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.

Against all pesti ent sicknesses or plague and to break the botch and to cure, &c.

Take the ••uice of scabious in Ale and give it to the patient warm with a little Triacle, and take the root of Scabious stamped with swines grease and spread it on a cloath cold as thick as you can, and lay it to the plague sore or any other impostume, It must not be changed in twenty four hours. Scabious which is also called Divels bit is best for the plague sore.

To help assuredly divers diseases thats to say to preserve the body from all diseases be∣ing drank first and to kill Impostumes to make good colour, to resist the plague and to help it. to heal the P••isick, it breaketh the stone in the reins, it h••lpeth the sple••n, it purgeth the belly, It maketh good colour and expelleth all corrupt blood, It healeth wounds in the belly, it cleareth the sight.

Take one pint of Gentian and two parts of Centaury, stamp them together and put white wine to them, Let them soke five dayes then distill them, keep the water distilled in a close vessel, use it first and last, It is comparable to gold.