Image 193, sixth book, folio 99a, receipts 86 (contd) to 93
| The sixthe booke. .fo.99. | ||||
| Take water cresses, mallowes*, smallage*, and rewe*, of each an handfull, | ||||
| cut them small, then take the dregges* of ale, the thickest thereof, then | ||||
| take halfe a sawcer full of wheate [?] branne, as much of rye breade | ||||
| crummes, & as much oatemeale, then seeth* it all together tyll it be thicke, | ||||
| then make a plaister thereof, and laye it to the swellinge, & it will helpe, | ||||
| renewe your plaister twise a daye, morninge and eveninge. | ||||
| 87. A gentle, good, & a sure medicine | ||||
| for a canker or other sore. | ||||
| Take of salte gemme* made in powder, and temper** it with a dishe of butter, | ||||
| and put it in a boxe, & so keepe it, the longer the better | ||||
| 88. Agaynste the infection of the plague. | ||||
| Take the water of scabeas*, and tha water of bettanye*, and as much good | ||||
| treacle of geane* as the quantity of twoe hazel nutts, and a good spoone- | ||||
| full of stronge vinegar, and beate them all together, and give ye sicke | ||||
| to drinke, and it will put the sicknes from his hearte, and drive out the | ||||
| sore, so that you suffer not the sicke to sleepe in seaven or eighte howres | ||||
| after he hath dronke the medicine, and if you let him bleede, he shall | ||||
| bee in a greate deale ye lesse ieopardye*, & the sooner whole. | ||||
| 89. This medicine is good when | ||||
| the sore doth appeare. | ||||
| Take an handfull of red bramble leaves, as much of elder leaves, stampe* | ||||
| them together, and put thereto a good spoonefull and more of strong mustarde, | ||||
| beate them all together, and make a playster thereof, and laye it to ye sore, | ||||
| and it will bothe drawe it fayre, and heale it. | ||||
| 90. A drinke for the plague. | ||||
| Take fetherfewe*, wormewoode*, mugworte*, marigoldes, scabeas*, mints, of each | ||||
| halfe an handfull, stampe them, and strayne them with stale ale, and let | ||||
| the sicke drinke thereof nine spoonefulls at one time, and if the sicke pson | ||||
| drinke it betimes*, it will drive it from his hearte. | ||||
| 91. For scabbes. | ||||
| Take roote of elacampana*, seeth it, and then stampe it with May butter*, | ||||
| and powder of brimstone, then strayne it, & anoynte thee therewith. | ||||
| Probatum est. | ||||
| 92. For scabbye handes. | ||||
| Make powder of oyster shells, swines greace, and quickesilver* brayed | ||||
| together, and anoynte thy handes. | ||||
| 93. For the emraldes*. | ||||
| Take a stoole with a siege*, and lay twoe tyles in the fire, then take ye tiles, | ||||
| and laye under the stoole, then take powder of myrrhe, and incense, & | ||||
| cast on the tyle, & set thee over the smoke with thy bare fundamente*, | ||||
| if yu have |
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Transcribed by KS and GB