Prepositas his practise a vvorke very necessary to be vsed for the better preseruation of the health of man. Wherein are not onely most excellent and approued medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes of great vertue, but also most pretious waters, against many infirmities of the body. The way how to make euery the said seuerall medicines, receiptes, and ointmentes. With a table for the ready finding out of euery the diseases, and the remedies for the same. Translated out of Latin into English by L.M.

7. The making of Amili.

TAke good wheate and beat it lightly, not to small, and put it into a vessell of glasse, and set it in water, so that the water be aboue it two or thrée fingers, and so let it stand by the space of a night, in the morning presse it downe well vnto the substance, of the which ammily shal be made of, descending to the bottome, afterward straine it with a siue, and cast away the bran which swimmeth aboue, then cast foorth the water softly so that nothing remaine, then dry it with a litle cotten, let this be done in sommer, and al∣so soone dride, least it waxe soure and so corrupt, and couer thy vessell with a fine cloth, that nothing fall in afterward, and when it is drye, then reserue it in a vessell with a strait mouth, so close stopped that nothing may enter in. If ye wil make this in winter, then ye must take héede that it bee not soure, we must also prouide that it be soone dride in sommer and in winter by the sunne, or in the winde, or nigh the fire, and thus ye may make amilum of rice,