Image 187, sixth book, folio 96a, receipts 49 to 57
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| The Sixthe booke. | ||||
| heade: but looke thou keepe it allways hot, that it coole not: and laye it | ||||
| nexte unto thy heade with the leaves of blinde nettles*. | ||||
| 49. For a sore throate. | ||||
| Take the seede of columbine, and annys*, and stampe them, and let him | ||||
| drinke it, and hee shall be whole. | ||||
| 50. For stoppeing of ye stomacke with hoarsenes. | ||||
| Take hysoppe*, and licoras*, & seeth* them in a pinte of white wine, and | ||||
| hot, and in the mornings colde. | ||||
| 51. For all manner of sickenes in ye stomacke. | ||||
| Take the seede of annys, and lynseede, & commyn*, of every of them | ||||
| like muche, & stampe them together, & give the sicke to drinke with | ||||
| hot water, & hee shall bee well. | ||||
| 52. For a man that spitteth bloude. | ||||
| Take betanye*, and temper it with goates milke, and let the sicke drinke | ||||
| three dayes thereof. | ||||
| 53. For the stone* in the raignes*. | ||||
| Take a quantitye of elacampane*, and a quantitye of cherristones*, and | ||||
| a greate quantitye of parslye, and somewhat more of small nut shells, | ||||
| and put all this together, and make powder thereof, and let him drinke | ||||
| it, & hee shall bee whole. | ||||
| 54. To make a salve, a clenser, and an | ||||
| healer of all manner of woundes. | ||||
| Take an handfull of betanye, an handfull of vervaine*, two handfulls | ||||
| od red pympernell*, and put in twoe powdes of hogges dunge, & stampe | ||||
| stampe it together, and let it rotte* nine dayes, and then frye them, & | ||||
| strayne it, and put therein three ownces of masticke*, and boyle it | ||||
| agayne, and strayne it. | ||||
| 55. To clense a mans eyes. | ||||
| Take red fennell, and stampe it in a morter, and then strayne in a cloth, | ||||
| and take an egge, and put it out all that is therein, and then put the iuice* | ||||
| of the fennell into the shell, and set it upon the embers, and take a feather, | ||||
| and make it cleane as the fome riseth, and when it is well boyled, then | ||||
| take it & let it reste a while, and then take out that which is cleane, | ||||
| and put it in a cleane sawcer*, and caste awaye that remayneth, and | ||||
| then put some thereof to your eyes. | ||||
| 56. To make the stomacke in temper. | ||||
| Take a pennyworthe of longe pepper, a quantitye of graynes*, a nutmegge, | ||||
| a pennyworth of saffron, and twoe spoonefulls of sugar, and beat them | ||||
| all together to powder, & boyle them all in good ale, and give ye sicke | ||||
| to drinke. | ||||
| 57. A most pretious* medicine for ye stone. | ||||
| Take a loadestone*, and breake it to powder as small as you may, & drinke it | ||||
| with wine, & |
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Transcribed by KS and GB