English recipe book, 17th century and later MS 8575

427	Sensas	Sententia

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	Sepultura	Sepultura	428
Sands	Habitantes insulam Delos vita destituti
travels	[??]ussu Apolonis nulla iusta insula fruun
	tur sepultura sed ad aliam adjacentem in
	sulam asportantur.

429	Seruitus	Seruitas

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Seueritas	Seueritas	430

These recests receits I did take out of Mr Gerarde Herball som calles this herbe Shepheards purse. the poore manes parmacetie. Troy wort. pick purs & case weed it stayeth bleeding in any part of the body whether the iuyce or the decoction thereof be drunk or whether it be used pultesse wise or in bath or in any other way else in a Glyster it cureth the bloudy flix it healeth greene & bleeding wounds it is marvellous good for inflammations new begun & for all deseases wich must be checked backe & cooled the decoition doth stop the laske spitting & pissing of bloud & all other fluxes of bloud

water Cresse uery good agenst the greene sicknesse & Scuruy. The iuyce of colewoorts applyed with the powder of fennugreeke Taketh away the paine of the gout the broth whereing herbe is sodden is good for the cankers in the eyes if they be washed therewith wich cannot be healed by any other meanes

Pellitorie of the wall is good for the stone & is very good to prouoketh vrine

An excellent Balsame

Take oyle of roses oyle of S John wort of either one pint the leaves of tabaco Stamped small in a Stone mortor two pounds boyl them togather to the consumption of the iuice Straine it & put it to the fire agane adding there to of venice turpentine two ounces of olibanum & masticke of ether half an ounce in most fine & subtil pouder the wich you may at all times make an unguent or salve by puting thereto wax & rosin to give unto it a stiffe body this balsam doth bring up the flesh from the bottome very speedily & allso heales simple cuts in the flesh acording to the first intention that is to glew or soder the lips of the wound togather not procuring matter or corruption unto it as is commonly seene in the healing of wounds this balsam worketh exceeding wel in maligne & virulent ulcers as in wounds & punctures.

431	Signum	Signum

Good for an ague

Take three or foure leaves of rubarbe stampt it & straine it in with a draught of ale drinke of this wil be stor strong anouf for a man

another receite for an ague

Take the roote & slice it & boyl it in the water of Carduris Benedictus & the consumption of the third part adding thereto a lettle honie of the wich decoction eight or ten spoonfulls drunk before the fit cureth the ague at two or three times so taking at the most un to the strongest twelve spoonfull may be given

The roote of the herb Snake weed boyled in wine & drunke stoppeth the lask & bloudy flix it stayeth all so the over much flowing of womens sicknesse

The herbe scurvie grasse stamped & laid uppon spots & blemishes of the face wil take them away in six houres but the place must be washed after with water wherein bran hath been sodden

an excellet balsam

Take the leaves of adders tongue & stampe it in a stone morter & boyle it in oyle olive unto the consumption of the ivice & until the herbe be dry & partched then strain it & it wil yield a most excellent green oyle for green wounds far surpassing the oyl of S John wort

The floures of may Lillies or Liriconfancie put in to a glasse & set in a hill of antes close stopped for th space of a moneth & then taken out thereing you shall find liquour that appeaseth the paine & griefe of the gode gout being outwardly applied wich is commended to be most excellant

The leaves of plantaine stampt & made into a tansie with the yelkes of egges stayeth the inordinate flux of the termes allthough it have continued many yeares

A good midissen a ganest the stone

Take the leaves of parsley piert & mous eare of each one ounce when the herbes be dried bay berryes Turmericke cloues the seedes of the great burre y^e seeds in y^e berryes of hippes or briertree fenugreeke of each one ounce the stone in the oxe gall the weight of 44 barley cornes or half a dram made to gather in to a most fine & subtill pouder taken & drunk is most singular good a ganest the stone

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Silentium	Silentiam	432

The conserue of clove gillafloure is a excellent cordial & wonderfully a bove measure doth comfort the heart being eaten now & then

Saxifrage a rare thing a ganest the stone

Fluellen or speedwell doth an excellent vertu a ganst eating Cankers & corrosive vlcers as was tried by a person wich had his nose miserable eaten & was cvered by drinking the iuice of it & outwardly applyed the same plaister wise the male fluellen or pauls lietony or speedwell is & so the former two excellent herbes for healing of wounds

herbe two pence or money wort being stamped & boyled with in oile olive with som rosen wax & turpentine aded thereunto are is very good for woundes & vlcers the iuice drunk in wine is good for the bloudie flix & all other issiues of bloud in man or woman it helpeth the whiter in such as have them the herbe boyled in wine with a lettle honie or meade prevaileth much against the cough in Children called the Chinne cough

The decoction of bugle drunk dissolueth clotted or congealed bloud with in the body som calls it sicklewort & herbe carpenter. Prunell carpentter herbe selfe heale & hooke heale sicklewort is of the same vertu of bugle & in the world there is not two better wound herbs as hath been proved

