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For the Spleene

Take balme of Scabius, betony & pimpernell of each a good quantity
a good deale of Venice turpentine amongst the hearbs, laying them in the
still, so still it alltogether. Drinck often of this water especially morning &
evening & it will cure it.
For the Stone another
Take a good handfull of read stinging nettles & as much wild thym, two
good handfull of bean pods newly gathered, a quarte of milk from the cow, ten
eggs shells & all brocken, worke them & the milk well together, then take as much
white wine Venigar as will turne the milk well but not to much. Mix all well
together & distill it in a moderate still with a gentle fire. When you fear the
fitt is com take 3 or 4 spoonfull cold to prevent it, tis best att the new & full
Moon for prevention, however it is good at other time when you are ill.
The Lady Allins water
Take of read Sage, rosmary, dragons mugwort, wormwood, pimpernell, egrimony
rosa-solis, carduus benedictus, scabius burnet, sinfield, balme rue celendine of each
one handfull or other like quantity by weight, wash them & shake them in a cloth
and then shread them and poure on them a gallon of white wine, with a quarter
of an ounce of gention's roots and as much angelica's roots, lett it stand 2 days -
close stopt in a deep pott. So distill it in an ordinary still & keep it close:
the doze is 2 or 3 spoonfulls to a child & 5 or 6 to a man or woman. It is excellent for Conulsions fitts.
To wash the face after the Small pox
Take all the Calves feets with the haires on, pick them & rub them very cleane, but not washe them, breake them to peeces, & lett them lye 24 hours in steepe in 2 quartes of white wine, then still them slowly: wash with this.
A water comparable to gold
Take a gallon of white wine, 4 ounces of gention, 24 ounces of century, stamp
them together, putt the wine to them & lett them soacke together 5 days. Then distill
them in an ordinary still, keepe the water in a close Vessell. When you use it,
take 2 or 3 spoonfull morning & evening. This water preserves the body from -
impostumes, makes good colour, Resist plague, avoides stufft stomack, repells &
putts away all watrish humours, breaks the stone in the reins, purges the belly
& spleen, cures purges Collour & correct blood, it cleares Sight.

The Lady Huetts Cordiall water

Take of anyseeds, fennells seeds, Carroway's seeds, parsly's seeds of each 2 dragms
of Spicknard, elecampana roots dryed, melliots flowers Calamus aromaticus, Cardamon
lignum Aloes, rubarbe sliced thin, gallingall, Veronica of each of these 2 dragmes. of
Juniper's berries one dragme; of aromaticum rosarum 3 dragms. of zodiaria, quibibus
grains of each 2 dragms; China's roots one ounce, Sassadras sliced half an ounce;
hearts-horne 2 ounces. Washe all the hearbs & swing them in a cloth till the
water be well drained from them, then lay them thin upon a table to drye better,
after Shread them small & putt them into a earthen pott, & putt thereunto as much
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Sherry sack as will cover them, but before you steep them, putt your drugs
Spices & seeds into the midst of the hearbs, being bruised before you putt them
in, lett them steepe 24 houres, them putt all into a Limbeck & from this -
quantity of ingredients draw 3 pintes of water, which being mixed will be
strong enough. If you desire it smaller add a pinte more from the same stilling
then to each quarte of water putt the quantity of cordialls here expressed.
of bezoar 15 grains; musk 12 grains; amber-greece 10 grains; flower of co-
-rail 1. dragme; flower of pearls 1. dragme; flower of amber half a dragme. -
white sugar candy beaten half a pound; of leaves-gold 4 leaves; a small bag -
of safran - Shake these together well in the glasse for 14 days, once a day;
the longer you Keep it the better.
This one of the highest Cordiall that is, it is good to send forth meazels, small-
pox or plague, good for the palsy & to forward weomen's labour; It revives -
allmost from the dead.

To Open & purge the Liver

Take a pinte of white wine, & the weight of six pence in rubarbe, slice it thin
and putt it into the wine, & lett it steepe all night, then divide it into 3 parts, & soe
take it 3 mornings fasting.

A present Remedy for a paine in the Side

Take a quarte of Ale & boile it & Skim it, then putt into it a peece of Rossin
a little bigger then a wallnutt, lett it melt in the Ale, stirring it all the while with
a cleane stick, when it is melted take it & sweeten it with sugar & give the party
pained half a pinte att night when they goe to bed, and as much in the morning
as hott as he can drinck it.

A Vomitt for an Ague

Take 9 spoonfull of read roses-water & 6 of the iuice of Oranges, make it -
Very thick with Sugar & when you perceive your fitt a coming, sett it on the fire,
and when the Sugar is melted in it, take it & drinck it of. these 3. should be putt in phy.

Another Snaile's Water
Take 3 gallons of the strongest Ale and two gallons of Sack, then take one -
peck of garden's snailes and make a fire of Chearcole, & sett a large driping-pan
on the fire, lett the snailes roast in it so long as they continue hissing, take them
out & bruise them & putt them into the Ale & sack with 8 ounces of harts-horne -
one ounce & a half of Cloves bruised, 2 good handfull of Celendine, 2 of Angelica's
leaves, and 3 quartes of rosmary flowers; Stop the Mouth of your Alembeck with -
the paste, and in the morning distill it upon white sugar candy. Keepe the first
by it selfe, & so the second & third. If you have skill in stilling it will doe very -
well in a rose's still.

A water for Convulsions fitts

Take Junipers berries one ounce. Bay-berries, half an ounce, Pyonys berries 6. dragms
Camphir 2 dragms, fine rubarbe one ounce; assa foetida 2 dragms. Rue water 3 quarts.
Beat all the Berries, Rubarbe Assa-foetida & Camphir, then mingle them with the rue
water & distill them in a Roses-still. But if you distill them in a glasses still you must
have 4 quarts of rue water. Before you beate the Camphir, rub the mortar with an Almond
To a child that has fitt, give a spoonfull att a time, 3 or 4 times a day. If you only feare fitts
give a spoonfull every morning for a month together. To an old body give six spoonfull
in a morning for a Month.
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