reason of plenitude and fulnesse of blood breathing a veine at the Arme is very necessary for her safety In all Fevers requiring Phlebotomy let it be done in the beginning when Nature is strong and the Distemper lesse prevalent After long and wasting sicknesse take heed of blood letting In Women and fatt bodies take blood sparingly in men and lean bodies and those who have large veines take more freely If the Masse of blood be wholly vitiated and naught be sparing in Blood letting but purifie it by gentle Purgation Sweating Medicamentall Aliment and proper dyet Before ten and after sixty years age let no Veine be opened but upon urgent occasion If the Disease be great and urgent requiring large Evacuation and Nature imbecile and weake take blood at twice or thrice itermitting 6 or 12 hours distance as the skilful Chirurgeon shall see cause When Phlebotomy and Purgation are both required and the Disâ—ase seated in the Veines and habite of the body first bleed then purge but if otherwise and chiâ—fly in the stomack bowells and parts adjacent first purge then bleed If there be suppression of a wonted Evacuation and Detrimentall or obstruction contrary to the Law of Nature open a Veine to exonerate and alleviate for the present Nature will be betteer able to relieve it self for the future In Symptomaticall translations of a turgid humour aestuations and ebullitions of the blood causing a general perturbation or erratic paines restlâ—ssenesse and unquiet watchings in the night Breathing a Veine Refrigerates Allayes and checks the effrenation of humours For Anniversary and imminent Diseases arising from Plenitude and Luxuriant blood opening a Veine anticipates and prevents them In vehement Distempers requiring Phlebotomy look not upon the quallity of the blood but make detraction according to the quantity having respect to the strength of the Patient After Phlebotomy use a spare and good Diet that you fill not your Veines with crudities and ill humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isiodor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Physitians ARMORY wherein you may view A Magazine of Rare Medicines Classically distributed and digested Specificly appropriated properly denominated moderately prized the full Doses in each Mâ—dicine numbred the duration of each Medicine in its full vertue justly limited Appropriation Denomination Doses Duration moneths Price   shil pence To the Braine Capital Pills 2 18 1 8 Epileptick Powder 3 24 1 6 Cephalic Electuary many 12 1 6 Catarrh Pills 4 18 1 4 Epileptic Amulet 1 12 2 0 Fuming Powder many 36 1 0 Eyes Opthalmic Water many 12 1 6 Heart Bezoardic Antidote 3 24 1 8 Cordial Tincture 3 24 1 6 Lungs Pectoral Electuary many 12 1 8 Asthmatic Pills many 18 1 6 Hectio Confection many 6 1 8 Stomack Digestive Electuary many 9 1 6 Stomack Pills 2 18 1 6 Great Elixir many 24 1 8 Emetic Tincture 1 12 1 0 Liver and Spleen Hydropic Powder 2 18 1 6 Splenetic Pills 2 18 1 6 Spleen Plaster 1 12 1 8 Scorbute Tincture many 24 1 8 Guts Discussive Powder 3 18 1 6 Retentive Electuary 2 9 1 6 Tincture for worms many 18 1 0 Pills for worms 3 12 1 6 Clyster Electuary 1 12 1 4 Reins and Bladder Nephritic pills 6 18 1 8 Roborating pills 5 18 1 6 Srengthning plaster 1 12 1 6 Genital parts Restringent powder many 24 1 8 Antivenereall pills 2 18 2 0 Expulsive powder 1 12 2 0 Hysterical powder 3 12 1 6 Feminine Pills 2 18 1 8 Womens preservative 4 12 2 0 Joynts Arthritic pills 2 18 2 0 Miscellaneous and Generall Medicines Catholic Pills 1 18 1 0 Aperitive Powder 3 24 1 6 Sudorific Pills 1 18 1 0 Haematic Powder 4 24 1 6 Purgative Electuary 1 9 1 0 Isâ—ue Plasters 4 24 1 0 Febrific Antidote 3 12 1 8 Camphire Powder many 24 1 6 Cosmetic water many 12 2 0 Generall Instructions for the Doses and Quantities necessary to be observed in the taking of any Medicine and the right Manner of keeping and preserving them from decay A Dose is the just and due quantity of a Medicine to be taken or used at once The full Dose is for men and women of strength but if they be weak and tender bodies or by experience have found that lesse will operate with them then other bodies require let such take the Doses for the age 14 prescribed I meane chiefly in vomiting or purging Medicines Observe the quantities prescribed for the several Ages and rather offend under then over the next Dose you may amend by taking a little more if the first be too weake there is no harm in that After the first Dose of any Medicine taken your own reason and ability of body will easily direct you in the next whether to keep to the same to augment or diminish for you must know the difference of bodies is such in operation that they require oftentimes a different quantity for their proportion to produce the like effect which cannot exactly be determined and appointed by the prescience of the most skilfull Physitian untill the first Experiment and tryall of their bodies Therefore slight not any Medicine if it answers not your expectation at the first but prove it farther and alter the quantity more or lesse as you find it requisite for your purpose and condition of body But let me Caution you this In Chronic Diseases that are slow of Motion and gives you sufficient time for Cure never desire strong Physick but imitate Nature which acts Gradually and gently does nothing Hastily and Violently Physick can doe nothing of it selfe but as an Auxiliary and help to Nature and if Nature does not Cooperate you must expect no benefit therefore if you go natures pace you will have Nature assisting with the meanes but if you be hasty and put all your hopes in the strength of your Physick and strive to doe as much in one day as is fit for three dayes work you precipitate Nature defame good Medicines and wrong your own body But when the Disease is vehement and accute threatning suddain death as Apoplexy Lethargie and the like then use sharp and quick Medicines because the time for cure is but short and will admit of no delay Vehementi malo forti omnino auxilio opus est What Medicines you would keep for a long time to serve for accidental occasions set them in dry places not near the ground or damp walls nor in the open ayre and they will remain in their vertue and goodnesse according to their several times prefixed in the preceding Table of Medicines The Vertues right Vse and Due Quantities of each Medicine particularly and distinctly Declared For the Head THe Capitall Pills purge and cleanse the Brain from all superfluous Humours that stupifie and dull the Rationall Faculty or obstruct and hinder the right Operation of the Sensitive they quicken the Memory open the Ventricles of the brain and free the Nerves from obstructions conducing much to the cure of all
lesse drink In Summer lesse meate and more liquids In hot weather a cooling dyet in cold weather that which is warme and heating Temperate bodies are preserved by temperate things and their like distempered bodyes are rectified and reduced by their contraries and dissimilar a hot and dry body must have a cooling and moist dyet a colde and moist body a hot and dry dyet The variety of humors in mans body impugning one another with their contrary quallities are not easily kept in subjection but by a diligent watch and strict observance in your daily customes and practice for by a carelesse and irregular course the equallity of opposition is broken and some particular humor growes predominate which produceth distempers according to its nature power and heighth arrived at and the condition of the subject or parts it chiefly infests As the external colour of the body is various and divers such are the humors internal abounding The purity of the humors in mans body render the minde morâ— active light cheerful and airy The grosnesse feculency and impurity makes a heavy indisposeâ— and depraved minde clogging the soul as with fetters Who so priseth the integrity and perfections of the minde must havâ— an especiall care for the preservation of the body being bettered oâ— made worse by each others changes and affects for the Actions and Passions of the minde doe very much follow and arâ— subjâ—ctâ—d to the temperament nature and quallity of thâ— body Exceed not in any thing but keepe to a Mediocrity which is most Durable and agreeable to Natuâ—â— for its preservation Alter no custome suddainly but by degrees although from bad to better suddaine changes are Dangerous and Injurious to Nature which acts Gradually and by fit Mediums Think not your selfe secure in any ill Course or Custome contrary to the Rationall Lawes and Rule of Phisick because you are not immediately Chastised with the Consequents and ill Effects thereof concluding from thence all is Well but know though the Errors be but small in one single Act yet often repeated Accumulate and Swell into great Distempers which manifest themselves in that Season of the yeare most suitable to their ownâ— Inclinations and Disposition for such Productions The Heates and Coldes taken in Summer and the Luxuriant feeding on the Fruits of that season produce dangerous Diseases in Autume following The intemperate Erroneous practice of Winter discovers it selfe and Rebukes your Folly by a sickly Spring The change of the Ayre and Constitution of the Seasons makes Impression upon the Humors of the Body inclining to this or that Distemper as they are predisposed and vitiated by your own irregular Customes and Practice Contemne not small Changes and Alterations in the Body they are the Praeludiums or warnings of greater to follow but oppose them by a Rationall Practice and due Ordering of your self in Eating and Drinking Exercise and Rest Ayre Sleeping and Watching Venus and Possions of the minde refraining what may promote and aggravate your Morbific inclination and Accustoming to that which Suppresseth and Checks it being perswaded of this truth the beginning of most Diseases are better cured by Regular Dyet and due Order then Physick Magna pars sanitatis bene moratus venter Signes indicating Purgation A Thick or muddy Urine pale and thin red and ill savoured or often changing Lassitude and indisposition for motion or action Prickings or painâ—â— in the skin or flesh erratic or fixed The complexion altered dulnesâ— and unwonted heaviness restless watchings disturbed and troublesome sleepe sweatings in the night fulnesse or distention of the belly and hypochonders shortness of breath A looseness or flux of humors stimulating to expulsion gripings in the belly Heaviness pain or weakness without mâ—nifest cause about the loynes thighes or knees These signes declare the body wants purging Satius est morbo ingruenti occurrere quam invalescenti cum periculo mederi Advice and Cautions in Purging IF your body be Costive of a hot and dry constitution prepare it some dayes before purging with cool and moistning Brothes stewed Prunes Whey or the like Your physick will operate much better with less gripings and more effectual For a hot and dry body sucks in the Physick so strongly that it cannot work freely and kindly as otherwise it would doe If the weather be cold correct iâ— with a warm Chamber and good fire if very hot take your physick eâ—â—ly at 5. of the clock and keep little or no fire in so doing you may take physick at any time of the year safely and with successe if occasion require Draw the Curtaines before your Windowes and darken the Chamber untill your Physick have done working If your stomack be very weak and nauseating and not from repletion or if you be in a high and accute Feaver then use clysters In all violent paines and inflamations of what part soever in all contumacious obstructions of the Guts take no purging physick but by Clyster untill the body be open and thâ— spirits allayed Retain no purging Clyster above an houre but part with it Esteem not the goodnesse of your purge by the quantity and number of stools but by the quallity of them and the effects afterwards Covet not strong purges to have many stooles in a day a common Error which offers violence to nature and forcibly sweeping down both good bad together but rather endeavor to attract the offending cause gently by degreeâ— intermitting a day or two giving nature time for separation of humors you will finde it much more beneficiall nature more kindly assisting and lesse weakned On the intermitting dayes keep a good dyet with opening Broth and spoon-meat to keep your body fluid and ready for the next dayes operation beware of cold that you obstruct not your body and occlude the passages ductures before laid open which will cause your Physick to work with torsions and gripings and less effectual If the Morbific Cause lye in the stomack or bowels being in the passage ready and near the place of Evacuation you will not need so strong physick nor so often purging as when it is seated in parts more remote and at distance Delude not your self with one dayes purge expecting great matters from it you must know the first Dose stirres up more humors then it can evacuate and untill they be carried away you cannot expect your desired effect which will be after 3. or 4 dayes purging time little enough to cleanse a foul body but let it be with intermission of a day or two Take your purging Pills or Electuary early in bed lye an hour after that hour you may sleep but not longer when it begins to operate Sleep not nor lye down untill your Physick have done working except you be weake and your physick worke strongly then towards the latter end you may lye down to refresh you but not sleep except there be occasion to stay the working Drink a little thin Broth between your stools made with a bit of
a tender body and easy to operate The Womens Preservative is an excellent Powder very successeful and of great use to prevent miscarrying in Women with chiâ—de also very Cordiall and strengthning for weak women Take it once or twice in a week fasting in a glass of Muâ—kadell you may forbear taking the last moneth of your time The Dose is one papâ—r Buâ— beware of Dancing stretching leaping carrying of any weighty thing riding suddain motion fear or grief streight lacing surfeiting and ill dyet which break out into Fluxes and are very dâ—ngerous for woman in this condition For the Ioynts THe Arthritic Pâ—lls are a peculiar approved Remedy for the Gout in the Feet Knees Hip or Hands whether fixed in one joynt or erratick from place to place they Attract the Peccant humor from the Joynts and Evacuates it by seige they also purge ouâ— Phlegmatic Serous and Choleric humors and clenâ—e the body well The Dose is 4 pills for man or woman tender and weak bodies may take 3 observe the generall directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages For prevention take them 2 or 3 dayes in the middle of March and at the beginning of September if blood abounds open a vein to abate it but if the pain hath seased you already and that violently open a vein to prevent a Feaver to retract the current of humors and to abate the fiercenesse of it if pain be in the right Leg open a vein in the right arm if in the left Leg open a vein in the left arm if pain be in the right arm open a vein in the left arm and so the contrary take blood according to age strengh plenitude greatness of the cause as the skilful Chirurgions sees fit In the inteâ—im make use of the Câ—mphire powder to asswage pain as it is directed in the 45 page After bleeding the day following take the pills and the next night after Miscellaneous and General Medicines THe Catholick Pil's purge Choler Flegme and Melancholy from all parts of the body carâ—iâ—s away all superfluous and putrid humors that seetle or fix in any part to breed diseases they prevent Feavers Agues Fluxes breakings out upon the skin Itch Impâ—stâ—umes takes away all filthy matter that engender wormes and keeps the body clâ—an and pure Take them 2 or 3 dayes Spring and Autume or at other temperate seasons if occasion require ob erving the dirâ—ctions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this book The full Dose is 4 pills for 14 years old or tender bodies 3 pills for 7 years 1 pill The Aperitive Powder very effectually opens all obstructions of the Liver Spleen Guts Pancâ—eas Mesentery and Matrâ—x and is very usefull and necessâ—ry in â—he cures of Hypoâ—hondriae Melancholy Scurvy Dropsies Cholic tumors or pâ—inâ—s in the Liver and Spleen the Grâ—en-sickness especially and all Disâ—ases arising from obstructions Take it fasting in Rhenish wormwood or plain White Wine 2 or 3 mornings together before purging and also thâ— inteâ—mitting dayes between purging and stir about or use exercise after it prepares and opens the body excellently whâ—reby your purging Physick will operate more effectually for your purpose and expedite your business The Dose is one paper for 14 years 3 parts of a Paper The Sudorific Pills procures sweat excellently and purifies the blood dries up rhumes and watry humors abounding diverts distillations from the Lungs and other parts are a great preservative against the running gout or fixed expels all putrid humors by transpiration drives out all colds newly taken or old helps old aches prevents cures agues feavers smal pox measels and all Diseases generated of putrefaction and is the most pleasant and easie Medicine you can desire for sweating You may take them two or three mornings fasting in bed covered warm a quarter of an hour after drink a good draught of Rosemary posset or Lemmon posset if you be Feaverish and sweat 2 hours then take off clothes by degrees and cool carefully and beware of cold afterwards the Pores of the body being open The full Dose is 4 pills for 14 year 3 pills for 9 years 2 pills The Haematic Powder restraines immoderate flowing of the termes and stayes all issues of blood whether by Stool Urine Vomiting or Spitting Take it in a draught of Veriuce posset cold morning and evening and if the party be young or Sanguine take away a little blood at the Arme by a discreet Chirurgion to divert the course it is safe and proper The full Dose is one Paper for 15 years old 3 parts of it The Purgative Electuary is a generall purge that clean seth all parts and takes away both Choler Flegme and Melancholy very useful for those which cannot take Pills or have a costive and dry body Take it in the morning early on a knifes point or mix it with posset drink and make a potion if you please observing directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this Book The full Dose is the whole Medicine for 14 years old 3 parts of it for ten years half for 7 years a third part The Issue Plasters attracts and draws superfluous and corrupt humors from all parts of the body to the place causeth your issue to run and brings away filthy matter which produced and inclined you to many Diseases and distempers they keep your issue cool and prevent inflamation very commodious in Journeyes or Voyages one of them will last a moneth in wearing wipe it and turn the otherside to the place every dressing and lay a paper upon it The Febrifick Antidote resist all Agues or intermitting Feavers changeth the constitution and distemper of the blood checks the Fermentation and Ebullition of it mitigates and abates the Rigor of the Fits alters the course of the Disease and by degrees quite eradicates it Mix it with a little juce of Lemmon in a spoon and take it every fit day 2 hours before the fit comes and go to bed presently lye to sweat and sleep if it doth so dispose you Lemmon posset you may drink in your hot fit freely The full dose is a third part of the Medicine for 14 years a fourth part for 8 years old a dram Moreover because these Fitts are accommanied with impurity and foulenesse of the Body it is requisite there be some Evacuation made to cleanse the Stomack and parts adjacent else from thence there will be a continuall supply of Crude and Corrupt Nutriment sent into the Veines whereby the Masse of blood shall never be Depurated and so remaine under the same Distemper a long time or Degenerate into some other as bad or worse when these Fitts of Febrific Fermentation cease therefore if you have a fulnesse at the stomack nauseating or inclination to Vomit in your fits then forbeare this Antidote once and 2 houres before you expect the next Fitt take the Emetic Infusion to vomit observing the same Order as is directed in the 18 19 pages of this book for Vomiting Those dayes you have no Fitt to take a Clyster is very proper and beneficall to cleanse and carry away the Morbific Cause the Clyster Electuary is for your purpose see page 39. If you refuse Clysters take the Catholic Pil's page 43. The Camphire Powder cures all Tettars Ringwormes Scabs Itch Frettings and Gallings of the Skinne Choleric Pushes and Pimples in any part of the Body it asswageth all Pains of the Gout in the Hands Feet or Knees is a good preservative to defend the Joynts from the Reception of any such Humor by knitting binding and strenthening them it Repells a Flux of Humours resorting to an infirme depending or relax part it cooles and abates all outward inflamations represseth tumors and mitigates their pain it hardens tender and sweating seâ—t and makes them bold upon the stones kills chil-blaâ—es and easeth pains of the feet molâ—stâ—d with sharp pricking humors is very good for old Ulcers and sores by cooling drying and healing To be used thus Put the powder into a pint and half of Smiths water and boyle it to a pint and with this Liquor milk warm bath the places affâ—cted twice a day morning and â—ight But if you intend it for Pimples in the face then boyle it in White wine This Powder will be damp and moist sometimes it is the nature of it and not the worse The Cosmetick Water is of an abstersive faculty to clense purifie and thin the skin in a short time it alters a dull muddy complexion and makes it bright and clear it takes away Sun-burning Morphew spots and Freckles and puts a lively colour into the face without any future prejudice to the skin as Mercurian waters and such like are wont Use it thus shake the Bottle well then wet a fine cloth in it and wipe your face over not your eyes every morning and at night when you go to bed wipe your face with a cloth dipt in milk thus doing you shall have the desired effect FINIS LONDON Prinâ—â—d by 〈◊〉 and are to be sold by Samuel Thomson Stationer at the Bishops head in St. Pauls Church-yard Robert Horn Stationer at the Turks Head in Cornhill Thomas Basset Stationer under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street George Joyce at the sign of the Seale in Westminster Hall Where also you may have the Medicines
as the greatness of the occasion requires untill the Cause be Eradicated the Flux stayed and all Symptomes allayed Women with childe may safely take it or any person whatsoever The full Dose is half the Medicine for 14 years a third part for 7 years old a fourth part Keep house for colde provokes the Flux neither eat or drink of two hours after the Medicine and then Almond Milk or Whâ—y is the best you can take which you may drink freely night or day if you be griped in the belly The Tincture for Wormes is exâ—ellent for young Children that cannot take the following Pills having the same effects save onely it purgeth not therefore give it in a little Syrupe of Rubarb or Roses if that cannot be had 2 or 3 mornings new Moon and full The Dose is 12 drops for six years old 8 drops to 4 years 4 drops to 2 years old The Pills for Wormes both kills and prevents their breeding by carrying away the putrid matter whereof they are generated clensing the stomack and bowels from filthy corrupt humors restores the stomack and complexion thereby decayed amends the ill savour of the breath and corrects many other Symptomes which wormes produce Take them two mornings together new Moon and full observing the general directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this book The Clyster Electuary is very usefull and of speedy help in all pains and gripings of the Belly Cholic Stone Spleen Costiveness Feaveâ—s pains in the head and upper parts by drawing the offâ—nding Cause downwards and evacuating it very fit for those that can take no puring Physick but this way it attracts Choler Flegme and Melancholy Use it thus Take a pint and half of Ale possâ—t half a handfull of Fennell sâ—eds bruised grosly or Annise boyle these to a plat strain it in this liquor then dissolve the