31pA Powder for ye stone or strangu=ry
Take black bramble berries while yey be redde
rvg berries, ye inner pith of ye ash, keepe ye
stones of ye eglans/tine\ berries cleane rubbed from ye
5haires, nutkeys, ye rootes of philipendula, of all yese
a like quantitye. Acornes sloe stones a like quantity but not
soe much of eyther of yese as ye halfe of any one of ye
other. dry all yese in platters in an oven till yey will
be beaten to powder. Then take grumwell seade
10saxafrage seede, alisander seede parsely seed, corian=
=der cummin fennell annyseeds of each of yese seedes
a like quantity, as of yose first written, dried in like
sort, yen beaten to fine powder. yen take liquorish of
ye best, and scrape it faire, and dry it, and beate it to
15fine powder, as much in quantity as all yese and mingle with
ye same powder, and soe keepe it close yat noe wind come
at it, vsing it morning and evening with posset ale, with time
of ye mount sodden in it, make youre posset much white w
wine if you can for yat is best, else with ale. and when
20you eate youre pottage or other broth, if you be sore pained
put some in it; and if you haue any stone, it will come
away by shivers, and when it doth soe, when you perceaue youre
water begineth to wax close, take this drink yat
followeth, and twill cleanse youre bladder and leaue noe
25corruption in it.
The drinke.
Take rosemary and wild time and boyle yem in running
water from a quarte to a pint, with as much sugar as will
make it sweate, vse ye quantitye of herbs according to youre
30owne discretion, soe yat it may savoure well of ye herbes
and soe vse it 9 mornings together 6 or 7 spoonefulls at
a time.
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For ye stone.
35Take a cake of rye and bake it, yen take onions and roast
yem very soft, and slice youre cake being taken hot out of ye
oven in 2 peeces, ye vpper side from ye neather side, yen
pill youre onions and spreade yem vpon ye peeces of cake
and lay ye one peece to ye bottome of youre belly, and ye other
40peece to ye reines of youre back, and soe shift it hot and
hot and it will help you.