25pearthen porringer, and with a gentle fire make it
to evaporate to þe consistance of Pitch or Paste.
Of þe which past you may form pills. Dose is
20 grains in any disease where any gross humour
5aboundeth, as in þe Gout, dopsie, french poxe,
scurvey and þe like. One pill every two or three
days according to strength and complection.
To save a Woman from
10 a Mischance.
Take a new laid egg and roast it soft into which
put a little crimson silk cutt very finely and
small, mingle it with þe egg and supp it downe, drinking
after it a cupp of good burnt wine, and this shall
15save a woman from abortmt.
A Diet for þe French Poxe.
Take of Guajacum raspt pound j. of þe same bark
ounce iij. Common water 15 pints, sett them to boil
20untill a third part be consumed, then put in
Epithimum, of Polypody ana an ounce semisse Card. Bened. dragme iij.
Hermodactills ounce j. Borage, Iva Arthritica ana M j.
Liquerishe ounce j. then putt pound ij of white wine
and make it boil altogether, let them boil again
25to þe consumption of a 3d. part, then strain it,
and keep it in a glass and this will be a good comfortative diett. Dose ounce vj. in þe morning fasting and night
going to bed.
A Good remedie for þe Tumor
30 in the Stones.
Take good wine Vinegar, Rose water warm both
together and with a linnen cloth dipt in þe same
bath þe stones, and afterwards put upon them a
plaister of Diapalma, leave it so until it fall off