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.