Image 173, fifth book, folio 88a, receipts 174 (contd) to 183
| The fifthe booke. .fo. 88. | ||||
| and halfe an handfull of hisop*, spirigges**, and twoe or three fennell rootes, and as | ||||
| manye parslye rootes, and seeth* all these in a gallon of fayre runninge water | ||||
| well scummed, but firste let the roots & hearbes be well stamped*, Then skymme | ||||
| the water oftentimes as the hearbes doe seeth tyll all the hearbes bee consumed: | ||||
| then strayne the water into a cleane vessell with halfe a pownde of allmondes | ||||
| blaunched, and beaten well, and strayned with the water, and drinke it so, when | ||||
| it is well cleared. | ||||
| 175. A medicine to avoyde all humors, and all | ||||
| corruption by bruiseinge. | ||||
| Take the powder of pulius benedicta*, a pennyworth is enough at times to | ||||
| drinke: but it must be dronke with ale or beere. | ||||
| “176. For the freckles in the face. | ||||
| Take the leaves of radishe, and lillies: and stampe them with honye, and then | dames | |||
| seeth them in olde wine, and therewith anoynte the freckles in a womans visage,*[*] | go to town | |||
| and this is a good water for bruises and synewes that be cut. Probatum est.*” | ||||
| 177. To make a readye deliveraunce for a woman that | ||||
| traveleth* with childe, when her throwes* come | ||||
| not readilye. | ||||
| Take the rootes of polipodye*, and stampe them, and binde them under the soles | ||||
| of her feete, and the childe shall be borne though it be deade. | ||||
| 178. An other for the same. | ||||
| Take the seede of wilde commyn* as it groweth in the hearbe, and the wooll that | ||||
| groweth in the middest of the fronte of a sheepe, put these twoe together, and when | ||||
| neede is, binde them to her raignes*, but as soone as shee is delivered, take | ||||
| it awaye, or els the matrix* will followe after. | ||||
| 179. An other for the same. | ||||
| Take leekeblades*, and scalde them, and then as hot as shee may suffer them, laye | ||||
| and binde them to her navell, and shee shall be delivered anon, thoughe the | ||||
| childe bee deade: but take it awaye, as soone as shee is delivered, or els all will | ||||
| come after it. | ||||
| 180. To deliver a woman of a deade childe. | ||||
| Take rue, vervayne*, hysop, mugworte*, and woodroofe*, of each like muche, | ||||
| stampe it, and strayne it with warme water, and then drinke it. | ||||
| 181. For the biteinge of a mad dogge. | ||||
| Take rewe, and stampe it, and meddle* the iuice** of it with honye, and salte, and | ||||
| drinke some parte thereof, and laye the other to the |
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| shalte be whole by Gods grace. | ||||
| 182. For any quicke* thinge that is crepte into ye eare. | ||||
| Take the iuice of rue, or suthernewoode*, or wormewoode*, and put it into the | ||||
| eare. | ||||
| 183. For a fellon*. | ||||
| Take sowre leaven*, greate salte*, & vineger, and boyle them together, then laye | ||||
| it thereto hot, and it will kyll it within shorte time. | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS