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To bring up tough flegm
and sopping in the brest
Take a figg & cutt it round & tost itt &
dipp it into muskedine and soe eat itt
if you loue not Muskedine you may dipp
it in sweet sack
Doct: Wright
For a Consumption
Dropsie, Timpany Cough of the Rhoume
and to keep the Liver from putrefaction
Take all the Sanders of each 2 dramms spodij
rasuca of each one dramm, ozyme & Cubebs
of each half an ounce, Endiue & purslaine
seeds, of each one dramm ligni Moes and
Nuttmegs of each hafe a dramm sugar dissolved
in Endiue water one pounde make hereof an
Electuary as followeth
First powder all the things to be powdered very
fine then disolve your powder sugar with Endiue
water on a soft fire and sprinkle in the powder
stirring it ouer the Coales till it come to the thickness
of an Electuary. Then take of it euery morneing
fasting as a Walnutt. ffast 2 houres after use
it as long as it lasteth which will bee for 30 dayes
the makeing of itt will cost a Crowne

Prob: by old Beadles
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An oynment for
Bruises
Take a handfull & more of Camomile a
handfull of wild daizy roots & leaves wash
them by themselves; a handfull of bramble
leaves namely staldberrie leaues a Comfry root
sliced a little knottgrass wash them & shred them
small; boyle them in hoggsgrease simpering till
the strength of the herbs be boyled out then straine
it, and put a little Deer suit to it and then anoint the place
old Beadles
Emplastrum de Minio
Rp. of Common oyle half a pound; wax and
red Leade of each 4 ounces; vngu: Popeali &
oyle of Myrtles of each 2 ounces; capons greas
and hoggs grease of each an ounce; Ceruse &
Letharge of gold of each an ounce; boyle all
these together till the wax be melted, then put in
your red Lead, Ceruse & Letharge; a little at once
continually stirring it till it look black, then
when it is cold make it into Rowles.
The black oyntment was Basilicon, the green
oyntment; Unguentum Apostolocum with which
I mixed a little precipitate finely powdered
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