Symptoms and Signs.
If the poyson be taken in, or you be stung, there is a numness in the part bitten, with chil∣ness, the belly swells, the face is pale, there is wind in the guts, cold sweats, a desire to piss, but in vain; they vomit or piss things like Spi∣ders.
If a Spider be taken in, first vomit thus. Take Spurge roots, Asarum, each two drams; Dill and Broom flowers, each a pugil: boyl them, to four oun∣ces straine••, add a dram of Honey, make a Vomit.
Then give Antidotes, provoke sweat, by a hot house, with two drams of Treacle, and Carduus, or Scordium water and Wine. Or give Bole and Vinegar: this cured a man that was stung in the neck, and was swollen, and could not speak. Or, Take Assa faetida two drams, Mirrh, Ga••∣lick, Pepper, Castor, each half a dram; make a pou∣der for four doses with Wine before bathing, every day.
If th••re be •• bite, wash it with Salt-water of∣ten, or with a Spunge dipt in warm Vinegar, or the milkie juyce of Fig leaves, and give Anti∣dotes.