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