Wellcome Collection: Ayscough, Lady (MS1026)

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Or as much Methridate as a Nutt will doe the like onely this must be given after delivery

Ague

Take a handfull of Marigolds flowers and all an handfull of holy thistle; stamp them and streine them; take the purest of the juyce and make a possett of Ale and putt a Quantity of sugar into the posset Ale and give the party and cast him into a sweat

The red Balsome Dr. Lodge

Rp: Sallet oyle one pint; Yellow wax half a pound; Venice Turpentine 2 ounces: Liquid storax 3 ounces; Ole of Apricorne a Quarter of an Ounce; Nautrall Balsome a quarter of an Ounce; Rosewater, & Plantine water 2 pennyworth red Saunders 3 penny worth Dragons blood 3 penny worth Rosemary, Bayes & sweet Marjorum two pennyworth

An oyntment. for numness in the Joynts

Take May butter, and boyle spear mint & Dill in it; till the herbs bee crisp, then it is enough streine it and keep it for your use. rubbing the nummed part by the fire 113 For calk or fluxe

Take a pint of red wine a spoonfull of the seeds of redroses & as much of the rind of a pomgranate as an almond one spoonfull of the powder of Cinnamon one spoonfull of the powder of dryed Acornes seeth all these together till they come to half a pint & drink thereof morning & evening

Another

Take wheate flower and thurst very close together in an end of a clout soe bind it up hard & close like a bullet put it into boyling water boile itt 3 hours and more & you shall find it will be very dry & hard as chalk, scrape of the out side & powder it thick milk with the powder, and boyle in it cinnamon [dram] the powder of pomegranate then take of it morning & evening. Alsoe crocus Martis Is given in red wine or with beer or water with a few drops of Cinnamon water is singular good

For scurf in a childs face

Take water & boyle it with honey & Allome & soe bath the face with itt often then boile some Sage in butter till it come to a fine oyntment & anoint the face with a feather twice a day;

117 A Diet Drink prescribed by Dr Wright to Sr Rob: Quarless being sick of the Goute in his foot [Rʒ]: the leaues of Bittony; Eye bright the topps of red sage, the leaues of brooklime of water Crosses an My: Three handfulls of the herb called Groundpine or field Cypress in Lattine & soe knowne to Apothecaryes; Ira Arthetica; of hearts tongue, of Agrimony of Maidenhare; ise of Carduus Benedicta of milk thistle which is called Carduus Marioe an mj of Monks rhubarb, of red Dock roots, of Asparagus sliced an iiij steep these two hours cutt and sliced in a sufficient quantity of Wort, not throughly boyled, of a middle strength, then boyle them to a pottle, puting in towards, the end of the boyling a pint of Sack; To this strain'd put 3 gallons of Wort of the same strength while it is hott, & to both the Juyce of Garden Scurvy grass, of Common Scurvy grass a pound and soe let them coole & work together; that it work not over: when it is coole; put it in a sack: kunlott fitt for the Quantity together with The bagge. After ten dayes drink it The Bagge 118 Rp Orange pills mj sassa porilla ounces iij sassaphres ounces lignum guacum ounces ij of the wood of Misseltoe of the Oake which is a propper Indredient for the Goute ounces iij Hormodackt curbith Rubarb, agarie an ounce Cloves Ginger Cytron pills sweet fennel good sage flower an iiij Radie an geraiani ounces iiij beate those into a gross powder and put them into a bagge with a stone in it to hang in the middle of the vessell If it happen you haue not a vessell just fitt for the Quantity put in soe much soe much Oatmeale into the bagge as will fill up the vessell the same bagg will serve for a second or Third liquor How to make the Balsome Take a small pipkin & put in your sallot Oyle and other oyle overnight and streine them well together with a Baystick then sett them by till next morning. Then take an other pipkin & put in 3 pintes of Conduit water then strip the berbs & wash them well, then shred them small & put them into your pipkin with the rest of your Ingredients (the oyle excepted) for they must simper by themselues a quarter of an hour being well stirred with a Baystick, & you other being boyling the same space then take them both of 56

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And let them rest a little while & put them together in the great, & lett them all boyle a little space, but be sure you stirr them well together, then take an earthen Bason, and Streine it through a fine Cloth when the bason is cold There is a Water under it that is good for any scalding or burneing and other things

The Virtues of the Balsome

1 It is good for any wound being applyed as a Salue 2 It is good for burning or scalding 3 It helps the head ache anoynting the temples & nostrill 4 It cures any Catarrh or ache in the bones 5 It is good against the Wind Collick or a stich in the side drink a quarter of a pinte of Sack with half a quarter of an Ounce of Balsome fiue mornings fasting lukewarme 6 It helps a fistule or Ulcer; though never soe deep being applyed as to a Cutt; 7 It is good against Worms or a Canker 8 It is good against Vermine 9 It helps digesture, being applyed to the pitt of the Stomacke; anoynting well; 10 It helps the dropsey, takeing it in posset drink 11 It is good against the [plage] onely anoynting the lipps and nostrills

