Image 198, sixth book, folio 101b, remedies 124 to 130
| The sixthe booke. | ||||
| 124. A medicine for the stone*. | ||||
| Take an hearbe that is called runnawaye*, it groweth besides wet ditches, | ||||
| and laye it in your copper, whether it be wine or ale, or any other drinke, | ||||
| that you use or make it in water or in powder, and it muste be gathered | ||||
| betweene the twoe St Mary’s dayes*. Probatum est*: Henrye Broker. | ||||
| 125. A medicine to breake fleame*. | ||||
| Take twoe races* of ginger, one sticke of licoras**, a pinte of hysop** water, | ||||
| and put them together in a glasse a daye and a nighte, and drinke it to | ||||
| bedwarde, and in the morninge. | ||||
| 126. A medicine for the stone. | ||||
| Take a good quantitye of time*, and a quarte of malmesye**, and put it together, | ||||
| and set it over the fire, and let it boyle to a pinte, and strayne it through | ||||
| a linnen clothe, and then drinke it to bedwarde*, and in the morning warme. | ||||
| Probatum est. Mr Morse. | ||||
| 127. A medicine to make teeth fall out. | ||||
| Take younge ravens dunge in season of the yeare, & make powder there- | ||||
| of, and temper* it with milke, and then drye it in tyll it fall all to | ||||
| powder, and laye thereof a litle to the sore toothe, and it will fall out | ||||
| anon without anye payne. | ||||
| 128. A medicine for the |
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| Take elacampana* a greate handfull, and cut it, but not too small, and | ||||
| put it in a quarte of white wine, and stoppe it faste, and drinke thereof | ||||
| everye day fastinge, & last hereof bedwarde, & use this, & be whole. | ||||
| 129. A medicine to have out a thorne. | ||||
| Take small nut kernells, and chawe* them small, or els a lillye roote, and | ||||
| roste it, and laye to the prickeinge, and thou shalte bee whole. | ||||
| 130. A medicine for the head ache. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of cellondine** a good quantitye, and warme it over the fire, | ||||
| and then wek* therein a sponge, or a linnen clothe, that it bee three or fowre | ||||
| double, and so even warme laye it to the temples of the foreheade, & when | ||||
| it is colde, warme it agayne, if it cease not, & laye thereto, & namelye | ||||
| when you goe to bed: Allso when your heade doth ake*, smell to cam- | ||||
| mamyll*, and it will cease: for if you smell thereto when your heade | ||||
| aketh not, then it will make your heade to ake: and if it ache, it will | ||||
| cease ache: Allso take betanye* leaves, and washe them, and then rowle** | ||||
| them, and put it upon everye of your nostrills, and let it abide there an | ||||
| howre, and it will clense your heade: Allso take betonye alone, and make | ||||
| him wortes* therewith with what meate that he will, and though it bee | ||||
| bitter, it will ease you certayne: Allso take verven* stamped with | ||||
| the white | ||||
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Transcribed by KS and GB