Image 170, fifth book, folio 86b, receipts 160 (contd) to 162.
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| see that it bee warme when you washe it: then when the playster is | ||||
| well het* and chafed** betweene your handes, lay it on the wounde, but | ||||
| if you lay it on twyse*, make the plaister cleane before you chafe it, | ||||
| and then laye it on, and let a little hole be in the playster agaynste the | ||||
| wounde, then take a litle hempe, and make thereof a little tente, & wet | ||||
| it in the wine, and put it into the hole of the playster, and so into the | ||||
| wounde, and all the filthe in the bottome of the wounde shall rise up | ||||
| throughe the hole of the playster by the tente, let linte be layde about | ||||
| uit: and if the wounde ake, poure a little oyle olliffe* into it, and it shall | ||||
| leave akeinge. | ||||
| 161. To make the oyle of Exeter. | ||||
| Take a pownde of the flowers of cowslips in the month of May, and | ||||
| stampe* them in so much oyle olliffe as may easilye cover them, then | ||||
| take these hearbes: calaminte*, hearbe John, sage, egrimonye, suthernwood, | ||||
| pennyroyall*, lavender, peritorye, rosemarye, cammamyll, harris, pelli- | ||||
| torye of Spayne*, leaves of lorry**, flowers of lillies, of each of all these | ||||
| an handfull, let them be gathered in the month of June, and grind them | ||||
| all together in a morter as it were to greensauce*: and when you have | ||||
| so done, then take the flowers of the cowslips, and wringe them out of | ||||
| the oyle they were layd in, and put them into the morter to the other | ||||
| hearbes, and grinde them all together agayne tyll they be well medled* | ||||
| and then put so much white wine to them as they may be well steeped | ||||
| in, and so let them stande a daye and a nighte: and then take ye hearbes | ||||
| with the wine and oyle olliffe, and boyle them together tyll all ye wine | ||||
| and water of the hearbes be wasted cleane awaye over a softe fire: | ||||
| thus you shall knowe when it is well, take a spoone, and put it into ye | ||||
| hearbes into the bottome of the panne, and if you can bringe up no water, | ||||
| then it is well, and boyled enoughe, then take it from the fire, and take | ||||
| good stronge linnen cloth, and make a bagge thereof, and put in all the | ||||
| hearbes and oyle out of the panne, and with twoe staves* crowse** the oyle | ||||
| throughe into some fayre vessell, your vessell must be of tinne or glasse, | ||||
| for none other will holde it: This oyntemente will indure* three yeares, | ||||
| it is good agaynste the gowte, agaynste the palsye, agaynste all olde | ||||
| bruises or newe: bruises of bones, or ioyntes*: and all malladyes** that are | ||||
| in the synnewes*: you must anoynte but onelye the place grieved with | ||||
| anye of these diseases, and you muste anoynte them in the summer in | ||||
| the sunne, and in the winter by the fire, and after the anoynteinge you | ||||
| must take blacke wooll that never was washed: and heate it hot by | ||||
| the fire, laye it on the place grieved, to defende it from colde. You | ||||
| must make this medicine in the monthe of June to serve for the | ||||
| yeare to come. | ||||
| 162. A medicine for to drye up the | ||||
| milke in a womans breastes. | ||||
| Take a quarte of the dregges of stronge ale, and three handfulls of | ||||
| sage, an | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS