Image 139, fourth book, Folio 71a, receipts 81 (contd) to 86
| The fourthe booke fo 71 | ||||
| Liber 4 | ||||
| liver, spleene, raynes, harte, & Side: allso he that useth it shall not bee | ||||
| troubled with the scyatique gowte*, nor the crampe, and it is verye good | ||||
| agaynst the plewrisye*, for it taketh awaye the effecte, & it dissolveth | ||||
| grosse & thicke colerique humors within mans bodye, & it sendeth out | ||||
| by the bellye & by urine all superfluous matter, it helpeth digestion, | ||||
| & delivereth such as have taken poyson inwardlye from the perill of | ||||
| deathe: and what needeth. | ||||
| Addita | 82. A powder to conserve the sighte. | |||
| Take betanye*, rewe, saxifrage, lovache**, anise seedes, cynamon, | ||||
| eyebryghte, of each one handfull, cardamomum, ginger, fennell, petrose- | ||||
| lyne*, hysop, organye, silex mountaine, of each one dram, galinga, one | ||||
| ounce, suger, one ounce: Let a powder be made of these, & let it be taken con- | ||||
| tinually with meate, & the sighte will be restored & kepte. This powder | ||||
| was ordained by maister Geralde*: whose triall an olde man did prove, which | ||||
| used spectacles twelve yeares, so that without them he could no see greate | ||||
| letters: but after he had used this powder onely one forty dayes, he was free, | ||||
| insomuch that all ye time of his life, he did see, & reade the least letter yt was | ||||
| 83.Docter francis* dyet artificiall for all such as have aches, | ||||
| & griefes in their ioyntes & bones, though it were the pockes.* | ||||
| In primis* take of the barke of gewacu j lb reue olexandrina 6 ʒ 0, liqueris j lb, | ||||
| one apple of colloquintida*, the seedes being taken out, infuse all these together | ||||
| in three pottles* of white wine, & three pottles of beere the space of one nighte, | ||||
| then put the sayde drugges in an earthern pot well leaded within, & stoppe it | ||||
| close that no ayre come in nor out, then boyle the sayde earthen pot in a greate | ||||
| pot or kettle of water the space of 16 howres, then take it of, & let it coole, and | ||||
| give the patient a pottle a day to drinke for the space of 16, 18, or 6 dayes, | ||||
| which you will, or as neede requireth. Then for the dyet for 6 dayes nothing | ||||
| to be eaten but bysket & a few reasons* of the sonne: but for the 16 or 18 dayes, the | ||||
| first two dayes two ribbes of rosted mutton, & the last three dayes likewise all | ||||
| the rest with bisket & reasons of the sonne this certayne. | ||||
| 84. To break the stone in nine dayes. | ||||
| take an handfull of gromell*, & an handfull of saxifrage, & an handfull of per- | ||||
| sely* breakestone**, an handfull of wilde time, stampe*** them & strayne them, & drinke | ||||
| wine, or in [?posset], seaven times approvedlye helpeth & avoydeth ye stone. | ||||
| 85. A pretious water to use for the avoidance | ||||
| of the stone | ||||
| Take a gallon of milke of a red cowe, an handfull of persely,* an handfull of | ||||
| wilde time, an handfull of gromell, & an handfull of saxifrage, & two radish | ||||
| rootes, myxe all these one nighte, then distill them, & let the patient drinke | ||||
| every morninge, fowre, five, or sixe spoonsfull helpeth approvedlye. | ||||
| 86. A pretious drinke after a purgation to bringe appetite. | ||||
| Take a pinte of | ||||
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