Image 032, first book, folio 16b, receipts 53 to 59.
| The firste booke | ||||
| For the stone. 53. | ||||
| Take the seede of annis, carrawaye, fennell, parsly, saxafrage, growell | ||||
| alias myllfoll*, smallage* & brome** of each a drame weighte, graynes of pa= | ||||
| radise* & ginger of each halfe a dramme, sine** 4 drames, licoris 2 drams, | ||||
| rubarbe, turbith*, spikenarde** & gallingall***, of each a drame, beate them | ||||
| alltogether, unto a very fine powder, & so use it, then make a posset drinke | ||||
| of white wine: & strayne the wine from the curdes: And put to a pinte | ||||
| of your strayned wine, a quantitye of pellitory of the wall*, & as much | ||||
| of alkekenge*, that is a small grippe, full as much as you may easilye | ||||
| holde betweene your forefinger & your thumbe, bruise them & boyle them | ||||
| in your strayned licor untill your licor be halfe wasted, then streyne it | ||||
| agayne, & unto 7, 8 or 9 spoonefull of your licor, put as much of youre | ||||
| powder as will cover a groate hepped*, use this last to bedward** and | ||||
| firste in the morninge, thrise or at the leaste twise in the weeke, & so | ||||
| continue untill you bee cured: | ||||
| For the akeinge of the wombe. 54. | ||||
| Take tansey, rewe, & suthenwoode*, & eate them with salte. | ||||
| For ye megrime* in the heade. 55. | ||||
| Take rise* & seeth** it in water, & put thereunto the milke of |
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| & the iuice of Betanye* & boyle them, till they be thicke & make thereof a | ||||
| playster & lay it to the foreheade & temples, as warme as ye patiente | ||||
| may suffer it. | ||||
| For sore eyes. 56. | ||||
| Take a harde egge rosted, & take out ye yelke*, & put into the white of the | ||||
| egge as much roch allome* as a beane, & a little suger candy as much as | ||||
| a greate pinnes head bruised, & cover the egge & let it consume to water, | ||||
| & when it is all consumed, then wringe the egge in a clothe, & save ye | ||||
| water, & droppe that water into your eyes colde. | ||||
| To pull out a thorne. 57. | ||||
| Take boares grease, rewe, & cloves of garlicke, stampe them together, & | ||||
| binde them to the place where the thorne is. | ||||
| For a consumption or a coughe. 58. | ||||
| Take & breake 2 new layd eggs & put both the yelkes* into a shell, and | ||||
| set it upon a chafeing dish with embers & stirre the yelkes with your | ||||
| knife & put into the sayd yelkes a good quantity of manus Christi*, or | ||||
| fine sugar, & a little rose water, & stirre them well together untill | ||||
| they be through warme & not harde, so that you may suppe them at one | ||||
| suppe or 2 wthout any breade, or else very little, & drinke not in | ||||
| one houre after it. | ||||
| For the Blacke iaundise*. 59. | ||||
| Take elder berries & eate them, or take the iuice* & drinke it or yt tendering | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW