are to be sought in those Tables Repellers by the Latines Repellentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are those which prohibit the flux of a humour into any part or else do represse and drive back that which is already fallen into the part so it be not yet fixed in it They are of a cold nature and some of them are moreover dry and of an earthy substance which are most powerfull and are properly such Others are watrish and moist and these are more gentle for by howmuch the thicker substance and more condensed any of the first qualities are inherent in by so much the more effectually it operates The prime use of them is to prohibit both the beginnings and increase of inflammations The secondary use is in any sort of flux of humours proceeding either from Plethora or Cacochymia yet note that those things which are the more powerfull may easily be known by their harsh and austere tast The Rootes Of Slooe tree of Cinquefoyle of Snakeweed and Tormentill Barkes Of the root of Mandrake of an Oake neere the root rinds of Pomegranates Leaves Of Mastick Cipresse Brambles nightshade plantain mirtles vine-twists sumach oake-leaves prinet hen-bane housleek Venus navel-wort purslane lettice endive cichory knotgrass mouse eare ducks meat horstaile pear-tree leaves Seedes Of Fleawort Plantaigne Mirtles Roses Flowres Of red Roses Balaustines or the flowr of wild Pomegranates Cytines or the flower of the manured Pomegranate Fruites Quinces Services Berberryes Cornelians Cypresse nuts Mirtles Green gals Medlers wild peares Juyces Acacia Hypocistis Verjuyce Vinegar juyce of Pomegranates Lemons and unripe Mulberries Excrements of animals Whites of egges Minerals Alum Vitriol Cerusse Lead Salt Tutty Earthes Bole armeniack Terra sigillata Gums Sanguis draconis Waters Of the leaves before recited which soever of them are in use in the shops rose water Oyles Of roses mirtles quinces sower grapes of mastick wood of mastick Oyntments Unguent Comitissae Galens cooling oyntment oyntment of Populeon of bole armenack Playsters against the rupture of mastick Emplasticks the same name is kept both in Greek Latine and English THey are so called which being spread on the poares of the body cleave very fast to them i.e. they daube fill and stop the poares As to the Qualities of them they are hot in the actives without any acrimony or corroding but in the passive qualities some of them have altogether a grosse and earthy consistence drying without biting and some of them have over and above an aery or watrish humour by which meanes they cleave too and are clammy The Vse of these is in stopping all manner of defluxions and bleedings especially at the nose and in drying moyst wounds and Ulcers that are fomented by the defluxion Secondarily also to ripen or suppurate for they fill the pores of the skin and keep in the heat by which meanes swellings are the easier ripened Such are these following which are prescribed chiefly in the form of a Plaister Cataplasme or Pultis Rootes Of Marsh mallowes Lillyes Mallowes Cumfrey The Leaves Of Vervain-Mallowes Mallowes Purslane Seedes Of Fenegreek Lupines Sesamum Fruites Raisins of the Sun Figges Pine nuts steeped in water Gums Arabick Tragant Sanguis Draconis Mastick Frankinsense and its barke Parts and excrements of animals Mummy Wax whites of egges new fats marrow of fourfooted beasts new butter new cheese Oesipus lambshead hogs feet calves head and feet Spodium made of Ivory Earthes Bole armenack terra sigillata Flâ—wry parts of seeds or meale of wheat starch fine flowr beane flowre Muscilages Of all sorts Minerals and metalline things Alum Litharge cerusse stibium or antimony burnt lead cadmia or the condensed fuligo in the boyling of brasse tutty lime Stones Blood stone plaster of Paris lapis calaminaris Rosins All of them pitch Sea things As Corall snailes amber Oyles All that are temperate Oyntments Album Rhasis ung nutritum diapompholigos the red drying oyntment Intercepters or Defensives They are commonly called defensives which by their cold binding faculty stop the passage of the humours so that they cannot fall into the part They differ from the Repellers only in respect of the place to which they are applyed for the repellers are applyed to the part affected but the intercepters are applyed to the wayes or passages by which the humour fals to it Therefore the matter of the intercepters is the same with that of the Repellers Binders by the Latines Obstruentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 AND commonly Binders under the generall signification comprehend under that word Repellers Condensers Thickeners and strengtheners of the parts But more strictly in this place it signifies such medicines as strengthen the larger passages of the body and that as it were bind them round about to set a difference betwixt them and the condensers which only strengthen and bind up the small pores of the skin and other parts and as it were make them solider Binders are according to Galen 5 simpl facult c. 14. cold and dry and of a grosse substance The Vse of these are in stopping the fluxes of the belly dysentery catarrhes and in staying the force of any humour or any sensible way of excretion as the veines of the womb and all other fluxes Such are these following with which you should always mingle things something heating and strengthning the parts Rootes of Snakeweed or bistort the greater cumfrey tormentill rubarb torrified Barkes Of myrobalanes pomegranates frankin sence acorne cups Woodes As Saunders Leaves Of Plantaines the greater knot grasse horsetaile shepheards purse mouseare mirtle Flowres Of balaustines roses Seedes Of sorrel purslane mirtles plantaine white poppy roses stones of raysins of the sun rice Fruites Quinces peares services cornelians medlars pomegranats English Corans berberries unripe mulberries cipress nuts gals Juyces and liquors Starch acacia hypocistis juyce of quinces verjuyce sowre wine chalibeated milk and ironed milk Animal things Hartshorn burnt Ivory Mummy Gums Tragant Mastick to Ê’ i. sanguis draconis Stones and Earthes Blood stone terra figillata bole armenack Metalline things Alum Iron Crocus Martis Sea things Corall Amber Pearles Waters Of Roses Plantane Purslane knotgrasse sorrell Syrrups Of quinces dryed roses pomegranats mirtles conserve of quinces Condites Preserved Quinces and cornelians Conserves and Confections Old conserves of roses diacodion philonium new treacle Troschiscks Of rubarb spodium and Amber THE FIRST BOOK THE FIRST PART THE FOVRTH SECTION Of Medicines respecting the cause offending in rest or quietnesse The Type of the Section The matter fixed in a part is emptied by medicines which relax Insensibly as discussers Insensibly as consumers Insensibly as drawers either by a quality manifest or occult as those that extract peculiar things or sensibly under the forme of thin water as the blisterers or sensibly under the forme of natter or corruption as suppurators or sensibly under the forme of natter or corruption as openers or breakers of impostems Relaxers by the Latines
rehearsed as Sarcoticks are not to be thought so simply but are withall either glutinative or closing or else cleansing or procuring suppuration and therefore are to be temperd by the mixture of others But these following are properly called such of which note that the dryer sort are to be used to dry bodies and those that are least drying are to be applyed to moyst bodies Rootes of Cumfrey Ireos Birthwort Leaves of St. Johns wort Juyces Aloes Flowrye parts of barly vetches orobus and ervus and of senugreek â—osins Frankinsense Burgundy pitch Mastick rosin of the pine and of the sir tree pitch turpentine myrrhe Gums Tragant Sanguis draconis Sacrocall Minera's As Cadmia Cerusse Tutty both white and gray called Pompholix Lytharge lead burnt and washed Vnguents Aureum rubrum desuccativum Emplasters de betonica de gratia dei Epuloticks or skinning medicines but more properly Cicatrizers by the Latines Cicatrizantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that skin an Ulcer or wound after it is filled with flesh they should be in the passive qualities very drying that they may not only consume the moysture that flowes to the part but also that that remaines in the flesh of the Ulcer they are also of a grosse substance that they may bind and contract or draw together In the active qualities they should rather be cooling then heating and altogether without biting though there be many things numbred amongst the Cicafrizers that dry with biting yet such are convenient only for the hardest sort of bodies The Vse is plain The Matter followes Rootes of round Birthwort Tormentill Leaves of Plantaine Myrtle Pomegranates horse taile mony wort Barkes of Pomegranates Acorne cups Ashes and things burnt as wool linnen or cotten burnt spunges burnt a hares haire burnt tiles burnt to dust Gums and juyces Sanguis draconis Acacia Fruites of the Cipresse tree unripe gals Flowres Balaustines red roses Earths Terra Iemnia bole armenack chalke Stones Blood stone calaminaris plaster of Paris Metalline things Scalings of Iron burnt Alum lead burnt and washed powder of lead of which see Fernelius lib. 6. M.M. cap. 16. brasse burnt ceruse litharge Calcitis or white vitrioll Cadmia washed pompholix or white tutty brimstone aurpment vitriol pompholix and spodia are both sorts of tutty why he sets tutty here by it selfe I know not see Screderus in his pharmacopia lib. 3. cap. xix tutty burnt and washed antimony burnt lime washed spodium or grey tutty Animals Hearts horne burnt scutle bone Ivory burnt oyster shels burnt Sea things Corall Oyntments Ung. album Rhazis Nutritum or oyntment of Litharge oyntment of Cerusse of tutty or red lead and rubrum desiccativum Things that take away Sears which for brevity sake may be called Scar Curers Fat 's and marrowes of men asses harts the fat of the fish Thymallus Oyles of Myrrh yeolkes of egges campher orientall balsame Flowre of beanes Juyce of Ivy. Seedes of rocket mustard Minerals borax salt peeter Waters of Lilly flowres beane flowres out of which things are made divers compositions oyntments and liniments Things breeding a Calleus or hardnesse in joyning broken bones may properly be called Call-breeders by the Latines callum generantia be the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called not because they properly breed a Calleus for that is the work of nature but because they assist nature in that work such are in the active qualities moderatly hot lest they should dissolve and consume that juyce of which the Calleus is ingendred in the passives they should be drying as to the second qualities they thicken harden and bind and are either Internall as the juyce of primroses the rootes juyce or powder of Agrimony and especially the stone Osteocalla or bone glew given to Ê’ i. in cumfrey water Externall things as Aloes Acacia bole armenack Mill dust Osteocalla or bone glew nuts of Cipresse Frank in sence Gum tragant THE THIRD PART OF THE FIRST BOOK Of Medicaments respecting the most common and most urgent Symptomes The Type Symptomes that are the most frequent are these following together with their opposite remedies Paine to which are opposite anodine things and Narcoticks watching Hypnoticks flux of blood stenchers of blood swounding refreshers of the spirits Anodynes by the Latines dolorem mitigantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which ease paine without stupisying the senses though the cause of it remain such medicines should be temperate in the active qualities much agreeable to our naturall heat but in the passives moyst either watrish or ayery of thin substance voyd of all astriction for these by their mild and gentle heat foster the heat of the part and by their tenuity of substance penetrate into the parts and by their gentle moysture relax them by which meanes the cause contained in the part by transpiration may be the easier discussed and evacuated The Matter is this which is for the most parâ— externall and topicall or applyable to the very place Rootes of Marsh-mallowes mallowes lillyes Leaves of Elder mallowes violets dill Seedes of Flax fenugreek wheat barly and the meale Flowres of Chamomill mellilot mullen saffron Animals their parts and excrements Warm milke new butter unsalted Oesipus yeolkes of egges flesh of animals whilest it is warme lungs of animals new killed the kell of animals also Marrowes All that are kept in the shops Fat 's and greases Hogs fat gooses hens man's Oyles Sweet oyle Olive of earthworms chamon ill sweet almonds sillies linseed yeolks of egges of dill jasimine wall flowres of sesamus water and oyle mixt together Wheat bread new baked whilst it is yet hot Crumbs of white bread Mucilages of the seeds of Mallowes fleawort marsh-mallowes fenugreek Suets of a Hart of Goates Oyntments Pectoral oyntments Dialthea unguent anodynum resumptivum oyntment of the opening juyces Narcoticks by the Latines Stupefacientia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are Medicines which take away or stupifie the sense of the part that it cannot be sensible of that which manes the paine The Vse of these is in the most vehement paines and they are all extreamly cold but do not stupifie so much by their coldnesse as by an occult quality they possesse Roots of Mandrake Henbane Leaves of Henbane Mandrake Poppies sleepy nightshade Tobacco Hemlock Flowres of Henbane Poppy Seedes of white and black Poppy Henbane Darnell Thickned juyces of Mandrake Henbane Opium Syrups of white and red poppy diacodium Oyles of Mandrake white poppy seed Opiates New Treacle requies Nicholai Philonium romanum persicum Philon Magistrale Pils of Cynoglosse of Styrax Laudanum and nepenthes opiatum to gr iii. iv v. Sleeping Medicines by the Latines Somnifera by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that procure sleep by sending mild vapors up to the head to temper the hot dry and sharp fumes that are in the brain whose Vse is chiefly when overwatchings are caused by sharp fumes such are
compleat the whole dose taking the greater quantity of this or that or equal parts as you see fit The USE is for 1 dose only according to the present necessity at any time of the day or the disease And this is the usual FORM of RESCRIBING ℞ c. viz. the Liquor in which dissolve c. so make a potion to be taken at such or such an hour Mark this that because some Cordials are dissolved in the potion they may be prescribed in the said form or else without the straining after dissolution 't is usual to prescribe all the ingredients adding only Make a potion The UTILITY 'T is very effectual against divers affections of the heart as Swooning panting c. malignant affections poysons and when it is to be strengthened being made weak by the violence of diseases as also when the virtues of it and al other principal parts are dejected they are through the continuance of the whole disease to be assisted and restored being weakned to be strengthened and confirmed being exhausted to be recruited An altering Potion THat is to be called an altering Potion which is under a Liquid form not allotted either to purge hurtful humors or comfort the strength of the body oppressed so it be to alter any way or evacuate so it do it not by purging as in expelling the stone of the Reines c. prescribed for one onely dose to be taken by the mouth at one time The COMPOSITION of it is the same as of the corroborating potion viz. of a Liquor fitted for your present intention either a distill'd water only or else some Juyce or decoction being added to it and some convenient powder to be altered according to the variety of your indications and a proper syrup serving to the intention of the Physitian al which are prescribed in the dose after the same manner as the strengthening potion as you may perceive by one or two examples following A somniferous potion restoring and corroborating the strength exhausted by over-watchings ℞ Water of red Poppyes water Lilles and Lettuce of each two ounces syrup of white Poppy one ounce syrup of Violets half an ounce Consectio Alkermes half a dram Make a potion to be taken at the time of going to sleep A Potion for the Worms and also Cordial Take the water of Purslane and grass of each two ounces Confection of Hyacinth half a dram powder of Earthworms dryed one scruple Coralin and the shavings of Hartshorn of each one scruple syrup of Lemons one ounce So make a potion A potion to hasten delivery of a Child Take Hypocras made by the infusion of Cinnamon and Dittany in white Wine four ounces or five ounces Cinnamon water half an ounce Corfectio Alchermes one dram Saffron half a scruple syrup of Mugwort one cunce So make a potion CHAP. IV. Of Syrups DIvers simples there are Herbs Roots Seeds Fruits Flowers and others or the Juyces of them which cannot be had alwayes when need requires them especially in winter and autumn that decoctions infusions or other Medicines may be prepared of them for a present use or else they cannot be preserved sound without loss of their virtues so long a time or if they may yet the urgency of the affection or other inconveniencies do not alwayes allow such leisure as to attend the preparing of Medicines of them in divers forms or til the virtues of them may be sufficiently extracted from hence appears the necessity of syrups for the divers virtues of Plants thus kept and preserved by the benefit of Sugar or Honey in the form of a syrup are alwayes ready for use in every pressing necessity to serve for the various scope of the Physitian and are preserved sound without any depravation having joyned with them a grateful taste so that syrups are as it were a certain preserving of a medicinal Liquor Juyce decoction or infusion in which is retained the efficacy of the Medicines But a syrup is the invention of the Arabians and was scarce known to the antient Greeks we read of only mention made of Oximel and cute in Galen and Hypocrates after whose example the Mauritanians have a lorned their pharmacentick art with a various collection of syrups the modern Greeks as Actuarius cals it Scrapium Some derive this name from the Greek others from the Arabick but this is little considerable Whatsoever it is though at this time it be taken either properly for that which I shal describe and for that which is extant in the shops or improperly for a decoction preparing humors or an Apozem as Rondeletius and Jeubertus have written as an altering Julep for the Italians at this day cal a Julep Serapium perhaps because a syrup is the basis of a Julep yet at Montpelier A SYRUP is a fluid form of a Medicine made of a decoction Juyces or an infusion preserved with Sugar or Honey boyled to such a consistence that a drop on a marble or plate may not spread abroad prepared either to alter or purge It is of two sorts an altering syrup as was the syrup of the Antients and this hath been revived by our latest Physitians and a purging syrup The altering Syrup The definition of an altering syrup is to be sought among those things which we have said before in the altering Apozem as also the differences there set down But for the clearer method use and prescription sake it is two-fold Officinal and Magisterial The officinal or usual is that which is publickly extant 〈…〉 in the Apothecarys shops of which I 〈…〉 in the use of it and in respect of the prescribing of it many things occur necessary to be known hereafter to be rehearsed And this diversly divided as wel in relation to its virtues as its composition The differences taken from the virtues are considered either in general hot cold moist dry temperate Or in special in respect of the humors and other parts of the body In relation to the humors it alters either in the first qualities to which belong according to the diversity of the humor that which alters concocts digests prepares either choler phlegm melancholy or blood or in the second qualities in which number are contained those which cut attenuate incrassat cleanse binde or in the third qualities hither are referd those which cause easy coughing lenifie expectorate provoke Urine break the Stone provoke the courses condense the parts expel poyson and corroborate In regard of the parts which they properly respect some are Cephalical others Cordial c. which you may seek among the store of Physical remedies here I shal only propound the division of the Officinal syrups according to their composition and faculties onely considered generally because other things more appertain to the physical magazeen withal intending to give a Catalogue of the more usual sort because some are here in use which in other places are grown obsolete and so on the contrary neither is there the same number in use every where
effectual united faculty To the Troschischs are to be referred the Muscardines WHich are little pastils so called from the musk they contain cheifly composed for the perfuming the breath and to exalt venereall moriscoes such are these of Gallia moschata that are most effectual They are compounded either simply of ambergreese musk-grains three four c as you wil and q. s sugar dissolved in rose-water with a little starch Or else more compounded of the powder of some aromatical things of sweet savor as cinnamom Saunders one dram musk Ambergreese gr three or four as you list and sugar q. s make troschischs of which let him hold one often in his mouth CHAP. VII Of Powders THe USE of POWDERS is extream necessary both that solid medicines may come in use of themselves as also that they may the easilier be mixed with other formes of medicines but that which the Latines cal a powder the Arabians call by 3. names Suffuff any gross powder Alcohol the finest powders and Seiff the grinding of any sort of troschischs which is done on a stone with a fit water for affections of the eyes but a powder is either officinal or magisterial of which this discourse is The magisterial is either internal or external The internall is either purging strengthening or altering Purging Powder The definition and differences may be sought out of what is aforesaid It is compounded of Catharticks and for the most part those that are the pleasantest with their proper correctors in a proportion often before mentioned As to the quantity to an ounce an ounce and half is the most is prescribed and note that sugar for the more delicate may be added but in a smal quantity or equal to the powder and that exactly defined The VSE as to the manner 't is to betaken in broth or some convenient liquor As to the quantity the doses of the purgers are to be computed As to the time in the morning with custody The FORM â„ž c. Make a powder of which c. The VTILITY is to purge see afore The strengthening powder Although it may be prescribed to strengthen divers parts according to the scope of the Physitian yet 't is either to confirm the stomack and is called a Digestive or the heart and is called a Cordial and an Alexiterial it may be also made for other uses as to strengthen the Liver Intrals c. The COMPOSITION 1 of the digestive powder is in general of stomachical things that help concoction dissolvers of wind and binder But in special Coriander-seed prepared is usually the basis prescribed to an ounce to which are added things that discuss wind as Anniseed to half an ounce or 6 drams then strengtheners of the stomack either simple or compound to 2 or 3 drams at most with sugar of Roses in tablets s q. 2. The Cordial powder or that which strengthens other parts which is compounded both of simple and compound powders of Electuaries proper and specifical to half an ounce 6 drams or 1 ounce according as the use of it shal continue long or short yet so that the more pretious Cordial powders be joyned but in a smal quantity either to a fourth or sixth part these are prescribed either alone or for the better taste sake sugar rosat is mixed with them to three or four times their weight The VSE and form of the Digestive powder â„ž c. Make a powder of which let him take a spoonful neither eating nor drinking after it But of a Cordial or other strengthening powder as hepatical c. this is the form â„ž c. Make a powder of which let him take 1 2 or 3 drams with water broath or other convenient liquor and that in the morning the stomack being empty or else when necessity requires especially if it be Alexiterial The VTILITY is for the strengthening of the principal parts and others also and consists for the most part of hot things yet with the same intention of strengthening they may be prepared of cooling things Hither appertains the altering powder altering divers wayes according to the scope in first second and third qualities as that which is generally prescribed of steel against obstructions with other openers to one ounce or two ounces with an equal quantity of sugar of which a spoonful is taken every morning drinking after it a little wine or other convenient Liquor so against the stone or gravel of stone-breaking medicines to an ounce an ounce and a half and Sugar s q. of which take one dram or a dram and a half with a diuretical Liquor so to provoke the birth and courses as also to bind the fluxes of blood both by stool and from the Womb and bladder against all kindes of fluxes and to alter divers wayes when moysture is one cause offending Thus much of an internal powder The external powder is also sometimes prescribed and is either physical or chirurgical The physical or medicinal is for the most part strengthening as is usually prescribed for comforting and drying the brain of proper cephalical things as Roots Leaves c. prescribed to two ounces adding to it also and that frequently the violet or cypris powder to one ounce or one ounce and a half more or less but for the most part they take of roots two ounces seeds six drams flowers three drams spices two drams The VSE and FORM â„ž c. Make a gross powder with which let the head be dryed in the morning which is most usual lafter the washing of it The VTILITY is to strengthen the brain and dry the phlegmatick and to waste the excrementitious moysture of the hairs of the head The Chyrurgical powder is various to be prescribed only by a Chyrurgeon to cleanse fil and heal Ulcers stop the bleeding of wounds c. the quantity of prescribing it varies according to the various occasion of its use THE SECOND BOOK OF EXTERNAL REMEDIES The First SECTION Of Remedies common to many parts CHAP. I. Of Epithemes or liquors to be applyed to any part IF you regard the signification of the name every external medicine that is applyable to any part may be so called but now it claims a peculiar kinde of right in designing only those remedies that are externally applyed to the Heart and Liver and the nobler parts of the body to alter strengthen and is two-fold liquid and solid The liquid Epitheme The name is apparent and it is fluid like water or a Julep chiefly composed of a convenient liquor and cordial powders In it three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the Composition we must regard the matter of which 't is made whether liquid or dry as powder or mean between both and in either of these the quality and quantity The Liquor as to its quality is for the most part a distilled water as the basis such as is proper both for the affection and part affected and that either alone or else
body You may safely give of that infusion ℥ ss or ʒ vi nay in a strong body you may give the whole ounce prescribed so the liquor be cleared from the powder Compounds are stibiated tablets eaten to ʒ i. or dissolved in a fit liquor as baume water c. also this following infusion ℞ the roots of Briony and Sowbread ana ℥ iii. of white Hellebore ℥ vi diligently cleansed powdred and dryed in the aire pour to them aq vitae to the eminency of two fingers breadth above the powder let them infuse some few dayes in B.M. then distill them and let that which remaines in the bottome be again dryed and powdred pouring to it again the former water do this three times dip the tip of a feather in this liquor and then slice it about in a glass of wine and give it to drink it provokes vomit suddainely DIURETICKS Those are called Diureticks which evacuate the watrish humours of the body by Urines and they are two fold some properly so called others improperly Those which are properly Diureticks are for the most part hot and dry in the third degree of thin parts and which easily penetrate to the veines and there melt and dissolve the blood and seperate the watrish part from the thicker much like the turning of milk when it curdleth from whence that which is grosser returneth to it selfe with the rest of the blood but that which is serous is drawn by the proper faculty of the reines Such are Rootes of Smallage Asarum Calamus aromaticus all the thistles of Ciperus or English Galangal of Dancus of town cress sennel cammock parsly radish madder kneeholm saxifrage valerian Leaves of Wormwood Smallage Betony Mountain Calamint Dittany of Creet Bayes Cresses Parsly Penny royall Savory mother of Time Flowres of Chamomill and broome Barkes the middle bark of broom bayes radishes Seedes of Anise Smallage Cardamomes Chervill red Cicers or Italian pease Cubebs Daucus Fennel Juniper berryes of Lovage Groomwell Parsly Paliurus of some called Christs thorne silver mountain seed and nettle seed Fruites bitter almonds figs. Spices Cassia Lignea Cinamon Rozins Turpentine both of Firre and Larch that is both Venice Turpentine and common Liquors White Wine Animals Cantharides to gr ii or iii. but with these conditions that they be given 1 after all other things have been tryed 2 they are to be given whole ex 11 simplic 3 never to be given alone but with some fat broath altered with mallowes Marsh-mallowes Locusts or Grashoppers given to ℈ ii Goatesblood Officinall waters as of fennel smallage and the herbs aforesaid Syrrups of the five roots of the two roots of radishes compound Species as Lithontribon of Nicolaus Conserves of the flowres of broome bettony wormwood Those are called improperly Diureticks not which melt the blood but those which by a certain tenuity of parts drive the wheyish part of it to the wayes of the Urine and so provoke it and have either a remisse temperate heat or else incline to cooling and these we use in hot affections where we may feare least the hot Diureticks by too much drying the blood should rather stay the Urine or else are such as only lenify the passages of the Urine as Marsh mallows mallowes liquerish and such like lenifiers which are very improperly called Diureticks Of the former sort are the Roots of Sparagus Sorrell Eringo strawberries grasse narrow docks Leaves of Sorrell tops of Sparagus Maidenhaire Rupturewort Pellitory of the wall Seedes The four greater cold seedes seedes of sorrell Alkekengie or winter cherries barly Fruites Strawberries Cherry kernels Medler stones Lemons Pompions Cowcumbers Goards Juyces Of Lemons Pellitory Gums Camphere This may better be referred to those properly called Diureticks before Officinall things as Waters Of Sorrell grass barly pellitory Syrups Of the juyce of Sorrell Maiden haire Lemons Troschiscks Of Camphere of Alkekengie of Saunders Chymicall things Sal prunellae from ʒ ss to ʒ i. with water adding some pleasant syrrup as of violets Out of those Diureticks divers formes of remedies both inward and outward may be composed SUDORIFICKS They are so called which evacuate the whole body by sweating of the Greeks they are called Hydroticks the nature of these is very agreeable with the Diureticks for heat being thin and subtle insinuates it selfe far into the body and humours which it attenuates and dissolves into evaporations but they also open the pores of the body from whence the vapours of their owne accord breath out and are condensed into a sweat The same matter doth after move both sweat and Urine Urine if the raines be hot and the skin thick sweat if the raines be cold and the skin thin such are these Rootes Of Smallage Angelica Burdock China Fennel Hops Parsley Burnet Cinquefoyle Salsa parilla Tormentill or Setwell Zedoary Woodes Box Guaicum Ginger Sasafras Leaves Carduus benedictus Maiden haire Germander Celandine the greater Chervill Fumitary Burnet Scabiosse Damesviolet Flowres Of Camomell Seedes Barly Millet Lentiles Juyces Rob. of Elder berryes and Danewort Earths Terra sigillata especially in the plague and infectious diseases Parts of animals Harts horn Bezar stone Chymicall things Salt of Wormwood Ash Scabiosse to gr x. xii rather to ℈ i. with water of Carduus benedictus and Scabiosse Antimonium diaphoreticum to gr iv or vi with a fit conserve Compounds Out of those divers things may be composed but potions especially those made of decoctions are preferred before all or else of infusions or of sudorificall things dissolved in a fit liquor and although they should be taken in a bole or other forme yet it is best to drink downe a potion after it hither is referred the syrrup called of St. Ambrose which consists of millet boyled in two parts of water and one of wine Officinall things are the waters of Carduus benedictus Chervill Fumitory Elder flowres also Treacle Mithridate and others as electuary de ovo and such like THE FIRST BOOK THE FIRST PART THE THIRD SECTION Of Medicaments respecting the cause that offends in motion The Type of the Section Medicaments respecting the morbificall cause offending in motion are in regard of the matter that is flowing Thickeners of the part receiving Repellers to which you may add Emplasticks of the wayes by which it flows Intercepters of the wayes by which it flows Binders Thickeners by the Latines Incrassantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which render thin and fluxible humours thicker and so less apt to flow such as are those which in the active qualities are cooling or temperate without any acrimony of a grosse and earthy substance by the commixture of which the thinner sort of humours acquire a thicker substance by much as water by the mixture of durt becomes clay as to the matter of Thickners because they agree in quality with the Repellers Binders Emplasticks gluing and scar breeding or wound closing medicines and with the thickeners of choller before mentioned therefore they
of Medicines may be considered two ways first according to their external form Secondly according to their internal which doth wholly belong to the method of Physick This again may be considered two manner of ways for either it doth shew on what basis a compounded Medicine doth consist whether it be Convective Preservative or decoctive wholly to be taken from the nature of the Indication or an Alterative Medicament as for example such a one which is heating in the second degree consisting of divers simples and those hot in the first second or third degree or else cold in the same degrees according to the indications which do shew many or few must be used in a dosis that the end may adaequately result I shall not discourse of this internal Medicine considered according to its internal form but rather of the former which doth perspicuously teach after what manner The Medicinal may be concinnated into divers and convenient forms either as the desire of the sick which is not always the same or the affections or Morbifical causes or the various constitution of the part affected doth require according to that Philosopher in the last book of his Analyticks Learning every discipline proceedeth from apermitted cognition Wherefore I shal premise those things which are necessary to be known so that the Prologomena may be reduced to four heads the first of Medicinal weights and Measures The second of the Notes and abbreviations of Physitians the third is a Tractate of the differences and distributions of forms the Fourth what things are to be observed in every form 1. Of the Weights and Measures used in Physick SEeing that the whole manner of Composition doth depend on the proportion of simples which are estimated by Weight Measure Number and bulk I shall therefore necessarily insist on them First dry things are generally expended by weight which having divers differences in the Monuments of the Antients the more used are to be followed by our Physitians in their prescriptions A grain is the basis and foundatition of the weight as the unite of numbers adequate in weight to a white Peppercorn A scruple which according to the Antients should contain 24 grains yet according to an ill received use hath now but twenty Drachma a dram hath three scruples Vncia an ounce hath eight drams where note by the way that when three are prescribed by the Name of a Measure they are termed quartarium or a quarter of a pound Libra a pound hath twelve ounces Mensurae or Measures are for liquids designed by vessels and ounces for the modern Physitians do not measure in certain hollow vessels as the Antients were wont but estimate the measures by weight so that every meafure may be answerable exactly to the weights now seeing that the same weight of Liquids is not correspondent to the weight of Arids The quantity of Medicines in magnitude is prescribed by handfuls Fasciculi and Pugils Manipulus is that quantity which may be held in the hand answerable to half an ounce Fasciculus as much as one can hold or inclose within the arm Pugillus a Pugilis either greater or lesse the greater is as much as may be taken in all the five fingers the lesser Pugil as much as may be taken in three fingers the greater in weight a whole dram the lesser half a dram In number also the quantity of Medicines is considered and that either equally or unequally as for example by three or four Lupines In species the orders of Medicaments are considered Roots Barks and Wood are weighed Leaves are measured by Manipulus but if prescribed for baths by Fasciculs for leaves observe that in purging potions they are used to the third part of a Manipule The doses of seeds are for the most part expressed yet Barley and Rife are measured by the Pugil Flowers are also defined by the Pugil Fruits are either greater or less if less as Corans and Raisins are exhibited by weight or number if greater as Apples Prunes and Figgs they are presented in number Aromaticks Gums and Rosins are difined by weight Efficatious and pretious Liquors and distilled oyls by drops 2. Of Physical abbrevations and Notes PHysitians with less difficulty and loss of time have certain letters by which either weights in the place of words are expressed in their forms or else certain abbreviations do design the beginning or end of the form The Notes of Weights used by Physitians and Apothecaries Gr. gr Noteth A Grain ℈ ss Noteth Half a scruple ℈ j Noteth A scruple ʒ j Noteth A dram ʒ ss Noteth Half a dram ℥ j Noteth An ounce ℥ ss Noteth Half an ounce lb j Noteth A pound lb ss Noteth Half a pound M j Noteth Manipule or handful M ss Noteth Half a Manipule P Noteth A pugil quart Noteth A quartary or 3 ounc ana Noteth Ana. i. e. an equal pound or measure of two or more Medicines an part aeq Noteth The equal parts of every one of them q. s Noteth What suffiseth or a sufficient quantity Vnder one general Title are sometimes comprehended Simples The five greater opening Roots Parsley Fennel Asparagus Petroselinum and Ruscus The five lesser opening Roots Guajacum Rubia Elecampany Capparis and Ononidis The five mollifying Herbs Mallows Althea Violet leaves Mercury Acanthus or Brancha Ursina To the same add Wall-flowers Bettony and Atriplex The five Capillary Herbs Adianthum or Venus hair Adianthum Mirum album or Ruta murar Polytrichon Aureum Trichomanes Asplenium or Ceterach The four great hot Seeds Anise-seeds Fennel-seeds Carraway-seeds Cummin-seeds The four lesser hot Seeds Of Parsley Of Ammonium Of Daucus Of Ammeos The four greater cold Seeds Cowcumber-seeds Gord-seeds Citrual seeds Melon seeds The four lesser cold Seeds Endive-seeds Scariol-seeds Lettice-seeds Marjoram-seeds The four Cordial Flowers Bugloss-flowers Borage flowers Rose flowers Violet flowers The fragments of fine pretious Stones Of Saphires Of Granat Of Smaragd Of Hyacinth Of Sardus The four waters for the Pleuresie Carduus Mariae Taraxacon Carduus Benedictus Scabious The three Stomack Oyls Wormwood Oyl Cydonia or Oyl of Oranges Oyl of Mastick The four hot Unguents Aragon Martiatum Althea and Agrippa's Oyntment The four cold Oyntments Album Camphoratum Rosatum Mesuae Populeon Infridans Galeni 3. Of the differences of forms and distributions of this Tractate IN way of a foundation by the word form I here understand a compounded Magisterial Medicine which is such an one as is prescribed by the Physitian for the present occasion to difference the same from the Apothecaries of which I shal not here largely or purposely treat but only by the way for the affinity of the Argument This Tractate is divided into two Books wherof the first is of internal medicines the latter of external The first book again hath three Sections the first for the Forms and Compositions of Liquid Medicines the second of Soft Medicines and the third and last of Solid Medicines The heads and forms of this Section CHAP.
prescribed only with a q.s. is left to the palate of the Patient to determine Juyces and other strong Liquors as Vinegar Aqua vitae c. are prescribed from one ounce to two ounces at the most these also may first be dissolved with the quantity of your sweetners Clarifying and Aromatizing THese are usually prescribed thus Fiat Apozema clarificatum aromatizatum pro quatuor dosibus i e let your apozem be clarified aromatized and prepared for four doses Of clarification see hereafter IN the Aromatizing or spicing two things are to be considered the quality and quantity of your spices In relation to the quantity either it is done with some simple spice as in a cooling Apozem with yellow or red Saunders in a heating Apozem usually with Cinnamom you may also add Ginger and Saffron in Melancholy affections or where the Termes are to be provoked but in cold affections of the breast powder of the root of Ireos Florentine is much used Or else with some compound powder of the shops as in hot distempers with the spices of Diatrion Santalon and in cold diseases the spices of Aromaticum Rosatum c. The quantity of spices for aromatizing your Apozem is if it be a simple spice from one dram to two drams but if it be with the compound spices from one dram to a dram and a half wil suffice The use or form of prescribing is this â„ž i e Take c. viz. the matter or ingredients make a decoction in s. q. of the Liquor before-mentioned take of the decoction strained c. make an Apozem clarified and aromatized with c. for four doses in several mornings or for evenings two hours before meat The utility or benefit of this form of Medicine is evident for being liquid the humors that are to be altered or purged as hereafter or other affections deeply rooted in the body are by this form easier penetrated unto and by the virtue of the Medicine and fluidness of its form dissolved and made more obedient besides the drought of the body is tempered Melancholy obstructions the easier melted and dissolved and the body made fitter to receive the vertue of succeeding Medicines But more especially an altering Apozem serves chiefly for 1. Preparation to render the succeeding purging easie and succesful which consists in two things the preparation of the humors and the body for they are prescribed for the concoction of the humors or preparation of them in the first and second qualities by heating cold humors attenuating and cutting gross humors by cleansing the clammy and viscid tempering theservent incrassating those which are too thin that by the Cooperation of the purge attracting and nature expelling they may be the easier exterminated as to the preparation of the body by opening obstructions and making the body it self permeable and passable that the humor may have an easie course it renders the following purge prosperous to the commodity and ease of the sick party 2ly For alteration either of the humors or body without regard to any purge when the parts are to be reduced to their former temper divers wayes but chiefly by heating and cooling and the humors also especially hot boyling Choler or the other humors also by other reasons with these instead of Juleps may be fitly altered 3ly In opening Obstructions if they proceed from gross adust humors else if they rise from cold humours let your Apozem be purging 4ly For moving Vrines cleansing the Reins and clearing them from gravel 5ly For provoking the Termes although two purgers conducing to the same purpose are usually mixed with them Here is to be noted that of late amongst modern practisers t is usual to make all Apozems both purging and altering at once as shal be said and in the place of altering Apozems Juleps or broths are for the most part used but simply altering Apozems in continual Fevers hot distempers of the parts and humors and also in moving of Vrine in extinguishing the fervency of the Reins and other parts and consuming the relicks of the Morbifical causes which in the declination of Fevers is most usually done by Vrines But Apozems are for the most part prescribed in the Spring and Fal as also in the summer because at these times Herbs flourish and are ready at hand they may also be prepared in winter of the parts of Herbs dryed with greater efficacy if they may be had else we must use syrups and Juleps which are instead of Apozems though not so efficacious A purging Apozem A Purging Apozem which is now most in use and not unknown of old to Mesues is so called because at once it both prepares the humours and empties those which are already concocted and this at divers times viz 4 or 5 sensibly by that operation which is called Epicrasis by the virtue of those Medicines which are properly called purgers and is most agreeable in long diseases arising from copious and stubborn humors And this Apozem according to the several nature of the humour it is appropriated to is either Phlegmagogum Melanagogum Cholagogum or Hydragogum In this sort of Apozems three things are to be considered the Composition the Vse and the Profit In the Composition two things are to be regarded 1. The ingredients by which it is made purgative 2. Those things that are to be dissolved in it The matter or ingredients by which it is made purging are simple purgers with their correctives according to the variety of the humour they are intended for either boyled together with the matter of the decoction or boyled in the decoction or else only infused in it In these three things are to be regarded the quality quantity and order of prescription either for boyling or mixing In relation to the Quality note that those purging simples which are only boyled are these Senna Polypody Carthamus Turbith Hermodactils Agarick Epithymum Hellebor Spurge and the seeds of dwarf Elder But those which use only to be infused or very little boyled are RHEUBARB Myrobolans Tamarinds and sometimes Cassia Concerning their quantity they ought to be prescribed in such a proportion that it may serve for four or five doses but in general because the purging vertue by boyling either may vanish or not be sufficiently extracted every purging simple ought to be prescribed in much greater quantity then otherwise viz double to the quantity they are given in substance if they are the stronger sort or treble or quadruple if they are of the middle sort of purgers or a fix-fold proportion in the gentlest sort yet are they so to be prescribed that to two parts of the gentlest sort of purgers you must add but one part of the strongest and almost in every purging Apozem let these three be prescribed as the basis of the decoction in a plentiful proportion viz Senna Polipody and Carthamus let others be added according to the diverfity of the humor but in a lesser proportion from one ounce to an ounce and half
are best taken at the time of going to sleep these to expectorate in the morning those to quench thirst when they are dry any others as neer as may be when the stomack is empty As to the magisterial syrup the use of it is either by it self or else diluted with some fit water or other Liquor simple or compound broth and is taken after the same rules as the officinal And this is the USUAL FORM of PRESCRIBING 1. If it be made of a decoction â„ž c. viz the ingredients of an altering Apozem make a decoction in c. take of the strained Liquor c in which dissolve c. make a syrup wel boyled clarified and aromatized with c. keep it in a glass safe let him take of it one ounce an ounce and half or two ounces by it self or with c. at such an hour so often in a day c. see more above 2. If of a Juyce without any other mixture â„ž of the Juyce of such a thing bruised newly pressed out wel clarified c. in which dissolve c. So make a syrup 3. If of a Juyce in which other things are boyled or infused â„ž of the Juyce newly pressed out and clarified of c. in which dissolve c. So make a Syrup 4. If of an infusion â„ž c. let them be infused in c. of such a Liquor take of the liquor strained and gently pressed out c. dissolve c. The Utility of a syrup in general is sufficiently declared above whether officinal or magisterial for it is instituted to conserve divers virtues of plants with which decoctions Juyces expressed and infusions prepared of them are plentifully fraught that they may be the readier at hand and fit for use without loss of their natural efficaâ—y The efficinal also more specially serves for the making up of divers forms of Medicines so is it added to Apozems Juleps and Potions for taste sake anâ— also to add to their virtues so also is it â—â—ken to make up opiats pils preserves Lohochs Troscischs into a convenient form or consistence and for the uniting of a compound Medicine and preserving of it But the magisterial syrup as of old so at this day and hath been chiefly in request of late to prepare both humors and the body and is very necessary to precede a prosperous purgation of which see in the altering Apozem and is very useful also to alter the body or parts of it divers ways both by correcting the distempers of them and tempering the peccant humours of this see also in the altering Apozem In summ against al internal affections or causes that ingender them and to alter and strengthen the parts afflicted by them any proper and specifical Medicines suggested by the indicantia or things from whence you take directions what is to be done may be reduced into the form of a Syrup so that the utility of it is of large extent against any affections dropsie plague c. but 't is fittest to be prescribed when you would continue your altering for some time or must cherish the strength continually when otherwise that labor must be fain to be renued often with the trouble of a new prescription of some Apozem Julep or potion hence it is most profitable in long diseases and affections and chronical distempers of the parts which have taken such rooting that there must be a continual alteration to remedy them yet because some usual syrup is to be had that hath the same virtue unless you think its virtue less effectual or decayed or that it consists not of those things which your specifical indications require or that you hope to compose one more powerful prescribe them but seldom A Purging Syrup YOu must seek the definition and division of a purging syrup according to the variety of the humors in the chapter of the Apozem A Syrup is two-sold officinal and Magisterial The officinal is here chiefly divided both in respect of the composition the chiefest of their virtues as you may see in the following table The ofâ—â—cinal purging syrup is compounded either of A decoction made A juyce and purgeth Melancholy as Syrup of Fumitory compound Water purgeth Melancholy as Syrup de Epithymo Water purgeth Choler as of Succory compound Water purgeth Mixt humours as Diasereat A juyce purgeth Melancholy as syrup de Pomis Regis Sabor Infusion in Water purgeth Choler As Syrup of Roses solut Syrup of Violets each made with 9 infusions sy rup of Peach flow Phlegm As Honey of Roses strained The definition and division of a magisterial purging syrup may appear out of what is aforesaid In it three things are to be considered Composition Use and Utility In the Composition four things 1. The matter whereby 't is made purgative 2 The things that are to be dissolved in it 3. Clarification 4. Aroma ization The matter of which 't is made is either remote and this in regard of its quality are the purging simples with their correctives either boyled or insused or neer and thus the matter is two-sold either a purging decoction or a purging in usion A purging Decoction is nothing else then the decoction of a purging Apozem made of the same things both alterers and purgers varied according to the intention of the Physitian to be prescribed after the same manner and order and upon the same conditions as is before specified This only is to be marked concerning the dose or purging Medicines that the Montpelier Physitians for a syrup do usually double the quantities of purgers prescribed for Apozems but 't wil suffice if you take onely the same quantity or if I might perswade you the double quantity 〈◊〉 it matters not if it be the treble for so it wil be contracted into the lesser dose and be taken with the less nauseousness to the patient so that you exactly finde out the true dose and not measure it according to the usual proportion see the use It is also to be noted that when fit juyces are to be used the purgers may be boyled in 4 ounces or 5 or 6 with their correctors How a purging infusion is to be prepared is said before in a purging potion and from thence easie to be collected but how to prefer'd before a decoction see in the animadversions Things that are to be dissolved in the decoction or infusion are also considered in quality and quantity Concerning the quality there is dissolved either sugar or sometimes Honey or else together with the sugar some officinal syrup and that either altering or purging Besides those sweetners that are perpetually dissolved for its preservation there are frequently to the aforesaid purpose dissolved 1. Some fit Juyce and that either altering as of Leaves Fruits c. according to the indication see in the Apozem or purging as the juyce of Roses especially in the Spring time against choler of Fumitory or Hops for Melancholy 2. The compleat
he do not vomit a little after let him provoke a vomit by his finger thrust down his throat if you would dissolve some things in it you may add take of the straining c. in which dissolve c. 2. If of an infusion â„ž c. Make an infusion in c. let them be strained and filtrated thorow a brown paper because an infusion for the most part consists of the strongest sort if you should be content with only straining it there were fear that some of the gross substance might pass thorow with the liquor which sticking long in the tunicles of the stomack might too long provoke vomiting and trouble the patient so make a vomitory 3. If of a distilled liquor â„ž of such a liquor c. let him drink it â—nd a little after let him vomit 4. If of a liquor that is not vomitive â„ž c. in which dissolve c. Make a vomitory 5. If in a solider forme as of a bole â„ž of the powder c. mingle it with such a conserve which let him take as a bole a little after let him vomit but if in the form of a powder â„ž c. let him take it in a spoon in a fit liquor The UTILITY vomiting and vomitories were used by the Antients both to prevent diseases and also to cure them for with them it was usuall for health sake to vomit every moneth as may be observed out of Hipocrates and for this reason they did the more easily bear vomitories through custom But at this day they are only used for the cure of diseases and they are very few which in a sound condition wil use them to prevent diseases unless such as are much given to intemperance neither in our age wil they give them indifferently in any diseases but in those which are rebellious and chronical But the utility of a vomitory is either particular respecting the stomack or universal regarding the whole region or some other part of it deriving the offending humors of them or if it flow from some other place to them withdrawing it so that the motion of nature and inclination of the humor together with the verge of the places and parts wherein it stayes and where into it fals and the wayes by which they are to be derived or withdrawn be naturally dispos'd thereto and have some proximity and communion with the stomack by free passages by which they may communicate so that a vomit is in general an emptying or purging remedy as wel particularly of the stomack as otherwise universally for derivation and revulsion But it evacuates in special 1. The stomack from all excrementitious humours both cholerick and Phlegmatick either thin gross clammy gathered by the imbecillity of that it self or sent thither from the whole Body Head Bowels or Veins which a vomit doth clearly exclude whether they fluctuate in the cavity or are impacted in the tunicles of it Hence it is profitable in the proper affections of the stomack especially want of appetite nauseousness frequent vomitings paines of the stomack and heart-burning c. and also for those diseases of other parts contracted by their sympathizing with it for the very fountain from whence they sprang being exhausted they also must needs vanish for this it was that Galen said it helped the affections of the Pericranium and also the Falling Sickness Megrim Suffusions and all other affections of the head ingendred by sympathy with the stomack either by reason of the morbifical humors translation to the part affected or the expiration of some vapour arising from the filth contained in the stomâ—â—k it also suddenly relieves the stomack frees it from the hurt might arise by things taken down either meâ—t or drink so much in quantity or of an ill quality also from Surfettings â—ru lities and poysons Furthermore according to Galen it cleanseth the first region of the body from a various impurity and purgeth forth the filth from the hollow part of the Liver the Spleen Pâ—ner as Mesentery and other parts adjaeent to the stomack and as he himself hath noted it excludes that at once which any other vehement purger cannot eradicate at divers times and for this reason contumacious diseases of those parts have been healed miraculously by it for from those parts to the stomack the passages are short and expedite therefore it is profitable in the proper affections of those parts as Ill habit Jaundies Dropsie Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen Agues which there have their fomenting causes c. and also as we have said it helps the stomack troubled by the diseases of other parts with which it hath communion all whose impurities the causes of these sympathetick diseases are according to Galen by this way eradicated Lastly out of the same Author in his Lib. 1. concerning Fevers it also purgeth the second and third region of the body but 't is only by the consecution of the humors unless you use the strongest sort as the Antients did their vomit of Hellebor whereby they drew the exâ—râ—mâ—ntitious humors even â—rom the most remote â—arts intâ— the stomack by the samâ— reason that we see your violent purgers do thâ— like therefore because it is not safe to use such viâ—lent means to empty withal in relâ—tion to those parts 't is only to be esteemed 〈◊〉 revelling remedy It is â—â—o profitable when the humor is contained in the parts neer the stomack or fals to them from some other place which by this means is aâ—tly derived for which cause 't is â—ood for the inveterâ—tâ— affâ—ctions of the Liver Spleen Mesentâ—â—y and intrals therefore good in hypochondriacal affections so that the diseases of those parts arise not româ—ventosity a hot distemper or some tumor It also turns the course of the humors falling into divers parts whether the original of the defluxion be the stomaâ—k oâ— other arts contâ—ined in the first region and recals the vitious humors falling to them to the stomack from whence they are expell'd by vomit hence as aforesaid 't is profitable in the sym pathetick affections of the Head Fluxes of the Beâ—ly the Sciatick and pain of the joynts so that Galen concludes a vomitory the most wholsom of all purging Medicines so it work easily and moderately but what observations are to be had in the administring it see Hipocrates in his Aphorismes CHAP. VI. Of Medicinal Wines MEdicinal Wines as they were in use among the Antients as may be seen in Dioscorides so also are they now in frequent use especially among the Northern people and those which are curious palated who abhorring both altering and purging Decoctions Syrups infusions and Potions for their unpleasantness do more liberally admit this sort of Wines stored with the virtues of the same simples and that to good purpose as wel because Wine doth plentifully draw forth the inmost virtues of things as also because by the help of his most piercing spirit conveighs them into the farthest parts speedilâ— you may
hours boil them till a third part or a quarter onely be wasted strain them through an hypocras bag sweeten it with s q of Sâ—gar and aromatize it with a dram and a half or two drams of Cinnamom so make it for a second decoction or a bochet for your ordinary drink Observe that this manner of diet should be continued for fifteen twenty or thirty dayes unlesse the strength fails then may it be now and then intermitted three or four days space in which space let him rather use rost meats then boiled as mountain and field-birds stuck thorow with Cinnamom and cloves as also hens and capons bisket-bread baked with anniseed and raisms of the Sun torrified Almonds and in the last course at table coriander and anniseed comfits let him use the second decoction strained and aromatized with sugar and Cinnamom q. s for his ordinary drink but if his belly be bound let a common glyster be now then administred or which is best every six or eight dayes renew the use of pills potions or other purgers prescribed that the more grosse matter wch the thinner parts being consumed otherwise useth to remain behinde in the bowels may also be expelled on which day let him abstain from the use of the decoction And as they ought to be purged well before the use of the decoction so ought they also every eleventh or twelfth day There useth also in the prescribing these diet-drinks of digesting head-herbs the hair being first shaved off two bags to be applied to the head reasonable hot for a quarter of an hour til the sweat burst forth of the face as soon as the drink is taken down to provoke sweat and also after sweat is wiped off especially in affections of the head as well todigest as consume the offensive cause and when these are taken away the head is to be wrapped in warmed locks of Hempe fumed with the ordinary fume The UTILITY is eminent and plentifull not onely in externall but also in the internall affections especially the contumacious whose causes have taken deeprooting and could not be removed by ordinary purgers and alterers so that they need these sorts of medicines which by their subtilty and tenuity of parts may either insensibly dissolve them or visibly expell them by sweat and discusse the reliques of vitious humours so also is it used against inveterate defluxions from the head and catarrbes of long continuance the ill habit dropsy and other affections of like sort proceeding from abundance of phlegmatick humours and also aganst the French Pox Thus much concerning the sweating diet-drink But the PURGING-SWEATING diet drink is a decoction which in the aforesaid diet moves both sweating and to the stool together an invention of the Modern Physitians and not used till within these few years neither was it invented without great hope of a happy successe seeing that by the help of this both the inner parts of the humours are expell'd by sweat and grosser reliques which otherwife use to stick very firmly to the intralls and other parts are by this means profitably eradicated together nor matters is all what some may object concerning the contrary motions for the natural heat that instrument of the expulsive faculty together with the faculty it self is ready indifferently for any motion so that where there is a way made by the stimulation or attraction of the mediâ—ine it indifferently stirs up it self for the expulsion of the morbificall cause especially since it is approved and confirmed by experience it self this discovereth the reason of the name and definition In this three things are considered the composition the use and the Vtility In the COMPOSITION chiefly two things The Matter or Ingredients and the Liquer in either of them the Quality and the Quantity As to the MATTER in regard of its quality you may take the aforesaid decoction consisting as is aforesaid of onely sudorificks or else also of altering simples joyned with them from whence it hath the name of sweating To this matter that the decoction may be also purgative those things are added which are spoken of in the purging Apozem as those purgers appointed there for the basis Senna Car. thamum and Polypody as also other purgers that chiefly are appropriated to the phlegmatick humour turbith hermodactills rheubarb and agarick together with their correctors more or lesse as is for your purpose As to the quantity concerning Sudorificks and alterers see before but purgers are to be added near the quantity they are prescribed in for the purging Apozem or something lesse viz. by a quarter because the strength can not bear such copious evacuations both by stool and sweating together Of the Liquor both touching its quality and quantity see before The USE as to the quantity 't is given to four ounces or five ounces as to the time in the morning and that for four dayes usually in the beginning of these sort of diets for in the rest of the dayes following the simpler sweating diet drink is to be used without the purgers As to the FORM 't is this â„ž c. i e the things aforesaid oâ— the sudorifical decoction in the end of the decoction add the purgers aforesaid or else with them the alterers let them be strained c. see before This purging decoction being ended and the four morning doses being finished let them use the same decoction excepting the purgers 15 or 20 dayes c. The UTILITY this sort of Diet-drink is most usual our late Physitians in bodies that are very soul and also strong which require that double evacuation to expel hose morbifical humors residing in the first second and third region that both the gross with the thin might by one labour be cast forth but this as it is most profitable so most usual in the ordering and curing the French Pox. ANIMADVERSIONS THis is to be noted about Sudorisicks in the forms of Prescribing and specifically Of the Wood Guaiacum it is said â„ž of the resinous Lignum sanctum i. e. Guaiacum Of the Wood Sassafras â„ž of the wood Sassafras newly brought over together with his bark cut or shaved into thin slices And Of the Root China â„ž of the weightiest root of China not worm eaten or rotten cut in thin slices c.. and of the root SALSAPARILLA â„ž of Salsaparilla cut in slices together with his hairy strings This also is to be noted that the decoction of China is to be kept in a warm place otherwise 't wil grow sowre and the decoction of the Wood Sassafras if kept wil ose his grateful smel CHAP. XIV Of a Bochete ABOCHET is the most profitable of the aforesaid diet Drinks otherwise useful in affections in which Wine is not safely given or where your scope is to dry leisurely and consume the dreggs of humors And it is briefly compounded in diets of the residencie of your sudorifical decoction so that no alterers or purgers have been boyled with it as hath been
Medicine almost of the consistencie of Hony or somewhat thicker prepared either to alter or purge and because it is a bit a Medicine as much as the mouth can wel contain therefore it hath its name A Boble is three-fold viz. purging altering and strengthening A PURGING BOLE WHat a purging Bole is and what are his differences taken from the variety of humors that are to be purged may appear by what hath been said before in the Apozem But in it three things are to be considered the Composition Vse and Vtility In the COMPOSITION chiefly the matter of which 't is made in which there is to be considered its quality and quantity As to the quality of the MATTER in general 't is composed of purgers both simple and compound as any purging powder both simple and compound and sugar As to the quantity in general a bole ought not to exceed six drams or 1 ounce seldom 10 drams unless it consist of the gentlest sort of purgers But in special a purging bole as to the matter is composed 1. Either of Cassia alone which is most commonly the basis of a bole or also pulp of tamarinds especially in the cholerick though 't is better to have it of Cassia and some other purger together that its purging quality might be acuated which else is only lenifying lest otherwise by staying too long in the intrals it might overslacken them and then as to the quantity there is prescribed half an ounce or six drams of Cassia but of the purging opiate or tablet two drams or three drams more or less examining the doses by that caution before noted that if two or three be mingled with the Cassia the compleat dose of all might be found out Note that 't is commonly used in the affections of the reins and bladder to prescribe a bole of the aforesaid Cassia as the basis to six drams to which add two drams of Turpentine washed in violet or pellitory water with a sufficient quantity of powder of liquorice and sugar to which purpose also Turpentine alone is prescribed sometimes with a scruple of Rheubarb added to it as is hereafter setdown 2. Or of the purging officinal opiate which is either prescribed alone in that quantity which hath been before in the potion and shal hereafter be defined or else together with it is added a purging tablet or solid electuary in that proportion that all together may make up the compleat dose yet should the opiate somewhat exceed the others Note that sometimes either to these two joyned or to the opiate alone is added some purging powder and that either simple as the powder of Rrheubarb Mechoachan c. from half a scruple to half a dram or compound as of diaturoith from half a scruple to a scruple according to the quantity the other things are prescribed in or else sometimes not purgative but either directing or correcting or strenghening to half a scruple 3. Or else of a tablet or solid electuary either alone in the dose aforesaid in the potion and hereafter to be set down with some syrup or Sâ—gar or sometimes an opiate being added or a purging powder as aforesaid 4. Or which is very seldome of a powder onely either simple or compound made up with a syrup or sugar but this manner is lesse used 5. Or else which hardly deserves the name of a purging bole yet is used in affections of the reins of Turpentine washed in violet water c. to two drams or three drams with a scruple of the powder of Liquorice The USE as to the manner 't is taken by swallowing it down which is easiest done out of a spoon with some syrup that is gratefull to the taste Aâ— to the quantity 't is above defined The time is in the morning after the manner of other catarrticks The FORM of PRESCRIBING when Cassia onely is taken is â„ž take the marrow of Cassiae newly drawn and sometimes 't is added by the vapour of some decoction as of Barly Liquorice Mallows for the Reins or else 't is said the pulp or flour of Cassia c. make a bole with Sugar If of an Opiate â„ž c. with Sugar make it a bole But when a bole is made of the drier things as tablets and powders so that they can hardly stick together in the form of a bole â„ž let them be moistened with such a syrup then with Sugar reduce them into the form of a bole which let him take c. but when the bole is made of Turpentine â„ž Turpentine washed c. make a bole let each bit be wrapped in Wafers so take them out of a spoon with a convenient Syrup as of Maiden hair Violets c. let them be swallowed down in the morning three or four hours before dinner and that usually for three dayes together The UTILITY is the same with that of a potion viz. when the cause of the affection is in the inferior region or the parts adjacent but a bole of Cassia is particularly profitable in the reins and bladder in which we should deal very gently and onely lenisie The strengthening bole IN it three things are to be considered the composition use and utility As to the COMPOSITION in respect of its quality it is prepared 1. Either of officinall conserves and a powder which is either the Species of some Electuary of the shops or other aromaticall powder as of Cinnamom c. with Sugar Note that sometimes with the aforesaid conserves are also taken cordiall confections as alchermes de hyacintho 2. or of some strengthening officinall confection alone As to the quantity this bole in generall seldom exceeds three drams or half an ounce In speciall the quantities and dose of the first sort of these boles is this as of conserves let there be three drams half an ounce powders a Scruple Of confections if added one scruple or half a dram But of the second sort viz. the confection is prescribed from a dram to a dram and half The USE as to the time it useth to be prescribed the day after a purging Medicine two hours before dinner or otherwise at any other convenient hour simply to strengthen without any purge preceding it As to the manner 't is to be swallowed out of a spoon if you will with syrup drinking aftâ—r it a little wine diluted or other liquor fit for the purpose The FORM â„ž c. make it a bole with Sugar which let him take c. The Vtility sufficiently appears in its name see also the cordiall potion but most usually they are prescribed after purging medicines to comfort the stomack and parts afflicted by them as also by the violence of diseases and also simply to strengthen without Relation to any preceding Purgation as often as the strength growing weak or feeble by any other cause requires it as also to alter together with the strengthening so also this sort of boles are used against fluxes of the belly
their quality are pulse as the flower of barley beans linseed fenegreek seed and these alone or also the powders of other things as to discuss Ireas Cummin Camomil flowers c. and these either alone or both sorts together in the aforesaid proportion 2. Or sometimes of fruits ripe or unripe as Apples Prunes Quinces c. roasted under the embers or boyled in a fit liquor and bruised adding fit powders in the quantity aforesaid as in the flux of the belly and dysentery it is made with the pulp of Quinces and astringent powders so for the eyes made of apples See Collirium 3. Or sometimes in fluxes of the belly vomiting and to strengthen the stomack a slice of bread steeped in wine and toasted hot is prescribed which being sprinkled with one ounce or two ounces of an astringent strengthening powder let it be applied to the stomack Hither belongs the crumbs of white bread steeped in milk to half a pint to which is added two yolks of eggs half an ounce of Saffron and q. s of oyl fit for the purpose and is applied for a Cataplasm in pains 4. Or as Chyrurgions do of astringent powders to one ounce or two ounces made up with the white of an egg which they lay on locks of hemp or bolsters of linnen rags and apply to parts wounded and Physitians also apply it to the belly in Fluxes The VSE and FORM â„ž c. make a Cataplasm let it be spread in a folded linnen cloth and applied And note this that t is convenient to soment the part first with the decoction in which the Cataplasme was boyled it uses to be applied once or twice a day The VTILITY they are applied chiefly to ease pain in parts inflamed or others to soften hardnesses to ripen humors and turn them to matter to digest dissolve the cause of inflammations to discuss windiness they heat rather than cool yet they are usually prescribed of astringent things to stop Fluxes and are profitably made to provoke urine of Pellitory of the wall and oyle of Scorpions applied to the bottom of the belly for they relax mollifie and empty powerfully To Cataplasmes may be referred that which is usually called a Pultis It differs from a Cataplasm in nothing else saving that that is prepared of the muscilage of things boyled to pap and this is usually made of the flowry part of things boyled to the consistence of a Pultis from whence its name And it is COMPOVNDED 1. Either of the Flower of Pulse to four ounces boyled in a convenient liquor to which afterwards are added oyls or if the scope requires grease or some other thing equivalent to oyle to three ouncess or four ounces 2. Or of the crumbs of white bread as before for an easer of pain as in the cataplasme and to ripen 