Medicines for the Gummes. A Water for a Canker in the Gummes

Take half a Pint of white Wine, and a quarter of a Pint of Water, and put thereto an Ounce of burnt Alum, and take a quantity of five leaved Grasse, otherwise called Cinque-Foyl, and put all these into a clean earthen Pot, and Set it over the Fire, and let it seeth to the half, and scum it clean, then strain the Liquor into some Vessell, and keep it in a Glasse till thou have need to occupy it.

Another for the same

Take Herb Grasse, and wash it clean, and dry it with a Linnen Cloth, and stamp it in a Morter, and put thereto strong red Vinegar, then strain it through a clean Linnen Cloth three times folded, of an Ell broad, wet it in the same Medicine, and lay it to the Sore within the Month, and if it be a very great Canker, take Alum, and beat it very small in a Morter, and put it to the said Medicine, to the value of a handfull of Herb Grasse, and this will heal thee.