AAJX1 ;"!f '• ••"' " V+tftO //It^/t^-n A, METHOD OF CURING MOST DISEASES. ',/^"Bj John Wesley. Vr ^- Homo fum t humani nihil a me alienum puto. TheFouRTEENTH Edition, correifted and much enlarged^ PHILADELPHIA: fruited by JOSEPH CW»JCSHANK, in Thiiv jftr^ct, oj^jo u. tDv WprlsJioufe. 1770. CONTENTS. •23 *24 A ABORTION, page 19 Ague, ibid, and 20 Anthony's (St.) Fire, 21 Apoplexy ~) Appetite (Canine) >« Afthma -) B Baldnefs ") Bleeding at the Nofe Bleeding of a Wound Blood (fpitting or vomit-' in&) , 3 Blood coagulated Boils Freafts (Hard) - —Sore and fwell'd Bruife Burn or Scald. C Crncer Chilblains Chin Cough or Hooping Cough Cholera Morbus Chopt Hands and Lips Cold Clicks of various Sorts Consumption Cbnvulfions Cdhis Coftivenefs Coughs < ramp Cut 26 27 D 29 3o 3' 32 32 33 34 35 35 Deafnefs Delivery (tocaufe an eafy)' Diabetes ^3° Dropfy -* E EarAch 37 Ears (diforders of the) 38 Eyes (diforders of the) 38^ Falling Sicknefs 4* Falling of the Fundament "J) 7.44 4> f+7. •of the Womb Fever Fiftula Flux O Gout Gravel Green Sicknefs Gums wafting away H Head-Ach 47, Hemicrania ■} Headftopt ?43 Heart burning J Hiccup / Hoarfenefs Hypocondriac and Hyfte- rick Diforders -* I Jaundice 49 Iliac Paffion *) Impofthume Joints (Pain in the) Itch -* K King's Evil 5c Kidney's (Stoppage in the) 52, '49 •50 Legs fore Leprofy Lethargy Lightning, Damp, or Suf- j focating (for one feem- I 1 ingly Killed with) Lues Venerea Lunacy M Madnefs Mad Dog (Bite of a) Meafles Menfes obftrufted 53 J 54- 5S Milk CONTENTS. }5* 56 57 }» >6o 61 61 62 Milk coagulated .----toincreafe N Nervous Diforders P Pain in the Back Palf'ey Palpitation of the Heart Piles Plague Pleurify Poifon'd (to one) Prick or Cut that fefters Purge Q Quinfy R Pvheumatifm Rickets Ring Worms Running at the Nofe Rupture S Scald Head Sciatica Scrotum (Inflammations 1 of the) ! Scorbutic Atrophy, Pains, } 64 and Sores ! Scurvy Shin broken Shingles Sickiihnefs in theMornin Skin rubbed off Small Pocks ■Sore Mouth Sore Throat Sprain Sting of a Bee, or Nettle &c. Stich in the Side 5»cknefs (accidental) }63. 66 69 I 70 7 = Stomach (Pain on the) Stone Stoppage in the Kidneys Stranguary Sunburn Sweating (profufe) Swelled Glands ---Legs -Throat Swelling (white) T Teeth, (Diforders of the) Tefticles (Pain in the) Thorns, &c. to draw out Thrufli Torpor or numbnefs of the limbs Twifting of the Gufs Tympany or windy dropfy V Vein or Sinew cut ~) Vertigo or Swimming in i-_ the Head j Vigilia, Inability to fleep -' Viper or Rattle Snake (bite I J of a) Ulcers Vomit (an eai'y and fafe) Vomiting to flop Urine (Bloody) ——by Drops with Heat and pain Urine (Involuntary) ----(Sharp) ----(Suppreflion of) Uvula inflamed ——relax'd W Warts Whites Whitlow Weaknefsin the Ankles Worms Wounds 74.. 75 1, 7S 1 I J L *5 3 THE PREFACE. WH EN Man came firft out of the Hands of the great Creator, cloath'd in Bo- dy as well as in Soul, with Immortality and In- corruption, there was no Place for Phyfick, or tlie Art of Healing. As he knew no Sin, fo he knew no Pain, no Sicknefs, Weaknefs, or bodi- ly Diforder. The Habitation wherein the ange- lick Mind, the Divine Particula.Aura abode, al- >tho' originally formed out of the Duft of the Tarth, was liable to no Decay. It had no Seed* of Corruption or DifTolution within itfelf. And there was nothing without to injure it: Heaven and Earth, and all the Holts of them, were mild, benign and friendly to human Nature. The en- tire Creation was at Peace with Man, fo long as Man was at Peace with his Creator. So that well might the Morning Stars fing together, and all the Sons of God fhout for Joy. 2. But fince Man rebelPd againft the Sove- reign of Heaven and Earth, how entirely is the Scene changed ? The incorruptible Frame hath put on Corruption, the Immortal has put on V.Iortality. The Seeds of Weaknefs and Pain, of Sicknefs and Death, are now lodged in our inmoft Subftance : Whence a thoufand Difor- ders continually fpring, even without the Aid of external Violence. And how is the Numba A 2 of L 1V .1 ©f thefe increafed, by every Thing round about Us? The Heavens, the Earth, and all Things contained therein, confpire to punifh the Rebels \ . againit their Creator. 1'he Sun and Moon mqti unwholfome Influences from above ; the Eartn:h exhales poifonous Damps from beneath: The Beaus of the Field, the Birds of the Air, thej Fifties of the Sea, are in a Sate of Hoftilicy:' The Airitfelf, that furrounds us on every Side, is replete with the Shafts of Death: Yea, the Food we eat, daily faps the Foundation of the Life, which cannot be fuflained without it. So has the Lord of All fecured the Execution of | his Decree, " Dufi thou art, and unto Dufl Jhalt% •' thou return." \\ 3. But can there Nothing be found to lefien | thofe Inconveniencies, which cannot be wholly* removed ? To foften the Evils of Life, and pre- 1 vent in Part the Sicknefs and Pain to which we j are continually expofed ? Without QuelHon . there may. One grand Preventive of Pain and Sicknefs of various Kinds, feems intimated by the great Author of Nature, in the very Sen- tence that intails Death upon us : " In the Sweat} of thy Face fhalt thou eat Bread, 'til thou return to the Ground." The Power of Exercife, both to prefei vc and reflore Health, is greater than can well be conceived : Efpecially in thofe who add Temperance thereto ; who, if they do not confinethemfelves altogether to eat either " Bread,J *c or the Herb of the Field," (which Gon does ' not require them to do) yet fteadily obferve both that Kind and Meafure of Food, which Experi- ence fhews to be moll friendly to Health and Strength. 4. [v J . 4. 'Tisprobable Physick, as well as Religi- on, was in the firft Ages chiefly traditional : E- veiy Father delivering down to his Sons, what he had himfelf in like Manner received, concern- ing the Manner of healing both outward Hurts, and the Difeafes incident to each Climate, and the Medicines which were of the greateft Effica- cy for the Cure of each Diforder. 'Tis certain, this is the Method wherein the Art of Healing is preferved among the Americans, to this Day. Their Difeafes,. indeed, are exceeding few ;' nor do they often occur, by Reafon of their conti- nual Exercife, and ('til of late, univerfal) Tem- perance. But if any is fick, or bit by a Serpent, or torn by a wild Beaft, the Fathers immediately tell their Children what Remedy to apply. And 'tis rare, that the Patient fufTers lon^ ; thofe Me- chcines being quick, as well as generally infalli* ble.. 5. Hence perhaps it was that the Antients, hot only of Greece and Rme, but even of barba- rous Nations, ufually aflign'd Phyfick a Divine Original. And indeed it was a natural Thought* That He who had taught it to the" very Beails and Birds, the Cretan Stag, the Egypkan Ibisa f ould not be wanting to teach Man y ; Sanflius his Animal, mentifque capacius alt a : Tea, fometimes, even by thofe meaner Crea- tures : For it was eafy to infer, " If this will heal that Creature, whofe Fleih is nearly of the fame Texture with mine, then in a parallel Cafe it will heal me." The Trial was made. The A Cure C vi ] Cure was wrought. And Experience and Phy- 1 lick grew up together. 6. And has not the Author of Nature taught us the Ufe of many other Medicines, by what is vulgarly term'd Accident ? Thus one walking* fome Years fmce in a Grove of Pines, at a Time '* when many in the neighbouring Town were af- j fiicted with a Kind of new Diftemper, little f] Sores in the Infide of theJVIouth, a Drop of na- tural Gum f. 11 from one of the Trees on the j Book which he was reading. This he took up, and thoughtlefly applied to one of thofe fore Pla- ' ces. Finding the Pain immediately ceafe> he applied it to another, which was alfo prefently healed. The fame Remedy he afterwards im- f parted to others, and it did not fail to heal any tiiat applied it. And doubtlefs numberlefs Re- medies have been thus cafually discovered in e- very Age and Nation. 7. Thus far PI yiick was wholly founded or. Experiment. The European, as well as the Atnih rican. faid to his Neighbour, Are you fick? Drink the Juice of this Herb, and your Sicknefi will be at an End. Are you in a burning Heat' Leap into that P.rver, and then fweat 'til yofi J are well. Has the Snake bitten you ? Chew, and apply that Root, and the Poifon will not hurt you. Thus andc-nt Men, having a Ktt!e Experi- ence, joined with common Senfe, and commoftftf Humanity, erred both thcmfelves and their Neighbours, of moft of the Diftempers to whici every Nat?'-;, was fubjeCt. 8. pnt in i'rocefs of Time, Men of a philofa- f1 Iv<~a i dlJX Wv'C i*ot faiisfied with this. They C vii ] began to enquire, How they might account for thefe Things ? How fuch Medicines wrought fuch Effects ? They examined the human Body, and all its Parts ; the-Nature of the Flefh, Veins, Arteries, Nerves; the Structure of the Brain, Heart, Lungs, Stomach, Bowels ; with the Springs of the feveral Animal Functions. They explored the feveral Kinds of Animal and Mine- ral, as well as Vegetable Subftances. And hence the whole order of Phyfick which had obtained to that Time, came gradually to be inverted. Men of Learning began to let Experience afide ; to build Phyfick upon Hypothefis ; to form Theories of Difeafes and their Cure, and to fub- ftitute thefe in the Place of Experiments. 9. As Theories increafed, fimple Medicines were more and more difregarded and difufed : 'til, in a Courfe of Years, the greater Part of them were forgotten, at lead in the poirer Na- tions. In the Room of thefe, Abundance of new Ones were introduced, by reafoninp;, ipe- culative Men ; and thofe more and more dh'licult to be applied, as being more remote from com- mon Oofervation. Hence Rules for the Appli- cation of theft, an J M^'ical .Cooks, were im- menfely multij.lied; 'ul at Uvgth Phyfick be- came an ahft-.--.ifs: Science, qui,e out oi the Reach of ordinary '.'en. 10. Phy(iei.ms now '-."^rn to be had in Ad- mira'.ion, as P< i^bnc; Mho were ^oraelhing more than humai'. And Paiilt -:.ftmded their Em- ploy, as well arj ilunov1' • fo ^at "«f iey had now two weighty Reafc ^ ..keeping the Bulk of ManLiiij. ui uDiflauvC, thiu cht/ uii^ht not pry into 7^ C viii J into the Myfteries of the Profeflion. To this End* they increafed thofe Difficulties by Defign, which began in Manner by Accident. They filled their Writings with Abundance of Technical Terms, utterly unintelligible to plain Men. . They affected to deliver their Rules^and to rea- fon upon them, in an abflrufe and philofophica! Manner. They reprefented the critical Know- ledge of Anatomy, Natural Philofophy, (and*' what not ? Some of them infilling on that of A- ftronomy and Aftrology too) as ncceflarily pre- vious to the underftanding the Art of Healing., Thofe who underftood only, How to reftore the Sick to Health, they branded with the Name of Lmpiricks. They introduced into Practice. A- , oundanceof compound Medicines, confiflingof fo many Ingredients, that it was fcarce poflible for common People to know which it was that wrought a Cure : Abundance of Exoticks, nei- ther the Nature nor Names of which their own Countrymen underftood : Of Chymicals, fuch as they neither had Skill, nor Fortune, nor Time, to prepare : Yea, and of dangerous Ones, fuch as they could not ufe without hazarding Life, but by the Advice of a Phyfician. And thus both their Honour and Gain were fecured ; a vatt Majority of Mankind being utterly cut off from helping either themfelv'es or their Neigh- bours, or once daring to attempt it. 11. Yet there have not been wanting from Time to Time, fome Lovers of Mankind, who have endeavoured (even contrary to their own Intereft) to reduce Phyfick to its antient Stand- ard : Who have laboured to explode out of it all C is 3 A\ Hypothefes, and fine-fpun Theories, and to make it a plain intelligible Thing, as it was in the Beginning; having no more Myflery in it than this, " Such a Medicine removes fuch a Pain." Thefe have demonftrably fhewn, That neither the Knowledge of Aftrology, Aftronomy, Natural Philofophy, nor even Anatomy itfelf, is abfolutely neceffary to the quick and effectual )£ure of mofl Difeafes incident to human Bodies: Nor yet any Chymical, or Exotick, or Com- pound Medicine, but a fingle Plant or Fruit du- ty applied. So that every Man of common Senfe "(Jinlefs in fome rare Cafes}4nay prefcribe either to himfelf or his Neighbour ; and may be very fccure from doing Harm, even where he can do no Good. 12. Even to the laft Age there was fomething of this Kind done, particularly by the great and good Dr. Sydenham : And in the prefent, of his Pupil Dr. Diver, who has pointed out Am- ple Medicines for many Difeafes. And fome fuch may be found in the Writings of the learn- ed and ingenious Dr. Cheyne: Who* doubtlefs would have communicated many more to the World, but for the melancholy Reafon he gave one of his Friends, that preft him with fome Paflages in his Works, which too much countenanced the modern Practice, " O Sir, We muft do fomething to oblige the Faculty, or they will tear us in Pieces." 