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.

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.