the same kind as is Pinguedo but it is departed from the flesh besides the Skin and it is as an Oyle heating and moystning the Skin The third is Auxingia and it is of kind as the others be but he is departed from the flesh within foorth about the Kidneyes and in the Intrailes and it helpeth both the Kidneyes and the Intrailes from drying by his unctiosity c. Then come wee to the Skin The Skin is a consimile member or officiall partly spermatick strong and tough flexible and sensible thin and temperate whereof there be two kinds One is the Skin that covereth the outward members and the other the inner members which is called a Pannicle the profitablenesse of whom was â—poken in the last lesson but the Skin is properly woven of Threeds Nerves Veynes and Arteirs And he is made temperate because he should be a good redeemer of heate from cold and of moystnesse from drynesse that there should nothing annoy or hurt the Body but it giveth warning to the common wits thereof c. The haires of every part of mans Body are but superfluity of members made of the grosse â—ume or smoake passing out of the viscous matter thickned to the forme of haire The profitablenesse of him is declared in the Anatomy of the head c. The Nayles likewise are a superfluity of members engendred of great earthly smoke or fume resolved through the naturall heate of humors and is softer then the Bone and harder then the Flesh In complexion they be cold and dry and are alwayes waxing in the extremity of the fingers and toes The utility of them are that by them a man shall take the better hold also they helpe to claw the body when it needeth Lastly they helpe to divide things for lacke of other tooles c. CHAP. III. The Anatomie of the compound Members and first of the Head BEcause the Head of man is the habitation or dwâ—lling place of the reasonable soule of man therefore with the grace of God J shall first speake of the Anatomie of the head Galen saith in the second Chapter De juvamentes and Avicen rehearseth the same in his first Proposition and third Chapter proving that the Head of man was made neither for wits nor yet for the Braines but onely for the Eyes For beasts that have no heads have the organs or instruments of wits in their breasts Therefore God and Nature have reared up the head of man onely for the eyes for it is the highest member of man and as a Beholder or Watchman standeth in a high Tower to give warning of the Enemies so doth the Eye of man give warning vnto the common Wittes for the defence of all other members of the body Now to our purpose If the question be asked how many things be there contained on the Head and how many things contained within the head As it is rehearsed by Guydo there be five containing and as many contained as thus The haire the skin the flesh the Pannicles and the Bone neither rehearsing Veine nor Artier The which Anatomy cannot be truly without them both as thou shalt well perceive both in this but especially in the next And now in this Lesson J shall speake but of Haire Skin Flesh Veynes Pannicles and Bones what profit they doe to man every of them in his kind Of the haire of the Head whose creation is knowne in the Anatomy of the simple Members J doe note foure utilities why it was ordained The first is that it defendeth the braine from too much heat and too much cold and many other outward noyances The second is it maketh the forme or shape of the Head to seeme more seemelyer or beautifuller For if the Head were not haired the Face and the Head should seeme but one thing and therefore the haire formeth and shapeth the Head from the Face The third is that by colour of the haire is witnessed and knowne the complexion of the Braine The fourth is that the fumosities of the Braine might ascend and passe lightlyer out by them For if there were a sad thing as the skinne or other of the same nature as the Haire is the fumosities of the Braine might not have passed through it so lightly as it doth by the Haire The Skin of the head is more Lazartus thicker and more Porrus then any other Skinne of any other member of the body And two causes J note why One is that it keepeth or defendeth the Braine from too much heat and cold as doth the Haire The other that it discusseth to the common wits of all things that noyet h outwardly for the haire is insensible The third cause why the skinne of the head is more thicker then any other skinne of the body is this that it keepeth the braine the more warme and is the better fence for the Braine and it bindeth and keepeth the Bones of the head the faster together Next followeth the Flesh the which is all Musculus or Lazartus flesh lying upon Pericranium without meane And it is made of subtill Will and of simple flesh Sinewes Veynes and Arteirs And why the flesh that is all Musculus or Lazartus in every member of a mans body was made is for three causes The first is that by his thicknesse he should comfort the digestion of other members that lye by him The second is that through him every member is made is the formelier and taketh the better shape The third is that by his meanes every member of the Body drawing to him nourishing the which others with-hold to put forth from them as it shall be more plainlyer spoken of in the Anatomy of the Wombe Next followeth Pericranium or the covering of the Bones of the Head But here it is to be noted of a Veyne and an Arteir that commeth betweene the Flesh and this Pericranium that nourisheth the utter part of the head and so entreth privily thorow the Commissaries of the Skull bearing to the Braine and to his Pannicles nourishing Of whose substance is made both Duramater and also Pericranium as shall be declared in the parts contayned in the Head Here it is to be noted of this Pannicle Pericranium that it bindeth or compasseth all the Bones of the Head vnto whom is adjoyned Duramater and is also a part of his substance howbeit they be separated for Duramater is neerer the Braine and is vnder the Skull This Pericranium was made principally for two causes one is that for his strong binding together hee should make firme and stable the feeble Commissaries or seames of the Bones of the Head The other cause is that it should be a meane betweene the hard bone and the soft flesh Next is the Bone of the Pot of the head keeping in the Braines of which it were too long to declare their names after all Authors as they number them and their names for some name them after the Greeke tongue and some after the Arabian but in conclusion all
outward the Canker the Fester and it killeth the Wormes in man or Child and all manner of Impostumes inward and outward it helpeth the Tysicke and Fluxe white or bloody it is a great helpe for a woman with Child to drinke thereof also it maketh cleane the Face or any where if yee wash it therewith Water of Verven IF if it be distilled in the later end of May it hath vertue to spring Choller and to heale Wounds and to cleere the Eye-sight it is a principall thing to compound Medicines A Locion for a sore Mouth YOu must take of Honey-suckle-water halfe a pinte Planten and Rose-water of each foure ounces Honey of Roses two ounces Alloes one ounce white Copperas and Vineger of each halfe an ounce and so use it A Water for a sore mouth TAke Lapis Calaminaris beaten into fine powder and put in a pinte of white Wine then take a pottle of water and Rosemary boyle it in the water till it be halfe sodden away then straine the water from the Rosemary and put it into the white Wine and so it is done A compound Water TAke first Pimpernell Rew Valerian or Sedwall Alocelipis cap and breake them and lay them in this said water following Take Isop Pulyall Royall Anniseedes and Centorie and beate them in a morter and after put them in a Stillatory and distill water of them which is very vertuous and let them boyle together and after that straine them that the water may goe from them and close this water in Vials of glasse the space of nine dayes and give it to him that hath the Falling-evill foure dayes fasting after it six houres and this is the truest medicine for this Disease that wee can sinde except the mercy of God and this Water drinking is good for the Palsie if it be drunke fasting also it is good for all Gowtes likewise in the time that they be mortified in the members and limbes of a man it is very helping to Wounds that are festered if they be washed therewith it destroyeth all manner of Fevers Behly Water TAke Water a pottle Suger-Candy foure ounces let them seethe then put in foure ounces of Verdigrease in fine powder and let it seethe A good Barley water for all Diseases of the Lungs or Lights TAke half a pound of faire Barly a gallon of Water half an ounce of Licorice Fennell-seed Violets and Parsley-seed of each a quarter of an ounce red Roses a quarter of an ounce dry Hysop and Sage of each a penny-weight sixe leaves of Harts-tongue a quarter of an ounce of Figs and Raysins boyle all these in a new pot of cold Water and then straine them cleare from it and drinke it The same cooleth the Liver and all the members driveth away all evill heat slaketh thirst is the cause of much evacuation it purgeth the Lights and Spleene the Kidneyes and Bladder and it causeth to make water well and more especially it is good for all Agues that come of heat A good Drinke for the Pox. TAke Selendine and English Saffron the weight of a halfe-penny and a farthing-worth of Graines a quarterne of long Pepper a penny-weight of Mace and a little stale Ale then stampe your Herbe and pound your Saffron and mingle them well together and so drinke it next your heart A very good Drinke for the Cough TAke a quart of white Wine and boyle it with Lycorice Anniseeds and Suger-candy of each a like quantity putting therein tenne Figs of the best and boyle it untill it be halfe consumed and so preserve thereof to drinke Evening and morning three or foure spoonefuls warmed A restorative made of the Herbe Rosa Solis with other things but they must bee gathered in June or July THis herbe Rosa Solis groweth in Marish ground and in no other place and it is of a hoary colour and groweth very lowe and flat to the ground and it hath a meane long stalke growing in the middest of it and seaven branches springeth out of the roote round about the stalke with leaves coloured and of a meane length and breadth and in no wise when this Hearbe should be gathered touch not the Hearbe it selfe with your hands for then the vertue thereof is gone yee must gather and plucke it out of the ground by the stalke yee must lay it in a cleane basket the Leaves of it is full of strength and nature and gather so much of this hearbe as will fill a pottle pot or glasse but wash it not in any wise then take a pottle of Aqua Composita and put them both in a large pot or vessell and let it stand hard and fast stopped three dayes and three nights and on the fourth day open it and straine it through a faire linnen-cloath into a cleane glasse or pewter pot and put thereto a pound of Sugar small beaten one pound of Licorice beaten to powder and one pound of Dates the stones taken out and they cut in small pieces then mingle them altogether and stop the glasse or pewter pot well so that no ayre come into it in any wise Thus done yee may drinke of it at night when yee goe to bed one spoonefull mixt with Aqua Vitae or stale Ale and as much in the morning fasting and there is not the weakest body in the worlâ— that is wasted by Consumption or otherwise but it will restore him againe and make him to be strong and lusty and to have a good stomacke and that shortly and hee or shee that useth this three times together shall finde great remedy or comfort thereby and as the patient doth feele himselfe so he may use it How to make Doctor Stevens precious Water which Dr. Chambers and others made tryall of and did approve the vertue of it TAke a gallon of Gascoigne wine then take Ginger Galingall Cinamon Nutmegs graines of Paradise Cloves Mace Anniseeds Fennell-seed and Carraway-seed of every of them a dram then take Sage red Mints Rose leaves Tyme Pellitory of Spaine Rosemary Peny-mountaine otherwise wild Tyme Camomill and Lavender of every of them a handfull then beat the Spices small and bruise the hearbes and put all into the Wine and let it stand the space of twelve dayes stirring it divers times then distill it in a Limbeck and keepe the first pinte of the water for it is the best and then will come a second kind of water keepe that close in a violl of glasse and set it in the Sun a certaine space The vertues of this Water be these It comforteth the spirits and preserveth the youth of a man and helpeth the inward Diseases commeth of cold and against the shaking of the Palsie It cureth the contraction of Sinewes and helpeth the Conception of women that be barren It killeth the Wormes in the belly It helpeth cold Gouts It helpeth the Tooth-ache It comforteth the Stomack very much It cureth the cold Dropsie It helpeth the stone in the Bladder and the Reynes in the back It
Brimstone two ounces boyle these in a pottle of white wine Vineger and wash your body therewith three or foure times Or take a quantity of Brimstone and a quantity of Allome and burne them on a fire-shovell over the fire beat them very small and boyle them with Bores-greace and so annoint the Itch. To kill Lice or Itch. TAke Quicksilver two penniworth and kill it with fasting-spittle in a dish beating it well together and put thereto foure penny-worth of Oyle of Bayes and so annoint the place this receipt will kill both Itch and Lice in the head or body To cure the Crampe MAke a Ring of an Oxe or Cowes horn or of a Sea-horse tooth or of the Pizle of a Sea-horse and weare it It is proved For a paine or swelling in the Privie parts TAke white wine Vineger and Cow-dung boyle them to a Poultis and when it is ready put thereto oyle of Roses and if the griefe proceed of a cold cause put thereto some Camomill flowers applyed very hot Another Take Commin-seeds beaten into to powder Barly-meale and Honey of each a like quantity then fry them together with a little Sheeps suet heat it and bind it as a plaister to the Cods Remedies for Burning or Scalding TAke five or sixe spoonefuls of Sallet oyle and as much of Running water beat them together till they bee well incorporated then anoynt the place therewith and lay thereon a Doek leafe it will both coole and heale Another Take of the herbe Periwinckle fry it in a pan with fresh Butter fresh Greace and Sheepes dung newly made when it is well fryed straine it through a cloath and it will be like Salve then spred it on a Linnen cloth as broad as the sore is and apply it thereto It will cure it though it were scalded and burnt to the bone if it be taken in time renewing the plaister Morning and evening Remedies for the Piles TAke Martlemasse beefe dry it and beat it to powder then put it into a chafingdish of coales and set it in a chaire and sit over it Another Burne two or three Brickes red hote put them into a Pan in a close Stove and sprinckle Vineger upon them letting the party sit close over it that hee may receive the fume thereof into his fundament doing this three or foure times if need require will helpe it A Remedy for the Cappes TAke the oyle of sweet Almonds one ounce and anoynt the place therewith or any of these things following is good the powder of the rinde of Pomegranets the Marrow of a Calfe or a Hart the fat of a Capon Goose or Ducke and such like To kill a Tettâ—r or Ringworme TRose dâ— Arsmeg is good and if it come of Blood exhaust two or 3. ounces of blood or more if need require and that Age time and strength will permit and if it bee Lupte cut off the heads of them and rub them with Salt and Garlick stampt together and then lay over them a plate of Lead Approved remedies for the Shingles TAke Rose-water Planten-water and white Wine of each of them halfe a pinte put all these together and wash the place often therewith Or else take of red Wormes that come out of the Earth and bray them in a morter and put to them a little Vineger and so make plaisters c. Or else take flowers of Camomill Rose-leaves and Violets the weight of each of them one ounce of Myrtles and Sumack of each of them an ounce and a halfe seethe all these in white Wine and make a plaister and lay it to the place or else make aâ— oyntment of Ceruse J have taken Hous-leâ—k and have stampt it with a little Camphere and put to it white Wine and have layd it to the place and have healed the Patient also the Oyle of Roses or the Oyle of Violets is good for this impediment mixt together with thâ— whites of Egges and the juyce of Planten For the Colliâ—ke and gripings in the Belly GIve the patient Jeane Treacle and powâ—er of Cloves well sodden in good Wine anâ—â—â—t them drinke it very warne Or take the root oâ— Lilly and Horehound and seethe it in Wine and give the patient Probatum est A Plaister for tâ—e same TAke Lynseed and stâ—mp it and Dock leaves and seethe them well in water and make a plaister and lay it to the griefe very warme For a Scurffe in the Body THis Infirmity doth come of a Cholericke and Melancholick humour For this cure J take two ounces of Bores grease then J doe put in one ounce of the powder of Oyster shels burnt and of the powder of Brimstone and three ounces of Mercury mortified with fasting spittle compound all these together and annoynt the body three or foure times and take an easie Purgâ—tion A Remedy for a wild running Scab TAke Mercury mortified with fasting spittle three ounces incorporate it with oyle of Bayes and anoynt the body or else take Mercury mortified three ounceâ— and of the Powder of Brimstone two ounces the powder of Enula Campana two ounces confect these together with Barrowes grease and anoynâ— often therewith For a Timpany TAke a pinte of Broome Ashes eyther of greene or dry and a quarter of an ounce of Sinamon bruised