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104
Take 2 spoonfulls of spearmint water
simple & one spoonfull of Sirrup of Cynnamon
mix it together, take half an hour before
Dinner & Supper. Probat

Another

Take sirrup of Gilliflowers 4 spoonfulls
sirrup of Balm 4 spoonfulls, red rosewater
8 spoonfulls Burrage water 4 spoonfulls;
Red corall a dram; Alkermie a dram; mix
them alltogether & drink it 4 times a day if
you think itt be to hott, add it together
add to it half an ounce of Sirrup of Lemmons

To cleanse the Reines

Take as much Newmilk as an Ordinary still
will hold, 2 or 3 handfulls of Parsley seed
bruise it & put it into the milk & distill itt, take
six spoonfulls of that water & as much of white
wine, and dissolve in it a good deale of white sugar
candy in every draught you take, you must use
it first of all in the morne & when you goe to bed
after the Reines are thus cleansed strengthen the
back after this manner. Take about a pint &

105

Half of Muskadine & half a pint of white
wine & a good quantity of white ArckAngell
flowers, fiue or 6 leaves of Clary, shred the
herbs first, and then stamp them, take a good
handfull of the kernell of old hazle Nutts, take
a pint of the Pythe of an Oxe back, wash the slime
cleane of from it, then slitt the pith & boyle the
herbs & it in the Muskadine & white wine &
when they are boyled as a Candle then streine itt
you must blaunch the Nutts; as you doe Almonds &
beat them & grind them with a little Redrose =
water & put them in they must be ground
very small in a stone Mortar;, use it first & last a good draught

Take the [Ague] out of
any place or for bruises
or sprains etc

Prob by Mrs Hone: who
being 4 years without issue
being married conceiued
with Child upon the takeing
thereof

Take a quantity of May Butter which never
touches water not salt take as much Elderne
leaues in May, shred the leaves & stop them into
a Earthen pott to the butter well stirred together as
you can work in, [soe] let them stand for a fortnight
in a cool place stirring them once a day then boyle
them and streine them, and keep it for your use
Bath the grieved part therewith
and keep it warme
Let the Butter be
melted before
you put in the
leaues
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