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.

A note of a diet prescribed by three dutch Doct••rs fo•• a man past cure so judged.

Take Hermodactils two ounces, Sarsaparillae four, of sassafras 2. ounces, Sene Alexandriae four ounces, Liquerice one ounce, Anniseeds one ounce, long pepper, half an ounce of the leaves of Scabious: one great handful of Egrimony, half asmuch of Betonie, half a handful of wa∣ter Cresses and brook lime, one great handful of scurvy grasse of the Sea two great handfuls, of good N••timegs one ounce, Let all the wood be sliced and cut small and the herbs shred and all put into a bagg and hanged in a barrel

with six gallons of new Ale to work with it and when it hath wrought stop it up, and let it stand and settle, eight dayes, then drink continually of it and no other drink so long as it la••••e••h, your b••ead must be Bakers bread with Coriander and Anniseeds, your breakfast of the bread and blaunched Almonds and raisins of the sun, and your diet drink, your dinner dry rosted Veal, Hen, Chicken, Mutton or rabbet, your supper as your breakfast, or some small repast of dry rosted 〈◊〉〈◊〉 or Rabber, continue this six weeks and beware of cold, and if you keep your chamber have merry Company, this Diet will cure any de∣sperate disease in the body that is to be cured and many times indeed those which be past c••re. Probat.