Take 4 quarts of Spring water 2 ounces of green liquorish sliced 2 ounces of powder of brimstone 1 ounce of coliander seed bruised and soak’d in vinegar a little then pour out the vinegar from it boyle all the other things together until it be half boyled away then put in the coliander seed when it is off ye fire. Soe let it stand close covered and drink of it 7 or 8 spoonfulls in a morning fasting fast an hour after it and drink it till you have taken it all.
34. For a Cough.
Take an ounce of conserve of red roses the quantity of an nutmeg of dyascordieum and one spoonfull of the Sirrup of poppies 3 drops and but 3 drops of ye spirit of vitterill then mix all these very well together and take of this in the morning fasting and fast 2 hours after it and last at night the quantity of a nutmeg at a time. Probatum.
35. For the Rickets.
Take 2 quarts of Isope water, take of liverwort maidenhair Hissop Speedwell Strawberry leaves violet leaves of each a handfull, 3 leaves of harts-tongue better than half a pound of raisons of the Sun 6 figs boyle all this till it come to a quart then strain it and boyle it again with 2 penny worth of saffron 2 ounces of brown Sugar Candie a piece of Gold a stone of Amber boyle it every 2 or 3 days or ’twill be soure and so keep it a fortnight give 3 spoonfulls at a time morning and evening & when the child will take it you must give it twice or thrice ere the child will be well if you give it in the fall or winter you must give it once in the spring after.
36. For Children that have Wormes.
Take spermint and rue a like quantity to make a bundle you can hold in the hollow of your hand and boyle it in new milk and a spoonfull of wormseed after your herbs have boyled a while put in your seeds and yn boyle it a walme or 2 then give the child as much as it will drink first in the morning fasting an hour after it if costive Sweeten it with honey give this full & changes of ye moon.
37. A Small but very effectuall Cordial Powder.
Take tormentil scabious Bittony pimpernel of each one handfull and Shread them and steep them in a pottle of sack till the vertue be out of the herbs then strain it out from ye herbs haveing a pound of the best Bole Armeniack in very fine powder finely searched then put your powder into a deep earthen bason and wet your powder with your strain’d liquor every day till it be throughly moistned as thick as a pulp or conserve till often weting hath dranke up all your liquor Seting it in the Sun every day oft stiring it and when all your wine is dryed up make it up into cakes add 12 penny worth of saffron to it before you wet it finely powdered dry your cakes in the Sun & then keep them for your use. Scrape and give to a man as much as will lye on a shilling to a woman less to a child less. In cardus or dragon or Small cordial water it will cause sweting tis good against heats and colds sickness thence or pains in the limbs or heart or Stomake or for a woman lying in child bed takeing cold and causeing stoppages, ’twill drive out small pox or meazels or any heaviness at the heart.