with the syrrup of Hysop Emperica benedicti victoriâ— fauent You maye haue it well made at the Apothecaryes I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in this case YF you wyll breake the great heate of Wyne in the vessell cast into the same a lytle peece of cheese and then you shall see a maruelous thing And why that is Georgius valla placentinus doth teache YF you annoynt your hands or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettels oyle and a lytle Salt it wyll defende the party therwith annoynted from the bytterest colde that is Mizaldus THere be braunches of a Bay tree wrapt vp or layd among cloathes and bookes wyll keepe the same safe from mothes woormes and other corrupcion Dioscorides IF you stampe Ants egges strayne them through a cloath and put therevnto the iuyce of Swynes grasse or Knot grasse and distyll it into the eares it helpes a long continewed deafnes A Powder to conserue the syght Take Bettony Rewe Celondine Saxifrage Louache Annyse seedes Cynamom Eyebryght of each one handfull Cardamomum Gynger Fennell Petroselyne Hysop Organy Syler mountaine of each one dram Galinga one ounce Sugar one ounce Let a powder be made of these and let it be taken continually with meate and the syght wyll be restored and kept This powder was ordeyned by Maister Geralde whose tryall an olde man dyd proue which vsed spectacles twelue yeares so that without them he could not see great letters but after he had vsed this powder onely one forty dayes he was free in so much that all the tyme of his lyfe he dyd see and read the least letter that was This Trotula hath written in the later ende of his Booke De passionibus mulâ—erum AN excelleÌ„t way to get out the water out of swolne legges wherby to make them as slender as they were before Seethe Otes in water vntyll they be tender then let the party diseased hold his legge that is swolne ouer the vessell that it maye receyue the fume or smoake of the sodde Otes and couer the partye with some thing that it may go downe rounde about the vessell and then blysters wyll come vpon the legge or swolne place out of which wyll runne much water and corruption then after annoynt the place with butter Doo thus fowre or fyue seuerall tymes if neede be This is well proued TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita put into the eyes morning and euening euery other daye for the space of fowre or fyue dayes wyll cleare the syght and helpe the eyes of a colde cause maruelously An olde Gentlewoman that tryed it on her selfe dyd reueale it to me THe hearbe Dandelyon well sodde in water is counted to be a chiefe helpe for the ioygning or knytting of woundes It is good for Ruptures or for them that be broken or brusten c. Mizaldus A Maruelous Water that soone and easily may be prepared more precious then Golde is made as followeth Put fayre and cleare water into a vessell wherein there was neuer before any lycquor or before neuer occupyed and when the water is verye hotte powre it to quicke Lyme being before in another newe and cleane vessell and let it remayne and rest so long vntyll you haue taken all the fowle spume that fleetes aboue from the same and that all the Lyme bee settled to the bottome and the water verye cleare then powre out the water very softlye without mouing the Lyme in the bottome and keepe the same water in a fayre cleane glasse or some other cleane vessell well couered or stopt vntyll you vse the same It wyll scantly be beleeued what a myraculous vertue and power it hath in all kynde of Ulcers and chiefly such as springes of the Frenche Pockes For the same being bathed or moystned with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet in the sayde water something warme a prety whyle and then a lynnen cloath well wet in the same and so layde vpon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster and after renewed againe it wypes cleane away all the fylthe or corruption it ceaseth the paynes it fylles the Ulcer with flesh and it quyte quencheth the heate or inflamations in a small tyme Not without a great myracle for otherwyse quicke Lyme dooth burne with vehemencie of his heate Let them enioye this most excellent secrete which for great prayer and pryse to many I haue refused to vtter Thus much Mizaldus MYrre geuen to drynke in warme Wyne the quantity of a bygge Nut causeth the delyueraunce of the the chylde eyther quicke or dead Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gowte Take of Romaine Uitryall two poundes of distylled Honny fowre pyntes distyll these together making the Uitryall fyrst in powder and when it is distylled adde to the same the thyrde part thereof of Aqua vite rectifyed which dillygently myâ—ed keepe to your vse and annoynt the sore or grieued place therwith Doo thus morning and euening vntyll you feele your selfe well which wyl be God wyllyng within seuen or eyght dayes at the furthest I wrote this out of an olde Booke I thinke it be also in the new Iewell of Health which is a worthy booke and full of many straunge and excellent things THe smoake of Iuy burned doth driue away Backs or Reremyse from that place where the same smoake is Anatolius IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie for any thing wherin he hath a hope to haue marke if the Lorde of the eleuenth house apply to the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Lord of the fyrst house to the Lord of the eleuenth house Iudge that he shall haue the thing which he hopes to get or haue and he shall come to it And if the Aspect be of a Tryne or Sextyle he shall quickly and easilye and by a good meane obtayne it but if it be by a quartyle or opposyte Aspect he shall get it with tediousnes and labor Furthermore if thou doost fynde the Lorde of the eleuenth house in an Angle receyued then iudge that he shall haue the thing which he so hopes to haue euen as he desyres Haly Abenragel A Peece of the roote of Craw foote eyther put into the hollowe toothe if there be any or applyed to the toothe that aketh wyll helpe the same presently A sure proued and often tryed medicine WHosoeuer hath a sorenes in the throate or else any harde swelling there called the Squinancie or Angina and perhappes thereby doth hardly draw his breath let them apply this following often times in a day and it wyll soften it and resolue it For it is proued Take of the rootes of Hollyock cut in small peeces and made cleane Camamell the flowres of Uyolets the flowres of Mallowes with the rootes of each one handfull let them boyle all in a sufficient quantitye of water vntyll the water be consumed then put to the same the flowre of barley Lynseede and Fenecreeke well stampt and beaten of each
Lyserd hath a great delyght to beholde a Man in the face for he wyll louingly fawne vpon him as a Dog with the mouing of his tayle And as much as in him lyes wyll defende him from a Serpent that lyes lurking in the hearbes to hurte him Lemnius THe iuyce or water streyned out of Radish rootes before stamped myxt with whyte Wine and the powder of Turpentine burned or dryed in the Sun and so receyued is an excellent medicine to breake and dryue forth the stone And it is geuen with happy successe A thing proued much better then golde Mizaldus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be founde in the nynth house he that is then borne shall of his owne free wyll go farre and long iourneyes And if there be a good Planet in the same nynthe house with him or else doth beholde him with a happye Aspect then it shall happen well to him in his iourneyes If an euyll Planet then contrarye Taisnier LAye a thynne peece of rawe Beefe to the forehead of them that haue lost theyr voyce and let it lye thereto all nyght vnremoued and it wyll helpe them presently or at the least within three or fowre seuerall applications TAke the bones of Beastes which be founde in the fyeldes and chiefly of Horsses because they be best therefore and let them be well washed after let them be dryed at the Sunne then put them into a great Cawdren with water let them seethe long and gather the fatte that swyms aboue wherewith annoynt the gowte or palsey of whatsoeuer cause they come and it wyll be helped SEethe Iuie Mugwoort Walwoort and the inner rynde of Elderne in water with much Salt and bathe therewith any Sciatica twyse or thryse a day for eyght or nyne dayes together and the partye grieued wyll be made hole This I had out of an olde wrytten booke wherin was many excellent thinges IF you sprynckle the powder of Saffern rounde about the weake vpon the Oyle in a fayre greene and bryght Lampe of glasse and let the same burne so that there be none other lyght in the same Chamber it wyll beawtifye all thinges in the same place with a fayre yallowe cullour You may proue it by other cullours lykewise THe dung of a Woolfe being hydden in a Stable or house where Cattell be especially Sheepe It wyll not onely make them leaue from eating of theyr meate but also it wyll cause them to sturre vp and downe and to blate or to make a noyse and also to quake and tremble as though their deuowring enemye the Woolfe were thert present Neyther wyll they cease from doing thus vntyll they feele or perceyue that the sayde dung is taken away Mizaldus THere is nothing better to drawe forth Thornes prickes or any other thing whatsoeuer in any part of the body whersoeuer it be then blacke Sope applyed to the place letting the same lye ▪ thereto twelue howres without remouing of the same A Certaine noble Matrone in the parts of Spaine had a strong Imagination of a great Etheopyan paynted in her Chamber with other in the tyme of the act of generation Which Lady afterward was delyuered of a Boye lyke to that great Etheopyan paynted before named Which chylde being borne euery one beleeued that she had leyne with some one of the slaues of the Sarseyns For that the chyld was like none of his Parents Whervpon the ministers of Iustice with consent of her Husbande and other dyd decree that she shoulde be burned after the monthes ende But before the mynistration of this Iustice or execution certaine wyse men were called whereof one desyred that he might see the place where the chylde was begotte which when he had seene he consydred that that generation was by the strength of the Imagynatiue vertue And then he sayde that that great Etheopyan was the father of the chylde Brynging forth for the confyrmation thereof that place of the Byble where Iacob put speckled Roddes before the Sheepe by which Imaginatiō the Ewes brought forth speckled Lambes Which when he had spoken the Lady was delyuered from burning Wherfore as I haue wrytten in other places of this Booke men ought not rashly to mislyke their Wiues hauing none other occasion because theyr chyldren are vnlyke to theyr Parentes For as you see here and in Iacobs Lambes Imagination is of maruellous force in the tyme of generation Which doth not onely worke in men but in Beasts Ganiuetus writes this Hystorye who as it should seeme hath it out of Lyra. THe flowres of Marygooldes as also of Succory and of certayne other hearbes do begyn to open at the rysing of the Sunne at noone they are fully and wholy opened But they are closed or are shutte when the Sunne doth sette Therfore some calles it and such other Sponsus solis the Spowse of the Sunne Because they sleepe and are awakened with him c. Mizaldus And the dayly tryall thereof affyrmes it IF Asses do eate much of Hemlockes they wyll be cast thereby into a deepe and dead sleepe that they wyll seeme to be dead Which hath deceyued the countrey men being ignoraunt therof for as they haue bene fleying of theyr skyns thynking that they were dead the sely Asses haue sturred and wakened out of their sleepe to the great terror of them that dyd flea them or cutte of their skyns and to the great laughing of them that dyd behold them As Andreas Matthiolus that learned Phisition hath wrytten in his commentaries vpon Diascorides PUt the ashes of a burnt Snayle vpon the spotte in the eye and within three dayes it wyll take it awaye Barth IF one come to aske or enquyre the Astrologian for any thing in the howre of an euyll Planet that is of Saturne or Mars it is a suspicion rather to euyll then to good And chiefly if that euyll Planet be any where impedyte Retograde or Combust or in his fall or Cadent from an Angle And this is to be vnderstanded lykewise of the comming of any on the behalfe of any that is sycke or brynging the vryne of the sycke or of any that doth aske counsayle or enquire of the estate of the sycke though the vryne be not seene it is a suspicion of euyll for the sick though it be not a full testimony therof Ganiuetus IF a Woman that is too much weakened with her monthly course doth cast the same or let the same runne into a hoale made in the grounde with a three squared stake the same stake immediatly after being put or driuen into the same hole and so remayne therin vnremoued her sayd fluxe wyll staye or cease being thought before to be vncurable An honest Woman reuealed this straunge secrete to me Which proued the same to be true and she learned it of a poore Woman that requyred almose of her at her doore IN the Lake called Larius which nowe is called Comensis certayne Fyshers in the wynter dyd drawe with theyr nettes to the drye lande a great sort
into the fyre Lemnius wrytes this SNayles without their shelles or otherwyse with their shels stamped myxed somtimes with Chesleppe or Rennet do drawe out thornes or any other thing out of the fleshe though neuer so deepe if they be applyed to the place And also being layde to the bellye of them that haue the Dropsie they sucke out the water But the same must not bee lowsed from the bellye vntyll all the humour or water bee sweat foorth or else the same plaster of Snayles doth fall away of him selfe Iacob Hollerius FINIS Lib. 1. ⧠The seconde Booke of Notable things WHen the Moone is in coniunction with the Sunne or in any euyll aspecte with him and in any Angle and beholden of euyl planets with an euyll aspect in any bodyes Natiuitie It sygnifies that the Childe that is then borne shal haue inseperable diseases or griefes in the eyes Iatromath Guat H. Ryff Argent IT is manifest by experieÌ„ce that the seuenth Male Chyld by iust order neuer a Gyrle or Wench being borne betweene doth heale onely with touching through a naturall gyft the Kings Euyll which is a speciall gyft of God geuen to Kings or Queenes As daylye experience doth witnesse Mizaldus ERastratus a Phisition dyd perceyue by the feeling of the pulse that Antiochus the soÌ„ne of king Seleucus dyd so pyne for the loue of Stratonices his mother in lawe that vnlesse