42pA syrop for ye consumption of ye lungs
Take 1/2 pint of elicampane water as much horehoun<d>
water, 3 spoonefulls of lungwort water and 1/2 pound pound
of white sugar candy, and boyle all yese together till yey
5come to a syrop in an earthen pot and keepe ye pot
to noe other vse but to make this syrup in and soe
vse every morning and evening to take some of this
syrop, and sometime in ye afternoone, soe youre stomack
be not full, and it will preserue you from ye consumption
10of ye lungs probatum est.
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A speciall medicine for a plurisye which will not be helped with letting of bloud as well was proved ano. 1565.
Take a cake of wheate or rye, and bake it in an oven
or vpon ye hearth, and yen slit it in sunder in ye midst
15and spread it with tarre, and as hot as ye patient can
suffer it, lay it to ye place where ye stich is, and soe
shift it hot and hot and soe follow ye stich as it goeth
and it will help by ye grace of god. probatum est.
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20A soveraine medicine for a sore breast
Take a pottle of smiths water ye elder it is ye better
if it smell a litle it is ye better, allsoe you must take
1/4 of a pound of Allum and white salt as much as you
can hold vpon 2 of youre e /fore\ fingers from y second joynt forth
252 handfulls of sage. 2 heads of house leeke, put all yese
into ye water and boyle it till it come to a quarte, yen let it
stand with ye herbs in it and wash ye sore breast wel well
with ye herbs and ye water twice in a day, and at every
time you wash it lay vpon ye sore or sores greene
30sage leaues, till it be whole, this hath bin proved in
healing a breast soe sore as it hath bin thought
incurable, you must warme ye water and herbes every
time you dresse ye breast. probatum est.
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35A sore breast comming of milke.
Take as many mallows as a charger will hold and cut yem
small and boyle yem in a gallon of running water, and when sodden
soft put yereto a pottle of ye grounds of good ale, and a quart
of white wine and 2 penny white leaues (ye bread must be leavened
40ye crush taken away) make it thick and put to it deeres suet
or sheepes suett a quarter of a pound and lay it vpon a linnen
cloth or c /a\ blue cloth warme to ye sore breast every day as long
as it is sore and it shall be well by ye grace of god. probatum est.