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And 2 handfulls of Salendine, lay upon
that; put in 2 Quarts of rosemary flowers
at the Least; alsoe bearsfoot; agremony, Red
dark roots, the bark of Barbary tree and
Wood sorrell, and Bettony, of each 2 hand
fulls and half a handfull Rue fenni -
greek Turmerack of each an ounce well
beaten then lay the snailes and wormes upon
the topp of all these herbes pourein 5 gallons
of your strongest Ale; then cover the pott &
let itt stand all night in the place where
you mean to put your fire under itt
and in the morneing, you must put in 2 ounce
of Cloves beaten to powder, and of Saffron
beaten to powder the weight of 2^s6^d and of
very good harts horne grated or filed to
powder before itt be weighed the weight of
8 ounces you must not stirr itt after, you haue
put in; the harts horne for feare itt should
sink down to the bottome then set itt upon your
Limbeck and stop itt fast down with a peele
of Rie dough and [soe] receiue your water
in pints as you doe any other water you may
receiue 6 partes or some what more the first
is the strongest and must be kept by itt self
and soe by degrees; soe the small may be made
better by some of the strongest when it is used
for the [Jaundies] you must take 2 spoonfulls
of this in a Glass of ordinary beer

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An hour before each meal for fiue dayes
together and afterwards less and more
seldome once a day or once in 2 or 3 dayes
as you find your self

For a soare Breast

Take Creame, grated, bread, Redrose leaues
boile itt to a Poultess, when its boiled put in it
a peice of deer suett, then spread itt upon a
Cloath and lay itt to the Soare breast; if itt
will break itt; will break itt and heal itt; if itt
not itt will take away the swelling. Probat:
Mrs Hone

For a Breast wherein
the Milk is wharled & knotted
Take Linseed oyle Aqua Vitae, and warme itt
bath the breast with itt, and breake the wharles
easily with your finger morneing and evening
then take a little Bees wax and scrape itt[ thinne]
and a little honey, and aqua vitae & melt them
well together; then put in some linseed oyle;
then take a new peice Lockram and cutt a hole
for the nipple & dipp the lockram in itt, & spread itt
and strew a little gross, & soe apply itt warm
to the breast. Probat Mrs Hone

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