Image 165, fifth book, folio 84a, receipts 134 (contd) to 144
| The fifthe booke. .fo. 84. | ||||
| Take a dramme or twoe of agarici* trocisthati* in the fourme of pylles**, or | ||||
| otherwise : then let him drinke a little wine, and he shall bee whole. | ||||
| 135. A remedy for one that wanteth sleepe | ||||
| through frensines*. | ||||
| Take and shave away the hayre with a rasor, & anoynte the heade with ye froth | ||||
| or fome, which swimmeth upon creame, and he shall sleepe forthwith. | ||||
| 136. To preserve a man from vomiting on the sea. | ||||
| Take and drinke the iuice* of wormewoode**, and you shall not vomyt. | ||||
| 137. To take away the tooth ache. | ||||
| Take hysop*, & make thereof a decoction** with vinegar, & beinge hot, | ||||
| washe thy mouth withall, & the payne of the teeth shall goe awaye: Isop* | ||||
| allso being stamped*, & incorporated, and a little vitrum* killeth the wormes | ||||
| in a mans bodye. | ||||
| 138. To ripe* a fellon*, botch* or cats hayre*, or | ||||
| any other swellinge sore. | ||||
| Take hoggs sewet*, or grease, or larde, and lay it on the sore, or botch, and | ||||
| it will ripe incontinente*. Allso hee that hath anye lice or nits in his heade, | ||||
| let him anoynte his heade with it, and rubbinge it well with the sayd sewet, | ||||
| or larde, they will dye. | ||||
| 139. To make a womans milke to increase. | ||||
| Take fennell seede, and seeth* it in barly water, and give the woman to drinke | ||||
| of it, and her milke shall increase aboundantlye. | ||||
| 140. For imposthumes*, botches, or cankers* | ||||
| or other swellinges. | ||||
| Take barlye, and branne, and seethe them untyll they be like unto a plaister* | ||||
| verye thicke, and laye it on the sore, and it shall helpe muche. | ||||
| 141. For one that spitteth bloude. | ||||
| Take fine rye flower*, and make thereof a cake, and when it is baked, give | ||||
| it the patiente to eate as hot as hee may suffer it, & it shall doe him greate | ||||
| ease. | ||||
| 142. To heale a ringworme*. | ||||
| Take and burne a piece of course linnen, and when it is kindled, put on a | ||||
| cleane plate of iron, or els on a dishe, and there it will leave a certayne | ||||
| moystnes*, with which anoynte the ringworme, & it will heale it. | ||||
| 143. A remedy agaynst ye belching of | ||||
| the stomacke. | ||||
| Take the leaves of rue in the middell of May, and still* them, and let the pa- | ||||
| tient drinke thereof first and last two or three ownces: And allso it will ex- | ||||
| pell all the ventositye* out of the bodye. | ||||
| 144. To heale the collicke. | ||||
| Take of sage, of artemysta* called mugworte*, of smallage*, of each like quan- | ||||
| titye, boyle them in good wine untyll the third parte be consumed, & being | ||||
| strayned, give the sicke to drinke fowre ownces or somewhat more at a | ||||
| time, and hee shall bee whole. | ||||
| A good | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS