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For the Falling sickness

Take Froggs, & extract by incision their Livers
wash them & dry them in a cloth wrap them up in a colwort=
leafe put them into a covered pipkin, & set it into Oven
ley them stand there till they be dry, then beat them with
the Colworth=leafe to a powder, seach it, & then 3 days
after 3 days before every change, give the patient
as much of this powder as will ly on a shilling, & 3
or 4 spoonfulls of white=wine take this 9 times,
let the patient take eat the pouder of the single
Piony root always & at all times during the 9 days
or after then for thee conclusiomn take a Vomit 5
grains in thee substance

For the faint Purples

Take a Purple grass & boyle it in milk & drink
it in the morning fasting, then take Purple silk &
knitt it in 3 knotts, & 5 knotts & 7 knotts & so swallow
it down in a little milke or Bear, & you must
drink a little Mothrioate & Unicornes horne to
put from your heart,

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sfemet

It looks like Sir Thomas Browne had a thing two to say about Unicorn Horn
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/pseudo323.html

John Woodall, in an earlier work, says harts horn is an acceptable substitute.
https://historymash.com/2016/08/26/a-substitute-for-unicorn-horn/