Image 236, seventh book, folio 124b, three unnumbered receipts
| My Lady Windoms receit | ||||
| for clenseing the blood and | ||||
| stoping at the stomacke and | ||||
| for the green sicknesse* | ||||
| Take of Aloes Succatrina, Sinnamon,and Myrrhe,* | ||||
| of each a dramme, Cloves, Mace, Lignum Aloes, Masticke* | ||||
| Bolearmoniacke*, of each a dramme, beat these severally | ||||
| by themselves, take a pennyworth of Saffron and add to | ||||
| these: when they be beaten very firme Searce*them through | ||||
| a fine clothe and so take a sixpeny weight |
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| with a little white wine, mixe it in a spoone and take it | ||||
| This powder must be taken every other day and | ||||
| the next day you must give her a wine glas of | ||||
| white wine wherine halfe an Orring* rind and | ||||
| all hath bine* steeped in all night and then let | ||||
| her us* exercise or walke but that day she takes | ||||
| the powder she must keepe her selfe Warme | ||||
| A composition of great vertue | ||||
| against all ulceres, and sores. | ||||
| Take oyle of vitrioll* that is perfect, as much as you | ||||
| will, and put it in a glasse, with as much oyle of | ||||
| tarter made by dissolution, and so let it stand ten | ||||
| dayes: then take on scruple* of that, and one ounce of pure | ||||
| aquavite, and mixe them together, and therewith | ||||
| wash the hollow ulsers, and they will heale in short | ||||
| time. It helpeth any crude kind of scabbe or sore that | ||||
| is caused of the evill quality or nature. | ||||
| To make a Desolutive plaster of great vertue | ||||
| this plaister is to D |
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| if it be laid thereon very hotte, and when it is | ||||
| cold, to lay on another, and this you shall doe | ||||
| till the hardnesse be resolved: and it is made | ||||
| in this order | ||||
| Take common ashes, that are well burnt and white, and | ||||
| finely searced*, one pound, Clay beaten in fine powder, halfe | ||||
| a pound, carab* one ounce, mixe all these in an earthen dish on | ||||
| the fire, with oyle of rosses, in form of a liquid unguent, and that | ||||
| yee shall lay uppon the place greeved*, as hotte as the patient | ||||
| can suffer it, and chainge it morning and evening, and yee | ||||
| shall se it worke a marvillous effect. More over, when | ||||
| the |
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Transcribed by LF and JW