49v A playster to burst the impostume or
carbunckle, and to make the coare to fall:
Take 4 pintes of sallett oyle, put itt on the fire in som =
vessell, then put there in 4 ounce of Cerus well beaten to pow
5-der, 4 ounce of common wax 3 ounce of white Lead finely bea
ten to powder, Lett itt bee soe Long un the fire, untill itt
will spread un marble, then take itt of from the fire, and
put thereto A Little fire, takeing heed least itt fly in your
face, then make of itt A playster of the bignis of the =
10sore, But first make A hole of the bignes of two pence =
then make A Little playster of the bignes of the hole, =
to draw, or eate out the dead flesh, then Aboue itt lay the
other playster, Lett this playster Lay un 24 howrs, then
change the second playster, Leaueing the other playster
15un 24 howrs more; and Anoynt rownd About the sore
uerry thicke with porkes grease, for to ripen itt, soe =
that the midst will bee hard, and round About softe,
soe that the coare will easely com forth: 48 howrs
being past, take of the playster, and make A playster
20of Gates grease, or Barrow grease; and Lay itt un =
the greife, and soon the carbunckle will fall out ; =
then must you medicine the hole with triaculum mag
-num, and when the flesh beginneth to growe, put =
thereto burnt Allum, by the space of 24 howrs, and
25then the first salue about itt:
Another for the same, which is Alsoe
good for sores and fistulaes:
Take Aquauitae, Alsoe water sweetned with hony, and =
plantan water of each of these one pounde, and when
30you will use itt, which must bee day by day, you must =||
take as much of the one As of the other, and put them
in A glasse, which must bee of all these waters a finger =
high in the glasse, this will heale you of the plague
And is Alsoe good against fistulaes and sores, itt =
35hath binne tryed un many:
To make A playster Aureum, which is of an
excellente uertue, for all kinde of sores:
Take Pix Greca, or Colofonia, Brimstone, white franckincence
As much of the one, as of the other, Lett all these things bee well
40pounded togather, and mingled togather, with the whites of eggs
then spread of itt un A peece of par˄/t\chment, but first presse well
the sore with your fingers, that the blood com forth, then put on
this salue, being spread un the partchment, and swadle itt close
to the greife, and you shall see itt healed in A short time:
45This Remedy had A Neopolitan chirurgion whoe would
neuer tell itt to any man, untill hee being hurt in the
hand, hee caused this to bee made by his man, to bee
Layde to his hande:
To take A thorne forth of ones flesh:
50Take A peece of Spunge, of flax, steepe itt in vrine, and lay
itt to the greife, and itt will draw itt forth, without any paine:
Against the swelling and greif in the soule of the feete:
Take mosse that growse in the water being green and stam
-pe itt well, putting thereto sallett oyle, and Lay thereof on
55A peece of cloth, and Lay itt to the greif and itt will ease
the paine:
To take A thorne forth of ones flesh: