Image 262, seventh book, folio 138b, three unnumbered receipts
| An excelent pouder to eat | ||||
| dead flesh out of any sore | ||||
| what ever | ||||
| Take a quarter of a pint of the strongest | ||||
| a quavite you can get, and a quarter of | ||||
| a pint of the best whitwine vineger you | ||||
| can get, and as much roch allom* as the | ||||
| bignesse of a great wallnutt or somewhat | ||||
| more, and beat it to powder and put | ||||
| them alltogether into an earthen sace pan | ||||
| and so boyle it till all the moyster* be consumed, | ||||
| and when it blubbereth in the boyling it is inough | ||||
| so keep it for your us* you must put a little in | ||||
| the sore wher the dead flesh is or if you desire | ||||
| to make an isue where you would have it lay | ||||
| som of the powder and bind it down hard with | ||||
| a pease on it and it will eat a hole this hath | ||||
| bine proved you must make it into fine powder | ||||
| before you us it; | ||||
| A good watter to kill a ringworme | ||||
| or tetter | ||||
| Take a great handfull of sallendine* leaves and | ||||
| stalks and pound it in a mortar and in the pound= | ||||
| ing put in a quarter of a handfull of cleane bay | ||||
| salt* that never touched fish and when it is pound= | ||||
| ed inough the straine out all the ioyce* and put | ||||
| it in an earthen pipkin* and let it boyle till the | ||||
| scime rise thicke then straine it from the skime | ||||
| and keepe it for your use, when you us any of it | ||||
| poure out a little into a sacer* and warme it and | ||||
| then washe the sore with it | ||||
| For an itch to kill it | ||||
| Take some oyle of bayes and som fresh butter and | ||||
| brimston pounded and sifted through tiffiny* or | ||||
| lane* and som ginger finly powdered, and some | ||||
| elycompaine* roots dryed and grated to powder | ||||
| and mingle all this together and anoynt the party | ||||
| by a good fier and lay them warm to bed do this | ||||
| 3 severall nights at least and shift no lining* next | ||||
| them for a fortnight at least | ||||
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Transcribed by JM and CW