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.

For stopping and hardness of the belly.

In this case ye must alway put a little hony in the childs meat, and let the nurse give him hon•• to su••k upon his fing••r, and if this will not help, then the next is to mixt a little fine and clear Turpentine with hony, and so to r••solv•• it in a sawcer, and let the childe sup of it a little.

The gall of an ox or cow laid upon a clout on the ••avil causeth a childe to be loose bellied, likewise an emplaster of a rost••d onyon, the g••ll of an ox and butter laid upon the belly as hot as he may suff••r it. If these will not help ye sha••l take a li••••l•• Cotto•• and dip∣ped in the said gall put it in the Fundament.

And ••t ••s to be noted, that a natu••al flux is nev••r to be feared a••o••e the seventh day, and

except there issue blood it ought not to be stopped afore that time.