The third and last part of the Secrets of the reverend Master Alexis of Piedmont, by him collected out of divers excellent Authors, with a necessary Table in the end, containing all the matters treated of in this present work. Englished by William Warde. ARMIPOTENTI ANGLIAE PRINTED AT LONDON by Roulande Hall, for Nycholas England. 1562. Secrets and sovereign recepts well experimented and tried by divers Authors. Against every grief or pain of the head, except the Pocks. TAke red Roses, Camomile flowers, Melilot, Calamint, Sothernwood, of each two handfuls, seeth them in forty pound of water & good wine, until half be consumed. And with this being hot let the Patient wash his legs every night and morning, from the knees downward, and his arms from the elbow downward. Also he must not have his stomach full. A preservative against the falling syckennesse or epilepsia. TAke the best castoreum, that you can find, and assa setida, of each half a dram, roots of Peony well beaten into powder a dram, aromaticum rosatum two drams, of all these being well mixed and mingled together with Syrup of mint, make seven Pills, to be taken twice or thrice a week when you go to bed. It hath been often proved. Against the falling syckennesse. THe Patient being tormented with this disease it is good to make him smell burnt Feathers, or old Shoes, for that reviveth and maketh them come to themselves. Another sovereign remedy for the same. TAke a hundred Swallows, an ounce of castoreum, as much Wine as shall suffice, & of the best that can be found. distill all together and give the Patient drink thereof three Dragmes fasting. This water is also very good for men that be apoplectique if they be washed with it. Against the Palsy. TAke myrrh, master, of each two drams franken sense a dram and alhalfe, Cloves, Cinnamon, Nuttmegge, Lignum Aloes. Mace of each a dram. Beat all these into very fine powder. And the powder being sprinkled with aqua vite, and dried again you must yet once sprinkle it again, and continuing so sprinkling and drying it five times. Then beat it small again. And with this powder perfume a fox skin laying two drams thereof upon quick coals to the intent that the perfume be received through out all the skin, and so laid upon the member that is infected. or else (which is better) let the skin powdered with the said powder, be laid hot upon the paraliticke member and so worn: And you shall so a marvelous effect. Another way. TAke a pound of Aqua vite, the roof of iva, the root of acorus, the root of Isope, of each two drams black Pepper, Cloves, Nutmeg, of each a dram, Mace half a dram: All this you must stamp well, & bind it in a fine linen cloth and let it steep in Aqua vite three hole days, then drene out the water, of this water take half an ounce: water of iva and of Endive of each three drams: give it the Patient to drink in the break of the day, and let him not eat in sire hours after. The Patient shall feel a greater effect if the same day that he drinketh the water, he also wash the sore member with it. Against the frenzy. THe body being purged, it is good to shave the head, and to lay upon the seam of the crown of the head quick Pigeons (having first cleft them in the back, and drawn out the entrails) leavings them so upon his head until they ware cold: or else little whelps of a month old their garbishe plucked out: or if you will the lungs or lights of a sheep or wether hot. But because one of the principal causes of the frenzy is the torment of watching, you must labour to provoke sleep as much as you can, by remedies meet therefore: as with washing his legs from the knees downward, and his arms from the elbow downward, with the decoction of violet flowers, of Nenuphar, of the ryne of Mandragore roots, and anointing his temples, the joints of the arm even to the hand, and of the leg unto the foot with the oil of Nenuphar and poplar mixed together. A tried remedy against the great pain, ringing and deafness of the ears. TAke the oil of Castoreum two ounces, oil roset, and oil of better Almonds of each an ounce, of Aqua vite two ounces, mingle all together and seeth it until the Aqua vite be consumed. Than every night at even when he goeth into his bed, drop four drops into his ears, and stop them with Cotton savouring some what of Musk. It is a thing proved. Another remedy well known and tried. Seethe in some pot a pound of Walnut oil, and when it smoketh, make the smoke enter into the pacientes ears by a founell. A remedy to stench the bleeding at the nose. TAke the juice of Plantain, Rose water, and the best Uinaigre you can, of each four ounces: yolks of Eggs well beaten two ounces: of acatia mixed with the said things half an ounce: mingle all together, and anoint your forehead with it and your throat with some cloth. Another for the same well proved, and of a marvelous strength. THe Patient shall take the water of panis porcinus as much as shall need, the which he shall take up at the nose, & incontinent he shall feel himself helped. Another sovereign remedy. TAke the blood of a man (that is to say that bleedeth at the nose) an ounce or two: and burn it upon some plate of iron, then make it into fine powder, & blow it into his nostrils, and he shallbe well. Another for the same. TAke of the best Uinagre you can get, plantain water of each two pound, wet certain linen clouts in it, and lay them to the souls of his feet, and palms of his hands, and against the liver, and the blood shall forth with stint. For the tooth ache, a remedy proved. TAke half an ounce of Hierapicra: two Dragmes of Hiera Picra a medicine to purge phlegm and colour. mithridate, and half an ounce of Aqua vite, and with all these mingled together, you shall often times a day anoint the tooth that acheth and round the gum that he standeth in: for this is singular if the ache come of cold. Anoher remedy whether the ache be by cold or heat. TAke strong white Wine half an ounce, of the roots of jusquiame in english white Henbane, an ounce: Let all be well sodden together, until the third part or half of the wine be consumed, with this hot wine wash all the gum of that tooth that acheth and keep it a good while in your mouth, on the side where the tooth is. Another for the same. TAke Sage flowers, Rosemary, Betony, Sticados arabic, Marjoram, of each a handful and a half: of Nigella or melanthium in english Geth, of perythrum in English Pelytorye of each two Dragmes. Let all this be sodden together, in a sufficient quantity of white wine until the half be consumed: then strain it and stamp these herbs, and make thereof a plaster and lay it upon the Jaw of the aching tooth, & keep the wine that is strained out in your mouth as hot as you may endure it. Another remedy. ALso, if the said tooth be hollow, mix half an ounce of treacle together with Negella and pyrethrum of each half an ounce, and a dram of Aqua vite. And of this mixture fill up the hole of the tooth. But yet if all this (after you have proved it) help you but a little or nothing, put to each of these remedies two or three grains of the juice of poppy, called in latin Opium, and lay all as is said unto the grief that troubleth you. A remedy for the stinking of the mouth of nose. TAke a pound and a half of Rose water, a pound of Violet water, half a pound of Marjoram water, beat into powder Nutmegs, Lignum aloes, cinnamon, Galingale, Zedoaria, of each two Dragmes, mix all with these waters, and still it in a Limbeck. This done, parfume the water with eight grains of fine Musk. The head being purged with this water, that is to say, taking it up every day at the nose into the head: but yet fasting, and the nose first well purged, you shall see a marvelous effect. Another for the same. IT is a thing proved and tried, and very good to take fasting every day at the beginning of dinner, or else from day to day an Alephangine pill. A very good gargarism or gargelling of the throat against the Quinsey. TAke two pound of Liquorous water, the juice of Plantaines, the suck of Mulberries, the suck of Myrtelberries, of each two ounces: all this mixed together, seeth it well: than strain it and let it cool again, and than let the Patient gargoyle & wash his throat slightly withal. For the same. IT is a remedy proved and tried, to blow with a Reed in his throat fine powder of plantain leaves dried. Another for the same. IT helpeth much also to anoint the sore with the oils of camomile, of Violets, of sweet Almonds, and of the grease of a Hen, as much of the one as of the other, mixing it all together, and to anoint therewith the sore place, with the application of new shorn or unwashed wool. An excellent plaster to soften or ripe an impostume in the throat. TAke of Swallows nests a pound, and make thereof a plaster with as much Oil of sweet Almonds, and of camomile as sufficeth to make it, and lay it hot to the Pacientes throat. Against spytring of blood coming of the Lungs or Lights. TAke the suck or juice of Purslane and plantain of each an ounce: beat into powder a dram of red Coral, and half a dram of the stone Hematites in English bloodstone: and all being mirte together give it to the Patient at all times when he spiteth blood. For the same another remedy tried and proved. MAke into very small powder gum Arabic, Tragacantha, Hearts horn burned, of a bloodstone burned, and red Coral burned, of each half a dram, and of Bole armenic two scruples: mix all with the yolk of a raw Egg, and give it the Patient when he spiteth blood. Another remedy found very singular. roast well two Dragmes of Rhubarb, together with the seed of Purslane and Coriander prepared, of each a dram, make all into very small powder, and mingle a dram of this powder with as much juice of Purslane as shall suffice, and give it to the Patient when he spiteth blood. Another remedy of marvelous great virtue. TAke of the juice of millfoil two ounces, of a bloodestone burned, and well beaten into powder two Dragmes, and give it to the patient cold. Another secret for the same, certain and experimented and good at all hours. TAke the shells of some raw Eggs, take away the little skin that is within, and dry them so that they may be made into powder very fine. Than mix two Dragmes of this powder with three ounces of plantain water, and give the patient of it ever when he voideth blood, and you shall see that the Lungs will be sound. But if you will that this medicine work with more speed, and greater efficacy, mire it with two Dragmes of the said powder, with half an ounce of syrup of dry Roses, half an ounce of Purslane, and as much of syrup of myrtle, which thing you shall give the Patient five days together. And this thus taken he may be well assured that from thence forward the vain will never break more. For the same. IT is a remedy most certain and proved as well to heal this sickennes chanced to a man, as for to preserve one from it before it come, to eat every morning fasting a scruple of Rhubarb roast. Another for the same. Every day at night when the patient would sleep, let him sup a spoonful of mundified Barley. For, at the last, the effect is very great, as well to preserve him, as to heal him of it. Against the ulceration of the Lungs or Lights, and spettell full of matter and corruption. TAke a pound of the tails of river Crevices, and four pound of Cow or Ewes milk: and seeth all together until half the milk be consumed. And than stamp well the tails of the Crevices or Crabs, and dissolve them in good milk, puttting to them half a handful of Barley flower, and as much of amylum, of sweet Almond milk four ounces, the yolk of a new laid egg, and four ounces of Sugar very white: mingle all together, and set it on the fire to seethe, stirring it always softly, until it be well sodden. This done let the sick man eat of this composition at morning and evening as much as he shall think good: and he shall find himself very well. Another for the same. TAke vi. Dragmes of white Poppy seed, of Endive sede draagme & a half, with as much Sorrel seed, kernels of Quinces made clean two Dragmes, the seeds of Melons, Gourds, Citrons, Cucumbers, of each an ounce and a half, of Gomme Arabic, Tragacantha, of amylun, of each a dram, of the juice of Licorous two dram, of the Lungs of a Fore a dram and a half, Penides the weight of the whole, mix and burn all slightly: Than make it into a fine powder, whereof you shall take two Dragmes, mingling it with an ounce and a half of the syrup of Juiuves, & three ounces of the water of Snails distilled. Than give this drink lukewarm to the Patient in the break of the day. Another for the same. MIngle half an ounce of very white Sugar with six ounces of the milk of an Ass new milked, and take a little of it at the break of the morning, sleeping a little upon it, and at night when you go to bed, continuing so a month at the spring, and twenty days together in Harvest. A remedy for short winded men. TAke an ounce and a half of Liquorous made clean, with as much Cetrac the grains or corns being taken away, Juiubes, & Sebesten or Mixa of echetenne, the root of Emula campana. purified or made clean balfe an ounce, the root of Fool foot or Horse hoof, called of the apothecaries Vngula caballina, two Dragmes let all seethe in a sufficient quantity of water, until the half be consumed, than strain it, and dissolve with that which is strained three ounces of the best Manna, or else an ounce and a half of the flowers of Acesis, and give it to the patient at the first time when the pain taketh him, it is a thing tried, so singular that it will heal the sick man, so that the Physician shall be no more troubled with him. A drink for the same disease, to be taken every day thrice. Seethe well and long two ounces of the Juice of Emula campana, with as much of the Juice of Isope, and a pound of the water of Fool foot or Horse hoof: and make thereof a syrup with as much Sugar as shallbe necessary, of the which the Patient shall take in the morning two ounces without water, and as much as at noon, and when he entereth into his bed: and as long as the paroxysm and fit of his pain, it is good to put among it four drops of gomme Armeniack, with two ounces of oxymel simple, and give the oxymel honey and vinaigre sodden together. Patient drink of it. Another tried secret good for poor folk. Mix a pound of wild Mallow or march Mallow roots dried in the shadow, with four pound of sodden honey well scummed: stir it upon the fire until it be like an electuary, whereof let the Patient take often times, and he shall find himself eased. For the same, and good also for the poor sort. TAke of clear condite water two pound, of Leeks chopped very small three ounces, of fresh butter two ounces, of the best Sugar an ounce and a half, and the yolk of an Egg. All this being very well beaten and stirred by the fire, shallbe given to the Patient at dinner and supper. A remedy against the pluresye. IT is a thing well tried that at the first assault or coming of the pain of the side, it is very good to be let blood in the vain called Basilica, of the opposite arm: but if the blood be let out at the fourth access or coming, or soon after, the Pleurisy will by and by void away: not withstanding you must never let the Patient blood but his belly must first be purged and loosed, either with taking some cassa at the mouth, or else with some soft glister. A decoction for the stomach, very good against the Pluresye. BEing let blood, as it appertaineth, take the suck or juice of Isope, capilorum Veneris, Figs, Dates, Sebesten, dried raisins, mundified Barley, Liquorous made cleane-of each half a handful: seeth all in water as much as may suffice, & put for to dissolve in it three ounces of grained Manna. But if the Patient be a poor man take an ounce and a half of Pulpa cassiae, which is the inner part of it called also Medulla, in stead of Manna, and give this drink. xxiiii. hours after his letting blood, and very early in the morning, it is a thing certain that in proving this the Patient shallbe healed, although he were not let blood but a little before the fourth access, because the matters and substance that nourished the disease in the larger condites are purged away. Another remedy most certain against all Pluresyes, as proved as divine, for to preserve a man that he die not of it. MAke an ointment of two ounces of Dialthea mirte with half an ounce of sweet Almond eoyle, wherewith being hot anoint the sore side, casting upon it the powder of half an ounce of Commin stamped very small and bolted. That done, heat a Cabbage leaf upon the hot coals, and spread with old Butter but not salt, laying it hot upon the grief: the pain will cease marvelously, and will resolve into matter of an impostume, so that at the last you shall have the honour of it, and the Patient health. Yet you must note that this remedy must not be used but at the fourth access, or else after. This remedy may also serve in every great grief dispersed thorough out all the body beneath the head. An ointment to rot or ripe the pluresye. TAke two ounces of Mucilage or Mucago of the seed of Cabedge, with as much Mucago of the seed of March Mallows, Mucago of Figs an ounce, of Cow milk three ounces, of fresh Butter two ounces, oil of sweet Almonds two ounces and a half: mire all this together, stirring it always upon a small fire and make thereof a soft ointment with as much wax as shall need. This done, spread it upon new shorn and unwashed Wulle, and lay it upon the grief, renewing it in four and twenty hours three or four times. A plaster for the same. Stamp well in a mortar four ounces of the roots of wild Mallows well sodden, put to it an ounce of Butter, an ounce and a half of honey, of Pigeons dung two Dragmes: Mingle all together, and lay it hot right upon the pain, and soon after the corruption will break. For the same. IT is a remedy well proved, although it be not much used, to give the patient in. xxiiii. hours four times four ounces of the water Tartarum terrestre hot. For in so doing, the cure shallbe so fair that you shall see the impostume broken and purged from all corrupt and rotten blood. And more over he shall be preserved from spitting blood, and from the consumption of the Lungs. Against the hot cogh, that is to say, when the patient is so vexed with it, that he can not well sleep. TAke a dram of the Pills of cynoglossa in English hounds tongue, with syrup of Roses, and make thereof five Pylles, whereof the Patient shall take one every day at the entering into his bed. Against the same, if his voice be hoarse with it. TAke Diacodion, and of the powder of Tragacante cold, Penides, of each. two. drams, Bole armenick a dram: Make all this into a very fine powder, and with the syrup of Myrtle make Pills like Peason, of the which when the Patient goeth to his bed he shall hold one upon his tongue, and he shallbe well. A tried electuary for the same. TAke Diapenidion without species, Loch sani & experti, of each an ounce, of Penides. two. ounces, & w as much syrup of Isope, as shall suffice for to incorporate all: make thereof an Electurye: whereof the sick man shall hold some in his mouth licking it. Again for the cogh. TAke a pound of fresh butter without salt, three yolks of new laid Eggs, two ounces of the flower of Amylum, and an ounce of Sugar melted in the water of Violets: Mingled all together, and stir it always until it be well seasoned and of a good taste. It is a good remedy which may serve you as well in stead of meat, as of medicine. Pylles for the cogh. TAke two Dragmes of Agaricke prepared, & mix it with a dram and a half of Frankenscence made into powder, and with the juice of Isope, so make thereof ten Pills, of the which the Patient shall take one every night when he goeth to bed. It is a remedy very good, as well for yonge-childrens, as for old folk. An ointment for the same. TAke old Butter that is not Salt, the Oil of sweet Almonds, and of white lilies of each an ounce, half an ounce of Mucelago of the seed of wild Mallows, with as much of Mucilago of the seed of Mallows, and half a scruple of Saffron: mix all together, and make thereof an ointment with a little Ware: wherewith being hot, you shall anoint your breast. Against the trembling and painting of the heart. This is very good, but especially for women, which are much subject thereunto. TAke the Pills of dried Citrons, Zedoariae, Doronici, calami aromatici, of each a dram, of Grami Paradisi, half a dram, of the roots of bugloss dried two Dragmes, of fine Musk half a Scruple, Epithimi half a dram: Let all be made into powder as well as is possible, and the powder after sifted: whereof being mingled with the water of Turmentill, the Patient shall take a dram and a half, at the break of the day, and in the evening when he will sleep a dram. And he shall see himself rid and quit of his pain within seven days. A remedy against the same, and very good to restore the strength, being weakened with to great heat of agues. TAke two Dragmes of the best cinnamon, half a dram of Mace, of hyacinths, Smaragds of Rubies of each half a dram, of pierced or unperced pearls, of each a Scruple, of Gold and Silver beaten into powder, of each a dram: Let all together be made into a very fine powder, whereof stirring it with Sugar dissolved in Rose water, you shall make little Balls of two Dragmes a piece. I have seen myself that many have been with this confection preserved from the plague in a very dangerous tyme. Another remedy, wherewith I have always found myself very well. MAke a drink with two ounces of the suck of bugloss purged on the fire, and two Dragmes of very white sugar mixed together, and drink it lukewarm every night when you go to bed, and before ten days be past you shallbe cured. An epithem against the same pain. TAKE Rose water, Borage water, the water of Epithema is a medicine laid to the region of the heart or liver to coal it. Melissophylum, in english Balm, Sorrel water of each six ounces, of sandal white and read, and of the seed of red Roses, of each a dram and a half, Lignum aloes, of the flesh of the hart of a Buck, and of Hearts horn burned, of each a dram, of red Coral, of Ben white and red, of each half a dram, of the flowers of bugloss, and of Borage, of each a handful. Let that be made into powder that can be, and let all seeth together until the third part of the water be consumed: Than put to it three ounces of the best Malmsey, and two ounces of the best white Uineigre with a scruple of Saffron: mingle all this together and lay it hot upon the sick man's heart, with a linen cloth clean died in grain, early in the morning and at night before supper. For admit that than he feel his grief or not: yet nevertheless this is a thing experimented and very good. An ointment very good for poor folk, that are not able to buy therefore said medicine or nourishment. TAke three ounces of yellow Nenuphar, two Dragmes of the powder of the same flowers of Nenuphar, of red Sandal, of red Coral, and of Sorrel seed, of each a scruple, of Pearls, of Lignum aloes of the flesh of the heart of a Buck, of each half a scruple, three grains of Camphor, of white wax washed in the water of Nenuphar, Cytryn or yellow as much as shall need. That which must be made in powder, being so made, make thereof a soft ointment, wherewith you shall anoint the patient morning and evening about the heart, before his meals, and he shall be well. Another composition very good in the time of a plague as well to preserve as to heal. TAke an ounce of the best treacle, half ounce of the juice of Lemons, a scruple of Saffron, of the two sorts of Pearls, of red Coral, and of sorrel seed, of each half a dram: two Grains of Camphor: mingle all together very well with two or three drops of odoriferous white wine, and make thereof an ointment: a certain quantity whereof you shall spread upon a crimson silk cloth, laying it hot upon the Pacientes heart, renewing it morning and evening. Another ointment very good, and principally for children that are troubled with worms. TAke half an ounce of aloes eparicum, a scruple of Saffron, two Dragmes of the juice of Citrons, a dram of pleasant white wine: mix all well together, and spread it upon some linen cloth, and lay it upon his heart. A remedy against the worms in young children. TAke the flower of bitter lupines, aloes epaticum of each three Dragmes, of the juice of worm wood two Dragmes, all well mixed together, let it be spread upon some cloth or clout, and lay it upon the child's Navel. A remedy against the pain of the stomach. TAke two ounces of the crumb of the bread of Bran sprinkle it with the wine of Pomegranettes between sweet and sour, and plaintaine water of each four ounces: press that hard, and give the wine tempered with the said water, unto the Patient: If the pain come of the continual and great burning of an ague, take this drink an hour before it come and you shall find it of a marvelous virtue. But if the pain be exceeding, it shallbe good to give unto the Patient this 〈…〉 following, at what hour so ever it be that the pain taketh him. Take three Dragmes of the Electuary of Succo rosarum, two scruples of Philonium romanum: Mire them and make thereof a Bolus, which shall greatly profit him. Another remedy for the same, when all other will not profit him. TAke syrup of Roses, syrup of Wormewod of each an ounce and a half, a grain of Opium, seeth them slightly one wawme, and stirring it together with three ounces of the broth of a Hen, you shall give the Patient drink. A vomentation or nourishment very singular for the same. TAke red Roses, the flowers of camomile, of Wormewod, of mint, of each a handful: heat the said herbs upon hot burning tiles sprinkled with white wine, and lay them often times upon his stomach. Another. IT is a thing tried against the pain of the stomach so that it come not of cold, and also to be preserved from the same, to take day by day before meals, two scruples of Pills of washed Aloes. Another against the same. TAke half an ounce of washed Aloes, and three ounces of honey Roset, seeth this in two pound of water, until there remain but half, than strain it through a strainer, & give thereof unto the Patient, every day early in the morning two ounces: this will beale and cure his grief, or else will preserve him from it if he be not already taken with it. Another remedy. IT is a thing well proved, that the sick man take early in the morning a dram and a half of the best mithridate: & strait upon it drink a draft of Malmsey, and by and by he shallbe healed or eased. Another very good. TAke five ounces of Camomille water distilled, and of Nutmegs well beaten into powder half an ounce, if you give it hot unto the Patient, when the pain hath him, he shallbe eased. Another remedy proved. TAke flowers of camomile, Melilot, Mint, Pulegruin, calamint, Southernewodde, Senegrene, seed of Line, of each a handful, red Roses, Sprea squinanti, of each two Dragmes, Danci, carvi, anise, Dill, Fenel, of each half a handful, Galingale, Zedoaria, of each two drams, Cloves, Nutmegs, Lignum aloes Mace, red Coral, of each a dram: let all sceth in a sufficient quantity of water and edoriferous white wine until the third part be consumed: than with a sponge steeped in hot liquor nourish therewith his stomach morning and evening before he eat, and this will bring his stomach in good state. A nourishment very good against the same. TAke a pound of oil of Spike made in Balneo marry, warm it lukewarm, and with new shorn and unwashed Wulle steeped in it, nourish therewith the stomach, and at the last bind it upon it. A little bag to carry about one against the same disease. TAke wormwood, Mint, Pulegium, Calamint, of each half a handful, Nutmeg, Cloves, Mace, Lignum aloes, of each adragme: make all into a fine powder, and put it in a little bag, perfuming it with odoriferous white wine, and than lay it upon your stomach: if you continue to carry it about you, you shall feel yourself marvelous well. A drink for the same. I Have found myself always very well, as well for being preserved from this pain of the stomach, as delivered of it, being troubled with it. To wit in taking six ounces of honey rosat strained, a dram and a half of Nutmegs, and two ounces of the best water of a vine, and seeth them altogether until the water of the vine be consumed, and in taking fasting every morning three sponnes full of that which is strained. Another remedy to lay to the stomach. TAke Mastic, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each a dram, half a dram of Mace, and as much of Cinnamon: make hereof a very fine powder. Than tossed the upper or neither crust of a loaf of Bran, and dip it in hot Malmsey, strowing upon it of the said powder, and so laying it upon your stomach hot, the pain will go away incontinent. Another remedy well tried and proved, and good, chiefly for young children vexed with the pain of the stomach: which is known, if they vomit or belch. TAke the crumbs of Bran bread four ounces, roast or tossed it, and beat it small into powder, and after incorporate the powder with the juice of wormewodde, and mint of each as much as shall suffice and put to it more a dram of Nutmegs. Of all this being mixed together make an ointment, and laying it upon your stomach, it will ease and cease the pain, the belching and the vomiting. A remedy against an aposteme in the stomach. IT is a thing well tried, that if the Patient take every morning at the break of the day, six ounces of Camomile water distilled, he shallbe cured and healed of the impostume already begun in him. Against the same. TAke four ounces of Emula purified, two ounces of wormewodde newly extract and make in form of Loch, with as much Sugar as shall need, and give it to the Patient morning and evening before his meals. A plaster for the same. TAke two pound of white honey, half an ounce of green wormewodde, an ounce and a half of the roots of march Mallows: seeth all together until it be very well sodden, put unto it some flower of Senegren, and of linseed, of each half a handful. Than put to it some oil of wormewodde, as much as shall serve to make a plaster, the which you shall lay upon your stomach, renewing it evening and morning. A nourishment or keeping of the stomach in his natural heat by washing or bathing it. TAke two pound of turpentine, the suck or juice of wormewod, and of wild Mallows of each four ounces, of fresh Butter an ounce, of Saffron a dram, of oil of Wormewod two ounces: mix all, and seeth it one wawme: and being hot wet some linen cloth in it, and therewithal wash and bathe your stomach morning and evening. And you shall see that by and by the matter will dissolve. A remedy against vomiting. IF the vomiting come at a certain day or hour, it shallbe good that the Patient, before or at the hour that he must vomit, do eat some morsel of toasted bread, steeped in four ounces of the wine of sour Pomegranetts, drinking also afterward the wine. An ointment very good against choleric vomiting. TAke oil of Quinces, oil of Roses, of each an ounce: half an ounce of wormewod, of red Coral, and of red Roses of each half a dram, of Nutmegs a dram: beat to powder that which may be beaten, and with a little wax make thereof a soft ointment, and anoint the patients stomach with it morning and evening before his meals. Another remedy against phlegmatic vomiting. TAke the yolk of an Egg roasted, a scruple of frankincense, with as much Mastic, make into powder that which may be made into powder, and put with the egg. And the Patient shall be well if he take of it every morning fasting. A remedy against the Hycket oryexing. mingle a pound of strong and odoriferous white wine, with a dram of Galingale beaten into powder, and make thereof a drink, whereof the Patient shall take hot, evening and morning two ounces, two hours before his meals. Another. IT is a thing found very good, to give the Patient every morning three hours before he eat, a racine of green Ginger, and by and by upon that let him drink two draughts of Malmsey: and he shall quickly be healed. remedies against the pain of the liver, come through ventosity. TAke the roots of Galingale, and Zedoaria, of each two Dragmes, a dram of Spica, with as much Squinantum, Cloves, Nutmegs, of each half a dram: Let all be made into a small powder: and make thereof an Electuary with scummed Honey, as much as shall need: whereof you shall take some evening and morning before you eat. Another of a very great effect. Mix together two ounces of Diarhodon abated, Trium sandolorum an ounce, of the best Rhubarb made in fine powder a dram, and with syrup of succory, make an electuary, whereof the Patient shall take evening and morning before all other meat, the quantity of a Walnut. A remedy found very good against the liver that is appostumate or corrupted. TAke four ounces of Diarhodon abated, of the best Rhubarb well made into fine powder, mingle all with the syrup of succory and make thereof an Electuary. Let the thing that the Patient shall take every morning two hours before his meal, be of three drams. For the same. IT is a thing tried, that if you do put new shorn and unwashed Wulle to steep in the oil of white Lilies, and the oil Nardus celcica, lay it right where the pain is, & it shall keep that the liver corrupt not. remedies against the dropsy. TAke dry Wormewod, dry acrimony, dry Soldanella, of each two Dragmes, of Spica two scruples: all this being made into a fine powder, lay to step in the water of the roots of Eldern tree, as much as shall suffice, and give of it to the Patient, every morning at the break of the day two Dragmes. Against the same. TAke three ounces of the juice or suck of Iris, Galingale, Zedoaria, of each two Dragmes, of Synomom, of Cloves, of each half a dram of Soldanella, half an ounce. All this being made into a very fine powder, make thereof an electuary with as much scummed honey as shall suffice, of the which Electuary you shall give half an ounce unto the Patient every morning two hours before he eat. A drink of great virtue and strength against the windy dropsy. mingle together two ounces of the water of the roots of Walwort or Danewort, with four ounces of the water of Eldern tree, and in drinking this early in the morning thirty days together, you shall be very well. Another remedy very good to take after a purgation. TAke a pound of goats dung, with as much of Ox dung, and dry it in an oven, and so make it into a small powder, incorporating it with juice of wormewod, and oil of Rue, as much as shall suffice as it were to make therewith an ointment. And spread some part of it upon a linen cloth, laying it hot upon the Pacientes belly when he goeth to bed. The next morning following, take four ounces of strong and odoriferous wine, and seeth it with a hand full of Sage, and as much Rosemary, until the fourth part of the wine be consumed: with the which being hot, you shall wash his belly. All this done, take an ounce of Diagalanga, of Rosatum aromaticum, Priū sandalorum, Diarrhodon abated, of each half an ounce: mix all together with Rosat honey, and make thereof an electuary; and giving him a mouthful of it incontinent after his belly is washed. remedies against the Dropsy, called ascites. A drink very good to take once a week. TAke as much of the suck or juice of Iris or Gladiolus, as half an Egg shell will hold, mingling it together, with it four ounces of Melicrat, with half a dram of the best Rhubarb well beaten in powder. This drink being given hot and early in the morning unto the Patient: it is a wonder to see with what virtue and strength it worketh. A singular good electuary for the same, which ought to be declared or disclosed but to your special friends. TAke Agrimony, Cuscuta, dried Grapes, Liquorous Mirabolaus, Citrons of each half an ounce, of the roots of parsley, of Fenell, of Capers and Agaricke, of each an ounce. All this pertinaciously stamped must be sodden until the composition of half the water, and strain it: and in straining it put to it half a pound of Honey, and four ounces of Sugar, and seeth it again until it be as thick as Honey. This done, put to it half a dram of the best Rhubarb, two Dragmes of gommie Turbith, a dram and a half of the leaves of Chameloea, which hath leaves like to an Olive, tempered in Uinaigre, two Scruples of Diagridium corrected, of Spica half a dram, with as much of Ginger: and make of all this an electuary, of the which you shall give the Patient twice a week. Note yet that the greatest quantity may not be above half an ounce. And as for you remember to give him rather less than more, or as much, having always respect to the strength or weakness of the Patient. An ointment for the same. mix an ounce of unguentum sandalium, with half an ounce of the oil of Nardus celtica, & as much of the Oil of camomile, wherewith forget not to comfort every day his Liver morning and evening, by anointing the place right against it. Another ointment very good. TAke a pound of Turpentine, of Frankincense, Mastic, Myrrh, of each two Dragnies, Nutmegs, Cloves, Galingale, Zedoaria, of each a dram and a half: the juice of Walwort or Danewort, the juice of wild Cucumbers of each an ounce: and let that be made in powder that can be: and all put in a Limbeck, let it distill for to have the oil of it, wherewith you shall anoint all his belly. It is a special good remedy, not only to assuage the swelling of the belly in this sickness, ascites or dropsy: but also to take away all watery swelling in what member of the body so ever it be: yea it is good also for the ache or pain of the joints, and of other parts come by cold. A remedy against the yellow jaundice. A Purgation first taken, take two ounces of ground worms dried in the shadow, and prepared in wine▪ of the best Rhubarb a dram, of dogs dung dried half an ounce. Of all this together make a fine powder, and give unto the Patient every morning an ounce and a half fasting, and continuing so fifteen days he shallbe well. remedies against the colic. TAke two ounces of strong white wine, of Nutmegs, and Cloves, of each half a dram, of Galingale a dram, stamp these grossly, and lay them one night in the said wine, and in the morning give it the Patient to drink with a little white Sugar. And let him continue thus drinking it twice a week fasting. It is a thing that I have tried to be very good to preserve a man from the colic. A remedy never to have the colic more. TAke two pound of the ryne or pillings of thick Rape roots, and four pound of white Honey, boil it together until the half be consumed. Than mix with it some powder of Synomome, and Cloves, Nutmeg, Mace, black Pepper, of each two Dragmes, and keep it in some vessel. Of the which rynes or pillings take every morning fasting half an ounce. Another remedy to take in the pain and torment of the colic. mix half an ounce of the electuary of Dates, with a dram and a half of Philonij romani and make thereof little gobbets, the which you shall give to the Patient fasting, ever when the pain taketh him. And you must note that in case of necessity a man may give this medicine, yea before the digestion of the said diseases. A very good powder that healeth quickly the said sickness. mix a dram and a half of white Mulberrye leaves dried in the shadow, with a dram of the ryne or pillings of a radish root dried also in the shadow, and a dram and a half of the little karnelles or stones of meddlars. All being made into powder, give unto the Patient two drams in good and odoriferous white wine. A remedy which I have found to be very good for all grief or pain of the guts or entrails. TAke Diagalinga, and Diabuglossatum of each two drams Philovij romani four scruples, mix all together, and make thereof little gobbets or lumps: which you shall give unto the Patient at every time the pain tormenteth him, and specially when he is yet fasting. A glister wherewith I have cured many. TAke thirteen ounces of strong white wine, four ounces of fresh butter, six ounces of common oil, Anis, Dill, fennel, wild Carwayes, called of the apothecaries carvi agreste, Dauci, ameos, carthami, of each two drams: mix them & seeth them all until the half of the wine be consumed. Than strain it, adding to that which is strained two ounces of Honey roset, an ounce and a half of red Sugar, two drams of common salt, and the yolk of an Egg, mix all this together and make thereof a glister. Another against the same. Seethe a pound and a half of strong white wine, with two ounces of hot scalding water, until the said water be consumed, and make only a glister of the lukewarm wine: it is a thing tried that after the other glisters this will help you much, if the ague be not with it. Another for the same. TAke eight ounces of the oil of Rue, three ounces of the oils of Castoreum, two ounces of Philomium romanum. an ounce of Benedicta, of other things as before, saving that you must put as little salt to it as is possible, to the end that the virtue of the Philomium may remain in his. This glister is proved so good, that where as all other will not help, it will deliver you; yea in a great need or danger. An ointment against the same. TAke oil of Castoreum, oil of white Lilies, oil of Rue, oil of Cheiri, of each three ounces: the juice of wild Mallows, the juice of artemisia, of each four ounces, of scalding water six ounces, seeth all together, until the water be consumed: than put to it Melanthinum, Mastic, Granum Paradisil Galingale, of each a dram and a half: of Pepper, Cloves, Nutmeg, Lignum aloes, of each a dram. Make all this into a fine powder, and seeth it again with a small fire, and make thereof an ointment with a little wax, and so anoint the place where the grief is, laying upon it clean washed Wulle and warm. You shall see a marvelous operation. A very good receipt, which Pope clement the seventh took in his last syckennes. TAke Mastic, Frankincense of the male kind, Mace, of each half a pound, Galingale, Zedoaria, of each four ounces, Cloves, Cinnamon, Xilobalsami, carpobalsami, of each two ounces: of Ginger, Cardamony, long Pepper, black Pepper, of each half an ounce Turbit, Agaricke, rhubarb, of each two Dragmes: the roots of Endive, roots of bugloss, and Borage, of each two handful: betony, Rue, the flowers of Sticados, Arabic, Marjoram, Sage, rosemary, of each half a handful: Let all be grossly stamped and beaten together, and put into an hundred pound of strong white wine, and let it rest and remain there three days together. And at the three days end press it hard, and strain the wine out, and put it incontinent into a Limbeck, for to distill out of it Aqua vite. This done put into the water of the first distillation a pound of man's blood of the body of a very healthful and sleshie man, put it again to distill. Do so in distilling it always until nine times. That done take an hundred leaves of goldfoil of the best and the finest that can be had, fifty leaves of Siluerfoyle very fine, Jacynthes, Emeralds, Rubies, Granades, of the two sorts of Pearls, red Coral, red Roses, of each a dram and a half, of very fine Musk, half a dram: Mingle all this together and make it all into a powder, putting the said powder into the last water distilled, and let it lie in it. xxiiii. hours. That done, put all again into the Limbeck and distill it with a small fire: The which water being thus distilled the tenth time, you must put into some thick viol and stop it well, or else all the water would vanish away. It is marvelous good against all cold diseases, either within or without the body, taking of it only a dram, or four drops with a little white wine. But if the disease be hot without an ague, as other some be by reason of some hot matter, give the Patient of the said water mixed with water of Endive, at every time the pain taketh him. Nevertheless if you will see with your eyes the marvelous Miracle that this water doth, give five or two ounces of it unto any syckman which hath lost all his strength and force with a little wine, suddenly you shall see all his strength come again to him. Also assure yourselves that there is no remedy more sovereign against the plague, and sudden death, than to drink of it every morning before you go out of your house five or six drops with strong wine, or with the water of Endive: or else to wash your nostrils within and without, with the rest of all your face with the same, or with a little wine mixed with it, putting nothing else to it. I have found myself always very well at all times of the plague by means of the same. Yea, namely it is good also for those that have the disease called apoplexia or falling sickness, if they wash their neck withal. This water is called Elisir vitae benedicti. A remedy against the lax or flux come of choler. TAke six ounces of the suck or juice of Quinces: the juice of Endive, the juice of sorrel, of each three ounces, Sorrel seed, Plaintaine seed, of each two Dragmes: red Coral, red Rose seed, of each a dram Plaintaine water four ounces: seeth all together until the third part of the water and juice be consumed. Than strain it pressing it hard, making thereof a syrup with as much fine sugar as shall suffice, whereof the Patient shall take two ounces morning and evening two hours before he eat any thing. This drink is well tried, and very good. anointment very good for the same. TAke oil Roset made of olives not ripe, oil of Quinces, oil of myrtle of each an ounce, red Roses and red Coral of each a dram: Mastic, Nutmeg, of each half a dram, make that into powder that may be made, making thereof an ointment soft with a little wax, wherewith anoint your stomach and the lower part of your belly. Remedies against the lax disenterycke. TAke sire Dragmes of Myrabolaus citrinis burned, Plantain seed, Sorrel seed, Endive seed, and all parched of each three Dragmes: of the four Cordial flowers, beside Violets, of each a handful: seeth all in a sufficient quantity of water, wherein first some steel must be quenched, until the half be consumed: Than strain it, mixing with that which is strained two Dragmes and a half of the best Rhubarb parched & of Pholonij persici four Scruples. This drink is found very good by experience. Another drink very good. TAke two Dragmes of Frankincense of the male kind with as much Mastic: a dram of bole Armenick red Coral, Hearts horn burned, of each half a dram: of the stone called the bloodstone burned two Scruples: Make all into a fine powder and steep it in red wine that bindeth, and so give the sick man a dram and a half of it when he goth to bed. Another remedy. TO eat in this bloody flyre every morning fasting half a dram of Rhubarb parched, is a thing well tried and very acceptable. Another drink very good in case the Patient have therewith any great dolour in his belly (as often times it happeneth) by reason of exulceration and gnawing of the guts. TAke three ounces either of goats milk or sheeps milk, wherein must first be quenched some red hot steel, an ounce and a half of the juice of Plantain, Aromaticum rosatum a dram, mingle all together, and make a drink for one tyme. Whereof give the Patient three days together: and the flix shall soon after seize. Another remedy when the pain is great. TAke Myrtel berries. two. drams, Sorrel sede, Plantain sede, of each, two. drams: of frankincense male three grains, of new yellow wax two Dragmes: of Cinnamon two Scruples: put all this into the belly of a Turtle dove plucked, sowing her up again: than roast her with a little fire, and let the Patient eat of her three or five days together. Or if you will make a Coulies of her: and it is certain that he shallbe healed. Suffumigations or smokings for the same. The first. Say an ounce of turpentine upon a plate of iron made hot in the fire, and let the Patient receive morning and evening the smoke at his fundament thorough a close stool. And continuing so three or four days, there is no doubt but he shallbe cured. The second. Stamp well two poonde of the dung of a young ass, and dry it in an Oven, and see that it burn not. This done, take a part of it & put it morning and evening upon hot coals under a close stole: to the end that the Patient sitting upon it may have his fundament smoked therewith. It is a remedy of great virtue against the bloody flyre of young children, if first they be purged with a little Rhubarb. Another remedy for the same. Seethe a pound of apiastrum in English Balm, together with a handful of Taxus barbarus in red wine and strong vineygre of each sufficiently, until the third part be consumed. Than strain out the wine, and the vinaigre, & byndng these herbs fast in a bag good and long, lay it hot evening and morning upon his fundament. And continuing so, you shall have a good end of it. An ointment very good for the bloody flix. TAke Trochyskes or little balls of Carabe, little balls of Terra figillata, of each three Dragmes, Galliae mus●at●, Galliae alefangine, of each a dram and a half, red Coral, red Rose seeds, Mastic, Frankincense, of each a dram. Let all this be made in powder, and put in very strong red Uinaigre, xxiiii. hours together, and afterwade dry it by the fire or in the Sun. That done, make it all again into powder, putting oil of Quinces, oil rosat raw, or sharp, oil of Mastic of each two ounces, with as much white wax as shall suffice. And with this anoint the Pacientes belly. remedies against the swelling and oppilation or stopping of the Spleen. TAke two ounces and a half of the juice of wylde-Mallowes, or marsh Mallows purified, two ounces of the juice of calamint, two Dragmes of Seine dried, and make thereof an electuary, miringe all this with as much as shall suffice of skommed Honey, and give of it unto the Patient a sponnefull, three hours before his meals. It is a remedy marvelous good. A vomentation or nourishing by washing for the same. TAke of the roots of wild or marsh Mallows, & of Garden Mallows, of each two ounces, Senegrene seed, Linescede, flowers of Camomile, Melilote, of each a handful: Calamint, Bauline, cuscuta, Pulegium, Anyce, carvi, fennel, of each a handful: seeth all this in a sufficient quantity of strong white Uinaigre, and wash the place right against the Spleen, every day bathing it, and the Patient shallbe very well at his ease. An ointment against the same. TAke oil of Rue, oil of Capers, oil of camomile, of each a pound: of the strongest and best white wine you can get half a pound, roots of wild or marsh Mallows, roots of other Mallows roots of fern, of each half an ounce: Bray well the roots, and seeth them with all the rest, until there remain no more wine: after that take it, and press out the Oil, putting it to a pound of the best and strongest white Uinaigre with an ounce of panis porcinus well stamped and purified, seething it well again, until the Uinaigre be consumed, and than straining it again, press it bard that the oil may come out. Unto these oils thus strained out, you must put oppoponaces, Bdellij, Galbani, armoniaci, of each two drams: dissolve thy gums in strong Uinaigre, miring them with the other things, and seething it slightly once again that the virtue of the gums vanish not away: make thereof a soft ointment, with very good yellow ware, wherewith anoint the place right against the Spleen every day morning and evening. Another fomentation or bathing for the same. IT is a thing experimented that if you wash or bathe only the Spleen with very strong Uinaigre wherein Pyrites, every stone of the which there may fire be strooken. there hath been quenched the stone called Marchasita, which George Agricola calleth Pyrites, laying the cloth dipped in it, right upon the place of the Spiens. Doing thus you shall not seek any other remedy, for this will abate all the swelling. Remedies against the pain, swelling and ventosity of the Matrice. Seethe together roots of matricaria an ounce, Dauci, half an ounce, white Honey two ounces, skomming well the Honey until it be thoroughly sodden: and straining and pressing it hard, mingle this Honey with two ounces of the broth that a Hen hath been sodden in, and three ounces of the decoction of anyce, and give the woman drnike of it ten days together: she shallbe healed. Wherefore keep it well in mind. Another tried of some women. TAke a dram of Nutmegs, a dram and a half of the roots of Matricaria, a scruple of Spica, seeth all this in six ounces of good white wine, until the third part be consumed. Than strain it out, putting into that which shallbe strained two Dragmes of very white sugar, and so give of it unto the woman, at the break of the day, and at all times when the pain shall take her. Another remedy very good, and well known of women. TAke a sweet apple, and make him hollow within, make a powder of Nutmegs, Mace, cinnamon, of each half a dram, Cloves half a scruple: put all this within the apple with a little Sugar, and roast it under hot ashes, and give of it unto the woman ever when the pain cometh unto her. But if the pain increase so much that her life is in doubt, put to all this two grains of opium, and suddenly the pain will departed. Another. TAke Calamint, Matricaria, flowers of Cammomille, of Sage, of Rosemary, of each a handful: Seethe all in lie, or ashy water of a sufficient quantity, until the third part be consumed with the which water wash the legs of the woman, from the knees to the feet. A fomentation or nourishing. TAke a handful of Artemisia, with as much of the flowers of camomile, mint, and calamint, make hot a tile, and power some good and odoriferous wine upon it, and after put also the herbs upon it for to lay them so hot upon the Matrice, at every time that the pain cometh. Nevertheless, take heed that you wash or bathe her not, because that all moisture is evil for her. A very good ointment. mire a pound of the oil of Cheiri with four ounces of the oil of Sureau, heat it and anoint the upper part of the Matrice with it, dipping some linen cloth in the oil, and laying it hot upon the Matrice. This also laid upon a woman's belly after this sort when she is in labour, will ease and mitigate her pain. A plaster or cere cloth to lay upon the Matrice if the grief be old or inverate. TAke an ounce of dried Matricaria, with as much of the flowers of Cheiri, dried: half an ounce of Gallia muscato. or else alefangine, if the woman be poor of Galbanum, Bdellium. Serapini, of each two Dragmes: Olibani, Mastic, of each a dram and a half: Dissolve these gums in oil of Cheiri, making into powder the rest that may be made: and make thereof a plaster with a little pitch, wax and oil of Sefanni, spreading it upon some leather, and laying it upon the place of the Matrice, and renew it every eight days. remedies to make a woman's time to come that is let or hindered by some cause. TAke two ounces of the juice of savin, and purify it, mixing with it two drams of Cinnamon well made into powder: four grains of Saffron, two ounces of the water radish roots distilled with a little Sugar, for two times: this provoketh marvelously the flowers of a woman. Wherefore beware ye give it not unto a woman great with child. For all that provoketh her flowers, maketh her also to labour before her tyme. Another remedy very good also to cause a woman to bring forth the child before the time, if the woman be in danger of it. Mire two grains of Saffron, and two drams of Sugar in four ounces of Pymperuell water, making thereof a drink, and give it to the woman at twice, at the break of the day, and when she goeth to bed. A washing very good for the same. TAke Calamint, Pulegium, Sage, artemisia, Rosemary of each a handful, roots of Iris or Gladiolus, the roots of walwort or Danewort, roots of Sureau, of each half a handful: seeth all in good white wine enough, until three parts be consumed. Wherewith wash the woman in the morning, and when she goeth to bed, from the haunches downward. Further more, the morning after she is washed, you shall give her to drink a dram of old treacle, three grains of Saffron, and two ounces of the water of artemisia, mixed together. This is so certain, that if she use it five times only she shall have her flowers. Against to much abundance of flowers. MAke a very fine powder of half an ounce of the inward skin that covereth the kernels of wild filberts, giving a dram thereof unto the woman, incontinent the to much coming shall cease. An ointment against the same. TAke the juice of Plantain, the juice of Solatrum, the juice of Rhubarb, of each half an ounce, red Coral, Frankincense of the male kind, Mastic, of each a dram and a half: Coriander prepared, seeds of red Roses, of each two Scruples, seeds of white jusquiamum, the ryne of the roots of Mandragora, of each half a dram: strong red Uinaigre half an ounce, make in fine powder all that may be made, and mingle all together, with the which being lukewarm, anoint the souls of the woman's feet every night when she goeth to bed, and you shall see a good & fortunate effect. Against the prefocation or strangling of the matrice. Seethe in strong wine the roots of Gladiolus, the roots of Galamint, the roots of Ciclamen, in English rape Violet, of each a handful, until half the wine be consumed: than strain them, and with that which is constrained out wash the woman's knees morning and evening: for it is very good. Against the same of what cause soever it come. mire a dram of assa faetida, and half a dram of Daucus, with Honey roset, and make thereof five Pylles, and taking one of them every morning, they are very good, as well to preserve a woman from it as to heal her of it. Another against the same. TAke two scruples of the best Agaricke, two Dragmes of Turpentine, seeds of Daucus, and assa faetida, of each half a scruple, mingle them and make little balls, of the which you shall give the woman every day. For it is a thing very good to heal her, or else to keep her from it. Against the same. TAke water distiled of the roots of Daucus, of wild poppy five ounces, Honey roset an ounce and a half: mix all together, and give the woman drink of it. For whether the pain be already or is like to come, she shallbe cured or preserved from it. Against the same. TAke two drams of castoreum, a dram of the same woman's hear, mixed with a little Rosen of a Pine tree, and make thereof great Pills as big as filberts, with one of the which pills perfume her nostrils, at the time of the prefocation or strangling of the Matrice, and incontinent she shallbe eased. remedies to be used when the Matrice cometh out of her natural place, or falleth. YOu shall mix oil of Mastic with oil of rosat, green or raw of each two ounces, than cupularum glaudium, the flowers of wild Pomegranade tree, the ryne of Pomegranades, Myrtelberries, of each a scruple, of Frankincense, mastic, Acatia, Hypocistidos' half a dram: mix them and make thereof a very fine powder. And then casting it upon the neck of the Matrice and dip your fingers in the oil, and so put the matrice upward with them. A plaster very good. TAke sorrel seed, the seed of Plantain, and of Coriander prepared, of each two drams: red Coral, seeds of red Roses of each a dram, Hypocistidos, acacia, Frankincense of each a dram and a half: Galls, the Pills of Pomegranades, flowers of Pomegranads, of each. two. drams: beat all into a fine powder, gathering together the powder, with the oil of verjuice rosat, & making thereof a plaster with wax & pitch as much as shall suffice, & spread it upon a piece of leather, a part of the which you shall lay upon the woman's belly, right against the place of the matrice along unto both her haunches. And this shall help her. Remedies for the matrix corrupted or apostumated. A plaster for to dissolve it. TAke the flowers of camomile, melilot, Matricaria, the leaves of mallows, the roots of Violets, Branckursyve, of each a handful: the roots of wild or marsh mallows cut very small three ounces: seeth it all in a sufficient quantity of water until the half be consumed: then put to it a bandful of flower of linseed, with as much of flower of Synegrene, of Butter hens grease, of each as much as will grease over the plaster, the which you shall lay upon the appostumate or corrupt place. notwithstanding remember that to every grief of the Matrice (as we have ourself well tried and proved) all moist fomentation or bathing is hurtful, and therefore beware in any case you do it not. Another plaster for the same. TAke the juice of green Camomile, and the juice Matricaria, of each two ounces: mix them together with a pound of the plaster of Melilot, and lay it upon the corrupt place: It is certain that doing so often times, it will wax ripe and rot. A plaster. TAke six ounces of Dyaquilon without gum: two drams of Saffron, an ounce and a half of the juice of Matricaria: make thereof ceratum or plaster with wax, and a little Rosen of a Pine tree, and lay it upon the place of the corruption: it is a singular thing. Remedies against the ulcers or corrupt matter of the matrice. TAke two ounces of the ointment of common Tutia, dissolve it well in eight ounces of Ewes milk, and squirt it into the Matrice. This is very good. A drink for the same. TAke six ounces of new and fresh milk, mingle it with an ounce of Honey roset, and give it to the woman ten days together, three hours before she eat any thing. And this is also very good. Remedies against the white flix of women. TAke gomme Arabic, Dragacante, Amylum of each two drams, of Mastic, a dram: make all into a fine powder, and with a little good Sugar dissolve it in the juice of Quinces: Make thereof balls of two drams a piece: of the which give one to the woman, every morning three hours before she break her fast, whereupon incontinent let her drink a draft of red stiptic wine, doing the the like at night before supper. And this shall help her so that in short space she shallbe healed. Another against the same. TAke the yolk of two eggs raw and new laid, Frankincense of the male kind, Bole Armenick Terra sigillata of each half a dram, make into powder, that which may be made, mingling all together, and give to the sick woman: a mouthful of it every morning, six hours at the least before she eat any thing. This remedy is so excellent that I have cured many with it. A drink. TAke four ounces of red stiptic and binding wine wherein you must often times quench first some hot Steel, gomme Arabic, Dragacante, of each half a dram, mingle it together and make a drink of it: Whereof you shall give the woman fifteen days together earthly in the morning: and there is no doubt but she shallbe healed. A powder against the same. mix half an ounce of Date stones well beaten in to powder with a dram of Dragon's blood in red wine, and give the woman one dram of it at the break of the day, and another when she goth to bed, and she shallbe healed. Remedies against pissing hore. A Syrup. TAke Syrup of Violets, and of Nenuphar, of each an ounce, mingling with it Plantain water, Porcelaine, of common cold seeds, of each an ounce. This Syrup digesteth the choleric matter, and taketh away the biting humours that cause the heat in pissing. A drink against the same, to take three hours before dinner and at noon. Mix four ounces of the water of Mallows with two ounces of Syrup violet. Drink this continually seven days: and at the eight day mix with it an ounce of lenytife Diasebestes, with a dram and a half of Diaprunis laratyve, & make thereof a drink with the water of the decoction pectoral, the which you shall give to the Patient. Against Gonorhaea, which is when a man's scede goth from him unwittynglye. TAke four ounces of Ewes milk, & mixed it with. two. drams of Hares hear burned and well made into powder: give the Patient drink of it twice a day morning and evening two hours before he eat. An ointment against the same. TAke two ounces of Olibani, acacia, and Hypocistidos, of each two drams, of Galls a dram, Labdany, half a dram: oil of Mastic, oil of Spike, oil of Myrtle, of each half an ounce: Make that into a fine powder that can be made powder, and make thereof a soft ointment with a sufficient quantitte of wax, putting to it at the end half a scruple of Camphor, with this ointment anoint his reins and the chine of the back, his flanks and the place about the privy members, evening and morning. Another remedy marvelous good. TAke half an ounce of Tutia, prepared, Sarcocolla, washed aloes hepaticum, Sugar candy, of each three drams: mingle it and make it into a fine powder, whereof dissolve one dram in woman's milk, and therewith squirt the man's yard a good way in, five or six times a day, and he shall incontinent be healed. But if there be any ulceration he shall also soon be rid of it. Remedies for them that piss blood. TAke water of Plantain, of nightshade in Latin Solanum, sorrel, Endive, Wormewod, of each four ounces, white sandal and red, Been white and red, of red Roses, of each a dram and a half, Spondium two drams, of Spica ten grains: of the best Uinaigre three ounces: make that into fine powder which may be made, and make thereof Epithema for the liver. An ointment for the same. TAke the juice of Plantain, of nightshade, of Sorrel, of each an ounce, oil roset, oil of Myrtel, of each half an ounce, Hypocistidos, red Coral of each a dram: make that into powder that is to be made, and make of it an ointment very soft with a little wax and anointing the rains of the Patient, from the haunch unto the place about the privy members, and to the root of his yard. And he shallbe well eased. A plaster for the same. TAke Plantain seed, Sorrel seed, Purcelin seed, of each two drams, gomme Arabic, Dragacante, of each a dram and a half, Hypocistidos, acacia, bull Armenic, silk burned, of each a dram, Terra sigillata. Hares hear burned of each a dram: make all together in a fine small powder, and make thereof a plaster with oil rosat green or raw, wax & pitch, as much as shall suffice: the which you shall lay upon the reins of the Patient. It is proved and tried to be very good. remedies against the gravel. IT is a thing certain, that if the Patient swallow down three drams of new Cassa every day before dinner, he shall never have the gravel. Another. TAke the stone that is found in the heads of Crabs half an ounce: burn it, and make it in powder very fine, mixing the powder with the water of Saxifrage, and so give it to the Patient. Another remedy well tried, whereby I have often times found myself eased. TAke oil of Scorpions made of oil of bitter Almonds, Turpentine, fresh Butter of each half a pound, of Saffron a Scruple: beat all this in some vessel on the fire, and with a linen cloth bathe and wash often times a day from the height of the haunches, unto the root or beginning of the privy members. Against the same. Dissolve three drams of he goats blood prepared in sufficient quantity of Broom flowers water distilled, and give it to the Patient. Another very good. MIre an ounce of the juice of green Lemons with three ounces of Malmsey, and geue it the Patient to drink all at one time, when he feeleth his grief. receipts to hasten the child birth, and to mitigate the pain of the travail and labour. TAke Genyper berries, and bay Berries of each seven: great Cinnamon half a dram, whole cinnamon a dram. Put all together in a turtle Doves belly that is fat and fleshy, and put her on a Spit and roast her, and baste her with hens grease, the which you shall give to the woman every day for her supper. It is a thing as notable as any other can be. Yet in the mean time you must note, that none of these receipts must be given to a woman great with child, unless she have passed the moon of the ninth month that she was with child. Another. TAke fresh Butter washed in Violet water three ounces, mucilago of Cabbage two ounces, mucilago of wild or march Mallows, mucilago of Figs of each halt an ounce, and mix it together. And if the woman be nigh her time, let her put every day into the entry of her Matrice, a clout wit and dipped in this liquor, and she shall bring forth her child without great travail and difficulty. Another. TAke six pound of good white wine, Calamint, Sage, Rosemary, of each half a handful: seeth all together until the fourth part of the wine be consumed: with the which the woman drawing nigh to her time shall wash her legs, once a day either morning or evening. Another. TAke an ounce of the pilling of radish roots with as much Mercury, three grains of Saffron, a dram of gross Cinnamon well beaten into powder, two drams of the juice of savin. Mingle and stamp well altogether, binding it in some fine linen cloth upon the neck of the Matrice. If the woman labour in great danger, she shall suddenly be delivered. Another remedy very good, but yet such one that may not be given but in great necessity, or when the child is dead within her belly. Mix together two ounces of the juice of savin, a dram of Boras mineral well made in powder, and an ounce of odoriferous white wine, and give it the woman to drink, and the effect will soon follow. remedies when a man pisseth against his will. IT is a thing very good and tried, to give every morning to the Patiented a Cytryn myrabolan well conserved. Another for the same. Take Plantain water, Rose water, Sorrel water, night shade water, of each half a 〈…〉 wood water four ounces, kinds of Cerotria sandalia an ounce: Spondij, two drams▪ red Coral, red Rose seeds, Plantain seeds, of each two drams, of Spike ten grains, of very good Uinaigre three ounces: mire altogether, and with a white linen clothe dipped therein and well cleansed, wash and bathe the liver with it and the rains of the back. That done, take oil Roset, oil of Myrtel, oil of Quinces of each an ounce. Make into powder that may be made, and make thereof an ointment very soft with a little wax, anointing incontinent the patients reins of the back and his belly. Remedies against the stone in the bladder. TAke Liton tripon, three drams, ten bitter Almonds which as much of the kernels of peaches: bray all this well together, and make thereof little balls with Sugar, the which you shall give to the Patient every month ten days together, at the break of the day, sleeping a little upon it, and you shall see a good end and issue of it. A remedy and preservative against the same. TAke four ounces of Turpentine, and burn it upon some plate of Iron red hot, until it may be made into powder: of the which powder, take two drams, water of Sarifrage four ounces, mingling all together, make thereof a drink, which you shall give the Patient twice a week, at the break of the day continuing so two months together. If he have not yet the stone, he shall without doubt be preserved from it: but if he have it, he shall also be healed of it. Another for the same. TAke six Dragmes of Turpentine ten times washed in water, and make thereof little balls called Bolf, with the juice of Saxifrage, and a little Sugar, and give it to the Patient as is aforesaid. remedies for to heal the Emerhodes or piles. A very excellent ointment. THe body being purged take oil Violet washed in water of Violets, and fresh butter washed, of each an ounce: make there of a soft ointment with the yolk of an Egg, half an ounce of oil of linseed, and as much wax as shall suffice: anoint the Emorrhodes or piles with it twice or thrice a day There is no such remedy as this is, when women lie in child bed because of the retention of their flowers they are often times, yea almost daily molested with these Emorrhodes or piles very sore. A plaster against the same. TAke of the crumb of bran bread a pound, of ewes milk, or cow milk, or else goats milk, two pound: Seethe all together until two or three parts be consumed: than put to it two ounces of the grease taken of the chine of a goat, and an ounce of the powder of ground worms, mingling all together, and so lay it hot upon his fundament. An excellent and very good hot bath or baine for the same. YOu shall take the leaves of Mallows roots and all the roots of wild or marsh Mallows, of holy Hocke, Violets, Cabbage, the flowers of Taxus barbatus, camomile, Melilot, sengreen, linseed, of each a handful and a half: seeth all in a sufficient quan titie of water of the river, or some other fresh water, until half be consumed: than power it hot into some tub, causing the Patient to sit in it twice a day, in the morning and at night, the space of an hour. Another remedy of very great virtue. TAke. two. ounces of the juice of leeks, an ounce of the juice of Persly, butter made of cow milk, walnut oil, oil of the decoction of cataputia, of each an ounce & a half, oil of radish roots an ounce, of the suet that is about the kidneys of a Goat an ounce and a half: let all be well stirred and brayed in a mortar. This being hot, if you lay it with fat well upon and about the Emorhodes twice a day, using so thirty days long, I have proved the remedy to be of great efficatie and virtue, that without doubt I dare assure the Patient of heath. remedies against the swelling of the cods. TAke oil of white lilies, oil of Roses complete of each two ounces, of the grease that is washed of from new shorn Wulle an ounce and a half, wet some fatty Wulle in it, and lay it hot upon his cods: and then will the swelling go away with the pain. Another against hard swelling. TAke Resyns dried and carnelles pluck out three ounces, Barley flower two ounces, as much of the flower of white Cyche peason, half an ounce of the flower of sengreen, as much of the flower of Lynesede, an ounce and a half of Honey: mingle all well together, stamping it in a mortar, and lay it hot upon his cods. A good plaster for the same. TAke gomme Arabic, Dragacante, of each two drams, Galbanum, armoniac, of each a dram and a half, Bean flower and the flower of white Cyche peason, of each an ounce: Dissolve the gums in oil of sweet Almonds, and a little vinegar, than mire all well together, and make thereof a plaster with Pitch & Wax, as much as shall suffice. An ointment against the same. TAke oil of white lilies, and oil of camomile, of each an ounce, of cumin two drams, Labdany, Galbany, of each an ounce: Dissolve the gums in strong Uinaigre, and make in powder that which is to be made: And make of this a soft ointment, with a little Wax, wherein wete some new shorn and unwashed Wulle, and lay it upon his cods. A plaster. Seethe a pound of white Cyche peason in good white wine, until they be thoroughly sodden: than stamp them well in a mortar, putting to them two ounces of Camomille flower, a dram of Saffron, two ounces of oil of white lilies: mix all together, and lay it hot upon his cods, leaving the plaster upon them night and day. remedies against the sciatica. TAke the Blossoms or flowers of camomile, Meliote, Syngreene, Dill, linseed, of each two handfuls: Wormewodde, mint, Pennyriall, calamint, Southernewod, the flowers of stechados arabic, Bytonye, Maioram, the herb Paraly sis, Sage, rosemary, Germander, of each a handful and a half, seeth all this in two hundred pound of clear conduit water, until the third part be consumed: than strain it, and seeth it again well, putting to it half a pound of quick Brimstone, four ounces of Saltpetre, prepared, and three ounces of sait Gemma: seethe them again and strain them: and than keep that which is strained for your use. The sick man shall every morning bathe himself the space of eight days together, tarrying in it an hour well covered, the head only bare. The hour paste, coming out of the bathe, and all his body well dried and wiped, let him go into his warm bed, and anon after let him take a dram of great treacle, mixed with an ounce and a half of Sugar roset, and sleep thereupon two hours, and in the mean time being well covered let him sweet, and those that keep him, let them wipe him and dry him well, and by and by after they shall anoint the place where the pain holdeth him, that is, all the leg from the haunch or huckle bone, with the ointment Marciaton unguentum agrippae, unguentum of aragon, of each an ounce mixed together. Continuing than all in this order, and as I have said eight days, I dare assure the patient health. Remedies against inflammations of blood, which groweth into an impostume in some part of the body or members, called phelgmone. A plaster to ripe and rot the impostume. TAke a pound of Cow milk that was never fleeted: a pound & a half of bread well crommed small: three ounces of the juice of Cabbage, half a dram of Saffron, three ounces of the oil of white Lilies mix all together, and lay it hot upon the sore place. Another for the same. TAke three ounces of Diaquilum without gums, the juice of cabbage an ounce and a half, of Saffron a dram: make hereof a good and fat ointment and thick with yellow wax as much as shall need: the which being spread upon leather, the Patient shall wear a day or two continually, and he shall find himself well. Another to rot or ripe incontinent. chaw well fasting half a pound of wheat, and temper it well with a great deal of spettell: take also two ounces of oil roset complete, and a dram of Saffron, mingling all together, and lay it upon the sore place, renewing it often times. The signs of the ripeness of it are these, when it is soft, moving up and down like a wave of water, when it grieveth the Patient no more, when the fever ceaseth and continueth no more. The impostume being thus brought to a ripeness, prepare yourself to lance or pierce it. But if the Patient be afraid of the iron or fire, break it with this that followeth: take two ounces of Diaquilum simple, an ounce of leaven, half an ounce of oil of sweet Almonds: mix all, and spread it upon a piece of leather, or clout, putting in the mids of it a dram of Pigeons dung made in powder, and so lay it upon the place where the breaking of the sore shallbe most commodious. You may also take half an ounce of leaven, a dram of common Salt, two Dragmes of the best Uinaigre, four scruples of the powder of Cantarides, mix all together, & bray it well in a mortar, until it be turned into a past or do we as it were: of the which you shall put to it half a dram, or according to the quantity of the matter that must come out, covering that again with the Ceratum or plaster afore said. The impostume being broken, and well made clean, if you fear that there will come much blood again, take incontinent the yolks of two Eggs, two Dragmes of Salt, a dram of bull Armenick, and steep or dip certain pieces of tow in it, and lay them upon the place where it is broken, and let them lie four and twenty hours together. Against a Ryngworme or Tetter, that runneth all over a man's face, or against the disease that is called Erysipilas or Lychen, of some Mentagra, the French men call it feu volage, as it were a running fire. THE remedy is good to mingle at the beginning the juice of Plantain, marigolds, Solatrum, barba iovis, in english Syngreene, of each six ounces, with three ounces of Rose water, and witting certain clouts in it, lay them upon the sore or King worm. Yet you must take heed that ye take away the clouts, as soon as they begin to wax hot, to the end that the heat, returning from the linen clouts to the sore, do not increase the pain, or else that the linen clothes being dried with the heat do not cleave to the skin and pluck it with them. For if it should be so, there would be danger in it because of the ulcers or scabs that would come of it. Another remedy very good to heal the same, when it doth but begin or increase. TAke Lytarge of Silver, six ounces, the juice of Plantaines three ounces, oil roset two ounces, of the best Uinaigre an ounce, mix and bray all this well in a mortar of Lead until it be like an ointment of the colour of Lead, of the which being spread upon some linen cloth you shall lay some upon the sore, renewing it evening and morning, and looking to it diligently until you be sure of the state of it and of the increase. When it beginneth to decline (which thing you shall know because it will change from a white colour unto a red) take heed you lay no cold thing unto it: for it may be that you may make some dead flesh red and dark come or grow in it, and so there should be great danger, that by reason of the cold things the Kingworme or better should turn into an Hestiomem. But my counsel is to take the flowers of camomile, Melilot, Syngreene, of each a handful; and to seethe the same in sufficient water until there remain but the half. Than to strain it, and to wash every day the place with a sponge wet in it: and afterward to wash it with some-whote white wine. For that is it that keepeth the member from mortifying in such a disease. If the thing be grown to an ulcer, either by the folly of the Physician, or else by the evil government of the Patient, or by the evil matter which could not be amended by medicines, take lytarge of silver three ounces, the ointment of Populeon, Ceruse washed, Infrigidantis Galeni; of each half an ounce, oil roset complete an ounce. Mix all together and bray it well in a mortar, until it be as it were an ointment, which you shall use until the disease be consolidate and sound. Against flomatic swelling. IF this infirmity be in the leg, take twenty pound of water made with Ashes, flowers of camomile, roots of Walwort or Danewort, of each a handful, common Salt half a pound, of the best white Uinaigre four ounces, mix and seethe all together until the half be consumed, than strain it, and wash the leg with it. remedies for the scabs, An ointment very good for to anoint young children who because of their tenderness, can not endure a purgation. TAke four ounces of oil roset, a dram and a half of common Salt, an ounce of fresh Butter washed and so bray and stir all well together, until it become unto a soft ointment. Another ointment very good for little children▪ and old folk, to use before and after a purgation. TAke Turpentine washed in Rose water four ounces, of the juice of Lemons an ounce & a half, of fresh Butter an ounce, the yolk of one Egg, of common salt two drams, of oil roset two ounces, mix and stir together all a great while in a mortar, until it become an ointment. With the which by a fire when he goeth to bed anoint the scabby part of the body, or else all the body: but as thine as may be. Another remedy. TAke the water of Lapatium Acutum, distilled two pound the juice of Plantain four ounces, Rose water three ounces, the juice of lemons two ounces, Litarge six ounces, Ceruse half an ounce, quick Brimstone three drams, make a very small powder of that which may be made powder, and mingle it with the said waters, letting all stand. xxiiii. hours long. That done, put all in a limbeck, and distill it with a small fire. This water serveth not only for to heal the common scab: but also to make the crusts of old ulcers and scabs and of the pocks to fall of, & to take clean away the cicatrice or scab thereof. A bain or bathe for the same. TAke the leaves of Lapatium acutum, the leaves of fumitory, the leaves of Mallows with the roots, leaves of Borage of each three handful, of bran bound in some cloth two handful, of rye three handful: seeth all this in sufficient water until the third part be consumed, then strain all, and while the Patient is anointing let him bathe all his body in the same bane in the break of the day, and without tarrying any long time, let him go into his warm bed, and there let him sleep and sweat. Against the scurf or lepry, called in Latin psora. AFter a purgation, I commend much the anointing at night when he goeth to bed, all the parts of the body infected with this disease, with oil of Tartre or of Lees of wine, and three ounces of very strong white wine. A remedy against puffs, bladders, blisters, or wheels and against the small pocks. An ointment. TAke an ounce of Peche karnels burned and made into a powder, the juice of Plantain and of Syngreene, of each half an ounce, Ceruse or Led washed a dram and a half: make of this a soft ointment as much as shall serve you. Another remedy well tried. TAke two drams of Camphor, an ounce of Ceruse washed, half a pound of red chiches, a pound of the inner part of Melons without the pills, ten Swallows eggs, two drams of Pearls, three drams of the seeds of Xilon or Gpssipium, the tree that beareth Cotton, two drams of Salt four ounces of the juice of Lemons, half an ounce of white wine lees: make that in powder that ought to be, and put all together in ten pound of water of Lapatium acutum distilled, leaving it so two days and two nights. This done, distillall together in a Limbeck, with the which water so distilled, the Patient shall wash his face three or four times a day. It hath been proved very good. Against the strong cogh of young children. Seethe in wine some soap and some Serpellum, or savoury, or else steep some Jeniper berries in wine, and give the child to drink of which you will. Against the stinking sweat. TO those that so sweat, make a cloth steeped in wine wherein Myrtle leaves or the herb itself, or else his fruit hath been sodden. Against the pain of the eyes. TAke Mallows, Violets that grow in Lent, tops of black berry trees, dried Roses, vervain, Willow or Osier that groweth on the bills, wash your eyes with these at night, and make a plaster of the herbs with the yolk of an Egg, and lay it upon your eyes. For a white spot in the eyes. Burn cockle shells of the sea, and Olibanum, as much of the one as of the other: make them into a powder with cuttle bones burned, and lay that upon your eyes twice or thrice a week. Against the difficulty of bringing forth child, and the retention of the skin that the child is wrapped in, called in Latin Secundina or Secundae. TAke the roots of Parsley, and leaves of Leeks, wring the juice out, and mingle it with a little oil, and give it the woman to drink, putting a little vinegar into her Matrice, and she shall incontinently be delivered with gods help. A remedy when the fundament cometh out. FIrst wash or bathe very well the fundament (be it either of a man or of a woman) with the decoction of wine and Worm wood sodden together, and anoint it round about with some restrayntive ointment. After this straw upon it Ashes made of Willow and of his roots, and of the fin bones of some fish salted, and put in the fundament again with some linen cloth: and doing thus twice or thrice a day, he shall find himself very well. Against the pain of the guts. Seethe in water some nightshade with ashes, and lay it upon the place where the pain is. For this also is good raw Sisamum, sodden with his seeds, and laid upon the painful place. Against the difficulty in making water, saving for that which cometh of the stone. For Men. Seethe water Cresses, and make thereof Cataplasma a plaster, and lay it upon the place about the privy members, causing the man to sit in the decoction of it. For Women. MAke them an undersmoking thorough a close stool with wild Mint, with Neppe or Cat mint, and with Pulliole or Pulegium. We make sometime as well for the man as for the woman, an estewe or baine wherein hath been sodden some Jeniper, Neppe Pulicaria, in English flea wort, wild mint, bay leaves, Pulegium, Wormewod and Tansey, giving to Benedicta simplex, is an electuary, very medecinable for the gout. the Patient being in this bain, Benedietam simplicem. But if the stone be the cause, then seeth in water Saxifrage with the roots of Sanguinaria, or decoction until half of the water be consumed, the which give unto the Patient: but if he desire wine, give it him with some of this water in it, continuing so four or five days, and twice or thrice a day. If he piss not for all this, it is a sign that the stone is thoroughly grown and hardened. But than if it stick in the bladder, take Mallows, Crista marina, in English Sampere, little wild Cabbages, Saxifrage, Pellitorye of the wall, water Cresses, Ameos, and the seeds of Nettles, seeth all this in liquor, whereof let the third part be wine, the other part oil and the fourth part salt sea water, bathing and washing well with this decoction the parts about his privy members, and laying upon them the herbs. Against crabbelyce. AGainst the Crabbelyce that breed about the privy members and under the arm pits, anoint those places with ashes laid in oil: but against those that stick in the eye brows, take an ounce of Aloes, Ceruse, Olibanum, of each five ounces: make all into powder, and make of it an ointment with lard cut small as much as shall suffice. Against a Canker. NOte that the leaves of wild Juie sodden in wine, and laid to it are very good for it. Against the little worms and itching of the hands or body. AGainst the itch and worms in what soever part of the body that it be, but chiefly in the face and forehead, you must steep weate in wine with the powder of olibanum, and lay it upon the place as it were a plaster. Against the swelling of the cods. TAke meadows, Wormwoode, Ueruene, bismalua or march meadows, tansy, and two cabbedges, seeth all this in old strong wine, and bathing and washing them twice or thrice a day. As for the herbs, stamp them and seeth them in Honey, laying them upon the cods with wine. For to make the worms come out of the hands and feet. TAke a hot tile, and some vessel full of water, than put some seeds of jusquiamum upon the red hot tile, holding your hands or feet over the smoke of it, you shall see the worms fall into the water like little hears. Another way: Burn oat straw into ashes, & put it into water as hot as you may endure it, holding your bands and feet in it, and enduring the heat until it wax cold: than strain and press it so hard until there remain no moor water, separating it fair and softly. You shall find the worms as it were little threads, which the smoke of the Jusquiam hath drawn out. If the place do itch, and is eaten with worms, burn straw into ashes, and toss it and mingle it in water as boat as you can endure it: put in your hand or foot that hath the worms, and they will come out. Than afterward heal the knawing as you do some other sore. A remedy for the deafness of the ears. TAke the fat or grease of eels new killed that swimmeth upon the decoction of them, the juice of caprifolium, Barba iovis, and a handful of Ants or Pismers eggs, bray and strain all, mixing it and seething it with oil. The decoction made, put to it some Uinaigre or wine sufficiently, that it may be the more penitrative & piercing: this done, power some of it into the ear that is not deaf, stopping the other that hath the impediment, and lying upon the good ear: and beware he go not the next day into the wind: but let him keep his house, lying all the day long sometime on the good ear and sometime on the ill. A remedy against fistuleys. TAke the leaves of red Cabbages, and their seeds, the roots of great rubra tinctorum of each an equal quantity, bray all and seeth it well until three parts be consumed: than strain it, putting to it some honey. And seething it again until it be thick. Whereof you shall give the Patient two spoons full, morning and enening. For the scabs of the hands. TAke Lapatium acutum, and fumitory, making thereof as it were an ointment with hogs or swines grease and may Butter, wherewith anoint your hands. A water of a great and marvelous effect, for to keep man's body e from many infirmities and diseases. TAke fonre pound of distilled Aqua vite, of very good wine, two pound of salt burned, two pound of quenched Brimstone, four ounces of white Tartre, four ounces of the wood of a filbert tree. three ounces of rock salt. Let all this be brayed, sifted and mixed together, pouring upon the foresaid Aqua v●te, and putting it in a Limbeck to distill. What operations come of such distillations. THe first distillation draweth unto it the powers of all the spirits of man, that no venimons best can approach or come nigh him: with it is kept flesh and fish as with balm, it healeth and cleanseth lentils and other spots of the face: it driveth away all manner of scabs from the body, and cleanseth watering eyes. The second driveth away impostumes, and other superfluities of the body: it pulleth out and healeth lose teeth, and putteth, away all swelling of the liver. The third cleanseth all spots and scurf, it healeth stinking of breath, and purgeth all phlegm of the stomach, as meat not digested. The fourth putteth out of the body, all cold and congealed blood. The fift delivereth the body from the falling syckennesse. The sixth driveth away all languish and infirmity come of the gout. The seventh putteth the gout from the feet. The eight excelleth the Balm, which you should keep well. The ninth, if you mix with it, and dissolve gold in it, is a preservative for the liver. The tenth, if you put a drop of it in any vessel of gold full of wine, a froth and scum will swim upon the wine which is very gold in deed, so that what so ever you touch with it shallbe fair gold. Yet you must note that after every distillation you must stamp and sift the lose as at the first tyme. Another water or Balsamum almost for the same things. TAKE a pound of Turpentine thrice distilled, a pound of Aloes thrice also distilled, a pounder of Amber raw, Mascatum brayed upon a stone in manner of some liquid ointment, putting to all this a little oil, and so incorporating it and distilling it nine times. It is a Balm that may well be kept, for it is so perfect that it abideth first all trial of fire & water. Secondly, it will pierce thorough the hand. thirdly, in anointing your face it keepeth your youthful colour. Fourthly, it fasteneth and consolidateth all incision or cutting. Fiftly, it purgeth marvelously the eyes. Sirtly, anointing all the body with it, it is said that it shall never rot or corrupt, nor ever breed worms. This hath Hermes the Philosopher written and confirm it as most true, for as much as I have proved and tried it. A powder very good to conserve the sight. TAke Betony, Rue, Selandine, Saxifrage, Levistici. Pulegium, Anis, Cinnamon Euphrasia, in English eyebright, of each a handful, Grani Paradisi, Ginger, fennel, parsley, Isope, Organny, Osier of the mountains of each a dram, Galingale an ounce, of Sugar an ounce Make all this into powder, and eat of it every day with your meat: for the sight is thereby preserved. And if your sight be perished or half gone, it will heal it and recover it perfectly again. This powder is found and thus ordained by master Gerarde, which tried it upon himself: for he having used spectacles the space of twelve years together, and yet scant could see with them, nor read the greatest letters that were (so much was his sight perished) after he used this powder but a whole Lent together, only in this sort as I have told you: he recovered so his sight again, that all the rest of his life after, he conlde read the smallest letter that was, very perfectly. Against the pain of the flanks or the pluresye. TAke a wild Boar's tooth of the upper Jaw, & the greatest, and make thereof a powder, whereof you shall give the Patient to drink with a little broth, and he shallbe cured. Against quartan agues. TAke the grease or fat that is under the manes of borses, and seeth it in a new earth pot: and when you feel the ague come, anoint the chine of your back, & you shallbe healed in three times so doing. To heal old wounds and cankers of the legs. TAke cuttings or shearings of shoemakers leather, and seeth them, and the grease or fat that you shall get of them, set it by itself: than take of the herb that groweth at the foot or root of Willows the finest that is, and the moss that looketh like Velvet: dry it well and make it into a powder: and lay of it upon the wound, and with the said grease anoint round about the wound, and he shall shortly be whole. Against the scurf. TAke Barrowes grease what quantity you will, and seeth it with a glassful of wine, and half a pound of bean flower in manner of an ointment: than take urine or piss, and heat it as hot as you can endure it, where with you shall wash your head, and than anoint it with the said grease, and it shall be whole within fifteen days. Against ventosity, colic, or pain of the matrice. TAke a dram of entrails made in powder, a dram of Stecas, give it the patient to drink in a new laid egg, and she shallbe healed. For the hardness or brawn of the feet. dip your feet in hot piss, & when the hardness or brawn is mollified, take a lancet or scissors, and lance it round about: and than by and by put some juice of sengreen upon it, and the next morrow it will be well. To make very perfit Vinaigre. TAke the crumb of a hot loaf new drawn out of the Oven, a glass of strong Uinaigre, wherein you shall put some Ginger, Pepper, Pyrethrum of Levant, Calamus aromaticus, the which things being brayed and stamped together, you shall put into Uinaigre: Than take the crumb of a hot loaf, and put it so that it may receive to it all the foresaid things. Than dry the said loaf in an Oven, and make thereof a powder, and put the said powder in a Hogshead of wine, and it will become very perfit Uinaigre. Against the falling syckennes. TAke the Matrice of a Sow, the which being made in powder you shall give to eat or to drink unto the Patient, and as soon as he hath received it, the sickennes will remove from the brain, and spread into his finger's ends, tormenting him very sore: but whereas the said matter shall assemble and come together, make a rapture: and the matter will come out as yellow as Saffron, and he shallbe quickly healed. For children that be broke. TAke white Paper, and chaw it well with your teeth, and make thereof a plaster, as great as will cover all the broke, bind it in a swadle band with a linen cloth: Than lay it to his cods, and make fast the swathing band: but you must renew every day the paper chawed, and he shallbe whole. Against the pain of the Spleen. TAke of the longs or lights of a fox made into powder, and use to give to the Patient to drink or to eat of in good white wine, & he shallbe cured. For to stench blood. TAke man's blood dried in the Sun, and make it into powder, & if it chance that there be any vain broken or hurt, whereby there cometh out abundance of blood, lay of the said powder upon it, and it shallbe stenched. For to heal in four days the scalding with water, or any other thing, without ointments or Plasters. It hath been tried and found true. TAke an Onion and cut him overthwart, and wring out the juice upon the scalded place, doing so every day twice and it will heal it. For to stench blood. TAke a sour Orange, & make a hole in the top where the flower grew, keep that upper piece that you shall take of, that you may afterward close up the hole again: yet before you stop it up, you shall take the suet or grease of a he Goat, the bigness of a Walnut, and put it into the hole: than set the Orange upon the coals or embers, that it may incorporate, and dissolve: Than anoint along down your back bone, and overthwart the flanks with the same liquor, and it shall heal you within three or four times by the grace of god. Against the worms in little children. TAke a lamp full of oil olive, and lay an iron in the fire, and when it is red hot quench it in the said oil in the lamp: then anoint thereof the nostrils, the throat and the navel, and strait way you shall see a great miracle. To heal the Emorrhodes or piles. TAke Dogs dung four ounces, half a pound of common oil, put them together in a new earthen pot and seeth them a little: then take out some of the dung, and bray it upon a trencher: then seeth it again in the said oil, and put to it three ounces of new wax, to the intent that all may come to incorporate together: and before you anoint the Emorrhodes or Pills with the same ointment, you shall wash them with white wine, and in four days he shallbe whole. Against all kinds of pain and grief. TAke a glasseful of the juice of Leucoron, which is our winter Gylofer, or Violets fasting, and you shall see a marvelous effect. Against styfnes or shrinking of sinews, called the cramp, or swelling, coming of the wound taken of some venomous beast, in Latin Spasmus or Spasma, or conuulsio. TAke Hogs dung as much as you will, half a pound of oil roset: seeth all in a new earthen pot, and lay it as hot as you can endure upon the sore place, and it will heal it. For them that can not piss by reason of certain gravel, and viscosity or carnosirie, which is abundance of flesh. TAke the juice of radish roots, of little Leeks which are found under the ground, and dry them, and make them into powder: put all together, and give every morning a certain quantity of it to the Patient to drink, and he shall be healed in short space. Against deffenesse. TAke a quick Eel, and put him on a spit alyne and roast him: take the grease that cometh out of him: Than take a Garlic head roasted upon the coals orcenders, and take one cod or husk of the same Garlic at a time, and put it into the said grease, and so put it hot into his ear, holding his ear upward the space of one Credo, and you shall see the filthy humour come out of his ear, & he shallbe healed. Against oppilation or stopping. TAke wild or marsh Mallows, what quantity you will, and seeth them in running water: than take of it about a glassful hot with sugar Candye morning and evening, and you shallbe cured. Against the giddiness of the sight. Give every morning unto a child to eat some sweet Fennel, and let the same child lick the Pacientes eyes, and he shallbe cured. For them that can not broke their meat, but vomit it again. TAke mint well stamped and the crumbs of bread burned in the fire, and vinaigre: and make thereof as it were a sauce, and spread it upon some linen cloth with the powder of Cloves: heat it upon a brick or tile, and lay it upon his stomach, and you shall see a goodly experience. Against the head ache by to much drinking. TAke Rue leaves, and bray them with Uinaigre, and put Roses to them and bitter Almonds, and with this rub your head, and you shallbe eased. Against all the pain of the head. TAke half a dram of bay berries, of Scammonia, and of Saffron a dram, bray all well together with Uinaigre and Roses. And when your head acheth, anoint it where it grieveth you with this ointment, & you shall see the virtue to be marvelous great. Against the pain of the head that continueth always. TAke leaves of black Juye, and bray them, & put them with Uinagre, oil and wine, as much of one as of the other: seeth this together, & anoint your forehead and your temples, and it shall ease you very much by gods Good grace. Another way. IF the patient think that his head eleaveth in sunder by reason of the great pain: take ivy, and make juice of it, the which you shall mingle which oil roset: and with a linen clout you shall anoint fair and softly his nostrils, his temples, and his forehead. And if the pain be vehement, lay some of it upon the skull of his head. Another way. TAke the brain of a crow, and seeth it and than eat it: for there is none so great a pain of the head, or none so old but that it will heal it with a singular virtue. Against the Mygrame happening suddenly. TAke Bengewine and bray it with vinegar, and anoint your forehead with it, and your temples and it will mitigate the pain. Against itching of the head. TAke a sheeps gall, and mix it with white chake and therewith rub your head, and let it dry upon it, and it will heal you. Against ulcers or scabs of the head as well of men as of women. TAke the gall of a Bull, and mingle it with Uinaigre, and having made it lukewarm, rub your head with it, and you shall find a marvelous remedy by the grace of almighty God. Against old and putrefied wounds. Bray Celandine, and than mix it with old suet, and lay it so upon the ulcers or scabs, and you shallbe healed incontinent God willing. For to keep that the flesh grow not to much in a wound. TAke the lights or lungs of a sheep hot, and lay it upon the wound, and the flesh shallbe equal with the skin. To heal and take away the scurf. TAke a handful of Rue, and half an ounce of quick Brimstone, and seeth it with good old wine: and so wash your head with it: but yet your head must first be washed with lukewarm water, as men are wont to do most commonly, and it shallbe cured. For to kill Lice. TAke the whey that remaineth of cheesemaking, & put to it a little Uinaigre, and drink of it certain days: and all the lice will die, and there will breed no more about you. Against the distillation of the brain, and heaviness of the head. TAke Beete roots and bray them well, and than take the juice of them and receive it up into your nostrils. And that will draw unto it all the humour of the head, and cause it to come out. Against murres or catarrhs that begin to grow. YOu must abstain from supper, and from eating of any herbs, and from salt and fat things. For the catarrh cometh of indisgestion of the meat, and by the rawness of the stomach. Therefore above all things you ought to astaine from fat meats. And when you are amended, you may take your supper as before your sickness you might have done. For to restrain the murr or catarrh. TAke five parts of wine, and the sixth of honey, mingle all together, and let it cool, and make of it a gargarism. A remedy for that disease when the hear of the beard or head falleth of, of itself. first you must shave with a razor the place, and than rub it well with an onion: that done, take barley parched and made into powder, and mix it with Bear suet, and so lay it upon the place, and the hear will grow again. To keep that the hears shall not fall of. TAke the powder of walnuts, of heath Cypress burned, of the ashes of a Mule or mulet's hoof burned, of the oil of myrtle, the ashes of rats burned, and their dung made in powder. Also the ashes or fresh dung of a Hedgehog, and some Sandaracha, in English yellow▪ Ochre: mix all the said things with Uinaigre and soft Pitch, and lay it upon your head, & it will keep your hear from falling of. To make the hears of a man's beard or head to grow. YE shall take that which groweth sometime in the hox or pastern of an Ass, which is like unto little warts and burn them, and make powder of them, the which you shall put in old oil, & than lay it upon the place. This thing hath such virtue that if a man anoint or rub the jaws or chin of a woman, she shall have the hear grow upon the same place. For to make hears grow. YE shall take a Hedgehog, and burn it all to coals, and put the powder or ashes made fine & small, with bears grease: and lay this ointment over all the head of a bald man, and it will make his hear grow as fair as ever it was. For to curl hear a rare secret. TAke the ashes of sheeps horns burned, and mix it with oil, and rub your head often times with it: but you must be first polled. For to make hear black. TAke Swallows dung, and put it in good Uinaigre in a Uiolle, or some varnished earthen pot, than bury it in a dung hill, or in horse dung, and leave it so. xxxv. days full. And than anoint your head, being polled, with this medicine in the shadow with a Painters pensille. But before you do thus, you must anoint your face with dear suet, to the intent that none of the colour of the said ointment do spot or black your face. And while this colour & dying doth dry, hold in your mouth some oil, to the end that your teeth wax not black with it: and the fourth day that you have thus anointed your head, you must wash it well, and all is done. To keep that the hears wax not hoar or white. mix the ashes of ground worms burned in oil and rub your Comb with it when you comb your head, and your hear shall never change colour in your old age. It is a secret that women commonly use. For to make the hears black. TAke Cypre leaves brayed, and mixed with Uinaigre: and anoint your hear with it, and that same will die your white hears into black, and in their place shall grow also black hears. Against the pain in the eyes. TAke raw cabbages, and bray them and steep in the said juice of them some white bread, and anoint your forehead, and it will take away the pain of your eyes. Against the dimness or dazzling of the sight. TAke salt ammoniac buried and well brayed: and mix it with the piss of a young child, and therewith anoint often times your eyes, and lay of it upon them, and it will take away the dazzling. Another way. TAke the juice of fennel roots brayed, put to it as much good purified honey, and seeth all with a small fire until it be as thick as honey. Than put that in a box of brass. And when you have need mix it with conserve water or woman's milk: and certainly it will put away the dazzling and dimness of the sight incontinent, if you lay of it upon your eyes. Against a web or spot in the eye. TAke the gall of a white Cock, and bray it with water, and lay it to your eyes or put some in your eyes, and it will take away the web or spot, and will consume the drops of blood that are in the eyes, and strengthen the sight. For to take away the hurtful hears of the eye brower. YOu must pluck of the hears of the eyes diligently which hurt and hinder the eyes: and than anoint the place with he goats blood hot, or Hare's blood, or else of the blood of a Bat or flindermous, or rub it with the milk of a Bitch, or with a needle of copper, which being oft heated and quenched in vinaigre, with the which you shall touch the place, and the hears will never grow again. Against all pain of the ears. YE shall take a scruple of the gall of a Goat, and as much honey, bray all together, and heat it in a fire pan, putting it into his ear, and stop it with Wulle, and it will he ale all the pain, yea though there were a canker in it. Against the pain of the ears and deafness, and for to purge the apostumes or corruption of the ears. mix Bengewine and new goats milk together, and put among them some of an Ox gall, and oil of Cedar, as much of the one as of the other. Put all this luke warm into the Pacientes ears and it will wonderfully appease the pain of them and comfort the weak hearing, and also the apostumes of the ears. Against the pain of the ears. Heat wild Boar's piss upon the fire, and put it into the Pacientes ear, for it is a singular remedy. The said piss may be kept in a viol of glass, or better in the bladder itself of the Boar. Against the noise or ringing of the ears. mix together the grease of a Goose, with the juice of Saffron, and the juice of Garlic, or Garlic brayed: Than power it into his ears, and certainly it will heal him. Against all infirmity of the ears. YE shall take ground worms, and seeth them with goose grease: and drop of the same decoction into the patients ears, and whatsoever pain it be it will heal it. Against deafness and hardness of hearing. TAke an Ox gall, and the piss of a he Goat: Mix all together, and put of it into the deaf ear and incontinent he shallbe healed. Against the pain of the ears, deafness, dirt, or filth, worms or water that is in them. TAke the juice of onions, and mingle it with honey, and than drop it into the ears, and it will clear and heal them. For to stench bleeding at the nose. TAke very strong Uinaigre, and power of it into the ear of that side that he bleedeth, and if he bleed of both sides, put Uinaigre into both his ears, and it shall stench it. To heal the syckennes called noli me tangere. TAke the juice of the berbe called Dracunculus, or sir pentine, & put of the same juice into his nostrils, or dip in a linen cloth, and lay upon the sore and the next day take it away, for it will bring with it all the roots of the sore. Against stinking of the mouth. TAke the root called acorios, or calamus aromaticus, and chaw of it fasting, as it were Mastic, holding it a good space in your mouth, and it will make you have a sweet breath and mouth. Against the tooth ache. TAke the root of Jusquiam, and seeth it in Uinaigre, and hold of the decoction thereof in your mouth, and it shall heal you. Another way. TAke ground worms, and seeth them in oil, and than bray them well, and put of the decoction into the ear, on that side that the aching tooth is of, and the pain will cease. For to make teeth fall out. TAke ground worms, and burn them upon a red hot tile, and than take the ashes of the said worms so burned, and put it into the hollow and aching teeth, and cover them with wax, and they will easily fall out without any pain at all. For to make teeth white that be black. TAke white bread, & of a pommyse stone, as much of the one as of the other, burn all together, and make thereof a powder, wherewith you shall rub your teeth, and they will be very white. For them that be hoarse. YOu must swallow down, three mornings together the yolk of a new lay egg raw. To heal the disease called the kings evil. TAke Barley flower, liquid pitch, wax, and oil of equal quantity, mix all together, and seeth it well, and put into it a little piss of a young child, and sterring it well about, lay it upon the sore in manner and form of a plaster, and it will heal it. How to know the kings evil. TAke a ground worm alive, and lay him upon the swelling or sore, and cover him with a leaf: if it be the kings evil, the worm will change and turn into earth, if it be not, he will remain whole and sound. Against the cogh, and distillation of the breast, and lungs, and running of the eyes, pain of the bladder, and when the pipe of it is stopped, which causeth that a man can not piss but with great difficulty. Also for those that spit blood at the mouth, or piss blood: and for the flix, and colic, and pain or heaviness of the belly and choler: and also against a vomiting without an ague. Also against all pain of the body except of the head: and especially against the ulceration of the lungs, if you give the Patient an electuary or two of it. TAke six drams of myrrh, five drams of frankincense, four drams of the juice of poppy called opium, six drams of Saffron, four drams of the seed of white Jusquiam called Henbane, and four drams of the pill or ryne of the root of black Jusquiam: you shall beat into powder the said bark or ryne by itself, and sift it fine and small thorough a sarce or sieve, and than grind the Saffron: and than the seed of the white Jusquiam or Henbane, and than after the Myrrh and the Frankincense. With the which you shall mix the Juice of the poppy, having been laid before in water. And this done, you shall put straight way to it a little water, to the intent you may make thereof Trochiscos or little Balls or tabrets, of the weight of half a dram. You shall take of it at night with three mouthfuls of water. This provoketh steep, and assuageth all grief, as is aforesaid. If you will you may make Pylles of it: for it is all one, as concerning the virtue of it. Against all vehement coghes. TAke the juice of Leeks brayed, and seeth it with oil, and give it to the Patient to drink, and it shall profit him greatly. Against the cogh be it never so great. TAke Brimstone made in powder, as much as you can take up between your three fingers: Give the same unto the Patient with an Egg half roasted, before breakfast, five days together, if it be a man, but if it be a child three mornings. And there is no cogh so vehement, but it will heal it within the said time God willing. For one that hath swallowed down a blood Sucker. TAke Uinaigre wherein there hath been first quenched some red hot iron: and into the same put some butter, and heat it by little and little, and give it him to drink, and it will make the blood Sucker come out. It hath been proved. Against an old and inveterate cogh. TAke quick Brimstone, and beat it into powder, and wrap it in old Hogs or Barrowes grease: And than the first day give three Pills thereof unto the Patient, the second day two, and the third day one. And the said Pills must be made so that he may swallow them down. Against the bloody flix coming of the artere or sinew of the lungs, or of the liver. TAke the root of Consyre called Marquerites, & wash it in cold water and scrap it with a knife of Juery or bone. Give unto the patient to drink two ounces or more of it, and as much as he can eat. But note that he must not touch any Uinaigre that day, though it have great virtue to stay the blood, for truly it taketh away the effect and virtue of this root, if you give him any with it. For to restrain a great and vehement vomiting. TAke a little quick Brimstone, and as much of the scraping of a Hearts horn: all being brayed and made in powder, mingle and temper it in a soft Egg, and drink it, and it will stop the vomiting. For them that can not keep their meat in their stomach but vomit it up again. YE shall take a little aloes and give it them to drink with cold water, and it will make them keep their meat in their stomach. To quench and assuage thrust. YE shall take water and oil mixed together, and heat it a little and drink, and vomit it up again by and by. And if need be do so again, and it will quench your vehement thrust. Another way. YE shall take the yolk of a Hen egg half roast & mixed with oil, and swallow it down, and it will take away your thrust. Another. YE shall take a stone in a Fountain, and lay it quickly upon your tongue, and hold it so a while and it will quench your thrust. To stop the hycket. TAke a spoon full of Uinaigre made of the Herb Scylla or Squilla, and drink it, and by and by the hicket will cease, by the grace of almighty God. For to stop the hycket that cometh often. TAke hot water, and put your hands into it, and hold them there a good while, and the hicket will cease, it hath been proved and found true. A sovereign remedy for them that have wry necks by reason of shroken sinews: also for them that have the gout. TAke the stones of a Beaver, called Castoreum, white Pepper and Perseley of each equal quantities: bray all together & sift them. This done, take a spoonful of it, and put in so much honey, and two mouthfuls of hot water, and give it the Patient to drink before breakfast, and he shall be healed. To take away the smelling under the arm holes. TAke very old benzoin, and make it into powder, and sift it: and than rub your arm holes with it, and they shall smell well. Against apostumes and swelling at the root of the nails. TAke an akorne brayed with soap, and lay that upon it, and they shall be well. To make a man's nails grow incontinent which be fallen of. TAke the herb that is called Pentaphillon or Quinque follium, in English cinquefoil, and bray it with any grease: and lay it upon the place and the nail will come again incontinent. Against the disease called Mentagra or Lichen, which is a foul breaking out or covering all the face with a scab and beginneth at the ching. TAke the fresh branches of a fig tree, and seeth them in Uinaigre, & than bray them well, & with this anoint the sore, and undoubtedly he shall be cured and healed immediately. To take away the seabbe of a running tetter, or ryngworme of the face. TAke the roots of wild cucumbers, and seeth them unto the third part, then bray them well and put to them some lytarge of Silver, and some Brimstone in powder, as much of the one as of the other, and put to it also a little Wax: and than rub and anoint the sore place with it, & it will heal it. Against Burgeons and bushes in the face, aswell by the heat of the Sun as otherwise. TAke the yolk of an Egg and bray it with honey and Ceruse, and so anoint your face with it, and it will cure them very well and perfectly. Against all spots, pimples, bushes, or ulcers in the face. TAke Mastic, and the herb called lappa maior, in English clot or great burr, soap, wax, old oil, lytarge of Silver, as much of the one as of the other: mingle all together, and seeth it like an ointment, and anoint the place with it, & it will heal it. To take away the blackness of the neck, and spots of the face. TAke bean flower and temper it with the Juice of the inner part of Pompons, and make thereof eight Trochisci or little Balls, which you shall dry in the shadow. And when you will go to your bain or bathe, you shall take as much as you shall think good of the said Balls, which you shall break and mix with water, and anoint the blackness or spots with it before you enter into your bath. And when you begin to sweat, then rub the places with it, and wash them, and the spots will go out. It is proved and found true. Against the bruising of the face by a fall or slip. TAke the rind or bark of a radish root, and bray it well, and mix it with Honey, and anoint the place and it will heal you. Another way very good. YE shall take new soft cheese made of Goat's milk bray it with honey, and lay it upon the place, and cover it with a cloth, and it will take away the bruising immediately by the help of God. Against warts and malanders. YE shall take the herb called in Latin Scorpius, because it hath seeds like unto a Scorpion's tail: bray it well, and put to it a grain of salt, and lay it upon the warts, and they will fall of. Against swelling of the stomach, pain of the reins, gravel, phlegm, colic, the emorrhodes or piles: also to stay the flowers of a woman, and for those that have an infected liver and spleen: also for those that coghe ordinarily, and for them that have the falling syckennes. TAke an ounce of the roof of Enula campana, three ounces of fennel seed, two ounces of black Pepper. Stamp each of these things by themself, and sift them very fine. Than put all into honey half sodden, and give the Patient of it the quantity of a hazel nut with hot water. Some take it with oxymel, other some with wine, and other take it alone in a spoon, to make them piss the stone and gravel. Against the pain of the Spleen. TAke a dram of the root of Enula campana, dried and made in powder, and than sift it fine, and geue it the Patient fasting with old wine, and this will cure the Spiene. Another. TAke eveumis auquimis made in powder as much as you can take up with your three fingers, and bray it with wine, and give it the Patient to drink before breakfast, and it will take away the pain. For the pain of the loins or haunches. TAke the root of Iris or gladiolus, and bray it with quick Brimstone and bears grease, and lay it upon your loins like a plaster, and you shall find a sovereign remedy. Against the swelling or ulcers of the reins of the back, and kidneys. TAke the leaves of dry Roses, the seeds of black poppy, and the kernels or berries of Pyneaple, of equal quantity. Stamp each of these things by itself, and mingle all together, and take of it the bigness of a walnut, and put it in two mouth fulls of wine sodden, and three of water, and give it the Patient to drink, and it will heal him although he pissed blood. Against the pain of the gravel, and for to make a man piss. YOu shall take a little amber stone, of the root of Cyperns, and of black Pepper, stamp it, and than seeth it, and give it to the patient to drink a spoon full fasting, and it will make him piss, and assuage the pain of the gravel. Against the pain of the reins. TAke a pound of wild or marsh Mallows, fresh sheeps dung, & the old leaf of a hog, which is the fat that lieth by the back, and the ribs, which husbands use to roll up and keep to make saulues, of each two pound: Stamp these things and mingle them together. That done, lay it upon Wulle new shorn and unwashed, and so lay it upon the rains of your back in manner of a plaster, and it will shortly take away the pain. Against the gravel. TAke the roots of asparagus, in English Sperage, of Saxifrage, the root of clot or great Burrs, the root of Smallage or Alexander's, the root of Ebulus, in English Walwort or Danewort, three garlic heads, the leaves of Willows, and a little parsley. Stamp all these things and mingle them together, and give the Patient to drink of it three mornings with sodden wine, or with some sweet wine, or wine made sweet with honey, and it will make him piss the gravel. Against the pain of the bladder and gravel. TAke the skin of a Hare new slain, and put it hear and all in an earthen pot, or lay it upon a clean tile, & that done put it to the fire, so that you may make a powder of the same skin, the which powder being sifted, you shall keep in some clean vessel. And when you shall need it take thereof three spoon full in your drink: which thing soon appeaseth the grief of the bladder, and the the gravel. Nevertheless the remedy would have greater virtue, if you took the whole Hare alive, and put him in a new earthen pot, and stop all the holes with plaster or with clay, so that there come no air out. Than if you put the said pot into an Oven, and let it burn with a small fire, and when it is thoroughly burned, make it into a very fine powder, and sift it finely, and than use it for your purpose. This is very good for them that have the gravel, and that piss blood, if it be taken with a little wine. Against the bloody slyxe, or fretting torment in the belly. TAke milk, and quench hot flint stones in it, or elles some hot iron, and that done divers times, give it to drink unto the Patient (provided that he have not the ague) and he shallbe healed. Against the straining, fretting, and grypyoge of the belly. TAke seven or nine of the long and red berries of a wild rose tree, and let them be type. Bray them well, and give to the Patient with old wine, if he have not the ague: but if he have the angue, give them him with water. And if need be, you shall give them him so three days together, and he shall find it a sovereign remedy. For those that have fretting and gripping in the belly, and the lax. TAKE the yolk of Eggs raw or rosy, wild green Reasyns, Galls as much of the one as of the other in weight: mire all together in braying it, and give it to the Patient hot and he shallbe cured by the grace of God. Against the colic. TAke a Hen a live, and see that she eat not in two days: than kill her, and take the little skin that is in her breast, or throat bull, and dry it and make it in powder, the which you shall give the Patient, with some harsh or gross wine somewhat sharp. And the Patient must be fasting, and not having supped the night before, but kept in a good diet. Against the pain of the colic coming suddenly. TAke the heel of a Hare, and carry it about you, and the sudden colic shall never take you. Again the pain of the guts or bowels. YOu shall take Bay leaves, and seeth them in water, and give the Patient drink of this decoction and he shallbe healed. For to stop the lax. TAke the roots of Hearts horn next to the head, and make a fine powder of it with a file: and of this powder give a dram unto the Patient with red wine a goblet full: and this will stop the lax if he use it three mornings. Against the fretting of the belly or lax. YOu shall take one Pomegranade or many, and put them in an earthen pot, the which you shall stop well and lute about with Potter's clay, to the end there come no air out. This done, set it in an Oven to be burned: than the Pomegranade being well made into powder, keep it. And when you have any fretting or gripping in your belly, coming suddenly, drink a little of the same powder with wine, and you shall be soon cured. For to know a secret or hidden dyseaso of any man and to heal the same. TAke a young whelp that yet sucketh, and let him lie night and day with the man the space of three days, during the which time the patient shall take milk in his mouth, and spite in to the whelps mouth. Than take the said whelp and cleave him in pieces, and you shall know the sick part of the man by that of the dog, which you shall see either infected or whole and sound. For certainly the whelp draweth to himself the secret and hidden disease whereof he dieth, and the man shallbe healed, and you may bury the dog. For them that void blood at their fundament, and for those that have their blood broken. YOu shall take the young springs of nettles very tender, bray them well in a mortar, and take the juice of them, and give it the Patient to drink alone in the morning, or with some strong Uinaigre and cold water, three days together, and there is none so corrupt blood but it will purify, nor no lax so great but it will stop it. Against the worms that engender in men's bodies. YOu shall take the gall of a bull, and dip some Wulle in it, and lay it upon the Navel, and it will make the worms come out of the body. Against the gripping of the belly and desire to go to the stool and yet do nothing. TAke cow milk sodden, and give the Patient often times drink of it and he shall be whole. Against the pain of the colic. TAke the little bird called in Latin Vpupa in English a Lapwinge, and burn her whole with her feathers, and take of the ashes, and give it the Patient to drink in wine. Against the ulcers or fistules in the fundament of a man. TAke Date stones and burn them and than make them into a fine powder, & lay often times of the same upon the fistules or ulcers, or upon the hole of the fundament, and he shallbe whole. For to heal the emorrodes, or those that lose their blood. TAke Leeks and bray them well, and take the juice of them, the which you shall give the Patient to drink before breakfast, and the Emorrodes will soon cease by the grace of God. Against the ulcers of the fundament, and against the disease called commonly saint Fiacres syckennes. TAke the piss or ryne of a Pomegranade, break it and seeth it in good wine, than bray it well, and lay it upon the sore place like a plaster, and it will without fail heal the disease. For to ripe or break an aposteme or swelling in the gryne. TAke nasturtium, and bray it with pitch, and lay it upon the swelling or aposteme, and he shallbe whole. Another. TAke unslekt lime, two garlic heads, the yolks of three eggs, mingle all together, and lay it upon the sore place like a plaster: this will put away all the pain and swelling of the aposteme. Against hurt or flawing of the skin by chase and going either of the feet or between the thighs. TAke a mortar of lead, and a pestle of the same, and put in the said mortar some oil roset, and the yolk of an egg: the which things you shall grind until they become thick: and till some of the lead be mingled with the said ointment. And when it is thick like a plaster, spread it upon a fine & soft linen cloth, and lay it upon the pain, and continue thus three days until the pain be whole. Against the swelling and pain of the soles of the feet. TAke the Moss that groweth in the water, but let it be green, bray it well with oil olive, and lay it upon the place with a linen cloth, and it will cease the pain, and take away the swelling. To make warts fall of. WHen you kill a Hog, let him that hath the warts receive the blood even hot upon the place where the warts be, and assoon as it is dry let him wash it of. And if it be a woman that hath these warts, she must take the blood of a sow, and she shallbe healed of them. For to take away the felons and cats hears, which break out with weals in the fingers, and also knops growing in the feet. TAke ground worms, stamp them and with a little oil lay them upon the sores, and they will bring them away, and heal them. For to assuage the pain of the gout quickly, and for all grief of the feet. YOu shall take ground Worms, and put them in Uinaigre, that they may purge themselves of all the ordure and filth. The next morning wipe them dry, and put nine ounces of them in a pound of grease, braying them a good while, to the intent you may incorporate them: and there with anoint your feet, and the pain shall ease. Another way. TAke a Fore and seeth him well, than strain the decoction of him thorough a linen cloth, wherewith you shall bathe and wash often times your feet, and it will take away the pain. For to get out any thing that sticketh in a man's body as thorns and such other. TAke a piece of a Sponge or Wulle dipped in piss and lay it upon the thing that sticketh in the flesh, and it will come out without pain. Or else take some lard, and seeth it in it own grease, and than lay it upon the sore place and bind it, and it will draw out all thing that sticketh in the flesh. Here followeth certain receipts against the Plague. A composition preservative against the pestilence, excellent as it were treacle or Mythridatum. TAKE Pympynell dried an ounce and a half, Sordij veri, roots of Gentian, Imperatoriae, Zeduariae, of each six drams, Calamint, apiastrum or citraginis, enula campana roots, tormentillae, which is a kind of cinkfoyle, Bay berries, the seed of carduus benedictus, which is one of the kinds of the herb called atractilis an Orange or Citron, oxalidis, which is a kind of sorrel, Bole armenic prepared of each three drams, lykoryse scraped Glyeanisi seminis, the sedes of Scariola which is intibus sativa of the kinds of Endive and succory, Cynamomi exquisiti, of each two drams, Gylloflowers, red Roses, Coriander prepared, the seed of basil, Corticis citrij sicci, Santali lutei vel rubri, Agollochi, that is Xilaloe, vel ligni aloes, the scraping of Juorie, red Coral, Pearls of each a dram and a half: Saffron two scruples. All these being beaten very small, mingle them with Sugar of equal quantity, or else with Oxymelite or syrupo acetato or oxysacchara, or rather the Syrup of Lemons: But unto weak stomachs contrary let it be made like to a liquid confection, either opiatae vel massae, or else let there be an electuary per tabellas of a dram weight, or four scruples, if you add unto every ounce of Sugar a dram of the said powder. You shall take of it two or three hours before your meals. If it be powder, the quantity shallbe a dram or half a dram at the least, with some convenient liquor of those which are now named: If it be opiatae, the quantity of a Chestnut or Walnutte. If it be in form of a mass and thick you shall make two or three Pylles or more very soft for to take at one time, drinking after it some such liquor as I have already spoken of. When it is in little tabrets, you may take one or two. Another composition in powder on in another manner for the same. TAke the roots of angelica, Gentian, Zedoaria, of the roots of tormentilla, the seeds of oxalidis citrij mah; Cinnamon elect, which a kind of cassia, of yellow or red Sandale or Sandars, carduus benedictus, of each two drams the pill of an Orange, a dram and a half: the scraping of Juorie a dram, red Coral half a dram, of the best Sugar like weight, put to all these things as the powder shall seem pleasant & good. Or if you will seek another way as is spoken of the first preservative. As concerning the quantity of this composition at every time, & the time of using it, let it be as the other before. But if you will have them both, let them not be of like sort, but the one in powder or in tabrets, the other in opiate or mass with pills. Common pills very good for the same. TAke aloes probatae & lotae two ounces, of Saffron an ounce, of good Myrrh as much, or else Myrrh and ammoniacum dissolved in white wine, of each half an ounce, mix them with honey rosef. And in winter you may put to it Zedoaria, Agallochi or red Sanders of each a dram. But in summer take away the Myrrh and ammoniacum, and put to it bull armenic prepared three drams, red Coral half a dram, Camphor half a scruple. You shall commonly take a pill or twain before your meals. Sometime you shall proceed unto a dram after your first sleep. Antidotes or medicines preservatives and comfortable, of small cost, easy to find and prepare for poor folk. 1. TAke Garlic, and drink a little wine after it: or a fig with a Walnut, and Rue and a little 2. salt specially in winter. 3. Take twenty leaves of Rue with two Walnuts and as many figs, and a grain of salt, all being mixed together receive it in the morning. 4. Take six leaves of Rue with Uinaigre. 5. Take the root of the herb called in latin Imperatoria of some Laserpitium gallicum in English Pellitory of Spain. 6. Take the root of angelica. 7. The root of Gentian. 8. The root of Zedoaria. 9 Of carduus benedictus. 10. Of carlina. 11. Take the herb called Scordium, of the one, of the two, or of more, in small powder the quantity of a dram, either in a soft mass made with sodden Honey and Uinaigre, or with some handsome Syrup, as of Lemons, or in opiate, the bigness of a Chestenutte or of a Cyche pease with Wine in Winter, in Summer with Rose water, or with the Juice of sorrel. 12. Take sorrel alone, or with pimpernel tempered in Uinaigre, and drink of it in the morning. 13. Or the Juice of them, where with you may make a toast in Summer. 14. Or juniper berries; green pimpernel leaves, of betony, of Pulegion, of Sorrel as much of the one as of the other, brayed together, sodden with sodden Honey, and a little Uinaigre like a concern. Another medicine. 15. Take Jenyper berries, Bole armenic of each two Dragmes, or of equal weight. Being stamped let it be laid in sweet oil and Uinaigre, or in Oximilite, in a mean form, either opiate or mass. If it be opiate, take as much of it as a chestnut. If it be mass take one great pill and drink after it a little Hydromel or Oxymel, or wine. The things of favour or sweet smell, as powder, balls, waters, perfumes, and first a powder for many purposes. TAke Iris florentiana four ounces, of marjoram in Latin samsuehum, red Roses, Cloves, of each an ounce, Melissophilli, Nucis odorate or muscate, Zedoaria, Cynamome, Agallochi, yellow Sanders, Mastic, Storax calamita, Bengewine, of each half an ounce, calami odorati, spicae nardi radicis, of each a dram: Juncus odoratus two scruples. Make of these a powder to smell, to be beaten and broken in some piece of silk or fine linen cloth. Beat also these things grossly for to perfume and to wash your head and beard: or else let them lie a certain time in white wine and rose water, and afterward strain them. And keep that which shallbe strained for to use when you will, or let them be stilled in some double vessel, that there may be aqua aromatica. As I said it is for to perfume your chamber morning and evening, being laid upon coals, or this powder to give a good odour keeping it about you or in some place between your garments and linen, or to make a little bag of it, or to mix it with some liquor meet for to wash your head and beard, or otherwise to wet your handkerchief in it, or some piece of sponge to swell to or to make distilled water of it, for to smell to. A perfume. TAke coals of Will was eight ounces, Ladani puri, two ounces, Frankincense of the male kind of the wood and berries of Juniper of each an ounce, Agallochi or Xilaloes, Bengewine, Storar calamita, of each half an ounce, Nutmegs, yellow Sanders, of each three drams, Cloves, Storax liquida, of each two drams, Zedoaria, calamus aromaticus, of each a dram, gomme tracaganthae, dissolved in rose water sufficiently. And make little perfumes of what fashion it pleaseth you. A smelling ball. TAke pure Labdanum, two ounces, Bengewine an ounce and an half, the coals of Willows an ounce Storax calamita sire drams: Iris florentiana, half an ounce, Cloves three drams: Maioram, yellow or red sanders of each two drams: red roses calamus aromaticus of each two scruples, Levigentur. Than take the oil of sweet Almonds, benzoin of each sire drams Storar calaminta half an ounce. Let these things seeth together with sire drams of Rose water. Than strain it, and let that which is strained be made soft with two ounces of white Wax, and Storax liquida a dram. Make it like a cereatum or plaster with the which the other things must be stamped and incorporated with a hot pestle. Put to it a dram and a half of Musk, or else two scruples. Another sweet ball meeter for the Summer. TAke red roses and Violets, of each three ounces and a half, the berries and leaves of Myrtle if you can get them, coals of Willow, of each an ounce: Jenyper berries, the Pills of Oranges, of each sire drams, yellow or red Sanders two drams: Bengewine a dram, camphor two scruples. Make hereof a powder. Than take oil of Roses an ounce and a half, Storax calamita, benzoin of each two drams: an ounce of rose water, or as much as shall suffice. Make that soft that is strained with two ounces of white Wax. Make a ceratum, and beat all the rest together with a hot Pestle. Put to it a little Musk five or six grains. Outward remedies to purge the air, the easiest, the presentest, and those that are of the smallest price for men of small ability. perfume some juniper berries of the root cloven asunder and dried, and of the other drugs before mentioned for the first out ward remedy. 2. Uinaigre alone, or mixed with Rose water, for to sprinkle your chamber. 3. For to hold oftentimes in your mouth, and chaw, namely when you go out and keep company with men, there also the pill and seed of a Citron, which giveth a good odour: cinnamon, Cloves, the roots of angelica or Zedoaria, and such like, as are afore mentioned. 4. For to smell with a Sponge, or with a Handkerchief day and night, Malmsey, or other strong wine and sweet, as Muscadel alone, or else with rose water, wherein there hath been tempered some aromatical drogge already spoken of, as Cloves or nutmegs. 5. Or good Uinaigre twice as much as of cold water with a little Camphor, specially in Summer. A powder against the worms. TAke Coriander prepared five drams, juniper berries three Dragmes, Sothernwodde, Hearts horn, corallinae, of each two drams: white Agaricke new made in balls: Nutmeg, cinnamon elect, of each two scruples, make of this a meetly fine powder. The whole sum of the regiment and governing of a man's self. 1. IT is necessary that you be kept neat and clean, and all things in your house, flying diligently and as much as you can all evil air. 2. Avoid all excess and superfluity, specially in drinking and eating, and from women. 3. Also from travail, and from excess in sleeping and watching. 4. Beware of moist meats and corruptible, and of all things that is cause of rawness, and other evil humours. 5. Live soberly, drink and eat at ordinary hours, and in good order. 6. Take your rest, and use some neat and good exercise or occupation. 7. Maintain and keep your natural or accustomed voiding. 8. Be merry. A sovereign powder against the venom of the plague for rich men and for princes. TAke Sapphire, Hyacinthe, Smaragdus, of one of these, or two, or of all, one dram: of Pearls, Bole armenic of the best, the seeds of Oxalis, of each two Dragmes: of the scraping of ivory two scruples, of Unicorns horn a scruple, of the seeds of Ocimum half a scruple, yellow or red sanders: Agallochi or Xilaloes of the best. Doronici, cinnamon exquisite, saffron, of each three grains, Musk six grains. Make hereof a fine powder. You may leave out the Musk for them that love it not. The use of the said powder and for other that follow shallbe declared afterward. A powder for poor folk, of no less efficacy and strength than the second. TAke bull armenic of the best two drams: the seed of Oxalis three drams, aloes hepaticum lotum red Coral of each a dram, the powder of Diamargariti frigidi two scruples: the powder of Diatrio santalon eight scruples, the pills of dry Oranges, Cloves, cinnamon, Saffron, of each five Dragmes. Make thereof a fine Powder. You shall use the said Powders with Conserves, or without them, with Syroppes, distilled waters, or rather with Juices, and other such convenient liquors A drink for poor folk, and in a places, where there is none or very little juice, either of Syrup, citrons, Lemons or Pomegranades. YOu shall take the powder prescribed for poor folk conditi rosati, or conserve of Roses, conditi boraginis, or rather coraginis, of each a dram and a half: of the suck of Oxalis two unces Succi arantij. Succi coraginis extract with Rose water: of good white Uinaigre of each an ounce, and make thereof a drink. A drink often times tried, profitable, and wholesome, the which as many men say, was never found vain. TAke powder of Motherwort, of the first, or of the second two drams: the seeds of Sancti or of Oranges: of Myrrh, of each a dram: the scrapings of Hearts horn a dram, mix them together well beaten. You must drink this with white Uinaigre before a fire: and as soon as there appeareth any swelling in the gryne or flank, or underneath the arm holes, or any where else, the remedy must be ready: for it provoketh great sweat whereby the venom or infection anoydeth in every part. The Patient thus sweating his infected sweat beside a fire, must be rubbed and dried with hot linen clothes, which must be always changed, until the savour of the sweat begun with rubbing. Of the said powders also a man may make conserves or opites after this manner that followeth. Opiate. TAke of the first or second powder, Orange pills conserved, of each an ounce and a half. conditi rosati, that is to say, the conserve of Roses, the conserve of bugloss of each two ounces, of the syrup of the juice of Citrons or Lemons or Oranges, or else of Oxalis or omphacini, as much as shall suffice. Make thereof a liquid electuary in form of an opiate. Whereof take an ounce or more, & drink after it some of the foresaid liquors, and such as here follow. It shallbe well done, to mingle an ounce of Purcelane with the liquors as followeth. A drink meet after every taking of the said opiate, or to be mixed with the takings of the same opiate, for the strongest or meanest men, according to the place and tyme. TAke the Juice of Citrons or Lemons three ounces; of the wine of sour Oranges of white Rose water, of each an ounce. And mix them together. A drink for poor folk. TAke the Juice of sorrel very clear three ounces, of bitter or sour Oranges, good white & clear Uinagre, rose water, of each an ounce. Make thereof a drink, putting to it a little Sugar if you wil A drink to cause one to sweat. TAke good treacle or Mythridatum a dram, bolearmenick of the best, or of the powder of one of the herbs called cardiacae, afore described half a dram: Scabiose water two ounces: water of Oxalis, bugloss or Borage of each an ounce: and make thereof a drink. Another drink easy for poor folk. TAke the decoction of Scabiose, and of the flowers of red poppy a glassful with a little Sugar. Or a Ptysane made with Barley and anise seed and the roots of Persley. Or of the decoction of Cyche peason, the roots of Persley, the roots of succory: the one or the other decoction with sharp Syrup two ounces, or with Sugar and a little white Uinaigre. These drinks must be taken hot, the Patient being well covered in his bed. The treacle and mithridate, although they be of great efficacy in this behalf, yet they are not meet for women with child, nor for young children. The use also of them ought not to be often, nor in great quantity, when the fever is great. Some men's advise is to mingle the medicine for sweeting with some distilled water, or with the decoction of herbs, concerning the part to the which the venomous matter hath his course. Now if a man know that the matter goeth to the head, they will that the patient take it for to sweat with some distilled water, or with the decoction of Betony: but if it go to the vital parts or to the breast and heart, with the water or decoction of Borage, which is very bugloss. If it go to the belly and bowels, with liquor of Wormewodde. If to the liver, then with the decoction, or water of agrimony, which is the true cupatorium. An epithem or medicine to lay the region of the heart to cool it. TAke Rose water four ounces: water of Violets and of Nempher of each three ounces: water of bugloss, of Oxalis, of wine of pomegranads of good Uinaigre, of each two ounces: of Coriander prepared three drams, red Roses, flower of Pearls of each a dram: of red Sanders half a dram: of both corals, of Camphor, of each a scruple: Saffron half a scruple, mingle them together. And make thereof an epithem. An epithem for the Heart good for poor folks, which may also serve for the liver. IT is made of twelve ounces or a pound of Rose water, of three ounces of good white Uinaigre, putting to it in Summer white and red Sanders, of each a dram. If it be in Winter, in stead of Sanders you shall put to it Cloves, the flowers of Nardus celtica, or of Lavendar of each a dram. An epithem or medicine for the liver. TAke the water of succory in Latin ambubeia, Rose water, of Oxalis of each four ounces: white Uinaigre: wine of Pomegranades of each two ounces: powder of Diarhodon abbatis two drams: the powder Diamargariton frigidum, which is a confection made with Pearls, one dram: red Sanders half a dram: Camphier half a scruple. Make thereof an epithem. Local medicines, and first a plaster or ointment, for to draw and dissolve. TAKE the roots of Narcissus, or of flower-deluce with his oil, and bray it with Honey. It is good for a delicate body, and easeth all the pain. Another easy drawing medicine. TAke Rue or Dogon brayed with treacle, or treacle alone, or of a radish root cut into little round pieces, and lay on one after another, and change it often times. Another very good in manner of a plaster. TAke Diachylum, two ounces, Ammoniacum, Galbanum, of each half an ounce and put them together. medicines of the kinds that burn the skin or flesh called medicamenta caustica, or vesicatoria, whereof the first is very strong. APlaister of Cantarides, and of unslaked lime mixed with oil of walnuts in steed of a lancet, for to get out the swelling. Another plaster. TAKE the roots of Narc isse or of Lilies sodden with ashes, of Pigeons dung of each equal parts: of melligo anacardina called mell anacardinum as much as shall suffice. And make thereof a plaster. Another stronger. TAke fermentum acris, sour leaven, Soap, Figs, old walnuts, of each half an ounce, iris florentinae mustard seed, unslaked lime, Calcanthum, that is to say romain Uitriol, beaten together of each two drams: as much Turpentine as is needful. Make of it a plaster. A medicine that cleanseth and purifieth. THe yolk of an Egg mixed with a little Barley flower or wheat flower, putting to it honey roset. It is very sweet & meet for a delicate body. Another of the same very good. TAke the Juice of Garlic six ounces: the Juice of Wormewodde, good Honey of each three ounces: Barley flower or Wheat flower, or flower darnel or Bearebarley two or three drams. Seeth it until it be some what thick, and make of it an ointment that mundifieth or purgeth the sore. A plaster incarnatyfe. TAke the leaves of pimpernel, of Betaine, vervain, semperuivi tertij, commonly called Vermicularis of the less century, of each a handful and a half: seeth it in white wine unto the half. And being strained put to it Rosen, Wax, sheeps suet, of each three ounces. Seeth all together with a little woman's milk put in it, until the Juices be consumed. Than when you have taken it from the fire, put to it when it beginneth to be cold, Rosen, Turpentine, three ounces, clear Mastic and proved ten drams, aloes hepaticum two drams: mingle them and stir them with a porsicke, and make of it a plaster. A repercussyfe and resolutive ointment against the Canker. TAke Led burned and washed; Pompholix which the apothecaries do call Nil, Frankincense, of each two ounces, Wormewodde, of that which is called absinthium ponticum half an ounce, oil of Roses three ounces, Wax six drams: the juice of nightshade, as much as is sufficient for the thickness of the ointment. A plaster dyapompholigos of Theodoricke, for to stop the gnawing and eating of the canker. It is repercusfive, refrigerative and desiccative. TAke good oil of Roses, white Wax, of each two ounces: the juice of the red grains or berries of the herb called Solanum two ounces: red Led washed an ounce: Led burned and washed, Pompho lygoes commonly called Tutia, of each half an ounce: frankincense of the male kind two drams. Make thereof a plaster. An ointment very sweet for cankers that have corrupt matter in them, which also allayeth the pain of those that have no corrupt matter in them. TAke good Wax, Turpentine, Bulls suet, the new & fresh marrow of a Deer or Calf, oleum ricinium, new and fresh Goose grease, Honey elect, Frankincense, Diphrix, Pomphilix, of each equal portions, and of oesipum thrice as much, without the Frankincense the author thinketh it will be sweeter, but with it more resolutive and will ripe it the sooner, and is better for Cankers that have no corrupt matter in them. An ointment of a marvelous virtue against the eating and running of the canker, and to take away all the grief of the same. TAke Cue or Sumach sextarios three. Pills of Cyprus three ounces, Galls not ripe, Cassia of each an ounce & a half: Vinum adrianum, that is to say: wine that bindeth, and old wine of good odour five sextarios. All these things being bruised together, lay them in wine three days, and then seeth them three or four wawmes stirring it with a slice of Cypress. Then having wrong all out diligently, and cast away the thick of it, the Juice will seethe in the thyckennesse of Honey, for to be kept anfterwarde in a vessel of Glass. This ointment must be used alone without any mixture aganyst the said disease, adding to it sometime a little wine. If the medicine be to thick you must make it liquid and soft, for the syckennesse which possesseth the privy parts of a woman, that is to say, the neck of the Matrice. If you dissolve it in the milk of an Ass, it mitigateth the pain, also is very profitable for all other scorching of the skin that runneth in length, & extendeth more and more, and bringeth no inflammation. It is good for to dry up the ears that have been of long time subject to a running and putrefied matter of blood corrupted. Also for the Gaumes that be infected and withered, also against ulcers that be hard to heal, and can not be cut, but with great pain, if it be mingled moderately and reasonably. But how is it that soft and gentle remedies should resist such a disease, to the which the roughest and the most wyldestgeve place. The said ointment is to be prepared as followeth. Take Sumach a pound: Pylies of Cyprus three ounces: of unripe Galls, of Cassia, of each an ounce. Vinum adrianum, that is to say: Vinum astringens, four pound. A plaster mitigative, and very gentle for Cankers, specially of the breasts or paps. TAke Saffron, poppy, Frankincense of the male kind of each a dram: lethargy, Plumbi usti loti two drams, Ceruse prepared and ounce and a half: white Wax two ounces, Goose grease, new and fresh butter of each three ounces. Rosacei boni four ounces. The powder being brayed with the Juice of Morella must be mingled with the things melted. FINIS. Here after follow many goodly receipts, touching the handling of divers metals, all well tried and approved. And first for to harden iron. TAKE Ueruine, and bray it stalks and all, and keep the juice of it in some glass. Now when you will harden any iron, put to the same suyce as much of piss, with the juice of a little worm called in Latin Spondilis, in dutch Engherlincker. And let not your iron be to hot, but when you see that it is indifferent hot, quench it in the said mixion, and let it cool of itself until you see sytle spots upon it somewhat yellow, and than put it to the said water. If it wax very blue, it is a sign that it is not hardened enough. For to harden knydes, and other such like. TAke the marrow of a Horse, wherein you shall cool your Iron. For to harden a file or other instrument of iron. TAke old shoes and burn them, and make them into a powder, and put to it as much salt: cast this mixture upon and under the Files in a coffer or Chest of iron covered with a cover of iron: and lay the powder so that it may be as much above as under, the thickness of a straw. Cover the said coser with his cover, and put it into the fire until it be red hot: after this let it fall into some cold water, & you shall have the Files good and very hard. You may anoint them also with oil of Line or he goats blood. To harden any other substance material. TAke the juice of Cynkefoyle, with the juice of Wormewodde, and put it in some Glass, than take worms which you shall stamp, and strain thorough a linen cloth, and rub the hot iron with all, and than quench it in the said juices. To make any instrument of steel hard and sharp. TAKE the leaves and roots of bugloss sodden in water, wherein you shall quench your instrument of iron. Another. TAke Dragontion with his roots, and as much vervain: seeth this in clear water, and let it cool, and ware clear, and so anoint your instrument with it. Also take man's piss mixed with clear water, made lukewarm: in this quench your instrument. Also you may harden it in good Mustard made with strong Uinaigre. Also when you will harden any thing you must see that it be clean neat and polished. For to keep it from cleaning when it is a hardening. TAke Tallo we and melt it, than power it in cold water until it wax thick and swim in the water the thickness of a finger. Than take your instrument hot, and put it first thorough the Tallow and then into the water. Some quench also shurtes of mail in the juice of Rape roots. To make iron or steel soft. IF you will make iron or steel as soft as copper, take unslaked lime with as much Alum, well stamped first in some mortar: mix well these two things together, and lay them upon some linen cloth the thickness of a finger or half a finger, and wrap your instrument that you will have made soft in it, and lay it so in some small fire the space of an hour, until the fire go out, and that your instrument be cold of itself, and than shall you find it as soft as copper. Another. Say your iron or Steel in a small fire, and when the fire is out, let your iron cool of itself. Another. TAke the water of radish roots and quench your iron or steel in it. Also you may take the ashes mixed with unfleckte lime, and make thereof lie, the which you shall let run thorough the said substances: in this lie steep your iron or steel the space of a night, and so shall you make it meet to cut or engrave in. afterward if you will harden it again you may quench it in cold water. Another. TAke the yellow flowers like to marigolds, the leaves be large and as broad as the nail of a man's finger: take them stalks and all, & stamp them, and strain them thorough a linen cloth, and keep the juice in a pot. Than put your iron or steel in the fire until it be red hot, and then quench it in the said water, and it will be as soft as copper. Another. TAke some great snails, and other great ground worms of equal portion, and the third part salt. Than take an earthen pot, or some other platter of earth full of holes, wherein you: shall powder or salt your snails and worms, and receive the salt which shall melt and drop from them into another pot set underneath, and the thickest substance will remain in the vessel full of holes, the which you may cast away. This done lay a stone upon the pot, and seeth it until it foam or froth no more: then take it from the fire, and let it cool. In this water you may quench your iron or steel being red hot, and by this means you shall make it as soft as copper, and for to harden it again, you must make it red hot, and quench it in cold water. Another. TAke the herb called fool foot, and distill it: then make your iron red hot, and quench it in the same water. Also take snails and stamp them with good Uinaigre, wherein you may quench your iron or steel: Or quench iron in the blood of an Eel, and it will be like wife soft. Also take iron or steel, and wrap it in Potter's clay with a we ate linen cloth, and lay it in the fire, and afterward let it cool of itself. Take also the juice of Marubium, and the juice of millfoil, with the juice of radish roots mixed with good wine, and quench your iron in the mixtion. To make Crystal soft so that you may break it in pieces. TAke burned lead and Crystal as much of the one as of the other, and break it upon a stone, than put this mixture into a melting pot, and melt it, and so shall you make it into what form or fashion you will. The same may you break and bruise as you wil Another. TAke quick lime and ashes of equal quantity, and lie with it, passing and straining it thorough the ashes and lime nine or ten times. That done steep your steel or Crystal in the same lie, the space of. xxiiii. hours, and you shall find it soft. For to soften iron. TAke the water that is upon the blood of a man when he is let blood, which you shall handsomely power from the blood. Than lay your iron in the fire until it be hot, than with a little feather wet in the said water rub it so long with it until the water vanish away, and it will be soft. Another. TAke scummed honey, the new piss of a he goat, alum, borace, oil olive and salt: mingle all well together, and quench your iron in the mixtion. To soften a little that which is to hard. THat which is to hard, keep it so long in the fire till it be very hot: Than take Tallow, with the which you shall rub your matter, and let it so cool. To mollify and soften iron or steel, in such sort that you may bow and wind it which way you will. TAke camomile flowers with one part of herb Robert, and one part of vervain: put all this in a pot with hot water, and so stop it that no smoke may come out: than seeth it, and quench your iron in it. To solder all things, and first iron. TAke an ounce of salt armoniac, an ounce of common salt, an ounce of Tartre calcined, an ounce of bell metal, three ounces of Antimonium: stamp well all together and sift or bolt it: this done put all in a linen cloth, and wrap it round about with potter's clay well prepared the thickness of a finger and let it ware very dry: than put it between two potsherds upon a small fire, and let it heat by little and little. afterward make the fire greater, until your whole mass become red and melt together: than let it so cool, and after make it into a powder. And when you will solder any thing, lay the two peeches that you will solder upon a table, as near the one to the other as you can, but you must lay some paper under the pieces. This done, cast of the said powder between the joints, and a little upon them: than make some crust of potters, but yet so that it be open above: after this put some Borace in hot wine until it be all consumed, than with a little feather rub the said powder, and incontinent it will begin to boil and seethe: and when you see it boil no more, it is a sign that the soldered and consolidation is made. And if there be any excrescence or rising up, you must diminish it by rubbing it, for it will not be filed. To solder any hot thing. TAke gomme water, chawke made in powder, and make thereof a dough or paste, wherewith you shall anoint the thing that is a sunder, laying it upon a table as is afore said: than take away the dough or paste that is upon the joining of the two pieces, and leave it on both sides: than anoint the joint with Soap, and hold a hot coal over it, and by and by the said substance will melt. After this take away the said dough or past and it done. To solder copper. TAke balfe an ounce of copper, three quarters of an ounce of white Arsenic: melt the copper, and divide your Arsenic in two parts, and cast one part into the copper melted, mingle all together, than cast into it also the other part: and than power it upon a stone, and beat it small. To solder iron. File well to purpose and proportion the joints of the irons, and than lay them in the fire, as is afore said, casting upon it some Uenise glass, and it will be soldered. A powder that will make all metal pliable and soft. TAke a quartern of Antimonium, axinigia vitri, and salt of equal quantity: Make all together in a powder: than take of the same powder three parts, and one part of the metal and melt it. Another upon brass. TAke salt stamped, Tartre, Saltpetre, axinigia vetri, ashes of vines, or Lies of wine, quick lime: Make all this in powder, and lay it upon the place that you will solder. For to grave in iron or steel, knives and harness. TAke one part of coals made of birch stamped, two pacts of Uitrsoll, with as much salt armoniac: Than stamp all together with Uinaigre, until it be like unto a soft dow or past. Now when you will grave in iron or other things, make first the description or figures that you will grave, and that with vermilion mixed with oil of Line, and let it dried, and afterward cover it with the said substance the thickness of a finger, the which the whoter it is laid upon it, the sooner it will be done, but you must take heed you burn it not. And when it is weldrie, take away the said powder, and wash well the graving. Also some take two parts of Spanish green, or one part of common salt, and in stamping it in some mortar, they put to it some strong Uinaigre, and than do it as is aforesaid. Take also Vitriol, Alom, Salt, Uinaigre, coals of birch, and do as before. To grave with water. TAke Spanish green called Uerdet, quick Silver, Sublime, Vitriol, and Alum of each equally, stamp well all together, and put it in a glass, leaving it so half a day, stirring it often times: Than make your description or figures as you will, with Wax or artificial ore and Oil of Line mixed together, or Uermillion mixed with Oil of Line, than anoint it with that water, and let it alone so the space of a day: But if you will have your description very deep graved, leave it so standing longer. But if you will engrave writings or Images, you shall make a ground of Wax, wherein you shall make your description with the point of a Bodken even to the bottom: Than power the water upon it which water will engrave it. Or else you may lay upon your description made as before is said, some Marcurium sublimatum, and than cast some good Uinaigre upon it, and let it alone so half an hour. Another stronger and more biting. TAke a quarter of an ounce of Spanish grieve, alumen plumae, salt armoniac, Tartre, common Salt, of each a quarter of an ounce, all being well stamped and mixed with strong Uinaigre, leave it so the space of an hour. And if you will that your description be high or raised up, writ it with artificial ore and Oil of Line▪ brayed and mingled together: and let it dry well: Than heat the said water in a pan leaded within, letting it alone upon the fire. Than take your steel and hold it over the said pan, upon the which you shall power of the said water with a spoon, and so the water will fall again into the pan and there shallbe nothing lost. Do thus the space of a quarter of an hour, but let not the water be to hot, lest that the Oil which was mixed with the Uernishe go not out. This done, rub over the said substances with ashes or quick Lime, and than shall you find that which before was anointed, whole and high, and the other engraned. To make a colour of gold or silver to lave upon metal, and to make also a ground of gold or silver, upon iron, bells, or stones, which shall not go of with water. TAke one part of Ochre, the second part of minium, the fourth part of Bole armenic, and as much Aqua●ire, and bray well altogether with Oil of linseed, and put to it also the bigness of a little nut of Gallistenstein and. iii. or. iiii. drops of Uernishe. If the colour be to thick, put a little more of the said oil to it: Than strain it thorough a fine linen cloth into some clean vessel, and it will be as thick as honey and than rub what you will with it, and let it dry, and than lay your gold or silver. upon it. A colour of gold to set upon brass or copper. TAke a little pot well leaded, and put into it three ounces of oil of linseed, than take half an ounce of Mastic, and half an ounce of aloes hepaticum ritrinum, and make it well into a powder, and put it into the said oil, and cover it close with another pot wherein you shall make a little hole above, that is to say in the bottom of the said pot that shallbe uppermost. Anoint the said pot well with potter's earth and let them be so close one upon another, that nothing may come out: than put in above a stick broad at the end, with the which you may stir it: and let all seethe as they do Painters varnish. This done polished well that which you will guilt, and lay the said colour upon it, and dry it in the Sun, and if there be not enough, put more on until it be well. Another. TAke dry Uernishe, Amber, Alum, of these two as much of the one as of the other: than take Uernishe, and oil of linseed: seeth all together on a fire of coals in a pot well leaded, that it may be well mirt together: then assay it upon a knife, and if it be to thick, put more oil to it: but if it be to clear or to thin put more Alum to it. Another. TAke half an ounce of aloe hepaticum citrinum, half an ounce of Amber, these two being made in powder set them on a moderate fire. in a pot well leaded, but let it not be to hot at the first. And when all is melted, power some boiling oil upon it, stirring and mixing it well together with a little stick: after this let it cool, & strain it thorough a linen cloth. Another. TAke half an ounce of bull Armenick, half an ounce of white gomme, and set it upon a fire of coals, putting to it an ounce of oil of Line seed, and when you may draw it in length like a thread, it is made. A colour of gold upon brass. TAke oil of linseed well clarified on the fire: than put to it Amber, and aloe hepaticum citrinum, of each alike, and being well stamped, mingle it so well with the oil on the fire that it may be thick, then take it from the fire, and set it on the ground well covered the space of three days: And the brass that you shall gilt, shall take the colour of gold. To make copper of a silver colour. TAke wine lose, alum and salt: bray well altogether upon a stone: and put unto it a leaf or two of silver, braying them also with the other foresaid things. Put all in a pot well leaded, putting to it some water: then cast your copper into it, and after rub it with a rubber: and so shall you see when it is enough. To guilt iron or steel. TAke one part of wine cheese, half asmuch of salt armoniac, and as much spanish green, and a little salt: Seethe all in white wine and anoint your iron or steel, with it when you have well polished it: and so let it dry, and then gilded it with gold ground. To make a water for to gild upon iron or steel. TAke an ounce of the ashes of wine lose burned, an ounce of white wine, an ounce of Alom, half an ounce of salt gemma, alumen plumae the weight of two groats, Spanish green the weight of two groats, copperas the weight of a groat, bay salt, a pint of ruening: seeth this unto the half, and than put it in a new pot, laying upon it. seven. or. viii. new paper leaves, and a tile over that, to the end it may take no air. To keep all manner of iron, or steel clean, and also all manner of instruments of war. TAke Led filed very small, and put it in a pot with oil olive, until it cover it, leaving it so nine days together: Than anoint with the same oil, harness, sword, iron or steel, and it shall never rust. The grease of neats feet sodden is also good for the same. THE second Book containing the manner how to take out quickly with water or Lie, without hurting any thing, all manner of spots of garments of cloth, velvet, silk, or other, whether they be spots of oil, grease, wine, or what so ever they be. To bring a cloth that was stained to his colour again. TAKE a pound of earthen pots bruised, and having powered upon it about four pints of water, let it rest a night. Than power out the Lie, and put into the same two Ox galls, & a handful of dry birchen leaves, and let them seeth together half an hour long, or until the leaves go to the bottom. Than let it cool, and such colour as you will restore that was stained, take the shearings or flocks of the cloth of the same colour, and seeth it again with the said Lie, leaving it so to rest the space of xiiii. days or more: for the Lie will draw unto itself the colour of the shearings or flocks. Than power it out, and wash the cloth with it, and it shall receive his first colour again. To take spots out of cloth. TAke cold Lie made of the ashes of Beech, and put to it a little wine Lies, and of the old clay of some oven, put the cloth into it where the spot is, for it will take all the spot out, than wash your cloth with clean water, and dry it in the Sun. And if the spots be not well taken out do it again as before. Another way. TAke six ounces of alumen fecis, four ounces of raw tartar, two ounces of alum, half a dram of camphor, half a dram of Dragon's blood: stamp them well, and mingle them well together. Than take six ounces of an Ox gall, three pints of clear water, put all together in a kettle; and seeth it until it be diminished of the two third parts, than strain it thorough a linen cloth, and though the gall nor the camphor were not in it, yet the water would be strong enough: when you will occupy it, bath the piece of new cloth in the said water, and rub well the spot withal: and when the cloth is no more wet which rubbing, wet it again, and rub the cloth with it until the spot be out. This done, take whole water, and wash the place where the spot was: but if the cloth be white take a little Soap with the same water, and distill it, and occupy it as before. Another way. TAke six Ox galls, and twice as much rain water, half a pound of Tartre, an ounce of Alom, stamp them small, and take a glasseful of Uinaigre, into the which you shall put six drams of Vitriol well brayed, power all together, and seeth it until it be diminished of the two third parts, and than use it as is afore said. A water to take spots out of white cloth. TAke four ounces of alumen fecis, a pint of water, and seeth them until they be consumed to the. iiii. part. Than take white Soap and cut it small, an ounce of Alum: put all into the water, & let it stand the space of two days, & use it for your white cloth as before. To take spots of grease or oil out of white cloth. TAke whey of wylke sodden with flower, steep your cloth in it so far as to the spot, the space of a night: than wash it with fair river water, and hang it in the most heat of the Sun: but if the cloth be of a noble colour, you may not let it be to hot lest the Sun hurt the colour: for the heat of the Sun soon hurteth fair colours. To take spots of grease and oil out of all sorts of cloth white or other. TAke the water that pease hath been sodden in, and steep your cloth where the spot is in it, and than wash it with clean river water, and hang it in the Sun. Another. TAke cold Lie, lies of white wine made a little hot, and mix them well together. But you must take heed they be not to hot and wash your cloth as before. To take spots of wine out of all manner of cloth. TAke Lie made with ashes of beech, white wine lees as much of the one as the other, lay your cloth in it a night, and wash it afterward with cold water, and dry it in the Sun. To take all manner of spots out of silk. TAke the juice of great and round mushrooms of a sharp taste, wet the spots in it the space of two hours, and than wash them with clear water, and let them dry. To take all spots out of crimson Velvet. TAke the ashes made of vine twigs, and make therewith good Lie, whereof you shall take but a pint, and put into it half an ounce of alumen fecis, and let it stand a little while, and than strain it. This done, take a dram of Alum, half a dram of Spanish Soap, and half a dram of soft Soap a quarter of a bragme of common salt, and a quarter of salt armoniac, half a quarter of the juice of Celandine, a quarter of the gall of a Ealfe. Put all together and strain it thorough a linen cloth. And when you will occupy of the said water, take flocks or shearings of Scarlate, and a little Brasyl small; seeth all that a little in the said water, and than strained thorough a linen cloth, and you shall have a fair water, which will take the spots out of any like crimson colour. And what colour soever your cloth be that hath the spots, the same colour flocks or shearinges must you take. Not withstanding if it be not red, you must leave out your brasil. A water to take all spots out of cloth of gold and velvet. TAke raw red Arsenic, martem crudum, as much of the one as of the other, and when they be well brayed, power some fair water upon them, and putting the herb cinquefoil to it, seeth it unto half: and than let it cool, and set it in the Sun two hours: than wash your cloth in it, and let it dry in the Sune. To make a soap that taketh out all spots. TAke a pound of roche alum, beat it into powder: the roots of Iris of Florence made in powder, half a pound of new laid eggs, two pound and a half of Spanish Soap, bray the said powders with the Eggs and Soap, and make thereof round balls. If one Egg be not enough, take as many as you shall think good. And when you will take out any spot of grease, wash the place of the spot on both sides of the cloth with fair water, than rub it with the said balls and cloth upon cloth. This done, wash out the odure with clean water, and wring the cloth to make the grease or filth come out the better. Than wash it still with clean water, and it will be clean. To take spots of black ink or other things out of woollen or linen cloth. TAKE green Lemons or green Oranges with their pills, the which the Italians call pomid, adam or which of the two you will: take but the liquid moisture which you shall take out by pressing it, wherewith you shall rub well the spots, and than let them dry. This done, take lukewarm water, and wash the said spots, and let them dry again. And if you see that at the first time the spots be not well enough taken out, do it once again, and the cloth will return to his colour again. To take spots out of Scarlate or Velvet of colours, without hurting any thing at all the colour. TAke the juice of Saponaria, called of the apothecaries condisi or lavaria, the which you shall lay upon the spot leaving it so an hour long, if it be in Summer, and four hours if it be in Winter: Than take lukewarm water and wash the spot with it, & if it scour not clean, put more juice upon it, or else of the said moisture of the oranges or Lemons: but if it be Scarlate not died in grain, lay upon half Soap, and half juice: and than wash it with hot water, and the spot will go out. To take spots of oil of from parchment or white paper. TAke sheeps bones and burn them, and make them into powder: and rub the spot on both sides with the same powder, and lay it so between two boards in a press the space of a night and the spot shall away. THE third Book, for to die thread, yarn, or linen cloth, teaching how to make the dying colours, and also to die bones and horns, and to make them soft, unto what form and fashion a man will. To die thread, yarn, or linen cloth into a sad brown. TAKE a pound of bastard Saffron, the which you shall put into a little bag and hang it in river water a day and a night. Than wash it so much, that it give no more yellow colour: this done, make a rank of Saffron in a pot not to thick, than a rue of Saffron, and a rue of ashes, and cover it well, and let it stand seven or eight hours: than take eight pots of water, four pots of Uinaigre, and putting the Saffron with the ashes in a long bag and sharp pointed at the end: strain xv. or. xvi. times the said water and Uinaigre thorough it hot. And this is the last dying or colour. Than take again as much water and Uinaigre, and strain it thorough, and this shallbe the second dying. Do the like the third time, & it shallbe the third dying. This colour you shall heat, and lay your thread or linen cloth in it the space of a night, than bang it up without wring or rubbing it. Do in like manner with the second colour and with the third, but let it lie in it that seven hours long. To die thread or linen cloth blue. TAke the berries of Ebulus, very ripe, and well dried in the Sun, lay them in Uinaigre. xii. hours than rub them with your hand, and strain them thorough a linen cloth, putting to them some Uerdet bruised & Alum alone. If the blue ve to clear put more Uerdet to it, and lay your thread or linen cloth in it. A blue colour to die all things. TAke an ounce of the beating of copper, a dram of salt three spoons full of Uinaigre. Put all together in a laddel of copper: or some other strong vessel of copper: and when you will die, put the said matter into the hot decoction of brasil, and die with it what you will. Another way to die blue. TAke three parts of ashes of lees burned, one part of unsleket syine, and make thereof lie, let it clarify and than strain it thorough a course linen cloth take. xv. pots of the same water, & power it upon a pound of Flaunders blew, such as is taken of the dyer's cauldrons, mingle them well together with a stick. Than set it on the fire until you can scant endure your hand in it. But before you die any thing, you must have your linen cloth boiled in Alum and dried again, and plunged afterward in the hot Lie twice or thrice, according as you will have the colour dark or clear. The substance must be hot before you occupy it. To die red. TAke half an ounce of brasil scraped, half an ounce of Uermillion well brayed. Boil them together in rain water, and put into it the bigness of a nut of Alum. Seeth all unto the half, and die with it. You may seethe also the Brasylle twice or thrice putting to it at each time a little Uermillion. Also you may make of it as many die & colours as you wil Another way. TAke unslaked lime, and put a little water upon it, and let it stand a night, and afterward strain the clearest thorough a linen cloth, and for every pint of water put in half an ounce of scraped Brasyl. Let it seeth unto the half, and put to it half an ounce of Alum, set it upon wood, and let it heat but not seethe. When you will, have that you will die ready prepared in such sort as here followeth. Take lees of red wine and put it in a bag, that all the wine drain out, and the lees wax dry. Make thereof balls as big as a hens egg drying them in the Sun, and burning them after into ashes, and of this ashes make a strong Lie, and make it very hot, and than wet in it the thing that you will die, drying it afterward, and than die it with the foresaid colour. To die red. TAKE for every pound of cloth a quartern of Alum, and seeth it, and put the cloth in it two hours long. Than take the roset of Brasyl with gomme Arabic, and let them seethe a quarter of an hour. Than strain it, and put into it your thread, cloth or any thing that you will. To make fair roset. TAke a pottle of water, an ounce of brasil: seethe them unto the half, than take them from the fire, and put as much grain to them as you shall think good, and half a quarter of gomme. If you will have but a sleight red, power it into another pot, or put to it a quartern of Alum in powder, and let it so stand a night. To die wood, bones, and horn, into green. TAke two parts of Spanish green, a third part of salt armoniac bray them well together, and put them in Uinaigre. And put into it the thing that you will die, covering it well, and so let it stand until it be green enough. But before you die any thing, you must lay it half a day in Alum water, and than dry it well again. Another green. PUt your horn, or wood, or that you will die, in a varnished pot, and put to it strong Uinaigre, mingling with if some Uerdegrease that is very thick and not clear. Cover it well, and set it seven days together in a dunghill, and if than it be not green enough, let it stand there longer. A man may do the like with Spanish green or Uerdet. To die horn, bone, and wood, into red. TAke quick lime, and cast some rain water upon it, and let so stand a night: the next morning, strain the clearest thorough a linen cloth, putting to it for every pot of water, half an ounce of the scrapings of Brasil, and let them seeth well in it: but yet they must be boiled in Alum first, as before is said. To die yellow. TAke the bark of an apple tree, not the outward hard and rough bark, but the inward, but it in small loppins, and power some water upon them, and than put in your wood, bone, or horn, to it with Alum. And let it seeth well together. To die black. TAke Galls broken or bruised in pieces, and seeth them in strong Uinaigre: and put your wood, bone, or horn in it. And let all seeth well together. Take them than out, and put them in whites of Eggs, putting to it the juice of walnuts, and let them seeth well together. To make horn soft. TAke man's piss, that hath vene kept stopped, a month together, put into it a pound of unslaked lime, and half so much of ashes of burned wine Lees, four ounces of Tartre, and as much salt. Mingle all well together, and let it seeth well, and than strain it twice or thrice thorough a cloth. This done, keep the said Lie well covered: And when you will soften any horn, let it lie eight days in it, and the horn will be soft that you may cut it, and dress it after what sort you will. Or else make a Lie of the ashes of the heads and stalks of poppy, and in the same Lie seeth your horns and other things. To mollify or soften horn; so that you shall imprynte or make any figures in it. TAKE a pound of the ashes wherewith Glasses be made, a pound of quick lime, and a pot of water, let them seeth so long until the two third parts be consumed. Than put a feather into it, and pluck it out again, and pill it between your fingers: for if the feather do pill, it is a sign that it is sodden enough. But if it pill not, let it seeth moor: and when it is sodden enough let it clarify, and power it out. Take than the filings of horn, lay them therein two days together: Than anoint your hands with oil, and work the horn well between your hands as it were dough or paste; and than press him into what form or fashion you will. Another way. TAke the juice of white Marrubium, and of Alexander's, and of millfoil, the juice of radish roots, the juice of Celandine, and strong Uinaigre. Mire all together, and put your horn into it well covered seven days together in a dunghill. And than knead it and work it as you did before. To cast horns in a mould like lead. TAke ashes of wine lees burned, and unslaked lime, and make thereof a strong Lie, and put into it the filings or scrapings of horn, and let them seeth well together, and they will be as it were pap, and put into it such colour as you will have it of, and than cast it into what mould you will. To make clear stones of Amber. Seethe Turpentine, in a pan leaded, with a little Cotton, stirring it until it be as thick as passed: & than power it into what you will, and set it in the Sun eight days, and it will be clear and hard enough. You may make of this little balls, hastes for knives, and many other things. Another. TAke the yolks of sixteen eggs, and beat them well with a spoon: than take two ounces of gomme Axabicke, an ounce of the gum of Cherry trees: make those gums into powder, and mix them with the yolks of the eggs, let the gums well melt, and power them into a pot well leaded. This done set them sire days in the Sun, and they will become hard, and shine like glass, and when you rub them, they will take up a straw unto them, as other Amber stones do. To polished and to a gloss or lustre unto precious, stones. TAke powder of Antimonium, and disparse it abroad upon a table of lead that is very even and smooth. Polished upon this table your stone, and it shall keep and maintain him in his lustre and gloss. To make a stone that shall give give fire and burn of itself if you wet it with your finger. TAke the Lode stone that hath virtue to draw iron to him on the one side, and to put it away on the other side. Put it in a pot leaded, and put to it four pound of Pitch, and a pound of Brimstone, lute and clay will your pot, and set it in a furnace, giving it a small fire the space of a day and a night augmenting the fire the second day and the third day more, until the stone be on fire. After you have made this stone on fire, and have in this manner burned it, as is before said, you shall let it cool again, and your stone is prepared and made to give fire when you wil To mollify or soften crystal and precious stones so that you may cut them like cheese, and that being put in a mould they shallbe hard again. TAke in August the blood of a Goose, and the blood of a he Goat, and let it dry until it be very hard: And when you mollify and soften Christali or precious stones, take of the said bloods as much of the one as of the other, and make it into powder: and than power some Lie made with the ashes of burned Lies of Wine, and let them be intermingled together in a pot, putting to them a dish full of strong Uynaigre. And when you will soften your stone cast it in the same, and heat it a little and the stone will be soft so that you may cut and fashion of what sort you will: cast him afterward in cold water, and he will be as hard with in an hour as ever he was: And than give him his gloss and lustre as before is said of the other. To counterfeit pearls which shallbe very fair, and as they were natural and true. TAke in Summer the shells of white muscles, and scrape them clean with a knife: take likewise one part of Snail shells, of the cleanest you can find: and when you have washed them well, stamp them together in a mortar of stone, as fine as you can, and wash them clean in the Sun upon a linen cloth, and then put them into a new clean pot, the which pot you shall lute and clay round about with lutom sapientiae. And being dried in the Sun, put it into a Forneyse, or Kill of lime, and let it burn there as long as men are wont to let lime burn. Than take it out, and you shall find it turned into powder as white as Snow. This done, take the yolks of Eggs made clean and broken a sunder with a Spoon: mingle the powder with the yolk of the Eggs in some clean vessel: Than wash your hands clean, and fashion your Pearls of what bigness you will, piercing them with a Hogs brystell while they be hot. This done, set them in some clean thing in the Sun, and the whoter the better: yet take heed there come no rain to them: and than polish them in red Wine, and let them dry again, and you shall have fair Pearls. THE fourth Book, teaching divers ways of gilting, syluering, and diing Copper, Iron, and other Metals: Likewise to form, melt, and to make certain colours. To prepare Mercury, and so to harden it that you may make it liquid, and work it. THE Emperor Frederick made many Images of this substance following, which seemed to be of Silver, as at Uienna and Nieustadt in ostrich, & this invention was found out by master William and master Martyne his Alchemistes. To do this you must melt Saturn, that is to say, lead, & power it in a round melting pot while it is hot. Press into it little round stones, that you may have little round holes in it, upon the which holes you shall lay a linen cloth, and power some Mercury upon it as much as you will, setting it so in hot embers until the Mercury be hard. And when it is hard enough, break it in little pieces, and cast them into strong Uinaigre, and seeth them in it a quarter of an hour. Or else take the juice of the herb called Longdebeffe, with a little Uinaigre and oil, and seeth in it some pieces of your Mercury broken as before, and by this means it shallbe mortified very well, otherwise it would revive again. This done, take two ounces of salt ammoniac, half a pot of Uinaigre, and power it with your Mercury sodden in a pot leaded, and luting and stopping it very well, let it stand. viii. or. x. days: for by this means the Uinaigre taketh away all the redness of the Mercury. This done, put your Mercury in a pot well luted and set it in a furnace until it be well burned, augmenting by little and little the fire, that it may keep the fire long in a like & temperate heat, until it make certain chops or cliffs, and than it is a sign that is enough. Than put the Mercury in a pot, in the bottom whereof there must be some Brimstone: stop well the pot, and set it in hot embers or ashes, or upon a fire of coals, that it may heat by little and little, and that the Mercury may receive the smoke of the Brimstone. Do so once a day. thirty. days together, and than take out the Mercury, for it is hard enough to beat and cast. Take of this Mercury five ounces, and ten ounces of Venus, that is to say Copper, melt them together, and it shall seem at all trials, that it is true Silver. A substance made of paper or other things, to express or set out any manner of figure that you will, upon white iron. etc. Say your paper or parchment overthwart the white iron, than wet it on the out side, and let it dry again, than take it of, and you shall see the print of it upon the white iron. To guilt well. Seethe your Silver in Tartre, make it very clean rubbing it with brushes, and put it into the Tartre again: than take two parts, one part of salt armoniac, one part of Uerdet or Spanish green, two parts of the beating of Copper: stamp all this small and sift it, and put it into the Tartre with the Silver, it will get a red colour, upon the which you shall guilt. How to bray gold for to guilt with. TAke a dram of fine gold, beat it well, and put to it two drams of Mercury mixed together: than set a melting pot on the fire, and when it is glowing hot, put the gold with the silver into it, and when the Mercury shallbe in part vanished away in vapour, power it into a dish, wherein there is a little water, and wash it out, & it shallbe ground & brayed. To gild Copper. MAke a bottom or ground of quicksilver upon the copper, than give it one gylde over which ground or brayed gold, than set it on the coals, and when it smoketh take it away, and part or disparse it with the brush of copper wire, and than set it again on the fire until it be liquid and soft, or melt, or dry, and when it hath been so long upon the fire that it hath gotten a red colour, take it of, and make it clean with your brush of copper wire, and than burnyshe it, and it is done. To guilt iron. YOu must boil your iron in Uinaigre, Salt, and Uitriol, and if the iron be great, anoint the iron about with it, being hot, until it make it rise, than lay on your grinded gold, as before. To take of the gold from silver that it guilt, so that the silver shall remain whole and sound. PUt about your gilded silver some Brimstone, than take natural Mercury in a goldsmiths melting pot, or other vessel according as it ought to be, and heat it, and put your gilt silver into it, the Mercury will draw the ground unto him, than rub your silver with a brush over the Mercury wherein the gold is, than heat your silver, and boil it again in the water of Tartre, and it will be clean. When you will take your Gold out of the Mercury, put it in a little bag of leather, binding it and stopping it above, as men do Mercury, without over a basin, and that which remaineth in the leather, put it again in a melting pot upon the fire, and let the Mercury vanish in a vapour, and go away in the smoke. Than take that which remaineth, and power it in a melting pot, and you shall find your gold. To separate Silver from Copper, be it money or otherwise. TAke half an ounce of Uerdet or Spanish green, an ounce of white Vitriol, as much of Brimstone, half an ounce of Alum: seeth all these things with a glass full or as much as you will of strong Uinaigre; and put your silver into it. Your silver will remain whole in the glass, wherein you sod it, and the Copper consumeth in the moist humour. A powder which being laid upon any thing silvered will take of the silver from it. TAKE a pound of wine lees, a pound of Arsenic, a pound of common Salt, a pound of quick Lime: ●ire these together, with the yolk of Eggs, and put them in a pot, which you shall set in a Forney see to sublime, and when it shall smoke some what yellow it is enough. To convert and turn copper into brass. TAKE Copper what quantity you will, and the third part as much of Lapis calaminaris, made in powder, and put them together in a melting pot, let them melt together the space of an hour upon the fire, and then power them out. To melt all metal perfitly. WHEN the metal is melted: you shall put the fourth part of auxungia vitri beside it, and it will melt perfectly. For to give a colour of Gold upon Copper. TAKE half an ounce of Copper, a dram of Tutia alexandrina, two parts of Dates, two parts of Figs, Grapes of a wild vine black, of the bigness of three Hasell Nuts, Musk the bigness of a Hasell Nut. Stamp all the said things together, and make it like Paste, and beat your Copper very thin, and than cut it in pieces. This done, make one row of the said mixion, and a little Tutia upon it, and than your Copper upon that, than some of the said mixtion, than again of Tutia, and than of Copper, always bed upon bed: This done, lute or clay up the Croset or melting pot that they are in, and set it on the fire, letting all the said things melt, and than power them out, and it will be like Gold. Some take also Tartre, bean flower, Tutia, as much of the one as of the other, steep them well in Uinaigre, and than dry them, and lay them bed upon bed, for every ounce of copper an ounce of the said powder, and it will take colour as is afore said. To make Verdet or Spanish green. TAke Brass or filed Copper, sprinkle it with old piss and salt ammoniac: lay the Copper upon a board in the Sun, and when it is dry, sprinkle it again until it wax green. Thus is Uerdet made. Take Copper beaten like a plate, make it clean, and bray some atramentum upon a stone with piss, and anoint the copper plate on every side, and let it dry in the Sun: than put it in a pot leaded and set it on the coals, and let it heat the space of two hours, and sometime open the pot above, and when you see black smoke come out of it, take the pot from the fire, and let it cool, and open the pot for to take out the copper plate, rubbing it into powder between your hands, and that which will not yet turn to powder: do it again in all things as you did before, until it may be made into powder: than wash it with hot water or piss in a basin, and let it stand still, for the copper will go to the bottom, and the atramentum will swim above: than power it out and dry the copper in the Sun. This done, take of the said powder a pound, of Tartre calcined two ounces, beat them together with child's piss, and let them dry. Than put them in your pot, and burn them as before with a great fire until you see a green smoke come out of it: and than let it cool again, & open your pot and you shall find it fair and green. To make a white colour of lead. TAke lead as much as you will, scrape it clean on both sides and cut it into plates three finger broad, and a handful long or more, making a hole at the end of each of them, hang them on a cord, and take a pail of oak or a pot of three handfuls long that hath a clean cover: Than hang your plates of lead round about the pot within side, & power into it two pots of good Uinaigre, and a hand full of salt, stirring them together uponthe fire until they be ready to seethe, than cover the pot well that nothing breath out, and set it in a warm place, leaving it there. x. days together: than open it, and take out the plates of lead, and you shall find at each side of the plates a white colour of a finger thick, take it of with a knife, and put it in a clean glass. This done, hang your plates of lead again in the pot, as before, covering them well as is said, and setting it in a warm place, and at the. x. day take of the white colour with a knife as before, and hang them again in the pot until you have gotten white colour enough. Than bray all well together in a mortar putting to it a little water the space of half an hour, until it be thick like gruel. Than put the said powder in a pot or twain: and set it in the Sun, and let it dry and harden, and than shall you have your white colour of lead. But you must note that you must always hang the plates of lead in the pot again at every time as long as they will continue, and if the Uinaigre diminish, you must renew it again. To make Lutum sapientiae. LVtum sapientiae is a mortar or clay for to lute or plaster the Limbecks or pots that are set on the fire, because they shall not break or cleave. To make this Lutum sapientiae. Take the best Potter's earth you can find, put in a dish or platter of earth, or in some other vessel, and power upon it Wine mixed with horse dung, casting away the longest hears of the dung, mingle it finer all together until it be as thick as passed, wherewith you may passed any thing: not withstanding put in it always good Salt for keeping it from cleaving. To lute or daub pots with a linen cloth that will not burn. PUt your linen cloth in Salt water, and let it dry of itself, than wet it in yolks of Eggs well beaten, and when you will lute or plaster any pot with it, give it one touch upon it very thin with the foresaid Lutum sapientiae. For to solder glasses. TAke minium, and half as much of quick lime, and the meal or flower that hangeth on the mill sides or walls, and the yolk of an Egg, in all this let a linen cloth be wet and holden before the fire that it may be clammy meet to cleave or sticks fast, and so lay it fair and softly upon the broken place of the glass. Another lutum sapientiae. TAke Potter's earth very clean two parts, horse dung one part, a little powder of a Brick, and the filing of iron, and a plaster of quick lime: and mingle it with salt water, and the yolk of eggs: and make thereof a paste for to lute or clay pots withal. Or else take dry earth, and stamp it small, and sift, it & cast upon it some wheat flower rank upon rank, and than the yolks of Eggs and Uinaigre, and mingle all together. Than plaster or lute glasses pots or limbeckes with it, and dry them in the shadow, and they will never fail nor break in the fire. You may also mingle it with Ox blood in stead of water, it is also good for that purpose. THE fift Book, touching all separations of gold, of silver, of copper, and other metals, and how a man may try them and to use them profitably. Which is a thing very gainful for all goldsmiths, merchants and other that have need of it. To separate gold from silver. Beat small the silver wherein you think there is any gold, then cut it in small pieces: than you shall put aqua fortis, in a glass of separation upon a little fire until it be hot, & cast up little bubbles like bells. Then power the water out into a cup of copper and let it cool and by this means the silver will stick about the cup, the which you must let dry in the cup: and when you have powered the water out melt the silver in a hollow shared, and then take also the gold out of the glass of separation, and melt it in one. Another way. TAke silver that is guilt, lute it upon a pot shared or a tile with lead, then turn it as thine and as fine as you can upon some thing, then cut it in crooked and writhed pieces, and put it into the glass of separation, power in upon it aqua fortis a finger hight above it, stop the hole above that it breathe not out, then hold it upon a slow fire until the silver be dissolved in to the water, the gold remaineth in the bottom which is black: then cast out this water into a cup of copper as before, and power upon it some clean water, and the silver will begin to gather into a curd and will go to the bottom. Than power out the water again, and dry the Silver with a sudden heat. This done, put it in a croset or earthen pot, and melt it, and being molten power it out, and do the like with the gold, and when you put it into the melting pot, put to it a little Borax. Another way. TAke antimonium, and put it in a melting pot that is with a sharp pointed bottom, and melt it. Take also the Silver that the gold is in, and melt it and power it into the antimonium, the gold will go to the bottom, and the silver will tarry in the antimonium. Than take half an ounce of copper, and two ounces of lead, and the antimonium, let them melt together, and power them into an earthen pot, the antimonium will burn the Copper, and the Silver will abide upon the pot. For to separate Gold or Silver without fire or aqua fortis. TAke two parts of salt ammoniac, and one part of Brimstone, beat them into powder, than anoint your vessel, dish, or any other thing that is gilded, first with oil olive, and than disparse the said powder upon it, & when it is so fast upon it, set it to the fire, and beat it over a vessel of water, and the Gold will fall out of it. To separate gold from Silver with a powder. TAKE an. viii. part of Brimstone, a. xvi. part of salt. three ounces of salt armoniac. two. ounces of minium, and do as afore is said. To make gold softer. TAke Mercury sublimed, salt armoniac of each alike, make them into a powder, than put your gold into a melting pot, and when it is melted, put to it a little of this powder and it will be soft. Another way. TAke half an ounce of Vitriol, half an ounce of Uerdet, half an ounce of salt armoniac, half an ounce of burned Brass: all being mingled with aqua fortis, let it so repose in the heat two days, and than let it harden: do this three times with aqua fortis, and let it dry: make it in powder, and put always upon it half an ounce of gold, a dram of powder, and power it three times into it, and it will be softer. To make gold and silver softer. TAke Honey and Oil of each alike, and quench your gold and silver, being hot and glowing, three or four times in it, and it willbe softer. To soften all metals, and other things that are not soft, so that they shallbe soft and gentle to be wrought upon or forged. TAke Mastic, Frankincense, Myrrh, Borax, Uernix, of each half an ounce, make all into a powder together, and cast the bigness of two or three peasen of it upon the hard things, and they will be soft and tender. Take what metal you will, heat it upon coals, and quench it in the water of salt ammoniac and it will be soft. An oil that maketh all metals soft. IF your silver be not soft, melt it, and power into it this oil that followeth. Take Saltpetre, Tartre, Salt, Uerdet, boil all together, until the water be consumed, power upon it piss, and let it so consume, and you shall have an oil of it, the which you shall put into your silver while it melteth, and you shall make it soft. To separate gold from copper. MAke a furnace with a hole, that you may put in a peg or two, the which you may take out when you will, and underneath in the bottom of the furnace a gutter or hole, that the king which is the gold may remain in it. Take twice or as much Lead as Copper, and put it upon the hole or gutter of the furnace, pouring it always until there be no more lead: Than take an iron meet for the purpose to take away the skin of it, that it may be clear and neat, for than shall the copper be well prepared. This done, take a quartern of common salt, of brimstone a quarter, of saltpetre a quarter, of orpiment a quarter: stamp these four well in a mortar, and power the said powder upon the copper, when it beginneth to run and melt, the gold will go to the bottom, pluck the peg out, and the king will remain in the hole or gutter, take it out afterward with Lead or Antimonium, and you shall find the Gold. Another way. TAke Antimonium, and melt it with your Copper and being melted you must skim it well, than power it into a dish of stone, adding to it quickly as much quick silver, cover it with another dish, & shake it well together, the powder draweth the gold unto it and when it is cold again, open it, take the Mercury out, and put it in another dish, the which you shall set upon the fire, that the Mercury may go away in a smoke, and you shall find your Gold in the bottom. A powder to separate gold. TAke salt armoniac, Uerdet, of each one part, Saltpetre two parts, Antimonium as much as all the rest together, make them into powder, and do as before, and the Gold will go from the Copper. To wash Gold from Copper. TAke the Copper that is gilded, and wet it in water, and than put it in the fire, and let it be hot and than quench it in cold water, and the gold will come of: rub it of with a brush of Copper wire, and it will go of. To got together the gold out of the threads of cloth of gold. Burn the golden threads into powder, and bray the said powder small upon a Marble stone, and put it in a basin, than power upon this powder some water of Tartre and quick silver, and do as before, and you shall have fine gold. To gild so that it shall not out with no water that is. TAke two parts of Ochre, two parts of a Pommise stone burned until it be white, Tartre the bigness of a good walnut, bray the said colours together with oil of linseed, and five drops of Uernix, strain them thorough a linen cloth, and you shall have the substance to gild withal. To gather together into one the gold that is scraped of from letters and Images. TAke the scrapings and put them in a glass full of water, until the chawlke where upon the Gold was laid, be thorough soft, wash it afterward between both your hands: and separate the best you can the chalk from the gold: take the rest, and grind it upon a grinding stone. This done, put it again into a glass: than put some well brayed and small, in a cup of copper, and power the water upon it: let it seeth well: and than power the same water again into the glass upon the substance scraped, putting into the water some quick silver, and shaking it and moving it together a good space. The quick silver draweth to itself all the gold: than power out all the water, and put the quick silver in a piece of wild goats skin, the which you shall bynde-well above: than make a hole with a needle, whereby you shall wring and make the quicksilver to come out, and that which shall remain with in, shallbe fine gold: and if the gold be not very fair, do unto it as unto the gold before. To take guilt from a cup that is gilded within. TAke Pyrethrum, and seeth it in strong Uinaigre, so that there may come no smoke nor breath out of it, than power into a cup guilt within, and the gold will go of, and go to the bottom. For the prose thereof. Cast a silver ring guilt into it, and you shall find the experience. To make gold soft after the melting. TAke as many wedges of gold, as you have melted, & put them one night into a furnace of mortar in a pot: let them be thorough hot, but yet not so that they melt, and they will be afterward very fair and soft. For to give a colour to the gold that it shallbe soft. TAke salt armoniac fired with quick lime, for it is very good, worketh very handsomely and sinely: but it is better to take of Viride aeris, prepared and than melt the gold, & so may you colour your gold. The Viride aeris is thus prepared: delay it in Uinaigre, & strain it thorough a felt, and let it congeal, and when it beginneth to wax thick, put to it some salt armoniac, and let it harden a great while, or else power it upon a clean marble stone, and than melt your gold with it, and keep it well: for it will serve you also for other things. To boil gold or silver to make it receive a fair colour. TAke Tartre well brayed, and put to it some well water or rain water, and that which you shall boil in it shallbe fair. To give a colour to gold. TAke the bears of a man to the bigness of a finger, and lay them upon quick coals, & hold your gold over them with a pair of tongues. To give a weigh unto gold. TAke fair water, melt lead and put it into it divers times, the oftener the better, yea and it were twenty times. 〈…〉 which you would make heavy, & heat it ten or twelve times, and quench it in the said water, and you shall find it true. For to make silver fine. YOu shall put Silver into a pot of earth, and to every mark of Silver put three ounces of Lead. Let it be melted together, until the flower of it ware red. That done, put it in another earthen pot, putting to it for every mark of silver sire ounces of Lead, and that power it, or strain it, and it will be fine. To make silver fair and white. YOu shall put salt and Tatre made in powder, in a pan of Copper: put some rain water to it, and let it seeth well, for it will become white: but before you seeth them, you must heat or inflame them, and beware there come no iron into the pan, for than the silver would become red. To know if the silver have any gold in it no. DRaw a gross or great streeke with your silver up on the touch stone, than take a dram of Uerdet or Spanish green well made into powder with salt armoniac, mix them well with good Uinaigre, until they be all of one colour, wet the line or strike made with your silver with it, and if the silver have any gold in it, the line or streeke will remain a while fair, and if there be none, the streeke will not remain fair, but will go out incontinent. If you will have a better proof and more sure in stead of Uinaigre put aqua fortis: for that will incontinent put out the live or streeke if there be no gold in it. To mortify or allay Mercury or quick silver. PUt it in a mortar of iron, and put to it some oil olive or oil of bays; this done, set it on a small fire, and let it seeth therein, but take heed that the smoke of it hurt thee not, for it is unwholesome, put often times some oil into it, and also strong Uinaigre distilled that it may boil in it. And by this means it will be mortified and killed. Than take it out, for it is hard and will endure the hammer. To guilt steel or iron. TAke one part of Tartre, half as much of salt Armonicke, as much Uerdet, and a little Salt: seeth them in white wine, and varnish with it a harness made even, and let it dry. And than gilt it with gold brayed or ground as Goldsmiths do. To separat gold or silver from metal or iron. PUt some Mercury in a goldsmiths melting pot, heating it upon the fire, putting to it and mixing with it some Uenishe glass bruised small mixing all together. Lay it upon the silver that is guilt, than lay it upon the coals until it be hot, and rub it with a feather over some vessel: strain the Mercury or quick silver thorough a linen cloth, the which you shall afterward bring again with Saltpetre. Silver of Tyn, to make vessel or other things. TAKE clear, fine, and bright Tyn, put it with true and natural Tyn in the fire, that it may purge and be made clean from all dust, ashes, and filth: and when it is clean enough and well skimmed, set it again on the fire. If there be a mark of it, take half an ounce of Mercury, or somewhat more: and when it beginneth to rise in the first heat, take also the powder of Cantarides, and cast it into it, and a flock of woman's hear that it may burn in it. Having had fire enough, and all being melted together: power into it the powder aforesaid, sprinkling it first a little with water of Artemisia, and than take it suddenly from the fire, and let it cool a great while. To white any vessel of copper within and without with silver colour very easily. TAKE two parts of Mercury, three parts of Tin: Melt first the Tin in a melting pot, and than put the Mercury to it. Stir it well together, and than power it out, and let it cool, and stamp it well in a mortar until all be brought into a powder. Than take Alum & stamp it also in a mortar, & it will be like a white powder, the which you shall lay upon a marble stone, garnished on the sides with potter's clay, in a moist cave or seller: setting under it a glass. The Alum will turn into a water upon the stone, and will run into the glass. And when you will silver your vessel of Copper, take the said water of Alom, and anoint your vessel with it, and let it dry. Do thus three or four times, and leave it open that the bottom may be the better. Than take the powder that you have made, and rub it upon it, and your vessel will be white and seem as it were silver. To make vessels of copper white like silver, both within and without. TAke one part of Azure, two parts of Mercury, three parts of white Arsenic, mix them together: than take grease and melt it in a pan, taking the filth from it, making it very clean. This done mix them together, and make thereof as it were an ointment: anoint your vessel with it, within and without very well: that done, put it in a new dish of oak, or else in new and fresh oaken leaves, covering it well. Dig a hole and lay it in the earth, in a place where the Sun shineth most whotest, leaving it so the space of three months, and than take it out, and make it clean with water and a brush, and you shall find your experience. To make that tin crack not. TAke strong common salt, and honey, as much of the one as of the other, according to the quantity of your tin, power your tin. xii. times in it, than strain out your tin, for by this means it will purge and leave cracking. Put that in a pot, the which you shall clay or lute about very well, and set it in a furnace a day and a night, and you shall find as it were a lime of gold. THE sixth Book, touching the making of certain oils and waters and other substances which are of a marvelous virtue and operation. To take Salamanders for to occupy or to serve a man's turn. When you see the Salamander's lie and sleep in the Sun, put on a pair of Gloves, and so go take them fair and softly before they cast their Uenime (which is yellow) than put it in some vessel of glass wherein there is man's blood. Than it will serve your turn very well. To fine gold with Salamanders. TAke two pound of fyled Brass or Copper, a pot goats milk nine Salamanders, put all this in a pot, wide and large beneath and narrow above, cover it with his cover fast and close, but let the cover have a bull in the top: dig the said pot into the moist of the earth so deep that nothing appear but only the cover where the hole is, so that the Salamanders may have air and not die. Leave it so until the seventh day after noon. Than take your pot out and you shall find that the Salamanders constrained by hunger shall have eaten the Copper, and the great force of the poison causeth the Copper to turn into Gold. This done, make a bull as deep as two fingers into the which you shall put your pot with the Salamanders, than make about it a fire of coals, which may bourn above and beneath, yet less bebeneth than above: and the pot is set in the ground because the copper shall not melt. And when you think that the Salamanders be burned to ashes, take the pot from the fire, and let it cool well. This done, put the Copper and the powder into some vessel to wash it, and power water upon it, making clean the Copper with the said powder: than hang it in the smoke, and let it dry well, and you shall have good gold, and you shall let a Goldsmith fine it, and make it clean. The mother of all waters for to make all metals liquifiable. TAke a pound of Sal nitrum, a pound of Vitriol, stamp each of them by itself, and than mingle them together in a mortar, distill the said water, without adding any other water to it: Take an ounce of the said water, an ounce of wine not distilled, put them together in a glass, and they will bourn of themselves so that you may light a candle at them: it is also the mother of all colours. Also take three ounces of the said water, three ounces of Mercury, the fourth part of quick Brimstone, put them all together to dissolve in a glass. And when they be dissolved, let the smoke come out, and you shall find the Mercury fixed very red. And so may you fix all the Spiritus. If you will make this water all together strong, add to the seven parts of all these things aforesaid Vitriol and Saltpetre, a pound of each, and distill them, putting the water into a glass again, and it will be so strong that it will break both iron and things made with forge. To prepare common salt. TAke white Salt, and power upon it some stolen piss wherein hath been (a whole day) steeped some quick Lime: mix them well together six times a day, and let it repose the night, strain the piss thorough a felt, and put all that is within into a pan leaded within, mingling it well together until it become water. Than seeth it upon coals until it be hard, and make it into a powder, and put it in a Ox bladder binding it well above, and than hang it in a cauldron full of hot water, leaving it there until the salt be turned into water. Do this ten times, and at last time lot it burn so that it be a fire and red, than let it cool, and thus is common salt prepared. To prepare salt armoniac. TAke ten pound of prepared salt, and power upon it some warm piss of a man that is in health, and hath not drunk but wine, and let the salt dissolve in the said piss, and go to the bottom, than strain it thorough a felt into a cauldron, put to it some soute of a Baker's oven, boiling it together: When this salt is dry: power upon it some man's piss, & do this so long until the ten pots of urine be consumed in the ten pound of salt. You must take heed, that the cauldron run not over, when the urine boileth. If peradventure it rise so that there is great danger of rynnyngs over: You shall power some clear water upon it, and mix all together until all turn into water, let it stand, and cast the clear out, and seeth it so long until it be dry, the which being dry, you shall take and put in a new dish, and dry it in the Sun: And than sublime it in this wise. Take the said two pound, and two pound of filed iron, and mingle them well together, and put them into a vessel, that is called rotunda, luting it well with lutum sapientiae: Than set it upon a trivet in a furnace of sublimation, making a good fire under it one day, during until the vessel be thorough red hot underneath. Then let it cool again in the night until the morning and then open it, and you shall find upon the vessel white salt, the which you shall take away, and putting to it as much common salt prepared, you shall bray them both well together the space of half a long summer day, making a small and flow fire under it, let it cool again, and bray it again, and sublime as before. This do you three times, and then keep it for it is good. To make shall alkali. TAke the ashes of lose of wine burned, quick lime, of each equal quantity, and put them into three stillitory glasses one over another, to the intent that that which falleth from the one may distill into the other: then power the water of the lower most into the uppermost, having a pot leaded underneath. Put often times the same lie thorough it until the ashes be no more bitter. Let the same lie stand a night, and seeth it in the morning in a pot leaded until the water consume away and become hard. Then let it cool, you shall find a stone in it called Alkali, the which you shall beat in powder, and fill a new pot with it half full, and cover it not, & put it in a forneise of calcination, making at the first a little fire until it seeth: then a great fire until it begin to melt like lead, than power it quickly into another pot, and let it cool, and it will be shall Alkali, which you must keep in a glass. To make shall boras. TAke tarter calcined in such sort as we will declare afterward, the same being made in powder, put some hot water upon it until it dissolve, stirring it well with a stick, then strain it thorough a linen cloth, & do as before, so long until the water be thick and troubled, then strain it thorough a bag until it ware clear, and hath taken the bitterness out of the lose or tartar: which thing you shall know when the lose pricketh no more upon your tongue. Then take shall commune praeparatum, & putting to it water of tartar, power them together into a pan of iron or frying pan seething them until they be thick, and then put them in a new pot until they be hard. You shall turn often times the pot, & when the said pot would cleave or burn to let it cool, and open it, & you shall have shall boras philosophorum, as good as the true boras. Water of Mercury. TAke a quartrens of sublimed and fixed mercury and as much of the stone galitsenstein: bray them together upon a marble stone: then having put them in a linen bag, make a hole in an horse dunghill, put them in a glass into the same hole not touching the sides of the hole in any wise, to th'intent it file or soil not, make two founells, and hang the bag with mercury and galitsenstein over the glass covering it with a good strong linen cloth that nothing fall into it: then lay dung enough upon it, and leave it so a fortnight together until the mercury be stilled as water out of the bag. If the water be not white enough, bray it again with the galitsenstein, and do as before, continuing it until the water be good ad lunam faciendam. Water of salt armoniac. TAke salt armoniac as much as you will, asmuch of the yolks of eggs, mix them well together, putting to them a little vinegar, that it may drop or run the better. Then hang it over a glass in a dongehill as before is said of the water of mercury, or else set it upon an even stone smooth & slypperye in a moist cellar, laying the stone a little at one side and setting a glass underneath with a founell, and mortar at one side of the stone that it may not run but into the fonnell. Then pass it thorough a feit, and keep it well. For it will serve your turn very aptly. A water called aqua lactis virgins. TAke Litarge made in powder, and put it in a pan with good Uinaigre, seeth it with a little fire, and pass it thorough a white felt until it wax clear and while it distilleth, put it ever in again until it be clear and white. Than take axungia vitri, made in powder, and sift it, and do with it, as with the Lytarge, and there will come also water out of it: Mire these two waters together, and they will be as white as milk, and it is called lac virgins. Water of salt alkali. TAke salt Alkali, and yolks of Eggs, bray them with good Uinaigre, and do as is before said, of the water of Mercury. A water called aqua croci Martis. MAke of the green Galitsenstein stone into powder: and fill therewith a new pot and steep it well. Burn it even in such sort as is, said afore of the Alum. When it is as red as vermilion it is enough. Than put some good Uinaigre into a Limbeck and distill it in a furnace with a small fire. Do thus three times. Afterwards put into it as much as into the red Galitsenstein stirring them always together with an iron three days long. Put them again into a Limbeck, and still them as before. If the water be not red enough, put more of the said powder unto it, stirring it well together, and distilling it as before, it will be very good Crocus Martis to make Gold. To calcine Tartre. TAke Tartre of white wine, wash it with hot water, and let it dry. Than fill a pot of a quart with the said Tartre, covering it well above, and set it in a furnace of calcination, and let it burn until there come out no manner of smoke. Than let it cool, and make it in powder, and put it into another pot, luting it well with Lutum saplentiae, than leave it in a furnace of Calcination, wherein there is a good fire, the space of three days or more, until the Tartre be as white as Salt, the which you shall keep in some warm place. To calcine egg shells. Wash Egg shells in lixivio colatitio and let them dry: take away before or after the little skin that is in them. Than put them in a great pot upon the fire, and burn them to ashes stireinge them well. Than put them in a little pot, and do as with the Tartre. When they be burned as white as chalk, they be calcined enough. To calcine or burn Turia. Read Tutia or yellow is the best: put the same into a melting pot, and set it upon the fire, and let it burn hot. Quench it then in good Uinaigre. Do so nine times, and than bray it small like unto flower upon a stone and keep it. A water called aqua lunaris. TAke an hundred Hen eggs, take out the yolk and beat the white, put it into a glass, and stoup it well above, & set it in Horse dung. xiiii. days, go to it every day, and take the dung from about it with a stick, leaving it so a good hour that it may have the air, than cover it again. And when it hath been there a long time, there will come out of it a water, the which you shall power into another glass and let it cool, & that which was congealed upon the water cast away, and put into it some lime of eggs, that the water may be above it four fingers broad: mingle them together, and power them in again stopping it well, and set it again in the horse dung, leaving it so a long time as before, than take it out, and put it in a melting pot, stirring it well, and set it upon a white felt, and by the measure that it distilleth in, power it again upon it, continuing so until the water be clear, cast out the lees and the water is good ad Lunam or Solem. Aqua causata. TAke two pound of the ashes of lees of wine burned, a pound of ashes of Walnut shells burned, two pound of the ashes of burned bean stalks; a pound of the ashes of the slips or twigs of vines: Mingle all these together, and power water upon them, and add to it some quick Lime, for each pound of the said substance, you must have two pound of water, than let it seeth together one seething and let it stand and repose a day and a night, stirring it sire times a day. This done, power that which is clear into a cauldron, & put to it an ounce of Arsenic, an ounce of Reagall, an ounce of calcined Tartre, and a quartern of Salt armoniac, make all into powder, and put it into water, and let it seeth unto the half, let it cool again: and than put it in a Limbeck, and distill it as is said. And when it will distill no more, let it cool, and open the limbeck, and power it in again, and distill it thus five times, and keep the water diffilled. Mercury is hardened and fixed in the same water as we have said in another place: keep also the lees, for it is good for to harden Mercury as thus. Take Mercury, put it in a melting pot, and heat it, power the foresaid Lees into it, and mingle them together, and it will kill the Mercury and make it hard and black, so that being cold again, it is as hard as a stone, the which you may sublime. A water called aqua causcica. TAke one part of sal Alkali, one part of common Alum, one part of alumen plumae, one part of white Galitsenstein stone, one part of salt armoniac, two parts of common salt prepared, bray all these very small and fine upon a grindstone, and wet them with Uinaigre, or very hot water, and put them in a glass, the which you shall dig and set in a dunghill, leaving it there three weeks. All will be turned into water, put the same water into a melting pot, & do as before you did with the felt, distilling it thoro we the felt into another melting pot. Keep it to in a glass, for it is good to make silver. The felt must be sharp at the neither end and broad above. Aqua auri pigmenti. TAke four parts of orpiment, two parts of salt armoniac, one part of calcined Egg shells, and one part of common salt, bray these well upon a marble stone, wet them with Uinaigre, and let them run of from the stone into a glass in a seller or set them under a dunghill, until they be turned into water. Than distill it as you do aqua fortis. But in braying the orpiment, you must stopppe your mouth and your nose, because of the smoke or fume of the water, which is hurtful. Water of common salt prepared. TAke a pound of common salt, a quartern of alum bray them upon a Marble stone with Uinaigre, and let it run from the stone as before is said, and distill it thorough a felt, and it is made. Water of yolks of Eggs. TAke yolks of Eggs sodden very hard, stamp them and put them in a Limbeck, the first water which cometh out is white, the other red and thick: but when it is cold, it is thinner and liquid. All that you rub with the same water, getteth always a good colour of gold. Oil of Tartre. TAke white Tartre calcined, bray it well upon a Marble stone, and let it run into a glass, as is afore said of the salt ammoniac, and of the crocus martis. And when all is run into the glass, pass it thorough a felt so often until it be clear. And keep it in a clean glass. An oil called olcum Laterinum or Petroleum. TAke a new tile whereon there hath been no manner of water, make it hot, and lay it in oil of Walnuts, until it soak or drink no more: Than make it into powder, and put it in a Limbeck and distill it. And when it will distill no more, cast it out, and put in other, and do as before three times, and you shall have your oil. Oleum benedictum. TAke oil olive in steed of oil of Walnuts, and do as before. Oil of Brimstone. TAke a pound of Brimstone well made in powder, a pound of oil of linseed: put them in a pot leaded, and boil them together until there rise a red froth or