Image 080. second book, folio 41b, receipts 316 (contd) to 322.
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| white being clipt of: an handfull of buglosse* flowers, lay all these in stype** | ||||
| 24 howres, stopping it very close in a very close pot of brasse that there come | ||||
| no ayre out, then set it on the fire, & when it begins to seeth* set on youre | ||||
| limbecke*, stopping it very close with rye paste, remembring when it is | ||||
| very hot to change your water, & put in colde, laying wet clothes* on the | ||||
| outside & bottome of your limbecke. | ||||
| 317. An other way to make cynamon* water. | ||||
| Take one gallon of the beste sacke* you can get, j lb of cynamon bruised** very small, & | ||||
| then still* it in your lymbecke as afore*. | ||||
| 318. For a scalde heade*. | ||||
| Take j lb of quicke silver*, ob of greene copporis*, ob of white copporis, j id of ver- | ||||
| degres*, a quarter of j lb of barrowes greace*, take ye copporis & beate them in a | ||||
| dishe, & kill* the quickesilver with your fasting spittle*, mingle them all together, | ||||
| and anoynte the place. | ||||
| 319. An excellent medicine for ye backe. | ||||
| Take of Valerian* a quarter of an handfull, of clary* an handfull, borrage* an | ||||
| handfull, burnet* m:, red mints* di m: neppe* di m: stampe** all these together, straine | ||||
| them, then take the iuice* of the hearbes, & put it into a quarte** of malmesye**, | ||||
| & allwayes when you drinke it, stirre it together, & then bloudewarme take | ||||
| one quarter of a pinte in ye morninge, & an other at nighte. | ||||
| 320. For the same. | ||||
| Take j ? of lycoris*, di ? of annis*, a quarter of j ? of caliander* seeds, j ? | ||||
| of suger candye, put all these together with a quarter of j ? of ginger, & a | ||||
| quarter of j ? of carraway seedes, beate all these together & finely serse* them, | ||||
| & then take every morninge a spoonefull of this, with a quarter of a pinte | ||||
| of stronge ale, & a small quantity of sweete butter*. | ||||
| 321. A glister* | ||||
| Take of mallowes*, beets*, violet leaves, mercurye, rew*, & pellitory of the | ||||
| wall*, of each an handfull, 2 spoonefull of baye berries* bruised, as muche | ||||
| commyn* seedes, fennell seeds, & annis seeds, boyle all these in a quarte* | ||||
| of water till halfe or more be consumed, & in the boyling put thereunto | ||||
| 12 spoonefull of salet* oyle, & let it seeth wth the hearbes till it be consumed | ||||
| to a wine pinte*, then strayne it & put thereunto 3 ? of corse** suger, | ||||
| & minister it warme. | ||||
| 322. A powder for ye stone* & collicke*, to be | ||||
| taken after the glister. | ||||
| Take of fennell seedes, & barberries* of each a quarter of j lb, a quarter of j lb | ||||
| of licoris, di ? of cynamon, mace, cloves, & pepper, of each a quarter of | ||||
| j ?, fennell, & red sage dryed, of each an handfull, ye white of ye inside of | ||||
| 3 oystershels dryed agaynst ye fire, 3 acornes, 3 cloves of a lilly roote, 12 | ||||
| datestones, j ? of Spermaceti*, beate all these severallye**, & mingle them | ||||
| with ye Spermaceti, being first well rubbed in your hands, take of this | ||||
| powder at any time (the body being first purged with a glister) a good | ||||
| spoonefull in a litle white wine, & then presently after it drinke some | ||||
| warme broth, & 4 houres after it, take an other spoonefull in ye same sorte, | ||||
| & so after it |
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Transcribed by KW and YR