The seconde booke. | ||||
175. For the swellinge of the bellye. | ||||
Take & stampe* green rewe**, temper it with wine, & drinke it fastinge. | ||||
176. For all manner of venime* | ||||
Drinke treacle* with wine or ale: Item eate fyggs stopt* with rewe, allso | ||||
drinke pympernell*, water cresses, consolida* scabiesa*, alltogether or alone. | ||||
177. For ye biteinge of an adder. | ||||
Temper centory* with your owne water, it is good allso for beasts: Item stamp | ||||
greene rew or fennell, fry them with butter, strayne them through a | ||||
canvas, & drinke it warme: Item stampe planten*, & sellendine* a like | ||||
quantitye, temper them with olde pysse, lay ye plaster to ye sore, & it will | ||||
asswage the swellinge, & drawe out the poyson. | ||||
178. For one yt hath bene bitten wth a mad dogge. | ||||
salte | ||||
Stampe garlicke, & lay it to the sore with honye, & it will helpe, allsoe | ||||
keepeth | ||||
garlicke eaten often, |
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179. For one that hath dronke poyson. | ||||
Take gladen*, & dragons*, & stampe them together, & temper them wth wine, | ||||
strayne them through a cloth, & drinke it. | ||||
180. For the biteinge of an eyren*. | ||||
Rub ye place wth fresh fleshe, & stampe a radish roote, & seeth it in white | ||||
wine, or in vineger very tender, & make a plaster thereof, & lay it to the | ||||
wounde, & it will drawe out the venyme. | ||||
181. For all manner of swellinges in hands, legs, & feete. | ||||
Take well cresses*, shred them small, & put thereunto sweete lees** of wine, | ||||
wheate branne, & tallowe, seeth* them tyll they be thicke in an earthen pot, | ||||
& lay a plaster of this all aboute ye swellinge all a nighte, as hot as maye | ||||
be suffered, & allso a day unremoved, then lay freshe agayne. | ||||
182. For the same. | ||||
Make grewell* of otemell*, & cowe mylke, put thereunto ye iuice* of houseleeke*, | ||||
& sheeps tallowe, boyle them all together, till they bee thicke, then laye a | ||||
plaster thereof all aboute the sore. | ||||
183. For bloude fallen into the leggs. | ||||
Take stronge tanneroose* that never lether** came in, clenge* it & boyle it on | ||||
the fire, with the powder of osalam*, skymme them cleane, & put thereunto | ||||
the powder of bole armoniacke*, boyle them together, & skymme them cleane, | ||||
then take a lynnen clothe, & wash the legs with this water, as hot as may | ||||
bee suffered a good while, & then lap* ye clothe all aboute ye legge. | ||||
184. For feete swollen with travell. | ||||
Stampe mugworte* with boares greace, & commyn* bruised** together, | ||||
then fry them & make a plaster thereof, & laye it to the sore. | ||||
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Transcribed by KW and YR