A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog

Let the Patient be blooded at the Arm nine or ten Ounces.

Take of the Herb, called in Latin, Licken Cinereus Terrestris; in English, Ash-coloured Ground Liverwort; cleaned, dried, and powdered, half an Ounce. .

Of black Pepper powdered, two Drachms. Mix these well together, and divide the Powder into four Doses; one of which must be taken every Morning failing, for four Mornings successively, in Half a Pint of Cow’s Milk warm. After these four Doses are taken, the Patient must go into the cold Bath, or a cold Spring, or River, every Morning falling for a Month: He must be dipt all over, but not stay in (with his Head above Water) longer than half a Minute, if the Water be very cold. After this he must go in three times a Week for a Fortnight longer.