Image 076, second book, folio 39b, receipts 291 to 296
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| 291. A drinke for the same. | ||||
| Take of the roots of nettles 3 .m. at any time when you will, washe | ||||
| them fayre & take out ye pith & then put them into a pottle* of white wine, | ||||
| or good ale whether you will, & let it seeth* till it be wasted unto a quarte**, | ||||
| then strayne it out fayre, & clarifye it with sugar, or hony, if you will, | ||||
| & drinke thereof every morning fastinge a good draughte, & at even*, | ||||
| for sixe weekes space. | ||||
| 292. For ye cough, & consumption* of ye lungs. | ||||
| First take ye lungs of a foxe fresh killed, & pluckte* from ye windpipe & | ||||
| straynes* which hang on the same, then washe the lungs in sweete wine | ||||
| warme 3 or 4 times, untill they be cleane from ye bloude, then dry them in | ||||
| an earthen pot in an oven after ye batch* is out : so when they are well | ||||
| dryed, beate them to powder : allso take annisseeds, fennell seeds, and | ||||
| maydenheare*, of ech** like much, of waight to your lungs, beate all | ||||
| these to fine powder, & when they be well mingled with ye pouder of your | ||||
| lungs, serse* them : take allso a like waighte of licoris* to ye same, or some- | ||||
| what more being cleane scraped, bruise* it a litle, & lay it first in water | ||||
| 24 howres, then seeth the licoris in the same water untill halfe be con- | ||||
| sumed, & so strayne ye licor from ye licoris, seeth therewith as much fine | ||||
| sugar beaten small, as your receipte* amounteth unto, till it be like a | ||||
| sirrop, then put into this sirrop all your powders as it cooleth, stirringe | ||||
| it well together, & so keepe it for your use. | ||||
| 293. For one that is taken in a planet* | ||||
| Take nightshade*, mercury*, fetherfew*, red sage, hemblocke*, chickeweed* | ||||
| archangell*, smallage*, & houndstongue*, bruise these together, the take 2 ? | ||||
| of boares grease, & seeth them together softly, & make an oyntment thereof. | ||||
| 294. A medicine for ye mother* in women. | ||||
| Take bole Armoniacke* j ?, date stones j ?, of the under iaw** of a pig j ? | ||||
| dragons bloude di j ?, beate all these into fine powder, & drinke every | ||||
| morninge a spoonefull in a cawdle*, & halfe a spoonefull at nighte, till all | ||||
| your powder be spente. | ||||
| 295. A powder for ye collicke* & stone*. | ||||
| Take wilde parsley, garden parsley, wilde time, garden time, water | ||||
| cresses*[*], red minte*, ashen keyes*, & grumwell*, dry them in ye sunne, & | ||||
| beate them to powder, & so keepe it, & use it at your neede. | ||||
| 296. For ye running of ye raygnes*[*] | ||||
| Take ye white of a new layd egge, & put thereunto 3 or 4 spoonefull of red | ||||
| rose water, & a litle fine sugar, & stirre it together, & drinke thereof 3 | ||||
| or 4 mornings fastinge, or oftener as you neede. | ||||
| For chafeinge |
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Transcribed by KW and YR