Image 031, first book, folio 16a, receipts 46 to 52.
| The first booke fo.16. | ||||
| Liber 1 | ||||
| An other for a burninge. 46. | ||||
| First to take away the heate, beate fayre water & sallet* oyle together & | ||||
| therewithall anoynte the place with a feather then take a peice of | ||||
| rusty* bacon, & holde it upon a knives poynte, & fry it with a candle & | ||||
| holde it over a basin of fayre water till it have dropte a great quatity | ||||
| of fatte then take the fat with a spoone or a feather, & put it into a | ||||
| sawcer, & then stampe a quantity of sengweene*, & put unto ye fat | ||||
| & streyne it through a cleane cloth into a cleane vessell & therewith | ||||
| anoynte the burninge with a fether, & it will heale it by gods grace. | ||||
| This medicine was prooved by Mris hingham upon Robert Thorps | ||||
| face which was burned with gunnepowder: | ||||
| To destroy wormes in children. 47. | ||||
| Take the iuice* of red mynte & the gall** of an oxe & streyne them | ||||
| together, & anoynte the stomacke, ye navell & they that be above the | ||||
| stomacke shall avoyde upwarde, & as many as be in the wombe | ||||
| shalbe purged downewarde. | ||||
| To drive out the morphy* from ye inward | ||||
| parts. 48. | ||||
| Take fumitory*[*] water, & drinke it fastinge in the morninge, & drinke | ||||
| not after it in 3 or 4 hoares, then to drive away the morphew from | ||||
| the skinne & outwarde parts: Take a pottle* of fayre running water | ||||
| & one handfull of dayseys rootes & all, an handfull of planten* & roche | ||||
| alome* ye quantitye of a wallnut, seeth all these together from a pottle | ||||
| to a quarte, & wash ye pty well wth this water where the morphewe | ||||
| is: Probatum est.* | ||||
| For the crampe. 49 | ||||
| A garter made of a fine linnen cloth served* with the pouder of brim- | ||||
| stone, quilted flat, & sowed to ye legge will remedy the disease: | ||||
| For the quinsey. 50. | ||||
| Take columbine, fetherfewe*, & a leafe of comferye**, and drinke the iuice | ||||
| thereof with stale* ale. | ||||
| To breake fleagme*. 51. | ||||
| Take a handfull of grounsell, a spoonful of small reasons* & a litle lico- | ||||
| rice sliced, a quantity of sugar candye, & boyle all these together in halfe | ||||
| a pinte of ale or beere & drinke it in ye morning fasting bloude warme. | ||||
| A water to kill a pocke or fistula. 52. | ||||
| In June take a pottle of running water, j handfull of woodbine leaves, as | ||||
| much sage, the like quantity of bilders* alias clovers, as much fetherfew, | ||||
| as much sellondine*. Seeth** all these together until the third parte bee | ||||
| consumed, then strayne ye water, & wringe the iuice from ye hearbes, | ||||
| & put to that lycor* a quarter of a pinte of vineger, & a peice of roch | ||||
| allome as much as a wallnut, & let it boyle 16 or 20 wallops* & then | ||||
| taste it with you tongue, & if it be well it wilbe stiffe, or else you muste put | ||||
| a litle more allome thereto, & reserve this all the yeare. | ||||
| For the |
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Transcribed by JW and LF