sift the Ashes and let a pinte thereof and the bruised Sinamon lye in steepe all night in a pottle of White Wine then let it run through a gelly bag twice or thrice till it run cleere put in some Sugar and a tost unto it drinke thereof thrice a day in the Morning fasting and an houre before Supper and an houre after Supper For one that is in a Consumption TAke foure ounces of Shavings of Harts-horne one ounce of the Shavings of Ivory put it in a Pipkin with a Gallon of faire water let it stand on the fire twelve houres in fusing and boyling softly close covered then take twenty Egges in their Shells crack their Shells and put them in a dish with Salt and let them stand an houre and purge themselves then pull them from their shells washing them till they be cleane then put them in the Pipkin to the Harts-horne and let it boyle two houres then put in a good handfull of Raisons of the Sun stoned halfe an ounce of â—iquorice scraped and sliced and a blade or two of Mace boyle all these till it come to a quart of Liquor then put in halfe a pinte of white Wine sixe spoonfuls of Rose-water two penny-worth of Saffron powdered boyle all a little while then straine it or run it through a gelly bag if you please you may sweeten it as you like it put a little Salt in it when it is cold it will be a Jelly you may take it cold or warme three or foure spoonfuls at a time in the Morning fasting at foure of the clock in the afternoone and when you go to bed If you doe think this too troublesome you may boyle the Egges in Broth or Milke
Commandements of God of whom commeth all cunning and grace and that his body be not quaking and his hands stedfast his fingers long and small and not trembling and that his left hand be as ready as his right with all his limmes able to fulfill the good workâ—s of the soule Now as here is a man meete to be made a Chirurgion and though he have all those good qualities before rehearsed yet is he no good Chirurgion but a man very fit and meete for the practice Now then to know what Properties and conditions this man must have before he be a perfect Chirurgion J doe note foure things most specially that every Chirurgion ought for to have The first that he be Learned The second that he be Expert The third that he be Ingenious The fourth that he be well mannered The first J said he ought to be learned and that he know his principles not onely in Chirurgery but also in Physicke that he may the better defend his Chirurgery also hee ought to be seene in naturall Philosophy and in Grammar that he speake congruity in Logicke that teacheth him to prove his proportions with good reason In Rhetoricke that teacheth him to speake seemely and eloquently also in Theoricke that teacheth him to know things naturall and not naturall and things against Nature Also he must know the Anatomie for all Authors write against those Chirurgions that worke in mans body not knowing the Anatomy For they be likened to a blind man that cutteth in a Vine tree for he taketh more or lesse then he ought to doe And here note well the sayings of Galen the Prince of Philosophers in his Estoris That it is as possible for a Chyrurgion not knowing the Anatomy to worke in mans body without error as it is for a blind man to carve an Jmage and make it perfect The second J said he must be expert For Rasus saith He ought to know and to see other men worke and after to have use and exercise The third that he be ingenious and witty for all things belonging to Chirurgery may not be written nor with letters set forth The fourth J said that he must be well mannered and that he have all these good conditions here following First that he be no Spouse-breaker nor no Drunkard For the Philosophers say amongst all other things beware of those persons that follow Drunkennesse for they be accounted for no men because they live a life bestiall wherefore amongst all other sorts of people they ought to bee sequestred from the ministring of Medicine Likewise a Chirurgion must take heed that he deceive no man with his vaine promises for to make of a small matter a great because he would be accounted the more famous And amongst other things they may neither be Flatterers nor Mockers nor privie Back-biters of other men Likewise they must not be Proud nor presumptuous nor detracters of other men Likewise they ought not to be Covetous nor no niggard and namely amongst their friends or men of Worship but let them be honest courteous and free both in word and deed Likewise they shall give no counsell except they be asked and then give their advice by good deliberation and that they be well advised before they speake chiefly in the presence of wise men Likewise they must be as privie and as secret as any Confessor of all things that they shall either heare or see in the house of their Patient They shall not ta ke into their Cure any manner of person except hee will be obedient vnto their precepts for he cannot be called a Patient unlesse he be a sufferer Also that they doe their diligence as well to the poore as to the rich They shall never discomfort their Patient and shall command all that be about him that they doe the same but to his friends speake truth as the case standeth They must also be bold in those things whereof they be certaine and as dreadfull in all perils They may not chide with the Sicke but be alwayes pleasant and merry They must not covet any W oman by way of villany and specially in the house of their Patient They shall not for covetousnesse of money taken in hand those Cures that be uncurable nor never set any certaine day of the sicke mans health for it lyeth not in their power following the distinct conusell of Galen in the Aphorisme of Hypocratâ—s saying Oporter seipsum non solum By this Galen meaneth that to the Cure of every sore there belongeth foure things of which the first and principall belongeth to God the second to the Surgion the third to the Medicine and the fourth to the Patient Of the which foure if any one doe faile the Paâ—ient cannot be healed then they to whom belongeth but the fouâ—th part shall not promise the whole but be first well advised They must alâ—o be gracious and good to the Poore and of the rich take liberally for both And see they never praise themselves for that redoundeth more to their shame and discredit then to their fame and worship For a cunning and skilfull Chirurgion need not vaunt of his doings for his works will ever get credit enough Likewise that they dispiâ—e no other Chirurgion without a great cause for it is meete that one Chirurgion should love another as Christ loveth vs all And in thus doing they shall increase both in vertue and cunning to the honor of God and worldly fame Thus farre for his Parts Of the Anatomie CHAP. II. The Anatomie of the simple Members ANd if it bee asked you how many simple Members there be it is to be answered Eleven and two that be but superfluities of Members and these be they Bones Cartilages Nerves Pannicles Ligaments Cordes Arteirs Veynes Fatnesse Flesh and Skinne and the superfluities bee the Haires and Nailes J shall begin at the Bone because it is the Foundation and the hardest Member of all thâ— Body The Bone is a consimile Member simple and spermaticke and cold and dry of Complexion insensible and inflexible and hath divers formes in Mans body for the diversity of helpings The cause why there be many Bones in mans body is this Sometime it is needfull that one member or one limbe should move without another another cause is that some defend the principall Members as both the Bone of the Brest and of the Head and some to bee the Foundation of divers parts of the Body as the Bones of the ridge and of the Legges and some to fulfill the hollow places as in the Hands and Feet c. The Gristle is a member simple and Spermaticke next in hardnesse to the Bone and is of complexion cold and dry and insensible The Gristle was ordained for sixe causes or profits that J find in it The first is that the continuall moving of the hard Bone might not be done in a juncture but that the Gristle should be a meane betweene the Ligament and him The second is
that in the time of concussion or oppression the soft members or limbes should not be hurt of the hard The third is that the extremity of Bones and Joynts that be grisly might the easier be foulded and moved together without hurt The fourth is for that it is necessary in some meane places to put a Gristle as in the throat-bowle for the sound The fifth is for that it is needfull that some members be holden up with a Gristle as the lids of the Eyes The sixt is that some Limbes have a sustaining and a drawing abroad as in the Nose and the Eares c. The Ligament is a member consimple simple and spermaticke next in hardnesse to the Gristle and of complexion cold and dry and is flexible and insensible and bindeth the Bones together The cause why hee is flexible and insensible is this If it had beene sensible he might not have suffered the labour and moving of the joynts and if it had not beene flexible of his bowing one Limme should not have moved without another The second profit is that he be joyned with sinewes for to make Cordes and Brawnes The third helpe is that he be a resting place to some sinewes The fourth profit is that by him the members that be within the Bone be sustained as the Matrix and Kidneys and divers other c. The Sinew is a consimilier member simple and spermatick a meane betweene hard and soft and in complexion cold and dry and he is both flexible and sensible strong and tough having his beginning from the Braine or from Mynuca which is the Marrow of the backe And from the braine commeth seaven paire of Nerves sensative and from Mynuca commeth thirty paire of Nerves motive and one that is by himselfe that springeth of the last spondell All these sinewes have both feeling and moving in some more and in some lesse c. A Corde or Tendon is a consimple or officiall member compound and spermaticke sinewie strong and tough meanely betweene hardnesse and softnesse and meanly sensible and flexible and in complexion cold and dry And the Corde or Tendon is thus made The sinewes that come from the braine and from Mynuca and goe to move the members is intermingled with the Lygaments and when the sinewes and Lygaments are intermingled together then is made a Corde And for three causes J perceive why the Cordes were made The first is that the Sinew alone is so sensible that hee may not suffer the great labour and travell of moving without the fellowship and strength of the Ligament that is insensible and that letteth his great feeling and bringeth him to a perfit temperance And so the Cordes move the limbes to the will of the soule And this Corde is associated with a simple flesh and so thereof is made a Brawne or a Muskle on whom he might rest after his travell and this Brawne is called a Muskle Then when this Corde is entred into this Brawne he is departed into many small threeds the which be called Will and this Will hath three properties The first is in length by whose vertue that draweth it hath might The second in breadth by whom the vertue that casteth out hath might The third in thwartnes in whom the vertue that holdeth hath might and at the end of the Brawne those threeds be gathered together to make another Muskle c. Now J will begin at the Arteir This Arteir is a member consimile â—imple and spermaticke hollow and sinowie having his springing from the Heart bringing from the heart to every member blood and spirit of life It is of complexion cold and dry And all these Arteirs have two coates except one that goeth to the Lungs and he hath but one coate that spreadeth abroad in the Lungs and bringeth with him to the Lungs blood with the spirit of life to nourish the Lungs withall And also that Arteir bringeth with him from the Lungs ayre to temper the fumous heate that is in the heart And this Arteir is he that is called Arteria Venalis because he hath but one coate as a veyne and is more obedient to be delated abroad through all the Lungs because that the blood might the sooner sweat through him whereas all other Arteirs have two coates because one coate may not withstand the might and power of the spirit of life Divers other causes there be which shall be declared in the Anatomie of the breast c. The Veyne is a simple member in complexion cold and dry and spermaticke like to the Arteir having his beginning from the Liver and bringeth from the Liver nutritiue blood to nourish every member of the body with And it is so to be understood that there is no more difference betweene these two vessels of blood but that the Arteir is a vessell of blood spirituall or vitall And the Veyne is a vessell of blood nutrimentall of the which Veynes there is noted two most principall of the which one is called Vena Porta the other is called Vena celis of whom it is too much to treat of now untill we come to the Anatomy of the Wombe c. The Flesh is a consimile member simple not spermaticke and is ingendred of blood congealed by heat and is in complexion hot and moyst Of the which is noted three kinds of Fleshes that is to say one is soft and pure flesh the second is Musculus or hard and brawny flesh the third is Glandulus knotty or kurnelly flesh Also the commodities of the flesh be indifferent or â—ome be common to every kinde of flesh and some be proper to one manner of flesh alone The profits of the flesh be many for some defend the body from cold as doth cloathes also it defendeth the body from hard things comming against it so through his moysture he rectifyeth the Body in Summer in time of great heate Wherefore it is to be considered what profitablenesse is in every kind of flesh by himselfe And first of simple and pure flesh which fulfilleth the concavities of voyd places and causeth good forme and shape and this flesh is found betweene the teeth and on the end of the yard The profits of the Brawny flesh or Musculus flesh shall be spoken of in the Anatomy of the Armes The profits of the Glandulus flesh are these First that it turneth the blood into a colour like to himselfe as doth the flesh of a womans pappes turne the menstruall Blood into milke Secondly the Glandulus flesh of the Testikles turneth the blood into Sparme Thirdly the Glandulus flesh of the cheekes that engendreth the spettle c. The next is of Fatnesse of the which J find three kinds The first is Pinguedo and it is a consimiler member not spermaticke and it is made of a subtill portion of Blood congealed by colde and it is of complexion cold and moyst insensible and is intermingled amongst the parts of the flesh The second is Adeppes and is of
feeling Sinewes the which â—e produced to the Eyes the Eares the Nose the Tongue and to the Stomacke and to divers other parts of the Body as it shall be declared in their Anatomies Also it is to be noted that about the middle Ventricle is the place of Vermiformis with kurnelly flesh that filleth and Retemirabile a wonderfull Cauâ—e vnder the Pannicles is set or bounded with Arteirs onely which come from the Heart in the which the vitall spirit by his great labour is turned and made animall And yee shll understand that these two be the best kept parts of all the Body for a man shall rather dye than any of these should suffer any manner of griefes from without forth and therefore God hath set them farre from the Heart Heere J note the saying of Haly Abba of the comming of small Artiers from the Heart of whom saith he is made a marvellous Net or Caule in the which Caule is inclosed the Braine and in that place is laid the spirit of Feeling from that place hath the spirit of Feeling his first creation and from thence passeth other members c. Furthermore yee shall understand that the Brain is a member cold and moist of complexion thin and meanly viscous and â— principal member and an officiall member and spermaticke And first why he is a principall member is because he is the governour or the treasury of the five Wittes And why he is an officiall member is because he hath the effect of feeling and stirring And why he is cold and moyst is that he should by his coldnesse and moystnesse abate and temper the exceeding heate and drought that commeth from the Heart And why it is moyst is that it should be the more indifferenter and abler to every thing that should be reserved or gotten into him And why it is soft is that it should give place and favour to the vertue of stirring And why it is meanly viscous is that his sinewes should not be letted in their working through his overmuch hardnesse Heere Galen demandeth a question which is this Whether that Feeling and moving be brought to Nerves by one or by divers Or whether the aforesaid thing be brought substantially or rather judicially The matter saith he is so hard to search and to be understood that it were much better to let it alone and passe over it Aristotle intreating of the Braine saith The Braine is a member continually moving and ruling all other members of the body giving unto them both Feeling and moving for if the Braine be let all other members be let and if the Braine be well then all other members of the body be the better disposed Also the Braine hath this property that it moveth and followeth the moving of the Moone For in the waxing of the Moone the Braine followeth upwards and in the wane of the Moone the Braine discendeth downewards and vanisheth in substance of vertue for then the Braine shrinketh together in it selfe and is not so fully obedient to the spirit of Feeling And this is proved in men that be Lunaticke and Mad and also in men that be Epulenticke or having the Falling sicknesse that be most grieved in the beginning of the new Moone and in the latter quarter of the Moone Wherefore saith Aristotle when it happeneth that the Braine is either too dry or too moyst then can it not worke his kind for then is the Body made cold then are the spirits of Life melted and resolved away and then followeth feeblenesse of the Wittes and of all other members of the Body and last Death CHAP. V. The Anatomy of the Face THe Front or the Forehead containeth nothing but the Skin and Musculus flesh for the Pannicle underneath it is of Pericranium and the Bone is of the Coronall bone Howbeit there it is made broad as if there were a double bone which maketh the forme of the browes It is called the Forehead or Front from one eare to the other and from the rootes of the eares of the head before unto the Browes But the cause why the browes were set and reared up was that they should defend the eyes from noyance without-foorth and they be ordained with haire to put by the humor or sweat that commeth from the head Also the browes doe helpe the eye-liddes and doe beautifie and make faire the face for he that hath not his browes haired is not seemely And Aristotle sayth that over-measurable Browes betokeneth an envious man Also high browes and thicke betokeneth cowardise and meanly signifieth gentlenesse of heart Incisions about this part ought to be done according to the length of the body for there the Muscle goeth from one Eare to the other And there if any incision should be made with the length of the Muscle it might happen the brow to hang over the eye without remedy as it is many times seene the more pitty The Browes are called Supercilium in Latine and under is the eye-lids which is called Cilium and is garnished with haires Two causes J find why the eye-lids were ordained The first is that they should keepe and defend the Eye from Dust and other outward noyances The second is when the eye is weary or heavie then they should be covered and take rest nnderneath them Why the haires were ordained in them is that by them is addressed the formes or similitudes of visible things vnto the Apple of the Eye The Eare is a member seemely and gristly able to be holden without and is the Organ or Instrument of Hearing It is of complexion cold and dry But why the Eare was set up out of the head is this that the sounds that be very fugitive should lurke and abide under his shadow till it were taken of the Instruments of Hearing Another cause is that it should keepe the hole that it standeth over from things falling in that might hinder the Hearing The Sinewes that are the Organs or Instruments of Hearing spring each from the Braine from whence the seven paire of Sinewes doe spring and when they come to the hole of the Eare there they writhe like a Winepresse and at the ends of them they be like the head of a Worme or like a little teate in which is received the sound and so carryed to the common wits The Eyes be next of nature unto the Soule for in the Eye is seene and knowne the disturbances and griefes gladnesse and joyes of the Soule as Love Wrath and other passions The Eyes be the Instruments of sight And they be compound and made of ten things that is to say of seven Tunicles or Coates and of three humours Of the which sayth Galen the Braine and the Head were made for the Eye that they might be in the highest as a Beholder in a Tower as it was rehearsed in the Anatomy of the Head But divers men hold divers opinions of the Anatomy of the Eyes for some men account but three Tunicles and some sixe
moving And as the Science of the Anatomie meaneth the spirit vitall is sent from the heart to the braine by Arteirs and by Veynes and nutrimentall blood where the vessels Pulsatives in the Temples be lightly hurt Also the Temples have dents or holes inwardly wherein he taketh the humour that commeth from the Braine and bringeth the Eyes a sleepe and if the said holes or dents bee pressed and wrung then by trapping of the humour that continueth hee maketh the teares to fall from the Eye The Cheekes are the sideling parts of the Face and they containe in them Musculus flesh with Veynes and Arteirs and about these parts be many Muscles Guido maketh mention of seaven about the Cheekes and over-lip And Haly-Abbas saith there be twelue Muscles that move the neither Jaw some of them in opening and other some in closing or shutting passing under the Bones of the Temples and they be called Temporales And they be the right noble and sensatiue of whose hurt is much perill Also there bee other Muscles for to grinde and to chew And to all these Muscles commeth Nerves from the Braine to give them feeling and moving And also there commeth to them many Arteirs and Veynes and chiefly about the Temples and the angles or corners of the Eyes and the Lips And as the Philosophers say the chiefe beauty in man is in the Cheekes and there the complexion of man is most knowne as thus If they be full ruddy and medled with temperate whitenesse and not fat in substance but meanely fleshie it betokeneth hot and moyst of complexion that is Sanguine and temperate in colour And if they be white coloured without medling of rednesse and in substance fat and soft quavering it betokeneth excesse and superfluity of cold and moyst that is Flegmaticke And if they be browne in colour or cytron yellow redde and thinne and leane in substance it betokeneth great drying and heate that is cholericke And if they be as it were blowne in colour and of little flesh in substance it betokeneth excesse and superfluity of drynesse and cold that is Melancholy And as Avicen saith the Cheekes doe not onely shew the diversities of complexions but also the affection and will of the Heart for by the affection of the heart by suddaine joy or dread he waxeth either pale or red The bones or bony parts first of the Cheekes be two of the Nose outwardly two of the upper Mandible two within the Nose three as thus One deviding the Nosthrils within and in each Nosthrill one and they seeme to be rowled like a wafer and have a hollownesse in them by which thâ— ayre is respired and drawne to the Lungs and the superfluity of the Braine is purged into the mouthwards as is before rehearsed But Guido and Galen saith that there be in the face nine bones yet J cannot find that the nether Mandible should be of the number of those nine for the nether Mandible accounted there proveth them to be Ten in number Of which thing J will hold no argument but remit it to the sight of your Eyes The parts of the mouth are five that is to say the Lippes the Teeth the Tongue the Uvila and the Pallet of the mouth And first to speake of the Lips they are members consimile or officiall full of Musculus flesh as is aforesaid and they were ordained for two causes one is that they should be to the mouth as a doore to a house and to keepe the mouth close till the meat were kindly chewed The other cause is that they should be helpers to the pronouncing of the speech The Teeth are members consimile or officiall spermaticke and hardest of any other members and are fastned in the Cheeke bones and were ordained for three causes First that they should chew a mans meate ere it should passe downe that it might be the sooner digested The second that they should be a helpe to the speech for they that lacke their teeth doe not perfectly pronounce their words The third is that they should serve to beasts as weapons The number of them is uncertaine for some men haue more and some lesse they that have the whole number have two and thirty that is to say â—ixteene above and as many beneath as thus two Dwallies two Quadripulles two Canniens eight Morales two Causales the Tongue is a carnous member compound and made of many Nerves Ligaments Veynes and Artiers ordained principally for three causes The first is that when a man eateth the Tongue might helpe to turne the meat till it were well chewed The second cause is that by him is received the tast of sweete and sowre and presented by him to the common Wittes The third is that by him is pronounced every speech The fleshie part of the Tongue is white and hath in him nine Muscles and about the roote of him is Glandulus in the which be two welles and they be ever full of spettle to temper and keepe moyst the Tongue or else it would waxe dry by reason of his labour c. The Uvila is a member made of spongeous flesh hanging downe from the end of the Pallet over the gullet of the throat and is a member in complexion cold and dry and oftentimes when there falleth rawnesse or much moystnesse into it from the Head then it hangeth downe in the throate and letteth a man to swallow and it is broad at the upper end and small at the nether It was ordained for divers causes One is that by him is holpen the sound of speech for where the Uvila is wanting there lacketh the perfect sound of speech Another is that it might helpe the prolation of vomits Another is that by him is tempered and abated the distemperance of the ayre that passeth to the Lungs Another is that by him is guided the superfluities of the Braine that commeth from the coletures of the Nose or the superfluities would fall downe suddenly into the mouth the which were a displeasure The Pallet of the mouth containeth nothing else but a carnous Pannicle and the Bones that bee underneath it hath two divisions one along the Pallet from the division of the Nose and from the opening of the other Mandible under the nether end of the Pallet lacking halfe an inch and there it divideth overthwart and the first division is of the Mandible and the second is of the Bone called Pixillary or Bazillary that sustaineth and bindeth all other Bones of the head together The Skinne of the Pallet of the mouth is of the inner part of the â—tomacke and of Myre and of Isofagus that is the way of the meate into the Stomacke The way how to know that such a Pannicle is of that part of the stomack may be knowne when that a man is touched within the mouth anon he beginneth to tickle in the stomacke and the neerer that he shall couch unto the throat the more it abhorreth the stomacke and oftentimes it caufeth the
Nutriment and there he receiveth of the Lungs ayre and bringeth it to the heart to refresh him with Wherefore Galen saith that hee findeth that mans Heart is naturall and friendly to the Lungs For hee giveth him of his owne Nutrimentall to nourish him with and the Lungs rewards him with ayre to refresh him with againe c. The other Artier that hath two Coats is called Vena Arterialis or the great Artery that ascendeth and descendeth and of him springeth all the other Artiers that spread to every member of the Body for by him is united and quickned all the members of the body For the Spirit that is retained in them is the instrument or treasure of all the vertue of the Soule And thus it passeth untill it come to the Braine and there hee is turned into a further digestion and there he taketh another Spirit and so is made animall and at the Liver nutrimentall and at the Testicles generative and thus it is made a spirit of every kind so that hee being the meane of all manner of operations and workings taketh effect Two causes J find why these Artiers have two coates One is that one coat is not sufficient nor able to withstand the violent moving and stirring of the spirit of Life that is carried in them The second cause is that the thing that is carried about from place to place is of so precious a Treasure that it had the more need of good keeping And of some Doctors this Artier is called the Pulsative veyne or the beating Veyne for by him is perceived the powâ—r and might of the Heart c. Wherefore God and Nature have ordained that the Artiers have two coates Also there is in the Heart three Pellikles opening and closing the going in of the Heart blood and spirit in convenient time Also the Heart hath two little Eares by whom commeth in and passeth out the ayre that is prepared for the Lungs There is also found in the heart a Cartilaginous auditament to helpe and strengthen the same Heart The Heart is covered with a strong Pannicle which is called of some Capsula Cordes or Pericordium the which is a strong case unto whom commeth Nerves as to other inward members And this Pannicle Pericordium springeth of the upper Pannicle of the Midriffe And of him springeth another Pannicle called Mediastinum the which separateth the Brest in the midst and keepeth it that the Lungs fall not over the Heart There is also another Pannicle that covereth the Ribbes inwardly that is called Plura of whom the Midriffe taketh his beginning And it is said of many Doctors that Duramater is the Originall of all the Pannicles within the body and thus one taketh of another CHAP. VIII The Anatomie of the Lungs THe Lungs is a member Spermatick of the first creation and his naturall Complexion is cold and dry and in his accidentall complexion hee is cold and moyst wrapped in a nervous Pannicle because it should gather together the softer substance of the Lungs and that the Lungs might feele by the meanes of the Pannicle that which hee might not feele in himselfe Now to prove the Lungs to bee cold and dry of kind it appeareth by his swift stirring for hee lyeth ever waving over the Heart and about the heart And that hee is cold and moyst in operation it appeareth in that hee receiveth of the Braine many cold matters as Catarres and Rheumes whose substance is thin Also J find in the Lungs three kinds of substance One is a Veyne comming from the Liver bringing with him the crude or raw part of the Chylle to feed the Lungs Another is Arteria venealis comming from the Heart bringing with him the spirit of Life to nourish him with The third is Trachia Arteria that bringeth in ayre to the Lungs and it passeth through all the left part of them to doe his office The Lungs is divided into five Lobbes or Pellikles or five portions that is to say three in the right side and two in the left side And this was done for this cause that if there fell any hurt in the one part the others should serve and doe their office And three causes J find why the Lungs were principally ordained First that they should draw cold wind and refresh the heart The second that they should change and alter and purifie the ayre before it come to the Heart lest the heart should be hurt and annoyed with the quantity of the ayre The third cause is that they should receive from the Heart the fumous superfluities that hee putteth forth with his breathing c. Behind the Lungs towards the Spondels passeth Myre or Isofagus of whom it is spoken of in the Anatomic of the Neck And also there passeth both Veynes and Artiers and all these with Trachia Arteria doe make a Stoke replete unto the Gullet with the Pannicles and strong Ligaments and Glandulus flesh to fulfill the voyd places And last of all is the Midriffe and it is an officiall member made of two Pannicles and Lazartus flesh and his place is in the midst of the body overthwart or in bredth under the region of the Spirituall members separating them from the Matrix And three causes J find why the Midriffe was ordained First that it should divide the Spirituals from the Nutrates The second that it should keepe the vitall colour or heat to descend downe to the Nutrates The last is that the malicious fumes reared up from the Nutrates should not annoy the Spirituals or vitals c. The Wombe is the region or the City of all the Intrailes the which reacheth from the Midriffe downe unto the Share inwardly and outwardly from the Reines or Kidnies downe to the bone Peeten about the privie parts And this Wombe is compound and made of two things that is to say of Syfac and Myrac Syfac is a Pannicle and a member spermatick officiall sensible Sinewie compound of subtill Will and in complexion cold and dry having his beginning in the inner Pannicle of the Midriffe And it was ordained because it should containe and bind together all the Intrailes and that he defend the Musculus so that he oppresse not the Naturall members And that he is strong and tough it is because he should not be lightly broken and not those things that are contained goe not forth as it happeneth to them that are broken c. Myrac is compound and made of foure things that is to say of Skinne outwardly of Fatnesse of a Carnous Pannicle and of Musculus Flesh And that it is to bee understood that all the whole from Syfac outward is called Myrac it appeareth well by the words of Galen where hee commandeth that in all wounds of the Wombe to sewe the Syfac with the Mirac and by that it proveth that there is nothing without the Syfac but Mirac And in this Mirac or outer part of the Wombe there is noted eight Muscles two Longitudinals proceeding from the
or so much of delaied or watred wine as much as can be holden in a spoone or a few Prunes sodden and steeped in water or two spoonfuls of crummes of bread washed oftentimes with water or wine tempered as J told before or a toste put into such water but let no man drinke in the Bath except he swound in the bath or bee in danger of sounding or else ye must all the time that ye be in the bath abstaine from all meate and drinke As long as you are in the bath you must cover your head well that you take no cold for it is very perilous to take cold in the head in the Bath as divers reasons may be laid to prove the same When you come out of the Bath see that yee cover your self well that ye take no cold and dry off the Water on your body with warme clothes and goe by and by into a warme bed and sweat there if you can and wipe off the sweat diligently and afterwards sleepe but yee must not drinke any thing untill dinner time except ye be very faint then ye may take a little Suger-candy or a few Raisins or any such thing in a small quantity that will slake thirst for Galen in the 14 De Methodo medendi commandeth that a man shall not eate nor drinke by and by after the Bathe untill he hath slept after his bathing After that yee have sweat and slept enough and be clearely delivered from the heate that you had in the Bathe and afterwards in the Bed then may you rest and walke a little and then goe to dinner for by measurable walking the vapours and windinesse that is come in the Bath is driven away If the Patient cannot walke then let him be rubd quickly and if hee can suffer no rubing then at some time it were good to take a a Suppositorie either of Roote or of a Beete with a little Salt upon it or a Suppository of Honey or a Suppositorie of a Flower deluce or of salt Bacon or white Sope. After all these things then shall you goe to dinner but you must neither eate very much good meate nor any evill meate at all Wherefore you must rise from the Table with some good appetite so that you could eate more if you would The meates that are commonly of all Physitians allowed that write of Dyet that belongeth to Bathes are Bread of a dayes baking or two at the most well leavened and throughly baked small Birds and other birds of the fields and mountaines that are of easie digestion but Waterchanters yee must not touch Kids-flesh Veale and Mutton or a Lambe of a yeare old new laid Egges Pheasants Partridges Capons Chickens and young Geese The meates that are forbidden are salt Beefe and Bacon Pidgeons Quailes Pyes and Pasties and such like meates Cherries and all such fruits Garlicke Onions and all hot spices and all cold meates as are the most part of Fishes howbeit divers may be well allowed so they be well dressed Milke is not to be allowed much but if that the Patient be so greedy of it that in a manner he long for it then let him take it two houres or thereabout before he take any other meate and he must drinke after it White wine that is small is allowable or Wine delayed with the third or fourth part of sodden water according to the Complexion of the Patient Some use to steepe bread in strong Wine when as they can get no other Wine Beware that in no wise ye drinke any water and especially cold water and so should yee forbeare from all things that are presently cold namely when ye begin first to eate and drinke Let therefore both your meate and drinke be in such temper that they be not cold but warme lest when as yee are hot within by your Bathing and sweating the cold strike suddenly into some principall member and hurt it They that are of a hote Complexion and of an open nature and not well fastened together ought not to tarry so long in the bath as other ought that are of colder and faster complexions If that any man betweene meale times be vexed with thirst he may not drinke any thing saving for a great need he take a little Barley water or Water sodden with the fourth part of the juyce either of sowre or milde sweet Pomgranats with a little Suger a man may use for a need a little Vineger with Water and Suger if he have no disease in the Sinewes nor in the Joynts A man that is very weake or accustomed much to sleepe after dinner an houre and a halfe after that he is risen from the Table he may take a reasonable sleepe All the time that a man is in them he must keepe himselfe chaste from all women and so he must doe a moneth after after the counsell of divers learned Physitians and some for the space of forty dayes as Pantheus and Aleardus would namely if they come out of the Cauldron It were meete that in every foure and twenty houres the Bath should be letten out and fresh water received into the pit againe for so shall you sooner be healed and better abide with lesse jeopardy abiding in the Bath It is most meete for them that have any disease in the head as a Catliaire or Rheume comming of a moyst cause and not very hot For them that have Palsies or such like diseases that they cause a bucket to be holden over their heads with an hole in it of the bignesse of a mans little finger about foure foote above their heads so that by the Reed or Pipe made for the nonce the water may come downe with great might upon the mould of the Head if they have the Cathaire and upon the nape of the necke if the Patient be sicke of the Palsie or any such like disease The clay or grounds of the Bath is better for the Dropsie then is the water alone It is also good for shrunken swelled and hard places and for all old and diseased places which cannot well be healed with other medicines The matter is to lay the grounds upon the place and to hold the same against the hote Sunne or a warme fire untill it be something hard and then to wash away the foulenesse of the Clay with the water of the Bath this may a man doe as oft as he list Some Physitians counsell that betweene the Bathings when a man is twice bathed upon one day in the time that the Patient is out of the bath to use his plaistering with the Clay but if the person be any thing weake J counsell not to goe twice into the Bath but either once or else to be content with the plaistering of the mudde or grounds of the Bath It were good wisedome for them that cannot tarry long at the Bathes either for heate or for cold to take home with them some of the grounds and there occupie it as is afore-told There are
certaine learned men which reckon that the hote breath or vapour that riseth up from the Bathe is much more mightier then the water of the bath is and it is true therefore it were well that they which have any Dropsie and especially a Tympanie should sit over such a place of the Bath that they might receive into the moyst diseased place the vapour of the bathe either by an holed stoole or by some other such like manner of thing well devised for that purpose If any poore man by the heate of the drynesse of the Bathe cannot sleepe enough let him eate Lettice or Purslaine or the seedes of Poppy called Chesbowle in some places of England or let him eate Suger and Poppy-seed together let this be done at night Hee may also if he cannot get the aforesaid things seethe Violet leaves and Mallowes and bathe the uttermost parts with that they are sodden in These are remedies for poore folke that are not able to have a Physitian with them to give them counsell Let the rich use such remedies as their Physitians shall counsell them If any poore man be vexed with any unsufferable thirst let him take a little Barley and seethe it long and put a little Suger unto it or let him take the juyce of an Orange or take a little of it with a little Suger If any poore man catch the Head-ache let him take a little Wormelade if he can get it or Coriander Comfits or if he can get none of these let him take the white of an Egge and beate it with Vineger and Rosewater or with the broath of Violets or Nightshade or with any of them and a little Vineger and lay them in a cloath unto the temples of his head and forehead If any poore man be burned too much let him take a Glister made with Mallowes Beetes and Violet leaves or let him seethe Prunes with Barley a good while and Raisins putting a way the stones and eate of them or let him use Suppositories sometimes made of rootes either of Beetes of Flower-de-Luce or of white Sope or of salt Bacon If any man sweat too much let him use colder meates than he used before with Vineger or Verjuyce and let them also eate Sheepes-feete and Calves-feete with Verjuyce or Vineger If any man have the burning of his water when he maketh it let him an houre after he is come out of the Bathe annoynt his Kidneyes with some cold Oyntment as is Infrigidus Galeni or if you cannot come by that let him seethe Violet leaves Poppy-heads Raisins Licorice and Mallowes together straine them and put some Suger in the broath and drinke of it a draught before Supper If any be troubled with the Rheume which he hath caught in the Bath let him parch or bristle at the fire Nigella Romana and hold it in a cloath to his Nose and let him set cups or boxing glasses to his shoulders without any scorching and let him drinke sodden water with Barley and with a little Suger If any man have any appetite to eate let him use the sirrups of Ribles or Barberies or the sirrup of unripe Grapes or use Verjuyce or Vineger to provoke appetite in due measure and now and then if ye can get it let him take a little Marmalade or of the sirrup of Mynts or Worm-wood Raman These have I written for poore folke Those that are rich by the advice of the Physitians may have other Remedies enough against the fore-named accidents that chance in the time of their bathing If thou be rid of thy disease by thy bathing offer unto Christ in thy pure members such offering of Thankesgiving as thou mayest spare and give him hearty thankes both in word minde and deed and sinne no more but walke in all kindnesse of life and honesty as farre as thou shalt be able to doe as long as thou shalt live hereafter But if thou be not healed the first time be patient and live vertuously till the next bathing time and then if it be to the glory of God and for the most profitable thou shalt the next bathing time be healed by the grace of God of whom commeth all health both of body and soule Some if they be not healed whilest they be in the bathing cry out both upon the Bath wâ—ich healeth many other of the same Diseases