NATURA EXENTERATA: OR NATURE UNBOWELED By the most Exquisite Anatomizers of Herald. Wherein are contained, Her choicest SECRETS digested into RECEIPTS, fitted for the Cure of all sorts of Infirmities, whether Internal or External, Acute or Chronical, that are Incident to the Body of Man. Collected and preserved by several Persons of Quality and great Experience in the Art of Medicine, whose names are prefixed to the Book. Containing in the whole, One thousand seven hundred and twenty. Very necessary for such as regard their Own Health, or that of their friends. Valetudinem tuam cura diligenter. Whereunto are annexed, Many Rare, hitherto un-imparted Inventions, for Gentlemen, Ladies and others, in the Recreations of their different Employments. With an exact Alphabetical Table referring to the several Diseases, and their proper Cures. London, Printed for, and are to be sold by H. Twiford at his shop in Vine Court Middle Temple, G. Bedell at the Middel Temple Gate Fleetstreet, and N. Ekins at the Gun near the West-end of S. Paul's Church, 1655. portrait The most Illustrious & most excellent Lady, the Lady Alathea Talbot etc. Countess of Arundel & Surry & the first Countess of England. READER, IT hath ever been an humour in the world for men either absolutely to condemn or supercilliously to despise all other things, beside what themselves can effect, and most unhandsomely prejudicated, That there is no merit, but in their own actions: Thus the talkative dogmatists would word their patients out of Agues, Gouts, and Apoplexies, as if they took exorcisms for cures, or their Canting and incantations of strength enough to supersede the Grave. The refutations of which irksome discourses, are many times seen in the real actions and performances of others, whose Probatums are more sanative than the consultations of such, whose Method, Beard and Gown are all the realities to commend them to the world, whilst their languishing patients, impatiently (though very truly conclude) That Garrulus medicus est onerosior morbo. That which hath done, may do, what that which never did may fail in. Method, 'tis true, may rectify and inform the reasonable faculty in man, yet be of very little assistance in accidents, whose uncouth causes are not liable to Rule. What folly is it therefore for any man to think, That that by which Hypocrates was Hypocrates, was not much more considerable in the curing of his malady, than that by which he was a man. The species can never have Fever nor Consumption, 'tis the fluid temperament consequentious to the principles of Individuation that made Socrates groan and die. So that if accidents are the grounds of Infirmities and diseases, than practical observations are more assistant than Systemes; obscure words rather beget amazement than amendment in sick people. They who do (though emperically) are to be preferred before those who dispute and talk. All which hath been said in order to justify the sedulous observations and collections of these ensuing receipts, which are commended because they have done upon many, and do carry their reason of doing upon most, whose linger condition shall invoke their aid. That there is credit in their performances, those whose care hath preserved them, may inform; that they are out of order, the several hands from whence they are derived, and the hastening of them to the press for public good may justly excuse: And the Table as exactly direct, as if the particulars in the body of the Book had been placed in their order. PHILIATROS. Reader, I here commend thee to a book Of health; not, for thy trivial time, to look Over a leaf or two, lay't down again; Call for another, vex the Stationer's brain To found thee out varieties: lay hold on this, Bring it to practice, health thou shalt not miss. Horat. — Atqui Si noles sanus, curs Hydropcus.— Thy friend, PHILOHUZEIUS. A Catalogue of such Persons of Quality, viz. Knights, Doctors of Physic, Gentlemen, Countess's, Ladies and Gentlewomen, etc. by whose Experience, these Receipts following have been approved. Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Kenhelm Digby Sir Francis Swift Sir Nicholas Le Strange. Dr. Butler, Dr. Lyster Dr. Ward Dr. Jordain Dr. Walker Dr. Atterslow Dr. Nicholas Dr. Hatcher Dr. Hill Dr. Coldwell Dr. Stevens Dr. Sherman Dr. Martin Dr. Moor Dr. Aquapendente Dr. Martin of Kurnbeck. Mr. Jacob Mr. Peacock Mr. Holditch Mr. John Gally. Mr. Clement Warwick Mr. John Richard Mr. Throgmorton Mr. John Cornwallis Mr. Neave Parson Saywel Mr. John Knape Mr. Birch Mr. Peterson Mr. Edward's Mr. Buckbeard Mr. Smith Mr. Vowel Mr. Cooper John Fernelius Mr. John Digby Mr. Kendal Mr. Pelham Mr. Green Mr. Cockman Mr. Herrick Mr. Moss Mr. Dimmock Mr Hubberd Mr. Gestwick Beda Mr Hendl●y Mr. Hampton Mr. Warth. Mr. Neot. Mr. Hutton Mr. Gaskin Paracelsus Countess of Surry Countess of Sussex Lady Cromwell Lady Cook Lady Coventry Lady Capel Lady Paget Lady Heydon Lady Savil Lady Constable Lady Killigrew Lady Skreene Lady Fortescue Mistress Downing Mistress Miller Mistress Maidenhead Mistress Forster Mistress Wilson Mistress Minne Mistress Scudamore Mistress Lindsey Mistress Nichols Anne Kirby Mistress Kent Goodwife Worsted of Calthorp Mistress Parnell dal Mistress Birch Mistress Blow Mistress Din Mrs Jones Mistress Dawson Elizabeth Cannon of Oy●tberry. Mrs' Church Mrs Brent Mrs Cranmer Mrs. Purvey Mistress Firmingham Mistress Elizabeth Standish Mistress News Mrs Napper Mistress Nash Mistress Clear Mistress Hagger Mistress Conway The number of Receipts and Experiments contained in this Volume is 1720. Selected Experiments in Physic and Chirurgery. A Sovereign Plaster for the Pleurisy. Mistress Downing▪ TAke Brook-lime one handful, chop it very small, and with it Dear suet, or Sheeps-suet, and put to it one handful of bran, and boil it in so much water as will seethe it very tender and thick. A Plaster for the heat in the back. By Mistress Miller. TAke three spoonful of Oil of Roses; as much of good vinegar, and as much of House-leek, with the white of an egg beaten, and temper it with barley meal, the bran being taken away, and make a Plaster upon a linen cloth, and lay it to the back, and as it drieth so let it be renewed until your pain be gone. For the same. TAke flower of Wheat one handful, bole armoniac one ounce; Oil of Roses one ounce, and as much of Plantane-water, temper all these together, and make a Plaster, and lay it to the back. An Ointment for an ache in the back. TAke the Grease of a Fox, and the Grease of a Duck, and the Grease of a Hog of one year old, and Salad Oil, of every of them a like quantity, and mingle them all together and make it warm and anoint the back therewith. An excellent Ointment for an ache and shrinking of Sinews. By Mistress Maidenhed. TAke the young buds of Poplar, three times so many as will fill a quart pot, and the like quantity of Barrowes grease, and mingle them together in a pot, and stop them as close as may be, and so let them stand fourteen days, and than take them out and warm them, and strain the liquor from the buds, and stamp them, than take a pint of Salad Oil, half a pint of Oil of Excester, 2 l. of fresh Butter unwashed; than take the Barrows grease, Salad Oil, Oil of Excester and the butter, and boil them together with a soft fire, wherein you must cast the Poplar buds with a handful of meal, stirring it till it grow to be green, than take it of from the fire and strain it; when it waxeth cold, put it into a fair Galley-pot, and stop it close, and keep it seven year if you will: when you mean to occupy it, take and warm it, and anoint the place that acheth, for which it is excellent good. An excellent Ointment for an ache, or for shrinking of Sinews; and for the Gout. By Mistress Downing. TAke two handful of Smallage, otherwise called March, and two handful of Commin bruised in a Mortar, six spoonful of Boars grease, six spoonful of Aqua vitae, six spoonful of Rose-water; bruise well your Smallage, than put them all together and boil them a good while, than strain it; and where the pain is anoint it against the fire, and so use it till you be whole, and bind always a cloth to it. An Ointment for the Gout, and all cold cases. TAke a pint of Neat's soot Oil, and a pint of Aqua Composita, and the marrow of the bones of a whole Buck, and the marrow of a horse being newly dead, and a great handful of Cammomile, and put all these in a Pewter pot, and stop the mouth close with paste, and set it in a kettle of water, and let it boil twelve hours, and than take an strain it, and wring it hard in a Glass, and keep it till you have need, and anoint the place grieved. A good Salve for any kind of old Sore. TAke English Wax, May butter, Salad Oil, and Lapis calaminaris, every parcel like weight, and boil them together, and you shall have a very good Salve. This La is calaminaris will stop the humour that feedeth the Sore, and so 'cause it to heal the sooner. A good Salve for Bruises and Wounds, called, Gratia Dei. TAke a quarter of a pound of unwrought Wax, as much of Parrossen, as much of Mastic, as much of Frankincense, as much of common resin, as much of Deers suet, and beaten the things that are to be beaten, and melt the other, and so put them together in a Chaffer, and seethe them with a soft fire; than strain it through a course canvas, and put it into a Chaffer, and set it on the fire, and put in two ounces of Turpentine, and two drams of Camphire beaten with a little Linseed, and stir it very well; and when it hath had a walm, than take it of, and pour in a quart of White-wine and so stir it till it be so cold as you may work it into Roles. This Salve (as it is reported) was revealed unto King Alexander by an Angel. An Ointment for Aches, or other griefs, and all other cold causes. By Mistress Forster. SMallage, Brook-lime, Loveage, Ground-Ivye, balm, vervain. Honeysuckle leaves, Peni●oyel, Cammomile, Water-Betany▪ Land-Betany, Maudlin, Mallows, of each half an handful. This must be gathered in mid-May, and washed in fair water, and than lay them between two linen clothes till the water be dried, that is to say, by the space of a forenoon; and than take Boars-grease one pound and a half, and boil the same till the juice of the Herbs be in it, and strain them, and anoint the place grieved▪ To make the green Ointment, by Wilsons wife of London, TAke Orpine, Columbine, the herb Mercury, Ivy, the tender crops of read Brambles, Ribwort, Hounds-tongue, Plantain, Water-betany, Mallows, Valerian, Rose-Campions, wild Tansey, Cinqfoile, of each one handful, Wormwood four little branches, or half an handful, half an handful of Fetherfew, and as much of Smallage, of Rue three little crops, Daisy roots, leaves of Colt's foot, Privet, Sage, Hartstongue, Honey-suckle leaves and flowers, Tornsorve, Horehound, Garden-Betony, Cammomile, Alehoofe, Nightsade, Tansey, Saint Johns-wort and Dill, of each a good handful, of Hemlocks, whereof the stalks be speckled, half an handful; all these being clean washed and dried in a cloth, than shred them small, and beaten them small in a stone Mortar. Than take four pound of clarified butter, and boil your herbs therein till it wax green, and so strain it through a course canvas; than put to it two ounces of Turpentine washed, and half a pound of wax clarified, one ounce of Honey, one ounce of Rosen melted; and set all this on the fire a Pater Noster while, than take it of, and pour it into a Vessel of cold water, and when it is cold, beaten it from the water, and put it into boxes; and so use it. This is a most excellent Ointment or Salve for any kind of swelling, sore or green wound. A good Ointment for all kind of Bruises. GOldworthy, Archangel, Balm, Valerian, Marigolds, unset Por●et, of each two handful, and they must be gathered in the month of May; wash them clean, and lay them on a fair cloth in the Sun for the space of two hours, than shred them small, and put them in a pan, and therein put one pound of May-butter, and a quart of Salad Oil, and boil them all together, and so strain them through a linen cloth. To make the black Plaster which is good for the Gout, and all other Aches coming of cold causes. By Mistress Maidenhed. TAke half a pound of Olibanum fine seared, and half a pound of Rosen searsed, half a pound of Pitch searsed, a quarter of a pound of sheep's tallow tried, two ounces of Cummin seared, one ounce of Labdanum, half an ounce of Cloves, half an ounce of Mace, and a quarter of an ounce of Saffron being beaten all in powders; set them on a soft fire. Your Labdanum must be beaten with some other of your powders with a hot pestle, and so stir them all mixed together till they be all molten. And if you be disposed to make any Plasters, you must take a Cheverel skin, and so stretch it up on a board with little tack nails, and your Salve being almost cold, spread it with a slice or a knife thin in all places alike, and the rest you may make up in Roles▪ having Salad Oil poured on a board, to anoint your hands for cleaving; this you may lay to any place, either hands, arms, legs or soles of your feet, it will draw away the humour, and break no skin. A Salve for a Cut or other Wound. TAke Sage, Smallage, Sunshine or Groundsel, Woodbinds, Cumfrey, Bugle, Cellendine, Gold-worthy, Setwel, Valerian, of each a handful, and of Toutswain leaves half an handful, bruise all these small, and boil them in a quart of May-butter, and a pound of Sheep's suet, than strain them through a canvas, than set them on the fire again, and put to it half a pound of Rosen beaten, as much of good wax tried, and so stir them together till they have a walm, and than put it up in some Vessel to use it as you need. An Ointment for the Ache in the arm, or any other place that cometh of cold, or by the Rheum. By Mr. Jacob. TAke an handful of Sage, as much of Wormwood, as much Camomile, as much of Herbgrace, boil all these in a pottle of Malmsey till they be consumed, than put to a pound of fresh butter, and so let it seethe a good while, and strain it through a corpse canvas, and when it is cold put it up in a box, and anoint the place grieved, and lay a little black wool to keep your slieve from drinking it away. A Plaster for the pricking of a nail. Take black soap, honey, and garlic fine beaten, than bray them all together, and so lay it to the Patient in a Plaster. Probatum est. An Ointment for a Bruise with a fall. By Mistress Swift. Take Elder flowers and beaten them small in a Mortar with Bean-flower bolted very fine, grinned them all together till they be very small, than take them forth, and put them in a glass, and put thereto Salad Oil, and so let them stand until you have need of it. And for the Elder, the more there be, the better it is; and anoint the Patient against the fire. This is an approved Medicine. A Plaster for a Thorn or splinter. Take the root of Flower-de-luce, stamp it small, and mix it with Turpentine and black soap, and lay it to the sore. A Salve for any rankled sore. By Mistress Downing. Take one handful of Herb grace, and half an handful of read Sage, and as much fat roasted Bacon as will make it soft, when it is ground together in a Mortar, which must be done very fine, and than it will spread very fine on a cloth: And if the Sore needeth to be t●nted, strain some of the Medicine and wet your Tent in it. An excellent salve for any Wound. By Mrs Downing. Take a good handful of Smallage, as much Sage, Orpine, read Fennel, Salendine, Toutswain, Nightshade, Water cresses, Plan●ine, Ribwort, Ragwort and ●ugle of each one handful, half a pound of unwrought ●●ax, half a pound of Rosen, one pound of Deers suet, or Sheep's suet, one pound of May-butter; chop the herbs small, than let all these boil together, and stir it as long as it seethes; than take a wet cloth hard wrung, that is course, and with a pair of tongs wring it into an earthen pan, and when it is cold role it in parchments, and so keep it and occupy it. This must be made in May. You must also put into it a pint of Salad Oil. A Powder to staunch bleeding Wounds. By Mistress Downing. Take dried Vervain made in Powder▪ and so lay the powder to the wound, and it will staunch it. For the same, or for one's Nose bleeding: By the same Author. Take a piece of new black Cotten, and scrape it to lint, than burn it in a candle to ashes, and lay it in the wound. Another, by the same Author. Take leaves of Rue and stamp them, and lay it on the wound. A Salve for any Sore. By Mistress Downing. Take half a pound of Cummin, half a pound of Boars grease, and half a pint of Aquavitae, a good handful of Smallage, and beaten the Cummin seeds in powder, than put all those together in an earthen pot, and let it seethe till it be green, and strain it into an earthen pot, and while it seetheth stir it together; than take some of it and strike it on a cloth, and lay it on the sore twice a day. A Salve for the Piles, or emrod's. Take Mullet leaves and gilt grease, and stamp them with the oil of Garden-snails, and so make a Salve of it, and anoint the place grieved. Another for the same. Take herb grace and sheep's dung, being new, and boil it with Guilts grease, and so strain it, and put it up in a box. Another for the same. Take the blowing of one's nose, and put it on a cloth, and lay to the place. Another for the same. Take cold cream, and anoint them, and take the powder of fine ginger, and strew upon it. Another for the same. Take the blowing of one's nose, and the soot of a brass pot, and lay it to it, and if they come too low down, sit upon a close stool with Frankincense, on a chafingdish of coals, after you have been at the stool. Another for the same. By Mistress Minne. Take the flocks of Scarlet, the hoof of a horse, and frankincense, put them all in a chafingdish of coals, and sit over it, and take the heat. Probatum est. Another for the same. By Mr. Jacob. Take half an handful of elder buds, as much of camomile, as much of wild mallows, as much of mullet leaves, and boil them in a pot of strong ale, when they be tender, take half of them out, and crush out the ale of them, and grinned them in a mortar, as you do green sauce, very fine, with a quarter of a pint of Salad oil, and so make it as thick as salve, and put it in a box, and when need requires, spread it on a cloth, and lay it on the piles, and if it be in the fundament pricking, you must take the rest of the herbs and ale, seething hot, and sit over it in a close stool, after you have been ●t the stool, and wet a piece of a sponge in it, and sit close upon it. Another for the same. Take mastic and burn it upon a chafingdish of coals and sit over it, after you have been at the privy. Another. Take Germander, two or three garden snails roasted and peeled, and so bruise the snails, and Germander together, and lay them too, as hot as you can suffer. Another. Take an onion cored, and put a little Saffron into it, and roast it in a paper, and when it is roasted, pill it, and lay it to the piles. Another. By Mistress Downing. Take Longwort, otherwise called lovage, chop it very small and beaten it, boil it in fresh butter a good half hour or more, than strain it in a close box as you need it, take lint and spread some on it and lay it to. Another. By Mistress Scudamore alias Scidmer. Take a quantity of unwrought tar, and a quantity of treacle, as much of the one as of the other, mingle them together, than take a little black, as broad as the sore place is, and lay the tar and the treacle upon it in manner of a plaster, and so lay it to the fore. To make Unguentum mundificatum. Take a quart of salad oil, one pound of bole armoniac, two ounce of wax, two ounces of Dear suet, put it over the fire all together, stir it still till it be almost cold, than put thereto two ounces of camphire, stir it together, and put it in boxes. A plaster for the head ach. Take the juice of wild mallows, and a piece of a rose cake, mix them together, and lay them warm where the pain is. An ointment for the ache in the bones. Take the juice of sage, camomile, and rue, of each a like much, and mix them with oil of Excester. An ointment for redness of the face. Take Saffron one ounce, white Frankincense, and myrrh, of every of them three ounces, Camphire one ounce, Amber one ounce, make of all these a fine powder, and do it with oil of Roses. Another. Take the juice of house-leek, and strain it, and put thereto a spoonful or two of white vinegar, and if the vinegar be not eager enough, put more thereto, and anoint the face every morning with a linen cloth dipped therein, and this will destroy it in short space. An ointment for heat in the back. Take Sage, Rosemary, Camomile and Maudlin, of each an handful, than pound them together, and fry them with May butter, and anoint your back with it warm. Another for the same. Take four ounces of good oil of Roses, one ounce of whi●e wax cut in small pieces, and put them into the oil, and seethe them both in a dish, upon a chaffer of seething water, and when the wax is melted, than put thereinto the juice of singreen stamped with fair water, and a spoonful of vinegar, and labour them altogether, anoint therewith the small of your back▪ and where the grief is. An ointment to refresh, cool, and strengthen the back. Take oil of almonds, read Rose-leaves, violet leaves and flowers, of each like quantity, bruise them in a mortar, and with your oil put them into a glas●e, an● let them stand in the Sun three or four days, than take of this oil, and anoint your back therewith sometimes, and it will both strengthen it, and cool it, and perusing this oil in a close glass, and refreshing it with Roses, three or four times, and it will continued all the year. A plaster for a Felon or an Ancombe. Take a quantity of stolen ale, and clarify it clean, than take a quantity of wheat flower fine bolted and put into the ale, and steep them together upon the fire till it be thick, than strick on a plaster, and use it morning and evening. An approved salve for a Felon. Take Smallage, rusty bacon, beaten them together, till they be both one, but most of the bacon, than put to it the yolk of a new laid egg, wheat flower, soot of the Chimney and honey, and temper them altogether, and they will be like a salve; than take a piece of the same, to the bigness of a nut, and put to it as much grey soap, and four corns of bay salt bruised, temper them well together, and lay it to the Felon four and twenty hours or more, till it be killed, and than dress it evening and morning with that salve. Another. Take running water, sour leven bread, alum, bay salt, place these together till they be thick, and lay it to hot. Another. Take bay salt, and burn it upon a little stone, till it break, than mingle it with the yolk of an egg, and lay it to. Another. Take daisies, herb grace, woodbine, fetherfew, golds, nettle tops, the yolk of an egg, wheat flower and bay salt, and mix all these together. Another. Take Oak coals, and the white of an egg, and a little bay salt. Another. Take crumbs of good leaven bread, and alum in sine powder, make it thick, and lay it to hot. Another. Take a lily root, leaves of the wild mallow, a read onion, lay them in fair water while they be tender, after fry them in Deeres suet. Another. Take the milt of a read Herring, and the bark of the root of read roses, and bay salt, and mix all these together. Another. Take a quantity of herb grace, guilts grease, and snails with their shells, and beaten all these together, and lay to the Felon. Another. Take rue and bruise it, and put to it the yolk of an egg, and two or three corns of grey salt, and a little honey and wheat flower, and make a plaster of it, and lay it to the sore, and it will make it whole. An approved ointment for a wrench, bruise or burning. Anoint the place corrupted, with the fat of a dog tried against the fire. An approved ointment for a scalding or burning. First, take a handful of timniffe, and three spoonfuls of good milk and bray them together and strain it, and anoint the place therewith to kill the heat. Than take a pound of sheep's suet new, and try it well, putting to it a handful of sheep's dung, well braid by itself, and two handfuls of daisies with the roots likewise brayed by itself, and than seethe them together and strain it, and anoint the grief therewith. An ointment to assuage burning, swelling and aching of any sore. Take the juice of petty morrel, white bread and orpine, and mix them with the white of an egg, and wheat flower, and lay it to the fore. For the same. Take turpentine, vinegar, honey, whitewine and wheat bran, mingle all these together, and seethe them till they be thick, and lay it to the burning. An ointment for a ring▪ worm. Take Popilion and Cerus, mix them together, and anoint the place. For the same. Take mustard and honey and anoint the place three days. Another. Take the read docks that be rotten, and wash them clean, dry them, and make them as is abovesaid. Another. Lay Guilts grease thereto. Another. Take the root of a read d●ck, and take the second film, and stamp it and mingle it with vinegar, and anoint the place. For a Cancer in the Head and Joint. Take a root of Primrose, and stamp it with a little clarified▪ Honey, and lay it plasterwise upon the sore, and Cancer, and change it every morning and evening till it be whole. For the Cancer in a Woman's Pap. Take Goose dung and Celendine, and bray them together, and lay them to the sore Pap, and it will cleanse the Cancer, kill the worm, and heal the sore. Plasters to take away Corns, or Angnailes. Pair your Corns very near, than lay Marigolds stamped thereon, even and morn, and it profiteth: or else lay thereunto Turpentine and read wax boiled together, and made Plasterwise, and it helpeth. Another. Take quick Lime, Guylts grease, and a little black Soap. Another. Take Tallow and anoint the Corn morning and evening continually. A Plaster for the Pleurisy. Take Brooklime, Sheep's suet, and a little fair water, and fry them together in a frying-pan, and make thereof a Plaster, and lay it to the Patient's side, and it will draw out the corruption. For a Stitch or Pleurisy. Take Aquavitae and Capon's grease, boil them together, and dip therein black wool, and lay it hot to the Stomach, and that will help it. Another. Take the roots of Cowslips, and the juice of Vervain, and nine leaves of Sage, and bind them to the wrists and neck behind. An Ointment for a scald, by Mistress Downing. Take Pigeons dung of the softest, and beaten it fine in a mortar, than take as much Boars grease, and half as much Honey, and beaten them altogether till it be like an Ointment, than pull of the scab, and chafe in the ointment with your finger twice or thrice a day. A special Ointment for burning or scalding, by Mrs. Downing. Take Alehoofe, or Hollyhoofe, and chop it small, than fry it in May butter, if it be strong of the Herb it will look green, than anoint the sore place two or three times in a day. Plasters to take out the fire of burning or scalding. Take the core of a Quince, lay it in a saucer of water, and lay it to the Burning, and it will take away the fire. Take an Apple and bruise it soft, and lay it on the sore, and it will take out the fire in one hour. Another. Take the juice of Sage, and wash where the burning or scalding is, than take of ground Ivy, penyroial, stamp them with Guilts grease, or May butter, fry them together, and strain them, and so lay them to the place. Another. Take the middle bark of Elm, scrape it fine, and seethe it in fair water, and lay it to the burning. For the same. Take the fat of Bacon tried and strained, put thereto the juice of Daisies, and mingle them well together, and anoint the place with a feather, and bind thereto a fine linen cloth, and never remove it, but ever anoint it above till it be whole. Another▪ Take Goos grease, the yolks of Eggs, Sage, stamped together, warmed and strained, Guilts grease, and so lay it to the place. Another for the same. Take a good handful of ground I●i●, and four heads of Housleek clean picked, stamp them together very small, than put thereto of Goos dung, and Sheep's dung, of the newest you can get, of each an handful, and stamp them together with the herbs aforesaid, than take a quart of barrow-hogs grease, and beaten it in a mortar with the other things aforesaid, fry them together in a frying-pan with a soft fire, by the space of half an hour, and than strain it with two sticks through a fair canvas cloth, into an earthen pot, wherein you may keep it by the space of two years, and when you shall ocupie any of it, take so much as you think will suffice, and warm it in a saucer, and with a feather anoint the burned or scalded place. For the same, by Mrs. Limsey. The white of an Egg, and beaten it with a spoon, and than scum of the froth thereof, and burn a linen cloth, and take the ashes of the cloth, and put it into the white of the Egg, and temper them together, than take a feather, and therewith strike it upon the burning of scalding, and it will pull out the heat within one hour. A Plaster for a swelling like a Wen. Take Soap, the yolks of two or three Eggs, and soot, and beaten them all together, and lay to it till it break. A salve or Plaster to staunch Blood, by Mrs. Skudamore. Take Bursa pastoris, called Shepherds purse, the dung of a Mare, not green, but dry, Spiderwebs, soot of a chimney tempered with whites of Eggs. Any Medicine laid to a Vein or cut, must lie three days without removing, if you will stop the blood kindly. The crops of Nettles pounded and laid too, is good. A salve to knit sinews or Veins. Take great knotty Worms of the Valley, and seethe them in Oil Olive, with a little Hyperiovestus, which Pedlars have to cell, lay it to the wound or grief nine days, and not remove it. An Ointment to kill Itch. Take one half penny worth of black Soap, and one penny worth of ●ores grease, beaten them together in water, and anoint you therewith when it itcheth. An Ointment for all manner of Aches. Take a quart of Neat Oil, and a handful of Southernwood, a much Wormwood, as much of Bay-leaves, stamp them, and put them to your Oil, than take the gall of an Ox, and as much Aqua vitae as the gall hath liquor in it, fry all these together in a frying-pan, than strain it, and keep it in boxes. A Plaster for aching of Bones. Take a pint of white Wine, and the gall of an Ox, boil them well, scum them clean, and than take crumbs of white bread and put thereto, make a Plaster hereof, and lay to the place two or three times, and by the permission of God it will be whole. A Plaster for the rising of the Mother. Make a Plaster of Galbanum, and lay it to the Heart, and drink a little Aqua vitae with Ale. An Ointment to heal a Burning that it shall not be seen. Take Oil olive and the white of an Egg, let them be together till they be thick, and so anoint therewith the burnt place. Divers Plasters and Ointments for a white Scurf. Take a quantity of Rosin, so much wheat flower, boil them together in fair water, until it be able to be emplastered, than lay it, and drive it on a linen cloth, and upon every patch of scabs lay a Plaster, and at even pluck them away quickly, for it will pull the hair up by the roots, than wash it with Ox or Cow-pisse, but the best were to wash it with Ale: and to kill it, you must take Celydon and pound it, than put thereto Vinegar, and so strain it, and wash therewith. Also a Plaster made of Honey and Garlick pounded together. Item, A Plaster of Rye-meal. A Plaster also made of Pi●ch and Wax sodden together, and lay ●o as hot as the Patient may suffer, and to lie on nine days without removing. Also take oil of Linseed, oil of Roses, oil Olive, and temper it with Letharge, and lay thereto. Item, take May batter, and the juice of Vervain, seethe them together, than set them a cooling, and therewith anoint the scab. Item, take the juice of black Bee●s, and bathe the Head withal. An Ointment to make a man's visage white. Take fresh grease of Swine, Hen's grease, and the white of an Egg, and meal of Cockle, temper them together, and anoint thee therewith. An Ointment for a sore Leg: Take flowers of Broom, put them in a linen cloth, and lay them in Hors-dung till they be rotten, than take Barrows grease, and a quantity of oil Olive, stamp all these together, than boil them, and strain them, and anoint the sore Leg therewith, and wind about it a read cloth. A Plaster for any kind of swelling. Take Linseed and Holioke beaten well together with Sheep's tallow, make a Plaster thereof, warm it, and lay it on the sore, and it will lay the swelling, and gather to a sore, and than lay thereon Implastrum unguenti albi, and that will draw and heal. A Plaster for the Kings Evil. Take Adders grease, read Dock and Pellitory, temper them with juice of Leeks, emplaster it upon cotton, and lay it to the grief. An Ointment for ones face that seems Leprous. Take Quicksilver and the grease of a Barrow, black Pepper▪ and Score called reckless, stamp them all together, and therewith anoint thy face, and keep thy face three days from th● wind, and it will be whole. An Ointment for sauce▪ phlegm in ones face that riseth with pimples. Take the root of the Dock, pound it well with Barrows grease, them fry it in a pan, strain it, and anoint the face. A Plaster to draw out a thorn or a stub: Take Egrimony, Hare's grease, moss of an Haw-thorn, and read Wine, seethe all together in read Wine, and lay thereto hot. A read salve for old sore Legs▪ Take Letharge of Lead, searce it, and grind it on a stone, take Bole armoniac and Butter made in May, and clarify it in the Sun, and grind them in likewise, and put it in boxes. An Ointment for a Canker-pock. Take a quantity of Turpentine, two ounces of Hors-mint, one spoonful of Honey, one drachm of Verdigreece, two ounces of Bole armoniac, and one penny weight of Camphier, boil all these together, and so anoint the grief. An Ointment for the Piles or emrod's. Take oil Olive and Frankincense, and make an Ointment thereof, and put it into thy Piles. Another for the same. Take Marrow and Oil, and make an Ointment thereof, and put it into thy Pile. A Plaster to defend, that no wicked Matter draw to a Wound. Take of Bole armoniac 1. ob. of Gum called terra sigillata one ounce, pound them together, and temper them with oil of Roses, half so much Vinegar as Oil, put them into a mortar, and grind them well together, and so do by little and little till it be thick as Ointment, than spread it on a cloth, and lay abroad about the Wound over the sore until it be whole. An Intret to open, heal and cleanse a Wound, to take away the ache, and to fret away dead and cankered flesh. Take the juice of Walwort, Wormwood, the crops of read Nettles, of each a like quantity, of whites of Eggs somewhat less, cast thereto Rye meal, seethe it until it be thick, and if the Wound be deep, make a tent and dip therein: otherwise make a Plaster thereof, when it waxeth dry moisten it with the foresaid juice. An Ointment for the Gout, by Mr. Peacock. Take white Aarchangel, pick the flowers and leaves from the stalk, and put it in an earthen pot, and lay a Say of May-butter, and a Say of these leaves and flowers till the pot be full, than stop it very close with a parchment, and set it in the earth up to the brim, and cover it with a board that no rain come at it the space of a month, than take it up and there will be a blue scum, cast away the blueness thereof, than boil it on the fire, and strain it through a cloth, and it will come to a salve, and anoint where the grief is. A Plaster for a scald Head. Take Primrose-leaves, stamp them and lay to it. Another. Take oil de Bay, Frankincense, Guilts grease, and a quantity of Mercury mortified, fry them, and put in boxes to anoint with it. Another. Take tar and clean tallow, and melt it with a soft fire, and first bath it with Nea●s oil, and also the broth, and after lay your Ointment to it. A Plaster to break a sore Breast. Take Lily-roots and a piece of Leaven, seethe them in milk till the Lily be soft, and than spread it Plasterwise upon a linen cloth, and so lay it to as hot as the party can suffer it morning and evening. To keep a Breast from breaking, if it be not too far gone. Take Day that is without stones, and knead it with sharp Vinegar and the yolks of two Eggs, and a little English Saffron, work it in the Clay, and take as much of it as will cover the redness of the Breast; it must be used cold. Some Breasts will have no colour, and such are not lightly saved from breaking; and if the colour be read, it is the better to be liked. A black salve that cureth all old sores and Ulcers, be they never so foul and stinking. First take a gallon of stolen Ale, very strong, two handfuls of Woodbine-leaves, half a handful of read seeded Ne●●l●s, as much Colewort with the jagged leaf, half a pound of read Onions▪ half a pound of Garlic peeled, one handful of unset Leeks a little dish full of bark dust, let all these be stamp small in a mortar seuèrally by themselves, and put them into the ale with half a pound of Roach-allom, than set them over a soft fire, and let them boil till one part or more be boiled away; than let them stand three o● four days, and strain them through a cloth into a fair vessel; than put to them half a pound of Wax, a pound of the best Rosin, a pound of the best narvel that is green, a quart of English Honey; than set them over a fost fire again, and let them boil till the one half be consumed away; than put it into an earthen pot, keep it close, and use thereof when you have need. For a saucy face, an Ointment. Take the juice of Sage, and play it with May-butter, with Quicksilver and a little salt. A Plaster for Pimples in the face. Take Wheat-flower mingled with Vinegar and Honey, lay it upon them and it will cleanse them. Another, by Mr. Holdich. Take unwrought Brimstone finely beaten and seared, and as much Cinnamon (used in like sort) mixed with Capon's grease and a little Vinegar, and anoint the place withal. A Poultesse made Plasterwise to assuage swelling, and put away the ache, wheresoever it be. Take a pottle of running-water, two handfuls of Mallows; as much of Smallage, chop them small and put them together in a pot, and let them seethe, than put into it four handfuls of Oatmeal, as much Linseed broken in a mortar, a little quantity of Vinegar, a pint of read Wine, less than a pint of Milk from the Cow, almost a pound of Sheep's suet, than seethe all these together until it be thick, and thereof make a Plaster as hot as may be suffered, and cover the place that is pained; and as often as need is, renew and amend it. For Women that have sore Paps. Take Popilion and anoint the sore breasts well therewith; after take Camomile and cut it somewhat small, and strew it upon the breasts, and lay thereupon Sage leaves a good thickness. Swelling of Breasts. Take Oak apples, and stamp them, and mingle them with oil of Roses, and lay that to the swelling, and it will suage. Idem. Take the juice of Morrel or of Daisy, or dregss of Ale, and an Egg hard. An Ointment to take away the redness of the face. Take Boars grease and try it, than take a quantity of Fumitory gathered in May, and stamp it, and put the juice thereof to the Boar's grease, than take a little oil of Spike and mingle therewith, and so anoint the Patiented morning and evening. An Ointment to kill Worms. Take wild Mallows, Garlic, Swine's grease, and grind them well together, and melt them in a pan, strain them through a cloth, and anoint well thy hands or body. A Plaster for the same. Take a handful of Wormwood, and seethe it with milk till it be soft, than take it out, and lay it upon a linen cloth the breadth of a royal, and than take a little powder of the Aloes and strew upon it, and so bind it to the navel of the Child as hot as the Child may endure it. An Ointment for sauce phlegm in the face. Take Brimstone, and make it into small powder, and Swine's grease, and mingle them together, and make an Ointment with all, and every night anoint the sore place therewithal; and than take white wine Vinegar and put it in a pot. Than make a little bag of linen cloth, and put it full of powder of Brimstone, knit it, and let it lie in the pot day and night, and every morning wash of the Ointment with the bag. Another for the same. Take juice of House-leek, strain it, and put thereto a spoonful o● two of White-wine-vinegar, and if the vinegar be not eager enough, put in the more, and anoint the face withal where it is sore. And every morning take a soft linen cloth and wash of this, and it will destroy it quickly. An Ointment for all manner of sickness in the Head Take the juice of Sage, Rue, and read Fennel, mix them together with a little Vinegar, and anoint the Head therewith. To make a Plaster for a Marmole. Take Cowmilk and Flower sodden together, as thick as pap, and after put thereto read coal stamped, make a Plaster thereof, and lay to the sore, and when it purgeth to the read flesh, make Salve of Rosen and fresh sheep's suet, and lay it thereto till it be whole. Another for the same. Take a Gallon of fair running water, and cast therein three or sour handful of Sage, and seethe it into a quart, and put thereto one half penny worth of Alum, and than wash the Marmole with the said Water, hot, than cover the wound with soft lint, and lay a Plaster of the Sage above thereon: And do thus ten or twelve days. Divers Plasters for a Thorn or Shiver. Take Southernwood, and Swine's grease, and stamp them together, and it will both draw and heal. Take a Snail, Soap, Ivy, Bay-salt beaten all together, and lay to it. Take clay and honey, mingle them well together, and make them in Plasters, and lay it to the sore, and if the skin be grown on, make a little issue, and than lay on the Plaster. Take the white of an egg, honey and vinegar, and mix all these together. How to make an excellent Plaster to break an Imposthume. Take Rye-meal, and powder of Walwort, and the white of an egg, a little Oil of Olives, and make a Plaster thereof, and lay it above where the sore is, and it will break it truly. A Plaster for an Adder or Snake. Take Lung-wort decocted in aqua L. V and put it upon the venomous biting, and it certainly draws out all the venom. Divers Plasters good for the biting of a mad Dog, or any other venomous Beast. Take Turpentine, and Dictamne and Rue, and stamp them, and drink them, and lay thereof in the wound, Take green Betony and lay to it, and it will heal it. Mistress Limsey For stinging of a Wasp. Take an Onion, and cut it in the midst, and lay it to the stinging and it shall shortly take away the pain. A Plaster for the Spleen, being hard and windy: Take Melilote, Urine, Smiths-water, play them together, and make a Plaster and lay to the side. Which shall be rather made in a Cerecloth with Turpentine and Wax, that it may cleave there a seven-night, and it is very good to alloy the pricking pain and swelling. A Plaster for the Spleen. Take one handful of Mints, one handful of Camomile, and one handful of Maudlin, chop them small, and put thereto a pint of Malmsey, Oil of Camomile, Oil of Wormwood, Oil of Roses, and Oil of Mint, set them to the fire and boil them well, than put in one handful of Barley flower, and boil it till it grow thick, than put it on a double cloth, and lap it to the Patient. Probatum. A Quilt or Plaster for the stomach. Take a Rosecake, and the four Oils next above specified, Vinegar and Rose-water, heat all upon a Chafing-dish with coals, lay it between two clothes, and so lay it to the Patient's stomach, as hot as he may endure. For the same. Take a piece of a Rosecake, Vinegar, Rose water, and Oil of Roses, and wet the cake in it upon a Chafing-dish, with coals, and as warm as it may be lay it to the Patient's stomach. Probatum est. Another. Take Oil of Roses or May-butter, and a burr leaf, and pick the ribs of the leaf; than wet the leaf in the Oil, and so warm as the Patient may endure it lay it to the stomach. Probatum. For a Stitch. Take Cammomile flowers, boil them well in Vinegar, knit them in a cloth, and so lay it to the side as hot as may be suffered. A Lotion for the heat in the Liver, or in the Stomach: Take a cloth five or six double, and wet it in Verjuice, and lay it to the right side, right against the liver, and bi●d it that it slip not away, and wash his wrists with Verjuice, and do this till the heat go away, which will be very shortly, and beware you lay it not to when the Patient sweats. A good Ointment to comfort a weak stomach, and cold, that cannot digest well. By Doctor Martin: Take an ounce of Oil of Mastic, and an ounce of oil of wormwood, mingle them together, and therewith anoint your stomach, and make a Quilt of wool to keep it from your linen. A Quilt for the heat of the Liver. By the Countess of Sussex. Take a piece of Scarlet, or read Sarsenet, and put upon it an ounce of read Saunders, and straw upon it of all places alike, and take two spoonful of the Juice of House-leek, as much Woman's milk, as much Fumetory-water, as much Rose-water, and a ●hird part of Vinegar, beaten them together, than sprinkle it upon the Sanders with a branch of Rosemary, and so lay another piece of Sarsenet, baste it, and lay it to the liver side. A Plaster for a stitch. Take Saint Johns-wort, or grass and read mints, fennel, herbgrace; than take two tile-stones, make them very hot, and lay the Herbs between them; you must have two read●, that as one is cold, another may be ready; than lay it on a linen cloth, sprinkle it with Vinegar, and as hot as he may lay it to. A Fomentation for the swelling of the spleen or the stitch in the side: Take wild mallows, Camomile, and the flowers if you have them, Beets and Cummin, Aniseed and Liquorice, boil these all in a Gallon of fair water till the fourth part be sodden away, and than put the one half into a bladder with the Herbs and all, and lay it to your side as hot as you can suffer it, and use this the space of three or four hours in your bed, and so you shall found great ease, and it will 'cause you to sleep. Use this three or four times in the year, and it is very good. A Quilt for the stomach: Take read rose leaves and spearmint, and wormwood, and powder of Nutmegs and powder of mace; quilt it in a linen cloth bag, and heat them all together with Malmsey, or with mint-water, and so lay it to your stomach. A good Plaster for the Dropsy: Take shave of Neat's hides, and put them to fair water, and seethe them till they be as thick as bird lime; than lay it on a fair cloth, and bind it about the Womb. For this is a secure Medicine. A Plaster for the lightness in the head; that cometh by great heat or sickness: Mistress Downing. Take black Snails one handful, as much Smallage, scant half a handful of Bay salt; first beaten the snails, and than all together; that done, bind it to the soles of your feet. A Plaster to make one sleep. Take four spoonfuls of good Vinegar, as much Rose-water stilled and two spoonful of oil of Roses, and thereto as much in quantity of the crumbs of course leven bread made of Wheat, and the powder of one handful of Rose-leaves dried, as much as you think will make it thick lay upon a linen cloth, and so lay it at length from the one ear to the other, and let him lie upon the bed, making no noise. A Plaster for the Megrim. Take Houseleek and Garden-worms, but not so much as of the Houseleek, stamp them together, and put thereto fine flower to make it Plasterwise, and put it in a fine cloth, and lay it from the one Temple to the other. An Ointment for a stroke in ones Eye. Take the juice of Smallage, the juice of Fennel, and the white of an egg, and mingle them, and lay to the Eye. An Ointment for a mote in ones Eye. Take the white of an Egg, the juice of Wormwood, Oil of Roses, Powder of Cummin, mix them altogether, and lay them to the eye. A Plaster to break wind in the body. Take an Onion and roast it, and pill it, than make an hole in it, and put in Frankincense, and lay it to the navel, and it will help you. An Oil or Ointment for sore eyes having a Pin or Web. By Mistress Downing. Take Egrimony a good handful, and bruise it, and put it into a glass with half a pint of May-butter, and set it in the Sun till the strength of the Herb be in the butter, and be sure you keep it well stopped whilst it standeth a Sunning; than strain it into a fair glass and stop it close; when need is, drop two or three drops in the eye twice a day till it be whole. A Plaster for the same. Eadem. Take Hemlock and bay salt, and the furring of a chamber pot, beaten all these together, and bind it to the wrist of the contrary side that the sore eye is of, and so dress it once in twenty four hours till it be whole. A Plaster to make one sleep. Take woman's milk, Oil of Dill, and oil of Lilies, and a little Vinegar, and a little Poppy seed bruised, and a little Rose-water, and let it be luke warm, and lay it upon flax, and so lay it upon both sides of the Temples. Another for the same. Take Woman's milk, and a little of the juice of Houseleek, and a little Rose-water, and a little Vinegar, and a little Dill seed, and a little Nutmegs bruised, and so let it be blood warm, and wet a Rose Cake in it, and lay it upon the Temples. An Oil for a Ringworm. Take a fair Latin Basin, and burn therein new linen cloth, and thereof will come Oil. Take the same Oil and make a circle about the Ringworm, and it will kill it. An Ointment for soreness and swelling in the face. Take Oil of Camomile, Oil of Roses, of each a like quantity, and heat them warm, and anoint your face well against the fire, and keep it warm. Chaw a little Mastic in your mouth in the morning; and it will bring down the humour, and always to avoid it, do as above. A good Ointment for the eyes. Take Oil of Olives three spoonful, and great Raisins one ounce with the stones taken out, stamp them all together, strain them, and drop thereof into the eyes, and stop it with black wool. Another for the Pin and Web in the eyes. By Mistress Scudamore. Take the white of a new laid egg, and beaten it with an elder stick the pith taken out, and the bark cut of, than take the clear thereof and put unto it the juice of plantain, woman's milk of the contrary kind, and a little honey, and strain all together, and with a feather drop it into the eye thrice a day. A Plaster for one that cannot make water. Take two of St. Omar's onions of the reddest, roast them in the fire, and than take Boar's grease and fry it in a frying pan, and when the grease is hot, lay in your onions, the upper pill being taken of, so let them steep two hours, and than take it out and lay it upon a fair cloth, and lay it to your Navel as hot as you can. A Plaster for the Colic or Stitch. By John Gally. Take grounds of Mal●s●y, sheep's tallow, ribwort, read sage, and Allesanders', seethe all these together, and make a plaster thereof, and lay to the grief, and anoint thee with oil of olive, and oil of Balm mixed together. Another for the same. Take pellitory, unset leeks and mallows, of each a like quantity, stamp them, and put them to a pennyworth of neat oil, fry them in manner of a plaster, and put them in a bag of linen cloth, and being very hot, lay it to the belly, and it helpet● within one hour. For the pain and heat in the back, Linimentum. By Mistress Nichols. Take of Unguentum infrigidans Galeni four ounces, of the juice of consolidi majoris two ounces, and of bowl armoniac two ounces, make a lineament hereof. A Plaster for the pain and weakness in the back. Take a pint of muscadine, and a quarter of an handful of Sage, as much of pellitory of the wall, and boil it until the herbs be soft, make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the back. For swelling in the cod. Take cummin, barley and honey, fry them together, and make a plaster thereof and bind it to the yard or cod. A Salve to skin a sore leg. Take wax and oil olive, mingle them together, stirring them often with your spittle till it be black, than take a little of it, lay it on a cloth, and let it lie on the sore two days. A Cerecloth for the swelling of the leg or any other place, By Sir Nicholas le Strange. Take white lead, English wax and salad oil, boil them together, and make a Cerecloth, and lay it where the pain is. An ointment to make hair grow. Take willow leaves, seethe them in oil, and anoint the bore place, and hair will grow. Item. Take the juice of egrimony, temper it with Goat's milk, and anoint the place therewith. Item. Take the triddles of a Goat made in powder, mingle it with oil, seethe it on the fire, and lay it to. A Plaster for the Stone. By Sir Nicholas le Strange. Take house-leek, fetherfew, plantain and tansy of the garden, of each a like, stamp them and strain them, and set them upon the fire, and mingle them with bean flower, and three spoonfuls of clarified honey and stir it, and let it boil until it be plasterwise; and spread it upon a cloth, and lay it round about the body and back; and let it lie a day and two nights, or two days and one night; and it will help you. To heal a wound without plaster. By Clement Warwick. Take Daisy, Sanacle, of each two handfuls, Bugle and pimpernel, of each three handfuls; stamp them a little, boil them in wine and drink hereof till you be whole, which will be soon. For any wound or sore. Idem. Take Plantain, Ribwort, Scabious, Matefelon, Goose grease, Pettybugle, Flos campi and betony of each alike much, stamp them together in a mortar, and put them in a pot of earth with May-butter. And if you will have this ointment green, let it stand seven days, and than put it in a pan till the butter be melted, than strain it into a basin, chafe it again, and so keep it in boxes. A Salve for all manner of Sores. By Clement Warwick. Take a good portion of Moral, stamp it, and take the juice, and a little rain water that runneth from a house that is leaded, a little wheat flower clean bolted, and mingle them together till it be thick, and keep it in boxes. To purge or cleanse any wound of dead flesh and corruption. Take half a pound of honey purified, and a quartern of verdegreece small ground, and a good sawcerful of vinegar and do it together, and make it to boil in a pan till it be read, and all the while stir it well with a slice; it will have many colours ere it be read, and when it is read, take it from the fire and box it, and use it as need requireth. A good powder for dead flesh, and to dry up every old sore and wound. Idem. Take salt and bray it to powder, and new burnt lime, and grinned them both to powder, and than put thereto as much honey, and put it into a new earthen pot, and close it well, and set it in the fire till it be burnt, and turned into white powder, and than work withal as it is beforesaid. An Ointment for grief of joints, and old running sores, that have been issues and old wounds. Idem. Take Bugle, Scabious, Matfelm and Boar's grease, and make thereof an ointment, and put it into the wound, and it shall heal it fair and well with a drink made of the same herbs, tempered with white wine and use it, for it healeth safely. A good Ointment for the Palsy. Idem. Take oil of olive, the grease of an Hedgehog, the marrow of an horse, and May-butter with Aqua vitae; put all these things together in a glass and stop it up, than set it in hot horse dung nine days, and therewith anoint the place that is grieved. A Plaster to kill the worm in a sore leg etc. By Mistress Minne. Take Guilts grease one pound, and resin three quarters of a pound, put them together in a pan, and set them upon a few coals, boiling them softly till it be good and thick like plaster, and always as it seetheth, scum it; than strain it through a linen cloth, but strain not that which is in the bottom of the pan, and so let it cool: Take than so much of a sheep's skin as will reach over all the leg, where you doubt the worms be, and spread the salve aforesaid upon it, and lay it to all night or more, till the Patient feel the worm keep a great tickling and a crawling; than scrape the salve of again, and put new upon it; and upon that ere you lay it to, strew the powder of white Coperas very finely beaten, all over the plaster, and this will kill her, lay this to twice with the Coperas, and after that the same plaster still till it be whole, unless it be a great deep wound, and than you may use some other good drawing Salve. To assuage the swelling that cometh of an Ague in the legs, or any other place. By Mistress Minne. Take two handfuls of read Sage, and as much smallage, half a pint of dregss of Beer or Ale, as much Chamberlie, half a quarter of a pound of sheep's suet cut in morsels as big as a pease, seethe these all together till it become a thick plaster, and so use it. A Plaster for a Felon. By Anne Kirby. Take a handful of read Sage, a handful of Smallage, herb grace a handful, a quantity of rusty Bacon as big as a Walnut, Bay salt two ounces, sour leaven as much as an egg, soot a good quantity, black soap the quantity of half an egg, stamp all these together, and so apply it. An Ointment for an Ache, Rheum or swelling in the joints, made with swallows. By Mistress Kempe. Take twenty Swallows and put them quick into a mortar of stone (Memorandum the Swallows may not touch the ground) and put therein Lavender-cotten, Spike, Knotgrass, Ribwort, Bawm, Valerian, Rosemary tops, Woodbine tops, Strings of Vines, French mallows, the tops of Aloes, Strawberrie strings, Tutsan, Plantain, Walnut leaves, tops of young Bays, Hisop, Violets, Sage of virtue, fine Roman Wormwood, of each a handful, two handful of Roses, as much Camomile, beaten all these together and put thereto a quart of neatsfoot oil, or May butter, and grinned all these together, and beaten with them, an ounce or two of Cloves, put them all together in an earthen pot, and stop it very close with a piece of dough round about, so that no air come out, and set them nine days in a Cellar; and than take them out and seethe them six or eight hours upon the fire, or else in a pan of water, but first open your pot, and put in half a pound of wax, white or yellow, whether you will, and a pint of oil or butter. A Poultice to alloy a swelling. By John Richads. Take a quart of new milked milk, a handful of mallows, a handful of fennel, and a little honey, boil all these together, and lay to the swollen place. Another for the same. By Mr. Throgmorton. Take a quart of running water, and the crumbs of a stolen Manchet grated; let them boil together till they be thick, and put thereunto a little sweet butter while it is seething, and so apply it as warm as the patient can suffer. To make the black Plaster for the Gout, to draw out all evil humours from any part of the body, very good to amend the sight, and pain in the head, to break an Imposthume and to amend the hearing. By Mr. John Cornewallis. Take two pound of Pitch, two pound of resin, two pound of Frankincense, beaten all of them severally into powder finely seared, one pound of sheep's Tallow, one ounce of Saffron, two ounces of Cloves, two ounces of Mace, half a pound of Cummin, three ounces of Labdanum; all these must be beaten and seared into powder, and being put together, must be sodden the space of one hour, the pitch must be put in alone first, and the rest after, and when it is sodden, make it in long rolls, and keep it to your use. The use thereof. Cut soles of fine tawed Leather, fit for your soles of your feet, strick some of the plaster upon them, and lay them to your feet, wearing them till they fall of through moisture, the space of one month or more, when they be too moist or too dry, strike them again and apply them till you found ease; if you have the Siatica or pain in your shoulder or arm coming of cold, lay a plaster thereof striked as before upon the place, and let it lie till it doth itch, or till your plaster doth fall of, than rub your place with a dry cloth; and although small pimples do arise there, and the skin be of, yet apply again the plaster, though it be one, two or three months, and it will cure the pain. Proved by many that have had pains and aches the space of six or seven years. An Ointment for any sore. Mr. Neave. Take boneset called Comfrey, read Sage, balm, Fetherfew, Parsley, Isope, Smallage, Herb grace, a little Plantain both roots and leaves, Adder's tongue, Gold worthy and Coleworts, Lily leaves, Timewort, Camomile, Woodbinds, Daisies both roots and leaves, the under rind of elder. All these must be gathered in May, at which time the full effect is thought to be in them. Take of each of these a handful and chop them very fine, than take butter from the churn unwashen, and clarify it upon the fire, boil them all together in the butter, than strain it into a pot, and so anoint the place. A Poultesse for any swollen sore. By Mr. Neave. Take a pint of running water, two or three shives of wheaten bread and boil them together, and put thereto a little quantity of salad oil with a little juice of houseleek; for lack of oil take a piece o● fresh butter, boil them all together and lay to thy swelling place. An excellent healing Salve. By Parson Saywe●. Take one handful of Sage, an handful of Valerian, one handful of Plantain, one handful of knotgrass, one handful of Setwel, one handful of Daisies roots and all, one handful of St. John's wort, one handful of Egrimony, half a handful of Isope, half a handful of vervain, and shred them all together, and put thereto one pound or more of Guilts grease, and stamp them well together, and so let them stand sixteen or eighteen days together; than take and boil them and strain them through a linen cloth; than take half a pound of new wax, half a pound or more of the best Frankincense, half a pound of Rosen, two ounces of Turpentine, four penny worth of Myrrh of the best, and boil all these together again till they be melted, than strain them all through a canvas cloth and pour it into a bowl of water, and when it is cool, take it out and box it, and your salve is made. And if you will have it cooling, you may put in half an ounce of Camphire. An Ointment for any sore which hath dead flesh or any corruption within, and to take away the redness and pimples of the face: By Goodwife Worsted of Calthorp. Take half a dram of Mercury sublimata white, and grinned it with three or four spoonfuls of oil of Bays, and grind it upon the Painters stone, and so put it up into your box, and use it as need shall serve. This will make the party in great pain, as though he lay in nettles for the space of twelve hours. But if the pain be so great that he cannot endure it, than take of read Sage one handful, of costmary one handful, of wild mallows one handful, bruise them and boil them in Boar's grease, and so when it is cold, anoint the place. Terrasigillata is a good powder to staunch blood, which did help Mr. Day. An approved Salve to heal a corrupted sore. By Mr. John Knape. Take three ounces of Deers suet or sheep's suet, and boil it with bay leaves, and well melted, strain it, than put to it one ounce of English wax, one ounce of turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of rosin, as much English honey, and seethe all together, till they be well melted; strain it, than set it to the fire again, and put to it a quarter of an ounce of May butter, and four spoonfuls of salad oil and stir it, than take it from the fire, and put it in a basin to cool, and put to it two spoonful of Rosewater, and stir it well for fear of running over, than divide it equally, and put to the one half, one ounce of stone pitch, before your May butter and salad oil, and strain that again being well melted, and this with pitch will draw more than the other, and it will keep seven years. To make a black Salve. By my Lady Heyden. Take Rosemary, Thime, Lavender, Dil, Balm, Brooklime, Yar●ow, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Camomile, Orpine, Plantain, Nightyard, alias St. John's wort, Herb Robert, Adder's tongue, Polipodie, alias fern growing on an Oak; Woodbine, Daisies and Comfry, of each a handful; beaten all these together small, and put in a quart of Verjuice or more if need be, strain these together and take the juice thereof, than take two pound of new wax, one pound of Colophony, a pint of oil olive, one pound of pitch, one pound of May butter, and seethe all these together till all be melted, and it must be well stirred upon the fire for running over, till it be thick and melted all, than take a gallon of running water, and put the water into a clean vessel, and after take a yard of linen cloth called minster of the strongest for a strainer, and two persons to hold the strainer over the water, and an other with a ladle to take the salve with the other things together sodden, and strain all into the water, than let it be cold, than take it up, and make thereof round balls, as you think best, and chafe your hands with May butter, and work them. To make the green Ointment. First, take all the herbs aforesaid in like quantity, and shred them small, and put them in a pan; than take a gallon of oil of Olive, and put to it two pound of May-butter, half a pound of new Wax: and let all these together, (being in a pan with the Herbs) stand twelve days, stirring them well once every day; than seethe it on the fire till the wax and butter be melted, than strain it into a clean vessel. This must be made between May and Bartholomew Tide. For a Scald Head. By Mr. Birch. Take salt Armoniac, salt Peter and white Coperas, of either two drams, grinned it with White-wine-vineger; than take of burnt Allome so much, Oil of Brimstone one dram, Swine's grease two ounces, oil of Tartar half an ounce, Camphire a little: Let all these be well incorporate together, and so anoint the head therewith mornings and evenings; and as the scurf doth arise, take it of with Oil of Roses. Probatum est. A Cataplasm Poultice, or Defensative to defend and draw humours from any Sore. By George Birch. Take the roots of Marshmallows clean washed two ounces, cut them in small slices; than take of Camomile and the leaves of Marsh mallows, and the leaves of common Mallows, and Fetherfew, of either two handful; boil all these in fair water until the roots be tender; than take out the roots first and stamp them, and after that the Herbs, than pulp them all together. Take these roots and herbs thus pulped, and put to them so much wine Leeses as will boil them, adding the meal of Fenegreek and Linseed, of either three ounces; stir them well together until it be well mixed, and let them boil ●pon a soft fire until it be thick like a Poultice. In the end of the boiling put in two ounces of Oil of Camomile, two ounces of oil of Lamb's grease. Apply these mornings and evenings for a special remedy for a prick or any swell to take away the pain, or to soften or ripen any hardness. To make Diacytony, which they call Clear Cakes. Take Raspices or Goosberries, or any tender Plums, and put them in a stone jug, and put that jug into a pot of seething water, and when they be dissolved, strain them, and take to every pint of liquor a pound of sugar; but let your pulp and liquor be all strained together▪ and put to your pound of Sugar, half a pint of water, and boil it into a Candie height, and boil the liquor by itself till it be somewhat thick, and than put them seething hot together, and put it into glasse-plates made of the fashion of Marmelade boxes, and set them in a warm Stove, and let them stand three weeks, and never let them be cold, and in a week they will turn, and every day turn them till they be dry. For clearing the Blood. Take Brooklime, Water cresses, Scurvigrasse, Scabious, Egrimony and Fumetory, of each a good handful, wash them clean, and bruise and chop them together in a gallon and a half of Whey, boil them with two ounces of Anniseeds or Fennel seeds, till half a gallon be spent; than strain the herbs from the liquor, and with six ounces of Sugar sweeten it, and drink of it morning and evening a large draught and likewise at four of the clock in the afternoon. For the Jaundice. Take Turmerick, some two thimbles full, finely shaved, and as much Hartshorn finely shaved, a penny worth of Saffron, some half an ounce of Castel-soap shaved, as much Mithridatum as you can put on a knife's point at twice, and melt all these together, either in white wine or Ale lukewarm, and drink it fasting, and fast two hours after. Take it three or four mornings together. For weakness in the back. Take a handful of Clarey white●, as much of white Campion leaves, and a quantity of the inward bark of a white Damson tree, Boil them in a quart of Muscadine, from a quart to a pint, and drink thereof morning and evening. For China Broth. By Doctor Moor. Take a paper of China, and infuse it all night in a Pipkin in three quarts of water; in the morning set them to boil till a quart of the water be spent, than put to it a good great chicken, a few Raisins of the Sun without their stones, a littie Maidenhair, Ceterach and Cowslip of Jerusalem, a sprig of Time, and a little Plantain, a spoonful of Ivory, and let them boil together till there remain a quart of the broth, of which drink every morning half a pint, and as much in the afternoon at four of the clock every day, and before the first Brothbe ended make new to be in readiness. Another about China Broth. Take of Root of China cut into thin chips, and of Sarsaparilla sliced and cut into short pieces, of each an ounce, of the root of Sassafras a Dram, in fuse these all night in six pints of fair water, in a pipkin close covered upon warm embers; in the morning set them to boil till one pint of the liquor be consumed; than put to them a chicken ready dressed, a spoonful of French-barley, a little Maidenhair and Ceterach, a few Raisins of the Sun without their stones, a sprig of Time and Rosemary, a flake of Mace, and a crust of bread, and let all these boil together with the other things until there be but a quart left in all, which strain from the other things, and keep for your use. For the Gargoyle. Take of the leaves of Plantain, Cinqfoile and read Roses, of each half a handful, of Pomegranate stowers a pugil; boil these in a sufficient quantity of barley water till it come to a pint, than strain it, and put to it of read Rose-water two ounces, or Syrup of dry Roses one ounce, of Syrup of Mulberries half an ounce, of Oil of Vitriol as much as will make it tart, and so keep it for your Gargoyle. To make the juice of Liquorice. Take six handfuls of the crops of Isop, three handfuls of foals foot, one handful of Rosemary flowers picked, let all these be well stamp●▪ and strained into a skillet with a pint of running water, than take a quarter of a pound of the flower of Liquorice, being finely beaten and seared, and put to the rest in the skillet, when it is blood warm, take it of the fire, and strain it through a strong cloth for that purpose; than set it on the fire again until it be half boiled, than put into it a quarter of a pound of Sugar Candy finely beaten, and let it boil until it be as thick as passed; than take it of the fire, and work it with your spoon until it doth look very white, than make it up in Balls and Roles. To make Almond Milk Take of French Barley well washed and boiled in two or three waters, two spoonfuls, of Strawberry leaves, Endive and Cinqfoile, of each a small half handful, boil them in three pints of running water, until there remain but one pint of the liquor, and than strain them, and with a good spoonful of French Barley sodden, and an half ounce of white poppy seed, and nine or ten Almonds; relish it with Sugar and Rose water to your liking. Sundry Waters for several Uses. A Water to take the heat from the stomach. TAke a good handful of violet leaves, a root of Henbane, scrape it and boil them together in a quart of water, and wash the sols of the feet with the water; than lay them with your hand upon the ball of the foot as hot as he can endure it, than wrap the feet in a warm cloth. A Water to wash the Fundament for the hanging out of the same. Take a quart of Red-wine, and a handful of read Rose leaves dried, and an ounce of Pomegranate flowers dried, and beaten into gross Powder, and let them boil on the fire half away; and take it and put it into a close pot, and every time that the Patient goeth to the stool, take a little and warm it, and bathe the place, and wet a sponge, and wring the moisture; sit upon it as hot as you may the space of a quarter of an hour; and within ten times it will help. For the same. Take Barley meal, and cast it upon the Fundament, but take heed you do not handle it. A Water for sores Eyes. Take a new laid egg, and take out the yolk, and put unto the white as much Coperas as a fitch, and the roots and leaves of Daisies and read Fennel, and stamp it, and strain it, and put to the white of the egg, than set it upon the embers till the white of the egg be gathered, and always stir it upon the fire, and than wring it through a fine cloth, and so use the water. A Water for a Canker in the mouth. Take a pint of White-wine, one handful of buds of read Roses, play them, and strain them, and put to the wine a good spoonful of clarified honey, and put to it a good quantity of Vinegar, and a little Allom, and wash where need is. A most precious and excellent Water for the Eyes. By Mistress Downing. Take read Fennel, Euphrasia, ●li●s Eyebright, Vervain, Tormentil, Betony▪ Red-rose, Grape-leaves, Appovarmemorid, Ground-Ivy, and Ivy that grows on an Oak, of all these alike much. It must be used thus for three or four nights. The first day and night in the water of a Manchild and a Virgin; the second day and night in a woman's milk, the fourth day and night in clear honey. This done take all these herbs, and put them in a Stillatory, and the water that comeththereof, it must be put in a Viol; and when you will use it, put one clear drop thereof into your eye; and into this put the fourth part of an ounce of an Onyser beaten in a Mortar. This is a precious Medicine. This is a special Remedy for the eyes to clarify the sight, and curable to all passions in the eye, as hath been proved many times. It is profitable for Scriveners and such like. This Water maketh the sight bright, it putteth away the bloodiness of the eyes; it will destroy a Pearl; it overcometh the Megrim, and it will heal the eye which is smitten with a stroke. A Water for the Pearl in the Eye. Take ground Ivy, and bruise it very small, and an Egg being new laid, and hard roasted; than take the white thereof, and beaten both the white and Ivy together, than strain it, and put thereof one drop at once into the Patient's Eye. Divers and sundry WATERS for sore Eyes, as followeth. A Water to be made in the beginning of May. Take a pint of Fennel-water, and a pint of Celendine-water, and put them both together in a glass, than put to them as much white Coperas as a hazle Nut, and so let it stand in the Sun two or three months; and than drop it into your Eyes evening and morning, and as often as you think meet. Another Water for the same, to be made at all times: Take a new laid Egg and open one end, and put out all the meat, and fill up the shell with fair running water, and put to it as much Coperas as a little pease, and a little bruised Cummin, and boil them altogether in the shell upon a chasing-dish of coals; and at the first rising stir it in again, and at the second time scum it clean; and when it is well boiled, strain it through a fair cloth, and wash the shell again, and than put it in again; and so drop this into your Eyes at night at your going to bed with a feather. A special approved Water for the healing of sore Eyes. Take a piece of white Coperas as big as the Kernel of an hazle Nut▪ and make it fine into powder, the like quantity of Honey, than take an Egg and make a hole in the one end, putting out all the meat; than put the Coperas and Honey into the empty shell, and fill it up with fair running water (not too full) than take a chasing-dish with coals and put the Egg thereon, and so suffer it to boil; but if it boil too fast stir it with the point of your knife, and put a dram of water therein with your knife, and let it boil the space of an hour; afterwards take a piece of linen cloth and strain it, and so keep it in a Vial, and use it when you go to bed. Another for the same. Take the juice of read Fennel and a little English Honey, and boil it together, and with a feather anoint the Eyelids when you go to bed, and use to eat conserveses of Betony for the swimming in the head, and sometime the crops of read Fennel. A Water for a sore Mouth, by Mrs. Downing. Take a pottle of running water, put in it one handful of Woodbine-leaves, read Sage, read Fennel, read Nettles, Hyssop, Plantain, Ribwort, five leav'd-grasse and Herbgrece, of each one handful, four or five slips of Rosemary, two penny worth of Roach alum, six spoonfuls of English Honey, set it on the fire, and scum it so long as any will rise, and let it seethe half away; than every day wash the sore: as long as it bleedeth let him not drink. To make a Water for a sore mouth, by Mr. Peterson. Take a handful of Sage, of Celendine, of Woodbine, of Rew, of Smallage, of each of these half an handful, and seethe all these in a pottle of conduit water until half be wasted; than strain them hard, and put that straining over the fire, and put into it half a pint of Honey and two ounces of Roach alum; and when it doth seethe, take it from the fire and scum it clean, and than set it on the fire again, and put to it three quarters of an ounce of fine beaten Greins, let it seethe a while, and than take it from the fire, and when it is cold put it into a Glass, and therewith wash the sore. A Water to destroy the heat of the palms of the hands, and of the soles of the feet. Take twelve spoonfuls of Rose-water, one spoonful of Vinegar, and wet therein a linen cloth, and wash the palms of the hands and the soles of your feet when you go to bed. A Water to destroy the heat of the Face. Take a quart of fair running water, and a quart of the strongest ale that may be gotten, and half a pound of Roach alum, and seethe it till it be half sodden away, and than put it up in a close Glass or pot, and when you have need of it, take a linen cloth that shall be four or five double, and wet it in the water, and lay it to the grief as warm as you may suffer it; and as it dries wet it again: Use this and it will help you. If you put it in a glass when it cometh hot from the fire it will break it. A Water for bleared Eyes. Take the juice of Strawberries in time of Summer, and fair Honey, seethe it and scum it, and melt it together; than take a drop thereof and put into thine Eye, and thou shalt have fair Eyes and clear. A good Water for the Eyes, by Mrs. Skudamore. Take Cummin: Wine sodden with Frankincense is good for running Eyes. Item, restraining shall be made about the temples and forehead. Item, pure Wax being clean tried and tempered with powder of Cummin, and often emplastered, doth away the tears and witness of the Eyes. A precious Water for the Eyes, by my Lady Heyden. Take Fennel, Rew, Eye-bright, Vervain, Tormentil, Betony, read Roses, Endive of the Wood, Oculus Christi, Chicken-weed, Pimpernel, Celendine, Philage, called Mous-tail, or Weesel-tail, or Housleek, or little stone-crop, Pionies, Vine-leaves, Smallage, Egrimony woodbine with long sweet hangles, of all these a like quantity; than beaten them in a mortar, and lay them in white Wine four and twenty hours, and as long in a sucking Child's Urine, the third day in woman's milk of divers men's children, the fourth day in liquid Honey; (and if the Honey be not liquid heat it on the fire) and than handful after handful put it into the Stillatory; and that Water which cometh out reserve it preciously; drop it into your Eyes with a feather as you need. This Water is entered before under the name of Mrs. Downing, saving that they differ somewhat in the Herbs. fol. 44. A Water for the Stone, by Mrs. Parnel dal in Smithfield. Still Milk; and into a pottle of Milk put one ounce of Or●is, being beaten, and take Alesander-leaves, and so distil them all together. A Water for the heat in the Back, by my Lady of Sussex. Take the juice of Plantain, the juice of Housleek, and Woman's milk, and the juice of Lemons, and Rose-water, of each a like quantity, two or three spoonfuls of Vinegar; herein wet a cloth, and lay it to your Back, and as it drieth you must renew it again. A Water for them that be lunatic in the Head, by Mr. Edward's. Take Polipody of the Oak, Woodsage, Wormwood, and a Root called Osmond, of all a like quantity; dry them and beaten them to powder, and put this powder into Cowslip-water, or into Pottage. A Water for the swelling of one's Leg after an Ague. Take distilled Plantain-water one quart, Camphire four ounces, white Vitriol two ounces, make these two in fine powder, and put it into the Plantain-water, and let it have a warm or two on the fire, and so keep it, and wash the place swelled with a cloth. To make WOUND-WATER. Take two gallons of Water, and three handfuls of Honey-suckleflowers and leaves, and one great handful of Celendine, and one of read Sage, and one handful of Rosemary; seethe all these together till the Water be half consumed away, and than strain it from the Herbs, and put to it one pint of Honey, and one ounce of Roach alum, and one ounce of Greins, seethe all these together; that done, put it in a fair pot. An excellent water for any wound or cut. Take a handful of sage, as much wood-bines, as much Lily leaves, seethe them together in a gallon of running water unto a pottle, than strain them, and seethe the water again, and put thereto a pint of honey and skim it clean, than put into it a handful of beaten grains, than let them play a while, and afterwards keep the water in a glass, and it will keep it much longer, and wash the wound every morning, noon, and night with this water. If the wound be corrupt, shake the glass that the groundsops may make it more strong. And if it be a fresh wound, take the clear water only. At every washing you must cover the wound with a plaster of wax, and lay over the wax a linen cloth or else a bladder. Approved. A good Water for the Colic and the Stone. By Doctor Sherman. Take the kernels of Peach stones, and the kernels of Cherry stones, and ashen keys all bruised, and laid in white wine to steep a day and a night, and so distil them, and use to drink the water. A preservative water against the stone. By Mr. Buckbeard. Water of Saxifrage, Pearstone water, avens' water, ramsy water, water of bean flowers, water of unset leeks, water of Sampire, each of these must be stilled by themselves, than take of each of them half a pint, so much of Malmsey as of the rest, still them all together; and of the water so distilled, take three or four spoonfuls when you need. A water to wash a read face. Take the root of wagebrode, plantain, salt, and the roots of burrs, stamp them together with aisel and powder of bays, and therewith wash thy face. A water against the itch and scab. Seethe herb bennet and hemlocks in running water, and in the seething, put thereto roch alum, and wash the scab with that water. Another for the same. Take honeysuckle leaves and sage, seethe them together in running water, and wash therewith. A water for a ring-worm. Take a clear latin basin, put therein a pint of vinegar distilled, take half an ounce of Bole Armoniac and rub it on the bottom of the basin in the vinegar till it be all dissolved; than let it stand all day, and the water will be blue, put it in a glass, and therewith rub the ringworm. Divers approved medicines and waters for eyes First, The distilled water of eye-bright simple, compounded with nothing else. Item. The wine of eyebright, which is made for the eyes by putting the herb into the must, until it be at length perfect wine, whose use maketh the eyes of old men wax young again. Item. A powder made of three parts of eyebright, and one part of mace, if a spoonful of it be taken every morning by itself, or with sugar or wine. Also the powder thereof eaten with the yolk of an egg is of the same effect. To make a blue water, being excellent to root out, and rot away dead flesh in a sore leg. By Mr. Smith of the Exchequer, that dwelled at Charterhouse. Take fair running water a gallon, and boil it with a pint of honey, one ounce of roch alum, till one quarter be consumed; than take it of the fire, and when it is between hot and cold, put to it an ounce of verdegreece and brew it, and labour it up and down till it be all of a froth, and so let it stand a while and brew it again, and thus do five or six times a day, and when it is settled put it up and use it as need requires. To make good read water for any old wound or sore leg. My Lady Pagets water. Take Bole Armoniac four ounces, Comfry one ounce, white coperas four ounces, boil your coperas and comfry together in a little black pot, until they become water, stirring them together till they be hard in seething; beaten them in a mortar, than beaten your Bowl Armoniac to powder by itself, & mingle them together, & keep your powder in a bladder: when you need to occupy the water, take a pottle of running water, and set it on the fire until it begin to seethe; take it from the fire, and take three spoonfuls of the powder, and put it into the water, and than put altogether into a glass, and let it rest until it be clear in the uppermost part of the glass; than take the clearest of the water and wash the sore therewith warm, and lay a linen cloth four times double wet in the water upon the sore, and bind it fast with a roller and keep it warm. Do this evening and morning until it be whole; for it is an approved medicine; although the sore seem worse after the first dressing, fear it not, for it is a very good approved medicine. A special good water for read bleared eyes. By Mistress Birch my mother. First, take Lapis calaminaris, not the male but the female, which is the grayer in colour, and the better for this purpose, and prepare it thus; cast it into the fire till it be read hot, than take it out and quench it in white wine; do thus so often till you perceive it is clean without metal and dross, afterwards lay it in the May Sun all the time of May; which done, you may keep it to serve this purpose as long as you wil And when you will use it, you must take part thereof, and grinned it upon a Painter's stone into such fine powder as will easily go through a fine lawn; put this powder into a glass with white wine, and drop thereof with a feather into the sore eyes at going to bed, first one drop and after a little pause another drop; thus do with either eye if they be both sore. It will smart sore, but it will do exceeding much good; for it will both stop the humour whence the soreness proceeds, wherein the operation of it is most excellent, and also heal the soreness and redness of the eyes in short space. E'er you put it up in the glass, strain it through a course linen cloth once or twice, for otherwise it will be too rough and sharp for one's eyes. Also when you use it, you must shake your glass for to stir up the powder, for otherwise it will lie still at the bottom. For lack of White Wine you may make it with Fennel Water, but White-wine is the better, for that will skin the soreness. A good Water to assuage the great thirst in a Fever. Take a pint of Endife Water, than take a pint of Rose Water, an ounce of Vinegar, boil them with sugar, and let the Patient drink a spoonful when he is thirsty. A Water for the Itch. Take fair rain water one pint, distil it, and when you will ●ocupy it, put to it green Coperas, and lay in it Plantain leaves pricked full of holes, and herewith wash the place where the Itch ●s, and lay some of the Plantain leaves upon it. Idem. Take Enula Campana roots, and seethe them in whey, and wash the Patient with it warm. A good Water to wash and heal a Marmole. Take a gallon of fair running water, and cast therein three or four handfuls of Sage, and seethe it unto a quart; and put thereto an half penny worth of Allom, and wash the Marmole therewith being warm, than cover the wound with lint, and lay a Plaster of the Sage above. Do thus ten or twelve days. A Water for the evil in the throat or mouth Take Fennel and boil it in water, when it is boiled, hold thy mouth over it, after drink of the Water and hold it in thy mouth till it be cold, than cast it up. Do thus three times a day for four days, and it will be whole. A Water for the Stone. Take Pellitory of the wall, and broom flowers, and distil them together, and drink of this Water as need requireth. An approved good Water to draw water out of the Stomach. Take two or three pieces of leavened bread, a pottle of vinegar, two handfuls of Sage, and put them all together in a stillatory, and so still them, and make a water of them, and when you feel yourself accumbred, drink one spoonful thereof in a morning. A good water to wash all manner of sores, rise and swell. By Clement Warwick. Take a gallon of the best Tanwesse, and thereto put one pennyworth of madder, and one pennyworth of roch alum, make a powder of them, and boil it with th'▪ e Tanwesse till the powder be melted, and than take a linen cloth, and make a rundel of it as much as your hand, and wet it in the Tanwesse, and roll it about the swelling hard and fast, and so let it be still two days, and this will cleanse fait, and abate swelling. A most Sovereign Water, that Dr. STEVENS the Physician kept secret unto his death. Take a Gallon of good Gascon wine, than take Ginger, Galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Annis seeds, Fennel seeds, Caraway seeds, of every of them alike much, that is to say, a drachm; than take Sage, Mints, Read roses, Thime, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild Thyme, Camomile and Lavender, of every of them an handful; than bray the spices small, and shred the herbs small, and put all in the wine, and let it stand so twelve hours and stir it divers times, than still it by Limbeck, and keep the first water by itself, for that is best; and than keep the second Water which is good, but not so good as the first. The virtue of this water is this. It comforteth the spirits vital, and helpeth the inward diseases that come of cold, and against the shaking of the palsy, and cureth the contraction of the sinews, and helpeth the conception of Women that be barren; it killeth the worms within the body, cureth the old Cough, it helpeth the Tooth ache; it comforteth the stomach very much, and cureth the old Dropsy, it helpeth the stone in the bladder, and in the reinss of the back; it helpeth shortly the stinking breath. And whosoever useth this water now and than, and not too often, it preserveth him in good liking, and shall make him to seem young very long: With this Water D. Stephens preserved his own life until extreme age that he could neither ride nor go; and continued yet Bedrid five years, when three Physicians judged it impossible for him to live one year. He did confess a little before his own death, that if he were sick at any time, he never used other Medicine but only this water. And also the Arch Bishop of Canterbury used it, and found great ease and goodness in it; and lived till he was not able to drink of a cup, but sucked his drink through a hollow thing of silver. And Mr. Brown Sergeant at Law learned of the Arch Bishop, to keep himself and his friends with this water. It will be much better if it stand in the Sun all the Summer. The Virtues of divers Waters, as followeth. Hyssop Water. It is good for all manner of evils in the stomach and in the heart, and lungs for the breast and Maries. Water of Betony. It is good for all head ache to wash the temples therewith, and for filth about the heart. Water of Dragons. It is good for any Infection or Corruption in the air that goeth into a man, and for the pestilence. Water of Elder. It is good for man or woman to drink against all manner of Jaundice. Water of Endife. It is good for to drink for all manner of Fevers and hot evils, for the Dropsy, the liver or stomach. Water of read Fennel: Is is good for all manner of evils in the eyes, and good for a prick. Water of Wormwood. It is good for worms in the belly, and for grinding in the Womb, and windiness of the Colic, for the liver, for the Spleen, for drunkenness, for the eye sight, and for evil air of Plagues or Pestilence. Water of Ditany. It is good for Poison, Venom and Pestilence. Water of Centory. It is good for the Liver, for the Milt, for Worms in the womb, and for the sauce-flegme. Water of Fumetory. It is good for the Morphew, for scab or scall, for the Dropsy, for the liver, for the Maries. Water of Marnbine. It is good for the Gout, for the Lungs, Breast, and for the Colic. Water of Balm. It is good for the liver, for the Spleen, for the Marrow of the back; and also it cleanseth and drieth away the Mother. Water of Plantain. It is good for the Flux, and for the hot Dropsy. Water of Violets. It is good for a man within, and for the reinss of the back, and for the liver. Water of Woodbinds. It is good for all manner of heats, and also scaldings in the mouth, which break out of the stomach, and for a Canker. To make Aqua Composita. First in April or May, or between the Lady days, when Herbs be in verrue and unseeded, Take a large handful of Hyssop, Sage buds, Rosemary, read Fennel, of Enula Campana a scant handful, of read mints and Horehound half an handful, Marjoram and Pennyroyal a scant handful, and all these same before written minced, and three handful of Liquorice well scraped and minced, and as much Annis cleansed and bruised; and put all into a brass pot of four gallons, and fill up the same with as mighty Ale as you can get, at the lest four or five days old, so that the pot be full within three fingers of the under ring. And so let it steep all one night, and in the morning stir all well together, and set the pot upon the fire till it boil; than abate your fire till it leave boiling, and than set your Limbeck with wrought paste quickly upon your pot, and put a few great charcoals under it, and so s●eth it with a soft fire till it come: and set a clean quart glass under the pipe to receive your water. And ever tend it well that it run not too fast for taking fire, nor too soft for being weak; but ever as it may drop and not run, for that is ever best. But always be sure to fill the Cistern of the Limbeck above with water, or it will be too hot; for if it be not well tended, and the fire also, it will run white, and be in jeopardy to set all on fire: keep ever the first part by itself, and the second that runs clear by itself; and the last to distil again. Put thereto the best white wine leeses that may be gotten to make up the Ale, in every pot one Gallon; and put thereto Mace, Coriander, Caraway, read Fennel seeds, Centory that is gathered between the Lady days, of every one of them a quartet of an ounce, all well bruised and put thereto. And when you would have a Gallon or two or more that should excel and be principal, brew much of the second, and all the last that came white out of the Still, and being now double stilled together it will be very excellent. To make a fine Damask Water. Take Rose water two pound, Musk two grains, let it seethe in the Rose water, and distil it with a soft fire. Take Rose water two pound, Saffron two ounces, seethe it in the Rose water between two platters, half a quarter of an hour than distil it and keep it close. Take Rose water one pound and a half, Cloves beaten into fine Powder one ounce, and put into the Rose water two days before you distil it, and keep it close. Take Rose water one pound and a half, Camphire one ounce, distil it with the Rose water with a soft fire, keep it by itself close. Than hast thou four Waters ready. Now to make an excellent Water of these four Waters. First take a pound and half of the Musk Water, two pound of your Saffron Water; of your Camphire Water half a pound, and of your Clove Water half a pound; put them all into one Still of Glas●e, and distil them with a soft fire; and this shall be excellent Damask Water. Another Damask Water. Take Rose water four pound, Rose leavs dried two ounces, and put them into the Rose-water by the space of two days, than cast thereinto half an ounce of Marjoram gentle, one ounce of Benjamin, one ounce of Storax Calamint, and distil them with a soft fire. How to make another Damask Water, proved by her that distilleth the Sweet Waters at Hampton Court. Take of the best read Roses new gathered a good quantity, and strew them light in the bottom of your Still; than take Lavender, Spick, fine Marjorame and basil, the leaves of each mingled together, of these four being mingled, take one handful and strew them light upon the Roses. Than take a little Damask Powder, and strew it lightly upon your green flowers, than take a handful of your Rose leaves, and strew them upon your Powder and green flowers: Than take a quantity of Damask Powder, and strew it upon your uppermost Roses. These things above written being done, take six or seven Rose-leaves, and lay on every leaf the quantity of half a grain of Civet, and lay them upmost of all, with the Civet upward, Than take and cover your Stillatory very close that no air get out, and distil them all together with a soft fire; and you shall make fine Damask Water. To make Risen Water. Take read Roses and pick them from the buds; than take Lavender, Marjerom and Basil the leaves of each two handful; than take five or six leaves of your Roses, and lay on them a little quantity of Civet; than take Damask Powder, and strew between every range; than distil them in your Stillatory with a soft fire in any wise. To make Damask Water in winter. Take a Pottle of good Ale new cleansed, and let it stand in an earthen pot all night, in the morning take it out, and put thereto a pint of running water, and a quarter of Cloves, two pence in Camphire, a good quantity of dried Lavender, and as much dried Roses that were dried in the Sun, and put all these together into a Stillatory and still them. It was taught the Queen by the Ambassadors of Almain. A Water for a Tetter or a Ringworm. Mistress Blow, which she had of George Birch. First, take Gum Arabeck one dram, Shall Armoniac two drams, beaten them to powder, and put therein six ounces of white wine Vinegar, and so boil them all together until it be half consumed, than strain it, and put it into a glass and use it. The making of white Water for the eyes. Mr. Birch his Water. Take Gum Arabeck, Gum tragacanth, fine white Sugar candy, of the finest white Starch made of Wheat flower, of either of these two drams, and Camphire six grains, fine Venice Cerus washed oftentimes in Rose water three drams, of Sarcacolla one dram and a half; dry your Gums, and beaten and searce them through a fine Searce, and so likewise your Starch and Sarcacolla; than take the white of an egg, and make little trochises thereof: take one of these trochises dried, the weight of a dram, and dissolve the same in two ounces of white Rose water, one ounce of Eyebright-water, and one ounce of Fennel water. A special good Water for the Web or Pearl in ones Eye. By Mr. Vowel. Take a quantity of the whitest Coperas about one penny worth infused in a platter of running water; let it stand in the same platter one day and one night, than put it into another plat●er, and than shifted it every day for the space of one month at nine of the clock in the morning, and six of the clock in the afternoon. This must be made in June, July or August, and must be set in some chamber where the Sun shineth hottest. Also white Rose Water, that is stilled by the self; and when you use the aforesaid water for any cause, than put into it three spoonful of the Coperas water above specified, one spoonful of this Rose water, and so use it. This Water is approved. To make Balm Water. Take a pound of Balm fair stripped, washed and dried clean, and put it into an earthen pot of a Gallon, and put thereinto a pottle of very good Sack, a pottle of as strong Ale as you can get, three ounces of Liquorice bruised, and three ounces of Annis-seed bruised. So they being put together, let them stand twelve hours, and stir them together; than in the morning still them in a Limbeck; the first pint take out by itself, and so likewise the second. This Water is good for the Windy-Collick, and for the Spleen; and the water is good to wash the side for the Spleen. A very good Medicine for sore eyes. By Mistress Downing, and Mrs. Dynne. Take six drams of Lapis Tutiae, being prepared and beat●n into fine powder, and as much Aloes H●paticum, likewise beaten into fine powder, of fine Sugar half a pound, of Rose water one pint and a half, of good White-wine that is not sour one quart; mix all these together, and put them into some Vessel This Vessel or Glass must be so big, as when all the stuff is in it, it be not half full, to the end there may be room enough to stir the same. or glass of a pottle, stop it close, and set it in the Sun one month, stirring it once in a day, that it may be well incorporated. At the months end strain it through a thick cloth into a clean glass, and drop hereof into your eyes morning and evening, and as occasion shall serve. A medicine to be used for the Pox in the Throat. Boil in posset Ale Marigold flowers, maydenhair, heart's horn, Liquorice and figs; let all these be boiled from a quart to a pint, and given warm to the party, as often as you will, to bring forth the small pox kindly, and keep them out of the throat. To keep the Pox from pitying in the face when they are come out, and begin to die. Take half a pint of Malmsey, and a quantity of sperma ceti, according to the proportion of the Malmsey, let it be set upon the coals while it be melted, and than take it warm and bathe their faces still as it dries in, and it makes the Roves come of, and keeps it from pitying. A black Salve and a powder, to heal any old Sore or Ulcer where the bone is not corrupt. By Mr. Birch. Take fine salad oil one pint, new wax half a pound, read lead ground in fine powder, half a pound; boil all these together upon a soft fire, always stirring the same with a spittle, until it turneth into a black colour, than take it from the fire, and stir it until it be cold. The Powder. Idem. Take lead and beaten it into thin plates, than file it into powder, steep it five or six days in wine vinegar, changing the vinegar two times a day, than take and pour the vinegar from the lead and dry it, and when it is dry, beaten it in a mortar, and grinned it a good while together until it be as fine as you cannot feel it betwixt your fingar and your thumb. So keep it for your use. First, you must cleanse the sore from all corrupt and dead flesh, either with precipitat, or burnt alum, or with Unguentum aegyptiacum or Apostolorum mixed with precipitat; when it is clean, than cast on your powder, and upon that lay on your plaster, and assure yourself it will heal it: The plaster will heal it alone, if it be not fare gone. An ointment for all wounds of what kind soever, so they be new and green. By Mr. Birch. Take Venice Turpentine, Gum Elemnae, of either one ounce and a half, sheep's tallow one ounce, of old Guilts grease two ounces, dissolve this together upon a soft fire, and so melted together, strain them: of this ointment take half an ounce, and of oil of St. John's wort one drachm, dissolve these together, and dip lint in this ointment, and put it in the wound, and apply the black plaster over it, and so bind up the place. And this ointment may be applied unto old sores also, as well as to new, laying first this ointment thereto, and than a plaster made of the black salve next before written. A medicine for a Wound. Take two great handfuls of Celendine, and one of Mercury, one gallon of running water; boil these till half be consumed, and the herbs very tender, and put in a pint of white wine, four great spoonfuls of honey, as much Roch alum as the quantity of an egg: Consume a pint of it at the lest. The Diet. By Mr. Cooper. Take Cortex guasi one pound, Sarsaparilla four ounces, sassa●●asse two ounces, Radix Cheni two ounces, Jujubes, Sebestien, four ounces, Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, one pound, Damask prunes four ounces, Currants four ounces, Maidenhair one ounce, Liquorice four ounces, Ginger one ounce, Juniper berries two ounces, beaten your Cortex, Sarsaperilla, Sassafrass and Radix Cheni into fine powder, and searce them, and infuse them six hours in four quarts of white wine, three quarts of March-beer, and three quarts of ordinary beer, and the liquorice bruised, than seethe them in Balneo Mariae, with all the other parcels put to the rest, and in the top of your lid there must be a hole, and this bag must hung in the pot being close stopped; and in the bag must be Cinnamon one grain bruised, Cloves one grain whole, Rhubarb three grains whole, musk, civet and ambergris of each three grains, and when it is half boiled in, than you shall add to it four ounces of China, one ounce of mithridatum letting them seethe one walm and than take it out of the Balneo Mariae, and set it upon hot embers close stopped eight hours, and than strain it, and drink no other but this for six days, taking a quarter of a pint at a draught blood warm, as nature will bear. And your diet must be two meals a day, either mutton, chicken, or rabbit roasted dry, and your bread biscuit; and after the six days you shall take broth made with Mutton, adding these herbs, borage, maidenhair, heart's tongue and liver wort, with Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, damask prunes, mace and grated bread. And you shall take two spoonfuls of this jelly following; Take a read Cock of a year old, pull him quick, and slit him in the midst, than break the bones of him and wash him clean from his blood, and dry him with a fair cloth; so done, take a handful of nepe, as much of Harts-tongue, a quantity of pennyroyal, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun, half a pound of Currans, two ounces of Manus Christi, one ounce of Sugar candy, six angels or more, and put these into the Cock, closing the sides together, and after take a pint and a half of Muscadine; put in the same with the Cock into a pewter pot, closing the lid that no air go out, and set the same into a brass pot full of water; and as the water seetheth away, so fill it up, letting the pewter pot stand therein four and twenty hours, than strain it and keep it close, and use it as before. You must eat roasted Hares farse with these herbs following, Mercury with the curled leaf, mugwort and valerian. Than you must perfume three days together with Frankincense, Bay leaves, Nutmegs, Benjamin, of each a quantity, and musk a grain. Take three mornings this powder following; the scrape of Cyprus a dram and a half, long pepper, Nutmegs, fine wood of alloe of each of them a scruple, the kidneys of a Hare dried and not burnt, and make them in powder, and drink it three times with Muscadine. Wear upon your left arm an eagle's stone, and lay to the reinss of the back the white of an egg, beaten with five or six drops of vinegar of Solis. Take the powder of Cordial Dicalamintum and Diagalanga of each the weight of fourteen pence, Diamosco dulcis the weight of five pence, Aromaticum Rosarum, of each the weight of seven pence, Sugar four ounces; water of Wormwood a quantity; seethe them to a perfect height, and so put to your powder when it cooleth, and so gilled these Lozenges. A medicine for the pricking of a sinew. Anoint the sinew pricked with oil of eggs luke warm, and it will heal it. A medicine for the strangury. Take a good handful of the crops of read nettles, stamp them, and strain them with a little new milk as it cometh from the Cow, and drink thereof every morning. For any bruise or redness in the eyes. Take white sugar candy very finely beaten into a powder, than take some of that powder into a goose quill, and blow it into the bruised eye, and it is a ready cure. Probatum. To make an excellent Perfume. Take three ounces and a half of Benjamin, and lay it a night in Rose water, than beaten it fine, and take half a pound of Damask Roses, the whites being cut of, than beaten them fine in a stone mortar, than take the Benjamin, and put to the Roses, and beaten them together till they come to a Paste, than take it out and mingle it with half a quarter of an ounce of musk kindly beaten, than put to half a quarter of an ounce of Civet, as much Ambergris, and mould these with an ounce of the best Sugar finely seared, than make them in little cakes, and lay a Rose leaf on both sides of them, than lay them a drying upon a board that hath no savour, where no air cometh. A purge for the head and stomach. Pilula coctiva a scruple, Pilula aggrativa half a scruple, a little syrup of Sticadine or Betony, make it into three pills, and take i at night or morning fasting. For the head and stomach Rheum. Take a Sage leaf well washed, and it is very good to chew it in one's mouth. A cooling drink. Take a Gallon of whey, and boil it until it cometh unto a pottle, with a handful of Sorrel, Borage blossoms or Borage leaves a handful, boil the foremost together until it come unto a pottle, strain it through a jelly bag; being strained, season it with Sugar candy, and juice of Lemons until it be to your liking. For a splent of a horse. Take a stick and beaten it down, than prick it with a little bodkin, after take a stammel cloth and double it, and between the double put some mastic, than take a whole brick, draw it upon it, until it show through the stamel, and than its sufficient. To staunch blood. Take toad roden, or the slime of toads in March, and put it into a cowl or keel, and for nine days together steep some linen clothes therein, and as often as they dry, dip them in again, these clothes being used as before nine days together, you may keep them many years, use than this to the place where the bleeding is, take as much as will fit the place, and it will stay it; if not, being dry, than draw the cloth through a little warm water, and use it as before, be the bleeding inward or outward, it will stay it. A medicine truly approved for the Stone. Take the leeses of white or Rhenish wine, and without any other ingredients, distil it until it comes unto a pottle of Aqua vitae, divide the pottle of Aqua vitae into two glasses that are wide at the top, and of a gallon a piece, into each of which glasses, put every day a quart of Strawberries until the glasses be full, and let these glasses being close stopped be put into the Sun for two months, after which, strain the Aqua vitae from the Strawberries through a cloth or strainer, and being from the Strawberries, put into each of those glasses of Aqua vitae, a quart of muskadine, and a pound of Sugar candy, and than stop them close, and put them into the Sun again as long as you please. The use of it. You must take it in this manner, if you will prevent any fit, you must take three spoonfuls of this water, and two of parsley water in the morning, and fast two hours after it: If the fit be upon you, than take five spoonfuls of this water alone or more, as you shall think sit: it is fittest to be taken in the morning, and fast two hours after it, or the last you take when you go to bed, two spoonfuls of this, and two spoonfuls of parsley water to prevent the stone. Divers good Medicines to staunch the bleeding of a wound. Take Terrasigillata and beaten it into powder, and put it into the wound: And if it staunch not therewith, lay to it a white of an egg and flax, and put the powder upon it. Another for the same. Take the white moss of an Appletree, and dry it on the fire in a fire shovel, and make it into powder, and so put it into the wound. And if the patiented be hot, you must wet the neck with a little fair water in your hand. Another to staunch the bleeding at the Nose, or of a wound. Take egg shells, and burn them upon an hot brick or tile in the fire, and beaten them into powder, and put it into the wound; or if they bleed at the nose, blow it up into the nostrils with a quill. Also the soft down of Carduus benedictus being beaten to powder, or feathers being laid to the wound, will staunch the bleeding. Another for the bleeding of a wound. Writ these four letters, AOGL with the blood of the wound, about the wound. To staunch bleeding. The powder of Bole Armoniac being put into the wound doth staunch bleeding, or otherwise being blown up into the nose. Another to staunch it. Take the knots of knotwormes, and split them, and wash them with white wine, and dry it into powder, and cast thereof into the wound, and it will staunch the bleeding. To staunch blood of a vein or wound. Take the hair of Hare's skin, and temper it with the white of an egg, and lay it to the wound, and it will staunch it. Another for the same. Take linen cloth and burn it into ashes, and take thereof and▪ mix it with sugar and so cast it into the wound. A black Salve, very good for any green or old cut or wound. Take a pint of Salad oil, half a pound of white lead very finely beaten, four or five penny worth of mastic, half a quarter of a pound of fine rosin, as much of Benjamin, half as much of dry balsom, the like of Storax, all finely beaten, as much virgin's wax as a walnut, boil all these together, until they be so stifle, that when it is cold it will make rolls. Item. Take two handfuls of Angelica and stamp it, put thereto three pots of Beer, take three or four spoonfuls of sheep's dung, of the newest, than stir it well together, and than strain it, and put thereto half a pint of Muskadine, or Malmsey, and so give to drink: you know the use of it. A medicine for the tooth ach. Take a live Mole, and put him in a brass pot, and there let him die, than cut him asunder and take out the guts, and dry the blood with a cloth, than cut him in quarters, and hung him on a thread drying by the fires side; when ye would use it, lay the fleshy side of it with bladders of Saffron, with a cloth to your sore. Take the hearts of six Moles, put them upon a new tile-stone made read hot, than lay these hearts upon this stone, until they be burnt to coals, than beaten them into powder; you know the use of it. For a child that hath a Cough. Take six spoonfuls of Malmsey, one spoonful of Capon's grease, a pennyworth of Saffron, beaten it into powder; put all these together and warm it, than anoint the stomach, and ●he sols of the feet, dip a little clout when ye lay it to the stomach it will heal it in three times laying. An excellent medicine or ointment for any bruise, strain or pains in the joints. Take two handfuls of Rosemary, as much of Isope, half as much of the herb you call adders tongue, half a handful of agrimony, stir them together, than take a pound of sweet Hog's grease or barrows grease clarified, half a pound of rosin finely beaten and seared; than boil the herbs in the Hog's grease, and rosin, until they be a perfect ointment, than strain it. For the falling sickness. Take the jaw bone of a man or a woman, and beaten it into a fine powder, and if a woman have the falling sickness, than use the jaw bone of the man; and if it be a man, than use the jaw bone of a woman, so much of the powder as will cover a six pence, put it into wine or any other liquid thing which you shall like of, and drink it; you may use it as often as you will, but especially at spring and fall. For the dropsy. Drink your own water morning and evening. To purge the head and help concoction in the stomach. John Fernelius his Pills. Take of the best alum six dams, mastic and read Rose leaves of each two dams, powder them all, and with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses, or Syrup of Wormwood, so much as will make the powder into paste, than make it into pills, and take of them three or four before supper an hour. To cure a galled horse. Take of the leaves of the herb Arsmart, and rub the galled place with it, than throw it away, and as the leaves of the Arsmart rotteth, the sore will heal. Doctor Roland's water for all manner of sores of the eyes whatsoever. Take Rose water, Celendine water, Rue water of each six ounces, Stibium one ounce small powdered, put it into a glass, and let it stand, and when you will use it, take the clear water, and drop it into the eye. A plaster to strengthen one's stomach. Take juice of Rue with honey of squills, which is the sea onion, a spoonful at a time, it is good for the falling sickness, or the vertigio in the head; the honey of squills itself is good for any winds or rheums or cold flegms. For the falling sickness. Honey of squills, and a little powder of peony root, that beareth the seed, is good for the falling sickness or wind; and the powder of the wood of Misselto with honey of Squills is also good. For the trembling of the heart. The juice of a Lemon with a little Treacle or Mithridate, with a little Alchermes as big as a pin's head. Pills for the running of the reinss. Take of Olibanum, Myrrh, Mace of each two dams, Saffron, Camphire, of each half a dram, make it into a small powder, than take half a sheet of paper, anoint it with Turpentine, and dry it by the fire, until you can make it all into a powder; than take these two powders, and mingle them with so much washed Turpentine as will serve, and beaten it in a Mortar well to a paste, which keep; of this make pills as big as a pease, and take thereof three or four at night. To make the face fair. Take the flowers of Rosemary, and boil them in White wine, than wash your face therewith, and drink of that water, so shall you make your face fair, and your breath sweet. To cure Poisoning. Take new milk, and drink as much as you can, and that will help. For the Worms. Take Garlick, and make a Plaster between two clothes, and lay it above and beneath the navel, and so let it lie all night, and it is a present cure for a child; or Aloes is also good. For a Pin or Web in the Eye. Take the tops of read Hemlock that groweth by the wall, and pound it, mix it with bay salt, and lay it to the contrary arm-wrist to the eye; if one wrist will not do it, lay it to both, and it will cure it. For a Canker. Take white Coperas, and Allom, first wash them in fair water, than burn them, and beaten them to powder; take as much of the one as of the other, and mix it with honey, and lay it upon the Canker. For an old or green Wound. Mix a pint of oil, with half a pound of read lead beaten, and finely searsed, which powder as you shake it into the Oil, stir it to keep it from settling; and when it turneth tawny by boiling, than it's almost ready; if it be stiff when it dropped into the water, it's at best; to make the Cerecloth put a cloth between two sticks, and dip it in the oil as it boileth, and let it cool, and lay upon the sore. For the Yellow Jaundice. Take worms, wash of the earth, and than dry them upon a tile, than beaten them into a powder, mix it with Turmerick and Saffron, of each a little quantity, and put them into two or three spoonfuls of drink, which drink morning and evening: it will add something to the speedy recovery, if you slit a warm pigeon, and lay it to the sols of the feet. A most Sovereign Water, which hath all the virtues of Venice Treacle or Mithridate, and far surpasseth them. Take a Composition made by the best Apothecaries called, Antidote magnu● Mathioli, take of it two ounces, and put it into the best Spirit of Wine, and let it stand a whole week, and stir it often, and it will be an Amber colour; than pour of the clear, and put unto it the equal weight of Syrup of the rind of Pomecitron, and keep it close. This Water is most excellent against all poisons, and helpeth when all other Remedies fail; if you take three or four or more spoonfuls, as occasion requireth, and sweated upon it; for it pierceth quickly through the whole body, and draweth the poison from the heart; it is good in the Plague time; and if you take a spoonful of it, it preserveth you from all▪ poison or infectious air; it strengtheneth the heart, brains, stomach and all the inward parts wonderfully; and it is the best water to drive any venom from the heart in the Plague time or in infectious airs; take a linen cloth and dip it into it, and smell unto it, and take some of the Antidote, and as much of the Water, and put some Cloves, Benjamin, Ambergris and a little Musk unto it until it be thick like a paste, and smell unto it. And you may be sure, that using the Water in the morning, and smelling often unto it, no Plague shall hurt, nor infect you, as hath been proved by experience upon those that have been stung with Snakes, and almost past all cure and sense, and understanding, yet have been by this recovered. Against the Inflammation of the Cod, or Falls, or Bruises. Take White-wine-Vineger and Rose water, of each a like, mingle it, and apply it with a cloth, and lay upon it a plaster, called, Diapalma; and if need be, do it again, for it is a certain Remedy. For sore Eyes. Take a pint of White-wine, and put into it four ounces of Calamint stone, being heat six or seven times one after the other, and than beaten the stone into powder, and keep it in the water. The use is thus: Take a little in a spoon, and before you put it out of the glass into the spoon, shake the glass that the stone may arise, and make the Water thick, and than put it into the spoon; and being there, put your eye as near as you can unto it, and shake your eye lid up and down that it may wash into your eye; and this is a perfect cure. Another. Take of Tutia preparata one ounce, Scuttlebone a quarter of an ounce, a pint of White-rose-water, mix these together, and drop some of the water into the eyes morning and evening, and with all wash the pit of the neck with fair water. To stay a looseness. Take an ounce of Scuttlebone, and boil it in a pint of milk, and drink it, it is a present Remedy. For the Tooth ache. Take the juice of green Borage, and pour it into the ear of that side the pain is, and lie on the other side, that it may continued in the ear some time, and it will give present ea●e. For a Tooth that is rotten and acheth: Take an ordinary earth worm, and dry it into a powder, take of that powder, and put it into the Tooth when you go to bed, and put wax upon the Tooth to keep it in, and by morning the corrupt part of the tooth will waste away, and the good will remain. For the Stone. Distil the Herb Rue in May, and drink every morning ten spoonfuls of the water for fifteen days together; if you sweeten it with a little Sugar-candy, it will be the more pleasant, it is a perfect Remedy. For the Falling sickness. Take Frogs and Flay them, than dry them in a tin pan and beaten them being dried into a powder, drink of this powder for a year together in all the drink you drink. For the wind in the Stomach. By Mr. Jo. Digby. Take a piece of Cork, and burn it, and than beaten it into a powder, take that powder, and put it into a pretty quantity of beer or wine, and than drink it, and it will give present ease. An approved Medicine for a Stitch. Take a handful of Mallow leaves, and an handful of Camomile, on ounce of Anniseeds, put them into a pottle of running water, boil them until the water be half wasted, than take the Water clean from the herbs, and put the water into a bladder, and apply it unto the place pained as hot as it can be suffered, and when it is cold, pour it out of the bladder into a Posnet, and make it hot, and use it as before; and in this manner apply it as often as you please. To take away a Corn. Take a plaster of Burgany Pitch, the Corn being pared, put the plaster unto it, either upon the toe or sole of the foot, if any Corn be there. Another for the same pain, if it comes by a Pleurisy. Take a toast of Ry-bread, or of Wheat and Rye; and when it is toasted hot put it into Treacle, and set it over a chafing-dish with coals and make it hot, and apply it to the place, grieved as hot as it may be suffered. To make Viper-Wine. Take eight Gallons of Sack which is the best Wine, and to that quantity put in thirty, or two and thirty Vipers; but prepare them first in this manner. Put them into bran for some four days, which will make them scour the gravel and eathy part from them, than stop your Vessel or glass you put them in very close until six months be past, in which time the flesh of the Vipers and virtue of them will be infused into the wine, although the skins will seem full, after which time you may take them out if you please, and drink of the wine when you please best to drink it. An excellent Purge. Take of Antimony, Scammony, Cream of Tartar all prepared. For men, 10▪ grains, 12 grains, 7 grains. For women, 8 grains, 10 grains, 6 grains. Young men, 6 grains, 8 grains, 5 grains. Children 6 years old, 3 grains, 6 grains, 4 grains. Children 1 year old, 1 grain, 4 grains, 3 grains. To bind the humours, heal the defects in the rains, and expel wind. Take a small Wine glass of Muscadine, put therein a spoonful of Mastic in powder, drink so much in the morning fasting, and likewise in the evening, fasting two hours after it. A gentle Purge to purge the stomach of viscous humours: Take a pint of White-wine, put it in a close earthen pipkin, put thereto an ounce of Rhubarb finely sliced, let it stand on the embers simbring away till a third part be consumed, than take forth the Rhubarb, and crush forth all the juice between two plates, and put into the liquor half a quartern of Currants, letting it stand over the fire till they be plump, than take it of; being cooled, take two or three spoonfuls in the morning, and if you please in the evening, fasting only two hours after it, use it as often as you please. To cure any sore, (if the bone be not defective,) swelling or pain. Take of Crawfish eyes, called Crabs eyes, two ounces finely beaten, put it into a pint of the strongest White-wine-Vinegar, being in a long, round, and narrow necked glass, unstopped until the powder be qualified and settled, than stop it, letting it stand until it be clear, and take of it three spoonfuls morning, noon and evening, fasting after some two hours; to the wound keep a moist cloth dipped in Plantain water: for swell or pains, to bathe it with Wine-vineger is good. For the Stone, or to make one make Water. Take five living hive Bees, bruise them in a spoonful of Beer, and than put the Beer from them; drink the spoonful of Beer, and it will give present ease. For a Consumption. Take water and Oatmeal, and put into it five Cloves of a head of Garlic finely minced, and put into it a handful of Currants fine picked and washed, and boil them together to a Broth, and eat it morning and evening. For the Gout. Take any Brine that is very salt, boil it, and when it is very hot, put it into a kettle, or something that will continued the heat, than put some sticks over the Brine, upon which the diseased part may lie over the brine, as over a Bath, and cover the legs so lying with some clothes, that the Bath may work the better upon the part affected: and after an hour or two you may leave the Bath, but keep the part warm. Add to this a drink made of Ale of indifferent strength, in which you must put when the Ale is first barrelled up, this that followeth, Bake some read Sage in a Pie, and when it is well baked, pound it all together; than put it in a bag, and hung it in the Ale; until the Ale be ready to drink, than drink it as often as you please. For the Dead Palsy. Take Aquavitae, and boil in it some quantity of read Sage, and when it is hot and smoking, let the place affected, some sticks being put over the liquor, lie over it, as over a Bath, and cover it that all the vapour of the Bath may be kept in the better to work upon the diseased part. It's a kind Medicine. For the Tooth ache. Take a nail of iron or a bodkin, and heat it read hot in the fire, and being so hot, lay the nail or bodkin end ways, North and South, than take a Loadstone and draw it over the iron several times, and when your tooth is pained, struck your gums with that iron nail or bodkin being cold, and it is a present remedy to take away the pain. This nail or bodkin you may carry about with you, and use at any time when you have pain. For the Stone. Take of the stone that is in a fishes head, called Amanete, beaten it into a powder, and take as much of it as will cover a groat, or thereabouts, and put it into some posset drink, made of what you like best, only a spoonful, and after you have taken that spoonful, than to wash it down, take two or three spoonfuls more of that posset, or any other. To staunch bleeding. Take the root of a nettle, and hold it in your mouth, and it will stay bleeding: Or pound the leaves of nettles, and lay them in their juice in the wound, and it will also stay the bleeding. For the Stone: Take a quart of Dil, White or Rhenish-wine, and put unto it an ounce and a half of Saltpetre, and of roots of Parsley two, and two of Fennel, the pith being taken out, and so let them stand six hours; than morning and evening take half a pint of it, and drink it, and it is a present cure or ease for the stone. To cure the grating of the Stone in the ureters, or the Yard. Take a pint of milk from the Cow, put into it a good quantity of Salad Oil and Sugar, and stir them together, and as you drink it, stir it, that the Oil may be truly mixed with the Milk, that it may more assuredly carry the Oil into the Ureters. This will most certainly heal it, although it be extremely galled by the motion of the Stone or Gravel; drink a pint, or half a pint morning and evening. For an Ague. Take a quart of strong Ale, put into it a penny worth of long pepper, a penny worth of Ginger sliced: boil these together, until it come a to pint; than pour out the Ale, and sweeten it with Sugar to your liking, and being sweetened, put into it a half penny worth of Mustard; stir it well, and drink a pint, or half a pint of it, an hour or half an hour before your Fit comes, and use some moderate Exercise after it, and after it keep yourself warm, and it is an assured Cure for most that shall take it. A Medicine for the soreness of any Leg. By Mrs Minne. Take a quart of good ale, and put in it two spoonfuls of English honey, and as much turpentine, and seethe them well together till it be thick; than wet lint in it, and lay it to the fore: than lay this Plaster following upon it. The Plaster for the same. Take a quarter of a pound of sheep's suet and shred it fine with some Bay leaves, melt it and strain it; put to it an ounce of English wax, as much turpentine, a quarter of an ounce of rosin, as much English honey, seethe them well together till they be well melted, and strain it; than set it over the fire, and put to it a quarter of an ounce of May butter, and four spoonfuls of salad oil, and stir it well together till it be thick. A very good Salve for a green wound. By Mistress Jones. Take apint of oil Olive and set it to the fire in a pan, than put to it half a pound of read lead, and stir it continually until such time as it looketh something blackish; than drop a little upon the side of a saucer, and if it be stiff make it up in rolls. A Plaster to heal all manner of biles, sores, or swelling of Legs. Take a pound of oil Olive (the older the better,) half a pound of wax and somewhat more (as it cometh: from the cake) than take half a pound of white Lead in fine powder; boil all these together in a brass pan till it wax black; than make it up as before. For the same. Take oatmeal and cow's milk and make grewel, and put therein the juice of sengreen and sheep's tallow, and let them boil together till they be thick, than make a plaster and lay it about the sore. Another. Take sheep's tallow one pound, boil it in a pan until it be well melted, than set it down and put thereto two pound of oatmeal and stir it well together; and when you have need to use it, do it on a linen cloth, and chafing the swollen place at the fire, lay it upon it, and it shall certainly heal it by God's blessing. An Ointment to heal Scabs, Blisters and Pushes upon the Legs. Take an handful of water-cresses, and two pound of sheep's suet that cometh of the kidney, and cut them together as small a● tear-cat, and put them together in a pan, and seethe them a good space till the suet be melted, and stir them well about together for hanging to the pan, and than take them of, and strain them into a fair basin, and than put it up into an earthen pot. When need requires, take part out of it and put into a saucer, and warm it upon the fire, and with a feather anoint the places where the sores be, and than wrap about it a linen cloth, and thus use it once every day till it be whole. For the Plague or Pestilence. Take an onion or two, and cut out the core, and fill it with good treacle, and roast it in brown paper, and when it is roasted strain it in ale or beer, and drink it warm; and if you feel any rising, lay that which is strained to the sore (hot) and so lie down to sweated. A Medicine for the plague. Mistress Limsey. Take a plaster of Galbanum and lay it to the kernel that cometh of the Plague, and it will hold him still, that it go not in again, if it be in the lask, armhole or neck: If it be laid to betimes, it is most precious. Probatum est. Another. If you feel any pricking, rising, or sore of Plague under the ears, arms, in the lask, or in any other part, take a chicken, pluck the vent bore, and hold the vent of the chicken to the rising or sore till the chicken die, than take another chicken and hold it to the sore in like manner till it be dead, & so one after another till one remain alive on the sore, and thereby ye shall perceive that the sore is drawn out of the patiented by reason of the said chickens; and if it be for a man, take a hendrel, and for a woman take a cockrel, and than take the dead chickens, and put in the earth for the infection of any man or person. To gather and ripen a sore or bruise. Take a Lily root and seethe it in fair water, than strain away the water, and mix it with a little Guilts grease and lay it to the sore. Idem. Take linseed, oatmeal, and the yolk of an egg, honey, and boil all these together in cow milk till it be fully thick, and lay it to the sore. An ointment to break a sore. Take a handful of gentian and stamp it, and strain it, and put to it half a pint of May butter, and as much virgin's wax as a walnut, and so boil them on the fire; and put to as much wheat meal as a walnut; stir them all together, and when it boiles take it of and strain it; stir it till it be cold, and put it up in a vessel. A salve to heal the sore. Take a quantity of sheep's suet, and as much of deers suet, and a quarter of as much virgin's wax, three spoonfuls of wool oil, and as much rosin as a walnut, boil them together upon the fire, strain it and stir it till it be cold, and put it up into boxes. To heal a cut or wound. Take unset Leeks and stamp them well, than mingle them with honey, and lay it to your wound. Idem. Take rosin, wax and turpentine, of each an ounce, a quarter of an ounce of honey, a little sheep's tallow, and a little tar. Idem. Take a handful of Sage, as much of Woodbinds, as much of Celendine, and seethe them together in a gallon of running water, unto a pottle, and than strain them; and than seethe the water again, and put thereto a pint of honey, and skim it clean; and than put thereto a handful of beaten Allom, a penny worth of beaten grains; and than suffer them to play a while on the fire, and afterwards keep the water in a glass, and it will preserve much longer; and wash the wound every day at morning, noon and night, (if you will) with the Water; and if the wound be corrupt, shake the glass that the grounds may make it stronger, And if it be a fresh wound, take the clear water; at every washing you must cover the wound with a Plaster of Virgin's wax, and over the wax lay a linen cloth, or else a bladder. Probatum est. Tents for Wounds. Take white Roses, Campion, Celendine, Plantain, Smallage, whites of eggs mixed with juice of the Herbs, and labour them in; and so let it stand all night; and the next day put to it a good quantity of honey, and burned Allom and Coperas, of each a little. To keep a wound clean. Take Woodbinds, Celendine, Sage, of each a like, seethe them in a quart of water with Allom; boil them to a pint, strain them, and put a little honey to them, and give it a walm on the fire again. A Syrup for wounded folks. Take Tormentil, Egino and Dictamnum; in Summer the leaves, in Winter the roots, and a little read Mints; seethe them in a little Beer or Ale together. For a cut either of Sinnew or Vein. Take Turpentine, and beaten it in fair water till it be white, than put away the water, and take the yolk of an egg and beaten them together; so make a Plaster and lay it to the sore. To make a green Salve. By Wilsons Wife. Take Rosemary, Time, Lavender, Dill, balm, Brooklime, Yarrow, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Camomile, Orpine, Plantain, Nightyard, Herb Robert, Lingua Serpentina, otherwise called Adders-tongue, Polipody, otherwise called Fern that groweth on an old oak, Woodbinds, otherwise called Honeysuckles, Daisies, Comfrey, of each a handful. All these Herbs must be taken and beaten small, and put in a quart of Verjuice, or more if need be; strain these together, and take the juice thereof; than take two pound of new wax, a pound of Colofony, a pint of Oil Olive, a pound of pitch, a pound of May butter, and seethe all these together till they be melted; and it must be well stirred upon the fire for running over, till it be thick and molten all. Than take a gallon of running water, and put the water in a clean vessel; and after take a yard of linen cloth called minster of the strongest for a strainer, and two persons to hold the strainer over the water, and another with a ladle to take the Salve, with the other things together sodden, and strain all into the Water, than let it be c●ld, than take i● up, and make thereof round balls as ye think best, than take the oil or May Butter, and chafe your hands withal, and work the balls of wax in rolls. For to make the Ointment for the same. First, Take the juice of all those Herbs above written for the Salve, Herbs and all, and shred them as Herbs to the pot, and put them all in a pan, and take a gallon of oil Olive, and two pound of May butter, and half a pound of new Wax, and put all these together in the pan with the Herbs, and let them stand all together nine days, and stir them once every day; than seethe it on the fire till the wax and the Butter be melted together, than strain it into a clean vessel, and leave nothing in the strainer: this is sufficient for the Ointment. If ye cannot have all these herbs, take as many as may be gotten. God help in every cure. Amen. This must be made between May and Bartholomew Tide. Put your Ointment in any earthen pot that hath had oil or fresh grease in before. How you shall use a Fraction, otherwise called a broken bone. If the leg or arm be broken above the knee or the elbow, than take running water, as hot as you can suffer it, so that it seethe not; and if it be over hot, than take a quantity of water that is cold, and put thereto, so that the Patient may suffer it, than take a clean linen cloth, and put it into the hot water, and than bathe the broken place with the cloth and the hot water together, till the flesh be hot under your hands, and change the colour into read; than take a clean linen cloth and dry the place that is hurt; than take heed how you set the bone right. You must lay him right upon his back in his bed where he shall rest; if the leg be broken beneath the knee, than let a man take the foot and the heel in his hand, and strain them right out, so that the knee and the half of his leg, the ankle and the two great toes, and both his heels be right set, every joint with the other, than it must needs be sure set. Than must you make a Plaster of your Salve, and lay it upon the place that is hurt, as close as you can; than you must take a linen Roller of half a quarter broad, and Roll the place that is hurt three or four times about with the Roller, as close as you can; and than set on the Splints, as hereafter in the next leaf by the signs following: and these suffice both for legs and arms. For a man's Ribs that be broken. You must bathe him in warm water, as is aforewritten; than set him upon a stool upright, and lay one of these Plasters upon the sore place, than roll him hard with a Roll of a quarter of a yard broad, of good stiff cloth, and so let it lie eight or nine days ere you open it, than dress it again in like manner (except the water) until he be whole; but he must beware for straining of himself. If the Channel bone be broken, bath it with water, and lay on a Plaster, and set on a splint that is made therefore, and roll it hard a cross, and truss up his arm with a Napkin to his breast, and every eight or nine days renew the Plaster till it be whole; also take heed that ye eat neither milk nor butter for none of these same Fractions. Also these Fractions that be broken, in what place soever they be, let no Ointment come near the place that is broken, for the Ointment will let the knitting: spare no Ointment in other places near unto it at all times when you op●n it; for it will comfort the sinews and veins, and ease the Patient of pain and unquietness. And for to set the legs sure, you must take five splints, an inch broad, and an inch and a quarter and half quarter long; and line your splints with white cotton for ease of the leg, than lay on each side of the leg two ●plin●s, and one splint under the l●g; and than make three bo●●s of a Bowstring, and also th●ee pipes of an Elder stick, every pipe being three inches long; and when the first bout is on the leg, than put the bouts double through the pipe, than take a little round stick made fit for the same; and when it is through the pipe, than whirl it as straight as the leg may endure it with the stick; and the other two bouts to be used in like manner, which is thus done to keep the splints fast to the legs, and every pipe to be 〈◊〉 with the stick. The Figure and Proportion of the three Elder Pipes into which the little round stick is to be put. This is the Figure and Compass of a splint to be made for the Brandle-Bone in length and breadth. A Drink to knit these Fractions. First, Take Comfrey, the leaves in Summer, the roots in winter, and stamp them, and strain them with a pint of Ale, and let him drink a draught blood warm next his heart nine mornings; for lack of Comfrey take Daisies in like manner. For all manner of aches that come of colds, or bruises that fall down into any place by means of an Ague. Take the Ointment, and anoint the place that is diseased five or six days, than bathe him in warm water, and lay a Plaster upon it; and let it lie on six days; if need be, take it of, and make a new Plaster. Do the like to all sinews sprung or wrinched. A ready Remedy for any wound or cut, otherwise called Wound-water. Take a handful of Sage, as much of Woodbinds, as much of Celendine, and seethe them together i● a gallon of running water to a pottle, and than strain them, and than seethe the water again, and put thereto a pint of honey, and skim it clean, and than put to it a handful of beaten Allome, and a penny worth of beaten grains, and than suffer them to play a while on the fire; and after put the water in a glass, and it will preserve much longer; and wash the wound every day at morning, noon and night (if you will) with the water; and if the wound be corrupt, shake the glass that the grounds may make it the more stronger; and if it be a fresh wound, take the clear water: at every washing you must cover the wound with a Plaster of Wax, and over the wax lay a linen cloth, or else a bladder. Probatum est. To staunch a Wound that bleeds excessively. Take a piece of Martlemas beef, or of salt beef, as much as will cover the wound, and broil it on the fire upon a Gridiron, and lay it in the wound as hot as the Patient may suffer it. And for lack of beef, take read nettle tops bruised in the hands, with a little grey salt, or else a piece of salt Bacon, and lay it to the wound in like case; which Bacon is a good healer. For pricking of a Thorn or Nail. Take Wheat-flower and Red-wine or Claret-wine and Honey, and make thereof a Plaster, and it will keep the sore from festering, and make it whole in a short time. For a Felon. Take Rue and bruise it, and put to it the yolk of an egg, and two or three corns of grey salt, and a little Honey and Wheat-flower, and make a Plaster of it, and lay it to the sore, and it will make it whole. To make a Plaster for a man or woman that hath a weak stomach, and cannot digest. Take Mints green in the time of the year; and for lack of green, take dry Mints, and Wormwood in like manner a good handful, or two handfuls of each, and White-bread crumbs, and boil them well with Malmsey upon the fire, so that they burn not; and than make two linen bags, and fill each of them with these Herbs when they be sodden, and sow up the bags, and wring the bags as dry as you can, and than lay one of them to the stomach, as hot as you may endure it. A Medicine for a Scald head. Take running water, and flower of Rye or Wheat, and scrape chalk and rosin, and a little honey, and boil them together upon the fire till it be very thick, and strike it upon a strong linen cloth, as you do a Plaster, and clip the hair as close as you can, and than lay the Plaster on it twenty four hours, and let it be pulled of as shortly as you can, and than clip the hair down again, and lay on more where you see most need; and when you take of the Plaster, than anoint it over with honey afterwards, and cover it till it be whole, and it shall be whole within three plasters. To distil Waters truly, taken out of Mistress Dawson's Book. Primroses Primroses must be distilled leaves and flowers. Fennel. Fennel must be distilled both herb and root. Hyssop. Hyssop must be distilled Herbs and Flowers. Camomile. Camomile must be distilled Herb and flowers. Walwort. Walwort the Herb and the Root, and stamp them. Strawberries. Strawberries the fruit stamped with Vinegar. Mulberries. Mulberries, stamp the fruit, and mix with it Vinegar, and so still them. Wormwood: Wormwood must be gathered in May, than stamp it, and lay it in strong Vinegar to steep, and so still it. Celendine. Celendine must be distilled both herbs, flowers and roots. Fumetory. Fumetory must be distilled Herbs and Flowers. To distil Damask Water. Take a peck of Rose leaves▪ and three handful of dry Lavender, two handful of Marjoram, one penny worth of Ireos, i e. Oris powder, and Damask powder two ounces, one penny worth of Cloves; put all these things together into two pottle of Conduit water, and let it stand in steep seven days, and than still them. A Water to take out the Sauce or Phlegm out of the face of a Man or Woman. Take a pint of Rose water, and put into it an ounce of good brimstone, and let them stand so together for the space of six weeks, incorporating them in a glass; and stir them every day, and let them stand in the Sun the six weeks daily; than take a feather or a fair linen cloth, and so wash it by the space of fourteen days; and it shall take it away outwardly; but the Patiented all these fourteen days must drink Whey mixed with Water of Fumetory, and that will take away the root and cause inwardly. To make a Water called Maids-milk, good for the Canker and saucy Phlegm. Take a certain weight of powder of Licorice, and boil it in good Vinegar, than take it and still it in a Stillatory, and keep it in a vessel of glass; than take as much of Sandiver and do in the same manner, but seethe this in fair clear water, and still it as you did the other; but you must not still both Waters in one Stillatory, for if you do, the last will be best. And when these Waters be made, put each Water by itself, and when you list to occupy it, put three drops of the one to three drops of the other, and if it be as it were fair curds of milk than it is good. This Water is good to make the skin neshe, and the visage fair, it is good for all rise in a man's Yard, for the Canker and saucy phlegm. To make a read water that is precious for all manner of sores. Take tanwesse a gallon, of the first wort a quart, of lie made with wood ashes a quart, vinegar a quart; mix all these together, than take a quarter of Roch alum, and a quarter of tops of madder, and mingle them well together, than set them on the fire, and stir them boiling for a very small space, than put it into an earthen pot and cover it till you need; it is good for all manner of sores both new and old. A water for divers sores. Take the urine of male children, or else white wine vinegar that is very sour, for that is best, and put into the vinegar would ashes, and unquenched lime, and seethe them together, until the third part or more be sodden in, than let it cool and stand still till it be clear, than take sal Armoniac, sal Gem, sal Nitre, and alum plum of each a like much, make them in fine powder, and cast them into the decoction and stop it william. This water killeth any canker, it destroyeth wenns, webs in the eye, dead flesh and such like. An Intret that will heal any wound that is green; the intret must be poured into the wound blood warm. Try it with a Cock's head. Take a good handful of Betony vervain and pimpernel of each a like much, beaten them in a mortar small, and seethe them in a gallon of white wine to a pottle, and than strain it through a strainer, and cast away the herbs and put the liquor again into the pot so for to boil, and cast a pound of clean rosin or of clean could resolved in a little of the same liquor and cast thereto, and let them seethe together, than take an ounce of virgin's wax, and resolve it in woman's milk that suckleth a manchild, and cast thereto, afterwards put thereto an ounce of mastic, and an ounce of Frankincense, and let them boil together till it be well melted, than take it from the fire, and put thereto half a pound of Turpentine, and stir it well till it be cold, than take up that that fleeteth above, and anoint thy hands with oil Olive or with fresh grease, and bathe it well against the fire as thou wouldst do wax till it be well mingled, and than keep it, for it is precious. Ointments to cleanse wounds, and heal and recover the flesh. Egrimony beaten and mixed with old Boar's grease or oil, and laid upon the sore, purgeth it in an instant; and cleanseth the flesh. Plantain, Weybred, Hyssop, Southernwood, Woodbinds, and Rue. Wax, Rosen, Hony, Allom, white Frankincense, Verdegreece and Guilts grease. Ad vermes excutiendos de quocunque ulco vel vulnere. Accipe succum lanceolatae, pentorobon, & Egrimoniae, & coque cum melle tamdiu ut spissetur, adde pulverem viti albi, & ben● comistae; tolle ab igne ut infrigidetur, & licinium ibi intinctum, ulco ubi vermis est intromittatur, & post horam exient vermes & in licinio invenies, tunc locus lavetur cum urina pueri virginiis & cum aceto, & extergatur. Ad probandum utrum caro in ulcere sit mortua vel non. Fac Unguentum de melle sebo arietino & succo plantaginis, & pone super ulcum, & invenies carnem mortuam nigram, & bonam carnem pulchram. For a bruise or strain. Take the grounds of ale or beer, and wheat bran, and chickweed, and lay it to the grief three times a day upon a read cloth of a reasonable thickness. To make conserve of rhadish roots. Take the roots and scrape them clean in pieces as long as a fingar, and lay them in water two days, and change the water two times in a day, at noon and at night; and for ten pounds of roots, take six pound of sugar, and a pint of Rosewater, and a pint of clear water, and boil them together half an hour, than put in the roots and let them boil together two hours. Conserve of Cherries. Take for ten pound of Cherries, six pound of sugar; and a pint of Rose water, and a pint of common water, and than take your sugar, your Rose water, and your common water, and set them over the fire, and stir them well till they melt, and than put in your cherries, and let it boil an hour, and than put it up. Orange parings. Take the parings of Oranges, and lay them in water three days, and three nights, and change the water every day once, and than take for four pounds of parings, three pounds of sugar, and a pint of common water, and seethe it together an hour, and than take it from the fire, and let it cool half an hour, and than put in the Orange parings, and let them boil together three hours softly, and than etc. To make marmalade. Take quinces and pair them; and pick out the cores and seethe them very tender in water, and strain them through canvas of eight pence the elle, and let them stand in the vessel wherein they be strained, than take of the water that they are sodden in, and take the white of two eggs, beaten them, and put them into the same water, than take sugar and put thereto, and let them seethe together half a walm, than strain it through a blanket linen, than put the syrup and the Quinces together, and boil them till they be very thick, and stir it well for burning, and put it into a box. For two pound of quinces one pound of sugar. For deafness. Take an ounce of oil of wormwood, and put it in an earthen porringer, and put to it the green blades of onions shred small, so many as that oil will cover, set it on the embers, and let it simber a while, than take it of, and strain it, and put it up in a glass, and drop a drop or two into the ear, and keep it warm stopped with little wool. For any Ulcer. Take sheep's dung, and shred it small, and sheep's suet, and shred it small, and boil them in plantain water, than strain them and put it up in a pot, and make pledgits, and lay to the sore. A medicine to heal all Aches, except the Gout; and it will ease the pain thereof, coming of any cold. Mistress Din of Heydon. Take Rosemary flowers, Thime, Lavender, Dill, Baume, Brooklime, Yarrow, Lovage, Smallage, Vervain, Plantain, Nightshade, he●b Robert, Lingua S●rpentina, polipody of the Oak, Woodbinds, Daisies and Comfrey, of every one of the said herbs two handfuls. All these herbs must be cut small, and put into a pottle of verjuice, and so let the herbs steep in it all night, and the next morning put them into a pan and set them on the fire, than take fine wax one pound, one pound of Collifony, a pint of Oil Olive, a pound of Pitch, and a pound of May butter; and so seethe all these things together, until they be well melted, and take heed you stir it well for running over; than take a gallon of fair water in a clean vessel, and so strain it over the water, and there let it remain until it be cold, than take May butter, and oil olive, and make it up in rolls. Probatum est. A Medicine for the Rheum to drink daily, or when you william. Take a handful of Rosemary, a handful of sage, and a handful of Betony, bind them together with a thread; and when your Ale or bear hath wrought, and is ready to be clayed or bunged up, than put in the herbs with a nutmeg finely beaten in powder; if your vessel contain above six gallons, than put in two nutmegs, and keep it close stopped till you drink it, this is most excellent by experience against the Rheum. The receipt of the green ointment; good for Stitches and Aches. Take Rue, Sage, Rosemary and Bay leaves, of each half a pound, of Camomile and Dill, Lavender, pick of each two handfuls, chop all these small, and beaten them in a mortar so small as you can, and put to them three pints and more of good salad oil, and stir them together, and put them into an earthen pan covered, and let it stand nine days, than put them into a broad pan, and put thereto three pounds of Dear suet, or else so much of Sheep's suet that hath been sweetly tried; but you must put in the suet first with the herbs, than let them boil together upon a soft fire, always stirring them with a hazel stick, until you feel the herbs perching, which will ask three hours or thereabouts; than take them of and strain them into some other pan, and so save them in pots or boxes while you have occasion to use them: this is to be made in May or June for all the year. For a Stitch. Take the leaves of he Hull for the man, and for the Woman the leaves of the she Hull, and air them very dry, and beaten them to powder, and put thereof in your broth or drink, that is very good to br●ak the Stitch be it never so great. To make a Pompillion which is good for all manner of Aches. Take a gallon of popler buds before the leaves be fully grown, beaten them in a mortar, and put thereto four pounds of May butter; beaten them all together and let them stand a rarifying nine days, than boil it softly and strain it through a strong linen cloth put into an earthen pot, and preserve and anoint the place where the ache is. The Black Salve. Take of wool oil one pint, of white lead finely beaten and seared one pound, of Wax half a pound being cut in sma● pieces, than set the wax and oil upon the fire, until the wax be melted, than put thereto the lead, stirring it always upon a soft fire, having regard jest you spill thereof in the fire, for if you do you loose all, for it will not leave burning till all in the pan be consumed: and when it hath boiled till it be changed as black as pitch, than take it of and cool it in the air, stirring it still till it be so stiff you can stir it not longer, than you may take it out and make cakes thereof, and keep it for your use. This salve is good for the Ache in the back, or for any other place of the body, for the Gout and swelling in the legs, if you take a linen cloth and dip it in, being melted and made hot, and so apply it to the place, keeping it thereto so long as it will abide on; than you must take anew and use it in the same wise and so apply it, until you found ease; it is also very good for bruises and sores. For the Canker, never so great. Take a good handful of Woodbine leaves, the flowers, pick them but wash them not, and a handful of read Sage of virtue unwashed, stamp them both together in a mortar, strain out the juice as hard as you can, put it into a little pipkin, and put thereto as much alum as a good hazel nut, and a quantity of English honey, boil these all together and stir it still, and as it doth rise, scum of the white scum still with a feather; and when it is well boiled▪ take it of, stirring it till it be cold, and when you will occupy thereof, take a little and warm it in a saucer and anoint the place with your finger, eating nothing in an hour after, and if the Canker be very much eaten, than use to anoint it also before you go to bed, not drinking after it. For the stinging of a venomous beast, or biting of a mad dog. Take five or six dragon leaves, or some of the root, stamp therewith a little bay salt, and lay them on a cloth to the place that is hurt. For the black Jaundice. Take for one man three penny worth of liquorice, two penny worth of cummin, three penny worth of read fennel roots with the crops, a good handful of white endive, a pottle of good Ale; take the liquorice and the Cummin, searce them and beaten them, beat the read fennel root with the crops thereof, and the handful of endive, boil them in the Ale from a pottle to a quart, give it to the patiented to drink it as warm as he may drink it, he must not drink in four hours after if he may forbear it, and must exercise himself all the day after, that he may have occasion to sweated. An excellent good Balm. Take of the best Aqua vitae half a pound, of the clearest Turpentine six ounces, of oil of Roses one pound and a half, of Oleum P●tros●linum one ounce, boil them all together till the Aqua vitae be consumed, adding in the end a quarter of an ounce of fine alum, as much mastic beaten into small powder: and last of all in as subtle powder as may be made of Verdegreece, a quarter of an ounce, ever stirring it, but boil it not longer after the Verdegreece is in; if you keep it in a glass stopped, it will last twenty years in his virtue; when you will have a wound glue quickly together, warm this balm in a saucer, and with a little lint wash the wound; than close it together, and in a short space it will incarn and glue the wound together, if it be your chance to slit a wound, wash if first with this, and it will 'cause it to grow together in short time. For the worms. Take Aloes Saccatrin●, Harts horn burnt and beaten to powder, wormseed, of each a like, and drink it with Muscadine or Malmsie; you may take it in a Caudle. For a pin and web. Take a handful of Hemlock, and stamp them small, put thereto a good deal of bay salt, and beaten them together, if the pin and web be in the right eye, bind it to the left wrist, if in the left eye, to the right wrist. A Gargoyle for the throat. Take a few Plantain leaves, of the stones of raisins, of the rind of pomegranates, seethe them in fair water, and strain them; than put thereto a little clarified honey, and seethe it again. To make oil of Worms, which is good against wrinches and shrinking of sinews. Take a pottle of good salad oil, four handfuls of read Rose buds, the yellow cut away, two handfuls of the flowers and leaves of dil, set them in the Sun a rarifying, than take a pint of worms called the towches, slit them, and scour them in water, and than in white wine; boil them in the oil with the herbs on a soft fire a good space, than strain them and preserve it in pots; it will be kept seven years. For the Frenzy. Take the juice of Smallage, verjuice or vinegar, oil of Violets or roses put together in a vessel of glass over the fire, and lay it hot to the patient's side, but scum it first. For Tetters. Take hannybee burnt and made in powder, and mingle it with the juice of the root of affodil, and it will be a sufficient ointment for it. A Medicine to lay to the wrist for the Ague. Take Featherfew, Sage and bruise them, an half penny worth of pepper, a little spoonful of Chimney soot, and the white of an egg, mingle them together, and lay it to the wrist. For the Canker. Take a pint of Woodbine water, a spoonful of honey, as much roach Allom as a hazel nut, and two or three crops of Rosemary, as much Sage, and the rind of a pomegranate, and let them seethe together until almost half be consumed, and than wash the sore withal three or four times every day luke warm, till it be whole, with a fair linen cloth, and his finger, and so rub till it bleed; but at every washing he must change his cloth, and this will heal it. Probatum. To heal or cleanse any old or new wound or sore. Take green Ashen bows, and burn them to ashes, than take three pottles of running water, and so make thereof lie, than take that lie and put therein one pottle of Bartwaies, than set it on the fire, and take one pound of roch alum, and half a pound of madder and beaten them to powder, than put the powder into the lie, and let it boil till half be wasted, and let it stand nine days, and it will be clear and fine. For sinews that be shrunk. Take three spoonfuls of water of snails that bear their houses on their backs, and as much woman's milk, as much May-butter, mingle these together, and make an ointment, and lay it to the sore. To make a common Glister. Take mallows, violet leaves, beets, mercury and parietary, of every of them a handful, of wheat bind an handful and a half, and boil all these together in a little water till they be tender, than press them and strain them, and to a pint of the decoction, put an ounce of Cassia Fistula ready drawn, two ounces of clarified honey, the weight of a groat of salt, and three ounces of sweet salad oil, all these well mixed and conveniently, it may be well applied for a glister. To staunch blood. Take parsley, and bray it with the black colly of a brass pot tha● is used to the fire, and lay it to the wound or broken vein; or if you bleed at the nose, put it into your nose. To cure the bloody flux. Against the bloody flux of the womb, mingle a little sugar and a dram of mastic at the most, and give it to the patiented, and after that give him Rose water, or wine, or mastic that cloves have been sodden with. For them that piss blood. Take Ambrose, Saxifrage, Parsley, with the roots of wild tansy and water cresses, even portions, stamp them all together, and strain them, and temper it with a young Cow's milk, and drink it four or five times morning and evening; this is a principal medicine. To make one sleep. Take five or six spoonfuls of woman's milk which giveth a manchild suck, as much read Rose water, mingle them together; than take a cloth the breadth of the forehead, and the length to the temples, and wet the cloth therein, and when it is well wet, wring somewhat of the liquor out, for over much wetting the face, and so lay the cloth over the temples, and ever as it drieth wet it again with the liquor. For the same. Take woman's milk, read Rose water, and vinegar made of read wine, and mingle them all together, but somewhat less of the vinegar than of the other, and the medicine is very good if the heat be very great. For the same. Take a spoonful of oil of Roses, as much Rose water, half a spoonful of read vinegar, temper them all together, and with a soft cloth anoint the patient's forehead. A Water for the eyes. Take a stone which you shall buy at the Apothecaries, called Lapis caluminaris, burn it in the fire at the lest six or seven times read hot, than quench it in white wine, than beaten the stone to powder in a mortar till it be fine, than put it into the wine and strain it together through a fair linen cloth, when it is cold, put two or three drops into one of your eyes, and lie still upon the same side so long as you can, than dress the other eye as before, you must take of the stone the quantity of a big walnut to a pint of wine, and seethe the stone together with the wine till half be consumed, than put it in a viol of glass, and it will last six months. For the same: proved. Take Lapis Caluminaris half a pound of the whitest you can get, burn it in the fire read hot, than take a pint of white wine of Anjou, and put the stone in the wine, and let it lie therein till it be cold; again put in the fire as hot as before, put it into the wine, than take it out and let it dry, and than grinned as much as you intent to do or occupy of it, into powder very small, take the powder in a pewter dish the quantity of a nut, and put thereto half a pint of the said wine so stirred, put it into a glass bottle unwickered, and when you occupy it, shake it, and with a feather put it into your eyes two or three drops, holding after your eyes very close, lying upright, not going into the wind two hours after, and in the heat of the year lay out the stone in the Sun, and it will preserve it. A water for a running Canker. Take two gallons of fair water, and almost a peck of good ashes, boil it till you have a strong and slippery lie, than take it from the fire and strain the liquor from the ashes, set the liquor to the fire again, and put to it a dish full of bay salt of a pint, a handful of wormwood, as much Sentry, a quarter of a pound of white lupins, boil them all together a good while, when you use it, make it hot, and take two pretty bolsters of cloth, four times double a piece, wet the bolsters in it, and wring it in your hands somewhat dry, and bathe it so sundry times at a dressing, than say on your clout and roll it up all hot: you shall know a Canker or a Gangrena by the stench. To make a purgation for a dog. Take an ounce of Simcodds of Alexandria, you must lay them in steep in a quart of running water; you must bruise your Simcodds, put thereto an handful of Mercury, of violet leaves and mallows a handful of each, the weight of two groats of annis seeds bruised, they must lie in steep all night, in the morning take them out and seethe them from a quart to a pint, you must take half a pound of blanched Almonds beaten and strained with the said liquor; when you will give it him, you must put in an ounce and a half of Syrup of Roses, and luke warm, fasting, give it him, and he must fast after it three hours. Mr. Doctor Coldwell his medicine for the dropsy. Approved. Take very strong Alewort, five or six gallons, one ounce of Annis seed, three ounces of Carret seed, three good roots of Hartichoak well washed, than slit them in pieces, than must you put your seeds and roots into the Alewort in an earthen vessel, so set it on the fire, and let it not seethe too fast, but until half your liquor be spent, than must you cleanse it through a strainer, and so set it a cooling; than you must put very good yeast in it; all this being done, put it into a sweet pot, and by any means drink no other drink till you be whole: This Medicine helped one Wye of Kent. A medicine for the Cough. Take a quarter of a pint of Malmsey, and a good quantity of fresh butter and a Nutmeg, and put it in a fair dish, so boil it on a chafingdish of coals till it come to be a salve, and so anoint your stomach with it against the fire; than take a Colewort leaf and hold it against the fire, and take a little butter and melt it, and with a feather rub it over the leaf, and so lay it to your stomach, and it shall cure you. Probatum. To make a Tysand for them that be stopped in the stomach. Take a gallon of fair running water, half a handful of outlandish barley, or three handfuls of English barley, hull it as you do wheat to make firmity: take a stick of liquorice cut small and bruised and scraped, two spoonfuls of annis seeds and bruise it, also a handful of parsley roots scraped, and the pith pulled out, and cut in pieces an inch long, half a score of figs cloven into halves, a pound of raisins of the Sun the stones pulled out, half a pound of prunes, a quarter of a pound of currants; put all these things into the water aforesaid, and let them seethe till half the water be consumed, than take it and strain it into another pot to boil it again in, and put thereto a little vinegar and Rose water, so much as you shall think fit, a pretty deal of Sugar candy, Cloves, Mace and Nutmegs, and a little Setwel, and let them all boil a while together, and drink thereof blood warm morning and evening first and last, and you shall found great ease. An approved Medicine for a swelling. Take woman's milk, and the pap of an apple, the crumbs of a Manchet, and make thereof a poultesse and lay it to the sore, and for a quinsy you may put thereto a little salad oil or oil of Roses. To staunch bleeding of a wound. Take the powder of brown paper, and put thereof into the wound and lay upon it upon it the white of an egg. A medicine for the heat of the eyes. Take a new laid egg open at the top, and put out all that is in it, and fill the shell full of the juice of housleek, and let it boil upon embers, and scum it with a feather, boiling it till it be very clean, than put to it as much alum as the quantity of a hazel nut while it is boiling, and than wash your eyes therewith. A medicine for the pleurisy. Take a handful of flax seed, and seethe it in milk till it be thick like a salve, and spread upon cloth, and lay it to the same side where the pain is two or three times, till the patiented found ease. A medicine to staunch blood. Take the dung of a hog hot, and apply it to the wound, and it will staunch the bleeding presently. For the same. Take unset Isope and stamp it and strain it, without washing, and put it into the nostrils of the party, and so into the wound or any other place that bleedeth. For a Canker or an old sore. Take a pottle of white wine, as much running water, a handful of plantain leaves, a handful of honeysuckle leaves, a handful of Betony, a handful of Rosemary, and a handful of Broome; boil all these together till half the liquor be consumed, than put in a penny worth of Allom, and when all is boiled together, put in a penny worth of Camphire, and preserve the same in a strong earthen pot. A medicine for the Ptisick of the Lungs. Take a gallon of sweet whey, a handful of Solomon, roots and all, a handful of Avent roots and all, and two handfuls of Longwort which groweth in a garden, roots and all, an handful of Bullocks songworts, of the youngest leaves; than take your whey, and clarify it on the fire, wash the herbs and scrape the roots very clean, but slit the roots of the Avents and the Longworts, than seethe them all together in the whey, until one quart of the Whey be consumed, and drink thereof when you go to bed at night if you can, and in the morning fasting. Use this all the month of May. A Medicine for wind or hurling in the head, or an Impostume. Take a handful of Marigold leaves, stamp them and strain them, than take a little black wool, and dip it into the juice of the Marigolds, than put it into your ear, preserve it so that you warm it not. An excellent Plaster for all manner of aches, for as soon as the Plaster is on, the ache is gone. Take unwrought Wax two pound, Deers suet half a pound, Frankincense four pound, Cloves two ounces, Mace two ounces, Saffron half an ounce, Rosen, Turpentine, running Pitch four ounces, melt that which is to be melted, and beaten the rest to powder, mingle them well together on a soft fire, except the Cloves, Mace and Saffron; than take a pottle of read Wine, and by little and little pour it into the Salve, stirring it well together, when it is melted, strain it into a clean pan; than strew in your powders, Cloves, Mace and Saffron, stir it well together a good while, and let it stand till it be cold; than make it up in rolls; when you have occasion to use it, strike it on leather, and lay it on the sore place. A Vomit for short breath, or stopping in the Breast. Take a dram and half of powder of Betony, with five measures of water, that is, about a goblet full, and drink it fasting. A Medicine for the Colic passion. Take two drams of the powder of Betony, with three or four Pepper corns, drink these with old wine warmed. A Medicine for the Bloodyflux. If it be by weakness of heart, or disposition to swoon by heat that is in the members of the bulk, take Sugar of Roses with Rose water. A Medicine for faintness of the heart or swooning. Drink Rose water, and bedew your face therewith. Also Rose water is good to put in Ointments for the face; it taketh away spots and smooths the skin: and dry Roses smelled at the nose, comfort●th the brain, and quickeneth the spirits. To stay Vomiting. Seethe Roses in Vinegar, and wet a sponge therein, and lay it to the stomach. A Medicine for the Falling Evil. Seethe three drams of the juice of Rue, with a little wine, and give the Patient to drink. A Medicine for a sudden swelling or strain. Take milk and new cow dung, and boil them together till it be thick, and than make a Plaster, and lay it to the sore till the swelling be assuaged. The King's Medicine for the Plague. Take a handful of Sage of virtue, a handful of Herbagrace, a handful of Elder leaves, stamp them in a Mortar, and strain them through a linen cloth with a quart of White-wine, and a quantity of White wine-vineger; mingle all these together, and drink thereof a spoonful every day nine days together; and after the first spoonful you shall be safe for twenty four days. And if it fortune that one be strucken with the Plague before he hath drunk the Medicine, than take this aforesaid with a spoonful of the Water Scabious, and a spoonful of Betony water, and a quantity of fine Treacle, and put them all together and drink it, it will expel all the Venom; and if it fortune the Botch doth appear, than take the leaves of read brambles, and the leaves of Elder, and Mustardseed, and stamp them together, and make a Plaster thereof, and lay it to the Sore, and it will draw out all the Venom, and so cure it by the grace of God. For the Mother. Take three or four handfuls of Fern that grows upon houses, and seethe it in Rhenish-wine, than put it into a linen cloth, and so hot as you may suffer it, lay it to the Navel four or five times. To make one sleep. Take powder of Mastic and temper it with Vinegar, and anoint the pulses of the head and hands. For a shaking Ague. Take an earthen pot with hot water, and let the Patient lay himself down and cover him warm, and this pot fast at his feet, and it will put away the shaking. A Medicine to stop a Lack. Take a new laid egg, and put the white clean away from the yolk, and put to it half a spoonful of Aqua Composita; you must stir them well together, and give it the Patient to sup up, and it will stop it. A Water for a sore mouth, or any other Sores. Take a handful of Daisies, as much of Violet leaves, a handful of Avens, and as much of Sowthistle, a little Mugwort, a handful of Briar leaves, and a little Rosemary; seethe all this in running water, and put a little Allom in the seething, when it is half sodden away, than put three pence weight of the powder of Bole armoniac, a little honey, and so let it seethe a walm or two, than strain it, and in time of year put in Rose leaves, and Columbine leaves. A Medicine for the Morphew in ones face. Take new milk, the crumbs of white-bread, Red-rose leaves caked, and a Lemon or two shred, steep them altogether and distil them in a Limbeck and use the water as is appointed. A Medicine against Melancholy. Take the bone in a Heart's heart beaten into powder and drink ●t in White-wine. To make a Derge for the Lungs. Take a quantity of Anniseeds, and Liquorice, Alla Campana, Sugar Candy, Date stones, of every one a like, a little Ginger; take and beaten all these in a mortar, saving the Date stones, beaten them by themselves, and than sift them through a searce, and it will be powder. For bleeding at the Nose. Take half a pint of running water, and a pint of milk new from the Cow, two or three spoonfuls of Rose-water and a little Sugar, and seethe it unto a pint, and than drink it in a morning fasting lukewarm. For the Flux. Take Plantain seed, and drink them either with Beer or Red-wine morning and evening for two or three days. For the Morphew. Take Fumetory, and make thereof a posset, and drink of the posset Ale in the morning fasting, sweeting two hours after it; after sweeting, take and drink the powder of Seine, and Anniseeds, and Sugar, sodden in Ale, a good draught the same morning. Than take a new laid egg steeped in White-wine-vineger twenty four hours, and prick the same egg and anoint the Morphew with that which cometh out. A Fume for the Head, to be applied to the Ear. Take a quart or more of White-wine; boil in that a good handful of Camomile Herbs and flowers together, two spoonfuls of Commin seeds bruised a little, than put all this boiled into a stone pot or jug, with a narrow mouth; you may make a cover of paste for it, or of clay, and a hole in it to put a Swans quill therein; through this quill you shall take the Fume so hot as you can suffer it in at your ear; and so long as the liquor doth sand any hot breath, which will be about half an hour, than with a warm linen cloth wipe away the moisture from the Ear, and stop it with wool, dipped in Oil of bitter Almonds warm: do this in the morning's only, and let the wool abide in the ear till the next morning. Another Fume of Vinegar, to be applied at the Nose. Take a pint of White-wine-vineger, put to it two spoonfuls of Bean-flower, and let it stand. Use it thus: Take a tile stone or brick read hot out of the fire, and pour a little of this Vinegar being stirred (that the flower may mingle with it) upon the tile or brick; hold your head over it, and take the fume at your nose five or six times every morning and evening; this should be done in your Bedchamber, that the fume may altar the air thereof also. Another Fume to be taken at the Nose. Beaten Amber into gross powder, and pot so much as you can take up with two fingers upon hot embers; take the smell thereof only at your going to bed, and let your night-quoif be perfumed with it. An excellent Mellilote Plaster for hard swell or to cure sores. Take green Mellilote bruised, ten handfuls, boil it in a pottle of White-wine to the wasting of half the Wine, and strain it; than put thereto of Rosen one pound, of Wax as much, sheep's tallow four ounces, of Turpentine three ounces, of Mastic one ounce; and boil all save the Mastic unto the wasting of the juice more than half; than bruise other six handfuls of Mellilote, and put them to while it is boiling, and stir it well till it hath had one walm or two; than take it from the fire, and strain it while it is hot through a strong cloth until the stuff and Gums with the juice be all come out, and when you may handle it, put thereto your ounce of Mastic finely powdered; than make it in rolls, mingling your Mastic in the handling thereof. To make Oil of Hemp, good to drive out the Ague from any outward part of the body. Take green Hemp gathered in May and shred it very small, than boil it in fresh butter, till you think the strength of the Herb be boiled out therein, strain it through a cloth into some pot or pipkin, and anoint the place where the swelling or Ague is, with the Ointment chafed in against the fire. To make Oil of Swallows, good for all manner of Aches. Take ten or twelve young Swallows ready to fly, stamp them in a stone Mortar with their feathers and guts together, with Lavender Cotten, Balm, Speermint, read Sage, Camomile, Wild Strawberry leaves and wild Time, of each a handful; but let these herbs lie one day unwashed after they be gathered; and than stamp them all together with the Swallows till no feather be left whole, put thereto a good quantity of May-butter or fresh butter, and let all stand one night in the Mortar; the next day boil all these together very softly three quarters of an hour or an whole hour, than strain it through a clean linen cloth into a clean Vessel, and keep it for your use. An approved Medicine for a sore breast, or an Ague sore, that will both draw and heal. Take the yolks of four new laid eggs, put thereto a spoonful of Vinegar, of Oil of Roses three or four spoonfuls, of Bean-flower one spoonful, stir and beaten them well together that no flower be seen, than set it on a few coals keeping it stirring till it be somewhat thick, than if the breast or sore be hard or swelled, anoint it with Oil of Roses, or the thinnest of the Plaster with your hand very warm▪ and make a Plaster of the stuff and lay it on the sore so far as the hardness or redness goeth, so warm as they may well suffer it, and keep it warm, dressing it thus every day; and if it be taken in time, it will heal it without breaking. A Sovereign Water for an old Sore. Take six penny worth of Roach Allom, and as much green Coperas, put them in an earthen Vessel and boil them on a strong fire of coals so long until it be grown to be a stone; than take a pretty piece of that, and beaten it into powder, and set on a quart of fair running water upon the fire, and when the water is ready to seethe, put in a little of the powder, and it will fry like Oil, and so long as it doth fry, put in a little and a little, for when the water is strong enough, it will fry not more; than take a little of the water and wash the sore, but it must be luke warm, and than wet your lint in the same; but if it be an old sore that is festered, and full of dead flesh, put of the powder into the sore. A Soveragn● Remedy to draw out a thorn, or for an old sore, the Gout or Siatica. Take Rosen half a pound, and as much of Perrosen, of Virgins wax half a pound, of Olibanum four ounces, of Mastic 4 ounces, of Camphire 3 drams, of Turpentine 3 ounces. Than take all your gums aforesaid, every one by themselves; than take your tallow and your wax, and relent them together on the fire; that done, put your Rosen, than your Perrosen, than your Olibanum, and last of all your Mastic; and when all is relented together on a soft fire of coals, than strain it through a strong canvas cloth with two sticks so hard as you can into a pottle of White-wine, than relent it over the fire again; and than take it of and let it cool, and when it is almost cold, anoint your hands with Oil of Almonds, and work it into rolls like rolls of Wax; and in the time of working thereof, cast in your Camphire beaten into fine powder; you must beaten two or three Almonds finely scraped with your Camphire, or else a wild nut beaten together. An Ointment good for Aches, Bruises, Stiches, Cricks, Gouts and lameness, and starkness of sinews. Take in May Sage and Rue of each one pound, Bay leaves and Wormwood of each half a pound, Rosemary two handfuls; all these Herbs must be shred so small as may be; than put thereto, of sheep's suet clean picked from the skin three pound, fine shred also; than stamp all these in a Mortar of stone so long till they come unto one substance, than take it forth, and put it into a fine b●sen or pan, and put thereto of sweet Oil Olive a pottle, and work it well together, that it be well mixed; than cover it close, that no air come unto it the space of seven days; than take and set it on a soft fire, and let it seethe softly, always stirring it till the leaf or herb be parched; than strain it through a canvas cloth, and after put thereto of the Oil of Spike one or two ounces, and stir it, and when it is cold, put it up in fair broad mouthed pots, and reserve it for your use. For a green Wound or cut. Take Valerian a good handful, and stamp it with White wine, that you may stamp out all the juice; than take Rosen and beaten it to powder, and put the juice to the Rosen, and than boil them together, than take it of the fire and pour out the liquor from it, and take half so much Wax as Rosen, and Salad Oil only as much as you think will suffice to melt all together with a soft fire; than take it of the fire, and put in a spoonful of Turpentine, and stir it together, and keep it. To make Oil of Exeter. First you must gather a pound of Cowslip-flowers in May, and picked clean, you must put them into a fair Vessel of glass, and so much Oil Olive as will cover them, than cover your glass close until you may gather all these herbs following; viz. Calamint, Saint John's wort, wild Sage, Egrimony, Southernwood, Wormwood, Peniroyal, Lavender, Pellitory of Spain, Parietary, Rosemary, Camomile, Her●ff leaves, Bays, the youngest Lily flowers, Wild-Oliver, Singreen read Mints, of each a handful; all these Herbs must be gathered in the midst of June. Than put them all in as much White-wine as will cover them, but first dry the blossoms from the oil between your hands; than stamp all your herb● together, and seethe them in the Oil, and than steep them in white-wine one night, than put the Oil and them together, and seethe them till a quantity of the Wine be boiled away; than strain them and put the oil in a glass, for there is no other vessel will hold it. When you do boil these herbs, you may put more Oil to them; It is good for all old Diseases that are in the sinews, for wrenches, strains, or any old disease. To make Swallows Ointment. Take twenty Swallows, Camomile, Lavender Spike, Balm, Strawberry strings, Valerian, Tutsan leaves, Sages of Arfice, strings of Vine, Roman Wormwood, French Mallows, knotted grass, Walnut leaves, Howfe, Ribwort, Rosemary tops, Honeysuckle leavs, Plantain, read Rose leaves, Lavender Cotten, tops of Bays, of each a handful, stamp them all together, and than put in half a pint of Salad oil, and a quart of Neatsfoot Oil, half a pound of Cull●n Wax and some cloves beaten small, than boil it on the fire the space of six hours, and than strain it through a canvas cloth into a dish till it be cold, and make a little hole in the middle that the water and blood may soak out. To make a green Salve to heal any sore. Take a pound of Rosen, half a pound of Turpentine, one pound of Cullen Wax, or Maiden Wax being not wrought, half a pound of Sheep's tallow melted and strained, twelve spoonfuls of fine Salad Oil, and melt all together on the fire; than take Smallage, Plantain, Orpine, Bugle, Valerian, of each three handfuls, and a good handful of Rugwort; chop all these small, and grinned them afterwards in a Mortar, than put it into the liquor on the fire, and let them seethe all together on the fire half an hour, and in the seething put a good quantity of Rose water, than strain it through a canvas cloth into a dish or platter. A precious Salve for a sore, wound or malady. Take Rosen and Perrosen, of each half a pound, of Virgin's Wax and Frankincense, of each a quarter of a pound, Mastic one ounce, Heart's tallow a quarter of a pound, Camphire two drams; melt that which is to be melted, and powder that which is to be powdered, and searse it very fine, and boil them over the fire, and than strain them over the fire through a canvas cloth into a pottle of White-wine, than boil the wine with the other Ingredients together; than let it cool till it be no hotter than blood, than put thereto a quartern of Turpentine, evermore stirring it till it be through cold; but evermore beware your stuff be but blood warm when you put your Turpentine to it, for if it be hot, it marreth all the stuff; and make it up in rolls, and keep it to your use. The best, and most precious Salve that can be made. It hath these properties, It healeth old and new wounds, it suffereth no corruption nor ill flesh; it healeth all headaches, all singing in the brains, all Impostumes in the head or body, swell in the ears or cheeks, sinews, stomach, or sprent, pricking with a thorn, it draweth out broken bones, it helpeth the bitings of venomous Beasts, it healeth all manner of Botches, Festers and Noli me tangere, ache in the liver, reinss or spleen, swell of members and Inflammations. An Ointment for one that hath a bruise from a horse. Take Elder flowers, and beaten them small in a Mortar with Bean-flower bolted very fine; grinned them together till they are very small, than take them forth and put them in a glass, and put thereto Salad Oil, and so let it stand until you have need of it, for the older it is, the better it is; and therewith anoint the Patient against the fire. A perfect way to cool and help the liver, and to take away the pain of the heartburning. Take Endive, Succory, Borage, bugloss roots and leaves of either half a handful, green Polipody, Poppey roots two ounces, twelve Damask Prunes, one ounce of Currans, seethe them in three pints of fair running water to a quart, than mingle with it one ounce and an half of Seine leaves, half an ounce of fine Rhubarb sliced, and tie it slackly in a piece of fine linen cloth; seethe them together ten or twelve walm●s; than take it from the fire, and when they be almost cold, strain them easily through a cloth, but crush between your fingers hard three or four times the Rhubarb; than mingle with this liquor the juice of Lemons and Sugar, so much as will make it pleasant. Take at the first the quantity of half a wine pint luke warm fasting, and fast two or three hours after it; if it give above three stools in one day, drink lesle the next day. To make an excellent good Water for many Diseases. Take a gallon of good Gascoigne Wine, than take Ginger, Galingale, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Mace, Anniseeds, Fennel seeds, Carraway seeds, of every of them a dram; than take Sage, Mints, read Roses, Time, Pelitory of the wall, Rosemary, Wild-Time, Wild Marjoram, Penniroyal, Camomile, Lavender, Rosa-solis, Adments, Peony, Montane, of each a handful; than beaten all the Spices small, and bruise all the Herbs, than put all into the Wine, and let it stand still therein twelve hours, stirring it divers times. Than still it in a Limbeck, and keep the first water by itself, for it is the best; than will there come a second water, which will be good, but not so good as the first Water, which must be kept likewise by itself; and this water will be the better, if it be set in the Sun all the Summer; and you must draw of the first Water but a pint, and of the second as far as it will run. For the Stone. Take the blood of a Fox and make it in powder, and drink it in Wine, and without doubt it shall destroy the Stone; and if you will not believe, take a stone and put it into the blood of a Fox, and it will break. To make Balm Water of the best. Take two gallons of strong Ale, two pound of Balm, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, and a quarter of a pound of Liquorice bruised into powder; put all these into a pot, and let them stand twelve hours stopped very close; after it hath stood so long, than still it in a Limbeck; but in any wise you must take heed your fire be not too hot at the first; save the first half of the Water by itself, for that will be the best; and after the first half (so near as you can guess,) is stilled, take away the fire for the space of half an hour, and than adding to it again a soft fire, the rest will be a quart, and that is the most it will make in the whole. A Water for the Plague. Take Rue, Egrimony, Wormwood, Celendine, Sage, Bawm Rosemary, Mugwort, Dragons Pimpernel, Marygold, Fetherfew, By'r▪ net, Sorrel, and you must have them of like weight; than soak them in the best White-wine you can get two or three nights, and after wring the herbs from the Wine, and distil the Herbs by themselves; and after still the Wine, and this is good for Agues; put it not to the water of the herbs, for that with a little Treacle or Mithridate shall drive away sickness from the heart. For a prick with a thorn. Take Southernwood, and stamp it and mingle it with Boars grease and lay the same to it, and it will both draw and heal. For the swelling to take it away. Take a handful of Mallows, and almost half a handful of Chickweed, shred these small, and seethe them in a quart of fair running water, and thick them with Barley meal, stirring it till it be thick, than lay it unto the swelling twice a day as hot as the Patient can abide it. To make a Balm, which will heal a green Wound within four and twenty hours. Take two spoonfuls of white Turpentine, and one spoonful of running water, and beaten it together until it be very white, a little Oil of Roses, and beaten all these together, and you may keep it good fourteen days, but no longer; if it be a wound, dip lint in the same, and lay upon it▪ if it be a thrust or prick, make a Tent, and dip your Tent in the same. For burning or scalding. First wash the wound; take Sage and seethe it in running water, and it will take away the heat immediately; than take Sage and Hartstongue and Sheep's dung, and fry it with Sheep's suet, and anoint it with a feather. For the biting of a mad Dog. Take Garlick, Salt and Rue, and stamp them all together after the manner of a Plaster, and lay it to the wound, and give the Patiented Treacle to drink three times a week. For the biting of a Hound or Dog. Take Mint, and salt it well, and lay it to the wound, and it shall heal wonderfully fair. For the cutting of Sinews or Veins. Take knot worms▪ and stamp them, and lay them to the wound in Plaster wise. To staunch the strong bleeding at the Nose. Take an egg, and put out all the meat, and set the shell in the fire until it be black, and than make fine powder of the same, and with a quill blow it into the nose, and it will staunch the bleeding. To make a Water to help Sheep, though they be infected. Take a pottle of running water, and put therein a good handful of Herbagrace, and as much Ground-Ivy, and as much of the green pill of Elders, the outside being first scraped away; than boil all these together till it be a quart; than strain it, and wring the juice well out of the Herbs; than put the water, and three penny worth of Treacle, and a penny worth of English Saffron beaten fine, and stir them all well together; than give to every sheep two spoonfuls of the same Water. An approved Medicine for the Stone. Take a gallon of new milk from a read Cow, and thereto put one handful of Pellitory of Wall, one handful of Wild Time, one handful of Saxifrage, and a handful of Parsley, two or three Rhadish roots sliced, a quantity of Phillippe Pendelow, roots and all; steep all these in the night, the next morning distil the milk with the Herbs, with a moderate fire. The use of taking the Water. Take of the Water six spoonfuls, and of Rhenish or White-wine five or six spoonfuls, a little Sugar, and some slices of Nutmegs, make it luke warm, and drink it fasting, and fast after it three hours, using temperate exercise; take twice or thrice together every fortnight if need requireth. For uncurable aches, and pains in the Joints. Take all the whole horn that a Buck casts of, the later, the better, cast away the scraps, leave nothing but the horn, cut the same in pieces than seethe the same in a gallon of fair water till it be come to a pint, or something more, than cast away the pieces of the horn, and than let in the vessel stand until it be cold, which than will be like a jelly. And when you will ocupy thereof, warm some of that in a saucer, and than anoint the place therewith by the fire morning and evening, and let that drink in by the heat of the fire, and it will heal in nine or ten dress. This is very true. For falling or bruising a man's body. Take Egrimony, Betony, Sage, Plantain, Ivy leaves, Roses, Parsley, stamp them together, and mix Wine thereto, give it the Patient often to drink till he be whole. A true and tried Medicine. For the Palsy. Take Lavender and seethe it in running water, and than strain it, than drink half a pint daily first and last for the space of a fortnight, and it will heal them. For the Ache in the huckle bone, called the Sia●ica. Take a pound of good black Soap, one pint of Aquavitae, half a pint of Salad Oil, and a quarter of a pint of the juice of Rue, seethe them all together over an easy fire, until it be something thick, & that it may be made in a plaster, than spread some thereof upon a piece of leather, and apply it to the ache or pained place, and let it lie thereon three days and three nights, and than if the pain be not gone, apply such another plaster thereto, and let it lie as long as the former, and it will help it certainly. To take the Ague out of any sore. Take an ounce of Fennegrick, as much of Lin seed, two or three spoonfuls of Wheat-flower, a pint of new milk; beaten the seeds several, and boil them till they be in thickness that you may spread it in manner of a plaster. An approved Medicine for the bloody Flux. Take a pint of Milk newly milked or more, and the inner rind of an Oaken bark, and some of the inner rind of a black thorn, and three roots of Plantain, three roots of wild Daisies, the powder of a Panter so much as you can take upon an Angel, and two or three sprigs of Time, than boil them a good while all together, and than put therein some sticks of Cinnamon, and half a Nutmeg, and a little Sugar candy, so let them boil, and than take three sheets of fair paper, and break them, and let them boil with the rest, and than put in eight or nine bramble leaves, and than take another sheet of paper, and put therein, and three little pieces of wheaten bread, and let it boil after a good while, and strain it through a cullender into a cup, and drink it fasting in a morning, at noon and at night for the space of two or three days together. To make Oil of Cream for burning or scalding. Take a quart of Cream and seethe it till the Cream be divided from the Whey, and than scum of the Cream, and lay it in a fair dish, and when you will use of it, take a little of it in a saucer; and melt it, and than anoint the place that is scalded under your Ivy leaves and upon them, but first you must boil your Ivy leaves till they be soft, and lay them on the fore twice a day. To make Aqua Mirabilis & pretiosa. Take Gallingale, Cloves, Cubebs, Ginger, Cardamons, Mace and Nutmegs, of each one dram, and of the juice of Celendine eight ounces, and mingle all the powders with the said juice in a pint of Aquavitae, and three pints of White-wine, and put all these together in a Still of Glass, and let it stand so all night, and on the morrow distil it with an easy fire as may be. Of all Waters this is the best, for it dissolveth phlegm in the Longs without any grievance, and healeth and helpeth the perished Lungs, and for other divers griefs about the stomach and the Lungs, a most approved water. In the Summer use one spoonful once a week, and in the winter two spoonfuls. To make Rosa Solis Water. Take a gallon of the best Aqua Composita, and put it into a gallon glass, and put thereto a pottle of the herbs called Rosa Solis clean picked, and put it in the Sun three or four days being close stopped, than take an ounce of Cinnamon bruised, an ounce of Ginger bruised, a quarter of an ounce of whole Mace, two spoonfuls of Anniseeds bruised, two sticks of Licorice scraped and bruised, one pound of white Sugar candy, and twenty Dates cut in small pieces, and put them into another gallon glass, and put thereto your Aqua Composita, strained from your Rosa Solis. To make Aquavitae. Fill a pottle full of clean read wine, and put therein the powder of Cinnamon, Cloves, Ginger, Parietary, Nutmegs, Gallingale, Spikenard, Mace, Quinbilois, Grains, Sage, Mints, Rue, Calamint, Long-pepper, Carraway, Pennyroyal, Cummin, Fennel seeds, Smallage, Parsley, Horewood, of each a like quantity, of Dragons more or lesle as you will have it: still all the waters in a Limbeck with a soft fire; and look that the Stillatory be well luted or pasted, so that no air get out, and make your fire of coals, and reform the water out of a Limbeck into a glass. For all manner of bruises, swell and broken bones. Take Brooklime, Chickweed, Mallows, Smallage, Groundsel, stamp them with Sheep's tallow, Swine's grease and Cummin; put thereto Wine Leeses and Wheat bran; fry them together, and lay it to the grief hot. A Drink good for Bruising. Stamp Egrimony, Bitony, Sage, Plantain, Ivy-leaves and Parsley together, mix Wine therewith, and give it the Patient often to drink. Against Burning. Stamp Maidenhair, and seethe it in fresh butter, strain it, and anoint the Patient therewith. Another. Beaten Oil Olive with water till it wax very white, and anoint the place therewith, or take black or grey Soap and lay it to the sore. An Ointment for burning with Gunpowder, or scalding. Take a quart of Boars-grease, two handfuls of Groundsel, two or three heads of Houseleek, and stamp the Herbs together, than put to it two handfnls of Sheep's dung new, and two handfuls of Goose dung, stamp them all together, and fry them, and being hot strain it into an earthen pot, and with the liquor anoint the burned place. An excellent Receipt to make Wormwood-water. Take two gallons of Sack-Lees, two gallons of Ale, half a pound of Liquorice, half a pound of Annisee●s, four handful of Wormwood, one handful of raisins of the Sun, and nine or ten figs, and let them stand one day and one night, and than still them in a Limbeck. In the curing of a wound five things are to be observed or noted. First, To take away the thing that sticketh in the wound, as arrow, bullet, thorn, or any such like thing. Secondly, To join those parts of the wound, which do not shut or close together. Thirdly, To keep close that which you have so shut together. Fourthly, To preserve the substance of that part. Fifthly, To stay and mitigate all evil accidents. A potion to staunch blood. Take Lapis hamatites one ounce, Bowl Armoniac, Dragon's blood, of each an ounce, Manus Christi an ounce, Plantain water two ounces, let a potion be made. To staunch blood outwardly. Take Frankincense and aloes, of each two ounces, the white of an egg, Rose water a little, and beaten them together, than take fine flax, and some hair of Hare's skin, and make a pleget, and dip it in the aforesaid liquor, and than apply it unto the wound. Another way to staunch blood. Take Bole Armoniac one ounce, Terrasigillata one ounce, of flower of wheat three ounces, of Gypsus and slaked lime, of each four ounces, of Frankincense and aloes, of each one ounce, make thereof a powder, and mix it with the white of an egg, and use it according to art. To break the Plague sore. Take bramble leaves, elder leaves, and Mustard seed, stamp them together, make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the fore, and it will draw out the venom, and heal the sore. An excellent medicine for a Plague sore. Take a Cock Pullet, Chicken or Pigeon, and pluck of the feathers of the tail and rump, than lay the bore of the pullet to the sore, and the pullet will gape and labour for life, and at the length die, and continued and lay other pullets as long as any die, for when the poison is drawn out, the chicken that is laid to it will live, the sore presently will suage; the first pullet will make the plague sore very soft, whereas before it was very hard, and the other will draw out the venom. To make King Edward the third his Pomander against the plague. Take of Labdanus fined one ounce, of Storax Calaminta dissolved, Roses, Cloves, Mace, of each half a penny weight; of Amber one penny weight, of Cinnamon and Camomile the weight of five pence, and dissolve them to powder, of musk one penny weight; you must dissolve the Labdanus with Myrrh and virgin's wax, and all things as is aforesaid made to powder, and mingle them together with oil of bay, and let them be heated on the fire, than let it stand while it be cold, and make your balls of what quantity you wil To draw the sore of the plague. Take two Lily roots, and a handful of sour dough, two handfuls of mallows, one handful of linseed, stamp all these together small, and boil it in a quart of wine leeses till it be thick, than lay it an inch thick upon leather broaderthen the sore, and let the borders of the leather be plastered with Shoemaker's wax to make it cleave, and it shall bring out the botch in 24 hours, and break it shortly. For the Pleurisy. Take brook-lime, sheep's suet, and a little fair water, fry them together in a frying pan, and make thereof a plaster, lay it to the patient's side, and it will draw out the corruption; the best remedy against the Pleurisy is to be let blood. A good medicine to bring forth the small Pocks, Meazels or purples Make a posset of Ale with milk the curd being taken of, put therein a handful of read fennel, and the same being sodden together, strain it; put thereto a quantity of a Nutmeg, of fine treacle, a little setwal, and a little English Saffron, and being mingled together, give the patiented to drink warm. For him that cannot hold urine. The brain of an Hare given in wine to drink, causeth the patiented after divers times received, to hold his urine; Filberts roasted are wholesome against the distillation of the same; the like doth Galingale beaten to powder, and drunk with a little white wine or Ale; also the lights of a kid eaten, and some part plaster wise thereof bound about the Navel, doth withhold the distillatition of Urine. To take away the spots of the small Pocks. Take an ounce of Oil Olive, half an ounce of Venice Turpentine, half an ounce of Sperma ceti, melt them together when it beginneth to boil, take it from the fire and let it cool; rub therewith the black spots, and continued the same till the holes be filled. For the Quinsy in the throat. Take elder leaves, bay salt and Cummin, beaten it together, and put it in a cloth, and lay it to the grief warm, and let it be changed once in 24 hours, and it will cure you. To purge the reinss. Wash half an ounce of Venice Turpentine, in plantain or Rose water, than mix that with fine Sugar, make thereof four or five balls, and eat three fasting in a morning; some use to drink a little white or Rhenish wine after. To destroy a ringworm. Take a read dock root and pair it, and than lay it in vinegar till it be well steeped, than rub well upon the ringworm; if the ringworm be very rank, take powder of brimstone and put it in vinegar, temper them well together, and ●ub the ringworm withal, and it will destroy it very quickly. Another for the same. Take Gum with which you make ink, put it in vinegar, and let it remain there until it be melted, and than anoint the ringworm therewith, and it will destroy it; but there is nothing better than the leaves and juice of Wicotiane. Against the Rheum in the Head. Stamp the roots of white Beets, and strain the juice thereof into a glass, and put the quantity of half a spoonful thereof into your nose fasting in a morning, closing your eyes in the time of the working thereof, and stopping your nose, it shall break the rheum into your mouth abundantly, opening the passage of the head without grief; beware that you let not the rheum go down, but spit it out, jest it offend your inner parts. An excellent Medicine for Sinews that be shrunk. Take a handful of Smallage, as much of Mallows, stamp the herbs together, and mingle them together with Neats-foo●-oyl, and let them so stand five or six days, than boil it a quarter of an hour, and strain it through a cloth, and anoint the Patient therewith. For a cold Stomach. Take a crust of brown bread, and toast it against the fire so hot as you can suffer it, wet it well in strong Vinegar, and lay it to your stomach. For the Wind in the bottom of the Stomach. Take the branches of Fennel, stamp and strain it, put thereto a little Treacle, white Sugar, Anniseed-powder and Cinamon-powder, mingle it together, and eat of it many times in the day. Good for the Stomach. Read Mint, read Rose leaves dried, Cummin, Sugar, Sage, Wormwood, Mints, Calamint, To vomit every quarter, or in great Hunger: To stand after meat, take Galingale, Nutmegs, Pepper, Mastic. A Medicine for a Stitch. Take Malmsey lukewarm, and the powder of Cummin, and drink it. To assuage a sting or present swelling. Anoint the place swelled with oil de Bay, and after that is dried in, take new Butter, white Wine and Bean-flower, thick it upon the fire, and make a Plaster thereof. A Medicine not only to cure or break the Stone, but also to purge the same, that you shall never be pained with the same again, if you use the same daily. Take the rows of read Herrings, and prickle Holly leaves, dry them in an Oven, and beaten them severally to powder, than searce them, and put them together (of each a like quantity) than put to it the powder of Grounsel and Broom-seed, of each half as much as of the other powders; mingle all these powders together, and drink in white Rhenish-wine, Ale or Beer, morning and evening, a good spoonful of this powder: you may use this powder in Broths or Pottages, the oftener the better; you must keep the powder always dry in a pipkin by the fire, or otherwise. To 'cause one to sleep. Take four spoonfuls of pure Rose-water, and as much Vinegar, two spoonfuls of oil of Roses, half a handful of Rose-leaves made in powder, than take crumbs of leavened wheaten bread, and make a Plaster of all this, and lay it cold upon the Temples and forehead. Another. Take a Rose-cake upon a Chafing-dish of Coals, with a little Vinegar, sprinkle a little powder of Cummin on the Rosecake as you warm it, than lay the Rosecake to the Temples of the sick, and it will cause sleep, and ease the head-ache. For a Strain. Take Piss, and put thereto Brook-lime and Sheep's suet, and boil them well together, and bathe the patiented therewith so hot as he can suffer it, than lay the herbs upon a read cloth and lay it to the strain very hot. A salve for wounds and sores to draw, cleanse and heal wounds of sinews, joints, impost humes, Cankers, and to draw out a thorn or Iron. Take of Betony, Vervain, Pimpernel and plantain, of each a handful; stamp these herbs together, and seethe them in a gallon of wine, until two parts be consumed, than strain it and set it on the fire again, and put thereto pitch, rosin and virgin's wax, of all the quantity of a pound, by even portions, and three dams of Mastic in powder, and seethe it till it be thick, than take it from the fire, and put thereto a quantity of Turpentine, stir it till it be cold and use it. For cooling of a sore. Taking the juice of Sorrel, Marigolds, and mallows, and as much vinegar as the juice is, wet a cloth therein, and lay it to the sore, and shifted it as it drieth. For scabs, itch, and worms. Anoint yourself with the water that droppeth from the vines. For wambling of the stomach. Take fennel and smallage roots, of each a like quantity, mingle them with wine, and drink thereof. A good powder for the strmack. Take powder of fennel, Annis-seeds and Elicampana, temper them with Aqua vitae, and dry them again, and eat a quantity thereof evening and morning. This Powder breaketh phlegm, openeth the breast, and causeth good digestion, and causeth him which useth the same to look young again. An excellent Cerecloth. Take two penny worth of oil of Turpentine, than weigh it, afterwards take Boar's grease, sheep's suet, unwrought wax and rosin, of each so much as the oil of Turpentine weigheth, remember to clarify the bores grease, and sheep's suet, but each severally; than melt all together, and keep it close to use. An excellent medicine for the Stone. Take broomseed, ash-keys, hop-berries, otherwise called wild eglantine, stone crop, saxifrage, orange pills, the lights of a Fox, the crops of read thime, the crops of read nettles, the crops of read oaks in the spring, and elder flowers; dry these eleven by the fire, beaten them to powder, and put of every one the like quantity together, and mingle them well, take hereof at a time as much as may be contained in a hazel nut shell, and put it into a cup of ale or beer (as you like best to drink) over night, and let it stand covered, and in the morning stir it well and drink it fasting, and afterwards use some moderate exercise, and abstain from meat and drink three or four hours. For the Stone in the reinss or bladder. Take the shell of an egg where a chicken hath been hatched, beaten to powder, this drunk with white wine, breaketh the stone in both places. It is held for a great secret, that a piece of glass burned seven times, and seven times quenched in Saxifrage water, afterwards beaten small, and drunk in white wine, breaketh the stone wheresover. For swelling about the fingers or nails, or the joints. Take flower, the yolk of an egg, honey and Hog's grease, beaten it to powder together, and make a plaster. For a sore Throat. Stamp Collombine and Cinquefoil, and strain them with milk and drink. To draw out a thorn. Take the bark of Hawthorn, and seethe it in read wine, till two parts be consumed, than pour out the wine and stamp the bark small, and temper it with bores grease, fry them together, and make a plaster, and apply it so hot as you can suffer it. To fasten the teeth, and cleanse them. Wine or water wherein the leaves of a damsen tree, or the rind of the root hath been sodden, fasteneth the teeth, and keepeth the mouth from all pain. To cleanse the Teeth. Seethe the roots of vervain in old wine, and wash your teeth therewith, and it will cleanse them and fasten them. For the Tooth ache. Dry Ivy berries and beaten them to powder, put it in a fine linen cloth, and lay it to the aching tooth. To pluck out a tooth. Seethe the brains of a Hare in read wine, and therewith anoint the tooth, and it will fall out without pain. To make a Tooth fall out without pain. Put in the hollow tooth ashes of worms, or of Mousedung, or of a Backs tooth, or put in the juice of great Celendine, o● the brain of a Patridg, and anoint the tooth on the outside; or the powder of read coral put into the hollow, will make it fall out. Another to cleanse the teeth. Take Sage, wild Marjoram, Rosemary, of each one handful, pellitory of Spain, Ginger, cloves and Nutmegs, of each the weight of two French Crowns, sprinkle it with white wine; still it and wash your teeth therewith. Another. Rub your teeth with honey, and the ashes of a vine that never ●are grapes, or steep mallow roots a day in water, afterwards wrap them in paper, and dry them in embers, or else put them in the oven when the bread is drawn out, rub the the teeth therewith, and continued it, for there is nothing that less offendeth the teeth, and cleanseth better in time. To cease vomiting. Take read mints, sage, woman's milk or Cow's milk, stamp and strain it together, give it to the patiented to drink cold, and the vomit shall cease. A powder for the Colic and Stone. Take wild Thime, garden Thime, Meadow parsley, garden parssy, ashen keys, watercresses, read mint, stone crop, growel, of each a like much, dry them like hay, and beaten them to powder, and let the patiented drink thereof in posset ale or caudel, and it will help him of the colic presently. To make a Cerecloth. Take a pint of salad oil, half a pound of read lead finely beaten, boil these together till they be black, than put to it a quarter of a pound of virgin's wax shred small, and let it melt, than dip your clotheses in it and smooth them, and keep them for Sear clotheses, but before you put in the virgin's wax, drop some of this upon a saucer, and if it come of clean, than it is boiled enough, and when your clotheses be dipped, hold them over a pan of water, till they be cold, than stretch them out upon a board wet with milk, and sleek them with a sleek stone, than roll them up and keep them for very good cerecloths to lay to any sore when it is near whole, to draw the ache and venom from the bone, and it is good to dissolve any hard swelling. To make Rosemary water. You must use this water in all points, as you do the balm water, but in stead of balm you must take a pound and half of Rosemary flowers, tops and all, and as much read mint, you must lay some bricks or weights upon the cover of the Limbeck, or else the strength of the water will burst it open; you must keep the body of the Limbeck very temperate with wet clothes, and keep cold water in the top of it. To make Cinnamon water. Take a gallon of Gascoine wine, one pound of very good Cinnamon and bruise it, one pound of fine sugar, one handful of Borage flowers picked from the green husk, one handful of read Roses the white taken from them, one handful of bugloss flowers; lay all these in steep four and twenty hours in a brass pan, stopping it very close, that there can come no air out of it, than set it upon the fire, and when it gins to seethe, set on your Limbeck, and stop it very close with rye paste, remembering when it is very hot, to put out that water, and put in cold, laying on the out side, and on the bottom of the Limbeck wet clotheses. To make Irish Aqua vitae. Take to a quart of raw Aqua vitae, a quarter of an ounce of Ginger fliced, a few raisins of the Sun stoned, two or three Nutmegs sliced, a good quantitity of Sugar, half a dozen of Cloves bruised, three or four good sticks of liquorice bruised, three or four dates sliced, you must let it stand 14 or 15 days before you drink it, and than it will come to his colour, the older it is, the better it is. For the clearness of the sight of the eyes. Take Fennel, Vervain, Roses, Celendine and rue, of each two ounces, and distil water of them, for this water is wholesome for all manner of sore eyes, and it is called water Lambard. A medicine for an Ache or sinnew that is shrunk▪ Take a handful of the tops of Rosemary and Camomile, take them and chop them small; boil them in a posnet, and put in a good deal of Aqua vitae, and a good deal of May butter; and when they be boiled, strain them. For an Ancombe. First take half a handful of herb grace, a good half handful of ragwort, two or three parsley roots, blades and all, and take out the pith, stamp them with Boar's grease with a little bay salt, and so use it to the patiented. For the pain or heat in the eyes: Take seven roots of daisies, leaves and all, and half a handful of pearl wort, and seven plantain leaves, wash them all clean, stamp them and strain them into the white of a new laid egg beaten well together, take a little flax and wet it well in the same, and when you go to bed, bind it on with a cloth, likewise two hours in the morning before you rise. To make the small Pocks come forth. Take two penny worth of Saffron, and put it into two little b●gs, and lay it under the arm holes, and it shall bring them forth. An excellent powder against the worms. Take of the best Aloes Cicatrina, of the lesser sentry, of worm seeds, of each an ounce, of dried wormwood half an ounce, make them into fine powder, and give it either in Malmsey or milk, the quantity which is to be given, is from hal●e a dram to a dram● and a half. To clear the voice. Mustard seed put into dry figs, and given to the patiented to eat in the evening, doth dissolve the gross humours, openeth the stopping of the lights and the conduits of breathing, and cleareth the voice. To make vinegar. Put into your wine a little salt, pepper and sour leaven mingled together; or heat a tile or steel often, and put it in wine▪ or put in a rhadish root stamped, or put the roots of beets stamped into the wine; but you must not have your vessel full of beer or wine that you mean to turn to vinegar, for if the vessel be full, it will hardly turn the vinegar. A Water to digest melancholy. Take Borage, Landebeef, i e. Bugloss, Heart's tongue, Calamint, Centurie, Scabious, Thime, Isop, Savory, Mugwort, Rosemary, the flowers of the tenderest Woodbine, of each a like quantity; distil them and drink the water morning and evening, first and last. To cleanse blood. Take Borage, landebeefe, Fumitory, Scabious, Tormentil, the roots of parsley, Rosemary, pimpernel, avens, Marjoram and Balm, distil them, and drink thereof morning and evening. A water to cool the liver. Take Endive, Liverwort, Pennyroial, Fumetory, Scabious, Sorrel, water of Lilies, Borage, Sanders, Lettuce, Purslane, Violets and read vinegar, and distil it. For all manner of Worms. Take grownsel and plantain with the roots, stamp them and strain them with Malmsey, give it to the Patient to drink ●hree days together, and it will kill all manner of worms. For Worms. The scraping of a Heart's horn drunk in a little vinegar▪ killeth the worms or else the rind of a Pomegranate, and the roots of an ash sodden in white wine or ale, of each a like quantity and drunk fasting in the morning, killeth the worms wonderfully. For a wound that is healed above, and sore underneath. Take barley meal, the white of an egg and honey, and mingle them together, and make a plaster therewith, and apply it to the fore. To bring wounds that rankle, into good temper, and to cease the burning and aching. Take the juice of Smallage and plantain, of each a like quantity, honey and the white of an egg, a like quantity; put thereto bolted flower; and stir it together till it be thick, let it come to no fire, but apply it cold to the sore, and it will cease the aching, cleanse the wound, and heal it fair, and bring it into very good temper. An hasty healer of wounds. Take Frankincense, and as much fine rosin beaten to small powder, and put thereto a little oil of Roses, and mingle it well till it be soft like ointment, and apply it with lint. To make a drink that healeth all wounds, without plaster or ointment. Take Sanacle, Millefoil, otherwise called Yarrow, and Bugle, of each a like quantity; stamp it, and temper it in white wine, and give it to the patiented to drink thrice a day and it will cure him; for bugle keepeth the wound open, and yarrow cleanseth it; but Sanacle may not be given in any case to him that is wounded in the head, for it will kill him; but it may be given to him that is wounded in any part of the body else, and it will heal it. To staunch the bleeding of a wound. Mingle Bole Armoniac with the white of an egg, and lay it to the wound or in time of necessity, a collope of Martimas' beef or bacon broiled upon the coals, and lay it to the wound, and Bole Armoniac laid to it when it is first hurt, stauncheth the blood. To take away warts. Purcella rubbed upon the warts, pulleth them up by the roots, of his own property; also an oak Apple stamped and tempered with good tart vinegar, destroyeth warts and tetters. For an Angnaile. Mell Galbanum, Turpentine, and read wax melted in an O●stershell; drop thereof a little, so hot as you can suffer it, being fi●st pared; and clap thereon a piece of Leather, or else first drop it on the Leather, and than apply it; or else cut away the corn, and drop thereon a drop or two of black snail, being pricked with a pin, and put thereto the powder of Sandifer. To make Wormwood water. Take of the young crops of Wormwood two pound, of liquorice sliced and a little bruised, half a pound, as much Annis-seed; steep it all night in four gallons of strong Ale, and afterwards distil it. To kill childrens worms. Give them to eat Rhubarb preserved, or Peach flowers preserved, or the juice of a Citron, or Lemmon, or powder of Carduus Benedictus, or the decoction of it, the seed of agrimony, with the juice mingled and made in little pills is very good. To make claret water. Put into a pint of Aqua vitae, three ounces of Cinnamon scraped very small, the space of three days afterwards strain it softly through a linen cloth, than put to it an ounce of Sugar, and the third part of old Rose water, keep it in a glass bottle well stopped to your use. This water is very good for a woman after her travel to keep her from swooning, vomiting, weakness of the stomach, shortness of the wind, to make one void water, and for most women's diseases. To draw a bullet out of a wound. Make a tent of a piece of a quince, or for lack of quince, of Marmalade dipped in oil of eggs put it in the wound, and it will draw out the bullet. To restore wine that is sour. The seed of porret keepeth wine from souring, and if it be sour, it restoreth it again, Cabbage roots will also turn sour wine, or vinegar to wine, as some writ; how truly, the experience will show; I cannot tell. To join cut sinews. The roots of white Lilies beaten with honey, joineth sinews together that are cut, the leaves also, and flowers of grownsell beaten and mingled with fine powder of Frankincense, healeth all wounds, and especially of the sinews. For a Stitch in the side and stomach. Take some leaven, Rose leaves, Rose water and vinegar, a little mints, and the tops of Wormwood, boil them all together till they be thick like a plaster, than spread it on a linen cloth, and put upon the plaster some nutmeg grated, and lay the plaster to the bore skin where the pain is. An excellent medicine for the running of the reins. Take of read Amber the weight of six pence, of read coral in powder two ounces, of garden cresset seeds one ounce, ten inches of the pith of an ox back, four cap dates, taking away the cap and inner skin, one stick of Cinnamon, four ounces of fine Sugar, boil all these together in a quart of Muscadine, from a quart to a pint and half, than strain it into a clean basin, putting to it two spoonfuls of read Rose water after it is strained, and it will be a jelly, so you may eat it as you eat jelly, or you may warm it, and ●ake two spoonfuls at a time, as many times a day as you will, the ●fter the better. To kill any Canker. Take the blar of a Slow tree a good quantity, and put thereto water, and seethe them together until they be thick and black; and put thereto honey, and stir and temper them with Vinegar, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the sore where the Canker is For the Scurvy. Take Scabious, Plantain, Watercresses, Bitony, of each a handful, and as much salt Scurvygrass as of all the rest in quantity; wash them clean and stamp them in a fair bowl when they are well swinged in a cloth from the water. This done, when they are well beaten, put to four quarts of Beer or Ale; than strain it into a close bottle, than bruise three or four corns of long Pepper, and put it into the bottle, and drink of it every day three or four times in the day, ever shaking your bottle before you take your draught, because of the substance and strength of the drink; and it shall cure the Patient by the grace of God. The tokens of this Disease is; They shall be lame, in great ache and rottenness in their flesh, their teeth fall out, and so impaired in strength, that they shall seem passed all recovery, and very faint, not able to feed themselves; and yet I have seen this Medicine cure them. Vnguentum album Camphoratum. Take of the Oil of Roses one pound and a half, of white Wax two ounces, of Cerus made in fine powder six ounces, six whites of eggs, of Camphire dissolved in Rose water two ounces. Make your Ointment after this manner, Melt your Wax and Oil of Roses together on the fire; and when they be melted put them in a brazen Mortar, and stir them about with the pestle until they be through cold, than sprinkle your Cerus lightly on it until it be all in, than mix and stir them well together, and put in your Camphire, and last of all your whites of eggs, stirring them and compounding them sufficiently together. So your Ointment is made. The Black Ointment. Take of fine Oil Olive one pound and a half, of new Wax four ounces, of black Rosen, stone pitch, and Gum Seraphive of each two ounces; Mastic, Olibanum, Galbanum, Frankincense, Turpentine, of each an ounce; dissolve your Galbanum and your Gum Seraphive in strong Vinegar, and cleanse them from their dross; than beaten your Mastic, Olibanum and your Frankincense into fine powder, than melt your Oil, Wax, Pitch and Black Rosen all together; and when they be well melted, put in all your other things; and so your Ointment is made. The Virtue: it hath force to draw, and also to make whole. For a Bruise. Take Camomile one handful, half a handful of Bay salt, as much Wheat-bran, and besprinkle all these with Vinager and fry them in a pan, and lay them to the bruised place so hot as you can. A Water for a sore mouth or a Fistula. Take a pint of Red-wine-vinegar, half a pound of honey, two ounces of Allom, one ounce of Verdigreece, and four penny worth of Camphire, boil them all together. This observe, that when you put in your Verdigreece the Medicine will look green, but in any wise let it boil until the scum look read like brine, (I say, as the scum of brine) scumming it. To help a man's Members that do swell. Take a pint of Ale and a farthing Manchet of white-bread, and grate it very small, and put it to the pint of Ale, and put to it three spoonfuls of honey and a handful of Rose leaves, and boil them till they be plaster thick; and than bind the plaster to the grief softly and surely for remaining, and let lie two days and three nights, and it will assuage the swelling, and mollify the hardneffe thereof. To make a read Plaster; that will dry up a Wound and solder flesh together. Take a pound of old Swine's grease, a quarter of a pound of the juice of Plantain, a quarter of Celendine, and boil them together and strain them through a cloth: take four ounces of Mastic, and a little Rosen; than take Bole Armoniac, Sandragon or Sineper, each 5 drams, also Frankincense and Colosane each 4 ounces, take them, and mingle them together, and put thereto 4 ounces of Turpentine. And this Ointment is good. For the clearness of the eyesight. Gather read snails and seethe them in clean water, and gather of the grease, and put it in a Viol, and anoint therewith the eyes early in the morning and late in the evening. Another. Take read Roses, Smallage, Rue, Vervain, Meadow hair, Enswage, Endife, Sengreen, Hilwor●, read Fennel, Celendine, of each a quantity, and wash them clean, & lay them in good White-wine a day and a night, and than distil them. The first water will be like Gold, the second like Silver, the third like Allom. This Water is very good for all manner of sore e eyes, for a Web, Pearl or haw. A Medicine for the swelling of the eyes that cometh of cold, and for bleared eyes, and for clearing the eyesight. Take Egrimony, the leaves of Vervain Fennel, Rue, Roses, and put them in a Stillatory, and sprinkle on them good White-wine, and distil it, and if you will make it strong, put to it the leaves of Galitri num, and another Herb called M●rsus Galinae, that is to say in English, Chickweed, that beareth a read flower. A good Plaster and Medicine for an ache, and to draw out bruised blood, and for all manner of griefs. Take salt Bacon of an old Swine's flitch▪ and melt it in a pan, and let it stand a while till the salt be fallen down to the bottom; than take the clear away, and put it in a pan, and as much Virgin's Wax, and put Rickets and Mastic thereto, but first grinned them to powder and wield them together; and ever stir them well, and when that is cooled, that you may put your finger therein, than put thereto as much powder of Brimstone as them both, and stir it well till it be thick as honey, and put it in boxes, and when thou hast need, do it on a cloth or ●eather, and lay it to thy wound A Medicine for a child that is scalded with its own water, or for a woman's breast that is curdled. Take Wax and Dears suet, and Lavender Spike, and boil them together, and let it stand till it be cold, and it will be a Salve. A present Remedy. To make Oil of Camomile. Take the flowers of Camomile a handful▪ and put them into a pint of Oil, and cover it close, and set it in the Sun six days, than set a skillet of water over the fire, and let it seethe; than set your pot of oil therein, and let it seethe four or five hours; than take out your pot and strain your Oil, and put fresh flower thereto, and so set it other seven days in the Sun; than put it into the water as is aforesaid, and strain it again, and put fresh flowers thereto, and set it eighteen days in the Sun, and keep it all the year with those flowers; and when you list to occupy it, strain as much as will serve your turn. This Oil is good to repel all swell, bruises, and to take away hardness, ceasing the pain. To make Oil of Bay. Take your Barberries, and use as your Camomile is used aforesaid; and for other Oils, take the herbs, flowers, using them as the other aforesaid. A very good and gentle Glister. Take two drams of Seine, one dram of Anniseeds, half an ounce of Polipody, Hollioak, Mercury and Camomile, of each a handful, two handfuls of Barley; and seethe all these in two pints of running water, till it come to a pint; than strain it, and put to it of Jera-Composita two drams a spoonful of honey, and one of the Oil of Camomile, a little salt, a piece of butter. A Water very good and comfortable for a cold stomach▪ Take a gallon of good White▪ wine, and these Spices following, Ginger, Galingale, Anniseeds, Nutmegs, Grains, Cloves, Fennel-seeds, Caraway seeds, of each one dram; bruise them somewhat small; and these Herbs following, Rosemary, Wild-Time, Wild-Marjoram, Organ, Puvedge, Mometaies, Camomile and Lavender, of each a handful, Sage, Mints, read Roses, Time, Pellitory, as much as of the other abovesaid; than put them all into an earthen pot with the Wine, and let them stand twelve hours, stirring them about oftentimes; than distil them in a Limbeck, and keep a pint of the first Water, the which is the principal, by itself; and the next by itself; than use one spoonful of this Water, with Beer or Ale, for it hath preserved many of a long time. To make a Woman that hath a dead child within, immediately to be delivered. Take of a Bulls gall the quantity of an Almond, and mix with it two spoonfuls of Wine; and let her drink it, and she will avoid it straight. For the swelling of the Cod. Take the powder of Cummin seed, and Barley meal, with honey of each a like quantity, fry them together with a little sheep's suet, and bind the same as a Plaster all about the Cod, and it will help it. To help a stinking breath that cometh from the stomach. Take two handfuls of Cummin seed, & beaten it to powder, than seethe it in a pottle of White-wine till half be wasted; than give the party a good draught thereof first and last as hot as he may suffer it; and it will make him have a sweet breath within fifteen days. Probatum. The root of Pellitory of Spain chewed between the teeth, will purge the head, and fasten the teeth very well, so that it will help the head and toothache if it be used four or five times in a day two or three days together. Probatum est. The gall of a Partridge anointed once in a month on the Arteries of the head Temples, so that it may penetrate and sink in, doth profit very much for the confirming of the memory. Simeon Sethy. Vnguentum de Althaea. Take of March-Mallow roots two pound, of Linseed, or Flaxseed, and of Fennegrick, of each a pound, Oil Olive four pounds, of Wax one pound, Venus' Turpentine three ounces, of Rosen six ounces; beaten your roots and your seeds, and put them into a gallon of fair water, and let them infuse four days, than seethe it on the fire until it appear a viscous and skinny Musculage; than strain it, and take of the said Musculage, and put it into your Oil, and let it boil over the fire till the watery substance be consumed. Than add to your Wax and your other things, when they be all melted together, your Ointment is made. It is good against all swell whatsoever, it will dissolve and soften. It is hot and moist, and therefore in hot causes it aught to be allayed with Oil of Roses and Populion. Vnguentum Aureum. Take of yellow Wax six ounces, Oil of Olive two pound and a half, Rosen and stone Pitch, of each two ounces and a ●alfe, Turpentine two ounces, Frankincense and Mastic, of ea●h half an ounce Saffron two drachmas, and than make up your Ointment. It doth join together wounds safely and sound, and hath also an especial effect in the curing and cicatrising of all Ulcers. The Egyptian Ointment. Take of Verdigreece made into fine powder five ounces, fine Honey clarified fourteen ounces, of strong Wine-vineger seven ounces, boil all together on the fire, continually stirring them until it be thick and it look of a purple colour, than your Ointment is made: It is most excellent against old wounds, it taketh dead flesh from a Sore without any pain. An approved distilled Water against Deafness. Take of the juice of Betony and Onions, of each six ounces, of Rosemary-leaves two handfuls, oil of bitter Almonds four ounces, and one white gross Eel chopped and cut into small pieces; mix them together, and distil it, and the Water which cometh thereof keep in a clean glass, and drop two or three drops thereof into your Ear four or five nights together. An excellent Plaster to splint a broken Leg or Arm. Take of fine Myrrh, Dragon's blood, Olibanum minima, of each two ounces, of Terrasigillata, Bean-flower or Bean-meal, Mil-dust, of each four ounces, bowl Armoniac six ounces, make all into fine powder, mix and compound them well together, and keep it close in a Bladder till you have occasion to use it; and when you have need to use of the said powder, mix some of it with the whites of Eggs, and make it in the form of a soft Plaster; and the Leg or Arm being set as it aught to be, spread this same Plaster on Tow, and apply it to the grief round about, so splint it accordingly, and by God's grace you shall have good success. A most excellent Confection which is very good for many inward Diseases, especially for all Fluxes of Blood, from whence soever they flow; also for them which have great pain in their Backs and Liver. Take of Cinnamon, Cassia lignea, opium, of each two drachms, Myrrh, white Pepper, black Pepper and Galbanum, of each one dram, let them be stamped and mixed with a little clarified Honey, and made in a lump; give thereof at night two round Pills something bigger than a Pease in the pap of an Apple, and let not the party drink in two hours after, you may give it three nights together without danger, if the party be strong; if he be of a weak constitution, give it every other night. An excellent Oil of Balm. Take of fine clear Turpentine one pound, and put it into a glass, and warm it over a soft and easy fire until it wax liquid, and put therein by little and little with mixing or stirring it, the powder of Frankincense five Dramms, of the powder of Lignum Aloes, Mastic, Cloves, Galingal, Cinnamon, Mace and Cubebs, of each two drams, the leaves of Ivy made into powder six drams; put all the powders together, and mix them all with the said Turpentine, made liquid as before; and when they be well incorporated together, set on the head of the Limbeck, and stop all the joints of the same very well, and set it on the ashes, and put under it an easy fire; and when it beginneth to distil, let it drop away a little, for the first drops are little worth; than put the receiver to the nose of the Limbeck, and close them well together that no Oil get forth; than at the first will come forth a clear and white Water, which keep by itself; than will come forth a second Water, which is better, of a heavenly and airy colour, which keep by itself; than receive the third, which is best, which will be yellow and thick like Honey; keep this also by itself: The first is called the Water of Balm, the second the oil of Balm, the third is the true Balm. The first virtue thereof is, that it burneth; the second is, that if you wash your face and nose therewith every day three times, it perfectly cureth the rheum, it cleareth the sight, it comforteth the sinews, if you wash therewith the hinder part of the head, it comforteth the Memory: this doth purify both flesh and fish, it bringeth an appetite, it comforteth the stomach; if you take thereof morning and evening a drachm in white Wine, it consumeth the phlegm, it cureth a stinking breath, as well coming of the stomach as of the brain; it cureth the biting of a Toad or Serpent, if you anoint the grieved place; it cureth any kind of Scab or Tetter▪ if you put three or four drops of it into your Ear, and suffer it there as long as you may, it cureth all swoon and noise in the head; if you mix this with an equal portion of Germander, only the juice, and put thereof three or four drops four times a day into the Ear, it cureth any kind of Deafness, it cureth blearing and watery Eyes; it cureth (if you wash therewith) all Imposthumes and superfluities, and it is good against cold Humours, all pains of the Teeth, and maketh them white; it cu●eth all wounds in the Head, being washed therewith thrice a day; all Fistulaes' and Cankers, the Kings-evil, or any other biting sore, being washed therewith thrice a day; it cureth all Gouts that come of a cold cause, anointing it, and laying a linen cloth dipped in it, and applied to the grieved place; it helpeth the emrod's, and falling out of the Fundament, it is good for all bruises by fall, or otherwise, and is good also for the Palsy. Gallen cold Cerret. Take of white wax one dram, oil of Roses four drams, melt them together, and when they are melted, take them from the fire, and stir them together till they be cold, than add to it a quantity of white wine vinegar, so stir it together in the vinegar until it be white, and than it is made. It doth mightily cool all burning Agues which doth come of the heat of the stomach and liver, if the stomach be anointed therewith; it is also good against pain in the head, if the Temples be anointed therewith; and also against pain and heat in the back if the back bone be therewith anointed. Ceretum Santalinum. Take of read Rose leaves twelve drams, read Sanders ten drams, of white and yellow Sanders, of each six dams, Bole Armoniac seven dams, white wax four ounces, Ivory four dams, Camphire two dams, oil of Roses one pound, melt your wax and oil together, your other things being made into fine powder, and mix all together. It doth most chief separate all phlegmatic, distemperate and hot humours from the stomach, liver, and all other parts of the body. A Powder for a cold stomach, which expelleth all pains. Take of chosen Cinnamon two drams, Ginger half a dram, Cummia seeds, white pepper, Galingal and Cloves of each one dram, Mace one scruple, Nutmegs six grains, fine Sugar an ounce, and make 〈◊〉 into fine powder. An Ointment for the stomach. Take of oil of Wormwood four ounces, oil of Spikenard and Mastic of each two ounces, of Cloves dried, Cardamons, Mints, Mace and Mastic of each two drams, of read Rose leaves four scruples; wax as much as is sufficient to make up your ointment according to art. For an Ague. Take Featherfew, Smallage, Celendine, Elder buds and herb grace, of each a like quantity, stamp all these together, take a little Nutmeg, a little Frankincense and bay salt, beat all these together, and lay it to the wrist blood warm. For a Felon. Take Ragwort, Rue, and Boar's grease, stamp them together and apply it to the grieved place. For a Rupture. Take Knotwort, Ribwort and Comfry, of each a good quantity; dry them and make them into powder severally, than take of each powder severally of like quantity, than take as much powder of Annis seeds finely seared as half your other powders, mingle all together and give the patiented every morning in Malmsey as much as will lie on a six pence; also the place must be anointed with oil of Spike, and keep him well trust, and apply the poultesse following. A poultesse for a Rupture. Take a pint of read wine, half a pint of stone honey, a handful of Wormwood, as much Rue, a penny worth of Cummin, bruise them and thicken it with a penny worth of bean meal well bolted, make a plaster thereof on a linen cloth, and lay it to evening and morning as hot as may be endured, within few days the wound or hole will be more large and purged, and the matter that keepeth forth thereby mollified and made more easy to go up; and after it be clear up three days, and so kept with your truss, use the abovesaid drink, and keep the patiented continually trussed. For aches and swell in the Knees coming of cold. Take a quart of Malmsey, a handful of Thime, boil them together and when it is half boiled, put to it a good piece of sweet Butter, and boil altogether from a quart to a pint, and when you go to bed bathe your Knees therewith, and wet a cloth three or four double therein, and lay it to your Knees as hot as you can suffer it all night; use it seven or eight times and it will help you. For Aches in your Legs, Arms and Shoulders. Bruise a little Speerage, and lay it within a little round compass upon the place which acheth, and it will raise a blister; than take of the speer-grasse, and lay on the place Ivy-leaves, and they will draw forth the Humour that causeth it. Against all Agues. Anoint the soles of your feet and hands with oil of Scorpion, and likewise the Forehead and Backbone before the fit cometh; it cureth quotidian, tertian or quartan Agues. To purge the Back, and to cleanse the Reinss. Take one Fennel root, two Par●ley roots, pith them, and put to it a handful of Pellitory of the wall, wash all very clean, and boil it in posset Ale, and drink it when you go to bed, and also if you awake at midnight. For the heat of the Back. Steep Sanders and rose-leaves in rose-water all night, than wash your Back with it, and it will take away the heat, and greatly comfort the Reinss. To cool and strengthen the Back. Take oil of Almonds, read rose-leaves, Violet-leaves and flowers, of each a like quantity, bruise them in a Mortar, and put all together in a glass, and let it stand three or four days in the same; than anoint your back therewith, and it will both strengthen and cool it: Keep this Oil well stopped, and renew it with roses three or four times, and it will last all the year. For Biles, Felons or Ancoms. Take Wheat-flower, Boars-grease, May-butter and Sage, stamp it all together, and make a Plaster thereof, and it will both ripen and draw it; and if it be fried it worketh the better: Or else take a pint of sweet Milk, set it on the fire, and put thereto Sheep's suet small shred, a handful or two of Oatmeal small beaten, boil it till it be thick, than spread it on a fair linen cloth, and lay it on as warm as you can suffer it to the Sore, and it will break it suddenly without pain: when it is broken, lay a little Turpentine on a piece of Leather pricked full of holes, and it will draw and heal it. To keep a Breast from breaking, if it be not too far gone. Take Clay without stones, and knead it with sharp Vinegar and the yolks of two Eggs and a little English Saffron, and work it in the Clay; and take as much of it as will cover the redness of the Breast, and use it cold. Some Breasts have no colour, and such are not lightly saved from breaking; but if your breast be read, it is the better. To break sore Breasts. Take white Lilly-roots and a piece of leaven, seethe them in Milk till the Lilies be very soft, than spread it plasterwise on a linen cloth, and as warm as the party can suffer it, say it to the breast morning and evening. To heat a Breast when it is broken. Take a handful of Parsley, and a good slice of the fat of bacon, and stamp them together, and put the yolk of an Egg thereto, and plasterwise spread it on a cloth, and lay it to the breast; but the best thing for the cure of the breast is Wicotian stamped: whereof more hereafter. For a Cough. Take a great Apple and cut out the Core, and put into the same a good quantity of butter, a little English Saffron dried and beaten to powder, the quantity of a Nutmeg of sugar-candy; which being done, cover the Apple, roast it soft, and eat it to bedward, and in the morning; but eat not in an hour after it. For a Canker in a Woman's Breast. Beaten Goose-dung and Celendine, and lay it to the sore, and it will cleanse the Canker, flay the worm, and heal the sore. For a Canker in the mouth. Take the juice of Plantain, Vinegar and Rose-water, and wash the mouth with it. To kill a Canker in the body. The roots of Dragons dried and made into powder, and drink thereof in White-wine the weight of nine pence, fasting in the morning, three days together. For a Canker in the Hands or Joints. Take the roots of Primrose, stamp it with clarified honey, and lay it on the Canker Plasterwise, and change it morning and Evening till it be whole. For the Dropsy. Take Lombary and Lovage, stamp it, and make a posset thereof, and drink every morning the space of a month or six weeks; this cureth the Dropsy. For the Pin and Web in the Eye. Take a handful of Herb Bennet, two spoonfuls of Bay-salt, stamp them together, and lay them to the veins of the wrist of the contrary arm, and let it lie twenty four hours, and so use it four or five times. For a stripe or redness in the Eyes. Distil Strawberry leaves, and wash your eyes, and drop in a little thereof morning and evening. To destroy Earwigs in a man's Ear. Take the juice of Wormwood, Rue and Southernwood, of each a like quantity, put it into your ear and it will kill it, or any other vermin that is creeping in the head, being used four or five times, so you stop your ears with some of the Herbs. To cure the emrod's. Take a handful of Parsley with the roots, stamp it well, and put to it Oil Olive, let it stand a day; than strain the juice from the dross a●● a●●oint the grief against the fire, and keep him warm. For the Bloody Flux. Take a pint of Red-wine, the yolks of five new laid eggs, Cinnamon a good quantity, a little Sugar, a good quantity of the pill of a Pomegranate, dried and beaten to powder; boil all these in a platter till they be somewhat thick. Let the Patiented drink of it morning and evening, and as often in the day as his stomach will serve; and it will stop him be his Flux never so great. For the going out of the Fundament. Stamp read Nettles, and boil them in an earthen pot in White-wine till half be consumed, let the party drink of it warm, and lay the Herbs to the Fundament as hot as he can. To cure a Felon. Take yeast that remaineth in the bottom of a barrel, a handful of Groundsel stamped, a good piece of the sourest leven that you can get, boil it together to the thickness of a Salve, and apply it to the Felon as hot as you can suffer it, for it will both break and heal it. For Defluctions in the Eyes. Lay upon your forehead a plaster made of Snails mingled with the powder of Frankincense and Aloes well stirred till it become as thick as honey. For a sty in the Eye. The juice of great Celendine mingled with honey or woman's milk, taketh away the sty. For sore Eyes that have a skin grown over the light. Take a new laid egg, and put out the yolk, and the white, but not wipe the Cream out that doth hung on the shell; than take a handful of Clever grass, stamp it and strain it with a little Orange water, and put it into the Eggshel, and set it in the Emberss, and put to it a piece of white Copperas as big as a Hazel nut, and a little honey. For the going out of the Fundament. Heat Apostolicon at the fire, and touch the Fundament therewith and it shall go in incontinently; use this three or four times as it cometh out. For the swelling of the Fundament. Rosemary-leaves stamped and applied with warm clotheses, assuageth the swelling, being often applied to it. For the Falling Sickness. The powder of Hartshorn drunk with Wine, healeth it; so doth the Egg of a wild Raven drunk with the juice of Rew. For the Fistula. Take Cloves, Pimpernel, Valerian, Mousear, herb Robert, tansy, seethe it all in white Wine, and give it to the Patient to drink twice or thrice a day. To purge and cut Phlegm. Take Eight spoonfuls of Rose-water, four spoonfuls of Conduit-water, two spoonfuls of white Wine-vineger, two ounces of fine sugar, boil all these in a porringer on a Chafing-dish of Coals, scum it clean, and drink it lukewarm. For spots in the Face. Set a Lemon to the fire, and the water which will sweated out of it cleareth the face from redness and spots. For a Fistula. Oil of brimstone healeth Fistulaes', Tetters and Cankers of the Mouth, touching the sores with a feather dipped in the Oil, but it is very painful to the Patient. For the running of the Reinss. Take the Ladles of Acorns dried and beaten to powder, a spoonful of it, and drink it every morning in Ale warmed, and keep your bed two hours after. For the Siatica. Heat Cowdung in ashes in a vine leaf, or in a Cabbage leaf, and lay it to the grief. For the noise in the head. Take a Clove of Garlic, pill it, and prick two or three holes in it, and dipped it into fine honey, and put it into your ear, and put a little black wool after it, and lie on the contrary side each night, and so let it continued in your ear seven or eight days and it will expel the humours out the nose, and restore your hearing. For the ring-worm in the head. Let the ringworm of the head be washed with strong vinegar, and after sprinkle thereon the ashes of the rind of Woodbinds. For the giddiness in the head. Wash the head with the decoction of three leaved grass, and lay a plaster of the herb to the forehead; misselto stamped and laid plaster wise, draweth out corrupt humours of the head. To kill louse in the head. The powder of Heart's tongue drunk in wine, doth suffer neither louse nor nits to live on the body, much less if it be made into ointment. For the heart. Take Borage flowers, bugloss flowers, and red rose flowers, of each two drams and a half, Rosemary flowers, Dil, Violets, dry Balm, Mints, read coral, of each one dram, make a bag thereof in Sarsenet, for it is very good. For the trembling of the heart. Take the powder of Borage flowers, Nutmegs, white Amber, the bone of a stag's heart and Cinnamon, mingle all together, of each a like quantity, and drink thereof in Beer, Ale or Wine, morning and evening. For the pain of the emrod's. Make an ointment of oil of Roses washed in Violet water, fresh butter, oil of Lin-seed, the yolk of an egg, and a little wax, nothing is better to assuage the pain, than the perfume of scrape of Ivory. To stop the emrod's. Drink a dram of the powder of read coral with plantain water, Porret leaves sod and laid to the place, assuageth the swelling and pains: the roots and leaves of little Celendine boiled, doth heal the emrod's, Piles, Cankers, Warts or hard swell coming of cold. To dissolve any hardness. Boil read worms with Hog's grease and Oil of Roses; anoint the place, and it will take away any hardness. Against the yellow Jaundice. Take a big Apple and cut of the top, so as it may cover the Apple again, take out the core, and put into it sweet Butter, a good deal of Turmerick, and a little English Saffron, and roast it very tender, and let the Patient eat of it three or four mornings together, or more if need be. Also take Celendine, English Saffron, and the powder of Ivory, and boil them in White-wine, and drink thereof a good quantity morning and evening for seven or eight days. For the black Jaundice. Take the gall of a Raven, dry it, and grate it to powder, put a quantity of it in a spoon, temper it with Bear or Ale, and drink it fasting. To ripen an Imposthume. Take the roots and leaves of Mallows, the roots of Lilies and crumbs of white-bread, boil all together and strain it, and put to it the yolk of an egg, and a little Saffron; but if the Imposthume be cold, you may add to the Plaster Alla-Campane roots, flowers of Camomile and a little leaven. Secondly, Lay to it Wheat chewed a long time. Thirdly, Oil of Wax ripeneth Imposthumes, taketh away aches, comforteth and suppleth hard sinews; and it is also good against the Palsy. To stop the Lask. Take a quart of Red-wine, Mints and balm, of each a handful, a good quantity of pomegranate pills, a penny worth of Cinnamon powdered; all these being boiled in the said Wine, make Almond milk of it, and drink of it sundry times. For the Morphew. Take the juice of Celendine, and mingle with it the powder of Brimstone, and lay it to cold where the Morphew is. For the Mother. Take out the core of a great Onion, and put thereto a little Oil Olive and juice of Wormwood; than cover it, and lap it in a paper, and set it in the embers till it be soft; than take it out, and put in as much honey as it will receive, and lay it to the bore Navel plaster wise, and let it lie there twenty four hours; than take a handful of Cinqfoil, boil it in White-wine, and let her drink thereof a good draught. For a sore mouth. Boil Cinqfoil in milk with a little Allom, and hold your mouth over the milk, and when it is blood warm, wash your mouth therewith, and gargarize your throat therewith. For stubbing with a rusty nail. Take Allom and white Honey-suckles, and make thereof an Ointment with May butter, and put the said Ointment in the sore, and lay it Plaster wise. Foyes the pricking of a Needle in a Joint, the hole being stopped. Take fine bolted flower, temper it with White-wine, Beer or Ale, boil it together till it be thick; and lay it to the sore as hot as he can suffer it, and that will both open the hole and draw out the filth, and close it up again. For pricking in a sinew, with a needle or knife. Heat Oil of Roses and lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the place, and bind black wool about it and you shall have remedy and found ease. To draw out a Nail or Thorn. Heat Turpentine in an Oyster shell, wet a little lint in it, lay it hot to the sore and change it often. If it begin to rankle, anoint the sore with the juice of Cinqfoil; or else take Beer or Ale, and let it boil till it be thick like a Salve, and than lay it plaster wise to the grief. The first Salve of Tobacco. Take a pound of the fairest leaves, wipe them clean with a dry cloth and stamp them; than take half a pound of sheep's suet, pull of all the skin, cut it small and melt it; to the which put in your leaves stamped, but not strained, boil it with a very soft fire, or else in a kettle or pot of seething water, till all the watery substance be consumed, than strain it. This Salve is good for Wounds, Cuts, Cankers, Scabs, Redness or Buttons in the face, because its virtue is to cleanse and dissolve, being not hindered by mingling with other things. The second Salve of Tobacco. Melt Rosen, new Wax, and Turpentine, of each three ounces, when it is melted, put a pound of fair leaves stamped, but not strained, stir it well, and let it boil five or six hours, with a very soft fire, or else in a pot of fair water, till the watery substance be consumed; than strain it with a course linen cloth, and put it again into the Posnet with half a pound of Venice Turpentine, and stir it well, but let it not boil; when it is cold, put it up, and keep it close stopped. The Virtue. This Salve is better to make the flesh grow, and fasten wounds, and to dissolve Imposthumes and Swell, to assage aches in the joints or any other place. The Balm of Tobacco. Take Tobacco leaves, stamp them and strain them, put the juice into a strong glass, with the like quantity of Oil Olive, stop it very close, and set the glass in boiling water, until it be all turned to Oil; or else set it long in the Sun, or bury it six weeks or longer in a horse dung hill, but it must be very well stopped, or else it will have a very ill sent; and remove it from place to place: or if you will, you may put it in the Oven two or three times in an earthen pot, afterwards strain it, and you shall have a Balm or Oil of no less virtue than the quintessence of Tobacco, for all the effects this Herb can work any kind of way. A Turgation for the Back. Take a pint of White-wine, one ounce of Seine, four ounces of Raisins of the Sun stoned, a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, three or four roots of Polipody of the Oak; put all these into the White-wine one whole night to steep, ●h●n boil it till it come to one good draught, and let the Patient ●rin: it luke warm To make compound Oximel. Take a pottle of good stone Honey, a pint and half of White-wine Vinegar, a pottle or five pints of Spring-water, five Parsley roots, five Fennel roots, and five Smallage roots, the cores being taken out; than take the roots of Kneeholme two ounces, the roots of Asperagus one ounce, Fennel seed, Smallage Seed, of each half an ounce, these roots being shred, and the seeds somewhat bruised, must be steeped in a pottle or five pints of running water twenty four hours; than boil it in the water, from the said five pints to a quart; and being strained, you shall put thereto your honey to be clarified and boiled therein; after put thereto your vinegar, and let them, with a very soft fire, boil together till it come to the thickness of a Syrup. A spoonful thereof taken every morning, doth cut and divide all gross humours, purgeth the Liver, the Reinss and the Spleen, taketh away all obstructions, moveth Urine, and provoketh sweated. An Ointment to be made in May, which is good for the stiffness of the Joints and shrinking up of Sinews, for the pain in the Back, the stitch in the side, for the stopping of the Liver and Spleen, or Ague fallen in any part of the Flesh, if it be taken before it grow to an Imposthume, for bruising and knots: it will also take away swelling and blackness. Take Rue, Sage, Wormwood, Fetherfew, Bay-leaves and Plantain, of each a like quantity, beaten them in a Stone Mortar till they be small; than take Neatsfoot Oil, and put it to the herbs, and put these herbs in an earthen pot, and let them remain rotting two or three months with the Oil; than when you will try it, take more Neatsfcot Oil and put it to the Herbs, so that the Herbs be so thick, that you be scant able to stir it; and set it on the fire in another Vessel, and let it simber three quarters of an hour, and stir it for fear of burning; than strain it, and keep it in pots for your use. Oil of Mastic. Take a pint of Oil of Roses, two ounces of Mastic beaten to powder, a quarter of a pint of Red-wine; boil all together till the Wine be consumed, than set it in a glass in the Sun, and when you will occupy it, strain it. To make Oil of Roses. Take a pound and half of read Rose leaves, cut away the whites, and stamp them small, and put them in a glass or earthen pot; put thereto a quart of Oil Olive; and let the glass be full of Oil and leaves within an inch of the top, than stop it close with past●, that no air come into it, and set the glass in a pot full of Water, as high as the Oil is, and no higher; and ●et the glass fast that it fall not, with some Hay under it that it break not, and let it seethe in the pot till the water be half wasted; than take the pot from the fire, and let the glass stand in it without removing till it be cold, afterwards take out the glass and pour out the Oil, and put it in another glass, and put fresh Rose leaves to it. This manner is to be observed in making Oil of all other Herbs. Oil of Almonds. Take Almonds, blanche them and stamp them, and put them into an earthen pot with a cover of paste well stopped; than put it into a brass pot that doth seethe with water, so it doth not overflow the earthen pot, and the heat of the water will turn the Almonds into Oil when it is strained. In this sort is made Oil of all manner of kernels. Oil of Camomile. Take the flowers of Camomile, stamp them, and seethe them in Oil, and when they be well sodden, strain them through a cloth. This Oil is good for Aches. To make Oil of Eggs. Roast twenty or thirty Eggs hard, take of the whites, and rub the yolks in your hands, than fry them in an earthen pan leaded, with a soft fire, stir them often till they be read, than press them, and you shall have abundance of oil. This oil is good for all manner of spots of the skin, to heal Tetters, Fistulaes' or deep wounds, for aches, to make the skin smooth, for chaps in the lips or hands, to take out spots of burn▪ and to make hair grow. To make Oil of Roses without Oil Olive. Put read or Carnation Roses in a glass very well stopped in a dunghill the space of a month, and the oil will be very sweet. To make Oil of Wheat. Press your Wheat with a clean pair of very hot tongs, and the oil that cometh from it is good for Fistulaes', Cankers, spots in the skin, and for scald heads using it always warm. To make Oil of Anniseeds. Take a good quantity of Anniseeds, cleanse it from all dust, than grinned it, and beaten it in a Mortar; when it is well beaten, put into every pound of seed one onnce of water or wine, and beaten it again till it be well mingled, than put it into a frying pan, and stir it on the coals till it be so hot that you cannot suffer your hand in it; than take it out, and put it into a strong piece of course cloth, and press it very well in such sort as you shall make oil of Anniseeds. To make Oil of Tartary. Take the crust that sticketh on the sides of White-wine Vessels, for that is the best, beaten it to powder, and than steep it in very strong Vinegar; or if you have not Vinegar, it may be done without steeping: wrap it in a Bullocks bladder, or hogs, or some other bladder, put it under the embers, and so let it remain till it be white; you shall know if it be enough, if it look clear and burn your tongue a little, than put it in a linen bag, made like an Ipocris bag, and hung it in some Cellar or moist place with a glass under it to receive the oil or water; but if it still not, press it out. The oil healeth Tetters, Scald heads, and all manner of scabs, and taketh away all spots in the face, hindereth the falling of hair, and also maketh that grow which is fallen, and taketh spots out of linen if it be rubbed with the oil thereof warm. A Plaster to draw out broken bones out of any part of the body. Take Betony, vervain and Rue, stamp them, and mingle them with honey, the white of an egg and Rye-meal, with a little Wheat-flower, and make a Plaster, lay it cold thereto, and it will draw out the bones, cleanse the wound, cease the aching, and assuage the rankling. For the Palsy. Take the powder of Poppy, of Pellitory of Spain and Ivy, of each one ounce, the powder of Sage two ounces; and let him use of this powder in his pottage. For the lameness in the side coming of the Palsy. Boil a great quantity of Sage and Hyssop in running water, and bathe the side therewith, and bind the Herbs to it as hot as may be suffered. A Medicine for the Palsy, that taketh away the speech. Take Sage leavs and Primrose leavs, and if it be in the Winter, take Primrose roots, beaten them together of like quantity, strain it with stolen Ale, and give the sick a good quantity thereof to drink. A Preservative for the Plague. Take of Sage or Herbagreace, of Elder leavs or read Bramble leaves of each a handful, stamp them together, and strain them through a cloth with a quart of White-wine; than take a quantity of Ginger, mingle it together, and drink thereof morning and evening a spoonful. A Medicine for the Rheum. Take a pint of Red-wine-vineger, and half a pint of White-wine-vineger, a handful of the chips of Lignum vitae, of the roots of Polipodium two ounces, burnt Allom the bigness of a Walnut; seethe all these together, till a quarter of it be sodden away, than strain it, and put thereto half a quarter of a pound of English honey, than seethe it again till the honey be melted, than put it into a glass, and when you will use it, put the quantity of two spoonfuls into a saucer, and the bigness of a hazel nut of English honey, and warm them together, than put a fine linen cloth about your finger, and rub the roof of yourmouth as far as you can well reach, or the place grieved. To take away pimples out of the face. Take of Rose water, brimstone, very fine beaten, Coperas burned and beaten to fine powder, and starch a little quantity, put all these together in a glass close stopped, and when you would use it shake the glass, and with a fine linen cloth wipe your fa●●. A purgation for phlegm. Take half a handful of Elder flowers, dried in the time of the yea●, and put them into a mess of pottage, and it will move three or four stools; your flowers must be dried in the shadow, and put up close in a box or earthen pot. A very good salve for a sore, cut, or boil. Take of mead wax, sheep's tallow and rosin of each half a pound, Perrosin and Frankincense, of each four ounces, half a pound of Collifony, half a pint of Salad oil, a pint of Muscadine, Betony, Pimpernel and Vervain, of each half a pint of the water. First cut your wax and melt it, than beaten your gums, and shred your Tallow, and put it to your wax, letting it boil on a soft fire, than put in your juice with the wine and boil it, than strain it, and put in your oil and boil it a little longer. The Composition of the most precious oil called Oleum Magistrale. Take a quart of the best and oldest white wine that may be gotten, of the oldest oil Olive three pints, than put thereto these flowers and herbs, of Hypericon half a pound, Carduus benedictus, valerian, and the lesser sage, of each four ounces, of every one of these you shall take the flowers and the leaves, if it may be had, than let all these things steep in the aforesaid wine and oil twenty four hours, and the next day boil them in a well nealed pot, or in a copper vessel upon a soft fire, until such time as the wine be all consumed, always stirring it: after you have thus done, take it from the fire and strain it, and in the straining put in a pound and a half of good Venice Turpentine, and boil it together on a soft fire a quarter of an hour, than put thereto Olibanum five ounces, mirth three ounces, Dragon's blood one ounce, and let it boil till the gums be all dissolved, than take it up and let it stand until it be cold; than put it into a glass bottle and let it stand eight or ten days in the same, and so keep it for your use. The said Oil, the older it is, the better, and of greater effect; you must apply it as hot as may be, for by this means you shall the finelier pierce and heal the wound the sooner. The manner to apply the same Oil according to the quality or disease, doth consist in these things following; to the patiented, to the ●ound or disease, and to the diseased part. First, the party must not keep strait diet in either eating or drinking for weakening of his body, but as he was accustomed before he was hurt; yet if it be a body filled with humours and given to a fever or other inconveniences, he must use his meat and drink with discretion; if he drink wine, it must be allayed with water. 2. If the wound be green the party aught to keep his bed, or at lest his chamber, without taking any air which might hinder its operation. 3. He must keep an order in his lying, he must not always lie on one side but turn as well on the wounded side, as on the other, especially an hour before he be dressed, to the end the humours may descend to the grief. 4. He must endure ●he oil as hot as he can, for it is the nature of the oil to be applied seething hot, for the hotter, the stronger it is in operation., and he must abstain from the company of women, because it will bring a great inconvenience unto him; and not only for the time of his curing, but also twenty days after if the wound be great. A preparative to the said Oil. To prepare the wound before the applying of the said oil, take good white wine, and boil it with a handful of incense, which is only to comfort, with which you shall wash the wound as hot as he can suffer it within and without, than wipe it very clean, with a linen cloth, before you apply the oil which shall be showed you, and the time when you shall apply it, and when the aforesaid washing shall not be used. The time of dressing a wound. It is necessary, that if the wound do come by any bitings or bruisings, that they be dressed twice a day, and likewise by any other; that is to say, in winter at eight in the morning, and three in the afternoon; in Summer at ten in the morning, and at four in the afternoon: if it be a green wound you shall not need to change it again till next day at the same hour. The difference of the diseases. The wounds and diseases do differ: some are old and some new, some in one part, and some in another, as in the head, arms, or legs, and other parts, which cause the wounds to differ, as shall be showed hereafter for the better understanding hereof. The use of the implaister that is to be applied with the Oil upon the diseased party. First, for wounds in the head, you shall shave away the hair two or three fingers broad about the place of the wound, than stay the blood with lint or tow dipped in the same oil, with the which you shall fill the wound, and upon that apply a linen cloth two or three double which shall cover all the place as far as the hair hath been shaved away, being steeped in the prepared wine before mentioned, and afterwards wrung out, than roll it up. This aught to be applied at the first dressing; also you shall note, that if the wound be very great and dangerous, by means whereof there may issue a flux of blood, you dress it but once a day the first and second dressing; and for the time forward at every dressing you shall wash the wound with the wine aforesaid, both within and without, keeping it very clean with a fine linen cloth, than afterwards you shall fill the wound with oil and cover it with lint steeped in the same, and upon that apply a linen cloth two or three double round about, being dipped in the oil, and than upon that again lay another cloth moistened in the said wine, and wrung out as aforesaid. This is the particular order of all manner of wounds, and must be used till such time, as you perceive the wound is upon healing, and than you must dip lint into the said oil and apply it to the wound, and over that lay a plaster of Diaculum Magnum, and it shall close and heal it up perfectly. Before you have throughly healed the wound, take this Experiment following. Take of the five opening roots of each one ounce, of the roots of mader one ounce and half, of the leaves of Endive, Succory, Borage, bugloss and Egrimony of each one handful, of Carduus Benedictus, Nepe and Pennyroyal of each one handful and a half, of the three cordial flowers, of each a little handful, of Annis seeds, Fennel seeds and carra way seeds of each one ounce and a half, of Pollipodie of the Oak two ounces, of Cene three ounces, of Earthanus seeds beaten two ounces, boil all these in eight pints of fair water, till five pints of it be consumed; than cool it, strain it, and clarify it according to art, and give every morning to the patiented four ounces luke warm, and observe the rule as you aught to do in taking a purgation; and in so doing you shall finish and heal your cure perfectly on warranty. A secret unknown for the purifying of, and cleansing the skin of the face, or other parts of the body, distilled and approved. Take six new laid eggs, half a pint of Malmsey and a young Piegeon not wholly feathered, half a pound of Cheese coming from the press made of new milk, eight Oranges, oil of Tartar four ounces, Cerus made into powder one ounce, Gum Arabic and Mastic, of each one ounce and a half, water of bean flowers eight ounces, rice four ounces steeped in half a pin●e of Cream one day and a night, cut the Oranges in pieces, and stamp them a little, than put all together with the Cream and Rice, and distil the same with an easy fire, and keep the water distilled in a clean glass close stopped, and use to rub and wet your face therewith every evening when you go to bed, and every morning wash it clean with water distilled with bean flowers; use this fourteen days or three weeks, and you shall found it an excellent thing. To take spots out of the face. Put seven eggs in most pure and strong white wine vinegar, and let them lie so long therein till their shell be as soft as their inner skins, and mix therewith four ounces of mustard seeds made into fine powder, than stamp or grinned all together, and therewith let the face be often anointed: it is good before you use this ointment, to take an apozema which doth purge, open and qualify the heat of the liver, and in short time it will cure you. To purge phlegm. Take liquorice, horehound, Isop, syrup of Roses, dried Violets and poppy, of each one ounce, and make thereof a syrup, and take it evening and morning on a liquorice stick. An easy and general purge. Take of Seine one ounce, Agarick two drachms, Annis seeds one pennyworth, one race of Ginger sliced, the flowers or tops of Borage a small quantity, the Agarick must be thin sliced; put all these into a pint of white wine, cover it close and set it over the hot embers all night, and in the morning give it a little walm, so as it be made hot, and than strain it; than take it in the morning with four spoonfuls of syrup of Roses, putting in a quarter of an ounce of Diaphenican, and so take it two mornings; if you found the purge too strong for you at the first taking, leave out the Diaphenican at the second taking; but the Diaphenican is a very necessary thing, and of no danger. The next day after you have purged, take a draught of Malmsey, but eat a quantity of Mithridate. A Syrup for the Lungs and Cough. Take of horehound three handfuls, liquorice two ounces, Maiden hair, Isop, Savory, Colts-foot and pennyroal of each one handful, Annis seeds and Fennel seeds of each one ounce and a half, raisins of the Sun stoned half a ponnd, figs twenty, a penny worth of Elicampane; seethe all these in a pottle of running water, until it be sodden away, and than strain it, and put to it two pound of sugar, and a quart of honey clarified, seethe all these together till it come to a thick syrup, than take it of, and when it is almost cold, put a quantity of Arras powder to it, for it is an excellent Syrup. To make oil of Vitriol. Take Vitriol, and make it into lime, and than put it into Aqua vitae, and let the Aqua vitae cover it and no more, and than distil it after art, than set it in the Sun to draw out the Aqua vitae, or else in a cold balneo, and when the water is clean out, distil the Vitriol again, and you shall have the finest oil of Vitriol that can be made; put into your Vitriol half a tile beaten into powder, for that will 'cause the ●ile to arise the better. A Balsam to cure wounds. Take of Turpentine one pound, of Aqua vitae eight ounces, of pure Frankincense, of Mastic, of myrrh and of Sarcocella of each one ounce, of oil of bays two ounces, all these being beaten and mixed together; put them into a retort strongly luted and set into ashes, and the fire made by degrees; there will come forth water and oil which you may save by a glass funnel. Probatum. To make your Lute. Take fat clay and horse dung, of each one pound, cinders of the Smith's anvil half a pound, mix these and work them together with broken beer, and in the working thereof mix a little bran, and the whites of two eggs, all these being tempered together, make a perfect lute. Christ his Balm to cure wounds. Take of Oil Olive one pint, of old read wine three pints, mix these and distil them, add thereto of the liquor of St. John's wort, six ounces, minium four ounces, distil the whole for a month in Balneo Mariae. To make oil of Tartar another way. Take white wine leeses and dry them, and beaten them to powder, and fill a Gold smith's crucible, and set it amongst coals till it begin to wax black, than take it out of the fire and let it cool; than take it and bind it in a linen bag, and hung it over the vapour of boiling water the space of this done, hung the bag in a glass with a wide mouth, so that the bag touch not the bottom of the glass, and the water or oil called Tartar will drop down by little, and the sooner, if it stand in a very cold and moist Cellar: this powder the Gold smiths do call Arguil. A precious balm to cure wounds speedily. Take of the flowers of Rosemary and St. John's wort, of each one handful, put them together into a glass bottle almost full, than fill up the glass with perfect oil, stop it close and set it in the sun twenty days and nights also, and when the oil hath gotten the colours of the flowers, strain it out, and put to it one dram of Ginger, and one scruple of Saffron dissolved in white wine, than set it in the Sun other twenty days, and than keep it for your use as a precious jewel. A water for the shaking palsy. Take of bay berries, of Rue and of Sage, of each a like quantity, bruise, and distil and keep the water for ten days; than distil that water again with Aqua vitae; after that they have been put together fourteen days, with this water anoint the Temples, and wash the palms of your hands, and those parts that shake, morning and evening. A special Balsam to cure Cankers, Fistulaes', Leprosies and the disease called Noli me tangere, by dressing it twice a day with this oil, it healeth a Carbuncle or boil, being put into the wound, it bringeth out broken bones, and cureth ruptures. Take of clear Turpentine one pound, of white Incense four ounces, of Gum Bdelium six ounces, of Bay berries four ounces, of Mastic, of Galingale, of Cinnamon, of Cloves, of Nutmegs, and of Cubebs, of each one ounce, mix them all together, and distil them in a glass Limbeck. The blessed balm or water for wounds. Take of Clear Turpentine one pound, of the whites of Eggs sod hard, fourteen ounces; rosin of the pine apple tree six ounces, of chosen myrrh three ounces, gum of the Ivy tree two ounces; all these being by art brought to powder, and mixed together, put into a retort, and distil it according to art, which will be done in four or five and thirty hours; of this you shall have water and oil; the oil blackish, which after the separation will become read. This oil besides curing wounds, it causeth hair to grow again on the head and beard; it also helpeth the pain in the back and reins which cometh by retention, by applying a glister prepared with a little of this oil, for it worketh upon the Kidneys. An excellent water for the Rheum. Take of Isop, Savory, white horehound, Ireos, Lovage, Betony, Sage, the leaves of trifoile, which hath main thick, sweet leaves, as big as a nut, of each half a pound, all these being grossly broken, put into a glass body, on which pour so much of the strongest sack as will cover it a finger thick, infuse it for three days, and distil if. To make Aqua realis. Take of yellow brimstone, roach Allom, of salt gum of each one pound, of boras and Mastic, of each one ounce, distilled vinegar four ounces; these diligently beaten in a mortar and mixed together, and put into a glass bottle well luted, and continuing the fire greater and greater unto the end; this water will be white and troubled, strain it through a linen cloth, and keep it in a glass close stopped, putting into it two grains of musk, dissolved in half an ounce of Rose water, and after the settling will this water be clear and sweet. The virtue of this water is, it cureth all manner of ulcers, sores and griefs happening within the mouth, by washing it therewith. It maketh the teeth white presently by taking a mallow root and dipping into this water, and rubbing the place with it. A very good drink to scour the reinss, and to 'cause one to make water. Take half a pint of Goat's milk, of Thime and Parsly, of each half a handful, boil it in the milk and make thereof a posset with white wine, and than strain out the clear and drink it. Another Aqua realis for the Morphew. Take of white Tartar, and salt Peter, of each two ounces, grinned it to sine powder, and lay it on a heap, and make a hole in the midst of it, and put a live coal in it, and there will come forth an oil, with it anoint the Morphew. A singular medicine for the dim and skinny eyes, and for the pin and web therein. Take a new laid egg, and break it in the lesser end, and take out all the substance of the egg very clean, than with a Knife cut the yolk asunder in the midst, than fill the shell with fair water, & put to it three grains of rectified white coperas, with four grains of fine sugar; than set it on the fire, and let it boil till the white scum be all risen up to the top, taking it up with a feather as it riseth; than pour it out into a glass till it be cold, than strain it through a fine linen cloth, that the dregss may be severed from the water; use this water morning and evening, two drops in one eye at each time is sufficient. A Medicine for the Tooth ach. Take of the inner rind of Elder and Alehoof, of each one handful, Frankincense a little quantity, Ginger, Stavesacre, pepper, roach Allom and bay salt of each a like quantity, with as much Aqua vitae as will boil the herbs soft, with one spoonful of honey: put it into a linen bag, and heat it in Aqua vitae, and apply it to the gums. An ointment for an ache or swelling between the joints or other place. Take the herb called Semper vivum and cut in pieces, and distil it, whereof you shall have a pint of water, or near so much, put the water into a pound of Turpentine to infuse it for four and twenty hours; than distil the whole, whereof you shall have water and oil, temper them together warm, and so anoint the place grieved before the fire. Probatum est. An ointment to take away heat and blisters, and bladders of the small pocks: take it in time. Take one ounce of peach kernels burned and beaten to powder, the juice of plantain and housleek, of each half an ounce, of cerus a dram and a half, and make your ointment hereof. A singular potion for the gravel and stone, proved and found excellent. Take a quart of white wine, of pessel seed, and cherry stones, of each a handful, beaten them small, and put them into the wine, and let it seethe till it come to a pint, than take it of and strain it, the drink being warmed, drink thereof morning and evening, at each time four ounces. A medicine for the flux, and looseness of the belly. Take a pint of new milk, and put into it four plantain leaves clean washed, and let them seethe a little together, than take six or seven blades of large Mace, and let it boil to half a pint, than take out the leaves and wring them, and cast them away, and let the rest be your meat; than for your drink take a pig of ten or twelve days old, stick him and flay him warm; than take the four quarters and four ounces of large Mace, and distil them in a Still, first lay down one quarter of pig, and than one ounce of mace etc. This water must be your drink according to the rules of Physic, for it hath been often approved true. A special ointment for the Itch. Take of white lead one ounce, white coperas half an ounce, grinned them on a marble stone to fine powder, than take a little black soap, with as much oil olive as in the stirring together will make an ointment, use this by anointing the wrist and hams of the thigh when you go to bed. For a Stitch. Take six bay-berries, and stamp them very small, and put them into a quarter of a pint of white wine, warm it and drink it. A water to procure sleep. Take of white and black poppy seeds half an ounce, of white wine two drams, of the gall of a Hare as much, of pure Aqua vitae four ounces, let these be put together, and infused for three days, and than distil it in Balneo Mariae, one drop of this in a spoonful of Lettuce water procureth sleep for one hour, two drops procureth two hours, etc. A very good Poultesse. Take of Mallows, Chickweed and Ivy lvaves, of each a handful, chop them all together with a little sheep's Tallow, with one handful of meal, and four ounces of Cummin; let all be cut together, and boiled in milk. A medicine for the Quinsey. Take a pint of new milk as it cometh from the Cow, and set it on the fire in a posnet, than take a good handful of Sage, wash it clean and put it into the milk, let it boil till the sage be tender; than having two tiles indifferently hot, lay the sage between them and squeeze it a little, and apply it to the place grieved, keeping the neck very hot; than let the patiented drink so much of the milk as he can. And he being gone warm to his bed, lying with that side upward which is grieved: pour so much of the milk into his ●are as you can, using this morning and evening, and with Gods help he shall be well speedily. To make a tooth fall out. Take the root of henbane, and roast it in the fire, and lay it to the tooth very hot and it will fall out: the fittest is to stop the tooth if it be hollow, with a piece of the root. A special water against the Stone in the reinss or bladder. Probatum est. Take of the seeds of Lemons and Oranges, of each four ounces, of Saxifrage three pounds, Balm, Philopendila▪ pellitory of the wall, Sparagus, Crisom Isop, Fennel roots, parsley roots, of each two ounces; stamp them together, and make them into the form of a liquid ointment with the juice of Lemons, than distil it till the matter remain dry, the body being the day before purged of crude and viscous humours, than take of this water morning and evening four ounces four days together, or more if need shall require; and you must refrain moist and cold meats. To cure a Fistula. Take the ashes of shoe leather very well burned four ounces, green coperas four ounces, of burnt alum two ounces, than take a stone which you shall found amongst the Smith's cinders like Antimony, and it shines like gold, take thereof two ounces beaten and ground very small on a marble stone so fine as is possible; than put all together, and take of the second cream of Cow's milk, and mingle with the powders, than make a tent of lint according to the sore, & anoint the tent, and put it into the mouth of the wound; and as it worketh, it will dry the conduit of the Fistula, and bring it to a gross substance, and make it to break out into boiles, as the pipe leadeth; and if the Fistula be in a fleshy place and deep, it will open it and draw it ou● clean, but if it do run upon a bone, or between the ribs, it will break it out in boiles as it runneth. Probatum est. To cure a Felon. Take the crumbs of leavened bread, vinegar, bay salt, black soap, dear suet, and a little rue, boil all these together, and being very hot, lay it to the sore. A good Salve for many sores. Take a pound of the juice of Betony, smallage and plantain, put it into a pan, of new wax three ounces, white incense, pitch and rosin, of each two ounces: boil these together till the juice be something wasted; than take it from the fire, and strain it through a linen cloth, and when it is almost cold, add to it three ounces of Turpentine, and temper it all together, make it up in rolls: if the wound be deep, wash it with warm white wine and honey boiled together, and if it need tenting, make one of Tow. To cure an Ach. Take of Salad oil and Aqua vitae of each one spoonful with an onion, beat them together very well, strain them, and take the oil thereof being warm and anoint the place. To cure a sore mouth. Take the leaves of honey suckles, sage and the tops of Rosemary, and bruise them very well, than boil it with honey, vinegar, and burned Allom and a little water, and wash your mouth therewith. A Cerecloth for old wounds. Take a pint of Salad oil, half a pound of wax, as much read lead, a little sack; boil them till they look black, and than make your Cerecloths; the wound being washed with white wine and honey boiled together healeth mightly. A salve for a wound that festers inwardly. Take Boar's grease, vinegar and honey, and boil them together a little, than take the powders of rosin and Frankincense, and make a plaster or tent as the wound requireth, warm it, and lay it to, and when it is well drawn, use the other salve. This is an especial salve to cure a prick with a thorn or nail. A Poultesse to break a boil or bunch. Take of Brooklime and smallage a good quantity, and seethe them well in running water, with a sufficient quantity of oatmeal, and thereof make a plaster. A very good Salve for a wound or sore, it also easeth the Gout. Take of Rosemary, Groundsel, and mallow leaves of each a handful, pu● them into a quart of fair water, and let them seethe till more than half be wasted; than strain it through a linen cloth into some fair vessel standing upon a chasingdish of coals, than put to it a quantity of Sheep's suet clarified, unwrought wax, Salad oil and Turpentine; let it all boil till it be thick, and it will make a Salve; than strain it through a cloth, and keep it for your use. A Medicine for one that bleedeth inwardly. Take a good quantity of the juice of Nepe, and let the Patient drink thereof, and it will 'cause him to cast up blood presently. An outward Medicine for Worms. Take Wormwood, Rue, Leeks and Fetherfew, and fry them with a little Ox-gal, and make a Plaster thereof, and apply it to the Navel. To cure the Cramp. Take Oil of Violets, Hollyoaks, and Swine's grease, of each a like quantity, and make Ointment of it, and with it anoint the place grieved. The Water of Saint John's wort. This Water drunk morning and evening, two ounces at a time, prevaileth against the Apoplexy or depriving of senses; the Water mixed with the powder of the root, or Seeds or Water of Peony, and drunk thrice a day three ounces at a time, helpeth the Falling sickness, also it prevaileth against the trembling of Members, if they be laboured with the same twice a day: this Water drunk with Red-Wine, helpeth all manner of fluxes of the belly; and being drunk morning and evening, healeth all manner of Wounds if they be washed therewith, and applied often with a linen cloth wet in it. An excellent Salve for an old Sore. Take of Lapis Chellonitis, Rosen, Wax, and read Bowl, of each two ounces, sheep's suet four ounces, Camphire two penny worth; than take an earthen pot, and put in your Suet, Rosen and Wax, boiling them with a soft fire till they are melted; than take your Bowl, and Lapis Chellonitis, beaten it to powder, than put your Camphire into a mortar, and put to it two spoonfuls of Salad Oil, bruising them together, than take your Rosen and Wax from the fire, and let it stand till it be cold; than take your powder with your Camphire, and mix them together stirring them with a clean stick till they be tl roughly cold. To take away dead flesh quickly. Take the juice of old Leeks, put into it a little of the powder of White-wine Leeses, and with green Wax make a Sal●e, ●●d apply it often to the sore; and to fret away a Wen, add to this a 〈◊〉 drops of Oil of Vitriol. A good Water for a sore mouth or thr●at. Take the leaves of Marsh Mallows, and boil them in 〈◊〉 and Honey, with a little Roach Allom, let it cool, and with it 〈◊〉 ●●e mouth and throat. To heal Ringworms, Corns, and sores of the feet. Take Liquid Allom and boil it in honey, and being clear, when it is hot, anoint the grief; but first let the grief be made neat for the purpose, as washed and cut. A special Medicine for the emrod's. Take an ounce of Frankincense, bruise it a little; than take another ounce of the inner rind of Elder, and bruise them both together, and being well bruised, take a little quantity and put it into a chafing-dish of fresh coals, and let the Patient sit over them; and when that is out, put in more coals, and also of your Medicine by the space of an hour; and thus at three times using, all will be well. A very good Medicine for an Ague. Take of Bay salt and of white Frankincense, of each two ounces, Smallage one handful; beaten all together, and lay it to your wrists two hours before the fit cometh. A Medicine for the Siatica, or any ache. Take in the beginning of May before the tenth day, the leaves and crops of young tender Broom, two great handfuls or more, and half a handful of the crops, pound them very small with four or five spoonfuls of the sharpest Vinegar you can get, and strain it through a linen cloth, and put thereto half a pound of unwrought Wax, four penny worth of pure Mastic, and as much as a Tennis ball of Rosen, than put thereto a quart of Barrowes grease finely tr●ed, or Neat's foot Oil; boil all together in a Chaffer on a soft fire, stirring it still for the space of an hour, and than strain it through a cloth, and put it into a Galley pot or two, and keep it a year or two till you mean to use it; and when you use it, where your grief is most, take as much at once as a hazel nut, and chafe it upon your hand, and not by fire, and so rub and chafe your grief a quarter of an hour together, and if it dry in, take more as much as a Pease, and chafe it well; than lay on it a hot linen cloth, that is worn and soft; than lay on that a white cotton cloth a little warmed, and swath it fast, and keep it warm all night; do thus twice or thrice together, and you shall found ease An excellent Salve made of Soap. Take a pint of Wine-vineger, and put it into a Basin, and set it on the coals, than take half a pound of Castle-Soap, and scrape it into the Vinegar; and let it boil till the Soap be melted; than put to it two spoonfuls of Salad Oil or Neatsfoot Oil, and let it boil half an hour; than add to it 4 ounces of common treacle, than let it boil softly till the Vinegar be boiled away; it will ask two hours, stirring it till it grow thick like a Salve, and that you shall know by dropping a little on a cold stone; and if you will make an Ointment hereof; than take a piece of this Implaister, and put it to any Oil according to your purpose, and melt them together. A Plaster for any Siatica, Gout, or Ache in the body, Limbs or Joints. Take of new yellow Wax, of Deers suet, of Pitch and Olibanum, of each one pound, of Frankincense two pounds, Mastic four ounces, beaten all these gums very fine, every one by itself, and searce them through a fine hair Searce, so as you may get through all the substance, keeping every gum severally; than take your Dear suet, Wax and Pitch, and set it over the fire in a brass pan, and than your Frankincense till it be melted, and last of all your Mastic; you must observe that every Gum be severally melted before you put in another, and stir every Gum well in the putting in, and when it beginneth to arise, and all the Gums well melted together, take it of the fire, if not, it will all run over; than take a strong canvas cloth, and sow it like a Jelly bag▪ and strain it through (your canvas must be somewhat fine) into a broad pan, that it may not stand passed two fingers thick, and when it is cold you may make it up in Roles, and fold it up in paper, and keep it for seven years if you will▪ Spread this Salve on a piece of leather, and lay it to the place grieved. A Water for sore eyes that are cut or hurt. Take of Ground-Ivy and three leaved grass that beareth a read flower, of each one handful, stamp them together, and take a new laid Egg, and make a hole in the top, and pour out the meat, and fill it full of running water, and take a piece of white Coperas, as big as a Pease, and put it into the Egg shell with the water, and set it on the fire, and when it boileth, scum of the froth with a feather; than mingle it with the aforesaid herbs, and skim it, and drop of the Water into the Eye three times a day, and it will help you by God's grace. An Oil for any Gout, Siatica or Ache. Take a pottle of Salad Oil, and put it into a gallon glass, than take one pound of Rosemary flowers, and bruise them in a Mortar, and so put them into the Oil, and stop the glass very close with Wax, and let it stand in the Sun till Midsummer, that you may have the rest of the Herbs belonging to it; and than take one pound of the buds of read Roses before they be much blown, cutting away all the white and yellow tops, and refuse, having a full pound of them in weight: Than take half a pound of Dil, and half a pound of Saint John's wort, only the flowers, half a pound of Vervain; bruise all these Herbs in a stone Mortar, and put them into that glass of Oil, and stop the glass close again, and than let it stand nine or ten days, or longer if need be, until there cometh a shower of rain, whereby you may gather Earthworms; than take a quart of those Worms, the largest you can get, wash them, and scour them with White-wine, and afterwards let them crawl up and down a cloth or two, whereby they may become very clean from all their slime, this done, take those worms with half a pound of Lavender Spike, and ten young Swallows out of the nest, the fattest you can get, and beaten them very small in a stone Mortar, till you cannot discern any feathers or guts at all, than put them into your glass of Oil, and stir them all together, and so let them stand a night or two; than take your Oil and your Herbs, and all that is in your glass, and put them into a fair pan or kettle, with a pint of the best Malmsey and half a pint of Aqua vitae, and set it over a soft fire of coals till the Aqua vitae and Malmsey be well wasted and consumed; than take it from the fire, and strain it through a strong linen cloth that is new, and put that which you have strained into another fair pan, or if you will, some earthen Vessel or glass; and so set it on the fire again, and when it boileth, put into it of Mastic finely beaten to powder two ounces, with as many Cloves bruised, and a little quantity of Mace somewhat pounded and bruised together, and than let them boil all together with a so●t fire near half an hour, and than take it of, and when it hath stood a while, and is something cool, put it into some close Vessel of glass, somewhat thick, and so stop it very close again with Wax, and so let it stand about nine or ten weeks; and after this you may take and use of it, but still to keep it close stopped with Wax. The herbs aforesaid must be well squeezed and mingled together with the hand, and so to be used as aforesaid. This is to be made in the Spring when Rosemary flowers are full blown. A Remedy against the Pleurisy. Take an eating Apple, the best that can be gotten, and make a hole in it, taking away some part of it within, so that the hole pass not through, put into the hole three or four grains of Frankincense, called Olibanum, than cover again the said hole with the piece you took of first, and so roast it in the embers that it burn not, but that it may wax tender; than take it from the fire, and break it into four parts with all the Frankincense in it, and so give it to the Patient to eat, it will by and by cause the Imposthume to break, and heal it clean. For a Woman that hath a soreness under her side. Take Hilwort, Alesander, Parsley, Lovage, read Fennel, Smallage, Burnet and Grummel, of each a like quantity, and seethe them in white-wine till half be wasted, than strain it, and let the sick drink thereof first and last warm. For the Megrim▪ Imposthume, Dropsy and Fever in the Head, and for all manner of Aches in the Head. Take of the Root of Pellitory of Spain four penny weight, of Spikenard a half penny weight, and grinned them together, and boil them in good Vinegar, and take a saucer full of honey and five saucers full of Mustard, and mingle them together, and let the Patient use thereof half a spoonful at once, and hold it in your mouth a pretty while, and than spit it out into a Vessel, and after take another, and do this ten or twelve times, and a good while after you have eaten, at noon, a little before even, wash, and after take ten or twelve more, spit into a bright basin, and when you go to bed, wash clean your mouth, and drink a draught, and go to bed; use this Medicine for three days. For the Yellow Jaundice. Take worms called Mads, and cut them in pieces, and let them lie in Herbs all night to scour themselves, than take them and rip them up, and wash the earth from them▪ and the slime both within and without, and dry them with a cloth; than take a hot tile stone and lay the worms upon it till they are so dry as you may beaten them to powder, and take of the powder in White-wine fasting in the morning, and sweated after it. To break a Carbunkle, and all other Botches beside. Take Bay-salt, dry it, and beaten it into powder and searce it through fine Tiffany, and incorporate it with the yolk of an egg, and lay upon the sore. A Water for a sore mouth, and to wash a wound. Take a gallon of running water, of Sage, Woodbine leaves and Celendine, of each one handful; boil all together till it be half consumed, than strain it, and put to it a quarter of a pound of Roach Allom finely beaten, and a pint of English honey, and boil it to the consumption of half, and so use it. An Ointment for a Tetter: Take of green Coperas as much as a Walnut, of Allom half so much, and put them into a pint of running water, and boil it to the consumption of half, and anoint the Tetter with it twice a day, and keep warm. For a swelling in the Neck. Take Chervil, Vinegar, Wax, and old grease, and melt them together, and lay them to the pain as hot as you can abide it. For swelling of a vein. Take Wheat-flower, and the juice of Ash, with Sheep's suet, and make a Plaster thereof. For a pain in the Yard, and swelling thereof. Take Betony and seethe it in Wine, stamp it, and make a Plaster, and lay it thereto. To take away Venom and Poison out of a Wound, made by some poisoned Arrow, or other Instrument. Take Assa foetida and Galbanum, of each one ounce; and steep them in Vinegar the space of a night; than set it to the fire to distil, and strain it through a linen cloth, mixing with it two ounces of Unguentum Basilicum, and lay it to the wound, and it will draw unto itself, and kill the Venom, that you may heal it with any other Plaster. An Ointment for aches in men or women's backs, or any other place. Take a great brass pot full of fair water, and set it over the fire; than take an earthen pot, and fill it full of black Snails, and cover it with a parchment skin, that no air come forth, and put it in the pot, so covered, with water, that it may seethe in the brass pot, and thereof will come an Oil which you must use where your grief is. To make Emplaistrum Aureum, for all manner of Wounds. Take Pitch, Grecia or Colofonia, and White Incense, of each a like quantity; let it be well stamped and mixed with the whites of Eggs; than anoint a piece of Parchment with this, and wring the Wound well with your two fingers to make the blood come forth, and lay the parchment upon it; bind it fast. A Medicine for the Headache, and to 'cause one to sleep. Take a piece of a Rosecake, and cut it fit for the Head before, that is, the fore head, and take half a spoonful of Vinegar, two spoonfuls of the juice of Lettuce, and set it in a dish on a Chafingdish of coals, and heat the Rose cake in it; than press out a little between two trenchers and lay upon it the powder of Nutmegs, and apply it to the forehead. The skinning Water that destroyeth Tetters, the Serpigo, and such other Diseases, in any part of the body. Take strong White-wine-vineger a quart, Litharge of Gold finely beaten and seared one pound, mix them together, and let them infuse in a vessel three or four days, stirring them together twice every day; than let it settle a day, and take the clearest of it and put it in a Vial or double glass. The Congealer. Take fair water a pint, Sal Gemmae two ounces, common salt a good spoonful, boil all until the Salts be dissolved, than put the clearest into a glass. The use of the Waters. Take of the first water three parts, of the second one part and a little more, and put them together, and it will be an Ointment; lay it on the place that you would have skinned, or on the creeping Tetter, and it will heal it. For a long Ulcer that lacketh nothing but skinning, and will not be skinned, it will heal it. A Powder for a Fistulae. Take green Coperas, and burn it in a Goldsmith's Crucible, two ounces, read Mercury sublimed one ounce, grinned them both together on a Marble stone, till they are become very fine and subtle. The use of it in the time of the Cure. Search the Ulcer with your probe to know the length and depth of it, that you may prepare your Tent, and anoint it over with Populion, and dip the end in your powder; dress it once in a day with powder, and other two days with Populion to remove the asker; and thus enlarge your Tent till the work be known to you: so long as it casteth a buckly or malt water, or gory, stinking or bloody matter, still use your powder until it come gross and white matter; and than apply Mundifiers or Cleansers, whereof you shall be taught: The Ulcer cleansed, than use Incarnatives, as your green Balm and others, and rather shorten your Tent than otherwise till you are assured of the victory for sigillation, sealing or skinning: for which your Water above written is most excellent. Lucatella his Balsam▪ TAke Venice Turpentine one pound, best Oil Olive three pints, yellow wax eight ounces, of natural Balsam one ounce, Oil of St. Johns Wort, and read Sanders in Powder Ana one ounce, Sack six spoonfuls; first cut the Wax, and melt it on the fire, and than take it of, and put Turpentine to it, having first washed it in Damask Rose-water thrice, and having likewise mingled the Sack and Oil together, put altogether again over the fire, always stirring it till it gins to boil, and have a special care that it boileth not over the fire, than let it cool for a night, and a day, or more, until the Wine and watery substance be all settled to the bottom, than make holes in the Cake, and let the water run all out at the holes, which being clean run foth, s●t it on the fire again, adding unto the Balsam, and St. Johns Wort, and when it is melted put to it the read Sanders, and stir it well, that it may incorporate, and when it first gins to boil, take it of the fire, and stir it along time till it be grown thick, and cold: It is good for inward and outward wounds, anointing the parts about the soar: It healeth burning and scalding, and it healeth Fistulas and Ulcers being applied warm with Lint. An excellent Plaster to conglutinate a Wound. TAke Burgundy Pitch, Brimstone, and Olibanum Ana one ounce, beaten it severally to fine powder, and searce them, and mix it with such a proportion of the Whites of Eggs as will make the same to the firmness and substance of a Plaster, and apply to the Wound. For a Rupture in a Child. TAke Senacle, and bruise it in the hand till it be soft, and lay it to the place ill affected, put a thin clout and truss on it, Probatum Cousin Newton. An excellent Salve for Wounds. TAke a pint of Rose-water, a quarter of a pound of fine white Cake▪ so●p, cut it small, and stir it over the fire with the Rose water till it be melted and thick of a white colour, than put to it four ounces of Venice Turpentine, two ounces of white Frankincense in fine powder, and let it dissolve, than put in a pound of white Lead in fine powder, and stir it continually, and now and than put to it in the boiling a little Rose-water, that it may be of a whitish colour, boil it at the lest four hours. To destroy Rats and Mice. TAke a pennyworth of Ratsbane beaten and seared, a spoonful of Oatemeal beaten and seared, as much clouted Cream as will make it into a Past, Sugar half a spoonful, work it very well together, and bake it in little thin Cakes on a Fire-shovel, first buttered that they may not stick to it. For a Rupture in a Child or man, from Mistress Eliz. Cannon of Oystherg, Probatum. TAke a quantity of Featherfew, and with fresh Butter washed make a Poultice, and apply it warm, and if that force it not back, than make use of a Snakes skin, and apply it, and it will do it. The Plaster to the Poultice. TAke burnt linen a good quantity, and with honey, and Bean flour, make it into a Plaster, and spread it on Leather, and apply it, and wear a Truss. The Powder to be given inwardly. TAke of knot Grass and Shepherd's Purse, and Doves foot, of each a like quantity, dry them, and make them into fine powder, mingle with it a little powder of Licorice and Aniseeds, and give of it in Plantain water to the party broken in the morning fasting, the quantity of as much as will lie on a shilling. A Medicine ●pproved for the redness of the Eyes. TAke a new-layd Egg, and break a hole in the top of it, and pour out all the meat of it, and fill up the shell with read Rose-water, and set it on the Coals, and put into it as much white Copperas as two little beans, and as it boileth strike of the scum and froth of it with a feather, and when it hath boiled well, strain it through a fine linen cloth, and let it stand and settle; than drop of the clearest into the eye, four or five times a day, but especially when you go to bed, if the humour fall abundantly into the eyes, than fill the hole of an hard Egg (when the Yolk is taken out) with Commin-seed bruised, and bay Salt, put it in a linen cloth, and wear it as hot as you can suffer it at the nape of the Neck. A Diet drink for the Spleen. TAke of Violet leaves a large handful, of borage leaves and Balm of each two handfuls, Borrage Roots sliced a handful, of Tamarisk a handful, and half Licorice scraped, and sliced two ounces, a six pennyworth of Saffron, Raisins of the Sun stewed half a pound, put all these into a linen Bag, and hung it in three or four gallons of new Beer when it hath almost done working, and let it stand ten days, and than drink a draught in the morning fasting, and at four of the Clock in the afternoon, and at night going to bed as long as it lasteth. Probatum est. The Cramp water. TAke Wormwood, Featherfew, Sage, Spicknard, Periwinkles Camomile, Savory, Rosemary, and Bays, of each a like quantity, with two spoonfuls of Aniseed, read Fennelseed, and Carawayseed, half a spoonful of the powder of Elacampane, put all these into a pot of strong beer over night, and the next day distil it in a Limbeck. An approved Medicine for the Scurvy. TAke of Clivers two handfuls, of Watercresses, Sea purslane Sea-wormwood, Sea-beets, Catstail▪ and Egremony, of each three handfuls, of Licorice and Aniseeds, of each an ounce: Than brew seven or eight gallons of strong Ale, let it be well boiled and put into a Ferkin a working all night, take out a boulfull of the Ale at night, and lay all these Herbs stamped, (the Annis and Licorice well bruised) in the boul all night to steep, and in the morning strain it all into the Vessel, and stop it up three or four days, and afterwards drink a good draught thereof in the morning fasting, and at four in the afternoon, and at meals if your stomach will bear it: Probatum est. An approved Medicine for Convulsion fits. TAke sweet Marjoram, Cypress wood, the root of Peony and Ireos, & finely powder them, and searce it altogether likewise of a man's Skull two ounces double prepared, of the best Syrup of Roses, with Agarick, six ounces of oil of Dill, and Orrac●, of each two ounces, powder of Peony one ounce, powder of Messeltoe of the Oak one ounce, Spirit of Amber two ounces, black Cherry-water a pottle. First, purge the stomach gently with three spoonfuls every morning, for a fortnight together with the Syrup, after the two first days take an hour before as much of the Crack▪ Human, as will lie on a Groat, mixed with three spoonfuls of black Cherry-water: The third day as much of the Messelto with the water, and so continued it, but first take a little Lambskin with the Fur, and cut a little piece of it, as much as will cover the head from the forehead to the Crown, and no further, than take of the oil of Dill and Ireos, and mix in it the four first powders, and make the same pretty thick, than bathe some part of it into the Lambskin-furr, and bathe the head well with the other part, from the forehead to the Crown, and than lay on the fur, but first warm the Oils and Powders together in a Saucer, bathe the fur once a week, but the head once a day, and likewise the pit of the Poll you must bathe with the Spirit of Amber three drops at a time, keep yourself laxative reasonable, and use no winndy mea●, nor melancholic, but if it be possible those that feed on Hills, or Fields, and Mutton and Lamb. For a woman with Child. LEt her take every day in the morning betimes as much of the Powder of Cra. Hum. Doubly prepared as will lie on a 3 d. mixed with two spoonfuls of black Cherry-water, not taking any other thing within two hours after, and let her avoid windy meats, as Beef, Veal, Pigg, and wa●et-fowl; at night when she goes to bed, let her make Cherry posset-drink, and than boil well in it Marjoram, read Sage, Hyssop, and Bettony, of each half a handful, strain it and drink it cold. When the Child is born, give it of the Cran. Hum. in one spoonful of black Cherry-water, as much as will lie on a halfpenny, and give of it every second day. Hung about the Child's neck if it be a boy a root of single Peony, if a Maiden a root of double Peony bruised and put into a little bag, and let it be put under the left arme-pit by day, and hung down by night to the pit of the stomach. Let the Nurse take of the same Posset-drink once a day for a month, as is prescribed for the mother, as a little black Cherry-water now and than a spoonful at a time. For the Worms in Children, Probatum. TAke a little Mithridate, and spread it on a piece of leather, and strew in it a little powder of Aloes, and on it four drops of Spirit of Wormwood, and apply it to the bottom of the stomach. For a Rupture. Juice of Cumphry drunk with beer fasting, the Rupture first put up cureth it. An Oil: TAke a pint of Oil made of the oldest Neets-feets that you can get, of the youngest Bay leaves a handful, a pretty quantity of the tops of Rosemary, a little quantity of Camomile, two pennyworth of Cinnamon, six Cloves, a little Mace, four drops of natural Balsam, put altogether in a Skillet, and boil it together along space, and stir it well, and than put in your natural Balsam, and so take it of the fire, and let it stand till it be cold, and take of the clearest of it; Probatum. Goodman Hawken● of Ashill in Devonshire by himself and others. Take a large quarter of a spoonfnll of the Oil above written, and put it into half a pint of the strongest Beer you can get, beaten it very well until the Oil be so wasted, as it appears upon the top of the Beer no bigger than small pins-heads, than put into it the finest flour of read Wheat that you can get, and temper it so as all the clods of the flour may be broken, and set it on the fire, putting into it two spoonfuls of pure Honey, and let it boil, stirring it continually, and in the boiling put to a pretty quantity of Barrows grease, let it boil to the perfect consistence of a Poultice, and apply it as hot as the Patient can endure it on a linen Cloth, first anointing the place affected with a little of the Oil. For Swelling and Aching of Knees. TAke Crumbs of white-bread, and stamp them with Honey and Wine, and lay it thereto. To make Oil of Elder-flowers TAke Elder-buries when they be ripe and put them in an earthen pot, and set it in Hors-dung nine or ten days, and thereof you shall have an Oil good for Aches. For the heat in an Ague. TAke Whey as it cometh from the Cheese, set it on the sire, and skim of all that shall rise of it, than take a handful of borage, another of Buglas, another of five-finger, and seethe them all in the same Whey, and than put in two Whites of Eggs to clarify it, than strain it into a fair pot, and give it the Patient to drink when he is in his fit of hear; for this ● know hath done much good by experience, it will keep him moist, and bring him to a very good temper, and let him not in the time of his sit have too much light, for it is very ill for the head: Probatum est. For an Ach. TAke the Gaul of an Ox, and so much strong Aquavitae, and the juice of Wormwood, and boil all these together, and than keep it in some clean Vessel, and when any man needeth thereof, take some in a Saucer and warm it, and take a linen clothe folded round, and rub the Ache therewith as hard as you can. A wonderful Plaster for Soar Breasts. TAke leaves of Mallows, and Wormwood, of each a handful, boil them in water until they be as tender as the pap of an ●pple, than lay them on a board, and let the water run from them clean, than cut them small with a Knife for they will not grinned for fat, than stamp them with a pound of old Swine's grease, and temper them together till you may not know the one from the other, this Plaster is most precious for soar paps that rot, of all others it matureth and moderateth not only the pain in the paps, but also in hard botches and Boils, under the Throat or Armholes, or in any place of the body where it lieth hard in the flesh, this must be laid to lukewarm in a linen double cloth changed twice a day, look substantially on this Plaster, for it hath no peer in such things. To dry the milk of a woman's Breasts. TAke a quart of dregss of strong Ale, three handfuls of Sage, an handful of groundsel, boil them together half an hour, than take clarified Sheep's Suet, and leaven of— old, and put these two into the Herbs, and stir it till it be thick, and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vinegar, than lay it upon a Plaster, and so lay it to her Breasts. A Medicine for a man that is burned with a Harlot. TAke an old flaxen cloth that is clean washed, burn it and make powder thereof, and take oil of Eggs, anoint the soar holes therewith, and fill them full of that powder, and it will heal it in short time. For a man that pisseth blood. TAke Parsley, Ambrose, and Bursa-pastoris, of each alike▪ stamp them, and drink thereof three day's morning and evening: Probatum est. For a stinking breath. TAke two handfuls of Commine, and beaten it in a Mortar to powder, & than boil it in good Wine from a pottle to a quart, and let him drink it, and within sixteen days it shall help him▪ For a Child that is broken. TAke the juice of Comphry, daisy Roots, Polipodium, Ribwort, of each like quantity, Orodionum, and a pint of Malmesy, and boil it with the juice of the said Herbs, till it come to half a pint, and give it to the Child to drink nine days. For to staunch bleeding. TAke the powder of Coral mixed with gum-arabic put it in water of Plantain, and drink it cold, and it will stop the bleeding in any place of the bod●. To staunch blood. TAke Varvain, and dry it, and when occasion shall serve beaten it to powder, and snuff it up, or blow it up in the nose if a Vein be broken in the body than drink it, drink it also for the Bloody Flux. For the black Jaundice. TAke a pint of Malmsey, and put thereto the juice of nine branches of Sallendine, and a Sheeps-turd strained into it when it is new dunged, and long Pepper, English Saffron and Turmerick, and put these together, and give it the party fasting: Probatum est. For a Canker in a woman's Pap. TAke Culver-dung, powder of burnt Wheat, Honey, Virgin Wax, Flowers of Barley, and of Beans, and Linseed, boil all these together in Wine or Vinegar, putting thereto Rams Tallow and make a Plaster thereof, laying it to the Pap that is soar, A Confection of Honey and Violets. TAke the flower of Violets one part, and of Honey three parts, boil them with a soft fire, this is singular good in hot Agues, for it maketh the Patiented moist and laxative, and assuageth the dryness of the Stomach and the Breast. A Confection of Sugar and Vinegar Simplex. TAke of Sugar one pound, the juice of Pomgranats eight ounces, of Vini four ounces, boil it on the fire till it come to a perfect Syrup, this is very good for Tertian hot Agues, and Quartaines in the Spring time, it purgeth Choler in the stomach. The Nature of Comphry. TAke Comphry when the juice of it is drunken bruised and lay to the fore it will knit it together, even a broken bone. To make Damask water. TAke Lavender and Read Roses as much as you will fill to the Stillatory, and grinned them in a Mortar, and put thereto Orace and Cloves, and so much Ginger beaten in powder, and strew it among your Herbs in the Stillatory, and receive that water close, and use the water three spoonfuls evening and morning, also if you have need it is good to put in your eyes to make you see clear. A very Excellent Medicine against Deafness. TAke Mint, Sage, Penniroyall, Rosemary, Soap, Mugwort, Camomile, Milfoyle, Yearrow, or Nosebleed, Herb St. John Wormwood, Sothern wood, century, of each of them a handful, boil them in a clean pan, with as much good white Wine as there be Herbs, and let it boil together until the third part be diminished, than 'cause these Oils following to be made, old Oil two Ounces, Oil of Leeks, Oil of Almonds, of each of them one Ounce, of the juice of Rew half an Ounce, of Malmsey one Ounce and a half, put all these in a long necked Glass or viol, and let it boil with a small fire until the juice, and the Malmsey be almost consumed, than take it from the fire, and put into it these Drugs following, well beaten into powder, that is to say spicknard, Collaquintida, the stone of a Beaver called Castoreum, Mastic of each of them a grain and a half. Stop well your Viol that nothing take vent, than put it into a pan full of water, and make it boil the space of three hours, than take it from the fire, and pour the said liquor into a Platter which you shall set in the Sun, and leave it there until it become clear, and having strained it through some fine linen cloth, and pressed out well the substance you shall put a grain and a half of Musk in a dish, and incorporate it by little, and little with the said Oil, and than keep it in a Viol well stopped with Wax and Parchment, after this take the pann with the said Herbs, and heat them upon the fire, than take for a coverlead, a fonnell made of white Iron, and when you go to bed cover the pann with the said fonnel, and see the pan be good, and hot, than by the little hole above, let the Patient take the smoke into his Ear, by the space of half an hour. This done, heat the said Oil until it be luke warm, and let it drop into his Ears two or three drops, and stop his Ears with a little Musk, Bombast, or Cotton, let him fleep thereupon, now he must in the receiving of the perfume or smoke in his Ear, let him have some dry beans in his mouth, and after he hath chewed them, spit them out again, that in chewing he may open the conduits of his ears & by the grace of God, he shall found himself healed in few days, provided that the disease be curable, if in any case this help not, you need not seek any other remedy in the World if a man have any humming, or noise in the Ears, let him use this Medicine, and you shall see with Gods help a wonderful thing, for it will heal the deafness of a man, though he have had it thirty years, so that he be not borne deaf. Let him use also Pills to purge his head, and to eat good meat always, this is a present remedy against deafness taken out of the secrets of the Reverend Master Alexes of Piedmont. A Water to dissolve swelling in the bowels, and superfluity of fat. TAke two Gallons of running water, and set it on the fire, and put into it two pound of red-fennell, and two Ounces of Angelica, and a quantity of Commine, and boil these from two Gallons to one Gallon, and lesle of water, and take this every day fasting in the space of twenty days, the greatness will waste of the superfluity of humours, and also of the grossness. Sounding or Tinkling in a Man's Eare. TAke the juice of Bettony, or of Worm wood, and warm it, and drop it into thy Ear, For watering of Eyes. TAke the juice of Plantain tempered with Rose water, and drop it in your Eyes warm, the same effect worketh Rose water, the juice of Lily roots tempered with the juice of Plantain, and this will do you good. For a stopping in the Eare. TAke a read Dock, and a few Ash keys, and boil it with white or read Wine till it be consumed to the third part, pour the juice luke warm, the Patient lying on one side, and it will make him hear. To provoke Flowers. TAke half a handful of Origanum, one quarter n of Calamint, one quartern of Marjarum, half a handful of Mugwort, boil all those in white Wine, and strain it, and drink it nine days, and nights, first when she goeth to bed, and when she riseth, and five days after, take Mugwort a good quantity, and boil it in running water, and cast it in a large Vessel, and let her set of it to the Navel, a good space, and she shall have it perfectly, and drink after her coming on't a certain of Mithridatum or Treacle of Genoa with white Wine. To purge young gentle flowers. TAke Violet flowers dried, one handful of Raisins of the Sun, the stones picked out, boil them in a pint of Clarified Ale, to the wasting of half of it, than take the yolk of an Egg, and when you have strained it, take thereof as much as will suffice for a draught into the same, while it is warm, and drink it in the morning. To make a Woman have her flowers. TAke Origanum, and drink it with Wine sodden together, and it bringeth forth flowers, and if you drink Mother▪ wort water, otherwise called in Latin Arthemesium Mater herbarum in morning and Evening at each time two Ounces, it bringeth the flowers in women, it must be distilled in May at the latter end, and the leaves stripped of the Reed Arthemesium is good for many other things. To stop the flowers. TAke and drink the juice of Bursa Pastoris, and put part of the Herbs into thy privy parts, and Waybread together, and it shall stop them. To stay the Flowers. TAke the yolk of a new laid Egg, and a quantity of Bay salt and a penny worth of Saffron in powder, and some red shearing flox of the Tuckers, and mix all these together in a bowl, and spread it upon a brown paper, and put it upon her Navel cold. A Julep of Roses. TAke of Rose water four pound, of fine Sugar sodden, and clarified two pound, and so make your Julep with a soft fire. This quencheth the thirst in hot Agues, and doth assuage both the Liver, and the Heart, it doth resist Corruption of humours, and keepeth a man whole. A Julep of Violets. TAke water of flowers of Violets three pound, of fine Sugar boiled, and clarified two pound, mingle them and boil them with a soft fire: This is a present remedy in burning Agues, and to those that hath a hot Liver, or heart, and it helpeth▪ also those that have any roughness in the wind pipe or throat, and against the Pleurisy and dry Cough. To break an Impostume in a Night and a Day. TAke the flowers of the Luce, and the flowers of white Lilies, stamp them, and temper them with honey, and boil them with Ale, or Wine, and drink it, and it shall break it, and avoid it downwards. For the black Jaundice. TAke Gandors' Dung, and strain it into Malmsey, and a farthing worth of beaten grains, and drink it fasting bloodwarme. An approved Medicine for the Yellow Jaundice. TAke a quart of stolen Ale, take half a spoonful of the juice of Savin, and a little English Saffron the Inner bark of a Barbary tree, the powder of Ivory, and take of Goos dung that goeth abroad, and strain it into it, and boil the m altogether, and give it the party luke warm fasting. For the black Jaundice. TAke a handful of Sage, a handful of Rosemary, and bruise out the juice of it with a little stolen Ale, and take a saucer full of sharp Vinegar, and put thereto as much Treackle of Jenes as a Nut, and chafe it in the Vinegar till it be consumed, and put thereto as much powder of Waltaris as a Nut, and chafe all those together till they be blood warm, and so drink it. To make hard legs soft and small, though it be never so hard. TAke Mill, Barley flower, Wheat flower and boil them in Milk, and than put thereto sheep's tallow, honey and Barrows grease, and boil them very thick, and apply it hot. Probatum est. For young Children that have the Liver grown or the Worms. TAke an Elicampane Root, and crops of Wormwood, and beaten them together with Licoris, and a little Anniseeds and than put it into a Cup with Ale, and strain it, and if it be a child or old person, let him drink every morning fasting three days. To know whether a man shall live or dye. TAke Mouse ear, and let him drink it, and if he cast it up he shall dye, if he keep it, the contrary, also take his Urine, and cast it on a green Nettle at Evening, and if you found it green in the morning he shall live, and if the Nettle be dead, he shall dye. A read Plaster to dry. TAke Littargie of Gold three Ounces, Oil of Roses, Oil of Violets a pound, and a half, of Calaminaris, of Terra sigillat, of read Lead four Ounces, of Camphire, one ounce, and therewith make your plaster this doth dry Boils and sores cleansed. A Syrup of Tart Pomgranats. TAke the juice of tart Pomgranats, two pound of Sugar clarified three pound, and so make your Syrup, this is good against hot Agues of Choler and phlegm. To make Syrup of Buglas. TAke the juice of Buglas fined four pound, of Sugar three pound, and so make your Syrup, this doth comfort the stomach, and maketh one merry, and it is given against sounding, and fainting of the heart. A Syrup of Drye Roses. TAke of the infusion of dry Roses, and of Sugar two pound, mingle them, and make a Syrup, this doth much comfort the stomach, and bindeth them that have the bloody Flux. For the Shrinking of Sinews. TAke Marsh Mallows a handful, of Rosemary tops as much, and stamp them together, and after put thereto May butter melted, and so mingle them together, and so let it stand ten days, than boil it with a soft fire, until the strength of the Herb be gone, and when it is so well sodden, take it, and wring it through a Canvas Cloth, and so put it into a stone pot of earth. For swelling in the Arms or any other place. TAke Commyn, Linseed, and boil them with sweet Milk, and Oatmeal, and make a plaster thereof, and lay it to the swelling. To staunch the bleeding of the Piles▪ TAke and drink the juice of Millfollie, for that is proved, also put to the powder of burned Garlic, and the evils shall dye also to destroy them take oil of Roses and Frankincense, and Honey, and make Ointment of these, and put it with thy finger into the Fundament, if it be a friend thou wouldst help in haste, add Myrrh thereto, and after anoint thy Fundament therewith, and for the going out of the Evils, boil Frankincense and water, and wash the Evils therewith, and let thy breath go up into thy Fundament, and he shall be whole: Probatum est. For a Woman travelling with Child to make her soon be delivered. TAke Bettony, and Date-stones in powder and drink it, and she shall be soon delivered. To do away a Wen, and not to cut him: TAke and bind it fast than take Verdigrease, Sulphur, Soap, oil of Eggs, Alum, and Honey, and temper them together & lay it thereto, and it will go away without doubt: Probatum est. For all manner of Wounds and Soars. TAke here the most precious Salve in the World, and it is so precious held, that it healeth doing any tent in all manner of Wounds, be they never so deep of themselves and the same Plaster will heal one hundred women, and if it be well kept, and always do not more, but chafe it between your hands a little, and lay it over another cloth, and cut it as long as the Wound, and look that the Wound be washed morning and evening with white Wine and read, and the seventh part with Honey, boil it together and wash it warm, and each time make your Plaster hot in your hands, but make it clean before you chafe it, and than lay it on, than take a little and do it into the hole of the Wound, and all the filth of the Wound shall arise up by the hole of thy Plaster at the filling, and if the Wound ache for pain or difficulty of suffering, take a little oil Olive and pour into the Wound, and it shall never ache. The making of the said Plaster for Wounds or Soars. TAke beaten Plantain, and Smallage of each of these Herbs take a pound of the juice, and do it in a Pan, and do thereto three ounces of clean new Wax, that came new from the Honey, and two ounces of Incense white, and clean and melt them by themselves with a soft fire, than put in the Incense thereto, and boil them together till all the juice be wasted in, and always stir it fast, than take it from the fire, strain it through a cloth, and than take three ounces of Turpentine, and temper them together, and when it is cold, take it up and keep it as Gold. A Water of Pismires Eggs. OUr form in Latin, the best manner to gather the Eggs is, you shall set Dishes of Tree in three or four heaps, whereas the Pismires dwelleth, and the Dishes shall be well covered with leaves of Trees, than they bear the Eggs into the dishes, and when you will take the Eggs away, uncover the dishes, and take a little stick, and knock upon the dish, than the Pismires shall run out for fear and leave their Eggs behind them, these Eggs distilled in a Limbeck in Balneo Mariae, three or four drops of the same water put into deaf ears, and left, causeth hearing again, and is good also for the piping of the ears. A water of Birch-juice. IN May pierce a hole in a Birch-tree, and set under a Glafs or any other Vessel, and there will come forth water, and that water you shall distil in a Limbeck. The water is good for all Wounds dressed therewith, and Clouts wet therein, and laid upon the Wound, the water drieth all open Soars, if it be laid thereon. For One that pisseth blood. TAke Parsley, Gromell, and Bursa-pastoris, of each like much, stamp them and strain them, being tempered with a quart of good milk, and so let the Patient drink thereof three days, at evening and morning, and it will stench the blood. To make a singular Oil for an Ache▪ proved by Edward Kendal. IN the Rogation week take Hors-mints, and shred them very small, than take Pigs Morde, and fry the Mints therewith till they do change their colour, than take it and strain it into some thing that you will keep it in all the year, you may make it any time in the year, and it will be very good, but the Rogation week is the best. To make Cordial Lozanges to break wind. TAke Aniseeds two Drams, Gromell seed, Broomseed of each one Dram, the Kernels within the Ash keys half a dram, powder this very fine, and with four ounces of Sugar, and Rose water make them, which being used will break wind this must be made as other lozanges are. Probatum for the headache. TAke Bean flower, and powder of Commin, of each like quantity, and boil it in strong white Vinegar, till it be thick, than lay it in a linen bag to the nape of thy neck behind, so hot as you may suffer it▪ For a woman to have her Flowers TAke Sage, Rew, Mugwort, Sallendine, and Maidenhair of every one half an handful, of Turmerick, one penny worth of Safron make them all into powder, and bowl them together in a pottle of white Wine with six pennyworth of white Sugar, and strain it, and drink it milk warm, evening and morning until all be spent. For a Woman that hath her flowers stopped. TAke a pottle of Vinegar, two hand fulls of Heart's horn, two handfuls of Bugle, three handfuls of Isop, and boil all these in a pottle of Vinegar, and let the woman sit over it, first make a plaster as followeth. Take a good quantity of Cowdonge, and strong Vinegar, and mutton suet, and boil it, and spread it hot upon a cloth hot, and lay it upon a linen cloth from the woman's Breasts unto her Knees, and so leave it one whole night and than let her sit upon the bath aforesaid. Another for the same. TAke young Isop, Maiden-leek, English Saffron, read Fennell, Clary, a little black Soap, stamp and strain them, and drink it, and plaster the Herbs hot to her belly. To 'cause a Woman to have her Flowers: TAke Germander, and Goose glisters, the roots of English Saffron, of each a great handful, the roots of Elacampana thin sliced one ounce, of Liver roots scraped and thin cu● half an Ounce, of Time, and Savory, of each half a handful, of Commin, and Anniseeds, of each one spoonful grossly bruised; mingle all these together, and let them boil in a Pottle of white Wine, with a soft fire to a pint and half, than strain it, and wring out the Liquor hard, and to every draught hereof put the weight of a penny in Cinnamon, as much of Jet, seven or eight blades of English Saffron made to fine powder, and one spoonful of melted honey. After you have mingled all these things together with this liquor blood warm, three or four mornings before the time of your wont grief, drink a good draught thereof, and cover you warm, and if sweat may be gently provoked, let it be done by the space of one hour, or as your strength will bear, and use this monthly. To 'cause a Woman to have her Flowers. A Medicine that never failed, but beware that she be not with Child. TAke the root of an Herb called Gladinum, and boil it in Vinegar or Wine, and when it is well boiled set it on the ground, and let her stand over it, so that no air may go away, but ascend into her privity. Another of the same. TAke an herb called Collerage, and boil it in white Wine and when it is boiled, let the Patient sit over it, so as the steam may ascend into her privity, as hot as she can endure it, and when she goeth to bed let her lay thereof to her privity, so hot, as she may suffer it, and it will heal her by the grace of God. For a Woman delivered with Child. TAke Date stones, Commin, Grains, English Saffron, make of all these a powder, and drink it with Malmesy o● stolen Ale. For to make speedy after throws. TAke yolks of new laid Eggs, and make thereof a Caudle with Ale, and put thereto a little Cinnamon and English Saffron, and when you have boiled your Caudle take a handful of Vervayne, and stamp it, and strain it, and give the same to the woman, and she shall have speedy remedy by God's grace. Another for the same. TAke a Cat, and let her blood in the hinder huckle, three drops in a little drink, and so give the woman it some what warm. Another for the same. TAke three drops of the blood of the Navel string, and a little gods-speed ground in drink, and give it the woman warm. Another for the same. TAke the powder of Frankincense, and three drops of a holy Candle, and three of Urine, and put in a draught of Ale, and so give it her to drink warm. For the white Terms or Nature. TAke a small quantity of white Campies' stamp them, and strain them with Claret Wine, or read Wine, and make a Posset thereof, use to drink thereof. For a Woman that hath her belly swelled with her Terms. TAke the read berries of Archangel, and put them in a Cup of white Wine all night, and in the morning strain them and drink them five days before the New, and so continued them, until the Prime be past, morning, and evening. For a burned Yard. TAke a quart of Smith's water, a handful of Sage, a good quantity of Allom, a Saucer full of honey, and boil them to a pint, and strain it, and with a Serring inject it into Penis. Probatum for the Toothache. TAke a pint of water or a quart, and a handful of Rosemary, and another of Isop, and a Saucer of Honney, an ounce of Alom, and boil all together, till half be consumed, and strain it warm, and wash the tooth therewith. An approved Medicine for him that cannot make his Water. TAke ten or twelve Bees, and stamp them, and temper them with Ale, and give the Patient to drink, and he shall make water forthwith. Probatum est. To take away the hardness in a woman's Milk, and to 'cause her milk to run. TAke Dandellion, Sage, Plantain, of every sort of these herbs one handful, than chop them together, and fry them in Claret Wine till they be soft, and than take it up, and plaster it upon a cloth, and stoeke the Plaster with raw Cream, and lay it to the Best warm. To dry up a womas Milk. TAke a quantity of Sage, stamp it, and strain it with a quart of white Wine, and so warm it, and drink it, and let her go to bed, and lie on the sore side, than take the Sage, if all be strained out, and put them between two shilling stones, the stones must be hot, and put them upon her breast, and use it morning and evening, three days, and three nights, For him that cannot hold his water. TAke a pottle of Muskadine, a handful of Clary, half so much of Neperiall, and so of Mary golds, and a little quantity of the Moors of Camphir, cut in fine slises, and bruise the herbs, a little in you hands, and put thereto two or three Nutmegs, and so much in quantity of Cinnamon, and cut it in pieces, and fix Dates cut, and the stones picked out, and the white within and some Sugar to make it pleasant, but the lesle Sugar you put therein the better, and so boil it till half be consumed, and drink thereof morning and evening. A plaster for the same. TAke of every kind of Plantain a handful, that is Rib wort, and two other kinds three handfuls of Bursa-Pastoris, and so much of Dill, and boil them all in read Wine or stolen Ale, till the Herbs be soft, and than put the Herbs in a linen Bagg, and so lay it to the lower part of the Reins, so hot as you may suffer it, and so keep the liquor, and when the plaster is cold, or after an hour take that away, and put thereto another hot bag, or else heat that again in the liquor, and so change it three times in one day, after every hour, leaving the same but one hour, before you change or heat it, use this eight or nine days together, and once in two days make new also Serringe with raw milk once or twice in a day. Another for the same. TAke Turpentine of Jene, the seed of Occulis Christi, the the powder of Nehperi●ll, and of Clary, wash the Turpentine in white Vinegar, and take of each sort of the powder equal portions and so mingle the powders, and the Turpentine, than eat of the pills five or six at a time, and eat between every one a little pill of Dragon's blood, and so use it morning and evening. A Medicine for the after throws when a Woman is delivered of a Child. TAke of Wormwood; Motherwort, and Elder leaves of each a handful, a quarter of a pound of Beane flower, two yolks of Eggs, boil it together in a quart of water till it be thick, plaster it, and put it to her Navel. A drink for her also. TAke Mother-wort, and Chicken-weed, of each a like, pound and strain them in Ale, or other drink, and give it her to drink. A Medicine for a woman that have a cold stomach before or after Child bed. TAke a quantity of Callomanus Aromaticus, Cloves, Nutmegs, Galligand, and Cinnamon, of each a like quantity cut in pieces not very small, put all these together, and than divide them into three parts, and than take a reasonable draught of white Wine, and put therein the one part of all the said stuff, and let it be warmed luke warm, and let the Patient drink it, in the morning fasting, and lie and sweated one hour after or more, but she may not sleep and use this two mornings following, and so the third morning. For a scald-head whatsoever kind it be. TAke Rew, Feather-few, Tansey, Wormwood, Lavender Cotten of each a handful, wash them, and swing out the water and stamp them fine, and fry them in a frying pan with fresh butter, that never touched Salt, and strain it through a fine cloth, and anoint the head every day, and wash it once in a week, and it will be whole by God's grace. To make a woman conceive. TAke powder made of Boars stones, and give it her to drink after her flowers, and she shall conceive, also take the shaving of Ivory, and drink it, and it shall make her able to conceive. To make a man have lust to a Woman: TAke Fennell-seeds, and Skirwith, of each two ounces, grinned it and mingle it with new Cow's Milk, and make Pellets thereof as big as Beans, and take three at night and three in the morning; first of all anoint thy Members with Oil, and the juice of Morrell and Vinegar, and mingle them together. To know if a man shall live or dye. TAke the Sick-man's water, and let a woman drop there in her Milk, and if it mingle with the water he shall dye, and if it swim above the water he shall live. A Drink for an Ague. FIrst keep the Patiented watm, than take Succory, Borage, Lettuce, Violets, and Endive, two good handfuls of the Hull, and boil them in three quarts of fair water, until it be consumed to a pottle, than let the broth run through a fine cloth, without bruising the Herbs that the broth may be clear, than to a pint of the same, take three spoonfuls of White-vinegar and drink of the same continually, without drinking any other drink, so near as you may, and also make the Patient's mea● with the same Herbs, if it be not delicious, than put in some white Sugar. A Powder for an Ague. TAke four ounces of Orange Pills, one ounce of Sage, one ounce of Bay Berries, two ounces of Nutmegs, beaten all these together into a fine powder, you may give it all times, this powder a little before the Fit to a man a grain weight, to a Child half so much, with Ale or Beer very warm, in this time it is better to begin with decoction of the Herbs as you have above, put it to no more drink than may be taken at once: To make washing Balls. TAke white Soap of the finest four pounds', and cut it fine, and Sanders two ounces,, Cloves two ounces, Benjamine one ounce, Musk twenty grains, mix them with Rosewater, and a little Oil of Spike, and so make them in Balls. An excellent Medicine for the Colic. TAke six spoonfuls of Aqua Compositua, and as much Vinegar, and a handful of Rosemary, and as much Sage, put your Aqua▪ Compositua and Vinegar upon a Chaffin-dish of Coals between two dishes, and put your Herbs into it, than take a brown Coast and toast it hard, and dip it into your water, and Herbs, and lay your Herbs with the toast upon a linen cloth for fitting your Belly, and lay it a little under your grief, as warm as may be suffered, and lie down the space of an hour, and it will take away the pain, look that the Herbs be next the grief, and rest upon it: Probatum est. For the Pin and Web in the Eye. TAke a pint of ripe Strawberries, laying them in a pint of Wine two days, than bray them, straining them through a clean cloth, than takes a stone called Lapis Callaminaris, as big as a Doves Egg, and make it read hot in the fire, and quench it in the same liquor, and let it stand by the space of nine days, than cleanse it, and put the liquor in a little Glass, taking a feather, and dip it in the Liquor, and wash your Eye that is soar. To make water for soar Eyes. TAke a pint of Whitwine, and take so much of a stone called Lapis Callaminaris as an Egg, and lay it on the fire till it be read hot, and than put it into the Wine; and when the stone is cold, lay it in the fire again, and make it read hot, and put it in the Wine again, and heat it so often, and put it in the Wine again, until it break in the Wine as Sugar, and than put it all together in a Glass, and drop it in your eye, and if you take but half a pint of Wine, put thereto but half so much of the stone, use this as aforesaid. To make one's face fair. TAke the Blossoms of Rosemary, and boil them in Whitewine, and when you list to be fair wash your face with it, and if you drink of the same it will make your breath sweet. To clear the Skin. TAke the Marrow of Swine's feet, and Rosewater, and Cow's Milk, and mingle these together, and warm them lukewarm, than anoint your face therewith. To make Hair grow if it be long a coming out. TAke a good number of Bees that be labouring to make Honey, dry them, and make them to powder, than put them in common Oil, and mingle them together, and with this Ointment anoint the place where you will have hair, and certainly it will come without pain. Oil of Wormwood. TAke the buds and tops of Wormwood, and of the juice four ounces, of oil of Olive three pound, put it into a Vessel of Glass, and set them in the Sun by the space of fifteen days, stopping the mouth, than boil them four hours, and than strain them well, and you must strain them three times afterwards, and so keep them, this doth comfort and bring heat to the cold members, it fortifyeth the stomach, and causeth a good appetite, it openeth Obstructions, and healeth Diseases which cometh of cold, it causeth the destruction of Worms, and bringeth them forth if it be mixed with Ointments and Plasters, and laid to the place. Oil of Worms. TAke the Worms of the earth half a pound, of the oil of Olive two pound, of Wine two ounces, boil them altogether, and make Oil accordingly; this comforteth the Sinews that are vexed with cold, and for the Ache of the Joints. A perfume for Gloves. TAke oil of Almonds of the sweetest, and put it into a pot with these powders, a little Musk, a little Storax, Callamintum, Nutmegs, Gillyflowers, and make them in powder, put them into the Oil of Almonds, and set it to dry in the Sun in a Glass by the space of eight days, and stir it with a stick every day than wet your Gloves in Rose-water three times, and let them dry again, and the last time when they are dry, anoint them with the Oil and powder after it hath stood eight days in the Sun, and your Gloves shall have a notable perfume▪ For the Pin and the Web. TAke three handfuls of read Fennel, and wash it, and than swing it in a clean cloth, so that there be no water left in it, than stamp it, and strain it through a fair cloth, and take two spoonfuls of new Honey, or else good English Honey, and put thereto a spoonful of good Rose-water, or else of fair water, than put the water and the honey together on the fire in a Saucer, and when it boileth skim it, and when you have Clarified it, let it cool a while, when it is somewhat cold, put the juice and it together, and strain it through a fair cloth, and put it in a Vial, and take thereof three or four times a day to dress the eye withal, and when you use it put in some woman's milk. To make one to sleep. TAke Lettuce-seed, and bruise it small with woman's milk, and the White of an Egg, and lay it to the Temples of thy head. For the Toothache TAke a Gaul that groweth on a Tree, and take as much of it as your hollow tooth will receive, and pair of the outside, and put it in your tooth till your pain be past, and if it draw too much take it out, and scrape of the filth, and put it in again. A good water to make one well coloured. TAke the flowers of Beans, read Roses, wild Tansey, Honey suckles, with the Whites of Eggs, bray them a little, washing the face and hands with this water. The properties and operation of Rose-water. 1. ANd if you drink Rose-water with Sugar, it will assuage all heats. 2. And if you drink it with water of Cottidony, and Featherfew and Sugar, it will destroy all manner of Jaundice. 3. And if you annnoint your Temples of your head, it shall ease the headache. 4. And if you mix it with the juice of Fumytory and black Soap, it will destroy the Morphew. 5. And if you drink it fasting it will make a sweet breath, clear the sight, and comfort the nature. 6. And if you boil white Copperis in it, and wash your eyes without and within, it will destroy the Pin and Web: 7. And if you drink it with the juice of Mint, Hyssop, Sugar, and Licorace, it will destroy the Phthisic. 8. And if you drink it with the juice of Sothernwood, and Fennelseed, it will destroy the Cough, and all manner of evils in the Breast, and quencheth all heats in the Stomach. For watering Eyes. TAke read Colly▪ leaf, and anoint it with the White of an Egg, and lay it to the watering Eyes, when thou goest to thy Bed, and it shall heal them. For a woman's quick deliverance. TAke and drink the juice of Vervain with read Wine, and she shall lightly be delivered▪ To make a Tooth fall out. TAke water Frogs, and as many land Frogs, and take out their bowels, and wash their bodies elean, and boil them in fair water, when the water is cold take of the grave, and with a little on your finger touch the tooth, and it shall fall out. For a Tettar. TAke Vinegar, Brimstone, black Soap altogether, and rub it with it two or three times a day. To take Fish. TAke Assifaeti●a, Milk, Honey, Wheat flour, and make an Ointment, and anoint the bait and thy hook. Against spitting of blood coming from the Lungs or Lights. TAke the juice of Mill foil two ounces, of a bloodstone burned to powder two drams, and give it the Patient to drink with Whitewine, or Ale cold. To cure a Vain broken in the stomach and breast. TAke wild Angellica, Egremony, Sanicle, Cinqfoil, Strawbury leaves, Rib-wort, Woodbine leaves, Daisy roots, and leaves— Dandelion, white Comfry, Scabious, Sowthernwood, white bottles, Spermint, Oake-buds, Bramble-buds, Plantain— Take so much of all these as will make six handfuls (taking an equal portion of each) and steep them in a gallon of fair water for two hours, than set them on the fire, and let them be boiled until half be consumed, than put to it a quart of Whitewine, and let it boil a walm or two, than take it of, than strain it, than set it on again, and put to it a pint of pure Virgin English Honey, than let it boil to Clarify the Honey, than take it of the fire, and when it is cold, put it up in a Glass, let the Patient take four or five spoonfuls lukewarm, two hours or at lest one hour before Dinner, and Supper, and at going to bed, I verily believe that the continuance of this will cure him, let him in the morning ear before it a good mouthful of the Conserve of Comfry roots, if his stomach agreed with such things. This from Sir Kenelm Digby. For the wind in the Stomach. TAke Venice Treacle, and a little Conserve of Roses, and make a Pill of the quantity of a small button, and take it after a light Supper, and it will case or cure the wind; Sir Kenelm Digby. An experienced Medicine for the Stone, Mr. Henry Pelham TAke White-wine, and make a Posset of it, than take the Curd of it that it be clear, than take the juice of read Nettles, being pounded, and strained into the Posset so much as may not offend the stomach, if it be so strong of the Nettles, put more Posset un to it, or put to some Sugar, if you make this in Winter, the Apothecaries hath the water of read Nettles, or the Seeds which use as the juice, you may take it in your Fit or otherwise, it's no matter though yond cast it often, before you keep it, it will break the Stone into a gravel, or at lest much abate the roughness of it, that it shall not fret. A water for the Stomach, poisons, small Pox, or any Surfeit, or falling, or Convulsion Fits. TAke of Sallendine, Sage, Rosemary, Rue, Mugwort, Wormwood, Pimpernell, Dragon, Scabious, Egremony, Balm, Scordium, Century, Carduus Benedictus, Bettony, Rosa-solis, of each a good handful, Angellica roots, white Henbane roots, Turmentile, Zedoary, Licorace, of each half an ounce, slice the roots, and wash them, and the Herbs shake and squeeze the water out of them in a cloth, than shred them and steep them two days and nights in as much White-wine as will cover them well, and let the Vessel b● close covered. Take it out and distil it, and keep it close in a Glass or Bottle, and when you use it, give it lukewarm to the Patient, with a little Sugar infused, to a Child two or three spoonfuls is sufficient, and to a strong body 4, 5, or 6. It is an Experimented Cordial, you may use a little Mithridate in it; these Simples are to be gathered in May, and than distilled, or in the beginning of June. For a blood-shotten bruise over the Eye, by Mrs. Conway approved. TAke Sugar-Candy, and beaten it as small as you can into powder, than put it into a Quill, and so blow it into your Eye a few dress infallibly cures it by my own experience. For the deafness in the Ears. TAke of a Hare new killed the Urine out of her bladder, and drop it into the Ear, and it is a speedy remedy: A Plaster for the Sciatica, approved by Mistress Church. TAke a pound of Burgundy Pitch, a quarter of a pound of Virgin Wax, a quarter of a pound of resin, two ounces of Frankincense, two good spoonfuls of Aquavitae, of ordinary Turpentine two pennyworth, put all these together, and boil them very softly that they do not run over, and being reasonably boiled, than set it by, until it be somewhat cooled, and sit to spread, and than spread it thin upon a brown paper of the finest, for handsomeness unto the Patient, and than apply it to the place pained, not heating the Plaster at the fire, but holding it on with your hand, that the heat of the hand and the body may make it cleave too, and let it lie on, until of itself it fall of, and than apply a new implaister, as occasion shall require: Probatum. To cure any Pain or Knob arising in the hand, or other part. TAke of Sperma-Ceti, and mix it with some Aquavitae, not too much, for the Aquavitae is to much drying, anoint the place with it morning and evening, and it is an experienced Cure. A Syrup for a Cold by my Lady Cook the younger. TAke half a pint of good Aniseed water, or Aquavitae, put a quarter of a pound of Sugar into it, set them in a broad dish, that will not melt, on a Chffin-dish of coals, when it is warm take it of the fire, than burn it with a fired paper, as you do Wine, stirring it with a long stalked spoon or Ladle, when it leaveth burning, let it cool a while, and than put into, it a quarter of a pint of read Rose-water, keep it in a Glass, and let the Patient take two spoonfuls of it morning and night. To make the Oil of Adders-tongue. TAke a peck of the Herb called Adders-tongue, chop it very small, and put to it a pint of the best Oil Olive, than let it boil until a good quantity of it be consumed, than strain the Herbs from the Oil, and put up the Oil for your use, first wash the soar with Beer and Verjuice, and anoint it with the green Ointment, and drop with a feather some of the Oil into the soar, than lay on a Plaster of the green Salve: It importeth not to know the Cause but the Cure, how ignorant were Physicians in the cure of the Pox, as long as they went by Science, after Experience had taught us the use of Lignum vitae, they were cured without knowledge of the Origen of the Disease; or 'Cause why the Medicine healeth, the knowledge of secret Causes and natural Operations vain and impossible. For soar Eyes, by Sir Francis Swift. TAke your own Water, boil it in a dish on a Chaffin-dish of coals, cover it with another dish, and even as the dew riseth and sticketh upon the Dish, take it of with a feather, and put it into a Glass close, and as you need drop some of it into your eye, and lay a cloth wet in it upon the eye: this did heal bloodshot eyes with a skin upon them, and specks in them when their sight was almost gone, when many other experimented Medicines failed, and in vain used. For the Cramp in Foot or Leg, or any other place. TAke and bind the place with a List of new read cloth about the place affected, and it will in short time take away the pain, and it will not often come again. To take away a stopping Cold from the heart. TAke a Nutmeg, and grate it, and some Aquavitae and a little fresh butter, put it in a dish upon the fire, and warm them together, than take a cloth three doubled, and dip it in the warmed Liquor, and lay it at the pit of the Stomach, and it is a perfect remedy▪ For a Gaul with riding. TAke the slime that is left in a ditch, or any other place where water hath run, by the Rain, or any other cause, and anoint it therewith, it is a present remedy. Another for the same. TAke leaves of Eldar, and put them into your pocket when you ride, and you shall not be gauled at all. An Excellent Medicine for the Eyes by Sir Kenelm Digby. TAke a newlaid Egg, and roast it very hard, than slit it in the middle, and take out the Yolk, than take some Alum and beaten it into powder, mix it with Honey, and make a Past with it, and put it into the hollow of the Egg being warm, than hold the Egg in your hand between two Trenchers, but do not squeeze it, and there will come out a juice as clear as water, which you must let drop into some spoon, take a drop of that water and drop into the Eye, and it is a present Cure for any Disease that breedeth in the eye. For an Ague. TAke Parsley stalk●, a good quantity, and pound it and take the juice o● i●, and put it into posset drink or warm White-wine, drink it, you may put Sugar in it to make it ●ellish the better, and the virtue of it is to procure Urine, which will take away the venom of the Disease, take it as your Fit cometh upon you, eirher in a hot Fit or a cold. To make a Liquid Caustick. TAke half a pint of Soap Leeses, called Lixivium, and of black Soap the quantity of a small Wallnut, and set it on the fire, ●nd stir it together, and being ready to boil, put to it of the powder of Unslackt Lime, as much as will make it of a good consistence, and if upon long keeping it grow to thick add more Lixivium to it, and keep it close stopped in a Glass: An excellent Vulnerary Drink for many Imperfections and Diseases. TAke Avens, Buglass, Cinqfoil, Comphry, Dayses, with the Roots, Dandelyon, Egremony, Bettony, Mugwort, Plantain, Ribwort, Spermint, Bramble tops, Strawberries, and Violet-leaves, Scabious, Hawthorn-●ops, Southernword, Oake-leaves, and Woodbin-leaves, Wormword, Angellica, and white Beets that grow in the Cornfields, of each half a handful: Boyl them in a pottle of spring water, with a quart of White-wine over a soft fire to the consumption of half, than strain it, and add to it of discummed Honey a pint, & set it over the fire again to boil a walm or two, and scum it again, and so keep it for your use, and give six spoonfuls of it morning and evening, or more, according to the strength of the Patient; It throweth out all shivers of bones, or other thing fixed in the flesh, it cureth old or new Soars, and it cleanseth the bones from all filth, and scurff in the Fistula or Evil: It maketh the flesh close sound from the bottom, it cureth by cleansing of the blood and by making a dry Soar run much at the first, and afterwards drieth it, healing without rankling, proud flesh or heat▪ It is good also for a dry Itch, and singular-in the cure of women's breasts. To make a water for the Eyes: GAther in the month of May one pottle of the dew of Barley before the Sun doth rise, than put thereto half a quarter of an ounce of white Copperis, and half a quarter of an ounce of white Salt, boil these till it come to a quart, than let it cool and put it into a Glass, and stop it close, and when you use it, drop a drop into the soar Eye: it will keep a year or two. To make the Tobacco Salve. TAke green leaves of Tobacco, pound, stamp them, and strain them, than take Bees Wax in the Comb unmelted four ounces, Venice Turpentine, resin, and Salet▪ oil, Ana three ounces, than boil all these together till the juice of the Tobacco be infused with the rest, than strain it through a fine linen cloth, put not in the Turpentine till the liquor be but warm, and than keep it in a Galley-pot for your use. For the Headache. THe Oil of sweet Marjoram to smell to, and a drop of it put into each ear cures it, two drops of Spirit of Rosemary put on the mould of the head assuageth the pain. The powder of the Ashes of Rosemary will make the Teeth white, and cureth the Gums. For a Felon or hot Swelling. groundsel leaves, and stalks pounded, and a third part of so much in fresh Butter, or water boiled together till it be soft, spread it thick and lay it on the Soar somewhat warm, shifted it once in four and twenty hours. For the Rickets. TAke new Ale or Beer that hath little or no Hop in it, and turn it into small Firkin or Pipkin which hath a Spigge●, put Barm to it that it may ripen, and being ripened, draw ou● a stone Jugg or Bottle full, and put therein such a quantity of Tamarisk, bark of Ivy, and Bark of Ash as may give it strength, than stop it up, and when it hath stood four days give of it to the Child to drink fasting, at Meals▪ and at all other times when it desireth to drink. Be sure when you begin one Bottle to fill another as you did the first, that the l●st may be four days old before it be entered upon. For a Canker although it be never so far gone. TAke white Copperas, and Alum, as much more Alum as Copperas, burn them together in a Fire shovel until they leave boiling, than take it, and pour of the outside, and make it into a powder, if the Canker be old, let it be washed with Canker-water, than lay some of this powder upon it, but do not rub it, nor swallow it, you may lay it on with a Salt Slike, twice or thrice dressing will cure it. To make Bully's Oil. TAke Herbgrace, and read Sage, of each one pound, Wormwood, and the tender tops of Bays, of each half a pound, chop them small, but wash them not, three pounds of Sheep's Suet hot our of the Sheep, stamp altogether in a Mortar, until it be like a Salve, not one thing to be discerned from another, than temper into it a quart of the best Oil Olive, and a quart of the best Neatsfoot Oil, put it into an Earthen Vessel stopped close, and so let it stand in some cool place eight days, than boil it on a soft fire, keeping it stirring, and when it hath boiled an hour and an hall, put into it four ounces of Oil of Spike, after this let it boil, till it look very green, so strain it, and put it into a pot for your use. To make the Sear-cloath to the Oil. TAke oil-olive half a pint, read Lead five ounces, boil it and stir it, until it be black, than put to it two ounces of Dears Suet, one ounce of Deer Marrow, one ounce of Sperma-Ceti, one ounce of Bees-wax, boil all together until it be thick enough to hung on the linen cloth, you dip it into it, and wrap it up for your use: When you use it warm the O●le in a Saucer, and chafe it hot into the place grieved, lay 〈◊〉 ●●ar-cloath upon it for any bruise or strain: For an Impostume in the Breast or Stomach. TAke roasted Onions, and spread them on a Plaster, and lay them to the Breast, or Stomach, where the pain is, and shifted it with new Plasters, morning and Evening. To open the Liver, Spleen and avoid Choler, and help the Tertian Ague. TAke a quart of White-wine, and boil therein a handful of Germander, half an ounce of Cene, a quarter of an ounce of Fennelseeds, if you put thereto as much Parsley-seeds, it doth not only open the stopping of the Liver, and Milt, but also helpeth the Strangury and Stone. For the Megrim. TAke Margerum, and rub it in your hands until it be of juice, and with the juice of the same rub the Temples, until they do smart, and it will help you. For a Soar Breast, by Mr. Cockman. TAe a Sheehead with the Woollon, boil it in a good quantity of water three or four hours, take the clear broth, and put as much whole Rice into it as will boil it to the thickness of a Poultice, breaking the Rice as it boileth with a wooden slice, when you found it to be very soft take it of the fire, and put to it two Yolks of Eggs beaten with a little Saffron, and something more than a spoonful of Oil of Camomile, this Powltice is to be applied warm before the Breast be broken, and laid on about the thickness of two fingers, that it may come of moist, cutting a hole in the cloth for the Nipple, this Poultice is to be shifted every twelve hours, and you are to continued it a day or two after▪ the breast is broken. The Plaster. TAke Goats▪ dung, dry it with a gentle heat, pound it very small, and searce it, than take English Honey (if the Honey be hard candied melt it on the fire) cooling it again like Syrup, than put in as much of this powder to it as will thicken it, but not to stiff, apply this warm morning and evening, without tenting the Breast, if in the Cure it grow hard or swell again, apply the former Poultice for three or four days, and than this again. To keep Milk from curdling. LEt there be boiled sometime in her broth a bunch of Mints and Parsley, and a little Cinnamon and Saffron, and now and than a little Mint water, drink it warm with sufficient Sugar: If there shall be knots in either Breast or Swelling. TAke new-milk, and Oil of Roses by equal portions, and thicken those with bread of a Manchet grated and boil them to a pap, and use it plasterwise upon the breast so grieved. But if with taking cold, inflammation should hap with any redness. THen use the former poultice of Rice the place being formerly anointed with Honey, and a little Aquavitae warmed together. Admit the worst should hap, and that by accident Impostumation should be caused and grief grow so as it must be broken. THen boil in Milk, and Oatemeal a good handful of Mallows, with as muth Bryer leaves, and the head of a Lily beaten small, till it be to the thickness of a Poultice, and where you feel the greatest pain in that place, lay on (before the Poultice) a chief of Saffron, which will break it in that place, and when it is broken use the Poultice still some two dress, than afterwards apply your known Medicine, which certainly will heal it. Against the biting of a mad Dog: TAke six ounces of pickled leaves of Herb▪ grace, four ounces of the best Treacle, or Mithridate, four ounces of peeled Garlic, four spoonfuls of scraped Tin, stamp the Garlic, and Herb grace together, and than put in the Mithridate, and mingle them well together, than take a pottle of good Ale, stolen and not sour, nor too new, boil all these together in the Ale with the Tin to three pints, than strain it, and give of it three or four spoonfuls at a time, three times a day, for nine days together. And to a Christian-body bind the Feces which are left of the straining to the place bitten. A present remedy for the Bloody Flux. TAke a fine linen cloth, and put a little Wool in it, and make a little button of Subposita, dip it in Aqua-Composita, and put it up once ot twice, and it will help. For the Piles. TAke a quart of good Claret-wine, and a good quantity of Mallows, boil it into a pint, and set over it, and la● the Mallows to the place as hot as may be suffered, you must put to it a good piece of sweet Butter in the boiling. An excellent Glister. TAke the Urine of a healthful body one pint, one spoonful of Fennell-seed, as much Wheat-leaven as as a Wal-nut, let those boil one walm, than strain them, and take it in a Glister. A special Medicine for a Tetter. TAke Gum Arabic, and steep it in the strongest Vinegar you can get, let it lie still till it be consumed, that it rope like Syrup, than lay it on the Tetter with a Feather not washing it of, but as it drieth wet it, if it be in a place where the clothes rub it of, than wet a brown paper soft, and lay it between, dressing it twice a day. For the Scaitica or pain in the Joints. TAke half a Pint of the Marrow of a stone horse, and as much Rosemary as will be fit to boil in that, bruise it, and boil them together on a clear fire a very little while, when 'tis boiled strain it, and anoint the Patient with it against the fire, and with Gods help it shall cure them in twenty four hours. You may have it at the Dog-house in Finsbury fields. A Receipt for the Green sickness. TAke a pottle of white Wine, and one handful of Rosemary, and as much Wormwood one ounce of Carduus seed, and one dram of Cloves, still all these, and drink half a pint at a time, morning and evening, and walk after it: A Purge. TAke Rhubarb one dram and half, slice it, and steep it in four ounces, of Succory water a day and a night, than strain them, and put to that is strained Syrup of Roses three ounces drink it at once. An Excellent Julip to be taken in a Fever▪ TAke a pint of Borage water, put into it three drops of Oil of Vitriol, and two drops of the spirit of Sulphur, a little Sugar, and juice of Limon according to your taste, drink nine spoonfuls at a time to quench your thirst. For an Ague: TAke a Limon, and squise out the juice, put to it a spoonful of Aqua vitae, and as much loaf Sugar, drink this in the beginning of the cold fit. For a Cold. TAke the pulp of three or four Apples roasted, and put it on a Plate, make a hole in the middle, into which put a spoonful or two of Aqua vi●a, set this over a Chafin dish of coals, and when it is warm ●ier it, hold your head over the steam, and take it in at your mouth, and nostrils while it will burn, than put a penny worth or two of Sugar Candie, and try to fire it again, when it will burn not more eat it, this must be taken to bedward. A gentle Purge. TAke a pound of blue Figs of the best, slice them in the middle, take a pound of Damask Rose leaves, two pound of fine Sugar beaten very fine, lay a layer of Sugar, a layer of Roses, a layer of Sugar, and a layer of Figs, the proportion of Sugar being equal to both the other, put them into a Galley pot, tie them close, and set them in the Sun, take of this a spoonful in a morning, and it will give a stool. For the inflammation of a Wound. TAke a handful of groundsel, a handful of br●ad plantain pound them, and strain out the juice, and put a spoon full of honey, half an ounce of Venice Turpentive, mingle all these with a little wheaten flower, so laying it Poultis wise diping your tent in it. An excellent Cerecloth for an Ache in the Back, Side, or any limb of the Body. TAke a quart of Oil of Roses, one pound of yellow Wax the newest you can get, three quarters of a pound of white lead three quarters of an ounce of Camphir, of Frankincense half a pound, of Gum Mastic half an ounce, o● Turpentine half a pound, one ounce and a half of Nut Balsam, the white lead, Camphir Frankincense, and Gum Mastic must be ground very small, every sort by itself, on a Painter's stone. Take a Skillet of cast mettle, or a pan, and set it very safe on the fire, and put in first the Oil of Roses, and let it boil up one walm, and than take it of▪ and be very careful you let it not run over, for fear of firing the house, than take the Wax and cut it in small pieces, and put it into the Oil, and stir it still. Than put it on the fire again, and let it boil up till the Wax be melted stirring it still, and than take it of, and strew in the white Lead by little and little, stirring it still. Than put it on the fire again, and let it boil again three or four walmes, stir it still than take the Gum Mastic when you have taken it of again, and mingle it with a little Oil of Roses, and stir it still, and let it boil a walm or two, than take it of again, and put in the Frankincense, and stir it still, and let it boil a walm or two, than take it of again. And take the Camphir, and put it in, and let it boil altogether the space of five hours in all upon a soft fire of Charcoal from the beginning to the end. Than take it of the fire and mingle the Turpentine, and the Balsam together and put it in, and stir it a quarter of an hour, but let it boil not more. Than take an Ell of Dowless, and dip it in,▪ and make the Cerecloth. And when the rest is almost cold roll it in one piece together, and it will be as good at twenty years' end as at the first, it heals all manner of Aches, Bruises, Spraines, and Cuts, and also it will draw the Scurvy out of the flesh, your gum will not be ground very small, but in boiling it will melt. Be careful in the boiling for if it take fire it is unquenchable. An Electuary of Sarsafras. TAke of rasped Sarsafras of the root six ounces, of chosen bruised Cinnamon three ounces, boil these in Balneo in a double vessel close covered, in three pints of Fountain water forty eight hours, than strain these hard, and put to this refined Sugar three pound, boil these to the consistence of an electuary, than add these powders following, being finely scarsed, fine powder of Sarsafras one ounce, Nutmegs four scruple●, Amber Greese one scruple of excellent chosen musk half a scruple, make of these according to Art an Electuary, and put to it of the Oil of Cinnamon twenty or thirty drops, and labour them well according to Art, take often of this so much as a good Nutmegg, this is an exceeding good Electuary to open obstructions, to dissolve windeness, to open the Liver, spleen, Kidneys, and to comfort the hart, and spirits: For the Spleen. TAke a pound of Wax a penaiworth of Turpentine, a little Rosen, two spoonfuls of the juice of Wormwood, & of spear Mints, boil all these together, in boiling stir them well, and in stirring put thereto two pennyworth of Cloves, and Mace beaten into fine powder, than pour it out into a dish of fair cold water, work it well with your hands, till you have made it like a salve keep it in readiness, and when you feel any pain in your sides Breast or Stomach, apply thereof a little on a Leather for fourteen hours, but first you must anoint your Side with the Ointment following, and than lay the plaster where the splen is. The Ointment. TAke a pound of Neat's foot Oil, or a pound of fresh Butter, temper therewith two pennyworth of Cloves, and Mace only bruised▪ put also thereto one spoonful of the juice of Sage so much of Mints, let them gently boil in the Oil with herbs, use it warm, and it will ease the pain. A Powder to eat for the Spleen. TAke a spoonful of Aniseeds, and Liquorice in powder as much gross Pepper so much Ginger, temper them with Sugar, and Rosewater, use to eat a little of this when you feel pain or stiches in your sides. An excellent Ptysan drink for the shortness of breath. TAke French Barley, (boiled, and changed in two or three waters) three or four spoonfuls, A Fennel, and a Parsley root or two picked, and sliced; Raisins of the Sun stoned, and Currants of either a quarter of a pound, Figgs, and Dates of each seven or eight, Anniseeds, and sweet Fennel seeds bruised of either a spoonful, Maiden hair, Scabious, and dried Hyssop, of either an handful, large Mace, a blade or two; and Liquorice bruised or sliced the weight of a shilling, let all those be boiled in an earthen Pipkin with six pints of running water close covered with a gentle fire, until the third part, or almost half the Liquor be wasted, than let it be strained ou●, and settled, and of this Ptysan drink twice a day a quarter of a pint or more at a time, in the morning, and at four a clock in the afternoon. For the yellow Jandise. TAke the Urine of the patiented, how far distant soever, and make a past with it, and the ashes of Ash, divide the lump into seven or nine small Loaves, or heaps, make a hole with your singer on the top of each of them, and pour some of the same Urine into the holes, and put a third of Saffron into each of them, and with your fingers close up the holes at the top, than set them by in some safe place, and the Patient will recover, this hath been often tried with good success. To draw out a Thorn. TAke the gall of a Barrow Pig, and apply it, and it will draw it out. Marry Brent. A Syrup for a Cough. TAke Turnips and roast them in Emberss, pull of the skins, and squeses out the water, and make a Syrup of it with Sugar-Candie, and use it as other Syrups for that purpose. For a Strain. TAke common Clay, and mix it with wine Vinegar, warm it, and spread it on a cloth, and apply it to the part. A Diet Drink. Take the simples following of each one a handful. Bugle. Senay two ounce. Great white Bodell or Ox ●ye▪ Wild Dayses. Dandelion Red Avens Read brambleleaves. Wood Bettony: Mugwort. Plantain. Ribb-wort. Wormwood. Egremonie. Devils Bilt. Boil all these in two quarts of white Wine until it come to a quart, than strain it through a fine strainer, and put into it the quantity of four spoonfuls of honey to make it pleasant, put it into a Bottle, and stop it close, and drink it a morning's fasting an hour before Dinner, and an hour before you go to Bed four spoonfuls at a time. This Drink is for old wounds, green wounds, Bruises, or Aches, or other diseases arising from these things aforesaid, and hath, and will cure the Cancer. For the Gout. TAke seven grains of Musk, and seven of Amber grease, and seventeen grains of well dried Cloves, and one and twenty grains of the best well dried Varina Tobacco, or other good Tobacco if you cannot get Varina, beaten the Cloves, and the Tobacco into a very small powder, and mix it with the other two and take it morning and evening in each Nostril, the quantity of a great pins head or there abouts, the Tobacco, and the Cloves must be searsed, and so weighed before you mix them: You must make but half the quantity at a time. To break the Stone in the Kidneys: TAke a Hare and flay him quick, receive all the blood into skin, and than burn both blood and skinn, take the Ashes thereof, and put them in the Patient's drink, and that will break the Stoneif, you will make proof thereof, temper the said Dishes with water, and put therein as hard a stone as you can get, and it will break it. A Lute. TAke Lome, Horse dung washed, Smith's cinders, flocks, mix all these together, and beaten them with an Iron till they be well incorporate, some Ox blood, and a fourth part of Clay to that of Loom, with this Lute your pot, or Still, being bound about with Wire that it may stick to the pot. To make Syrup of Gilly flowers. TAke a quart of Conduit water, and put it in a Vessel of earth Pewter, or Silver, and make it boiling hit, but let it not boil, and as soon as ever you have taken it from the fire, put into it twelve ounces of Gilly flowers, and let them infuse in it, two nights, and a day, than make them boiling hot again, and than let them cool, but keep them both times close covered, when it is cold, strain it through a Canvas strainer, and than put to it three pound and a half of good Sugar, and ●et it on a soft fire that the Sugar may dissolve, it must be boiling hot, but not boil, and you must scum it very well when it is taken of the fire, and cold, during the time the Sugar is in it on the fire stir it often. To make Conserve of Roses. TAke a pound of Red-rose buds, and dip the white ends, and in a stone Morter and with a wooden pestoll pound them very small, than put to them Roses three pound of good Sugar, put in your Sugar by degrees, and beaten it very well, until it be incorporated than put it up in pots for your use. To Distil Roses. TAke sixteen pound of Roses, and put into a Limbeck, and with a soft fire, from that quantity of Roses, draw four Gallons of water, the first Gallon is best, the next is reasonable, the third good to mix with better, the fourth only good to put into a still of fresh Roses, and observe at this last running, the spirit will come in to the Limbeck, you must put water with the Roses, if in a Still put no water to them: In distilling of all sorts of simples, let them be done in a Still, and from a stillfull draw not above a Gallon of water, and put no water into the Still. A Pill to purge the head. TAke of the Trochis of Alhandall and Diagredium ana, two Drams, of the pills of Aureareum, and Cochiatinum of each half an ounce, mix these together, and with the Chemical Oil of Cloves, and syrup of Roses solutive, as much as will suffice make a Mass of pills the doss is one scruple or half a dram. An approved Medicine to clear the Reins of gravel or the stone, and also to cleanse them from all slimy matter which cause the Gonorra or Defluxion of seed. Mr. Green the Emprick. TAke smooth Holly, rest Harrow roots, horse Radish roots dry the Roots in an Oven, and than burn them to a powder with the holy in a dripping pan. Take of each a like quantity or weight. And if the party be troubled with a Seminal defluxion, than let him take with the aforesaid powder a Nutmeg grated, and the yelk of an Egg for three nights afterwards let him use the powder only, this powder is to be taken in white Wine. For the Gout and all Aches. TAke oil of Spike, oil of Petro, oil of Sulphur, and the oil of a Silver Eel, which is made by hanging the E●l● with a thread over the fire, and than it will drop this oil. For the Spleen. TAke the water of the flowers of Beans. Probatumest▪ For the Jaundice. TAke in the morning fasting if it be a man, lice out of a females head, and drink them with white Wine and Sugar, and a little Nutmeg. And take in the evening powder of worms as much as will lie upon a groat Mag. Perlo. gr. 3. in white wine. Probatum Goodwife Pelham. For a looseness and Flux. TAke the white of an Egg, a Nutmegg, and mingle them, and make them into a paste. Probatum, Pelham. Another for the same. TAke the Conserve of Read Roses one ounce, the bark of Pomgranats, dust of Sumach one ounce, Mummy, the Syrup of dried Roses, a little of the water of Mints, Conserve of Damsons. For the Mother and wind of the Stomach. TAke Plantain, Chicory, Borage, Egrimony, the leaves of Violets ana M. 1. let them boil in three pound of Fountain water, till the third part be consumed, than strain them, and than put to them half a pound of white Sugar Candy, and beaten Caryophill an ounce, let there be infused half a pint, than strain them, and when it is cold add to it one half pint of Vinegar. For a lameness in the Limbs, Legs, or elsewhere occasioned by Cold. LEt the Patient hold the part affected in hot grains, as long as they can, it will 'cause to sweated it out, than anoint the part with Nerve oil▪ For phlegm in the Stomach and a Cough. TAke Lohech Sani. q. v. Oil of Vitriol, and a little of the flower of Sulphur, or Brimstone, and Conserve of Bettony. For a weakness in the Back or a Gonorrhaea, or Running of the Reins. TAke the Extraction of Rudii half an ounce, of sweet Mercury, five grains, mix them, and make pills of them, than take the Conserve of Red-Roses one Ounce, of the best Bowl Armonack three ounces, of dried Terebinth being beaten to powder two ounces, mingle them, and make an Electuary, take it early in the morning. For a Foot pained and swollen with the Gout, the humours falling down thereto. TAke the Oil of Hyppericon, the Ointment of Mallows, and the Empl▪ of Paracelsus. An Astringent Medicine for the Reins. TAke the feet of a Hare, dried in an Oven very dry, and beaten them to powder. For a Cleanser and a strengthener, ad idem. TAke the Oil of Turpentine in Milk. For a Liver that is rotten as a Sheep. USe the decoction of the male Scabios, it is long and sharp, and jagged▪ Fluxing Pills. TAke Turbith mineral gr. x. for the first in Mithredate gr. fourteen next gr. xx. purge the Patient three or four days before, and three or four days after, than a diet drink of Sarsa. etc. the purge before let it be extract Rudii pill. Cochiae Creni. Tartae. To correct the Ulcers, use Smith's water with unslaked loom, and a little sublimates, and a little Alum, the night before you raise the Flux, give the Patiented a dose of Laudanum Paracelsi; and in the morning a draught of warm broth. Against the superfluity of the Menstralls. TAke the grain of Chermes one scruple: Of read Sanders half an ounce. Of Carabes one scruple. Of Nutmeg two scruples. Of the fragments of Smaragdi five grains, with three ounces of fine Sugar, make Trage●. For the bloody Flux. TAke read Wine, Plantain water ana. lib. 1. Cloves xij. Cinnamon one ounce, let them be boiled altogether. For any of the three kinds of Dropsey. TAke the leaves of Laurel, dry them in an Oven, and powder them, give the Patient as much of the powder as will lie upon a Groat, if you pull the leaves upward, it causeth vomiting, if downward, than it worketh downward. Probatum▪ For a Bnrning or Scald. TAke the oil of Eggs. Probatum. Against pain, and Ache in the Joints. TAke Chamedreos, Camepiteos, Gentiana, ana. three ounces fol. ru●e secca. four ounces, make all into fine powder, this must be administered after the body hath been well purged▪ and is usually given one spoonful in the Winter time in white Wine, and in the Summer, with distilled water. For the Flux. NEw milk two pound, Plantain water, one pound boil the milk and put in the water by degrees, and boil it with refined Sugar. q. s. For the Hemorrhoides. TAke the root of flags boil them in water, and let the Patient sit over the steam thereof, and it shall cure him: Probatum Mr. Molland. For the sweatings caused by a Hectic fever or other wise. TAke Saint Johns-wort, Centory ana. a penny worth, boil them in Posset drink, and drink thereof morning and evening. Mr. Herrick. For a pain in the head caused through cold. TAke sweet Marjoram, read Sage, mulled in a pint of Sack, than add thereto Cons. Arthos and Mithredate. For the Gonorrhaea. Mr. Moss. TAke five drops of Turpentine in four ounces of Milk. Tum. TAke Hares feet, dry them two or three times in an Oven claws, and all, beaten them into fine powder, and give the Patient thereof one ounce in any liquid thing. For a Plaster to the Back: TAke Oxecroccum q. s. and Mastic in powder. For a Palsy. TAke Lavender water, and the Oil of Hypericiexterm. To discuss a hard tumour on the breast, etc. TAke the ashes of Bean straw, and with Mallows, and other discussive herbs make a Lixivium, and apply the stupes to hot continually. For a Scald head. TAke ship Pitch make a plaster of it, than Vnguentum Nutritum will cure it without fail. For Pimples in the face caused by little worms, etc. Master Moss. TAke Bay salt, dry it by the fire, or in an Oven, and beaten it to a fine powder, and than mix it with fresh butter, or some Ointment, viz: Vng. popul. For the Convulsion fits, an excellent and never failing Medicine. Mr. Hubbard. TAke black Cherry water two ounces, of the blood of a Cat's Ear eight or ten drops, mingle it, and let the Patient drink it at one draught. Doctor Butler's Receipt for the hearing. Probatum est. TAke the Urine that is found in the Bladder of a Hare two drops or three, with two drops or three of oil of Amber, or oil of bitter Almonds: To staunch the bleeding at the Nose. TAke bowl Almanac, Sanguis Draconis, and terra Sigilata, mix them with the white of an Egg, and apply them to the nape of the Neck, if it be a man that is so troubled, dipp a cloth in Vinegar, and apply it to the Cod's. For the wind Colic. TAke the stones of a Boar, and dry them to powder in a soft Oven, than searce them very fine, and give the Patient, the quantity that will lie upon a Groat, in any liquid thing, but if the Patient be very weak it will purge him. For the Piles. ORpine pounded and stamped, with May Butter, is a present remedy, let the Patient sit over the smoke of Frankincense. For the Hemorrhodes Doctor Lister's prescript ion for Mr. Gestick. TAke of the pills of Bdeleum one ounce, with Trochii of terra Lemina two ounces with the Mussellage of the seed of Quences with Rose water extracted, let it be made into pieces, of which let him take a scruple twice in a day, one before dinner and one before supper about half an hour. For the same. TAke Dates, one Dram, two pound of the water of Barley, boil it till three parts almost be wasted, than put into it of Cinnamon half an ounce, than strain them, and let him drink every morning a draught, three or four hours before he eat any thing. A Glister for the same. TAke of Read Roses six ounces, of Plantain, Knotgrass, Daisy Roots, Symphiti, Tapsa, Barbart▪ let them boil with one pound of of Milk, put to it of Sugar two ounces. For the Hemorrhoids from Doctor Maurice Williams. TAke half a Dram of Rhubarb mixed with the Jelly of Quinces. For the Hemorrhoides Doctor Lysters prescription. TAke a good handful of Millfoyle or Yarrow, and pour on it in a fit Glass a quart of very hot water, and so let it stand all night, in the morning drink a large draught, and so the rest the next morning, this continued for a month renewing it every other day. Make a decoction of Mullen, Dogs-tongue, Yarrows Plantain leaves, and Briar leaves, and use to inject it every night going to Bed with a good large Sying, and keep it, it may be used also in the morning. Also take the root of Dog's Tongue and roast it under the Emberss, lapping it in a paper, & bruise it, and make a little Bag (a long one) of it, of lynnin like a Suppository, and put the root into it, and so put it into the fundament, keeping it there long, if any swelling, or pain be outward, apply the root so raosted to it. I could advice him to drink that infusion of Yarrow for his ordinary drink. For a Pinn and Web. TAke Bar●x, and powder it, and blow it into the Eye, and it will cure it. Probatum Mr. Gestwick. A Receipt for your Stomach when it is waterish, or when you cannot digest your meat well. TAke a quart of Aquavitae, and put it into a Jugg, than take a pound and a half of the best Cherries you can get, and the stalks being pulled out, put them in the Jugg to the Aquavitae, and stop it always very close: When you will use it, take one or two Cherries, and half a spoonful of the liquor at night going to bed. Probatum est. For the Stone. TAke half a peck of Hemp seed, steep them in a pottle of Rhenish Wine, and let the Patient drink thereof when it is strained. This Medicine cured Mr. Woodals' Daughter of the Stone, and another in Racket Court in Fleetstreet. For a Consumption. TAke a read Cock, pluck him whilst he is alive, than cut of his head and legs▪ exenterate him, you must not wash him, only dry him with clothes and bake him with other things, as Anniseeds Licorace, and with such other as are good against a Consumption. The Receipt of the Lady savil water to wash her face with, sent for out of Italy. TAke a great Limbeck, and put into it 1. lib. of Snail water 1. lib. of white Rose-water, 1 lib. of Lemond water four ounces, of Bean flower water, four ounces, of white Tartar four ounces of the powder of Calke, two ounces of Gum Tragagant in powder, four ounces of Rice in powder, as much of French-barley, one pound of new Milk, the Whites of thirty Eggs, 1. lib. of Honey, put them all into a silver or earthen Basin, and beaten them. For the Rickets, an approved Medicine, Mistress Dimmock. TAke a quart of Muskadine, or rather Aligant, and boil in it the Gaul of a read Ox, be assured it be a read Ox, and bathe them therewith, and dip clothes therein, and bind about the Joints. For to purge the Body, ad idem. TAke Rhubarb and Ribwort. For a Consumption. TAke Milk and Fountain water, and boil them together, and let the Patient drink thereof for his ordinary drink, let him eat milk and bread for his diet. A Gentlewoman was cured of this Disease by this diet, using it eleven weeks together. For the running of the Reinss. TAke of the best Mastic, powder it, and let it be ground well with read Rose-water, and take a quantity thereof in the Yolk of an egg fasting. For the Stone, and to provoke Urine. TAke a Clove of Garlic, bruise it a little, and let it be infused all night in White wine, and in the morning let the Patient drink the same: Probatum, Mrs: Hagger. For the Piles. TAke Raisins of the Sun, and beaten them, and spread them upon Scarlet, and apply them to the place affected. For an Ache. Boil white Caranna in Muskadine until it comes to a Salve. To help a Woman in Labour. GIve her a Datestone that hath a perfect round circle, with half a Nutmeg in a draught of Rhenish Wine. For the Fits of the Mother. TAke Conserve of Garyophyll one ounce, Mosch: one grain M. For weakness. TAke three ounces of Barley, two ounces of Heart's horn, thirty Grains of Saffron, boil all these in a Gallon of Conduit water to a pottle, strain it, and sweeten it with Syrup of Violets. For a soar mouth or throat. TAke a pennyworth of Syrup of Mulburies', and a pennyworth of Honey of Roses, mix them with a half pennyworth of Plantain water, and use it. The expression of Rheubarb. TAke of the best Rheubarb three drams, or the weight of two shillings, cut it into little slices, put this into a silver Boul or Dish, put to it three spoonfuls of Currant clean washed and dried, than put to these four spoonfuls of Cichory water or of each so much as will fully cover the Rheubarb, and Currant, let them thus stand in steep sixteen or eighteen hours, than strain the thinner liquor from them, and punn the grosser substance in a wooden dish, and with a wooden Pestle, and than express or squeeze out the juice to the other, punn it the second and third time that you may have the whole moisture, take thereof two spoonfuls in the morning, and as much in the afternoon about four of the Clock, and drink after each taking a little Draught of White-wine. An Oil. TAke four and twenty Swallows, and put them quick into a Mortar, put to them Lavender, Cotten, Camomile, Knotgrass, Balm, Valerian, Rosemary, Woodbine-tops, the strings of Vine, French Mallows, the tops of Ale-hoof, of Strawburies'— Plantain, Walnut-leaves, Sage of Virtue, two tops of young Bays, Hyssop, Violet leaves, fine Roman Wormwood, of each a handful, two of Camomile, two of read Roses, beaten all these together, and put them to a quantity of Neatsfoot oil or May-butter, two ounces of Cloves, grinned them and put them together, than mingle them, and put them into an earthen pot, stop it very close with Doughty, that no air come forth, and let it stand nine days in a Cellar, and than set the pot into a pan of water, and let it seethe eight or nine hours, and than strain it, and so keep it. To preserve green Plumms. TAke green Plumms, pair them as thin as you can, than flit them on one side to the stone, than prick them over, put them into cold water as you have pared them, to keep them from growing black, than put them into hot scalding water, with a small quantity of Sugar, and let it stand so close stopped till that water grow bloodwarm, than take them forth of the water, heating it again, and add more Sugar thereto, and when it is grown hot as before, than put your Plumms to it, and let them stand close stopped as before, till the water grow bloodwarm, than take out the Plumms, and let the water run clean from them, than take as much clarified Sugar as will cover them, and so boil them leisurely till they grow very soft, than take them from the Syrup and lay them on a fair board, and put them into an Oven after the bread is drawn, turning them every day till they grow dry for your use. An Electuary. TAke three ounces of Currant well washed, Damask Pruens three ounces, boil them in a quart of the decoction of Magistral Sena, the preparation whereof is under written, till the decoction be consumed, than make thereof a Pulp, whereunto add one ounce and half of Cassia purified, one ounce and a half of Sugar, of Violets one ounce and a half, of the Electuary of Sebestens one ounce, Rheubarb two drams, mingled with four drams of Syrup of Roses Solative, and take it in the morning a dram. The preparation of the Magistral Sena. TAke Oriental Sena, Polypode of the Oak each one ounce, Currant one ounce and a half, Damask prunes of the best, ten, Cinnamon and Ginger of each one dram, Anniseeds two drams, of the flowers of Violets, Buglass, borage, a handful and a half, than take two pints and a half of water, in which Batley hath been well boiled, into which being well strained you must first boil the Polypode of the Oak, afterwards the Prunes, Currant, and Aniseed, thenthe Violets, Flowers of borage, and Bugloss, each according to their degrees, which you must strain when it is hot, and squeeze it a little, into which you must put presently, the Sena, Cinnamon, and Ginger, and keep it hot so twelve hours, than give it one good boiling, and strain it, and squeeze it very well for your use. Aquapendente his Pill, as it was delivered me by his Apothecary in Italy. TAke of Aloes, Cyratrine one pound, juice of Roses, ten pound, put the Aloes into an earthen dish well glazed, and put thereon a part of the juice of Roses, mingling them very well, and place them in the Sun till they come to a consistence, than put upon it more juice of Roses until it thicken, and upon each pound of Aloes you have, put the ten pound of the juice of Roses, being careful to hung over the dish a fine vail of Silk, that flies or dust may not fall into it, you must often times in the day when you have placed it in the Sun, stir it with a wooden or silver Instrument, and leave it so in the Sun till it grow solid and firm. To cure a Consumption and all Ulcers, even inward: It purifieth the blood, and cureth Morbus Gal. etc. TAke three quarts of Fountain water, and steep in it a whole night one ounce of China sliced, with half a pound of Raisins stoned and well washed, with three quarters of an ounce of English Licorace fliced, and as much Anniseeds, and set this on the fire after the infusion aforesaid, till half be consumed, let it boil softly in an earthen pot well glazed, with a narrow mouth. The first day take it after this manner; In the morning fasting a good draught warmed, drink no other at your meat, but than drink it cold, and at night drink another draught warmed when you go to bed. The second day take the same quantity of water, and infuse in like manner one ounce and a half of China, with the rest of the Ingredients aforesaid, boil it and take it as formerly. The third day take two ounces of China. The fourth day two ounces and a half of China. The fifth day three ounces of China, and so continued with that quantity of China during the taking of it, which must be for the space of one and twenty days: If you found it bind your body too much, in stead of Raisins take Damasck Pruuns stoned: but as soon as you found your body so lible again, use Raisins as before, the day before you take this drink, you must take a purge of Sena, Manna, or Rhubarb, the tenth or twelfth day you must take the same purge again, and so likewise purge at the end of one and twenty days, during the taking of this you must eat dried meats, and forbear Fish, Salads, and Broths, though sometimes you may eat boiled meat. For to cool the Liver. Boil Liver-wort, Egremony, Suckory, wood-sorrel in running water until almost half be consumed, than sttain it, and put to a draught thereof a spoonful or two of Syrup of Violets, and so drink it. A Cordial against the Consumption. TAke four spoonfuls of read Rose-water, four spoonfuls of White-wine Vinegar, and fix pence weight of Saffron, steep them for half an hour, and than strain it, and put thereto half a pound of Sugar, and boil it to a Syrup, and take thereof a spoonful at a time, as often as you william. A Powder for a Fistula. TAke of Alum, of green Copperice, of each two pound, and put them into a well leaded pan, and let it boil to a water, and when it is all dissolved put into it of Verdigrease beaten, and seared into fine powder four ounces, stir it all well together, and let it boil till they come to a hard body, and being cold beaten it into fine powder, and mix with it four ounces of Bole armoniac in powder, and keep it in a Box for your use. To make the water. TAke a gellon of Smith's water, and set it on the fire, and when the Pipkin gins to boil shake in as much of the powder as will lie five times on a shilling, the powder being all in, let the water boil a walm or two, than take it from the fire and put it into a Glass, and use the clearest of it, putting on the soar a Diapalma Plaster: Probatum. For sharpness of Urine. MAke a quart, or three pint of clear posset drink, with small Beer or Ale, boil in the same Posset-drink a pretty quantity of March Mollow roots, as much Licorace sliced, some Pompeon-seeds sliced, and a little Anniseeds bruised, boil the posset-drink from three pints to a quart, drink a good draught of that when you go to bed, and fasting in the morning. If Urine be very sharp, put into the posset-drink before you drink, two ounces of Syrup of Althaea, or oil of sweet Almonds new drawn. A powder for Worms: WOrmseed four ounces, Senna one ounce, Coriander-seed prepared, Hartshorn, of each one ounce, Rheubarb an ounce, dried Rheu two ounces, beaten them into powder. It may be taken from ten grains to an ounce. 1. To make an Esker fall of, Unguentum Dialthea mixed with Vnguentum Basilicon an. part. eq. and applied. 2. To dry up an Ulcer and to skin it, use Vng. Diapomfo. ung. de fec atinum Rubrum, un ex Antimonia. 3. To Incarnate a hollow Ulcer, according to the constitution of the body, use Basilicon mixed with Precipetate, and a little Lynementum Arcei, and often times unguentum Apostilorum by itself. 4. To dissolve hard swelling pr●ceeding of a cold cause, you must use hot Ointments and hot Implaisters, as Oxicrocum Paracelsus, and in hot Swell cold Ointments, as Oil of Roses, ung. Tri●phermicon, and cold Implaisters, as Dia palma. 5. To break an Impostumation, you may do it by Incision or Caustick, as you found cause. 6. To take away dead flesh, burnt Alum mixed with Mercur. precipetate applied on it with dry Lint: 7. To scale a foul bone, you must do it with a Cauterising Iron, or with Egiptiacum and Spirit of Wine mixed together: First, lay on the edges of the Soar upon the flesh dry Lint, and than make a thick Pledget of fine Tow, and dip it in the Egip. and Spir. being made hot: And so apply it and bind it close. 