Image 025, first book, folio 12a, receipts 8 to 13.
| The first booke .fo.12.a. | ||||
| Liber 1 | ||||
| To stanche bleedinge at the noose. 8. | ||||
| Take the Joyce* of red nettell, and good red wyne of eache | ||||
| lyke quantitye, and put there unto the powder of fayer whyte | ||||
| chawlke, as will into halfe an hasell nutt, and luke warme | ||||
| geve the pacient these of to drynke. | ||||
| For lacke of hearinge 9. | ||||
| Take cammamyll, mellilot, margerom, calamint, Isope, wormwood*, | ||||
| penye royall, Sticados*, and mintes of eache an handfull, boyle | ||||
| them together in fayer ronninge water by the space of an | ||||
| hower, then take a spounge dypp it in the same water and | ||||
| as hott as maye be suffered, hold it to yo eares so that the heate | ||||
| maye enter into yor eares and head, then take cotten to stop | ||||
| yor eares that no cold enter therein: | ||||
| For toothe ache 10. | ||||
| Take a quantitye of Isope*, cammamyll, and rosemarye, halfe | ||||
| a pynte of vinegre, and as muche pellitorye water, camphyre | ||||
| staveseacre and masticke of eache a drame* ij ownces of | ||||
| Allome* iij sponefull of honye, then boyle them all together, and | ||||
| therewt washe yor teeth and goomes therewt, twyse or thryse a | ||||
| weeke: | ||||
| For a saslse* flengme* or heigh coloured face. 11. | ||||
| Take vj ounces of fyne clarifyed barrowes* grease but so | ||||
| it touche no water, ij handfull of red sauge** gathered in | ||||
| maye, stampe* them and boyle them well together tyll | ||||
| you perceave it greene, then strayne it warme through | ||||
| a lynnnen cloth, and when it is somewhat cold put there | ||||
| unto the powder of chawlke, and fyne serced* brymestone** | ||||
| of eache a drame* and an halfe, and styrre it together tyll | ||||
| it come to a salve, then put it into boxes, and therew annoynte | ||||
| the face as oft as neede is: | ||||
| A water for the canker in a mans mouth: 12. | ||||
| Take ij handfull of woodbynde* leaves, tyme* Isope and Sage | ||||
| of eache an handfull ij or iij croppes* of rosemarye, and ij | ||||
| spoonefull of honye, boyle all thes together in a pottell* of ronninge | ||||
| water and in the seethinge* put thereunto a peece of roache | ||||
| Allome* as bygge as a wallnutt, and wt that water washe | ||||
| yor mouth, and the same is verye good also for the toothe ache: | ||||
| For a canker in the tooth: 13. | ||||
| Take herbe Robert |
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Transcribed by JW and LF