It cureth wounds and sores laying on them a plaister of honey and wax or one of the following cere cloths without tents it scaleth putrified bones breaketh and expelleth imposthumes cureth aches in the stomach expelleth bullets & cureth the Isue it stopeth bleeding at nostrells all wounds and broken veins the herbs must be gathered at the latter end of april in may or ye beginning of June as the season of the herbs are wchmust be dryed without Sun or fire comeing near them & the handfulls mentioned are to be understood handfulls of dry herbs. Probatum Est.
Take a quart of sallet oyle a pound of red ledd boyle these together on a soft fire untill it be black then dip your old linnen cloth therein, and hang it up till it be throughly cold & stiff when it leaves its clamminess & sticking to the finger it is enough boyled. Probatum est.
Take a quart of sallet oyle red ledd half a pound white lead ½ a pound camfir 2 drams boyle these until they leave their claminess and stick to ye finger which is then enough boyled.
The poultise if occasion for any is only milk thickened with white bread crums and a quantity of saffron as will colour it to the colour of the yolke of an egg and the wound drink drank as afore prescribed.
Take agremoney mugwort march sanicle liverwort Kingswort coltsfoot maiden hair scabious harts tongue of bittony of each of all these a small handfull to be boyled in 6 quarts of spring water with half a pound of raisons of the Sun Stoned a quarter of a pound of currants 8 figgs better than half a pound of annyseeds one stick of liquorish boyle all these together til it be consumed to 3 quarts then strain it through a hair sive & cool it and so put it in a pot and let the patient drink it in the morning fasting and again about 4 a clock in the afternoon.
If it must be broken take castle soap and temper it with barme & apply it till it break when it is broken apply the same as long as you shall think there is anything to be drawn forth of the wound then heal it wththe following Salve:
Take groundsell vallerian elder buds or in the winter the inner rind of ye elder tree Issope brown Sage a good handfull of each sort half a pound of clarified butter 3 ounces of beeswax one ounce of rozin half a pound of sheeps sewit 2 ounces of hog’s lard chop these herbs small and boyle them in those liquors softly a quarter of an hour then strain it and stir it till it be almost cold and then apply it to the sore but if you think the sore doth breed a worme then take the powder of a Sea crab shell & all together baked in an oven and so made to powder the powder also of frankinsence of oyle of wormwood an ounce and the oyle of 6 eggs put off ye powder of crab as much as will fill a thimble half as much of the powder of frankinsence stir it together into ye oyle and with a feather put some of it into the wound under the plaister.
To wash it you must take warme white wine or crab verjuice, if these things heal not then take the oyle of the finest tar stir’d with a stick the oyle will come upon the top which take with a feather and apply to ye sore.
If you raise a blister then it must not be broken but take speare grass and pound a little of the leaves putting a little butter amongst it put also as much of it as a small nut and that will raise a blister of the same bigness cut the blister clean away and then put castle soap and barme as aforesaid to draw it as long as it will yield anything then after apply the forementioned Salve unto the sore and (God willing) this will cure the party in time. Probatum Est.
Take lavender cotten, spike, knot grass, Ribwort barme vallerian, rosemary tops alehoofe, strawberrystrings woodbine tops, vinestrings, french mallows the tops of tutsan, plantin leaves, walnut leaves, the tops of young bays Issope, violet leaves, Sage of virtue, fine Roman wormwood of each of these one handfull of redroses and cammomile 2 handfulls of each 10 young swallows alive one quart of neats foot oyle or may butter 2 ounces of cloves pound all these together in a morter small then put them in an earthen pipkin and stop it close with a piece of dough that no air get in then set it in a seller or coole place 9 days then take it and open it and add thereto a pint of sallet oyle a quarter of a pound of yellow wax then set it over ye fire in a kettle of water and let it boyle 6 or 7 hours then take it off the fire and strain it into your pot to keep it for your use keeping it close cover’d. it is good for a sprain or wrinch or ache of long continuance.
Take red sage, rosemary, lavender broad leaved balsom cammomile, vallerian of each 4 ounces wormwood 2 ounces gather them in a Sunshine day wipe ymand not wash them chop them very small and put them into a convenient vessel and put to them a quart of the best oyle of olives you can get tye it up close let it stand in the sun 2 or 3 weeks stiring it once in 3 or 4 days then put it into a skillet and boyle it a little then strain out all the herbs as hard as you can wring them and put into the oyle half the same quantity of herbs again and let them stand as before in the Sun 3 or 4 days then set them on the fire which must be very gentle and let boyle very softly till your oyle is of a perfect green then strain out the herbs and let your oyle stand all night in a pewter bason then set your oyle on a chaffendish of coles and let it boyle a while and scumme it if anything do arise then take it off and let it stand till it be cold then take a glass of the uppermost for special use the rest put into a glass for more ordinary use if there be any water at ye bottom cast it away or trye it for eyes so preserving the balsam oyle for your use.
It is good to anoint and tent all sores or wounds for it doth heal first at the bottom it will not suffer proud or dead flesh to grow in a wound it draws out thornes and splinters, it is excellent for bruises in any part of ye body to anoint the place outwardly or to take inwardly to drink 10 or 12 drops to a man or woman and half so much to a child in a spoonfull of ale or white wine posset drink and drink a little more posset drink after it 3 or 4 nights and mornings it will drive out any bruised blood out of the body you may give it to a woman after her travell it is good fordeafness that comes by cold drop 3 or 4 at night and morning for 2 or 3 days together so used it will help an imposthume in the head break and heal it you may drop into the eye if it be bruised with a blow it is good to anoint ye throat for the swelling of the almonds and to drop into ye ear for ye toothache.
Take the shell of goose or hen that the chick comes out of when hacht & make it into powder being first burnt and cast thereon & it stanch it presently. Probatum Est.
Take a handfull of earth wormes and put them awhile in salt & water to cleanse themselves then put them into a quart of white wine to steep until they dissolve then strain them out then put to the strain’d liquor 4 penny worth of english saffron and let that steep well in it also and let the party grieved take of this liquor thus prepared a quarter of a pint first in the morning and at 4 a clock in the afternoon and last at night. Probatum Est.
Take conserve of sage flowers, bittony Rosemary of each an ounce the flowers of turrica 2 ounces preserved Mirobalence number 2 preserved nutmegs 2 drams spirits diambra, Salt of wormwood, powder of pioney roots and of pioney seeds of each one dram white amber white corral prepared of each 2 scruples & a half with a sufficient quantity of sirrop of stœchas to make it into an electuarie.
Take bittony sage mugwort pennyroyall fumetory of each one handfull damask rose leaves 3 handfulls epythum 2 ounces corriander & sweet fennell seeds of each an ounce cut these and dry them in the shade and so keep ymfor your use mixing them altogether one handfull of these herbs must be boyled in new whey a quarter of an hour & ye liquor drank when almost cold.
The above mentioned Electuary prescribed to be taken every morning very early in your bed and last at night the quantity of a nutmeg.
Take a new earthen vessel never used & so many gallons as it will hold pound so many ounces of white copperice in fine powder & when snow is on the ground fresh gather it very clean and put some snow in the pot & then some of the powder doing so untill all the copperice powder be spent and the vessel full then cover it with a clean cloth & set it in a cellar till the snow is all melted off the ground then strain it & keep it for use in bottles.
It is good for Ruehmetick eyes being dropt in when they go to bed it will take away pearls phillmes, webbs & blood sheds in eyes if you take a piece of red rose cake enough to cover and soake it in some of this water warme and lay it to the eye when you go to bed and let it lay on ye eye till the next morning. In short it is good for all distempers in ye eyes & for old sores in legs if bathed warme with, but to drop in ye eyes it must be cold.
