Take 2 ounces of white copperas and a quarter of an ounce of camphir put them into some little earthen pot and set it in hot embers and stir it till it be melted and dryed again to a powder then take 2 ounces of boel-armeniack and beat it small and mix it with the other powder when this is done take 2 pottle of spring water and let it boyle till a quarter of it be consumed then take it off and put half of the powder into it So put it into a glass and keep it for your use it will keep a long time before you dress any wound (shake the glass well then let it settle again least any of the powder should be amongst it when you dress the wound and so eat into the flesh) which having washt well fould a clout 6 or 8 double weting it throughly with ye same water and lay it on the wound then take another clout 8 or 10 times double as near as you can guess to the bigness of the wound or a thought less and lay it on the other cloth as wet as the former full in the mouth of the wound and so bind it on with a swath or rowler it is excellent good for men to use y^t have le grand veroll aue vierge pour le laver. Probatum est. 508. _The Wound Drink._ Take wormwood southernwood sanicle white bottles Ragwort plantin ribwort woodbins oake-buds dandelyon mugwort dayseyes roots and all bramble buds herbgrease violet leaves strawberry leaves Suinquefoyle, angellicoe, adderstongue scordium wood bittoney agrimoney hawthorne buds bugle lungewort avens comfry mints Scabious and pimpernell these herbs are to be gather’d pick’d and dryed in may month then put them in severall papers & so keep them all the year but the buds are to be gather’d at their first comeing forth when you make it take one handfull of each sort a pottle of fair water and a quart of white wine boyle these together till half be boyled away then strain the liquor from the herbs and put to it a pint of honey then boyle it a little till you have scummed it then take it off and let it coole & keep it, close stop’d let the patient take 3 spoonfulls of it morning & evening first & last but if for a child 2 spoonfulls is sufficient. _The vertues of it._ It cureth wounds and sores laying on them a plaister of honey and wax or one of the following cere cloths without tents it scaleth putrified bones breaketh and expelleth imposthumes cureth aches in the stomach expelleth bullets & cureth the Isue it stopeth bleeding at nostrells all wounds and broken veins the herbs must be gathered at the latter end of april in may or ye beginning of June as the season of the herbs are w^{ch} must be dryed without Sun or fire comeing near them & the handfulls mentioned are to be understood handfulls of dry herbs. Probatum Est. 509. _The Black Cere Cloth._