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Take cherryes when they bee greene stalkes pulled of stampe
the cherryes stones and all put them in a stillitory and distill
them, drinke the water thereof./.

Another./
Take of achornes ℥iij. of hawes lbfs of long red bramble berryes
℥ix. beate them together into a powder and put a spoonefull
of it in your pottage./

Powder of holland espetiall good for a petite
lost for collicke wind and phlegme and for the stone./

Take Calamus aromaticus 2 penny worth ginger and mace of each
a pennyworth spicknard 4 penny worth any seeds ℥3 long peper
two pennyworth fennell seeds ℥ij grayes ℥iij. Elecampane ℥fs.
Liquerice sene of each ℥iij. sugar ℥iiij piony seedes and rootes
℥iij Cumin cubebes of each ℥j. set wall ℥fs. make all these in
powder and sevceit vse this powder dry fasting and otherwise
in yur pottage and you shall finde ease. It is best taken with
malasie or white wine, If the stomacke of the patient
bee hott take it but fasting in the morning els an hower
before supper asoe It is a spetiall good powder for a temperat
stomacke. Taken dry it is best and otherwise it is good
alsoe./.

For the Stone./.
Take romsons vnsett leekes parsley Coriander horshound
saxifrage greene huskes of beanes greene walnutts huskes
greene broone codds hawes stones of white thorne of each
a like quantitie and portions distilled by them selves
then take as much aqui vite as one of those portions
distill all these together and drinke thereof at all times
when you are greeved./

Another for it and for the Collick alsoe
Take a red onyon and lay it in the embers till it bee through
hott and some what soft, take out the core and fill it full
of May butter or gray sope and in a lynnen cloth as hott as
it may bee suffered Lett it bee layd to the navell of the patient


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Lape warme clothes and pillowes thereto and soe keepe him
warme lying vpon a bedd./.

For the Stone./
Take a urnce ramsons and the tender coddes of beanes saxifrage
sampier and selfe sett leekes distill of every of these by
it selfe as much as will serve a whole yeare. when you will
vse it take of each of these waters halfe a pint and as much
malvasie as of all therest distill the waters and malvasie
and water together, and take the water of it and put into
your wine or drinke a draught of it when you feele paine
extreamely of the stone, thus vse to doe once or twice in
a weeke./.

For the same./
Take white wamber and the middlemost of the long pepers
stampe them and beate them together take thereof as much as
you can take vse betweene your finger and thoumbe and
put it into a draught of white wine or racked renish wine
and the wine bring luke warme streine it through a cloth
and drinke it./

Another
Take radish rootes slice them and seeth them in white
wine from a quarte to a pinte drinke heereof everie
two morneing half a pint and vse it a goodwhile./

To breake the stone if it be very greate
Take of a lisander seedes ℥iij beate them smale and mingle
the powder with gould such as painters vse put it in ale
and drinke it evening and morneing 3 or 4 times

For the stone./
Take brode Plantane housleeke feverfew and tansey of the
gardin of each a like quantitie stampe them and streine
them and put vnto them beane flower and 3 spoonefull
of stone honey clarified seeth them ever stirring them till
it bee plaster wise ley it hott vppon a cloth a [spoon] [long]
broad and as longe as will come round about your backe
and [meet] in the bottome of your belly and weare it 2 dayes
or two nights and if it chance to [d] before that time

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Caroline Butten

setwall = † Any of several species of the genus Curcuma (family Zingiberaceae), esp. C. zedoaria, which are native to south Asia and have aromatic, tuberous rhizomes. Also: the rhizome of such a plant, used in cooking and (formerly) as a medicinal agent. Obsolete (historical in later use).(OED)

Caroline Butten

renish = belonging to the Rhine region

Caroline Butten

racked = Of wine, cider, etc.: that has been drawn off to leave the sediment behind. Also of a barrel, etc.: emptied by racking.