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fweet or frefli Butter. *^* This of all the cures I have is the 

 beft, for this Malady, how be it» it may feem intricate j I got 

 it of a French Rider to a Noble Knight in England^ and I have 

 herewith taken off more then one hundred yj^/e^fj, I have u- 

 f ed this more then thirty years fince. jinother^ 



Take up the contrary Legg^ and beat the Sfem with your 

 hlood flajfe till it do begin«to be foft, then with your Fleam 

 prick it in fundry places, that the hlood may iflue forth. Take 

 then the greateft red Onion, and cut off the top, and pick 

 out the core, and put into it fomuch of the powder of f^erdi- 

 greafe as the end of your Thumbs then put on the top again, 

 and wrap it up in a wet brown paper, and fo roll it in the 

 hot embers, as you do z Warden, till it be as foft as pap, then 

 take it out of the Embers^ and put away the paper, and all 

 that is burnt from about it, and ftamp it, and being yet very- 

 hot apply it unto the Sfent, and lay a bolfter upon it, and 

 then fwathe it up with a linnen Rowler, ftitching it faff, and 

 fo let it remain five or fix days, and then open it, and after 

 anoint the place every day once, with fweet Butter till it be 

 whole. ^^^ This is a very good cure. Another, 



Take a great Onion, and pick out the core, and put into 

 it of the powder of unflaked Lime^ and of the powder of ^<?r- 

 digreaje^ of each as much as will fuffice, but fo much as will 

 fill it up, then roll it, as before isfhewed you, and ftamp it 

 in a Morter well, then flit the skin a little, that the medi- 

 qne may come unto it, to eat away the fplent, and Ihavc not 

 away the hair, but lay on the medicine and bolfter, and bind 

 it up faft, andfo let it remain three days without ftirring itj 

 then unbind it and wafh it clean, and anoint it every day with 

 fweet Butter till it be whole. *%* This is very good. Ano- 

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Take an Elecampane root, and make it clean, and wrap 

 - it up in a brown paper, and roft it in the embers as you did 

 the Onions, and being foft like pap , apply it to the fplent, 

 you having firft rubbed, knocked, and prickt it as before is 

 taught you, the hair alfo being walhcd and ihaven off, it mufl 

 be laid on fo hot as he is able to fuffer it, and let it lie on two 

 days and two nights, then take off that, and lay onafecond, 

 and after a third, till the fplent be quite confumed, and then 



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