Electuary put it in your Clyster bag fitted and give it warm then lye upon your back and retain it half an hour or 3 quarters if you can you may repeat it if occasion râ—quire you will find great ease and suddain heâ—p For children give but half or a third part more or less according to their age For the Reines and Bladder THe Nephritic Pills clenseth the Reins and Bladder of sand and gravel that generates the stone opens the Urinary passages and frees them from slimy or any gross matter that obstructs the Uriters they provoke Urine cool the Reins prevents the stone helps the Strangury and suppression of Urine Take them 2 or 3 mornings in a week fasting at any time of the year when occasion requires an hour after drink a good draught of White Wine and Ale then follow your business they purge not by stool but by Urine onely The Dose is 5 pills for 14 years 3 pills The Roborating Pills are very good to strengthen a weak back in man or woman to stay the whites helps the retentive facultie of the Bowels and naturall parts strengthens the Old age and weak persons Take them two or three mornings in a week in bed early sleep after them when you rise drink a glass of Mulkadine and follow your business The Dose is 5 pills for 14 years 3 pills The Strengthning Plaster is of excellent use in all strains and weakness of the back removes paine and Aches there gives strength to the Spine bone and knits a loose back it likewise helps all tumors pain and stiffnesse in any part by falls blows hard labour or colde it helps all Weaknesse Spraines and Wrenches of any joynt strengthens the Ligaments comforts the Sinews and draws out superfluous moisture that relaxeth any part or causeth paine and defends it from a flux of humors Apply it to the grieved part and let it stick on three or four weeks it will restore and help you of your infirmity For the Genitall Parts THe Restringent Powder staies a Gonorrhaea or runnig of the Reines so called mitigates and asswageth paine that proceeds from any sharp or hot humor in the Privities of man or woman heales any Exulceration there takes away any itching or troublesome heat cooles much and restraines effectually the debility and weakness of the spermatick vessels Use it thus take a pint of Plantane water half a pint of White wine one paper of this powder mix them well by shaking it together in a bottle then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night you will finde great help and ease But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent and proceed from the Pox then it is requisite also that you take the following Pills to purge and clense your body from that Malignity and virulency wherewith the humors are tainted and vitiated For if you stop the Gonorrhaea and do not also take away the impurity of the Disease you retain it in the body to your prejudice The Antivenereall Pills are a specific Remedy against the French Pox to clense and purifie the body from any infection and putrid matter arising from thence they purge downward all foulness of the body and by a peculiar propriety attract the venome of that Disease The full Dose is 4 pills for tender and weak persons 3 pills is sufficient Take them 5 or six times every third or fourth day according as you finde the ability of your body and the operation observing the directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this Book After the first Dose of Pills if you be young and sanguine or of a hot constitution or so acquired by this Disease then let a a Veine be opened in the arme and take blood at the discretion of your Chirurgeon After purging you may sweat 3 or 4 times with the Sudorfiic Pills to purifie the blood see page 43. The Expulsive powder is an approved help for the safe delivery of Women in labour when all other meanes have failed giving strength both to the Woman and Childe and speedily procureth the birth by Gods help Give it in a spoonfull of Cinamon water at the due time for delivery and no time else The Dose is one paper The Hysterical Powder is a specific remedy against fits of the Mother very soon abates their violence disperseth the Vapours shortens the fitt and reduceth the Patient to her sense and reason Give it once or twice that day you have them in half a pint of Spring water colde For prevention take it once in a fortnight or 3 weeks in the morning fasting The Dose is one paper The Femenine Pills clenseth and opens all obstructions of the Matrix cures the green Sickness effectually and restores the complexion prevents fits of the Mother in those that are subject to it and disperseth the vapours brings the termes into their right order according to the course of Nature and purgeth women excellently Take them 3 or 4 times observing directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pâ—ges of this book The full Dose is 6 pills for 15 years 5 pills or but 4 if she be