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effectually procure them ease and rest/' or "the 

 right eie of a beare dried to pouder and hung 

 about childrens neckes in a little bag driveth away 

 the terrour of dreames." Both of these were, 

 no doubt, more in the nature of charms than 

 medicines, and could certainly do no harm if they 

 did no good, which can hardly be said of. the 

 following prescriptions, which, if indigestion and 

 nightmare represent cause and effect, would surely 

 tend to increase the mischief they were said to 

 cure: "He which doth eate the skinne of a 

 woulfe well tempered and sodden, will keepe him 

 from all evill dreames, and cause him to take his 

 rest quietlie," or <e the flesh of a Lyon being eaten 

 will very effectually worke him ease and quiet- 

 nesse." "For those which are troubled with the 

 casting and shedding of their hair there is an 

 excellent remedy, which is this to take mice 

 which inhabite in houses, and to burn or dry them 

 in a pot, and then beat them; and being so used, 

 to mixe them with oyle of Lawrell, and to rubbe 

 the haires which are like to fall or shed with 

 garlicke, and to put them altogither into a Frontlet 

 or fore-head cloath, and daily to keepe the same 

 medicine or plaister unto them, untill the haire do 

 grow fast, and they be ridde of that disease/' 

 There is also another remedy for the same disease, 

 which is this: "To burne a mouse and .beate 

 him into pouder and then to mingle the same with 

 hony aiid greace of a Beare, and so to annpint.tlpLe 

 head, and this is accounted for a very speedy and 



