Image 152, fifth book, folio 77b, Receipts 23 to 29
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| 23. For one that cannot heare. | ||||
| Take grounde ivye & braye* it, and take the iuice** of it, and being a litle | ||||
| warmed, put thereof divers times into your eares. | ||||
| 24. To revive one that is fallen wth ye fallinge sicknes*. | ||||
| Take the iuice of rue, half an ownce, of castor one dram, & mixe them | ||||
| together, and in the licor bath litle lockes of wooll, and put them into | ||||
| the iuice, and you shall see a presente effecte. | ||||
| 25. For the falling sickenes. | ||||
| Drinke the water of the planten* sixeteene or seaventeene dayes continueinge, | ||||
| & it healeth quickelye the falling sickenes: It is allso good agaynste inca= | ||||
| tation, if it be dronke fowre or five dayes continuallye. | ||||
| 26. For the pylles. | ||||
| Take maryegoldes, daffadillies, white violets, white lillies, halfe an handfull | ||||
| of time, seaven braunches of rosemarye, five leaves of hartes tongue, five | ||||
| red mintes, halfe an handfull of clivers*, an handfull of liverworte, five | ||||
| braunches of greene broome, three toppes of wormewood, five braunches | ||||
| of hearbe grace, seaven braunches of clarye, of neppe* five leaves, three | ||||
| braunches of blowe columbines, seaven leaves of succorye*, five leaves | ||||
| of endiffe*, seeth** all these in a pottle*** of ale tyll halfe be consumed, and | ||||
| then strayne it, & put to it an ownce of suger, & drinke thereof firste and | ||||
| last: then take a red clothe, and wet it in a quantitye of it, and laye it to ye place. | ||||
| 27.For the emraldes* a soveraigne medicine. | ||||
| Take hartes tongue* and drye it on a tile stone that it burne not, and make | ||||
| thereof a powder, & put it in a small linnen clothe, & hot agaynste the | ||||
| fire as may be suffered, clappe that cloth with the powder on ye fun= | ||||
| damente: use this medicine, & he shall be whole on warrentise* | ||||
| "28. For a |
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| Take the leaves of the roots of celondine, & braye it, & lay it to ye warnell | ||||
| when it is cleane picked, & it shall have it cleane on warrentise." | ||||
| "29. To take away ye gowte and ye payne thereof. | ||||
| Take a little whelpe* that hath begone** a litle while to see, being the fattest | ||||
| that you can get, and scalde* it as you do a pigge, & take out the garbage** | ||||
| out of the one side of it: Then take a good handfull of nettles, & stampe | ||||
| with three ownces of brimstone, & fowre yolkes of egges, & fowre ownces | ||||
| of turpentine, corporate* all together, and put it into the whelpes bellye, and | ||||
| sewe it faste that the composition* come not forthe, then roste it with a | ||||
| temperate fire, & reserve the grease that cometh thereof, and with that | ||||
| anoynte the place of the gowte, for it will bringe greate ease both to the | ||||
| synewes, & muscles, & doe away the crampe, &c: Allso for the like ef= | ||||
| fecte, take a new pot, & fill it halfe full with oyle, & the other halfe | ||||
| with good | ||||
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Transcribed by JM