Image 048, second book, folio 25b, receipts 78 (contd) to 85.
| The seconde booke | ||||
| a cloth & set it on the fire agayne, & put thereunto 2 drams of oyle | ||||
| of spyke*, & so let it boyle a small while, then take it of, & put it into a | ||||
| stone pot, & occupy it as you shall have neede. | ||||
| 79. To breake the stone* | ||||
| Take pellitory of the wall*, saxifrage seedes, parsly seeds, grommell** | ||||
| seeds, bruise them all together, & seeth * them in white wine, from a potle** | ||||
| to a quarte, & drinke it morninge & eveninge luke warme. | ||||
| 80. To lose the stone | ||||
| Take j ? of the oyle of cammamyll*, j ? of the oyle of scorpion** myxe | ||||
| them together & anoynte ye place where the payne is when you go to bed, | ||||
| & chafe* it with your handes untill it be dryed in, if it be winter, have a | ||||
| chafeing dish* & coales, & chafe it tyll it be dryed in, use it about 6 nightes. | ||||
| 81. A present remedy for ye coughe. | ||||
| Take an handfull of wilde tanseye*, a quarter of an ? of cinamen** & sugar | ||||
| eyther of sugar candye, or of other sugar, & seeth them in a quart of ???* | ||||
| worte, from a quart to a pinte, & drinke it evening & morninge. | ||||
| 82. To make a good water for all sike* folke called a quintizan**. | ||||
| Take two gallons of muscadine or malmese 1 ? of dates, 1 ? of reasens* of ye | ||||
| sunne*, 1 ? of nutmegs, 1 ? of mace, 1 ? of annisseeds, 1 ? of coriander | ||||
| seeds, 1 ? of licoris, ? of cinamon, ? of senye*, then take ye dats | ||||
| & reasons, & cut them small, & bruise the spice, & put them all into the | ||||
| muscadine, & so put them into a brasse pot, & still them with a lymbecke* | ||||
| upon a moderate fire, & when ye water waxeth whiter at the last then | ||||
| at the firste, then take no more of it, after that take j lb alepacatrina* | ||||
| & beate it small & put it into ye water. | ||||
| 83. A good salve incarnative* | ||||
| Take of waxe di a lb, of May Butter* di a lb, & set it on ye fire, then take an | ||||
| handfull of planten, di m of ribworte, di m of brookelime, 2 m valerian*, | ||||
| m | ||||
| di⁁ of elder leaves, when they be greene, cut them small & seeth them all | ||||
| together with the waxe & butter till it be ready to strayne it, & put it into | ||||
| dishes, or make small cakes of it as you lyste*. | ||||
| 84. To make a seare cloth* | ||||
| Take 4 lb of fayre molten swines grease, & when it is hot put thereunto three | ||||
| quarters of j lb of rozen*, & when it is molten put thereunto 3 quarters of lb | ||||
| of yellowe waxe shred small, & when it is molten, take ye pot from ye fire, & | ||||
| put thereunto a quarter of j lb; turpentine, & stirre it well till it waxe colde, | ||||
| then take ye whites of 12 egges well beaten, & put ye gleere* of the egges | ||||
| thereunto by litle & litle allwayes stirring it till it be colde, & when it shal be | ||||
| used, take a fayre linnen cloth & melte it, & wet the cloth therein, & lay it to | ||||
| the grieved place, in winter warme, in summer colde. | ||||
| 85. A plaster or pultisse for a rankeinge*, | ||||
| or swellinge. | ||||
| Take venicreeke*, |
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Transcribed by KW and YR