he might haue his desyre with the good wyll or pardon of his Father he woulde dye These are Authors thereof Valerius Maximus and Galenus Which also by the lyke did know that Iusta the Wyfe of Boetius a councellor of Rome dyd languish for the loue of one Pilas daunsing in the Theatre Mizaldus CElendine with the harte of a Woont or a Mould-warpe layde vnder the head of one that is grieuouslye sicke if he be in daunger of death Immediatly he wyll crye with a lowde voyce or syng if not he wyll weepe Mizaldus THe iuyce of Henbane mixte with the bloud of a Hare and sodde within the skynne of a Hare it is sayd that all the Hares wyll gather together which be within that tract where it is buryed As the Matrix of a Bytche wyll gather Dogges together This was affirmed for trueth to Mizaldus MAny women with childe of the sodaine or vnlooked for meeting or sodaine seeing of an Hare or for the desyre or longing to eate of the same do bring forth chyldren with a clouen ouerlyppe and forkedwyse called a Hare lyppe Daylie experience confyrmes it Mizaldus THat disease or sicknesse wyll be great which takes one when the Moone is in that signe wherin an euil Planet was in the time of his byrth eyther in a quarryle or opposite aspect and if an euyll planet doth theÌ„ beholde her it wyll be very perillous But then if the Moone be in a place where a good Planet was in the tyme of the birth that sicknes wyl be without any dauÌ„ger Hermes Trismegistus Ptolomeus Claudius Galenus Authors AN Egge layde in strong Uineger three dayes or a lytle longer it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft that one may draw it through a Ring Cast the same into a warme water and let it lye therein and it wyll be harde againe Mizaldus A Flynt stone lying in Uineger the space of seuen dayes maye be resolued into powder by rubbing betweene the fyngers Therefore it is no maruayle though Annybal dyd dissolue the stones of the Alpes with vineger Mizaldus WAter wherin the leaues and seedes of Hâ—mpe is sodden being cast or sprinckled on the earth wyl make the woormes to come out of the ground if any be there Mizaldus THe oyle of Tartar made of the leese of excellent Wine doth take the spottes from yron the yron being clensâ—d from all rustinesse and doth make him of an excellent bryghtnes if the yron be rubbed therwith Mizaldus THe roote oâ— Henbane stampt and applyed warme to the payne of the Gowte of the feete or Sciatica It is sayde that it helpes maruelouslie because this herbe belonges to Iupiter which is onely Lorde of Sagitarie which gouernes the huckle bone And of Pisces which chalâ—ngeth the feete Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of secreetes IF some droppes of Aqua vite be myxt with wryting ynke the same ynke wyl neuer be frosen Proued WHosoeuer is apt to any thing hath certaynlie the Starre or Planet by whom that thing is sygnified very strong in his byrth Myzaldus As thus for exaÌ„ple I may say by the way He that is apt to Martial feates or Warlyke affayres hath vndoubtedly Mars strong in his byrth And whosoeuer is apt or enclined to planting drawing wryting syphering or to the science of Arithmatike or to any wyttie or notable inuencions without all doubte hath Mercurie verie strong in his byrth Which by dayly proofe is infallyble And so you may know of the rest THe woodde of the Sicamore tree is neuer drye in the ayre or hye grounde and in the bankes of ryuers and where waters runne ouer it dryes verye quicklie Mizaldus THe soles of the feete annoynted with the fatte of a Dormouse doth procure sleepe As Actius doth saye THey wyl haue paines in the stomack or be weake stomackt in whose Natiuities Mars and Saturne are in the sixt house or in the twelfth house infortunating the Moone or the Lord of the Ascendent Especially if the sygne of the syxt house be Cancer Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following is an excellent remedie for them that be broken bellyed or brusten Take nine redde Snayles and put them betwene two tyle stones so that they slyde not away drye them in an Ouen so that you make them in powder then geue to the diseased the powder of one of them in whyte wine euerie other daye in the morning tyll all be done which wyll be in .xviii. dayes The partie must take it fasting and neyther eate nor drinke of two howres after And if the disease be so loÌ„g rooted that these nine times wyl not suffice then begin immediatly againe with other nine Snayles do as before is declared in all points I had this out of an old Booke wherin was many excellent Secretes I heard one affirme it to be a true and tryed thing HEmpe seede geuen to Hens in wynter wyll make them laye egges a pace Cardanus THe oyle of Tartare doth take awaye cleane all spottes freckles and fylthy wheales of the face chyn or forehead with his cleansing strength This is well proued WHen thou wylt driue away Flyes froÌ„ any place that there shal none be seene there againe make the image of a Flye in the stone of a Ring or as my booke sayth Mizaldus in a plate of brasse or copper or of Tyn make the image of a Flye of a Spyder of a Serpent the second face of Pisces then ascending And whyles you are making or grauing of them saye This is the Image which doth cleane ryd all Flyes for euer Then
or an vnfortunate planet ther he is a deceyuer a lyar Which I sayth Haly as one that haue proued it do confirme do say if one come to coūsayl thee the Ascendent be of cōmon signes or the Lord of the Ascendent the Moone be in common signes do say that he is then a deceiuer wyl deceiue thee Therfore hearken not to him Haly Abenragell ONe knot of the roote of a Mullen geuen to drink doth binde the losenes of the bellie Proued HE that waxeth deaffe through an ague bleedeth at the nose shall recouer his hearing Hippocrate◠in Aphor. THis medicine following is proued by experience and as a certayne diuine thing doth cure euerie plurisie and doth relieue the sicke from death which ought not to be applyed vnto the sicke partie vntyll the fowrth daye be past Take of Dealtha two ounces which is to be had at the Apothecaries the oyle of sweete Almondes halfe an ounce myxe them together with which oyntment being warme let the grieued place be annointed then sprinkle vpon the annointed place half an ounce of powder of Coomin finelie fearced which done take a Colewoort leafe made hotte vpon burning ashes and annoint it with olde butter not salted and laye it hotte vpon the annoynted powdred place tying it on with cloathes that it remoue not and a maruelous affect wyll appeare vnto you in the ceasying of the paine of the plurysie and in resoluing of the matter of the impostume This remedie wyl bring honor vnto thee and great profyte vnto the sicke person And knowe that this remedie is good in any other great payne in all the body frō the head vnder Emperica benedicti victorij And also I haue seene this proued which helped one of the plurisye without letting of bloud IF a Woman with chylde haue her smocke that she weares slyt at the neather ende or skyrt thereof or not sowed there rounde about but that one syde or seame thereof be a lytle left vnclosed or vnsowed together the same chylde that she then goeth withall shal be safe from hauing a clouen or hare lyppe Yea though she chaunce to meete suddenly a Hare or though a hare doth leape ouer her or suddenly touch her Which happens to many Chyldren by such meanes as is mencioned in an other parte of this booke This was very credibly told me for a trueth Therfore I haue placed it here as worthy the name of a notable thing WHosoeuer shall vse dayly to take in a draught of small Ale a spoonful of the powder of Matfellon or Scabius the same wyll destroye any impostume within them It hath bene often proued And Anthonius Musa doth praise it for the lyke effect IF the Lord of the sixt house be in the Ascendent or tēth house it showes that the disease is open manifest if in the seuenth or fowrth house then the disease is priuy or hyd if in the ninth or eleuenth house then it is opē manifestly knowne in the other places the disease is priuy hyd or vnknowne Iatromath Guat Gryff CLeopatra the last Queene of Egipt and Wyfe to Marcus Antonius Consull of Roome a prowde Princesse and too dainty a Dame dyd drinke one so voluptuous draught as neuer any dyd before nor I thinke wyll hereafter for she dissolued in Tarte and strong Uineger the greatest and beutifullest Pearle that euer was seene in the East parte of the worlde and drunke the same at one draught to satisfye her prowde presumptuous pleasure withall Which Pearle was woorth two hūdreth and fifty thousand crownes Plinius Macrob. And other OUt of the Figge tree there comes such a sharpe vapor that if a Hen be hanged thereon it wyll so prepare her that she wil be soone and easily rosted Plut. And the lyke wyll be if the fethers be pluckt off from Fowles or Byrds the skyns pulled off frō Beasts and then layde or couered a day or two in a heape of Wheate It is confirmed by experience sayth Mizaldus THe professors of naturall Magicke affirmes that Uarueyn being taken vp or gathered when the Sunne is in Aries the Ram and stampt with the seedes of Pyonie and streyned with whyte Wine drunke doth maruelously heale them that haue the falling sicknesse Oftentimes proued sayth Mizaldus Which he had out of a verye olde booke of the seuen hearbes of the planets written to Hermes WHen any of the three higher planets the Sun is in any of the Angles the chyld then borne being a boye shal be chiefe of his brethren Or if there be any borne before him they wyll dye and he shall holde the chiefe rule in his fathers house Taisnier SAlt dyssolued in water or brine presently with his strength doth both put away the paynes and the heate of any burning whether it be with Gunpowder or with oyle pytche scalding water burning coales burning yron or by any other meanes whatsoeuer especially if it be bathed with lynnē cloathes wet or dypt in the same and a lynnen cloath therein wet layde or applyed to the place burned Lemnius TAke Salarmoniacke Roch allom Allom plume Sal gem Tartar and Romaine Uitriall of each equall partes all which seuerally made in fine powder myxe together and dissolue it in fayre cleare water then put syluer or syluer plate therein and let it lye and set it ouer the fyre that it may be very hotte and you shal see that your siluer or plate wil be maruelous whyte and fayre Mizaldus THe roote of Zedoary but be sure it be perfect and good mixt with Reysons and a lytle Lycqueris champed with the teeth and swallowed preserues them that doo so vnhurt or without daunger of the plague if they go to any that are infected with the plague or that are constrayned to speake with them that haue the plague Mizaldus THe roote of Pyonie which is the hearbe of the Sun being pulled out of the earth on a Sonday in the howre of the Sun the Sunne then being in Leo called the Lyon and the Moone encreasing in light which is from her chaunge to the full delyuereth them of the falling sycknesse that beares it vppon them Marcilius Ficinus IF at the tyme of the fyrst falling sycke of one or at the time of the question for the sycke the Moone be in the fowrth house with Mars and good Planettes be Cadent It is sygne of death Iohannes Ganiuerus LEt the Woman that trauels of her chylde or is in her labour be gyrded with the skynne that a Serpent or Snake castes off and then she wil quicklye be delyuered Trotula A Maruelous rare Secrete to drawe out the oyle of Cynamom after an easie manner which oyle preserueth the stomacke from corruption by taking of it by the mouth and applying of it to the stomack Take of Cynamom one pounde which stampe and beate finelye then myxe and impast it with the oyle of sweete Almondes vnto the forme of an oyntment then heate the same in an earthen
panne somewhat which after let stande close couered for fowreteene dayes or twelue at the least At the ende of which tyme heate the whole againe sufficiently that is vntyll it be very hotte then put it into a bagge and wryng out the oyle in a presse vntyll the whole Cynamom remayne through drye in the bagges and then that which is come foorth wyll be of the cullour sauour and taste of the Cynamom A Secrete and knowne to fewe to bee wrought in thys order THe powder of Pellyter of Spaine mixt with the mylke of Wartwoort or Spurge and Galbanum and a lyttle thereof applyed to any rotten or aking tooth wyl breake it or plucke it out and so the paine thereof wyll cease This I had out of an olde wrytten booke IF you wyll knowe whether one shall escape or not that is infected with the plague hauing the plague Sore geue the partie some excellent Treacle with whyte Wyne so that hee be not troubled with an ague for then geue the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water and also annoynt the plague Sore with the lyke Treacle and if the same be dryed or burned and remayne fyxed the partie thereby not relieued or eased it is a verie euyll sygne but contrarie if the partie be eased it is a great sygne that the party shall escape Arnoldus IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys syttes there neuer enters any Flyes Gandeut Merula And in the fleshe Shamble of Toledo a Cittie in Spayne is not seene but one Flye in all the whole yeare As Leo Paptist sayeth And in Westminster Hall in the Tymber worke there is not to bee founde one Spyder nor a Spyder webbe Because as it is thought the Tymber wherewith the rooffe is buylded was brought out of Irelande and dyd growe there In all which Countrey of Irelande I haue not onely hearde it credibly tolde that there is neyther Spyder Tode nor any other venemous thing but also that some of the earth of that country hath bene brought hether wheron a Tode being layd she hath dyed presently Though this be maruelous strange yet it is true IT is proued sayth Taisnier if Iupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house whether hee be Orientall or Occidentall of the Sunne or whether hee be in a Masculine sygne or Femynine sygne the fyrst chylde of him or her then borne wyll be a boye THe iuyce of ground Iuie snuft vp into the nose out of a spoone or a sawcer purgeth the head maruelouslie and takes away the greatest and eldest paine therof that is This medicine is worth gold though it be very cheape I haue knowne them that haue had maruelous payne in their head almost intollerable for the space of a dosen yeares and this hath helpt them presently and neuer had the paine synce they tooke this medicine THis medicine following wyll kyll woormes in the bellie Take the gall of an Oxe or of a Cowe and so much of the flowre of Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries as wyll thycken the same myxe them well together and laye it on wooll and so plaster it to his bellie where the griefe is and about the nauell and after twelue howres lay theron another plaster Do thus fowre or fiue dayes and it wyll helpe him HOw greatly is the sicke party to be feared or iudged not to escape iâ— in the tyme of the question or the fyrst beginning of the sycknesse both the Lumynaryes are vnder the earth c. Iatromath M. Guat H. Ryff argent IF hotte burning golde be quenched in pure Wine the same Wine being drunke it procures strength to the chiefe members and to the vytall partes And it makes strong the natural faculties and doth helpe the diseased parte with strength and vytall spyrite And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the tyme of Plague And if the same be mixed with a lytle Tarter it doth quyte put away from any part of the body all spots though they be neuer so fowle Yea it helps a leprous face a red nose and any other deformity of the same If the place infected be washt and rubbed often tymes therwith Lemnius THe water that drops out of the Uine or the goom that is founde there being drunke with whyte Wyne doth breake expell the stones in the reynes maruelously And also being rubbed vpon Ryngwoormes Tetters and leprous places it doth cure them But they must be rubbed before with Niter This was tolde to Mizaldus as a proued thing IF his spyttle which hath a consumption being cast vpon the coales doth styncke and the heair fall from his head It is sygne of death Hippocrates in Aphor. THere is a certayne Electuary of lyfe of Arnoldus de villa noua in a lytle booke of his of the putting back of olde age described of the fiue kindes of Myrabolanes made for the conceruing or keeping of health and prolonging of lyfe And it is a perfyt approued thing For it doth not onely comfort but also it doth purge superfluous humors remaining of nutriment past And the vse thereof doth let or hynder graye heairs and it makes one come to the last olde age It strengthneth the stomacke and the vse therof maketh a good cullour in all the body And this is the description therof Take of great Reysons cleansed of their stones and stalkes two pounde Lycquerys made cleane and beaten one ounce Let these be put into two pounde and a halfe of fayre water and let them seethe well and let them then be strayned well And in that that is streined let there be put of Mirabolanes Kebule Citrine and Indy beaten in a Morter their stones taken away of each two ounces of Embelyck Bellerick of either of them two drams Let them be sodde streined pressed or wel wroong then put therto whyte sugar one pounde and seethe altogether to the thycknes of a Syrup and in the ende adde therto of good Cynamom halfe an ounce Cloues Galengaye of each two drams two Nutmugs Maratrum and Annes seede of eyther one ounce and make therof a Lectuary and keepe it in a pure vessell In this Electuary be medicines of the principall members that is to say of the hart head stomacke Lyuer Speâ—n And of the generatiue members and it is fyrst hotte after moyst then cold and the last drie Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise describes it CErtaine woormes that shines in the night called Glo woorms being wel stopped in a glasse couered within hootte horse dung staÌ„ding there a certaine time wyll be resolued into a lycquor which being mixt with lyke porcion of quicksyluer first clensed purged which wylbe with halfe a dosen times washing in pure vineger myxt with bay salt which after euery washing rubbing must be cast away and then hotte water put to the quicksyluer therewith washed and then put closed in a fayre bright and pure glasse and so hanged vp in the myddes of a house
swolne and also the face necke and legges who dyd lye as though she were halfe dead to whome I gaue the rootes of Daffadyll stampt and myxt with water and saffern which being drunke she was quickly hole I wrote this â—ut of an olde written booke TAke heede in letting of bloud or geuing of Purgacions or strong medicines that the Lorde of the eyght house be not with the Moone or with the Lorde of the Ascendent Lykewise that the Moone nor the Lorde of the Ascendent be in the fowrth or eyght house nor that the Lord of the eyght house be in any Angle and it is not good that the Moone be in the Ascendent Iatromathematica Guat Ryff A Winde rysing in the North in the begynning of the nyght or in the twye lyght by and by he ceaseth and leaueth his place Therfore it is that the Shypmen or Marryners hauing iust tryall therof wyll not set forth in that wynde vnlesse it hath continued three dayes The South winde is contrary which if it ryse or begyn in the beginning of the day it bringes hope to the Marryners that it wyll continew and not quickly depart out of that place Mizaldus THe skynne of the ryght heele of a Uultar layde to the ryght foote and of the lefte heele to the lefte foote of them that are payned with the gowte It is sayde that it doth mytygate the griefe and ease the paynes Mizaldus LUte stringes or Harpe strynges cutte in lytle peeces and cast vpon flesh newly sodden or rosted wyl seeme to be woormes Whereby they that knowes not thereof wyll refuse the same meate Mizaldus IF the Yarde doth swell and be grieuously payned myngle Waxe Oyle and the iuyce of Purslane together and apply it to the swolne Yarde and it wyll helpe it It is often proued IOhannes Ganiuetus wrytes that in the yeare of the Lorde .1431 the seuenth daye of August being Tewsday about seuen of the clocke in the morning one Maister Henricus Amici a Doctor of Phisicke borne at Bruxelles in Brabant dyd aske him for the Lord Deane of Viennens then being sycke whether he should dye or recouer of that sycknes In the fygure of which question he founde that the Moone was going in coniunction to the Sunne vnder the beames of the Sun which was a testimony of death With dyuers other lykelyhoods of the same But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde within one degree of the Ascendent corrupting the degree ascending dyd iudge that he woulde shortly fall into a frensye at the furthest within a naturall daye although he was a very wyse man And so it came to passe For within lesse then a naturall daye he became franticke And so dyed within two dayes after TAke cloues of Garlycke and burne them in a potte all to powder and if you vse to eate of that powder in your pottage doubtles it wyll procure you to make water if you are troubled with the stone This I had out of a very olde booke IF you put the powder of Allom in water whatsoeuer you wryte therwith the wryting or Letters wyl not appeare vnlesse you put the same paper in water and then you shall reade it perfectly Bapt. porta THis that followeth is a most excellent true sure proued medicine for a great and olde griefe and payne of the head Take of bay Salt stamped by it selfe as much of Coomyn seede stamped lykewyse by it selfe as much browne Fennell and then stampe or beate them all together then with as much pure vynegar also a lytle Rosewater mixe sturre them all together in a dyshe ouer a 〈◊〉 dyshe with hotte coales and then laye some of the same hotte vpon a cloath and apply it so to the hynder part of the heade at nyght and tye it fast thereto that it fall not