4 The same gentleman told me [ 'lately' deleted] that lately my Lady Conwallis her daughter was recovered of a quartane Ague by paireinge the nailes of her fingers & toes & sowinge them up in a form of a Necklace in a litle Tiffany which was tyed very straite <a while before> (but <the [knot][unclear] [ '[th][unclear]' deleted] fit> straite enough to strangle) about the necke of an Eele & soe suffered to stay['ed' at end of word deleted] on till the Eele died of it selfe or els was devoured of some dogge, <into whom the Disease was transplanted.>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

5 Take a spoonefull of honey, & when it is boyled & skimmed, take it of the fire & put to it, of wheat flowre and saffron as much <(of each)> as will lye upon the point of a knife; incorporate them very well together, & lay a Pill of the bignesse of a Pease, (in the morninge for foure or 5 days togetherer,) upon the Navell of the patient, let him fast two or 3 houres after it, in some patients it <works> 2 or 3 times by stoole, There may (if need be,) some innocent plaister <be>[replacing 'be'] used to keepe it on the Navell, <This is the Medicine that cur'd Mr Castile of the Desperate yellow Jaundise.>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

6 Sir K: D: tells me <he takes Amber-gris>[replacing 'Bitumen', Boyle hand] [approximately 1-2 characters ink blot] one part & pure sp: of wine 12 parts, thes he digests together in horsedunge, (the great Boltshead wherein they are put being exquisitly stopt) for 4 or 6 weeks about which time [approximately 1-3 characters illegible] the spirit will have much opened & dissolved the matter, Then he draws of what will come over in a Retort, digests them awhile longer (being first reconjoyned) & then distills them againe, & repeats this reunion digestion & distillation once or twice more, (that is till the matter doth passe over with the spirit, leaveinge very litle which, is (but a fæculent residency) behind) this liquor is to be well warmed when it is used & the things prepared with it, are to be left awhile in the aire (that the spirit may evaporate) before they be used. <This he tells me is his Greatest secret in perfuming>[insertion in line in Boyle hand]

7 Sir K. D. takes of his corpus solare one part & of <quic-sylver>[replacing 'the Earle of Newcastles menstruum', Boyle hand] about 6 parts, the former he purifyes well and