Image 083, second book, folio 43a, receipts 335 to 341.
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| The seconde booke | ||||
| Liber 2. | ||||
| by themselves, & after still the wine, & that water is good for agues, but | ||||
| treacle | ||||
| put it not to ye water of the hearbes, for that with a litle ⁁ or methredatum* | ||||
| shall dryve away any sickenes from the harte, if unto this you adde 4 ? of | ||||
| fine methredatum , & di j lb of Venice treacle, or treacle of Jeane* to infuse | ||||
| with the rest, & so distill it, then will it be most excellent, both for ye plague | ||||
| and agues. | ||||
| 335. A powder for the collicke & stone. | ||||
| Take wilde time, garden time*, pellytorye, meade parslye, garden parsly, | ||||
| ashen keyes, water cresses, red mynte, stone croppe, grunsell, of each like | ||||
| much, dry them, & beate them to powder, & let ye patient drinke thereof in | ||||
| posset ale or cawdle*, & it will helpe him of the collicke presentlye. | ||||
| 336. To make a seare clothe. | ||||
| Take a pinte of sallot*oyle, di j lb of red lead finely beaten, boyle these together | ||||
| till it be blacke, then put unto it a quarter of j lb virgin waxe shred, | ||||
| & let it melte, then dip your clothes in it & smooth them, & keep them for | ||||
| seare clothes : before you put in your waxe, |
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| the bottome of a sawcer, & if it runne cleane of it is boyled enough; & when | ||||
| your clothes be dipped, hold them over a panne of water till it be colde, then | ||||
| stretch it out, & wet a borde with milke, & sleeke* them with a sleeke stone, | ||||
| then rowle them up, & keepe them for very good seare clothes, to lay to any | ||||
| sore when it is neare whole, to drawe the ach & venyme* from the bone, | ||||
| & it is good to dissolve any harde swelling. | ||||
| 337. A very good oyntement for sinews yt be shronke*, | ||||
| & for an ache: approved. | ||||
| Take di a pinte of sallot oyle, j ? of the oyle of balme, di .m. of mallowes, | ||||
| di .m of germander*, di j lb of hogs grease, boyle all these together, then take | ||||
| it from the fire, & strayne it, & anoynte the place grieved therewith, mor- | ||||
| ninge & eveninge: & so keepe it for your use. | ||||
| 338. To kill stomacke wormes. | ||||
| Take di .m. of wormewoode, 2 id of ye oyle of spicke*, 2 id of ye oyle of Exeter**, boile | ||||
| all these together& make a plaster thereof, & laye it to ye navell, & it will | ||||
| presentlye helpe. | ||||
| 339. For melancholye. | ||||
| Take 3 spoonefull of ipocras*, 3 graynes of unicornes horne, five grayns beser** | ||||
| stone, three graynes of muske, & as much methredatum as a wallnut, infuse | ||||
| all these into the ipocras, and drinke every morninge a spoonefull thereof, | ||||
| for three mornings together. | ||||
| 340. For the weakenes of the stomacke. | ||||
| Take a pottle of sacke*[*], di j lbof suger, j ? of ginger, a spoonefull of anniseeds, | ||||
| a spoonefull of coriander seeds, the tops of sweete margerome*, a litle balme, and | ||||
| some rosemary, or els rosemary flowers, & a nutmeg bruised, infuse all these | ||||
| together into the sacke, & drinke of this halfe an howre before meate & after | ||||
| meate, when you feele your stomacke full, and not well. | ||||
| 341. A speciall good pill to purge ye heade, & | ||||
| a preparative agaynst the plague. | ||||
| Take 2 drammes |
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Transcribed by ALB and RS