Describes a recipe for "fistula water," a remedy for treating fistulas using alum, zinc sulfate ("white vitriol"), and bole armeniac (a kind of clay uses as a styptic).
Take Coriander seeds Cardimum seeds sweet fenill and anis Seeds of Each an ounce - of Sasifress 3 ounces Sena 4 ounces powder of Ruburb one ounce Mecoacum one ounce sweten it with luicorish steep all theas in six quarts of watter all Night next day boyl it in an Earthen vesell well Covered for 2 or 3 howrs thn drink a pint Every morning