Image 030, first book, folio 15b, receipts 42 to 45.
| The firste booke | ||||
| them on the fire & let them boyle till the strength be out of the herbes, then | ||||
| strayne them through a clothe, & keepe that oyntemente in a cleane | ||||
| pot, & when you will use the same, lay upon the oyntemente, ye skinne of | ||||
| hogs greace or the firme skinne of sheeps sewet to keepe the cloth from | ||||
| cleaveing to the sore places, & this will take away the fire, & heale ye | ||||
| sore: & for a neede this may be made at any time of the yeare. | ||||
| A soveraigne medicine for a fellon*, or any sicknes | ||||
| sore, & to breake it. 42. | ||||
| Take the leaves or flawes* of greace of a barrowe hogge**, & take of the | ||||
| skynne, then breake the greace into a mortar very small & when it is | ||||
| beate enoughe it will looke very whaite, then take it & put it into a faire | ||||
| stone pot, but no earthen pot, cover it close, & so keepe it till ye beginning | ||||
| of Maye, then gather scabeas* & stampe** & it & strayne it: And to a quarter | ||||
| of the greace colde put a pottle of ye sayd iuice** of scabeas, & so in rate*** | ||||
| like, more or lesse, & so colde as it is worke it together with your hands, | ||||
| till the greace hath drunke up all the iuice, then cover it, & let it stand | ||||
| 10 dayes, then take as much more iuice of scabeas, as you did before, | ||||
| & before you put your newe iuice into it presse out the olde browne | ||||
| water that remayneth in the same greace with your handes: & then | ||||
| worke it with your iuice as you did firste & so in like manner cover | ||||
| it 10 dayes, during May & June, & worke so much iuice into it every | ||||
| time: & then lay of the same thicke on a linnen cloth & lay it 24 houres | ||||
| upon ye sore, & when it is broke heale it with a draweing playster. | ||||
| To asswage an evell humour or fellon or to heale | ||||
| a new or greene wounde. 43. | ||||
| Take the iuice of fetherfewe*, & smallage* of each like quantity, with a | ||||
| quantity of blacke sope, & temper them alltogether with wheaten flower, | ||||
| & therewith make a playster & lay it to the sore. | ||||
| For shrinkeing of the Pynneweb*. 44. | ||||
| Take marsh mallowes one handfull, as much rosemary tops & stampe | ||||
| them together, & after put thereunto May butter molten, & mingle them | ||||
| well together, & so let it stand 10 dayes then seeth* it with a softe fire untill | ||||
| the strength of the hearbes be gone: & when it is well sodden*, take it and | ||||
| wringe it through a canvas cloth: & so put it into a pot of earth to keepe : | ||||
| For burninge or scaldeinge. 45. | ||||
| Take (if the fire be not out before) a pownde of rosen* beaten into pouder j lb of | ||||
| unwroughte waxe sliced small j lb di of May butter clarifyed & freshe, | ||||
| & put all together in a brasse pan & set it on ye fire, till it beginne to | ||||
| rise, & allwayes be stirring of it,then take it of the fire, & incontinent* | ||||
| put it in a fayre vessell with cold water, & stirre it together, & so let | ||||
| it stand a day & a night till it be colde, & then make it in candles & | ||||
| spreade it on a cloth, & use it at neede. | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW