A book of simples.

Date:
[1908]
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Credit: A book of simples. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing ftop it up a fortnight, bottle it with a knob of Sugar in each bottle. 43. ^0 make the Eye PEater. Take Eyebright and Sallendine and brown fen- nell of each two hand fulls you muft chop thefe herbs take a pint of urin made by a vergine and a pint of red rofe water and ftill it in a cold ftill tis good to put back y® rume in y® eyes or to take away any fpot in the eye you muft take and drop half a dozen drops into the eye untill it run out at y® other corner this do every night for 3 nights let it reft a week and then if need require you may drefs it again it will keep a year very well. 44. For the Rickets. Make a Sack poflet boyle in it harts horn Ivery and rofemary and give it the child now and then, alfo take a quart of wort put into it a handfull of maiden hair one handfull of liverwort that grows on the banks half a pound of raifons of the Sun Stoned boyle all together to the wafting of one quarter put into it a penny worth of red Sanders, Strain it and put to it 2 ounces of red fugar candie boyle it a little again give the child 3 fpoonsfulls of it at night and 3 fpoonfulls every morning. 45. An Ointment for the Rickets. Take lavender rofemary pennyroyal featherfew and camamile of each a like quantity cut and bruife them and then boyle them in a fufficient quan- tity of butter and make it into an ointment, mix it in a little neats foot oyle wherewith anoint the child’s wrifts and ancles every morning and night alfo the right fide under ye fhort ribs.