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The whole bone of a mare for a womā dryed beaten to pouder giving the ty as mutch as will lie on the poynt of a knife thre tymes {illeg}|p|ut all in halfe a pynt of ale & drinke all at onc every morning for a yere

also take let blood on the outsyde of the litle finger on the left hand & write the tyes name boath her Christian & syrname in a pa wth yt blood & put it in silke & let the ty weare for this hath cured those yt have had it in extremity vse {fenying} sorely vsing it for a yeres space ved & experimented as An musgrave told me novēb 17. 1624.

Calendared note from MS Ashmole 402, f. 174r (middle part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE8308’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE8308, accessed 29 October 2026.