For the Rickets.
Take of cream two pound, and boil it to an oyle or take
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Take of cream two pound, and boil it to an oyle or take
of unsalted Butter, lb ii. take three or four good handfulls of Cammomil, mince it small, and put it into the oyle or But∣ter, and let it boil on a soft fire till the hearbs became crispe, and that it be very bitter; then strein it, and annoint the childs sides downwards, and the bottome of the belly and thighes morning and evening: Also to give the child thrice a day half a dosen spoonfuls of ••arts tongue water, in which you have steped seven or eight Cl••ves, and some b••own Su∣gar Candie to sweeten it: If the child mend not with this; ℞ Of shoomakers shreds, two or three M. boil them in fair water, and take off the oyle, and annoint the child, as before prescribed: If the child be not weaned, you must wean it, otherwise no Medicine will recover it: Also you must carry it as little as you can in your armes, but when you doe, be stirring it, and make it try to use the legs, if it be of that big∣nesse.