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A81145	Culpeper's last legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest wife, for the publicke good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be publisht till after his death. Containing sundry admirable experiences in severall sciences, more especially, in chyrurgery and physick, viz. compounding of medicines, making of waters, syrrups, oyles, electuaries, conserves, salts, pils, purges, and trochischs. With two particular treatises; the one of feavers; the other of pestilence; as also other rare and choice aphorisms, fitted to the understanding of the meanest capacities. Never publisht before in any of his other works. By Nicholas Culpeper, late student in astrology and physick.	Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1655 (1655)	Wing C7518; Thomason E1464_2; ESTC R22796	103,545	286

let him avoid Milk and all other meats of a dilative quality for they send vapors into the head and are hurtfull for him Let his drink be water in which a little Cinnamon hath been boyled or in which syrrope of the juyce of Succory or the juyce of Pomgranates or Lemons is put Let him eschew carnal copulation exercises and baths all perturbations of the mind especially anger Directions negative Affirmative Perfumes Vnction If ♂ cause the disease you had better use vervain gathered in the houre of ♀ take this as a generall rule all things that are binding all things that cause stupefaction as crude opium Mandrakes Henbane Poppeys Nightshade those things that bind much though they coole must also be avoyded as juyce of Quinces Medlers c. Let the sick smell to rose water mixed with vineger and often snuffe some of it up into his nose Let also his forehead temples and that part of his head where the paine lies most be anoynted with oyle of fleabane Let the fleabane be gathered in the houre of Mars he being if it be possible in Aries in a good aspect to the Moone So will the infirmity be the easier and more speedily cured Have a speciall care that the Patient go to stoole in good order at the least twice a day Stoole if he do not provoke him first with a Clister then with an ownce of lenitive Electuary every night when he goes to bed for the people most incident to this Infirmity are such as are of a Cholerique constitution though the trouble of this disease be no absolute signe of a Cholericke-man which complexion most commonly causeth astringency 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of cold CHAP. III. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of Cold. BY cold I meane simply cold without any Flux of cold humours ☞ for that causeth Lethargies but onely a cold distemper The cause This paine in the head is caused of outward cold as by tarrying long bareheaded in a cold aire also by suddain applying of any wet and cold or very cold thing to the head The signes of this are contrary to the signes of the other that came of a hot distemper for in this though the paine indeed be vehement yet the head when it is felt is not hot their face and eyes do not look red neither are they hollow nor shrunke but on the contrary their face looketh full and pale and their eyes are full and swarthy also they desire not cold things nor find ease but paine by them Cautions Let them sleepe moderately but no more then usually they use to do Sleepe They must remaine in a warme aire if it be cold remedy it with a good fire Aire Let them forbeare all meates cold in operation Meats all fish water-fowles and milke Let them eat rear eggs hennes chickens partridge and phesants For drinke let them use Wine moderately Drinke and generally for the cure thereof you must use things that are hot in operation but in the cure as well of this as other diseases in the head you must diligently consider the natural temperature of the braine ☜ for it is such a thing as cannot endure either violent heat or violent cold Directions Negative Let not their bodies be costive but let them have every day a stool if not by nature give suppositories Let them avoide sadnesse deepe speculations and thoughts studying and other immoderate affections of the mind Let them use moving of their body Affirmative walking and if strength suffer riding Oyle of Vervaine is medicinall for the disease Motion let it be gathered in the day and houre of Venus she ascending fortunately Also Rew Laurell Unction If ♀ cause the discase use Fleabane an herb of ♂ Orris Dill Chamomel Mother of time Marjoram are Medicinal for the disease For the Oyle anoint the fore-head temples nostrills and holes behind the eares Also to boyle any of these hearbs especially vervaine gathered as beforesaid in water Nasalia and snuffe up the decoction in your nose Also quilt these leaves betweene two caps Cucufa and let the patient weare it upon his head The innermost cap being made of fine silke or Sarsnet Take Laurell Mother of time Marjoram Rosemary flowers of each a handfull Rew halfe so much Penny royall Calaminth two drams Cloves Staechas one-dram beat these into grosse ponder and sew them up in the Cucufa or double cappe before mentioned and having first sprinkled the head with Vineger warme it and apply it Also it is very good for the sick to smell to such a Pomander as this Pomander Take of Storax Calamitis two drams Cloves Mace wood of Aloes of each halfe a Dram Lavender two Drams Gallia mofchata a Dram Muske Amber greece of each two graines beate them into fine pouder searce them and with mussilage made with Gum Tragacanth and Marjoram water make it up into a Pomander 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of driness or moysture CHAP. IV. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of drinesse or moysture BY drinesse here ☞ and moysture also is meant only the baire quality for although of these alone without heate or cold no paine come yet hereby the studious in Physicke may learne and discerne when the Head-ach commeth of heate and driness when of heate and moisture when of cold and drinesse when of cold and moisture The cause Head-ach through drinesse is caused through drinesse of the aire through hunger much watching extreame studying by dry medicines over much exercise excessive use of venery and violent perturbations of the mind Head-ach of moisture is caused through moisture of the aire The fimptomes moist medicines bathes hot waters and other things that moisten over much Drinesse is knowne by these signes there come few or no excrements out of the nose the eyes be hollow the patient cannot sleepe neither before nor in the sicknesse also the skin of the head is dry as though it were scorched dry medicines do not ease the paine but increase it Moistnesse is knowne by the same that lethargies are of which hereafter Those in whome drinesse doth trouble the head let them remaine in a moist aire let them eate meates of good juyce and a moistning nature Diet. as yolks of egges cocks stones and the broth of them phesants partriches and such meates as moisten and nourish much let them drinke wine alwayes with water let them sleepe largely provoke them to it as in the second chapter let them eschew motion of the body and exercise and use quietness and rest let them eschew carnal copulation hunger and thirst and all things that do dry let them use baths of sweet waters that are warme let them be merry and pleasant and avoyd all perturbations of mind For paine comming of moisture See Lethargyes Let such as have head-ach of drinesse use to anoint the

