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{124}The oyle of Charity good for all maner
of Swellings & for nuw & old sors by way
of Plaster use it Cold as it is

Take hisop Lauender Spike leaves Cammamill reed Sage rosemary
Sallendine Bittany Aderstonge of each a like quantety gathered
in May in the heat of the day shread them small & put them into a
pinte of oyle
Let it stand in the sunne 9 or 10 dayes then let it Semper on the coales
halfe an hower then Straine it & renuw it againe with the same
Quantety of hearbes as befor & set it in the sunne againe 9 or 10
dayes more then straine it againe & put into the oyle as much
Valleren in Quantety as all the rest & then let it Simper againe
halfe an hower more on the Coales
Then Straine it Cleare & put it into a glase close stoped

A Curious Ballsom for any soare by that
Exelent Venetion Signior Lucattella

Take a pound & a halfe of Sallet oyle & beat it with a
pinte of Sacke then take halfe a pound of Veneitan Turpintin
& beat it well with damask rose watter still powring it till
the turpintin looke white then melt a quarter of a pound of wax
in a great pan or pipkin of earth ade to it all the former
Ingredents stire them together ouer a soft fyer till they boyle
then put to it halfe an ounce of Reed Sanders & boyle
it alltogether for An hower then take it from the fyer &
putt it into a galley pott to use ether by Plaster tent or
fomentiation Mr [?????]breases

A Salue for a green cutt or wound

Take Valeren Aderstonge leaues mary gold flowers plantin
leaves Cresup leaues & beat them small together then boyle them in
bors grease & wax the space of halfe an hower

To draw out a Thorne

Take red or white wine & wheaten flower & temper them
together then take a pretty quantety of the ^middel barke of a thorne
trey & bruse it & put to the aforesade then take as much
blacke sope as an wallnutt & putt therto & boyle them
alle together till they be thicke then make a plaster
therof & lay it hott as you can suffer it unto the place
wher the thorne is & it will draw it out

{+} A Soueran Medeceine for one biten with
a Made doge or Stung with an adder

a quantety of Garlick a quantety of Ruw a quantety
of salt & as much hoges grease as of any other of the
ingredents beat them all very well together & apply them
to the place soe bitten

To helpe a bruse or spraine

Take a good handfull of Cammamill boyle it in your
own watter till it be soft then lay it upon the place
greiued as hott as you cane sufer it

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ffor an ach or paine in the bake or bones

Take as much blake stone pich as a wallnutt & 2 peney
worth of [narve] oyle boyle them together in an earthen
pott boyle it a pretty while & scume it very cleane then
straine it into another pott then putt in 2 ounces of
freash butter & a sponfull of English honey & let all
thes haue a warme or tow more att the fyer & rub
the place greiued with this. this is uery good against
the fyer & lay a softe cloth upon it & keep the cloth to
it still though it be a fortnight it is the better but
within 3 dayes tymes anoynting you shall have ease & be
cuered

This hath Cuered some that were Brused that went 3 years with Stillts

A Receipt for any aches or
Burnings or Scalldings

Take a new pipkin putt therin a pinte of good Salet oyle
then put therto a quarter of a pound of bes wax 2 ounces
of washed Turpentine 5 or 7 sponfulls of white wine
as much reed rose watter then boyle them with a soft
fyer as it begins to boyle you must keepe it stiring
Sometymes drope a litell one a Cleane trencher or
a substance then take it of the fyer being allmost Cold
beaton & searsed you must keep it stiring tull all the
Sanders be in.

A Purge for the Kings evill
Take an ounce of cara castina divide it in 3 partes giue the child 1/3 part dissolued in warm whit wine
for 3 days together about new moon & full let him be orderd in purging Phisick if it work not increase
the quantity.

Sr Kenelin Digbies Diet Ale for a Fistula or Dropsy

Tale 4 gallons of Ale 400 woodliss or souepalins a little hanfull of sage as much Rue beat the [Souep]
& herbs together & in a bag put it inthe Ale when it has done working let it be your ordnary drinke.

{Lady[ Huib]man.} A Diet Drink for Kingsevill or any cold rewnes

Take Liverwort hurtstonge scuruy grass Agrimony Mugwort & Brooklins of each like quantity halfe
a peck in all pick & wash them & tun them in 3 gallons of ordnry beere or Ale put 12^d of Lignum vite
& let the party drink it constantly it wilbe ready to drink in 8 dayes.

{+} For the pallat of the Mouth
Take a peece of Alum & yolk of an Egg out in a silver porniger Stirred together over the fire till
it be so hard that will beat to powder put of this pouder frequent into your mouth.

{+} for to knit a rib that is broken or any inward bruse

Take a good quantity of balm bruse it & boyle it in poset drink
strain it & give it the party to drinke

good for a bruse

Take a sheepes head & boyle it in water till it comes all to peices, & boyle
in it a good handfull of sage a handfull of rosmary a handfull of Centary a
handfull of St Iohns wort & when it is enough skime it & strain, it & then dip in
your flanill swaths & rowle them up & put them on as hott as can be enduerd
& when the one is on the other must heat, this must be done at least half an
hower twice or thrice in a day & continued about 10 dayes or more
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