Wellcome Collection: Fanshawe, Lady Ann (1625-1680) (MS7113)

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22. {+ }To make conserue of Wormwood {A Stone}Take a pound of the young toppes of worm=wood, steep them twelue howers in two quarts of Hyssop water, squeeze the wormwood gently from the water with your hand, then putt your wormwood into a mortar with 3 quarters of a pound of Loaf=sugar, & half a pound of Rasins of the sunn stoned; beat all these to a conserue, and tye it close up in a Pott and keep it for your use. You must take as much as a nuttmeg hereof, every morning Fasting.

An exellent Receipt for the stone or stoppage of the urine {+} Take the kernelle of Ash keyes, when they are ripe, which is about Michaelmas, dry them & when you administer them, you must beate them to a fine pouder and give one spoone full of them in broath.

{+} For the spleen; {A Stone:}Boyle thime ash Bark and tamaris of each an oune in a possett Drink made of white wine and Small ale drink it fasting in a morning & at 4 of the Clock in the afternoon for 9 days

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For a burn or scald

Beat whites of eggs til they all froth then put in as much of thine as whites of eggs beat these well together til they are incorforated then put in as much fine flax as wil cover the place thin over dif if very wel in the palue before you lay it onn & apply fresh morning & night until the place bee well; under God this wil come without leaving any fear it aged in lime.

A Medicine for ; wormes.

Take one fill of aloes rosafum in the morning early four Raures after take a glister of three quarter of a pint of new milke with for spoonfuls of Huney warmed over embers, it ; give it to a man or wooman ; must double quantity of all.

fixed Go Care a Contracted by Could.

Take a hand of ale hoofe & 20 or 30 rasons of the fume stoned boil them in a quart of ale tile halfe the consumed drinke if the first thing in a morning and the last at night til y find y selfe cured

For the pain in y head

take too halfes of a drunk rose Cake put upon the too nutmegs Grated & Lay them into a dish pour upon them as much Elder Vinegar as will make the rose Cake soft then lay them on your temples and let them ly as low as they wil reach

A soulfes for any Soar or wound that is Inflamed,

Boil a pint of Milke with crumns of whit bread, a handful of mellalof flowers, halfe a handful of red rose leaves, when these are well boiled together put it into a forenger, & stir into it halfe an ounce of Oile of St. Johns wort & halfe an ounce of oile of roses this quantety is too much unless the sore bee very great therefore you must proportion it as y for ocasion

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{26.} A pleasant remedy for wheazing and spopage in the stomak

{Mr C: Hinton.} Take halfe a [pint] of the best Cinamon water and put to it, for ounces of Oximell of squills, keepe it in little Glass bottle and take now and then acording as you find Ocasion a spoonful of it, and shake the Glass uery well eury time.

For the Stinging of a snake or Adder

{My Mother.} Immediately when you are stung heat a knife uery hot in the fier, and clap just upon the place that was stung and houd it a Good while til it have burned it out, or else, lay the intrails of the same ader or snake that stung you, or of aney other, and bind it fast on upon the place.

For an Ageu.

{L. Lowther.} Cutt the yellow Rind of Ciuall Orranges very thin, dry it before the fyer, and then heat and searce it, and take a Good spoon full of the powder into spoonful of sack an hour before your fitt and ly worme, doo this three times whether the fit leaves ye or no and again before the next full of the moon three times.

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