and bray blossomes of Golds, and Agrimony with Salt, and lay them to as
a plaister.
4. Burn Willow tree rind, and temper the Ashes with Vinegar, _& utere_.
_Oleum Nucum._
Take Nuts whole, seeth them in water, and then break them, and take out
the kernels and stamp them, and then wring them through a cloth, and
that Oyle is noble and mollificative.
_Unguentum +Dialæhææ+ optimum pro podagra._
Take Brocks greace, Swines greace, Ducks greace, Capons greace, Ganders
greace, suet of a Deer, Sheeps tallow, _ana. p. æ._ melt them in an
earthen pan, then take the juyce of Rubarb, marsh-Mallowes, Morrel,
Comfrey, Daysie, Rue, Plantain, Mace, Heyrif, Matfelon, and Dragons,
_ana. p. æ._ fry them in a pan with the foresaid greace, _secretum pro
podagra_.
For the Collick and Stone.
_℞. Cepas Rubras, pista commixta cum mulvasoeto, & bibe calide._
Aqua propter ulcera & malum mortuum.
_℞. Aquam fabri potell. +i.+ salviæ, cuprifolii nasturtii & medicum
mellis, coque ad medium, & lava locum._
Aqua pro alceribus.
_℞. Apii, Salviæ, Sempervivæ, +ana. M. i.+ pista & coque in una ℔. 8.
aquæ currentis, postea cola & adde, +℥. iiii.+ Aluminis, Mellis, ℔. ß.
Bulliet alumen modicum, adde +℥. iiii.+ Camphora & reserva._
_Capitis dolor._
_Coque Cumium in malvazeto, & lava caput._
_Pista rutum, cum sale, & fiat emplastrum._
For Bones broken in a mans Head.
_℞ Agrimoniæ Contisam fiat emplastrum. Item bibe Betonicam +p. i.+ &
resurgant ossa & sanatis pro acto vulnera._
Capitis dolor.
_℞. Rutæ, hederæ terrestris, folia lauri, coque in aqua vel vino & fiat
emplastrum super caput._
_℞. Celidoniam, pista & coque cum butyro versus dolorem capitis etsi
cranium cecidit de loco, +&c.+ & lava cum decoctitone ejusdem erbæ._
Corvi albi.
_Attende cum corvus habet ova, & unge ter vel quater cum melle, & pulli
eorum erunt albi._
Ebrii.
_Qui prius biberit crocum quam ad potationem inierit, crapulam vel
ebrietatem non incurret._
Acetum.
_Ut acetum redeat in vinum semen porri immitte per duas noctes._
_Ova rotunda producunt gallinas, longa vero gallos._
Fistula.
_Hebba Roberti Fistulæ emplastrata, vel succus ejus in eam posita eam
curat._
_Succus caprifolii naribus impositus, polypum recentem & cancrum, &
fistulam curat._
Pro virga virili combusta cum muliere.
_℞. Sume morellæ & sedi & axungiæ porcinæ, +p. æ.+ frixa & suppone_.
Contra exitum ani.
_℞. Urticas rubras pista, & in olla terrea coque in vino albo ad
medium, postea bibe mane & sero calide, & fæces superpone._
Contra fluxum.
1. _℞, Cornu cervi, & conchas ostrei, combure & da pulverem mane & sero
9 dies._
Plaister of Paris.
2. _℞ Pulverem +alabastri+ misce cum albumine ovi, pone super tempora &
alia loca._
An virgo corrupta.
_Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quæ sunt inter albos flores, da
ei comedere de illo pulvere, & si est corrupta statim minget._
Ut dens cadat.
_Pulvis stercoris capræ positus supra dentem, facit cadere: cave alia._
_Pro combusto cum muliere._
Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt, and take the yolks
of eggs, and mingle them well together, and therewith annoint the sore,
and put the pouder into the hole.
_A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaister or
Ointment, or without any taint most perfectly._
Take Sanicle, Milfoil, and Bugle, _ana_, p.æ. stamp them in a morter,
and temper them with wine, and give the sick that is wounded to drinke
twice or thrice in a day till he be whole. Bugle holdeth open the
wound, Millfoil cleanseth the wound. Sanicle healeth it, but Sanicle
may not be given to him that is hurt in the head, if the brain-pan be
broken, for it will slay him, and therefore it is better in another
place: This is a good and tryed Medicine.
