Image 133, fourth book, folio 68a, receipts 52 (contd) to 54.
| The fourthe booke. fo 68 | ||||
| Liber 4 | ||||
| of the bodye: & also the rewme & all such other humors in mans bodye, | ||||
| & in the heade, & the flewme* in the mouth and in the stomacke: and it | ||||
| purgeth the stomacke of corrupte humors, & maketh a man to have a | ||||
| good stomacke, or appetite to his meate: & it suffereth no manner of | ||||
| therewith before the comeing of the axys, it healeth the tertian*, & quar- | ||||
| tan: allso it healeth the stinkeing breath, & fastneth the teeth that are | ||||
| loose, & it maketh them white, & keepeth them from rotteinge, & expelleth | ||||
| the ache allso: it healeth the festure & the canker, & the woundes in whc | ||||
| they are, if that they be anoynted therewith: It is good for ye scabbe, ring- | ||||
| worme, tetter, morphewe, & such other unkinde sicknesses: allso it healeth | ||||
| the leprye, wet a cloth therein & lay it to the emeroydes, & it will heale | ||||
| them: allso it is good for the diseases of the eares: & allso it is good a- | ||||
| gaynst the sawce fleame,* & for the palsy in a mans tongue, & in other | ||||
| lymmes, & for the falling sicknes, & if a man hath lost his feeleinge | ||||
| on his lymmes, it shall get it agayne: allso it is good for synewes that | ||||
| are spronge*, or ache, & for sorenes in the mouth: allso it healeth noli me | ||||
| tangere*, ye kings evill, moremale, & other sicknesses that frets ye fleshe. | ||||
| 53. To make the righte coleman. | ||||
| Take litarge of golde* that is small powdered.lb.j. oyle olliffe that is good | ||||
| & olde. lb.3. & di & qa.j. & meddle them together in an earthen panne, and | ||||
| seeth them on an easie fire, & let them seeth together 4 howres, & allwais | ||||
| be stirringe, & then put therein a good spoonefull of stronge vinager, & | ||||
| then set it on the fire agayne, & let it seeth untill a droppe thereof | ||||
| being caste into colde water be malaxable*, & then let it downe from ye | ||||
| fire, & put therein these gummes followeinge, that is to saye, galbanu | ||||
| Serapinum, appopanacum, gumme armoniacke .an. ℥.di. but firste looke | ||||
| that it be dissolved in white wine, & sodde until that the wine be wasted, | ||||
| & then take the powder of masticke, & stone pitch .an. ℥.j. & di aloes e- | ||||
| patik, mirrhe, olibanum powdered, an. ℥.2.bdelium, euforbium, castor, | ||||
| an. ℥.3. rosin, ℥.2. waxe, ℥.2.melte thy waxe, & rosin together, & put | ||||
| all thy powders to them, & when that they are well molten, then put | ||||
| them into the plaister, & meddle them well together upon the fire, but | ||||
| looke that they boyle not, & when the heate is abated, put thereto ℥.j. of | ||||
| turpentine, & when that is colde, anoynte thy handes with the oyle of | ||||
| roses & frame the maydalions, this plaister is good both for ache and | ||||
| swellinge, & if a sickenes be uncureable, it will not cleave long unto | ||||
| it, but if it be cureable it will not gladlye away: it is good for all | ||||
| diseases comeing of cold, & for bruisers, for synewes, & for ache of ioyntes. | ||||
| 54.Emplastrum divinum is thus made. | ||||
| Take litarge of golde small powdered lb.j. & di oyle olliffe,lb. & di. gal- | ||||
| banum .℥.j. & ʒ.2 armoniac. ℥.3 & ʒ.3. mummia nig. ℥.j. & ʒ.2. newe | ||||
| waxe, ℥.8.frankencense ℥.j. & ʒ.di. verdegres,℥.j. & ʒ. j. bdelium .℥.2 & | ||||
| ʒ. di. appoponac.&ounce.j. aristrologia longa ℥.j. sangedracon.&ounce.j. shipmans | ||||
| stone ʒ.j. | ||||
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