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A medicine to drawe & heale a prike with a thorne
Take of Salendine, of orphine of each tooe handfull cut it very smale. then boyle it with oyle olife & [bowrought] wax, streyne it therof make a playster & applye it:

A good medicine for the consumption of the members quaguinge quakinge contaction or palesly of the Joynts:
Take of Galbauum one pownde of Turpentine thre pownde, of oyle of bayes & of oyle olive, of each thre ownces make an oyle therof & usse it to the greaffe:

A good water to heale a soore:
Take of Camphire one ownce, of white Coperes, a qter of a pownde, put them into an earthen potte, & seeth them on a softe faier, halfe an hower & therof will come a water whiche will be hard agayne but you must sturr them together many times untill thay be cowlde & harde, then take bole armomake a qter of a pownde & beate it to powder & put it to the other stufe then beate all together to very fine powder & put into a bladder and when you shall neade therof take a pottle of fayre runninge water & set it on the fier & when it beginneth to […] take it off & put therin thre or fower sponefulls of your powder then put your water into an earthen potte bot covered & let it stande so untill it be cleare, then take the clerest of the water & warme it & as the patient can suffer it washe the soore with a linnen clothe usse this eveninge & morninge untill the soore be whole. And when your water hath stode seven or eyght dayes shake it well together but let it be well cleared before you usse it agayne & when all be cleare is spent cast away the rest for it will cawse prowd fleashe.

A playster for the gowte called: chirogo Apadogo: howerly prived & good for other aches olso:
Take of [vurorought] wax, of perroshen of each tooe pownds, of other Roszen one pownd, of piche a qter of a pownde, of Olibanum halfe a pownde, melte all thes together with a softe fier, streyne them through a stronge canvas cloth, cast away the drosse & put into the rest streyned, halfe a pownde of deere suett a qter of an ownce of eynglishe safforne finely beaten, tooe ownces of cloves & mace fine beaten & streyned, then set them on a softe fier to melte, ever sturringe them untill all be equally mixed, then take apottell of good reed wine & put it to the sayde medicine by little & little, sturr it continually with your slice untill it be thicke, then gather it upp with your handes & wringe out the moystnes & make it upp in rowles, closinge it in white leather & keape it close from the eyer:

A good medicine for an Ache
Take of march of commin of each one handfull of bores grease of Aquavitye, of [softe] water of each like quantitye mingle them all together & usse it to the greaffe:

A medicine for the mother or Spleane in a woman:
Take one handfull of archangell with purple flowers, stampe it & streyne it with a little ale or beare, then warme it & put therto a little suger & give it the sicke to drinke:

An other for the same:
Take tooe handfull of hore hownde, of Rue, of Daysies, of each one handfull, bruse them smale in a morter, put therto halfe a pownde of Commen but picke away the longe tayles, then fry them in [yeeles] grece & put therto one handfull of wheaten branne, then make a bagge of white wollen cloth & put it therin & lay it to your stomake very whott:

Another medicine for the same
Take a browne Tost the under crust of the sowerest breade [made] it with vineger & strike theron blacke sope as you do Butter & so lay it under the navill:

A medicine for one that cannot make water
Take a pinte of Ale & clarifye it, one parsley roote well scraped, washed, & sliced, one sponefull of parsley seede well rubbed & a little brused, put them into the ale & seethe them halfe away then streyne it & put therein so much Amber finely beaten to powder as will fill the shell of a hasell nutt with a little Suger, let the patient drinke a good drawfte therof when he is greved & after morninges & evenings & longe as he findeth [xay]

A good water for the Collicke & the stone
Take of Saxebrudge one lapfull, of wilde time six handfull, of Reed fenell thre handfull, of Radishe rootes, of parsley with the rootes of each one hundred, washe them & dry them with a cleane cloth, then shred them and put them to a galland of milke from the cowe & let them stand therin all night, then distill it with a softe fier, when you have greafe drinke fowre sponefulls of the water with as much white wine & a little shuger blood warme for wante of wine take ale, beare, or Aquavitye:

A good medicine for the migrome in the heade:
Take garden wormes, almost as much houslike, stampe them together & put therunto fine flower to make it playster wisse, then putt it in a fine clothe & lay it to the foreheade temples & all:

An approved medicine for any ache or Cricke:
Take in may twelve pownde of May butter clarifye it cleane & skume it cleane with a feather & power out the whay from it, then take one pownde of brome flowers, stampe them & streyne them, then put it into the May butter & boyle them together a good while then power it from the brome flowers, putt it into a glasse & sett it in the Sonne untill michelmas: And when you annoynte the patiente take one sponefull of it & fowr sponefulls of good sacke & boyle them together, then as whotte as you can dippe in you hande & often times heate them, annoynte the greafe & leay to a whott clothe, as whott as one may suffer it:

An other medicine for an ache
Take a pinte of good Aquavitye a reasonable quantitye of an oxe gall, halfe a handfull of baye leaves, put them together & boyle them with a softe fier & cover it close, when halfe is consumed take it of when you have neade annoynte the place greved therwith: Reed wax stroke uppon a cloth playster wise will gather skinne & healpe any broken skine:

A medicine for a scaldinge or burninge
Take Daysye rootes & all, scrape them cleane then frye them with freashe greace & yellow wax, when you have fryed them well together then streyne it throughe a linnen clothe & keape it for your usse a whole yeare & very good:

To heale a Tettor:
Take the gumme of a Cherry tree, lay it in vineger, then rubb the place therwith & will distroy the tetter quickly:

A good medicine to make one Vomitt
Take halfe a crowne weyght of white Coperesse & melte it in warme water, so drinke therof & it will make one vomitt:

A good medicine for the Runninge & [savor] of the eares
Take one sponefull of the Guce of wormewoode, halfe a sponefull of the oyle of almones, mingle them together, make it a little warme & put it into the soore eare

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