and better then strain it out and put some Sugar in it and the next morning drink a good draught of this hot and keep your bed and sweat three or four hours and in your sweating drink off the rest After that let him take fasting two spoonfuls of my Apozem and let him continue it so till his body be soluble and that his excrement be not dry or stay too long in his body Now my Friends the White-wine thus ordered and taken and sweating withal openeth the first Veins and maketh a passage into the body The Apozem of mine draweth down gently the excrement and bringeth Nature to her usual course to all admiration and cleanseth the stomach of that corruption which is the very cause of this disease CHAP. XII For want of Appetite FIrst when the first veins do not suck which is their natural action by the which they receive food for the nourishment of the whole body secondly fat and gross bodies which are always stuffed and so full that Nature seemeth to be contented with what she hath and hath little desire of more For cure of this remember these Observations small but pithy Take for some days three spoonfuls every morning of this harmless Apozem and in little time thou wilt find thy self exceeding hungry it may be Beef will go down when Chicken would not before but if thou hast not an appetite presently after taking of this Medicine then take the White-wine as is mentioned in the foregoing Chapter after the same Directions CHAP. XIII For Catarrhs and Rheums MAny people are troubled with this disease but especially Scholars and other Students idle persons and those Trades-men that stir little Now the fashion is to have an issue or two nay these issues are to have many pease in them which things were forbidden in the Levitical Law as much as if he had the Plague but now there is great alteration I shall prescribe you a way if you will hear reason to cure your self without these nasty Eylet-holes in your skin and I imagine a great deal more wholsomer and better for your health for the future My Brethren the cure consisteth more in your own good Government than in much taking of Physick which I utterly abhor and I trust many discreet people with me Now for this distemper observe these infallible Rules 1. Use labour and exercise for by 〈◊〉 thou shalt stir up natural heat and consumâ—… those watry humours which causeth thiâ— Rheum and Distillations if thou canst noâ— walk abroad busie thy self with some action in the house this will prevent crudities and it is the principal way in part to prevent and cure this grief for those that labour much are seldom or never troubled with it as is evidently seen which to those that use little stirring or motion of their bodies are most subject unto for the outward parts of their bodies are cold so that their blood together with the humours remain within neither have they any evacuation by the pores of the body as Naturrequireth to consume this Rheumatick humour which then seeketh another passage Then the Patient spits much or else a continual running at the Nose or else it slily trickles downs upon his Lungs and causeth Coughs Ptisicks Consumptions of the Lungs and Ulcerations you must needs confess what I say is really true 2. I advise you to eat hot meat at meals and especially well rested for I tell you hot meat warms the stomach and stirs up natural heat through the whole body and so digesteth the humours but withal talk and be merry at the Table 3. Be sure to keep thy head and neck warm and thy feet likewise dry and warm 4. Drink sparingly and touching thy Drink observe these few Rules 1. Let thy Drink be somewhat strong and not small for small beer is waterish and so it will add to thy disease 2. If thou drink drink only at the end of thy meals for in so doing thou wilt suppress that moisture which would ascend 3. Let thy Drink be not over stale sowr or sharp 4. Drink neither White nor Rhenish Wine 5. If thou drink take a Glass of good Claret well Sugered in the midst of thy meat 5. Fast and watch for these dry the body I would not have you rise early fast long eat little and sit up late but in stead of those eat freely and drink little sleep hard but lie warm for then thy body will be as if thou didst labour or exercise Now dear Hearts watching is unnatural it makes a dry senseless brain it causeth sore eyes and a cold waterish stomach which is worse than all 6. Go into a warm air and keep thy felt warm 7. Hold your breath now and then hard for this forceth the blood to the outward parts of the body and causeth a stronger Circulation which turneth with the stream the course of these Rheumatick humours Now for cure If any man will follow these Rules that so he may continue his health or else it is vain to seek help first I advise you to take six spoonfuls of my Apozem an hour before he riseth so do for two days the third day at night going to Bed burn half a Pint of Canary with a branch or two of Rosemary brew it with some Sugar and the Yolk of a New-laid Egge and drink it off hot and lie hot all night this will digest and consume those Rheumatick humours Drink this Wine so prepared three nights together Note if the party be lean and full of Blood in stead of Sack use Ale for Sack will inflame the Blood CHAP. XIV For the Yellow Jaundise and all Obstructions of the Liver THe Yellow Jaundise proceedeth of Choler mixed with Blood and so dispersed over the whole body There are divers causes of this disease but I shall only treat of what is most usual and only name the rest 1. The biting of a Venomous Beast will cause it 2. The going away of an hot Feaver will do the like 3. The Inflammation of the Liver will make shew of the same 4. The weakness of the Gall which is not able to draw from the Liver those Cholerick humours but suffereth them to be carried with the blood through the body and so colours it yellow 5. The Jaundise is usually caused by obstruction of those Vessels that are between the Liver and the Gall which being stopped the Cholerick humour cannot pass into the Gall but is carried with the blood into the body and so staineth it yellow 6. It is commonly through the obstruction of the passage from the Gall to the Bowels for that being stopped the Gall is not able to employ it self but the excrementitious Choler is repelled and returneth into the body which otherwise should colour and stain the excrement yellow In these three last sorts the excrement is white and the Patient seeleth an heaviness in his right side and these are common and are thus infallibly to be cured first cleanse your body
Clavis Medicinae OR The Practice of PHYSICK REFORMED Wherein is described The Nature and Cause Of most DISEASES AND The Select Way of Cure For the same A Method contrary to all Authors in being By Jeremiah Love Doctor of Pysick Ex Herbis fit Mel. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in St. Paul Church-Yard at the West End 1674. TO THE READERS My Friends NO Man was born for himself only but to do good to others or else to receive good from others yet it happens that most men are Self-Seekers in these days I have practised Physick many years and in the Galenical way but finding my self often frustrated in my expectation after my Medicines given to my Patients that at last I found nothing certain in all those Woods or Wildernesses of Medicines which I look'd upon then as not well prepared Then I followed some years the Chymical way of Practise and in it I thought I had excelled many and likewise to see all things I studied Astrology that I might give Judgment upon the sick Party as if I had been with him and both these I found to be base and erronious for my Scheme shewed me sometimes little danger and then my Chymical Preparation work'd violently and my Elixirs and Quintessences although I gave but some drops yet I found them to be too hot and inflaming the Bodies of my Patients and so they caused very bad Symptoms so I found no reality in either and so I left them off Then I bent my mind to study to find out a way to help Nature with means that were safe and easie which at last I attained to by the blessing of God to me And then though I found at the Decumbiture of the sick party that the Lord of the Eighth was in conjunction with the Lord of the Ascendant and likewise if I found the Lord of the Ascendant combust in the Eighth which we conclude in Astrology death approaching Yet by these means used I found a strange alteration for a man to be even at Death's door by all mens apprehension and in an hour or two to be quick and lively and without pain Shall I hide these Mysteries A Talent lent me for a time and I bury it in oblivion God forbid My Life is short therefore will I publish things of great moment and shew you the way or a new Method in practising Physick that others which are more sharp sighted and of quicker Wits may not be idle but to dive into Nature's Secrets and to find out some new things which was not before Shall we be always led by the Nose of the Heathens when we have both Sense and Reason and Scripture to guide us in the Light And here in this Treatise I have shewed you Experience grounded upon Reason and Sense nay a way so safe that a man may follow his occasions and not keep the House or drink gallons of Posset-Drink or have Nurses to attend him or such-like I hope I have put an adjuvant hand to make rough things smooth and rectifie those manifold Errors which are used in those which practise Physick What causeth I pray you that so many Quacks and Empiricks are suffered nay applauded And likewise silly Women now a days venture to cure the Body by internal Medicines What Religion is there that we should tempt the Lord our God in destroying our selves who are the Work of his hands I tell you it is as great a Sin to put our lives into these Triobolary Empiricks hands as for a man to murther himself Read this little Book of mine read it through and mind what you read you have in it the very Key of Natures Secrets a few Medicines but so grounded upon Reason and Sense and Experience that it comprehends the whole Body of Physick as it was ordained in the beginning Why then should we be lazy and know no more than what is beaten into us or tread onely in our Forefathers steps though they went into the mire of Ignorance and be contented with Ipse Dixit Truly their Writings have much Learning and Ingenuity so they have much Obscurity and Suppositions of those things which have little real truth in them Now my Brethren my hearty desire is that this Treatise may be useful unto all those that shall willingly read it What I have done in it is Methodical and I leave it to others to judge But if you mislike any thing herein write your mind and deliver it to the Printer and I will be very willing by Writing again to satisfie thee or else I will thankfully accept of thy Advice and confess