13. Without Regard to this, without any Concern about the obliging or difobliging any Jan living, a mean Hand has made here fome iittle Attempt towar* a plain and eafy Way of % curing C xii ] M know your Diftemper, (which is very eafy, uff lefs in a Complication of Diforders, and then you would do well to apply to a Phyfician that fears God) Firft, ufe the firft of the Remedies forthaj Difeafe which occurs in the enfuing Collectiof; unlefs fome other of them be eafier to be had, and then it may dojuft as well.) Secondly, Af. ter a competent Time, if it takes no effeel:, ufe the fecond, the third, and fo on. I have pur- pofely fet down (in moft Cafes) feveral RemecM for each Diforder ; not only becaufe All are not equally eafy to be procured at all Times and in all Places: But likewife becaufe the Medicine which cures one Man, will not always cure ano»' ther of the fame Diftemper. Nor will it cure the fame Man at all Times. Therefore it wa| neceffary to have a Variety. However^ I have fubjoin'd the Letter / to thofe Medicines, whfcf are faid to be infallible.—Thirdly, ObferveM the Time the greateft Exadnefs in your Regi- men, or manner of Living. Abftain from a'i mixt, or all high feafon'd Food. Ufe plain Pi. ct, eafy of Digeftion : And this as fparinglyla you can, confiftent with Eafe and Strengt . Drink only Water, if it agrees with your St mach, if not, good clear Small-beer. Ufe ^ much Exercife daily, in the open Air, as ycij can without Wearinefs. Sup at Six or Seven oil. the lighteft Food : Go to Bed early, and rife be- times. To perfevere with Steadinefs in th Courfe, is often more than half the Cure. 1 - bove all, add to the reft, (for it is not Labovr loft) that old, unfafhionable Medicine, Praye^ And have Faith in God, who " JriUeth and mak- \ v €U.. I xiii ] eth alive, who bringeth down to the Crave and bringeth up." 16. For the Sake of thofe who defire, through the Blefling of God, to retain the Health which they have recovered, I have added a few plain eafy Rules,- chiefly tranfcribed from Dr. Cheyne. I. i. The Air we breathe is of great Confe- quence to our Health. Thofe who have been long abroad in Eafterly or Northerly Winds, fhould drink fome thin and warm Liquor going to Bed: or a Draught of Toaft and Water. 2. Tender People fhould have thofe who lie with them or are much about them, found, fweet and healthy. 3. Everyone that would preferveHealth fhould be as clean and fweet as poflible in their Houfes, Cloaths, and Furniture. II. 1. The great Rule of Eating and Drinking h, To fuit the Quality and Quantity of Food to the Strength of our Digeftion ; to take always fuch a Sort and fuch a Meafure of Food, as fits light and eafy on the Stomach. ■ 2. All pickled, or fmoaked, or falted Food, and all high-feafon'd is unwholfome. 3. Nothing conduces more to Health, than Abftinence and plain Food, with due Labour. 4. For ftudious Perfons, about eight Ounces of Animal Food, and twelve of Vegetable in fwenty-four Flours is fuflicient. 5. Water is the wholfomeft of all Drinks ; quickens the Appetite and ftrengthens the Di- geftion moft. 6. Strong, and more efpecially fpirituous Li- quors, arc a certain though flow Poifon. C xiv ] 7, Experience fhews, there is no Manner of Danger, in leaving them off' all at once. 8. Strong Liquors do not prevent the Mif- chiefs of a Surfeit, nor carry it off fo fafely as Water. v-^ 9. Malt Liquors (except clear Small Beer of* a due Age) are exceeding hurtful to tender Perfons, 10. Coffee and Tea are extremely hurtful to Perfons who have weak Nerves. jl III. 1. Tender Perfons fhould eat very light * Suppers ; and that two or three Hours before going to Bed. 2. They ought conftantly to go to Bed about Kine, and rife at Four or Five. IV. 1, A due Degree of Exercifcis indifpen- » iably neceffary to Health and long Life, 2. Walking is the beft Exercife for thofe who , are able to bear it. Riding for thofe who are not. The open Air, when the Weather is fair, contributes much to the Benefit of Exercife. 3. We may ftrengthcn any weak Part of the Body byconftant Exercife, Thus the Lungs may be ftrengthened by loud fpeaking, or walking up an eafy Afcent. The Arms or Hams by feroogly rubbing them daily. : 4. The Studious ought to have ftated TimeJ : ! for Exercife, at leaft two or three Hours a Day: The one half of this before Dinner, the other before going to Bed. 5. They fhould frequently fhave, and frequent- ly wafh their Feet. • %■ 6. Thofe who read or write much, {her. M learn \- to do it ftandinj j otherwifeit will v- pu;c- ?.h<:ir t ** 3 7. The fewer Cloaths any one ufes, by Day or Night, the hardier he will be. 8. Exercife, firft, fhould be always on an empty Stomach ; fecondly, fhould never be con- tinued to Wearinefs > thiidly, after it, we fhould take Care to cool by Degrees * Otherwife we ftiaU catch Cold. 9. The FJefh-brufh is a moft ufeful Exercife efpecially to ftrengthen any Part that is weak. 10. Cold-bathings is a great Advantage to Health. It prevents Abundance of Difeafes. It promotes Perfpiration, helps the Circulation of tht Blood, and prevents the Danger of catching Cold. Tender People fhould pour Water upon the Head before they go in, and walk in, fwift- ly. To jump in with the Head foremoft, is too great a Shock to Nature- V. 1. Coftivenefs cannot long eonfift with Health. Therefore Care fhould be taken to re- move it at the Beginning 5 and when it is remo- ved, to prevent its Return, by foft, cool, open- ing Diet. 2. Obftruclred Perfpiration (vulgarly called catching Cold) is one great Source of Difeafes. Whenever there appears the leaft Sign of this let it be removed by gentle Sweats. VI. 1. The Pafiionshave a greater Influence on Health than moft People are aware of. 2. All violent and fudden Paflions difpofe to, or actually throw People into acute Difeafes. 3. The flow and lafting Paflions, fuch as Grief and hopelefs Love, bring on chronical Difeafes. 4. 'Till the Pafiion which caufed the Difeafe is calm'd, Medicine is applied in vain. B2 c_ 5. The Love of God, as it is the fovereigttj Remedy of all Miferies, fo in particular it effec* M tually prevents all the bodily Diforders the Paf-jjl fions introduce, by keeping the Paflions them-|| felves within due Bounds. And by the unfpeak- }J able Joy and perfect Calm, Serenity and Tran-; quiiiity it gives the Mind, it becomes the moft I, powerful of all the Means of Health and long Life. London June it, POSTSCRIPT. ■1. "J" T was a great Surprife to the Editor of th$ J[ following Collection, that there was fo iwilt and large a Demand for it; that nine Ira- : preflions were called for in four or five Years ; and that it was not only republiihed by the Book* *.' fellers in a neighbouring Nation, but alfo infert'.JM ed by Parts in their public Papers, and fo propa- gated through the whole Kingdom. This en-i $ couraged him carefully to revife the whole, and i to publifh it again, with feveral Alterations,,' which it is hoped may make it of greater Ufe to thofe who love common Senfe and common Ho-^ Siefty. 2. Thofe Alterations are ftill in Purfuance of my firft Defign, To fet down cheap, and fafe, and eafy Medicines ; eafy to be known, eafy to be procured, and eafy to be applied by plain un- lettered Men. Accordingly, I have omitted a CQuUdorable Number which, tliQ' cheap andfafe, .vcre - __k r- *' -m were not fo common or well knows » aw . —. added almoft an equal Number, to which that Objection cannot be made : which are not only of fmall Price, and extreamly faf£, but likewife cafily to be found, if not in every Houfe or Yard, yet in every Town, and almoft every Village throughout the Kingdom. 3. Is is becaufe they are not fafe, but extreme- ly dangerous, that I have omitted (together with Antimony) the four Herculian Medicines, Opi- um, * the Bark, * Steel, and the various Prepa- rations of Quickfilver. Herculian indeed! Far too ftrong tor common Men to grapple with. How many fatal Effects have thefe produced, c- ven in the Hands of no ordinary Phyficians ? With regard to tour of thefe, the Inftances are glaring and undeniable. And whereas Qiiick- filver, the fifth, in its native Form, as innocent as Bread or Water, has not the Art been difco- ver'd, fo to prepare it, as to make it the moft deadly of all Poifbns? Thefe Phyhcians have juftly termed edged Tools. But they have not yet taught them to wound at a Diftance : And honeft Men are under no Neceflity of touching them, or coming within their Reach. 4. Inftead of thefe, I have once more ventur- ed to recommend to Men of plain unbiaffed Rea- fon, fuch Remedies as Air, Water, Milk, Whey, Honey, Treacle, Salt, Vinegar, and common Englifh Herbs, with a few foreign Medicires, al- moft equally cheap, fafeand common. And this I have done on that Principle, whereby I defire B3 to * Except in One Iaftancc, t ivili ] to be governed in all ray Actions, " Whatfoeverf ye would that Men fhould do unto you the fame do unto them." 5. At the Requeft of many Perfons,. I have likewife added plain Difinitions of moft Diftem- pers ; not indeed accurate or philofophical Difi- siitions, but fuch as are fuited to Men of ordina- ry Capacities, and as may juft enable them, in. Common, fimple Cafes, to diftinguifh one Dif. eafe from another. In uncommon or complicate, ed Difeafes, or where Life is more immediately^ *n Danger I again advife every Man, without" Delay, to apply to a Phyfician that fears Goe; B*I5T0t> OH. 16, 1755; A COLLECTIO N. OF RECEIPTS. t Abortion (to prevent.) I. T T SE daily a Decoction of Lignum Guaiactm. 2 For an Ague * ' 2. Go into the Cold Bath juft before the Cold Fit. g. Or. take a handful of Groundfell, fhred it fmall, put it into a Paper Bag, four Inches fquare, pricking that Side which is to be next the Skin, full of Holes. Cover this with a thin Linen, and wear it on the Pit of the Stomach, renewing it two Hours before the Fit: Tried. ^. Or, apply a Handful of TatTinv in like Manner : jj. Or, a l:ir£e Onion flit : 6. Or, boil iarwv in new Milk, 'till it is tender enough to' fpread as a Plaifter. An Hour before the cold Fit, apply this to the Wrifts, and Jet it be on 'till the hot Fit is over. if another Fit comes, ufe afrefli Plaifter : this often cures a Stuart an. *]. Or, drink a Qvart of celd Water, juft before the cold Fit. TKten go to Bed and fweat : 8. Or,' make fix middling Pills of Cobwebs, Take one a little before the cold Fit: Two a litde before the next Fit: ," * Art A%uc is, An Intermitting Fever, each Fit of which is precedt4 hj a cold Sniveling, and goes offin a Sweat, Pit: The other three, if Need be, a little before the third Fit. I never knew this fail : *, 9. Or, two Tea-fpoonfuls of Sal Prunella an Hour before J the Fit. It commonly cures in thrice taking : 10. Or, a Tea-fpoonful of Spirits of Hartporn, inaGlafsof Water : 11. Or, eat a Lemon, Rind and all: It. Or, drink a Pint of Decoction of Camomile, fweetn'd with Treacle. Take it warm in Bed, and fweat two Hours. It is proper to take a gentle Vomit before you ufe any of thefe Medi- , cines. If this is taken t:///-Wbruifcd: /. *6a. C =4 > *<5o. Or, fpread the Afhes of a Linen Cloth thick on an ther Linen Cloth, and apply it: 61. Or, ftrewonit the Ajhes of a Linen Rag, diptinfhar Vinegar and burnt : 62. Or take ripe Puff-Balls. Break them warily and fai the Powder. Strew this on the Wound and bind it on. / —This will abfolutely ftop the Bleeding of an amputated Limb without any Cautery. 13. Spitting- Blood. 63. Take half a pint of ftew'd Prunes, at lying down f< • two or three Nights : *>4- Or, a Glafs of Decoction of Onions: 65. Or, four Spoonfuls of Juice of Nettles every Morning- and a large Cup of Decoction of Nettles at Night for * Week : 66. Take frequently a fpoonful of the Juice of Nettles anr VlirJan; Leaves, and fweetened with Sugar Candy : 67. Or, three Spoonfuls of Sage-juice in. a little Honey. Thi prefently flops either fpitting or vomiting Blood : 68. Or, half a Tea-fpoonful of Barbadoes Tar on a Lump of Loaf Sugar at Night. It commonly cures at Once. 14. Vomiting Blood, 69. Take three Spoonfuls of Sage-juice in Honey. 70. Or, two Spoonfuls of Nettle-juice__(This'alfo diflblvei Blood coagulated in the Stomach.) 71. Or, one Spoonful of the Juice of Quinces : 72. Or, a Quarter of a Pint of Decoction of Nettles ai ■Plantane two or three Times a day. 15. To diflblve coagulated Blood. 73. Bind on the Part for fome Hours a Pafte made of Blat{ Soap and Crumbs of white Bread : 74. Or, grated Root of Burdock fpread on a Raff: Renew this twice a Day. & l6\ Boils. ?;• Appty a little Venice Turpentinet i ( *5 ) 76. Or, a Plaifter of Honey and Wheat-Flour'. 77. Or, of Figs: 78. Or, a little Saffron in a white Bread Poultis,— 'Tis proper to purge alfo. 17. Hard Breafts. 79. Apply Turnips roefled- 'till foft, then mafh'd and mixt with a little Oil ofRofes. Change this twice a Day, keep- ing the Breaft very warm with Flannel. 18. Sore Breafts and fwell'd. go. Boil a Handful of Camomile and as much Mallows in Milk and Water. Foment with it between two Flannels as hot as canJ. Change this every twelve or twenty four Hours : 100. Take Rorfe- purs and dry them by the Fire 'till they wilf be;:c to a i'owier. Sift and infufe two Drachms in two Quit's of Ale; drink half a Pint every fix Hours, new Mi!!; inn.—It has cured many. ■ r •. C'-. n;ply Corf dung and Celandine beat well together,' -d ipre v\ on a fLe Rag. It will both cleanfeand heal See. 102.4 .A (jnfiJ'mr* hard, round, uneven, nair.ful Swelling, of a black-3 «*>6 f fejbi&»Cu\i>u?{ the Y-ins round which feem ready to burft. It jl C*prtfi)*n\y tr-nVft ^tn a Swelling about as big as a Pea, which ista W */ fCtftlltt nach Pain, nor change the Colour of the Skin. ( *7 ) 102. Or, a Poultis of wild Parfnips , Flowers, Leaves and Stalks, changing it Morning and Evening. 103. Or, live three Months on Apples and Applewafer : 104. Or, take half a Dram of Venice-Soap twice a Day : 105. Or, take Brimflone and Gas of Sulphur, as Art. 39.— This has cured one far advanced in Years. 25. A Cancer in any other Part. 106. Apply red Onions bruifed : 107. Or, make a Plaifter of Roch-Allans, Venegar and Honey equal Quantities, with Wheat-flour. Change it every twelve Hours. It often cures in three or four Days: jo8. Or, ftamp the Flowers, Leaves and Stalks of wild Parfnips, and apply them as a Plaifter, changing it every twelve Hours. It ufually cures in a few Days. 26". Cancer in the Mouth. 109. Boil a few Leaves of Succory, Plantane and Rue, with a Spoonful of Honey, for a Quarter of an Hour. Gargle with it often in an Hour. 1. 110. Or, with Vinegar and Honey wherein half an Ounce of Roch-Allttm is boiled: in. Or, take an Ounce of Flour of Sulphur, and half an Ounce of Roch-Allum finely powder'd. Mix thefe weU together with pure Honey, and apply often. 27. Chilblains (to prevent.) 112. Wear Flannel Socks : 113. Or, wafh the Feet with Flour of Mufard. 28. Chilblains (to cure.) 114. Apply Salt and Onions pounded together : Ilf. Or, a Poultis of roafied Onions hot. Keep it on two or 1 three Days, if not cured fooner : 116. Or, hot Turnip-parings roafted, changing them twice or thrice a Day. 117. Wafh them (if broke) with Tinclure of Myrrh in a little Water. C 2 29". 29. Chin-Cough or Hooping-Cough. 118. Ufe the Cold Bath daily: 119. Or, rub the Feet thoroughly with Hog's-lard, before the Fire, at going to Bed, and keep the Child warro$ therein : 120. Or, rub the Back at lying down with old Rum. It feldom fails. j 121. Or, give a Spoonful of Juice of Penny-royal mixt with] brown Sugar-caudy, twice a Day : J22. Or, half a Pint of Milk warm from the Cow withthe Quantity of a Nutmeg of Conferve of Rofes diflblv'd in it H every Morning 30. Cholera Morbus, i. e. Flux and Vomiting. 123. Drink two or three Quarts of cold Water, if ftrong ; of warm Water, if weak : 124. Or, boil a Chicken an Hour in two Gallons of Water, and drink of this 'till the Vomiting ceafes. j 31. Chopt Hands (to prevent.) 12*. Wafh them with Flour of Mufiard: I. 126. Or, in Bran and Water boiled together : 127. To cure, wafh vfXthfoft Soap mixt with red Sand : j 123. Apply Oil of Myrrh. I 32. Chopt Lips. 129. Apply a little Sal Prunella. 33. A Cold. 130. Drink a Pint of cold Water lying down in Bed : 131. Or, a Spoonful of Treacle in half a Pint of Water : 132. Or, to one Spoonful of Oatmeal and one Spoonful off Honey, add a Piece of Butter of the Bignefs of a Nutmeg :~ Pour on gradually near a Pint of boiling Water; drin' this lying down in Bed. 1 1 ( *9 ) 24- A Cold in the Head. 133. Pare very thin the yellow Rind of an Orange. Roll it up infide out and thruft a Roll into each Noftril. 35. The Colick (in the Fit.) 134. Drink a Pint of cold Water 1 135. Or a Quart of warm Water r 13,6. Or, as largely as poflible of warm Tar-Water r 137. Or, a Pint of Water in which a red hot Flint is quenched': 138. Or, drink largely of Camomile-Tea: 139. Or, of Decoction of Mallows : 140. Or take thirty Drops of Spirit of Turpentine, in a Glafs of Water: 141. Or from two Scruples to half a Dram of Yellow.-peel of Oranges powder'd, in a Glafs of Water : 143. Or beat together into a Cake one Part of ftoned Rai- fins of the Sun, and three Parts ©f Juniper-Berries ; eat more or lefs according to the Pain: 14.3. Or,, take from forty to an hundred Drops of Oil of A- nife-feed, on a Lump of Sugar : 144. Or, apply outwardly a Bag of hot Oats, 36. Colick in Children. 14 c. Give a Scruple of powTder'd Anifefeed in their Meat 37. Bilious Colick. J| 146. Give a Spoonful of fweet Oil every Hour.---- This has cured one, judged to be at the Point of Death. 147. Or, boil an Ounce of bruifed Anife-feed in two Quarts of Water, 'till half is boiled away. When it is cool, in- tufe an Ounce of Manna, and four Drams of Glauber's Salts. Drink as much of it as you can. 38. An Habitual Colick. r*8 Wear a thin foft Flannel on the Part. * ' ____________ C 3___________________39- tUThis is generally attended with vomiting agreetfifh or a frothy Mat- trr, with a feveri(h Heat, violent Third, a bitte^Tafte in the Mouth,. »ni Huh; and high -coloured L'rine. ( 3° ) 39. An Hyfterick Colick. * J49. Mrs. Watts, by ufing the Cold Bath two and twenty Times in a Month, was entirely cured of an Hyfterick Colick, Fits, and convulfive Motions, cbntinual Sweat- ings and Vomiting, wandering Pains in her Limbs and total Lofs of Appetite. 150. In the Fit, drink half a Pint of Water with a little Wheatfleur in it, and a Spoonful of Vinegar : I j 1. Or, a G lafs full of Vinegar : 152. Or take 20, 30 or 40 Drops of Balfam of Peru in fine Sugar : If need be, take this twice or thrice a Day: 153. Or, in Extremity, boil three Ounces of Burdock-Seed in Water, which give as a Clyfter : 154. Or, J&ve Grains of Laudanam, in any proper Clyfter, which thus injected gives inftant Eafe. 40. A Nervous Colick. J 155. life the Cold Bath daily for a Month : 15 6. Or, take Qifickftlvtr and Gas of Sulpher, daily for a Month: As Air. 39. 41. Colick from the Fumes of Lead, or White Lead, Verdigreafe, &c. 157. In the Fit, drink frefh melted Butter, and thenvomip with 'warm Water. 1 ;8. Or, give Clyfters of Oil ox fat Broth. 159. To prevent or cure, breakfaft daily on fat Broth, and ufe Oil of fweet Almonds frequently and largely. 42. A Confumption. 100. Cold Bathing has cured many deep Confumptions. 161. One in a deep Confumption was advifed to drink no- thing but Water and eat nothing but Water-gruel, without Salt or Sugar. In three Months Time he was perfectly well. ■ 162. * Is attended with a violent Pain a 'out the Pit of the Stomach, with great finking of the Spirits, and often with grecrilh Vomitings. fv This is frequently term'd the dry Belly-neb. 11 often continues fe- veral Days, with little Urine, and.obninate Cofti. ciufs. ( 3' ) 162. Take no food but new butter-Milk, churn'd in a bee- tle, and White-Bread.—I have known this fuccefsful : 163. Or, boil two Handfuls of Sorrel in a Pint of Whey. Strain it, and drink a Glafs thrice a Day : 164. Or take a Spoonful of Syrup of Foxglove, Morning and Evening : 165. Or, turn a Pint of fkim'd Milk with half a Pint of fmall Beer. Boil in this Whey, about twenty Ivy-leaves, and two or three Sprigs of Hyffop. Drink half over Night, the reft in the Morning. Do this if needful for two Months daily.—This has cured in a defperate Cafe : 166. Or, take a Cow-heel from the Tripe-houfe ready dreft, two Quarts of new Milk, two Ounces of Hartjhorn-Jlmvings two Ounces of lfing-glafs, a Quarter of a Pound of Sugar- candy, and a Race of Ginger. Put all thefe in a Pot; and fet them in an Oven after the Bread is drawn. Let it continue there 'till the Oven is near cold ; and let the Patient live on this.—I have known this cure a deep con- fumption more than once. 167. Or, everv Morning cut up a little Turf of frefh Earth, and, lying down, breath into die Hole for a Quarter of an Hour. I have known a deep Confumption cured thus. 168. Or, take half a Pint of fkim'd ^M, put one Spoonful of the beft Rum, fweetened with a little Sugar or Sugar of Rofes; take it new Milk warm, lying in Bed an Hour after it: And ufe for common Drink eight Parts Water, three Parts fkim'd Milk, one Part Rum, fweetened with ' a little Sugar. 169. " Mr. Mafiers of' Evefhatn, was fo far gone m a Con- fumption, that he could not (land alone. 1 idvifedhim to lofe fix Ounces of Blood, every Day for a Fortnight, if ' he lived fo long; and then every other Day ; then every third Day; then every fifth Day, for the fame Time. In three Months he was well.'Vr-Dr. Dover. 170. Or, throw FW/«^onburnmgCoals, and receive the Smoke daily thro' a proper Tube into tne Lungs : 171. Or finoke Balfam of "take.a Tea-fpoonful of Val,nan-roet powder d in ( 3* ) ; a Cup of Water every Evening : 174. Or half a Dram of Mi felt 0 powder'd, every fix Hours. drinking alter it a Draught of ftrong Infufion thereof. 44. Convulfions in Children* 17 j. Scrape Piony Roots frelh digged. Apply what you have fcraped off to the Soles of the Feet. It helps immediately. 45. Convulfions in the Bowels of Children. 176. Give a Child a Quarter old, a Spoonful of the Pelli- tory of the Wall, two or three Times a Day. It goes thro' at once, but purges no more. Ufe Syrup,, if Juice can- not be had. 46. Corns (to prevent.) 177. Wafh the Feet often in cold Water. 47. Corns (to cure.) 178. Apply frefh every Morning the Teqfl of fmall' B'eerr ' fpread on a Rag : 179. Or boil the Juice of Radifljes, 'till it is thick enough to fpread as a Plaifter. Shift it as it grows dry : 180. Or cleanfe from Earth the Root and Herb of Houfc- leek ; crufh it with your Fingers and apply it. Renew it every three Hours, for twenty four Hours : I. 181. Or, apply frefh Ivy-leaves daily, and in fifteen Days2 they will drop out. 48. Coftivenefs. T82.. Rife early every Morning: 183. Or, boil in a Pint and half of Broth, half a Handful of Mallow-leaves chopt: Strain this and drink it before you eat any Thing elfe. Do this frequently if needful: ' 184. Or, breakfaft twice a Week or oftener, on Water-gruel with Currants : 185. Or take theBignefs of a large Nutmeg of Cream of Tar- tar, mixt with Honey, as often as you need. 49. A Cough. 18 6. Drink a Pint and a half oUold Water lying down in Bedi 187 * ( 33 ) lS7- 0*" mix an Ounce of Linfeed Oil, with an Ounce of white Sugar-eandy powder'd, and take a Tea-fpoonful whenever the Cough comes : 188. Or, makeaHole thro' a Lemon and fill itjvith Honey. Roaft it, and catch the Juice. Take a Tea-fpoonful of this frequently : 189. Every Cough is a dry Cough at firft. As long as it continues fo, it may be cured by chewing immediately after you cough, the Quantity of a Pepper-corn of Peru- vian Bark. Swallow your Spittle as long as it is bitter, and then fpit out the Wood. If you cough again, do this again. It very feldom fails to cure any dry Cough. 50. An Afthmatick Cough. joo. Take Spanifh Liquorice two Ounces, Salt of Tartar half an Ounce : Boil the Liquorice in three Pints of Water to a Quart.—Add the Salt to it when it is Blood warm. Drink two Spoonfuls of this every two Hours.—It feldom fails. 51. A Confumptive Cough. 191. Slit ten or twelve Raifins of the Sun, take out the Stones, and fill them up with the fmall tender Tops of Rue. Take .thefe early every Morning, falling two or three Hours after : 192. Or, boil a Pound of Raifins ftoned in a Quart of old Verjuice to about a Pint. Then add a Pound of brown Sugar-candy, and let il fimmer into a Syrup. Take near a Spoonful every three or four Hours. 193. To ftop it for a Time, at lying down keep z\\tt\tfiick Liquorifi? fhaved like Horfe-radijh, between the Cheek and the Gums.—I believe this never fails. 52. A Convulfive Cough. 194. F.nt preferv'd Walnuts : 195. Or, boil a handful of Bay-haves in Milk, turn this with white Wins, and drink a Draught of the Whey often. 53- ( 34 ) $%. An Inveterate Cough. 196. Wafh the Head in cold Water every Morning : 197- Or, ufe the Cold Bath.----It feldom fails : 198. Or, take half a Pint of Decoction of Onions Morning and Evening : 199. Or, a Spoonful of Juice of Onions : *,< 200. Or, take peel'd Turnips three Pounds, Sugar one Pounds put them in an Earthen Pot clofecover'd for twenty-four* Hours. Strain the Juice and take two or three Spoonfulsl Morning and Evening; * 201. Or, mix the Juice of boiled Turnips wkh fine powder'd Sugar-candy, 'till it is a Kind of Syrup. Swallow a little! of it Drop by Drop from Time to Time : 1 202. Or take a Spoonful of Syrup of Horehound Morning t and Evening : <' 203. Or, put a Scruple of Sperma-Ceti into the Yolk df a 4- new laid Egg, and fup it up in the Morning falling. 54. Pleurkick Cough. 