292rAn approved medicine for the Goute , or any paine in the back , or else where . /
Take the white Nettles , which some call the white Archangel , and take boares 5grease well tryed , and spread thereoff in the bottome of a pipkin , then putt of the hearb aforesaid vpon it stalle and all , then putt a quantitye of the said grease vpon the hearbs againe , and so a laye of either vntill it be full , but the boares grease must be vndermost , and at the top , then tye a course cloath about the pipkin , and lay a tile vpon it , then digge a hole in the ground 10and bury it for a month , then take it vp , and putt it into a stone Morter and with a woden pestell stampe it very well , then putt it in a new ~ pipkin , and when you will vse it , putt some into a sawcer , and annoynte with your hand , the place greiued , warme against the ffyer , morning , and eveninge , and keepe a linnen cloath next it continually . This is also good 15for an Ach . / . A medicine for the Goute . / Take a ffatt whelpe , and fflea him , and putt vnto him blacke snailes and ~ Cummin seeds , and so roast the same , and the Oyle thereoff is a soueraigne Medicine , to annoynt the party , so greiued withall . / 20 To giue presente ease , for the paine of the Goute . / Take blacke , and white sluggs , without shells on their backs , a good quantitye and putt them into a bagge , with a handfull of bay salte , and hange them in the sun , settinge a sawcer , or porrenger vnder the bagge , to take the droppinge of them , which droppinge is very soueraigne , to giue present 25ease to the paine , of the Gout . / ffor the Goute Doctor whites medicine . /
Take of red sage , sweete marierome , Rosemary stripped , and Bettony of each a good quantitye , and putt them in a paper , and drye them in the sun 30and when they be through dryed , beate them in a mortar to powder , and take a spoonefull of that powder , so beaten together , with two , or three cornes of case pepper , grossly beaten , or cutt in peeces , and so drinke it in a spoonefull of white wine , Ale , or beere , or what you like best , take it in a morninge twice , or thrice a month , and it will prevent the Goute . / 35 ffor the Goute . /
Take the rootes of red fflowred Comfrey beate them raw in a morter till they come to a salue , so spread them vpon a cloath , and lay them to the parte greiued , and as they drye lay ffresh . probatum . /