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Take of bees wax an ouneeounce [sic], three ounces of olive oil, three drams of staves aereacre [sic]; of these make a salve, and anoint; it kills both nits and lice.

Take red orpiment and saltpetre, each a dram, louse herb two drams, mix them together with oil and vinegar, so anoint the head. Byrus.

Through drought many trees and bushes become, as sweetbriar, gooseberries, &c. therefore frequently wash them, or dashing them with water may prove the best remedy.

Wash with the decoction of penny royal; or boil marjoram in water, and wash with it; or the juice of stinking gladon.

Rub your eyelids with salt water, or brimstone and water, or with vinegar of squils, alum and aloes.

1st. Take lavender and wormwood, and boil them in vinegar well, and sprinkle your blankets with it; or savoury laid in your ehamberschambers [sic] kills them.

2d. Take unslacked lime and strew in your chambers: penny royal wrapt up in a elothcloth [sic] and laid in your bed, drives fleas away; lay fresh oneeonce [sic] a week.

3d. Mustard seed boiled in water, and the room sprinkled with it. Arsmart (the hot sort) strewed in a chamber kills all the fleas.

4th. Soap lees and onions boiled together and sprinkled in the room, kills both them and bugs.

5th. Marsh fleabane spread in your room, or burnt, drives away fleas and gnats. Culpepper says, that elder leaves gathered with dew on them, and laid in a