Image 075, second book, folio 39a, receipts 286 (contd) to 290.
| The seconde booke fo. 39 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| Take Mayweede* & drye it, & make powder thereof, drinke it, and | ||||
| it will bringe up the bagge*. | ||||
| 287. For to digeste meate. | ||||
| Take sticados*, alias French mallowes*, rose leaves, mallows, hassell* | ||||
| margerom*, winter saverye*, mints*, wormewood*, sage, rosemary, bay leaves, | ||||
| nutmegs, mace*, crummes* of leavened* breade, dry all these together, & | ||||
| quilt* all them in a bagge, & lay them to the stomacke. | ||||
| 288. For ye fallinge evill*. | ||||
| Take the distilled water of new gathered cherries, & powre* it into the | ||||
| mouth of such as have the falling evill, as ofte as they be troubled | ||||
| therewith, & it will helpe them ¶ Item the wood of misletowe* that | ||||
| groweth upon the oake will helpe ye patiente, if it be hanged aboute | ||||
| his necke. ¶ Allso the tree Agaricke* taken with the sirrup acetotus* | ||||
| cureth the falling evill, & ye imposthumes* of the brayne.¶ Allso the | ||||
| hearbe called restharrowe*, cammocke*, or petty whinne*, the barke of the | ||||
| roote of the sayd hearbe provoketh urine, & breaketh ye stone*, the barke | ||||
| sodden in wine & drinke hath the same vertue. ¶ Item ye same barke boiled | ||||
| in water & vineger, & holden in ye mouth whilest it is warme, cureth ye | ||||
| tooth ache. ¶ Item ye same barke boyled in hony & vineger beinge dronke, | ||||
| prevayleth agaynst ye falling evill. ¶ Item the tender sprigs thereof | ||||
| before they bring forth leaves, preserved & kept in brine & salte are | ||||
| good to be eaten in sallets*, for they provoke urine, & bringe forth the | ||||
| stone & gravell* | ||||
| 289. For ye splene. | ||||
| Take lavender cotton* 6 crops*, as much suthenwood*, of Cardug benedictg* | ||||
| 3 or 4 crops, penyroyall*, & sweet margerome*, of each an handfull, boile | ||||
| all these in a quart of good claret wine unto a pinte, then strayne it, & | ||||
| drinke it with sugar warme , first & laste*. Item take ashen keyes**, | ||||
| drye them & beate them to powder, & drinke it eyther with beere or ale, | ||||
| or with any other drinke, it is profitable for the splene. | ||||
| 290. For ye cough in the lunges. | ||||
| Take hoorehound* with the white blossome, gather it in May or June, you | ||||
| shall finde it in fine sandy grownd that is drye, it is lightly by ye high | ||||
| way side, shred the leaves & stalkes, & still it. Item take longe worte* | ||||
| & still it, bake allso the yong* buds & sprouts of red oken** leaves, being | ||||
| somewhat forward*: allso take ye roots of elacampane** gathered in March, | ||||
| slice them & still them, then of these waters take like much, but lesse | ||||
| of the elacampane water then of the others, take a pinte of all, then | ||||
| put thereunto of white sugar candy di j lb, & let it be set on ye fire in | ||||
| an earthen pot : & let it seeth* very softly by the space of halfe an houre | ||||
| or somewhat more : & then let it coole, & dip therein a licoris* sticke | ||||
| clean scraped, & dip it therein, & licke thereof, & let it goe downe | ||||
| very softly or soakenly*, & you may take it with a spoone allso. | ||||
| A drinke for |
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Transcribed by YR and KW