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 Ears: Remedies for all dis∣eases in the ears.

For noise and sounding of the Ears.

TAke Pilulae Cochiae, or fetidae because the sound is of ventosity or Phlegm, and be∣fore ye take the said pills, It is good to drink three ounces of Fennel water, two hours be∣fore meat, four or five dayes: After the o∣peration of the said pills ye must dip a tent in oil of Rue, Castor or of salt with the juice of Leek••, and often in the morning fasting to hold his ear over the decoction of Marjerom, Rue, Wormwood, Camomil and Melilote.

For pain in the Ears.

Goose-grease with a little hony swageth the pains of the Ears.

Item, oyl of Almonds especially of the bitter Almonds hot.

••em, If there be water in the Ears, it shall

be had out with a little Goose-grease, and the juice of Onions; sometimes there chance•••• deafness by winde which is in the Ear, the which causeth ••inckling in the Ear, and then one must put a little Aloes in hot water, or in white wine and distil into the Ear, then put a little Euphorbium in powder into his Nose for to make him to neese, and avoid asmuch hu∣mors as ye can. Sometime deafness cometh 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Phlegm which when it is old, it is uncurable▪ but when it beginneth it must be purged a•• ha••h been said in the remedy of the sound o•• the Ears; then take powder of Bay berries, and s••ethe it in oyl of Lilies, and put it warm into ••our Ear, and a little black wool to stop the Ear with, that no air ••nter.

An approved Medicine for Deasn••ss.

Take sweet Sallet oyl half a pound, add to it Wormwood, Sorrel, Aniseed, Perwinckle, of each one dram, dry all to powder, the pow∣der of old Roses one ounce, as much of Colo∣quintida boiled in the said oyl, strain and use it three drops into the Ear at a time warm.

To recover the lost hearing or deasness in the Ear.

Take Civet a grain, Musk one grain, and good Tar one scruple, mix all these together▪ and put it into a fine linnen cloth or peice of silk, and binde it fast with a thread, and put it into the Ear cloth and all, and binde the thread about the top of the Ear, and so wear it in the ear, and thou mayest take it forth, when thou wilt, it doth then help the h••ad, and recover the hearing.

A sove••aign Medicine for the pain and buzzing in the head which hindreth the h••aring.

Take a Clove of Garlick, and pill it clean ••nd make three or four holes in the midst of it ••nd dip in it a little English hony, and put it ••nto your Ear, and put a little black wooll in ••st••r it, & for that night let the patient lye up∣••n the contrary side, and let the ea•• that is ••topt be upright, and the next night following ••et him use the other ear in like sort, and lie ••n the other side as before; and so let him al∣••r it every other night, and use it for the ••ace of eight or nine dayes together; and this ••ill expulse all ill humors out at his nose▪ eale ••he pain and restore the hearing.

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.

A present Remedy for one that cannot hear.

Take an Hedghog, and flea him, and ro•••• him, and let the patient put some of the grea•••• into his ear, and he shall recover his hearing in short space: This hath holpen those that could not hear almost any thing at all, and hath bee•• ••roubled with this impediment for the space of twenty years and yet were holpen with this.