204. Powder an Ounce of Sperma-Ceti fine. Work it in *■' Marble Mortar with the Yolk of a new-laid Egg. Mix them in white Wine, and take a fmall Glafs every three" Hours. 5$. A Tickling Cough. 20c. Drink Water whiten'd with Oatmeal four Times a Day 206. Or, keep a Piece of Barley-Sugar or Sugar-candy con- A ftantly in your Mouth. j 56. Violent Coughing from a fharp thin Rheum. £07. Work into old Conferve ofRofes, asmucH as you can of j pure Olibanum, powder'd as fine as poflibJe. Take a Bo- 1 lus of this twice or thrice a Day. It eafes prefently, and T cures m two or three Weeks: I 208. Or, ufe MY^/tf as much as polTible. 57- The Cramp (to prevent.) 2°BedTie y°Ur GaitCr t%ht Under 70Ur Knee at SGinS t0 2iq ( 3S ) 210. Or be eleilrified thro' the Part which ufes to be affect- ed. This generall ypre\ ents it for a Month. Sometimes for a Twelve Month. 58. The Cramp (to cure.) 211. Stretch out the Limb immediately : 212. Or ftretch out the oppofite Arm and clinch the Fill: 213. Or, chafe the Part with Hungary-Water : 314. Or, with rectified Spirits of Wine : C15. Or, apply boiled Nettles hot: 216. Or, take half a Pint of Tar-water Morning and Even- ing. 59. A Cut. 2i 7. Keep it clofed with your Thumb a Quarter of an Hour. Then double a Rag five or fix Times; dip it in cold Wa- ter, and bind it on. 60. Deafnefs. 218. Be electrified thro' the Ear : 219. Or, ufe the Cold Bath: 220. Or, drop into the Ear a Tea-fpoonful of/2?// Water: 221. Or, of Juice of Ground-Ivy : 222. Or, three or four Drops of Onion-juice at lying down, . and ftop it with a little W00L 61. Deafnefs from Wax. 223. Syringe the Ear with warm Sage-tea : 0224. Or, put in wild Mint bruifed, with the Juice, chang- «£. ing it often. 62. Deafnefs with Head-ach and Buzzing in the Head. 2*C Peel a Clove of Garlick ; dip it in Honey, and putit in- \o your Ear at Night with a little black Wool. Lie with •' that Ear uppermoft. Put the fame in the other Ear the next Night. Do this, if need be, eight or ten Days. 63. A Settled Deafnefs. 2.6 Take a red Onion, pick out the Core ; fill up the Vhcc ■"" * with ( 3* ) with Oil of roafted Almonds. Let it Hand a Night # then bruife and ftrain it. Drop three or four Drops in- to the Ear, Morning and Evening, and ftop it witln Mark Wool * 64. To caufe an eafy Delivery. 4 227 Peel, flice and fry a large white Onion in two or three Spoonfuls of the beft Oil, till it is tender, boil this withJ half a Glafs of Water : Strain and drink it in the Morn4J ing falling, for two or three Weeks before the Time o£ Childbirth. ( 65. A Diabetes. * 228 Drink Wine boiled, with Ginger, as much and as often as your Strength will bear. Let your Drink be Milk and Water. All Milk Meats are good : ' 229 Or, drink three or four Times a Day a 'Quarter-of a Pint of Allum Poffet-drihk.—Putting three Drams of Al- lum to four Pints of Milk.—It feldom fails to cure in eighl or ten Days. Dr. Mead. 66. The Dropfy. J 230 Ufe the Cold Bath daily,: after purging 231 Or, drink nothing but Lemonade : i. e. Lemon, Sug and Water : 232 Or, take as much as lies on a Six-pence of powder'd Law>rel-Leaves, every fecond and third Day. It worka both Ways. 1 233 Or, mix half an Ounce of Amber with a Quart of Wim\ Vinegar. Heat a Brick (only red hot) and put it into a Tub. Pour them upon it, and hold the Parts fwell'd 0 I ver the Smoak, covering the Tub clofe, to keep in tht^ Smoak. The Water will come out incredibly, and the J Patienfl • \ A Dk'beUX\* * fre^nJent andn larSe ^/charge of pale Urine, attended with confhint Thn-ft, and a Wafting of the whole Body i A Dropfy is a preternatural Collection of Water in the Head Brc»fl Belly or all over the Body. Iris attended with a continual Thi* I and'ntS PUS' lf y°U Pre*'k Whh >'°Ur JFinS«. The Urine i, . ( 37 ) Patient-be cured : ■*& : if- ~ ■ ' ■? ? 234. Or, cover'^the whole'Belly with a large' new Spnrtgfc , . dipt 'm-drong.Lime-Water, and then fqueczed our. This * bound on, often ctft-es, even without any »fenfible Evx- ' cuation of Water : 235. Or, apply green Dock-leavis to tie Joints and Soles of . ( the Feet,, changing them once a Day : ^. . .« '236. Or, abilain from all drink for thirty Days. 'To eafe your Thirft hold often oh your Tongue, a thin fmali ( Slice of 'toai];edr-Bread dipt jn. Brandy; or wafh the ^ Mouth with Juice of Lemons. .237. 'Tar-water drank twice a tfayhsb cured many*:. .- ■ ♦» 238. Or, eat a.Crufi of Bread every Morning fading : ,. 1239. Or, drink half a Pint of Sea-waUr, Morning and E- vening '.-.:." ."'.". _...•* , 240. Or, mix a Pound of the coarfeft Sugar with a Pint of ', Juice *df PelUtory of the Wall bruifed in a Marble Mortar. Boil it as'hjng as any Scum rifes. When cool, bottle and cork it. If very bad,- take three Spoonfuls'at Night and two in the M,ornin.g.—:----Itfeldoms fails: 41. Take aSptfbnfuldf vh&:Jmce of Arfi&oke-leaves, Morn- ing and Evening : . ... • ... ■• -t 42. Or, three Spocnfnk of the Juice of Leeksand Elder- leaves : I. 243. Or, hal£a--Pint of DecoSton of Butchers Broom, in- termixing Purges twice or thrice a Week. The proper Purges is ten Grains' of ^afapwixft fix of- powderAi G7* ger. It may be encreas'd or leffen'd according to "the Strength of the Patient: * > T . * 44. Or, take a Spoonful of whole Muflard-fced,.Night and Morning, and drink oh it''half a Pint of Decoction of green Brow-top;. T This, works both.by Stool and Urine : j. Or, boil*two rfaftdfub"of Elder-foots in a Quart of JVtSeimrStrain it and drink a large Qhfs thfice'a Day for thirty Days. It frequently cures in that Time., tev'..L!. :!...- d7.-TJ1a.Ear-.Ajch. N;> •**« fe; Rub the Ear Hard for a Quarter of *an Hour : < »8 ) 348, "Or apply to it a hot Roll: ^49. Or, put in a roafledFig, as hot as may be^ 45o. Or, blow the Smoak ^Tobacco ftrongfy into it i i% I. Or drop in Juice of Goofe-Greafe. 6$. Ear-Ach from Cold. ,952. Boil Rue, or Rofematy, or Garlidt, and let the Steaq go into the Ear thro* a Funnel. 69, Ear-Ach from Heat. -3?}. Apply Cloths four Times doubled and dipt in eol Water, changing them when warm, for half an Hour. * 70. Ear-Ach from Worms. 1 254. Drop in •warm Milk, and it brings them ouf^c 9 ,^55. Or, Juice o£Wormwood, which kills them: 1j ^256. Or, Oil of bitter Almonds. 71. Noife in the Ears. 357. Drop in Juice of Onions : ,958. Or, fill them with bruifed Hyffop. 72. Hard Wax in the Ear. 959. 1* beft diublv'd bj 'warm Water* 73. EyesblearVL 460. Drop into them Juice of Crab Apples, 74. A Blood-fhot Eye, ,odi. Apply Linen Rags dipt in cold Water for two orthn < Hours : 262. Or, blow in white Sugar-candy finely powder'd : 063. Or, apply boil'd fyfop as a Foulti*.—Tbi* few a w*T' 4erfuJ Efficacy. — #1 ( if > 75. A Bruife in the Eye*' *» •64* Apply as a Plaifter Conferve of Refer : 265. Or, a Pafte of black Soap and white Bread Crumlt. But lake Care it get not into the Eye. 76. Burning Eyes, or hot Rheum. 366. Apply a thick Apple paring, lying down in Bcat 77. Clouds flying before the Eyes. jtf 7. Tate a Dram of powder'd Betony every Morning. , 78. Blindnefs. 68. Is often cured by Cold Bathing; 60. Or, by eU&rifying, ••'.*. 79. Eyes dim or decay 'ct ■470. Ufe Eye-bright Tea daily : 271. Ox, powder'd Eye-brightt both in Meat and Drink 80. Xtull Sight. ,472. Drop in two or thwe Drops of Juke ofrrten A$plc%: ', often. 1 ,.r. Su Films. a?3. Dry Zebetbum Occidentals; i. e. Stereut humtnum, Slow- ly ; powder it fine, and blow it into the Eye twice -or, thrice a Day : 274. Or, mix Juice of Ground-ivy with a little Honey, and two or three Grains of Bay Salt. Drop, it ia Morning ■ and Evening. 82. Hot or Sharp Humours. 37c. Beat the Wnite of an Egg into Water, i*^ which rats fine Sttear. and drop it into the Eye* 1 ■■ , * D 2 *7& (jf 4*. h -76 Or drop in. Jaicc of ty/>/..Mornijg and Evening r 2-7. 'Or, boifartandful btBratnbte-leavis with a" httle ' ?■//-sj '/aw in a Quart or Spring Water'to .l^Pint/ Drop thh Mfc |-uemi-yW-*e Eye.: This likewife fpceddy. cures, any Sores. • r '83. Eyes inflamed. 278. A^plv ssa Poukhboild,roafied;Ar■ roti eh. Apples Warm: 279. Or IVcr.m-woodtops with the TJ£ of an Egg: This 'will hardly fail. •-' ■'-'■' '! Tr - - • 280. .Or, beat up the White of an Egg with too Spoonful cf while 'Ri/hwater-into a white froth/: Apply this od a fine Rag, changing it fo that it may not grow dry, till the Eje is well:- 84. A Lachrymal JFiftula. \\ 28 T. Apply a gonitis of fine leaves of Rue : 282. Wafh tht'Eye Morning and Evenmg'with aDecoft* on of Quince leaves : ••■'",' 28 3v.. Or, take, a.Dram of' 3 etony-leaves powder'd daily. ^ 85,* Pearl in the Eye. v 184V Appty '& Drop of: Juice of Celandine with a Feathft thiicc a Day : sSs'.'Or, of three-leav'dGrafs, It commofcly cures in feve* Days. .. • " Stf. White Specks in the Eye. 286. Going to Bed, put a little Ear Way. on the Speck.-*' Thjs has cured many. : 287. Or, a Drop of the Juice of FsmieL'. 288. Or, of Ivy juice: Afterwards blow in a little powder' Laaffugar. 87, 'J This Difordu; in the iaoer Corner o£ tfic Ej-e, Qiu/cs the Tears M S-i;.v Uivoluntarily . ( 4* J 8j. An excellent Eye-Water, 2§«« FTeat half an Ounce of Lapis Catiminaris red hot, mid . quench !t inhalf a Pint of French whiteWine, and as much white R^fe Water: Then Pound it fmall and infufc it. Shake the Bottle when you ufe it. It cures Soreneft, Weaknels, and moft Difeafes of the-Eye. I haveknowi* ic cure total Blmdnef*. 88. Another. *oo. Infufc in Lime-Water a Dram of Sal Armoniac pow- der'd, for twelve Hours ; then ftrain and keep it for Ufe. •This alfo cures moft DifordeFs in tjie Eyes. 89. Another. 291. Boil very lightly one Spoonful of white Copperas fcrap'd and three Spoonfuls of white Salt, in three Pints of Spring Water. When cold, bottle it in large Vials withouc (training. Take up the Vial foftly, and put a Drop qe two in the Eye Morning and Evening. // anfwers the Intention of almofl all the preceeding Medicines ,• It takes away Rednefs or any Sorenefs whatever : It cures Pearls, Rheums, and often Blindnefs itfelf, 90. Weak Eyes. 292. Moiilen the Eyelids Morning and Evening witk camphorated spirits of Wine, keeping them fhut. 293. Wafh the Head daily with cold Water* 91. The Falling Sicknefs. [j 294. Be elecJrificd .' 205-. Or uie the cold Bath for a Month daily : D 3 2C/6", H In the Fatting Sicknefs the Patient Falls tot he Ground, either quite ftiff, or convulfed all ov*r, utterly fenfelefs gnafhiag his Xecth,. 4U&. 4MKiq.& at the Mouth, * I* fading, for fix oHl »e Months., It fel--j| 2$6\ Cr, takVa Tea-fpoonful of" Pisry R^t'&ritA and g«W ed fine, Morning and-Evening for three Months" : -• , 297. Or, Take a Spoonful of the Juice of Rue, Morning* and Evening f©V a Month-: li 298. Or, half a Pint of Decoction of Lignum GuaiacumjM Morning and Evening : /. *jj 299. Or, of Tar-water for three Months. 500. Or, take four Drops of Laudanam feven Mornings : " 301. Or, ufe an -entire Milk Diet for three dom fails : 302. Or, take half a Dram of powder'd Miffelto every fix. Hours, drinking after it a ftrong Infufiott of Miffelto : /. 303. Or, the Quantiy of a Nutmeg of Conferve of white Piony Root, diily for three Months 304. In the Fit, blow up the Nofe a Utile powder'd Gi/jger :■■ 305. Or, Leaves of Afiaralacco powder'd. 92.- The Falling of the Fundament. 306. Apply a Cloth covered thick with Brick Dujl: -cj.Oi', boil a Handful of red Rofe Leaves in a Quarter o^| a Pint of red Wine: Dip a Cloth in it, and apply it aw hot as can be borne. Do this 'fill all is it ed. T| 93.^ A Falling down of the Womb.- ■ 308. May be cured in the Manner faft mentioned. 94. A Fever. . _ t 309. Drink a Pint and a half of cold Water lying down h? Bed : i never knew it to do Hurt : 310. Or, a large Glafs of Tar-water warm, every Hour :' , 311. The beft of all Juleps in a Fever, is this :Toaft a largtf thin Slice of Bread, without burning ; put it hot into a Pint of cold Water ; then fet it on the Fire till it is pretty hot. In a dry Heat it may be given cold ; in a mot®. Heat warm ; the more largely the better : • « 312. Or, for* a Change, ufe Pippin or Woodforrel Tea, Off Pippin Poffet Drink : Or Wood-forrel Pojet Drink ? ' f( 43 ) Iff 3. r0r, Decoction of Violet-leaves : 314. Or, of StranM>erjy-leaves t 315. To prevent catching any infectious Fevers, do not breathe near the Face of the fick Perfon, neither fwallow \ your Spittle while in the Room. :, 95^ A Burning Fever. ■J16. Stamp a Handful of Leaves of Jfoodbinc; put fair Water to it, and ufe it cold as a Clyfter. It commonly cures in an Hour : 317. Or, fmearthe- Wrifts, five or fix Inches long with warm Treacle, and cover it with brown Paper. 96. A Continual Fever. -318. If not very violent, take a Dram of Sal Prunella, every? four Hours, in warm Water- till it abates. i I 97. AHe&rck Fever. 319. Drink only thin Water-gruel, or boil'd Milk and Water. The more you Drink the better.- 98. A High Fever. f' 320. Attended with a Delirium and Vigilia, has been 'cured by plunging into cold Water; which is a fafeand m fure Remedy in the Beginning of any Fe.er. ','321. Such a Delirium is often cured by applying warm- '"' Lamb's Lur.gs to the Head. 99. An intermitting Fever. 322.- Drink warm Lemonade in the Beginning of every Fit: I It cures in a few Days : „, , . ^ "323. Or take a Tea-fpoonful of Oil of SulphHr m a Cup of ,- Balm Tea, once or twice a Day. 100. A Fever with Pains in the Limbs. ?'-J-S24. Take twenty Drops of Spirit of Hartfiorn'm a Cup. of 5 . Water ( 44 ) Water twice or thrice in twenty four Hours, : 325. Or, in ftrong Camomile-Tea, lying, down in Bed. 1 or. A Ram Fever. j26. Drink every Hour a fpoonful of juice of Ground-h4 It cures in twenty-four Hours. Ufe the Decoction, when you have not the Juice.. io2» A Slow Eever. 327. Ufe the Cold Bath for tworthree Weeks daily. 103. A Fiftula. 828. Grind an Ounce of Mercury Sublimate, in a Glafs Mc tar, with a Glafs Peftle, as fine as poffible. Put it into-, a Glafs Bottle, and pour on it two Quarts of pure Spxinff Water, Cork it clofe, and for fix Days ihake it well e-J rery Hour. Then let it fettle for twenty-four Hourt.l Pour it off clear ; "filter it in a Glafs Funnel; and keep it for Ufe clofe ftopt. Put a Spoonful of this Water iaj a Vial, and add two Spoonfuls of clear Spring Water Shake them well together, and drink it falling. It work both by Vomit and by*Stool, bur very fafely. KeepJ Yourfelf very warm, and walk as much as you can. The firit Time neither eat nor dnnk 'till two Hours, after \\ has done working. Take this every other Day. In forty , Days this will alfo cure any Cancer,*ny-old fore, or King's- Evil, broke* or unbroken. After the firft or fecond Vo-,( mit you "may'ufe Water gruel, as in other Vomits? -1 Very Weak Perfons fhould not ufe this. I 104. A Fhix. " 329. Ufe the cold Bath daily, and drink a Draught of Wa- ter from the Spring : ■ 330. Or, fit over Camomile-Flowers boil'd in Milk : 3.3 1. Or, receive the Smoke of Turpentine caft 6n burning Cpalv This cures alfo Kb*. Bloody-Flux., and the Falling tf tbt'Ftindamtnt -1 (' 45 y 3*J.*€)T-drini two pr.three Quarts of warm IPatenr ft ... 333. Or, put a large brown Tbaft into three Quarts of .^.Water, with a Dram of Cochineal, and a Dram ofSalt of \ Worm-wood. Drink it all in as fhort Tjme as you con-g * v'eniently can. .This rarely fails to cure all Fluxes, Chole- ' '"ra Morbus, yea, and Inflammations of the Bowels : 334. Or, take a Spooaful of Plantain feed bruifed Morning /s.and Evening, till it ftops: 3^5. Or the Leaves of it boiled in fmall Broth : I336. Or, .three. 01 fojtir-Ounces of xx^fmce.: . „.- 337. Or, a fmall Nutmeg powder'd in the Yolk of an Egg: £38. Qr> a Dram of the Seed of Flux-weed in two or thre^ Spoonfuls of Broth : /. ■359. Or,' ten Grains of Ipecacuhnah three Mornings fuccef- lively. ""■'•' .i. ..' : 105. A Bloody Flux. I40. Apply.a Suppofitory of Linen dipt-in Aqfia Vita i 3-41. Or, drink cold i'futer as largely as poflible, taking no-"' thing elfe till the Flux ftops : 342. Or, take a large Apple, and at the Top pick, out alt the Core, and fill up the Place with a Piece of Honey '.' ■ Comb ; (the Honey being ftrained out) roaft the Apple in \? Embers and eat it, and this will ftop the Flux immeOi- "l acely : ,343. Or-, thirty Grains of powder'd Root of Glad-wiu&t Night, twice or thrice a Week; It is juft as good as Rhubarb in moft Cafes : « 3.1 \. Or, Decoction of Primrcfe leaves Morning and Even- ing : ;$4J. Or, grated Rhubarb, as much as lies on a Shilling, with half as much of grated Nutmeg, in a Glafs of white Wine, lying down every other Night. 106. The Gout in the Stomach. U46. » Diflblve two Drams of Venice Treacle in a Glafs of Mountain. After drinking it go to Bed. You will be *T eafier in two Hours*, and well ia-futeen." Dr. Dover. ... . 3 5 J* c 4« r #cy.. Boil a Ptfgil otTanfey in a Quarterof a Pint of Mont* tain. Drink it in Bed. I believe this never fails. . . «, 348. To prevent its Retura, diifotve half an Ounce of Gum^ Guaiacum, in two Ounces of Sal Volatile. Take a Tea-j fpoonful of this every Morning, in a Glafs of Spring Water. This help* any fharp Pain in th§ Stomach* Dr. Boerhaavit 107. The Gout m the Foot or H?nd. 3 49. Apply a .raw lean Betf-feak. Change it once in twelve Hours, till cure^L 108. The Gout in any Limb. f. ^ro. Rub the Part with warm Treacle, and then bind on a Flannel fmear'd therewith. Repeat this if Need be, once in twelve Hours. This has cured an inveterate Gout? -'551. Or, Dry Sage in the Sun for a Day. Apply this, and ' in one Night it will eafe the Pain. 352. Or at fix in the Evening, undrefs and wrap yourfelf up in Blankets.—Then put your Legs up to the Knees in Water, as hot as you can bear it. As it cools, let hot_ Water be poured in, fo as to keep you in a ftrong Swea till ten. Then go into a Bed well warm'd and fweat tt Morning.—I have known this to cure an inveterate Gout. 109. The Gravel. 5x3. Eat largely of Spinach. 1 354. Or, drink largely of lurfrwr Jfafcr fweetned with Hcneyi 355. Or, of Peach have Tea : 1 35.6-, Or, of Pellitory of the Wall Tea, fo fweetned : .' ■ 357. Or, infufe an Ounce of wild Parjley Seeds in a Pint of u^uhite Wine for twelve Days. Drink a Glafs of it falling' three Mornings. t-. ; ucJ •f Regard not them who fay, Tfic Gont ought not to he cured. TfccJ hfemary in a Quart of Water. Put this in a Mug, and hold your Heaa (cover'd with a Napkin) over the Steam as hot as you can bear. Repeat this 'till the Pain ceafes. |66. Or, drop Juice of Pimpemell into the Ear : ( j6j. Or, (huff up the Nofe camphorated Spiritt of Lavender* \68. Or, Juice of Ground-Ivy : I. j6o. Or, a little Juice of Horfe Radifh : jfo. Or, drink half a Pint of ftrong Decoction of Grouad* Ivy } Morning and Evening. s 113. A Chronical Head-ach. 171. 1Ceep your Feet in warm Water ajQuarter of an Hour before you go to Bed; for two or three Weeks : j;2. Or* wear tender Hemlock-leave/under the Feet,cha»jp ing them daily : 373. Or, order a Tea-kettle of celd Water to be poured otf your Head every Morning in a flender ftream : J74. Or, apply to the Head bruifed Cummin-feed, fried with as Egg* • v - •*' '< '■¥> *) j: 375. Or, take a large-Tea-cup full of Cordis Tea within ' Sugar faftir.g lor i'vs. or ieven Mornings : • ■•* , 376. Or, boil Wood-beto/jy^m mewMilk and ftrain it. Brca . fait on, this five or fix Weeks. I. 114. Head-ach from Heat.. <£7^ Apply to tne Forehead Cloths dipt iri cold Water fm\ Hour. 378. Or, beat white Poppy feed to Powder ; rnix tin's wft Yolks of1 Eggs, and apply it to the Temples and For he*d' ..■ :.9?- -.:, 115. A Nervous Head-ach. 379.. Dry and powder an Qunce of Marjoram and half; Ounce of Afiaruhaccu ;-'mix -them, and faketheih asSnui keeping the Ears and.Throat warm. This is of great Ufi ' even in a Cancer : I ,r3?o. Or, take half a'Dram of Powder'd Marum Morflin and Evening in any Liquid. 116. An Hemicrania. J 381. Ufe cold Bathing: .382. Or, ^apply^to that Part of the Head, fhaved, a PI ter that will ftick : with a Hole cut in the Middle of as big as an Half-penny : Place over that Hole Leavq •\x.RdnuttCkhs,'."bruifed and very tnoift. It is a gentle Blin • ^ ■■ > 117. Stoppage in the Head. 383. Snuff up Juice of Prhnrofe, keeping the" Head warn 118. The Heart-burning. \[ "%84« Drink a Tint of cold Water- ' 28-c Or, dr-ink flowly of Dcco&ion of Camomile Flowers i * ' " -■ ■ ■—...... ■■—i-------- sLi 1 -r i That is, an Head ach which afTVcts but one Si4f of theJiead** ,« -ft A (harp knawingPain at the Orifice of the Stomach. ( 49 1 386. Or, chew five or fix Pepper Corns a little ; then fwallow them : 387. Or, take fix Almonds and twelve raw Peas and eat them together : 388. Sometimes a Vomit is needful, of Ipecacuannah, oxCar- dus Tea. 119. The Hiccup. 389. Swallow a Mguthful of Water, flopping the Mouth and Ears: '290. Or, take any Thing that makes you fneeze : - > 1. Or, a iittle canded Ginger.: - ". Or, two or three p'refcrv'dD<7;///>«/. 120. Hoarfenefs. -1-3. Rub the Soles of the Feet before the Fire, with Car- °"„<.* and Lard well beaten together, over Night. The Hoarfenefs will be gone next Day : 394. Or, take a Pint of cold Water lying down : 395. Or inftead of Supper eat an Apple, and drink half a Pint of Water. [306. Or, fwallow flowly the Juice of Radifiies : l97. Or, take a fpoonful of Sage juice Morning and Evening. ♦ 121. Hypocondriac and Hyfteric Diforders. '208. Ufe cold Batting: . 399. Or, take an Ounce of Quichfilver every Morning. 122. The Jaundice. i0o Wear Leaves of Celandine upon and under the Feet : 401. Or, take a fmall Pill of fi^/fc 5w/everyMorningfor- eieht or ten Days : . , , v „ n 402. Or, as much as lieson a SK:lhnS of caland Egg-fbells3 4 three Mornings fading ; and w,lk ull you fweat; A03 Or, halfaPintofftrongDecoftionofA^/^r. 404'. Or) boil a lage Burdock root in two Quarts of V. ate* ( 5° ) ie three Pints. Let it foak therein for twenty-four Hours •sover'd clofe. Drink a Draught of this three or four Times, and it will not fail. 123. The Jaundice in Children. 405. Take half an Ounce of fine Rhubarb, powder'd. Mix with it thoroughly, by long beating two Handfuls of good well cleanfed Currants. Of this give a Tea-fpoonful every Morning. • 124. The Iliac Paffion.J 406. Apply warm Flannel foaked in Spirits of Wine : 407. Or, hold a live Puppy conftantly on the Belly. —Dr. Sydenham. 408. Or, immerge up to the Breaft in the warm Bath : 409. Or, take a Decoclion of the Seed of Dill in Oil and Water, and then a Bit of Bread dipoin Water : 410. Or, Ounce by Ounce, aPound wa Pound and a half of Quickfher. ' 125. An Impoflhume. ,411. Put the White of two Leeks in a- wet Cloth, and fe roaft them in Afhes, but not too much. Stamp them in. a Mortar with a little Hogs-greafe. Spread it thick Plaf-, ter-wife, and apply, changing it every Hour, 'till all the Matter be come out, which it will be in three Times. /. 126. Pain in ths> Joints. 412. Drink Decoction of Herb Robert, and apply it as a. Poultis. .127. The Itch. * 413. Wafh the Parts affected with frong Rum: _____________ 4*4- \ Iu this violent Kind of Cbolic the Excrements are thrown up by the Mouth in vomiting. * This Diftemper is nothing hut a Kind of very fmall Lice which •burrow under the Skin. Ther-.-fore inward Medicines are abfoluteb aecdkfs. Is it poffible any f hyfician Ihould be ignorant of this I ' ( 5i ) 4 • 4* Or, with ftrong Decoction of Dock-root for nine or ttit- Days : 4 j. Or, of Hyfop, four or five Days : 416. Or, anoint them with black Soap : • 417. Or, fteep a fhirt half an Hour in a Quart of Water' mixt with half an Ounce of powder'd Brimflone. Dry it flowly, and wear it five or fix Days. Sometimes it needs repeating : •• 418. Or, mix Powder of white Helebore wfth Cream for three Days.—Anoint the Joints three Mornings and E-* venings.-—It feldom fails. ^9. Or, mix a little fine Bay Salt, and as much Flour oS Brimflone, with a little fweet Oil. Rub it well in the Palms of the Hands, and dry it in.—It commonly cures in three Days. 4J0. Or, beat together the Juice of two or three Lemons, with the fame Quantity of Oil of Rofes. Anoint the Parts affected. It cures in two or three Times ufmg : 421. Or, mix an Ounce of Ginger finely powder'd with a Quarter of a Pound of trefli Butter. Ufe it Morning and Evening.—It cures in four or five Days. 128. The King's Evil. \\ ty.ii. Take as much Cream of Tartar as lies on a Sir-pence, • t-'very Morning and Evening : 4: -. Or, drink for fix Weeks half a Pint of a ftrong Decoc- .m of Droils-bit : \Zt,. Or, of Ground-Ivy .- 425. Or, of dead Nettles : 426. Or, of Colts foot: Meantime, apply the Herb beaten up with powder'd Linfeed and Hofs-lard* to the Sores, • renewing it twice a Day : 427. Or, ufe Lime-Water for common Drink : 428. Or, the Diet-drink mentioned Arfc 538.— I have known this cure one whole Breaft was a$ full of Holes as an Honey-comb : E'a. 429- ' '*! \ It commonly appears firft, bv theThicknefsof the Lips; th«n com« \ vl Swellings, in the N«ck chiefly j iikMvrwwan^.S-ws;- ("5= )' 429) ©r, fet a Quart of Honey by lie Fire to melt. Whe«. it is cold, Rrew into it a Pound and a half of -Quick-Lime* beat very fine, and fearfed through a Hair Sieve. Stir^ tliis about till it-boil up ofilfelf into a hard Lump. Beat.,* tins when cold very fine, and fearfe it, as before. Take c-i- this as much as lies on a Shilling in a Glafs of Water every Morning falling ; an Hour before Breakfaft, at four in the Afternoon, and at going to Bed : ..^ 430. Or, take two Spoonfuls of Juice of Water Parfnips^t with two Spoonfuls of Milk, every Morning falling,-!! for the fix Summer Months. Two Hours after, Break* fj fa ft on Watergruel with a little Bread, fj It cures the Scurvey in three Months. r 129. Stoppage in the Kidneys. 431. Take twelve Grains of Salt of Amber in a little Watei»;| 130. The Legs inflam'd. 432. Apply Fullers Earth fpread on brown Paper : I: fcldcm fails. 433. Or, boiled T-.mibs mixt with Multrn-fitet : ^34. Or, rub them with warm Juice of Plant ane. 131. Legs fore and runing. 43? Wafh them in Brandy and apply Elder-leaves, changing them twice a Day. This will dry up all the Sores, though the Leg were like an Honey-comb.----Proved. 132. The Leprofy. J 436. Ufe the cold Bath : 437. Or, wafh in the Sea often and long : 438. Or, wafh the Parts with Juice of Calaminf: 439. Or, mix well lii Ounce of Pomatum, a Dram of pow- " der'd i In this Difeafe the Skin in many Parts is covered with rough, whi- tilh. fcaiy Puftules, and it' thefe are rubb'd off, with a Kind of fc«dy Scurf. r 55 ) iejM Brimflone, and half an Ounce ef SalFruuetU ; a»d anoint the Parts fo long as there is need : 440. Or, add a Pint of Juice of Houfeleek, and half a Pint of Verjuice, to a Pint and a half of Poffet drink. Drink up this in twenty-four Hours.—It cures alfo the Quinfey, and all Sorts of white Swellings on the Joints : 441. Or, drink for a Month a Decoction of Elm-Bark Morn- ing and Evening. 1 133. The Lethargy. ,.42. Snuff ftrong Vinegar up the Nofe : 443. Or, Powder of white Hellibore : 444. Or, take half a Pint of Decoction of Savoury, Morning • and Evening ; 445. Or, of lnfufion of Water-Creffes. 134. Lice (to kill.) 446. Sprinkle Spanifh Snuff over the Head : 447. Or, wafh it with a Decoction of Amaranth. 135. For one feemingly kill'd with Lightning, - or a Damp, or Suffocating. 448. Plunge him immediately into cold Water :. 449. Or, blow ftrongly with Bellows down his Throat.— This may recover a Perfon feemingly drowned. 136. Lues Venerea. 4CO.. Take an Ounce of Quickjilver every Morning, and a Spoonful of Gas of Sulphur in a Glafs of Water at Five in the Afternoon. I have known a Perfort cured by this, when fuppofed to be at the Point of Death, who had been infected by a foul Nurfe, before flic was a year eld, —I infert this for the Sake of fuch innocent Sufferers, v 137. Lunacy. 151. Give Decoction ofAgrimony four Times a Day : E 3. 452," ( 54 ) 452. Or, rub the Head feveral Times a Day with Vinegar, in which Ground-Ivy-leaves have been inlufed : 453. Or, boil Juice of Ground. Ivy with fweet Oil and. White Wine into an Ointment. Shave the Head, anoint it therewith, and chafe in warm, every other Day for three Weeks. Bruife alio the Ltavjs and bind them on the Head, and give three Spoonfuls of the Juice warm every Morning.—This generally cures Melancholy. 138. Raging Madnefs. || 454. Apply to the Head Cloths dipt in cold Water : /;$. Or, fet the Patient with his Head under a great Wa- ter-fill, as long as his Strength will bear : Or, pour W«« ter on his Head out of a Tea-kettle : 45 6. Or, let him eat nothing hut Apples for a Month. 139. The Bite of a mad Dog-. 457. Apply Afhes of Trefoil mixt with Hog's-lard. This has cured one that was bit on the Nofe : 45R. Or, plunge in.o ccld Water daily for twenty Days,' and keep as long under it as poflible. This has cured, even after the Hydrophobia was begun : * k 459. Gclen fays, none ever failed <\ a Cure who took two Spoonfuls of Allies of <0-<'-.t>/7/7; daily/or forty Days : 460. Cr, ripply hvee of Oracuntia n;i.\twith Vhu^-.r, out-. Wovdly, aid drink of the fame 1ioi ning and Evening, five or fix Days : 461 Mix powder'd Lri-f-^ort four Drams, black Pvppsr two Drams. Divide this into four Parts, and take one in warm Milk for four Mornings failing. J40. ;! It is a fureRnle, that \l\ Madmen are Cowards, and may be con- qiKvei by binding oniy, without liming.---■---Dr. M,.-d. Ift'-,;«; is r-.-^il'v a 1%'crvoi.s Diioidtr, what Woiulcr, if it lhould.be ■Cui-i/i uy Cold B«ri:.i±? ( 55 ) 140. The Meafles. { 462. Drink only thin Water-gruel, or Milk and Water, the more the better : or, Toafil a?td Water ,- 463. if the Cough be very troublefome, take frequently a Spoonful of Barley-Water fweetned with Oil of fweet Al- monds newly drawn, mixt with Syrup of Maiden-hair: 464. After the Meafles, for fome Weeks, take Care of ^ catching Cold, ufe light Diet, and drink Barley-water inftead of Malt-drink. 141. Menfes Qbftru&ed. 465. Take half a Pint of ftrong Decoction of Penny-Royal e- very night at going to Bed : 466. Or,, a Spoonful of juice or Syrup of Brook limeMorn- hjg and liv-jnmg : 4^.7. Or, a Tea- fpoonful ofColumbine-feeds powder'd, thrice a Day : 468. Or, boil five large Heads of Hemp in a Pint of V'7'iter to half. Strain it, and drink it going to Bed two or three Nights. It feldom fails. 469. Or, take from eight to cwelve Grains of Cs'omel, in a Pill, for two or three Nights taking Care not to catch Cold. It vomits aiy on a Chafing- Difh rf Coals and receive the Smoke by alu; a 1. Ina few Minutes it will tak_ Effect. let any ofti:efir Medicines be ufed at the regular Time as near as can be judged. 142. Menfes Nim ii. 471. Drink nothing but c-Jd Water, with a Spoonful of fine Flour ftirred in it. At theTime orink a C'".'s of the coldeft Wafer you can get, and apply a thick Clot:i dipt in cold Water: 472. Or, put the Feet into cold Water : 473- i T.':: • Diftcmrt r is alwt'.ys preceded by a violentCou^h, often fb'itt- tetn D.M'5 otfoieihertd S^otsioiiK out. f ( #. y 473. Or, apply a Sponge dipt in Red Wine and Vinegar : 474. Or, bleed in the Arm. Stop the Orifice often with the Finger, then let it bleed again : 475. Or, boil four or five Leaves of Red Holy Oak in a Pint of Milk, with a fmall Quantity o^f Sugar. Drink" this in the Morning; if the Perfon can afford it, fhe may add a Tea-fpoonful of B aim ofGHead:—This does not often fail: Vt 476. Or, after a fmaWRhubarb Purge, boil the Peel of feveii,' Seville Oranges in three Pints of Spring Water to a Quart." Take ten Spoonfuls fweetned with white Sugar, four. Times a Day : ^ 477. Or, ufe daily Decoction, Syrup, or Powder of HorfeM tail Nettles, or Plantane. K 143. To refolveCoagulated Milk. 478. Cover the Woman with a Table-cloth, and hold ai Pan of hot Water juft under her Breaft ; then ftroke it' three or four Minutes. Do this twice a Day 'till cured-' 144. To increafe Milk. 479. Drink a Pint of Water going to Bed : 480. Or, drink largely of Pottage made with Lentiles. 145. To make Milk agree with the StomachJ 481. If it lie heavy, put a little Salt in it ; if it curd!er, Sugar. For bilious Perfons, mix it with Water. „ 146. Nervous Diforders. 482. Are of two Kinds ; 1, Thofe which proceed from thr* Nerves being comprefs'dby the Swellingof the mufculaj" Flefh : Or, 2, When the Nerves themfelves are difor- der'd: In the former Cafe, Temperance and Abftemiouf- nefs will generally cure : In the latter when the Nerves perform rheir Office too languidly, a Good Air is the firft requifite. The Patient al, should rife early, and as foon as the Dew is off the Ground, walk : Let hij, Breakfaft be Mother of Thyme-Tea, gather 'd in June, ufing] half! ( 57 ) t ]f as much as we do of common Ten. It mould be' . ("i-unk with the fined Sugar ; and Cream may be' added H'lfhepleafe : Coffee muft be avoided. When the Nervea • ?•. e too fenfible, let the Perfon breathe a proper Air. Let him eat Veal, Chickens, or Mutton. Vegetables fhould be eat fparingly : the moft innocent is the French Bean whilft young, and the beft Root the Turnip. Wine fhould oe avoided carefully : So fhould all Sauces. Some- times he may breakfaft upon a Quarter of an Ounce of the 4'Powder of Valerian-root infus'd in hot Water, to which he may add Cream and Sugar. Tea is not proper. When the Perfon finds an uncommon Oppreftion, let him take a large Spoonful of the Tinclure of Valerian-root. fhe Tinclure fhould be made thus. Cut to Piecesfx Ounces of wild Vakrian-rootj.r//."rV in June, andfirefh dried. Bruife it by a few /Inker in a Mortar, that the Pieces may be fiplit, but it Jhould not be beat into a Powder : Put this into a §>uart ifjh'ong white Wine ; cork the Bott'e a».d let it fiand three Weeks, fi:aking it every Day ; then prtfis it out and filtre the Tinclure thro'Paper. 483. Take alfo as much as will lie .upon a Shilling of the Powder of Miilfto, twice a Day, when the Stomach is ■ • moft empty, faffing two Hours after it; then once a Day, • iwii afterwards every other, or every third Day, 'till t'-.cre '<■■ no more Need of Medicines. Let this 1 .. •./ be gather d in May, and the Leaves and Bark dry- ed carefully in the free Air, without Sun, till they are brittle. Let them then be reduced to a fine Powder, and kept in thai Form. Dr. Uvedale. 484. Butlam firmlyperfuaded, there is no Remedy in Na* ture for Nervous Diforders of every Kind, comparable ..) to the proper and conftant Ufe of the Eleclrical Machine* 147. An oldftubborn Pain in the Back. a{ .. Steep Root of Water-Fern in Water, till the Water be- comes thick and clammy. Then rub the Parts therewith and Evening. fi Morning ( 53 ) 148. The Palfey. || •486. Ufe the cold Bath, if you are under Fifty, rubbing an* fweating after it: 487. Or, fhred white Onions, and bake them gently in an earthen Pot, 'till they are foft. Spread a thick Plaifter of this, and apply it to the benumb'd Part, all over the Side, if need be. /. 488. Or, take Tar-water, Morning and Evening : 489. Or, boil white and red Sage, a Handful of each in a» Quart of white Wine. Strain and bottle it. Take a fmall: Glafs Morning and Evening. This helps all Nervoui. Diforders. 490. Or, apply to the Parts boil'd Sage-leaves hot : andf drink Decoction of Sage Morning and Evening : , 491. Or of Water-dock, applying the boil'd Leaves.. 149. Palfey of the Hands.. 492. Wafh them often in Decoction of Sage as hot as you can bear: , 493. Or boil a Handful of Elder-leaves, and two or three** Spoonfuls-of Muflardfeed in a Quart of Water. Waiki often in this, as hot as may be.. 150. Palfey of the Mouth.. 494. After Purging well, chew Muflardfeed often : 495. Or, hold in your Mouth half an Ounce of Spirit of La- vender : A.y6. Or, gargle with Juice of Wood-fiage, 151. Palfey from working with white Lead or Verdigreafe. 497. Ufe warm Baths and a Milk Diet. , • 152. The Palpitation or Beating of the Heart . 498. Drink a Pint of cold Water : ______________\___________________________________499v |j A Palfy is the Lbfs «f M»ti«n w Feeling, «r bath in any p*rtic«Wr* r*t oftlicJ3oJy. ( 59 ) 4*9- Or, apply outwardly a Rag dipt in Vineemr • tc -. Or, be cLGrified: £ ' ■ 50^. Or, take a Decoction of Mother-wort every Night. 153. The Piles (to prevent.) J02. Wafh the.Parts often with cold Water. 154. The Piles (to cure;) 503. Apply warm Treacle : -504. Or, of Tobacco-leaf deep'd in Water twenty four Hours* 505. Or, a Poultis of boil'd Brook-Lime. It feldom fails • ■506. Or, a bruifed Onion fkin'd ; or roafted in Afhes. Is perfectly cures the dry Piles : v-7- Or, Leeks fried in Butter : .508. Or, Varnilh. It perfectly cures both the blind and .bleeding Piles. /, 155. The inward Piles. *$09. Drink largely of Treacle and Water-. no. Drink a Spoonful of Juice of Yarrow, or, of Leeks. three or four Mornings. /. 156. The Plague {to prevent.) ,:i. Eat Marigold Flowers daily, as a Sallad, with Oil and J "megar: * ,. 2. Or, a little of the tops of Rue with Bread and Butter, every Morning : J13. Or, infufe Rue, Sage, Mint, Rofemary, Wormwood, of each a Handful, in two Quarts of the fharpeft Vinegar over warm Embers foreight Days. Then ftrain it through a Flannel, and add half an Ounce of Camphor, diffolved .in three Ounces of rectified Spirits of Wine. With this •iwafh the Loins, Face, and Mouth, and fnuffa litttle up the Nofe when you go abroad. Smell to a Sponge dipt l*'ierein, when, you approach infected Perfons or Places. ; i?7- i \ ( 60 ) 157. The Plague (to cure.) 5*4 Cold Water alone, drank largely, has cured it: 515 Or, an Ounce or two of the Juice of Marigolds. 516 Or, take a Dram of Angelica powder'd, e*t. Hours. It is a ftrong Sweat: 517 Or, after Bleeding fifty or fixty Ounces, drink \pfj largely of Water fharpened with Spirit of Vitriol. ■518 Or a Draught of Brine as foon as feized; fweat in T take no other Drink for fome Hours. 5.19 Ufe Lemon-juice largely in every Thing. 158. ThePleurify. * ,$20 Apply to the Side Onions roafted in the Embers, wilt \\'it\). Cream ; " 521 Or, take out the Core of an Apple, fill it with white Frankinfence ; ftop it clofe with cne Piece you cut out, and roaft it in Afhes. Mafli and eat it. /. 522 Or, a Glafs of Tar-water, warm every half Hour: ' 523 Or, of Decoction of Nettles ; and apply the Herb, ho as a Poultis: ~ . .524 Or, a Plaifter of Flour of Brimflone and White ofanEfg 159. To one Poifon'd. X25 Give one or two Drams of dijlilled Verdigreafe. It» mits in an Inftant. 160. A Prick or Cut that fefters. 526 Apply Turpentine. 161. An eafy Purge. 527 Drink a Pint of warmifli Water fafting, walking afi*« it : fc, 528 Or, infufe from half a Dram to two Drams of Darrty R'-h * A Pleurify is a Fever atended with a violent Pais ia the SiJc, a Pulfe renuirkably hard. ( 6' ) Rofe-lcaves dried, in half a Pint ©f warm Wa*cr for twelve Hours : $29 Or, infufe three Drams of Sena, and a Scruple of Salt of Tartar, in half a Pint of River Water for twelve Houfif. Then flrain and take it in the Morning. 