vertue if it be stamped and the iuyce medled with Porkes greace and lay it plaister-wise on the Canker it sleieth and healeth mightily Another remedy for the Canker ¶ Take as much Allam as a Nut halfe a glasse full of Honie and a pint of Red wine and seeth them together till it come to the third part then straine it through a cloth and wash the sores there-with Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of vnset Leekes with the rootes and a small quantitie of Yarrow ten or twentie branches therof and boile them in white-wine vntill they be all very softe and then straine them and clarifie them and let the patient drinke of it morning and euening blood warme For to kill the Canker in a mans bodie ¶ Take the roote of Dragons and breake it in small peeces and dry it and make it in powder and take nine pennie waight of the powder and put it in Wine and séeth it well and then let the sicke drinke thereof warme a good draught fasting in the morning for thrée daies together Another for the same ¶ Take two handfulls of Sage and as much Wood-binde leaues with the rootes of a wilde Vine this beeing stamped and strained take a little Honny with a peece of Alam beeing warmed and so wash the sore place where the Canker is For the Canker another remedie ¶ Take Christall and make it in fine powder and the powder of Harts-horne burnt with asmuch of the rinde of a Poungranet and the iuyce of Night-shade and giue all these to the partie eyther man woman or child For the Chollick and the stone ¶ Take a handfull of Sapifrags a handfull of Pellitorie of the Wall a handfull of vnset Isope a handfull of vnset Time and seeth all these hearbes well together with a quarte of good Malmesey to a pint and the powder of whole Egge-shels and as much of the powder of Hasell-nut shells when you haue put the liquor from the hearbes then put in the powder to the same and let the patient drinke thereof warme in the morning fasting and it will helpe him For the collick a remedy ¶ Take white Time Parsley bruse them and strayne them with stale Ale and set it to the fire and make it warme and put thereto a good quantity of Graines and so drinke it Also take Broome seede that is gréene and giue it to the party to drinke being dried and made in powder and when the paine is vpon him vse it A medicine for the collick ¶ Take a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a handfull of white salt and séethe them then dippe in two or thrée handfuls of blacke Shéeps wooll and bind the same from the nauell to the bottome of your belly as warme as you can suffer it For the collica passio ¶ Take the roote of Quintfoyle and long Pepper grind them small in powder and drinke it in good Ale Also take Time and Saffron stampe them together and put thereto a little good Ale and straine it through a cloth and then giue it to the Patient to drinke and it shall ease him forthwith Also make a plaister of the hearbe Philopendula being sodden with the afore-said hearbes For the collica passio ¶ Take the crums of cleane wheaten bread and white Vineger and the pouder of Comin boile all them together and make a plaister therof and as hot as the sicke may suffer it lay it néere to the belly and he shall soone be eased of his paine Also take Turmentile and Treakle de bayes and eate it and drinke of the water of Elderne flowers stilled Another for the same ¶ Take vnset Léekes and cut away the faces and all then take the white of the Léeke and bray it small with May butter and fry it lay it very hot to the nauell being bound with a cloth For the collick and the stone ¶ Take the gréene pith of an Elder stalke that is betwéene the barke and the stalke and stamp it small and drinke it with good stale Ale and it shall breake winde For a man that is costife ¶ Take Mallowes Mercury and séethe them with Pork and make therof pottage and let the party eate therof and drink Whay and it shall make him sollible Also take the iuyce of Walwoort and mingle it with honey and drink it For the dropsie proued ¶ Take two pound of sage Ryall and two pound of water Carsen and two pound of Isope take these hearbes and bray them in a morter and wring out the iuyce thereof and then take Wheate flower and blend it with the iuyce and make a loafe thereof and bake it in an Ouen and all hot breake him into two or three gallons of good stale Ale and let there be no dregs therein and so let it stand all night and stop it close and let the sicke drinke thereof at all times and he shall be whole Also take Borage and Langdebéefe and Parsly and Scabiâ—us and of water Cresses as much as of the other hearbes a handfull of Smerewoort and vse this pottage with that drink and he shall be whole Another for the dropsie proued ¶ Take foure penny waight of Scamony and two penny waight of Rubarb sixe penny waight of Scene and a penny waight of Setwell and a penny waight of Spignard and a penny waight of the pouder of Camomell and an vnce of Suger and bray all these spices in a morter of brasse and mingle therwith the Suger then let the sicke vse this medicine thrée daies fasting a good spoonfull at once and it will make him for to haue a good stomack and doo away all euils For the Dropsie if it be curable or no. ¶ Take Barly meale and the iuyce of Spinage and of Marigolds and make thereof a plaister and lay it three times vnto a mans liuer and if the plaister be dry soone hée is curable and if it dry not hee is vncurable For the Dropsie another proued ¶ Take a handfull of the tender crops of Broome and stampe them and straine them in a quart of stale Ale and boyle it till it be halfe wasted then put thereto some Sinamon and Ginger and set the patient vpright in a chaire so that his feete touch not the grounde by two foote and a halfe then put vnder his feete a panne of coales and lay ouerthwart the pan a payre of tonges or two and lay thereon geene Broome and let him sette the soles of his feete thereon and giue him of the drinke blood warme and so let him sweat well when he goeth to bed and by Gods grace it will helpe him For a Dormitorie ¶ Take a quarter of a pounde of Almonds blended and a halfe pound of Hempseede three times washed in cleane water and sixe Dates and stampe them altogether and put thereto good stale Ale and take an ounce and a halfe of Poppy seede brused and let it lie in Ale three or foure howres and then séeth them together and
make thereof a playster and lay it to the sore and it will ease you For a hardnes in the body ¶ Against the hardnes of the body take a good quantitie of Lilly rootes with an hearbe called Brancha vrsina and the roote of Mallowes and Holly-hock and temper them altogether in Wine and Oyle twelue dayes and then straine it and in stratning put thereto waxe and oyle and make an oyntment therof and therewith annoynt the hard-bound body Against heate in the bodie ¶ Take and eate ripe Berries and drinke the iuyce thereof it is very good for them that haue ouer-much heate for it cooleth them and an electuary made of these Berries is verie good for them that is gréeued with ouermuch heate in the body Also take the distilled water of Oxe dunge it is very good and profitable for the same A medicine for the Blacke Iaundies ¶ Take Gentiana long Pepper Calomus aromaticus Anence Reysons Currons white Sope of Spaine of each of these one ounce and two spoonefuls of Musterd-séed and boyls all them in a quart of Wine till the third part be wasted Another for the same ¶ Take Angell towchis and grinde them small but first wash them as cleane as ye may then put thereto a quantitie of Neates-foote oyle and a quantitie of Vineger drinke this medicine cold thrée times and it will cause you to cast out all the sicknes in your body presently Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Sage Parsely Gromwell of each a like much and make pottage thereof with a péece of good Porke and eate no other meate that day prooued For the yellow Iaundies and greene sicknes ¶ Take of Iuorie made into small powder halfe an ounce of Turmericke thrée quarters of an ounce as much of Saffron as the weight of a groate compounde all these well together and vse to drinke of thys potion first in the morning and last in the euening with a draught of good stale Ale but if you take it for the blacke Iaundies you must first purge melancholy and for she gréene Iaundies without purging and this medicine will helpe both as hath béene proued For the yellow Iaundies ¶ Take a great white Onion and make a hole where the blads goeth out to the bignes of a Chesnut and then take Treacle of Iane asmuch as will fill the hole then take halfe an ounce of English-Hony being beaten so compound the Treacle and Saffron together and put it into the Onion and sette them against the fire and rost it well that it doo not burne and when it is rosted straine it through a cloth and giue the iuyce thereof to the sicke thrée dayes together and it shall help them Another for the same ¶ Take a redde Docke roote and scrape it and lay it in a quart of strong Ale all night Another for the same ¶ If the patient drinke the Sope of Spaine and the shauings of Iuory it is very good for the yellow Iaundies being either olde or young To expell the venim of the Iaundies ¶ Take of running water a pint of Endiue and Succory of each halfe a handfull let them boyle till the halfe be wasted then straine it and put thereto of Rubarbe one dramme and a halfe and of Spignard a halfe-penny weight fine beaten of Sugar three ounces and let it boyle a little and then take it off and let it stande close couered all night and the next day earlie strains it and giue the sicke to driuke thereof fasting and abstaine from meate two howres after For the Iaundies in young children ¶ Take of Rubarbe of Turmericke the waight of tenne pence of white sugar Candy as much of Spignard the waight of three pence make all these in fine powder and mixe it together and thrée dayes together take thereof in white Wine or Rennish Wine Another for the same ¶ Take Turmerick Saffron a penny waight the shauing of Iuory foure pence weight the shauing of Harts-horne as much a spoonefull of the iuyce of Capilly veneris made into powder and drinke it in Wine and put thereto a pretty quantitie of Sugar and it helpeth the same For an Impostume ¶ An Impostume is a swelling or aking out of kind and it is either of a corrupt humor that must be broken out or else of superfluitie of a humor that should nourish that limme First there must bee giuen a Purgation after that repercussions a maturatiue The remedie ¶ Take Holly-hock Licoris Lintséede dry Figges Lillierootes and Iiniper berries séeth them long in water after doe away the licoris the Iiniper berries and bray well the other then put thereto Barly meale Lintseed Fenegréek and boile al these together well and annoynt it first with fresh Butter and this ripeth postumes within without and it is good in an harde and dry impostume though it waxe as hard as a stone repercutions to smite inward the matter againe shoulde not be vsed in children nor in old men neither where matter is wooddish or seruent nor where the water is much now and then in the burning of sicknes in the nigreforiis as gréeueth when the postume or botch commeth of nobler lim or member then it is on then shal he be riped there and not driuen away frō destinary dread of the better member the which abréeding of the postume and of the venimous matter thereof repercutions must be taken in time ere that the matter be ful seged and ere it be corrupt and rotten and that is good commonly with the iuyce of cold hearbs as petty morrell purslaine of the wood and vmbelicus veneris with oyle of roses and a little aysell a little Bole armoniack and cold oyntments as Popilion or vnguentum album or the colde oyntment Iusquinianus and Poppy and lead and seeth greene Plantaine and Vinegar and the white of an Egge To breake an impostume ¶ Take a Lilly roote and an Onion and boyle them in cleane water till they be soft and then stampe them fry them with Swines greace and lay it to the impostume as hote as the patient may suffer it To ripen an impostume ¶ Take Worme-wood Mallowes Mugwoort of each a good handfull stampe them and mingle them with a quarter of a pounde of Swines greace and fry them and put to it a handfull of Wheaten branne and a little White wine of Honey foure ounces boyle them till they be thicke and lay it hote to the sore place For an Itch or breaking out ¶ Take an ounce of Quick-siluer two ounces of Baies and mingle them well together vntill that you can see no Quicksiluer and put it into a boxe and annoynt the patience once in 24 howres and it shall kill the itch Another for the same ¶ Take Frankensence and bray it small in a Morter and meddle it with Oyle de Bay and there-with annoynt thee all ouer and it will destroy the itch For all itches ¶ If the itch be in the heate of the wriste then let
must be sodden somwhat more then the leafe of the Vine in fayre water and it will heale the Patient this hath béen often times proued For vnsauery mouthes ¶ Take the iuice of Endiue with Suger and if the iuice be thick or troubled clarifie it and so may all other iuices in this wise Séeth the iuice of Endiue a little and let it stand and that which is thick will goe to the bottom then take the thin liquor and straine it often through a cloth and wring it and with that iuice in the bottom make Syrop with Suger if you will make it thinner put the white of an Egge therto For stinke in the mouth ¶ Take and make Pils of Cassia lingua and eat of them and they be good for the stinke of the mouth Also for the stinke of the mouth caused of rottennes of the gums and téeth take and wash the mouth with water that garden Mints be sodden in and rub the téeth with the Mints or else with the powder thereof Also chew Muske and it will doo away the stinke of the mouth Also take the iuice of Vorueine and bruse it and put it in thy mouth and hold it a good while close in thy mouth and it will take away the slinke Proued To take away the stinking of the mouth ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with water and Vineger and chew Mastick a good while and then wash thy mouth with the decoction of Aniséeds Mints Cloues sodden in Wine If the stinking of the mouth come of a rotten tooth the best is for to haue it drawne out Also you must wash your mouth before meat and after with warme water For to clense the mouth and to purge the humors from the mouth which descend out of the head it is good euery morning fasting to wash your mouth and to rub your teeth with a Sage leafe Pils of citron or with powder made with Cloues or Nutmegs You must forbeare all meates of euill digestion and rawe fruites For a stinking breath ¶ Take oyle Doret Turpentine Hony oyle Oliue Virgin wax as much of the one as of the other and boyle them all together and make an oyntment therof and vse it euery day in the Patients nosthrills and let it be put into the nose euerie day with tents made of lynt scraped of fine linnen cloath and hee shall be whole For a stinking breath ¶ Take the iuice of Hilwoort or else take Butter and the iuice of Featherfoy and temper them with Honey and euery day giue the Patient a spoonfull Another for the same ¶ Take two handfuls of Comin and stampe it to powder and boyle it in Wine and drinke the Syrope thereof morning and euening warme the space of fiftéene dayes and thou shalt amend this hath been proued For a good breath ¶ Take and wash thy mouth with the water that the shels of Citeron haue béen sodden in and thou shalt haue a good breath Also these confections make the breath swéet the electuarie of Aromatikes and the pils of Citrons Against letting of the breth caused of cold humors take and drink the hearb Dawke or the liquor that dry Figs haue béen sodden in and it will make the breath sweet and wholsom Also take red Mints and Rue wring the iuice in the sick bodies nosthrils when he goeth to bed For the tongue ¶ Against the sharpnes and drynesse of the tongue put this gum in water which is called gum Arabike till the water be slymie and with that slyme moist the tongue or bind the gum in a thin cloth and put it in water till it begin to melt and with she same cloth rub thy tongue and it will take away the paine thereof Also for the roughnesse of the tongue put the séedes of Quinces or the curnells in a fine cloth and wash thy tongue therwith also Psillium or the séede thereof For drynesse of the tongue and for thirst ¶ Against drinesse of the tongue of the Feauer Ague put the séede of Fleawoort and bind it in a fine linnen cloth and then put it in cold water and therwith wash and rub thy tongue and scrape it with a knife Also for thirst put the séede of Fleawoort in a bag and lay it on the tongue For thirst in the tongue ¶ Against thirst in the tongue giue Ptysan or Dragagant and it will be dissolued in a night or make syrope with water that Barly and Dragagant is sod in and it is conueniable for Feauer Agues or if Dragagant be holden vnder the tongue For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Take and vse great strong ground Musterd the powder of Piones well scalled pouder of Sage Nutmegs and Suger doo these powders in the Musterd and eate euery day at meales therof and it will take away the palsie of the tongue Also Musterd seede sodden in oyle or wine is very good against the palsie Also take the powder of Casterium and hold it vnder the tongue till it be molten or dissolued For the palsie in the tongue ¶ Against the palsie of the tongue that is when the tongue is full of holes and the Patient cannot speake because the sinewes of the tongue is full of humors as it appeareth often in Feauer Agues for the same chew the séed of Cresses and hold it vnder the tongue proued For him that hath lost his speech ¶ Take Sage Pimpernel stamp them well annoint his tong vnderneath with the iuice therof els take the iuice of Sage and Pimpernell and doo it in his mouth Also take Ach Mints red Betony and lay them into Goats milke drinke it morning and euening Also take thrée vnces of Betony and swéet milke of a Goat temper them together and drinke it thrée daies together this for the palsie is most pretious To restore speech that is lost sodenly ¶ Take Peniriall and temper it with Eysell and giue the sicke to drinke it lay also a playster of this to his nosthrills so gréeued For a man that sleepeth and cannot speake ¶ Take Galbanum and set it ouer the fire with a candle and make it smoke and put the smoke to his nose and thou shalt cause him for to speake Also take the iuice of Sage and Printrose and doo it in his mouth and he shall speake by Gods grace Also take the iuice of greene Morrell berries and clarifie it wel and drink therof and thou shalt speake Another for the same ¶ Take the iuice of Sothernwood and temper it with wine and drinke it when thou goest to bed Another for the same ¶ Take the crops of Rue and the crops of Verueine of each a like much and drink the iuice therof when thou goest to bed For Sunne burning ¶ Take the iuice of Lemons with a little bay-salt and wash your face therewith and let it dry in and doo so thrée or foure times and it will helpe you Also take halfe a pot full of raine water and fill it vp with Veriuice and séeth it till
penny-worth of Lycoris scraped and a halfe penny-worth of Annyseed a little Linséed and a handfull of Isope and asmuch Penneriall cleane washed let them séeth to fiue pints and drinke hereof morning and euening till you haue ease For a hoarce voyce ¶ Take the broth that red Colwoorts haue béene sodden in and mingle it with seauen or eyght Penydis and one ounce of sirrop of Maiden-haire and giue it the patient when hee goeth to bed Take Dyairis simple and a losing of the same at morning and also at night Another remedy for a hoarce voyce ¶ Take great Raisons Figges Sugar Cinamon and Cloues of each a small quantitie séeth them in good Wine and giue the patient to drinke thereof morning and euening two ounces at a time except hee haue a Feauer It is also good to take morning and euening a spoonfull of the strrop of Iniubes mixed with a roote of Licoris in manner of a Locsanum if with the saide hoarcenes there discende aboundance of water to the mouth Also it is good for to make an clectuarie of halfe Dyairis and halfe Diadrigantum and vse hereof first in the morning and last at night A very good medicine for to open the pypes and to make the voyce cleere ¶ Take a Figge and put it in the powder of Isope and eate euerie morning one at a time till you be well Thys will help you on warrantise For a sore throat or mouth ¶ Take Cinckfoile a good quantitie stampe it and boyle it in faire water in a posnet then hold thy mouth open ouer the fume thereof as hote as possible thou canst suffer it that it may enter into thy throat and still as it cooleth in thy mouth spitte it out and so take fresh and fresh A sirrop for a sore throat ¶ Take halfe a pynte of the iuyce of Mulberries a pynte of clarified Honny and a quarter of a pinte of good Claret Wine séeth them altogether till the liquor be cōsumed take also sage Suger Woodbine and Roses of each a handfull seeth them in faire water till the strength of the hearbes be sodden then take tenne or twelue spoonfulls of the fore-said strrop of Mulberries and put therein and with thys vse to gargell your throat luke-warme oftentimes and spit it out againe proued For a sore throate ¶ Take oyle of Camomile oyle of Violets and the oyle of Almonds and the greace of a Hen asmuch as of all the others first wash it well and picke it then mingle all together and annoynt the throat therewith Take the dunge of an Asse and the dunge of Swallowes and make it in powder and put the same in wine and gargel it in your mouth and throat as hote as may be suffered Take also the Swallowes in the nest and a pounde of the oyle of Cammomile and the oyle of Almonds as much of the one as of the other and lay it to the place For the swelling in the throate ¶ Take the greene barke of the Elder trée and a little Bay salte beate them well together till they be somwhat small thou lay the same to the swelling of the throat For the Quinsie in the throate ¶ Take Cinckfoile and seeth the same in running Water and put it in a pot with a narrow mouth and let the party gréeued hold his mouth ouer the mouth of the potte so that the fume may passe into his throat and when the water waxeth colde wash the throat well with the same both within and without and the disease will vanish away prooued Another for the same ¶ First let the partie thus diseased bee let blood on the left arme or in the liuer vaine three or foure ounces and let him gargase it with Wine-vinegar and water warmed together of each a like quantitie gargase it often times and spet it out and let him haue Methridatum in white Wine and let him sweat vpon it an howre or two And if the Quinsie be swolne already in his throat then let him vse this remedie following Take a Swallowes nest as you finde it with Birds or with Egges or without eyther of them and put to the same eyght handfulls of Mallowes with asmuch Water-cresses boyle them all together in milke vntill they become soft and till the milk be cleane consumed then beate it in a bowle vntill it come to a plaister then take asmuch as your fist of the same and while it is warme spread it like a plaister and binde it as hote as may be suffered about the place where the swelling is and so change it often til the paine be gone Another for the same ¶ Take hote Bread and put it in Honny and lay it to the place as hote as may be suffered and it will drinke it vp Take also the iuyce of Planten gargell it vp and downe thy throat and it will case the paine thereof Also take the berries of the Mulberrie tree and make iuyce thereof then seeth them in a little Oyle and Wine and put Vineger thereto and so gargle it Also an electuarie made of the iuyce of the same Berries with a quantitie of scummed Honny is good for the same and it may be kept tenne yéeres in séedes of Dianorum for the Quinsie For the Cough ¶ Take Isope great Raisens and Figges of each a little handfull and one eunce of Liceris boyle them in faire water till the third part be consumed then giue the partie gréeued for to drinke thereof twise a day in the morning two houres before meate and at night two howres before supper also it is good for to eate a losing of Diairis or Diapeaideon If you will haue it stronger put thereto the decoction of a little Colewoorts Annyseedes and Fennell seedes with the séedes of Nettles of each two drams Another for the cough ¶ Take Sage Rue red Fennell Isope Comin and the powder of Pepper of each like much by weight and seeth them well together in Honny and make thereof an electuarie and vse thereof a spoonefull in the euening and another in the morning till the cough be gone Another medicine against the cough ¶ Take the roote of Enula campana Horehound Holihock of eath of them a like much séeth thē all together in white wine with a dozen of fatte Figges and with a little Licoris and vse to drinke hereof a draught at a time euerie day twise For a dry cough ¶ Take Annyséedes Ashe séedes and Violets and beate them to powder and stampe them with euen portion then seeth them together in faire water till they waxe thicke then put the same into a bore and as you neede let the sicke eate first last of the same till he be well For the Cough or stoppings ¶ Take the powder of Isope the powder of Anny-seed the powder of Ginger the powder of Licoris and mingle thē with clarified Honny and eate dailie hereof till thou bee whole Also for the cough take a little Brimstone and make powder thereof
and put a little of the same vpon a borde or trencher and take a stick or coale of fire and put it in the Brimstone and let the partie greeued holde his nose ouer the fume of the Brimstone and it shall breake the force of the cough and stoppings Also this is good for the pose and the rewme in the head as hath oft beene pooued To make a powder for the Cough ¶ Take Sugar-candie Enula Campana rootes dryed but nothing so much Enula campana as Sugar-candie theÌ„ take two or three crops of dryed Isope and one race of Ginger and beate all these together and afterwarde vse to eate of these powders till thou be whole To make a sirrop for the Cough ¶ Take a pynt of Isope water halfe a pynt of clipped Rosemary a quarter of a pound of Sugar-candie three spoonfuls of Anniséedes brused thrée sponfuls of Licoris sliced séeth al these together vpon a soft fire vntill it come to a sirrop then straine it and take a spoonfull thereof morning and euening and let it goe softly downe by gowlpes For the perrillous Cough ¶ Take white Horehound and stampe it and wring out the iuyce and mingle the iuyce with Honny and seeth it and gyue the sicke to drinke hereof Take also a Garlike head and rost it then take away the pills and eate it Also take a Colwoort leafe and strike the inner side thereof with May butter and lay it to the sicke mans stomacke or belly euery morning and euening and giue him no Milke Butter nor Cheese nor any kinde of salte meate nor fatte pottage nor Nuts nor Apples but make the partie pottage with leaues and rost him an Onyon and let him eate it with a little Pepper and Honny put therein and vse it osten and it will helpe him Another for the same ¶ Take the iuyce of Sage and the iuyce of Rue of each like much and a quantitie of Commin and asmuch of the powder of Pepper and seeth them all very well in clarified Honny and so make an electuarie thereof and let the partie greeued vse of thys medicine daily thrée spoonfuls at night three in the morning vntill he be whole A good medicine to helpe the cough speedily ¶ Take two or thrée Garlick heads well pilled stamp them and put them into Hogs-greace or suet and stamp them well together and at night when thou goest to bedde warme well the soles of your féete and annoynt them with the said confection as hote as may be suffered and also the small of your legs and put a warme cloth about your feete and within thrée nights he shal be holpen Also take Brimstone and put it into powder and put a little thereof into a new layde Egge soft rosted and mingle it well together then put thereto of Bengemin as much as a fitch pease lightly stamped drinke it in the morning at your breakfast and at night A remedie for the dry cough ¶ Take a pound of Licoris and scrape it cleane then stampe it in a morter and put it in an earthen pot and put thereto three quarts of the best woort that may be gotten one ounce of Sugar and a quarter of an ounce of Ginger in powder a pynt of clarified Honny and seeth them all together till they bee halfe wasted then straine it through a cleane cloth into a faire vessell and let the party gréeued vse thereof first and last at night hote and in the morning cold till he be whole Another for the dry cough ¶ Take Anny-séedes Smallage seedes and Violet séedes of each a like much beate them all together in powder temper them with wine as the quantitie gyueth then seeth theÌ„ well till they wexe thicke and so vse it Also if you take the seedes of Nettles and seeth them in Oyle and afterward annoynt your hands and your féete therewith it will doe away the cough Also take the strrop of Violets and of Iniubes and drinke thereof Also it is very good to take first in the morning and last at night a losing of Diadragagant and after ward to drinke a draught of good Pâ—isan and thys is a present remedie for the cough when it procéedeth of a hote cause A dyer for them that haue the cold cough ¶ Yée must abstaine from Vineger and all salt meats from fruits and raw hearbes from Fish Lemmons and all kinde of grosse meats and too much replexion Also ye must drinke no Wine betwéene meales nor sléepe in the day time especiallie after meate For the stopping of the pypes and for fleame a medicine proued ¶ Take a good bowle-full of Barlie and put to the same a gallon of cleane Well water and boyle them together till the Barly be as soft as any Wheate or Formentie then straine it through a cleane cloth and take that water and put thereunto asmuch good Woort with a penny-worth of Licoris brused but not made into powder and a good handfull of Isope another of Sage and boyle them altogether till one halfe of the liquor bee boyled in then straine that liquor through a cloth and that that commeth through the cloth put into a close vessell and let it stand a day and then let the patient drinke thereof a spoonefull or two euerie morning and so much likewise euery euening vntill he be well This hath béene often prooued For straitnesse in the pypes ¶ For straitnesse in the pypes or in the breast take dry Isope rootes of Enula campana of each one handfull sticks of Licoris scraped and soft brused foure vnces and boyle altogether in a gallon of running water till halfe be wasted then straine it and to all the aboue said liquor hote put halfe a pint of clarified hony and drinke therof milk warme a good draught euery day first and last A medicine for to stay a vomit ¶ Take halfe a pinte of running water an vnce of Suger and a good race of Ginger pick it and scrape it cleane and shred it in good handsome péeces and so put it to the water and the Suger and boile them together from halfe a pint to a quarter of a pint and so giue it to the party to drink for it will stay the vomit in a very little space For them that may not digest their meat ¶ Take Horshoue and Hilwate of each of these a like much wash them cleane and stamp them and put therto the powder of Pepper and séeth them together in faire water and let the Patient drink therof luke warme first and last For a vomit a remedy ¶ For them that haue vomit and for them that haue not their breath at will and hath stopping in their breasts take a dram and a halfe of the powder of Betony with a Goblet full of water and drink it fasting Another for the same ¶ Against the vomit caused of weakenesse heate or odor chollerick mingle the pouder of the thrée leaued Grasse with the white of an Egg and rost them
spoonfull and the powder of Pepper mingle these together and drink it for three dayes fasting For the wasting of the kidneyes and for paines of the back ¶ Take a handfull of Planten a handfull of Parsly a handfull of Betony a handfull of water Betony a handfull of Sorrell a dosen crops of Rosemary séeth these in three pints of Ale till it be wasted and strain them and put therto a pint of Sack and a good péece of Suger and burne it well together and so giue it to the party all hot euening and morning proued For the whites or the running in the raines ¶ Take white washed Turpentine and make it vp in balls like Pyls then take Cinamon Ginger and rowle the balls in it and take them as you would doo Pylls morning and euening Prooued For the whites ¶ For the whites or weaknes in the back take an earthen vessell and put it in a quart pot of faire water wherin you must quench two or thrée gads of sréele being red hot then stéepe therin an vnce of Lettice séeds foure and twenty houres then strain the same and séeth it halfe away and scum it very cleane and keepe it in a couered cup and drinke this morning and euening with powder of Iuory Another for the same ¶ Take Archangell and séeth it in drinke and drink it morning and euening it is very good the red for the woman and the white for the man For all manner of aches in the back ¶ Take Egrimony Mugwoort both the leaues and rootes and stamp them with Swines greace and Vineger and séethe them and lay it to the back Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Peniriall and put therto Vineger and oyle Oliue that is gréene and lay it to thy backe plaister wise For him that hath lost his complexion from the back ¶ Take Linséed and stamp it smal and temper it with Goats milk and straine it all warme and drink it thrée or foure times fasting and thy complexion will come againe For the paines in the back ¶ Take Vnguentum rosarum and chafe your backe morning and euening and lay to this plaister following take Fethersoy Tansie Housleeke of each a handfull shreded and stamped fine then fry them well together with a saucer full of hony and two vnces of Deues dung of the newest you can get when it is thick like a plaister put it in the end of a small sléeue and so lay it to your back all warme For all manner af ache in the back ¶ Take Smallage Egrimony Mouseare and stamp them all together but wash them well first and temper them with Ginger and fry them well in Bores greace and make a playster and as hote as the sicke may suffer lay it on the ache and he shall haue ease Another for the same ¶ Take Lilly rootes Camomell Anniséedes and stampe them all together and fry them in Bores greace and put a little Wine therete and in manner of a plaister lay it on a cloth and bind it fast to the backe or raines all hot and after thrée or foure daies remoue it with renuing of the plaister therto with more fresh For the running of the raines ¶ Take Pellitory of the wall and stampe it and straine it and drink it with Malmsie or white Wine or Ale and doo this often till that thou be all whole Also if the Patient make a Tansie of Clary and eate thereof is very good for the same disease as hath béene proued For womens termes ¶ Take Selondine and let a woman put it in her hose vnder the soles of her féete and it will help her Also Mollet leaues and the red flowers of Hollihocks is very good for this purpose Also the great leaues of Burres béeing sodden in strong Ale and the same afterward drunk is very good For wasting of nature ¶ Take a pint of Malmsie and put therto a peny woorth of Sinamon and another of cleane Mace and boyle them ouer the fier with Wine but first make powder of your spices then take Treakle as much as a Damson and put therto and stir altogether and let the sick drink therof hot at all times and it shall auoide all fleame and wind in the interior parts of man to restore his nature prooued For all Impostumes in the body ¶ Take Centory Rosemary Wormwood Horthound and make it in sirop with white Wine and let the sick take therof and it shall cause the Impostume to goe downe and when it is broken let him vse to drink of the same sirop warme For to destroy all Impostumes either in man or woman ¶ Take the root of Hollihock and wash it cleane and séeth it till it be tender and then put the water into a vessell and then take Linséed and Fenegreke of each of them a like much and sée that thou haue as much of them two as the root that is sodden then séeth them in the same water till it rope as it were Birdlime then stamp the root and doo therto Barly meale and mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the sore plaister wise as hote as you may suffer it and within nine daies ye shall be whole Also take Turmentile and let the Patient drinke often of the iuice therof and it shall cure him prooued An experiment to take away the mother ¶ Take a great deale of Mugwoort and as you gather it sliue the leaues downward then wash them cleane and boyle them in running water till they be soft and when the party goeth to bed let him or her wash themselues therewith from the nauell downward both flanks and members and also the mother so hote as is possible to be suffered remember the parties that they wash not vpward at any time and within thrée daies washing the parties eyther hee or shée shall be whole God willing Prooued Another medicine for the mother ¶ Take a handfull of Mother-time a handfull of Motherwoort a handfull of Isop a handfull of Sage séeth all these in a gallon of faire water vntill it be halfe consumed then mash it vpon halfe a peck of Malt so let it stand an houre then take the woort of it as you doo for drink and put yéest to it and being thus made let the party drink it morning and euening A drink for the paine of the mother ¶ Take a dram of Methridatum and dissolue it in an vnce and a halfe of water of Wormwood and giue it to the woman for to drinke before that she goeth to meat foure houres and let her not drink a good while afterward proued A most excellent medicine for the mother the chollick and stone ¶ Take Fenell séed Coriander seed Carroways séed Parsly séed Galingall séed Gromwell seed an vnce of each of these also an vnce of leaues and cods of Scene a quarter of an vnce of Spignall a quarter of an vnce of Time take al these and make them into
Cancer or Scorpio remember that you purge not in the change nor in any vnfortunate aspect of the Plannets vnto any other neither in the extreame heate or cold of the yeere Now if any man would know what commoditie purging or bleeding bringeth beeing rightly vsed and doone in such sort as it ought to be doone or what dyet and exercise shoulde bee vsed after bleeding and order obscrued in purging with the inconuenience and harme which may and doth dailie procéede of the negligence and vnskilfulnes in the contempt of the same For all diseases through the body and for all kind of Agues TAke Purslaine Gentill Bursa pastoris and stamp them all together and doo thereto Vinegar and binde it to the pulses it will greatly helpe you Also take the powder of Cloues and Pepper of each a like quantitie and eate fasting at one time as much as will lie vpon a sixe-pence and drinke not in on howre after Also let the partie so greeued with the Ague take halfe a pint of his owne water and a penny-worth of Pepper brused and put therein and let the parfie so greeued drinke thereof all an howre before that the fitte dooth come vpon him and let him lie downe and sweat as much as hée may Another for the Ague ¶ Take a pottle of thinne Ale and put thereto a handfull of Parsley as much redde Fennell as much Centorie as much Pimpernell and let the Ale be halfe consumed awaie and then take and drinke thereof Another for the Ague ¶ Take thrée Burre-rootes and wash them and straine them séethe them with halfe a pinte of Ale and so drinke therof luke-warme before the fitte dooth come Another for the same ¶ Take Endiue Sowthistle Dandelion Lettice Sorrel of each a like much and still them altogether and giue it to the partie so gréeued it is very good against the Ague Another experiment for the Ague ¶ Take foure handfuls of Groundswellie and stampe it small in a Morter and put thereto thrée spoonesuls of Vinegar and thrée spoonefuls of Bay-salt grinde them all together then put them in a pewter dish and set them on a Chafindish of coles and stirre them together till the liquor is almost dry then lay it to the wrists as hote as the partie can suffer it euery tune an howre before the fitte dooth come For the ague another medicine ¶ Take a handfull of redde Sage and a handfull of Redde Nettles and a handfull of Hearbe-grace and two spoonefuls of Bay-salt and a spoonefull of strong Vinegar and a peece of leauened bread and let all these be well beate together and bind it to the pulces of your wrists before that the fit doth come and it shall helpe you by the power of God proued For the hote ague a remedie ¶ Take the iuyce of Sengréene and the whites of 4. Egs and faire flower of Wheat and meddle it well together and make thereof a plaister and lay it to the patients sides thē take the water of Betony the water of Pimpernell Scabious water water of Turmentill the water of Radish of each of these a like much and meddle all these together and giue the patient to drinke all hote before that his fitte doth come Another for the same proued ¶ Take a pynt of the iuyce of Sorrell and put it into a pot of Milke when it beginneth to séeth vpon the sire then take it off the fire and let it stand and it will haue a curde vpon the same like vnto a posset-curde then take the curde off and let the patient drinke thereof a good draught at a time as hote as he can possible endure to drinke it and by Gods grace it will help him within two or thrée times seuerally drinking Thys Medicine hath beene proued Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Bursa pastoris and so much white Frankensence as will couer two shillings at thrice and asmuch Bay salt and bray them in a Morter and so lay them vpon a thinne cloth to the wrist and about the arme at night when you goe to bed an howre or two before that your fitte dooth come vpon you For the burning ague ¶ Take a handfull of Smalladge a handfull of Fetherfew a handfull of Redde sage stampe them all together and take thrée or foure spoonefuls of the parties water and asmuch Vineger and boile them altogether on the fire a little while take a quantitie of the same Hearbes and wringing the liquor out of them lay thē vpon a cloth and binde it hote vppon your temples and not vpon your fore-head then take the rest and binde it to the parties wristes as hote as he may suffer it before that the fitte commeth and within three or foure times dressing hée shall finde great ease and be helped of his Ague Another for the same ¶ Take a pottle of Water with halfe a pinte of Vinegar take also Endiue Suckorie Violet-leaues fine leaued grasse and Straw-berrie leaues of each of them a good quantitie and seeth them to a quart and put thereto halfe a pounde of Sugar and drinke thereof morning and euening For the quartaine ague ¶ Take Ribwoort Beet rootes and the leaues to the quantitie of three or foure handfuls washe the hearbes cleane then stampe them in a woodden dish with a woodden pestle straine the iuyce from the hearbes and drinke it Milke warme and this taketh away the humors of the stomacke and frō the hart within fiue or sixe times vsing it cureth and helpeth the sicke partie so gréeued with the ague prooued For the Ague comming with colde ¶ Take fiue crops of Rosemary and fiue cropps of Sage and fiue crops of Marigolds nine Bay leaues and a quart of strong Ale séethe all these together well and drinke it with Pepper being warme and vse it For feauer Agues in children ¶ Take the powder of Christall and lay it in soke in Wine and giue it to the Child to drink and the sucking Child shall be whole Also take Morsus diabolie the roote and the hearbe and hang it about the necke of the Child For all manner of aches a Seare-cloth ¶ Take Waxe Turpentine Rozin hard Pitch Bores greace powder of Commin powder of Bayes Frankensence oyle de vte de popilion and take all these things saue the peuder and set it ouer the fire and stir it fast till it be molten and set it downe and skim it not nor straine it not at all stir it fast till it be nye cold and then strew in thy powder with thy hand as thou wouldest strew flower into a Childs papp and when it is all in and welnie cold spread it with a slice vpon a péece of leather and when it is spread vpon the leather take a new linnen cloth and lay it vpon and couch it fast and at your néed vse it For a cold and ache of the lims ¶ Take a handfull of Suger a handfull of Endiue a handfull of the
and fine till they be as tough as waxe then take a quart of claristed Honny and cast the Dates therein till they bee dissolued then take halfe an ounce of long Pepper as much of Mace and Cloues and Nutmegs beaten in fiue powder then seeth the Dates and Honny ouer a soft fire then cast on the powder by little and little and stirre it very fast and let it seeth long till it wexe thicke then set it to ecole and put it in close Boxes and eate therefore first and last and it shall restore a man bee hee neuer so weake or lowe brought vse this some-times vppon a full stomacke and you shall not surfet proued by M. Baltazer Chirurgian ¶ An Electuarie most soueraine for all manner of diseases in the body proued by G. K. ¶ Take foure pound of Sugar and boyle it in a pint and a halfe of Malmesey and put thereto a pint of rose-Rose-water and a pint and a halfe of White-wine halfe a pinte of Aqua vitae and of running water a pint boyle all these together and when it is well sodden take of the powder of Enula campana an ounce and a halfe of Calamus aromaticus and Licoris of each halfe an ounce pepper thrée penny waight one halfe penny worth of Alisander seedes in powder sixe pence waight of conserue of Roses and Violets of each foure ounces boyle all these to a measurable thicknes then put thereto of folliater golde and all to cut it with a knife and mingle it with the aforesaide Electuarie and vse it as your need requireth and by Gods grace it will helpe you A restoritie for the weake and feeble ¶ Take a pinte of running Water and heate it ouer the fire and put in it a handful of Rose-mary let it boile to the halfe and then straine it then take a pint of White wine or Claret wine and a good peece of Sugar and powder of Ginger Sinamon a little Mace and Cloues and put them altogether thē lay sops in a dish and poure thereon the broth and giue it to the ficke and féeble persons fasting in the morning proued For a consumption proued ¶ Take halfe an ounce of Manus Christi one ounce of white fugar Candy and a penny worth of Anniseedes and halfe a pinte of Redde-rose water and a pint of Muscadine foure new layde Egges a quarter of Nutmegges halfe a quarter of Cap Dates and stone your Dates and wash them before that you doo put them in and boile them altogether and so vse them for this hath béene proued A Ielly prooued for a consumption ¶ Take a well fleshed Capon and scald him and draw him and put into his belly a handfull of Barly and as much Reysons Currons and Dates and put him in an earthen pot with a gallon of Claret wine then put therein some Sinamon and Ginger let it seeth till the flesh be fallen from the bones then beate him in a Morter and put him into an Ipocras bag and let the Ielly runne into a faire Vessell and giue the patient of that ielly euening morning and within the spending of three Capons by the grace of God the patient shal recouer much his health and to comfort his stomack giue him Rorax aromaticum made in losings at the Apoticaries A present remedy for the Sciatica ¶ Take a handfull of Violet leaues and wash them in good Ale then take an other pint of good Ale and set it on the fire in a skillet and then beate the Violet leaues very small and so boyle them in the Ale and then when it is halfe boyled take out the leaues and straine the iuyce into the afore-said Ale againe and boyle it very well vntill that it bee thicke and then take a péece of sheepes leather as broad as the place which is gréeued and pricke it full of heles and spread the same on the rough side of the leather and lay it to the place xxiiij howres and then change it and lay to it new and so vse it thrée dayes and you shall be well the oftner the better To make a water for the Sciatica ¶ Take a peece of Porke of a male Hogge which is leane and perboyle it in water vntill the blood be cleane out thē boyle it in strong Ale a good while and after that take it and distill it with a soft fire and then kéepe the water and wash the places so gréeued two or thrée times against the fire For a Sciatica another medicine ¶ Take an Oxe gall and red Allam Rosemarie-tops bay Salt Aqua vitae and Vinegar bray them well together and set them on the fire and alwaies stirre it but let it not seeth and so vse it as neede requireth Another for the same ¶ Take Auence Comin and asmuch white salt a handful of Red nettles and seeth them in pisse and when they be well boyled put thereto Aqua vitae and annoynt well the sore therewith thrée or foure times A medicine for the Sciatica ¶ Take Time Lauender Cotten the runnings or out-laces of Straw-berries of each a like quantitie a nest or two of young Swallowes aliue with the feathers and the gutts and stampe them very small and so fry them in May-butter that is swéete and newe boile them on the fire then straine it through a cloth and put it into a pot and so vse it at your pleasure For the Crampe ¶ The Crampe commeth commonly of contractions of nerues or els it commeth of too much fulnes of the body or too much leannesse and note well that in the Palsie the members be more longer then they should be by relaxation and in the cramp the members are shorter then they should be by shrinking of the nerues but the Crampe that commeth of wasting is seldome cured if the paine be great withal cease it with oyle of roses or of Camemile hote and of yolks of Egges and Saffron together and wet Bread in swéet hote Milke for this ceaseth the aking of the Nerues Also make a garter of an Hares skin but the liuer is said to be full good for the Crampe prooued For the Crampe a remedy ¶ Take oyle of Camemile and Fenegréeke and annoynt the place where the Crampe is and it helpeth Another for the same ¶ Séeth these hearbes Betony Worme-wood Veruaine and Time these are exceeding good for to wash the party so troubled with the Crampe if he make it in a bath Another for the same ¶ If you say these words thrée times when the Cramp commeth vpon you Bero baro battora it may hap to help you To make one to haue a good colour ¶ Take and drinke the iuyce of Isope fasting warme it and it will make you to haue a good cullour it is good for the sight it destroyeth wormes it is also good for the Romake the liuer and the lunges For the Canker a remedie ¶ Take lentils of the Water which be called Frogs féete or Emets meate it is of great
thy feete stand long therein as hote as yee may suffer it and then keepe them warme A medicine for to stope the flixe or laxe ¶ Take three Nutmegs and rost them take of Sinamon thrée ounces three new layd Egges and rost them very harde till they be blew then take the yolke from the white as much of Bole armoniack as a Doues Egge then beate the spices verie fine that doone take altogether and beate them then put them in a quart of strong Ale sturring all these together then straine them and seeth the same till it come to a pint then giue the partie so grieued to drinke thereof first and last Also take Alligant and thicken it with Rice flower as you would make pappe then spread it vpon a peece of redde leather as broade as your hand and for a child lay it beneath the nauel somewhat warme and it helpeth For the flixe or laxe ¶ Take Redde-rose buddes and clippe off the whites from the leaues and dry them and make powder of them and giue it to the partie so grieued in a cawdell and at three times drinking it shall ease him And if the partie be weake to make him a Tansie of Camphier Planten and Archangell a little at a time asmuch as an Egge You may gather these hearbes in Sommer to serue in Winter To helpe the bloody flixe ¶ Take two handfull of Plantaine leaues and séeth them in faire water and let it seeth till it bee sodden to the one halfe then take the same water and straine it through a cloth with out any wringing thereof then with the same water make rice pottage and let the patient eate thereof a good messe and it will stop the bloody flie Another for the same ¶ Take Henne crossen and the crops of Wood-bine and stampe them and temper them with warme Redde-wine and giue the sicke thereof to drinke and let him eate for thrée dayes together each day fine Léekes with bread that is hote and drink no drinke but Red-wine warme and he shall be whole and let the sicke haue a stoole with a siedge and make there-vnder a little Char-cole fire and let it be closed round about with a cloth that no ayre may enter proued For to fret away dead flesh ¶ Take Hennes bones and burne them and the shelles of tenne Egges stampe them and make powder of them and lay it to the dead flesh and it will fret it away Another for the same ¶ Take gréene Copperis and burne it and as much burnt Allam and asmuch Verdigreace and grind them altogether and vse thereof as you neede and it helpeth proued To abate proude flesh ¶ Take Honny and clarifie it and skimme it with a seather and take the white of and take a quantitie of Verdigreace till it be gréene and lay thereto To rayse vp flesh ¶ Take red nettles and bray them small and put thereto thrée or foure cornes of Salt and mixe it with Butter and lay it to the sore and it will make the flesh to grow and to be more fairer then euer it was before To take the fire out of any sore ¶ Take a quantitie of Rose-water Sallet-oyle an Ore gall Housléeke the iuyce of each a like quantitie and so beate theÌ„ altogether till that they be all one and so annoint the place and it will take away the fire For the Gout a most precious medicine ¶ Take a good handfull of Rewe as much of Plantaine and asmuch of Redde Sage and stampe them as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and a penny-worth of the Treacle of Iane and meddle all these together then put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginnes to come make thereof a plaÃster and lay it thereto and hee or shée shall be eased within an hower prooued For the red Goute ¶ This experiment is prooued best Take Quicksiluer Brimstone thrée parts and two of Quicksiluer quenched with fresh greace and the iuyce of Earth-bind and a little of swines gall and meddle altogether and put it into boxes and when neede requireth annoynt the place and you shall be whole For the Gout that is bolning ¶ Take Beane leaues sodden in water then meddle it with Swines greace and lay it to the sore place and it doth awaie all the boluing Also for the same you may take a Foxe and make oyle thereof and therewith annoynt the patient For the Gout that is in the bones ¶ Take three tostes of Rie-bread and tost them well and then lay on a dishfull of Garlicke and stampe them and lay it on the Gout as hote as may bee suffered Also Walwort sodden in Wine till it be well thicked and the sore annointed with the same is very good Also Nettles stampt and layd vpon the Gout helpeth it An oyntment for the Goute ¶ Take an olde fat Cat and flea her and draw foorth her guttes and bray the Cat and put her altogether in a fat Ganders belly and put thereto halfe a pound of Pepper Mustard-séede and Parsly seede of each foure ounces Worme-wood and Garlicke a good quantitie Bole armoniack sixe peny waight then rost it and the greace that droppeth from the same keepe it and annoynt the Patient withall and by the grace of God the ache will goe away for being throughly annoynted therewith it presently helpeth him For the Gout a remedy ¶ Take a handfull of Rue as much Canell as much Turpentine of red Sage of each of these a like much stamp them all as small as you can then take halfe a pound of black Sope and mingle all these together and put them in a close vessell and when the paine beginneth for to come make a plaister thereof and lay it thereto and the party so gréeued shall haue ease within one houre For the Goute in the toes ¶ Take the roote of Fragon Matselon and the roote of Launceroy stampe them and drinke them with White-wine euery day a pottle fasting For the Greene-sicknes ¶ Take Betonie Harts-tongue Liuerwoort of each a good handfull a Fennell roote washe them and bruse them and put them in a skillet with a quart of Ale two spoonefuls of Alisander seedes and foure good sticks of Licoris let all be brused and boyle all in the Ale till it bee halfe wasted then straine it and make it sweete with Sugar and put into it a little Maces and Nutmegs and vse to drinke thereof warme morning and euening thrée or foure spoonefuls and like-wise when your fit doth come vpon you Another for the same ¶ Take the keyes of an Ashen trée being dryed and made into powder and take of Red-Fennel Red-sage and Marierum and Betony and seeth them in running water from a pottle to a quart then straine them and drinke thereof a good draught with Sugar morning and euening luke warme For gnawing and aking in ioynts ¶ Take hearbe Bennet Sheepes suet and Oyle Oliue frie them together then take it off the fire and
wounds Prooued To make a salue that is a precious oyntment for wounds and for bruzings but it must be drunken in white Wine or stale Ale ¶ Take of the hearbe Walter Robart wilde Thistles Pursewort Veruaine Daysie the little Knapwoort Egrimouy Harts tung Horehound Pimpernell hearb Iuie Sanigell Plantaine Medewoort Sothernwood little Burnet Mugwoort Tansie the holly Thistle Betony Turmentile Mouse-eare Peluet Milfoyle Robwort black Thistle wild Sage crops of Hemp crops of the red Bramble crop of the red Woorts Mors diaboli Groundswelly Scabions Sage Violet of the garden Osmond waches of the mede Fumitory Dawk Spinage Strawberies and the more Dayste Mede March Wasts crops Peygell Woodrone Crosset Iermander Tutsan Woodbind Pedelion flowers of Broome Cinkfoyle Wormwort Scabwort then take of Auence as much of him as of all the other hearbs and then shred them and doo them in a morter and stamp them sinall and doo therte thrée or foure pound of May butter cleane clarified and put together and so let them stand seauen dayes and then doo it in a cleane pan and set it ouer the fire and let it séeth soft then strain it through a canuas cloth and doo therto the iuice of Saffron and stir them well together let it stand forth till it be cold then must the sick take therof on this maner take of this salue sixe peny waight doo it in warm Wine or stale Ale and let it melt on the fire and let the sick drink it first and last and this healeth wounds well For the salt humour ¶ Take halfe a pound of Lignum vitae and barks therof and Anniseed Licoras and boyle all these together and halfe a pint of clarified Hony and all kind of cold hearbs with Liuerwort and Harts-tung halfe a quartern of French Barly and halfe a pound of Rayzons of the sunne pull out the stones of the Raizons and boyle all these together very well and straine them and it will help that disease in the body For the salt humour another ¶ Take white Lead Ceruse Litarge of gold and Litarge of siluer of each one vnce Sulphur one vnce mixe them together and make them in powder very small then take oyle Oliue one vnce and a halfe Vineger white Wine as much as néedeth mixe in due proportion For to heale any sore or cut ¶ Take a little fine Flaxe and a little Hogs greace and chop them together and make a plaister of the same and it will heale it very well and faire An oyntment for all maner of sores and cuts and swellings and heat ¶ Take Melilot Egrimony of each a like much Wood Betony Wormwood and Smallage a quantity of each of them and gather them in May and shred them and bray them with as much butter waight for waight as the hearbs all together and then lay it in a corner sixe or seauen daies vntill it be hoary and then take it and fry it then strain it into an earthen pot and when it is cold make an hole in the side or bottome of the pot that the drosse may runne out Another for the same ¶ Take a good quantity of Smallage and Mallowes and put therto two pound of Bores greace a pound of butter and oyle of Neates-féete a quantity and stampe them well altogether then fry them and straine it in an earthen pot and kéepe it to your vse A water for to heale an old sore ¶ Take a gallon of running water and set it on the fire and let it séethe then take an vnce of gréene Copperas two vnces of Bolae armoniake white Copperas the quantity of halfe a Nut and grind or beate them all to powder together into the said water and let them séeth together a little while then take it from the fire and when it is cold put it in an earthen bottle and stop it fast and then occupy it at your néede A soueraigne water for all manner of sores ¶ Take red Sage Isop Rosemary red Fenell Daisies English Saffron Nep Allom of each a quantity but most of Daisies séethe them in running water and wring it through a cloth and so make a water and this is good for all sores An oyntment to cleanse olde stinking sores Take the iuyce of Selidon the iuyce of Plantaine Honey the yolke of an Egge of each a like much Barly flower meddle them together and put as much Barly flower as shal make it thick like a plaister and let it come néere no fire and so lay it vpon the sore A good oyntment to cleanse a sore both olde or newe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Turpentine and wash it well in Barly water the yoks of sixe Egs new layed honey of Roses foure vnces and for lacke of honey of Rofes take other honey Barly flower as much as shall be sufficient to make it thicke like a plaister and meddle them together and let them not come néere any fire To skin the flesh that is raw ¶ Take a quart of good Ale and Allom Hony and Woodbind leaues and stampe the leaues and put the iuyce to them and séeth them till they come to a pint and when it is cold wet a gray paper in it and lay it to the sore For all manner of scabs ¶ Take Enula campana red Docke rootes Nightshade Woodbind leaues and then cast in a péece of Allom and put in Vitrioll romana rubrified when it is cold and wash the scabbe therewith Another for the same ¶ Take white oyntment Brimstone Quicksiluer Verdigreace and meddle them together and therewith annoynt the sore scab For to doe away scabs ¶ Take red Dock roots Pimpernell Scabions Sorrell de bayes Celondine stampe them with May butter and fry them well together and straine them through a cloth into a cleane vessell and cast thereto a good quantity of Brimstone in powder and stir it well together till it be colde and therewith annoynt the sick till that he be all whole Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of Horsehelme and séethe it in water till it be nesh and take old Shéepes tallow and meddle them well together in a morter and doo it in a linnen cloth and annoynt the sore by the fire Another for to doe away scabs ¶ Take Celondine and powder of Brimstone and medle them well together and it will doo away the scabs Another for the same ¶ Take Oniens and mince them and séeth them in water or in vineger and wash therewith the scabs or isching and it shall doo it away and heale it faire and smooth Another for to doe away seabs or itching ¶ Take the roots of Enula campana and wash them cleane in faire water and seeth them as you séeth Persneps and then make them cleane and cut them in péeces and stampe them small with Colts greace anoynt the sore therwith A good oyntment for the scabbes and for itching of the body ¶ Take foure vnces of oyle de bay and an vnce of Frankensence
beate it fine and mingle it with the same powder and so keepe it close that no winde come at it vsing it first and last with posset drinke made with White wine or strong Ale and when you cate your pottage or other broth put some in it if you bee sore pained and if you haue any stone it will come away by shiuers and if it doe so when you think that your water beginneth to cleare again take this drinke following and it will clense your bladder and it will leaue no corruption therein The drinke ¶ Take Rose-mary and wilde Time and séeth them in running water with as much Sugar as will make it sweete from a quart to a pint vse the quantitie of your hearbes according to your discretion so that it may sauour well of them and so vse it nine mornings sixe or seauen spoonefuls at a time For the Tissicke well proued ¶ Take a handfull of Fennell rootes as much Parsley rootes as many Alisander rootes halfe a handfull of Borrage rootes and pull out the pith of all the sayde rootes then take halfe a handfull of Penny-riall as much of Violet leaues and as much of Cinckfoyle as much Succory Endiue Hollihockleaues Mallow leaues and redde garden Mints of all these a like quantitie as of those next before halfe a handfull of Licoris stickes scraped brused and beaten to fine powder a gallon of fayre running water boyle therein all these simples and boile these séedes following with them that is thrée spoonesuls of Annyseedes as much Fennell seede as much Coliander seede and Comin seede a good handfull of Dandelion rootes and so boyle altogether from a gallon to a pottle and let the patient drinke thereof first and last and it will quickly help him Another for the Tissicke ¶ Take a quart of running water with a handful of Isope two ounces of Annyseedes asmuch Licoris beaten both togeather halfe an ounce of Fennell seede beate all these togeather very sine with a quarterne of white Sugar and so boyle them altogether vnto a pint and then straine them and so let the partie drinke thereof first and last and it will doo him good For a Tissicke or colde another ¶ Take two ounces of Licoris scraped and brused of Figs three ounces of Egrimony Hore-hounde Enula campana of each a handfull and boyle them altogether in a gallon of Water vntill the halfe be wasted then straine the hearbes from the iuyce and vse it early and late for this hath béene proued Also for the dry Tissick take and stamp Fennell rootes and drinke the iuyce thereof with white Wine For the Tissicke another experiment ¶ Take Radish rootes make them cleane and cutte them thin and cast them into an Ouen and bake them then beate them into powder so small as you can then drinke thereof euerie morning fasting and at night when you goe to bedde and wet your meate in the same powder as you weuld doo in salte and it will doo you very great ease shortly To make the mother of Treakle ¶ Take a pint of Honny put thereto the iuyce of red Fennell séeth it on the fire vntill it come to a pinte then take it of and put thereto a penny-woorth of Sinamon in powder two raises of Ginger a Nutmeg and a little Mace and stirre them well together and when it is cold put it into a boxe and gather your Fennell in May. Also to make Treakle for all manner of poyson take one ounce of Betony in powder 4. ounces of Centory in powder and 2. ounces of the powder of Rew medle these together and temper them with clarified Honny and kéepe it in a glasse The golden treate that healeth all bruses ¶ Take Colosony pitch and Rozen and two ounces of oyle three ounces of liquid Pitch 1. ounce of Olibanū Auti vnguenti Allam of each two ounces of Wine as much as suffiseth and boyle all these together and so receiue them to your vse as you neede and it helpeth For to make a white treate called Apostolicen ¶ Take oyle Oliue litarge of Leade Golde and Siluer stampe it and put it in the oyle through a cloth and stirre it till it be harde and this is a good treate for to heale all manner of woundes be they newe or old thys kinde of treate hath often béene proued good To make a treat called Emanuell ¶ Take Veruaine Bittany Pimpernell Centorie the more Gratia dei of each one handfull hearbe Iohn Auence Celondine Acus muscata alaluia Plantaine Spurge Egrimonie of each one handfull grinde all in a morter and put thē in a gallon of Wine and boyle them in a pan till the third part be wasted then straine it through a Canuas cloth and set it oner the fire and put thereto Waxe foure ounces Pitch asmuch Rozen as much Olibanum two ounces Mastick two ounces Mirrhe two ounces Aloes two ounces Turpentine two ounces Sheepes sewet halfe a pound boate them all in powder and boyle them all together saue the Turpentine the which must be put in last of all then straine the same through a cloth and keepe it till you haue neede thereof and this is a speciall healer of all wounds and sores bruses and broken bones and Apostumes that be broken also it hath a special vertue to draw clense and reengender good flesh it healeth and doth away all kinde of aches whatsoeuer all Cankers and Festers it healeth Morimals it passeth all other oyntments and if you will haue it soft put thereto a quantitie of oyle of Roses so much as you thinke good Proued A good entreat called the greene treat of Iane. ¶ Take a pint of the iuice of Smallage a pint of the iuice of Waybright as much of Plantaine put them together in a vessell and put to it a quarter of a pound of Wax and as much of Frankensence or Rozen made into powder make your Wax into small péeces and boile them altogether and euer stir them and to know when it is boyled inongh drop a drop vpon a Bason and if there be any moisture in it when it is cold then put to it a pound of Turpentine and stir them till they be well medled together then strain it and put into it a quart of white Wine and let it stand while it be cold and so vse it Another intreat called Gratia dei ¶ Take Wax May butter or other butter without salt of each one vnce then take of Frankensence two vnces melt them together and straine them and this is the making of this entreat which is called Gratia dei A good entreat for wounds ¶ Take Betony Pimpernell and Veruaine of each a handfull boile them in a pottell of very good white Wine vntill it be halfe consumed then straine it through a course canuas then put the liquor ouer the fire againe and in the boyling put to it halfe a pound of Rozen a pound of Frankensence in powder and alwayes stir it that the powder goe not to
