Image 034, first book, folio 17b, receipts 67 to 72.
| The firste booke. | ||||
| & then put in a quarter of a pinte of veneger & let it boyle an other | ||||
| houre & stirre it all the while: & to knowe when it is boyled enough | ||||
| take a sawcer of water, & take the sticke that you stirre it withall and | ||||
| let it droppe into the water: And if it be hard when it is in the water | ||||
| then it is sodden* enoughe: you must take heede of the fire in making of it | ||||
| & that you have a panne ready to cover the same with: If you take not | ||||
| good heede unto it, it will be soone set on fire in the makeinge. | ||||
| To make a glyster*. 68. | ||||
| Take mallowes 2 handfulls, as much violet leaves, as much branne, boyle | ||||
| them in a pottle* of water till 3 partes be consumed, then put in 2 yelkes of | ||||
| egges new layd & beaten fine, then streyne the licor & when it is streined, | ||||
| put into that licor 3 ounces of butter & so minister* that same as warme as | ||||
| the patient can suffer it. | ||||
| For an ache. 69. | ||||
| Take sage, rewe, of each j lb, of wormewood di j lb, & of bay leaves as much, | ||||
| three lb of sweete sheepes tallowe, & beate every thing by it selfe, & then | ||||
| mince the tallowe small, & medle them all together, both the sewet & the | ||||
| herbes, till there bee no white of the tallowe seene & then put it into a faire | ||||
| earthen pot, & put thereunto a pottle of the best oyle oliffe*, & meddle all | ||||
| together & then binde the pot close, & let it stande 9 dayes, & then boyle | ||||
| it, & strayne it, & so anoynte the parte that the ache is in, by an hot fire | ||||
| & wrappe it warme with hot clothes. | ||||
| To breake a fellon*. 70. | ||||
| Take verges* & wheate branne, & boyle them together till they be verye | ||||
| thicke, & lay it rounde & upon the fellon, till it be broken, & then tente it | ||||
| & heale it with the greene salve nexte followeinge. | ||||
| A salve very good for a newe or an old wounde. 71. | ||||
| Take rewe, sage, mallowes, planten, hemblocke, dockes, selfeheale* or | ||||
| tutson, comferye, valerian *, of each of these a good handfull, beate them | ||||
| together very fine, & small, then take of sheepes sewet, or deares sewet, | ||||
| unwroughte waxe, & rozen* beaten small to pouder, of each of these j lb then | ||||
| boyle them together in a panne till they be hot, then put them to the sayde | ||||
| hearbes, & let them boyle together a good while stirring them wth a sticke, | ||||
| & after take all the confection & strayne it through a course clothe, yt is whole | ||||
| & stronge into a quarte or pinte of white wine, & let it stand till it bee | ||||
| colde, then you shall have thereof a perfecte salve which you may make | ||||
| into rowles, as you thinke good, but if the sore bee corrupted, with deade | ||||
| fleshe, boyle the sayde salve & put thereunto a quantitye of roch allome | ||||
| with a linnen dipped therein anoynte the sore & after make a playster | ||||
| of the same, & lay to the sore. | ||||
| For a sore breaste. 72. | ||||
| Take 4 ? of lynseede |
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Transcribed by LF and JW