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¶ Centorie.
CEntorie: for wormes that eate ye haires of the head and face, mixe the gall of an oxe or sheepe with Centorie, and boyle them in wine or vineger, and anoint therewith. 2 Eyes red and dull, put in the iuice of it and of hounds tongue. 3 Eares dull, put in the iuice with the gall of an eele with tents. 4 Appetite to cause, seethe Centorie and Planten, and Pepper in wine, and drinke it luke warme three nights to bedward. 5 Teeth wormes, apply the iuice. Breast paine, seethe it in water and drinke it. 6 Coughes drie, seethe it in stale ale and stampe it and seethe it a∣gaine in the same ale, and streine it and put thereto a third part of honie, and boyle it till it be as thicke as honie, and take thereof iii. spoonefull fasting to clense the stomacke from gleete & be whole. 7 Reines griefe, drinke the iuice with vineger: biting or stinging, the iuice with water. 8 To prouoke appetite, and to cleanse the stomacke and breast, and to purge the backe and reines, and heale them, seethe it in water and drinke it. 9 Wormes, seeth it with Wormewood in milke, and drinke it fasting. 10 Braine weake, mixe Centorie, Rue, and Fenell seede, with strong vineger, and drinke it in the mornings, and shaue thy head, and apply thereto a blacke Cocke clouen through the midst foure & twentie houres, and then bleede in the master veine of the head and in the arme likewise. 11 Breast griefes, seethe it in white wine, and stampe it and seethe it againe therein and streine it, and drinke two or three spoonefull with Sugar candie as oft as neede is. 12 Eyes watring, apply Centorie to the nape of the necke. Ague cake, vse to drinke Centorie water. 13 Flegme to breake and voide, seethe it in white wine or ale with Licoras, and streine it and drinke it with Sugar morning and euening, and for horsenesse with Sugar candie. 14 Stinging of a Snake or Adder, steepe it in newe Ale and streyne it and drinke it, and also stampe thereof with gray salt, and apply it to the wounde. 15 Fe∣uer quarten, stampe it and streine it with ale, and drinke it be∣fore the fit. 16 Feuer quotidian, drinke as much powder as one small Walnut with wine, and drinke a little more wine after it to cleanse thy mouth. 17 Feuer of the gall, drinke one dramme of the powder three mornings fasting with white