The Hartlib Papers

If the Preparative <2> Pils worke 3 or 4 stooles then take out of the purging Powder 15 or 20 graines.

The Cordial must also bee taken in bed else it will doe no good.

In the Pill or purging days drinke your drinke morning and evening warme

Take the pils in conserve of rose.

The purging-powder in a little rhenish wine mixed with sugar.

It must give 12. or 14. stooles.

one of the remaining pills and 2 of the preparative pils may one morning hereafter bee taken together.

When you vse the Physick to take heed of wet and windie weather.

Purge mix with 5. spoone-fuls of Rhurwine or posset ale sweetened. take it 6. a Clock in morne. fast 2. houres. drinke broth or posset ale [once?] 3 quart. of an houre:

     If [dyet-ale?] proue the hot syrup of Violets 2 spoonefuls mix with it.

Sweet fenell sede anesed

[Caraway sede gromen?] sed

Comen sed, brused in a

morter and you [mus?] pot in

a [fue redros leaf?] and Camimiele

flores and broiel them well together

[word deleted] and [pote?] in a gud sponfoll

of glester shouger it [mus?] be well straned.

               for the ston

Take a quort of Milke & a quort of Ale & make a posite & let yet bee Cler., then take som marish[altered] Mallow ruts & scrap them Clen, about a penworth & slice them, & a letle horse redish rute. a letle swet fenell<above: e> seeds. a letle grene lickirish & boyle all these togeather well tell they Com to a quort, then giue the party a quorter of a pinte at a time to Drinke sweten yet with surop of Marish Mallowes

                    Break-feast.

          trie To steepe Raisins and Corantes.

                     in Meath./

                      Mr Morian

                         Receit imparted to Mr Boyle

                         against the stone in the

                              Kidney's.

                         of transcendent successe

to bee vsed in White-wine once twice or thrice a month.

It freed one one of his friends perfectly of his torments, and when hee dyed being dissected nothing was found in him at all.

Receit Cyprus uncia ´ aqua ranarum decies lotæ Cassiæ[altered] recens extractæ uncia j misce.