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IN women, especially such as are old, there often times commeth an it∣ching * 1.1 in the neck of the wombe, which doth so trouble them with pain and a desire to scratch, that it taketh away their sleep. Not long since a woman asked my counsell, that was so troubled with this kind of mala∣dy, that she was constrained to extinguish or stay the itching burning of
her secret parts by sprinkling cinders of fire, and rubbing them hard on the place; I counselled her to take aegypt. dissolved in sea-water or lye, & inject it into her secret parts with a syringe, and to wet stupes of flaxe in the same medicine, and put them up into the wombe, and so she was cured. Many times this itch commeth in the fun∣dament or testicles of aged men, by reason of the gathering together or confluxe of * 1.2 salt flagme, which when it falleth into the eyes, it causeth the patient to have much adoe to refraine scratching: when this matter hath dispersed it selfe into the whole habite of the body, it causeth a burning or itching scabbe, which must be cured by a cooling and a moistening diet, by phlebotomy and purging of the salt humour, by bathes and hornes applied, with scarification and anointing of the whole body with the unction following. ℞. axung. porcin. recent. lb i ss. sap. nig. vel gallici, salis nitri, assat. tartar. staphisag. an. ℥ ss. sulph. viv. ℥ i. argent. viv. ℥ ii. acet. ros. quart. i. in conporate them all together, and make thereof a liniment according to art, and use 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is said before: unguentum enulatum cum mercurio is thought to have great force, not without desert, to asswage the itch, and dry the scab. Some use this that follow∣eth. * 1.3 ℞. alum. spum. nitr. sulph. viv. an. ʒ vi. staphis. ℥ i. let them all be dissolved in vi•…•…gar of roses, adding thereto butyr. recent. q. s. make thereof a liniment for the forenamed use.
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