9vAnother approved Medicine for the Dropsye
Mr Bourchier./
Take the longe spriggs that growes vpon the stalks of greene broome
burne it in an Ouen very cleane swept, when you haue asmuch
5ashes of it, as penny loafe, mixe them with a good quantitye of
white wine, stirr them well together, and lett them stand, two
dayes, then straine the wine from the ashes, and night, and
morninge drinke halfe a pinte thereof, and when that is gone
make more the same way, and drinke it as aforesaid, and in a
10shorte time you wilbe cured perfectly./
One sorte of Diett drinke./
Take fower Gallons of wort, Bettony, scabious, Egremony, Harts =
= tongue, tamariske rindes, liuerwort, Guiacum, fower Ounces salsa =
= perilla, two Ounces, liquorish two Ounces, a good handfull of Hopps
15boyle all these, till halfe be consumed, make a Canuas bagge, putt
into it fower Ounces of sena, two Ounces of Iollop, tye vp the
bagge with two, or three races of sliced Ginger in it, when it
hath worked well putt it into the Barrell, putt in with it a pinte
of the Iuice of scurvy grasse, and Brookline, when it hath done
20workinge stop vp the barrell and after a weeke drinke of it every
morninge at seauen or eight, and euery Eueninge at Fower./.
Damask water./
Take Rosewater and putt it into a stillatory, with Roseleaues
Lauender, Muske buised, and Camphire, distill alltogether./
25Another water for the same./
Take new Ale with the Malt, one Gallon, storax, calamitae, one
ounce, spike, and Lauender one ounce, Roseleaues fower Ounces,
Beniamin three quarters of an Ounce, calamus Aromaticus, a quarter
of an Ounce, cloues a quarter of an Ounce, Mace halfe an Ounce, lay
30all these together in your still, and stopp it close all night, them
distill it with a soft fyer, and a little before you will vse it, hang
in the glasse that you keepe it in, Eight Graines of Muske,
with a little powder of Cinamon, or Ginger, knitt in a peece
of sarcenett, or fine linnen cloath./