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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, in- 
deed, most of the infirmities,if not all, which 
infest those parts, proceed from rheum. 
23. For extreme heat of the Mouth. 
Take Rib-wort, and boil it in red Wine, 
and hold the decoction as warm in your 
mouth as you can endure it. 
24. For a Canker in the Mouth. 
Wash the mouth often with Verjuice. 
OF THE TEETH, AND THEIR MEDICINES. 
25. A Caution. 
If you will keep your teeth from rotting, 
or aching, wash your mouth continually 
every morning with juice of Lemons, and 
afterwards rub your teeth either with a 
Sage-leaf, or else with a little Nutmeg in 
powder; also wash your mouth with a little 
fair water after meats; for the only way to 
keep teeth sound, and free from pain, is to 
keep them clean. 
26. To keep Teeth white. 
Dip a little piece of white cloth in Vine- 
gar of Quinces, and rub your gums with it, 
for it is of a gallant binding quality, and 
not only makes the teeth white, but also 
strengthens the gums, fastens the teeth, and 
also causeth a sweet breath. 
27. To fasten the Teeth. 
Seethe the roots of Vervain in old Wine, 
and wash your teeth often with them, and it 
will fasten them. 
28. For the Tooth-ache. 
Take the inner rind of an Elder-tree, and 
bruise it, and put thereto a little Pepper, 
and make it into balls, and hold them be- 
tween the teeth that ache. 
OF THE GUMS, AND THEIR INFIRMITIES. 
29. For a Scurvy in the gums. 
Take Cloves, and boil them in Rose- 
water, then dry them, and beat them to 
powder, and rub the gums with the powder, 
and drink the decoction in the morning 
fasting an hour after it. Use red Rose- 
water, for that is the best. 
30. For rotting and consuming of the gums. 
Take Sage-water, and wash your mouth 
with it every morning, and afterwards rub 
your mouth with a Sage-leaf. 
OF THE FACE, AND ITS INFIRMITIES. 
31. The cause. 
It is palpable, that the cause of redness 
and breaking out of the face, is a venomous 
matter, or filthy vapours ascending from 
the stomach towards the head; where 
meeting with a rheum or flegm thence de- 
scending, mix with it, and break out in 
the face. Therefore let the first intention of 
cure be to cleanse the stomach. 
32. Caution negative. 
Let such as are troubled with red faces, 
abstain from salt meats, salt fish and her- 
rings, drinking of strong beer,strong waters 
or Wine, Garlick, Onions, and Mustard. 
33. For a face full of red pimples. 
Dissolve Camphire in Vinegar, and mix 
it, and the Vinegar with Celandine-water, 
and wash the face with it: this cured a 
maid in twenty days, that had been trou- 
bled with the infirmity half so many years. 
34.To take away the marks of the small poz. 
Take the juice of Fennel, heat it luke- 
warm, and when the small Pox are well 
scabbed, anoint the face with it divers times 
in a day, three or four days together. 
OF THE THROAT, AND ITS INFIRMITIES. 
35. A caution. 
Diseases in the throat, most commonly 
proceed of rheum descending from the head - 
upon the trachea arteria, or wind-pipe; in a 
| such cases there is many times no other — 
