The Ears, Remedies for Distem∣pers of the Ears of Childr••n.
For pain in the Ears,
IT is good to drop into the Ears the juice 〈◊〉〈◊〉 organy and milk.
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.
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- 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.
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- Collins, Thomas, Student in physick.
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- 1658.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34011.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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For swelling in the Ears.
Painters oil, which is oyl of Linseed is ex∣ceeding good for the swelling of the ear••, and for pain in the ears of all causes. If ye see the Apostume break and run, ye may cleanse it with the juice of smallach, the white of an Egg, barley flower and honey, which is a com∣mon plaster to mundifie a sore. When the ••ars have received water or any ot••er l••quor, It is good to take and stamp an onyon, and ••ring out the juice with a little goose grease, ••nd drop it hot into the ears as may be suffered and lay him down on the contrary side an ••our, after that cause him to neese if his age ••ill suffer with a little pellitory of Spain, or ••eesing powder, and then incline his ear downward that the matter may issue▪
For worms in the Ears.
Take Myrrhe aloes and the seed of Colocynthis ••••lled Colloquintida at the Apothecaries, a ••uantity of each, seethe them in oil of roses, ••nd put a little in the Ear. Myrrhe hath a great ••ertue to remove the stench that is caused in ••he ears by any putrifaction, and the better 〈◊〉〈◊〉 oil of bitter Almonds, or ye may take the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of wormwood with hony and salt 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
For winde in the Ears and tinckling.
Take Mirrhe, and Spicknard, Cummin, Dill 〈◊〉〈◊〉 oil of Camomile and put a drop into the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Ea••s. They that have not all these may
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take some of them, and apply it according to discretion. To amend deafness ye shal•• make an ointment of a Hares gall, and the grease or dropping of an Eel, which is a soveraign thing to recover hearing.
For neesing out of measure.
Anoint the head with the Juice of Purce∣laine, Sorrel and nightshade, or some of them and make a plaster of the white of an Egg and the juice, with a little oil of roses, and em∣plaster the forehead and temples with the milk of a woman, oil of roses and vineger a little.