Take a Cat of a quarter old or younger (for a boy a She cat for a Girl
a he cat) cut off the head and hold the head in one hand and the body
in the other over a bason that you may catch the blood that comes out
of both parts, then take the breast milk of a healthy woman (if for a
boy a girls milk and if for a girl a boys milk) then take a little of
the blood alone and anoint the stomach with it, then put 2 spoonfulls
of ye milk and mix it well with the rest of the blood, then set it on a
Chaffendish of coals till tis warme then take it off and strain it and
give the child as much as it will drink and fast an hour after it give
this but once and that as soon as a fit is past let the child have a
little assafetita ty’d in a rag & hung about the neck, dip it in Crab
vinegar often.