Image 126, fourth book, folio 64b, receipts 35 (contd) to 36.
| The fourth booke. | ||||
| is to say at the beginninge principallye the roots of the members or lymmes, as | ||||
| is the hinder parte of the heade in the necke & all the backe bone in ye palsie, | ||||
| nevertheles doe it not, but after the fourth or fifth daye, for then it is to | ||||
| presuppose that the humor is not fleeing or flittinge, but beware that thou | ||||
| minister it not in any passion that cometh of bloude, but that it be in the | ||||
| goeinge awaye, & that very sleightelye* when that the bloud is hardeninge, | ||||
| & the sicke tremblinge, & in the other two passions use it without feare in | ||||
| meates or drinkes on this manner: Take mintes, sage, calaminte*, nutmegs, | ||||
| & gallingall after thy discretion, & grinde them well together with ye grease | ||||
| of a henne, & seeth* the hen in the sayde grease, & if thou have plenty of | ||||
| this oyle benedicte, put thereto the double of commyn oyle, & after of | ||||
| this broth, let the sicke drinke fastinge, & that he forbeare meate and | ||||
| drinke the space of twoe howres, but onely he may eate of the henne | ||||
| with the brothe, & if thou have but little of the oyle benedicte, then that | ||||
| parte that thou haste, boyle it in a litle parte of brothe, and thou mayst | ||||
| doe the like with fishe on fishdayes, putting thereto these hearbes, and | ||||
| spices aforesayde, & organum, & prlyall,* & anoynte the fishe with the | ||||
| oyle aforesayde, allso the same oyle taken hot into a man’s mouth which | ||||
| is drawne aside, or the palsye of the mouth & he shall holde it in his | ||||
| mouth, & resolve it therein, or revolve it to all partes of the mouth, and | ||||
| at the last spitt it out of the mouthe, and let the patient doe this twoe or | ||||
| three times, or oftener, & he shall finde great help therein, allso this oyle | ||||
| is good for the diseases called sciatica, allso it is good for the podagre,* | ||||
| & for the gowte in the ioyntes, comeing of colde causes: if that ye feete | ||||
| & the toes be oftentimes anoynted therewith, & put thereto a litle vine= | ||||
| ger hot, allso woundes that are olde, & not perfectly healed, it healeth | ||||
| them surelye, if that they be anonyted therewith. | ||||
| 36. Our blacke plaister or cerote* for ye masterye. | ||||
| Take pitch as much as thou wille, & double as much of new waxe, double | ||||
| of Sheeps tallowe, & of fresh grease the double, & melte them together, | ||||
| & strayne them into a cleane panne, & then set it agayne upon a softe fire | ||||
| until you see it beginneth to boyle, & allwaye stirre it with a Slyce*, & put | ||||
| thereto a good quantity of the powder of olibanum,* & allwayes be stirringe | ||||
| while that you put in this powder, stirring it in with the often laboring: | ||||
| then put it out into an other vessell, (but allwayes stirre it least ye sayde | ||||
| powder fall to ye bottome) & untill it beginneth to coole, & if thou liste, ye | ||||
| mayste put in boole* in the steade of pitche, & if that thou put thereto mirre* | ||||
| it is the better, this cerote is the beste, & marveilous in workeing, for it | ||||
| draweth unto him all venomous matter of all imposthumes* from ye inner | ||||
| partes into the utter partes, it ripeth, it clenseth, it healeth marvelously, | ||||
| and if that mirrhe be put thereto, it conserveth a wounde & it is too | ||||
| weeke, that if this cerote be anonynted with our privy oyle, & then layde | ||||
| to a wounde, | ||||
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