Image 222, seventh book, Folio 113b, three receipts.
| Mr Wilds receait* for Sore eys | ||||
| Take half a pint of the best whit wine and as | ||||
| much redd rose water, of lapis Calaminaris* and | ||||
| Lapis Tutie* of |
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| the poynt of a knife rost an egg hard and take | ||||
| out the yolke and then cutt the white and the | ||||
| shell as small as may be, then put the liquor and | ||||
| all to-gether and lett them simper over a chafing | ||||
| and drop som | dish of coles one houre and a quarter and be | |||
| of it in the eys | sure they boyle not then take it of and strayn | |||
| it well through three severall* cloths. | ||||
| Take the white of 2 new layd eggs and put | ||||
| if you stir | them into a dish and put therto a little Lapis | |||
| it to long | tutia* then stire them with an Allom ston | |||
| it will grow | till they grow thick then spred it on some | |||
| thin againe | fine flaxe in tow severall plasters and lay | |||
| them to the eys tell they be hott and then | ||||
| take them a way and lay on fresh 3 or fouer | ||||
| tims on after an other the party lying on | ||||
| his back on a bed | ||||
| Mrs Godards receit for sore eyes | ||||
| Take a quart of pure fayer watter and | ||||
| as much |
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| on a groat and put it in the water being | ||||
| first beaten to very fine powder then | ||||
| shake the glase or botle you put it in | ||||
| till it be all on a froth and when it is | ||||
| well setled then drop som of the clearest | ||||
| in to the eys and wett fin rags and lay | ||||
| them on the eys | ||||
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Transcribed by LF and JW