Image 154, fifth book, folio 78b, Receipts 37 to 44
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| with the leaves of the roses, & then take up the roseleaves, & make | ||||
| it like a playster*, then take two nutmegges, & beate them small to pow= | ||||
| der, & strawe it on the rosecake*: then take and laye it on the heade, & it | ||||
| will serve a good while. Probatum est*. | ||||
| 37. For the gowte & ache. | ||||
| Take henbane, marygoldes, burrage, & mallowes*, stampe** them toge= | ||||
| ther, & let them lye & rotte: then take May butter*, & cleave it upon | ||||
| a basin, & lay it in a boll with stronge pisse, & stirre the pysse every | ||||
| day a month together: Then take the hearbes, & strayne out the | ||||
| iuice of them, & put the iuice*, pisse, butter, & all together, and then | ||||
| put eyther deares sowet*, or sheepes sowet to it, & melte it well toge= | ||||
| ther, and then anoynte you therewith, &c. | ||||
| 38. For the payne in the heade. | ||||
| Take fetherfewe, cammamyll, rosemarye, pennyroyall, ground ivye, | ||||
| alehoofe*, commyn** seede, heate them betweene two tiles, and laye them | ||||
| to the noddle* of the heade hot. | ||||
| 39. For limmes that are taken that | ||||
| have no feelinge. | ||||
| Take oyle of dyll*, oyle of roses, & anoynte the place grieved: If the | ||||
| mouth be drawne awrye, then take a rose cake, and laye to the cheeke | ||||
| hot: Allso take three brickes, & heate them red hot, & then quench them | ||||
| in water tyll they have done boylinge, & then wrappe them in clothes, | ||||
| and lay one at the feete, the other at the side, and the thirde at the | ||||
| backe not touchinge the bodye. | ||||
| 40. For the itche. | ||||
| Take creame, & the roots of cellondine, & the roots of mercurye*, and cut | ||||
| the roots thinne, & seeth* them tyll they be thicke, & then strayne them out, | ||||
| & laye it to the itch, & it will be whole &c. | ||||
| Take rosemarye leaves, lavender leaves, woodbind leaves, cellondine leavs | ||||
| or roots, sage of vertue*, stampe them, & seeth them in white wine fro | ||||
| a pinte tyll halfe be wasted, and then washe the wounde therewith, & | ||||
| it shall be whole, &c. | ||||
| "42. To make a seerecloth* to heale all manner of aches. | ||||
| Take halfe a pinte of sallet oyle, & of red leade 2 ob, & boyle these toge= | ||||
| ther tyll it is blacke, & then dippe your clothe in it, and laye it to the | ||||
| place grieved, and it will heale it by Gods grace. | ||||
| 43. For the fluxe*. | ||||
| Take a hot loafe as it cometh out of the oven, & crumme it into a dish | ||||
| full of verges*, & eate well thereof, and hee shall bee whole. | ||||
| 44. For all manner of agues. | ||||
| Take fowre croppes* of stone croppe, and washe them, & stampe them: | ||||
| and put thereto halfe a pinte of stale ale, & meddle them well together, | ||||
| and then | ||||
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Transcribed by JM