Image 158, fifth book, folio 80b, receipts 70 to 77
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| 70. For the hearing that is loste. | ||||
| Take five leaves of ramsons*, nine leaves of betonye**, & halfe an handfull | ||||
| of stubworte, & halfe an handfull of clivers*, and stampe** them, & strayne | ||||
| them with a litle white wine, & with two litle lockes of wooll therein, & | ||||
| lay it to your eares, then take a hot manchet*, or other bread as it cometh | ||||
| out of the oven, & laye it upon your eares and hot as you may suffer it | ||||
| for five houres space, & afterwardes take it of, and put it into the | ||||
| grounde: And then take three leekes three days every day with a | ||||
| litle honye, and eate them in March, April, and May. | ||||
| "71. For to get one a stomacke, | ||||
| Take rosa solis* halfe a pinte, rosewater halfe a pinte, a quarter of a pinte | ||||
| of dragon water*, & two handfulls of sallet oyle**, & halfe a pinte of | ||||
| wormewood water, & one nutmegge, beaten to powder, boyle all these to= | ||||
| gether a litle while, & after that take five leaves of liverworte*, of | ||||
| lungeworte three leaves*, & two races** of ginger beaten to a powder, & | ||||
| put these to the foresayde, & drinke of it eveninge & morninge twoe | ||||
| spoonefulls at a time five dayes together." | ||||
| 72. An other. | ||||
| Take rosa solis five spoonefulls, rosewater five spoonefulls, dragon water | ||||
| three spoonefulls, sallet oyle two spoonefulls, of wormewood water a quar= | ||||
| ter of a pinte, and use this as before. | ||||
| 73. To doe away malancholye. | ||||
| Take an handfull of greene wheate, & halfe an handfull of parslye, and | ||||
| choppe it small, and stampe* it, and put thereto a litle vergesse**, & make | ||||
| greene sawce thereof, & eate it, &c. | ||||
| 74. For water in the stomacke. | ||||
| Take a nutmegge, & toaste it at the fire, & eate it, & you shall bee well. | ||||
| 75. A playster to drawe out a broken bone. | ||||
| Take betonye, rue & verven, and stampe them together with the | ||||
| flower* of wheate or rye, & the white of an egge, and make thereof | ||||
| a playster, and lay to the sore. | ||||
| 76. For an adder or snake creepinge into | ||||
| the body of man or beaste. | ||||
| Take greene rue, and stampe it, and temper it with mans urine, or of that | ||||
| beaste that hath the evell in him, and give it the sicke to drinke, and he shall | ||||
| cast up all the vermin that is in him, be it man or beaste. Probatum est*. | ||||
| 77. To helpe a man that hath ye gowte. | ||||
| First take a blacke sheepes heade, & seeth* it tyll the fleshe doe fall of it: then | ||||
| put to it a good deal of sheepes sowet*, & a good quantity of mallowes, and | ||||
| smallage, and then bath the place that is grieved with it as hot as you can | ||||
| suffer it, & then take an hedgehogge, & fill his belly full of blacke snayles, | ||||
| and then roste him, and take the drippinge thereof & anoynte ye place | ||||
| grieved daily | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and JM2