that they are sicke of and of the Physitian also that counselled them to goe to the Bathe such men must learne that they must not appoint God a time to heale them by the Bathe and that when as the Bath hath dryed up and washed by Sweating and made subtill through blowing the evill matter of the disease that it is one dayes worke or two to make good humours to occupie the place of such evill humours as have beene in them before Therefore let such be patient and for the space of a Moneth keepe the same dyet that they kept at the Bath and if God will they shall have their desire but not onely these but all others that are healed for a moneth at the least the longer the better must keepe the same dyet that they kept in the Bath as touching meate and drinke and if it be possible also from the use of all Women When as you goe homewards make but small Journeyes and beware of surfetting and of cold and when you are at home use measurable Exercise daily and honest mirth and pastime with honest company and beware of too much study or carefulnesse And give God thankes for all his Guifts Thus much for the Bath Of Herbes and Drugs Hereafter followeth divers Medicines Remedies and Cures to heale divers Diseases curable by the grace of God as also the Nature and property of certaine Herbes Plants and Drugs belonging thereunto PART IX And first of Marte Mylletare to stop the Flux of the body DIvers times the Flux of the Body proceedeth of superfluous heat contained in the Stomacke the which maketh a continuall solution inwardly as yee may see by Experience of those that are troubled therewith for so long as the cause is not taken away all their meat doth turne into the matter the which if it be so that is true which J doe say That the Fluxes are a distemperance of the body caused of hot and corrupt humours in the Stomacke and therefore if thou wilt cure it it were necessary to extinguish the heat and so take away the corruption the which thou shalt doe with the rednesse of Marte Mylletare as is hereafter following for that is the most soveraigne remedy that can be found First yee shall take twelve graines of Petra Philosophalla with half an ounce of Mel Rosarum and then take foure mornings together one scruple of Marte Mylletare with half an ounce of Suger Rosate and therewith thou shalt worke very strange effects Also for Perbreaking and for Flux seethe Roses in Vineger or Tamarindes or Galls and while it is hot wet therein Wooll and lay it
against the stone and stopping of the flowers A good Drinke to strengthen the heart and all the members if a man drinke halfe an Egge shell full of it morning and evening with as much good wine TAke the best Aqua Vitae that you can get and take a piece of fine Gold and make it glowing hot ten times and squench it again the more you squench it the stronger waxeth the water and better Then put it into the same Aqua Vitae and halfe a quarter of an ounce of Saffron and a quarter of an ounce of Cynamon both beaten let them stand foure dayes well stopped and stirre it every day once but when you will take it then let it stand still unstirred that it may be cleare This water warmeth a cold stomacke giveth strength to all the members specially to aged folkes that have beene over long sicke whose strength is consumed for it comforteth and strengthneth the heart out of measure A speciall Medicine to cause sleepe TAke a spoonefull of Oyle of Roses a spoonefull of Rose-water and halfe a spoonefull of red Vineger and temper them all together then with a fine linnen cloth annoynt the Patients head A discourse as concerning Cornes in the feet or else-where with their remedies THis Callowes matter is a certaine hot humour the which nature would discharge her selfe of and when that humour is driven forth of nature it goeth into the lower parts into the end of the Toes for in that part of the Toes that skin is called Epidarma is hard and will not suffer it to passe or exalate and there many times it engendreth a Tumor in the skin with great hardnesse and many times that Tumor doth increase and cause such paine that it doth not onely hinder their going but hinder them from their sleepe in the Night and this kind of Tumor is called commonly Callo or Cornes in English and J thought it good to call them Crest because they are alwayes growing and is of great importance among Chirurgions for an infinite number of persons are troubled therewith and therefore J will shew thee our secret to helpe them quickly and with great ease which secret was never knowne of any First ye shall pare them with a sharpe Knife unto the bottome and there ye shall find a certaine thing like matter ye shall pare it untill bloud doth appeare then touch it with the Oyle of Sulphure and then dresse it with Balsamo Artificio once a day untill it be whole Keepe this as a secret Of Medicines Remedies and Cures of divers Diseases of severall kinds As also the making of Powders and Plaisters c. PART X. The cause of our Sciatica and how yee helpe it SCiatica is a Disease so called because it commeth in that place of the Body called Scio and it is caused of an evill quality and grosse Humors that are strayed in that place because they cannot passe downe And this is seene by experience dayly for where that paine is there is alteration and the cure thereof is with Glysters Vomits Purgations and Unctions because the Glysters doth evacuate those places next unto it and so easeth the Humour the Vomit cleanseth the stomacke the Purgation doth evacuate the body downwards the Unctions dissolve the winde and by these meanes thou mayest helpe the Sciatica as J have done many times to my great credit and satisfaction of my Patient For Hoarsnesse AGainst Hoarsnesse goe into the Hot-house and when thou hast halfe Bathed drinke a good draught of warme water this is often proved Another Garlick sodden and eaten maketh a cleare voyce and driveth away Hoarsenesse and the old Cough If a man stand in feare of the Palsie LEt him eat every Morning two or three graines of Mustar-seedes and two Pepper cornes the same is assured for the same disâ—ase by many A Medicine for the Goute TAke a pinte of white Wine a quart of running water a quantity of Barley flower and let them boyle together then put thereto halfe a pound of blacke Soape and let all seethe till it be thicke then put thereto the yolkes of foure Egges and when yee will use it spred it on a cloth Plaister-wise hot Stubbes Medicine for the Goute TAke a quart of red Wine Lees a quarter of a pound of Beane flower half aquarter of a pound of Commine fine beaten a spoonefull of Bole-Armoniacke halfe an ounce of Camphere which must be put in at twice and boyle them all together till they be somewhat thicke then make it Plaister-wise and lay it to the paine Another Plaister for the Goute TAke Occy cronium Galbanum and Melitonum of each one a penny-worth and distill them take a pound of stone Pitch and another pound of fine Rozen one halfe ounce of Camphere one quarterne of Deeres Suet halfe a quater of a pound of Commin and boyle them on a soft fire together and thereof make a Plaister upon a piece of Leather using it as the other Another for the same TAke the Gall of an Oxe and Aqua Composita of each a like quantity as much of Oyle of Exeter as of both the other and labour them all together in a pot with a sticke the space of halfe an houre When you have so done annoynt your palme therewith then wet a linnen cloth therein and as hot as you can suffer it bind it to the sore For a pricke of a Thorne or any other thing TAke Honey and a good quantity of Chalke and of the Gall of a Beast and boyle them together and make a Plaister of it and as hot as you can suffer it lay it thereunto Let the Chalke be scraped very small Approved A Remedy for burning and Scalding TAke the white Wooll of the belly of an Hare and if it be raw lay it thereto and it will never away till such time it be whole Another Take a Thistle called St. Mary Thistle stampe it and strain it and take thereof two spoonfuls and put to this three spoonfuls of Creame mixe them together and annoynt the Patient therewith To kill a Tetter or Ring-worme TAke the root of a red Dock the roote is very red and slice it and lay it in Vineger a Night and after lay it upon the Tetter and tye it with a cloth hard and it will kill the Tetter Approved For a winde or a Collicke in the belly TAke a Rose Cake and toast it at the fire with Vineger throwen upon it and lay it as hot to your belly as you may suffer it Another Take Mustard Figges and Vineger stamped together and lay it to the belly of the diseased cold in manner of a Plaister and it shall helpe Against the Shingles ANnoynt the Shingles with the juyce of Mynts and it will heale them To heale a wound in ten dayes as by proofe hath beene seene STampe Camphere with Barrowes greace and put it into the wound and it will heale it Approved For ache in the Backe TAke Egremont and Mugwort both