19. Another for the Polypus.
The water of Adder’s-tongue snuffed up the nose, is very good: but it were better, in my opinion, to keep a rag continually moistened with it in the nose.
20. For bleeding at the Nose.
Take Amber and bruise into gross powder, put it upon a chafing-dish of coals, and receive the smoke up into the nose with a funnel.
21. Another.
When no other means will stop the bleeding at the nose, it has been known that it hath been stopped by opening a vein in the ear.
OF THE MOUTH, AND ITS DISEASES.
22. A Caution.
Whosoever would keep their mouth, or tongue, or nose, or eyes, or ears, or teeth, from pain or infirmities, let them often use sneezing, and such gargarisms as they were instructed in a preceding chapter; for, indeed, most of the infirmities, if not all, which infest those parts, proceed from rheum.