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A seare Cloath for an ache
XXI
Take halfe a pint of the best sellett oyle, one ounce
and a halfe of white coros, a quarter of a pot of white
load, beat them [], put your oyle into a bread
pan & set it on the coals til it begin to boyle,
than put in your Coros stirring it with a long
stick till it looks like faire water, than put in your
loafs & stirr it til it looks blackish and dropp of it
til you can [rorlo] of it in your hand you shall see it
enough boyled by dropping it in fair water &
when it will [rorolo] you may make your soazeloaf
profeciently
A Diott drink for the dropsoy short
mindednefs or the rifsicks
XXII
Take one pound of liquorish, carroway seeds fruoot
correndor foods, annis foods, of each 2 ounces parffoy
one ounce unlofs the pationts can make noe stoole &
than half an ounce will [foros, allicpmpains zooks]
Pollipdiw of each 2 ounces bay berries 3 ounces,
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Rosemary, sage, thyme, burrage, hyssop wintor
savory, pennyroyal, woodbinds, [nrath wins] some
call it [wrathorwins], others call it sratenrins of each
one handfull , take 3 gaffs of spring water & boyle
all these together , till they come to halfe the quantity
when that is cold, straine it through a clean
cloate & put it into earthon bottles [] drinks it finalle
an hour before you eat or drink any thing else
in a mornings, one quarter of a pint at a []
A recipe for a redd face
XXIII
Take the juices of southernwood one large
spoonefull put it into a pint of strong alo
or halfe a pint of sacks drinks this by six
of the clock in the morning fastings, abstains
from eating or drinking untill tenn
then take southernwood & put a little vinegar
to it & eat it with bread & butter as sage & all
[] you may goo to diner, this is to be observ-
ed for tenn days together