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THese remedies folowing are a∣gaynst the French Pockes, Le∣pry, and such like.
Make anoyntment agaynst the Scabbe that is ingendred of salte flegme, of Aloes, and vnquenched lyme, with common oyle.
Dioscor. Frenche garlike fryed with oyle killeth the ill scab, and the breaking out therof & applied vpon the apos∣tum,
so that it touch no other flesh by & it breaketh the same immediatly.
Auicen. To heale an olde Lepry, Take a serpent of a dry hill, and cut off the head therof quickly, & the tayle, and let hyr blede, & stir about the bloud til the bleding cease, and afterward let the serpent be mūdified from his inwardes, and let it be sodden, and cause the pacient to eate therof eue∣ry day ʒ .i. & drinke the wine wher∣in the serpent hath been sodden, tyll the leprous person be swollen and puffed vp, and beginne throughe anguishe to be in a manner besyde him selfe, then put the pacient in a stewe or hote house, and let the hole body of the paciēt be anointed with the liquor wherin the adder or ser∣pent was sodden, for the hole fleshe and skinne is therby renued, and so shal the pacient be perfectly healed. Take a blacke serpent, the head be∣ing cut off, bury hir, till she be ful of
wormes, & then let hit be dried, and giue therof vnto the leprous .ʒ .i. with a syrope of hony euery day.
Put corne in water of the decocti∣on of serpents, and feede hens with the same corne, and let drinke the same water, and their fethers shall fall of, and when they be vnfe∣thered let them be sod, and let the le∣prous person eate them, and drinke the water wherin they were sodden and let him washe his hands, face, and beard therwith.
This same experiment is sayd to heale the pockes for a certayntie in one day: take of mollen, pitch .ʒ .iij. of quicke brimstone, of salte Peter, Frākencense ana .ʒ .ii. as much oyle as shal be thought sufficient, make it and worke it vp well, and reserue it as ye shall ocupie it.
Circan. The barke of our ladies Thistle stampt with vineger, and applyed, taketh vtterly away all scabbinesse
and scurffe.
Take nesing pouder, louage, fen∣nell, and seeth them all togither in wine, wash the pacient that hath a deformitie of the skinne enclyning to a lepry, and it will cleare him.
A precious oyntment agaynst the scabbe, which is wonderfull in ef∣fect, and hath beene oft proued.
Take of quicke siluer .ʒ .ij. of eu∣phorbium .ʒ .j. of stauisagre .ʒ .ij. of litarge .ʒ .ij. of suet a pound & half, make anoyntment & let the pacient be anoynted therwith, al the armes shoulders, and backbone, and about the knees, either agaynst the sun, or against the fire, and if you perceyue by anoynting the pacient with this vnction, that he be inclined to vomi∣ting, or else any swelling of the vp∣per parts in the body, anoynt him no more, if not, cease not to anoynt him til the seuenth day be past, and if thē he break not out, make a fomen∣tation
agaynst the stomacke wyth water of the decortion of Rosemary and Sage, and after three dayes let make a bath with water of the de∣coction of enulacampana and dock, and lay a white linnen clothe vpon the anoynted place, that the oynt∣ment touche not the other partes of the body, by this maner of ordering haue many leprous persons beene healed.
Agaynst the French pockes take of brimstone ʒ .il. of neesing pouder, quick siluer, and cumin, ana ʒ .i. of Staphisagre ʒ .i. and a half, & incor∣porate thē with ʒ .vi. of stale hoggs grease, by this meanes euery euill disease or sicknesse is for a suretie healed, except it be ful of glandules or kernels, which must be cured af∣ter other meane.
Keepe a cocke fasting three daies, and then tye him to a stake wyth some Corde, and tye a tode by him
with a corde also, so that the cocke may eate him, within two days af∣ter the eating of the Tode, kill the Cocke, and seethe him in pure good wyne, a good whyle, put raw hony therin, let the pacient vse the same euery day: a henne were better. But thus hath it bene proued.
Peter. The leaues of Lilly stampt and plastred vpō the grefes, heleth thē. Vitriolum citrine dried and myxte with vineger, & burned vpon a tyle sharde, and do so by it thrice, lastly make it to pouder beeing applied, it healeth the sicknesse.
The rootes of Lekes made in a pla∣ster and applied vpon the glandules or kernels (wherof the sicknesse cō∣meth) healeth it, and anoynt the vl∣cers with this oyntment.
Take the iuice of Leke blades, oyle, and ware, & incorporate them, & so aniont the places that be cankrous, it healeth them wonderfully.
Melt tallow, and dip therin a lin∣nen cloth, and so bind it to the legs, it dothe exceedingly well heale the pustules of the legs & else where.
Take the pith of leauened bread, stampe it and temper it with wine and hony, & make them boyle togi∣ther, & mingle therto talow, & spred it vpon a linnen clothe, and apply it hote to the bruses and greuous pu∣stules of the legges.
The cutting of the vayne that is nighe the bygger ioynt doth migh∣tely heale the scabbe, and the euyll pustules on that side.
Dioscor. Dry figges stampt with the flou∣res of Iuy and so applied, do migh∣tily helpe the paynfull pustules of the legges.
Stampe red mints, Rue, black∣bery or bramble leaues, and morell togither, with ye rotes of lilly, mixt them with the whites of egges, vi∣negar and oyle, strayne thē all togi∣ther
and anoint thee therwith, it is wonderfull good.
Dioscor. Sethe the rotes of dock, and stāpe them mightily with hoggs grese, & put thereto quicke syluer quenched with Sage and ashes, incorporate it and anoynt thee therwith, it will yelde wonderfull effecte.
Seth the floures of Wertworte mightily in vineger, & put oyle ther∣to, anoint thee therwith, it wil heale the lepry, the scab, and al itchyngs.
Applie to the vlcers beeing fyrst mundified, triacle, and in the spring folowing, or then, if it be thē spring, thou shalt be hole.
Take stauisagre and litarge make a pouder and a bathe, and after wa¦she thy selfe-it is good agaynst the morfewe.
The smoke of henbane sede (the greued member being fumigated therwith) healeth.
An oyntment therwith expert &
cunning men say, that though the paulmes of the handes and soales of the feete (being nothing greued) be anointed therwith, yet al scabbi∣nes is takē cleane a way from al the body. Take of oyle of bayes .ʒ .iiii. of whyte Frankencense, and cleare white Waxe .ʒ ii. of quicke syluer quenched with spittle ʒ .i. of Hogs fat well fryed .ʒ v. of baye salte wel stampte .ʒ viii. of the iuyce of plan∣tayne, and fumitorie as muche as you wyll, myngle them all togy∣ther, and yf your confection be iust and good, it is a wonderfull expe∣riment.
Lyra. Take a snake and rost hyr wyth salt, and afterwarde burne hyr in a potte well closed vnto pouder, and giue the same againste all Lepry: and all other desperate greefes.