Medicines for burning or scalding

Take unflaked Lime, as much as you think is good, and flake it in common Oyl, and then take it out as dry as you can, and incorporate it with Oyl of Roses, and it will be as it were an oyntment, which you shal annoynt the place with, and in eight or ten daies it will be whole, and not leave any mark or scarr upon the skin, and when the party is first burned or scalded, because the other is not ready, take a little of the Lard of a Barrow.

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.