Image 049, second book, folio 26a, receipts 85 (contd) to 91.
| The Seconde booke Fo 26 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| Take venicreeke*, seeth** it well in water tyll it be thicke, then take as much | ||||
| lynseed, stampe* it well in a mortar, temper it with water, & grind it well, | ||||
| & when it is well grounde, then take ye venicreke, & ye lynseede, & fresh sheeps | ||||
| tallowe*, doe it in a panne, & wet it well together, then doe it on a cloth all abroad** | ||||
| with a slice, & lay it all about the sore, & bynde it faste, & let it ly to all nighte, | ||||
| & if neede bee, chaunge it three or fowre times, & it shall doe it awaye, or | ||||
| gather it to a boyle. | ||||
| 86. For a burne or skaldinge. | ||||
| Take rosen*, waxe, hogs grease, sheeps sewet, of each like quantity, boyle | ||||
| all these together as long as any skyme* will arise, & then put in a bigger | ||||
| quantitye of sallet* oyle then of any of the other, & let it boyle but a litle | ||||
| after the oyle is in, then put it into a pot or boxe, & so keepe it, when you | ||||
| use it, you must anoynt ye sore wth a feather, & lay a prime rose* leafe over | ||||
| the sore. | ||||
| 87. To make milke water for any heate in ye face. | ||||
| Take 8 egges layd in vineger untill the shells be consumed, so take ye eggs | ||||
| out of the vineger, & pricke them that you may have the white from ye yolke, | ||||
| then take 12 lemmons, & pill* of the skinnes from them, then take beane flow- | ||||
| ers an handfull, an handfull of planten*, an handfull of honysuckells, an | ||||
| handfull of dayseyes*, an handfull of wilde tanseye**, & an handfull of femy- | ||||
| torye*, & put them all together with a potle* of new mylke into a still*. | ||||
| 88. For one that is broken*. | ||||
| Take 1 lb of an hearbe that is called dechesarm alias haresfoot*, & bruise | ||||
| it, & seeth it in 4 lb weight of alligant*, till it be halfe wasted, & let the | ||||
| patient be hard trussed, & for the more part keep his bed, for ye space of | ||||
| three weeks, so that he be not forced to strayne himselfe, & let him drinke | ||||
| thereof morninge & eveninge, & he shall be whole. | ||||
| 89. For an itche. | ||||
| Take 2 oz of quickesilver*, & let it be very well killed with fasting spittle*, | ||||
| then take as much fresh greace as a wallnut or more, then mingle them | ||||
| well together, & strike it upon a lyste*, & sow it round about the middle, | ||||
| & so let it remayne for ye space of 9 or 10 dayes. | ||||
| 90. An other for ye same. | ||||
| Take red docke roots* & wash them cleane, & dry them, then take ye middle | ||||
| pill* & stampe it fine, & mingle it with fresh greace, then grind them very | ||||
| fine together, & mingle therewith the powder of pepper, & anoynte ye pty | ||||
| agaynst ye fire 2 or 3 times, & lap a warme sheete aboute him. | ||||
| 91. For ye heate of the liver. | ||||
| Take harts tongue*, & liverworte*, of each an handfull, of the best ruberbe* | ||||
| two drams, & seeth* them in a quarte of the best worte*, & drinke therof | ||||
| eveninge and morninge. | ||||
| For wormes |
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Transcribed by YR and KW