Image 121, fourth book, folio 62a, receipts 21 (contd) to 24
| The fourthe booke. . fo. 62 | ||||
| Liber 4 | ||||
| & saused, & stirre them well until that they be well dissolved and | ||||
| mixed, & then take them from the fire, & put to them. ℥ ½ of alloe epat well | ||||
| powdered, & resolved in warme oyle. | ||||
| 22. To make baules* to drinke for woundes. | ||||
| Take consounde,* comferye, osmonde, croppes of hempe, croppes of red | ||||
| coole, Sothernewoode, pympernell, tansye, betyne, bugle, Sanicle, avance*. an. | ||||
| & as much of madder* as of them all, washe cleane these hearbes & grinde | ||||
| them well together with thy handes, & then make thy baules in ye quantity | ||||
| of a greate nut, & couch them on a fayre boarde & set them so that no | ||||
| winde nor fume may come unto them, least they drye too hastilye, & every | ||||
| daye turne them & new rowle them them betwixte thy handes, so that no worms | ||||
| breede in them, & this shall heale woundes in vaynes & synewes broken | ||||
| or cut. | ||||
| 23. Diaflosmus* is thus made | ||||
| Take the iuice* of Smallage, wormewoode, molline. i. tapsus barbatus** | ||||
| walworte, dovefoote. i.columbine, planten, mugworte, avans, daysies, | ||||
| of each an. Then take thereto fowre times as much woodbinde*, as of one | ||||
| of the other hearbes, & bray* all in a morter together, & strayne out the | ||||
| iuice, & then take as much clarified honye, as of the iuice, & set them over | ||||
| as easie fire, & boyle them together, ever stirring them so well untill | ||||
| they waxe wellingh* as thicke as hony that is molten, & then take them | ||||
| from the fire, and keepe it in a newe earthen pot to your use. And nowe it is | ||||
| called tapsimell (that is honye & mollyne) but when ye will have this most | ||||
| pretious medicine that is in surgerye: take of this tapsimell. ℥ .4. of the white | ||||
| of egges. ℥ .4. wheate meale. ℥ .3;. put all these together on the fire, & let them | ||||
| have a small heate & ever be stirringe for cleaveing* to the panne, & when it | ||||
| is through hot take it downe, & then take oyle oliffe or oyle of roses, & waxe, | ||||
| of each . ℥ .3. & melte them well together, & then take ℥ .2. of turpentine & put | ||||
| to them, & stirre it evermore, for if the turpentine have more heate then bloud, | ||||
| it is lost, & will not melte with the other, but knot, & therefore put it to laste | ||||
| when that it beginneth to waxe colde, & stirre them well together so that you | ||||
| may not knowe the one from the other, & then it is called diaflosmus* (atap- | ||||
| so barbato quod est flosmus*) take of this plaister & spreade it upon tupps | ||||
| of lyne* cleane without Schiffes* or carpe*, & laye it to a fistula in ano**, or to a | ||||
| canker, or moremall, festure, plague, lupus or noli me tangere*, &c: & for- | ||||
| southe not only these it healeth, but allso every horrible sore in thee, wch | ||||
| Syrurgins* doe dispaire: & allso it healeth Swellinges, bruises, & swellinge | ||||
| of ioyntes, glandulas, botches, fellons, uncomes, & all open sores*, that God | ||||
| will suffer to be healed, so that if this plaister be had, there neede none | ||||
| other plaister in the cures of Surgerye. | ||||
| 24. To make a pretious unguente for divers aches in the | ||||
| bones, & swellinge of Synewes, for the coliche, & | ||||
| for all manner of bruisinges. | ||||
| Take fine meate oyle three quartes, di lb of freshe sheepes tallow molten | ||||
| & puryd, & set them over the fyre & boyle them, a little & then take longe | ||||
| wormes which are called angillpartes* one pottle** or more, wash them | ||||
| cleane, & | ||||
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