Mans blood Stags blood Goats blood Clense as Salt of Urine Honey Vineger CHAP. VIII Of Pills The Pills I here treat of either Binde as Pills of Bdellium Ease paine as Pills of Opium Laudanum è Styrace è Cynogloss â Scribonii or Purge Pills purge Choller from the head as Auriae Arabicae from the Liver Rhubarb Agrimony Flegm from the head Cochiae Hiera cum Agarico Alhandal from the breast Agrick Hiera cum Agarico from the stomach Alephangin Mastich Stomachicae Ruffi from the Joynts Hermodactils Arthriticae Foetidae Sagapenum Opopanax Sarcocolla Pills Purge Melancholly from the Liver and Spleen Fumitory Indi Lapis Lazuli Mixt humors Head Sine quibus esse Nolo Lucis Majores Cochiae Stomach Assaireth Turbith Imperiall Ruffi Liver De tribus Alkekengi All parts Agregative CHAP. IX Of Troches Troches Alter vid. pag. seq Purge Choller Rubarb Flegm De Agarico Agaricus trochiscatus Alhandal de Scillâ Troches alter according to Quality Property Inquality they are Hot as of Lignum Aloes Saffron Crocomagma Cold as of Spodium Diasantalon Camphire In property they Binde as Earth of Lemnos Amber Barberries Spodium Corrall Soften as of Capers Open Bitter Almonds H●patici Wormwood Roses Bechici Albi. Nigri De Lacca Alkekengi Agrimony In property they open Aliptae Moschatae Mirh Anniseed Rhubarb Clense as Cyphios Resist poyson De Vipera Ramich Hedicteroi Gallia Moschata Diarrhodon Ease pain Diarrhodon Diaspermaton Camphire APHORISMES Exceeding requisite for such as intend the noble though too much abused practice of PHYSICK Containing the quality of Medicines COLLECTED BY NICH CULPEPER Gent. Student in PHYSICK LONDON Printed by J. G. for Nath Brook at the Angel in Cornhill 1655. Aphorismes I. ALL Medicines operate by a way either manifest or hidden II. We call that a manifest way which is obvious to the sences especially to the tast and feeling but that a hidden way which is obvious to no sence III. All medicines working by a manifest way performe their office by heat or cold moistning or drying IV. Neither is there any Simple so temperate but one of these doth in one measure or another prevaile V. Medicines temperate Yet are those usually called Temperate which excell not in cold moisture heat or drynesse to the first degree VI. These being put in any Medicine alter not the quality of it VII These are used in such infirmities in which there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities viz. Heat Cold Drinesse Moisture as for example in obstructions of the Bowells for then we dare not give hot things for feare of a Feaver VIII Also in such Feavers where the effect is hot and dry the Cause cold and moist that so we may neither encrease the Feaver nor make the Flegm thick by cold IX Things contrary are taken away by their contraries things like are preserved by their like X. The degrees of intemperature were observed that so the part of the body afflicted might be brought to its proper temper and no further for if a Physician should give a thing extreamely cold in a disease but meanly hot he might soon cure that and bring a worse in its roome XI Hot in the first degree Those things are said to be hot in the first degree which doe onely cherish naturall heat or restore it being lost and that without any hurt at all to the body chillinesse of the body and paines coming by such distempers are remedied this way XII These also are sometimes given not onely in cold but also in hot afflictions XIII For it looseth and discusseth thick humours that are compacted together by its gentle heat opening the pores and causeth sweating XIV Amongst these such are chiefly to be used which are most friendly to our bodies viz. suitable to our complexions XV. Such are called Anodines or easers of paine XVI Also take notice that such Medicines whether Simple or Compound that are hot and moist cannot excell their due moderation of heat XVII Such also take away Wearinesse open the Pores and consume the superfluous Vapours in Feavers XVIII Yet may a foolish use of these bring inconveniences even to the consumption of the vitall Spirits as happens many times in Inflammations of the Bowells c. XIX This usually happens by applying such a medicine as is not appropriated to that part of the body it is applyed to puta the applying a Cephalick medicine to the bowells XX. Hot in the second degree Such things are said to be hot in the second degree whose heat is greater than the naturall heat of our bodies besides their heat offends the Palat. XXI Their use is for such whose Stomach is offended by Flegm to heat and dry them XXII They open Obstructions and the Pores of the Skin not gently and by perswasion or faire words as it were but by threatning XXIII Their common use is to cut and discusse tough thick viscous humors XXIV In the third degree Such as are hot in the third degree worke the same effects more violently for they open Obstructions by violence and fine force XXV The heat of these are so great that many times they stirre up Feavers XXVI Their use is to divide stubborne and compacted humors and provoke sweat whence it comes to passe that most of them resist poyson XXVII In the fou●th degree Lastly those obtaine the fourth and last degree of heat which burne and raise blisters on the Body being outwardly applyed XXVIII I am of opinion that these ought not to be taken inwardly but with great discretion and in urgent necessities XXIX It is in vaine to urge the common taking of Onions Garlick c. against this a man may if he please so accustome his body to poyson that for present it may not poyson him though for present it bring his body to great inconveniences and make way for future diseases XXX Medicines cold in the first degree Also Physicians have allotted to cold medicines four degrees of coldnesse XXXI Amongst which those obtain the first degree which are but lightly and gently cold XXXII Nor perse although per accidens Yet because we live and are cherished by heat no cold thing is properly friendly to our natures XXXIII Their use is not onely to cool the heat of diet and bring it to a gratefull temper but also to represse the unbridled heat of the body as in internall inflammations feavers c. XXXIV In such occasions let such as are cold in the first degree be administred to Children and such as have weak natures as also such whose bodies are little distempered with heat XXXV Cold in the second degree Such bodies as are stronger or whose livers are hotter may use such things as are cold in the second degree XXXVI In the third If the body be very strong the stomach and liver very hot such with due moderation may use medicines cold in the third degree XXXVII In the fourth Such as are cold

