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Another
Take the iuyce of mouse eare and annoynt the poulses and
temples of the sicke and if hee sweate hee shall live els not/
Another
Take daysies and give the sicke to drinke and if hee cast it
hee shall dye if it remaineth wit him hee shall live/.
For all fevers
Take could leaves and seeth them in strong vinegar and grinde them
with oyle of roses and plaster it vpon the stomacke alsoe doe the
same with the leaves of a sally tree and the leaves of morrell
for the tertian feaver give him to drinke plantaine./
Another
Take the iuyce of nettles and give the sicke to drinke 3 dayes
fasting with ale./
Another
Take 3 graines of Coriander and give him to sup with an egg.
For the quartane ague
Take rye meale and the iuyce of vervine and of houseleeke
and of nettles and of plantane and medle them with
4 eggs and make a plaster thereof and cover all the wombe./
Another for the same./
Take swallows dounge and drinke the same and it helpeth.
Another./
Take the iuyce of plantane and drinke the same with luke
warme water and honey 2 howers before the accesse of
the fitt and it voydeth the quartane./
Anothere
Take dreggs of ale and seeth it and scume it well and if
it bee a pinte put thereto 8 pennywaight of the powder
of peper and vipero./
A medicine against the head ach and all rhumes
of the head./
Take the iuyce of ground Ivie and put it in one of your
nosthrills and it clenseth the head and distroyesth the
head ach
Another
Take the iuyce of blacke Ivie and put it in your nostrills
and
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And it voydeth the filth of the nose./
Another
Take the iuyce of an onyon and put it in your nostrills and
it clenseth.
A medicine against all perrills and ach in the head
Take the iuyce of rew and temper well the same iuyce with
good eysell and annoynt te temples and the forehead./
Against the faleing euill./
Take a hound and flea him and as soone as the sicke faleth
take out the heart of the hound and his gall and grind them
together and giue the infected to drinke and forthwith hee
shall rise./.
Against too much flowres of women or the
superfluitie thereof./
Take an hares foote and burne it to powder and lett her drinke
of the powder in stale ale first and last till shee bee whole
Another/.
Take alsoe Confrey and wash it and stampe it and seeth it in white
wine and make a plaster and lay to her nauell another to her wombe
and another to her reines./.
To make a woman to have her flowers that bee destroyed./
Take the roote of gladid and seeth it in white wine and when it is well
sodden sett it on the ground and lett her stride ouer it and couer
her with clothes soe that the ayre may not passe but goe into
her privitie prouided that it bee circumspectly looked vnto
that the woman bee not with child./
Another./
Take colerage and seeth it in white wine and lett her obserue
the order before subscribed as hott as shee may suffer it./
For the dropsie./
Take the iuyce of horselme and Elecampane and temper them
with white wine and drinke thereof 4 dayes and all the euill
will passe through the fundament./
To make a sore to breake./
Take the lillie roote and red plumtree leaues Liuer seede orpin
this is good for any sore aboute a man./
Another for a woman./
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mouse ear = Now usually in full mouse-ear hawkweed. A dwarf Eurasian hawkweed, Pilosella officinarum (formerly Hieracium pilosella), which has solitary yellow heads and leafy stolons and is common in dry grassland. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several related plants of the genus Pilosella.