Image 261, seventh book, folio 138a, three unnumbered receipts
| An excelent watter to wash the .fo.138 | ||||
| scabs or tetters* before you us this | ||||
| oyntment | ||||
| Take a dozen orringes cut them in peeces and put | ||||
| them in a gallon of watter and an ounce of mer |
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| cury sublimat* to it, put it in a great glase which | ||||
| must not be full by a good deale and so sett your | ||||
| glase in a kettle of watter and so lett it boyle well | ||||
| the watter and orriges* must boyle a pretie whille | ||||
| before you put in the mercury then put it in and | ||||
| so let them boyle all together till you thinke it well | ||||
| then take it of the fire and pore out the clearest | ||||
| and keepe it for your use, you must wash the | ||||
| scaby place a little with the watter and then wipe | ||||
| it dry and then anoynet* the sore places with | ||||
| the oyntment; | ||||
| A very good poultise for any | ||||
| swelling what so ever | ||||
| Take a pinte of milke and set it on the fire | ||||
| then take as much crums of white bread | ||||
| as will make it thick inough for a poultis | ||||
| when it is sod* inough take it of the fire | ||||
| and put in an ounce of turpintine which | ||||
| must be washed first with plantin* watter | ||||
| and one spunfull of linceed oyle and stire | ||||
| it well together and so lay it to the swel- | ||||
| ling as hot as may be suffered | ||||
| An aproved medson for | ||||
| a sprain | ||||
| Take the white of a egge and beat it well with | ||||
| the strongest hot watter you can get and then | ||||
| put in a little fine wheat flower and so aplye | ||||
| it to the place sprained could and roll it with | ||||
| a roller; | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW