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Remarkable Medicine for the stone see fol.38.a. Take a pottle of white wine a sponful of fine beaten pepper and 6 eggshels the new layd the better; dry them by the fire or in an oven, beate them to fine powder and put them wt the pepper into a bottle the same being close stopped let som one that is strong tumble and shake them together a quarter of an houre, then hang it up wt the Bottome upwards Or take frankincense, onions, saffron and fry them. It being eaten is good to remove the stone and break winde.

Mr Butlers opinion of the stone when he was at Wells 1589. He saith the payne of the stone on the blod taketh away the stomach [added later: ^ or] weakness in wherby the liver turneth the nourishment that should make good bloud into water wch overcometh the liver. Age wthall is the cause that Physick will doe no good fresh Aire is but poore help and so is the scouring at the seas. And bathes doe but help to ease the payne.

For the Ague Take the water of bracken in the morning drink it also last at night : It shall help the disease and many other by Gods Grace