Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis.

  • Stephens, George, 1813-1895.
Date:
[1844]
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Credit: Extracts in prose and verse from an old English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library at Stockholm / Communicated by George Stephens, through Sir Henry Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ye crop of ye reed worte do yer to 230 And plawnteyne T yyolette also, Ye crop of ye reednettyle for3ete yu no3t Also smalache yer to browthe, And 3et take rwe of bytter sawowr, And smal consowde w* ye whyte flour, 235 And y* hee ben gaderyd in somerys day, And sothyn to gedyr wl botyr of may, Sythyn make here of salwe orythe For euery wonde yis is bote I ply the. To hele a Fryst it mwst wasched be fresche wonde. 240 245 Alia medicina. 250 fFor wondis i manys heed. 255 Alia. P. 41. 260 ffor abetyn wonde medicyn, 3 A Wyth vryne of manys prewyte. And latyn it yer on so lyn ay, Til it be on ye toyer day, And yane a qwyte onyon T salt yu take And grynde it to gedir aplayster to make, And bynde it clene op on ye soor Yer to ne thar come no thynge more. And 3et anoyer thyng hawe I foude Yl medecyne is for sweche awoude, Take sethe an onyon T mynte w* all And grynde is wyth salt to gedir smal And byndys to ye soor to dayis or thre, Thorow helpe of god sone schal he hool be. 3if yu hawe i yin heed a wonde Take betanye qwere it may be foiide, Amenge it wl gres of aswyne. And no oyer salwe thar be ye woude lyn. Also I fynde wrete for awohde Yl I wyl 30W telle yis stohde. Take salt T gres of swyne T verweyne And it wyll make ye wonde hoi T seyne. •f[ 3if agret wonde wl beste be betyn Or w4 awepy wyckydly smetyn YOL. XXX.