Image 050, second book, folio 26b, receipts 92 to 98.
| The seconde booke | ||||
| 92. For wormes in the hands | ||||
| Take a pottle* of Smyths water**, 2 handfulls of red sage, 2 [S] of white cop- | ||||
| orisse*, boyle the sage in the water, bruise ye copporisse, & put it into the | ||||
| water, then put it into a stone pot, & wash your hands withall, & it will | ||||
| helpe. | ||||
| 93. A medicine for a sore or bruise | ||||
| Take an handfull of sage, an handfull of hearbegrace*, & a handfull of | ||||
| fetherfewe*, & stampe* them very small, & boyle them with gall*, and lay it | ||||
| to the bruise. | ||||
| 94. A medicine for ye sickenes, namely ye plague. | ||||
| Take a red onyon, & cut out the coore, & fill it full of treacle*, & rost it in | ||||
| the fire, & bruise it & strayne out the iuice*then take an handfull of sor- | ||||
| rell, & stampe it, & strayne out the iuice, & put thereunto as muche | ||||
| vineger, as there is sorrell iuice, or rather more, & put both into ye iuice | ||||
| of the onion, & after it is thus cleane strayned, & put together, give it to ye | ||||
| patiente to drinke. | ||||
| 95. for ye collicke and stone* | ||||
| Take reasons* & still* them alone, avens*, & still them alone, beane cods* & | ||||
| still them alone, unset* leekes & still them alone, saxifrage & still it alone, | ||||
| then take of all these waters like much, as much good malmesey* as is the | ||||
| proportion of all these waters, & distill ye waters with the malmsy toge- | ||||
| ther, with a very softe fyre, & after it is so distilled, let it stande in the | ||||
| sunne close stopped in a glasse, till the fire be out, then when you bee | ||||
| greived, take a litle of the water with fine ginger, & drinke it evening | ||||
| & morninge fastinge. | ||||
| 96. A soveraigne medicine for an ache. | ||||
| Take May butter* or fresh sweete butter with honye, & boyle them in a | ||||
| sawcer or dishe, & anoynte the patient before the fire, as hot as he may | ||||
| abide it, & chafe* it 4 or 5 nights together, & by the grace of God hee | ||||
| shall bee whole. | ||||
| 97. An Egiptians medicine for ye collicke & stone | ||||
| Take a quarte of white wine, j oz of cloves and mace, pellitory of ye wall*, | ||||
| setwell*, avens*, elecampane*, Alexanders*, hartestongue*, liverwort*, wood- | ||||
| roofe*, a root of pyemont*, gromwell* seeds, & an acorne, seeth** all these | ||||
| together in the wine, & drinke it 9 mornings hot, allwayes after your | ||||
| drinke, you must walke an houre or twoe. | ||||
| 98. A note how to make balme water of ye best sort. | ||||
| Take 2 gallons of strong ale, 2 lb; of balme, a quarter of j lb; of anniseeds, | ||||
| a quarter of j lb; of lycoris*, & bruise them in a mortar, & put them alltogether | ||||
| in a pot, & let them stand 12 houres stopt very close, after it hath stood so | ||||
| longe, still it in a limbecke*, but in any wise you must take heed youre | ||||
| fyre be not too hot at the firste, save the first halfe of the water by it | ||||
| selfe, for that | ||||
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Transcribed by KW and YR