To cure a Cough.
My landlord, the late Mr. Colemare, rector of Little-Gaddesden assured me, that the following receit is an infallible cure for a cough. Boil two ounces of Spanish liquorice with three cloves of garlick, in a quart of spring water, till it comes to a pint; take a spoonful of it now and then as the fit happens.
A man was kept many years alive by drinking (as his common drink) rum, water, and sugar. Whey is good, and beer almost poison. One Daniel Watkins, of Long Marson, near Aylesbury, declared to me, that he was cured of an asthma by swallowing young frogs.
Sir Hans Sloan's Medicine for an Asthma.
Take the yolk of an egg in a dram of rum now and then; it is a most excellent remedy.
To cure the Jaundice by Lice.
It has often succeeded by giving the patient nine live lice every morning for a week, in a little ale. Or take half a dram of cochineal, the same of cream of tartar; mix them with two drams of Venetian soap, which incorporate well together, and take half a dram three times a day, till the patient is well, which will soon be: This receit is said by Dr. Fuller to be a most excellent one, refraining from salt meats and strong drink.
The Traveller's Remedy for curing the Itch.
As most of the begging travellers have now and then the itch, they that know the following medicine say nothing exceeds it. After taking as much flower of brimstone as will lie on half a crown, in a spoonful of treacle, three mornings fasting, they boil salt and tobacco in urine, and rub their bodies over with the same three times in all, and wear the same shirt a week, two, or more.
To stop Looseness
Boil deal shavings in milk, and take half a pint at a time, made strong of the shavings, three or four times a day; it is a leisure cure.
Or boil a sheet of writing paper in three pints of milk, which will make it thick; strain, and eat it with loaf-sugar and it is an excellent cure.
Or mix salt with water, and drink, if you can bear it, half a pint at a time; and if it offers vomitting, hold the vinegar bottle to the nose.
