A Diet for the Patient That Hath Ulcers or Wounds That Will Hardly Be Cured With Oyntments, Salves, or Plaisters
Take one pound of Guaicum, boyle it in three pottels of Ale, with a soft fire, to the consuming of two parts, but if it be where you may have wild Whay, or cheese Whay, they are better. Let the Patient drink of this morning and evening, halfe a pint at a time, and let him sweat after it two hours. His drink at his Meals must be thus used, put into the same vessel where the former was made, to the Guaicum that is left, three pottels of Ale, and not Whey, let it boyle to the one halfe, let him drink thereof at all times, and at his meale, which must be but one in a day, and that so little, that he may rise hungry. Thus he must doe for five dayes together, but he must first be purged.