Image 174, fifth book, folio 88b, receipts 184 to 189
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| 184. Agaynst the belcheinge of the stomacke. | ||||
| Take the flowers, and rindes of pomegranets, and beate them into | ||||
| powder, then boyle them in vineger, & take a sponge, and dippe it into | ||||
| it, and bath your stomacke therewith, and the payne shall cease. | ||||
| “185. To make a receipte for to sweate. + | ||||
| 2 | Take sixe ownces of pompillin*, and sixe ownces of barrows greace*, | |||
| Blue | and two ownces of oyle of baye, & halfe an ownce of quickesilver*, & take | |||
| ointment | your quickesilver, and put it in a brazen morter, and take as muche | |||
| turpentine as twoe small nuts, and put it to your quickesilver, & | ||||
| stirre it tyll you can see no quickesilver in it, & tyll it looke blewe, | ||||
| and then take your oyle of baye, and put to it, & stirre them together | ||||
| a good while, & then take your popillin, & barrowes greace, & beate | ||||
| them all together, tyll they be all one, & this is your receipte. | ||||
| 186. When you shall sweate, doe as followeth. | ||||
| 3 | Firste make your chamber close that no ayre come in, where you | |||
| shall lye and sweate, and make a good fire of coales in it, then strippe | ||||
| your selfe naked by the fire, & take as much as an hasell nut, and | ||||
| anoynte your selfe in everye ioynte* of the bodye when you shall | ||||
| lye to sweate, and then lye downe in your bed, and cover you warme, | ||||
| and let it be sixe howres before you sweate throughlye, & then sweat | ||||
| well fowre howres, and then after fowre howres be past, withdwraw | ||||
| your clothes by litle & litle for the space of eighte howres, and then | ||||
| arise and keepe your selfe warme for the space of two or three | ||||
| howres, and then anoynte you agayne as before, and lye downe and | ||||
| sweate as you did, and do so fowre dayes, and see that you drinke | ||||
| no colde drinke, nor eate no salte meate, nor leavened breade, nor | ||||
| take no colde ayre in all your sweate, nor in sixe dayes after: and | ||||
| beware that you take no colde ayre at your mouthe, but wash your | ||||
| mouthe with warme alome* water, etc.” | ||||
| 187. For a canker*. | ||||
| Take a hares foote, and burne it to powder, and drinke it with stale | ||||
| ale, and hee shall soone be whole. | ||||
| 188. To make a purgation. | ||||
| 4 | Take an apple of colloquintida*, and put it into a pinte of good ale, | |||
| and take halfe an handfull of senye*, & put to it, and seeth** it halfe | ||||
| awaye, and strayne it, and drinke sixe or seaven spoonefulls thereof | ||||
| fasting ye sixth daye after your sweate, & keep you verye warme all | ||||
| that daye. | ||||
| 189. To heale morbum Gallicum* by drinke. + | ||||
| Take guyacum* one pownde, and put it in a fayre earthen pot, and | ||||
| put fowre wine quartes of fayre runninge water to it, & stoppe | ||||
| it faste, and | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS