For a red swelling in the Foot.
TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water, right thick and well, and make a
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TAke and seeth Beane meal and Barley meal with water, right thick and well, and make a
plaister, and lay it to the swelling. Or take Tur∣pentine and Vineger, Honey, white Wine and Bran, and seeth all these together well untill they be thick, and then lay it to the swelling: Or take else Parsley, Sage, and Rue, and stamp with Lard of fat Bacon, and gray snails, and lay it to the sore, and it will gather to a head. Or take Rose leafs, and Lineseed, Milk, and Oatmeal, and fry all these together, and lay it to the sore.
TAke wool Oyl, or rather other Oyl, and put thereto a good quantity of Aqua vitae, and beat it together, and chafe it against the fire, and all to rub the sore and dead place, and in short time it wil be whole.
TAke Baldare one ounce, and put it in your pot∣tage, and eat thereof, for this is very good for aking of Bones, and also to restore a man that is in a Consumption in short time, if you will use it.
TAke red Coal Leaves, Sage and Smallage, well stamped & medled together with sowre dough, and Honey, and lay it to the sore. Or take horse Dung newly made, and wring out the juice there∣of, and annoint the sore therewith a good while, and then take Violet Leafes and Housleek, and stamp them, and strain them, and put to that juice sweet Cream, and annoint the sore therewith, and it will destroy the great heat.
TAke Hogs Dung, Pigeons Dung, and Sheeps Tallow, Chickweed and Smallage, and put all these together in Lees of Malmsey, or in Malmsey, or for lack of this in his own water, and when it is wel boyled lay it hot to the sore swelling, and this will abate the swelling, and ease the pain.