if it be moist it will be of more vertue Also take of Ginger Canell Mace Cucubes Nutmegs Graines long Pepper of each of these thrée vnces and bray them in a morter and searce them and put these powders into the water that burneth and still it oft and so reserue it to your vse morning and euening first and last and this is called the most soueraine water and mighty against all manner of cold causes that ingendereth within man or woman and this will helpe you for diuers infirmities that is within man this hath béen prooued often A soueraine water vsed by Doctor Steaphens Phisition with the which he did many great cures and a little before his death he declared the same to the Archbishop of Canterbury and now to the benefit and commodity of all people that be well disposed ¶ Take two gallons of good Gascoigne wine or Clarret wine that is good or else two gallons of mighty strong Ale and of euery of these spices a dram take of Ginger Galingall Cinamon or Canell Nutmegs Graines Cloues Anniséeds Fennell séed Caraway séeds Calamus aromaticus Cucubes Ireos Maces Spignard Enula campana Canepithis of each of these a good handfull Iuniper berries one vnce and of euery one of these hearbs following a handfull Sage red Roses red Mints garden Time wild Time Pellitory Camomell Lauender Wormwood Betony Plantaine Ribwoort Bayes red Iilliflowers wild Marierum Rosemary Organum Rue the flowers of Secados Peniriall Hilwoort Auence Cowslip leaues Primrose leaues and flowers of screbby grasse Strawbery leaues Tutson beate all these spices and stamp all these hearbs and put them in the liquor aforesaide and put a little Muske therin and let it stand twelue houres infused and stir it oftentimes then still this water in a Limbeck close stopt that no ayre come out of the pot and with a small sire kéepe about it that it come not too fast forth and kéepe the first water by it selfe for that is best Also the second pint by it selfe for that is also good but not as the first is Also you shall receaue a third pint of that water of these thrée gallens but your vnce of Alkenet must be for the two last waters to cullour it red withall which must be in the receauer with some Suger and some Cinamon and you may kéepe this water these seauen yeares and it will be in his full strength and operation The receite of the water called Aqua mirabilis et pretiosa made by Doctor VVillowby Phisition ¶ Take of Galingall Cloues Maces Cucubes Ginger Cardomomum Nutmegs Millilot Saffron Egrimony water foure vnces and beat all these into powder the quantity of a dram and somwhat more then take of the iuice of Selondine and a pint of M. George Kebels water of the best and the first put of the same water beeing well mingled in a stillatory of glasse and let it be stopped well and close and so let it stand for the space of foure and twenty houres and then distill them with a soft fire for the space of a naturall day The vertue of this water aforesaid ¶ This water is of secret nature it is excéeding good for the stomacke it dissolueth the lungs without any gréeuance and the same lungs beeing wounded and putrified it mightilie helpeth them and comforteth them and it suffereth not the body to putrifie Also he shall neuer néede to be let blood and this water suffereth not the body to be brent with choller nor yet with melancholly nor slemot to be lift vp and haue dominion aboue water and this water mightily expelleth the rume and profiteth much the stomack it ingendreth good colour and keepeth and conserueth the visage and memory Also it is good for the palsie if the said water be giuen to man or woman labouring towards death one spoonfull it relenteth them of all waters artificiall there is no better Also vse in Sommer once a wéeke a spoonfull of this water fasting and in Winter time two spoonefuls it is good for women that haue the gréene sicknesse and for diuers other causes per Doctorem Willowbie The receite of Cinamon ¶ Take rennish wine a quart or spanish wine a pint Rose-water a pint and a halfe Cinamon brused a pound and a halfe let these stand infused the space of foure and twenty houres then distill it and being close stopped and luted then with a soft fire distill the same softly in a Limbecke of glasse and receaue the first water by it selfe Also if ye be so disposed to make the same water weaker take thrée pints of Rosewater and a pint and a halfe of rennish wine and so distill the same and you shall haue to the quallity of the stuffe the quantity of the water which is thrée pintes but the first is the best and so reserue it to your vse both morning and euening To make Cinamon water another way ¶ Take thrée quarts of Muskadine and a pound of Cinamon and halfe a pint of good Rose-water and so let them lye infused the space of foure and twenty houres and distill it as aforesaid and you shall receaue to the quantity as to the quality but the first pint is the best and the cheefest of all the other as is manifest practise Aqua composito for a surfet ¶ Take Rosemary Fenell Isope Time Sage Horehound of each of these a handfull Peniriall Mints Marierum of each sixe crops a roote of Enula campana of Licoris Aniseed brused of each two vnces put all these to three gallons of mighty strong Ale and put it into a brasse pot ouer an easse fire and set the Limbeck vpon it and stop it close with dow or Past that no ayre doo goe out and so kéepe it stilling with a soft fire and so preserue it to your vse as néede requireth To make water of life ¶ Take Balme leaues and stalkes Burnet leaues and flowers a handfull of Rosemary Turmentile leaues and roots Rosa solis a handfull red Roses a handfull Carnations a handfull Isope a handfull a handfull of Time red strings that grow vpon Sauery a handfull red Fenell leaues and rootes a handfull red Mints a handfull put all these hearbs into a pot of earth glased and put therto as much white Wine as will couer the hearbs and let them soke therein eight or nine dayes then take an vnce of Cinamon as much of Ginger as much of Nutmegs Cloues and Saffron a like quantity of Aniséeds a pound great Raisons a pound Suger a pound halfe a pound of Dates the hinder part of an olde Coney a good fleshy running Capon the flesh and sinewes of a legge of Mutton foure young Pigeons a dozen of Larks the yelâ—…s of twelue Eggs a loafe of white bread cut in sippets Muskadell or Bastard thrée gallonsâ— or as much in quantity as suffiseth to distill all these things at once in a Limbeck and thereto put of Methridatum two or three vnces or els with as much perfect Treakle and
as golde Another to make the hayre yellow ¶ Take the rinde or barke of Rubarbe and take the scrapings thereof and steepe it in white wine or cleere Lye and after that you haue washed your head therewith you shall wet your haire with a Sponge or some cloth kept for that purpose then let your haire dry against the fire or sunne and the oftner that you vse it the better it will proue as I haue often tryed For to stay hayre from falling ¶ Take and make strong standing Lye and take a great company of Isope rootes and burne them to ashes and mingle the ashes and the Lie together and therewith wash your head and it will keepe the haire from falling of and vse this often it is well proued Also if you take the ashes of little Frogs being burnt it staieth the falling of the haire and the ashes of Goats dung mingled with oyle doth increase haire Another for the falling of hayre ¶ Take the ashes of Culuer-dung in lie and wash the heade therewith Also Walnut leaues beaten with Beares suet restoreth the haire that it plucked away Also the leaues and middle rind of an Oke sodden in water and the head washed therewith is very good for this purpose For to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Frankensence and Barrowes greace boyle them together in a pan of earth and with this oyntment rub the head where the lyce is and it will kill them Another to kill Lyce in the head ¶ Take Stauesaker and beat it to powder and mingle it with blacke Sope and annoynt the head therewith and it will be quicklie cleane For the Nits in the head ¶ Take the gall of a Calfe and smere the head therwith and it will kill the Nits For woormes in the hayre ¶ Take and rub Calamint on the head and it will sley the woormes in the haire For to doe away hayre ¶ Take the head of Nettles and stampe them and temper it with Eysell and annoynt the head therewith but first shaue or pul away the haire for it is better After this you must sweat and when that you are hote then annoynt your head therwith and doe this three daies and there will growe no more haire in that place Also take the gumme of Arabick and annoynt the place where the haire groweth and it shall quicklie fall awaie For to take away hayre ¶ Take the shells of two Egges beate them small and still them with a good fire and with that water annoynt the place Or els take hard Cats dunge dry it and beate it to powder and temper it with strong Vineger then wash the place with the same where you would haue no haire to grow An experiment for to take away haire ¶ Take the blood of a Snaile without a shell and it hindereth greatly the growing vp of haire Also take Labdanum the gum of an Iuie tree Emmets Egges Arsenick and Vinegar and binde it to the place where you will haue no haire to grow Another for to take away hayre ¶ Take the iuyce of Fumitory and mixe it with gum Arabick then lay it on the place of the haires first plucked out by the rootes and it will neuer permit any more haire to grow in that place Also if you annoynt your heade with the iuyce of a Gloworme stamped it hath the same vertue For the scurffe in the head ¶ Take of the decoction of Mallow rootes and wash your head often therewith and it will cause the scurffe to fall away Also the decoction of the middle rinde of an Elme the head beeing washed therewith doth mightily driue out the scurffe Another for the scurffe in the head ¶ Take Vinegar and boyle it in wine lees a little and annoynt all ouer the scurffe but first clense it and it will mightily heale and dry it Also take the branch of a greene Fig trée with the leaues and stampe them in water it will heale the scurffe being washed therewith If the scurffe be newe vse this medicine daily with Vineger and annoynt the head therewith this hath beene proued For wheales or pushes in the head ¶ Take and wash your head with Vineger or with water wherein Camomell hath beene sodden Also the leaues of Violets stampt with honny doth lightly heale the same Also towne Cresses stampt with Goose greace dooth spéedily heale the pushes or wheales that be in the head For a scald head ¶ Take a penny-worth of Lampe oyle and halfe a pynte of faire water and boyle it well together and when it is cold put thereto halfe a penny-worth of Quicksiluer and temper it wel together and annoynt the head therewith For a scald head ¶ Take the liuer of a Thornebacke and séeth it by it selfe then take six roots of Enula campana and séeth thē by the space of thrée howers in cleane water of Houseléeke three handfulls stampe them and mingle them altogeather and strayne them through a linnen cloth and make an oyntment of them and annoint the head therewith and if the haire be gone take a handfull of wooll and burne it to powder and annoint therewith the head that is pilde and the haire shall growe as thicke as euer it was before Another for a scald head ¶ Take Groundsell and Barrowes greace and chopps the Groundsell small and boyle it with a softe fier with the Barrowes greace and so clip off the haire and ther-withall annoynt the scald head For to heale a white scald in the head ¶ Take Houndstung and Borage rootes of each a like quantitie wash them faire and cleane then shred them chop them small in péeces séeth them in vineger about halfe a pint more then put in a little sweete Butter neuer salted and let them boyle together till they be softe then strayne them through a cleane cloth and it will be a pleasant salue then take a feather and annoynt the Patients head withall but you must vse to wash the scald head with Cow pisse or else with faire water and this will heale the white scald head Another for to heale the white scald ¶ Take gréene coperis rosen waxe shéepes suet hony and beat them small together and boyle them well and it will be a very faire salue and this will heale any white scald proued For the brayne an experiment ¶ Take the Sirope of red Roses with the powder of Lygnum Aloes and the bone in the Harts hart cloues the leaues of red Roses or the Cakes thereof and séethe them all together with Snger and giue the patient thereof to drink fasting morning and euening For the brayne another ¶ Take the smoke of Lignum Aloes and it comforteth the cold braine and all weake parts of the braine and the head For to restore the braine ¶ Take and make powder of Betony and vse it in thy pottage and it will restore the braine Also take and chew Mace in your mouth Also put into thy nose the roote or iuice of Galingall and it
the head ¶ Take Secados Bay berries Betony Bay leaues of each of them a handfull séeth them in white Wine to the halfe and for an old man in Maimsie then put it in a vessell that hath a narrow mouth and hold your eares ouer it béeing vnstopped as hote as you may suffer it beeing not too hote nor too cold also thrée drops of the oyle of Almonds dooth the same For woormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Woorm-wood Rue So wthistle put it in the patients eare and he shall be whole Take the iuyce of Elder and drop it into the eare of the patient gréeued Or take the iuyce of Cockle and mingle it with the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into the eares so gréeued For ach and wormes in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Henbane and put it into thine eares and it will take away the ach and kill the woormes Also take the powder of wilde Gourds and the iuyce of Arssmart and put it into thine eares Also for the wormes in the eares take Centory and Léekes the iuyce of thē both and put it into the eares and stop it with black wooll of a Sheepe that groweth betwéen the legges and it will help the patient For woormes in the eares ¶ Take oyle of Roses oyle Oliue oyle of Exeter Aqua composita of each of them a like quantitie and compound your Aqua vitae with other oyles on the fire then take Rue and the egges of Ants beate them small and compounde them altogether being well boyled and then put it into the eares dropping it in thrée or foure times and he shall find ease To cause a man to heare well ¶ Take and make a rounde loafe and fill it full of Sage and bake it and when it is baked then breake or cut the loafe in the midst and binde it to the eares as hote as you may suffer it let this be vsed three or foure times and it will cause the patient so gréeued for to heare well For the running in the eares ¶ Take the iuyce of Elder drop it in the eare of the partie gréeued and it clenseth the matter and the filth thereof Also the iuyce of Violets vsed is verie good for the running of the eares Also take the gall of a Weather and Honny of both a like portion mingle them and put them into the eares For the running in the eares ¶ Take the gall of a Goate womans milke mingled with Honny and Mirrh and it will help you Also boyle the iuyce of Sengreene and put it in a hollow Onyon in the fire then put of the same iuyce strained into thine eare and lay the Onyon likewise ouer thine eare in manner of a plaister Also the vrine of a man child being poured into the eare dryeth the humors and taketh away the running of the eares For the impostume behind the head ¶ Take Beanes and mingle thē with meale and the iuyce of Fenegreke and it helpeth the patient so gréeued with the impostume behind the eare but it must be laid plaister wise Another for the same ¶ Take Milke and Allom and make a posset and when the Allom hath turnd the milke lay the posset curd to the impostume and it will breake it Also to destroy an imposiume in what place soeuer take the roote of Hollock and wash it cleane then seeth it till it be tender then put out the water and put to the roote Linséede and Fenegreke and Barly meale mingle them well together and fry them with Bores greace and lay it to the impostume plaister-wise and it will cure the same For all manner of sore eyes ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Endiue Betony and red Roses lay all these a day a night in white wine the second day still them with a soft fire then kéepe it in a glasse this water is as good as Bawme for all manner of euill eyes Another for the same ¶ Take Fennell Rue Verueine Enfrance Betony Endiue Sengréene Hill-woort Peneriall redde Roses Maiden haire of each a like much also foure ounces of oyle Oliue stamp them and put them in a vessell of glasse and still them in a stillatory and as it stilleth part it in thrée parts the first water you must keepe by it selfe for it is as precious as siluer the second as gold the third as Bawme all these waters must be kept in verie cleane glasses close stopped and so vse any of them A precious water for the sight of the eyes made by King Edward the sixt ¶ Take Smallage red Fennell Rue Verneine Betonie Egremony Pimpernell Enfrance Sage Selondine of each a like quuntity first wash them cleane then stampe them and put them in a faire brasen pan with the powder of xv Pepper cornes faire serced into a pynt of good white wine then put thē into the hearbs with three spoonfuls of Honny and fiue spoonfuls of the water of a man child that is an innocent mingle all together and boile them ouer the fire and when it is sod straine it through a fine linnen cloth and put it into a glasse and stoppe it well and close till you will vse it and when you néed put a little thereof into the sore eyes with a feather but if it wexe dry then temper it with white wine and it profiteth much all manner of sore eyes this water was vsed by King Edward the sixt For the pin and the web and the fellon in the eye ¶ Take the gall of a Hare and Honny of each a like much mingle them together and take a feather and put a little into thine eyes and it will heale thē within two or thrée dayes and saue the sight on warrantise thys hath béene often proued For the pin and the web in the eye ¶ Take a quart or a pynt of Strawberries when they bee ripe and put thereto asmuch white Wine as Strawberries then put them in a cleane vessell and let them stand nine dayes hote stirre them very well euery day twice or thrice and the tenth day put it in a bag of Canuas and let it goe through hote you must not wring it hote let it goe through of it selfe thē take the cléere and put it in a viall of glasse then take Calamint that is a stene and put it in the fire til it be red hote and thē quench it in white Wine nine seuerall times and when thou hast done thus take the same stone and beate it to small powder in a brasen morter if you haue a pinte of Water then put therein one ounce of the said powder and mingle them well together and keepe it well for this is a precious water for the pinne and she webbe in the eye Another for the same ¶ Take Enstras a good quantitie and stampe it well and wring out the iuyce through a cloth and vse it Or take Bores greace Capons greace Goose greace and melt them together in a pan stir them well
beat the Pils in Rose-water and giue two or thrée of the said Pils to the Patient when he goeth to bed Also to take the quantity of foure drams of Cucubes with the iuice of the root or the leaues of Parsneps is very good Also for them that be faint at the hart or be like to sown giue them Rose-water for to drinke and also bedew their faces therwith Also if the faintnes come from the braine or liuer or paine of the stomack caused of cold take two Wheat cornes of Musk in wine and it will help the same Against sowning Against sowning and faintnes of the hart take Rose-water that this hearb Bassell is sodden in and for the same take wine that the hearb is laid in all night Also against sowning take the powder of Roses and put it into a reare Egge Also take the powder of Ginger in your meats and it is good against sowning Against sowning make sirop with the iuice of Borage and Suger Also against sowning of the hart comming of cold take and séeth this hearb Cardomomum in sweet smelling wine with a little Rose-water and vse it For sowning ¶ For sowning and weaknes of the hart be it in Feauers or sicknesses or if it come of either cause stampe Mints with Vineger and a litle Wine if the Patient haue no Feauer then tost a shiuer till it be almost burnt and put it therein till it be well stéeped then put of it in his nose and rub his lips his tong gums teeth and the temples and let him chewe it and sucke the moistnes therof and swallow it For the paine of the lungs ¶ Take Figs and let them be sodden with Isop they clense the lungs and heale the old cough Also take the root of the wild Rape and séeth it with Licoris and the water that it is sodden in giuen to the Patient to drink is very good to clense the lungs Also take this hearb Southernwood and mingle it with Isop and sodden in wine or water make it swéet with Suger and so drunken is very good for al diseases of the lungs and the breast when sicknes commeth of cold annoynt the breast Another for the same ¶ If you take the broth of Creues it is good for paine in the lungs named Perpleumonia vr consuming of a man called Prosis because when a man hath a swelling about the lungs then he commeth to drinesse and consuming of that naturall moysture till he dyeth For the lyuer and lungs ¶ For the lyuer and the lungs wasting with ouer vnkind heats take water made of Borage and of red Fenell roots Ach Isop Endiue Betony Calamint Lettice Nutmegs Mace flowers of Camomel Cloues Aniseeds by euen portions one vnce of Licoris and Aniséeds halfe a pound make of all these hearbs and spices a water and it shall restore you meruailously and if you cannot get all these hearbs then take the more of Borage Also to restore his kind make a confection of the flowers of Borage and of red Roses with the foresaid spires and with Suger For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Spodium vt eborij in rose Corall Barly meale Triacendaly thrée peny worth mingle all these with the iuice of Endiue S. Mary berry and Housléeke Another for the same ¶ Take red Roses Sandalorum cum Iuery and water of Lillies an vnce stamp them small and put therto Barly meale and the iuice of Marigolds Vineger and the iuice of Wormwood and make a plaister therof and lay it to the lyuer For chafing of the lyuer and of the spleene ¶ Take yellow Rubarb Barly meale and Vineger and temper them together and make therof a plaister and lay that plaister to a mans right side let him blood in the vaine of the spléene and giue him to drinke in Winter Suger rosset and in Sommer Scabious For the chafing of the lyuer ¶ For the chafing of the lyuer and opilation of the milt caused of humor take Rubarb with warme water but it is better to mingle it with Trifera sarazenica and this you may vse with the iuice of Endiue and so giue it to the Patient Also take and annoynt the lyuer with the oyle of Roses for the chafing of the lyuer Against chafing or heat of the lyuer take and wet a cloth many times double and lay it to the lyuer Also the oyle of Violets is good against the chafing of the lyuer Prooued Against the chafing of the lyuer scrape the vppermost of the Gourd stamp the said scraping and wring out the iuice and put Vineger thereto wet a cloth therin and lay it to the lyuer outwardlie Also take Endiue and lay it in water and vse it in your brothes for the Patient so gréeued For the heat of the lyuer ¶ Take Fenell Endiue Succory Planten of each a like much and still them with red Wine or milke and vse it euerie morning nine spoonfuls at a time with a draught of Wine and Suger or else fiue spoonfuls therof alone For the lyuer wasting which causeth a scabbid face ¶ Take thrée gallons of sweet Woort and put thereto foure handfull of Lyuerwoort and foure handfuls of Violets two handfuls of Harts tongue foure handfuls of Marigolds foure handfuls of Matfelon and stamp all these together and boyle them a prety while in the Woort then take them vp and when they are cold strain them and put therto Barly meale vse this fasting at night the space of a moneth then take an oyntment that is made for a dry scab and therwith daily annoynt thy face and vsing of this drink aforesaid the party shall find help For the vnkinde heate of a mans liuer which causeth his collour to waxe yellow ¶ Take the water of Chiccorie and the water of Lettice and the water of the leaues small branches of a Moryer tree take the hearbs and stampe them all together as much of the one as of the other take the iuyce thereof and asmuch Sugar as will suffise boyle all these together till they be as thicke as a sirrop and put vnto the same a poys and a halfe of Rewbarbe and vse a quantitie of this sirrop in colde water euerie day fasting till he be whole For the liuer that is corrupted and wasted ¶ Take a quantitie of Liuerwoort and bruse it a little then séeth it in good strong Woort with a quantitie of Rewbarb and vse this medicine till thou be whole A drinke for the Splene ¶ Take Harts-tongue wilde Hoppe leaues and Borage with the flowers of Femitory and Parflie rootes seeth them in Whey and clarifie them with the white of an Egge strain it drinke thereof morning and euening and so continue a fortnight and it will helpe you many waies A playster for the Splene ¶ Take three or foure Hollihocke rootes two handfulls of Mallowes and seeth them well together then stampe the rootes by themselues and straine them with the same water wherein they were sodden then stampe
is verie good for the liuer Also to drinke the water that Louage hath been sodden in is likewise good for the liuer and the milt Also against the stopping of the liuer and milt take the powder of Barbaries with the iuyce of Morrell and drinke often of the same For the liuer milt raines and bladder ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and raines and the hinderance of vrine take and seeth the hearbe Germander and Canuphithis in oyle and lay it to the place where the party is greeued Also take an electuary confect with Honny and two parts of these hearbes and so vse it For the liuer the milt and the Iaundise ¶ Against the opilation of the liuer milt and Iaundise take the iuyce of Wormwood and Sirrill or else make them in sirrop and vse it with warme water also against opilation of the milt take the iuyce of Worm-wood and the powder of Costy it is also good for the same For all paynes in the milt ¶ Take of the drinke that Gold hath beene quenched in red hote and it helpeth the paine in the milt Also an oyntment made of Assa armonia and Wax softneth the hard milt and it dissolueth the milke curded in the paps Also make iuyce with Smallage and put thereto Oyle and Waxe and confect it into a sirrop Also for the Milt take Annoniacke and Galbane of each of these a like much soften them well in Vinegar and with waxe then put thereto powder of Coste and of Wormwood and make thereof an oyntment and vse therewith to annoynt the place against the milt and it will help the same Also take Egrimonie and eate thereof often-times and it healeth the paine of the milt Against the opilation of the milt or Dropsie take the Wine that Abrosiana hath beene sodden in for beeing often-times drunke it healeth the paine of the milt comming of cold Also against the ache of the milt drinke the wine that Betonie hath been sodden in and it profiteth Also make an oyntment with the hearbe called Bears-foote beaten and then lay it long in Oyle and with waxe make an oyntment the leaues ought to be vsed while they be greene Also the hearbe Amios with the rootes of Ciats in wine helpeth much the paine of the milt Also for the milt and liuer take the iuyce of Fennell sodden in an Apple and take the powder thereof Also for the paine of the milt and liuer take the Wine that Coperis hath been sodden in Also for the payne of the milt and the liuer drinke the wine that Cassia ligna hath beene sodden in Also for the paine of the milte and liuer take the electuarie that Diocostum hath been sodden in Also for the paine of the milt vse a dramme of Cammomile in powder with Wine forty dayes Also for the paine of the milte vse to drinke the Wine that Honny-suckle hath been sodden in Also seeth Iuie in Wine and then straine out the iuyce and drinke thereof it helpeth greatly Also the water that the roote of Fearne hath been sodden in is very good for the same Also you may vse the water or Wine that the rinde of Fennell rootes hath beene sodden in Also the Water or wine that the bough of an Ashe hath béen sodden in is good for this purpose For to soften the milt that is hard ¶ Take the roote of the wilde Vine stampe it with Porks greace then melt it on the fire and straine it and take meale of Linseede and oyle and put thereto and thys oyntment is very good for the hardnesse of the milt and liuer and to ripen unpostumes Another for the same ¶ Take the rinde of the roote of Hore-hound and stéepe the same a fortnight in Wine and Oyle and then let it bee sodden and strained and in the straining put thereto water and Oyle and make thereof an oyntment and vse the same at your neede for thys purpose For ache in the gutts and belly ¶ Take the powder of Mugwoort and let it be drunk with Wine and Honny it easeth greatly the ache in the bowels and is good against diuers other diseases And for the paines in the guts take a ciate of the iuyce of Clot leaues and it wil ease thée For paynes in the belly ¶ Take and stampe Mugwoort and lay it to the bellie it helpeth the same meruailously take also an vnce and a halfe of Wartwoort with asmuch wine and it will likewise asswage the paine in the belly For the paines in the belly ¶ Take and make an electuarie of Honny and seeth it with water to keepe it from cleauing to then put to the same two vnces of Hermodates and one vnce of Fennell seedes and giue thereof to the partie so greeued that hath the paine in his bellie and it will helpe him proued For the payne in the belly ¶ Take wilde Time and seeth the same with Wine and Oyle and it is verie good against the paine in the belly Also if you take the braine of a Hare rosted eate thereof and drink some good Wine afterward it is good for the paine in the belly For the paine in the belly ¶ Take three pynts of Malmesey and a handfull of Oris powder and a handfull of Commin with a handfull of Red-rose leaues dryed a handfull of Cammomile flowers and one dishfull of Wheate branne seeth all these together and put them in a bagge and make it plaister-wise then lay it to the belly of the patient some-what warme For the griping or pulling in the belly ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Malmesie a big roote of Turmentile and grinde the roote into powder with a little Treacle and make it blood-warme and so giue it to the partie to drinke Or els take a penny-pot of Malmesie and a little Treacle and two penny-worth of Mirrh and grinde it to powder and so put the Treacle and Mirrh into the Malmesie and make it reasonable warme and giue it to the patient Another for the same ¶ Take a little quantitie of the earth that wormes cast vp out of the ground which most commonly you shall find in some soft foote-path-waie or els in some Garden path and when you haue gathered the same mingle therewith a like quantitie of Honny and giue the patient halfe a spoonfull in the morning causing him to fast two howres after this within foure mornings eating thereof will certainlie helpe the same as hath beene by sundry persons proued To breake wind in the belly and for wringing in the same ¶ Take Commin seedes Fennell seedes Anni-seedes brused and seeth all in Wine and drinke thereof in the morning at noone and at night Also take Pellitory and boyle it in broth and giue the sicke thereof to drinke For Women that haue very great bellyes beeing not with childe ¶ Take a handfull of Isope a handfull of Hearbe-grace a handfull of Arsmert and seeth all these hearbes in a quarte of Ale till it come to a pynt then
red flowers of Archangell and a quantity of Dandelion and seethe the same in Mutton and cate the Mutton and drinke the Broth and you shall finde ease Another for the same ¶ Take a handfull of Balme a handfull of Rosemary a handfull of Mallowes a handfull of Smallage a handfull of Walflowers and all manner of swéet herbes that ye can finde and seeth them in a tankerd of water with halfe a pecke of wheaten branne and when it is sodden straine the hearbes through a cloth as you would doo a bucke and set it on the fier and with other water straine it and so bath you and sweate and you shall be whole God willing For aking of the ioynts ¶ Take March Mallowes and sweete milke Linséedes powder of Comin the whites of Egges Saffron and white greace and fry all these together and lay it to the aking of the toynts this hath been proued For ache in any place an oyntment ¶ Take and chafe a Stere till he scummer then take that dung and fry it with Shéepes sewet or else with Sallet oyle and it will come to a fine oyntment and then annoynt the place therewith proued Also take the oyle of Mace and annoynt the ache with-all and it will helpe you For ache in the bone or ioynt ¶ Take a pricked Harts skinne sliuer or draw him and cut it in small péeces bones flesh and all take that and wash it clcane that no blood be therein then take cleane water and set it ouer the fire and as it séethes scum away the fat and saue it and let it seeth till that no fat will ceme of him and then cast away the flesh and put it in a boxe and annoynt the greace where the ache is and it shall be whole and doo this thrée or foure times A medicine for all aches ¶ Take halfe a pinte of Wooll oyle a quarter of a pinte of Neates-foote oyle and halfe a pound of Barrowes greace first set the Barrowes greace vpon the fire and skum it cleane put in your Neates-foot oyle and beate them all thrée together being on the fire then scum it cleane and put in your Wooll oyle and beate them all together then boyle them together and take them off the fire and vse it at your neede A medicine for all aches in the bones ¶ Take the gall of an Ore and set it on the fire and seeth it and scumme it till it be very cleane and put it into a glasse and stoppe it close then take Neates-foote oyle and gather it very fine and put it into a glasse also and stop it close then take Aqua vitae in an other glasse and stop it close then take of the oyle and waters aforesaid of each euen portioned two times so much portion of the Aqua vitae and put them together in one vessell so warme it and annoynt your gréefe and it shall helpe you God willing Another medicine for the ache ¶ Take Swans greace Goose greace Heus or Capons greace of each of these a quantity but the more of Swanns greace then of all the rest and when they are mingled together then take a pinte of Malmesie and a handfull of Lauender spike Rosemary as much and let your Malmesie seethe till it be almost wasted and then put all together with a little Bores greace and so boyle them and vse them for your ache and it shall ease you For him that is fallen broken ¶ Take a Trusse and trusse the party so straight as he can and it will very much helpe him Also take the iuyce of Madder the iuyce of redde Nettles the iuyce of Hemp the iuyce of Bugle the iuyce of Camphire the iuyce of Cawle of each of these two Sawcerfuls of Wine foure Sawcerfuls of Honey three Sawcerfuls boyle them all together and skimme them well and then take it downe and dunke thereof daily first and last sixe spoonefuls at once the space of fouretéene dayes A plaister for a man that is broken ¶ Take of Bugle of Cawle of each a like much stampe them small with a little of the haire of a Hares skin then take an vnce of Wax and melt it with a spoonfull of butter and put to your Bugle and Cawle and the haire and stampe it with a little Bole armoniack and fry them all together and stir it and make therof a plaister and lay it on a péece of leather and lay it straight vpon the place of your sore and so serue it three or foure dayes and so giuen the space of twelue dayes For a man or a child that is welnie broken and to heale them ¶ First make sixe pellets in this manner take the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony the crop and roote of Daisies of euery one an vnce and make powder thereof then take Bole armoniacke an vnce and a halfe of Honey clarified an vnce of these make a plaister and if it be too thinne put more powder thereto and if it be too thicke put thereto more Honey and take and rowle it and make pellets thereof as many as yee may make thereof then take more of the roote of Polipodij and the roote of Betony and the crops and rootes of Daisies of each two vnces and punne them as you doo Gréene-sawce and put that iuyce into a quart or more of Ale that is stale and boile it to a pinte and straine it through a cloth then boyle it againe with Suger thrée penny-woorth and when the Suger is molt then put it in a glasse and euery day eate a pellet thereof morning and euening last and drinke euery time the quantity of three spoonrfull of your drinke in the glasse then if your drinke be doone you must make more but you must vnderstand that the sicke man must lye vpright sixe dayes and that he be bound wisely and faire and that hée eate laxatiue meates for strayning of the humours and it shall heale him mightily and surelie prooued If a man childe bee newe broken this will cure him ¶ Take the roote of Camphiere and the leafe of Osmond and the young roote of Elme leaues Auence and leaues of Madder and the leaues of Castire of each of all these a like much these must be sodde altogether in newe Ale with a good quantitie of clarified Honny and skimme it and put it into a pot and euery day drinke thereof fasting and also at euening and binde it vp very straight For broken bones in what place soeuer they bee ¶ Take a newe tyle and maile him in the fire and make it all to pouder then tye it in the fire againe till it be redde let it kéele and take that pouder the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphire by euen portions and melt al together and make a plaister thereof and lay it to the bone that is broken and euerie day renew it thereto Item take Daifie and Camphier and Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay thē
thereto and it shall helpe them so greeued For the bone ache and to take it away ¶ Take Sperewort Oliues Crofoote hearbe Christopher Walwoort Henbane Hony-suckle-flowers Culrage Rosemarie Mallowes redde Woort-leaues red Onions and Ribwoort still all them by themselues and after meddle altogether saue onely the Sperewoort which must be medled with halfe a part of the other Waters meddle them before the heate of the fire with your hande and annoynt the place there-with oftentimes To knit a broken bone ¶ Take Auence Camphire Egrimonie and temper them with Vinegar and lay it to the bone Also take Daisies the crops of Hempe and redde Colewoorts and redde Nettles and Bramble-leaues Sothern-wood Tansie Pimpernell Betonie Buglosse Madder wash them and beate them small and drinke the iuyce thereof both morning and euening For all manner of bones that aketh ¶ Take a pinte of White-wine and the gall of an Ore boyle them well and skimme them cleare then take crummes of white Bread and put them thereto and make thereof a plaister and lay the same to the gréefe foure or fiue times and it shall helpe you For broken bones ¶ Take Crey-land that is burnt and grinde the same to powder and put thereto the iuyce of Daisies and the iuyce of Camphier and strew on the powder till it be thicke and lay it to the place plaister-wise and the broken bone shall knit againe verie shortlie and become whole To make an oyntment for burning of Gunpowder or for scalding with water ¶ Take a quarte of Bores greace and two handfulls of Groundswell and two or thrée heads of Housleeke and stampe the hearbes together and then put to it of newe shéepes dunge two handfuls and as much of Goose dunge and stampe altogether and fry them and being hote straine them through a cloth into an earthen pot and with the same liquor annoint the sore that is burnt with Gun-powder To take away a heate or burning with Gunpowder ¶ Take a good quantitie of House-leeke stampe it and wring out the iuyce then take the white of sixe Egges and beate them in a dish till they be thin and then take off the scum and put the rest together and wash the sores with a linnen cloth and after lay a wet cloth on the sore A remedy for burning or scalding or any hurt with an hand-gunne ¶ Take the dunge of Geese of one nights making and fresh Butter vnsalted or else clarified Sheepes suet frie the same in a frying panne a good while vntill your suet be almost consumed then put them in a course liunen cloth and straine them into a small vessell then take a feather and dip it in the liquor and annoynt the place where the patient is so burned or scalded and when you haue so doone wette a fine linnen cloth in the sayde liquour and couer the sore withall and vse to doe thys twice or thrice a day For burning or scalding ¶ Take halfe a pounde of Sheepes suet and as much of the erindels of Sheepes dunge and a quarter of a pound of the inner rindes of Elder-trees and fry them altogether and drawe it through a cloth into a pewter dish and it will be fast chafe it against the sore For burning a medicine proued ¶ Take the white of Hennes dunge and of shéepes dunge of grounde Iuie of House-leeke sheepes suet and boyle them all together and straine them and so annoynt the burning sore and take a Rose-campion leafe and lay it aloft vpon the place and a thinne cloth vpon that and it shall helpe it For burning a remedie ¶ Take a quantitie of Bores greace and put the same into a frying panne and wring out the greace reseruing the suet then take not fullie halfe so much Rape-oyle and put it thereto with two or thrée spoonefuls of cleere Vinegar and Water labouring them all very well together and so reserue it to your vse but stoppe it very close till such time as you neede and this shall helpe you For burning with sire ¶ Take blacke Varnish and all to annoynt the place with a feather and it will both stay the heate and heale it as faire as euer it was this you may vse till you be whole For burning or scalding ¶ Take a good handfull of auence and asmuch of Sheepes dunge and frye them well together in May butter and straine it and vse to annoynt the greeued place with the same colde twise a day and annoynt it first with gray or blacke Sope and it will helpe thee this oyntment must bee spred vpon a flaren cloth it you can get it Another for burning or scalding ¶ Take Oyle-oliue and beate the same with water till it were verie white and annoynt the sore place there-with For burning or scalding ¶ Take Snowe-water and that will asswage the heate and then take the white of an Egge and clippe the haires of a Cunnies skinne and dip them in the white of the Egge and lay it to the burnt place and it will heale it and it will cause the skinne to be more faire then all the other proued For all bruzes a Medicine ¶ Take Planten Drpin Camphire Holli-hocke and flower and make a plaister and lay it to the sore Also take the grounds of Ale or Beere and Wheate-branne and Chicke-weede and lay it to the greefe three or foure times a day vpon a redde cloth not too thinne For a bruze ¶ Take Pitch Rozen and wrought Waxe and Bores greace or Swines greace of each a like much boile all these together in a pan till it come to a salue and then strike it vppon a linnen cloth and lay it to the bruse and let it lie foure or fiue dayes thereto and you shall finde great ease Another medicine for a bruse ¶ Take halfe a pound of Shéeps sewet cleane tried and as much vnwrought War two vnces of Rezen and a spoonfull of Frankensence in fine powder and well searced then boyle them all together and skim it cleane with a feather and when it is boyled take it from the fire and when it is halfe cold then wet or dip a linnen cloth in the same so that euery part be through wet and lay it abreade till it be through cold and role it vp and it may be kept all the yeare and vse it as neede shall require for this is a precious Seare-cloth for all manner of ache or bruses Prooued Another for the same ¶ Take Mallowes Smallage bruse Wort Planten the more of Smallage and temper it with Shéeps sewet and make this salue in May and you may kéepe it all the yeare after and vse it as your néede doth require For all manner of botches ¶ Against botches mingle this hearbe Timbalaria with Sheeps dung and lay it thereto plaister wise and it shall ripen the botch quickly Another for the same ¶ Also to ripe botches confect fiue or sixe dramms of Electrium with Barly meale and the white of an Egge and lay it to the botch
straine them and giue the sick to cate thereof warme and it shall quickly make him sleep by Gods grace To draw a Bile from one place to another ¶ Take Oculus Christi and Veruaine and make a plaister of them and let the same be layde from the Byle two singers broade and when it hath line a good while renew it and so remoue it still from place to place vntill it bee layde in the place where you would haue it breake To drawe out arrowes out of a mans body ¶ Take Polipodion and grinde it with fresh greace that is olde and bind the same vpon the place and it will soone drawâ— it out be it arrow or thorne or any other euill thing To draw out an arrow head ¶ For to draw an arrow head out of a mans flesh take red Spere roote temper the same and seeth it with Honny and then lay it on a cloth and lay it to the wound and it shall draw it out by the grace of God quickly For a Dart in a mans body ¶ Take a Worme that is called Piâ—cher that is as great as a Beane and is cleane blew or sender it hath many small féete and is white vnder the belly and when a man toucheth it it will be as round as a button take thys Worme and rubbe it well against the Dart till it be all broken and doo this euery day three or foure times and at euery time take thrée or foure Wormes For all manner of falling euills ¶ Take the blood of his little finger that is ficke and write these thrée verses following and hang it about his neck Iasper fert mirram thus melchior balthazar aurum hec quicum secum porta tria nomina regum soluiter a morbo domini pictate caduca and it shall helpe the party so gréeued For the falling euill ¶ Take the powder of Osmond and the roote of pilny and and take the powder of Mortegan and drinke all these with stale Ale and let them say theyr prayers and as soone as the party falleth downe take the gall of a Dogge and giue the sick to drinke with good Ale that is stale and by Gods grace he shal neuer haue the falling euill any more proued For to cure the falling euill in foure dayes ¶ Take Swallowes and beate them feathers guts and all Castorry Vineger and some Iermander distilled first in water and some Cardus benedictus water and then still all and giue the sicke to drink therof Also take the roote of Piony and make it in powder and put it into pappe for a child and let him or them lick it with a little Suger and they that be of age may eate the more quantity therof Also the black séede of Piony is good therfore For the falling euill ¶ The filling of gold being taken in meate and drinke is good against that euill and if the Patients backe be annoynted with the oyle of Iiniper in the very chine and so is a dram of Castoreum very good therfore Also take the powder of Gentiana with the iuice of wilde Sage is good for the falling euill The manner and vse to be obserued and kept in the time of curing of a fistula ¶ First you must search the vlcer with your tonte to know the depth and the length thereof that you may knowe of what fise to make your tente and annoynt the sore onlie with Populion and your tent also and dippe the ende therof in the powder following for two daies once a day dresse it with your powder and other two daies with nothing but Populion to remooue the aker and thus inlarge your tent till the worke be knowne vnto you so long as it casteth a blocky maulte gory stinking or bloodie water still vse your powder vntill it come grosse thick and white and then apply mundisters or clensers and the vlcer clensed then vse incarnatiues as the gréene balme before written other that followe alwaies rather shortening your tent and making of it lesse till you be assured of the victory for sigilation sealing or sinking of the water that hereafter shall follow termed mother and the congelour The powder for the Fistusta ¶ Take two ounces of greene Copperas and burne it in a Goldsmithes potte called a crusible Mercurij subblimati an ounce grinde them small on a Marble stone till that it bee very fine powder and vse it when neede requireth A skinning water for the Fistula ¶ Take strong Vinegar that is white for that is best a quart of Litarge of gold finely beaten finely searced a pound mingle them together and let them infuse in a glasse thrée or foure daies stirring them together twice in a day then let it settle a day and take the cleared thereof and put it into a viall or glasse and so you haue the mother The congelour in a Fistula ¶ Take faire water a pint salte genne two ounces common salt a good spoonefull boyle all till the salts bee dissolued then put the cleerest thereof into a glasse and this is the congelour The vse of the congelour ¶ Take of the mother thrée parts of the congelour 2. parts and a little more put them together and it will be an oyntment or a thick creame lay it on the place that you would haue skinned or the créeping tetter and it shall doo wonderfully for the long vlcers that lack nothing but skinning and it will skin in very short time For the Fistula ¶ In what place soeuer it be take the inyce of Turmentil and drop it into the hole and it helpeth and so doth a tent dipped in the sayd iuyce layd to the Fistula Also take gréene Betonie with salt and make a tent and put to it a plaister of the same and it will heale it Another for the same ¶ Take of the powder of Copperis with two parts of beane meale and confect them with french sope and shape a tent therof and put it into the hole of the Fistula it will clense it in such manner that if there be any bones corrupt or broken that they may be taken out and it will consume the euill moistures To stop a very great flixe ¶ Take halfe a pound of Almonds and blanch them and stampe them very small in a Morter and then take twelue yolkes of newe layde Egges rosted harde and put them into a Morter and bray altogether and then take a pint of strong red vinegar for that is best and put it into the same stuffe and mingle theÌ„ well together and then put all into a faire pot of earth and stampe it well then take thereof fiue or sixe spoonefulls at once but first warme it and then drinke three or foure times vpon a day if neede be Another for the same ¶ Take the roote of a great Docke that beareth the Burre and the leaues of Oake and ground-Iuie and make a bath of them and put thy féete therein vp to the ankles but no higher and let
from it and put to it halfe as much yolks of Eggs as is of the Turpentine and mingle them well together and minister it when ye néede put not this in your treane bore for it will soke through you may keepe it in a bladder For a wound in the head a good Mundicatiffe ¶ Take hony of Roses two vnces oyle of Roses an vnce meddle them together and put it warme into the wound with Lint and a plaister vpon it it is a good Mundicatiffe For the ache in a wound ¶ Take the rootes of Briauy and pare the vtter side and beate them in a morter and in faire running water and straine it and warme it and lay it hot to the wound or ache as the partie may suffer it first wash the wound faire and then lay it to the wound To make a water for a cut or wound ¶ Take a pottle of faire running water and séeth it on the fire and let it séeth a while then take two peny worth of white Copperis as much of Bole armoniack and foure peny worth of Camphire and beat them altogether in powder and put them all together into the water and let them séethe a little while and then take it off the fire and when it is colde put it into a Glasse drosse and all and when it is occupied poure out a little into a sawcer of the cléerest water and none of the bottome or drosse and set it vpon the coles and wash the wound as hote as he may suffer it and then take a little linnen cloth and double it thrée or foure times double and wet it in the water and lay it to the wound as hote as the patient may suffer the same and binde it fast For a cut or wound ¶ Take a gallon of running water and put thereto a pinte of Honny and a quarter of a pound of Roch-allom beaten in very fine powder and let them séeth together and scum thē cleane and put thereto a handfull of Wood-bine leaues and a handfull of Sage leaues a handfull of Selondine and séeth them altogether till the halfe be consumed then take it from the fire and straine it through a Canuas cloth into another cleane vessell and then put thereto a penny-worth of graines and let them séeth a while together and then put it in a faire glasse when it is cold thys is a principall medicine For to heale wounds and to knit and heale broken bones ¶ Take Betony Bugle Sauigle Pimpernell Milfoile Strawberry leaues Orpin Sage Mouseare Emerose Tansie Sothernwood hearbe Robert hearbe Water Egrimony Plantaine Solcirkle Auence Madder Daisies Camphire Osmond the crop of the red Colewort the crop of the red bryer the red Nettle crop of the crops of Hempe take of each a like much saue of the Madder by waight then take these hearbes and stampe them small and take May butter made of rawe Creame Ewe milke with dew water of May and if that you can get no Ewe milke take the Butter of Cowe milke of the yellowest colour that can be found for it is far better then the white and take a quart of Butter halfe a quarterne of Mede waxe and melt the Butter and the Waxe together and when they be molten let the Butter and waxe run through a cloth for then is the Butter clarified from the Waxe and shread the Butter and the Curds a sunder or else it will neuer do so wel and then let thy Butter kéele and when it is colde then take and put thereto thrée pound of thy hearbes and halfe a pounde of Butter and cast them in a Morter and stampe them small till you can sée nothing of the Eutter and then doo it in a newe earthen pot and close it fast that no ayre come forth and when all is in the pot make it sure that no wormes may gette in nor that no ayre as I said before gette out then set it in a moist place and so let it stand for nine dayes at the least and then it wil be hoare aboue then take it out of the pot do it in a faire panne and set it on the fire and fry them well together and stirre it well and when it is hote enough take it from the fire and wring it through a cloth and let it stand till it be cold and then kerne it and let out the water and then doo it into the pan and melt it againe then doo it vp in boxes and kéepe the same to your vse Also to make an oyntment sanatiffe for wounds ¶ Take of the same hearbes before expressed and worke them as thou didst the salue but whereas thou tookest Butter to thy salue take faire Barrowes greace melt it and when it is cold put it to thy oyntment and whereas thou tookest to thy salue Madder put thereto Cammemile and put thy hearbs thereto take to that oyntment of Auence as much waight as of all the other hearbes before named and then shall this oyntment bee according to the salue the one to worke within and the other to worke without for this salue and oyntment is cheefest accounted of among Phisitions for all woundes both to cleanse and to heale very faire and perfectly and to knit broken bones surely To heale all olde wounds ¶ Take Plantaine water distilled and put halfe a pinte thereof to an ounce of Mercurie sublimatum and so stir them very well togeather vntill it be dissolued in the Plantaine water and then wash the sore or wound well therewith and after wet a cloth in the same water and couer it cleane ouer the sore or wound and vse this once euery day vntill it bee whole and doe so from day to day A red water for sores and wounds either olde or newe ¶ Take a pottle of running water a pecke of ashes of Ash wood that is old and a pottle of Tan-iuyce that leather neuer came into and a pound of Mother a pound of Allam and beate them all in fine powder and put it into your Tan-iuyce nine dayes and then whē you haue so doone take a pottle of the one and a pottle of the other and put thereto ten ounces of greene Copperis and one ounce of Ginger beaten all into fine powder and put them all together and so séeth them to a quarte then take them off and straine them and put them in a faire vessell and poure out the thinne from the thicke and lay a wet cloth thereon and lay it to the wounde or sore eyther olde or new and wash them well therewith A water imperiall for all wounds and Cankers ¶ Take a handfull of red Sage leaues and a handfull of Selondine as much of Woodbine leaues take a gallon of conduit water and put the hearbes in it and let them boyle to a pottle and then straine the hearbs through a strainer and take the licour sette it ouer the fire againe and take a pint of English honny a good handfull of Roch-allam as
much of white Copper is fine beaten a penny-worth of graines brused then let them boyle altogether three or foure walmes ouer the fire and let the skimme as it riseth be wel taken off with a feather and when it is colde put the same into an earthen pot or bottle so that it may be kept close from ayre and for a greene wound take of the thinnest and for an olde wounde of the thickest couer the sore rather with Veale or Mutton skimme them with Docke leaues when that you haue dressed them with thys aforesaid water To make water imperiall another way ¶ Take a handfull of Dragon of Scabions of Endiue a handfull of Pimpernell a handfull of Worme-wood of Rew a handfull a handfull of Tansie as much Fetherfoy asmuch of Daisie leaues as much of Cowslyps as much of Maydenhayre as much Sinckfoyle as much Dandelyon as much Time as much Bawme of each of these hearbes a handfull as I sayd before then take of Treakle a pound of Bole Armoniack foure ounces and when you haue all these hearbes together you must take and shread them a little but not too small then take the Treakle the Bole armoniack and mingle them and the hearbes together then put them in a stillitory and still them and it is made A very good remedy to take away Warts ¶ For to take away Warts take the séede of Briony with the leaues burne them and make Ashes of them and meddle the ashes with the iuyce of the same hearbe like an oyntment and annoynt your Warts often and they will fall away The dunge of an Eagle if it be often rubbed vpon the Warts dooth likewise doo away the same very quickly Another remedie for Warts ¶ Take the iuyce of hearbe Wart-wort and annoynt any Wart or Ring-worme there-with and it helpeth For to doe away Warts ¶ Take Elder berries and stampe them then wringe out the iuyce and with the same vse once or twise a day to annoint thy Warts and it will quickly doo them cleane away Thys experiment hath béene proued For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take and binde fast the Wenne then take Verdigreace Sulphur Sope oyle of Egges Allam and Honny and temper them together and lay thereto and it shall doo away the Wem and also for to heale it well and cleane within three or foure times dressing For to doe away a Wenne ¶ Take a quantitie of vnslackt Lime and mixe the same very well with as much blacke Sope and annoynt any Wen therewith and the Wenne will fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt the place with oyle of Balme and it wil perfectly heale the same How to helpe one that is blasted ¶ Take the white of a Hennes Egge and put it in a brazen Morter then put thereto a quarter of an ounce of Copperis and grinde them well togeather till it bee as small as an oyntment with which annoynt the sore face and it will case the paine and take away the swelling and when it is welnye whole annoynt the place with a little Popilium and that will make the skinne faire and well againe An excellent remedy to helpe the rewme ¶ Rub the leafe of a Marygold betweene your fingers and put the same into your nose and let it stay there a little while and it will bring forth aboundance of humors out of the heade it will helpe the Rewme within a little while if you vse it This hath béene prooued Another speciall remedie for the Rewme ¶ Take a little sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oaken leaues then cut them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre as you can suffer the same holding the sticke betweene your teeth in thys manner hold your mouth ouer a dish or poringer and there wil great aboundance of humors auoyde out of your mouth But within a while washe in faire water the leaues on the sticke and then holde them in your mouth againe Doe thus for the space of an howre and vse it thrée or foure times a day for thrée or foure dayes together or vntill you haue auoyded so much watry humors as you thinke good This is the best and presentest remedy for the rewme that euer was heard of And hee that proues it shall finde it and excellent helpe A soueraigne water against melancholly and drinke to comfort the stomacke ¶ Take a pounde of Aqua vitae and put thereto a quart of Redrose water put into it as much Licoris sliced and scraped as you may hold in both your hands but if it be English Licoris you may take lesse put thereto as much Anniseede as you thinke will be sufficient to make it taste well thereof stew all these with a soft fire well couered with an earthen pot that the ayre doo not goe out to your iudgement till that a pinte thereof be consumed let it not boyle in any case but stewe softly this done take it from the sire and let it scand and coole and when it is cold draw it from the seede and Licoris and put it into the wicker glasse or bottle but bruse it that your water may be as cleere as you can and when neede requireth occupy it To make artificiall oyle of balme for woundes ¶ Take Balme Rewe Fetherfoy Sowthistle Nettles Briany leaues Bramble leaues Sage leaues Cinckfoyle of each of all these a handfull take all these simples and lay them in oyle Oliue one whole night and take the water that commeth of a Vine stalke and blacke Suailes gum Arabeck gum Edere of each of these one ounce you must take the seed of the Ashe trée and beate the seedes and the gummes very fine together Afterward you must put the oyle and the hearbs into the Still and throwe thereupon a quarter of a pound of the oyle of Roses and two ounces of Aqua vitae and so distill it with a soft fire but you must still it at the least twice or thrise Thys oyle will heale all wounds very soone A greene balme to incarnate wounds and to dry vp filthy vlcers ¶ Take of fine Aqua vitae Venice turpentine oyle of Roses of euery of them a pint boyle them with a soft fire of coles and after a waume or two put in of Verdigreace made in fine powder an ounce and a halfe and boyle it to a good perfect substance and so vse it to your sore wounds and filthy vlcers and it shall helpe them very shortly To make artificiall Balme ¶ Take of gum Elempine sixe ounces Aloes Mirrhe Castore Apponace of each two ounces Storax calamite Olibanum Mastick Cacabre of each foure ounces Munge Bedelii gum of the Fig trée of each two ounces and a halfe make euery one of them in powder by themselues that will be powdered The spices take of Lignum aloes three ounces Zilobalsami Carpobalsami Spignard Cloues Sinamon Calamus aromatici nut aromatici Nutmegs Galingall Setwell graines Cardomomus both of
the great and small Cucubes rootes of Cipres Mustacastaline which is the coddes of the Muske of each two ounces Rewpenticon 2. drams flowers of rosemary 2. ounces Iuniper berries Enula campana of each dried an ounce Bay-berries halfe an ounce beat all together in grosse powders then take of the séed of fennell perfly tansie Carret Coriander and Caroway séed of each one ounce wormwood sage dried basill Rosemary Margerum Penniriall Mints Secades Egrimonie a like quantitie of each then take Figges of Algarie Dates the stones taken away Reysons of the sunne Almonds of each foure ounces then take oyle of Turpentine 2. pynts oyle of Mastick oyle Bennet oyle of Castore oyle of Tartor oyle of Dyll oyle of Exceter of each halfe a pint oyle of Spike oyle of Nard of each foure ounces pure Aqua composita the waight of all the former stuffe and first boyle them in the bodies of two Limbecks of glasse fast luted with the crownes of theyr couers downeward in Balnaeo mariae that is a Cawdron of water a day a night then take off theyr caps and set them aright and distill it with an easie fire in these two Limbecks all your stuffe being deuided into euen portions as before lute them strongly and distill them with a sofe fire sixe howres then in the rest increase your fire by little and little til the water be passed then shall you sée white oyle and last of all yellow oyle kéepe euery of them by themselues the fourth is in the bottome keepe the as an excellent remedy for all wounds it helpeth suddainly without suffering the wound to putrifie or cast matter but confoundeth it and helpeth it straight The vertue of this Balme It is most excellent for Gowtes Palsies Cramps wounds akings sinewes cut hurt or shrunke the falling sicknesse Apoplexia the turning of the braine the biting of dogs or any other venimous things for the Timpany to annoynt the belly and the first water is good for all wounds and all retten and filthy vlcers as hath beene prooued The receit of the water of health by G. K. ¶ Take red Rose flowers Cammomile flowers Lauender flowers Buglosse flowers Isope flowers Rosemary flowers sage flowers secados flowers balme flowers time wild time peniriall Margerū winter sauery pimpernell S. Iohn woort Philopendula eyebright horehound dittany bittany scabies turmentill planten auence maidenhaire mints rue sapifrage Harts-tung Ensras Brasill Canepithy Piony Iuniper berries Bay leaues or berries take of all these flowers a maine handfull if they be gotten if not then take thrée gallons of mighty strong Ale or thrée gallens of Gascoigne wine then take these spices Anniséede two pound Licoris two pound Fenell séede two vnces Cinamon two vnces Caraway seede two vnces Galingall two vnces Setwell two vnces Angelica two vnces Ciperus two vnces Ginger Nutmegs of each one vnce Enula campana one vnce Calamus aromaticus one vnce Ireus one vnce Lignum aloes two vnces Cloues one vnce Cucubes one vnce Graines one vnce long Pepper one vnce Spignard one vnce Mace one vnce Amis amonium one vnce Suger half a pound Alkenet two vnces Olibanum Mastick Basill séede Marierum seed of all these halfe an vnce and doo by the drawing of this water of health in all respects as by your Aqua composita your flowers and hearbs must be dried and shred on a chopping boord a good handfull of each at the least and your Aniséede must be well beated and dusted and your Licoris must be scraped and sliced cleane and then all the rest of your other spices and seeds must be beaten fine in a brasen morter each to his quantity Also you may put therto thrée grains of ciuell Musk for it will make it to drink the more plesanter and for diuers infirmities this water is good as to breake wind in the belly for them that cannot relish or disgest their meats and for diuers other cold causes this water will make a man to liue long and to kéepe and preserue a man long in health and to make a man to looke young againe For to make pety Balme ¶ Take fine meat oyle a pint and put it in a clean pan and séeth it well ouer the fire then doo thy hands in cold water and let it drop thereon and it will creame and when it leaueth creaming doo it to the fire againe and let it séethe well and doo so thrée or foure times with your hands then take halfe an vnce of Masticke as much of Frankensence as much of Rozen a quarter of an vnce of Verdigreace make all these into powder by themselues then doo them into the oyle and let them séethe well together and stir it well and skim it cleane then let it coole then doo it in a pewter vessell and this is a good balme For to make aqua vitae perfectissima per G. K. ¶ Take the roote of Sapifrage Persly Alisander Fenell Time Isope Peniriall Rosemary Lauender Primrose Mints Rue Betony Sauein Sage Auence Calamint of each of these hearbs halfe a quarterne then take Galingall Pepper long Pepper Cloues Nutmegs of each of these one vnce of Canell Mace Cucubes of each of these two vnces Setwell Pellitory of Spaine Lignum aloes of each halfe an vnce stamp thy hearbs and pouder thy spices and doo them in a gallon of good red Wine and mingle thy hearbs and spices together in the Wine and let them stand all a night in stéepe and on the morrow distill them into a Limbeck this water hath many faire vertues and it comforteth man or woman and kéepeth them from all maladies that be cold Also it is hot at the first distilling and at the third distilling it helpeth man or woman in their kindly heates Also it comforteth a cold stomack and destroyeth both scabbe and scall Also it healeth all olde sores if it be kindly vsed it is good for the deafnes of the eares by putting a little therof into thy eare it driueth away the stinking of the breath Also it is good for the falling euill for the palsie in the tung for that palsie maketh a man sodainly dombe Also it healeth the palsie of other members that trembleth Also for biting or stinging of Scorpions or Adders or other venemous beasts for no venim can come néere vnto it Also it is good for the toothache of cold rewme and for a cold feauer being drunk before the axis it is good for to wash the emerods and old sores called Noli me tangere and for the Collica passio and who so drinketh it for the vanity of the head it also healeth the saucefleume in the face Also it purgeth the stomack of all corruptions and for stone and for all gowtes it destroyeth the gnawing within the belly and suffereth no wind to bréed in mans body To make Aqua vitae for cold causes ¶ Take good Gascoigne wine and distill it in a glasse or Serpentine and that water that burneth doo it by it selfe and