A verye excellent and profitable booke conteining sixe hundred foure score and odde experienced medicines apperteyning unto phisick and surgerie, long tyme practysed of the expert and Reuerend Mayster Alexis, which he termeth the fourth and finall booke of his secretes ... Translated out of Italian into Englishe by Richard Androse.

Against knobbes or wheales of the French disease.

TAke of Plantine water, and of Rosewater, of eche one pound, of Roch Allum, of Argentum sublimatum, of ech two drammes, bray the Allum and the Sublimatum, and put it with the waters into a glasse, and take a Cirdyron, and set it vpon firie coles, and let the glasse boyle vppon it vntill halfe the water be consumed, then let the pouder settle, and kéepe the water which will come forth cléere in a vessell of glasse, and when you will vse therof temper a part of it with a tripple por∣tion of Rose water, or of Plantine, or more, and touche there∣with the knobbes or wheales, and if the wheales or knobbes be in the face: first you must vse easie remedies, as to annoynt them with the scum of the decoction of Guacum, or else wyth

Sope by it selfe: or else with Precipitate mixed with Vnguen∣tum Rosatum Mesue, or with the oyle of Scorpions, or with the fat of a Gote and of a Hen.