CHAP. 17. Another very rare approved Receipt.

Take the flowers or bloſoms of Walnuts, dry them in the ſhadow, and when the nuts be in ſeaſon to confect, you ſhall cut part of them into ſmall pieces, putting the ſame into ſmall Vineger for three days, then take them out and mingle flowers diſtilling them through a Limbeck of glaſs, or of earth, well leaded, keep this water diligently, and when any man feeleth himſelf infected with the Plague, give preſently to him two Ounces or three Ounces more or leſs as the party is in years or ſtrength, and he ſhall looſe his diſeaſe by ſtoole or by vomit, or elſe it will force the ſore to come forth, which you may ripen and break and draw forth the core and ſo heal the ſame as is before declared.