30pThe vertues of Dr. Stephens water.

It comforts ye spirit helps all manner of desease

yat comes of cold. ye shaking of ye pallsye. it caused

a woeman to conceiue ya was long time barren. it

5kills wormes in botty. cures ye old goute. helps

ye toothake. comforts somack very much. cures ye

old dropsy. helps stone in bladder raines or back.

helps a stinking breath. keepes a man bug in good

liking being now and yen taken. makes a man seeme

10yong very long. a spoonefull of it better yan 3 spoon=

=fulls of ye best aqua vita as can be gotten. cureth

ye contraction of ye sinews.

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A Powder to preserue one from ye plaug.

15Take betony pimpernell sinkfoyle scabious of

each a like quantity and dry yem all, and beate yem to fine

powder, and if you be where any infection of ye

plaug is, drink some of ye powder in ale warme

next youre harte 2 mornings in a weeke, and if ye

20infection be great take it every morning.

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To driue out ye plaug if think you be infected

Take ye rootes of dragons and ye rootes of polypodium

of ye oake of each a like quantity and dry yem in an

25oven, and yen beate yem to powder, and if you think you

be infected with ye plaug take as much of ye

powder as will lye vpon a groate, and put it in

a cup of ale and drink it in ye morning next youre

heart, and it will driue out ye plaug.

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For ye same

Take jane treacle and redding and stir yem together with

ginger clous and a litle saffron and giue it ye partye

infected.

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A soueraine drink made of herbes to helpe ye spleene and cleanse ye bloud.

Take Harts toung wild hop leaues burrage with

ye flowers, fumitory and parsly rootes, boyle yem in

wheay with ye whites of eggs, and yen straine it and

40keepe it to drink evening and morning allways before

meales, for ye space of a month, and it will helpe

youre spleene, cleanse youre bloud, and comfort youre

health many ways.