Royal College of Physicians: A Book of surgerie and phisick of Mistress Honore Henslow (MS688)

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For to staye the Humor of the Heade Take Cumen seede and beate itt smale as yow can shearche ytt throughe a clothe: then take as muche oxe galle as may well wett itt: then laye itt in a clothe and laye itt to the nape of the Necke To Drye upp the Humor of the eyes Take a newe laide egge, and poore out all sauinge the water in the bottome, then fill ytt withe faire water then putt a littell white coperis and goode peece of Sugar candee into ytt and boyle itt togeather and skime ytt then droppe itt into youre eyes. For a Impostume in the throte Take a goode quantitye of figges and fowre or five toppes of rosemarye and putt itt in a quarte of mauncee, and boyle itt togeather from a quarte to a pynte, then drinke itt and gargen itt in youre throte, and now and then eate a figge, ytt is verie goode for ytt. For an Impostume in the eares Take garlicke and roste itt in the fyer, then putt itt into the eare, and use itt vntill the Impostume dothe breake, then laye oyles of roses to itt, if nott laye Sallett oyle to itt, and take the woole of a [blacke] sheepe, and laye to itt, and keepe itt verie warme.

A watter too ffasten teethe Take, rosemarie, rewe, and sage, and seethe them in runninge water untille halfe bee sodde awaye: then putt to ytt Bowlarmene dreggans bloude, burnte allome, gommasticke and hunnye so much as wille make the liquore verie sweete: this will fasten. and keepe them verie white: probatum For the kinges euelle in the throte Take Broome blossomes and stille them and drinke euerie moreninge sixe spoonefulls take corralle and beate itt verie smale then mingell ytt withe freshe greace and annoynte the sore witheall. For Decayed eyes in age Take a quarte of streamewater take halfe a spoonefull of white copperis and putt to ytt and euerie daye for the space of nine dayes yow muste shake itt togeather and straine ytt and so keepe ytt to youre eyes. For the paine of the teethe Take tauesaker and pull of the pill of itt, then as muche baye salte, and bruse ytt them togeather and putt in in a cl[oth] and laye itt to the toothe that achethe

For, a man thatt is stopped in the breste and is shorte winded Take, the leaves of hollye, and grinde them to powder, and putt ytt in goodd ale or stronge beare, And drinke ytt fastinge: A meddcine for the coughe Take halfe a pounde of fyne licoris, and peele ytt and putt ytt in a pottell of runninge water and seethe itt tyll the water be blacke: then straine ytt and putt thereto a quartene of sugare and sett ytt uppon hotte water untill itt bee almoste drye, then putt to ytt an ounce of annisseede, and halfe an ounce of ginger and bruse them and stampe them alltogeather and rowse ytt upp withe a littell fine flower, and putt ytt into the Oven after the breade is drawne out For a sore Breaste proovedd Take one handefull of earbe Bennett, otherwise cauled Hemlocke and the like Quantitye of Sage, and make the same earbes hotte betweene two tilestones, that where never occupied, then take one spoonefulle of fine honnye and three spoonefull of good redd vinneger. putt youre hoonnie and vineger togeather: intoo a cleane potte dishe and lett them boyle a littell uppon a chaffinge dishe of coles, then take a fine linnen clothe that will cover youre breastes and make a hole in the middst thereof thatt youre nippell maye come forthe: then dippe the same clothe in the licore and laye the same uppon youre breastes as hott as yow maye suffer the same and laye them uppon the clothe thatt is allreadye uppon youre [breast] and thus dresse them twice a daye and they will bee hole:

For the stoppinge of the longes Liver and splene proved by Queene Marye Take.. parsely rootes smallage rootes fennelle, rootes of eache two rootes, polippes, three rootes, of sap, rootes an ounce of hartes tounge, a handefull, foure Docke rootes: halfe a handefull of Reasons, of the Sunne the stones taken owt halfe a ounce of the toppes of wormeworde: seethe them all in a stone potte, in a pottell of runninge water and halfe a pinte of white wine till the halfe bee consumed and when ytt is colde straine ytt and drinke thereof moreninge and eveninge bludd warme, withe a quantite of sugare candye To purge the Liver Longes and other partes of the boddye Take a quarte of smithes water and sett itt over the fyer and clarifie ytt withe the white of an egge And take a handefull clary as muche neepp[] as muche Archangell, and a handefull of perwinkell and bruse all these togeather and putt thereto halfe a quartene of suger and take thereof two spoonefulls for fowre moreninges.