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