled water of a Man's Gall, and the Herb Salandine.  
Or, anoint the corners of the Eyes with blacking, which is made of Butter burnt in a Lamp; this Remedy drieth up all running of the Eyes, and is convenient for all Running-sores and Fistula's, which come of Humours and Rheums.   

33. To cure the Redness or Inflammation of the Eyes.  
Lay a Linnen-cloth, or Tow of Flax, which is wet in the white of Eggs, and well beaten with Rose or Lambs-tongue-water; or take a sour rotten-Apple, mingled with woman's-milk, and anoint therewith the Eyelids.  
Or, make a Garland of Damask-Roses, or the Preserve of Roses, and other things drawing together; lay these upon the Temples of the Head, and they will hinder the humour which occasions the redness.  
Or, soak in Woman's-milk little slices of Veal, or of the neck of an Ox newly killed; lay them upon the Eyes, and Tow upon them.  
Or, take the Urine of a young Child; take it in a Copper Vessel or Metal; let it stand covered with a fine cloth twenty four hours: of this gather together the Rust, and mingle it with Rose-water; put it into a glass with a narrow neck, stop it well, and drop some of it into the Eyes in the morning and at night, or prepared Tutty.  
But against the inveterate redness of the Eyes, take white Copperas, to the bigness of a small Nut bruised, (there are several sorts of Flowers so called) white Alum, of each the twenty fourth part of an ounce, Fountain-water one pint: mingle these together to an Eye-water, or boil them together until the water be clear; drop three or four drops of this into the Eyes: or, make a Plaster of Leaven, or of the remainder of Flax-seed Oil, Gum of Arabia-Dragant, Mastic, and Camphor.   

34. To cure the Inflammation of the Eyes.  
Take the Lungs of a Wether newly ●ill'd, (or of an Ewe) lay it upon the Eyes: or, take the pap of a sweet roasted-apple, mix it with Barley-meal, Woman's-milk, Rose-water, and white of Eggs.  
Or, water of Marygolds, the Eye of a Wolf; or the little stones which are found in the bellies of Swallows, being hung about the neck, have the same virtue.  
Or, take a piece of Frankincense upon the point of a stick, set it on fire with a wax-candle, extinguish it in four ounces of Rose-water; continue the lighting and extinguishing thereof thirty times, then strain it through a clean cloth to an Eye-water; drop some of it into the corners of the Eyes at night when you go to bed, and if you please, mingle with the water some woman's Milk.   

35. To take red Spots out of the Eyes.  
Make a Plaster of green-wormwood pounded in a woman's Milk and Rose-water. Or, drop into the Eyes the blood of the wing of a Pigeon or Turtledove; this last is good when the Eye is hurt with a blow.   

36. To cleanse the Eyes of Matter.  
Wipe them, and stroke them gently with a Saphire wet in cold water.   

37. To take Spots and Webs out of the Eyes.  
Take the new-laid Eggs of a black Hen, roast them hard in hot ashes, cut them in four equal parts, take out the yolks, fill them with white-sugar-candy ●ruised, then strain them through a clean ●innen-cloth very hard; this water or Oil ●s good to drop into Eyes, at any time of the day or night.  
Or, you may make a water of white-Coperas, Sugar-candy, Rose-water, and the white of Eggs hard-boyled; strain these through a linnen-cloth, drop this in●o the Eyes at noon, after dinner, and at light when you go to bed. Also the ●owder of white-beans only put into the Eyes, is very good.  
Or, take prepared Tutty scraped small ●ne ounce, Broad-sword half an ounce; soak his in Rose-water and white-wine, of ●ach about one pint; let it stand six weeks together in the Sun, in a well-stopp'd-glass, when the Sun shines bright, but ●ake it away when it shineth not; stir the glass twice or thrice a day, to an Eyesalve. These Remedies also serve against Red and Blear'd-eyes.   

38. To take away the pain of the Eyes.  
Make a Decoction of Camomile, Melilot, and Fenickle-seed, boil these in water and white-wine, dip therein a four-doub●● cloth, wring it hard, and apply it to the Eyes: or, bathe the Eyes in woman's Milk, beaten with the white of an Egg.   

39 To cure the pain of the Ears.  
If it proceeds from an hot cause, tak● Oil of Roses, with a little Vinegar; spo●● them into the Ears, and lay thereon a small bag of Camomile, Melilot, Flax▪ seed boiled in Milk: but if the pain 〈◊〉 occasioned by Inflammation, then take th● blacking of the smoke of boiled pitch 〈◊〉 mingle it with a little Oil of Roses, an● pour it warm into the Ears: if the pai● be occasioned by cold, put into the E●●● Cotten, made sweet with one grain o● Musk.   

40. To help thickness of Hearing.  
Drop into the Ears the juice of a wild-vine, or of Onion mingled with Honey o● Oil, wherein Affodel-roots have been boiled.   

41. A Cure for Deafness.  
Make a Salve of the following Ingredients; take Goose-grease two ounces, melt it over a soft fire, mingling with it powder of Aloes half an ounce; this you shall put into the Ears with Cotton: or take the juice of Radish-skins, mingled with Oil of Roses, or the fat of an Eel, with Oil of bitter Almonds, or the juice of an Onion mingled with Honey, or Powder of Aloes dissolved in white-wine, and dropped warm into the Ear. Then to sneeze with the Root of Hellebore, or let the fume of Ash-wood be received into the Ear, which you may do, by firing a stick of Ash-wood at the one end, and putting the other end to the hole of the Ear, into which the smoke will easily enter: the stick must be of a young shoot without knots. This is of great virtue for the cure of Deafness, although it be of 25 or 30 years; but against natural Deafness there is no remedy.  
Or, take Wormwood, Cammomile, Thousand-leaf, Hyssop, St. John's Herb, Fine-mint, Rosemary, Saintory, Savory, of each one handful; boil these in white-wine, to the consumption of one third part thereof, and let the hot smoke into the Ear through a Funnel, and then drop some of the following Oil into the Ear, and stop the Ear with Cotton in which Musk hath been.  
Or, take Oil of Olive two ounces, Mallows one ounce and a half, Oil of Onions, sweet Almonds, of each one ounce; put all these together into a flask with a long neck, set it on a fire that is not too hot, boil them until the juices be half consumed; then take the dust hence, and put therein powdered Castoreum, Coloquint, Mastic, Spikenard, of each the sixteenth part of an ounce; then take the flask, and being well stopped, boil it in a little kettle full of water (like a Balneum Mariae) for three hours; then put it in the Sun a little while, to cause the Oil to be clear; then strain the Oil through a thick cloth, and add thereunto Musk ten grains, to an Oil; keep it safe and carefully in a well-stoped flask for use.   

42. A Cure for the Worms in the Ears.  
Take the Milky juice of a Figtree or Figgs, also the juice of Capers, Wormwood, Futher-wood, Fine-mint, Santory, the rind of an Acorn-tree, or the rind of green Acorns alone, or mingled together.   

43. A Cure for the noise in the Ears.  
Drop therein Oil of Spikenard, Bay-berries, Bitter-Almonds, or of Rhue, with some Brandy, or Eels-grease, or Brandy where Carraway or Aniseed have been soaked.  
Or, take Sawdust of Cedar-wood, fill therewith a little Taffata-bag of Crimson, as big as an Almond; let it soak in Brandy quite through, then put it somewhat deep into the Ear, stop it in, and let the Patient lie down to sleep on that Ear.   

44. To take away little Ulcers from behind the Ears.  
Make a Plaster of Barley-meal boiled in Honey-water, add thereto the juice of five-leaved-grass (an Herb that killeth fleas) and Oil of Flower-de-luce, or a Plaster made of Goats-dung, unsalted Butter, and the Lees of nut-oil.   

45. Against the Kings Evil.  
Take Betony and Sorrel-leaves and Roots, squeeze out one pound of the juice, and Bertram bruised one ounce, Spanish-green half a quarter of an ounce: mingle these together, and warm therewith the Crop or Swelling; hang also about the neck, the Roots of Selandine and Lambs-tongue.  
Or, when the Moon decreaseth, and is near the Sun, then cut off the feet of a great frog, and hang them about the neck.  
Or, take a good quantity of Tobacco, bruised in a clean Mortar, and apply its juice to the Crop or Swelling nine or ten times: the said swell are brought to Ulcers, by laying thereunto Cow or Ox-dung, made hot in Vine or Colewort-leaves, among the ashes, and being mingled with Vinegar.   

46. A Remedy for the stopping of the Nose.  
When the Nose is stopped by humours that fall into it, and hinder the fetching of breath, then to open the same, take the juice of Beets and Marjoram, mingled with the Oil of bitter-Almonds, and snuff it up.  
Also the smoke of Tobacco, received into the mouth through a little Funnel, and let go through the Nose, is good alone.   

47. For a dropping Nose.  
This is cured by Medicines which are proper for the brains, whereby such humours are stopped and dried up. In this case 'tis good to use Rubbing, Perfumes, in little caps and bags; also sneezing is very good.   

48. To procure Sneezing.  
Blow into the Nose powdered Pepper, Berthram, (Staphisagria) Flower-de-luce Roots of Florence; mingle these flowers and grease, and anoint the Nostrils: if sneezing trouble you, it is cured by scratching the soles of the feet, and palms of the hands, by rubbing the Eyes and Ears, by smelling white Flower-de-luce, by washing or bathing the hands in warm-water.   

49. To recover the Smelling when 'tis lost.  
Make a Presume of Nardus-seed, Averone, Rhue, and other Herbs which have a strong sent; or smell to watermint.   

50. To staunch Blood.  
You may staunch the bleeding of the Nose, by putting the Thumb on that side of the Nose out of which the blood issueth.  
Or, put about the neck a string of Jasper-stone, or tie the uppermost joints as fast as 'tis possible, and put into the Nose a Tent of Dove-nettles; also keep in your hand the Roots and Leaves of Agrimony; or take rain-water in your Mouth, or Sage-flower, or other woolly fruits being put into the Nose; or lay upon the forehead Camphire, or use the juice of Lambs-tongue, or of Nightshade.  
Or, lay upon the Temples and round about the neck, (especially on the great Vein) cooling herbs, as Nightshade, Lambs-tongue, Lactuce, or stinging nettles, bruised with Salt and wine-venegar; the Herb Periwinkle put under the Tongue, hath the same virtue.  
Also you may make a Girdle or Bracelet of Thousand-button, called St. Innocentius; some hold a white-Mallow on the side of the bleeding nostril; Many Coutrymen stench all sorts of bleeding, in what part of the body soever.  
With Hogs-dung wrapped up in Cotton, and put it to the place that bleeds: or, blow into the Nose the powder of a three-cornered stone which is found in the of a Carp.  
Against too much bleeding at the Nose, the Powder of Sandarica is very good, beaten with the white of an Egg, and ●aid upon the forehead with a cloth.  
Also the juice of Onion and Wine-vinegar put into the Nostrils with a little cloth, or the water of Mint drunk, or red-Coral drunk with Wine; or to anoint the forehead with a Salve made of Dragon-blood, Mastic, Frankincense, and the whites of Eggs mingled together. Contrariwise, you may cause the Nose to bleed with a sheaf of corn, or Thousand-leaf, when you put the sharp end into the Nose before the herb; and the contrary cometh ●o pass when you put the stump or end ●hat is cut off in first: such various man●ers of the use of things, often bring forth divers cures.   

1. To cure Biles and Ulcers in the Nose.  
Take the juice of Veil, and of sour Pomegranates, and mingle them together.   

52. Against the stinking of the Nose.  
Snuff up the Decoction of Marjoram, fine-Mint, Cloves, Ginger and Musk, and boil them in whine-wine or vinegar: of Sea-Onyon, (Acetum Squilliticon.)  
Or, use Syrups, as of Diacodium, and the like: or hold in your mouth little Pellets of Bolus Armenius, Sealed Earth, Amberstone, Dragon-blood, Cloves, and Musk.   

53. A Remedy for a stinking Mouth.  
Wash it with Wine wherein is boiled Aniseed and Cloves; also Musk, Mastic, of blue Flower-de-luce Root.   

54. To Cure Ulcers and Sores in the Mouth.  
Rinse it with a Decoction of the leaves of Nail-herb, (Pelosella,) Welch-root, Golden-Rod, or the flowers of wild Pomegranates, Lambs-tongue, Agrimony, and Roses; adding thereto some Alum, with wine in which Annis and Gilleflowers have been boiled, or with stilled water of Harts-tongue, or with Treacle-water, distilled with the like quantity of Rosemary and Brandy; among which, a little Bolus Armenius must be broken. The Decoction of Hen-pease, (Elatina) of Pilosella made with wine, and gargled, drieth the Soars of the Mouth, and takes away the rawness of the Tongue which comes by an Ague.  
Also it is a singular Remedy to touch the Ulcers with a drop of the Oil of Copperas, or to anoint the ulcerating place in the palate of the Mouth, or on the Tongue, with Oil of Roses.   

55. Of the Cure of excessive Slabbering.  
It is cured by Gargle-waters, that are drying and drawing together, made with the Decoction of Roses, Flowers of wild-granats, Lambs-tongue, and Alum boiled in water and wine. 'Tis also good to eat Biscuits, Roasted meat with Mustard, to chaw a Raze of Ginger, and to drink good wine. But slabbering is excited with Raisins, dry Figs, or with Mastic held in the Mouth in the morning fasting.   

56. How to cleanse the Teeth, and keep them sound.  

Of filthy Teeth.  
The Teeth being useful Instruments, ought especially to be preserved clean and fast: brown and black Teeth should be kept white, and lose Teeth fastened, to the end they may be clean, without pain, and serviceable: the fittest time for this work is in the morning.   

How to Cleanse the Teeth.  
You should rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the palate and Tongue, with a clean course cloth, rubbing off the slime which groweth upon them in the night.  
When you wash your hands, you should rinse your Teeth with freshwater that is not too cold, (if the Teeth be weak.)  
Then you shall make them fast, clean, and white, with these following Powders, with which you shall rub not only the Teeth but the Gums, and then rinse them with Red-wine.   

How to order your Teeth before Dinner or Supper.  
The waters you shall use in the morning and at noon; for before you go to dinner, you shall rinse the Teeth with water not too warm nor too cold, to cleanse the Gums from the humours which fall down from the Brain, that in eating they mix not with your Meat. Flesh or spoon-meat being eaten, or sopped too hot, is very noxious to the Teeth; so is wine and water drunk too cold, (although many take delight therein in Summer.)   

After Dinner or Supper.  
After you have eaten and drank warm meat and drink, you must not immediately eat or drink any thing that is cold; nor on the contrary, when you have eaten any thing that is cold, you are not presently to eat that which is very hot, but use a moderation between both.  
Hard Meats are noxious to the Teeth; therefore 'tis best to eat such meat as is tender, lest you break your Teeth, or loosen them: you should therefore forbear to break any hard thing with your Teeth; nay, not to by't a thin thread a sunder.  
Other qualities of Meats are likewise to be considered: for fat and lean, sweet and sour things being too much used, are hurtful to the Teeth.  
Physicians also observe, that husked or peascod Fruits, Milk-meat, Cheese, Sugar, Sweetmeats, Tarts, Radishes, Figs, and most Orchard-fruits when they are raw, also Oils and Fat, make the Teeth black.  
Nevertheless, you need not, (but according to discretion) abstain from all these Meats; but from those which do most occasion the distempers of the Teeth wherewith your are troubled.   

Of Pickt-teeths.  
After dinner or Supper, you shall rinse your Teeth with Water mixed with a little wine-vinegar, or with clear Wine. After you have cleared your Teeth of Meats which stick to them, this must be done softly, with Toothpicks not made of any Metal; nay, not of Gold or Silver, but of wood, which hath some virtue of drawing together, and are of a good smell: as of Mastick-wood, Rose-wood, Cypress, Rosemary, Myrtle-tree, etc.  
Next, rub your Teeth with Powders, which will keep them good, white, and clean: As of Myrrh, Cinnamon, burnt-Allum,  Pumice-stone, of each a like quantity; each being pounded small apart, and after mingled together.  
Crumbs of bread with common Salt, is very useful to rub the Teeth therewith after Meals, and then to rinse them with clean water mixed with a little vinegar, or with Red-wine, this will fasten the Teeth in the Gums.  
There are divers other things, whereof Powders may be made to cleanse the Teeth and make them white, of which some serve to comfort the Gums and make them grow when they are eaten off, for the security of the Teeth.   

The Causes of the Toothache.  
And other Powders are good to cure the Toothache, which is variously occasioned; as being hollow, corrupted, full of worms, and from other causes. The Medicines which serve for this purpose are these.  
Take Pearls, red and white Corals, Ivory, Crystal, white-marble-stone, Alabaster, Bertram, Hellebore, Hartshorn, Mastic, Sea-scum, or Fish-bone, good Wine-stone, white-Copperas, stone-Salt, (Salgemmae) Crabs-eyes, Eggshells, Snail-shells, Oyster-shells, dry Roses, the Root of Flower-de-luce, wild-Caliga, Venus-hair, burnt-wheat, and Barley-bread, Thamaris, Spica-Nardi, Dragon-blood, Roots of Harts-tongue, Flowers of wild Pomgranats, Cinnamon, and Cloves. All these you shall reduce into fine Powder, each apart, to join them together as necessity requireth.  
Also Oil and water of Copperas make the Teeth white; But some allow not of this, because of their burning heat, and because they imagine they will lose the Teeth.  
Indeed the water may better be used than the Oil, and with less danger, especially when you mingle it with common water, and rub the Teeth and Gums with it a Month together.  
Of the aforesaid (and other like) Ingredients, a Powder may be made, and used very useful for the Teeth, with which you may rub them in the morning fasting.   

A Powder for the Teeth.  
Take the Powder of clean Crystal one eighth part, and one sixteenth part of an ounce, red and white Coral, of common Salt, of each the eighth part of an ounce; Pumice-stone, Sea-scum, of each the two and thirtieth part of an ounce; Alabaster-stone, white Marblestone, Rock-Allum, Root of Flower-de-luce of Florence, Crimson-berries, Cinnamon, of each the sixteenth part of an ounce; prepared Pearls, the twenty fourth part of an ounce: make all these into a fine Powder (mingled together.)   

Preserves for the Teeth.  
Of such Powders you may make Preserves, if you put honey thereto, with which you may rub your Teeth and Gums in the morning.  
Another Preserve may be made to make the Teeth white and fast, and the Gums hard and strong, which will also cure a stinking breath, proceeding from the Teeth, and 'tis thus prepared.  
Take of a wheaten-loaf three ounces, red and white Coral, Hartshorn, of each half an ounce, Alum one sixteenth part of an ounce, Pellitory of the wall, Venus-hair, of each one handful, Eggshells four or five; put these together in an earthen-pot, set it in the Oven when the Bread is taken out, till they be turned into ashes; then take of these ashes four ounces of Cinnamon the 4th part of an ounce, of Cloves or Gillyflowers, Bread-sword, of each the eighth part of an 〈◊〉, Spica-Nardi, Calamus, of each the s●●●●enth part of an ounce, well cleansed Oil of Roses, as much as will be necessary; mingle the aforesaid Ingredients, being reduced to a Powder) and add thereto vinegar of Sea-onion one ounce; work this into a Preserve: when you have rubbed the Teeth with these Preserves, then rinse them with wine.  
With the aforesaid Ingredients you may make very useful waters to rinse the Teeth in the morning fasting.  
As, take wild Mulberries when they are green one pound, leaves of the Mastick-tree half a pound, Agrimony one handful, Roots of Flower-de-luce, Dragon-blood, of each three ounces: distil these through a glass, to a Tooth-water, and keep it in a glass for your use.  
The following water is much commended for keeping the Teeth white.  
Take Rose-water and common-water, of each four ounces,  Alum powdered one quarter of an ounce, whole Cinnamon the eighth part of an ounce; put all these together upon a soft fire, and let it boil until a third part thereof be consumed; take it off then, and when the water is cold, strain it through a cloth; put it into a glass, and keep it for your use.   

A Water to make Black Teeth White.  
This following water cleanseth the Teeth, how filthy and slimy soever, and makes Black Teeth White.  
Take Live-brimstone, and Alum, of each one pound, Wine-vineger four ounces (some take instead of vinegar) the Spirit of Copperas; draw water out of these through a Colb-glass, with a slow fire, that the water may not smell of the Brimstone.   

For to make the Teeth White.  
For to make the Teeth White, it is good also to rub the Teeth with Pellitory of the Wall, Roots of Beets, crust of barley-bread, Goats-horn burned to ashes; you may put all these things into an earthen pot, and put it into the Oven with several Batches of Bread, till they become ashes: or rub your Teeth with honey and ashes of Vine-leaves which have not born any Grapes.   

To preserve the Teeth from filthiness.  
For to keep the Teeth clean, and to preserve them from all filthiness, wash the Mouth every morning and evening with Fountain-water one pint, Rose-water six ounces, Alum, Cinnamon, of each a quarter of an ounce: boil this in a leaded earthen-pot, until one third or fourth part is consumed.  
Or, wash the Teeth with Sage, Rosemary, Marjoram, prepared with white-wine, and the same boiled until two third parts are wasted.    

57 How to fasten the Teeth when lose.  
It is good to wash the same with Rose-water and Alum mixed together: or, the Roots of five-finger-grass, and Alum.   

58. For to prevent hollowness of the Teeth.  
Hold in the morning under your tongue, a course large corn of Bay-salt, let it melt, and rub your Teeth therewith. After that you have used all Remedies, it will be good for the preservation of the Teeth, to rub them oftentimes with Roots of Marsh-Mallo's, by which means they will be smooth and bright: these Roots are especially useful, for they make the gums fast, and leave a good smell behind. When you prepare them, you shall cut the Roots off four or five fingers long; if they are gross and thick, than you shall cut them through again in the length, for to make thereof pieces that are of the thickness of a little finger: next you shall let them boil six hours in clean water, with Salt, Alum, and root of Flower-de-luce; at last you shall dry them, which must be done quickly, and not slowly, lest they rot; therefore you shall put them in a hot Oven if it be in wintertime, when you cannot have the benefit of the Sun.   

59 A Remedy against Toothache.  
The Toothache proceeds from divers as well cold as hot causes; in case it is occasioned by cold, then use these following means.  
You shall rinse the Teeth with strong vinegar, in which Wormwood is boiled; Strawberries, or red-wine, in which are boiled leaves of Strawberries, with Lavender, Sage, and Marjoram; or White-Wine wherein the leaves and Notes of the Cypress-tree, Juniper-berries, and Roses, Mirtle-leaves, are boiled; or the Flowers of Lavender, Cinnamon, Fenickle, Roots of Asparagus boiled in Wine: oil of Juniper-tree is good being put in the Teeth if they are hollow; but this following is better.  
Oil of Pepper, Cloves, Sage, Bame, Oil of Spike and Aquafortis, being gently put into the hollow Tooth with Cotton, takes away the pain, and breaketh it if it is corrupted.  
If the Toothache proceeds from an hot cause, than you shall put to the painful Teeth Oil of Poppeys, Mandragora, Henbane-seed, together or alone; or in want of oils, the Mandragora and Henbane mixed with Wine; or Henbane Roots mixed with Rose-water and Wine-vineger; or you shall hold in the Mouth Wine-vineger wherein Camphor has been boiled: from what cause soever the Toothache proceedeth, you shall appease the pain with Oil of Henbane-seed, which is made after this manner: sprinkle the seed of Henbane with Brandy, then put it into a glass, which you shall cover very close, put it in a kittle full of water, and let it boil four and twenty hours; then take the glass out of the water, and put the seed before 'tis cold into a little linen bag, and then press out the Oil.  
This pain is also helped with the Roots of Thousand-leaf, or of Agrimony, being held between the Teeth: and the same operation has the Root of Bertram (Pyretrum.)  
Likewise against the Toothache, you may boil the Root of Henbane, or of Mulberries, in vinegar and Rose-water, and hold the water in the Mouth: or take a head of Garlic, let it roast in the hot ashes; then bruise it, and put it as hot as ●ver is possible to the Teeth, and put some of it into the Ear, on the side where the ●ain is nearest. Some bruise a head of Garlic, and put it upon the Artery or great Vein of the Arm, on the painful side.  
Or take Bertram bruised, (one quarter ●f an ounce) Rosemary, Sage, of each ●ne handful, large Figs, to the number of ●hree; let these boil in half a pint of wine, until the Wine is all consumed; then lay ●ne of these Figs upon the painful Tooth, ●s hot as you can bear it.  
Or, put very hot upon the Temples of ●he Head, a plaster of Pitch, beaten Gal●●uts and Alum: it is good also to lay upon the Teeth the juice of Garlic, Rue, tansy, (Matricaria) or any hot Oil, as of Sage, which is excellent on this occasion; or wash and rinse oftentimes your Teeth with a Decoction of Pennyroyal boiled in Wine, till two third parts are consumed. Some hold for a secret, that a Tooth of a Man wrapped up in Taffata, or a Bean with a hole, in which a Louse is ●hut up, being hanged about the neck, ●nd that these driveth away the greatest Toothache that can be.  
Great care has always been taken to drive away heavy and intolerable Toothache, and to preserve the Teeth, because of the necessity of their service; for which two things the most choicest means have been searched for; insomuch, that if the Proverb be made true in this point, that Necessity is the Mother of Arts, I have amongst many innumerable means or remedies which are found for the Teeth, brought forth a small number, as being the choicest and most approved: and when all these Remedies will not help you, and that there is not any more hope of being delivered from the pain, than you must draw them. Sometimes the Teeth are spoiled because of the putrefaction, but you must not inconsiderately begin this, but first consult about it well, and then employ thereto a man that has skill therein, for fear of the many dangerous Symptoms, which are many times occasioned thereby, when by a mischance the good Tooth is taken for the bad, or that it is drawn out with too great force, whereby the blood runs out in abundance, insomuch that the Patient runneth the hazard of his life: it were rather to be wished, that the corrupted Tooth might fall out through any other means, than by force: but the difficulty lies in the finding out of those things which have such a property and virtue.  
Some have used to put into the holes and hollowness of the Teeth, the ashes of earthworms, or mice-turd, or of the Tooth of a Hart, and these ashes shall cause the Tooth to fall out immediately: or they put thereupon Mulberry-kernels, or put a soaking fifteen days in strong Wine-vinegar, beaten Mulberry-Roots; after the soaking, the same being dried in the Sun, they make a Powder thereof, to put it on the Tooth; or put thereon the brains of a Partridge, or the juice of Cherry-leaves; or put into the hollowness of the Tooth the juice of the Herb Salandine, and strong-water.   

