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Image 166, fifth book, folio 84b, receipts 145 to 149

	The fifthe booke.

	“145. A good oyntement agaynst ye vanityes* of ye heade.
	Take the iuice* of wormewoode**, and salte, honye, waxe, and incens, and boyle
	them together over the fire, and therewith anoynte the sicke heade & temples.”

	146. An excellent and approved medicine
	for the winde collicke.
	Take a quarte of white wine, an ownce, or a pennyworth of licoris* stickes faire
	scraped, and cut in chippes: and an ownce, or a pennyworth of annisseed, halfe
	an ownce of fennell seedes, or ob[S], and bruise them together a little in a morter:
	and then take a radishe roote, and a carrot roote, & cut them in chipppes, then
	put them all into the wine in a fayre vessell, and set it over the fire, & cover
	it as close as you maye, and let it boyle softlye tyll it be allmost one quarter
	wasted, then take it of the fire, and strayne it into a fayre glasse & drinke
	thereof warme a good quantity when you are payned, and you shall have
	presente ease.

Addita*	147. An excellent oyntment and well approved for an ague
	in a womans breaste, or in mens leggs, or in anye
	other part of the bodye of man or woman.
	Take hearbe Roberte, agrimonye, alehoofe, sage, hemblocke, parsly, & holyhoc**
	leaves, a good handfull of each, of these ~~leaves~~ hearbes, and washe them
	not, neyther stampe* them, but choppe them as small as hearbes for the
	pot, then take a pownde of newe butter never washed, nor salted, and as
	much fresh barrowes* grease, and put the butter and grease into an ear-
	then pipkin*, and when it is melted on the fire, then put into it all your
	hearbes, and let them boyle till your hearbes be very well boyled, & stirre
	them now and then, and then take it from the fire, and being somewhat
	colde, strayne it into some vessell, that there bee none spilte: and then
	put it into gallypots*, or glasses, and keepe it to your use.

	chapps
	148. A good medicine agaynste ⁁ in handes,
	lippes, and womens breastes.
	Take quince kyrnells*, bruise them, & steepe them in red rose water, & make
	them warme, then strayne it, and anoynte the chappes therewith, and
	they will be whole.

	149. An excellent playster called gratia dei*.
In some booke is put in	Take the iuice* of betanye, the iuice of vervayne, the iuice of pympernell**, of
j lb of unwroughte waxe	each one pownde, ⁁ of rosen* three ownces, + of perosin* three ownces, of
at this marke ⁁.	frankencens halfe a pownde, of small powder of colloppe hony* halfe a pound,
Agayne at this marke	of sheepes tallowe the sweetest that may be founde, and a pinte of sweete
+ a pownde of rosin &	wine called bastarde*: and boyle them all together in a panne over ye fire
of perosin fowre ownces.	untyll it be somewhat thicke: then take it from the fire, & clense it throughe
	a fayre clothe, and set it over the fire agayne, and put thereto three ownces
	of good oyle, and all the powder above sayde, & so boyle it softlye the space
	of three pater nosters while*, and then take it, and put it into a pewter char-
	ger* untyll it be colde, & and after that take it out, and cut it in lenges & roule**
	it in roules of leather or parchmente, and so keepe it, for it is a pretious
	healer, and

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Transcribed by GB and KS