Image 056, second book, folio 29b, receipts 139 to 148.
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| 139. For ye ach* under the side. | ||||
| Take hillworte*, Alexanders*, parslye, loveage*, red fennell, smallage*, burnet*, | ||||
| & grommell*, of each like much, & seeth** them in white wine, till halfe be wasted, | ||||
| then strayne it, & let the patient drinke thereof, in the morning colde, & in | ||||
| the eveninge hot. | ||||
| 140 For ye ague* in a womans breaste. | ||||
| Take hemblocks*, & dry them betweene twoe tyles, & lay them to ye breaste | ||||
| as hot as shee may suffer it: allso fetherfewe*, & hearbe Robert* is good for the | ||||
| same. | ||||
| 141. To staunch bleedinge at ye nose. | ||||
| Claye tempered with rosewater & vineger, & layd plasterwise upon the | ||||
| foreheade will helpe. | ||||
| 142. To staunch bleeding (though it seeme | ||||
| unpossible) without any medicine. | ||||
| Take a treene* dishe, put a quarte** of good red vineger into it, then put your | ||||
| members as deepe as you maye in ye vineger, then take a lynnen cloth, & | ||||
| wet it in the same, & anoynte ye vineger betweene the browes, & ye bloud | ||||
| will staunch within a quarter of an houre, yea though ye vayne* be broken | ||||
| 143. A very good oyntment for ye raignes.* | ||||
| Still* a gallon of strong pisse in a stillitorye**, put unto it sage, hysoppe, | ||||
| hemblocke*, mallowes*, rewe*, scabias*, egrimonye*, of every of these halfe an | ||||
| handfull, still of all these halfe a pynte, then put thereunto oyle olliffe* 2 sponful. | ||||
| 144. For ye ache in ye backe. | ||||
| Take ashe, egrimonye* & mouseare**, stampe them together with vineger, then | ||||
| fry them with boares greace, & lay a plaster thereof as hot as may bee | ||||
| suffered, to the place where the griefe* is. | ||||
| 145. For ye ache in anye lymme* | ||||
| Stampe* planten**, & synkefielde***, & put thereunto boares greace, frye them | ||||
| well together, then make a plaster & laye it to ye place very hot, & it will | ||||
| helpe. | ||||
| 146. For too much sweateinge. | ||||
| Stampe lynseed, & lettice together, & lay it to the stomacke. | ||||
| 147. For him that cannot sweate. | ||||
| Take powder of drye commin*, oyle ollyffe*, barrows greace*, mingle them | ||||
| together, & frye them, & strayne them, & put them in boxes, and then | ||||
| anoynte him agaynst the fire, under the foote, & in his handes, & then | ||||
| lay him in his bed, & heale him with clothes. | ||||
| 148. For ye elves* cake, or ague cake* | ||||
| Take a catt, & smyte of her heade, & take out the bowells, & splat* the | ||||
| catt, & lay it unto the sore side. | ||||
| For ye same |
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Transcribed by KW and YR