therewith a thinne plate of fine Silver, and put the same over a
vessell full of Urine, set it over hot ashes and coales, and let it be
stirred untill it be like beyond-Sea-_Azure_: This is the best way,
_Mizaldus_ saith, he had this out of an old written book.
_To know good +Azure+ and pure._
Lay some of it upon a hot burning Iron, and if then it will not be
burned, nor any little stone is found therein, then it is pure and
perfect, and not sophisticate and adulterate: _Mizaldus_.
_For an Ague._
When Jesus saw the Crosse whereon he should be crucified, the Jewes
said unto Jesus, _Art thou afraid, or hast thou an Ague?_ Jesus said,
_I am neither afraid, nor have an Ague_: Whosoever shall wear these
words, shall neither be afraid, nor have an Ague, _Amen, sweet Jesus,
Amen_.
_For a Tertian, or double Tertian Ague._
℞. A good quantity of Celandine, one spoonfull of Salt, and the
bignesse of an Egg of Leven, and as much Allicant, or Spanish Sope;
stamp them well in a Morter, and make a plaister of them, and apply
them to the Patients feet, one hour before the accesse of the fit, adde
thereto four or five yolks of Eggs.
℞. Of Anniseed water the best you can get, half a pound of oyle of
Vitriol, shake them well together, and drink one or two spoonfuls
hereof one hour before the accesse of the fit: _Probatum_.
This Medicine is excellent to cure all kinds of Agues that are.
B
_For a short Breath._
Take the roots of Hollyhockes ℔. i. dry them into fine powder,
clarified Honey four pennyworth set these on the fire, and stir them
well together untill it come into the form of an Electuary, whereof let
the Patient take often.
℞. Of choise Manna called Manna Granata two ounces, flower of Cassia
newly drawn half an ounce, Penidios three ounces, oyle of sweet Almonds
newly drawn half an ounce, the Lungs of a Fox finely beaten to powder
two ounces: powder what is to be powdered, then mix them all together,
and make an Electuary with Sirrup of Hysop.
_An Electuary for the shortnesse of Breath._
Take a pint of the best Honey you can get, set it on the fire, and
scum it very clean, then put into it a little Hysop bound in a bundle
bruised a little, let it boyle till the Honey taste well of the Hysop,
then take it out, and wring out all the Honey, and put into it the
weight of sixpence of Angelica root grated, or cut very small, as
much of Elacampane root, of Ginger the weight of two pence, as much
of grosse Pepper, of Licorice eight penny weight cut very small, of
Anniseeds eighteen penny weight, put these altogether after the Hysop
is taken out, and let it boyle a walm or two on the fire, stirring it
a little; then take it off, and put it into a glasse or pot, and put
thereto three spoonfuls of _Aqua vitæ_, and stir it well together, and
take it on a tufted Licorice stick, at morning about ten, and at four
in the afternoon, and when you goe to bed, letting it melt down out of
your mouths.
_For a Bruise or Squat._
℞. White Dasie roots, leaves, floures and all, pownd them, and strain
the juyce of them into strong _March_ Beer, or Sack, and give the
Patient a good draught thereof: Or seeth them in Ale, and make a Posset
thereof, and let the Patient drink thereof as of the former, and let
him eat the leaves if he can, and let him sweat after.
℞. Of Comfry M. i. when it sprouteth forth the youngest leaves, wring
them with your hands, and put them into fresh Butter out of the Churne
unwasht into a Frying-pan, and hold it a good way off the fire, and so
let it boyle together till it be green, then strain it, and keep it for
your use: _Probatum_.
_A Restorative for the Backe._
Take of stale Ale two pound, of Germander half a handfull, of unset
Hysop, and of unset Thyme, and of Clary, _ana._ M. i. a branch of
Rosemary, and a good quantity of English Saffron, a dish of sweet
Butter, and a good peice of Sugar, then boyle all together till half
be consumed, then strain it, and let the Patient drink it morning and
evening.
_For Aches in the Backe._
℞. Bores grease, and Nerve oyle, _ana. p. æ_, and as much Turpentine,
boyle them a little together, and annoint the greived place downward
therewith.
_For Bleeding at the Nose._
Take a Toad and kill him, and take three Bricks, put them into fire,
and then take out one of them, and put the Toad upon it, then take
out another, and put him again on that, and when he is almost cold,
take off the Toad and put the Brick into the fire; then take the third
Brick, and doe so till the Toad be consumed to ashes, then take the
ashes and put them into a Taffata bag, and when any one bleedeth, apply
the bag upon the heart, and it will instantly stay the bleeding, either
of the Nose, or any Wound,
_For Burning, or Scalding._
℞. A spoonfull of Sallade oyle, and the white of an Egg, beat them
well together, and annoint the burnt place with it often, then take
a linnen rag, and wet it in the oyle, and lay it over the sore, and
keep it still wet, till you find the fire be drawn out of the Wound,
then take away the rag, and annoint the place with a feather, and put
Harts-tongue leaves to it, and so bind it up, and dresse it thrice a
day for two or three dayes, and after that but once a day, and this
will cool it without any scarre.
2. ℞. The reddest Onyon you can get, and take off the rinde, and beat
the Onyon with Bay Salt in a wooden dish, till it be made very small:
then put it very thick upon the burned place, and renew it three or
four times, and this will take out the fire, and then you may apply any
healing Medicine to it to skin it.
C
_For a Cough of the Lungs._
_Recipe._ Of clear running water three pound, of good Sugar half a
pound, with nine Figs sliced, half a spoonfull of Anniseeds bruised, a
spoonfull of Licorice bruised, of great Raisins, having their stones
taken out, one handfull, of Maiden-hair one penniworth, boyle these
together till one half be consumed away, then strain it thorough a fine
linnen cloth, and every morning take two spoonfuls of it luke-warm, and
you shall finde present remedy: _Probatum_.
_For purging of Colds, Coughs, and comforting the Lungs._
℞. Rubarb two drachms, Sena half an ounce, Anniseeds one ounce,
steep them in a pint of white Wine, and put to it one ounce of brown
Sugar-candy: set it over the fire to be kept stewing all night, stop
the pot very close that no water come out, and in the morning, when it
is blood-warm, strain it, and take a pretty quantity of it, and put two
drops of oyle of Sulphur into it, and drink it fasting, and fast two or
three houres after, then take a little broth and keep you warm.
_A Julep for a Cough._
℞. A pottle of Spring water, and put into it ten branches of Hysop, and
two of Rosemary, Licorice clean scraped and thinne sliced two ounces,
of Anniseeds bruised two ounces, French Barly which hath been cleansed
in one water, boyle these till half the water be consumed, then strain
it, and put to it three drops of oyle of Sulphur: take two spoonfuls of
this when you begin to Cough, this will loosen the flegm, and cause you
to bring it up easily.
_Another._
Boyle three sprigs of Rosemary, and as much Maiden Hysop in two pound
of white Wine, of Mace two flakes, of Nutmeg two or three slices,
Saffron six or eight blades, burn the Wine, and after sweeten it with
brown Sugar-candy, and drink a good draught warm, _mane & vesperi_, and
two or three spoonfuls in the afternoon.
_For Canker in the mouth._
Mingle the juyce of Agrimony with raw Honey, and annoint the lips with
it, and it will heal it: _Probatum_.
_Richard Jones_ cured a young man which had the Canker both in his
tongue and lips, onely with good Romane Vitrioll dissolved in spring
water, and making it as milk warm from the Cow, with a stick and a
linnen cloth fastened to the end of it, he washed his tongue, mouth,
and lips herewith every morning and evening, and cured him in short
time.
But if it be in an old man let run too long, that it eat still, and
Vitrioll, Salves, nor other waters will cure it, there is no other way
to save this man, but to wash carefully his lips, or mouth, with a very
little oyle of Vitrioll, to cauterize the veins, and stop the malignant
humours that comes from the brain and feeds it. But this course must
not be taken unlesse the Patient be in intolerable pain, and in a
desperate case, for doe it herewith never so little, yet this oyle of
Vitrioll will gnaw, and bite, and put the patient to great pain, that
was opprest with great pain before, unlesse you mitigate the pain by
often & continual dipping of a linnen cloth kept wet in spring water;
after a very little time that you have annointed the cankered veines
and places, with very little oyle of Vitrioll upon a feather as may be,
and so let him indure the pain as long as he well can, that this may
cauterize and sear up the veines the better, that so he may be cured,
which otherwise will corrode and eat continually, although he may purge
and vomit also, and so this at last will kill him.
_For a Consumption, and Cough of the Lungs._
℞. Coltsfoot, Betony, Burnet, and red Rose leaves, _ana._ M. i. of
Comfry roots scraped and sliced; M. ii boyle all these in a gallon of
Spring water till it be consumed to a pottle, then strain it, and set
it over the fire again, then take a pound of double refined Sugar, and
put it into it, and let it boyle over a soft fire about a quarter of an
hour, then take it off, and put it up, and drink of it six spoonfuls,
morning, and evening, and at four in the afternoon.
2. ℞. Of _Saccharum Saturni_ one scruple in a quarter of a pint of
Goats milk, and give the Patient _mane & vesperi_ two or three weeks
together, and this will help them, but first give the Patient some
gentle diet-drink to purge them, before you give the _Saccharum_ and
Milk: _Probatum_.
_For Collick, and paines in the backe._
℞. The tender tops of a Bucks horn which is Velvet headed, and cut it
in peices, and put it into a new pot well covered, and set it in an
Oven where it may be dryed and made into powder, of which give to the
Patient with a little Pepper in good Wine a pretty draught, and this
will presently release the pain and give ease: _Probatum_.
2. ℞. The decoction of Hollyhockes, mix it with Honey and Butter, and
drink thereof bloud warm: _Probatum_.
_For the Cramp._
℞. The leaves or little sprigs of Rosemary, and put them between every
toe, and if you are much troubled with the Cramp, use it continually,
and this will cure it.
2. Annoint the part cramped with _Unguentum Brioniæ_, and this will
help it: _Probatum_.
_For a Canker._
℞. Burnt Salt, burnt Eggshels, burnt Copperas, burnt Bones, burnt
Verdigrease, Wormwood, and Rue, burnt, _ana. p. æ._ make powder
thereof, and mingle them well together, and strow the powder into the
Canker, and let no water come to it.
_Another._
Take Hog-lice, stamp them till they come to an oyle, and annoint the
place therewith.
_For a Canker in the lips._
℞. The juyce of Agrimony, and mingle it with raw Honey, and annoint the
lips with it, and it will heal them: _Probat._
_A Water for a Consumption._
℞. Rose-water three pound, of Muscadine three pound, of new Milk a
pottle, of grosse Pepper one ounce, of Cinnamon two ounces, of sliced
bread a penny loafe, the yolks of three new laid Eggs, of Sugar one
pound: Distill all these as long as any water will come; take of this
water with a little Pepper a draught fasting, and you will find much
good.
_For the Cough._
℞. Of the best _Flores Sulphuris_, one ounce and half, as much white
Sugar Candie finely poudered, mix them together, and take as much
hereof as will lye upon sixpence, mix them well in the yolk of an egg,
and swallow it down; then walk upon it untill you sweat, and keep your
self warm; and use it four or five mornings together, to take it, and
walk after it.
_For a Cough, or shortness of Breath._
℞. Of _Aqua vitæ_ or Annise-seed water four ounces, mix it with white
Sugar Candie finely poudered two ounces, boyl it in a peuter dish, over
a chafing-dish, till it be dissolved, and indifferent thick like an
oyle, and take a spoonful of this when you goe to bed for three or four
nights together.
℞ Elacampane roots cut into small peeces, of Hysop, Penniroyal, and
Liquorice, _ana_ M. ii. seeth them in a gallon of pure spring water,
till it come to a pottle, then strain it well, and keep it in a clean
pot or glasse close stopt, and use this every day thrice; First and
last, and one hour after dinner, for seven or eight dayes.
_For a Consumption._
℞. Three sheeps hearts, slit them, and take out the strings and bloud,
and lay them in water to soke a night and a day, then wash them clean,
and put them in to a Pipkin, lay in the bottome of the Pipkin, stalks
of Rosemary in the manner of a Gridiron; then lay the hearts on them,
every heart being stuck with three cloves, and half a quarter of Sugar
being put into every heart: Then stop up the Pipkin very close with
paste, and put it in an Oven with houshold bread, and when you thinke
it is sufficiently stewed, take out the Pipkin again, then every
morning and evening take a spoonful of this Sirrup.
D
_For the Dropsie._
_Recipe_, Half an eggshel full of the juyce of _Ireos_, of
_Mellicratum_ four ounces, with pouder of the best Rubarb, half a
drachm: Take this hot in a morning once a week. This is held for an
excellent help.
_Another._
℞. A lap-full of green Juniper tops, chop them small, and take a great
bathing tub, and put them therein, and set the Patient in the tub, so
that he may not touch the water, wherein these tops were sodden, but
put a cricket under his feet, and cover him well up to the throat; let
him sweat so long as he is able, and when he cometh forth of the bath,
take care he taketh no cold, but carefully put him into a warm bed.
E
_For pains in the Eyes._
_Recipe_, brown Fennel, white Rose-leaves, of other Rose-leaves, Rue,
Vervain, Celandine, and Eyebright, _ana p. æ._ distill it, and keep the
water in a Violl.
_For sore Eyes by salt Rheum._
Pound Housleek M i. in a morter, and take the juyce strained through
a linnen cloth, put it in a new laid eggshel, and put a quantity of
white Sugar-candie to sweeten it: Set the Egg over some Embers, and
let it stand, and as the scum ariseth take it off with a feather; and
being clear take it off the fire, and when it is cold, wash your eyes
herewith ever and anon.
Mʳ. _Nepier_ commendeth _Rulandi aqua opthalmica_, to bee the best for
sore eyes, Pin and Web, of all waters.
_To clear the Eye-sight._
℞ Rain water of the clearest you can get one gallon, let it settle
and clear by it self at least one day and night, and after put it
into a fair bason of earth glased, or of silver, then put thereto of
Roch Allom, the bigness of a Pigeons Egg, and a quarter of as much
white Coperas, and let them stand 24 houres well covered, then scum it
clean with a feather, and drein it into another bason; then take away
the scum, and the grounds, and so doe it every 24 hours, till it be
clear without scum or grounds, and when it is perfectly purified, put
it into a full pint of the best Rosewater which is white, and put it
into a good big glasse, then set it in the Sun thirty dayes or more.
Afterwards take it in, and wash your eyes with it three or four times
in a week, when you are in bed, or oftner till you bee eased; when you
wash your eyes, lye upon your back, that it may the better soke into
them, and if it be too sharp, then abate it, by mingling some spring
water with it. The best time to make it is in _Aprill_ or _May_; but if
need be at any time in the Summer.
If you take the rain-water in glasses, or glased earthen pans as it
falleth from heaven, free from durt, sand, or other filth, that will be
much better.
F
_For the Flux._
_Recipe_, A Bason, and set it forth in the rain, and save the rain that
falleth therein, then take a few Violet leaves, and boyl them in the
water, then boyl some Almonds, but blanch them not, and make Almond
milk of the same water; If the Flux be very sore, boyle the Almond
Milk, and put thereto a little Cinnamon, and Sugar, and drink it.
_For the Flux._
℞. The nether jaw of a Pike, and make it into fine powder, and put it
into drink or broth, and it will stop the Flux.
_For the bloudy Flux._
℞. An old Cock, and dresse him, put into his belly of Sow-thistles M.
i. and put him into a fair earthen pot, and put to it five peices of
Gold, four Dates, ten Prunes, and a quart of Malmsey; then close up the
mouth of the pot as close as you may; then put it into a brasse Pot
with fair water, let it boyle the space of twelve houres, but take care
that none of the water come into the earthen Pot; and when the flesh
is consumed from the bones take it up, and let it run thorough a clean
peice of lochram; then put it up into a clean Gallypot, and when it
is cold it will be like jelly; put two spoonfuls hereof into broth or
other meat which the Patient useth to eat.
