Items

• To M Take of the heat of the liver

  Two recipes for drinks to cure the liver: one made from a mixture of herbs and breast milk, the other made from rabbit liver and alcohol.
• To Dy [Dye] Blue

  This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
• To Dy [dye] a Good Red

  This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs.
• Quinsey

  A treatment for the condition known as quinsy/quinsey, a potentially life-threatening complication from tonsillitis.
• Phistillia [fistula] watter [water] which will keep the pipe from growing & desolve [dissolve] ye Lump that is hard

  Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
• For a pimpled Face

  A recipe for acne made from grape juice, camphor, sugar candy, roche alum, and verdigris, all mixed and kept underground for 40 days.
• An Excelent Resept for mouth water

  A recipe for a mouth rinse made from sage, sweet briar leaves, and alum.