60. Of Teeth set an edge.  
The Teeth grow blunt by sharp or sour victuals, especially such as are of a bad quality, viz. green, sour, and unripe fruit, whose roots are full of sour and tart juice, as well as because of vapours which climb out of the stomach unto the Teeth: for to be rid of this trouble, it is good to eat old and strong Cheese, or Nuts, or Almonds, or to rub the Teeth with the like: or also by holding of Purslain, or a Decoction of it in the Mouth: or to hold in the Mouth the Milk of an Ass: or by rubbing the Mouth with Wine, after that you have rubbed the Teeth with Salt and Sage.   

61. A Cure for a stinking Breath.  
For to cure a stinking breath, (from what cause soever it proceed) it is good to wash the Mouth with vinegar of Sea-onion, or with the Decoction of the leaves of Mint, the Herb Baulm, Sowthistle, Roots of Flower-de-luce, of wild Galiga, Annis-seed, Fenickle-seed, and Paradise-corn; to gnaw Nutmegs, Flower-de-luce Roots, Clove-Gilliflowers, or to hold in the Mouth a little Pill, which is made after this manner.  
Take Gum-dragant one ounce, Dragon's blood half an ounce; let it soak two days in Rose-water, and then add thereto, in a little stone-morter, Sugar an ounce and a quarter, Cinnamon three eight parts of an ounce, Musk one scruple; this being pounded with a Pestle in Rose-water, and it being dried, make it for use to small Pills.  
The bad sent occasioned by the eating of Garlic, Onion, or Leeks, goes away by gnawing fresh Nuts, or leaves of Rue, of Fenickle, or Parsley.  
For to make the breath smell sweet, when it scents not, it will be necessary to rinse the mouth the Morning before with Cinnamon-water, and to hold the same a little while in the mouth, or with the water called Aqua Imperialis, or with Treacle-water, or to use the Roots of Master-wort, or of Flower-de-luce, or of Angelica or Mastic.   

62. A Cure for the Squinancy.  
Against Squinancies, make a Poultis of a whole Swallow-nest, boiled in White-Wine, and then mingle it with Oil of Cammomile and sweet Almonds, and put it outwardly upon the Throat; or drink immediately water of Carduus Benedictus, with one eighth part of an ounce of the powder of a Boars tooth; or anoint the place with a Salve of Lint-seed-oyl and the foregoing Powder; or put thereupon a Pultis of the Turd of a young sound youth or stripling, who has been nourished for three days together only with Bread of Lupinum which is well baked and kneaded with Salt and leaven, and who has drunk nothing but red Wine, adding thereto as much Honey.   

63. Against Hoarseness.  
Forasmuch as the Speech is of a great moment, the want and necessity of which causes us to seek for means which may take away all hindrances, and assist the same: amongst one of the most troublesome is Hoarseness, which makes men speak softly, and with great difficulty. This will be cured by the following means, by which the Voice shall become clearer and more perceptible.  
The Patient shall take at night going to bed, two ounces, or [four or five thin small spoonsful] of Wine, in which good Figs and Raisins have been boiled for two hours together, with Sugar, Cinnamon, and Cloves.  
Also water wherein red Coleworts have been boiled, adding thereto one ounce of Syrup of Venus-hair; and that he shall take in the morning.  
The Voice is also made clear by little Cakes made of Diairis-powder, and taken in the morning and at night.  
Also Syrup of Jujuben, as also the decoction of Elicampane made with Vinegar and with Honey, in which Liquoris has been boiled, performs the same.  
An excellent Remedy against this evil, ●s to take this at night when you go ●o bed; for it makes the almost-lost speech to be restored again.  

Brandy-Syrup.  
Put one ounce of fine Sugar that is powdered in a little flat dish; pour thereupon of the best Brandy as much as is necessary for to cover the Sugar sufficiently; put the dish upon a Coal-fire, and ●t the Brandy afire with a burning-paper, ●●newing the same as often as the flame ●oes out: Stir the Sugar without ceasing ●●ll it cease burning. All the remaining ●●quor which shall be left on the bottom ●f the little porringer, not being above ●ne spoonful and a half, the Patient shall ●ake while it is hot. Then you shall perfume his Nightcap with Frankincense, ●arnish or Gum of Juniper-tree, Mastic, ●orax, Benzoin; nay, you shall take Tow 〈◊〉 Flax which perfume, and lay it upon ●he head.   

Diet.  
But whatsoever is the cause of the hoarseness, it is necessary to abstain from sour and salted Victuals, from raw Fruits Fish, and slimy things; also from Beans Pease, Chestnuts, and other windy things as well as from heavy bread; from drinking Wine between Meals, from sleeping in daytime, from going in the cold, wind or in the Sun: but above all, from straining his Voice by loud speaking, or ha●● going; silence and quiet being one par● of the Cure.    

64. Of Shortness of Breath.  
Against shortness of the breath, or difficulty in breathing (otherwise call●● shortwinded) besides the means whi●● are good against the Cough, this following Liquor is good, and very useful, bei●● made of these following, like unto a Conserve.  
Take large Raisins without stones o● ounce, two great Figs, one Date, d● Hyssop, Venus-hair, Liquoris well was● Fox-lungs, distilled water of Scabiosa, ● each the eighth part of an ounce; Pen●dice two ounces, Syrup of Liquoris, ● each enough to the third parts of ● Conserve: of which Syrup, you shall u● with a little stick of Liquorish, a wh●●● after Dinner, before or after that you ha● used a Decoction of the following. Take Venus hair, Marubium, of each one handful, Ani-seed, Liquorish, Dates, Dry-figs, Seed of Fenickle, Ladies-mark, boiled in a pint of water, so long, till one third part is consumed; use this every morning two hours before breakfast; and presently after it, or a little before it, eat a little cake of Diairis, or Diahysopum; anoint the Breast with a Salve which is made of this following.  
Take Oil of Sweet Almonds two ounces, fresh May-Butter one ounce, a little Saffron, New wax, (as much as is enough) melted and mingled to a chafing Salve.  
For as much as the short-windedness is worse than the Hoarseness or Cough, you must take greater care in your Diet when troubled with the short-windedness, than if you have a Cough. Therefore you must abstain from the aforesaid, and all other windy Meats; and contrariwise you shall feed upon peeled Barley, boiled in sweet Almonds-milk with Sugar, the juice of red Cabbage; or, you shall eat of old Cock with Hyssop and Saffron; you shall eat Hens, Pigeons, and the like, roasted Figs, Raisins, Dates, sugared kernels, Pine-Apples, Almonds: moderate motion is good, but above all, it is very bad to bestir himself much before dinner; and the perturbation and distraction of the mind is far worse.   

65. A Remedy for a Cough.  
Take Hyssop, Colt's foot, of each one handful; Figs, large Raisins, Liquorish, of each one ounce; boil this in water, till two third parts are wasted, and drink thereof twice a day, two hours before dinner, and one hour before supper.  
Or, let the Patient drink twice a day of Red coleworts, with a handful of Colts-foot, and one or two small stalks of Hyssop; and these things must boil a little time.   

66. Against the pain in the side.  
Against the pain in the side, (Pleurisis▪) drink immediately Syrup of Violets, or others that are proper for the Breast, with two half ounces of Nettle-seed or Ashen-tree-seed, or water of Carduus Benedictus, our Ladies-Thistle, or of Bryer, or in a spoonful of white-wine, the powder of hasel-nut-shells, the eighth part of an ounce, eighteen grains of Red-Coral; these things being well mingled together, add thereto the Seed of Melons, Gourds and Cowcombers, (being very useful for this purpose) this you shall take lukewarm, ●s soon as it is possible after you perceive the Distemper. Or, roast in the hot ashes ● sweet Apple: when it is roasted enough, then mingle it with the juice of Liquorish, Starch, and white Sugar; give the Pa●ient this twice a day, two hours before ●inner or supper: or, take the eighth ●art of an ounce of the powder of a ●oars Tooth, with juice of sweet-Almonds and Sugar-candy: or, with the ●uice of Red-coleworts, barleywater, or ●●e like things that are specifical for the ●reast: or make ashes of the pisle of an Ox, and give the Patient thereof to ●rink, the eighth part of an ounce, with white-wine, or with Carduus Benedictus, ●r Barleywater; if this be used before ●●e third day, it is a special Remedy.  

How to make Ashes of the Pisle of an Ox.  
Their Ashes are made in this manner; They cut the Pisle in pieces, laying it up●n an even hearth, covered with a new ●ot, and round about the same fiery burning coals, or hot ashes, renewing the same ● many times, till it is turned into ashes; for which, almost a whole day is required▪ but if this pain continues, let him use ● Decoction of Roses, Poppies, or on● eighth part of an ounce of the powder thereof, with the water of Scabiosa, and Pimpernel, and Syrup of Hyssop; otherwise with Syrup of Violets: but if ther● is not any hope to be cured by this, the● take one of the best sweet Apples, tak● out the kernels, and fill it again wit● fine white Frankincense; wrap it up ●● Tow or Flax, and let it roast slowly in the ashes, and give him this to ea●● who is troubled with the pain in the sid●    

67. Against vomiting of Blood.  
Against the Vomiting of Blood, dri●● stilled water of the first budding or puttin●● out of Oak-leaves, or the Decoction Wallwort, Lambs-tongue, Thousand-bu●ton, or of Horse-tail; or let him swallow down a little piece of Mastic, bu● Hartshorn, Goats-horn, Bolus Armeni●● Terra sigillata, red Corals or Amber; the powder of the innermost little shells Chestnuts, or Cork, or Hogs-dung roa●● with unsalted Butter; this you shall gi●● him to eat.   

68 A Cure for the Consumption.  
For the comfort and ease of those who are in a Consumption, these means are useful: The Patient shall drink every morning four hours before meat, a little draught of Milk of a she-Ass, or of a Bitch fresh milked, putting every time therein one ounce of pounded loaf-sugar; he shall take every hour Preserve of Roses, or loaf-Sugar, or of the powder of small Cakes, called Diatragacanth: it is very good to drink every morning fasting a full glass of water, which is stilled in a bath (balneum Mariae,) made of all these Herbs, viz. of Colts-foot, Wallwort, Venus-hair, Hyssop, of each a like quantity, with snails without the shells, being washed very clean: the water of Snails stilled alone, is good also against this distemper, as well as for all other dry and lean persons: he shall use little Cakes made of two ounces of Pimpinella, powdered with Sugar, which he shall take every morning, being dissolved in three ounces of Pimpernella water: it is very wholesome to take in the morning of this following powder, a quarter of an ounce, and immediately after take two spoonfuls of Syrup of Jujuben, or for want of that▪ take stilled water of Colts-foot, or of Barleywater (Ptisane.) This Powder is made in this manner.  
Take of the four great cooling seeds together, one ounce and three quarters, Quince-kernels almost half an ounce, white Poppy seed somewhat more than half a● ounce, Liquorish balls, pounded Hyssop, Starch, , three sixteen parts of an ounce, Gum-Diatragacanth, Pe●●dice, as much as of all the rest together; this being each asunder well pounded, and reduced to Powder, must be well mi●● together to a Powder.   

