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back, and the belly, or by drinking the water or oyl in wine, it will break thestone and bring it down, and affwageth poyson. For deafness, you must steep somewool in it, and stop the ears with it: anoint the belly and back in any pain there.Being drunk in vinegar, it cureth the falling sickness, and restoretb lost memory; itpnovoketh the menstrues in women, by anointing their privities with it, or by drink-ing some drops of it in wine; taken in the same manner, it provoketh appetite, beingtaken early in the morning; and is good against the bitings of Scorpions: Drink itgoing to bed, or when you arise in the morning, and it will cure a stinking breath.

For cold aches.

Oyl of Hems is excellent to allay and remove all cold aches, the gout, sciatica,griefs of the sinews, convulsions, pain in the joynts, cold deductions, and other dis-eases of moisture and cold. In the Diomedian Istes, now called Trernuy, in the Adri-atiqueSea, there are birds, commonly called Hearns, who breed there, and con-tinue there, and are to be found nowhere else: they are a kind of Duck, feedingon fish, which they catch in the night: they are not to be eaten , though they be ve-ry far, because they savour of the rankuess offilh. Kill these birds, and pluck off theirfeathers; draw them, aud hang them up by the feet, there will drop from them acertain black yellowish oyl, very offensive to the nose, being of a noisome fi&y smell.This oyl being applied to any place, as much as yon can endure, will do the effectsbefore mentioned, and more: but it is very hurtful for any hot maladies. There isa water also

For old Sores.

Take lime unkilled ,and dissolve it in water, stir it three or four times in a day; thenwhen it is fettled and cleared, strain it and keep it; wet alinnen cloth in it, and ap-ply it to a wound or fore, and it cureth them. I will not omit

The venues of Tobacco-

Out of the seeds of it is expressed an oyl, three ounces out of a pound, which al-lays the cruel tortures of the gout: the juyee clarified and boiled into a syrup, andtaken in the morning, mtketh the voyce tunable, clear and loud; very convenientfor singing Masters. If you bruise the leaves, and extract the juyee, it killeth lice inchildren; heads, being rubbed thereon. The leaves cure rotten Sores and Ulcers,running on the legs,being applied unto them. The juyee of this herb doth also pre-. sently take away and asswage the pain in the codds, which happeneth to them whoswimming do cha^^^tj^K^ t heir codds.

Chap. XII.

Of 4 secret Medicine for rotunds,

T Hare are certain Potions called Vulnerary Potions, because, being drunk, theycure wounds: and it feemeth an admirable thing, how those Potions shouldpenetrate to the wounds. These are

Vulnerary Fotions.

Take Pirole, Comfrey, Ariflolochy ,Feathersew of each a handful; of Agrimony two:boil them in the best new Wine : digest them in horse-dung. Or take two handfulsof Pirole, of Sanide, and Sowe-bread one, of Ladies Mantel half one. Boil themin two measures of Wine, and drink it morning and evening. Binde the herbs,which you have boiled, upon the wound, having mm a little fait with them: and inthe mean while use no other Medicine.

The ffleapon-Salvo

Given heretofore to Maximilian the Emperor,by Paracelsus , experimented by him,and always very much accounted of by him while he lived: It was given to me by a

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