Of the Worms.

OFtentimes children are extreamly trou∣bled; they are generated of a visc∣ous and flegmie humour; they are some∣times round, and then commonly the chil∣dren are troubled with a Fever, and grow lean, their appetite fails them, they start in their sleep, they have a dry cough joyned with it, with a stinking breath, and an ill colour in their faces, the eyes hollow and dark, with a kind of irregular Fever, which comes three or four times a night, and they often rub their no∣ses; if they be little worms, they have alwayes a desire to go to the stoole, and their excre∣ments Page  81 are very purants. If the Infant be young the Nurse must be sure to keep a good dyet, ab∣staining from all raw fruits, pease and Beans, and all milkie things, and any thing that shall be of a hard concoction: next you may lay a plaister of the mass of Pils sine quibus half a dram, powder of Wormwood one dram, myrrh and Aloes, of each two scruples, meale of Lu∣pines a dram and a half, the gall of an Ox as much as sufficeth; if the Infant be any thing grown, you may give him in a little broth a smal quantity of Harts-horn. You may also give the Child if he be able to take it, a lit∣tle of the decoction of Pourpied, and the sha∣vings of Harts-horn, adding to it a little of the juice of Citron.