Image 055, second book, folio 29a, receipts 129 (contd) to 138.
| The Seconde booke Fo.29 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| wash your face with Aqua benedicta*, & it shall helpe you. | ||||
| 130. To take fleshe spots, or bloud spots awaye. | ||||
| Take tartar*[*], & make powder thereof, then put the powder upon a | ||||
| smooth marble stone, resolve it with water & grind it very fine, then drye | ||||
| it by the fire or in the sunne, then put it agayne upon the marble, & grind | ||||
| it with oyle, till it be turned into oyle, & anoynte the bloud spots therewith, | ||||
| & they will vanish awaye. | ||||
| 131. For ye yellow iaundishe* | ||||
| Seeth* sellondine** & licoris*** together halfe away, & drinke thereof, & | ||||
| it will helpe you. | ||||
| 132. For ye canker upon ye bodye, & ye festered gowte. | ||||
| Take ye iuice* of rewe**, mynte, honye, & vineger, of each like much, seeth | ||||
| them well upon a softe fire; styrre them well, & allwayes when it boy- | ||||
| leth, set it downe, & allwayes doe this till it creame, & when it creameth | ||||
| as pitch, laye it to ye sore, as hot as may suffered, & it will helpe. | ||||
| 133. For the same. | ||||
| Take the barke of an hawthorne, bruise it well in a mortar, & seeth | ||||
| it well in red wine halfe away, then powre* out ye wine, & bruise the | ||||
| barke small in a mortar, then temper it with boares grease, & fry them | ||||
| together, & put a plaster thereof hot to the place. | ||||
| 134. For a thorne in hand & foot, though it be throughe. | ||||
| Stampe an handfull of fayre daysy roots, temper them with ye yolks of | ||||
| eggs, & flower*, & lay a plaster to ye place, & change it twyse a day, & | ||||
| it will draw out the thorne, allso gratia dei* will draw it out, if it be possible. | ||||
| 135. For the same. | ||||
| Take egrimonye*, ditanye*, lilly roots, of each like much, stamp them & | ||||
| put |
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| like muche, stampe all together, fry them, make a plaster thereof, & as | ||||
| hot as may be suffred, lay it to ye sore place: allso drinke the iuice of | ||||
| egrimonye, and ditanye three times. | ||||
| 136. For a sore breaste. | ||||
| Take fine claye, & temper it with vineger, ye yolkes of eggs, & saffron, & | ||||
| lay it upon the breaste with a fayre clothe: it is very good for anye | ||||
| sore that cometh of heate. | ||||
| 137. To make one pysse yt cannot. | ||||
| Make a posset* of the iuice of sorrell, & drinke it colde: Item stampe housleke* | ||||
| & sheeps tallow* together, seeth them & lay them to the member as hot as | ||||
| you can suffer it. | ||||
| 138. To make one pisse quicklye. | ||||
| Put galbone* upon the navell, and binde it unto it, & you shall pisse | ||||
| quicklye. | ||||
| For ye ache |
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