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and broughtto drinefle, with tents made of falrfith conveyed into them within fine linnen rags: 
and within aday ortwo at moft, they will rid away all the callofitie, togither with the dead and 
~ putrified flefh within the fores, yea and repreffe the eating and corrofive humor in them, ifthey 
be wrought into the forsne of afalve or emplaftre, and fo applied. To mundifieulcers, there is 
not a fitter thing than ftockfith made into a tent with fine lint of rags, and fo put into the fore.Of 
the fame effet are the afhes of the fea-urchins skin, The peeces of the fifh Coracinus falted,dif- 
cufle and refolve the hore apoftems named carbuncles, if they be applied: fo doe the afhesof 
the Barblefalted and calcined. Some ufe the athes of the head of the faid fith onely with honey, 
or els the verie flefth of Coracinus. The afhes of Murrets tempered with oile,delay and takedown 
any fwelling. Lhegall likewife ofthe Sea-{corpion, taketh off the roufe.of fores, and bringeth 
skars that overgrow the flefh unto the levell of the other skin. The liver of the fifth Glanus,cau- 
feth werts to fall off, ifthey be rubbed withall. Alfo, the afhes of Cackerell heads doe the hike, if 
they be tempered with garlick : but for the thyme werts particularly, they ufe them raw :the gall 
likewife of the reddith fea {corpion, and the {mall fea fith Smarides, punned and brought into a 
Jiniment, doe thelike, The grofle pickle faucecalled Alex, if itbe made through hot, cureththe | 
raggedneffe of nails: the afhes alfo which come of Cackerell heads,do extenuat and makethem 
fine, The fith Glaucifcus eatenin the owne broth, caufeth women to have ftore of milke:fo doe 
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the {mall fithes cajled Smarides, taken with ptifan or barley grewell ; or els boiledwith fennell: — 
and in cafe they have fore breafts, the afhes of Burrets or Purple (hells incorporat with honey, 
doe heale effectually. A liniment made of Sea-crabs or frefh: water Creifithes taketh away the 
offenfive hairs that grow about womens nipples or breaft heads : the flethie {ubftance alfo of the 
Burrets applied unto them, worke the fame effedt, A liniment made of the fith called a Skate, 
will not fuffer womens paps to grow big. A candle-wieke or match made of lint, and greafed all 
over with the oile or fat of a dolphin, and fo fet a burning, yeeldeth a fmoake which will raife wo- 
men againe, lying as it were in a traunce and dead upon a fit of the mother: the fame doe Mac- 
querels putrified in vinegre. The afhes either of Pearch or Cackerell heads tempered and incor- 
porat with falt, faverie,and oile, ferve for all the accidents of the matrice, and more particularly 
10 a perfume, bring downe the after-birth. Semblably,the fat of a Seale or Sea-calfe,conveighed 
by means of fire ina perfume up into the nofthrils ot a woman lying halfe dead upon the rifing 
and fuffocation of the matrice, bringeth herto her felfe againe: fo doth it alfo, if withtheren- _ 
net of the fame Seale, itbeput up in wooll after the manner of a peffarie, into the privie parts. 
The afhes of the Sea-fith called Pulmo, applied conveniently to the region of the matrice, and 
kept fait thereto, purgeth women paifing well of their monethly fleurs: of the fame operation 
are Sea-urchins ftampedalive,and drunke in fome fweee wine:but the river Creifithes likewsfe 
punned and taken in wine, doe contrariwife ftay the immoderat flux thereof. Likewife itis faid, 
_ thaca tuffumigaticn of the fith Silurus, efpecially that which breedeth in Africa, caufeth wo- 
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s.the tried 
greace of un- 
wathed wool!, 
men to have tore fpeedie and eafie deliverance inchildbirth: as alfo,that Crabfifhes drunke in 
water, doe {top the exceffive overflowing of their monethly terms; whereas with * hyflop they 
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etthem a going and purge them away. Say that the infant fticke inthe birth, and byteafon of © 
painfull labour be in danger of fuffocation, let the mother drinke the fame in like maner,there 
will prefent helpe enfue. VVomen with child ufe alfo either to eat them freth,or drink them dried, 
that they may goc out their full time, and not flip an abortive fruit. Hippocrates ufeth the fame, 
and prefcribeth unto women for the bringing downe of their ficknefle, and likewife to thruft out 
the infant dead in their wombs, to drinke them in honeyed wine with five docke roots, ftamped 
togither with rue and foot: and in verie truth, fodden with forrell or docks and parfley, they force 
womens months to come downe fpeedily, if the broth be drunke sand withall, bring plentie of 
milke into nources breafts. If women have an ague,and the fame accompanied with head-ach 
and much twinkling or inordinat palpitation of the eyes, it is thought they thall findmuch good 
by drinking them in fome hard and auftere wine, Caftoreum taken inwardly in honeyedwine, is 
fingular to helpe forward womens monthly purgation :the fame beeing heldto their nofthrills MV : | 
with vinegre and pitch to finell unto; or put up beneath in manner of a fuppofitorie, after itis 
reduced into the forme of trochifques, helpeth them when by rifingof the mother they are in 
daungerof {trangulation. For to bring away the efter-birth, it availeth much alfo for womento 
drinke the {aid Caftoreum with Panaces in foure cyaths of wine :as alfo it is certaine, ~ who- 
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