199vFor diseases of the face, and Lipps. Bu:
It you rubb chopt, or sore lipps with the sweat behind your Eares, it will
cure them, and make them fine and smoth, and well cullored and
though this be but a sluttish medicine, yett it is a most certaine cure./
5Another Bu:/
Oyle of Tartar doth cleane take away all spotts, and Freckles and filthye
whealings of the face, chim, or forehead, by his cleansinge strength and
virtues in that kinde./
Another. Bu:/
10Many haue beene helped, of fowle leprous faces, only by washinge their
faces, in the distilled water of strawberries first putt into a glasse
and sett in Horse_dunge for two dayes, and then vsed./
Another. Bate
If wine wherein hott burninge gold is quenched, be mixt with Oyle of
15Tartar, it doth quite putt away from any part of the body, all spotts
though they be never so foule, and doth helpe a fowle Leprous face
or red nose, and any deformity of the same, if the infected place be
oftentimes washt, and rubd therewith, as hath beene often proved./
Another. Bu:
20An Oyntment made with Oyle of bitter Almonds, honey, Lilley rootes and
wax, is an excellent thinge to anoynt withall, to gett away wrinckles
spotts, and other deformities of the face./
Another. Bu:/
Pull seauen Eggs in most pure and stronge vineger, lett them lye so
25longe therein, as that their shells may be as soft as the Inward parte
of their skinns, and mixe thereto Fower Ounces of Mustard made into
fine powder, or stampt, then grind, or stamp them together and therewith
lett the face be often anoynted, and it will take spotts out of the face,
and much beautifie it, as hath beene often approved vpon many./
30For the Bloody Flux. Bu:/
Take that which is shorne from scarlat, and make it in fine powder
and giue to the party that hath the Bloody Flux to drinke halfe a
spovnefull thereoff in red wine, vse it fiue, or six times and it will stop
the Flux speedely by gods helpe, oft aproved./