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• For aney paine in the Eare

  A recipe to cure ear pain made from boiled milk and cloves, which is to be held to the patient's ear while hot.
• For an ague for a child, if for a man a greater proporsion [proportion]

  A remedy for fever (ague) using egg white mixed with spirits and peppercorns, to be consumed.
• For Aches the Old

  A recipe for treating body aches (possibly those of the elderly) using chamomile and dill oil
• For a Squincie

  A remedy for treating tonsillitis or throat ailment by drinking powdered boar's tooth mixed with linseed oil.
• For a Sore breast

  Use of part of a rennet bag (the fourth stomach of ruminants) as a treatment for breast pain.
• For a scald head

  A recipe for a scald head (now referred to as staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome) using butter, vervain, and bay salt which has been melted twice and strained. A purgative or laxative is to be taken while applying this mixture to the head.
• For a pimpled Face

  A recipe for acne made from grape juice, camphor, sugar candy, roche alum, and verdigris, all mixed and kept underground for 40 days.
• for a pain in the Ear

  A remedy for ear pain that includes liquid laudanum (a solution of opium in alcohol). A roasted (hot) onion is also applied to the ear, presumably both for the comfort provided by its heat and to keep the liquid in the ear.
• For a Cough Also Mrs Lumley

  A remedy for cough made with treacle, vinegar, and laudanum.
• For a Consumption

  A remedy to treat consumption by boiling wheat meal and mixing the reduction with red wine.
• For a Cold

  A remedy for treating a cold using licorice root, raisins, brown sugar, and rum or vinegar.
• Flugeny water twenty drops in Milk water given to the woman hastens her Labour

  A medical treatment to induce labor (childbirth).
• Fits of Mother & Confultions

  A medication to be taken by mothers experiencing convulsions comprised of senna, long pepper, anise seeds, licorice, elecampane, and white peony root; and boiled in sack (wine). Should be taken with honey and bread dipped in vinegar. An additional recipe with mercury plant, gerrymander, spearmint, fennel, liverwort, broom, wormwood, and betony is also given.
• Feavors, to asswage [assuage] & to Cool the Spirits or blood & settle them

  Various remedies for treating fevers.
• Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

  Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in white wine.
• Doctor Jams’ [James] Powder how to use it

  This entry describes how to use or administer Dr. James' Fever Powder, a known quack medicine remedy (the recipe for the powder is not given). It instructs how and when to administer the medicine to a sick patient, including diluting the powder in jelly, barley water, tea, or gruel.
• Doctor Cole

  Brief description for a remedy to aid digestion that can be purchased at a local inn. Unclear whether the drops are produced by a local doctor.
• Doc: Wards Recept for a sore Throat

  A remedy for sore throat made by simmering figs in water and gargling the reduction.
• Cousen Whites resept for worms

  A remedy for worms consisting of salt of wormwood (potassium carbonate) and oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) mixed in white wine
• Cousen Bosvils resept for pain in the back

  Remedy for back pain; calls for comfrey, clary sage, pith from the back leg bones of an ox, muscadine wine, eggs, and sugar. Also advises the consumption of crocus martis and rose conserves.
• Broken Ribs or Bones to knit in 6 days

  Remedy for promoting the healing of broken bones that can be drunk in ale or applied directly to the injury.
• Aqua Mirabelis

  A recipe for aqua mirabilis ("miracle water"), a medicinal drink, made with aquavit, cloves, mace, ginger, nutmeg,
• Aneseclent Medcine [medicine] to disolve and bring away the Stone

  A medicinal preparation for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from powder from oyster shells, eggshells, ale, white wine. The resulting medicine should be taken with a posset; directions are also given for a liquid made of boiled nettled and broom to aid the medicine that the powder can be taken in.
• An infallible Cure for the Ague

  A remedy for ague (fever, sometimes malarial) using juice extracted from sage leaf, mixed with vinegar.
• An Excelent Resept for the worms in children

  Remedy for getting rid of worms in children by putting a piece of cloth dipped in sack wine on a child's mid section, along with dried spearmint.