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To prevent this disease, many wonderfully praise this following;
R. Of new Elder-flowers, or in de∣fect thereof, of those well dryed, M. 1. of Milk of a red Cow, or at least with red spots; boyle them in a close vessel, and upon a slow fire. Let him drink once, twice, or thrice, when the Moon waineth; or if they will, through every month in the year, of this cola∣ture in the morning; and they shall be afterward free of this disease. See Dr: Sennert. de febrib. lib. 2. cap. 16.
Neither is this Medicine destitute of reason; for it is probable that the fluxibility and accrimony of the bloud, being taken away by this Me∣dicine, Nature is less afterward pric∣ked by it; yea those malignant im∣pressions stampt on the liver & reins, defiling the bloud by their contagion, are altogether wiped off, by the fre∣quent use of this specifick Medicine.
An Amulet made of the Elder, on which the Sun never shined, if the piece betwixt the two knots be hung about the patients neck, is much commended; some cut it in little pieces, and sew it in a knot in piece of a mans shirt, which seems super∣stitious.
I learned the certainty of this experi∣ment first from a friend in Lipsick; who no sooner err'd in diet, but he was seized on by this disease; yet after he used this Amulet, he protested he was free; yea that a woman to whom he lent it, was likewise delivered from this disease. Notwithstanding I leave
the whole matter to other mens judg∣ments, who may easily try it, seeing there is so many secret works in Na∣ture, whose operation is evident; yet their causes are hid in such deeps of obscurity, that they cannot be search∣ed out by the sharpest sight of mens reason.