Take 2 spoonfulls of honey and one spoonfull of treacle and half as
much rock allum as the quantity of a wallnut beat to fine powder and
boyle these together over a cheafen dish of coles till it be pretty
thick then take it off and let it coole then anoint the cankers with a
cloth tyed upon a stick the oftner you anoint it the better twill be
you must keep stiring it as long as it doth boyle, it will be like a
sirrup when tis cold.
47. _For any Aguish or Hectick Feavour in Children when they grow Weak
and Forsake their Meat._
Take 2 penny worth of the sneezing powder root and pound it small then
pound 3 ounces of curants unwaish’d only pickt clean from stones, then
mingle these together and lay it to the handwrists, then cut a small
orange in halfs & put one half to each of the handwrists then bind it
on 4 days and if the party mend not in that time take it off and put on
fresh in the like manner and keep it on as long a time.