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 vertues of it are as followeth.

It will cure all diseases coming of cold, ei•• pains or achs in the head, or the dea••ness i•• the eare; the same Ballam 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wa••med and anointing the place g••ieved and a warm cloath applied thereunto, And for t••e ears to lip •• little black wool in the same Balsom and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 then th••rewith. This is good for the g••av•• and pain in making of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and the Co•• lick, to take the same in a little Mut••o•• broath to the quantity of a great b••an and drink it every mor••ing fasting and an•• in th•• place grieved. Moreover for all cold Ague drink but half an ounce in broath before the fit comes. Again for pain or swelling of the Spleen or Milt, and for the mother, Anoin•• the le••t side therewith well war••••d and i•• will dissolve all hardness, cast out all slime and sand and open the stopping in the Kidneye•• and bladder, It c••reth all aches in what par•• of the body soever, rubbing the place grieve•• with a Cloath first well warmed and then a∣noint it with the same Balsam, being made warm▪ and binde the place with a warm Cloath afterward: It cureth all Lameness and shrink∣ing of the sinews and all green wounds sud∣denly, It hath more vertues then I have here written.