Image 131, fourth book, folio 67a, receipts 49 to 50
| The fourthe booke fo 67 | ||||
| Liber 4 | ||||
| 49. Flos unguentorum is thus made. | ||||
| Take rosin*, & perosin an..lb; di virgin waxe, frankencense |
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| sticke ℥ di sheepes tallowe, or deeres sewit qa. j. camphor ℥.2. melte that | ||||
| will be molten, & powder that will be powdered, & boyle it over ye fire, | ||||
| & then strayne it through a clothe, into a pottle of white wine, & then | ||||
| boyle the wine & the other stuffe together a good while, & then let it coole | ||||
| a little & put thereto qa. j. of turpentine, & stirre all well together untill | ||||
| that it be colde, for it is good for all sores. This floye or flos unguentorum | ||||
| is both a treate & an unguente, which is good for all woundes old & newe, | ||||
| for of all treates it is the most clenseinge, & ye best sawdinge*, & ye most | ||||
| gendringe* of fleshe, it healeth more in a weeke than any other in a | ||||
| monthe, it will suffer no corruption in no wounde, nor no evill fleshe to | ||||
| be ingendred in it, it is good for the head ache, & for winde yf is ingendred | ||||
| in the brayne, & for all manner of imposthumes in the heade, or in ye body, | ||||
| & for the swellinge of the bodye, & for the swellinge in the eares & of | ||||
| the cheekes: Item for the sawse flewme,* & for the synewes that are cut, | ||||
| starke or spronge, for travelinge: it draweth out iron, or what thing | ||||
| that is in a wounde, & it is good agaynst the biteinge or stingeinge of | ||||
| any venemous beaste: it rotts & heales all manner of botches wthout forts | ||||
| & it is good for the festure*, canker,& noli me tangere, it draweth out all | ||||
| manner of ache, of the liver, & of the milte*, & of the matrice*, & breaketh | ||||
| the members of man, & for the emeroydes*, & it healeth them, & it is | ||||
| called flos unguentorum, for it searcheth the farthest inward of anye | ||||
| intreate*[*] or oyntemente that is knowne: & it was written & caste into | ||||
| the [?r]eclewse at [?r]eed hill in Almaygne*, which [?r]eclewse after it wrote | ||||
| it & wroughte many marveilous things therewith, & never used | ||||
| this medicine but this onelye. | ||||
| 50.Greene bawme artificiall: which ye treaclemongers* | ||||
| use for to sell in fayres & markets, & sometimes they | ||||
| thrust themselves through ye arms or thighs, and after | ||||
| that they put some of this bawme upon the wounde, | ||||
| & so heale themselves without any other playster | ||||
| or medicine, so good it is for all new woundes made | ||||
| with sharpe or poynted weapon in ye fleshe, & for | ||||
| brunings* & akings: is it also good for ye piles & emo- | ||||
| roydes in the fundamente: & for the ach in ye bones, | ||||
| & synewes: & it is thus made | ||||
| Take a gallon of good oyle ollyffe, & set it on the fire, & fraye it with cleane wa- | ||||
| ter, or with a thinne piece of an apple pared, or an onyon pilled, & then take | ||||
| rosin* lb; di. perosin lb;.j. gumme Arabiane .℥.di. Masticke .℥.2. powder that | ||||
| will be powdred, & put all these into the oyle, & first be well ware if thine | ||||
| oyle be not over hot, for burninge of thy gummes, & evermore stirre it |
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| well, & looke allso that it be well molten, & then put in frankencense well | ||||
| powdered, £.2. & allwayes stirre it well, & looke allso that thine oyle be not | ||||
| too hot, & when that it is molten, then put in mirrhe ℥.2. & ever stirre it | ||||
| well untill | ||||
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