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For An Ague Mr Woodhouse

4 ounces of Indian snake root pick it clean from the
diet bruse it & put it into 3 pints of the spirit of sack
let it stand 6 weeks in the sun close stoped give 3
sponfuls an hower before the fitt keep yu bed all the
time your fitt lasts this usualy cures in 3 times but if a
quartan 6 times or more it is alsoe good for some
Feavors if the spirit be strong 2 sponfuls is enough
or if the person be a woman or a yong man after
you have spent this infution you may put into
the same rootes a quart of sack that will serve
poor people & children

For an Ague my Cosen Cutts

white pepper beat it & boyle it in viniger to a
poltis spread it on leather lay it in the hollow
of the foot between the heel & the foot doe it
halfe an hower before the fitt comes renew it
every fitt also the hairy side of a pece of the
skin of a Beare layd next the sole of the foot
has done many cures & Tarr spread on lambs
leather & Layd to the sole of the foot leting
it lye as long as it will stick is very good

A wrist medicine for an Ague

venes Turpentine spread on leather plaster
wise strew theron powder of olibanum mastick
& Frankensence bind it onto the wrists if it stick
it will quickly cure

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