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A medicine for the falling sickness.

TAke a good handfull of single red Piony roots, and a pottle of Sack, stamp the roots very well, and put to them a penny worth of Saffron, and when they be very small beaten, straine them with the pottle of Sack so long as they do white, then put it into a Bottle and stop it very close, and when you use it shake it very well that the best stay not at bottome, and three dayes before the change of the Moon, you may take of it eight or nine spoonfulls at a time fasting, and if you will three dayes after the change also every full Moon take it, in the like man∣ner as before: Take also one of the greatest roots and cut a slice of it like a hart, and put it into a little Bagge, and hang it about the Patients neck, let it hang on the left side as neare the hart as may be, and weare it as long as it will last.

You may beat the Roots two or three times the bet∣ter to get the substance out of them.