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For the Scurvy & Dropsy.
lxxij.

Take Six pound of the leavs of Sea & Garden Scurvy Grass
a pound & a halfe of Brooklime, as much of water-Cresses;
Stamp & Straine the Iuice out, put to it 4 pound of the roots
of Briany, Horse radish 2 pound, Wintrne halfe a pound, twelve
Lemons Slic'd thinn meat & Rhine 4 oz. of Nutmeggs grossly
bruis'd let all these Stand infusing 3 days in Eight
pints of Rhenish wine, then distill it.

Take 3 Spoonfulls of it ev'ry morning & Ev'ning:
you must abstaine from all Salt meats, Swines flesh,
Butter and wine. It is very good to wash your Eyes.

A most Excellent receipt to keep the Face
from Pitting with the Small Pox.
lxxxiij

Take a pound of Butter out of the Churne unsalted
a pound of Shuggar double refin'd beaten & Searced
put these two together upon a Slow fire to melt,
then beat it till it is thick, and keep your Face
annointing with it, that it may not be dry,
this is not to be vs'd ^till the Pox begin to crush.

Judge Ellis's receipt for the Stone
lxxxiv.

Take Saxifrage, Parsly, Thyme, Winter Savory
Iermander, Cammomile, wormwood, Penny royall,
Hyssop, Lavender, Fennell, of ev'ry one of these a
two good handfulls, chop them Small, and infuse

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Them 24 hours in 3 gallons of Small Ale, Slice
2 oz 3 Nutmeggs, & put to it Venice Turpentine
well wash'd in Red Rose water to the quantity of
a Walnut, and as much live hony, put all these into
a Limbeck or Still & distill them, keep a quart of the
first running by it Selfe, & a pottle of the Second,
and a pottle of the third, as as occasion serv's drink
the water, one Spoondull of the first, 2 of the Second
and 2 of the third, with 4 Spoonfulls of White wine and
nutmegg & Shuggar, 3 days before the full, and
three days before the Change of the Moone: it is
only to be made in the Moneth of May.

For the Ricketts
lxxxv.

Take three quarts of the Strongest Ale out of the Fatt,
put to it one oz of powder of Annise Seed, one oz of
powder of Lickoris, half a pound of Figgs Slic'd, half a pound
of Raysins of the Sunn Ston'd, a quarter of a pound of the
best blue Currans, one handfull of knottgrass, a handfull
of Cumfry, a handfull of parsley roots washed & Scraped
and Slic'd verry thin, boyle all these together till halfe
be consumed away, then Strayne it all out, and put to
it one Spoonfull of live hony, & halfe a pint of Muscadine
then Sett it over the fire again, & let it continue till it begins to
Symper, then put it into an Earthen pan, & when it is
cold bottle it, you must give the child 2 Spoonfulls in the morning
fasting, 2 after dinner when it goes to Sleep, & 2 at night going to
bed. this is to be continued till the quantity be all taken,