_For the bloody Flux._
Seeth a good proportion of Plantain in fair water, till it wax yellow,
and all the strength be boyled out of it, then strain the water, and
heat a clean peice of Iron red hot, and quench it in the said water,
doe so nine times, and give it the Patient.
2. Seeth a pint of Milk, and when it is boyled, put into it as much
Allum as will make a Posset, of which _mane & vesperi_ drink a good
draught.
3. ℞. That which is shorn from Scarlet, make it to a powder, and give
the Patient half a spoonfull thereof in a pretty draught of Tent, and
use this five or six times.
4. Dry the powder of an Hare, and give it the Patient, in red Wine, and
it will help him.
_For the bloody Flux._
Cut Hollihock roots in small peices, and boyle them in red Wine, strain
it well and give the Patient; and if he have a Fever, or Ague, seeth
the roots in water with some Plantain leaves, and let the Patient drink
it.
2. ℞. Yarrow, and Plantain, _ana. p. æ._ strain them together, and put
thereto old red Wine, called Hollock, or Tent, strain it well, and let
the Patient drink a good draught of it first and last, for three or
four dayes together.
3. ℞. Plantain, Ribwort, and Sheapherds purse, _ana._ M. ß. stamp
them small in a Morter, then put thereto _Bole armoniack_, and _Terra
sigillata_, and stamp them again, and lay it plaister-wise to the
forehead cold.
4. Mingle Mint water with sirrup of Mint, drink it cold fasting; this
will stop both flux and vomit.
_For the bloudy Flux._
1. ℞. Hay well boyled, and keep it over the fire, and every time the
Patient goeth to stool, let a wispe thereof be put into the stoole.
2. ℞. Two quarts of Milk, and boyle in it of Sage four handfuls washed;
boyle these to a quart, then put to it a little beaten Cinnamon, and
let the Patient take this bloud warm, instead of other drink when he is
thirsty.
3. ℞. A Nutmeg, pare a great hole in it, and rost it in embers full of
_Sanguis draconis_, and eat it all up: This was Colonell _Hambletons_
Secret.
4. ℞, red Bryer leaves, and boyle them well in Milk, and sweeten it
with Sugar.
5. Give Dates stones beaten to powder in warm Wine fasting.
℞. Of the best Treacle one drachm, in four ounces of _Carduus
benedictus_ water, give the Patient hereof three mornings or nights to
drink bloud warm, and it will take away the fumes of the head in the
disease of the Flux.
If the fumes of the head be not asswaged, let the Patient take four
ounces of _Carduus_ water, and the yolk of a new laid Egg, and a little
Salt, mix these, and drink it; this is also good for an Ague.
_An Ointment for the Flux._
℞, Two pound of _May_ Butter, or a gallon of Cream; if of _May_
Butter, take _Lunaria sanicle_, _Salomons_ Seal, Mouseare, Plantain,
Adders-tongue, _ana._ one handfull, stamp these small, and put them
into the _May_ Butter, and boyle them half an hour with a soft fire,
scumming it with a feather: If you use Cream, boyle it till it come to
an oyle, which oyle as it riseth take off with a spoon, and put your
Hearbs into it, as into the _May_ Butter; when it hath boyled, strain
your Hearbs thorough a thinne cloth, and let it stand till it be cold,
after which, set it over the fire again till it begin to boil, then put
it up in pots.
This is also good for burning, scalding, or Aches, but especially for
the Flux, for which, when you use it, observe this direction: Take the
quantity of a Nutmeg of this Ointment, and melt it by the fire, and
stroke down the reines of the back till it be dryed in, use this for
seven dayes and nights together if your Flux continue.