3. Or of a convenient muscilage and powders and oyles but this is rather a cataplasme see before The VSE and FORME as in a cataplasme The VTILITY is cheifly for paines to digest and dissolve see the Cataplasme CHAP. XIV Of Rubifiers THese couched under the several names of Dropax Sinapismus Vesicatories and Phaenigmus differ little or nothing in form from Cere-cloths Plaisters and Cataplasmes they only differ in their effect and in general may be called Rubifiers though this name properly belong to that called Phaenigmus of all which briefly thus Dropax Dropax properly called Pication or Pitching by the Ausients to whom it was usuall is a topicall medicine in forme of a plaister seldom of a Cataplasme prepared to fetch nourishment and life into the parts or to draw forth old paines and infirmities that are hard to be cured This is Compounded 1. Either more simply of pitch to an ounce or an ounce and a half and oyl half an ounce or six drams melted together and spread on a a Leather 2 Or more compound powders that are hot in the first second or third degree being added to the simple as Pepper Pellitory of Spain Ginger the dungs of living creatures c. to half an ounce or six drams 3. Or as 't is at this day made both for the attraction and discussion of humours two several wayes 1. Of the powder of hot things spices and things of thin parts to six drams Mustard-seed and Pidgeonsdung to one ounce are made up with pitch and turpentine q. s make a plaister for the mould of the Head 2. To the same purpose 't is made of Emplastrum de Mnscalaginibus 3 ounces with one ounce of the aforesaid powders oyl of Ireos q. s make a plaister like the letter T for the mould of the head or let them be incorporate with Turpentine and make a plaister c. they commonly but amiss cal them vesicatories or blistring Medicines for they operate without blisters and 't is to be done for the most part before the blistering Medicines and sometimes after them in contumacious affections of the head to draw the morbifical causes from within digest and empty them which said use of the Dropax is now most frequent and also most profitable The VSE of the Dropax of the Antients was to apply it hot to any part the hairs being shaved off and pul it off again before t were quite cold and this was done often till the part were become red which is usually the bounds of applying the Dropax then is it to be left off and that being removed if it be to draw nonrishment or heat to the part least either should breath forth the part is to be anointed with oyle of Camomil that the pores may be shut The VSE of our Dropax is chiefly for stubborn affections of the head and t is spread on a leather like a plaister and cut in the shape of the letter T and applied to the mould of the head the hair being first shaved off from which you may easily conceive the FORME of prescribing it It may also be applied to other parts in another convenient forme The VTILITY of the Dropax of the Ancients is to nourish revive parts extennated and languishing nourishment heat and spirits being by this meanes called forth and now adayes also we imitate them profitably in parts overcool'd and paralyticall They used them also for other things to dry moyst bodyes helpe cold and rebellious affections it draws forth humors that lie deep and discusseth them t is profitable in the Palsie Catharrs and affections arising from thence Phthisis c. Failing sicknesse Head-ach and in other affections of like sort where there is need of drawing forth powerfully and therefore they were called of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or drawing discussers The VTILITY of our Dropax doth correspond with the latter of these and is chiefly used in cold and diâ—turnal affections of the head or neither parts flowing from thence for it discusseth and draweth powerfully those morbifical causes that lurk in the brain A Vesicatory The Antients had in use a Sinapisme usually in form of a
Phlegmagogues FINIS THE PHYSICALL MAGAZEEN OR A Systeme of the Matter of PHYSICK CONTAINING A Series or Scrol of Medicaments Universal and Particular Simple and Compound Fitted to the method of Physick and forms of prescribing Remedies By Doctor JACOB A BRUNN Phil. ac Med. Doctore and in the University of Basill both Practicer and publick Professor of Physick In good will to the new Students of Physick LONDON Printed for Nath Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill 1657. The PREFACE to the Students of Physick AS an Artificer can bring nothing to perfection being destitute of a fit matter to workon although he be skilful in the manner of effecting so a Physitian can do nothing for the health of the sick Patients nor prescribe any forms without a plenteous furniture of Medicaments fit for this purpose though he be never so wel skill'd in the way of compounding them Hence appears the necessity and Vtility of the Physical Matter of which you may find plenty in this ensuing systeme taken out of divers parts of Plants viz. Roots Barks VVoods Leaves flowers Seeds Fruits Spices and humors of them viz. Juyces Raisins Gums Also out of living creatures whole as wel as the parts humors of them Fatts Suets Marrows as also out of their excrements as also out of things growing bothin sea land as metalline things earths divers serts of stones and things belonging to the sea alsocompound things of the shops contracted together and digested into certain classes according to the series of directions for curing So that from hence as out of a most plentiful Magazeene and a most subtil matrix having the method of Physick for your guide a numerous store of Remedies may be had in readiness so make that Polydaedalian heap of compound Medicines You therefore ye disciples of Aâ—ollo receive this our Labour in good part as a thing undertaken meerly for your sake THE PROOEMIUM OR PROLOGVE Concerning the Name Definition and distribution of the Materia Medica or matter of PHYSICK THe word Matter of Physick is an ambiguous terme signifying chiefly two things 1. The subject of Physick or the Matter on which the Physitian works and this is the Pas five matter 2. The Active matter which comprehends under it the instruments of healing that are in being separate from the understanding amongst the natural things or the Matter of Medicinal helps which matter I shal rightly with Galen 1. Alim fac chap. 1 distinguish from the help or remedy it self which is the image or representation of the aforesaid matter remaining in the mind of the Physitian representing the very same thing to the life In this latter signification 't is used either generally for all things that may be instruments of health with which it is preserved or restored whose engines are threefold Aliments or Food Medicine and manual operations or more specially because the cure of diseases is most usually perfected by the help of Medicaments therefore Physitians by the name of Matter of Physick understand the whole series of medicinal things either simple or compound thus much briefly for the name Therefore the Medicinal Matter or matter of Physick is the orderly series of Medicaments simple or compound fitted to the method of Physick and to the prescribing forms of Medicines As to the distribution of this Physical Matter I first distinguish it thus either it is uniuersal respecting no certain part or particular regarding some certain part or affection of the body The Vniversal is subdivided into 3 other parts the first respects the Morbifical cause where ever it be the second the chief heads of diseases the third the common symptomes and those that are most urgent which require sometimes the help of the Physitian distinct from that of the cause or the disease The Particular shall consist of four Sections the 1. Of the remedies belonging to the Head 2. Of remedies for the Breast 3. Of remedies belonging to the belly or inferior cavity 4. Of remedies of the limbs THE FIRST BOOK OF THE Vniversal Matter of PHYSICK PART 1. Of Remedies respecting the Morbifical cause THis part consists of Four SECTIONS The first contains Medicaments respecting the morbifical cause as it offends in quality 2. Such Medicines as respect the Moâ—â—ifical cause offending in quantity and substance The 3. contains such Medicines as respect the cause offending in motion 4. Those medicaments that respect the cause offending in quietnesse SECT I OF ME DICAMENTS That respect the Causes offending in quality A Type of this Section Medicaments that respect the cause offending in quality are refer'd to the cause offending either in the Manifest qualities thateither in the First qualities as Alterers or second qualities viz. Grosness as Attenuators of the hum Grosness as Cutters of the hum Thinness as those which thieken the humors Hardnes as Softeners Hither also belong they which dissolve clotted blood Clamminess as Cleansers Sliminess as Cleansers Acrimony as Mitigaters or Lenifiers Occult qualities as Alexipharmacal Medicines Alterers called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Latine Alterantia Although Alterers generally taken be a terme for all those Medicaments that work on us not onely by the first and second qualities but also those that change us by their substantial or occult qualities yet have for eminency sake being specially taken signifie such a Medicament that by his quality corrects and amends the excess of the first qualities of the morbifical cause whether it consist in the humors or other contents or in the parts of the body themselves There are so many kindes of Alterers as there are several distempers that every distemper might be opposed by its peculiar contrary Altereâ— There are four degrees of contrary qualities in every altering medicine and so many several mansions in each degree I here set down no matter for Alterers as wel because it seems superfluous for whether the humours are to be altered or the parts we never use alterers so general and underterminate but such as respect the determinate humour and part as also because it is not so necessary for this method of composing Medicines according to their external formes as that wherein there is no such matter made of the several degrees and mansions as is in the other method of compounding them which considers them according to their internal form and teacheth the manner of composing a Medicine such or such in a certain degree as for example hot in the second degree of divers simples both hot and cold in the first second and third degree so proportionably mixed together that the degree desired may bear the dominion in the composition Attenuaters in Latine Attenuantia Graece 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These are those Medicines which attenuate and separate thick and compacted humors that in the same weight they extend to fill a greater space these in general should be all of them of thin substance that they might thereby the easier penetrate and mix themselves with the substance of the
Laxantia by the Latines 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are properly called Relaxers which evacuate the matter that is collected and fixed in any part either senfibly or insensibly Those things evacuate insensibly which attenuate mollifie rarifie discusse and sometimes they which draw consume and sometimes in the beginning of inflammations they which repell but those things do it sensibly which when the matter impacted can neither be repelled nor discussed convert it into purulent matter and after open a way for it to be emptied All which according to the diversity and manner of the affection may be used either severall or mixed of which circumstances there hath been partly spoken already and partly shall be said hereafter in its proper place so that it is needlesse to allow a proper Classis of Relaxers by themselves because they make up the same matter with some or other of the aforesaid divisions Discussers Those medicaments are commonly called Discussers Diaphoreticks digesters dissolvers which by turning the humours into exhalations empty the morbificall cause by insensible transpiration of which some are more gentle digesting but weakly and are therefore called Rarifiers of which hereafter in the second part of this Book others are more forcible digesting more strongly and are simply called Diaphoreticks which are hot and dry and of thin parts for such by their penetrating attenuate grosse and clammy humours that are inherent in any part and turne them into vapours that afterwards what remaines may easily be discussed and dissipated they are of a neere nature with those that discusse windinesse or rather the same with them The matter therefore of these is to be sought in the Tables of the more powerfull attenuaters and mollifiers as also in the Table of them that discusse windinesse which you may see in its proper place Consumers Those medicaments which feed upon and consume a humour mollified and attenuated by their strong attenuating drying quality are called usually in Latine absorbentia that is consuming medicines The Use of which is chiefly in phlegmatick tumors sometimes in schirrous swellings but it must be after the use of mollifiers and attenuaters Such are these following which may be used either in the form of a vapour fomentation with a sponge an Oyntment or a Plaster Liquors Vinegar brine sea water lye of vine ashes c. also that lye made of the quenching of lime Ashes All sorts especially that of the fig tree of vine branches of Ilex or dwarfe oake of coleworts and other nitrose herbs Minerals Alum salt saltpeeter lime brimstone Oyles Of Tiles of peeter or rock oyle of Euphorbium of Castor of Costus Drawers by the Latines Attrahentia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are those which draw forth humours seated deep in the body to the superficies of the skin and that either by an occult quality of which next or els◠by a manifest quality and that either inherent as in Thapsia or else acquisite by putrefaction as pigeons dung And these are such that are hot and dry and of thin parts for it is the part of heat to attract drinesse is as it were the file to heat to make it more forcible and tenuity of parts to accelerate the action As to the degree some are gentler drawers hot and dry in the second degree others stronger which also discuss and are hot and dry in the third degree The use of them is in drawing humours spirits or flatuousnesse that lye deep in the body up to the skin as for example in criticall abscessus's or separations of humours also in buboes sciatica dropsy poysons and in withered members to draw the nourishment to them This is the Matter Rootes of Thapsia Elecampane Ireos round birthwort sowbread pellitory of Spaine of reeds daffadils onions garlick Herbes and Leaves Of Ladies smock Calamint treacle mustard blew flowred Pimpernel Ivy Tithimal and all the sorts of spurge flammula or stronge Clematis pepperwort or lepidium cuckoopit sopewort dictamny of Creet Crowfoots especially the wild nettles water-pepper or arsmart widdowaile spurge lawrell Seedes of Mustard nettles cresses treacle mustard staves-achre mullen cardamomes ginny pepper Gums Ammoniack Euphorbium Galbanum Sagapene Bdellium Opopanax Which that I may note once for all I have here inserted both in this and other Tables among the gums for custome sake least young students in the reading of the matter of physick