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Camomile and Marsh Mallowes of each a handfull cutt small &
also putt to it 3 white lillie Rootes and a handfull of wheat Meale,
and 3 or 4 Figs, cutt the Rootes and the figs small, and boyle all
these together to halfe a pinte, or till halfe be dissolved, and then
apply it hotte.

A Rare Medecine for a Sore Brest
{Lady Parkhurst A Hon}
Take Wood Lice, dry them upon a Tile in an oven, take
every morning in Grout Ale or new Ale as much as will lye
upon 3t & apply morning and evening a Cloth the
bignes of your brest tried in Goose grease and layd on double
This hath done many very great Cures both with Brests
that have had Agues in them and Brests with a Fistula.

to make the Ulcer Water
{Sr.K.D}

Take a dramm and a halfe of pure Chrsitalline Venice Mercury
sublimate, and grind it to impalbable powder upon a Porphyre or
Marble stone with a Mallet of the same; then in a glasse morter
with a glasse pestill, incorporate it well with 2 ounes of faire
water. And so putt it into a Phiole glasse to keepe till you
make the mixture.
Take 3 pintes or [] 4d of Aqua Caleis vine; put it into a large
bolteshead of glasse with a long Necke; and then by holding it in one
Hand with the other poure the sublimate water into it after
you have shaked it very well, that both the liqours be well mixt
together; then sett the bolteshead to settle with the necke inclining
as much may without running out, & in three or foure
dayes all the mudd will be setled to the bottome; powre of the cleare
& keepe it in a glasse, when you will use it warme it in a purslane
or strong Earthen vessel (for it will corrode any metall) & foment the
sore; with double linnen dipt in it as hott as you can; & then bind
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linnen soakt in it, and doubled 3 or 4 times upon the sore. Where
you cannot come to the sore, inject it by a syringe; in healing it will
harden the brimmer of the sore, but the inward part will looke very
cleane, and of a good coulour; you may putt neere halfe a spoonfull onto
a vulnerary potion & it will helpe it much.
It is also good to heale exconitions in the prostates, & other parts in go-
norrhea's, being first well temperd with Plantaine water, so as to
cause no sharpnesse in the sense when it is injected.
The Aqua Calais is made by taking two or three pound of Quicke Lime
fresh from the Kilne, and pouring a gallon of faire water upon it & min-
gle them well together, then let the lime settle for two or three daies
and powre of the cleane water whiche keepe; every surgeon or barber ma-
keth of it.

An excellent Medecine for the stone
approved and given by Mr. Rowzell Apothe
cary of London
{A:Han}
Rx Marsh Mallow roots thin sliced 2 ounces ye youngest leaves
of mallows a good handfull, liquorice sliced half an ounce, 6 figgs
sliced, a sprigg or two of time, boile these in 3 pints of clear posset
drinke, made with small Ale till a third part be boiled away and
straine it. Let the Patient in 4 draughts of this Posset drinke^take a good
spoonfull of the syrup of Althea and the juice of a lemmon. It is
to be drunke 3 times a daye which is in the morning, at five in the
afternoon & when they goe to bed at night. Let them take this
constantly 3 or 4 daies before the full of the Moon, & at any time
when they complayne.