Image 061, second book, folio 32a, receipts 185 to 194.
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| 185. To make softe handes, & fayce. | ||||
| Seeth* affodill* till it be softe, & put thereunto the powder of tartory*, & | ||||
| twoe egges, & rub your hands therewith every daye. | ||||
| 186. For ache in the thighes & feete. | ||||
| Seeth ye roote of wallworte* in water, & doe away ye uppermost rine*, | ||||
| stampe* the middle, & temper it with boares greace, & use it. | ||||
| 187. For akeing thighes, & stiffe synews. | ||||
| Take brokelime*, & hearbe John*, dresse them with swines greace, sheeps | ||||
| tallowe, & horse dounge* in manner of a plaster, & use it. | ||||
| 188. For ye stifnes of ye hands, legs, & feete. | ||||
| Boyle hemblocke* & sage together in water, & stype* your stiffe handes or | ||||
| legges therein a while, & after wash it well. | ||||
| 189. A generall plaster for all sore leggs. | ||||
| Take a good quantitye of ye hearbe Bennet*, halfe as much tarre, & as | ||||
| much barrowes grease*, melte them together with pigeons dunge, & hens | ||||
| dunge, & seeth them agayne a good while, then stirre them well, & strayn | ||||
| them hot into the powder of allome* styrre them well together |
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| be colde, put them into boxes, & use them. | ||||
| 190. To coole a sore shynne, or leg that aketh. | ||||
| Take red coole* leafe, sage, & smallage*, stampe them & mingle them wth | ||||
| sowre doughe, & honye, & laye it to the sore. | ||||
| 191. For numnes*, for sleeping hands, & feete. | ||||
| Take the flowers of broome, & the leaves of woodbine*, of each like much, | ||||
| stampe them with May butter*, & let it stand together all nighte, & | ||||
| the next daye set it on the fire, & skymme* it well, & use it. | ||||
| 192. For ringwormes. | ||||
| Scrape the roots of red dockes*, washe it not, & cut it in rownd slyces, stype | ||||
| it in a dishe of vineger all nighte, then wet a cloth in it, & wringe it upon | ||||
| the tetter*, & use it ofte** | ||||
| 193. For olde sores that be broken out, & | ||||
| not perfectlye healed. | ||||
| Take 2 id of verdigresse*, 2 sawcers full of vineger, & a quantitye of | ||||
| allome, boyle them together tyll they be red, & lay it in ye hools* of ye leg. | ||||
| 194. For cornes in the feete. | ||||
| Mingle ye flower* of unsleaked* lyme, & blacke sope* together, tyll they be | ||||
| somewhat harde, then pare* of ye cornes to ye quicke, & lay this medicine | ||||
| upon the bredthe of ye corne, & no broader, & it will fret out ye corne by | ||||
| the roote, then take ye oyle of ye yolke of an egge, & honye, but most of ye oyle, | ||||
| mingle them together, & lay it on the sore, & it will heale up wth this salve. | ||||
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