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Cankers

Take a handfull of live bees out of the hive in your naked hand & crush them in a quart of ale. & tēper thē well & {suger} them & let him & let him drink th thrice a day as long as any lastet {sic} to heale cholick & stone whē no physick will helpe

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Recipe for ‘a Cocke not fleshly not fat’ stuffed with mace, raisins, currants and dates, ‘for a cōsumption’.

 morbo vesicæ

Recipe beginning ‘oyle of vitrioll & cakes of turpentyne’. It seems to be separate from the entry above it for Mr Anthony Withers, though it may have been suggested by his consultation as these cakes are good for ‘cōsumptions’, which is what Napier diagnosed him as suffering from. In the left margin at the start of this it says ‘R. M.’. The bit on f. 93r begins ‘make the former cakes into a {}fume & cast it on the coles. & it will drive away evill spirites frō mā or womā’ (and there was nothing about evil spirits in Mr Withers’s entry), and after some more details about how to prepare it it concludes ‘this by gods helpe will chase a way feryes frō any house. this will serve w^thout the fume. this for all evill feryes blacke blue red.’ There is an ‘℞’ in the left margin, which could be either Raphael or Recipe, and another ‘R’ at the end.

Take \venice/ turpentyne in ℥ij oyle of vitrioll gut 16. her owne blood or any other blood of a womā and some of the womans water bewitched & mix all togeather. a spoonefull 3 or 4 days togeather in the morning fasting & eate nothing 2 houres after good agaynst all witchcraft & evill sprites w^ch are {illeg} feryes & agaynst sorcery

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for the new Ague

for falling sicknes in man or woman

Dropsye

The page is wholly given over to a collection of medical recipes, some with what presumably are post hoc comments by Napier after he has tried them out (‘not so’, ‘not good’, ‘it hath bene ved’), and in one case an endorsement from Michael (‘a very singular medson.’). Highlights include ‘anoynt y^e yard all over w^th fox blood & it will {incōtinently} break it the stone’; ‘In the hed of a tode there is a stone l {sic} w^ch being made cleane & stāped \& beaten to pouder/ being given in {warme} wyne it driveth out the stone p^rsently’, and ‘the stone of an old toade put in an emmets hill to eate away the flesh good put in wyne agaynst poysons’.

The pultice the gentlemā vsed by the Surg advice

The fermentation w^ch you are nowe to vse

The iniection

This treatment appears to be related to the previous note.