Image 201, sixth book. folio 103a, receipts 146 to 151
| The Sixthe booke fo. 103. | ||||
| 146. An execellente pultise* or plaister to heale anye | ||||
| ulcer in the legge, or to take away ye ach thereof. | ||||
| Take a pinte of fayre springe water, & halfe a pinte of fine wheate flower, | ||||
| firste set your water on the fire, & let it seeth*, then take your wheate flower and | ||||
| put it into your water by litle and litle, continually stirringe it tyll it bee very | ||||
| thicke, then take a good spoonefull of hoggs greace, & put into it, & s[???] stirre it | ||||
| aboute still, and allso put into it a good spoonefull of honye, allways stirringe it | ||||
| tyll it be well medled* together, then take it of the fire, and strike thereof on a | ||||
| clothe, accordinge to the largenes of the griefe*, & lay it to the griefe as | ||||
| hot as may bee suffered, & by ye grace of God it will helpe. | ||||
| 147. An excellent medicine to restore heareinge, allthough | ||||
| ye patient hath bene deafe a longe time. | ||||
| Take twenty or thirtye hens eggs, more or lesse as you shall thinke good, and | ||||
| seeth them on the fire tyll they bee verye harde, then take the yolkes from the | ||||
| whites, and make them as small as may bee possible, then put them into | ||||
| a very cleane panne, & set them over the fire, continuallye stirringe them | ||||
| with some sclice* untyll there come an oyle from them, then seperate the | ||||
| oyle from the egges, and powre it into a small viall to keepe for that | ||||
| purpose: when you have any occasion to use it, take a droppe & put into | ||||
| the patients eare, & so into the other, as neede require, untill he recover | ||||
| his heareinge. | ||||
| 148. An excellente medicine to heal and drye up a | ||||
| runninge or blistered sore. | ||||
| Take halfe a pinte of tarre, and one good spoonefull of freshe hoggs greace, | ||||
| and brimstone to the quantity of an hens egge beaten verye fine, mingle | ||||
| these well together in an earthen panne, & heate them therein, continually | ||||
| stirringe them, till they be readye to boyle, then take them of, and spreade | ||||
| it upon a paper with a feather, and laye it to the sore. | ||||
| 149. An oyntemente to cause one to sleepe. | ||||
| Take the oyle of roses, the oyle of violets, womans milke, wine vinegar, pop- | ||||
| pye seede, & henbane seede, lettice seede, beate them to powder, & mixe | ||||
| them, & let the temples of the heade, the pulses of the handes, and the | ||||
| feete bee anoynted therewith. | ||||
| 150. To increase milke . | ||||
| The hooves of the forefeete of a cowe dryed, & made in fine powder, increaseth milke in | ||||
| nurses, if they eate it in theire pottage, or use it in theire drinke: and being caste on | ||||
| burning coales, the smoke thereof doth kill mise, or at the leaste doth drive them | ||||
| awaye. This Mizaldus* writes of the experimente of a certayne Spaniarde. | ||||
| 151. For weakenes in the raignes*. | ||||
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