and taken in t|ie pap of an Apple. I helped 
many of them with a fwcating medicine 
only* 
Alfo they are troubled with adifeafe in 
the mouth throat which hath proved 
mortal tafofiit in a very (hort time,Quinfies, 
and Impoftu^ations of the Almonds, with 
great diftempers of cold. Some of ouir 
l^ew'England writers affirm that the Eng- 
iijh are never or very rarely heard to fncczc 
or cough^as ordinarily they do in England^ 
which is not truie. For a cough or ftitch Up- 
on cold. Wormwood, S^ge , Maryjgolds, 
and Crabs-claws boiled in pofTet- drink and 
drunk off very warm,is a foveraign medi- 
cine* 
Plcurifies and Empyemas arc frequent 
there, both cured after one and the fame 
way h but the laA is a dcfperate difeafe and 
kills many. For the Pleurifie I have given 
Coriander-^ccd prepared, Carduus ^^td^ztid 
HartS'horn pilvcrized witH good fucecft, 
the dofcone dram in a cup of Wine. * 
The Stone terribly afHids many, and the 
Gout, and Sciatica, for which take Onions 
roafted 5 peeled and ftampt, then hoU them 
with neats-feet oyl and Rhum to a plaifter, 
and apply it to the hip/ 
Head-aches are frequent, Palfies, Drop- 
fies, Worms, Noli«me-tv^ngCKS , Cancers, 
pefti- 
