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The fourthe booke. | ||||
Liber 4. | ||||
into which thou wilt strayne it, & it will loose the better when it is colde, | ||||
and with a feather skymme awaye the fome. | ||||
14. Salus populi (an oyntment) wch maketh good skinne } | ||||
in 2 nightes, & it healeth rageings & fissures on } | ||||
hands or lippes, and on all other members: this } | ||||
oyntement no good surgeon may wante. } | ||||
Take selendine* 2. m heyhow, hardehoue, hallhoue, tonnehoue, or medinewort | ||||
(which is all one hearbe) m. j. bray them small as greene sawce, & then take | ||||
weathers* tallowe cleane molten .lb. j. oyle of roses lb ss. Melte them together | ||||
& boyle the hearbes therein, untill that the hearbes sinke to the bottome, and | ||||
begin to looke somewhat blacke, & then strayne it, & keepe this oyntement | ||||
to thy use: this oyntement is harde, & therefore when thou wilt occupy | ||||
it, put thereof into a spoone, & melte it over the coales, & whereas need | ||||
is anoynte therewith, but understand that in an olde sore, anoynte round | ||||
aboute the sore, but not the sore: that is to say thereas the humor of the | ||||
sore scaldes the fleshe, or els whereas there ariseth small heate blayns, | ||||
white, blacke, or blewe, or red, washe it first with warme water, and | ||||
then easily drye it, & then anoynte the place that is inflamed or scalded, | ||||
or full of litle blaynes, this ointemente is greatlye to be esteemed. | ||||
15. Sanguis Veneris* most pretious* | ||||
Take the bloude of a mayde of 19 yeares which never bare child, though | ||||
that shee be corrupte no force*: & when thou wilt take ye bloude, looke that the | ||||
moon bee in the full & in virgine*, & the sunne in piscibus*. lb ss aloes*, mirrhe*, | ||||
sanguis draconis*, powder of alconet* an oz. j. small beaten to powder, & put | ||||
it therein, boyle all these together untill they be red as bloude, & it will be | ||||
red thoughe ye boyle it not, & it is no greate matter whether you doe boyle | ||||
it or no, & ye may keepe it in glasse or pewter, this oyntement resolveth | ||||
& consumeth the moysture of all woundes, ulcus*, plagues, & festers wthout | ||||
bitinge, it openeth, & filleth full of fleshe, & dryeth fayre & skinneth* with= | ||||
out styptycyl*, wherefore in hot imposthumes* with a litle matter it is good | ||||
in the beginninge, for it is colde, & drye, allso it comforteth synnews & ioynts*: | ||||
allso in narrowe & deepe woundes of dagger or arrowe, or of any small | ||||
thinge it is the beste & most pretious* of all medicines, allso put it with | ||||
strippys* of carpe, or line*, in deepe holes with implaistrum* narbone* upon | ||||
it, it healeth & purgeth the sore from the grownde upwarde, & defendeth | ||||
the wounde from swellinge, & this manner of makeinge is most pretious, | ||||
but there is lighter wayes which are both good & true, as followeth. | ||||
16. An other waye. | ||||
Take ℥ j. of the pouder of alkennet*, & put it into a quarte of oyle of roses, | ||||
& set it on a softe fire untill it boyle, & be as red as bloude, els put in | ||||
more pouder untill that it prove red enough, & use this as ye do ye other. | ||||
17. Implaistrum* metriatysse* | ||||
Take the leaves of mallowes, & of wormewoode, of each a greate m. | ||||
seeth them in water untill they be tender as butter, & then lay them | ||||
on a boarde or table, that the water may runne out from them, & then | ||||
choppe them | ||||
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