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