9. In like manner, in the Tooth-ach it performs Wonders, drawing out the Humours causing dolour in the Teeth; if as much as will lie on the point of a knife, or ʒ j. of it, be applied, tied up in a fine Cloth, to the aking Tooth, yet after the use of some gentle Purgation.
10. It is a famous Medicine in Affects of the Eyes and Ears, drawing their Original from a Catarrh, provided the use of some Purging Medicine be not neglected.
11. This salt is egregiously useful, and especially after Metallick Bodies have been dissolved in it, against green Wounds of the Body and old Fistula’s.
12. If it be mixed with a due quantity of common Water, and thence a Bath be made, it admirably clears away the Scab and like Affects of the skin, better than natural Baths themselves; for by its famous power of attracting depraved Humours, lying between the skin and flesh, and producing such Affects, it heals and extracts the same, especially if that power be helped by some other Medicine.
13. It extracts Humours of every kind, sharp, gnawing, or which, are most firmly inherent in the external parts, or which often produce Vermin like Lice, and cannot be removed by Baths or Unguents.
14. This used internally and externally, (viz. in a Bath) extracts the Water out of Dropsical persons; and this it effects so much the more powerfully, if Gold be dissolved in it.
15. It is a famous Medicine for removing Dolours of the Gout, or diminishing the same.
16. Inwardly given, it is conducent against bloody Fluxes of every kind.
17. Also externally applied, it wonderfully stops Blood in Wounds, especially if after it is calcined and reduced to Powder, it be mixed with Cobwebbs or Peacocks Dung, or which is better, when Steel hath been dissolved in it.
18. It kills and expels all Worms.