151pClocke in the afternoone , fastinge too houres after ,
if the patient haue with this disease the scuruee ,
alsoe , which many times is the Cause of the dropsie , add
to each of your former draughts when you are reddie
5to drinke it , too spoonefull of the Iuce of scuruy grass
The Oyntment in the Cure of your Dropsie
Take wallwort and elder leaues sweet margerum ,
water Creses peniroyall , of , each one handfull cut and brused ,
and set them to seeth in a quart of sallet oyle and let them
10seeth halfe an houre , then let them stand 3 dayes in your
vesill , the againe straine them hard , but let it bee hott
when you straine it , and put in as many more of the same herbs
and seeth it as before , straine them and doe soe athird time
then at the last straine them , and keepe it as anoyntment
15let the swolne bodie bee anointed theirwith , once in
three dayes and that in the morneinge by the fyre
Stroackinge it downeward one houre togeither ,
Preperation of the hearbs
The hearbs of the oyntment are to bee picked , shoped and
20Cut small , and beaten or brused in a stone mortor , the rinde of the
Elder is esteemed as good as the leaues , theire is to bee þe quanty
of halfe a pinte of whitewine to bee put first with þe herbs
and then all beeinge mingled togeither with the oyle in þe pot
the pot is alsoe to bee put in a boyleinge pot of water couerd
25with 3 or 4 fould paper or somwhat elce , and to bee kept at the
least 3 houres boylinge , albeit halfe and houre was sufictient
beeinge sodden on the fyre , but boylinge it in water as aboue
said , is much better , at the last it is to bee strained with
the press of your Apothiecarie ,
30all proved by Sir Thomas Bodle