The seconde booke

The Seconde Booke

Title; Medecines wherewith Mistress Johan Dunsteade, daughter of Mr John Olliffe alderman of London hath cured and healed many diseases

  • Image 352, folio 19a, title and remedies 1-6 (note; this image was missed in the original digitisation and added later, hence the different numbering
  • Image 36 folio 19b; 7. An other composition wch ye sayd Mithridates used; 8. A confecton of suger, & veneger; 9. The oyle of the sweete almondes
  • Image 37; folio 20a; 10. The vertue of the oyle of sweet almondes; 11. for ye coughe; 12. for the raignes of ye backe; 13. An other for the same; 14. An other for ye same; 15. for ye ache in ye rigge; 16. For a stiche
  • Image 38; folio 20 b; 17. For a flesh canker; 18. To make the oyle of Exeter; 19. To make oyle of lawrell; 20. To make oyle of roses; 21. To make oyle sambute; 22. To make oyle of allmondes 23. To make a salve for woundes yt be cankered, & doe burne, & to bring them to theire kinde 24. For the breaste, brayne, & all other evills, in man.
  • Image 39; folio 21a; 25.for all manner swellinge of ye belly, of ye raignes, of ye dropsye, or for the water betweene ye skinne, and ye fleshe; 26. For the bone ache; 27. A salve for all poxes; 28. To make one to make water to pisse; 29. Oyle of swallowes for sinnewes that are shruken
  • Image 40; folio 21b; 30. For all manner sores; 31 For ye megrine, dropsye & fever in the heade; 32. For akeinge of an hollowe toothe; 33. To make teeth stand faste; 34. For ye perilous coughe; 35. To heale or slake ye pennans: or goute; 36. For one yt hath lost his speeche in his sickenes
  • Image 41; folio 22a; 37 To staunch ye bleeding of a wounde; 38 For spitting bloud by a fall or Bruise; 39 To know whether one haveing ye fluxe may live or not; 40 To helpe him that spitteth Bloude; 41 For a woman in travell with childe; 42 To staunch blood in a veine; 43 For a vayne evill smitten; 44 For one that pysseth bloude; 45 For an ache in the huckle, or in other places
  • Image 42; folio 22b; 46 For one that hath no taste in meate nor drinke; 47 for one beinge weakened in nature in avoyding ye daunger of a consumption followeinge
  • Image 43; folio 23a; 48 For one that hath surfected (?) and cannot dygeste; 49 To heale a white scale; 50 a soveraigne medicinefor ye plague or any other infectious disease that doth oppresse ye hart or stomacke; 51 To make unguentum album
  • Image 44; folio 23b; 52 To make diaculum; 53 An implaster of bay berries; 54 Medicine for an ache. Mr Horners; 55 A salve for any sore or wounde
  • Image 45; folio 24 a; 56 A water to washe any olde sore or wounde; 57 A pultysse for a swellinge; 58 ASalve or oyntement for all manner of aches in ye flesh and bones; 59 A pultysse for anye swellinge; 60 A salve for all sores
  • Image 46; folio 24 b; 61 For the collicke, stone, & strangurye; 62 for ye migryme; 63 for a bruise; 64 To breake and heale a fellon; 65 For ye same; 66 for the biteing of a mad dog; 67 To keepe the sore that is bitten of a mad dog from rankling; 68 To kill wormes in the bellye
  • Image 47; folio 25 a; 69 An other for ye same; 70 For sore eyes; 71 For the same; 72 For red & sore eyes; 73 For sore & runninge eyes; 74 For him that is poysoned with meate or drinke & swelleth; 75 An other for the same; 76 A blacke salve for a wounde or bruise; 77 To make oyle of roses; 78 To make a salve
  • Image 48; folio 25 b; 79 To breake the stone; 80 To lose the stone; 81 A present remedy for ye coughe; 82 To make a good water for all sike folke called a quintizan; 83 A good salve incarnative; 84 To make a seare clothe ; 85 A plaster or pultisse for a rankeinge or swelling
  • Image 49 folio 26 a; 86 For a burne or skaldinge; 87 milke water for any heate in ye face; 88 For one that is broken; 89 For an itche; 90 An other for ye same; 91 For ye heate of ye liver
  • Image 50; folio 26 b; 92 For wormes in the hands; 93 A medicine for a sore or a bruise; 94 A medicine for ye sickenes, namely ye plague; 95 For ye collicke & stone; 96 A for an ache; 97 An Egiptiane? medicine for ye collicke & stone; 98 How to make balme water of ye best sort
  • Image 51: folio 27a; 99 A clenser & an healer & will cease the akeing of woundes that be rankeled; 100 for a mans head that is broke. 101 For wounds that stinke, & are miskepte; 102 For deafenes; 103 An other for the same; 104 Agaynst the colde of the head, the soreness of the necke & shoulders, the dullnes of the sight, the mygrine, want of stomarke to meate, all which cometh of the colde ?rume: 105 For the white scaule;
  • Image 52: folio 27b; 106 For the palsy in the hands: 107 For the same; 108 An other for the same; 109 For the palsy that maketh a man to tremble; 110 for the palsy in any member; 111 An other for the same; 112 An other for the same.
  • Image 53: folio 28a; 113, for the scabe & itche; 114 To draw out & to heale the pricke of a nayle or thorne; 115 To draw a nayle or thorne that is in any place of the body; 116 For an inward bruise; 117 To staunch blood in any cut or wounde; 118 For one that is benumbed of his armes, legs, or other lymmes; 119 For one that is benumbed partly through the palsy; 120 For him that hath lost his speech through the palsy, so that his mouth is drawne to his eare.
  • Image 54: folio 28b, 121 For the throate being streight & sore; 122 For all manner quinsies & sicknes in the throate; 123 This medicine passeth all; 124 For blasting the face with evill or corrupte ayre; 125 For all uncomes, of unkinde heate, blaynes, swellings, & 126 To doe away ye ??? in the face, 127 To doe away a fellon in the face; 128 For swellinge of the cheeks; 129 For pymples in the face.
  • Image 55: folio 29a, 130 To take fleshy spots, or bloud spots awaye; 131 For the yellow iaundishe; 132 For the canker upon the bodye, & the festered gowte; 133 For the same; 134 For a thorne in hand & foot; 135 For the same; 136 For a sore breaste; 137 To make one pysse that cannot; 138 To make one pisse quicklye.
  • Image 56: folio 29b, 139 For the ach under the side; 140 For the ague in a womans breaste; 141 To staunch bleeding at the nose; 142 To staunch bleeding without any medicine: 143 An ointment for the raignes; 144 For the ache in the back; 145 For the ache in anye lymme; 146 For too much sweateing; 147 For him who cannot sweate; 148 For the elves cake or ague cake
  • Image 57: folio 30a, 149 For the same; 150 For the same; 151 For the collicke & stone; 152 An other for the same; 153 For the same; 154 For the same; 155 For the same; 156 An other for the same; 157 For the stone in the bladder.
  • Image 58: folio 30b, 158 For the stone; 159 If you knowe not if the stone be in the bladder, or in the raygnes; 160 For the stromgurion in younge & olde; 161 For the same; 162 For payne in the yarde by makeing water; 163 For one that cannot holde his water; 164 For one that pisseth bloude; 165 For one that pisseth his kinde.
  • Image 59, folio 31a 166 For them that cannot pisse; 167 For the swelling of the yarde; 168 For the swelling of the cods; 169 For scalding with a common woman; 170 For burning ex coitu; 171 For the scalding of the yard, called the ape ganle; 172 For the emralds; 173 If the paps of the emralds be greate; 174 For poyson.
  • Image 60, folio 31b; 175 For the swelling of the bellye; 176 For all manner of vermine; 177 For the biteing of an adder; 178 For one that hath bene bitten with a mad dogge; 179 For one that hath dronke poison; 180 For the biteing of an eyren; 181 For all manner swellings in hands, legs, & feete; 182 For the same; 183 For bloude fallen into the legs; 184 For foote swollen with travel.
  • Image 61; folio 32 a; 185 To make softe handed, & fayre; 186 For ache in the thighs & feete; 187. For akeing thighes & stiffe synews; 188 For the stifnes of the hands, legs, & feete; 189 A generall plaster for all sore legge; 190 To coole a sore shynne, or leg that aketh; 191 For numnes, for sleeping hands, & feete; 192 For ringworms; 193 For olde sores that be broken out , & not perfectlye healed; 194 For cornes in the feete;
  • Image 62; folio 32 b; 195 To kill kyrnells; 196 For womens kyrnells, & servent wheals; 197 For wartes; 198 To know whether the gowte be hot or cold; 199 For the hot gowte; 200 For the cold gowte; 201 For all manner of gowtes; 202 Of festred gowtes
  • Image 63; folio 33 a; 203 To make powder for the festred gowtes; 204 For the bone showe, & all manner of aches; 205 For all manner of aches; 206 For the crampe; 207 For the bone ache in any place; 208 For Sciatica passio; 209 For the same; 210 Laxatives
  • Image 64; folio 33 b; 211 Laxatives for one that is costive; 212 A suppositorye; 213 For to stoppe the fluxe; 214 To stoppe the bloudye fluxe
  • Image 65; folio 34 a; 215 To staunche the bleeding of a wounde; 216 To make unguentum album; 217 To make the oyle of roses; 218 To make oyle roset; 219 To make unguentum pretiosum; 220 To make narbon to heale all manner sores and boyles; 221 To make sanguinem veneris
  • Image 66; folio 34b; 222 To make pulverem grecum; 223 To make oleum ciriacum; 224 To make a rawe treate that healeth well; 225 Unguentum nervale for dry sinews; 226 To make unguentum geneste for the akeing of the flesh, bones, and splene; 227 To make unguentum veni mecum for stabs, morphews, & such like; 228 A drinke for the pestilence
  • Image 67; folio 35 a; 229 For the same; 230 For the same; 231 To drawe the pestilent sore from one place to another; 232 A medicine for a skalding or a burning though it be with gunpouder
  • Image 68; folio 35 b; 233 To drawe & heale the pricke of a nayle or thorne; 234 for a burning ague; 235 to heale the pestilence , & to drawe out the venyme; 236 A plaster to ripe a botch comeing of the pestilence; 237 For the same; 238 For the same; 239 For the chyne coughe
  • Image 69; folio 36 a; 240; For a greate heate in a mans legs or els where, the shynne beinge broken; 241 To make a man vomit; 242 Agaynst the stingeing & biteinge of an adder; 243 For the canker within the bodye; 244 A pouder for the canker; 245 Agaynst the canker; 246 For the canker in a womans paps
  • Image 70; folio 36 b; 247 To bring out the canker; 248 For the fistulowe in a womans breaste; 249 A remidye or medicine against the plague; 250 For sore eyes, the pinne, & the webbe; 251 To make a man sweate; 252 For the coughe, & payne in the stomache
  • Image 71; folio 37 a; 253 To make pottage for your lunges; 254 A medicine to make one sleepe; 255 For the pinne & webbe in the eyes; 256 For deafenes; 257 For the same; 258 For a sore mouthe; 259 For the canker in the mouthe
  • Image 72; folio 37 b; 260 For the wormes & impostunation in the mawe; 261 A plaster for the same; 262 To restore a nurses milke, if thee be drye; 263 For the perilous coughe; 264 For the drye coughe; 265 For the chine coughe; 266 For him that hath the yerke; 267 For lacke of winde, & sickenes of the coughe; 268 To helpe the tissicke
  • Image 73; folio 38a; 269 For shortenes of winde; 270 For shortenes of the breath through the cough or stopping; 271 A drinke to destroy 5 evills in man or woman; 272 For one that spitteth bloud by a bruise; 273 For the swellinge in the stomache; 274 An other plaster for the same; 275 For the heate in the stomache; 276 To digeste meate well; 277 For one that hath no stomache to his meate
  • Image 74; folio 38 b; 278 For all sicknes of the liver; 279 For the welbeinge of the liver; 280 For the liver; 281 A drinke to keep one moyst in the mouth; 282 For a greate thirste; 283 For the payne under the side; 284 For akeinge in the side; 285 For all imposthunes in the side; 286 To make the imposthune bag come upwarde
  • Image 75; folio 39 a; 287 For to digeste meate; 288 For the fallinge evill; 289 For the splene;  290 For the cough in the lunges
  • Image 76; folio 39 b; 291 A drinke for the same; 292 For the cough, & consumption of the lungs; 293 For one that is taken in a planet; 294 A medicine for the mother in women; 295 A powder for the collicke & stone; 296 For the numing of the raygnes
  • Image 77; folio 40 a; 297 For chafeinge behind the eares or els where; 298 A plaster for the backe; 299 For the backe; 300 For the same; 301 A medicine for the backe; 302 For the same; 303 For to make Mistres Evans oyle for all aches; 304 A plaster for the same
  • Image 78; folio 40 b; 305 For the bloudye fluxe; 306 A proved water for the stone; 307 The order to use the sayde water; 308 To remove superfluent hayre; 309 For the weakenes of the synews; 310 For any bruise, inflammation, any sore; 311 For a strayne in the sinews
  • Image 79; folio 41 a; 312 medicine for all manner of sores; 313 To make the balme water; 314 To make rosemary water; 315 To make cynamon water; 316 to make cynamon water an other waye
  • Image 80; folio 41 b; 317 An other way to make cynamon water; 318 For a scalde heade; 319 An excellent medicine for the backe; 320 For the same; 321 A glister; 322 A powder for the stone & collicke, to be taken after the glister
  • Image 81, folio 42a, 323. A medicine for the stone; 324. Another medicine for the stone; 325. An other for the same; 326.A posset to cause one to make water; 327. To cause one to make water presentlye; 328. A medicine for the gowte; 329. A receipte to strengthen the backe.
  • Image 82, Folio 42b, 330. A receipt to make a purge of ruberbe and scene; 331. An other receipte to purge; 332. To kill the ranker in the mouthe; 333. Elizabeth Boyle her receipte; 334. To make plague water.
  • Image 83; folio. 43A; 335. A powder for the collicke and stone; 336. To make a seare clothe; 337. ointement for sinews that be shranke, and for an ague; 338. To kill stomacke wormes; 339. For melancholye; 340. For the weakenes of the stomacke; 341. A pill to purge the heade, and a preparative against the plague.
  • Image 84, Folio 43b; 342. For a salteflome [?] face; 343. To make oximele; 344. The oyle of swallowes.
  • Image 85; folio 44a; 345. A medicine for the heate in ones face; 346. A water made with mercury sublimatum for to heale new and olde sores, and allso to kill the itche ringworms, and tetters and such like; 347. For the roughnes in face and hands, and to smooth the skinne; 348. For the spleene.
  • Image 86; folio 44b; 349. For the toothache; 350. for the itching humor; 351. For the falling of the fundamente; 352. for an ague; 353. To make oximell, and simplex; 354. To withstand cold taking in the feete; 355. Mr. Baltropp his medicine.
  • Image 87; folio 45 a. 356. A receipte of the oyle hypericon, called in English St. Johns warte; 357. The vertue of this oyle; 358. A medicine for a burne; 359. A drinke agaynst any infections as well to be used for the sound and sicke.
  • Image 88, Folio 45b 360. A purge; 361. To make angelica water and wormwood water; 362. A water for all sores new and olde, for the canker in the mouthe, for the rymme and the webbe in the eyes: pymples in the nose; 363. For a white scald; 364. An unguentum or salve to heale any ulcer, or any sore legge, etc.
  • Image 89; folio 46a; 365. A medicine for the eyes; 366. To make rosa solis; 367. To make aqua composite.
  • Images 90 and 91, Folios 46b and 47a, Table of the firste and seconde booke. Heere endeth the booke of Mrs Oronsteads [?] medicines: [Alphabetical index: A-C and C-O]
  • Images 92 and 93, folios 47b and 48a [Alphabetical index continues: O-T and T-Z]