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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: ii.544.
[A52]
[A53]
[1]
f. 83v
For stynkyng breth take red mente and rew anur and wrynge þe jus into þe nose att nyghth goyng to bed.
Medical recipe to cure bad breath, complete.
[A54]
[A55]
[2]
f. 83v
For þe stomake take centaney and rosmary and seþe with wyne.
Medical recipe for the stomach, incomplete. Same hand as [1].
[3]
f. 92v
Take egrymoyne and stampe hit well and take þe jus and take barly mele a quantite branne and alle and take iij potel of fresche watur and wosche þe mele þerin tyl þe watur be whyte and take þe jus and do þerto and seþe þe watur and þe jus to þe iij parte and ʒeue þe pacient to drynk at euyn hot and at morow cold pro sanabatur.
Medical recipe for the stomach, with a Latin title, complete.
[4]
f. 93
For whorsenes and for to clere þe voyce take myntys and sentory and ysope and fygges and lycores and auance and boyle hem togedur and vse hit and he shal be whole [second recipe] to make a man slepe al a day drynke þe jus of ulyde uepte more morel and lytyl more [third recipe] and for woman þat may not conceve make her a bath of þe flores of flore delyce of mugwort and of walchenot levys equaliter …
f. 93v
… and wassche þe seke ij dayes also take archangel and seþe hit in watur and yt is good for þe same.
Collection of nine medical recipes.
s. xiv.
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