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An Epithem of Sugar of Lead.

Take Vinegar half a pint; Sugar of Lead 1 ounce, dissolve.

Fold a Linnen Cloth, dip it into this Liquor, apply it absolutely cold to the Region of the Heart; and as often as it waxeth warm repeat it cold again.

'Twas communicated to me by an eminent Physician, as a miraculous Experiment, against bleeding at the Nose. He told me, 'twill at first (by reason of its Cold) strike the Patient into a little quaking and shaking like the Horror of an Ague Fit, and in a small time after, let the flux of Blood be never so pouring, 'twill most certainly stop it.

Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710