Image 070, second book, folio 36b, receipts 247 to 252.
| The seconde booke | ||||
| 247. To bring out the canker*. | ||||
| Take red sage, make fine powder thereof, then take freshe greace molten, & | ||||
| colde, myxe your powder therewith, & use it. | ||||
| 248. For ye fistulowe* in a womans breaste. | ||||
| Take goates dunge & hony brayed* together, & lay it to ye sore, Item a mans | ||||
| turd burnt & plastered, & layd thereunto, killeth the canker. | ||||
| 249. A remidye or medicine agaynste ye plague. | ||||
| A little camphire* tempered together with rose vineger made of elder | ||||
| flowers, or in the steade of them, of the buddes or leaves of elders at theire | ||||
| goinge abroade*, it is good allso to take in 3 months the roots of Angelica, | ||||
| avens*, elacampane*, setwell*, or gallingall*, bay berries*, or maces*, ye pils* of | ||||
| oranges, lemmons, or cytrons*, likewise to carry in theire hands herbegrace*, | ||||
| or wormewoode* or mynts* sprinkled with rosewater & vineger: In meats | ||||
| & drinks to be very choyse*, & carefull, that they eate & drinke that which | ||||
| is good & wholesome, & not corrupte, that they feede moderatelye, avoidinge | ||||
| all unripe & corrupte fruits, likewise hearbes unwashed & rawe, that theire | ||||
| breade be made of good corne, & not mustye, theire drinke lykewise of good | ||||
| malte, & wholesome fresh water, the contrary whereof is & hath bene | ||||
| a greate furtherannce of the plague. Theire brothes & other nutriments | ||||
| are to be made with sorrell, betanye*, sinkefielde*, succory*, scabias*, unripe | ||||
| grapes, barberries*, oranges, or lemmons, moderate exercise or labour of | ||||
| the body is most conveniente, likewise as much quietnes of minde as may | ||||
| be had, eschewing above all other ye fearefullnes of ye plague: if any body | ||||
| finde his body repleate*, & mistrusteth the encrease** of corrupte humors* | ||||
| within his bodye, it is needfull that hee resorte unto the phisition* to | ||||
| understand whether it be good to purge, or not. | ||||
| 250. A medicine for sore eyes, ye pinne, & ye webbe*. | ||||
| Take an egge, open the crowne, & put out all the meate, then take sengreene*, | ||||
| stampe* it & strayne it with cleane water, & fill the egge with the same | ||||
| water, & put in as much white copporis* as a small pease**, & then set your | ||||
| egge in hot embers, that it may boyle, then skimme it with a feather, then | ||||
| take it of the fire, & when it is colde, drop thereof into your eyes when | ||||
| you goe to bed. | ||||
| 252. To make a man sweate. | ||||
| Make posset* ale with marygolds*, cammamill*, & violets, drinke it hot, & | ||||
| lye downe, & cover you warme. | ||||
| 252. For ye coughe, & payne in ye stomacke. | ||||
| Take beaten avens, saxifrage, time, & dandalyon, of each a quarter | ||||
| & put them | ||||
| of an handfull, & wash them, & bruise* them ⁁ in a skyllet** with a quarte** | ||||
| of ale, & one |
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Transcribed by KW and YR