embers and keep it for your use How to make Hair grow Take half a pound of Aqua Mellis in the Spring time of the year warm a little of it every morning when you rise in a Sawcer and tie a little spunge to a fine box comb and dip it in the water and therewith moisten the roots of the Hair in combing it and it will grow long thick and curled in a very short time To write Letters of secrets that they cannot be read without the directions following Take fine Allum beat it small and put a reasonable quantity of it into water then write with the said water The work cannot be read but by steeping your paper into fair running water You may likewise write with Vinegar or the juyce of Lemon or Onion if you would read the same you must hold it before the fire How to keep Wine from sowering Tie a piece of very salt Bacon on the inside of your barrel so as it touch not the Wine which will preserve Wine from sowering To take out spots of Greese or Oyl Take bones of sheeps feet burn them almost to ashes then bruise them to powder and put of it on the spot and lay it in the sun when it shineth hottest when the powder becomes black lay on fresh in the place till it fetch out the spots which will be done in a very short time To make hair grow black though any color Take a little Aqua Fortis put therein a groat or six pence as to the quantity of the aforesaid water then set both to dissolve before the fire then dip a small spunge in the said water and wet your beard or hair therewith but touch not the skin King Edwards Perfume Take twelve spoonfulls of right red Rose-water the weight of six pence in fine powder of Sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and the house will smell as though it were full of Roses but you must burn the sweet Cipress wood before to take away the gross air Queen Elizabeths Perfume Take eight spoonfulls of Compound water the weight of two pence in fine powder of sugar and boil it on hot Embers and Coals softly and half an ounce of sweet Marjoram dried in the Sun the weight of two pence of the powder of Benjamin This Perfume is very sweet and good for the time Mr. Ferene of the New Exchange Perfumer to the Queen his rare Dentifrice so much approved of at Court First take eight ounces of Irios roots also four ounces of Pomistone and eight ounces of Cutel bone also eight ounces of mother of Pearle and eight ounces of Corral and a pound of brown sugar-candy and a pound of Brick if you desire to make them red but he did oftner make them white and then instead of the Brick did take a pound of fine Alablaster all this being throughly beaten and sifted through a fine searse the powder is then ready prepared to make up in a paste which must be done as follows To make the said Powder into Paste Take a little Gum Dragant and lay it in steep twelve hours in Orange flower water or Damask Rose-water and when it is dissolved take the sweet Guâ—â— and grinde it on a Marble-stone wiâ—â— the aforesaid powder and mixing some crums of white bread it will come into a Paste the which you may make Dentifrices of what shape or fashion you please but long rolls is the most commodious for your use The Receipt of the Lady Kents powder presented by her Ladyship to the Queen Take white Amber Crabs eyes red Corral Harts-horn and Pearl all prepared several of each a like proportion tear and mingle them then take Harts-horn gelly that hath some Saffron put into a bag dissolve into it while the gelly is warm then let the gelly cool and therewith make a paste of the powders which being made up into little balls you must dry gently by the fire side Pearl is prepared by dissolving it with the juyce of Lemons Amber prepared by beating it to powder so also Crabs-eyes and Corral Harts-horn prepared by burning it in the fire and taking the shires of it especially the pith wholly rejected A Cordial Water of Sir Walter Raleigh Take a gallon of Strawberries and put them into a pint of Aqua vitae let them stand so four or five dayes strain them gently out and sweeten the water as you please with fine Sugar or else with perfume The Lady Malets Cordial Water Take a pound of fine Sugar beaten and put to it a quart of running water pour it three or four times through a bag then put a pint of Damask Rose-water which you must alwayes pour still through the bag then four penniworth of Angelica water four pence in Clove-water four pence of Rosa solis one pint of Cinnamon-water or three pints and half of Aqua vitae as you finde it in taste put all these together three or four times through the bag or strainer and then take half an ounce of good Muskallis and cut them grosly and put them into a glass and fill them with the water c. A Sovereign Water of Dr. Stephens which he long times used wherewith he did many Cures he kept it secretly till a little before his Death and then he gave it to the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury in writing being as followeth viz. Take a Gallon of good Gascoine VVine and take Ginger Gallingale Cinamon Nutmegs Cloves Grains Ani-seeds Fennil-seed of every of them a dram then take Caraway-seed of red Mints Roses Thime Pellitory of the Wall Rosemary wilde Thime Camomil the leaves if you cannot get the flowers of small Lavender of each a handfull then bray the spices small and bray the Hearbs and put all into the Wine and let it stand so twelve hours stirring it divers times then still it in a Limbeck and keep the first water for iâ— is best then put the second water by it self for it is good but not of such vertues c. The Vertues of this Water It comforts the Spirits Vitall and helps all inward Diseases that come of cold it is good against the shaking of the Palsie it cures the Contraction of the Sinnews helps the conception of women if they be barren it kills the VVorms in the Belly and Stomach it cures the cold Dropsie and helps the Stone in the Bladder and in the Reins of the back it helps shortly the stinking breath and whosoever useth this water morning and evening and not too often it preserveth him in good liking and will make him seem young very long and comforteth nature marvellously with this water did Dr. Stephens preserve his life till extream age would not let him go or stand and he continued five years when all the Physicians judged he would not live a year longer nor did he use any other Medicine but this c. A Plague Water to be taken one spoonful every four hours with one sweat every time Take Scabious
for a Dropsie approved by the Lady Hobby who was cured her self by it Take Carawayes Smallage Time Hysop Watercresses Penniroyal Nettle tops Calamint Elecampane-roots of each one little handful Horse radish two pounds boil them in six quarts of running water until half be consumed then strain it boil it a new with a pottle of Canary Sack Liquorish twelve ounces sweet Fennel-seed one ounce bruised and a quarter of an ounce of Cumin-seed bruised boil all these above half an hour then strain it and keep it for your use nine spoonfuls in the morning fasting and as much at three or four a clock in the afternoon use it for some time together This the Lady Hobby proved by her self Dr. Adrian Gilberts most Sovereign Cordial Water Take Spearmint Broom-mint Mother of Time the Blossome tops of Garden Time red Penniroyal Scabious Celandine Wood Sorrel Wood Betony Angelica leaves and stalkes set Wall Leaves Peony leaves Egrimony Tormentil sweet Marjoram red Sage Rue Rossolis Angelica roots Elecampany roots set Wall Roots green Peniroyal Comfrey Blossoms and Leaves Juniper-berries of each a pound Balm Carduus Benedictus Dragon Feaverfew Wormwood of each two pounds steep all these in the lees of strong pure venient Claret Wine for nine dayes every day twice turning them to mingle them well in the Lees then distil them in a Limbeck with a red clear head with two pounds of shaved Harts horn and Ivory twelve ounces draw as long of it as you may in several pottle glasses the first is accounted the best and uncompounded and the perfectest against the Plague spotted Feavers small Pocks ordinary Feavers divers times experienced by my self either to prevent or in the time of these sicknesses If you will compound it because the water hath an ill taste then take the first gallon of the water and mix it with a pottle of the best Malaga sack and put into them three pounds of Raisins solis stoned Figs one pound and a half the flowers of Clove-gilly-flowers Cowslips and Marigolds blue Violets of each two pounds red Rose buds one pound Ambergreece Bezoar stone clarified Sugar Aniseeds Liquorish and what else you please These are Adrian Gilberts Receipts having had experience of them most constantly sure The uncompounded Water is the more excellent and if in time of infection one take two spoonfuls of it in good Bear or white Wine he may safely walk from danger by the leave of God If any of the former diseases attache any person then he must take four ounces of the first water and mix therewith either the syrups of Violets Clove-gilly-flowers or Angelica as the disease is one spoonful of the Syrup is sufficient for four ounces of the water so take it in three times For a swoln Face Take Oyl of Elder and Plaintain-water of each one ounce beat them well together until they be exactly incorporated and therewith anoint the tumefied place twice or thrice in a day until the swelling be chased away Cock water for a Consumption Take a running Cock pull him alive then kill him cut him abroad by the back take out the entrails and wipe him clean then quarter him and break his bones then put him into a rose-Rose-water still with a pottle of Sack Currans and Raisins of the sun stoned and Figs sliced of each one pound Dates stoned and cut small half a pound Rosemary flowers Wilde Time Spearmint of each one handful Organs or Wilde Marjoram Bugloss pimpinel of each two handfuls and a bottle of new milk from a red cow Distill these with a soft fire put into the Receiver a quarter of a pound of brown Sugar-candy beaten small four grains of Ambergreece fourty grains of prepared pearl and half a book of leaf gold cut very small you must mingle the strong water with the small and let the patient take two spoonfuls of it in the morning and as much at going to bed A precious Cordial for a sick body Take three spoonfuls of Mint water and as much of Muskadine and Wormwood water two or three spoonfuls of fine Sugar and two or three drops of Cinamon spirit beat these well together with two or three spoonfuls of Clove-gilly-flowers spirit and give the Patient now and then one spoonfull thereof especially when he or she goeth to bed Wormwood Cakes good for a cold Stomach and to help Digestion Take pure searced Sugar two ounces and wet it with the Spirit of Wormwood then take a little Gum Tragiganth and steep it all night in Rose water then take some of this and the wet sugar and beat them together in an Alablaster Mortar till it come to a paste like dough if you please put a little Musk to it then make it up in little cakes of the breadth of a groat or three pence lay them upon plates and dry them gently in an Oven and keep them in a dry place for your use and upon occasion hold one of them in your mouth to melt and swallow the dissolved juyce thereof for the infirmities aforesaid To make water of Life Take Balm leaves and stalks Burnet leaves and flowers Rosemary red Sage Taragon Tormentil leaves Rossolis red Roses Carnation Hysop Thyme red strings that grow upon Savory red Fennel leaves and roots red Mints of each one handful bruise these herbs and put them in a great earthen pot and pour on them as much white Wine as will cover them stop them close and let them steep for eight or nine dayes then put to it Cinamon Ginger Angelica seeds Cloves and Nutmegs of each one ounce a little Saffron Sugar one pound Raisins Solis stoned one pound Dates stoned and sliced half a pound the loins and legs of an old Coney fleshy running Capon the red flesh of the sinnews of a leg of Mutton four young Chickens twelve Larks the yolks of twelve Eggs a loaf of white bread cut in sops and two or three ounces of Mithridate or Treacle and as much Bastard or Muscadine as will cover them all Distill all with a moderate fire and keep the first and second waters by themselves and when there comes no more by distilling put more Wine into the Pot upon the same stuff and distil it again and you shall have another good water This water must be kept in a double glass close stopt very carefully it is good against many Infirmities as the Dropsie Palsie Ague Sweating Spleen Worms Yellow and Black Jaundies it strengtheneth the Spirits Brain Heart Liver and Stomach Take two or three spoonfulss when need is by it self or with Ale Beer or Wine mingled with sugar Dr. Atkinsons excellent Perfume against the Plague Take Angelica roots and dry them a very little in an Oven or by the fire and then bruise them very soft and lay them in Wine Vinegar to steep being close covered three or four days and then heat a brick hot and lay the same thereon every morning this is excellent to air the house or any clothes or to breath over
half a pint of new cream and as much Saffron as will make it of a deep Saffron colour and boil together half a quarter of an hour and keep it in a glass and when the Pocks begin to wheal warm some of the Oyntment in a Sawcer and anoint them with a feather twice a day till they be dried up Dr. Eaglestones Cure for the Small Pocks or Measles Take a quart of Ale or Beer and seethe it in a skillet and put thereto a good handful of Fennel and six or seven Figs scraped and cut in pieces two good spoonfuls of Anniseeds and a little Saffron put all these to the drink and let them seethe together till the liquor be more then half consumed and in the of Bores grease half an ounce of Sheeps suet two ounces of Neat-foot Oyl two ounces of Plantane and Rose water each two drams of Spike water one dram of Dragon water half an ounce as much of Borage water and Dr. Stevens water two Nutmegs twelve Cloves and some Mace of the best beat them small together and put them into a pot and boil it over a soft fire untill it become a Salve then chafe the place where the party is grieved as hot as he may suffer and then spread it on a fine linnen cloth and lay it upon the place six or eight dayes The Countess of Mounteagles excellent Medicine for the Cramp Proved Take a handful of the Herb called Perriwinkle some of it beareth a blew flower and some white and also take a good handful of Rosemary tops put them into a Pewter dish and set them upon coals dry them and turn them very often and when they are very hot lay them upon the place that is so taken with the Cramp and binde a cloth upon them when you go to bed and this will help you take it in the morning and lay fresh at night A Posset-drink for one that is Heart sick to remove it thence though it be the Plague Take Ale and make Posset-drink thereof and clarifie it then take Pimpernel and seethe in it till it be strong of it and drink often thereof Remedies against the Falling-sickness Take Powder of Harts-horn drink it with Wine it helpeth that disease so do Ravens Eggs taken with the juyce of Wilde Rue and the juyce of Misletoe To avoid Phlegm Take clarified Posset-drink and put thereto sweet butter the yolk of an Egg and a little small Ginger Hysop red Mints and Sugar let these seethe all together and drink thereof first and last as warm as you can suffer it A very good means to stay a Looseness that happeneth in Childe-bed First in the water you mean to use quench a gad of Steel sundry times then take the inward barks of the Sloe of the Bramble and of the young Oak of each a like quantity and so much as will suffice according to the liquor you intend to make if you use three pints of water a pretty handful of each bark will serve finely scraped when they are well boiled that one pint is wasted strain your liquor and make it into Almond Milk with unblanched Almonds finely grown then with well boiled Ivy thicken your Milk and other Rice broth and season it with Sugar and Cinamon finely beaten let the party forbear drink as much as may be and eat thereof once in two or three hours a little at once as her stomach will serve If she have any gripe in her belly I wish this to be used which I know to be singular good for any stoppage by sudden cold in Childe-bed Gather a great deal of Cammomile and heat it well between two Chargers upon a Chafing-dish of Coles and when the moisture of the Herb is somewhat spent strew in a handful of bruised Cummin-seed and sprinkle it now and then with a little Malmsey and so being a little dryish put it into a thin bag and apply it to the belly as hot as may be suffered and as it cooleth warm it again till she have ease instead of Malmsey you may use Muscadine This hath been many times proved For a Knock or Bruise in the Face Take a piece of brown paper and wet it in beer and lay it where the knock is and as it beginneth to dry lay on fresh a good while together For a Wen. Take Stone Lime and put it into water till it have done boiling then take a quantity of it and mix it with some barrel Soap laying them both on a cloth let it be applied to it and it will eat away the Wen. Mr. Potter Chyrurgeon His Cure for a man that is bursten Take the roots of baked Fern and the Roots of Elecampane of each a like quantity wash and pare them clean cut them as small as you can and stamp them in a Mortr as fine as you can and temper it with Oyl of Bay and two spoonfuls of Oyl of Exceter and when you have made the Salve spread it upon his Cod to his Belly and lay the Plaister upon the hole and remove it every two dayes and then use another space of ten dayes you must use another Salve or Plaister as followeth Take a quarter of a pound of 〈…〉 and the white of three or four Eggs and temper them together and when they are well tempered put in two spoonfuls of Pescolion temper all these together and use the same as you did the former salve when you take off the Plaister you must lay fine clothes under the bolster of the Truss until you think the skin be grown A medicine to destroy Warts Take Radish Root and shred it thin and put it in a pewter dish and cast salt upon it and cover it with another dish and shake the slices up and down and then take a piece thereof and rub the Warts therewith then throw away that and use another so three or four times in a day To take away Corns Take Hogs Grease that is not tried and beat it with a Pestle and spread it upon a piece of white Cotton on the rugged side and binde it on the Corns dressing it once or twice a day and it will wear them away To take away Freckles or Morphew Take four spoonfuls of May dew and one spoonfull of the Oyl of Tartar mingle them together and wash the places where the freckles be and let it dry of it self it will clear the skin and take away all foul spots rise about some four times then take Barberries and take the outside Rinde of them and beat them into very fine powder and take every morning and evening and drink either a draught of the said Water or small Beer after it continue this and it will cure you For an Ague congealed or fallen into a Womans Breast Take a quantity of stone Honey and the rustiest Bacon you can get Smallage Alexander red Cole Marigolds with black seeds of Groundsel Plantane and Sage of each a quantity put all these in a mortar and stamp
and take the marrow thereof and anoint the nipple therewith To dry up Milk in a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Aqua vitae and a quantity of sweet Butter melt and temper them together and anoint the Breast therewith laying a brown paper betwixt them and so do as often as the paper drieth till the Milk be dried up this is also good to keep the Ague out of the Breast To make a woman have a nipple that hath none and would give suck Take a Wicker Bottle that hath a little mouth and fill it full of hot water and stop it close til the bottle be through hot then let out the water and set the mouth of the bottle close to the Nipple as long as there is any heat in the bottle it will cleave fast To heal the Nipple of a Womans Breast Take a quantity of Cream and put it into the juyce of Valerian stamped and strained and as much of the juyce of sea-green used in like sort boil all these together till it come to be as Butter then take it and put it into a box and anoint the Nipple therewith three or four times a day and lay a Walnut shell or some other hollow thing over it to keep the clothes from it till it be whole or else make a Posset Ale of Alom and lay the curd to the Nipple warm till the childe doth suck and then lay on again A Medicine for Worms in young Children Take a Plaister of white Leather or brown paper and spread it with Honey warm it a little against the fire but first strew some of the best Aloes Succotrinae thereon then lay it all over the Stomach of the Childe warm the like plaister is to be laid on the Childes Navil at the same time if you have no Honey mix the juyce of Plantain and lay it on the leather Dr. Forsters Infusion purging Choller Take Damask Roses two ounces or Rhubarb two drams and a half of Spikenard one scruple of Orcin one scruple cut all small and infuse in a quart of clarified whey all night in the morning strain gently and put to it one ounce of Syrup of Roses or Syrup of Violets Dr. Fosters Infusion purging Melancholly Take Fumitory Epithymum flowers or leaves of Borage and Bugloss of each a good half handful Polypody of the Oak one ounce Sena half an ounce Fennil-seed two drams Whey three pints infuse and boil to a quart whereunto adde two ounces of Syrup of Roses solutive the dose is half a pound you may quicken a draught with a dram of Electuary of Roses An opening purging Julip and cooling for Choller and hot Humors Take of Barley two little handfuls of Savory with the roots Maidenhair Liverwort Sorrel each half a good handful of roots of Grass of Fennil each half an ounce of the four cold seeds each two drams boil them in a sufficient quantity of Succory water unto sixteen ounces in which infuse half an ounce of Sena Tamarindes and Polypody of each three drams Jalap and Hermodactils of each two drams Fennil-seed Anniseed and Liquorish of each one dram Currans bruised half an ounce of Borage Bugloss and Rosemary flowers of each one dram infuse these warm then boil them until five ounces of the Succory Water be consumed then strain it and adde the expression of four scruples of Rhubarb infused in three ounces of Manna and syrup of roses one ounce of the Christals of Tartar one dram mingle them the Dose is four or five ounces every morning Doctor Mores Powder or grosly prepared Drug to be taken in mornings and after Meals to mend Concoction comfort the Brain break Winde and make sweet Breath Take Liquorish cut small Anniseed Comfits with one skin of Sugar of each two ounces sweet Fennil seed Comfits with one skin of Sugar Corianders prepared and Caroway-seed of each one ounce of white Ginger Cinamon Calamus Aromaticus and Nutmegs of each one ounce cut very small of the Lozenges of Aromaticum Rosatum of Manus Christies with Chymica Oyl of Cinamon Cloves and Lozenges of Dâ—ambra cut into small pieces each half an ounce to be taken about a spoonful at the time aforesaid Lucatello's Balsam admirable for all Wounds Take Venice Turpentine one pound Oyl Olive three pints Sack six spoonfuls yellow Wax one pound natural Balsam half an ounce Oyl of Saint Johns-Wort red Sanders powdered of each one ounce wash the Venice Turpentine three times in red Rose-water then slice the Wax thin and set it on the fire in a big Skillet and when it is well molten put the Turpentine to it and stir them well together till they boil a little take it off the fire and let it cool till the next day then cut it into thick slices and pour all the water out of it then set it on the fire again and when it is molten stir it well and put it into the aforesaid Oyls Sack Balsam and Sanders and stir them well together that they may incorporate then â—et it boil again for a short space take it off the fire and stir it well for the space of two hours that it may become thick and when it is cold put it up in several Gallipots and when you use it apply it tented into a deep and hollow wound if it be onely a slit cut anoint the wound with it and binde it fast on with the cloth A Purge by Dr. Mayhern Take of the best Sena six drams of Rhubarb two drams Cream of Tartâ—r half a dram of sweet Fennil-seed as much and a little Cinamon infuse all these one night in half a pint of white Wine in the morning let it boil one walm or two strain it and put of the best Manna an ounce dissolve it over the fire then strain it again then put to it an ounce of Salatine syrup of Roses so drink it fast two hours after from meat and drink sleep and then drink nothing but thin broth An approved Medicine to beautifie the Face or to take away Pimples or Heat in the Face Take a fair earthen Pipkin and put into it a pottle of clean running water and an ounce of white Mercury beaten to white powder then set it on the fire and let it boil until one half be consumed and keep it close covered saving when you stir it then take the whites of six new laid egs beaten half an hour or more and put it into the liquor after it is taken from the fire you must put in also the juyce of Lemons being very good and half a pint of new Milk and a quarter of a pound of bitter Almonds blanched and beaten with half a pint of Damask rose-Rose-water strain all these together through a strainer and let it stand three weeks before you use it and I will warrant you fair c. An excellent water for the Eyes that are red or full of Rhume Take young Hazle Nuts when they are so soft that you may thrust a pin through
them still them in a Rose still Husks Shells and all and with the water wash your eyes To cure a Wound though the Patient be never so far off Take a quart of pure Spring water and put into it some Roman Vitriol and let it dissolve then if you have any blood of the wound either in linnen or woollen or silk put the cloth so blooded in the water and rub the cloth once a day and if the wound be not mortal the blood will out if it be it will not Let the patient keep his Wound clean washing it with white Wine when ever you wash the cloth the party wounded shall sensibly finde ease let the cloth be constantly in the water To make Oyl of Swallows Take swallows as many as you can get ten or twelve at the least and put them quick into a Mortar and put to them Lavender Cotton Spike Cammomil Knot-grass Ribwort Balm Valerian Rosemary tops Woodbine tops strings of Vines French Mallows the tops of Alehoof Strawberry strings Tutsane Plantain Walnut leaves tops of young Bayes Hysop Violet leaves Sage of vertue fine Roman Wormwood Brooklime Smallage Mother of Time of each of these a handful two of Cammomil and two of red Roses beat all these together and put thereto a quart of Neats-foot Oyl or May Butter stamp them all together and beat them with one or two ounces of Cloves and put them all together in an earthen pot stop it very close with a piece of dough round about so close that no air can come out set them nine days in a cellar and then take them out and boil them six or eight hours on the fire or else in a pan of water but first open your pot and put in half a pound of Wax white or yellow whether you will and a pint of Sallet Oyl and strain them through a Canvas cloth To make Lead Plaister Take two pound and four ounces of the best and greenest Sallet Oyl with a pound of good red Lead and a pound of white Lead beat them well into dust then take twelve Ounces of Castle-Sope incorporate all these well together in a well glassed and great earthen pot that the Sope may come upwards set it on a small fire of coals the space of one hour and a half alwayes stirring it with an iron ball or round Pommil then make your fire somewhat bigger until it be the colour of Oyl then drop a little on the board and if it cleave neither to your finger nor the board then it is enough then take the clothes and make them into what breadth or size you please in Searcloth let not your cloth be course but of a reasonable new Holland and when you have dipped them then rub them with a Slick-stone it will last two years and the elder the better as long as it will stick it is good The vertues of the Leaden Plaister 1. If it be laid to the Stomach it provoketh appetite and taketh away any grief in the same 2. If laid to the belly it is a present remedy for the ache 3. If laid to the Reins of the back it cureth and healeth the Bloody Flux the running of the Reins heat in the Liver or weakness of the Back 4. Itâ— healeth all bruises and Swellings it taketh away aches it breaketh Fellons Pushes and other Impostumes and healeth them 5. It draweth out any running Humour without breaking of the skin and being applied to the Fundament it healeth any disease there growing 6. The same laid to the head is good for the eyes 7. The same laid to the Belly of a Woman provoketh the Tearms and maketh apt for Conception For the Stone and Gravel Take and dry the roots of red Nettles make them into powder and drink a spoonful of the powder in a draught of white Wine something warm and it will break the Stone though it be never so great with speed use it every day until the Stone and Gravel be all broken and consumed A thing of small price and great vertue A drink to purge the body being very good for them that have the Scurvey or are inclined to it Take a pottle of fine running water and a pint of Rhennish Wine for a young body and for any elder take a quart set it on the fire put into it three or four slices of Horse Radish a great handful of Water Cresses and a handful of Brooklime both a little bruised slice in two or three Oranges outsides and insides let them boil all together better then half an hour then have ready a greater quantity of scurvey-grass bruised or a pint of the juyce of Scurvy-grass ready strained and put into the liquor and set over the fire again then there will arise a curd which being taken off put it into the drink when it is cold three or four Lemons more or less as best pleaseth the taste sweeten it with Sugar and drink a Wine draught in the morning and at four a clock in the afternoon and then walk and use some exercise after it The party that hath the scurvy and whose legs are much swelled may put into the drink some Juniper berries bruised half an ounce or thereabouts Dr. Bates his Medicine against a Consumption Take Liverwort two handfuls Succory six Endiffe Borage Colts-foot of each six handfuls shred these finely put them in a gallon of new Milk let them steep all night in the morning distil them in a glass still then take three spoonfuls of red Rose-water three spoonfuls of this water with half a pint of red Cows Milk and as much Sugar of Roses as will sweeten it To make Gascony Powder Take the black tips of Crabs claws gotten when the Sun is in Cancer pick out from within them all the fish beat them to as fine a powder as you can then searse it through a very fine searse take an ounce of this powder and put to it half an ounce of the Magestical of Pearl and as much of the Magestical of Coral mix them well together then put a little Rose-water in a glass in which you must hang a little Saffron in a bag and a little Musk and Ambergrece in another let them hang in Rose-water two or three dayes till the vertue of them be gone into the water then put your powder either into a Silver Porringer or a white earthen one and put as much of the Rose-water as will moisten your powder then dry it in the Porringer by a gentle fire and so wet your powder three or four times and as often dry it after this make a Gelly as followeth Take a Viper alive in May or June cut off his head and tail above the Navil pull off his skin and with a clean cloth rub it dry and so you may hang them up and take two of those skins and slice them small with a little Harts-horn and make a Gelly of them you need not make much then when your powder is dry wet it
in thin fair water when it is boiled a little while put in your Cherries after they are stoned four pound to one pound of Sugar let them lie in the Sugar three dayes then take them out of the Syrup and lay them on sieves one by one and set them before the Sun upon stools turn them every day else they will mould when they look of a dark red colour and are dry then put them up And so you may do any manner of fruit In the Sun is the best drying of them put into the syrup some juyce of Rasps To make Juyce of Liquorish Take English Liquorish and stamp it very clean bruise it with a hammer and cut it in small pieces to a pound of Liquorish thus bruised put a quart of Hysop water let them soak together in an earthen pot a day and a night then pull the Liquorish into small pieces and lay it in soak again two dayes more then strain out the Liquorish and boil the liquor a good while Stir it often then put in half a pound of Sugar-candy or Loaf Sugar finely beaten four grains of Musk as much Ambergreece bruise them small with a little Sugar then boil them together till it be good and thick still have a care you burn it not then put it out in glass plates and make it into round rolls and set it in a drying place till it be stiff that you may work it into rolls to be cut as big as Barley corns and so lay them on a place again If it be needful strew on the place a little Sugar to prevent thickning so dry them still if there be need and if they should be too dry the heat of the fire will soften them again A perfume for Clothes Gloves Take of Linet two grains of Musk three of Ambergreese four and the oyl of Bems a pretty quantity grinde them all upon a Marble stone fit for that purpose then with a brush or spunge rake them over and it will sweeten them very well your Gloves or Jerkins must first be washed in old red Rose-water and when they are a most dry stretch them forth smooth and lay on the perfumes To make Almond Bisket Take the whites of four new laid Eggs and two yolks then beat it well for an hour together then have in readiness a quarter of a pound of the best Almonds blanched in cold water and beat them very small with Bosewart for fear of Oyling then have a pound of the best Loaf Sugar finely beaten beat that in the Eggs a while then put in your Almonds and five or six spoonfuls of the finest flower and so bake them together upon paper or plates you may have a little fine sugar in a piece of tiffany to dust them over as they be in the Oven so bake them as you do Bisket To make Conserve of Roses boiled Take a quart of Red rose-water a quart of fair water boil in the water a pound of red Rose leaves the whites cut off the leaves must be boiled very tender then take three pound of Sugar and put to it a pound at a time and let it boil a little between every pound so put it up in your pots To make Conserves of Roses unboiled Take a pound of red Rose leaves the whites cut off stamp them very fine take a pound of Sugar and beat in with the Roses and put it in a pot and cover it with leather and set it in a cool place To dry Apricocks First stone them then weigh them take the weight of them in double refined Sugar make the Syrup with so much water as will wet them and boil it up so high that a drop being dropped on a Plate it will slip clean off when it is cold then put in your Apricocks being pared whilest your Syrup is hot but it must not be taken off the fire before you put them in then turn them in the Syrup often then let them stand three quarters of an hour then take them out of the Syrup and tie them up in Tiffanies one in a Tiffany or more as they be in bigness and whilest you are tying them up set the Syrup on the fire to heat but not to boil then put your Apricocks into the Syrup and set them on a quick fire and let them boil as fast as you can skim them clean and when they look clear take them from the fire and let them lie in the Syrup till the next day then set them on the fire to heat but not to boil then set them by till the next day and lay them upon a clean Sieve to drain and when they are well drained take them out of the Tiffanies and so dry them in a stove or better in the Sun with glasses over them to keep them from the dust To make Quinces for Pies Wipe the Quinces and put them into a little vessel of small beer when it hath done working stop them close that no air can get in and this will keep them fair all the year and good The best way to break sweet Powder Take of Orrice one pound Calamus a quarter of a pound Benjamin one half pound Storax half a pound Civet a quarter of an ounce Cloves a quarter of a pound Musk one half ounce oyl of Orange flowers one ounce Lignum Aloes one ounce Rosewood a quarter of a pound Ambergreese a quarter of an ounce To every pound of Roses put a pound of Powder the bag must be of Taffaty or else the powder will run through To make excellent Perfumes Take a quarter of a pound of Damask Rose-buds cut clean from the Whites stamp them very small put to them a good spoonful of Damask Rose-water so let them stand close stopped all night then take one ounce and a quarter of Benjamin finely beaten and also searsed if you will twenty grains of Civit and ten grains of Musk mingle these with the Roses beating them well together then make it up in little Cakes between Rose leaves and dry them between sheets of paper To make a very good Pomatum Take the fat of a young Dog one pound it must be killed well that the blood settle not into the fat then let the outer skin be taken off before it be opened lest any of the hair come to the fat then take all the fat from the inside and assoon as you take it off fling it into conduit-Conduit-water and if you see the second skin be clear peel it and water it with the other be sure it cools not out of the water you must not let any of the flesh remain on it for then the Pomatum will not keep To one pound of this fat take two pound of Lambs caule and put it to the other in the water and when you see it is cold drain it from the water in a Napkin and break it in little pieces with your fingers and take out all the little veins then take eight ounces of oyl of
Betony Pimpernel and Turmentine roots of each a pound steep these all night in three gallons of strong Beer and distil them all in a Limbeck and when you use it take a spoonful thereof every four hours and sweat well after it draw two quarts of water if your Beer be strong and mingle them both together Poppy Water Take four pound of the Flower of Poppies well pickt and sifted steep them all night in three Gallons of Ale that is strong and still it in a Limbeck you may draw two quarts the one will be strong and the other will be small c. A Water for a Consâ—mption or for a Brain that is weak Take Cream or new milk and Claret VVine of each three pints of Violet flowers Bugloss and Borage flowers of each a spoonfull Comfrey Knotgrass and Plantain of these half a handfull three or four Pome-waters sliced a stick of Liquorish some Pompion seeds and strings put to this a Cock that hath been chased and beaten before he was killed dress it as to boil and parboil it until there be no blood in it then put them in a pot and set them over your Limbeck and the soft fire draw out a pottle of water then put your water in a Pipkin over a charcoal fire and boil it awhile dissolve therein six ounces of white Sugar-candy and two penny weight of Saffron when it is cold strain it into a glass and let the Patient drink three or four spoonfulls three or four times a day blood-warm your Cock must be cut into small pieces and the bones broken and in case the flowers and hearbs are hard to come by a spoonful of their stilled waters are to be used Another for the same Take a pottle of good Milk one pint of Muscadine half a pint of red Rose-water a penny manchet sliced thin two handfuls of Raisins of the sun stoned a quarter of a pound of fine sugar sixteen Eggs beaten mix all these together then distill them in a common still with a soft fire then let the Patient drink three or four spoonfuls at a time blood-warm being sweetened with Manus Christi made with Corral and Pearle when your things are all in the Still strew four ounces of Cinnamon beaten this water is good to put into broath c. A good Stomach Water Take a quart of Aqua Composita or Aqua vitae the smaller and put into it one handfull of Cowslip flowers a good handfull of Rosemary flowers sweet Marjoram a little Pellitory of the Wall a little Betony and Balm of each a little handful Cinnamon half an ounce Nutmegs a dram Anniseeds Coriander seeds Caroway seeds Gromel-seeds Juniper berries of each a dram bruise the spice and seed and put them into Aqua Composita or Aqua vitae with your Hearbs together and put into them a pound of very fine sugar stir them well together and put them into a glass and let it stand in the Sun nine dayes and stir it every day two or three Dates and a little race of Ginger sliced into it will make it the better especially against winde c. A Bag of Purging Ale Take of Agrimony Speedwell Liverwort Scurvy-grass Water-Cresses of each a handful of Monk of Rhubarb and red Madder of each half a pound of Horse-Radishes three ounces Liquorish two ounces Sassafrage four ounces Sena seven ounces sweet Fennil-seeds two drams Nutmegs four pick and wash your hearbs and roots and bruise them in a Mortar and put them in a bag made of a Bolter and so hang them in three galons of middle ale and let it work in the Ale and after three dayes you may drink it as you see occasion c. The Ale of Health and Strength by Viscâ—unt St. Albans Take Sassafras wood half an ounce Sarsaparilla three ounces white Saunders one ounce Chamapition an ounce China root half an ounce Mace a quarter of an ounce Chamapition an ounce cut the wood as thin as may be with a knife into small pieces and bruise them in a Mortar put to them these sorts of Hearbs viz. Cowslip Flowers Roman VVormwood of each a handful of Sage Rosemary Betony Mugwort Balm and sweet Marjoram of each half a handful of Hops boil all these in six gallons of Ale till it come to four then put the wood and hearbs into six gallons of Ale of the second wort and boil it till it come to four let it run from the dregs and put your Ale together and run it as you do other purging Ale c. A water excellent good against the Plague Take three pints of Malmsey or Muscadine of Sage and Rue of each one handful boil them together gently to one pint then strain it and set it on the fire again and put to it one penniworth of Long Pepper Ginger four drams Nutmegs two drams all beaten together then let it boil a little take it off the fire and while it is very hot dissolve therein six penniwoth of Methridate and three penniworth of Venice Treacle and when it is almost cold put to it a pint of strong Angelica water or so much Aqua vitae and so keep it in a glass close stopped A Cordial Cherry-water Take a pottle of Aqua vitae two ounces of ripe Cherries stoned Sugar one pound twenty four Cloves one stick of Cinamon three spoonfuls of Aniseeds bruised let these stand in the Aqua vitae fifteen dayes and when the watet hath fully drawn out the Tincture pour it off into another glass for your use which keep close stopped the Spice and the Cherries you may keep for they are very good for winde in the Stomach The Lord Spencers Cherry-water Take a pottle of new Sack four pound of through ripe Cherries stoned put them into an earthen pot to which put an ounce of Cinnamon Saffron unbruised one dram tops of Balm Rosemary or their flowers of each one handful let them stand close covered twenty four hours now and then stirring them then put them into a cold Still to which put of beaten Amber two drams Coriander seed one ounce Alkerms one dram and distill it leasurely and when it is fully distilled put to it twenty grains of Musk. This is an excellent Cordiall good for Faintings and Swoundings for the Crudities of the Stomach Winde and swelling of the Bowels and divers other evill Symptomes in the Body of Men and Women The Herbs to be distilled for Vsquebath Take Agrimony Fumitory Betony Bugloss Wormwood Harts-tongue Carduus Benedictus Rosemary Angelica Tormentil of each of these for every gallon of Ale one handful Anniseeds and Liquorice well bruised half a pound Still all these together and when it is stilled you must infuse Cinnamon Nutmeg Mace Liquorish Dates and Raisms of the Sun and sugar what quantity you please The infusion must be till the colour please you Dr. Kings way to make Mead. Take five quarts and a pint of VVater and warm it then put one quart of Honey to every