The sixthe booke. .fo.99. | ||||
Take water cresses, mallowes*, smallage*, and rewe*, of each an handfull, | ||||
cut them small, then take the dregges* of ale, the thickest thereof, then | ||||
take halfe a sawcer full of wheate [?] branne, as much of rye breade | ||||
crummes, & as much oatemeale, then seeth* it all together tyll it be thicke, | ||||
then make a plaister thereof, and laye it to the swellinge, & it will helpe, | ||||
renewe your plaister twise a daye, morninge and eveninge. | ||||
87. A gentle, good, & a sure medicine | ||||
for a canker or other sore. | ||||
Take of salte gemme* made in powder, and temper** it with a dishe of butter, | ||||
and put it in a boxe, & so keepe it, the longer the better | ||||
88. Agaynste the infection of the plague. | ||||
Take the water of scabeas*, and tha water of bettanye*, and as much good | ||||
treacle of geane* as the quantity of twoe hazel nutts, and a good spoone- | ||||
full of stronge vinegar, and beate them all together, and give ye sicke | ||||
to drinke, and it will put the sicknes from his hearte, and drive out the | ||||
sore, so that you suffer not the sicke to sleepe in seaven or eighte howres | ||||
after he hath dronke the medicine, and if you let him bleede, he shall | ||||
bee in a greate deale ye lesse ieopardye*, & the sooner whole. | ||||
89. This medicine is good when | ||||
the sore doth appeare. | ||||
Take an handfull of red bramble leaves, as much of elder leaves, stampe* | ||||
them together, and put thereto a good spoonefull and more of strong mustarde, | ||||
beate them all together, and make a playster thereof, and laye it to ye sore, | ||||
and it will bothe drawe it fayre, and heale it. | ||||
90. A drinke for the plague. | ||||
Take fetherfewe*, wormewoode*, mugworte*, marigoldes, scabeas*, mints, of each | ||||
halfe an handfull, stampe them, and strayne them with stale ale, and let | ||||
the sicke drinke thereof nine spoonefulls at one time, and if the sicke pson | ||||
drinke it betimes*, it will drive it from his hearte. | ||||
91. For scabbes. | ||||
Take roote of elacampana*, seeth it, and then stampe it with May butter*, | ||||
and powder of brimstone, then strayne it, & anoynte thee therewith. | ||||
Probatum est. | ||||
92. For scabbye handes. | ||||
Make powder of oyster shells, swines greace, and quickesilver* brayed | ||||
together, and anoynte thy handes. | ||||
93. For the emraldes*. | ||||
Take a stoole with a siege*, and lay twoe tyles in the fire, then take ye tiles, | ||||
and laye under the stoole, then take powder of myrrhe, and incense, & | ||||
cast on the tyle, & set thee over the smoke with thy bare fundamente*, | ||||
if yu have |
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