Art and nature joyn hand in hand. Or, The poor mans daily companion Wherein is shew'd for two pence charge, how you may cure any distempers incident to humane bodys: as first, the magical and physical vertues of beasts and birds, of trees and herbs, ... for curing of most diseases astrologically; a brief treatise of urines, as well of mens as of womens, to judge by the colour ... also a charme to know whether the sick party shall live or die; also to cure the Kings evil, ... against wry-necks, quartane agues, for one that cannot make water; how to make the true antidote powder called, the orvietane of Rome: to take away pearls, and films from the eyes; elixir vitæ, or, elixir of life, Gascoynes powder, the royal styptich water, which stops blood in an instant, also good for watery eyes, rheumatick eyes, inflamations in your eyes, pin, or web, and strengthens them to admiration; with many other things worthy of note. By John Durant, student in physick...
Durant, John, student in physick.
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MAGICAL CHARMES.

For an Ague.

WHEN Jesus went up to the Cross to be Crucified, the Jews asked him, saying, Art thou affraid, or hast thou an Ague; Jesus answered and said, I am not affraid, neither have I the Ague, but all those which beareth the Name of Jesus about them, shall not be affraid, nor have the Ague, Amen, Sweet Jesus, Amen, Sweet Je∣hovia, Amen.

Another.

There came two Angels from the East, the one brought Fire, the other brought Frost, In the Name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, out Frost, in Fire.

Another.

Write these Characters in a piece of Parch∣ment, and wear them about you, and they are these following,

  • Abracadabra.
  • Abracadabr.
  • Abracadab.
  • Abracada.
  • Abracad.
  • Abraca.
  • Abrac.
  • Abra.
  • Abr.
  • Ab.
  • A.

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Or else take all the Nailes paring of the Toes and Fingers of any Man or Woman, lying Sick of an Intermittent Feaver, and to mix or Incor∣porate them with Wax, so as the Party in the doing hereof do say these words, I am about a Remedy for the Tertian, Quotidian, or Quar∣taine Ague, according as the Patient is trou∣bled with the one or other of these Feavers, which done and said, to stick up the Wax upon the Door of another Man or Womans House that is not Sick at all, and that before the Sun be Risen, which no doubt will cure the Sick Person, and set the Ague or Feaver upon the well Person.