Sparr, pounded small and drunk in White wine or Ale, is an excellent remedy in this disease."[1]
"Head-ache."
"The juice of Ground-ivy snuft up into ye nose out of a spoone taketh away ye greatest paine thereof that is. This medicine is worth gold, says E. T."
For Consumption is recommended an infusion in which the following ingredients take part:—Malaga-sacke, liverwort, Dandaleon-root scrap't and ye pith tooke out, and a piece of Elecampane slic't. "My sister Legge sent this to my Lady Archbold 25 Jan. 16723 with this com̄endation, that it hath done great wonders and such cures of Consumption as never were knowne before, and that it cost ye Countess of Denbigh 40li."
A portion of the volume is devoted to the maladies of various quadrupeds and birds. The ailments of each class are thrown into groups, and a certain small number of medicines (ranging from 12 to 3) are assigned for the cure of all in each group. The horse, as the noblest animal, requires the largest medicine-chest. The heading is "All Diseases of Horses cured by 12 Medicines." Omitting the various ailments which it is destined to terminate, we give "The Second Medicine."
"Ffirst lett the horse blood in the neck vene till it run pure, bleed him well, then stanch the vene. Then take of Assafetida as much as a hazle-nutt, dissolve it in a saucer of stronge wine vinegar: Dip flax hurds therein, stop the same hard into the horses eares, stitch the tops of ye eares with a needle and thread to keep the medicine in. Then take the white cankerous Moss that grows upon an old Oake an handfull or more; a roote or two of elecampane, boil it in a pottle of new milke to the halfe, give it the horse lookwarme in the morning fasting." * * * Finally, little cakes are prepared of Colts-foot, turpentine, and some other ingredients.
- ↑ Of calcareous medicines, Charles Stothard, in his Memoirs, gives us an amusing anecdote. Writing from Bunbury in Cheshire, he says, "The effigy of Sir Hugh Calveley, a great soldier under the Black Prince, is my subject, and in tolerable preservation, considering the hazards it has already run of being pounded and given in powders to cattle; for alabaster, I understand, is a sovereign remedy for the rot in sheep, and other disorders of that nature. The Knight's feet, sword, fingers, and part of his crest, have already been used for the above purpose."—Memoirs, p. 108.
