Image 235, seventh book, folio 124a, three unnumbered receipts
| A medison for a tetter* | ||||
| or ringworm. | ||||
| .fo.124. | ||||
| Take some mustard and sallet oyell and | ||||
| som brimston* and mingle them well to- | ||||
| gether and so anoynt the sore place with it | ||||
| the brimston must be beaten into powder and | ||||
| serced* | ||||
| Also take rape oyle and white wine vinneger | ||||
| and beat them well together till it be a thicke | ||||
| oyle and then anoynt the head or any place | ||||
| where the tetter or scurfe is | ||||
| For the whits* a deaseas incident | ||||
| to women | ||||
| Take an ounce of Turpintine and wash it | ||||
| .3. or .4. times in plantin watter or redrosse | ||||
| watter then mingle it with .2. ounces of |
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| concerve* of red roses and half an ounce of whit | ||||
| sanders* and when you have mingled it very | ||||
| well then take as much as the quantity of a | ||||
| nutmeg at night when you goe to bed and | ||||
| the next morning so much more and then | ||||
| rest a day and take it a gaine and so do e- | ||||
| very other day till you are well which will | ||||
| be in short time | ||||
| For the head ach and swelling | ||||
| in the head necke and throte | ||||
| Take a pritty quantity of whit wine vinneger the best | ||||
| you can get and an nutmege grated and put | ||||
| them together and boyle them till they be | ||||
| thicke like a salve and then spread it on the | ||||
| brownest paper you can get and lay it on your | ||||
| neck both behind and all about wher your paine | ||||
| is. this have bine proved by one that hath bin grive- | ||||
| ouse afflicted with swellings in her face and | ||||
| head and necke and hath holpe* her. | ||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF