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

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A Medicine For the Leprosie

Take the distilled water of plantane and drinke a draught thereof First and last for a Quarter of a Yeare

Another or for a scabed face

Tak scabious & make an oynt^mt of it allso take the powder Inwardly & drink your drink brewed w^th it or the Juce & use the herb allwaise as much as you can w^ch tis said has done great cuers

An approoued Water or powder to further the Labour of women

Take the distilled water or powder of Dirander 2 or 3 spoone fulls of the water and giue it to drinke in her Labour & of the powder as much as will lye one a shillinge you may giue it in what you please

A Medicine For one that is torne in childbed

Take one handfull of kneeholme & a handfull of senekell and a handfull of sage of Jerusalem: & polipodie and a handfull of Cumfrie: stampe them all in two Quartes of good beere and boyle them, till it be boyled half away, then put in a peece of Isingglasse and boyle it well, then streine it and Lett the patient Drinke it continewally

An Exellent good medecein for a women laboring with child

Take mugworte seeth it uery well in fare watter & plaister it as hott as may be sufered to contieu uery long the nauell & thighs of the womane laboring of Child it doth prouock spidey Child beirth & after burden without any perill but it must not be sufered to contineu uery longe to any part of her bodey for if it doe it will cause the matrix to folow

Another for the same

Take hisop ueruoine & bettoney of each of them on handfull stamp them uery well & smalle with olde alle & straine it & wringe forth the iuce therof & let the woman that traveleth drinke a good draught of it & it will helpe her presently without any danger this hath been proued

Another for the same

Take pollipodum otherwise called oake fearne & stamp it uery well then plaister it upon the feet of the woman that travelleth with child & it causeth spedey beirth of the child ether alive or deade this is a marvelos good seciret

To further the labor of wemen aproued

Take the roote of the hearb called sowbread or other wis called seiclemen beate it to fine powder & giue a small quantety of it to the laboring women

the roote of contrey in fine powder giuen in surope of Cloue= gilleflowers doth very much preauille

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A Medicine For one that is thick of heareing

Take a good bundle of ground ashe and lay it one a wood fire and att the end of the sticks will Runne out a Little oyle saue it in a glasse and take a little black wooll of the udder of a black sheepe and dipp a little thereof into the said oyle, and putt it into the eares doe this fresh euery night for nine nights Together:

Another of the same approued

Take a pennyworth of Rye meale & a good handfull of herbgrasse shredded uery small mixed w^th your meale make itt into paste, make 3 cakes thereoff putt one off them uppon a fireshuole y^w must not bake itt hard butt very tender apply itt as hott to the eare as may bee well suffered keepinge itt there 2 or 3 houres att least att night when y^w goe to bed & the next morninge & the next night apply the other 2 cakes as before

A medicine for the hearinge when cold is the cause of the deafnesse or noise in the head

Take 3 pints of water and one handfull of bay berry husks & a handfull of Cammomile flowers of elder budds and fetherfew of each a handfull bruise them all togeather in a Morter then putt them into the water & boyle itt halfe away then putt into itt halfe a pinte of white wine & soe putt it into an earthen bottle putt a linnen Rage about the [e]dge of the mouth of the bottle that it may nott burne your ragge Couer your head very warme & soe lett the steame goe up in your head soe longe untill the bottle beginns to grow cold and when y^w take away the bottle y^w must stoppe your eare w^th blacke wool and the next morninge apply itt to the other ear & soe for a weeke or fornight untill y^w find ease

A fume for the head or for the hearinge w^ch hath recouered many

Take halfe a pinte of muscidine & halfe a pinte of white wine & putt them both togeather & putt into them a pennyworth of saffron a little head of garlike a handfull of Bettanny a little Rosemary a little brown sage an ounce of the powder of bayberries, a handfull of bay leaues a handfull of elder budds boyle them till the halfe bee consumed use itt eueninge & morninge boyling & hott in a little narrow mouthd bottle soe longe as the heatt remaines & soe us[e i]tt for the space of a weeke

To helpe the hearinge

Take a handfull of duckes grease putt to halfe a spoonefull of oyle of aniseeds putt a little saffron ground very fine amonge itt & putt some 3 dropps of itt into the eare a little warme when y^w go to bed then stoppe the ear w^th a little blacke woole beinge taken from the codde of the sheepe

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For the noise in the head aprooued

Take the gall of a good bigge cur dogge, b w^th brest milke of one that giueth sucke to a gearle take of the milke a spoonefull of the gall 2 drops mixe these togeather & drop them into the ear when the party is in bed soe longe as the gall lasteth & ly uppon the contrary side all night & soe droppe into the ear one ear one night & the other ear next & w^th gods blessinge itt helpeth

For deafnesse and noise in the head

Take 2 oz of argall & 2 oz of liue honney mixe them w^th runninge water temperinge itt untill itt bee drinkable & take itt into the morninge in bed & sleepe after itt if y^w can & when y^w would haue itt giue ouer workinge then eatte & drinke

Remember to have the apothecary beatt the argall small & sift it very fine.

A Soueraigne medicine for the paine or buzinge in the head w^ch hindereth the hearing much

Take a cloue of Garlike pill itt & picke 3 or 4 holes in the midst of itt, & then dippe itt in fine English honney, & putt itt into your eare & putt a little blacke woole after itt & for that night lye uppon the other side & the next night followinge use the other eare in the same sort lyinge on the contrary side againe & soe doe euery night continue itt foe the space of eight or nine dayes togeather, & this will expulse the ill humors forth att your nose itt will allso expell the paine & restore your hearinge Probatum est

To stop a cold ruhm that troubles the head

Take betony rosemary tyme mariesom lauender & dry them fit to take in a pipe & put in 2 nutmeges cut, to a quarter of a pound of this stufe & to miosten it put in some dropes of queen of Hungarys water or that they call Emperiall water & so take it in a pipe euery night or morning if you please

To cuer one that is deafe much approved

Take the watter that an hair maketh & drop 2 or 3 dropes into the ear goeing into bed & lye on the contrary side & continue this for some tyme as you find occation 3 or 4 nights together & then leave of you may keep the watter that is in the blader of an haire wⁿ it is kild in a glase & use it as long as you thinke it good & then get new or keep a little haire & save the water taken it up in a spoon or feather as you use it

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A Medicine or Remedie For the Rupture or one that is Burst

Take the Roote of the hearbe called solomons seale, otherwise called Jacobs Ladder or scala cæli, grate it into fine powder; then take soe much thereof as will lye one a shillinge for a man; if he be a younger bodie take a little Lesse lett the patient drinke the same in a draght of muskadine, or milke if it be for a child first and last for nine or tenn dayes together applyinge this plaister followinge toe the place greiued, with a trusse euery morning fresh, and lye uppon his back for the space of an houre after

To make the plaster

Take the Juice of the aforesaid herbe mingle it with the white of a new Laid egge well beaten & the powder of Bolearmenick till it be thick like a salue then spread it one a peece of Leather & apply it warme toe the place greiued

A Receit aprooued for a Rupture

Take Osmond Rootes & Cumphree w^ch beares the white blossome and broad Plantan of each alike quantity take stalkes and all w^th them & dry them betweene clothes then dry them in an Ouen & beate them to powder & then take a good quantity of Parmisetty to make itt pretty wite & mingle well w^th these powders giue the party as much of this powder as will ly on a 3^d for a child giue the weight of 2 of itt in cleare possett drinke & seeth the Hearbs that bee in the powder in the possett drinke att any time when they take the powder y^w must bee sure that the Rupture bee borne uppe w^th a warme cloth y^w must wett the powder in a spoone w^th a little possett ayle & drinke a good draught of your possett drinke after itt let them take this powder 3 times a day for a weeke w^th the possett drinke after itt an houre after meat lett them keepe their bed w^th their heels as high as their head or higher & apply to the place exceedinge hott clothes very often bee sure y^w never lett itt come down butt keepe itt up they must lye on their backs or on the contrary sides if itt bee on both sides they must lye on their backs if thesey [?] themselues they must lyeay their hand on the soare w^th a hott cloth to keepe itt up for their dyett they must haue noe milke dish nor younge slidinge meatt but good sollid meatt Chickin they may eate butt noe suckinge Rabetts nor Veale nor Lambe nor Cake bread nor no windy meatte after they bee well they must take this powder 3 dayes before the full & 3 dayes before the change att night when they goe to bed & lett them lye still after itt usually an oz of powder will cure a man sometimes there must bee more they must keepe their bedd 9 dayes if itt heale they shall finde an itchinge tincklinge & a workinge in their body if itt rend they shall find a smarting Rendinge paine then looke to itt as aforesaid lett them rise sometimes in the cure butt lett others putt on their cloths & helpe them to walke that they reach not themselues let them lay their hand uppon the soare butt lett them nott want a trusse by any meanes

