| Description Of Item | A volume of medicinal preparations. The first eighty-six pages are in the same handwriting and format with some amendments and attributions, such as the green ointment of Lord of Norwich (p78). From page eighty-six the handwriting becomes less standardised and the preparations include wine and food recipes. On pp135-142 is an index. From the rear are two pages of food recipes, the first page initialled IT and ET who may be Taylor family members. The vellum cover is loose but may never have been attached.
The recipes are:
A salue all manner of wounds broken Boanes + all soares'. Page 1
For the bloudy menster'. Page 1
For Iron or thorne pricking. Page 1
For a pyn and web in the eyes'. Page 1
For swellinge of knees'. Page 1
For him that hath dronck venym'. Page 1
For a sauceleame' face'. Page 2
For swellinges'. Page 2
For all mannor of evills'. Page 2
For hardness of the Woombe [womb]. Page 2
For strong Jaundise'. Page 2
For the Dropsey'. Page 2
For to sley woormes in the eyes'. Page 2
For swelling in a mans throate'. Page 2
Otherwise evill in the throate'. Page 2
To unclose a wounde'. Page 3
To cast out bloud within a man by broosinges or otherwise'. Page 3
For stincking teeth coming of the stomacke'. Page 3
For stinking tethe'. Page 3
For akeing of kees and other ioyntes'. Page 3
A speciall drincke for all feauers'. Page 3
For the Axes'. Page 4
For all aches of Woundes or strokes'. Page 4
For swelling of a Wounde'. Page 4
For the stopping of the stomacke'. Page 4
To take awaye a wenn'. Page 5
For all manner of Woundes festers akeing swellings & other soares'. Page 5
For bolings or brusinges broken bones or other mannor'. Page 5
A speciall oyntment against dead flesh in Wowndes and to cherish the good'. Page 5
An intreat to cast out bones or Impostunes in Woundes'. Page 5
To heale in :V: dayes all scabbs'. Page 6
For the stone'. Page 6
For the Poxe'. Page 6
To take away Pockholes'. Page 7
To make a: n: w: &r:'. Page 7
Yf to sharpe'. Page 8
For a scald hedd'. Page 8
A: Water: fo: th: fa: to: m: it s: of 25: y:'. Page 8
To help a redd face'. Page 8
An: other'. Page 9
To make heare fall of:'. Page 9
A: x: r: f: th: f:'. Page 9
An: other'. Page 10
Against the stone in the bladder'. Page 10
An other'. Page 11
To heale the Emerods or pills'. Page 11
An other'. Page 11
For one that cannot keepe his meate but vomiteth allwayes'. Page 12
Against all paynes in the head'. Page 12
An other'. Page 12
An other'. Page 12
For payne in the eares'. Page 12
To make teeth fall out'. Page 13
To make black teeth White'. Page 13
Against kernells'. Page 13
For a sweet ball:'. Page 13
For the lyuer and milte'. Page 14
Against ache in the gutts'. Page 14
Yf a Woman haue not hir termes to cause them com'. Page 14
For the riseing of the Ma'. Page 14
To make a sweet breath'. Page 14
For horseness'. Page 15
To make heare to growe and not to fall'. Page 15
To cause heare to fall off'. Page 15
For a sausleam face'. Page 15
For drythe in the handes'. Page 16
For the Morphew'. Page 16
For scabbes'. Page 16
For dry scabbs'. Page 16
An other'. Page 16
Against vomitts'. Page 17
Ignis Saluaticus or sacer ignis'. Page 17
To make teeth White'. Page 17
For a woman that is shrank and that shee weer wth: Childe'. Page 17
Whi: f: o: a: W:'. Page 18
A restorat for hir that hath lost hir Nature'. Page 18
For the dropsie in the Woomb in feet and for Constiuens in the stomack for Wormes in ye stomack and for bad sto:'. Page 18
For the Megrim in the hedd Postum in the head Dropsy in the head & for all akeing in the head'. Page 19
For swelling through bloud letting'. Page 19
For one that is deafe'. Page 19
For the Quincye'. Page 19-20
To break Apostumes'. Page 20
To draw out Apostumes'. Page 20
For Closed Woundes not Well healed'. Page 20
For Noli me tangere'. Page 20-21
For a soare yarde'. Page 21
For a fayre face'. Page 21
For ache in the Woomb'. Page 21
For Euill in the back'. Page 21-22
For swelling in the stomack'. Page 22
To draw out broken bones of woundes'. Page 22
For the Fundament goeing out'. Page 22
For him that spitts bloud'. Page 22-23
A purgation'. Page 23
To breake the Stone'. Page 23
Oyle of Exeter'. Page 23-24
For a stincking breath be it in the braynes mouth or stomack'. Page 24-25
To make a good stomack'. Page 25
To make Camph:'. Page 25
To make the beard or head ot grow that yt fall not of:'. Page 25-26
To make hayre black'. Page 26-27
An other'. Page 27
An Excellent Secret'. Page 27
To make hayre growe'. Page 27
For the same'. Page 27-28 |