away And also laye an other plaster therof hotte therto the next nyght and so do nyne nyghts together one after another and it wyll not onely helpe the same perhaps within three or fowre tymes so doing but also it wyll cleare the syght and draw the humors cleane away that runnes out of the head into the eyes and drye vp the same This medicine neuer fayles Therfore it is a precious thing and worthy to be estemed A Good waye to get the stone called Craupaudina out of the Tode Put a great or ouergrowne Tode fyrst brused in dyuers places into an earthen potte and put the same in an Antes hyllocke couer the same with earth which Tode at length the Antes wyll eate So that the bones of the Tode and stone wyll be left in the potte Which Mizaldus and many other as he sayth haue often tymes proued IT is sayde that the female Uyper doth open her mouth to receyue the generatyue sparme of the male Uyper which he doth by putting his mouth into her mouth which receyued she doth byte off his head This is the maner of the froward generating of Uipers And after that the young Uipers the springs of the same do eate or gnaw a sunder theyr mothers belly therby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth And so they being reuengers of theyr Fathers iniurye do kyll theyr owne mother Galen de Theriaca ad Piâ—onem You may see they were a towardly kynde of people that Christ called the â—eneration of Uypers SEethe Sage and drinke it eyther stampe it and lay it to the Matrix for both wayes it prouoketh the flowres and after burthens Petrus Hispanus THe gyrdle worne of a Chylde being vnder seuen yeares of age some sayes twelue yeares of age taken and tyde about the mydle of one that hath the fallyng sycknes and then presently taken from the sayde party and cutte in nyne peeces and euery peece throwne nyne seuerall wayes is a present and perfect remedy to heale and helpe the same party therof without saying of any wordes They that tolde it to me did see it proued a thing no doubt very straunge and almost incredyble Some thinkes that this wyll not preuayle but at the fyrst falling of the party THe tongue of a Dogge layde vnder the great toe within the shoe doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so weares the same Mizaldus THe skyn of an Asse being tande and shooes made of that part of the hyde wheron the burthens dyd lye that the Asse caryed they wyll neuer teare nor be worne No although you go continually among stones and thornes and with the oldnes therof they wyll waxe so harde that one can not suffer to weare them as Cardanus hath written TO stoppe the bleeding of the nose take nine or ten fresh new Leekes and put a threede thorowe the myds of them but cut of the toppes of the leaues then hang them about the parties neck that bleedes so that the leaues be vpward to the nose the heads of them downward It is good also to smell to Camphere dyssolued in vynegar and also to put the roote of Pyony vnder the tongue Iacobus Holleriâ—s IF you
degree a month if in a common signe it signifyes a meane time betweene both that is as I haue founde euerye degree a weeke Iohannes Ganiuetus But you must beware if the sayde Planet be dyrect that he doth apply to the degree ascending IF you take the outward rynde of the Radish roote and the hearbe Marcury of eyther one ounce of Saffern three graynes of Cassia Lignea fynely powdred one dram the iuyce of Sauine two drammes and then myxe them and let them all be beaten together and then tye the same in a fyne lynnen cloath that is thynne and then ioyne it to the necke of the Matryx of a Woman that is in her trauell and in the howre of the byrth which els should bring forth her chylde with dyffycultie by and by shee wyll be brought to bedde It is a secrete Benedictus victorius fauent HE in whose Natiuity Venus is coniunct or ioynd with Mercury and they both being vnder the beames of the Sun shal be gelded Iotromath Guat Ryff YF you plucke out one of the eyes of a blacke Dog whyles he is lyuing and wyll carrye it with you it wyll make that no Dogs shall barke at you yea though you walke among them But it wyl be more sure if you put therto a lytle of the harte of a Woolfe Sextus Platonicus and Albertus THe iuyce of Knotgrasse drunke with the powder of seuē Pepper cornes before the fytte doth quite put away the quarten ague But it is sayde that the hearbe must be gathered vpon a Thursday and the iuyce then lykewise there of must be gotten and streyned the Moone discreasing which is betweene the ful Moone and the change Mizaldus had this out of an olde booke of Secretes wrytten with the hande of one called Ianus or Faunus A Bathe wherein Emets or Antes and theyr Egs being stampt haue bene sodden doth quycklye heale an olde and almost incurable ioynt sycknesse Proued YF they that haue the fallyng sicknesse do vse to receyue twyse or thryse in the weeke at theyr going to bedde one of these lytle pylles following without doubt they wyll be hole thereof howsoeuer it coms Take of the best Castoreum Assafetida of eyther halfe a dram ▪ of the roote of Pyony fynely powdred one dram Aromaticum Rosatum two drams myxe them together with the syrrup of Mynts and make therof seuen pylles you may haue al this at the Apothecaries This is a proued secrete Emperica benedicti AN excellent oyntment for the gowte Take three pound of Walwoort and stampe it well then melt one pound of May butter put therto and let them stande so nyne dayes together then boyle the same halfe an howre on the fyre then streyne it through a canuas and so annoynt the payned place therewith It is a notable and proued thing not much vnlyke to one in this booke to that effect discribed by Mizald. THis medicine following wyll destroy the ytche in any part of the body Take of oyle Debay one ounce and one ounce of quicksyluer fyrst kylled with fasting spettle which must be a kylling therein with sturring of them together halfe an howre Then therwith annoint the palmes of your hands and the soles of the feete and within three or fowre tymes so doing it wyll kyll the ytch Proued IF you wyl make a Candle that wyl not be put out Fyll a Cane with the powder of brimstone with lynnen cloath broken in very lytle peeces then couer the same with waxe and so set it on fyre and then it wyl not be put out neyther with bellowes nor wind OYle wherin Frogges be sodden vntyll the flesh be gone from the bones doth maruelously helpe all affectes of the synewes and the ioynts and also all parts of the body that is colde or benumd If the places affected be annoynted therwith being fyrst made warme This is gotten out of the secretes of Ianus IF you wyll bring into one place or else kylle all Woormes and Beastes that are hurtfull in a garden Take the bellye or paunch of a Wether newly kylled with all the fylth or dung that is in it and bury the same in the place where they be and couer it a lytle with earth and then within two dayes thou shalt see all the Woorms and vermyne gathered thether if you do thus twyse or thryse you shall make all the hurtfull Woormes and thinges to gather together there And then you maye cast earth vpon them or else kyll them as you lyst Mizaldus dyd vnderstand that this was proued AN euyll Planet in Leo doth shewe or betoken short lyfe of the Father of that Chyld then borne Taisnier THe iuyce of Bettony put into the eare something hotte or lew warme wyll both put away paynes and the draffnes of the eares if there be any and also other impedymentes of the same I haue proued this diuers tymes and founde it excellent good in this case THis water folowing is both proued precious against Fistulaes and also it so hardneth yron that you maye cutte an other peece of yron therewith as easely as if the same were wood Take of earth woormes and draw of them a water by distyllation and lykewise drawe water of Radishe rootes both which waters myxed together then put therein an edged yron knyfe made redde hotte the same thus heated and quenched for three or fowre tymes by an equall quantity vsed at each tyme and the knife tempred with an edge then dyp it redde hotte againe into the sayd water and then after you may cutte any yron safely and easely therewith and this water is also maruelous in Fystulaes IT is sayd that if Horsses be shodde with that yron wherewith any hath bene before kylled it makes the same Horsses very lyuely and quicke And if of the same you make a bytte or a snaffle that Horse that hath it in his mouth wyl be made tame easy to be handled yea though he be neuer so wylde stubborne or geuen to byting Rasis et Albertus IF a Horse can not stale or pysse or else doth the same hardely or with much griefe or payne beate his body all aboutes easely myldly or gently with the bowes of Elderne full of leaues then after couer his head neck and all the body with the same leaues and it wyll helpe him very much Simoneta Cardinalis A Water whereby the Phisicion doth maruelles and is reputed as a Prophet Take the fylinges of Syluer of Brasse of Yron of Leade of Steele of Golde of Spume of Syluer and Golde of Storax according to the rytches and pouerty of the patient fyrst of all let them bee put in the vryne of a Boy that is a virgin the second day in warme white Wyne the thyrde daye in the iuyce of Fennell the fowrth daye in the whytes of Egges the fyft daye in Womans mylke that geues sucke to a boye the syxt daye in redde Wyne the seuenth daye in seuen whytes of Egs and put that onely into a Styll at
in the howre of Iupiter it is for no harme but rather for good Therefore doubt it not and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst yet at length it wyll turne to good The oftner one tryes it the truer he shall fynde it so that he be not Retrograde or Combust OKe ferne called Polipodium stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde causeth the byrth of the chylde eyther a lyue or dead This was tolde me for a great secrete TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke against the harte or the soles of his feete then geue that grease to a Dogge which if he eate the partye wyll escape if not it is a token that he wyll dye thereof THis following wyll helpe them that be deaffe Take a peece of greene Elme or Ashe and laye it in the fyre and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene and a spoonefull of Aqua vite and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre and put it into a glasse and when he goeth to bedde put some thereof into his eare luke warme and in two or three dayes he wyll be hole and heare well This is proued TO drawe out a toothe without any payne Take the goom of Iuy and greene Iuy leaues of each a lyke weyght and burne them to powder in a newe earthen potte and when it is made in fyne powder myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out if it be hollow if not touch the toothe therwith and it wyll fall out but beware you touch none other toothe therwith AElianus dooth report that no sycke person of the Locrenses should vpon payne of death drynke any Wyne without the consent knowledge of the Phisition or any other geue it them without the commaundement of the Phisition IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not put an Egge into the Wyne and if the Egge synke into it there is water myxt with it if the Egge swym then it is pure Wyne IF the scull of an aged man be hanged in a Doouehouse Pygions wyll be encreased there and wyl lyue quietly Albertus as Mizaldus doth wryte THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares doth not permytte deafnesse nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares Petrus Hispanus A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke of what condition the disease was and whether they should recouer therof or not c It seemed at the fyrst syght that the party was hole for whome the question was made because the Sunne was in the tenth house and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent but many other testymonies shewed the contrary And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus Lady or Alumten of the Ascendēt and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne and began to be Combust distaunt from the Sun ten degrees for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes being a common sygne and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne dyd sygnify .viii. dayes therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne about two monthes and .viii. daies after the questiō was made as God would ordaine and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God to whome it belonges onely to cure infyrmities griefes to raise vp the dead and to moderate the earthly bodies by the heauenly bodies and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes to whom be glory Amen Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones or armes or any other place of the body Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre and let it drinke in doo thus three or fowre tymes together then at the last tyme whyle it is wette cast vpon the wette place where the ache is the powder of Olibanum which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder and sowe it fast and so let it lye three or fowre dayes vntyll it be well and whole Which wyll be by that tyme God wylling Proued ENuches that is they that be gelded be neuer balde nor gowtye Hippocr IT is a thing worthy of memory that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus the Romaine Emperour who sayth he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him and so many Dogges calling him selfe Diana and fowre Tygers calling himselfe Bacchus and fowre Lyons calling him selfe Cibel and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret as Sesostris King of Egipt dyd with fowre Kings O prowde presumptuous Prince he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret ere it woulde bring him to heauen IT is not good to burye any too hastely especially such as haue had the Apoplexy the falling sycknes and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe called the moother For such may seeme to be deade and yet reuyue againe within three dayes for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe least any should falsely report that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy or the falling sycknes or such lyke and therfore but in a traunce or not perfectly dead whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature Therefore it is very meete to know whether any such be perfectly dead or not which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose whose mouth is open or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell for by the mouing of the flame of the candle or of the vessell with water you shall perceyue his secrete breathing and whether there be any lyfe in him or not Camillus AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath doth maruelously helpe the same for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient thryse in a naturall daye that is three howres before dynner two howres before supper and about mydnyght continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe you shall see the diseased healed Take of Manna elect or chosen called Manna Granata two ounces the flowre of Cassia newly drawne halfe an ounce Penyedes three ounces oyle of sweete Almondes being new one ounce the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe fynely beaten and powdred two ounces make the rest in powder that are to be powdred then myxe all together and make therof a Lectuary
Pockes and saue the sight This I had out of an olde booke WHen thou doost fynde the seuenth house and the Lorde of the same to be afflicted or Impedite in the tyme of the question for the sycke chaunge the Phisition for he shall not profyte the sicke party eyther through his owne error or through the neclygence of the sycke person or through them that be about the sycke body The house is afflicted if Saturne or Mars be therin or being beholden of theyr quartyle or opposyte Aspect and contrary if the seuenth house be well affected as if Iupiter or Venus is there take the Phisition to whome you make the questioÌ„ or whome you are determined to take for he shall profyt the syck much and he wyll quickly cure the sycke to his great prayse Therfore marke the fyrst or soddayne calling or sending for the Phisition for if at that tyme the seuenth house and the Lord therof be euyll affected the Phisition then called or sent for wyll not profyt the sicke But it followes not therefore that the sycke shall dye But the Phisition if he take him in hande shall go away without honour Therefore as soone as thou art called to go to the sycke take counsayle of thy Ephemerides and the celestiall Fygure being erected marke where the seuenth house be well or euyll affected and so thou mayst eyther refuse or take the sycke in hande Iatromath Guat Ryff PUt the powder of redde Corrall in the hoale of the toothe and it wyll fall out by the roote Petr. Hisp. AN excellent medicine and a noble restoratyue for Man or Woman that is brought very lowe with sycknes Take two pounde of Dates and washe them cleane in fayre Ale then cutte them and take out the stones and the whyte skynnes then cutte them small and beate them in a morter tyll they begynne to woorke lyke waxe then take a quarte of claryfyed Honny or Sugar and halfe an ounce of the powder of long Pepper as much of Mace of Cloaues Nutmugges and Cynamom of each one dram as much of the powder of Lignum Aloes beate all these spyces together and seethe the Dates with the Sugar or Honny with an easy fyre and let it seethe and as it seethes cast in thereto a lytle of the powder by lytle lytle and sturre it with a Splatter of wood and so do vntyll it come to an Electuary and then eate euery morning and euening therof one ounce at one tyme and it wyll renew and restore againe his complexion be he neuer so lowe brought This hath bene proued and it hath done good to many a man and woman A Noble Receyte for the blacke Iaundise Take a gallon of Ale a pynt of Honny and two handful of redde Nettelles and take a penny worth or two of Saffern and boyle it in the Ale the Ale being fyrst skymmed and then boyle the Honny and the Nettels therin altogether and strayne it well and drinke euery morning a good draught thereof for the space of a fortnight For in that space God wylling it wyll cleane and perfectly cure the black Iaundyse WHosoeuer in the fyrst nine dayes in May drinks euery morning fasting a lytle dyshe full of the iuyce of Bettony it wyll doo him maruelous much good for the gowte Which he shall perceyue the next yeare following if he lyue so long YF any that hath the Pluresie or is stuffed in the stomacke with tough or harde fleame Let him take a sâ—ruâ—le that is the weyght of .xxiiii. barlye 〈◊〉 of the powder of the seedâ—s of Nettels with the 〈◊〉 of Uyolets and swallow the same as by lycking it by litle lytle and he shal spyt out the Uyscus and tough humor easily A secrete of a Parisian Phisition GOates wyll geue much mylke if you tye Dyttany about theyr bellyes Africanus IF Saturne be in the tenth house in an earthy sygne and hath power or dygnity in the Ascendent and is Orientall of the Sunne he that is then borne wyll be a Maister Carpenter or else he wyll delyght in Carpenter shyp but if he be Occidentall he wyll be a cleanser of Welles or pyts or else a dygger Taisnier IF the griefe of the gowte or ache be too outragious Take of OpiuÌ„ one dram of Saffern three drams myngle them with fowre or fyue yolkes of Egs and plaster the same vpoÌ„ the griefe for it mightely asswageth the paines and restrayneth the corruption A Most approued medicine for the Emrods or Pyles Take two or three brycks and burne them redde hotte and put them in some pan vnder a close stoole and sprinckle them with vineger let the party grieued syt vpon the sayd stoole that the fume therof may ascend vpward to his fundament Doo thus three or fowre times if neede be and certainly it wyll helpe it IF you wyll make Byrdes drunke that you maye catch them with your hands Take such meate as they loue as Wheate or Beanes or such lyke and laye the same to stiepe in leese of Wine or in the iuyce of Humlocks and sprinckle the same in the place where the Byrdes vse to haunt and if they do eate thereof strayght wayes they wyll be so gyddy that you may take them with your handes I wrote this out of an olde wrytten booke wherein I knowe many true things was written A Present helpe for a Woman that trauelleth of chyld Take Hysop Uerueyn and Dyttany of eache one handfull stampe them small and temper them with olde Ale then straine it and wryng out the iuyce and geue a good draught therof to her that trauelleth of chyld to drinke and she wil be deliuered with speede and the chyld saued and she both so that the chyld be alyue when she drynkes it A True medicine for the gowte Take the iuyce of the flowres of Broome and the iuyce of Scali celi and Honny as much of one as of an other and seethe it all together tyll it be of the thycknes of Honny and annoynt the gowty place therwith I knew sayth the wryter hereof a good Priest in London that healed all men and women therwith for the most part that came to him And truely I wyst it neuer fayle This for the great good lykelyhood of the medicine and for the faythful affyrming I thought good to regester it among the rest IF one pound of Waxe two ounces of quicke Brymstone and as much of quicke Lyme putting therto a lytle ounce of the oyle of Nuts a Candle be made with a week of Bumbase so put into the water as soone as euer the quick Lime begins to burne it wyl moue the rest of things apt for the fyre to burne euen in the myddes of the water Mizaldus A Ram wyl not put or runne at one if his hornes be boorde through nye vnto his eares Mizaldus WHo soeuer falles sycke in the howre of Iupiter he wyll recouer his health quickly Haly Abenragel This haue I proued to be true many tymes