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A Drink for a Cold or Coufe to cleare the bloud
or against faintings

{Lady Husseys}

Take one quart of Spring water; one good handfull of raisons of the Sun stoned; half an
ounce of hartshorne; one Spoonfull of anniseeds brused ½ an ounce of lickorish Scraped and Sliced
thin 3 or 4 blue figes sliced let these all boyle together in a pipkin till half be consumed
then put into it a botom of a white lofe 3 or 4 sprigs of sweet Marjerom a sprig or 2 of Ishop
a branch of Rosemary a Sprige of winter Savory a few marygold flowers put all these w^th
a quart of Smale ale and so let this Simper alltogether till the Vertue is out of the herbs
& so strain it out into a glass or earthen pott take all most a porenger full in a morn=
ing fasting and at 4 of the cloke in the afternoon; and continue this drinke taking
a week or fortnight together

A medeicne for a cold Coufe or
Consumption

{Mrs [Hinchens]
receipt}

Take a quart of the strongest ale and to that a pound of lofe sugar boyle
it together till itt comes to the thicknesse of a quideney and never scume
it and let the party take of it very often upon a knifes point this must
be kept stiring or else it will be apt to burne

A Surrop good for a coufe or the king cough to remove
fleam & open the Stomach

Take an oxes blader that is new kild & empty the watter that is in it
but not wash it only blow it to se if ther be no holles in it then take a
pound of the Clearest brown sugar candy bruse it & put it into the
blader & tye up the blader put a scuer a top of the blader & rune it
through & tye it under neath the scuer to keep the string from sliping
in the boyling & put it into an earthen pot or pewter pot & fill that full
of watter & put it into a kitell of watter that it may boyle & as the water
by wasting boyle away you must put of the hot watter in the kitle you
boyle in to the pot wher the blader is for if the blader be dry it will
crack the blader & loose the surrup & wⁿ you thinke it is dissoulved
you may take it up by the scuer & feel on the outside of the blader
whither it be dissoulved it will take most part of an afternoon to boyle
it & wⁿ you power it out you must strain it so take 2 ounces of
surrup of vinagar 4 drames of Gaskins powder & mix it all together
& put it up for your use & take a Spoonfull of it morning & at
night for to open the Stomach & for a cough half a spoonfull after
euery coughing, it is good for Children in the mounth wⁿ troubled w^th
fleam

for a consumption

take wholl grits of oatmeal steep them overnight in water then boyle them 6
howers uery well till the gruell is thick & eat of this as much as you can w^th
new unsalted butter

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Toe make the Juice of locorish for a Cold

Take distilled Coltsfoote water and water of unsett Isop, of each
a quarte Red rose water and hore hound water; of each a pinte, putt
there in foure ounces of Elicumpane Rootes, thinne slyced, one ounce of
shaued hartshorne halfe an ounce of maydenhare, marigold flowers
& sweete marioram of each halfe an handfull of Anniseeds a quarter
of a pound, put all these into a pipkin with a close couer sett it into
a kettle of seething water & lett it infuse on a hot fire a day or
more, till all the substance be out of them & halfe the liquor consumed
Then cleare it and put it into the water, to pounds of white suger candie
finely beaten lett it boyle till it be syrrup then put into it halfe
a pound of english licorish searsed as fine as the finest flower & soe
lett it Dry leasurely uppon a chaffinge dish and coles stirring it
Contineually, for that it will be apt to burne, it must be dryed in a siluer
or earthen basen then when it is soe dry that it will worke like
paste put therein halfe a dozen dropps of the spirritts of Rosemary
of Synamon and Anniseed four droppes six grames of Ambergreese
and as much of muske unicornes horne & Bezar stone, soe make
then up and Dry them

Another Medicine For a Cold

Take Elicumpane Rootes shred, and Figgs sliced Raisons of the sunn stoned
Isop lycorish and anniseeds steepe all these together in Running water
all night, afterwards streyne it & put it one the fire with some honye
and lett it boyle till it come toe a syrrup, and soe take it dayly with
a licorish stick

A medecen for a Cold

{this is Mrs Randols medcen}

Take a quart of Milke & boyle it then put tow it a
sponfull of old mustard & it will turne the milk take
of the curd Cleare & drinke the dr this drinke 2
nights together when you goe to bed this quantety
will sarue but one night

To make iuce of Licoras another way

Take a pinte of Coltsfoote watter & a pint of Isope water a quarter
of a pinte of spring watter 8 ounces of lickoras 8 ounces of browne
sugar Candey straine & bruse the licoras & steepe it in the watter
all night the next day boyle them uery softly till they come to halfe
a pinte then straine it & put in the sugar Candy finly beaten then
let it dry away till it be thick enoufe to rowle

Another way

{the Lady pagnum iuce of Licors is
the same only as much more watter}

Take a pound of licoras & scrape of the barke then bruse it in a
morter & put it into a brase pot with a potell of water & a
handfull of isope them seeth it untill the Licorish be gone then stran
it through a Cloth & then wring it forth afterward againe as hard
as you cane then put it in a fare earthen pot & set it in the sune
& euer as it dryeth stire it together untill it come to a harde
lumpe then Chafe it in your hands & make it into litell cakes
& pute it into the Sunne to drye

To stop a cough

Take at night goeing to bed half an ounce of diacorum & half an ounce
of surrup of cowslipes together & so rest a night or tow & then take it
again if your cough be not gone

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