Take 3 pound and a half of flour a pound of butter melt’d in a pint of milk a quart of yest half a pound of Sugar mixt into the milk butter &yest half an ounce of cloves and mace a quarter of an ounce of carraway seeds a little salt and put all this into the flour and mix it up into a pretty stiff paste then weigh them into 4 ounces a piece & rowle them into wigs & bake them upon paper or tin plates butter’d.
Take castor, saffron, Gallbanum orsephetita and make them into fine powder of each half an ounce, half an ounce of methridate added in which well mix your powder with as much oyle of amber as will make it into pills of the largest size (or half an ounce of the powder) as the receipt exprest and then as much oyle of amber as will make it up in pills and of them one large or 2 middle size when you find the fits comeing keeping yrselfe fasting an hour before & an hour after but if followed with ye fits then take one of them being of ye largest size morning afternoon and last at night if you drink anything after them let it be a little hystericall water.
Take 4 ounces of old conserve of red roses 2 ounces of white sugar candie 2 ounces of raisons of the Sun Stoned beat all these till well incorporated then add the quantity of a small walnut of diescordium and 2 spoonfulls of Sirrop of popies 7 drops of oyle of sulphur 11 drops of spirit of vitriol mingle all these very well together and take of it as much as a large nutmeg first in the morning fasting 2 or 3 hours after it & last at night leting it melt (as it were) gentlydown yrthroat.
Take one good handfull of pine tree tops & bruise them and infuse ymin one quart of white wine or renish 3 or 4 hours then take one good handfull of dandilyon boyle it in one quart of new milk make it into a posset with the wine take off the curd pour the drink scaulding hot upon brooklimes, water cresses, sea scurvy grass garden scurvy grass of each a large handfull with the rine of a lemon cover it & drink every morning & afternoon a quarter of a pint sweeten in with Sirrop made of oringe juice & wormwood cold still’d water—drink this ale april and september.
Take 2 quarts of Spring water and put therein half a handfull of bittony and as much plantin and Spermint & whore hound a quarter of a handfull of centry and as much cardus half a handfull of single pioney roots green & half a handfull of burdock roots green & both sliced very thin half an ounce of hart’s horne & half an ounce of sweet fennell seed bruised a little a quarter of an ounce of bastorium and a quarter of an ounce Assifetita stop all these very close in a stone jugg and set it in a kettle of seething water up to the neck of the jugg & let it stand seething 8 hours then take it out and let it stand close stopt till next day then put it out into a brass pot and add to it a quart of cardus water and a quart of spermint water half a pint of red rose water & half a pint of old malligo Sack then put a small handfull of bittony & as much plantin and Spermin and whorehound and a quarter of a handfull of centry and as much cardus one handfull of single pioney roots and a handfull of burdock roots sliced 2 ounces & a half of harts horne an ounce and a half of sweet fennellseeds bruised 3 quarters of an ounce of bastorium and half an ounce of Assifetitaand one nutmeg sliced stop this pot very close that no breath may come out and on the cover set a weight of 18 or 20 pounds keep this to a moderate heat 8 hours more then let it stand close stopt till the next day then open it & strain it out and put therein a pint and a half of malligo Sack & half a pint of annyseed water & a lb. or more of jeans treacle put it up into bottles & feed it wthtreacle when you see fit all the herbs must be very dry.
Take a peck of garden snails and wash them in a great bowle of beer & then make your chinney very clean and pour half a bushell of charcole & set ymafire and when they are throughly kindled then with a shoule make a great hole in the midst of the fire and pour in your snails & scatter in some of your fire amongst them and so let them rest as long as you hear them make a noise then you must take them out of the fire and pick them out of their shells with a knife and with a coarse cloth pick and wipe all the green froth from them then in a stone morter bruise them shells and all next take a quart of earth wormes and slit them then scoure them with salt then wash them and break them in pieces in a stone morter then (the pot being very clean uppon which you set your limbeck) put them into it and about 2 handfulls of Angelico to put into the bottom & 2 handfulls of sallendine then put in a quart of rosemary flowers if you please you may put in Egremony of red dock roots, bear foot, the inner rine of barberry roots of woodsorrell & bittony of each 2 handfulls of rew half a handfull of Fenegrick & Turmerick of each an ounce of Saffron well Dry’d and beaten to powder the weight of 6 pence then pour into all these 3 gallonsof the strongest Ale you can get cover your pot & let it stand all night in the place where you mean to put fire to it in the morning you must put to them 3 ounces of very good cloves beaten to powder and before you put your fire to it with 6 ounces of good Harts horne you must not stir it after you have put in the Harts horne lest it go down to ye bottom then set on the limbeck and make it fast and so receive the water by pints the first water is best and strongest & must be received by its Selfe ye last is smallest and may be mended by putting the strongest to it when it is used this water must be given to the patient in a morning who must fast 2 hours after it and not sleep upon it or it may be given 2 hours after each meale he or she must take 2 spoonfulls of the strongest wth4 spoonfulls of Ale or white wine and when you give ye smallest you must give as much water as drink. This has been aproved & is an excellent cordial.
Take white wine or rather so much brown bastard, one quart of oyle of olives 2 quarts, one quart of the oyle of turpentine put all these together in a great double glass and with them of ye leaves flowers Hieperig on andseeds of St Johnswort of each 2 great handfulls gently bruised set the glass in the sun close stopt 8 or 10 days then boyle them in a kettle with straw at the bottom for ye glass to stand upon and when it hath gently boyled a great while then take off the kettle and coole it by degrees and then take out the glass and strain out all the moisture from the herbs and put it into the glass again with 2 of the fresh leaves of St Johnswort and of the flowers & seeds of each two handfulls & then set them in the sun as before 8 or 10 days then boyle and strain themas before & so have you a oyle for all the purposes beforementioned & every year let it be again clarified in ye sun.
Take one pound of white lead as much Lietheriegie of gold finely beaten & search’d into a quart of sallet oyle then take 4 ounces of yellow wax & 3 drams of camphire boyle them together on a good fire till they grow very black and 6 hours after this is an exceeding good skining Salve. Probatum Est.
Take verdigreese 5 drams Honey 14 drams, white wine vinegar 5 drams boyle them on a soft fire and stir them well together till it come to a red substance & so keep it for use. Probatū Est.
Take 5 quarts of Brandy 8 quarts of water and two of new milke, four dozen of lemons, three nutmegs, a pound and half of double refin’d sugar, pare one dozen of the lemons very thin leaving none of the white, infuse the parings in some of the brandy about three hours with the nutmegs grated, dissolve the sugar in water before you putt it to the brandy, squeeze in the lemons and let all the ingredients be mixt together, then put them all into a bag of thick flannel & let it run without stirring, let about a quart run out, then put it into the bag againe, so repeat it till it is fine.
Take three ounces of Sal Tartar, one ounce of lapis Calaminary, one ounce of Putty pulveriz’d; boyl two quarts of stale piss, one quart of Ale, onehandfull of Rue till it comes to one quart, then give it the horse fasting; if you finde the horse very sick in taking it, you may the next time abate a small matter of the quantity, by this twice repeated I have cur’d an inveterate Farcy; but let him rest three or four daies between.
Take three quarters of a pound of Rozin, two ounces of Sal Prunella, two ounces of stone Brimstone all in fine powders; boyle three pints of brine & three pints of stale Urine till it comes to three pints in the hole, strain it thro a woollen bag, and when tis cold stir in the saide powders and give it the horse fasting, and in two hours time give him corne and as much warme water with a little bran in it, as he will drinke, give him exercise as soon as he has taken the drink, and every time you give him water; Note your liquor must be very cold before you mix your powders with it: give him three Drinks resting about four daies between, and the whole quantity in each Drink;
The Oyntment if the Horse be very sore:
Take two ounces of the best Aloes and two ounces of spirits of Wine made into a salve over the fire.