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106. use this use it on this manner, shake it in the glasse
unstill it be thicke, then putt it into your fyer dropping
it in and close the fye after it, as a cloth 2 or 3 times
double restt in the fame Waster, on the Topp of your
eye lid, and bend it with a fullestt.
To make Water of Life
A Hon. Sr. H. Finch. Lasy. Take Balme Leaves and Stalker, Burnestt Leaves &
Flowers, Rosermary, Turmenstill Leaves & Rootes, Rose
Folis, Red Roses, Red Fennett Leaves and Rootes & red
Ments of each one handfull putt all there hearbes into
a pott well glased and putt shorts as much white wines
rill couer the hearber, zest them soaker therein eorg
leaves, then take cinammon, ginger, cloves, saffron
and nutmeg of each one ounce of annyease, Raisins
of the fumme & of luyar of each one pound, of daster soned
2 pound. The hinder parts of an odd Rabbest, a good fleisht
running Capon, the flesh & fenens of a leg of Mattoc,
4 young pigeons, a dozen of Lorks y yolkes of 12 eggs, a
loafe of nohiste Bread eastt in slices, 3 gallons of Muskasine
or as much as suffiseth for the still, all these in a lim:
beck at one time, and pastt thersto of Methrdase or per:
fest Treach 3 ounces, Sestill it with a moseraste fire,
& keepe the furit water by it selfe, &y second by it
selfe, when there cometh no more water with fringes
take away the lombecke and putt into the staffe more
wene & oistill it agaene and you shall have another good
water
of the first ingredients of this water you must keepe in a
double glasse warily, for it is a restorastine to all principall
members, and defendesth against all pertilent diseases, as the Palsie
Dropsie,
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Dropsie, Spleene, Jellon or flack laundries, and for wormes in the
Belly, and for all Agues be they hott or cold, for all manner of
Sruellings, for Melancholicke and Phlegmastick Persons, & it come
forteth all the Spiritts & strings of the Braine, Heart, Mils
Liver and somach, by taking thereof 2 or 3 spoonfulls, at a time
with oyle, Wine or Beere, putt a little sugar therein, it helpeth
digestion, breakfast wend, stoppeth a loofenefse and bondeth, it waseth.
the heartburning, it quickenesth a loofenefse and bondeth, it easeth
3 spoonfulls a day, one in the morning, one at noone & one as night.
To make Wormerwood Water:
My Mother. A Ha. Take Roman Wormwood and English of each one pound, liquorice
and Annyseeds of each 2 pound, cutt your Hearbes, slice your liquorice,
and fanne your seeds, and putt to them 2 gallons of the spiritt of
wine, letting it Aeepe one night, then distill it the net day, & take
the First Quart by it selfe, the second also & likewise the third:
Dr. Stevens Water:
My Mother. A Han. Take a gallon of good gaseoigne wine, then take ginger, cinna:
mon, Nutmegs, Graines, Annseeds of each a Srachme, Take Sage,
Red Ments, Red Roses, Tyme Pellistory, Rosemary, Fennell Seeds,
Cerraway seeds, ruls tyme, Camomill, Lavender of each a handfull, beat
the spices small, and starepe the Hearbes and putt them all into the
Wine, and let it stnad so 12 houres stirring it continually, then distill
it by a Limbeck , and keepe the first pints by it selfe, for it is y best,
keepe also the second pint by it selfe for it is good, but not so good as y
furit. The Vertue of this Water is, it comfort the vestill Spiritts,
it helpeth the diseases that come of cold, & shaking of y Palsie
It cureth the Dropsie and Contrastion of Scnenues, It helpeth the,
conception of Women that are barren, it helpeth the Cold Cough, it kil:
Leth Women in the Body, it helpeth the tooth ach and comfortesth the
stomach very much, it helpeth the stone in the Bladder, & y reimes &ye
Backe