ll noon, or at least two hours; doe
the like at night, and use it so three dayes, and it will kill and overcome
any poyson.
_Doctor_ Lewin's _Unguentum Rosatum, good
for the heat in the Back._
Take a certain quantity of _Barrowes_ grease; Oyle of sweet _Almonds_,
and _Rose-water_, either red or damask, of each a like quantity,
but of neither so much as of the _Hoggs_ grease, beat them together
to an Oyntment, put it in some gally pot, and when you would use it,
heat it, and therewith annoynt the Back and Reins.
* * * * *
_Of Beanes._
_To defend Humours._
Take _Beanes_, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise
them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make
it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the
Eyes.
_To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians
greatest secrets._
Take a peck of green _Beane_ cods, well cleaved, and without
dew or rain, and two good handfulls of _Saxifrage_, lay the same into
a Still, one row of _Bean_ cods, another of _Saxifrage_, and so Distill
another quart of water after this manner, and then Distill another
proportion of _Bean_ codds alone, and use to drink oft these two
Waters; if the Patient be most troubled with heat of the Reins,
then it is good to use the _Bean_ codd water stilled alone more often,
and the other upon comming downe of the sharp gravell or
stone.
[Illustration: Beanes]
_Unguentum Sanativum_.
Take of _Terpentine_ one pound, _Wax_ six ounces, Oyle of _Cammomile_
halfe a pint, put all these together in a pan, and put to them
a handfull of _Cammomile_, bruised, or cut very small, boyle them
upon a soft fire till they be well melted, and no more; then take
it from the fire, and strayne it into a clean pan, and so let it coole
all night, and in the morning put it up for your use. This Oyntment
is good for any cut, wound, or breaking of the flesh, it eateth
away dead flesh, and ranklings, and doth heale againe quickly.
_A Serecloath for all Aches_.
Take _Rossen_ one pound, _Perrossen_ a quarter of a pound, as _Mastick_
and _Deer sewet_ the like, _Turpentine_ two ounces, _Cloves_ bruised,
one ounce, _Mace_ bruised, two ounces, _Saffron_ two drams, boyle
all these together in Oyle of _Cammomile_, and keep it for your use.
_An Oyntment to be made at any time of the
yeare, and is approved good, and hath
helped old Paines, Griefes, and
Aches._
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