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A03089	An excellent treatise teaching howe to cure the French-pockes with all other diseases arising and growing thereof, and in a manner all other sicknesses. Dravvne out of the bookes of that learned doctor and prince of phisitians, Theophrastus Paracelsus. Compiled by the learned Phillippus Hermanus, phisition and chirurgion. And now put into English by Iohn Hester in the spagiricall arte, practitioner.	Paracelsus, 1493-1541.; Hermanni, Philippus.; Hester, John, d. 1593.	1590 (1590)	STC 13215; ESTC S108576	44,196	74

for it is that which in the annointing performeth the action and without Mercurie there is nothing profitable in this disease ministred outwardlie but inwardlie there are manie noble remedies beside Quicksiluer which both in this and also in all other diseases are of great force so that the like hath not oft times been seene But because in this Booke we haue taken in hand to write onelie of the Pockes wee will therefore meddle with nothing but Mercurie In these two we will vse such dilligence that nothing shall be vnpossible for you to helpe in this disease if so be that you follow our counsaile Nowe to prepare your Mercurie that it may outwardlie be ministred without perrill to the Patient you shall take in Gods name of the earth wherin Mercurie groweth which is found in Dutch-land in the gold siluer Mines this earth is called in Dutch Berch ciuober of this earth you shal take the softest which is not yet hardened take twentie poundes thereof this you shall beate and put it into a Kettle poure fayre raine water thereto and let it seeth an howre long and the earth and the other filthinesse will seperate it selfe which you shall scumme off very cleane then that which remaineth in the Kettle you shall rub small and put it into a Cucurbit and sette it to distill vpon the fire with great heate according as I haue taught you in my Booke of Minerall distillations and you shall see a white iuyce arise like Milk And when you perceiue that it will drop no more then take that white iuyce and sette it alone to distill in Balneo marie and the moisture that is thereby will come alone and in the bottome of the Cucurbit there will remaine an Oyle as heauie in a manner as Quicke siluer the manner to distill by Balneo marie I haue shewed you sufficiently in my Booke of the distillation of Hearbes to which Booke I referre you for breuities sake The Oyle remaining in the bottome of the Cucurbit as afore said you shall take and vse to annoint withall as foloweth Take two ownces of the aforesaid Oyle and sixe ounces of Spike Oyle these you shall mingle together and warme them a little vpon the fire and therewith annoint the diseased parts of the Patient but those parts which are not diseased you shal not annoint therewith because it would doo more hurt then good for that there is no matter whereuppon they may worke and not finding other matter to worke vpon it would drie vppe the naturall moysture from those parts but the diseased parts you shall annoint as aforesaid in euery part or ioynt and if there be any holes or blaines you shall annoint those also in the euening when he goeth to bed and you shall couer him very warme that he may sweat and let him lye and sweat two houres long and he must not in any wise stirre himselfe because he may sweat the better the sayde time being expired you shall abate the clothes from of him and giue him warme cleane clothes that he may drie vp the sweate cleane in euery place and beeing well dryed take off his wette shirt and put him on a cleane shyrt well warmed then sette him by a good fire of Oken wood and dry his heade with warme clothes in the meane while make his bedde and lay on a payre of cleane sheetes well warmed then let him goe to bedde againe before it be colde but couer him not too warme but that he may sleepe quietly In the morning whē he awaketh you shall vse as you did in the euening to witte with fire and drying and béeing well dryed of his sweat you shall apparrell him and let him washe his hands and his face in warme water and then let him eate his meat which shall be such as heere followeth First he shall eate no Swines flesh nor no salted fleshe no Hares Conies Harts nor other venison nor no Cowes flesh nor no pottage but broth made of good Mutton sodden with Borage and a fewe Beetes and with a good deale of Bor●age other Pottage he shall eate none he shal eate good Mutton Hennes Partriges and all manner of wild foule excepting all water foules and all that seeke their liuing or swimme in the water for that their fleshe is ill to digest for a sicke man ingendering naughtie and mellancholie blood hee may also eate good young Beefe beeing newlie killed and not long salted but he must not eate much of it because it is hard of digestion for a weake stomack but of all other there is nothing better for such a Patient then good young Kiddes flesh that yet sucketh his damme with good Partriges and good young Hennes he shall not refuse to eate for that of all other meates they are best hee shall abstaine from Pepper and Ginger but in his meate he may vse Cinamon Cloues and such like also Nutmegges and Saffron he shall also abstaine from Onions Garlike Skallions and such like eyther rawe or sodden because they vexe the blood and inflame and dry vp the Liuer His drinke shall be good Renish wine tempered with water sodden with Annis seedes Barlie and Masticke of each as much as a Chestnut of this water hée shall take one part and of Wine two parts and hée shall drinke thereof vntill he be cured he shall keepe himselfe verie warme and out of the ayre within the house he shal kéepe the windowes and the doores shut this order he shall in all respects keepe with annointing sweating and diet vntil he be perfectly cured for if he do as is aforesaid he shal vndoubtedly by Gods helpe be cured although hee had it twentie yéeres if so be he haue not béen spoiled with other Medicines before Cap. 3. Of fumegation or smoking with correction of the abuse vsed therein THere is yet another way of curing the Pocks found out by practitioners for when they perceiued that of force they must vse Quicke siluer they tooke and killed it with Brimstone making Cinober thereof because it should not be knowne to be Quicke siluer for the common people perceiuing so manie to be spoiled and killed with Quicke siluer woulde not willinglie be cured therewith therefore because they might the better vse it without gainesaying of the Patient therefore they brought it into another forme vsing it also after another manner without any annointing because annointing was become odious to the Patient therfore they found out a deuice to perfume or smoke the Patient with the smoke of Cinober or Vermelion and so to cure him for they knew Quick siluer to be so subtill or piercing that they wold enforce it into the bodie at anie place through the pores or sweat holes And therfore they set the Patient vnder a Tent or Canopie naked with a Chafingdish of coales between his legges wherin they strowed the Cinober stopping him close round about the Patient then beginning to sweat the Mercurie with his whole substaunce creepeth into him in

a time and you shall vse this manner of fumigation euerie night when the Patient goeth to bedde and let him sweat euery time in such order as is afore shewed in the Chapter of annointing vsing him in al points as is there specified to wit in sweating in drying c. In this order you may fumigate or smoke without any danger if you take héed that the Mercurie doe not ascend so that you shall not onelie auoide all perrill in your curing but shall also purchase to your selues praise and thankes whensoeuer you shall vse it Thus much of fumigation with the correction of the abuses therein vsed now concerning washing Capit. 4. Of vvashing vvith water THere is yet another peece of cunning deuised by the subtill Pock-maisters which perceiued that they coulde not longer vse their Mercurie without hurt or shame and also without thanke of the Patient for the Patients perceiuing the great perils that ensued by the annointing how manie were therby spoyled woulde not anie longer trust their annointing and so fared it also with their fumigation for when they sawe the numbers that thereby were killed they feared and woulde not anie longer be smoked whereuppon the Pock-Maisters were enforced to prepare their Mercurie after another order that hee might be more secret and vnknowne that they might yet vse him for they wist wel that without him there was no cure to be wrought for as yet Guaicum was vnknowne therefore they tooke sublimated Mercurie and sodde it in Aqua vitae and wyth the said Aqua vitae they washed the Patient which is a verie subtill and forcible manner of curing and very perrilous which manner of curing I doo counsaile all men to leaue vndoone But in this manner following you shall not onely auoide all daunger but shall also haue good successe in your workes which if for the great labour and charge which is required in the preparing of your Mercurie you will not follow I would wish you to leaue washing for of all manners of curing there is none the like for force and daunger therefore if you wil not otherwise correct your Mercurie it is not lawfull for you to cure any man by washing for that they which are this way cured are in greater daunger then one man which dooth fight against two other for life and death But if you will prepare your Mercurie as heereafter shal be shewed you shall not onelie eschew all daunger which otherwise may happen but shall also performe as much as shal be requisite to the curing of this disease as much as hath béen hetherto performed by anie man wherefore flie sloth and vse diligence in preparing your Mercurie whereby you shal not onely obtaine your desire in curing the disease without feare and danger but also with great credite to your selfe and profit to the Patients In this washing besides this afore written there is yet another abuse that is that they haue washed all the partes of the body as well those that were sounde as those that were diseased then the which they could not haue cōmitted a greater ouersight for by that means they haue brought the sound parts into a worse case then the diseased for Mercurie vsed in such sort is in the operation as hote as fire so that in those partes wherein there is no corrupt matter to bee dryed out there he goeth to worke and drieth out all the good and naturall moisture and thereby spoyleth the whole member Therefore aboue all things you must take heede that you doe not wash the whole parts but onely those that are diseased for the diseased parts haue matter wherein the Mercurie may worke and which is needfull to be dryed out Nowe I will shewe you howe to prepare and to vse your Mercurie but first I will shewe you those simples wherewith these Masters vse to washe which are these Mercurius sublimatus Auri pigmentum Arsenicun Cerusa Camphier Aqua vitae These thinges if I shoulde minister in this sorte crudlie without other correction I thinke I shoulde kill all the Patients that I shoulde take in hande For by reason of the strength of the Aqua vitae the Mercurie becommeth so subtil and so fierie that it is a great wonder that they die not all that are taken in hand to be cured in this order For of all other this manner of curing is most daungerous for the Mercurie by his subtiltie and by meanes of the heate of the Aqua vitae doth performe his operation in the inward parts of the Patient with such force as manie sicke Patients haue better felt then I can describe and though this be most true yet there are some the vse it dailie as though it were good but I say that it is a secrete kinde of poyson which though it be but outwardlie applied doth yet not withstanding with great force performe his worke inwardly in the bodie for it inflameth and stirreth vppe the bloode in such sort that the Patient oftentimes falleth a bleeding bléeding themselues to death others are like to be choked so forciblie draweth this venime to the hart but peraduēture some will defend his dooings herein and say I haue holpen many therewith but I would faine heare the Patient himselfe report it yet nouerthelesse I doe thinke well that some one amongst a hundred may be cured by this meanes but I conne them no thanke therefore but rather nature which herselfe healed the disease and resisted the storme but howe manie haue they spoiled and holpen vnder the grounde before they haue cured one verilie a great number I am certaine but to auoide such a daunger and to attaine credit in this arte doo as is aforesaid leaue off your washing or els prepare your Mercurie as followeth The correction of this washing with Mercurie Take Mercurie which is sublimed by himselfe without any addition as I will teache you in the fore alledged Booke the same you shall sublime yet foure times with cōmon prepared Salt then you shall poure vpon the said Mercurie good rectified Aqua vitae as I haue taught you to rectefie it in my booke of Distillations This Aqua vitae you shall set on fire with a little Paper and let it burne till it be consumed then pouré on more and doo likewise dooing it so often vntill the Mercurie doo cease to bite or eate vppon the tongue then seeth the Mercurie in Persic●●ie water or in Celendine water halfe an houre long then let it be colde and poure of the water that the Mercurie be not vsed with his bodie but that his spirit his strength may come foorth and be coupled to the disease for in the spirit of the Mercurie is the vertue to cure the disease and in the bodie of it is the force to kill and spoile the Patient Therefore it is the greatest ouersight that may be to take Mercurie and to seeth it in Aqua vitae and therewith to washe the Patient for by that meanes it entereth

and such like for the aforesaid remedies they are not good for this purpose but the strength is in the Mercurie alone and it is hee the must worke the feate that is he can through sweating expell the matter of the Pocks and knoweth also where to find it for which cause he must be made to be diaphoreticke that is to expell sweat by the pores for beeing brought thereto hee is so subtill in his operation against the Pocks that it is almost incredible for he leaueth no corner in the whole body vnsearched expelling all the corrupt matter that he findeth But the preparing of him I feare me wil be too troublesome for lazie Practisioners and therefore I thinke I may spare my labour yet notwithstanding I will reueale it for their sakes that are dilligent knowing that he that desireth the health of his Patient will spare no labour nor refuse any trauaile to obtaine the same and therefore I will nowe shewe you the preparing of it The preparing of Mercurie to prouoke sweat Take of Aqua fortis a fourth parte Tinne and Quicksiluer of each halfe an ounce put this together in a Glasse and sette it in a Chafingdish with warme ashes you must remember to put it into a Glasse because the Aqua fortis doth pierce through all thinges but onelie glasse you must therefore take a Glasse with a flatte or round bottome without a foote and put it therein setting it in the ashes as aforesaid in the ende when you perceiue the Quicke siluer to be dissolued take it out of the ashes and let it stand till one may say the Pater noster thrée or foure times and there will be a little sand in the bottome thē poure off the cleere putting it into another cleane Glasse and sette it againe in the ashes as aforesaid and make vnder the Chafingdish a small fire vntill you see the water be all dried or sodden out then let it bee cold and breake the Glasse for otherwise you cannot gette it out it will be so hard when you haue taken it out you must grinde it small vppon a stone and put it in a small vessell of Siluer and gylt or of golde for that is best for this purpose the said Vessell must be about the bignesse of a Spoone and so deepe that it may containe the said matter and that you may couer the saide matter with Aqua vitae the bredth of a finger This vessell you shall set in geod strong wine Vineger a little déeper then the said matter that is in the Vessel and then sette the Aqua vitae on fire that it may burne note this that your Aqua vitae must be rectified that it do not cōtaine any fleame according as I haue taught you to rectifie it in my Booke of Distillations The Aqua vitae béeing consumed you shall immediatlie poure on more and let if likewise burne away dooing this so often vntill the Mercurie with the tinne doo conuert to a certaine kind of Oyle that is thicke and fat Of this Oyle you shall take one graine mingle it with good Wine and giue it to the Patient to drink in the morning fasting and then couer him reasonablie not too warme and you shall sée that which will make you to wonder that is you shall see such aboundaunce of sweat issue frō the Patient though he be not verie warme couered that wil cause you greatlie to maruell and of this you may be bolde that he shall sweat so much as may be good and profitable for his nature and no more This you shall giue him euery daie once and whē he sweateth let him be wel dried with warme and cleane clothes and he must take dilligent heede to keepe himselfe from cold and out of the ayre and that principallie when he sweateth his diet and his drinke shall be in all respects as is afore specified in the Chapter of sweating and you shall not regard what hath béene written heeretofore by diuers concerning the not eating of salte for that they haue therein greatlie erred therefore you shall vse so much salt as shal be needfull for the seasoning of your meat to giue it a good taste But alwaies prouided you must vse measure in all things and that principallie in salt and sowre thinges because that they two béeing two much vsed are verie hurtfull to the sinewes and for that cause you must take thē mesurablie but in any wise not to vse your meate without salte for that salt is the onelie thing requisite in the bodie to preserue the humours from corrupting for in what part of the bodie soeuer the salte beginneth to lose his vertue in the same part immediatlie beginneth a filthy rotting not much vnlike to the Leprosie wherefore in any wise you shall not forbid your Patient the eating of salt for by that outwarde salt the inwarde salt which is in the bloode and in all the other parts of man must be nourished and maintained But that you may the better beleeue that there is salte in all the parts of mans bodie you shall vnderstand that the bodie of man by all Philosophers and by me also is accounted for a little worlde which was called by them Microcosmos which little world doth containe in it all such things as the great worlde dooth naturallie containe in her By which reason it must also containe salt yet not bodilie but spirituallie and that this is true a man may perceiue by this that all whatsoeuer issueth frō man is altogether salt as the teares the sweat the vrine and such like wherefore it is necessarie for the Patient to vse salt to maintaine the same as is aforesaid But concerning Vineger you shall vse as little as is possible because it is not onelie vnprofitable but also hurtfull to nature for which cause you may not vse it much the Patient must also refraine from drinking too much strong Wine and principallie from sowre Wine so that his drinke shal be of the best and sweetest Renish wine that can be gotten and he must also drinke it measurablie thus much concerning dyet and drinke And heere you shall vnderstande that by thys manner of sweating all kinds of the Pockes may be cured although they were neuer so ill yea though one had had it xxx yeeres long so that to him that foloweth this prescribed maner of curing there shall be nothing impossible pertaining to this disease but onelie that which God will not suffer to be cured wherefore I would wishe you to vse it assuring you that you shall not find anie other meanes that shall be much better then this is Thus much concerning sweating Capit. 7. Of curing the Pockes by Seege vvith laxatiue Medicines THe Doctors of Phisicke haue also herein tried all their cunning vsed diuers meanes with laxatiue Medicines that as though it were verie agreeable to nature they might by Seege expell the matter of the Pockes but because that nature diuers times chooseth other emunctories

halfe wine sixe pound Water seauen pound this you must seeth as aforesaide giuing the Patient thereof morning and euening eyght ounces at a time purging him euery ninth day once with the aforesaid Pilles causing him to sweat verie well The sores he shall wash euery day sixe or seauen times with the aforesaid drinke for it is the best salue that can be vsed héerein for it clenseth mollifieth more then any other Oyntment that is vsed and to conclude I say if you doo according to the contents of this Chapter there is no Malladie so ill procéeding of the Pockes nor other open sores how ill soeuer but may by this meanes be cured Capit. 15. Hovv to cure the Rupture SOmetimes it happeneth a man first to bée broken and after to gette the Pockes and somtime it chaunceth him to breake while he hath them these cannot any other way be cured but with the Drinke made of this excellent Woode the order of it is thus You shall first purge him with Pilles De fumiterrę and béeing purged you shall giue him this drinke following Take of the Woode one pound of Water twelue pounde this you must seeth as aforesaide and giue the Patient thereof twise euery day eyght ounces at a time purging him euery ninth day once with the aforesaid Purgation This he shal obserue fortie daies and hee shall vndoubtedly be cured though hee were fiftie yeeres olde and had had it twentie yeeres and if he haue the Pockes they shall also herewithall be cured and he shall be made whole and sound in all his members To cure the same in Phlegmatick and Mellancholicke persons THese must first be purged with Pillulis fetidis whereof you shal giue the Patient foure scruples making therof nine Pilles which he shall take in the euening as aforesaid the next day you shal giue him of this drink Take of the wood one pound Wine and water of each foure pounde this you must seeth as aforesaide giuing the Patient thereof euerie morning and euening eyght ounces at a time purging him once euery ninth day with the aforesaid Pilles His meate shall be sodden as aforesaid with Sanikell Consolida Maior whereto you shall adde Wine and Cinamon to amende the taste In this sort I cured one in the space of a month which was seauentie yeeres old making him whole and sound frō all such greefes as he had besides Therfore you shall not vse any other meanes for those that haue the Pocks and are also troubled with the rupture but onely this aforesaide for without this nothing els can helpe Capit. xvj Of Podagra or the Goute THis disease is of a wonderfull strange nature as experience teacheth vs comming to man first by the influence of the stars in his birth that is when the Moone is infortuned wyth Mars and Saturne which causeth the person then borne to be more inclined to the said disease thē others are and then withall leading his life disorderly in lecherie surfeiting and drunkennesse is by and by attached with this said disease The opinion of many men is that this disease cannot be cured but that is not so for there are very manie that are cured of it which by their disordered liuing doo fall into it againe which if they would leade their liues well and in good order they should remaine whole being once cured especiallie those that are healed in this sort notwithstanding I graunt it will verie hardlie be cured if it runne so farre that it haue hardened the knockles of the hands and the ioynts of the foote for then the matter is become so dry that it is almost impossible to resolue it but if it be taken in any resonable time it may in this sort be cured First you must purge the Patient with Pillule de hermo dactilis whereof you shall take one dramme making thereof seauen Pilles which you shall giue the Patient at midnight letting him sleepe thereon three howres and then you shall awake him if he awake not of himselfe keeping him awake that the Purgation may the better worke vppon him not suffering him to sleepe vntill it haue doone working and then he shall eate his meate the next day you shall giue him the drinke mencioned in the former Chapter for the Chollericke but in the séething of it you shall put into it a handfull of Cipres which is an Hearbe so called purging him euerie ninth day once with the aforesaid Pilles dooing in all respects as is mentioned in the Chapter going before but you shall cause him to sweat verie much for that is verie good and also to dry the sweat very well from him with warme clothes that it goe not in againe for if it goe in againe it were as good for him not to sweat at all Thus much for the Chollericke and the Sanguine For the Phlegmaticke and the Mellancholick YOu shall also purge him with the aforesaide Pilles and then you shall giue him of the drinke mentioned in the former Chapter for the Phlegmaticke and the Mellancholicke remembring in the seething to put in a handfull of Cypres purging him euerie ninth day with the aforesaide Pilles which you shall continue vntill he be healed This suffiseth for the Goute shewing the order howe it is to be cured We haue also entreated sufficiently of all accidents which chaunce by meanes of the Pocks with diuers other diseases springing not of the Pockes but of other causes howe all such diseases are to be cured by meanes of this excellent wood is before sufficientlie made manifest I haue also in the first part of this Booke for their sakes that haue any vnderstanding opened many noble secrets of Mercurie but because the most part are not enstructed in the Arte of preparing the Mercurie I haue for theyr sakes written this seconde part for the helpe of the Patient because I woulde not haue them remaine vncured wishing the health of all men Yet notwithstanding Mercurie beeing rightly prepared dooth seeme to worke miracles so short and so excellent hee is in his operation whereof heereafter God wylling wee will wryte more Thus I conclude this treatise desiring God to spare me vntill I haue performed my purposed intent in writing to his glory and to the profit of my neighbour Thus louing Reader I commit thee to GOD almightie to whom bée all prayse honour and glorie both nowe and for euermore Amen FINIS Printed by Iohn Charlwood ❧ Faultes escaped in the Printing PAge 2. line 3. put out the first and. Page 7 line 2 read Mercurie and Lignum vitae Page 7 line 9 for Ciuober read Cinober Page 8 line 25 for Bernagie read Borrage Page 18 line 31 for dissolue it reade dissolue them Page 21 line 3 reade Emunctorij line 4. read places Page 21 line 30 for in read on Page 26 line 4 reade feniculi and for endinie read endiuię Page 26 line 13 for Iudum read Indum and for Hermodactilus read Hermodactiles Page 26 line 15 read Arthriticae and for aree read aurae Page 26 line 16 for siue read sine Page 51 line 7 read stomaticum laxatiuum Page 51 line 13 read Dicitonion and for Diacitron line 21. read Diacitonion Page 52 line 5 read Diacitonion Page 55 line 18 for Diacobicū turbit read Diacatholicon Page 58 line 5 read Indae Also I admonish the freendlie Reader to take héed howe he doe minister any purgatiue receit according as it is heere in this Booke sette foorth without the good aduise and counsell of the learned Phisition