[81] _Plaister of Spinders._ Venice Turpentine [dram]iii, melt it; then adde live Spiders No. XXX mix them with a Pestle till the Turpentine be of an Ash colour, and the Spiders appear not; then heat it, and adde of small Spiders No. XL. Stir them again, adding powder of Asphaltum, and white Sal Armoniack, [dram]iii. grinde them till the matter be cold and very black; keep it 14 dayes, then soften it at the fire, and with your hands dipt in oyl, make it up. Make Plaisters thereof, and cover them with leaf-silver or gold, and lay them to the pulses of both wrists an hour before the fit of a Feaver or Ague comes, leave them on nine days, then at the same hour cast them into running water; by this means the Pliaster cures all Feavers or Agues.--_Compendium of Physick_ (_Salmon_), London, 1671. _Herring in Pickle_ is often prescribed in a Cataplasm to the Feet in Feavers; because it is reckoned to draw the Humours downward and thereby relieve the Head.--_English Dispensatory_ (_Quincy_), London, 1742. Tak Cardamoms or Graines of Paradice [dram]i Nutmegs [dram]ss Safron [scruple]ij Sugar [dram]ii mak it to fine Pouder & giue at any time as much as will Ly on a shilling at a time my pill is better if the boddy be Loos _For Ye Colik or Flux in Ye Belly_[82] [82] _Flux of the Belly. Burnt Harts' Horn_ is reckoned a Sweetner and is much used in Decoction against Diarrhoeas; and Fluxes of the Belly. _Shavings of Hartshorn_ is much more in esteem amongst _Family Doctresses_, than in the shops; but what most gives it a Title to this Place, is that _Jelly_ which it is easily boiled into in common water, and is accounted very nourishing and strengthening. _Shavings of Ivory_ is much of the same nature as the former, and boils in the same manner into a _Jelly_. _Goat's Blood._ This is in a few Compositions under the same Intention as the former; but it is not at all known in common Prescription; and is deservedly almost forgot.--_English Dispensatory_ (_Quincy_), London, 1742. 1 the powder of Wolues guts 2 the powder of Bores Stones 3 oyle of Wormwood a drop or 2 into the Nauell 4 3 drops of oyle of Fenill & 2 drops of oyle of mints in Conserue of Roses or Conserue of single mallows, if ye Paine be extream Vse it a gaine, & if need Require aply somthing hott to the belly _For Sharpe & Dificult Trauel in Women with Child By J C_ Take a Lock of Vergins haire on any Part of ye head, of half the Age of ye Woman in trauill Cut it very smale to fine Pouder then take 12 Ants Eggs dried in an ouen after ye bread is drawne or other wise make them dry & make them to pouder with the haire, giue this with a quarter of a pint of Red Cows milk or for want of it giue it in strong ale wort[83] [83] Beaver's cods are much used for wind in the stomach and belly, particularly of pregnant women.--_New England's Rarities_ (_Josselyn_), London, 1672. _A Wonderfull Balsam For Fistulos & Vlsers_