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READY DOCTOR

For FAINTING.

A Little Sack Wine drunk is very good : but a Draught of Sweet Milk will keep any Person from Fainting

                             Probatum eft.


For the FRENZY.

BLEED in the Forehead; or take the Gall of a Hare, mix it with a Glass of any Wines, divide the same in 4 Parts, to serve 4 Mornings, for your Morning Dram.

                                  Probatum eft.

For FEVERS:

IF the Fever be long formed, take a Glass of White Wine, adding thereunto 1-4th oz. of Rhubarb Pouder: This must be done Twice a day, as much at each time. Take it about 3 o'Clock in the Morning, and 3 in the Afternoon. If it be a Fepiala Fever, that is to say, betwixt I eat and Cold, Eat 3, or 4 of henbane leaves, once a-day, for 3 Days, taking a Glass of White Wine above them : 'there wife, drink a Pint of Cardaminis Juice in 3 Days. N. B. You must not take above 4 Leaves of henbane in cafe of further danger: and those who do not, know the power of that herb, I advise them to use Cardaminis, and then they can do no hurt. Now, the way to cafe any Fever what some ever, is this: Drink about a Mutchkin of Rue and Knot grass Juice D3 boil