162.' A ftronger Purge. 530 Drink half a Pint of ftrong Decoction of Dock-Root: 53 1 Or, two Drams of the powder'd Root of Monks Riu- barb, with a Scruple of Ginger. 163. The Quinfy. * » 532 Apply a large White-bread Toaft, half an Inch thick, dipt in Brandy, to the crown of the Head till it dries. 533 Or, drink a Quart, of cold Water lying down in Bed: 534 Or, fwallow flowly white Rofe-water, mixt with Sy- rup of Mulberries : 535 Or, Juice or Jelly of black Currants, or Deco&ion of the Leaves or Bark. /.—(Seelikewife Art. 592.) 164. The Rheumatifm. J 536 Ufe the Cold Bath, with Rubbing and Sweating : 537 Or, rub in warm Treacle, and apply to the Part a brown Paper fmeared therewith : Change it in twelve Hours : '^•538 Or, drink very largely of warm Water in Bed : '539 Or, Tar-water Morning and Evening : 5 40 Or, fteep fix or feven Cloves of Garlick in half a Pint of white Wine. Drink it lying down. It fweats and frequently cures at once : 541 Or, mix Flour of Brimfitone with Honey, equal Quanty ties. Take three Tea-fpoonfuls at Night, two in the V Morning; and one afterwards Morning and Evening, I F s till * The f%*i.ify is, A Feyer attended with Difficulty of Swallowing, ind often Breathing. { Riieumatical Pains are generally moft violent as foon as you «ffc ■entiii in Bed. ( «* ) till cured. This fucceeds oftener than any Remedy I have found: 542 Or, take Morning and Evening as much Lignum Guai-M acum powder'd, as lies on a Shilling: 543 Or, as much Flour of Sulphur, walhing it down with a Decoction of Lignum Guaiacum : v 544 Or, live on .new Milk Whey and rf/« Bread for four- teen Days. Tnis has cured in a defperate Cafe. 165. To reft ore the Strength after a Rheumatifrfl. 545 Make a ftrong Broth of Cow-heels, and wafh the Parts' with it warm twice'a Day. It hasreftored one who was ■quite a Cripple, having no Strength left either in his .Legs, Thighs or Loin*. 166. The Rickets (to prevent or cure) § 46 Wafh the Child every Morning in cold Water, ■167. Ring-Worms. 547 Rub them with Oil of Paper : 548 Or with Juice of Houfe-leek : 549 Or, wafh them with Decoction of Soap-wort ; or Hun* wary-Water camphorated. 168. Running at the Nofe. 550 Snuff up a Tea-fpoonful of Spirit of Hartflyor* t 169. A Rupture. 551 Take Agrimony, Spleenwort, Solomon's Seal, Strawbern roots, a Handful of each ; pick and wafh them well ftamp and boil them two Hours, in two Quarts of white Wine in a Veflel Clofe ftopt. Strain and drink a large Glafs of this every Morning, and an Hour after drink another. It commonly cures in a Fortnight. A good ^F-rufs mean Time is of great Ufe. 0 *3 ) 170. A Frefh Rupture.- 5^2 Tak? Decoction of Plantane-leavet, Morning and E- vomAg: SS) Or, dry a Spoonful of Plantane-feed by the Fire ; boil it in Milk, and take half-a Pint every Mcruing. 171. A Rupture in Children, 554 Boi' a Spoonful rf Egg fells dried in an Oven andpovy- der'd in a pint of Mi!;, to three Quarters of a Pint. Feed the Child conftantly-with Bread boil'd in this Milk. 172. A Windy Rupture. yj5 Warm Cow-dung well. Spread it thick on Leather, ftrow'mg fome Cummin feeds on it, and apply it hot. Whem-*/ cold put on a new one. It commonly cures a Child ■ (keeping his Bed) in two Days. 173. A Scald Head.- 556 Anoint it with Barbadoes Tar. 174. The Sciatica. * 557 Is certainly curedl>y taking a Purge in a few Hours af- ter it begins : 558 Or, ufe cold Bathing, and fweat, together with the Flefh brufh twice a Day. 559 Or, appjv Leaves of Ranunculus bruifed, forfixHoitrs. 560 " Many have been cured in four or five Days, only by drinking half a Pint of cold'Water daily, in the Morn- ing, and at four in the Afternoon." 561 Or, apply pounded Roots of Burdock and of Elicompane cold. This ufually cures, if kept'on twenty-four Hours; but it gives Pain : 562 Or, boil Nettles till foft. Foment with the Liquor, F.2 then , * The Sciatica is a Yislsut P^in m th* Hip, chie#y in the Joi.a »f the Thigh Bone ( «4 ) H* en apply the Herb as a Poultis.—I have known this cure a Sciatica of forty'five Tears (landing. 563 Or, boil Calaminf, apply this as a Poultis, fhifting it daily. Mean-time drink a Decoction of it Morning and Evening. 564 Or, apply Flannels dipt mjlale Lie, boil'd with Salt as hot as you can bear, for an Hour. *i 75. Inflammations or Swellings of the Scrotum. 565 Wafh it thrice a Da^ with ftrong Decoclion of Agri- . mony. 176. A Scorbutick Atrophy. } 566 Ufe eold Bathing : Which alfo cures all 177. Scorbutick Pains. 178. Scorbutick Sores. » 567 Put half a Pound of frefh fhaved Lignum-vitsr and half fl an Ounce of Sena into an Earthen Pot, that hulds fix Quarts. Add five Quarts of foft Water, and lute the Pot clofe. Set this in a Kettle of cold Water, and put it \ over a Fire, till it has boiled three Hours. Let it ftand < in the Kettle till cold. When it has ftood one Night drink daily half a Pint, new Milk warm, fafting, and at four in the Afternoon. Wafh with a little of it. In three : Months all the Sores will be dried up. 179. The Scurvy. f 568 Live on Turnips for a Month : ' 569 Or, an entire Milk Diet, for fix Months : 570 Or, take Tar-water Morning and Evening for throe .Months • .. ______________________________________57i \ Such a Degree of the Scurvy, as caufesthe Fifth to wafte away, like st Copfun ftisn. f The Scurvy is known by Heavinefs of Body, Waerinefs, Rottennefl' of Gums, and yellow, lead or violet-coloured Spotsoa the Legs. ( «5 J 571 Or, Infufioa of Horfie-Radifh : 572 Or, Decoction of great Water-Dock. 573 Or, three Spoonfuls of Nettle juice every Morning: 574 Or, infufe dried Dock-roots in your common Drink : "575 Or, ufe Infufion or Powder of Wall-rue, Morning and Evening.—See Art. 430. 576 Or, pound into a Pulp Sevil Oranges fliced, Rind and all, and Powder Sugar equal Quantities. Take a Tea- fpoonful three or four times a Day. /. 577 Water and Garden Crelfes, Muftard, and Juice of Scury-gral's help in a cold Scurvy : 578 When there is a continual fait Tafte in the Mouth, take a Pint of Lime-Water Morning and Evening. 180. A Broken Skin. 579 Bind a dry Oak-leaf'upon it. 181. The Shingles. J 580 Drink a Pint of Sea-water every Morning for a Week; toward the Clofe, bathe alio. 182. Sickiihnefs in the Morning. 581 Eat nothing after Six in the Evening. 183. Skin rubbed off. 582 Apply pounded Self-heal.—It feldom needs repenting. 184. Small Pocks. 583 Drink largely of Toafl and Water : 584 Or, let your conftant Drink be Milk and Wafer mixt. 585 The beft Food is Milk and Apples : 586 Or, Bread dipt in Milk and Water. 587 Take care to have a free, pure, and cool Air. Therc- F 3 fore i A Kind of Ring-Worm, which ittcirces the jtody, like a Kit, **' IB Jiand's Bveadth, ( 66 ) fore open the Cafement every Day, only -do not let ii chill the Patient. 588 If they ftrike in, and Convulfions follow, drink a Pin of coldWater immediately. This.inftanlly ftops the Con-' vulfions, and drives out the Pock. I 185. A Sore Moutht 589 Apply the White of an Egg, beat up with Loaf-fagar ' 590 Or, gargle with Juice of Linauefoil.. 186. A Sore Throat. 591 Take a Pint of cold Water, lying down in Bed : 592 Or, apply a Chin-ftay of roafled Figs : 593 Or, a Flannel fprinkled with Spirits of Hartfiiorn to the Throat, and rub Hungary water on the Top of the] Head : 594 Or, gargle with Rofe-water, and Syrup of Mulberries 505 Or, fnuffa little Honey up the Nofe. 596. An old lore Throat was cured by living wholly Apples and Apple-water. 187. A Sprain.' •? 597 Hold the Part in very cold Water for .two Hour$ : 598 Or, apply Cloths dipt therein, four Times doubled for two Hours, changing them as they grow warm: 599 Or, bathe it in good Crab-verjuice : 600. Or, ftoop it with'one Spoonful of Brandy, to one of Vii.e.;:ir, and four of Water : ^_ 601 Or, boil Bran in Wine Vinegar to a Poultis. AfPtBI this warm, and renew it once in twelve Hours : 602 Or, boil e:ght Ounces of Caf He-Soap and as much Br.) ■ fiilt in four Quarts of Water. Put the Part fprained in to this for half an Hour ; or, foment with it: 603 Or, mix a li:tle Turpentine with Flour and the Yolk an Egg; and apply it as a'Plaifter. This cures in defperate Cafe. 604 Wcaknfs remaning after a Sprain, is cured by foment ' ing the Part daily with Bef-Brine. x8»: 1 ( «7 ) . . 188. A venemous Sting. 605 Apply a little Venice Treacle : * 806 Or, a Poultis of bruifed Plantane and Honey. . 607 Or, take inwardly, one Dram of black Currant-leaves, k powder'd. It is an excellent Counter poifon. 189. The Sting of a Bee. , and raife yourfelf up again, If you feel Pain, as if cut thro' the Middle, the Pain isnotfromthe Stone but Rheumatifm. 630 Beware of Coftivenefs. LTfe no violent Diuretics. Mead is a proper Drink. 631 In the Fit, flice a large Onion-, pour half a Pint of warm Water upon it. After it has flood twelve Hours, ^ drink '*' ( <9 ) . drink the Water. Do this every Morning till you are well. ' 201 In a Raging Fit. 632 Beat Onions into a Pulp, and apply them as a Poultis, Part to the Back, and Part to each Groin. It gives fpeedy Eafe in the moft racking Pain : 633 Or, give a Clyfter with Oil of Turpentine. 202. The Stone (to eafe or cure.) 634 Take Decoction of Agrimony Morning and Evening. 635 Or of Camomile. 636 Or, boil half a Pound of Parfnips in a Quart of Water. Drink a Glafs of-this Morning and Evening, and ufe no other Drink all the Day.—It ufually cures in fix Weeks: 637 Or, take daily four Pints of Lime-water, made by pouring four (Quarts of Water on a Pound of frefh cal- cined 0\jler-fhells and Cocklc-fhells. 638 " Or, take Morning and Evening a Tea-Spoonful of Onions calcined into white Afhe's, in white Wine. An Ounce will often diffolve the Stone." 639 Or, take a Tea-fpoonful of Vhh-tfeed powdered, i -Morning and Evening. It both waftes the Stone, and brings it away : ^40 Or, burn the dried Shells of Kidney Beans to Powder. Put two Tea-fpoonfuls of this into a half Pint Tea-pot. „ , Pour boiling Water on it at Night. In the Morning pour it off clear, warm it again, and drink it fweetened with Honey. Do this daily every-other Fortnight till cured. 203. The Stone in the Kidneys. 641 Ufe thecoldBath : Or, drink half a Pint of Water eve- ry Morning : 642 Or, Decodion of Speedwell largely 204. Stoppage in the Kidneys. 643 Take Decoction of Juice or Syrup of Ground-ivy Morn- ing and Evening : . ( 70 > 644 Or, of Pellitory of the Wall: 645 Or, of Juice of Radifl>es : 646 Or, half a Pint of Tar-water. 205. The Stranguary. 647 Ufe the cold Bath: 648 Or, drink largely of Decoction of Turnips fweetened with Honey. 649 Or, of warm Lemonade: I. 650 Or, of Decoction of MsIIovjs ; 651 Or, ofDeco&ion of red Nettle-feed: 652 Or, Take a Tea-fpoonful of calcined Egg-fhells, Morn- ing and Evening. 206. Sunburn, (fmarting.) 653 Wafh the Face with Sage-tea. 207. To ftop profufe Sweating. \ 654 Drink largely of cold Water. .. 208. Swelled Glands in the Neck.. 655 Take half a Pint of Sea-water every other Day.- ^ 209. Swelled Legs. 656 Bathe them every Morning in cold Water, and take an eafy Purge twice a Week : T .658 Or, take Worm-wood, Southerwocd'and Rue, ftamp theiB^.. together, and fry them in Honey, till they grow dry: Then apply them as hot as you can bear. 210. A Swell'd Throat. 659 Gargle with Decoction of Nettles : 660 Or, of Primrofe-leqves. ■ ■> 211. A white Swelling (on the Joints.) 661 Hold the Part half an Hour every Morning, undwi the (71 ) 'the Stream that falls from a Mill; or under a Pump or Cock. ^ This cures alfo any Pains in the Joints. It fcidom fails. / )2 Or, apply a Poultis of Wormwood fryed with Hogs Lard. 212. To diffolve white or hard Swellings. £63 Take^ white Rofies, Elder Flowers, Leaves of Fox-glove and of St. John's Wort, a Handful of each: Mix with Hogs- . Lard, and make an Ointment. 213. To faften the Teeth. Y>^4 Chew often Roots of Brook-Lime : 665 Or, put powder'd Allum the Quantity of a Nutmeg, in 1 Quart of Spring Water, for twenty-four Hours. T1 ;n ftrain -the Water and gargle with it : jo66 fV, boil fo much of Allum therein. Strain and keep it for Ufe: ' - r Ml Or, gargle often with Phyllyrea leaves boiled with, a little Allum, in Forge-water. 214. To clean the Teeth. 468 Rub them with AJhes of burnt 2?>yw4 215. To prevent the Tooth-ach. 660 Wafh the Mouth with cold Water every Morning. 670 Or, rub the Teeth often with Tobacco Afhei. %\6. To cure the Tooth-ach. JfS71 Be eleftrified through the Tooth : 672 Or, rub the Cheek a Quarter of an HoUr : 673 Or, put a Clove of' Garlick into the Ear : d'jtfOv, Parfiey much bruifed, with a little Bay Salt.r 675 Or, a Piece of Plantane root, frefh digg'd up, and wafhed : 676 Or, lay roafted parings of Turnips, as hot as may be, irqbjiid the E»r : 677 > I ( 72 ^ 67.7 Or, put a Leaf of Betony bruifed, up the Nofe: • 678 Or, lay bruifed or boil'd Nettles to the Check , 679 Or, a Bag filled with hot Camomile Flowers : 680 Or, lay a Clove of Garlick on the Tooth : u 681 Or, chew the Root of the yellow Water Flower de l. . „•,'/, 682 Or, gargle with Decoction of Mulberry Leaves : 683 Or, put into the hollow Tooth, a little Cotton- dfot in Lucatellus Balfam : ' 684 Or, a Drop or two of Oil of Cloves on Cotton : 685 Or, diflblve a Dram of crude Sal Armoniac in two Drams of Lemon-juice : Wet Cotton herein and apply: 686 Or, apply to the Cheek6"a;// Tacamahac fpread on Silk: 687 Or, keep the Feet in warm Water, and rub them well with Bran, juft before Bed-time : 088 Or, take an Ounce of Rob of Elder in Broth, and 2^. gle with it. f 217. Pain in the Tefticles. 