Image 045, second book, folio 24a, receipts 56 to 60.
| The Seconde booke. Fo. 24 | ||||
| Liber 2. | ||||
| 56. A speciall good water to washe anye olde sore or wounde. | ||||
| Mr Horner* | Take a gallon of running water, & put thereunto the quantitye of a walnut | |||
| of white copporisse* & so keepe it in a close vessell, tyll you have an occasion | ||||
| to occupye it, & so it will keepe sweete & not putrifye. | ||||
| 57. A pultyse* for a swellinge. | ||||
| Take 2 oz of radish roots, & seeth* them in 3 or 4 gallons of faire runninge | ||||
| water tyll* they be softe, then keepe the water close & stampe** the roots fyne, | ||||
| then take 2 or 3 handfull of wheate branne being fine beaten, with an | ||||
| handfull of commyn* seedes fyne beaten, & halfe an handfull of venicreke** | ||||
| & seeth all these together in the water with halfe a pynte of sallot oyle*, | ||||
| tyll it be thicke like a salve, & stirre it often, & so keepe it tyll need require, | ||||
| & then warme upon a bed of towe* laye it to the sore. | ||||
| 58. A salve or oyntement for all mannner of aches in ye flesh & bones. | ||||
| Take j lb of English waxe, 2 lb of rozen*, j lb of frankencense, & mingle all these | ||||
| together in a panne, & set all these together on the fire till they be melted, | ||||
| then take an handfull of smallage*, 2 handfull of planten* leaves, an handfull | ||||
| of mouse eare*, an handfull of burssa pastoris*, an handfull of yearrowe*, an | ||||
| handfull of marygoldes*, & heades of greene housleake*, stampe these hearbes | ||||
| together small, & then streyne them through a cleane linnen clothe, & put | ||||
| thereunto j lb of Maye butter*, & then set the iuice** of all these hearbes well | ||||
| myxte upon the fyre, & boyle them well, & then take your waxe, rosen, & | ||||
| frankencense, & melte them on the fire, stirringe them with a sticke, untyll | ||||
| they be well relented, then take it of the fire, & put thereunto ye iuice* of all | ||||
| these hearbes, with the May butter, & seeth them well together a good | ||||
| season, this done let them coole in ye panne as you do a cake of waxe, and | ||||
| make it in rowles, or plasters, or keepe it close in a boxe, & when you doe use | ||||
| it, melte it in sawcers over the fire, or with your handes chafe it, & rubbe | ||||
| it where the greife is. | ||||
| 59. A pultisse for anye swellinge. | ||||
| Take a good quantitye of violet leaves, as much growndcell*, halfe an hand- | ||||
| full of mallowes*, allmost halfe an handfull of chickeweede*, cut all these | ||||
| with a knyfe, & seeth them well in conduite* water, & thicken it with | ||||
| barly meale fine syfted, & spreade it on a clothe, & lay it to ye swellinge, & | ||||
| rowle it playne, & shyft it twyse* a day till it bee cured. | ||||
| 60. A salve for all sores. | ||||
| Take rozen, & perrossen, of each halfe a pownde, of virgin waxe, & franken-** | ||||
| cense 3 ?, of masticke* 2 ?, of hartes tallowe* 4 ?, of camphire** 2 drammes, | ||||
| melte that is to be molten, & make powder of the other, & boyle all these to- | ||||
| gether well on a good fire: Then strayne it through a cleane cloth into a | ||||
| pottle* of white wine, & put thereunto 4 ? of Turpentine when it is but | ||||
| bloude warme, & so stirre it well together tyll it be through colde, then | ||||
| make it in rowles, & keepe it to your use, for ye best medicine or salve that | ||||
| ever was made, & when you occupy it to rayse or heale a sore, take a letle* | ||||
| oyle of roses, & melte some of the salve therewith, & with linnen lay it to ye | ||||
| sore, & it shall rayse the fleshe, this is good both for olde woundes & newe, | ||||
| it will suffer no corruption therein, or evill flesh to increase. | ||||
| For ye collycke, | ||||
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