upon the lungues dropsies and difficulty of urine In ointments it takes away red pimples and the like deformities of the face Citrii Of Pome Citrons the outward pill which I suppose is that which is meant here strengthens the heart resists poyson amends a stinking breath helps digestion comforts a cold stomach Ebuli rad Of the Roots of Dwarf-Elder or Walwort see the root Enulae Of Elicampane see the roots Esulae Rad. See the roots Fabarum of Beans Bean cods or pods as we in Suffex call them being burned the ashes are a soveraign remedy for aches in the joynts old bruises gouts and sciaticaes Focniculi rad Of Fennel roots see the roots and remember the observation given in Smallage at the beginning of the barks Fraxini rad Of the bark of Ash-tree roots that the vertue lies only in the bark of the root I suppose it to be only nicity but the bark of the tree helps the rickets is moderately hot and dry staies vomiting being burnt the ashes made into an ointment helps Leprosie and other deformity of the skin easeth the pains of the spleen Granatorum Of Pome granates the rind or pill cools and forcibly binds stayes fluxes and the terms in women helps digestion strengthens weak stomachs fastens the teeth and are good for such whose gummes wast Guajaci See the wood Juglandium virid Of Green Walnuts as for the outward green bark of Walnuts I suppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all and then you may take nuts and all if they may properly be called nuts at such a time you shall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach they resist poyson and are a most excellent preservative against the Plague inferiour to none they are admirable for such as are troubled with consumptions of the lungues the rich may keep them preserved they that cannot do as they would must be content to do as they may viz dry them and so keep them As for the shells of Walnuts I know nothing they are good for but only to make sport for if you fill four of them full of pitch and shoe a cat with them and put her into a chamber she will make pretty sport to please a melancholly phansie Lauri Of Bay-tree see the root Limonnm Of Lemmons the outward pill is of the nature of Citron but held not so effectual however let the poor country man that cannot get the other use this Mandragorae rad Be pleased to look back to the root Myrobalanorum Of Myrobalans see the fruits Macis Of Mace it is hot in the third degree strengthens the stomach and helps concoction Maceris c. It is held to be the inner Bark of the Nutmeg-tree helps fluxes and spitting of blood Petroselini rad Of Parsly roots opens obstructions provokes urine and the terms warms a cold stomach Prunelli sylvesiris Of Sloe-tree I know no use of it Pineaerum putamina Pine-shucks or husks I suppose they mean of the cones that hold the seeds both those and also the bark of the tree stop fluxes and help the lungues Querci Of Oak-tree both the bark of the Oak and Acorn cups are drying and cold binding stop fluxes and the terms as also the running of the reins Rhaphani Of Rhadishes I could never see any bark they had Suberis Of Cork it is good for something else besides to stop bottles being dry and binding stancheth blood helps Paulus fluxes especially the ashes of it being burnt Sambuci c. Of Elder roots and branches purgeth water helps the dropsie Cort. Medius Tamaricis The middle Bark of Tamaris easeth the spleen helps the Rickets Tilliae Of Line-tree boyled the water helps burnings Thuris Of Frankincense I must plead Ignoramus Vlmi Of Elm moderately hot and cleansing very good for wounds burns and broken bones WOODS AND THEIR CHIPS OR RASPINGS 〈◊〉 Lignum Aloes Wood of Aloes is moderatly hot and dry a good Cordial a rich perfume a great strengthener to the stomach Aspalathus Rose-wood There are diverse bushes called by the name of Aspalathus But because the Colledge have set it down amongst the Woods I suppose they mean the tree it is moderatly hot and dry stops looseness provokes urine and is excellent to cleanse filthy ulcers Bresilium Brassil All the use I know of it is to dye cloath and make red ink Buxus Box many Physicians have written of it but no Physical vertue of it and I suppose the Colledge quoted it only as a word of course Cypressus Cypress the wood laid amongst cloaths secures them from moths See the leaves Ebenum Ebeny It is held by Dioscorides to cleer the sight being either boyled in wine or burned to ashes Guajacum lignum 〈◊〉 Dries attenuates causeth sweat resisteth putrifaction is admirable good for the French pocks as also for Ulcers Scabs and Leprosie Juniperus Juniper the smoke of the wood drives away Serpents the ashes of it made into ly cures Itch and Scabs Nephriticum It is a light wood and comes from Hispaniola being steeped in water will soon turn it to a blew color it is hot and dry in the first degree and so used as before is an admirable remedy for the stone as also for obstructions of the liver and spleen Rhodium encreaseth milk in nurses Santalum album rubrum citrinum White red and yellow Sanders they are all cold and dry in the second or third degree The red stops defluxions from any part and helps inflamations the white and yellow of which the yellow is 〈◊〉 cool the heat of feavers strengthen the heart and cause cheerfulness 〈◊〉 Is hot and dry in the Second degree it opens obstructions or stoppings it strengthens the breast exceedingly if it be weakened through cold it breaks the stone staies vomiting provokes urine and is very profitable in the French pocks Tamaris is profitable for the Rickets and burnings Xylobalsamum Wood of the Balsam-tree Is hot and dry in the second degree according to Gallen I never read any great vertues of it HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES ABrotanum mas foemina Southernwood male and foemale is hot and dry in the third degree resists poyson kills worms provokes lust outwardly in plaisters it dissolves cold swellings helps the bitings of venemous beasts makes hair grow Absinthium c. Wormwood it 's several sorts are all hot and dry in the second or third degrees the common Wormwood is thought to be hottest they all help weakness of the stomach cleanse choller kil worms opens stoppings helps surfets cleers the sight resists poyson cleanseth the blood and secures cloathes from moths Abugilissa c. Alkanet the leaves are something drying and binding but inferiour in vertue to the roots to which I refer you Acetosa Sorrel is moderately cold and dry binding cutteth tough humors cools the brain liver and stomach cools the blood in feavers and provokes apetite Acanthus Bears-breech or brank ursine is temperate something moist see the root Adiantum album nigrum Maiden-hair white
hot and dry in the second degree binding stops fluxes helps stuffings in the head the yellaw Jaundice helps the memory expels wind See the Flowers Rosa Solis See the Water Rosa alba rubra Damascena White red and Damask-Roses the white are held to be good for sore eyes the red bind and comforts the heart refresh the spirits the Damask purge all are cool in temperature Rumex Dock all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance and therefore stops fluxes the leaves are seldom used in physick Rubus Idaeus Raspis Rasberries or Hindberries I know no great vertue in the leaves Ruta Rue or Herb-of-grace hot and dry in the third degree consumes the seed and is an enemy to generation helps difficulty of breathing and inflamations of the lunges pains in the side inflamations of the yard matrix is naught for women wirh child An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides This I am sure of no herb resisteth poyson more And some think Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus fortified his body against poyson with no other medicine It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and no herb better than this in Pestilential times Ruta Muraria See Adianthum Sabina Savin hot and dry in the third degree potently provokes the terms expels both birth and after-birth they boyled in oyl and used in ointments stay creeping ulcers scour away spots frekles and sunburning from the face the belly anointed with it kils worms in children Salvia Sage hot and dry in the second or third degrees binding it staies abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times it causeth fruitfulnesse it is singular good for the brain strengthens the sences and memory helps spitting and vomiting of blood outwardly heat hot with a little vineger and applied to the side helps stitches and pains in the sides Salix Willow-leaves are cold dry and binding stop spitting of blood and fluxes the boughs stuck about a chamber wonderfully cool the air and refresh such as have feavers the leaves applied to the head help hot diseases there and frenzies Sampsucum Marjoram Sanicula Sanicle hot and dry in the second degree cleanseth wounds and ulcers Saponariae Sope-wort or Bruise wort vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers and is of notable use in the French-pocks Satureia Savory Winter-savory is hot and dry in the third degree Summer-savory is not so hot both of them expel wind gallantly and that they say is the reason why they are boyled with Pease and Beans and other such windy things Saxifragia alba White Saxifrage breaks wind helps the chollick and stone Scabiosa Scabious hot and dry in the second degree cleanseth the breast and lungues helps old rotten coughs and difficulty of breathing provokes urine and cleanseth the bladder of filthy stuff breaks Aposthumes and cures Scabs and Itch. Scariola An Italian name for Succory Schoenanthus Schaenanth Squinanth or Chamels-hay hot and binding Gallen saith it causeth head-ach beleeve him that list Dioscorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins surely it is as great an expeller of wind as is Scordium Water-Germander hot and dry cleanseth ulcers in the inward parts it provokes urine and the terms opens stoppings of the liver spleen reins bladder and matrix it is a great counterpoyson and easeth the breast orepressed with flegm Scrophularia Fig-wort so called of Scrophula the Kings Evil which it cures they say by beingonly hung about the neck if not bruise it and apply it to the place it helps the piles or Hemorrhoids and they say being hung about the neck preserves the body in health 〈◊〉 And all his sorts see Barba Jovis Senna In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue as an imparaleld Author it heats in the second degree and dries in the first cleanseth purgeth and digesteth it carries downwards both choller flegm and melancholly it cleanseth the brain heart liver spleen it cheers the sences opens obstructions takes away dulness of sight preserves youth helps deafness if purging will help it helps melancholy and madness keeps back old age resists resolution of the nerves pains in the head scabs itch falling sicknesse the windinesse of it is corrected with a little Ginger Serpillum Mother-of-Time Wild Time it is hot and dry in the third degree it provokes the terms gallantly as also helps the strangury or stoppage of urine gripings in the belly ruptures convulsions inflamations in the liver lethargy and infirmities of the spleen Sigillum Solomonis Solomons-Seal see the Root Smyrnium Alexanders of Creet Solanum Nightshade very cold and dry binding it is somewhat dangerous given inwardly unlesse by a skilful hand outwardly it helps the shingles St. Anthonies fire and other hot inflamations Soldanella Bindweed hot and dry in the Second degree it opens obstructions of the liver and purgeth watry humors and is therefore very profitable in dropsies it is very hurtful to the stomach and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon Ginger or Annisseeds c. Yet the German Physicians affirm that it cures the dropsie being only bruised and applyed to the navill and something lower and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all Sonchus levis Asper Sowthistles smooth and rough they are of a cold watry yet binding quality good for frenzies they increase milk in nurses and cause the children which they nurse to have a good color help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause outwardly they help inflamations and hot swellings cool the heat of the fundament and privities Sophia Chirurgorum Flix-weed drying without any manif est heat or coldness it is usually found about old ruinous buildings it is so called because of its vertue in stopping fluxes Paracelsus highly commends it nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulaes which though our modern Chyrurgians dispise yet if it were in the hands of a wise man such as Paracelsus was it may do the wonders he saith it will Spinachia Spinage I never read any physical vertues of it Spina alba See the Root Spica See Nardus Staebe Silver Knapweed The vertues be the same with Scabious and some think the Herbs too though I am of another opinion Staechas French-Lavender Cassidony is a great counterpoyson opens obstructions of the liver and spleen cleanseth the matrix and bladder brings out corrupt humors provokes urine There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name Amaranthus in English Golden-flower or Flower-gentle the flowers of which expel worms being boyled the water kils lice and nits Succisa Morsus Diaboli Devils-bit hot and dry in the second degree inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother and breaks wind it takes away swellings in the mouth and slimy flegm that sticks to the jaws neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck which the vulgar call the Almonds of the
and black They are temperate yet drying white Maiden-hair is that we usually call wall-rue they both open obstructions cleanse the breast and lungues of grosse slimy humors provoke urine help ruptures and shortnesse of wind Adiantum Aureum Polytricum Golden Maiden-hair it's temperature and vertues are the same with the former helps the Spleen burned and ly made with the Ashes keeps the hair from falling off from the head Agrimonia Agrimony Gallens Eupatorium it is hot and dry in the first degree binding it amends the infirmities of the liver helps such as piss blood helps inward wounds opens obstructions outwardly applied it helps old sores ulcers c. Inwardly it helps the Jaundice and the Spleen Ageratum Mesue his Eupatorium Maudlein is hot and dry in the Second degree provokes urine and the terms dries the brain opens stoppings helps the green sickness and profits such as have a cold weak liver outwardly applied it takes away the hardnesse of the matrix and fills hollow ulcers with flesh Agnus Castus c. Chast-tree the leaves are hot and dry in the third degree expel wind consume the seed cause Chastity being only born about one it dissolves swellings of the cods being applied to them head-ach Lethargy Also Dioscorides saith a branch of it preserves a traveller from weariness Alleluja Lujula c. Wood-sorrel it is of the temperature of other Sorrel and held to be more cordial cools the blood helps ulcers in the mouth hot defluxions upon the lungues wounds ulcers c Alcea Vervain Mallow the root helps fluxes and burstness Allium Garlick is hot and dry in the fourth degree troublesom to the stomach it duls the sight spoils a cleer skin resists poison easeth the pains of the teeth helps the bitings of mad-dogs and venemous beasts helps ulcers leprosies provokes urine is exceeding opening and profitable for dropsies Althaea c. March-mallows are moderately hot and drier than other mallows they help digestion and mitigate pain ease the pains of the stone and in the sides Alsine Chickweed is cold and moist without any binding aswages swelling and comforts the sinnews much and therefore is good for such as are shrunk up it dissolves Aposthumes hard swellings and helps mangy hands and legs Alchymilla Ladies-mantle is hot and dry some say in the second degree some in the third Outwardly it helps wounds reduceth womens breasts that hang bagging inwardly helps bruises and ruptures staies vomiting and the whites in women and is very profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry through cold and moisture Alcanna Privet hath a binding quality helps ulcers of the mouth is good against burnings and lcaldings cherrisheth the nerves or sinnews Amaracus Majorana Marjoram some say 't is hot and dry in the second degree some advance it to the third Sweet Marjorā is an excellent remedy for cold diseases in the brain helps such as are given to much sighing easeth pains in the belly provokes urine outwardly in oyls or salves it resisteth 〈◊〉 that are shrunk limbs out of Joynt all aches and swellings coming of a cold cause Angelica is hot and dry in the third degree openeth digesteth maketh thin strengthens the heart helps fluxes and loathsomness of meat it is an enemy to poyson and pestilence provokes the terms in women and brings away the after-birth Anagallis mas foemina Pimpernel male and foemale they are something hot and dry and of such a drawing quality that they draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh amend the sight cleanse ulcers help infirmities of the liver and reins Anethum Dill is hot and dry in the second degree Dioscorides saith it breeds milk in Nurses But Gallen he denies it Howsoever it staies vomiting easeth hiccoughs asswageth swellings provokes urine helps such women as are troubled with the fits of the mother and digests raw humors Apium Smallege It is somewhat hotter and drier than Parsly and more efficacious it opens stoppings of the liver and spleen cleanseth the blood provokes the terms helps a cold stomach to digest its meat and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice Aparine Coose-grasse or Clevers they are meanly hot and dry cleansing helps the bitings of venemous beasts keeps mens bodies from growing too fat helps the yellow-jaundice stales bleeding and fluxes and helps green wounds Aspergula odorata Woodroof chears the heart makes men 〈◊〉 helps melancholly and opens the stoppings of the liver Aquilegia Columbines help sore throats are of a drying binding quallity Argentina Silver-weed or Wild Tansie cold and dry almost in the third degree stops lasks fluxes and the terms good against ulcers the stone and inward wounds it stops the immoderate flux of the terms in women if it be but worn in their shoos easeth gripings in the belly fastneth loose teeth outwardly it takes away freckles morphew and sunburning it takes away inflamations and bound to the wrests stops the violence of the fits of an ague Artanita Sow-bread hot and dry in the third degree it is so dangerous a purge that I dare not take it my self therefore would I not advise others outwardly in oyntments it takes away freckles sunburning and the marks which the smal-pocks leave behind them dangerous for women with child yea so dangerous that both Dioscorides and Pliny say it will make a woman miscarry if she do but stride over it 〈◊〉 longa rotunda Birthwort long and round see the Roots Artemisia Mugwort is hot and dry in the second degree binding an herb apropriated to the foeminine sex it brings down the terms brings away both birth and after birth easeth pains in the matrix Asparagus see the Roots Asarum c. Asarabacca hot and dry provokes vomiting and urin and are good for dropsies they are corrected with mace or cinamon Atriplex c. Orach or Arrach it is cold in the first degree and moist in the second saith Gallen and makes the belly soluble Dioscorides saith they cure the yellow-jaundice Lycus Neop saith they help such as have taken Cantharides Mathiolus saith it purgeth upwards and downwards Hypocrates saith it cools hot aposthumes and St. Anthonies fire Auricula muris major Mouse-ear hot and dry of a bindding quality it is admirable to heal any wounds inward or outward as also ruptures or burstnesse edge-tools quenched in the juyce of it will cut Iron without turning the edg and lastly it helps the swelling of the Spleen Coughs and Consumptions of the lungues Attractilis hirsuta Wild Bastard-saffron distaff thistle or Spindle-thistle is dry and moderately digesting helpeth the bitings of venemous beasts Mesue saith it is hot in the first degree and dry in the second and cleanseth the breast and lungues of tough flegm but if the Colledge do intend Cardnus Bened bythis we shal talk with that by and by Balsamita c. Costmary Alecost See Maudlin of which I take this to be one sort or kind Barba jovis sedum majus
fresh Juniper berries fifty pound bruise them and put them in a wooden vessel with twenty four pints of water adding to them a pound of sour Leven stop the vessel close and let them stand in a Cellar three months then distill them in an Alembick with a sufficient quantity of water seperate the oyl and reserve the water for another distillation In the same manner is made oyl of Bay berries and Ivy berries A. Oyl of Juniper berries prevails wonderfully in pains of the yard and running of the reins 〈◊〉 falling sickness it is a mighty preservative against the pestilence and all evill airs it purgeth the reins provokes urine breaks the stone helps the dropsie the quantity to be taken at a time in any convenient liquor is three or four drops outwardly by unction it helps the gout two or three drops dropped upon the navil helps the Chollick A. Oyl of Bay berries helps the Chollick and Iliack passion A. Oyl of Ivy berries helps cold diseases of the joynts the stone and provokes the terms in women OYL OF SPICES Oyl of Cinnamon Take of bruised Cinnamon five pound spring water fifty pints steep them twenty four hours then distill them with an Alembick After the same manner is made Oyl of 〈◊〉 Mace Nutmegs Pepper A. One or two drops of Oyl of Cinnamon is enough to take at a time and is exceeding good for such as are in Consumptions See Cinnamon among the simples A. Oyl of Mace is excellent good for Rheums in the head and oyl of Pepper for the Chollick OYL OF BARKS Oyl of the dryed Barks of Orrenges 〈◊〉 Lemmons is prepared as oyl of Herbs OYL OF WOODS Oyl of Guajacum Oyl of Guajacum is made of the wood by a retort in a close Reverberatory let the sweeter and thinner part be separated from the grosser and rectified with salt or Tartar 〈◊〉 or Colcolthar or sand After the same manner is made oyl of Box Oak and other sollid woods Oyl of Sassafras is made like oyl of Cinnamon and so is made oyl of Rhodium Juniper Rosemary Ivy. OYL OF THINGS TO BE MELTED Oyl of Wax Take of yellow Wax one pound melt it and ad to it three pound of Tiles beaten into pouder mix them and put them into a retort and draw out the oyl with a convenient fire it is rectified in a retort without tiles adding water to it After the same manner is prepared Oyl of all 〈◊〉 A. I am of opinion that oyl of Wax is as singuler a remedy for burns and burning ulcers as any is or need to be OYL OF GUMS AND ROZINS Oyl of Mirrh Take of Mirrh bruised six pound Conduit Water thirty pound Bay salt six pound mix them together and distil them in an Alembick A. It keeps wounds and all things else saith Fior avantus from putrifaction it makes the face fair and youthful quickly cures wounds and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Turpentine Take of Venice Turpentine eight and twenty pound spring water ninety six pound distil them in a Copper vessel with his Refrigeratory so will the Oyl come out thin and white and the Colophonia will remain at bottom if the fire be increased This white Oyl may commodiously be drawn in Balneo Mariae without burning A. It is wonderful good in cold afflictions of the nerves and al diseases coming of cold and wind it corrects the cold afflictions of the lungues as Asthmaes difficulty of breathing c. A drachm being taken in the morning outwardly it adorns the body takes away the prints of 〈◊〉 and the small pocks chops in the skin and breasts of women and deafness being dropped into the ears Oyl of Balsum Take of Mirrh Aloes Spicknard Dragons blood 〈◊〉 Mummy Opopanax Carpobalsamum or Cubebs Bdellium Ammoniacum Sarcocolla Saffron Mastich Gum Arabick liquid Styrax of each two drachms Ladanum Castorium of each two drachms and an half Musk half a dram Turpentine the weight of them all the things to be bruised being bruised let them be mixed and distilled in an Alembick according to art A. It 〈◊〉 lost strength and preserves carkases from putrifaction the back bone being 〈◊〉 with it keeps back the rigor of feavers it takes away the falling-sickness and such diseases the fits of the mother melancholly and sadness without a cause c. Oleum Latiricium 〈◊〉 Mesue Take of Bricks made of red earth beaten into peices of the bigness of an Apple these being heat red hot quench in oyl 〈◊〉 Rosemary or old Sallet oyl letting them remain in till they are full then take them out and beat them into pouder then still them in a 〈◊〉 retort well luted stop the oyl close and keep it for your use A. The oyl will quickly penetrate and is a soveraign remedy for the gout and all cold afflictions in the joynts or nerves cramps epilepsies or falling sickness 〈◊〉 it mollifies hard 〈◊〉 dissolves cold swellings as also cold distempers of the spleen reins and bladder Oyl of Lovage 〈◊〉 made of the flowers of Lovage four ounces old oyl ten ounces Oyl of white Lillies of the flowers of white Lillies and 〈◊〉 as oyl of Roses but 〈◊〉 off what is yellow Oyl of Lillies of the vally is made like to it Oyl of Frankinsence Take as much Frankinsence 〈◊〉 will put it in a 〈◊〉 and draw 〈◊〉 the oyl with a convement 〈◊〉 then rectifie 〈◊〉 either by it self or with sand or salt In the same manner is made oyl of Ammoniacum Benzoin Caranna Jet Mastich Opopanax Sagapenum 〈◊〉 Styrax 〈◊〉 OYL OF MINERALS AND STONES A. Having perused these oyls following I would willingly have left them quite out I mean the manner allotted by the Colledg to make them 1. Because I fear they and truth are Separatists 2. Because the ignorant will 〈◊〉 as well how to make them as they did before when I have done what I can 3. As to Alchymists to whose profession the making of them belongs I shall seem like Phormio the Phylosopher who having never seen battle undertook to read a Military lecture before 〈◊〉 who was the best Souldier in the world but I am in a manner forced to it He that is able to understand the recepts is as able to understand that the failings are not mine but the Colledges Oyl of Antimony Take of crude Antimony Mercury Sublimate of each a pound beat them into pouder and put them in a glass retort with a wide neck give fire to them by degrees in a Reverberatory so will a fat distill into a receiver part of which sticking to the neck of the retort will easily be melted a gentle fire being held under it let this fat be rectified in a small Allembick or retort and let the curd be kept if you would have it liquid set it in a Cellar in an open glass and it will turn to water or oyl which keep in a glass well stopped Oyl of Arsenick Take of Christalline Arsenick first 〈◊〉 with
