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Lice. Take red crpiment and saltpetre, each a 

 dram, louse herb two drams, mix them together 

 with oil and vinegar, so anoint the head. Byrus. 

 To kill Lice on Trees. 



Through drought many trees and bushes be- 

 come lousy, as sweetbriar, gooseberries, &c. 

 therefore frequently wash them, or dashing them 

 with water may prove the best remedy. 

 For Crab Lice. 



Wash with the decoction of penny royal; Or, 

 boil majoram in water, and wash with it; or the 

 juice of stinking gladon. 



For lice in the Eyelids. 



Rub your eyelids with salt water, or brimstone 

 and water, or with vinegar of squils, alum and 

 aloes. 



Fleas. 



Take lavender and wormwood, and boil them 

 in vinegar well, and sprinkle your blankets with 

 it; or savory laid in your chambers kills them. 



Fleas. Take unslacked lime and strew in your 

 chambers: penny royal wrapt up in a cloth and 

 laid in your bed, drives fleas away; lay fresh once 

 a week. 



Fleas. Mustard seed boiled in water, and the 

 room sprinkled with it. Arsmart (the hot sort) 

 strewed in a chamber kills all the fleas. 



Fleas. Soap lees and onions boiled together 

 and sprinkled in the room, kills both them and 

 bugs. 



Fleas. Marsh fleabane spread in your room, or 

 burnt, drives away fleas and gnats. Culpepper 

 says, that f Ider leaves gathered with dew on them, 

 and laid in a chamber, gathers all the floas there- 

 to, which you may kill or throw out oi the window. , 



