Image 175, fifth book, folio 89a, receipts 189 (contd) to 196.
| The fifthe booke. .fo. 89. | ||||
| it faste, and set it on the fire tyll it be boyled halfe awaye, and still | ||||
| as the scumme riseth, uncover it softelye, & take it awaye, then strayne | ||||
| it into a fayre vessell, and drinke thereof morninge and evening fowre | ||||
| ownces at a time. And then take your guyacum* agayne, & foure quarts | ||||
| more of fayre water, and boyle them tyll one be consumed, & then strayne | ||||
| that as before, & drinke that at your meate, use this one monthe, and | ||||
| you shall be whole. | ||||
| 190. To make a water to heale a tetter* pocke*. | ||||
| Take an ale pinte of fayre planten* water, & halfe an ownce of | ||||
| marberesebelum*, and beate it as fine as flower**, and then take a | ||||
| glasse, and put your water into it, and take your marberesebelum, | ||||
| put it into your water by litle and litle at once, and shake it well | ||||
| together tyll it be all in, and that you can finde nothinge in ye bottome | ||||
| of the glasse, and then take you twoe pennye wayte* of camphire**, | ||||
| but firste take you a fayre morter, and then take an allmonde, and | ||||
| blanche it, and put it into the morter, & beate it small, and take | ||||
| your camphire, and put to the allmonde, and beate them both together, | ||||
| and then put them both into your water, and all to shake them toge- | ||||
| ther, then washe you upon the sores tyll they shall leave itcheinge, | ||||
| and bee so sore that you can scarce touche it, and when you shall | ||||
| washe you, put out some of the water into a dishe by it selfe. | ||||
| 191. For the drye coughe. | ||||
| Take annys seede*, and ashe seedes, and violet seedes, of eache like | ||||
| muche, and beate it to powder, and temper* it with wine as the quan- | ||||
| titye doth require, and seeth* it tyll it waxe thicke, then let ye sicke | ||||
| use it first and laste tyll hee bee whole. | ||||
| 192. To staunch the bloude of a veyne or sinewe. | ||||
| Take the red nettle, and the coole* leafe, and an hot hogges turde mingled | ||||
| well therewith, then laye it on the wounde, and it will staunche it on | ||||
| warrentise.* | ||||
| 193. For one that cannot holde his water. | ||||
| Take the Cleave* of an hogge, and burne it to powder, lettinge it bee | ||||
| very small, & use it in your meate, & you shall soone bee whole. | ||||
| 194. For the falling evill*. | ||||
| Take the bone of a deade man, and make powder thereof, & give it him to | ||||
| drinke, this is the beste medicine therefore. | ||||
| 195. To make a face looke white. | ||||
| Take freshe boares greace, and the white of an egge, & temper them | ||||
| together with a little powder of bayes, & anoynte your face therewith. | ||||
| 196. For the noyse, or husheinge* in the heade. | ||||
| Take a woodcrabbe* roasted, and laye it to the eare in a linnen clothe, as | ||||
| hot as you maye suffer it, or to both your eares, & use this sixe or seaven | ||||
| times, or | ||||
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Transcribed by GB and KS