Image 119, fourth book, folio 61a, receipts 13 (contd.) to 17.
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| into which thou wilt strayne it, & it will loose the better when it is colde, | ||||
| and with a feather skymme awaye the fome. | ||||
| 14. Salus populi (an oyntment) wch maketh good skinne } | ||||
| in 2 nightes, & it healeth rageings & fissures on } | ||||
| hands or lippes, and on all other members: this } | ||||
| oyntement no good surgeon may wante. } | ||||
| Take selendine* 2. m heyhow, hardehoue, hallhoue, tonnehoue, or medinewort | ||||
| (which is all one hearbe) m. j. bray them small as greene sawce, & then take | ||||
| weathers* tallowe cleane molten .lb. j. oyle of roses lb ss. Melte them together | ||||
| & boyle the hearbes therein, untill that the hearbes sinke to the bottome, and | ||||
| begin to looke somewhat blacke, & then strayne it, & keepe this oyntement | ||||
| to thy use: this oyntement is harde, & therefore when thou wilt occupy | ||||
| it, put thereof into a spoone, & melte it over the coales, & whereas need | ||||
| is anoynte therewith, but understand that in an olde sore, anoynte round | ||||
| aboute the sore, but not the sore: that is to say thereas the humor of the | ||||
| sore scaldes the fleshe, or els whereas there ariseth small heate blayns, | ||||
| white, blacke, or blewe, or red, washe it first with warme water, and | ||||
| then easily drye it, & then anoynte the place that is inflamed or scalded, | ||||
| or full of litle blaynes, this ointemente is greatlye to be esteemed. | ||||
| 15. Sanguis Veneris* most pretious* | ||||
| Take the bloude of a mayde of 19 yeares which never bare child, though | ||||
| that shee be corrupte no force*: & when thou wilt take ye bloude, looke that the | ||||
| moon bee in the full & in virgine*, & the sunne in piscibus*. lb ss aloes*, mirrhe*, | ||||
| sanguis draconis*, powder of alconet* an oz. j. small beaten to powder, & put | ||||
| it therein, boyle all these together untill they be red as bloude, & it will be | ||||
| red thoughe ye boyle it not, & it is no greate matter whether you doe boyle | ||||
| it or no, & ye may keepe it in glasse or pewter, this oyntement resolveth | ||||
| & consumeth the moysture of all woundes, ulcus*, plagues, & festers wthout | ||||
| bitinge, it openeth, & filleth full of fleshe, & dryeth fayre & skinneth* with= | ||||
| out styptycyl*, wherefore in hot imposthumes* with a litle matter it is good | ||||
| in the beginninge, for it is colde, & drye, allso it comforteth synnews & ioynts*: | ||||
| allso in narrowe & deepe woundes of dagger or arrowe, or of any small | ||||
| thinge it is the beste & most pretious* of all medicines, allso put it with | ||||
| strippys* of carpe, or line*, in deepe holes with implaistrum* narbone* upon | ||||
| it, it healeth & purgeth the sore from the grownde upwarde, & defendeth | ||||
| the wounde from swellinge, & this manner of makeinge is most pretious, | ||||
| but there is lighter wayes which are both good & true, as followeth. | ||||
| 16. An other waye. | ||||
| Take ℥ j. of the pouder of alkennet*, & put it into a quarte of oyle of roses, | ||||
| & set it on a softe fire untill it boyle, & be as red as bloude, els put in | ||||
| more pouder untill that it prove red enough, & use this as ye do ye other. | ||||
| 17. Implaistrum* metriatysse* | ||||
| Take the leaves of mallowes, & of wormewoode, of each a greate m. | ||||
| seeth them in water untill they be tender as butter, & then lay them | ||||
| on a boarde or table, that the water may runne out from them, & then | ||||
| choppe them | ||||
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Transcribed by ALB and RMS