Image 041, second book, folio 22a, receipts 36 (contd.) to 45.
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| or else take them with vinegar, or easell*, & strayne it through a cloth, & | ||||
| put it in his mouthe, or else take ye iuice* of hownds tongue** rootes, & let | ||||
| him drinke it, & hee shall speake righte well. | ||||
| 37. To staunch ye bleeding of a wounde. | ||||
| Take an houndestoorde*, & lay it on an hot role, & binde it thereunto & it | ||||
| shall staunche bleedeinge: or els burne long wormes & make pouder of it* | ||||
| & cast it on ye wounde, & it will staunch bleedeinge, & staye ye running of | ||||
| humors to the wounde, or take ye eare of an hare & make pouder thereof | ||||
| & cast it on ye wounde, & it will staunch bleedeinge. | ||||
| 38. For spitting bloud by a fall or bruise. | ||||
| Take betanye*, vervayne**, nosebleede, & fiveleaved grasse, of eache like | ||||
| muche, & stampe* them in a mortar, & wringe out the iuice of them, and | ||||
| put to the iuice of them as much goats milke, & let them seeth* together, | ||||
| & let him that is hurte drinke of that drinke 7 dayes together, in the | ||||
| waxeinge of the moone, & let him drinke allso osmonde*, & cumfry** wth | ||||
| stale ale, & hee shall bee whole. | ||||
| 39. To know whether one having ye fluxe may live or not. | ||||
| Take j id wayghte of towne cresse sodde*, & give it him to drinke with wine | ||||
| or water, & doe this 3 dayes, & if it cease he shall live with the helpe of | ||||
| medicine, if it cease not he shall dye. | ||||
| 40.To helpe him that spitteth bloude. | ||||
| Take the iuice of betonye, & temper* it wih good milke, & give ye sicke | ||||
| to drinke 4 dayes, & hee shall be whole. | ||||
| 41. For a woman in travell with childe. | ||||
| Take & give her in the morninge dittany* to drinke, & shee shalbe delive- | ||||
| red without perill, or els give her hysop* with hot water or wine, & shee | ||||
| shalbe deliverd with childe though it be deade or rotten, & annon* when | ||||
| shee is delivered give her the same without wine: or binde ye herbe mryetill* | ||||
| to her nostrells, & shee shalbe soone delivered: or else take polypodium*, | ||||
| & stampe it & lay it upon the womans foote in manner of a plaister, | ||||
| & shee shalbe delivered quicke or deade*, or els give for to drinke saverye** | ||||
| with hot water & shee shalbe delivered by ye grace of God. | ||||
| 42. To stanch blood in a veine. | ||||
| Take rewe* & seeth** it in water, & after stampe it in a mortar, & lay it on the | ||||
| vayne, then take lambes wooll, that was never washed. & lay it thereon | ||||
| & it shall staunch bloude. | ||||
| 43. For a vayne evill smytton. | ||||
| Take beanes & pill* away the blacke, & seeth them well in vinegar, & laye | ||||
| them on the vayne hot in manner of a playster. | ||||
| 44. For one that pysseth bloude. | ||||
| Seeth garlicke* in water till the third parte be wasted awaye, & let him | ||||
| drynke of the water, & hee shalbe whole. | ||||
| 45. For an ache in the huckle*, or in other places. | ||||
| Take a quarte of bastarde*, a pynte of oyle oliffe**, a good sawcer full of | ||||
| cleane clarified |
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Transcribed by YR and KW