Image 058, second book, folio 30b, receipts 157 (contd) to 165.
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| try this take a stone, & put it into a foxes his bloud 3 dayes & it will breake. | ||||
| item pellitory* sod* in water, & layde aboute ye yarde* & somewhat above, | ||||
| delivereth water, & breaketh the stone. | ||||
| 158. For the stone a speciall good medicine. | ||||
| Seeth* parsly roots well in mylke, & with that milke make a posset**, & doe | ||||
| away the curde, seeth ye posset ale agayne, skimme it & it will helpe. | ||||
| 159. If you knowe not whether the stone be in ye | ||||
| bladder, or in the raygnes*. | ||||
| Boyle henbitt* in water, & drinke the same 3 dayes, & it will destroye the | ||||
| stone wheresoever it bee: Item seeth 6 garlicke heades in water a good while | ||||
| & drinke that water 3 dayes, & it will destroy the stone: Item berries of | ||||
| ivye 8 or 9 brayed* with hot water, & drinke the same, it both breaketh | ||||
| the stone, & causeth urine. | ||||
| 160. An excellent medicine for ye strangurion* | ||||
| in younge & olde. | ||||
| Drinke aquavitae* 3 times a day a spoonefull at once, or more after dinner | ||||
| or at nighte, with a spoonefull of ale, or alone: if he be old & have hast to | ||||
| bee delivered, take an instrument called an eruque*, & put ye small end into | ||||
| the eye of the yarde*, then put aquavitae into ye instrument, & use it as wth | ||||
| a glyster*, take heede your aquavitae be stilled* by a cannon* of earth or glasse, | ||||
| & no other vessell, & to be stilled 7 times, that the deade water of it bee | ||||
| clearely avoyded, & allso his fervent egernes*, this [m?]edicine never fayleth. | ||||
| 161. For the same. | ||||
| Make small bundles of organon*, seeth them in wine, & lay them hot upon | ||||
| the raignes.* | ||||
| 162. For payne in the yarde by makeing water. | ||||
| Take the oyle of red roses, heate it & then anoynte ye sore (i)* the share** & the | ||||
| raignes with it, then take pellitorye*, cammamill*, & rewe*, boyle them in | ||||
| white wine, with a litle water, & put ye hearbs in 2 bags, & lay one bagge | ||||
| very hot upon the share downe to ye yarde, & the other parte to ye raygnes, | ||||
| & when it cooleth, heate it agayne in that lycor, & use it. | ||||
| 163. For one that cannot holde his water. | ||||
| Take a sheeps bladder, or a neates* bladder, & so dry it that you can make pouder | ||||
| thereof, & drinke it with vineger or water, & allso drinke ye braynes of a rosted* | ||||
| hare, with gallingall* beaten to powder. | ||||
| For one that pisseth bloude. | ||||
| Take ambrosye*, & sanguinarye*, or bloudworte*, an handfull, stampe* them, and | ||||
| temper them with goates milke, or other milke, & drinke it. | ||||
| 165. For one that pisseth his kinde*. | ||||
| Take greate angell*, twitches*, cut of both the endes, make a stew of them | ||||
| with pepper, & saffron, & other spices, to make it delicious, use this & it | ||||
| will helpe: allso take philipendula*, grumwell*, saxifrage*, both the seeds | ||||
| & the roots, synkefielde*, annis*, maces*, quibibes*, stanmarche*, smallage* | ||||
| seeds, make a dregge* of these, & use it to eate. | ||||
| For them yt |
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Transcribed by KW and YR