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12 It helps the biteing of Scorpions & Adders being drunk inwardly with Sack & anoynting the place 13 It helps the bleeding of the Nose onely anoynting the Nostrills, & drinking it with Sack or posset Ale 14 It cures the Bloody ffluxe

An oyntment for an old Sore in the Legg or else where

Take smallage, sothernwood, and sallendine boyle these in May butter till the herbs be Crispe, and soe use it

Gout

Take Verjuice and Riemeale, and in summer the leaves, and stalks of Burdock, in Winter the rootes and stalks pithed and shred small & boyled to the thickness of a poultiss after it is boiled put in a good Quantity of Deer Suet and let it dissolve in it and soe keep it

Wind & Wind Collick

Take Conserve of Rosemary flowers half an Ounce diacalimine half a dram mingle them together and eat a little of it when you are troubled with wind

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Consumption ==A restorative Broth Tae a running Capon, wash the belly with Clurett wine then sew up in the belly amber and Corall bruised of each ij dramms, conserve of red roses conserve of borage and bugloss flowers of each an ounce then sowe them up in the belly and make a broth with knottgrass plantaine shepherd purse, & french pruines; Thicken it with pinekernells bruised when it is almost boiled bruise the Capon in a mortar in peeces then boil all againe streine them hard and put to then streined red rosewater a quarter of a pint. When you make this boile Asparagus fennel and parseley roots in it with time, and sowe up in the belly some QuincesMarmalade of A very pretious and wholesome Water Take a pound of white sugar candy beaten very small, steep it in a pint of Damask rose water 2 dayes & 2 nights; Then take a Gallon of the best Aqua Vitae & put altogether; then take of Raisons of the Sunn, [li ss]. fenn. [Annisi]. Car an [ri]. Cynnamon, Cariophil; Dates an ounce bruise all those & put them to the Aqua Vitae and sett them to stoop in a glass close covered 5 dayes together; stirring them once every day, Then take half a pinte of poppy water, of poppy leaves [mij], being ^un washed & lays 2 dayes in the shadow , put those to the rest and soe lett them stand a while longer. and 7 dayes after lett them runn through a gelly Bagg, and put to it of Amber Griece and musk of each 20 grames & soe keep it to your use To disolve pearles Take as much pearles as will cost [&]viii then take the juice of 4 or 5 Lemmons & let the pearle be beaten to fine powder & put the powder of the pearle into a glass with the juice of the Lemmons, and stirr them together and let them stand 2 or 3 dayes and then streine, then take a peice of [browne ] paper and make it up as they putt in pepper then take the dissolved pearle & putt it into the browne paper & tye it up and hange it by the fire one hour and it will drye like starch then take it out and keep it for your use to strengthen you it will disolve in broth or how you please a little at a time eate often of pine kernells prob: Dr Aranke

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For the Flowing of Flowers

Take the Juice of Plantine Juse it with a cloth wett the Cloath often Dipp a cloath in plantane water lett one of the maides warm itt a little betweene her hands &and then lay itt to the belly when it beginneth to dry renew it againe Take fine bole Armony 2 drams red corall and Amber of each an ounce powder them very small and drink a spoonfull of it in the powder of plantaine water twice or thrice a day Mrs Hone

Another

Take a pinte of vinegar, and a pint of redd wine mingle them together, make it ready to boyle dipp a black cotten cloth in itt wring it out, but not to hard; apply it to the bearing place and as one drieth use an other Lady Harrison Mouse eare bold in Milk & soe drink it good for one that is weakned with them, with haveing too many of them Mrs Hone

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A Clyster for the Wind in a Child

Take a Quarter of a pinte; or half a pint if need bee of Urine of sound man, that is not troubled with wind to a quarter of a pinte putt a quarter of a spoonfull of fennell seed to half a pint as much more &and boyle it a little, then straine it & giue itt Glisterwise you may putt a peece of wheat leaven into it for a Man

For the Collick

Take of parsely seed, and red nettle topps of each a handfull & boyle them in a quart of beer or Ale putt there to 2 or 3 peny worth of Mace, then boyle itt till half be boyled away and drink thereof att your need

For the wormes or wind in a child

Take an ounce of conserve of Borrage flowers or of Rosemary flowers and mingle itt with a threpenny weight of Venice treacle of the best and giue a Child fasting every morneing till he voideth wormes or else giue him every morning for a fortnith together, and to giue him Conserve of Wormwood in very seeds alsoe for the Wormes 59