69. To cure the Palpitation of the Heart.  
The Patient by the advice of the Physician, must either bleed or purge, that if it be possible the cause of the Malady may be taken away.  
The outward Remedies against his sickness, (when 'tis accompanied with an Ague) will be to drink every morning the Syrup of Lemons, or the juice of Sorrel with Rose-water, Purslain with Sorrel.  
Let the Patient smell to Spices that ar● of a good scent and cooling; as Roses, Flowers of Violets, and Vinegar.  
Also wet a cloth in stilled water of Lambs-tongue, Roses, and Sorril, with a little wine-vineger, and put it upon the left breast.  
But if the passion of the Heart be without an Ague, then take Imperial water, (Aqua Coelestis) Cinnamon-water, Aqua Vitae or Brandy; drink of each of these apart in the morning fasting: or, distilled water of Ox-tongue, in which three ounces of Cloves have been boiled, or six ounces of the water of Confilie, the Herb Balm, with two ounces of Sugar mixed therewith: or, the weight of a Crown of the Conserve of Diameschum. Let him drink with it distilled water of good wine, or water of Ox-tongue, or the Confection of Hyacinth, (which is very good) or the Conserve of Gillyflowers, and Rosemary, or such like.  
Also take the water of Ox-tongue, Balm, and Bourage, (a pound together) good red-Wine half a pint, sugar of Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each a quarter of an ounce; mingle all these together, warm it in a dish upon an hot Tile, then wet therein a Scarlet or linen cloth, and put it upon the left breast.  
You shall put in a little bag the Powder of Sandalwood with the aforesaid well-scenting Spices, and heart-strengthening Powders, and lay it warm upon the left breast.  
The aforesaid pleasant scents comfort the Heart, therefore the Patient should often smell to them, whether you prepare them for Perfumes, Waters, Powders, or sweet-balls made of Benjamin, Storax, Labdanum, Ambergreese, Civet, or other rich Perfumes, wherewith you may perfume the sick party's Chamber & .  
Also these Perfumes are good to hang about the sick party's neck, about the bigness of a pea: or, to drink two or three ounces of the distilled water of Ox-tongue, and of Balm.  
Also this following water is esteemed a special Remedy: Take of the Hearts of three Oxen, and the Hearts of three Hogs, Nutmegs, Cloves, Seed of Basilicon, of each three eight parts of an ounce; flowers of Burage, Ox-tongue, Rosemary, Marygolds, of each an handful; let these soak one night in Old Malligo or Hippocras.   

70. To cure the faintness of the Heart.  
'Tis good to press and bend the joint of the Heart or Physick-finger, or to rub the same with a piece of Gold and Saffron: for from this finger, the virtue goes to the Heart.  
But forasmuch as this is a very bad and heavy distemper, and a forerunner of death, therefore 'tis called a timely death. For which a speedy Remedy must be provided, and be always in readiness: if it be but cold water, which they must sprinkle on the Patient's face, adding thereto Rose-water, if it may be gotten time enough.  
Their fingers, arms, and legs must be tied, and rubbed hard: they must pull the sick by the hair, and give him a little wine to drink.  
Or, give him some Aquavitae, or Metheglin, made a little warm, or Imperial water, (Aqua Coelestis) or let him smell good wine-vineger, or rub and anoint his Breast with Aqua vitae, (made a little warm,) by which Motions and Drink the dispersed vitals will gather themselves again to the heart.  
These means are good for men, but not for women, although you are assured the faintness▪ proceeds not from the Matrix; if it doth, sprinkle not any water on her face, but let her smell fumes that stink, putting them into her Nostrils.  
Such as, Divel-turd, Beverswine, Partridge Feathers burnt on the fire, old shoo-soals burned: or you shall perfume her below with Benzoyn, Storax, Musk, Amber, Civet, and the like.  
If the faintness proceeds from the decay of the spirit, as it often doth, after a great bleeding, looseness or sweat, than it is not good to bind the arms and legs, nor to sprinkle cold water on their face, but 'tis most expedient to give them good wine, and of the aforesaid waters to drink, and to nourish them with good Victuals, as Chicken-broth, and the like nourishing, soft, and delicate food.   

71. Against continual Burning Fevers.  
Bind upon the Pulse-veins of both Arms the juice of stinging Nettles, mingled with Poplar Salve: or take an Onion, the middle being taken out, then fill it with Mithridate, and bind it fast upon the pulse of the Right-arm.  
Or, two yolks of new-laid Eggs, with foot of the chimney well pounded, mingled with Salt and strong vinegar; bind it with a linen cloth about the arm.  
Or, take the heart of a frog, and bind it on the Heart or Backbone of the Patient, or lay it on his Liver, or lay upon the hollow of the foot a living frog.  
Many make a drink of bruised field-Sorrel, to drink in the greatest heat, and make of the remainder a Poultis to lay upon the back of the Patient's hands.  
Others perform the same with the juice of a great Lemon: others lay flea-herb-seed, or five-leaved grass a soaking in water one night, and then putting Sugar into this liquor, they give it the Patient to drink.   

72. Against Quotidian Fevers.  
It is good to drink (a little before the fit cometh) the juice of Betony and Plantine leaves; or to drink in the morning a Decoction of the Roots of Ladies-mark, Parsley, Radish, and Asparagus, the leaves of Betony and Harts-tongue, red Spanish Pease, and the middle bark of an Alder-tree.  
Or, drink every morning and night, two leaves of five-fingers Herb, with a draught of white-wine: or the Roots of Poppies, and drink a draught thereof about an hour before the fit comes; and in the mean time forbear sleeping. Also bind upon the pulse of the Arms, a Pultise made of noble Say, Hyssop, Wormwood, Parsley, Mint, and three-leaved-grass with white spots; pound these with wine-vineger to a Poultis, and make thereof small plasters for the pulses.   

73. A Remedy for the Tertian Fever.  
Soak pounded Patience Roots, three or four hours in white-wine; strain the juice through a fine cloth, (that it may make about sixteen ounces) and let the patiented drink it an hour or two before his Fever cometh: or put the same a soaking in half wine and water, with Platine Root.  
Or, take about half a pint of Lambs-tongue, Purslain, or Pimpernel-water, a little before the fit come: or, drink every day in the morning and at night, three leaves of five-finger Herb in wine.  
Or, take the juice of Ladies Mark, Sage, wine-vineger, of each an ounce; mingle these together to a potion, take it three hours before the Fever come.  
But the best Remedy in the world, is to drink two ounces of the juice of Pomegranates in the morning fasting, five hour before the fit come, and to bind upon t●● wrists sleep-browns, and in the hollow ●● the feet piles as big as a pea, made of a● ounce of Poplar-seed, and one half ounce of Spiders-web put thereon, until the fit be passed: Or, you may (an hour before the fit come) lay this poultis upon the pulses: Sage, Nettle, Rhue, of each an handful, plucked before the Sun rise; Salt, Soot, of each as big as a Nut; pound these together with wine-vineger to a poultis.  
Others do more commend a Salve made of Earthworms boiled in Goose-grease; anoint the forehead therewith, and the patient's Temples, before his fit cometh: or, put to his Neck the horns of a flying Hart, (Horbeder) this is a singular Remedy.   

74. How to Cure a Quartan Fever.  
Take two white loaves, as hot as they come out of the Oven, let them soak in a pot of wine-vineger; still it through a Still, and give the patiented of this stilled water to drink about half a pint, two hours before his Fever come: or, the juice of the female wool-herb is a special Remedy, being pressed out with white-wine, before it buds, and taken a little before the fit comes.  
The juice of the Herb Colts-foot hath the same virtue: also the Decoction of the Roots and leaves of Iron-herb, boiled in white-wine.  
Also the Decoction of clean-Mint, Poley, Oreya, Oxentongue, Borage, Betony, Thime, Agrimony, the rind of Thamarisk Root, Ash, and Asparagus Roots boiled up together in white-wine: or the powder of Myrrah drunk with Maligo; likewise pills of Myrrah and treacle, of the bigness of a Spanish pea, swallowed down an hour before the fit come.  
Also distilled water, or the Decoction of Carduus Benedictus, drunk before the fit come, is very good.  
Also the juice of Wormwood and Rhue settled and clear: or the juice of Lambs-tongue drunk with honey-water. Also the pounded Root of Mans-ear, dried in the Sun, or in an Oven, the eighth part of an ounce, taken half a quarter of an hour before the fit come.  
Also if you drink one ounce or two of the juice of bruised Alder-roots, once, twice, or thrice before the fit come, it will leave you: or having purged, drink white-wine wherein Sage hath been steeped a whole night; besides, anoint the backbone, the hollow of the feet, the palms of the hands, the forehead and the Temples, with Treacle, Mithridate, or Scorpion-Oyl: the Oil of Bay-berries, mingled with Brandy, hath the same virtue.  
Some superstitiously eat Sage for nine days together, the first day nine leaves, the second eight, and so consequently every day one less, until the nine days be past.   

75. A Cure for the Shaking in the Ague.  
Eat before the fit come, a peeled head of Garlic.   

76. Against Thirst in an Ague.  
Hold upon your Tongue a three comered stone, which is found in the head of a Carp, a stone of a Snail, a piece of Crystal often laid in water, a piece of Silver or Gold, or leaves of Roman Sorril, of Purslain, of Stancrop, or peeled seed of Cucumbers, House-leek leaves.   

77. A Remedy against the Plague.  
Make distilled water of the Queen of the fields, steeped before in White-Wine: or put a piece of Gold, or, of its filings, or leaves of beaten Gold, a soaking in the juice of Lemons twenty four hours; mingle this with Wine-vineger, and with the powder and decoction of Angelica-roots, and give it to him that hath the Plague: or take two old Oaker-nuts, one Fig, ten leaves of Rhue, one corn of Salt, bruise these together, then mingle them, and roast them in the ashes, and sprinkle them with Wine to an Antidote, and give it to the infected person.  
Or, take an head of Garlic, leaves of Rhue, the Herb Salandine, of each twenty; pound them together with White-wine, and a little Brandy that is let through, to a potion; of this let him drink half a pint.  
Three quarters of a pint of Wine, six ounces of the Water of Orange-flowers, drunk, driveth away the Malignity of the distemper by sweeting: so doth the juice of Marygolds, Gillyflowers, and of the Herb Scabiosa.  
Upon the swelling of the Plague, you must lay a hot loaf being opened in the middle: or a white Onion filled with Treacle or Mithridate, made soft with the juice of Lemon, well stopped and roasted in the ashes till it is enough; then bruise it, and lay it upon the swelling.  
Also they may drink the juice that is pressed thereout, and lay the remainder upon the swelling; which hath the same virtue.  
Against the Carbunckle, or other pestilential swell, take pounded Rhue, with sour Leaven, Figs, Spanish flies, Onion, Sea-Onion, unquenched Lime, Soap, Ammoniack, and a little Venice-Treacle; make a plaster thereof, lay it to the swell, and it will break them.  
Or, dry a Toad, either in the Sun or in the Oven; make her into powder, lay the powder on the swelling, it will draw out the poison.  
Or, put thereupon a living Frog; if he dies, lay on an other, and renew this often, till the Frog remains alive, so you shall draw out all the poison.   

78. A Cure for Hanging-Breasts.  
Make a Salve of the remainder of the dregs of Flax-seed Oil, a little gum of Arabia, Dragant, Mastic, and Camphor, or Partridge Eggs; renew it often.  
Or, wash them with the distilled water of fresh Pine-Apples, or with the juice of wild Pine-Apples.   

79. A Cure for Ulcerated Breasts.  
If the Breast be ulcerated because of the superfluity of suck, take mire out of the Grinders or Cutler's trough, and cover the Breast therewith, and the pain will Goard-cease in one night; you may add thereunto a little Oil of Roses.  
But if the Teats be much infected, lay thereupon the pap of Rice-Meal, or the flour of the best Wheat, boiled thick in Red-wine, as hot as you can suffer it.   

80. How to increase Milk.  
Use often Fenickle-juyce, or drink the juice of Ladies-mark, or of Beets; or powder of the Root of our Lady-Thistle, adding thereto fresh Fenickle-seed, and a little  powder of the fore-feets of a Cow, with Wine, or Chicken-broth, or such like: or, fine powder of Mountain Crystal, drunk with Wine or Mutton-broth; or, eat boiled Coleworts, prepared with Pepper; or, boiled Roots of Neck-herb with Pepper.   

81. How to dry up Milk.  
Lay upon the Teats the Roots of the Herb Salandine, bruised and boiled: or, bathe the Breasts with sour vinegar water, or lay thereupon a pap of Bean-Meal; or of Rhue, Sage, Mint, Wormwood, Fenickle, and rolls sodden and mingled with camels Oil, or fresh and green Goard-leaves, or bruised and pounded Crabfish.   

82. Against any hurt by swallowing down Horseleeches.  
If any in drinking have swallowed down any Horseleech, or such like, give him to drink wood-lice, with strong vinegar.  
If a Serpent be crept into the body of any being asleep, having his mouth open, nothing is better than to receive through a funnel in the mouth, the smoke of an old shoe-sole: or drink a Decoction of Iron-hearb boiled in white-wine, probatum est.  
If you have eaten bad Mushrooms, then drink Honey-Vineger, with pounded hens-dung, and you shall presently be freed from any harm, or suffocation of the stomach; or drink lie of Vine-branches with a little Salt.   

83. Against the Hiocough.  
It is good to stop and retain oftentimes the breath, to stop both Ears, keeping up the head, and the mouth open, looking upwards.  
Also endeavour to sneeze, to use labour, to suffer thirst, to throw cold water on the patient's face, and to make him afraid.   

84. Against Belching.  
It is good to eat fasting, pounded Fenickle, Anis, Caraways, and Coriander: or to drink twice or thrice in the morning the Decoction of Bay-berries boiled in wine, with the aforesaid seeds, and to lay upon the stomach a little bag of wormwood, Rhue, Margerum, and watermint.   

