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& a good maney borage & bluglos & brused flowers when
this hath steeped 4 & 20 howers you may still it in a lim-
backe this will yeld 3 pintes of very stronge watter th^e
rest will be small.

an Exelent aqua mirable

Tale galengalle Cubebiles malelot karelenany cloves mace
& nutmeges & ginger of each a drame bruse th^m prettey well
& putt th^m into th^e licqor of juce of Sallendine a pinte of
th^e juce of mint ditiany of each halfe a pinte, of whit
wine 3 pintes, of angelico watter a pinte put th^m all to-
gether into a stilletorey of glace & let it stand all night
& one th^e morow distill it with a softe fyer as you cane
put tow every pinte of watter an ounce of sugar candy
well beaton this watter is of strong & seceiret nature
it healeth th^e longes if they be wonded or puterefyed
it sufereth not th^e blud to puterefey but th^e same it
mundefeyes it sufereth not th^e harte to be sade or th^e
malencoley fleame to be lifted up or have dominon
above nature this water expells winde mighteley &
preserveth th^e stomacke marvelously & conserveth the
memorey notable destroyeth th^e palsey & man or woman
labering towardes death it releveth wonderfulley &
of all watters artefichally this is th^e best in the winter
you are to take 2 sponfulls in a weeke in th^e sumer
one sponfull but allwayes fasting.
This watter may be distilled in a pewter still.

An Exelent surfett watter

Take a quarte of small aquiavita 60 raisons of th^e sune
stoned one drame of rubarb slised thine one quarter of
an ounce of Cinamond one graine of muske put all thes
together in a glase bottell & let thes ingredents lye in
constantly untill all your watter be spente this is also
good for any illness att th^e stomacke you may take 3 or 4
or 5 sponfulls at a tyme as you se ocation you must tye
your muske in a thine ragge & soe hange it in your bottell
a mounth in th^e sunne if it be summer.

A Receipt of treacle watter

Take one ounce of hartshorne & boyle it in 3 pintes of
springe watter untill it come to a quarte thⁿ take th^e roots
of Elecompaney Jentian Chipes & tormentill of each an
ounce burrage buglose Rosmarey flowers of each 2 ounces
of Citeron rindes one ounce thⁿ take 10 ounces of ould
veneus Treacle th^e best & dissolve it in 6 pintes of whit wine
& 3 pintes of rosewatter & soe infuse it & mixe it all to-
gether & distill it
th^e diference that I make is insteade of halfe th^e rosewatter
I put in as much cardus watter twise distilled & one ounce
of marey gold flowers

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Doctor Denhams quitesons for surfets
& feavers

putt toe 3 pintes of th^e best aquavitea a drame of hierapicra
of th^e best & puerest yeallow cullere befor you put it in break
th^e powder with a cleane knife that ther be noe lumpes in it
let th^e glase be biger thⁿ will containe th^e stufe by one
quarter thⁿ stope it very close with a corke that if you
turne it th^e botom upward noe drope may rune out thⁿ cover
it with paper & lether let it stand 8 dayes in th^e sune in
a tempereat warme place to digest shaking th^e glase very well ons
a day thⁿ let it stand 8 dayes more to setell befor you power it
from th^e botom or if you have no present use it may stand as
longe as you will but be suer when you power it out let it be
soe slowly done as none of th^e botom be powered out with it &
soe put it up for your use

A watter to cause one to sweat

Take may flowers & distill th^m in a comon still & give
th^e party a sponfull in 6 sponfulls of bere & lay ther handes
by ther sides halfe an hower soe let th^m sweat as longe as
they can & be carfull of cold

To make popey watter

Take 3 gallons of stronge alle & 4 pound of popey flowers
being picked from th^e seedes & stalkes soe stepe in all
night & still it in a limbecke its good allmost for
every greife 5 or 6 sponfulls at a tyme with a litell sugar

A Cordiall watter of Chereyes
good for fainting fits

{Dr Thoralds Receipte}

Take 4 pound of Reed Chereys put away th^e stalkes & stons
put to th^m halfe a handfull of rosmary topes 2 handfulls
of balme 2 ounces of Sinamand broken in peces let all the
be infused in an earthen pott with 5 pints of Claret
wine 4 dayes together thⁿ bruse th^e Chereys with your
hand & put all thes things in an ordinary still let it
still softly save th^e strongest by it selfe 3 or 4 sponfulls
at a tyme is enough with a sponfull of surop of Clove
Gilleflowers you may take more of th^e smallest it is
good for th^e harte a woman in Child bed may take it

Mr Gaseons powder

Take th^e Ragges of pearle Reed Corall Crabes eyes hartshorn
White Amber of; each a licke quantety thⁿ take soe
much of th^e powder of th^e black tippets of th^e Crabes claw
& this is th^e maine agent as it were of all th^e rest mixe
th^m all well together & make it up in balles with a
gelley made of hartshorne wher in you shall infuse
some saforon & keepe it for your use after th^a are fulley
decocted

This is good for maney thinges as against th^e ague
burning feavor Consumption th^e small pox & it will
presarve age health and streingth.

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