Image 066, second book, folio 34b, receipts 221 (contd) to 228.
| The seconde booke | ||||
| is good for deepe woundes, if they be hurts by knife, or dagger, or ar- | ||||
| rowe, with a good plaster layd upon it. | ||||
| 222. To make pulverem graecum*. | ||||
| Take arkenet, or alkernet*, blacke pepper or unsleked* lime, of each like | ||||
| much, a third part of hony clarified, a fourth parte of vineger, beate the | ||||
| dry matters to powder, & make paste thereof with the vineger, then make | ||||
| a cake, & lay it upon an hot tile stone, & set it upon the fire, so that it burne | ||||
| not, but that you may make powder of it, this is good for ye bloudy fluxe*, | ||||
| & for ye canker*, to staunch bloud wheresoever it be, & for many other evils. | ||||
| 223. To make oleum ciriacum*. | ||||
| Bruise* mallowes a litle, & seeth** them a litle in common oyle, if you will | ||||
| make an oyntement thereof, put thereunto a third parte of sheepes | ||||
| tallowe*, & strayne it, & use it. | ||||
| 224. To make a rawe treate* that healeth well. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of smallage**, morrell**, wayebroade**, ye best honye, ye white | ||||
| of an egge by even portions, mingle them together, & put thereuntoe | ||||
| wheate flower*, & make it thicke, & being rawe, lay it to the wounde. | ||||
| 225. Unguentum nervale* for dry sinewes. | ||||
| Take water cresses*, senchon*, chickeweede*, the leaves of laurell*, sage, | ||||
| lavender, hysop*, planten*, daysies, mallowes*, smallage*,stanmarche*, wilde | ||||
| madder*, & thornehove*, of each like much, bray** them together in a mortar, | ||||
| & put it in a fayre panne of earthe*, then put thereunto oyle olliffe**, boares | ||||
| greace, deare sewet*, & May butter**, & let all lye together 9 dayes, then after | ||||
| that boyle all together in a brasse panne, & wring it well through a clothe, & | ||||
| then fleete* of the fat above, & cast away the water underneath, & put | ||||
| the fat agayne in a panne, & boyle it agayne, & strayne it through a cloth, | ||||
| & then put it into a cleane pot, & looke that you stirre it well allwayes | ||||
| when you dresse it for burninge, & so you must use all other oyntments. | ||||
| 226. To make unguentum geneste* for ye akeing | ||||
| of ye flesh, bones, and splene. | ||||
| Take ye blossomes of broome*, cammamyll*, wallworte*, planten*, smallage*, | ||||
| madder*, & loveage*, by even portions, bray them alltogether in a mortar, & | ||||
| take fresh butter, & try* it, & cleane sheeps tallow, & let them ly alltogether | ||||
| 9 dayes, then boyle it in a panne, & wring it through a cloth, & put it in boxes. | ||||
| 227. To make unguentum veni mecum* for scabs, | ||||
| morphews*, & such like. | ||||
| Take borrage*, femytorye*, cellendine*, the leaves of elacampane*, scabeas*, | ||||
| the red docke*, & veni mecum, of each like portions, & put thereunto the | ||||
| leaves & roots of the cloote*, braye them together in a mortar, & let them | ||||
| lye 9 dayes, then boyle it up, & put it in boxes. | ||||
| 228. A drinke for the pestilence*. | ||||
| Take fetherfewe* |
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Transcribed by KW and YR