Image 156, fifth book, folio 79b, receipts 53 to 62,
| The fifthe booke. | ||||
| the stone in gravell*: for proofe heereof, when the pisse and the bloude | ||||
| is in the bladder, put a stone into it, it beinge warme, and that stone | ||||
| shall be consumed to gravell, &c. | ||||
| 53. For the stone. | ||||
| Take vervayne, betonye, saxifrage, egrimonye*, of each like much, then | ||||
| stampe* them together, & strayne them with a litle water, this is a good | ||||
| drinke for the stone &c. | ||||
| "54. A medicine agaynst all manner of infirmityes. | ||||
| A piece of foolish | Take & drinke a cupfull of the iuice* of betonye, the first thursday in May, | |||
| witchcraft. | & he shall be delivered from all manner of disease for that yeare." | |||
| 55. For the evill that is in a mans eares. | ||||
| Take the iuice of centorye*, & mingle it with the greace of an eele, or | ||||
| the iuice of rue, or wilde tansye, and put it into the eares, &c. | ||||
| 56. To cause one to goe to stoole*. | ||||
| Take spurge* & bruise it in a vessell, and take cleane well water luke- | ||||
| warme, and laye the spurge in it, and then wringe it three or fowre times, | ||||
| then strayne it through a cloth, and then warme let the sicke drinke | ||||
| thereof, and walke a while after it, and he shall have a siege*, &c. | ||||
| 57. An other for ye same. | ||||
| Take grey sope, & scrape thereof into his pottage, when it is hot, and | ||||
| stirre them togeher tyll the sope be melted, then let him eate of it, | ||||
| and within a while he shall have a seige*, &c. | ||||
| 58. For the canker* in a womans pappes** to kill it. | ||||
| Take the dunge of a white goate, and the iuice of cellondine, and braye* | ||||
| them together, and laye it to the sore pappe, & it will kill the canker: | ||||
| myllisum potatum stringit fluxum sanguinis.* | ||||
| 59. For the megrime*. | ||||
| Take the iuice of primerose leaves, and put it into the nose lying up= | ||||
| righte a while, & then let him turne him grovelinge, & hold an eggeshell | ||||
| under his nose, and there will come out foule matter, and it will cleare | ||||
| the sighte, and steye the ache ever after. | ||||
| 60. For the scabbes on a mans bodye. | ||||
| Take horehounde, cellondine, mugworte, sorrell, delvise, elacampane*, | ||||
| of each like much & seeth* then in fayre water tyll halfe bee wasted, | ||||
| & therewith washe the bodye with it very warme every day tyll hee bee | ||||
| whole, &c. | ||||
| 61. For the red blaynes* in a mans face. | ||||
| Take the roote of borrage, salte, & temper* them together with easyll**, | ||||
| and wash thy face therewith, &c. | ||||
| 62. For ach in a mans ioyntes* or bodye. | ||||
| Take sage, yarrowe, & wormewood, of each a good quantitye, & seth them | ||||
| in wine lees*, & wash thee therewith in the sore places, and laye ye hearbs | ||||
| thereto as hot as thou mayst suffer them when he goeth to bed: & on | ||||
| the morrowe take deares sowet* & melte it in a panne, and take a | ||||
| linnen cloth | ||||
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Transcribed by JM