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Flamma sine Fumo

or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns]

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Warts.

All Warts, as I have rightly understood,
Proceed from gross and melancholick blood.
Arsnick on Warts with vinegar apply'd,
Consume them all: this hath been often try'd.
The rind of Sallow burnt, and temper'd well
With Vinegar, all Warts and Scabs expell.