-

Facsimile

Transcription

Status: Page Status Needs Review

Palsie coming or disease coming from abundance of
humour.

To take away the heate and shakeing of
an ague.

Take red wine and milk of each alike quanitity distill
them in a limbick and drink it with Ale or beer. It will be
as strong as aqua composita.

For the biting of a dog.
Take [Bugle] the yolke of an egg and wheate flower temper them
altogether but let the [bugle] be choped as smale as you can and
stamp 20 hasill nutts in like manner and with a spoonefull
of english honey temper them altogether and make it as
shall have need of it.

For the stitch,
Take set wall and grate it a good quantitie and half
as much powder of ginger put thereto 6 or 7 spooone full
of the water of [scabions] shake it and the powder well
together drinke it warme and lay you downe to sleeepe
if you can.

For the cough and to helpe a weake stomack.
Boyle the leaves or Rosemary in fair running water
and drink it with your wine.

For the fluxe.
Boyle Rosmary leaves in strong and put it to the
navell in a Linnen bagg

For thirst and unnaturall heate in the
stomacke.

Put of Rosemary water boyled into the wine that they drink

For a could
[...] ale or beare an hower before dinner or supper
m[...]iter lyme with Costomary or [fmr] maiorame or
pa[...]rosry

To cooke your wine in summer
Put in your wine bovage or strabe[...] leaves.

Take [scabions] M. ℥ sage hysope mints and wormwood of
each M4. bruise them all together a little and seeth them
together in a pottle of stale Ale till it come to a quarte
then straine it and put in your sugar and spices

A restorative for one that is in a Consumption
Take an ould Cocke [flea] him quick and quarter him in 4
pieces cut of his head and kepe the blood of him and brake
his bones and soe put him in the pott and the blood withall
stop the mouth of the pott close with paste and put that pott
into a grater full of water and let them boyle 4 howers
but see that you have a pott or a chafer and the fier full
or warme water to reserve it that seeth not dry when
the cocke is well sodden take the gravie of it which
wilbe like a Jelly when it is could but it is best to
be eaten hott you may take it with other meates and
drinke it in your small drinkes.

For him that is [filone] broken
Take [Elecampane] sheeps tallow and wheate branne make
a plaster thereof and lay it to the sore as hot as you may
suffer if trusse him up with a cloth and give him the
powder of an herb which is called dogstarre in his
pottage ale or wine in the morning fasting let this bee
used 9 dayes and hee shall [mendz].

To restore them to strength that are weake
Take of hulled barley [8/8] boile it in a pipkin very well
and then put it into a dish till it be could and like
sodden wheate for [frumsentie] take also the pith of
halfe an oxe and a piece of a neck of [ zerale] or of a neck
of mutton halfe a rabett or hald a capon or of a hen at
a time for any of these will serve and put the [...]
for much water as will boyle them when they bee boiled
and skumed, put in a pinte of claret [...]
the bigness of the [...] thicken it with half a doz

Notes and Questions

Please sign in to write a note for this page

Annie12

In the recipe "For the fluxe", there is a gap after the word "strong" which seems like perhaps it should have a noun.