BELONGING TO THE SEA.
SPerma Caeti, is well applied outwardly to eating Ulcers, the marks which the small pocks leave be∣hind them, it cleers the sight, provokes sweat; in∣wardly it troubles the stomach and belly, helps brui∣ses, and stretching of the nerves, and therefore is good for women newly delivered.
Amber greese, heats and dryes, strengthens the brain and nerves exceedingly, if the infirmity of them come of cold, resists pestilence.
Sea-sand, a man that hath the dropsie, being set up to the middle in it, it draws out all the water.
Red Corral, is cold, dry and binding, stops the immoderate flowing of the terms, bloody-fluxes, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, helps such as spit and pisse blood, helps witchcraft being carried about one, it is an approved remedy for the falling sickness. Also if ten grains of red Corral be given to a Child in a little breast-milk so soon as it is born, before it take any other food, it will never have the falling sickness, nor convulsions. The com∣mon dose is from ten grains to thirty.
Pearls, are a wonderfull strengthner to the heart, encrease milk in Nurses, and amend it being naught, they restore such as are in Consumptions, both they and the red Corral preserve the body in health, and resist feavers. The Dose is ten grains or fewer; more I suppose because it is dear, than because it would do harm.
Amber, (viz. yellow Amber) heats and dryes, therefore prevails against moist diseases of the head, it helps violent Coughs, helps Consumptions of the lungues, spitting of blood, the whites in women, it helps such women that are out of measure unwealdy in their going with child, it stops bleeding at the nose, helps difficulty of urine: You may take ten or twenty grains at a time
The Froath of the Sea, it is hot and dry, helps scabs, itch, and leprosie, scald heads &c. it clenseth the skin, helps difficulty of urine, makes the teeth white, being rubbed with it, the head being washed with it, it helps baldness, and trimly decks the head with hairs,