out thorns ease sprains the ashes of them mixed with vineger Take scurf or dandrif off from the head and prevent the falling off of the hair they are hot and dry in the second degree according to Gallen I never read any vertue of the root of Suger Cane Ari c. of Cuckow-pints or Wake-Robin hot and dry in the third degree I know no great good they do inwardly taken unless to play the rogue withal or make sport outwardly applied they take off Scurf Morphew and Freckles from the face and cleer the skin and cease the pains of the Gout See Gersa serpentaria Asclepiadis vincetoxici Of Swallow wort hot and dry good against poison and gripings of the belly as also against the bitings of mad-dogs Asari Of Asara bacca the roots are a safer purge than the leaves and not so violent they purge by vomit stool and urine they are profitable for such as have agues dropsies stoppings of the liver or spleen green sickness Asparagi Of Sparagus or Sperage they are temperate in quality opening they provoke urine and cleanse the reins and bladder Asphodeli hastae Regiae foem Of Kings spear or foemal Asphodel I know no physical use of the roots probably there is for I do not beleeve God created any thing of no use Asphodeli Albuci maris of male Asphodel Hot and dry in the second degree Inwardly taken they provoke vomit urine and the terms in women outwardly used in ointments they cause hair to grow cleanse ulcers take away morphew and freckles from the face Bardanae c. Of Bur Clot-bur or Bur-dock temperately hot and dry Helps such as spit blood and matter bruised and mixed with salt and applied to the place helps the bitings of mad dogs It expels wind easeth pains of the teeth strengthens the back helps the running of the reins and the whites in women Behen alb Rub. Of Valerian white and red Mesue Serapio and other Arabians say they are hot and moist in the latter end of the first or beginning of the second degree and comfort the heart stir up lust The Graecians held them to be dry in the second degree that they stop fluxes and provoke urine Bellidis Of Dazies see the leaves Betae nigrae albae rubrae Of Beets black white and red as for black Beets I have nothing to say I doubt they are as rare as black Swans The red Beet root boyled and preserved in vineger makes a fine cool pleasing cleansing digesting sawce See the leaves Bistortae c. Of Bistort or snakeweed cold and dry in the third degree binding resists pestilence and poyson helps ruptures and bruises staies fluxes vomiting and the immoderate flowing of the terms in women helps inflamations and sornes of the mouth and fastens loose teeth Borraginis Of Borrage hot and moist in the first degree cheers the heart and helps drooping spirits Brioniae c. Of Briony both white and black they are both hot and dey some say in the third degree and some say but in the first they purge flegm and watery humors but they trouble the stomack much they are special good for dropsies the white is most in use and is admirable good for the fits of the mother both of them externally used take away freckles sun-burning and morphew from the face and cleanse filthy ulcers Buglossi Of Bugloss its vertues are the same with Borrage and the roots of either sildom used Bulbus vomitorius a vomiting root I never read of it else where by this general name Calami Aromatici Of Aromatical reed or sweet garden flag It provokes urine strengthens the lungues helps bruises refists poyson c. In beating of it be very speedy for the strength will quickly fly out Capparum Of Caper roots are hot and dry in the second degree cutting and cleansing they provoke the terms help malignant ulcers ease the tooth-ach aswage swellings and help the rickets Caryophillatae c. Of Avens or hearb Bennet The roots are dry and something hot of a cleansing quality they keep garments from being motheaten See the leaves Caulium Of Coleworts I know nothing the roots are good for but only to bear the hearbs and flowers Centaurij major is Of Centaury the greater the roots help such as are bursten such as spit blood shrinking of sinnews shortness of wind coughs convulsions cramps Cepae Of Onions are hot and dry according to Gallen in the fourth degree they cause driness and are extreamly hurtful for chollerick people they breed but little nourishment and that little is naught they are bad meat yet good physick for flegmatick people they are opening and provoke urine and the terms if cold be the cause obstructing bruised and outwardly applied they cure the bitings of mad dogs rosted and applied they help boils and Aposthumes raw they take the fire out of burnings but ordinaryly eaten they cause head-ach spoil the sight dull the sences and fill the body full of wind Chameleontis Albi nigri c. Of Chameleon white and black Tragus calleth the Carline Thistle by the name of white Chameleon the root whereof is hot in the second degree and dry in the third it provokes sweat kills worms resists pestilence and poyson it is given with success in pestilential feavers helps the tooth ach by being chewed in the mouth opens the stoppings of the liver and spleen it provokes vrine and brings down the terms As for the black Chameleon All Physicians hold it to have a kind of venemous quality and unfit to be used inwardly Both Gallen Clusius Nicander Dioscorides and AEgineta Outwardly in oyntments it is profitable for scabs morphew tettars c. and all things that need clensing Chelidonij majoris minoris Of Celondine the greater and lesser The greater is that which we usually call Celondine the root is manifestly hot and dry clensing and scouring proper for such as have the yellow Jaundice it opens obstructions of the liver and if chewed in the mouth it helps the tooth-ach Celondine the lesser is that which usually we call Pilewott which though Gallen and Dioscorides teach to be hot in the fourth degree and might happily be so in those countries where they lived yet with us it scarce exceeds the first degree the Juyce of the root mixed with hony and snuffed up the nose purgeth the head helps the Hemorrhoyds or Piles being bathed with it as also doth the root only carried about one being made into an oyntment helps the disease in the neck commonly called the Kings Evil. China wonderfully extenuateth and drieth provoketh sweat resisteth putrifaction it strengthens the liver helps the dropsy and malignant ulcers leprosy itch and the French-pocks and is profitable in diseases coming of fasting Cichorij Of Succory cools and dries in the second degree strengthens the liver and veins it opens obstructions stoppings of the liver and spleen Colchici Of medow-saffron the roots are held to be hurtful to the stomack therefore I let
thence arising Limonium Sea-Buglosse or Marsh-Buglosse or as some will have it Sea Lavender the seeds being very drying and binding stop fluxes and the terms help the chollick and strangury 〈◊〉 Authors make some flutter about this herb 〈◊〉 the best take it to be Trifolium Odoratum Sweet 〈◊〉 which is of a temperate nature cleanseth the eyes gently of such things as hinder the sight cureth green wounds ruptures or burstnesse helps such as pisse blood or are bruised and secures garments from moths Lupulus Hops opening cleansing provoke urine the young sprouts open stopings of the liver and spleen cleanse the blood clear the skin help scabs and itch help agues purge choller Lychnitis coronaria Or as others more properly from the Greek write it Lychnis Rose Campion I know no great physical vertue it hath Maeis See the Barks Magistrantia c. Masterwort hot and dry in the third degree it is singular good against poyson pestilence corrupt and unwholsom air helps windinesse in the stomach causeth an appetite to one victuals very profitable in fals bruises congealed and clotted blood the bitings of mad-dogs the leaves chewed in the mouth cleanse the brain of superfluous humors thereby preventing Lethargies and apoplexies Malva Mallows the best of Authors account wild Malto be best and hold them to be cold and moist in the first degree they are profitable in the bitings of venemous beasts the stingings of Bees and Wasps c. inwardly they resist poison provoke to stool outwardly they aswage hard swellings of the privities or other places in clysters they help roughnesse and frettings of the guts bladder or fundament Majorana see Amaracus Mandragora Mandrakes fit for no vulgar use but only to be used in cooling ointments Marrubium album nigrum foetidum Marrubium Album is the common Hore-hound hot in the second degree and dry in the third openeth the liver and spleen cleanseth the breast and lungues helps old coughs pains in the sides Phtisicks or Ulceration of the lungues it provokes the terms easeth hard labor in child bearing brings away the afterbirth Marrubium nigrum foetidum Black and stinking Horehound I take to be all one hot and dry in the third degree cure the bitings of mad-dogs wast and consume hard knobs in the Fundament and Matrix cleanse filthy ulcers Unlesse by stinking Horehound the Colledge should mean that which Fuchsius calls Staechys if they do it is hot ond dry but in the first degree and a singular remedy to keep wounds from inflamation Marum Herb Mastich hot and dry in the third degree good against Cramps and Convulsions Matricaria Featherfew hot in the third degree dry in the second openeth purgeth a singular remedy for diseases incident to the matrix and other diseases incident to women easeth their travel and infirmities coming after it it helps the vertigo or dissines of the head melancholly sad thoughts applied to the wrests it help the ague Matrisylva The same with Caprisolium Melilotus Melilot Inwardly taken provokes urine breaks the stone cleanseth the reins and bladder cutteth and clenseth the lungues of tough flegm the juyce dropped into the eyes clears the sight into the ears mitigates pain and noise there the head bathed with the juyce mixed with vineger takes away the pains thereof outwardly in pultisses it asswageth swellings in the privities and else where Melissa Bawm is hot and dry outwardly mixed with salt and applied to the neck helps the Kings-Evil bitings of mad-dogs and venemous beasts and such as cannot hold their necks as they should do inwardly it is an excellent remedy for a cold and moist stomach cheers the heart refresheth the mind takes away grief sorrow and care instead of which it produceth joy and mirth Mentha sativa Garden Mints Spear Mints are hot and dry in the third degree provoke hunger are wholsom for the stomach stay vomiting stop the terms help sore heads in children strengthen the stomach cause digestion outwardly applied they help the bitings of mad-dogs Yet they hinder conception and are naught for wounded people they say by reason of an antipathy between them and Iron Mentha Aquatica Water-Mints ease pains of the belly head-ach and vomiting gravel in the kidnies and stone Menthastrum Horse Mint I know no difference between them and Water Mints Mercurialis mas foemina Mercury male and foemale they are both hot and dry in the second degree cleansing digesting they purge watry humors and further conception Mezereon Spurge Olive or Widdow-wail a dangerous purge better let alone than medled with Millefolium Yarrow meanly cold and binding a healing herb for wounds stancheth bleeding and some say the juyce snuffed up the nose causeth it to bleed whence it was called Nose-bleed it stoppeth lasks and the terms in women helps the running of the reins helps inflamations and excoriations of the yard as also inflamations of wounds Muscus Mosse is something cold and binding yet usually retains a smatch of the property of the tree it grows on therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding Scrapio saith that it being infused in wine and the wine drunk it staies vomiting and fluxes as also the whites in women Myrtus Mirtle-tree the leaves are of a cold earthy quality drying and binding good for Fluxes spitting vomiting and pissing of blood stop the Whites and Reds in women Nardus See the root Nasturtium Aquaticum Hartnesse Watercresses and Garden-cresses Garden-cresses are hot and dry in the fourth degree good for the Scurvy Sciatica hard swellings yet do they trouble the belly ease pains of the spleen provoke lust Water-cresses are hot and dry cleanse the blood help the Scurvy provoke urine and the terms break the stone help the green sickness cause a fresh lively color Nastuctium Album 〈◊〉 Treacle-mustard hot and dry in the third degree purgeth violently dangerous for women with child Outwardly it is applied with profit to the Gout Nicotiana Tabacco and in reciting the vertues of this herb I will follow Clusius that none should think I do it without an Author It is hot and dry in the second degree and of a cleansing nature the leaves warmed and applied to the head are excellent good in inveterate head aches and megrims if the diseases come through cold or wind change them often till the diseases be gone help such whose necks be stiff it easeth the faults af the breast Asthmaes or hard Flegm in the lappets of the lungues easeth the pains of the stomach and windinesse thereof being heat hot by the fire and applied to it easeth the pains of the spleen being moistened in vineger and applied hot to the side they loosen the belly and kill worms being applied to it in like manner they break the stone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder help the rickets being applied to the belly and sides applied to the navil they give present ease to the fits of the mother
ears than this herb bruised and applied to them Suchaba An Egyptian thorn very hard if not impossible to come by here And here the Colledge make another racket about the several sorts of Comfrys which I passe by with silence having spoke to them before Tanacetum Tansie hot in the second degree and dry in the third the very smell of it staies abortion or miscariages in women so it doth being bruised and applied to their navills it provokes urine and easeth paines in making water and is a special herb against the gout Taraxacon Dandelion or to write better French Dentde-lion for in plain English it is called Lions-tooth it is a kind of Succory and thither I refer you Tamariscus Tamaris it hath a dry cleansing quality and hath a notable vertue against the rickets and infirmities of the spleen provokes the terms Telephium A kind of Orpine Thlaspi See Nasturtium Thymbra A Wild Savory Thymum Time hot and dry in the third deghee helps coughs and shortnesse of breath provokes the terms brings away dead children and the afterbirth purgeth flegm cleanseth the breast lungues reins and matrix helps the Sciatica pains in the breast expels wind in any part of the body resisteth fearfulness and melancholly continual pains in the head and is profitable for such as have the Falling-sicknesse to smel to Thymelaea The Greek name for Spurg-Olive 〈◊〉 being the Arabick name Tithymalus Esula c. Spurge hot and dry in the fourth degree a dogged purge better let alone then taken inwardly hair anointed with the juyce of it will fall off it kills fish being mixed with any thing that they will eat outwardly it cleanseth ulcers takes away freckles sunburning and morphew from the face Tormentilla See the root Trinitatis herba Pansies or Hearts-ease they are cold and moist both herbs and flowers excellent against inflamations of the breast or lungues Convulsions and Falling-sicknesse also they are held to be good for the French-pocks Trifolium Trefoil dry in the third degree and cold the ordinary medow trefoil for their word comprehends all sorts cleanseth the guts of slimy humors that stick to them being used either in drinks or Clysters outwardly they take away inflamations Pliny saith the leaves stand upright before a storm which I have observed to be true oftner then once or twice and that in a cleer day 24. hours before the storm came Tussilago Colts-foot something cold and dry and therefore good for inflamations they are admirable good for coughs and consumptions of the lunges shortness of breath c. Valeriana Valerian or Setwal see the Roots Verbaseum Thapsus Barbatus Mullin or Higtaper It is something dry and of a digesting cleansing quality stops fluxes and the hemorrhods it cures hoarses the cough and such as are broken-winded the leaves worn in the shoos provoke the terms especially in such virgins as never had them but they must be worn next their feet also they say that the herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo the Moon in Aries in their mutual Antiscions helps such of the falling sicknes as do but carryit about them worn under the feet it helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother 〈◊〉 Vervain hot and dry a great opener cleanser and healer it helps the yellow-jaundice defects in the reins and bladder pains in the head if it be but bruised and hung about the neck al diseases in the secret parts of men and women made into an ointment it is a soveraign remedy for old headaches called by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as also frenzes it clears the skin and causeth a lovely colour Veronica See Betonica Pauli Violaria Violet-leaves they are cool ease pains in the head proceeding of heat and frenzes either inwardly taken or outwardly applied heat of the stomach or inflamation of the lungues 〈◊〉 Vinisera The Manured Vine the leaves are binding and cool withal the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine scour the teeth and make them as white as snow the leaves stop bleeding fluxes heartburnings vomitings as also the longing of women with child Vincitoxicum Swallow-wort A Pultis made with the leaves helps sorebrests and also soreness ' of the matrix Virga Pastoris see Dipsacus Virga auria see Consolid Vlmaria See the root Mead-sweet Vmbilicus Veneris Navil-wort cold dry and binding therefore helps al inflamations they are very good for kib'd heels being bathed with it and a leaf laid over the sore Vrtica Nettles an herb so well known that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night They are somthing hot not very hot the juyce stops bleeding they provoke lust exceedingly help difficulty of breathing pleuresies inflamations of the lunges that troublsome cough which women call the Chin-cough they exceedingly break the stone and provoke urine and help such as cannot hold their necks upright Vsnea Mosse once before FLOWERS COurteous Reader being now passed ever the Roots and Herbs and arived safely at the Flowers I thought it best and most advantagious for the publick good to abreviate the rest of the Simples and only note such as may be easily gotten or are familiarly known to the Commonality of this Land the Curious may satisfie themselves with what hath been written being the names of all or almost all the Herbs Plants Roots c. used in the Dispensatory In truth I am loth the curiosity of any should make the Book swel to that bigness that it should be out of the command of a poor mans purse So much for the Prologue now to the purpose BOrrage and Buglosse flowers strengthen the heart and brain and are profitable in feavers Chamomel flowers heat asswage swellings inflamations of the bowels disolve wind are profitable given in clysters or drink to such as are troubled with the chollick or stone Staechas opens stoppings in the bowels and strengthens the wholebody Saffron powerfully concocts and sends out whatever humor ossends the body drives back inflamations being applied outwardly encreaseth lust provokes urine Clove-Gilliflowers resist the pestilence strengthen the heart liver and stomach and provoke lust Schoenanth which I think I touched slightly amongst the herbs provokes urine potently provokes the terms breaks wind helps such as spit or vomit blood easeth pains of the stomach reins and spleen helps dropsies convulsions and inflamations of the womb Lavender-flowers resist all cold afflictions of the brain convulsions falling-sicknesse they strengthen cold stomachs and open obstructions of the liver they provoke urine and the terms bring forth the birth and afterbirth Hops opens stoppings of the bowels and for that cause Beer is better than Ale Bawm-flowers cheer the heart and vital spirits strengthen the stomach Rosemary-flowers strengthen the brain exceedingly and resist madnesse cleer the sight Stock-Gilliflowers or Wall-flowers as some call them help inflamations of the womb provoke the terms and help ulcers of the mouth Hony-suckles provoke vrine ease the pains of the
fantastical A. This quoth Avicenna is apropriated to women and in them to diseases incident to their matrix but his reasons I know not It is Cordial and heats the stomach Species Electuarii Diamargariton frigidi Nicholaus Take of the four greater cold seeds cleansed the seeds of Purflain white Poppies Endive Sorrel Citrons the three sorts of Sanders Lignum Aloes Ginger the flowers of red Roses water Lillies Bugloss Violets the berries of Mirtle the bone of a Stags heart Ivory Roman Doronicum Cinnamon of each a drachm both sorts of Corral of each half a drachm Pearls three drachms Amber greece Camphire of each 6. grains Musk two grains make of them a pouder according to art You must observe that the Poppie seeds and the four greater cold seeds ought not to be added before the pouder be appointed for use by the Physitian otherwise they will make the composition sour and so must you do in other pouders in which these seeds are A. Here may you see what a labarinth the Colledge have run themselves into through their fantasticalness viz. because they would seem to be singular in sailing contrary to wiser Physitians they run upon two dangerous rocks in this one recept 1. It is a costly cordial and not usually above a drachm of it very seldom half so much given at one time and these seeds excepted against in their caution and upon grounds just enough are not the tenth part of the composition which a drachm being prescribed is but six grains which six grains must be divided into five equal parts a nice point one part for each seed 2. If this rock were put off yet then can you not beat them into pouder alone because they are so moist A. As for the vertues of it Authors hold it to be restorative in consumptions to help such as are in hectick feavers to restore strength lost to help coughs Asthmaes and consumptions of the lungues and restore such as have labored long under languishing or pining diseases Species Electuarij Diambrae Mesue Take of Cinnamon Doronicum or Zedoary Cloves Mace Nutmegs Indian leaf Galanga of each three drachms Indiand Spicknard Cardamoms both greater and lesser of each one drachm Ginger a drachm and an half wood of Aloes yellow Sanders long pepper of each two drachms Ambergreece a drachm and an half Musk half a drachm beat them into pouder A. Mesue apropriates this to the head and saith it heats and strengthens the brain causeth mirth helps concoction cherrisheth the animal vital and natural spirit it strengthens the heart and stomach and resists all cold diseases and is therefore special good for women and old men Species Electuarij Diamoscu dulcis Mesue Take of Saffron Doronicum or Galanga Zedoary wood of Aloes Mace of each two drachms white Pearls raw Silk torrefied Amber red Corral Gallia moschata Bazil of each two drachms and an half Ginger Cubebs Long Pepper of each one drachm and an half both sorts of Been or if they be wanting take the roots of Avens and Tormentil in their stead Indian leaf or Cinnamon Indian Spicknard Cloves of each a drachm Musk two scruples beat them into pouder according to art and then if you please you may make it into an Electuary by adding four times the weight of the whol in Sugar dissolved in white Wine A. It wonderfully helps cold afflictions of the brain that come without a feaver melancholly and its attendance viz. sadness without a cause c. Vertigo or dissines in the head Falling-sickness Palfies resolution of the Nerves Convulsions Heart-qualms afflictions of the lungues and difficulty of breathing Species Electuarij Diamoscu amari Mesue To the former Ingredients in the same proportion adde Wormwood Roses of each three drachms the best Aloes washed half an ounce Cinnamon two drachms and an half Castorium Lovage of each one drachm make of them all a pouder A. Besides the vertues of the former it purgeth the stomach of putrified humours Species Electuarij Diantbon Nicholaus Take of Rosemary flowers an ounce red Roses Violets Liquoris of each six drachms Cloves Indian Spicknard Nutmegs Galanga Cinnamon Ginger Zedoary Mace wood of Aloes Cardamoms the seeds of Dill and Annis of each four scruples beat them all into pouder according to art A. It strengthens the heart and helps the passions thereof it causeth a joyful and cheerful mind and strengthens such as have been weakened by long sickness it strengthens cold stomachs and helps digestion notably Diapenidion Nicholaus Take of Penidies two ounces Pine-Nuts sweet Almonds blanched white Poppie seeds of each three drachms and one scruple Cinnamon Cloves Ginger juyce of Liquoris Gum Traganth Arabick white starch the four greater cold seeds husked of each a drachm an half Camphire seven grains white Sugar so much as is sufficient make it into a pouder and with syrup of Violets you may make it up in form of an Electuary A. I could tell Mr. Printer if I durst be so bold that he had more tongue than wit when he made that Apology at the latter end of the Colledges Master-Piece for at the last sentence of this recept here are certain words left out and amongst them the principal verb which how gross an Error it is Ileave to the consideration of every Scholer who is able to translate a piece of Latin into English A. It helps the vices of the breast coughs colds hoarsnesse and consumptions of the lungues as also such as spit matter Diarhodon Abbatis Nicholaus Take of white and red Sanders of each two drachms and an half Gum Traganth and Arabick Spodium of each two scruples Asarabacca Mastich Indian Spicknard Cardamoms Liquoris Saffron wood of Aloes Cloves Gallia 〈◊〉 Annis-seeds and sweet Fennel seeds Cinnamon Rhubarb the seeds of Bazil the stones of Barberries the seeds of Endive Purslain Gourds Cucumers Citruls Mellons and white Poppies of each a scruple Pearls Bones of a Stags Heart of each half a scruple Sugar Candy Red Roses of each an ounce and three drachms Camphire seven grains Musk four grains beat them all into a pouder also with eight times their weight in Sugar dissolved in Rose-water you may form it into an Electuary A. It cools the violent heat of the heart and stomach as also of the liver lungues and spleen easeth pains in the bowels and most infirmities coming to the body by reason of heat Diaspoliticum Gallen Take of Cummin seeds prepared Long-Pepper dryed Rue of each ounce salt Niter half an ounce beat them into pouder A. It is an admirable remedy for such whose meat is putrified in their stomachs it helps cold stomachs cold bellies and windy Species Electuarii Diatragacanthi frigidi Nicholaus Take of Gum Arabick one ounce and two drachms Gum Traganth two ounces white Starch half an ounce Liquoris the seeds of Melons white Poppies Citruls Cucumers Gourds of each two drachms Penidies three ounces Camphire half a scruple beat them into pouder according to art Also you may