220. _For Convultion Fits._

Take single piony roots take of the out side and cut them as thin as

Groats Dry them on a sheet of paper in a fire pan, pound and search

them fine and give to a child as much as will lay on a silver 2 pence

in a spoonfull of small beer and give another after it give this twice

a day, 3 days after the change and full of the moon, and if continue

make a Issue in the arme if the convultion be in the head Take a grain

of musk divide it into 2 parts put it into a little linnet and tye

it up in fine rags and put them into the ears and let it stay there

a month. Take featherfew and wormwood of each a like quantity stamp

them and take the juice put to it a little Crab vinegar and shave in a

little assafetita wet 2 pieces of old cloth in this and put them over

ye ears & let them come out over ye face to reach the nose that the

child may always smell it.

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