Take 6 gallons of water and 12 pound of powder Sugar and the whites of 12 eggs well beaten, mix all these together and set it over the fire, stiring it first then let it boyle one quarter of an hour then take a bushell of cowslip flowers then bruise them in a stone morter then scumme the liquor and put it to ye cowslip; cover it and put 2 lemons rine and all cut very thin, put as much of ale barme as will make it worke then tun it up into a runlet and put into it 2 quarts of rennish wine, and when it hath done workeing stop it up a fortnight, yn bottle it with a knob of Sugar in each bottle.
43. To make the Eye Water.
Take Eyebright and Sallendine and brown fennell of each two handfulls you must chop these herbs take a pint of urin made by a vergine and a pint of red rose water and still it in a cold still tis good to put back ye rume in ye eyes or to take away any spot in the eye you must take and drop half a dozen drops into the eye untill it run out at ye other corner this do every night for 3 nights let it rest a week and then if need require you may dress it again it will keep a year very well.
44. For the Rickets.
Make a Sack posset boyle in it harts horn Ivery and rosemary and give it the child now and then, also take a quart of wort put into it a handfull of maiden hair one handfull of liverwort that grows on the banks half a pound of raisons of the Sun Stoned boyle all together to the wasting of one quarter put into it a penny worth of red Sanders, Strain it and put to it 2 ounces of red sugar candie boyle it a little again give the child 3 spoonsfulls of it at night and 3 spoonfulls every morning.
45. An Ointment for the Rickets.
Take lavender rosemary pennyroyal featherfew and camamile of each a like quantity cut and bruise them and then boyle them in a sufficient quantity of butter and make it into an ointment, mix it in a little neats foot oyle wherewith anoint the child’s wrists and ancles every morning and night also the right side under ye short ribs.
46. To Kill a Canker.
Take 2 spoonfulls of honey and one spoonfull of treacle and half as much rock allum as the quantity of a wallnut beat to fine powder and boyle these together over a cheafen dish of coles till it be pretty thick then take it off and let it coole then anoint the cankers with a cloth tyed upon a stick the oftner you anoint it the better twill be you must keep stiring it as long as it doth boyle, it will be like a sirrup when tis cold.