Take a quart of ale or stronge beer growns mallows sage and elder leaves & stamp them small and lin-seed beaten small and sheeps sewit or sallet oyle and oatmeale and boyle them together till it is as thick as to make a poultess then lay it to the place swellen as hot as it can be endured & it is a speedy remedy.
163. For a Purge.
Take a quarter of an ounce carocostinum with half a pint of white wine being steep’d in it all night the next morning drink it blood warme it will give 6 or 8 stools or this take ruebarbe wth red currants beaten together.
164. To Harden sore Nipples.
Take borace a quarter of an ounce and beat it small and in it a little more than half a pint of milk then put it over the fire and when it is dissolved and almost ready to boyle then take it off the fire and put in a little allom in powder put in little more than will make it turn into small curds that it looks pretty white then strain it through a cloth from ye curds and keep it for your use you cannot err in putting in ye borace for the more you put in ye more healing your way of useing it is to bathe your nipples as hot as you can suffer it mornings and nights and lay a cloth wet in it 2 or 3 times double upon the nipples being first singed you must bathe them a quarter of an hour at a time and lay on the wet cloth as hot as you can suffer it.
165. For the Biting of a Mad Dog.
Take filings or scrapeings of pewter Garlick and venice treacle beat them together very well in a morter till they come to be like a poultis lay it on ye bitten place. Moulins Re:ct.
166. For a Child troubled with man wormes which often occasions Convulsions.
Take notice when you fear fits to lick in a morning fasting the childs forehead if it taste salt then it hath man wormes then anoint the navell and stomach with oyle of wormwood 3 days before and 3 days after the full of the moon then make 2 playsters of Galbanum & lay one to the stomach and the other to the navell if it should have convulsion fitts give it 3 drops of juice of rue 3 times just before ye fit comes and to sweeten the mouth give it what you please.