Medcines for a Canker. For a Canker, Fistula, Wart, new sores, old sores, or wounds

Take a gallon and a half of running Water, and a peck of ashes made of green ashen wood, and sift them clean, and make thereof a gallon of Lie, and put thereto a gallon of Tanwoose, and a pound of Madder, and seeth all these to a gallon, and let your Pan be so great, that it be little more then half full, and when it riseth in the seething, stir it with a ladle, that it run not over, then let it stand three or four hours till it be clear, and then let all that is clear strain through a good clean cloth, and then wet a ragged cloth, and with a long Lint lay it to the sore, and this will heal the diseases aforesaid.

Medicines for a Canker.

Take Walwort and Waybred, Self-green Housleek, and Smallage, of each a like much, stamp them together in a leaden Morter, and strain them through a cloth, and mingle the juice with wheat flower, and honey, and the white of an Egg, and stir all these, and lay it to the sore.

Medicines for the Dropsie. For a swelling in a mans body

Take Betany and Sentory, of each a like much, and make Powder of them, and put of the powder in your drink, and in your pottage, and it will bring the swelling out of your body into Legs and Feet, then take Salendine and bruise him in a Morter, and lay him to the soles of your feet, and it will take away all the swellings of the Body through the soles of your Feet, by water running; and it is called a Dropsie.

Medicines for the Dropsie. For the Dropsie that swelleth

Take and eat water Cresse, and Raysons, and this shal make the malady come down to the Legs and Toes, then when it is in the Legs or Feet, take the green bark of Older in Winter, and the Crops in Summer, and Oatmeal, and lay it to thy Legs being sodden in fair water, and this will heal thee.

Medicines for the Dropsie. An excellent medicine for the Dropsie, made for Queen Elizabeth, by Doctor Adrian and Doctor Lasye

Take Polypodium, Spicknard, Squant, Ginger, Marjoram, Galingall, Setwell, of every one, one penny weight, Seeny, the leaves and cods, so much as all the rest, grosly broken into powder, and so put them into a bag, and hang it with a packthread in an earthen pot of two gallons of Ale, and every four daies cover the Ale with new Barm, and drink no other drink the space of a whole week, and this shall purge all ill humors in the body: this drink will not let the bloud putrifie, neither flegme to have domination, nor choler to burn, nor melancholy to have exaltation, it doth multiply bloud, and helpeth all evill, it purgeth the rheume, and mightily helpeth it, it defendeth the Stomach, and noursisheth it, profiteth and preserveth youth; and engendreth good colour, comforteth the sight, and nourisheth the mind.

Medicines for the Dropsie

Take a portion of water Cresse, and Sage, the greatest part of Mugwort, Hysope, red Fennel; of every one of these a like portion, wash all these clean, and let the water run from them, then take the same herbs and put them in a Past of a great pie, and the same Pie to be baked in an oven, and when it is baked take it out, and all hot put it into a pot of ale clear drawn after the portion of your herbs: Also you must cover your pot, to the intent the strength of the herbs come not out, but remain in your pot still, and work in the Ale, to make it so much the stronger, then draw off the said Ale daily, and let the sick drink thereof at all times, when you will day or night, when he desireth to drink, and within nine daies he shall be whole.

Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout a proved medicine

Take Civill sope, and two penniworth of Camphire, a sawcer full of womans Milk, of a man child, then put the Sope and Camphire into the milk til it be thick, then put it into a clean box or vessell, and let it stand twenty four hours, and then annoynt the Patient therewith cold, and ever lay the medicine above the sore to draw it downwards. This was proved upon Sir John Wilton and many others.

Medicines for the Gout.

Take six new laid Eggs, and rost them hard, and cut them asunder, take out the yolks, and where the yolks were, while the Eggs be very hot, put in myrrhe of Alexandria, it is to be bought at the Aothecaries, and lay one side of the Eggs upon another as you cut them, and lay them in a row between two dishes, and thereof will come a water and be in the dish, then take it out, and put in a glasse, and then dresse new, till you have some quantity of the Water, for six Eggs will not make above a spoonfull at once. This is proved medicine to drive away the pain of the Gout when it cometh.

Another for the same

Take the milk of a Cow of one color, and small Planten Leaves, and flower of clean Wheatmeal, and boyl them together, and make a plaister, and lay it to the sore, and this will help thee in short space.

Another for the same

Take Cows horn coming of a red or brinded Cow, a good quantity, and make it warm in a frying pan, and put thereunto half a spoonfull of the powder of a rotten post, or pole of Older wood, and stir them together, and bind them on the place aggrieved hot or bloud-warm, and lap it with a woollen cloth next to the medicine, and a linnen cloth over all to keep in the medicine: wash off this medicine when you take it off with Farrow Cow milk warmed.

Another for the same

Valerian, Coltsfoot, Oyl of Shomakers patches, Deers sewet, and as much of Neatsfoot Oyle as the other two, melt the Oyls and Deers sewet and then put in the two herbs, being chopped small, and boil them all together with agentle fire half an hour, and then strain them through a course cloth, and keep this oyntment and lay it on a plaister of the Oyl of Shomakers patches only spread upon thin brown paper warmed.

Another for the same

Take four onces of the Oyl of Lineseed, four ounces of Oyl of Worms, and the like quantity of the best Treacle, and mix them well together, and annoynt the place aggrieved, and also spread it on a linnen cloth, and bind it on all night.

Medicines for the Gout. A special medicine for the Gout

You shall buy at the Apothecaries Cantarides, which is a great fly, take of this a quantity, and twice so much sowre bread, the crums thereof stamped in a Morter with a little Vineger, so that you may make thereof a plaister, then stroke it upon a cloth, and cut it in the bredth of a penny, and lay it to the place where the pain is for the space of six or seven hours, then lift up the plaister with a knife, and let it lie half a hour, then again pull it off, and a blister will rise there, then let out the water with a needle, in the lowest place of the blister, and softly thrust it with your finger, and if the water be cold, it will be somewhat yellow, if the pain be new, it  will be white like the gelly of a Pig, then take the leaf of an Oak tree, and cut away the hardnesse thereof, and prick it full of holes, and lay it on untill it be whole, as soon as the blister is broken the pain is gone, but you must make the blister beneath the joynt.

Another for the same

Take a young Whelp in the moneth of May, and strip him out of his skin, and dresse him clean, then take a quantity of Water-frogs, and put them in his belly when his guts be out, and sow up his belly, then rost him, and take the dripping in an Iron Vessell, and when it is cold put it in a glasse, and therewithall annoynt the disease, and you shall be whole, by Gods grace.

Medicines for the Gout. An approved medicine for the Gout

Take a quantity of unwrought Wax, and four times so much Boars Grease, and as much black Sope as the Boars Grease, then take the Boars Grease first, and seeth it in a skillet, and then clarifie it, and melt the Wax by it self, and put them together with the sope, then take it from the fire and stir it a great while till it be like a salve, then make a plaister of sheeps Leather, and when your pain doth come lay on this plaister somewhat broader then the grief is, and let it lie on twenty four hours before it be removed, and you shall find great ease in it. This salve will be good a whole year, if it be kept close.

Medicines for the Gout.

Take Castle Sope, and scrape it into the barm of Ale, but the Ale must not be sowre, and stir the Sope and the barm together, and lay it upon the ach, and with a little cloth rowl it on, and when it swells take red Fennell and seeth it, and put to it butter, and lay it to the swelling; it must be butter unsalted, and use this, for it is very good.

Medicines for the Gout. For the festring Gout that maketh holes

Take the juice of rib grasse, and as much of the white of an Egg, and Rie meal, and mingle them together, and stamp them, and make a thick plaister thereof, and lay it to the sore, and let it lie still untill it fall away. Or take Rie flower, and mingle it with the juice of Walwort roots, and make thereof two cakes, and bake them, and then take one and do away the crust, and bind it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it, and when that cake is cold then take the other, and lay it to the pain, and this will heal it.

Medicines for the Gout. To take away pain of the Gout

Take the fattest Brach you can get, and scald him like a Pig, and take out the guts and garbage at one of the sides, then take nettles and stamp them with two ounces of Brimstone, four yolks of Eggs, four ounces of Turpentine, incorporate all together, and put it in the whelps belly surely sowed up, that no composition come out, then rost him with a soft fire, and keep the dripping that doth come from him, and annoint the sore place therewith, for this is excellent; and it will cease all manner of Convulsions of the Sinews or joynts, and pain of the Cramp that may be felt in any man: This medicine hath been tryed not only to heal the Gout, but to drive it away for ever.

Another for the same

Take half a pint of strong Vineger, and three Yolks of Eggs, and put them to the Vineger with a quantity of black Sope, and so let it stand three daies and three nights, and then mingle them together like a plaister, and lay it to the sore. Or take and stamp Walwort small, and seeth it with the lees of red Wine as thick as pap, and lay it to the sore wheresoever it be, if it be hot lay it on hot, if it be cold lay it on cold, and then annoynt it two daies after with Nerve Oyl upon the Sinews.

Medicines for the Gout.

Take a pint and a half of good Ale, and half a pound of black Sope, and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small, then mingle them all together till half be consumed, then put four spoonfulls of Aqua vitae, and let it boyl a little more, then take a cloth and dip it in it, and lay it the griefe as hot as he can suffer it, and be whole. Or take a pint of good Ale, and clarifie it on the fire, and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt, and stir it well a good while, put thereto two spoonfulls of black Sope, and before you lay on the medicine, take a linnen cloth, and rub it well a good while, and then lay on the medicine.

Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout cold

Take as much black sope as a Walnut, and as much herb grace made in juice to the quantity of the Sope, and as much of the juice of Salendine, and mingle them all together, and take sheeps Leather, and on the fleshy side lay on the plaister, and so lay it to the Gout three daies, and it will help thee.

Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout in the Feet

Take and stamp nettles, and lay them to the Podagra feet or Legs, and this will joyn flesh to the bone that is risen; but you must mingle it with salt, for that drieth up evill humors in short time.

Medicines for the Gout. Medicnes for the Gout appropriate in all causes

Take cow dung, and seeth it in sweet Milk, and lay a plaister thereof to the Gout: Also the yolks of Eggs, womans Milk, Lynseed, and Saffron all together in a plaister asswageth the diseases of the Gout, and if you be disposed to break the skin, and to let the humor issue out (as by such means many a one is eased) you shall make a little plaister of black Sope, and Aqua vitae, which will blister it without pain: Also very hare old cheese cut and sodden in the broth of a gammon of Bacon, and afterwards stamped with a little of the broth, and made in manner of a plaister, is a singular remedy for the diseses of the Gout, and was first practised by Galen the Prince of all Phisitians.

Medicines for the Gout. To comfort the Joynts and Synews

Take five or six handfulls of Walworts, and seeth them well in Wine, then strain them with a little wax, oyl of Spike, and Aqua vitae, make an ointment wherewith you must annoint the place morning and evening every day.

Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout, and all manner of Aches

Take of Clot roots two pound, and seeth them in pisse till they be tender, and then bray them and strain them through a cloth, and then take six Oxen galls, or Neats, and look that you have a pottle of unrine or more well strained, and then put thereto a quart of Oyl Olive, and seeth this together till it do come to the quantity of the Oyl, for this will work wonders in the Gout.

Medicines for the Gout. For the Gout in the hand called Chyragra

The cause of this impediment doth come of rheume, and evill dirt, and there be two kinds of Gout in the hands, the one is confirmed and cannot be made whole, for it do come by kind, and the joynts be broken, the sicknesse is incurable, the other which is not confirmed, may be made whole, as followeth.

Take of Colworts three handfulls, and seeth them with a little Lie, with three spoonfulls of Vineger, and a little salt, stamp all these together with the said little, and make a plaister thereof. Or take and eat Treacle, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the place, and mark if the matter do come of a hot cause, you may minister hot Medicines, and if of a cold cause, not hot medicines but cold, and let the patient beware of eating those things that may be over hot or cold.

Medicines for the Gout. An approved Medicine for the Gout

Take Wormwood, Smallage, Camomill, holy-Oak leaves, Horehound, of each a handfull, then take a pint of Neatsfoot Oyl, and half a pint of the Oyl of Shomakers patches, and boyl the Oyls together a little while, and scum it, and the herbs being well chopped, then put them into the Oyls, and let thm all boyl together a quarter of an hour, and strain it through a cloth, and keep it for your use: to this must be added Deers sewet, and two spoonfulls of Aqua vitae.

Medicines for the Gout.

There be four kinds of Gout, named in Latin, Chiragra, Podagra, Scyatica and Artetica: the one in the hands, fingers, and armes, the which is called Chiragra: The other is named Podagra and that is the feet, toes and legs: The third doth keep the huckle  bone, and doth run to the knee, and in processe of time descendeth to the ancle, and to the toe, and is called Scyatica: The fourth kind of the Gout, is named the Gout Artetick, the which doth run over all the joynts and parts of a mans body, and the Medicines of every one follow.

For the Gout

Take a pint and a half of good Ale, and half a pound of black Sope, and a handfull of bay Salt beaten small, then mingle them all together till half be consumed, then put four spoonfulls of Aqua vitae, and let it boyl a little more, then take a cloth and dip it in it, and lay it to the griefe, as hot as he can suffer it, and be whole. Or take a pint of good Ale, and clarifie it on the fire, and put therein a handfull of Bay Salt, and stir it well a good while, put thereto two spoonfulls of black Sope, and before you lay on the medicine, take a linnen cloth, and rub it well a good while, and then lay on the medicine.

Medicines for the Toe. For a prick of a Thorn

Take of the seed of Flax half a handfull, and a quarter so much Oatmeal, of Cummin an ounce, beat all these into fine powder in a brazen Morter, and seeth them in Vineger or lees of red Wine, or Claret Wine, or white Wine, and put thereto half as much milk, and let it seeth untill it be thick like Past, and then lay it hot to the sore, and if it be rotten, it will draw it out, and if not, it will dissolve it.

Another for the same

Take the black worm called a Shromp, which is commonly in horse dung, and make a slit in his belly, but kill him not, and lay it round upon the place where the Thorn is, or went in, it will be painfull for a time, but it will bring out the Thorn without fail.

Medicines for the Toe. For a prick of a Thorn or Nail

Take Chickweed, and seeth it in fair running Water, till it be tender, and then strain it from the water, and brbay it in a Morter, and put it in a bottle of milk, and put thereto Deers Sewet, or sheeps Tallow, and Oatmeal, and seeth it all together till it come to a Pultis, then wash the sore place with the water that the Chickweed was sodden in, and then lay the Pultis on a linnen cloth, and lay it to the sore. Or take the dung of a Gander new laid, and lay it upon the place where the Thorn is upon a linnen cloth, and this will draw him out.

Medicines for the Toe. To draw out a Thorn and heal the place, being red swollen, my Lady Audelies medicine

Take Smallage perfectly beaten in a Morter and put it to black Sope and Boars Grease and beat all together very wel, and make an ointment thereof, and spread it on a linnen cloth, and lay it warm to the sore place where the Thorn is, and bind it.

Medicines for the Toe. To draw out a Prick or Thorn

Take Dittany and grind it, and make a plaister, and lay it to the sore, and also eat or drink Dittany, and it will do the same: Or take black Sope and lay it to the sore, and it will draw out either prick or thorne, being well tempered with Birdlime, and so will Violets boiled in water and laid to the sore. Or take stone crop and stamp it, and lay it to the point of a thorn, and this will draw it out without fail.

Medicines for the Toe. For the prick of a Thorne

Take Southernwood and stamp it, and mingle it with fair Barrows grease, and lay it to the Thorn, or pricking of any venemous Beast. Or take Brooklime, Smallage, Sheeps Tallow, Bay Salt, and your own urine well sod together, and lay it the sore place where the Thorn is.

For chapped hands

Take Mastick, Frankincense, new Wax, and Oyl of Roses, and make thereof an oyntment, and annoint thy chapped hands, and this will make thee whole.

Another for the same

Take Rose Water, and Oyl of Almonds, and a little Wax, and melt them together, and make an oyntment thereof, and annoint thy chapt hands, and within four times annointing, they shall be whole.

For aking of the Wrests

Take and stamp Mugworth with Swines grease, and put verjuice thereto, and lay it to the grief, and this will help the akings, Or take Planten leaves, and stamp them with a little salt, and this is good if it be swollen, Or take the Bran, and the Powder of Dyne, of each a like much, and seeth them in Wine, and put a little Oyl thereto, and make it thick, and lay it to the sore, and this will heal thee.

For aches in the Armes

Take Searcloaths that be atractive, or take the Oyl of Turpentine, and mix it with Aqua vitae, and annoint the place therewith.

Medicines for the Toe. To make a Nail

Take Cinquefoil and bray it with any grease, and lay it unto the Nail, and this will bring the Nail again.

Medicines for the Toe. For a Corn on the Toe

Take a black Snail, and rost him in a white cloth, and when he is rosted lay him to the corn hot, and it will heale thee in short time. or take a sharp knife, and cut the Corne cleane away, and pick out the little white pith that is within him, and when you have so done, lay a little Turpentine unto it, and be whole.

Another for the same

First pare the Agnails or Corns with a sharp knife to the quick flesh, that it bleed, then wipe away the blood, and drop into the place red Wax, and let it be till it be consumed, this will heal your Corn within twice or thrice serving so.

Medicines for the Legs. For a swelling in any place

Take Hogs Dung, Pigeons Dung, and Sheeps Tallow, Chickweed and Smallage, and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey, or in Malmsey, or for lack of this in his own water, and when it is well boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling, and this will abate the swelling, and ease the pain.

Medicines for the Legs. To cool a hot sore leg, and to abate the swelling

Take red Coal Leaves, Sage and Smallage, well stamples & medled together with sowre dough, and Honey, and lay it to the sore. Or take horse Dung newly made, and wring out the juice therof, and annoint the sore therewith a good while, and then take Violet leafes and Houseleek, and stamp them, and strain them, and put to that juice sweet Cream, and annoint the sore therewith, and it will destroy the great heat.

Medicines for the Legs. For great aking of Bones in the Feet, or elswhere, the best Medicine

Take Baldare one ounce, and put it in your pottage, and eat thereof, for this is very good for aking of Bones, and also to restore a man that is in Consumption in short time, if you will use it.

Medicines for the Legs. For an ach in the Feet, or if his limbs were taken from him

Take wool Oyl, or rather another Oyl, and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae, and beat it together, and chafe it against the fire, and all to rub the sore and dead place, and in short time it will be whole.

Medicines for the Legs. For a red swelling in the Foot

Take Beane meal and Barley meal with water, right thick and well, and make a plaister, and lay it to the swelling. Or take Turpentine and Vineger, Honey, white Wine and Bran, and seeth all these together well untill they be thick, and then lay it to the swelling: or take else Parsley, Sage, and Rue, and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon, and gray snails, and lay it to the sore, and it will gather to heal. Or take Rose leafs, and Linseed, Milk, and Oatmeal, and fry all these together, and lay it to the sore.

Medicines for the Legs. For a swollen Leg

Take oatmeal and seeth it in Milk, as you would make pottage therewith, and put thereto a handfull of mallows chopped small, and the juice of Sengreen, and sheeps sewet, and let it boyl together till it be thick, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the sore Leg, and be whole.

Medicines for the Legs. The best Medicine for aking of bones in the Legs, or Joynts, or elswhere

Take a quarter of a pound of Dill, and beat it to powder, and put thereto a quart of good white Wine, and let it seeth till half be wasted away, then put thereto a pint of Oyl Olive, and let them seeth together, and then strain it, and keep it to annoint the sore place withall, and this will cease the pain anon: this is called Oleum Vnamico; keep it well in a glasse, for this is proved.

Medicines for the Legs. For a vein or Synew sprung in the Leg, or elswhere

Take Dill, Vervain, Mallows, and the crops of red Nettles, and seeth all these in running Water, and after chop them small, and lay them hot to the Leg, as he can suffer it.

Medicines for the Legs. To heal a sore Leg coming of an old cause

Take flowers of Camomill, or Camomill, and a good handfull of Mallows, of Wormwood, of Grunsell, and Sage, of every one half a handfull, and beat all small in a Morter, and seeth it in Milk, and put thereto in the seething Vincreeck seed in powder, half a handfull of Anniseeds, and Fennell seeds one ounce, a little May-butter, four or five yolks of Eggs, and seeth all together, and the same Eggs in the latter end of the seething, and so let it seeth till you come to a thicknesse: You may in the latter end of the seething put in a pint of red Wine to comfort the Synews: take the Camomill and Mallows of each a handfull beaten in a Morter, with Oatmeal and Milk sodden together, and let it boil to a thicknesse.

Medicines for the Legs. A Medicine for a leg that is swollen, and is not red, but will pit after ones finger

Take Chickweed and Peillitory, of each an handfull, and instead of Vineger take dregs of Wine, and put thereto Sheeps tallow, a pound chopped, and Cows milk at your pleasure, and seeth them as before written, until it be soft, and bind it to the swollen leg.

Another for the same

Take a quart of red Wine, and crums of Rie bread, and seeth them together till it be like a plaister, as hot as you can suffer it lay it to the sore Leg, upon a fair cloth, and when that is done, take another; and so till you have taken four, and this will help you.

Medicines for the Legs. A pultis for a sore Leg which is swollen red, and doth prick and ake.

Take Houseleek, Maslows, Lilly roots, and Smallage, dry red Rose Leafs, of each a good handfull, Oatmeal two handfulls, Lineseed, Vinecreet seed, of each a handfull, good Ale dregs, and Vineger, of each a pint or more, white Wine a pottle, more or lesse, seeth the foresaid stuffe very softly, and make thereof a Pultis, and lay it to the Leg.

Medicines for the Legs. For a sore Leg

Take unwrought Wax, and a little sheeps Tallow, and seeth them together with a little white Coperas, and strike it on a cloth, and so lay it to the sore. Or take Elder Leaves, those that grow one side the leaf longer than the other on the stalk, then the other doth, these be very good for a sore Leg, both to heal and these be leafs best for mankind.

Medicines for the Legs. A Plaister for swollen Legs, or when you have no feeling in them

Take a pound of Pitch, and half a pound of Wax, and half a pound of Dears sewet, or Sheep sewet, and boil all these together, then strain them through a linnen cloth, and so make a plaister of white Leather, of the bignesse of the sore place, and let it lie to the sore three or four daies, and then if it not be whole make another plaister, and lay it again, and so dresse it till it be whole, for this will bring feeling again, and mollifie the humor, and asswage the swelling.

Medicines for the Legs. Medicines for the Legs that be swollen

Take Wormwood Southernwood, and Rue, of each a like much, and stamp them together, and fry them with fair Honey, till it begin to wax dry; and as hot as you may suffer it lay it to the Legs or Hands, and this will asswage the swelling.

Medicines for an ach or swelling in the Knee. For the Gout in the Knee

Take the milk of a Cow of one colour, and wheaten flower, and seeth it until it be thick like a plaister, and put thereto the juice of Smallage, and lay it to the Gout, and be whole.

Medicines for an ach or swelling in the Knee. For an ach that doth come from an old bruise

Take a pottle of Running Water, and a pint of Bay Salt, and boil them till half be wasted, then thick it up with Bran, and lay it to the sore. or take and seeth the juice of Nightshade in Butter and Oil, and scum off the froth, and keep the same for a precious Jewell to use when you have need. Or take and seeth Oatmeal in white Wine, and lay it plaisterwise to the sore Knee, and it will help thee shortly.

Medicines for an ach or swelling in the Knee.

Take Rew and Lovage, and stamp them together, and put thereto honey, and lay it to the sore. or take Lovage, Smallage, and Sheeps tallow, and lees of white Wine, and boyl all together, and lay it to the sore on a cloth. Or take Milk and Oatmeal, and dry Rose leaves, and seeth them together, and lay them to the sore hot, and be whole.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe. For Synews that be shrunk in the Thighes, or elswhere

Take young Swallows out of the nest, to the number of twelve, then take Rosemary, Lavender-Cotton, and Strawberry leaves, strings and all, of each a handfull, and bray the the Swallows in a Morter, guts feathers and all, with the herbs, till they be small, and then fry it again in a Frying Pan, with May butter, and then strain it, and when you will occupie it, chafe it against the fire.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe. For Thighes that be swollen

Take Hens dung, or Pigeons dung, and Sheeps tallow, and Chickweed, and Smallage, and beat all together and fry it with lees of Malmsey, and so lay it hot as you can suffer it to the swelling.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe. To make an ointment to asswage the swelling, and to keep Synews from shrinking

Take clean Barrows Grease, and a good quantity of Sage, and boyl them together upon a chafing dish of coals, and when the Sage is dry, strain it through a cloth, and annoint the place therewith.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe. To knit the synews and veins of the Thighes, or elswhere, when they be broke

Take great worms of the earth, and put them in sallet oyl, and with a little Spodonesos that pedlars have to sell, work them togther, and lay them to the wound, and let it lie nine daies, and remove it not, and it will knit both Sinews and Veins together. This is proved.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe. For aking of the Bones of the Thighes

Take a pint of white Wine, and the Gaul of an Oxe, and boyl them well, and scum them clean, then take crums of white Bread, and put thereto, and make it in a plaister, and lay to the sore two or three times, and be whole.

Medicines for the Thighes that be stiffe.

The Brooklime, Horehound herb, John Sheeps Tallow, Swines Grease, and a Horse turd that is new made, beat it all together, and lay it the sore.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. A Glister

Take of Endive, of Succory, of Violet Leafs, of each a handfull, of Cummin seeds, and oAnnisseds being bruised small, of each a little, boyl them in sufficient water as will boyl them tender, then strain the herbs from the liquor, and take three parts of the water, and one part of milk, putting into it a little salt, a spoonfull of Honey, and as much Oyl Olive, if you will make it stonger you may put an ounce of Cassia Fistula extract.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. An excellent Medicine for the Hemeroids or Piles

Take a stamp Dandelion and Daysies together, and then strain out the juyce thereof into good Ale, and drink thereof, and it will help thee.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Hemeroids, an approved Medicine

Take a gray Cat, and cut her Throat, and save her blood, then flea her, and rost her, and save the grease, then fry the grease and the blood together, and lay it to the sore thrice as hot as the Patient may suffer it and it will help him.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Hemeroids

Take the juyce of red Nettle leaves, and a little Deer suet, and heat them together in a Sawcer till it be somwhat green, and anoint the place with it.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Emeroids that have pappes

Take and bind about the Pap a red silk thred, and cut away the pap above the head, and leave the thred fast, and lay a plaister of Wormwood upon the same, and this will heal it. Probatum est.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Piles

Take Scabias, and boyl it in water until the water be consumed almost, and let him that is sore, hold his fundament over the fume of the said water as hot as he can suffer it, and be whole.

Another for the same

Take aqua vitae cold, and wash the piles therewith, and take cotton linnen and burn it, and lay the powder thereof to the piles upon a linnen cotton cloth as often as you be grieved. Or take wormwood and grind it in a morter small, and then fry it in Oyl Olive, and make a plaister thereof, and lay it to the sore as hot as you can suffer it, and this will cease the bleeding and aking.

Another for the same

Take a quart of White Wine, and the tops of Elder buds, and Honey, and boyl them well together, then strain them, and wash the place therewith, and this will heal you in short space.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Emeroids

Take an onyon, and cut off the top thereof, and take out the hart of the onyon, and fill up the place with the juyce of unset leeks, and then rist it in the fire, and with the juyce thereof anoint the sore, and lay all hot thereto. or take bran of wheat, and fry it in sheeps tallow and put it in a bagg or pocket, and lay it to the sore, or let the sick sit thereon, and this will help you.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids. For the Piles or Hemeroids

Take a pint or a quart of Linseed Oyl, and put into it as many Cray-fish as it will hold, then boyl them, and let them be very well beaten in their shells in a Mortar, and then put them into the oyl again, and let them boyl as formerly, then strain them hard from the oyl, and cast them away; then fill the oyl with as many of the young tops or tender buds of Elder, or the young fresh leaves, and let them boyl in them till they begin to be crips like fryed Parsly, then strain that very hard from the Elder, and reserve that for an excellent medicine to anoint the Piles; or moistning a little Cotton, keep it close trussed up, and it will quickly help them. It is also a soverain medicine for any Burning or Scalding.

Medicines for the Piles and Emeroids.

The Emeroids or the Piles the which be vains in the extreme parts of the Longation, to whom doth happen divers times 2 sundry passions, the first is like paps and tetts, and they will bleed, and they be the very Emeroids, the other be like wartes, and they will itch water, and smart, and they be called Piles; and in the same place doth breede other infirmities, as come of malicious humours in the Maw and Entrails, or it may come of a cholerick humour.