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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.478–9.
[1]
f. 205v
A good medicine to avoyde flewme and corruppcion out of thi stomoke take the skynne of a catte that is but a yer olde and let the hed be stille theron and let tawe the ynner syde and take an oyle that is called oleun ciriacum and annoynte the ynner side of the skynne be a fyre and ley it to thi stomoke and let it be sewed to thi dowbelet and it shall hele the.
Medical recipe to cure phlegm, complete.
[2]
f. 205v
A good medicine to sharpe a mannys witte[s] whan thei be dull in labour take rede vyneger whan thu gost to thi bedde and let rubbe the hert of thi fote and thyn ankleys wiþ a lynyn clowte be a fyre and chaufe it well till it haue dronke up half a saweserfull and that shall make thi wittes sharp and fresshe.
Medical recipe to sharpen the wits, complete. Same hand as [1].
s. xv.
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