or receipts should be pusled otherwise Bdellium is properly a rosin the rest thickned juyces Rosins Drye pitch common rosin burgundy pitch Excrements Hony Goates dung pidgeons dung asses dung and all dungs Animals Cantharides Scorpions Castor Stones and minerals Loadestone Brimstone Sea things Amber Plasters Oxicroceum of Mellilat sowr levens plastrum Epispasticum Drawers forth or Extracters Under the Attracters or drawers are comprehended those which by an occult quality draw out poysons splinters and other things fastned in wounds Of which because there is an indefinite number and it is not certainly known what medicament is the proper extracter of each peculiar body therefore we must be content with the gegenerall and undeterminate collection of them such as help to the drawing out of any thing infixed such are these following Rootes of round birthwort of Ireos with the purple flowr reeds wild parsnep cuccoopits all the bulbe the roots of Eringo beaten with hony Leaves Dictamny of Creet Tabacco which two draw forth poyson both the pimpernels common mullen Barkes The middle bark of tile tree Seedes Of Mullen Mustard Gums Ammoniack Galbanum Opopanax Animals Land snailes beaten with their shels the head of a lizard powdred a fox tongue prepared as its lungs are moystned with red wine or decoction of round birthwort serves to draw out lead Excrements Propolis or Bee glew Stones Loadstone prepared draws forth Iron Lapis Lincis which draws out straws or the stalks of herbs Sea things Amber also draws straws Emplasters Apostolicum Levans Vnguents as Unguentum nigrum sen fuscum Nicholai Blisterers by the Latines Vesicantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey take their name from the effect of them and those which do only make the part red are called Phaenigmi but those which also besides that raise blisters are called Vesicantia They are of temperature hot in the fourth degree but of thin substance by which meanes they penetrate the superficies of the part The use of these is when the matter cannot be discussed either by attenuaters mollifiers or attracters for they draw violently dissolve and melt and raise up the skin like a bladder full of water in which all the humidity that is attracted is gathered As to the matter many things use to be referred hither out of the Table of the attracters conducing to the operation of the blisterers for they are but few which of themselves are reduced to this Division or Classis as Cantharides beaten up with strong vinegar and a little leven Thapsia viz. the root and the flowr The root of the lesser Crowfoot
i. e. 5th of Matthiolus and the third of Fuchsius which is called by Gesner Flammula Burned Levens Emplast Epispasticum Ripeners by the Latines Suppurantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose are so called which help nature in converting the moibificall cause into pus or matter The use of which is when the malady will not yeild to discussing medicines in sanguine tumors or in those of other humours so they be mixed with blood because that only is capable of suppuration for in tumors proceeding from choler or melancholy suppurating medicines are not to be safely administred for they easily turn to a Cancer or such like malignant ulcers they ought to be according to Galen 5 simpl cap. 8.9 of a temper most agreeable to the body and part to which they are to be applyed both in heat and moysture that they may both increase and cherish the naturall heat which is author of this concoction they should also be emplastickall that by their daubing quality they may stop the pores of the skin that they may keep in both the heat and spirits which being thus augmented do the more easily ripen the humour such are these of which if any seeme too moyst or too dry they are to be temperd by the mixture of others Rootes of Marsh-mallowes white Lillies Colts foot new briony wild Cowcumber new gathered Onions roasted Leaves of Marsh-mallowes mallowes sorrell beares breech miscle toe Seedes of Flax fenegreek barly wheat Flowre of barly wheat vetches called â—robus wheat bread Fruites Fat figs raysins fat dates Gums Ammoniack Bdellium Resins Larch Turpentine Frankinsence liquid styrax pitch common rosin Animals The sat of hens geese hogs marrow of a calfe butter oesipus yeolkes of egges yellow wax bee glew milk Suets of all sorts Juyces and liquors sope hot water powred on water and oyl ladanum Oyles Sweet oyl olive oyl of sweet almonds of linseed of white lilly roots Vnguents of Marsh-mallowes resumptivum Basilicon Agrippae Aureum Plaisters Diachilon simple and compound and that with gums levens Openers of Imposthumes There are divers things that let out water among which pidgeons dung Crowfoot Cantharides Figmilk but it is more usuall to open tumors when they are ripened either with Iron or some cautery either actuall or potentiall THE FIRST BOOK THE SECOND PART Of Remedies respecting the generall heads of diseases The Division of this part THere are three generall heads of diseases viz. Distemper Vitiated Composition and separation of the continuity Distemper is either simple which is helped by alterers or else it is joyned with matter and then we are to have regard to the cause for it requires remedies to oppose the cause of which already in the first part Vitiated composition of the parts such as may be remedied by medicines are 1 Too much streightnesse of the invisible passages of the body which is called condensednesse to which we oppose rarefiers 2 Too much dilatation of the said passages to which are used Condensers and if it be in the visible passages we oppose it by Binders 3 There are some diseases arise from overgrowing of the flesh as the constipation or shutting up of any cavity by such excrescence or else the greatnesse or number of the parts exceeding what is naturall and these require Catereticks or eating medicines of which where I shall speak of the Pyroticks in generall Other remedies of the diseases of ill composition are either preservative opposing the causes with which they are together removed and therefore not to be repeated here or Chyrurgicall and so not pertaining to this place Separation or Division of the continuity of the parts requires gluing or joyning medicines hither also belong vulnerary things or else they are joyned with the losse of the substance of the part to which belong Sarcaticks Epuleticks ingenderers of a callous or hardnesse of each severally Rarefiers by the Latines Rarefacientia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which open the pores of the skin to procure a free transpiration such are hot but moderately very neer our naturall heat and moyst that they may relax for drying things streighten of thin parts that they may penetrate The Vse is chiefly externall to prevent internall putrefaction by exhalation of the fuliginous vapours of the blood also in externall tumors where the matter is over hot and the part wherein it is is soft and thin that the humor contained in the part causing the swelling and pain being dissolv'd may the better evaporate in fumes such are these following Rootes of Marsh-mallowes white Lillies Leaves of Dill Mallowes Violets Elder Danewort Beares breech Mercury Flowres of Chamomill Mellilote Elder Seedes of Flax Fenugreek Fruites Dryed Figges Fat 's and Greases of Hogs Calves Hens Men and Geese Excrements New Butter Oesipus Waters of Chamomill white Lillies warmed water especially a bath of it Oyles of Olives white Lillies Violets sweet Almonds earth wormes Chamomill Dill Linseed of Ireos of Jasmine Oymments Ung Resumptivum and Dialthee Condensers by the Latines Condensantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which contract the pores of the skin and represse or hinder transpiration they are of a more watrish nature then the binders before mentioned The use of which is to hinder too much sweat and the dissolution of the spirits the matter followes The Leaves of Sengreen great and little Lettice Purslaine Maiden hair Endive Sow-thistle Dandelion Fleawort water Lillies Ducks meat Cold water and generally whatsoever cooles without binding contract the smaller pores but they cannot bind the whole part effectually Corrosives by the Latines Adurentia by the Greekes Pyrotica and Caustica THey are so called which by their extreame heat do burn the skin to divers purposes no lesse then fire or scalding water and therefore it is necessary that they be of a fiery nature yet they differ both in degrees of heat and manner of their matter Of the first rank are the rubifiers and blisterers which are the gentlest of all of which is spoken before of the second rank are the Cathereticks or corrosive medicines eating and consuming opposite to the sarcoticks yet these only work on the superficies without corrupting the adjacent parts and corrode extenuate consume and weare away that very gently They are hot and dry in the third and fourth degree and of thin substance that they may insinuate into the matter that is to be taken away and be dissipated or made invalid before they penetrate far Of the third sort are those called Septicks or putrifiers sharper then the Cathereticks penetrate deeper and dissolve putrifie and corrupt the thinner part of the flesh and this they do not so much by the benefit of the intensenesse of their heat as by a malignant quality wherefore they are most irksome to nature and destroy the sabrick of it and therefore there followes them the dissolution of the radicall moysture and a carcase like putrefaction they are of much a
the Book before the Index Here follows an Expository INDEX of such Words as I was fain to use in the translating for which our Language hath not so fit Expressions that are Intelligible as some might wish so that to satisfie them that might think I strove to speak strange Words as some Novices use to shew themselves more then they are I have given an Exposition to make every word that is innovated by Me and somewhat more intelligible if they have recourse to this TABLE as they read and find words not facile to them A ABbreviation A shortning Abscessus a parting away of an Humor after a disease converted into a Swelling or such like into some other place Absolete out of use Accumulated gathered together or heaped up Acquisite obtained by use or otherwise not natural Active qualities See Qualities Acuated made sharp or more violent in working Alchol a fine Powder Alexipharmacal Alexiterial both signifie Medicines resisting the Plague and Poisons Ana of each alike Alluminous having Alium in it Analepticks Restoratives Anastomaticks openers of the Orifices of the Veins Anodynes casing pain Antidote a Medicine against Poyson Anus the Fundament Appropriate convenient and particularly fit for Apozem See the other Index of the Leaves Aromatizing spicing or seasoning with spices Arthritical belonging to the Joints Ascarides Worms in the Fundament gut Asthma a difficulty of Breathing Astringent binding B B. M. Balnco Mariae or a distilling by setting the Still in water boiling Balaustines Flowers of the wild Pomegranate Basis a fundamental or chief thing in the composition that that giveth the ruling quality Bechical purging the brest by coughing Bituminous's having Bitumen in it which is a fat sulpherous substance arising out of the earth Bulbous knobby as any knobby Roots as Turnips Onions c. are buibaus Roots C Cacochymical full of ill Humours Carthamus See in the other Index Caruncles excrescences of flesh in sore parts Cathartick purging or a purger Chalibealed properly that hath steel quenched in it Cholagogne that purgeth Choler Chranical lasting long Citines the Flowers of manured Pomegranats Concrete grown together or hardned Concretion such a hardening Corroborate strengthen Coronary used in garlands Costice bound in belly Crust causing Medicines See the other Index in Escaroticks Cute Wine boiled to the thicknesse of Hony D Decocted boiled Digestives Medicines that reduce Humours or parts to a good condition either by concocting or discussing that which is noxious Diureticks provokers of Urine E Eminency in this book it signifies the height of liquor above the matter 't is poured to Emplasticks See the other Index Energy vigor vertue force Epicerasticks mitigaters of Acrimony Epicrasis it is a sort of gentle purging often repeated in weak bodies and that are full of Humours yet cannot suffer them to be purged out strongly Epuloticks Medicines that close and skin a Wound or join the scar Equivalent here it is often used for such things as may serve turn in stead of others that are harder to be gotten Any thing of like vertues and substance Eradicate to root out Erisipelas a fiery hot inflammation called S. Anthonies fire Expectorate to cough up any thing out of the Lungs F Factitious made by art Ferment any â—hing that setteth other mixtures a working together as Yest doth Beer Fermentation such a working together Feâ—id stinking ill sented Fraâ—ulent windy breeding windinesse Friability an aptnesse to break or beat to powder Function the same that Faculties G Gonorrhea a disease called the running of the Reins H Hectical inclining to or sick of a Hectick Feaver Hepatical appropriated or belonging to the Liver Hydragogue a purger of wartish Humours I i. e. that is to say Impregnated fraught with the vertues of any thing Imbibing drawing forth or drinking in the vertues of any Medicine Imminent near at hand ready to happen Incorpâ—rate to mix throughly those thingâ— that are to be mixed that they may seem as one body Indication that reason of the mind in the Physician that perswades him what is to be done in the curing of the sick You may call it a direct on taken either from the cause the Disease symptoms or circumstances about the sick Insipid without taste Ironed having Iron quenched or steeped in it or otherwise naturally infected with Iron L Lenifie sometimes 't is taken for to make smooth soft or gentle a part that is rough hard or stubborn sometimes to mitigate the sharpnesse of Humours and ease pains M Macerated steeped Magisterial a prescription of the Physician invented peculiarly for his present purpose any Composition that is not usually sold in the shops Materia Medica the latter of these Books so called sometimes also named in the first Book by the name of the Magazeen Physical Meâ—d a drink of Hony and water See the Index Melanugogue a purger of Melancholy Minorative those purges that are given before preparation of the Body are usually called a Minorative because it is given to diminish the Humours least being copious when attenuated by preparation they should be apt to move to some ill purpose or stir up an Hyper catharsis or excesse of the working of the Physick that is after prescribed Modern of late times Mollisie to soften or make gentle Morbifical encreasing or breeding the Disease Mucilage a Jelly stuffe as it were drawn out of some Seeds and Roots by much boyling but it should be such as are onely of a slimy nature Also the dissolving of Gum Tragant and Arabick is usually called a Mucâ—lagâ— Mucilaginous of such a slimy substance as a Macilâ—ge is or full of Mucilage Must new Wine before 't is purged at the time of Vintage N Narcoticks Medicines that have a stupifying benumming quality forcing violent sleep driving away pain not by mitigating the cause but by dulling the sense Nitrous full of salt Peeter or of such a like quality O Odontâ—cks Medicines appropriated to the Teeth Officinal belonging to the shops or usual in the Apothecaries shops Opthalmical appropriated to the Eye Otick things appropriated to the Ears P Panchimagogue a Medicine that purgeth all Humours together Passive Qualities See Qualities Pectoral appropriated to the Brest Perincum the distance ketween the Fundament and sitting place Phlegmagogue a purger of Elegm Phtisick the Consumption that cometh with Ulceration of the Lungs Phtisical inclining to or sick of such a Disease Pincolate a Marchâ—ane made of the kernels of Pine Nuts Premonitions admonitions or directions set at the beginning of any thing Pulse usually taken for any kind of Grain that grows in cods as Pease Beans Vetches c. Q q. s or s q. a sufficient quantity of any thing q. v. as much as you will Qualities are either First Second or Third Manifest or O cult Active or Passive Mention of all these is divers times used The first Qualities are counted those obvious ones that we call Heat Coldnesse Moisture Drinesse The second are Qualities arising from the former through a peculiar mixture of substances as
