and Fennell-roots Anise-seeds and Fenell-seeds and such other simples that provoke urine which as I sayd before are very profitable in this case Also Sweet Wines as Muscadine Canarie and High-Countrey white wine Sometimes also to please the pallat let him licke of Oxymel simplex Syrrup of Citrons or Syrrup of Lemons He may also eat River-Crabs or Cray-fishes either raw or buttered But from the beginning the flesh that he eateth must be of Mutton Veale Lambe Kid Rabbet Pullet Chicken Partridge or Pheasant Some counsell to mince some roasted Veale and the Liver of the mad dogge roasted together and so let him eare it with a little butter water and Vineger To conclude His Belly must be kept soluble if need require by gentle Giysters and Suppositories And his Sleepe must in the beginning be but little but when he beginneth to rage and is of himselfe overwakefull it is good by some safe outward meanes such as the Artist shall see cause to appoint to cause Sleepe CHAPTER XI Bitings of Creatures not venomous yet in some Constitutions apt to turne into venom SOme are bitten by Dogges that are not madde or by Apes Monckeys Squirills by Horses by Mankinde or any other creature not venomous yet somtimes these woūds in some kinde of Flesh are hard to heale The reason is either in the Creature biting or in the partie bitten In the Creature biting though in it's owne nature it be not venomous yet there is at that time a malignant qualitie in the moysture of the mouth begotten by the disturbance of the braine through immoderate anger In the partie bitten Some men are made up of a kinde of Flesh alwayes by what accident soever wounded hard to be cured These either are very melancholike of Constitution and Melancholy is the most offensiue humor in the body and therefore apt through any extraordinary passion to become corrupted and in a sort venomous or they are very fearefull and Feare corrupts the juices of the braine through the force of imagination and makes them fall downe and disperse thēselues into all the parts of the body filled with a sickly qualitie and so contrary to nature This is the reason why fearfull men are apt to die of a slight wound whereas a valiant Spirit hath alwayes flesh apt to be healed Now for such hard healing Flesh from which of the two causes soever it cōmeth I counsaile that besides the ordinarie course of curing wounds artificially according to the Rules of Chururgerie there be also given some temperate Cordiall as it were an Antidote against this venomous Accident to call up the Spirits and to comfort the Faculties For I know it by experience that the Cure is thereby made much the more easie Such an Antidote is this following which because it cannot be rightly made but by an Artist I will set downe in Latine for the Apothecaries understanding onely least the Ignorant tampering beyond their skill discredit the Medicine Re. fol. Melissae summitatum Rosmarini florum Primulae veris florum Cheyri florum Calendulae ana m. iij. florum Angelicae m. ij Rad. Angelicae ʒj ss Gariophyllorum ʒiij Rad. Enulae Campaniae ʒvj Infundantur omnia in Aquae Vitaeli xxiiij horis 24. Tum in alembico destillentur s a. In Aqua elicita infunde etiam Glycyrrhizae parum sic gustui arridebit This Cordiall Water my Father called Nepenthes If the Angelica be good indeed it will haue both a pleasant taste and smell A spoonfull or two of this Water recalls rectifies and confirmes the Spirits Animall Vitall and Naturall And is therefore very good against Fayntings and Swoundings CHAP. XII Inward or Outward Bruises by a fall from an high place Somtimes it happeneth unfortunately that a Man falleth downe from an high place as from a house-top a high tree a scaffold or a ladder and is taken up for dead yet in a little time may by good meanes be recovered to life and the Bruise whether it be inward or outward may be cured In this case the maine things to be looked to are First to recover the partie to life sense which may be done by the use of my Cordiall Water called Nepenthes described in the Chapter immediately going before or els with some other comfortable drinke of like nature Secondly if the Bruise be Inward there will be either ejection of Bloud at the Mouth Nose Fundament or passage of Vrine or els congealing of Bloud within wherewith will be Inward paine and difficultie of Breathing If the partie avoyd bloud it is not amisse so it goe not too farre to the expence of his Spirits But if so then giue him halfe a dram of Terra Sigillata in a draught of Posset drinke wherein the flowers of St. Iohns Wort are boyled Or The tops of St. Iohns Wort boyled in Posset-ale Or Take red Corall white Corall white Amber Bole Armoniak Terra sigillata of each j. dram Camphor iiij graines Make all into fine powder and divide it into foure equall quantities or Doses Take every dose in two ounces of Plantaine water and as much red wine mixed together once in six houres as need shall require Or els Take the quantitie of a Walnut of old Conserue of red Roses mixed with a scruple of the powder of Mastick or rather with fiue or six drops of the Oyle of Masticke Repeat the taking according to need But if there be no evacution but suspition of the Bloud congealed within Then Take Nep stamped and strayned with a little Ale or Beere and drinke a draught of it once in six houres After three times taking it so stamp it new and strayne it with Muscadine and drinke a little draught in the morning fasting and at night when you goe to bed Or Take the quantitie of a Beane of quicke Brimstone in powder in a little white Wine warmed Or els Twentie graines of Irish-Slate in powder in a draught of Posset-Ale made with white Wine Some giue ij drams of Rheubarb with one of Madder made into powder in a draught of white wine repeating it as need requireth Or two drams of Rheubarb alone in neate white wine Or Take of Rheubarb one dram Madder and Mummie of each two scruples Make them into fine powder drinke it in a draught of some ordinary Pectorall Decoction Outwrdly annoynt the Brest or Backe as cause electeth with two ounces of Oyle of St. Iohns Wort and halfe an ounce of Sperma ceti mixed together and warmed Doe this morning and evening Or els use this Oyntment Take of new charned butter unsalted ij pound Madder one ounce powdered Tormentill roots powdred vj. drams Mummie halfe an ounce powdred Sugar Candie powdred iiij ounces Sperma ceti ij ounces Boyle them together in a sufficient quantitie of good white Wine till all the wine be boyled away Then with a little Wax boyle it againe to an Vnguent Thirdly if the Bruise be Outward onely you must consider
held to the nose And if any of that filthy water bee gone downe into his stomacke it must be brought forth by vomiting Likewise if in at the nostrills the patient must be provoked to neezing with powder of Tobacco long Pepper or such like CHAP. XVII For things Sticking in the Throate OF Things that endanger stopping of the breath in swallowing some are Sharp and some Blunt Of the Sharp sort are Fishbones Pinnes Thornes and such like for sometimes a Fish-bone in swallowing sticketh crosse the throat and is very offensiue And the like hath happened by a Pinne with such as foolishly use to carry Pinnes in their mouths Of the Blunt sort it happeneth sometimes through over-greedy eating that a gobbet of meate or a peice of a bone too big for the swallow sticketh in the throat likely to stop the breath Sometimes through wanton rowling of a peece of money a ring a bullet a pease a plumstone or some such like thing it slippeth into the throat and sticketh there Some againe whose gullet is very narrow in swallowing a Pill haue beene much endangered I haue heard of a Child in Woodstreet strangled with a Grape and we reade that Anacreon the Greeke Poet was choaked with a Grape stone Now of those things that are Blunt they that are of the bigger size cannot fall into the winde-pipe because the passage is too little to entertaine them But they offend with their over-bignesse sticking in the meate-pipe and so compressing or thrusting together the necke of the windepipe which joyneth to the meat-pipe that the breath for that cause cannot passe freely On the other side very Small things as a Crumme a drop of liquor or the like cannot sticke in the meat-pipe but their offence is by reason that when we swallow and breath at once the Epiglottis which is a little peice of flesh that covereth the mouth of the windepipe to keepe the things that we swallow from falling into it lifting it selfe up as it alwayes doth either to take in aire or to let out breath some little thing may in that poynt of time slip into the windepipe whose passage is so streit that the breath is presently stopped The Sharp things may light into either passage and if they turne crosse their offence is painfull pricking wounding of the part whereupon may follow inflamation and swelling which swelling will stop the breath also as in the Squinancie the swelling of the neighbour-parts streitens the Breath-pipe If those of the bigger Blunt sort sticke in the mouth of the meat-pipe let the party drinke as great a draught of drinke as he can to carry it downe If that will not stirre it but the partie waxeth blacke in the face and cannot fetch his breath clap him often on the necke betwixt the shoulders holding downe his head and giue him a draught of sallet Oyle to make it slip away But if it be so low in the throat fixed that it cannot be gotten up nor downe let some discreet body thrust it downe with their finger or with a smooth sticke If a Pinne or Fish-bone sticke in the throat and it be so high that opening the mouth wide you may see some part of it plucke it out if you can come at it with your fingers or with a hooked wiar or else with two smooth stickes in manner of a payre of tongs a small curling-iron is very apt for the purpose If it be low out of sight thrust in a small Candle of Virgin-wax warmed sufficiently that the Pin or Bone may sticke to it when it toucheth it and so you may draw it out Or if you haue no such Candle take a small limber willow sticke make it crooked like a bow and annoynt it at one end with Turpentine and assay in the same manner to fetch it out Or let him swallow downe a peece of a Spronge fastned to the end of a browne thred and annoynted with Turpentine and when it is gone so low as to touch that which sticketh in the way with the thred plucke out the Sponge againe If it will not come forth Swallow a peice of fat meate upon it to driue it downe or a figge opened turned the inside outward or a crummy peice of new bread dipped in saller Oyle But if a crumme of Bread a small Fish-bone a Pinne or such like suddainly slip into the wind-pipe it will make him cough let some other make him neez likewise by tickling his nostrills with straws or rushes If he cough not enough to bring it out let him swallow by suddain gulps some Vineger or Verjuice so with much coughing it will be driven out for the breath will not suffer it to sinke very low But sometime a drop of Vineger or some such sharpe sauce slipping of it selfe into the same passage causeth much trouble The partie must then drinke leasurely and by gulps a draught or two of water and honey or els of small Ale and Sugar CHAP. XVIII For Scaldings with VVater Oyle Lye Milke or any other Liquor As also for Burnings with Fire Gun-powder Lime or such like FOR Scaldings Take the White of an egge or two or moe of them according to the largenesse of the hurt Beat it with a sufficient quantitie of oyle of Roses or els of sallet oyle Dip fine rags in it and apply them to the place and take them off no more till it be well Onely three or foure times in a day wet the place through them with the sayd mixture Against Fire or Gun-powder Take two pounds of Butter that was never salted melt it poure it into Spring-water there beat it and wash it well Then take twelue ounces of the fine powder of Brimstone the seeds of Coucumbers made into fine powder and Camphor also in fine powder of each halfe an ounce Mix all together with the Butter and keepe it as an Oyntment in which dipping a feather annoint the part burned and lay a fine soft linnen cloth upon it Repeat the annoynting often Sometimes Burning Lime may be spurted into the Eye or some scalding drop or a sparke of Fire may leap into it For this the white of an Egge beaten with Eyebright water or Carduus water is very good if you drop now and then a drop of it into the eye But the Playster of Carduus described in the 8. Chapter is most soveraigne I was in place about seaven yeares since where some Gentlemen were taking Tobacco and as one had knocked out the snuffe or coale of it on the Table another in jest blew it toward him he also blew it at him againe This began to be pursued from one to the other till a little Girle looking on whose height was little aboue the Table received the evill of their jesting for some of the burningcoale of Tobacco was blown into her eye It tormented her extreamely as nothing burneth more terribly I ran into the garden where I
found some ground Ivie whereof I gathered some which I stamped and strayned and putting a little fine powdred Sugar to the Iuice I dropped some of it into her eye upon which she received suddain ease and had it not applyed aboue twice more before she was perfectly well But in the meane time her eye was muffled up from the outward ayre Here obserue that the eye must never be dressed with any Oyle or Oyntment because oyly and greasie things diminish the sight But for all the parts of the Head and body beside make use of these two Oyntments following which are approoved excellent for All kindes of Scaldings and Burnings whatsoever The first is my Grand-fathers Master Iohn Banisters TAke of sweet Butter newly charned and never salted what quantitie you will boyle in it a fit quantitie of Goose-dung strayne it into cleare and sweet Spring-water Doe this seaven times and the eight time strayn it into Rose-water where let it remaine for the space of twelue houres Ever now and then crushing it and working it together with very cleane hands After that take it out and put it up in a Gally pot keeping it as a precious oyntment for that use It taketh away the paine presently and healeth with as little blemish as may be The second hath beene often prooved by the Right Honourable the Lady Hastings late deceased TAke the leaues of the Thorny-Apple of Peru English Tobacco and Ground Ivie of each a like quantitie Chop them small and rub them in a stone-morter as you doe Green-sauce Then in a fit quantitie of Hogs-grease boyle them very leasurely on a gentle fire till it begin to looke green Then strayn it coole it and reserue it When it is cold while it standeth to settle you shall see a thin part aboue seperate it selfe from the thicker part underneath every day therefore as it setleth poure gently of that thin part as of no use and keepe onely that which is thicke This healeth grievous Burnings and Scaldings without scarre But the part when it is dressed must be left bare that no linnen or woolen touch it Thus haue I endevoured a common good And I beseech our Lord Iesus Christ so to blesse all his servants that either by his Providence they fall not into any of these Accidents or els by his blessing upō these or the like meanes they may safely escape them An Advertisement to the Reader IN this whole Treatise the Quantities of the Inward Medicines must be balanced with the Age and Strength of the Patient For the Doses that I haue set down are intended for those that are in full ripenesse of years in the vigorous strēgth of their age Those that are by age or nature more tender or feeble must take lesse quantities at a time according to the differēce of their Age and Strength FINIS Common Antidotes Mithridates Antidote Another way The Authors Antidote How to know if one be poysoned or no. Vomits A Glyster These Purging Medicins may be had at the Apothecaries A Purging Potion Pills A Gentle Potion for weak ones A milde Glyster Note A Suppositorie VVhat is to be done after Purging A Plaster A Fomentation Antidotes against any kinde of Poyson A way of Sweating described by Mathiolus A Night-cap to preserue the Braine What Diet he is to use His meate Ayre Sleepe Drinke Distinction of Poysons In Hot Poysons A Gentle Glyster Diet. Sleepe Antidotes Cold Poysons Waking Neezing Frication Stirring Sweate Antidotes Meate and Thirst Mushroms A Storie teaching the Cure Muskles Perewinckles A Snake Est or Siowworm crept into the stomacke A Viper A Horse-leech Earewigs Blistering of Gnats Ants and Nettles What Beasts are most venomous The Snake doth no harme Living are more venomous than dead Beasts More or lesse venomous by Sex Age Place of living Feeding Ingendring Time of the Yeare Aptnesse of the Body offended Fasting make these Accidents the more dangerous Prevention The first poynt of Cure Actuall Cautery Sucking of the wound 1. Caution 2 3 4 Application of Pullets How to heale the wound Stinging of Hornets Of Bees Wasps Stinging in the Eye-ball Bitings of Spiders Bitings of Adders Slow-worms or Efts. Bitings of the Shrew-Mouse The cause of a Dogs Madnesse The Signes that a Dog is madde The Symptoms or Accidents that follow such Bitings Incurable Curable Reade the 7. Chap. An excellent Causticke One way of Cure Galens way A Famous Medicine Stockers way of Cure The cure of Hydrophobia The reason of Hydrophobia The mayne Remedie The Authors Invention Evacuations Diet for those that are bitten with a mad Dogge The reason why some mens flesh is easily and some mens hardly cured Nepenthes Bradwelli For Swoūdings acōmon Accident Inward Bruise Too much bleeding from within Bloud congealed within Outward meanes Outward Bruise Simple With a wound Bradwells Balsam for Greene Wounds and Bruises Paine in the Head Dr. Guyn A good way of help but hard to performe A more easie way Question about Foaming at the mouth A Caveat The way of Recovery The Cure after Recovery For Water gotten into the Eares A Modern Story of an old Gentlewoman The Cure An Infant drowned in Soap-suds Observ li. 2. Observ 18. The Cure Note A Story out of Vega The Cure Another Story out of Ambrose Parey Amoderne Story A Story out of Vega The Cure Sharpe Things Blunt Things Toremoue things in the meat-pipe To remoue Things in the winde-pipe For Scaldings For Burnings For Burning Lime c. in the Eye A True Story Note Two Excellent oyntments for all Scaldings and Burings Banisters The Lady Hastings oyntment