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The Lady Allens Water for the Stomacke Small pox or Surfett.
{Allan} Take of Sage, Sallendine, Rosemary, Rue, Woormwood, mugwort, Pympernell, dragons, Scabious, Egremony, Balme, Scordium, Century, Cardus benedictus, Betony, Rosasolis, of each a good handfull, Angelica Rootes, henbane rootes, turmentyle, Zedourpe, Liquorish, of each halfe an ounce, slice the rootes and wash the hearbes, & shake them & dry them in a Cloth & shred them, put them alltogether in a gallon of white wine, & steepe them in it 2 dayes & 2 nights close couered, and then put it into an ordinary Still, & so still it, & when you take it let it be luke warme, & put some sugar in it 2 or 3 or 4 spoonefulls to a [childe] of the stronger, & 6 of the smaller, & to an elder more.
The Receipt for the precious Water of Wallnutt.
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Gather green wallnuts a good quantitie from the Tree in the beginning of June, breake them in a mortar, and distill them in a Stillatory of Glasse, & keepe that water by it selfe, & a fortnight after distill the like quantitie, then distill these together in a glasse Limbeck, & keepe it safe & close in a glasse.
1 one drop in the eye will cure and heale all infirmities in the eyes.
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100 2 It is good for unions that through weakness brave no children, taking one spoonfull in the morning - fasting 3 It changes the face if upwaft it therewith. 4 It helps the palsey being drunks with wine fasting 5 It procureth [?] wetting it [simply?] therewith. 6 It wonderfully hialsth botches and wounds. 7 It [?] all infirmities out the body living [?] moderately with wine. 8 It [prefereth?] life to ye [innermost?] nature. 9 It [reviveth?] wine being [diad?] if you pour it into ye vessel & stop it close.
Its calld the Brightness of all [?]
