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A90959	Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and smal charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choller, flegm, melancholly, or watry humors. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by sweat, spittle, the pallate, nostrils, or insensibly. 4. Womens diseases. 5. Worms. 6. The stone. 7. Poysons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The heart. 14. The stomach. 15. The intestines. 16. And for diseases of ill conformation. 17. Or in faulty magnitude. 18. Or in number. 19. Or in scituation, and connexion. 20. Or in dissolved unity. First written in Latin, by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, phylosopher, and publick professor of physick in Padua. Translated into English, and something added, By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick, and astrology.; Medicina pauperum. English	Prevost, Jean, 1585-1631.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3324A; ESTC R230757	103,568	318

with Wool For a secret are held the Leaves of the greatest plants put under the naked foles of the Feet and worn there Violent remedies which are mingled with other remedies either pessaries or internal Medicaments are the Roots of Cuckoo-pint and Dragons of Briony Coloquintida Sowbread both Hellebores a Gal but chiefly of an Ox water Pepper and the Seed of Staves-Acre Helps for Delivery Those things that move the Terms do also help to deliver but beside them these do singularly yeeld help the Dung of a Hawk drank one dram in white Wine The Dung of a Falcon the same Dose drank in white Wine The Testicles of a Horse that is gelded cut into slices and washed in white Wine and then dried in the smoak the Pouder of it is given to one dram in spiced Wine The Root of Horse-toung the Herb Motherwort the Pouder of them is given a whole spoonful or the Juyce in hot white Wine Fallopius holds it for a great secret to take one scruple of Borax of the shops in the Decoction of Featherfew or Savin Also the Travail is made the more easie if Women eat Snails in their meats some days before their Delivery Also a Turtle Rosted whose Belly is stuffed with Bay-berries Juniper berries and Cinnamon being eaten every other day before the time of Child-Birth But outwardly when the Throwes are upon them the Eagle-stone bound to the Thigh is a help so is the Jasper and the coral used the same way and the Load-stone held in the left hand Remedies to drive out the Secundine Those things that were now propounded to be taken inwardly to help Delivery do also help to drive forth the Secundine But particularly these are good the Decoction of Sage in white Wine the Root of the Bay's of Alexandria Seed of Hony-suckles the Seeds or Root of Sesely of Marcelles the Pouder of them is given to one dram in hot Wine or the Decoction of Sage also the Pouder of Bay-berries is effectual to one dram taken in white Wine or water or the Decoction of white Lillies Also this Pouder is commended Take Roots of Round Aristolochia and Mirrh of each half a dram Pepper one scruple make a Pouder to be taken in a Decoction of equal parts of Maiden-hair and common Maiden-hair Also these are held for approved the Pouder of dictamni drunk in some convenient Liquor and the foresaid Pouder of the Testicles of a Horse Remedies to open the Hemorroids If the Blind piles swel they may be opened by rubbing them with the Leaves of Borrage of a Fig-Tree wild Cucumber and Briony also the internal use of Aloes helps but if these do not profit you must set on the Leeches Remedies to force out the dead Child Those things that expel the Secundine force out the dead Child also Especially vertue is ascribed to Dittany both in drink and perfume Also the milk of the first litter of a Bitch being drank is very good in particular Water Parsneps taken for a Pot-herb in meat The Juyce of Scordium drank to half an ounce with Saffron The fume of Pigeons dung of brimstone of the cast Skin of a Serpent Also we must not neglest in this case such things as tied to the Thigh do ease Child-Birth Amongst the approved remedies these two are extolled Take mineral Chrisocolla two scruples or Borax one dram Cinnamon and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them make a Pouder to be given in white Wine or the Decoction of Mugwort Also take Chrysocolla of the mines or Borax half a dram Dictamni one scruple Juyce of Savin half an ounce white Wine what is sufficient or if there be a Feaver take the Decoction of common maiden-hair or maiden-hair three ounces mingle them Remedies that quiet the Matter that is Carried with a wrong Motion Such things as are moved preternaturally are quieted by revulsion to the opposite part and those that repel from the part that receiveth and such as make a stop between the part that sends and the part that receiveth also by things that thicken the matter that runs and by such as bind up the passages by which the flux is conveied Those things intercept which are set down to prepare thin Choller and such as by an unctious quality do asswage the acrimony All those things that bind up the passages do repel also of which we shall speak a little afterwards and besides those all cold and moist things that by thickening intercept of which we spak before Those things make revulsion namely such as are called Rubificatives reckoned amongst those things that Evacuate insensibly also Vesicatories made of Cantharides in Cerats or Plaisters or of Crow-foot or the Roots of the lesser Crow-foot bruised alone and laid on for a Cataplasm The Form of a Cerate Take Whole Cantharides half an ounce Seeds of Ammeos three scruples and an half Rosin five drams Wax two drams Mingle them for a Cerate for four Vesicatories fit for a Body that is of ripe years for Children and softer bodies half so much is sufficient For a Plaister for four Vesicatories Take three or four drams of Cantharides for a harder or softer constitution of the Body Mustard four scruples Seeds of Ammeos one dram the sowrest Leaven one ounce and half the sharpest Vineger what is sufficient Make a Plaister The sharpest Vineger is Vineger of Squils and that which may be presently made of the Decoction of Garlick Wake-Robin or red Onions or the said Cantharides are bruised and made up with crums of new bread or with Figs then moisten the matter with the sharpest Vineger and make a Plaister Also a Bladder may be presently raysed by dropping on scalding Oyl or water but so that the matter may be sprinkled through a large hollow Cane least it should spread further than is fit or else the Oyl must be dropped on the part that is fenced about with a Circle of Wax or such like so large as you desire to make the Blister large Remedies that Root out the Cause that is offensive in the whole substance Those Bodies offend in substance and are Preternatural by the whole kind that stick in the wounded part as Worms Stones Poysons Corruption for these are proper such things as can draw them out kill the Worms break the stone Preservatives against Poysons and such as can remove Corruption Remedies that draw out These though they must hold proportion with the Bodies that are fastned in for which cause several remedies draw out several matters as the Load-Stone draweth Iron Amber draws Chaff and some are indifferent to draw out any things contained in Wounds namely Pimpernel Roots of Canes Root of round Aristolochia Dittany the upper Root of Sword-flag a Lizards Head Bee-Glew the Root of stinking Gladdon the middle rind of the Teil-Tree Bird-Lime al which are put into Plaisters either bruised alone or else are applyed with Wine to the wound Some do attribute a wonderful force to draw forth all things that are fastned in

Francis Groyn of Lansanor in the County of Glamorgan And of Ford-Abby in the County of Devon Esq r 1698. MEDICAMENTS For the Poor Or PHYSICK For the Common People Containing Excellent Remedies for most Common Diseases incident to Mans Body made of such things as are common to be had in almost every Country in the World and are made with little Art and smal Charge This Book is of admirable use for 1. Purging Medicines for Choller Flegm Melancholly or Watry Humous 2. Vomits 3. Such things as evacuate by Sweat Spittle the Pallate Nostrils or Insensibly 4. Womens Diseases 5. Worms 6. The Stone 7. Poysons 8. The Head over-heat or over-cooled 9. The Eyes 10. The Joynts 11. The Nerves 12. Breathing 13. The Heart 14. The Stomach 15. The Intestines 16. And for Diseases of ill Conformation 17. Or in Faulty Magnitude 18. Or in Number 19. Or in Scituation and Connexion 20. Or in dissolved unity First Written in Latin by that Famous and Learned Doctor John Prevotius Phylosopher and publick Professor of Physick in Padua Translated into English and somthing added By Nich. Culpeper Student in Physick and Astrology London Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden Hall and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Excharge 1656. The Printer to the READER I Thought it convenient to give thee notice of some Particulars to be minded in this Book 1. That thou hast not more in the Title Page than is in the Book as is too often used by many in these times For every one of the twenty Particulars there named is distinctly treated on under that Head and somtimes much more as thou mayest easily find if thou pleasest to peruse the Contents before the Book by which thou mayest easily turn to the page in which each Head is treated on 2 If thou meetest with hard words that thou dost not well understand look at the end of Riverius Practice in English and most of them are there explained 3 Things that are here but briefly touched are much more largely treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English 4 For the rest of Mr. Culpepers VVorks that are yet unprinted I refer thee to his VVives Information and Testimony printed before this Book I remain Thine to serve thee Peter Cole The Contents THE Beginning Page 1 Physicks that purge the Belly Page 3 Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Page 4 Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Page 6 Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Page 9 Medicaments that soften the Belly Page 10 Things that mollifie the Belly in a Chollerick Cause ibid Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick Cause Page 12 Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholy Cause Page 14 Lenitive Clysters Page 15 Loosening Suppositories Page 16 Purgers by the Belly Page 17 When Choller Predominates what Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation Page 19 Strong Purgers Page 20 Violent Purgers Page 21 Such things as purge Flegm gently when it is predominant Page 23 Strong Purgatives Page 25 Such things as Purge Violently Page 28 A Drink Page 30 A most pleasing Pouder Page 31 A Bolus ibid Pills Page 32 When Melancholly prodominates these will Purge gently Page 32 Such things as purge Strongly Page 34 Such things as purge Violently ibid What things will purge gently when watery Humors prevail Page 40 Purging Clysters Page 46 Sharp Suppositories Page 48 For Vomiting Medicaments Page 49 What things move Vomit gently Page 49 Purging Vomits Page 51 Such things as void Flegm strongly that is predominant Page 53 Medicaments that evacuate by sweat Page 63 Medicaments that evacuate by Spittle Page 67 Medicaments that evacuate by the Pallat. Page 72 Medicaments that evacuate by the Nostrils Page 74 Medicaments that evacuate insensibly Page 77 Digesters ibid Discussives Page 79 Rubificatives Page 83 Medicines that augment necessary Matter where it is dificient Page 85 Medicaments that encrease Milk Page 86 Things that encrease Seed Page 88 Medicaments that alter the Cause of the Disease Page 90 Medicaments that prepare Choller Page 91 Preparatives for Flegm Page 94 Preparatives for Melancholly Page 97 Medicaments that allay Acrimony Page 98 Scouring Medicaments Page 101 Remedies to soften hard things Page 110 Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Page 119 Remedies that move the Courses ibid Helps for Delivery of Women Page 125 Remedies to drive out the Secundine Page 126 Remedies to open the Hemorroids Page 127 Remedies to force out the dead Child ibid Remedies that quiet the Matttr that is carried with a wrong Motion Page 229 Remedies that Root out the Cause that is offensive in the whol substance Page 231 Remedies for Worms Page 233 Remedies to break the Stone Page 237 Remedies that move Corruption Page 240 Remedies contrary to Poyson Page 245 Remedies for Symptoms that are Vrgent Page 257 Medicaments that alter a sick distemper of the whol Body and of the parts Page 268 Medicaments that alter the Head that is over-cooled Page 271 Altering Remedies for Eyes that are over-cooled Page 274 Arthritick Remedies for the Joynts that are overcooled Page 276 Remedies for the Nerves over-cooled Page 279 Remedies for the parts of breathing Page 282 Cordials for the Heart that is over-cooled Page 285 Stomach-heating Remedies Page 288 Remedies that alter the Intestines when they are over-cooled Page 293 Remedies of the Matrix either over-heat or over-cooled Page 306 Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Page 310 Remedies of Diseases in faulty Magnitude Page 350 Remedies for Diseases in Number Page 363 Remedies of Diseases in Situation and Connexion Page 367 Remedies of Diseases in dissolved Vnity ibid TO THE READER ALL those that were famous in the Art of Physick and by taking care of the health of Man gained to themselves great Honor may be supposed to have laid the first foundation of all their glory in the Cottages of Poor Men. For since two things chiefly commend a Physitian skill to cure the sick and great charity to the Poor without which there can hardly be so much sence of anothers misery that can invite one carefully to lend his utmost help These two are so united that a Physitian can hardly be approved amongst Rich Men and Princes unless he hath shewed himself to be such a one by his frequent Practice amongst the Poor For they that abound with all those things the want whereof makes life to others not so desirable will suspect the skill of such as begin but now to Practice and who have not been emnent by many experiments and famous Cures that are divulged by the Testimony of the common People And the Physitian alone shall not easily perswade great Men to whom he may be called that he hath seriously taken care for the Disease but rather for his own gain and profit who hath not sometimes done his best endeavors to help poor distressed Men and by such a Custome learned to deal gently with those that

the Meat we eat and Anointed on the Stomach outwardly If you please to make a Syrup for this use Take the Juyce of sweet Prunes the Juyce or Decoction of Purslain of each half a pound Clarifie them and add to them ten ounces of purified Honey Let them boyl to the consistence of a Syrup The use of it is for a Lohoch and for Syrups Medecines that evacuate by the Pallat. The * Any that desire to know exactly the Diseases of the Head and the cures therof let them read Riverius Practice of Physicks by me translated into English Head is purged three waies By the Mouth by the means of the Channels of the Pallat namely by Ma●●icatories Cargarisms and Anointings of the Pallate For a Masticatory in a hot cause a Paper is good especially a brown Paper figs bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels Raisons a whol piece of a Pome Cicron the peel of an Orange In a cold Cause are good the Roots of Cyprus Acorus both Angelica's Gard●● 〈◊〉 Master-wort Seeds of Fennel Annis Seseli Siler montanum Grains of Juniper Bay-berries and the tender Leaves These are more violent and are fit for extream coldness the Leaves of Sciatica Cresses Water Pepper of Hors-Rhadish Garden Cresses Savory Mountain Hysop wild Penyroyal wild Rue Root of Pellitory Country Mustard seed Mustard seed Staves-acre which that they may the more easily be chewed by the Teeth they must be mingled with a little yellow Wax and so made into little Bals or Morsels For a * Those that desire to know more fully what they are and their use let them read Riverius Practice of Physick and the Physical Dictionary at the end thereof Gargarism which is proper only in a cold cause are convenient the Decoctions of Calaminth Germander Hysop Bay Leaves Lavender the greater Penyroyal wild Time Italian Spike which are partly gargarised and somtimes held hot in the mouth The most violent Gargarisms are made of the Decoction of Herbs that were set down for the strongest Masticatories and chiefly if we put some Aqua vitae in or some of the Confection Diasinapi which the Italians cal Mostarda For to anoint the Pallate which Remedies have place also alone in a cold Cause the said Decoctions are useful with honey thickened to the consistence of a Syrup Moreover Aqua vitae or common Mostards or some soft Electuary made of the foresaid things As for Example Take Bay-berries and Juniper of each two ounces Mustard seed and Leaves of Savory of each one handful Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each one dram Roots of Acorus and Master-wort of each two drams pounded and siefted Mingle all with two pound of clarified Honey Make an Electuary Medicaments that evacuate by the Nostrils Of things that purge the Head by the Nostrils some of them by their acrimony cause one to sneeze and these are very fit for a very thick Humor that is pact close in and where the Expulsive Faculty is dull Some again provoke the Humor without sneezing amongst which some may be safely used even when the Head enclineth to heat others belong only to a cold humor and head The Pouders of all the propounded Remedies for strong Masticatories if they be blown in or snuffed up into the Nostrils they cause one to sneeze The Decoction of Gith or black Hellebore the Juyce also of the Root of Sowbread Briony and Elaterium dissolved in other liquid Nasals The same is performed but somthing more gently by the Root of Sowbread cut like a Tent and put into the Nostrils and the Shel of an Orange candied Also without sneezing the head that is over hot may be evacuated with the Decoction or Juyce of Mallows or Blites especially the white Blites Leaves of Betony or Coleworts and Barley Roots of Beets put into the Nostrils especially if it be wet in warm Water also anointing the Nostrils with fresh Butter In a cold Cause Decoctions are good or the Juyce of Pimpernel Bettony Roots of white Beets the great Celondine Ivy of the wal Garden Hysop Root of Flower-de-luce that is green Marjoram Sage Tobacco The Indians also use to make Tents of a round fashion of the Roots of Sowbread or Flower-de-luce and to anoint them with Butter or Oyl and put them up into their Nostrils or else to steep them in water when they wil not use them for sneezing Moreover The Fume of the said Herbs when they are dry is very convenient especially of Marjoram Hysop Time taken through a Cane by which they take the fume of Tobacco Errhines also may be made of them As for Example In a cold cause Take the Juyce of the Root of Flower deluce made thick the Juyce of the Flowers of Ivy made thick of each two drams the Pouder of Marjoram or Time one dram Fresh Butter half an ounce mingle them for a Liniment and anoint a Ten● of Cotton to put into the Nostrils Or Take the Juyce of Blites clarified by filtring very well four ounces Agarick grosly poudered one ounce make infusion for one night strain them the next day and draw it up warm into the Nostrils and it will wonderfully purge the Head without any great Commotion Medicaments that Evacuate Insensibly The matter these are made of is of a large extent For all hot things by rarefying and turning the Humors into ayr do evacuate insensibly so do all dry things by restraining moisture and all astringent things by pressing them forth may be reckoned in the number of these but things that digest are properly so called which do by degrees turn the Humors into vapours and those that discuss and do it by heaps that dissipate also gross Humors and blistering Medicaments that do both vehemently and by violent heat remove the matter that lieth deep that is not sufficiently attenuated and draw it to the Skin Digesters Amongst these the most obuious are wormwood Dill al kinds of Smallage Chamomel stinking Chamomel Foenugreek Roots of Reeds white Lillies Lin-Seed Honey Melilot Rosemary Mallows chiefly strong Wine these may be given in Decoction Syrups or Electuaries Of the same may be made Oyls by descent and Fomentations for use outwardly to which these that follow may be added that are not to be given inwardly as the Roots or Sow-Bread wild Cucumber Daffodils the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder Elder-Tree Allum Nitre Vitriol common Salt Also outwardly may be used alone to anoint with rank Butter chiefly that which is Salt and Oyl with Salt For Fomentations the water of quick Lime the water of hot Baths sweet water that is very hot strong Ly hot Lees of Wine the mud of hot Baths or the holes in the Baths hot Sand hot Ashes with or without Bran and Salt made up in a Bag. For Plaisters Snails bruised with their Shells Old Cheese with the Decoction of Salt flesh especially Hogs flesh and beaten together for a Plaister Bean Meal made up with Wine or the former Decoctions adding if you please Oyl Oxymel or

Chamomel of each one Pugil common Water six pound Let them Boyl till a third part be consumed to foment and wet the Breasts of the rest an excellent Plaister may be made These that follow are proved remedies Take Turpentine often washed in white Wine three ounces three whole Eggs Saffron one scruple Yellow Wax two drams Mingle them and make a Cerate to be Spread on a Linnen Cloth leaving a hole that the Paps may come forth to be sucked Or Take Bean Meal three ounces common Oyl two ounces Turpentine one ounce two Yolks of Eggs Saffron one scruple with the Decoction of Mallows and Parsley made with Vineger what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Cataplasm Also fresh Butter washed very well in the Decoction of Mallows and mingled with the Pouder of the Roots of Mallows or Marsh-mallows to the consistence of an Unguent and laid on upon a Colewort leaf is a most excellent remedy for pained breasts and hardned by the Milk stopped in them This also is singular Take common Oyl of ripe Olives new Wax of each a like quantity mingle them then wash them wel three times in Rose water and lay them on with a Colewort leaf The same remedies serve for clotterd Milk tempered with cold and moist ingredients and with a greater quantity of Vineger Yet A Plaister of Bran exceeds them or of Barley Boyled with Vineger adding thereto a little Saffron Also a Cataplasm of Bean Meal with the Decoction of Night-shade that bears winter Cherries made with Vineger which is made most effectual if you mix the Runnet of a hare with it and fresh Butter Hitherto we have spoken of remedies to correct the manifest quality of the causes of Diseases but the hidden quality since it is venemous and is in those things that are faulty in substance it requires remedies against Malignity which we shall set down afterwards amongst those remedies that are opposite to the cause that is preternatural by the whole kind Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Want of motion in those things that by nature should move at certain times fals out principally when the courses are stopt or in hard Labour in Child-Birth or when the Secundine staieth behind as also when the blind Hemorrhoids are bread within these are remedied by such things as procure the courses help Travel drive out the Secundine and the Child that is dead and also provoke the secret Piles Remedies that move the Courses Those things that properly move the Terms do melt the Blood and open the Orifices of the Veins the matter whereof being it is of large extent Galen distinguisheth it into three Ranks Gentle the use whereof is when the Terms are diminished Mean which are more fit for the Terms that are stopt Forcible such as are used as the last remedies when other helps profit not and these are not given inwardly but in Pessaries or infusions The Chief and most Obvious amongst the gentle are Maiden-Hair Red Chiches the first Broth of them Cats-tails of Walnut Trees flowers of Stockgelli-flowers dried in the shade white Lillies flowers of Balm common Maiden-hair Cinkfoyl of these are made Decoctions and Syrups chiefly with Aromatical white Wine These remedies are counted to be the most effectual of them Take maiden-hair or common maiden-hair half a handful flowers of wall-flowers dried one ounce sweet white Wine six ounces make infusion for twelve hours then Boyl them softly till a third part be consumed strain it add Saffron three grains mix all for to drink hot Or Take Walnuts that are dry but not rank half an ounce Broth of red Chiches four ounces Odoriferous white Wine two ounces Boyl al to a third part strain them and add Saffron three grains or Cinnamon six grains Mingle them for a potion Also the frequent use of walnuts is held to move the courses by their property and therefore women make profitable Cakes and Puddings of Nuts green Parsly Leaves and Saffron To anoint the Hipogaustrium outwardly is made an Oyl of wall flowers by setting in the Sun or else of Lillies also presently an Oyl is made by descent of the Roots of white Lillies and the tops of Dill and Chamomel The Mean are round Aristolochia Mugwort all spices amongst which Cinnamon and Saffron are preferred Garden daisies double-toung calamint chiefly of the mountain both the Dittanies the Root of sword-flag Featherfew marioram Mercury Horse-mints Bazil Penniroyal savin Of which are made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries or one dram of their Pouder is given in white Wine that is spiced To these dry remedies as Pouders Bolus and Pills borax of the shops is profitably adioyned or mirrh flowers of brimstone and Nettle Seed The Decoction of Garden Daisies dried is held for a secret given in white Wine spiced Also the Decoction of Nettle Seed one ounce in white Wine So is the Decoction of the Leaves of Garden Groundsel plucked off downward in white Wine or Broth of red Chiches Also bastard Dictamni of Mathiolus either in Decoction or in Pouder and drank in white Wine Also one dram of the sowrest Leaven or thereabouts dissolved in white Wine and drank without or with a little Saffron So is the Seed of Nigella one dram with one scruple of Cinnamon in white Wine Also this Pouder is most effectual Take Borax of the shops one scruple Cinnamon Roots of round Aristochia Leaves of Savin and Dictamni of Crete or Nigella seed half a scruple fine Sugar two scruples mingle them and make a fine Pouder to take at once in the Broth of red Chiches or the best white Wine Also Physick Wine may be made whereof four ounces drank hot in a morning for some days together before the usual time the Terms are wont to come down will forciblly provoke them and it is thus made Take Hearbs Mugwort mountain Calamint Penniroyal Savin of each one Pugil Cinnamon Annis Seed of each one dram Saffron one scruple cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and for twenty four hours infuse them in strong white Wine two pound then Boyl them a little and strain them Outwardly the waters of hot brimstone Baths are convenient also the Decoctions of the foresaid Herbs wherewith are provided Fomentations and infusions for the matrix also fumes are made which much be used on such as are subject to fits of the Mother burning under them such things as smel sweet which may be used indifferently for others by mingling sweet and stinking things together for sweet smels do open the passage of the Matrix and stinking things do stir up the Expulsive Faculty to Vacuation For a sweet smel Spices are good Bay-berries grains of Juniper Marioram Mirrh Roots of Dog-Fennel Savory Time But for a stinking smel serve Bitumen Jeat Rue brimstone and some ordinary Gums but chiefly Asa-foetida and Sagapenum Lastly pessaries are singularly commended of Garlick Bruised with Oyl of Spik also of the Juyce of mercury or the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder made up

Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole

Body and of the Parts Though there be eight sickly kinds of distempers four that are simple and so many Compound yet it is not necessary to make eight sorts of altering Medicaments First Because Compound distempers are cured with simples that alter being mingled together and so as need requireth they make a Compound quality then because amongst simple qualities moisture and driness are commonly taken away with hot or cold remedies for Excrementitious moisture is cured both with hot things that rarefie and consume as also by cold things that press out and by dry things of both kinds that stay moisture But sickly driness being it presupposeth a want of native moisture which cannot be restored with Physick but with Nutriment is better cured by good Diet and some heat restored in the part that is dried by the benefit whereof the blood may be drawn thither and more easily digested Therefore it will be sufficient to set down Medicaments that heat the parts that are over cooled and such as cool the parts over heated for both these being mingled together it will be an easie matter to Compound an active temperate remedy and which is amongst the passives moist and dry as necessity and the distemper that must be removed shall require Moreover seeing there are two kinds of altering Medicaments some are certain by which some certain parts seem to be most affected others are uncertain which work indifferently upon the whole Body it will be sufficient to propound such altering Remedies that are certain because the distemper of the whole Body follows the hurt of some Principal part the Remedies whereof bring help also to the whole Body Certain altering Remedies take their name from the part which they help Cephalicks are for the Head Ophthalmicks for the Eyes Arthriticks for the Joynts Neuroticks for the Nerves Pneumonicks for the parts of Breathing Cordials for the Heart Stomachicks for the Stomach Hepaticks for the Liver Spleneticks for the Spleen Nephriticks for the Reins Histericks for the Matrix Medicaments that alter the Head Hot Cephalicks and such as are convenient for the Head that is over cooled the most Obvious are these Southernwood Betony Box-Wood Calamint Germander Hysop Bay-Leaves and Berries Lavender Marjoram Piony Rosemary Garden Rue and Water-Rue Sage Savory wild Time Stoechas Time Misleto of the Oak wild Setwal Root Water of hot Baths of Brimstone drank in due order Of these may be made Decoctions Electuaries and Medicinal Wines in the place of Confections and Conserves of the shops For Example Take the Filing of Box Wood two ounces Misleto of the Oak cut very smal one ounce common Water six pound Make infusion for fiften hours afterwards add Leaves of Betony Calamint Marjoram Sage of each one handful Root of Piony half an ounce Bay Berries two drams Make Decoction at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed then strain it and give half a pound of it at once for somedaies together The Antients in the cure of a distemper that was not very new administred their medicaments for about four days together by whose example we do usually proceed now Example of an Electuary Take Betony Calamint Germander Marjoram Rosemary Sage of each one handful Savory Hysop of each one pugil Bay-berries and Frankinsence of each two drams clarified Honey four times as much mingle them and make an Electuary Give about two drams of it for many days either before you give the decoction or when you go to bed Medicinal Wines are more commended made of the infusion of Rosemary and Sage Outwardly Lotions and droppings down either of Brimstony bath waters or of the Decoctions of the Herbs before mentioned chiefly prepared in a Lixivium to which you may ad roots of reed leaves of Asarum and Ivy of the wal Of the same Herbs adding a quantity of Frankinsence may pouders be prepared to strew on the futures Also fume of Time and Marjoram taken by a pipe is good the same way that men take Tobacco Lastly Oyls may be made of the decoctions of the same hearbs to anoynt the Nostrills the Temples and the Sutures These cool what is over hot Black-Cherries the skul of man burnt barly flowers of Privet Purslain Roses flowers of Willows the tendrells of Vines and al things that procuresleep of which decoctions may be made The water of Iron baths rightly used is excellent Outwardly frontalls are made of Pasca chiefly altered with Willow leaves Myrtills Lettice Violets Nightshade Irrigations for the Head are made of the same decoction or of warm Milk Oxyrhodina are made of Oyl of Rofes and Violets with a fourth part of Vineger Sents are provided of Roses and Violets Vineger altered with these flowers is most useful adding a little Camphier Also Oyl made by insolation of the flowers of Willows for to anoynt the Nostrills and Temples is commended Altering Remedies for the Eyes For Eyes that are overcooled with or without any defluxions of thick matter these things are convenient Great Celondine Eye-bright Fennel Garden rue Vervain whereof are made decoctions and Electuaries for necessary internal uses The use of Wine altered with Eyebright is approved Fomentations to use outwardly are made of the said Decoctions to which Pimpernel may well be added Fenugreek wel washed also a little Saffron and Aqua vitae So a Fomentation of Sea water is good with a little Saffron in it This following Collyrium is singular to strengthen the Eyes and to discuss al clouds and suffusions confirmed also for al cold defluxions what affection soever they have brought upon the Eyes Take Malligo Wine three pound Wheat corns and Fennel seed of each half a handful choice Cinnamon bruised two drams Cloves beaten four scruples Leaves of Rue and tops of Bays half a Pugil make infusion for a Natural day then boyl them at a very soft fire til a fift part be consumed strayn it out ad two drams of Tutty prepared mingle them and when you would use it shake the Decoction and trouble it if it be provided for a Cloud and a Pin and Web set it up in a brasen vessel otherwise keep it in a Glass for your use For Eyes overheat Cephalick remedies for internal uses are convenient For outward uses a Fomentation and frequent dropping in of warm Milk is good wherein Frankinsence set on fire is quenched If the flux be very sharp ad the fourth part of the white of an Egg. When the payn is urgent and the defluxion very sharp put in a little of the emulsion of white Poppie seed made of the same milk Also make a Cataplasm of a sweet Apple boyled in milk and bruised which wil surely help So Fomentations of warm river water in which Frankinsence hath been quenched sometimes are good Arthritick Remedies For the Joynts that are over cooled these are convenient Chamaepytis or ground Pine Juniper-wood and berries Helichryson Mastich-wood al kind of Rozins chiefly of Turpentine Sage and the Root of pricking Bindweed Amongst Compound

it doth very happily stay them you must add a fourth part of Comfrey wormwood or a twelfth part of wormwood Mastick For the same purpose the Decoction of the Root and Yong Leaves of the Oak is excellent made with red Wine adding a little wormwood to it if it be drank daily to two ounces or thereabout five hours before meat Other Remedies may be made for other uses as every one pleaseth Outwardly Crude Gip is convenient mingled with Cerats and Plaisters Also Hogs dung and Asses dung either fresh or else in Pouder by either of these al immoderate fluxes of Blood are presently stopt if it be laid on with the white of an Egg and blown in Guainerius saith that he used Asses dung inwardly and Syrup of Sugar prepared with the moisture of the fresh dung pressed out as a chief Remedy to stop immoderate fluxes of the Terms and other extraordinary Eruptions of Blood Oyl of the Dog-Tree and the Root of the Oak made by descent exceeds all the rest by an astringent faculty Moreover of the Decoctions of Herbs are made Fomentations and Baths Cataplasms are made of unripe fruits beaten with Posca and moderately Boyled Also an Unguent may be prepared suddenly but the Unguent of Chestnuts and Comitissa may supply the place thereof Take unripe Galls Cypress Nuts the Kernells of Red Grapes Pomegranate shells the middle Rinds of Chestnuts Mastick of each half an ounce Oyl of unripe Olives or of Roses often washed in Allum Water one pound white Wax three ounces Let the dry Ingredients be beat into Pouder and steeped in the Juyce of Sloes or unripe Services or Verjuyce or the Juyce of astringent Herbs and let them be dried at a soft fire adding thereto before they Wax hard the Oyl and the Wax mingling all gently by stirring it If you had rather have it for a Cerate take Rosin three ounces and Wax five ounces to the said quantity of Oyl and the Pouders Streightness and Closeness of the Passages comes to pass five waies by obstruction constipation Compression cleaving together and by sinking down whence the differences of Diseases in streightness are taken which as they differ by generation and variety of their causes so are they taken away by diverse Remedies Obstruction is properly called so that streightness of the Passages that comes from things that are contained within contrary to nature not that are united and sticking to the passages such are Vapours and Humors that abound too much or that are too thick and clammy also corruption Clotts of Blood and Milk Thorns and little Bones that stay in the Throat and hinder the passage Hares Stones worms dregs that stick to the Intestines Corruption shut up in Impostumes is taken away by opening the Impostume which is done with Iron or actual fire or by a potential Cautery of which a little after That which sticks to Ulcers is taken away with Sarcoticks of which we shall speak in the cure of Ulcers That which is poured forth into other Cavities as into the sharp Artery is taken away with such things as cut and cleanse Clots of Blood are to be dissolved by Remedies that are elsewhere set down and are to be evacuated by purging the Belly also by Urin Spittle for the situation of the part affected by Purgations and Diureticks and expectorating Medicaments set down before Also such Remedies as dissolve Clotted Milk and discuss it are evident by those things that have been said Things that stick in the Gullet if they can be seen let them be drawn out with Iron Instruments if they remove the least from their place by Sternutation Coughing or vomit provoked by putting in the Finger or a Feather into the Throat also by drinking plentifully or by swallowing down some solid Gobbet not much chewed and lastly by swallowing down a spounge first dipt in Rozin that the thing may stick to it and then drawn up again by a long thred tied to it If Hairs and other things that come from without appear they must be taken out with Chirurgions Instruments if they be hid in the Stomach and Intestins they are driven out by vomit or purging as the sick is inclined Concerning such things as Purge the Belly and drive out the excrements and further concerning Remedies against stones and worms and such as discuss abundant and gross vapours we spake amongst the Remedies that take away the cause of the Disease Obstruction from fullness or abundance of Blood is taken away by a thin diet that is not of the best and much Juyce by strong exercise and much rubbing as by Medicaments that dry the whole Body and by sensible Evacuations namely opening the Veins Scarifications Cupping with scarifying Leeches Bad Humors that are many thick and clammy by which frequently the Mesenterium the Liver Spleen Matrix Reins and Veins and arteries of other parts are stopped require Medicaments first that are cutting attenuating and cleansing lastly Purging Concerning Purging medicaments we spake abundantly at the beginning those are of another kind that are set down for to prepare gross Humors but because these that unstop the passages are of larger extent than such as prepare the Humors and there is a very frequent use of them in the cure of Feavers Hypochondriacal Melancholy the cure of the Spleen Jaundice the want of the Terms it wil be worth our pains to Reckon them up more distinctly and to set them down in three ranks namely cold temperate and hot that so the choice of them may be the more easy Cold Remedies that unstop are convenient in the more acute Feavers parts that are hot and obstructed by Humors thickned by adustion amongst which the most Obvious are Sorrel Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons that are sufficiently ripe Succory Endive Straw-berries Roots of Grass Liver-wort Hawkweed the Roots of all the Docks Seeds of Melons Pompions Citruls Cucumbers gourds Sow-Thistle Garden Endive Dandelion four Trifoyl Of these are made Decoctions with water or Broth for Syrups which will be the better if you add an Emulsion of the four great cold Seeds Whey of Milk Clarified is effectual by it self but it is made most effectual by adding an Emulsion of the said Seeds or if it be altered with opening Herbs The Clarified Juyce of Herbs is mingled with Broth for a present Syrup to two or three ounces the greatest use of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons is in meats and Medicaments as also of the Emulsions of the Seeds of Melons and Gourds as also those more Liquid Panadoes and Ptisans of Barley as they are commonly called For ordinary drink the Decoction of sour Trifoyl is pleasant enough of Sorrel Straw-berries and Grass which may be made more sharp adding a quantity of the Juyce of Citrons or Lemmons But this is the thing that is most necessary which sour Roots perform to deceive the sick withall that one still calling for drink that they make the water sharp and it may be made of the colour of Red

of the Throat and the top of the sharp Artery which fals out very frequently is cured by those things that Purge the breast by Spitting which are propounded for Salt matter But if it proceed from sharp Biting matter that lightly Rakes the superficies it is taken away by such Medicaments that temper sharp Humors both by washing them away as also by suppling them with a tempering vertu of which we spake amongst the Remedies that alter the cause of the Disease Remedies of Diseases in faulty Magnitude Natural Magnitude is made faulty either by excess or defect when it is augmented beyond its proportion or els diminished The kinds of Magnitude diminished are reckoned to be Defect of Nourishment or Leanness of all the parts and Marasmus or a Consumption of the whole Body following a Hectick Feaver or wasting away for Leanness of those that recover after sharp Diseases scarse deserves the name of a Disease because it quickly goes away so soon as the Disease on which it depended is removed Of Magnitude increased which men call Tumors all the differences are taken from the cause which in general is four fold The first is a solid Body according to substance belonging to the soundness of the Body whence come grossness from overmuch fat Hypersarcosis from some excrescence of flesh Ruptures of the Bowels and the Caul when the Guts or the Caul fal down which also makes a Disease in scituation The second is a Humor or some thing like to a Humor whence comes that they call Phlegm●ne from Blood Oedema from Fleam Erysipelus from Choller Schirrus from Melancholy a kind whereof is Tophus and Struma Cancer from Black choler Carbuncle from burnt Blood and from a watery matter like to a Humor Hydrocephalus the Dropsie of the Abdomen and the Matrix The third is that which comes Preternaturally from the Humors as puffing up from wind The fourth is that which growes in the whole kind Preternaturally from a various and unspeakable corruption of the Humors whence comes properly an Impostume or little Swelling with a little Bag namely Meliceris from a matter like to Honey Steatoma from a fat matter like to Sewet and Atheroma from a matter like to Gruel A particular Consumption such as falls upon those parts that are held with a Palsie and Convulsions requires first such Remedies as can Purge out the foulness of the Body by the passages convenient then Nourishments that can make good Blood lastly attractives that draw Blood to the part and can stirr up the heat of it and strengthen it Gentle rubbings til the part wax red and Swel a little will perform all these Also Baths of sweet water something hot wherein Herbs are Boyled proper for the part to be used til the part Swell a little Or Fomentations and Wettings with water and Oyl Milk sweet Waters altered with Mallows Marsh-mallows and Herbs that respect that part Last of all the most prevalent Remedy is pication til the part wax red and swell and these things are to be done after concoction before any more meat be eaten In a Consumption of the Eyes there remains no place for pications or rubbings but only for Fomentations the best whereof are made with Milk a little Saffron or of the same Boyled with Mallows Violets Marsh-mallows and Fennel or with a sweet Apple brought to the form of a soft Cataplasm with a little Saffron A hot Marasmus without a Consumption which is curable is chiefly overcome with the use of Milk and Baths Womens Milk sucked out of the Breasts or Asses Milk or Goats Milk new milked drank with a little Honey or Sugar taking by degrees from three ounces to seven or eight ounces about five hours after the drinking of Milk a Bath of sweet Water is to be used which must be kept somthing hot til the time the sick come forth of it and then is he to stay a while til he is a little cold with it for the uniting of heat and retaining of Nourishment or presently after the Bath the Body must be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand wet with Oyl of Violets and sweet Almonds somthing cold If there be a Consumption the Bath must be let alone and the Body must be rubbed only before meat after the manner we now spake of and he must apply himself to Milk and he must use also such Remedies as concern the Ulcer of the Lungs If the use of Milk be forbidden by reason of the causes set down in the 5. Aph. 65. He must use instead thereof a Ptisan of Barley Some hold this Ptisan for a secret which is presently provided and must be taken twice a day Take Barley Meal six parts fine Sugar one part Place them bed upon bed in a Glased Earthen Pot and the first and last bed must be Sugar then making a Cover of Past put it into the Oven after the Bread is drawn forth And it will be baked sufficiently the third time or putting of it into the Oven For a Ptisan Take of this baked Meal two ounces Broth of wood Snails or Snails four ounces Mingle them But for an Ulcer of the Lungs in particular this is commended Take one dram of the Pouder of Yarrow dayly in Broth or some convenient Decoction Also a Cake of dried Folefoot taken dayly made with Butter and Sewet of a Hog Some prefer Sugar of Roses with Bole-Armoniack or some such Medicinal earth and the Blood-stone used for some months together above all other Remedies Gross Bodies are brought lean after fit Evacuation of the Body First with a thin diet and many hot and frequent rubbings of their Body then by the daily use of some attenuating and drying Remedies amongst which the most commended are one dram of Ash Keys in Broth with half an ounce of the best Vineger or one Spoonful of Vineger of Squills in a good quantity of Broth before meat some ascribe the same vertue to Oxymel of Squils or the Troches of Squils Also the Seed of Ameos or the Seed that is in Elder berries can do as much taken to half a dram drank in the Decoction of the Ash But the greatest force lieth in the Pouder of Vipers to dry the Body of which we spake amongst the Antidotes if half a dram of it be taken in Broth or Wine four hours before meat and so much the more if the Body be lustily exercised after the taking of it To this place belong all things that provoke sweat and Urin. Those Remedies take away excrescences of flesh be they from a Callous or flesh that are Remedies of Constipation of which we spake before A Hernia of the Caul can be taken away by no other means than by cutting which is ful of danger it can hardly be helped by streight Ligature But a Hernia of the Intestins is easily Glewed together in Children and Boys with outward use of astringents and fit Ligature But in people that are of years if it be Old it

is held hitherto by Physitians to be incurable without Chirurgery yet use that is the best master of things and Judg of Remedies hath taught us not long since that the Ruptures of men of years and that very great ones and of long continuance have grown together by the use of Medicaments only and a convenient course of diet and that within threescore daies at the longest in manly and in Old Age but in forty daies in Yong men and at mans stature by the help of which Remedies Boys are cured within twenty daies unless the falling of the Intestins into the Cods be very great and all most grown Habitual And these Remedies may be Ranked amongst those that are easie to be prepared since they are compounded of a few things and those not fetcht from forrein Countries only one excepted The first is this Take one dram of the Herb Two-blade in half a Cup of red Wine Boyled with the Leaves of the same Plant every morning five hours before dinner And let the place affected be dayly anoynted with Oyl of four Olives wherein a whole land Hedg-Hog that is Old hath been Boyled with his Skin and al til the flesh be consumed The second Take for threescore daies one Cup of strong red Wine altered with one ounce of Rupture-wort the whole Herb with the Roots must be taken and the tendrest can be got first bruised and during the said time a Spunge must be laid to the place affected that is first dipped into the same red Wine and then pressed out The third Take one dram of Pouder of equal portions of Rupture wort Wall-Rue and Asparagus and Horse-Tail in half a Cup of strong Red Wine for the time spoken of before and let the place be anointed twice every day with common Oyl or Oyl of St. Johns-wort wherein live Lizards by long standing of it in the Sun are consumed The fourth Let a Cerate be laid on made of equal parts of Bdellium and poudered Aloes with the white of an Egg and the same time let the sick take one dram of the Pouder following in half a Cup of the best Red Wine five hours before Dinner Take Roots of great Comfrey Herb Bennet common Hedg-Hysop the less Two-Blade Horse-Tayl Coriander prepared Juyce of Roses steel prepared with Rose water of each one ounce and an half Mingle them and make a fine Pouder of them all The preparing of the steel is this That the filings of Steel or Iron be quenched in Rose Water and then dryed in the shade and then again be set on fire and quenched a-fresh in the same Water until it can be poudered very fine But in the use of these Medicaments this rule is generally to be observed that a Truss be constantly worn and the sick must take care he hold not his breath nor use strong exercise nor eat or drink meats or drinks that are windy Remedies for Tumors that proceed from Humors are manifest by what hath been said since they must be directed to the taking away of the cause which must be repulsed at the first but in the augmentation they must partly repel and partly digest in the state they must digest or if it can be bring to suppuration but a Tumor that is very hard must first be acurately softned then digested and dissolved Therefore some few things shall here be only annexed that are found to be proved for some Tumors and are Remedies easie to come by For an Erisipulas of any part whatsoever Take fine Wheat flower so much as you please put it into a bag of thin Weaving and lay it to the part at any time of the Defluxion For kibes that are Ulcerated this is a most excellent Unguent Take Leaves of green Tobacco the inward Rind of the Elder of each one handful Roots of the Male Daffodil sliced one ounce common Oyl one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire til all the moisture be consumed then press all out strongly and add Frankinsence finely poudered half an ounce Yellow Wax six drams Mingle them for a Liniment and anoint the part affected within then for Fingers that are pained let it be rubbed strongly on them til they grow very red and hot This is also good for fowlness of the Skin and for Morphews Against the swelling of the Feet from weariness long Disease or contusion Take the Meal of whole Wheat that is not sifted half a pound pouder of wormwood half an ounce Roses one ounce sharp Red Wine what may be sufficient Make a Cataplasm at a soft fire adding about the end compleat Oyl of Roses one ounce and an half Marke an Unguent Lay it on twice a day For hard swellings not Ulcerated a singular Remedy 〈…〉 purging of the Body give for four daies together one dram of the Pouder of common Gladiol which groweth most frequently amongst Corn and take it in Broth altered with the Root of Pilewort four hours before meat And lay upon the part a Plaister of bruised new Wax not yet purified from the Bees and the Honey but if you cannot have it then lay this Cerate Take the Pouder of Lizards dried in an Oven one dram and an half Juyce of Tobacco Yellow Wax and Burgundy ●itch of each half an ounce Mingle them and make a Cerate in the place of Burgundy Pitch which is rare in Italy take Colophonia For a Cancer not Ulcerated that is not yet come to any notable Magnitude nothing is better than the long using of the Plaister of Aquapendente after a sufficient purging of the Body Take Meal of Millet one pound Oyl of R●ses worked in a Morter of Lead with a Leaden Pestle til it become of the colour of Lead sive ounces sweet Wine four ounces Make them to a Plaister with a sufficient quantity of the Decoction of Garden Night-shade Sowthistle and Golden-Rod of each alike made in pure Water For watery and windy Tumors Remedies propounded amongst things that discuss are proper An Impostume with a little bag is not cured by Physical means only but the whole Bag must be drawn forth or if that cannot be done after the Tumor is opened it is to be consumed partly with putrefying Remedies partly with eating Causticks of which we have Spoken already Remedies for Diseases in Number Since that a Disease in number Wanting is made to be according to the defect of something belonging to the complement of the Living a Disease in number Augmented must properly be considered according to the addition of some natural thing that is Redundant in number Yet by use and abuse of names Stones Worms a Pin and Web are referred also to Diseases in number Remedies for Worms and Stones are to be found amongst these things which respect the cause from the whole substance For a Pin and Web these amongst Remedies easie to come by are the most convenient being applyed Warm to the Eye but especially by the help of an Ocular Cupping Glass that the Remedy may work