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A medicine for the pearle or webbe in the Eye
Take a good handfull of daysies, thre or fowr leaves of grounde Ivye
stampe thes together, streyne it & with Juce therof let the eye be
annoynted:

To breake a pearle or webb or other thicke humor growinge in the Eye:
Take fine Case ginger grated & put ^it in a sawcer halfe dull or less
of good rose water, annoynte the eye therwith when you goe to bedde:

A good medicine for a pinne or webbe in the Eye:
Take a good quantitye of reed fenell, as much Selandine, as much
Vervine, stampe & streyne them to the quantitye of a sawcerfull then
take pure honney the quantitye of tooe walnuttes & let it dissolve in
the same liquor & usse to put the same liquour into soore eyes goinge
to bedd with a feather & so rest uppon it, & at thre dayes end take a
new layde egge & put out all the meate & put into it the juce of
the yearbs affore sayde, & put therin olso a little white Coppres to the
quantitye of a beane or leasse & usse to dresse the eyes therwith &
at every thirde dayes end change it:

An other for the Eye when it is bloodshotten other
thicke or els growen to pearkle or webbe or any evell
Dissease that commeth of watry or any other evell humor:
Take a new layde egge & put out the yolke & leave a good quantity
of white in the shell, then put fayre runninge water into the shell
& almost fill it upp, then put a good quantitye of white Copres beate
very smale into it, seeth thes alltogether in the egge shell amongst the
imbers or smale cooles untill it consume the halfe or third parte, then
cole it untill it be but blood warme & washe your eye with the same
with a feather when you goe to bedd, but you must not dresse it to
often for it must have a time to heale & when it waxeth corrupt
agayne dresse it once in tooe or thre dayes:

Another Medicine for a Stroke in the Eye
Take the Juce of Smalledge & of fenell & the white of an egge, mixe
them well together & lay therof to the eye:

A medicine to Clarifye the Eyesighte
Take the gawles of swine, of an eele, & of a cocke, temper them well
together with honney & fayre water & keape it in a cleane glasse, for
your usse: when you have neade annoynte the eyes therwith:

{The End of Mrs Vernans medicins}
An other for Eyes that be bloodshott:
Take five leaved grasse, & stampe it with swines greace & a little salte & binde it to the eyes:

Finis:

For a Consumption
Take a pottle of goates milke, a quarter of a pounde of Synamonde broken in peaces,
a quarter of a pounde of dates (the stones pulled out & a handfull of redd oken buddes,
still all thes together in astill; drinke it in the morninge & at night w^th a little
suger, & it will helpe the patient:

An other for a Consumption:
Take a smale quantitie of Clarye, as mutch fine planten, & twise so much Comfrey, of
knottgras as much, washe them fayre & drye them in a clothe, then shred them very smale
& mingle thes herbes w^th the whites & youlkes of two eggs: season it w^th salt if yo^u will,
in sixe sponefulls of mylke, then frye it w^th sweete butter, then eate it & forbeare
drynke halfe an howre, if yo^u can:

An other excellent & approved
restorative for the Consumption:
Take of Aquavite strongly distilled a pinte or what quantitie yo^u shall thinke reasonable put
it into a pott or glasse w^th a wyde wouthe, put therto as much ripe strawberyes as may be
well covered w^th this aquavite: this done Cover yo^r pott or glasse wherin the same is w^th
a peece of leather, & tye it on close & fast, let it stand 40 howres so, then through a strayner
let the aquavite passe so longe as it will runne, w^thout pressing or forsing the same: this
Done, put that w^ch rann through into the same pott or glasse wher it was, & sett therto
more fresh strawberies as much as the same aquavite will cover & let it stand as
before; doe thus three or fower tymes w^th this a aquavite, & once aweeke take agood sponefull
fastinge mingled w^th the powder of suger Candy; not eatinge nor drinkinge in two howers
after at leaste; when the strawberyes have yelded so much of the quantitie as will from
them: yo^u must crushe out their Juice & keepe it in a vessell by it selfe, & therof nowe &
then take asponefull as of the other, but it will not laste so longe as the other; & is
more fitt for sommer:

To make salves for all soares
Take Rasons half apounde, & fower sponefulls of fresh barrowes grease, boyle it together very
softely, then take it off & when it is almoste coulde, put into it an ownce of turpentyne
& beate them well together till it be coulde: & when yo^u would dress any wounde, laye
this salve j uppon lynte, & so sett it on the sore, & dresse it twise aday; & if yo^u will
have it heale sooner, put as much waxe as Rason.

for an ache in the Backe
Take Egremony & mouse Eare, stampe it & temper them w^th vineger, then frye it w^th Barrowes grease, & make therof a playster, & lay it hott to the Backe:

An oter approved medicine for ache
in any parte of the Bodye
Take three sponefulls of Aquavite, & as muche of milkedyne make a mixture of these in
a sawser, & warme it on a fewe coles, this one w^th a fyne lynnen clothe annoynte the place
wher the ache is as hott as ever yo^u can suffer it; Use this every morninge &
Eveninge, for it will expell the ache: probated.

for weakenes in the Backe:
Take knottgrass, budds of oake & younge oaken leaves, Clarye & Comfrey, distill them
together; & afterward sett it in glasses: take thre sponefulls at a tyme ^every morninge
& Eveninge:

for wormes in Children
Take fresh butter unsalted, then take wallnutt leaves, peache leaves, sentorye & worme=
=woode, shred it small & boyle it in the butter aforesayd till it looke very greene, when
it is boyled, put to it asponefull of the gaull of an oxe & so keepe it in a pott
for yo^r use:

A water for melanchollye
Take Rosemarye flowers, & the leaves of Baulme the stickes of synamon, broken smale,
laye them in a lynnen lymbecke, a layinge of Rosemary & Baulme, & a layinge of
Synamon, still it allmoste full of white wyne, let the Synamon be moste, it wilbe
pleasant to drinke w^t wyne or of it selfe:

for the Collicke & the stone
Take the distilled water of mallowes II z of malmesey III z of the seedes of myllions, Cowe=
cumbers, & gourdes the ryndes taken awaye of eache one z of the kernells of peaches
Blanched