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A Receipt For a uiolent Burninge
Feuer with a Loosenes

Take a pinte of plantane water & fortie filbert nut kernels
Beate them in a stone morter: & put a little of the said water
toe the kernells and soe by degrees beate them all with
a little red rose water: and harde suger then lett the patient
drinke of it as often as hee will; if you cannot gett
filberts then take other small nuts or almonds; and fast
an houre after it

An Exelent plaister to be appleyed to the
wristes to lay the heate of a feauer

Take an handfull of the leaues of angellecow & lay them in
steepe to howers in white wine uinagar & then heat them
uery hote uppon a fyer shouell & soe applye them to the
wrist & it shall quallefye the heate & cause rest

Another for the same that causeth rest
& layes the feaver

Take the botom of a peney white lofe with good
store of the crume tost it & sticke upon it Cloues
prettey full & strow it all ouer with nutmegg then
lay a very thine rage upon it to keepe the spice that
it may not fall of then take halfe a pinte of Claret
wine & boyle therin a litell red wine minte the stalke
it must not be speare minte & when it is well boyled
dipe your bread in it & let it soake very well with
the cloth pined very fast about it & soe applye it very
hote to the botom of the stomacke

A Soverane drinke for a feavor to be
given in the hight of it

Take 4 sponfulls of fare watter 3 sponfulls of
red rose vinagar the iuce of a greatte lemond or 2
small ons giue it to the paitent to drinke

An aproved drincke for one that is with
Child & hath a burning feavor to Colle & Comfort

Take a quart of nuw milke boyle it & put therto
halfe a pinte of Endive watter & 2 sponfulls of
white wine uinagar make a poset therof & let
the paitent drinke therof in the morning & after
none & at night when she goeth to bed

A drinck for hectiaue feauer or any other feauor

Take nettell topes cleavers dandelion elder budes colts-
foote mayden haire of each a good handfull boyl all
thes in a pottell of good alle till it come to 3 pints
then sweaten it with a quarter of a pound of sugar
good honey & give the partey to drinke at any tyme
ether day or night it will helpe the greatest
feauor that is

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Toe kill a wild fire or inflamation

Take halfe a pound of unsleckt lyme and put it into fiue
pints of Runninge water and if it will not dissolue therein
dipp it a little into a little hott water and then put it into
the other water againe & it will dissolue, take a linnen
cloth & dipp it into the said water and bathe the soare there
with as often as you shall see good

To take away the feaver

Take of Elderne leaves 2 handfulls heat 2 tills hot then put the leaves between them
& then apply it hot to the soles of the feet of the party

An approoued glister

Take a pinte of milke, Coliander seeds cuming seed & anniseed
of each an ounce, bruised, & when it is boyled halfe away
streyne it then take the yelke of a new laid egge and 3 or 4
ounces of Red suger and one ounce and halfe of the sirrup of violetts
with a thimble full of common salt dissolued by stirring, when
you haue streyned the milke put them together and use them
as a glister & if it worke not well you may with the
sirrup of violetts ad an ounce of the sirrup of Roses

Toe make a Restringent glister

Take a pinte of new milke quench it 2 or 3 times with a
gad of steele, then put it ouer the fire & boyle it a little
away then put into it one spoonefull of the powder of red
Roses, boyle it againe a little more & streyne it and putt
thereunto one ounce of ordinary suger

A glister for a weake bodey whose bowells are
emptey it is streingthening as well as working
the paitent may take it being neversoe weake

Take 3 quartes of runing watter put it into a pipkin
with a nuw kild sheeps head shoped all to peces as it comes
from the buchers put allso therin a handfull of malowes
& pellotery of the wall some of the mallowes roots halfe a handfull of
Mercuery 2 handfulles of Villots with some of the roots
put halfe a sponfull of Coriander seeds as much Caraway
seeds 3 quarters of a sponfull of Commin seeds & aneysedse
boyle thes till ther be but 3 pintes of the liqor remaining
then straine it all put therto 3 sponfulls of sallot oyle
& 2 sponsfull of sugar give it a litell hoter than milke
from the Cow

soe much as is here prescribed will sarue for 3 tymes
let it be giuen euery each other day

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