Image 057, second book, folio 30a, receipts 149 to 157.
| The Seconde booke fo.30. | ||||
| Liber 2. | ||||
| 149. For the same. | ||||
| Take parslye, sage, wormewood*, tansye*, & a pottle* of good stale ale*, stap* | ||||
| all these hearbes & put them into the ale, & seeth* it to a quarte, & drinke | ||||
| thereof a good quantitye in the eveninge hot, & in the morninge colde. | ||||
| 150. For the same. | ||||
| Make powder of the roote of gladen*, & take thereof in your meats halfe a | ||||
| spoonefull at once, & ye shalbe whole or deade within 9 dayes or 9 nights. | ||||
| 151. For ye collicke & stone* | ||||
| Take pygeons dounge*, dry it & stampe** it to powder, then take as much | ||||
| fetherfewe*, or pellitory of the wall*, bruise it in your hand, & fry them | ||||
| together with May butter*, then make bags, a couple, & put of this con- | ||||
| into | ||||
| fection a like quantity ⁁ |
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| meaneth the navell) & the other to the backe, right over agaynst ye other, | ||||
| & within twise or thrise dressinge it will breake the stone. | ||||
| 152. An other for the same. | ||||
| Take commyn* seed, & annyseed*, stype* them in vineger, a day & a nighte, | ||||
| dry them afterward in ye winde or in the sunne, & shred thereinto ginger, | ||||
| & lycoris*, eate thereof a good quantity first & laste, after yt drinke ye iuice** | ||||
| of brooklime* wth good stale ale warme, & the stone will avoyde. | ||||
| 153. For the same. | ||||
| Seeth a pownde of commyn* in a potle* of water unto a pinte, after that | ||||
| put both water & ye commyn into two bags, & laye the one to the one side | ||||
| & the other unto the other side contrarye, & it will help annon*. | ||||
| 154. For the same. | ||||
| Take grumwell*, parsley, red nettles, violets, smallage*, kyrnels of che- | ||||
| rystones, stampe the hearbes by themselves, & ye kyrnels by themselves, | ||||
| then seeth them in whyte wine, in an earthen pot, & let it stand in ye same | ||||
| pot, & so use it. | ||||
| 155. For the same. | ||||
| Take an handfull of parsly seed & annisseed together, put them into a quart | ||||
| of malmesye*, & seeth it to a pinte, when it is allmost sodden*, holde a litle | ||||
| peice of white sope therein tyll it be dropped in, then put thereinto a peice | ||||
| of sugar candye till it be consumed, drinke thereof warme to bedwarde*, & it | ||||
| will bring away the stone with the gravell* from ye backe. | ||||
| 156. An other for the same. | ||||
| Take the seeds of smallage*, parslye, lovage*, carraway*, grumwell*, of phili- | ||||
| pendula*, the roots, kyrnels of chery stones, of every one like quantitye, beat | ||||
| them to powder, drynke thereof in new wine, a spoonefull warme first & last. | ||||
| 157. For ye stone in ye bladder. | ||||
| Take ye bloud of a foxe & plaster it about ye yarde*, & it will breake ye stone, | ||||
| & the same bloud dryed & beate into powder, breaketh the stone allso, to | ||||
| try this |
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