Ptåochopharmakon, seu Medicamen miseris, or Pauperum pyxidicula salutifera. Help for the poor collected for the benefit of such as are not able to make use of physitians and chiurgians, or live remote from them. Also an appendix concerning letting blood in the smallpox. By Robert Pemel, physitian of Crane-brook in Kent.

Against the flux or loosness of the Body.

BOyl the inward rinde of an Oak in milk, strain it and put thereto powder of Rice, Cinamon in powder, also a little Sugar, eat of it often,

Or,

Take one Dram (which is half a quarter of an ounce) of the root of Tormentill in powder, mix it with half an ounce of Conserve of red-Roses, and eat it, or let it be given in red wine, or Plantain-water.

Or,

Give fourty grains of Acorn-cups powdered in Rise milk, morning and evening.

Or,

Give a Dram of Acorn-cups pow∣dered in Posset-drink for two or three mornings together.

Or,

Take a pint of red wine, and put to it a quarter of an ounce of Cinamom, and as much Plantainseed, bruised; boyl

them gently together, strain it, and give often thereof.

Or,

Take Plantain, Knot-grass and Shepheards-purse, of each a handful; boyl them in new milk, strain it and being thickned with crums of stale white bread, eat thereof.

Or,

Give a Dram of old Venice Treacle morning and evening for four or five dayes together in Plantain water.