Image 207, seventh book, Folio 106a, receipts 16 to 23
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| a virgin, his sperme or nature shall not goe from him, neyther sleepinge | ||||
| nor wakeinge, therefore it is sayde to bee good agaynste any pollution in | ||||
| the nighte. | ||||
| 16. Cautarides* applyed made one pisse bloude. | ||||
| A certayne citizen of Padua, havinge Cautharides, that is to saye: Frenche | ||||
| flyes, applyed to one of his knees, did pysse above five ounces of bloude, ye like | ||||
| hapned to one, to whose greate toe of the foote, the same was applyed. Bartholome | ||||
| Montegnanus* , a notable phisitian affirmed this: therfore Cautharides is peri= | ||||
| lous to bee taken both inwarde & outwarde. | ||||
| 17. A straunge vertue of the burre* leafe. | ||||
| The leafe of the greater burre, borne or layde on the top of the heade, doth | ||||
| drawe the matrix* upwarde: But layde under the sole of the foote, it draweth | ||||
| downwarde, which is a notable & excellent remedye agaynste ye suffocations, | ||||
| fallinge, & dispasinge of ye matrix. This Mizaldus* writeth. | ||||
| 18. A salve made of ale helpes sores & aches. | ||||
| Ale sod* tyll it be thicke like a salve, helpes all sores & aches applyed thereto, | ||||
| marvelouslye: A thinge often proved. | ||||
| 19. Dockes makes toughe fleshe to be tender. | ||||
| All kinde of dockes hath this propertye, that what fleshe or meate is sodden* | ||||
| therewith, though they bee never so olde, harde, or toughe , they will become | ||||
| tender & meete* to be eaten: heereuppon it comes that they were so used in | ||||
| the olde time, for that thereby the meate was more sooner concocte* & easlyer | ||||
| disgested, & the wombe more soluble. Mizaldus. | ||||
| 20. To knowe who is infect with the plurisye. | ||||
| If one suspecte himselfe to be infect with the pluresye, let the partye holde | ||||
| in his breath as longe as he can, and then if hee can let his breath goe wthout | ||||
| coughinge, he hath not ye plurisye: If not, he hath ye plurisye, or is in dannger | ||||
| thereof. | ||||
| 21. They that have the quartayne* , shall not have | ||||
| the falling sicknes. | ||||
| Whosoever have the quarteyne ague, shall not bee troubled with the falling | ||||
| sicknes, but if one have the fallinge sicknes first, and after shall have the | ||||
| quartayne ague, the fallinge sicknes will leave him. Hippocrates. | ||||
| 22. Oyle keepes wine from corruptinge. | ||||
| If oyle bee powred upon wine or anye other licor, it makes that the same | ||||
| shall not waxe mustye, nor be corrupted. For it excludes or drives forth all | ||||
| ayre that may breede corruption, onelye with the outwarde ayre of ye oyle, | ||||
| as with a certayne coveringe. Notwithstandinge, all scyrps* or plants, whe- | ||||
| reon oyle is powred or effused, doe putrifye. As Pliny reportes. | ||||
| 23. The coales* of a birch tree healeth woundes. | ||||
| The coales of a birch tree made in powder, & put into a wounde or sore, | ||||
| healeth it perfectlye without any other thinge. It was crediblye tolde mee yt | ||||
| the Muscovites use it much, & esteemes it greatlye. | ||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF