take them in this disconrse under that notion Take notice that such Medicines as provoke the Terms or stop them when they flow immoderately 〈◊〉 properly Hystericals but shall be spoken to by and by in a Chapter by themselves As for the Nature of the Womb it seems to be much like the nature of the Brain and Stomach for experience teacheth that it is delighted with sweet and Aromatical Medicines and flies from their contraries For example A Woman being troubled with the Fits of the Mother which is a drawing of the Womb upwards apply sweet things as Civit or the like to the place of Conception it draws it down again but apply stinking things to the Nose as Assafoetida 〈◊〉 the like it expels it from it and sends it down to its proper place Again Sometimes the Womb of a Woman falls out in such cases sweet scents applied to the Nose and stinking things to the privy passage reduces it to its proper place again and this made some Physitians of Opinion that the Womb of a Woman was capable of the sence of smelling For my part I beleeve nothing less only it doth it by apropriation to that part of the Body for the Stomach is also offended with stinking things not because it smels them but because they are obnoxious to that part of the Body judg the like by the Womb it is offended by stinking things and strengthened by sweet for smell is one of the Touch-stones by which Nature trieth what is convenient for its self yet that the Womb hath much affinity with the Head is most certain and undeniable by this argument Because most Cephalick Medicines conduce to the cure of Diseases in the Womb neither is the Womb often afflicted but the Head principally suffers with it Chap. Of Medicenes apropriated to the Joynts The Joynts are usually troubled with Cephalick Diseases and then are to be cured by Cephalick Medicines Medicines apropriated to the Joynts are called by the name of Arthritical Medicines The Joynts seeing they are very Nervous require Medicines which are of a heating and drying Nature with a gentle binding and withal such as by a peculiar vertue are apropriated to them and ad strength to them It is true most Cephalicks do so yet because the Joynts are more remote from the Centre they require stronger Medicines For removing pains in the Joynts this is the Method of proceeding Pains is either taken away or eased for the true cure is to take away the cause of the pain sometimes the vehemency of the pain is so great that you must be forced to use Anodines for so Physitians call such Medicines as ease pain before you can meddle with the cause and this is usually when the part pained is inflamed for those Medicines which take away the cause of pain being very hot if there be any Inflamation in the part pained you must abstain from them till the Inflamation be taken away Also the manner of easing the pain is two-fold for if you regard only the pain use Anodines but if you regard the Inflamation use cooling Medicines because by them not only the heat is asswaged but also the Flux of Blood to that part is stopped especially if you mix some repelling Medicine with it We shall speak of all these in the next Section Only here take notice That such Medicines as take away the cause of pain from the Joynts are of very thin substance and forcible in cutting and drawing and when you see the cause is taken quite away then use such as bind and strengthen the Joynts that so 〈◊〉 may prevent defluxions for the time to come And thus much for the Second Section Sect. 3. Of the Properties or Operations of Medicines THat I may be as plain as can be in this for I desire to be understood of all I shall devide this SECTION into these Chapters Viz. Of MEDICINES Chap. 〈◊〉 1 Hardning 2 Loosning 3 Making thin and thick 4 Opening the Vessels 5 Attinuating 6 Drawing 7 Discussing 8 Repelling 9 Burning 10 Clensing 11 Emplasticks 12 Suppuring 13 Provoking Urin. 14 Provoking the Terms 15 Breeding Milk 16 Regarding the Seed 17 Easing Pain 18 Breeding Flesh. 19 Glutinative 20 Scarrifying 21 Resisting Poyson 22 Adorning the Body 23 Purging 24 Of all these in order and in the same order they are set down Chap. 1. Of Emollient Medicines THe various mixtures of Heat Cold Driness and Moisture in Simples must of necessity produce variety of Faculties and Operations in them which now we come to treat of beginning first at Emollients What is hard and what is soft most men know but few are able to express Phylosophers define that to be hard which yields not to touching and soft to be the contrary An Emollient or softning Medicine which is all one is such a Medicine as reduceth a hard substance to its proper temperature But to leave Phylosophy and keep to Physick Physitians describe hardness to be two-fold 1. A distention or stretching of a part by too much fulness 2. Thick humors which are destitute of heat growing hard in that part of the Body into which they flow So many properties then ought Emollient Medicines to have viz. to moisten what is dry to discuss what is stretched to warm what is congealed by cold yet properly that only is said to mollifie which reduceth a hard substance to its proper temper Driness and thickness of humors being the cause of hardness Emollient Medicines must of necessity be hot and moist and although you may peradventure find some of them dry in the Second or Third Degrees yet must this driness be tempered and qualified with heat and moisture for Reason will tell you that dry Medicines make hard parts harder Besides In Scirrhous humors in which Emollients are most in use various Symptoms appear so that the hardness being not Simple the Emollients are not nor ought not to be alwaies one and the same as for example Sometimes the Swelling abounds with moisture and then the Medicine must be dryer not to mollifie the swelling but to consume the moisture Sometimes the humor is so tough that temperate Medicines will not stir it then must the Medicine be the hotter these things are accedental according as the humor offending is it follows not for all this that Emollient Medicines should not be temperately hot and moist in their own Nature for general Rules are not to be accounted false because a man must sometimes swerve from them for this is the true use of all Rules viz. To vary them according to the various Symptoms of the Disease and herein is the judgment of the Physitians tried Lastly Molifying Medicines are known 1. By their tast 2. By their feeling 1. In tast they are neer unto sweet but Fat and Oyly they are neither sharp nor austere nor sowr nor salt neither do they manifest either binding or vehement heat or cold to be in them 2. In feeling you can perceive no roughness neither do
the green Olives cool and bind English-Currance cool the stomach and are profitable in acute feavers they quench thirst resist vomiting cool the heat of choller provoke appetite and are good for hot complexions Services or as we in Sussex call them Checkers are of the nature of Medlars but something weaker in operation Barberries quench thrist cool the heat of choller resist the pestilence stay vomiting and fluxes stop the terms kill worms help spitting of blood fasten the teeth and strengthen the gums Strawberries cool the stomach liver and blood but are very hurtful for such as have agues Winter-Cherries potently provoke urine and break the stone Cassia-fistula is temperate in quality gently purgeth choller and flegm clarrifies the blood resists feavers clenseth the breast and lungues it cools the reins and thereby resisteth the breeding of the stone it provokes urine and therefore is exceeding good for the running of the reins in men and the whites in women All the sorts of Myrobalans purge the stomach the Indian Myrobalans are held to purge melancholly most especially the other slegm yet take heed you use them not in stoppings of the bowels they are cold and dry they all strengthen the heart brain and sinnews strengthens the stomach releeve the sences take away tremblings and heart-qualms They are seldom used alone Prunes are cooling and loosning Tamarinds are cold and dry in the second degree they purge choller cool the blood stay vomiting help the yellow Jaundice quench thrist cool hot stomachs and hot livers I omit the use of these also as resting confident a child of three yeers old if you should give it Raisons of the sun or Cherries would not ask how it should take them SEEDS OR GRAINS COriander seed hot and dry expels wind but is hurtful to the head send up unwholsom vapors to the brain dangerous for mad people therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book Fenugreek seeds are of a softening discussing nature they cease inflamations be they internal or external bruised and mixed with vineger they ease the pains of the Spleen being applied to the sides help hardness and swellings of the matrix being boyled the decoction helps scabby heads Linseed hath the same vertues with Fenugreek Gromwel-seed provokes urine helps the chollich breaks the stone and expels wind Boyl them in white Wine but bruise them first Lupines easeth the pains of the spleen kils worms and casts them out outwardly they clense filthy ulcers and Gangrenes help scabs itch and inflamations Dill seed encreaseth milk in Nurses expels wind staies vomitings provokes urine yet it duls the sight and is an enemy to generation Smallage seed provokes urin and the terms expels wind resists poysons and easeth inward pains it opens stoppings in any part of the body yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling sickness and for women with child Rocket seed provokes urine stirs up lust encreaseth seed kills worms easeth the pains of the spleen use all these in like manner Basil seed If we may beleeve Dioscorides and Crescentius cheers the heart and strengthens a moist stomach drives away melancholly and provokes urine Nettle seed provokes lust opens stoppages of the womb helps inflamations of the sides and lungues purgeth the breast boyl them being bruised in White Wine also The seeds of Ammi or Bishopsweed heat and dry help difficulty of urine and the pains of the chollick the bitings of venemous beasts they provoke the terms and purge the womb Annis seeds heat and dry ease pain expel wind cause a sweet breath help the dropsie resist poyson breed milk and stop the whites in women provoke lust and ease the headach Cardamoms heat kill worms clense the reins and provoke urine Fennel seeds break wind provokes urine and the terms encreaseth milk in Nurses Commin seeds heat bind and dry stop blood expel wind ease pain help the bitings of venemous beasts outwardly applied viz in plaisters they are of a discussing nature Carrot seeds are windy provoke lust exceedingly and encrease seed provoke urine and the terms cause speedy delivery to women in travel and bring away the after-birth All these also may be boyled in White Wine Nigella seeds boyled in oyl and the forehead anointed with it ease pains in the head take away leprosie itch scurff and hepls scald-heads inwardly taken they expel worms they provoke urine and the terms help difficulty of breathing the smoke of them being burned drives away Serpents and venemous beasts Stavesager kills Lice in the head I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly The seeds of water-cresses heat yet trouble the stomach and belly ease the pains of the spleen are very dangerous for women with child yet they provoke lust outwardly applied they help leprosies scald-heads and the falling off of hair as also Carbuncles and cold ulcers in the joynts Mustard seed heats extenuates and draws moisture from the brain the head being shaved and anointed with Mustard is a good remedy for the lethargy it helps filthy ulcers and hard swellings in the mouth it helps old aches coming of cold French Barly is cooling nourishing and breeds milk Sorrel seeds potently resist poyson helps fluxes and such stomachs as loath their meat Succory seed cools the heat of the blood extinguisheth lust openeth stoppings of the liver and bowels it allaies the heat of the body and produceth a good colour it strengthens the stomach liver and reins Poppy seeds ease pain provoke sleep Your best way is to make an Emulsion of them with Barly-water Mallow seeds ease pains in the bladder Cich-Pease are windy provoke lust encrease milk in Nurses provoke the terms outwardly they help scabs itch and inflamations of the stones ulcers c. White-Saxifrage seeds provoke urine expel wind and break the stone Boyl them in white Wine Rue seeds help such as cannot hold their water Lettice seed cool the blood restrains lust Also Gourds Citruls Cucumers Mellons Purslain and Endive Seeds cool the blood as also the stomach spleen and reins and allay the heat of feavers Use them as you were taught to do Poppy seeds Wormseed expels wind kills worms Ash-tree Keyes ease pains in the sides help the dropsie releeve men weary with labor provoke lust and make the body lean Peony seeds help the Ephialtes or the disease the vulgar call the Mare as also the fits of the mother and other such like infirmites of the womb stop the terms and help Convulsions Broom seed potently provoke urine breaks the stone Citron seeds strengthen the heart cheer the vital spirit resist pestilence and poyson TEARS LIQUORS AND ROZINS LAdanum is of a heating molifying nature it opens the mouth of the veins staies the hair from falling off helps pains in the ears and hardness of the womb It is used only outwardly in 〈◊〉 Asa foetida is commonly used to allay the fits of the mother by smelling to it they say inwardly taken it provokes lust and expels
Water-cresses distilled in March the water clenseth the blood and provokes 〈◊〉 exceedingly kils worms outwardly mixed with Honey it cleers the skin of morphew and Sunburning Distil Nettles when they are in flower the water helps coughs and pains in the bowels provokes urine and breaks the stone Saxifrage water provokes urine expels wind breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder of gravel distil them when they are in flower The water of Pellitory of the wal opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen by drinking an ounce of it every morning it clenseth the reins and bladder and easeth the gripings of the howels coming of wind distil it in the end of May or beginning of June Sinkfoyl water breaks the stone clenseth the reins and is of excellent use in putrified feavers distil it in May. The water of Radishes breaks the stone clenseth the reins and bladder provokes the terms and helps the yellow Jaundice Alicampane water strengthens the stomach and Lungues provokes urine and clenseth the passages of it from gravel Distil Burnet in May or June the water breaks the stone clenseth the passages of urine and is exceeding profitable in pestilential times Mugwort water distilled in May is excelleut in coughs and diseases proceeding from stoppage of the terms in women it warms the stomach and helps the dropsie Distil Peny-royal when the flowers are upon it the water heats the womb gallantly provokes the terms expels the Afterbirh cuts and casts out thick and gross humors in the breast easeth pains in the bowels and consumes flegm The water of Lovage distilled in May easeth pains in the head and tures ulcers in the womb being washed with it inwardly taken it expels wind and breaks the stone The tops of Hops when they are young being distilled the water clenseth the blood of addust and melancholly humors and therefore helps Scabs Itch and leprosie and such like diseases thence proceeding it open obstructions of the spleen helps the rickets and Hypocondriack melancholly The water of Borrage and Bugloss distilled when their flowers are upon them strengthen the heart and brain exceedingly clense the blood and takes away sadness greife and melancholly Doddar water clenseth the Liver and spleen helps the yellow jaundice Tamaris water opens the obstructions and helps the hardness of the spleen and strengthens it English Tobacco distilled the water is excellent good for such as have dropsies to drink an ounce or too every morning it helps ulcers in the mouth strengthens the Lungues and helps such as have Asthmaes The water of Dwarffe Elder hath the same effects Thus have you the vertues of enough of cold waters the use of which is for mixtures of other medicines whose operation is the same for they are very seldom given alone if you delight most in liquid medicines having regard to the disease and part of the body afflicted by it these will furnish you with where withal to make them so as will please your pallat best COMPOUNDS SPIRITS and COMPOND DISTILLED WATERS Culpeper A. BEfore I begin these I thought good to premise a few words They are all of them hot in operation and therefore not to be medled with by people of hot Constitutions when they are in health for fear of Feavers and adustion of blood but for people of cold constitutions as Melancholly and Flegmatick people If they drink of them moderately now and then for recreation due consideration being had to the part of the body which is weakest they may do them good yet in diseases of melancholly neither strong Waters nor Sack is to be drunk for they make the 〈◊〉 thin and then up to the head it flies where it fills the brain with foolish and fearful imaginations 2. Let all yong people forbear them whilst they are in health for their blood is usually hot enough without them 3. Have regard to the season of the year so shall you find them more beneficial in Summer than in in Winter because in Summer the body is alwaies coldest within and digestion weakest and that is the reason why men and women eat less in Summer than they do in Winter Thus much for people in health which drink strong waters for recreation As for the Medicinal use of them it shall be shewed at the 〈◊〉 end of every Receipt only in general they are due respect had to the humors afflicting and part of the body afflicted medicinal for diseases of cold and flegm chilliness of the spirits c. But that my Country men may not be mistaken in this I shall give them some Symptoms of each Complexion how a man may know when it exceeds its due 〈◊〉 Signs of Choller abounding Leaness of body costiveness hollow eyes anger without a cause a testy disposition yellowness of the 〈◊〉 bitterness in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pains in the 〈◊〉 the pulse 〈◊〉 and stronger 〈◊〉 ordinary the 〈◊〉 higher colourd thinner and brighter troublesom sleeps much dreaming of fire lightning anger and fighting Signs of Blood abounding The Veins are bigger or at least they seem so and fuller than ordinary the skin is red and as it were swollen pricking pains in the sides and about the temples shortness of breath headach the pulse great and full urine high coloured and thick dreams of blood c. Signs of Melancholly abounding Fearfulness without a cause fearful and 〈◊〉 imaginations the skin rough and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 want of sleep frightful dreams 〈◊〉 in the throat the pulse very weak solitariness thin 〈◊〉 urine often sighing c. Signs of Flegm abounding Sleepiness dulness slowness heaviness cowardliness forgetfulness much spitting much 〈◊〉 at the 〈◊〉 little appetite to meat and as bad 〈◊〉 the skin whiter colder and smoother than it was wont to be the pulse flow and deep the urine thick and low colored dreams of rain flouds and water c. These things thus premised I come to the matter The first the Colledg presents you with is Spiritus et Aqua Absinthii minus Composita Pag. 30. Or Spirit and Water of Wormwood the lesser Composition The Colledg Take of the Leaves of dried Wormwood two pound Annis seeds half a pound steep them in six gallons of small Wines twenty four hours then 〈◊〉 them in an Allembick 〈◊〉 to every 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 water two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sugar Let the two first pound you draw out be called Spirit of Wormwood those which follow Wormwood Water the lesser Composition Culpeper A. I like this distinction of the Colledges very well because what is first stilled out is far stronger than the rest and therefore very fitting to be kept by it self you may take which you please according as the temperature of your body either to heat or cold and the season of the yeer requires A. It hath the same vertues Wormwood hath only fitter to be used by such whose bodies are chilled by age and whose natural heat abateth You may search the Herb for the vertues it heateth the stomach and helpeth
each one drachm old Wine and decoction of the five opening Roots so much as is sufficient to make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. They help pains in the stomach and ill digestion the Illiack passion Hectick feavers and dropsies in the beginning and cause a good colour Use them like the former Trochisci Diacorrallion Galen The Colledg Take of Bole Armenick red Corral of each an ounce Balaustins terra Lemnia white Starch of each half an ounce Hypocystis the seeds of Henbane Opium of each two drachms juyce of Plantane so much as is sufficient to make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also stop blood help the bloody-flux stop the terms and are a great help to such whose stomachs loath their victuals I fancy them not Trochisci Diaspermaton Galeni The Colledg Take of the seeds of Small age and Bishops weed of each an ounce Annis and Fennel seeds of each half an ounce Opium Cassia Lignea of each two drachms with rain Water make it into troches according to art Culpeper A. These also bind case pain help the pleuresie 〈◊〉 Pastilli Galen The Colledg Take of white Starch Balaustins earth of Samos juyce of Hypocistis Gum Saffron Opium of each two drachms with juyce of Plantane make them into troches according to art Culpeper A. The Operation of this is like the former Troches of Agrick The Colledg Take of choice Agrick three ounces Sal. Gem. six drachms Ginger two drachms with Oxymel Simplex so much as is sufficient make it into Troches according to art Culpeper A. The vertues of both these are the same with Agrick only it may be more safely given this way than the other they clense the brain of flegm and the stomach of tough thick viscous humois The dose is one drachm at a time Of the Use of Oyls c. BEfore I begin with their Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters give me leave to swerve a little from the Colledges mode they swerve ten times more from the truth I would but give a few Rules for the Use of them and I had as good do it here as any where and to write but the truth many City Chyrurgians that I have talked with are scarce able to give reason for what they do 't is to be feared that those that live in the country far remote are far less able to do all these a curtesy do I candidly deliver these Rules and let me never be acconnted so basely bred as to forget those kind Ladies and Gentlewomen that for Gods sake help their poor wounded neighbors the great God reward them with a plentiful increase of estate in this world and eternal Beatitude in that to come The cheifest of all these Chyrurgicall Antidotaries I shall divide into these twelve Chapters which shall be treated of in this order Of Medicines Anodine 1 Repelling 2 Attracting 3 Resolving 4 Emollient 5 Suppuring 6 Clensing 7 Incarnative 8 Scarrifying 9 Glutinative 10 Cathereticks 11 Stanching blood 12 Chap. 1. Of ANODINES SUch Oyls Oyntments and Plaisters as ease pain are called by Physitians because you should not know what they mean Anodines All pain is caused by heat or driness or both for moisture seldom unless heat be joyned with it causeth pain Anodines also some divide into proper and improper improper Anodines if a man may call them Anodines they call Narcoticks for I assure you if crabbed words would cure 〈◊〉 our Physitians would come behind none in the world the truth is these words were borrowed from Galen and are Greek words and Galen writing in his mother tongue they were understood well enough there ours retain the same words only to blind peoples eyes that so they may not prie into the Mystery of their Monopoly for then all the fat were in the fire But to proceed Proper Anodines are either temperately hot or temperately cold Hot Anodines are Oyl of sweet Almonds Linseed Oyl Oyl of Eggs Oyl of Saint Johns-wort Hen-grease Ducks grease Goose grease Chamomel Melilot Fenugreek seeds Dill Bay leaves and berries Juniper berries Rosemary Oyles and Ointments made of them Oyle of Earth-worms Oyle of Elder Wax Turpentine Oyntment of Marshmallows Martiatum Arregon Resumptivum Oxycroceum If any external part of your body be pained these or any of these made into fomentations to both the part pained or into pultifses or Oyls or Oyntments by adding Hogs grease or Plaisters by adding Wax or Rozin or both to the Oyntment and applyiug it to the place ease pain But if together with the pain there be an inflamation then Anodines of a cooler nature are more convenient such be Oyl Omphacine viz. Oyl of Olives pressed from them before they be ripe Poppies Roses Violets Pellitory of the wall Fleawort these or any of these made into Pultisses Oyls Oyntments or Plaisters Oyntment of Roses Unguantnm Album Populeon Refrigerans Galeni c. Improper Anodines or Narcoticks which you please are Medicines of another nature and you may thank the Colledge of Physitians for training you up in such ignorance scarce fit for a vulgar use till they have learn'd more skill in Physick than yet they have yet be pleased to consider that in taking away pains three things are to be considered The cause the pain the part pained To these are medicines apropriated for some take away the cause but these belong not to my present scope others take away the pain and meddle not with the cause as those proper Anodines I mentioned before and some take away neither cause nor pain but only stupifie the sences that so it cannot be felt these are to be used with abundance of skill and discretion and never but in cases of necessity when the pain is so vehement that Nature is not able to bear it or a Feaver thereby threatned Of this Nature and for this use are Narcoticks Of these some are Simple As Mandrakes Henbane Poppies Opium Lettice Sengreen Nightshade Camphire Hemlock c. Compound are Oyls and Oyntments of these Philonium Persicum Philonium Romanum Pilulae è Cynoglosso or Pills of Houndstongue Pilulae è Styrace and most Opiates you meet withal in the Dispensatory Chap. 2. Of Repelling Medicines BY Repelling or Repulsive Medicines I mean either 1. Such as by a cold quality put back the humor Or 2. Such as by binding strengthen the part afflicted They are in quality 1. Hot and binding 2. Cold and binding They are devided into Simple and Compound Simple Repercussives which is another term they have are Mild binding Strong Hot and Mild Repulsives are Roses Endive Lettice Sorrel Navel-wort Purslain Violets Water-Lillies cold water Whey Coriander Cinkfoyl Trefoyl Pellitory of the Wall Apples Pears Whites of Eggs Horstail Woodbine Strong are Teazles Shepheards purse Plantane Nightshade Sengreen or Housleeks Melones Guords Citruls Duckmeat Fleawort Mirtles Quinces Pomegranat rinds and flowers Sanguis Draconis Poppy Opium Bole Armenick Ceruss Terra Sigillata Lead burnt and not burnt Cypress Nuts Hot and
hot and moist Also to provoke one to the sports of Venus we use such things as stir up the veneral faculty These are hotter than those that encrease Seed yet not so dry that they should consume the Seed Take notice of this 〈◊〉 that some things dull Venus by cold and some over power her by 〈◊〉 The one of those 〈◊〉 the Seed the other makes it torped and sluggish staies the Itching For the Seed of Man is subject to as many contingents as the Man himself is It is not my 〈◊〉 here to treat of them for such things as make Seed either thinner or thicker are not properly said to breed Seed For the time when Seed should be encreased I need say nothing unless I should say when a Man hath got a prety 〈◊〉 If the Body be vicious let it first be purged let Seed be entreased before it be provoked Biting things lessen the Seed stir up the Venerial parts to expulsion cause Itching or tickling of the 〈◊〉 therefore they are good to be used a little before the act otherwise the constant use of them consumes and 〈◊〉 the Seed Observe thus much that one and the same Medicine doth not suit with every complexion for example If the person be 〈◊〉 let the Medicine be the hotter The use of these Medicines is the propagation of Mankind for the desire of Children inches many to Copulation but the pleasure that is in the 〈◊〉 ten times more Chap. 18. Of Medicines casing Pain THere is no dispute of the story but that which causeth the disease causeth the pain as also what 〈◊〉 the disease caseth the pain Yet are those properly called 〈◊〉 which is the Physical term for such Medicines which barely regard the pain both cause and disease remaining These are temperate for heat and thin for essence For seeing they are to be applied both to hot and cold effects they ought not to vary much from temperature They something excel in heat and so they ease pain because they open the pores and loosen the skin But they also cool because they let out those hot fuliginous vapors which cause the pain Such things as case pain by 〈◊〉 are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They do not take away the pain at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause sleep or so dul the sences that they cannot 〈◊〉 it They are administred at such times when the Symptoms are so grievous that they threaten a 〈◊〉 danger than the disease is If in giving them you fear a greater fluxion will come to the part afflicted mix some things with them which are medicinal for the disease If the pain lie in the skin let the anodines beliquid the deeper it lies the more solid let them be lest their vertue be discussed before they come at the part afflicted CHAP. 19. Of Medicines breeding Flesh. THere are many things diligently to be observed in the cures of Wounds and Ulcers which incur and hinder that the cure cannot be speedily done nor the separated parts reduced to their natural state Viz. Fluxes of Bloud 〈◊〉 Hardness Pain and other things besides our present scope Our present scope is To shew how the cavity of Ulcers may be filled with Flesh Such Medicines are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sarcoticks This though it be the work of Nature yet it is helped forward with Medicines that the Bloud may be prepared that it may the easier be turned into Flesh. These are not Medicines which breed good Bloud nor which correct the intemperature of the place afflicted but which defend the Bloud and the Ulcer it self from corruption in breeding Flesh. For Nature in breeding Flesh produceth two sorts of excrements viz. serosus humors and purulentus dross Those Medicines then which clense and consume these by drying are said to breed Flesh because by their helps Nature performs that Office Also take notice that these Medicines are not so drying that they should consume the blood also as well as the Sanies nor so clensing that they should consume the Flesh with the dross Let them not then exceed the first Degree unless the Ulcer be very moist Their difference are various according to the part wounded which ought to be restored with the same Flesh. The softer then and tenderer the place is the gentler let the Medicines be Chap. 20. Of Glutinative Medicines THat is the true cure of an Ulcer which joyns the mouth of it together That is a glutinative Medicine which couples together by drying and binding the sides of an Ulcer before brought together These require a greater drying faculty than the former not only to consume what flows out but what remains liquid in the flesh for liquid flesh is more subject to flow abroad than to stick together The time of using them any body may know without teaching viz. when the Ulcer is clensed and filled with Flesh and such symptoms as hinder are taken away For many times Ulcers must be kept open that the Sanies or sords that lie in them may be purged out whereas of themselves they would heal before Only beware left by too much binding you cause pain in tender parts Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying Medicines THe last part of the cure of an Ulcer is to cover it with Skin and restore the place to its prestin beauty Such Medicines the Greeks call Epulotica This also is done by things drying and binding They differ from the former thus in that they meddle with the Flesh no further than only to convert it into Skin Before you administer Epuloticks let not only the Ulcer but the places adjacent be 〈◊〉 viewed lest ill Symptoms follows Chap. 22. Of Medicines resisting Poyson SUch Medicines ' are called Alexiteria and Alexipharmaca which resist Poyson Some of these resist Poyson by Astral influence and some Physitians though but few can give a reason of it These they have sorted into three Ranks 1. Such as strengthen Nature that so it may 〈◊〉 the Poyson the easier 2. Such as oppose the Poyson by a contrary quality 3. Such as violently thrust it out of doors Such as strengthen Nature against Poyson either do it to the whol Body universally or else strengthen some particular part thereof For many times one particular part of the Body is most afflicted by the Poyson suppose the Stomach Liver Brain or any other part such as cherish and strengthen those parts being weakned may be said to resist Poyson Such as strengthen the Spirits strengthen all the Body Sometimes Poysons kill by their quality and then are they to be corrected by their contraries They which kill by cooling are to be remedied by heating and the contrary they which kill by corrhoding are to be cured by lenitives such as temper their acrimony Those which kill by Induration or Coagulation require cutting Medicines Also because all Poysons are in motion neither stay they in one till they have seised
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spleen and help diseases coming thereof outwardly they take away yellowness and deformity of the skin Lillium convallium Lilly of the Valley See the flowers Lingua Cervina Harts-tongue drying and binding stops blood the terms and fluxes opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and diseases thence arising The like quantity of Harts-tongue Knotgrass and Comfry Roots being boyled in water and a draught of the decoction drunk every morning and the materials which have boyled applied to the place is a notable remedy for such as are burst Limonium Sea-bugloss or Marsh-bugloss or as some will have it Sea-Lavender the seeds being very drying and binding stop fluxes and the terms help the chollick and strangury Lotus urbana Authors make some flutter about this Herb I conceive the best take it to be Trisolium Odoratum Sweet Tresoyl which is of a temperate nature clenseth the eyes gently of such things as hinder the sight cureth green wounds ruptures or burstness helps such as piss blood or are bruised and secures garments from moths Lupulus Hops Opening clensing provoke urine the young sprouts open stoppings of the Liver and Spleen clense the blood cleer the skin help scabs and itch help agues purge choller they are usually boyled-and taken as they eat Sparagus but if you would keep them for they are excellent for these diseases you may make them into a Conserve as you shall be taught hereafter or into a Syrup Lychnitis Coronaria or as others more properly from the Greek write it Lychnis Rose Campion I know no great physical vertue it hath Macis See the Barks Magistrantia c. Masterwort Hot and dry in the third degree it is singular good against poyson pestilence corrupt and unwholsom air helps windiness in the stomach causeth an appetite to ones victuals very profitable in fals and bruises congealed and clotted blood the bitings of mad-dogs the leaves chewed in the mouth clense the brain of superfluous humors thereby preventing Lethargies and Apoplexes Malva Mallows The best of Authors account wild Mallows to be best and hold them to be cold and moist in the first degree they are profitable in the bitings of venemous beasts the stinging of Bees and Wasps c. Inwardly they resist poyson provoke to stool outwardly they asswage hard swellings of the Privities or other places in Clysters they help roughness and fretting of the Guts Bladder or Fundament and so they do being boyled in water and the decoction drunk as I have proved in this present Epidemical disease the Bloody-flux Majorana See Amaracus Mandragora Mandrakes Fit fot no vulgar use but only to be used in cooling Oyntments Marrubium album nigrum foetidum Marrubium album is common Horehound Hot in the second degree and dry in the third openeth the Liver and Spleen clenseth the breast and lungs helps old Coughs pains in the sides Phtisicks or ulceration of the lungues it provokes the Terms easeth hard labor in Child-bearing brings away the after-birth See the Syrups Marrubium nigrum foetidum Black and stinking Horehound I take to be all one Hot and dry in the third degree cure the bitings of mad-dogs wast and consume hard knobs in the fundament and matrix clense filthy Ulcers Unless by stinking Horehound the Colledg should mean that which Fuchsius cals Stachys if they do it is hot and dry but in the first degree and a singular Remedy to keep wounds from inflamation Marum Herb Mastich Hot and dry in the third degree good against Cramps and Convulsions Matricaria Featherfew Hot in the third degree dry in the second openeth purgeth a singular remedy for diseases incident to the Matrix and other diseases incident to women eases their travail and infirmities coming after it it helps the Vertigo or dissiness of the head Melancholly sad thoughts you may boyl it either alone or with other Herbs fit for the same purpose with which this Treatise will furnish you applied to the wrists it helps the Ague Matrisylva The same with Caprifolium Meliotus Melilot Inwardly taken provokes urine breaks the Stone clenseth the Reins and Bladder cutteth and clenseth the Lungs of tough Flegm the juyce dropped into the eyes cleers the sight into the ears mitigates pain and noise there the head bathed with the juyce mixed with Vinegar takes away the pains thereof outwardly in Pultisses it asswageth swellings in the privities and else where Mellissa Bawm Hot and dry outwardly mixed with salt and applied to the neck help the Kings Evil bitings of mad-dogs venemous beasts and such as cannot hold their necks as they should do inwardly it is an excellent remedy for a cold and moist stomach cheers the heart refresheth the mind takes away grief sorrow and care instead of which it produceth joy and mirth See the Syrup Mentha sativa Garden Mints Spear Mints Are hot and dry in the third degree provoke hunger are wholsom for the stomach stay vomiting stop the terms help sore heads in in children strengthen the stomach cause digestion outwardly applied they help the bitings of mad dogs Yet they hinder conception and are naught for wounded people they say by reason of an antipathy between them and Iron Mentha aquatica Water Mints Ease pains of the belly headach and vomiting gravel in the Kidnies and Stone Methastrum Horse-mint I know no difference between them and Water Mints 〈◊〉 mas foemina Mercury male and foemale They are both hot and dry in the second degree clensing digesting they purge watry humors and further conception Theophrastus relates that if a woman use to eat either the male or foemale Mercury two or three daies after conception she shall bring forth a child either male or foemale according to the sex of the herb she eats Mezereon Spurg-Olive or Widdow-wail A dangerous purge better let alone than medled with Millesolium Yarrow Meanly cold and binding an healing Herb for wounds stancheth bleeding and some say the Juyce snuffed up the nose causeth it to bleed whence it was called Nose-bleed it stoppeth Lasks and the Terms in women helps the running of the reins helps inflamations and excoriations of the Yard as also inflamations of wounds Muscus Moss Is somthing cold and binding yet usually retains a smatch of the property of the tree it grows on therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding Serapio saith that it being insused in Wine and the Wine drunk it staies vomiting and fluxes as also the whites in women Myrtus Mirtle-tree The Leaves are of a cold earthy quality drying and binding good for fluxes spitting vomiting and pissing of blood stop the Whites and Reds in women Nardus See the Root Nasturtium Aquaticum Hortense Water-cresses and Garden-cresses Garden-cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree good for the Scurvy Sciatica hard swellings yet do they trouble the belly ease pains of the Spleen provoke lust Water-cresses are hot and dry clense the blood help the Scurvy provoke urine and the terms
retentive Faculty give them a little before meat if to stay Fluxes a little after meat if to stay vomiting CHAP. 5. Of Medicines apropriated to the Liver BE pleased to take these under the name of Hepaticks for that is the usual name Physitians give them and these also are of Three sorts 1. Some the Liver is delighted in 2. Others strehgthen it 3. Others help its vices The Pallat is the Seat of tast and its Office is to judg what Food is agreeable to the Stomach and what not by that is both the Quality and Quantity of Food fit for the Stomach discerned the very same Office the Meseraick Veins perform to the Liver Sometimes such Food pleaseth the Pallat which the Liver likes not but not often and therefore the Meseraick Veins resuse it and that 's thereason some few men fancy such food as makes them sick after the eating thereof 1. The Liver is delighted exceedingly with sweet things draws them greedily and digesteth them as swiftly and that 's the reason Honey is so soon turned into Choller 2. Such Medicines strengthen the Liver as being apropriated to it very gently bind for seeing the Office of the Liver is to concoct it needs some adstriction that so both the heat and the humor to be concocted may be staied that so the one slip not away nor the other be scattered Yet do not Hepatical Medicines require so great a binding faculty as Stomachicals do because the passages of the Stomach are more open than those of the Liver by which it either takes in Chyle or sends out Blood to the rest of the Body therefore Medicines which are very binding are hurtful to the Liver and either cause obstructions or hinder the distribution of the Blood or both 3. The Liver being very subject to obstructions Medicines which withstand obstructions or open them being made are truly Hepatical and they are such as cut and extenuate without any vehement heat to these we shall speak in their proper places and yet they retain a faculty both gently binding and clensing Sometimes Inflamation follows the obstruction and then must you use Hepatical Medicines which cool clense and extinuate In using these have a special care that your cooling Medicines be so tempered with heat that the digestive faculty of the Liver be not spoiled and that the Diaphragma which is very neer unto it be not so cooled that it hinder the fetching of breath And thus much for the Liver the Office of which is to concoct Chyle which is a white substance the Stomach digests the food into into Blood and distribute it by the Veins to every part of the body whereby the Body is nourished and decaying flesh restored CHAP. 6. Of Medicines apropriated to the Spleen IN the breeding of Blood are three Excrements most conspicuous viz. Urine Choller and Melancholly The proper seat of Choller is in the Gall. The Urine passeth down to the Reins or Kidneys which is all one The Spleen takes the thickest or melancholly blood to it self I hope shortly to give you the exactest piece of Anatomy now extant in your own mother tongue wherein you may as perfectly see these and all other internal operations of your Body as you can your Faces in a Looking Glass But to return This Excrement of Blood is twofold for either by excessive heat it is addust and this is that the Latins call Atra bilis or else it is thick and earthly of it self and this properly is called Melancholly humor Hence then is the nature of Splenical Medicines to be found out and by these two is the Spleen usually afflicted for Atra bilis I know not what distinct English name to give it many times causeth Madness and pure Melancholly causeth obstructions of the Bowels and tumors whereby the concoction of the Blood is viciated and Dropsies many times follow Medicines then peculiar to the Spleen must needs be twofold also some apropriated to Atra bilis others to pure Melancholly but of purging either of them I shall omit till I come to treat of Purging in a Chapter by it self 1. Such Medicines are Splenical which by cooling and moistning temper Atra bilis let not these Medicines be to cold neither for there is no such heat in Atra bilis as there is in Choller and therefore it needs no such excessive cooling amongst the number of these are such as we mentioned amongst the Cordials to repel Melancholly vapors from the Heart such temper and asswage the malice of Atra bilis 2. Those Medicines are also Splenical by which Melancholly humors are corrected and so prepared that they may the more easily be evacuated such Medicines are cutting and opening and they differ from Hepaticals in this that they are no waies binding for the Spleen being no waies addicted to concoction binding Medicines do it harm and not good 3. Sometimes the Spleen is not only obstructed but also hardned by Melancholly humors and in such cases Emolient Medicines may be well called Splenicals not such as are taken inwardly for they operate upon the Stomach and Bowels but such as are outwardly applied to the Region of the Spleen Aud although sometimes Medicines are outwardly applied to hardness of the Liver yet they differ from Splenicals because they are binding so are not Splenicals Chap. 7. Of Medicines apropriated to the Reins and Bladder THe Office of the Reins is To make a separation between the Blood and the Urin to receive this Urine thus separated from the Blood is the Bladder ordained which is of a sufficient bigness to contain it that so a man may go about his business and not be alwaies pissing Both these parts of the Body officiating about the Urin they are both usually afflicted by the vices of the Urin. The Urin is oppressed 1. By Stones 2. By Inflamation 3. By thick Humors Medicines apropriated to the Reins and Bladder are usually called Nephriticals and are Threefold some cool others cut gross humors and a third sort breaks the Stone In the Use of all these take notice That the constitution of the Reins and Bladder is such That they abhor all binding Medicines because they cause stoppage of Urine The truth is I shall speak of all these apart in so many Chapters by themselves only let it suffice here That Physitians confess some Medicines perform these by an hidden 〈◊〉 and even break the hardest Stone but no man they say because they cannot themselves can give a Reason how nor why they do it And Secondly take notice That the Reins and Bladder being subject to Inflamations endure not very hot Medicines Thirdly Because the Bladder is further remote from the Centre of the Body than the Kidnies are therefore it requires stronger Medicines than the Kidnies do lest the strength of the Medicine be spent before it be come to the part afflicted Chap. 8. Of Medicines apropriated to the Womb. THese Physitlans call Hystericals and to avoid multiplicity of words
opening the Mouths of the Vessels THese Galen thought to be hot but of thick parts and biting Let none admire that thickness should be attributed to Medicines of an opening substance seeing thickness seems rather to stop than to open For answer to this you must consider the manner of opening obstructions and of opening the mouths of the Vessels is different Obstructions require cutting Medicines by which the thickness of the matter obstructing is made thinner therefore the Medicine ought not to be thick but of thin substance that it may the better penetrate I do not mean of a thin Body like water for that causeth Obstructions rather then take them away but of thin parts viz. Making thin But those Medicines which are said to open the mouths or passages of the Vessels are of thick parts that they may not only penetrate but also strengthen the passages by which they pass therefore Galen besides heat appointed thickness of parts and sharpness or biting as Pepper bites for such a sharp heat is very effectual to penetrate and cannot stop in the least for although the Skin be easily contracted by gentle Medicines the Vessels cannot be shut but by things vehemently binding and therefore let these Medicines of thick substance be also moist for moisture cannot so forcibly bind as to stop the mouths of the Vessels The Use of opening Medicines may be easily gathered from the use of the Vessels to be opened for seeing their use is to hold Blood which sometimes offend in quantity sometimes in quality such infirmities are to be remedied by opening Medicines They are easily known by tast being sharp and piercing and bite the tongue but such as are stopping are cold and binding and contract the tongue in tasting of them CHAP. 6. Of Attenuating Medicines THe use of Attenuating Medicines is to open the obstructions of the Bowels The Bowels are obstructed or stopped by tough and viscus humors hence then it is cleer that Attenuating or Extenuating Medicines ought to be thin of substance but whether they ought all to be hot or not is some question for indeed many cold Medicines cut tough humors and open obstructions as Vinegar Endive Succory and the like I shall not enter into the Dispute here whether all cold things bind or not and therefore some hold Vinegar to be hot in it self and cool only by accedent we know Wine is hot and Vinegar is nothing but corrupted Wine and we know as well that putrifaction turns things usually into a contrary quality and besides if you ask Physitians how one Simple can perform two contrary operations they presently run into the old bush It doth it say they by a hidden quality The use of Attenuating Medicines is to open the Bowels to clense the Breast of Flegm co expel the Terms c. Your best course is first to clense the body by some gentle purge before you use Attenuating Medicines lest they seise upon the Blood and cause Feavers or other mischeifs as bad They are in tast sharp sowr or bitter yet such as being tasted dilate the tongue and contract it not Chap. 7. Of Drawing Medicines THe Opinion of Physitians is concerning these as it is concerning other Medicines viz. Some draw by a manifest quality some by a hidden and so quoth they they draw to themselves both humors and thorns or splinters that are gotten into the Flesh however this is certain they are all of them hot and of thin parts hot because the Nature of heat is to draw of thin parts that so they may penetrate to the humors that are to be drawn out Their Use is various viz. 1. That the Bowels may be disburthened of corrupt humors 2. Outwardly used by them the offending humor I should have said the Peccant humor had I written only to Scholers is called from the internal parts of the Body to the Superficies 3. By them the Crisis of a Disease is much helped forward 4. They are exceeding profitable to draw forth Poyson out of the Body 5. Parts of the Body overcooled are cured by these Medicines viz. By applying them outwardly to the place not only because they heat but also because they draw the spirits by which life and and heat are cherished to the part of the Body which is destitute of them you cannot but konw that many times parts of the Body fall away in Flesh and their strength decays as in some peoples Arms or Legs or the like the usual Reason is Because the vital Spirit decaies in those parts to which use such Plaisters or Oyntments as are attractive which is the Physical term for drawing Medicines for they do not only cherish the parts by their own proper heat but draw the Vital and Natural spirits thither whereby they are both quickned and nourished They are known almost by the same tokens that Attenuating Medicines are seeing Heat and thinness of parts is in them both they differ only in respect of quantity thinness of parts being most proper to Attenuating Medicines but Attractive Medicines are hotter Chap. 8. Of Discussive Medicines BY Discussive Medicines I intend such as the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 commonly Physitians call them by the names of Diaphoreticks in plain English they are such Medicines as provoke Sweat or as work by insensible transpiraton which is another term they give to Sweating I quote these terms and explain them because I would not have my Country-men hood-wink'd with strange terms I am half of Opinion it is one way by which they are trained up in slavery The nature of Discussing or Sweating Medicines is almost the same with Attractive for there are no discussive Medicines but are attractive nor scarce any attractive Medicine but is in some measure or other discussing The difference then is only this That discussive Medicines is hotter than attractive and therefore nothing else need be written of their nature Their Use may be known even from their very Name for diseases that come by repletion or fulness are cured by evacuation or emptying yet neither Blood nor gross humors are to be expelled by Sweating or insensible transpiration as they call it but the one requires Blood-letting the other Purgation but Serosus or thin humors and filthy vapors and such like superfluities are to be expelled by sweat and be wary in this too for many of them work violently and violent Medicines are not rashly to be given Besides Swellings are sometimes made so hard by sweating Medicines that afterwards they can never be cured For what is Thin being by such Medicines taken away nothing but what is perfectly hard remains If you fear such a thing mix Emollients with them Again Sometimes by using Discussives the humors offending which Physitians usually call the Peccant humor is driven to some more noble part of the Body or else it draws more than it discusseth in such cases concoct and attenuate the matter offending before
Emolients like to them in temperature only Emollients are mething hotter Yet is there a difference as apparent as the Sun is when he is upon the Meridian and the use is manifest For Emollients are to make hard things soft but what Suppures rather makes a generation than an alteration of the humor Natural heat is the efficient cause of Suppuration neither can it be done by any external means Therefore such things are said to suppure which by a gentle heat cherish the inbred heat of man This is done by such Medicines which are not only temperate in heat but also by a gentle viscosity fill up or stop the Pores that so the heat of the part affected be not scattered For although such things as bind hinder the dissipation of the Spirits and internal heat yet they retain not the moisture as Suppuring Medicines properly and especially do The heat then of Suppuring Medicines is like the internal heat of our Bodies As things then very hot are ingrateful either by biting as Pepper or bitterness in Suppuring Medicines no biting no binding no nitrous quality is perceived by the tast I shall give you better satisfaction both in this and others by and by For Reason will tell a man that such things hinder rather than help the work of Nature in Maturation Yet it follows not from hence That all Suppuring Medicines are grateful to the tast for many things grateful to the tast provoke Vomiting therefore why may not the contrary be The most frequent use of Suppuration is to ripen Phlegmonae a general term Physitians give to all swellings proceeding of Blood because Nature is very apt to help such cures and Physick is an art to help not to hinder Nature The time of Use is usually in the height of the disease when the flux is staied as also to ripen matter that it may be the easier purged away Chap. 14. Of Medicines provoking Urin. THe causes by which Urine is suppressed are many 1. By too much drying or sweating it may be consumed 2. By heat or inflamation of the Reins or passages whereby it passes from the Reins it may be stopped by compression Urin is the thinnest part of Blood separated from the thickest part in the Reins If then the Blood be more thick and viscous than ordinary it cannot easily be separated without cutting and clensing Medicines This is for certain That Bloud can neither be separated nor distributed without heat Yet amongst Diureticks are some cold things as the four greater cold Seeds Winter-Cherries and the like Although this seem a wonder yet may it be and both stand with truth For cool Diureticks though they further not the separation of the Bloud one jet yet they clense and purge the passages of the Urin. Diureticks then are of two sorts 1. Such as conduce to the separation of the Bloud 2. Such as open the Urinal passages The former are biting and are known by that tast very hot and cutting whence they penetrate to the Reins and cut the gross humors there Bitter things although they be very hot and cut gross humors yet are they of a 〈◊〉 and terrene substance than is convenient to provoke Urin. Hence then we may safely gather That bitter things are not so moist nor penetrating as such as bite like Pepper Those cold things which provoke Urin though they bite not yet have they a nitrous quality whereby they open and clense For the Use of these the Title will instruct you only lest they carry the humors they find in the Veins to the Reins and so make the stopping the greater purge those places they must pass through before you administer them CHAP. 15. Of Medicines provoking the Terms THose Medicines have a great affinity with those before going For such as provoke the Terms provoke also Urine their Nature is almost the same viz. Hot and of thin essence Only thus much to provoke the Terms not only the Blood is to be attenuated but the mouths of the Vessels also to be opened Such as open those Vessels carry a certain terrene quality with them whereby they not only penetrate but also penetrating dilate the Vessels and carry away the filth with them Things provoking the Terms ought to be hot in the third Degree and yet not very dry That there is an appointed time for the Terms to come down every Woman that is but sixteen years old can tell you Be sure you administer the Medicine at the time they should come down else you will do no other good than weaken Nature Neither must those things be neglected which may bring the Body into a fit temper for such a business If the Body be full of ill humors purge them out first before you administer hot things lest you 〈◊〉 the crude humors into the Veins By avoyding the Menstruis the Body is made lighter and nature disburthened health 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 procured The retaining of them breeds Dropsies Falling-sickness and other cruel Diseases yea sometimes Madness Hippocrates denies any Women have the Gout so long as they have the Terms Chap. 16. Medicines breeding or taking away Milk SEing Milk is bred of Blood there is no question to be made but the way to encrease Milk is to encrease the Blood Yet though Blood be very copious it doth not alwaies follow that Milk must of necessity be so too for the Bloud may be naught or not fit to be turned into Milk or impedited that it cannot Those things are properly said to breed Milk which breed much Bloud and it good and have a moderate cutting faculty also Such things then as breed Milk are hot and of thin parts yet differ much from those that provoke Urine or the Terms The other Being vehemently hot these which breed Milk temperately hot And if driness be adverse to the provoking of the Terms certainly it is most adverse to breeding 〈◊〉 Medicines which breed Milk are in 〈◊〉 either 〈◊〉 or sweet For seeing both Blood and Milk are temperate or at least very moderately hot they must be bred of such things as are not unlike to them in Nature Such things as lessen Milk must needs be contrary to such things as encrease it This is done by drying or thickning the Blood They are known by tast bitter sharp tart 〈◊〉 c. and whatsoever is excessive either in heat or cold If the Body be full of evil juyce purge it before you go about to breed Milk for the more you nourish impure Bodies the more you offend them Chap. 17. Of Medicines regarding the Seed AS Milk so also Seed takes his Original from Blood Therfore of necessity nourishing meats 〈◊〉 much Seed because they beget much Blood This is the difference between such things as breed Milk and such as breed Seed Seed requires a more windy 〈◊〉 than the other doth For this faculty ought to be in Seed that being heat with spirits it may cause the Yard to stand Such Medicines are temperately
break the stone help the green sickness cause a fresh lively color Nasturtium Album Thlaspi Treacle-mustard Hot and dry in the third degree purgeth violently dangerous for women with child Outwardly it is applied with profit to the Gout Nicotiani Tabacco And in reciting the vertues of this herb I will follow Clustus that none should think I do it without an Author It is hot and dry in the second degree and of a clensing nature the leaves warmed and applied to the head are excellent good in * inveterate head-aches and Negrims if the diseases come through cold or wind change them often till the diseases be gone help such whose necks be stiff it easeth the faults of the breast Asthmaes or hard flegm in tho lappets of the lungues easeth the pains of the stomach and windiness thereof being heat hot by the fire and applied to it easeth the pains of the spleen being moistened in vineger and applied hot to the side they loosen the belly and kill worms being applied to it in like manner they break the stone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder help the rickets being applied to the belly and sides applied to the navil they give present ease to the fits of the mother they take away cold ach in the joints applied to them boyled the liquor absolutely and speedily cures scabs and itch neither is there any better salve in the world for wounds than may be made of it for it clenseth 〈◊〉 out the filth though it lie in the bones brings up the flesh from the bottom and all this it 〈◊〉 speedily it cures wounds made with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and for this Clusius brings many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tedious here to relate It is an 〈◊〉 thing for Carbuncles and Plague-sores 〈◊〉 to none green wounds 't will cure in a trico Ulcers and Gangrenes very speedily not only in men but also in beasts therefore the Indians dedicated it to their god Taken in a pipe it hath almost as many vertues it easeth 〈◊〉 takes away the sence of hunger and thirst provokes to stool he saith the Indians will travail four daies without either meat or drink by only chewing a little of this made up like a Pill in their mouths It easeth the body of supersluous humors opens stoppings Monardus also confirms this judgment and indeed a man might fill a whol Volumn with the vertues of it See the Oyntment of Tobacco 〈◊〉 Money-wort or Herb Two-pence cold dry binding helps Fluxes stops the Terms helps ulcers in the lungues outwardly it is a special herb for wounds Nymphaea See the Flowers 〈◊〉 Basil hot and moist Simeou Sethi saith the smel of Basil is good for the head but Hollerius and he no mean Physician neither saith the continual smell of it hurts the brain and breeds Scorpions there and asfirms his own knowledg of it and that 's the reason saith he there is such an Antipathy between it and 〈◊〉 which I am confident there is the truth is it will quickly putrifie and breed worms Hollerius saith they are venemous and that 's the reason the name Basilicon was given to it The best use that I know of it is it gives speedy deliverance to women in travail Let them not take above half a drachm of it at a time in pouder and be sure also the birth be ripe else it causeth abortion Oleae folia Olive-leaves they are hard to come by here Ononis Rest-harrow See the Roots Ophiogloslon Adders-tongue the leaves are very drying being boiled in Oyl they make a dainty green Balsom for green wounds taken inwardly they help inward wounds Origanum Organy a kind of wild Marjoram hot and dry in the third degree helps the bitings of venemous beasts such as have taken Opium Hemlock or Poppy provokes urine brings down the terms helps old coughs in oyntment it helps scabs and itch Oxylapathum Sorrel See Acetosa Papaver c. Poppies white black or erratick I refer you to the Syrups of each Parietaria Given once before under the name of Helxine 〈◊〉 Parsnips See the Roots Persicaria See Hydropiper this is the milder sort of Arsmart I described there If ever you find it amongst the Compounds take it under that notion Pentaphyllum Cynkfoil very drying yet but meanly hot if at all helps ulcers in the mouth roughness of the windpipe whence comes hoarsness and Couges c. helps fluxes creeping ulcers and the yellow jaundice they say one leaf cures a quotidian ague three a tertian and four a quartan I know it will cure agues without this curiosity if a wise man have the handling of it otherwise a Cart load will not do it Petroselinum Parsly See smallage Pes Columbinus See Geranium Persicarum folia Peach leaves they are a gentle yet a compleat purger of choller and diseases coming from thence fit for children because of their gentleness You may boyl them in whiteWine a handful is enough at a time Pilosella Mousear once before and that 's often enough Pithyusa A new name for Spurge of the last Edition Plantago Plantane Cold and dry an herb though common yet let none despise it for the decoction of it prevails mightily against tormenting pains and excoriations of the guts bloody fluxes it stops the terms and spitting of blood 〈◊〉 or Consumptions of the lungues the running of the reins and the whites in women pains in the head and frenzies outwardly it cleers the sight takes away inflamations scabs itch the shingles and all spreading sores and is as wholsome an herb as can grow about a house Polium c. Polley or Pellamountain all the sorts are hot in the second degree and dry in the third helps dropsies the yellow-jaundice infirmities of the spleen and provokes urine Polygonum Knotgrass Polytricum Maidenhair Portulaca Purslain Cold and moist in the second or third degree cools hot stomachs and I remember since I was a child that it is admirable for one that hath his teeth on edge by eating sowr apples it cools the blood liver and is good for hot diseases or inflamations in any of these places stops fluxes and the terms and helps all inward inflamations whatsoever Porrum Leeks See the Roots Primula Veris See Cowslips or the Flowers which you will Prunella Self-heal Carpenters-Herb and in Sussex Sicklewort Moderately hot and dry binding See Bugle So shall I not need to write one thing twice the vertues being the same Pulegium Penyroyal hot and dry in the third degree provokes urine breaks the stone in the reins for I take it the herb is chiefly apropriated to those parts strengthens womens backs provokes the terms easeth their labour in Child-bed brings away the afterbirth staies vomiting strengthens the brain yea the very smell of it breaks wind and helps the Vertigo Pulmonari arborea Symphytum maculosum Lunguewort I confess I searching Authors for these found out many sorts of Lungueworts yet all agreed that both these were