689 Apply Pellitory of the Wall beaten up into a Toi changing it-Morning and Evening. 1 218. To draw out Thorns, Splinters and Be nfc 690 Apply Nettk Roots and Salt.: 691 Or, Turpentine fpread on Leather. 219. The Thrufli. * 692 Mix juice of Celandine with Honey, to the Thickn! _ Cream. Infufe a little powder'd Saffron. Let this fim mer a while and fcum it. Apply it (when neededjfjfc a Feather. At the fame Time give eight or ten Cr#i« of Rhubarb. 220. Torpor (or Numbnefs) of the Limb 693 Ufe the.cold Bath, with Rubbing and Sweating. * Little, whitiih Ulcers in the Mouth. I .21 ( 73 ) 221. Twilling of the Guts. ^94 Many at the Point of Death have been cured by taking one, two or three Pounds of ^uickfibver in Water. Pareus. 222. The Tympany or Windy Dropfy. ' 695 Ufe the cold Bath, with Purges intermixt : 696 Or, mix the Juice of Leeks and of Elder. Take two or three Spoonfuls of this Morning and Evening. 223. A Vein or Sinew cut. 697 Apply the inner green Rind of Hazle frefh fcraped. 224. The Vertigo or Swimming in the Head, 698 Take a Vomit or two : 699 Or, Ufe the cold Bath for a Month : 700 Or, drop Juice of Pimpemell into the Ear Morning and Evening. I 701 Or, in a May Morning, about Sun-rife, fnuff up daily the Dew that is on Mallow Leaves : 702 Or, apply to the Top of the Head, fhaven, a Plaifter of Flour of Brimflone, and white of Eggs : '703 Or, drink Morning and Evening half a Pint of De- coction of Primrofie-root: I. 704 Or, of Sage wafhing alfo the Head, therewith: ■*705 Or, take every Morning half a Dram of Mufard-fced. 225. Vigilia, Inability to Sleep. 706 Apply to the Forehead for two Hours, Cloths four Times doubled, and dipt in cold Water. I have known H this applied to a lying-in Woman, and her Life faved » thereby : 1707 Or, ufe the cold Bath. It cures even in defperate Cafes: 4.708 Or, apply to the Head Leaves of water Lillies : 709 Or, a Poultis of Henbane and Poppy-feed, beaten toge- ^ rher: • 710 Or, ufe fmall Dofesof Camphor. It is bothfafex and furer than. Opium. G «5 (•74 ) ■226. Bite of a Viper or a Rattle-Snake. yn Rub the Place immediately with common Oil. Querc, Would not the fame cure the Bite of a mad Dog? Would afnot he worth While, to make the Trial on- a Dog \ 227. To prevent the Bite of a Viper. £12 Rub the Hands with Juice of Ratifies, 228. An Ulcer. 713 Dry and powder a Walnut Leaf, and ftrew it on, and lay another Walnut Leaf oh that: 714 Or, boil Walnut-tree Leaves in Water with a little Su- |jar. Apply a Cloth dipt in this, changing it once in two Days. 229. An Inward Ulcer. 715 Drink Tar-water Morning and Evening: 716 Or, Decoction of Pimpernel. 2 30. Ulcer in the Bladder or Kidneys. 717 Take Decoction of Agrimony thrice a Day : 718 Or, Decoction, Powder, or Syrup of Horfe-tail. 231. AFiftulousUlcer. 519 Apply Wood Betony bruifed, changing it daily : 720 Or, Leaves of Water Dock bruifed. 232. A Bleeding Varicous Ulcer in the Leg, 721 Was cured only by conftant cold Bathing: 233. A Malignant Ulcer. 72a Foment Morning and Evening, with a Decoction of Mint, - Then fprinkle on it finely powder'd Rue: 723 Or, apply Juice QiPtoytmU boiled with the'Herb. 3J4 ( 75 ) 2 34. A Stubborn Ulcer.- 724 Burn toAfhes (butnottoo long) the grofs Stalks or, which the red Coleworts grow. Make a Plaifter with th>. andfreih Butter. Change it once a Day. 725 Or, apply a Poultis of boil'd Parfnips. This will cure even when the Bone is foul. 235. An eafy and fafeVomit.- 726 Boil half a Handful of Artichoke-leaves in a Quart o* Water. The more you drink of warm Water after it the better : 727 Or, a Dram and a half of Primrofe Root p' vder'd : It is beft if gather'd in Augufl. 728 Or, infufe three Drams of RadifJj-feed in a Quart of warm Water for twelve Hours. Squeeze offthe Water, and take it. 236. To ftop Vomiting. 729 If the Vomiting be not the Effect of a Medicine: after; every Vomiting drink a Pint of warm Water : 736 Or, apply a large Onion flit, to the Pit of the Stomaek: 731 Or, take a Spoonful of Lemon-juice and fix Grains of Salt of Wormwood : 732 Or, infufe an Ounce of Quickfilver in a large Glafs full of Water for twenty-four Hours. Then driak the Wa- ter : /. • 237. Bloody Urine. 733 Take a Quarter of a Pint of Sheeps Milk twice a Day: 734 Or, half a Pint of Decoction of Agrimony: 735 Or, of Decoction of Tai-row. 238. Urine by Drops with Heat and Pain. 736 Drink nothing but Lemonade: 727 Or, beat up the Pulp of five or fix roafted Applet with G 2 near ( 76 ) near a Quart of Water. Take it lying down. It com-i monly cures before Morning. > 239. Involuntary Urine. 738 Ufe the cold Bath .- 739 Or, take a Tea fpoonful of powder'd Agrimony in a lit*^ tie Water Morning and Evening. * 740 Or, a Quarter of a Pint of Allum-Poffet-Drink every f Night. 240. Sharp Urine. 741 Take two Spoonfuls of frefh Juice of Ground-Ivy. 241. Suppreffion of Urine. 742 Drink largely of warm Lemonade: 743 Or, take a Spoonful of Juice of Lemons, fweeta'd with Syrup of Violets : 744 Or, a Spoonful of Juice of' Radifhes : 745 Or, two Spoonfuls of Juice of'Onions : 242. Uvula inflamed. * 746 Gargle with a Decoction of beaten Hemp-feed: 747 Or,** with Decoction of Dandelion. 243. Uvula relax'd. 748 Bruife the Veins of a Cabbage-leaf, and lay it hot on the] Crown of the Head. Repeat, if needed, in two Hours: /. 749 Or, gargle with Decoction of Water Dock: 750 Or, with Infufion of Muflard-feed: 244. Warts. 751 Rub them daily with a Radijh : 7P1 * This ii aiually called the Palate of the Mouth. ( 77 ) 752 Or, with Juice of Dandelion : 753 Or, of Marigold Flowers ; * 754 Or, Water in which Sal Armoniac is difTolved. 245. The Whites. 755 Feed fparingly. Ufe Exercife conftantly. Sleep mo- derately but never lying on your Back. 756 Firft bleed. Then purge thrice with twenty Grains of Rhubarb and five of Calomel: 757 Or, boil four or five Leaves of the white Holy Oak, in a Pint of Milk with a little Sugar. Then add a Sea-fpoon- ful of Balm ofGilead. Drink this every Morning. /. 758 Make Venice Turpentine, Flour and fine Sugar, equal Quantities, into fmall Pills. Take three or four of thefe Morning and Evening. This alfo cures moft Pains in the Back: 759 Or, Quickflver and Gas of Sulphur, as for an Afthma. This feldom fails : 760 Or, after Purging, take about fifteen Grains of Cerufe cf Antimony yd. white Wine, twice or thrice a Day. 246. A Whitlow. 761 Apply a Poultis ofrhew'd Bread. Shift it once a Day : 762 Or, a Plaifter of Ground-Ivy ftampt. 247. Weaknefs in the Ankles. 763 Hold them in cold Water a Quarter of an Hour, Morn- ing and Evening. 248. Worms. * 764 Take a Spoonful of Salt in a Glafs of Water every Morning : G 3 7^5 * A Child may be known to have the Worms, by Chulnefs, Palenefs, koll0wEy«s, Itching of the Nofe, Starting in Seep, a»d an unufal J (linking icauv-Worais are ««vcr fo»ri i* 9^5» *ho liYe ***J* wJMilk{ ( 78 ) 76c Or, a Dram and a half of Nitre inJBroth : /. 7 ft.-> Or, a Spoonful of Juice of Spear-mint: 7 07 Or, of Juice of Lemons : 768 Or, a Glafs of Onion-water : 769 Or, boil an Ounce of ^uickfilver in half a Pint of Spring Water. Ufe this for common Drink : 770 Or, take two Tea-fpoonfulls of Worm-feed mixt with Treacle for fix Mornings : 771 Or, a Dram of powder'd Fern-root, boiFd in Mead. This kills both the flat and round Worms. Repeat the Medicine from Time to Time. 249. Flat Worms. 772 Take Filings of Tin and red Coral, of each an equal Quantity : Pound them together into a very fine Powder: Of which one Drachm, made into a Bolus with Confierve efthe Tops of Sea-worm-wood, is to be taken twice a Day. 250. Wounds. 773 Apply Juice or Powder of Yarrow. I. 774 Or, bind Leaves of Ground-Ivy upon it : 775 Or, bruifed Hyffop,v;ixh a little Sugar : 776 Or, Wood-betony bruifed. This quickly heals even cut Veins and Sinews, or draws out Thorns or Splinters. 777 Keep the Part in cold Water for an Hour, keeping the Wound clofed with your Thumb. Then bind on the thin Skin of an Eggrjhell, for Days or Weeks, till itfall off it- felf. Regard not tho' it prick or fhoot for a Time. 251. Inward Wounds. 778 Infufe Yarrow twelve Hours in warm Water. Take a Cup of this four Times a Day. I. 252. Putrid Wounds. 779 Wafh them Morning and Evening jvith warm Deco£tf" on of Agrimony. If they heal too fom, and a Matter gather underneath, apply a Poultis of the Leaves pound© ■ed, changing them once a Day, 411 well. 253. Wounded Tendons. 380 Boil Comfrey Roots to s thick Mucilage, and apply this ;.s a Poultis, changing > 'on(ce a Day. ~ CO L.D- fc 79 ) ' COLD BATHING Cures Young Children of CONVULSIONS, Coughs, Cutaneous Inflammations, Pimples, and Scabs, Gravel, Gripes, Inflammations of the Ears, Navel, or Mouth, Rickets, Suppreffion of Urine, Vomiting, Want of Sleep, It prevents the Growth of Hereditary Apoplexies, Afthma's, Blindnefs, Confumptions, Deafnefs, Deliria, ' Gout, King's Evil, Melancholy, Palfies, Rheumatifm, Stone. It cures every Nervous, f and every Paralitick Diforder : in particular. The Afthma, Ague + And this, I apprehend, accounts for its frequently caring the Bite aj * mad Dos; efpccully ifit be rejected for twenty-five or thirty Days Jfuceeflively, ( «o ) Ague of every Sort, Atrophy, Blindnefs,* Cancer, Chorea Sancli Viti, Chin-cough, Coagulated Blood after Bruifes^ Confumptions, Convulfions, Coughs, Complication of Diftempers, Convulfive Pains,* Deafnefs,* Dropfy, Epilepfy, Flour Albus, Violent Fevers, Gout (running) HecYick Fevers, Hemicrania, Hyfterick Pains,* Incubus, Inflammations,* Involuntary Stool, or Urine,* Lamenefs, (Old) Leprofy, Lethargy, Lofs of Apetite;* of Smell,* Speech,* Nephritick Pains, Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the Back, Joints,* Stomach,. Rheumatifm,* Rupture, Suffocations, S'fvxtica,* Si-.if:its, (at the Beginning) Scorbutick Pains,* Swel'mg on the Joints, / Stone ia the Kidneys, z\ [ 81 ] TetTnus°f thC LImbS* CV£n Wh6n th£ Ufe °fth*m Is ,oft* Tympany, Vertigo, St. Vitus's Dance, Vigilia, Varicous Ulcers, But in all Cafes where the Nerves are obftrucled, (fuch as thofe marked thus*) you fhould go to Bed immediately after, and fweat. 'Tis often ufeful, to ufe the h*t Bath a few Days before you ufe the Cold. , Wife Parents fhould dip their Children in cold Water e- rery Morning, till they are three Quarters old ; and after- Wards their Hands and their Feet. iN. B. No Child fhould ever be fwath'd tight. It lay8 the Foundation for many Difeafes.------'Tis beft to wean a Child at about feven Months old. They fhould lie in the Cradle at leaft a Year. No wife Parent fhould fuffer a Child to drink any Tea ; (at leaft, till it is ten or twelve Years old) or to tafte Spice or Sugar*Milk, Milk-porridge, .nd Water-gruel are the proper Breakfaft for Children. Wafhing the Head every Morning in cold Water, pre- vents Rheums, and cures Coughs, old Head-achs, and fore Eyes. Water-drinking prevents Apoplexies, Afthma's Convulfions, l Gout, Hyfterick Fits, Madnefs, Palfiss, Stone, Trembling, To this Children fhould be bred up from their Cradles. [ 82 Electrifying in a proper Manner, St. Anthony's Fire, Blindnefs, Blood extravafated, Bronchacele, Coldnefs in the Feet, Contractions of the Limbs, Cramp, Deafnefs, Falling-Sicknefs, Feet violently diforder'd, Felons, Fiftula Laery raalis, Fits, Ganglions, Gout, Head-ach, Inflammations, King's Evil, Knots in the Flefh, Lamenefs, _ Leprofy, Mortifications, Pain in the Stomach, Palpitation of the Heart, Palfy, Rheumatifm, Ring-Worms, Sciatica, ; Shingles, Sprain, Surfeit, Swelling of all Sorts, Throat'fore, Tooth-ach^ Wen. C 83 ] Nor have I yet known one fingle Inftance, wherein it has done Harm : So that I cannot but doubt the Veracity of tnofe which have affirmed the contrary. J ,. Rafting _ Spittle outwardly applied every Morning has lometimes relieved, and fometimes cured 6 Blindnefs, Corns, (mixt with chew'd Bread and applied everr Morning) J Cuts, (frefh) Deafnefs, Eye-lids, red and inflamed, Scorbutick Tetters, "Sore Legs, Warts, Taken inwardly, it relieves or -cure* Afthma's, Cancers, Falling Sicknefs, "Gout, Gravel, King's Evil, Leprofy, Palfy, Rheumatifm, Scurvy, Stone, Swelled Liver, The beft Way is, to eat about an Ounce of hard Bread ,-a-bifcuit, every Morning; fafting two or three Hours attf- This mould be done inftubbora Ctfesfora Month FINIS. MedL, r+v's-tr. V-10 WSl3p mo £. !