188. _The Vertues of the Palsey Water._

It is of exceeding vertue in all sounding fits in weakness of heart

decay of spirrits it restores speech in apoplexies and palseys helps

all pains of y^e joints occasioned by cold, and bruises outwardly

bathed and cloths dipt in it and laid to the place it Strengtheneth

all animall and natural spirits & cleareth the externall sences,

Strengtheneth the memory restoreth lost appetite helpeth all weakness

of the Stomach being both taken inwardly and bathed outwardly it

taketh away the giddiness of the head, it helpeth the hearing, makes a

pleasant breath restores the lost speech helpeth all cold, distempers

of liver and the begining dropsey helps all cold diseases of the

mother. in Sum none can express the vertues of this water. Take bread

crums and Sugar of each a like quantity wet it very well with this

water, takeing it in the morning fasting & as much at night going to

bed if need is but if a fit of the dead palsey or apoplexie you must

give as much every hour to restore speech.

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