Image 046, second book, folio 24b, receipts 61 to 67
| The seconde booke fo | ||||
| 61. For the collicke, stone, & strangurye* | ||||
| Take a quarte of new milke, put into it an handfull of persly* wel bruised | ||||
| & a quantity of pellitory of the wall*, bruise it & put it into ye milke, & seeth* | ||||
| them well together, then take a quantity of vergesse, & make a posset*, & let it | ||||
| stand well covered one quarter of an howre*, & then put the posset ale from ye | ||||
| curde into a vessell agayne, then put into the same ale the like quantity of | ||||
| hearbes as afore, & beate halfe an ounce of parslyseed, scrape a quarter of an | ||||
| ounce of castell sope, and a good quantity of stone honye*, & boyle all these in | ||||
| the same ale the space of one quarter of an howre, & then strayne it into | ||||
| a fayre pot, & give the patient to drinke thereof evening and morninge. | ||||
| 62. A medicine for ye migryme*. | ||||
| Take a handfull of angiltothes (?) wormes, an handfull of sengreene, bray* | ||||
| them together fine, & stirre into them ye white of 2 egges, & thicke it with | ||||
| wheate flower, that it be like batter, & stryke it upon a double linnen cloth, | ||||
| & lay it to the temples & foreheade, & so let it lye till it loose of his owne | ||||
| accorde. | ||||
| 63. A medicine for a bruise. | ||||
| Take ye bloude of a pigge, & as much vineger, ye crummes of leavened bread | ||||
| & boyle them together till they be thicke, & lay it hot to the bruise, & it will | ||||
| helpe it. | ||||
| 64. To breake and heale a fellon* | ||||
| Take the growndes of ale, & as much vineger, the crummes of leavened bread | ||||
| & a little honye, & boyle them together tyll* they be thicke, & lay it to ye ioynte** | ||||
| where the fellon is, & it will make it whole. | ||||
| 65. For ye same. | ||||
| Take red sage, & white sope, & bruise them well together, & lay it to the | ||||
| fellon & it will kyll it. | ||||
| 66. A water for ye biteing of a mad dog. | ||||
| Take scabeas, matfellin, yarrowe, nightshade*, wilde sage, & the leaves of | ||||
| white lillies, of each a like quantitye, & still* them in a common still, & give | ||||
| a quantity of 3 or 4 spoonefull of the same water myngled with halfe a | ||||
| spoonfull of treacle, to any man or beaste within 9 dayes after he is bitten, | ||||
| & for lacke of the water, take ye iuice* of these hearbes with treacle, & by | ||||
| Gods grace it shall helpe. | ||||
| 67. To keepe the sore that is bitten of a | ||||
| mad dog from ranklinge*. | ||||
| Take dittan*, egrymonye*, & resty** bacon, & beate them all together, & lay it | ||||
| to the sore, & it will keepe it from ranklinge. | ||||
| 68. To kill wormes in the bellye. | ||||
| Take j lb of the oyle of lynseede, & a quarterne* of ye gum of a pine aple tree**, and | ||||
| bray the gum finely in a mortar, tyll it be powder, then myxte ye powder with | ||||
| the oyle, & make it hot at ye fire, & therewith anoynte first the moulde* of the | ||||
| heade, then ye temples, & after the throate, & so ye breaste, & last of all ye belly | ||||
| of the diseased partys, & chafe every part till ye oyntmente be dronke in, and doe | ||||
| this evening & morninge for ye space of two dayes, & it will helpe. | ||||
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