Beets Maidenhair Leaves of Mirtles Mastick tree wild Olives Penniryall wild Marjoram Hysop Mints Sage Rosemary either several or many of them mixt burnt and reduced to ashes Of Animals Skuttle bone Crabs eyes all sorts of shels and the shels of Land snails Harts horn Of Stones Pumice stone Sponge stone Alablaster Chalk all of these most exactly powdered or if that cannot hand somly be let them be first burnt and then powdered Stones of Dates Mirobalanes Olives Cypres nuts Medlars burnt Sea things Coral Sea froth Amber Earthy juices Common salt salt Gemme Alum salt Peeter melted on a Tile-shard and burnt sal Alkali or the salt they make Glasse of and the fattinesse that swimmeth on the top when it is dissolved in water called Glasse grease Tartar of white Wine crusts of Bread burnt To these are to be added the powders of Spices as of Lignum aloes and other odoriferous Plants the root of Ireos Musk Amber greece and for the strengthning of the Gums Mastick Frankincense Mirrh ¶ And to those that will resolve to endure the taste there is no better thing then Aloes dissolved in Claret wine THE SECOND BOOK SECTION II. Of Remedies of the BREST The type of the Section Remedies of the Brest respect either the Heart as Cordials Lungs as Bechical or Expectorating Medicines Pneumonical or Medicines that alter the distemper of the Lungs Brest as Breeders of Milk Driers of Milk Cordials by the Latines Cordialia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that are either proper for strengthning the Heart resisting malignity or encreasing the Spirits such are all the Alexipharmacal internal medicines before rehearsed except that there the hot are confusedly mixed with the cold which in the use of them are to be distinguished but besides those these following are profitable which are not there cited The Hot Cordials Roots Of Doronicum or wholsom Wolfs-bane Zedoary Cinquefoil Avens Butterbur Barks Of Oranges and Citrons Leaves Of Carduus benedictus Sage mountain Calamint Motherworts ground Ivie Mints Bazil Rosemary Flowers Of Sage Lilly of the vally Spikenard Rozins Frankincense Storax Benzoin Animals Mummy Silk Sea things Amber Waters Of Carduus benedictus Balm scabiosse Sage Cinamon Treacle water ¶ Angelica water the greater composition Aqua Petasitis or water of Butterbur compound Bezoar water Gilberts water Scordium water compound Aqua Imperialis Aqua Mariae Oyls Of Cloves Cinamon Saffron Condited things Citron barks roots of Scorzonera or Spanish Vipers grasse Troschischs Of Gallia Moscata Alipta Moscara Trosch Alexiterii Species or Powders ¶ Bezoardicus Magistralis Cardiacus Magistralis temperate cordial Species Powder of Crabs claws compound Diamoscum Species of the Electuary Rosatae Novellae See the Alexipharmacal Medicines before Cooling Cordials Roots Of Sorrel Buglosse Leaves Of Sorrel wood Sorrel Borage Buglosse water Lillies Mirtles Seeds Of Quinces Plantain Fruits Sowr Cherries fragrant Apples Quinces sowr Pomegranats Flowers Of Willow ¶ The four cordial Flowers Clove Gilly flowers Juices Of Sorrel Roses and the Fruits aforesaid Stones Garnets Rubies Minerals and Sea things Gold Silver Coral Pearls mother of Pearls prepared Waters Of Roses Violets Buglosse water Lillies Sorrel Cheries Syrups Of Vinegar Pomegranats Limons Verjuice of the juice of Sorrel Violets Roses Quinces water Lillies Apples Currans Oxisaccarum Conserves Of Roses ¶ Borage and Buglosse flowers Clove Gilly flowers of wood Sorrel Condites Lemons preserved Barbaries Currans sowr Cherries preserved ¶ Quinces Pippins Oranges without the peels Borage roots Species Diamargariton frigidum Treschischs Of Spodium Camphier Vnguents Of Roses of Sanders Expectoraters by the Latines Expectorantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are such Medicines as render those things or Excrements contained in the Lungs fit to be purged out by coughing and are called Bechicks from their manner of evacuating by coughing for the Greek word Bex signifies a Cough from whence comes Bechicus They are otherwise called procurers of spetting and Anacatharticks as also from the part that is to be evacuated they are called Thoracicals and Expectoraters and they are of two sorts according to the variety of Excrements viz. attenuaters and thickeners the first expectorate by attenuating cutting and cleansing the grosse Humors the others by thickening and also lenifying Where is to be noted that if any thing among the attenuaters seems too sharp it is to be tempered with the lenifiers least the Cough be too much irritated or least the grosse Humor by too much using them be hardned The matter of the Attenuaters Roots Of both the Birthworts marsh Mallows Angelica Cuckoo-pits Enulacampain Ireos Squils Onions Ginger Leaves Of Maidenhair Calamint ground Ivie Hysop Tobacco both for a Syrup and suffumigation wild Marjoram Penniryal Jerusalem Cowslips Horehound Catsfoot or mountain Cudweed Scabiosse Sundew or Ros folis Coltsfoot Seeds Of Annise Coleworts Carthamus Fennel Cresses Massilian Seseli Silvermountain of Nettles Berries Of Bays Juniper Flowers Of Rosemary Camomile Scabiosse Saffron from ℈ s to * Never exceed ℈ s for it causeth faintnesse by over mollifying ℈ i. Fruits Bitter Almonds dried Figs Capers Rosins Myrrh Turpentine Animals Hony Fox-lungs prepared to ʒ s ʒ i. Chymical things Flowers of Brimstone made either into a Loach or Tablets oyl of Brimstone a few drops of which use to be mixed with the Lohochs Waters Of Carduus benedictus Hysop Coltsfoot Scabiosse Syrup of Maidenhair Hysop Horehound Coltsfoot of Catsfoot simple Oximel Oximel of squils ¶ Syrup de Erisimo botruos Conserves Of Enulacampain Maidenhair Rosemary Flowers of Coltsfoot Flowers Powders Dia Ireos Solomonis and simple Diacalamintha Lohochs Of Fox lungs ¶ Sanum expert Lohoch de Farfara or Coltsfoot de Passulis External things Oyls Of bitter Almonds Ireos Camomile Oyntments Resumtivum Dialthea Pectoral Plaisters Filii Zachariae The matter of the thickning lenifying things Roots Of Liquorice Holihocks Seeds The four greater cold feeds white Poppy Lettuce Mallows Barly Rice Flowers Of water Lillies Violets red Poppy Fruits Sweet Almonds Dates Jujubes Pine kernels Phistick nuts sweet Prunes Raisins Sebestens Juices Of Liquorice Starch Penidies Opium with caution Animals Butter Marrows new drawn Waters Of Violets red Poppy water Lillies Syrups Of Liquorice Jujubes water Lillies red Poppies Violets white Poppies Hony of Violets ¶ Diacodium simple and compound Syrup of the Muscilages Conserves Of Violets water Lillies Powders Of Diatragacanthum frigidum and Diapenidium Pneumonicks or altering Medicines for the Lungs THey are those that are used to correct the distemper of the Lungs the matter of which is the same with that of the Expectoraters among which to heat the Brest the most excellent is flower of Brimstone given to * Rather to ℈ i. ʒ i. in a soft dressed Egg also ʒ ii of Turpentine dissolved in ℥ ii of Oximel Outwardly the Sulpherous natural Baths But to cool the Brest the use of sowr things of Milk red Saunders in the beginning of a Consumption and to prevent the spetting of Blood will suffice Also Conserves of
Roses made sowr with a little oyl of Vitriol used often morning and evening at going to bed See for others amongst the Expectoraters Encreasers or Breeders of Milk THey are so called properly or unproperly they properly breed Milk that cause much and good Blood such are Meats of much and good nourishment and temperate Medicines for of such things Milk is the material effect They improperly breed Milk which are endued with a moderate cutting quality whereby they render the Blood fluid and move it to the Dugs that it may there be converted into Milk of which this present Discourse is Where note that some certain of them do force the Blood as it were to the Dugs Some are external some internal The Internal The Leaves of the true Macedonian Parsley of Dill Smallage water Parsnips Polley all of them must be green Poligalaor Milkwort Lettuce in hot tempers for in cold ones it diminisheth milk Green Seeds Of Annise Fennel Rocket Nigella Juices Of Gourd Dandelion blew Goats-beard Ptisane or thick Barley broth Powder Of Christal made very fine and given to Ê’ i. in a fit Liquor Lac Lunae given to the weight of Ê’ i. External things Mollifying simples as the Roots of marsh mallows the Leaves of Dill mallows Seed of Flax flowers of Camomile mixed with the aforesaid Leaves and Seeds for a Fomentation Also Rubifiers if other things will not avail See Rubifiers Things drying Milk THose things diminish Milk that either by their vehement coldnesse thicken the Blood or by their too much heat discusse and dry it up or else by a propriety of substance hinder the breeding it Such are either Internal and those either Hot as Bazil Rue Calamint Sage Agnus Castus or cold as Purslain Housleek Gourds * This should rather have been referred to the heaters for it resists Milk by drying and consuming and is withall hot as appears by its aerimony and small Camphier or external as a Cataplasm of the hot things aforesaid boiled in Oyl 2. Linnens dipped in Verjuice and applyed 3. Smallage stamped with Vinegar and applyed 4. A sponge dipped in the Decoction of Cummin or Coriander seed made with sharp Vinegar and applyed 't is the secret of some people ¶ I have seen this very succesfully and speedily done by a Midwife only first fomenting the Dug with Vinegar and afterwards applying a Plaister of Diachilon simple which was suffered to lye on two or three dayes this prevented any hardnesse that otherwise might have happened THE SECOND BOOK SECTION III. Of Remedies of the inferior Cavity viz. The BELLY The Type of the Section Remedies of the inferior Cavity or Belly are properly these viz. for the Stomack Stomachical things Intrals chiefly above other parts are used Discussers of windinesse Killers of Worms Liver Hepatical things Spleen Splenetical things Kidneys or reins Nephritical-things and those either lenifiers cleansers brekers of the Stone Bladder cistical things Testicles encreasers of Seed diminishers of Seed Womb Histerical things and those either strengthning the Womb. or moving staying the courses Stomachical Medicines THey are called Stomachicals which by a peculiar faculty alter those humors that are contained in the stomack and also help together with it the Concoction and other functions of the stomack and strengthen it of which some are hot some cold and both these must not be too much opening or diuretical but somewhat astringent The Hot. Roots Of Calamus aromaticus Cvpresse Galingale greater Gentian or Felwort Zedoary Barks Of Oranges Citrons Woods As Lignum Aloes Leaves Wormwood Betony Mint wild Marjoram Rosemary Sage Seeds Of Annise Citrons Cummin Fennel seeds of Chermes Flowers Of Bettony Sage Fruits Bitter Almonds Peach kernels Gums Mastick Ê’ s given with a little Ginger or Zedoary in a rear Egg. All Spices especially Ginger and Pepper swallowed whole Sea things Ambergreece Amber Waters Of the Leaves aforesaid of Cinamon Aqua vitae spirit of Anniseed ¶ Spirit and water of Wormwood the greater composition Aqua Mirabilis Imperialis Mint water distilled with Wine D. Steevens his Water Distilled Oyls Of Cloves Nutmegs Cinamon mace Cummin seed Amber ¶ Especially Oyl of citron and Orange Barks Syrups Of Wormwood mint Bettony ¶ Of citron peels of cinamon Conserves of the Flowers of Wormwood Bettony sage ¶ Of the tops of Mint and Balm of Roses with Mithridate Condites Citron peels Acorus Condite Nutmegs Walnuts Ginger condited Confections Alcherms mithridate Treacle ¶ Diacorum Diacinnamomum Electuary of Bayberries Electuary of Sasafras Species or Powders Aromaticum Rosatum Diagalanga Diacidonii cum speciebus ¶ This last had been fit among the confections not here To these add Aromat cariophillatum Species Elect. Rosatae novellae Diatrion Piperion Diaspoliticum Dianisum powder of the roots of Cuckoopits compound Troschischs Of Wormwood Rubarb Gallia moscata External are Oyls Of Wormwood mint mastick Nutmegs by expression of Nard ¶ Distilled Oyls of Wormwood Amber Nutmegs Mace Emplasters Of Bay berries stomachale Galeni stomachicum magistrale Cold things for the stomack Roots Of sorrel sâ—ccâ—ry Plantain Leavâ—s Of sorrel Endive sowthistle succory the five capillary Herbs Dandelion and the Leaves of mirtles Seeds The four greater and the four lesser cold seeds mirtleberries Barley Flowers Of succory red Roses Cytines or flowers of Pomegranats Woods All the saunders Fruits Barberries Quinces Pomegranats Cherries medlars services strawberries Citrons all the mirabolans especially ¶ Prunelles currans Raspes Juices Of the Leaves and Fruits aforesaid also Acacia Hypocistis Gums Camphier adding Binders with it ¶ Camphier taken in any considerable quantity offends the Stomack and Head especially if nothing be joyned with it Faculties of Camphier to allay that fumous acrimony wherewith it is fraught which is so searching and fiery that it rather dissolves Nature with the heat then cools otherwise then by accident being outwardly applyed Sea things Coral Waters Of Roses Plantain ¶ Of Quinces Brambleberries Succory Syrups Of Verjuice of the juice of sorrel of Quinces Pomegâ—anats mirtles rob of Quinces juice of Oâ—anges Preserves Cherries Quinces Currans Barberries sowr Grapes preserved ¶ Oranges and Lemons preserved without their peels Goos-berries Raspes Species Diatrion sanralon Diarrhodon abbatis Diamargariton frigidum Troschischs Of Camphier Spodium Maudlins ¶ Trosch of Saunders Barbaries External Coolers Oyl of Mastick wood of Quinces of Mirtles of Roses omphacine Oyntments Unguentum Rosatum Orange flower oyntment Unguentum sumach KILLERS of WORMS Called by the Latines Vermes necantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THose are called Killers of Worms which the Worms abhor either for some manifest quality as sharpnesse bitternesse sowrnesse which tasts are loathsom to them or else such as by an occult quality are destructive to them Where note that without a Feaver we may use the hotter sort but in a Feaver them that are lesse hot i. e. sowr ones or else things mixed with such Roots Of Birthwort Swallow-wort Alkanet Snakeweed white Dittany Gentian the greater Crosswort Fearn male and female Carline Thistle