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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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_To kill Warts: an approved Medicine._

Take a _Radish_ root, scrape off the out side of it, and rub it all
over with salt, then set it thus dressed upright in a saucer, or some
other small dish, that you may save the liquor that runneth from
it, and therewith annoynt your Warts three or four times in a day,
the oftner the better, and in five or six dayes they will consume
away, _Sepe probatum_.


_For the Piles._

Set a Chafin-dish of coales under a close stoole chaire, or in a
close stoole case, and strew _Amber_ beaten in fine powder, upon
the coales, and sit downe over it, that the smoak may ascend up
into the place grieved.


_A Medicine for the Piles._

Take a little _Orpine, Hackdagger_, and _Elecampane_, stamp them all
together with _Boares_ grease, into the form of an Oyntment, and
lay them to the place grieved.


_A Diet for the Patient that hath Ulcers or
Wounds that will hardly be Cured with
Oyntments, Salves, or Plaisters._
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