all Diseases._
Take halfe a pound of faire _Barley_, a gallon of running water,
_Licorice_ halfe an ounce, _Fennell_ seed, _Violet_ leaves, _Parsley_
seed, of each one quarter of an ounce, red _Roses_ as much, _Hysop_ and
_Sage_ dryed, a good quantity of either, _Harts tongue_ twelve leaves, a
quarter of a pound of _Figges_, and as many _Raisons_, still the _Figges_
and _Raisons_, put them all into a new earthen pot, with the water
cold, let them seeth well, and then strain the clearest from it,
drink of this a good quantity, morning and afternoone, observing
good diet upon it, it taketh away all _Agues_ that come of heat, and
all ill heat; it purgeth the _Lights, Spleene, Kidneyes_, and _Bladder_.
_To Cure the Diseases of the Mother._
Take six or seaven drops of the Spirit of _Castoreum_ in the beginning
of the fit, in two or three spoonfulls of posset _Ale_, applying
a Plaister of _Gavanum_ to the Navill.
_To kill Warts: an approved Medicine._
Take a _Radish_ root, scrape off the out side of it, and rub it all
over with salt, then set it thus dressed upright in a saucer, or some
other small dish, that you may save the liquor that runneth from
it, and therewith annoynt your Warts three or four times in a day,
the oftner the better, and in five or six dayes they will consume
away, _Sepe probatum_.
_For the Piles._
Set a Chafin-dish of coales under a close stoole chaire, or in a
close stoole case, and strew _Amber_ beaten in fine powder, upon
the coales, and sit downe over it, that the smoak may ascend up
into the place grieved.
_A Medicine for the Piles._
Take a little _Orpine, Hackdagger_, and _Elecampane_, stamp them all
together with _Boares_ grease, into the form of an Oyntment, and
lay them to the place grieved.
_A Diet for the Patient that hath Ulcers or
Wounds that will hardly be Cured with
Oyntments, Salves, or Plaisters._
Take one pound of _Guaicum_, boyle it in three pottels of _Ale_,
with a soft fire, to the consuming of two parts, but if it be where
you may have wild Whay, or cheese Whay, they are better. Let
the Patient drink of this morning and evening, halfe a pint at a
time, and let him sweat after it two hours. His drink at his Meals
must be thus used, put into the same vessel where the former was
made, to the _Guaicum_ that is left, three pottels of _Ale_, and not
_Whey_, let it boyle to the one halfe, let him drink thereof at all
times, and at his meale, which must
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