_Unguentum genistæ._
Take _Flores genistæ_, floures and leaves of Woodbind, _ana_, p.æ.
stamp them with _May_ Butter, and let them stand so together all night,
and in the morning make thereof an ointment, and melt it, and scum it
well: This Medicine is good for all cold evils, and for sleeping of
hand and foot,
Unguentum Augustinum _is good for all sore legs that be red and hot_.
Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell, and stamp them, and temper them
with May Butter, and put them in a pot fast closed, and let them stand
so nine dayes, and then frie it over an easie fire, and strein it
through a cloth, and put it in a box for your use.
Unguentum viride _is good_ pro erectione virgæ, _and for the_
mormale; _no ointment worketh stronger than this_.
Take a pound of Swines grease, one ounce of Verdigrease, half a scruple
of _Sal gemmæ_, this ointment may be kept 40. winters: _Valet contra
cancros_, and for running holes, it fretteth away dead flesh, and
bringeth new, and healeth old wounds; put it within the wound that it
fester not: Put to this ointment, Pitch, rosin, and waxe, and it will
be a fine heat for old bruises, swellings, and Mormales.
Unguentum nigrum, _for wounds, heating and burning_.
Take a quart of oyle of Olive, and boil it well, then cast in a quart
of red lead, and stir it well with a slice, and boil it till it be
black, and then let it cool; and keep it for drawing and healing.
_Unguentum Rubrum._
Take a pint of honey, half a pint of Vinegar, and a portion of
Verdigrease, boil them together, and it is good for all manner of sores.
_Contra vomitum._
1. ℞. Rosewater, pouder of Cloves, and Mastick, and drinke it hot.
2. Take Mints thre ounces, Roses half an ounce, Mastick one ounce,
Barlie meal, and a crust of bread tosted, and this manner of Plaister
apply to the stomack.
3. _Rutæ cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia, multum valet._
4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats, stancheth immediately.
_Note_, He must eat no meat whilst he casteth (_ut virtus maneat_).
_Fluxus sanguinis narium._
1. Hens feathers burnt, and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils
stinteth it.
2. A pigs turd burnt, and made into pouder, blown into the nostrils.
3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding. _Probat._
4. _Succus menthæ & rutæ mixtus curat fluxum narium._
Contra Sciaticam.
_Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma emplastri
dolori._
_Freckens of the face._
1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds, _& bibe succum plantaginis_.
2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud.
_To know if a man be a Leper or no._
Let him bleed, and put the bloud into water, and if the bloud swim
above, he is a Leper, and if it descend, he is clean.
_For ache in the loins._
Take Waybread, and Sanicle, stamp them, and put thereto Bores grease,
_& forma emplastri calida dolori applica_.
_For a scald Head._
1 Wash thy head with Vinegar, and Cammomil stampt and mingled together,
there is no better thing for the Scall. _Probat._
2. Grinde white Hellebor, grinde it with Swines grease, _applica
capiti_.
3. Take Culver dung, with Salt, and a little Vinegar, and stirre
them well together, and therewith wash thy head, _& sanabit capitis
fæditates_.
_Ad ornatum faciei._
Take fresh Bores grease, and the white of an Egg, and stamp them
together, with a little pouder of Bayes, and therewith annoint the
visage, and it shall clear the skin, and make it white.
_If the Liver rot._
Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes, and 6. dayes after eat Sage, and that will
cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought.
_Note_, All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable, are best in _Aprill_.
_For stopping of the Pipes._
℞. Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound, stamp them and seeth them
well in Butter, then wring it through a cloth, cool it, and adde to
that pouder of Liquorice, and of Hysop, mixe them together, and keep it
in a Box, and when thou wilt, take a spoonfull, and temper it with hot
wine, and use it when thou goest to bed.
_Aliud._
℞. A good quantity of Hysop, seeth it in half a gallon of good wine,
till half bee sodden away, and let the sick use it first and last, at
evening hot, and at morning cold. _Probat._
_Aliud._
℞. The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped, and drinke a sup thereof with wine
or ale, and it shall clear thee of much flegm, above and beneath.
_The Plague Water._
Take a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue, and boil them in three
pints of Malmsie, or Muscadine, untill one pint be wasted, then take
it off the fire, and strain the wine from the hearbs, then put into
the wine two penniworth of long Pepper, half an ounce of Ginger, and
a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg, all grosly bruised, and let it boil
a little again: This done, take it off the fire, and dissolve it in
half an ounce of good _Venice_ Triacle, and a quarter of an ounce of
Mithridate, and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water;
so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use: For preservation you
shall take every morning a spoonfull warm, and lay you down to sweat
upon it, and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly
recover. This water likewise cureth the small Pox, the Measels,
Surfets, and Pestilentiall Fevers.
_A Cordiall Water good for the Plague, Pox, Measels, all kind of
Convulsions, Fevers, and all pain of the Stomack._
Take Sage, Rosemary, Rue, Celandine, Scabios, Aigrimonie, Mugwort,
Woormwood, Pimpernel, Dragon, _Carduus benedictus_, _Rosa solis_,
Betonie, Marigold leaves and flowers, Centurie, Polipodium, Scurvie
grasse, of each a handfull, wash them and swing them in a clean
cloth till they be dry, then shred them small, and take the roots of
Zedoarie, Tormentill, _Enula campana_, Angelica, Licorice, of each half
an ounce scraped, and sliced, then take of the best white wine eight
pints; put them all into an earthen pot well leaded, let them stand two
dayes close covered, and stirre them once in the day, then still them
in a Limbeck, with a temperate fire; it will be two dayes and a night
in the still: keep the first pint by it self; of which you may take a
spoonful at a time; of the next quart take twice so much; of the next
pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time: Lute the
still well, that no aire come forth, and keep it in close glasses.
_For a Child that hath the Ague._
Take the Hearb called Hartshorn, stamp it, then mingle it with bay
Salt, and three or four houres before the fit come apply it, spread
upon a linnen cloth, to the Childs wrists, and when the fit is past,
apply a fresh one before the next fit, and in a few fits, God willing,
she shall be cured.
_For a burning Fever._
Take red mints two handfull, boyle them in a quart of running water,
to the consumption of half, strain it, and put thereto four or five
spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar, and as much Honey, boyle it to the
height of a Sirrup.
Take of Endive two handfuls, boyle it in a quart of water, to the
consumption of half, take two spoonfulls of this, and one of the
Sirrup, in the morning fasting, and at any other time you please.
_For the Jaundies black or yellow._
Take of White Wine one pint, steep therein of the root of _Cælidon_,
the weight of twelve pence, of Saffron one pennyworth, a rase of
Turmarick; bruise all, and bind them in a fine peece of Laun, and let
it infuse in the Wine a night, drink a part thereof in the morning,
one other part at noon, and the rest at night.
_To bring down the Flowers._
Take of Alligant, or Muskadine, or Clarret, a pint, burn it, and
sweeten it well with Sugar, put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle,
then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the
wine after it, take it evening and morning.
_To stay the Flowers._
Take Amber, Corrall, Pearl, Jeat, of each alike, grind them to a fine
pouder, and searse them; take thereof as much as will lye upon six
pence with conserve of Quinces, and drink after it a draught of new
milk, use it every morning.
_For the Mother._
Take a brown tost of sour bread of the nether crust, and wash it with
Vinegar, and put thereto black Sope, like as you would butter a tost,
and lay it under the Navill.
_For the Stone._
Take Saxifrage, Pellitorie, Parslie, Eyebright, wild Thime, of each two
handfuls; of Raddish roots two or three, steep all in a pottle of red
cowes milk a night, then still it, make of this quantity two stillings.
You must take at a time nine spoonfuls, as much Renish or White wine,
and the juice of a Lemon, sweeten all with Sugar, and take it fasting,
if your stomack be cold, slice a little Ginger, and put into it.
_For a cold, cough, Ptissick, or any defect of the Lungs._
Take Horehound, Maiden hair, Liver-wort, Harts tongue, Germander,
Hysope, Agrimonie, of each a handfull, wash them and boil them in
six pints of running water in a pipkin, till four pints be consumed
at least, strain it, and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin,
put thereto of the root of _Enula campana_ in pouder and searsed one
ounce, of Licorice so used two ounces, of pure honie eight or nine
spoonfulls; boyl it till it wax somewhat thick, then set it to cool:
Take the quantity of half a nut at a time, as often as you please.
The best time to make it is in _May_.
_For a Stitch._
Take of stale Ale, two pints, clarifie it, and boyl therein of the tops
of green broom a handful, then sweeten it with Sugar, and give thereof
to the sick warm to drink.
Also take Beer, make it very Salt, put a little Nutmeg thereto, and
drinke thereof bloud-warm.
Apply upon the grief outward, Fennel seed, and Cammomile made wet with
Malmsie, as hot as can be suffered, three or four dayes together.
Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron, and spread Tar thick
thereon, lay it hot next the skin, and let it lye 9, or 10 houres, and
if the pain be not gone at first, apply it again.
_For a Consumption._
Take a leg of Veal, cut away the fat, and take a red Cock, scald him,
and wash him clean, then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space
of three houres, seeth them with two pottles of fair water, and scum
it clean: as the fat riseth, take it off, and seeth it till half be
consumed, then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine, and let it
seeth together till it come to a quart, clarifie it with three or four
whites of Eggs; let it run through a Jelly bag; then set it on the fire
again, and put to it of Sugar a pound, let it seeth a little, then
drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time, as often as you
please.
_For the Green sickness._
Take an Orange, cut off the top, and pick out some of the meat, then
put therein a little Saffron, rost it gently, when it is rosted, put it
presently into a pint of white Wine, keep it covered, and drink thereof
fasting.
_A speciall Water for all Sores._
Take of running water four pints, of Sage, Smallage, of each three
handfuls, of Housleek a handfull and a half, seeth them together to
the consumption of half, then strain it, take of Allum two ounces, of
white Copperis an ounce and a half, of Camphire two drachms, beat all
severally into fine pouder, put all into the water, and let it boyle
a little, then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint, and let it
simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped.
Wash the sore therewith, and wet a cloth therein, and lay thereto; if
it heal too fast, lay dry lint therein.
_For the trembling of the Heart._
Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self
troubled.
Or take _Lignum aloes_, _Riponticum_, _Eupatorium_, red Sanders, of
each two ounces, beat them, and boyle them in six pints of fair water
till two pints be consumed; of the four pints that remain, being
strained, make a Sirrup with Sugar, and while it is hot, put thereto of
Saffron one scruple, of Ginger one drachm, of Musk two carets, Cloves,
Nutmegs, of each a scruple and a half, keep it in a glasse close shut,
take thereof a drachm at a time in little Broth, or Burrage water,
fasting.
_For a Flux of the Womb._
Take Chalke finely scraped, stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be
thick, spread thereof on brown paper, and lay it on a Gridiron on the
fire untill it stiffen a little, bind it hot upon the Navill.
Take Milk and set it on the fire, when it seeths, throw in a peice of
Allum, which will turn it to a Posset, of the thin thereof, give a
Glister in the morning, and at four in the afternoon.
_A purging drink for superfluous humours, for Aches in the joynts,
sinewes, and or Agues._
Take Sarsaperilla, Sasafrass, Polipodium, of each a handfull,
Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce, Licorice one ounce, cut and
slice the abovenamed, and put them into a new Pipkin glassed, and
having a cover, and put thereto five quarts of spring water, let all
infuse four and twenty houres, then put thereto of Fennell seed two
ounces, Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces, _Carduus
benedictus_, red Sage, Agrimony, Maiden-hair, of each a handfull, put
all into the Pipkin, and close it with paste, set it within a pan of
warm water on the fire, and let it boyle two houres, then put thereto
of _Sena_ one ounce, let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour,
and take it out, letting it stand covered two houres, then strain it
without wringing, and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle.
You must take at a time half a pint in the morning, and fast one hour
after, it will not purge in five or six houres, you may use it at any
time in the year, but in extream heat, and in frosts.
_A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes, often proved._
Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls, of white Rose
water half a pint, of the water of Selendine, Fennell, Eyebright, and
Rue, of each two ounces, of prepared Tutia six ounces, of Cloves as
much, Sugar rosate a drachm, of Camphire, and Aloes, each half a drachm.
_The Tutia is thus prepared._
In a Crusible (such as the Goldsmiths use) put your Tutia and with a
charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times, and every
time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together; the last time cast
the water away, and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder.
_You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner._
Put the Aloes in a clean Morter, and pour upon it of the mixt waters,
with the Pestill grinde it too and fro, and as it mixeth with the water
pour it off, putting more water to it, till it be all dissolved.
_To bring the Camphire to powder._
In a clean Morter beat one Almond, then put in the Camphire, and beat
it to a fine powder, without which it will not come to a powder.
Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder, then mix all together in
a strong glasse, stop it close and lute it, that no air enter, and let
it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer,
and shake it well thrice a day.
_The use._
Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens
Feather, the infirm lying on their back, and stirring the eye up and
down.
_If there be any thing grow upon the eye._
Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified, and mix with half an ounce
of the water, dresse the eye as before.
_For any Ague._
Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack, put into it a pennyworth of
oyle of Spike, a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes, and one grain of
Bezar, mingle these together, and let them stand infused all night, and
exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting.
_For an Ague._
Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin, in a pint of Ale, about a quarter
of an hour or better, then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty
warm, some two houres before the fit cometh, about half of it, and what
the party cannot drink at the first draught, let it be warmed against
the second fit, and give it as before, after two houres be past, let
the party drink as much posset drink as he can.
_Another._
Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope, and three times as much
crown Sope, mix them together, then shred a pretty quantity of Rue, and
half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten, and a quarter of a spoonfull
of fine wheat flour; mingle all these together, then take as much
strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth, whereof make
two plaisters, and lay to each wrist one, and sow them fast on for nine
dayes; this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon
them.
_To make Pills to cleanse the backe._
Boyle _Venice_ Turpentine in Plantain water, then take the Turpentine,
and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder, take the powder and mingle
it with powder of white Amber, powder of _Oculorum cancrorum_, and
powder of Nutmeg, of each half a drachm: mix them up into Pills, and
take three of them in a morning.
_A Bath._
Take Mallow leaves, Violet leaves, Endive, Motherwort, Mugwort,
Rose leaves, Lettice, Cammomill, Bay leaves; boyle of all these one
handfull, in a sufficient quantity of pure running water, and set in
the Bath about an hour, then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile, and
when you come out of your sweat, and are pretty cool, eat Strawberries
and Sugar, this will clear the body and purifie the blood.
_For the Cough of the Lungs, and defluxions._
You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall, of Scabious and of
_Oxymell Jutianizans_, of each one ounce, and of _Diacodium_ half
an ounce, and of Sirrup of _Diasereos_ half an ounce: Mingle these
all well together, and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower
of Sulphur finely searced; and take of this the quantity of a large
Nutmeg three or four times in a day, at morning, an hour before dinner,
an hour before supper, and last at night; it will cut the flegm, and
carry it gently away, without any perturbation or violent trouble of
coughing, and cause quiet rest.
_To cause a woman to have her Flowers._
Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful, boyle them in Vinegar, or in
white Wine till they be very tender, and after put this into a Vessel
on the ground in a close stool, so that the woman may sit over it very
close stopped, so that the heat may strike up into her body: This
Medicine is reported never to fail, but to bring them down: But you
must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this
Medicine administered to her.
_For the Cough of the Lungs._
Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls, of Hysop, and the tops of red Nettles,
of each one handful, of Horehound, and Maiden-hair, of each half a
handfull, of Raisins of the sun, having their stones taken out three
ounces, of Liquorice sliced half an ounce, and of Elecampane roots
sliced one ounce, of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised, boil
all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a
gentle fire, till the third part be boyled away, then strein it, and
take a quart of the decoction, and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie
beaten, and let it boil a little over the fire again, till the Sugar
Candie be melted, then take it off the fire, and put it up into a
glasse close stopped, and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning
and evening so long as it lasteth, a little warmed.
_For Cramp or Numnesse._
Take a penniworth of Saffron, put it into a little bag, then put it
into three ounces of Rosewater, and stir it well in the Rosewater, then
take four penniworth of Camphire, and infuse that in the Rosewater, and
being so infused and mixed; chafe the place with it warm, and smell to
it, as he bathes the place.
_For a Cough, Winde, and a cold Stomack._
Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water, mingle it with one ounce
of spirit of Mint, and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar
candie, beaten into very fine pouder; set it upon a chafingdish of
coals in a peuter dish, and when it beginneth to walm, burn it with a
paper as you doe wine, stirring it well together with a spoon, then
take it off the fire, and evening and morning, take a good spoonful of
it first and last. It will comfort the stomack, and is good against
cough and winde.
_For a Cough and Consumption._
Take of Lungwort, Liverwort, Hysop, Violet, and Strawberrie leaves
of each one handful, Licorice sliced, and scraped, Annise-seeds, and
Fennel-seeds, of each one penniworth a little bruised, a Parsly and a
Fennel root clean scraped, pithed, and cut into small peeces, twelve
figs sliced, four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones
taken out; boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water,
till it come to three pints, then put into it two ounces of pure white
hard Sugar, dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction, then
take it off, strein it, and drink thrice a day of it, that is in the
morning, about four in the afternoon, and last at night, three or four
ounces of it at a time, and it will asswage the driness and thirst, and
open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and cause
your Flegm to com away with more ease.
_For a Cold Dropsie._