Take the flowers or bloſoms of Walnuts, dry them in the ſhadow, and when the nuts be in ſeaſon to confect, you ſhall cut part of them into ſmall pieces, putting the ſame into ſmall Vineger for three days, then take them out and mingle flowers diſtilling them through a Limbeck of glaſs, or of earth, well leaded, keep this water diligently, and when any man feeleth himſelf infected with the Plague, give preſently to him two Ounces or three Ounces more or leſs as the party is in years or ſtrength, and he ſhall looſe his diſeaſe by ſtoole or by vomit, or elſe it will force the ſore to come forth, which you may ripen and break and draw forth the core and ſo heal the ſame as is before declared.
CHAP. 18.
To make a Carbuncle and all other Botches Impoſtumes and Plague ſores to break, a preſent remedy and very eaſie to be made.
Take bay Salt well beaten into powder and ſerced, incorporate it with the yolk of an Egge then lay it on the Carbuncle or ſore, and be you aſſured that by Gods grace it will take away all the venome and poyſon of the Plague ſore, ſo that in ſhort time he ſhall be cured; this Remedy hath been often proved.
CHAP. 19.
A very good Remedy againſt the Marks of the plague commonly called Gods marks or God tokens.
Take freſh and green Rhopenticum, which is the hearb and root called Themore or great Centory, it is named of Pliny, as Bulius doth write (Rhacoma) with the roots of the hearb called Sanguinaria dactillon, of ſome Dens Canis, of Dioſcordious it is called Coronopus, that is to ſay Crows foot, ſome take it to be Dandelion, take therewith the roots of Turmiltill, and white Dittany, of each of theſe an Ounce, ſtamp all well then put them in a pot or violl with clear water at your diſcretion, rather too much then too little, till it paſs three handfulls above the other things in the pot; then boyle it with a clear fire without ſmoak, untill one third part be deminiſhed then ſtrain it ſoftly into a clean glaſs and it will be of the colour of wine, when neceſſity doth require you may give the patient a glaſs full in the morning and another at night two hours before ſupper, but it muſt be very hot, then cover him well in his bed and make him ſweat, when the Marks come forth he ſhall become like a Lazer or a Lepper and by Gods bleſſing ſhall recover in a ſhort time and be perfectly whole.
CHAP. 20.
Againſt the mortality of the Peſtilence an approved remedy.
Take Gentian, Seduaria, roots of Turmentille of each of them two Ounces, Red Sandal, white and Recent, Ditany, Harts horn burnd, white pearl, bole Armoniack round Ariſtolochia, of each of them an Ounce, half an Ounce of Camphere, two Ounces of white Suger: of all theſe things beaten together into powder you ſhall take at every time a dram with three Ounces as Endive water, or Sorrell water, mixe the water and the Suger with the bigneſs of a Walnut of fine Triacle, you muſt miniſter this Medicine before the ſickneſs have continued with the perſon twelve hours for it is the ſurer, if the patient be an infant then give him but half a dram of it with an Ounce and a half of one of the ſaid waters, and with the like quantity of Triacle, this drink is neither ſolvable nor laxative, nor doth cauſe any grief to the patient but onely killeth the poyſon, if any perſon have drunk or eaten any poyſon it is a very good Medicine for him, it is alſo very good againſt a hot fevor or Ague, note alſo that if it be poſſible the patient muſt be let bloud before he take this or ſuddenly after.