Image 150, fifth book, folio 76b, Receipts 8 to 14
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| Take a pigeon the blackest thou canst get, and if it be possible, let him | ||||
| eate some of the fleshe of it rosted or sodden*. | ||||
| "8. To make a pretious water that Docter |
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| did greate cures with, & kepte it secret tyll a | ||||
| litle before his death, then taughte it to the | ||||
| archbishop of Canterburye. | ||||
| Take a gallon of white Gascoigne wine, ginger, gallingall*, cymon, nut- | ||||
| megs, graynes, cloves, annis seeds, fennell seedes, carraway seedes, of | ||||
| every of them like much, viz, a dram* of each, then take sage, redmintes, | ||||
| red roses, time, pellitory of the wall*, rosemarye, wilde time & gromell*, la= | ||||
| vender the flowers if you can get them, of every of them an handfull: | ||||
| then beate the spires small, & the hearbes allso: then put them all in ye | ||||
| wine, and let it stand therein twelve houres, stirringe it divers times: | ||||
| then still it in a lymbecke*: And the first water being greene, put it by | ||||
| it selfe: for it is the best: the second water being white, is good, but not | ||||
| so good as the firste, put that by it selfe, it is good for all manner of | ||||
| diseases to drinke it fastinge, & at nighte laste, at each time a spoone= | ||||
| full: it is a pretious & noble water, for a spoonefull is a preservative." | ||||
| 9. For the scabbes, & for them that breake out. | ||||
| Take rawe creame, white copperas*, alome powder, & boares greace, | ||||
| mixe it all together like a salve, & anoynte it therewith: et sanabitur*. | ||||
| 10. For all manner of aches in the bones, or elsewhere. | ||||
| Take oyle of petrolium, & more quantitye of the oyle of spike*, and a | ||||
| litle quantitye of rose vineger, & mingle all these together, & dippe | ||||
| blacke wooll in it, and laye it warme to the ache. | ||||
| 11. For the tooth ache. | ||||
| Take the roote of smallage*, & hange about thy necke, & they will leave | ||||
| akeinge. | ||||
| 12. To kyll lise & nits in the heade. | ||||
| Take the powder of a hartes horne, that is scraped of it, & give them to | ||||
| drinke, & there will no lise nor nits breede in the heade: allso if you | ||||
| straw the powder on the heade, they will not breed there, but will all dye. | ||||
| "13. To make an akeing tooth fall out. | ||||
| Take wheate meale, & mixe therewith the milke of the hearbe called | ||||
| spurge*, & make thereof past or doughe, with which ye shall fill the | ||||
| hollowe of the tooth, & let it be there a certayne time, & the tooth will | ||||
| fall out of it selfe. Allso if you washe your mouth & teeth once a | ||||
| month with wine wherein the roote of this hearbe hath been sodden, | ||||
| you shall never have payne in your teethe." | ||||
| 14. For to helpe the falling sicknes* of children. | ||||
| Take of | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW