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TO PREVENT DREAMS.

$ 220. Take the vervain, and hang about a man's neck, or give him the juice in going to bed, and it will prevent his dreaming.

TO DESTROY A WORM IN THE TOOTH.

§ 221. Take the roots of the cat's ear, bruise, and apply to the patient's tooth for three nights, and it will kill the worm.

TO CURE ALL KINDS OF ERUPTIONS.

§ 222. Take some onions and pound in water or vinegar, wash the affected part therewith, and it will remove all sorts of eruptions.

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FOR NOISE IN THE HEAD, PREVENTING HEARING.

§ 223. Take a clove of garlic, prick in three or four places in the middle, dip in honey and insert in the ear, covering it with some black wool. Let the patient sleep on the other side every night, leaving the clove in the ear for seven or eight nights unchanged. It will prevent the running of the nose, and restore the hearing.

A SAFE PLASTER FOR ALL SWELLINGS.

§ 224. Take some cream, (or in the absence of cream, fresh milk,) set on the fire, adding thereto some crumbs of white bread, wax, and a little honey: when it has boiled nearly enough, add a portion of mutton suet, and oil of olives. If the heat in the swelling is considerable, add some white of eggs, mix well and apply to the swelling.

A PLASTER TO REMOVE PAINS, ACHES, AND INFLAMMATION, § 225. Procure (if you can) the milk of a one coloured cow, oatmeal, a little mutton suet, and a handful of parsley, pound together and boil well, then apply warm to the disease, and it will speedily ease it.

TO DISPERSE A SWELLING.

§ 226. Take the juice of plantain, the white of eggs, clarified honey, and barley meal, mix them together and apply as a plaster to the swelling. Proven.

ANOTHER.

§ 227. Seek the juice of water pimpernel, the white of eggs, honey, and wheat or barley meal; make a plaster, then apply to the disease, and it will heal it.

TO REMOVE PAIN AND SWELLING.

§ 228. Take rye meal, white of eggs, and the juice of plantain; then apply as a plaster to the disease, anointing it first with honey, and by God's help it will cure it. If required, this should be done two or three times.

TO REMOVE A SWELLING.

§ 229. Take the leaves of foxglove, mutton suet, oatmeal, and milk, apply as a plaster to the swelling, and it will cure it.

TO PROMOTE THE FORMATION AND POINTING OF AN ABSCESS.

§ 230. Take the leaves of foxglove, pound with wine, suet, and barley meal, applying it thereto as a plaster warm.

ANOTHER.

§ 231. Take curds in ale, together with sheep's milk.

TO DESTROY FLEAS.

§ 232. Take a hedgehog, roast it, receiving the oil in a vessel, anoint a stick with some of this oil, and lay it where there are fleas, and as many as are to be found in that room will be attracted thereto.

FOR ALL MANNER OF ACHES IN THE THIGHS, FEET, ARMS, OR ANY OF THE JOINTS.

§ 233. Take a small quantity of broom flowers, lily flowers, eryngo leaves, and red dock leaves; pound them well and make an ointment of them with butter, then anoint the diseased part therewith, and it will be cured.

FOR THE VERTIGO, CALLED MIGRAN, OR HEMICRANIAL

HEADACHE.

§ 234. Take a live hare, behead it, skin, and boil or roast, then open the head, taking some rosemary flowers, and powder the same, put them in the head, mixing with the brain, and baking or roasting it. Let the brain be then eaten, the patient sleeping afterwards, and it will be found really useful.

FOR THE FALLING SICKNESS, CALLED fflamgwst, AND IN LATIN EPILEPSIA.

§ 235. Take the blood of a newly brought forth lamb, who has never suckled, mix with two spoonfuls of good ale, and drink it fasting for three mornings. This is proven and wonderful.

TO ALLEVIATE HOOPING COUGHS WHEN PRODUCING

CEREBRAL DISTURBANCE.

§ 236. Seek a pennyworth of cummin seed, two pennyworths of the seed of the English galingale, called glingal, and the same of cannella; powder these ingredients well together, then take on warm drink, and it will be of benefit.

FOR THE MALIGNANT CARBUNCLE OR PLAGUE.

§ 237. Seek a good handful of red sage, a handful of rue, the same of garlic, pound well in strong ale, or wine, or good mead, finally straining through a fine cloth, and by God's help you will recover.

FOR A PROLAPSUS ANI.

§ 238. Take the herb called cleavers, whose seed adhere to the hose of those who get among them, and are found in round grains of the size of pepper on the terminal branches of the plant; pound them well and boil in butter till an ointment is formed, which should be expressed and the anus anointed therewith.

