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A Caudell for the Bloody Fluxe

Take a pint of Red Wine and the Volker of Five new laid eggs,
a little cinnamon, 2 spoonfuls of foafe sugar, half a quarter of
an ounce of the peel of Pomegranates doned and beaten to fine
power, boil them in a platter upon a Chaffendeih of Coales,
until it thicken. Let the patient eat it morning and evening,
and if you will offer, it will suddenly cure you.

A Most Excellent Vomit

Take of Crocus metallorum made into fine power one ounce,
Let it stand infusing in a quart of the best sack for a day or two
jogging it, or shaking the Glafe twice a day. Then let it stand
24 hours untouched. When you [ufe] it drain out very gently the Wine; that it may run pure from the Crocus Powder. To a
stronger body you may give an ounce and a half, to a weaker body one ounce, after every vomit let the patient drink warm
Posset Ale with Butter in it, Let them neither sleep or drink
warm drink till their vomit has done working.

An approved Medicine for the Convulsion fits
take as much [alsa fatida] as a white Pea is, dilute it in a spoonful of Posset drink 3 or 4 mornings and let the patient
wear some[ alsa fatida] about his neck too.

A Diet Drink

Take a peck of [Seuring gralse], water Crefses half a peak, 2 good handfuls of Brook lime, liverworst, longwort, Seabous, agrimony
Horebound, Hartstongue, saxafrage, pempernell, [Tumeric],
Bread plantain, wood botany, angelica, cardias, wormwood,
rosemary, red sage,[ endive, succory], Bornage, wild Marjoram of each a good handful. You must boil these herbs in nour half am hour, one ounce of nutmegs, one ounce of ginger, one ounce of liquorice, one ounce of Aniseeds, red bock roots 6 ounces, sweet fennell seeds half an ounce, bruise your seeds, slice your nutmegs and ginger and bock roots. you must put all these seeds and spices in a bag and hang the bag in the drink. you may drink of it
6 or 7 days. This is an excellent drink for any rheumatic body that is inclined to a Biopsy.

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