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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Note 74 — Chapter XIII

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Deafness and Slow Hearing. The juyce of Radishes, fat of a mole, eele, or Serpent, juyce of an Onyon soaked in Sperrit of Wine and roasted, essences of a mans or Bullocks gall, are all very excellent. In difficulty of hearing, distilled Boyes Urine is good; but better is the Oyl of Carawayes.—Compendium of Physick (Salmon), London, 1671.

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