John Ward Diaries, Vol. 12

pidgeons when applied to ye feet
are to bee Renewed euery 8 houres:
philonium Romanum helps flux of
blood in ye inward parts: per=
sicum was inuented to stopp wo=
mens Courses: Dr. Allston his Opi=
atum astringens is giuen in 25 gr.
to stop a flux, with diascordium
or some such thing:
There is some Lapis haematitis and
much saffron in itt:
Scammanie is about 8 gr. for a
dose:
The Arthritick pills are of para=
celsus his Inuention:
Balsec ye physitian was ye first
yt. Raild att Caluine for some pri=
vate quarrel, but after Herennius
and Schlusselburg did ye like:
The Sperme looks yellow in an old
Gonorrhaea:
Rosine and Nutmeggs powderd and
taken with ye white of an egge
cured an old Gonorrhea:
3 ways to dilate ye Orifice of a
wound, by spunge, ye pitts of elder
or Gentian Roots:
The way to know wheth[e]r a man bee
dead or no is to lay a feather on his
lip, if itt moue hee is aliue,