The second recipe on this page is for an unguent - an ointment or salve - known by the Latin name 'veni mecum', meaning 'come with me'. The rubric - the title of the remedy, which is underlined in red - states the three ailments it can address: 'skabbe, morfil and skalle', all types of skin diseases involving scabs, scaly skin and pustules.

The herbal remedy took rather longer to prepare than the previous one. It was made by taking the leaves and roots of borage, fumitory, celandine, elecampane, scabious and red dock, and another plant called 'clotes boyen', all in the same quantity. 'Bray [i.e. crush] them all together in a mortar,' the recipe instructs, 'and let them lie nine days, and then boil it up and put it in pots.'

The time it took to make, and the recommendation on storage, suggests that the unguent was to be made in batches by a healer or apothecary, and kept until it was needed by a patient.