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CHAP. XIV.
SONITƲS AƲRIƲM; sound and noise of the eares, is for the most part ingendred of windy vapours, * 1.1 or of gross and clammy hu∣mours: It may be caused through weaknesse of the members, and of outward things, as of cold, heat, or a blow on the head.
First purge with a dragm of head pills, * 1.2 if no∣thing prohibit: And let sweet fennel-seed be baked in his bread: Every third morning let him take sneesing-powder, and drop into the eares every night certain drops of oyle of rew, * 1.3 and aniseed, and keep the eares stopt with cotten wool; This Electuary following is good.
℞. * 1.4 Conserv. flor. rorism. ℥. ij. species diam∣brae, Dianthos an. ℈. ij. ol. roris. succini an. Gut. iij. Syr. de stoechade, quant. sufficit fiat Electuarium.If the cause proceed from the stomach, * 1.5 admi∣minister a vomit.
Lastly, a dragm of Venus-treakle given in posset-ale (wherein rosemary is boyled) is ex∣cellent. * 1.6 Forestus doth direct wine to be drunk in this affect; and the decoction of Coriander seed prepared.