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.

Rhasis description.

Anoint the forehead and temples of th•• childe, with oil of vi••l••ts and vineger, put∣ting a drop or two into the Nostrils, and if y•••• can get any Syrup of Poppie give to the child•• to lick, and then mak•• a plaster of oil o•• Saffron, lettuce and the juice of poppie, o•• we•• cloutes in it and lay it overthwart th•• temples

Also the seed•• a••d the heads of Poppie ca••∣led Ches••uls stamped with R••sewa••er, an•• mixt with with womans milk, and the whit•• of an Eg•• beaten altogether and made into •• plaster causeth the childe to receive his natu∣ral sleep.

Also an ointment made of the seed of pop∣pie and the heads one ounce, oil of Lettuc•• and of Poppie of each two ounces, make a•• ointment and use it.

They that cannot get these oils may tak•• the Herbs or juice of Lettuce, purslane, hous•• leck and poppie and with womans milk, make a plaster and lay it to the forehead.

Oil of Violets, of roses, of Nenuphar ar•• good, and oil of Populeon, the broth of Mal∣lowes sodden and the juice of water plan∣tain.

The cure of a palsie in a childe is not like to that in elder age, for the Sinnewes be very nesh and tender and they ought to have a much weaker medicine, evermore regarding

the power of the sickness, and the vertue or ••ebilitie of the grieved patient.