Image 071, second book, folio 37a, receipts 252 (contd) to 259.
| The Seconde booke fo.37 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| of ale, & one spoonefull of Alexander* seede, & one spoonefull of annis* | ||||
| seed, & beate them, & boyle them till they bee allmost wasted: then take | ||||
| a rosecake*, & washe it over with vineger, then strawe* upon it a litle | ||||
| commyn* seedes, the crummes of leavened breade, a litle powder of | ||||
| cloves & mace*, & sprinkle upon it a litle malmesye*, & rose water, | ||||
| then quilt it in a fine bagge as broade as will cover your stomacke, | ||||
| & drye it betweene twoe hot tyles, & lay it warme unto your stomacke | ||||
| & breaste when your payne is. | ||||
| 253. To make pottage* for your lunges. | ||||
| Make your pottage wth cleane lungwort*, oatmeale, butter, & fayre water. | ||||
| 254. A medicine to make one sleepe. | ||||
| Take the water of lettice, & womans milke, & white poppy seed, & set them | ||||
| on a chafeing dish* & coales, & put thereunto the leaves of a rosecake, & boyle | ||||
| them all together, & when it is boyled, lay it upon a linnen cloth, & bind | ||||
| it to the temples. | ||||
| 255. For ye pinne & webbe* in the eyes. | ||||
| Take fine white ginger, & grate it upon a whetstone*, & beate fine a litle | ||||
| white copporis*, & put thereunto, & when the patient goeth to bed, blowe | ||||
| some of it with a quill into his eye, & when it hath bene there a whyle, | ||||
| take grownde ivye, beate it, & strayne it with womans milke, & put three | ||||
| or fowre drops into ye eye, & thus doe eveninge & morninge, halfe an houre | ||||
| after the useinge of the ginger & copporis. | ||||
| 256. For deafenes. | ||||
| Take the gall* of an hare, & womans milke mingled together, & let the | ||||
| patient put it into his eares, & stop them with blacke woll*, for a woman | ||||
| the milke of her that nourseth* a manchilde: for a man the milke of her | ||||
| that nourseth a womanchilde. | ||||
| 257. For the same. | ||||
| Take good true civet*, & put it into the eares of them that cannot heare, for | ||||
| it is proved to be good. | ||||
| 258. For a sore mouthe. | ||||
| Take a gallon of smythes* water, & put it into a quart* of stone hony*, & set | ||||
| it upon a softe fire, & skymme* it cleane, then put thereunto two handfull | ||||
| of sage bruised, |
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| together till halfe be wasted, & when it is colde, wash the mouth & other | ||||
| sores therewith. | ||||
| 259. For the canker in the mouthe. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of woodbine**, and planten**, then take a litle roch alome** | ||||
| vineger, & rosewater, & washe the mouth therewith, & within fowre | ||||
| washings it shall bee whole. | ||||
| For ye wormes, & |
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