CULPEPERS LAST LEGACY Left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publicke good BEING The Choicest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were lockt up in his Breast and resolved never to be publisht till after his Death CONTAINING Sundry admirable Experiences in severall Sciences more especially in Chyrurgery and Physick Viz. Compounding of Medicines Making of Waters Syrrups Oyles Electurries Conserves Salts Pils Purges and Trochischs With two particular Treatises the one of Feavers the other of Pestilence as also other rare and choice Aphorisms fitted to the understanding of the meanest Capacities Never publisht before in any of his other Works By NICHOLAS CULPEPER late Student in Astrology and Physick Printed for N. Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill 1655. Master Culpepers Wifes Accompt HAving in my Hands these my Husbands last experiences in Physick Chyrurgery c. composed out of his dayly practice which he laid a severe injunction on me to publish for the generall good after his decease therefore to stop the mouths of malicious Persons who may be apt to abuse and slander his labours and to discharge that duty and debt of gratitude due to his name from one so neerly related to him I do hereby testifie that the Copy of what is here printed is truly and really his owne and was delivered to my trust among his choicest secrets upon his death-bed and I do further approve the printing thereof and having viewed them see nothing in them but what is his own To the truth of all which I do here subscribe my hand A. Culpeper WORTHY READERS My Works have hither to been so well knowne unto you and have merited such just applause in the world though envyed by some illiterate Physitians that I am the more confident to goe on doing that good which you have received by my former Labours Viz. 1. Dispensatory 2. English Physitian 3. That incomparable peece of Semiotica Uranica enlarged 4. Catastrophe Magnatum 5. Directory for Midwifes c. This my last Peece the reserve of all the rest I had never thought to have published till now finding indisposition of body to be such as that I have no other way left to continue my owne fame and that happy gratitude which I owe to my Country but by publishing these my last Remaines which I have left to my d●●rest W●f● 〈◊〉 my Legacy being the choicest Secrets which I lockt up in my breast and never made knowne in any of my former Workes And now Reader to speak more fully in the praise of you be confident what thou hast here is what I have gained by my constant practice and by which I have obtained a continuall reputation in the World not doubting but you will receive that satisfaction and advantage which I was ever assured of my selfe and now if it shall please Heaven to put a Period to My Life and studies that I must bid all things under the Sun farewell farewell my dearest wife and Child farewell Arts and Sciences farewell all Worldly glories Adiu Readers Nicholas Culpeper CHAPTER I. Of HEAD-ACH in general with its several Names and Kinds Three sorts of pain in the head OF Head-aches or pains in the head simply there are three sorts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek in Latin Capitis dolor in English the Head-ach The second is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Cephalaia in English a continued or inveterate Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The third is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Hemicranium in English the Megrim The two former possesse the whole head the latter only the one halfe of it By head I meane in all this treatise onely the scalpe or so much onely of the Head as is covered with haire I question whether all internal pains in the head afflict the eyes but only such whose seat is near the optique nerves And here is pain ingendred sometimes without the scul sometimes within If it lie within the scull there is paine at the roots of the eyes by reason of the immediate influence from thence to the braine if without the scull there is no pain there The first sort of headach called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cometh of diverse causes as heat cold drinesse blood choler wind vapor from the stomack drunkennesse feavers each of which to discourse of will require a several Chapter Severall sorts of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 CHAPT II. Of the Headach 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming of heat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comming of heat BY Heat I mean only a hot distemper without any kind of moisture or humour It is caused for the most part by the vehement heat of the Sun note that it is extream hurtfull to the braine to stand bareheaded in the Sun The cause ☞ It is also caused by immoderate running jogging or moving especially to such as are not used to it though it be most perillous to those that are used to it it is caused also by being long near the fire through anger and furiousnesse and by hot diseases and smels of hot things The Signs of headach coming by heat are besides immoderate pain Signes you shall feele their Head burning hot when you touch it their skin dryer then it was wont to be their eyes looke red they sleep little or not at all and are delighted by sprinkling or anointing their head with cold things and find ease by it other causes may be known by the relation of the Patient Cautions for the sicke Let the air and Chamber where the sick abideth be cold by nature or else you must make it so by art as by keeping it continually washed by strewing there flowers and herbs and branches of trees that are of a cold nature Aire as Roses Violets Water-lillies Vine-leaves Bryer-boughs Willow boughs Endive Succory or the like also to poure water out of one Vessell into another near him to let him smell to Nose-gayes of cold flowers Great heed must be taken that the Patient sleep well Sleepe yea more than he usually was wont to do if he sleep not well as most labouring of this disease do not provoke him to sleepe with Diascordium if that will not doe use Laudanum two grains if that will not doe use three grains encreasing it till it come to six if he sleep not sooner let his Chamber be quiet free from noise and wrangling for that causeth perturbation of mind Let his meat be but little Meat and let that little be of good digestion as chickens birds that delight in Mountains and dry places rabbets c. let it be dressed with cold herbs as lettice endive purslain and verjuyce also Almond-milke Pomgranates Raisons of the Sun Drinke I doubt water is not so good in cold countries I think a cool julip were better and ripe Pears are wholsome for him but

the blood XI Amongst all the rest of the entrailes the Liver is most subject to obstructions XII Therefore such Medicines as hinder Obstructions or help them being made are appropriated to the Liver And they are such which cut and attenuate without vehement heat such as have both a clensing and a binding quality XIII Inflammations commonly follow obstructions and they require cooling things yet will not any cool thing serve the turne but such as are hepaticall XIV Take heed in the use of cool things that you extinguish not the faculty of concoction or so cool the Diaphragma which lies very neer that you hinder respiration CHAP. VI. Of Splenicalls I. THree excrements are especially beheld in the breeding of blood a watry humour cholar and melancholy II. The proper seat of Chollar is the Gall the watry humour goes to the Reines the thicker part of the blood the Spleen challengeth to its selfe III. This is either adust by too violent heat and then it is called Atra Bilis or thick and terrene of it selfe and that is properly called Melancholly IV. From hence now is the force and nature of Splenicall Medicines found out V. For Atra Bilis often produceth Madnesse and pure Melancholly * hardness Scirrhus and viciates the concoction of the Blood whence follows Dropsies and also breeds obstructions VI. Splenicals therefore are of two sorts some appropriated to Atra Bilis some to Melancholly for of purging I shal write nothing here but leave that to the last Chapter VII Atra Bilis is tempered by cooling and moistning yet is it not so hot that it should need things extremely cold VIII Such are those which we wrote of amongst the Cordialls that cause mirth by keeping Melancholly vapours from the heart IX Melancholly humour is removed by cutting and opening Medicines which differ from Hepaticks because they want adstriction for the Spleen seeing it wants concoction needs no adstriction X. Moreover the Spleen is not only obstructed by Melancholly humour but also made hard XI The cure of this is wrought by Emollients which must not be given inwardly lest they hinder the concoction of the Ventricle but applyed outwardly CHAP. VII Of Renalls and Vessicalls I. THat the watry humour may be separated from the blood nature hath added the Reins to the rest of the bowells II. Because a Man should do something else besides continually pisse the Bladder was added to containe the Urine III. Both of these are easily corrupted by the vices of the Urine IV. The Urine is stopped by Stones or Inflammations or gross humours therefore Medicines appropriated to the Reines and Bladder which are called Nephritica and Cystica and to be distinguished into three parts 1. Some cool 2. Some cut grosse humours 3. Others break the Stone V. The constitution of the Reines and Bladder is such that binding things are extream dangerous to them because they stop the Urine VI. Those Medicines are then proper to the Reins and Bladder which are lenitive cut and extenuate without violent heat VII Onely take this caution that seeing the Bladder is farther from the Centre of the body than the Reines it requires stronger Medicines lest their strength be consumed before they come at the grieved place CHAP. VIII Of Hystericalls I. TOuching provoking and stopping the termes shall be spoken hereafter in another Treatise II. The Womb thus resembles the Brain and Ventricle that it manifestly draws to Cephalicks and Aromaticks and flies from their contraries III. For this is confirmed by daily experience that in the fits of the Mother which is the Womb turned upwards stinking things applyed to the Nose and sweet things to the Matrix reduce it but sweet things applyed to the Nose and stinking things to the Matrixe produce it IV. In fallings out of the Womb we use the contrary V. This made some Sots ascribe the sence of smelling to the Womb whereas indeed and in truth that such things please the Brain and nervous parts is not because of their smelling but because they are friendly to it by their own substance VI. The Stomach is offended with stinking things and a man that hath no smell will vomit them up againe why because they are obnoxious to it VII So also the Womb is offended with stinking things not because it smells them but because they are adverse to its nature VIII For Smels are the judges of Medicines by which nature teacheth what is fit and convenient for it selfe IX So then those Medicines are hystericall which by binding stop the ternes or by inciding provoke them of which more hereafter or such as are gratefull to the Womb which are known by a sweet or aromaticall savour CHAP. IX Of Arthriticalls I. THe Joynts are most infested with capitall diseases and therefore cured with Cephalick Medicines II. The reason is soon given which is because they are of a nervous quality III. Those things are appropriated to the Joynts which have a drying and heating quality with a certaine light adstriction IV. Besides such things as are appropriated to the Joynts by a peculiar appropriation or astrall influence of which knot-Grasse is one and therefore by some called Joynt-wort V. Yet take notice of this that because the joynts are more remote from the Centre they require stronger Medicines than the brain doth VI. As to what belongeth to paines in the joynts this is the manner of proceeding VII Pain is either taken away or asswaged but its true cure is by taking away what causeth it VIII Yet sometimes so great is its fury that we must give Anodines before we can meddle with the cause and that especially when it causeth heat influxion of blood or inflammation IX Besides the Medicines which take away the cause of paine are very hot and therefore to be forborne in such cases X. Also the manner of easing paines is twofold for if you regard the pain it selfe use Anodines if the heat use refrigeratives XI Also take notice of thus much that flegm compacted in the joynts when it is teazed a little causeth pain and influxion XII Such Medicines as take away the cause of such paine are strong cutters and drawers which neither agree with Choller nor blood XIII When you perceive that there is attraction and discussion enough made so that the pain is ceased and the cause of it taken away use adstrictions to strengthen the joints that they may not easie recite more deflexions CHAP. X. Of Purges THis last Chapter I shall divide into these parts Of purging Med cines 1. Of their Election 2. Correction 3. Of the time of purging 4. Manner of purging 5. Part I. Of Purging Medicines I. PHysitians for want of other things to trouble their heads make a great business whether Purges work by a hidden or manifest quality whereas the Heavens teach me a better lesson II. These two questions are to be answered 1. What humour is to be evacuated 2. What medicine to do it by III. For as the

both let the strongest have light and keep ●●e weakest darkest Let his dearest friends come to him and let some speak friendly to him and let some of them speak harshly and roughly to him for there is no rule with such persons unlesse they stand in awe of some body If strength permit Bleeding let him bleed largely in the arme and two or three dayes after under the tongue Keep his body laxative Stool Force him to sleep with Opium Sleep if his body be strong you need not fear to give him four or five grains at a time also hang soporiferous things about his Head as Mandrakes Nightshade Poppy Henbane c. and anoint his head and temples with oyl of Poppy if he sleep not without these Let his drink be water Drink in which Cinamon hath been boiled Let his meat be exceeding little Meat and let that little be of very good and speedy digestion Also I have found by experience Cure Castoreum to be very medicinal for the Disease taken inwardly For other Medicines your best way is to labour to remove that Humour which causeth the Disease of which Medicines you may be furnished in the peculiar chapter belonging to the particular Humour CHAP. XV. Of the Lethargie IN direct opposition to a Frenzie Description is the Disease called a Lethargie which causeth sluggishnesse and an inexpugnable desire to sleep This word Lethargie is a Greek word compounded of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies forgetfulnesse and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies slothfull or dull and therefore in stead of Veternus the common Latine word it might be better or at least better in my opinion be called Oblivio iners a sluggish forgetfulnesse Names 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Subeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is affirmed by many good Phisicians that there is such a Disease as Coma Vigilans but as yet I never saw any possessed with it This sluggish Disease hath gotten many names it is called by some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Arabians Subeth of some Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say they is of two sorts Coma somnolentum or a sleepy Coma the other called Vigilans coma or a waking Coma because such as have Lethargies seem to be awake many times when they are not Many have thought these Diseases to be all different because different places have given it different names yet all confesse the cause of them all to be the same and then the difference can be onely in the Complexion of the party grieved It is caused of Flegm Cause which cooleth the Brain overmuch and moistneth it and thereby provoketh sleep They are alwayes in a profound and dead sleep Signes their Pulse is great and striketh seldom and beateth as though it were in water they fetch breath seldom and weakly and are so sluggish and sleepy that they can hardly be forced to answer to a question sometimes they will open their eyes if you cry aloud to them but they instantly shut them again they are exceeding forgetfull and alwayes talk idly in their sleep they gape and yawn often and sometime keep their mouth open as though they had forgot to shut it some are costive Cure others laxative their Urine is like Beasts Urine stinking some tremble and sweat all over Let the chamber wherein the Sick doth lye Aire be very light and very warm Let his Diet be such things as extenuate Diet. cut and dry and let it be seasoned with Anniseed Cummin-seed Pepper Cinamon Ginger Cloves c. For Pot-hearbs let him use Sparagus Parsley Fennel and such like and after eating binde the extream parts viz. the Thighs hard that the Vapours ascend not up into the Head You may burn Brimstone under his Nose Nassali● or assa foetida to awake him Give him strong Gargarisms Gargarisms made with Pellitory of Spain and Mustard also you may safely put a whole spoonfull of Mustard into his mouth at once Also you may boil Time Penny-royall and Origanum in Vinegar and dip a spunge in it and hold it alwayes to his Nose You may shave off his Hair and keep his Head alwayes moistned with Vinegar of Roses also it is excellent to let it drop down from some high place upon the crown of his Head Povoke him often to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing Also Clisters in this Disease you may safely administer sharp and scowring Clisters with Collocynthis Agrick Electuary Benedicia laxativa species hierae picrae and the like in the common decoction The Disease declining purge Flegm Castoreum is also exceeding medicinal for this Disease Purge either taken inwardly or applied outwardly CHAP. XVI Of Forgetfulnesse THe losse of Memory chanceth sometimes a-alone and sometimes Reason is hurt with it It is caused of Lethargies and other soporiferous Diseases Cause for they being ended many times leave Forgetfulnesse behind them and then it comes of a cold distemper This coldnesse hath sometimes drinesse joined with it and sometimes moisture and sometimes nothing but a bare distemper to know this you must diligently observe the causes whence it ariseth The causes are two internal external if they be internal either abundance of Flegm or Melancholy is the cause of it if there be no signs of these abounding then it comes of some external cause unlesse it come through extream old age The external causes you may know by the relation of the sick or those that are about him if any disease have newly passed and so turned into oblivion if medicines were applied outwardly on administred inwardly which extreamely cooled the brain or if it came of study watching c. If the memory be but a little hurt Signes it shews the braine to be but a little cooled if reason be also hurt then the disease is vehement If it come of a dry distemper the sick watcheth much and can hardly be brought to sleepe If moysture only offend then are they heavy inclined to sleep and their sleepes are long and troublesome If cold be joyned with the moysture it is a perfect Lethargy though perhaps but breeding and then the excrements are many at the mouth and nose proceeding from the braine If melancholy be the cause he will not be very desirous of sleepe nor voyd excrements from his brain besides all circumstances and the state of his whole body incline to cold and drinesse For to give a true judgment of a disease you must consider the complexion of the party the region that he lives in the times of the yeare the state of the aire and the diet he hath used Let his diet be different according to the cause of his disease as for example Diet. if it come of coldness let it be hot c. But what ever the cause be the aire must not be cold nor the roome darke

Caution nor any windowes open North or South for the one cooleth I should think the East were worst the other stuffeth the head If it come through age Physicke availes little If the memory fail suddenly either falling sicknesse or Apoplexy is following Prognostica for cure of which use such meanes of prevention as you shall be taught to cure them when they are come in their proper chapters If it come of other causes viz. of cold heat the braine of drinesse moysten the braine Things medicinall Cure are Castoreum Oleum de lateribus Rew Balme Betony Rosemary Marjoram Of Compound confectio anacardina Diamosebum dulce Diambra Mithridate Theriacha These not only remedy memory lost but helpe and mend it being dull CHAP. XVII Of Catalepsis Name● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 detentio occupatio congelatio Description 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is called in Lattin Occupatio detention and Deprebensio Moderne Writers call it Congelatio in English it is called congelation or taking and by the ignorant struck with a Planet It is a sudden detention and taking both of body and mind both sense moving being lost the sick remaining in the same figure of body wherein he was taken whether he sit only or whether his mouth and eyes were open or shut as they are taken in the disease so they remaine This disease is a meane between a Lethargy and a frenzie Cause for it commeth of a melancholly humour Therefore in respect of coldnesse it agreeth with a Lethargy and in respect of drinesse with a frenzy and the effects are in a medium between them both Sometimes abundance of blood is joyned with the melancholly humour and sometimes only pure melancholly both invade the hinder part of the braine They that are taken with this disease are alwaies taken sudddenly Signes both speech and sense are taken from him he neither speaketh nor heareth his breath scarcely to be perceived he lies like a dead man his pulse is small weake and very thicke his egestion and urine are either very little or none at all which seemes to proceed from want of sense for the sick abounds most commowly with moysture For melancholly is an humour dry in operation ☜ not in quality Their face is sometimes red and that is when blood is mingled with the melancholy and sometimes swarth and then pure melancholly oppresseth the eyes in this disease remaine immoveable as though they were frozen The diet is different according to the cause Diet. only in generall let him avoyd all such meates and drinkes as send vapours up into the head also water is hurtfull be cause it swelleth the spleene Barly water wherein Cinnamon hath been boyled is good If blood abound and strength and yeares permit Bleeding let him blood in the Cephalique of the arme as much as strength will permit If melancholly abound Clisters cleanse the gutts with clysters made of things proper for melancholly such be borrage buglosse fumitory time epithimum polipodium ☜ senna cassia fistula confectio Hamech c. If the head be hot coole it with oyle of fleabane Refrigeration if too cold heat it with oyle of vervaine Black hellebore corrected with Cinnamon is very medicinall so is mother of time Cure If trembling accompany the disease give Castoreum As for other remedies you may find them in the chapters of frenzie and lethargy before and in the Chapter of melancholy which is to follow after CHAP. XVIII Of the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke and Latin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is also called an Apoplexy in English and is a disease wherein the fountaine and originall of all the sinewes is affected Definition and so every part of the body doth suddainly lose sense and motion throughout the whole body If this stopping come only in one halfe of the body Cause it is called the Palley of which hereafter The Apoplexie is caused by a grosse tough and clammy humour ingendred for the most part by drunkennesse which being crude fills the principal ventricles of the braine It is caused also by a fall or a blow which bruiseth and shaketh the braine and causeth the humours to ☞ flow thither Also those that are brought up in hot countries when they come to live in cold countries many times the cold only congealeth the humours and causeth the disease There goeth before this disease a sharpe paine in the head Signes a swelling of the veins in the neck the vertigo and brightnesse before the eyes coldnesse of the extreame parts without cause known panting of the whole body slownesse to move and gnawing of the teeth while they sleepe their urine is little in quantity and black like rust or canker of mettall and hath a residence like meal they lack sense altogether and lie with their eyes shut as though they were asleep and snort The vehemency of this disease may be known by their impediments in breathing if their breathing differ but little from another mans that is in health it shewes the disease is but weake but when they can hardly be perceived to breath at all it is the strongest Apoplexie and little better is theirs where the breath seemes to be stopped for a while and then fet with great violence This disease happens most frequently to aged people flegmaticke folke and to such as use such diet as encreaseth ☜ flegme This disease is seldome cured and seldomer but it leaves the dead palsey behind it and then it is but halfe cured ☜ A strong Apoplexie for the most part kills a man in 24 hours many times in halfe the time ☜ Bleeding is a desperate physicke for an Apoplexie well befitting such a desperate disease for it kills or cares quickly ☜ Provoke him to stoole with mighty sharpe and strong clysters Stoole Bind the thighes hard and rub them vehemently Ligaments You may shave the head and bath it with oyle of Rew Camomel or Dill. Vnction You may fasten Cupping-glasses good store to the shoulders Cupping You may burne stinking things under his nose as Ca●●oreum Assa Foetida Saga-penum Galbanum Nasalia You may provoke him to sneeze with white Hellebore Sneezing You may apply Castoreum and Euphorbium with vinegar to his head Cucufa Vomit You may provoke him to vomit with turbith minerale ☞ mercurius vitae or lac sulphuris which is the best medicine I know Lacsulphuris I take it doth not procure vomit but is diaphoretical Thus much for the cure of an Apoplexie if it may be cured CHAP. XIX Of the dead Palsey in one side 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Resolutio in English the dead palsey 't is a disease wherein the one halfe of the body either the right side or the left doth lose either sense or moving Definition or both

