Image 029, first book, folio 15a; receipts 38 to 41.
| The firste booke fo. 15. | ||||
| Liber 1 | ||||
| A medicine for all manner diseases as gouts | ||||
| aches & running goutes 38. | ||||
| Take a lapfull of rewe, as much hysop, as much water mynts, as | ||||
| much arsesmarte*, & boyle them all together in fayre water, in a | ||||
| greate vessell, till the colour of the hearbes be chaunged cleane, then | ||||
| have a bathfat* readye, & in the middest a stoole with a round hole, | ||||
| as bigge as the palme of your hande, and under the feete of ye patient | ||||
| a footstoole, so that he touch no water then put the bayles* on ye fatte*** | ||||
| & put clothes on the bayles to keepe in the heate: then put in ye water | ||||
| seething hot then let the patient sit over the stoole uprighte even | ||||
| over the hole, an houre if he may endure so long & in the season of | ||||
| the sweate, let the patient rubbe himselfe with his owne hands where | ||||
| his cheife griefe is or lyeth: And if the patient forbeare to drinke it | ||||
| is the better: but if he be compelled to drinke, then let him drinke | ||||
| stale ale* with a toste, after that let him to lye downe in a warme bed, | ||||
| & then let him eate [???] cassia fistula*, drawene water belong- | ||||
| eth to a laske* & wth ye grace of God he shal recover & have his health. | ||||
| To asswage the stinging of an adder, or any | ||||
| other venemous beaste 39. | ||||
| Take shell snayles in summertime they keepe in gardens & in ye winter | ||||
| time most in olde houses, breake the shells & lay the snayles in a dish | ||||
| & pricke them with a pinne, so that the oyle of them may come or fall | ||||
| from them, & anoynte the patiente with the same oyle wth a feather, | ||||
| & as the oyle drinketh in so use it allwayes, & where you maye | ||||
| percieve the place that ye sting was in, take one of ye snayles unpri- | ||||
| cked, & lay it to the place: & allwayes beware that the swellinge | ||||
| rise not to the heartewarde therefore let the place that is stonge lye | ||||
| higher then the heade, & take a |
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| it on a linnen cloth of the bredth of an unche*, & bind it aboute yt place | ||||
| where the sting is, towardes ye bodye, to preserve the swelling from ye harte, | ||||
| if you give ye pty some methredatome* to eate it wilbe the better. | ||||
| To take out the fire of a burning or scaldinge. 40. | ||||
| Take the white of new layd egges, after ye quantity that the sore is, and | ||||
| put it in a pewter dish & with a stone of roch allome* labour it about ye | ||||
| dish till it come to a frothe, then take a fine linnen cloth & wet it in fine | ||||
| oyle oliffe or for lacke of it froth greace or butter, & lay it nexte the | ||||
| sore, then lay the froth upon the same cloth: & foure time dress it eve- | ||||
| ning & morninge, & in that space ye fire will be out. | ||||
| A soveraigne medicine for a burning or a scaldinge | ||||
| called mother Cammockes* medicine. 41. | ||||
| Take in May of dayseyes the rootes leaves & flowers, an handfull, & as | ||||
| much of the inner barke of elders, of bryers such as beare the berries | ||||
| a quarter of an handfull, & bruise them well in a mortar, then put | ||||
| thereunto j lb; of clarifyed May butter mingle them together, & so set | ||||
| them on ye fire | ||||
Note: No folio 14; this page seems to have been missing when the book was bound
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Transcribed by JW and LF