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Green Wound. Warm it, and pour it into the Wound, lay a dubble Cloth on it, dipped in Balsam.
Burn▪ or Scald. Apply it hot if the Skin be not broken, and bathe it well: but if the Skin be broken, then not so hot; bathe it well, and lay on a dipped Cloth.
Dog-Biting. Warm it and boyl the place well, and lay on it a dipped Cloth.
Bruise. If the Brest or Stomack be bruised, eat the quantity of a Nutmeg, and drink a little Bear after it, and lay a dipped Cloth on the place.
Swelling. Bathe it well and warm, and lay a dubble dipped Cloth to it, bind it up.
Aches in the Head. Anoint the Temples warm, and apply to the Nape of the Neck a hot dipped Cloth, when you go to Bed.
Joints or Sinews. Eat in the morning as much of it as a Nutmeg.
Gowt. Bathe the place scalding hot, and lay a dubble dipt Cloth, and bind it up.
Wind-Collick. Eat as much of it as a Nut, and bathe the place very hot, and lay on it a dubble dipped Cloth, and bind it up.
Pleuresie. After Blood-Letting eat so much of it as a Nut, & bathe the Left-side very hot.
Surfeit. If you be Surfeited or have any poi∣sonfull Disease, eat so much of it as an Nutmeg.
Ʋlcer, Fistulo. Pour it into the Sore, as hot as you can endure it, and lay a dubble dip∣ped Cloth, to it, and bind it up.
Canker. Warme it, and rub the place very well that is grieved with a Rag.
Stone. If it be in the Kidnies, take a Pint of White Wine and make it boyl (but not burn) brue it with Sugar, and drink a quar∣ter of a Pint of it morning and evening warm, and eat so much of it as a Walnut be∣fore you drink.
Wormes. Eat so much of it as a Nut in a poonful or two of Milk, & eat a Messe of Milk
after it, anoint the Navell with it, you may administer it to Old-folks, or Children.
Flowers. Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg.
Provoke sleep. Eat so much of it as a Nut, and anoint the Temples warm.
Spleen. Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg, and anoint the place very hot.
Running of the Reines. Make a Caudle of Eggs and Ale, and put in Sugar, Cynamon, and Nutmeg beaten to powder, and so much of the Balsam as a Nutmeg; drink it warm, and anoint the Reines of the Back very well, and hot, and lay to it a dubble dipped Cloth.
Sciatica. Bathe the place very hot, and lay on it a dubble dipped Cloth, and bind it up.
Plague. Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg every morning, and put a little of it in your Nose.
Green-sicknes. Eat so much of it as a Nutmeg every morning, & walk a good while after.
Note that when you apply a cloth dipped to any Wound, Swelling, or Bruise, you must do it very hot.