85. To strengthen the Stomach.  
If the weakness of the stomach proceed from an hot cause, than (if the patiented perceive after eating and drinking a pain in the head, and stinking belching, with vomiting, accompanied with excessive slabber, and an inclination to vomit,) it will be convenient a loaf▪ and an half, or an ounce and a quarter of Hiera-simplex, with the Decoction of Spanish pease, or two or three ounces of water of Wormwood, and after Meals, to use prepared Coriander, abstaining to drink suddenly after it, or to sleep in the day time.  
Also 'twill be good to take once a week, a Confection of Myrobalan, to strengthen the stomach; but if the patient's mouth be dry, thirsty, and brackish, let him take Syrup of Roses, Sorrel, and of Quince, with Cicory, or Endive-water, or boiled water made cold again; then let him take Bitter-holly as above.  
You shall anoint the stomach with Oil of Roses and Quinces, and lay thereupon a Plaster of red-Roses, Sandalwood, and other cooling and heart-strengthening things; but none that are heating, lest you increase the evil.  
If the weakness of stomach proceed from tough slime in the top of the stomach, which causeth a sour wind, and hindereth concoction; take Pills proper for the same, by your Physician's advice.  
In this case Anis and Fenickle is good after meals, and toasted bread soaked in boiled Wine, Hippocras, or Malmsey.  
For outward Remedy, 'tis good to anoint the stomach with Oil of Mastic, and of Nardus, and sometimes to lay upon it the same toasted Bread, soaked in good Wine, covered with powder of Cloves and Nutmegs; or to wear on the stomach a Plaster of these following things, Mastic, Labdanum, of each an ounce, powdered or pounded Wormwood, and Mint, of each one eighth part of an ounce, Turpentine as much as is needful to mingle the other to a Plaster; this being mixed according to art, you shall spread it upon a piece of Leather.  
This weakness of the stomach proceeds manytimes from slime, which falleth down from the head, whereby the stomach being cold, doth with difficulty digest what it receiveth.  
The best Remedy is fasting, whereby the stomach is emptied at leisure, digesting the meat slowly. But when the pain is very great, than vomit to empty the stomach from that which troubleth it; or drink spiced Wine or Hippocras.  
Then strengthen the stomach by heat and good scents, as with Heart-strengthning Powders and Flowers, put into little bags, and lay them upon the stomach; they may be made of Cammomile, Marjoram, Rhue, Wormwood, Cloves, Cinnamon, and Nutmegs.  
And for the clearing of the stomach, let the Patiented a little before meals take a little pill, or powder of bitter holly (Hiera simplex) or if the stomach be much out of order, then let him take in the morning three or four hours before dinner, three of the aforesaid little Pills.  
Let the patiented eat little, and light meats, and such as will easily digest; as boiled meat, and flesh easy of digestion.  
Let him drink good wine, yet little, seldom water, but never sour wine, or new wine. After Meals let him take a spoonful of this following Powder, (which the stomach will digest,) Take Aniseed, Lemon-seed, Cinnamon, Liquorish, scrape of Ivory, one sixteenth part of an ounce, loaf-Sugar as much as is necessary; mingle this to a fine powder.  
Let the patient be well clothed against the cold; let him keep his head and feet moderately warm, and always dry; let him keep to his stomach a piece of Crimson cloth, upon which let him spread Gillyflowers, Cinnamon, and other well-sented powders; or a Kites skin, or other soft skin to keep his stomach warm.   

86. Against the Loathing of the stomach.  
From the great abundance of Slime, of course and tough humours, the stomach is brought to loath that which it receives, and agreeth not with the patient's taste, being continually hindered by reason of continual dryness and bitterness in the mouth, sometimes vomiting yellow stuff as bitter as gall: for a Remedy, the Gall is to be cleansed, the patiented is to bleed, and use such means as may conduce to his recovery: to make him hungry, let him drink in the morning a Decoction of Wormwood, or juice of Mint; and for the sharpening of the Appetite, and comforting the stomach, let him take fig-beans made in sweet-water, than pound them with wine-vineger, and so drink them.  
The same effect hath the Gum of the Cherrytree taken with wine and water.  
Also a Decoction of wild Chervel, or course Margerum, as well as Indian Pepper, and the kernels of the fruits of Sance-tree, (Berberries.)  
Also the seed of young Rapes with sugar, or the same seed laid in pickle and Oil: but in case none of these means will help, then give the patiented all sorts of Meats, according to his will and discretion, (although they be not good for him.) He shall also satisfy his desire in his ordinary drink, and use clean juice of Pomegranates alone, or mixed with wine.   

87. Against Vomiting.  
Take a slice of Tosted-bread, let it steep in Claret-wine, and spread thereupon powder of Mastic, and lay it warm upon the stomach, renewing it every three hours.  
Or, take watermint two handfuls, red-Roses one handful; let them boil up in wine: then take Toasted-bread, well soaked in wine, two ounces; mix these with powder of Mastic, one eighth part of an ounce to a Poltis, to prepare the stomach against the Symptom.  
But if the Vomiting be accompanied with a Fever, then soak and boil the Mint, Roses, and Toasted-bread, in vinegar.  
Also Mint, or watermint bruised, mingled with Oil of Roses, and laid upon the stomach, is good against all kinds of Vomiting; besides, it is good after Meals to swallow a mouthful of water: or to eat a piece of Quince-Herb, without drinking suddenly after it: or to swallow in the moming with Wine, two hours before breakfast, five or six whole pepper-grains: or Syrup of Mint or Wormwood, or green Ginger.  
Likewise it is expedient to bleed by Cupping-Glasses, on the lowermost part of the stomach, or under the Navel, without pricking, especially when you eat; and to rest after Meal without speaking or coughing.   

88 A Cure for the pain of the Stomach.  
Fill a dish with hot ashes, sprinkle them with Wine, cover the dish all over with a cloth; hold this warm to your belly: or lay warm upon the stomach a little bag of Salt very warm.  
Or, take crumbs of Bread, as hot as they come out of the oven, put it in the Oil of Cammomile; after it hath soaked therein, wrap it up in a linen cloth, and lay it upon the belly.  
Or, fill the bladder of a Hog with decoction of Laurel, Oreya, Margerum, Mint, Thime, Cammomile, Nipta, Melilot, Anis, and Fenickle; lay it warm upon the stomach, and renew it when it gins to be cold.  
Or, knead a cake of Rye-leaven with Wine, and an handful of Wormwood, watermint, and Roses, and lay it to the belly.   

89. To kill the Worms in Children.  
Let them eat confection of Rhabarbar, or the Preserve of Peach-tree flowers.  
Or, drink distilled water of Gentian.  
Or, the juice of Lemons, watermint, Basilicon, Purslain, Rhue, or Wormwood.  
Or, a small draught of Wormwood-Wine, with the Powder of Earthworms, first dried, and then burnt upon an hot Tile, and afterwards pounded small.  
Or, the eighth part of an ounce o● the Powder of Carduus Benedictus, or Corallina.  
Or, lay upon their Navel a Poltis of Wormwood, and an Oxgall, in the decrease of the Moon.   

90. A Cure for the Griping of the Guts.  
There is nothing better than to carry about one a Ring, or little box of Silver, in which is enclosed a small piece of the Navel of a newborn Child; let the Ring touch the flesh.  
Also, let the Patient (during the pain) drink a small draught of the best white or red-wine.  
Or, drink four or five ounces of Oil of Nuts, of Flax-seed, of Peach-tree kernels.  
Or, drink Cammomile-water, or water in which Hempseed hath been boiled: or, Wine, in which stamped Elicampane-Root hath been soaked ten or twenty hours: or, the Powder of the pizzle of a Stag, drunk with water: or, Hens-dung, with Hypocrass made of honey and wine.  
The little bones which are found in Woolfs-dung being bruised; nay, the dung of the Wolf bruised, and drank with Wines, is good against the Colic.  
Or, take the Heart of a Lark newly killed, and bind it to the calve of the leg.  
Also a Clyster made of pickle.  
Also, a fresh skin, or the net of the guts of a Wether newly killed, and laid warm to the belly.  
Also a Plaster made of Wolfs-dung.  
Or, take hot ashes, and put them in a dish or pot, pouring thereupon a glass of good red-wine: cover it with a cloth four double, and lay it upon the belly, this will give present ease.   

91. Against Oppilation.  
Against Oppilation, and for the mollifying of the belly, eat in the morning sweet black Cherries, Peaches, Figs, or Mulberries; drink the first juice of Coleworts, Beets, the leaves of Peet-cheefe, or of Lettuce without Salt.  
Or, lay upon the belly pap made of the Root of Hogs-bread, the Gall of a Bull mixed with honey: Colloquint-leaves: or, make a Stick-pill of Bacon, Mallow, or Beets.   

92. A Remedy for the flux of the Belly.  
The looseness or flux of the belly is of two sorts: first, the Dienteria, which is most dangerous: it is occasioned, when that which is eaten is by reason of great Indigestion thrown out as it was taken in, without any stinking.  
The second is the looseness called Diarrhoea, when there is only a single flux and course of waterish and slimy humours.  
There is a third flux called the red-flux, or Dissenteria, wherein blood is mixed with the Excrement, or when the sick voids blood only.  

Looseness Dienteria.  
Concerning the first, (because such fluxes happen seldom, but by a strange accident, or to those who die because of extreme Age, and because the same is dangerous) they who are not able to pay the Physician, may make use of the following Remedy.  
Let the sick take Syrup of Wormwood, with honey of Roses: or, with the water of Betony, Fenickle, and Wormwood, four or five mornings, of each a spoonful.  
The patient shall excite vomiting, (in case he be not inclined thereto) by some means, (which are useful thereto.)  
Next, he shall strengthen the stomach with with Oil of Nard, Spicknard, Mint, and Wormwood.  
Or, with a stomach-plaister of Galenus, spread upon leather, and laid to the belly.  
Or, you may put to the stomach a little bag filled with Wormwood, Mint, and dry Marjoram.  
In the morning let him take a little piece of the small Cakes which are made of Aromatic powder, (which you may have at the Apothecaries) called Aromaticum Rosatum.  
Also a little of a well-sugared Lemon-Pill; and before he eateth, let him take some Marmelade.   

Second Looseness, Diarrhoea.  
For the second, that this looseness or flux of humours is not always a sickness, but rather a benefit of nature, and wholesome to him that hath it, if it be not accompanied with a Fever, if it lasts not long, and if there be not any bloody flux to be feared.  
When this looseness is without a Fever, you must let it take its course for three or four days, that the body may be exonerated of bad and superfluous humours.  
At the end of that time, (if it be accompanied with a Fever,) or if you fear a bloody flux (being threatened by one drop of Blood) than you shall use these Clysters or Infusions which are drawing.  
Take Mint, Sage, Margerum, Benagie.  
'Tis good to use Milk wherein Iron or Steel hath been quenched; or half Milk and half water boiled to the half.  
Or, powder of Hearts pizle drunk with water: or, roasted Rice: or, the eighth part of an ounce of pownded Mastic, with the yolk of an Egg.  
Also you may make a Plaster of wheaten Meal, soaked in red-wine, and baked in an oven, and laid warm to the belly.   

Bloody Flux.  
Against the Bloody Flux, give the sick red-Wine to drink, dried powder of Hare-blood, of powder of mans-bones, of a dogs-turd (the dog having fed three days upon Bones only;) let these be dry, to make a powder of  
This you shall give the sick twice a day, for two or three days, with Milk wherein fiery flint-stones have been quenched.  
Or, give him to drink stilled water of Burse, Prince-print: or, of the first sprouts of Oaks: or, a Decoction of Bloudwort: or, powder of Lambs-tongue-seed: or, of  snails, and of bramble-berries, with a little pepper and gall-nuts: or, of burnt-Goats or Stags-horn: or, of the pizzle of an Hart, prepared as was showed before, Sect. 66.  
Drink also (to stop the flux) the Decoction of Dove-Nettles: use broth wherein Coleworts have been well boiled: or, the juice of Granates; nay, the Granate Apples themselves, oftentimes Rhabarbar.  
'Tis good also to use Salads of Lambs-tongue and Sorrel.  
Infusions and Glisters may be made of Lambs-tongue and Horse-tail, and of all kind of stopping things. The Diet may be found Sect. 114. of the Monthly Flux.    

93. How to stop the excessive bleeding of the Vein under the Tongue.  
Drink Lambs-tongue-water, with the eighth part of an ounce of Coral, hot Iron Scales pounded; warm them with a Decoction of Wool-leaves: or, instead thereof, a pap made up of  paper, the remainder of Lead: or, of Bolus Armenius, with a little of the white of an Egg: or, powder of  or unburnt Oyster-shells; mix these with a little fresh butter, and lay it in a pap upon the Vein.   

