Image 157, fifth book, folio 80a, receipts 63 to 69.
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| linnen cloth and wet therein: & take the first playster awaye, and | ||||
| lay thereto the sowety* cloth as hot as he may suffer it, & he shall be | ||||
| whole, &c. | ||||
| "63. A confection for one that cannnot eate well. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of fennell two parts, & the third of honye, and seeth** them | ||||
| together tyll it be as thicke as honye, and put pepper to it, & take every | ||||
| day fastinge two or three spoonefulls thereof, &c." | ||||
| 64. A powder for all manner of sickenes in mans bodye. | ||||
| Take the seed of smallage, & of bayes, & the roote of turmentyll*, & the | ||||
| roote of quilelye, & the roote of philipendula, & the seed of gromwell*, | ||||
| & the seede of saxifrage, & the seed of stanmarch*, & the blacke seed of | ||||
| thistle flowers, & of gallingall, & canell,* & ginger: & bray** all these | ||||
| in a morter, & make powder, & use thereof first and last, &c. | ||||
| 65. For wormes in the bellye. | ||||
| Take neppe* & stampe** it with hot red wine, or other wine, & when | ||||
| thou feelest thyself grieved, drinke thereof, & thou shalle be helpen | ||||
| by Gods grace. | ||||
| 66. For a stinkeing breathe. | ||||
| Take two handfulls of commyn*, & make of it a powder, & seeth | ||||
| it, & temper* it in good wine from a pottle to a quarte, & let the patiet | ||||
| drinke thererof first & last as hot as he can suffer it, and hee shall bee | ||||
| whole within fifteene dayes on warrentice*. | ||||
| 67. A soveraigne medicine for one that hath a | ||||
| swelling or ach in his knees or ioyntes*. | ||||
| Take lovage, & rue, and stampe them, & mingle them with honye, and | ||||
| frye them well together, & make a playster, and laye it to the sore, | ||||
| and he shall be whole by Gods grace. | ||||
| 68. A remedye for ye running of the raigns.* | ||||
| Take glovers patches of white leather that they make gloves of, and | ||||
| wash them cleane with warme water, then put them in a panne with | ||||
| fayre water, & seeth them two or three houres very well tyll they | ||||
| be thicke, then take & put a lynnen cloth, two folde into the hot water | ||||
| and patches, and as hot as you may suffer it, lay the warme clothe | ||||
| to the raignes of your backe every eveninge and mornine, and for the | ||||
| space of five dayes, and every time dippe the cloth a freshe in that | ||||
| water & patches being made hot, and it shall make him to be whole | ||||
| of ye complexion yt it wast not agaynst your will by Gods grace. | ||||
| 69. Agaynst the swellinge in a mans bellye. | ||||
| Take greene rue, and washe it, and stampe it, and temper it with ale, | ||||
| water, or white wine, and let the sicke drinke thereof, and he shall | ||||
| bee whole. | ||||
| For the | ||||
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Transcribed by JM