For scald heads.
Take green Coperas, and mingle it with creame till it bee turned yellow, and let it stand three or foure dayes: then take primrose roots, leaves and all, with May butter, and beat the roots and leaves in the butter, and boyle them together with a little beere and butter, and let it touch no salt.
To cure an old Vlcer.
Take a quart of the strongest Ale that is to be gotten, or brewed, halfe a pint of raw honey, two ounces of roch allum beaten, halfe a pint of Sallet oyle, and the quantitie of a Tennis ball of common washing Sope, one ounce of stone pitch beaten; one ounce of Rosin beaten, two ounces of yellow waxe: boyle all these together, and straine them through a thin linnen cloth; and this will cure any old Vlcer.
A Water to cleanse, and mundifie old rotten sores and ulcers.
Take a wine pint of stilled water of Planten, as much white wine; put therein two ounces of Roch allum, a dramme of Verdigrease, a dramme of Mercurie sublimed: boyle all these together, and keepe them in a thicke glasse being stoped with waxe very close that the strength go not out; this will cleanse and mundifie old sores: It will also heale a Fistula if you use a siering, so that the water may come to the bottome of the sore.
The Medicine of medicines proved for the Stone.
Take a quantity of eg-shels, wash them cleane; those are the best whereout chickens are come; dry them very dry in an oven, or betweene two tile stones; then make powder thereof, searce it, and mingle it with sugar, or powder of licoras to give it taste, and let him use it as often as hee needeth, morning and evening, either with Rhenish wine, white wine, or stale ale, a spoonfull of the powder at a time, and use to make water in a cleane bason, and so you shall see the deliverance hereof.
A precious water for the sight.
Take Smallage, Fennell, Rew, Verveine, Egrimony, Daffadill, Pimpernell, and Sage, and still them with breast milk together with five drams of frankincense, and drop of it in your eyes each night: often proved.