Medicines for the Impostume within a man's Body

Take young Walnuts, and stamp them Rinds and all, and lay a plaster thereof upon the Navel; and this will destroy an Impostume; as I face saith. Or take two handfuls of Clot, roots made clean, and seeth them well in half a gallon of good Ale or more, until the fourth part be wasted  away, and let it run through a cloth, but wring it not; and let the sick drink thereof three days, and then other three days; and if thou wilt, thou may'st put thereto Licoras. This is proved.

Medicines for a Fellon

Take Groundsel and stamp it small, then temper it with oil of Roses, and make it like a salve, and lay it to the sore, and this will heal thee.

To break a Fellon hastily

Take the yolk of an Egg, and Bay salt, and powder of Copperas, and lay it to the sore, and it will break it

To destroy a Fellon

Take Scabias a good handful or two, then take Sheeps suet and brown bread, and chop them together in all, then fry them in a pan, and lay it hot to the Fellon, and it finally destroy it.

Medicines for the Palsy that take away the Speech

Take Sage leaves and Primrose leaves, and if it be in winter, take leaves, and roots and all, of each a like quantity, beat them together, and strain them with Ale, and give it the sick to drink, a spoonful or two at a time, and it will bring the speech again.

For the Palsy:

Take and stamp [stamp] a handful of Sage, as small as may be, and put thereto two pennyworth of Treacle, and a pennyworth of Aqua-vitae [Aqua-vita]; temper them well together, and lay a plaster thereof to the Wrist [Wrift] of the hand, and in the Nape of the Neck; and thus thou may’st heal him that is lame of the Palsy in short time.

For the Palsy that maketh a man bed-ridden:

Take both the crops and blossoms of broom, and boil [leeth] them in good red wine till it be thick as Ointment [Oyntment], and then anoint all thy body with it, and use this, and it will make thee whole.

An excellent Drink for the Palsie. Protect divers times.

Take the flesh of a Fox new killed, and lay it all night in new Milk, and the buds of Rosemary leaves and flowers, and that great quantity, and half a handful of Harts tongue, and take away the thing that goeth along the back of the leaves, and a good quantity of Bugs, and a few small raisins; seth [seethe/boil] all them together with a gentle fire, and when it is forty days old, drink it fasting; it destroyed the Palsie, and maketh good blood

Restorative Waters

A most excellent Water to comfort the Vitalis, and preserve other parts of the body, made by Doctor Stephens.

Take a gallon of good Canary Wine, Ginger, Galingale, Cinnamon, Nutmegs, Graines, Cloves, Anniseeds, Fennell seed, a Dram Sage, Mints, red Roses, Time, Pellitory, Rosemary, wild Time, Camomile, Lavender, of each one handful, then bruise the spices and the herbs small, and put all into the Wine, and let it stand twelve hours, stirring it divers times, then fill it in a Lymbeck according to the art, and the first water is of more strength than the second, and both be the better by the standing in the Sun.

The virtues hereof

It is to comfort the spirits vitally, helps to the inward diseases of cold, the Palsy, the contraction of Sinews, the conception of Women, killeth the Worms within the body, cureth the Cough, Toothach, cold Dropsy, comforteth the Stomach, beliketh the stone in the Bladder, and in the veins of the Back, staieth a stinking breath. Whosoever useth this water ever anon, and not too often, it preserveth him in good liking, and maketh him from young very long: with this Doctor Stephens preserved his own life, until that extreme Age, that he could neither go nor ride, and kept him five years, when other Physicians judged it impossible for him to live one year.

To make Cinnamon Water

Take Rhenish [Rhenith] wine a quart, and Spanish wine a pint, Rosewater [Rolewater] a pint and a half, Cinnamon bruised [bruiled] a pound and a half; let it stand and steep [let them lie infused] the space of four and twenty hours, then distill it, and being close stopped and luted [sealed], then with a soft [fire] fire distill the same softly in a Limbeck [alembic] of Glass, and receive the first water by itself.

Also, if you be so disposed to make the same water weaker, take three pints of Rosewater, and a pint and a half of Rhenish wine, and so distill the same, and you shall have, to the quality of the stuff, the quantity of the water, which is three pints; but the first water is the best, and so reserve it to your use, both morning and evening.

To make Cinnamon Water another way

Take three quarts of Muscadine [Muskadine], and a pound of Cinnamon, and half a pint of good Rosewater, and so let them lie infused the space of four and twenty hours, and distill it as aforesaid, and you shall receive to the quantity, as to the quality, but the first pint is the best, and the chiefest of all the other, as is manifest by practice.

Medicines for the Morphew

Take Mustard made of white Vinegar, and let the Patient anoint himself withall where the Morphew is nine nights, and this will help him.

Or take and bray Sorrell, and drain it clear, then put to it as much sugar and honey as you do juice, and boil them well together over the fire, and then let them seeth till the sugar have the tall, then put to it one ounce of Vineger, and so dress it; and keep the medicine to eat.

Another for the same

Take an ounce of very good soap, and a peny-worth of Aqua vitae, and put them both into a Morter, and grind them well together, then take a handful of Eglantine, and stamp it, and drain it, and put some of the juice to the soap and Aqua vitae, and then take a course Canvas cloth, and rub where the Morphew is, and after annoynt the place with this medicine, and be whole.

For the black, Morphew

There be two kind of Morphews, the white and the black, the white is named Alborus, and for remedy for the black Morphew take this rule, that if the place be pricked and will not bleed, then it is not cureable, but if it will bleed, take of Rapes and Rocket, of each an ounce and an half, and stamp it with Vineger, and after that wash the place. Or take of the earth of Africk, and mix it with Vineger, and wash the place oft therewith, and it will heal thee.

Medicines to stop Bloud

 

To stop Bloud in a Vein

• Take a handful of Leaves of the little Burrs that stick upon a mans Coat, and are called Strachantes, and bray these Leaves, and lay them to the wound, and it will stop the bloud.

To stop bloud in a wound (instantly)

• Take Paper, Flax, or Linnen cloth, which is next thy hand, and burn it, and put it into the wound, the ashes thereof hot, and the bloud shall stop straight: Or if you will stamp nettle roots, and lay them to the wound, it shall be no more.

For a wound that is full of Bloud

• Take red Nettles and stamp them with Vinegar, and lay them upon the wound, and it will clean the wound, and do away the bloud.

To stop bleeding at the Nose, or in any other place upon the Instant

• If it be a man that bleedeth take a Leather point and tie about his stones very hard, and this will stop the bleeding straight. Or if his Arm or Leg be cut, bind the other Arm or Leg very hard, and the bloud will run to the other side that is most pained.

Medicines for burning or scalding. To get out the fire of burning or scalding

Take the whites of new laid Eggs, after the quantity of the sore, and put them in a peuter dish, and with a stone of Roch Allum, labour it about till it come all to a froth, then take a fine linnen cloth and wet it in Oyl Olive; or for lack of it in fresh grease or butter, and lay it next the sore, and then lay the froth upon the same a good thickness, and so bind it with a cloth, foure times dresse it, evening and morning, and the fire will be out.

Medicines for burning or scalding. For burning with wild fire

Take the dregs of Wine and Vinegar, and an Egg, both the white and yolk by even portions, and mingle them well together, and lay it to the sore, untill it be whole.

Medicines for burning or scalding. For burning with Gun-powder

Take Sheeps sewet, and Sheeps dung, and fry them both together, and so annoynt the place that is burned therewith, twice every day, and do not wash the sore with anything, for the medicine wil fall away of itself as it doth heale, and do not change the medicine in any wise.

Medicines for burning or scalding. For one that is burned with a Match

Take the same Match and burn it to powder, and strew the same powder upon the place, and this will heal it in short space.