my fault for Humanum est errare The best may erre some have before me and others will after me However let the Will be accepted for the Deed which if I find God assisting me with Life and Strength I shall endeavour to publish some other Tracts useful and necessary for young Practitioners Hic labor hoc opus est Noveris si rectius istis Candidus imperti si non His utere mecum Clavis Medicinae OR The Practice of PHYSICK REFORMED CHAP. I. I Purpose here in this small Treatise to give the most Judicious Reader and all Lovers of the Art of Physick Satisfaction and likewise lay open to the meanest capacity the Causes Symptoms and Sings of most Diseases of the Body of Man and likewise the choicest and select Remedies for the perfect and speedy cure of them A method I think as yet no man ever used as I could hear or read of First I here declare unto thee an Apozem which I have made choice of this many years for the best and safest working and the good success of it A Medicine so prepared and corrected that it doth without any danger pain or molestation of the Body whatsoever evacuate and carry off all corruption and filthy humours out of the Body The vertue of this Apozem being so wonderful and so well pleasing to the Stomachs of all those that ever took thereof that I shall do my Country much wrong if I should any longer keep from them so great a treasure I have delivered my Bill for the making of it only to Mr. Fisher who lives in St. Olaves Parish in Southwark London Chirurgion a man whom I have a great love and respect for and likewise for many years I have made tryal of his just and honest dealing and his good Judgment in composing of Medicines and in chusing the best Ingredients And when any man hath a mind to make use of it I have stiled it by the name of Panax Angliae by which name you may have it The Use of this Apozem I shall declare in every Chapter where I treat of the Disease particularly and the way of cure CHAP. II. IF any man should think it strange or as it were impossible that one Medicine should be good for so many Diseases Know this that our old excellent Writers being Fathers of Physick have left their Monuments of
Learning to us which shew us divers Confections some purge Choler some Flegm and some Melancholy so that we must all conclude that they are good in all cholerick flegmatick and melancholick Diseases so after their manner have I invented this incomparable Apozem And although all our Fathers of Physick being excellent men have left their Receipts behind for composing all sorts of Physick for all Constitutions and Complexions yet I trust we who as it were stand upon their shoulders may see farther than they if we do strive and be industrious in those Studies Now if we give this Apozem to strong Bodies we give a greater quantity and oftner in weak Bodies less is required If we are to cure the Head or Stomach we order to take our Apozem an hour before they rise that it may continue the longer in the place where the corruption is and so it will work effectually whereas if one walketh presently after the taking of it it slippeth away being liquid and leaveth the work undone Wherefore this Apozem being of a thin substance gathers it self easily with the corruption which it findeth in the Stomach and dissolves the same whereas Pills and other Compositions require first to be dissolved themselves which is a great trouble to Nature and so many times works upon Nature two or three days after leaving bad Symptoms behind them which you shall never find by taking this my Apozem Although this Apozem is a very great cleanser of the Body from filthy corrupt Humours yet I confess it is no Universal Medicine for all Diseases as your Triobolary Empiricks declare for this requires help as you shall see in the Chapter following to as much brevity as can be required by few yet select Medicines and what no Artist I imagine dares contradict as you may see by the speedy cure I hate multiplicity on the other side made by Chymists and Galenists now a days and some that are neither of the two most of which Medicines are as Clouds without Rain A fair Tongue and a Plush Coat must needs do well but for Vertue away with it Ibis Homere foras Homer himself must sing Ballads The publishing of this my Book is onely to shew what Artists can and may do I would have them take more pains to find the right way of practising Physick and not to fill the Bodies of poor Souls with a Mass of hotch-potch one mess contrary to another and never see the operation of any thing and not Quack-like carry a Box of Pills in their Pockets to cure all Diseases and so for a little filthy lucre called money as too many use now a days thinking with themselves there is no Day of Judgment What shall I say then Shall we so continue in this Sin God forbid CHAP. III. Directions 1. COncerning the taking of this my precious Apozem You need not be so strict in keeping your Chamber as you do in taking other Physick you may walk abroad if your distemper will permit you but keep your self warm and forbear drinking 2. You may take it at any time when you find it requisite either hot or cold as your Stomach can bear it 3. Children must take little for a small Vessel is sooner emptied than a great and likewise the humours are more fluxible 4. Those that are full of ill humours may take it a week or more both Spring and Fall 5. Always take somewhat that is warm in two hours after for it will help the operation of the Medicine 6. If it work not the first time you may take more the next day safely And if thy Body be always loose take the lesser quantity 7. A spoonful of this Apozem will in most Bodies give one stool now you may take three or four or five or more spoonfuls at a time as you think fit 8. When you take this Apozem abstain from all sorts of Wine hot Spices salt Meats and raw Fruits and green Herbs and all cold things 9. Take it not at the change and full of the Moon for then Nature is weak CHAP. IV. Concerning the Diseases of the Head and Face 1. THe Head-ach proceeds from many Causes as sometimes from Heat and sometimes from Cold both which being kown is easily prevented so that they happen seldom and do not stay long 2. The Head-ach proceeds from fulness c. when men live idly and fill their Bodies excessively as like a Bladder blown up 3. The Head-ach proceeds from filthy corrupt humours which abounds in great quantity in the Body which two last are thus perfectly cured as easie as a man can wash his hands with a Bason of Water Take four or five spoonfuls of this my Apozem every morning for six or seven days together for so by that means thou shalt cleanse thy self of all filthy corrupt Humours that remain in thy Body but observe the Directions prescribed in the third Chapter After the same manner is cured the Giddiness of the Head and red sore watery Eyes 4. The Head-ach proceeds sometimes from the fume of corrupt Humours and not from the humours themselves for the corruption lying long in the Stomach casteth up to the brain evil vapours which offend it it being of all parts most sensible For the Cure of which Take four spoonfuls of this Apozem an hour before you rise and sleep not so do it for three days 5. The Headach comes by reason of the Excrements tarrying too long in the Body for when thou hast taken thy Dinner or the like first Nature taketh to its self for its nourishment the thin and purest part and leaves the rest as gross and corrupt and then these Excrements tarrying longer than usual sendeth noysome vapours to the Brain and offends it so that he that is much costive can never be long in Health For Cure of which Take such a quantity of this Apozem as will give thee one stool a day more then ordinary and likewise take a spoonful an hour before Supper for in so doing thou shalt toll Nature to do her work without help So now by what hath been said concerning the Headach and sore Eyes you may if you will endeavour to know a little more than is told you you may with a little Addition to this Apozem cure Apoplexies Palsies Epilepsies Incubus Frenzy Lethargy and what not if it belongs to the Head CHAP. V. For Red Faces Pimples and other Corruption arising in them and likewise the Morphew IT is a strange thing that the Face which is the grace and beauty of a man should be so greatly disgraced by corrupt blood and all the rest of the parts of the Body clean and fair The common saying is The Liver is inflamed which in many I think is the only cause some have it from their Parents and some by drinking and sotting and others that are mighty bashful and their blood being corrupt withal so the Blood hath oft recourse to their Faces as a witness to testifie and so returning away
five hours upon it and in his sweat let him drink the rest and be sure abate his sweat very gently and beware he take no cold For three mornings afterward let him drink a quarter of a pint with a dram of Venice-Treacle hot two hours before he rise and keep his body warm without sweating But if the party have been long sick and so weak that he is not able to sweat as before then assure your self there is little hopes of life Note that if the party be costive give him three or for spoonfuls of my Apozem for that will ease and disburthen Nature and let him drink some warm Broth or Water-Grewel an hour or two after Courteous Reader I would willingly root out the Tares of bad Physick lest they over-grow the brave Corn of real Medicine CHAP. VIII For the Heart-burning I Shall content my self as most people call it with the ordinary name of this Disease which belongs not to the Heart but only to the Stomach and those who are troubled with this Disease are commonly at ease after they have eaten but after digestion they feel a continual heat or bitterness in the mouth of their stomachs they often are troubled with belching and sometimes an inclination to vomit It continues long in some people and in oâ—hers it comes every foot especially by eating Fat Salt and Cholerick Meats For cure First Forbear those Meats and Drinks after which thou art most troubled for I will assure thee they will not make good Blood and then yon see Nature will not like it for if good Diet will help thy Distemper never take Physick for the same but if thy long evil Diet hath laden thy stomach with Hot Salt and Cholerick Humours which do cause this Heart-burning as 't is named Then take five or six spoonfuls of this my Apozem every morning for three days and so thou shalt cleanse thy stomach perfectly which I avouch to thee will be a perfect and speedy Cure and not to eat Chalk or to take some cooling Juleps or any such Slops which will hurt more than heal CHAP. IX For the Cholick and Wind gnawing of the Stomach and Guts and all Corruption that causeth Wind. ALL thee Distempers proceed from corrupt and filthy slimy Humours which sticks to the inner part of the Stomach and the Intestines Now the common course of people when they are afflicted they boil in some Wine Pepper Ginger and other hot Spices and all hot Seeds which is meer madness for these hot things are proper to warm a cold Stomach and make it apt to digest being moderately used than to cleanse it being full of corruption and these hot things are only proper for old people that have their natural heat decayed so that Nature faileth wherefore we are forced to seek help by Art Now our Physitians follow this road first an Emollient and Carminative Clister is to be administred then a Cordial for to cause rest and likewise Diaphoretical means and then for some day a masse of Pills and if this do not the work make a Fontinel in the Leg and then in little time as bad as before If an Empirick light on such a Patient presently he hath an universal Pill which they must take every day and at night three or four drops of this Elixar which is a Panpharmacon and indeed all good for nothing and then it is a Palliative Cure as they call it Now I pray hear a little Reason and follow Experience her Lady and Governess Take five or six spoonfuls of this my Apozem if the party be any thing strong or else less and so do five or six days and thou shalt see that it will cleanse thy Stomach and Intestines of all its filth and thou shalt be perfectly cured without Clisters or Issues or Pills or any universal Elixars And for the future I would advise thee to avoid all windy and slimy meats that thou mayst prevent those Diseases CHAP. X. For Surfeiting by over-eating SOme men by long fasting coming to Dainty Fare such as he is not used to eat being very hungry eateth over much and cloyeth Nature so that Nature refuseth any digestion as a man having a burthen too heavy for him to bear does not so much as offer to lift it this Distemper proceeds from quantity so likewise the evil quality of Meats do cause a man to surfeit as Meat not rosted so likewise Fresh Herrings Fat Pyes heavy Cake-bread and the like causeth great sickness For the Cure of these If the matter of the Disease lodgeth still in the Stomach give him a draught of warm water with two spoonfuls of Sallet-Oyl which will cause him to vomit if it work not quickly help it with your finger by thrusting it to his throat and after vomiting give him some hot Broath and let him for three or four days eat not much in quantity and likewise what is hot and of good digestion But it this matter hath passed the Stomach without vomiting and there be little or no digestion so that now a vomit will do no good Then take half a pint of Canary-Wine and burn it with a sprig of Rosemary and some Mace and put in it two drams of London-Treacle and some Sugar and drink it off in a morning hot and sweat three or four hours in your Bed according to the strength of the patient and in his sweat let him drink posset-drink hot for I promise you this way will make a persed digestion through the whole body of whatsoever he did surfeit of This way is easie and good and I imagine Reason will conduct you so far that it must needs do the work without a belly full of Drugs CHAP. XI For continual Vomiting after Meat THere are too many now a days that destroy their own Natures some mind the filthy lucre of this world that they will not allow themselves time to eat although they have meat and likewise an appetite and then in time they would eat but then there is no appetite Some do fill their Carcases so much with Drink and smoaking that stinking weed called Tobacco that they cannot eat but before they come to many years Victuals then will not go down no not so much as Broth this is sad Now there are two special causes of this Disease The one is When the first Veins which receive the Nutriment from the Stomach are stopped The other is When the Body is long bound and the excrement very hard so that the Patient seldom goes to the stool In some people it is so bad that they never go to stool but that which remaineth after digestion comes up by vomit For cure take notice of these Observations First Take four spoonfuls of this my Apozem fasting if that work not that day the next take five and so forth always increasing the quantity until it work And when it hath operated take an handful of Parsley bruise and boil it in a pint of White-wine a quarter of an hour
relapse CHAP. XXI The Hectick Feaver FOr the which I will prescribe a Diet by which many even at deaths door have been recovered which is this â„ž fol. Acetos Calendul an m. i. Semperviv â„¥ i. Lact. recent lb iii Pomatii lb ss f. decoct add Colat Sir Papav. Rub. â„¥ ii When the party is thirsty drink freely of this then make this broth Take a Capon and skin it and get out all his fat then bruise it in pieces and put it in a pitcher that holds a pottle of water and put in it four ounces of Raysons stoned eight Dates a Pugil of Borage and Rosemary-flowers and likewise put in a pint of good Claret and half a pint of Red Rose-water cover the pot close and paste it round then put this into a Kettle of water and so make the Kettle boil six hours and be careful in boiling no water comes upon the paste then take it out and strain it and drink four or five spoonfuls of this morning and evening Or use this Take a young Pig and scald it and cut it in four pieces and put six quarts of running water in a pipkin scum it clean and put a large handful of Sage in it and boil it gently till half be wasted strain it out and drink it morning and evening warm But if the party be not much wasted away let him take a spoonful of my Apozem now and then of a morning for it will cause him to have an appetite CHAP. XXII For the Plague and all Malignant Feavers THere be three special causes of this disease The first is the just judgment of God for the sins of the people In this case I hold our Divines that it cometh as it were by the Commandment of God and then vain is the help of man when the power of the Almighty worketh to destroy wherefore repentance and amendment of life is the salve for this sore Yet seeing we know not his determinate will and pleasure I wish no man to neglect such natural means as our Eternal Father hath provided for the preservation of our natural bodies lest by so doing we sin and tempt our Creator and the Preserver of all Mankind The second cause proceedeth of the corruption of the Air which is of two sorts either general or particular The Air is generally infected by the distemperature of the Heavens then the weather is long dark cloudy foggy stiffling very hot and moist and also our bodies faint we loath the breath we draw in and out then it is difficult to keep meat sweet and the Heavens do as it were refuse to draw the corruption from the earth but yield down again such as they had taken away before The Air is particularly infected by the smell of dead bodies especially in fights when those that are slain lies unburied which infecteth that particular place Also a putrid smell in your Fenny and Marish ground and especially the smell of such bodies as resort and lodge very close in one small Room as in this City of London and then people are sluttish and nasty which infects the vital spirits and breeds such corruption which at last burst out into the Plague The third cause proceedeth of corrupt humours in mans body ingendred by bad Diet and these two last comes by Gods permission as the first comes by his Commandment For preventing this heavy Visitation 1. Make fires in the streets to cleanse and purifie the Air. 2. Let people walk out into the fields to take the fresh Air and let their Houses be made clean and sweet by strowing sweet herbs and airing their beds and opening their windows to let the Air in 3. Let no House be over-pestered with too many Lodgers and let all vagabond and lazie unnecessary members be forced out for this will cleanse a City as a purge will a man that is full of corruption For cure take these Observations Take of Endive-water two pound Centary-water one pound Ivy-berries half an handful bruised boil these gently a quarter of an hour strain it out and dissolve in it of Mithridate or Venice-Treacle two drams Sugar an ounce and half Wine-Vinegar three spoonfuls Now as soon as ever the Patient doth complain and Nature as yet strong give him a quarter of a pint of this Drink fasting being warmed and let him sweat in his bed eight or ten hours if he can bear it and in his sweating drink hot posset-drink and in every draught two or three spoonfuls of this drink when he riseth get him some broth and be careful to keep him from the Air if he do not find ease in his sweating the next day do the like this way will cure him without having a sore or else it will help Nature so far that it will force out the sore speedily unto which use these Applications first embrocate the Tumour or Carbuncle with Oyl of Lilies being warmed then take two yolks of Eggs a dram of Saffron pulveriz'd Linseed Oyl and Oyl of Camom of each a dram spread it upon Cloth somewhat thick and apply it use this course for it will speedily break it then dress it according to Art After the same manner are cured all Malignant Feavers and Epidemical Diseases CHAP. XXIII MY Friends I have here given you a brief Method of curing many Diseases a way different from the general road of both the Galenists and Chymists if you would but fancy them they are matters of great moment they are not Coleworts boiled over and over a thousand times and crammed in even to nauseating but I tell you farther it is the only introduction and the right path if you have little more wit than is told you to cure all the Diseases of the Body both with speed and safety It is not a superficial Knowledg that will ever raise Love or Admiration We are all placed in Natures Garden why then are we idle but let us learn the Works of Nature and pry into her secrets that we may contemplate more things and with greater delight and profit than all our forefathers could ever tell us for we all know Nature is not barren to spend all upon our fathers and leave nothing for us their children if we want an Interpreter the Maker of Nature is the best himself is there no God in Israel that we should go to enquire of the Gods of Ekron must we rob the Indies for poysonous Drugs to cure us when we have balsamous Herbs enough in our own Gardens but far fetcht and dear bought always pleaseth Fools and Ladies I shall now give you some Specificks or Remedies appropriated for many Diseases which things used and cleansing thy Body with my Apozem thou shalt find them never to fail thee in thy expectation CHAP. XXIV For the Stone R. Virga Aur. pariet Saxifrag an m. i. S. Petros Lithosperm an â„¥ s Bac. Junip â„¥ i. Alkakeng Ê’ii Frax ClavisÊ’i LicorizaÊ’vi Vini albi lb iii f. decoct add Sir Dialth â„¥ ii Lapis Prunell