The vertue of it.
It is good to anoint and tent all sores or wounds for it doth heal first at the bottom it will not suffer proud or dead flesh to grow in a wound it draws out thornes and splinters, it is excellent for bruises in any part of ye body to anoint the place outwardly or to take inwardly to drink 10 or 12 drops to a man or woman and half so much to a child in a spoonfull of ale or white wine posset drink and drink a little more posset drink after it 3 or 4 nights and mornings it will drive out any bruised blood out of the body you may give it to a woman after her travell it is good for deafness that comes by cold drop 3 or 4 at night and morning for 2 or 3 days together so used it will help an imposthume in the head break and heal it you may drop into the eye if it be bruised with a blow it is good to anoint ye throat for the swelling of the almonds and to drop into ye ear for ye toothache.
516. To stop Bleeding if a Veine be cut asunder.
Take the shell of goose or hen that the chick comes out of when hacht & make it into powder being first burnt and cast thereon & it stanch it presently. Probatum Est.
517. For the Jaundice.
Take a handfull of earth wormes and put them awhile in salt & water to cleanse themselves then put them into a quart of white wine to steep until they dissolve then strain them out then put to the strain’d liquor 4 penny worth of english saffron and let that steep well in it also and let the party grieved take of this liquor thus prepared a quarter of a pint first in the morning and at 4 a clock in the afternoon and last at night. Probatum Est.
518. Dr. Willis his electuarie for a Dead Palsey.
Take conserve of sage flowers, bittony Rosemary of each an ounce the flowers of turrica 2 ounces preserved Mirobalence number 2 preserved nutmegs 2 drams spirits diambra, Salt of wormwood, powder of pioney roots and of pioney seeds of each one dram white amber white corral prepared of each 2 scruples & a half with a sufficient quantity of sirrop of stœchas to make it into an electuarie.
519. His Whey for ye same Palsey.
Take bittony sage mugwort pennyroyall fumetory of each one handfull damask rose leaves 3 handfulls epythum 2 ounces corriander & sweet fennell seeds of each an ounce cut these and dry them in the shade and so keep ym for your use mixing them altogether one handfull of these herbs must be boyled in new whey a quarter of an hour & ye liquor drank when almost cold.