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COral: drinke Coral & pepper with water, & thou shalt haue the crāp no more. 2 Falling euil, hang it about thy neck. 3 Heart burning, let a man hold red Corall in his mouth, & a woman white Corall in hers. 4 Heart cardiack, apply Corall red or white with oile of roses. 5 Teeth ach, mixe powder of mastick, gals & Corall with hony, and rub therewith where need is. 6 Teeth to fal out, put in powder of red Corall. 7 Giue a childe twelue graines in
powder when he is new borne, with the nurses milke, and it shall neuer haue the falling sicknesse. 8 Corall strengtheneth the sto∣macke, stoppeth spitting of blood, preserueth the heart from pesti∣lence, stoppeth termes, is good for the falling euill, & withstandeth lightnings being borne on one, and stoppeth bleeding at the nose. 9 Matrix fluxe, purge the cause, then take pouder of sanguis Dra∣conis, bol armoniack, white amber, & red Corall, & drinke a dram with two ounces of plantine water. 10 Or take old conserue of roses two ounces, plantine seeds, two drams, sanguis draconis, & bol armoniack, ana a dram & a halfe, white and red Coral ana one dram, make a confection with syrrop of mirtles, & drinke it morne and euen as much as a mean chestnut two houres before and after meat, & weare Corall about thy necke and hand. 11 Teeth to be white, rub them with powder of white Coral, white marble, cuttle bone, sal-gem, masticke, bay salt, and the pils of a Cytron, ana like much euery morning, and after wash them in white wine, sodden with oil & camomil. 12 Hang it about thy neck down to the pit of the stomack to cause digestion. 13 It consumeth superfluous flesh in wounds without pain. 14 The powder strengthneth ye gums. 15 Drink the powder with water to appease the griefs of the sto∣mack & belly for euer, and to dry vp the flegme. 16 Coral drunke stoppeth the termes, it comforteth the heart & stomacke, dissolueth the feuer, in Lozenges it is restoratiue. 17 Heart griefs, vse the powder with sugar roset. 18 Impost. drink the powder with the iuice of a hādful of scabious roots, and as much aqua vitae. 19 It comforteth the eyes, and drieth vp the teares, it cleanseth vlcers. 20 Gums bleeding, apply the powder by it selfe, or with honie.