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32 for the rume proved: .1.

Take the rootes of cowslippes & with a quille blow it vpp into your nostrells, & it will cause the rume to
come out of your head.

A medicen for the collicke in the stomacke: 2.

Take aredd onyon & cut out the pithe, fill it full of butter, stopp it agayne with the same that was cut off, rost
it in the fier & binde it to the navell hott./

for the could dropsey: .3.

Take of the Iuce of water cresses, of the Iuce of wolworte, of the Iuce of herehounde of ech a pounde, seeth thes to-
gether, put honey to them & make a siroppe. proved./
Vse water cresses & parsely in your porrage for the same dropsey.

An easye purgation for a man or childe. 4.

Take aquantity of seene of Alexandria, & anyseedes, seeth them together in white wyne, or posset ale, after put
suger candy therin & drinke it.

To make awater for corrupte sores full of noysome
humors:: 5.

Take a gallon of smithes water, & thre good handfulls of sage, seeth it from agallon to apottell, then take the herbes
strayne them, & cast them away, then put into the licour thre peny worth of good white copresse, half a quarter
of apounde of rooche allam, & thre sponefulls of honey, let all thes seeth aprety while, scome of the fome if
ther be any, put this water into glasses, & keepe it to washe sores twyse aday therwith

To heal a cutt: 6.

Take turpentine a penyworth, the yelke of an egge, & a quantity of oyle of roses or of oyle olyve, & so muche wheat
flower as will make it thicke to be aplayster, temper thes well together, & lay a playster therof to the cutt; if
the wounde growe to fast, heat alitle honey in asaucer, & spredd it over the playster, & it will mollifie
& heale, by godes help.

for a tissin: 7.

Take apottell of water of fenell rootes, parsely rootes, & succory rootes scraped cleane, then washe them & take out
the pithes of them, take the quantity tye of ahandfull of them all, then take half ahandfull of reysons of the sonne
the stones taken out, six figges shred in the middes, of anyseeds & colliander seeds, apeny worth of eche, & a handfull
of frenche barlye washed & scalded well, apeny worth of licoras, & asmuche hole mace, seeth all thes from a pottell
to a quarte, & so keepe it in aclose pott, vntill you neede drinke it.

To make oyle of mace: 8.

Take an vnce of mace beaten fine, then put the powder therof into asaucer full of sallett oyle, sett it over the fier till
it be warme, well stirred together, then take it of the fier & it is done.

A medicen for the yellow Iaundis. 9.

Take ahandfull of redd nettells croppes, seethe them in a pynte of oyle, & drinke the same beinge strayned thre or
fower dayes together, & by godes grace it helpeth.

Another for the same. 10.

Take aquarte of white wyne, agreat handfull of sallendine leaves, boyle them to apynte, but in winter take the rootes,
& drinke therof warme Eveninge & morninge, & it helpethe

A present remedy for the collicke. 121.

Take pellitory of the wall & in winter some of the rootes withall, drie it on atyle by the fier, & beate it to powder
& put it to ale luke warme & drinke it thre tymes a day: this is proved to helpe.

A suer helpe for a greene wounde 12

Take millefoyle which is much like yerrowe, bruse it well with acleane hand or amorter, & put that in the wound or
cutt, & within five or six dressinges it will heale & close, & to drinke as much bugle stampte in a morter,
& tempered with wyne, & then give it to the sicke to drinke.

To asswage the swellinge of alegg after an eague. 13.

Take vervine, dill, night chard, & sage boyle them all together, & bathe the legg with it & binde the herbes hott to the
legg all night, vse it divers tymes & the swellinge will asswage, proved.

A water very comfortable for the eye sight. 14.

Take of rose leaves, of redd fenell or vervine, of rue, of sallendine, of eyebright, of eche ahandfull; still them
all together, & you shall have agood water for the eye sight. / proved.

To recover eye sight. 15

Take smalledge, rue, fenell, verbine, egremony, bittany, scabeus, avens, hounds tounge, eye bright, pimpernell,
& sage, still all thes together, with alittle vrine of aman child, & fiue graynes, of frankensence, & droppe the
water eche night into the eyes, & the sighte will recover. proved by Robert Whateley.

To cleane a wounde. 16.

Take the white of two or thre new layd egges, beate all well together, & lay it on flaxe or towe & so
apply it to the sore.

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{+} To heale a wounde within nyne dayes

stampe compherey, with barrowes greace, & lay it to the wounde: & it will heale very soddenly.

for rankelinge of a wounde: 2.

stampe leekes heads rootes & all, put therto honey, & wheate flower, mingle all well, lay aplayster therof to the wounde,
it will doe away the payne & swellinge & heale it. proved.

{+} to open a wounde almost healed: 3.
seathe the croppes og grounsell, & swines greace, & lay aplayster therof hott to the wounde.

for could in the brestes: 4.

Take oyle of camamell & aquacomposita mixed together, & agaynst the fier anoynt the brest ^ chafe it therwith.

An oyntment for paynes in the Ioyntes: 4 5.

seethe sothernewoode with wyne, butter, or oyle, till the wyne be wasted, strayne it & make an oyntement therof, good for all
griefes in Ioyntes, thighes, or other partes cominge of could.

Popular is agood oyntement for all soores:/ The fatt about the kidnes of ahare is very good to anoynte the sciatica
or like payne./ Oyle of roses is good to anoynte any disease cominge of heate, & therfore they mixe it in med-
icens to delay heate.

{+} the oyle of a foxe: 6.

The oyle of a foxe is good for great palseyes or like diseases, & for the Reynes of the backe: it is made thus, the body must be
boyled till the flesh fall from the bones, & every bone from the other, gather the flotinge, & that is the oyle.

for payne in the backe. 67

Take thre pyntes of water, one pynte of butter, & ahandfull of sage, seethe all thes g together well, & anoynte the backe
therwith agaynst the fier./

{+} for a dead palsey proved: 78.

Take ayounge female foxe that never had younge, make her fatt with milke & other garbage[?], kill her, wipe the body
with a clothe, but washe it not, take the greace & put it in her belly the intralls taken out, then take coweslypps
primrose leaves & flowers, sage leaves, chopp them together, & stuffe the foxe belly as full as you can & her mouthe,
& sticke some vpon her backe, shoulders & legges, rost her with asofte fier, gather thedroppinge, clarifie it & keepe
it to anoynte the dead place;/ this hathe holpen.

for a consumption, for all diseases: 89.

Take afatt sowe pigge, put her in afayre scillatory, of speere minte, of redd fenell. of redd nepe, of eche a handfull, of
liver woorte, of clary, of eche ahandfull; & nyne dates well & cleane made & the stones pulled out, ahandfull of great
reysons, picke out the stones & washe them cleane in thre or fower waters; half aquarter of an vnce of mace,
& two stickes of sinamon brused in a morter, distill it together with an easy fier, put it in a glasse, & sett it in the sonne
nyne dayes, & so drinke of it at your pleasure.

A powder for them that be shorte winded: 190

Take afoxe lounges washe them in fayer water, lay them in vinegar a night & a daye, drye them in an oven when the bread
is taken out, & beate them into powder, then licoras, anyseedes, fenell seedes of eche a like
quantitye, beate them all into powder & serse them, throughe afine searse, & mingle them with the powder of the
foxes lounges, as longe as you can abide the taste of it, it must be at leaste half as muche of the powder of the foxes
as of all the other powders, take it in the morninge in your meate, drinke, or porrage, & at all howers of the daye,
or as ofte as you liste, the oftener the better, put to it suger candy, & it will take away the taste of the
lounges: proved by the lady of bedford.

A medicen for them that cannot sleepe in sicknes but rave. 11.

Take the Iuce of howselike agood quantitie, as muche womans milke & as muche rose vinegar, or els rose water & vineger
meddell them all together, & wett flaxe in it milke warme, & binde it to the temples of the patient, & also wett
flaxe & put it rownde together like aballe, & binde it to the palmes of the handes & you shall finde great ease./

for those whose leggs or armes be deade. 12

The dead place put into horsedounge, that is of hottest sorte, & ther lett it be an hower with awarme sheete then
wype it cleane, & goe to a warme bed for awhile, lest any could should enter, after beinge in the warme
dounge.

for sore eyes proved: 123.

Take the white of anewe layde egge, streyned from the yelke, beate it to an oyle, & take of the frothe, & therto
put a sponefull of stronge white wyne vineger, & asponefull of rose water, beate all well together, & with alitle
flaxe lay to eche temple, aplayster, but take heed it touch not your eyes, vse it thre or fower tymes to
bedward./ it hath brought them to sight that wer seven weekes blinde.

for redd eyes: 134

Take a newe layd egge or twayne roste them very harde, then take of the shells, cut them in sonder, & take away
the yelkes, & wher the yelkes wer, scrape alittle white coprasse, strayne it throughe clothe into asaucer & make
therof an oyle, wherwith annoynt your eyes to bedward.

for the fluxe. 145.

Take the pissell of aharte drie it in an oven, till it be harde like a rase of ginger, grate asponefull therof, & put
therto asponefull of redd roser dried, & asmuche sinamon, put all this ijto red wyne, & let the sicke drinke it warme
first & last, & at other tymes of neade be,/ this is asoverayne medicen & proved.