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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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