The Kitchin-physician, or, A guide for good-housewives in maintaining their families in health wherein are described the natures, causes, and symptoms of all diseases, inward and outward, incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : prescribing natural, useful and proper medicines, both in physick and chirurgery, as well for the prevention as speedy cure of the said distempers : adorned with sculptures ... / published for the common good ... by T.K., Doctor in Physick.

122. Against Burstenness, or a Rupture.

Lay upon the place a Pap of Bean-meal and Wine: or, a Pap of Wall-wort, Dasy, ship-pitch, and a little Mastick, then lay thereupon a small cloth, made wet in the juyce or moistness which floweth out of the little Fruits of the Elm-tree: or, make a Pap of that which remaineth in the Paper-mills after the Paper is made, and tye it thereupon.

In the mean time drink for nine days together, a Potion prepared of the Roots of Solomons Seal and Sanickle.

Or, put red-Snails in an earthen pot, dry

them in an hot Oven, and make them into Powder; give this to Children for fifteen days together, or longer if necessi∣ty requireth, with Pap or Broth, if they suck; but if they be froward, then still the Snails with hot water, and give it them fifteen days as aforesaid.

Or, make a Powder of black-Bramble, and give them an eighth part of an ounce thereof in a morning for some days to∣gether.