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For the goute.
Take a goode quantitye of new cowe dung [&] boyle ytt
with as much wine vinneger as maye bring ytt boyled, to
gether to a reasonable thicknes to be applyed poultesse wise ; rounde
the parte grived or troebled: ytt will in twise dressing
laying ytt to, as hoate as the partye canne suffer ytt;
extinguishe the payne [&] take awaye the swelling.
a very approved medecine for the pocke or measele
good for old or youg
Take a quart of alle or beire sett yt on the fire in a skillett and putt
therto a good handfull of fenell and 6 or 7 figg scraped and cutt in
pieces 2 good spoonfull of anyseedes and a litle safron putt all thes to
the drinke and let them seeth togither untill the liquor be more
then halfe consu^med and in the seething skyme yt cleane and straine
yt into a bason and when yt is cold make a possett of the same
drinke and use to drinke hereof often and yt will cause the disease
to come forth will
an especiall drinke for the rume and to
Clense the stomack and bloud
Take yealow docke roote scrape away the outermost rind then
Slice them tak a good handfull therof and putt it into a gallon of
new ale so sone as it is tonned and when it hath donne working
drinke a good draught therof fasting every mornnig and fast
a good while after and this doe for the space of one weeke once in a
month or oftener yf you see cause
To make sorrop of roses
Take a pound of damaske roses and pull the same and putt therunto
a quarte of faire water then take halfe your roses and boyl them tell
thay are white then take them outt and putt in the rest to the
water and boyle the same till thay ar white also then take them outt
and putt into the watar th that remanneth one pound and a haulfe
of suger finely beaten then boyle them togither keping itt very
cleanly skimed till it come to a sirrope
for a man that is broken
Take a hare and burne him all to pouder and straw it upon all his
meat and he shall bee whole
For the stone and strangullion
Take the seedes of brome and make pouder of it and drinke it with
white wine or racked renish wine proued by the ladi of Arundell
An excellent medecine for the Chinne coughe
Take a handfull or 2 of new hay mad mad before midsom^er and 2
handfull of bay sallt and seeth them both in running water and
then the solee of the paciente feet be herin soked and bached and he
shall be hole proued by m^r Paris