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For a paine in the head or dizenes or a great Cough in -
either Man or Child.

Take sweet marioran dryed, Rosmary dryed, bruise & sift them, the rosmary -
must be beaten in a mortar grate an hole nuttmegg beat & sift mace & cloves,
take as much of each of these as the quantity of the nuttmegg; but putt in a litle
more sweet marjoran then of the rest, mingle all these together, and when you go
to bed sprinckle of this pouder upon the mold of your head thorow the haire, also
make a posset of beet & ale about a pinte not to mily not to clear, then putt
into some sliced candied elecampana's roots and a sprig or two of green rosmary
& lett it stand upon the Embers to infuse some time, then putt into it a peece of
butter & brew it together & lett it be all your super; an ounce of this elecampana
will serve 3 times. The pouder alone is excellent for the head, both together doth
well, as also for the cough. looke p.167.

For a pleuresy, Stiches in the side for feavers, to putt you -
in a fine breathing, to open the Body; to cleanse the blood.
Good against Wormes & the green sickness.

Take a globe of stone horse's dung new made, straine it, then take a Costard dish
full of white wine, or ale; warme it & tye a penny-worth of Safron in a bag or rag
& steep it in the wine, when it is coloured with it, take it out the same Safron will
serve the next time, then take in a spoon of your juice of horses dung, so drinck
it for every morning for nine days to cleanse the blood, for the spleen & for worms,
in other distemper take it att night to; It cures Ianders; take a warme globe
& lay as a poultis upon a burne or scald & it certainly takes of the fire, and cures
layd in a bag vpon the forehead & temples; it causes sleepe in a feaver or frenesy

To cause Sleepe
Laye on a pillow of hopps. Lady Rainsford.

For a Tetter
Take wine venigar twice stilled in an ordinary still & wash it with it.

Live water to skin with when the soare is filled with
flesh, and yet by reason of moisture is loth to skin

Take two handfull of the best burnet lyme stones & 3 pintes of faire water
and sett it on the fire untill it be ready to seethe; then powre the water to the
lymes stones, being in a pott that may be close coured; & so lett that stand, vntill
it be cold & setled; then powre of the clearest & Keepe it for vse; and when you
vse it, putt to 4 ounces of that about 6 drops of the blew water which Gold-fyners
vse; it must be had after they have done with the vse of that, for before it is -
to strong.

The flower of Oyntment or as Some calle it the yellow Salve.

First you must take Virgins wax 4 ounces, read dear suet or new sheepes suet -
without either skin, lump or any other dross matter a quarter of a pound cutting both -
in small peeces & putt into a cleane pott, melting them on a soft sweet fire which
must be cleare & without smoacke; Rossine halfe a pound Resina pini half a pound
Olibanum 4 ounces & for want thereof franckicense give ounces; Myrh one ounce
Mastick one ounce; (pouder your myrh & mastick together with 3 or 4 frops of water
in the mortar, each by themselves, or else they will beate into pouder) Beate your
gums Severally by themselves & so putt in your pouder of every one by it selfe, stirring
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all continually, Viz from the first putting in of them vntill the last be putt in,
and a while after; this done straine the afore said stuff thorow a strong canvas -
cloth into a Botle of white wiwne, & so lett all boile Very well together on a -
soft sweet fire as afore said vntill half the wine be wasted; that done take the pan
of the fire and putt in of Camphir 3 dragmes beaten in a mortar in fine pouder,
but before the said Camphir be putt in a mortar there must be used a litle Sallet
Oyle or else 3 or 4 almonds well beaten & taken out, or some such litle oyly subs=
-tance which will not suffer the said Camphir to cleave unto the mortar; and so -
putt the pourder in by litle & litle, allways stirring it well, & lett it coole untill -
that be blood-warme putting thereunto of Venice turpentine three ounces, stirring
all well vntill the said stuffe be reasonably cold; but beware that your stuff be -
not any hotter then blood-warme When you putt your turpantine, or else that -
Spoile all your stuff, and so when it is cold you may make it vp in rolles, anoyn=
-ting your hands with Salett oyle, or with a litle fresh butter to part the said stuff,
yet suffer not your said stuff to be so cold as it grows lumpy, for then it will
be troublesome in making it vp.

The ordring of the said Salve called my Lord of Suffolk's
the flower of Oyntment or the Yellow Salve

First it is to be spread vpon a faire linnen cloth plaster's wise & lay the
same vpon every ioynt where the paine is; But before the laying of the said
plaster, the said Ioynts must be anoynted with oyle of roses & the stuff of your
plaster must be half an inche thick, if that be used for the goute or Sciatica,
and it is not to be removed of nine or ten days from the place it is to be on
notwithstanding the party be putt to some paine during the said time, because
it will draw out the humour by litle small pimples & heate it again; this one
plaster will serve all the tyme of the dissease without any manner of renewing.
And when you please to use the afore said salve vnto any soare, plaster's wise
spread it thereon as thin as may be; And when you will make a tent, melt the
Salve in a sawcer & dipp it therein. Some make vse of this salve by way -
of a Sear-cloth who is troubled with ache or proceeding of Rheume or such like
humour, and findeth good ease & helpe thereby. It is a very good salve for any
new soare, or other if that be not very old & fowle.

An Oyntment of Swallows for bruises, limms & shrinking -
of Sinews

Take lavender cotten Lavender spike, strawberries leaves, with their stringes
of each a handfull, then take five Swallows ready to fly, and so beate the said
hearbs & the said swallowes quicke feathers and all in a mortar, untill you see
no feathers whole; then take the third part of a pound of May butter claryfied
in the Sun and putt it into the mortar aforesaid & temper all well together, -
that done lett all stand vntill all white mounted over & so boile all with a soft -
sweet fire so long as the strenght of the hearbs doe remaine in them; then
straine all thorow a thin Canvas Clothe.
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