Image 027, first book, folio 13a; remedies 19 to 25.
| The first booke. fo. 13 | ||||
| Liber 1. | ||||
| To cause one to make water though | ||||
| it be stopt wt in one. 19. | ||||
| Take as muche powder of English Saffron, as of pure | ||||
| blacke sope* mingled together, & so spreade it on the flesh side of white | ||||
| leather*, & make thereof a playster, & lay it on the navell of the pati- | ||||
| ent, & it will cause him to make water wthin an houre. | ||||
| For the bloody fluxe 20. | ||||
| Take milke & set it on ye fire: & when it seetheth*, then put into it | ||||
| a peece of rock allome*, & then will arise a curde, |
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| whey & drinke it, & if your stomacke can beare it, eate the curde | ||||
| allso. | ||||
| To stoppe ye bloody fluxe. 21 | ||||
| Take pure red rose leaves dryed, & stampe them to powder verye | ||||
| fine, & then take halfe as much fine pouder of Synamion*, as is | ||||
| of that pouder of roses, then take fine white breade & make tosted | ||||
| thereof, then take of good red wine, & soke ye tostes therin, & laye | ||||
| the pouder on them, & so eate them fastinge, one tost or twoe & drinke | ||||
| not after them by the space of 2 or 3 houres: & in |
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| take them to bedwarde, & drinke not after them by the space afore- | Ann | |||
| sayde & by 3 or 4 times usinge the patient shall finde remedye: and if | Phipps | |||
| you have no roses ready dryed, take roses & dry them in an oven, or | her Booke* | |||
| by the fire. | ||||
| A speciall water for ye pestilence. 22. | ||||
| Take of turmentill*, scabeas, detanye*, & pympernell, of each like muche, | ||||
| & still them alltogether, for this is a chiefe water for all manner of | ||||
| poyson, & namely for the pestilence: for as all philosophers saye, | ||||
| it were unpossible that any man should dye of poyson or pestilence | ||||
| that useth to drinke this water next his hearte. | ||||
| A speciall water for the stone. 23. | ||||
| Take strawberries & still* them, & the water of them is very good for | ||||
| the stone: so say they which have prooved the same. | ||||
| An oyntment for ye stone & ye collicke. 24. | ||||
| Take in May the buddes of broome flowers neere the shooting di lb & picke | ||||
| them cleane from the stalkes, & beate them in a mortar very small, & | ||||
| mingle them with clarified May butter*, as much as you shall thinke | ||||
| necessarye: & so keepe it 8 dayes close in a vessell, then seeth it & strayn | ||||
| it, as the other oyntments are, & annoynte the patiente in the same | ||||
| place where he is sorest warme. | ||||
| A medicine for a woman which hath her | ||||
| throwes before her time. 25. | ||||
| James Phippes* Take of chervell one |
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Transcribed by JW and LF