Image 182, sixth book, Folio 92b, receipts 7 to 13
| The Sixth booke. | ||||
| like to have it somewhat harder, you may at any time take some of it, | ||||
| and put thereonto a little waxe, a litle rosen*, & a litle turpentine, and | ||||
| melte the salve & them together, and use it at your pleasure. | ||||
| 7. For teeth that are loose. | ||||
| Take hartes horne, and burne it to powder, then take a fine linnen cloth, | ||||
| and put the powder into it, then laye it to the loose teethe. | ||||
| 8. To make aquavitae, or water of life. | ||||
| Firste fill a pot full of red wine, and doe therein the powder of canell* | ||||
| gillowflowers*, ginger Beaten: nutmeggs, gallingall**, spice, large mace, | ||||
| quibibes*, graynes of Paris*, longe pepper, and blacke carrewe*,cyromo – | ||||
| fayne, commyn*, fennell seede, smallage*, pepper, sage, mynte, rewe, | ||||
| calamynte*, horsehoofe*, of each like much, a dramme* & no more: or | ||||
| three penny waighte*, or lesse as thou haste whereof, put all these things | ||||
| into the wine, & after still it with a softe fire, & the limbecke* must be | ||||
| so close luted* that no ayre** goe out of it, then put the water into a | ||||
| viall of glasse. | ||||
| 9. A medicine for the fluxe*. | ||||
| Take a quarte of claret, or rather red wine, and a penny white loafe | ||||
| slyced* into toastes**, and toasted very drye, and then beaten to powder, | ||||
| put it into the wine, boyle* them together tyll** they be very thicke, then | ||||
| put into it a nutmegge beaten small, after it hath sodden* well, put ye | ||||
| yolke of an egge into it, & then let it seeth*, a |
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| two or three spoonefulls every morninge before you eate anye thinge. | ||||
| 10. To make a woman to have her flowers*. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of gladen**, and seeth it in vineger, or in wine, and when it | ||||
| is well sodden, put it in a vessell, and let her stride over it, that no | ||||
| ayre goe out, but that it maye goe up into her bodye. | ||||
| 11. To stente* them, or cease them | ||||
| Take an hares foote, and make thereof powder, and let her drinke thereof | ||||
| with stale ale, &c. | ||||
| 12. To heale a sciatica. | ||||
| Take the oyle of linseede, |
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| and it will make it whole. | ||||
| 13. A potion agaynst burnt choloricke humors. | ||||
| Mr Potter with many thankes, & commendations, &c. I have prescribed | ||||
| yon heere the makeinge of a potion fit for your bodye agaynste these | ||||
| burte cholericke humors, &c: which is thus. Take of the rootes of | ||||
| burrage*, and buglosse**, & the rootes of the butter docke*** cleane washed | ||||
| & slyced, of eache ℥ j. of violet leaves, rose leaves dryed, fumitorye*, | ||||
| hartstongue*, epithium, hoppes, Ana**: ℥ ij Of the flowers of buglos, | ||||
| burrage*, and violets. And ℥ .j. ss of the foure colde greate seeds*. An | ||||
| ℥ j bruised: of fennel seed, parslye seede, and annis seed*: An: ℥ j ss | ||||
| of rubarbe: ℥ ss. sennae: ℥ ss of damaske prunes 12. of reysons | ||||
| stonned |
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Transcribed by KS and GB