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Seeth Mallows the leaves & roots and some
Camomile in faire water sweetned with
[a] honey & with that bath the swelling of the neck
every day streaking itt backward with your
hand which is the best way and will help the sooner

Dr Wilkinson
hard travell
or ffainting
Take a handfull of Cowslip blossoms
Rosmary blossomes as much woodbeltony,
as much; sweet marjoram as much one
ounce of Cloves; one ounce of Cinamon
one ounce of Cloves Ginger; one ounce
of Nuttmeg, bruise spices, and steep them
all 9 dayes in 3 pints of sack & then still
them altogether
The Lady Wade
A Soveraigne
Medicine or water to remove any disease
from the heart or stomack, be it the plague
small pox Measles, or such like it will expell
it presently it is cald the Plague water

Take Rue Egrimonie wormwood marigold
leaves Sage Salendine Balme Rosemary Mugwort
Dragons pimpernell; ffetherfew; Burnett sorrell
Carduus, Benedic: or Angelica, of each of those

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Herbs a pound but of the Rosemary 2 pounds
a quarter of A pound of Alicompanye roots
or somewhat more then shred something small
and smoak them 3 dayes in the best white
wine you can gett, covering it very close and now & then stirring it with a stick &
put them into as much Wine as will cover
them which is about 4 or 5 gallons then take
uo the herbs in a Cullender and dreine them
and distill them by themselves in an ordinary
skill, and the water thereof warmed with a
little Treacle or Methredate will drive any
sickness from the Heart, and distill the wine by
it selfe, and the water thereof is good to driue
away Agues with a little Treacle or Methredate
aforesaid, still it up assoon as you can; In the
stilling of itt; You may take the first water
of every stillfull which will be the strongest &
the next water will be the smallest which you
may giue to Children but be sure to whomesoe
ever you giue itt, giue itt before the fitt comes
or else it will make them very sick

For bleeding att the Nose

Take Bole Armoniack & Whitewine & vinegar mixe
them together spread it upon a Cloath & lay upon
the temples, bruise a little hysope and put into
the Bole Armoniack & vinegar & putt a little
up the Nostrills

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