9rThe Vomitt./
Take one handfull of Daffadilly/ Take three or fower Daffadilly \ rootes, wash them faire and cleane,
cutt them small, and seeth them in halfe a pinte of the Ale, and halfe penny
worth of powder of saffron, seeth it till the Ale be consumed to the
5halfe, straine it and drinke it warme, you must eate some meate
a quarter of an hower, before you take this vomit, it will bringe
Fleyme out, and all evil things, within your belly and body, and cleanse
you exceedinge well./
For the swelling in the belly, or leggs by reason of
10the Dropsye Mr Bourchier./.
Take one handfull of wallwort, one handfull of Time, two, or three
small rootes, and two, or three leaues of Burre, halfe a handfull or parsly
a handfull of Mints, two handfull of Fearne, and groweth vpon the
Oake, wash them cleane, then choppe them together, and seeth them
15in a Gallon of white wine, till halfe be Consumed, then straine
it, and putt it on the fyer againe, and putt there to a pound of
suger, make it like vnto a sirrupe, and giue the patient to drinke
thereoff, two, or three spoonefull morninge, and Eveninge./.
A Bath for one that begins to haue a Dropsye
20Mr Bourchier./
Take of the hearbs, and flowers of Camomill, three handfull, of
smallage, and Lauender, seauen handfulls, of Isope, Wormewood,
Feather Few, and sage, of each two good handfulls, seeth them in
faire water, putt them in a tubb, lett them coole of themselues
25without puttinge any cold water to them, then twice a weeke
bath the patient therein, his meat must be for the most parte
roasted, for moist meat engendreth, waterish humors, and
increaseth the Dropsye, his drinke must be good stale beere, or
Gascoigne wine, a draught at every meale, hott meate and
30rootes must be sodden in his broaths, it his belly swell, anoynte
it, with the Oyle of camomill, or any hott Oyle, he must not
drinke aboue a quart in a day, and if he be not solluble, take some
sena in his pottage, or broath./
A Medicine to cure the Water Dropsye Mr Bourchier./
35Lett the patient mixe two drachms of sal prunella with any apro =
priate water twice a day, and take it fastinge, in the morninge./