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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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The Palsie. Paralisis.

Foul and gross humors to the sinews flow,
The members neither sense nor motion know.

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The Patient with oyle benedict anoint,
Use ointments hot to supple every joint.
Take the Fox skin, apply it hot: the grief
It will asswage, and yield thee much relief.