Image 221, seventh book, folio 113a, three unnumbered receipts
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| Eyes when the Cataract is | ||||
| taken away | ||||
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| Take red rose leaves both kinds of ?* bantyme** | ||||
| beate them both in a morter then |
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| water with barley meale take it from the fyre | ||||
| and set it to coole then put in the whites of | ||||
| 2 : eggs and a litle Allome* lay this Cataplasme | ||||
| wise* in the eye changing it every tenne dayes | ||||
| stopping the other eye let the sycke body | ||||
| be in his bedd on his backe for 14 : dayes | ||||
| together. | ||||
| A rare distilled oyle for many infirmityes | ||||
| R: of Turpentyne one pound gumme heder* a halfe a | ||||
| pound clarified honney 6 : ounces olibanum* : 2 : ozes | ||||
| Veriuce* one pound distill it and keepe it this oyle | ||||
| did never fayle me in these cures the Sciatica | ||||
| which is the payne of the hucklebone* it is a | ||||
| present remedy for all cold diseases it helps | ||||
| madnes it is good for the memory it clarifyes | ||||
| the sight put one drop into the eye every morning | ||||
| it cures the Collicke* takeing five dropps in wyne | ||||
| or broth or anoynting the ??* use it for | ||||
| the Sciatica first anoynt the place with it | ||||
| then have a litle bagge with warme wood | ||||
| ashes |
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| can endure it in distilling this oyle you | ||||
| must ?* the glasses and with a gentle | ||||
| fyer there will come oyle of three severall* | ||||
| colours the first white the second red the third | ||||
| blacke you may mingle them together for | ||||
| thay |
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| An oyntment for the scabb* | ||||
| Take Turpentyne wash it 8 : several tymes | ||||
| Almond butter a like quantity 2 : ounces oyle | ||||
| of bayes & Comon salt alike quantity one | ||||
| ounce Storax* Calamint : 1 : Dram : & anoynt | ||||
| every 2 : dayes goeing to bedd | ||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF