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225 For a paine in the head
Dipp a sheet of Browne Paper in Redd rose water, Apply it cold
to the Forehead or Temples./.
For a Loosenes
Spread sofft red wax on a peece of leather of this breath of the breath of a Shilling,
lay it on the Navell, warm it that it may Stick./.
For the Faling sickness
Burne the skull of a man, beat it to powder, beat a quantity of Pyony
seeds to powder and beat Philipendula rootes to powder, take nutmeggs
and some of the burnt skull beat them together Drinck there of,
For the Same./.
Take a handfull of Rhue and as much Wormewood made into Powder and blow it up the nose./
Another
Take the aforesaid Herbs and the Rootes stamp them and bind them
to the nape of ye neck:
To make a Sirrup of Ruberb
Put into a quart of Spring water Savory & Maidenhead of each a handful
two ounces of Raisons of the sunn ston'd & almost a quarter of an ounce
of anniseeds boyle them in ye water till tis reduced to a pint, straine it,
then slice half an ounce of ye best Ruberb into it set it behind the
fire from the morning till night to infuse, let it not boyle, straine it,
and to a pound of Liquor putt a pound & halfe of Loaf Sugar; then boyle it on
a soft fire to ye height of a Syrrup Bottle it, when cold tye it close up,
Til good for wormes in Children to be taken at ye Change of ye Moon 3
Mornings together 2 Spoonsfull a Morning, and elder body may take
3 Spoonsfull or more, If the Child be inclin'd to a Consumption
add at first to ye Syrrup a handfull of Egrimony, another of Cesorach
& to a pint of ye Liquor put half an Ounce of hartshorne, and give
it a warm or two, do it before you put in this Ruberb. then make the Syrrup as before./
How to make the black Plaister:
Melt together one pound of Pitch a pound of black Rosin, aqua^[]:
of a pound of beeswax the quantity of a henns Eggs of Deere or
Mutton Suet, with halfe an ounce of black peper finely beaten,
amongst them, put them into a bole of Cold water and worke
them up handsomely into a Lump, when you have ocassion to
use any of it warme it by some Coales spread it thin upon Soft leather,
and Apply it cold./.