Image 199, sixth book, folio 102a, receipts 131 to 140
| The sixthe booke. .fo.102. | ||||
| the white of an egge, and laye it righte colde to thy foreheade and the | ||||
| temples, and it will cease the ache. | ||||
| 131. A medicine for him that is sansofleamed*. | ||||
| Take saxefrage which is called Jerusalem, still* it, and wet a fether in ye | ||||
| water, and anoynte your face therewith everye daye in the morninge, | ||||
| and at nighte. | ||||
| 132. For the Blacke iaundise*. | ||||
| Take and let the patiente put on a newe payre of shooes, and put in the | ||||
| shooes croppes* of broome, and a litle baye salte*, and put them on his feet, | ||||
| and let him chafe his feete, well up and downe from one howse to another, | ||||
| tyll that you see water come out of his shooes, and take his feete out, & | ||||
| wipe them. | ||||
| 133. To make oyle of roses. | ||||
| Take oyle ollife*, and rose leaves, and set it in the sunne, and change the | ||||
| leaves everye fortenighte. | ||||
| 134. For deade fleshe. | ||||
| Take the cornes* of salte, and sope**, and minge*** them all together, and laye | ||||
| thereon. | ||||
| 135. For womens breastes that are sore for | ||||
| wante of suckeinge. | ||||
| Take hartes horne*, and scrape it, and let her drinke it in what wine it be, | ||||
| and let her use it twoe or three times, and shee shall be whole. | ||||
| 136. A water to make one fayre. | ||||
| Take flowers of beanes, red roses, wilde tansye*, honysuckles of the hedge, of | ||||
| each like muche, and braye* them a litle, and still them, and with that water | ||||
| washe thy face. | ||||
| 137. For to put away spots in the face. | ||||
| Take frankencens, and water of roses, amd minge them together, and | ||||
| anoynte thy face therewith. Probatum est*. | ||||
| 138. A water for swellinge or disease in the mouth. | ||||
| Take hartes tongue*, woodbine*, bawme leaves*, of each like much, and bray | ||||
| them together, and washe thy mouth therewith, & it shall doe thee good. | ||||
| 139. For sorenes in the breaste. | ||||
| Take hysop*, fenkell*, sugar, of each like muche, horehownde*, neppe*, ʒ | ||||
| of lycoras*, and seeth them in a gallon of water to the thirde parte, & drinke | ||||
| it in the morninge colde, and in the eveninge hot. | ||||
| 140. For one that is broken within. | ||||
| Take rozen*, waxe, frankencens*, masticke*, swines grease, oyle ollife: mingle | ||||
| all these together, then take the powder of commyn*, lynseede*, annys seede*, | ||||
| fennell seede, myxe all these together, and laye a linnen clothe upon it, | ||||
| and pinne it well together, and laye it to the sore place: Allso drinke- | ||||
| stale ale, the roots of matfellin*, the roots of polypodye*, petty consounde*, | ||||
| comferey, and dayseyes, stampe them all together, and drinke them | ||||
| firste & |
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Transcribed by KS and GB