back emroddes therewith it is maruelous good for the gowte the making of the oyle is thus Take of the most purest and oldest whyte Wine one quart of the oldest oyle Olyffe three pound Carduus benedictus called the blessed Thistle Ualerian the lesser Sage with the flowres if you can get them of each a quarter of a pounde of the leaues flowres of S. Iohns Woort halfe a pounde let the hearbs and flowres be infused or stieped in the sayd Wine oyle xxiiii howres then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessell leaded or a vessell of brasse vpon an easy fyre vntyll the Wyne be consumed moouing it styl being ouer the fire then being taken from the fire streyned put therto of Uenys Turpentine a pound and a halfe then let all boyle together a quarter of an howre then put therto Olibanū fiue ounces Myrre three ounces Sanguis Draconis one ounce and let all boyle vntyl the Myrre be dyssolued then put it into a vessell of glasse stopped let it stand in the hotte Sun ten daies before you vse this oyle you must wash the sores or woūds with whyte Wine wherin must be the powder of Olibanū I haue writtē this here because I thinke thereby many shall haue knowledge of this precious Oyle which otherwyse should neuer haue heard of it A Sweete water an vnknowen wherof one part mixt with ten quartes of pure water maketh the whole most sweet Take Nutmugs Cloues Galingale Spiknard graines of Paradise Mase Cinamō of euery one an ounce pound or stamp thē all ad therto twenty graines of Musk or lesse as you delyght in the smell therof powre into them a pound a halfe of Rosewater let them so remayne together in a close vessell fowre or fyue dayes then put therto thryse as much Rosewater and distyl all the same in a potte or kettel ful of water seething as in Balneo marie keep the distylled water in a glasse wel stopt to the vse before sayd Euoni IF an Eg be painted with sundry cullors the same set vnder a Hen which syts to bring forth chickens she wyll hatche therof a Chycken hauing the lyke fethers vnto the cullors paynted on the Egge Thomas Hyll out of the naturall and Artificiall conclusions of the Schollers of Padua affyrmes this IF one make a lytle rope of the guts of a Woolf and then bury the same vnder sand or earth there wyll neither Horse nor Sheepe go that way though you beate them with a staffe Albertus IT is sayd that a Hare doth lyue ten yeeres the age of a Cat is so much a Goate doth liue eight yeeres an Asse thirty yeeres a Sheepe ten yeeres but the Belwether many times doth liue .xv. yeeres a Dog. xiiii and somtymes .xx. a Bull .xv. but an Oxe because he lacks his stones doth lyue .xx. a Swine and a Peycocke .xxv. a Horse .xx. and oftentimes .xxx. there haue bene Horses that lyued fifty yeeres Pygeons lyues naturally .viii. yeeres a Turtle a Partrech .xxv. yeeres also a Ryngdooue which oftentimes lyues xl yeeres Mizal. THe body of a Byrch tree cut or scortched the spring time going before doth yeeld great plenty of water which water being droonke hath a maruelous strength to breake the stone in the raynes Matheolus vpon Dioscorides wrytes it FINIS Lib. 9. ¶ The tenth Booke of Notable things THere is an euident familiarity betweene the Oliue tree and the Myrte tree for as Andronicus reportes the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasauntly extende or spreade by the Olyue tree and the rootes of them do mutuallye embrace each other nor any other plant but the Myrt tree wyll grow well nye the Olyue tree This also Mizaldus doth affyrme THe smell of Bitumen rawe or the smoake thereof burned receyued by the nose of such as are grieuously tormented with the paynes of the moother is a present helpe or remedy It is most certainly proued Wherfore many Women which are grieued with the disease do hang it about theyr necks in wooll that they maye driue away theyr fyt by the oft smelling therof Mizaldus wrytes this And the learned Doctor Monardus affyrmes the lyke therof THe sparrowe Hawke is a fierce enemie to all Pygions but they are defended of the Castrell whose syght and voyce the Sparhawke doth feare which the Pygions or Dooues knowes well inough for where the Castrell is from thence wyll not the Pigions go if the Sparhawke be nye through the great trust she hath in the Castrell her defendor Iohannes Baptista Porta hath written this THe leaues of a Wyllow tree as also the bark therof sodde in Wine doth helpe them that haue the gowte if they be fomēted or bathed therwith Mizal. SToflerus an excellent Astronomer knowing by his Natiuity that he should be in daunger to be hurte about a certaine day or tyme kept him self then within his own house assured that it was strong inough The same day or very nye vnto it that the euent should happe certayne of his learned friends and he as they were reasoning together dyd vary in some certayne opynion about the tryall wherof as it should seeme he reached to take downe one of his bookes being placed among dyuers other when through the lacke of a nayle the whole classe or shelfe where the booke was fell vpon his head and wounded his head very sore Which doth not onely shew the worthynes and excellencie of Astrology especially in a learned and skylfull person therin but also our folly in flying from Fate for that our wisdome doth leade vs into it whē most of all we meane for to shun it Therfore perfect prayer passeth pollecie in preuenting of peryls THree halfe penny weyght of the powder of the Adamant stone droonke with the iuyce of Fennell drawes the water from them that haue the dropsie And the same stone put to the head takes away quite all the paynes therof Iacobus Hollerus an excellent Phisition affyrmes it IT is a manifest thing and proued by dayly experience that the bodies of them that be murthred when they be founde if any of theyr kynred be then present or the party or partyes that kylled or murthered thē or was the cause therof Immediatly bloud wil burst forth suddenly either out of the wound or nose or out of some other part of theyr body I could aleadge here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof but I omyt them for it is a thing found true by dayly experience Besydes that Lucretius Philip. Melancton Iohannes Langius and Lauinius Lemnius haue written therof PEeces of Amber being put or tyed to the hynder part of the head doth helpe the running or watrines of the eyes with a maruelous successe and hanged about the necke doth hynder distyllations that they go not downe by the throate Mizaldus Besides that it is proued to be true A Certayne Woman went with a dead Chylde in her wombe aboue fowre yeeres which by
the house which he doth beholde with a good Asspect But if he be seperate from an euyll Planet and applyes also to an euyll Planet Then the vision or dreame is euyl to be feared and is of an euyl signification Which euyll harme shal be according to the nature of the Planet to whom the same applyes and according to the nature of the house wherin he is in the fygure according to the nature of that euyll Planet But if he be seperate from a good Planet and applyes to an euyll Planet saye that the vision or dreame was good and pleasaunt but he hath an euil sygnification But if he be seperate from an euyl Planet and doth apply to a good Planet say that the vision or dreame was fowle euyll but it hath a good sygnifycation and the profyt or successe thereof wyll be according to the nature of the Planet to whom he doth applye and according to the nature of the house wherein he is in the fygure As we haue sayde Therefore according to this waye and rule consyder the visions or dreames and confer one to another thou shalt be certified God wylling Haly Abenra IT is proued and a secrete that if you geue to them that haue the hyckop euery morning three howres before meate one roote of greene Gynger and immediatly after drinking two draughts of Malmesey you shall see that he wyll be soone cured Emperici benedicti victorij AS word wherwith a man is kylled the bloud being cleane wypt from it put into a hotte fyre which being taken out of the same doth manifestly shew the murther for so farre as the sword was in the wounded person so farre it wyll be of a contrary cullour to the sword It was told me that a Byshop dyd trye it to be true by one of his men IF the bloud of a Cocke be dryed and made in powder and myxt in Wyne wherin there is water it makes the water swym aboue This was of the relation of a learned Moonke Mizaldus PLanteyn hath a maruelous vertue to deliuer them of the Plague that are infected therwith geuen any manner of way Proued THe more lyuely and quick that a Horse is the more deeper he wyl thrust his nose into the water when he drynkes Plinius SWyne and Elephants doo hate whyte garments Bulles and Oxen hates maruelously garmentes that be of purple cullour which many vnder such apparel haue some tymes proued to theyr great griefe Plinius IF the Lord of the eight house be in the eyght house or beholde the same happely the chyld then borne wyll dye in his countrey or nye the same Taisnier THe white of an Egge and the iuyce of Perytory of the wall well beaten together and scummed and then one droppe of that lycquor put into the eye doth heale the webbe in the eye This is true and proued A Proued Oyle which is very good for the dropsie called Ascites if all the belly or paunche be annointed therwith Take of Turpentine one pounde of Frankynsence Mastick Myrre of each two drams Landanum one dram Nutmugs Cloues Galenga Zedoary of each one dram and a halfe of the iuyce of Walwoort and the iuyce of Cucumber called Cucumis asinimus of either one ounce Let them be poudred that are to be powdred and let theÌ„ be all myxed together put them in a Lymbeck and let an Oyle be distylled therof and it is a most secrete thing not onely to take awaye the swelling of the bellye in the dropsie called Ascites but also any flegmatyke swelling of any other member of mans body it is maruelous for the paynes of ioyntes and members of a colde cause Emperica benedicti A Certayne Butchers wyfe being with chylde as she was sturring the bloud of a Beast newlye kylled a lytle therof dyd chaunce to sprinckle or spurt on her face which she with her haÌ„d suddenly wiped off then wyped the same hande on her left thygh Who after being brought to bedde of a boy the same boy had and hath the lyke marke or bloud spot on his left thygh They that knew both the Father Mother and the chylde tolde this for a very trueth Therfore it is not good to hyt a woman suddenly being with chylde on the face or otherwyse least the chylde she is with all be so marked as is declared in other places of this booke THe sycke person can not escape when the lyght of the tyme that is the Sunne in the daye and the Moone in the nyght and the Alumten of the Ascendent are both impedyte or euyll affected of the Lord of the eyght house or of the Lord of the fowrth house Iatromath Guat Ryff IF you wyll take the heair from any place of the body and woulde haue it to growe there no more stampe Antes egges with the iuyce of Henbane and Humlockes or with the bloud of a Backe or Reremowse and annoynt the place therewith Mizaldus IF you cutte the Lyuer of a Beast in peeces and put into the same peeces the powder of Nux vomica called the Spuing Nutte which is to be had at the Apothecaryes the same peeces being strowed or layde in an open place where Rauens or Crowes maye resort thereto the Crowes or Rauens that eates thereof can not flye away whereby you maye take them easelye This I knowe to be certayne and true THe lytle Byrde called Linaria begynnes to leaue synging and also to be sycke when the Starre called the lytle Dogge doth ryse and wyll plucke off her fethers Which chaunceth about the myddes of Iuly as we haue proued by one and other sayeth Mizaldus the space of tenne yeares And therevpon haue shewed to many that then that Starre dyd surâ—ly ryse And in a Larke we haue obserued the same sayth hee in the rysing of Arcture wyth the Sunne And it is not to be doubted but that other Byrdes and lyuing thinges haue theyr peculyar Starre wherby they are mooued to syng or to hold theyr peace to sadnesse or gladnesse which I desyre the dillygent searchers of secretes to obserue Thus much Mizaldus THe Lorde of the Ascendent in the twelfth house in a humaine sygne without the beames of good Starres the Chylde then borne wyll be imprisoned This is true and often proued and also Taisnier affyrmes it THis following is a sure and proued medicine for the toothe ache Take a handfull of ground Iuy as much of Spere Mint and as much of Salt stamp them all a lytle together then put all the same into a pynt of vynegar and seethe all wel ouer the fyre then streyne it well and put the same into a close glasen vessell or bottell and when you wyll occupy it take a spoonefull thereof and put it into that syde of the mouth that aketh and holde downe your cheeke that it may descende to the rootes of the aking teeth and it wyll take the ache and payne away presently This was taught mee by a woman to whome many
the number of the same dayes be tye it or hang it vp and if the disease be curable the partye wyll be much recreated If not then the party wyl be sadde But if you can not fynde an hearbe that hath so many leaues put the rootes of diuers hearbs together the leaues whereof together doo perfectly make vp the number of the sayde dayes from the begynning of the partyes sycknes and vse them as before This Mizaldus had of a certaine Italyan which profest that it is true THe bloud of a Hare dryed dooth helpe and stay the blouddy fluxe or any other laske though it be neuer so sore or extreame So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fyne powder and taken in red Wyne AN easye plaster for the Gowte but not a lytle effectuall because I sayth Iohn Arderne haue often tymes applyed it as well to Women as to Men and haue taken away theyr great paynes with once applying it as well in the feete as in the knees other ioyntes But take heede it be not perceyued of the patient nor of any other but it ought to be kept more secrete and deare and let it be reuealed to none but to thy sonne or to thy wel beloued friend I do thinke it preuailes aboue all other medicines for the gowte easeth the paine sooner and it ought to lye fyue or sixe daies without any mouing of it if it can be so applyed It is made thus Take of blacke sope as much as is sufficient wherevnto adde of the yolkes of raw Egges halfe as much as the Sope and myxe them well together in a dyshe vntyll the Sope hath lost his proper cullour which done laye thereof vpon fyne flaxe and spreade it lyke a plaster and then apply it to the grieued place then take the whytes of Egs myxed with Wheate flowre and wet a lynnen cloath well in the same lay the same vpon the sayd plaster and tye it well vpon it that the plaster remoue not away of all the sayde tyme vnlesse there be some great occasion This I founde in an olde wrytten booke Which synce I haue oftentymes proued true for aches YF you seethe Barlye drye Beanes and Lycqueres cutte in peeces of each a lyke much all together in fayre water and drynke a good draught therof with some Sugar euerye morning fasting and at nyght when you go to bedde fyue or syxe dayes together or more It wyll destroye any Impostume and shall thereby auoyde or cast out the same This was taken out of a Booke of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true A medicine of smal coast and easie to be made at all tymes HE wyll be a good Phisition in whose Natiuitye Mars and Venus are corporally or by any good Aspect coniunct Euen so if Venus and Mercury be ioygned or in coniunction together Also he wyll be a perfect Phisition in whose Natiuitie Mars Venus are coniunct in the syxt house Iatromath A Uery lytle Byrde called Aegithus doth maruelously dysagree with the Asse who in thorny places doth scratche or rubbe his vlcers or sores wherby he doth destroy or breake the nestes of this Byrd wherevpon it comes that as soone as this Byrde heares the voyce of the Asse she doth not onely cast the egges out of her nest but also her young ones if she haue any do fall from the same astonyed wyth feare So that the said Byrde flyes vnto the vlcers or sores of the Asse and pryckes or thrust at them with her byll that she maye dryue him away from thence Aristotil Plin. et Oppianus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the fowrth house or in the eyght house it sygnifyes that he that is then borne shall dye in pryson And if he be Combust in the fyft house in a watry sygne it shewes he wyll be geuen to be droonken In the syxt house it showes that he wyll dye of a long sycknes Taisnier FINIS Lib. 8. ¶ The nynth Booke of Notable thinges FYll an Egge shell full of the iuyce of Egremony and geue it vnto the patient to drink whome you suspecte to haue droonken poyson and it wyll myghtely purge vpwarde all the poyson and with a wonder facilytie healeth the byting of Serpentes and other venemous Beastes Petrus Hispanus THis Oyle or Balme following is of a maruelous vertue against trembling and the palsey and it helpeth the memory annoynting the hynder part of the head therwith Which a most syngular Phisition kept priuie to him selfe for a tyme as a most precious secrete which in the ende reuealed it to the Author wherof the making followeth Take of Galbanum one pound in another place I haue read it half a pound of gum of Iuye three ounces these fynely beaten a parte myxe together Which after put into a glasse body with an head and distyll it in Balneo Marie After it is distylled myxe therewith one ounce of the oyle of Bayes and one pounde of good Turpentyne then let the whole be distylled and seperate the water from the oyle and keepe the oyle as a precious Balme The vse of this is that the patient vexed with the Palsey conuulcons the crampe and trembling of members be layde vpryght and the oyle temperatly hotte must be powred vpon the the belly into the hollow and bottome of the Nauell you shall see after a maruelous working that may rather be coumpted diuine then naturall and very much helpeth the palsey and strengthneth the memory vsed as before A certaine Practysioner applyed one droppe of this Oyle on the patientes forehead that had the Palsey and another on his Nauell and he incontinent arose as amased and was after one howre delyuered of the greuous payne of a wounde in a certayne place of his body and the shrunken synewes he annointed with this Oyle and the patient was suddaynly healed c. This Oyle helpeth deafenes and any sycknes proceeding of a colde cause and helpeth besydes the losse of smelling Arnoldus de villa noua I take to be the Author hereof THe Hoofe of a Beast called Alces which is a wyld Beast lyke a fallowe Deere hauing no ioyntes in his legges hath a maruelous vertue and strength against the Falling Euyll for a lytle peece therof enclosed in a Ryng and so the same Ryng put vpon the fynger next the lytle fynger so that the same peece of the Hoofe be turned towarde the palme of the hand it doth recreate them maruelous much that are fallen and immediatly makes them rise vp A lytle peece of the same bare and put in the hand by and by closed into a fyst suddainly it dryues away the disease and rayseth the party that is fallen therewith Which Lemnius sayth he proued once or twyse And Mizaldus sayth that he proued it putting in a lytle peece of the same in the left eare mouing it as scratching a lytle of one that had the falling sycknes and it had very good
thinges which are in all a thousand Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully willingly as I haue bestowed them friendly and freely Being bould to affirme this much that a great deale of golde cannot counteruaile this Gyft if but some twenty of the sayd thousand be dilligently marked faythfullye followed and perfectlye practised And thus in fewe wordes I byd you farewell Thomas Lupton ⧠The first Booke of Notable thinges IN the first beginning hereof a rare straunge matter shal appeare worthy to be marked especially of such as loues or vse Sage A certaine man being in a Garden with his Louer dyd take as he was walking a few leaues of Sage who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith immediatly fell downe and dyed whervpon his said Louer being examined howe he dyed she sayde she knew nothing that he ayled but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage and she went with the Iudge and other into the same Garden place where the same thing hapned and then she tooke of the sayde Sage to shewe them how he dyd and lykewise rubbed her teeth and gums therwith and presently she dyed also to the great maruayle of all them that stoode by wherevpon the Iudge suspecting the cause of their deathes to be in the Sage caused the sayde bedde of Sage to be plucked and digged vp and to be burned least other might haue the lyke harme thereby And at the rootes or vnder the sayde Sage there was a great Tode founde which had infected the same Sage with his venemous breath Anthonius Myzaldus hath written of this maruelous matter This may be a warning to such as rashly vse to eate rawe vnwasht Sage Therfore it is good to plant Rew rounde about Sage for Todes by no meanes wyll come nye vnto Rew as it is thought of some A Certayne Poet by the report of Mizaldus dyd weare leaden Soles vnder his shoes least the winde shoulde ouerblow him his body was so light and so lytle IF any do myldlie or softlie beate the plant or stalkes of an herbe called Mullen some calles it Hedge taper in the morning when the flowers thereof beginnes to open all the flowers by lytle and lytle wyl â—all and come to one as though the plant were wythered or blasted which the ignorant haue thought to be done by Magicall artes or by some Inchauntment specially if he that doth stryke the same Mullen doth seeme to mumble some wordes whyles he doth it Mizaldus THe hooues of the forefeete of a Cowe dryed and made in fine powder encreaseth mylke in Nurses if they eate it in their Pottage or vse it in theyr drinke and being cast on burning coales the smoke thereof doth kyll Myse or at the least doth dryue them away This Mizaldus wrytes of the experyment of a certayne Spaniarde AQua vite being outwardly applyed doth helpe very well the Synewes and Muscles and all other parts of the body tormented or payned of a cold cause with his heating strength and swift penetration IF one vse to rubbe chapped or rough lyppes with the sweat behinde their eares it wyll make them fyne smothe and well culloured a thing proued WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles and the Sunne or Moone applyes vnto them corporallye or by opposition it sygnifyes that the partie then borne wyll be eyther croackbackt or wyll halte or it sygnifyes the destruction or losse of some member especiallye if the Moone bee with the Dragons tayle in these sygnes Aries Taurus Cancer Scorpius or Capricornus or in the begynning or ende of the Sygne Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes fryed with Goose greese then streynde and a lytle therof dropt warme into the deaffe or payned eare doeth helpe the same you must vse it halfe a dosen tymes at the least This is true ANthonius Beneuenius an excellent Phisytion doth glorie that he with the water wherein Smithes dyd quench their hote and burning yrons geuing the same often to drinke and with the eating of Cappares dyd perfectly heale a Citizen of Florence that had the griefe and swelling of the Splene seuen yeares ADdars tongue wrapt in Uirgin Waxe and put into the lefte eare of any Horse it makes the Horse to fall downe to the grounde as though hee were deade and when it is taken out of his eare it doeth not onely waken him or reyse him but also it makes him more lyuely or quicke Myzaldus wrytes this of the report of an Englysh man. IF a water Snake be tyed by the tayle with a cord hanged vp and a vessel full of water set vnder the sayd Snake after a certaine tyme he wyl auoyde out of his mouth a stone which stone being taken out of the vessell he drinkes vp all the water let this stone be tyed to the belly of them that haue the dropsie and the water wyll be exhausted or drunke vp and it fullie and wholie helpes the partie that hath the sayde Dropsie Iacobus Hollerius OFt thunder doth turne and chaunge Wines maruelouslie but if the Wines be then in Cellers being paued and the walles of stone they take lesse harme then in boorded Cellers therfore it is good before such tempest or thunder to lay a plate of yron with salt or flint stones vpon the sayde vessels with Wine Leuinius Lemnius by Mizaldus report THey wyll haue the palsey or be so that they cannot moue themselues or wyll be geuen to tremble in whose Natiuities the Moone is in an Angle with Saturne Saturne then being vnder the beames of the Sunne combust Lykewise if the syxt house and the Lorde thereof be infortunate of Saturne without the aspect of a good planet Iatromath Guat Ryff MAke powder of vnslackt Lyme and mixe it with black Sope and annoynt any Men therwith the Men wyl fall away and when the roote is come out annoynt it with oyle of Balme it wyl heale it perfectly IF you wyll make wood of the cullour of the wood Hebenus especially such as be harde as Boxe and Peare tree and such lyke do as followeth laye the wood you meane to cullour in Allam water so that it be couered with the layde water and let it rest so three dayes then laye the sayd wood against the hote Sunne or the fyre that it may onely waxe warme then seethe the same wood in common oyle wherin put asmuch of Uytryol Romaine and Brimstone as a Hasel nutte let it be dyssolued the longer you seeth it the blacker the wood wyll be so that you keepe a measure therin and it wyl be fayre elegant Mizaldus had this of an Italian a professor of many experimentes THe iuice of Mullen leaues of som called Hedgetaper of some Lungwoort put to any part that is brused or that hath had a strooke and the staÌ„ped leaues thereof then put vpon the same and tyed fast on with a cloath if you let it lye so a whole daye and night vnremoued it wyll heale it finely yea though it be a wounde but the
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
12.44 To make a woman be speedilye delyuered pag. 12 â–ª 45. A straung effect of the loue of Pigeons with the Castrell pag. 12.46 A rare secret of the woort leafe pag. 12.47 A perfect and precious medecine for the plague pag. 12.48 A straunge way to know whether the next childe of a woman wyll be a boye or a wenche pag. 13.49 A sure medcin to destroy a fellon pa. 13.50 A good prooâ—â— that children are not alwaies lyke their Parents pag. 13.51 A Tode stone ceases the paines coÌ„ming by the byting of any venemous beast pa. 14.52 A tryâ—â— way to kyll Lyce pag. 14.53 To make womans dugs round and harde pag. 14.54 To knowe whether a woman â—e barren or not pag. 14.55 A Ryng which makes the bearer thereof safe from poyson and plaguâ— pag. 14.56 The excellent vertues of fasting speâ—â—le pag. 15.57 To keepe Cheese from putrifying pa. 15.58 To â—nde a precious coale on Mydsommer euen pag. 15.59 A good thing to feede Beasts and to make the handes whyte pag. 15.60 All thinges wyll swyne vpon quicksyluer except golde pag. 16.61 An excellent waye to staye the growing of heaâ—â— pag. 16.62 A present remedy for horsenes the cough pag. 16.63 To 〈◊〉 who are lyke to haue the gowte pag. 17.64 To take awaye the euyll smell of the feete pag. 17.65 A straunge waye to cease the bleeding of the nose pag. 17.66 Mylke and exercise from the cradle makes tall and 〈◊〉 persons pag. 17.67 A present remedy for the Sâ—uinaÌ„cy pa. 17.68 Two coÌ„trary natures in the netle pa. 17.69 To know whether a womaÌ„ is lyke to haue chyldren or not pag. 18.70 To make teeth as white as Iuory pa. 18.71 To take spots out of the face pag. 18.71 A straunge waye to helpe the quâ—rteyn aâ—ue pag. 18.73 A proued waye to helpe the Collycâ—e and paines of the backe pag. 18.74 To helpe the swellinges of the throate pag. 18.75 To make a woman loathe the company of man a man to desyre a woman pa. 18.76 The straunge nature of dogs pag. 19.77 To know good pure 〈◊〉 pag. 19.78 To ioygne broken glasses and broken cups pag. 19.79 The great vertue of Planteyn being the hearbe of Mars pag. 19.80 To cause a Bull vnable to bull a Cowe pag. 20.81 A straunge waye to loose a man that is enchaunted or bewytched therby vnable to the act of generation pag. 20.82 A straunge waye to put awaye the crampe pag. 20.83 A pretie deuise to put out and lyght a caÌ„dle to make them maruayle that sees it pa. 20.84 To make a writing being cast into the fire to leape out of the same pag. 20.85 To gette any quicke thing out of the head pag. 21.86 A rare helpe for the crampe pag. 21.87 A straunge secrete to plucke out a thorne out of the fleshe pag. 21.88 Sygnifycations when the paines be in the eyes pag. 21.89 One through vse dyd forbeare drinke all his lyfe after pag. 21.90 The three corned bonâ— of a Caâ—p ceaseth the bleeding of the nose pag. 22.91 A straunge medicine for curing the webbe and the blindnes of the eye pag. 22.92 Salt wyll make women apt to haue chyldren pag. 22.93 Dyuers Beastes and Byrdes do dyuersly helpe theyr diseases according to theyr nature pag. 22.94 Annyball made a passage through the harde rocks of the Alpes with vinegar pa. 23.95 A notable remedy for all wounds pa. 23.96 To make whyte â—yllies reâ— pag. 23.97 A hynderaunce for women to bring forth wenches pag. 23.98 A notable waye to get quicksyluer out of such as are annoynted with oyntmentes myâ—t with the same pag. 24.99 To draw out thornes and to help the dropsâ—e a rare and straunge secrete pag. 24.100 The Table of the second booke FOr knowledge of griefs and diseases in in the eyes pag. 25.1 A maruelous vertue geuen to the sâ—uâ—th male Childe pag. 25.2 A learned Phisition knew â—one was sicke for loue by the feeling of his pulse pa. 25.3 A straunge way to know whether one that is sycke be in daunger of death or not pag. 25.4 To gather Harâ—s together into one place pag. 26.5 Why chyldren haue clouen ouerlyps called Hartlyps a wonderful thing pag. 26.6 What tyme the disease taken wyll be daungerous or not pag. 26.7 To draw an Eg through a ring pa. 26.8 To resolue Flynt stones into powder pag. 27.9 To cause woorms come out of the ground pag. 27.10 To take spottes and rustynes from Yron pag. 27.11 An excellent helpe for the gowte pa. 27.12 That Inke shal neuer be frosen pa. 27.13 The Starres are strong in the byrth according to the aptnes of them that be borne pag. 27.14 A straunge nature of the Sycamore tree pag. 28.15 A rare thing to procure sleepe pag. 28.16 To foreknow who shall haue paines in the stomacke pag. 28.17 A very straunge way to helpe them that be broken bellyed pag. 28.18 To make Hens laye Egs apace pa. 29.19 To clense the face from all spots and other deformities pag. 29.20 To driue away Flyes that neuer there be seene any there after pag. 29.21 To make troubled Wyne fayre and cleare pag. 30.22 What tyme is daunger to wounde or cutte any body pag. 30.23 A straunge cause of the notable markes of chyldren before they be borne pag. 30.24 To keepe things froÌ„ putrifying pa. 31.25 Beasts of one kind wyl be hurt not hurt with eating of one thing pag. 31.26 A chyld maruelously preserued by a woolf pag. 31.27 A straunge waye to preserue Chesnuttes pag. 32.28 The great vertue of Knotgrasse pa. 32.29 A straunge thing to make a Dogge turne round about and to fall downe as dead pag. 32.30 A way wherby hungar was the lesse greuous to the Scithians pag. 32.31 A notable Pollicie whereby the Romains got a worthy victory pag. 33.33 A louing Dog to his maister pag. 33.34 A sygnification of blindnes pag. 34.35 A present case for the gowte pag. 34.36 Knotgrasse dangerous for sheepe pa. 34.37 An incredible matter doon in ones sleepâ— pag. 34.38 The straunge nature of chaffe pag. 36.39 To make wine pleasaÌ„t in cullour and taste pag. 36.40 Who shal haue pains in their Liuer p. 36.41 A proued medicine to cure the black Iaundies pag. 36.42 To make a sword dagger or knife to cutte yron as though it were steele pag. 36.43 An excelleÌ„t way to purify wine pa. 37.44 To keepe a dog from being mad pa. 37.45 To make sweete pleasaunt Arthychokes pag. 37.46 A sure medicine to help the stitch pa. 37.47 What ground wyl breede the fyneâ—â— wheat pag. 37.48 A straunge medicine wherwith Galen cured the â—allyng sycknes pag. 37.49 To keepe Dogges from madnes and from much barking pag. 38.50 To make a Leeke haue a moÌ„struous head pag. 38.51 The maruelous properties of the stone Aâ—tites pag. 38.52 Certayne people without mouthes lyues by smelling of Flowres apples rootes pag. 38.53 A speciall remedye for falling or bruses pag. 39.54 Children borne at some tyme wyll be blind pag. 39.55