FOR ITCH OR PSORIASIS. 120. Take the root of elecampane washed clean, boil in pure water; when the roots are softened, pound, then add thereto thick kine's cream. Mix it for an ointment and anoint your whole body with it as you go to bed, once in three days, (that is three times in nine days,) and drink a hearty draught of the water in which the roots were boiled, three times a day for nine days, and you will be cured of the eruption, and will be strong in body, for the water is useful to heal and strengthen the stomach and lungs. AN OINTMENT FOR PNEUMONIA. § 121. Take suet and honey, boil together, and when they have boiled enough take nine pieces of fine flannel and dip in the ointment; let each cool, and when cold apply the nine to your chest, from one armpit to another, and from the shoulder to the navel; let it remain there for nine days, then remove one away daily till the whole are removed. When this is going on, take wheaten bread ground through and through, with some pure honey spread thereon every morning, and some of the same bread with cow's milk at noon, then baked apples and goat's milk at night, taking between the meals a spoonful of pure honey. This by the help of God will cure you. ANOTHER MEDICINE FOR PNEUMONIA. $ 122 Take the white horehound, and pound well, then add some pure water thereto, letting it stand for three hours, then strain well through a fine cloth, add a good deal of honey to the strained liquor, and put on a slow fire to warm; take half a draught thereof every three hours, and let your diet be the best wheaten bread and milk; when thirsty, take an apple, and cover it with good old cider, eat the apple, in an hour drink the cider, and let this be your only diet. ANOTHER. § 123. Take half a man's meal of kine's milk, and add thereto two spoonfuls of pure honey. Take for food some good wheaten bread with this drink three times a day. Between the meals take a spoonful of the juice of horehound, and a spoonful of honey mixed. When neither these herbs nor any other can be got fresh, in order to get their juice, then get the herbs dry, and boil in what will cover them of water in an iron pot, till it evaporates to the half, then express well through a fine cloth, after this add half the quantity of honey, boiling the second time till it is evaporated to a third, keeping it in a glass bottle well corked. ANOTHER. § 124. Take for your only food a slice of the best wheaten bread with honey, and for your only drink the breast milk of a healthy young woman, for nine days without intermission; then instead of the breast milk, take goat's milk for another nine days, and subsist upon that for a longer period if needful. FOR STRANGURY AND THE STONE. $ 125. Take the milfoil, and saxifrage, pound with warm water, and let the patient have this liquor for nine days as drink, nor let him take any other drink, and by God's aid he will recover. ANOTHER. § 126. Take the blood and skin of a hare and make a powder thereof, mix with the cider of red rinded apples, mead, or beer, and drink it with either, but prefer cider or mead. Let the patient drink this only, and it will disintegrate the stone, causing it to be expelled. If you should wish to prove this, take a spoonful of this powder in water, and put in a hole made in an acid stone, and by next day it will certainly have dissolved it. FOR STRANGURY AND RETENTION OF URINE. § 127. Take smallage, a herb very much like the garden parsley, having a roast meat sort of taste, rue and betony, with a quart of white wine; pound the herbs well, and boil in the wine till it is reduced to the half, then strain well through a fine cloth, and give it to the patient at three draughts, and he will certainly be cured. FOR A PAIN IN THE CARDIAC REGION. § 128. Take the centaury, pound well, boil in old ale and express well, afterwards boil to the half, take that with twice as much honey, and boil moderately; take a cupful thereof fasting for nine days, and it will remove the pain and oppression from the region of the heart without fail. ANOTHER WAY OF PREPARING THE SAME MEDICINE. § 129. Take the centaury, boil well in old ale, then remove the herbs from the ale, and pound well in a mortar, boil again well, and express through a fine cloth, take this juice mixed with twice the quantity of honey, boil moderately and habituate yourself to take it fasting for nine days, and through the help of God it will heal the oppression and pain about the heart. A VALUABLE OINTMENT FOR ALL KINDS OF ACHES. § 130. Take old lard, a he-goat's and a sheep's suet, yellow wax, wormwood and primrose, bruise in a mortar, boil in butter, then put in the suet, lard, and wax, boil well and express strongly through cloth, keep carefully and it will ease all sorts of aches. AN OINTMENT FOR ALL NERVOUS DISORDERS. § 131. Take earthworms and the bulb of an onion, make a hole, and put the earthworms in, then light a fire underneath to roast them, after that apply to the affected part, leaving it there for three nights without removing. AN OINTMENT FOR GENERAL USE. § 132. Take a gander's fat, the fat of a male cat, a red boars's fat, three drams of blue wax,* water cress, wormwood, the red strawberry plant and primrose, boil them in pure spring water, and when boiled stuff a gander with them, and roast them at a distance from the fire, the grease issuing from it should be carefully kept in a pot. It is a Cupriated wax. valuable ointment for all kinds of aches in a man's body, and is like one that was formerly made by Hippocrates. It is proved. FOR AN OPACITY IN A MAN'S EYE. § 133. Take a rook's gall and mix well with the white of an egg, put in your eye, and take a little fine linen and lay thereon; do this night and morning, you will surely be cured. FOR AN INJURY IN THE ELBOW, KNEE, OR LEGS. § 134. Take lard, or pig's fat once melted, spread on a cloth or flannel, and apply to the swellings. If to the elbow or knee, mix some juice of rue therewith, and it will cure an injury of the joint. It is proved. FOR A SWELLING, AND HEAT, OR INFLAMMATION § 135. Take elm bark and bruise well, rejecting the epidermis, boil down to the thickness of honey, remove the bark, and add barley meal and unsalted butter, boil into a cataplasm, lay on a flannel and apply to the disease. If it is supposed that there is a fragment of bone therein, use a large quantity of bark in the poultice, and it will bring it into union with the adjoining bone, if it is used with perseverance. FOR PAIN AND NOISE IN THE EAR. § 136. Take a loaf of wheaten bread (ground through) hot from the oven, divide in two, and apply to both ears as hot as it can be borne, bind, and thus produce prespiration, and by the help of God you will be cured. FOR CARDIALGIA IN A MOIST STOMACH. § 137. Take grains of paradise, and powdered cloves, eat for a week, and by God's aid you will be cured. A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING. § 141. Take the tutsan, cinquefoil, vervain, mallows, lard, and butter; boil the herbs well in water, then remove and pound the herbs well, setting them on the fire in the water a second time, with butter and lard, mix and boil till it forms a cataplasm, and apply to the swelling, and it will reduce it without fail. FOR THE JAUNDICE. § 145. Take the leaves which grow on the branches of the hawthorn and the mistletoe, boiling them in white wine or good old ale, till reduced to the half, then take it off the fire and strain. Drink this three times a day and you will be cured. A DRINK FOR RIGOR OF STOMACH AND BODY. § 147. Take a handful of rosemary, a handful of hyssop, a handful of sage, a handful of feverfew, a handful of red fennel, pound well and boil in a gallon of good strong wort made from barley malt, keeping it in an earthen vessel, covering it carefully, and setting aside for three days; then take three draughts thereof, fasting every morning, and another at night warmed blood heat. Take also a pennyworth of grains of paradise, a pennyworth of saffron, and a pennyworth of canella bark powdered fine in a mortar, and cast a portion on the surface of the drink, doing this in the drink as long as it lasts. It has been proved valuable for all pains in a man's body. FOR PNEUMONIA. § 148. Take a proportion of the sea beet (called in Latin beta) rejecting the branches and tops, and take three gallons of pure water, boiling therein; then take the beet out, letting the decoction boil, after a while remove from the fire, and let it cool to the temperature of wort, then pour it upon some fresh lecs (of ale) permitting it to ferment as long as it will do so, then give it the patient for nine meals as his only drink; then take the beet and mix with butter and powdered melilot, giving it the patient to eat for nine meals, and by the help of God he will recover. It is also an excellent medicine for tertian ague. FOR AN AGUE, § 149. Take a handful of the water flower de lys, three quarts of good strong ale, pound the herbs, and boil in the ale till it is reduced to three quarts, then strain; then take a pennyworth of the powder of the grains of paradise, and boil a second time slightly. Take it at four times a day before the ague fit, and you will recover. |