For burning, or scalding.
To take out the fire, beat onyons very small, and binde them to the place. To heale it, take halfe a pound of sheeps suet, as much sheeps dung, a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder tree, and a little Housleeke: fry them altogether, and straine it, and use it as a plaister, or make a serecloth of it, and apply it to the grieved part.
For Burstnesse of old, or young.
Take nine red Snailes, lay them betweene two tyles of clay, so that they creepe not nor slide away, and bake them in the hot embers, or in an oven, till they may be powdered, then take the powder of one of the Snailes, and put it in white wine, and let the patient drinke it in the morning at his rising, and fast two houres after, and drinke these nine Snailes in eighteene dayes, that is, every other day one. And if the sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes, begin againe, and drinke other nine Snailes, and he shall be whole. Probatum est.
A Salve for all sores.
Take a pound of sheepes-tallow, and a pound of Turpentine, and a pound of Virgin waxe, a pint of Sallet oyle, a quarter of a pound of Rosin: take also Bugle, Smallach, and Plantaine halfe the quantitie of the other, or so much as will make a pint just: boyle all these together upon a soft fire of coales, alwayes stirring it till a third part be consumed; then take it from the fire, and straine it through a new canvas cloth into an earthen pot.
For Bleeding.
Take a blacke Toade in May, drie it betweene two tile stones, and hang it in Sarcenet about the parties necke.
To procure sleepe.
Take Betony, Roseleaves, Vinegar, Nutmeg, and the crummes of Rye-bread: put this in a cloth warme to the poll of the head.