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.