Image 272, seventh book, folio 143b, one unnumbered receipt
| An excelent medison for a | ||||
| fistilow* | ||||
| Take the sole lether of an ould showe or more | ||||
| ould showe lether and lay it on a cleane herth | ||||
| a | ||||
| and set it afier with ⁁ fier brand of oke wood | ||||
| to kindle the lether, as sone as they be kindled take | ||||
| the oken stick as cleane as you can leaving non | ||||
| of the coles behind you, and let the sols with | ||||
| the lether burne as long as long as ther will | ||||
| continue any fier in them until they be all | ||||
| burned to ashes, and if ther be any black coles | ||||
| not converted to ashes cast them a way or burn | ||||
| them to ashes but in any case let the lether be | ||||
| very dry and cleane before you burne it | ||||
| and then put to the ashes of the lether as much | ||||
| green copperious* unburned as the quantitie of | ||||
| the ashes also the good coole* which may be found | ||||
| in the smiths coole the quarter waite of the ashes, | ||||
| and of roche allome* half as much as the ashes be |
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| ing grind all these severall by them selvs between tow | ||||
| marble stones as the painter doth his collers in- | ||||
| to very fine powder, so done mingle them all well | ||||
| together and grind them over againe, so done | ||||
| keep the powder in a parchment close, ten or | ||||
| twelve weeks, when you haue occation to use | ||||
| any of it, use it as followeth: take the creame | ||||
| of one cowes milke in the morning which you | ||||
| must fleet* twice and let it stand untill night | ||||
| then fleet the creame of it againe and you shall | ||||
| find under the creame a greene watter which | ||||
| you must take away then take a sponfull of the | ||||
| creame and lay it on a trencher, and to every spone | ||||
| full of the creame put as much of the foresaid | ||||
| powder as you can take up between your finger | ||||
| and your thumb, and disolve it thorowly* in the cream | ||||
| with a knife |
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| fine linen cloth almost an inch long and put it into the | ||||
| hole of the sore, you must let the tente be but an inch long | ||||
| at the most though the woond be never so deep it will | ||||
| serch to the botton if the tent be to long it will make it | ||||
| come out in pushes therfore you must be carefull | ||||
| this is also good to hele any deep woond and hath | ||||
| bine often proved |
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Transcribed by GB and KS