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Again/} all forts of Sprains. 
]% Take two quarts of Water made boiling Lot, put 
«rem Sage to it, as much as the Water will cover •, then 
4>oil it up, ftirring it let it ftand 1 6 minutes, and ftrain 
the Water off*, then add to the Liquor as much Bread 
as will make it into a Pultice: add three ounces of refi- 
ned Sugar to it, and a quarter of a pint of Red-wine, 
and 4 or <; fpoonfuls of Spirit of Wine ; ftir them well to- 
gether till boil’d *, fpread this on a Linen Clodyand 
apply it warm every 2 or 3 hours, for 2 or 3 days, ifoc-i 
cafion, and reft all the while. 
To utre all Tumours, Bruifes y Swellings , or the like. 
Take < or 6 pints of Water, and Spinage as much as 
the Water will cover , let the Water boil up, then take 
it off, and let it be about 15 minutes uncover’d ; ftrain 
It off, and put Bread Efficient for a Pultice, with couife 
Sugar two ounces. M ake it boiling hot, and it’s done : 
Apply it warm every three hours for 2 or 3 days, or 
more, if occafion require. 
Worm wood, will ferve for Beer as well as Hops , making, 
it bitter with it, to what degree you pleafe: but thole 
that ufe their Grains for Cattle, to prevent their bitter- 
nefs, let them take fine Canvas-bags, and put what quan- 
tity of Wormwood they pleafe into them, and when their 
Drink is working in the Tun, leave thefe Bags therein 
, or 4 hours; then take them out. This Drink is more 
wholefom than hopt Drink ; it comforts the Stomach, 
refines the Blood, purging by Urine, creates good: Spi- 
rits, and if drank with moderation, is good tor Head 
2nd Eyes, as well as Stomach. See more about Pultices 
in Tryon's good Houfe-wife made a DoS or ; a Book that 
ought to be kept in all Families. 
Tor a Cold. 
Take a little Honey, put fome Flour of Brimftone to 
it, mix it* and fwallow, Morning and Evening, a piece 
as’bigasa Walrtut. Another * 
Swallow a piece of frefh Butter now and then, as big 
as a Nutmeg: Oc, Butter and Honey mixt together, and 
a little Nutmeg or Ginger. 
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