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To cuer help a consumption weakness
or leanness

Take 2 quarts of snailes fresh gathered & wipe them clean from
dirt & sand; & as you wipe them put them into an Earthen pan & lay
finill amongst them, till you have done all then cover the pann close
that the snailes cannot get out, & let it stand so all night for the snails
to purge; the next morning take the snailes out & wipe them again very
clean from the dirt, & as you wipe them prick them throw the shells w^th
a bodkin & fill the shell as full of double refin'd sugar as you
can & as you doe them thro them into a bag ready for y^r use & so let them
drop as long as any surrup will come through befor you put the snailes
into the bag dip it into rose water & it will give the surrup a pretty tast
wⁿ it has dropt as long as you se it will put it into a botell to keep
it for your use doe not cork the botell, but cover it close w^th paper:
you must take 2 spoonfulls in the morning fasting & in the afternoon about
3 or 4 a clock, this surrop has cured thos that have been given over by the
Physitians

For a Consumptive distemper

you must take the best white methegline then take half a pinte of milke
& put it over the fire, wⁿ it boyles take it off let it stand a little then put in
4 or 5 spoonfulls of metheglin & let it be turned to a curd so drink it
the last thinge you drinke goeing to bed & as hot as you can & in the morning
take a quarter of a pint of the metheglin & tost a little peice of bread very
hard & put it to the metheglin & let it stand till the bread be soft, then
take the bread & eat it & drinke the metheglin & walk half & hower or a
whole hower if you can, so doe this a fortnight together, & then you may
forbear for a weeks tyme, & after that you will find w^t alteration it
makes on you so you may take it again as you find how you are,
you must not faill to take it euening & morning as befor directed

For a cough

Take a pound of hony & boyle in it a handfull or lesse of horehound
& scume it & put to it a quarter of a pint of maligo sack & so
take it often a spoonfull of it goeing to bed & in a morning

To stop a cough or cuer it

Take 3 nights together a penith of venus Treacle & it will
hinder your coughing, Mrs Conys electuary for a cough

Take 4 ounces of Raisons of the Sun stoned 4 ounces of brown sugar candy
4 ounces of conserve of red Rosses beat all together then put in 40 dropes
of Spirit of Sulpher 2 penith of Olibanum

her milk watter for a consumption

distill milk w^th ground Iuey, put whit paper at the botom
& sides of the still to keep it from burning

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A Medicine For a scald head that hath a
thick dry scab and noe Runninge scalde

First wash the patients head with warme cowe stale, then take old shooes &
burne them to powder: and take the ashes of them and mingle it with fresh
gaultes grease with a Little quick siluer being first well killed with
fastinge spittle and annoynt the patients head therewith

Another for the same

Take a pinte of stronge ale & a pritty Quantitie of black f Rosen
boyle them together then take as much fine white flowre tempered with
ale as will make it thick like a poultise boyle it well & put therein
a little uenis Turpentine & soe apply it to the head

Another For the same

Take the greenest glasse that you can gett & Beate it uery small &
sift it through a seine or cloth then take as much soote out of a
Chimney that wood is burned in & sift it fine, then temper these two
with as much butter out of the Churne unwashed as will make it
Like a salue and soe annoynt the parties head Morninge and euening

To cuer the head ach

Take some dropes of the Spirit of Lauender & rowle them in fin sugar
& take it this giues present ease

for a gidyness in the head

{M^r Bradfords receipt}

Take male piony roots 2 ounces peacoks dung made into fin whit
powder 6 ounces whit sugar 2 ounces mix thes together & tak a spoon=
full of this powder in a cofy dish w^th tea or coffy or sage tea twice
a day

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