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nd mix it with the Milk of an Hearb called _Spurge_, make thereof a past, and fill the hole of the Tooth therewith, and leave it there, changing it every two houres, and the Tooth will fall out. _To take away the cause of the paine in the Teeth._ Wash the mouth two or three times together in the morning every moneth, with _White-wine_ wherein the root of _Spurge_ hath been sodden, and you shall never have paine in your Teeth. _For A Consumption._ Take Ash-keyes so soon as they look wither'd, set them into an Oven, the bread being drawne, in a pewter, or rather an earthen dish, and being so dryed pull off the out side, and reserving the inner part, or the seed, or keyes, beat them to fine powder, and either mix it with good English honey, and so eat of it, first and last, morning and evening, a pretty deale of it at once, upon the point of a knife, or else drink of the powder in some posset Ale, or thin broth. Mares milk, or Asses milk, which is best, being drunk warm morning and evening, is the most soveraigne Medicine for it. _An excellent Medicine for the Cough of the Lungs._ Take _Fennell_ and _Angelica_ of each one handfull, the leaves in Summer, roots in Winter, sliced figgs twelve, but if the body be bound, twenty at least, green Licorice if you can, two or three good sticks scraped and sliced, Anniseed cleaved and bruised, two good spoonfulls, two or three Parsley roots scraped, and the pith taken out, and twenty leaves of Foale-foot, boyle all these in three pints of _Hysop_ water, to a pint and halfe, then straine it out into a glasse, putting to it as much white _Sugar_-candy as will make it sweet, drink hereof, being warmed, five spoonfulls at a time, first in the morning, and last in the evening, taking heed that you eat nor drink any thing two howres before nor after. * * * * * _Of Violets._ _The use of Oyle of Violets._ Oyle of _Violets, Cammomile, Lillies, Elder flowers, Cowslips, Rue, Wormwood_, and _Mint_, are made after the same sort; Oyle of _Violets_, if it be rubbed about the Tempels of the head, doth remove the extream heat, asswageth the head Ache, provoketh sleep, and moistneth the braine; it is good against melancholly, dullnesse, and heavinesse of the spirits, and against swellings, and soares that be over-hot. _The Syrupe of Violets._ Take faire water, boyle it, scum it, and to every ounce of it so boyled and scummed,
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