CHAP. 11. A thing often experimented againſt the Plague.

Take two Ounces of Maſtick, one Ounce of Euphorbium, five Ounces of Spignard, beat theſe into powder and give it the patient to drink, if he be under ten years of age give him but a Scruple of it, if betwixt ten and twenty years of age give him half a dram, if above twenty years old give him a dram, then take the hearb called in Greek Pentaphylon, in Latine Quinque folium, in Engliſh Cinkfoil, and wrap it like a round Apple in a linnen cloath lay it ſo under the embers a certain time, and having taken it out, cut it in three pieces in the middle, and lay it upon the ſore, this will give immediate eaſe unto the patient proved and experimented many times.