Image 69, second book, folio 36a, receipts 239 (contd) to 246
| The Seconde booke fo.36 | ||||
| Liber 2 | ||||
| Take chyneworte*, lycoris*, annyseeds*, & fayre water, seethe** them | ||||
| together to a perfection, & drinke thereof at anye time, the oftener ye | ||||
| better, & allso make pottage* of the hearbes. | ||||
| 240. For a greate heate in a mans legs or els | ||||
| where, the skynne beinge broken. | ||||
| Take rosewater, sallet oyle*, & the white of an egge, beate all together and | ||||
| take of the froth, & anoynte ye sore therewith, then stype* a linnen cloth in the | ||||
| same oyle, & laye it on the sore where ye skyn is of, & in ye greate heate take | ||||
| sheeps sewet, & worke it with rosewater, til it be softe as Maye butter*, | ||||
| then laye thereof upon a clothe, & laye it to ye sore, & it will skinne it, & | ||||
| take awaye the heate. | ||||
| 241. To make a man vomit. | ||||
| Take a peice of the roote of a reede, with a litle oyle olyffe*, vineger, and | ||||
| water, seeth all these together, & drinke thereof. | ||||
| 242. Agaynst ye stingeing & biteinge of an adder. | ||||
| Take radishe rootes, stamp* them & wash ye woundes with ye iuice** thereof, | ||||
| & lay ye bruised rootes unto ye wounde, & dresse it twise a daye. | ||||
| 243. For ye canker* within the bodye. | ||||
| Take dragons*, cut them, & drye them, & make powder of them, & then put | ||||
| them in fayre water one night, & then put out ye water, & seeth it in white | ||||
| wine, & drinke it warme, & you shalbe whole wth thrise using the same: | ||||
| Item take a quarte* of good milke, j ? of danke seede* well beaten to pouder, | ||||
| mingle them well together, & seeth them untill 3 parts be wasted, & drinke | ||||
| thereof lukewarme 6 spoonefulls at once, first & laste*. | ||||
| 244. A pouder for the canker. | ||||
| Take copporis*, roch allome*, sandimar*, vergres*, salarmoniacke*, beate them | ||||
| all together into powder, & put the powder into a vessell with maslme*, and | ||||
| set it on a very softe fire till it be gloweinge hot, then let it coole, & make | ||||
| powder thereof, & it will destroy the canker. | ||||
| 245. Agaynst the canker. | ||||
| Take goates dunge well brayed*, the gall of a bull or an oxe, & a litle honye, | ||||
| beate them all together, & this helpeth being layd to the sore. | ||||
| 246. For ye canker in a womans paps* | ||||
| Take the fenn* or turde of a white goose, the iuice of the iuice of sellendine* | ||||
| well brayed together, & laye it to the canker, & it will kill the canker, & | ||||
| heale the sore. | ||||
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Transcribed by YR and KW