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water be very cold. After this he muft go in three times a weel; 
for a fortnight longer. 
N. B. The lichen is a very common herb, and grows generally 
in fandy and barren foils all over England. The right time to ga¬ 
ther it is in the months of October and November. Dr . Mead, 
Another for the bite of a mad dog . 
FOR the bite of a mad dog, for either man or bead, take fix 
ounces of rue clean picked and bruifed ; four ounces of garlick 
peeled and bruifed, four ounces of Venice treacle, and four 
ounces of filed pewter, or fcraped tin. Boil thefc- in two quarts 
of the beft ale, in a pan covered clofe over a gentle fire, for the 
(pace of an hour, then (train the ingredients from the liquor. 
Give eight or nine fpoonfuls of it warm to a man, or a woman, 
three mornings fading. Eight or nine fpoonfuls is diffident for 
the drongeft ; a lefier quantity to thofe younger, or of a weaker 
conditution, as you may judge of their drength. Ten ortwelve 
fpoonfuls for a horfe or a bullock $ three, four, or five to a 
(heep, hog, or dog. This mud be given within nine days after 
the bite; it feldom fails in man or bead. If you bind fome of 
the ingredients on the wound, it will be fo much the better* 
Receipt againfi the plague . 
TAKE of rue, fage, mint, rofemary, wormwood, and la¬ 
vender, a handful of each; infufe them together in a gallon 
of white wine vinegar, put the whole into a done-pot clofely 
covered up, upon warm wood-afhes, for four days : after which 
drawoff (or drain through fine flannel) the liquid, and put it 
into bottles well corked ; and into every quart bottle put a quar¬ 
ter of an ounce of camphire. With this preparation wa(h your 
mouth, and rub your loins and your temples every day; fnuff a 
little up your noftrils when you go into the air, and carry about 
you a bit of fpunge dipped in the fame, in order to fmell to upon 
all occafions, efpecially when you are near any place or perlbn 
that is infected. They write, that four malefactors (who had 
robbed the infefled houfes, and murdered the people during the 
courfeof the plague) owned, when they came to the gallows, that 
they had preferved thenofelves from the contagion, by ufing the 
above medicine only; and that they went the whole time from 
houfe to houfe without any fear of the didemper. 
How to keep clear from bugs . 
FIRST take out of your room all filver and gold lace, then 
fet the chairs about the room, (hut up your windows and 
doors, tack a blanket over each window, and before the chim¬ 
ney, and over the doors of the room, fet open all clolets and 
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