Part 5 (2/2)

Take two pound of _Sheeps_ suet, or rather _Deers_ suet, a pint of _Candy Oyle_, a quarter of a pound of the newest and best _Bees-wax_, melt them together, stirring them well, and put to them one ounce of the Oyle of _Spike_, and halfe an ounce of the _Goldsmiths Boras_, then heating them againe, and stirring them all together, put it up in a gally pot, and keep it close stopped till you have cause to use it; this is an approved Oyntment to cure any wounds or sores new or old.

_An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache_.

Take two pound of _May b.u.t.ter_ purified, powre it out from the dregs, and put to it of _Broome_ flowers and _Elder_ flowers, of each a good handfull, so clean picked that you use nothing but the leaves, mix them all together in a stone pot, and boyle them seaven or eight howres in a kettell of water, being covered with a board, and kept downe with weights, keeping the kettell alwayes full of water, with the help of another kettell of boyling water ready to fill up the first as it wasteth, and when it waxeth somewhat coole, but not cold, straine the Oyntment from the Hearbs, into a gally pot, and keep it for your use.

_A Plaister for a Bile or Push_.

Take a yolk of an Egg, and halfe a spoonfull of English _Honey_, mix them together with fine wheat flower, and making it to a Plaister, apply it warme to the place grieved.

_An approved good drink for the Pestilence_.

Take six spoonfuls of _Draggon_-water, two good spoonfulls of _Wine-Vineger_, two penny weights of English _Saffron_, and as much Treacle of _Gene_, as a little _Walnut_, dissolve all these together upon the fire, and let the Patient drink it blood-warm, within twenty hours or sooner that he is sick, and let him neither eat nor drink six howres after, but lye so warme in his bed, that he may sweat, this expelleth the Disease from the heart, and if he be disposed to a sore, it will streightwayes appeare, which you shall draw out with a Plaister of _Flos Unguentorum_.

_For the Rheume in the gums or teeth_.

Boyle _Rosemary_ in faire water, with some ten or twelve _Cloves_, shut, and when it is boyled take as much _Claret_ wine as there is water left, and mingle with it, and make it boyle but a little againe, then strayne it into some gla.s.se, and wash the mouth there with morning and evening; this will take away the Rheume in short time; and if you boyle a little _Mastick_. therewith, it is the better.

_For the Emroids_.

Take _Egremony_ and bruise it small, and then fry it with _Sheep suet_, and _Honey_, of each a like quant.i.ty, and lay it as hot as you can suffer it to the Fundament, and it will heale very faire and well.

_An approved medicine for the Dropsey_.

Take the Hearb called _Bitter sweet_, it grows in waters, and bears a purple flower, slice the stalks, and boyle a pretty deale of them in _White-wine_, drink thereof first and last, morning and evening, and it will cure the _Dropsey_.

_A Powder for Wounds_.

Take _Orpiment_, and _Verdigreese_, of each an ounce, of _Vitriall_ burned till it be red, two ounces, beat each of them by it selfe in a brasen Morter, as small as flower, then mingle them all together, that they appear all as one, and keep it in bagges of leather, well bound, for it will last seaven years with the same vertue, and it is called _Powder peerlesse_, it hath no peer for working in _Chyrurgery_, for put of this powder in a wound where is dead flesh, and lay sc.r.a.p't lint about it, and a Plainer of Disklosions next upon it, and it will heale it.

_An approved Medicine for the Green sicknesse_.

Take a quart of _Clarret_ wine, one pound of _Currants_, and a handfull of young _Rosemary_ crops, and halfe an ounce of _Mace_, seeth these to a pint, and let the Patient drink thereof three spoonfulls at a time, morning and evening, and eat some of the _Currants_ also after.

_A Medicine for a Pleurisie, St.i.tch, or Winde, offending in any part of the Body._

Gather the young shutes of _Oake_, after the fall of a _Wood_, and picking out the tenderest and softest of them, especially those which look redest, bind them up together in a wet paper, and roste them in hot embers, as you doe a _Warden_, whereby they will dry to powder, of which powder let the Patient take a spoonfull in a little Posset _Ale_, or _Beer_, warmed, in the morning, fasting after it two hours, or more, if he be able, doing the like about three after noon, and two hours after supper, four or five dayes together, which thus done in the beginning of the Disease, is by often experiments found to cure such windy paines in the side, stomach, or other parts of the body; you may dry them also in a dish, in an Oven after the bread is drawn; you shall doe well to gather enough of them in the Spring, and make good store of the powder then, to keep for all the year following.

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