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for the falling sicknesse or conuolsions

{Dr: Langhams way}

let the child haue an issue made in his neck let him be purged twice a week with a spoonfull or more of the purging surrop of [suerey] with rhubarb given by it selfe or desoulued in poset drinck

the Juce of rue strained & drunck frequently helpeth it Take an handfull of Baulme halfe an handfull of rosmary the like quantity of cowslip flower sweet fenill seedes piony seedes of each being brusd a sponfull boyle all these in 2 pints of faire watter to the wasting of a third part then strain it and give 6 sponfulls of it twice a day swetened with surrop of piony or puting therto 2 dropes of the oyle of ambar In the fit give a littell of the Lady Allens watter with 2 dropes of oyle of ambar rubing likewise the nose & temples with a drop or 2 of the said oyle

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To make a Suppository

Take a peese of Roach Allum make it Long Like a uiolet cumfitt dipp it in oyle or salt Butter

Another

Take a spoonefull of hony or more boyle it black in a Iron Ladle then put to it as much hierapicra as a beane and twise as much salt stirre them well together then take a trencher & annoynt it with butter & put it one the trencher and make it up into a Rolle or twoe for your use

Another

Take a little castle soape & sha[pe] it to the fashion of a suppository and use it att your pleasure

An aproued Medecine for the falling Siknes

Take of the powder of mistellto that growes upon the oke as much as will lye upon a sixpence in 2 or 3 sponfulls of blake Cherey water for 10 mornings & fast an hower or 2 after it & 2 dayes befor the full & 2 dayes befor the Change as long as you fear the fites untill the humor be spent

A medicine for the falling sicknes

Take a greate handfull of motherwort and boyle it in two quarts of the stongest ale you can gett, till it come to 3 pintes then poure forth a draught thereof into a cup and put therein as much saffron as will lye one a three pence stirre it well together & lett the patient drinke it bloudwarme, first & last fastinge an houre after it and soe continew it seaven or eight dayes

Another for the same

Take of the singell pioney roott of the whit lilley roott of the bay tre root that bears the berrey & of ashen keyes the kernells of each a quarter of an ounce after they are dryed & beaten to powder of brown sugar Candy of Nutmigs & of Cloues the same quantety beaten to powder without drying mixe all thes to gether & take as much as will lye on a shilling morning & euening in halfe a pinte of strong beare & fast 2 howers after it you must take up your pioney roote at the fall or spring

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A Drink for a Cold or Coufe to cleare the bloud or against faintings

{Lady Husseys}

Take one quart of Spring water; one good handfull of raisons of the Sun stoned; half an ounce of hartshorne; one Spoonfull of anniseeds brused ½ an ounce of lickorish Scraped and Sliced thin 3 or 4 blue figes sliced let these all boyle together in a pipkin till half be consumed then put into it a botom of a white lofe 3 or 4 sprigs of sweet Marjerom a sprig or 2 of Ishop a branch of Rosemary a Sprige of winter Savory a few marygold flowers put all these w^th a quart of Smale ale and so let this Simper alltogether till the Vertue is out of the herbs & so strain it out into a glass or earthen pott take all most a porenger full in a morning fasting and at 4 of the cloke in the afternoon; and continue this drinke taking a week or fortnight together

A medeicne for a cold Coufe or Consumption

{Mrs [Hinchens] receipt}

Take a quart of the strongest ale and to that a pound of lofe sugar boyle it together till itt comes to the thicknesse of a quideney and never scume it and let the party take of it very often upon a knifes point this must be kept stiring or else it will be apt to burne

