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Dr Colbach Precriptions for bleeding at the Mouth & Nose

take Japonion Earth Roch Alame Mastick fine dragons blood of
each 2 Drams Conserve of reed roses fo 2 ouncis with the syrup of the
same make them up into an Electuary & take the quantatie of one
nutmegg of it every moring tasting & at 4 in the after noone & the last
at night & drink a drafte of the tincture after it this and the Electuary
must be taken for 3 weeks after bleeding

To make the Tincture

take dryed reed roses 6 drams Pomegranate flowers 2 drams put them in
at Earthen pott & power uppon them boyling watter one quarte oyle of
Viti Vitriol fifty drops & let them stand an houre & then strane it off &
add to the straned Liquor reed Lisbon wine halfe a pint white shuger
Candey 2 ouncis & keep it for use

Another Recept good to stop bleeding

take Comfery roots boyle them in Milke & some of the persons blood dryed
before a fire & put into the Milke & taken is reekend good

To put the feet & legs in cold Bryne stops Bleeding imediatly

Take horne & scrape it & put it up the nose & bind som of the
scraped horne withwth a sixpence to the midle of the forehead the same
horne as are used for Lanthorne is very good to stop bleeding

Let the pachent bled in a fier [shufell] & boyle it in the same
shufell till its dry, then rub it to fine powder & [snit] it up the
rose

[Cemmon] Clay mixed withwth vineger & boun on [h..d] to the templs
is good to stop bleeding, Likeway Dragons blood Beaten fine
& Lint [.iped] in vineger & Loled in the dragons blood & put
up the nose is good

Elder Water

tow Bushells of berrys Picked from the stalks & put as much
water as will cover them & a good Peice of sower Leven & 2 quarts of
barm mix themym well together & let themym work 7 or 8 days sturing them
once a day, then distill it in a Limbeck [toyo] make allmost a quart
of water from a peck of berrys

to cure an Arsma or shortness of Breth

make tea of Lavender flowers & Put a little saforn into a fine rag & iust
Culer it & sweeten it withwth treakle & drink of it moring & noon & Night a tea
dish at a time