[Get from Barbers the blood of young sanguine men; let it
stand; pour off the serum; mix the blood with a tenth of
prepared salt; put it in an amphora; seal that up; put it in
a horse’s belly, renewing the dung weekly till all the blood
turns into water; distil that; put the outcome on the pounded
fæces, and distil over again.]

heuene sterrid, and to þe cure of nature of man worchiþ moost
deuyn myraclis, as wiþi{n}ne I schal teche ȝou / þerfore resceyue 16
of Barbouris, of ȝong sangueyn men, or colerik men, wha{n}ne þei
be late blood, þe which vse good wynes. take þat blood aftir þ{a}t
it haþ reste, and cast awey þe watir fro it, and braie it wiþ þe
.10. p{ar}t of co{men} salt
p{re}p{ar}ate to medicyns of me{n}; and putte 20
it into a uessel of glas clepid ampho{ra}, þe which, sotely seele,

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and putte it wiþi{n}ne þe [*]wombe of an hors, p{re}p{ar}ate as tofore,
and renewe þe fyme oonys in þe wike, or more, and lete it
putrifie til al þe blood be turned into watir / and it schal be doon 24
at þe mooste in xxx. or xl dayes, or aftir, more or lasse / þanne
putte it in a lembike, and distille it at a good fier / what so euere
may ascende, putte þat watir vpon þe fecis brayed, mey{n}gynge
vpon a marbil stoon; putte it aȝen, and aftir distille it aȝen 28
manye tymes rehersynge / And whanne ȝe haue þis noble þing

[Heat the water in the distiller till it comes to a heavenly
savour. This Fifth Being works miracles hardly credible unless
seen.]