94. A Cure for the pain of the Paps.  
Make a little pap of the crumbs of a white-loaf steeped in sweet Milk; mingle it with two yolks of Eggs, a little Saffron, and Poplar Salue.  
Or, you may make an Ointment of unsalted Butter, Flax-Seed-oyl, the yolk of an Egg, and a little wax.  
Or, you may make an Ointment of fresh Butter, and burnt Cork; which is better than the perfume of grated Ivory.   

95. Against a hot inflamed Liver.  
Eat with your Meat Lettuce, Sorril, Purslain, Cicory, and Hops; and drink sometimes stilled water of the same Herbs: or, Endive-water: the water also in which these Herbs have been boiled is very good.   

96. To Cure a stopped Liver.  
Drink the Decoction of the Roots of Cicory, Parsley, Fenickle, Ladies-mark, Dogs-grass, stinging Palm, Sorril, Venus-hair, Hops, and sawdust of Ivory.  
Also give the patiented sour Syrup of Sea-Onion, (Oxymel Squilliticum.) Women sometimes have Obstructions in the Liver, when their Monthly flux is hindered: in such case they should bleed on the Mothevein, (Saphena) being situate about the Ankle, within the foot; and she should take at the new of the Moon, seven or eight mornings together, half an ounce of Triphera magna, and three ounces of the water of St. John's Herb, Hyssop, of Fenickle, or its decoction; and of opening Roots boiled in water, and one third part of wine.   

97. A Remedy for the Jaundice.  
Drink fasting one eighth part of an ounce of Goats-dung, after it hath stood nine days in white-wine.  
Or, a Decoction of Strawberry-leaves and Roots: or, take Mare-sprigs, white-brambles or briers, about an handful, plucked before Sunrising, Parsley-Roots two or three; pound them with white-Wine, (as much as will be necessary) strain the wet through a cloth or sieve to a potion, and drink thereof morning and night the quantity of half a drinking-glass; this is an excellent Remedy, but not to be used by any woman with Child, but instead thereof bind on her Pulses, and in the hollow of her feet, leaves of Mare-sprigs, Oak, Salendine, and Malrove, bruised with a little wine to a pap.  
Or, Earthworms washed in white-Wine, then dried and reduced to powder; take of this a small spoonful, with some Wine.  
Or, the patient may drink the decoction of Wormwood or Malrove: or, he may drink several days together, fasting, his own Urine: or, a little Wine with Goats-dung.  
Three leaves of wild-Rocket carried in the left hand, cureth (as some report) the Jaundice.   

98. To Cure the Black Jaundice.  
The black Jaundice proceeds rather from the Milt, (or Spleen) than from the Liver.  
After the use of Syrrups, Potions and bleeding is good: or to set wind-cupping-glasses, without pricking, on the left side of the Milt.  
Then lay a piece of Felt thereon, being wet with good white-vineger made warm, and keep it to it while 'tis warm, warming it three or four times.  
Then anoint the Milt (four or five days together) with a Salve of Dialthaea; and the following four or five days (or longer) wear thereon a Plaster made of Gum Ammoniack, melted in strong vinegar, and spread upon leather.   

99 How to Cure the Dropsy.  
Make a Potion of bruised Bryne-seed in white-wine: or, of the Flower of blue Flower-de-luce-wort: or, of Mans-Ear: or, drink for some days fasting your own water.  
Honey-water is a certain Remedy, with powder of Glass burned seven times, and extinguished again, mingled with the juice of blue Flower-de-luce in white-wine.  
Lay upon the swollen place a Poltis of hot Cowdung; with which, 'tis reported, a certain Physician of Mysia cured all Dropsies: or, lay on the Swelling live Snails, unwashed, bruised with their shells.   

100 A Cure for the Oppilation of the Milt.  
The Milt receiveth the black-gall, cleansing and purifying the Blood, that it may the better nourish. As long as it is in good order, it makes a man cheerful and merry, but when it swells, and groweth bigger than is fit, by too much black gall, the Oppilation or stopping of the Milt is occasioned, which hindereth good Blood; hereby nourishment is corrupted, the Members suffer and dry up, the Heart is sad, the Face is black, and after meal the patient will find a pain in his left side.  
Whether it proceeds from an hot or cold humour, the Cure may be this.  
Open the Milt-Vein, (Salvatella) which is between the heart-finger and the little finger of the left hand.  
If the pain be accompanied with thirst, loathing, or dryness of the Tongue, 'tis a sign the stopping proceeds from a hot humour.  
Then let the patient take four or five mornings fasting, Syrup of Endive, or Harts-tongue.  
Then let him take a Potion of half an ounce of the juice of Roses, and three ounces of the Decoction of Harts-tongue and Caper-Roots, which the patiented shall take five or six hours before dinner.  
Also half an ounce of Cassia, and six eighth parts of an ounce of prepared Sene-powder, with water of Harts-tongue.  
These cleansing Potions being used, anoint the Milt with oil of Roses, or Flax-seed: or, lay thereupon a Plaster of the aforesaid Oils with Flax-seed and Caper-Roots: or, of Nightshade, Purslain-seed, and Powder of Lambs-tongue mingled with wine.  
If the sick have but little desire to eat, and cannot well digest what he hath eaten, or hath sour belchings, it showeth that his sickness proceeds from black galley cold humours.  
Then given him a Syrup of Staecha, and of Harts-tongue: or, vinegar of honey setting of water, (Oxymel diureticum,) with a Decoction of Harts-tongue and Caper-Roots: you may (increasing this Decoction) add thereto Roots of Ladies-mark, Parsley, Mint, and Thamarisk.  
Then purge the black galley humour with this Potion.  
Take Diacatholicum one ounce, prepared Sene-powder a quarter of an ounce, water of Wormwood, or Harts-tongue, or of the aforesaid Decoction three ounces, to a Potion.  
As for outward Remedies, you must anoint the side of the Milt with Oil of Flower-de-luce, and of Dill, or with sweet Butter, or Suet, Hens-grease, or Partridge Suet; mingle all these together.  
Or, you may chafe the left side with the Salve of Dialthaea: let the sick drink white-Wine, or the Decoction of Hartshorn, night and morning.  
Let him also eat two Figs, with the powder of Pepper, Hyssop, and Ginger; let him mingle his Wine with steeled water: he shall also use Capers, with Oil and Wine-vineger.   

101. For the pain of the Milt.  
Against the pain and heaviness of the Milt, drink Wine in which Hearts-tongue, Asparagus, and Hops have been boiled.  
Or, drink often fasting, juice of red-Coleworts which are half boiled.  
Or, the Decoction of Roman-Wormwood, Hart-wort: or, of small Santory or steeled-water.   

102. Against the pain of the Gravelish Colic.  
Make a Decoction of the leaves and flowers of Camomile, boiled in half white-Wine and half water, until a third part ●e consumed; give this to the patiented to drink lukewarm, and the pain will cease.   

103. A Remedy for the Stone of the Reins.  
You shall often drink of Birchen sprigs. This water must be gotten in the spring, because the stock or rind being then cut, yields much water.  
Also the Fruit of Eglantine or sweet-Brier before it be ripe, well sugared, in the fashion of a Marmelade: the seed which is enclosed in the Fruit being taken, (at the last quarter, and on the first days of the following New-Moon.)  
You shall often drink Wine with the powder of the Herb Restharrow, or of Rhine-berries, or Gum which groweth on the rind of the Vine: or seed of Goose-grass pounded small: or, distilled water of Radish and Nettles, with some Sugar: or, water of Bryne-grass: or, of wild 〈◊〉 or, the juice or water of Radish, mingled with the Powder of  Eggshells, Medlar-stones, Partridge-Eyes, Magpye-brains: or, the innermost skin of the stomach of a Hen or Capon: or, take the Roots of Eringo-Thistle, the Heart first taken out and made very clean; let it soak in Fountain-water eight hours; boil it to the consumption of the half, adding thereto bruised Liquarish. Let it cool slowly; and use it in the morning fasting.  
For outward remedies, lay a Pultis upon the Reins, of Pellitory of the wall: or, of the Roots of Cypress, and leaves of the Roots of Alicampain boiled in Wine; but the best Remedy is, To prepare a Bath of water, in which are boiled the leaves of water-Parsley, Mallow, Poppies, Violets, Pellitory of the wall, & Camomile-flowers; lay this on the Reins while you are in the Bath, a little bag with Rolls, and water-Parsley.   

104. To take away the Stone of the Bladder.  
Drink the juice of Lemon with white-wine: or, bruise Medlar-stones, first washed in Wine, and then dried into a Powder.  
Also the seed of Bryne, Pimpernels, Asparagus, Stone-break, Melons, Pompions, little Citrons, bruised in white-Wine.  
Or, make Powder of Spongy-stones, and of the stone which is found in the head of a Crab.  
Or, Hasel-nut-shells: or, Gum of black-Cherries, taken with White-wine, or the juice of Radishes: or, distilled water of the Husks of Beans, red Fitches, and the seed of Poppies.  
But beyond all, is, Glass made fiery hot, and quenched in water of Beans; or, Stone-break bruised small, and given to the patiented; it breaketh the stone in what place of the body soever.  
If it be in the Bladder, Eggshells, out of which a little Chicken hath been taken and hatched, made into fine Powder, taken with white-Wine, water of Beans, stilled through the Helm, is excellent against the detention of the Urine, and stone of the bladder.   

105. Against Scalding Urine.  
Use the Decoction of the four cold seeds: also, when you make water, hold your Privities in sweet Milk.  
Or, take one eighth part of an ounce of the froth of the Sea made into Powder, and one ounce of the Marrow of Cassia; then take the pap of Cassia, with wine-vineger, and lay it upon the Reins, and other cooling things: never sleep on your back.   

106. To prevent Pissing in Bed.  
Eat often of a Goats-lung roasted: or, drink Wine with the Powder of the Brains and small Eloes' of a Hare: or, of the bladder of an Hog, Sheep, or Goat: or, the Powder of the Root of Liver-wort: or, Crowfoot, (Bistorta) or, of Tormentil, with the juice of Lambs-tongue: or, Sheeps-Milk: or, the ashes of the flesh of an Hedgehog.   

107. Against Drop-Pissing.  
Take whites of Eggs, Snails, of each one pound, of the four great cold seeds, small seeds, of each half an ounce, Lettice-water half a pound, Marrow of Cassia four ounces, Turpentine three ounces; bruise what is to be bruised, set it soaking one night, and then still it through an Helm, in a warm water-Bath, to a Potion.  
Let it stand before you use it: let the patiented drink of this stilled water half an ounce, and one part of an ounce of Sugar of Roses, continuing to do this some time.   

108. A Remedy against painful Pissing.  
Drink the juice that is pressed out of common Black-Cherries: or, out of winter-Cherries, or the Decoction of the Roots of Radishes, Sorril, Eringo-Thistle, Elicampane-Root, white-brambles or briers, Asparagus, Grass, or of the Herb Restharrow.  
Besides, lay upon the yard, and round about the Privities, a pap made of fleas, mixed with the Oil of Bitter Almonds: or, with the fat of a Rabbit: or, which is better, put into the yard two or three fleas or Wood-lice: or, drink white-Wine, with bruised Cheeslips, which are found in Cellars: or, make them into powder, and drink them with White-wine: or, the stilled water of the rinds of Rest-harrow-wort, soaked before in Malmsey.   

109. Against the Inflammation of the Yard.  
Take Cowdung with flowers of Camomile, Brambles, and Melilot, to lay upon the Clods; this will take away the Inflammation immediately; also the pap which shall be described, Sect. 110.   

110. Against the Inflammation of the Matrix.  
Make a Clyster of the juice of Lambs-tongue, Nightshade, or of Stancrop.  
Or, lay thereupon the pap of Barley-Meal, the rind of Pomgranats, with one of the three aforesaid Juices.   

111. Against the rising of the Matrix.  
Chafe the Legs downward, and tie them stiff: also bleed by Cupping-glasses upon the thigh: rub the belly downward, from the little hole of the Heart, unto the Navel.  
Let the patiented smell to such things as stink; as  Partridge-feathers, shoe-soles: hold underneath her Gillyflowers, Marjoram, Amber-grease, Civet, or Wool-leaves, of the uppermost of the shoot.  
Also let her drink Wormwood-water, with Mithridate about the bigness of a bean.  
Or, fifteen red or black small grains of Peony, bruised and put into White-wine: or, a leaf of great Burrs laid under the hollow of the foot.  
Let the patiented drink every night when she goes to sleep, three spoonfuls of white-Wine, wherein an ounce of wild-Vine-root hath been soaked and boiled.  
If the woman be big with Child, let her lay close with her Husband: he aforesaid Remedies are dangerous for a woman with Child.   

