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A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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Take one pound of _Guaicum_, boyle it in three pottels of _Ale_,
with a soft fire, to the consuming of two parts, but if it be where
you may have wild Whay, or cheese Whay, they are better. Let
the Patient drink of this morning and evening, halfe a pint at a
time, and let him sweat after it two hours. His drink at his Meals
must be thus used, put into the same vessel where the former was
made, to the _Guaicum_ that is left, three pottels of _Ale_, and not
_Whey_, let it boyle to the one halfe, let him drink thereof at all
times, and at his meale, which must be but one in a day, and that
so little, that he may rise hungry. Thus he must doe for five
dayes together, but he must first be purged.



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[Illustration: Cowslips]

_Of Cowslips_.


_Oyle of Cowslips._

Oyle of _Cowslips_, if the Nape of the Neck be annointed with it,
is good for the _Palsie_, it comforteth the sinews, the heart and
the head.

_The use of the Oyle of Wormwood, and Oyle
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