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OF this there be many kinds, some be moist, some be watrish, some be dry, and some be scurvy; some be like Scabs, some like Ring-worms; some be fistuled, some be fester∣ed; some be Cankers, some be like Wens; some like Biles, some like Knobs or Kernels; and some be Ulcerous having a little dry Scab
in the midst of the ulcerous Scab; some have ach in the joynts, and no sign of the Pox, and yet it may be the Pox.
The cause of this infirmity doth come many wayes, it may come by lying in the sheets or bed wherein a Pockie person hath lyen the night before, it may come by lying with a Poc∣kie person, it may come by sitting on a Jakes, where Pockie persons did lately sit, it may come by drinking with a Pockie person; but specially it is taken, when one Pockie person doth sin in Lechery with another; all the kinds of Pox be infectious, and therefore beware of them.
TAke the grease of a Boar, the skin clean ta∣ken away; the weight of a pound of the powder of Brimstone, three ounces of the pow∣der of Oyster-shels, two ounces of Verdigrease, the weight of twelve pence, of the inner bark of the branches of a Vine; two ounces of Quicksilver, mortifyed with fasting-spittle; then stamp all these together in a Morter and anoint thy body, specially as near as you can to the sores, and then lay the person in a bed, and lay clothes enough over him, and let him sweat twenty or four and twenty hours, do this three times in nine dayes, and after that take an easie
purgation, and take of the water of planten, half a pint of Mercury sublimated, the weight of eight pence, of Roch allom half an ounce, make powder of it, and mix it altogether, and with the feather anoint the place. Or take of Turpentine well washed, one ounce of Lytarge and burnt Allom,, of each an ounce, and mix these together, then take seven ounces of the fat of a Goat or Kid, and anoint the place. Or take of fresh Butter an ounce and an half, of Barrowes grease half a pound of old Treacle an ounce, of Mithridatum half an ounce, of Quicksilver mortifyed, the weight of six groats, of Lytarge and salt of each half an ounce, mix this together, and make an ointment thereof, and anoint the sores therewith, and this will heal thee if thou wilt use it as is afore-said.