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52 Brain Idleness.
Take juice of Wallwort 2 ounces, Salt 1 ounce, honey 2 ounces:
franckincense as much: boyle them on a soft fyre till all be
melted, and therewith anoynt the head and Temples. Or Take
wax, Olybanum, iuice of wallwort, seeth them together and
keep them in a pott, and anoynt the head. M.S.
Burne or Scald. V.ide Scald
X Take the fat of bacon and putt it on a spitt, set it to the
fyre, and underneath it sett a vessel of fair water,
to receave the dropping, and with a feather skim it off
and putt it in a box. And when you will use any therof
take the yolks of 2 eggs, or according to the quantity
of the sore, and putt thereto a quantity of your bacon
grease, and warm them on a chafing dish of coales,
then put thereto a quantity of the powder of franckin
-cense, very finely beaten and searced, stirr them toge-
ther and with a feather anoynt the patient evening and
morning: and take not off in any wise the first oynt-
ment: but lay one oynment upon another; for if you
pick it off there will be a scarr, otherwise not. MS.
XAnother. Take the yolk of an egg: mix it with fresh
butter, and stirr them together till they be like a salve
and anoynt the patient therewith. MS.
XAnother if the skin be not broken. Take good Ink,
and wash the sore place oftentimes, and it shall not
rise in blisters, or make a blemish. MS.
Another. Take black sope or gray sope, and lay it immediately
X to the sore. Or Linseed oyle is best of all. MS.
Another. Take thinn bark of Elme, and lay it to steep
X in fayr water: so lett it lye, till it come to be like
an oyle, and then anoynt the place therewith. MS.
XAnother. Take shoomakers shreds, putt them in fair wa-
ter and boyle them, as long as you can see any scum
arise skim it off, and putt it into a dish and save
it, and so let it stand a while and you shall see a
white froth arise from it: then take a feather and
take it off: then take Vallerian, stamp it and strain
it, take the iuice of it, and mix it with the clearest
of what you have taken off: so putt it into a pott
Take juice of Wallwort 2 ounces, Salt 1 ounce, honey 2 ounces:
franckincense as much: boyle them on a soft fyre till all be
melted, and therewith anoynt the head and Temples. Or Take
wax, Olybanum, iuice of wallwort, seeth them together and
keep them in a pott, and anoynt the head. M.S.
Burne or Scald. V.ide Scald
X Take the fat of bacon and putt it on a spitt, set it to the
fyre, and underneath it sett a vessel of fair water,
to receave the dropping, and with a feather skim it off
and putt it in a box. And when you will use any therof
take the yolks of 2 eggs, or according to the quantity
of the sore, and putt thereto a quantity of your bacon
grease, and warm them on a chafing dish of coales,
then put thereto a quantity of the powder of franckin
-cense, very finely beaten and searced, stirr them toge-
ther and with a feather anoynt the patient evening and
morning: and take not off in any wise the first oynt-
ment: but lay one oynment upon another; for if you
pick it off there will be a scarr, otherwise not. MS.
XAnother. Take the yolk of an egg: mix it with fresh
butter, and stirr them together till they be like a salve
and anoynt the patient therewith. MS.
XAnother if the skin be not broken. Take good Ink,
and wash the sore place oftentimes, and it shall not
rise in blisters, or make a blemish. MS.
Another. Take black sope or gray sope, and lay it immediately
X to the sore. Or Linseed oyle is best of all. MS.
Another. Take thinn bark of Elme, and lay it to steep
X in fayr water: so lett it lye, till it come to be like
an oyle, and then anoynt the place therewith. MS.
XAnother. Take shoomakers shreds, putt them in fair wa-
ter and boyle them, as long as you can see any scum
arise skim it off, and putt it into a dish and save
it, and so let it stand a while and you shall see a
white froth arise from it: then take a feather and
take it off: then take Vallerian, stamp it and strain
it, take the iuice of it, and mix it with the clearest
of what you have taken off: so putt it into a pott