Image 138, fourth book, folio 70b, receipts 76 (contd) to 81
| The fourthe booke. | ||||
| through a cleane clothe, & keepe well that water, & when that thou | ||||
| wille use it, then make a rowle of canvas as broade as thy hande, & | ||||
| as longe as thou mayest rowle it from thy foote unto thy knee, & wet | ||||
| that roler in that water, & looke that the roler be throughe wet, & | ||||
| then rowle thy sicke legge as strayghte as thou mayest rowle it, & doe | ||||
| this three times on the daye, & it shall make thy legge small in his | ||||
| kinde, & fret away all the deade fleshe, although that there were an | ||||
| hundred holes in the legge, or a moremale, & make whole the legge for | ||||
| ever, wthout any salve, plaister, or unguente, & that in shorte time. | ||||
| 77. A good oyntemente for all sores. | ||||
| Take honye & oyle ollyffe* an. j. pinte, & lb di of newe waxe, and sheeps | ||||
| tallowe, and lb di of frankencense, boyle them together by the space of | ||||
| an howre: and then it is made. | ||||
| 78. A good oyntment for the gowte. | ||||
| Take lb di of Sope, & lb di of honye, & lb di of bores greace, & make there- | ||||
| of an oyntemente, & anoynte the sore places. | ||||
| 79. A good playster for the gowte after that it is | ||||
| anoynted with the oyntement yt goeth before. | ||||
| Take lb j. of bores greace, j. lb of the powder of commyn*, lb di of hony, lb di | ||||
| of blacke sope, & 30 common oyons, & a gallon of pysse, & looke that thou | ||||
| doe seethe the onyons & the pysse together untill that the onyons bee all | ||||
| sodden, & then medde them with ye things aforesayde, & braye* them all toge- | ||||
| ther in a morter, & make a playster thereof, & lay it to the sore place. | ||||
| 80. An unguente which is good for bruises, and | ||||
| for a runninge gowte. | ||||
| Take the iuice of Savon*, & violets an. With swines greace & grinde them | ||||
| together in a morter, & then put them together into an earthen pot, and | ||||
| set it by the space of three weekes in some place to putrifye, & after yt | ||||
| put all the matters into a cleane basin, & set that basin in-a panne, or | ||||
| upon a panne with cleane water over the fire (but look that there come | ||||
| no water into the basin) & make the panne with the water to boyle, so that | ||||
| through the heate of the water the stuffe in the basin may melte, & when | ||||
| that it is molten, then strayne it through a cloth, & keepe it in boxes. | ||||
| 81. Of the vertues of gentian. | ||||
| Tis pit[eous?] that so rari | Gentian cut in small pieces, if it be swallowed in without drinke in the | |||
| [?][?] Simple should | morninge, or at nighte goeing to bed, it doth prevayle agaynste ye pose, ye | |||
| bee so [?lye] [?used], has to | payne of the stomacke, & the rewme, it drives away the dropsye, ye short- | |||
| bee cut in peeces | nes of breathe, pensiveness, & sigheinge & it doth profit agaynst ye spleene, | |||
| the diseases of the breaste & necke, & it is much avayleable agaynste | ||||
| the biteings & prickeings of any mad & venemous beastes,& agaynst | ||||
| theire stingeings if it be made in powder, & the quantities of a dramme | ||||
| taken in wine: it is of a very hot qualitye, & of taste bitter if it growe in | ||||
| marishe* or lowe grounde, it doth suppresse the griefes of the stomacke, | ||||
| liver, spleene, | ||||
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