either totally or partially But note here that the palsey that followeth the Apoplexie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is properly and particularly called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the palsey sometimes sesne only is lost and not moving sometimes moving and not sense and sometimes both sense and moving yet the Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly loss of motion A word to satisfie the curious Quest that may aske why sometimes sense only and sometimes motion only should be lost You must note that the faculty of motion Answ as well as that of sense flowes from the brain as from the fountaine and is derived from thence by the nerves to the instruments of sense and motion and so either sense or motion is lost according as the sinews that convey sense or motion are affected in the disease therefore it being considered that divers members participate in two kinds of sinews the one for sense the other for motion I doe not yet understand this the doubt is easily cleered One sinew may be hurt and motion is lost the other may be hurt and that fare then sense is lost and motion remains both are hurt and then farewell pro tempore sense and motion If members participate but of one sinew as few do perhaps none yet Gallen saith some do and at present I cannot contradict him I rather adhear to this judgment lesse vertue is required for feeling then for motion saith he and so if the sinew be much hurt sense and motion are both lost if it be but little hurt onely motion is lost The matter indeed is scarce worth disputing for or writing of and therefore I proceed The Original of this disease lies sometimes in the Brain Description and sometimes in the marrow of the backe If the disease lie in the back as but seldome it doth then is the face firme and then sometimes halfe sometimes the whole body is paralitick according as the halfe or whole marrow of the backe is vitiated If it come from the Brain it lies only in some particular Pellicles thereof for if the whole Brain be vitiated it is an Apoplexy These things being first duly considered we come to the cause It is caused through vehement and inordinate cold Cause or through grosse and clammy Humours that stop the passages that the animal vertue cannot passe freely from the Centre to the Circumference If it come from the back it is caused through Inflamation or hard swelling without sense called Schirrus hapning at the backe bone or nigh to it or other siinewy part dependant thereon whereby the sinews are pressed together and so stopped that the animal vertue cannot passe It may happen by ablow or wound The Disease is so apparent that it needs no Signs The Palsey is no acute o● sharpe Disease Prognostica and for the most part is curable ☞ It chanceth for the most part to ancient people and beginneth commonly in the Winter time If the Palsey come by a cut or wound it is incurable and very difficult if the Paralitique members wane or wan lesse and lesse for then it sheweth the parts to want spirit naturall as well as animal Let his Diet be extenuating and drying Diet. let his Meat be easie of digestion and roasted viz. Birds that frequent dry grounds Almonds Raisons of the Sun Pine Nuts For Pot-herbs Herbs let him use Fennel Pursley Hisop Marjoram Sage and Savory Let him eschew Water-fowl Caution Fish and all other meats that are cold and moist and flegmaticke Let the Aire he abides in be hot and dry Aire if not make it so by Art Let him drinke no Wine but Hippocras Drink and let him use Cinnamon in all his drink or broth It is good for him to indure as much thirst as he can Let his sleeps be but mean Sl●epe and let him not sleep at all in the day Let him use as much exercise as well he can Exercise Let him be merry and cheerfull Mirth and fly anger vexation and other perturbations of the mind If there be signes of Plenitude Bleeding you may draw out blood moderately for feare of over-cooling of the sound side else forbear If he have not a Stool once a day Clisters provoke him with a Clister Acetum Scilliticum Cure or Vinegar of Squils taken two spoonfuls every morning fasting is a soveraign medicine So is also Castoreum Sneezing If it lie in the Brain sneezing is good which you may provoke with white Hellebore but let it be in the Evening the party in bed and their head wrapped warm for fear of after-claps Unction Also use Unctions to the nape of the necke for their the marrow of the hacke hath its passage to the Brain use first weak ones such as Oyle Chamomel More properly the Brain hath its passage to the spinalis medulla Bath Dill St Johns Wort or Earthworms Then after some dayes such as are stronger as Oyle of Bricks or Tile-stones Castoreum and Euphorbium Wherewith you may anoint all the paralitique members wrapping them up hot afterwards in a Fox skin Also you may make a Bath with St Johns Wort Rosemary Staechas Sage Marjoram and Camomel boyled in Water wherewith you may bath the paralique members before you anoint them Ceratum Also this Cerecloth is excellent to apply to the paralitique members Take of Oyle ii ℥ Oyle of Pepper i. ℥ ss Oyle of Euphorbium ii ʒ Aqua vitae ii ℥ ss juyce of sage Marjoram or cowslops of each ii ℥ ss Galanga iii. ʒ Pellitory of the wall and pepper of each a dram Staechas and Rosemary of each ii ʒ Euphorbiumʒ ss boyle it till the Aqua vitae be consumed then strain it and put wax enough to it to make a Cerecloth Also you may make a quilt for his head with Hysop Cucufa Marjoram St Johns Wort Sage Rew Bay-leaves of each ii ʒ Spikenard Mastich Castoreum and Staechas of each ii ℈ Cloves Mace Nutmegs of each i. ℈ red-rose-leaves well dryed halfe a handfull make of them a quilt as you are taught Chapter 3. Use these medicines to the head if the disease lie there to the nape of the necke and the back bone if the disease lie there CHAP. XX. Of the Palsey in one Member ALthough any expert man may draw out of what hath beene written before the cure of the resolution of any member the radix being the same yet to satisfie the unskilfull I thought good to write a line or two If any member be paralitique search from what root the sinews come that supply that member and mend it there at the root with the former medicines There is also a kind of Palsey called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latin Tortura oris in English wrinesse of the mouth this you may cure also by the aforesaid medicines

