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your cere cloth with be, & if you have much to [dyie] as the stufe [cortes] in diping you may heate it againe, but not let it boyle, so soon as you can handle y^e CereCloth, before it be neare Cold it must be stretched out between 2 by y^e fire y^t all places may be alike

For Jackings in the Body Isues a good plaster
Take Beeswax 6 ounces Venus turpentine 3 ounces Cinaber beaten of fine powder & mixt with a llittle Salladoyle half an ounce of Minium 3 ounces & half Orras finely beaten half an ounce of musk 2 grains mixt with a little rosewater Let all these be melted together till they be incorporated & be sure it do not boile then dip yo^r cloth in it (any thin linen Cloth fit for that purpose then oyle it with Sallad oyle & smooth it with a slikston on a plain board

To cuer y^e Itch
First take brimston & milke 3 or 4 mornings together to draw it out then take about half a pound of unsalted butter or wash y^e salt out of it very well & put to it a good quantity of flower of Brimston & powder of allum & ginger & some sope & make it into a salve & put some powder of peper into it & put to it to take away y^e smell some powder of nutmege or a nutmeg grated & 2 or 3 spoonfulls of brandy & anoint your self well all over w^th it befor a good fire for 3 weekes every night & anoint Espectily y^e Joynts wher you find it most & wear one shift all y^e tyme let it be a bad one y^t you use & wear thread stockings becase they may be washed, & let your lining you wore before be well scalded & blecht for they are apt to Infect again, you may if you will warm your bed wⁿ you goe to it this hath cured thos y^t have had it 12 mounths, & take after it some purging phisick to Clear y^e blood, & at a mounths End take clean sheets & air y^e blankets well befor a fire & if winter hang y^m allso out in y^e frost & warm y^e feather bed very well w^th [Colles]

Another
Take roach allum & steep a good quantity in as much watter as will wet your shift & wⁿ it is steeped a night or more then dip your shift & let y^e watter dry in w^th out much wrig wringing out & wⁿ it is throughly dry weare it a week or more & yⁿ doe another so & weare it so doeing till you find y^e itching gone let it be an old shife for it will stain

Another
Take y^e watter y^t smiths quench their irons in & wet your self all over morning & night befor a fire so doe till you are well

Do Lowers dyet drinke to clear y^e blood for y^e Leporsie & Itching distempers
Take a pound of dock root & as much dandelion 3 handfulls of harts toung 3 handfulls of Elder flowers half a pound of Antemony crud broke into peices y^e dock roots must be dryed & sliced & y^e dandelion dryed then put thes into 4 galonds of small ale & drinke no other drinke put y^m in wⁿ it is working & as soon as it is clear drinke it if you please put in ground rue 4 handfulls

For y^e Itch
Brimston & sweet butter & mary gold flowers & tyme boyle all together & make an oyntment & strain it & anoynt y^e party therwith

To make a watter to kill a [fefer]
To a quart of Runing water let it boyle to a pint take 2 ounces of Rock allum half an ounce of whit coperas & beat y^m both to powder severally, & boyle them half an hower or better in y^e watter

To make a Cooling oyntmt
Take marygold leaves housleek alehoof & plantin leaves boyle them in fresh butter & strain them

To cuer y^e Itch
Take y^e roots of red dock roots scraped & sliced & boyle a good quantity of y^m in cream & so anoint y^e party w^th it wher it troubles y^m or all over & allso let it be done morning & night & wear y^e shift a week & allso [tun] up bear w^th this dock root & drink of it 3 weekes let y^m be suer wⁿ they begin this way of cuering y^mselves they lye w^th none y^t have it or y^t any y^t have it wash thir clothes w^th them or for y^m to wash y^m or y^t they wash any ones clothes who have it also it will be good to wear other clothes yⁿ then w^t they had for clothes y^t are wearing constantly doe carry y^e Infection in y^m or let y^m be well washt allso if they cannot have new lining to put on let thir shifts be very well washed & boylved & bleatched for want of observing thes rules makes many not find a cuer if any person y^t is troubled w^th this disease doe live near y^e bath or can well goe it is one of y^e best remedies can be used for it for y^e avoynding this disease it were good to wash every ones clothes apast, for in great familyes some or other may [chaned] to have it if they must lye w^th any one being children let y^m allse use y^e oyntmt w^th them & drink y^e drink it purifies ye blod let y^m at y^e first take half a pint of y^e drink & if they find it worke above 3 or 4 tymes a day let y^m next day take a lesse quantity as they find thir streignth will bear but let y^m use it 3 weeks or therabouts let y^m keep warm while they are anointed & be suer to anoynt them selves warm befor a fire & if y^t bear be not tow purging they may drinke no other drink for 3 weeks some use [Elecompany] as thos dock root