Choice and rare experiments in physick and chirurgery, or, A discovery of most approved medicines for the curing of most diseases incident to the body of men, women, and of children together with an antidotary of experiments never before published / found out by the studie and experience of Thomas Collins, student in physick neer the city of Gloucester.

To cu••e any dangerous flux which is ••f ••orce to bring a man in danger of a consumption.

Take fine wheat flour boulted finely, and tye it in a linnen cloath of the bigness of two eggs; and boyl it in a pottle of running water, with a handful of mother of time, wh••n it is half boyled away, then take up the flour whhich will be hard, and in looking upon the flour you must take of a skim which will be on it, then take some of the said flour and thicken a quantity of new milk, boyled as a thin flour meat, and drink it as ye see cause until you have recovered strength. This will recover a man of the bloody flux, even when he is t••ought past help, and also to rost an egge stone hard, and ••lit it and lay it hot to the fundament, stayeth any monstrous flux, and to wear napkins hot, and to keep them as hot as one can well en∣dure to the navel and fundament, shi••ting them as they grow cold, is excellent in th••s case.