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A Salve for sundry vses called
the Leaden plaister
XXVII

Take one pound of oyle olive of the best 1 pound of white
Lead very well calcinated into dust, 12 ounces of
Spanish sope incorporate all these well together in
an earthen pott well glazed & when they be well incor=
porated that the sope comes upermost & put it upon
a small fire of coales, continueinge the said fire an
houre & a halfe still stirring it with a bolt of Iron
fastned to a Stick of wood, then make your fire some
what bigger, till the redness be turned into a grey
collour but you must not leave stirringe till the
matter be turned into the colour of oyle somewhat
darker, then drop it on a wooden trenchar & if it
neither cleave to your fingers nor the trenchar t'is boyled
enough, then dipp your cloathes in that, the Searclothes
therein dipped will last 20 yeares, & the older the better
this plaister laid to the stomach provokes appetite and
takes away the paine of the Stomach layd to the
belly, t'is a remedy for the Collicke laid to the
reines of the back it stops the bloudy flux

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Runinge of the reines heat of the kidney & weakness
of the back, it heales all swellings, Aches & bruises, it
breakes the ffellons, Impostumes, pushes & h^eales them
being applyed to the fundaments it heales all diseases
therein laid to the head, it is good for the vnnilla.

A Good Cordiall For A woman in Childbed
XXVIII

Take a quarter of a pint of Cowslip water & 2 ounces of
Syrrup of Clovegillyflowers & 2 pennyworth of Cinamon
water & 2 Spoonefulls of Clarett wine & Alcemus one
dramme mingle all these together and it is a soverai=
gne cordiall for any especially for one that lyes
in Childbed

Pills for the head
XXIX

Take one handfull of Alloes one dramme

ffor A Tetter

Take one handfull of Sallandine & as much bay
salt as can take up betweene your finger & Thumbe &
the juice of halfe a Lemon stamp them together in a
Mortar & straine the juice out & wash the place and
then put some of the hearbs upon it, vse this 3 or 4
dayes together dressinge it 3 or 4 times in a day
together &c