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,