therewith, it is the
better.
_For the Emroids_.
Take _Egremony_ and bruise it small, and then fry it with _Sheep
suet_, and _Honey_, of each a like quantity, and lay it as hot as you can
suffer it to the Fundament, and it will heale very faire and well.
_An approved medicine for the Dropsey_.
Take the Hearb called _Bitter sweet_, it grows in waters, and bears
a purple flower, slice the stalks, and boyle a pretty deale of them
in _White-wine_, drink thereof first and last, morning and evening,
and it will cure the _Dropsey_.
_A Powder for Wounds_.
Take _Orpiment_, and _Verdigreese_, of each an ounce, of _Vitriall_
burned till it be red, two ounces, beat each of them by it selfe in
a brasen Morter, as small as flower, then mingle them all together,
that they appear all as one, and keep it in bagges of leather,
well bound, for it will last seaven years with the same vertue, and
it is called _Powder peerlesse_, it hath no peer for working in
_Chyrurgery_, for put of this powder in a wound where is dead flesh,
and lay scrap't lint about it, and a Plainer of Disklosions next upon it,
and it will heale it.
_An approved Medicine for the Green sicknesse_.
Take a quart of _Clarret_ wine, one pound of _Currants_, and a
handfull of young _Rosemary_ crops, and halfe an ounce of _Mace_,
seeth these to a pint, and let the Patient drink thereof three
spoonfulls at a time, morning and evening, and eat some of the
_Currants_ also after.
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