CHAP. 27.
An excellent perfume for a chamber in the time of a Plague or Peſtilence.
Take of Storax, Calamica, Bengewine, Lignie, Aloes, of each an Ounce, five Ounces of Coals of Willow beaten into powder, mixe theſe things with Aquavitæ, as much as will make them into a paſte, make thereof little Cakes or what forms you pleaſe, and ſo keep them, when you uſe them put a little of them on a Chafing diſh and in conſuming them by little and little they will make a ſingular good Odour in the place where you burn the ſame.
CHAP. 28.
Againſt the Plague.
Take three Ounces of the Liquor of the inner rinde of an Aſh tree and ſtill it with three Ounces of white Wine, give the patient to drink of it every three hours and by Gods help within twenty four hours he ſhall be well.
CHAP. 29.
Another againſt the Plague.
Take three Ounces of Walnuts that be not yet full ripe, prepared and diſtilled at Midſomer, and let the patient drink thereof and he ſhall be whole, but it will be better to take the outward pills of Walnuts in September when they be black, ſo that they be not rotten, and diſtill them and give the patient a glaſſfull thereof to drink very warm he being let blood this will help him much.