Image 352, second book, folio 19a, title and receipts 1 to 6
| The seconde booke. fo.19 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| Heere beginneth a true copye of such medecines wherewth | ||||
| Mris Johan Ownsteade daughter unto ye worshipfull | ||||
| Mr John Olliffe alderman of London hath cured and | ||||
| healed many forlorne & deadlye diseases:——- | ||||
| 1. For a sore breaste to rotte* it | ||||
| Take groundes of the strongest ale you can get, & crummes of leavened | ||||
| breade & and red rose leaves dryed & boyle it till it be thicke, then take it of | ||||
| the fire, & worke it with 8 spoonefulls of sallet oyle* & chaunge it 3 times | ||||
| a daye, & it will rot it, breake it, drawe it & heale it. | ||||
| 2. To heale the same | ||||
| Take the iuice* of smallage*, & wheate flower*, the yelke* of an egge, & a | ||||
| little honye, boyle all these together upon a chafeing dish & coales till it | ||||
| be thicke & so implaster*[*] it, & this shall both drawe & heale it fayre, | ||||
| but you must tente* it with the salve to keepe it open so long as you can. | ||||
| 3. A present remedye agaynste the dropsie & all swellings | ||||
| whatsoever they bee, it doth asswage the payne in the | ||||
| synnewes*, it provoketh urine, & causeth a man to be | ||||
| laxative, & cureth the payne in the raynes* that | ||||
| cometh by colde.—————————— | ||||
| waxe | ||||
| Take of the oyle of roses 20 ?, of white |
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| Dwall* 8 ?, of white breade 4 ?, of common leade made into powder | ||||
| 2 ?, of trouches* a kinde of leade 2 ?, of frankencense 2 ?, make | ||||
| those simples into powder, then seeth the juice of dwall with the oyle of | ||||
| roses untill the juice be consumed, then mingle the waxe with ye pouders | ||||
| & beate them in a mortar, & make your oyntemente. | ||||
| 4. An oyntemente for scalles*. | ||||
| Take swines greace* 5 ?, of the oyle of bayes or of the bay tree j ?, | ||||
| of quickesilver sleked* j ?, of waxe washed j ?, of frankencense made | ||||
| into powder j ?, of masticke* j ?, of salte 8 ?, of the juice of planten* as | ||||
| much as you will judge may suffice: make it after this fashion, set ye | ||||
| juice on the fire with the waxe, the oyle of the bay tree & swines greace, & | ||||
| let them all boyle till they bee melted then put thereunto youre salte, | ||||
| frankencense & your masticke, & boyle them all till yor juice be consu- | ||||
| med, then take it from ye fire: & put thereunto your quickesilver | ||||
| sleeked, & so use it. | ||||
| 5. An oyntement for children | ||||
| Take of washed turpentine 4 ?, of washed butter 2 ? of salte j ? of | ||||
| the oyle of roses j ?, of ye juice of pomecitrone* & ye yelkes of 3 eggs, | ||||
| mingle all these together & use it. | ||||
| 6. A composition which ye king Mithradates* did use. | ||||
| Take the bloode | ||||
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