_A Barley Water to purge the Lungs and
lights of all Diseases._
Take halfe a pound of faire _Barley_, a gallon of running water,
_Licorice_ halfe an ounce, _Fennell_ seed, _Violet_ leaves, _Parsley_
seed, of each one quarter of an ounce, red _Roses_ as much, _Hysop_ and
_Sage_ dryed, a good quantity of either, _Harts tongue_ twelve leaves, a
quarter of a pound of _Figges_, and as many _Raisons_, still the _Figges_
and _Raisons_, put them all into a new earthen pot, with the water
cold, let them seeth well, and then strain the clearest from it,
drink of this a good quantity, morning and afternoone, observing
good diet upon it, it taketh away all _Agues_ that come of heat, and
all ill heat; it purgeth the _Lights, Spleene, Kidneyes_, and _Bladder_.
_To Cure the Diseases of the Mother._
Take six or seaven drops of the Spirit of _Castoreum_ in the beginning
of the fit, in two or three spoonfulls of posset _Ale_, applying
a Plaister of _Gavanum_ to the Navill.
_To kill Warts: an approved Medicine._
Take a _Radish_ root, scrape off the out side of it, and rub it all
over with salt, then set it thus dressed upright in a saucer, or some
other small dish, that you may save the liquor that runneth from
it, and therewith annoynt your Warts three or four times in a day,
the oftner the better, and in five or six dayes they will consume
away, _Sepe probatum_.
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