Image 256, seventh book, Folio 135b, two unnumbered receipts
| An excellent watter for sore eyes | ||||
| Take of the iuce* of Sallandine** the iuce of Haye- | ||||
| maid otherwise called halhouse or ground Ivie* | ||||
| and the iuce of dayses* leaves of each of these | ||||
| iuces a quarter of a pint when it is strained | ||||
| from the herbs being pounded first and a peny | ||||
| worth of sugger and halfe a pint of white rosse | ||||
| water then put in the iuyces* |
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| the sugger being finly powdered in to a glase* all- | ||||
| to gether and shake them in the glase and keep | ||||
| it close stoped and when you us it you must | ||||
| pore out a little and drope it into the sore eye | ||||
| Mother Johnsons receite for any | ||||
| Itching umer* or for Leprosy or | ||||
| such like diseases | ||||
| Take a pound of butter, a little Lemon pill*, halfe |
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| a handfull of houselicke* and a little sage, halfe | ||||
| a handfull of hendonge*, |
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| allom* as a wallnut in bignesse you may beat | ||||
| it small, a spoonfull of flower of brimstone*, a | ||||
| sponfull of ginger small beaten, put all these | ||||
| things into a posnet* with the butter and lett | ||||
| them boyle together till halfe the butter be | ||||
| consumed then straine it through a cloth | ||||
| into a pinte of tare* and so lett it simper** on houre | ||||
| on a soft fier stiring it in the boyling before the | ||||
| straining and after till it be allmost coold | ||||
| when you us it, you must take some of it and | ||||
| anoynt the place well with it by the fier and | ||||
| chainge not your linine* next you in a fortnight | ||||
| at sonnest* and after you are well you must | ||||
| inoynt* your selfe a fortnight at least, keep it | ||||
| close covered | ||||
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