Image 206, seventh book, folio 105b, Receipts 10 to 15.
| The seaventh booke. | ||||
| Make powder of unslackt lime *, and mixe it with blacke sope, and anoynte | ||||
| anye werme therewith, and the werme will fall awaye, and when ye roote | ||||
| is come out, anoynte it with oyle of balme, & it will heale it perfectlye. | ||||
| 10. To heale a bruise or hurte. | ||||
| The iuice* of mullen leaves (of some called hedgetaper, & of some lugwort)** | ||||
| put to any parte that is bruised, or that hath had a stroke, & the stamped | ||||
| leaves thereof: then put upon the same, & tyed fast on with a clothe, if you | ||||
| let it lye so a whole daye & nighte unremoved, it will heale it finelye: yea, | ||||
| though it bee a wounde, but the sore must be firste washt with white | ||||
| wine a little warmed, & the iuice & the leaves must be put to it, and you | ||||
| will marvell at the effecte. Mizaldus* had this of one that proved it, and | ||||
| I allso have tryed it to bee excellente. | ||||
| 11. To draw out wood or iron out of the fleshe. | ||||
| If anye wood or iron bee deepe in the fleshe, and cannot well be gotten out, | ||||
| dippe a tente* in the iuice of valerian, & dippe it into the wounde or sore as | ||||
| deepe as you can, and tye the hearbe valerian stamped upon the same wth | ||||
| some linnen clothe, that it remove not awaye: & this meanes, the wood, | ||||
| iron, or other thinge whatsoever, will not onelye bee drawne foorthe, but | ||||
| allso the wounde will be healed. Mizaldus writes it upon the reporte | ||||
| of an Italian. Alexis* allso affirmed it. | ||||
| 12. To preserve ye teeth from rottinge. | ||||
| In the morninge if salte be holden in the mouth, under the tongue, untill | ||||
| it melte or consume into water, & the teeth being rubbed therewith, it will | ||||
| preserve the teethe safe & sounde: & it will keepe them from rottinge, & | ||||
| that they shall not be wormeaten: a thinge often proved true. | ||||
| 13. To drive awaye infected ayres. | ||||
| Manye stinkeinge things doe drive awaye the contagious & pestiferous | ||||
| ayre, as Castorum, Galbanum, Sagapenum, brimstone*(all which are to | ||||
| be had at the apothecaries) the smoke of burned leather, and of hornes, | ||||
| and espetiallye the smell of gunnepowder. For sayth Lemnius *, the whole | ||||
| citye of Tornace* infected with the plague, the whole of the towre or castle | ||||
| there, caused theire gunnes to be layde and levelled at the citye charged | ||||
| with gunnepowder, without pellets or shotte: and then morninge and | ||||
| eveninge in the twyelighte, they shot of the sayde peeces or gunnes, so | ||||
| that throughe the stinkeinge smell of the sayde smoke, & the greate and | ||||
| violent noyse of the gunnes, the infectious and contagious ayre was | ||||
| quite put awaye, & the citye delivered from the plague. | ||||
| 14. To make good aumber*. | ||||
| Anye kind of aumber beinge sodden* in the grease of a sowe that gives | ||||
| sucke to young pigs is not only thereby the clearer but allso much ye better. | ||||
| 15. Agaynst pollution in the nighte. | ||||
| If anye carry upon him the seede of sorrell, gathered of a boye, beinge | ||||
| a virgin, |
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Transcribed by LF and JW