Image 142, fourth book, folio 72b. Receipts 97 (contd) to 103
| The fourthe booke | ||||
| Take cowslips of the fielde, & pull the flower out of the huske, & still* them | ||||
| alone: & the water thereof is very good for those that be madde, or for them | ||||
| that be in a sownde*, & allso for them that have the palsye, & the powder | ||||
| of the same flower is very good to be eaten with theire meate, but the | ||||
| flower must be allso pulled out of the huske, & dryed in some place where | ||||
| it may be through dryed, this done, eate as ofte thereof as you thinke | ||||
| conveniente, & it will helpe. | ||||
| 98. A medicine to bringe the bloude to his | ||||
| right course after it is gone amysse. | ||||
| Take scurvygrasse, & brookelime stamped into ale, & drinke it bloudewarme | ||||
| firste & laste, morning & eveninge, & they must allso drinke whey | ||||
| colde. Approved. | ||||
| 99. A medicine approved for the strangurian*, or | ||||
| burninge of the yarde & to make ye slyme** | ||||
| come easilye. | ||||
| First take fowre cold seedes, sweete williams, gowrdes, pomecitrons*, & | ||||
| cowecumbers, a quarter of eache one, & beate them in a mortar, & put them | ||||
| in a pinte or a quarte of barlye water, this done, strayne it, & drinke it | ||||
| lukewarme in the morninge fasteinge, at noone before dinner, & at nighte | ||||
| to bedwarde, this will ease the burninge, & make the patient to make | ||||
| water better, & after that speake with a phisitian, he will give you 5 | ||||
| or 6 syroppes made of these colde seedes a little warme, these you must | ||||
| take every morninge one, & this will loose all the filth in your kidneyes, | ||||
| & after this he will give you a purgation made of cacyofystelo*, and | ||||
| you shall finde much ease. | ||||
| 100. For the greene sickenes*. | ||||
| Boyle hyssop, organent, penyroyall, lime, succorye, germander, nep*, mar= | ||||
| ioram, of each a quantity with a litle honye clarifyed, & boyle all these in | ||||
| a quarte of ale untill a pinte be consumed, & then let it be strayned, and | ||||
| then let him drinke it morninge & eveninge: this is approved. | ||||
| 101. For a stitche. | ||||
| Take olibanum* the quantity of a hazell nut, braye it small, & take an | ||||
| apple, & take out the core as you would of a quince, & put in this oly- | ||||
| banum into the apple, & let it roste softely till it be very softe, then | ||||
| let the party eate of it, but you must put into it a little suger, and | ||||
| you must sweate after it & abstayne from meate & drinke for | ||||
| three howres at the leaste. | ||||
| 102. For the ague | ||||
| take an handfull of smallage, the like of gro*y salte, & the quantity | ||||
| of a great wallnut of good olibanum, & stampe these together, and | ||||
| laye it in linnen cloutes to the bontes* & wrests** of your armes | ||||
| 103. A medicine for ye heate in ones stomacke. | ||||
| Take a pinte | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW