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
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
syrup either officinal or Magisterial we must consider three things methodically after what maner how much when they ought to be prescribed and given 1. How or after what manner that is whether they are to be given in that sorm or consistence that they are of themselves or whether diluted with other Liquors as in Juleps 2. How much that is in what quantity or dose 3. When that is at what time neither doth there appear more things necessary to be considered in the right and legitimate administration of them As to the manner of taking them because a syrup taken by it self not diluted with any Liquor penetrates not so far into the body neither can quickly or easily without losing some strength and virtues and withal works slower upon the part affected and humor that is to be altered and on the contrary a syrup diluted in the form of a Julep doth sooner easier farther insinuate it self into the parts of the body noxious humours the clamminess little hindring it and can come to the most intimate spaces with firmer and less alter'd virtues than when it is sincere and doth sooner alter whatsoever it toucheth so that according to the nearness and distance of the parts affected the affections themselves or causes that are to be alter'd this or that form is chiefly to be used Therefore sincere syrups are prescribed commonly by themselves and are taken 1. To intercept or stop defluxions by thickening them from falling violently either on the Throat Lungs or stomack for by the help of their clamminess by reason of the stay they make in the mouth and in regard they do not very soon pass down they easily stay the humor that is descending and these are to be taken out of a spoon and to be held long in the mouth 2. When there is a hoarsness of the throat and a roughness of the Wind-pipe which by its gentle clamminess where with it as it were smears it it helps being swallowed by little and little or licked down like lohochs 3. For expectoration or the spitting up of matter collected and impacted in the Lungs by taking it by little and little out of a spoon or licking it down from a Liquorice stick 4. To mitigate coughing after the same manner 5. In diseases and affections of the stomack especially cold ones for they which are hot and dry as in hot and cholerick affections should rather be temper'd by moisture unless its strength be much decayed although usually they are dissolved in a smal quantity of Liquor except syrup of Wormwood or when your scope be to strengthen or bind 6. In the affections of parts nigh the stomack to which it may easily be conveyed But diluted or dissolved syrup in the form of a Julep is best 1. When the Liver Spleen or Mesentory are affected 2. When the head heart Lungs Reins Bladder Womb habit of the body Limbs are diseased to which the virtue of a syrup could either not at al or very slowly and much alter'd from its own nature otherwise have entrance 'T is to be prescribed to be dissolved in a fit and appropriat Liquor that may either respect the humor affection or part affected or al these together but most usually in some distill'd water or with a proper decoction which is much more effectual than water or with the broth of a chick and that either simple or alter'd with Roots Leaves c. agreeing to the same purpose as hereafter The quantity is to be considered as singular and several As to the singular or united quantity or dose an officinal altering Syrup may be given from half an ounce to an ounce an ounce and half and two ounces at the most in defining which dose more exactly four things are to be diligently regarded 1. The scituation or distance of the part affected for when the virtue of the syrup is to be conveighed to parts far scituated and remote it ought to be given in the greater quantity yea in the highest dose of all if you see it fit otherwise you wil hardly perceive any benefit in the operation because in a long passage its virtues must needs be much broken and alter'd unless the Liquor in which it is dissolved be also very effectual 2. The action or motion of the affection it selt and the morbifical causes and the quality of them either vehement or remiss that requires a middle or else the highest dose this a lesser 3. The Age as to Infants half an ounce which is the least dose to Boyes of better growth one ounce which is next the least wil suffice for the highest of al. 4. The efficacy of the syrup it self and the vigor it hath naturally to operate hence 't wil suffice to prescribe syrup of Poppy only from half an ounce to an ounce at highest because of his narcotick quality so also unpleasantness ought to lessen the dose as usually one ounce doth suffice for the highest dose of syrup of Wormwood 5. To these may be added the manner of taking it for that which is taken to be swallowed down by licking it leisurely because they cannot be taken in a large quantity against divers affections of the Wind-pipe and Lungs for then it would soon slip down without doing any good therefore it is often to be iterated and is alwayes prescribed to four ounces or 5 or 6 for frequent use to be often repeated so that such ought not to be included within the aforesaid rule the same is to be said for such as are prescribed to quench thirst in the heat of diseases because the use of them is to be frequent for which purpose they are prescribed to four ounces five or six But the quantity of the Liquor to dilute them in is much like that of the Jâ—leps as to three ounces or four ounces yet you may prescribe less when the stomack or any neer part is affected but more to allay thirst as in Fevers and al sorts of hot boyling diseases especially in the summer time As to the several or divided quantity digestives may be taken morning and evening when the stomack is empty but they which are given against thirst coughs or to help spitting are taken often they which provoke sleep only once and that about the accustomed hour of sleeping neither are they to be reiterated unless necessity require it others are taken either oftner or seldomer as the several occasions require As to the Time of taking them preparing Syrups and those which are allotted for the digestion of humors are to be taken in the morning 4 or five hours before meat lest the virtue of them should be stackned either by meat newly taken or not yet concocted they may also be taken at evening when the digestion of humors is to be accelerated but at a good distance from feeding when the stomack is empty those for a cough at any hour when it is troublesom they which provoke sleep or are to stop defluxions
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
her endeavour the more easie by these means which we often do also without giving a vomit by thrusting the finger down the throat or a feather dipt in oyl But those which work only by their quantity and move the excretive faculty by their warm moisture fatness are not profitable when that that is to be vomited up either is not in the stomack but in the adjacent parts or else are contained in the more remote parts or if in it are fixed in the tunicles of it or are not prepared so that they cannot be shaken out without a greater and more violent motion for then 't is better to use the compounds In the COMPOUND Vomitory two things are to be considered 1. The matter of which 't is made 2. The things to be dissolved in it The MATTER of a Vomitory is two-fold Liquid and solid The liquid matter or liquor with which I defined a Vomitory and which is for the most part used either provokes vomit or doth not provoke it That Liquor which doth provoke vomit is either a decoction or an infusion or sometimes water or a distiâ—led Liquor As to the VOMITING DECOCTION in it three things are to be regarded 1. The matter or ingredients whereby it becomes a vomitory 2. The Liquor in which these things are boyled In either of these we must see to the quality and quantity The matter or ingredients as to their quality are diverse parts of vomitive simples and those moderate for the strongest sort seldom are put into decoctions as Roots Barks Leaves and sometimes Seeds and Flowers of which 2 3 or four should be prescribed together As to their quantity those moderate vomitories are prescribed almost as those of Potions that is that they make in all one ounce two ounces or three ounces at most but particularly if one or 2 of these following be added with others or should be prescribed of themselves it should usually be in these following doses The root of Asarum to one dram two drams or three drams The middle Bark of a Walnut-Tree to 1 dram or two drams The roots of Pompions dryed to two drams and half an ounce The flowers of Broom to two drams or three drams or so many pugils As to the quality of the Liquor in which they are boyled you may take very commodiously fair water or where the humors are also to be cleansed from the stomack Barly water or some decoction where they be dry sharp and hot or Mead where gross clammy humors are to be attenuated cut and cleansed or Oxymel made with water in either case or fat and lenifying broth where the acrimony is to be temper'd whether it be of the humors-or poysons taken or of sharp violent vomits so also water and oyl in the aforesaid case which are therefore chiefly convenient because they are reckoned among the gentler vomitories The quantity of the liquor is usually let to the judgment of the Apothecary yet you may prescribe it having regard to what is said before in the Apozem and potion only observe that because for the most part they take eight ounces of Liquor for a vomiting potion those moderate vomitories should be prescribed to double the quantity A Vomiting Infusion in relation to the quality of the things to be infused is most commonly prepared of the strongest sort of vomitories which are more rightly infused then given in substance or decoction as those two most famous for their vehemency in working white Hellebor of the Antients and Antimony of modern practicers and although to the same purpose we may take also the moderate vomitories as Asarum Radishes Pompion roots dryed the middle bark of Walnuts c. yet because there cometh no danger from them either given insubstance or decoction they are to be prescribed onely in decoction but in these stronger 't is better only to give the infusion which communicates onely its spiritual virtue without any quantity of the substance which might make the operation last the longer or irritate the excretive faculty too much Therefore two things chiefly serve to prepare an infusion of white Hellebor of old most famous not only in rebellious and desperate affections but also in the sleighter sort but now scarcely used in the greatest and then with caution which being prudently had you may infuse it from half a dram to one dram and a dram and half in broth adding withal one scruple of Cordials for correctors In the place of this you may give an Apple made hollow a little then filled with the root of white Hellebore and roasted afterwards the Hellebor being taken out give it to eat So also the root of a Radish stuck thorow with slices of it then roasted and eaten But in the place of Hellebor as it is now generally used take Antimony the other growing out of date neither let it trouble you that it hath hitherto been rejected by the unexperienc'd for 't is far safer than the other and finisheth its operation without any manner of suffocation convulsion or danger of other vehement symptomes to the same purpose some use Antimony crude some its Vitrum and some the regulas of it but 't is better to chuse that preparation of Antimony which they cal Crocus Metallorum because so prepared 't is spoiled of its fetid sulfur which otherwise may be the cause of great symptoms To the same end take Antimony so prepared to 1 scruple or half a dram or rather half a scruple or gr 12 infuse it in three ounces or 4 ounces of white Wine over hot embers strain the liquor thorow a brown paper and give it Of the same Crocus is made that water commonly called Aqua benedicta instead of the aforesaid Crocus you may infuse the vitrum to one scruple or rather to gr 12. in any fit Liquor As to the quantity of the things to be infused what is said before wil. serves or these stronger if you would use them which are moderate you may prescribe The root of Asarum from one dram and a half to three drams and half an ounce The roots of Pompion dryed from one dram to three drams Nettle seed from one dram to half an ounce The bark of Walnut to 3 drams and half an ounce But 't is better to use the Antimony before spoken of As to the DISTILLED Liquor it is seldom prescribed by a Physitian except distilled Vinegar of late by the vulgar brought into Physical use which being most violent in workings is to be used with caution and that in strong people only and it is prescribed two wayes either distill'd alone out of a leaden stil or else as it is in use by the Women of Montpelier they take a Loaf hot out of the Oven infuse it in two or three pound of Vinegar and so distil it the use of this Liquor as also of the former is to give three ounces or four ounces in Fevers and chiefly Agues that are of long continuance either before or in the
Woods Roots Barks Leaves Seeds Flowers spices either fewer or more such as respect the humor or part whereby the wind is rendred more familiar to it and generally the Germans because they are pleased with it mix wormwood with it In relation to the quantity whether it be a simple purging Wine or made of more things the number of doses for which the wine is prepared shal direct you as for example a Wine of Senna is desired for twenty doses now the dose of Senna an infusion is half an ounce or six drams therefore ten ounces or fifteen of it is to be prescribed adding correctors in the proportion aforesaid If the Wine be prepared of many purgers both gentle and strong and also alterers joyned with them this proportion is for the most part to be generally observed Of the gentle sort of purgers let there be one part Of the stronger sort a quarter so much as commonly it is though you may add them to a third part or to half it matters not so you finde out the right dose of the Wine of Correctors a quarter so much as of purgers or else to a third part if the purgers are the strongest sort Alterers should be half so much as the purgers or a third part if very effectual as dryed Roots Seeds and Spices especially marking this that dryed Leaves are to be prescribed by handfuls ounces and drams And flowers by pugils and ounces also and drams THINGS that are to be DISSOLVED in respect of their quality if perhaps the taste or smel doth not please the curious palated are Sugar some certain spices especially Cinnamom which are cast into the Wine if it be much or if a smal quantity they are put into a Hypocras bag g and the Wine often poured thorow them and is made into a purging Hypocras As to their quantity for every pound of purging Wine you may add 3 ounces or 4 ounces of Sugar and two drams of Cinnamom as the Apozems Juleps Hypocrass c. are wont to be made and aromatized As to the USE in it two things are chiefly to be considered how much and when As to the quantity or dose of Wine to be drank which is not alwayes one but divers and which of whatsoever quantity of purgers or Wine you compose your Wine withal you shal thus find out and exactly define Measure your Medicinal Wine when you strain it and shift the vessels and by the measure collect the weight or else by some other means And as for example suppose it to be three pound and this was made purgative with four ounces of Senna two ounces of Polypody of Epithymum and black Hellebor of each an ounce and a half there being one ounce or an ounce and half of correctors also added over and above Now because all these infused suffice for seventeen doses they are also sufficient for seventeen times then if you divide it into so many doses you may find it out without error and the true dose of it wil be two ounces if you would purge strongly for once but if you would purge often and gently for some dayes together half that dose wil suffice As to the time when because a Medicinal Wine is usually destined for tedious stubborn and especially cold affections such as many are that have had continuance from dreggy mucilaginous humors whose causes cannot suddenly but must by little and little be taken away therefore the use of it is to be continued for divers dayes especially in the winter time to 10 15 or 20 together or every other day like the usual pils so may this also be drank in the morning or two hours before dinner but if it be not intended for this kinde of purging which is called Epicrasis but that you would give it for once to work strongly the use of it wil be the same as of your other eradicators in the morning when the indication of purging shall require or if it be prescribed instead of your purging magisterial syrup the use is the same with that once or twice in a moneth in the morning like other purgers The FORM of Prescribing may easily appear from the manner of compounding it The UTILITY as to the benefit arising from this form whether you look upon the virtues of the simples infused that are to be extracted which the Wine doth copioufly attract to it self or the conveighing them into the most intimate parts of the body by the help of its piercing spirit or