The countrymans friend, and no circumventing mountebanck. But a rare method of chyrurgery and physick, teaching the country people excellent cures, the likewas [sic] never laid open in any age before. Besides here are four arts, three, of them concerning horses, and the fourth an art to keep a field of corn from any manner of fowles, that devour grain, this art is only by anointing a few crow feathers, for neither pidgeon, sparrow, rook nor crow will endure the field where they stick. By Abraham Miles.

Here is a rare way for the curing the Gonorhea or Running of the reins.

IN the first place, if you mistrust, you have caught the Running of the reins by keeping company with any foul or unclean person; go this way to work, first, either to help your selfe, or your friend, Take a dram of Pulvus-sanctus, In English, holly powder; and put this pow∣der into half a pint of dear posset drink, and sur it about with a knife; and then drink it up, and then take good store of posset drink after, that it may cause the purge to work lu∣stily; you must begin alwayes to take a purge in a morning fasting, but if you are of a strong constution, I would wish you to take a dram of Extractum ••rudi, and make it into four or five little pils, and drink either posset-drink, or strong Ale, or Beer to cause it to work, then after it hath worked well, take some warm broath made on purpose; these purges purge choller from the chest, and slime from the guts, and wrinseth and washeth the reins of the back, & prepares the body fit for that which is restraining or restringing. Now in the second place if you would seek to stop this flux, called the Running of the reins; take a good hand∣ful of Yarow, Milfoyl, Nose-bleed, or Thou∣sand

leafe, it hath all these names, but it is com∣monly called Yarow, take a good handful of this green herb, and put it into a Morter, and bruise it with a pestle, and when you have well beat it, or bruised it, put to it the quantity of a pint of good fresh small beer, and stir it al∣together, then take a thin cloath, and strain it thorow, and then put it into a Vialglass, or a little close jug bottle, and put to it two oun∣ces of the best hard Sugar, and let the Sugar dissolve in it, and when you go to use it, shake it together, and the quantity that you must take is as followes; if the day be very hot take a spoonful at a time often in the day time, or otherwise three times a day; The Author of this book, hath applied this medicine as fasting in a morning three spoonfuls, three spoonfuls at noon, after diner, and three spoonfuls after supper, this hath cured men and women; that several noted Physiti∣ans hath left, and could not cure.

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