57pto be a certaine cure. it cured
2 children of about 10 yeeres of age.
and a man of 45 yeeres. probatum.
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5For ye Sciatica
Take nettles a good quantity and pound yem in
a mortar till yey be pounded all to mash.
Then put into yem some wine vineger
and a small quantity of bay salt, and if it be
10a hot humore lay ye playster on cold, if
a cold homor, warme it in a frying pan
and lay it on ye buttock or place yat is
greived as hot as ye patient can endure
it. The nettells must be put playster wise
15into a 4 square bag of thin linnen
when it is layd on, and it must be bound oun
with a towell. probatum est.
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For ye Ague.
20When ye fit cometh on ye party; get a good
bowlefull of strong beere of old beere
ye best yat can be gotten, and set his feete
into it vp to ye ancles, and get another
bowle full to put his hands in vp to
25ye wrists this doe in ye hot fit once
or twice or thrice or oftener as occasion
serues and it helps. probatum est.
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To repell rhewme falling out of ye head into ye eyes.
30Recipe 3 drams ot lapis tutius. 3 drams of aloes
hepatica. 3 drams of ye finest sugar and
beate ye aparte very fine, then put yem together.
into a pint of red rose water, and a pinte
of ye best white whine, put all into a big glasse
35and set yem in ye sun ye hottest time of ye yeere