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cleane stampe them in halfe a pinte of white wine: and lett the patient
Drinke it offe the cold beinge taken offe: drinke it in a morninge
fastinge

A excellent receipt ffor the mother

Take a quarte of white wine a handfull of mugworte a handfull of
wormewood & a handfull of Rue. boyle them together from a quarte
toe a pinte then streine out your herbes and when it is almost cold
put into it one ounce of the best medridate dissolve it well and drinke
three morninge a like quantitie & by the blessinge of god it cureth

A medicine to give ease in the payne of the stom[e]

Take three spoonefulls of sallett oyle & the Juice of three Lemons
mingle them very well together puttinge thereto as much suear
as will make very sweete & then lett the patient drinke it

Dr Knowles his plaister for the back for the wind
Collick and stone

Take 2 poundes of oyle olive of the best, one pound of red leade one
pound of white leade: very well calmed into dust: 12 ounces of Spanish
soape: encorparate them together: in an earthen pipkin well glased
& when they be well encorporated that the soape cometh uppermost
put it one a smale fire: for the space of an houre & halfe: still
stirringe it with a stick: then make the fire somewhat bigger till
the rednes be turned gray: but yo^u must not leave stirringe it
untill it be turned into the couller of oyle: (somewhat darker) then
droppe it one the Table: if it stick not one the table nor the finger it
is enough then Rowle it into Rowles: and it will last many yeares
This plaister is good for these greifs ffollowinge: beinge laid on the
stomack it & procureth appetite: and taketh away the paine of the same
Lay it uppon [...]e belly & it is present remedie for the Collick lay it
uppon the back and it is good for the bloudy fluxe the runninge of the
reynes: the heate of the kidnies and weakenes of the back it taketh
away all aches breaketh ffellons and pushes & other Impostumes
and healeth them: it Dwaweth out any runninge humor without
breakinge the skinne & beinge laid to the fundament it healeth the
Disease that groweth there: lay it to the head and it is good forthe
Lunacie it helpeth the headach: and is good for the eyes: beinge
laid to the belly of women it causeth theire termes: and maketh
them apt to conception.

A Remedy for the Stone

Take a quart of Renish wine & put into it 3 handfulls of the blosom
of rye & boyle it till it come to a pint & then straine it & give
the paitent 6 sponfulls of it to drink let him contineu it for
a month together taking it in the morning fasting & at 4 of
the cloke in the afternone if it be one that is come to age
he must take a greater quantety

for the ston to be keep the gravell from harden[...]
& to bring it away

Take venus turpentin & with nutmeg & sugar make up pills as big as
an hasell nut & take some of them in a [...] time goeing to bed

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A medicine ffor the Collick that
cures when all other medicines fayle
Take 3 dropps ofthe spirit of Jynip berries in halfe a pind pinte of posset
Drinke or thinne brouth, warme, when the fitt take yo^u

For the wind Collik
Take 6 dropes of olle of aneyseeds in a spoonfull of whitewine
& give it the paitent to take as oft as you see cause
A Receipt for the stone
Take of the best iuce of lemons one ounce of Semper
watter one ounce oyle of aneyseeds & cummin 20 dropes parsly
watter 2 ounces mingle it together & give of it 2 sponfulls
att a tyme 4 tymes in one day & put into it 30 dropes
of oyle of uitorill

An Aproued drink for the stone in the kidneys

Take a quart of alle & boyle 2 or 3 parsley roots & a few
burre seedes & when it is boyled & strayned then put to a pinte
therof 2 ounces of the surope of March Mallowes & drinke
your pinte of all at a tyme allthough you make 2 or
3 draughts & this will wash the kidnes & carey away all
the gravell
Another for the same
Take renish wine a pinte & put ther in 2 ounces of
marsh mallows or more as you please & this doth doe very
well allso
A Receipt to make the stone water
it cueres the partey that takes it
Take spedwell saxafrage willd tyme pelletory of the
walle parsley of each a handfull of netell & oyenen seed
of each & ounce 3 or 4 redish roots slised put all thes
into a gallon of nuw milke of a red Cows let them stand
in steepe all nigit & the next morning destill them
drinke of this 6 sponfulls with 6 sponfulls of whit
wine & a litell nutmege & sugar euery nuw & full of
mone 2 mornings & euenings or more if need shall
requir the hearbes must be very well dryed befor they
they be put in
A Souerain powder to cuer the stone
take the hearb called golden rod with the flowers boyl it in
poset drinke drinke a good draught in a morning
fasting & fast after it 3 or 4 howers at least & walke
up & downe the house or garden if the parte be able let
them drinke it 10 or 12 days together
you may take a sponfull of the powder in a nuw lade egge soft
rosted in a morning fasting & fast 3 or 4 howers after it
he shall make watter in lese than halfe an hower if he use this
constantly for 10 or 12 days together he or she will uoyd the stone
without pain or greife
this hath been proued by the Lady digby who could neuer find
ease by noe meanes that docters could use & this hath freyed
her from all her terible fites & keeps her fre from paine

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