A Surrop good for a coufe or the king cough to remove fleam & open the Stomach

Take an oxes blader that is new kild & empty the watter that is in it but not wash it only blow it to se if ther be no holles in it then take a pound of the Clearest brown sugar candy bruse it & put it into the blader & tye up the blader put a scuer a top of the blader & rune it through & tye it under neath the scuer to keep the string from sliping in the boyling & put it into an earthen pot or pewter pot & fill that full of watter & put it into a kitell of watter that it may boyle & as the water by wasting boyle away you must put of the hot watter in the kitle you boyle in to the pot wher the blader is for if the blader be dry it will crack the blader & loose the surrup & wⁿ you thinke it is dissoulved you may take it up by the scuer & feel on the outside of the blader whither it be dissoulved it will take most part of an afternoon to boyle it & wⁿ you power it out you must strain it so take 2 ounces of surrup of vinagar 4 drames of Gaskins powder & mix it all together & put it up for your use & take a Spoonfull of it morning & at night for to open the Stomach & for a cough half a spoonfull after euery coughing, it is good for Children in the mounth wⁿ troubled w^th fleam

for a consumption

take wholl grits of oatmeal steep them overnight in water then boyle them 6 howers uery well till the gruell is thick & eat of this as much as you can w^th new unsalted butter

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Toe make the Juice of locorish for a Cold

Take distilled Coltsfoote water and water of unsett Isop, of each a quarte Red rose water and hore hound water; of each a pinte, putt there in foure ounces of Elicumpane Rootes, thinne slyced, one ounce of shaued hartshorne halfe an ounce of maydenhare, marigold flowers & sweete marioram of each halfe an handfull of Anniseeds a quarter of a pound, put all these into a pipkin with a close couer sett it into a kettle of seething water & lett it infuse on a hot fire a day or more, till all the substance be out of them & halfe the liquor consumed Then cleare it and put it into the water, to pounds of white suger candie finely beaten lett it boyle till it be syrrup then put into it halfe a pound of english licorish searsed as fine as the finest flower & soe lett it Dry leasurely uppon a chaffinge dish and coles stirring it Contineually, for that it will be apt to burne, it must be dryed in a siluer or earthen basen then when it is soe dry that it will worke like paste put therein halfe a dozen dropps of the spirritts of Rosemary of Synamon and Anniseed four droppes six grames of Ambergreese and as much of muske unicornes horne & Bezar stone, soe make then up and Dry them

Another Medicine For a Cold

Take Elicumpane Rootes shred, and Figgs sliced Raisons of the sunn stoned Isop lycorish and anniseeds steepe all these together in Running water all night, afterwards streyne it & put it one the fire with some honye and lett it boyle till it come toe a syrrup, and soe take it dayly with a licorish stick

A medecen for a Cold

{this is Mrs Randols medcen}

Take a quart of Milke & boyle it then put tow it a sponfull of old mustard & it will turne the milk take of the curd Cleare & drinke the dr this drinke 2 nights together when you goe to bed this quantety will sarue but one night To make iuce of Licoras another way

Take a pinte of Coltsfoote watter & a pint of Isope water a quarter of a pinte of spring watter 8 ounces of lickoras 8 ounces of browne sugar Candey straine & bruse the licoras & steepe it in the watter all night the next day boyle them uery softly till they come to halfe a pinte then straine it & put in the sugar Candy finly beaten then let it dry away till it be thick enoufe to rowle

Another way

{the Lady pagnum iuce of Licors is the same only as much more watter}

Take a pound of licoras & scrape of the barke then bruse it in a morter & put it into a brase pot with a potell of water & a handfull of isope them seeth it untill the Licorish be gone then stran it through a Cloth & then wring it forth afterward againe as hard as you cane then put it in a fare earthen pot & set it in the sune & euer as it dryeth stire it together untill it come to a harde lumpe then Chafe it in your hands & make it into litell cakes & pute it into the Sunne to drye

To stop a cough

Take at night goeing to bed half an ounce of diacorum & half an ounce of surrup of cowslipes together & so rest a night or tow & then take it again if your cough be not gone

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For a Cold

Take of Liquorish sliced of Aniseeds and fennill seed of each one oz of figs shred razons of the sun stoned and of Alicompany roots sliced of each 2 oz one handfull of Hysop and one of Coltsfoote boyle these in 3 quarts of small Ayle till halfe be consumed then [putt] in one penny worth of Saffron 2 penny worth of sweet butter and a spoonefull of honey lett them haue 2 or 3 walms and take 9 or 10 spoonefulls first and last warme night and morninge

A Sirrop for a Cough

Take Hysop water and penny royall water of each halfe a pinte one oz of Liquorish scraped and cutt in little short peices and beaten flat putt to that one pound of double refind sugar and boyle itt to a sirrop and so take itt uppon a Liquorish sticke att any time but especially morninge and Eveninge

For a Cough

Take 2 oz of Conserue of red Roses and one oz of sirrop of Hysop one dramme of Sulphir one dramme of Olibanum in powder mingle all these together and take itt uppon a Liquorish sticke att any time when the Cough troubles y^w

For a Cough

Take 4 oz of Conserue of red roses 2 oz of white sugar Candy 2 oz of razons of the sun stoned beat them all together untill they bee all of one substance then putt to itt 12 dropps of oyle of Sulphir 6 drops of oyle of Vitrall beat these all together very fine while they are of a Crimzon Colour then putt itt into a gally pott and when y^w use itt take the quantity of a Nutmegge fastinge in the morninge and neither eat or drinke in an houre and as much att night when y^w go to bed and drinke not after itt use this till itt bee spent if y^w haue occasion

This hath recouered those that the Doctors haue giuen ouer being spent with a Consumption

A sirup for a Consumption could

{the Lady Alse Cliftons receite}

Take of coltsfoote of woodbettene of burnet of red rose leaues of comphreye roots. sliste of each a handfull, boyle all these in a potle of springe ouer a soft fire till it come to a pinte then strane out thye herbes and put thereto a pounde of sugar and boyle it up to a syrop: thin: // These hearbs must be boiled in an earthen pipkin that is well leaded and couered verye close and they are to boyle twelue houres: // Of these take 3 spoonefull at night in bed and 3 spoonefull at 5 a cloke in the morninge and indevour to sleepe after it this is verye much comended to have cured manye lik[wis?]e on may ade more good herbes as maydenhaire hysop bame liverwort longwort hartstounge a sprige of tamaris archangells endiue: egrymoney bourage flowers buglas; horehound scabious: rososolas [, /] [roots] parsley: elicompanye sure the use of these without water may be very good also honey and [s]afron

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D^r Burges his directions against the plague

Take three pintes of Malmesey, and boyle therein one handfull of sage as much of Rue, untill a pinte be wasted, then streyne it, & sett it ouer the fire againe, and put theretoe a peniworth of Longe pepper: halfe an ounce of Ginger, halfe an ounce of nutmeggs, all beaten together, then lett it boyle a Little, & putt thereto one ounce of methridate & as much of treacle and a quarter of a pinte of the Angelico water:

Take heareof allwayes both morninge & eueninge a spoonefull or twoe if you be allredie infected & sweate thereupon 2 or 3 houres after it but if you be not infected, a spoonefull a day is sufficient, the one ha[l]fe in the morninge the other halfe in the eueninge, & that but thrice in the weeke the patient must be kept uery warme & drinke nothinge but warme drinkes & caudles, and make possett drinke of ale & milke with some marigold Leaues and flowers, and drinke after his sweate and take heede of Takinge Cold

M^r Dightons signes and sumetomes of the plague with Directions For the infected or not infected

If any in an house begin to be sick & agueish in the stomack payned in the head and after fall a burninge, he shall presantly goe to bed and sweate, haueinge first Taken this medicine Followinge videlicet

Take some good sack or muskadine and to a draught thereof put a prittie quantitie of Rue & sage, and wringe it out, then put therein the quantitie of camphire and saffron, about the quantitie of a good pease being well pounded by the Apothecary before hand mixe it all together & drinke it & soe betake your selfe toe sweate out the sicknes

For your chamber you should haue candles or Lampes burninge all day, made of shoomakers pitch, and keepe the windowes close and your selfe must comm only in them this is alsoe a good meanes to keepe out the infection from an house

A Medicine for the Plague

Take as much Settwell root as a Nuttmegge putt itt into 3 spoonefulls of Malmsey and drinke itt fastinge 3 mornings together

If y^w feele paind in your head or otherwise suspect your selfe to bee infected take as much Settwell root grated as 3 good nuttmeggs mingle with itt 3 spoone fulls of white wine Vinegar 3 spoonefulls of faire water and one of Trekell [Gene] putt all together in a little cup and warm itt as milke from the cow and take itt in your bed then presently cast your selfe in a sweatt 2 houres if y^w can.

And if y^w bee infected itt will within 4 or 5 houres bringe out a soare then take heede for your life y^w take out cold for the space of a weeke, the longer y^w can abide the sweatt the better itt is for y^w itt may bee the soare will dissolue with sweatt and never breake y^w may heale itt as y^w heale a bile or such like

This must y^w do to / as soone as y^w begin to bee ill att ease which commonly begins in the head before itt come to the heart and by gods helpe itt will cure y^w

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