Image 033, first book, folio 17a, receipts 60 to 66.
| The first booke fo.17. | ||||
| Liber 1 | ||||
| thereof is good for this disease. | ||||
| For ye cake* or hardnes under ye side. 60. | ||||
| Take a handfull of sorrell, as much chickeweede, as much lettice, as | ||||
| much houseleeke, & stampe* them together & wringe out the iuice**, & | ||||
| take as much oyle of roses & mixte them together & warme it upon | ||||
| a chafeing dish of coales & wet a linen cloth & lay it to the side as | ||||
| hot as the patient can suffer it, & when it is colde, warme it agayne | ||||
| & lay to as afore: & thus serve him often & it will helpe him: | ||||
| To make a suppositorye. 61. | ||||
| Take the yelke* of a egge poured out of the thin skinne & put thereunto | ||||
| white salte & stirre them together till they be thicke, & put thereunto | ||||
| 6 drops of sallet oyle, & of this ingredience make 4 suppositories, & bind | ||||
| every of them in a |
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| wet it in a litle oyle & put it into your fundamente. | ||||
| A playster for the swelling of ye stomacke. 62. | ||||
| Take a quantitye of cammamyll & as much rewe* as much worme- | ||||
| woode, you must take the flowers of cammamyll or else the oyle of | ||||
| cammamyll, & stampe the flowers & hearbes, & put thereunto twoe | ||||
| sawcers full of oyle oliffe & 3 sawcers full of malmeseye*, & set them | ||||
| over a softe fire untill ye malmesye be consumed, & when you shall | ||||
| occupye it, heate it bloud warme & anoynte your stomacke & sides | ||||
| evening & morninge, & lay theeon fine wooll after your anoynteinge. | ||||
| For ye stone & strangurye*. 63 | ||||
| Take the iuice*[*] of saxifrage, & drinke it wth rye malmesye, or draw | ||||
| a water if saxifrage or of the seedes thereof & use them: for cer- | ||||
| taynelye, it will breake the stone. | ||||
| To destroy an imposthume*. 64. | ||||
| Take the flowers of maydenheare* that groweth amongst the wheate, | ||||
| & drye it by the weather & make thereof powder, & drinke it with | ||||
| ale, or else eate it with pottage, & it shall avoyde ye said imposthume, | ||||
| beneath or else above or warrentice*. | ||||
| To avoyde winde out of ye stomacke. 65. | ||||
| Take of commyn* & bay salte* like much, & sowe it in canvas mattrice* wise, | ||||
| & heate it, & lay it to the stomacke as hot as you may suffer it. | ||||
| A drinke for the fever. 66. | ||||
| Take succerye*, sorrell, violet leaves, white endiffe*, planten*, dandalyon, | ||||
| & sinkefoyle* of each an handfull, 2 stickes of licorisse, an handefull of | ||||
| annyseedes* , and handfull of greate reasons* ye stones picked out, 6 figs | ||||
| cleane washed, seeth all these in a pottle* of running water tyll it cometh to | ||||
| a quarte, then strayne it, & drinke it cold in the heate. | ||||
| To make a seere* cloth wch is the blote** salve. 67. | ||||
| Take a pottle of sallet* oyle, j lb & a quarter of pure red leade, & j lb & a quarter | ||||
| of the best white leade, & seeth* these 3 together, by the space of an howre, | ||||
| & then put in |
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Transcribed by JW and LF