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

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A good Poultice for any swelling Take malows red rose leaves whit lilly root red sage shred thes & boyle y^m in milke & whit bread & put some fresh grease to it & renew it twice a day

A good Poultice y^t cuers sore breast or hard swelling making y^m to breake & cuere w^th out salves Take a pint of milk or w^t quantity you like a quarter of a pint of fine oatmeale a quarter of a pound of good fine bores grease half a spoonfull of Linseed oyle a quarter of a pound of hony 2 handfulls of cammamile shred small boyle all thes together well & then put in your cammile & then boyle it w^th it alls your grease after y^t & last of all your linseed oyle let y^e grease & oyle boyl a littl together & lay this pultice on as warme as they can well bear it, & drese y^e sore only once a day if y^e sore be broke you need put on no salve to it for this pultice will ever it laying it on thiner & thiner

To make a watter y^t cuers wounds & sores w^th out plaisters Take in May 3 quarts of new milke whey & let it be milk measure boyle it till it come to little more yⁿ a quart & put to it a good handfull of oaken leaves & more be half ashen leaves y^e first puting out y^t lookes red a handfull of young Elmer leaves & topes of Briar leaves boyle all thes well together & some water creasses, boyle y^m w^th a quarter of a pound of Alum, & wⁿ all is well boyled wring out y^e liquour from y^e hearbs & let it settell & so put it up for your use & wⁿ you use it wash y^e sore well w^th it once in 24 howers this watter will keep 2 years

A pultice to break hard swellings Take of cheekweed a litle, & silegreen y^t growes upon walls, & whit lilly leaves & boyle y^m in milk & then put white bread to it haveing shread your herbs small & put in a litle bors grease & to apply it twice a day till it be broke laid on a warm as they can bear it & if you se it doe not break in 4 or 5 dayes put in some whit lilly root to it

A very Soverian Oyntment for any Ach or payne Swelling or bruise or sore breast & likewise to make a Salve for of it for any Sore To make y^e Oyntment Take parsley, Sage Smalidge, Arpin, Cumfry, Southernwood marygold leaves, Housleek, Valerin, wormwood Selfheal, Biteny, mercury Scabuous Herbgrase platine Ribb, herbe Benit Lyonstooth Backshorn, Take of every one of these 4, of the phisike herbwomens handfulls, & pick y^e dry stalks from them, wash them very well set them a dreyning two dayes, & when they have stood y^e full tyme, then swing them in a Cloth very well, then Chop them very Small & take 4 pound of fresh Butter out of y^e Churne in May and put y^e Butter & herbs together in a bottel, or Skelit, you must not let your fire be to hott, but keep them Stiring on the fire, & when they have boyled a good while, take them of y^e fore, & take a Streyner, & two Earthen pannes, & streyn it into one, & as you Streyn it put it into y^e other, & when you have done let it be could, & then take of y^e topp & put it into an Earthen vesill, and Clarife it on y^e fire & take what quantity you please for Salve, & keep y^e rest for oyntmt, that which you make for Salve take Bees wax, Rosin & venus turpinten a like quantity of these 3 {y^e was somew^t more yⁿ y^e rest} being alltogether they must be as much as halfe y^e Oyntmt, or better, which you make for Salve w^ch melt alltogether & Sumber a littel on y^e fire & pour it into a galley pot, & it will keep 2 or 3 yeares, it should not touch any pewter or Brase, but y^e beytell that boyled it, for it puterifyes it, this Salve is very good for old sores, or green sores, for paynes, aches or swellings the petient that is anoynted w^th it must not anoynt themselves, but some other to anoynt them when they use it they must anoynt against y^e fire, and lay a warme Cloth to y^e place greived {approved by Mary Langham}

A Receipt of Alderman Langhams wife of a seve cloth allmost for any thinge as aches swellings spreains soares, Bruses, cuts, To draw and heale if not an hot humour Take 1/2 a pinte of salet oyle, 1/4 lb of red Lead sersed finly through a sive mix the oyle & lead well together, then set it on y^e fire, allwaise stiring of it w^th a flat stick while it is in being boyling & when it is allmost boyled enough y^e lead will turne blackish And to know when it is enough try it thus by diping a peice of Cloth in it, w^ch w^th your finger feel, if it stick not greasy when it is a littel cold if it doe not Cleave to y^e finger of Bees wax, being cut ready in peices before w^ch put in as soon as ever you take y^e oyle & lead of y^e fire, stiring it till it be melted then dip your cloth in the aforesaid composition haveing a stick ready oyled to hang it to cook, while you dipe y^e rest the hotter you dip y^e [finne] Coalesed

your cere cloth with be, & if you have much to [dyie] as the stufe [cortes] in diping you may heate it againe, but not let it boyle, so soon as you can handle y^e CereCloth, before it be neare Cold it must be stretched out between 2 by y^e fire y^t all places may be alike

