SCIATICA.
For the Sciatica.
First take as fat a Goose as you can get, and when she is ready drest, then take a couple of the fattest young suck∣ing Cats you can get, and flea them, and
The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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- The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view.
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- Bahia (Brazil : State). Secretaria das Minas e Energia. Diretoria de Distribuição.
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- 1656.
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"The skilful physician containing directions for the preservation of a healthful condition, and approved remedies for all diseases and infirmities (outward or inward) incident to the body of man ... whereunto is added experimented instructions for the compounding of perfumes, also for the chusing and ordering of all kinds of wines, both in preserving the sound, and rectifying those that are prick'd : never before imparted to publick view." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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cut them into gobbets, and put them in the belly of the Goose, and so roast it as long as it will drop, then take the liquor and annoint the place pained with it, and bathe it before the fire as hot as you can suffer it, and dip a brown paper therein, and lay it hot to the place with warme cloathes to keep it fast to all night. Do thus for the space of three or four nights together.
For the cold Sciatica orbenumnesse of the Thighs or Legs.
Take a pint of Aqua vitae, a pint of Wine Vinegar, a quarter of a pound of Oyl of Bayes, the juice of four or five handfuls of Sage, a Sawcer full of good Mustard, the Gall of an Ox bladder, and chafe them in the bladder, an hour or more, that the Oyl may be well mingled with the rest, and anoint the place there∣with against a good fire, and let the Patient go warm into bed and sweat. Probatum.
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A Soveraigne Medicine for the Sci∣atica.
Take half a pint of Aqua vitae, halfe a pint of White Wine Vinegar, and one Oxe Gall, almost a handful of Bay salt, and a handful of the tops of Rosemary, and shred them very small, and put them in a little Pipkin all together, and let it be ready to boil up, and then take it off, and chafe the place pained with it, with your hand so long as the Patient shall be able to endure it, and do it very warm against the fire, and then take Nerve Oyle, and anno•••••• it and then take a Scarlet cloth, and bind it up or cover it warm, and this do morning and even∣ing.