112. Against sinking of the Matrix.  
Let the patiented vomit, rub her Arms, and tie them stiff, and set Cupping-glasses on the Breast, without pricking; let her smell to things well-scented: you may use below other stinking things; let her drink tart red-Wine, with powder of Hartshorn, or of dry Laurel-leaves.  
Or, make a Poultis of bruised Garlic mingled with water: or, of green bruised Nettles.  
This being put to the belly, will bring the Matrix to its place: or, take the leaves of Poppies boiled in Oil and Quailsuet, and lay it to the belly as a Poultis: or, the ashes of Eggshells out of which Chickens have been hatched, mingled with pitch, and laid upon the belly: or, the leaf of great Burrs laid under the hollow of the foot, draws the Mother downward; but being laid to the Crown of the head, draws it upward.   

113. For the white Flux.  
First, let the body be cleansed, then drink the juice of Lambs-tongue, or Purslein-water, with Powder of Amber, Coral, Bolus Armenius, Terrasigillata, prepared Steel, Sponge burnt in a pot, and Sea-shells, first burnt, and then washed in Wine and dried.  
Concerning outward Remedies, make a Lie of the Ashes of an Oak, Fig-tree-wood: or, of young Willow-trees, in which you shall boil the rinds of Liver-wort or Crowfoot, (Hestorta) Periwinkle, winter-Roses, with a little vinegar and salt; with this you shall make a Bath, and sit therein to the middle of the body.   

114. Against the Monthly Flux.  
Let the patiented drink the juice of Lambs-tongue, with the powder of the dried bones of Sheep: or, powder of St. James' shells, Coral, Hartshorn, burnt-Egg-shells: Powder of Fuller's wool-cards, or Scales of Iron, first soaked in vinegar, and made into powder.  
Concerning outward Remedies, lay on the Navel hedg-Snails well bruised: or, the husks which lie between the kernels of the nuts, being burnt, bruised small, and mingled with Wine: or, make a pap of Chimney-soot: or, take the black which is scraped from the bottom of a Kettle, mingled with the white of an Egg: or, the juice of Dove-nettles, or of Wool-hearb; this you must lay upon the loins, or the lower part of the Belly.  
Or, fill a great bag with bay-Salt, put it in fresh well-water, and lay it behind the hollow of the Loins.  
Or, the Gum of a black Cherrytree, soaked in the juice of Lambs-tongue, and put it into the Matrix by little spouts: or, lay upon the Breast the leaves of Salendine.  
The greater part of the Remedies that are useful for this disease, are also good against the Bloody Flux; so also is the Diet.  
The sick person should be in a place where the air is moderate, and abstain from heat and cold; let her not work much, but sleep long; let her rub her Arms and Shoulders, and bind her Arms hard from the shoulder to the elbow.  
Let her put Cupping-glasses under her Breasts, on the back, and under the shoulders; let her avoid all perturbations of mind, as Anger, Sadness, Fear, etc. let her eat a little and often; let her keep her belly lose: Oppilation binds up the body, and causeth the pressing down of the Fundament, and motion of the blood.   

115. To provoke the Monthly Flux in Women.  
Give them to drink every morning two ounces of St. John's Herb, or the Decoction of Grass, Nardus-seed, Cicers, the Roots of Ladies-mark, Radish, Cinnamon, Saffron, and Fullers-cards; to which you may add Myrrah, to the bigness of a bean.  
Or, the juice of Eringo-Thistle, and of Fullers-Cards, mixed with white-wine.  
Outward Remedies may be these; make a Bath of Riverwater, wherein Mugwort, Mallow, Poppies, Camomile, Melilots, and the like Herbs have been boiled. In this Bath rub the hips and the thighs downward, with a little bag full of St. John's Herb, Chervil, Salendine, water-Parsley, Betony, Nardus-seed, and the like.  
Or, take a quarter of an ounce, or the eighth part of an ounce of Harts-marrow, wrap it in a fine linen cloth, which must be put deep into the woman, after her body is prepared and purged.   

116. Against Sterility or Barrenness.  
Let the Barren Woman, (four days after her Monthly Flux) drink the juice of Sage, with a little Salt, continuing the same a long time.  
Or, take the Female of a Hart that is with young; kill her, and draw out her belly, the Fruit with its wind; take out the Fruit, and let the windings (Secundinae) be dried in an Oven, out of which Bread hath been newly drawn: then break into morsels that part of the wind which was next to the Fruit, to a Powder.  
Give her this Powder to drink three mornings a little after midnight; with three or four spoonfuls of Wine; let her not rise in four hours after she hath taken this.  

This following Potion is of great virtue.  
Take young sprigs of wild Vine-leaves, of Agrimony, St. John's Herb, Thousand-leaves, Gamander, Goats-leaf, Harts-tongue, Pimpernel, field-Cypress, Violets green, of each an handful; one hundred Pepper-corns, Commin-seed half an ounce, A●gelica, fine Cinnamon, Galiga, Ginger, Cloves, Nutmegs, Spike, of each a quarter of an ounce: pound all these together, and let them soak two days in white-wine; boil them to two third parts, then strain the wine, and mingle therewith as much scumed honey as is necessary: make ●hereof a Syrup; let the Woman take of this in the morning and at night a spoonful, with Wine, or distilled water of the Herb Balm    

117. To prevent Miscarrying.  
Let her when she is quick with Child, ●ake of the Powder of Crimson, or Scar●et-grain, and fine Frankincese, of each ● like quantity, with the white of an Egg: or, the Powder of the Pisle of an Ox, (as is described in 66. for the Pleurisy.)  
Or, that she always wear on her fingers ● Diamond, which hath virtue to keep the Child in the Womb.  
Or, take a Snake, dry it; pounded and applied with crumbed bread, 'tis very good to hinder Miscarrying: but especially the Eagle-stone being worn about the left shoulder, or hanged on the same arm or side, keeps the Child in the Womb▪   

118. To quicken the pain of a Woman in Labour.  
Tie within the thigh, near the Groin, an Eagle-stone: as soon as the Child is born, take the stone away, and give the Woman to drink, a Potion of the Decoction of St. Johns-herb, Rhue, Depham, and Poppies: or, of the juice of Parsley pressed out with vinegar, or white-Wine, or Hippocras, wherein the Powder of the rinds of Cassia, Cinnamon, Date-stones, and Roots, of Cypress, of red Easters flower-de-luce, and Camomile-flowers, or the juice of Good Henry have been steeped; lay these with white-Wine, or the leaves of the same, upon, or round about the Matrix.  
If the Woman in Labour faint, give her Bread that hath been soaked in Hypocrass, or a spoonful of Clarret-water, which is thus made.  
Take a pint of Brandy, grated Cinnamon about three ounces: having soaked three days, strain it through a clean cloth, adding thereto one ounce of fine Sugar, Rose-water six ounces, to a Claret-wine; let it stand in a well-stopped Glass for use.  
This Water, or rather Wine, is not only good against the Distempers of the Matrix, but against swooning, faintness, weakness of the stomach, and other defects.   

119. To cause the second or afterbirth.  
To cause it to come forth, the aforesaid means are good; but you may take lukewarm the Powder of Beans, Saffron-flowers, or Marygolds, with white-Wine, or Hypocrass.   

120. Against following Pains.  
Against after-following pains, drink a little spoonful of Claret-water, described before, Sect. 118. or, water of Peach-flowers: or, Powder of the Roots of Wallwort, Peach-kernels, Nutmegs, Amber, and Ambergreese, with white-Wine.  
Outward means, or a Pap to lay on the Belly.  
Take hard boiled yolks of Eggs, and fry them with the Oil of Nuts and Jesmin; add thereto Powder of Dill and Commin, or Flax-seed, Bean-meal, unsalted Butter, Oil of Rhue, and Dill, with Powder of Camomile-leaves.   

121. For a disturbed. Matrix.  
Lay upon the Belly a Pap made of Cowdung, Sheep or Goats-dung, with Commin, Aniseed, Fenickle, and Parsley-seed, with a good quantity of Wine: or, in want of this Pap, you may cover the belly with a fresh-Net of Wether, Sheep, or Goat.  
Or, lay a dish of Platanus-wood, or an earthen Cruise upon the Navel; but ●●●st anoint the corners of the Cruise with an head of Garlic.   

122. Against Burstenness, or a Rupture.  
Lay upon the place a Pap of Bean-meal and Wine: or, a Pap of Wallwort, Dasy, ship-pitch, and a little Mastic, then lay thereupon a small cloth, made wet in the juice or moistness which floweth out of the little Fruits of the Elm-tree: or, make a Pap of that which remaineth in the Paper-mills after the Paper is made, and tie it thereupon.  
In the mean time drink for nine days together, a Potion prepared of the Roots of Solomon's Seal and Sanickle.  
Or, put red-Snails in an earthen pot, dry them in an hot Oven, and make them into Powder; give this to Children for fifteen days together, or longer if necessity requireth, with Pap or Broth, if they suck; but if they be froward, then still the Snails with hot water, and give it them fifteen days as aforesaid.  
Or, make a Powder of black-Bramble, and give them an eighth part of an ounce thereof in a morning for some days together.   

123. A Cure for the Gout.  
Take new wax and fresh Butter, of each two pounds, let it boil up together, then pour it thus hot into good Claret-wine, as much as shall be necessary; when they are mixed together, take them out, and make them up in a Lump, of which you shall take some part, and lay it on the illaffected part.  

Another.  
Take the leaves of Lyon-foot two handfuls, Oil of Linseed eighteen ounces, white-Wine four pints and an half; boil it till it is half wasted; rub with this Decoction the painful place.  
The same is performed with the Oil of Spike, and juice of white Poppies, of each a like quantity, with Oil of Olives in which Frogs have been boiled till the flesh goeth off from their bones.  
Also Oil of Cinnamon, Wax, and Salt, mixed together, of each a like quantity. But against all sorts of Gouts, 'tis good to lay upon the painful place a Poultis of red-Coleworts, with the juice of wild-Elder, Bean-meal, Camomile-flowers, and Roses grossly pounded: or, scraped Wallwort, which is newly gathered, spread it upon a linen cloth.  
Or, take the Roots and Leaves of Alder, leaves of Scabiosa, Daisy, and wild-Sage; boil them in Wine together, strain them, and add thereto Spike-oyl, Brandy, Ox-grease, of Cow-feets: or, take a goose plucked, and clean within; fill it with great Chestnuts chopped small, and mingled with a little Salt; roast it, and keep the Chestnuts for a chafing Salve.  
Lay also on the pained place a little Doge, this will take away the pain.  
But this is most excellent; make a plaster of Frogs, because the chief Ingredients are Frogs, (Emplastrum de Ranis) oil of white flower-de-luce is very good, which operates better old than new.  
That these Remedies may prove effectual, 'tis good to cleanse exorbitant humours, that the Patient may be prepared for the application of necessary Remedies; therefore let him observe this diet, let him drink but little wine, or rather not any.  
Against the Gout in the hands and feet, use the decoction of St. Johns-herb in oil of Olives, (as much as you shall judge sufficient) boil it two third parts, make it to an Ointment or Chafing Salve, and anoint therewith the painful places; let the Patient drink the Decoction of wild-Cypress, with the eighth part of an ounce of Elderberries.  
Against the Gout of the Hip, lay on the painful place a pap made of a common wheaten-loaf; that is, of the crumbs thereof, boiled in Cows or sheeps-milk, adding thereto two yolks of Eggs, with a little Saffron; or make a Pap of the Roots and leaves of Mallows, Roots of Marshmallows, or leaves of Violets, flowers of Camomile, and Melilots; boil all together in water, or tripe-broth, and mix them or knead them together with the yolks of Eggs, Flax-seed, Meal, Hogs-suet, and oil of Camomile.  
Or, take Cowdung, Bean-meal, wheaten Rolls, and crumb; knead them together with honey and vinegar. If the painful place look whitish, and be much swelled, then add to the aforesaid pap black pitch, with a little brimstone; it is also good to press the juice out of Ivy-leaves and Alder: then let it boil with Oil of Rhue, and Earthworms, with a little wax, for an Ointment or chafing Salve.  
Or, a Poultis of Cow or Ox-dung, made warm in the ashes, with Colewort or Vine-leaves; but if you will draw out the humour which lieth in the joints, then lay this Poultis thereon.  
Take the dung of wild or tame Pigeons, oil of old Tile, of each one ounce, Garden-cress-seed, Mustardseed, of each a quarter of an ounce: mingle these together.    

124. A Cure for Red-swelling.  
Make a Poultis of the leaves and flowers of Violets, leaves of Nightshade, flowers of Camomile, Hen-bane, and Melilots boiled together in water-vineger.  
Strain it through a sieve, and lay it on the swelling: or, take the juice of Stancrop, a little red-wine, and Barley-meal, make this into a pap; but in case there be an hardness by the swelling, then put hereupon Goats-dung, which will soften all hard-swelling, especially the inveterate hardness of the knees; mingle it with Barley-meal, and water-vineger to a pap.   

125. For Hard-swelling.  
Take Mallows, Poppies, Pellitory of the Wall, Wool-herb, Roots of Flower-de-luce, flowers of Camomile, and melilot, Poppies-seed and Flax-seed; boil these together (of each a like quantity) in wine, water, and vinegar: strain them, then add thereto Meal of Beans and Barley, powder of Camomile and Roses, Hens-grease, and fresh butter; make this to a Pap, and lay also upon the swelling an hot pap of the Lees of Bee-hives, mingled with white-wine, and fried in a pan.   

