_An excellent Conservative for the stomach,
helping digestion, warming the braine,
and drying the Rheumes_.
Take two ounces of good old Conserve of red _Roses_, of chosen
_Methridate_ two drams, mingle them well together, and eat thereof
to bed-ward, the quantity of a hazell nut; this doth expell all
windinesse of the stomach, expelleth raw humours and venomous
vapours, causeth good digestion, dryeth the Rheume, strengthneth
the memory and sight.
_An Oyntmnt for any wound or sore_.
Take two pound of _Sheeps_ suet, or rather _Deers_ suet, a pint of
_Candy Oyle_, a quarter of a pound of the newest and best _Bees-wax_,
melt them together, stirring them well, and put to them one
ounce of the Oyle of _Spike_, and halfe an ounce of the _Goldsmiths
Boras_, then heating them againe, and stirring them all together,
put it up in a gally pot, and keep it close stopped till you have
cause to use it; this is an approved Oyntment to cure any wounds
or sores new or old.
_An excellent Oyntment for any Bruise or Ache_.
Take two pound of _May Butter_ purified, powre it out from the
dregs, and put to it of _Broome_ flowers and _Elder_ flowers, of each a
good handfull, so clean picked that you use nothing but the
leaves, mix them all together in a stone pot, and boyle them seaven
or eight howres in a kettell of water, being covered with a
board, and kept downe with weights, keeping the kettell alwayes
full of water, with the help of another kettell of boyling water
ready to fill up the first as it wasteth, and when it waxeth somewhat
coole, but not cold, straine the Oyntment from the Hearbs,
into a gally pot, and keep it for your use.
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