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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the flowers & suger, or any other way confected with suger, beinge taken every day fastinge. Rosemary is of subtill ptes, is good for the could Rheume which falleth from the braine, driveth away windines, provoketh urine, & openeth the stoppinge of the liver & [milt]. Wine boyled with rose mary, & taken of women troubled with the mother, or the whites, it helpeth theme the [rather?] if the fast 3 or 4 howers after. The flowers made up into plates with suger in the manner of sugar Roses & eaten, it comforteth the hart, & maketh it merge, quickneth the spirite, & maketh them more lively; The oyle of Rosemary chimycally drawnd, comfortheth the could, weeke & feeble braine in most wonderfull manner. Those of Marchia us to put it in there drinke the sooner to make therine [clyente?] drunke, & also do put it into chestes & presses among clothes, to preserve them from mothes or other vermine.

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The temperature of Harte tonge It is of a bindinge & dryinge facultie

The Vertues This common harte toonge is commended against the laste & bloodie fluxe: Dioscorides teacheth that beinge drunke in wine it is a remedy against the bytinge of Serpentes.

It doth open the hardnes & stoppinge of the spleene & liver, & all other grieses proceedinge of oppilations or stoppinge what [sendr?].

The temperature, of doves foote, or cranes bill, doves foote is could & somewhat drie with some astriction or bindinge, [houvd?] power to [soder?] or joyne togither.

The Vertues If seemeth [sayth?] [?] Author, to be good for greene & bleedinge woundes & asswageth inflammations or hot swellinges.

The herbe & roote dryed, beten into most fine powder, & given halfe a spoonefull fastinge, & the like quantitie to bedwards in red wine, or ould clarrett, for the space of one & twenty dayes togeither, cureth miraculously ruptures or burstinges, as my selfe have often pruvd wherby I have gotten Crownes & Credit: if the ruptures be in aged psons, it shalbe needfull to add therto the powder of [?]

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Snayles (those without shells) dryed in an oven, in number nine, which fortifieth the herbs in such sort, that it never fayleth although the rupture be great & of longe continuanse: it likewise profiteth much those that are wounded into the body, & the decoction of the herbe made in wine, previleth myhtilye in healinge inward wounds, as my selfe have likewise prooved.

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The nature of Adders toong

Adders toong is drie in the third degree.

The Vertues The leaves of Adders toong stamped in a stone morter, & boyled in oyle olive unto the consumption of the juice, & untill the herbs be drye & parched, then strayned, will yeelde a most excellent greene oyle or rather a Balsame for greene wounds, comparable unto oyle of Saint Johns wort, if it do not farre surpasse it by many degrees: whose beautie is such, that very many Artistes have thought the same to bee mixed wth verdigrease.

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