Part 3 (1/2)

_To strengthen the Back weak or diseased._

Take the pith of an Oxes back, wash it in Wine or Ale, and beating it very small straine it through a course cloath, and make a Caudle of it, with _Muskadine_ or strong _Ale_ boyling it therein a few _Dates_ sliced, and the stones taken out, and drink it first and last as warm as you can, walking well, but temperately after it. Toasted dates often eaten are very good for the same.

_For a Paine or Ache in the Back._

Take _Nepe, Archangel, Parsley_, and _Clarie_, of each halfe a handfull wash them cleane, and cut them small, and then fry them with a little sweet b.u.t.ter, then take the yolks of three or four Eggs, beat them well together, and put them to the Hearbs, fry them all together, and eat them fasting every morning, with some _Sugar_; to take away the unsavorinesse of the Hearbs, some use to take only _Clary_ leaves, and _Parsley_ washed, not cut, or _Clary_ leaves alone, and powring the yolks of the Eggs upon them, so fry them, and eat them.

_For a suddain Bleeding at the Nose._

Burne an Egg sh.e.l.l in the fire till it be as black as a coale, then beat it to a fine powder, and let the party snufle it up into his Nostrills.

_A Medicine for Burning or Scalding._

Take _Madenwort_, stamp it, and seeth it in fresh b.u.t.ter, and therewith anoynt the place grieved presently.

_For the Canker in Womens b.r.e.a.s.t.s._

Take _Goose_-dung, _Celedonie_, stamp them well together, and lay it plaister-wise to the soare, it will cleanse the _Canker_, kill the wormes, and heale the soare.

_For the Canker in the Mouth._

Take the juice of _Plantaine, Vineger_ and _Rose_ water, of each a like quant.i.ty, mingle them together, and wash the mouth often with them.

_To make a Tooth fall out of it selfe._

Take wheat flower and mix it with the Milk of an Hearb called _Spurge_, make thereof a past, and fill the hole of the Tooth therewith, and leave it there, changing it every two houres, and the Tooth will fall out.

_To take away the cause of the paine in the Teeth._

Wash the mouth two or three times together in the morning every moneth, with _White-wine_ wherein the root of _Spurge_ hath been sodden, and you shall never have paine in your Teeth.

_For A Consumption._

Take Ash-keyes so soon as they look wither'd, set them into an Oven, the bread being drawne, in a pewter, or rather an earthen dish, and being so dryed pull off the out side, and reserving the inner part, or the seed, or keyes, beat them to fine powder, and either mix it with good English honey, and so eat of it, first and last, morning and evening, a pretty deale of it at once, upon the point of a knife, or else drink of the powder in some posset Ale, or thin broth. Mares milk, or a.s.ses milk, which is best, being drunk warm morning and evening, is the most soveraigne Medicine for it.

_An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs._

Take _Fennell_ and _Angelica_ of each one handfull, the leaves in Summer, roots in Winter, sliced figgs twelve, but if the body be bound, twenty at least, green Licorice if you can, two or three good sticks sc.r.a.ped and sliced, Anniseed cleaved and bruised, two good spoonfulls, two or three Parsley roots sc.r.a.ped, and the pith taken out, and twenty leaves of Foale-foot, boyle all these in three pints of _Hysop_ water, to a pint and halfe, then straine it out into a gla.s.se, putting to it as much white _Sugar_-candy as will make it sweet, drink hereof, being warmed, five spoonfulls at a time, first in the morning, and last in the evening, taking heed that you eat nor drink any thing two howres before nor after.