**To cure the Thrush.

There is a certain piece in the beef, called the mouse-piece, which given to the child, or party so affected to eat, doth certainly cure the thrush.  From an experienced midwife.

      **Another to cure a Thrush.

Take a living frog, and hold it in a cloth, that it does not go down into the child’s mouth; and put the head into the child’s mouth ’till it is dead; and then take another frog, and do the same.

      **To cure the Tooth-Ach.

Take a new nail, and make the gum bleed with it, and then drive it into an oak.  This did cure William Neal’s son, a very stout gentleman, when he was almost mad with the pain, and had a mind to have pistolled himself.

      **For the Jaundice.

The jaundice is cured, by putting the urine after the first sleep, to the ashes of the ash-tree, bark of barberries.

      **To cure a Bullock, that hath the Whisp,
      (that is)lame between the Clees.

Take the impression of the bullock’s foot in the earth, where he hath trod then dig it up, and stick therein five or seven thorns on the wrong side, and then hang it on a bush to dry:  and as that dries, so the bullock heals.  This never fails for wisps.  From Mr. Pacy, a yRoman in Surry.

      **To cure a beast that is sprung, (that is) poisoned.

It lights mostly upon Sheep.  Take the little red spider, called a tentbob, (not so big as a great pins-head) the first you light upon in the spring of the year, and rub it in the palm of your hand all to pieces:  and having so done, piss on it, and rub it in, and let it dry; then come to the beast and make water in your hand, and throw it in his mouth.  It cures in a matter of an hour’s time.  This rubbing serves for a whole year, and it is no danger to the hand.  The chiefest skill is to know whether the beast be poisoned or no.  From Mr. Pacy.

      **To staunch Bleeding.

Out an ash of one, two, or three years growth, at the very hour and minute of the sun’s entring into Taurus:  a chip of this applied will stop it; if it is a shoot, it must be cut from the ground.  Mr. Nicholas Mercator, astronomer, told me that he had tried it with effect.  Mr. G. W. says the stick must not be bound or holden; but dipped or wetted in the blood.  When King James ii. was at Salisbury, 1688, his nose bled near two days; and after many essays in vain, was stopped by this sympathetick ash, which Mr. William Nash, a surgeon in Salisbury, applied.

      **Against an evil Tongue.

Take Unguentum populeum and Vervain, and Hypericon, and put a red hot iron into it; you must anoint the back bone, or wear it on your breast.  This is printed in Mr. W. Lilly’s Astrology.  Mr. H. C. hath tried this receipt with good success.

      Vervain and dill,
      Hinders witches from their will.