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To take ye fire out of a scald or burne
Take some onyons & pille ye shell of & chope ym small & aply to ye splace as soon as it is done & this will take ye fire out and has ben aproved

To tak fire out of a burn
Tak a roten aple & lay to it & it will fetch out ye fire & heale it being still fresh aplyed to it, also if you rub ye burn wth your Spitle, or wth wt you can blow out of your nose wch is better
Another bath it in milke & it will get ye fire out
Another rub or lay salt on it & it will get out ye fire
Another for a scald doe it wth brandy

To cuer a burn spedly or scald
Take some smal oatmeal & boyle it wth new milk & boyle in it some malows & voylet leaves & some cooling pultice herbs put in some muton suet & apply it to it & so doe it morning and Evening wth fresh pultice 3 or 4 dayes binding ye pultice well to it then take some salve called basilicon wch you may have at ye Apothecarys & lay a plaister all over it & take it off once a day & as you se it heals only wipe ye plaister not puting on fresh

Another
Take salet oyle or linseed oyl & to a pint of oyle of A [penith] of red lead & boyle it to ye thickness of a plaister & then use ye salve to it & it will cuer dresing it once or twice a day at ye first

To make a pultice to get fire out of a scald or burn
boyle white bread & watter together & put in a litle bors greas & let it lye on one night & as soon as you can anoynt it wth wt you please

To good ye fire out of a burn
Take mude out of a sinck or high way & clape it one immediatly & in an howers tyme renew it again once or twice & this will take ye fire out & if ye blisters be not broke they will dry away

Another
Take ye inward bark of green Elme & put it into a litle Spring watter litle more then to wet it squez ye bark out & anoynt ye burn wth yt water wch will be a Jelly & so lay it on & it will take ye fire out, then lay some healing salve or oynmt wch may be made wth ye inner bark of Elder & cream boyled together

How to prepare worms for powder
Gather your worms att night then putt them into an earthen pott with ffennell to purge them in ye morninge take them out and putt them into a platter and bast a handfull of bay salt amongst them then beatt them and ye salt together a good while with your hand and mash them in severall waters till ye their slimes be goone then cutt off a little of each of ye ends of them [unrip] them cleane thorow and [forage] only all ye earth with in them and putt them into faire water till your hand well cleaned them all
Then shift them into clean waters washinge them till ye water bee very clear lastly wash them in white wine which whill raise a greatt frothinesse
Take them from ut and putt a little fresh white wine to them and lett them stand all night in itt in ye morninge take them and dry them flatt in an earthen platter or about a [sine]
You must be sure the oven be not too hott for if they dry too hastiely they will bee spoiled when they are thus dryed beatt them to powder they are very hard to beatt butt with pains they will bee very fine powder You must putt to 2 oz of this powder of worms halfe an oz of Calsined ivory halfe an oz of Callsined Hartshorne
This powder mingled together you must take every morninge for 6 weeks together as much of itt as ye weight of 8d and with itt and after itt ye possett drinke followinge

An openinge possett drinke to take with ye powder
Take a quarte of clear possett drinke then take of Sparrowgrasse roots and of ffenill root of Dandelyon and Parfly and of each a root of Surfonoza root otherwise calld vipergrasse 2 Pippins or Pearmains sliced a handfull of razons of ye sun stoned halfe a handfull of Agrimony as much Scabius when you have made your roots ready to putt in you must stamp them a lilttle then putt all the things together and lett them boyle in ye possett drinke till halfe bee consumed and lett it stand in a Pipkin with these things all ye while you drinke itt you must make this possett drinke thrice a weeke
When you bee take your powder you must itt in a spoone and only wett itt with some of this possett drinke and so swallow itt downe then wash itt downe againe with 2 or 3 spoonfulls of itt warme and halfe an houre after itt drinke 1/2 a pinte of itt warme and eat nothinge else till dinner yt day

The purge to be taken once a weeke all ye while you take ye powder followinge
Two oz of sirrop of Succory with double infusion of Ruberb putt into itt a little of ye openinge possett Ayle
The day you take ye purge you must not take ye worm powder but keepe your chamber
Take the purge ye day before you take ye worm powder

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