Inage 273, seventh book, folio 144a, four unnumbered receipts
| for the green sicknes* .fo. 144. | ||||
| Take a pint of pure stone hony* and clarify it very cleer | ||||
| puting therto the |
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| a handfull of |
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| straine them, and so mixe all these together with a good | ||||
| quantity of the powder of peper: and let the patient |
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| every morning and evening drinke therof one sponefull | ||||
| and a halfe blood warme, and fast 3 howers after if she | ||||
| drinke it in her bed and sleep after it it is the better | ||||
| she must not drinke anything in halfe an hower befor | ||||
| she take it at night be sure it is the last thing she taks be | ||||
| for she sleeps you need not make any more of it for this | ||||
| quantity will cure her though it apeare not presently | ||||
| the more she walketh the better good it doth her by halfe | ||||
| this hath holpen* all as ever used it. | ||||
| A medcent* to heal a wen* | ||||
| Make powder of unslaked lime and mixe it with blacke | ||||
| sope* and anoynt any wen ther with and the wen will | ||||
| fall away and when the roote is come out anoynt it | ||||
| with oyle of balme* and it will heale it pefectly | ||||
| Excelent pills that helpes the heade | ||||
| ache brings gladnesse and are good | ||||
| for the sight | ||||
| Take Aloes Epaticum* fower drames, bryanye* mastick* myrh* | ||||
| Asarabaucha*, Scamony* of each a drame: myxe the same | ||||
| made first in powder very fine, with the iuice* of fennell | ||||
| and a little clarified hony to preserve them: take a drame | ||||
| therof: which is the weight of threescore and twelve barly | ||||
| cornes at the most early in the morning and nether eat | ||||
| nor drinke of 3 or 4 howers after, if they be given nyne | ||||
| days together they help marveilously, thy are excelent | ||||
| for all head ache of what maner soever aproved though | ||||
| never so long rooted they purge all umers* they bring glad | ||||
| nesse they are good for the sight they preserve the minde | ||||
| letting or hindering the hoarnines* of haires: they help the | ||||
| swimminge of the head and the megrim* and heales the | ||||
| sounding of the eares but to the weker sort of persons | ||||
| give the lesser quantitie make it into five or six litle | ||||
| round pills or bals and swallow them one after another | ||||
| at one time they are proved to be very good | ||||
| A medison for the bitting of any venemous beast amd | ||||
| venemouse shots of darts or arrows | ||||
| to the wounds healpeth I mean the roots stamped* and aplyed | ||||
| This aplied with and hony |
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| have bine first scarified with a knife | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS