The fourthe booke. | ||||
when a man feeleth not his lymbes, & it is good for the palsye. | ||||
33. To make mellicratu, a very excellent & noble drinke | ||||
for ye breast, & ye pyppes & for shortenes of winde. | ||||
Take lb.8. of fayre water, & lb .j. of honye, & .℥.2. of good cynamon & boyle | ||||
it to a pottle, & skymme it cleane at the beginninge, and looke that thy | ||||
cynamon be in small pieces, & it will make cleare drinke & gentle. | ||||
34. An unguente to heale all manner of | ||||
veynes & synewes yt be crooked. | ||||
Take a quarte of oyle olliffe*, one pinte of pure vineger, & lb .j. of ye hearbe | ||||
called gratia dei,* & boyle them together untill the halfe be wasted, & then | ||||
take it from the fire, & take out the hearbe & stampe* it, & put it | ||||
agayne thereto, & stirre it well together, & when that it is colde | ||||
put it in boxes. | ||||
35.Oleum benedictum. Blessed oyle. | ||||
This oyle is called one of the secrets of the philosophers, which is good | ||||
for all colde sicknesses, & is more subtyll, hotter, & more perfecte in all | ||||
colde causes then balme, & sooner it departeth evills. A droppe thereof | ||||
dropped or layde in the hande soone spreadeth abroade, it is good agaynst | ||||
the Stone, & all sicknesses in the bladder, come[?nc]eing of colde, it bringeth | ||||
for the urine longe withholden, & colde humors & openeth all ye passages, | ||||
where that anye stoppeinge is in mans bodye: allso it is good agaynst the | ||||
gowte scyatyca, & for the akeinge of the ioyntes*, & for the backe allso a plai= | ||||
ster made thereof & armoniacke dissolveth the imposthume of ye splene, | ||||
in shorte space, allso it is good for all harde imposthummes*, & for all cold | ||||
imposthummes of the eares, & if there be any wormes in the eyes it | ||||
slayeth them, allso it is good for the palsie, & for the quakeinge of limmes, | ||||
& for the crowkinge of the mouthe anoynted & dronke. Allso this oyle | ||||
cast upon the matrice* of a woman, it skowres the menstrous, & brings | ||||
forth that which is begotten deade or quicke: this oyle openeth the vaynes: | ||||
a litle of this oyle put into the Sirrop of roses puryeth the lungs of all | ||||
colde humors, & it is good for them that are shorte breathed: allso it is | ||||
marveilous good for the water that falleth downe into a mans eyes, and | ||||
teares that flowe to them, allso it is good for colde [?veinns], & for the | ||||
biteinge of scorpions, & it is good for them that have drunke orryn*, which | ||||
is a gumme that is stronge poyson, or the seed of henbane, & if a fisher | ||||
anoynt his net therewith, it will cause a greate multitude of fishes to gather | ||||
about ye net, & ye makeinge of the sayde oyle followeth: | ||||
Take tilestones that are red, of the most oldest that you can get, & if you | ||||
can get none that are olde, take then of the newest, & looke that they | ||||
be such as never have taken anye water or moysture since they were | ||||
anneyled firste, & then breake them into small gobbits, but not over- | ||||
small, & then heate them in the fire untill that they be white hot, and | ||||
then quench them in old oyle oliffe, or in oyle of lawrell that is the | ||||
better, & they must be often heated, & quenched, untill that they bee | ||||
blacke wthin, |
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