Balme spearmints, wormwood, of each 6 handfulls 12 handfulls of cardus all Shred lay these all night to steep in 6 quarts of new milk and the next morning draw it off. Ye Lady Downs adds angelicoe & to every still full an ounce of liquorish & sweet fennell seeds.
218. For Deafness.
Put ground Ivy one leafe into each ear rowle it up but not too hard put it in fresh morning and evenings.
219. A Water for any Sore or Sore Eyes.
Take 2 ounces of allume one ounce of white copperis, half an ounce of baysalt, boyle these in 2 quarts of runing water till half be wasted and when tis cold put into the bottle with it one penny worth of camphire then stop it close and twill keep 7 years.
220. For Convultion Fits.
Take single piony roots take of the out side and cut them as thin as Groats Dry them on a sheet of paper in a fire pan, pound and search them fine and give to a child as much as will lay on a silver 2 pence in a spoonfull of small beer and give another after it give this twice a day, 3 days after the change and full of the moon, and if continue make a Issue in the arme if the convultion be in the head Take a grain of musk divide it into 2 parts put it into a little linnet and tye it up in fine rags and put them into the ears and let it stay there a month. Take featherfew and wormwood of each a like quantity stamp them and take the juice put to it a little Crab vinegar and shave in a little assafetita wet 2 pieces of old cloth in this and put them over ye ears & let them come out over ye face to reach the nose that the child may always smell it.
221. Another for Convultions.
Take a Cat of a quarter old or younger (for a boy a She cat for a Girl a he cat) cut off the head and hold the head in one hand and the body in the other over a bason that you may catch the blood that comes out of both parts, then take the breast milk of a healthy woman (if for a boy a girls milk and if for a girl a boys milk) then take a little of the blood alone and anoint the stomach with it, then put 2 spoonfulls of ye milk and mix it well with the rest of the blood, then set it on a Chaffendish of coals till tis warme then take it off and strain it and give the child as much as it will drink and fast an hour after it give this but once and that as soon as a fit is past let the child have a little assafetita ty’d in a rag & hung about the neck, dip it in Crab vinegar often.