386 ^HE FAMILY PHYSICIAN'. 



^4n excellent rciindj) for a burn or scald. 

 Mix a little lapis calaminaris (wliirli y<'ii u;ct at the clio 

 mists) in a little snow \\at(?r, aiui sli.nke it well together. It 

 doth wondcrrully take the fire out of any burn, and you mav 

 make as much in the course of the winter as will berve all 

 the year. 



For a person ihut is suhject to he costive ?'n his body. 

 Take cream of tartar mixi-d witii honey very frequently. 



Hozo to make excellent cye-v:ater. 

 Take half a pint of the best branily, two pints of spring 

 water, and one ounce of the sugar of lead, mix these things 

 together and it is made. 



IIow to stop bleeding of any wound, S^c. 

 Take burnt leather powdered, bole in powder, dragon's 

 blood in povder, mix some spirits of wine with all these said 

 ingredients, and lay it thereon with soft fine lint. 



ji7i excellent remedy for the sto7ie and gravel in the 



reins or bladder, and the stoppage of urine. 

 Take one ounce of the spirits of sweet nitre, two drachms 

 of liquid laudanum, and lialf an ounce of the oil of juniper. 

 Take a tea spoonful in a cup of linseed tea sweetened with ho- 

 ney. 1 havebe>'p the happy means of restoring to health ofbody 

 a great number of my fellow mortals, by tliis most salutary 

 and achnirable medicine for a many years past, to my own 

 heartfelt satisfaction and tiieir great comfort and relief, but ( 

 it is our blessed divine physician alone that doth give virtue 

 (o all and every one of our said medicines, before they can 

 even imbibe tiie least power of healing the body of man. 

 even him who healed tlie sick and the diseased by a word, a 

 touch, &c. even without the application of any medicine 

 whatsoever ; and .hath likewise taught and almost fully ena- 

 bled his disciples, in all the various ages of the world, to do 

 the same, ""l hese are called miracles, but there are some 

 amongst us, who through ignorance deny the power of mira- 

 cles, since our Saviour and the apostles time; but these are 

 they who deny the holy scriptures, and also the power of 

 those gifts of God, mentioned in the 1st Cor xii. &c. but we 

 find that God is just the same yesterday, to-day^ and for ever, 

 Heb. xiii. 8. 



