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.

  • George Stephens
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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    And take aporcion of whete bren 14/5 T as it plawyth cast yer in, And take an hand full of rose flowm And cast in fresch, of red colowm, And menge hem to gedere sawdely As well as yu may, 1480 And in apoketh yu it do Yat ye water may renne yer fro, And ley it on ye hed yat hath gret werk And hetyth ageyn whrtwn it is stark, And wyth in anyth T a day 1485 All ye hed werk schal away. PROSE EXTRACTS FROM THE 4to. MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF STOCKHOLM. PART I.—RECEIPTS CURIOUS FOR THEIR SINGULARITY OR SUPERSTITION. No. 1. TO KNOW OF DEATH. P. 26. To wety 3if If Also jif yi good frend be seke take yis erbe [verueyn] amfi chal deye. in yi rythand T take his rythand in yi rythand T lete ye erbe be betwene y4 he wot not, T aske qhow he faryth T qhow he hop4 of hy self, T jif he say he schal leue T fare wel he schal leue, T 3if he say he wot well certayn y4 he schal deyin he schal be ded of yat seknesse. No. 2. TO GET LOVE. P. 26- For to gete If Also qliwo so beryth it vp on hym he schal hawe lowe.