38pA very good medicine for a sciatica

Take a good quantitye of garden wormes such red

wormes as yey vse to get fish with, and yen take a

reasonable quantitye of ye best sallet oyle you can get

5and fry ye wormes yerein being beaten to peeces, then

being well fryed draine ye oyle through a cloth from

ye wormes and keepe it, and made very warme anoint ye

place where ye greife is yerewith, and keepe it very warme

and in shorte time it will help you.

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An exellent medicine for ye paine of ye backe.

Take 3 spoonefulls of old red rose water and ye yelke

of a new layd egge ye tread being cleane taken out

and grate yereinto halfe a nutmeg and soe stir it together

15drinke it off and sweate vpon it, and it will helpe you

probatum est.

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A methredate to preserue one from ye plaug, and if infected to helpe him.

Take one figg 20 leaues of rue, and ye meate of

203 wallnuts being skinned or blanched, and 3 or 4

kernells of bay salt, and beate yem together with ye figg

till you make it like to an oyntment. yen put it in a

box and vse it as you would doe other methredate

if you would make any quantitye to every figg vse

25like quantitye of rue and nuts, this hath bin well proved

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A remedye for ye ringing and deafenesse in ye eares

Take of oyle of Castoreum 2 ounce. oyle of rosset, and

oyle of bitter almonds of each 1 ounce. and of aqua vitae 2 ounce.

30seeth all yese together till ye aqua vitae be consumed, yen every

night in ye evening when you goe to bed drop 4 drops

into youre eares and stop yem with cotton savouring somewhat of

muske, this is an approved remedye. probatum est.

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35A medicine with an order for ye swea=ting sickness

If a man be taken with this sicknesse, ye best is to get

him to bed, and soe cast cloths vpon him to make him

sweate, for if such take cold it is present death.

Allsoe diligent heed must be taken yat too many cloths

40be not layd vpond him, for too much heate is as present death

as cold. noe man in any case may breath in his face

neyther may yere be too many in ye chamber, for brea=

=thing vpon him letteth his breath, which will be very

short with ye paines of ye sicknesse, And take heede

45in any wise yat he sleepe not at all, which he will marvei=

=lously desire. For if he sleepe before ye danger of

ye sicknesse be past, in his sleepe he will sownd