For Jackings in the Body Isues a good plaster Take Beeswax 6 ounces Venus turpentine 3 ounces Cinaber beaten of fine powder & mixt with a llittle Salladoyle half an ounce of Minium 3 ounces & half Orras finely beaten half an ounce of musk 2 grains mixt with a little rosewater Let all these be melted together till they be incorporated & be sure it do not boile then dip yo^r cloth in it (any thin linen Cloth fit for that purpose then oyle it with Sallad oyle & smooth it with a slikston on a plain board

To cuer y^e Itch First take brimston & milke 3 or 4 mornings together to draw it out then take about half a pound of unsalted butter or wash y^e salt out of it very well & put to it a good quantity of flower of Brimston & powder of allum & ginger & some sope & make it into a salve & put some powder of peper into it & put to it to take away y^e smell some powder of nutmege or a nutmeg grated & 2 or 3 spoonfulls of brandy & anoint your self well all over w^th it befor a good fire for 3 weekes every night & anoint Espectily y^e Joynts wher you find it most & wear one shift all y^e tyme let it be a bad one y^t you use & wear thread stockings becase they may be washed, & let your lining you wore before be well scalded & blecht for they are apt to Infect again, you may if you will warm your bed wⁿ you goe to it this hath cured thos y^t have had it 12 mounths, & take after it some purging phisick to Clear y^e blood, & at a mounths End take clean sheets & air y^e blankets well befor a fire & if winter hang y^m allso out in y^e frost & warm y^e feather bed very well w^th [Colles]

Another Take roach allum & steep a good quantity in as much watter as will wet your shift & wⁿ it is steeped a night or more then dip your shift & let y^e watter dry in w^th out much wrig wringing out & wⁿ it is throughly dry weare it a week or more & yⁿ doe another so & weare it so doeing till you find y^e itching gone let it be an old shife for it will stain

Another Take y^e watter y^t smiths quench their irons in & wet your self all over morning & night befor a fire so doe till you are well

Do Lowers dyet drinke to clear y^e blood for y^e Leporsie & Itching distempers Take a pound of dock root & as much dandelion 3 handfulls of harts toung 3 handfulls of Elder flowers half a pound of Antemony crud broke into peices y^e dock roots must be dryed & sliced & y^e dandelion dryed then put thes into 4 galonds of small ale & drinke no other drinke put y^m in wⁿ it is working & as soon as it is clear drinke it if you please put in ground rue 4 handfulls

For y^e Itch Brimston & sweet butter & mary gold flowers & tyme boyle all together & make an oyntment & strain it & anoynt y^e party therwith

To make a watter to kill a [fefer] To a quart of Runing water let it boyle to a pint take 2 ounces of Rock allum half an ounce of whit coperas & beat y^m both to powder severally, & boyle them half an hower or better in y^e watter

To make a Cooling oyntmt Take marygold leaves housleek alehoof & plantin leaves boyle them in fresh butter & strain them

To cuer y^e Itch Take y^e roots of red dock roots scraped & sliced & boyle a good quantity of y^m in cream & so anoint y^e party w^th it wher it troubles y^m or all over & allso let it be done morning & night & wear y^e shift a week & allso [tun] up bear w^th this dock root & drink of it 3 weekes let y^m be suer wⁿ they begin this way of cuering y^mselves they lye w^th none y^t have it or y^t any y^t have it wash thir clothes w^th them or for y^m to wash y^m or y^t they wash any ones clothes who have it also it will be good to wear other clothes yⁿ then w^t they had for clothes y^t are wearing constantly doe carry y^e Infection in y^m or let y^m be well washt allso if they cannot have new lining to put on let thir shifts be very well washed & boylved & bleatched for want of observing thes rules makes many not find a cuer if any person y^t is troubled w^th this disease doe live near y^e bath or can well goe it is one of y^e best remedies can be used for it for y^e avoynding this disease it were good to wash every ones clothes apast, for in great familyes some or other may [chaned] to have it if they must lye w^th any one being children let y^m allse use y^e oyntmt w^th them & drink y^e drink it purifies ye blod let y^m at y^e first take half a pint of y^e drink & if they find it worke above 3 or 4 tymes a day let y^m next day take a lesse quantity as they find thir streignth will bear but let y^m use it 3 weeks or therabouts let y^m keep warm while they are anointed & be suer to anoynt them selves warm befor a fire & if y^t bear be not tow purging they may drinke no other drink for 3 weeks some use [Elecompany] as thos dock root

