95 Noses excrescence of flesh ibid. Noses impostume ibid. Noses infection called Polipus 97 Nummednesse 16 Nutmegs preserued 717 O. OIle of Saint Iohns wort 745 Oiles for the stomack in vomiting and scouring 341. 344 Oile of Antimonie of Steele and Iron 751 Oile of Amber 741 Oile of Abrecocke kernels 745 Oile of Cammomill 743 Oile of Capers ibid. Oile of Costus 142. 743 Oile of Beuercod 742 Oile of Egs. 49. 744 Oile of Euphorbium 744 Oile of Annis seedes ibid. Oile of blew Flowerdeluce 750 Oile of Roses 749 Oile of Sulphure ibid. Oile called Hypobalsamum 143 Oile of Mandragora 741 Oile of Rubarbe 784 Oile of Marierom gentle 747 Oile of Scorpions 750 Oile of Cloues 747 Oile of Pepper 748 Oile of Rue ibid. Oile of water Lillies 750 Oile of Spikenard ibid. Oile of Elderne flowers 745 Oile of Violets 751 Oile of Nutmegs 747 Oile of Vitrioll 752 Oile of the seeds and flowers of Poppie 746 Oile of Earthwormes 530. 748 Oile of Dill. 743 Oile of Linnen cloth 746 Oile of Lead 742 Oile of Mastike 331 Oile of Foxes 212. 744 Oile of the blossoms of Walnut trees 114 Oile of Wormewood 753 Oile of Oliues 8. 742 Oile of Poplar buds 741 Oile of Iuniper berries 752 Oile of Tiles 102. 753 Oile of Quinces 331 Oile of sweete Almonds 364. 746 Oile of Lillies 744 Oile of Hempseed ibid. Oile of diuers kinds ibid. Oile of bitter Almonds 746 Oiles diuers moe to be prepared 744. 745. 746. 747. c. Oile of Copperas 745 Oyntment of Roses described by Mesues 32. Ointment in Consumption 255 Oyntments or oyles for all colde stomackes 330. Opium prepared and vsed 13 Order of diet in the Rupture 287 Order of diet in the headach of heate 35 Order of diet in a cold headach 43 Order of diet for watering and running eyes 71 Order of diet in bleeding at the nose 98 Order of diet in diseases of the eares 105 Order of diet for weake memorie 119 Order of diet in the sleeping disease 135 Order of diet in the dead Palsey 147 Order of diet in the falling euill 152 Order of diet in Bronchocele 187 Order of diet in colde rheumes 198 Order of diet in the Pleurisie of heate 218 Order of diet in the spetting of bloud 246 Order of diet in the Consumption 252 Order of diet in the debilitie of the heart 259 Order of diet in swounings 261 Order of diet in the Pyles 305 Order of diet in the paine and windinesse of the stomacke 332 Order of diet in a hardned Spleene 414 Order of diet in the inuoluntary effluxion of vrin 464. Order of diet for women with child 504 Order of diet in the Canker 572 Order of diet in the Leprosie 584 Order of diet in hot Agues 628. 629 Order of diet for them that recouer after a long sicknesse 633 Order of diet in the Plague 679 Order of diet for them that are bitten with a mad dog 699 Order of diet for giddinesse of the head 124 Order of diet for those that are pursiue 234 235. Order for them that recouer from the Plague or any lingring sicknesse 680 Order of diet for an hote impostume of the Kidneyes 446 Order of diet in falling downe of the Pallet 167. Order of diet in the Ague Synochus 641 Order of diet in hote rheumes 202 Order of diet in obstruction of the liuer 391 Order of diet for outward vlcers of the kidneies 451. Order of diet for the grauell and stone 464 Order of diet for the dropsie 407 Oxycroceum Vigonis 213 Oxycraton 753 Oxymel diuersly prepared 44 Oxymel of Squils 38 Oxysacchara prepared 94 P. PAlsey or Paralysis 134. 135. 137 Palsey through fals or blowes 144 Pallet of the throate falling downe 166. 167 Pallets description 166 Paine in the head looke Headach Paine in the eyes looke Eyes paine Paine in the eares looke Eares paine Paine in the teeth looke Toothach Paine in the ioynts looke Ioyntach Paine in the backe looke Backe paine Paine of the Pyles looke Pyles pained Paine of the stomacke looke Stomacke Paine in the left side vnder the short ribs looke Spleene pained Paine in the right side vnder the short ribs looke Liuer pained .. Paine in the Kidneyes 443 Paine in the mother through cold 494 Paine in the same through heate 495 Paine in the hips or Sciatica through heate and cold 533. 534 Paine of the Podagra or Gout of the feete 545. Paine in the Pockes of long continuance 580 Paine in the throate through Phlegma and colde taking 193 Paine in the teeth through outward causes 177 178. Palsey that is shaking 137 Palsey that is dead 139. 140 Paine in the bowels looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly remedied 428 Paine in the belly of yong children 431 Paine in the Kidneyes 442. 443 Paine of retention of vrine 466 Paine of the Mother 493 Paine of the ioynts an especiall remedie 550 Paine of wounded sinewes remedied 612 Paines description 367. 368. 619 Parbraking with a laske looke vomiting Patients before whose eyes Gnats seeme to appeare what to refraine 83 Pearle of the eye 78 Peaches preserued 355. 719 Peares preserued 712 Pearles prepared 9 Pectorall potion prepared 229 Pectorall salue ibid. Pestilentiall Agues looke Agues pestilentiall Phlebotomies cause and commoditie 20 Phlebotomie forbidden 21 Phlegmes description 603. 605. 619 Phisickes commendation 4 Phisicall bookes diuision 5 Phisickes description 4 Phisickes necessitie ibid. Phisicke is a sure pawne ibid. Phisicke waights 29 Pyles called Verrucales 312 Pyles called Haemorrhoides 304 Pyles that hang farre out 312 Pyles that bleede ouermuch looke bleeding 306. 308. Pyles opened 309 Pyles their paine 310 Pils pestilentiall 662 Pils Indae prepared 413 Pils for all kinds of laskes and the termes in women 357 Pils that moue vrine 398 Pils for the plague especiall good 663 Pils of Amber 324 Pils of diuers kinds 755 Pils to preserue health 237 Pils to bind 350 Pils for the Gout of Charles the Emperor 542 Pissing of blood 448 Pissing of matter looke Matter made by vrine Pith prepared 8 Places in women described 288 Places exulcerated by copulation 289. 290 Plague 653. 654. 655. c. Plague described ibid. Plague cured 668. 669. c. Plagues causes and signes 653 Plague preuented 654 Plague sore or Carbuncle 564 Plague sore what 564. 65 whence it proceedeth ibid. when it appeareth how to be remedied 675. 676. 677. Plague sore not appearing what is to be done 678. Plaister Diachilon how made 518 Plaisters in the rheumes 198 Plaister Basilicum 565 Plaister for the headach 31 Plaister de Muscilaginibus 64 Plaister to heale the corner of the eyes 77 79. Plaister for the rednesse of the eyes 69 Plaister for watering eyes and cold rheumes 72. 74. 200. Plaister of Bayberries 329 Plaister called the Blacke plaister 567 Plaister of Falkenstone 569 Plaisters for Rupture 277 Plaister Gratia Dei 566 Plaister for wounds 598 Plaister called Emplastrum Griseum 610 Plaister Apostolicum 313 Plaister de
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
§. 7. HEreof we haue in the beginning of the 4. § made mention how that it is none other but an intumefaction of the veines through blood for in the cods are many veines that compasse them all about This tumor or rupture procéedeth of melancholick blood to which do help sorrow vexation of the mind many fantasies and grosse meates whereof the melancholik blood is ingendred like as also of grosse red wine salt flesh pottage of Beanes and Lentils and all that is drest with sharp vineger Such a patient is to rule himselfe no otherwise then is taught in the fleshy rupture but that he must not vse any of the corroding salue but in stéed thereof vse the plaisters De Muscilaginibus and especially those that be made with Opopanaco Serapino Bdellio and Ammoniaco For this is also good bathes which are Sulphurish Copperish and warme by nature And to speake the truth this species of rupture is not to be holpen but with great paines and continuance of time Of the terrible Rupture called Buris §. 8. THis rupture commeth also through melancholick blood which not only falleth downe into the cods but also infecteth them wholly so that beyond all measure it commeth thereby to swell yea will be black and cold and sometimes without any vlceration But if so be that there come vnto it any hard swellings which afterwards breake out and yéeld much matter then may the same be wel taken for Elephantiasis yet if so be that the swelling be not so big and hath neuertheles the foresaid signes then is it to be taken for the right Hernia Oscenae which some do call Ossealis which altogether descendeth into the cods This disease will be cured like other hard swellings or as hereafter followeth Take beane meale thrée ounces Cammomill muscilage of Hollihocke rootes Annise séed Fenegréeke séed and Raisins without stones of each halfe an ounce temper them with yolks of egs These things following are good for plaisters as Cumin Nightshade Beane meale Cammomil Melilot oile of Lillies Cow dung crums of Rie bread and moe other things aforesaid But if so be that the hardnesse wil not weare away but inclineth to maturation then must the same be opened and healed as other impostumations The plaister Diachilon is good to be vsed at the first and the gum Ammoniacum by it selfe for that they either consume or maturate the swelling in short space There is also good for this Beane meale Fenegréeke meale Lilly roots Colewoort leaues and figs as much as you please sodden together and then powned and so layd vpon the griefe Also this rupture is to be oftentimes annointed with the oile of Cammomill Lillies and Spike and chiefly when there is no speciall heate therein It is also to be noted that it is not good if it be knowne that the Cod is full of matter or corruption to leaue the same long therein lest that the testicles thereby might also spoile and putrifie For this is this rule to be obserued to the end that in time the melancholike humors might be drawne out and purged away to wit to open the Liuer veine on the left side The next day must he take half an ounce of Catharticum Imperiale with Violet or Waterlilly water Now for to cause the matter to discusse and consume take sixe or eight dayes one after another these potions following Take Violet water Lettice water and Hop water of each one ounce sirupe of Citron pils one ounce and a halfe take this warme early in the morning Of the Ruptures whereby the Bowels do fall into the Cods §. 9. THe eight and last sort of ruptures is here aboue mentioned in the title The descending of the bowels or rim is oftentimes very sodainly and otherwhiles very slowly But howsoeuer the same come yet for all that can it not be without paine and chiefly if it be touched the inward causes are none other then wind which cléerely appeareth hereby if the patient hold vp his breath long the rupture will be the greater and in breathing out the smaller The outward causes are sufficiently expressed in the treatise of the Ruptures of wind and of the Nauell For to helpe this disease before all things diligence must be had that the bowels which are descended may be brought againe into their place And for to compasse this take hold on the cods vnderneath and treatably thrust it vp Take also a great boxing cup set it aboue the priuities or hard by and let it draw a good space The patient must also lie higher with his buttockes than his body that the bowels thereby the easier may returne into their due places If there be any great paine approching then first of all looke to swage the same and chiefly with clisters which are thus to be made to wit the decoction wherein Linseed Fenegreeke and white Sesamum seeds beaten grosly haue bene boyled and therewith butter and oyle of Violets be mixed Item take Hens and Cocks broth and oyle of Sesamum of each sixe ounces Sal gemmae halfe an ounce or a little lesse temper them together and minister this Clister meetly warme Another Take twelue ounces of swéet Wine fresh butter and oile of sweet Almonds of each two ounces Benedicta lax halfe an ounce temper them all together for a clister Further the whole Cods with all parts that are adioyning are to be wel fomented or bathed What waters are to be taken for it you haue them set downe before in the end of the first § beginning thus Take Rue c. Yet another in the fourth § beginning thus Take Seâ—eli or Siluer mountaine séed c. In one of these warme decoctions wet a great sponge and lay it ouer all the priuities which being done then let the rupture be softly shooued backe Afterwards must you lay this plaister following ouer it and bind it as hard as may be abidden and suffered Take Cipers rootes two ounces Mill dust three ounces Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each one ounce fish lime or Isinglas one ounce and a halfe Dragagant Gumme Momy and burnt Iuory of each halfe an ounce Dragon blood Sagapenum Sealed earth and fine Bolus of each fiue dragmes the meale and powned rootes shall you séeth in two third parts of water and one third part of red vineger vntill it be thicke inough then mixe molten Waxe amongst it as much as is needfull stirre it with dissolued Gum well together vntill it be cold You haue also before in the discourse of the Nauell and vpper Rupture many good plaisters which are good for this vse But if so be that the rupture be large and al that is falne downe be much then lay the plaister thereon which is described in the treatise of the vpper rupture in the beginning of the 1. § for it is singular good also for this kind of rupture Make a plaister thereof after the forme of a shield whereof the narrowest end may passe vnder the cods betwéene the legs and the
of much cold water through much binding grosse meates as hard Chéese Cow béefe or any other hard flesh which is not well sodden or rosted salt Porke and principally of ill boyled wood Pigeons or meates which he swallowed downe not well chewed Item there be mo things which be hurtfull for this sicknes as Pease Beanes Medlars Quinces Seruises Peares Sloes and such like binding fruites For this paine of the belly is commonly more rife in haruest when fruites are found most aboundant than at any other time of the yeare These sicknesses may also be caused of cold and piercing winds as the Northren winds as also to the contrarie out of great heate and great labour and lastly through venime taken The inward causes commonly procéede from other parts as if there be any impostume present whether it be in the Bowels or in the Lyuer or in the sucking veines called Venae Mesaraicae in the Kidneys or in the Bladder or when the Bowels thorough some vapour fall downe into the priuities If so be that the cause be in the bowels thereof there be sixe to wit if the gut Ileon or Colon be too hot or too cold or be fraughted with any cold tough matter or through wind or obstructed with some hard corruption or when the bowels be full of wreathed wormes lastly this disease may also be caused through faintnesse of the expulsiue or strength of the retentiue vertue Concerning the signes they may be demaunded of the sicke persons or standers by But if there be any impostume in any other parts it may be knowne by the place affected where the impostume is The hote impostumes of the guts are discerned by the continuall agues thirst panting or beating of the same part whereas to the contrarie the cold impostumes be without great paine and without agues but onely with a kind of heauines and tumor and these commonly assaile a man that is accustomed to vse much cold and moist meates as milke fish and such like If this sicknes be caused through the obdurated corruption of the bowels then is there with it an extreame pain so that it seemeth to the patient that his bowels are cut vp and that chiefly if he haue taken before any such things as may cause these bindings and harden the filth or corruption as inward or outward heate and through vse of drie things Or if this disease come through wind then doth the paine depart from one place vnto another with a kind of rumbling and that with such stitches as if the bowels were prickt through with auls And if the same be caused of cold slime then be cold rheumes felt and such like in the bowels and that chiefly through certaine meates taken which do increase Phlegma Of the paine or griping of the guts which is called Cholica §. 3. COlon or Cholica Passio is a paine of the bowels to wit as is before discoursed of the neathermost guts which is caused when the superfluitie which nature is enured to naturally to auoyd and cast from her is stopt and hindered and if the corruption winds or wormes be not expelled as they were wont to be But the paine of the cholick cometh commonly by fits ceasing otherwhiles and then immediatly returning with great intolerable paine with heauie breath with shiuering shaking and sweating The causes of this cholick are for the most part the same with Iliaca Passio for both of these sorts of paines in the guts be matched so neare together that they may well be called sisters But there is onely this difference betwéene them both that the neathermost bowels be fat by nature and therfore may gather fatnes vnto them that by that meanes the guts are made so narrow that the hard ordure cannot passe thorough them but is vtterly hindered The signes of the Cholick be these when the ordure and winds are daily shut vp and hindred And although the stoole be furthered through Clisters or some other meanes yet is the ordure neuerthelesse hard and burnt as Sheepes dung or Goats dung whereby the naturall appetite doth abate from day to day vntill it be vtterly lost Thence followeth then so great paine and gripings about the Nauell that it seemeth that the guttes be knit or haled together with strings or pluckt asunder and bored through with bodkins As often as one stirreth him or turneth from one side to the other then doth the paine increase vehemently in this sicknes the patient is alwaies gréedie of sowre and sharpe things and hath a loathing of all that is fat Each humor whereof this paine is caused is knowne by these signes following If it be caused of Phlegma then is the same with paine heauinesse and desire of all warmth The paine is to be knowne by the féeling Old folkes and such as be flegmaticke by nature are most of all subiect to this passion Also the winter eating of much fish of much fruite and of much milke excessiue rioting and great quietnesse much going into the water and such like be to this sicknes a great cause If in case that this sicknesse be caused through heate then is there a great inflammation and with it drouth of the tong great thirst itch great heate in the vrine Chiefly if the person be young and in the Sommer time if he be chollerick by nature if he haue vsed much about the fire or much spice Or if this paine of the bowels be caused through obstruction it may be knowne by the going to the stoole and paine of the guts to wit as if the same were torne asunder and stucke thorough And if the patient would go to the stoole with great forcement then is it all to be auoyded very like to clay the which may be caused through long vse of any old meate through the patients drie complexion and through long continuing labour and with much sweating in the hote ayre Or if this Cholicke proceed through wind then is heard much rumbling in the bowels and puffing vp of the belly his excrements do swim vpon the water because they be full of wind and so much the more may one be ascertained thereof if one knew that the patient had eaten before much Pease Beanes Chestnuts Rapes Figs Must and such like windie meates or drinkes much water or much watered wine Or when this paine of the bowels is caused of any hote impostumes then doth the patient féele hote stitches he hath thirst and great paine and that alwaies in one place he hath also a red face extuberation of the eyes and restraint of the vrine But if this griefe be caused through a cold impostume for it be all these things beforementioned much féebler being caused of superfluous meates of much fish of much cold and moist herbes fruites Swines flesh and such like also the stooles be full of Phlegma Of the difference of these paines in the Guts §. 4. ABoue all those which are before discouered be these two sorts of paines in the bowels
disagréeing in this to wit that in the paine of the vppermost guts the extremitie is much greater and can kill a bodie much sooner for that these vppermost tender and small guts are much more sensible then the neathermost great guts Secondly because that Iliaca is vnstedfast as it is said before and remooueth from one place into another Thirdly because this Iliaca is higher than the nauell And when this paine setteth there and about the raines then is it the generall opinion of all the learned that in no wise neither through medicins neither through any other meanes this sharpe matter or wind which hath no vent lying shut vp in the crooked gut Ilion and there making this paine may be made to auoide neither yet expelled and that there will follow of it the Dropsie Tympania wherein the wind doth after spread it selfe abroad betwéene the skinne and the flesh behind ouer the whole bodie as hath bene said more at large before in the twelfth Chapter and sixtéenth § The fourth difference is that the vppermost paines of the guts or Iliaca are to be holpen through medicins from aboue and the vndermost paine Cholica through clisters for that the Clisters be very commodious for the Cholera and very little for Iliaca or nothing at all Fiftly if there appeare any other accidents with it as swowning trembling of the heart short breath much waking or cold of the outward parts they be then alwaies the more grieuous in Iliaca then in Cholica because that it is nearer to the heart and therefore the more perillous Now to come to the remedies we will according to the custome of the auncient Phisitions distinguish these paines of the bowels by fiue seuerall causes wherof the first is the obstruction or binding of the bodie the second Phlegma the third winds the fourth impostumes the fift Cholera and heate but we will here declare for the first certain things that be generally conuenient for both these griefes the remedies which be ordained and vsed in both these pains of the bowels are also very méete for either of them onely as it is said the Clisters for Iliaca passio do seldome do any good not that the same be therefore altogether forborne for both must alwaies be first indeuored to open the passages of the guts and as soone as one perceiueth the paine to be presently in hand with clisters and also to make somewhat readie which may be laid vpon the belly to warme the same therewith like as with these things following to wit Pellitorie of the wall Mugwoort Southernwood Fennell Elecampane leaues Wormewood white Mints and Marioram of these herbes take as many and which you will put them in a bag and let them séeth in Wine afterwards wring them out and so lay them warm vpon the place of the paine Item take Millet or Oates mixe them with Salt and a litle Annis Fennel Dil and with Linséede parch them and lay them on the paine You may also make and vse after the same manner a bag with Cammomill Venus haire and Stechas Item take Althea Butter Barrowes grease Hens and Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce oyle of Cammomill one ounce annoint the place of the paine with it what is particularly to be vsed besides for either of these paines in the guts shall be distinctly shewed hereafter Of the paine in the guts through obstruction or binding of the body §. 5. IN the beginning of this description of the paine in the bowels when it cometh chiefly through the binding of the bodie it is to be cured with Clisters which hereafter be described against winds and with the purgatiue medicine wherof diuers be set downe in the eleuenth Chapter 20. § And both these are to be vsed so often and so long vntill that the bodie be thoroughly opened In like manner this patient must indeuor himselfe to eate all soluble meates and herbes viz. Mallowes and herbe Mercurie drest with fresh broths with Butter and Sallad oyle which for this disease is not onely néedfull but also much commended Lay also outwardly vpon it this plaister following Take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fenegréeke meale and Linseede meale of each sixe ounces oyle of Violets Hens grease Barrowes grease fresh Butter of each two ounces foure white Lilly rootes rosted All the herbs are to be sodden and afterwards stamped and you are afterwards to temper the rest amongst them ouer the fire and then to aply them warme vpon it For this is also very good the sirupe of Violets drunken with some broth wherein Damaske Prunes Raisins and Figs haue bene decocted and wherewith some Cassie is tempered He may also vse the herbes and other things stamped whereof the Clisters be boyled and make a plaister thereof with Butter or oyle of Violets and with Barrowes grease and lay it ouer all the belly He must also eschue cold ayre and must keepe him alwaies warme continuing this so long vntill that ye haue his bodie very open Of the paine in the guts through slime and Phlegma §. 6. THe other former discouered cause is Phlegma which as is sufficiently shewed before doth shew it selfe apparantly if with a tolerable paine there be no great heate nor thirst adioyned And if there be any salt matter which the patient shall perceiue in his mouth or any obstruction of the bodie stinking belching and great faintnes with it then must preparatiue medicines be ministred to the patient and such as may procure no wambling and so begin with these Sirupes following viz. the sirupe of white Mints of Wormewood and all sorts of Oxymel or any such like Afterwards is much commended by the auncient Phisitions the confection De Gallia for to purge which followeth hereafter Take Mastick Cloues Ginger Pepper long Pepper Cinnamom Nutmegs Gallia Muscata and Diagridion of each a like quantitie afterwards wring out the iuice of sowre Quinces and put as much hony as iuice vnto it then take of both these one ounce and a half and put half an ounce of powder vnto it which is made of the foresaid things but let this iuice and hony séeth before to the thicknes of a sirupe and afterwards temper the other things amongst it whereof you are to giue at once one quarter of an ounce or two dragmes and a halfe Also the purging confections of Quinces which be described in the eight Part are very méete for this purpose and in like sort the Electuarium Indum A purging Confection Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger one scruple Mastick halfe a scruple Sugar three dragmes temper them well together and then take it with what you will But if so be that the sick bodie be not addicted to vomit and that the same be not feared then are these Pils following to be exhibited vnto him called Iliacae Take Coloquint and Sagapenum of each ten dragmes Diagridion thrée dragmes and one scruple then make pils of it with wine
and giue therof one dragme at once they ease very spéedily the paine For this is also very good Benedicta Laxatiua or Hiera Picra one ounce Hiera Picra magnae halfe a dragme Turbith and Ginger of each one scruple then mixe them together with a good draught of wine But in case that in this cholick the purging medicins will not helpe and the sicknes still increaseth then make these suppositories following and if so be that these suppositories will not sufficiently relaxe then are clisters to be vsed which are the very best and safest remedies for the cholicke which one can deuise therefore we will here rehearse some of them and begin first with the mildest But note alwaies which is good in all clisters that are to be vsed for the cholicke that the herbes and all that is to be vsed with them are to be decocted in such broths wherein Calues heades Lambes heads and feete be boyled for these broths be very requisite for all obstructions of the bodie Take Cammomill Hollihocks and Mallowes of each one handfull Fennell Annis Caraway of each one quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in wine or water Take fiftéene or sixtéene ounces of this decoction and dissolue therein fresh Butter and Sallad oyle of each two ounces a halfe or thrée ounces with the yolke of an Egge temper them well minister it warme Item take one pound of Linséede oyle and vse it very warme for a Clister Or take Mallowes Hollihockes Béetes Mercurie Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one handfull fiue or sixe Figs cut Annis Fennell of each one quarter of an ounce Branne one handfull seeth them all together in sufficient water Of this decoction you are to take fiftéene or sixteene ounces and then temper amongst it Hiera Picra and Cassie of each one ounce oyle of Rue three ounces and then make a Clister thereof Another Take Mallowes Hollihockes Mercurie and Bearefoote of each one handfull ten or twelue fat Figs powned Fenegréeke and Linséede of each one ounce and a half Dil séed one ounce Bran halfe a handful oyle of Sesamum and Hony of each one ounce and a halfe Sal gemmae one dragme Cassie and Hiera Picra of each thrée quarters of an ounce temper them all together in sixtéene ounces or more of the foresaid decoction vnto a Clister You haue before in the eleuenth Chapter and the 21. § a Clister of Malmsey which is also conuenient for this vse Item take the iuice of Parietarie and the iuice of Wormewood of each sixe ounces one Nutmeg Peach kernels beaten very small halfe a dragme make them all together warme and minister thrée of these Clisters in one day Another Take Annis and the séede of Pellitorie of each one quarter of an ounce Pellitorie leaues one handfull séeth them all together in Wine and take thereof fiftéene or sixteene ounces melt Butter therein and Linséede of each two ounces then temper them together When the patient hath auoyded this Clister then let him afterwards drink fiue or sixe ounces of the oyle of swéet Almonds and that tempered with Sugar Item take oyle of Rue twelue ounces fiue or sixe Léekes heads stampe them and seeth them in the oyle then straine it through a cloth and vse the oyle for a Clister Item take Pellitorie Centorie Marioram and field Mints of each one handfull Annis Comin and péeled wild Saffron seede of each one dragme Polipodie rootes Turbith and Radish séede of each halfe an ounce Sal gemmae one dragme temper all this into a Clister as is abouesaid You are also to obserue here that these and such like Clisters shall be ministred but onely when other remedies wil not auaile Item oyle of Cammomill is more precious then common oyle but if Cammomill cannot be gotten then is oyle of Linséede to be vsed in stead of it Also hereafter do follow sundrie remedies against all paine of the guts which serue also very well for the Phlegma Certaine Potions for the cold Phlegma TAke the rootes of Smallage Fennell and Parsly rootes of each two ounces Annis Fennell Caraway Parsly and Smallage séeds of each one ounce Radish two ounces make a decoction of this and drinke thereof adayes oftentimes as warme as you can suffer it Also once or twice a day drinke a spoonefull or twaine of Rose hony tempered together with the foresaid potion Item séeth an old Cocke vntill the bones fall from the flesh and in this broth séeth Polipodie rootes the séedes of Dill and of Annis and drinke otherwhiles a good draught of it Also you may oftentimes with the waters and séedes of the foresaid rootes foment the place where the paine is and afterwards annoint the place with oyle of Rue wherein Annis séedes are boyled Some do highly commend the oyle of Sulphur viz. to drinke in the winter one droppe or twaine with Muscadell wine or with vitall water It will maruellously helpe and expell all gripings in the guts of a cold occasion Item the confected Elecampane rootes and confected Pimpernell rootes do asswage all paines of the bowels which procéede of cold In like manner the confected Ginger doth warme and strengthen all inward parts and so doth also the rootes of Eringus when it is confected Amongst other Conserues there be also méete and commodious the conserues of Piony and Rosemary of Hyssop of Spikenard and after purging the Confections of Trion pipereon Diacalamentha and such like Of the paine in the guts through wind §. 7. THe third cause of these paines in the bowels are winds If then this paine do come of no obstruction and yet neuerthelesse one féele cumbling in the belly heareth the paine run vp and down in the belly and if the paine do come by fits and there abateth againe against this be those remedies to be vsed that do expell wind For which the Confection of Bayberries is so highly cōmended that it is thought that her like cannot be found At the Apothecaries they cal this Electuarium de Baccis Lauri and it is thus prepared Take drie Rue one dragme Ameos Comin Nardus séede Louage séede Marioram Caraway bitter Almonds long Pepper Daucus seede white Mints Pepper Calmus Bayberries and Beuercod of each one quarter of an ounce Sagapenum halfe an ounce Opopanacum one dragme all these being powned together and molten then make a confection of it with clarified hony and giue the patient thereof the quantitie of an hasell nut with a draught of wine Marmalade with spices is also very méete for this purpose Item in like sort be both the sorts of Treacle and Mithridate for that they do wast wind and be good for all cold diseases of the intrailes Item there is also fit for this vse the confection of Horseradish which shall hereafter be expressed These confections following are also very commodious viz. De Cumino Diatrion pipereon Diagalanga Dianisum Diacalamintha Diapliris Aromaticum rosatum and after them a good draught of Wine If you desire
the pores and doth consume the wind whereby the paine is delayed You may wet a Sponge in his bath and lay the same oftentimes warme vpon the belly Likewise you may also fill a bladder and hold it warme vpon the belly If you haue not this decocted water then fill a bladder halfe full with Linseede oyle and make it warme in hote water and so lay it vpon the belly Another Bath AFter that the bodie is well purged he may sit in a Tub with warme Sallad oyle and when the paine is asswaged then to go out of it againe But if the oyle cannot be had nor be gotten then vse this ensuing Take Pellitorie Violet leaues Rue Cammomill Linséede Fenegréeke Hollihockes and the sprigs of Colewoorts of each thrée handfuls seeth them all together in water for a bath Of this may you also make a Lotion for the féete be it cooling or warming according as the case requireth For a Fume Take Frankinsence Masticke Lignum Aloes and Sandaraca of each a like quantitie cast it vpon hote coles and receiue the fume vpon the belly or where the paine is for it doth draw much wind vnto it The place also is first to be rubbed so long vntill it be thorow red and afterwards well annointed with any of the foresaid oyles The wind may also be consumed through good gouernment if the same be put in practise through exercise and sobrietie for that where there is not much moisture receiued into the bodie there cannot ingender much wind And when such a patient hath recouered his health then must he beware of gréene herbes milke and all other things which be windie He must also addict himselfe to drinke hony water with spices or prepare this Meade ensuing Take two ounces of clarified honie thrée pints of water séeth and skum it well When it is cleansed then are you to hang therein half an ounce of grosse beaten Pepper and afterwards let them seeth againe vntill there remaine about one quart of moisture When it is then cold take out the Pepper being well wrung out For this serueth also burnt Wine or Aqua vita yet there is nothing better than good old Wine moderatly drunken He is to be restrained from all watred wine because it ingendreth winds He must likewise beware of all cold drinkes viz. the water of all herbes fruite fish milke and such like For all manner of paine in the belly §. 8. ALbeit that herebefore there be many things discouered for to asswage the paine of the belly notwithstanding we must here set downe somewhat of the Narcotica which be things that take away or do numbe the senses for which we aduise in the vse of them to begin alway with the least and so to come to the greatest so that nature be not violated Therefore where great paine is you must apply parched Millet Panick and salt Item take Cammomill Melilot Rue Marioram Penniroyall Rosemarie Comin Annis Fennell and Dill séed beaten grosse which one will and as much as one will let them séeth in wine and whilest it is warme wet a sponge in it and lay it vpon the place of the paine Make bags of the foresaid séeds and herbs and sprinkle wine vpon a hote stone and warme them thereon Or séeth it in wine and then lay them vpon the belly as all other Afterwards annoint the place with warme oyle viz. oyle of Cammomill and of Costus but if the paine be intollerable great in the vppermost guts that one feareth to fall thereby in a swound one must through extreame néede put things in practise which do numbe the senses for which the Confection Philonium is to be vsed and chiefly with the purging Confection Diaphoenicon but this must be done with the counsell of a learned Phisition as we haue oftentimes alreadie admonished yet shall suffise halfe a dragme tempered with halfe an ounce of the Conserue of Roses Others in steade of Philonium vse the pils of Cynoglossa for that they be safer also the Triphera Sarasenica And albeit that through all these former reasons it may be sufficiently vnderstood how that he is to be kept with meate and drinke neuerthelesse we will briefly rehearse it once againe for methode sake This patient is oftentimes and very long to be rubbed with warme clothes He is also to inure him alwaies before meales to walke easily He is also to be restrained from all Fruite Pease Beanes and Must and all that procreateth winds He shall also eate all light meates and dresse his meate with Dill séede Comin and Annis Partriches and all other field Fowles are very good for him The iuice of old Cockes boyled with the foresaid seedes is here much commended For this sicknes is also much aduised to eate Hedghogs flesh rosted which causeth all pains of the intrailes to cease His bread must be a litle more salted and raised then commonly good old cleare and white Wine if there be no Ague with it is to be his drinke Of the paine of the bowels through any impostume and other affections of the guts §. 9. WE haue numbred this herebefore in the 4. § for the fourth cause of the paine in the bowels But in case this paine in the bowels be caused through any impostume and vlcer of the Lyuer of the Spleene Kidneys or any other parts then is the same to be knowne by the place where those parts do dye Like by each of these is sufficiently declared what is to be done for it But if the bowels be hurt without any impostume and that the same may be felt with the finger or any other instrument then may you find all that described in the tenth Chapter and 3. § But if in the paine of the belly through heate there appeare any impostume in the one side then must a veine be opened on the other side for the same must not be foreslowed for that it is much needfull First he must before other things haue a veine opened within the third or fourth day in the contrarie side of the paine and afterwards on the other side where the paine is felt This being now done then take two parts of water and one part of vineger and make a sponge wet therein and so apply it to the paine When the sponge beginneth to be warme then wet it againe and reiterate this oftentimes Moreouer the patient is oftentimes to be purged with Manna Cassie and sowre Dates and let him be ordered like as one is to be ordered who hath an Ague He must also beware of Vineger sowre Pomegranates and also of all soure things which may hurt the bowels Boyled Barly and oaten paps Mallowes Burrage and Orage decocted in Henbroth or eaten alone be very meete for him and if the Ague be not great then are they to be drest with butter or with oyle He must also kéepe a good diet and must vse much oyle of Sesamum in his meates His drinke must be barly water decocted with Licorice
and all his whole gouernment cooling and moistening as followeth hereafter Take Mallowes with the rootes Hollihocke rootes Bearefoote and Violet leaues of each one handfull Burrage flowers and flowers of Buglos of each halfe an ounce foure or fiue Prunes séeth them all together in a pot of water euen to the halfe and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéen ounces and temper with it two ounces of Cassie oyle of Violets thrée ounces of Hony one ounce then make a Clister of it This is also especially commended being made with Gotes milke Cassie and oyle of Almonds When as then the impostume is broken vp then are you to vse for to cleanse it Clisters Barly water and Hony and afterwards consolidating medicins But if so be that one perceiue any parings of the bowels in the stooles and that with great paine then are these following to be vsed Take somewhat lesse then a pound of stéeled water and séeth therin broad and picked Plantaine and Roses of each one M. euen to the halfe Take twelue or sixtéene ounces thereof and melt therein one ounce of Deere suet thrée yolkes of Egs well beaten oyle of Roses two ounces Thomas Sugar one ounce and temper them all together Another Take broad Plantaine wild Tansie and Comfrey of each one handfull Pomegranat pils one ounce seeth them all together in a pot of steeled water euen to the halfe then melt in this decoction two ounces of Deere suet Trociscos de Carabe De Terra sigillata of each one quarter of an ounce then make a Clister of it For plaisters take the sodden hearbes and the other things of the former Clisters powne them to grout and temper therewith halfe an ounce of powned red Saunders Barly meale two ounces and oyle of Violets as much as doth suffise for a plaister and then lay it warme ouer it it doth abate the paine very much Another Take Mallowes and Hollihocke rootes with the herbes of Nightshade Violets Cammomill and Melilot of each halfe an ounce beate them all together and temper therewith oyle of Violets of water Lillies and Ducks grease of each thrée dragmes Linseed meale one ounce and then make a plaister of it If need require to purge more then may the same be done with the conserue of Prunes But if so be this paine of the bowels be with a cold tumor then must stronger Clisters be vsed as there be sundrie set foorth in the 6. § against the paine of the bowels through Phlegma But first are the oyle of Cammomill with Vineger and the oyle of Roses that it may pierce and strengthen the bowels for to be vsed after the Clisters expressed before in the fift § may this plaister following for mollification be vsed for to ripen and asswage the paine Take Linseede meale Fenegréeke meale Wheaten meale and Barly meale of each two ounces sixe yolkes of Egs oile of Cammomill and good wine as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister this must be laid warme vpon it Another Take eightéene or twenty Figs séeth them well in water crums of white bread two ounces White meale one ounce and a halfe vnsalted Barrowes grease and oile of Cammomil as much as is néedful for to make a plaister let them all séeth a litle together and then lay them warme vpon it you may also put warme vnto it one ounce of beaten Cammomill It happeneth also sometimes that in these impostumes the vrine is retained backe because that the conduits are stopt through the tumor therfore if that befall the Saphea must be opened and the kidneys and the priuities annoynted with the oyle of Cammomill and oile of Violets and also are Clisters and Plaisters to be vsed like as shall hereafter be further spoken of in the prouocation of vrine Of the paine in the bowels through heate and Cholera §. 10. THis is the last cause whereby as is discoursed before in the fourth § the paine of the guts may be ingendred and when it commeth with heate and an ague it is not then so hurtfull or lingring as that which procéedeth of Phlegma For this must the patient first of all be purged with sirupes and such like things as do coole and further be kept with necessarie meate and drinke He is lastly to vse clisters in this manner following first of all he is to take certaine daies together preparatiue sirupes as both the sirups of Vineger Oxysacchara sirupe of Violets of Roses of Endiue and of water Lillies with some decoction wherein the same herbes haue bene decocted wherof diuers be described in the thrd Part. For purging TAke fresh Cassie one ounce or one ounce and a halfe the iuice of Endiue well clarified and skummed thrée or foure ounces then make a potion of it and giue it him warme or in stead of the iuice if one cannot get the same then take Endiue water Another Take eightéene or twenty Prunes and fiue or sixe fat Figs seeth them all together in sufficient water and take of this decoction thrée or foure ounces temper Cassie therein and oyle of swéet Almonds fiue or sixe ounces tempered with Sugar and the same drunken at once loose the bodie very gently and is also most sure that one may giue to the children newly borne Likewise Manna decocted with sowre Dates Prunes and with Sugar is also very requisite to loose and coole Concerning the meates he must be restrained like as in other hote sicknesses and must chiefly eschew alwaies meates which make wind But oyle of Almonds vsed in his meate be very meete for him All his Clisters must be made soluble and cooling like as be these following Take péeled Barly Mallowes Hollihock roots and Violets of each one handfull Prunes Sebestes of each eight or ten the séedes of Melons of Purslaine of Gourds of each one ounce Branne halfe a handfull Séeth them all together and take of this decoction and put vnto it oile of Roses and of Violets of each one ounce and a halfe Cassie for the clister one ounce Electuarium de Succorosarum fiue dragmes then make a Clister of it like as hath bene sufficiently shewed But here is to be noted that if any parings auoid with the guts then must oyle of Roses be most of al vsed yet oyle of Violets doth asswage the paine of the guts if the same come through any sharpnesse or any heate Or take Mallowes Hollihocks Bearefoote Violet herbes and Béetes of each one handfull Barly and Branne of each halfe a handfull let them seeth all together and then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces and temper Cassie in it one ounce Hiera Picra three quarters of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua three dragmes oile of Violets thrée ounces Salt one dragme or twaine minister it as is accustomed This ensuing is also speciall good if any bodie haue bene bounden certaine dayes together Take twelue or sixtéene ounces of Cow milke temper one ounce of Cassie amongst it and minister it warme There
Galingall of each one dragme Cardamome Cloues Mace and Lignum Aloes of each halfe a dragme This latter conserue doth strengthen the heart more than the former Conserue of Eyebright §. 3. TAke Eyebright in Iuly with the white flowers strippe the leaues and flowers from the stalkes afterwards chop them small and take one pound thereof and stampe amongst it two pound and a halfe of Sugar and then set it in the Sun and stirre it well oftentimes about This is the Conserue of Eyebright which is very commodious for the Eyes as in the first Part is sufficiently declared It sharpeneth also all darke sight it drieth the braines of all cold superfluous humors it strengtheneth the Liuer and openeth all obstructions it expelleth the yellow Iaundise and the Ague that procéedes of an vncleane stomacke In conseruing of all flowers and herbes is to be noted that all they that are hote and drie as Lauander Marioram Balme Sage Mints and such like one is to take to one pound of them two pounds and a halfe of Sugar but to all that is moist as Burrage flowers and Buglosse flowers c. is but two pound to be taken Conserue of Betonie §. 4. BEtonie is very highly and woorthily reputed of all Phisitions whereof there be three kinds to wit browne Betony which is the vpright Betony and also the Conserue which we will here describe The second kind are our Gilloflowers The third sort be Cowslips wherof we will speake hereafter in their due place This Conserue of Betony is therfore not vniustly commended séeing these vertues ensuing be ascribed vnto it Some do write that it is good against the crampe against the palsie and against the falling sicknes it is also good against madnesse against spitting of bloud and against the Sciatica this herbe is also good against all paine of the stomacke of the kidneys and of the bladder of the liuer milt and of all inward parts it expelleth vrine it looseth and it helpeth digestion it is also good against belching it cleanseth the breast it withstandeth the dropsie the Ague and it moueth womens termes In fine it is especiall good for all inward sicknesses lastly it is also good against all venime If that one desire to make a conserue of it then take onely the flowers for it which are to be powned together with Sugar like as is taught at the first How the greater Pimpernell rootes are to be preserued §. 5. TAke the rootes of the greater Pimpernel which be about one finger thicke wash them well scrape them and cut them in peeces about the length of a finger but cut them longwise take out the heart of it then powre fresh Well water vpō it and let them séeth like as is said of the Elecampane rootes but they must not vtterly lose their bitternes This being done powre decocted Sugar or Hony vnto it and when it is waterish then boyle it again and that so often as is néedfull These rootes expell vrine grauel and the stone they strengthen the kidneys and the bladder they cleanse them from all vncleannesse they asswage all paines of the bowels which do come through cold causes and they be good against the suffocation of the mother in time of the plague they be good against all bad ayre if they be holden in the mouth How Peares are to be preserued after two waies §. 5. YOu may take such Peares as you thinke good which be new gathered from the tree but none other but those that be sound If they be too hard then let them lye in a warme place the space of thrée or foure wéekes vntil they begin to be somwhat mellow but handle them not much for that thereby will they quickly rot If so be you will preserue them then haue an earthen pot ready and lay in the bottome of this pot some dried Vine leaues or Nut leaues theron a lay of Peares c. leaues and Peares vntill that the pot be full afterwards fill vp the pot with old wine and lay some heauie thing vpon the top of it that the Peares may not swimme These Peares may be vsed for meate and also for sicke persons for a comforting The common people which haue no wine may do it after the same manner with water But if you desire to haue them of a better tast then take Ginger which is made very faire cut the same small and strew it betwéene each row Item take a new pot and put Peares into it like as is said before make the pot as close too as is possible afterwards lay it so in a vessell with Wine then will they remaine fresh and good the space of a whole yere These Peares may otherwhiles be rosted in the ashes and strew them with Fennell seede and also after supper to eate them thereby to close vp the stomacke to the end the bad vapors may not ascend towards the head they strengthen also the braines and be especiall good for the sight If one will preserue Musk peares then are they to be gathered in faire drie weather and in the decrease of the Moone and when they be very ripe then take of the very fairest and soundest of them pare them very thin cut off the stalkes and the flower on the top then make readie a cleane sirupe of white Sugar which is well boyled when you will take the same off from the fire then lay the prepared Peares therein and let them séeth two or thrée waumes together afterwards coole a day and a night This being done seeth the Sugar once againe and then lukewarme powre it vpon the Peares and do that so long vntill that you see that the sirupe waxeth no moister otherwise they cannot continue If you will haue them pleasanter then put Cinnamom vnto them and they will be the better for the stomacke These Peares do comfort and refresh all sicke folkes that do loath meate and they close vp the stomack against the ascending of all bad vapours if they be eaten at the first sitting downe to meate then do they bind the belly But if one can get no Musk Peares then may other be taken in their stead which be likest of all vnto Muske Peares in smell and tast and to prepare them as is expressed How Oranges are to be preserued §. 7. THis Apple is woont very seldome to be confected but his péeles very often the which are thus prepared Take fresh Orange péeles cut the white out and cut the yellow longwise afterwards let it séeth so long as one would séeth an Egge hard and afterwards let the broth runne off This being done then powre Sugar vpon it which is well boyled vntill that be well couered and so let them stand the space of eight daies in the same then be they prepared Oranges are prepared also as followeth Take the outtermost of fresh Orange peels and cut the yellow the longest way afterwards séeth the same in water vntill that the bitternesse may come out of
of Eybright of Celendine of each halfe an ounce Serapinum one drag dissolue this gum and temper it all together Item take gréene Agrimonie stampe and temper it with the white of an egge make towe wet therein and lay it vpon the eyes To set boxing cups on both shoulders is also very commodious for this infirmitie womans milke letting of bloud Roses and Fennell with Tutia sodden Fenegréeke and egges sodden warme and layd vpon the eyes is also much commended Hote Blisters and pricking in the Eyes THese are caused thorow moysture which setteth it selfe in the white of the apple of the eye and there rankleth The blisters are sometimes great and sometimes small white red darke and also blacke with paine and pricking according as the matter is The déeper the greater they be and the more hurtfull and daungerous to be cured because of the noblenesse and tendernesse of this member But this in the beginning is alwaies good for it Take Licium Saffron of each halfe a drag Acatia or the iuice of Sloes one scrup mixe this with Rosewater and drop a little in the eyes he must also be let bloud and purged But this foresaid water for the eyes must be dropped into them with the white of an egge and whilest the disease is in Augmento or the increase then take Fenegréeke Linséed of each one quarter of an ounce Melilot one quarter of an ounce séeth it in faire water and wash the eyes oftentimes therewith let a drop thereof drop otherwhiles into the eyes that ripeneth draweth out the corruption and swageth the paine When as the blister is broken out then heale it like other sores of the eyes Item take the fat of the fish Tymalus and annoynt it on the apple of the eye it is very strong therefore it is better for horses then for men But this following is more surer take the crumme of white bread make it wet in water but it is stronger in womans milk and lay it on where it is drie make it wet againe or take a fresh This confection following is very good for all heate of the eyes swelling and pricking take Eyebright Fennell Cinnamom of each thrée drag long Pepper Mints Mace Marioram Verueine Calmus Rosemarie of each one drag and a halfe Sugar pennets thrée ounces white Sugar fiue ounces with the Sugar séeth these iuices following of Roses of Verueine of each two drag the iuice of Fennell that is well clarified fiue ounces the iuice of Celendine of Rue of each one ounce and a halfe let them séeth so thicke as a sirupe afterwards temper amongst it the rest well beaten Item take young Endiue stampe and temper it with the oile of Violets or rather the oile of Roses annoint therewith the hote corners of the eyes and the eyelids the same taketh away the paine and swageth the heate If that will not helpe take the meale of Lintels Sumacke séede Roses Pomegranate kernels powned together and tempered with vine cuicte vse this as the rest Item if this helpe not then must the head veine in the forehead be opened or in the corners of the eyes which you will which doth void away the sharpe matter that setleth in the eyelids In like manner purge alwaies with such medicines which expell the Cholera and salt matter It is also good to bath other whiles and to sweate moderately whereby the sharpe daefluxion is delayed or in stead of sweating may you foment the eyes with a spunge made wet in luke-warme water Lastly it is very good to wash the eyes with water of Fennell of Celendine of Verueine and of Eyebright mingled together one amongst another Itch and Scabs of the Eyes §. 6. THese biting drie scabs of the eyes do otherwhiles manifest themselues on the lids of the eyes so that one cannot forbeare but to rub them the which doth the eyes and face great hurt making the same more hotter and redder This defluxion is a salt matter which is sharpe and pricking Against this he must first reframe from rubbing of the eyes eate and drinke soberly purge choler open the head veine and also lay thereon outwardly at the first fresh water or Rosewater two or three daies afterwards he must foment and wash the eyes with the decoction of Mallowes Violet leaues Celendine and Verueine or with Rosewater also alone If then of this or any other occasions there come any swelling to it then looke to that which is ordained for red and hot eyes Watering or running Eyes §. 7. IT is manifest that the mattering of the eyes doth procéede of many occasions as of mirth sorrow weaknesse of the retentiue power and superfluous moisture of the braines that falleth vpon the eyes like as of thrusts stripes sharpe winds smoke cough sharpe sauors of Onions Saffron c. all the which do perish the eyes so that the eyes do stand as if the eyelids were newly pluckt off or that a Cataract had bin couched in them or as if they had suffered any other disease the which also happeneth if any body drink too much wine wherefore that many may afterwards bewaile the miseries of drunkennes what concerneth the outward causes those may be learned of the patient himselfe But if this running of the eyes be caused through any disease of the braines and not through heate then doth the patient alwaies feele some heauie puffing vp of the veines in the forehead and in the temples of the head and this defluxe is for the most part alwaies augmented by the neesing This running or watering is very strong falling as well into the eyes as into the nose with a sharpnesse in the throate But if this defluxion be through heate then is the humor so hote that through the heate it bites open the eyelids which cause the haire to fall out of the eyelids yea that the heate may be perceiued through féeling with the hands But if it come through cold then are all things contrarie to all these that we haue now spoken of Now the remedies of these running eyes be these They that be caused of outward causes may be easily remedied that is by taking away of the cause of this defluxion but as much as doth concerne the inward causes where heate is the cause it is specially aduised that the bodie be purged sometimes with Pils Cochiae Aurea with Succo Rosarum or with Pils of the fiue kinds of Mirobalans And it is not enough that this and the letting of bloud be once performed but oftentimes to wit in the beginning in the augmenting and in the standing still of the disease that thereby the sicknesse may be throughly holpen The order of Diet. FOr this must all drying things be vsed and all moist attenuating meates and drinkes eschewed like as Lentils Colewoorts Lettice Purslaine salt fish and flesh Milke Chéese Onions Scallions Garlicke and all that fumeth into the head some forbid to eate in the euening When it is caused through heate he must smell to Roses
wrinkled bag or purse wherein the testicles or stones are kept This member is subiect to many Hernies or Ruptures the which the Latinists do call with one common name Herniam which notwithstanding is manifold and yet comprehended in thrée of the principallest which are caused of swelling of scabbines or of striuing all which do fall downe into the said Cods Yet is there another kind of rupture which commeth about the Nauel or about the priuities be it in man or woman whereof we haue made some mention before in the first Chapter The first sort of ruptures hath many differences and each hath his proper name and are to be compared with each other in foure kind of wayes to wit when they are caused through wind through puffing vp of the veines with the bloud Varices when the bowels or rim of the same little or much falleth downe into the cod lastly when as the cod is so filled with water or other moistures Other do retâ—â— foure kinds moe which neuerthelesse may be contained amongst the foresaid foure The causes of all these mixtures are either inward or outward The outward causes may be fals thrusâ—â— much labour heauy burthens lowd hooping coughes extreme blowing or winding and chiefly when one hath well eaten and drunken The inward causes are when his bowels or rim cannot stay in his due place but commeth to fall downe into the nauell priuities and into the cod Likewise winds humors or grosse melancholicke blood like as is said The signes of all common ruptures are an extuberation or swelling and puffing vp of the same place beyond nature These Hernies appeere at the first like to a small egge or nut which by little and little increaseth If this rupture procéed of wind that may be heard by the shréeking or rumblng and it may be discerned with the eyes Of the vppermost Hernies or Rupture which happeneth aboue the Cod. §. 1. FIrst to speake of the rupture which hapneth aboue the cod which is called Scrotum it is aduised that forthwith remedy be had for it The new ruptures in children are easily to be holpen contrariwise when they waxe old especially in old folks then are they hard to be holpen without incision All Chirurgions do know well what kind of trusse they are to make for this forasmuch as it is difficult to describe the same therefore be they to be put in trust therewith It is commaunded and not without reason that the patient must be layd on his backe and that the bowels which are fallen downe must be put vp softly againe vntill that they do lie in their due place then must this plaister spred vpon a thin péece of leather be layd vpon the rupture and on the top thereof a bolster bounden prety and hard They that be about thirteene yéeres old must lie on their back and if they must néeds arise then must they beware of stouping and hold stil their hand vpon the rupture But yong children must be dealt with somewhat milder But for this can no certaine rule be prescribed but regard must alwayes be had to the age to the strength the time and disease and so to deale thereafter Now for to help these ruptures we wil decipher first certaine plaisters which are very fit and requisite for it Take Pitch and Mastick of each thrée dragmes Frankinsence one quarter of an ounce Hypocistis Sarcocolla Plaisters for the rupture and the iuice of Sloes of each one dragme and a halfe bloodstone Dragon blood and Aloe of each two dragmes and a halfe birdlime one dragme and a halfe Comfrey Gals Pomegranat péels fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes Aristology one quarter of an ounce Sumach blossomes of Pomegranates of each one dragme two ounces of Déere suet Turpentine and Waxe as much as is needfull The gums and iuices dissolue in hot vineger or wine the rest powne small and make thereof a plaister Another Take pitch halfe an ounce white and red Waxe Litharge of golâ— Ammoniacum Galbanum Momy of each two dragmes and a halfe birdlime Myrrhe Cipers nuts and Frankinsence of each one dragme Gips or plaister prepared Bolus and Aloe of each halfe an ounce Mastick Comfrey and Daisie roots of each thrée dragmes and a halfe Turpentine one ounce Aristology round and long and Galnuts of each one ounce Dragon bloud one quarter of an ounce but melt the Gums in vineger and powne all that is to be powned the Pitch Waxe and Turpentine are to be molten and the rest tempered amongst them the Waxe may be augmented and diminished according to the importance of the time This plaister is also good for all fractures of bones The auncient Phisitions were wont to vse for this rupture this plaister following Take Cipers nuts two ounces Myrrhe Cipers rootes Marioram gentle Gals the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence and Gum of each one ounce the Gum is to be dissolued in wine and the rest tempered amongst it and so as it is said layd vpon the rupture You shall not vnloose the trusse but once in foure or fiue dayes and then renew the plaister Item take fish lime two ounces Momy one ounce and a halfe pitch and Ammoniacum of each one ounce breake them all to péeres and lay it to stéepe one day and a night in thrée ounces of vineger and oile of Mastick afterwards let them melt together and temper therewith Mastick Frankinsence fine Bolus Dragon bloud Gum and Fenegréeke meale of each thrée drag and stir it long together Item take Daisie flowers and rootes wild Tansie flowers and rootes Comfrey of each halfe an ounce Masticke one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Sloes and Pomegranate flowers of each half a dragme Hares haire chopt small one dragme birdlime one ounce pitch two ounces Waxe fiue dragmes oyle of Roses as much as is néedfull to make therewith a plaister This salue following is much in vse Take Pitch thrée ounces red Waxe Butumen Iudaicum Ammoniacum Galbanum and Turpentine of each two ounces Litharge of gold one ounce Henbane séed Aloe and Mastick of each thrée ounces Gips or plaister and fine Bolus of each thrée ounces and a halfe both kinds of Aristology of each two ounces Frankinsence and Myrrhe of each two ounces and a halfe prepared Earth wormes Comfrey and Daisie rootes of each two ounces fresh bloud of a heauy minded man sixe ounces Isingals and Glew as much as is néedfull the Gums let steepe thrée dayes in vineger afterwards temper them with molten pitch and waxe when it beginneth to be cold then mingle the other things beaten small amongst it lastly put the blood thereto and when it is well mixt poure it vpon a stone and worke it very wel with greasie hands and spred thereof vpon leather and lay it vpon the rupture vnder the trusse Another Take Iron drosse fiue dragmes Momy Dragagant and Gum of each thrée drag Frankinsence the iuice of Sloes and Sandaraca of each one dragme and a half Isinglas Cipers nuts of
Melon séed Pompeon séed Cucumber seed and péeled Gourd seed of each one dragme sower Dates one ounce Violets halfe an ounce séeth these all together except the Dates and breake them into this decoction it is very good for the breast and cooleth naturally take of it thrée ounces Rubarb two scruples Spica foure graines conserue of Prunes halfe an ounce temper these well together and drinke it warme and fast thereupon the space of sixe houres The same day lay vpon the rupture sixe ounces of greene Nightshade but if you cannot get it then take dried Roses and broad Plantaine of each two ounces Linseed sodden in vineger twelue ounces barly meale fiue ounces oile of Roses foure ounces let all these séeth together vnto a thick pap by a mild fire treatably and then lay this vpon it twice a day Item take water of Endiue Nightshade barly water and beane water of each a like much temper amongst it a litle saffron and oile of Roses make it wet in a cloth and lay it theron Or take Barly meale Lentil meale Beane meale and Violets of each a like much temper these all together with the iuice of the herbe of winter Cheries vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as aboue But if so be that the paine of this accident wil not stanch then powne Henbane amongst it The third day must two cups be set behind on the buttocks and that at such time as the patient hath least paine letting them draw much bloud His meates must be cooling and drying as Veriuice the iuice of Pomegranats c. His drinke must be sower and thin wine This is also to be noted that this kind of rupture is of that nature that it may be cured in eight dayes But the rupture which is caused of phlegmatick humors is much more common and they that gladly haunt strange women are more subiect to these ruptures Also all they that liue riotously eate hard meates and haue sate vpon a cold stone with their naked body which may be knowne through the coldnesse of the disease when it beginneth to mollifie and when one doth thrust his finger into it that the dent of the finger tarieth a good while in it which in the windy rupture nor in the water rupture hapneth not to be Also the place is not perspicuous and the swelling remaineth at a stay This disease is to be cured with these purgations following Take Turbith one quarter of an ounce Ginger one dragme white sugar thrée dragmes temper them together of this must the patient euery fourth day take one dragme with Wormewood water and betwéen them must he euery morning take this potion Take water of Balme Betony and Wormewood of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar halfe an ounce Vineger of Squils one ounce mixe them together Now for to strengthen the parts wherein the phlegmatick humor ingendreth it is very good euery morning to take one dragme of Treacle which is ten yéeres old This plaister following is also maruellous good for to consume all such matter Take Sandaraca two ounces Sarcocolla one ounce ashes of Beane straw or Vine stockes sixe ounces Vineger of Squils two ounces as much water as is néedful let these séeth together vnto the thicknesse of a plaister and lay it vpon the sore as aboue Some do take in steed of common ashes the ashes of Saponaria which may be well done Of the fleshie Rupture §. 6. THis rupture may also ingender of good bloud for that the nourishing operation doth works so vehemently therein that the bloud turneth into flesh It may also be caused through great heate of the cods When as then this excrescence of the flesh doth much increase then will this member be much féebled and the new flesh which at the first was not hurtfull will be vtterly destroyed This excrescence of flesh or fleshy rupture is first of all knowne for that therewith is no paine at all The heate is to be knowne by the rednesse of the place where the disease appéereth and by the hardnesse it is also knowne for that it agreeth with other flesh Lastly it is also to be discerned and knowne by the speedy increasing by reason that sometimes it will be as big as ones head The outward causes of the fleshy rupture are all that ouerheate and ouermoisten whereby the bloud inflameth and will be fat euen as all delicate meates yolks of egs good fresh broth swéet Wines Dates Sugar and all that is drest therewith and such like For to remedy this first the Liuer veine or the Median is to be opened and that at seuerall times first one then another Secondly you must looke to open the hemorrhoides in the fundament through continual rubbing it with Oxe gall or with water wherein Sulphur vif is decocted Thirdly through often applying great cups vpon the buttocks hips and other fleshy parts He must eate no other meates than that are cooling and drying thereby to hinder the generation of the bloud for which this plaister following is also to be layd therupon Take Lentil Nightshade Roses and broad Plantaine of each sixe ounces Barly meale twelue ounces three whites of egges seeth these all together in sufficient vineger and thrice as much water then make thereof a plaister and lay it vpon the whole cod fiue or sixe dayes one after an other Now when as this patient hath purged and done all that is prescribed then is this plaister following to be layd vpon the rupture Take Bolus two ounces sealed earth and starch of each one drag Mil dust one ounce and a half Sandaraca and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce make a salue thereof with the iuice of Roses in a leaden mortar and lay thereof twice a day ouer the rupture Afterwards vse this corroding ointment Take blacke Sope two ounces Orpiment one ounce and a halfe Sulphur vif halfe an ounce burnt Copperas one dragme and a half temper all together in a mortar with water wherein Sal Armoniack is dissolued lay this vpon the lower part of the cod about the breadth of a groate and let it lie therein about one houre but no longer so that it may not bite in too déepe When there is any vlcer then lay easie things thereon as Barrowes grease or butter vntill that the escarre fall off When this is all done then take for this the salue of the Apostles afterwards are you to lay this biting salue againe vpon another place of the cod so that it may be opened in sixe or eight places yet so that one may commodiously come to it with the foresayd things When you then sée that such excrescens be consumed which may be discerned and knowne hereby that the cod is come to his wonted bignesse againe the which sometimes hapneth to endure halfe a yéere before it come thereto then must you procéed with incarnatiues which things require an expert and patient Chirurgian Of the Rupture which is caused of broken veines called Varicosa
powder Confections Plaisters Oyles and all whatsoeuer one will It hapneth also sometimes that with this vomiting a laske or flixe is adioyned For to stay the same are these things following good parched Cresses séede Cypers Nut leaues Mirrhe Lignum Aloes red Styrax Amber Laudanum Indis Spica Spica Romana Calmus Cloues Mints Wormwood Citrons Limons Oranges Frankinsence Mastick Rue Agnus castus tosted bread Gallia Muscata and Alipta almost all kinds of Spices Also Treacle taken with the iuice of Mints stayeth vomiting Item make a plaister of Mastick with a little sodden Turpentine and lay it on the stomack for this also are you to set boxing cups vpon the shoulders For this also is Marmalade with Spices very good and preserued Quinces and these are the common meanes against the vomiting through a weake stomacke be it through heate or cold You shall also finde many mo described in other places of this booke amongst diuers sicknesses as before in the second part the fift Chapter and 2. § is discouered for the spetting of bloud and such like We will now passe ouer to another manner of parbraking through Cholera Of Parbraking or Vomiting with the laske or scouring §. 12. THis maladie do the learned name after the humour whereby it is caused Choleram The later Phisitions call it Cholericam Passionem and it is thus described Cholera is a very sharpe troublesome and heauie disease which immediatly molesteth one with the Rheume whereby vomiting great flixe or scouring Collick paine of the bowels an Ague is bred Or Cholera is a violent sicknes with vomiting great scowring or laske with Cramp in the sinewes Thighes and Legs whereby all outward members are cold and the pulse is small and slow Or Cholera is such a maladie whereby one immediatly doth scowre and rid vpward and downeward many kinds of humors and slime with the meate so that he detaineth nothing in his body This sicknesse commeth first of spoyled and corrupted meate which remaineth to long in some place of the body as in the stomack or bowels and there causeth a bad alteration and also giueth little nourishment Also this sicknesse is sometimes caused of cold and waterish humors which gather themselues togither in the bowels and in the stomack that do debilitate the retentiue vertue of the stomack aboue and beneath But the sicknesse for the most part is caused through much Cholera and red gall that do so lye and bite in the stomack bowels that within the space of one houre the parbraking and going to the stoole do so haunt a body that otherwhiles the strongest body on the third day is depriued of his life and this is worse then all other The signes of a cold cause are these before the sicknesse be vpon one much windinesse is felt in the bowels also some dayes before the sicknesse he féeleth paine and shooting about the Nauell whereupon presently ensueth a vehement laske or flixe with vomiting of much slime and other illfauored matter This is also the sooner caused if the patient haue vsed great store of phlegmaticall meates That which is caused through heate is hereby knowne there falleth much Cholera into the stomack and bowels with great and mightie parbraking and also with great thirst and if one drinke cold water then doth the vomiting stay vntill that the water be warmed in the stomack The Fluxe is so vehement that the patient sometimes thereby swouneth and also vtterly loseth the pulse with an vnstedfast heate and bereauing of his senses When as then it hapneth that one feeleth a continual paine in the stomacke or bowels with great heauinesse of mind and perceiueth parbraking and vomiting then is such verily to be taken for Cholera for this there is to be giuen to the sicke body lukewarme water to drinke very often And if so be that this parbraking and scowring continue still then giue him warme water to drinke againe as before and that so long till you find that he haue auoyded some corrupted meates slime or some of the gall This will frée the patient of mo other sicknesses For this are moe other things to be vsed to wit that expell this sharpe matter so that Phlegma with things necessary for it and Cholera with those that helpe it might be taken in hand because parbraking will be cured by parbraking and scowring by scowring When as then the scowring is stayed of both ends then is the patiēt to bath one houre long afterwards to eate a little and that light meate because the stomacke is very much weakened After that he is to eate a little Marmalade which is tempered with prepared Coriander and so go sleepe He is to vse this Marmalade as long as the scowring or parbraking endureth His diet must be Hen broth decocted with Veriuice steeled Goats milke Barley and Oten paps sodden Lettice and Purslaine but principally if there be any heate and bitternesse of the mouth remaining but if so be that there be any cold in the stomacke then are these herbes at no hand to be vsed When as the patient beginneth againe to féede well then be good for him all field foules and chiefly Partridges which haue a proper hidden vertue to strengthen the stomacke Amongst other meates may well be vsed Limons Citrons Oranges Veriuice such like Item all sower fruits Seruices vnripe Medlars sower Peares Apples and Quinces Also he shal eate although not gladly sops of white bread in the iuice of Pomegranats and if so be that he vomit vp the same yet must he take more againe and do this so long till that he do hold and retaine it As long as he is not through wholethen is he to drinke stéeled water with sirupe of Quinces or old conserue of Roses When he beginneth to be whole then is he to drinke good relished wine which is tempered with the iuice of Pomegranates And if so be that he parbrake it vp then let him drinke of the same againe but a little at once that the stomacke be not ouercharged Here followeth now what is to be vsed for this scowring and parbraking and chiefly when it is seene that these diseases do increase For which one is not to be discomforted but much more bestir him to helpe the sicke person with these remedies following First you must giue him one or two dragmes of Trociscos de Olibano with water or iuice of Pomegranates and afterwards to bind his legs fast like as is taught before against the parbraking when the vomiting getteth the vpper hand so must his armes likewise be bounden when the scowring getteth the mastery But aboue all sleepe is passing good Item Rose water layd very cold ouer the legs or from the vpper part of the legs downward wetted and washed therewith and the féete set in it is also very good In like manner is this plaister ensuing forcible to asswage the paine to warme and strengthen Take rindes of the Medlar tree of Quinces and of an Oaken tree
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
as it hath bene here before sufficiently taught Also in respect herof for that some haue so weake and so tender a mouth of the stomake that they cannot abide any fasting but when they begin to be hungrie and may not by and by haue foode do fall presently into a swoune When this happeneth then are the outward members to be rubbed hard and bounden with paine and the face sprinkled with Rosewater or washed and quickened with other things which be mentioned in the second part the sixt Chapter and 2. § But if so be that his force be not quite spent or if one perceiue that the swouning will come vpon him then giue him a bit of bread to eate stéeped in wine The fourth is a corrupted or bad hunger But because this hunger for the most part happeneth to women with child therefore we will not discourse here any further thereof vntil such time as we shall discourse of this and other matters moe appertaining to women In like manner also concerning the wormes because that they do infect and frequent more the bowels than the stomacke and are thence expelled therefore we will discourse of them in the description of the bowels The twelfth Chapter Of the Lyuer ALbeit now the Lyuer haue the seate in the third part of mans body fast vnder the Midriffe or Diaphragma about the stomacke for which cause we continuing our method ought to haue written thereof before the stomacke yet we haue declared sufficient causes in the beginning of the tenth Chapter and shewed for what cause it hath not yet bene effected This most noble member whereof we are now to discourse which we call the Lyuer the Grecians Hepar and the Latinists Iecur hath her situation as is said on the one side of the stomacke which it toucheth in a wonderfull and yet neuerthelesse in a naturall manner with fiue branches like as it were fiue fingers wherewith she stretcheth also a litle towards the left side and is also by nature one of the most needfull and worthiest members which is giuen for the nourishment and sustayning of mans bodie therefore are all beasts that do blow endued with it This great and excellent gift haue the heathen people also acknowledged but they shamefully infidelly abuse this wonderfull creature of God in their sacrifices in which amongst other the entrailes they behold the Lyuer especially supposing thereby to learne and vnderstand things for to come euen as they whether it be through naturall causes illusions of the diuell or through the leasings of their sacrificing priests haue published and made knowne many kinds of wonderfull things The substance of the Liuer is compacted flesh of a red colour not much vnlike to congealed bloud full of veines and arteries and is of a warme and moyst complexion like as is also the bloud Also of her selfe she is without sense or féeling like to halfe a circle and in man in regard of the whole body she is much bigger then in beasts and especially in such as banquet euery day and make good cheare or be fleshy by nature The Liuer is the beginning and the seate of all lustes a fountaine of all the veines the kitchen of all the bloud which she afterwards in most wonderfull manner doth spread abroad and impart throughout the whole body whereby all the members be nourished sustained and strengthened This her admirable operation is not amisse to be compared with must which hath his lées that setleth it selfe in the bottome Also there is then some light with it which ascendeth that we do call the flowre of the wine Lastly there is somewhat more which vaporeth out within the yeare which is waterish Euen so fareth it with the Liuer which draweth first all manner of mixed moisture vnto her the greatest the muddiest to wit Melancholia sendeth he towards the Milt or Spleene that which is light hote and fierie as Cholera is draweth to the Gall the excessiue waterish moisture which remaineth still in the rest of the bodie and all that is not méete for the bloud that do the Raynes draw to them from whence the same commeth into the Bladder and is afterwards voyded out for vrine This excellent member is like as the whole body of man subiect to diuers diseases amongst which the most principall are these namely when the arteries and veines be obstructed wherof then be caused all kind of sicknesses as inflammations schirrosities lasks or bloudie flixes diseases of the Kidneies and of the conduits of the vrine thirst yellow Iaundies and lastly diuers sorts of Dropsies whereof we will speake more at large hereafter Of the infections of the Liuer in generall §. 1. FIrst all men that haue any infection of the Liuer are called Hepatici notwithstanding that some do make somewhat else of it and it is described thus Hepaticus hath his continuall paine about the place of the Liuer with swelling and hardnesse The face looseth his naturall colour there is also an Ague and thirst with it with drouth of the tongue and the mouth But this is to be thought againe vpon that the Liuer it selfe is vtterly insensible and therefore féeleth no paine But this sensiblenes or féeling haue the inward adiacent Tunicles and all that belongeth vnto them which paine doth procéede through a cold or hote Liuer or some impostumation wherof the Phisitions haue their proper signes which we shal declare in their conuenient places But the common people yea also the vnlearned Phisitions do not know so quickly the sicknesse of the Liuer and that bicause of her manifold accidents and Symptomata which be incident vnto it whereof we will describe the most néedfull with all their necessarie remedies Of the obstruction of the Liuer in generall §. 2. FOrasmuch as the common causes of the obstruction of the Liuer like as is alreadie discoursed are in the veines and arteries and that as well through heate as through cold therefore will we first of all make some declaration in generall of this oppilation before that we come to the principall This obstruction or oppilation is thus described Oppilatio is an obstruction and such a disease as hindreth the bloud and other humors that should haue their passage course through the veines which may be prouoked through these causes following in the Liuer to wit if a bodie do gird himselfe too hard and hath his clothes too straight about the Liuer Item through fallings through thrustings and such like through vse of grosse meates as Porke Béefe Chéese vnleauened bread boyled séeds as Rice Wheate c. All manner of Pap other oppilating Pottages Item through outward cold through inward tough slime and grosse bloud which hapneth to lye before the orifices of the veines through winde impostumes and through other diseases moe of the Liuer The common signes next after the forementioned are these that alwayes his excrements or ordure is very thin and watrish the vrine also sheweth thin cleare and yellowish
whereby to extract all windinesse You are also to vse the grosse powder which in the first Part the 12. Chapter and 1. § is described which is ordained for the memorie The fifteenth Chapter Of the Bowels or Guts LIke as we haue hitherto described the Stomacke the Liuer the Gall and the Spléene and made full declaration thereof so will we now discourse of the next adiacent parts before that we come to the Kidneys to wit of the bowls or guts and all that concerneth them We affirme then that beneath the stomack the Bowels haue their beginning which are parted in sixe parts The three first and vppermost are very subtill thin for which cause they be called in Latine Gracilia intestina into the which one part of the digested meats are conueyed The other thrée sorts of the bowels be the vndermost which are more thicker fleshlier than the three vppermost whereby the sharpnesse and hardnes of the Stercora should the lesse bruse them And these sixe sorts of bowels haue their name giuen them by reason of their greatnesse and property of their operations and not for that they be sixe seuerall things for they hold fast one vpon another so that they may rightly be taken for one Gut which is placed in the belly after a wonderfull manner with many kind of crookes and windings about and reacheth from the stomacke euen to the fundament And to speake particularly thereof the first which beginneth at the stomacke is called of the Latinists Duodenum and that for this cause because it is twelue fingers breadth long The second which Galenus calleth the first they do name Ieiunum which is the emptie gut because it is alwaies emptie This gutte hath some crookes and turnings afterwards it doth reach foorth straight out euen to the Lyuer The third is by the Grecians called Ileon and by the Latinists Voluulus which is the winding gut not only for that by his length it twisteth and windeth about but also for this cause as the learned write because there be ingendred in this gut great Chollicke and gripings which do draw hither and thitherwards through their great pains as now in one and then in an other place they be most violently perceiued Thus are these thrée as is said thinne and subtill of substance differing onely herein that Ileon is not found alwaies emptie like as the two former The fourth gutte which they do call Coecum that is the blind and Monoculum being the annexed gutte which they do call Coecum for that it seemeth that it hath but one going out or issuing whereas notwithstanding the Anatomists do attribute twaine vnto it we will call it also the bag for that it is like to a fat stomacke yet somewhat lesse and better to receiue all that must be auoyded through going to stoole The fift is Colon and by the Latinists called Crassum intestinum This gut is fleshier than any of all the rest also of a reasonable length crookednes in the which and especially in the end of it the meate is conuerted to dung which before and ere that it is digested the learned do call Chylum In this foresaid gut doth the Cholicke properly ingender The last gut is Intestinum rectum which is the Arsegut that is called Longanum for that it doth not crooke and stretcheth to the end of the fundament These are now the lower guts and they be otherwhiles called the lower belly But what each sort of these bowels haue for a nature propertie power vertue and operation were here to long and contrary to our purpose to decipher because we do not here thinke to discourse of any thing but onely the cures of the diseases that the bowels or guts are subiect vnto Of the paine and griping of the Guts in generall §. 1. IN both these sorts of the guts come great outward gripings stitches paine whereof there be two sorts the one Iliaca the other Cholica Iliaca is in the vppermost small guts and Cholica in the vndermost bowels which sorts of pains or stitches receiue their names of the bowels or the bowels of these foresaid gripings or sicknes And because that in both these sorts of paines of the bowels the remedies are alike whereas in other diseases they be greatly differing therefore we will treate of both these seuerally Afterwards we will also determine of the Wormes in the bowels of all other diseases which are to be ascribed to the bowels as of al the scourings of bloudie flixe and obstructions c. wherof we haue heretofore discoursed c. where be many kinds of things to be found for the paine of the guts Of the vppermost paine and griping of the Guts Iliaca Passio which the common man calleth Cholica §. 2. ILeos or Iliaca Passio are gripings or stitches in the vppermost small guts which be caused of some obstruction or swellings of the guts wherby the congested filth or corruption cannot fall downe into the great guts whereby such great intollerable paine sicknesse and gripings do insue that the guts séeme to be bored thorough with a bodkin and that commonly with a continuall vomiting and parbraking yet not in all patients Therefore if so be that this paine pricking and obstruction do get the maisterie then doth there follow it a stinking belching yea a parbraking of all filthinesse and of ordure through the mouth and that by reason that the stopping beneath is so great that neither ordure nor wind can euacuate beneath neither can it be opened through Clisters whereby it must needes follow that all the belchings do draw the wind and filth vpwards and must lastly be auoyded through the mouth Certaine learned men do dispute of these causes and that not without reason for some do thinke that it is not the right ordure which is eiected by the mouth but that it should be only a certaine filthy and corrupted meate which lyeth stinking in the stomacke because the same cannot be expelled but be it how it will this sicknes is neuertheles so terrible and painful that certaine ancient Phisitions do call the same Domine miserere Lord haue mery vpō me And it is a grieuous sicknes indéed for besides all that is said if it come with a great heate then it doth commonly cause an impostume in the bowels whereby commeth the crampe and the contracture of the sinewes so that the sick person therby doth lose his senses runneth mad These and other signes which shall hereafter follow are so deadly that scarcely euer any one recouereth his health againe The common people which haue no vnderstanding of naturall things which pertaine to mans bodie do call this Iliaca the Mother in men like as the common people in Italy do cal it Paron which is Father whereas notwithstanding men haue no mother in them The causes of this Iliaca passio are inward and outward the outward may be through fals thrusts or strokes on these places or through drinking
may also a cooling plaister be laid vpon the belly whereof there be diuers discouered against the heate of the stomacke and the Lyuer yet must alwaies some Cammomill Wormwood and such like be tempered amongst it For a cooling you may also take preserued Ribes or any such like as in the eleuenth Chapter § 6. is shewed Of the paine of the belly mixt with grauell §. 11. FOr this disease is much aduised to take thrée dayes one after another a good draught of the water of Elderne flowers which helpeth maruellous well Item take the iuice of Pellitorie eight ounces oile of Rue two ounces séeth the dung of a Dog in it which hath eaten nothing but bones straine it thorough and vse it for a Clister It is also much aduised for to take for purgation halfe an ounce of Diaphoenicon and Sebestes one dragme and a halfe Philonium Romanum one scruple Species Iustini halfe a scruple temper them all together and drinke it and then a little fat broth after it But how easily an error is committed in distinguishing the paine of the guts from the paine of the raines and the paine of the grauell it shal hereafter be declared where we shall speake of the grauell Of the paine in the bellies of young children §. 12. WE haue here briefly shewed of the oyle of swéet Almonds which is to be tempered with Sugar and may be giuen boldly to new borne children for the paine of the belly This is alwaies found to be good The water of Larks spurres is also good for the same as well in old folkes as in young children For a small Clister take Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Pyrola of each halfe a handfull Melilot and Rosemary of each halfe so much séeth them in a pint of water and then take of this decoction litle or much according to the bignes of the child Hony of Roses halfe an ounce oyle of Cammomill two ounces Salt halfe a dragme temper them all together Item take vnto small children alwayes a spoonefull of the water of black Cherries in their pap for it asswageth the paine Oyle of Nutmegs annoynted about the Nauell and a warme cloth laid vpon it and in like manner the oyle of Scorpions is also very commodious for this infirmitie Also Chickweede fried in oyle and applyed warm on the belly Also take Mints Mallowes fried in fresh Butter or Cammomill and Wormewood of each a like much cut them all together méetly small and put them in a little bag then make it meetly warme in hote wine wring it well out and so lay it ouer the childs belly Item cut an Onion very small frie it in oyle and bind the same vpon the Nauel of yong children and old folkes Albeit that it be not now our intent to write much of Chirurgerie yet neuerthelesse we can not let this escape viz. if any be wounded in the belly that his bowels issue foorth and then happen to swell that they cannot be put backe into the body then warme them with warme milke or wine After that may the Chirurgion well know what he hath to do Of the Wormes in the belly §. 13. FIrst of all there is not any thing more certaine than that in mans bodie like as in stinking kennels in chéese and in stinking flesh worms do grow and that out of a putrified matter But in man do they chiefly procéed through vnaccustomed meates that cannot be digested also of surfetting and ouercharging of the stomacke Item through bathing and vse of venery with a full stomacke through eating of fresh Beanes of salt fish that is without scales through Swines flesh and such like things moe Also these wormes do grow by eating much fruite Therefore haue children most annoy thereby about haruest These wormes do ingender sometimes in the stomacke and otherwhiles in the bowels and some suppose that they onely grow in the blind gut but they which haue somewhat more carefully beheld them do write that the long Wormes do ingender in the vppermost bowels and the small like vnto chéese Magots onely in the arsegut and in the middlemost guttes should round wormes ingender called Ascarides Some do take it otherwise In fine we will let them dispute thereof for they do accord herein that there be three sorts of wormes which may grow in mans body like as is shewed before And to the end that somewhat be discoursed of these kinds of wormes The long ones be knowne to be in yong children through their gnawing in the bowels through a small dry and troublesome Cough Moreouer they do awake suddenly out of their sléepe sometimes with an outcry afterwards they do quickly hold their peace and haue an vnequall pulse Also they haue vncertaine Agues with coldnesse of the outward members which accidents do happen vnto them without any cause thrée or foure times a day Such children haue an vnnaturall desire of meate they let out their toung gnash with their téeth sweate about the eyes they be gladly quiet they be also very quickly angrie and snappish or testie on them that do awake them and as now they be ruddie and immediatly bleake againe they talke in their sléepe be frighted in their dreames and do lye very vnquiet When they awake they do then rub their nose the eyes sinke into their heads they will be very hard fauoured in their face they féele great paine in the belly they haue much fome and spittle their mouths will be drie yet more by day then by night and their breath stinketh much In like maner it happeneth very well that they auoide the wormes at the nose at the mouth and through stooles but amongst people in yeares there be besides these signes such an extreme paine of the belly also that they cast their hands and féete from them like as it were a collicke And as they come into their stomacke then do they get a great wambling and loathing of all meates And when one forceth himselfe to eate yet can he not swallow the meate but must cast vp againe presently the meate which he hath taken their ordure is very stinking their belly swelleth on high like as if it were full of wind These be now the signes of the long wormes which signes though they be not alwayes apparant yet neuerthelesse this disease may be knowne by some of these The broad wormes be as well in them that haue no Ague as in them which be troubled with lingring Agues they do also bring some of the foresaid signes with them and especially these will be knowne as well through the great gnawing in the stomacke as through the vnmeasurable desire of meate And although they haue eaten inough and do not by and by eate againe yet then do they séele that gnawing and biting againe as before They will be also very leane and dry of bodie But this is the very surest signe that the patient doth auoid through the stoole small things like to the kernels of Gourds It is
Nardus séed Gallia Muscata Southernwood Oxe gall Lignum Aloes of each one scruple burnt Harts horne one quarter of an ounce Endiue séed one dragme Waxe as much as sufficeth for a Salue Another Take oyle of Wormewood and of Mirtles of each halfe an ounce beaten Aloe prepared Coriander sealed earth and Nardus séed of each fiue dragmes the iuice of Quinces and Oxe gals of each halfe an ounce séeth them with the oyle vntill all the moysture be consumed afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it This Salue following is very good and common at the Apothecaries Take the oyle of Wormewood thrée dragmes oyle of bitter Almonds one ounce oyle of Mastick one quarter of an ounce Mirrhe Aloe and white Diptamus of each one scruple Waxe as much as néedeth The salue of Oranges whereof we haue spoken before is thus prepared Take a sowre Orange cut it vp at the top and wring out the iuice then annoynt the temples with it the hart and the stomack the same is especiall good for yong children Item take oyle of bitter Almonds of Wormewood Oxe gals and white Diptamus of each one dragme Mithridate and the iuice of Oranges of each one quarter of an ounce temper them together and annoynt the Childe therewith vpon the Hart Stomack and Nauell Put also vnto it one dragme of Aloe it is a good and safe salue especially if there be an Ague present with it Another Take Southernwood one ounce Wormewood and the rindes of the Bay trée of each one dragme Sugar Colewoort séeds of each halfe a dragme Bayberies one quarter of an ounce Aloe halfe an ounce burnt Harts horne one dragme white Diptamus two scruples seeth them all together in Vineger and Oyle then strayne it thorow a cloth and vse it as the other Or take Linséed oyle one ounce Rosen more or lesse according to the age melt it at the fire and annoynt therewith the temples of the head the stomacke and the belly Some do much commend the same although it séeme slight Item take Aloe halfe an ounce white Diptamus and Saffron of each one scruple mingle them with a little sharpe Vineger afterwards spread it on a leather and binde it on the Nauell Take fresh beaten Wormewood wet it with Vineger and lay it warme vpon the stomacke Take the marrow of Stags bones temper it with a little molten Waxe and annoynt therewith the whole back bone and then lay it beaten vpon the Nauell The iuice of Radish spread vpon the Nauell is also good for wormes In like manner the oyle of Wormewood rubbed into the Nauell chiefely of yong children is also good for wormes Item there is also often to be vsed Petrolium for the same Héere do also follow certaine plaisters which be good Take Wormewood two ounces Euphorbium one dragme burnt Harts horne and the gall of a Hare of each halfe an ounce Hony as much as sufficeth for a plaister Item take Nardus séed two scruples Aloe and red Corall of each one dragme Wormewood and Mastick of each one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce make powder thereof Item take Rye meale thrée ounces Lupin meale fiue dragmes Saffron one dragme Vineger and the iuice of Rue of each two ounces the iuice of Wormewood foure ounces then make a plaister thereof Another Take Mirrh Gentian Aloe and Diptamus of each two dragmes and a halfe Wormewood seeds of Purslaine and of Orage Lupine meale filed Iuorie and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Saffron one dragme Barly meale one ounce the iuice of Garlick foure ounces temper them all together and put two graines of Muscus vnto it Item take Mints and Wormewood of each two ounces Centorie Agaricus of each halfe an ounce Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rose water one ounce Lupine meale as much as all the rest make a plaister of it for to lay vpon the stomacke Another Take Lupine meale the iuice of Wormewood Mints Peach leaues and the iuice of Quinces of each two ounces sealed earth prepared Coriander Mastick Mirtle séed and Aloe of each halfe an ounce Oxe gall one ounce and red Wine Item take Nardus one scruple Aloe one dragme prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe Wormewood Masticke of each one quarter of an ounce red Corrall one dragme make a powder thereof and temper it with the iuice of Wormewood and with Vineger wet a cloth in it and lay it vpon the belly Another Take the water of Mints and of Hyssope of each sixe ounces the water of Grasse twelue ounces Malmsey eight ounces Gentian Mirrhe Saffron of each one drag Lignum Aloes Wormeséed of each three quarters of an ounce Muscus fiue graines Vineger fiue spoonefuls vse this as is aforesaid If it be so that the patient be very weake then may this following be vsed Take Sorrell water and the water of Buglosse and of Grasse of each thrée ounces Spec. Cordialium temperatarum one dragme water of Wormewood and of Hyssope of each two ounces the water of Broome floures three ounces Gentian and Diptamus of each halfe a dragme Saffron halfe a scruple mingle them together One may also vse these bags following Take Mints Penniroyall Wormewood white Mints Southernwood Roses and Plantaine of each halfe a handfull beate them all grosse afterwards put them into a little bag and weare it on the stomacke The patient may also smell oftentimes to black Nardus séed and likewise to tosted bread which hath béene steeped in Vineger Of the wormes Ascarides which do keepe in the Arsegut §. 14. MOreouer we will héere for a conclusion of this Chapter discourse of the small wormes Ascarides which do kéepe themselues in the Arsegut These wormes may be perceiued by the great itch that they cause there And for to remedie this dip a little wooll in the oile of Abricocks or the iuice of white water Mints Also you may mixe Aloe and Oxe gall amongst it and so thrust it into the Arsegut But first the bodie must be purged with Rubarbe afterwards are Suppositories to be made of fresh Porke and put vp into the Arsegut and all the little wormes will stick fast vnto it Some doe take for this poudred Porke Also one may annoynt the stalke of Coleworts with Oxe gall and vse the same as a Suppositorie But aboue all other things is much to be commended Quicksiluer mixed with Barrowes grease and to dip the finger in it and so grease or annoynt the Arsegut within with it But for Children may Suppositories be prepared with Hony and Salt peter putting them vp and plucking them foorth againe immediatly Also there may a small Clister be ministred of Milke with Hiera Picra and Cassi◠Olde folks are to haue Clisters after this manner following Take Southernwood and Wormewood of each one handfull the séeds of Cuscuta parched Comin and the séeds of Smallage of each one ounce Wormeséed one quarter of an ounce Bran halfe a handfull oyle of Peach kernels one ounce and a
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
is weakened so that it is not strong enough for to vnburthen her selfe of the superfluities Or that there be any maladie in the Matrix or mother to wit if the necke of the wombe be stopt and obstructed and is swolne too like as it may easily happen in the mother or in the veines of the same Now for to haue some certaine or infallible knowledge of these things there may outward causes be easily perceiued by the declaration of the patient her selfe If it come through weakenesse of the expulsiue power then is it perceiued by the heate by the thirst by the swift and strong pulse and other signes of heate But if such be caused through cold then is the woman bleake sléepie without any thirst the arteries of the pulse beate slowly and the vrine is of lothsome colour If the disease be of any inward part then doth the whole bodie declare the same through the great fatnesse or leannesse If such be caused through any of the foure humors that doth the blood sufficiently shew which therein beareth sway This obstruction doth bring to women no small sicknesse besides that as it is said they be barren for that they fall thereby otherwhiles into Maniam which is madnes into the falling sicknesse suffocation swellings and impostumes of the wombe and of the other parts adiacent vnto it slothfulnesse and heauinesse of the whole body great vnlustinesse wambling and parbraking coughing and a heauy breathing the dropsie and detension of the vrine and of going to the stoole heauines of the mind great paine of the head and at last into the gout And to remedie all these diseases therefore will we first of all prescribe certaine common rules whereof the first is in case that the Termes be obstructed in a drie bodie then must one beware of all those things that might cause either heate or dryth to the end the disease be not increased thereby The second is if in the stay or detension of womens flowers the bloud had course towards any other part of the bodie then is it aduised that the same blood be drawne out which otherwise might be spoyled Thirdly to preferre these flowres it is then néedfull that the veines be opened vnder the Matrix that the blood may be drawne downewards Fourthly there is meete for this the strong binding of the thighes and to hold the same a certaine time bounden Fiftly if the disease come for that the veines be stopt in the Matrix be it of whatsoeuer occasion that it will then is the blood to be diminished by opening of a veine and to be diminished through laxatiue medicines through abstinence through exercise and such like meanes Sixtly all strong things as Hellebore Euphorbium and Nardus séed which is wont sometimes to be adhibited from below must be but a very little and not to be holden long therein to the end that thereby the Ague nor any other anguish be caused Seuenthly all that moueth the vrine doth also moue the Termes Eightly where there is obserued no good order of diet in eating or drinking there can also no good aduice nor remedie doe any good at all Ninthly for to preferre the Termes is first of all the same to be approoued through gentle remedies and at the last through stronger meanes Tenthly all warme and well sauoring things are very meete for this if they be layed vpon the nauell vpon the priuities and vpon the parts about it Eleuenthly if this disease be caused through any vlcer impostume Ague or any other cause it is first to be practised how to remedie and afterwards to moue the flowres Twelftly in case it be perceiued that this detention of the flowres or termes doth cause any other sicknes or increaseth it then is all diligence to be had to prouoke the Termes and if fo be that the same cannot be effected then may the veine be opened in the foote and boxing cuppes be adhibited Thirtéenthly because there is a great space from the stomacke and the liuer vnto the Matrix then is the Phisicke so to be tempered that the same in so great a distance be not inféebled Fourtéenthly all that is to be put vp into the wombe is to be tied to a strong thréed that one when he list may draw it out and to the end also that through the long continuance there it bruse not the necke of the mother or cause not an Ague And to the end that we may come to the remedies for to open this obstruction therefore first of all be the causes of these obstructions to be thought vpon in case that the same be caused of some outward accident like as of too great labour great heate of too much fasting and such like then is the same presently to be preuented In hote causes are cooling things to be vsed in cold warming things which do open the obstructions In a bodie that is full of blood are the veines vnder the knees to be opened which be most necessary to people that haue not the terms and if so be that horeby and other moe lettings of blood is nothing profited then is one to come to the inward and outward remedies wherein be thrée manner of wayes to be followed which shall be here described of which each one may chuse what séemeth to be the best and fittest for it And because that it is not bad counsel to rehearse and shew the simples which may stirre vp the termes therefore we wil here discouer a good part of them and first all that be warme by nature and are weakest are these the rootes of Smallage of Fennell of Butchers broome of Sperage of Parsley of Grasse Madder Calmus Asarabacca Ireos Valerian white Diptamus and Elecampane rootes Item the séede of Ruscus Lupins séedes of both kinds of Parsley of Siluer mountaine of Sperage of Smallage of Annis of Fennell of Comin whether it be raw or confected the herbes are these Cinquefoile Mugwort wild Mints Marierom Feuerfew Harts toong Spikenard Wormewood white water Mints Iuniper wild Thyme Louage Cuscuta Maidenhaire Southernewood and washt Turpentine These ensuing be much stronger as Hemlocke Rue Centorie Laureola Sauin Euphorbium Ammoniacum Sagapenum Mirrha Opopanacum and Assafoetida the séede of Nardus Mustard séede Pepper Beuercod Colloquint blacke Hellebore Pieretrum Calmus rootes of Celandine the iuice of wild Cucumbers Licebane séedes Boras the galles of stéeres of hens and of all other beasts The odoriferous things which preferre womens termes be these Indie Spica Cinnamom Cassie wood Costus roots Ameos Muscus Spica Romana Squinant Gallia Muscata and such like They that may be burnt to receiue the vapor thereof be these viz. Opopanacum Saponaria Frankinsence Blatta Byzantia Lignum Aloes and red Storax These be now the cooling things which preferre the termes to wit the séeds of small Endiue the séede of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons of Cucumbers of Endiue of Lettice c. and other moe which shall be discouered hereafter of all which pessaries may be
a double quartaine a thrée double ague Galen writeth out of whom this counsell is gathered that he knew a Phisition who before the quartaine was at the highest gaue his patient Treacle wherby the same ague so increased that he died thereof When as this order hath bene obserued in this ague then do the later Phisitions teach that these things following are very fit to be vsed Take Ginger one ounce cut it small and then séeth it in red wine vntill there remaine fiue ounces then mingle therewith one ounce and a halfe of Iulep of Violets and so drinke it to wit two houres before the Ague commeth vpon you and the same will make you sweate thoroughly Item take an ounce of the iuice of Plantaine two howers before the fit of the Ague approcheth it will remoue the Ague The water of Carduus Benedictus or the herbe sod in Wine and drunken cureth the Ague The common people take the pouder of this herbe and strow it vpon a shine or twaine of bread that is soked in burnt wine or Aqua vitae and so eate the bread before the â—â—ue come Oxymel scilliticum compositum openeth all obstructions in the quartaine and tertian Agues Some commend the wine of Asarabacca rootes for this roote hath the nature of the Hellebore it drieth all inward parts and prouoketh vrine and will therefore also expell the Ague The like vertues are ascribed to the wines of Harts toong of Hyssope and of Tamariscus The sirupe of Oxysacchara is also passing good The eleuenth Chapter Of the Consumption or Ethicke Hectica THis is one of the most perillous Agues that may light vpon a man for by her hot and drie operation she drieth vp all natural moisture of mans body This Hectica is not satisfied with the hurt that it doth to all naturall moisture and vitall spirits but it drieth also all nourishing parts and all the flesh of the whole body yea the marrow of the bones also so that it may duly and rightly be called the consuming Ague This destroying heate beginneth first in the heart of the Ague which is termed Causon that is the burning Feuer whereof we haue written in the seauenth Chapter which continueth there so long vntill it consume the very sap and moisture of the heart And albeit that it doth not consume and waste all the moisture of the heart yet doth it burne and spoile the same For it fareth with the heart as with a wicke in a lampe that at the beginning doth burne bright and cleare but the longer that it burneth the harder and the more burnt the drier it waxeth where by a little and a little it loseth light and extinguisheth and albeit more oyle be poured vnto it yet burneth it not then the brighter but the flame remaineth small and slacke and the longer that it burneth the darker it is till at the last all of it goeth cleane out of it selfe So fareth it also with this Hectica with or without an Ague as plainely may appeare in very old men which are commonly said to die like a lampe or candle This is to be noted also in children that sometimes also vse to abate and fall away This Consumption namely that which is without an Ague is called of the Gréekes Marasmodes that is a Consumption and of the Latinists Senectus that is old age whereby we may call it the infection of the heart whereof we haue spoken in the second part the sixt Chapter and ninth § In like manner in the description of the Consumption in the fifth Chapter and 22. § When this Hectica spreadeth her selfe ouer all the whole bodie drying it altogether vp then is it as we haue already told called Marasmodes This sicknesse is incurable and aboue all mens helpe for that the naturall heate would quickly like a trée through very great age or in them that lie about the fire through extreame heate be dried away The causes of this Hectica are all outward things which do heate the parts of the body whereby many Agues might be prouoked whence at the last this consumption is sounded and springeth Item the hunger and thirst if they be not remedied betimes the which for the most part happeneth to cholericke and leane men who falling into a quotidian Ague are thereby lightly turned into a burning and lastly into this Ague Hectica Item the perishing of the lights may very well be a cause of this Hectica whereby is hindered that the fresh aire may not coole the heart sufficiently and there be other moe occasions whereby the heart may be inflamed We will now admonish somewhat of her signes They that fall into Tabem that is into a consumption are easily to be discerned for before that one come to féele their pulses one may sée how their eyes be sunke and fallen into their heads The apples of their eyes will be drie in this agonie and wrinkled and the flesh round about the eyes fallen away so that one may otherwhiles almost see the bones of their browes It séemeth also otherwhiles that these diseased persons face is so bedusted with drie dust as it is in them that haue gone the whole day through the dust in the heate of the Sunne Also the liuely ruddinesse and colour ouer all the whole body is vanished and gone and likewise the skin of their forehead so hardned and shrunke that they séeme to close their eyelids very badly and sléeping they lie with their eyes halfe open which can be no due sleepe but rather an ouer-great watching and the flesh in the temples of the head doth so wast away that there séemeth to be a great hollownesse To conclude there remaineth no more than the very skin and the bones so that when one seeth them naked he would iudge none other than that the carkasse were couered with a drie skin and that all the intrailes are taken out or lie hid in the breast and when as one toucheth the skinne and plucketh it hard then shall he find it through drie and it seemeth that by plucking it will follow These sicke persons haue a hard pulse and at the first touching of them doth one perceiue small heate but when you hold your hand long vpon them then may you féele the heate vnder your hand increase and diuers such like signes more Of this maladie Hectica and Tabes is a great disputation whereof here we will not make many words but will commend that matter to the learned yet neuerthelesse before we come to the cure we will briefly admonish thus much that such as be of a moist nature in the beginning of the consumption are not assailed with this Ague Hectica but they onely that be drie of nature and somewhat hot and therewith do great labour watch much and liue in carefulnesse whereby their naturall moisture is wasted and spent these presently are taken with this Ague Hectica and specially such as chafe much liue in extreame sorrow or frequent great heate
remedies described in the second part the sixt Chapter and first § and also afterwards in the description of the heart The 21. Chapter Of Trembling FOrasmuch as the trembling or quaking is a signe or token of feare yea for the most part is caused thereby therefore it might be néedfull to write somewhat amply therof But we haue made in the first Part the twelfth Chapter and twelfth § a long discourse thereof and therwith also shewed that this is a disease of the Braines Also of the trembling and panting of the heart hath bene spoken at large in the second part the sixt Chapter from the third § vnto the sixt § Wherefore I do suppose that it were néedlesse to discourse any further thereof at this present The 22. Chapter Of the impediments that come of Fals. INto what diseases men may fall by fals stumblings blowes pinches and such like is sufficiently knowne to all men whereof we haue also written in diuers places and especially in the second part the fift Chapter of the vomiting of bloud and also in the eightéenth § of the clotted bloud where very good remedies are described and therefore here are but a few declared But if any be brused much through a fall then haue the Chirurgians a speciall experiment that they spéedily fley off the skin of a Weather the which they must lay warme round about the brused or wrenched member and kéepe it warme and this should helpe in one day Brimstone sodden in strong wine is also very good In like manner powned Garlicke tempered with Barrowes grease Item take Bran of Rie meale the rootes of Ebulus of each a like quantitie séeth them together in a little Vineger and so bind it vpon the wrenched or brused part There was once a child fallen out of his Cradle who therby had got a swelling on his arme which was healed by annointing it with oyle and salue of Roses For this also do serue all golden and waters of life principally if any swouning were at hand the same waters drunken and laid vpon the brused member and annointed doth heale And if the dead Palsey or falling sicknesse ioyne with it then look into the first part the twelfth Chapter in the end of the thirteenth § where are shewed some good remedies commodious for this purpose And if the ioynts be remoued from their naturall places then reade the description of the Crookebacke in the second part the fourth Chapter and second § In like manner also of the dislocation in the fourth part the seuenth Chapter and first § where very good remedies are described The end of the sixt Part. The seuenth Part of this Booke speaketh of certaine Poysons and Venims of Plants Mettals and Beasts THe miserable life of man is not subiect to sicknesses and diseases enough as well inwardly as outwardly but there must be diuers venimous things to hurt and annoy the same which are almost among all creatures and with such hurtfull qualitie indued that they bereaue men of their liues some sooner and some later But God of his goodnesse hath ordained innumerable and wholesome meanes for it and that almost in the smallest creatures as in Herbs Roots Earths and other amongst which the simplest in sight haue otherwhiles the most vertue to resist the strongest poyson preseruing both man and beast from death euen as hereafter may be séene in many places which ought to admonish vs to praise and thanke God almightie for our health and to acknowledge him to be the fountaine of all goodnesse And to speake and treate thereof in this our Booke of phisicke we purpose to rehearse them in this seuenth Part wherein shall be onely admonished of such poysons as are knowne in Germanie and as one may speake are euery day before our eyes For what poysons are or may be found in the East and in Aphrica it were superfluous to speake of them at this present We will part these poysons or venims into thrée kinds whereof the first shall be the vegetables as Herbes Rootes Plants Séeds Iuices and such like the second sort are the venimous Mettals the third sort are certaine Beasts whatsoeuer else commeth from them whereby men are harmed so that the summe of this seuenth Part consisteth in two things First to know all the venims wherby héede may be taken to eschew them Secondly if it so chance that any one haue taken any of them vnwittingly or were ministred vnto him by another how that one may helpe him and shew how that venime might be withstood and how to extinguish his deadly qualitie For it is very néedfull that euery Phisition or housholder be prouided with good remedies against all manner of venime whereby he as soone as néede requireth may haue somewhat in readinesse that he may minister against the venime so taken For in all such causes there serueth no delay as there be but a few venimous beasts and other which if they be not remedied out of hand do so infect that afterwards they remaine irremediable as we haue also shewed in other places And therefore must we match and méete with these venimous and hurtfull things imitating the first rule if any man be poysoned by meate or drinke then is a vomit the principallest remedie Or if he haue receiued any venime through thrusts or biting then must you set cups or boxes with pricking theron scarifying or cauterizing the sound flesh about the wounds and at the last if néed be cut off the whole ioynt or member And those thrusts and bits are to be cured by some iniection and application so to hinder the violence and operation of the poyson The poyson taken inwardly is subdued through tart and sharpe wine and other meanes and lastly through purging sweating and such like as hereafter shall be taught Regard is also to be had of the qualitie of the venime and of the strength of them that haue taken it that the strongest poysons may be expelled with the strongest remedies and the smallest venimes with mild medicines and remedies Also regard must be had to the time of the yeare and to the age of the poysoned person This is now briefly prefixed for a Preface we will now procéed to the remedies The first Chapter All those things that are good against Poyson ALl that by the learned may be vsed against poyson shall here be described and specified and we will shew and name those things that are well knowne and easily gotten For what may it profite vs to counsell any man to take the gall of an Elephant the bloud of a Crocodile and the Egs of a Tortoyse in the sea First Veriuice which is of himselfe good alone or a sirupe made thereof is very good for it withstandeth al Poyson The rootes of Valerian browne Betonie and Rue of each a dragme taken with wine is also good against poyson Conserues of Gilloflowers and their wine are also good for the same the Beuercod the conserues and wine of