Wellcome Collection: Bulkeley, Elizabeth (MS.169)

The whyte garden lily is hote & ptly of a subtill substance, but the roote is drie in the first degree & hote in the second

The Roote stamped wth honie gleweth synowes together that be cut in sunder it consumeth or scowreth awaie the ulcers of the head called [?]chores & lykwise all scurvines of the berd & face. Also the water therof dystilled & dronke causeth speedie & easie delyverance & expelleth the secondyue & after burden in most speedie maner.

The Roote of red lylie stamped wth honie cureth wounded Synowes & members out of Joint, it taketh awaie the morphew & deformytie of the face, & taketh awaie wrinkles. The Roote boiled in wyne cawseth cornes of the feet within few daies to fall awaie with removing the medcyne till it have wrought the effecte. The same being dronke with honied water dryeth out by [seighe?] unproffittable blood.

water lilie with yellow floweres poppeth laske, the overflowing of seed which cometh awaie by dreames or otherwise & is good for them that have the bloodie faxe. But water lylie which hath the whyte floweres is of greater force in so muche as it stayeth the whyte but both this & the other that hath the black roote and dronke in red wyne they have also a scowring qualitie therefore they both clense awaie the morphewe & be also good against the pilling awaie of the haire of the head, against the morphewe they are steeped in water & for the pilling awaie of the haire in Tarre but for these things that is fitter which hath the blacke Roote & for the other that which hath the whyte Roote.

moone wort or madwort is verie like to horehound but rougher & more full of prikles about the flowres it bereth a flowre tending to blowe it is given to suche as are enraged by the byting of a mad dog which therby are pfectlie cured it is of the temperature meanly dry digesteth & som thing scowreth withall, for this cawse it taketh awaie the morphewe. & some burnynge

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Garden lupyne boiled & after steeped in [fair?] water till suche tyme as it doth altogether loose his naturall bitternes & lastly being sesoned with a resonable resonable quantity of salt it is eaten with pickle, the lupyne is of an hard & earthic substance wherof it is of a hard digestion with being not pfected concocted in the veines [Fugendreth?] a blood wyce called Crude, or [Pawe?], but when it hath lost all the bitternes by sparing or dressing of it as aforesaid it is lyke to suche thinge as are without rekorse which is pceyved by the tast

The decoction therof inwardlie taken voideth wormes & lykewise if it be sundrie tymes used as a bath it is a remedie against the morphewe fore heade the small pockes wyld scabb gangreene & venemous ulcers. the roote boiled in water & dronke pvoketh urin