Wesley Corpus

21. To prevent Swellingfrom a Bruise. 115. Immediately apply a Cloth, five or fix Times doubled, dipt in coldWater, and new dipt when it grows warm . Tried. 22. To cure a Swellingfrom a Bruife. 116. Foment it halfan Hour, Morning and Evening, with Cloths dipt in Water, as hot as you can bear : 117. Or, apply Sea-weed. 23. A Burn or Scald. 118. Immediately plunge the Part into coldWater. Keep it an Hour, if not well before. Perhaps for four or five Hours : Tried. 119. Or Electrify it. If this can be done prefently, it totally cures the most desperate Burn. Or, If the Part cannot be dipt , apply a Cloth four Times doubled, dipt in cold Water, changing it when it grows warm : 121. Or, apply a bruifed Onion : 122. Or, Tincture of Myrrh : 123. Or, Oil and Parfley ftamp together : 124. Or, apply Oil, and ftrew on it powder'd Ginger. 24. A deep Burn or Scald. 125. Apply black Varnish with a Feather ' till it is well : 126. Or, inner Rind of Elder well mixt with fresh Butter. When this is bound on with a Rag, plunge the Part into cold Water. This will fufpend the Pain 'till the Medicine heals. 25. A Cancer inthe Breast, 127. Of thirteen Years ftanding was cured by frequently applying Red Poppy- Water, Plantane and Rofe-Water, mixt with Honey of Rofes. Afterwards the Waters used alone perfected the Care. 128. Ufe the ColdBath. (This has cured many.) This cured Mrs. Bates of Leicestershire, of a Cancer in her Breaft, a Confumption, a Sciatica, and Rheumatism, which he had near twenty Years. She bathed daily for a Month, and drink only Water. Generally where Cold Bathing is necessaryto cure any Difeafe, Water-drinking is so to prevent a Relapfe. 129. If it be not broke, apply a Piece ofSheet-lead beat very thin, and pricked full of Pin-holes, for Days ACancer is anhard, round, uneven, painful Swelling, of a blackifh or leaden Colour, the Veins round whichfeem readyto burft. It comes comm: nly atfirftwith aSwellingaboutas big as aPea,which does not at first give much Pain, nor change the Colour of the Skin,