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.

The N••vil, It•• Remedies.

For swelling of the Navil.

TAke Spike, or Lavender, half an ounce, make it in powder, and with three ounces of fine and clear Turpentine temper it in an ointment, adding a portion of oil of sweet Almonds. But if it come of crying take a little bean flower, and the ashes of fine lin∣••en clouts bu••nt, and temper with red wine and honey and lay to the sore.

A Plaster for swelling of the Navil.

Take Cowes dung and dry it in powder, barly flower and bean flower of each a por∣tion, the juice of knot grasse a good quantity, Cummin a little, make a plaster of all and set it to the Navil.

Take Cowes dung and seethe it in the milk of the same Cow and lay it the grief. This is al∣so marvellous effectual to help a suddain ache or swelling in the Leggs.

For the stone in Children.

Though it be very hard to be cured, yet in the beginning it is healed thus. First let the nurse be well dieted, or the childe if it be of age, abstaining from all grosse meat, and hard of digestion, as is Beef and Bacon, salt meats and cheese, then make a powder of the root of Piony dried and minister it with asmuch hony as shal be sufficient, or if the childe a••hor hony make it up with sugar molten a little upon the coles, and give unto the childe more or lesse according to the strength twice a day till ye•• see the urine passe easily, ye may also give it in a rear Egg▪ for without doubt it is a singu∣lar remedy in Children.