The Sixth Booke

The Sixth Booke

• Image 179, folio 91 a, Title, ‘Heere beginneth an excellente booke of playsters, salves, diet drinkes, purgations, potions, &c’ 1. Paracelsus his playster called implaistrum fodicationum Paracelsi …translated of the Latine into Englishe by Thomas Potter Esquire: 1583.
• Image 180, folio 91 b, 2. The vertues of this implaister out of Paracelsus; 3. An oyntement Triapharnicon, for heate, burnings, itches, and fellons, etc.
• Image 181, folio 92a, 4. The oyle of red dogge; 5. A water for a canker, or to washe any sore olde or newe, & to stay an hot, burninge, or scalding humor; 6. A salve for all sores, both to heale and drawe.
• Image 182, folio 92b, 7. For teeth that are loose; 8. To make aquavitae, or water of life; 9. For the fluxe; 10. To make a woman to have her flowers; 11. To stente them, or cease them; 12. To heal a sciatica; 13. A potion against burnt cholerike humours
• Image 183, folio 93a, 14. Flos unguentorum is thus made; the sixthe dyet drinke; 16. A water for ulcer, or fistula, or canker to washe the sore withall.
• Image 184, folio 93b, 17. The best dyet drinke for canker, fistula, or olde ulcer; 18. Howe to make oyle out of waxes, etc.
• Image 185, folio 94a, 19. An other waye of draweinge the oyle of waxe; 20. To breake the Stumme of the eye.
• Image 186, folio 94b; 21. For prickeing in a ioyte with needle or thorne; 22. For the chingles; 23. For women that purge overmuch after childebearing; 24. For a woman that hath too much of her flowers; 25. An other for the same; 26. An other; 27. An other; 28. For a fowle, & perilous olde sore, or a canker in a legge, or such a place; 29. An other
• Note; folio 95 (both a and b) is missing, presumably lost in the Victorian re-binding.
• Image 187, folio 96a, 49. For a sore throate; 50. For stoppeing of ye stomache with hoarsenes; 51. For all manner is sickenes in ye stomach; 52. For a man that spittoth bloude; 53. For The stone in the raignes; 54. To make a salve, a clensor, and an healer of all manner of woundes; 55. To clense a mans eyes; 56. To make the stomache in temper; 57. A most pretious medicine for ye stone
• Image 188, folio 96b, 58. For the toothe ache, 59. For wateringe eyes, 60. Pyonye seede; 61. To make brighte eyes; 62. For the dropsye; 63. For the morphene proved by the olde Lorde Darcye; 64. For the rumminge of the raignes; 65. For the howling of the lunges
• Image 189, folio  97a, 66. A colde syrroppe for the heate of the liver; 67. To make Barlye water; 68. For The newe ague; 69. For ache in the raignes; 70. For the same; 71. To clense a woman after shee be delivered of childe; 72. To make a very fine dregge.
• Image 190, folio 97b; 73. A gellye for them ye be brought lowe and cannot eate meate; 74. To make a comfortable syrrop of roses; 75. To make gratia Dei; 76. An oyntement for ye palsye
• Image 191, folio 98a, 77. A good water for the stone; 78. A very good & a sweete lippe salve; 79. For the ague; 80. For any manner of ache, a noble playster, called the blacke playster
• Image 192, folio 98b, 81. For such as are called paralitici; 82. For the tooth ache; 83. An other for the same; 84. To make teeth white, 85. A powder for the stone; 86. For the swelling in legges, or feete
• Image 193, folio 99a, 87. For a canker or other sore; 88. Agaynste the infection of the plague; 89. When the sore doth appear, 90. A drink for the plague; 91. For scabbes; 92. For scabbye hands; 93. For the emraldes
• Image 194, folio 99b, 94. To make a man to vomit; 95. To make a man couragious; 96. For broken bones, legges or armes; 97. For swelling of the stomache; 98. To clense the stomache; 99. A good plaister for the stomache; 100. For the eyes; 101. For milke ye is waxed harde in a womans breaste
• Image 195, folio 100a, 102. For the bitinge of a Spinnercoppe or an ettercoppe; 103. For the biteing of an eyren, or of a serpent; 104. For a woman that hath loste her mylke; 105. For a woman that hath too much milke, 106. To drawe out iron; or thorne; 107. For a kibe, or an homenole on ye heele; 108. For one that is benumbed; 109. For the bloude that standes in anye parte of man
• Image 196, folio 100b, 110. Against any kinde of ache; 111. For the opening of the pipes, 112. For the laske; 113. For the sciatica passio; 114. For the ague; 115. For the stronge ague
• Image 197, folio 101a, 116. For him that cannot pisse; 117. For him that cannot holde his water; 118. For man or woman that hath the pestilence; 119. For the stone; 120. For the tooth ache; 121. For the collicke; 122. For the goute; 123. To make a man to pisse
• Image 198, folio 101b, 124. For the stone; 125. To breake fleame; 126. For the stone; 127. To make teeth fall out; 128. For the stone; 129. To have out a thorne; 130. A medicine for the heade ache
• Image 199, folio 102a, 131. For him that is sansefleamed; 132. For the blacke iaundyce; 133. To make oyle of roses; 134. For deade fleshe; 135. For womens breastes that are for want of suckeinge; 136. A water to make one fayre; 137. For to put away spots in the face; 138. A water for the swelling or disease in the mouth; 139. For sornes in the breaste; 140. For one that is broken within.
• Image 200,  folio 102b, 141. For swellinge, or any felon; 142. For milke that may not pass out of ye paps; 143. A dyet; 144. For a consumption; 145. A good medicine for the tissicke
• Image 201, folio 103a,146. A pultise or plaister for the legge; 147.  To restore heareinge; 148. To heale and drye up a running or blistered sore; 149. An oyntemente to cause one to sleepe; 150. To increase milke; 151. For weakenes in the raiynes
• Image 202, folio 103b,152. A good dregge for gravell in ye raynes; For the gowte in the raiynes; 156. For burning with wilde fire; 157. For noli me tangere; 158. For the figge; 161. An oyntemente for a cut, wownde, &c.
• Image 203, folio 104a, The table of the Sixthe Booke  (alphabetical index A-M)
• Image 204, Folio 104b,  The table of the Sixthe Booke continued (alphabetical index N-Z)