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./