Wellcome Collection: Saint John, Johanna (MS4338)

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D:i: Dr Willis Diet Drink for the Scurvies & to purg the Blood to be taken in the spring Rootes of Polypodium of the Oke yalow Dock rootes shied and dryed each halfe a pound senna 12 ounces English Rubarb Halfe a pound Coriander seeds 4 ounces yalow sanders 2 ounces slice & bruise thes put them into a vessel of 12 galons of middleing Ale Tapp it at 8 dayes drink a pint more or lesse as it works and as the Age requires in the morning fasting A Plastir for Digestian that should have been here is in C:10 : by mistake To Deliver a woman of a Dead Child The milk of another woman drunk helps presently For Deafnes Dr Harrie The Juyce of Leeks Aqua vitte and a Branch of rosemary boyle this together & put into it a little Hony sering your Head and Ears thirwith For A Dropsey Take ye own water 9 mornings and cease 3 and begin againe allso a Few drops of oyl of Annis seeds in Tobbacco & taken in a pipe Another for A Dropsey A good Bundle of green Broom Burne it in a clean oven with 2 pound also of Juniper Berries save the ashes to a pint of them put a quart of rennish wine stop it clos 3 days powr it gently ofe & to 5 sponfuls of this take 2 of syrop of Lemmons morn -ing & afternoon

For Deafnes an Exellent Water

Iuyce of onions & Bttony each 6 ounces of the leaves of rosemary stampt m:i: oyl of bitter Almonds 3 ounces distil thes Drop 3 or 4 drops into the ears goeing to bed & it will help you.

For the Dropsey which hath done many great cures

In April take of the Iuyce of water cresses as much as will make Dough enough to serve 3 months wett flower with nothing else knead it well bake it exceeding dry eate noe other Bread especialy next your heart in the morning not drinking the hott Dropsey begins at the Belly body & Breast the cold which is most Dangerous begins at the Head & neck & fals down into the thighs & Flank Iolop & Dwarf elder & yalow Dock Root & mecoacan root all purg the water Also wormwood steept all night in wine & boyld a 3^d part away & Drunk in the morning & sweat after it purgeth water admirably Iuniper Berys horsredish root & elicampany root& Broom are all good for a Dropsey

A Poltis for a Dropsey to Apply to the Belly A peck of Barly meal as much water as will boyle it to pap when it is almost boyled as much red sanders as ounces i: stir them together spread it on a strong cloth role the party therwith before the lie very clos & hard this hath wrought great experiments also the plam distiled water of cucco pints distiled in April is good for Dropsys

D:2:

Dr Allin For Deafnes

To know the 4 causes of Deafnes the first is an obstruction in the orafica or Hole of the eare which is either hard & Black or Blackish & clamy upon the Dossel of cotton wool silk or lint the which must be twisted upon the end of the proba

The 2nd is an impstuma of a greenish culor unsavory smel at the end of the proba the 3^d is a Bladder of water at the hole of the eare like the Bladder of a Roach The 4th is a congelation it is known by the Dimnesse drynes of the Drum head or Timpanum or greynes of it & they that are thus trobled eare wax at all but the eare is perfectly dry sumthing scaly like Dandrew to know the Berrys wher of the Balsame is made to cure this 4 causes as also surfitts Bruses Rissing of Blood runing of the reighne in ward deseases coming of inflamation is or impostumations of the stomach or any other part they grow by river sides & in moyst places upon a long stalt or stalks by Ditches or ponds in clusters or Bunches like cherys being perfect red in culor haveing fine little smal Iagged leaves like straw Berrys but in culor blewish & the stalk blewish ther are 4 kinds of berys like thes but they have but 3 or 4 stons apece wher as thes have 30 or 40 stones in each of them & a perl on the Top of euery one of them they must be gathered in August or september be wave of Bruseing them in the gathering

Just them into an earthen vessel couer them with water boyle them til they swim but break non of them strain the liquor from them without breaking any of them then strain the Berrys thurow a reasonable thick cloth & strong for feare the seeds should come thurow this done put the Balsama into some close vessel

To cure the first cause caled an obstruction make an iniection with one pint of faire water & halfe a pint of red rose water & 3 or 4 drops of Balsame infused into the iniection water & when you dress the patient powr some of the water into the porenger make it as hot as you can well suffer it on the back of your hand when you iniect it into the eare which doe 10 or 11 times together at one dressing with your sering or wind instrument lay a napkin on the neck of the patient & hold a porenger to the eare to receive the iniection & obstruction then clens the eare very dry dress the patient with the Balsame a dossle being dipt halfe way therwith & put into the eare as farr as the patient can indure it leave it therin 24 howers this with gods blessing is cured in 4 days

to cure the 2nd kind

make your iniection with Beife Brine & sack lees boyle & scum them strain them throw a cloth 4 or 5 times double then drop into a pint of it 5 or 6 drops of your Balsama & make iniection with your sering & draw what wind

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you can out of the eare you can after euery iniection this being done 10 or 12 times clens the eare with a dry Dossle with cotton wool til the patient wink for you may draw to hard you may draw with your soaker 2 or 3 times at a dresing & the cure will be sooner effected for the [draining] brings away the humors from the drum Head this done dip the Dossle halfe wayin the Balsame & apply it close to the Timpanum leaveing it ther 24 howers this will cure in 3 weeks in sommer but in winter it require a longer time

The 3^d cause

Cut a pece of a spung as big as a finger & an Inch long wett it well in rose water then bind it about hard with pack thrid or brown thrid let it dry in the wind or sun then take the thrid from it & it will be as smal as a poynt tagg the which put gently into the eare as gently as can be suffred let not the party lean on the contrary side then drop into the eare a little of the patients own water & the spung will swel as big as before & therby breaks the Bladder of water then enter your serew against the midst of the Bladder of water twisting your screw from you drawing your hand towards you very softly & the Bladder will twist about the empty screw which being drawn out make an iniection with rosewater & white wine viniger of each alike 3 or 4 drops of the Balsame of the iniection iniect it as hot as can be indured holding the poringer under the eare to receive what comes out draw out all