The great daisie or mandelen wort being made up in to a ungvent or salve with wax oyle & turpentine is most excellent for wounds especially those wherein is any inflammation & wil not com to digestion or maturation as are those weeping wounds made in the knees elbows & other ioints this daisie likewise asswageth the cruell pane of the Gout used with a few mallows & butter boyled & made in to the forme of a poltis.

herbe Cottonweed or cudweed or chaffe weed or petty cotton being lade amo amonst close apparell keeps it from y^e moths

An excellent salve to rase or bring up flesh from a deepe hollow wounde or vlcer as hath been experienced take the leues of mandleine & edders tongue stampt them & boyl them in oyle olive with adding there to a lettle wax rosin & a lettle turpentine & so make it into a salve

The root of tansie preserved with sugar or honey is a especial thing a gainst the gout if euery day for a sertaine space a reasonable quantitie there of be eaten fasting

Feverfew is a great remedie aganest the pane of the matrix it [procuteth] womans sickenss with speed it bringeth forth the after birth & the dead child whether it be drunk in a decoction or boyled in a bath & the woman sit over it or the herbe sodden & applied to the privie in maner or a poltis

The leaves of Germander stamped with honie & strained & a drop at sundrie times put in the Eies takes a way the web & hawe in the Same or any dimness of sight

Stinking horehound being stamped with salt & applied cuereth the biting of a mad dogge

Veruaine is a uery good herbe for wounds & vlcers

a very good medison for a stitch

Take the leaves of red sage & put them in to a woodden dish where in is put very quicke coles with som ashes in the bottome of the dish to keepe the same from burning & a lettle vineger sprinkled upon the leaves lying upon the coles & so wrapped in a linnen cloath & holden uery hot un to the side taketh a way the paine presently it helpth greatly the extremitie of the pleurisie

Take the root of munkes rubarb & madder of each half a pound Sena foure ounces annise seed & licorice of each two ounces Seabiouse & agrimonie of each two one handfull slice & root of the rubarb bruise the annise & licorice breake the herbes with your hand & put them in to a stone pot called a steame with foure gallons of Strong ale to Steepe or infuse the space of three dayes & then drink this liquour as your ordinarie drink for three weekes to gather at the least though the longer you take it the better provising in a rediness a nother steane so prepared that you may have one under another being all waese carfull to keepe a good diet it cure cureth the dropsie the yellow iaunders all manner of itch & scabbes breaking out & manginesse of the hole body it purifieth the bloud from all corruption prevaleth a gainest the green sicknesse uery greatly & all oppelations or Stopping maketh young wenches to look faire & cherrie like & bringeth down there tearines the stopping where of heath caused the same

The slimie substance of the root of comfrey or as som calles it consound knit backe & blackwoort made in a posset of ale & given to drink a gainest the paine of the back gotten by any violent motion doth in foure or five daies perfectly cure the same all through the inuoluntary flowing the seed in man be gotten there by

an excellent receits a gainst the gout

Take treacle of andromachus & the whites of egges of each a like quantitie laboured in a leaden mortar & spred upon the leafe of a burne docke & so a plied to the gout have been proved meny times most miraculously to appease the pain there of

The root of whit sacifrage or stone breake boiled in wine & drunken prouoketh urine clenesth the kidneis & bladder breaketh the stone & drueth it forth & is singular good against the strangurie & all other griefes & imperfections in the reines

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violets cure the falling sicknesse es especaly in young childeren Ground iuy or ale hoofe or gill go by ground or tune hoofe or cats foot beeing put into the eares is good against the humming noyse or ringing sound in them & for them that are hard of hearing allso half a dram of the leaves being drunk in foure ounces of an a leaf halfe of faire water for fourty or fifty daies togather is a remedie a gainst the sciatice or ache in the huckle bone the same taken in like sort six or seven daies doth all so cure the yellow iaundice the floure is best Ground iuy celandine & daisies of each a like quantitie stamped & strained & a lettle sugar & rose water put there to & dropped with a feather in to the eyes taketh away all manner of in flammation spots webs itch smarting or any griefe in th eyes the a all through the sight ware nigh hand gone it is proved to be the best medicine in the world The herbe stamed as a fore said & mixed with a lettle ale & honey & strained taketh a way the pinne & web or any griefe out of the eyes of horse or cow or any other beast being squirted with a syringe in to the same

To stot a laske or the bloudie flix

Take a handfull of the leaves of pervinkle & stamp them & drink the ivice in red wine it never faileth in man or woman it likewise cureth the spitting of bloud & the inordinate course of the mounthly sickness

Solomons seale or white wort is an excelent herbe for broken bones if it be for a bruise inwardly the root must be stamped som ale or wine put there to & strained & so given to drink it n must be given in the same maner to knit broken bones a gainst bruises black or blew markes gotten by stripes falles or such like a gainest inflammations tumors or swellings that happen unto members whose bones are broke or members out of ioynt after restauration the rootes are to be stam[...] small & applied pultesse or plusterwise where with many great workes have been don beyond credit more over it is given with uery good successe unto cattel that have there bones broken apling it unto there cattel as to them selves

The root of marsh mallows boyled in wine & the decoction given to drinke expell[...] the stone & gravell helps the bloudy flix sciatica crampes & convulsions

The herb & root of doves foot or cranes bill or pigeones foot dried & betten & given to drink in to most fine pouder & given half a spoonfull fasting & the like quantitie to bed wands in red wine or old claret for the space of one & twentie dayes to gather cureth miraculously ruptures or bursting if the person be aged it shall be needfull to adde there to the powder of red snailes those with out sheles dried in a oven in number nine wich be great & of long continuance it like wise profiteth much those that are wounded into the body & the decoction of the herb made in wine prevailed mightily in healing in ward wounds

The decoction of the herb Sanicle made in wine or water is given a gainest the spitting of bloud & the bloudy flix

The fresh root of the peionie tied a bout thye necks of Children is an effectuall remedie a gainest thye falling sicknesse but un to those thayt are grown up in more yeares thye root there of must all so be minesred in wardly

The decoction of thye roots of cinkfolle drunk cureth the bloudy flixe & all other fluxes of thye belly & stancheth all excessive bleedings thye ivice of thye leaves drunken doth cure thye Iaundice & omforteth thye stomacke & liver

to keep garments from moths

The root of avens taken up in antumne do keep garments from being eaten with thye moths & makes them to have an excelent ouder odour & serve for all thye physicall purposes thayt cinkfoill do

The vertue of Angelica is

That do but Take a peace of thye root it your mouth or chew thye same between your teeth it doth most sertainly drive a way the pestilentiall aire yea allthough thayt aire corrupt aire have possessed thye hart yet it driveth it out again by vrine & sweat

The distilled water of straw berrys drunk with whit wine is good a gainst thye passion of thye heart reviuing the spirits & making the heart merry it is likwise reported to be good to take a way sopts in thye face & to make it faire & smooth & is drunk with good successe a gainst thye stone in thye kidnies

A good receits against the Gout

Take thye leaves & root of thye herb Gerard or Goutwoot & Stamp them & aply them to thye place grived it a swagesh thye pain & taketh away the swealing & inflammation there of The The same lade upon thye member infected cureth thye biting of a mad dog & of all other venomous beasts One dram of thye root in powder given sertaine dayes to gather is a remedy for them thayt have thye dropsie & allso for them thayt are troubled with convulsions cramps & thye falling sickness being given with wine be fore thye fit com it cureth thye quartaine ague

The rare Herbe for green wounds called clownes all heale The leaves there of stamped with hogs grease & aplied unto greene wounds in maner of a poltesse healeth them in a short time & in such absolute maner thayt it is hard for any thayt have not had thye experience to be live this is herb the Auther sade he did such rare cures with he made the unguent thus he tooke foure handfules of the herb stamped & put them in to a pan where unto he added foure ounces of barrows grease f half a pinte of oyle olive wax three ounces wich he boyeled unto thye consumption of thy ivice wich is known when thye stuffe

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doth not bubble at all then did he straine it puting it to thye fire a gaine adding there to two ounces of Turpentine thye wich he sufferdd to boyl a lettle reserving thye same for his use thye wich he warmed in a sawcer dipping there in small soft tents wich he pact into thye wound defending thye parts alwyning with a plaister of calcitheos relented with oyle of roses wich maner of dressing & preserving he used untel thye wound was perfeitly whole but gave gave him two spoonfulls of this decoction following he tooke a quart of good claret wine where in he boyled an handfull of thye leaves of saracens consourd & foure ounces of honey where of he gave him in thye morning two spoonfulls to drinke in a small draught of wine tempered with a lettel sugar

The distilled water of lovage cleareth thye sight & puteth a way all spots lentils freackles & rednesse of thye face if thay be often washed there with

The seede of cow parsnep drunken scoureth out flegmaticke mater through thye guts it healeth thye iavndice thye falling sicknesse thye strangling of thye mather & them that are short winded all so if a man be falne in to a dead sleep or a swone swoune thye fume of thye seed wil waken him a gain

wilde carrot or birds nest thye roots boyled & eaten or thye root boyed in wine & thye decoction drunk provoketh vrine expelleth thye stone bringeth forth thye birth thye seed drunk bringeth down thye desieved sicknesse it is good for them thayt can hardly make water it breaketh & dissolveth it remidieth the dropsie it cureth the collick & stone being drunk with wine it is allso good for thye passion of the mother

For thye ioundies

The root of celanl celandine boiled with annise seeds in whit wine openeth the stoppings of the liver & cureth the ioundies uery safely as hath been often proved The iuice of it dropped in to small greene wounds of what sart soeuer wonderfully cures them

For wounds

Horse taile or shave grasse being stamped & laiede to doth perfectly cure wounds yea through thye Sinewes be cut in sunder it is of so great & so singular a vertue in healeing of wounds as thayt it is throught & reported for truth to cure thye wounds of the bladder & other bowels & helpeth rupturs or burstings The iuice of thye herb drunk with water or wine is an excelent remedy a gainst thye bleeding at thye nose & other fluxes of bloud