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Pimples. on the face: Wheat-flowre being mixed with the Yolk of an Eoge? 
Honey, and Turpentine, doth draw, cleanfe, and heal any Bile or Plague-fore,or 
any other foul Ulcer: the Bran of. Wheat. Meal is:often boyled in the Decoétion 
of a Sheeps Head,and ic is given in Clyliers,to cleante and open the Body, and to 
eafe the eriping pains of the Intralls, Fhe faid Bran fieeped in fharp Vinegar, and 
then bound ina Linnen Cloth, and rubbed on thofe places that have the Mor= 
phew, Scurf, Scab, or Leprofie, will take them away, fo that the Body be well 
prepared and purged before: the Decostiom of the Bran of Wheat or Barley, is 
tound of good ufe, to bathe thole places which are buriten by a Rupture : the 
{aid Bran boyled in good Vinegar, -and applyed ro fivollen Breafts, doth help 
them, and {tayeth all Inflammations : It heipeth alfothe biting of Vipers, 6r 
ther venemous Creatures: ‘The Leaven of Wheat Meal hath a property té] 
and to draw ;, and in efpeciall, it rarifiech arn of the feet arid hatids? as 
alfo Warts, ahd’ hard knots in the flefh, being applyed with {ome Salt. Starch 
moylined with Ro‘e-waterjand layd to the Cods, taketh awaytheir itching, The 
Waters that are made of the pureft and finelt volatile Flower, being put in water, 
and drunk, doth {tay the Lask and Bloody-Flux, and. is profitably ufed both in- 
wardly and outwardly forthe Rupture in Children, and boyled with Roles, dry 
Figs, andiome -jujubes, maketh a fit Lotion to wath fore mouths or Throats,aid 
when the Kernels thereof are fwollen'andfore: the fame alfo boyledin 
unto a thick gelley, and taken, ftayet ing of blood, and ed with 
Mints and Butter, it helpeth the bn : th, That the 
Corns of Wheat, patched upoman Iron P: eaten, is a prefent remedy for 
thofe tharare.chilie i. The Oy} preffed trom Wheat, between two 
thick Plates 0 ron Or Copper heated, healeth all Tetters and Ring-worms,being 
ufedwarm: And hereby Galex faich, he hath known many tobe cured, Matthi- 
ol#s commendeth the fame Oyl to be purinto hollow Ulcers to heal them up,and 
it is good for Chops in the hands or feet, and to make a rnoged skin {mooth, Dio(- 
corides faith, That to eat the Corms of green Wheat hurteth the fomach; and 
breedeth Worms, but chewed and applyed to the biting of a mad Dog, it cureth . 
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