Image 184, sixth book, Folio 93b, receipts 17 to 18
| The Sixthe booke. | ||||
| Take of mercurye* water one pinte, of the water of daneworte* as much, | ||||
| myxe them together, and heerewith washe the sore, drye it not, but cover | ||||
| it with a playster*: use it but when the sore doth wante dryeinge, or els | ||||
| clenseinge. | ||||
| 17. The best dyet drinke for canker, | ||||
| fistula, or olde ulcer ye can bee. | ||||
| Take of sarzaparille* roote fowre ownces, saxafrasine** rootes as manye, of | ||||
| chine* rootes twoe ownces, mader* rootes twoe ownces, turmentyll* rootes | ||||
| twoe ownces, angellica roots two ownces, gallingall* roots two ownces, | ||||
| sene* twoe ownces, ruberbe* three quarters of an ownce, hartes horne, | ||||
| raspede* three good handfulls, you must cut & bruise in a morter all the | ||||
| rootes, large mace one ownce, of hearbes betony of the woode, scabias, | ||||
| egrimonye*, coltsfoote*, ribworte*, marshe mallowes*, or holehocke*, | ||||
| mouseeare*, of each of these one handfull, of ladies mantle, & of sweet | ||||
| marioram*, of each halfe an handfull, of the hearbe mercurie* one hand- | ||||
| full, of penyroyall a quarter of an handfull, let all these hearbes bee | ||||
| with the rootes, that done, divide them equallye into three partes, then | ||||
| take you one of the three partes, and put it in a thinne bagge, and hange | ||||
| it in twoe gallons of good stronge ale, so as it may neyther touch | ||||
| the yeaste, nor the bottome of the vessell, after 26 howres standeinge, | ||||
| drinke no other but this, when that is done, use an other parte, and | ||||
| then the thirde parte as the other, keepe a good dyet, eateing rabot*, | ||||
| mutton, veale, chicken, or birdes of the fielde, eyther roasted, drye, | ||||
| or boyled, eate white breade well baked, this dyet drinke is pleasaunt | ||||
| and good to take. | ||||
| 18. The manner howe to make oyle out of waxe, &c. | ||||
| Raymonde Lullye* sayth that oyle is miraculous and divine in wor- | ||||
| keinge, &c: The making of it is in this manner. First take ye bodye | ||||
| of a glasse called a retorte, which stronglye lute* aboute with claye | ||||
| and flaxe well tempered together with salte water. After ye Body is | ||||
| thus fensed & throughlye drye, then put into it a pownde or more of | ||||
| pure newe waxe, so that the waxe filleth not above halfe your body: | ||||
| and to every pounde of waxe put in fowre ownces of the powder of | ||||
| red bricke finely bruised, then take & set it in an earthen pot filled | ||||
| rounde aboute it with fine sifted ashes or sande: After this let the | ||||
| pot with the bodye in it on a furnace, and make a softe fire at the first | ||||
| under it, & after increaseinge a litle more your fire, distill them so | ||||
| long untyll all your oyle be come: which within a while will con- | ||||
| geale in the receiver, but it maketh no greate matter if it doe: for | ||||
| it is |
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Transcribed by KS and GB