11pTo help ye paine of ye back
Take a breast of mutton and cut it in small peeces, yen
seeth it in water, and wen you haue well scummed it, take
it out again and boyle it with milke, yen take it off again from ye
5fire, when it hath well sod with ye milk, and soe let it stand
till it be cold, yen take off ye fat yat riseth aloft. then take
3 cape dates and slit yem and put yem in with ye meate, and take a
cinamon stick and bruise it and put it to it. yen take 3 quarters of a
handfull of ribwoort as much of campion leaues yat beares
10ye white flower, and half a handfull of strawberry flowers, 3 or
4 holioake leaues, and a quarter of a handfull of violet leaues
and boyle yem altogether from a pottell to a quarte, and soe drink yereof
as hot as you may evening and morning. you must put 4 mint
leaues yereto. probatum est.
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For ye Tyssick.
Take a quarte of running water with a good handfull of Hysop
2 ounce. of anni seeds beaten well with an ounce. of liquorish
1/2 ounce. of fennell seed, beate yem all very fine with a quarterne
20of fine sugar, and soe boyle yem alltogether to a pint, and yen
straine ye liquor, and let ye partye drink yereof. first and
last. probatum est.
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An exelent medicen to heale any person scalded with water burnt with fire, or any old vlcer or greene wound.
25Take a handfull of plaintaine leaues, as much rosemary, as
much sage as much broome flowers, halfe as much
valerian, stampe yem all in a wooden vessell, as small as you
can, yen put in a quantitye of butter made in may, yen temper it
with ye herbs, and soe let yem lye alltogether 14 days at ye least, in
30an earthen pot, and yen take yem all and set yem on ye fire, in
ye same vessell as before said. but you must begin to stir yem as soone
as you haue set yem over ye fire, and when you see yey be well
boyled straine yem into another earthen pot, and yen take as much
of ye same oyle as you meane to make salue of, and put yat into ye
35pot with ye rest, and yen take a peece of yellow wax, and a quantity
of sheepes suet, and soe boyle alltogether and being cold it is a /very\
good salue. ye rest of ye oyle is good for you to keep to dip
youre tents in. probatum est.
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40To make a cap to dry vp ill hum=ors out of ye head
Take of browne paper as much as will make a cap
for youre head fit, and put within ye working of ye said capp
first fine tow, yen afterwards ye powder of gumme
mastick and olibanum and frankincense, and soe work youre
45cap with all this in it. and when this is made. Aier it every
night over a chafing dish of coales with frankincense bu<r=>
=nning therein.