Image 084, second book, folio 43b, receipts 342 to 344
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| Take two drams of aloes, halfe a drame of myrhe, 24 clisses* of saffron, beate | ||||
| all these together into fine powder, then mixe them with ye best muskaden* | ||||
| or malmesy* you can get, & for wante of that take ye sirrop** of violets or | ||||
| roses, so much as will mollifye* it, to make a pill, & so you may take it | ||||
| every morning fastinge, or els an howre before supper. | ||||
| 342. For a salteslome* face. | ||||
| Take 2 id of quickesilver, & put it into a violl* with a spoonfull or 2 of fasting | ||||
| spittle, & shake it 4 or 5 houres till ye quickesilver be killed, & then put the | ||||
| quickesilver upon such a stone as ye paynters grinde theire colours on with j id | ||||
| of the oyle of bayes, & 2 or 3 spoonefull at the moste of woodbine water, or of | ||||
| wilde tansey water, put on your water by little & little as you soe neede, grind | ||||
| all these aforesayde till your quickesilver be not seene, & then all these will | ||||
| growe in manner of a salve, & put it into a boxe, & when you goe to youre | ||||
| bed, annoynte your face therewith, & if your face smarte, it is a token yt | ||||
| it will heale: & if you will have it cleane gone, keepe it on your face all yt | ||||
| nighte, & the day & nighte followinge, then on ye morrow after ye second nighte, | ||||
| when you shall wash your face, take wheate branne, & put it in runninge | ||||
| water one nighte, & on the morrowe wash your face with ye cleare water | ||||
| thereof bloude warme*, & see that ye oyle bee good & newe, or els it will savor**, | ||||
| & occupy this medicine every nighte to bedwarde, & in ye morning wash it | ||||
| away with ye water abovewritten: this is truly proved: you must allso | ||||
| use this dyet, abstayne from strong wines, & sharpe sawces, as from garlike, | ||||
| onyons, pepper, mustarde, salte meates, & fryed meates, & from meat over- | ||||
| much rosted, & from all hot things, & excessive cold things, & ye crustes of | ||||
| breade, use this medicine, & keepe this dyet, & you shall be whole: | ||||
| this is truelye proved. | ||||
| 343. To make oxmele.* | ||||
| Take 7 spoonfull of very good honye, & set it on ye fire till it be clarified, then | ||||
| put unto it a quarter of a pinte of very good hysop water, & let it seethe | ||||
| till it be in ye manner of a sirrop, then put thereunto one spoonefull & a halfe | ||||
| of wine vineger, & a spoonefull of red rose water, & then let it boyle 2 or 3 | ||||
| wames*, & then put it into a glasse, & keepe it for your use: it is verye | ||||
| good for the coughe of the lunges. | ||||
| 344. The oyle of swallowes | ||||
| Take 20 swallowes, & put them quicke into a morter, & put unto them laven- | ||||
| dercotton, & lavender spicke*, cammamyll, knot grasse, ribworte, balme, va- | ||||
| lerian, rosemarye tops, woodbind tops, strings of vines, French mallows tops, | ||||
| alehoofe*, strawberry strings, tutsan**, planten, wallnut leaves, tops of yong | ||||
| bayes, hysop, violet leaves, sage of vertue*, fine Roman wormewood, of | ||||
| each an handfull, 2 handfull of red roses, & beate all these together, & put | ||||
| thereunto a quarte of neatsfoot oyle, or May butter*, & grind them all | ||||
| together, & beate with them j ? or 2 of cloves, & put them all together into | ||||
| an earthen pot, & stop it very close, with a piece of doughe rounde aboute | ||||
| it, so as no ayre come out, & seeth them sixe or eighte hours over ye fire, | ||||
| or else in a |
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