Image 064, second book, folio 33b, receipts 210 (contd) to 214
| The seconde book | ||||
| take ye iuice* of violets, or ye flowers with a good quantity of sugar, min- | ||||
| gle them well together, & put them in a glasse, & stop it close, & set | ||||
| it in the sunne, then take the flory* thereof, & keepe it to your use. | ||||
| 211. Laxatives for one yt is costive*. | ||||
| Take mallowes*, mercurye, borrage*, & violets, seeth** them with a litle | ||||
| porke, make pottage*, eate them, & drinke white wine, or new ale, & it | ||||
| will helpe: Item take ye roote of polipodium* that groweth upon ye oake, | ||||
| washe it & stype* it in white wine all nighte, & on ye morrowe strayne | ||||
| it & drinke it: Item take a nutshell, & fyll it with butter, & bind it to | ||||
| the navell all nighte, & you shalbe purged at the full: Item take a | ||||
| greate onyon, core it & fill it with May butter*, & put it in a wette | ||||
| cloute*, & seeth it in hot embers, till ye onyon be tender, then lay it to ye | ||||
| navell to bedward* warme, & cover it with some shell or dishe, & it will | ||||
| helpe. | ||||
| 212. A suppositorye. | ||||
| Seeth hony & salte together in a litle panne upon the coales, let it not | ||||
| boyle too faste, for then it will looke blacke, when it hath boyled enoughe, | ||||
| let a drop fall upon a colde place, when it is colde, if it be hard enoughe, | ||||
| take it from the fire, & make small long rowles* 2 or 3 inches long, roule* | ||||
| them betweene your hands or upon a cleane trecher*, put a litle butter | ||||
| aboute it, that it may enter ye easier into your fundamente*, & keepe it | ||||
| in your fundament so long as you can, though it provoke you muche. | ||||
| 213. For to stoppe ye fluxe* | ||||
| Take halfe a pynte of barstarde*, put into it the powder of sandragon*, | ||||
| & the powder of cammamyll*, drinke oft** thereof & it will helpe, if you | ||||
| shall live: Item water of planten* is good for ye fluxe of ye hot dropsie*: | ||||
| allso good treacle* eaten helpeth very muche: allso old cheese sodden* in wa- | ||||
| ter, dryed agayne & then eaten: allso the same water dronke helpethe | ||||
| the fluxe: allso ye water of oaken leaves stylled* & dronke, will helpe: Item | ||||
| a good quantity of rosemarye cut & sodden in vineger, & made plasterwise, | ||||
| & layde unto the wombe will helpe: Item a posset* with a spoonefull of | ||||
| bruised alome*, & drinke the whaye** thereof will helpe. | ||||
| 214. To stoppe ye bloudye fluxe. | ||||
| Make a cake of wheate flower, & the iuice of yarrowe*, & waybroad*, | ||||
| baked upon the hearthe, & eaten as hot as may bee, will helpe within | ||||
| 3 or fowre dayes: Item ye powder of acornes dronke with wine or ale: Item | ||||
| take a close stoole*, & burne j ?; of frankencense at 4 sundry times one | ||||
| after another, upon an hot gloweing tile stone, sit close that ye smoke may | ||||
| goe into your fundamente, renue* ye tiles heate at everye time, after that | ||||
| make a fire with 3 or 4 charre coales, & eate of an hot harth cake, and | ||||
| drinke red wine & none other drinke, doe this 3 dayes: If it be the bloudy | ||||
| fluxe, drinke 3 dayes j id of the seedes of yarde cresses*, & as much hencresses* | ||||
| seede with red wine, each day as much seede as is afore named, & if it | ||||
| oŒo | bee cureable, it will helpe. oŒo* Allso drinke red wine with cresses, & | |||
| the crops* of |
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Transcribed by KW and YR