Strange Remedies

I find some curious prescriptions in an old book entitled *The Pathway to Health,* &c. (I will not trouble you with the full title), "by Peter Levens, Master of Arts in Oxford, and Student in Physick and Chirurgery."... "Printed for J.W., and are to bee sold by Charles Tym, at the Three Bibles on London Bridge, MDCLXIV." The first is a charm *For all manner of falling evils.*—Take the blood of his little finger that is sick, and write these three verses following, and hang it about his neck: '*Jasper fert Mirrham, Thus Melchior Balthazar Aurum,* *Hæc quicum secum portat tria nomina regum,* *So…