21pVitriol, gargarize þe Mouth.
A Desiccative Unguent for Wounds.
Take of Butter pound ss well washed, Bole Armoniacke an ounce semisse
5Camphire dragme ij. make an unguent hereof. This cureth
St. Anthonies five and all hot burnings and drieth very much.
A Cataplasme for þe Eyes when the
Cataract is taken out.
10Take red Roses, Plantain both kinds, beat them ^both^ in
a mortar, then boil them in water with barley meale,
take it from þe fire, and set it to coole, then put in þe
white of an Egg or two and a little Allom, and lay this in
þe manner of a Cataplasme on þe eye, let þe sicke body
15be in bed upon his backe xiv days.
A Good Ointment for many Diseases.
Take of May Butter pound vj. Oil ounce iv. Hogs Grease
pound iiij. Rasin, Turpentine ana pound j. Frankensence a pound semisse
20Southerwood, Purslain, Cumphrye, Sorrell, Birch
Leaves, Lungwort, Marjorame, Rosemary ana M ij.
These herbs being well washed, and bruised and dryed; then
beat þe Rosin, and þe Frankensence by them selves; melt
them two, then put þe butter in, þe hoggs grease and þe
25oil, and when all shall be melted put in þe herbs, and
let them all boil half a quarter of an hour, take
it from þe fire and put in þe turpentine and ounce j of Verdigrease in very fine per os: stirring it that it may not go over.
then put them into an earthen pot well closed; and put
it for xx days into horsedung, then take it out and make
30them boil again for 1/4r of an hour. Strain it through a linnen
cloth and add to it in þe end ½ a pound of oil of Spike; so reserve
it. The older it is þe better. But I use this little, because my
Balsam is more excellent.
Pills which cause Sleep without danger
35 and may be given in any infirmitie.
Take Opium as much as you will, cutt it small into