The mysteries of nature and art in 4 severall pts / [John Bate].

  • John Bate
Date:
1635
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Credit: The mysteries of nature and art in 4 severall pts / [John Bate]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ex$ra^pagants. i%*t carci divers times together one after another 5 they will laft to be warmed in the fame they were fodden in, fome three or fourc dayes without fowring. Howttdefiroy vermin tr lice in ones heod er eUthes* There is a berry which you may buy at the Apothe¬ caries, it is calfed Cocculm India j make it into fine pow¬ der, and ftrewitin the hayreef the head,if the lice be only there, and binde the head elofe up, and it will for certain flay them ail before the next morning : if they be about the clothes and the body alfo, then mix fome of the powder with fome frefli butter or hogs greafe, and anoynt the fcames of the parties garments, efpecially a- bout the neck, waftc,and gatherings of the garments, alfo boyle fome of ihe berries in a pinte of fa'rc water, and the weight of 6 d. of Mercury fublimate, then drain it, and bathe the party with a cloth dipt in this water, made blood warm, but efpecially about his joynts, and it will quit him, though he be never fo full: approved. Bm to make exceUent trofei or cakes to purifie the ayre in time of the fUgue, Take one ounce of myrthe powdered, alfo an ounce of the flowrc of brimfton, as much balfam of ^eru as will make them into a ftiffe pafte, then make it into little cakes- you may in time of peftilence every or every other day put one or two of thefe upon a chaHngdifh of quick coales, and betake your felfe into fome other place, untill thcfmokeceafc. Minjhet, To
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