8. To cleanse a foul Ulcer, apply Egipti. hot, or Apostilorum. To make Basilicon. TAke of liquid pitch, resin, Wax, Oil, Mutton Suet, of each like quantity, and melt it on a soft fire, and add to a little Turpentine, and it's made. Lynementum Arcei. GUm Elemi, Venice Turpentine, of each an ounce and a half, Hogs▪ lard one ounce, Sheep's Suet two ounces, mingle all together, and on a gentle fire incorporate it together with a Spatula. Diapomfoligos. TAke Oil of Roses four Ounces, white Wax one ounce and a half, washed Ceruse one ounce and half Pompholigos plumbi usti and washed, of each one ounce and a half, Olibanum 2. ounces dissolve the Wax in the Oil with a gentle fire, and when it is dissolved take it from the fire, and put to it the other Ingredients, working them together in a stone Morter to the form of an Unguent. Vn. desecat Rubrum. LApis Galli. Terra sigil. of each two ounces Lytharge of Gold and Ceruse of each one ounce and a half, Campheire half an ounce, Wax two ounces and a half, the Oil of Roses, and Violers of each three ounces, dissolve the Wax in the Oil, and set it to cool and work in the powders with a Splatter, and at the last add the Camphire dissolved in a little of the oil of Roses or Rose water. Take yellow Wax one pound, Salad oil three pound, Venice Turpentine one pound, read Sanders one Ounce, wash the Turpentine in Rose water, and wash the oil in Sack or good white Wine. Than melt the Wax, and put the Oil with the Wine into it, and the Sanders, and boil it gently, until all the moisture is gone, than strain it while it is whole, and keep it. This Balsam healeth a wound in 24 hours, if you put it in while it is green. It healeth all scaldings or burn whatsoever, but it will smart. It is excellent for the running of the Rains, if you give it once or twice by itself. And than mingle Cinnamon small pounded with it, and give it in read Wine. How to make a Cordial Electuary for a stuffing or shortness of breath. TAke a pint of the best honey you can get, set it on the fire, and scum it clean, than put into it a little bundle of▪ Hyssop, being bruised, a little before you bind it up, let it boil till the honey taste well of the Hyssop, than strain out the honey very hard, and put into it of Angelica ●oot grated or beaten small, the weight of six pence, of Elicampane root grated or beaten small, the weight of six pence, of Ginger pared and beaten small the weight of two pence, of Pepper beaten small the weight of two pence, of Liquorish scraped dried and beaten small the weight of eight pence, of Annyseeds beaten small the weight of eighteen pence, put all these into the honey, and let them boil a little space, stirring them all the time, than pour all into a clean galley pot, and put three spoonfuls of Aquavitae to them, stirring all together till it be cold, than keep it close covered for your use: when one is troubled with a stuffing or shortness of breath, let them take some of this Electuary with a bruised Liquorish stick often out of the galley pot, and they will found much good by it, for it is a most excellent and cordial medicine, which Queen Elizabeth used to take for these infirmities. For a Fever. TAke a handful of Spermint, an handful of Woodsorrel, and half a pound of the best blue Currants, wash them well and put them into two quarts of running water, and let them boil until half be consumed, than pour away the liquor from all the things, put half an ounce of Syrup of Violets to it boil the Herbs again, and strain it through a thin cloth, and use it. For the Eyes. TAke Copperace one ounce, white Salt one scruple, put them into twelve ounces of water, and stir them altogether, after that being done, let it stand until it be clear, than drop one drop into the eye. Aloes two ounces, Myrrh one ounce and a half, Saffron half an ounce, and make them into Pills. To make a water for the Stone. TAke a gallon of new milk of a read Cow, and put therein a handful of Pellitory of the Wall, a handful of wild Time, a handful of Saxifrage, a handful of Parsley, and two or three Radish-roots sliced, and half a handful Philependula roots sliced, let all these lie in the milk one night, and in the morning put the milk and herbs into a Still, and distil them with a moderate fire of Charcoal, when you are to use the water, take a draught of Rhenish or White-wine, and put into the Wine five spoonfuls of the distilled water, a little Sugar and Nutmegs sliced, drink it of in the morning fasting, and fast two hours, and keep yourself walking and going up and down, the next day meddle not with it, but the third day do as you did the first day, and for every other day for a weeks space. This water must be made in the month of May. For a Plaster. TAke of Plantain, Featherfew, tansy, and Houseleek, of each a like quantity, stamp them and strain them, take of that juice a pint, set that over the fire in a Skellet, thicken that with Bean meal, let that boil to the consistence of a Poultice, but in the boiling put in a good spoonful of Honey; this is for a Plaster: For the Glister. TAke clean posset-drink a good quantity and boil in that Violet leaves, Mallow leaves, Mercury leaves, Hollyoke leaves, Camomile, Mellow-lack flowers, of each a handful, a spoonful of Anniseeds and a spoonful of sweet Fennelseeds, bruise that, let that boil well in the posset-drink, strain that and take about a pint of that liquor, and put to that of loaf Sugar or other such two ounces, two ounces of Syrup of Violets. For the cold phlegm and stone and pain in the back. TAke of live Honey a pint, boil it and skim it well, than put to it of the seeds of Parsley, of the leaves of Saxefrage and Pelletory of the Wall, of each half an ounce, of Hysop-water, of Plantain water, of each one ounce, mix these with the Honey, and boil it gently until it come to be a perfect Syrup: Take this upon a stick of Licorace. For a Cough. TAke Anniseed-water, or strong Aquavitae half a pint, boil it upon the coals in a silver Dish, and put to it a quarter of Sugar beaten to powder, than set it on a fire, and let it burn continually, stirring it still with a spoon or slice, until it come to be a Syrup, than put to it of good Rose-water four or five spoonfuls, and than let it boil until it grow thick like a Syrup, and add to it of the juice of Licorace half an ounce. A most precious and approved Balsam for any old Soar, or green Wound. TAke of Venice Turpentine one pound, of the best Oil Olive three pints, Virgin Wax half a pound, of Sanders four ounces, Sack half a pint, Litharg of Gold finely powdered and seared two ounces, wash the Turpentine in a pint of read Rose-water, until it be clear, and wash the Oil in half a pint of Rose-water; the Wax must be sliced thin, and boiled in a pint of read Rose-water, until it have well purged itself, than skim it clear, and take it from the fire, and let it stand until it be cold, than take the Wax out, and pour out the water, and put the Wax into a Skellet, and set it again upon the fire to melt, than put in the Turpentine, and oil, with half a pint of the best Sack, and boil it two or three walmes, than take it from the fire, and as soon as it beginneth to grow cold, take the Sanders and shear them in, and strain them together, until it come to a thick substance, when it is through cold, take a galley pot and put it into it, and set the pot in a hole in a hearth that may be covered for the space of two Months, and with the heat of the Fire, it will become a perfect Balsam, of the colour of Claret Wine; The first melting of it, must be over a soft Fire of Charcoal. A present Remedy for the bloody Flux. TAke some great Almonds, and dry them upon a new Tile with the skins on so dry as they may be beaten to powder, and let a little broth be made of a little mutton, wherein boil a little plaintane and Knot Grass, and let the child drink of the broth with a spoonful of this powder of Almonds. When she is weary of this Broth, make her a little Pap with new milk and flower throughly well boiled together with a little Plantain and sand to the Apothecaries for some conserve of Slowes. Also take the leaves of Rosemary, boil in some strong read Wine Vinegar, and bind them to her Navel with a linen cloth, and by the grace of God this will help her. Also let there be a Brick made read hot in the fire: and when it is read hot, take it out and put it into the bottom of the Close stool, putting upon the same Brick whilst it is hot, two or three spoonfuls of old Malmsme, and let the Child sit upon the stool and receive the fume into her body. For the Dropsye. TAke of Read Sage a quarter of a peck clean washed and dried in a cloth▪ than chop it, and beaten it small; make a Pie of Rye paste, and put into it the herbs aforesaid, with half a quarter of a pound of Lignum vitae small shred beaten, or in chips, upon the top of the Sage in the Pie, with a cover of the same paste, and than put it into the Oven, until the next morning, being thoroughly baked. Than take two Gallons of Ale, or Beer, which the Patient liketh best, but Ale is much the better; for that it provoketh Urine most. Than take the Pie as hit as may be out of the Oven, and hastily put the Pie down to the bottom of the Tub, wherein the Ale▪ is, that the Pie be all covered over, and so keep it down, and stop the Barrel or Tub close, and let the Pie lie in it twenty four hours, than strain what you drink, and drink so much as you have an appetite to, it may be drunk at all times, day and night; but not any other drink. They need not observe any diet, but eat what they like best, but I advice from gross meats, as salt meats, and Baked: This Pie will serve twice but fresh is better. The Purge that must be taken with it. TAke for a Man forty grains of the best Jollop grated, and of Sedoary five grains: For a woman, thirty Grains of Jollopp and five of Sedoary. This to be taken fasting in a morning, in a quarter of a pint of White wine or Posset drink, made with Ale, or Beer, but Ale is the better, and this to be taken one week, the Patient must keep with in doors that day they take the purge, and not drink any thing after it until the Physic hath done working, which may be about twelve of the clock if it be taken early in the morning. Take a pound of double Pionie flowers pitch them clean, put them up in strong white wine Vinegar in a galley pot, stop it close, and set it by, than take a pound of Cowslip flowers, pick them clean, and put them in Vinegar, and tie them close, than take young Swallows at the least eight or ten score out of their nests, and stamp them very small, either in a stone Morter or milch bowl stamp with them four ounces of Nutmegs four ounces of Cinnamon, two ounces of Mace, half an ounce of Cloves, two ounces of peony seeds, six handful of Roses, a quarter of an ounce of Castoreum, than take a brass pot, and lay three or four e handfuls of Rosemary in the bottom, and put in all the ingredients into the pot, and put a handful of Roses, on the top than put in as mueh perfect good Vinegar as will cover it, let it stand twenty four hours close stopped than set on your Limbeck upon the pot, and distil it with a soft fire, stamp the flowers that were in steep amongst the Swallows feathers guts, and all, and if it be to sharp you must sweeten it with Sugar. Castoreum not to womenwith child, three spoonfuls nine mornings together, gargoyle it in the mouth as long as you can, and than let it down fast two or three hours after it. To prevent Abortion. TAke Unguentum restringens Farnelii, Diacal, Scithius of each a like, dissolve them together, and make a plaster thereof for the back. The making of Aloway pills. TAke two ounces of very good Aloways; and put thereto a quarterof a pint of the Juice of Read Roses with two spoonful of Vinegar, than set it in a soft Oven after the bread is drawn till it be dissolved, than strain it hard, through a fair cloth than, set it in the Sun or in warm embers, till it be thick like a conserve, stirring it three or four times a day; than take Nutmegs, Cinnamon, Ginger, Cloves, Mace, Quinbibes, of every of these a Ducat weight of Astrabake half a Ducat weight, bruise all these as you would for hippocras, and lay them in three quarters of a pint of Muscadine three days, than strain it, and after beaten the spices as small as can be, and grinned it with the same wine again, and strain it again, and wring it as hard out as can be, than put that wine to your Conserve Alowayes, and let it stand so long in the Sun or Emberss till it have drunk up that, and come to a Conserve again, stirring it often than put it in a close pot, and keep it to your use, it is the better if you strain into it of the juice of Violets, Borage flowers or such like in the time of the drying. To restore Nature. TAke a handful of Knot grass, Daisy roots, and leaves as much, beaten them both together in a mortar, take twelve Dates and beaten them with the rest, than take a dishfull of the pith of an Ox back, the yolks of six new laid Eggs, and beaten them altogether, than take a pottle of Muscadel the best you can, and put it into the same, and stir them well, than put it into a fair Vessel, and seethe it till half be consumed, put in Mace, Nutmegs, Cinnamon, and Sugar, drink thereof every morning, and evening warm. For a sore Cough, by the Lady Sussex. TAke of white Sugar-candy a good quantity, of Raisins of the Sun stoned, a good quantity, grinned both together in a stone Morter, till they become like a Conserve, and so eat of it. Also you must take Capon's grease, and a good quantity of Rosemary, being made small, and boil both it and the Capon's grease together, till the Rosemary have lost its strength, and than strain it and keep it in a pot, and take some of it, and anoint the Chest up to the throat before the fire, that done take black wool and warm it, and apply it upon the place anointed and so keep you warm. A Diet Drink against the King's Evil, or for any other that will take Physic, if a child have any bunches or Kirnels about them. TAke plaster of Frogs without quicksilver and Paracelsus, of each an equal quantity, spread it upon Linen Cloth, prick it full of holes, and change it but once a fortnight, and take the Diet drink according to directions. Take a quarter of a pound of Guyacum, two ounces of Sarsapirilla, set it on the fire with a gallon and a pint of Spring water, let it simper on a soft fire twelve hours, than put into it an ounce of Harmonaick, as much Annyseed, as much of Liquorice fliced, let it infuse till it comes to a pottle or a little more, than put an ounce and halfe of Sena in it, and let it boil once through, take it from the fire presently, put into it half an ounce of Rhubarb sliced, Cowslip flowers, Bettony flowers, Rosemary flowers of all one handful, a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon bruised, than take it from the fire and cover it close twelve hours, than strain it with a course Cloth betwixt two and put it into bottles, put the ingredients into the pot again, and put a pottle of small Beer into it, and cover it, let it stand till the first be drunk up. You must drink a good draught in the morning an hour after take some Broth: if you can take it in the after noon. Let the child eat Naples Biscuit. You must not sand this Bill to the Apothecaries but only a Note with the Names of the things. An Excellent purge. TAke three of four Pippins, pair and slice them in thin slices, than take a stick of Liquorish and scrape and slice it in thin slices also, than put them in a pint of Conduit water, and boil them till all the strength of the Liquorish and Apples be boiled out, than take them out, and set the water or liquor away in a clean pann or pot till it be cold, than at night take four drams of your best Sena and pick it, and two drams of your best Rhubarb, and slice it, and half a dram of O●le of Tartar well prepared, and put them in the Liquor, than stir it well and so set it away till the morning than strain it and drink it, to be sure keep yourself very warm. Excellent purging Pills. TAke an ounce of juice of Roses, and as much of your best Aloes, and put them together in an Earthen pan, and set them in a Chimney Corner (where there is a fire kept) for four or five days than boil them up a walm or two, and than being indifferent cold, role it into Pills when you will use them, about four a clock in the after noon, take one two or three according to the constitution of your body. A medicine for the falling sickness. TAke a good handful of single read Peony roots, and a pottle of Sack, stamp the roots very well, and put to them a penny worth of Saffron, and when they be very small beaten, strain them with the pottle of Sack so long as they do white, than put it into a Bottle and stop it very close, and when you use it shake it very well that the best stay not at bottom, and three days before the change of the Moon, you may take of it eight or nine spoonfuls at a time fasting, and if you will three days after the change also every full Moon take it, in the like manner as before: Take also one of the greatest roots and cut a slice of it like a hart, and put it into a little Bag, and hung it about the Patient's neck, let it hung on the left side as near the hart as may be, and wear it as long as it will last. You may beaten the Roots two or three times the better to get the substance out of them. To cure the French Pox. FIrst draw from the party nine ounces of blood, the next day let him purge, and the third day use the unction which is thus made. Take quicksilver and quench it with fasting spittle in a Mortar, than add to it a little Unguentum martiatum▪ and beaten it with the Quicksilver, and last, add your Hog's grease and work all to gether with the Pestle till it become very stiff and of ablewishcolour, and that the quicksilver be quite extinct and incorporated into the ointments. You must anoint the bottoms of the feet very well, with the Legs, Thighs, Arms, Hands, Armholes, and shoulder blades by the fire, and than lay him to flux in his bed covering him up very close leaving only a place to breath out, you must do it three or four times, or more according to the constitution of his body, that he may spit at the mouth sound, and when he beginneth to be sore in the mouth, let him turn on the other side, and have a special care of taking cold during the time of his flux, after he doth flux well and his mouth is become very soar, you must wash it with Barleywater and honey of Roses mingled together, his diet must be all warm meats such as he can take, and remember that you touch not his belly, nor back with the unction, For if he should it would presently bring him into a scouring which will kill him. You must use the unction but every other day. And after his mouth is whole and sound, that he may eat flesh meat, let him take the diet for the space of a Month, but betwixt it and the diet, he must purge well▪ and so begin to drink, refraining from all other drinks during the time of his being in diet. And if he be costive that he must take some pills in the time of his diet he may than without danger that day drink some small Beer or else not. The Diet drink. SAssaperilla slit and cut small four ounces, Guiacum three ounces, Sassifrage root cut small, two ounces of Licorice one ounce of Annis and sweet Fennel seed bruised, of each one ounce, Heart's horn and Ivory of each one ounce and a half of read Sanders bruised small two ounces, let these drugs be set to steep a night and a day in some convenient pot close covered, and set it over a good fire the space of six hours in eight quarts of water to the consumption of half, and let it cool, and so strain it forth through a woollen strainer, and when the party have done with his diet. Let him purge and be let blood if he be not too weak, but howsoever take from him some five ounces. The Diapalma Plaster. TAke of Hogs grease clarified one pound, old Oil, Lytharge of silver ground small, of each a pound and a half, of white vitriol burnt and powdered two ounces. Put your oil in a pan and shake in you litharge very gently continually stirring it over a soft fire till it be incorporated, than add to it your Hogs grease, and let it (altogether) boil a good space on a gentle fire, that it may not turn black, stirring it either with a Spatula of Oak or Box till it come to the consistence of a Plaster, and last of all shake in your powder of burnt Vitriol, and let it have a walm or two, but be careful of your fire that it be not too quick, for than it will turn black and so cast it into water, and work it up with your hands, and make it up into rolls. To make the green Ointment; Lady Constable. TAke of read Sage and Rue, of each a quart, the youngest Bay leaves, and Wormwood, of each half a pound, pick them, wash them, cut them, and bray them well in a fair Mortar, than take three pounds of Sheep's Suet hot from the Sheep, mince it small, and beaten it with those herbs till all be of one colour, than put it into a Boul with a pottle of the best Oil Olive, working them altogether till it be a little soft; Than put it into an earthen pot, stop it close eight or ten days, than seethe altogether in a fair pan on a soft fire, and when it is half sodden, put to it three ounces of Oil of Spike. Being all well boiled together, strain it through a Canvas bag into a galley-pot, covering i● close with a Parchment, and a leather on the top of it. With this Ointment anoint any place grieved, rubbing till it be dry: Take heed of burning it in boiling, therefore be stirring it continually, and boiling it softly upon an easy fire, till it be all of a green colour. The Effect. IF you anoint the stomach it helpeth digestion, and expelleth all Obstructions, rub some of it on the small of the back, it helpeth the stone, the quantity of a Pease chafed into the ear, and stopped close with black wool, helpeth all pain therein. It is good against Aches, Felons▪ swelling of Wounds, the Toothache proceeding of any cold rheum: It is good against the Cramp, Sciatica, It helpeth any bruise, or strain of sinews or veins. It helpeth all kind of stitches, burning, scalding, stifle, or strain in man or beast. It is only made in May, and will being close kept last many years, with careful and close keeping it. To make syrup of Quinces excellent good for the stomach to be taken at any time. TAke of Quince-seed, in all three pounds, slice them, of Cinnamon an ounce, of Cloves and Saffron, of each the weight of two pence, of liquid Aloes one ounce and a half bruised, of Benjamin half an ounce beaten, put them into a Glass Still, pour on them seven pints of Sack, than set it in a pot of water with wreaths ofhay to stand upright, than put on your head with the Receiver, paste it close with dough, let it steep all night, in the morning make a fire under it, let it still till you have almost a pint in the Receiver, than take away your fire: When it is cold that you may take up your glass, than strain out your syrup, than put to it four or five pounds of Sugar, boil it to a syrup, the● put in the water, let it not boil above a walm or two, so put it in your glasses, keep it close for your use. It is against vomiting, or to digest any thing against the stomach, or to procure a stomach taken before meat two spoonfuls of itself or in Wine, to strengthen the back. For the Plague. TAke half a pint of Sack, half a pint of ordinary Wormwood-water, half a pint of Walnut-water, Venice Treacle as much as a Walnut, and a spoonful of Gum powder beaten small and so mingle them altogether very well, and put it in a glass, and take two spoonfuls in the morning, and fast two hours after it, & so drink it at night if infected, otherwise once a day is enough: It fails not to bring out the soar of those infected, and to preserve those which are not infected. Probatum, Lady Capell. Against the noise in the head which hindereth the hearing. TAke black wool from under the ear of a Sheep, and drop on it three drops of the best Aquavitae, and stop both your ears with it, and renew it once in two or three days, if the head be moist oftener, till your ears be freed from moisture at night is best to do it; purge your head in the morning with white Hellebore walking in a good air, snuff it up into your nose, and keep warm after it, if the noise be caused of hot exhalations out of the stomach, than are not these things proper. Doctor Burges directions against the Plague. TAke 3. pints of Malmesy, and boil therein one handful of Sage one hand. Rue, until a pint be wasted, than strain it and set it on the fire again, & put thereunto one pennyworth of long Pepper, half an ounce of Ginger, a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs, 4. pennyworth of Treacle, a quarter of a pint of the best Angelica water, take it always morning and evening half a spoonful, as a preservation, and if you be infected, take two spoonfuls and sweat thereupon. Probatum est. For a Flux. IF your Disease continued, you must take every second or third day a Glister made after this manner. TAke of new milk from the Cow half a pint, of Rose-water six spoonfuls, juice of Plantain four spoonfuls, the yelk of an Egg, Parsley-seed one spoonful very small beaten, add Dill-seed the like quantity beaten, Sugar four spoonfuls, mixed these together, and indifferent warm give it about eight in the morning. An Electuary. TAke one handful of Angelica, and 3. spoonfuls of Hartshorn scraped, boil them in water until they be a little tender, take them out and pound them in a Mortar, and put thereto Sugar, eat this electuary, the quantity of a Hastle Nut every morning and evening last. For the strengthening of your Liver, and to take away the malignant peccant sharp humour. TAke once a week half an ounce of Rhubarb cut in thin slices, and laid four and twenty hours a steep in four spoonfuls of Sack, add four of Succory or Endive water, and so take it. For your Diet. AVoid all sharp biting things, and such things as are too viscous and slimy, warm your drink with a little plate of steel hot in the fire. In any difficulty of Urine. TAke Parietary, or Pellitory of the walls, and Rue, and cut them, and with Eggs make a tansy or Pancake of them, fry this in Oil of Scorpions, and Oil of Rue a like quantity, and clap it unto the lower part of the belly from the Navel downward as hot as the diseased party is able to endure it. And upon occasion let it be reiterated. A Medicine for the Falling sickness. TAke a gallon of the best Sack and a pound of ponny roots scrape them clean and pound them very small, and put them into the Sack, and let them steep three days, stirring them sometimes, than strain i● and keep it in bottles, and let them drink every morning a good draught stirring it before they drink. Take half a pound of Sugar and some of a yolks claw being filled and than pounded as much as will lie in your hand than take long pepper, and raze pepper and white pepper, and of the yolks claw and one Nutmeg, a race of Ginger, a little quantity of Parsley seeds, and as much Aniseed, some Pioney seed, and some of Pioney roots dried and grated put them into the Sugar and make lozenges, and after every draught take a lozenge. The Pioney roots that hath leaves without saggs is best: September 27. 1629. A Potion to heal all inflammations in the throat, Tongue, or Gums. TAke the leaves of Plantain, Sage, Shepherd's purse, Sinkfoyle, and Woodbynd, of each one handful, the tops of Rosemary and brambles of each a little handful, Roch Alum and French Barley of each one ounce, English honey six ounces, boil these in a pottle of fair water and a quart of white wine to the consumption of a third part of the liquor, than strain it to keep in a glass bottle for use. Bruise a little handful of Wormwood in the covering, and put it into a stone bottle with a quart of ordinary Beer to infuse all night, drink thereof a draught in the morning strained, do this often in the winter. To make Tobacco Water. TAke a pound of good leaf Tobacco: steep the same in six quarts of Muskedine with a pound of juice of Licorace and a pound of Annyseeds the space of 24 hours: Than distil the same, and it will make a quart of strong water, and a quart of the smaller. For sharpness of Urine. TAke a piece of a neck of Mutton or Veal, or a Chicken, or if the party be weak, a Cock, make broth of it, and put into it of Endine, Plantain and Succory leaves, of each one handful tied up together, drink thereof a good draught fasting before and after, walk after it, also take half an handful of the flowers of water Cresses, black or yellow: To make one lean. MAke a great pie of Rye meal, a peck, fill it full of Savory, and two or three handful of Roman worm wood, bake it, break it all a pieces when it is cold, and put it into a Kilderkin of new Ale or beer, when it is eight days old, drink of no other drink. Probatum. A receipt for to make Lozenges. TAke half a pound of the best loaf Sugar, two pennyworth of English Licorace beaten small to powder and two pennyworth of Gumdragon, steeped a while in a little Rose water warmed until it dissolve and than cleanse it through a cloth. Than work them altogether with a spoon in a wooden Cup till you may roll it in your hand (and not hung) Than make them up in small balls, and lay them upon Plates and dry them by the fire or in the Oven, when the bread is out: For Piles, Probatum. TAke a new Tile and lay it over the fire, and make it read hot, and than take it of, and cast the small powder of Frankincense, and than stir over the smoke thereof as close as you may, that no air go out under them, and than the savour thereof shall go therein, and destroy them, and do this two or three times, till thou findest ease. For the Piles. TAke sweet Butter without salt, and the juice of Bay leaves, and seethe them together, and makean ointment thereof, and anoint the place where the grief is. For the Piles to stench blood. TAke and drink the juice of Millfollie for that is proved, also put to the powder of burned Garlic and the Erills shall dye, also to destroy them, take oil of Roses and Frankincense, Honey, and make an ointment of these, and put it with the finger to the fundament, if it be a friend thou wouldst help in haste, take Myrrhthereto, and after anoint the fundament therewith, and the growing out of the evils seethe Frankincense and water and wash the evils therewith and let the breath go up into the fundament, and the party shall be whole. Probatum est. Mistress W. China Broth for a Consumption. TAke the root of China sliced, one ounce of Heart's horn shaved, and of the shave of Ivory of each half an ounce, and of Sassifrage sliced two drams, put all these into an earthen pipkin, with five pints of fair spring water, let them steep over warm Emberss twenty four hours, than put to them a Fennel root, and a Parsley root sliced and picked, of the leaves of Maiden hair, and Borrage of each, one handful, leaves of Egremonie a handful, two or three sprigs of Time, and as much Rosemary, the flowers of borage, Bugloss and violets, of each a little handful, fix Dates stoned and sliced, forty Raisins of the Sun stoned, three spoonful of Currants, and a Cock chicken the entrails being clean drawn out, the back opened, the skin taken of, and the bones bruised, at the first boiling, scum it carefully, boil away almost two parts of the liquor, than strain the residue and reserve it for your use. Let it have no thicking but a crust of bread, a quarter of a pint will be enough at a time, being used in the morning fasting for a breakfast, and fast two hours after, and in the after noon at four a clock when your dinner is digested. The Lady F. Receipt for the same. TAke a quart of house snails, break of their shells, wash of the slime with a little water and salt, and than wash them in two or three waters, boil them in a pottle of new milk until almost half be consumed, than strain it lightly through a thin cloth, and take every morning fasting almost half a pint and fast two hours after, and as much at four a clock when your dinner is digested, this must be used three weeks or a month together. Another for the same. TAke an ounce of white Ginger, a quarter of an ounce of Mace, half a quaiter of an ounce of Cloves as much of Cinnamon, and as much Saffron, stamp all these very small together to powder, mingle them with a pound of the finest Sugar pounded very small, than take a new laid Egg of a black Hen, and put out the white clean, temper the yelk with some of the powder aforesaid, so as the party may well gulp it up, than fill the shell with brown bastard and Cydonia water, and drink it up, this must be done three days together, Cydonia water is the water of Quinces distilled For a Squinancy or soar throat. TAke of running water and white Wine ana one pint, put to a dozen Figgs and half as many Jews Ears, boil it to ne'er the Consumption of half strain it, and put to it one half ounce of Mell Rosarum, gargile it three spoonfuls one after another as hot as may be suffered, than apply the Figgs and Jew's Ears outwardly in a fine cloth to the throat. Probatum est, Mr. Triaply. For the falling Evil. TAke the brains of a Wesel, and dry it to powder, and put it into some pure Vinegar, and temper them well together, and give that to the diseased person to drink, morning and evening first and last. Probat. Also the skull of a dead man, whereon Moss groweth, being taken and washed very clean, and dried in an Over, and than beaten to poude, will cure this infirmity be the disease never so ancient, but the skull must be of one that hath been slain, or died suddenly, or of one that was hanged. Probatum est. The making of Ung. Nutritum or Triapharmacon. TAke an Earthen Pipkin, and put in it a pint of the best white wine Vinegar, than add to it of Lytharge of Gold finely ground to powder a pound▪ and half, and let it infuse a week, stirring it once a day, than take the purest Oil you can get (if you would have it cool very much, take Oil of Roses) put▪ of it into a wooden bowl two spoonfuls, and as much of the thinest and clearest of your infusion, and with an wooden Spatula incorporate it to the thickness of an ointment, and so put more Oil and more infusion as you desire to make in quantity, it is excellent for all hot inflammations, and impostumations for you cannot make a more cooling ointment. For an Ulcer on the Top or foreskin of the Penis. TAke a little of this Triapharmacon mingled with a ittle Vnguentum Album camphoratum, and anoint the soar with it, and it will both cool and dry up the ulcer approved by myself. For bleeding at the Nose. TAke Franken cense two drams, Aloes one dram make them into fine powder, and mix them with the white of an Egg until it be as thick as honey, than commix the soft hairs of a Hare with it, and apply it to the Nose, and to the Nostril which bleedeth. Another proved. TAke the blood which cometh out of the Patient's Nose and burn it in an Earthen pot, than make it to powder, take of it three drams Bolearmonack one ounce Camphire one scruple with the white of an Egg and a little Vinegar make it thick like honey and lay it to the forehead and put it to the Nose. Another approved. TAke the mossiness of Willow, the soft hairs of the belly of a Hare small cut. Sanguis Draconis in powder a dram, mix them with the white of an Egg, add to them if you please the fine powder of Pomegranates there must be a linen clothe dipped into the aforesaid medicine, and put up to the Nose. A good Medicine for the Stone, approved by Mistress Cranmor. TAke one handful of Pellitory of the wall, one handful of Sarsifrage, one handful of wild Time, one handful of Garden Parsley four or five Radish roots sliced, four spoonfuls of Fennell seed bruised. Wash all these herbs together and dry them in a fair linen cloth, and shred them a little when they be dried, and at night take a gallon of new milk warm from the Cow, and put it in an earthen pot, and put all the herbs into it and the Fennel seed with it stopping it very close, and the next morning put it into a common Still and keep a reasonable good fire all day under it and stir it often. You must take four spoonfuls of this water and three spoonfuls of white wine with a little Sugar in it warmed luke warm at the fire to be taken three days before the full, and three days before the change through the year. This is to be styled in July to serve all the year, two stillfulls will serve all the year. This Medicine forth Stone is to be taken in any time of the Moon when you feel pain. TAke one spoonful of an herb called the Golden Rod rubbed to powder to the yoalk of an Egg raw roasted, sup it up fasting three mornings together, this Medicine is to be taken in any time of the Moon when any pain is felt fasting an hour after you take it. Proved by me Ursula Atkins▪ For the biting of a mad Dog for either a man or beasts. TAke three ounces of peeled Garlic. Six ounces of Rue, of London Treacle four ounces, of scraped Time four spoonfuls, boil them in a large pottle of strong Ale, that it stolen close covered with a soft fire, boil it to three pints, strain this, and give nine spoonfuls to drink every morning for nine days The wound-drink to be made in the midst of MAY. SOthernwood, Wormwood, Bugloss, Mugwort, Sanacle plantain, Dandelion, wood Betony, Ribwort, white bottle, daisy roots, and honey Succles, Avence Hawthorn, Beets Egtemony oaken leaves, bramble, and wild Angelica, Cumfry, mints, Scabious, Strawberry leaves, Sink foil Violet leaves, you must take of these one handful and put them into a pottle of white Wine, and a gallon of clear running water, boil them altogether till half be consumed, than strain out the liquor from the herbs, than put to it a quart of Honey, and boil it again, and so put it in a Glass close stopped, and when you need it take three spoonfuls thereof, first in the morning, and last in the evening, until he hath drunk a quart thereof. The Virtues. It is very good for scars new or old, for wounds in the body laying upon them a plaster of honey, and Wax for women's breasts, and putrified bones causing them to scale, for ache in the stomach, and to break an imposthume causing it to come out, it draweth bullets out of a Soldier's body, and healeth the place of the issue, also it hath been divers times approved for stopping of blood. A Purge. Pulvus Sanctis one dram in white wine or posset Ale. For the heat foe the face. FUmitory one Pottle, bitter Almonds one ounce, sublimate in fine powder Litarge and ceruse ana two drams, add one dram of Camphire in dust, beaten your Almonds, and strain the Fumitory water through them, than infuse the rest in that water, and strain it as you use it, anoint your morbes, and pestles with oil of sweet Almonds, and that will beaten your Camphire to dust. For Deafness. CAstarum in powder, Mithridate, and Oil of bitter Almonds mixed wherein dip a little taint of black wool, and remove it once in 24 hours. For the Spleen. melilot Camomile ana 3 M. Parsly Roman Wormwood, plantain Ditany ana 1 M. beaten small, Rosen one pound, Wax twelve ounces, Sheep's suet one pound white Wine one pint, melt them, and let them stand seven days than boil them, and strain them, take hereof the quantity of a Walnut, and spread it on Leather, and let it lie till it fall of of itself. A very good Purge. SUccory water, and white Wine ana a quarter of a pint, Rhubarb a quarter of an ounce, Agaricks one dram, Seen three dram, s Lignum, Aloes, Mace Cinnamon ana two drams, slice your Rhubarb, and Agarick small, and bruise the rest, but not your Seine, put them in a Pipkin over the embers all night close stopped them, boil them to half, strain it, and dissolve therein one ounce of Manna than strain it again, and take it fasting at six a clock in the morning, and fast till one, but drink often after it gins to work, warm broth. Probatum est. For a Consumption. TAke two pound of Parsneps, and pulp them, put to them half a pint of faint Cinnamon water or else Muscadel, put to them two pound of Sugar answerable to your Pulp, boil them to the consistence of an Electuary, than add to it three drams of Aromaticum Rosarum one shilling six pence; Dierodan abatis, one shilling, Aromatium giriofilatum one shilling sixpences, Dimargaridium calidum, ana three drams, read Sanders half an ounce, oil of Aniseeds a scruple, Oil of Cinnamon twelve drops, take hereof morning and eevening, the quantity of an Nutmegg upon a knives point. Probatum Mr. Hutton. A Balsam. TAke of old oil Olive three ounces, of clear Venice Turpentine eight ounces, of clear picked wheat one ounce, and half of Saint John's wort with little holes in the leaves like prickings of Needles two ounces, of the roots of Carduus Benedictus and Valerian, of each one ounce, of Frankincense two ounces beaten both the roots, and the herbs together somewhat grossly, and put them in an Earthen pot, with as much Sack as will cover them, and so let them stand in steep two days, than put the oil, and wheat into it, and seethe them altogether until the wine be consumed, than take it of the fire, and strain it softly, putting into that which is strained the Turpentin and Frankincense and so boil it together a little, than take it of, and keep it in a Glass close till you have use for it the older it is the better it will be. Probatum est. To staunch Bleeding. THe powder of Bolearmonack, put into the wound doth staunch the bleeding, or otherwise being blown up into the Nose. A Poultis. TAke Wormwood, boil it than chop it, than boil it again in the same water, than mix with it Rye meal, and a little honey, and Hogs grease, and apply it. Take a piece of Bullocks horn with in an inch of the head, frieit with black Soap to powder. Take as much suet as the quantity of an Egg to a pound of Peony and rosin heat them, and put them into water, and make them up in Rooles. A Diet to dry up humours. SArsaperilla three ounces Lignum guiacum six ounces, Cortex guiaci one ounce, flor. stecadoes three drams epithimum three drams, Liquoris three drams, Raisins of the Sun one ounce, boiled six hours in two gallons of Conduit water in balneo Mariae, drink it at all times for a month. Pills for the Spring. TAke Balls or Pills compounded two scruples of Cochiar, half a scruple of the powder of Diagridium or Scammony corrected▪ three grains with the Oil of Fennel with Sage and Clove Jelly flowers Chemical, make it into five pills to be taken very early in the moaning for one Dose. Pills for the Autumn. TAke the said Balls or Pills compounded two scruples, read Pills a half scruple, mix them with the Oil of Clove-Gelly flowers Chemical drops three, make all into five pills, let him take them early in the morning and sleep upon it. The most approved Pills for the Palsy. TAke these ingredients for the Palsy, of ground-Ivy, Betony flowers, Staechados Ana one ounce, dry them in the shade, beaten them to powder, put to them Gum Turpith one ounce of Spikenard grains eight, of Scammony one ounce, of Agarick two ounces Coloquintida one half ounce & half of Ginger, Sal gem Ana gr▪ ten of Rhei one half ounce, in which let them be brought to a small powder and mix them with the juice of Ivy in form of little pills, if you please you may mix them with the Syrup of Roses Soluble, or with Staechadoes, which are highly commended by Viduus the Florentine for one Dose, for the Palsy take but one ounce it works strongly, therefore to be performed with exact care and art, the party keeping within. Pills for the Gonorraeha. TAke the leaves of Seny Mastic Amber, Dragons-blood, Terra sigillat, Nutmegs Ana: one half ounce of Read Sanders one half ounce washed Turpentine one half ounce with the powder of Tormentile as much as will suffice, make it into a Paste for Pills. Pills for a Purge. TAke of Pills Cochiar. and Faetidar. ana. the powder of the Root of jalap one half ounce with the Syrup of Roses Soluble as much as will suffice, make Balls of Scamony putting to three grains and a few drops of the Oil of Clove Gillyflowers to give it a pleasant relish, these Pills are termed Universal, because they purge generally without any danger, take three or four of them after the first sleep, and sleep upon it. Pills for the Head. TAke the Pills of Cochiar▪ guilded ana. one ounce of Scamony, one ounce with the Oil of Fennell, Grains: 11. mix it and make it into Balls. Pills to purge. TAke Turbith mineral gr. 4: of extracted Rudii one scruple, put to it the Oil of Clove Jelly flowers Chemic, make it up into pills for one Dose, and take it after the first sleep. Excellent Pills for the Stomach. TAke of Rhubarb Elect. prepared Scamony ana. one ounce, Aloes-Rosat. half an ounce, Myrrh, Mastic ana. one ounce of Cinnamon four scruples of sweet Mercury one half ounce with the Syrup of Quinces as much as will suffice, make it into a Ball, you may take a greater or lesser quantity of all and specially of the Mercurius Dulcis according to the strength of the Patient, or according to the ill nature of the disease. An Aqua Composita. TAke of strong Ale three Gallons, three quarters of a pound of Anniseeds, as much Licarish, of Fennell seeds, Wormwood, Motherwort, Liverwort, Parsley, Sage, Succory, Endive, Langdebofe, Rosemary, Balm, Nepp, Time, pennyroyal, Read mints, Mercury, Isop, Horehound, and Violet leaves, of each one handful, and distil them as aforesaid. There be four days that Saint Bede the great Clerk telleth of. IN which if any man let him blood, or take any medicinable drink within the sixth hour or fourteenth hour after he shall dye. viz. The last day of April, the ninth day of July, and the fifth day of the new Moon of August. And the last day of the new Moon of December, and who so of these days eat any Goose flesh within forty days shall die. A good rule for blood letting and proved true. WHo so letteth blood upon the right arm the fifteenth day of March, and the eleventh day of April in the left Arm, he shall never loose his eyesight. And who so lets him blood on the right arm or on the left, the fourth or fifth day in the last end of May shall hall have no Fever that year. And who so letteth him blood on Saint Lambert's day each year once he shall not have the running Gout neither the Palsy, and who letteth him blood in the same Month and in the third day before the end of the same Month he needeth not to let him blood on the eleventh day of April, on the which day to let him Blood on the left arm is good for the Palsy: The three Mondays. ALso these three Mondays whereon, if any man or woman let them blood of wound or vein he shall dye within three days and who so is borne on any of those days, he shall be encumbered through strange death, viz. the first Monday of August the Monday next the end of the same Month, and the last Monday of December: To staunch Bleeding. TAke the knots of knot Worms and split them and wash them with white Wine and dry them into powder, and cast thereof into the wound and it will staunch the bleeding. To staunch blood of Vein or wound. TAke the hair of a Hare's Skin and temper it with the white of an Egg and lay it to the wound and it will staunch it. Another to staunch bleeding of a wound. TAke linen cloth and burn it into Ashes and take thereof and mix it with Sugar and so cast it into the wound. Divers good Medicines to staunch the bleeding of a wound. TAke Terra sigillata and beaten it into powder and put it into the wound. And if it staunch not therewith, lay to it a white of an Egg and flax, and put the powder upon it. Another for the same. TAke the white Moss of an Apple tree, and dry it on the fire in a fire shovel and make it into powder, and so put it into the wound. And if the Patient be hot you must wet their neck with a little fair water in your hand. Another to staunch the bleeding at the Nose or of a wound. TAke Egg shells and burn them upon a hot Brick or Tyle in the fire, and beaten them into powder, and put it in the wound, or if they bleed at the nose, blow it up into the Nostrils with a Quill. Also the soft down Feathers being laid to the wound will staunch bleeding. To know whether a man shall dye or not that hath a bloody Flux. TAke a penny-waight of Temmecrasses, boil it and give the Patient to drink or eat in read Wine, or a part of water and do so three days, and if he staunch he shall live, and if not he shall dye. Another. TAke clean wheat meal, break it and stamp it with water, and grinned it in a Mortar, wring out the juice, and boil it in a posnet with a little salt, and let the sick eat it, and if he may endure it he shall live, or else he shall dye shortly. To know whether the fault be in the man or woman when they have no Children. TAke two small pots of earth and a little Brawn in either pot, let him make water in the one and she in the other, and so let them stand ten or fourteen days, and the Urine that the fault is in will have worms in it and stink exceedingly, if they be both clear, than by God's grace the Medicine under-written may help to conception, (Viz.) Take Nepp and seethe it in Wine, three days fasting let her drink it, and she shall conceive, the man doing his part. For the King's Evil. TAke of read Sage, read Fennell, and Betony, of each like quantity, and boil it in a quart of beer, till half be consumed, than strain it and put it into a bottle or glass, adding thereto a spoonful of oil of Spike, and give the third part thereof to drink to the Patient in the morning, fasting after it four hours, if a maid a lesle portion, and so drink of it every third day once. Take also a pint of Crab Verjuice, and a piece of May butter as big as a great Wallnut, and set it on a Chaffindish of coals, and beaten it together till a third part of it be wasted, and it you must bathe the Kernels and Sear as hot as you can suffer it, applying upon it some good Implaister fit for the purpose: Probatum Lady Capell. To wash the Morphew. TAke Scabious and Fumitory, and distil it in Buttermilk, and wash the Morphew with it. To take a Corn out of the Toe. TAke a black Snail, roast it in a white cloth, and when it is roasted lay it hot to the Corn, and it will take it away. To know when to gather all sorts of Simples in their several seasons. FRom the 25: of March till Midsummer the leaves and flowers are in season: from Midsummer till Michaelmas the Crops and Herbs are in season: and from St Andrews to the 25. of March, the roots of Herbs are in force. A very good Medicine for a soar Breast. TAke of the leaves of Mallows one peck, and wash them clean, and set them on the fire in a Kettle of water of some two gallons, and let it boil till the water be sod away, than take a pottle of Ale, and a quart of White-wine, a penny wheaten loaf grated, the fat of a good loin of Mutton finely shredded, and when the wate● is sod away clean from the Mallows put in all these things, and set them on the fire again, and let it boil stirring it continually that it burn not, and so let it boil together till it be thick enough sodden, and than p●t it into a stone pot, and stop it close, and when you would dress the Patient's Breast, take part of it and warm it in a pewter dish, and spread it on a linen cloth, something thick, and so lay it to the breast or stomach as hot as the Patient can endure it, but before you lay it on the breast, you must bathe the breast with White-wine warmed in a pewter dish with too linen clothes, and so bathe it exceeding well for a quarter of an hours space, than apply your Plaster and on it your Poultice, keeping the Patient from taking of cold: Probatum Lady Capell. For swelling in the Cod of man or beast. TAke a good quantity of Rew, and bruise it well, and bind it close to the Cod, and dress it morning and evening till it be well. Signa Morientis. To know whither one shall dye or no. TAke the milk of a woman, and drop it in the sick body's Urine, and if it fly above the Urine he shall live, if it sink he shall dye of that disease: Also take a handful Rew, and stamp it with oil of Roses, and lay it upon his head, being shaved before, if he sneeze once he shall live, if he sneeze not he shall dye: this is proved by Galen. Also if a weak man begin to tear his clothes, and look much of his fingers, he shall dye. Also if a young man easily endure to wake much, and an old man to be given to immeasurable sleep is a token of death. Also if he turn him much to the Wall, if his nose sharpeneth, and if his ●ares grow lieth, if his eyes grow hollow, if he sleep open mouthed, unless he have been accustomed so to do, if his womb fail, if he may see no brightness, if his sight dimmeth and his sinews shrinketh, and his heart panteth, and his breath wanteth, than death followeth. Also before death this is a sign, if the tears run down of a man's right eye, and a woman's left eye. Also if the black vein appear in the forehead or under the eye. Let not blood any of these days following. THe eleventh day of October, the last day of December, the third day of January. If any man be let blood any of these days it is not possible to escape death. For all manner of Aches called Bullies Oil. TAke in the month of May read Sage, and Rew, of each one pound Rosemarry tops, Wormwood, Balm, and the youngest Bay-leaves, of each one pound and a half, pick them clean, but wash them not, cut them very small, and beaten it along time in a Mortar; than take three pounds of Sheep's Suet hot out of the belly, mince it small, and beaten it with those Herbs till all be of one colour, than put all into a fair bowl with a pottle of the best oil Olive, and work altogether till it become a like soft, than put it into an earthen pot close stopped, and let it stand so eight days in some cool place or Cellar, than take it forth, and set it over a soft fire in a fair leaden pan, and let it seethe, and when it is half sodde●, put into it four ounces of oil of Spike, and so let it seethe again, and when it is sodden enough strain it through a new Canvas into fair galley pots, and stop them close with parchment and leather, with this ointment ●ub the place grieved, and froth it till it be dried in, as much ●s half a pease hereof chafed into the ear, and stopped with black wool, helpeth the pains in the ears, anoint the Reinss of the back with this, and chafe it in well, it easeth the pain of the stone. Take great heed in the boiling of it that it burn not too, and to know when it is enough, often drop two or three drops in a Saucer, and when it is as green as may be it is enough, keep it also stopped and cool, and it will last many years: Pr●batum. For the Mother by Doctor Butler. TAke Galbanum mixed with twelve Grains of Musk, make a Plaster of it and lay it to the Navel. For a Fistula, Canker, or other old Soar, which healed the old festered Fistula in the breast of Mr▪ Tho. Wood Curate of Newington in his days, Probatum est. TAke a quart of new Tanner's Wouse that Leather never came in, of Woodbine blossoms, of Sage, of Bay leaves, and Violets of each a handful; a good piece of Roach Alum, seethe them, and strain them and keep the water, and make Tents and dip them in the water, and dress the sore. For Teeth that are yellow and foul. TAke Rye meal, Salt, and honey, of ●acha like quantity, mingle them together, and ●ub the teeth with it, two or three times a day, and it will 'cause the same to look white and clean, butyou must wash them presently with fair water, after you have rubbed your Teeth: For the Dropsy. GIve the Patient twice or thrice a day a Glister (only) of Tobacco in an Instrument made for that purpose, which you may have near St. Bartholmews' Hospital, or at any Turner's. Approved on Mr. Edward Lacking the Minister of Limsfield in Surry by the Lady Capell. 1646. For the Scurvy. TAke half a peck of Scurvy grass, as much water Cresses, a handful of Brooklime, half a pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned, and boil it in three quarts of Ale till it come to three pints▪ than strain it, and put in two ounces of Sug●rcandy, as much Turmerick as will lie on a three pence, and than boil it a walm or two, and so drink at morning and evening blood warm▪ For the Stone. TAke of Penny Royal and Mallows, of each a handful▪ Anniseeds a penny worth, boil them in a quart of white Wine, till it come to a pint, and put to it half an Eggs shell powdered, a little Castle Soap the bigness of a Bean, with three or four corns of Pepper in gross, of Nutmeg and Sugar two spoonfuls, and put it into your mouth, and drink the Wine in the morning, the party that made this note did avoid above four hundred stones in one fortnight: Probatum est▪ For the running of the Reinss. TAke a pint of the strokings of a Cow, and set it on the fire, and put into it a spoonful of the powder of acorn cups, and when it hath well boiled put to it a sliced Date, and being boiled a little more, take the yelk of a new laid Egg, beating it together, put it into the milk▪ and when it beginneth to simper, take it from the fire, and sweetening of it well with Conserve of Read Roses, put into it as much white Amber as will lie on a fix pence, and let the party drink of it morning and evening. A very good Balsam for Ulcers or soars either in Man or Beast. TAke a Pint of the strongest Beer, set it on the fire, and let it boil a little, and skim it, than put into it of clarified honey two spoonfuls, Roach Allom the quantity of a Walnut, and boil it till it come to three or four spoonfuls, and when you have washen the Ulcers with white Wine, than pour in the balsam, and bind it fast. Probatum est. To make a Poultice to heal any old sore or running Ulcer Approved. TAke of Mallows four handfuls, of Read Sage two handfuls, wash them, and chop them small, than take a quart or something more of Milk, and set it over the fire, and put therein the Herbs, and let them boil, till they be very tender, than take a quarter of a pound of Mutton suet, and mince it very small, and let it boil with the other stuff till it be all molten, than thicken it up with Read wheat meal, and when you found it thick enough, let it boil a walm or two, and than take it of the fire, and dress the soar twice a day, applying it as hot as the party can suffer it, and let him not go too much upon it. Probatum est Ri. Prine To make Mel rosarum. TAke the leaves of Read Rose buds, as many as you can press into a pint and quarter of Rose water, and set it in an earthen pot in warm ashes, and cover them close, and let them infuse till the Roses look pale, than strain them out, and put in the like quantity of Roses, do thus three times, than take to every pint of infusion, two pints of clarified honey, and than let it boil till the scum ariseth, which being well taken of with a feather, keep the clearest in Glasses for your use. A gentle Purge for a quartain Ague to be taken a day before the fit. TAke two drams of Seine, and wring in the juice of three or four Oranges upon the Seen over night, than next morning strain it out, and put it into a little thin broth with a little Sugar, and so drink it warm, it will give four or five motions▪ Lady Coventry. A Broth for a Fever. TAke a Chicken, and the bottme of a Manchet, a little May Strawberry leaves, roots and all, Sorrell leaves and roots, Dandelyon, Succory, of each a good handful, than juice them, after they be clean washed, and put that juice into the broth after the chicken is boiled to pieces, let the juice boil a quarter of an hour, than strain it, and let the sick body drink of it half a pint at a time, if he be not able to drink so much, let him drink so much as he can, and as often. A very good Cerecloth by Mr. Hendly. TAke one pound and a quarter of Deers suet, Beewax, Olibanum, Rozine, and Frankincense, of each one pound, Mastic, and Camphire of each one ounce, Venice Turpentine one pound and a quarter, melt all but the Camphire and the Turpentine, and when all is melted, stir in than your Camphire and Turpentine, than pour all of it into white Wine, and work it with your hands in the Wine till it be yellow, than make it up in rolls; it is good for the spleen, for white swell, and for aches. Probat: Lady Capell. The Lime water for old sores. TAke unslackt Lime, and put it into a new Pipkin, well leaded than take another new Pipkin, and fill it with fair running water, and set it on the fire till it be ready to boil, than take it of suddenly and cast on the Lime in the other Pipkin, and so let it stand till the Lime be slaked, than pour of the clear into a Glass, and keep back the scum and the Lime, w●●h this water wash the sore, and apply a linen clothe eight or ten double, wet in the said water to the Ulcer, and dress it thrice a day. Probatum est. An approved Aqua Composita for a Surfeit, or a cold stomach. TAke of Rosemary, Isop, Time, and read Fennel; of each one handful, of Sage and Horehound, of each half a handful, a root of Ellicampane, of read Mints, Pennyroyal, and Marjoram of each six crops, of Liquorish bruised and Anniseeds of each two ounces, than take three Gallons of strong old Ale, and set it upon the fire with all the rest of the things before named, and stir them well together and when it beginneth to boil, take the fire from under the Pot, and set your Limbeck upon it, and close it as close together as you can, and distil it with a soft fire, and keep the top of your Limbeck cold with water. To make Wormwood water. TAke the Leeses of Sack or Claret wine, and a good quantity of strong Ale, and distil them together in a Limbeck, till you have the quantity of two gallons distilled, than take of Liquorish and of Anniseeds bruised of each one pound, Cloves bruised a quarter of a pound, steep all these in the distilled water in a narrow mouthed Glass the space of six days, than the next day, or night which is better, before you do distil it again, pour it all into the pot where you mean to distil it, and steep in it a peck of Wormwood at the lest, which you must break to pieces in your hands, than distil it with a soft fire as you do other Aquavitae To make Mint water, by Mr. News. TAke of the strongest and stalest Ale four Gallons, than take as many young Spear-mints, as will fill a great Flasket, pick them very small and clean, take also four ounces of Licoris being clean scraped, Annileeds as many, Coriander seeds, and Nutmegs of each two ounces, large Mace and Cinnamon of each one ounce, Ginger clean scraped half an ounce, bruise all the spices together, and lay them in steep in the Ale with the Mints in a great earthen Pot, for the space of four and twenty hours close covered, than distil it in a Limbeck over a soft fire, distilling half the Receipt at one time, and the other half at another time, for the pot whereout you distil must be little more than half full at a time. A Plaster for a broken shin, and to heal it. TAke of Plantain leaves roots and all, of Ribwort leaves roots and all, of white Daisy leaves roots and all, of each a handful, wash the leaves and roots very clean, dry them in a cloth, chop▪ them, stamp them & strain out the juice, than take a quarter of a pound of wax, three ounces of Rozin, Frankincense one pennyworth▪ a Poringer full of fresh Butter, Salad oil or Hogs grease, put all these with the juice of the Herbs into a Posnet, set it on a soft fire, and let it stand till it be all molten, than boil it a walm or two, and stir it still, than take it of the fire, and let it cool a little, put into it a Porringer full of Turpentine, stirring it very well, than set it on the fire till the Turpentine be melted, and so take it of, and strain it into a Platter and make it up into rolls, or keep it in Cakes. For the trembling of the hands. WAsh your hands with cold water, and let it dry in as often as you wash them, without wiping, but it were better to lay Sage therein; If you stand in fear of the Palsy, eat every morning two or three Mustard seeds, and two Pepper Corns. Probatum. The black Searcloath. TAke a pint of oil, and half a pound of white lead, and set it on the fire in a brass pan, and boil it till it come to the height of a plaster which you may know by working some of it in your fingers, if it do not stick to your fingers, it is enough, otherwise not, when you found it to be boiled enough, than dip your clothes in it, and pull them cut at each corner, and when they are cold, slick them over with a Slick-stone, this Searcloath is to be applied above the Poultice, to take away the pain, and to draw forth the humours before it fall into the Ulcer: Probatum Rich. Pyne. A Medicine for any Inflammation in any part of the body. TAke ordinary washing Soap two ounces, of fresh butter and salt of each one ounce, work it in your hand with a knife till it be well mixed, than spread it reasonable thick on a cloth, and apply it to the place, and let it lie till it crumble, for often times once dressing will serve. Probatum Lady Coventry. A Medicine for a Cow's bag that is hard. TAke ordinary Soap and a little water, make it very hot, and apply it well twice a day to the bag, work it well in, if it be very great and hard, it will require a month's time before it be perfectly well: Probatum Lady Coventry▪ A precious Balsam. TAke of Venice Turpentine one pound, of the best Oil Olive three pints, Virgin Wax half a pound, of perfect Sanders seven ounces, Sack half a pint, Litharge of Gold finely powdered, and seared two ounces, wash the Turpentine in a pint of read Rose water till it be clear, and wash the Oil in half a pint of Rosewater, the Wax must be sliced thin, and boiled in a pint of read Rose-water, till it hath well purged itself, than skim it clean, and take it from the fire, and let it stand till it be cold, than take the Wax out, and pour out the water, and put the Wax in a Skellet, and set it again over the fire to melt, than put in the Turpentine and Oil with half a pint of the best Sack, and boil it two or three walms, than take it from the fire, and as soon as it gins to grow cold, take the Sanders, stir it in, and strain them together till it come to a thick substance, and when it is throughly cold take a Galley pot, and put the substance so strained into the pot, and set the pot on the hearth in a hole, that may be covered for the space of two months, and with the heat of the fire it will grow to a perfect balsam of the colour of Claret wine. The first melting of it must be on a soft Fire of Charcoal. The virtue of it. It is good to heal inward, and outward wounds, inward to be injected, and outward to be applied with fine lint anointing the place, and parts offended, it cureth, and keepeth it from inflammation; drawing forth all broken bones, and other things that might putrify at five dress, it healeth without scars: It cureth all burn, and scaldings both of fire and water, and all bruises being anointed with it warm. And a piece of fine lint, or linen laid therein and applied to the place cureth all pain, and cold through moisture, Cattha●s or aches in the bones, or Synews, anointing the place offended with the oil hit, and a warm cloth laid on it, also the head ache only anointing the Temples, and nostrils therewith; It is good against the wind Colic, and stitch in the side applied to it warm with hot clothes four mornings together, allowing every morning a quarter of an ounce. It is good against the Plague only anointing the lips, and nostrils in the morning before you go forth. It helpeth the Surfeit taking the quantity of an ounce warmed in Sack. It helpeth the bitting, and stinging of any venomous beast, drinking it in milk warm. It cureth an Ulcer, or Fistula in any part of the body be it never so deep but it requireth longer time to help the Guts. It is good for one infected with the Plague, Measles or the like, so it be presently taken in warm broth the quantity of an ounce four mornings together, and than sweated on it. It helpeth digestion anointing the Navel, and stomach when you go to bed, and last of all it keepeth from Venom. To make Salve water, which is an excellent remedy for all soar throats, and mouths, and for ulcerated Lungs if the party drink often of it. It is also for old sores, and green wounds. TAke of St John's wort, of Sellendin, of Prunella, of Isop, of Senacle, of Read Rose buds, of Sinckfoile, of Valerian, of smallage, of Cullumbine, of Rue, of Bittany, of Egremony, of Serpent's tongue, of Scabious, of Setwell, of Salomons seal, of Daisey leaves, and roots, of each of these three handfuls, of read Sage, of Plantain, of Elder flowers, of Rosemary, of Cumfrey, of Tutsane, of Bramble buds, of knot-grass, and of Ribwort, of each of these two handfuls, and half a peck of honeysuckle flowers pulled from the stalk: Take all these and wash them, and put them in a pot of four gallons of running water and boil it till the one half of the Liquor be consumed: Than let the water run from the Herbs through a Cullender, wring forth with your hands all the juice of the Herbs, and than boil it again, adding thereto half a peck more of honey suckles, flowers pulled as before, and a handful of Read Rose buds, with three quarts of English honey, one penny worth of long pepper bruised, with three spoonfuls of Madder, a quarter of a pound of Allom, so boil it till one part of it be wasted, than put it into stone pots, and let it settle, and put the clear in a Glass for your use. Probatum La. Capell. For the Tooth Ach. TAke a race of Ginger, and grate it very fine, and take five times so much of Licoris, and searce it to the Ginger, than put a little quantity of this powder in a quill, and snuff it up into your Nose, on the same side your pain is on, do thus some three or four times when the pains is, and it will help you. Oil of Aparicio for any green wound or Gun-shot. TAke of the leaves of Carduus Benedictus four ounces, of Valerian roots four ounces, of the flowers of St. John's wort, six ounces, Cumfry two ounces, Wheat dried in an Oven four ounces, steep all these in a quart or somewhat more of White-wine three days, than seethe them in a new earthen pot till half be consumed, than strain it out hard from the Herbs, and put to it three pound of oil Olive, than seethe it till the Wine be consumed, which will require some six hours, than add to it of Venice Turpentine six ounces, of Myrrh and Mastic of each three ounces, of Frankincense in fine powder two ounces, and when the oil is seething, strew in the powders by little and little, and stir them a pace, than take it of the fire presently, for if it seethe any thing too long it is spoiled, than put it into a narrow mouthed glass close stopped, than set it in a Kettle of seething water with hay, and set the glass fast that it fall not, so let it stand a quarter of an hour till the powder be dissolved, let not the water seethe after the oil is put in, but keep at one heat. If you can get of the true Tobacco, add two or three ounces to the other herbs of the leaves only of the Tobacco. How to dress the wound. FIrst wash the Wound with warm White-wine, than pour in a little of the oil warmed, and lay over it a linen cloth, being dipped in the oil, and over it a linen clothe four times doubled being dipped in White-wine warmed, and bind it up fast, so that the clothes slip not of, dress it but once in twenty four hours. For the redness in the Face or Nose. FIrst take a Purgation for the pain of the coming of Choler, than take one pound of Isinglass, the juice of Purslen, and the juice of Plantain, Verjuice of Grapes or Crabs, of each one pint and half, with the whites of twenty six Eggs, beaten them well together with the said juices, than mix them altogether, and distil them in a common Stilitory, and keep this water against all Pimples, Scruples, Wheals, Chafing and Heats that appear in the skin, dip linen clothes in this water, and wash the said redness therewith. For the Frenzy and madness in the head. Taken a pint of the juice of smallage, with a pint of Vinegar, warm them together, than shave his head, and dip a linen cloth in your liquor, and lay it all over this head, and when it is dry wet it again, and so use it often times, and keep him in a dark place, and he shall found ease. To make a Suppository to work effectually. TAke two spoonfuls of Honey, boil it in a brass ladle till it become very stiff, drop some of it on a Trencher, it will be so hard, that it will roll somewhat stiffly, than put to it a pretty quantity of white Salt, a quantity of Cominseeds, and some powder of Aloes, and the powder of dried Rew, mingle them together, and let them boil a little after you have put all these into the Honey, than make up your Suppository, and so use it. Another. TAke honey, and boil it as before, put to it a quantity of salt, and so make it up and use it. An approved Medicine for a soar Breast. TAke a Sheepshead wool and all, and boil it in fair spring water, until it be boiled all to pieces, which is so long as until all the virtue be boiled out of it, than take that broth, and mix it with boiled Rice for a Poultice, and make a Plaster of it upon a linen clothe pretty thick, so thick as a man's finger: let that lie upon the Breast all day or night, and than take it of, and so do once or twice in twenty four hours, until the breast appear something limber from the hardness, after take Goat's dung, and pound it unto a powder, and mix it with Honey, of which make a Plaster upon a linen cloth, which Plaster put upon the soar, and change it every twenty four hours, until it be whole, which will be, God willing, in a short time: Probatum est by the Lady Killegrue upon herself and many others. An approved Medicine for soar Eyes by Mrs. Ferminham: TAke the stone Lapis Criminalis, the quantity of a walnut, put it into the fire till it be read hot, and quench it in a pint of White-wine, heat the stone thrice read hot, and quench it in the same Wine, than stamp the stone to powder, and seethe it in the wine the space of half an hour, or till it be half wasted, than strain it through a linen cloth, and keep it in a fair glass, if the water be too sharp, mingle it with a little read Rose-water, the stone you may have at the Apothecaries: The marrow of an old Goose wing is good for a pin and web in the Eye. An Oil for a bruise in the Eye, or for any other bruise, by me approved. TAke a pint of Salad Oil, steep therein Elder-flowers, and change them two or three times as you do other oil, so keep it, and when you need to use it, anoint the bruise often therewith warmed, and lay the flowers on the place bruised: Probatum. A very good Purge. STeep all night warm in sixteen spoonfuls of▪ Barley water or somewhat more, of Cene leaves six drams, of Rewbarb one dram, of Agarick half a dram, of Cetrake and Maiden hair, of each three dams, a little ginger sliced, strain these in the morning easily, and put to it of Syrup of Roses two ounces, of Manna one ounce picked clean, and dissolve it in the said Liquor, and drink the same warm with three or four drops of Cinnamon water, and provide some thin broth to drink within three hours after. A Medicine for an Ague often tried and seldom failed. TAke the thickest hard Soot of a Chimney, bay Salt, and Pepper, of each a like quantity, beaten all these together, until they be small, than put in the yolk of an egg, and beaten all these together until it be like a Salve, than spread it upon a cloth, and lay it unto both your wrists, and let it remain there twenty four hours, before you take it of, if it come again lay on fresh. A Medicine for the Worms. TAke the tip of a Heart's horn a finger in length or more, and cast it into the fire till it be white as milk, than quench it in Vinegar, and let it dry, when you would use it, beaten it into ●ine powder, and searse it, than take the weight of two pence, and put it into a spoonful of milk, warm it, and give it to the child to drink with a little Sugar. A Common Glister. TAke a pint of water, and put to it a quarter of a pint of honey boil them together, and as the dross of the honey ariseth so skim it of as that it may appear very clear, than take the Liquor, and put to it four ounces of Oil, and the weight of six pence in salt, and so use it. A Glister to cool, and refrigerate. TAke a pint of Pthisane, thickened with the substance of Barley to the thickness of Almond milk, and put there to three ounces of Oil of Violets, one ounce, of Melleyosett, and the yolk of an Egg, and the weight of two pence in salt. A Glister by Mr. Warth. Boil with a sheehead, of Mallow leaves two handfuls, of Violet leaves as many, of Anniseeds, and sweet Fennel seeds, or other Fennel seeds of each two ounces. After the Sheep's head hath boiled in a pottle of water, and is clean skimmed, put in your Herbs and seeds, and boil them together till a pint and half or more be wasted, than put in a pint of white Wine, and boil them again, and in a pint or lesle of that decoction strained dissolve of syrup of Roses soluble three or four ounces, and Oil of Roses, and Cammomile of each one ounce, and make a Glister without salt. Another by Doctor Ward. TAke a good quantity of fair water, five or six leaves of Mercury, Mallows, Pellitory of the wall, Holliock-leaves and Violet leaves, of each one handful, Fennel seeds, and Anniseeds of each two spoonfuls bruised, a little wheat Bran, boil all these together till the strength of the Herbs be out. Than strain it, and take a pint of this liquor, & put it in a pewter dish, and set it on a Chafingdish of Coals, and put to it of the Syrup of Roses three spoonfuls, or of course Sugar, three spoonfuls of Salad Oil, a good piece of sweet Butter, and a little salt, stir all these together till the butter be throughly melted. Than take it of, and use it as warm as well as you may suffer it, be sure that when it's altogether there be a full pint of it. For the Green sickness. TAke a quart of the strongest Ale you can get, or white wine if you will, which is best, and boil in it seven or eight roots of English madder till it come to a pint, and drink up the wine at three draughts three mornings together fasting, and after it run up and down. Probatum. Another Medicine for the green Sickness. TAke Isop, Peneroiall, Callamint, Borage, Germander, Time, Marjorum, and water Savery, of each half a handful, Fennel roots, Parsley roots, and Mader roots of each three or four, Aniseed, Fennel seed, Carrawayseeds, and Carduus benedictus-seed bruised, of each one ounce, Liquorish scraped, and bruised one ounce, Raisins stoned, and Currants of each one handful, the roots of Polypodie of the Oak, cut in small pieces one ounce, Cene leaves one ounce and half, Cloves, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, and Mace, of each the weight of eight pence, boil all these in three pints of running water, and a pint of white wine till half be consumed, than let it stand till it be almost cold, strain it hard, and add to the Liquor Sugar or Honney sufficient to make it some what sweet, boil it a little again, and skim it, and let her drink each morning a good draught warm. And when she hath drank the said portion four or five mornings together, than with in a day or two after, let her have the powder of Hierapigra dissolved in a little white wine, or clarified Ale with Sugar, warm it, and let her drink it up at one draught: A Diet drink to help the Green Sickness. TAke of Sarsaparilla four ounces, of Cene, and Hermodactalis of each two ounces, one ounce of Epithium, as much Rewbarb, of Liquorish, and Anniseeds the same quantity, Agarick half an ounce, Cordix three ounces, Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound, of Bitony, Isop, and Amen keys of each one handful the kernels only, boil all those in eight quarts of running water till half be consumed, but not in the Cene, and Rewbarb till it be of the Fire, but let all the rest lie steeped in the drink, it cureth the green Sickness, healeth the body inwardly. A Powder for the same. TAke two penny worth of Pollipodie, as much prepared steel as will lie upon a three pence, as much Heart's horn as will lie upon twelve pence, take this in the morning fasting, and walk after it till you sweated. A Drink for the same: TAke Bittony, read Sage, read Mint, and sweet Marjerom, with the powder of Ashen-keys, boil them in a pottle of running water, till half be wasted; Than strain it, and drink thereof morning and evening a good draught with Sugar. An Approved purgation for a quartane Ague by W. Hampton. FIrst, Take a pint of Clarified Whey ', half an ounce of Cene leaves, three or four leaves of Heart's Tongue, half an ounce of Bugloss slours if you can have them, else take a quarter of an ounce of roots of Maiden hair, a stick of Liquorish bruised, the middle bark of an Elder Tree, and of an Ash tree a quarter of an ounce, a dozen Raisins of the Sun stoned, a piece of whole Cinnamon the length of your finger, boil all these in an Earthen pot that hath never been used, and set the said earthen pot in a pan of Brass, and there let it boil the space of two hours, cover the pot with a piece of wood, and passed it over with paste, and than bind it over with a linen cloth in such sort that the breath come not out of the said pot, and when it hath boiled as aforesaid; Than strain it when it is almost cold than take some warm broth three hours after it, and all that you eat or drink that day must be warm, keep your Chamber all that day, and come not into the Air in nine or ten days after the taking of the said purgation; It is good to purge burnt Choler, Melancholy, and phlegm. For a quartane Ague by Mrs. Purvey. TAke a quart of the strongest Ale you can get, three or four balls of Horse Dung, of a stone horse that goeth to grass, one or two handfuls of read Sage, one spoonful of gross pepper, seethe all these from a quart to a pint, than let it drain through a cloth, and if you please put into it a little Sugar, and drink thereof half an hour or an hour before the fit come, and walk after it, if not, lie down and sweated. Probatum est. To stay the flux of ten years' Continuance. TAke yarrow, and Plantain of each a like quantity, stamp them and strain them, than take the juice of these Herbs, and put them to honey of Roses, And take this being all mingled together, and serenge the Patient's body with it every time he cometh from stool, let it be a little warm. Probatum est. The Implaister called Paracelsus, good for a Bruise or old sore. TAke of these Gums following Galbanum, Oppopanax, of each one ounce, Ammoniacum two ounces, let them be beaten very small, and put them into an Earthen pot that holdeth about three pints, and is well leaded, and glassed within, than pour upon the same Gums, a pint of the best Wine Vinegar, and cover them close, and let them remain so a day and a night, on the next morning set them on a soft fire of Coals, till they be throughly melted, continually stirring them with a Spatula. Than take a piece of new Canvas that is very thin, and strain them into an Earthen Chaffer that is very well leaded, and will hold about a quart, and so set them on a very gentle fire of Coals, keeping the Fire from the sides of the Chaffer that the Gums may boil until the Vinegar be all boiled away, and utterly consumed, in the boiling of the Implaister you must keep stirring of it continually with a Spatula, jest the Gums burn to, and when they have boiled about two hours, than take a quart of Oil Olive, and put it into a pann well leaded, and glazed, that holdeth a pottle, or more, and set it on a soft Fire of Coals, and presently put into it one pound and half of lethargy of Gold, beaten into fine powder, stirring it continually, till you put in all, and when it is through hit, and mixed well together, than put in half a pound of new yellow Wax cut in small pieces, and so let it boil till it come to one firm substance which you shall find by laying one drop of it on the side of a dish till it be cold, and when you find it will break between your Fingers of a firm substance than it is enough, Than take it of the fire until it hath left boiling, and be almost cold, continually stirring it, and so by little and little, take the Gums that were first boiled, and with your Spatula taking the quantity of a Nut at once, put the same into the said matter, continually stirring it, till the said Gums be all put in, and be well mixed with the other things, your Gums will be half an hour putting in or thereabouts; Therefore when you see it begin to be cold, set it on a few Emberss, taking great heed that it be not over hot, for than it will run over into the Fire, for it is very hot of itself, but if the worst should hap, that it suddenly gins to run into the Fire, that you cannot stay it, have a pann of water by you, and quickly put it into the water, than take it out of the water again, and set it on the Fire, and when these Gums are put in, and well mixed, and melted, Than put in these things following, Bdellium two ounces, the two kinds of Aristolochia long and round, Calaminaris, Myrrh, and Frankincense of each one ounce, beaten them into very fine powder, and searse it through a very fine linen Cloth twice; all these powders must be full weight after they be searsed, than mingle them together in a large paper, and pour them leisurely into the said matter continually stirring it. Than pour into it one ounce of the Oil of Baics, and lastly put into it of pure and fine Turpentine four ounces, than take it of the Fire, and labour and stir it at the lest half an hour together when you put in the Turpentine; Than have some very good Oil of Roses, and pour it along upon some clean Table, and spread it with your hand all over the Table, than pour salve on the top of the Oil, and when it is cold you must make it up into lumps, and so labour it very much for an hour, and than make it up into eight or nine rolls, and so lay them on the Table one by one until they be cold, than lap them up in papers well oiled with oil of Roses, and get a sheep's skin, and cut it into pieces to wrap upon every piece, and so bind them up with a pack thread, and being thus kept out of the wind and Sun, they will last seven years. A Medicine for the Falling sickness. TAke an old Toad, and kill him, and take out his inwards saving his Liver, and in any wise see that you take out his Gall clear without breaking, for else it poisoneth, wash it very clean, and lay it on a Tile-stone in an Oven after the bread is drawn, dry it, and make powder of it, and mix therewith a small quantity of Cinnamon, and give it to the party in Ale or Beer warmed, as much as will fill a Hast Nutshell which will weigh some ten grains at one time, It must be taken after the party hath fallen of the disease, and he must fast after four or five hours, also it must be taken once or twice about the time the party doth use to fall into the disease to prevent the coming of it. The Claws of the Toad must be cut of: Probatum La. Capell. For the Piles. TAke ten handfuls of Pile-wort, with the roots, flowers, and leaves, and two handfuls of Orpin with the roots, leaves, and stalks, wash them very clean, and be sure you lose none of the roots, than put them into a linen cloth and dry them, and shifted the cloth once or twice, and let them lie a day and a night in the cloth to dry, than take three handfuls of Broom blossoms, and put them to it, and stamp them in a Mortar almost an hour, than put to it a pound of Hogs-grease, and stamp it together half an hour more, than take it and put it into a galley pot, and let it stand nine days,, than boil it half an hour, and than strain it out, and so anoint the Piles with it. Probatum Lady Capell. A Plaster for a bruise, be the same inward or outward, or both. TAke of Burgundy Pitch one pound, Virgin wax half a pound, Frankincense finely beaten a quarter of a pound, boil all these together, and when they are all throughly melted, pour it into a Basin of cold water, than make it up into rolls, and when you use it, spread it on the fleshy side of a Lambskin, and apply it to the bruised place, and when it is whole it will fall of itself, otherwise not Probatum Lady Capell. A Medicine to kill a Canker in the Throat or Nose, which must be applied to the outside of the Throat or Nose, you must lay it to morning and Evening, twice or thrice dressing will kill it. TAke Woodbine leaves, red sage leaves, & Rew leaves, of each a pretty handful, of Elfame in Summer, the bind leaf, and flower, rather more of that than of any one other thing, washing soap as much as a walnut shell in all, as much leaven or soap, the brown bread leaven is best, put in with the leaven a little salt, stamp all your herbs, leaven, and salt together very fine, and small, than put in your soap, and stamp it with the rest, and lay it on a linen cloth, and bind it hard to your Throat, or to any other place where the Canker is, the Herbs must be laid on as cold as you can. This medicine is good to kill a Felon, or Cancer in any Joint. Probatum, La. Capell. For burning and scalding, to take out the fire, and to heal, and skin it. TAke ground Ivy, and boil it in fair water, and when it is well boiled, bathe the place well with the water, and lay the Ivy leaves so sodden on the soar place, and it will kill the fire, and strengthen the place. Probatum, La. Capell. Another. TAke of shell Snails a good quantity prick them being in the shells with a needle, set them in a fair dish, and let them stand, and within a while they will drop water, when they have done dropping, put the water in another fair dish, let it stand three or four hours, and it will be like an Oil, than take some of that, and anoint the sore three or four times a day; Than take the leaves of Harts-tongue, and wet them in the same oil, and so dress it till it be whole; This Medicine will keep the sore from scarring. A Diet drink for to purge most Diseases. TAke Bittony, Sage, Mlnt, Scrubie and Wormwood of each equal portions, bruise them, and Tunn them up in a gallon of new Ale, and use to drink of it every morning, fasting three hours after it; Also drink it four hours after dinner, and last at night, It is good to clear the Liver, to take away superflaous moistness in the Reinss, and to comfort the stomach, and the brain. A Diet drink for many imperfections. TAke of Sarsaparilla two ounces, Sassefrage wood, Chena roots Gallingall roots, Turmentile roots, Angellica roots of each as much, except of the Sassafrage, of it three ounces, of Heart's Horn or Ivory finely scraped one ounce, Bittony, Scabious, Egremony, Marsh-mallows, and Colts-foot of each one handful, put these Herbs into a Bag, and dry them in an Oven after, the bread is drawn, than mingle them together with the roots also, mix therewith of Cinnamon one ounce, of large Mace three quarts of an ounce tying them fast upon a Bolster bag with a stone in it, make it sink below the yeast, being put into two gallons of Ale, and drink thereof when you please. A Diet Ale to purge most Diseases. TAke of Cene four ounces, Sarsaparilla two ounces, as much madder, of Organy one ounce, two ounces of Anniseeds, of Agarick, Rewbarb, and Ginger of each half an ounce, a quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon, of Scurvy grass, and read Dock-roots, of each two handfuls, bruise all these together in a stone Morter, only your Scurvy Grass must be bruised gently by itself, strip, and slice your Dock-roots very thin, being all well mingled, put them into a bag, and hung them in three gallons of strong Ale when it is working, that it may work with it, after it hath stood two or three days, you may drink every morning a good draught fasting, and likewise about four of the clock in the afternoon. A Diet drink to take Spring, and fall, and if need be at other times. TAke of Cene, and Sarsaparilla of each three ounces, Guiacum four ounces, Licoris and Raisins of the Sun of each one ounce Hirmodactilis and Fennell-seeds of each half an ounce, Sa●saphrage two ounces, Egremonie, and Bittony of each one handful▪ Put these into a thinn bag the roots, and seeds bruised, and than hung it in two gallons of strong Ale when it is first Tunned, it must work but once. A gentle Purgation. TAke three pints of Whey, and put thereto half an ounce of Cene, a spoonful of Anniseeds, seethe these till the Whey consume to a pint, than strain it, and keep it, and take twelve spoonfuls of the said Whey, and put thereto three spoonfuls of the syrup of Rewbarb, and drink this three or four mornings together. Another. TAke of Cene three drams, of Rewbarb one dram, and half, shred very fine, a race of Ginger scraped, put all together into half a pint of white Wine, and steep them therein on warm Emberss all night, In the morning strain it, and put to the said Wine one ounce of the syrup of Roses, and let the party drink it blood warm, and one hour after, drink some warm broth to 'cause the same to work upon the body. A Purgation against Melancholy. TAke two handfuls of Mouse-eare, roots and all, wash them as clean as you can, and put them into a quart of good Beer, let not the Beer be soured or too bitter of the Hopp, seethe it till one half be consumed, than take a good spoonful of Anniseeds well dusted, and clean picked, put both these into the Liquor above said, and let all seethe together a little while; Than take it of the fire, and let all the Liquor run through a strainer being pressed out to take out the strength thereof, Than take half a pint of it, and put to it of syrup of Violets two spoonfuls, and so drink it, peradventure it will not begin to work in two hours after you have taken it, till you have taken some warm Broth. To make Balm Water. TAke of very strong Ale untunned three gallons, green Licoris two pound scraped clean and bruised, take half a pound of Anniseeds rubbed in some cloth, and the dust fanned away, bruise them; Than take a flasket full of Balm strip it, and stamp it in a mortar a little, let the Ale be put into a stone pot with a narrow mouth, and let all these be infused a day and a night therein, and than distil it in a Limbeck. Another Purgation. TAke of Manna, and syrup of Roses of each two ounces, put them into a quarter of a pint of Mutton broth, or Chicken broth, and drink thereof, but if the purge be for a woman, than one ounce of each of the aforesaid things will be sufficient: Another. TAke two ounces of Cene, and boil it in a pottle of running water till half be consumed, than strain it, and put to it another pottle of running water, and let it boil two or three walms; Than put into the said broth one pound and half of Prunes, and one Mace, and stew them therein, and eat thereof two or three at once, more or lesle according as your stomach standeth for the same. Another. TAke Hirmodactilis, a little Ginger, Long pepper, a little Anniseeds, and a little Mastic in white Wine. It is moderate for the stomach, and it purgeth phlegm from the heart, and foreparts, it is very good against the Gout; The Sciatica and pain in the joints. Hereafter followeth certain most approved and precious Receipts, set down by the learned and expert Physician Doctor Martin a Kurnebeck. This Doctor was an high Germane borne, in profession, a Physician, and proceeded Doctor at Milan in Italy, in the same day that Dodonius the setter forth of the great Herbal did proceed, with whom he had long and familiar conference. He became Physician to King Henry the Eight, after whose decease he practised in the City of Norwich, where after many years spent to the great help and comfort of many a one that were diseased, and to his own not little praise and commendation, he deceased. As he was singularly learned, and of exceeding good practice, so had he always of his Patients a most honest and friendly care. A Diet drink to purge easily. YOu must brew reasonable good Ale, and when it is ready to tun you must have a linen bag, wherein you must put of good Guaiacum two ounces, Sarsaparilla one ounce, Cene two ounces, Pollipodie bruised one ounce, Epithium three quarters of an onnce, Anniseeds three quarters of an ounce, whole Cinnamon half an ounce, Mace half a quarter of an ounce, honey three ounces, Gads of steel five or six, put these into the bag sow it up, and put it into a pot of two gallons, and cover it, and when it is four or five days old, you must drink of this Ale in a morning, a great draught at Dinner, and Supper, but if it purge much than drink of it only in the mornings. The Electuary for a weak stomach to comfort the same, and for the swelling of the Liver: TAke the Confection Diagalanga, the confection Aromaticum Rosatum, the confection Diacinamoni of either one ounce, and an half, the confection Dia margariton six drams, the confection of the three peppers half an ounce, the confection of Dia amsn. dia laccae, and dia curcume of either two drams, Syrup of Mints and fine Sugar so much as is convenient, make hereof an Electuary, which you may use in the morning fasting, and at night going to bed the quantity of a Nutmeg at once. The Decoction for the obstruction of the Liver to open the same. TAke the roots of Parsley, Asparagus, Fennell, Hilders, and Polpodie of the Oak, of either one ounce and a half, Egrymony, Endive, Borage Maiden hair, Germander, Tampethis, of either two handfuls, Spicknard, Calamus aromaticus, of either two drams, Cinommonie three drams, Cassia linguea one dram, Avis seed, Nettle seed of either two drams, Fennell seed one dram, Melon seed and Purslain seed of either three drams, Ivory scraped one ounce and a half, of the three kinds of Sanders of each two drams, Liquorice two ounces Raisins one ounce, Damask prunes twenty. Boil all these in two pints of honeyed water, and one pint of Egrimony water, putting thereto in the end of the decoction Tamarinds one ounce and a half without Cene. Boil it to sixteen ounces without Syrups, with Sugar only to make it sweet: And so take it at four times. An Ointment for the Stomach and Liver. TAke the marrow of Neats-feets, the fat of a Badger, and the Oil of a Fox of either one ounce, Tamarisk, Harts-tongue, Wormwood, the bark of Capers, Spicknard of either one Dram and a half, Costus, Centaurie of either one Dram. Ammoniacum one ounce, Bdellium two Drams, Oil de ben. one ounce and a half, Nutmegs, Maces, Cloves, Galingale, Setwall of either one scruple, dissolve the gums in Vinegar, and with Wax make an Ointment, adding thereunto of the Ointment of Broom two ounces, mix them again and aromatize it. An Ointment for the Spleen being wind-swollen, turning too and from, making you sick, short wound, and the stomach to rise as it were to vomit, it is most effectual, qualifyiug the sharp humour of the Melancholy, it is also of a good savour and smell, and of great effect. TAke Oil of Worm wood, Mints, with Lilies, and sweet Almonds of either one ounce. Fresh butter six Drams Cloves, Cynomonie of either four Scruples, roots of Ireos, Gallingale, Setwall, capers, of either two Scruples. Gum Ammonaicum, Bdellium of either one Dram and a half. Oil of Maces three Drams, Musk and Amber of either three grains, make hereof according to Art an Ointment for the Spleen, adding thereunto a little Oil of Capers. An Electuary for the stone by Doctor Martin's Counsel. TAke Smallege seed, Caraway-seed, Fennel seed, Parsley-seed, Nettle-seed, of either of them one dram, Gromel-seed, Saxifrage-seed, of either four scruples: The sponge stone, the saint one called Jndiaca of either one scruple and a half. Burnt Glass one scruple, Nutmegs, Cynommonie of either four scruples, the roots of Asarum two scruples, the blood of a Goat prepared one dram, Squinant one scruple, the root of Aristolochia the round one dram. The roots of Madder one scruple and an half ounce, the roots of Marsh mallows two scruples, Musk five grains, with the Sirop of Sorrell compound as much as is sufficient, make an Electuary. The description of the Eight Papers of powder for the Stone by Doctor Martin's Counsel. TAke the powder of Holland three drams, the powder of Benedicta laxativa four drams, of the best Rhubarb one dram and half in fine powder. Than mix all together, and put it in eight papers, and so take it in white wine one paper at once. A Receipt of the little powder to purge Choler Phlegm and Itch. TAke Rhubarb chosen one ounce and a half, Spicknard one scruple, Agarick trochiscated one dram, Ginger ten grains, make a powder to be taken at two times, one dram for a time. Take it in with wine at seven of the clock in the morning, and not to sleep upon it. Lozenges to destroy wind in the Stomach and the Cholica passio, provoking water, also two three or four to be eaten when the pain cometh. TAke Cinamome two drams, Ginger one dram, Nutmegs four scruples, Cloves two scruples, Maces one scruple and half; Seeds of Rew, Nettles, Aniseed, and Fennell seed, the seed of Smirium, of either two scruples, the powder of Philoii mesuae one dram. The confections called Diacinimum, Diapy loaloes, and Diacinomom of either one dram. The powder of the confection of Bayberries two drams, with Wormwood water as much as will suffice, and eight ounces of Ginger boiled to a height, make thereof Lozanges of one dram in weight and gilled them. The Plaster, or rather Searcloath called Oxicrotium, is greatly commodious for such as have broken Ribs; or have set shoulders, Ankles, or other Limbs being out of their Joints, to knit or to strengthen the place again, Sinews, Ligaments, Strings, and Nerves, as I have had the experience of it in breaking three of my Ribs on the left side, and others also. TAke yellow wax, Pitch, Colophony, Saffron, of each six drams Turpentin, Galbanum, Ammoniacum, Myrrh, Frankincense, Mastic, of either two drams, Vinegar to dissolve the Gums as much as will suffice, and make herewith a Plaster or Searcloath. A Decoction for the Stone with the Receipt for the wheazing of the Pipes. TAke the five opening roots, of each six drams, Raisins the stones taken out one ounce, Licorace three drams, Anniseeds, Carni, Cominseed, of either two drams and a half, Origanum, Pyeryall, Calamint, Harts-tongue, of either one handful, Bay leaves half a handful, Sena one ounce and a half, Cinamony one dram, Tamarinds half an ounce, boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water until half be consumed, strain it, and add thereto syrup of the opening roots one ounce, to three ounces of the decoction. The powder following is of the same Author to break the Stone, and to expel the same. TAke the roots of Fennell, and Asparagus, of either one dram, the roots of Madder one scruple, the roots of Aristolochia the round, of Marsh-mallows, of either one dram, Licorace two drams, the stone found in the Sponge of the Sea, and the stone called Indiacus, of either one scruple, the seeds of Ameos, wild Carrot, Parsley, with Saxifrage, Fennell and Annyseed, Grommell, of each half a dram, seeds of Melons and Citruls, the husks being taken of, of either one dram and a half, Alkakengy berries half a dram, Pellitory of the wall, and Mallows of either a dram, Polynum of the Mountain, adjantuum pennyroyal, and Azarmum, of either half a dram, Goat's blood dried and prepared a dram, Bdeilium and Ammoniacum, of either half a dram▪ the eyes of water Crabs, Cinamony, Squinant, of either two scruples, beaten all these in fine powder, take thereof one dram weight in four ounces of Rhenish Wine, or Saxifrage water. The Electuary for the Breast and Lungs, and for dissolving the cold and hard phlegm. TAke Nettleseed, Linseed, Pyneaple kernels, Starch flower of either one ounce, bitter Almonds blanched 26. in number, Pepper xl. grains, Licorace, Arras roots, of either six drams, fry the Lynseed in a Frying-pan, than b●at it, with the rest of the stuff, and with clarified honey as much as shall suffice, make hereof an Electuary, which you shall use often times in the day, but especially in the morning twice or thrice. The Syrup for the same purpose of Dr. Martin. MY Good Mrs. Dyx, you did request me most earnestly to writ you directly the Medicines which are to stay the over much flowing of women's Terms, not such as do linger a good many days, and be of divers colours, as white, green, pale, and black, but such as come down by great abundance of good and read blood, wherein the natural life and heat consisteth, so well as such as by natural course are not stopped, and be much worse to such as have been without them, and of sudden actions break again upon them, and put them to great sickness, as Dropsies and Consumptions, and so be dead. I did show you indeed what good it did to my Friends, within this few months, having had the long experience before approved by my Masters and others. I did make mention unto you of an Ointment Plaster, or Searcloath (name it and use it as you will) called the Countess Ointment, made by the famous Medicine Doctor, named Mr. William of Varignana, to the end, if in manner of a Plaster or Searcloath it be laid unto the back where the Mother is knit, to cleave there, it will stay them by little and little, so will the Ointment do if the privy place and the two flanks be well anointed well warm, and than a soft linen cloth to be laid to the places (and if in case, as God forbidden) you, or others should run in that disease, there are many other things which must be used both inwardly and outwardly. This Countess Plaster is notable good for such a woman as is afraid not to bring forth the fruit conceived, to use it much now and than as they see cause, it will stay the same to the very time. If in case any should bleed to much out of the Nostrils, than a Tent made accordingly, and dipped in that Ointment will stay it quickly, being divers times renewed, it is more requisite that the Ointment be had in a readiness, till Plasters and Searcloath be made. Here followeth the Receipt of the Countess Ointment. TAke the middle Bark of the Chestnut tree, of the Oak tree and the Walnut tree, of either one ounce and a half, Mertleberries, the herb called Cat-tail, Nutgals, and the husks of the Beans, the seeds of Grapes, Service berries unripe, Meddlers unripe and dried, the leaves of the Plum-tree of the wood, the roots of Celedony, of either one ounce and a half: Beaten these a little, and boil them in eight pints of Plantain water until half be eonsumed, strain them from the liquor (and wash the Oils following nine times therewith) always renewing it with fresh water of the same decoction, until it be all wasted up, take new Wax eight ounces: oil of Mertles, oil of Mastic of either one pound and a half, after these Oils be washed, and the Wax melted with the Oils, put in these things following, being beaten in fine powder. Take the inner bark of the Walnut tree, of the Oak tree, and the Chestnut tree, Galls, of either one ounce, the ashes of a bone of a Cow's leg, Mertill berries, the seeds of Grapes, Service berries dried, of either half an ounce, Troches of Amber two ounces, of all these things make an Ointment according to art. In the mean time often times in the day and night must they drink of that Hyppocras to stay the Flux, and comfort the inner Members, whereof feebleness, faintness, and swooning do proceed. Take Shepherd's Burse, Knotgrass, Plantain, read Roses Oak leaves, Horsetail, of either one handful, the three kinds of Sanders broken, of each three drams, Hyppocras and the juice of Sloes, of either two drams, read Coral two drams; infuse these in read Wine two pints, and of Rose and Plantain water of either one pint and a half, Cinnamon two ounces, Pomegranate flowers bruised two drams, and so let them run through an Hyppocras bag six or seven times that it may be clear, putting thereto of fine Sugar two pound and a half, and so drink thereof often times. Now you, or your Friends using these Medicines, they must now and than put in their privities one of those▪ Suppositories to leave it there until they are provoked to make Urine. Than all that be devised are little enough in such a superfluity coming, yea of the most liveliest blood. These are the Pessaries: TAke Frankincense, Pomegranate flowers, Galls, of each three drams, Gum Arabeck, juice of Sloes, Amber, Hartshorn burnt, of each three drams, Terra sigillata and Bolearmony of either one dram, make all these in fine powder, and so with Wool died in Russet, make them up in Pessaries sewed in Crimson-silk. Of this stuff may be made a powder to sit over it many times, to receive inwardly the fume as well as they can, or with a tunnel. These Lozenges following are also for that purpose to be eaten at any time. TAke the Spices of the confection of the three Sanders of the Species of Diarhodon abbatis of either one dram, read Coral, Frankincense, read Roses, of either two scruples, Sorrelseed, Sumach, of either two scruples, juice of Sloes dried, Pomegranate flowers, of either two scruples, Mastic one scruple, Bolearmonick four scruples, white sugar 4. ounces dissolved in Plantain and Rose water as much as shall suffice, make Lozenges in form of Manus Christi, every one containing one dram. Exercises, rubbing of arms, legs, neck, or the breast, must be left, hot wine also, and spices, and sweet sauces; their broths must be boiled with binding roots and herbs, Almond milk unblanched, They may take Ale that is stolen, for it is better than hopped beer. Wine (excepted) they may not drink, until they be well stopped and sleep naturally, roast meats are more meet than boiled. And so far you well. The Costly Ointment for the Spleen, being hard swollen and loaden with melancholy. TAke the juice of Showbread, which is pressed out of the root, the juice of Brakes of either nine ounces, the juice of the crops of Tamarisk two ounces, that which is called of the Apothecaries Oesepi humidi five ounces, Oil of the flower de Luce root two pound, the Gums called Bdellium, and Ammoniacum, of either one ounce and a half dissolved in Vinegar, yellow wax six ounces, the bark of the root of Capers one ounce and a half, oil of Spike three drams, make according to art an Ointment. These are the Herbs, Roots, and Seeds for the Bags and Fomentation for that purpose. TAke leaves of the she Hilders, and of the common Hilders, Fumitor, Harts-tongue, Ceterach, Rue, Centaury the lesser, of either one handful, the bark of Caper roots, of Tamarisk, and of both Hilders of either one ounce, the roots of Marsh Mallows one ounce, the seeds of Fencreak and Flaxseed of either three ounces, Wormwood and wild Time of the Mountain of either one handful, Hilders flowers, Rosemary flowers of either two ounces, part of these things boil in Smith's water and Vinegar, and with the other part make bags to bathe your Spleen. If in case you cannot get Smith's water, take two Steel Gadds' each of them to be quenched in water three times without Vinegar. The Searcloath to be made of the same Ointment, yet must it be knit together with Wax and resin and Turpentine, so much as shall suffice: The Ointment for the stomach is one ounce and a half of oil of Maces, and half an ounce of oil of Lilies, and oil of Almonds which will comfort the stomach. A Decoction for the Stone with a Receipt for the whezing in the breast. TAke the five opening roots six drams, Raisins the stones taken out one ounce, Licorace three drams, Aniseed, Carni, and Cumminseed, of either two drams and a half, Origanum, pennyroyal, Calament, Heart's tongue, of either a handful, the leaves of Senne one ounce and a half, Bay leaves half a handful, Cartamus one dram, tamarinds half an ounce, boil these in a sufficient quantity of water to the half, strain it and put to it three ounces of the decoction, one ounce of Syrup of V●roots, mixing them together. Dr. martin's Powder for the stone. TAke Fennell roots, Asparagus roots, of either one dram, the ●oots of Madder one scruple, the roots of Aristolochia the roundest, and Marsh mallows roots, of either one dram, Liquorace one dram, the stone of the Sea Sponge, and the stone Indiacus, of either one scruple, the seeds of Ameos, wild Carrots, Parsley, and with Saxifrage, Annis, Fennell, and Gromell seeds, of either one dram and a half, the seeds of Melons and Citrulles Excorticate, of either one dram and a half, Alcakinge berries half a dram, Poly of the Mountain, Maidenhair, pennyroyal, and Assarabacca, of either half a dram, Pellitory of the Wall, and Mallows, of either one dram, Goat's blood prepared one dram, Bdellium, Ammoniacum, of either half a dram, Crabs eyes, Cinnamon, Squinant, of either two scruples, beaten all these in fine powder, and drink one dram thereof in Rhenish Wine, or in Saxifrage water. Dr. martin's Electuary for the Breast and Lungs. TAke Nettle-seed, Lin-seed, Pine kernels, of either one ounce, bitter Almonds blanched twenty six, Pepper forty grains, Licorace, Orris, of either six drams, fry the Lin-seed, and beaten all the other together, those which will be seared, let them be seared through a searce, and with clarified honey, and syrup of Licorace, make an Electuary, which you may use often in the day time, but especially in the morning twice or thrice. The Syrup for that purpose of Dr. Martyns' prescription. TAke Foles-foot, Maidenhair, Hyssop, of each two handfuls, Licorace, Raisins the stones taken out, of either two ounces, French-barley one ounce and a half, Figs dried, Dates, of either twelve, blanched Almonds forty, make herwith according to art with Sugar, a syrup, which you shall use every day two ounces in the morning, and at night going to bed: The Ointment for the back. Take Oil of Dill, Oil of Almonds, of each one ounce. Oil of Camomile, Oil of Scorpions six drams, Goose grease, Hen's grease, of either three drams. Fresh butter two drams, Wax as much as shall suffice, make herewith an Ointment: The Ointment for the Spleen. Take Oil of white Lilies, Oil of Ireos, Oil of Capers, of each one ounce and a half. Take Meal of Barley, Meal of Lin-seed, Meal of Fennygreek, of each one dram and a half. Take The bark of the root Capers and of Spleenwort, of either two drams. Roots of Althaea three drams▪ Take Gums of Bdellium, Gom. Ammoniacum, Gom. Galban▪ of each four scruples▪ TakeGum of Appoponax, Myrrh, Frankincense, of each one dram: Oil of Capons six drams. Neats-foot oil two drams. Badgers grease one dram and a half. Goose grease, Capon's grease, of either two drams. The bark of Capers, Costus, Centaury the lesle Capers, of each two scruples. Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar, and beaten those in powder which will be beaten, than melt yellow wax so much as will suffice to make your Oils into an Ointment, and so work them together according to art. If you will have sooner ease and help, before you do anoint your side, bath well the same with two round Sponges one after the other, dipped in the decoction of those herbs and roots, every Sponge two times; Viz. Take Centory the lesle, Rew, Fumitory, Time, Sage, flowers of Camomile, either of them two handful, the bark of Capers four ounces, seethe all these together in a quart of Vinegar, and one of Smith's water, and use it with Sponges as often as you may, and as conveniently as you can suffer, and this is a good and certain remedy. A Paste or Marmalade to dissolve the phlegm in the Stomach for Mrs. Dyx, by Mr. Martyns' counsel. TAke Dia tragacantum frigidum two ounces, and Dia tragacantum Callidum four ounces, Dia Iris Salamonis two ounces, the Troch is forth stomach one ounce, the powder of Dia penidiom, with the Speties, the roots of Oris, and the root of Enulacampana, of either three drams, juice of Licorace fix drams, Smallage roots three drams, Cinnamon, Macis, Cloves, Nutmegs, of either one dram and a half, Ginger two drams, Amber grease four grains, Musk fix grains, sweet Almonds blanched two ounces, Dates one ounce and a half, roots of Setwall, Galingall, of either four scruples, honey clarified, make a past according to art, very delicate to cut with a knife as you do Marmalade. A Dredge for the Phlegm and Stomach by Doctor Martin. TAke the Species of Dia ambra, Aromaticum rosatum of either one dram, the Species of Diagalanga, and Diamosehi dulcis, and dia cinomomis, of either two scruples, cinnamon, three drams, Macis, Nutmegs, Cloves of either two drams, Long pepper one dram, roots of Enula campana, roots of Pyonie, of either one dram and a half, Licorice three drams, Coriander seeds prepared, Anniseeds two drams, Sugar Candie four ounces mix all these together in manner of a Dredge. Cakes of Licorice to lay under ones Tongue to stay the tickling Cough. Take fine starch one ounce, roots of Orris two drams, Gum Tragagant in Rose Water dissolved; Juice of Licorice of either one dram, Ginger four scruples, Musk four grains, powder of Lickorice two drams, with Hyssop water, make rolls or little cakes, which you shall hold under your tongue. The common making of Juice of Licorice. TAke Licorice clean scraped four ounces made in fine powder▪ and cearsed, Gum tragacanth dissolved in Hisop water, six ounces, let them stand together infused one whole night, or rather twenty four hours, strain it, and after dry it in the Sun until it groweth hard▪, than make it up in rolls or in Cakes. The Decoctions of the five opening roots purging Phlegm. TAke Balm flowers, Hilders flowers, Scabious, and Rosemary flowers of either one handful, roots of Parsley, Fennell, Ireos, Acorus, Smalledge, Enula campana, of either fix drams, Liquorice, Polipodie of the Oak, of either one half ounce Parsley seed, Wild Carrot seed, Aniseed, Wild-box-seed of either two drams, Fennell, and Nettle-seed of either one dram and a half, Maidenhair, Fumytory, Germander, Champythis called ground-p●ne, Origanum, wild Time of the Mountain, Wormwood, Mynts, of either one handful. Cassia lignea two drams. Cinnamon three drams, Squinant two scruples, Cene half an ounce, Tamaryndes six drams, boil all these in five pints of fair water to the half, strain it and put to it Sirup of Horehound, and Hyssop, of either one ounce, Oximell three ounces mix them, and drink four days together. The purgation to use after the former Doctor. TAke Agarick not trochiscated two drams, Ginger one scruple, Salt gem three grains, Rhubarb chosen four scruples, Spicknard one scruple, slice them and steep them fourteen hours in white wine▪ Wormwood, and Fennell water of either two ounces, strain them out hard, putting thereto Electuarium Indivii minoris two drams, Diaphenicon one dram, Oximell compound six drams, mix them together, and take it in the morning. The Electuary or a Paste, or Marmalade for the Stone in the Reins to break the same. TAke the Electuary called Electuarium ducis, the Electuary Liton tripon of either three ounces, the stone of the Sea-sponge, the stone Indiacus, niter burned▪ of either two drams, Goats-blood prepared three drams, Grains, Gromell-seed, Crabbs-eyes two drams and an half, the stone called Lincis two drams, seeds of Parsneps, parietary, Parsley, Smallage, Nettles, Asparagus, Brustus, Alkakengis, Mallows of either one dram, Bdellium, Ammoniacum of either two scruples, cinnamon, Squinant of either one scruple and a half, Oximell compound four ounces, Mucilage of Sebestes broken in Gromell water half a pound, Sugar one pound, make of all these things a past or Marmalade. The powder called Liton tripon. TAke of the powder Liton tripon incolai Alexandrini three drams, take one dram with four ounces of Saxifrage water three mornings together, or in stead thereof Holland powder one dram with four ounces of Rhenish wine. A Cerecloth for the inflammation of the Reinss, and the knitting of the rawness of the back. TAke Turpentine of Venice often washed six drams, Gum dragogant, Bdellium, gum Arabic of either three Scruples, Amoniacum two drams, Musilage of Psilium, Marsh mallows-Lyn-seed of either five drams, Read Roses one scruple, Alcakengie two drams trochis of terra Lemnia one dram, Capon's grease three drams, Oil of Camomyle and Roses of either two drams and a half, Wax as much as will make a Cerecloth make it according to art to cleave to the Reinss. An Ointment for the Reinss in the pain of the Stone. TAke Oil of Spicknard, Oil of Scorpions of either one ounce, Oil of Saffron, oil of Quinces, oil of Fox, of either five drams, the Species of Liton tripon two drams, oil of sweet Almonds, of Chamomile of either two drams and a half, Capon's grease, Goose-grease of either two drams, fresh-Butter four scruples, the seeds of Gromell, the stone Indiacus, Goats-blood prepared two scruples, make herewith an Ointment for the Reinss to anoint where the greatest pain is. The Ointment to cool the Reinss. TAke oil of Roses one ounce, oil of Quinces six drams, juice of Plantain, juice of House-leek, juice of Purslane, of either three drams, Dia tragagantum, gum Arabeck of either two drams and a half, read Sanders one dram, Bowl armoniac two drams, oil of Mir●ells, oil of water Lilies, of either one ounce, the four cold seeds of either two drams, the musilage of Popie seed, and of Purslane, of either six drams, the shave of Ivory one dram, Camphire six grains, juice of Solanu● or nightshade three drams, Vinegar as much as shall suffice to make the other to pierce more easily, mixed therewith one ounce of Gallen cold ointment, mix them again, and if you please you may add the whites o● two Eggs well beaten▪ By Doctor Martin of Kurnbeck Doctor of Physic. Doctor Martin's Order how to take his Decoction. TAke of the Decoction called my decoction of the five roots twelve ounces for three mornings. If you take this Decoction for a great cold, than after the taking thereof three mornings you must anoint your stomach morning and evening with this ointment. Take of oil of Wormwood and mints of either six drams, oil of Mastic one ounce. You must leave the Cerecloth for your stomach, always upon it being a little warmed before. The Cerecloth is the Cerot of Galens called Ceratum Stoma●hale Galeni. This powder following may be taken one dram at once as they are divided in eight papers, once in a fortnight or a Month, as necessity shall require in white Wine, Beer or Ale, not regarding the New, Full or Quarter of the Moon. It will scour the Reinss, gravel and stones, and open the Liver and the spleen, and empty the guts and Stomach. TAke the powder Liton tripon one dram, white tartar, Seen of either one dram, Turbith the whitest, and well chosen one dram, the powder of Benedicta laxativa two drams, Ginger and Cinnamon of either one scruple and a half, mix them together and divide it into eight parts one dram for one part. Of Turbith take but one Dram, it will be else too pinching and nipping, and will make them to vomit extremely, and for more assurance, in stead of Turbith, I would rather that one dram of good Rhubarb were taken: Doctor Martin's Receipts of the five opening roots for Mr. Dyx. TAke of Rose-leaves, Bugloss, Violets of either a little handful, Lettuce, Endive, chicory of either one handful, Raisins of the Sun the stones taken out, one ounce, Damask Prunes cleven, Nettle-seed, Fennell-seed, Caraway-seed, of each two drams, the four great cold seeds, of each one dram, the roots of Acorus, Polopodie of the Oak, Parsley, Liquorice scraped, Asparagus, of either five drams, Oxifinicum, Seine, of either one ounce. Cinomome, Ginger of either two drams, boil all these in a sufficient quantity of water to the half, than strain it and put to it four ounces of the Syrup of the five roots. For a Vomit by Doctor Martin. TAke six leaves of Azarabacca dried, beaten them into fine powder with a penny weight in Ginger, drink this in white Wine or Al●. Lozenges by Doctor Martin's Counsel for the Rawness and windiness of the Stomach for Mr. Dix. TAke the powder of Dia avisum two drams, Dia mosch. dulcis, and Dia Amber, of either one dram and a half, Dia cumini one dram, Dia cinomoni one dram and a half with Marjoram water, and four ounces of white Sugar dissolved therein make Lozenges, every one to contain two drams in weight let them be guilt: Doctor Martin's most notable Syrup to break the Stone which was had of Doctor Hatcher of Cambridge, for diminishing, breaking, and expelling the stone, as well in the Reinss as in the Bladder, as also for purging and scouring the little gravel, you must take two ounces of this Syrup with three ounces of Saxifrage water for one draught twelve days together. Taken horse Radish four ounces, Dock roots, the roots of white Lilies, the roots of Flower-de-Luce, the roots of Pyony, the roots of Restharrom, Liquorice, the roots of green Madder, the roots Aristolochia the rounder, the roots of Asparagus, and the roots of the wild Vine, of each one dram. The seeds of Smallage, carni, wild Carrot, and Nettle-seed, of each four drams, white Saxifrage and Parsley seed, of either three drams, Bay-berries, and Ivy-berries, of either two drams, the stone ●ndiacus, and the spong stone of either one dram and an half, poly of the mountain, maidenhair, Pyeriall, Assarabara, Adjantum, Saxifrage parietary, Filupendula of each two drams, Goatesblood prepared four scruples, Squinnant, Setwall, Galingale of each one dram and a half, Cinamome maces, Nutmegs, of each three drams, Grumwell-seed three drams the kernels of Cherry-stones, Cherry-tree-gumme, of either one dram, the bark of Ash, of Hilders, of the People tree, of either four scruples, Musk and Amber of either six grains. Let all these be sodden▪ in a quart of Rhenish wine and a quart of Saxifrage according to the art, put hereunto a pound and a half of Sugar, and make a syrup as abovesaid. A purgation to be drunk called Electuarium Indivium, the lesser whereof you may drink six drams with the decoction of Saxifrage, Pellitory of the wall, and Parsley, with a spoon full of Anniseeds, boiled in Ale or Beer, take ten spoonfuls of the decoction, and dissolve the Electuary therein luke warm, and so drink it upon a good day. The Description is thus as followeth. TAke Turbith and Sugar of either one hundred drams, Macis, Pepper, Ginger, Cloves, Cinomome, Cardamus, Nutmegs of each seven drams, Scamony twelve drams clarisied honey two pounds and a halfe make herewith an Electuary. The Ointment for your back more cooling, and to drive the stone which was read in colour. TAke Oil of Roses, of water Lilies of either one ounce and an half, oil of Myrtles six drams, Gum tragacanth, gum Arabeck of either three drams. The four cold seeds both the greater and the lesser, white Popie seed, and the juice of Houseleak of each six drams, read Saunders two drams, bole armoniac two drams, Ivory two scruples, Camphor seven grains, Vinegar a sufficient quantity, boil them and make therewith an Ointment for the Reinss, putting thereunto Infrigidantis Galeni one ounce, mix them together again. A Sovereign Electuary for the Plague. TAke the leaves of Dittanie one ounce. The roots of Setwall, Bettony, of Pimpernell, and tormentil of either one dram and a half, Citron pills five drams, the Earth of Lemnia six drams, Bolle-armeny one ounce, Myrrh, Lignum aloes of either three drams, Saffron two scruples, Mastic two drams, Liquorice, Ivory, Red-rose-seeds, of each two scruples, the bone of a Heart's hart, read Coral, of either one dram, Purslayne seed eight grains, with honey and Sugar as much as shall suffice, make an Electuary. You must take hereof the quantity of one dram dissolved in white Wine or Dragon water, and so drink it, or it may be eaten a-alone by itself. Doctor Martin his Letter touching the Palsy. WHereas in your Letter (gentle and my very good friend Mistress Dyx) you request me to set down certain orders and Receipts to cure the Palsy, which now and than is as well in the right side as in the left. Sometime in one part of the Head as in the Eye, Lipps and Neck, or turned on the right side or the left, as for the greatest sickness of all called the Apoplexia it doth kill out of hand, if in case it be cold and moist Phlegm, and tough Phlegm, which before did overwhelm the commonsenses, reason and memory, and the remembrance contained within our brains in the Nerves. So that it taketh away our feeling, hearing▪ speech and moving. And suddenly by nature to be expelled at one of these parts of the body, than must they go in hand incontinent, and with all speed, with these Medicines. If in case the Patient be young, and full of blood in his body, (the time reasonable, blood must be taken of him on that side which is found not above six ounces, and such a Glister ministered as soon as they can. And Hippocrass made for him to drink at any time, Ointments in like case. Rubbing, fomentations to the side that is taken, Gargarisms, and Lozenges, as followeth in order: Doctor MARTIN▪ The sharp Glister for the Palsy. TAke Mallows, Marsh-mallows, Mercury, Camomile, Sage, Bettony, of each one handful▪ Stechas six drams, Rew, Calamint, of either a little handful, Fennell-seed, Ameos, of either three drams. Seen, Polipodie of either one ounce, the roots of Pelletorie, Gentian, Enulacampana, Ireos, gallangale, of either three drams, boil these in white wine, and common water, of either one pint and a half unto fourteen ounces, strain it and dissolve therein the powder of Hierapicra Galeni five drams, Benedicta laxativa, the Electuary of Indea the lesle, Diaphenicon of either half an ounce, honey of Roses six drams, oils of Laurel, Ireos, Rue, of each one ounce, salt one dram, mix all these together, and make a Glister to take often. The Hippocras for the Palsy by Doctor Martin. TAke Cin●mone two ounces, Ginger one ounce, long Pepper, grains of Paradise, Gallingale of each two drams, Cardamomes two ounces Nutmegs, Cloves, Maces of each two drams and a half. Scene two ounces. Aniseed and Fennell-seed, of either six drams, boil all these in two pints of Malmsey, and two pints of white wine, and o●e pint of Prime-rose-water until two pints be consumed, being boiled let it be strained, wring and pressing the Liquor from the spices, put thereto one pound of Sugar, and so cle●e it through an Hippocras bag, and make it Hippocras according to Art. The Ointment for the Palsy. TAke Unguentum Aragonum, Unguentum Martiatum of either one ounce and a half, Unguentum Agrippae one ounce, oil of Costus, oil of Fox, oil of worm's oil of Tile-stones, of each six drams, oil of Castor three drams, powder of Bittony, Sage, and Pepper of each one dram. Castorium, Euphorbium, of either two Scruples, roots of Acorus two, wax as much as shall suffice to make it an Ointment, you shall anoint the party afflected in the morning, and likewise at night, half an hour together throughly with ones warm hand, for the disease groweth of a could and tough phlegm which doth stick in the muskles, and Nerves, which are not dried up, but with warmness, and by comforting the member which doth remain half dead. And the disease hanging long, nature is so weakened that death doth follow: And whereas you use the frictions before the anointing, so it is more profitable, and more doth comfort the benumbed member or side, i● you before you use the ointment, bathe him with such a fomentation, with two tilts or sponges as followeth. The Bath or fomentation. TAke Bittony, Camomile, Origanum, wild Time, Fennell, Margerum, Garden Time, Sage, Calamint, Hyssop, Lavender, Wormwood, Rosemary, Nettles, of each a handful, Hilders flowers and Ebulus flowers of either two handfuls, the roots of Pellitory, Enula Campana, of either three ounces. The Inner bark of the Ash tree, and of Hilders and Ebulus, of either two handfuls, boil all these in four pints of Lie, two pints of white wine, and one pint of Vinegar, and two pints of River water, Frankincense in powder one pound, Let them be boiled to the half, use this decoction to be bathed certain days together this bath will serve many times. If after this bath and ointment, the numbness do still continued, than this Cerecloth must be applied good and warm, and at every dressing to take it of, and lay it on again, this is most excellent and approved. The Cerecloth for the Palsy. TAke Bay-berries, Pellitory of Spain, pepper, of each half an ounce, the roots of the true Acorus three drams, Stechas, Bettony, Hilders flowers, of either three drams, Mustardseed, Nigella, of either one dram and a half, Euphorbium, Castoreum of either two scruples; oil of Costus two ounces, oil of pepper one ounce and a half, oil of Euphorbium half an ounce, with Wax, Rosen and Turpentine as much as is convenient, make herewith a Cerot. Now it is most needful to take every morning and evening these Sirups for four days together, and the next morning after the purgation as shall follow. The Sirupps. TAke honey of Roses, Oximell, simple Sirup of Calamnt of either four ounces, water of Hypericon, Hyssop, Fennell, Mints, of either six ounces, mix them together. Take them four days together, morning and evening, four ounces for a time. The pills for the Purgation. TAke pills of Cochiae half a dram, of Hiera compound two scruples, Alephanguiae half a scruple, Agarick trochiscated one scruple and a half, turbith of the best half a scruple, Mirabolaons' chebuli one scruple, Sticados, Ginger, of either four grains, Mastic five grains, Peony seed three grains, Castor two grains, with Lavender water make a Mass of pills, make five pills in one dram, and let them be guilt, and take them after the use of the Sirup four days. Also you must take of these pills often and many times purging▪ except nature help of itself considering the root of the Sickness doth proceed from the head, it shall be most requisite that his hairs be shaved, & every twenty four hours to be anointed with this ointment, to consume those naughty humours, which else will cast him into the deadly sickness called Lethargus, and to have the more moving of his tongue and lips, he shall morning and evening at a time take four ounces of the stilled water hereafter following, and rub his temples and lips with the same. The water followeth the ointment. The Ointment to anoint his head after the shaving thereof. TAke oil of Fox, of Nardus, of Euphorbium and of Nutmegs of either half an ounce. The juice of Saint John's wort, of Rue, of Sage, of either two drams and a half, Castorium, Sagapenum, of either one dram and a half, flowers of Sticados, Rosemary, of either one dram and a half, Mustardseed, Doves-dung, of either four scruples, with Malmsey and Wax according to art make this Ointment. The distilled water that is to be used for the rubbing of his Temples and Lips, and also to drink as before is set down. TAke Margerum, Hilder-flowers, Rosemary-flowers, Balm-flowers, of either one handful, Costmary four handfuls, roots of Pellitory, Setwall, Galingale, roots of Peony, Cheledony, of either two drams, seeds of Hypericon, Annis, Carni, Nettle, and Fennel-seed, of either one dram and a half, steep all these in three pints of White-wine 24. hours, after distil it in a Glass-Still, and use it as abovesaid. After this it is necessary that this Gargarism be used to draw the matter from the head, that the cause of the Disease be removed, and by using the Gargarism, the use of the moving the Tongue followeth. The Gargarism as followeth. TAke the roots of Pellitory of Spain, long Pepper, of either two drams, the seeds of Staphesacre two scruples, Marjoram, Pyeriall, Hyssop, Origanum, Bettony, of either a little handful; boil these in a sufficient quantity of White-wine until half be consumed, strain them, and being cleared add thereunto of Oximell-Stillitick one ounce, mix them together, and use this warm every morning. Also it is necessary to use a sweet Pomander to refresh the head, and to comfort the same. The Pomander. TAke Storax, Calamint, Labdanum, and Wax, of each five drams, Lignum Aloes, Nutmegs, Frankincense, roots of Peony, black Bysativae, Calamus Aromaticus, of each four scruples, Musk one scruple, Ambergris half a scruple, make according to art a Pomander. Also it is convenient to use a powder to draw up at the Nostrils to procure sneesing, which followeth. FIrst take Margerum half a dram, Nigella half a scruple, Cloves, white Pepper and Cubebes of either half a scruple, Nutmegs, Castoreum, white Helibor of either half a scruple, Pire●rum four grains, beaten these in fine powder to procure Snee●ing. Also it is needful for faintness of the heart, or sencelesness in the head to use these Lozenges following. TAke the Species of precious stones, Dianthos, of either one scruple, Mates two scruples, Lignum Aloes, Cloves, Fennel-seed, Anniseeds, of either half a scruple, Cinnamon two scruples, Stichadoes half a scruple, Setwall, Enula Campana, Ireos, of either a scruple, Sugar dissolved in Peony and Lavendar water four ounces, make hereof Lozenges, let him take hereof now and than as occasion shall serve. Thus endeth the practice for the Palsy. Now followeth for the falling of the Euula to the root of the Tongue which hindereth the speech and swallowing, this cometh of cold contained in the head, and from thence falling down maketh all these Impediments and hoarseness also. Therefore you must use frictious perfumes in the mornings and evenings keeping both your head and body warm. Also you must use Gargarisms with Honey, Columbine, and Woodbine leaves boiled in fair water, and so strain it putting thereunto a little Alum. Also if the neck be swollen, anoint it with May butter and Dear suet, also you may make a Plaster herewith and lay it round about your neck; you must renew the same four times in a day, and if you grow worse use it eight times in a day renewing the same. Also if the matter falling down cause a Boyl or Impostume to arise there, than you must take one dram of Pills of Cochiae over night, which being taken at the beginning will help all. But you must observe, if there increase any Inflammation in the mouth which will procure a Squinanfie, which is a sickness most dangerous, the same day, or within two or three days after it stoppeth the wind and breath. Therefore they must straightways be let blood eight ounces, or ten ounces in one of the arms, or under the tongue two ounces: And if the pain continued, the Pills must be taken over night, and a Gargarism, an Ointment and a Poultice must be used as followeth. The Gargarism for the Squinancy. TAke Rosewater, Plantain water, Sorrel water, prunell water, Nightshade water, of each two ounces, Dia moron, juice of Ribs, of either half an ounce, juice of Barberies three drams▪ Vinegar wherein Sumach hath been scraped one ounce, juice of Pomegranates six drams, mix these together, and let the mouth and throat be often gargarised herewith. The Lineament for the Squinancy. TAke oil of Violets, Roses, oil of Lynseed, Lilies, and sweet Almonds, of either three drams, Ducks grease and Capon's grease, of either two drams, Nigella one dram, mix these together and make a Lineament according to art to anoint the whole neck, and presently to apply this Poultice as followeth: The Poultice or Cataplasma for the Squinancy. TAke the Mucilage of Fenegrick, of Marsh Mallows, of Lynseed, the four great cold seeds of each three drams, the fat of a Badger, Capon's grease, and Duck's grease, of either two drams, the leaves of Mallows, of Strawberries, Plantain and Roses, of either a handful, the roots of Marsh Mallows and Cichory, of either one ounce, Violets one handful, boil these in water until they may be beaten, and so to be made in form of a Poultice, putting thereto oil of Lynseed, Camomile, Roses, and Violets, of either one ounce and a half, let it be applied three or four times in the day, as necessity shall require. Dr. martin's Electuary against the Plague. TAke the leaves of Dictamnus one ounce, the roots of Setwal, Bettony, Pimpernell, Tormentill, of each one dram and a half, the Pills of Citrons five drams, Terra Lemnea six drams, Bowl armony one ounce, Myrrh, Lignum Aloes, of either three drams, Saffron two scruples, Mastic two drams, Licorace, Ivory, Rose-seeds, of either two scruples, the bone in the Heart's heart, read Coral, of either one dram, Purslain-seed eight grains, with honey and Sugar as much as will suffice, make according to art an Electuary. Here endeth the Receipts of Dr. Martin of Kurnbeck. Certain special Medicines for the Stone, the Colic, and for the stopping of the Urine either by Stone or Strangury: For pain in the Throat, the Rheum, the Stitch, etc. approved and sent unto me by my Cousin Standish as followeth. For the Stone. TAke Snails and lay the mouths downwards upon a Tilesheard, which lieth upon Coals, take out the Snails when they are well dried, and beaten the shells to powder, drink it in White-wine, and about two hours after shave some white Castle Soap into warm White-wine, whereof will arise a froth which will fall again to the bottom of the Cup, than shake it together, and it will rise again, and drink it presently, the powder maketh it to break, and the drink with soap maketh it slip. Probatum upon the Lord Marquis at Mr. Notes. Another for the Stone. TAke the claws of a Porker newly scalded, pair away the softness thereof, than set them in some place to dry, or carry them about with you till they be very dry, than grate a quantity of it upon some hard Grater, and thereto put a quantity of the powder of Alexander-seed, and drink it with White-wine, or stolen Ale, as often as you shall think good▪ Probatum A. W. Another. TAke two or three Gizards of clean Capons, dry them in an Oven, or upon some Tile sherd, and thereof make powder and drink it with White wine or stolen Ale, and for the Colic wear continually before your belly a stomacher made of Wolves skin. Dr. Smith's Medicine for the stopping of the Urine, and to assuage the extreme heat thereof. TAke a pint of Rhenish Wine, and with the yolks of two newlaid eggs make a Caudle, relish it with Sugar and Nutmeg to your best content, than dissolve therein half an ounce of white Castle Soap, and drink that Caudle at three draughts warm, in the morning one, when you go to bed the second, the next morning the third, by this you shall found great ease, both of the stopping and pain, and great comfort, without any loathsomeness at all. For the stopping of the Urine either by the Stone or Strangury. MAke clear Posset-Ale with White-wine or Ale, seethe in the Posset-Ale a great handful of Parsley shred, and as much Pellitory of the wall shred, and when it is sodden scrape in a quantity of white Castle-soap, but let it not come on the fire after the Soap is in, stir it together and give the Patient to drink when he is stopped a pint at a time as warm as he can drink it, and anoint the place grieved before a fire with oil of Roses, or oil of Lilies, and for want of these take Salad Oil, dip a cloth in the same Oil, and lay it warm to the place grieved, and walk after it in your Chamber if you can, and it will help in short space, God willing. Put in an Herb called Gromell if you can get it. You may use the foresaid Herbs in a thin Alebery, and put in a piece of butter after it is sodden, and let not the drink come on the fire after the butter or soap is in it, for than it is binding, if you drink a small draught it will not do so much good as a great draught. Proved upon Mr. Whithead being stopped 20. hours in extreme pain, who within half an hour voidea great clods of blood and hard, and lived in ease long after, and than died of a Consumption. For one that maketh blood-water before it come to the extreme pain of the Strangury. TAke an herb called Shepheards-pouch, and another called Knotgrass, of each a like portion, as much as you list to make the powder to serve all the year, you must gather them somewhat before Midsummer, or else soon after, and dry them out of the Sun, and drink the powder in Wine about the quantity of a little Walnut, or else in Ale when you go to bed, or in the morning when you rise, and use it till you be well: Probatum: A Medicine for the swelling in the throat. TAke a good handful of Vervine or two, cut it small and put it in a Mortar, than take ounces of Commin-seeds and pound them very fine, and lay them upon a very fine linen cloth, and apply it to the swelling, and use it till it be whole. Another for the throat. TAke Jewes-Eares which grow out of an old Elder and seethe them, and Collumbine leaves in milk with honey of Roses, or a few dried Rose-leaves with a little Sugar, drink of this milk as hot as you can often times in the day and night, and lay of the said Jews-Eares in the Beer or Ale which you use to drink. Also anoint your throat with oil of Roses warm against the fire, and card and baste the wool of the flank of a Sheep upon a cloth, and anoint the wool with the aforesaid oil, and lay it very warm to the throat. Proved upon divers by Mistress Eliz. Standish. For a windy Stomach. Boil a little Camomile, wild Time, and wild Parsley which is called Saxifrage in posset-drink made with milk and White-wine, drink a good draught thereof fasting, and to bedward warm. Proved by my Brother Roper and divers others, by me E▪ Standish. For the wind▪ Colic: TAke a newlaid Egg and lay it in the fire until it be warm, than take of the top and put as much Brimstone as a Hasell Nut very fine beaten into it, stir it together with your knife and sup it of. Probatum. Another for the same. TAke a pint of Sack, and put it into a silver or pewter pot, set it in a Posnet of water to seethe, than put into the Sack seven or eight branches of Spearmint, and let them seethe together a good while, than clarify a piece of sweet butter, and put in two spoonfuls of the clarified Butter into the Sack, and a piece of Sugar, but let it not boil after the Butter and Sugar is put in, let them drink of this a good draught when they are in pain, and by that time the pint is drunk up they shall found ease. Probatum. A Drink for the Lungs. TAke Burr roots, Maiden hair, and hearts▪ tongue boiled in Ale, and drink thereof morning and evening warm, anoint the breast with oil of sweet Almonds, and anoint a Twilt of Wool and lay it warm to the breast. Probatum. To stay the tickling of the Rheum in the night. TAke a new sheet of brown paper, and cut it a hand in breadth, and so long as it may cover the mould of your head, baste upon it some fine Flax, and put a piece of Frankincense on a Chaffindish of Coals, and hold the Flax-side of the paper over the Frankincense, and lay it warm to your mould every night, and when you are laid in your bed eat a little Conserve of read Roses, and if the Rheum doth tickle you, than eat a little more, but speak not after you have eaten it, and this will stay the tickling of the Rheum in thrice taking it. Probatum. For the Stitch. TAke Camomile flowers, boil them in Vinegar, twilt them well in two bags, and when the one is cold lay the other thereto hot, and so apply them to the place one after another till the pain be eased. Also give the parry Cockle-seed that groweth in Corn beaten to powder in all his drink. Another. TAke a new wheaten Loaf hot out of the Oven, or else two wheaten Tostes, spread them with the best Treacle, and cleave the Loaf in the middle and so done, lay one of them on the Stitch, and a little above it, and the other on the pa●ties back against the place where the Stitch is, lay them too as hot as he can suffer it, and when they are cold toast them and spread them with Treacle again, also while this is a doing take an Apple and cut of the top and take out the Coat, put therein the powder of white Frankincense and lay on the top again, roast it with a soft fire, than give it the party to eat with a little Sugar, one in the morning, and another at night, this will help a Stitch, or Bastardplurisie being taken in time. Also warm white Frankincense and make it in rolls, swallow them like Pills in syrup of Hoarhound or Hyssop fasting: Probatum. To make the black Water to kill the Itch of a Wound new healed, or about a Wound; or any Itch elsewhere. TAke the black water wherein the Smiths quench their Iron, and put therein as much read Sage as can well seethe in it, let them seethe till the strength of the Sage be in the liquor, than strain it and wring out the juice of the Sage hard into the liquor, than put in a good piece of roach Allome, and set it on the fire till the Alum be melted, keep this water, and twice or thrice a day wash the place that itcheth. Probatum. For a Ringworm or Tettar, or read Pimples in the face. TAke a Sorrel root, wash, scrape it and slice it, and lay it in Vinegar all night, and therewith wash the place often, and the longer the root lieth in the Vinegar the better it is. To cleanse Corruption out of a Wound, and to make good flesh grow in the place. TAke the water of Carduus benedictus warm, and wash the Wound morning and night, and wet Lint in the same, and lay to the place half an hour at evening and morning before you lay on your Salve, if the wound have any holes in it, than dip the Tent in the same water, and roll the Tent in the powder made of the leaf of the same herb being dried, but you must boult the powder through Lawn, at night put in the Tent ro●led in the foresaid powder, and in the morning dip the Tent in Salve, this water and powder will keep the Wound from a Fistula, and from dead flesh. Probatum. If it be an even Soar without holes you shall not need but to wash it with the said water, and take a piece of sheet▪ Led, beaten it as thin as you can possibly prick the lead with a Bodkin full of holes, put a Tape in every corner, turn the edge of the lead outward from the Soar, scrape the smooth side of the lead till it look bright, lay it to the Soar, and bind it thereto with the Tapes, take it of even and morn and wipe of, and scrape of the filth, but beware you come not near the fire, neither keep it too warm. Probatum upon one that had a soar leg 20. years, which this healed when other Salve could not. To make Jelly of Heart's horn: TAke Raspood, Hearts, or Stag's horn, four ounces, of fair running water, put it together into a Pipkin and let it stand all night on the Emberss, the next day bo●l it until two parts of the water be consumed, and that it come to a Jelly: Than strain it through a Jelly-bag into a Skillet or Pipkin, beaten the White of an Egg very well and put to it, season and sweeten it with 3. or 4. ounces of loaf Sugar, a large Mace, a stick of Cinnamon, a Sprig of French Marjoram, a little sprig of Rosemary, and two spoonfuls of white Wine-vinegar, boil these again together until it hath the taste of the Spices, and than strain it again through a Jelly bag into a dish or galley pot for your use. Some use to boil a Chicken or knuckle of Veal in the water before it be infused with the Hartshorn, the same being first strained, but for a weak stomach pure water is best. A Vomit to cleanse the stomach. TAke three roots of yellow Daffodils, wash them and cut them small, seethe them in Ale or Beer till half be consumed, put thereto a little Saffron, and boil it together, strain it, and drink thereof after you have broken your fast, use it when you need, and not else. To stay a Vomit. TAke sour Leaven and Vinegar, stir them well together till they wax moist, than take a handful of Mints and cut them small with as much Wormwood, and work all these together very perfectly, so make a Plaster thereof in a linen cloth, warm it well on both sides, and so lay it on the stomach, and it will stay it. The Receipt of the Wound-drink. TAke Southernwood, Wormwood, Bugloss, Mugwort, Wood bettony, Sanicle, Plantain, Dandelyon, Ribwort, white Bottles, Bramble-buds, Egremony, wild Angelica, Comfery, Mints, Scabious, Strawberry-leaves, Cinkfoyle, Violet-leaves, Dafies, Honey Succles-Avens, Hawthorn-buds, Oake-leaves, Take of these of each a handful, put to them a pottle of White-wine, and a gallon of clear running water, boil altogether till one half be consumed, than strain the liquor clean from the herbs, than put to it a quart of honey, and boil it again, and being cold, put it into glasses or bottles stopped close, and keep it for your use; viz. Let the Patient drink 5. spoonfuls at a time luke warm every morning fasting, and three spoonfuls last of all at night, until he have drunk a quart thereof. This drink is effectual for Soars, new or old Wounds, women's Breasts, putrified bones, for ache in the stomach, to break any Impostume, to staunch blood of Veins broken in the body, it hath caused Bullets to fall out of the flesh, that long continued therein, with many other rare Effects. For the Stone. TAke a quart of running water, and a quarter of a pound of the best blue Currants, and wash them clean, and boil them to a pint, than strain the Currants in a cloth, or bruise them with a Trencher, than take the yolk of an egg new laid, and beaten it well, than take half a pint of the water, and brew it with the yolk, and drink it in the morning fasting, and a like quantity a little before supper, this do a quarter of a year together. For a soar Throat. TAke a pint of Claret-wine, a quarter of brown Sugar-candy, one ounce of Mace, one handful of Rosemary-tops, boil these to half a pint, and strain it through a cloth, so take two spoonful lukewarm, and gargoyle with it, than drink it down. Flos Vnguentorum. THe entreat is called Flower of Ointments, for it is good for all manner of maladies that are written hereafter. That is to say, for old wounds, and for amongst all entreats it is most cleansing and well soaking, and engendereth flesh, and it healeth more in a seven-night than any other in a Month, and it suffereth no corruption in a wound, nor no ill flesh to be engendered therein, and it is good for the headache, and for singing in the brain, and for all manner of headaches, and for all manner of Impostumes in the head, and in the body, and for the boiling in the Ears or in the cheeks or sinews, sprung shrunk, or stark, and it draweth out any thorn, or broken bone, or any thing that is in a wound, it is good for the pricking or biting of a venomous beast, and it rotteth and healeth all manner of botches without, it is good for a Canker, or noli me tangere, and it draweth all manner of Ache out of the Liver, Spleen or Reinss, it breaketh the imposthume, it is good for boiling in the members, it ceaseth flux menstruous if it be laid to a woman's Navel, it healeth fair e the emrod's, and it is specially good to make a Cere cloth for Gouts and Aches, and for pestle botches. And this entreat is called flos unguentorum, for it cometh of Jesus Christi by an Angel to a house of Religion at the read hill in Almayn, which wrought there many marvails, and never had other medicine but this, and it is made thus following. Take Rosin and Perison of each half a pound, Virgin wax and Frankincense of each a quarter of a pound, of Mastic an ounce, of Heart's suet a quarter of a pound, of Camphire two drams, melt that is to be melted, and pound that is to be pounded, and finely serced, and boil them over the fire, and strain them through a Canvas cloth into a pottle of white wine, with all the other Medicines together, than let it seethe till all the white wine be almost consumed, and than let it cool, until it be no hotter than blood, than put thereto a quarter of a pound of Turpentine, ever stirring it until it be through cold, but ever beware that your stuff be no hotter than blood, when you put to your Turpentine, for if it be hot, it marreth all your stuff, and make it up in rolls, and keep it to your use, for the most best and precious salve that can be made. For the Morphew, white, or black, if it be curable. TAke one ounce of fine Verdegrice, and one ounce of Sulphur vivum, and beaten them both into very fine powder, and take two Sheep's heads that are fat, take out the brains and wash them away, than wash the heads clean, and seethe them till they be tender, than take them from the fire, and let them stand till they be cold, and than gather of the fat and meddle it with the powder all cold, and put it into a box, and use it being new. Anoint the sick therewith against a fire at night, when he shall go to bed, and in the morning wash it away with good Vinegar, three dress hath cured divers. It is not to be melted, but anoint the Patient it being cold. It shall be good every anointing to use one suit of linen, for it will not out. For a Scald or a Burn. TAke one pound of new Butter unsalted, put to it a pretty quantity of Alehoofe, and of the green Bark of young Elder as much, with a yellow Dock root picked very clean, boil all well in the Butter until it look like a Salve. Than put to it some new Sheep's dung, and when it is well incorporated together, strain it and keep it for your use. Anoint the Place therewith melted, or made warm, with a Feather, and anoint the outside of a Primrose leaf with the same, having first knocked down the seams, so apply it to the place, and dress it in that manner, morning and evening, and it will make a perfect Cure. Probatum est, Mr. Spiller. A Receipt for the Sciatica, or other pain in the Bones. TAke half a pound of the best yellow Bees wax, half a pound of Pitch, 2 d. half a pound of Deers suet, 6 d. half a pound of Rossen 2 d. half a pound of Frankincense, 4 d. two ounces of Mastic 6 d. beaten all these Gums severally, and searce them severally thorough as fine a search as you can, being first very finely beaten. To stay the Humour. TAke a pint of Verjuice, a good quantity of Read Sage, and boil it from a pint to half a Pint. A Medicine to kill a ringworm. TAke half a pint of Running water, a good pretty piece of Tobacco, and boil them together to a quarter of a pint. An easy Plaster for the Gout. TAke Black-soap as much as you think good, and the yolks of raw Eggs, half as much as the Soap; and mix them well in a dish till the Soap hath lost his proper colour. Than take fine flax, and spread it upon it, and lay it to the grieved place, than take the whites of Eggs mixed with Wheat flower, dip a linen cloth therein, and lay it upon the Plaster, and bind it fast, and remove it not in four or five days. Of all Medicines for the Gout this is the best as I have often proved both of men and women, it is more precious than Gold, etc. To make Jelly of Hartshorn. TAke three ounces of Hartshorn shaved thin, put it in five pints of water, boil it till it come to a pint, with a piece of lean Veal, if you make it without Veal, you must put in half an ounce of Hartshorn more, and so season it with what you please▪ A Receipt for the Stone. Mr. Hicks Apothecary. TAke of your Alkekengie Berries, otherwise called winter Cherries growing in Gardens: Take them and open them, and with the seeds, fruit and lease, altogether bo●le them either in broth posset drink or Mace Ale, and drink of it a good draught warm, morning and evening, and it will dissolve the stone in the Kidneys and purge Gravel exceedingly. For such as cannot make water. Mr. Hicks. TAke of your Holliocks white or read, flowers and leaves, and distil them in an ordinary still, and reserve the water, and take of this about a quarter of a pint at a time mixed with a little fine Sugar, and it shall 'cause you to make water in your greatest extremity. Probatum est. Doctor Friar his Receipt which he used in the time of the Infection of the Plague, and all other contagious sickness. TAke Cinamomi one dram, terrae sigillatae verae six drams, Mirrae three drams, Cornu Monocerotis one dram, Sem. & corticum Citri, radicum Dictamni, Tormentillae, Zedioariae, sanguis Tortae Corals rubri ana. two drams Santali flacci Iiiii. Santali rub. I two. Benalbi & rubi, florum heliotropii ana: one dram Rasura eboris scabiosae sem: ocimi ossis de cor cerviana. I two. boli orientalis two drams, Sushari albi L iii Syrup acetositatis citri q. s. fiat electuarium. The Dose for Children is one dram, which is a French Crown weight, and for elder two drams. It is to be given both before for preservation and otherwise to drive forth the infection by sweat. Let the Apothecary be careful to put in good Drugs. A Drink for a Surfeit in the stomach. TAke clarified Ale, and put therein six Sage leaves, and as many S leaves, of Parsley roots, and Fennell roots, as many as you shall think fit, but rather put in a little read Fennel instead of the roots, and leave the roots out, put in also a crust of bread and a piece of Sugar, and seethe the third part away, and so drink it. Doctor Monfords' Cordial water, TAke of Angellica leaves a quarter of a pound, Carduus benedictus three ounces, of Balm, and Sage of each two ounces, Licoris clean scraped half a pound, Angelica seeds three ounces and half, sweet Fennell-seeds, four ounces and half, of the spices Aromat Rosatum & diam●schum dulcis, of each six drams, bruise the seeds, and Licorise, and ●clip the Herbs, and steep them in sixteen pints of good Sack, two days close stopped in a still or Limbeck. Than distil it with a gentle fire according to Art, After the water you have distilled hath stood two days, dissolve twelve ounces of Sugar Candie in read Rose water, and mingle it therewith. To make Cinnamon water. TAke an Ale Gallon of the best Sack, and Sugar, one pound, Ginger one ounce, beaten your spice and Sugar, and lay them one night and a day, in steep in your Sack, and stir them well together four or five times, and than the next day distil it, and save the strongest by itself, and the weakest by it self, you must stop your still very close, when you lay your spice in steep that no strength go forth: Pills to purge the Head and Stomach. TAke of Aloe Cicatrina one ounce, three races of Ginger beaten, and searsed both through a fine searse, mingle therewith two spoonfuls of English honey, and a pennyworth of Mithridatum or Treacle, work them to a paste with fine searsed Sugar, And if you please make them up into pills, seven or eight of these pills taken going to Bed is sufficient at once, or else you may keep your paste in little boxes, and take the quantity aforesaid, either in the pith of an Apple or in Sugar sops. An excellent plaster for the Back. TAke of gum Galban▪ and of gum Armoniac of each half an ounce, lay them in strong Vinegar a night and a day, and than boil them till the Vinegar be wasted, and than strain it. Than take a thing called Gallie muscata, and Alipta muscata, of each half an ounce, and of fine Labdanum half an ounce beaten in powder, than put all them into the gums with a little Turpentine, and boil them again, and all to stir it in the cooling, and mix them well together, and so spread it upon Leather, and cover it with read Sarsenet, and use it all the time of need. A Medicine to keep up the palate of the mouth. TAke a piece of wheaten leaven and Commine seed, beaten in a Mortar, a quantity of Bay-salt and read Rose Vinegar, and read Rose water, and put them into a bag of cloth, and lay it to the mould of the head. To dry up the rheum in the head. TAke a quantity of dried Rose-leaves, the flowers of Camomile, Basill, Marjorum, all dried, a quantity of Cloves and Mace gross bruised, a Nutmeg, and a quantity of Dill-seed, all quilt in a cap. For Mistress Dyx. Seethe a little while, a good spoonful of Conserve of Roses in half a pint of milk, than put to it two good spoonfuls of Sugar-candy, or good Loaf Sugar in powder, and brew them well together there till the Sugar be dissolved, and drink it all of, to bed▪ ward, good and warm, and by little gulps at once, and follow this a while, and I hope it will in time stay your Rheum. Scabious. TAke Scabious and beaten it and distil it, and than beaten more of the Herbs, and put in the water that was distilled to it, and let it stand twelve hours, and than distil it again, and than boil the water with Sugar-candy, and so take it three or four times in a night or a day, according to your stomach, You must boil the Barley in fair water, and when it gins to break you shall put out that water, than putting thereto a sufficient quantity of water, so that there be left a full quart, when it is boiled, than boil the things which are sent with the other according to your Note, and being taken of and strained to a pint thereof, put in both the Glasses of Syrups. The China Broth. TAke Manna one ounce and an half, dissolve it in a little warm beer, and when it is melted strain it out, and add half a dozen drops of that liquor in the little glass to correct the windness of it, drink than before you eat, half an hour, or something more, as it works diminish or increase the Doses in the beer brewed with herbs, the ordinary quantity should be a handful, and a quarter of a handful of it to a handful of the other, and add many Gold-flowers when you have them and some Balm, and in the same vessel with the beer hang China prepared three onnces: Sometime use Scurvigrass, boiling the herbs, or the juice of the herbs, a pint of the juice in two gallons of Wort. Make broth with half an ounce of China, two drams of Coral set over a few Emberss in the morning, put in a piece of meat or a Chicken, after scuming add a piece of the bottom of a Maucher, a sprig of Time, Rosemary, or a few Sage leaves, Raisins of the Sun stoned a handful, and Currants a few, boil them to a pint and a half, drink of it in the morning, and at four in the afternoon, or immediately before meat. Remember Enula Campana two parts, and one part of Dock-roots powdered: Take green Walnuts, shells and all, and let them be stilled, and drink the water thereof alone, or with a little Treacle, and it is good against any infection. To draw out Infection. Take a handful or two of Elder-leaves, and stamp them, and put thereto half a dozen of Eggs, shells and all, and a good deal of the Loom of a Wall, and a spoonful of black Soap, temper all these together in the manner of a Salve, and lay it to the hollow place of the soles of your feet, and let it lie some i●▪ hours and it will draw the infection our of your body. For the biting of a mad Dog, for Man, or Beast. TAke of Hobgoblines (which grows most commonly in Heathes about the black ling) of Perewinckles (which grows among the Hays commonly of Gardens) and Box leaves dried and powdered, of each a like quantity, mixed together either in broth or posset-ale three days before the change, or three days after the change of the Moon in the morning fasting. To make Popylion. TAke the buds of the Poplar Tree, pure water, take Henbane, take Plantain take Mor●ll— take Orpen, take Houslike, take Sempervive, take Endine, take Violets, take Water-creases, take Dayses the white and read, take Ribwort, take Penigrass, take Stone-crop, take Arragon, take Tonnow. To make Oil of Exeter balm. TAke a a pound of Cowslip flowers and steep them in Oil Olive, and Calamint, Featherfew, Sage, Egremony, Southerwood, Pellitory, Camomile, Heyniff, Pellitory of Spain, Flowers of Lilies, of each an handful, four pound of Lawrell-leaves gathered in June, and stamp them altogether till they are small, than take the said flowers of Cowslips and wring out the Oil, than stamp them with the other herbs, than put therein White-wine a day and a night, in as much as they may be steeped in, than take the said Herbs, Wine, and Oil altogether, and boil them on the fire till the wine and water of the herbs be wasted away; and thus shall you prove it: Take a spoonful of liquor at the pans bottom, and when you see no water in the spoon, than is your Medicine enough, or else set it again on the fire, than strain it through a strong linen cloth, and when it is cold put it in a glass and stop it well, and it will serve you three years. For to help a man or woman that is bursten in the space of seven days, and never cut him, and if he be an angry man nine days at the most. TAke a broad Pawncher with a Tap before, another behind even against the soar, and sow within the Pawncher a good great ball of linen cloth before the soar, and than bind fast the Taps within the great of the leg, and than seven or nine days he shall drink 24. spoonfuls of Comfery with three spoonfuls of liquor which come from the Apothecaries called Aqua decoctus Diabolus, so that the quantity of the liquor be 27. spoonfuls in all, and look you take read Comfrey for the man, and white for the woman, & let the sick drink this liquor at morning 27. spoonfuls, and noon, at evenings the same quantity, and use the same seven or nine days, and look for one thing that he be well trussed, and just when he walks, but when he lieth still; it is on great charge, so that he lieth still, stirs not up soon, nor go about hastily, no● sit down hastily, and beware that he come not upon any Horse in that time when he is in cure that he eats not Apples, Nuts, or cold Milk, for all things that are cold are contrary for him, and when he eats hot meats, let him beware of smelling meats and drinks, Goose-flesh, new Ale made with Oatemeal, nor eat not to much of no manner of meats at one meal, but wisely govern thyself till thou be'st whole. And this Medicine hath healed many. Probatum est. For a Fistula. TAke butter without salt, and Verjuice without salt if you can get it, if not take the other, and with this warm, bathe the out side of the wound, and if there be a hollowness fill it with Neats-foot oil, and lay it over all; thus dress once or twice a day, that is approved good for a Fistula. For the pain in the back. TAke Shepheards-purse Knot grass, and Cumfery, all green, and boil them in broth for the party to eat. Take Lettis-seed and dry it, and beaten it to a powder, searce it fine, and take half a spoonful at a time in posset-ale. A Medicine for the Cough. A handful of Horehound, one handful of Nip, a handful of Hyssop, a handful of Time, a handful of Balm, boil all these in a quart of running water, and put in half a quarter of a pound of Anniseeds, a stick of English Licorace bruised, and a piece Elicampana as big as one's finger, boil all these together from a quart to a pint, and strain it out: than put into that Licorace a pound of Sugar, than boil it up to a syrup, than put it into a glass, and let the party take it on a Licorace stick. To make a Poultice. TAke a pint of Cream, and thick it with grated bread, and seethe it while it be thick, than put in two spoonfuls of honey, and two spoonfuls of oil of Roses, spread some of it upon a cloth, and lay it on as broad as the Plaster. A Receipt for the stopping of the Urine. TAke three pints of Hawses, and pick the stalks and the tops, take half a pint of read Dog-berries, or sweet Btyer berries, take half a pint of Sloes, and half a pint of Cherry-stones, take a dozen of Medleys, bruise all these together, and being bruised put them into eight pints of White wine, than stop up all these together in an earthen pot, and let them so stand a day and a night, and every eight hours, stir them and than stop them up again, and put it into an ordinary Still and still that, and this must be done about Michaelmas time, and when the party hath need let her take four spoonfuls at a time. This Water will last eight years, and it is best when it is old. For an Ointment. DIll vervine, St. John's wort, May wort, and Lavender Cotten, & Rosemary tops and Bay leaves tops wild Mallows, Rew, Borage Read sage, the leaves of Lavender, Camomile, Mother-Tyme, Elder flowers, smallage and Feather-few, Sallendine, Roman wormwood, of every one of these herbs a handful mingled with four pound of Hogs grease, a pint of Salad oil. An approved powder for the Stone. TAke the seeds of Broom, the crops of read Nettles, the crops of read Time, the buds of read Oak, the Lights of a Fox, the flowers of Elders, Hipp berries, Stone Crop, ashen keys, Orange pills, Parsley seed, Saxifrage, gather all these same in their due time, dry and beaten them severally into powder, and put these powders into sundry Boxes or Bladders, take of each a like quantity, mix it well and keep it for your use. If you found it to be the stone in the Kidneys, take three spoonfuls of distilled milk-water in a Glass, put to it over night as much powder as will lie upon a Groat, cover it all night in the morning put to it six spoonful of white wine, stir it well together, drink it sasting, fast and use moderate exercise an hour after, If it be for the stone in the Bladder, in stead of milk water, and wine, use only Beer or Ale a like quantity over night and in the morning. For them that make bloody Urine. TAke Salad oil, Ki●chin Sugar, Aquavitae of each a spoonful, beaten them well together, and so l●t the party grieved drink it morning and evening thrice together; also take as much Parsel, seeds beaten very small as will lie upon six pence, and drink it in posset ale or any other liquor between the former Drinks about two or three hours after every of them. A Receipt to make Black salve. TAke eight ounces of oil Olive four ounces of Bees wax; four ounces of read Lead, put the oil and the wax being cut into a Skillet, and melt them together, than put the read Lead into the oil and wax, and boil them with a soft fire, always stirring it, and so continued it boiling till it turns black, and begin to smell, than take it of the fire and sk●m it, and let it stand till it be could, and than make it up in a thick roll for so it will keep the better. A Medicine to cure any Whitlaw. TAke a pint of butter or half a pint as you think you shall have occasion often to use it, and boil the butter in a frying pan, till the Butter be black, than take it of the fire, and scum it, and when you have scummed the butter clean, than put in as much Sorrel into the frying pan with the butter, as you think will drink up all the butter in the pan, and let them boil together so long as the butter and the Sorrel become a salve, than spread it upon a Cloth the breadth of the wound, and apply it to the sore as hot as you can well endure it, change your plaster once every twenty four hours, do this without omission some three weeks or a month together, & you shall see the wound cleanse and heal, than when you shall found by the plaster that the wound be perfectly cleansed, take half a peck of white or grey salt, and a gallon of running water, boil these together a good while, till the salt be all melted into the water, than wash or dab the soar with this water, as hot as you can well endure it once or twice, having twenty four hours distance betwixt every washing, and after every such washing, apply again the plaster above said, than take the plaster of again, having laid the accustomed time, and after that lay no more plasters: but only a clean cloth every day one, and this with the help of God will cure you without all fail, provided always when you see the wound look of a fresh and lively colour as it will do when the plasters have drawn and eaten out all the corruption and putrified flesh, that than you keep the wound somewhat open, with a little ball of Lint, that so it heal not too fast, and you are clean without any doubt or danger. Probatum est. A water to cure any old Ulcer. TAke half a pound of Bolearmonack a quarter of a pound of white Copperace two ounces of Roach Allom, than take your Allom and Coperace, and beaten them small, and set them on the fire in an unnealed Pipkin which is a Pipkin unburnt if you can get one, and than stir them together till they be both molten, than when they are cold, put them up with the Bolearmonack into a clean Mortar, and beaten them into a sine powder altogether, than make the water as followeth. Take a pottle of running water and set it on the fire in a clean Skillet till it be scalding hot ready to seethe, than put your water into a new earthen Vessel or Pitcher, than put two spoonfuls of powder into the water, and stir the powder well up and down the water in the settling while the water is hot, that so the strength of the powder may go into the water, and when the water hath stood some three days a settling, than skim of the uppermost froth upon the top of the water, and pour out the water very clean and gently from the Dregss and bottom into another clean pot or Pitcher, and when you have occasion use it in this manner, take two or three spoonfuls, and take it as hot as the party can well endure it, and so wash and dab the sore well withal, than get as much fresh water into another saucer as will well wet a cloth two or three times double to cover the sore withal, and so apply it, and let it lie to the next dressing, always use the water as hot as the Patient can endure it. To stop the bleeding at the Nose. TAke strong wine Vinegar in a Chafindish of coals, put three or four clothes into the Vinegar upon the coals till they be hot, bath than his or her privy parts a good while, and it will help immediately. For the Emeralds. TAke scraped Lead and lay in Vinegar, and take Guilts grease and grinned it on a stone together, and spread it on a cloth, and lay it to the place and it will cure you. To make a water for the stone. TAke a Gallon of new milk of a Read Cow, and put therein a handful of Pellitory of the wall, a handful of wild Time, a handful of Saxifrage a handful of Parsley, two or three Radish Roots sliced, and half an handful Philupendule roots sliced let all these lie in the milk one night, and in the morning, put the milk and herbs into a still and distil them with a moderate fire of Charcoal, when you are to use the water take a draught of Rhenish or white wine, and put into the wine five spoonful of the distilled water, a little Sugar and Nutmeg sliced, drink it of in the morning fasting and fast two hours, and keep yourself walking and going up and down, the next day meddle not with it, but the third day do as you did the First day, and for every other day for a weeks space. This water must be made in the Month of May. To make Jelly of a Cock. TAke a Cock pull and wash him very clean, break the bones very well, take two Gallons of water and boil him in it▪ until it come to a pint and a half, of Nutmegs and Mace a spoonful, the Mace whole, and the Nutmegs sliced the Nutmeg and Mace put in at first, than strain your liquor from the meat, than let it stand until it be cold, than with a Knife skim of the fat on the top of it, than if any dregss or thickness be in the bottom, take it of also, than put it into a Pipkin with such quantity of Cinnamon and Ginger sliced as you shall think fit, than put to it a pound of the best loaf Sugar a spoonful of Coriander seeds prepared, as being steeped a night in Sack, white wine or Rose water a quarter of a pint of Rose water, than boil them all very well together for half an hour or more the● take the whites of four Eggs very well beaten, pour them into the Pipkin as it boiles, still stirring of it, until the white of the Eggs grow black. Than take it of the fire, than put in to your jelly bag a branch of Rosemary, wetting the bag with Rose-water, put into the bag a handful of hard feathers upon the Rosemary, than put in the jelly into the bag, and when it is run through, put it in again, and so do three or four times before the fire, the last 〈◊〉 let it run into the thing you will keep it, as in some Galley p●● for winter, and Glass for Summer. The black Salve. TAke two or three hundred Snails, shells and all, and stamp them very small, than take a gallon of new milk and put them in it, put in half a pound of Aniseeds beaten, one ounce of small Mace beaten, a quarter of an ounce of Cloves, set them upon a soft fire of Coals and keep it with stirring until more than half the liquor be consumed, than set it by a cooling, than take two pound of good pitch, a pound of Parrosen, and a pound of Rosen, half a pound of Wax, a pound of Turpentine four pound of Sheep's suet tried, set altogether upon a▪ soft fire, and put into the milk that was before boiled, and so let it boil till the moisture of the milk be boiled away, than strain it and keep it for any old sore, bruise or thorn, or to take the Ague out of a sore▪ Probatum est. A Sovereign and approved Medicine for the S●yatica. TAke one pound of new Wax, a pound of Pitch, a pound of Deers Suit, a pound of Rosen, a pound of Frankincense, four ounces of Mastic, beaten all these gums severally, through as fine a Ce●rce as you can get, than take your Deers suet, wax and Pitch, and set them on the Fire in a brass pan till they be melted, than put in your rosin till it be melted, than your Frankincense till it be melted, and lastly your Mastic till it be melted, and besure that the one be melted before you put in the other, than stir them well together, and when they begin to boil and rise, the gums being throughly melted, take it from the fire, for if you take not heed, it will run over, than take a strong Canvas cloth, yet somewhat fine, and sow it like a jelly bag, and so strain all the former stuff into a fair pan that aught not to be above two fingers thick, and when it is cold cut it into pieces, and lay it up close, and it will keep good seven years. Probatum, Tho. Fuller. For a Mad Dog. PImpernell, Rue, Sage, and Saxifrage in powder and given in drink▪ Another. BUckthorne or Way thorn the berries, or the inward rin● in drink. A Purge. PVlvis Sanctus one dram in white wine or posset Ale. For the heat of the face. FUmitory one pottle, bitter Almonds an ounce, sublimate in sine powder litarge and ceruse ana. two drams, and one dram of Camphire in dust, beaten your Almonds and strain the Fumitory water through them, than infuse the rest in that water and strain it as you use it anoint your Mortar and Pestle with oil of sweet Almonds and that will beaten your Camphire to dust. For deafness. CAstarum in powder, Mithridate, and oil of bitter Almonds mixed, wherein dip a little tent of black wool, and remove it once in twenty four hours▪ For the Spleen. MElilote Camomile ana. three handfuls Parsley Roman Worm wood, Plantain, Ditany ana. one M: beaten small Rosen one pound, Wax twelve ounces, Sheep's suet one pound, white wine one pint, melt them and let them stand seven days, than boil them and strain them, take hereof the quantity of a Wal-nut and spread it upon Leather, and let it lie till it f●ll of of itself. A very good Purge. Succory water and white wine, ana a quarter of a pint, Rhubarb a quarter of an ounce, Agarick one dram, Seine, three drams, Lignnum aloes, Mace, Cinnamon ana. two drams, slice your Rhubarb and Agarick small and bruise the rest, but not your seen, put them in a Pipkin over the embers all night, close stopped, than boil them to half, strain it and dissolve therein one ounce of Manna. Than strain it again and take it fasting at six a clock in the morning, and fast till one, but drink often, after it gins to work, warm broth. Probatum. For a Consumption. TAke two pound of Parsneps and pulp them, put to them half a pint of faint Cinnamon water, or else Muscadel, pnt to them two pound of Sugar answerable to your pulp, boil them to the consistence of an Electuary than than add to it three drams of Aromaticum Aromatiumgiri one shilling six pence, Rosatum Dia cordanabatis, each one shilling, girilatum one shilling six pence, Dimargaridicum one shilling six pence, Calidum ana. three drams, Read Sanders half an ounce, Oil of Anniseeds a scruple, Oil of Cinnamon twelve drops, take hereof morning and evening the quantity of a Nutmeg upon a Knife's point. Probatum Mr. Hutton. A Balsam. TAke old oil Olive three ounces of clear Venice Turpentin eight ounces of clean picked Wheat one ounce and a half of Saint John's wort, with little holes in the leaves, like prickings of Needles two ounces, of the root of Carduus benedictus, and Valeriana each one ounce, of Frankincense two ounces, beaten both the roots and the Herbs together somewhat grossly, and put them in an earthen pot with as much Sack as will cover them, and so let them stand in steep two days, than put the Oil and Wheat into it, and seethe them altogether until the wine be consumed, than take it of the fire and strain it softly, putting into that which is strained, the Turpentine and Frankincense, and so boil it together a little, than take it of and keep it in a Glass close, till you have use for it, the older it is the better it will be. Probatum est. A Poultice. TAke Wormwood, boil it, than chop it, than boil it again in the same water, than mix with it Rye-me ale and a little Honey, and Hog's grease and apply it. Take a piece of Bullocks horn within an inch of the head, fry it with black soap to powder. Take as much suet as the quantity of an Egg to a pound of Pionie Rosen, heat them and put them into water and make them up in rolls A Diet Drink to dry up humours. SArsapirilla three ounces, Lignum Gguiacae six ounces, Cortex guiaci one ounce flos stecadoes three drams, Epithimum three drams, Liquor is three drams, Raisins of the Sun one ounce, boiled six hours in two gallons of Conduit water in Balneo Mariae, drink it at all times for a Month. Take two drams of Passer from the Apothecary, and take the read Dock root, and boil it in wine, and take of the seeds of Pionie, and beaten it into powder, and put it into the wine and so drink a good draught. Corn being black to recover the colour. SCreen it once or twice a week with the cha●f and all if it be very black take the loom of a Clay wall, dry it in an Oven, and beaten it to powder, and put it into the Corn with the Chaff, and so screen them together. To keep Wheat after it is clean. WHen it is in the loft for the first month, you must be ●ure to Screen it once a week, and after to turn it once a week if it lies very thick, you must set sticks in it an end to give it Air. A true Receipt of Mr. Gascoines Cordial powder, with directions how to use it. TAke the rags of pearl or seed pearl, of read Coral, of Crabs Eyes, of Hawthorne, of white Amber, Ana a like●, quantity, being all severally beaten into fine powder, and seared through a fine searce, than take so much of the tips or toes of the Crabs Cl●wes, as of all the rest of the powder, for it is the main agent of the work beaten and cearse them as you do the rest of the powders, than weigh them severally, and take so much of the tips or toes as of all the other fine powder and mix them together, than make it up in balls with some jelly of Hartshorn wherein you may infuse some Safron more or lesle as you desire to have them coloured, so let them lie until they be dry and fully decoct▪ and than use them as you have occasion, if you can have the Crabs legs before they be boiled; it will be much better otherwise they may serve being boiled, so that they be in season, which is in May or September, this powder being finely shaved o● scraped with a Knife, may be taken in a spoonful of Dragon water or Carduus water ten grains at a time, washing it down with another spoonful of the same water but for a yongue child two grains may suffice. It is good to prevent the small Pox, and to put forth a disease, it recovereth those that are fallen into a Consumption, if it be taken daily for a good time together, it is good and excellent in all violent and burning fevers, and against all sorts of poison, it serveth especially against the Pestilence of the Plague, it doth extirpate the venom of the infection, wherein no terra Lemnia sigillata, Beasors stone or Unicorns horn, though taken in a double quantity can match it, it helpeth quotidian tertian and double tertian Ague, but for the quartan it is not much commended, only it may comfort the spirits, and mitigate the fits, but in any other Agues, it is equal to any animal or vegetable medicine whats●ever, it is good for the trembling or passion of the heart, it being taken in time it preserveth a man from all diseases and infections, and it worketh scarce with any sensible motion, for it neither provoketh nor giveth any offence at all to the heart, smell, taste, or stomach, it lasteth long▪ and decayeth not. Flower of Sluphur as much as you can take upon a six pence at twice, and as much Benjamin as a pease, take them in a rear Egg, the Benjamine broken as small as pins-heads, take it first and last for a Cold. For bleeding at the Nose. TAke Frankincense two drams, Aloes one▪ dram, make them into fine powder, and mix them with the White of an Egg, until it be as thick as honey, than commix the soft hairs of a Hare with it, and apply it to the Nose and to the Nostril which bleedeth. Another approved. TAke the blood which cometh out of the Patient's Nose, and burn it in an earthen pot, than make it to powder, take of it three drams, Bolearmoniack one ounce, Camphir one scruple, with the White of an Egg, and a little Vinegar, make it thick like honey, and lay it to forehead, and put it to the Nose. Another approved. TAke the Moss of Willow, the soft hairs of the belly of a Hare small cut, Sanguis Dragonius in powder a dram, mix them with the white of an Egg, add to them if you please the fine powder of Pomegranates, there must be a linen clothe dipped into the foresaid Medicine and put it up the Nose. For the Stomach grief. DRink the seeds of Hollihocks in White-wine to cleanse the stomach of rotten s●inking Phlegm and Melancholy. A good Medicine for the stone approved by Mistress Cranmer. TAke one handful of pellitory of the wall one handful of Saxifrage one handful, of wild tim e one handfnl, of garden parsley four or five reddish roots sliced, four sponfulls of fennel seed bruised, ●●reed, wash all these herbs together and dry them in a fair linen cloth and shreed them a little when they be dried and at night take a gallon of new milk warm from the cow and put it in an earthen pot and put all the herbs into it, and the fennel seed with it stopping it very close, and the next morning put it into a common still and keep a reasonable fire all day under it and stir it often, you must take four sponfuls of this water and three spoonfuls of White-wine with a little sugar in it warmed luke warm at the fire to be taken three days before the full and three days before the change through the year. This is to be stilled in July to serve all the year, Two Stilfnlls will serve all the year. This Medicine for the stone is to be taken in any time of the Moon when you feel pain. TAke one spoonful of an herb called the golden rod rubbed to powder to the yelk of an egg rear roasted sup it up fasting three mornings together this Medicine is to be taken in any time of the Moon when any pain is felt fasting an hour after you ●ake it. proved by Mistress Ursula Atkins For the biting of a mad Dog, for either Man or Beasts. TAke three ounces of peeled Garlic, six ounces of Rue, of London treacle four ounces of scraped Time four sponfulls boil them in a large pottle of strong ale that is stolen close covered with a soft fire, boil it to three pints strain this and give nine spoonfuls to drink every morning for nine days. The wound drink to be made in the midst of May. SOuthernwood, Wormwood, Bugloss, Mugwort, Sannacle, Plantain, Dandelyon, Wood-bettony, Ribwort, white Bottle, Dasy-roots, and Honey-succles,, Avence, Hawthorn Buds, Egremony, Oaken-leaves, Bramble, and wild Angelica, Cumfry, Mints, Scabious, Strawberry-leaves, Cinkfoil, Violet leaves, you must take of these one handful, and put them into a pottle of White-wine, and a gallon of clear running water, boil them altogether till half be consumed, than strain out the liquor from the herbs, than put to it a quart of Honey and boil it again, and so put it in a glass close stopped, and when you need it take three spoonfuls thereof first in the morning, and last in the evening, until he hath drunk a quart thereof. The Virtues. IT is very good for soars new or old, for wounds in the body, laying upon them a plaster of honey and wax, for women's breasts, and putrified bones causing them to scale, for ache in the stomach, and to break an Impostume, causing it to run out, it draweth bullets out of a Soldiers body, and healeth the place of the Issue, also it hath been divers times approved for the stopping of blood. Take Araperlia and Seine two drams of each, of Bettony and Ermodactila ● three drams, of Bersonica, Carduus Sanctus, and of herb Maartitica one dram and a half of each, of Species Aromaticorum, and Rosati, and of Ginger one dram and a half of each, all these must be beaten to powder and mixed together, make an Electuary of these with a pound of Virgin honey well scummed, and of this give every morning betimes, or more or lesle according to the complexion, for it should give but three Stools a day, and continued to take it 15. or 20. days, as there shall be occasion, you need not keep your Chamber, nor be too precise in diet. A Poultice to assuage pain, and to ripen a Soar. TAke a pint of milk and thick it with Oatmeal, put to it Lilly-roots, first boil them very soft, than bray them small with a spoon, and a little oil of Roses, temper them well together, and apply it very warm. Probatum. A Digestive to heal a bite where it is broken and runs. TAke Venice Turpentine▪ and wash it very well with fair water, mix it with Wheat-flower, the yelk of an Egg and a little Chalk finely scraped, temper these to a Salve, take a like quantity of each, but a little Turpentine. To make a Powder of Paracelsus. TAke two ounces of green Copperace, burn it in a Crusible till the pot be reasonable hot, than take Orpimint, Verdugrease of each an ounce, roch Alum one ounce, and burn it till it be white, bruise all into very fine powder, and mix them well together, keep it close, it will last seven years good, it hath no peer in working, for put thereof into a Wound where dead fl●s●●is, and a plaster about it, and it will cleanse, heal, and dry, take it not out of the soar till it come of itself, this powder never deceiveth the Surgeon nor the Patient, for it doth no harm in the Wound, for it gathereth, healeth, and draws, but not without biting, for if this were without biting, than it passed all Medicines: Put all these things, into the Crusible together, and boil them moderately till they may be made in powder. A Medicine to cleanse the Gums. TAke Sage of Virtue, dry it and pound it to powder, and mix it with powder of Alum and a little Sugar, rub your Gums or Mouth with it, it prevents much harm. For a Perl in the Eye. TAke roots and leaves of Dayses, and three leaved grass, wash them clean, stamp them and strain them, than put in a little Honey, Beer, and white Sugar-candy, and a little roch Alum, drop it often in the day into the eye, To make Oil of Ipericon. TAke eight pound of Oil Olive, two pound of the best White wine, if you can get, Ipericon buds eight handfuls, otherwise called St. Johns-wort, which you must bruise in a stone Morter with the said Oil and Wine, than put them in a glass very close stopped, and set it in the Sun the space of two days, than boil them in Balneo Mariae, stuffing it well with Hay that the glass stir not in the boiling, after it hath boiled half an hour, strain the said oil through a cloth, and put new fresh buds of Ipericon into it as aforesaid; thus you must do three times, setting it always in the Sun, than strain it all, and put to every pound 12, ounces of Venice Turpentine the clearest and whitest you can get, 6 ounces of Almonds, Dictani gentiana, Tormentilla, Callamint, Aromatico, Carlina, Cardio sancto of each four drams, of read Earthworms four ounces, often washed in good White-wine, beaten all these in a Mortar, but not the worms, than put all these into the oil, putting to every pound three pennyworth of Saffron, than put into it three handfuls of fresh buds of Ipericon, so being mixed altogether, you must set it in the Sun forty days or in an Oven, after that it must be strained into a vessel of glass▪ well closed up, and so keep it, the older it is the better it is. The Virtues. IT is hot and dry, it maketh found, and healeth all Wounds in a short time, and Sinews being cut: It is good for burning, it easeth the passion of the stomach, provoketh Urine, easeth the pain of the bladder and the lowest part of the belly; It is good for Worms in Children, the gout, and deafness in the Eare. And thus you must use it, take a little in a silver spoon, wet a little fine cloth in it, and wring it into the Wound, and burn a linen cloth, and quench it in the Oil, and lay it to the Wound, and bind it up. To make oil of Roses, Violets, or of any Herb or Flower. TAke a glass of a pint or a quart, and fill it half full of oil Olive, and than fill it up with your flowers, and let it stand in the Sun nine or ten days, than cleanse it, and put it in fresh, and it will be stronger if it be made of Roots or Leaves, they must be bruised before. Oil of Swallows. TAke young Swallows, beaten them feathers and all, and take a handful of the crops of Rosemary, of Lavender Cotten, of Strawberry leaves strings and all, of each a handful, beaten the herbs and Swallows together, and put to them a quantity of May butter, boil them in an earthen pot, stop it close, and let it stand nine days, than boil it again, and strain it, and put it into a glass: To make Oleum Benedictum, or the Blessed Oil. TAke of oil two pounds, Storax, and Callamint, Labdanum, Olibanum, Saffron, Gumm Arrabeck, Madder, Gum of the Ivy Tree, Aloes Cicatrina, Mastic, Cloves, Gallengall, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Cubebes, of each two ounces, Gum Ellimpin, one pound of Myrrh, Bdellium half an ounce, Galbanum six ounces, Spike an ounce, resin of the Pinetree, Armoniac, Oppoponax, of each two drams, beaten all to powder that is to be beaten, and mixed it with the Oil, and put all in a Stillary of glass with the Head and Receiver so closed, that no air can come forth, setting your Limbeck on a soft fire twelve hours, increasing your fire from six hours to six, till all be distilled; this done beaten all the residence in the bottom of the Still to fine powder, and with the same Oil distil the second, and the third time as aforesaid, and it shall be as it were Balm. The virtue of this Oil. IT is good against Cramps, Palsies, pains of the Joints, Colds, Catarrhs, green Wounds and Ulcers, it comforteth the Spirits, openeth Obstructions, one drop in the Ear helpeth the hearing. A Rosecake dipped in it and laid to the Temples, heals the Megrim, and taketh away the swimming of the head, one ounce drank in sweet Wine three days together cureth the disease of the Lungs, and Quartain Fevers: If you give a spoonful with Wine thirty days together with a little powder of Popy-root, it helpeth the falling sickness, so that if the Corronal Commissure be also anointed, it easeth the pain of the French-pox, and is good against the sting of any venomous Beast, and for all diseases of the sinews. To make Oil of Earthworms. TAke of Earthworms half a pound, of good oil Olive two pound, of sweet wine two ounces, boil altogether till the Wine be consumed, than strain it and keep it: It is good to comfort the sinews that are cold, and it helpeth the pains in the joints. The virtue of the Oil of Dill. IT mittigateth pain, openeth Pores, provoketh sweat, resolveth Vapours, Impostumes, swell, and hardness in any place, and if the backbone be anointed, it easeth the pains, and growing of Fevers. The virtue of the Oil of Rew. IT i● hot, opening, resolving, and mitigating pain, it healeth the Reinss, Bladder, and Matrix, and taketh the pain away, and also the Colic if the belly be anointed therewith: A Glister made of it is good for the sinews, it helpeth the Cramp, and putteth away cold humours. Oil of Elder-flowers. IT suppleth and cleanseth the skin, healeth the weakness of the Liver, and the stopping of the same, and greatly assages the Pains of the joints. Oil of Leaves, and Flowers of Camomile. IT is good against the Pleurisy, openeth the Pores, resolveth Vapours, correcteth the evil quality of humours, is good for the sinews, and abateth the pain marvellously. The virtue of Oil of sweet Mints. IT comforteth a weak Stomach, stays Vomits, moves appetite, helps concoction, and taketh away loathsomeness. Oil of Wormwood. IT is hot and comforteth the parts too much cooled, chief the stomach, it also provoketh appetite, taketh away obstructions and kille●h worms. Oil of Roses, and Rosebuds. ARe good against Inflammations, it cooleth the burning and boiling of the stomach, and fretting of the bowels, if it be given in a Glister, and to anoint the Teeth it taketh away the ache. Oil of Violet flowers. ARe good against all Inflammations and heat. Oil of water Lilly-flowers. ARe more cooling than oil of Violets, and helpeth the heat of the Reinss: A Medicine for the Phthisic, stopping of, or in the Breast; and to open the Pipes. TAke Parsley-roots, Fennel roots, pick them and seethe them in White, or Rhenish Wine, till they be soft, with some ●uniper berrics, and when it is well sodden, strain it, and put to the Wine some Pellitory of Spain, and drink it morning and evening eight days together. For Warts. TAke the yelk of an Egg, roast it hard, and stamp it with Oil Olive, or Oil of Violets, make a plaster of it, and apply it to the Warts. A Drink which is marvellous in working, and much commended of all Surgeons for a Fistula in the body, and it will cast out broken bones. TAke the roots and leaves of Plantain, Strawberry leaves, Hempseed, fine Bay-leaves, Sorrel-leaves, the roots and leaves of Tormentile, the root of the gre●t Mallow, the root of the great Coal, a good quantity of Tansey, boil all these together in White-wine, and put thereto clarified Honey, and strain it, drink this evening and morning, till it come clear out of the Fester, and keep it open with the root Gentian, and lay thereon a Coal leaf; this is a marvellous drink in working. Probatum. A drink of such force, as being given to the wounded or diseased with the Fistula, it wipeth out all filthiness in them, and healeth the Wound or Fistula, TAke read Coleworts, Fenerick, Parsley, Southernwood, Tansey, Hemp, Strawberry-leaves, sweet Bryer-leaves, Plantain leaves, Smallege, read Madder, Crow's bill, Alum, Nuts▪ boil altogether in White wine, and put thereto a little Honey, give it to the Patient to drink early, and late, and anoint the Wound without when he hath drunk of the said Potion, and lay to the wound a leaf of read Coleworts, and keep the same continually over it, for it openeth the Wound: This is approved also. A powder for a Fistula. TAke six soles of of old Shoe; rubbed very clean, not washed, burn it on a clean Hearth with an Oaken fire brand, taking away all the ashes or pieces of the coal; or lumps of the Shoe-soles unburnt, than weigh your ashes, and put to it half so much in weight of green Coperace, half so much in weight of burnt Alum, as of the Copperace; add of the brass Coal beaten to powder, half so much as of the burnt Alum, this brass coal may be found amongst Sea-coals, and shall be discerned by the heaviness of them, and hardness, and colour within like Oar of Gold or Brass: beaten of all the black coal clean, and stamp a small piece of the yellow only▪ whereof take the quantity before said, grinned every one of these apart on a Painter's stone, as fine as you can, than grinned them over altogether, and keep it for your use close bound up in parchment. The use of it. TAke of the Cream of a read Cow one spoonful, let it stand in a Saucer twelve hours, and pour away the Whey in the bottom, than take of the powder aforesaid, so much as will make the Cream a liquid Salve of a grey colour, put up this in a little galley glass close stopped, than having cleansed the Soar with a dry Tent, not using any cleansing water, make your Tent an Inch long at the uttermost, than take of this liquid Salve on the point of a knife, and spread it on the Tent, and so put it in the soar, and cover it with a cleansing plaster to keep in the Tent, and dress the Patient twice a day; If it run excessively thrice a day, and if the mouth close up too soon, add to the Salve a little more Alum. Probatum. The first Diet-drink to cure the Fistula, and many other griefs. TAke of Salsaparilla, of Saxifrage, Wood-root, of each four ounces, Cheny root one ounce, Egremony, Coltsfoot, and Scabious, of each four handfuls, two pennyworth of Marsh-mallow-roots, of Bettony, of Lady's Mantle, of Senacle, of each one handful, one Columbine-root, shred the Woods above written, and put them together with the herbs into three gallons of running water, boil them therein till one gallon be consumed, than strain out the woods and herbs with a skimmer, and put to the aforesaid water one other gallon of water, and boil it till half be consumed, than strain this said drink through a strainer, putting therein a pottle of White-wine, and a pint and a half of honey, boiling it a little again, and skim it very clean, than take it of the fire, putting therein two ounces of Seine, and three quarters of on ounce of Rueberb, and let it stand in it, than drink of it. The second Diet-drink to cure the Fistula, and divers other Imperfections. TAke of Sarsaparilla, and Saxifrage root of each four ounces, Cheny roots, Madder roots, Tormentile roots, and Seine, of each two ounces, three quarters of an ounce of Rueberb, half an ounce of Cinnamon, one ounce of Hearts-horn finely scraped, large Mace three quarters of an ounce, shred these very small, take of Bettony three handfuls, of Sabious, of Coltsfoot, Egremony, Ribwort, Mousehair, Lady's Mantle, green Mercury, and Marsh mallow leaves, of each one handful, of sweet Marjoram and Peniroyal of each half a handful, put these herbs in a bag, and dry them in an Oven after the bread is drawn, and when they are very well dried, mingle them together with the Woods above written, than divide them into three equal parts, putting one third part into three gallons of Ale in a little bag, and make it sink a little below the yeast, and let it not sink to the bottom, and when the same has stood so one day, than may you drink thereof, when, and at what time you please. Probatum. A white water to cure the Fistula, and many other Soars. TAke 3. pints of the distilled water of Elder, put it in an ounce of Mercury, stop it close up into a bottle, letting it stand half a year before you use it, the older it is the better. Another to cure the Fistula, Tetter, Pegus, and Scald. TAke of Mercury dicipium, and boil it in a pint of running water, till half be consumed, or put it into the distilled water of Elder, but boil it not than, and wash the soars therewith, and after take Brimstone and Alum, add Salad oil, and mingle it together very well, and than anoint the soars therewith. To make Pills approved good for the Colic. TAke of Aloes the weight of seven shillings, of Agarick the weight of two shillings eight pence, of Mastic the weight of two shillings six pence, you must grate the Agaric and searce it, and than take the weight above written, the other you may beaten fine in a stone Morter, and use them without searcing. The making of Oximel to make up the Pills. TAke twelve sponfuls of fair water, four spoonfuls of good Wine-vinegar, boil it well together, than put in a spoonful of English Honey, of the purest you can get, than let it boil throughly well, for the better you boil it the longer it will keep, than take as much of this liquor as will work up the powder before written, in a Mortar like unto past, than roll it up in a lump, and so keep it, you may take two great Pills at a time so big as you may well swallow in the pap of an apple, or without it if you can; if you take them a quarter of an hour before supper, they will work most on the head, if you can take them late at night; or by three of four of the clock in the morning, it will work most on the stomach. How to make the Pills aforesaid to work upon every humour as need shall require. IF you will have them to work most upon Choler, than add thirteen penyweight of the powder of Rueberbe, and abate fourteen pennyweight of Aloes: If you will have them purge Phlegm most, than take fourteen pennyweight of Turbet in powder, and leave out the Rueberb: If you will have them purge Melancholy most, than take sixteen pennyweight of the powder of Cene, and leave out the Rueberbe, and Turbet; If you will have them to work effectually on the head, you must make up your Pills with the syrup of Sticados, and leave out your Oximel, if to work on the Matrix, than make them up with the syrup of Mugwort: If you will have them work away wind, add to any of those afore w●i●ten, three or four drops of the oil of Anniseeds when you make up your Pills. I have proved all those ways, and found them very good. Syrup of Bysons good for all stops and stitches coming of Fevers, and for the yellow Jaundice, and for Fevers coming of Choler and Phlegm. TAke the juice of Endive and Smallage, of each one quart, the juice of Borage, Landbofe, and wild Hops of each one pint, let them be well clarified, than take the leaves of read Roses two ounces and a half, one of good Licorace, spikenard the weight of eight pence, Anniseeds, Fennel-seeds, and smallage seed, of each the weight of twelve pence, than boil them together to the third part upon a soft fire, and let it run through a bag at aforesaid, till it be clear, than take two quarts of the same liquor, and put thereto two pound and a half of fine Sugar, and so let it boil to a syrup as is aforesaid. Syrup of Roses to alloy thirst in a burning Ague, to comfort the stomach, and to let corruptions from engendering. TAke three pints of Damask Rosewater, two pound of Sugar, and let them boil together on a soft fire till it be come to a syrup, and keep it as aforesaid. Syrup of Violets good for the Diseases aforesaid, as also for the dry Cough, and Rheum in the throat, the stitch in the side, and comforteth the Liver and Heart. TAke three quarts of water of Violet flowers, and two pound of fine Sugar, and boil them together as you do the syrup of Roses as aforesaid. A Syrup to comfort the stomach. TAke Wormwood, Mints, and Motherwort, seethe them in fair water, and make a syrup of the water, and take half a spoonful every day To make syrup of read Roses. TAke two pound of read Roses, and put them in an earthen pot anneiled within, with a narrow mouth, put to it five pints of Conduit water being made hot, stop the pot very close, and so leave it the space of 8. hours, than strain the water from the Roses, and take other two pound of Roses, and put them in the same pot, and put the water that was strained from the Roses to them being made hot as the first, and close the pot well, and when it hath remained so other eight hours, strain the liquor again from the Roses into a fair Skillet, and put three pounds of pure Sugar unto it, and when you have clarified it with the White of an Egg, set it on a soft fire of Charcoal, till it cometh to the thickness of a syrup, than put it in a glass well covered, that it take no air. A Pill to expel the Colic, and to preserve the Liver. by Mrs: Napper. TAke of the powder of Rueberb the weight of a French Crown and a half, of the powder of read Rose-leaves half so much, of Mastic the like, of Mace, Cloves, Nutmegs, and Ginger, of each six grains, make these up into a mass for Pills with the syrup of Sticados, or Violets. An excellent Medicine for the Stone by William Hampton. TAke the Roes of read Herrings, and Prick-holly leaves, and dry them in an Oven, beaten them severally into dry powder, searce them, and put them together of like quantity, put thereto the powder of Grummel-seeds, and Broom-seeds of like quantity, but half so much as of the powder aforesaid, mix them together, and use thereof ●aily a spoonful in a draught of Beer, Ale, or Wine, White, or Rhenish, evening and morning, you may use it in your broth, the oftener the better, have always a good deal of this powder in store, and keep it dry in a Pipkin by the fireside. Another for the same by Dr. Nicholas. TAke of the Gum of the Cherrytree, Damson tree, or Peach-tree but the Cherrytree is best, put the same Gumm into a cup of White-wine, or Claret-wine, and so let it lie all night, and drink it in the morning, and in like case steep that in the morning that you mean to drink at night, and so use it three or four days together, and it will break the Stone, and keep you long without pain of the same disease. To make the Syrup de quinque Radicibus. TAke Parsley roots, Asparagus roots, Bruskus' roots, alias Kneeholme, Saxifrage roots, Fennel roots, of each a like quantity, boil the roots in fair water till they be tender, than let the water run through a clean strainer from the roots, and let it stand a pretty while, and settle, pour out the clearest of the water into a clean vessel which is very sweet: If you have a quart of water put to it two pound of Sugar, and boil it upon a soft fire, till it come to a syrup, than take it of the fire, and let it stand and settle, and when the grounds are settled, than pour it in a small vessel to be kept: This syrup is good to open the Liver; you may also put to it Germander roots, or the leaves: This syrup is to be taken with the Decoction of Barley: A Syrup to cool Choler. TAke Fennell roots, Parsley roots and Borage roots, wash them clean and take out the piths, boil them in fair water till they be tender, than strain the water from the roots, and let it settle a while, than take the clearest of it, and put thereto a good quantity of Vinegar, if your water be a quart, put to it half a pint of Vinegar, and so moderate your Sugar as you may make a syrup of it, this syrup will open and cool. To avoid Choler and Phlegm. TAke a quarter of a pound of Licorace sliced, two ounces of Anniseeds, and steep them in three pints of running water four and twenty hours, and drink thereof when you are disposed. For the yellow Jaundice. TAke all the water of the Patient after the first-sleep, and make a Cake of it of Rye-meal, make a good fire of wood, and put the Cake into the fire, and let it be consumed before the fire be stirred, this to be done before ●ight a clock in the morning. A syrup for the Lungs. TAke Scabious Egrimony, Lungwort, Maidenhair, Champits, Hyssop, Borage, Bugloss, Harts▪ tongue, Endive, Succory, a pe●ce of Parsley, and Fennel-roots, three crops of Time, twenty Raisins of the Sun stoned, a stick of the best Licorace sliced small, one spoonful of Anniseeds, one spoonful of Barley clean washed, flowers of the whitest Genediss, three soft Figs, and boil all these in three pints of pure water, till a third part of it be consumed, than strain it, and put thereto, the best syrup of Roses, and the best syrup of Violets, of each half an ounce, white Sugar-candy three ounces, boil all together so long as any skim ariseth, than strain it through a strainer and keep it, than take five or six spoonfuls of it in the morning lukewarm, as need shall require. For the weakness in the back by William Hampton. TAke one ounce of very good bole armoniac, one ounce of Terra sigillaat which is red, two ounces of Nutmegs, one spoonful of Anniseeds, beaten all these very small, than mingle them together, and take an Egg and lay it before the fire, till the yolk be throughly warm, than lay the yolk upon a Trencher, and take away the White from it, than take one spoonful of the aforesaid powder, and a spoonful of white Sugar candy, and mingle them well with the yolk of the Egg, and so eat of it in the morning, fasting after it two hours. To cool an extreme heat in the Liver. TAke Violet flowers and the leaves, and boil them in clarified Ale, than take two or three newlaid Eggs, break them, and lay them in water, than take the yolks of them, and make a Caudle of the said Ale, the herbs and flowers being strained out, and so season it with a litlte Sugar. A Syrup for the Liver. TAke half a pint of fair water, as much good Vinegar, and a pretty quantity of the powder of Rhubarb, seethe them in Sugar, and make a syrup of it. For the stopping of the Liver. TAke the broth of a Chicken, of Mercury, and Succory, of each half a handful, a few great Raisins stoned, boil them all together, than take a few bitter Almonds, blanche them, and beaten them, and with the same liquor make Almond milk, use to drink thereof every morning first. A cold water for the Liver. TAke Endive, Liverwort, Pettimorell, Fumitory, Scabious Sorrell, Borage, Violets, and Sanders of each one handful, put thereto a quarter of read Vinegar, still them together, and you shall receive a Sovereign water to cool the Liver. For heat of the Liver. TAke a pennyworth of Succory roots, seethe them in a quart of new milk till they be soft, than strain out the roots, and eat them with Vinegar, and put a spoonful or two of Vinegar in the said Milk to make it have a Curd, and strain the whey, and drink it: For the biting of a Madd-Dogg, by Dr. Nicholas, and Dr. Wood TAke a quantity of Veruine, as much Rew, as much Plantain with some Treackle, stamp all these together with good wine or strong Ale, and give it to them that be bitten to drink, also take the aforesaid Herbs with Treackle, and Bay salt, and stamp them well together, and bind it fast to the place bitten and it will draw out the venom; This drink must be taken twice or thrice, and the Medicine in like case as often applied, Probatum est. A Medicine for the Pleurisy when one is in extremity, by the Lady Fortescue. TAke the Dung of a Horse or Gelding that standeth in the house at hard meat, and put a good quantity of it, when it is new made in Beer or Ale, bruise the dung well therein, than strain it through a clean cloth, and take as much of it, as will make a good draught, and put to it the quantity of a Nutmeg in Treacle, and stir it till the Treacle be dissolved in it, than warm it, and drink it in the morning fasting, and at night when you go to Bed, so it be two hours after your meat, and let your Medicine be made fresh every day if you can; If not you may make at it one time to serve two days, so you make it strong enough, and put Treacle to every draught as much as is aforesaid, and keep it in a Glass vessel. By that time you have taken this drink four or five timas, you shall found ease, Also for th● stitch, that cometh with the Pleurisy, you must take dung, and fry it in fresh butter, and if your stitch be on the right side under your small ribs lay this Medicine at the side of your back directly against it, so it be not directly against the heart, for the Medicine will remove the stitch to the place where it is laid. Therefore it must not be laid near the heart, for drawing it to that place but any where else you may lay it, I have proved it this hath done great good for the Pleurisy, as also for an inward cold, when other Medicines would not heal it. The drinks also good for any stith or wind that will not easily be broken or dissolved. I have given this to a young Child when the read gumm hath been driven in, and the child ready to dye, and yet it hath recovered. Probatum est. To know when one feeleth a stitch whether it be wind or ● Pleurisy, Dr. July. TAke Wormwood, and lay it on a Tyle-stone before the fire, and cast a good deal of Bran on it, and when it is very hot sprinkle it with Malmsey, and put it in a linen cloth, and ●ay it where you feel your stitch, If it be a wind, it will ease you in two hours, If it be a Pleurisy it will augment the pain, and than you must use some other remedy. As letting blood fomentations, and ointments, use not Oil of Dill at the first for it is too hot. A Receipt for the Pleurisy. TAke a good handful of brook lime, as much of Violet leaves a pint of Flax-seed, and so seethe them together in a reasonable quantity of fair running water, until they be fit for a Poultice, than thicken it with Bran, and in two bags the one after the other apply them as warm as may be endured for the space of an hour and half: Probatum est. An excellent Medicine for the Pleurisy. TAke a sweet Apple, and cut it asunder in the midst, and cut out the Coat on both sides of the Apple, and stop both the sides full with good Frankincense, and close them together again, Than enclose them with a little paste, and wrap it with paper, and roast it tender, and so eat it. A Powder to preserve from, and to cure the Plague. TAke an Egg, and make a hole in the top of it, take out the white, and yolk of it, fill the shell with the weight of two French Crowns in Saffron, roast the said Egg under the Emberss until it shall begin to wax yellow, than take it from the fire, and beaten the shell, and Saffron in a Mortar together, with half a spoonful of Mustard seed: Take of the powder a French Crown weight, and as soon as you suspect yourself to be infected dissolve it into ten spoonfuls of Posset Ale, and drink it Lukewarm, than to go bed and provoke sweeting: For those that be well. TAke a Tossed every morning, butter it on the one side, and put Vinegar on the other side, and put s●me of the aforesaid powder on it: For a Child. TAke new milk from a Cow as hot as you can, and put in Saffron and give it the child presently, and so let it lie down and sweated. An approved Medicine to preserve from the Plague. TAke the finest clear Aloes you can buy, in colour like to Liver, and therefore called Hepatica, & of Cinnamon Miche of each weight of three French Crowns, of Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, Bole-orientall, Mastic, of each half an ounce, mingle them together, and beaten them into a very fine powder, of which take every morning fasting the weight of four pence in white wine allayed with water, and by the grace of God you shall be safe from the Plague. The simples are to be had at the Apothecaries, except Bole oriental, which is used instead of bolearmoniack. A general Medicine for all sorts of people taken with the Plague, to be had without cost. TAke of the root of Butter Burr, otherwise called pestilent work one ounce, of the root of great Valerian a quarter of an ounce, of Sorrel one handful, boil all these in a quart of water to a pint, than strain it, and put thereto two spoonfuls of Vinegar, two ounces of good Sugar, boil all these together till they be well mingled. Let the infected drink of this so hot as he may suffer it a good draught, and if he chance to cast it up ag●ine, let him take the same quantity by, and by, and provoke himself to sweat and he shall found great help. If a Soare do appear. THen make a poultice with two handfuls of wheaten bread, two ounces of sweet Butter, of the herb called the devil's bit, half a handful, with sufficient water, after it is made, put to the poultice six or eight▪ Onions roasted under the Emberss, and mingle them, and lay this ho● to the place, and shifted it twice or thrice a day. Also it is good to take the weight of eight pence of Mithridate in the morning in warm drink. To preserve some, and to expel the Plague. TAke of Saffron ten grains, of Walnut kernels, and Figgs two ounces, one dram of Mithridate, and a few Sage leaves stamp these together, and the water of Pimpernell, make it up together, and take ten grains thereof in the morning, it will preserve, and out of those that be infected it will expel, Probatum est: To make of a Pill to purge gross phlegm, and to bring down the redds. TAke Allo●s, Agarick, Mastic, Epithium, Myrrh gum Amoniack, and a little Saffron, and make them with syrup of Mugwort. Pills to purge the head and Stomach. TAke of Mastic four drams of Agarick, and Turbith of each three drams, of Cinnamon, Cloves, and Anniseeds of each one dram, of Saffron two scruples, of the best Aloes one ounce, make the Mass with the syrup of Sticados, or juice of Wormwood. To procure a stomach. TAke Violet and strawberry leaves, Borage, Sorrel, wild-Mallows, and Currants, and put them all in a quart of white wine, and a quart of water, and boil them to one quart, and drink thereof morning and evening. To comfort the weakness of the Stomach, and also the Head. TAke of Bittony water, and Plantain water, of each one quart, a good Nutmeg bruised, a branch of Rosemary, three buds of the pomegranate flower, which is not blown out, Sugar Candie two ounces, boil all these from two quarts to three pints, very leisurely boiling it. Than keep it in a clean vessel, and take of the clearest of it, morning and evening being made bloud-warm six fpoonfulls three days together. For the wind in the Stomach. TAke of prepared Anniseeds three ounces, Fennel-seeds one ounce and a half, of Coriander seed prepared one ounce, of Comine, and Caroway seeds, of each one dram, of Sesly-seeds steeped in white wine one dram, of Cytron pill, Cinnamon one dram, four scruples of fine Sugar, a double quantity to all these, of this powder take half a spoonful after meals, and drink not after it, and it may be used oftener, or seldomer, as there is occasion, and if need be at other times. A very good Plaster for the Stomach. TAke of Muskadel, and Sack of each half a pint, and rather more of the Muskadel, Tenn Dates, and stone them, and boil these together till they be very soft, than stamp them in a Mortar, and put to them Salad Oil, and Butter, and put them into the Pos●et with their liquor again, than take the powder of Mastic, and Cloves, and a little Barley flower, and let all these boil together till it be thick like a plaster, and laying the same on a cloth. Apply it to the stomach as hot as you can suffer it. Probatum est. For a hot Stomach. Eat green Purslain to moisten a hot stomach, and to assuage the swelling of the mouth rising from the stomach. From an Ache in the Stomach. TAke a piece of Pine Apple with the juice of▪ Purslain to assuage the gnawing of the mouth of the stomach, and to strengthen the weakness of the body, and to hold down the corruption of humours. For the same. Taken Nuts of a Pine Tree, being cleansed, eaten, or drunk in the decoction Raisins, or with the seeds os Cucumbers. It provoketh Urine helpeth the sharpness of the Kidneys, and Bladder, and the gnawing of the stomach. For weak abhorring stomaches. MIx the powder of read and white Sanders with oil of Roses, and apply it to the stomach. For the same. TAke the powder of Rewbe●b in white wine, it is good against the windines, wambling, and weakness of the stomach, and all pains thereof, it is good against all Cramps, grief of the liver, and Milt, It ceaseth the griping, and gnawing of the belly, the Kidneys, and Bladder. It mitigates the Ache in the breast, and of the Mother, and Scyatica, it helpeth spitting of blood, and Cureth the bloody flux, and Lask, one dram of it being taken with hydromel for the same purpose with Sirrupus actolus against the Liver. A Plaster for the Spleen by Doctor Hill. TAke gum Armoniac, and Delium, of each one ounce, roots of Irres Galbanum, Bay-berries, and Storax of each half an ounce, Frankincense two drams, Pepper one dram, Turpentine three ounces, white wine as much as is sufficient to dissolve the gums in, and make a Plaster to apply to the spleen. The gums must be dissolved in white wine over a soft fire: Than add the Frankincense and Turpentine, and last of all the other things beaten to powder. This Plaster is good against the hardness of the Spleen coming of a cold cause, or if there be any windiness therein, To know the Characters whereby the Physicians Note and set down in their Receipts the quantity and measure of Herbs, etc. as followeth. lb Signifieth A Pound lb Containeth xii. ℥ ounces ℥ an Ounce ℥ viij. ʒ drams ʒ a Dram ʒ iii ℈ scruples ℈ a Scruple ℈ xx G. grains G a Grain gr. a Quarter ss Half M. a Handful ana. of Each P. a lit. handf. Measure your Herbs by the handful marked thus with M. And measure your flowers by the handful marked thus with P: That is to say the first must be a good handful, and the latter a little handful. Your Roots and Seeds must be taken by weight, except it be in decoctions, and than they must be nnmbred. Liquors and powders must be measured by weight of the seeds, fruits are used in number. A Note. A French Crown weigheth seven. d. which is a dram. Half an Angel weigheth v d. Chemical Extractions. TAke L seven times rectified, and put it in a pelican, and let it Circulate forty days, and this is his burning water or quintessence or Heaven, and hath a smell so odoriferous that it being open in any Room, all that pass by will be forced to come in, if this smell be wanting when you open it, put it in a bolts head well stopped with wax, and bury it in Horse dung with the bottom upwards, some part being bore to the Air, and having stood so many days, take it out, and with a small warm wire bore a hole in the wax, and let out all the feces, but when the spirit quintessence comes, stop it suddenly with your finger, and turn it up. The quintessence of all manner of Herbs, flowers, roots, flesh, blood, or Eggs is thus done, take any of these things, and bray them in a Mortar, or on a grinding stone, with fifteen times as much common salt, than put them being stopped in horse dung (which must be renewed once a week) for the space of forty days, by which time they will be putrified, and become water, than put it in a glass Still, and draw of as much as will come, than put that which came over and the feces together again, and bruise them on astone, distil, and grinned it often, than take the water and Circulate it in a Pelican, as before. To separate all the four Elements out of any of these things, put the putrified water into a Glass Still, and in Baln. M. draw of as much as will come which is the element of water pour back that water, and set all together again in Baln. M. to Circulate the space of eight days, than set your Vessel in ashes or sand furnace with a head, and recever well luted, in a stronger fire than before, and a yellow water will rise which is water, and air, put those again in Baln. M. and the water only will rise, so you have them separated, than to every pound of matter remaining in the bottom of the Glass put four pound of water, and set it as before to digest in Bal. Ma. eight days, than set them in a sand furnace, and give a strong fire, and there will ascend a read water which is fire, and water, separate them as before the water and air so you have all the four Elements asunder, Calcine the earth, and rectify the other Elements as you did for the quintessence. Aurum Potabile. Make an Amalgama of Sol and Mercury, vapour away the Mercury, than take that Sol being in fine powder, and heat it upon a Plate of Iron till it be read hot, and quench it in L but be sure to stop the Vessel suddenly, that too much of the L burn not away do this fifty times till the L be tincted yellow. Another way. TAke your Aurum in powder as before, cast the powder into distilled Vinegar or Urine, set it in the hot Sun, and you shall see it rise in a thin Film or Skin, take that of with a feather, and put it in a Glass where water is, do this as often as any will rise, vapour away the water and the oil will remain. The quintessence of Quicksilver. TAke sublimate, and dissolve it in Aqua sortis, distil of the water, and than the quintessence of Quicksilver will follow, rising white as Snow, put back the Corasive water upon the feces left behind, until all be come over. The quintessence of Brimstone. TAke powder of Brimston, and put it in old Urine, set it upon a soft Fire, till the Urine be coloured, than pour of that, and put on fresh Urine, till you have all the tincture, vapour away the Urine, than put your tincture in a broad vessel with distilled Vinegar upon a soft Fire, and skim of the fatness of the Brimston if any rise. A burning piercing Water. TAke Quicksilver sublimate with vitriol, and common salt than take Sal Armoniac often times sublimated equal parts grinned them well together, and set them to resolve in a Cellar this water will pierce through a man's hand, or a Plate of Iron or Copper, and hath strange virtues if it could be repaired. The quintessence of Antimony. TAke Antimony in fine powder, and put it in vinegar distilled till it be read, pour of that distilled Vinegar and put on more, till it will receive not more colour, put all your coloured distilled Vinegar in a Glass Still, and give fire under it, and when the phlegm is come, you shall have a read Oil ascend in threads which you must save to your use. The white water or Maid's milk of Mercury or Quicksilver. TAke sublimate or the quintessence of it, and put it in a large Glass well sealed, and set eight days in an Athanoure than take it out, and grinned it very small, than hung it in Baln, M. let it vapour till the matter be resolved, than put it in a Still, and Maids milk will rise. To make a diphoretick of Antimony and Sol that worketh in dose, four, five, six, or seven grains. TAke Antimony and Mercury sublimate equal parts, and draw them in a Retort as you know, and rectify the oil that you get five times as you know, than make the Aqua sortis, and make it Aqua Regis in a large Glass, into which put in your rectified oil, and than let them stand in a gentle Balneo until it be dissolved perfectly, than dissolve sixty grains of pure Solemnising in another part of your Aqua Regis, and being dissolved perfectly, pour you dissolved Sol upon your dissolved Oil of Antimony, drop after drop soft and fair, for fear you spill all, and all being put therein, lute thereon a head and Receiver very close, and put it into ashes for two days, with so easy a fire as you can keep, than remove it into sand and draw of your Menster by degrees, until at the last the bottom of the glass be as read as you can make it, than cease the fire and let it cool, and than cut away that part of it in the bottom which is not sublimed, and gather it clean, and put it into a Crusible, and give it fire until the crusible and matter therein be as read as any coal, than take it out of the fire, and keep it safe, for it is ready for your use. To a dram six grains of Diagredium, To make the Diaphorettick of Antimony, Mercury, Sr. Walter Raleigh's way. TAke ♁ Cruda, and grinned it very small, two pound Antimoni sublimitate, grinned it well and fine, and than mix them well together, and grinned them well together, and than put them into the flattest bottom Basin you can get, and put it in a cold Cellar, where they must stand until they come in the form of very Liquid pap, than take it and put it into small bottles not a quarter full, and put a head thereon, and receiver thereto well luted, and draw of the moisture so long as any cometh, in sand, and than increa●e the fire so long, untll that the Antimony be all sublimed, and in the like sort you must do until you have gathered all your Antimony from the ♁ than rectify all the waters you have gathered therfrom, and keep the last part thereof by itself, for to put upon your Antimony to work it up, the which must be very often reiterated upon the Antimony, and drawn of again, and at the last sublime up all your Antimony from the bottom which gather, and grinned very small, and mix with it so much of that Antimony that hath been four or five times sublimed and quickened at the lest, and sublime them together, and than in two or three times subliming, you shall separate the Crude Antimony therfrom, and than sublime it by itself, so long till it leave no feces in the bottom, always putting away the upper part of the sublimation, for in that work it will not serve the turn, and than have you finished a very great labour, but you have gotten a good Medicine, and before you begin, though the words be few, yet it is a very toilsome labour. To make the Purge of Tartar, what quantity you will, two pound or more. TAke the best white Tartar, and pound it very small, and put it into a well glazed Pipkin, and boil it strongly, and skim it continually until there ariseth no skim, than have a good many of broad, and flat milk pans, into which you must pour your boiled Tartar, being clean skimmed as aforesaid, and let them cool, and in the cooling there will arise a cream upon the top, which take of with a Lanthorn-horn, and within half an hour after you may skim it again, and again, as often as any cream ariseth, if the water consume put in more cold water, and than put it on upon the fire, and boil it again, and pour it again into the milk-pans, and skim it as before as often as any cream arieth, and so boil it, and skim it in like manner so long as any cream ariseth, than wash it if you will have it pure, with two or three waters, or else dry it and grinned it small. Chemical Characters. 24 Grains one penny weight. 20 Grains a Scruple. 3 Scruples a Dram. 60 Grains a Dram. 8 Drams an Ounce. ♄ Saturn, Led. ♀ Venus, Copper. ☿ Mercury, quicksilv. {antimony} Antimony. 🜺 Arcenick. {alum} Alum. 🜊 Vinegar. 🜋 Vinegar distilled. 🜅 Aqua fortis. 🜆 Aqua Regis. 🝊 Wax. 🝘 Pot-ashes. 🝆 Oil. 🝣 To purify. 🜕 Salt Peter. 🜔 Salt. 🜹 Salarmoniake. 🜿 Tartar. {blood} Blood. 🜂 Fire. 🜁 Air. 🜄 Water. 🜃 Earth. {day} Day. 🝯 Night. Luting. TAke powder of Bricks searsed, of Smith's cinders, of sand, of each eight ounces, powder of Glass searsed one pound and a half, of Potter's earth four pound, of Flocks four ounces, beaten all these well on a board with an Iron wand, and arm your Vessel. To draw Chemical Oils by the Lymbeck. ALL vegetables which are Aromatic in scent, and hot in Taste, yield Chemical Oils, and no other, whether they be leaves, flowers, fruits, herbs, bark, seeds, rinds, or roots. Seeds, flowers, and leaves, need no bruising. Barks, fruits, and roots must be gross bruised, not fine lest they stick to the bottom, and burn in the Still. To every pound weight of any vegetable put four pound of common water, the heavier the water the better. Let the water, and the vegetable be distilled assoon as you can without macetation. Let your fire be as great as may be so it run not over, nor come out whole. The quantity that your Still contains is four pound of any spice, seed, etc. and of herbs, as many as it will hold. When a a third part of the water is distilled, the most part of the Oil is come, than take of that Receiver, and put into the body of the Still as much water as you drew out, and distil it into another Receiver: Every thing must be distilled until the water that cometh forth have no scent, nor taste of the said vegetable. Separate all Oils that swim, presently assoon as you take the receiver away, but let those that sink stand in some cool place two or three days as Cinnamon, Mace, Cloves, Sassafras. The water which is the vehiculum of the Oil yieldeth not forth his Oil, till it be exuberate with Oil, therefore keep every water by itself to serve the next time for than it will yield a greater quantity of Oil. For a Cancer, a Tettar, a Wart, or a great bunch on the face. TAke a pint of the best white wine-vinegar, the roots of Salendine, a Manuple, of read Sage leaves a pugil, of burnt Alum a spoonful, of blue Vitriol a spoonful and half, boil all being stopped together till half be consumed, strain and squeeze them hard through a linen cloth, save it for your use in a glass stopped while it is hot, into which put half a spoonful of the flower of Brimstone in a little lawn bag, so as it may hung in the middle of the glass, about which the Vitreol will shoot, and hung when you use it warm it, and drop a little upon the soar, and rub not the soar though it smart a little. For a Fistula. THe root of our Lady's Candle, the old lead of a window cut from the solder, Hog's grease, beaten all in a Mortar till it be perfectly incorporate, make a tent for the soar of one of the roots, and anoint it with this Ointment, and put it into it, and lay a Plaster of the same Ointment upon it. For a Burn. TAke Semper vive, Plantain leaves, and the green ryne of Elder, of each a like quantity, and boil them in Salad Oil, so much as will draw out all that Tetter by boiling, than strain the Oil well out, and put it on the fire again, and put to it a small quantity of 🜋 of Wine, and so much yellow wax as will bring it to the consistence of a Lineament. To sweeten Amber. PUt it in a Sand Still in a low body with a great head well luted, and still it gently of, and the stinking part, which will be one half will come of first▪, which you must set by, and unlute the head, letting it drop into a● unluted Receiver, and so as you found it sweeten change the Receiver, letting it continued so till the Balmson within be hard enough to make a Plaster, which you may try by lifting of the head, and taking some of it ou● with a long spoon, and cooling it in the air. A Laudanum. TAke Opium Thebaise, cut it in thin slices, and dry it gently in an Oven upon glass Plates, till you may crumble it between your fingers: Take the Tr▪ of this with L of 🜋 filter it and vapour it to the consistence of honey, to an ounce of which Tr. take as much of ●he Tr. of Saffron, of the Tr. of Species of Amber one dram, Magisterial of Pearl, and Coral, of each one scruple, the Tr. of Gold one dr●m, mix them, and vapour them in Bolarmoniack to the consistence of a Pill, the doss is from one grain to four. TAke a part of ☉ and a dram of ☽ unto which add 12: parts of Mercury mixing them well together secundum artem, than put them in a bolts head, and give it a reasonable strong heat in a Furnace, so it will rise up like shrubs of trees, than break the glass, and take out those things, adding the fourth part of that weight of more Mercury mixing it well together, and put it into a bolts-head, and giving it fire as before: And when it is come up, it will fall all down unto powder by little and little, and it will fix into a colour between read and brown, and the more it is fixed the higher colour it will take. Take three grains of this in bread, keep your bed with your arms on your stomach, in four hours you may rise. A Purge of Antimony that works without Vomit, by Dr. Jordain. TAke an ounce of yellow Stibium powdered, melt it in a Crusible, than put upon it while it is in infusion a spoonful of well refined Salt petre, and burn it of, do so four times, than grinned it upon a stone and it will be a white powder, to which you must put as much oil, an ounce of Vitriol, or Sulphur as will cover it, and vapour it away in a Sand Furnace, till the powder be perfectly dry, the dose is from four to seven grains; if you use oil of Sulphur or Vitriol to it, I hold it best to wash it afterwards once or twice. A receipt to make Vinegar. Mr. Sawer. FIrst take a quantity of the best sweet wort, that may be had so much or as little as you will, according to the proportion you mind to make, let it cool, than work it in a guilded▪ fat as you work your Ale, than tun it into your vessel, and let it spourg when it hath spourged, than put in a quantity of Bay Berries beaten in powder after the rate of one ounce to a firkin, and stir it well together, than it will spurge again, when it leaves spurging, than draw it out at the Tap, every three or four days, the space of a Month, than put into your Vessel of Helder flowers a good quantity, you may put in of Read Rosc leaves of Violets or of Barberies. But I take it the best way is to let it stand till it be fyned, and than draw it into Bottles of Glass, and put into it, either red Rose leaves or Violets, and so make Rose or Violet Vinegar as you please, so you may have it white, and if you like to have it red, you may put in Barberies Helderberies, Senaper knopps turnfall or such like: Also if you will you may determine at the first, how much you will have Violet o● Rose Vinegar, white or read as you like, and put it in several vessels. A Receipt to make Raison Wine. TAke twelve pound of Maligo Raisins, pick the stalks of them, put them into a Vessel that hath a spigot near the bottom, and let them stand at the lest eight and forty hours, (being often stirred) having at lest three Gallons of good water put in with them, than draw it of into a Roundlet or other Vessel, that you mean to work it in and set it in some corner, where you may keep a constant heat to it, and let it continued till it will work not more, which will be at lest two days, than draw it out into Bottles, and fill them to the neck, and be sure to stop them close, and set into a cool Cellar, you may when you fill the Bottles, put in three or six more or less of Cloves, or a Bag of Tiffene or Sar●●ne● filled with Coriander seeds which will give it a very good taste, also when you have drawn of your first Liquor from your Raisins, put on half so much water as at the first, and use it as the former. To draw Oil of Tartar and Turpentine. TAke a pound of Calcined Tartar and a pound of ordinary Turpentine put them into a Retort and lute the Retort to the receivor, than set it in a pan of Ashes upon a furnace and keep it some eight hours with a small fire that it may digest, than make a strong fire some eight hours longer, in which time it will be all drawn. Certain Secrets of Herbs not Commonly to be found in any common HERBAL. Tutsan, or Park Leaves. THis Herb is called of some Agnus castus, although in the best herbals it appears that Agnus castus is clean another thing. But thus is written of it, The use of Tutsan maketh man chaste, and drieth up the seed of moist men, this Herb sodden with Fennell-seed and Eisell is good to destroy the could Dropsy. Also ●f this Herb be sodden in Smallage, salt water, and Sage, and laid to the hinder part of a man's head, and if he be washed therewith it helpeth and unbindeth an evil that men call Lethargy, also this herb cureth the foul sin of Lechery if it be drunk or laid about. This Herb is good against the stopping of the Liver and Milt, a Plaster made hereof is good against head ache, that is engendered of evil humours. Wormwood. Wormwood comforteth the heart, tempered with honey, it easeth the swelling in a man's mouth, it doth away the blackness of a man's eye, and cleareth the sight. Also if this Herb be powdered with the Gall of a Bull and afterwards put into a man's eyes it shall clear the sight without fail. Mugwort. MUgwort compounded with Tallow and laid too healeth the aching and soreness of a man's feet coming by travel, the same tempered with running water healeth the aching of a man's guts. Sothernwood. THis Herb drunk with water healeth them that be bitten with venomous beasts, it destroyeth worms in a man's womb. The powder of this Herb mingled with Barley meal, unbindeth and breaketh hard impostumes. Allelnia. Subwort. THis Herb roasted in the embers in read Dock-leaves, or read Wort leaves, takes away the dead flesh of a wound. Egrimony. EGrimony the root and Herb eaten together, helpeth the aching of the womb, this Herb tempered with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 good to heal a wound, that is hurt with Iron, it is good 〈…〉 aching of the milt, and for Salves. Caroway. THis Herb destroyeth ill winds and the cough, it is ●●od for the Frenzy and for biting of venomous beasts mixed with Vinegar, it is good for stabbs and tetters, it doth also restore hair▪ Coleworts. COleworts is good to cleanse fresh wounds of the Canker, to nourish the sinews, and to heal sore eyes that have almost lost their sight: It increaseth woman's milk, it comforteth the stomach: Also the Juice of this herb tempered with Alum and Vinegar assuageth the lepry: Woodbine. THis is good to heal Cankers, Wounds, Blisters, aching of the Teeth and soreness in a man's tongue, also it is good for swell in a man's body that is wounded: Onions. THe juice tempered with woman's mill is good to heal the aching of a man's ears: The juice drunk with any kind of Liquor is good for a man that hath lost his speech: Columbine. THis is good for them that have the Quinsey, this Hear● should be gathered in August. Cardiaca. IT is good for the falling Evil. Wolf Thistle or wild Thistle. IF you take this Thistle while the sign is in Capricornus, and the Moon being new, there shall no thing mischief the bearer thereof. Comfrye. IF a man be bruised or broken within take the roots of this Herb, and roast them well in hot ashes, and eat thereof three days, and he shall be whole. It will also knit broken bones. A Note for the removing and making of slips and planting of Artichokes, Gooseberries, Roses, Privet, White-thornes, and all manner of flowers. My Lady of Surrey, FRom our Lady day in August, till our Lady in September, it is good time to remove, to set slips of all kind of flowers. From September to March, is good ●o set all quick sets. In September is good to grafted of the body, the Moon being at wain. For setting of Treesit is good in November, December, January February, and March. In the latter end of February, it is good to set all manner of flowers, and Artichoks, and also March and April. To grafted Peers, Apples, Plums and Cherries, it is good in the month of March in the new Moon. To grafted of the bud in the latter end of June the Moon being at wain. To prune trees, and open the earth about the roots, and to lance and open the bark of trees, it is good in December, January and February, the Moon being at new, etc. To cut Damask and read Roses, it is sufficient to cut them once in a year, to have them bear plenty, and wh●n you cut the Roses, you must cut them in October, the Moon being at the wain, for if you cut them twice as they use to do, they sprought too many leaves and too few blossoms. For opening of the earth about thirty foot compass, you must first take away the earth till you come to the root if it be an old tree, and to let them stand open December, January, and at the la tter end of February to fetch Cart loads of the mire that cometh out of the streets, and to say a Load of it, to every tree is good to bring down the moss, but it would be done but once in four years. It is very good to cut Vines in the latter end of January, February, and March the Moon being in the wain. For killing of a Canker in any trees it is good to take a Chessell and a Mallett and to cut of the Canker till they come to the very quick than take a quantity of Swine's dung and fill up that place, than put clay upon it and Moss on that, than bind it all in with a cloth and so let it remain till it fall of itself and so the bark reneweth: A Note of the best times of sowing these Herbs and seeds ensuing. CAbbage coals both white and red, to be sown in january, February, March, and August, in the wain and replanted in the same. Lettuce, Cabbage to be sown in all Months of the year, the Moon being in the wain: White Radish and black Radish to be sown in March, April, May, June, July, and August in the wain: Parsenepps to be sown in December, Januar, February, March, and April in the wain. Carrots yellow, white and read, in February, March, April, and May in the wain. Onions read and white, to be sown in January, February, March April, and August in the wain. Leeks, great and small, in the wain in February, March, April, and May. Succory, Endive, Sorrel, Burnet, Landebefe, bugloss, Summer Savory to be sown in the wain in February, March, and April, May, June, July: Mar●●rom, Basill, Parsely, Bucks horn, flower-gentle, Stockgill● flowers, double Marigolds, Roche●, Taragon, Time and Isop, to be sown in the wain in April and May. Alisanders', Skirretes, Parsley, Beans, hasty pease to be sown in the wain, in January, February March, and April. Winter Savory, sweet Fennell, Rampions to be sown in the wain in April, May June. Cowcombers, millions, Pompions, Gourds, to be sown in the new of the Moon in April, and May. spinach round and square to be sown in the wain, in March, April, May, August, and September. White Poppy, double and single, Rosecampions, French Marigolds, Spanish Marrygolds, French-brome, to be sown in March, April, and May, in the wain. Rew, Carduus benedictus, Artechoaks, Carduus, to be sown in the wain, in January, February, March, April. Holyokes, Walflowers, read Rubes, Stichados, Cassidonia, Pansies, Queen gillyflowers, to be sown in the wain in March, April, and May. Snape, Dragon, French Mallows, white and read, and Carnation pinks, and pinks Gillyflowers to be sown in March, April, May and June. Asparagus, Bayberries to be sown in the wain, in January, February, March. Coolworts, anise, Tornepps to be sown in the wain, in April, May, June, july and August, etc. Nicosiana p etum male, and Female in the wain in April and May. Larke-foot blue, and white, Colyflowers to be sown in the wain in March, April and May. Thus endeth the Notes, of setting and sowing of Herbs and Seeds, etc. collected by the right honourable and virtuous Lady Anne Countess of Surrey. Another Note to sow Seeds in due season, which I had of John Sinkley. February Parsley. Beets. Coolworts. Landebeefe. Lettuce to Cabige Onions Leeks. Parsnips. Beanes. To be sown in the wain of the Moon in February and all Potherbs. Cabige coals to be sown in the wain in February and removed in May. March. Carrots. Time. Isop. Winter Savoury. Summer Savoury. costmary. Mawdlyne. Double Marigolds. Stock gilly flowers. Rose campions. Columbynes. These to be sown in the wain of the Moon in March and all flowers. Taragon the Plants to be set in March in the wain of the Moon. April. Marjerome. Basile. Flower gentle. Radishes. These to be sown in the wain in April. Cucumbers. millions. Cyttrons. Pompiones. These to be pricked, or set in the wain of April. Coleflowers to be sown in the wain of April, and to be removed as you would remove Cabbages. Asparagus must be sown in April as afore in a dunged corner, whereas it may not be removed in two years, and as the Sun may come thereto, and it will be the second year, or ever you may use it in Salads, But the first year you may gather the Seed, and the next year you shall have Salads thereof, that when you cut it over night, you shall have as much the next day, to serve your turn and it groweth up like a Reed. White Endive to be sown in the wain of the Moon a fortnight before Midsummer, and when the Endive is great, you must take it up in a dry day, and make a hundreth holes somewhat wide, and put to every hole a root, good and deep into the ground, and put them close together every root, so as no earth be between the leaves, and set one hundred one week, and as many the next, and so more if you will that may be ready as you shall spend them, and than about Bartholomew tide, or a little before sow more Endive for winter, and use it as before. It is good to sow Radishes before or after Midsummer when you sow Endive, and they will be good in winter. To sow Cabage coals at Bartholomew tide, and to take them up in the latter end of February and set them again, and they will be Cabbages at Midsummer. To set the Plants of Artechokes in the wain of the Moon in March, and you shall have apples of the Plants at Midsummer. Also to set the seeds of Artechokes as aforesaid, but you must remove them, when they come up, at the lest twice, that is to say, in June and after Midsummer, in the wain of the Moon, and water your Artechokes when you remove them and three days after. And your Cabbages also. To sow Spinnage after Midsummer, and all Pot herbs that runneth to seed, and they will serve in winter. Rules for the setting of Herbs and sowing of seeds. The setting of Herbs. At Michalmas. SEt Onions for Skallions. In February. Set Artichokes in compass. In March. Set Isop, Time, and all such herbs, Winter Savory, Alchakengi●, Gillistowers of all kinds, Walflowers, Skirrets, and Plantain, and cut of their tops by the body: In June. Set Leeks▪ In August. Set, cut, and remove, all manner of Roses, except Musk Roses which nee to be set at Candlemas. And in August lay Endive in the ground to make it white. The sowing of Seeds. In February. SOw Onions, Leeks, Parsley and Nigella Romana. In March. Sow Lettuce, Carrots, Cabbage-Worts, Nigella Romana, Succory, Endive, Skirrets, Rocket, Rampions, Parsley and Walflowers. In April. Sow Marjerome, Flower-gentill, and all kind of fine seeds, with Isop and Time: In May in the end. Sow Torneps, Naves, and Venus' Lettuce: After Pentecost. In the latter end of the Moon, set Radish seeds one inch and a half deep, and leave the holes open. In August. In the first of August, sow Turnips, and Naves for winter, and Parsley that shall not bear seeds in two year. Those Herbs which you Will have flower and seed, set and sow, (if the weather serve) in the first quarter of the Moon, and that which you would have neither flower nor seed, set and sow about the last quarter. Setting of Herbs and sowing of Seeds. February. Onions, Parsley, Endive, Sorrell, spinach, Radish, Beets, Cresses, Rackats, Lettuce, Time, Borage, bugloss, Leeks, Fennel, Marigolds, Langdebefe. March. Purslane, Marierome gentle, basil, Carrots. April. Cucumbers, Million, Gourds, Savery, Cabbages, Coleworts, Artechokes. May. Rampiones, Succory. Remove Artechokes in February or March, Onions in May, Endive in August, or before Michaelmas, And to have feed of Endive or Succory, sow them in February or March. Sow all other seeds as before. Remove the Lettuce that is sown in the end of August at Hallomas. And sow Lettuce in the end of October, and remove at Candlemas, and it shall be ready to succeed that which is sown in August. Lettuce may be sown in the end of every Month, except November, December, or January: Ali Herbs prove best that are sown in the deepest of every month, except Radishes which require the full Moon. Sow Lettuce every Month in the wain of the Moon. To make them Cabbage when the sign is in Aquarius or Pisces, for a moist ground. And for a dry ground, sow when the sign is ●n Aries: The Virtues of divers Waters, as followeth. Hysop-water: IS good for all manner of evils in the Stomach and in the Heart and Lungs for the breast and Marrow. Water of betony. Is good for all Headache to wash the Temples therewith, and for filth about the Heart. Water of Dragons. Is good for any infection or corruption in the Ear, that goeth into a man, and for the pestilence. Water of Elder. Is good for a man or woman to drink against all manner of Jaundice. Water of Endive. Is good for to drink for all manner of Fevers and hit evils, for the Dropsy, the Liver and Stomach. Water of read Fennel. Is good for all manner of evils in the Eyes and good for a prick. Water of Wormwood. Is good for worms in the Belly, and for girding in the womb and windiness of the Colic, for the Liver, for the Spleen, for Drunkenness, for the eye sight, and for evil ●yre of Plagues and pestilence. Water of Dytanie. Is good for venom and pestilence. Water of century. Is good for the Liver, for the Milt, for Worms in the womb, and for the Saucefleame. Water of Fumitory. Is good for the Morphew for Scab or Scale, for the Dropsy, for the Liver, for the Martow. Water of Manebyne. Is good for the Gout, for the Longs, Breast, and for the Colic. Water of Balm. Is good for the Lyver, for the Spleen, for the Marrow of the back: And also it cleanseth and driveth away the Mother. Water of Plantain. Is good for the Flux, and for the hot Dropsy. Water of Violets. Is good good for a man within and for the Reinss of the back, and for the Lyver: Water of Woodbinds. Is good for all manner of heats, and also scaldings in the mouth, which break out of the Stomach, and for a Canker. To Distil Waters truly. Out of Mrs. Dauson her Book. Prymeroses. Prymeroses must be distilled leaves and Flowers. Fennell. Fennell must be distilled both Herb and root. Isop. Isop must be distilled Herb and Flowers: Camomile. Camomile must be distilled Herb and Flowers. Walwort. Walwort the Herb and the root stamp them. Strawburies'. Straburies' the fruit stamped, with Vinegar and so distil them. Wormwood. Wormwood must be gathered in May, than stamp it and lay it in strong Vinegar, to ste●p and to distil it. Selendine. Selendine must be distilled, both Herb, Flowers and roots. To distil Damask water. Take a peck of Rose-leaves and three handful of dry Lavender two handful of Marjerome, one pennyworth of Yreos & Orice powder, and Damask powder two ounces, one pennyworth of Cloves. Put all these things together into two pottles of Conduit water, and let it stand in steep seven days, and than still them. To make sweet water with a small cost. TAke three gallons of water, and put thereto half a pound of Callamus, two ounces of Cloves, a quarter of a pound of Orris, a peck of Roses, two handfuls of Basil, one handful of Marjoram, a little handful of Bay-leaves, two handfuls of Lavander-spike, a few tops of Rosemary, a little Maudlyn, let all these lie in steep day and a night, and than still it, and a week before you occupy it, hung within your glass two grains of Mu●k unto a pottle of water. Sweet Waters which I had out of Mrs. Dawson her Book. KNead the flower of Wheat meal with Mare's milk, than bake the bread thereof gently in an Oven, and draw it out before it be much baken, Take the crumb of this bread cut it in small pieces, and put it into new Goat's milk, and let it stand so six hours, mix it with the water of twelve Whits of Hen's Eggs made with a spong, lime made of eggshells, one ounce of Camphire, white Sugar and Alum, with white Coral of each two drams, when all these things are welbeaten to powder, let them be mixed with the moist things, and distilled in a Lymbeck of glass. My Lady Cromwell. TAke of Garden Snails three handfuls, Oil of bitter Almonds one pound, Daysie-roots one handful, Mare's milk, or Goat's milk a quart, distil all these together in a Limbeck of Glass, in the month of May, and wash therewith when you william. My Lady Paget. TAke fair white Sugar, and dissolve it in Rosewater, and add thereto whatsoever you will as Violets, Roses, Alessander buds, and such like. To make Damask water in Winter. TAke a pottle of good Ale new cleansed, and let it stand in an earthen pot all night, in the morning take it out, and put thereto a quart of running water, and a quarter of an ounce of Cloves, and as much of O●ris, two handfuls of dried Lavender, four handfuls of dried Roses, forty Bay-leaves, and a handful of Rosemary tops, put all these in a Stillitory with a little Camphire, and distil them. How to make another Damask water proved, by her that stilleth the King's sweet Waters at Hampton-Court. TAke of the best read Roses new gathered a good quantity, and straw them light in the bottom of your Still, than take Lavender speck, fine Marjoram and Basill, the leaves of each mingled together, of these four being mingled take one handful and strew them light upon the Roses, than take a little Damask powder and strew it lightly upon your green flowers, than take a handful of your Rose leaves, and strew thom upon your powder and green flowers. Than take a quantity ●f Damask powder, and strew it upon your uppermost Roses: These things above written being done, take six or seven Rose-leaves, and lay on every leaf the quantity of half a grain of Cyvet, and lay them uppermost of all with the Cyvet upward, than take and cover your Stillitory very close that no air get out, and distil them altogether with a soft fire: And you shall make fine Damask water. To make Rose-water for Damask-water. TAke read Roses and pick them from the buds, than take Lavender speck, Marjoram, and Basill, the leaves of each two handfuls, than take five or seven leaves of your Roses, and lay on them a little quantity of Cyvet, than take Damask powder and straw between every range, than distil them in your Stillitory with a soft fire i● any wise. To make Damask water at all times. TAke a quart of fair water and make it hot, and than put it into your Ewer, and than mingleth●rwith six drops of pure oil of spick and three drams of Camphire. To make water Aromatic. TAke Nutmegs, Cloves, and Galingale, and a quantity of Camphire and Musk, make these in powder, and put into it Rosewater a day and a night, than cleanse it and reserve it in a glass. To make a piercing water: TAke Wine and put to it Salt-petre, Salt-gem, and Sulphur, and still it in a Stillitory, and this will pierce stone, Iron, and all things that come near it. A sharp water to cleanse Metal: TAke white Argoil, Sal armoniac, Alom de plume, and common Salt, of each a quantity, and make them in powder, and put the powder in strong Vinegar, or else into a Child's Urine, and boil the Metal therein. Baits for Fishes. For the Pike. A Roach laid in a dry linen cloth that no scales go of it. A Frog laid in a pot with honey five days, than taken out and washed in Oleum Benedictum the space of an hour: this is a sovereign bait for a Pike all the year long. For the Perch. The read Worm without a knot. The writhe Worm that lies in the Clay, on a round heap▪ The Worm that lies in an old Tree, having a white body and a read head. For the Trout. The Hazel Worm that lies under the hazel root. The Dock-worm that lies under the Dock-roots, a Canker. For the Roach. The straw Worm that lies in the Ryne. The Codworm, Maggots, etc. April. For the Roach. TAke the Worm that lies among the ashes on a dunghill, he is read with a green tail. The straw Worm he is green: The Maggot of new Cheese. The Fly with a long tail. May. THe baits for all fresh water Fishes be in manner the same that be before, for May, june, july, and August. September. For the Roach: THe Warbub put in the powder of Assa fetida one night and one day, than taken out and put in Oleum Benedictum, and so put next your dubbing. The Butter▪ fly that hath four colours, that is to say, the body yellow, the wings read, black, and green. For the Perch. Take the writhe Worm, put him in Oleum Benedictum. October. For the Roach: THe Worm that is amongst Skinner's shave, he is white and shorr. The Worm that is among Barkers shave, he is read. The green Fly. November. For the Roach and Perch. TThe green Codworm which hath yellow wings, he is commonly found sitting upon Oke-leaves. The green Fly, the Maggot. Take Asurbis and slime of Caper honey, and Saffron, mingle all these together with a pint of stolen Ale, than take a pennyweight of Assa fetida, put all these in a glass, and let it stand nine days and nine nights. Also take the cassel Worm, or the Briar Canker, or the green Fly that sits on the Ivy berry. Begin to fish on St. Valentine's day if the weather be clear. How to take Fish. Seethe Neat's Oil, scum it, make a ring of a Rush, lay it upon the water, put of the Oil into the Ring, and you shall see the Fish that is in the Pool. Anoint your hands with juice of Nettles and Sengreen, put them in the Pond, and the Fish will come to your hand. Take Assa fetida, He nbane seed. Quicksilver, and Vinegar, fry it together in a pot▪ sherd, put it in a linen bag, tie it with a line to a Pole; Dip it it in the water, the savour will make all the Fish to be above the water, that you may take them, as long as the bag is in the water. Take honey, soft Cheese, C. oculus Indiae, crumbs of white bread▪ make all in past like Maggots, the Fish eating thereof will swim above the water that you may take them. Take C. oculus Indiae twelve berries, Henbane seed a spoonful, hard Cheese, Sheeps-tallow, of each as much as a Walnut, a quantity of Wheat-flower, a little honey, beaten all in a Mortar, make Balls thereof and cast it into the water. Take honey one ounce, Cheese two ounces, C. oculux Indiae 24, berries, Comfits two ounces, make it in past, and cast where the Fish is. Burn Horseleeches called Blood▪ suckers, make fine powder of them, anoint the back of your hand with Oil of Osprey, strew the powder upon it, put your hand into the water, the Fish will come to it. Take the Glow-worm that shineth by night, put her in a Vial of glass close stopped, hung it in a bow Net or Stalker. Make Faggots of new Peas-straw, bind them in three places, bind stones in them to make them sink. To take a Pike. Flay an Eel● to the Navel, fill the skin with Tar etc. Baits for Fish at all times. TAke Wheat-flour, new killed Sheeps-tallow, the white of an Egg, a little honey, make a past thereof and put upon your hook. Take the juice of Valerian, Vervine, and Rueberb, ana put in a Box, put read worms to it three hours before you use them, bait your hooks with them. For Birds, and Fowls. TAke seeds of Henbane, Poppy, Lettuce, Hemlock beaten in fine powder, boil all in dregss of strong Wine, than boil whole Wheat in it, strew the wheat where the Fowl do haunt, and if they eat of it they will be drunk and cannot fly. Likewise for Coneys with Oats An order for the increase and keeping of Carp. 1. THe Female must be eight or nine years old ere ever she will multiply. 2. For the Female you must put in twelve or more Males of three or four years old. 3. The Female must be kept from year to year, though it be forty years, or more. 4. Put in two Females lest one die. 5. The Pond must be drawn about Holland-tide, and the Fish put into a lesle Pond till March, and than put forth some of three years, some of two years, and some of one year, so many as the Pond will feed well; this must be done every year, and kill all that are four years old except the Female aforesaid. 6. A Pond of an acre will feed every year two hundred of three years old, and three hundred of two years old, and four hundred of one year old. 7. And to feed them fat and make them increase in greatness, you must put them in Pits and Puddles, in Pastures. And from stealing in Winter you may have them home, and put 500 in a Pond of the breadth of a Parlour, for a Carp never feedeth but in Summer. To Die divers kinds of Colours. To dye yellow. TAke of running water and as much Tap wort, than take Alum and seethe them together till the Alum be melted, than put in the Yarn and let it seethe till it be somewhat yellow, than wash it clean out of the water, than take Clay water, or Chalky water, than take Wheld and seethe it in the said water, than take weights of Lead or Stone to keep down the Wield, and than let it seethe till it flour above, than put in the Yarn, and so let it seethe a little. To die read. FIrst Alum your Yarn as you do the yellow, than take Brasil, and lay it in water a night, than seethe it, and put more water to it as you think good, and than let it seethe till it flour above, and than put in your Yarn and let it seethe till the water look Oreng-tawny, than take a handful of bay Salt and cast upon it, than let it seethe till it be melted. To dye Carnation. TAke running water four gallons, and take two pound of Pot ashes and lay in the said water two days and two nights, than divide the water, the one half into one pot, and the other half into another pot, and let the one pot stand in the hot Emberss up to the brim, and the other stand warm by the fire, to fill the other as it seethes away: Than take an earthen pot and put in the said water, than take two pound of read Flocks Brisco, and let it seethe till it be thick, than take a little Gum arabeck and Alum, of both as much as a Walnut, than let it stand till it be but warm, and than put in the Yarn, and let it lie a night and a day. To dye Popingay Green. Take penny-hew, and put to it Chamberlye or good Boockley, and seethe it and put in the yellow Yarn, and let it seethe, the longer it seetheth the deeper the colour will be. To dye dark Green. TAke your Yarn, and let it be wet in blewfant, and than put it in the yellow fat, and let it seethe, and it will be a dark green. To dye Purple. TAke Orchall and mingle it with half Chamber-ley, and let it seethe till it be a dark colour, and than put in your Yarn white. To dye Russet. TAke green Coperas and Nu●galls, and beaten them to powder, put them in water and set it on the fire till it be hot, and than put in your Yarn. To dye Tawny. TAke sowt that is over an Oven and Buck lay and Cork and seethe it together, and than put in your yellow yarn, and it will be a Tawny. Take a handful of Bay salt, and cast upon it. To make steyning or dying waters. To make a deep Green. TAke two pennyworth or three pennyworth of Vertgrece, grinned it on a stone, take blades of words the greenest and the sayrest, stamp them and wring the juice thereof through a cloth, take half a pint of this Juice, and put thereto three penceworth of Vertgrece, temper it together. Another Green. LAy first a blue, and when it is dry lay thereon a yellow, the better will the green be. A light Green. TAke Florey a shell full, and put thereto into some vessel the eighth part of a gallon of wort, stir them together and put it on a cloth, than take yellow water, and with a pencil do it upon the other till it wax green, the more yellow you lay on the better green: A blue water. TAke clean water of the well and a shell full of Florey, of the said water one pint, mix them and and lay it on thin. Another: TAke a portion of Florey blew, a portion of Alum, mix them in water. Another fine Blue. TAke a portion of Florage, a portion of Ley or Lime water put into a pan, let it not plaw, put thereto a portion of Allome, stir it well, take it of the fire, and cast thereinto wood-ashes, this is a fine blue: To make Network called the Broad Arrow, and the Diamond. THe first course at the beginning of the work is to to make nine plain stitches, and the tenth to wind twice about your pin, and so to work throughout at every ninth stitch to wind the tenth. The second row is to make eight plain stitches, and your long stitches, that is to make the Diamond; And so to work your second course through out. The third row is to make but seven plain stiches, and than to make two long stitches and one little stitch between the two long stitches, and than to make your course throughout. The fourth course is to make six plain stitches, and than go down to make your Diamond with a long stitch, and than to make two short stiches, and than to make your other long stitch, and so to make your course throughout, and than half your Diamond is made. Now to make the other half of your Diamond is, if you have at the beginning of your course ever a Diamond than to make the stiches that contains to mace. And than to make that which you call the broad Arrow; that is to make three winding stiches twice about your pin. And to knit three of them winding stitches together in a knot. And so to make three winding stiches more, and to knit them on a knot, so there must be two of them broad Arrows together between every Diamond, and so to make that course throughout. The second course of the lower part of the Diamond, is to make them six long stiches in full length. Than to go up with a long stitch to your Diamond, than to make two little plain stitches, and than to make down your winding stitches, that is to make the broad Arrow foot, and thus to make your course throughout. The third row is to make seven plain stitches, than to go up your long stitch And than to make but one plain, sti●h, than to make your long stitch down, and so to work as you did before, and thus to work your course throughout. Than to begin your work new again. The fourth course, that is, to make an end of your Diamond, is to make ten winding stitches twice about your pin, and so to work your course throughout. Than to begin your work new again, is to make nine stitches, working every other stitch, and the tenth to wind twice about your pin, and thus to work your course throughout. And than to begin your work new again, as I have above written. To make Network of the Skallop-shell. FIrst make a plain course, the second course, take the third stitch, and work it plain down to your pin, than loup over the next stitch to that to your handward, and than loup the next stitch to that to your handward, and so work all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have two short stitches between one long, that lieth something course: The third course; If you have a short stitch at the beginning of your work, slip it upward, and than pull out your pin, and work, and wo●k the next short stitch to it as short as you can, than pull out your pin and put it into your first stitch, and work your long stitch that lieth overthwart, down to your pin, as long as it will go, and so do all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have one short stitch between two long stitches. The fourth course. If you have a short stitch at the beginning of your work, slip it upward and than work your two long stitches down to your pin, and than slip up, and the next short stitch that is between two long stitches, slip it upward, and so do all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have three long stitches of an even length. And so your work is made an end, for there is but three courses in all the work besides the plain course. You must take heed at the beginning of your work, that you set one Scallop s●el right against another, a Diamond right against another, and so you may make the work of the double Diamond as you do this in every point, saving at the beginning of your work you must set your Diamond▪ over▪ thwart your work, cater corner, if it be wrought with a great pin it is the better. The Knotwork like Dice. FIrst make a plain course. The second course wind about your pin, and work down the third stitch to your pin, and the next stitch backward to your handward, bring it over and work it down to your pin, plain as it lieth, and the next stitch, and the next stitch to that, work it down to your pin, turned as it lieth, and so do all that course. Provided always, if your work go true, you have two short stitches between every long. The third course, If you have two short stitches, you must slip the first upward that lieth nethermost, and the other pull out your pin, and work it short, than pull out your pin and work your long stitch down to your pin, as long as it will go, than the next short stitch work it down to your pin and slip it upward, than pull out your pin and work the next short stitch as short as it may be, than pull out your pin and work the next long stitch, as long as it will be, and so do all that course. Provided always, if your work go true, that you have a Diamond that is two stitches of an even length together and a short stitch between. The fourth course, at the beginning of your work if you have short stitch slip it upward, than the next two long stitches, work them down to your pin, and slip the next short stitch, and so work all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have three stitches of an even length, and a gap between, and than to begin your work again, you must wind your thread about your pin and work down the third stitches as you did before. To make Network like seven Eyes. THe first course, wind your thread about your pin at every stitch, and the second course take two long stitches upon your needle and turn the second stitch into the first long stitch inward to your hand and pull it through your first stitch, and the thread of your first stitch, turn it inward through the second stitch down to your pin like a loop or a Noose, so that the thread of the loop must lie upon the noose uppermost, than work your noose d●wn to your pin, and the next stitch or thread that lieth upon your noose work down to your pin, and make a stitch. Provided always if your work go true you have two knots together, and a wide bout between, and the next third course begin your work again and round your thread about your pin at every ●itch, as you did before at the beginning of your work. The Network of the small Diamonds. THe first course must be wrought plain, work the second stitches plain and the first stitches loup it over the second, and work it down to your pin. Provided always at the beginning of your second course, if you chance to have an odd stitch that is not against your Diamond, work it plain, and than work the third stitch and loup over the second as before, and so your third course you must work it a plain course as you, did at the beginning of your work. Provided always if your work go true, you have two knots together and one stitch ligger than another, and you must work it with a very great pin, or else it will be too thick. To make the great Loosing. YOu must knit eleven stiches and than wind about your pin, And if you will make a less losing you must work eight stitches and wind the ninth about your pin, and at the second course if you have any short stitches work them short and pull out your needle and work your Loop as long as it will go, and the next shortest stitch slip it upward, and so do all that course. Provided always you must have seven short stitches, if your work be true, and the third course if you have any short stiches at the beginning of your work, work them short, than put up your third through your long stitch and turn your two long stitches inward, and than work them down upon your pin, and put your third into your long stitch again, and work one of your short stitches, and slip it upward, and than pull out your pin, and work all your short stitches short. Provided always, that you must have six short stitches between your three long stitches. The fourth course, At beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than work one of your three twisted stitches a little longer than your other long stitches, than pull out your pin, and work your other two very short, than put in your long stitch and work one of your short stitches and make it an other long, and than pull out your pin, and work two short stitches, winding your thread about your pin, and that will make a short mask, than work your other two short stitches down to your pin, and so work all that course as before. Provided always, if your work go true, you have two short stitches between your longer stitches. The fifth course, If you have any short stitches work them short, than put your third into your longest and work it down unto your pin, than put your thread into your long stitch, and work on of your short stitches under your pin, and slip it upward than pull out your pin, and work one short stitch very short, than pull out your pin again, and put your thread into your long Mask, and work your long mask down to your pin aslong it will go, and put your third into your long mask and work one of your short stitches under your pin and slip it upward, and the next short stitch work it upward, and so work all that course. Provided always, if your work go true, you have but one short stitch between your long stitches. The sixth course, If you have any short stitches work them short, and than put your third into your long stitch, and work down to the pin, than put your third into your great hole, and work your short stitch under your pin sloping upward, than put your third into a hole like a Glass-window, and turn both those stitches inward, and work them to your pin, not too long as your other Masks, than put your third into that hole like a Glasswindow, and work your short stitch under your pin, and slip it upward, and so do all that course. Provided always, if your work go true, you must have three twisted stiches together, and a gap between the three twisted stitches that be against the Glass-window must be shorter than the other three twisted stitches. The seventh course if you have any short stitches, work them short, and if your three twisted stitches be against the hole of the glass-window, you must make a long mask of one of them, than pull out your pin, and work the other two short masks, than put your p●n into the longer mask, and work down your twisted stitches that are divided into two parts, and so do all that course. Provided always, that if your work go true, you must have two short stitches between every seven stitches. The eighth course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than put your thread into your long mask, and work it down to your pin, and so work up all your stitches of an even length, which will be eight, than put your thread into your long mask, which is the last stitch of your eight stitches, and work your other short stitch under your pin, and slip it upward, and than pull your pin and work your other short stitch very short, than pull out your pin and put your thread into your long mask, and work down your other eight stitches down to your pin, and so work all that course. Provided always, that if your work go true, you must have seven stitches of an even length, and a short stitch between. The nineth course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than put your thread into your great hole, and work down all your seven stitches down to your pin, than put your thread into your great hole again and work your short stitch under your pin, and slip it upward, and so do all that course throughout. Provided always, if your work go true, you shall have nine stitches of an even length, and a gap between. Loosings of eight stitches. THe first course make a losing of eight stitches, and wind about the nineth stitch, so you must have eight stitches between every wind. The second course, at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than pull out your pin, and work your long stitch down to your pin as long as it will go, and the next short stitch work it about your pin and slip it upward. Provided always, if your work go true, you must have seven short stitches and two long stitches. The third course, if you have any short stitches work them short, than put your thread into the hole that is like a glass-window, and turn your two long stitches inward, and work them down to your pin, than put your thread into the same hole again, and work one of your short stitches under your pin, and slip it upward, and so work all that course. Provided always, if your work go true, you have six short stitches between two twisted stitches. The fourth course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than pull out your pin and work your three twisted stitches down to your pin, than put your thread about your pin, and work it close down to your pin, and it will make you have four stitches in all, whereof two short and two long, than pull out your pin and work your short stitches short, and so work all that course. Provided always, that if your work go true, you have four long stitches and five short. The fifth course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than pull out your pin, and put your thread into your long stitch, and work it down to your pin, and so do all your long stitches which are four, than put your thread into your long mask, and work one of your short stitches under your pin and slip it upward, than pull out your pin, and work your short stitches short, and so do all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have four short stitches and five long. The sixth course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than put your thread into your great hole, and work down your five long stitches close to your pin, than put your thread into your long mask, and work one of your shot stitches under your pin and slip it upward, and than pull out your pin and work your short stitches, and so do all that course. Provided always if your work go true, you have six long stitches and three short. The seventh course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches work them short, than pull out your pin, and work your six long stitches down to your pin, than work one of your short stitches to your pin, which will make seven long stitches in all. Than pull out your pin, and work your short stitches, and so work all that course, provided always, that if your work go true, you have seven long stitches and two short between your long. The eighth course, if you have any short stitches work them short, than put your thread into your long Mask and work it down to your pin, and all the rest the seven stitches, than put your thread into your long Mask, and work one of your short stitches under your pin, and sl●p it upward, than pull out your pin, and work your next short stitch very short, and so do all that course: Provided always, if you your work go true you have eight long stitches, and one short between. The ninth course, If you have any short stitches work them short, than pull out your pin, and put your thread into your great hole, and work all your eight stitches down to your pin ●●en put your thread into your great hole again, and work your short stitch under your pin and slip it upward, And so do all that course. Provided always, if your work be true, you have nine stitches together, and a twisted gap between, and so is your half lossing done, and than must you work eight plain stitches, and wind about your pin as you did the first course. To knit Network like Glass-windows: THe first course, you must wind your thread about your Pin at every second stitch, and so work the other stitch plain to the end of your work, and the next course you shall work it plain, drawing one of the knots shorter than the other, provided always, that course that you wind your thread about your Pin, you must wind that stitch that the knot of the glass-window is lowest to ●our pin. If you will have a double Glass window, you must wind your thread about your Pin every third stitch, and so work it as before, and at every third course wind about your Pin, and if you will make your Glass-window of four stitches, you must wind at everv fourth stitch, and so likewise if you will make it of 5. of 6. of 7: or of 8. you must do likewise as before, or as big as you wil If you will have your Glass-window very wide, you must wind your thread about your Pin twice together. How to knit Network of the Hearts. THe work of the Hearts you must knit first three stitches, than pluck out your Pin, and work it backward and forward again, than you must make one long stitch, the knot must be half the way, and so work three plain stitches more, plucking out your Pin, and work them backward and forward as you did before, of this fashion you must work all the breadth of your work, and the last; and the last three stitches at the beginning and at the ending you must work it six Masks of length, for the beginning of your long stitches at the next course. The Knotted work of the Flese. THe first course you must wind your thread about your Pin at every second stitch, and leave a stitch between, and bring that stitch over the other stitch, and that course work it so, and at the second course you must work it plain with knot-drawing of one stitch shorter than the other, provided always if you have a short stitch at the beginning of that course of your work, that one knot is shorter than the other, you must wind your thread about the Pin, and make that stitch a long one, and provided always the first stitch of your second course, if you found a Diamond at the beginning, than wind about your Pin and work the second stitch, and bring the first over to it, and if you chance to found an odd stitch at the beginning of your work, than wind your thread about your ●in, and work that stitch by itself, and so begin your work as before, for there is but two courses, A K not-work like Honey-combs. THe first course wind your thread about your Pin every other stitch, the second course you must put your thread into your long stitch and bring it over your Pin and work a stitch, than put your Needle into the same long stitch and bring it down to the inside of your Pin, and put in your Needle into your short stitch, and make that a short stitch of the inside of your Pin to your hand-ward, provided always you must have two stitches against every Honeycomb. The Knotwork of Lossinge: THe first course, at every fourth stitch wind your thread about your Pin, and so work all that course through, winding your thread about your pin at every fourth stitch, provided always, that if your work go true, you must have three short stitches between your long stitch, & the second course at the beginning of your work, if you have any short stitches one or two work them short, and pull out your Pin, and put your thread through your long stitch, and than work a stitch upon your Pin, and than put your thread about your Pin, and put it through your long stitch, and work one of your short stitches under your Pin, and knit it upward long, and than pull out your pin, and work two short stitches, and so do all that course through: Provided always that all your course must go with two short stitches, and two long; the third course at the beginning, work two short stitches, short, and pull out your Needle, and work your two twisted stitches as long as the loops will go, and the next short stitch to it, knit it up high that it may be as long as the other two, than pull out your pin, and work your short stitch very short, and than pull out your pin and work your long stitch as before, and so work all your long course; provided always that you must have three long stitches together, and one short stitch between. The fourth course if you have any short stiches at the beginning of your work, work them short, than pull out your pin and work your long stitch upon your pin, than put your thread into your long stitch, and work your short stitch under your pin, if it be your short stitch at the end of your Lossenge, draw it upward and work it at length, than the next long stitch that is next to your Lossing, you must put the thread into it, and than work a stitch, about pin, and the next short stitch that is between your two long stitches, that stitch will begin a new Lossing, you must work it close to your pin, and so work all your course through; provided always, that if your work go true, you have four stitches of an even length together on your pin, and a twisted gap between, than begin your work again as before at the beginning, that is to say, to wind about your pin at every fourth stitch▪ two and twenty score stitches and seventeen will serve for the widness of a Gorget, if the thread be fine. The order how to knit a Hose. FIrst in the top it must be six score and twelve stitches wide, so work downward, and take in at every four purls hard at the seam of the right hand Needle one stitch, and of the left hand Needle, leave a stitch between the seam, and than take in, and so work down till you have made four purls, and than begin the ham, and work up straight, neither widen nor straighten till you have made fourteen knots, and than widen out of both sides of your seam as you did before at every four purls, till you have wided seven stitches at a side, than work up plain, neither widen nor straighten till you have made fourteen knots than take in at every fifth mask a stitch of each side as you did before, till you have left but four and forty of every Needle, which amounteth to fix score and twelve, and if it chance in the working of your small that your ham rise somewhat round, you must take in somewhat faster than is appointed here, that your small be not too big, and from your calf to the beginning of your clock amounteth unto seventy knots, and so than divide your Needles into three equal parts, allowing upon your two heel Needles three stitches of each, more than upon your instep Needle, and than at the beginning of the right hand Needle of the heel make two turned stitches, and so work plain till you come at the latter end of the left hand Needle to the instep ward, and there make two turned stitches again, and than knit plain round till you come again to your heel-needle, than make one pearl at the beginning of your heel-needle, than take up a stitch between the two purls and work it plain, than the next stitch make a pearl, and the next stitch work plain, than shrink two stitches into, and work till you come to your lefthand Needle, than you must leave four stitches of your Needle, and so shrink two together, than cast up your thread and make a knot, than widen a stitch and work it plain, and make a knot again, and so than work your instep-needle, and so work plain one course round about, till you come to your right hand heel Needle, than make at the first stitch one pu●l, and kni● a plain stitch again, and than take up a stitch and work that plain, next that cast up your thread and make a knotted stitch, and th●n work a plain stitch again, and take in two plain stitches into one, and so knit about till you come to the lefthand Needle within five stitches, than take two into one than make a pearl, than work a plain stitch, and take up a stitch and work it plain, and than work a pearl, and so than work your instep-needle, and than a plain course round about of all three Needles, than make your pearl again when you come to your right hand Needle, and than two plain stitches, and than one pearl, and so work till you come to your left hand Needle, within four stitches, than make a pearl stitch, two plain stitches and one pearl, and so work your instep-needle, and than a plain course about till you come to your right-hand Needle again, than make a turned stitch, than one plain stitch, than take up a stitch and make that a pearl, than a plain stitch, than a pearl, than a plain stitch, than take in two, ●nd work about till you come to your left hand-Needle, till you have left but six than shrink in two, than make a pearl stitch, than knit plain again one stitch, than take up a stitch and makes that a pearl, than work a plain stitch▪ than make another pearl, and so to your instep Needle, and knit a plain course round about, than when you come at your right Needle, make a pearl, than a plain stitch, than a pearl again, than a plain stitch again, than knit a plain again till you come at your left hand Needle, till you have left five stitches, than you must make a pearl stitch, than a plain stitch, than a pearl stitch, than a plain stitch, than a pearl stitch again, and so to your instep Needle, and than knit a plain course about till you come to your right hand Needle, than a pearl stitch, than a plain stitch, than a pearl stitch, than take up a stitch, and make that a pearl, and than two purls together than knit a plain stitch and make a pearl again, than a plain stitch, than knit two together, and so knit till you come to your left hand Needle, till you have but seven, than taken two into one, than a pearl stitch, than a plain stitch, than a pearl stitch, than take up a stitch and make that a pearl, and so shall you have two purls together, than a plain stitch, than a pearl again, than knit out your instep Needle, than a course about plain, than to your right side Needle, ad at the first stitch make a pearl, than a plain stitch, than two purls together, than a plain stitch, than a pearl again; And so to your l ft hand Needle till you come to six stitches, than make a pearl, than a plain stitch, than two purls together, than a plain stitch, than a pearl again, and so to your instep Needle, and so a plain course till you come to your right hand needle, than make a pearl, than a plain stitch, than a pearl, than take up a plaln stitch, than make a pearl again, than a plain stitch, than a p●●, than a plain stitch, than a pearl, and knit two together, than knit to your left hand Needle, till you have but eight stitches, than take in two together, than make a pearl, than a plain stitch, than a pearl again, than take up one and make it a plain stitch, than knit a pearl again, than a plain stitch again, than a pearl, and so to your instep Needle, and so knit round about, neither widen nor streiten till there be ten purls on the side Needles, and take of your two side Needles, three stitches of each, and put them upon ●our instep needle, and than upon your two side Needles, knit up your heel till you have 54. purls, taking in at every four purls a stitch from the pearl of the right side, and leave a stitch between the pearl of the left side, and so take it in till you have but 28. stitches of each side, than upon your right hand you must work of 12 stitches with the purls and all▪ than take two stitches, and loop one over another inward to the seam of your Hose, and so work plain till you come within two stitches of your seam, and work them both into one stitch plain as they lie, and than knit your seam stitch, and your other two stitches next your seam stitch, must be looped outward from the seam, than work till you have but 18 stitches of a needle, and knit two together, and so must you take in and bind at every other course till your binding stitches do meet, if you chance to have any odd stitches of one needle more than of tother, bind on those stitches and not of tother, than work till you come at your seam stitch, and so put both the right sides of your Hose together of both your Needles, and take a third needle, and work both those needles together on the wrong side, looping one stitch over another, as you do end a hose, than take two Needles, and take up all the knots on the wrong side next to the ed●e stitch, and so knit one course plain round about your Hose, and at the second upon your side needles▪, you must at every fourth stitch take up a stitch, and so must you do of both sides of your side needles, till you have seventy six, and so take three at the point of your clock, at every course of stitch, of both sides till you have done 10 purls, and these take in at every second course a stitch of each side till you have done twenty purls and so at every third course till you have other twenty. Here beginneth the making of Laces. IN the manner of making Laces, you shall understand at the beginning that the second finger shall be called A. the third B. the fourth C. and the fifth D. and mark well when thou takest a bow through another, sometime you shall take through the bow aright, and sometime the reverse. To take right is to put your finger through a bow, and take that that is before him, as the common manner is to take▪ and in that manner shall you do always, but when the bow asketh the reverse. For to take reverse is to take a bow throughout another, and that behind that bow, as thou dost when thou shalt change a bow with thy fellow, and for that, that when it is taken through another that is sometimes taken reversed, and sometimes not reversed. Also under, and than the bow is taken reversed, when it is taken in such manner that was before the taking, the taking above is after the taking beneath. Sometime reversed, is when it is taken in such manner that that was before the taking above, is after the taking above: And sometime is the bow reversed, and sometime turned. Reversed are, when the party that was afore reversed above, is now beneath. Tnrned are when the bows are twice reversed, and that party that was afore above, is now above, and if it so be that the Lace be wrought of two of the fellows, shall ever let him on thy right hand, and when you shall change your bows uppermost of your hands next you shall reverse through the overest of thy hands next, your fellows uppermost bow not reversed of his hand next to thee. And he shall take thine also not reversed, and that is called the changing above: And when you shall change your overmost bows of your farther hand, your fellow shall take you the reverse throughout his overmost bow of his further hand, from thee thy overmost bow unreversed of thy fellows further hand from him, and thou shalt take his unreversed, and that shall be under all the bows, and that is called, the changing beneath. ● And sometime show shall hayn your bows, and sometime lowen them: hayn them is to set the bow B upon A. and the bow C: upon B. and the bow D upon C. Lowen them is to set the bow C. upon D. and the bow D. upon C. and the bow A. upon B. A broad Lace of V bows. 1. IF you will make a broad Lace of V bows, take two bows upon B. C. of thy right hand, and three bows upon A. B. C. of thy left hand, and than take A. of the right hand through the bow B. upon the self hand, and the bow C. reversed of the left hand, and than low thy bows of thy left hand, and than shall A. of thy left hand take through the bow B. of the self hand, the bow C. reversed of thy right hand, and than low the bows of thy right hand and begin again. A Lace round of V bow. 2. IF thou wilt make a Lace round of V bows, look that the bows be set upon thine hands as is aforesaid, and than shall A. take of the right hand through B. C. of the self hand, the bow C. reversed of the left hand, and than low thy bows of the left hand, and than shall A. of the left hand take through B. C. of the self hand, the bow C. reversed of the right hand, and than low the bows of the right hand, and than begin again. An open Lace of V bows. 3: IF you will make an open Lace, viz. two together of five bows, set upon thy hands, as is said in the round, and than shall you work as in the round, save in the round the bow is taken reversed, and in this it it always taken unreversed, and than begin again. The same Lace of divers colours. 