Wellcome Collection: Bulkeley, Elizabeth (MS.169)

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A boke of hearbes and receipts.

A boke of hearbes and receipts.



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Stand in the [?] one Moneth & itt wille good [?] for sommon [?]fetts.

A Soweraigne water Invented by Doctor Steepen

Take a gallon of good Gastrayne wyne, ginger, camill or camell, Galingall, Cinnamon, nutmeggs, rainet, flouer, Anise seede, fenelseede, caraway seeds, of each adrand Then take ___, mynte, redd roses, ___ pellytory of the wall, rosemary, wild tyme camamell, Lavender, crgame, peniytryall aven offe every one a handfull

Breake the spyres smalle, & bra__ the hearbs also, then put them all into [the?] wine lettinge it stand for 12 howers & stirringe it ___ tymes, then still it in a ___ & keepe the first water by it selfe for it is best, keepe the second alsoe for it is good though not so good as the first.

A medicinen for the vomett

If hee canot breeke his meate and drinke give him powder of sinamon and poweder of ma___ in his drinke, and be__ temper his powder with [UNFINISHED]

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A medecine for the same

Take mints and wormwood but moste of the worm wood, chop them and sett them over a chafenge dishe of coles til they be hott then sprinckle them well wth vintager and malmesie, and in a cloth lay them to the stomache as hott as possible he can suffer it... To make another plaister for them that have coulde stomacks and full of winde, and which wil bringe the stomacke into perfect order of disgesture Take a handfull of drie wormewoode, and an other of redde mints and as much as red rose leaves as much cammomell flowers, and beate all togeather in a morter, and put to them a fewe cloves, and a little comin in grosely beater, and min gle them all togeather and put them into a bagge, and quilte them, then take three spun full of malmsey and one of vineager and one of rose water, and sprin cle them uppon the plaister, and warme it at the fire untill it be drie, and then lay it to youre sto macke warme, and renewe it with the malmsie and vineager mornininge & eveninge Another verie good one for the same Take a faire double glasse that will containe one gallon put into it three quarts of the best malmsey ye can gett and put ther to six spun fall of the Joice of wormwood, and stoppe

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Close your glasse with corke, and shake your wine and Juice well, and then sett it on same shelfe neere the fire that the heat may strike to it, a purife it this wine wilbe verie pleasant, and will pre serve one from the dropsie, it comforteth the stomacke, and the liver, moreover take foure or five drops of oyle of annell seedes in glasse with a spoone full of beare or ale ever before you eate any meate, or in stead ther of eate some of a lozenge of diatrimed peperind made of the iii pepers and of such things as loe expill windie matter out of your stomacke, and prepare digestion A good medicine for the weakenes and coulones of the stomacke Take a faire porringer and put in it viii spoonefull of aquavite, vi ounces of faire white suger candie beaten verie faire, put in thorwth 12 crops of rosemarie, and boile theese upon a chafeinge dish with charcole untell your suger candie againe, then speedily take up your crops of rosemary againe, laiinge them one by one upon a plate, and then cast the rest on a whole masse, on a plate, and make it in cakes or lozenges, as ye thinke best, it wilbe like cleare amber, eate of this when you feele your selfe greeved, for it will give your mouth a pleasant tast

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For the stoppinge of the stomacke or tak inge therin coulde, an excellent medicine

Take fine rendred capons grease v ounces, put it into a pewter dishe pott and put ther to agod handfull of the tender leaves of rosemarie shred verie small, cover your pott close, and sett it in a panne of seethinge water, and keep the pannne boyleinge 4 howes, then take upp your pott, and when it is cooled as you may abide to put it into some shallowe glasse when it is almoste coulde put ther to almost an ounce of fine serced powder of larger mase and continually strire it with some brode thing untill it be coulde, this is much better then the oyle of mace, for it cureth the coughe, and voydeth the stomacke of all superfluities and Corruption, A medycyne for the strenyth= nynge of the backe

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Take iii or iiii Comfrey Roote vi Cap= dates ii nutmigge sclyced and mace, and sticke or t

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