126. Against Windy-swelling.  
Take dried Salt, and put it between two small  upon the swelling: or, a Poultis of the Lees of white-wine, wheaten-rolls, and Ox-dung newly made.   

127. To ripen Ulcerated Swell.  
Lay thereupon the dung of a Goose that hath fasted three days, after she hath been fed with Eels newly killed; lay thereupon long gnawed raw-wheat: or, a pap of the Roots and leaves of Mallow, white Poppies, Roots of flower-de-luce, and the Crumbs of a white-loaf: boil these together, and strain them: add hereunto the yolk of an Egg, and some Saffron. If it be a cold swelling, add to the decoction of the pap, the Roots of wild-Alder, wild-vine, flowers of Camomile and Melilots, Onion, with wheaten leaven.   

128 Against Scratching, Scurvy, and other Itchings on the hands, or other parts of the body.  
Take lukewarm Smiths-water, put therein an handful of Salt, and rub the hands or other parts therewith; and when the Scabs are dry, anoint it with the Cream of Cows-milk.  
Or, take two parts of Venetian Turpentine, washed five or six times in Rose-water, or other cold water: add hereunto a good quantity of Butter newly salted, the yolk of an Egg, and the juice of a sour Orange, make this into a Salve; chafe herewith the Itchy place before the fire.  

For young Children.  
Take the juice of Nettles, and Poplar-salve, mingled together: or, soot of the Chimney, with strong vinegar; rub the itching place red, and then anoint it therewith.    

129. To bring an Ulcer to Distillation.  
Take raw wheat long ears, or Wheat-meal, the yolk of an Egg, Honey, and Hogs-grease; make thereof a plaster, and lay it to the Boil.  
Or, lay thereupon sheeps-dung soaked in wine-vineger, if you will suppurate the Ulcers and make them soft: or, make a pap of Bean-meal, of Woman's-milk, leaven, and large figs, and apply it to the Ulcers.   

130. Against Ulcers and Swell about the Nails.  
Lay upon it a little Worm which is is found in the midst of Fuller-Cards when they are dry.   

131. Against Vleers that are hard to be Cured.  
Gather May-dew before Sunrising, wring your sheets in which you gather the dew; boil, and scum it: while it boileth, put into it Lint of fine-linnen, and lay them upon the Ulcers: when you begin to see fresh or clean flesh, then boil in the dew a little Alum, and white-Frankincense, by this means you shall cure it.  
Or, take Powder of Oyster-shells, raw or burnt: or, the dung of a Dog, who hath eaten for three days together nothing but bones: or, make a powder of rotten-Wood.   

132. Against a Canker.  
Take honey of Roses, Mase, Alum, Salt, and white-Wine; boil these together to the half; strain this water through a cloth, and keep it to wash the Canker: or, the distilled Water of Cowdung.  
Against the Canker called Noli me ta●gere, which is the worst of Cankers, lay Tobacco upon it.   

133. To take away Knobs.  
Take old and rotten Cheese, bruise it with Water where Bacon hath been boiled; make it into a Plaster, and lay it upon the knobs.  
Or, bruise Corulus Indi, (which cometh out of the Levant) with Myrtle▪ and wine-vineger, and lay it upon the knobs.  
Or, take nine pints of the Urinal of a man, Balm, Canker-flowers, of each two handfuls; let them boil slowly in a new well-stopped earthen pot, to the consumption of the half; then press out the herbs, and put thereto Brandy that is strained through, four ounces; boil these together half an hour, and add thereto Oil of Rosemary, and of Spike, of each one ounce, Quicksilver a quarter of an ounce; mingle these together with a flat-spoon to a Salve, with which you must chafe the knobs before the fire.   

134. Against an hurt by a fall.  
Let them drink white-Wine, with the 16th part of an ounce of Powder, made of Mummy, Tormentil, Raponticum, and Parmacety: or, Garden-Cresses, prepared seed of Housleek, and Sugar-candy; of each an equal part.   

135. Against blue spots.  
Soak a little bag full of Salt in boyling-water, and bathe the spots therewith.   

136. A Cure for fresh Wounds.  
Take Garden-balsome, Wallwort, Daisy, and a little Salt; pound these together, and lay them on the Wound.  
Or, drop into it the juice of Tobacco: or, lay on the juice with its Herb, (which is best) this will heal it in three days: or, take Elm-Apples, flowers of St. Johns-Herb, Rosemary, and knobs of Roses; put these together in a glass, with Oil of Olives; stop it close, and put it in the Sun, until by consuming it seemeth to be rotten; strain it several times through a linnen-cloth, keep it in a glass, and when you see occasion, drop some of it into the Wound.  
Or, make a Salve of the juice and leaves of Tobacco: or, take green Agrimony, Betony, Pimpernel, of each one handful; pound them together in a Mortar, and put them into a glazed pot, with four pints and an half of white-Wine: cover them well, and boil them upon a gentle and clear fire, to the consumption of the half; cool it by little and little, the next day make it a little warm, and strain it through a sieve as much as you can, adding thereto white-pitch, (melted apart) one pound, wax half a pound, Turpentine and Mastic, of each one ounce; mingle these to a Salve.  
Besides, make a Plaster of black Rosin-pitch, Brimstone, and white Frankincense, of each a like quantity; bruise these, and mix them with the white of an Egg: lay it upon the wound after the blood is staunched, washed off, and the wound close up; bind up the Wound with Cobwebs, and Rulers; let them lie for several days on it.  
Or, boil the leaves of Carduus Benedictus in Wine, with Wheaten-meal, till it be as thick as a Salve; then wash the Wound with Wine twice a day, and dress it with this Salve.  
Or, wash the Wound with a decoction of Canker-flowers: or, (which is more expedient) take dirt from under the pails, and lay it to the Wounds, which will heal it presently.   

137. Against old and new Wounds.  
Take the leaves of Lambs-tongue, Dogs-rib, Mallows, good-Henry, noble-Sage, of each a handful. These Herbs being well washed and distilled, must be pounded; then take of Hogs-grease the fourth part of an ounce melt it in a pan, and boil it with the aforesaid Herbs, till the juice of the Herbs is consumed.  
Add thereto Virgins-wax, rosin, Pitch, of each about the bigness of two Nuts, Frankincense half as much: melt them again, and make them into a Salve, this is good for all sorts of Wounds.  
Or, take pounded and sifted Brimstone, put it into a glass with Oil of Olives, till it stand four or five fingers thick above it; then let the glass stand ten days in the Sun, stirring it often with a wooden-stick, keeping the glass well-covered, that no dust fall into it: after ten days pour the clear O●, (which by that time will draw the virtue of the Brimstone to it) into another glass without spilling any of the brimstone▪ then stop it fast; and when you use it▪ dip therein lint of a clean cloth, or cotton▪ or black-wooll, and lay it on the Wound▪ Boyl, or swelling, every day till it be healed: you may put Oil upon the same Brimstone, out of which Oil hath been once poured.   

138. Of Wounds by a Bullet.  
If the Bullet sticks in the Wound, and you would get it out, make a tent of a Quince-Apple, or of Marmalade, anointed with Oil and Eggs, and put it into the Wound.   

139. Against strained Sinews.  
Take ripe berries of Elder fill therewith a round flask half full with the oil of Olives; stop the Glass well, and let it stand twenty four hours in a skillet of boyling-water, than put it ten days in a dunghill.  
Or, oil of Elder, thus: fill a glazed pot half full with the juice of Elder-leaves, and fill it with the oil of Olives; stop it close with dough, put it into an Oven after the bread is drawn, and let it stand there until the juice be wholly consumed.  
But this is more expedient; lay upon the Sinew the dung of an Ox or Cow, fried in a pan with strong vinegar, or oil of Acorns, or Gum of a wild Pear-tree, mingled with Capons-grease, or oil of Sycamore-tree, or Jasmin.   

140. Against stung Sinews.  
Take Snails with the shells, pound them small, and put thereto dust-meal, which is on the walls of Mills; put this upon the Sinews: or, anoint them with the oil of Earthworms.   

141. For Sinews that are cut through.  
Take unwashed Earthworms, pound them small, and lay them on the wounded Sinews: or, lay Alder-flowers to soak or steep in the Sun, in oil of Nuts, or in Balsam, or oil, and dress the Sinew with it.   

142. For inward Wounds.  
If they may not be tented, drink the decoction of Eringo-Thistle, and wash the outward Wound therewith.  
Also, take of Bramble-berries, stinging-Nettles, Marigolds, Sanickle, Mouse-ear, Pimpernel, green-Sene, Canker-flowers, Lambs-tongue, little tops of Hemp, Female-Ferne, Ox-tongue, Gentiana, Vervine, Ash-keys, Pennyroyal, Scordium, Nip, Ruperts-herb, five-finger-herb, Venus-hair of all kinds, Roots of Madder, Sage, the whole walwort, St. Johns-herb, Daisies, Betony, Agrimony, Brunella, of each an handful, flowers that strengthen the heart, four ounces of St. Johns-herb, Carduus Benedictus seed, long Raisins stoned, Liquoris, of each an ounce; all these being well washed, must be very well pounded and strained, with one pint of white-wine, to a Potion.  
Let the wounded person drink hereof before dinner and supper: if this drink be unpleasant to him, than instead of pounding, boil the  Ingredients in common-water, and add thereto white-Wine, honey of Roses, Syrup of dry-Roses, as much as shall be necessary.  
Cleanse the Wound with lukewarm white-Wine, and lay thereupon fresh, red, and warmed leaves of Coleworts; forbear salt-meats, Spices, strong-Wine, great labour, and women.   

143. Against the biting of a Mad-Dog.  
Eat sweet brier-wort, and wash the hurt with a young Child's Piss, or with a decoction of Rhue, Figs, red-Coleworts, and Salt mingled with honey and butter.   

144. To Cure the Biting of a Serpent.  
Take immediately a draught of the juice of an Ash-tree, with white-Wine, and lay upon the bed (of the party bitten) the leaves out of which the juice was pressed: or, the milky juice of the Figtree, or juice of Figs: or, Mustardseed bruised with vinegar.  
Or, take the leaves of Wool-herb, Caryophilate, red-Currans, of each an handful; boil them in vinegar and Mares-piss, of each a like quantity, until the half be consumed to a Potion.  
Drink of this at once a small drinking-glass; bath the Wound with the remainder of the pecoction.   

145. A Cure for Kibe-heels.  
Take the burnt-ashes of old shoe-soles, mingle them with oil of Roses, and anoint therewith the Kibes,: or, lay thereupon Granate-shells boiled in Wine.   

146. A Cure for stinking Feet.  
Put in your shoes the scales of Iron; if you will preserve your health, keep your body clean, and purge out (seasonably) superfluous humours, therefore use gentle Purges, viz. Clysters, Pills, or small Potions, to prevent thereby great sicknesses.  
As, take a Clyster every Month, to keep the body in good order, take purging Pills by the Advice of your Physician: Pills of Aloe, Myrrah wet with Wine, or the Syrup of Venus-hair, which is good against fleam, and being taken once a week, 'tis good for the stomach, sight, and hearing.  
When your stomach is stopped, you may loosen it, by taking the eighth part of an ounce of the Powder of the leaves of Damask-Roses, with broth made of flesh, a little before dinner, or with Cassia alone.  
In the Spring you may cleanse and ●urge humours, with the decoction of pale-Roses: drink eight or nine mornings together, one spoonful in a morning; or without respect to the season of the year, you may purge with these Flesh-broths.  
Take a young Hen, or a quarter thereof: or, boil Weather-Mutton that is not very fat; add thereto good Herbs, as Bernagy, Sorrel, Lettuce, tame and wild; Cicory, of each a little quantity, viz. an handful; when it is boiled, strain it through a cloth into a well-glazed-pot, and add thereto Sena-leaves, Cinnamon, and Aniseed, of each a little; then stop the pot very close, that the vapours may not fly out: put it on a fire, and let it boil up one boiling only; then take it from the fire, and let it stand a whole night upon hot ashes; the next morning strain it through a clean cloth, and add to it Syrup of Roses, one ounce and an half; boil it to a potion: take a little of this (made warm) about five hours before dinner, in Spring and Harvest; they are the best times, because then Herbs are best in their season, but better in the Spring than in the Harvest. The Apozemata or herb-Potions, purge fundamentally, yet gently, because of the divers virtue of Herbs of which they are made. Add to this Potion Rhabarbar, leaves of Seine, Agarins; also little Cakes of Cinnamon, Sugar, and other things, according to the condition and complexion of the Patient's body.  

Another Purging Remedy.  
Take Virgin-honey one pound, Powder of Agarius, of Folia-Sene, of one of three, or of all three four ounces; mingle this Powder with honey, let it stand sixty days in a cool-place, in a pot well covered, stirring it every day, and take off the Scum.    
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