43pA medicine for a woeing breast if <ye> sore come <.> milke 43
Take this medicine immediately before, and lay it to ye
parties breast as hot as yey can suffer it morning and evening
and oftener, if ye heate be such as it drieth, this will helpe
5any sore eyther in ye breast or other place.
Note yat ye water must be powred from it before you put
ye dreggs of ale to it. note allsoe if ye breast be once
broke you must wash it with white wine at every dressing
probatum est.
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To breake a sore breast
Take a lilly roote and a peece of leaven, boyle yem in milk
till ye lilly roote be very soft yat you may make a
playster yereof, and soe as warme as ye partye can suffer it
15lay it to morning and evening probatum est.
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To take away fre<c>les in ye face.
Take ye leaues of white poppye and still yem, and with ye
water wash youre face probatum est.
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To dry vp ye skin of a woemans belly yat is stretched too much with bearing <of> children.
Take a quarte of malmesy and a pint of sallet oyle and a great
handfull of rosemary, and boyle yem together and yen take new white
cotton, and wet in ye liquore, and as hot as she can suffer it
25lay it to ye bottome of her belly, and soe when one is cold take
another till you haue taken 6, and soe vse it for ye space of
a weeke morning and evening and when you awake take of ye water
of ye herb briony, and lay a cloth 5 or 6 double wet in ye
same water to ye bottome of her belly and change it 2 times
30in ye night, and this doe 3 nights and weare it 3 days, and yen
you must take a sheeps call, when it commeth out of ye sheepes
belly, and wet it in ye same water, and yen lay it over all her
belly, and let it lye close to her belly 24 howres and doe this
4 times, but let it be 3 days ever between ye times. probatum est.
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To make ye skin dry as yt is over stretcht especially ye eyebrows.
Take ye sap of ye roote called herbe Brony Briony, and
twice as much of ye juice of ye herbe bennet, 2 ounce. of
cummin of Arabia 1/2 ounce. of terra sigillata, and a quantitye
40of ye fat of mutton sufficient for all yese, and yen still
yem alltogether and take ye water and wet cloths in it, and lay to
ye place where you would haue ye skin smooth. probatum est.
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For ye face
45Take a pint of eldern flower water, as much of white lilly
flower water, a quarte of beane flower water, a pint of white=
=wine vinegar, pint of ye water of wild roses, soe much of water of white
roses and put to yese water 1 ounce. of ye white bays and ye whites of a
dozen hard eggs. still all yese together with a soft fire and wash