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For a stroke or Bruise in the Eye
{Lady Bedles}

Take a Pigeon, & let her blood in the great veine of a
wing, & let the blood spring out of the veine into the
Patient's Eye. You must dresse it 6 or 7 times.
{AhHon}

An Excellent Medicine for any sore Mouth or Throat
{Lady Butler A Hon}
Take as much Bole Armeniack as the weight of a groat,
mingle it with 1/2 Sppoonfull of honey. Let the Patient
take it when they are a bed: let them lye iupon their back &
keep it in their mouth, till it is dissolved & so sleepe. If yc mouth
or throat be very Soare you may take six penny weight.

An Oyntment for Burning with Gun=
powder or Sealing with Water
{Lady Bedler A Hon}
Take a quart of Boares Grease, 2 Handfulls of Groundsell,
& 2 or 3 Heads of Horseleek, stampe them together, then
putt to it 2 handfus of new Sheepes Dung, 2 Handfulls of
GOose DUng, stamp them all together and fry them, & straine
them when they are hott through a Cloth into an Earthen
Pott, & with the Liquour ansint the burns or scalded place.

For the Stinging of a Snake or Adder
either in Man or Beast
{Lady Bedles A Han}
Take as many black Snailes as you can gett, slitt them in
the midst, putt them in a thinne Cloth, & apply them to yr
Place, & it will give present ease & remede

The Vulnerary Liquour
Take an ounce of Crabbs Eyes (oculi Canororum) beat them to
smell Powder, putt them into a deepe Jarre Glasses and pure upon
them
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A most admirable Receipt for a Fistula

{Lady Parkhurst A Hon}
Take of Par Rosine a pound, and of Sheepes Suett the Bignes of a
Turkie Egge, and if you make it in Winter putt them in a panne, &
sett them over the Fire till they be ready to boyle, then powre it into
another panne of cold water, rubb Your Hands with Butter that it may
not cleave to them, worke it till it become as small as pack threads, then
scrape it on a Cloth, and spread it very thinne, then cutt it out small &
narrow, and when you use it rowle it like a Tent.

The Powder belonging to it.

Take an Oxe Horne & lay it 9 daies in water, shifting it every day
then take it out, and fill it full of blacke Soape, then putt it into a
Frying panne, hold it over the Fire, & the Horne will melt away &
turne to Powder, & when You dresse the Sore, dipp the aforesaid Tent
the End of it in this Powder, and so tent it.

The Water belonging to it

Take Allum, and white Coppras of each a like quantity, beat them
into fine Powder, and mingle them well together, & putt them into an
Earthen panne, and sett them on a soft Fire, & let them boyle till they
be so hard that they will boyle no longer. Then beat them to Powder
2 Spoonfulls will make a gallon of Water, but let your Water seeth first
before You putt it in, Then take it of, at the first sprinckle a little of ye
powder into it, least it flame up, & after by degrees wett a faire Cloth,
and dresse the Sores twice a day. Sometimes scringing it with this
Water, and being tanted as aforesaid wett a Cloth 2 or 3 times double, &
lay on it still as you dresse it, and so let it lye till you dresse it againe. If
greene Coppras be used two pound must be putt to a pound of Allom. If it
be not deepe the Water only may be used without Tenting.
To make a Poultis for any inflammation or swelling.
{My Mother A Han} Take 1/2 a pint of the Grounds of Beere, and as much Milke, putt in that of