The Hartlib Papers

               Experiments against wormes in

                         children.

Earth wormes put a live into a linnen bagg about 2 inches squaer to the navel for wormes in the gutts to the stomack for stomack wormes   usually going to bed

Or take the herbe beaers-foote & dry it & powder it & take up with a threpenny peece what lieth upon & it is sufficient for one of 10 yeers of age or moer

Or mince smale the [heares?] of the [patient?] put them on buttered bread to be taken in a morning & not to eate of 4 howers after.

A freind out of Cornewall assured me that chalke put to the rootes of peare-trees caused them to abound with fruit. I did therefore make experiment upon a tree that had not borne of many yeers & I bored it slant-wise to make an Issue as the Gardners teach the next spring the tree had many peaers upon it

I made a wicker high chaier for a childe to sit at meat at the table for 18^d. price under it a hen & khickens might rest at any time it is flat next the table otherwaies round & spreading at the bottome for secuer standing

                    [diagram of chair]

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I made a stoole to teach a child to goe for 12^d price taking the bignes & height to under his armes I had an opening behind to let him into it a box befoer for toies

a little seat of a stick or board behind to a dew height for his toes to beare on the ground it is squaer at the bottom & 4 weeles at the corners while the child aimeth at the boxe the whol stoole goeth forward in a smooth roome

   a. locus pueri

   b. pixis ludicorum        [diagram of chair]

   c. Clausura mobilis

   d. locus sedis

For preserving any fruites untill another yeer my fansy is that taking potts of 2 or 3 gallon capacity & filling them with the fruite well dried in the sunn & Then whelming them downe in a river (the fruites borne up as Artichokes by the stalkes a cross at the smale neck least they fall) the aier being forbidden to enter putrifaction is forbidden to sound fruites I acquainted My Lord [Pembroke?] with the fancy he said in France wine in the must is put into the rivers in good vessels & soe kept in the must [all the year?] the pots showld be glased within & out & be of this forme & must once whelmed downewardes have lead or some waight upon them to preserve them in theire postuere with theire mouths downe.

                     [diagram of jar]

[right, hand Y:]         Experiments against Worms.

Spirit of Honey.

Dr. Hurst

Virgin [asser?]-horne of Rhinoceros.