_For all Fluxes of bloud, and other Fluxes, pains in the Back or Liver,
and for inward effects._
℞. Cinnamon, _Cassia lignea_, _Opium_, _ana._ two drachms, Mirrh,
Pepper, and Galbanum, _ana._ one drachm, stamp them, and mix them
with a little clarified Honey, and make it into a lump or masse, give
thereof at night two round pills about the bignesse of a Pea in the pap
of a roasted Apple, and let not the party drink for two houres after;
and if his pain and greif be never so great it will ease him within one
hour or two, and perhaps cause him to sleep soundly: you may give it
two or three nights together, if the Patient be strong, but if they be
very weak, give it every other night three or four times; but if he be
in extream pain give it when you list: If the stomack be full of meat
or flegm, it will work lesse effectually. _Probatum._
_A powder for the Flux._
℞. Half ripe Blackberries, dry them, and make them into powder, give
the Patient a draught thereof in a little Tent, or old red Wine, in the
morning and evening for five dayes if the Flux continue.
_A Glister._
℞. A quart of new Milk from the Cow, and put three or four gads of
Steel into the fire red hot, and quench them in the Milk till half the
Milk be consumed; then take the weight of eight pence of Deeres suet,
and stamp it into the Milk, and mix it well together, and put it in a
boulter bag warm; this you may use four or five times if need require.
_For +Morphew+, or Scurf of face or Skin._
℞. Of Brimstone beaten into powder two ounces, mix it well with as much
black Sope that stinketh, and tie the same in a linnen cloth, and let
the same hang in a pint of strong wine Vinegar, or red Rose Vinegar,
for the space of nine dayes; then wash any kind of Scurfe or _Morphew_,
either in face, or body, dipping a cloth in the same Vinegar, and
rubbing the face or body therewith, and let it dry by it self: also
drink the water of Strawberries distilled, or tincture of Strawberries,
it certainly killeth _Morphew_ or Scurfe: _Probat._
_To blanch the Face._
℞. The meat of Lemons having taken away the kernels, and a quantity of
fine pure Sugar, still these, and keep the water to wash your face with
every night.
_To smooth the Skin._
Mixe Capons grease with a quantitie of Sugar, let it stand for a few
dayes close covered, and it will turn to a cleer oyle, with which
annoint your face.
_Morphew and Freckles._
Annoint the face with the bloud of a Hare, or Bull, this will take away
Morphew, and Freckles, and smooth the skin.
G.
_For the Gout, or Ache in the joynts, knobs, or knots in the flesh.
+Probat.+_
_Recipe_, Of May Butter four ounces, of Cummin seed beaten into fine
pouder, half a pound, of black sope, four ounces, of Rue, M. i. of
clarified Mutton, M. ß stamp these in a morter together, and put to it
an Oxe gall, and a spoonfull of Bay salt, and fry them together till it
be thick, then lay it on a woollen cloth, and apply it hot to the ach
as may be suffered, and let it lye a whole week unremoved: Then lay on
another as long a time, and so lay on a third plaister as long, which
will be three weeks in the whole time; and this will give ease.
_For Gout or Bone-ach._
Take of the best _Aqua vitæ_ one penniworth, and another of oyle of
Bayes, mix them well together, and annoint the place grieved therewith
by the fire, warm the ointment by the fire, and then chafe the place
till it be dryed in, then cloth it up warm. _Probat._
_For the Gout, or Joynt-ach._
℞ The juyce of Sage, of _Aqua vitæ_, of oyle of Bayes, of Vinegar and
Mustard, and of Oxe gall, _ana p. æ._ put altogether into a bladder,
and chafe it up and down with your hand for the space of an hour and
half and keep it for your use, and annoint the grieved place with it
morning and evening.
_For the Gout._
Stamp well ℔ iii. of Wallwort, then melt ten pound of _May_ Butter, and
put it thereto, and let it stand nine dayes together, then boyle them
half an hour over a soft fire, then strein it, and annoint the grieved
place.
_For Gout or Bone-ach._
Annoint the place grieved with very good _Aqua composita_ by the fire,
and let the same drinke in; doe this three or four times, and whilst it
is wet, cast upon it pouder of _Olibanum_, and sow a cloth thereon, and
let it lye on for four dayes. _Probat._
H
_Hermes Tree._