Image 077, second book, folio 40a, receipts 297 to 304.
| The seconde booke fo. 40 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| 297. For chafeinge behind ye eares or elswhere. | ||||
| Take an old fine linnen clothe, & dip it in aqua composita*, & dry it suddenlye | ||||
| agaynst the fire, & so dryed, make linte thereof, & lay it unto ye chafeing, | ||||
| and it will helpe & heale the same. | ||||
| 298. A plaster for the backe. | ||||
| Take a quantity of the best Venice turpentine*, a quantity of sallet** oyle, a | ||||
| quantity of the queenes sealing waxe*, & melte the waxe upon the fire, | ||||
| stirring it that it boyle not, then stirre in the sallet oyle, & ye turpentine, | ||||
| & 2 grated nutmegs mingled therewith, boyle all these till it be like a salve, | ||||
| then spread it upon ye rough side of a piece of leather, & so lay it to ye raignes* | ||||
| of the backe : use this salve, what time you take the drinke for ye running | ||||
| of the raignes. | ||||
| 299. For ye backe. | ||||
| Take the foreparte of a breast of veale, & boyle it in a pottle* of milke | ||||
| till it be verye tender, then take out ye veale, & put into ye milke knot | ||||
| grasse*, neppe*, & wilde archangell*, of each an handfull, & boyle it halfe | ||||
| awaye, & use a quantity of this morning & evening, with a litle suger, | ||||
| or white sugar candye. | ||||
| 300. For the same. | ||||
| Take Venice turpentine mixt with red rose water, & use a quantitye | ||||
| of this every morninge fasteinge. | ||||
| 301. A medicine for ye backe. | ||||
| Take a pinte of blacke snayles that creepe without shels, they muste be | ||||
| gathered in May, & with halfe a pinte of bay salte*, put them into an | ||||
| earthen pot close stopte*, & put them under the ground 9 dayes, the take | ||||
| them up, strayne them, put them in a glasse, set them in the sunne, and | ||||
| use this oyntmente at your neede. | ||||
| 302. For the same. | ||||
| Take one quarte* of red wine, one good quinch*, the flowers of a pomegranet, | ||||
| 20 cloves, a quantity of sinamon bruised, boyle all these together to a pinte, | ||||
| then strayne it & drinke it first & laste : yt is, evening & morninge. | ||||
| 303. For to make Mistres Evans oyle for all aches. | ||||
| Take a pottle of fine sallet oyle, j ? of large mace, j ? of cloves, an handfull | ||||
| of rosemarye tops, seeth* all these upon a very soft fire in the oyle, & when | ||||
| the rosemary hath lost his colour, & is harde, then take it of the fire, & use | ||||
| it, & ye cloves & maces will serve for other uses agayne. | ||||
| 304. A plaster for the same. | ||||
| Take greene mellilot* & make a plaster of it on a linnen cloth, & anoynt the | ||||
| a ache with the oyle abovewritten, & laye ye plaster on ye same, use this | ||||
| morning & eveninge for the space of three dayes if neede bee. | ||||
| For ye bloudye |
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