as much as silver-stone All Litharge then is the product of silver and that which is flave like gold is not made of gold as some think though it be thence cognominated Gold-Litharge for degrees and intentions of heat do not onely change the colour but intend or remit the heat and vary the name Thus Diphryges is named as though it were twice cocted which is the sibsident dross of perfect Brass cohering to the bottom of the furnace like the ashes of burnt wood when the Brass is taken away after the the affusion of water and it is as sharp as burnt Brass siccates vehemently cures rebellious Ulcers and it may be made two other wayes according to Dioscorides and Pliny Now besides these two sorts of Litharge Vires which Dioscorides makes one he enumerates other two to wit Molybditis which is made of sand in furnaces and another of Leaden plates which is the most useful and frequent Yet Christis is preferred before all which should be purged from its Lead and dross before it ingrede the Composition of any Medicament to which end Dioscorides sayes it must be burnt and washed like Cadmia but now they onely levigate it in a morter putting clear water upon it and agitating it then they cast it into another vessel and pouring more water upon it agitate it again and when it is again troubled cast it into the precedent vessel and iterate its lotion till the Lead and dross subside in the morter and all its tenuions substance be educed which they make to acquiesce till all the sincere and pure Litharge rest at the bottom which when the water is effunded they collect and levigate upon a Marble that the tongue may not perceive any asperity therein Litharge refrigerates Vires astringes represses occludes expletes cavities exterges draivâ—â— to scars and cures gallings by riding Finis Libri Secundi THE THIRD BOOK OF Medicinal Matter TREATING Of Medicaments taken from Animals either whole or in part THE PREFACE OUr Mother Nature hath produced nothing either imperfect or in vain but hath brought forth variety of Plants for the sake of Animals and several species of Animals for Plants Many of them are ordained for Food and Nutriment some for Medicament and other for Vesture One Animal is an enemy to another but all are subservient to Man For there is no Insect how vile and base soever which doth not afford some prosit to Man For the most imperfect Creatures usually afford the most perfect Remedies as from Claws Horns Excrements Blood Flesh Marroâ— Testicles and Bones Besides those very wounds which are made by certain Animals are cured by the Application of same part of the same Animal Nay indeed the whole Earth doth abound with innumerable â—endedies for the variety of Maladies What excellent Vertues do those Medicines afford which are derived from humane Bodies of which first here we intend to speak viz. Of Mumy and Man's Blood whose faculties to emblazon would require a larger Discourse then this our intend'd brevity will permit CHAP. 1. Of Man's Blood ALchymists educe a certain Oyl and stillatitious water out of Man's Blood the dogmatical onely use it to burstness in whose stead Hogs blood may rightly be substituted as Galen advises who saith Lib. 3. de Alin. that Swines blood doth so nearly accede to Mans blood that he that findes any thing in Mans blood useful for Medicine shall finde the same in Swines blood Blood is Natures Treasury generated by heat in the greater Veins of the Liver which is the prime organ of sanguification from the purer portion of Chyle through which Veins it is carried as it were along tubes to the several parts of the body for their nutrition and as long as it is herein contained it is liquid and red but when effunded it presently concretes onely the blood of Harts and Does wanting fibres concretes not but remains fluid like Milk for Hippocrates averres That blood concretes not when the fibres are taken away Now blood being the matter of the whole body according to the Philosopher the blood of man who is the rule of other Animals is fincere and thin hot and moist and the best of succes yet it is not a simple humour but participates of Phlegm and both the Biles And therefore Hippocrates saith That the four Humours are the matter of mans generation as Galen attests Lib. 2. de Temp. Blood then is an humour generated in the Liver of a temperate part of Chyle moderate in substance and qualities in colour red in sapour sweet and naturally contained in Veins and Arteries whereby it is directed to all parts Lib. 3. de Part. Animal for as water is from one fountain and original deduced into many rivulets others arising from these till the humour pervade all Regions so Nature hath directed blood through the whole body it being the matter of the whole The blood of a diseased or intemperate man must not be collected and kept in shops for the confection of any Emplaister but from some temperate and sound man if it may be had as the blood of such as are beheaded for their Veins and Arteries being cut together their veinous and arterious blood is promiscuously collected Yet neither the blood of this or any other Animal is of much value or vertue in the confecture of astrictive salves because by siccation and asservation it neither retains any of its native bonity nor yet assumes any excellent acquisititious quality CHAP. 2. Of Mumy RHasis and Avicenna contend That Mumy is an Arabick word denoting Pissaphaltum Isaac saith It is a Persian word signifying a certain liquor found in Sepultures where aromatized carcases had been long reconded one fellow calls it Cerops upon what ground I know not unless because it hath the consistency of Wax for Num with the Persians denotes Wax It is found onely in the Tombs of Aegyptian Kings and Nobles who hearing of a Resurrection made their bodies be condited with Myrrhe Cinnamome Aloes and other Spices that they might conserve them But many years after when the Souldiors in time of Wars devastated all places everting Sepulchres they found in some coffins a certain odorate and pleasant liquor of the spissitude of honey which when the Aegyptian Medicks and Philosophers judged upon good grounds to be indued with eximious faculties they believed it might work the cure of some affections and therefore they made tryal of it and found the event answerable to their opinions they restoring many to sanity thereby They then being imboldened by this experience sought this conditure in other Noble-mens Sepulchers which they inverted and exhausted yea they so much envied the happiness of the dead mens bones that they robbed poor mens coffins of their corruption which cadaverous liquor they called Mumy and gave it to the fick Nay it was of so much fame presently that they would insperge a little Salt and Alome on the carcases of such as dyed of the French disease
it or cure him of it it will also cure a wound inflicted by a Scorpion and so will its own body bruised and applied A Scorpion is a terrestrial Animal with a long and nodous tayl whose end is armed with a long and oblique sting perviated with a small hole through which it effunds its poyson into the part pricked it hath arms and fore-cleyes bisulcated its tayl is alwayes ready for a stroke it never le ts slip an opportunity it strikes obliquely The Masculine Scorpion is maculated on the belly and forecleys and its poyson is more pernicious the Females more milde though some write contrary There are eight kindes of Scorpions the first is white which they say is not lethiferous the second yellowish whose stroke is seconded with vehement ardour and an inextinguishable thirst the third is blackish whose stroke depraves the members of motion and makes men mad causing foolish laughter the fourth is somewhat green it hath seven knots in his tayl perpetual and great cold though in the heat of Summer follows upon its stroke the fifth is pale and livid and infects the percussed with tumours in his groins the sixth is like a little Sea Crab-fish the seventh hath greater Cleys and is very like the Crab we call Pagurus the eighth is of a Honey-colour it hath wings like a Locust and the last knot of its tayl is black Winged Scorpions are very rare with us but frequent and great in India and Aphrica with seven knots in their tayls If we reckon the variety of Scorpions by the variety of their colours some are called flave Scorpions some yellow some cineritious some green some ferrugineous some vinous some white and others fuliginous The smitings of Scorpions are farre more perillous to women then men and especially to Virgins for they are alwayes lethal to such unless they be presently helped and such Scorpions as have seven knots in their tayls are judged most cruel They procreate and sit upon Vernicles like Egges Vires and they produce a progeny which coming to perfection drives them away and thus Scorpions are said to be killed by their young ones But these things respect not Pharmacy and therefore not for my purpose CHAP. 33. Of Worms MAny small Animals are generated of Worms and Worms of many great Animals yea this progeny springs from all altered and putrid matter stones bones wood fruit cheese flesh and all things seem at first to turn into worms for mans own flesh is absumed by worms and his clothes by moths And though cold things much resist putretude yet worms are generated in the coldest snow and some are procreated of salt they are also generated in Animals daily their body abounding with putrid humours for there worms are generated where putretude resides for Corruption is their Mother I saw a worm of a palms length come out with the blood of the vein of ones arm opened They are still generated in the intestines and other parts of mans body and also in Harts heads Every Insect generates a worm except the Butterfly which is procreated of another dissimilar Insect as the Poet Et fio volucris qui modo vermis eram The family of Worms being thus ample I shall onely speak of Earth-worms which are used in Medicine for these washed in white-wine prepared macerated in Oyl and duly elixated in a double vessel afford us an Oyl very conducible in nervous affections They are also assumed at the mouth after due preparation to wit when they are washed dryed levigated and mixed with other Powders to cure Virgins pale colours Many call them the Earths Intestines others Earth-worms others Earth-lumbricks they have a long round body with neither bone eye nor ear They go so that the precedent part draws the consequent in their locomotion They are procreated of the mud of the earth and animated by the same cause that other Insects are They are destitute of eyes ears feet members and are like oblong fibres whose parts are not discriminated save by some knots and denervations a little beyond their middles Spring or Winter-showers if not glacial elicite them they are neither liberally nor copiously generated in the earth much trodden upon but frequently in fat and waste ground Vires These bruised and applied conglutinate prescinded Nerves and fresh wounds CHAP. 34. Of Spanish-Flies or Beetles THese Flyes have onely a nominal affinity with Beetles for they are often used in Medicine Beetles never Galen hath experienced them good against scabs and Leprosies and Physicians finde â—hem to provoke Urine Aristotle calls them Putrid Animals because they are produced â—f putrid matter They are procreated nourished and found in â—any shrubs as the Bramble and in many tall trees as the Ash shose that are found in Corn are versicolorate and have transâ—erse lines in their wings with an oblong body and are very good But they will be more fit for use if they be injected into an earthen vessel whose orifice is covered with a rare linen cloth and turned downwards that by the halite of sharp vinegar they may be exanimated then dryed reposed in wooden boxes glass or earthen vessels and kept for the space of two years They are mixed but in small quantity to Medicaments that provoke Urine by Galens advise who would have them injected whole but the later Writers would have their legs and wings abscinded and abjected When a Noble Matron of Paris was holden with a continual Feaver accompanied with the heat of the Reins and other grievous symptomes and had committed the care of her cure to Mr. Martin a learned and perite Parisian Medick by the perswasion of some she call'd one Rivierius a courtly Medick who feeling her pulse said If she had called him a little sooner he would have applyed a dragm of French flies to the region most affected and have presently restored her to sanity so he left the Matron grieved and her ordinary Medick astonished at his humour manners words and actions who was so far from adhibiting such a company of these flies that he applyed not one and yet restored her to health for this flie being most dry and light it is credible one weighing not above a grain what were it less then carnifice to adhibite sixty of them which weigh but a dragm to the aesture of the Reins But take this obiter not because I am incensed against the man but that I might shew that these flies are very noxious to the Bladder Reins and other parts by inducing inflammations yet very good mixed with other Medicaments in a small quantity CHAP. 35. Of Ants. PHarmacopolies are not destitute of Ants which afford an oyle commended to many received uses for it califies the generative parts being too frigid and reduces them to a better state Ants are the most laborious and officious of insects which exercise their labours not onely on the day but on the night also in full Moon alwayes treading the same pathes bringing
binding our Apothecaries have seldom the right Acatia but instead thereof use the juyce of Sloes Accended burned Access a fit of an Ague Gout c. Accelerator in plain English an hastener Physically it is used for the Muscle that opens the passage of the Seed and Urine Acerb sowr or sharp Acetum Vinegar of Beer Acetaries Sallets or Herbs mixed with Vinegar to stir up appetite Acetum Vini Vinegar of Wine Acetum destillatum Distilled Vinegar Acetabula see Cotylidones Achor vel tinea or scald-head is a Disease possessing the musculous skin of the head or hairy scalp and eating thereinto like a Moth. Accidents something necessarily accompanying a Disease Acquires obtains Acrimony sharpness or freting of any sharp or corrosive water or humour of the body Aconite a venemous herb having a root like to a Scorpion shining within like Alabaster Acuminated sharp pointed Acute Diseases such as are sharp and violent but of short continuance Adamant A pretious stone commonly called a Diamond brought from Arabia and Cyprus It s the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth Glass and yieldeth neither to the hammer nor fire yet it may be dissolved with warme Goats-blood Adeps farness Adjacent neer adjoyning Adjection casting or adding to Adimpleates fills up Adjuvant causes such as are subservient to the principal causes Adjument help and relief Adjuncts qualities dispositions and symptomes annexed to a Disease Adjutorious helpful Admixtion mingling together Adscitious false counterfeit Adulation flattery Adust the blood is then said to be adust when by reason of extraordinary heat the thinner parts are evaporated and the thicker remain black and dreggy Adustion burning of the blood Adulterate corrupt or counterfeit Adventitious not natural but proceeding from some Cause existing without the proper body Adstriction binding or shutting up the pores of the skin Aegilops fistala lacrymalis a tumor in the great corner of the Eye by the root of the Nose Aeftuary an hot-house or Stove Affectus unimi affectionis motions or passions of the mind Affected troubled or distempered Afflux flowing to any particular part Agaric a kind of Mushrom or Toad-stool of great use in Physick it grows upon the Larch tree in Italy and is white light brittle and spungeous it purgeth phlegm and opens obstructions in the Liver Agitation shaking any liquor together in a glass Ahenum a brass skillet with a cover Ablution is exaltation clensing impure things by often infusion reducing them to purity Albation is the abstraction of Dust moths gret cleaving to a thing with a Hares foot feather spather or such like Albugo is the white spot in the Eye called pin and web Alacrity chearfulness Alchimy is an art dissolving natural congealed substances and likewise congealed substances dissolved for the more grateful wholsom safe preparing of Medicines for mans body an art which produces magisterial and essential medicines from mixed bodies Alkakengie winter Cherries the red round berries whereof are good against obstructions of the Liver the stone and divers diseases of the Kidnies and Bladder Alcolismus is an operation by calcination ribellation and other means which reduceth a matter into Allcool the finest pouder that is Alexipharmaca Medicines to resist the plague and poyson Aliment food nourishment Aliotica altering Medicines Alopecia a falling off of the hair Alumen raw Allum Alamen combustum burnt Allum Aloes Zoccatrina it s brought from India the best is clear and red like the liver it s an excellent medicine to purge choler and proper to be taken by them that are troubled with the Emrods Allantois the skin that holds the Urine of the Child during the time it abides in the womb Allauded praised commended Alteratives medicines changing the humor and temper of the body Amalgamation is the putting together solution or calcination of familiar vessels by argentum vivum Amaritude bitterness Amaurosis Gutta serena A disease in the eyes viz. when the sight is gone and no fault to be seen Ammoniac a gum like frankincense so called because it grows in Lybia where the Temple of Ammon stood Hence is also a Salt so called found in Affrick under the sand Amnios the inner skin that compasseth the Child round in the womb Amputation dismembring or cutting off the arm leg c. Amulet any thing hang'd about the neck to preserve one from inchantment Analeptica restorative Medicines Analogical answerable in every particular Anastomasis an opening of the mouths of the veins Anastomaticum Medicine opening obstructions Anatomy is an artificial cutting of the outward inward parts Aneurism a swelling caused by the breaking the internal coat of an Artery the external being whole Anfractures turning and winding Angina a swelling in the throat which hinders breathing and swallowing and yet no defect in the lungs or breasts Animosity courage stoutness Anodines Medicines to aswage pain Anorexia a loathing of meat caus'd from abundance of crude and raw humors Anthera a Compound medicine used for sore mouths Anthrax a Carbuncle coming from blood which is black thick and filthy burning exceeding hot Anthonies fire the shingles Antidote a Medicine against poyson or any medicine which serves to amend any distemper of the body Antimony a Mineral like to Lead Antimonii vitrum Glass of Antimony or Stibium Antimonii Regulus Antimony preciptiate Antinomasia a naming before or that of any sort which is most excellent as Barbary gold Orient pearl c. Anus the fundament Apertion opening Apophlegmatisms Medicines which draw Flegm from the head Apoplexy a deep steep wherein there is a total privation of sense and motion except breathing Apostema Hepatis the Aposthume of the Liver which comes from a fall bruise or being too strait laced Appellations Names Apothects an Apothecaries-shop Apozem a Drink made with Water and divers herbs and spices used in stead of a syrup A prique place where the Sun shines Appropinquating adjoyning bordering near Neighbourhood Aptha certain Ulcers bred in the uppermost part of the mouth Aqua fortis strong Water made of Copperas Allum and salt-peter Aqua Regis a Water which divides Gold made after the manner of Aqua fortis only adding sal Armoniack Aquatical Which grows in the Water Aranea tunica the cobweb coat or tunicle Arbuscle a little shrub Arceates drives away Ardent burning or heating Arid dry Aromata Spices and sweet-smelling drugs or perfumes Aromatical smelling sweet like spice Aromatized spiced or perfumed Aromatization is an artificial manner of preparation whereby Medicaments are made more sweet to the smell and acceptable to the taste and more comfortable to the heart it is done by spices commonly Arsenicum Arsenick many wayes a good healer Arteries proceed from the heart are in a continual motion quicken the body they carry the vital blood to every part of the body their motion is that which is called the Pulse you may feel it at your Temples Wrist Groin c. Arthetical Medicines proper for the joynts especially for the heart Arthritis is a pain in the joynts
Pyony-roots condited 546. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Venice-Treacle 626. Troches of Squills 632. Oyl of Vitriol 679. Oyl of Sulphur 681. Treacle-water 733. Claret 734. Electuary of Senna 564. Hiera Picra with Agarick 568. Hiera Pachii Ibid. Hiera Diacolocynthidos 569. Troch Alhandal 575. Pills of Nitre 589. species Dianthos The Apoplexie To cure the Apoplexie use the Glyster in page 184. Sacculus 210. Coloquintida 266. Pellitory 291. Honey of Rosemary 531. syrup of Rosemary Ibid. Treacle-water 733. Claret 734. Hiera Diacolocynthidos 569. The Palsy These corect and cure the Palsy China-root 289. Pellitory 291. the decoct of the root of Enula-campane-drink 397. Bittumen 403. syrup of Staechados 520. fyrup of Rosemary 531. conserve of Balm and Sage 539. Oyl of Vitriol 679. Mesue's Balsam 686. Hollerius Balsam Ibid. the Balsam of the Florentine Physitians 687. Doctor Evonimus his Balsam Ibid. the strange and admirable Balsam 688. Unguentum Martiatum 706. Treacle-water 733. Claret 734. Hiers Diacolocynthidos 569. Pills of Nitre 589. Oyl of Castoreum 665. Cramp or Convulsion These cure a Convulsion Horehound 318. St. Johns-wort 327. Mother-wort 332. Rhapontick 335. Rosemary 340. Castoreum 450. Hollerius Balsam 686. vulnerary Balsam 687. the Florentine Balsam Ibid Unguentum Aragon 705. Ungue Martiatum 706. Oyl of Dill 954 oyl of Orris 649. oyl of Castoreum 665. oyl of Walflowers 649. Melancholy To drive away Melancholy use Wine 220. Bugloss-flowers 228. Borage-flowers Ibid. Basil 313. Staechados 320. Granate 415. Sardis Ibid. Hyacinth Ibid. Topaz 416. the Azur-stone 417. Gold 426. Bezoar stone 457. Kings Sabor's syrup 516. conserve of Bugloss conserve of Borage 457. Confectio-Alkermes 615. Confection of Hyacinth 656. Antid Asyncritum 620. Confect Hamech 562. Elect. of Senna 564. Hiera Diacolocynth 569. Elect. of Gemms 600. species Diacin 606. A Catarrh These following stay a Catarrh as that Lohoc in 165. another against sharp and eroding Ulcers Ibid. a powder for Suffumigation 214. Hyssop 329. Bole-armeniack 396. syrup of red Poppies 503. syrup of Mirtles 516. syrup of Licorish 520. syrup of Jujubees 421. conserve of Roses 106. Coltsfoot-Leaves preserved 544. Pills of Agarick 582. Troches of Camphur 635. Oyl of Roses 651. Oyl of unripe olives 119. Pill de Cynoglosso 592. For weakness of sight These quicken the eye-sight the water of Community 736. Fennel 239. Avens 361. Thyme 310. juyce of Fumatory 334. Eyebright Ibid. the juyce of the lesser Centory illited with Honey 335. the Azure-stone 417. Aqua-Ophthalmica 736. the water of Community Ibid. Pil. sine quibus 581. Pil. Aureae Ibid. The redness of the Eyes These take away the redness of the Eyes Unguentum Citrinum 707. Aqua ad Epiphoram 736. For the pain of the Eyes These allay any pain in the Eyes the water of Nightshade 345. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Unguentum Ophthalmicum 696. Hiera Pachii 568. Troches Albi Rhasis 643. For Ulcers in the Eyes For Ulcers in the Eyes these things are convenient Cadmia washed 53. Collyrium ad scabiem Palpebrarum 196. Tragaganth 396. Sarcocolla 403. Pompholix 436. the water of Community 736. Aqua ad Epiphorum Ibid. For pain and tinkling of the Ears To cure the pain of the Ears drop in some juyce of Clivers 361. juyce of Melilot 363. Goose-grease 446. Capons grease 447. Foxes grease 449. the Balsam of the Florentine Physicians 587. Hiera Pachii 568. Pil. sine quibus 581. oyl of Orris 649. To stench bloud at the Nose hemorrhoid-Hemorrhoid-veins or other parts To stop bloud use that Errhine in 179. Comfrey 350. Myrtle-berries 367. Quince rosted 374. Sorb-apples 375. Mastich 384. Hypocistis 391. of Bole-armeniack 396. Amber 406. Coral Ibid. Sardis 415. Topaz Ibid. Gypsum 422. syrup of Quinces 515. syrup of Myrtles 417. Troches of Amber 637. The filth of the Nose Oyl of Orris takes away the filth of the Nostrils 649. Ozena a disease or sore in the Nose causing a stench To take away Ozena use Troches Hedichroi subacted with old wine 631. To fasten Teeth These fasten Teeth Purslaine 242. Elecampane eaten 297. Dentifrices of Mastick-wood 384. For the Tooth-ach These mitigate and take away the paine of the Teeth Pellitory of Spain 291. syrup of Mulberries compound 512. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Oyl of Sulphur both whitens and takes away their paine 681. Oyl of Cloves 683. Trochisci Narcotici Fernelii 643. Oyl of Mirtle-berries 657. For Ulcers in the mouth To cure Ulcers in the mouth use Purslaine 242. Bole-Armeniack 396. and syrup of Mulberries compound 512 513. For the filthiness of the Mouth and stench of breath To sweeten the breath use Annise 244. Cloves 280. Indian-Leafe 285. Orange-peel candid 343. Mastich eaten 384. Myrrhe chawed in the mouth 387. Confectio de Hyacintho 656. species Diarrhodon Abatis 603. For chopped Lips To cure chopped Lips anoint them with Capon-grease For the vices of the Breast and Lungs These do mitigate and take them away the Emulsion in 162. the Lohoc 165. the regal Electuary 170. the regal Paste 170. Sugar 223. Manna 229. true Maiden-hair 233. Salvia vita 236. Smallage 237. Senna 257. syrup of Licorish 520. Peniroyal 312. Hore-hound 318. red Colewort 358. the juyce of the root of Cinqfoile 361. Scabiose 362. Catsfoot 363. Figgs 383. Dates 381. Chesnuts 386. Pistaches Ibid. Juniper-berries 391. Milk 448. syrup of Violets 498. syrup of Cats-foot 501. syrup of Maiden-hair 504. syrupus Regius 519. Honey of Violets 531. conserve of Violets 536. Eclegme of Pine kernels 552. Lenitive Electuary 555. Diapenidion 613. Penidees 614. Diaprunum simplex 557. Oyl of Violets 648. For an Astbma and Cough To cure a Cough use Nettle-seed 295. those Eclegms prescribed in 165. Sugar 223. Manna 226. common Maidenhair 234. Mechâ—achan-root 258. Coloquintida 266. Nettle 295. Enulacampane-root candid 548. the Decoction of the root drunk 297. Liquorish 304. Origanum 313. Calamint 315. Birthwort 324. Gith 328. Hyssop 329. Honeysuckleâ— 338. Coltsfoot 359. the seed of the Cotton-tree 36â— Sebestens 380. Jujubees 390. Pine-nuts 388. Gum Thraganth 396. Mastich 384. Storax 386. Sulphur 304. Amber 406. Syrup of Coltsfoot 499. syrup of Poppies simple 502. syrup of red Poppies 503. syrup of Liquorish 520 syrup of Jujubees 521. syrup of Hyssop 522. conserve of Bugloss 537. Coltsfoot-leaves condited 544. Lohoc of Squills 549. lohoc of Pine-kernels 552. lohoc sanum 551. Diapenidion 513. confectio de Rebecha 614 Penidees Ibid. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Venice-Treacle 626. oyl of Sulphur 681. oyl of Turpentine 682. Claret 734. Hiera Puchii 568. Hiera Diacolocynthidos 569. Troches Alhandal 575. Pills of Agarick 582. pills of Hounds-tongue 592. pil Bechicae nigrae 596. Bechicae albae 597. Diamarg frig 599. Pulvis Dianisi 605. Diacalaminthes 607. For the Pleurisie To cure a Pleurisie use the Fomentation 190. the Litus 193. Cardâ—â—s Benedictus 331. Petroseline of Macedonia 337. syrup of Violets 498. syrup of red Poppies 503. syrup of Jujubees 521. Lenitive Electuary 555. Diapenidion 513. confectio de Reâ—echa 614. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. oyl of Violets 648. For the Pthysick These
industrious dexterity have secured and many experiences have proved though the Antients either were ignorant of them neglected them or administred them unduely as now adayes many malevolent Circulators who kill innumerable with their Stibium that is ill prepared and exhibited in an undue dosis neither when nor to whom it is meet And that I may return to my purpose Quam varia catharticorum dosis some Catharticks are given onely in a small dosis as Colocynthis and Hellebor by a few grains or scruples others by drams as Rheum others by ounces as Manna Cassia Tamarinds A Dosis then denotes a quantity of a Medicament fit to be exhibited at once as when any Medicament of three or four ounces at the most is made into the form of a potion Decoction or distilled wherein we dilute Roboratives as Powders Antidotes and Cordial Confections or infuse Catharticks as Agarick or dissolve them as Catholicon or Diacarthamum whereof every one hath its peculiar dosis whereby it should be given in greater or lesser quantity as it is of weak or valid faculties But to describe every of these according to the nature and quality of every Medicament and body were to comprehend the whole method of Medicine CHAP. III. Of a purgative Potion EVery kinde of Medicaments may be given in any form but not so fit perhaps to cure a Disease or help any part The most usual form of such as free the passages of obstructions deduce the vessels Purgantia cur in forma potabili convenientiora and provoke monthly flowers and urine is liquid But those especially that are purgative require a more potable form for hereby they more promptly diffuse themselves more easily ingrede the small veins and more efficaciously deduce the humour inhering in those parts For one dram of a solid Medicament diluted with some humour Catharticum liquidum citius ducit will move the belly more than twice as much of it whole Wherefore when we say a purgative Medicament absolutely we mean a laxative Potion whose dosis should seldome exceed three ounces lest by moving the ventricle it be presently excluded by vomit Now purgative Potions are various according to the various nature of the Medicaments and humours to be educed For every humour except blood which is vacuated onely by the section of some vein or artery hath its proper eductive Cathartick that which purges Choler is called a Cholagogous that which purges Melancholy Melanagogous and Phlegm a Phlegmagogous Medicament And of each of these whether simple or compound are made purgative Potions when they are macerated infused dissolved or cocted in some fit liquor as to educe Choler thus ℞ of the roots of Succory Sorrel Liquorice an ʒ ij of Endive Cholagogon Fumitory Agrimony an m. ss of the three cordial Flowers an p. j. let a Decoction be made in a small quantity of water wherein infuse of Rhabarb ʒ ij ss of Orange colour'd Sanders ℈ ss dissolve in the expression Syrup of Violets ʒ vj. and make a potion thereof When a stronger Purge is required either you may augment the quantity of the things or take a stronger Medicament as this ℞ of Diaprun dissolved or Electuary of the juice of Roses ʒ iij. Alia potio validior let it be dissolved in ℥ iij. of the fore mentioned Decoction or of Endive water put to it of the syrup of Succory compounded with Rhabarb ℥ j. and make a Potion Phlegm may be deduced by many Medicaments as well simple as compound as well as Choler whereof I shall take these few prescriptions in stead of many examples ℞ Polypody of the Oak Grass roots Raisons stoned of each ʒ iij. of the seeds of Carthamus ʒ ij Germander Ground-pine Betony of each m. ss of Anise seed ʒ j. make a Decoction in which boyl on a slow fire of the leaves of Senny ʒ ij ss in the colature infuse of Agarick ʒ j. ss in the expression dissolve of the syrup of white Roses ʒ j. make a Potion thereof In such a Decoction after colation you may dilute of the Electuary of Diacarthamus ʒ iij orʒ ss of the syrup of damask Roses ℥ j. that it may be a Potion Senny Rhabarb and Polypody vacuate flegm also and so do Turbitum Carthamus seed Colocynthis Widow-wail Veratrum album white Hellebor the seed and root of Wall-wort Benedicta Laxativa and Diaphoenicum whereof a perite Artificer may make various purgative Potions Melancholy also hath its peculiar Catharticks as Epithymum Melancholiam quae ducunt Azure stone Senny black Hellebor and amongst the compounds the Confection Hamech Catholicum Diasenna and King Sabor's syrup Of one or more whereof dissolved infused or cocted in some convenient liquor a purgative Medicament may be confected as thus ℞ Barks and roots of Capers and Tamarisks roots of Bugloss Melanagogon optimum Liquorice Raisons and Currens of each ʒ iij. of whole Barley ʒ ss Cateras Maiden hair Marigolds Borrage of each m. ss of the three cordial Flowers of each p. j. of which make a Decoction wherein infuse Senna ℥ ss sweet Fennel seeds ʒ j. in the Colature dissolve syr Regis Saboris ℥ j. make it into a Potion Or ℞ Liquorice Raisons stoned an ʒ iij. Jujubs nu vj. Epithymus Spleenwort tops of Hops Wood sorrel Fumatory an m. 〈◊〉 Broom flowers p. ij make a Decoction in which dissolve Confectio Hamech ʒ j. ss Diasenna ʒ ij syrup of Violets ʒ vj. or ◠j. make it into a Potion Catholicum also is usefull to purge Melancholy Catholicum polychrestum est for being universally commodious to purge any noxious humour it easily accommodates it self to those wherewith it is mixed as if it be mixed with Rhabarb it purges Choler if diluted in the decoction of Senny o◠mixed with the confection of Hamech it purges Melancholy CHAP. IV. Of Juleps THE acception of Julep and Syrup with the Arabians is almost one and the same for they confound them together and speak of them under the same head or Chapter understanding nothing more by an absolute Julep than Sugar dissolved in Rose water and cocted to the consistency of a Syrup But we speaking more distinctly treat of them both but in several Chapters and Books to wit of Syrups which should be inspissated by a longer coction in our Officine but of Juleps which should be but lightly cocted and presently assumed in this our Book of Medicinal Receipts Now Julep is a Persian word Julep quid signifying a sweet Potion which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and they make it of any distilled dulcorate water as of Syrups of the juice or decoction of Simples elixated with Sugar or Honey to a more crass consistency Serapio that he might eschew the insuavity of all odour and sapour confected a Julep or rather Hydrosacharum of Water and Sugar onely which he calls a simple Syrup Avicenna to conciliate more suavity adds thereto a third part of Rose-water Mesue
and Serapio call it Armenus and Armeniacus Yet Armenus and the Azure-stone differ for the latter is nitent with aureous stars and caeruleously flave beams the former maculated with many green caeruleous and blackish spots whence they call it Verdazure However their faculties are so conjoyned in affinity that the one may well be substituted in the others stead yea both are cructed out of one Myne being found for the most part either in silver or gold veins The Azure-stone is most commonly in the gold Mynes from which it borrows its golden stars Now as this is most fair and good for bracelers and other ornaments so most expetible for Medicaments An Azure-stone carried about one helps the sight Vires exhilarates the minde prepared and assumed it pollicitates many commodities for brayed and duly washed it potently and innoxiously expurges Melancholick humours burned and washed it recreates me internals yet some have writ too superstitiously of it asserting That he that carried it about him should be gentle rich and happy CHAP. 9. Of the Magnet or Heraclean-stone NAture hath created nothing in the Universe more admirable then the Loadstone or Magnet which S. Augustine calls The wonderful raptor of Iron which saith he when I first saw I much wondred at seeing an Iron-ring attracted by a stone and then another attracted by the former to which the Magnet had communicated its faculty and so a third by the second and afterwards a fourth and so on till a chain of Rings not implicitely connected but extrinsecally adherent hung thereat to which Pliny attests Lib. 43. suae Hist cap. 14. Whose attractive faculty was at first found out by a certain Herdsman who following his Cattel on the Mountain Ida at length came to a place where there lay plenty of Load-stones whose shoes being stuck with Iron nails and the one end of his staff plated with the same Metal were so fast retained by this hamous stone that he must either leave his Iron or tire himself with pulling Now this Pasture was called Magnes whose name this stone retains to this day it is also called the Heraclean-stone not from Heraclius its inventor as Taisnierius will have it but from Heraclia a City in Lydia where much good Magnetical stone is got Some call it Syderites because it draws and allures Iron it is also sometimes called Ship-stone because it serves to much use in Ships There are five sorts hereof the first is called the Aethiopian Magnet which comes from Aethiopia the second the Magnesian that comes from Magnesia the third is found in Alexandria the fourth in Echion of Boeetia the fifth which is worst in Capo Verlichi Natoliae This is light and spongious like a Pumick-stone The Aethiopian Magnets are judged best all of what sort soever are so much better by how much more caeruleous such also as are more ponderous and attract Iron more firmly are very laudable An Adamant hinders the attractive vertue as also Garlick rubbed on the Magnet for its attractive faculty is not so valid but it may be easily deluded obscured and superated and therefore Taisnierius his assertion is very ridiculous to wit That certain ships compacted with Iron Nails sailing along the Aethiopian Sea and driven by a tempest to the Promontories should be by Magnets drawn to the bottom or shivered to pieces their Nails being by their potency extracted for these are old-wives Fables not worthy the Pen of an Author The Magnet draws Iron as its similar for its own conservation and alimony for which purpose they put its dust in bexes and it respects the North as its Matrix whence Mariners say it tends to the Antarctick Pole There is another stone called Theamedes of an opposite quality got in a certain Mountain in Aethiopia which repels and respuates Iron Some sell burnt Magnet for Hematites but they are much different as appears by their description Dioscor The Magnet besides its enumerated faculties Vires hath also some Medicinal qualities for whose cause it ingredes the divine salve and others Medicaments some thinke that a small quantity of a Magnet assumed at the mouth will preserve youth and therefore King Zeilan commanded that all the dishes and vessels wherein his Meat was to be cocted to be made of Magnets CHAP. 10. Of some other Gemmes more seldome used in Medicine THere are yet almost infinite Gemmes both fair and elegant to see to and indued with special faculties whose use being very rare I purpose not to treat of every of them in several Chapters for it satisfies mine Institution if I accurately describe these that ingrede the confections we have delivered in our Shop yet lest some Apothecaries should think there were no more Gems in this one Chapter I shall comprehend and Epitomize a great many The first that occurs is Eranus which the French call Turchesa Turchesa the Arabians Peruzaa Pliny Callais and Augites whose colour seems to be confusedly but elegantly mixed of an azure and green it is had in India especially about the Mountain Cokas The Jasper stone is either totally or in a great part green and elegant whose species to enumerate would tyre a man Jaspis for Macer saith they are seventeen it is very efficacious in staying blood The Blood-stone took its Greek name Haematites from blood also Haematites for whether it be carried or assumed it cohibits the issue of blood it is thought to be a kinde of Jasper for it is green variegated and as it were bespotted with drops of blood Achates is so called from the River Achate where it is found Achates there are many varieties thereof but the most vulgar are obscurely white disterminated with veins either red or black It is storied of King Pyrrhus that he had a special one wherein Nature had ingraven the Nine Muses Some Achates are red like Coral The Amethyst is a stone brought from India Amethystus of a purpureous â—â—â—ed with a violaceous colour emitting some small flames whereof there are five sorts the more vulgar is violaceous resembling the colour of red Wine much diluted with water it is said to hinder â—â—iety but to excite dreams As the whitely corruscant Adamant the green Emerald the flainmeous and red Carbuncle the caeruleous Saphyre and the golden Chrysolite are the best of those kindes so is the variegated Opalus Opalus in whose mixture is the micant fire of the Carbuncle the purpureous fulgour of the Amethyst the caeruleous viridity of the Emerald and all nitent colours most elegantly contentned then which no aspect is more beautiful Pliny calls this stone Paederos it is got in the Island Zeilan and in many parts of India where it is called Argenon it is also found in Aegypt where it is called Senites There is another kinde of Opalus less elegant and nitent which they call Pseudopalus and Cats-eye which as it is not so fair so not so expetible as the true Opalus This is in probability
but its faculties are bettered by lotion or ustion Dioscorides teaches the manner qualities and effects of its ablution and ustion Ceruse is made of plates of Lead of which hereafter CHAP. 5. Of Brass BRass is dedicated to Venus from her Island Cyprus where it is copiously effoded and it is either of a golden colour and thence called Aurichalcum or redder and then it is called Brass absolutely This was of more use amongst the Ancients then either Gold Silver or Iron for the first money was of Brass And hence we have these occurrents Aerarium Publicum aes alienum questor erarius Their bellatory arms also were not of steel but brass as also their Statues and Temple-doors In Pharmacopolies we often meet with these terms Aes ustum fles aeris squama aeris aerugo but what every of these denotes all our Pharmaceutical lections will scarcely teach us Aes ustum or burnt Brass saith Dioscorides is made of the nails of broken ships imposed upon a crude earthen vessel a little Sulphur and as much Salt strewed under them all of them being besprinkled herewith and the vessels spirament daubed with a singular cement it is set on a furnace till they be cocted This aes ustum astringes exsiccates represses extenuates attracts purges Ulcers and brings them to a scar and emends the vices of the eyes Flos aeris or the flower of Brass is made when the Brass melted in the furnace delabes into certain receptacles through the necks of such fistuls as appertain thereunto and when cold water is infunded upon the burning Brass before it concrete into a hard mass for then this flos aeris in this sudden concretion and densation will erupt in a vapour which concreting also will fall down in small red grains like Millet which we take for flos aeris Squama aeris or the scales of Brass are made when Brass is smitten with hammers and those are the best which are excussed out of the same Brass that nails are made of those the worst which are made of vile and promiscuous or white Brass This squama eris astringes extenuates represses erodes stays arrels and brings Ulcers to scars CHAP. 6. Of Verdegrease VErdegrease is not onely of use to Painters but to Physicians also who mix it with many Medicaments for the cure of Ulcers as that Medicament which Galen calls Lite and more he describes This Verdegrease is not the flower of Brass as some think but a certain green rasure which exudes out of its plates wet with vinegar Dioscorides make two sorts hereof one the vulgar or simple Verdegrease the other worm-rust and that twofold the one fossile and the other factitious both whereof are rare for the one is either not sought or not found and the other not now made But the vulgar is copious and every-where venale which may be made many wayes but most usually thus Some sharp Vinegar must be infused into a Hogshead or other ample vessel whereon a brazen vessel must be inversly superimposed if it may be a concamerated one or if it be plain it must be so obstructed that there may not be any spiracle left after ten dayes let the cover be removed and the Verdegrease thereon eraded This way is also most usual one or more plates of brass are so suspended in a Hoshead containing Vinegar that they may not touch the Vinegar and the due dayes being expired the Verdegrease is deraded Moreover the same plates macerated in Vinegar will afford Verdegrease It is sharp Vires digestive and attractive it discusses not onely tender but hard flesh and it is not onely mordacious to the gust but to the very Ulcers If you adde a little of it to a large Searcloth the mixture will exterge without mordacity Many erre in ascribing a Sarcotical or Epulotical faculty to many Medicaments when they of themselves are not but become such by composition Galen CHAP. 7. Of Iron NOthing is more common nothing more useful and nothing more nocent then Iron for neither houses stables nor ships nor yet such things as respect mans vesture and aliment can be had or made without Iron seeing no labour is suscepted no work absolved without the adjument hereof for all Artificers need some Iron Instrument to their work All which I will not in special prosecute seeing it is notorious to every Rustick For not onely Plough-shares Saws Hatches Sickles Tongs and Needles but also Swords Spears Darts Arrows and Canon-bullets which beat down whole Cities and Fortresses killing men and perpetrating a thousand slaughters are made of Iron which Pliny not induring cries out we do not only use Iron at hand but send it to do our mischief at distance one while ejecting it out of Slings another-while of Cross-bowes and sometimes making it fly with feathers as though death were not swift enough but we must accelerate his feet with wings and arm him with Iron What if Pliny had seen our Canons and bellical torments wherewith we do not onely overthrow Cities and Walls but Rocks and Mounts But Iron is not the cause of these mischiefs but the wicked guiles of mans ingeny which puts that to ill use which in it self is good for it makes also wayes and passages whereby putrid blood is educed out of the veins corruption ejected out of the breast fragments of bones and other things that would molest the brain drawn out of the seull corrupt teeth evelled from the gums the oâ—daverous flesh of Ulcers removed a putrid member abscinded left it should draw the rest into its consort What needs more We cannot live without Iron for else we might effode Dens with our Nails in stead of Houses and car our Meat like Beasts There are two sorts of Iron one retains its name the other being more defaecated is called Steel There are two differences of the former the one may be melted and drawn of which they make many rustical instruments the other may be melted but not drawn being very fragil whereof they make molten Pots and other culinary instruments After which use Scaliger thinks it is not useless but may be molten again as also that same which he elswhere says onely mollifies for we see that both sorts may be melted by ardent heat yea some at Lutetia seek and buy the fragments of Iron Pots which they carry to the furnaces and melt over again Some say that Steel is nothing but Iron accurately defaecated and many boast That they can work Iron into Steel It hath its Latine name from Chalybo a Town in Assyria yet that of Damascus is most laudable for a Sword of that Steel will cut Iron There is a Powder made of Steel-dust which Alchymists call â—lars his Saffron but Iron-dust duly prepared is every whit as good We have treated of both in our Shop And as Brass hath its aerugo or Verdegrease so hath Iron its ferrugo or rust whereby it is eroded and absumed in lieu of its fault as it were of
is the most noble nurse gathering and contracting it self exactly that it will not admit the point of a needle then the womb rouzeth and raiseth up the sleepy and lurking power of the seeds so that that which was before but potential it bringeth into act Concertation wrangling Disputes Concinnated made fit for the purpose trimmed apparelled Conciliating causing perswading procuring by fair means Concretion is divaporation of humidity in fluid things by gentle decoction on fire Concocted digested Concords equalities Concrete juyces juyces of plants that were once liquid but for their better preservation are hardened either in the Sun or by the fire Condense thick hard Condiloma a swelling of the fundament Condiments sawces Conditure the art of preserving Confected mingled Confirmed A Disease is said to be confirmed when the symptoms that distinguish it to be of such or such a particular disease do appear Confrication rubbing or grinding Confusion is properly a mixture of such things as are fluid Congelation benumning unsuitablenesse a freezing together with cold Congestion a gathering together or heaping up Conglomerated heaped together Conglutination is the compacting of Metals jewels glasses c. by gums glue whites of eggs and the like the nature of the conglutinated remaining a glewing together Conjugations or pairs of nerves Conjunctiva a coat of the eye so called because it sticks fast to the eye and helps it in its place Conquash mash together Consentaneous agreeable consonant Consistence the thickness or thinness of any substance or liquor Consolidation closing up a sore or wound Consopiated lull'd asleep Consternation fear astonishment Constipation stopping up Constitution the complexion or temperament of the body Contagion infection Continuity an oneness or one continued quantity without interruption Contorsion a wresting or drawing awry Contracted shrunk or drawn together Contraindicants are such indications as forbid such or such a course to be used Contumacy stubbornness and that will not be wrought upon by the medicine Contunding pounding beating Contusion bruising a bruise also a beating of very thick bodies into very subtil parts Conus a geometrical figure resembling a sugar-loaf Convex standing out like the back-side of a buckler or platter Convulsio spasmus a convulsion or cramp Copul white Rosin very bright Cophosis is when the hearing is totally gone so that the patient either heareth no noyse or if he do he cannot distinguish Copiously plentifully Corda barbarorum nervus A sinew Cordis palpitatio panting or beating of the heart Coronal suture the seam which divides the skull of the head in two parts Cornea the coat of the eye of a horny substance Corpulent fat thick gross Corpus callosum a thick body it is a part belongs to the brain Corpus varicosum is an interweaving of the veins and arteries which carry the vital and natural blood to the stones to make Seed of Corpulent fat gross Corral is cordial cooling drying and prepared chymically hath a wonderful comforting vertue in it yet the red corral far exceeds it Corroding biting and fretting Corosion is calcination reducing things coagulated by the corroding spirits of salt sulphur wine vinegar distill'd aqua fortis c. into ashes Cortices barks peels the outward rind Corymbiferous bearing berries Coriza or pose is a catarrh falling from the brain into the nose Cotylidones in lattin acetabula the joyning of the ends of two pair of veins one coming from the spermatical another from the hypogastrical branch with the mouths of the umbilical vein making a connexion between the mother and the infant Couched with a needle that is something taken away with a needle from the eye or pressed down Cranium the brain Crasse gross thick dull heavie Crassamen or crassamentum Wine lees Crassitude thickness or grosseness Cremaster is the muscle that holds up the stones Cremor the top or flower of any liquor or cream of milk yeast the juyce of steeped barley c. Cribration sifting Crisis the sign of natures victory over the disease whereby is judged Whether the disease will prove deadly or dangerous to the patient Critical day is every seventh day in Fevers wherein appears some remarkable or eminent accident serving to shew Whether Nature or the Disease be in most probability to get the victory and these accidents are either some swelling evacuation bleeding or other great change to the better or worse whereby the patient is judged in a condition hopeful or hopeless Crocus martis saffron of iron good against all fluxes Crocus veneris saffron of copper or refined verdegrease it expelleth drieth clenseth and healeth Chronick diseases such as continue a long time Christalline an humor in the eye resembles a little cake of chrystal if you open a Calves eye carefully you may take it out whole Cruciate to torment afflict put to pain to grieve or vex Crucible a Glasse wherein things are burnt to prepare them for beating to pouder Cubebs A certain fruit sold by Apothecaries like Pepper it comes out of India its hot and dry it comforts the brain and quickens the spirits being chewed in the mouth Crude raw undigested which happens to the blood or to the meat in the stomach Cruent bloody Cucupha Caps quilted with medicinal things as dryed rosemary c. Culins stalks Culinary belonging to the kitching Cumulation congestion Cultellated made sharp edged Cultivate to manure till dress the earth to improve or better any soyl or grain Cupping glass is a glass fastened to the skin with lighted tow or flax to draw blood or raise a blyster Cummin one of the four greater hot seeds its hot and dry good to break or dissolve windiness in the body Cutchoneal a Drug brought from beyond Sea of great use in Physick it being an excellent cordial Cuticle scarf-skin the first containing or investing part which runs upon the surface of the skin Cydoniatum conserve of quinces called marmalade Cynorexia appetitus caninus a greediness and unnatural appetite of meat D Dandril scales of the head beard and eye-brows Daphnaelion Oleum Laurinum oyle of Bays Dation the quantity or dosis of any medicament that is administred to the patient at once Dealbate that maketh white Debility a weak state of body Declination is that time of a disease which follows that we call the state the going away of a disease Decoctio Epythemi the Decoction of Dodder Decoction the liquor or broth wherein are boyled herbs and other simples to serve as the basis or foundation of many medicines Decorticated stripped of their skins peels or barks Deduce draw to and fro Definitly exactly particularly Defluxion the flowing of humors to any particular part Deject cast out Deleates takes away Deletary poysonous destructive Deliquation is the preparatiof things melted on the fire Deliquium is the liquation of a concrete as salt powder calcined set in a moist place Delirium raving and frenzy a talking idlely in sickness Demerged plunged under water Demoniack one possest with a devil Demonstrated proved to the sense beyond contradiction Denigrate
that maketh black Denominated so called Dentifrice such things wherewith the teeth are rubb'd to make them white Depose put off Depraved wicked vile base Depurges draws forth Descention is when the essential juyce dissolved from the matter to be distill'd is brought back and doth descend Despumation a scumming or taking off the froth Despumed purged clarified Detersory clensing Detriment hurt or damage Deturpates fouleth defileth makes filthy Diabetes a continual and unnatural making of water after which there comes a violent thirst and consuming of the whole body Diacatholicon an Electuary much used in Physick so called because it serves as a gentle purge for all humors Diagnosticks signs whereby is known the disease which the patient hath Diagalanga a confection of hot spices good against the wind chollick and cold distempers of the inward parts Diagridiates medicines that have scamonny or diagridium in their composition Diagridium Scammony is the juyce of a forreign plant dried it s a most strong and violent purge being boyled in a Quince it is in part corrected which when it s thus prepared Apothecaries call diagridium Diamond a well known jewel or pretious stone Diapasm medicinal pouders unguents or liniments used for delicacy and perfume Diapedisis the sweating of blood through the pores of the veins Diaphoenicon an electuary used by physitians to purge phlegm and choler Diaphoreticks medicines provoking sweat Diapnaetica medicines that bring a tumor to suppuration that it breaks a sore Diaphragma the midriff a skin that separateth the stomach and breast from the belly Diaprunum an electuary made of Damask prunes and divers other simples good to cool the body in hot burning Feavers Diarrhaea a looseness of the belly by which the excrementitious humors are sent forth without blood or food and without the Ulceration of the Intestines Diasena a purging electuary good against quartan Agues and all other Diseases proceeding from melancholly Diatraganth a Confection of Gum Traganth and other simples good against hot diseases of the breast Diet signifieth most commonly a diet drink Difflation is when through heat spirits arising and with a kind of bellows blown in the adverse Camaera and there are found congulated Diffoded digged as a hole or ditch is digged in the earth Diffused dispersed scattered or spread Digestive medicines are such as prepare evil humors to be purged out of the body Digestion is simple maturation whereby things unconcocted in artificial digestory heat as food by natural heat in the stomach is digested Dignotion the searching out of any kind of knowledge Dilacerate to tear to rend in pieces Dilated enlarged made wider or opened Dilucidely clearly plainly Dilutely shining bright Discuss is to dissolve a swelling insensibly by degrees without breaking the skin or causing a sore as many knavish Surgeons do for their private gain Discussive that disperseth dissolves unlooseth Dislocation putting out of joynt Dispel to thrust drive or put away Disquisition a search or enquiry Dissentany things disagreeable Dissipated diffused or spread abroad Dissect to cut in pieces to open to cleave in sunder Dissite remote Dissoluble in a possibility of being dissolved Dissolution is a preparation of Medicine simple and compounded by some convenient moisture to a certain consistence Dissolved it s used to be spoken of dissolving hard knots kernels or swelling by application of outward medicines and internally by dispersing any coagulation or gathering together of humors by diet drinks Distemper any excess of heat or cold in the body of man Dissention stretching Distillation is a flowing down of thin humors from the brain into several parts also a separation of things pure from things impure Distillatio per descensum is when the liquor drawn from the distilled materials falls down into a vessel placed below that which contains the matter the particular way and manner hereof is to be sought in the books of Chymists Distortion writhen or turned from the natural place and situation in the body Distraction is a disuniting of divers things before uniting and agreeing Diuturnity long continuance of time Diuretical Medicines to provoke urine Divaporation is exhalation by fire of vapour Diverting medicines which turn aside the course of the humor so that it doth not run to any particular part which the residence of that humor hath made the seat of a disease Dolor aurium pain in the ears from cold winds it happens to many through a hot distemper or inflamation and sometimes sharp and biting humors cause pain in the ears Dolor nephriticus stone in the Kidneys and pain in the Reins the vulgar call it stone-chollick because of the great affinity it hath with the chollick Dose the quantity of any medicine usually prescribed to be taken at one time so much as may safely be given at once Dolor ventriculi is a sad and troublesome sense in that part from some things that gnaw and stretch it till it break or be wounded Dropax is a topical medicament sometimes hard like a salve sometimes soft as a pultise as the case requires its proper use is in long tedious diseases Dulciaries sweetners such things as sweeten Dulcification is the correcting of mineral medicines by Ablutions c. Dulcity sweetness Dulco-acid sweet and yet sharp as syrup of Lemons Dulco-amare bitterish sweet Dulcorate sweeten Duration when things mollified at the fire are set in a cold place and harden Durity hardness Disepulotica an hard dry scar after the healing of an Ulcer Dyspepnia ill concoction Dyspnaea difficulty of breathing Dysentery an often and bloody loosness of the belly with pain and torment depending upon the ulceration of the intestines in plain English The bloody Flux Dysury a scalding or stopping of the urine a painful pissing E Ebullition boyling or working of the blood and humors in the body like new Wine in a hogshead Eclegma a Medicine or Confection not to be eaten or chewed but licked or sucked and suffered softly to melt down into the Lights or Stomach it is a liquid Confection thicker than a syrup and thinner than an electuary Educed brought forth pressed forth Eduction a bringing forth Edible that which may be eaten Efferous fierce cruel violent Efficacious powerful Efficient cause the working or making cause as the Apothecary is the efficient cause of a compound medicine the material cause is the Druggs whereof it is made the formal cause is that proper form given it whereby it s distinguished to be a Pill a Potion an Electuary and the final Cause is to procure health Effigiated formed or shap'd Effluxion a flix of the seed Effoded digged up Effrenate unbridled head-strong Effuded powred off Effringed broken ground to powder Egritudes griefs sicknesses diseases calamities Elaboration a manual operation an extracting of ignoble matter from that which is more excellent Elaterium the juyce of wild Cucumbers dryed being taken inwardly purgeth waterish humors and is good against the dropsie but it must be well corrected or it will be extream painful in operation Election is a
of the pupil of the eye Midrif a sinewy skin passing over-thwart a mans body and divides the heart and lungs from the stomach guts and liver lest the vital parts should be offended with ill vapors from those below Milt so term'd because it draws away the dross of the bloud Minium red lead of a cooling drying repelling healing softening and discussing quality Mineral any thing digged out of the earth Minorative lesser or making less it 's particularly used to distinguish a gentle purge from a more violent which is called eradicative pulling away the offending humor by the very roots as we say Minuates lessens diminisheth Miscellany a mixture of things without any order a Galamafry or hotch-potch of divers things mingled together Miscible apt to incorporate or mingle together Misy a kind of yellow Copper shining like gold brought out of Egypt and the Isle of Cyprus it is of a fretting burning quality as the common copperas is Mitigation abatement of pain Mithidrate a great Confection invented by King Mithridates it is of singular vertue against poyson and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken before it be six months old Mixtion or mingling of several Herbs together Modes wayes fashions and manner of doing things Mola an unshap'd piece of flesh in the mother Moles marks with children Mollition the beginning of liquation Morbus Caducus the falling-sickness Morbus spinalis the disease of the spine of the back the Rickets Morbifical matter is that which in most diseases is the principal cause of them Mordacity biting quality Mordacious biting Mother a disease of the womb incident to Women when the womb riseth with pain upward in this disease the smelling to sweet savors is evil but to stinking and loathsome smells very helpful Mortification deading of any part of the body as in a Gangrene Mortiferous Mortifical deadly or bringeth death Mucagines a mucilage a slime or juyce which is drawn either out of herbs roots or seeds by steeping in some distill'd waters or some other convenient liquor Mucronated sharp pointed Mucaginons clammy slimy Mumia a thing like pitch sold at the Apothecaries some affirm it 's taken out of old Tombs being the embalming of dead bodies others say it 's made of mans flesh boyled in pitch it 's hot in the second degree and good against bruisings and spitting of bloud Mundane clean pure Mundification is the clensing of any matter by few or many operations from that which is filthy and vicious that the most excellent may be admitted to the work in hand Muscle is an organical and dissimilar part made up of nerves flesh fibres veins and arteries Mutilated maimed Myrobolanes a fruit growing in Egypt and Syria like plumbs or damsons there are five kinds of them Citrinae Judae Cepniae Emblicae and Belliricae the first purgeth choler the second melancholy and the three last phlegm they are cooling and comfortable to nature Myrrh a gum brought out of Arabia and Assyria of colour between white and red it is hot and dry in the second degree or as some say in the third it 's often used in physick being of an opening clensing dissolving nature N Narcotick Medicines that stupifie and dull the sense of feeling they are also given to procure sleep as well as to ease pain Natural faculties the seat of them is the stomach and liver c. as the heart is of the vital and the brain of the animal Nausea is a desire to vomit with trouble and only sending and pewking forth a thin waterish humor by salivation Nausconsness squeaziness of the stomach enclining to vomit Nebula oculorum the dimness of the eyes Necromancy the art of Divining by dead bodies and parts thereof Necrosy deadness Neotericks modern Writers either in Physick or any other Art so called in opposition to the Antients Nephritica medicines proper for the cure of the stone Nephritis Renum dolor a grief or sickness in the Reins Nervalia medicines proper to the sinews Nerve is the same with a sinew and is that whereby the brain adds sense and motion to the body Nervorum resolutio or dissolutio is a dissolving or weakning of the sinews called paralysis Nicotian Tobacco Nidorous smells are like burnt salt scorched meat or fryed oyl Nigredes makes black Nigritude blackness Nitent shining Nitre salt-peter as it 's commonly used to signifie but the true nitre is found in the bowels of the earth and is very rare whereas salt-peter is artificial and common Nocivous hurtful Nocumental hurtful Nodous knotty Nude naked Nudils are pledgets or pessaries made of lint or cotton wool and dipped in some unguent and used either in wounds or sores or in diseases of the Womb. Nutrition nourishment Nutrition the mixing of moisture by little little for changing the quality of the medicine Nyctalops Lusciosus one that is pur-blind O Obdulcorated made sweet or sweetned with sugar or hony Obdurate hard Oblique flanting athwart crooked Obnoxious lyable to punishment Obruted buried covered hidden Obsolete old out of mind forgot out of use Obsonies all manner of meats used at meals Obstructions stoppages in the passages of nutrition Obtenebrated clouded darkned or hidden from the light of the Sun Obverted overthrown spoiled Obvolved wrapped up close Occult hidden mysterious Ocular Medicaments Medicines for the eyes Odentick belonging to the teeth Odors smells Odoriferous sweet smelling Odoraments perfumes Oeconomy houshold government Oedema a tumor or swelling caused by flegm and is soft white and of no great pain Oesephagus the mouth of the stomach the gullet Oleagynous oily fatty Omentum the caul or suet wherein the bowels are wrap'd which by reason of its loosness to receive humors that come from other parts it is subject to divers diseases as the Mesentary and Pancreas Omphacy unripe it signifies properly the juyce of unripe Grapes Omoplata the muscles of the shoulder-blade Operative active working Operculated close covered Ophiogenes generated of Serpents Opthalmy Diseases in the eyes Opiats are such medicines as have opium in them and are used in infectious diseases Opobalsamum natural balsom Opium the juyce of black Poppies sold dry by Apothecaries it is sometimes used in Physick to make one sleep or to asswage excessive pain but it must be corrected and given with other things and with great discretion or it may make the patient sleep till doomsday Oppilation stoppage of the brest Opopanax a sap or liquor flowing out of a plant called panax in some of the hot Countries it 's brought hither dry being of a yellow colour without and white within if it be not too stale it 's good for agues and bruises Opisthotones a Convulsion so named when the body is drawn backward Opticks the Art of Perspective or wherein the natures and differences of Seeing is handled Optick nerves so called from their action because they communicate to the eye the sense of seeing Orchal a stone like Alum used by divers in dying red Orifice the
hole or mouth of the stomach veins womb or of the incision made by a Surgeon when he lets blood or the mouth of a wound or ulcer Orgal the lees of Wine dryed and used by Dyers to make their cloth to take the colour Organs are organical parts of the body those that are ordained to such or such a particular use different from others as the foot to tread the eye to see or the ear to hear c. Oringees the roots of Sea-holly it grows in many parts of England on the Sea-shore in great plenty preserved as they are to be had at the Comfit-makers they are excellent good for such as have Consumptions or old aged people Orthopnaea a straitness of breath by stopping of the Lights that one cannot breath but holding his neck upright Orthopneical short breathing Oscitantly carelesly negligently Os Cribosum a bone full of small holes like a sieve whence it hath its name it 's placed above the nose and by it the snot and snivel that comes out of the nose is drained from the brain Otalgia pain in the ears a violent disease both in respect of the part affected viz. the inward membrane which goeth about the cavity of the ear as also by reason of the nearness of the brain Oval the shape of an egg Oxicrate a medicine of vinegar and water mixt together Oxydorcica sharp medicines to quicken the sight Oxymel simple syrup made of vinegar and hony Oxyrrhodinum oyl of Roses and Vinegar mixt together whereof medicines are made Oxysaccharum Compositum a compound syrup of vinegar and hony OZaena a sore in the nose causing a stinking breath OZylete officinarum perfuming Candles P Papulum fodder Paerinaeum the seam which runneth like a ridge between the privities and fundament both in men and women Palm the hand Palmos Palpitatio Cordis the panting of the heart Palpebra the eye-lid Palliative Cure is when a disease is not eradicated but only mitigated or covered whereby either the pain or trouble or deformity is somewhat eased and remedied to this end were wooden legs arms fingers glass-eyes invented Panada a pap made with bread Panicles Cats tails any thing that groweth round and long Pancreas the sweet-bread serves to prop the vessels lest they should break and are instead of a pillow to the stomach Panchymagogon such purgers as are universal purging all humors Pandalea a kind of paste or massapan good for a cough Panpharmacal an universal medicine Paracousis noise in the ears which comes from a praeter-natural motion of the air which is naturally contained in the ears Paralitick sick of the Palsie Paralysis the palsie wherein the loss of sense and motion is in some parts of the body by reason of the stopping of the passages of the animal parts Paranitium barbarorum a disease bred in the fingers Paraplegia the same with Paralysis Paranomasis likenesse in name Parastatae are bodies placed without the Abdomen in the Scrotum or Cod set upon the Testicles to which they are alike in nature and use Paregoricum medicines easing pain Perforated boared through Pericardium a thin skin or film compassing the heart Peripneumonia an inflamation of the lungs or lights with a vehement fever Pericranium the skin that covers the scull the hairy scalp Perite skilful cunning Peritonaeum the rim of the belly the inner coat of the belly next the guts which when it is broke the Women say the rim of the belly is burst Peristaltick motion of the guts is a motion whereby the guts press themselves together above the excrements and so squeez them out Perperously foolishly and unskilfully Permeate pass through the pores of the body Permixtion mixing throughly Perâ—icious deadly destructive wicked Perspicuous clear and transparent as glass chrystal fair water c. Perspirable the body is said to be perspirable when the invisible pores or holes in the skin are kept open so that the vapors arising from evil humors may freely breath out Perturb to trouble Pervians thin that which may be past through full of holes like the bottom of a sieve Pessary a certain medicine made like a finger to thrust into a Womans privities with a string tyed to it Pestis the plague a deadful disease venemous contagious lothsome noysome and hateful to mankind Pestiferons that which brings the plague Petrous rocky Phagadena a running canker or pock Pharmaceutick remedies all such medicines as are made by the Apothecaries Pharmacopaeia a Dispensatory or Book wherein is set down the Composition or Receipts of Medicines for direction to the Apothecary Phigethlon is an inflamation of the parts and if it become indurable it is reckoned amongst the flegmatick tumors and by Guido termed sâ—râ—phulous Philter an amorous medicine a Potion to procure love Phifiologer a searcher of Natural Secrets Phlebotomy bloud-letting Phlegm slime watrish moisture Phlegma it is used for any distilled water which hath no spirit as Rose-water Phlegmagogon purgers of flegm Phlegmon a tumor or swelling caused by bloud Phreniae veins in the liver Phrenitis or Phrenzie an inflamation of the brain and it's membranes with a continual dotage a sharp constant fever Phthisis a kind of consumption see Culpeper 's Practise of Physick Physiognomy an art to judge of ones nature conditions by his countenance and form of body Piamater a little skin that covereth the brain Pica an unnatural longing in Women Piger Henricus an instrument for distilling so called for his exceeding slowness Pillulae Cochiae Pills which purge the head Pillulae Iliacae Pills for the Chollick or pain in the small guts Pillulae Opthalmicae Pills for the eyes Pillulae pestilentiales pills against the plague Pillulae stomachiae pills for the stomach Pituitous filthy Placenta is the proper name of a sugar-cake physically it 's used for a piece of flesh in the covering of a Child in the womb Plethorick a too full habit of body or an evil constitution of the body wherein the humors offend rather in quantity than quality Pleura a membrane taking his name from the ribs which are called pleuras because it is stretched under them all except the twelfth Pleurisie is the swelling of the membrane that goes about the ribs of the internal intercostal muscles Pleureticus one that hath the pleurisie Plexus Choroides hath his situation in the forward ventricles betwixt them and the arch they are termed coroeide plegmata because they are like the chorion or membrane which compasseth the infant Plumbum philosophorum the Philosophers head a mysterious preparation Pluvial water rain water Podagra the Gout in the feet Podagrical dolor the same with podagra Podex the arse-hole Pollicitates promises assures warrants Polychrestum a medicine of frequent use Polypus a certain imposthume in the nose Polypodium a kind of herb like fern growing much at the roots of Oaks the root thereof is used to purge melancholy gross phlegmatick humors Poma odorata Apples to smell to to prevent the plague Pomada or pomata a sweet smelling salve
the sinking down again is the Systol T Tabefied wasted melted corrupted dissolved Tabid wasted melted consumed Tablets are the same with Lozenges which are medicines made up in little flat cakes of the bigness of an half peny either round or squar Tact taste Tacamahacca a sweet Gum whereof Plaisters for the tooth-ach are usually made Talcum Talc the oyl Tale is much magnified in diseases of the eyes though the thing it self be scarce known Tartarous matter congealed hard substances of an acrimonious sharp nature and therefore compared to Tartar of wine being coagulated in the joynts it 's the principal cause of the Gout Tartar Argal the Lees of Wine dried of excellent and frequent use in Phisick Tenasmus a continual desire of going to stool though nothing be voided the place of this disease is the end of the Arse-gut hard by the fundament Tenuious thin slender Tenuifolious thin-leav'd Tepour warmness Terenjabin Manna Terra earth vulgarly taken for potters-earth to make lute of Terestrial earthly heavy Testicles the stones called testes because they witness a man to be a man in the male they hang out at the roots of the yard at the bottom of the belly but in women they are within by reason of a colder disposition Tertiana a fever of that name Thorax the chest is called the middle belly it is circumscribed by the ribs and patel bones and is separated from the lower belly by the midrif and is the seat of the vital faculty which hath its principal residence in the heart Tigillum a melting pot or crucâ—ble such as Chymists and Goldsmiths use to melt metals or make strong calcinations in Tile tree or Linden-tree is a tree that bear a fine sweet blosom of frequent use in physick Tincture the virtue or strength of any medicine drawn forth by steeping in vinegar spirit of wine or any piercing liquor whereby the virtue and colour thereof being retained the liquor is called the tincture of such a plant or simple Tonsilla the kernels growing within the mouth Tonsillarum Inflamatio the inflamation of the Almonds which are of an hot and moist nature and therefore more subject to inflamation they are most vexed with this evil who abound with bloud Topical medicines such as are outwardly applied to the part affected as plaisters unguents oyls cere-cloaths Torcular a press Tormina fretting or wringing in the belly or guts Torpor numbness or stupidity of the body or mind the insensibleness of any part Torrefaction the highest degree of Siccation or rather the parching or scorching any thing by the fire or in an oven Tortions gripings of the stomach or bowels Tortura oris if it be from moisture is a kind of palsie if through dryness then a kind of cramp and is commonly a sign of death Toxicum a venom or poyson wherewith Arrows are poysoned Tract place Traction drawing Trajection straining as cheese is strained from the whey Trafine an invention of our famous Chirurgion Mr. Woodal it being an instrument by him used instead of a Trepan and far more commodious as you may see in his Surgeons Mate Translation the removal of an humor or disease from one part of the body to another Transmeat that passeth through the pores of the body as through the bottom of a sieve Transmutation is the changing of any thing in substance colour or quality it 's a Chymical term signifying the converting of one metal into another Transparent clear that may be seen through as glass crystal horn fair water Transpiration the breathing or steeming forth of vapors through the skin of the whole body invisibly only it may be discerned by the smell which differs according to the predominant humor some more others less offensive Transpire to breath through Transudation sweating through Treblequantity thrice as much Tremor trembling is an involuntary motion of the whole body caused by fear or the apprehension of some eminent danger Trepan an instrument wherewith Surgeons when necessity requires take out a piece of the scull it being to bore with like a wimble Trient a third part Triture breaking crumming or grinding Troches or Trochises medicines made up in little flat bowls as the name signifies they are never taken for what intention soever but they are first dissolved in some convenient liquor Tubercles knobs or swellings in a mans body Tumor a swelling that riseth in any part of the body for the most part with design to break forth into an ulcer Tundation stamping bruising or pounding in a mortar Tunica reteformis the net-like coat or tunicle of the brain Tunicles little thin coats or coverings whereof the eye for the most part doth consist lying one within another like the scales of an onion Turbinated round at the top Turbith mineral a certain preparation of quicksilver much used in the cure of the French-pox it had need be rightly prepared or it 's very dangerous Turgent swelling working frothing bubbling moving to and fro it 's usually spoken of the humors of the body when they are in combustion and violent motion Tussis a cough Tutia the scum of copper Tympane the drum of the ear Tympany a disease wherby the belly is caused to swell as if the patient were with child Typliodes a kind of continual Ague V Validly strongly Vapid naughty old musty Vaporous matter any thing that is apt to flie up in fume or steam Vapors steams ascending into the head like the steam we see ascend from a boyling pot Varices broken veins in the legs or any other part of the body Varicosa the same with Varices Variegated differenced sortted into many kinds Vasa deferentia vessels which carry the seed from the stones to the instruments of Generation Vasa praeparantia vessels which prepare the blood to be concocted into seed as they convey it to the stones Vehicle is that liquor or other convenient matter wherein any medicine is administred that it may be the more effectually carried to the parts of the body whereto it 's intended Vena a vein Vena Cava the great hollow vein which receives the bloud from the Liver and by its branches distributes it to all parts of the body Vena Comunis the median vein or black vein Vena Manifesta the mother vein Vena Pulsatilis the pulse vein Vena quieta the bloud veins Vencry the act of Love or carnal Copulation it 's usually put to signifie excess in that sport Venenosity poysonfulness Ventricle of the brain a certain hollowness in the head wherein the brain lies Ventriculus the ventricle or the stomach Vermicular worm-like the pulse is so called when it 's very weak and feeble and moves unequally more or less much like the creeping of a caterpillar Vertebrae the little joynt-bones which serve for the making up the back-bone and for the bending and turning thereof Vertex the top of the head Verticulate turneth round Vertigo a giddiness in the head near of kin to the falling sickness wherein the head and all objects seem to