Image 255, seventh book, Folio 135a, five unnumbered receipts
| for a bourne* an excelent | ||||
| medicen .fo. 135. | ||||
| Take halfe a pound of barrowhoggs greace unsett fsop | ||||
| ground ivie alhouse perry winkle parslew, houselick* | ||||
| of each halfe a handfull a little dears shuett* let the herbs | ||||
| be chopt or pound and so boyled with the grease and then | ||||
| put in the suett it must boyle a quarter of an hour at the | ||||
| least and so keep it for your use you must straine it | ||||
| An aproved powder for a cough | ||||
| learned of mr Hobs | ||||
| Take corriander seeds prepared; and Anniseeds of each | ||||
| tow ounces; Liquorish one ounce; Sinamon halfe an | ||||
| ounce; cloves and mace, of each half a drame; white | ||||
| sugas* candy sixe ounces; beat all these together into | ||||
| a grosse powder and take of it as much as you can | ||||
| take up between your tow for fingers* and your thumb | ||||
| as often as you need if you take of it .3. or .4. times | ||||
| a day or as often as you will it is the better | ||||
| An excelent poultise for a swelling or | ||||
| a spraine aproved | ||||
| Take a peny lofe of wheat |
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| and cut of all the crust round and bottom and top | ||||
| and put in some faire watter in a posnet* and let | ||||
| it boyle and then put in the crume of the lofe hole | ||||
| as it is and so lett it boyle a good whill and when | ||||
| it is boyled longe inough take the bread out of | ||||
| or oyle of ca= | the watter and mingle it with oyle of lillies[*]* and | |||
| mamill | so make it a soft poultis and lay it to the sore | |||
| place as hott as it may be soffered | ||||
| An excelent receite for the gout | ||||
| taught by a gentleman at the bull | ||||
| head tavern in Southwarke | ||||
| Take the herbidge that lyeth in the bagg nearest the maw | ||||
| of an ox and distill it, and take the watter thereof, and | ||||
| apply very hott once every three houers for .48 houers./ | ||||
| Probatum est | ||||
| Another if the foresaid cannot be had . | ||||
| Take turnepps, and boyle them very well, and sqeeze | ||||
| the watter out of them gently and strew a little bay | ||||
| salt uppon them and apply it hot to the place a greeved | ||||
| and it will give ease. | ||||
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