The cure.
First let the Mother or Nurse use a loosening dyet, and such things as are mollifying. And let them take also Manna, Cassia, or sirup of Roses, or a little Hony in the morning.
If the child be of some reasonable growth, then you may give it Manna, or Cassia, as from two drachmes to one ounce; or if it be young, you may give it half an ounce, or one ounce of sirup of Roses. Suppositories also made of Hony and Salt (and put up into the body) are good and safe, or Violet comfits anointed with oyl and so used, or Clisters may be given; as take common oyl two, three, or four ounces, of brown Sugar, two or three drach. the yolk of an egg, Salt three or four corns, make a Clyster and administer it.
Or,
Take of Marsh-mallowes half an ounce, common Mallowes, Pellitory of the Wall, of each half a handful, Cammomil flowers, Linseed and Fenigreek bruised, of each a drachme; boyl them in sufficient water, and take of the strained liquor three, four, or six ounces (according to the age of the childe, in which dissolve of Cassia two, three, or four drachmes, common oyl one ounce, or one ounce and a half; with the yolk of an egg, make a Clyster. You may anoint the Navil of the childe with Butter, or oyl of sweet Almonds, either alone, or mixed with a grain or two of Scammony or Coloquintida. The Gall of an Ox or Cow laid upon a clout, and so laid on the Navel causeth loosenesse, or a plaister made with the gall of an Ox, a rosted Onyon and Butter mixed together, and applyed warm to the belly doth the same.
If you desire stronger means, then take the juice of Walwort and Mildust, boyl them together, and apply them warm to the Navel.