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.
VIII. An Amulet against the Cramp.
TAke the Root of Mechoacan,* and having reduc'd it to Pouder, fill with this Pouder a lit∣tle square Bag or Sacket of Sarcenet, or some such slight Stuff; which Bag is to be about three Inches square, and to be hung by a String about the Patient's Neck, so as that it may reach to the Pit of the Sto∣mach, and immediately touch the Skin.
