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Diascordium
Hang to dry in A chamber 2 or 3 dayes 30. white poppy
heads full groan but not too ripe afterwards wipe
them with A clean cloth & cut of the stalks then [haueing]
A great Earthen pott that will hold water cut
the heads in quarters and put in the Seeds top one
& all into the Pott & when you haue cut the 30 heads
in this manner put some 14 or 15 pints of the purest
Water into your Pott upon them and put them downe with your
hand & let them stand to matter it 24 hours at least
puting them downe with your hand once or twice in that time
then boil them in Some Kettle or Sweat thing untill their strength
be Out & they be soft, & the liquor wasted to 3 pints & A 1/2
then Strain the Liquor from the heads & Seeds in some clean
thick cloath then put to that 3 pints of liquor 2 pounds of single
refine sugar & boil it to the height of A good thick syrrop.
A Receit For A Consumption
Take of Unslakt lime A quart, put to itt 4 gallons of runing
Water, let it stand 24 hours there will be A fat on the top
of itt which must be clean taken of then Strain the water from
the Lime, put into the water a pound of English Liquorish
Sliced 1/2 A pound of Anniseeds bruised, 1/2 A pound
of Saxifrass 1/2 dozen blades of large Mace giue the
patient this to drink after it hath been steep'd 24
hours 1/2 A pint in the morneing fasting & walk after
itt, as much att 4 A clock in the Afternoon & A wine
glass att goeing to bed if you find good in itt, leave
itt for A month or 2 & take itt again if you find it bind
take once in A weak the Quantity of any good
purgative thing that may work on[c]e or twice A day
Four wind quarts is the Measure.
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My Lady Allens water good for stomack
surfitt or small pox
Take of Celadine, Sage Rosemary Rue, Mugwort
Pimpernall Dragon Scabias Egrymony Balme
Scordium centary Carduus Cenedictus Bettony Rosa
Solis Buglas Borage, Endive Succory mary golds
of thses 5 handfulls flowers & leaves, Harts horne Ease
Liver wort lungwort, harts tongue of each of these
herbs A good handfull Angelica roots 2 gentian
roots For mentall [&odoaries], liquoras of each of
these roots 1/2 an Ounce one root Ellecampane
one root of piony, Scrape wash & slice your rootts
gather your hearbs in the heat of the day mix them all
Togather let them lye on A clean table till the next
day then shred them very grossly and put them in A good big
Earthen pott cover them with the best white wine you can
you must take Annaseeds and fennell Seeds of each
an Ounce and an half 2 nuttmegs bruise your Seeds &
Nuttmegs grossly, shake your Seeds amongst your
hearbs then stop them very close for 3 days & 3
Nights then Still them in an Ordinary still stoping
itt close as you did before. when you take
it let it be luke warme & put Some Sugar in
itt 3 or 4 spoonfull to A small Child to A stronger
6, to another more.
Probatum Est.
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