Of the Liver, and Its Infirmities
46. A Caution
If the liver be too hot, it usually proceeds from too much blood, and is known by redness of urine, the pulse is swift, the veins great and full, the spittle, mouth, and tongue, seem sweeter than they used to be: the cure is letting blood in the right arm.
47. To Cause the Liver Well to Digest
Take Oil of Wormwood, and so much Mastich in powder as will make it into a poultice, lay it warm to your right side.
48. A Caution
If the liver be stopped, the face will swell, and you shall be as sure to have a pain in your right side, as though you had it there already.
49. For Stoppage of the Liver
Use Garden-thyme in all your drinks and broaths, it will prevent stoppages before they come, and cure them after they are come.
50. For the Liver
The liver of a Hare dryed, and beaten into powder, cures all the diseases of the liver of man.
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A. CROSS, PRINTER, 89, PAUL STREET FINSBURY.