Image 086, second book, folio 44b, receipts 349 to 355.
| The seconde booke. | ||||
| 349. For ye tooth ache. | ||||
| Take a prety quantity of Aquavite*, pepper, ginger, gallingall,* treacle, & wheate | ||||
| flower, & make a paste thereof, & lay it upon the gummes. | ||||
| 350. A medicine for an itching humor | ||||
| Take red sage, woodbine leaves, of each like much, then stampe* them & straine | ||||
| them through a cloth, & use the iuice.* | ||||
| 351. For the falling of the fundamente*. | ||||
| Take an old shoe sole, & scrape it cleane, & burne it in a fire shovell over the | ||||
| fire till it come to a coale, & then make a powder of it, & strawe it upon the | ||||
| place, & put it up with a warme clothe. | ||||
| 352 An approved medicine for an ague. | ||||
| Take a good quantity of elderbuds, & for wante of the buds the inner rine*, and a | ||||
| quantitye of the tops of hysop*, boyle these in ale, or beere, & put thereunto a | ||||
| spoonefull of pepper, & some treacle, & so drinke it. | ||||
| 353. To make oximell,* & Simplex.* | ||||
| Take a quarte of honye, & a quarte of running water, & let them boyle to= | ||||
| gether till the water be consumed, then put thereunto a quarte of wine | ||||
| vineger, & let it boyle to a sirrop, then take a pinte of new milke, & set it | ||||
| on the fire, till it begin to boyle, & then put into it as much oximell as will | ||||
| turne it: Then take of the curde, & in draweing it from the fire, put in m of | ||||
| damaske rose leaves, & so let it coole, & drinke a good draughte in ye morninge. | ||||
| 354. To withstand colde takeing in the feete. | ||||
| Take a lapfull of nettles, when they be first seeded, of ye redest & ye rankeste* | ||||
| you can get, stampe them, & boyle them in a pottle* of fresh hogs grease, & then | ||||
| bury it in a horse dunghill 12 dayes, then take it up, strayne it hot, & boyle it | ||||
| agayne as before, with so many more nettles, & bury it agayne as before, then | ||||
| take it up, & strayne it hot from the herbes, then stampe so many more nettles, | ||||
| two heades of garlicke put into it, & bury it agayne as before 12 dayes, then take | ||||
| it up, & boyle it, & strayne it, & anoynt ye soles of your feet agaynst the fire | ||||
| in the morninge, & you shall never take colde in your feete to hurt you, thoughe | ||||
| you shoulde goe wetshod*, use this every morning in ye winter, & when you will. | ||||
| 355. Mr Baltroppe* his medicine. | ||||
| Take of the flowers of cowslips in the month of May j lb, of the oyle of olyffe so | ||||
| much as the flowers may be well stiped* & covered withall, let these be infused | ||||
| together untill June, that you may have these herbes underwritten: (i) calamint, | ||||
| hearbe John, sage, egrimonye, rosemarye, suthernwoode, wormewood, penyroyall, | ||||
| lavender, pellitory of Spayne*, cammamill, leaves of laurye**, flowers of lillies, | ||||
| of each an handfull, grinde them well together in a stone morter, to the manner | ||||
| of a salve*, then take the flowers of cowslips aforesayde, & with cleane hands | ||||
| wring them out of the oyle, & grind them with the other hearbes, then put all ye | ||||
| foresayd hearbes into so much white wine as will cover them, so let them stand | ||||
| one day & one nighte, then put thereunto the oyle ye the cowslyp flowers were | ||||
| stiped in, then boyle all together over a softe fire of coles, till all the wine | ||||
| bee in a manner |
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