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.

A most sure and speedy way to cure chil∣dren of the worms.

TAke a handful of the young buds of Ashen∣trees, you may know them from any other buds, for the outside shews as black as Seacoal; take a handful of the buds before mentioned and a handful of unset Hysop, and half a hand∣ful of wormwood, mix these together, and heat them very hot in a Fire-shovel, or between two tyles; then lay it to the childs belly, as hot as the child may suffer it; and bind it on with a cloath at night, and let it lie till the morning, and in the morning give the child three spoonfuls of new milk, and put a little of the seeds of Worm-wood into it, and bruise it before you put it into the milk; and stir them together; then give the child the milk and worm-seed, stirred together, the quantity

of three spoonful I mean the seeds of the com∣mon worm-word, that growes almost in eve∣ry place; this art cures children of the worms and cleanseth the body, and causeth children to thrive very lustily after the taking of it.

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