To cuer a [tetter] Take some of y^e [Tapers licqurs] out of thir pits & wash it w^th it morning & night this hath cuered titers & some say y^e shingells

A Receipt of an Exelent Ballsom good for all sores inward or outward of S^r Richard Knapers {The La: Husseys} Take a new Earthen pipkin that is well glased w^ch containeth 3 gallons & put there to 2 quarts of Springe watter 2 quarts of Sallet oyle one oz of St Jhonswort Dragons bloud an oz mumca one oz sake half a pint liquid Storax 1/2 an lb of Venus turpuntin half a lb; cochinall one oz, then take another pipkin and put therein of yealow bees wax one ib sweet Mariesome Bay Leaves and time one handfull Rosmary Aspes one handfull let them two pipkins stand over an indiffrent hott fire of Charcole for the space of half an hower then powre this Bees wax & hearbs into the other pipkin and Let itt stand so a little while, then put in of red Sanders beaten to powder one oz and stire itt well till you thinke itt be Coulred and see itt boyle; then take itt ofe the fire and power itt into a broad Earthen milkepan then put into itt one oz of naturall balsome and straine it hard through a Strainer into another Milke pan; so let it stand till it be cold which you may know by a Cake that will rise on the top of it the Longer it stands if it be till the next morning; the thicker will the cake be then cut it and melt the cake in a pewter dish and power it into pots for you use the best time to make it is the midle of June as allso save the Liquid water under the cake to wash sores befor you aplye the Ballsome for the […] Vertue of this Balsom see the 2[…] 23 page of this Booke

To make oyl of Swallows Take Seventen Swallows from the nest & cut them into peices feathers & guts, take Cammomile Rue, plantine, Ribwort bay leaves, pony Royall, dill, hysop Rosmary Sage, St Johns wort 1 handfull shred them & boyle them in a pinte of Sack, & 4 of Salet oyle untill y^e herbs be Crispt & the wine wasted, then strein the oyl to keep it

This is good in all aches palseis Convoulsions which proceed from Cold causes paine in the sid Coughs wind in the Belly mothers Chafe some of it into y^e parts afected & cover them w^th a brown paper covered w^th wooll.

Against a bruse Take Salendine soden very soft in running watter, make therof a plaister and apply it to y^e sore.

To make oyl of Swalows good for y^e hearing Take young swallows strip of thir feathers, & cut y^m in little pecies & put y^m in a pot or Juge y^t will goe into a pan wher in is hot cold watter stope y^e pot they are in very close, & then let y^e watter boyle fast till you thinke they are boyled so as to have y^e licqur run from y^m then keep it for your use & drop some of it into your ear warm goeing into bed & lye on y^e contrary side y^t it may not goe out, this hath cured thos y^t were very deafe Allso for deafness drop in y^r ear some of y^e Juce of ground [Juey] & stop y^e ear w^th some of y^e leaves 2 or 3 nights together or longer

A Receit given under hand and Seale by a Southerne Phisition to the Sherriff of York as a Speciall gratification for Some favours done to him by the Sherriff Take 4 handfulls of Sage beat it in a Stone morter like greene Sauce then putt in a quart of clarrett wine lett it soe stand 3 or 4 daies sterring it twice or thrice then lett it stand and settle and the next morning take of the Sage wine 3 spoonfulls and of runing water one Spoonfull, fast after it an hower or better, Use this from [michas] tell the end of March It will cure any ach or humor in the joynts, Dry Rhumes keepe from all deseases to the 4th degree, It will helpe the Dead palsey and convulsions of the Sinews It Sharpens the memory and from the beginning of taking of it it will keep the body milde strengthen nature till the fullness of y^e daies be finished noe thing wilbee changed in y^e strength Except the change of yo^r haire It will keepe the teete Sound that they be not corrupted It will keepe you from the gout and dead palsey the Dropsey or any Swelling in the Joynts in the body It will alsoe helpe women in conseption if they use it 20 daies together, this by the helpe of Almight God hath kept me in this Estate from 50 to 85 yeares old Gods name be Glorifyed

for one y^t hath y^e Scuvy in his mouth Take sage young Isip & Rue of Each a like quantity dry it & make this tow fin powder mingle in it a litle Alum & so much hony as will mak it into a masse & so w^th this rub your teeth every night after you have washed y^m & your mouth w^th this following watter w^ch you must doe allso morning & after noon Boyll the same hearbs of each a handfull in a quart of running watter & put a spoonfull or tow of hony w^th a litle Alum & ther w^th wash your mouth