Image 227, seventh book, folio 116a; six unnumbered receipts
| An excellent electuary* for the Catarrhe and | ||||
| lost voice the catarrhe is a distillation from the | ||||
| head upon the lungs wch causeth the cough | ||||
| .fo.116. | ||||
| Take good fatt currants 6 : ozes beate them weall browne sugar Candy | ||||
| 4 : oz |
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| them well together on a gentle fier for a quarter of an hower | ||||
| alwayes stirring it then in a morter make it up into an | ||||
| electuary the Quantity to be taken at a tyme is one Dram | ||||
| or 2 in the morneing fasting | ||||
| To save a woman from a mischaunce* | ||||
| Take a new layd egg & rost it soft into which put crimson silke | ||||
| cut very finely mingle it with the egg supp it downe drinke | ||||
| after it a good cupp of burnt wyne this saved a woman from | ||||
| abortment* | ||||
| A dyet very good for the french pox* | ||||
| R : Guiacum wood* rasped one pound of the barke 3 : oz of comon | ||||
| water 15 : pintes boyle them until the third pt be consumed then | ||||
| put in of Epithimum* halfe an ounce Cardus benedictus* 3 : dram | ||||
| hermodactills* 1 ℥: borage & Campitheos* a like quantity one | ||||
| handfull Licorise halfe an ounce then ad too pintes of white | ||||
| wyne and make it boyle altogether againe to a third part then | ||||
| strayne it and keepe it in a glasse the Quantity wch must bee | ||||
| taken at a tyme is 6 : oz in the morneing fasting and att | ||||
| goeing to bedd at night | ||||
| For cooling of a hott liver : by Dr Hill : | ||||
| R: Sorrell Succory* Endive barly alike quantity of each one | ||||
| handfull licorish stickes three reasons of the sunne* one | ||||
| handfull Annyseedes halfe a handfull seeth* these in a | ||||
| quart of fayre water to a pint then strayne it & drinke of it | ||||
| thrice a weeke at least in the morninge | ||||
| For stopping of the liver | ||||
| R: Ivy berryes Egrenomy Hartstunge liverwort* and the | ||||
| barke of a young ash af* these a like quantity of Polypodinin** | ||||
| of the oake |
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| of this eyther purge brooth or syrrope & soe use it | ||||
| A medicine or Phisicke drink for Cough or | ||||
| Consumption | ||||
| R : six quarts of runninge water and one handful of Maydenhaire | ||||
| and one of liverwort & one of opening rootes* one of reasons of the | ||||
| sunne 20 : blew figgs Annyseeds and licoris of each 2 : oz and | ||||
| 2 : oz of sugar Candy boyle all together untill one halfe be consumed | ||||
| then strayne it & put into an earthen pott and then drinke | ||||
| of it morneing and evening it will help you | ||||
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Transcribed by JW and LF