Rams little Dodeon [sic] A briefe epitome of the new herbal, or histoy of plants. Wherein is contayned the disposition and true declaration of the phisike helpes of all sortes of herbes and plants, vnder their names and operations, not onely of those which are here in this our Countrey of England growing but of all others also of other realmes, countreyes and nations vsed in phisike: Collected out of the most exquisite newe herball, or history of plants, first set forth in the Dutch or Almayne tongue, by ... D. Reinbert Dodeon, ... and lately translated into English by Henry Lyte, ... and now collected and abridged by William Ram, Gent. Pandit oliua suos Ramos.

For them that haue the small Poxe.

¶ KEepe them warme in all parts but the necke and head, and there let them haue ayre enough: and when they be∣gin to come forth, get of Doctor Ludfords water, and kéepe it continually dropping in their eyes: which water will keepe them out of their eyes: then take Beefe, and powder it with dry Salt, two dayes and two nights: then boyle a péec•• of that Béefs well scummed; take the fat of that broth, and a quautity of running water, and beat both together, till it come to an oyle, and so soone as the Poxe come forth, anoynt the face therewith continually with a feather, day and night: and when the Poxe are throughly rips, let them out with a gold needle: when they begin to dry, let them not hang too lang, but put them off seftly, else the scabs will make prints, which shall be seene.