Most excellent and approved medicines & remedies for most diseases and maladies incident to man's body, lately compiled and extracted out of the originals of the most famous and best experienced physicians both in England and other countries, by A. R. Doctor in Physick decesased. And since revised by an able practitioner in the same science, and now published for the universall good and benefi [sic] of this Common-wealth.:

A marvellous good Medicine to drive away the Itch.

TAke, something to make you sweat 2 nights, one after another, viz: Mithri∣date with water of Carduus Benedictus After∣wards purge your self with this Purgation following, viz: half an ounce of Diaphenicum and Hamech, mingled with Honey or Syrop of Roses, also with a little Flesh broth (as the Broth of a Chickin, or knuckle of Veal, or the like) taken in onely in the morning, and so continue your going to stool by often taking in some warm broth or caudle. Afterwards use this cooling Drink, viz: Take 2 good handfuls of Sorrel, of the herb called in the shops Fumus terrae, Agrimonie, Scabius Cinque∣foil, Endive, Succory, Harts horn, of each a good handfull; boil them all in some quantitie of Buttermilk or Whey; and when it hath well boiled, take it off from the fire; and to make you purge wel, take a pinte thereof, & add to it half an ounce of Sena. Take hereof every morning a good draught, and it will give you every day a small purge; and by this means (with the blessing of God thereupon) you shall in a very short time be cured.