Image 123, fourth book, folio 63a, receipts 25 (contd) to 32.
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| awaye, & looke that the glasse be well stopped, use this oyle milke warme | ||||
| to colde infirmities, & to hot infirmities use it colde. | ||||
| 26. To make a powder consolidative*. | ||||
| Take aloes Succotrinum,* & frankencens, Sanguis draconis. an.℥.2.aristo= | ||||
| togia*, burnte lytarge, & ceruse, & the barke of pinetree, & centauria minor, | ||||
| of each .℥.3. and make it into powder, which powder is marveilous good, | ||||
| & a greate consolidative. | ||||
| 27. To make an unguente consolidative | ||||
| Take aloes epatyke*, frankencens, sercacoll, & sheeps tallawe, and waxe, | ||||
| and make them together into an unguente somewhat thicke. | ||||
| 28. Unguentum pro pectore after the lord Cobhams | ||||
| fashion: which he learned of a Jewe. | ||||
| Take .m. 4 of hisop*, stampe them & wringe out the iuice, & take as much | ||||
| barrowes greace & put them together & seeth them, & then strayne it | ||||
| through a linnen cloth & put it into a boxe, & make a shelde of leather | ||||
| & sowe thereunto blacke wooll, and anonynte well the woll with this ung- | ||||
| uente agaynste the fyre, & lay it to the breaste all hot, & anonynte ye backe | ||||
| of the patiente with the sayde oyle, & put such an other shelde of leather | ||||
| with wooll upon the patients backe, & as is the other of his breaste, for hee | ||||
| shall be the sooner whole. | ||||
| 29.Unguentum Pantonia* to heale vaynes*, & | ||||
| Synewes that be crooked. | ||||
| Take.lb .j. of oyle of roses, lb .j. of dewtey,lb .j. of oyle de roy,.lb j. of oyle | ||||
| of camomell, a gallon of butter, a gallon of grease, lb .j. of turpentine, and | ||||
| lb.2 of the powder of comyn, & boyle them all together an howre & then | ||||
| strayne it cleane, & let it coole, & put it in boxes. | ||||
| 30.To make an oyle that will quicken deade | ||||
| humors, & limmes yt are benumbe, it will renue | ||||
| them to life and feelinge. | ||||
| Take the rootes of pyonye, & distill them with aquavite, but first mynse | ||||
| them small, & put them into aquavitae*, and then distill the aquavitae there= | ||||
| from, & then in this aquavitae dissolve castor, & distill it until it bee | ||||
| like an oyle, & with this oyle anonynte the lymmes that are corrupted, | ||||
| deade, or benumbe, & with God’s helpe it shall prevayle. | ||||
| 31.To make a white unguente for all | ||||
| hot sores in man’s bodye. | ||||
| Take of ceruse* lb.j of litarge of leade* di .j lb olibanum* .℥.4 of masticke. ℥.2. | ||||
| of common oyle. lb 4.vineger di lb. & meddle* them strongly together in an | ||||
| hot morter, with a hot pestill, or in a hot basin the space of a daye or | ||||
| more, & then strayne it, & keepe it to thy use. | ||||
| 32. Oyle of lawrell. | ||||
| Take bayes both leaves & berryes greene, & seeth* them well in oyle oliffe** | ||||
| & strayne it & keepe it, for it is good for diseases in the flanke & | ||||
| when a man | ||||
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Transcribed by CW and JMCN