6vFor a distracted man a soveraigne Medicine./

Take the peony that beares the white flower, and lett the sicke

eate it, and also drinke the Iuice thereof, and it will helpe him

also lett him weare it about his necke, for it is a most approved

5true and Wonderfull good helpe in that Malady, and theres

but few that know it./.

A diett drinke. Doctor Bate./

Take a good handfull of Wormewood, halfe a handfull of holy

thistle, Egremony, and Fumitory, of each three handfull,

10boyle them all in three gallons of reasonable strong new

worte, till halfe a Gallon be wasted, then straine it, and haue

ready one pecke of Scurvy grasse, halfe a pecke of water

cresses, two handfulls of Scabious, two handfulls of Brooke line

one Ounce of Elder budds, or younge bloomes, all well

15picked, washed, dryed, and well beaten in a stone, or wooden

Mortar, with a wooden pestle, and when you haue strained

your worke out, and all the Iuice abouesaid, poure it pipinge

hott, vpon those hearbs thus prepared, and lett them stand togither

a quarter of an hower, then streyne out all the Worte and

20Iuice you can from out of them, and putt Barme thereto

and lett them Worke as you doe other drinke, and when you

tunn it vp, hange in the Barrell fower Ounces of Horseradish

finely scraped, two Ounces of Nuttmeggs sliced, and one Ounce

of Cloves bruised tyed in two baggs, and when it is three weeks

25ould then drinke it, if you desire it not to be so hott

then vse butt halfe the spices, drinke every morninge and

afternoone a draught thereoff, it is very good to cleanse the

blood, to preserue from the scurvye, and also to cure it, to

cleanse the vritorye passages, and also to helpe the stone

30to open the liver, the spleene, and other parts, vse it in the

springe, and fall, three weeks, or a month together./.

A Decoction of the spleene of an Oxe. Doctor Bate./

Take the spleene, of Milte of an Oxe, shred it into small peeces

of cynamon, Angelica rootes, of cloues, of each halfe an Ounce,