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ague." Again : "Take twenty garden snails and beat 

 them (shelles and all) in a inortar, until you perceive 

 them to be come to a salue ; then spread a little thereof 

 upon a linnen cloath, and lay it to the place grieued, and 

 when one plaister is dry, then take that of, and put on 

 another, and it will both heale the sore place and draw 

 it." For corns, he recommends "blacke sope and 

 snailes, of each a like quantitie, stampe them togither, 

 and make plaister thereof, and spread it upon a piece 

 of fine linnen cloth, or else upon a piece of white leather, 

 and lay it upon the corne, and it will take it cleane 

 away within seven dayes space/' 



"Another soueraigne Medicine for a Web in the eye. 

 Take a good quantitie of snailes with their shells upon 

 them, and wash them very well, and then distill them 

 in a common stillatorie ; then take of the galles of 

 Hares, Red currall, and Sugar-candie, and mingle them 

 together with the said water, and then distill them 

 againe ; then take the same water, and put it into a 

 glasse or viall, and when you will use it, take a drop 

 thereof, and put it into your eyes both morning and 

 evening, and it will help you." 



Dr. William Salmon's recipe for a Web in the eye. 

 "To remove this offence of sight, take the shell- 

 snails and burn them to powder, beat it fine, and sift 

 it, add to it the powder of cuttlebone ; put these into 

 alum-water where honey is dissolved, and shake them 

 about : whek the water is thick with the powder, drop 

 some of it into the eye with a feather, keeping the lids 

 closed a while and turn your eye to and fro, that it may 

 fret off the film or skin that hinders the sight, and in 

 often so doiog it will wear it away." 



Dr. Fuller, in hits ' Pharmacopoeia/ recommends 



