41pA medicine for ye plu=resye
Take broocklime a great quantity and chop it small and take
1/2 pound of sheepes suet, and chop it small allsoe and put
it in as much water as may moysten it, and let yem boyle
5together till ye suet be molten and ye herbs tender, yen put to
it a good handfull of wheat bran and boyle it till it be thick
and yen put it between 2 cloths and lay to ye place (where ye
paine is) hot; and soe follow ye stitch <.....>
as it remoues, and it will breake ye impostume, and make ye
10patien void it, but you must not giue over doeing it till
ye paine cease, and it will help in short time. probatum est.
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For ye great <.>age in a man or woemans head, and for one yat is out of his wit however it came
Take germander betonye wood sage, henbane red sage
15of each a like quantitye, white poppy seed and cummin seede, of
each a pretty quantitye, beate ye herbes and seeds severally
put ye herbes in a platter vpon a chafing dish of coales,
and put to yem a good quantitye of woemans milke as much
as will suffice to boyle yem in; if it be for a woeman take
20ye mild of a manchild and e contra. and in ye boyling strew
on ye powder o /of\ the cummin and poppy seed, and let yem boyle together a
good while till ye herbes be something tender; yen take ye
herbes and lay yem on a cloth, yen spread yem yat yey may reach
vpon ye forehead from ye one eare to ye other, yen strew
25red saunders vpon ye herbs, and sprinckle with a feather
oyle of roses all over it, and soe lay it to ye forehead, and it
it be for one yat is in great heate, lay it to cold. but
otherwise for one yat is cold lay it to hot. you must
in like manner lay it round about ye wrists, and this will
30help by ye grace of god.
Note farther. you must shift it when it is dry. And if
it be for one yat is mad or in great heate, you must giue
him to drink cold water or other small beere, and let
him eate noe kind of hot meats as eggs or such like
35and keepe yem very low with a spare diet, not suffering yem
to drink any wine.
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For a burnt yard or ye privy parts of man or woeman
Take knot wormes as yey come out of ye earth and beate
40yem very small, and yen put yem in a litle sallet oyle and vinegar
and yen put it into litle baggs, and put yem as close to ye place
as you can not warmed and it will help in twice or thrice
dressing. probatum est.