Take one pound of capers 1 pound of the best currants you can get boyle them in a quart & half of strong ale till half be consumed and take of this a spoonfull of each, capers, currants, & liquor & stir after it.
291. Mr. Walldrons ye Surgeons Cure for Green Wounds.
Roman vitriol apply’d not to the wound but to the blood of the wound wiped on a clean linnen cloth then put your vitriol on the blood ye last is best and when heal’d by this applications, bind your cloth (wrap’d up as wn you dress’d ye blood) to a stone & thrown into some well or deep water, then shall ye wound no more trouble you.
292. Mrs. Hellen Parrys Receipte for a Cold.
Take ye fairest orange you can get rost it at ye fire then put thereto a pretty quantity of Sallet oyle sweeten it with Sugar candie or Sugar drinking it 1st in ye morning & last at night.
293. An Electuary for the Green Sickness or Pain in ye Stomach.
Take half an ounce of rubarbe slice it and beat it very well, then take a quarter of a pound of blew currants wash them & dry them very well in a course cloth then beat them also very well, then take 2 penny worth of english saffron dry it and rubed very small then mix all these together & beat it till it comes to a conserve, so puting it in your gallypot & keep it for your use taking of it the quantity of a walnut 4 or 5 mornings together fasting eat not in 2 hours after it but walk on it add wormseed & liquorish in powders.
294. To Recover or Strengthen a Weak Eye Sight.
Take of cloves nutmegs, Grains of each half an ounce of english Saffron 2 penny worth of eye-bright leaves dryed in the Sun a handfull make all these into fine powder then take 8 or 9 raisons of ye Sun, stone them, then put into every of them as much of the powder as will lye on a penny eating them in a morning fasting not eating an hour after.