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sam of Life is made thus: Gum Benzoin 4 ounces, Gum 

 Storax Callimtee 3 ounces, Balsam Telue 1 ounce, Gum 

 Aloes Sucatine 1 1-2 ounce, Gum Albanum 1 1-2 ounce, 

 Gum Myrrth I 1-2 ounce, root of Angelica 2 ounces, tops 

 of Johnswort 2 ounces. Pound all these together, put 

 them into three pints of rectified spirits of wine in a glass 

 bottle, let them stand in the spirits four weeks in a mod- 

 erate heat, shake them once a day, strain it off, it is fit 

 for use; and if the gums are not all dissolved, add a little 

 more spirits to the same, shake it, and let it stand as be- 

 fore. 



70. For a relaxation of the gul or fundament in children. 



Break two or three hen's eggs, part the white from the 

 yolk, take the yolks and put them into a fryingpan wash- 

 ed clean from grease, set them over a slow fire, let them 

 stand a while, then turn them over and squeeze them until 

 the oil comes out. Be careful not to burn them. Col- 

 lect the oil, anoint the gut when it is down, then boil an 

 egg very hard, let it be whole and whilst it is warm wrap 

 it in a linen cloth, and bind it on the fundament after you 

 have put up the ^ut. 



7 1 . For the common phihisic in children. 



Take four ounces of sinical snake root, four ounces of 

 spikenard, four ounces of parsley root, liquorice stick two 

 ounces; boil them altogether in four quarts of water — 

 strain off, sweeten with loaf sugar or honey, let the pa- 

 tient drink a small glass night and morning. 



«:r!' JPQt a 'mrunfc sinew , ov a Stit^'jdiht. 



Half an ounce of yellow besilicom, half an ounce of 

 gresn melilot, half an ounce of oil amber, a piece of blue 

 vitrol as big as a chesnut, simmer them together to a salve 

 or ointment, apply it to the part affected, and on the joint 

 above. Repeat it often and it will perform the cure. 



73. For the Rheumatism. 



Take a handful of prince of pine, a handful of horse 

 radish roots, elecampane roots, prickly ash bark, bitter- 

 sweet root bark, wild cherry bark, mustard seed, and a 

 pint of tar water put into two quarts of brandy. Drink a 

 small glass every morning, noon and night, before eating. 

 Bathe the part affected with salt and rum, by a warm fire^ 



