8vand after you are sate in the Chaire, putt a pretty quantitye

of Fyer, either in a Chaffindish, or a little earthen pott, and caste as

much powder of Beniamin, and Borax, as you may take vp betwixt

your finger, and your thumbe, and cast it into the coales, and as the

5coales drye, putt in fresh, and it will make you sweate, if it be

done in this manner, and if you cannot doe this right then take a

sweat in your bed,/.

Heere Followeth the dyett Beere./.

Take three Gallons of new beere, putt it into a stand or little vessell

10them make a bagge of boulter, and putt in these followinge things

with a stone to keepe it downe in the vessell, sena Alexandrina,

six ounces, polipodium of the Oake Flower Ounces, Bay berries without

the huske, two Ounces, Anniseeds two Ounces, Fennell seeds two Ounces

Rhubarb one Ounce, slice the Rhubarb in small peices, and bruise

15all these excepte the sena, in powder severally, then mixe them all

with the sena, and putt all in a boulter bagge, and putt it in some

vessell with three Gallons of Ale, lett it digest two dayes, then drinke

thereof in the morninge, a draught, in the afternoone at three

a clocke another draught, and another when you goe to bed, and

20one hower after the first draught in the morninge, you must

drinke some broath, and eate raisons of the sunne stoned, and

vse some exercise./

Another for the Dropsye being pills to purge

by Doctor Gibbs

25Take Mechoacum halfe a pound, Hermodactills polipodium of the

Cake, and the seed of wallwort, of each fower Ounces, white Turbith

one Ounce and halfe, wilde cucumber rootes three Ounces,

Diagredium two Ounces, lett all these be powdered, and putt to asmuch

spirritt of sacke as will throughly moisten it, and be fower fingers

30breadth aboue the Ingredients, then close the vessells mouth and

paste it very well, and sett it in Balneo Mariae, three, or fower dayes

extract it acordinge to arte, which must be kept by it selfe, then

take the faecis made very small like papp, and putt againe to it so

much spirritt of sacke, as was drawne from the extracted, and

35extract it as at the first, mixinge all together and addinge thereto