FOR THE MIGRAN OR VERTIGO.

§ 239. Get frankincense, yellow wax, and honey, compound them well together, then apply in the form of a plaster to the forehead, and it will be truly useful.

FOR A CHILD WHO HAS BECOME PARALYSED IN HIS LIMBS.

§ 240. Perhaps that he has lost the power of his limbs from weakness in his spine, if so, take oil of turpentine, and oil of olives, and mix together, anointing the child's back therewith night and morning. This will strengthen him.

FOR PAINS IN THE THIGHS, FEET, ARMS, AND ALL JOINTS.

§ 241. Take oil of turpentine, butter, sheep and goat's suet, boil in a pan well, straining through a cloth. Anoint the painful part with it well.

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FOR A STICH ORIGINATING UNDER THE ARM OR BREAST, AND EXTENDING THROUGH THE SHOULDER.

§ 242. Make an ointment with thick cream, broad leaved dock, and nettles; apply this as a plaster so as to bring it to the surface. It is indeed a good application.

FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.

§ 243. Take primrose, pound small, express the juice under a press, and mix with milk, giving it the patient to drink nine times.

FOR RHEUMATISM, OR STIFFNESS IN THE SHOULDER and

LIMBS.

$244. Make an ointment with butter, rue, frankinsence, and three pennyworth of the blessed water,* anoint three times a week for a summer's month, or if it be winter, remain in a warm room, and beware of cold.

FOR AN INSANE PERSON.

$ 245. Take betony, boil in a quart of strong ale, and use for drink, and you will certainly recover.

FOR A MAN WHO IS WEAK IN HIS INTELLECT OR MAD.

§ 246. Take a quart of red wine vinegar, and half as much of the juice of celandine,† mixing them together; then take a cupful of a potion prepared from spring water and betony, (bruised together and strained) the first thing in the morning, and the last at night. Let the same herbs be boiled for him in order to strengthen his head, an emulsion being prepared from linseed, in which the herbs should be boiled. The patient should be confined in a dark room. This is an effective treatment.

FOR THAT INFIRMITY OF THE HEAD WHICH IS TERMED BRAIN FEVER, OR FRANTIC DELIRIUM, OCCASIONING DERANGEMENT OF MIND, AND CALLED IN LATIN PHRENESIS. IN THIS COMPLAINT THE PATIENT IS HARDLY CONSCIOUS WHAT HE UTTERS; IT IS OCCASIONED BY WATER UNDER THE FONTENELLE, PRESSING ON THE BRAIN AND MEMBRANES, AND HINDERING SLEEP AT NIGHT.

§ 247. Get linseed, pound in a brass mortar, make an emulsion therefrom with pure water, boiling it as you do porridge. Powder as much as can be contained in Aqua Benedicta Rulandi.

Celandine is an active drastic Cathartic.

the hollow of your hand of anise-seed and ginger, let the same be mixed with the emulsion and given to the patient to drink, four times in the day and night for nine days. The diet should be nourishing, the drink of a tonic nature, and the patient should be put to sleep in a dark room

FOR INFLAMMATION, ATTENDED WITH SWELLING AND PAIN IN THE MEMBERS, FEET, AND HANDS.

§ 248. Take asparagus, pound well and make into an ointment with butter, then anoint the diseased part therewith. It is truly useful.

FOR ALOPACEA.

§ 249. Take water cress, bruise well and express the juice, wash your head therewith and scrub it well. The same juice may also be taken internally, and you will be cured.

FOR HYSTERIA.

$ 250. First take an emetic, then the following dry herbs, cloves, mastic, grains of Paradise, and wood of aloes, a pennyworth of each, pound together well, let a portion be taken dry every morning, and in an emulsion at other times.

TO REMOVE AN EXFOLIATION OF BONE FROM THE SKULL.

§ 251. Take betony, vervain, and rue, pound well with honey, wheaten flour, and the white of eggs, making it into a plaster, and applying to the injured part.

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A PLASTER TO REDUCE A SWELLING.

§ 252. Take barley flour, and the white of an egg, mix, and apply as a plaster to the injury.

FOR A HEMATUREA.

253. Take a handful of each of the following herbs, even parsley, plantain, and shepherd's purse; pound thoroughly, and strain,with goat's whey, drink a cupful fasting every morning. Continue this and you will recover.

FOR AN EPITHELIAL CANCER.

§ 254. Take ground ivy, and foxglove, pound well, boil in stale urine and tallow or suet, strain, and anoint the injury therewith.

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