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{An excelent medicene for the stone
Take as much powder of rosin as will lye
on a shiling in 2 sponfulls of cold whit wine}

A medecein for the stone

Take pelletorey of the wall one handfull of saxafray
3 parsley roots boyle them in white wine or aile one
handfull of marsh mallows a spoonfull of Crumwell seeds
feinell seedes & dill seeds of each a spoonfull take
the lickor & make a poset very cleare & soe let the
paitent drinke it

An aproved medeceine for the stoane

Take a carrot rootte & slise it very thine & lay
it in white wine & soe let it remaine for the
space of 2 dayes & nights & then straine it & let
the paitent drinke of it morning & evening &
this will helpe him

probatum est

An exelent drinke for the stone they
that take it shall never be trubled with
noe great fites of it

Take a quart & halfe a pinte of milke & a pinte
& a halfe of alle & make poset drinke therof
takeing of the curd as cleane as you cane then take
a handfull of marsh mallows roots scrape them & tak
away the pith on handfull of pelletory of the wall
& of Gromwell seeds Colliander seeds swete feinell &
seeds & aneseeds Careaway seeds of each halfe an
ounce bruse them a litell halfe a dosen of blew figes
Clised one handfull of rasons of the sune stoned
an ounce of licoras scraped & brused boyle all
thes together very well & put ther tow a pinte
of white wine & let it have a wallme or sow
after the wine is in & soe let the paitent drink
therof as ocaison semes very warme this by
gods blesing will doe much good

aproued

A receipt for the ston in the Kidneys or blader

Take of brooklime watter cresas pilletory of the wall rue
fetherfuw chickweed balme mallowis peneyroyall
cammamill bettenoy the topes of turnops of each 3
handfulls dock rootts & hors radish rootts a great handfull
halfe a pound of sheep suet boyle all thes together
in a pottell of 6 shilling beare & a quart of watter
boyle them & hower & a halfe then put your bladers in
a pall of cold watter then fill them with your hearbs
& lickewr & apply them nere the place greved & when
one blador doth begin to colle bake another & soe
aply them till the paine seeseth

an excelent receipt for the stone comended by Mr Joines

Take a coke a handfull of pelletory of Egeremony Betony Endive Sucrey of each halfe a handfull parsly
& fenill roots of each halfe a dosen boyl these well together & give the paitent of this broath take warme
about a dozen spoonfulls wth 3 spoonfuls of the surrup of Althea take this for [5] nights & mornings together
& slepe upon itt in bed if this doe not remove the [fets] of the stone take 5 grains of beater 3 nights together

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A medisine ffor the cough of the Longues

Take three peniworth of [Orkmennt] punne it small and mingle it with the
yolke of an egge then spread it thinn and a new linnen cloth or white
sheepes leather: then dry it in the sun or by the fire cutt a peece of it
as broad as toe fingers heate a tile red hott and lay it uppon the
tile tile and cover it with a tunning dish and let the patient drinke
put an elder pipe into the hole of the tundish and lett the patient
put the other end thereof into his mouth andsoe
receive the fume
thereof into his mouth soe longe as he can for spittinge and cough-
inge: then lett hime Rest a while; & take it againe it must be taken
in the morninge fastinge and fast a houre after it: and soe use it
five or six mornings together you may lay the tyle after it is hott
uppon a chaffinge dish one coales to keepe it hott: and you may alsoe
Lappe the peece of cloth or Leather about a little greene oke sticke
& soe lay it one the tile, that it may the longer in burninge.

The Lorde Aburgauennies Receipt for the Cough
& consumption of the Longues

Take of Anniseeds foure ounces : of Ellicompane and [ ] Rootes of eac
toe ounces of licorish chosen steaped and mundefied eight ounces Dry
them all: and beate them small and searse them finely: and putt
thereto a pound and halfe of pure fine white suger: sett it over a
soft fire of charcoale boyle them toe an Eler mary: your suger beinge
ffirst molten with bettany water: and soe putt it to your powders
stirringe it very well then putt it into flat boxes for your use
and if you will make it somewhat stronger you may putt thereto
the Longues of a ffox dryed: this is for cold causes: and wind
vescous and halfe the quantitie of the powders only to the suger.

Take ten or twentie grames of saffron with some new or sweete
wine: being a speciall remedy for the consumption of the longues.
Horehounde boyled in Water: & drinke openeth the longues liver
and spleene : clenseth the Breast and longues: prevaileth greately
against an old cough: the paine in the side: spittinge of bloud: the
Ptisick and ulcers of the Longues.

The kernells of pine nutts doe concoct and moderately heale: beinge a
meane betweene cold and hott : it maketh Rough parts smoothe: it is a
Remedie against an old cough: and longe Infermities: of the chest beinge
taken by it selfe or with hony: or with soome other lickinge thinge: it cureth
the Tissick and those that pine and consume away through the rottennes of
the Longues: it recovereth strenth: and it doth nourish: and is restoratiu
to the bodie:

Bay berries with hony or cutt are good in a lickinge medicine against
the Tissisk or the Consumption of tthe longues Difficultie of breathinge and
all kind of fluxes or Reumes about the chest. lentiles be naugh

Take of the best whete & barly of each a pinte of Jurden allmonds blanched
a pound: seethe them in three gallons of water to the halfe : then
streyne it and to the liquor putt of aniseeds licorish and eleicomepane
of each toe ounces Red Roses Hop maydenhere horehound coltsfoote
and parsly of each an handfull and boyle them to the halfe then
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