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.

••pre••erve Wallnuts for a cough or Consumption.

••ake a pound of Walnuts before they be 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and pa••e them very thin, then steep 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in water a night, then boil them in run∣•••• or standing water, until they be so tender ••ou may put an hard rush through them; 〈◊〉〈◊〉 stick in each end of every Walnut a 〈◊〉〈◊〉; Then lay them hot togeth••r in a ••••ney Bason, then take a pound and a half ••ugar and strew upon them hot, and cover 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and let them lie covered all night with∣••he warmth of the fire; And the next day 〈◊〉〈◊〉 them up, and put them into a pot.