Image 136, fourth book, folio 69b, receipts 65 to 71
| The fourthe booke | ||||
| 65. A plaister good for any parte of mans | ||||
| bodye being benumme*. | ||||
| Take a basin full or twoe of white willowe leaves, & seeth them well | ||||
| in fayre water untill that they be well sodden, & then take a good quantity | ||||
| of vineger, & meddle* with the leaves, & make a plaister thereof, & lay | ||||
| to the sore that is benumme, & that will gather the flesh & the bloude | ||||
| agayne, & make quicke that which was deade. | ||||
| 66. A general plaister for leggs & for all sores. | ||||
| Take hearbe Benedicte & stampe it & strayne out a quarte of the iuice | ||||
| or more, & to that take a pinte of tarre, & a pinte of barrowes greace, and | ||||
| melte all these together, & when that they are well molten, put thereto of | ||||
| culver* dunge the quantitye of an egge well powdered, & as much of hens | ||||
| dunge, & boyle them all on the fire agayne, & let them seethe well | ||||
| together a long time, & ever stirre them well, & whiles they are | ||||
| hot strayne them, then put thereto a Sawcer full of allome* powdered, | ||||
| & stirre them well together untill they be colde, & then put it in boxes | ||||
| & keepe it to thy use. | ||||
| 67. Agaynst wormes in the bellye. | ||||
| Take a neste of red mise*, that are founde amongst corne in the fielde, and | ||||
| the youngest of them hath a stone in his heade as litle as a pearle, & it | ||||
| is red, take it out and keepe it in a pot, or in a vessell that it goe not away, | ||||
| for it is as quick as quickesilver, & put that stone in the water of | ||||
| iuice of wormewoode, & give it the sicke to drinke: & he shall be deli- | ||||
| vered, & the laste worme will bringe out the stone with him, keepe well | ||||
| that stone untill thou have neede an other time, this is ye medicine | ||||
| that a woman of Northamptonsheire used, & did greate cures. | ||||
| 68. For stub, nayle, or thorne. | ||||
| Take the skinne of a snake in the time of the year that she casteth her | ||||
| skynne, & lay a piece thereof on the sore place in wch is the stub, nayle, | ||||
| or thorne, & take the read roote* that groweth in the water, & stampe it, | ||||
| & lay it above, & upon that lay the skynne of olde bacon, & bind it | ||||
| faste thereto with a cloute,* & it shall draw it out, & after heale it | ||||
| up as you liste with good healeinge salve. | ||||
| 69. For snake or adder being within man or woman | ||||
| Stampe* rewe with mans urine, or with beast that is vexed wth yt | ||||
| disease, & let him drinke it, & he shall cast them all up wth all the | ||||
| venime*. | ||||
| 70. For a tetter*. | ||||
| Take oake apples* & drye them & make powder of them & meddle** | ||||
| the powder with stronge vineger, & make it in manner of a plaister, | ||||
| & laye it upon the sore. | ||||
| 71. Agaynste swelling of leggs or feete. | ||||
| Take well cresse* & shred them small, & put them into an earthen pot, | ||||
| & put thereto the dreggs of wine, & wheate branne, & fresh sheeps | ||||
| tallowe, of | ||||
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