Medicinal experiments, or, A collection of choice and safe remedies for the most part simple and easily prepared, useful in families, and very serviceable to country people
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.
234. A homely but Experienc'd Remedy for a Sore Throat.
INto the Leg of a worsted Stock∣ing that has been long worn next to the Flesh, put in a sufficient quan∣tity of good Sea-Salt exactly dry'd, or else decrepitated, and this Salt being put in warm, if not hot, the Page 166 Stocking is to be ty'd about the Patient's Neck, and kept on all Night. And if by the next Day the Distemper be not remov'd, you may apply fresh Salt (in the pro∣portion) in the same Stocking as before, the Night following.
