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lor immmutions/ and for all pain of the eyes; chew 

 wolfscomb, then wring the ooze through a purple cloth 

 upon the eyes, at night, when the man has a mind to 

 rest, and in the morning apply the white of an egg. 



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For palsy, if the mouth be awry or livid, rub cori- 

 ander in v/omans milk, put it into the sound ear, it 

 will soon be well with the inan. Again, take coriander, 

 dry it, work it to dust, mingle the dust with milk of 

 a woman, who brought forth a male, wring through a 

 purple cloth, and smear the sound cheek therewith, and 

 drip it on the ear warily. Then work a fomentation ; 

 take bramble rind, and elm rind, ash rind, sloethorn 

 rind, appletree rind, ivy rind, all these from the nether 

 part of the trees, and cucumber, smearwort, everfern, 

 helenium, enchanters nightshade, betony, marrubium, 

 radish, agrimony ; scrape the worts into a kettle, and 

 boil strongly. When it hath been strongly boiled, re- 

 move it off the fire and set it do^un, and get the man 

 a seat over the kettle, and wrap the man up, that the 

 vapour may get out nowhere, except only so that the 

 man may breathe ; beathe him with this fomentation as 

 long as he can bear it. Then liave another bath ready 

 fo]' him, take an emmet bed, all at once, a bed of those 

 male eniiinets which at whiles fly, they are red ones, boil 

 them in water, beathe him with it immoderately hot. 

 Then make him a salve ; take worts of each kind of 

 those above tnentioned, boil them in butter, smear the 

 sore limbs therewith, they will soon quicken. Make 

 him a ley of elder ashes, wash his head with this 

 cold ; it will soon be well with him : and let the man 

 get bled every month, when the moon is five, and 

 fifteen, and twenty nights old. 



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