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PApauer, this is called Popy, it is colde and dry. There is two maners of them, the whyte Popy is colde and moyste, & it is good to cause one to slepe, the sede therof wel gathered may be kept .x. yeare. ¶The vertue is of clensynge, it is put in medycynes with a determynacion as the sede may be receyued of whyte Popy or blacke. For to prouoke a slepe, make a playster of eche of them,* 1.1 or one of them with womans mylke, and the whyte
of an egge, and laye it to the temples. The women of Salerne gaue to yonge chyldren the Popy, but they wolde gyue thē no blacke Popy, for it made them moche heuy. Also for a hote Postume in the begynnynge,* 1.2 and for chafynge of the lyuer, take the sede of whyte Popy, or els the herbe of it, and stamp it and medle it with oyle of Roses, and plaister it to the greuaunce.* 1.3 Also for drynes in feuer etyke and in other feuers, take & hete oyle of vyolet medled with powder of Popy sede, & anoynt the small of the backe therwith.
Slepe.
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Feuer.