To make blew Ink.
Take fine flower, and grinde it with a little chalk, and allum, and then put it in a violl.
For an Ague.
Take a handfull of hartstong that groweth in the field, and a handfull of bay salt, and beat them both together in a morter, and lay this to both the wrists.
A water good against the plangs, or to be given after a surfet.
Take red Sage, Celendine, Rosemary, Hearbegrace, Wormwood, Mugwort, Pimpernell, Dragons, Scabious, Egrimony, Rosa solis, and Balme, of each a handfull, or like quantity by weight; wash and shake them in a cloth; then shred and put them into a gallon of white wine, with a quarter of an ounce of Gentian roots, and as much of Angelica roots; let it stand two dayes and two nights close covered, and then distill it at your pleasure, and stop the glasse very close in which you keep the same.
To avoyd urine that stopped with the stone.
Take as much black sope as a walnut, temper it with eight or ten leaves of English saffron, spread it upon a round leather as big as the palme of your hand, and cover the navell of your belly therewithall, and it shall cause you to make water.
For the stone and strangury.
Take the filmes that is within the mawes of geese, and let them bee purely dried, and then make powder thereof, and drink it with stale ale, and it will help him with Gods grace. Proved.