Image 218, seventh book, Folio 111b, three unnumbered receipts
| To purge brasse | ||||
| Take litle peeces of Brasse in litle shivers* | ||||
| & with salt make stratum substratum* in a | ||||
| pipkin lite* the pipkin well & put it to | ||||
| Calcyne* for xij howers & when you gett | ||||
| it out of the pipkin put in strong vineger | ||||
| in the which is dissolved sal |
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| comon salt Tartar in powder as much as | ||||
| is sufficient in the which vineger dip the brasse | ||||
| 9 : tymes and alwayes put it in the fyer then | ||||
| use it | ||||
| For the Toothach | ||||
| R: of Opium and Castoreum* a like quantity | ||||
| according to discretion cut them small and | ||||
| incorporate them with vineger and make | ||||
| a past* thereof then take soe much as a | ||||
| pease* and put it into the tooth twill** presently | ||||
| help you, the Castoreum quallifyes the Opium | ||||
| if the tooth be rotten pull it out | ||||
| For the Anphire* | ||||
| R: the oyle of yelkes of Eggs oyle of Turpentyne | ||||
| a like quantity :2: Dramms, oyle of masticke | ||||
| bassam* of India a like quantity :2: ouncis | ||||
| oyle of Spike*[*] :2: Dramme: Frankincinse 2: | ||||
| ounces mingle all in a new pipkin let them | ||||
| boyle a litle while together and with this | ||||
| balsam warme make a plaister on leather | ||||
| apply it change every 2: dayes, the patient | ||||
| must keepe his bed lying on his backe and with | ||||
| Gods help he will recover in 3: weeks. |
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Transcribed by LF and JW