26pdrink, or wine for ye time. probatum est.
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For ye toothache
Take roch allum and bay salt and peper and beate yem
5in a mortar, and soe put yem in a linnen cloth, and tye
it round and soe hold it to youre teeth yat aketh and it will
helpe you presently
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For a burn
10Take oyle of bitter almonds, oyle oliue, white salt
beaten in powder, and ye juice of onions, and one parte of
verjuice, and yerewith anoint ye partye. if yere be any
vlcer, you must vse vnguentum album of ye best. probatum.
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15To knit bones.
The juice of cumphry given in drink will knit
any bone yat is broken. probatum est.
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How you shall handle a fractured arme or leg.
20First you must haue 2 or 3 yelkes of eggs and ale, yen take
3 ounce. of bolearmoniack 1 ounce. of red lead wine vinegar
and yen compound all yese together and yen you must be very circum=
spect in ye placing of ye bones very right, yen take heede
you rowle it not too hard, and yat youre splenters be well wrapped
25with tow, least you gall or hurt ye flesh of his arme or
leg. if it be broken in ye thigh yen you must haue long
splanters, and let yem be very broad and hollow and yen you
must haue a case purposely laid to lay his leg in after
you haue a splented it and rowled it vp, for feare he shows
30straine, and remoue ye bone out of his place.
This note was taken out of a Doctors booke as followeth.
Take 4 yelkes of eggs wine vinegar soote of a chimny
and compound all yese together and yen take a litle red lead and
put yereto, and yen take tow and wet grein, and put it about
35ye fractured place, and soe splent it as said before
this must you doe, if you can get noe bole armoniack
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The gout
Water and salt peter is good for gout ye members being
40washed yerewith
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The bloudy flux
Salt Peter being mixed with hony and wine and
annoint and lay it to ye place in forme of a plaister
45will stop ye bloudy flux. probatum est.