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A very Excellent Medicine against Deafness.

TAke Mint, Sage, Penniroyall, Rosemary, Sope, Mugwort, Camomill, Milfoyle, Yearrow, or Nosebleed, Herb St. John Wormewood, Sothern wood, Centorie, of each of them a handfull, boile them in a clean pan, with as much good white Wine as there be Herbs, and let it boyle together untill the third part be diminished, then cause these Oyles following to be made, old Oyle two Ounces, Oyle of Leeks, Oyle of Al∣monds, of each of them one Ounce, of the juyce of Rew halfe an Ounce, of Malmesey one Ounce and a halfe, put all these in a long necked Glass or violl, and let it boile with a small fire untill the juyce, and the Malmesey be almost consumed, then take it from the fire, and put into it these Drugs following, well beaten into pouder, that is to say spicknard, Collaquintida, the stone of a Beaver called Castoreum, Mastick of each of them a graine and a halfe. Stop well your Violl that nothing take vent, then put it into a pan full of water, and make it boile the space of three hours, then take it from the fire, and powre the said liquor into a Platter which you shall set in the Sunne, and leave it there untill it become cleare, and having strained it through some fine linnen cloth, and pressed out well the sub∣stance you shall put a graine and a halfe of Muske in a dish, and incorporate it by little, and little with the said Oyle, and then keep it in a Violl well stopped with Wax and Parchment, after this take the pann with the said Herbs, and heat them up∣on the fire, then take for a coverlead, a fonnell made of white Iron, and when you go to bed cover the pann with the said fonnel, and see the pan be good, and hot, then by the little hole above, let the Patient take the smoak into his Eare, by the space of halfe an houre. This done, heat the said Oile untill it be luke warme, and let it drop into his Eares two or three drops, and stop his Ears with a little Muske, Bombast, or Cotton, let

him fleep thereupon, now he must in the receiving of the per∣fume or smoak in his Eare, let him have some dry beans in his mouth, and after he hath chewed them, spit them out again, that in chewing he may open the conduits of his ears & by the grace of God, he shall find himselfe healed in few dayes, provided that the disease be cureable, if in any case this help not, you need not seek any other remedie in the World if a man have a∣ny humming, or noise in the Ears, let him use this Medicine, and you shall see with Gods help a wonderfull thing, for it will heale the deafeness of a man, though he have had it thirtie yeares, so that he be not borne deafe. Let him use also Pills to purge his head, and to eat good meat alwayes, this is a present remedy against deafeness taken out of the secrets of the Reverend Master Alexes of Piemont.