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