Image 073, second book, folio 38a, receipts 269 to 277.
| The seconde booke fo.38a | ||||
| Libre 2 | ||||
| 269. For shortenes of winde. | ||||
| Take capons greace, & the iuice* of hysop**, & anoynte the breast therewth | ||||
| hot, & it shall loose the stomacke well. | ||||
| 270. For shortenes of the breath through | ||||
| the cough or stoppinge*. | ||||
| Take the gum of cherrye trees, or plum trees, or gum Arabite*, & put | ||||
| it in olde wine to dissolve it, & so drinke it. | ||||
| 271. A drinke to destroy |
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| if it be dronke in May for that yeare. | ||||
| Take scabias*, mugworte*, smallage*, morfus diaboli, alias ye devills bitt*, | ||||
| herbe ivye* called allso ground pyune, wormewoode*, femitory*, fetherfewe*, | ||||
| & spignell*, stampe** them, & seeth*** them long in whaye* made in May & put | ||||
| into it ye white of 6 eggs, & drinke it 9 dayes. | ||||
| 272. For one that spitteth bloud by a bruise. | ||||
| Take betonye*, vervayne*, milfoyle*, & sinkefoyle* of each like much, stampe | ||||
| them, & strayne out the iuice, & put thereunto as much goats milke, boyle | ||||
| them well, & drinke thereof 7 dayes warme, in the waxeinge of ye moone*, | ||||
| & as much in ye wayne*, drinke likewise as much of the iuice of comfrey* | ||||
| nine dayes with stale ale*: Item the iuice of smallage, minte, rewe*, and | ||||
| betonye in goates milke will helpe. | ||||
| 273. For ye swellinge in the stomacke. | ||||
| Take sage, mynte & wormewoode*, braye** them together small, & fry them | ||||
| with sheepes tallowe, & plaster it as hot as you can, upon a linnen cloth, | ||||
| & lay it to the stomacke, & when it is colde, heate it agayne with vineger, | ||||
| & use it as hot as you may suffer. | ||||
| 274. Another plaster for ye same. | ||||
| Take the crummes of sowre leavened bread*, j lb, vineger a pinte, ye pouder | ||||
| of halfe a quarter of commyn* seede, boyle all these together as thicke as dough, | ||||
| then make a plaster thereof, & binde it hot to ye stomacke. | ||||
| 275. For the heate in the stomacke. | ||||
| Take lettice, endiffe*, borrage*, & violets, one handfull, dandalion di .m. 6 leaves | ||||
| of hartestonge*, of bruised licoris* j ?, shred your hearbes, & seeth all together | ||||
| in three quarts* of water till halfe be consumed, strayne it through a cloth, | ||||
| & drinke it in the morninge colde. | ||||
| 276. To digeste meate well. | ||||
| Take betony*, grinde it, & mingle it with honye, make pellets* of it, & eate | ||||
| it after supper. | ||||
| 277. For one that hath no stomacke to his meate. | ||||
| Seeth centorye* in cleane water, drinke thereof fasting three dayes together, | ||||
| nine spoonefull at once, & it will purge the stomacke & breaste. | ||||
| For all sickenes |
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Transcribed by YR and KW