Take horehound 2 ounces hops one ounce egrimony bugloss roots elecampane roots of each half a dram lignum alloes a dram & half boyle all these in 3 pints of white wine to the consumption of a 3^d part when it is cold but the liquor from the herbs without straining it but if the party be feavorish then boyle the herbs in half hyssop water & half white wine & do as you did before take 5 spoonfulls of this drink Sweetened with fine Sugar every morning fasting 2 hours after it & as much every night y^e last thing going to bed. 181. _Dr. Burgesses Receipt against Y^e Plague._ Take 3 pints of the best muskadine or malmesey boyle therein rue and Sage of each one handfull untill a pint be consumed then strain out the herbs hard then set the liquor on the fire again and put thereto long pepper ginger cutcheneale or grains of each an ounce a quarter of an ounce of nutmegs all beaten to poweder let all these boyle together a little then take it off the fire and put therein an ounce of the best methridate 2 ounces of y^e best treacle and a quarter of a pint of angellicoe water keep this and your life above all worldly Treasures take it always warme morning and evening a spoonfull at a time but if infect’d 2 spoonfulls this is good against the plague y^e sweting disease, the smallpox, measells surfets all pestilent distempers and feavours used as followeth take a spoonfull of it when you first fall sick & swet 3 hours in bed after it & then carefully taken out of it if they are dry they must drink posset drink with marygolds boyled in it & drink nothing but caudles & warme drink at other times. 182. _A Cordiall Water of Dr. Stevens._ Take ginger cloves mace cinnamon nutmegs gallingall grains, fennell seed annyseeds carraway seeds groomwell seeds of each a dram liquorish 4 ounces avens cammomile, pellitory of the wall balme red roses garden time rosemary lavender flowers wild marjerom basill mints sage penny royall of each a handfull beat y^e spices very well shred the herbs and steep them in a gallon of claret wine 24 hours then still it in a glass still or Limbeck. 183. _For the Sinking of the Pallet._ Take a dryed walnut and pound the same and pour therein as much aquavite as you make a little pap thereof and spred it on a little cloth or tow and aply it to the crown of the patient bind the same stiffly thereon and it imediately aweighteth the pallet but if it were descended exceedingly then add as much frankinsence as the walnut. 184. _For an Ache or Bruise._