175pA Salve For The Canker . /
Take a quarter of a pound of oyle of Bays , 3 penyworth
of quicksilver 20 : Sage leaues , the quicksilver must be killed
with fasting spittle ; gather þe sage leaues in þe morning after
5þe sunn hath dryed þe dewe of them , Then shred them smalle ,
and put to them some fasting Spittle to make them moyst
then stamp them and straine out þe Iuce and put it to þe quick-
Silver , and mixe þe oyle , qucksilver , and sage Iuce alltogoather for
the Mouth anoynte the hollow of the tope of þe head , if it
10in þe throate , anoynte the nape of þe Neck .
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A water to cleanse the Blood
and cure the Scurvey
Take both of garden and sea scurry grass
15the leauves very well pirked and washed , of
/each\ Six pound , out of these being pounded . draw
the Juice by a press , to which add of the
Iuise of Brobeline and water Creses , of
each a pound and a halfe ; of the best
20white wine Eight pound , twelve Lemens
sliced , frosh briony rootes sliced fowre pound
Rose redish wadish rootes , clansed , and scliced three
pound , winter halfe apound sliced halfe a pound
Nutmeggs fowre ownions bruised , lett all
25these bee Masserated three dayes, stirring