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To Make an Ointment for a Scald head A remedy for treating ringworm using butter, ale, and wormwood. -
To kill Bugs and worms in horsis [horses] A remedy for de-worming horses using milk, honey, and salt water. -
To increase flesh or Cure a Wound An ointment that promotes wound healing made of dragon's blood, aloe succotrina, and olibanum. -
To heal without a Scar An ointment for preventing scarring made from elder buds, elder leaves, and white sugar. -
To dry up milk Two methods for drying up breast milk (presumably after weaning a breast feeding child) by applying soaked cloths; one with alum, and the other, diachylon . -
To drive out the Measles A remedy for measles made of pimpernel boiled in milk. -
To draw out an Imposthume without incision A plaster for treating abscesses made of leeks and lard. -
To desolve the Stone A medicinal treatment for dissolving stones (probably kidney stones) made from distilled cow dung. -
To desolve a hard Brest A poultice to dissolve a hard breast (breast lump?) made from honey, brandy, and wax. -
To Cure the biting of a mad dog Directions for treating a bite from a dog with rabies, using cupping and a poultice made of leeks, wormwood, onions, salt, butter, and honey. -
To cover a Naked Bone with Flesh Recipe for an ointment to put on exposed bone that includes oil or roses, ginger, and honey of roses. -
To Cause urin presently A remedy to promote urination made from juniper oil and parsley water. -
To break an Imposthume in the Eare or for a Noise in the head A poultice for treating ear abscesses or tinnitus made from wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum), onions, and brandy. -
To asowage the pain of any Scald how great so vever Poultice for treating scalds with a poultice made of cloth dipped in rennet. -
Tincture sena An infusion of senna and cardamom in brandy for unknown use. -
The Worm Pills A remedy, likely for the treatment of worms in humans, using "aloes rosatum" (probably a mix of the juice of aloe mixed with rosewater), iron, agaric, sweet mercury, sulphurated scammony, and oil of wormwood. -
The way My Lady Kent gave it to Mr Sheldon A recipe for a remedy for a wide variety of physical illnesses and depression; can also be used to induce sweating (presumably to rid the body of harmful substances). Made of pearls; red coral; the eyes of lobsters, crawfish, or crabs; hartshorn (male red deer horns); crab claws; hartshorn jelly, and saffron. -
The use of this oyntment is this: A method for using an ointment of unknown composition, used to treat a range of ailments including wounds, burns, kidney stones, worms, poisons, ulcers, or fistulas. This entry may refer to an immediately-preceding entry in the Recipe Book which has been cut from the original manuscript.
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