Image 038, second book, folio 20b, receipts 16 (contd) to 24.
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| where the stick is, & so serve it 5 times, & by the grace of God it shall | ||||
| ease you. | ||||
| 17. For a flesh canker*. | ||||
| Take a quantitye of red vineger, 2 spoonefulls of stone honye, a quantitye | ||||
| of baye salte, & the bignes* of a wallnut of roch allome**, & boyle all these | ||||
| together, to halfe a pinte, & when it is colde laye therein a fewe sage | ||||
| leaves, & rubbe the patiente therewith eveninge & morninge, and let | ||||
| him not eate & drinke in twoe howres after. | ||||
| 18. To make the oyle of Exetor*. | ||||
| Take calaminte *, hearbe John, sage, egrimonye, fetherfewe, pennyroyall, | ||||
| lavender, pellitorye, rosemarye, cammomyll, hysop, liverworte,* eliber, | ||||
| the leaves of roses, ye flowers of lillies & cowslippes of each a pownd, | ||||
| & stampe* them in a mortar as small as you woulde for greene savene**, | ||||
| & then put thereunto white wine, & let it stand a nighte & a day: And | ||||
| then take oyle oliffe* as much as will suffice to ye hearbes, & seeth all these | ||||
| so longe, till the iuice* & wine be wasted**, then set it downe to coole, & | ||||
| take a stronge canvas bagge & presse it throughe, & put it in a glas or a | ||||
| potte of tyme, this oyntemente woulde be made in June, it is good for | ||||
| all manner of sores. | ||||
| 19. To make oyle of lawrell. | ||||
| Take bayes or lawrell, & grinde them, & seeth them in oyle, & then | ||||
| coole it, & then it is called oleum laureum*, it is good for a man yt feeleth | ||||
| not his limmes, for ye palsye, & for mortification. | ||||
| 20. To make oyle of roses. | ||||
| Take a good quantitye of roseleaves, breake them & put them into a glasse, | ||||
| & put to them a good quantitye of oyle oliffe, & so let it stande in the same, | ||||
| & every month chaunge the leaves, & put in newe, the longer it stand- | ||||
| eth, the better it is. | ||||
| 21. To make oyle sambute*. | ||||
| Take elder flowers, & put it in oyle oliffe, & let it stande in ye same, & | ||||
| doe therewith as you did with the oyle of roses, & this is called oleum | ||||
| sambutum. | ||||
| 22. To make oyle of allmondes. | ||||
| Take allmondes & blaunch them, & hang them up in bags agaynste ye | ||||
| sunne, & oyle will come out of them, this is good for all manner of | ||||
| heate in the face. | ||||
| 23. To make a salve for woundes yt be cankred*, & doe | ||||
| burne, & to bring them to their kinde. | ||||
| Take the iuice of smallage, of murrell*, of planten, of each like muche, | ||||
| then take ye white of |
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| wheate flower, & stirre them well together, till they be thicke, but let | ||||
| it come neere no fire, but all colde & rawe let it be layed to the sore, & it | ||||
| shall clense the wounde, & cease the ache, & bring it to his kinde. | ||||
| 24. For the breaste, brayne, & all other evills, (1) in man. | ||||
| Take a lapfull of |
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Transcribed by LF and JW