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.

Medicine.

An excellent good Medicine for deafness in the head.

Take a quart of Malmesy, and a quarter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 pint of clear running water, a pennyworth of Cummin, and eight or nine leaves of Beton••▪ and boil them altogether until half the liquor be consumed, then take the pot wherein the Medicine is boiled and cover it close with •• Tunnel, binde it close about the verge o•• brim whereby the heat may not issue forth•• then put a quill into the other end of the Tun∣nel, and let the patient hold his ear close that the heat may ascend up into his head, and when he is weary of holding the one ear, let him turn the other to the same place; and w••ilst the heat is ascending up into one of his ears, let the other be well stopped with black wool, and let him also apply hot cloths to keep in the heat on the other side of his head w••ilst the Medicine worketh, and let both

sides be used alike, and let the patient use this three times a day, that is to say, at morn, noon and night, and so continue it for the spa••e of eight or nine dayes together; and during all which space he must abstain from any open aire, and doubtless this will help him, for by experience it is known, that it hath cured both men and women that were above fifty years of age.

For deafness or noise in the head, an excellent remedy.

Take of the juice of a Radish root a pretty quantity, of the oyl of bitter or sweet Al∣monds, with a pretty deal of Colocynthis, and warm all these together in a little white wine, and when it is well mingled and bloodwarm, then pour a drop of it warm into thine ear; and this using the patient shall be remedied.

Good for the ••earing.

The juice of Betony cast into the ear luke∣warm, is very profitable against the pains of deafness or other impediments of the ears.

Item, The fat of a Fox doth greatly cure the pain of the ears: also the juice of Hyssope mix•• with oyle and bloodwarm put into the ears, taketh away the painful aches of the ears.

For to make a man hear.

Take a red Onion and pick out the top, and fill it full of fair hot Hens grease▪ and lay the top on again, and rost it in the Embers till it

be tender, and then quish out the oyl into the ears of the sick man or woman, and then stop the ears with black wooll.

An approved Medicine for deafness.

Take sweet Sallet oyl half a pound, add to it Wormwood, Sorrel, Anniseeds, Perwinkle, of each alike one dram, dry all to powder, the powder of the old R••ses one ounce, as much of Coloquintida boiled well in the said oyl, strain it and use it three drops at a time in the ear warm.

Another approved.

Take oyl of Castory, and of bitter Almonds and of Roses, let them be boiled in Aqua vit•• till the Aqua vitae be wasted or consumed, and so distil a drop at a time into the ear.

For deafness, and for an Impostume of the ear, to break it, a rare secre.

Take the juice of young Elder buds, and the inner rinde thereof, either of them and use, it helpeth.

For a man that may not well hear.

Take the block of an Ash, and lay it to the fire, and gather the water that cometh out o•• both ends of the block, and the juice of Ju∣barbe and white wine, the grease of Eel, of all these alike much, and seethe them well to∣gether, and put it into his ears till he be whole, &c.