eers Gall, Sallet Oyle_ and _Aqua vita_ of each five spoon-fulls,
boyle them together a little, and therewith annoint the place
pained, by the fire, and lay a warm cloath on it.
_An Oyntment for the Sciatica_.
Roaste a handfull or two of _Onions_, and take _Neats-foot_ Oyle,
and _Aqua vita_, of each a pint, stamp, or rather boyle all these together
to an Oyle, or Oyntment, and straine it into a gally pot,
and therewith annoynt the place grieved as hot as you can endure
it, morning and evening.
_A Water to drive away any Infection._
Take _Draggons, Angelica, Rue, Wormwood_, of each a handfull,
chop them pretty small, and steep them in a quart of _White-wine_,
twenty four hours, then distill them in a Still, and reserve the water
in a glasse close stopped; give to the sick Patient six or seaven
spoonfuls thereof at a time fasting, and let him fast an houre and
an halfe after, and keep himselfe very warme in his bed, or
otherwise.
_An excellent Conservative for the stomach,
helping digestion, warming the braine,
and drying the Rheumes_.
Take two ounces of good old Conserve of red _Roses_, of chosen
_Methridate_ two drams, mingle them well together, and eat thereof
to bed-ward, the quantity of a hazell nut; this doth expell all
windinesse of the stomach, expelleth raw humours and venomous
vapours, causeth good digestion, dryeth the Rheume, strengthneth
the memory and sight.
_An Oyntmnt for any wound or sore_.
Take two pound of _Sheeps_ suet, or rather _Deers_ suet, a pint of
_Candy Oyle_, a quarter of a pound of the newest and best _Bees-wax_,
melt them together, stirring them well, and put to them one
ounce of the Oyle of _Spike_, and halfe an ounce of the _Goldsmiths
Boras_, then heating them againe, and stirring them all together,
put it up in a gally pot, and keep it close stopped till you have
cause to use it; this is an approved Oyntment to cure any wounds
or sores new or old.
_An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache_.
Take two pound of _May Butter_ purified, powre it out from the
dregs, and put to it of _Broome_ flowers and _Elder_ flowers, of each a
good handfull, so clean picked that you use nothing but the
leaves, mix them all together in a stone pot, and boyle them seaven
or eight howres in a kettell of water, being covered with a
board, and kept downe with weights, keeping the kettell alwayes
full of water, with the help of another kettell of boyling water
ready to fill up th
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