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For the Dropsy

Take 6 long Broom=stalks, in all containing 6 Brooms
heat an Oven hott being cleane swept, let your Broome burn
to Ashes infuse it in a gallon of white=wine 24 hours let the
party drink of the clear when the Ashes are setled at the Bottom
morning & Evening, till it be spent then take the juice of
Scurvy=grass, & water=Cress a pint of each & let the party
drink of it, 3 spoonsfulls morning & evening till it be done

To make the oyntment of White=Roses

Take a quart of Larde & 3 pecks of White=Roses beat your
Roses very small & put your Larde, & Roses together then let
it stand 9 days close covered, then heat it with 3 spoon=
fulls of Red=Rose=water, & when you have beaten it over
the fire then let boyle softly, then take it up, & strain it for
your use, this is good for burnings or inflamations

For a Strain

Bake treacle and crumbes of bread a
quantity of sallet oile and boile these together
to a poltis and lay it to the place as hot as
you can suffer it