Wellcome Collection: Brumwich, Anne (& others) (MS160)

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A Souerain Remedy for a sore breast or any other swelling Take a pinte of y^e Juce of groundsell & mix ther w^th 6 or 7 or 8 spoonfulls of wheat flower y^e worse y^e flower is y^e more you must put in & stir y[m] together then take y^e yolks of 2 or 3 eges & beat y^m very well & put y^m in yⁿ boyle it alltogether till it be a very thick pultice wⁿ you have taken it of y^e fire out in 3 spoon fulls of raw hony & stir it together & lay some of it on a cloth as hot to y^e breast as y^e party can sufer it renew it evening & morning this will either dissolve y^e swelling y^t it shall not break or if it be broken lay this pultice to it & it will both draw & heale so you aply nothing else this hath been much used & hath done rar cuers w^th litle pain

The Yellow Salve of my Lady Husseys 29 Sep: 1684 Take 4 ounces of venis terpentine as much Bee wax, almost as much Rozin a little bitt of fresh butter Boyle all these together in a skillet & as it boils it will rise up to the top of the skillet & then it will fall of it selfe again. then take it off (it is boild enough) thrn power it forth into oyster shells & so keep it or in a [gelly] pott.

A Medecin for a strain to be used at y^e first geting it or after Take a napkin & fold it in 4 doubles more or less according to y^e greatness of y^e strain & dip it in cold watter & lay it to y^e strain & then heat a wollen blanket as hot as you can & wrap it in it & so doe for 2 or 3 tymes if y^e strain Continue this hath helped y^m wⁿ straind 2 or 3 weeks

To make a Salve called flos. [ungueatuim] Take of Rosin, perrosin of each one round of virgins wax Olibanum, frankencense harts or dear suett & venus terpinten mastick & ounces of each one pound, powder y^t as will powder, & cut y^t w^ch will not, then melt y^e rosin, perrosin, mastick olibcaum & deeres suett together in a pan afterward put in your mastik finly powdred then set them on y^e fire & keep y^m well stiring y^t they seeth not over & so let y^m boyle gently, you stiring y^m till you thinke y^m well mingled together, them strain it as hot as posible you can, thro a strong Canvas bag into a pam of about 2 galonds y^t hath in it about 3 pintes quarts of whit wine, ready heated, yⁿ set it again on y^e fire & boyle them halfe a quarter of an hower, allwaise stiring y^m then take it from y^e fire, till y^e scume be off, then put to it 2 drames of Campher finly powdred or sliced, & stir y^m well a while, then put in your venus turpintin still stiring it, till it be cold, or so stif that it will be stired mo more then you may roule it up you must have y^e help of 2 men to stir it y^t wⁿ one is weary y^e other may work & y^e other hold y^e pan a slice must be got about half am [rln] long like a puding slice half or a quarter of this quantity you may make at a tyme this must oyle this hands y^t work it & y^e trencher on w^ch they work it if any of y^e whit wine work out it is good yo keep to wash sores Cap it up in oyle paper

181. An Excelent Pultice for a sore breast Take a black sheepes head with the wooll on it & boyle it in spring watter about a galon & half til it be all to mash the meat from the bone on a gentle fire then take half a pound of rice & boyle to a pultice in the broth then take oyle of cammamile & oyle of Roses of each an ounce & 2 peny worth of saferon & the yolk of an egg beaten among them mix all this together & lay it on the [illegible] place affected luke warm spreading it on a [?] cloth if the breast be broken in several holes then take goat dung sifted & (?) into powder & take a tent of lint & dip it in the powder & to apply it this also with [Desoulu?] a cancor; & it said never to fail to cuer a breast.

Another Pultice to break a sore breast Take 2 handfulls of mercury 2 handfulls of [?] prick them clean & shread them & (mal?) take also a good handfull of chickenweed or 2 handfulls, a good handsome [?] of [?] grease & put them into milk & boyle them very well then thicken it with bread crumbs or wheat bran like a pultice then take it off the fire & put a half an ounce of (fenygrick?) small beaten every time you apply it to the breast make the quantity you lay on as hot as the patient can abide it & mix it with the yolk of an egg & will break the breast then to heal it take (red sag?) & ground (?) of each a handfull shread very smal then take goats grease & beat them very well together untill they become a pretty smoth salve & so work little of it in your hand untill it be warm then apply it to the sore & it will heal it you must shift it night & morning the abovesaid pultice must be laid above the salve to keep the breast warm for a milk sore in the breast

Take 2 ounces of bees wax melt it then put to it 4 ounces of (dear?) sweet or gresh butter with out salt if cannot get the (dear?) sweet 2 spoonfulls of hony 6 spoonfulls of whit wine vinagar let it boyle up between every thing you put in then bake it off & put in 2 grated (nutmegs?) 2 spoonfulls of (?) peper stir it till it is cold Let the woman keep her breast clean (drawn?) from the milk lay the pultice all over the breast only cuting a hole in the cloth for the (?) pultice it at the first once a day if the breast is not brock but if so take if off every night & wipe it & lay it on again warm & if this is a humor it will disperse it, or if it breaks it will help it to break & heat it again

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An approved Salve to heal & draw any Impostum futilow or sweling in any part of y^e body Take smal red docks & pull off y^e leaves & take y^e midle stripes as I say y^e leaves stript off & take y^e same striges or stringes & wrap a handfull or 2 of stripes in y^e leaves & lay y^m in y^e Embers wrap a handfull or 2 of stripes in y^e leaves to put y^e striges in to be rosted very tenderly if you want leaves to put y^e striges in thus to rost in y^e fire then take paper & to let y^m rost in y^e Embers a 1/4 of an hower untill they be very tender well rosted, then take y^m off & put some hogs grease amonge y^e stripes & so w^th your knife bruse it & mingle them together & it will be as a salve w^th w^ch take some of it & spread it upon some dock leaves or els take a cloth & spread it on y^t & lay it to y^e place as hot as they can sufer it & this doe 2 tymes on a day for this will both heal & draw all swelings or Impostums or fistilows this a french man used to a woman who had a wonderfull sore eye y^t she could take no rest who aplyed this upon her eye, in this manner first her eye was closed & a litle leafe of y^e dock laid along y^e eye lid & this medicine was laid then upon y^e eye very hot, & this did fetch out both y^e pain & draw out y^e Corruption & heaf it, & it will doe y^e like upon any sore, & this is a most soverain medicine

To kill an Itching in wounds wⁿ healing or scabs Take a pottle of smiths watter a good handfull of red sage & as much Alum as 2 hens eges & 2 penith of hony & boyle all this together in an Earthen pot & let it boyle well 1/4 an hower & take it off y^e fire & keep it w^th y^e hearbs for your use, & warme a like of it in a poringer blood warme & wash y^e place morning & night & this will kill any Itching in y^e flesh or scabs or in any part of y^e body

A very drawing Poultice to make a hard swellinge breake Take of white lilly roots and boyle them in milke till they be as soft as butter and mix w^th them some brawns grease & some barly meale or course wheat flower and apply itt to the place afected morning and Evening that which you take of in y^e morning may serve the next day mostened w^th milke & brawns grease like as at first

Take of white lilly and boyle thiss in milke [tellstho]

To make a pultice for a sore breast Take a handfull of scabious of chickweed or smalidge of red sage, & a good handfull of oatmell beaten as much sheepes suett as 2 egges shread all this together very small & boyle all thes in 3 or 4 pints of milk till it comes to a pultice it must boyle very well & so put it on a brown paper & to lay it to y^e breast as hot as can be indured

Another pultice good to break sore breasts or boyle Take y^e grounds of y^e strongest ayle you can get & boyle oatmell in it & some red rose leaves in it to y^e thicknesse of a pultice & put in it some bears greas or oyle & to apply it warme as they can bear it morning & night