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 Medicine for the sweat.

Take three pints of Ale, one ounce of Su∣gar, six Sage leaves, boil all these together and scum them clean, And put th••rein a cr••st of white bread or a few crums and seethe then a pen••worth of powder of Maces and keep it warm in an carthen pot, or in a p••wter pot and drink nine or ten ••poonfuls at your plea∣sure the twenty four hours, and sometime drink Ale blo••d warm with a penyw••ight of powder imperial at a time. Use Manus Christi at your pleasure if you feel your self sick or faint at your heart. Then take a great weight of the queens preservatives with a spoonful of the s••dden Ale aforesaid, or else Ale blood warm or else on a knives point once in twenty four hours. Also eat no manner of spices but Mace onely and drink

no manner of wine in the said twenty four hours, take no manner of cold nor take not too many o•• clothes but competent.