whether you consider the familiarity of it with our nature which makes it be friendly received by her or its formal essence what affinity it hath by its very substance with the radical moisture heat and spirit of the solid parts of our body for which cause it easily is converted into them and united with them carrying with it the virtues of those simples steeped in it I say considering all these it cannot but be to our great benefit so that whether it be to purge and seperate the dreggy humors confused with the rest of the humours spirits and solid parts it can do it perfectly by the familiarity it hath with our nature whereby it may insinuate it self and the virtues it is imbued withal or whether it be to alter divers wayes either to cleanse away the relicks of the foregoing impurities or restore the natural vigour by appropriat means or to strengthen the parts either of these are this way effectually performed through the sympathy it hath with nature and is united to it together with the Medicinal virtues it carries with it But though the benefit of Medicinal VVine be so great yet 't is not so frequently used in all regions nor at all times of the year but is most usual with them that inhabit cold Countries and chiefly in the Winter Spring and Autumn In general 't is good in a cold time of the year a cold Country and cold temper of the body c. as is specially profitable in chronical affections a cold time of the year for delicate palated persons and is prescribed against paleness of colour difficulty of breathing confirmed obstructions of the bowels and for them that are also paralytical though VVine be forbidden to them in which respect wine made of Honey would be much better in affections of the stomack and weaknesse arising from crude cold humors VVormwood-wine made purging would be excellent The Medicinal altering Wine UNder the notion of altering Wines are contained Wines imbued with divers faculties which both respect certain parts break the relikes of humors left behinde blot out the remainder of diseases and also specifically corroborate as of simple Wines are Sage wine for cold affections of the brain Hysop and Elecampane wine for the Breast and wormwood wine which is familiar to the stomack As also they which evacuate yet without a purger as Wines prescribed to move sweat break the Stone provoke Vrine and the courses as also those which excite cherish and
Of Almond Milk THis differs not much in colour and taste from an Emulsion only 't is usually thicker than it This is two-fold one more liquid being a milky substance drawn out of Almonds like the Emulsion as aforesaid another thicker made thick with boyling of which at present And this is a restorative Medicine somewhat thinner of substance than syrup much like Milk hence 't is called Almond Cream Almond milk drawn and sweetned with Sugar prepared both to alter and nourish CHAP. IX Of Barly Cream THat which we from the matter it is made of call Barly cream the Antients from the manner of preparing called Ptisan which was a meat made of barly huld and baked for the Greek word signifies to hull and bark and water usually we cal this barly cream but our ptisan is a drink And though it be seldom prescribed yet 't is COMPOUNDED either after the grosser manner of barly cleansed and boyled which is given together with the broth adding sugar as you list but this is only convenient for sound people Or else that which is truly barly cream of huld barley two ounces let it boyle in fair water over a gentle fire then cast away the water and boyl it is a new water four or five houres with a gentle fire then pulp the barly thorow a strainer sweeten it with one ounce or ounce and a half or two ounces of sugar and after let them be a little boyled The VSE anciently it was wont to be the meat of feverish people but now a dayes 't is given for the most part neer sleeping time and then if they are troubled with over-watching there is added to it little of the emulsion prepared with white poppy seeds The UTILITY of it is much in fevers in which it is an alimentory medicine cooling cleansing nourishing much breeding good juyce it moystens and is best for affections of the breast hecticks CHAP. X. Of Milk and the whey of Milk MIlk also happens to be prescribed but chiefly in the phthyfick and disentery and that with some caution both in the sort of milk and also in the dose and manner of giving it Asses milk is chiefly commended in the hectick because it restores radical moysture and is of good juice Cows milk is the fattest and fullest of butter sheeps milk is fullest of cheese Goats milk moderate between all best for persons extenuated As to the USE DOSE and manner of PRESCRIBING 't is this â„ž of Asses milk when you would cool cleanse but Goats milk when you would nourish four ounces of sugar or honey left it corrupt or grow sowr in the stomack one ounce and this for the first dose for the second dose increasing one ounce to five ounces so proceeding til you come to ten ounces or twelve ounces and then decreasing again by the same degrees til you are returned to the same quantity let it be taken 4 hours before meat neither sleeping nor moving the body violenly after the taking of it But the use of milk is never to be begun til the body be very wel cleansed The UTILITY 't is chiefly prescribed for those that are hectical for it fattens restores in the use of it we must have a care that the body be not impure for in a cold stomack it sowres in a hot it turns to a nidorousness from whence comes Head-ach it is not therefore profitable for them that are Feverish or have their short rib-region puft up but 't is very commodious in the dysentery both to lenifie and also cleanse and heal the Ulcer especially if it be chalibeated and you give a good quantity of it morning and evening with one scruple of Terra sigillata four hours before any meat The WHEY OF MILK is not nourishing but medicinal and evacuates both serous and adust humors if it be liberally taken it cools and is good in those that are Feverish and in the heat of the Liver and Reins in summer time but most profitable in Melancholy and affections proceeding from it as the Leprosie Scabbiness c. especially if Fumitory be steeped in it This is the USE and manner of PRESCRIBING â„ž VVhey of Milk let it be strained boyled both because it is windy as also that any thing of curdiness in it may be separated and settled then steep in two pound of it for one night one handful of Fumitory of Succory m. ss when 't is strained add to it an ounce or an ounce and half of Sugar but the second day two ounces are to be added more so every day increasing til you come to three pound afterwards on the contrary decreasing til you come to one pound Otherwise let one pound serve every day for a moneth together steeping in it the same quantity of Fumitory adding to it when 't is strained one ounce of Sugar and in Melancholy people as much of the Cider or juice of pippins Otherwise 't is used for fevers and heats to eight ounces with sorrel steeped in it and that in the morning four hours before meat that they more hang in it tyed in a ragg 2 drams or more of yest or Leven and add to it half a dram or two scruples of spices to every pound and so according to the quantity of Hony The USE and UTILITY it is prescribed for the ordinary drink in cold affections and especially the phlegmatick and where the abstaining from VVine is advantagious or where the use of it is hurtful as in the Palsey or when we desire effectual virtues powerful both to alter cold humors and strengthen the natural heat it also wonderfully preserves from putrefaction But as it is convenient for them that are of cold complexion and for old men so is it hurtful for those that are feverish cholerick or hot of temper because it soon turns into choler and grows bitter as we may finde in boyling it over-much or by keeping it too long therefore Hippocrates forbiâ—s it to them that are very cholerick or that have great spleens in which it is too suddenly drawn into the body from hence it is that it is the cause of crudities and incredible windiness of the intrals it is also according to Hippocrates diuretica wonderfully cleansing and driving forth sand 〈◊〉 or gravel The Winish performs this more sorcibly and like Malmsey powerfully concocts cold humours expectorates â—â—enâ—thens the stomack and concoction discusseth windiness concocts crudities as also doth the commoner sort according to Galen it wonderfully loosens humors in the breast and is good for them that be asthmatick The Medicinal Mead is easily prepared of the simple by boyling dryed simples in it respecting the part to which it is destined and of those such as are most pleasant let them be boyled after it is clear scum'd let them be for example four handfuls of Herbs boyl them and strain the LIquor from them in which infuse for two or three hours half an ounce or six drams of spices
Aloes washed in the juyce of roses â„¥ i. of agarick troschisated Ê’ iii. Mastich Ê’ ii of the species of diamoscum dulce Ê’ s with Malmsey wine s q make a masse But if it be of the laâ—â— preparations then Pils may be made either of that alone or with some liquor if need require so out of Ê’ i of Aloes rosata with wine may be made as many Pils as you see fit or else over and above may be added some juyce thickned or other liquor with correcters or directers and Pils may be made whose dose is from ℈ i going forwards to Ê’ i oâ— more so are prepared the Pils called the angelicall Pils MYROBALANS The Kind Myrobalanes are a certain kind of Plums which the interpreter of Avicen and Serapio without any reason translated Myrobalans for Myrobalanus signifies a nut or fatty Acorne out of which oyle is pressed for precious oyntments of which Dioscorides lib. 4. cap. 254. but our Myrobalanes neither bear the shape of an Acorne nor smell like a precious oyntment There are of them in the shops five kinds produced by divers Trees viz. Citrine or yellow Chebules Indian or black Emblicks Bellericks whose bark only is in use The Citrine are so called from their citron colour they have a small and thin bark and a great stone Chebules are the greatest and longest of all rugged full of corners having a small stone the Indian are small but very black the Emblicks are rather peices then whole plums the Bellericks are round like gals having both a thick bark and stone The Election Those Citrine Myrobalanes are commended which are of colour between green and yellow which are heavy as being well replenished with a firme and much of their fleshy part which are gummy and if broken have a little stone those Chebules are the best which are the biggest of a darke somewhat purplish colour and which being cast into water suddenly sinke to the bottome The Indian Myrobalanes are the best which are the blackest most weighty and have no stone within and which when they are broken seem all as one thing Those Emblicks excell which are in the greatest thickest firmest and most weighty peices and which have lesse of the stone than of the pulpye part The Bellericks are to be chosen which are great and by reason of their thick fleshy part weighty and which have a thick barke The Qualities All Myrobalanes are cold in the first and dry in the second degree except the Emblicks which Mesues saith are cold dry in the first degree only but understand it in the height Therefore as to the second qualities all of them together with their purging bind therefore are they used in all fluxes and help the hemorrhoids they are addicted to the stomack heart and liver but in perticular the citrine purge choler the Indians melancholy and make men merry the Chebuls and Emblicks purge phlegme the Bellericks effect all that the others can The Correction The astriction of them is corrected by adding those things which open and provoke Urine as any sweet seeds or else if while they be broken and powdred they be anointed with oyle of sweet Almonds or butter The Dose In powder Ê’ ii in infusion or decoction from â„¥ s to Ê’ vi c. The manner of giving them They are given either condited or else in infusion or decoction The condited are given when you would strengthen giving one of them every day after meat diverse dayes together But in infusion or decoction when you would evacuate they are boyled or infused in water broath whey or wine to Ê’ vi by themselves or to â„¥ s with other things adding correcters Then in the strained liquor other things are added as is said in Rubarb SCAMMONY The Kind It is a thickned juyce of a Plant of the same name which is gathered from the root being cut which is full of a milky juyce of which there are diverse differences according to their native places as Dioscorides Pliny and Mesues write yet that of Antioch is the best The Election The marks of the best Scammony are taken from the substance weight colour smell and tast in substance it is smooth porous like a sponge friable and tender easy to be powdred and soon melting In weight it should be very light as Pliny will have it In colour it should be glistening and shining like gum transparent like glew when it is broken yellow iubbed on the tongue or melted in water of a milky colour In smell not loathsome though not pleasant In tast insipid nor much heating the tongue which if it do it is a signe of the mixture of Spurge with it The Qualities Scammony is of temperature hot and dry and that in the third degree as Mâ—sues saith and therefore hurtfull for them of a bot and dry nature neverthelesse I must dissent from this opinion for if it be true Scammony not adulterated with the juyce of Spurge it is rather to be accounted hot and dry moderately for it is neither sharp in tast nor bitter as Mesues hath mistaken but rather insipid it purgeth from the remote parts thin choler and yellow watrish humors for it hath a strong drawing faculty and therefore if it be taken in too great a quantity the thin sharp humors being too much drawne into the intrals do cause most violent symptomes for by their acrimony they corrode the guts from whence comes gripings the dysentery and tenesmus they also open the orifices of the veines immoderately from whence come fluxes of the belly sometimes with blood besides they send forth certain sharp fumes whereby the heart liver and rest of the intrals are disturbed and the stomack is so tired and hurt with it that it breeds nauseousnesse to them that take it and lastly by their acrimony they inflame the spirits of the body and so easily occasion feavers all which things both Mesues and others ascribe to the proper nature of Scammony when they rather proceed from the corroding humours which by a proper quality it attracts to it for pure and legitimate Scammony hath no such nature as they attribute to it The Correction Scammony is corrected because it was thought to occasion those symptomes by its owne nature with binders coolers lenifiers and things that strengthen the heart liver and stomack of which there are divers ways of preparing Scammony as you may see in Mesues But the most usuall is that correction that is done with the juyce of Quinces Barks of Citrone Myrobalanes and Mastich of which according to art are made troschisks as to lib. i. of choyce Scammony are taken of the Barks of Myrobalanes and Mastick ana â„¥ s of the juyce of Quinces l. s and â„¥ s Make troschiscks or else Scammony powdred is put into a Quince made hollow and wrapped in past and so is roasted either in an Oven or under the Embers then is the Scammony taken out of the Quince being first cold and kept for
humors much more powerfully This worketh very violently in respect of the former it purgeth phlegme and watrish humours and that from the outermost parts as from the skin in scabbinesse and inclinations to the Leprosy and from the whole body as in the Dropsy and from the joynts as in the Gout and nocturnall pains of the French Pox It is only to be given to strong bodies and such as are repleat with humours for it to work on it is not safe for children old folks or women with child or for young folks of a dry constitution or that have any malignity lurking about them for it inflames adust choler stirs up malignant vapours and humours if any be extant and much weakens the strength of the body where it hath not plenty of humours to prey on and therefore in such bodies it is apt to make a feaver The Dose and Correction Mechoacan is corrected with Cinamon Anniseed and Mastich to a third part the Dose is from ʒ s to ʒ i. and to ʒ ii only in them that are hydropicall else it is too much Jalap is corrected with Nutmeg Lemmon pils and liquorish infused in the liquor wherein it is given for so its incensive quality for inflaming the humours is abated by the liquorish its malignity by the Lemmon Bils and its nauseous quality by the Nutmeg which is not of so thin parts as other spices yet strengthens the stomack as much But the London Physitians do usually prescribe with it either London Treacle or Mithridate for the aforesaid reasons The dose of it is from ℈ i. to ʒ s and ℈ ii to ʒ i. saith the Author but it must be only in hydropicall strong bodies The manner of taking them They are both taken for the most part only in substance with some fit liquor especially with wine yet they may also be taken with broath they are never given in decoction for it is found by experience that their purging quality doth vanish or at least abate in boyling And when they are prescribed in infusion the liquor is not to be given alone but the powder also COLOQUINTIS The Kind It is the fruit of the wild Goard whose pulp being white and light is chiefely in use being first cleansed from the seeds The Qualities 'T is hot and dry in the third degree it purgeth phlegme and other grosse and clammy humours from the deepest and most remote parts of the body as Brain Nerves Muscles Joynts Lungs Breast and Womb especially for which cause it is used for the inveterate pains of the head and hemicranies Apoplexy falling-Sicknesse Megrim or swimming of the head Asthma Coughs difficulty of breathing cold diseases of the joynts and wind Colick to scour glassy plilegme from the intrals it hurts the stomack and guts much by sticking to the filmes of them and is hurtfull for children old folks and women with child The Correction It is corrected either in the form of troschiscks which are called Troschiscks of Alhandale and are nothing else but Coloquintis prepared which goes into all compositions that have Coloquintis in them Or else by adding Cordials hepatical stomachical and lenifying things as Gum Tragant oyle of sweet Almonds The Dose Is from gr vi to xv and ℈ i. Dioscorides gives it to ℈ ii The manner of using it It is used most profitably in Pils though sometimes also in Electuaries as hiera diacolocinthidos pils of it may be thus formed ℞ of the pulp of Coloquintis gr x. Cinamon and Ginger ana gr vi musk gr i. with a fit syrrup make pils It may also be made in the forme of an extract in this manner Pour to the powder of it spirit of wine to the eminency of six fingers breadth let them steep twenty days or more then gently pour off the cleare lastly reduce it to the thicknesse of hony and to ℥ i of this extract add ʒ i of oyl of Cinamon the dose is ℈ s and ℈ i. in syrrup of roses OPOPANAX The Kind It is the juyce of Hercules all-heal according to Dioscorides Galen and almost all except Mesues who saith it is made of a fennel fashiond all-heal called Asclepium and some few others that will have it made of the all-heal called Chironium The Election That is approved that is very bitter inwardly white or yellowish fat tender friable soon dissolving and of a strong smell The Qualities It is hot and dry in the third as Mesues writes but Galen saith dry in the second It draws forth grosse and clammy phlegme from the most remote parts and joynts although neither Galen nor Dioscorides attribute any purging quality to it The Correction It hurts the stomack and is of slow operation and for that reason is corrected with a third part of Mastich Spikenard Ginger Cinamon and Elecampane The Dose Is from ʒ s to ʒ i. as Mesues sayes from ʒ i to ʒ ii Brassavolus to ʒ iii. It is used in Pils as Pils of Opopanax of Mesues or ℞ of Opopanaxʒ i quicken it with gr iv of Diagridium c. and with a syrrup make Pils SAGAPENE The Kind It is the juyce of a certain Plant which it selfe is called Sagapene Galen 8. simpl and is brought out of Media The Election That is most commendable that is transparent without of a yellowish colour within whitish sharp in tast strong in smell of a grosse substance yet easy to be dissolved in wine The Qualities It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second it purgeth grosse phlegme and other tough humours according to Mesues for the Greeks pass by the purgative quality in silence The Correcters Are as in Opopanax The Dose From ʒ s to ʒ i. it is used in Pils ℞ of Sagapene ʒ i. Mastick Cinamon Ginger ana gr iii. make pils with some convenient syrrup EUPHORBIUM The Kind It is the juyce of a Libian Tree taking its name from Euphorbus Physitian to Juba the King of Mauritania The Election Choose that which is transparent of a pale redgathered into little corns which being but gently touched with the tongue leavs the mouth burning for a long time after The Qualities It is hot and dry in the fourth degree It purgeth grosse tough phlegme and watrish humours and therefore is a most powerfull medicine in affections arising from it as the Gout Colick and Dropsy but it is a vehement medicine and causeth a troublednesse of spirit The Correctors Therefore it is to be corrected with medicaments that mitigate its fretting quality as oyle of sweet Almonds juyce of Citrons and besides these with cordiall and stomachicall things as Mastick Saffron The best way of preparing it is with distilled Vinegar juyce of Lemons clarified or the distilled liquor of vitrioll called the phlegma impregnated with its own spirit in some of which Euphorbium is to be dissolved in B.M. and whilest it is yet hot it is to be strained through a linnen cloath The Dose Is from gr iii. to viii and xii The manner of
grosser substance then the former but moderatly for they are otherwise of thin parts for that which is too thin is easily dissipated by our heat Of the fourth sort are those which burne to a crust commonly called Escaroticks or potentiall Causticks though some make an other distinction between Escaroticks and Causticks and induce the first as the milder the other as the more forcible which penetrate deeply and do not only burn the cuticle but the whole skin like fire and that suddainly causing a very hard crust which they usually call an Eschare They are most hot in the fourth degree of substance absolutely grosse and earthy for which reason their extreame heat is not easily dissipated but holding firme together burns and gnawes violently The use of the Cathereticks is in the excrescence of flesh affections arising from proud flesh as in the hypersarcosis of wounds Polipus of the nostrils caruncles warts and other hardnesses that are to be taken away The use of the Septicks is also in taking away divers tumors Polipus ozenas ulcers of the nostrils hard excrescences putrid eating and malignant Ulcers and corrupted parts of the body but these because they leave behind them an incorrigible inconveniency should be quite driven out of chyrurgical use and instead of them if need were may be used cleansers cathereticks and escareticks The use of Escareticks and Causticks is when the skin for some cause or other is to be opened and the sick cannot well endure the opening of it by section or burning then are we forced to use Causticks also when we would suppresse blood breaking forth from some corrosion of the veines we are faine to cause a crust or escare to cover the part from whence the blood breaks forth to these pyroticks may be numbred the Psylotres or medicines that take away haire i. e. such as make the part they are applyed to bald for these have also a corroding and burning quality The matter of the Cathereticks or the Consumers of proud flesh Rootes of round birth-wort dryed in an oven asphodell or kingspeare wild cowcumbers which are milder black hellebor which is stronger Ashes of Muscle shels of Tithimales or Spurges of Gals burnt Stones Pumice stone burnt to a powder Lapis Laznli unwashed these are gentle Minerals Vitriol calcin'd Lead burnt Alum burnt Mercury precipitate Verdigreece Mercury sublimat peclings of brass lime white vitrioll mysy sory antimony calcined especially for cancers fal ammoniack vermilion Oyles of vitriol brimstone aq fortis Vnguents Apostolorum Aegyptiacum Isid Troschiscks of Musa Passionis Andromis self de Plumbo Troschiscks Poliydae Andromachi The matter of the Septicks or Putrifiers Arsenick pure Arsenick sublimat Orpment Gedar liquor Borax Sandarache of the Greeks Wolfes bane Osmund royall Pithyocampe This is ill inserted here for it is usually given inwardly in the rickets The matter of the Causticks or Esearoticks i. e. crust causing-Medicines The common matter is the lye of which sope is made of which only it may be made and this Heurnius prefers before all others lib. 1. Method prax of whom see the place quoted but the particular matter is of divers kinds so that there is scarce a Chyrurge on which will not boast of some secret way of his own in this particular some to this lye will adde vitrioll some mercury sublimate orpment salt ammoniack salt peeter sandever cinis clavellatus or ashes of vines or tartar c. of which they compose their divers cauteryes Psilotres or Medicines that take off haire To make bald any part some use those things that actually burn especially gold mode red hot others such things as work potentially as Strong lye Unquenched line Emets egges Sanderake Arsenick Orpment Oyle of brimstone Oyle of vitriol Agglutinaters or Closers or joyning Medicaments by the Latines Glutinantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which conjoyne the lips of new made wounds such are in heat temperate lest they should hurt by their acrimony in the other qualities they dry with astriction and grossenesse of substance for so they hinder any other humour either from falling or growing betweene the lips of the wound The Vse of them is in bleeding wounds and also in Ulcers so they be well cleansed the matter followes Rootes of Cinquefoyle Tormentill Cumfrey Leaves of Sanicle Winter-green Mouseare Rupturewort hounds tongue plantaine St. Johns Wort Vervain Willow Scabiosse Carduus benedictus Woade Field Cipresse Centaury the lesse Yarrow Bettony Bugle Tutsan Golden-rod Gums Sarcocoll Sanguis draconis Rosins Frankinsence Myrrh Pitch Turpentine Juyces Aloes Hypocistis Animals Mummy Earthwormes Hares haire burnt Minerals Litharge Lead Lapis Cadmia and Calaminaris Vnguents de Lythargiro Betonica Vng aureum of gum elemi Emplasters Catagmaticum primum secundum diaphaenicum de gum elemi de minio compound stipticum or Paracelsus Plaster Wound Medicines or Vulneraries by the Lalines Vulneraria by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called of which wound drinks are made whose vertues are singular in purifying the blood and cleansing it from all dreggy humours that flesh or any other substance that is lost may be laudably and speedily restored and ingendred from it and thereby the part be restored to its former unity see Pareus lib. 15. cap. 28. The Roots of Tormentill both sorts of Cumfry Zedoary Galengal Angelica Snakeweed round Birthwort Liquerish Avers Herbs and Leaves Sea-lavender Sanicle winter greene Vervain Ladies mantle arsesmart periwincle Agrimony Adders tongue Sowbread golden rod horsetaile bettony burnet cetrach mugwort lilly of the vally centaury the lesse Pauls bettony knotgrasse plantain savine carduus benedictus mouseare St John's wort tansy's rupturewort scordium snakeweed Fruites Red vetches or cicers juniper berries bruised walnuts Animals Crawfish Mummy Crabs eyes Sea things Sperma ceti Stones and Earthes Corall red and white bole armenack Waters Those distilled out of the aforesaid herbes Sarcoticks or breeders of flesh by the Latines carnem generantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which remove those things that hinder nature in the breeding of flesh viz. that twofold excrement that is always ingendred in the repairing the flesh one thin which the Latines call Ichor and Saâ—ies as it were a weeping mattery watrishnesse by which it is apt to prodnce a moyst ulcer the other grosse as dregginesse and filth which breeds foul filthy ulcers The first is to be dryed the other to be cleansed therefore Sarcoticks are of nature moderatly hot drâ— within the limits of the second degree and cleansing without biting for that which is hotter dissolves the flesh that which is colder binds it and repels the blood from ingendring flesh that which is dryer consumes that which doth flow to the part that which cleanseth with binding doth not only suffer the flesh to grow but also by its biting is apt to procure defluxions The Vse of these is in filling up hollow wounds and ulcers As to the Matter those which are