Image 226 seventh book, Folio 115b, five unnumbered receipts
| An approved good oyntmt*: for the Flux | ||||
| scalding & burning Aches bruises squatts* | ||||
| & such like things & for greene wounds | ||||
| Take 2: pounds of May butter and of Lunary Minor* one | ||||
| handfull Solomons seale a handfull Mouseare* a handfull | ||||
| plantyne* a handfull stampe** all these together small & | ||||
| put them into the butter and let them boyle a hower | ||||
| gently sciminge* it with a feather then strayne it | ||||
| & keepe for yor* use | ||||
| Another way to make it | ||||
| Take a gallon of Creame & boyle it untill it comes to | ||||
| an oyle which as it riseth with the boyling must bee | ||||
| taken of with a spoone then use the oyle as abovesayd | ||||
| for the flux take the brynes* of a Nutt* of that oyle | ||||
| & before the fyer anoynt the lower part of the | ||||
| Reynes* stroking always downward it cures | ||||
| To help to Deliver a woman | ||||
| Take the skynne of a Viper |
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| she wilbe Delivered Quickly & easily | ||||
| R: Turpentyne Venitie* Cera alba* rose |
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| pitch* 3 ℥s Juice of Betony* Camphire* of each ½ a [?] | ||||
| a litle honey let all be boyled together till the Juice | ||||
| be consumed then ad Frakincense* Masticke* | ||||
| Sandaracke* ana 1 ℥ make of this a stiffe oyntmt : | ||||
| then put it into viniger make rowles use it twice a | ||||
| day upon searcloth* it cures without payne | ||||
| A rare vinigar agt the Plague | ||||
| Take Masticke 1 ℥ long pepper ℥ di cardamoms ℥ di :red | ||||
| roses Dry orange flowers or orange flower water ana | ||||
| :2 ℥s saffron ℥ di: beate all these together put them into | ||||
| a glasse with 4: pintes of excellent wyne Vinigar and | ||||
| set it in the sunne 8: dayes stirring it 5: or 6: tymes a | ||||
| day untill it be done in the tyme of the plague you must | ||||
| dipp some lynnen cloth or spunge in it & smell to it: bath | ||||
| now and then the temples palmes of the hands & | ||||
| nostrills this I have given with good * |
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Transcribed by LF and JW