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English Medical Compendium, 16th century

'A note or knowledge of dyvers maladies or gryffes'

Medical recipes

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'A treates of Fystula in Ano, wyth wyth [sic] the cure therto belonginge'

'A slepe drincke, pouder, or pillula'

'The maner to make a man to awake'

'Pylles, or Pouder Antioche'

'To drawe out yron or scales of bones, thornes, or suche other'

'Medecynes molyfyeinge hardnes in woundes after the healinge or suche other'

'Unguentum de palma consolidatyne and sygilatyne'

'Of Clysters and of manner of ministringe of them'

'Of medicines. Cankeratynes and ulceratynes'

'Of marmooles and Ulcers'

Various medical recipes

'Thys boke treatythe of dyvers sykneses wythe good approvyd modecynes for the same': medical receipes taken from an unidentified written authority

Notes on purging

'Of fleebotomye or blud letting', followed by 'The quallyties of ye xii signes as they be devyded into triplicates'

Further recipes

'The iiii elementes', followed by notes on the seasons, their relationship to the four elements, on spirits etc.

Notes on the planets

Notes on the zodiac

'Thys ys ye booke of Ipocrates. In Thys booke he teachythe to knowe ye planetes, Syknes, lyf and deathe, And ye tymes yrof'

'Heare endythe the booke of Ipocrates of Iyff and deathe translatyd of astronomye [sic]. The best upon Avecena', followed by another table of star-signs and their corresponding elements etc.

'Heare followythe certayne phytable notes', alphabetical list of vegetable simples and their uses

Additional recipes

'There be eyght maners of medecynes mynystryd to ye partes of ye bodye wythe owte, for the whyche be callyd by ys maner. That ys to saye encatisme, synapisme, epithyme, cathaplasme, fomentacion, subfumigacion and sacellacion', explanation of the various ways medicaments can be administered externally

'The names and maner of divers syknesses', aphabetical list of illnesses with brief description of symptoms

Notes on astrology

'Here begynythe a table of Master Wylliam, Whos fyrst piller ys of emogages [sic] and thys yt begynythe', lists of simples arranged in columns according to their several properties

Alphabetical list of diseases with brief descriptions

Practical uroscopy, showing urine flasks containing various specimens with appropriate prescriptions

Additional listing of simples (incomplete and partly crossed out)

'Aspectus lune cum cetoris [sic] planetis', table of propitious days according to planetary conjunctions

'Master doctor hys contselle to all that are hys and a bryff lesson to all estates', epigrams relating to good conduct, partly in verse

'The table of the booke', partial list of contents, with some (f. 134r.) arranged by planet

'Here followythe xii sirupes yt are comon at ye apothicaries'

Further medical recipes, interspersed with culinary and metallurgical ones, with (f. 138r.) 'The coppye of an aquyttance'

'Prisse of divers druges', followed by various jottings including 'anno domini 1575 yr died yn london 4608 persons of the plage xicxvii persons crystenyd xixciiiix & viii' and in a different hand, '1599 John Weekes of West boren xxvi of marche'

Further medical notes and recipes, including (f. 107v.) 'A comfortative Royalle Master Roger necton doctor'

Further medical notes and recipes, including (f. 107v.) 'A comfortative Royalle Master Roger necton doctor'

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