The seconde booke fo 33 | ||||
Liber 2. | ||||
For the festred gowte*. | ||||
Take & burne a roch* fishe to powder in an earthen pot, & take ye iuice** of | ||||
avens* or sage, & put it into the hole of the fester, & after fyll it with the | ||||
powder of the roche, use this medicine tyll the holes be drye, & all the | ||||
while of the healeinge, use to drinke avens. | ||||
203.To make powder for ye festred gowtes. | ||||
Take bole armoniacke*, & salte, & burne them together to powder, then | ||||
make powder of verdigresse*, pepper, white grasse*, & mustard seede, | ||||
& put your powders together, & lay them on ye sore. | ||||
204. For ye bone shave*, & all manner of aches. | ||||
Choppe an handfull of smallage*, & put thereunto a quantity of oatmeale, | ||||
a quantity of virgin waxe*, & rozen*, & fry them well together in a frying | ||||
panne, then put it into a linnen bag, & lay it to ye ache, & when it is | ||||
colde, remove it agayne, & put thereunto more waxe then rozen. | ||||
205. For all manner of aches. | ||||
Take Aquavitae*, & ye gall* of a steare*, or of an oxe, myngle them well | ||||
together, till it be an oyntment, then at even* anoynt ye place agaynste | ||||
the fire. | ||||
206. For ye crampe. | ||||
Stampe* rewe**, & mingle it with fresh butter, & keep it so 9 dayes well | ||||
covered, & boyle it, & skymme* it well, & put thereunto ye pouder of iuces[?] | ||||
& while it is hot stirre it well, & then anoynt ye crampe therewith. | ||||
207. For the bone ache in any place. | ||||
Take ale yeaste*, & anoynt the place well agaynst the fire, till it bee | ||||
dryed in by chafeinge* to & fro, then take hony & anoynt ye same place, | ||||
tyll* it be likewise dryed in, & this will supple ye bones, & do away ye ach. | ||||
208. For Sciatica passio.* | ||||
Stampe 6 or 8 figs with sowre wheate breade, or ry bread, & put there- | ||||
unto a sawcer full of mustard seede, as much vineger, & as much hony, | ||||
grinde all these in a mortar, & spreade it plasterwise on a linnen cloth, | ||||
& lay a cloth betweene ye sore & ye plaster, & use it colde to bedwarde* | ||||
209. For the same. | ||||
Take a good quantity of young childrens pisse, & let it stand in a vessell | ||||
longe, then take wallworte*, coolorage*, hearbe bennet*, cropps* of red net- | ||||
tles*, chop them small, & put them into the pysse, & let them stand 8 or 9 | ||||
dayes, then strayne it through a clothe, & use it, & with that anoynt | ||||
the place, & you shall be whole. | ||||
210. Laxatives | ||||
Take burrage*, mercurye*, & 2 or 3 leaves of lorall*, & make a pynt of | ||||
wortes* therewith, & with porke sod* in ye same worts & eate them: Item | ||||
take ye iuice |
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