Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

Dr Willis for long Agues wich succeeded a Feavor & caused in them great & hard Bellys a drink & oyntment

Take Lavander cotton Romon wormwood centuary carduus each a smal handful the peel of 3 oranges & i Lemon cloves & mach brused each a spoonful chop thes & stew them in a pound of fresh butter & half a pint of white wine 2 howers til the wine is all spent stram it & keep it in a gally pott anoynt the sides & belly mornings ther with & keep quilts smeared ther with upon it

The Drink

Camomile Carduvs wormwood Horehound centuary Brooklin watercresses scirvie grass each 3 handful the peel of 10 oranges chop all thes put them in a galon of cyder poset drink stil them in a comon stil til it begin to tast sowr put first & last to gether take 10 sponfuls with suger first & last

For an Ach in the Huckle Bone caled the sciatica

Black sope one pound a pint of Aguavifte halfe a pint of salet oyle a [grc] of a pint of juyce of Rue boyle & stir them on a soft fire till they be somwhat thick so as to be made into a plaster spread some of it on a pece of Leasther apply it hot to the place letting it lye 3 days & 3 nights unmoved if one [cure] not lay on another it is most excellent

For an Ach or Lamenes

Bucks meat that grows in the water & moss that grows on the sail of a windmil boyle them in dreggs of Ale like a pece of [Buafe] til it be so thik that it will spread then spread it on [Fries a dow] red culor & the thickest lay it below the part greived bind hot clothes about it let it ly a 2 nights & dayes keep yr bed all the hine & swear if you can

For any Ach or the Sciatica

Great earth wormes strip them toward the Tayle till all the earth be squeesd out of them rub them clean in a linnin cloth put 3 scor of them into a pint oyl botle them til they crackle then cast them away anoynt the place with the oyl against a soft fire

For an Ach in the Flesh or Bones

Smalage Bawm ground [gvie] camomile comphry rootes each a handf chop them smal & boyle them in may butter put in a sponful of mace stram it & put in a little saffrom beaten

For an Ach or numnes or lamenes in the Armes

The Ashes of Ashen wood steep them all night in water power of the clearest boyle in it sage rosemary camomile bays each a Handf & with Flannel or cotton dipt in it bath & foment the Armes as one cooles dip another for halfe an houer then wipe it very dry & wrap it up warme so doe every night til the party be well

For An Ague

make cakes with Ague vitta & wheat Flower & lay to each wrist one raw not baked & within the bending of the Arme wher they let blood bind them hard on an hower before a fitt

For an Ague

Take 6 right civel oranges pare the outward rhind as Thinn as is posible put it into a pint of true sherry sack give 2 sponfuls night & mornings the well dayes & also the fit d[...]y & an hower before the fitt thus alsoe is good for the wormes

For an Ague +

A dram of mirrh in powder give it in a spoon full of sack an hower before the fitt & a spoonful after it tis certain at twice or not at 3 times [fai less]

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6: A: 7 Dr Jabors Ague Medicine Cortex of Peru 4 drams extract of gentian roots one dram contra = yerva verginian snake, weed & salsafras of each halfe a dram make all thas mito an electuary with Hony this quantity is to be taken at six times upon the two well dayes morning noon & night about the bignes of a walnutt after every dose drink a glasse of good wine of any sort it is to be taken agame within a week to prevent relapsing

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