Image 164. fifth book, folio 83b, receipts 123 to 134
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| 123. To make handes white. | ||||
| Wash thy hands often times in the water of nettle seeds, or poppy seede. | ||||
| 124. For shakeinge of a mans handes. | ||||
| Wash thy handes in the water of cinkefoyle* oftentimes, and rubbe them | ||||
| therewith, and let it dry agayne by it selfe, etc. | ||||
| 125. For scabbes on the leggs. | ||||
| Wette a cloute* in the water of cammamyll**, and laye it on the sore legge, | ||||
| bycause it slaketh the heate, and softeneth the payne, & it dryeth & healeth it. | ||||
| 126. To unstoppe & clense* the bowels. | ||||
| Take verven* water, & morninge and eveninge drinke an ownce and an | ||||
| halfe each time, for it is good agaynst the stoppeinge both of ye stomacke, | ||||
| and bellye, or guttes, etc. | ||||
| 127. To strengthen the brayne & to helpe the memorye. | ||||
| Drinke an ownce and an halfe of the water of carduus benedictus* in the mor- | ||||
| ninge fasteinge, for it both comforteth the brayne, & helpeth the memorye. | ||||
| “ 128. To comforte & strengthen the synewes. | ||||
| Take and rubbe thy synewes oftentimes with the water of mulberries, | ||||
| and let it drye by it selfe, for it comforteth the synewes, & strengthneth them. “ | ||||
| 129. To heale the choakinge of the matrix*, when | ||||
| it cannot returne agayne. | ||||
| Take greene rewe*, and braye* it well, and myxe it with honye, and dippe | ||||
| wooll therein made in fourme of a tente, & put it into the fundamente*, and | ||||
| presently it will be awaked, and returne agayne to it selfe. | ||||
| 130. A remedye for a woman that for | ||||
| fatnes cannot conceive. | ||||
| Take the hearbe betonye, and make it into powder, and give unto ye woman | ||||
| one dramme to drinke thereof in halfe an ownce of the water distilled of | ||||
| that hearbe, and it will doe the effecte. | ||||
| 131. A very profitable medicine for the hardnes of a | ||||
| womans breastes after they are broughte to bed. | ||||
| Take wheaten branne, and seeth* it in the iuice** of rue, and lay it upon her | ||||
| breastes that bee hardened after her lyeing downe, and they will waxe softe | ||||
| and supple: Allso it is a good medicine agaynst ye biteing of venemous beasts. | ||||
| 132. For one that hath his cods* swollen. | ||||
| Take rue, and stampe* it, and laye it upon the cods, and they will swage* | ||||
| immediatelye theire swellinge, which thing hath bene well proved. | ||||
| 133. To make the handes white. | ||||
| Take the iuice of a lemmon, with a little baye salte, and washe your handes | ||||
| with it, and let them drye of themselves, & wash them agayne, and you | ||||
| shall finde all the spots & staynes gone; It is allso good agaynst the scurfe* | ||||
| and scabbes. | ||||
| 134. To remedye ye payne of ye stomacke. | ||||
| Take a | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS