Image 140, fourth book, folio 71b, receipts 86 (contd) to 91
| The fourthe booke | ||||
| Take a pinte of white wine, & a quarte of milke, & make a posset, & take | ||||
| of the curde, & put in as much treacle of geane* as three filbeardes**, & twoe | ||||
| spoonefull of damaske rose water, & three cheves of English saffron in a | ||||
| powder, & a braunch of rosemarye, drinke this all day beginning three | ||||
| howres after your purgation. | ||||
| 87. To make basilicon. | ||||
| Take pigges greace i lb, waxe i lb, di ʒ of turpentine, di ʒ of stonepitche, | ||||
| di ʒ of sheepes tallowe, frankencense di ʒ, then boyle them softe: this | ||||
| basilicon will heale apase*, & bringe fleshe over above if it be bare. | ||||
| 88. A very soveraigne salve for any ache which | ||||
| lyeth in the bone, or in the ioyntes. | ||||
| Take some dunge as soon as it cometh from her, & take runninge water | ||||
| up agaynst the streame, & boyle them together tyll they be thicke, then put | ||||
| thereto a dishe of sweete butter & boyle them well together, & laye this | ||||
| upon the griefe, so hot as you can suffer it, & in one weeke it will be well | ||||
| with God’s grace. | ||||
| 89. A very good potion for a purgation. | ||||
| Take an ownce of [scene?] Alexandre* of the best, an ownce of annys seede, a | ||||
| spoonefull or lesse of coriander seede, an ownce of licoras* cleane scraped, | ||||
| polypodium*, rootes of the oake a reasonable quantitye, the licoras & polypodium | ||||
| must be bruised, when these simples be put together, they will be in quantitye | ||||
| as much as both a mans fistes, all these simples must lye in steepe twenty | ||||
| & fowre howres in running water, wherein you are to Seeth* them beinge to the | ||||
| quantitye of three quartes untill one quarte be wasted, then strayne it | ||||
| through a fayre linnen cloth, & lukewarme drinke thereof fasteinge | ||||
| half a wine pinte about 10 of the clocke, half a wine pinte aboute three | ||||
| of the clocke, half a wine pinte after supper, being as muche, two hours. | ||||
| 90. An excellent unguentum* or plaister for | ||||
| either old sore, or newe, &c. | ||||
| take a quantitye of planten, violet leaves, comferye, sage, brokelime*, smallage, | ||||
| hearbegrace, sinkefoyle,* of each like much, & chop them as small as possible | ||||
| you can, then take |
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| barrowes greace, a quarter of a pynte of sallet oyle, an handfull eyther of | ||||
| barlye meale or oatemeale, & a pinte of stronge ale or beere, & seeth all | ||||
| these together tyll it be so thicke that you may streeke* a plaister thereof, & | ||||
| lay to the sore: & by God’s grace it shall be whole. | ||||
| 91. An excellent medicine & approved for | ||||
| the liver that is wasted. | ||||
| Take two quartes of stronge ale worte* made of barly malte, & halfe a pound | ||||
| of good figges, slyce them, halfe a pounde of reasons of the sunne the stones | ||||
| picked out, an ownce of annys seede*, halfe an ownce of lycoris*, both well | ||||
| bruised, an handfull of hartes tongue* the leaves taken out, three handfulls | ||||
| of liverworte*, a good handfull of lungeworte*, & boyle all these together | ||||
| in an earthen pot with a softe fire from a pottle* to a quarte: then straine | ||||
| it out into | ||||
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