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For the blacke Jandise

Take the herb penny royall and boyle itt in white wine or
drinke the wine thereof simply by itt selfe to the quantity
of 3 or 4 spoone fulls att a time and itt will cure you

For the yellow Jandise

Take the powder of thicke yellow Amber and as much of
the powder of Hartshorne mixt together and every mor-
ninge for 9 dayes take as much of itt as will lye on a six-
pence in possett ayle or ayle and rest on itt a while if itt
cures nott att the first d try itt 9 days longer and itt will
nott faile

My Lady Temples

Mr Nixes Receit for a Consumption

Take one pint of the best [liue] hony a pint of Hyssopwater an hanfull
of Coltsfoot an handfull of Egrimony a sprig of Rue 2 ounces of
Hartshorn scraped 2 ounces of green licoris bruised a qtr of a pound
of Raisins ston'd six Figgs sliced 2 ounces of brown sugar Candy
a spoonfull of Aniseeds bruised put all these together & boile them
gently to a sirrop.

Take 2 spoonfull at a time first & last
viz at morning at 4 in the afternoon & at night let it go down
very gently as you can, make half a dozen swallows of a sponfull
the Lungs will draw the virtue of it the better.
Let it Sibber very gently on the fire about 2 hours then strain it
all out and put a quart of water to the strainings Boile it again
& straine it & drink that water also it is almost as good as the sirrop
Keep green Liquorish always in your pocket chue of it often &
spit it out

Now & then Eat a mess of snaile milk (viz) Take 6 or 8 snails
crack the shells but not break them & boile them in some milk as long
as you would boile an Egg then throw them out & eat the milk
it wilbe as thick as a Custard.

To make snailwater

Gather a gallon of shell snales wash them & give them a Crack
then steep them in milk a quarter of an inch over so let them lye
all night put them into a still with Coltsfoot egrimey and
spearmint of each an handfull & so distill them Drink of
this water a wine glass at a time anytime you please.

for a cold or cough

Take half a pound of Raisens of the sun & stone them & a litle slice them
then boyle them in a quart of milk till it comes to a pint it will curdle
the milk then strain it & drink half a pint of it in the morning
& half at night goeing to bed


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A medicine to Cure the Canker in the mouth

Take woodbine leaves Rue rosemary & tyme: of each alike quantitie dry
them all in an oven and then punne them to powder: searse it fine
and mingle therewith some life hony and a like Quantitie of burnt
Allum: annoynt the mouth therewith to or three times a day

An approuved Medicine ffor a Younge child
that hath a thrush in the mouth:

Take a new laid egge & make a hole in the narrow end of the shell and
poure out both yolke and white: then put therein a good quantitie of
English hony with a petty peece of Roach allum: and halfe a spoone
full of the Juice of red sage: boyle these altogether in your egge shell
upon a soft fire in wood embers and when it is boyled poure it out of
the shell and soe annoynt the Childs mouth therewith very softly not
Rubbing it: annoynting the same three tymes a day

An aproved powder for a Canker in the mouth
when it eateth vollently

Take of white copperos as much as a small wallnut & of dubell
refined sugar as much as 2 wallnuts beate them both together
very fine then strowe a litell upon the canker for 3 dayes together
ons a day or longer if it be needfull you must hold downe your
head & let the watter runne out of your mouth

An aproved medeceine for a Canker in the mouth

Take 5 ropes of rosemary & of penerioyll & broad tyme &
red sage & rue of each as much shread them & beat them all together
in a stone morter with as much of the powder of harts horne as
will lye upon a groat & as much rock allom as a great bene
then take 2 sponfulls of the best honey & mix it very well to
gether in the morter & apply it to the sore with a fether
anoynting it very softly 3 tymes a day

A vomitation to flesh & heale a bludey
Canker or cancer in a legge

Take 3 pints of watter & halfe a pinte of the ashes of vine
& give it a boyle or tow upon the fyer and then let it stand all
night close covered then take it & streane it put it upon the
fyer againe & put therin of sind Jons sant Johns worte &
peters worte & Hillyrian other wise called all heall of each a
handfull boyle all this till it comes to a quarte then streain it
& when you use it warme it very well & then dipe in linte &
bath the legge therwith & somtymes lay the linte upon the soare

For a canker in the mouth

{Lady Husseys receipt}

Take half a gill of hony a spoonfull of burnt roach Alum a
spoonfull of Bole=armenick searsed, of whit ginger sersed a
Spoonfull boyle all thes together till it is a litle stife & so power
it in a pot for use & rub the mouth with it

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