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Mr Matthias his other Water for the Palsey of less prise and Charge

Take a gallon glass filled with Lavender
flowers (as before) fill it up with spiritt
of Wine or Malmsey then distill your water
and Oyle and seperate the Oile Then digest in
this Water, Sage flowers, Rosemary flowers
sweet Marjoram an handful hysop peony roots
an 1 ounce Bettony flowers 1/2 ounce Cinnamon, peony
seess hulled Cardamome cubebs cittron pills
dried 2 drachms beat them digest them. Put in half
a pound of Jujubies, the stones taken out or raisons
of the sonne stoned being digested 6 weeks streine
it forthe and drink it with Beer or Ale.

An Electuary for the Cough of Lunges

Rs a Quarter of a pound of honey; half an ounce
of Annis seeds half an ounce of sweet fennell
seeds; an ounce of English liquorish beate and
searce all very fine, as much powder of Elecampane
as will lye on a shillinge, as much powder of
Colts foot as all these, mingle all these in the honey
till it come to an Electuary.

Approved by Mrs Blonce

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For a burne or Scald

To a pound of mutton suitt; take a qrtr of
Deer suitt and boile it thick, add to it the white
of hens dung, let them boile softly & keep them
stirring for the space of an hour; soe when you
dress it anoint it with a feather not plaistering
it nor keeping it over close
Probatum Gooddy Pakeman

For a sprant new done

Take Bay salt and sew it in a bagge of
the bigness of the places considered, sett a a skillet
of water on the fire, when it seeths put the bagge
in suddainly and assoone as it is hot apply it
to the sprant as hott as can bee suffered
Probatum by Mr Skilton

To keep one soluble

Take stewed prunes with the Herbes Mercury
and Wooddsorrell and eat them fasting
Probat:

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