Items

• To wash any foul or Dead sore

  Directions to make a heated liquid used to treat sores on the body; includes tanner's oil, sage, and alum.
• To take the fire out of a Wound

  An ointment to remove fire (pain?) from wounds made of sheep suet and ground-ivy.
• To make the syrope of Mault for a Consumtion

  A recipe for a syrup to cure consumption (tuberculosis), made from a mixture of herbs, figs, raisins, dates, and brown sugar candy, all boiled in ale.
• To make the Read[text loss] the Ducheys of Buckinham way

  A recipe for a remedy for a variety of ailments. Recipe includes angelica, tormentil, rue, betony, pimpernel, white wine, saffron, treacle (molasses) wine, Armenian bole, water germander (Teucrium scordium), and mithridate (mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum). Should be taken with cordial water or maids water (any weak water such as tea); Goa stone may be added.
• To M Take of the heat of the liver

  Two recipes for drinks to cure the liver: one made from a mixture of herbs and breast milk, the other made from rabbit liver and alcohol.
• To increase flesh or Cure a Wound

  An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum.
• To heal without a Scar

  An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar.
• To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh

  Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses.
• To Cause urin presently

  A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water.
• This Resept Good a Gainst infection

  A cure for various illnesses made from a mixture of herbs, long peppers, ginger, nutmegs, aqua vitae, Venice treacle (Theriac), and the cure-all mithridate.
• The Ruburb for will

  A remedy for the "will," which probably refers to the contemporary usage of the word to mean "pleasure" or "desire" given the rhubarb was often used for purging ill humors from the body during this period. Recipe calls for rhubarb and small ale.
• The Phisbillia watter to drink for the party

  A recipe for a fistula treatment; includes green broom and molasses.
• The most Excellent bitter wine in the world

  A recipe for a tonic that includes gentian, cardemon, chamomile, saffron, cochineal, and sherry.
• Powder for Convulsion fits which was never known to fail, when taken in time

  A remedy for treating convulsions (possibly epileptic seizures?) using lady's smock flowers, powdered and distilled in water.
• Plague Water to Make

  A recipe for a medicinal drink made from a mixture of plants.
• My Cousen We[s]bys resept for the Dropsy

  A remedy for dropsy (edema or swelling) using squill, elecampane, hyssop, horehound, and elder mixed with ginger and wine.
• My Cousen Shirards Resept For A Dropsy

  A remedy for dropsy, also known as edema, the excessive build of fluid in the body. Includes brooklime, watercress, nettles, elder bark, scurvey grass, red dock roots, dwarf elder roots, green broom, ale, juniper berries, red gallingale root, and gention root.
• Mrs Listers Purging Drink for the Kings Evell

  A remedy for the Kings Evell (tuberculosis). Includes coriander seeds, cardamon seeds, sweet fennel, anise seeds, sassafras, senna, rhubarb, and licorice; these are steeped in water over night and then boiled.
• Greene [strikeout] ointment

  A recipe for ointment made from red sage, rosemary, bay leaves, rue, sheep suet, and olive oil. The ingredients are mixed together, and buried in a pot for several days prior to being heated and strained.
• For the jaundice Cousen Garlend

  Recipe for a medicine to treat jaundice; consists of turmeric, safern, Barberry back mixed in white wine.
• For the Green Sicknes [sickness]

  A remedy for the so-called green sickness, which refers to chlorosis, a condition that included a greenish tinge to the skin and general lassitude. It was often associated with unmarried virgin women, and could include lack of menstruation. Has been subsequently ascribed to anemia (iron deficiency). Remedy consists of a mixture of treacle (molasses), steel filings, anise seeds, long pepper, and nutmeg. Those taking the remedy were directed to also avoid milk, fruit, and salads; and to take one long walk per day.
• For the Gravill [illegible] Spencer’s Resept

  Appears to refer to two different remedies for gravel (kidney stones). The first is mashed garlic infused in white wine. The second calls for a distillation of nutmeg, hawthorn buds, and white wine that is sweetened with marshmallow syrup (a syrup made from the sap of the marshmallow plant combined with sugar and sometimes egg whites).
• for Convultion Fits

  A recipe for a powder comprised of peony root and other ingredients to be taken with Rosemary water or other waters for convulsive fits.
• 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.
• Eyes to restore Sight, An drink, and Wash

  Recipes for a draught and eye wash to restore vision using herbs infused in white wine.