skymme upon them. Put Uinaigre into it, and the oil will begin to rise up, and taking of the froth or skim, keep it, and keep the oil neat and clean. Than wash pour Brimstone very clean, and power some oil of Walnuts upon it, and let it seeth as before, and when it waxeth red as before, power again some Uinaigre upon it, and skym of the oil, and keep it with the first. Do this so long until the Brimstone smoke no more, whether it be set upon what coals or upon a whole plate. Than wash it in hot water, & let it dry. Than put it into a thick bag, and hind it so that the Brimstone may spread abroad in it. Put into a pot some quick lime four fingers thick, and lay the bag with the Brimstone abroad upon it: Than power some good Uinaigre into it that it may be a handful high above the lime, and let it seeth a whole day. Than take the Brimstone out of the bag, and wash it well in hot water, power out the water and let it dry, and it will be Sulphur purgatum & praeparatum. A note. TAKE that which before you have gathered together, and make a strong Lie of it, with quick Lime and Ashes of wine Lees burned, take twice as much of the saw Lie, and seeth them together until they be as it were Sope. Put the skymme or froth of the same into a glass, which you shall set in a dunghill ten days. Than bray it, and put it in a Limbeck, and distill it as before is said, and that which remaineth in the Limbeck is oleum fixum sulphuris, with this oil you may fix all things. To purge Brimstone. TAke common Brimstone, stamp it very small, and sift it: put it in a pot leaded with three feet, and power into it some good Uinaigre, let it seeth slowly a day and a night, skymme it with a wooden spoon full of little holes like a skymmer. When the Uinaigre hath thus boiled with it a day and a night, put to it stolen piss that is well sodden and well skimmed and passed thorough a felt. Let it so seeth with the piss two days and two nights, and skim it as before, and pass it so often thorough the felt until the water be clear. Than let it dry in the Sun, and it is purged. To sublime Brimstone. TAke purged Brimstone, as I have taught you before in the chapter of oil of Brimstone, of the which you will: Take thereof a pound of Brimstone calcined, as is said in the chapter before, a pound of offal of iron, iron bruised small a quartene, bray them well and sift them, than put them into a Limbeck, which hath a hole above, the which you shall stop with a piece of iron plate, lute well with clay the sublimatorie that no breath go out, and set it in a furnace to sublime, making a little fire underneath it, look now and than under the piece of iron plate: the which when it is no more moist, stop the hole with lutum sapientiae, and make the fire a little greater, and leave it so six hours. Than take it of, and that which sticketh fast above upon it, rub it of with an Hare's foot. Stir it again with the lees that remaineth under, and set it in again & sublime it as before. Dee thus three times, and always rub of that, which you find above upon it, and keep it, and bray the lees by itself, and do as before, until they smoke no more upon the fire: Than cast them out, and take one part of this sublimed Brimstone, two parts of common salt prepared, bray them well together, and sublime them as before, laying first a plate upon the hole. Having done this five times, take of the Brimstone before sublimed, and bray it with twice as much common salt prepared. And sublime it so often that the Brimstone be as white as Snow and than there willbe enough. Keep it. Oil of Eggs. TAke Egg shells stamped, having the little skin within taken away, keep them. Than take the yolks of Eggs, and beat them well in a pot, and set a glass of them under a dung hill of hot horse-dung the space of eight days together. Than take it out, and put the said Eggs into a Limbeck, and lute it well, and distill them thus three times, and there will come Oleum ovorum. Oleum auri pigmenti. TAke auri pigmentum, and bruise it small, and seeth it with oleum lunare in a little pot leaded. And when it is half consumed, put it in a Limbeck and distill it: Than take the Lees, and bray them upon a Marble stone, and put them again into the Limbeck, and power again upon it the same oil: do thus three times and keep it, for it is good ad fixationem. Oleum lunare. TAKE as much of aqua lunaris described before, as you will, distill it in a Limbeck until it wax dry, and you shall have your Oil, wherewith you may fix all kinds, and harden also Mercury. Oil of Brimstone. BRay Brimstone with Tartre in manner of pap, put it in a glass upon a fire of quick coals. three dates than bray it again, and distill it in a Limbeck, and that is called oleum sulphuris. To sublime Mercury. TAke a peunde of Mercury, a quartern of salt armoniac, power upon it good vinaigre, that they may be liquid: mingle them together, and let them so stand until the next morrow. Bray them well upon a Marble stone, for all must be brought into powder before you put the vinaigre to them. When you have thus brayed them that the Mercury appeareth no more, let it dry, and bray it well so dry without vinaigre, Than put it in a Limbeck, and sublime it in a forneise of sublimation, as before is said of the the Brimstone: bind fast the felt about the Limbeck that nothing breath out. The first. two. hours you shall make a small fire under it, until the moisture come out above, which you shall know by the vapour that is upon the piece of plate: than stop the hole, and make a greater fire under it two hours long: than increase the fire four hours long: than let it cool by little and little, and than open it and you shall find the Mercury as white as a lily above, and that which sticketh on the side, and lieth upon the lees, rub it of with a feather, and bray it with the lees and strong vinaigre as before, let it dry and sublime it as before. This do so long until the lees smoke no more upon the coals. Than take the Mercury sublimed, and twice as much common salt prepared, mingle them together, and sublime them in a Limbeck as before. Do this three times. Sublime the lees as is said until they smoke no more upon the coals, than cast them away. And if the Mercury be not as white as Snow, take other common Salt prepared, and sublime it again, until it be white enough. FINIS. A necessary Table containing the summaries of all the receipts, and medicines, treated of in this present volume. AGainst every grief or pain of the head, except the pocks. Fol. 1 A preservative against the falling sickness or epilepsia. Idem Against the falling sickness. idem Another sovereign remedy for the same. idem Against the palsy. idem Another way. idem Against the frenzy. idem A tried remedy against the great pain ringing and deafness of the ears. fol. 3 Another remedy well known and tried. idem A remedy to stench the bleeding at the nose. idem Another for the same well proved and of a marvelous strength. idem Another sovereign remedy. idem Another for the same. idem For the tooth ache a remedy proved. idem Another remedy, whether the ache be by cold or by heat. idem Another for the same. idem Another remedy. idem A remedy for the stinking of the mouth & nose. fol. 4 Another for the same. idem A very good gargarism or gargellinge for the throat against the Quinsey. idem For the same. idem Another for the same. idem An excellent plaster to soften or ripe an impostume in the throat. idem Against spitting of blood coming of the Lungs or Lights. idem For the same another remedy tried and proved. idem Another remedy found very singular. idem Another remedy of marvelous great virtue. idem Another secret for the same, certain and experimented and good at all hours. fol. 5 For the same. idem Another for the same. idem Against the ulceration of the Lungs or Lights, and Spittle full of matter and corruption. idem Another for the same. idem Another for the same. idem A remedy for short winded men. idem A drink for the same disease, to be taken every day thrice. fol. 6 Another tried secret good for poor folk. idem For the same and good also for the poor sort. idem A remedy against the pleurisy. idem A decoction for the stomach, very good against the pleurisy. idem Another remedy most certain against all pluresies, as proved as divine, for to preserve a man that he die not of it. idem An ointment to rot or ripe the plurcsie. fol. 7 A plaster for the same. idem For the same. idem Against the hot cogh, that is to say, when the patient is sovexed with it that he can not well sleep. idem Against the same, if his voice be hoarse with it. idem A tried electuary for the same. idem Again for the cogh. idem Pills for the cogh. idem An ointment for the same. idem Against the trembling and panting of the heart, this is very good, but especially for women, which are subject thereunto. fol. 8 A remedy against the same, and very good to restore the strength, being weakened with to great heat of agues. idem Another remedy where with I have always found myself very well. idem An epithem against the same pain. idem An ointment very good for poor folk, that are not able to buy the foresaid medicine or nourishment. idem Another composition very good in the time of a plague as well to press rue as to heal. fol. 9 Another ointment very good and principally for children that are troubled with worms. idem A remedy against the worms in young children. idem A remedy against the pain of the stomach. idem Another remedy for the same, when all other will not profit him. idem A vomentation or nourishment very singular for the same. idem Another against the same. idem Another remedy. idem Another very good. fol. 10 Another remedy proved. idem A nourishment very good against the same disease. idem a little bag to carry about one aghast the same disease. idem A drink for the same. idem Another remedy to lay to the stomach. idem Another remedy well tried & proved, and good chief for young children, vexed with the pain of the stomach, which is known if they vomit or belch. idem A remedy against an impostume in the stomach. idem Against the same. fol. 11 A plaster for the same. idem A nourishment or keeping of the stomach in his natural heat, by washing or bathing it. idem A remedy against vomiting. idem An ointment very good against choleric vomitig. idem another remedy against flemetick vomiting. idem A remedy against the hicket or yesking. idem Another. idem Remedies against the pain of the liver come through ventosity. idem Another of very good effect. idem A remedy found very good against the liver that is appostumate or corrupted. fol. 12 For the same. idem Remedies against the dropsy. idem Against the same. idem A drink of great virtue and strength and against the windy dropsy. idem Another remedy very good to take after a purgation. idem Remedies against the dropsy called ascites, a drink very good to take once a week. idem A singular good electuary for the same, which ought to be disclosed but to your special friends. fol. 13 An ointment for the same. idem Another ointment very good. idem A remedy against the yellow jaundice. idem Remedies against the colic. idem A remedy never to have the colic more. idem Another remedy to take in the pain and torment of the colic. idem A very good powder that healeth quickly the said sickennes. fol. 14 A remedy which I have found to be very good for all griofe or pain of the guts or entrails. idem A glister wherewith I have cured many. idem Another against the same. idem Another for the same. idem An ointment against the same. idem A very good receipt which pope Element the seventh took in his last sickness. idem A remedy against the late or fire come of choler. fol. 15 An ointment very good for the same. idem Remedies against the lax disentericke. idem Another drink very good. fol. 16 Another remedy. idem Another drink very good in case the Patient have therewith any great dolour in his belly (as often times it happeneth) by reason of exulceration and knawing of the guts. idem Another remedy when the pain is great. idem Suffamigations or smoking for the same. idem The first. idem The second. idem Another remedy for the same. idem An ointment very good for the bloody fire. idem Remedies against the swelling and oppilation or stoping of the spleen. fol. 17 A fomentation or nourishing by washing for the same ●●● An ointment against the same. idem Another fomentation or bathing for the same. idem Remedies against the pain; swelling, and ventosity of the matrice. idem Another tried of some women. idem Another remedy very good & web knows of women 18 Another. idem A fomentation or nourishing. idem A very good ointment. idem A plaster or cloth to lay upon the matrice if grief de old or inveterate. idem remedies to make a woman's time to come that is let or hindered by some cause. idem Another remedy very good also to cause a woman to bring forth the child before the time, if the woman be in danger of it. idem A washing very good for the same. idem Against to much abundance of flowers. idem An ointment against the same. idem Against the prefocation or strangling of the matrice. idem Against the same of what cause so ever it come. idem Another against the same. idem Against the same. idem against the same. idem Remedies to be used when the Matrice cometh out of her natural place or falleth. idem A plaster very good. idem Remedies for the Matrice corrupted or apostumated, a plaster for to dissolve it. idem Another plaster for the same. idem A plaster. idem Remedies against the ulcers or corrupt matter of the Matrice. idem A drink for the same. idem Remedies against the white fire of women. idem Another against the same. fol. 21 A drink. idem A powder against the same. idem Remedies against pissing hot. idem A syrup. idem A drink against the same, to take three hours before dinner and at noon. idem Against gonothea, which is when a man's seed goth from him unwittingly. idem An ointment against the same. idem Another remedy marvelous good. idem Remedies for them that piss blood. idem An ointment for the same. fol. 22 A plaster for the same. idem Remedies against the gravel. idem Another. idem Another remedy well tried where by I have often times found myself eased. idem Against the same. idem Another very good. idem Reteyptes to hasten the childbirth, and to mitigate the pain of the travail and labour. idem Another. idem Another. fol. 23 Another. idem Another remedy very good, but yet such one that may not be given, but in great necessity, or when the child is dead within her belly. idem Remedies when a man pisseth against his will. idem Another for the same. idem Remedies against the stone in the bladder. idem A remedy & preservative against the same. idem Another for the same. idem Remedies for to heal the Emerhodes or piles, a very excellent ointment. fol. 24. A plaster against the same. idem An excellent & very good hot bathe for the same. idem Another remedy of very great virtue. idem Remedies against the swelling of the cods. idem Another against hard swelling. idem A good plaster for the same. idem An ointment against the same. idem A plaster. fol. 25 Remedies against the sciatica. idem Remedies against inflammations of blood which groweth into an impostume in some part of the body or members, called phelgmone. idem A plaster to ripe and to ret an impostume. idem Another for the same. idem Another to rot or ripe incontinent. idem Against a ringworm or tetter that runneth all over a man's face, or against that disease that is called Frysipilas or Lichen, of some Mentagra, the Frenchmen call it feu volage, as it were a running fire. fol. 26 Another remedy very good to heal the same, when it doth but begin to increase. idem Against flematicke swelling. fol. 27 Remedies for the scabs. idem An ointment very good for to anoint young children who because of their tenderness, can not endure a purgation. idem Another ointment very good for little children & old folk to use before and after a purgation. idem Another remedy. idem A bane or bathe for the same. idem against the scurf or lepry called in latin psora. idem A remedy against puffs, bladders, blisters, or wheels, and against the small pocks. idem an ointment. idem another remedy well tried. idem against the strong cogh of young children. fol. 28 against the stinking sweat. idem against the pain of the eyes. idem For a white spot in the eyes. idem Against the difficulty of bringing forth child, and the retention of the shin that the child is wrapped in, called in latin secundina or secundae. idem A remedy when the fundament cometh out. idem Against the pain of the guts. idem against the difficulty in making water saving for that which cometh of the stone. idem For men. idem For women. idem Against crablouse. fol. 29 Against a Canker. idem Against the little worms and itching of the hand or body. idem Against the swelling of the cods. idem To make the worms come out of the hands or feet. idem A remedy for deafness of the ears. idem A remedy against fistuleys. fol. 30 For the scabs of the hands. idem A water of a great and marvelous effect for to keep man's body from many infirmities & diseases. idem What operations come of such distillations. idem Another water or Balsamum, almost for the same things. idem A pounder very good to conserve the sight. fol. 31 Against the pain of the flanks or the pluresye. idem Against quartain agues. idem To heal old wounds and cankers of the leg. idem against the scurf. idem Against all ventosity, colic or pain of the matrice. idem For the hardness or brawn of the feet. idem To make very perfit Uinaigre. idem Against the falling syckennesse. fol. 32 For children that be broke. idem Against the pain of the spleen. idem For to stench blood. idem For to heal in four days the scalding with water, or any other thing, without ointments or plasters it hath bane tried and found true. idem For to stench blood. idem Against the worms in little children. idem To heal the Emerhodes or piles. idem Against all kinds of pain and grief. idem Against styfnes or shrinking of sinews, called the cramp or swelling, coming of the wound taken of some venomous beast in latin spasmus or convulsio. 33 For them that can not piss, by reason of certain gravel and carnosity which is abundance of flesh. idem Against deafness. idem Against oppilation or stopping. idem Against the the giddiness of the sight. idem For them that can not broke their meat, but vomit it again. idem Against the head ache by to much drinking. idem Against all the pain of the head. idem Against the pain of the head that continueth always. idem Another way. idem Another way. fol. 34 Against the megrame happening suddenly. idem Against itching of the head. idem Against ulcers or scabs of the head as well of men as of women. idem Against old and putrefied wounds. idem To keep that the flesh grow not to much in a wound. idem To heal and take away the scurf. idem For to kill Lice. idem Against the distillation of the brain and heaviness of the head. idem Against murs or catarrhs that begin to grow. idem For to refrain the murr or catarrh. idem A remedy for the disease when the hear of the beard or head falleth of, of itself. fol. 35 To keep that the hear shall not fall of. idem To make the bear of a man's head or beard to grow. idem For to make hears grow. idem For to curl hear, a rare secret. idem For to make hear black. idem To keep that the hears wax not hoar or white. idem For to make the hears black. idem Against the pain in the eyes. idem Against the dimness or dazzling of the sight. fol. 36 Another way. idem Against a web or spot in the eye. idem To take away the hurtful hears of the eye brows. idem Against all pain of the ears. idem Against the pain of the ears & deafness, & for to purge the apostumes or corruption of the ears. idem Against the pain of the ears. idem Against the noise or ringing of the ears. idem Against all infirmity of the ears. idem Against deafness and hardness of hearing. fol. 37 Against the pain of the ears, deafness, dirt or filth, worms or water that is in them. idem For to stench bleeding at the nose. idem To heal the sickness called noli me tangere. idem Against stinking of the mouth. idem Against the tooth ache. idem Another way. idem For to make teeth fall out. idem For to make teeth white that be black. idem For them that be hoarse. idem To heal the disease called the kings evil. idem how to know the kings evil. idem Against the cegh and distillation of the breast and lungs, and running of the eyes, pain of the bladder, and when the pipe of it is stopped, which causeth that a man can not piss, but with great difficulty, also for those that spit blood at the mouth, or piss blood, and for the flire, and colic pain, or beavynes of the belly and choler, and also against a vomiting without an ague, also against all pain of the body, except of the head, and especially against the ulceration of the lungs, if you give the patient an electuary or two of it. fol. 38 Against all vehement coghes. idem Against the cogh be it never so great. idem For one that hath swallowed down a blood sucker. idem Against an old and inveterate cogh. idem Against the bloody flux coming of the artere or synowe of the lungs or of the liver. idem For to restrain a great and vehement vomiting. fol. 39 For them that can not keep their meat in the stomach but vomit it up again. idem To quench and assuage thrust. idem Another way. idem To stop the hicket. idem For to stop the hicket that cometh often. idem A sovereign remedy for them that have wry necks, by reason of shroken sinews: & for them that have the gout. idem To take away swelling under the armholes. idem Against apostumes & swelling at the rote of the nails. idem To make a man's nails grow which be fallen of. idem Against the disease called lychen, which is a foul breaking out of all the face with a scab, beginning at the chin. idem To take away the scab of a running tetter etc. fol. 40 Against burgeons & bushes in the face. etc. idem Against all spots, pimples, bushes, or ulcers. etc. idem To take away the blackness of the neck. etc. idem Against the bruising of the face by a fall or slip. idem Another very good. idem Against warts and malanders. idem Against swelling of the stomach, pain of the rains, gravel, phlegm, colic, the emerbodes, or piles, also to stay the flowers of a woman, and for those that have an infected liver & spleen, also for those that cogh and for them that have the falling sickness. idem Against the pain of the spleen. idem Another. fol. 41 For the pain of the loins or haunches. idem Against swelling or ulcers of the rains of the back. idem Against the pain of the gravel, and for to. etc. idem Against the pain of the rains. idem Against the gravel. idem Against the pain of the bladder and gravel. idem Against the bloody flux, or fretting torment in. etc. fol. 42 Against the straining, fretting & gripping of. etc. idem For those that have fretting and griping in the belly and the lax. idem Against the colic. idem Against the pain of the colic coming suddenly. idem Against the pain of the guts or bowels. idem For to stop the lax. idem Against the fretting of the belly or lax. idem For to know a secret or hidden disease of any man, and to heal the same. fol. 43 For them that void blood at their fundament, and for those that have their blood broken. idem Against the worms that engender in men's bodies. idem Against the griping of the belly, & desire to go to stole, and yet do nothing. idem Against the pain of the colic. idem Against the ulcers & fistules in the fundament. etc. idem To heal the emerhodes or those the lose their blood. idem Against the ulcers of the fundament, & against the disease called commonly S. Fiacres sickness. idem For to ripe or break an impostume or. etc. idem Another. idem Against hurting or flawing of the skin by chafing and going either of the feet or between the thighs, id. Against the swelling & pain of the soles of the feet. 44 To make warts fall of. idem For to take away the felons & cats hears which break out with wheels in the fingers, & also knops. etc. idem For to assuage the pain of the gout. etc. idem Another way. idem For to get out any thing that sticketh in a man's. etc. idem Certain receipts against the plague. idem A compposition preservative against the pestilence excellent as it were treacle or Mythridatum. fol. 45 Another composition in powder, or in other. etc. idem Common piles very good for the same. idem Antidotes or medicines preservatives & comfortable of small cost easy to find & prepare for poor folk. idem Another medicine. fol. 46 Things of favour or sweet smell, as powder, balls, waters, perfumes, and first a powder for. etc. idem A perfume. idem A smelling ball. idem Another sweet ball metre for the summer. fol. 47 Outward remedies to purge the air, the easiest, the presentest, and those that are of the smallest price for men of small ability. idem A powder against the worms. idem The whole sum of the regiment and governing of a man's life. idem A sovereign remedy against the venom of the plague for rich men and for princes. fol. 48 A powder for poor folk of no less efficacy & strength then the second. idem A drink for poor folk, and in a place where there is none or very little juice either of syrup, citrons, lemons, or pomegrades. idem A drink often times tried, profitable & wholesome, that which (as many men say) was never found vain. idem Opiate. idem A drink meet after every taking of the said opiate, or to be mixed with the takinges of the same opiate, for the strongest or meanest men, according. etc. 49 A drink for poor folk. idem A drink to cause one to sweat. idem Another drink for poor folk. idem An epithem or medicine to lay to the. etc. idem An epithem for the heart good for poor folks which may also serve for the liver. idem An epithem or medicine for the liver. idem Local medicines, & first a plaistor or. etc. fol. 50 Another easy drawing medicine. idem medicines of the kinds that burn the skin or flesh. etc. idem Another plaster. idem Another stronger. idem A medicine that cleanseth and purifieth. idem Another very good. idem A plaster incarnatife. idem A repercussife & resolutive ointment against. etc. fol. 51. A plaster for to stop the gnawing or eating of the canker. idem An ointment very sweet for cankers that have corrupt matter in them, which also allayeth the pain of those that have no corrupt matter in them. idem An ointment of marvelous virtue against the eating and running of the canker, and to take away all the grief of the same. idem A plaster mitigative and very gentle for cankers, specially of the breasts or paps. fol. 52 first to harden iron. idem For to harden knives and other such like. idem For to harden a file or other instrument of iron. idem To harden any other substance material. idem To make any instrument of steel hard & sharp. idem Another. idem To keep it from cleaving when it is a hardining. fol. 53 To make iron or steel soft. idem Another. idem To solder all things and first iron. idem To solder any hot thing. idem To solder Copper. fol. 55 To solder iron. idem A powder that will make all metal pliable & soft. idem Another upon brass. idem To grave in iron or steel, knives & harness. idem To grave with water. idem Another stronger and more biting. fol. 56 To make a colour of gold or silver to lay upon metal, and to make also a ground of gold or silver, upon iron, bells, stones, which shall not go of with water. idem A colour of gold to set upon bras or copper. idem A colour of gold upon brass. fol. 57 To make Copper of a silver colour. idem To gild iron or steel. idem To make a water for to gilt upon iron or steel. idem To keep all maner of iron or steel, and also all manner of instruments of war. idem To bring a cloth that was stained to his. etc. idem To take spots out of cloth. fol. 58 Another way. idem A water to take spots out of white cloth. idem To take spots of grease or oil out of white cloth. idem To take spots of grease or oil out of all sorts of cloth or other things. idem Another. idem To take spots of wine out of all manner of cloth. idem To take all manner of spots out of silk. idem To take all spots out of crimson velvet. fol. 59 A water take all spots out of gold & velvet. idem To make a Soap that taketh out all spots. idem To take spots of black ink or other things. etc. idem To take spots out of scarlet or velvet of colours which out vurting any thing at all the colour. idem To take spots of oil from parchment or white paper. 60 To die thread, yarn or linen cloth into a. etc. idem To die thread or linen cloth blue. idem A blue colour to die all things. idem Another way to die blue. idem To die red. fol. 61 Another way. idem To make fair roset. idem To die wood, bones and horn into green. idem Another green. idem To die, horn, bone, and wood into red. idem To die yellow. fol. 62 To die black. idem To make horn soft. idem To mollify or soften horn so that you shall imprynte or make any figures in it. idem Another way. idem To cast horns in a mould like lead. idem To make clear stones of amber. idem Another fol. 63 To polish & to give a gloss unto precious stones. idem To make a stone that shall give fire and burn of itself if you wet it with your finger. idem To mollify or soften Crystal and precious stones so that you may cut them like these, and that being put in a mould they shallbe hard again. idem To counterfeit pearls which shallbe very fair, and as they were natural and true. idem To prepare Mercury, & so to harden it, that you may make it liquid and work it. fol. 64 A substance made of paper or other things, to express or set out any manner of figure that you will upon. etc. idem How to bray gold for to gilt with. fol. 65 To gild copper. idem To gilt iron. idem To take of the gold from silver that is gilded, so that the silver shall remain whole and sound. idem To separate silver from copper, be it money or etc. idem A powder which being laying upon any thing silvered will take of the silver from it. idem To convert and turn copper into brass. fol. 66 To melt all metal softly. idem For to give a colour of gold upon copper. idem To make verdet or spanish green. idem To make a white colour of lead. idem To make Lutum sapientie. fol. 67 To lute or dawde pots with a linen cloth that will not burn idem To solder glasses. idem Another lutum sapientie. idem To separate gold from silver. fol. 68 Another way. idem To separate gold or silver without fire or aqua fortis. idem To separate gold from silver with a powder. idem To make gold softer. idem Another way. fol. 69 To make gold and silver softer. idem To soften all metals, and other things that are not soft so that they shallbe soft & gentle to be wroughts upon or forged. idem An oyle that maketh all metals soft. idem To separate gold from copper. idem Another way. idem A powder to separate gold. idem To wash gold from copper. fol. 70 To get together the gold out of threads of. etc. idem To gild so that it shall not out which no water that is. idem To gather together into one, the gold that is scraped of from letters and images. idem To take gilded from a cup that is gilded within. idem To make gold soft after the melting. idem For to give a colour to the gold that it shallbe soft. idem To boil gold or silver to make it receive a. etc. fol. 71 To give a colour to gold. idem To give 〈…〉 idem For to make 〈…〉 idem To make silver fair and white. idem To know if the silver have any gold in it or no. idem To mortify and allay Mercury or quick silver. idem To gild steel or iron. idem To separate gold or silver from metal or iron. fol. 72 Silver of tin, to make vessel or other things. idem To white any vessel of copper within and without with silver colour very easily. idem To make vessel of Copper white like Silver, both within and without. idem To make that tin crack not. idem To take Salamanders, for to occupy or to serve a man's turn. fol. 73 To fine gold with Salamanders. idem The mother of all waters for to make all metals liquisyable. idem To prepare common salt. idem To prepare salt armoniac. fol. 74 To make shall Alkali. idem To make shall Boras. idem Water of Mercury. fol. 75 Water of salt armoniac. idem A water called aqua lactis virgins. idem Water of salt Alkali. idem A water called aqua croci martis. idem To calcine tartar. idem To calcine egg shells. fol. 76 To calcine or burn tutia. idem A water called aqua lunaris. idem Aqua causata. idem A water called aqua causc●c●● fol. 77 Aqua auri pigmenti. idem Water of common salt prepared. idem Water of yolks of eggs. idem oil of tartar. idem An oil called oleum laterinum or petroleum. idem Oleum benedictum. idem oil of Brimstone. idem A note. 78 To purge Brimstone. idem To sublime Brimstone. idem Oil of Eggs. fol. 79 Oleum auri pigmenti. idem Oleum lunare. idem Oil of Brimstone. idem To sublime Mercury. idem 〈…〉 of Secrets and sovereign Receipts, 〈…〉 good and approved Authors, and set the French tongue, and now lately translated into english (to the profit of this our country) by W. Warde. printed at London by Roland Hall dwelling 〈…〉, at the sign of the hale Egle and the Keep. 1562.