10. For Consumption and Cough, Running of the Reins, Gonorrhea, weakness and wasting in the Back, the heat and wasting Kidnies and Reins. This kind of Consumption or wast of the Reins and Kidnies is very dangerous, and you may know it by a thin Cloud on the top of the Urin after it hath stood a while, or a bricky substance in the botom or sides of the Pot, or a continual pain in the Back, or a foul Water at some times, and clear at other times; when you perceive these symptoms, take as much as a small Nut of this Balsam morning & evening, and roul it up in a little pouder of Liquoris, or any other thing or things you can best take it in, and cleanse your Body a little now and then with my Electuary, and you may be helpt of all these Distempers, if you are not too far spent before you begin.
11. For the Cramp, rub it well in to the parts grieved when the fit is on you, and it helpeth presently.
12. It much helps those which have not their breath freely through their No∣strils, by rubbing up a little into both Nostrils with the end of our finger every night going to bed, or at any other time.
13. And if you will help the shrinking Sinews, you must wear it with a piece of thin Bladder on the part grieved; and as it drieth in, renew it, and chase it well in with the heat of the fire. It cured the Wife of Robert Austin of Hitchin in Hartfordshire of a lame Leg with shrunk Sinews, who could not set her foot to the ground, nor get help in twenty years, and it made her as well as ever she was in her life.
14. For a stinking-breath from the Stomach, take as much as a small Nut every night going to bed, till you find your self well; and when y ou would not have any to smell your Breath, rub a little of it up your Nostrils with your fingers end.
15. The Itch, and all manner of Scabs; anoint the part grieved, and in a few times doing, it will take the distemper away.
16. For the Worms, you must chafe it well in to the Stomach and Belly with the heat of the fire, for three or four nights together, and lay a double Linen-Cloth thereon warm, and so wear it to asswage the hard Bellies of Children. You must do as aforesaid: it doth sometimes gently purge, if the body be foul.
17. For Pains in the Stomach, Sides, Belly, and Back, use it as aforesaid.
18. Piles and Hemorrhoids; anoint the part grieved every night going to bed, and at any other time.
19. Pains in the bottoms of the Feet, Toes, Ankles, and those which have weak Ankles, wear it with a piece of thin Bladder.
20. It will cure a new wound with a few dressings, though the Member be cut three parts off; It will help a man run through a Leg or Arm without any Tent; apply it plentifully about the Member grieved, and dress it twice aday.
21. For All sorts of old Sores, apply it as a Plaister morning and evening; it will make the Sore run more at the first then it did before, till the Humours have emptied themselves, and it will bring out the skale of rotten Bones; after that it will run but little, and heal apace.
22. It will dissolve and cure hard knobs that breed in the Necks of Boyes and Girls.
23. For the Red Pimples in the Face, anoint every night going to Bed.