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.

Of Starkness and stiffness of the Limbes.

When a young child•• is so taken with a cold I esteem it best to bath the body in luke warm water wherein hath been sodden Marj••∣ram and time, Hyssop, Sage, Mintes an•• such other good and comfortable herb••, then to relieve it with meats of good nourishment ac∣cording to the age and necessity, and if need be when ye see the limbs yet stark make an oint∣ment after this form.

Take a good handful of nettles and stamp them, then seethe them in oil to the third part in a double vessel, keep that ointment in a dry place, for it will last a great while and it is a singular remedy ••or the stiffness that cometh o•• cold, and whoso anointeth his hands and f••et with it in the morning shall not be grieved with cold all the day after.

The seeds of nettles gathered in Harvest and kept for the same intent, is exceeding good sodden in oil, or fryed with swines grease, which thing is also very good to heal the kibes of heel, called in Latine Perniones. When the cause cometh not by extream cold but of

••ome other affection of the sinewes and cords, i•• best to make a bath or a fomentation of ••erbs that resolve and comfort the sinewes ••ith relaxation of grosse humours.