Image 144, fourth book, folio 73b, receipts 113 to 118
| The fourth booke | ||||
| 113. For the payne in the backe. | ||||
| Take an handfull of knotgrasse, an handfull of purcepurstarye called picke- | ||||
| purse*, stampe** them & strayne them, & mixe with them three spoonefulls | ||||
| of woman’s milke, three spoonefulls of sallet* oyle, three spoonefulls of rose | ||||
| water, & anoynte your backe eveninge & morninge agaynste the fire. | ||||
| 114. For the winde collicke* in ye bellye. | ||||
| Take a quarte of claret wine, three handfulls of fennell seedes, unset* | ||||
| hysop a quantitye, boyle all those together unto a pinte, and let ye patient | ||||
| drinke it morninge and eveninge. Probatum est*. | ||||
| 115. An outwarde medicine for ye same. | ||||
| Take maniplum, rose leaves, an handfull of camomyll, commyn seedes, | ||||
| coriander seedes, a pinte of malmesye*, & seeth all these well together, | ||||
| make all these into two bagges quilted flat, and laye it hot to ye patient’s | ||||
| bellye. Probatum est. | ||||
| 116. For an ache. | ||||
| Take twelve yonge swallowes quicke*, an handfull of lavender spicke, | ||||
| an handfull of lavender cotten, an handfull of rosemarye, an handfull of | ||||
| mallowes, & an handfull of strawberry leaves with the stringes, braye* | ||||
| all these together in a morter by the space of 5 houres, untill you may | ||||
| perceive neyther bone, feather, nor hearbe, & by that time it will be dry, | ||||
| then put so much Maye butter* to it that you may make it so supple that | ||||
| you make it in forme of rounde balls, then lay them in a celler upon the | ||||
| grounde in a danke place the spce of nine dayes untill they be hoarye*, | ||||
| then take them as they bee, & put them in a little earthen panne untill | ||||
| they be molten, & if they be any thing dry, put a little May butter to them | ||||
| to mollifye, then take it of immediatelye as it is molten, & put halfe a | ||||
| pinte of sallet oyle to it: & so done, use it for medicine. Probatum est*. | ||||
| 117. For the greene sickenes*. | ||||
| Take a pottle* of white wine, three handfulls of wild time, as much | ||||
| of garden time, three roots of fennell, three rootes of parslye, & pull out ye | ||||
| inwarde pilles*, & fowre braunches of rosemarye, & seeth** them all toge- | ||||
| ther from a pottle to a quarte, & let the patient every morninge nexte | ||||
| her hearte drinke a draughte of it bloudewarme, with ginger & suger: | ||||
| & let her refrayne from fruite, & all those thinges that may encrease | ||||
| this disease: & by the grace of God shee shall have ease. Probatum est. | ||||
| 118. A medicine for heate in ye stomacke, and | ||||
| overhastye digestion. | ||||
| Take rosemarye, time, hysop, mintes, marioram*, & dandalion, of eache | ||||
| an handfull, & seeth them in a quarte of runninge water to a pinte & a | ||||
| halfe, then strayne the hearbes from the licor, & set the licor on ye fire | ||||
| agayne, & put thereto of mace 2 id, of cynamon 2 id, of ganningall*j id, | ||||
| one nutmegge, | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW