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.

For the cough and consumpt••on of the lungs.

Take Fox Lungs fresh killed, pull them from the Windepipes and the straines which hange by the same; then wash the lungs in Sack or white wine l••••ewarm three or four

times until they be clean from the blood, th••n dry them in a pot in an Oven after the ba••c•• drawn forth, so well dried, beat them to pow∣der. Take Anniseeds, Fennel seeds, Maiden hair•• of each like quantity of weight to your Fox lungs, beat all these together to fine powder, and see the s••me well mingled; take also a like weight of Liquorice, as the Fox lungs or som•• deal more, and lay it in water fourteen hour••, first clean scraped and a little bruised, then seethe your Liquorice in the same water until half be consumed, and so strain the Liquor from the Liquorice, and with the liquor seeth as much fine Sugar beaten s••all as he weight of the receit amounteth unto, till it thick like a Syrup, then put to this Syrup as it cooleth, all your powder, well stir••ing and incorporating the same altogether, and so keep it for your use. P••ohatum est.

Take the lungs of a Fox dryed, the juice of Liquerice, Maidenhair, Fennel-seed, of ••ach •• like four ounces, make it in Sugar sodden in water as much as will suffice, some make it with the juice of Myrts, and then it is com∣fortable for the stomack, this is a present re∣medy for a Consumption.