4. ANd if thou wilt make two Laces together, the one of one colour, the other of another, of V▪ bows, of the which the half end shall be of one colour, that other of another, and be th'one colour above, the other beneath and sinthes work i● the same manner as is afore said in the open place. A Lace bastuve of five Bows. WHen thou wilt make a round Lace that is called bastuve of five bows, be the halvendle of every bow of one colour and the other of an other, and set thy bows upon thy hands, as in the round, now the colour that is above on that one hand shall be beneath on the other hand, and than work as in the round afore. A broad Lace for Purses of ten bows. IF thou wilt make a broad Lace for Purses of ten bows with a fellow either of you take five bows as is aforesaid of the broad lace of five bows, and be they set on the self manner on your fingers, and than work in the same manner as in the broad lace aforesaid, and when you have done once with the right hand, and once with the left hand, and thy fellow also than shall you change your over bows of your next hands, and than begin again. A Lace bordered. TAke thou and thy fellow ten bows of the which the half of every bow be of one colour, and the other of an other colour and be the bows set upon your hands in the same manner as was said in the broad lace afore, but all that one colour shall be above upon the next hand, and the other beneath on the further hands, and than work both with the right hand, and with the left hand, in manner as is aforesaid of the round lace of five bows, and than shall you change the overbowes of the hands next and begin again. A Lace covert of ten bows. TAke ten bows in the self manner set on thy hands and on thy fellows, as is said of the lace bordered, save in this lace that one colour of all these bows shall be above, and tother beneath, and than either of you work once with the right hand, and once with the left hand, in the manner, as is aforesaid of the open lace, and than shall you change the over bows of your hands next, and the over bows of your further hands, and than beginning again as you did afore till you have all done, and than shall you have a lace within and other without, and that one of one colour, that other of another, and that one shall now be drawn out of that other and therefore it is called a lace covert. A Lace double covert. TAke ten bows of the self manner departed, and in the self manner set upon their hands as it is said of the lace covert, and be one lace of the greatness of the half of thy bows bound at the one end betwixt thee and thy fellow, and tother ●end be bound with thy bows, and than work of the same manner as it is said of the lace covert, save when ●e shall change the over bows of your hands next, ye shall change above the lace, bound betwixt thee and thy fellow, and when you shall change the over bows of your further hands, you shall change from beneath the lace bound betwixt thee and thy fellow, than shall you have double covert three laces each within other. A Lace cowpen covert. MAke it of twelve bows be the half of one colour, the other of another colour, and be three bows upon B. C. D. of both thy hands, and of thy fellows also, and be all th'one colour above of both your hands, than take with a right thorough all thy bows of the self hand, the bow d: left, and also do with thy left hand, and thy fellow do also and work in the same manner, as in the double covert of ten bows till thou hast all done. An other Lace of coupen covert depiole. TAke twelve bows in self manner set on thine hands and thy fellows, as is said of the coupen covert of twelve bows, save that in this lace the colour shall be beneath of the further hands and the self colour above on the next hands, and than work on the self manner, as in the Coupen covert of twelve bows, save that the bows of this lace shall never be reversed. A Lance dance broad of twelve bows. LEt the bows be all set, and the colours departed on your hands and on your fellows as is said of the coupen covert of twelve bows and than wo●k in the self manner save in this lace d. shall be taken ever reversed and after the change above and beneath, than begin as afore always. The same round. TAke eight bows of the which four bows shall be of one colour, and four of another, and set the four of one colour upon A. B. of both thy hands, and tother four upon D. C. of both thy hands and than shall A. right take through his bows, and the bows B. C. D of the self hand, the bow D. reversed of the left hand, and than shall A. of the left hand take thorough B. C. D, of the self hand the bow D. reversed of the right hand, and than low your bows of the right hand and begin again as before, but the bow that was afore without upon A shall come through the other, and shall devil upon A. and that that was afore within shall be upon B. A Lace piole. TAke eight bows, four of one colour and four of another colour, a●d ●ut the one colour be of the one hand, and the other of tother hand, and than work in the same manner as in the dance of eight howes. A Lace covert cheveron. TAke twelve bows of the which the half of every bow be green & tother half of six bows be white, and the half of four bows purple, and the half of two bows yellow, and be three bows white above u●on B. C. D. of thy right hand, and two purpure upon B. D. and one yellow upon C. of the l●ft hand, and be the right hand of thy fellow according to thy left hand, and his left hand according to thy right hand, than shall you take both with your next hands thorrow, B. C. D. of the self hand, and thorough D. C. the further hand, the ●●w B. unreversed on the same hand, than change your bows above and beneath also, and than shall D. take of the further hand the bow D. unreversed of the next hand, and shall the bows be lowed of the next hands and begin again. A lace depowne. Do this lace depown in the self manner as is aforesaid▪ and when thou hast done a portion as much as thee liketh, reverse than all thy bows, and work in the self manner, and than shall that one hand another coupen of tuell, and so at every cowpens end reverse all thy bows, and than shall all thy lace be cowpen. A lace of covert Viceray. TAke twelve bows in the self manner set on thy hands and departed, and on thy fellows, as in the covert Cheveron, than shall D. of the right hand take thorough his bow, and change not the bow D. unreversed of thy left hand, and than A. of thy right hand, shall through B. C. of the self hand, take the bow D. unreversed of the self hand, and than low thy bows of the same hand, and than shall A. take of the right hand through the bow D. of the left hand the bows, C. B. of the self hand unreversed, and than heyne the bows of thyself hand upon B. and the bow that is more without upon A. of thy right hand set upon C of the left hand, and that that was more within set upon D. of the left hand, and in self manner do thy fellows, with his right hand as thou dost with thy left hand, and than change your bows above and beneath. The same lace compounds. Do in the same manner as is aforesaid, and when thou hast a cowpen long enough reverse, all thy bows and do in the self manner as is aforesaid, and so at the end of every cowpen reverse all thy bows, and so shall thou have all the lace compound. A Lace Demi-cheveron. TAke twelve bows in the self manner departed, and in self manner set upon thine hands, and upon thy fellows, as in covert Cheveron, save the white party of the next hand shall be beneath, and than shall A. of thy right hand take through B. C. D. of thy left hand, the bow D. reversed of thy left hand, and A. of thy left hand shall take through B. C. of the left hand the bow D. reversed of thy right hand, and than the self manner shall thy fellow do, and than shall you change your bows above and beneath, and begin again. The same Compound. Do in the same manner as is aforesaid, and when thou hast a portion as much as thee liketh, reverse than all thy bows and do as is said afore and so at the end of every cowpen reverse all thy bows, and begin again. A Lace covert de bastuve. TAke twelve bows in the self manner departed, and in the self manner set on thy hands and on thy fellows, as in the cowpen covert of twelve bows, save in this the colour that is above on your right hands shall be beneath on your left hands, and in the same manner shall you work as in the cowpen covert of twelve bows save the bows shall never be reversed. A Lace covert de bastuve de-miray. TAke twelve bows in the self manner departed and set on your hands as in the covert cheveron, and be two above purpure upon B. D. and on yellow above upon C. of thy hand and three white above, upon B. C. D. of thy fellows left hand, and three bows of Tuells above upon B. C. D. of your both righthands, and than work in the self manner, as in the cowpen covert of twelve bows, save the bows shall never be here reversed, and so shalt thou have twain bastuves covert, and two bastuves rayed of one yellow betwixt two purpures with the champ white. A Lace Bastuve techell. TAke twelve bows in the self manner departed and set upon your hands; as in the lace covert de cheveron, save thy fellows right hand shall accord to thy right hand and his left hand to thy left hand, and than shall you work in the self manner as in the cowpen covert of twelve bows save that the bows shall never be reversed. A broad lace for Pnrses of seven bows. WIthout a fellow make them, and be two bows upon B. C. of thy right hand, and two sundry bows upon A. of thy left hand and other two sundry, upon B. of thy left hand and one upon C. of the same hand, and than shall you take with A. of thy right hand through B. C. of the self hand, the bow that is uttermost upon B. left unreversed, and B. right shall take the bow utterest upon B. left unreversed, and through the left bow A. right shall take the bow C. left unreversed. And take good care that the bows that are on any singer meng them not, and than low thy bows of thy lest hand, and than shalt thou take with A. of thy left hand through B. C. of the self hand, the Bow that is uttermost upon B. right reversed, and B left, shall take the bow that is uttermost upon A. right unreversed, and through that self bow A. left shall take the bow C. unreversed of the right hand, and low thy bows, and than begin again. The same Lace open. Do in self manner as is aforesaid save that never a bow shall be taken reversed, and if the bows be departed that one shall be of one colour and tother of an other. A Lace party round. LFt all thy bows be departed and set upon thy hands as is aforesaid, and than work in the self manner, and what time thou hast but two bows upon thy one hand thou shalt turn the over bow of the self hand, so that the self colour that was afore the turning above is after the turning beneath. The same Compound. Do in the self manner as is aforesaid, and when though hast a good cowpen reverse all thy bows and begin again. A lace party broad. Do in the said manner as in the round lace party, save that in the round lace party, thou turnest the over bows of both thy hands, and in thy neither not but the over bow of that one hand. The same lace ray. TAke seven bows of one colour and thy fellow seven of another colour, and be the bows set upon your hands as in the lace of seven bows, save that he shall have but two bows of the left hand, and than work both as in the lace of seven bows, and when there be but two bows on thy further hand from thy fellow thou shalt turn thy over bow of the self hand and thy fellow shall not turn, and when there be but two bows on thy hands, next than shalt thou change thine own bows, so that after the changing you have again thy seven bows, and thy fellow his seven. A lace called pale. SEt fourteen bows departed upon your hands as in the lace ray, and be all that one colour above up on thine hands, and the self colour beneath upon thy fellows hands, and than work in the self manner as in the raylace. A lace quarter and quar▪ tell. TAke fourteen bows in the self manner set upon your hands as in the lace ray, and than work in the same manner as in the lace ray, and over that when there be but two bows upon your farther hands thy fellow shall turn the bow upon the self hand as well as thy left hand, and when the lace is made do another with in, and than shall it be both quart and quartel. The same compound. Do in the same manner as is aforesaid, and when thou hast a good cowpen reverse all thy bows and begin again. A lace corduve of eight bows. TAke eight bows, four of one colour and four of another, and be all that one colour upon that one hand, and tother colour upon tother hand, and than shall A. right change with D. left, and B. right with C. left, and C. right with B: left, and D. right with A. left and begin again. A lace Maskell. TAke eight bows of one colour set upon A. B. C. D. of both thine hands and than A. right through his bow shall change with A. left reversed, and in the self manner B. right with B. left, and C. right with C. left, and D. right with D. left, and do so thrice, and than shall A. right change with B. left and B. right with A. left and C right with D. left, and D. right with C. left, and than shall A. change with A. B. and A. B. with B C: and B. C: with C. D. and C. D. with B. other thrice, and than shall B. right change with C. left and C. right with B. left, and than begin again. A lace called the fret. Do in self manner as is aforesaid in the maskell, and when B: right hath changed with C. left, and C. right with B. left, than shall the bow B. left, be set upon B. right, and C. left upon C. right, and than A. right shall change with D. left, and D. right with A. left, and then B: C. of the self hand shall take again her bows, and than shall you begin as afore till the lace is made, and than do another within that lace, that is of another colour, and than shall it be fre●. A lace called Cow-de-rate. TAke seven bows of Duve colour, and be four bows upon A B. C. D. left, and three bows upon B-C. D. right, and than shall A. right take to reverse thorough the bow B. of the self hand, and under all tother bow the bows A. reversed of the left hand, and than hie the left bows, and than shall D. of the left hand take the bow of the right hand not reversed, and than low the bows of the right hand and begin again as afore, and this same lace may be made of six bows, but than shall no bow be upon D. left. The same Lace. IF you like to make this lace the one to turn of one colour tother of another be all the bows departed, and that one colour of all the bows be above and than work in the self manner as is aforesaid. The same Lace compound. WHen thou wilt make this lace coupen. Take seven bows as afore with six departed, and in self manner set as in the cowlace, and work in the same manner, save that the bow A. left shall be taken unreversed, and when you have a good portion reverse your bows and begin again. The same Lace of sixteen bows. SEt four bows of one colour upon A B. C. D. left and all tother upon A. B. C. D: right, and in the self manner upon thy fellows hands and than shall you both work with your left hands till that the four bows of one colour be come upon A. B. C. D. right of thy fellow, but you must afore every reversing change your overbowes of your next hands, and than shall you work both with the right hands as you did before with the left hands till the four bows of one colour be come again upon A B. C. D. left and ●hen begin again. A Lace bend. TAke eight bows, four bows of one colour upon th'one hand and four of another colour upon the other hand, and than shall A. right take through his bows B. C: D. and D. C. B. left, the bow A unreversed of the left hand, and than hie thy bows of the left hand, and than shall D. left take the bow D. right, and than low thy bows right, so that the bow that was taken through that other devil upon A. and that that was upon A. be upon B. and than reverse all thy bows, and begin again. The same Lace of sixteen bows. BE thy right hand according to thy fellows right hand and thy left hand to his left hand, and than shall you work both as in the lace bend of eight bows, and a afore the reversing of your bows you shall change your over bows of your hands next, and than reverse your bows and begin again. A Lace cheveron broad. TAke sixteen bows, eight bows of one colour, and eight of another colour, and be four of one colour set upon A. B. of thy right hand, and C. D. of thy left hand and four of another colour, upon C. D. of thy right hand, and A. B. of thy left hand, and be the right hand of thy fellows according to thy left hand, and his left hand to thy right hand, and than shall you take both with A. of your hands next through. A Lace cheveron round. TAke sixteen bows set upon thy hands, and on thy fellows as is aforesaid, and than work in the self manner as in that other lace, and when you have changed your over bows of your next hands, you shall change your over bows of your further hands, and than reverse all your bows and begin again. A Lace pen de pound. TAke sixteen bows of the which four be green, four red, four white, and four black, and be the four green upon A. B. of your next hands and four read upon D. C. of the left hands, and four white upon D. C. of your further hands, and four black upon A. B. of the self hands, and than shall you work in the self manner as in the cheveron broad, till that the green be upon A. B. of your further hands, and than work in the self manner with A. of the further hands as ye did with A. of your next hands and than begin again as before. A Lace en leved of sixteen bows. Do in the self manner as in the lace pen de pound, but when ye have changed your over bows of your next hands ye shall change your over bows of your further hands, and than reverse all thy bows and begin again. A lace cheveron broad of eight bows. TAke four bows of one colour and four of another, and be all that one colour upon A. B. of both thy hands and tother colour upon C. D. of both thy hands, and than shall you take with A. of the right hand through D. C. B. of 〈…〉 t hand, the bow A. unreversed of the self hand and than high thy bows left, and the left bow so taken set upon D: left and after shalt thou take with A. left thorough D. C. B. right the bow A. right unreversed, and than hie thy right bows and set the self bow upon D. right, and than shall D. right change his bow with D. left and than reverse all thy bows and begin again. A lace Cheveron round. TAke eight bows, and do in the self manner, as afo re in the broad of eight bows but when D. right hath changed with D left, than shall A: right change with A. left, and that under all the other bows and begin again. A lace owned of sixteen bows. TAke sixteen bows of which eight be of one colour, and eight of another, and be all that one colour upon A: B. of both thy hands, and on both the hands of thy fellows, and that other colour upon C D. of both your hands, and than shall you change your over bows of your hinder hands, and than work in the self manner, as in the Cheveron broad of eight bows and begin again. A lace owned round. SEt your bows upon your hands as in the ownd broad, and work also in the self manner, save ye shall change here your over bows of your further hands, and begin again. A lace sawter of eight bows. TAke four bows of one colour, and four of another, and be that one colour upon A. B. of both thine hands, and that other colour upon C. D. of both thine hands, and than shall A. right take thorough B. D. of the left hand, the bow A of the self hand unreversed, and than high thy bows of the left hand, and than set the self bow taken upon D. left, and than shall A. left take through D C. of the right hand the bow A. right unreversed, and than hie the bows right, and than set the self bow taken upon D. right, and than D. right shall change his bow with D. left and than reverse all thy bows, and begin again as afore, till when the self colour be come again upon A. B. of both thy hands, and that shall be when thou hast done four scythes as is said afore, and than shall A. right take thorough his bow, and B. C: of the self hand, and than low thy bows right by▪ so that the bow taken devil upon A. and that was upon A. be set upon B. and than shall A. left take through his bow and B. C. of the left hand the bow D. unreversed of the self hand, and than low thy left bows so be that the bow taken devil upon A. and that that was upon A: be set upon B. and than shall D. right change his bow with D. left, and than reverse all thy bows, and begin again, till that the self colour be come again as afore upon A. B: of both thy hands, and that shall be when thou hast done other four scythes netherward, and other four scythes overward, changing among like as is aforesaid. A Lace Croisle. TAke eight bows of the which two be of one colour, and six of another, and be the sixth of one colour upon A. B. C. of both thy hands, and the other two upon D. of either hand, and than work in the self manner as in the Sawter, but when D. right hath changed his bow with D. left, than shall A. right change his bow with A. left, and that under all the other bows. A Lace Croise Vliet. TAke eight bows, six of one colour and two of another, and in the self manner set upon thy hands as in the croisle, work than in the self manner as in the Sawter, save that in the Sawter thou takest but four scythes thine over bows downward, and four scythes upward, and in this Lace thou shalt take thine over bows eight scythes downward, and thy lower bows eight scythes upward. A Lace double lozenge. TAke sixteen bows; eight of one colour and eight of another, and be all the bows set upon thine hands, and thy fellows as in the Lace Owned, and than work both in the self manner as in the Sawter, save that when D. right hath changed with D left his bow, than shall you change your over bows of your hinder hands and further hands, than reverse all your bows and begin again as afore: A Lace double croisle. TAke sixteen bows of the which eight be of one colour, and eight of another, and be they set upon your hands as in the Lace Ound, and than shall you work both as in the double lozenge, save that you shall not change the over bows of your further hands. A Lace uliet boss. TAke sixteen bows, of the which be eight black, four white, and four yellow, and be four black upon A B. of the right hand, and C. D. of thy left hand, and two white upon A. B. of thy left hand, and two yellow upon C. D. of thy right hand and be thy right hand according to thy fellows left hand, and his left hand to thy tied hand, and than work both in the self manner as in the Lace enlewed, you shall work six scythes with your hinder hands, and other six scythes with your further hands, and in this Lace you shall not work but four scythes with both your hands. A Lace uliet vine. TAke sixteen bows of such colour as in the Lace boss, and in the self manner set upon your hands, and than work in the self manner as in the Lace boss, save you shall change your over bows of your further hands: A Lace Vliet boss. OF two colours been two bows set in the stead of yellow, and than work in the self manner as in the Lace Uliet Vinee, and than shall you make uliet boss of two colours. A Lace Sawter Vliet. TAke sixteen bows, eight white, four purpure, and four read, and be the two upon A. B. of thy right hand, and two read upon D. C. of thy left hand, and four white upon A, B: left, and C. D. right, and the right hand of thy fellow be according to thy left hand, and his left hand according to thy right hand, and than work both in the self manner as is aforesaid, in the Croise Uliet, and when D. right hath changed with D. left, than shall you change your over bows of your next hands, and than reverse all your bows and begin again. The same Lace round▪ DO in the self manner as afore, and when you have changed your overbows of your hinder hands, you shall change your over bows of your further hands, and begin again as before. A Lace fret Vliet round. TAke sixteen bows of all such colours, and the self manner set on your hands as in the Lace Ound, and than work both as in the Sawter, save in that you take your over bows four scythes downward, and four scythes upward, and in this you shall take but twice downward, and twice upward, and after that the right D. hath changed his bow with A. left, than shall you change your over bows of your next hands and of your further hands also, and than shall you reverse all your bows and begin again. The same Lace fret and broad. DO in the self manner as afore, save that you shall not change your over bows of your further hands. A Lace crescent. TAke sixteen bows of all such colours as in the Owned Lace, and in the self manner set on your hands as in the Owned Lace, and than shall you work both as in the fret uliet broad, save in the fret one colour is always taken, and in this that one colour shall always be taken, till when you have changed your over bows of your hinder hands eight scythes and than shall that other colour be taken till that you have changed your over bows of your further hands other eight scythes, and than begin again. A Lace indented. TAke eight bows, four white, two red, and two black, and be the four white set upon A. B. C. D right, and the two read upon A. B. left and the two black upon C. D. left, and than shalt thou take D. right unreversed thorough A. B. C. D. left, and set it upon A. left, and than reverse all thy bows, and than shalt thou take C. right unreversed thorough. A. B. C. D. left and D. right and set it upon A. left and reverse all thy bows, and than shalt thou take B. right unreversed thorough, A. B. C. D. left and D. C. right and set it upon A left, and than reverse all thy bows and than shalt thou take A right thorough, A. B. C. D. left and D. C. B. right, and than reverse all thy bows, and than shalt thou work with thy right as thou didst with thy left hand, and so shall you do all the bows at every bow, taking of both thine hands, and on this manner shall you take first of the left hand and than of the right hand the bow D. through A. B. C. D. and than with the self hand the bow C. through A. B. C. D. and D. right, and than B. thorough, A. B. C. D. and D. C. right, and than A. thorough, A. B. C. D. and D. C. B. right, and so take thy bows till thou hast so done. A Lace green de orgee. TAke four bows of one colourset upon B. C. right and B. C. left, and a bow, of another colour upon D. right, and a bow black upon A. left, and take with A. right through B. C. right the bow C. left reversed, and than low thy bows B. left, and than with B. left with C. left take the bow C. right reversed, and than A. left shall change with D. right. The same double with twelve bows. TAke either of you six bows of divers colours, and set upon your hands as aforesaid in the lace g●ive and than do both as is aforesaid once, and than shall you set your overmost bows of your next hands upon your further hands, and than shall ye change the bows that than are overmost upon the hands next, and than shall you take again your bows that you set upon your further hands, and than begin again. A Lace vice of three colours. TAke six bows white, and four black, and two bows departed, that one side black, and the other yellow, than set three white upon B. C. D. right and two black upon B. D. left and one bow departed upon▪ C. left, and also do thy fellow, save that thy left hand shall be like to his right hand, and his left hand to thy right hand, and than reverse thy bows right and take with A. right through B. C. D. right the bow D. left and also do thy fellow and afterwards low both your bows left and take than with B. left his bow A. right, and he shall take with B. left thy bow A. right, and look that it be under all the bows, and than begin again, and this lace shall be a vice when you have made a coupen this manner work, than with your left hand, as you did with your right, till when you have another coupen and than shall you have a fair vice. A Lace that is called Vinee. TAke eight bows tow bows of one colour that be set upon A. B. of the left hand, and six of another colour of the which two be set upon D. C. left and four upon A. B. C. D. right, and than shall you take thorough A. B. C. D. left, and D. C. B. right, the bow A. right unreversed, and than hie thy bows of thy right hand, and than shall D. of thy right hand take the bow D. left unreversed, and than low thy bows left, so that the bow that that was taken through tother devil upon A. and that that that was before upon A. be upon B. of of the left hand and than reverse all thy bows and begin again till that two bows of one colour be upon A. B. right, and than work in the self manner with thy right as is aforesaid, till that two bows of one colour be come again on thy left hand, and than begin again: A Lace cheveron broad of sixteen bows. TAke eight bows half of one colour, and eight half of another colour that be departed, and eight half of another third colour, set than the eight bows of one colour upon A. B. right and left of thee and of thy fellow, and the eighth of that other colour upon C. D. right and left of thee and thy fellow, and be your hinder hands of the self colour beneath, take than with a right thorough all the bows of the self hands the bow D left, and than bow thy bows left. Take than with A. left through all the bows of the self hand, the bow D. right and than low thy right bows by, so the bow A. that is more without be set upon B. and that other shall devil upon A. and also do thy fellow, and than shall ye change your bows A. of the next hands, and than begin again, and in this manner do ye till it be full wrought, but look always that D. in the taking be reversed and this lace shall be a cheveron with a border on both half and also rayed. The same Lace Compound. WHen you have made one good cowpen, reverse all your bows and work as afore, till you have made another cowpen, and than reverse again all your bows, and begin again: Explicit Da. Eliz. Screne. An Order how to breed Horses. The choice of your Stallion and Studd Mares. FIrst and principally you must force, that your Stallion and Studde Mares be both of good and lively nature, and not subject to any natural diseases. For as heavy horses and Mares will breed Colts of roilish and heavy nature, so if they be infected with any natural disease, their Colts for the most part shall be troubled with the same disease. Wild Mares be not best to keep for the Race. IT shall be well done that you handle all your Studd Mares● and make them tame, and easy, whereby besides the commodity you may have of their work which cannot hurt their tameing if they be soberly handled, you may be sure at all times to remove them from one Pasture to another, to bring them to be covered, and to take their Colts from them without great trouble, whereas wild Mares be not only cumbersome to keep but also often times do destroy the Coults in their bellies with their rashness when you should handle them or any of their fellows. At what age your Mare is first to be handled and covered. THe best age to take up your Mare to make her tame, and to break her, is, when she shall be two years old, and the vantage, and so you may the year following, when she shall be fully three years old, and upward put her to your horse to be covered, which in my opinion is the best age to put her first to the Horse. Although some Writers be of opinion, that it is best that she be first covered at two year old. How to enforce your Mares to come to be strained. YOu may most conveniently bring her to be covered of your Stallion, if four or five days before you will bring her to your great Horse, you cause to be put to her in some close Pasture kept and fenced for that purpose, some small stoned Nag to woe he● that she may abide your great horse, foreseeing that he be in no wise unfettered longer than some diligent man doth look on, for if the Nag be at liberty at any time after she is disposed to take the horse, she will be sure to be covered of him, though he be lower than she by a cubite. The Order of covering. When you do perceive that your Mare will abide the Nag, and doth show other tokens that she is desirous to be covered, you must 'cause your great horse that shall cover her to be provendred, and not to drink much the night before he shall cover her. Than in the morning following at the Sun rising, you may bring him to your Mare, or her to him in some such place, as neither of them can leap out of, where when he hath covered her twice or thrice, let him remain feeding on Grass with her Colt kept by her without water, but let your horse be taken up, well rubbed and well provendred to the next evening. And than put him to your Mare again where you left her, and let him cover her as often as he will that night except you see your horse chafe so much that he will mar himself. How to use your Mare whic his covered. ANd so must you of force be driven to take him from her the second time till the morning following, at which time, (except your Mare be satisfied with that which was done before) you must put to your horse the third time, and when he hath covered her as often as he will, between four of the clock in morning and eight of the clock before noon, take up your horse, and let your Mare be led into some water, to the myddside at the lest, where she may drink water, but not too much, and than let her be led and turned to the hole studd, where no other horses must come f●● a whole Mon●th at the lest to bea● her. How to make that no Mare shall go barren. ANd when you have thus severally caused to be covered all your Mares, you must about Lammas in the month of July, or beginning of August, get a Mare or two which have not been covered that year before, and enforcing them to be horsed by such means as before appointed when they shall be ready to be covered, you must turn them with some other stallion, whom you esteem not as your best horse amongst your studd of Mares, and so he covering that Mare or Mares, you turned in with him unto the studd, shall 'cause the rest (if any of them have not conceived at their first covering) to come to that horse again, whereby you shall be sure to keep no Mare barren all the year, but to have of every Mare a Colt, though not by your best horse, you may suffer that horse to run amongst your Mares, three weeks or a month. But if you turn him into your studd putting no Mare in with him ready to be covered, he will at his first entry beaten all your Mares, and so happily hurt all your Mares which had conceived before, and so do more hurt than good. What time of the year is best for your Mares to be covered. THe best time of the year to have your Mare covered, is, from the end of May to the end of July, and than shall your Mare, which always goes with foal one year lacking a month Foal in such time of the year as she shall found plenty of grass to nourish herself and her Colt withal. Whereas if you suffer her to be covered in February, March or April, she will foals so rather in the year, that often times being bore and not covered of the Winter past, she doth hunger both herself and mar her Colt for lack of feeding. To Diet your Stand for the time he shall cover. HEre is to be noted that although your stalland standing ●t hard meat will not miss to get a Colt on your Mare going to Grass (if she be ordered and enforced as before) yet the best dyet for him for the whole time he shall cover is to feed on grass when he hath tasted of the grass with them, he will like his Hay the worse, and also there is more danger in breaking of his wind in feeding rather on Hay than Grass. How your breeding Mare is to be used when she shall Foal. YOur breeding Mare that hath a Colt in her belly must fourteen or fifteen days before she Foal be taken from the stud, and with some other gentle Mare or gelding be put in some other rank pasture well fenced for that purpose, which will not only make her Lusty, and soon ready to be covered, and able to Foal without danger, but also give plenty of Milk to her Colt when he is first Foaled. How many years a horse will serve to cover your Mares. YOur Stallion used as is before will serve for six or seven years to cover every year seven or eight Mares, and do you service the rest of the year besides, whereas turned abroad to your Mares, he can do you no other service, neither will he last above three years. The best age for horse or Mares to get or bear Colts, and how many years they will continued good. THe best age for Horse or Mare to get or bear Colts, is for the Mare from three years old till ten. And for the horse, from four or five years ●ill twelve, and after that age the Colts of them wax heavy, weak and slothful: What time of the year is best to wean the Colts from their Dams. THe best time of the year to wean your Colts is at Candlemas or shrovetide, after the time as your Colt is Foaled wherein you must use much diligence, for if your Colt be not well weaned, well Summered, and well Wintered, the three first years, and namely the first year when he moaneth for his dame, he shall seldom or never come to a good horse. And therefore when you wean your Colt, you must bring them to some house ordained for the same purpose, clean out of the hearing of their Dams, wherein they must be pinned and not to come abroad the first fourteen days out of the hearing of their dams whereunto you must have pasture adjoining wherein they may play, and feed every fair day after the fourteen days passed from the time ye begin to wean them till grass be fully sprung in May, and put them into some such pasture, as commonly your Milk-cows be fed in, where they may neither feeding in high and rank grass hurt their Reinss, or grow thick-necked, nor for lack of feeding hinder their growth, but feed in a short sweet grass may prove well till they have forgotten their dams. What feeding is best for Colts, from two years old upward. THis is a general ground, that we lying and lack of feeding in the winter, and old rank feeding in summer from two years old forwards doth mar the more part of our whole breed in England, which in my opinion well ordered would breed the best horses for all kind of service, of the whole earth, for as wet lying and lack of good feeding in the winter, doth breed a heartless ill shapen horse subject to all cold and water diseases both in his body and limbs, so over rank feeding in the Summer chief from two years old upward doth breed an evil rained, and a slothful horse, ever ready (being over laden with fat flesh to be more▪ found and to catch the glanders and cough upon every cold. And therefore your best feeding of your horse Colts, from two years old upward, for the summer feeding is where he may have a large walk, and hungry short feeding, and not yet so bore but that he may, (travelling for it) feed himself full once in a day, and that he hinder not himself of his growing, but in any wise keep your horse colts for knowing any Mare till they be five years old. Why Englishhorses be taken up so young, are not good. THe cause why our English horse be taken up so young as I have heard of sundry of our chief hors-masters say, is for that our horse being great and well fed, if they should run, till they should come to their full strength, would be so sturdy and mischievous to break, that they would rather mischeive themselves, and their breaker than to to be made tame, which in m● fancy is but a vain opinion. For there was never so sturdy, nor so wilful a horse, which would not be tame, and easy to handle with watch and hunger, within one month at the furthest, if his Keeper will use diligence. The way to handle a sturdy Horse. ANd that may most conveniently be brought to pass if at the first coming into the house before he will suffer his Keeper to handle him, and to take up his feet, he do put no meat before him, but let him take all his feeding at his Keeper's hands, and so shall you make him gentle and tame without stripes or striving, and the order before appointed in his breaking being the Colt of a tame Mare, and feed some part of every winter at hand in the house will acquaint him with the man, and make him almost tame before he be taken up, which Colt shall seldom prove a fearful o● a blenching horse. The using of horse after they be handled. ANd for Conclusion whosoever doth use to keep his horse bridled after riding till he ●e in good temper, and almost cold, and doth not give him water nor meat, being hot, neither doth ●ide him fast upon a full stomach shall seldom or never have his horse lame or sick if he breed him as is aforesaid, before he take him up. What feeding is best in Winter for Mares, Weanlings, and two years old. AND for the winter feeding you must use one order for your Mares, and weanlings two years old in several places, which is a hovel or house made for them adjoining to your winter pasture, wherein you must sometime in the evil weather, in a rack made for that purpose, give them some fodder, and be sure that they be brought into that house every night that is like to prove wet, but in the frosty days and nights, it is best to pin them abroad, You must in any wise keep one pasture nigh to the house that you feed your mare Colts in the winter time, which pasture may not be fed in before Shrovetyde, because that time and the middle of May, (before which grasle is not sufficiently sprung in most places for horses to feed on) is the most time of danger to hunger bane of all the year, in which time, if your colts growing all the summer following, will make your colt mares so bore that they shall not be able to foal, nor give their colts suffi●ientl suck. At what age Colts may best be handled. WHen your Horse-colt hath been bred as is afore appointed, the best age in my opinion to take him up to break, is when he shall be full four years old and the vantage, or if you may spare him and have good close ground to keep him in, rather at five years old and the vantage, for than will his joints and sinews be strong, and well knit, his hoof ever tough, and not brittle, his eyesight good, his chin strong, so that you cannot hurt him, neither in breaking nor in reasonable riding, besides he will last a good Horse till he be 24: or 25. year old, whereas if you will take him up at two or three years old, as we commonly do, you shall found him afterwards▪ many times blind, brittle hoofed, weak backed, full of windgales and splints, and show himself to be an old stiff Horse, before he come to be ten years old, as the most part of their Spanish Horse do, because they are taken up so young; which is, because that in Spain they have no good close ground to let their Colts run longer in, and not for any other Commodity. To make a Lenton Jelly. TAke the skin of a well grown Tench when it is boiled, take the Fish and Scales as clear from it as you can, than take a pint of White wine, half a pint of fair water, boil them together to the half, put in half a pound of Sugar, one quarter of an ounce of Cinnamon▪ a race of Ginger sliced, one quarter of a pint of Rosewater, let it boil on a soft fire altogether, but not too long, lest it be read. To make a Lenton Custard. TAke the spawn of a Tench and wash it in many waters, and lay it all night in some quantity of Rosewater, than take one pound of Almonds, and beaten them a little before you put the spawn to it, and than grinned it very fine, than take a pint and a half of fair water, with some whole Mace, boil them in it and so strain them. For your colouring take a little Saffron, season them with Rosewater and Sugar as yourself please. It may be baked in an Oven, or on a pot of water, whether you william. Mr. Birch. To dry Damsons, or any other Plumms. FIrst pair your Damsons or Plums very thin, and as you pair them put them into cold water, than when you have pared them make new water scalding hot, and put your Plumms into the water and so let them scald without boiling until they be tender, and whilst they be scalding turn in the water with a silver spoon, or with a clean wooden Ladle, than take them forth and put them in fair cold water again, in the mean time make ready your syrup with clarified Sugar and Rosewater, according to the quantity of your Plumms, put your Plumms into that syrup, and so let them boil to a good height as if you would preserve them, than put them into some clean Vessel, and let them stand so four and twenty hours, the next day make some new syrup with clarified Sugar and Rosewater, and dry them again to a full height, to dry or candy, take them forth and lay them on a clean board, and cast some fine Sugar through a fine Lawn upon them, and so put them in a Stove to dry. Your Peach and Apricot must thus be done, but one syrup will suffice and not boiled for fear of breaking. Mr. Birch. To preserve read Roses whole after Mrs. Goodrouse manner which he calleth Conserve of read Roses whole. TAke read Rose leaves or buds with the white part being cut of, one pound, boil them in a quart of Conduit water until they be somewhat tender, which will be by that time all the water is almost consumed, than take them of the fire and set them by, until you have made your syrup; Than for every pound of Roses you must take three pound of Sugar, beaten it into powder and dissolve it with a little Conduit water, and when it is well dissolved and beginneth to boil, put into it your Rose leaves, together with the water wherein they were boiled, if there remain any, which must be very little, and than let them boil in their syrup until that all the syrup be almost wasted, and that it becometh like a Conserve, than take it of the fire, and when it is cold, add to it the juice of two or three Lemons, which will make it have a most orient colour, surpassing all that ever you saw, than put it in a galley pot or glass. Your Roses must be but half beaten, than have your syrup made and boiled to a full height, and than mix them together and put them up in your pots. Mr. Birch. To preserve the Walnut in syrup. TAke and gather your Nuts in the month of July, in the beginning of the month, pair them very thin, and bore them with a bodkin of wood, quite through every way, that is, through the midst and through each end, so done, throw them into fair water, and so let them lie the space of seven or eight days, shifting the water every day once, this done, take them forth and let them be boiled in fair water till they be tender, than take them forth of the water, and lay them on a searce to drip and to dry for two hours, than take Cinnamon cut it in small pieces and Cloves, and stick them into the holes which before you made, so done, make your syrup to the height of a thin syrup, and put your Nuts into the same syrup, and let them boil one quarter of an hour, than skim them and take them from the fire, and let them stand till they be almost cold, and than put them up, and let them stand two or three weeks, than boil them again to the full height of a syrup, and so keep them to use Lettuce roots, first pair them, than boil them until they be tender, than put them in Sugar as you know, let them lie in their syrup until they candy, after dry them. Mr. Birch. To candy Eringus. TAke of your roots new gathered, and clean washed from the sand, four pound, than set on your water in a clean Vessel so as you will cover your roots, and when the water is boiling put in the root and colour the same, let them boil until your root be ●ender, than take out the pith and pill them, lay them upon a haring searce until the water be drained away, and the root dry, than take six pound of fine Sugar, beaten it in a mortar and put it in your pan, with two pints of fair Rose-water, and stir it throughly with a rod of dried birch, or such like, than have in readiness the Whites of four Eggs well beaten, and mixed with Rosewater, still well wrought with the rod, and when the Sugar is dissolved, than put in your Whites, than labour it again with the rod upon a soft fire, let it boil until it be clean, strain it through a wooden strainer, and than boil it, in the boiling put in your roots, and take them of and scum them, set it on again to boil, and often in the boiling take them of, to the end they may take in the syrup the better, when they be boiled enough take them of and set them by, being clean scummed until they be almost cold, than put them in your pots, and after a while take them out and dry them, if they stand in some warm place, it is the better three days together, if they be candyed, dissolve them, setting the pot in warm water, and lay them on clean boards, and dry them in a Stove without smoke. Mr. Birch. To preserve the Pippin, Pear, or Warden dry, as followeth. FIrst take the clearest Pippins you can get, pair them and coat them very clean, either in halves or whole, than take so much fair water as will suffice to make them, and set it on the fire, until they be ready to boil, so done, put in your fruit, and let it boil a little space, than take them of from the fire, and let them stand close covered till they be very soft, than when you feel them soft, take them out of the hot liquor and put them in cold, and than let them lie for half an hour, than take them out, and let them lie two or three hours upon a searce to dry, so done, take for the weight of your fruit so much Sugar or more, and with a quantity of Rosewater dissolve your Sugar to one pound, half a pint of Rosewater, with a little fair water, and with the White of an Egg clarify your Sugar and strain it, so done, set it over the fire again, and let it boil until it be come to a perfect height, which is, when it will a little cleave between your fingers & thumb, than presently put in your fruit, and let it boil a little space, than take it of and let it stand half a quarter of an hour, than set it on the fire again, and let them boil till such time as you found your syrup so thick that it will roap betwixt your fingers, than take them from the fire, and let them stand as long as before, than take them forth, and lay them one by one upon a searce to drip the space of two hours, setting a thing under it to receive the syrup, so lay them on boards to dry. Mr. Birch. To preserve Quinces. FIrst when you gather your Quinces, you must gather such as be yellow all over, and the smooth and flat Quince in the crown is the best. First, coat your Quince and than pair it. To preserve six pound of Quinces, take six pounds of Sugar, whereof one pound of Musk-sugar, two pints of Damask Rosewater, put your Sugar into the water, and put in your Quinces, the water being cold, set it on the fire and let it seethe till you may scum it, and make them boil as fast as you can, remember to scum it as often as any scum ariseth, and take heed as near as yond can that the Quinces lie either the top or stalk downward, and not to lie on the side, and be always pouring your syrup upon them, and take them of a little before they be sodden, and look that they be well and clean skummed, you shall know when they be well sodden, in taking of the syrup and let it drop upon a Saucer, and it will jelly if they be sodden enough, and than put them in galley pots. In this like manner you may preserve all kind of stone fruit, provided to put to three pound of Sugar, but half a pint of water, because they be moister. Mistress Clere. To make Syrup of Mallows. TAke a gallon of water, and put into it the roots of Marsh-mallows, to the quantity of two ounces, of such Pease two ounces, of the roots of Asparagus two ounces, of green and clear Licorace two ounces, of Raisins of the Sun and of Scabious half a handful of each, the stones being taken out, the tops and flowers of Marsh-mallows half a handful, Pellitory of the Wall, Pimpernell, Adianthum of both kinds, and a Grass which you must buy at the Apothecaries, of either of them half a handful, of Aniseed half an ounce, of Fennel-roots two ounces, the pith being taken out, the four great cold seeds, the four lesle cold seeds, of either of these half an ounce, and boil all these to the one half, and strain it through a thick strainer, and take the clearest of it and put it in pan, and put to it four pound of Sugar, and boil it to the height of a syrup, and than put it up in a galley pot, and use it at your pleasure, The four great cold seeds be these, Citrons. Million. Cucumbers. Gourds. The four lesle cold seeds be these. Suckory. Endive. Lettuce. Purslane. The making of the Syrup of the five opening Roots. TAke the roots of Apium, otherwise called Smallage, Fenell, Parsley, Ruscus, Asparagus, of each of them four ounces, Setwell, Galingale, Pyony roots, of each one ounce, Fennell, Anniseeds, of each one ounce and a half, broken Cinnamon two ounces, Mace one ounce, read Sanders six drams, running water about six pints, Sugar three pound, and so seethe them to a syrup, you may make as much and as little as you please. Provided that you must strain them through a thick cloth before you put in your Sugar. Dr. Martin. Dr. Walker. Dr. Atteslow. To make Syrup of Apples after the Prescription of the foresaid Doctors. TAke the juice of sweet Apples one pint, and of eager and somewhat sharp, and seeth Apples one pint, the juice of Fumitory half a pint, and seethe all these together, and clarify it with the White of an Egg, than strain it and take the clearest, and put to it three pound of Sugar, and seethe it until it come to the height of a syrup, and so put it up in your galley pot, and when you will use it, take two ounces of the syrup of the opening roots, and one ounce of the syrup of the apples, and drink it in a morning with a thin Broth, or Rennish-wine, three mornings together fasting upon it. Use this when you feel yourself oppressed with the melancholy of the Spleen. The Receipt of the Broth for the Stone, by Do ctor Mathias. TAke a young Cock, a knuckle of Veal, boil them in a good quantity of fair water, putting thereto of French-barley a good handful, the roots of Parsley, Fennel, Succory, Sorrel, and Bruscus called Kneeholm, of either of them one ounce, of the four cold seeds two ounces, boil all these a good while together, than being half boiled put in these herbs, Mallows, Violet leaves, Sorrel, and Lettuce of either one handful, boil all these together until it be well boiled, than strain it. Take of this Broth six ounces, the juice of one Lemon, and four spoonfuls of the syrup of Marsh-mallows, written in the next page before. Mr. Birch. To make Orange Cakes. TAke your Oranges and pill them very thin, and take out all the meat, and lay the pills in water two days and one night, shifting them three times in a day, & in the mean time take the meat of the Oranges, all the Kernels being clean picked out, and the white skins, and boil it high with Sugar until it be ready to candy, and than put it up till you shall occupy it: And than take the pills that be in the water, and put them in fair water, and than boil them until they be tender, shifting of them with warm water till the bitterness be gon●, than take them out of the water, and let them drain all the water out of them, than take a few Almonds and beaten them with a little Sugar very small, and so beaten the Oranges with them, and they must not taste too much of the Almonds, than take them out and work it with seared Sugar like past, and so print it with your Moulds, and lay some of the meat of your Oranges between two of your Cakes, and so let them be dried in a Stove, or in an Oven with a soft fire. To make Biscuit bread. TAke a pound of flour, and a pound of Sugar beaten, and mingle them together with the Yolks of six Eggs, and the Whites of three Eggs, and Aniseed, Corianderseed, and Caraways, of all these half an ounce, and a little Rosewater, to the quantity of half a quarter of half a pint, you must labour all these together with a wooden Ladle, till it be mingled like thick water, and the more you labour it the whiter it will be, and anoint your Coffins or plates with a little melted butter, and so fill it no● to full for running over, and so set them into the Oven, and your Oven must be no hotter than to bake a Tart, and they must have as much soaking as Manchet, and than take them out, and cut them thin with a knife in slices and lay them on a sheet of paper, and than put them into the oven to dry till they be hard like Biscuit bread. To make Almond Butter. TAke two pound of Almonds and blanche them, and grind them in a stone Morter very fine with clear water, and strain them through a thick cloth with a good deal of water, and set them upon the fire, and let it seethe till it begin to gather somewhat thick, you must have some of the thinnest thereof in a chaffer by itself, which must be boiled with white violets, one handful well picked, and ten maces beaten, with half a Nutmeg, and a race of ginger grated, when this is boiled well that it have good taste of the spice and flowers, than strain it into the other, and so let them both boil together till it begin to grow somewhat thick, than put to it the juice of a Lemon, or two Oranges or one good mess of verjuice to make it quail, than when it is fully quailed, ●ast it as thin as you can upon a fair cupboard cloth, and as softly as you can that the water may draigne away, and so shifted it into a dry cloth, and let it hung all night, and when it is stiff which will be the next day, season it up with Sugar, Rosewater, and a little Saffron, and so dish it to the board. To bake beef like read Deer to be eaten cold. TAke a buttock of beef, cut it long wise with the grain, beaten it well with a rolling pin, and than broil it upon the coals a little, and after it is cold, draw it through with Lard, than lay it in sauce, in White wine Vinegar, Pepper, Salt, Cloves and Mace, Bay leaves, let it lie three or four days, than bake it in thick Rye past, and when 'tis cold fill it up with butter, after a fortnight it will be fit to eat. To marinate Fish. TAke the fish you would marinate, viz. Mullet, Basse, Turbet Sole, Bream; etc. draw it and dry it, that it may be fit to fry, which is to be done in Oil either of Zant or Florence, which must be excellent good, and sweet, put your oil in a clean frying pan, and after it boyles in the pan a little, put in the fish, and fry it so as it will come from the bone, than take it out, lay it so as the Oil may run from it, than make your pickle, which must be of White-wine Vinegar, Pepper, cut no● beaten, Mace, Salt, Bay-leaves, and Saffron, these being boiled and cold, and the fried Fish likewise cold,, place your Fish in a little Runlet or Tonikin, strowing to every layer some of the spice, and Bay leaves with some slit Lemon, close up the head, and make it tied, and pour the pickle in at the bung, in three weeks or a month, it will be fit to eat. Boil the heads of the Fish (which are not fit to keep) in your pickle and it will be the stronger. Angel water. A quart of Rain-water, a pint of White-wine, two wet or dry cod of the Musk Cat, of the best Benjamin and Storax two ounces, a piece of Ambergreese, of four. five, or six grains, boil all together in an earthen pipkin softly, till a third part be wasted, and better. A little Gum-dragon, Benjamin, and Storax beaten together, make up Pastils with the bottom of the Angel water to burn in Chambers. One dozen of the little clothes. TAke half an ounce of Spermaceti, half an ounce of Oil of Benus, half an ounce of Oil of Almonds, a spoonful of Rosewater, two spoonfuls of flower of Rice curiously finely beaten first in a silver Porringer by some, and some, melt alike quantity of all the three Oils on a Chaffin-dish of Coals, a like quantity of the powder of Rice, as of the Spermaceti a little Rosewater, the clothes very fine washed, even and smooth, lay them on a fine little board in your lap, and with a bone-knife spread of these Ingredients, work them very hard with a great deal of labour, what is superfluous, take of the Cloth put it back to the Porringer to new melt. A Custard. TAke a quart of good Cream, the yolks of half a dozen Eggs, the crumb of a Manchet, shred Dates, Currants washed and picked, a little Muskadel and Rose-water. To brew Ale. TAke 32 pecks of Malt, take as much Riverwater as will mash this Malt being first boiled, and let it stand three hours in a wooden Vessel, than take up the Penstaff, and let it run into a Vessel, than remove it into a large Vessel, and put in a quarter of a pound of Hops, than put in more water boiled out of the Furnace, as you may gather thirty or forty gallons as you please to have it smaller or stronger, than take this and put it into the Furnace, and let it boil a full hour, than take it up and strain it, and put it into Coolers, when 'tis almost cold put in some yeast, and let it work four and twenty hours, than put it up into Vessels, at a fortnight old you may drink it, if the Vessel be small it may be drunk the sooner. To make Mustard. TAke good quick Mustardseed, and dry it by the fire, pick it clean, and beaten it in a Mortar, but not too fine, sift out the husk● put it into a Basin, and beaten it with strong stolen beer▪ and three spoonfuls of Wine-vinegar, let it be beaten an hour, put a little Salt and some Sugar into it, put it into a pot, and stop it close, at a week old, you may use it, it will last a Month if it be well stopped. A Receipt to prepare the Suet. TAke strong sweet Sack, and warm a little of it over the fire, and with a soft rag dip therein, pat and bathe your face all over therewith for a quarter of an hour, not rubbing your face but only patting and bathing it, and than let it dry of itself on the face. Than take of the prepared Suet scraped or sliced of the lump, with a bony Knife, and work it well with the Knife in the palm of your hand, until it be soft and well tempered, and lay it on your face all over with a soft linen rag, not touching your face with your hand or fingers in the doing thereof. TAke a Cawl of Mutton as it comes hot out of the Sheep, cast it into water, and wash it in divers waters, take away all the bloody veins, and so let it lie four days, shifting it twice a day, than lay it in new milk warm from the Cow three or four days, shifting it as before, than wring out the milk very dry, and lay it in Damask Rosewater for four hours, than beaten it out of this water in a cloth again, and pull it in little pieces; take half a peck of Marsh-mallow roots, pill of the brown skin, and take the white from the pith, and take a white Lily root, and wash it very clean, and pill of the skin, shred this root with the others, and mingle them with your Suet, put them into a stone Pitcher, tied up very close, set it in a pot of water, which you must keep boiling for four hours, than strain it out, the next day melt it again, and keep it for your use. Than put a chin▪ stay of soft fine Leather on your chin, as also a frontlet of the same Leather on your forehead, lying so all night, keeping your face warm, in the morning take of the Frontlet, and wipe the Suet of gently with a fine cloth, always being careful not to touch your face as before, and all the day after be sure to keep your face as hot as you can, by continually wearing your Mask, or as often as you may, and at no time suffer your face long in the cold or open air. To make an Olave Pye. SLice part of a leg of Veal thin, as for Scots Collips, bark it, and spread it in a dish, mince some Beef-suet very small, three or sour yolks of hard Eggs minced small, some sweet herbs shred very small, Currants, season these with Salt, Nutmeg, and the pill of an Orange finely minced, work it altogether with the yolks of three or four new-layd Eggs, and a little Sugar, than make it up in balls as big as Eggs, laping in the midst of the balls, two or three Raisins of the Sun, than put them into a Pie, and cover it over with plates of sweet butter, when it is half baked, take half a pint of Verjuice and a little Sugar, boil it over the fire, and put it hot into the Pie, than put it into the Oven again, and let it stand the other half hour and somewhat more will bake it. To make a French Pye. TAke the fleshy part of a leg of Veal, parboil it, and mince it very▪ small, and as much Beef-Suet almost as the Veal, to be like wise minced exceeding fine, as many Currants as half the proportion of the Suet, and make it up as you do a minced Pie, the yolks of six eggs boiled heard, and minced small, mix all these together, and season it with Salt, Nutmeg, and Ginger, than work it up with the yolks of six raw Eggs, which some Verjuice and Sugar and on the top put the yolks of three hard Eggs whole, some Marrow, and a little Lemon sliced, the Pie must be round. To make Puffs. TAke a pint of Cheese Curds, drain them dry, bruise them small with your hand, and put in two handfuls of flour, a little Sugar, three or four yolks of Eggs, a little Nutmeg, and Salt, mingle those together, and make them in little lumps like Eggs, fry them in fresh butter, serve them up with a little fresh butter and Sugar: To beautify and adorn the Face. AT night when you go to bed anoint the Face with this ensuing Ointment. Take the fat of a Lo●n of Veal, put it into a Pipkin, or gal'y pot, with a few Cloves, and Rosemary to give it a good scent, put the Pipkin into a Skillet or Cauldron of boiling water, and let it continued therein over the fire until it all be dissolved, than strain it through a cloth, and beaten it with Plantain water, and read Rose water and it will look very white. Mistress Hagger. Adidem. In the morning following wash your face with this water. TAke bitter Almonds and blanche them, than pound them, than strain it, and after that beaten with it Plantain water, and Rose water, and the white of an Egg, and the juice of a Lemon or two must be beaten into it, and so reserve it for your use as aforesaid. Mistress Hagger. TAke a quart of distilled Vinegar, or spirit of Vinegar, infuse in it sorde Pearl, or ragged Pearl, or instead of Pearl, the pearly part of the Oystershell, so much as the Vinegar will consume, and so let it stand until it hath consumed what quantity you will use, than pour it gently of, and put in some filtered water, and shake it up and down, and set it down again and let it settle, and than set it upon gentle Emberss, and let it vapour away, and keep the powder, and when you use it, put a little sack to it, and with your finger lay it on with a fine little cloth put filtered water as you see cause, pour it not of too near. A Perfume. FIrst wash your Leather in cold water three or four times, than steep it in Rosewater a while, and after crush out the water, and hung it up till it be almost dry, but still rub it, or stretch it to keep it from growing hard, than hung it over a Chaffin-dish of coals, with a Cover-lid over it to keep in the smoke, putting in sweet passed eight or nine times under, than wrap it up in foam piece of Silk close to keep it from the air, where it must lie one whole day and a night, and than when you have rubbed and smoothed them, they are ready for the perfume. TAke Gumdragon, and lay it in steep one night in Rose-water, than put your Musk into a Mortar, and having beaten it a little, take so much Gum and Rosewater as will make it like a syrup, or of half an onnce of Musk make almost a pint, than empty the Mortar and heat it hot, and than put in your Amber, and beaten it till it be melted, than put in a spoonful of oil of Jasemine, than put in your Civet, and stir it well together with the juice of half a Lemon, and two little pieces of the Pill, than put in the Musk again, and set it on the fire still stirring it, and when 'tis ho● work it into the Leather. Another Perfume: FIrst wet your Leather in cold water three or four times, than steep it in Damask Rosewater a while, than crush out that water, and hung it up till it be almost dry, but not in the Sun▪ for it will extract the scent of the water from the Leather, and still rub it, or stretch it to keep it from growing hard, than hung it over a Chaffin-dish of Coals, with a dried skin over it to keep in the smoke, putting in sweet passed eight or nine times under, than wrap it up in some piece of Silk close to keep it from the air, where it must lie one whole day and night, and than when you have rubbed and smoothed them, they will receive the perfume strongly. Another. Take Rosewater, and infuse a quantity of Gum-dragon with Musk, a little stamped in a Mortar, till they be incorporate like to a Syrup, you may make half a pint, with half an ounce of Musk, when it is hot, put in beaten Amber, and let it melt, than put in of the Oil of Jasemine one spoonful, and mix your Civet with it, and the juice of half a Lemon, and a little of the Pill of it let your Musk be good, set it on the fire, and stir it about when it is hot, let it be worked into the Leather. Probatum. Certain very good Perfumes. King HENRY'S Perfume. TAke a quarter of an ounce of Fussis, and two penny weight of good Cloves, and let them be a little bruised, than take the weight of a penny of the rind of a Lemond in powder, and six spoonfuls of good Damask Rosewater and old, and four spoonfuls of fair clean water, and let all these boil together in a perfume Pan, with the quantity of a Hasell Nut of Sugar. King Edward's Perfume. TAke eight spoonfuls of perfect old read Rose-water, three grains of Civet, four grains of Ambergreese, put all these in a little Vial together, and shake them in the Glass, and put it into a perfume Pan, and let it distil softly in hot Emberss. The French Queen's Perfume. TO take away the gross Airs, first, take Chips of good Cypress, and burn them in the house, the Doors and Windows being shut, than take six spoonfuls of perfect Rose-water, and put it into your Perfume Pan, take as much white Sugar-candy as weigheth a penny, and let it boil softly on hot Emberss. Another fine perfume. TAke of Benjamin, of Storax Calimint ana three drams powdered together, and dissolved in Rosewater, beaten them with thefourth part of Lignum aloes, and half an ounce of white Sanders, and being dry, incorporate them altogether with Gum dragagantum dissolved in Rosewater, and occupy this paste for perfume. Another other Perfume. DIssolve Gum tragacanth in Rosewater, than make these things ●n powder, Labdanum one dram, Storax, Calamit● one dram, Benjamine one dram, Lignum aloes a quarter of an ounce, Coals of Willow or of the Vine two ounces, beaten them all to powder, and knead it with the same Gum, and thereof make balls or cakes, and dry them in the Sun. Another Perfume. FIll you pan half full, or a little more, with pure Rosewater, and put therein half an ounce of Cloves bruised, and two or three Bay-leaves cut in small pieces, and than fill it up with good Vinegar Roset, and let it boil▪ and ever as it wasteth fill it up with common water. A Perfume called Amber passed. TAke Storax calamint two ounces, Yreos of Florence an ounce and a half, two Nutmegs with a little musk powder. Than incorporate them all with gume Dragagante, dissolved in Rose water and make little cakes of them. Perfume for a Chamber. TAke Benjamin an ounce, Time half a quarter of an ounce▪ Storax calamitae half an ounce, and a little lignum Aloes, a little Sanders cyterne, and six read Roses with gum Dragagante, and so mix them all together on a stone make them in little Cakes as ye will, and so lay them in hot ashes. All manner of Herbs good for Perfumes. SWeet Basill dried in Summer, cut small and kept in bags with Violets, the green being cut of. Than take the buds of Red-Roses the white being cut of, these three being mingled together with white Sugar and Rose-Water do make an excellent perfume. Bay-leaves green, are good tempered with Rose water and Vinegar for the head, and the leaves of walnuts being young with Rose-water. And young read mynts are very good dried. A sweet perfume to burn. TAke Storax, calamint and Benjamin of each half an ounce Labdanum one ounce, Musk two grains, and put them together in a fair brass mortar, which you must first warm so hot in the Fire, that with the heat thereof, and beating with a little pestle it may work like wax, which being throughly wrought you may make it in little cakes or balls, and so lay it up. Perfumes for Gloves. To perfume Gloves. TAke Damask water two or three pennyworth and put it in a pewter dish, and lay the Gloves in it one night, and one day, with a little turning now and than that they may be throughly wet. Than take them out and put in your bosom two or three days till the be dry, than take an ounce and a half of Cloves beaten in fine powder, and put it into the same water, stir them together, and lay it upon the Gloves, and wet the Gloves therewith, and dry them as before. The take Storax liquida a great weight, and half a pound of Almonds or more, and an ounce and a half of Beniamyn in fine powder, and mingle them together in a Mortar, and anoint thy gloves therewith. Than take Musk four or five grains, and mix it with a drop or two of good Damask water. And grinned it small, and lay it with your finger upon the turning down of the Gloves, and so dry them always in your bosom▪ To perfume Gloves very well. TAke oil of sweet Almonds, and put them into a Glass with this powder, a quantity of Musk, Storax, calamint, Roses of Flames all powdered together, put it into a Glass and so let them stand together in the Sun eight days, and stir them every day with a little stick, than take Rose-water musked and your Gloves, and moist them well with the same water upon a Trencher, and than dry them, do this three or four times, and the last time anoint them with the said Oil, and with the same Oil you may anoint your hands, and it will smooth them, and make them brighter, and the good smell of your hands will make your Gloves continued the better in their smell. Another perfume for Gloves. TAke Oil of Cloves two ounces, Storax Calamint one ounce Benjamin half an ounce, Cloves and Cinnamon half an ounce, Musk twenty grains, and Amber ten grains, Time twenty grains, Lavender water three ounces, mix these things and grinned them on a stone. Another Perfume for Gloves. WAsh your Leather first in rain water, until the Alum and the Eggs be clean out, and lay them in Rose water and let them lie therein till they be thick, and so let the water dry into them, and than take this following. TAke a dozen Oranges, and pill of all the rind of them, so that all the white of the Oranges be away. Than take a pint and a half of Lie made of wood ashes, and put in a clean earthen pot with a cover, than put in the Oranges and pill a little Brasill and a little Sanders Citrens, and a little Allom, and let them seethe till the third part be wasted in, than take and strain it through a clean cloth & streak your Gloves within with a sponge when it is cold. And colour them two or three times, till they be well coloured. Than dry them and turn them, and than keep them close, than take Lymian powder, and beaten it in a Mortar, with a little Rose-water, and colour them again▪ and so let them dry, and than make them clean with ● brush. The Receipt for the former Perfume. TAke a quarter of Musk, and half a quarter of Amber, twelve grains of Civet, and mix them all together with gum Dragagante dissolved in Rose-water two days and two nights, till the gum be dissolved into the Rose-water, and than grinned them all together upon a stone till it be very fine, and than lay it on your Gloves with a fine brush as thick as you think good. Another Receipt for the same. TAke as much Musk as Amber, and twelve grains of Civet, and grinned them on a stone with Oil Beniamyn that is good and than with that perfume your Gloves. To make an excellent Pomander. TAke Labdanum one ounce, Storax Calamint, Roses, Cloves, Maces of each a dram & an half, and make them in powder Amber and Musk of either a dram and a half, and make them into powder. Than take a sponfell of Oil de Bay, Virgin wax an ounce, dissolve them together and mix them well. Cinnamon, Cloves, Fossis, Storax, Calamint, of each a dram and an half, white Franckinsence, Myrrh, yellow Saunders, Bole Armonyack, Calamus aromaticus of each two drams, Camphier two drams, Labdanum six ounces, Wax two ounces, and put them in a Mortar with a little Malmsey, and as much Musk and Civet, as please you. Take Gum Dragagante half a pound, infuse it in Rose water twenty four hours, than take Storax Calamint nine ounces, Balsomum four drams, Cloves, Fussis, Cinnamon of each one ounce, Nutmegs four ounces, Labdanum three ounces, beaten all these into fine powder, than take the Labdanum, and put it into a Mortar, and pu● to it a little oil of Spick, Storax liquida an ounce, and among all this stuff beaten a powder of black Sallow coal. To make a costly Pomander or sergeant Amber. TAke a quarter and a half of Amber, and a quarter of Musk, and bean them in a Mortar with gum Dragagante dissolved in Rose-water but you must make it thick, than take it in the balm of your hand, your hand being anointed first with oil of Beniamyn, or some other sweet oil cleaving to your hands, and so Oil it round like balls, and put them on a string, and let than dry betwixt two papers and than wrap them up close. To make a good Pomander. LAbdanum half an ounce, Storax Calamint two ounces, Beniamyn one ounce, Cloves one ounce and a half, Marjerom one ounce, Basill three ounces, Cypress, Calamus, ana▪ halfan ounce, Storax liquida one ounce, Musk six grains dissolved in Rose-water. Amber twelve grains. Civet three grains, temper all these together and make up this Pomander at your pleasure. This Pomander will cost thirteen shillings four pence. To make a Pomander of light cost. ORas one scruple, Cloves half a scruple, Calamus Ciprus ana six grains, Labdanum spick ana three grains, Basile one ounce, Cinnamon, six grains Storax calamint, Beniamine, Labdanum ana. five grains, white Sanders ten grains, Marjerom half an ounce Storax liquida two grains, Camphor one grain, Gum Dragagante, Gum Arabeck, ana. one half ounce resolved in Rose-water, temper all these together in a Mortar and make it at your pleasure. A sweet powder to be sown in silk bags. TAke Roses, yellow Sanders, Belzonum, Spick, Cypress of each a like, beaten them in a Mortar. Another. TAke Belzonum, Storax, Calamint, Cloves of each two ounces fine Yreos' six ounces, yellow Sanders three ounces, fine Musk twenty grains. Another. TAke Roles, Orras spick, sweet Marjerom dried, Fossis Cypress, Belzonum of each a like quantity. Take a handful of Damask Rose leaves cut of the whites, and put them in a Glass, and put to them seven grains of Musk▪ three of Amber, and five of Cyvet, stop the Glass very close, and set it in the Sun, until the leaves be through dry. A Powder to make sweet bags. Oras, Cloves, Storax, Calamint, Calamus, Beniamyn, Cypress, white Sanders, Lavender, Bassill, Marjerome, beat all these in powders and mingle them together: I can appoint you no portion for I make a pound together, if there be too much of the strongest, qualify it with the other powders, mingle these with dried Rose leaves, and put them into your bags▪ For to make sweet Bags: ORras, four ounces. Fussis two ounces White Sanders two ounces Springal two ounces. Cipres two ounces. Beniamyn two ounces. Labdanum two ounces and a half. Calamus aromat two ounces. Roses in powder four ounces and a half. Musk one dram. Marjerom four ounces. Civet or amber grease. one dram. To make a sweet Bag. ORras Gallia Muscata Calamus Aromaticus. Cipres roots. Fussis. Storax, Calamint. Benjamin. Fine Marjorme gently dried. Ears of Lavender dried. Five or six grains of Musk, Civet or Amber. Put in your ears of Lavender, and Marjerom whole: To make sweet Powders. To make white Damask powder. TAke white Ivory ground, Oras powder the whitest that you can get, Civet and fine Musk, and mingle every thing accordingly, to the quantity that you are minded to make. And so ye may keep it a great while, and the longer the better a great deal. A Receipt of a fine Damask powder. ORras powder two ounces. Calamus Aromaticus two ounces. Cipres powder two ounces. Fussis powder two ounces Benjamin powder one ounce and a half. Storax Calamint one ounce and a half Read Roses in powder two ounce and a half Nigella Romana one ounce. Lavender in powder two ounces. Marjerom in powder two ounces. Musk one dram. Labdanum two ounces. White Sanders Spygnoll To make a Damask powder, with the charges thereof. CLoves two ounces 8 d. Cipres one ounce too pence Ireos' four ounces 3 d. Calamus half an ounce 1 d. Labernele danum one ounce 2 d. Beniamyn one ounce 8 d. Storax calamint half an ounce 4 d. Civet three drams 6 d. Musk eight grains 1 s. 4 d. Summa 4 s. A sweet powder to still sweet Water. TAke six ounces of Ireos, four ounces of Cloves, two ounces of Storax Calamint one ounce of Labdanum two ounces of yellow Sanders, and beaten all these into powder by themselves, than mingle them together, and ye list to put to it a little Musk it will be the better. To sow Wheat in lesle quantity and more increase. TAke Wheat, and put it into water, and salt, a day and a night than before you sow it throw it into new slaked Lime, and so sow it, as you do other Wheat, and the increase God willing, will be much more, and the lesle seed may be sowed. An Exact ALPHABETICAL INDEX Of all the PHYSICAL RECEIPTS In this BOOK. A FOR an Ache in the back 1 For an ache ibid.▪ Aches 3. 5▪ 10. 17. 34. 91. 168. 182. 192. 233 Adder biting 24 Almond milk 42 Aqua Composita 56 Agues 78 98 107 110 143 144 170 210 218 291 All manner of Aches 95 105 110 112 144 Aches incurable 117 Ague out of Sore 118 Aqua Mirabilis 119 Aqua Vitae ibid. An Ancomb— 130 144 An Angnail 133 Aqua Realis, for Ulcers 164 Arms swelled 190 After throes in Childbed. 197 200 And there's for the same ibid. Aqua Pendente, his Pills 236 Abortion prevented— 245 Aloes Pills rightly made 245 Autumn Pills 263. Ale in Diet Drink 296 Ague Tertian cured 350 351 Cymical Extractions and Receipts. Aurum Potabile how made 376. Another way ibid. Antimony the Quintessence 377 Amber sweetened 382 B For the Back a Plaster 1 10 11 Another for the Back 30 31 144 228 Bruises 3 4 6 81 91 112 136 Bleeding— 7 183 184 Burn 14 78 120 Breast 20 21 22 137 145 182 Back weak 40 309 337 Back hot— 48 Belly Worms 55 Biles 79. Another 80 144 157 168 Blisters 80 Breath stinking 139 183 Bones broken 83 113 120 156 Balm for a Wound 94 162 Blood staunched 99 104 138 262 266 Bloody Flux cured 99 105 118 190 216 227 243 Breast aches 105 Breast sore 110 145 214 268 Bruise from a horse 114 Balm-water the best 115 Balm to heal a wound— 116 Biting of a mad Dog 116 215 Stone in the Bladder 127 Blood cleansed 131 Bullets drawn out 134 260 331 353 Bruised Blood drawn out— 137 Back cooled 144 Breast broken 145 Burn with an harlot 183 Bursten 183 340 Bowels swelled— 186 Break wind 193 Balls to wash 202 Bones and shivers 211 353 359 Busby's Oil 213 269 Breath short— 221 Basilicon made 239 Balsom excellent 262 348 Blood letting dangerous 265. Others ibid. Blood letting good ibid. Blood letting naught 269 Broken shin a Plaster 285 Breast sore 290 Back pain— 341 By't, or flesh-rent 354 Burning Ague helped 363 Back weakness 366 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. A burning piercing-water 382 C Cuts 5 81 82 Canker 14 19 20 71 91 98 104 146 213 270 Corns 14 74 Colic 30 105 202 302 Cod swelled 31 138 269 Clearing blood 40 China broth 41 256. Another ibid. 267 338 Colic water 49 Coughs 53 102 145 222 226 242 341 Colic windy 60 230 Cooling drinks 65 Child's cough 68 Concoction 69 Consumptions 76 232 233 236 237 261 348 Cold aches 86 Conserve of Rhadishes 90 Of Cherries ibid. Of Oranges ibid. Cure of wounds— 121 Cold Stomach 124 138 Cerecloth for the heart 126 To make a Cerecloth 129 Cinnamon water ibid. Childrens worms— 133 Claret water made ibid. Child dead delivered 138 Cerot of Galen 141 Ceratum Santallinum 142 Carbuncle healed— 163 174 Cerecloth to cure a wound 168 Cramps 169 179 210 250 Convulsion Fits 180 229 Confections 184 Comphrey the Nature 184 Coldness of stomach 200 Conception— 201 Cold, a Syrup. 109 210 A Caustick 220 Choler helped 214 363 Cold— 218 368 Cere-cloath for Limbs 219 Cows bag hard 286 Cere-cloath for the Palsy 319 Corn to recover colour— 349 Corn kept clean 350 Colic helped 364 Chemical Extractions. 375 Characters Chemical to know Grains, Scruples, Drams, Ounces, etc. useful and profitable to be learned 380 Chemical Luting 381 Chemical Oils by Limbeck 381 For a Canker or face Tetter.— 382 D Dropsies 27 55 69 146 173 244 271 Dead flesh 33 170 Diacitony 40 Damask Water— 75 58 59 185 Diet for Wounds 62 63 Drink for Bones broke 86 Digestion helped— 87 Distilled Waters 88 89 Deafness 91 140 185 261 347 Dirge for the Lungs 108 Drink for a Bruise 120 Deliverance of a Child 191. Though dead 196 Distilled Roses 224 Dropsies any of the three kinds 227 Diapompholigos 239 Diet Drink for Morbus Gallicus— 249 Diapalma Plaster ibid. Diet for the Liver 253 Difficulty of Urine 253 Drink for most Diseases 295 Others ibid. Diet Drink for Spring and Fall 296 Diet Drink to purge 299 Decoction for the Liver— 300 Distilled water for the Palsy 321 Diet Drink for a Fistula. 360 361 Chemical Extractions. A Diaphoretic of Antimony and Sol, that worketh, in dose, four, five, six or seven Grains 377 A Diaphoretic of Antimony and Mercury 378 E Eyes 28 29 45 46 147 178 241 Eyes sore 44 45 60 70 73 172 ●03 209 290 Eye-water 44 47 55 59 100 101 212 Bleared Eyes 47 51 137 Eyes bruised 64 290 Eyes hot— 103 130 Ears swelled 113 Eyes made clear 130 136 137 Pin and Web in the Eyes 146 164 201 Eyes read— 146 Earwigs destroyed ibid. emrod's 146 149 170 343 Eyes defluxion— 147 186 205 Eyes with a stiany 147 Elder-flower Oil 182 Ears sounding— 186 332 Ears stopped 186 Ears deaf 192 208 Eyes blood-shotten 208 Eyes, a Medicine— 210 Electuaries 234 252 301 Electuary for the Breast 308 Electuary for the Stone 312 Electuarium Indivium 316 Electuary Sovereign against the Plague 317 Euula fallen 322 Electuary for the Plague 324 Eyes with the Pearl 354 F Redness in the Face 10 18 21 22 49 229 260 Felon 11 34 87 143 144 147 167 212 Face swelling 29 Dead-flesh 37 Fundament fallen 43 147 148 Face hot— 47 347 Fever thirst 52 Fevers 55 173 218 241 283 Flux and hot Dropsy 56 Falling ●cknesse 69 70 74 106 148 248 253 267 297 Fair face 71 148 157 160 203 232 Phlegm sawey in the fa●e 89 Flesh recovered 91 Frenzy 95 290 Flux stayed 108 169 252 295 Fame for the head— 109 Fall of a man 118 Fistula water 136 148 Fl●●o sodered up 136 Flux of Blood 140 147 228 Phlegm purged and cut 1 48 157 Another 365 Fistula cured 167 176 237 270 340 359 361 Festering wounds 168 Flowers stopped 193 194 195 196 Fish taken 206 Foot swelled 226 Fluxing ●ils for Ulcers Phlegm cold, and pain in the back— 242 French Pock 248 Phlegm in the stomach 310 311 Phlegm purged— 312 Flos Unguentorum 332 Chemical Extractions, etc. For a Fistula 382 G Gouts, 2 3 5 20 35 55 77 112 168 172 222 225 334 Gargarisms 41 Galled horse 70 Green wound 79 242 Gout salve— 95 Gargarisms for the throat ibid. Glister common 99 242 292 293 Gunpowder burns 120 Good Glister 138 216 292 Others ibid. Giddiness 149 Gravel and Stone 165 224 314 Gloves perfumed 204 Good colour 205 Galled with riding 210 Green sickness 217 293. Others ibid. 294 Gonorraea 224 226 228 263 Gums inflamed 254 Gun-shot cured 268 Glister for the Palsy 318 Gargarism for the Palsy 321 Gargarism for the Squinancy— 323 Grief at Stomach 351 Gums cleansed 354 Gross phlegm purged 371 Gnawing of the belly— 373 H Headache 10 54 175 193 212 228 Head sick 23 27 337 Hair to grow 31 203 Healing Salves— 38 Head Scald 39 87 200 229 Humours 39 262 334 349 Heat of Stomach 43 Heat of hands and feet 46 Heart ill 54 149 Head-Purgation 65 69 224 264 336 Healing Intret for Wounds 90 91 132 Heart-fainting 106 Hard swell 109 150 Heart burning 114 Hard bruisings— 138 Hand Canker 146 Heat in an Ague 182 Hardness of Milk in women 198 Holding of Urine 199. Another for the same ibid. Hemorrhoides 228 230 Others ibid. 231 Hectic Fever sweeting 228 Hearing recovered 229 Hands trembling 285 Heal a Burn 295 Another ibid. Hyppocras for the Palsy 318 Hearts ●orn Jelly 330 334 Heal a Fistula 359 Head and Stomach purged 371 I Itch— 16 126 166 Issues, or old sores 33 Jaundice 40 54 Itch-water 50 52 Joint in pain 69 165 227 Jaundice yellow 72 150 174 188 221 225 365 Inflammations 73 113 215 2●8 286 Jaundice black 94 150 184 188 189 Imposthume in the head— 105 120 173 Infection of Sheep 117 Iron drawn out 126 To make Irish Aqua vitae— 129 Imposthume 150 Inward bleeding— 169 Julip of Roses 188 Of Violets— ibid. Imposthume broken ibid. Imposthume an the breast 214 215 Inward Bruise 298 Juice of Licorice— 311 Itch in a wound 329 Injection of the Plague 335 339 Jelly of a C●ck 345 K Kings Evil 18 52 Kill a Canker— 135 Knees swelled 143 181 Knobs arising in the hands 208 Knots and Knobs in the Breast 215 Kidneys helped 220 373 Stone in the Kidneys— 223 Kernels about the Neck 246 Kings Evil and bunches 246 267 L Leg sore 18 19 31 33 Leprosy 18 163 Liver 26 55 56 114 131 214 220 253 300 314 366 367 Licorice juice 42 Lunatic 48 Leg swelling— ibid. Leg dead flesh 50 Lungs evil 54 288 304 308 309 Looseness stopped 73 107 150 165 225 Leg sore, Medicine 79 Leg broken— 140 Lice killed 149 Lungs cough 161 328 366 Lute made 161 223 Lucatella 's Balsam— 177 Legs hard softened 189 Liver grown ibid. Live or dye to know 189 201 267 Lust for a man— 201 Limbs lame 226 Liver rotten ibid. Labour in Childbed 233 365 Liver cold— 237 364 Linimentum Alcei 239 Leanness procured 255 Lozenges, to make them ibid. 316 Liver Ointment— 301 Limbs comforted 303 Lozenges for Palsy 322 Lineament for Quinsey 323 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. A Laudanum 383 M Mother 17 107 150 225 233 270 Marmole 23 52 Mad dog 24 259 339 347 352 367 Megrim 28 173 214 Mouth-Canker 44 146 Mouth sore 46 107 150 168 170 174 234 288 Medicine for the eyes 50 Morphew 55 107 108 150 164 268 333 Mouth hot 56 Medicine for Wounds 62 Marmelades 90 Medicine for a strain— 106 Melancholy cured 108 131 297 301 Medicine for a Plague sore 121 Measles, pocks 122 Medicine for the Stone 127 352 Members that swell— 136 Milk dried up in the Breast 183 199 Menstrues provoked 187 193 Making water 198 Milk kept from curdling 215 Menstrues superfluous— 227 Morbus Gallicus cured 236 248 Mel Rosatum 280 Mint water 285 Madness in the head 290 Others ibid. Medicine for the Gout, the best 334 Medicine for the Stone 364 Medicine for the Pleurisy 369 Medicine for the Plague approved 370 Medicine in general for all sorts of people taken with the Plague 370 Melt cured 373 N Nail pricked 87 Nose bleeding 108 117 230 258 Others approved ibid. 266 344 Nose Fume 109 Noli me Tangere 114 163 Nails swelling 127 Noise in th' head— 148 252 Nails stubbing 151 Needle pricking 15 16 Nail drawn forth 151 Neck swollen 174 Nature restored— 246 Not children, who is in fault 267 Navel Balsam, precious 286 287 Nose read, and face 289 Nerves restored 303 Nostril powder for the Palsy 322 Navel unguent— 332 Nose bleeding, three Receipts 351 Notes and Physical Characters, set down in their Receipts for quantity of several Ingredients useful to be known 374 O Ointment green 39 83 Oil of Exeter 112 Ointment of Swallows 113 Ointment to draw and heal— 135 Oil of Bays Of Balm 141 339 Ointment for the Stomach 143 Oximel Compound 153 Ointment for the Sinews— ibid. Oil of Mastic 154 Oil of Roses 154 155 Of Camomile 154 Of Almonds ibid. Of Eggs— ibid. Oil of Wheat 155 Oil of Anniseeds ibid. Of Tartar 155 162 Oleum Magistrale 157 Old Wounds— 168 Ointment for Back aches 175 Oil for a Rupture 180 Open sores cured 192 Oil of Wormwood for stomach 203 Oil of Worms for Sinews 204 Ointment for the Spleen— 220 Oil excellent 234 Ointment green 250 Old Sores 284 296 Outward Bruise— 298 Ointment, Countesses 305 Ointment for the Spleen 307 Ointment for the Reins 313 Others ibid. Ointment for the Stone 316 Ointment for the Palsy 318 Ointment for the head 320 Ointment 344 Oleum Hypericon— 355 Oil of Violets ibid. Oil of Swallows 356 Oleum Benedictum ibid. Oil of Earthworms 357 Oil of Dill, its virtues ibid. Oil of Rue, its virtues— ibid. Oil of Elder flowers, its virtue ibid. Oil of Camomile, its virtue ibid. Oil of sweet Mints 358 Oil of Roses, its virtue ibid. Oil of Lilly-flowers, its virtue ibid. Oximel for the Colic. 362 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. To draw Oil of Tartar and Turpentine 30 P For the Pleurisy 1 14 75 104 122 173 Pricking 6 Piles 7 8 19 190 216 230 233 Three Receipts for the Piles 255 298 Pimples face 19 329 Paps sore 22 Pin and Web 28 30 231 Palsies 33 53 118 156 162 229 263 319 Pestilence 54 80 ibid. Poison 55 71 207 pearl, and Pin, and Web 59 71 204 Pocks small in the throat 〈◊〉 Pocks pitying the face 61 165 Perfumes excellent 64 Purgation 75 76 101 123 152 161 217 218 234 247 260 Palsy dead 77 Pissing blood 99 183 192 Ptisick of Lungs 104 Plague 108 115 122 156 251 252 Potion to stop blood 121 166 Plague sore broke 121 Plague sore drawn 122 Purge for Stone— 125 Powder for the stomach 126 Powder for the Stone 128 308 Pocks small to come forth— 130 207 Powder for Worms 130 Powder for a Rupture 178 Paps cankered 184 Purge for Menstrues 187 Plaster to dry— 189 Powder to eat for the Spleen 221 Plums preserved 235 Preparation of the Magistral Sev● 235 Plaster excellent 242 Purge for the Dropsy— 244 An excellent Poultisse 262 Pills for the Spring 263 Purge excellent 261 291 296 302 312 347 348 Pills to purge 264 320 Plague a Balsam precious 286 287 Paracelsus Plaster 296 Purges precious three 298 Powder for the stone— 302 Pessaries 306 Powder called Lipton-tripon 312 Pomander for Palsy 321 Poultis for the Quinsey— 323 Palates of the mouth 337 Populion 339 Poultisse— 341 349 Pills for the Colic 362 Pills to work upon every humour 362 Pleurisy a Medicine 368 Pleurisy discovered and cured ibid. Powder to preserve from the Plague 369 Preservative for a child from the Plague 370 Plague sore approaching ibid. Plague expelled 371 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. Purge of Tartar, what quantity you will, two pound or more 379 Purge of Antimony, that works without vomit 383 Q Quinsy in the throat 123 166 Quick deliverance 196 Though child dead 196 205 Quinsy, alias Squinancy 267 Quartan Ague 283 294 295 Quinsy 323 Quotidian Agues helped 350 351 Quartan Fevers 356 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. Quintessence of Quicksilver. 376 Quintessence of Brimstone ibid. Quintessence of Antimony Quintessence of all manner of Herbs, Flowers, Roots, Flesh, Blood or Eggs, how made 375 R▪ Ringworm 13 29 123 149 170 329 334 Ringworm water 50 Rising sores 53 Reinss of the Back 56 75 144 164 226 Rose-water made 58 Rheum in the head 65 124 Running Reinss— 70 134 148 233 271 Ribs broken 84 Rheums 94 Rosa solis Water 119 Rosemary water 129 Rankling Wounds 132 Rupture 143 177 ibid. 180 Rheum 156 163 ●●8 For Rats and Mice— 178 Rose-water its properties 205 Rickets cured 212 232 Roses conserved 223 Rhubarb expressed 234 Roots five opening 314 Rawness of stomach— 315 372 Receipt for the Pleurisy 369 Reds in women procured 371 Receipt of the Black Salve 343 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. Receipts to make the best Vinegar 384 Receipt to make Raisins wine 384 S Shrinking of Sinews 295 99 124 130 190 Sores old 3 6 7 32 36 76 81 90 110 126 169 209 Splinters 6 19 Scalding 13 15 20 116 119 137 227 Stitches 14 26 27 74 94 124 166 13 4 Staunch blood 16 65 66 67 103 Scurfs 17 Swell 18 22 34 35 103 116 Sauce Phlegm 23 Stinging of Wasps or Bees 24 125 Spleen 25 55 56 179 214 220 225 261 283 301 307 309 347 Stomach 25 26 27 53 56 70 102 124 142 207 327 Sleep 27 29 100 107 125 166 204 Stone 31 48 49 52 66 74 76 77 78 115 117 207 224 232 241 Salve healing 37 157 177 Salves 38 83 113 167 171 Spirits vital 53 Sinews pricked 64 Strangury 64 342 Splent in a horse— 65 Sovereign Pestilence water 72 Sciatica 111 118 148 170 171 208 217 Spots of the Small Pocks 123 Stomach windy 124 Strain 125 〈◊〉 cut, joined 134 Scurvy 135 179 271 Speech restored 156 Spots out of the face 160 Side sore— 173 Syrup of tart Pomgranats 190 Swoundings ibid. Skin cleared 203 Spitting of blood 206 Strains— 213 222 Syrup of Gillyflowers. 223 Stomach waterish 231 Syrup of Quinces for the stomach 251 Stone 259 271 303 308 312 315 324 325 331 334 342 364 Stomach Pills 264 Simples when to be gathered 268 Signs of a dying man 269 Sores old 280 Surfeit 284 335 Syrrups for Palsy— 320 Strangury 325 326 Stitch 328 Scald or burning 333 Sciatica 333 346 Sores to ripen— 354 353 Powder 359 Sinews cut 355 Syrup of Bison for all Fevers 363 Stitches and stopping ibid. Stomach comforted 363. Others ibid. Syrup de quinque radicibus 365 Syrup for Choler ibid. Syrup for the Lungs 366 Syrup for the Liver 367 Stomach procured— 371 Stomach Plaster 372 Spleen Plaster approved 373 T Thorns 24 87 116 176 Tettar and Ringworm 59 98 174 206 217 3●9 toothache 68 73 77 128 165 198 205 28 Trembling of heart 70 ●●9 Tooth rotten 〈◊〉 Thornes drawn out 111 127 221 Throat sore 1272 88 331 Teeth fastened and cleansed 127 128 Tooth pulled out 128 Tobacco Salve— 151 152 212 Tobacco Balm 152 Tooth to fall out 167 206 Terms white 197 Terms swelling 198 Tumour on the Breast— 229 Tongue inflamed 254 Throat inflamed ibid. Tobacco water ibid. Toes cured of Corns 268 Teeth yellow and foul— 270 Tickling Cough 311 Throat swollen 326 327 Phthisic 358 U Unguentum Mundificatum 9 Veins knit 16 Ulcers 21 92 176 236 238 Urine difficult 30 335 Ulcers old 61 91 280 Viper wine 75 Veins cut 82 116 Venomous stings— 94 Vomit for stopping 105 Vomiting stayed 106 128 330 Urine not held 123 Voice cleared 131 Vinegar made— ibid. Unguentum album Camphoratum 135 Unguentum de Althaea 139 Aureum ibid. Aegyptiacum 140 Vitriol Oil 161 Veins swelled 175 V●●●m out of a wound ibid. Veins broken— 206 Urine provoked 233 Urine sharp 238 254 Unguentum defec. Rubrum 240 Unguentum nut. or Diapharniacon 257 Ulcer on the top of the Penis 218 A good Vomit 315 330 Urine stopped 325 341 W Wounds 4 6 19 32 62 68 82 132 355 162 168 175 177 191 192 Wrench 12 Wens 16 191 Worms 22 71 91 95 126 131 181 169 238 292 355 Wind 28 Wound-water 48 49 51 86 Wound Oil 72 98 Wind in the stomach 74 327 372 Wound Syrup 82 Wound bleeding stopped 86 Web and Pin— 95 Wind in the head 105 Wound green 112 Water for any Disease 115 Wormwood-water— 120 Wambling of the stomach 126 Warts removed 133 358 Wine sour, made sweet 134 Wound-balm— 162 163 Water against the Stone 167 Woman with child 180 Wind in the stomach 207 225 302 315 Weakness 234 Wounds healed in twenty four hours 240 Wound drink 260 331 353 Wormwood-water 284 Water of Balm 297 Wheazing of the pipes 30 308 Wind Colic 327 Wound corrupted 329 Wounds old ●31 Woman's Breasts ibid. Water Cordial— 336 Water of Cinnamon ibid. Whitlaw cured 343 Water to cure any Ulcer 344 Water for the Stone 345 White water for the Fistula ibid. Water for the Liver— 367 Weakness of head and stomach 371 Wind in the stomach 372 Chemical Extractions and Receipts. White water, or Maid's milk of Mercury or Quicksilver 377 Wondrously Piercing Chemical water 399 Water Chemical to pierce Metal ibid. Y Yard pained and swelled 175 Yard burned 198 Rare Secrets of Herbs, not to be found in any common HERBAL, with their Virtues and Natures. TUtsan, or Park leaves, with its virtue 385 Wormwood, and its virtue 385 386 Mugwort▪ and its virtue 386 Southernwood, and its virtue ibid. Subwort, and its virtue ibid. Egrimony— ibid. Caroway ibid. Cole-wort ibid. Woodbine, and its virtue 387 Onions, and their virtue ibid. Columbine— ibid. Cardiaca ibid. Wolf Thistle, or wild Thistle ibid. Comphrey ibid. To remove and make slips, and planting of Artichokes, Goosberries, Roses, Privet, White-thornes, and all manner of flowers 388 A note of the best and properest times to sow these Herbs and Seeds 389 Another special Note to sow Seeds very profitable for all that love Gardening 390 392 Other special Rules for setting and sowing of Herbs and Seeds 392 393 The Virtues of divers Waters. Hyssop water etc. 394 395 396 Excellent ways to distil Waters from Flowers, Herbs, Roots, etc. Primroses 396 Fennel ibid. Hyssop ibid. Camomile ibid. Walwort— ibid. Strawberryes' ibid. Wormwood ibid. Celendine ibid. Damask water ibi. To make sweet water with small cost and charges 397 Other sweet waters ibid. Waters to wash fair ibid. To make Damask Water in Winter 398 Another rare Damask water ibid. To make Risen water for Damask water ibid. To make Damask water at all times ibid. Water Aromatic 399 A TABLE of sundry Rare Inventions contained in this Book. For the several Baits for Fish. FOR the Pike 400 For the Perch ibid. For the Trout ibid. In April For the Roach— ibid. May For the Roach 40● September For the Roach ibid. For the Perch— ibid.▪ October For the Roach ibid. November For the Perch and Roach ibid., How to take fish 402 To take a Pike ibid. Baits for fish at all times 403 A way to increase, and to keep Carp ibid. For Birds and▪ Fowls— ibid. To Die divers kinds of Colours To dye Yellow. 404 To dye Read Colour ibid. To dye Carnation ibid. To dye Popinjay Green 405 To dye a dark green ibid. To dye Purple ibid. To dye Russet ibid. To dye Tawny— ibid. To make staining Waters ibid. To make a deep Green ibid. To make another Green 406 To make a Light Green ibid. To make Blue Water ibid. Another ibid. Another for the same ibid. To make Network. To make the broad Arrow and Diamond 407 To make the Scallop shell 408 To make Knotwork like Dices 409 The Network of small Diamonds 410 To make the great Lose ibid. 411 412 413 414 To knit Network like Glass-windows 414 To knit Network of the Hearts 415 The knotted Work of the Flese ibid. A Knotwork like Honey-combs ibid. The Knotwork of Lose 416 The order how to knit an hose 417 418 419 For making Laces. The description of the Art p. 420 A broad lace of five bows 421 A Lace round of five bows ibid. An open Lace of five bows— ibid. The same lace of divers colours ibid. A Lace Basture of five bows— 422 A broad Lace for purses of ten bows ibid. A Lace bordered ibid. A Lace covert of ten bows ibid. A Lace double Covert— 423 A lace Coupen Covert ibid. A lace of Coupen Covert, De Piole ibid. A lace dance of twelve bows 424 The same round— ibid. A lace Piole ibid. A lace Covert Cheveron ibid. A lace de powne 425 A lace of Covert Vice-Ray ibid. The same lace compound— ibid. A Lace Demi-Cheveron 426 The same compound ibid. A lace Covert de Basture ibid. A lace covert de Basture Demi-ray ibid. A lace Basture Techel 427 A broad lace for purses of seven bows ibid. The same lace open ibid. A lace party round— ibid. The same Compound 428 A lace party broad ibid. The same lace Ray— ibid. A Lace called Pale. ibid. A Lace quarter and quartel ibid. The same Compound 429 A Lace of Corduve of four bows ibid. A Lace Maskell— ibid. A Lace called the Fret ibid. A Lace called Cow-de-Rate ibid. The same Lace— 430 The same Lace Compound ibid. The same Lace of sixteen bows ibid. A Lace bend— ibid. The same Lace of sixteen Bows 431 A Lace Cheveron broad ibid. A Lace Cheveron round ibid. A Lace pene de pound— ibid. A Lace enleved of sixteen bows ibid. A Lace Cheveron broad, of eight bows 432 A Lace Cheveron round ibid. A Lace Owned of sixteen bows ibid. A Lace Owned round— ibid. A Lace Sawter of eight bows 433 A Lace Croyslee ibid. A Lace Cross Vliet— 434 A Lace double lozenge ibid. A Lace Vliet Bosse ibid. A Lace Vliet Vine 435 A Lace Vliet Bosse— ibid. A Lace Sawter Vliet ibid. A Lace for Vliet round ibid. The same Lace fret and broad 436 A Lace Cressant— ibid. A Lace indented ibid. A Lace green de-Orgee— 437 The same double with twelve bows ibid. A Lace vice of three Colours ibid. A Lace Cheveron broad, of sixteen bows 4●● The same Lace Compound ibid. Here ends Lace making. An order how to breed Horses. The choice of the Stallion and stud Mare pag. 439 Wild Mares not best to keep for the race ibid. At what age the Mare is first to be handled and covered ibid. How to enforce the Mares to come to be strained 440 The order of covering ibid. How to use your Mare which is covered ibid. How to make that no Mare shall go barren 441 To diet the Stallion for the time he shall cover. ibid. What time of the year is best for the Mare to be covered. ibid. How the breeding Mare is to be used when she shall foal. 442 How many years a Horse will serve to cover the Mares. ibid. The best age for Horse or Mares, to get or bear Colts, and how long they will continued good. ibid. What time of the year is best to wean the Colts from their dams. ibid. What feeding is best for Colts from two years. 443 The cause why English Horse are taken up so young, which is not good. ibid. The way to handle a sturdy horse. 444 The using of horse after they be handled. ibid. What feeding is best in Winter for Mares, Weanlings, and two years old. 444 〈◊〉 what age Colts may be best handled 445 Here ends breeding horses, and than follows these. To make a Leuton Jelly 446 To make a Leuton Custard— ibid. To dry Damsons or any other plums ibid. To preserve read Roses 447 To preserve the walnut in syrup— ibid. To candy Eringus 448 To preserve Pippin, Pear or Warden dry 449 To preserve Quinces ibid. To make the Syrup of the five opening roots 450 To make Syrup of Apples ibid. A Receipt for the broth for the Stone by Dr. Mathias. ibid. To make Syrup of Mallows 451 To make Orange Cakes— 452 To make Biscuit bread ibid. To bake Beef like read Deer to be eaten cold. 453 To make Almond butter. ibid. To Marivate fish ibid. Angel water— 454 A dozen of the little clothes ibid. A Custard ibid. To brew Ale— 455 To make Mustard ibid. An excellent receipt with a Caule of Mutton 456 The way to prepare the suet ibid. To make an Olave Pie ibid. To make a French Pie— 457 To make Puffs ibid. To beautify and adorn the face. 45● A Water to wash the face 45● Perfumes for Leather ibid. Another perfume 459 Another perfume— ibid. A sweet perfume to burn 460 Perfumes for Gloves ibid. A perfume called Amber-paste. ibid. Perfumes for a chamber— ibid. Herbs good for perfumes 461 King Henry's perfume. ibid. King Edward's perfume— ibid. The French Queen's perfume ibid. Another fine perfume ibid. Another excellent perfume ibid. Another perfume— 462 A sweet perfume 463 A special perfume for Gloves 464 Another perfume for Gloves ibid. Another perfume for Gloves— ibid. Another perfume for Gloves ibid. The Receipt for the former perfume— 465 Another receipt for the same ibid. To make an excellent Pomander. ibid. To make a costly Pomander 466 Another way to make a Pomander ibid. To make a Pomander with little cost ibid. A sweet powder to be sowed in silk bags ibid. Another way ibid. Another way to make sweet powder 467 A powder to put into bags ibid. To make sweet bags ibid. Another way ibid. To make white Damask powder 468 〈◊〉 Receipt for a Damask powder ibid. To make Damask Powder with the charges of it ibid. A sweet Powder to still sweet Water 469 To sow wheat, less in quantity and more increase, 469 FINIS.