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.

An experienced medicine for deafnes•• in the head.

Take Bay leaves, Bay berries, Betony and ••ticades, of each ••of them one handful, and ••eethe them in white wine, till one hal•• be ••onsumed, but if it be an aged person use Mal∣••esy instead of white wine, and then put it ••••to a vessel that hath a narrow mouth and let ••he patient hold his ear upon it, it being un∣••opped, so that he may suff••r the same, ••eing neither too hot nor too cold; then take ••yl of bitter Almonds, and put three or four ••ops into his ears, and then stop it close with •• lock of sheeps wooll that groweth between ••he Sheeps Legs, and if he put a little Musk, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Civet, it will be the better. This was pr••ved.