Medicines for the Scyatica. For all manner of Gouts, and consumed members, and for the Scyatica passion

Take a pound of Riote of red docks that men make brogys of, and wash them clean and dry them in the sun, until the water be away, then cut them small, and bray them in a morter, and boyl them in a quart of strong vineger, until half be wasted; and then  with the same anoint the aking place, and it will amend: then keep it in a vial of glass, or els it will dry away. This medicine is very excellent for the diseases abovewritten, for it hath been very well proved.