Image 268, seventh book, folio 141b, three unnumbered receipts
| A precious thing to brake | ||||
| the stone* | ||||
| Take the roots of red netles and make | ||||
| them in powder and drinke a sponfull of | ||||
| the powder in a draught of whit wine | ||||
| something warme, and it will break the | ||||
| stone thought it be never so great and | ||||
| that with speed; use it every day untill the | ||||
| stone and the gravill be all broken and consumed | ||||
| A thing of small price and great vertue proved | ||||
| A sure medison* to take away | ||||
| the greefe and eldest paine of the | ||||
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| it must be that | Take the Iuce* of ground Ivie*, and snufe* it up | |||
| Ivie that hath | into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer, It | |||
| white ribs | purgeth the head mervailously and taks away | |||
| the greatest and eldest paine therof that is | ||||
| This medison is worth golde though it be | ||||
| very cheap I have known them that have had | ||||
| mervilous paine in there head the space of | ||||
| a dosen years and that intollerable and this | ||||
| hath helped them presently, and never had | ||||
| the paine since they tooke this medicine | ||||
| To cure perfitly the blacke | ||||
| Fandies* | ||||
| Take earth wormes slit and cleansed and washt | ||||
| from there slimy and earthly matter, half a | ||||
| dosen of them at the least and cut them in | ||||
| peeces or choped and a good messe of pottag or | ||||
| watter gruell mad with Otemeale and watter | ||||
| the worms being boyled in it, so much every | ||||
| day eaten, for the space of twelve dayes or | ||||
| longer: no doubt it will perfitly cure them | ||||
| though it be never so longe rooted or though | ||||
| it be thought past cure, or else if you gather | ||||
| them in march or any time when you can get | ||||
| them and clense them as before and drye them | ||||
| and make powder of them, and take a sponefull | ||||
| in any drinke a litte draught doth likewise | ||||
| perfectly cure the same: this is very true and hath | ||||
| bine often proved it hath helpte some in.4.or.5. | ||||
| dayes | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW