Image 039, second book, folio 21a, receipts 24 (contd) to 29.
| The seconde booke fo. 21. | ||||
| Liber 2. | ||||
| Take a lapfull of the rootes & leaves of betonye*, & washe them cleane & | ||||
| stampe them, as small as green sauce, & put thereunto a gallon of good ale, | ||||
| & stirre them well together & strayne it through a clothe, & then seeth it | ||||
| & skimme it cleane, & then take it from the fire, & put thereunto a pint | ||||
| of claryfied honye, & halfe a pennyworth of the powder of pepper & as | ||||
| much graynes, & then boyle it agayne a litle, & stirre it till it be colde | ||||
| & keepe it close in a glasse & use it firste & laste. | ||||
| 25. A medecine for all manner swellings of ye belly, of ye raignes*, | ||||
| of ye dropsye, or for the water betweene ye skinne, & ye fleshe. | ||||
| Take the shaveings of glovers leather, & seeth* it in water till it bee | ||||
| thicke as it were glewe, & lay it on a clothe, & put it on the swelling: | ||||
| or seeth horehounde* in seawater or brine, & laye it on ye swellinge, & it | ||||
| will doe awaye the olde swelling & the newe. | ||||
| 26. For the bone ache. | ||||
| Take brokelime*, smallage*], & bearesworte*, alias dayses, with fresh sheeps | ||||
| sewet, & frye them together, & make of them a playster, & laye it to the | ||||
| sore all hot. | ||||
| 27. A salve for all sores | ||||
| Take turpentine, oyle olyffe, rosen*, bollen waxe*, deares sewet, or sheeps | ||||
| sewet, of everye of them as you shall thinke good, of each like much. then | ||||
| take smallage, buglosse, ragworte, planten, & orphe[?], of everye of them | ||||
| an handfull, & cut them small, & seeth them all in the foresayde stuffe | ||||
| abovewritten, then let it boyle over a softe fire, allwayes stirringe it | ||||
| till it be well mingled together, & ye greenes gone, & when you thinke | ||||
| it well, take it of the fire, & strayne it through a stronge canvas bagge | ||||
| or clothe: & this salve is for all sores, to heale them, on warrentise*. | ||||
| 28. To make one to make water (1) to pisse. | ||||
| Take rosemarye, parselye, & margerome of each an handfull, of time | ||||
| as muche, of ivye groweinge on the wall & maydenheare, of eache 5 hand- | ||||
| full, philupendula*, pellitorye, browne fennell, mowseare*, ruds alias | ||||
| marygoldes, motherworte*, hartestonge* of each 3 handfull, an handfull of | ||||
| red sage, of saxifrage 9 handfull, still all these together & put ye water | ||||
| in a glasse, & set it in ye sun as you doe other waters, ye shall take this | ||||
| water in white wine wth ginger, 2 houres before ye patiente arise in the | ||||
| morninge. | ||||
| 29. Oyle of swallowes for sinnews that are shruken. | ||||
| Take 20 yonge swallowes out of the neste, & put them quicke into a mortar, | ||||
| & put thereunto lavendercotten*, & spyke*, knot grasse*, rybworte*, balme, verven*, | ||||
| rosemarye toppes, the tops of woodbine, ye strings of vines, French mallows, | ||||
| the tops of alecost*, strawbery strings, tutsan*, planten, wallnut leaves, ye | ||||
| tops of yonge bayes, hysop, vyolet leaves, sage of vertue*, fine Romayne* | ||||
| wormewoode, cammamyll, & red roses of each 2 handfull, of cloves beaten | ||||
| fresh butter is better. | small 2 [Z:]: a quarte of neates foote oyle: all these must be beaten together | |||
| in a mortar with the swallowes, & then put them in an earthen pot & let it | ||||
| stand under ye |
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Transcribed by JW and LF