86. Ciba pirum: i.e. sulphur; hot and dry in the fourth degree; it is good against asthma when the matter has been digested i.e. give three scruples of it in a soft egg, and administer the fumes of the same substance by the mouth against asthma, and it will serve, but it should not be given to choleric, dry, people who have narrow chests. Item, powder of sulphur may be put in ointments against exudations of the skin. Item, powder of white hellebore, leaves of hops, ribwort, great plantain, the lower part of cowslip, and powder of flax seed, pound them and boil them in common oil, put powder of sulphur through them, and rub them on the joints; no other medication is necessary against podagra or arthritis but that. Item, take powder of sulphur and oil of walnut and make as an ointment, and it will help with scabby head and bad blood.