regard the Patients strength his naturall temper the time of the yeare age and usuall custome of the sicke and accordingly order your Physick If the natural temper of the body be cholericke you must feed them with meat at the beginning of the fit ●●●tio● for it is very subject if the body be kept fasting to turn to an acute rotten Feaver See the body be kept laxative Stoole if he go not naturally to stoole provoke him with an emollient Clister Finally Bath so soon as the fit begins to wane bath him in a warm bath made with sweet hearbs boyled in water for that will open the pores and let out the vapours CHAP. IIII. Of Synochus non pistrida being a Feaver which lasteth three or four dayes THis Feaver is caused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quid either because the small pores of the skin are stopped Cause or because the body it selfe is moderately thickned through cold or after bathing or by sharpe binding medicines heat of the Sun or any other thing that dries the skin It may be thus knowne First by touching Signs for the skin is harder and more compact then it was wont to be Secondly by the heat which at first seemes gentle and easie but after you have held your a hand while you shall feel it sharper Thirdly the Unine is not much altered from its naturall substance and colour for this disease lies in the spirits not in the blood Fourthly the body fals not away but their eyes are swollen and fuller of moisture then usually Fifthly the pulse is equall swift vehement and frequent Cure Bleeding For cure of this disease you may safely draw out so much blood as age strength and the season of the year permit After bleeding use things that clense and scowr Abstergents such are Oximel Hysop Origanum Smallage and observe whether the heat abate by this diet ☜ For if by the third day you find little heat left Bath you may safely bath him with such things as are scouring such be Orris and Aristolochia roots Smallage salt-peeter boyled in water and honey But if the Feaver then increase or on the fourth day then either you were mistaken at first in the disease or else the Feaver is altered and some humour putrified CHAP. V. Of a rotten Feaver called Synochus putrida Synochus putrida quid SYnochus putrida is a Feaver which holds from the beginning to the ending without any great mutation or sensible change and may well be called a constant or stable Feaver Of this are three sorts I described them in the second Chapter This Feaver is caused by the rotting of all the humours equally within the Vessels Cause and especially in the great Vessels about the arm-holes and share and this chanceth when fervent heat is kept in by violent binding and stopping which is within the body for when heat and moist things cannot breath out they putrifie and rot presently Therefore this feaver is seldome ingendred in thin spare folke nor in cold bodies nor old age but in such as abound in blood of grosse fat or fleshy bodies or stuffed with hot excrements This is properly known from Synochus non putrida Signes because there are signes of rottennesse in the Urine and the pulse of a man sicke of this but not so in the former The other signes all agree with the former The Cure of this feaver ‑ must begin with blood-letting Cure Bleeding and that in the beginning of the disease if you can Cold drinke is most perilous in this disease Caution first because it causeth obstructions and hindreth the attenuation of the clammy humours Secondly cold drinkes hurt weake members some by drinking cold drinke in this feaver have gotten such sore throats that they could not swallow in some the Stomacke is hurt that they could not digest in some the Bladder generally that part that is weakest is most subject to hurt and being hurt cannot performe its proper office But blood-letting you may use at any time if strength permit provided it be not upon a full stomacke Such as have this feaver have alwayes loosnesse and sometimes vomit up Choler Let his drinke be barly water Diake sweetned with syrrup of Violets and a little Oyle of Vitrioll to make it tart Let his diet be light of digestion Meat and let him eat it at his usuall times of eating for then it will digest best Also Oranges Lemmons Oxymel and Verjuyce are medicinall for him CHAP. VI. Of continual Feavers called by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke is a continuall feaver that hath some certaine slacking betweene the fits 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet no absolute intermission till the end of it and by this only it is knowne from Agues or intermitting feavers therefore I shall omit the signes till then Cause This feaver is caused by rotting of one particular humour only within the Vessels I shewed it in the first and second Chapters I remit you to that I shall only treat of that which is called of the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it selfe in the next Chapter for that is the most dangerous and wind up the rest together in this A Compendium of the cure of Feavers In the generall cure of feavers of this sort these things must be considered First the Feaver Secondly the rottennesse In the Feaver In the feaver two things must also be considered First How that part which is already kindled and inflamed may be remedied 2 How that which is not kindled may be letted and hindred from inflammation Also two things must be considered touching the rottennesse or putrification In the rottennesse First how the humours already putrified may be healed Secondly how those that are not putrified may be kept from putrefaction Heac qui non animadvertit errabit nimis In the begining of the feaver if strength and age permit Bleeding let blood for that lets out the inflamed blood and cooles the rest Obstructions The body thus cooled you must cure the obstructions and that without heating the Patient lest you increase the feaver and cause more putrefaction This is best done by Clysters Clysters and sweates for Clysters take only the common decoction with Molossus Sweats and Diacatholicon For sweates you may use either Venire treacle Matthiolus his great antidote Serpentary roots Electuarium de ovo Consideratis considerandis To stop and hinder the humours not inflamed from inflaming use cooling juleps made with barly water Harts-horne Ivory Scorzonera roots Zedoary c. Syrupe of Violets c. To prevent putrefaction avoyd all meats I mean flesh and all broths of flesh To bring away humours already putrified boyle a white Lilly roote in White-wine and let him drinke it For outward medicines Vine branches Water Lillies Lecalia Endive Succory Wood-sorrel Sorrel Lettuce Knot-grasse Vinegar these

handfulls of Cummin-seed very well and boyle it in a pottle of white-Wine to a quart and drink a good draught of it morning and evening and in a fortnight it will help him 158. Put the feet of a hen in hot embers till the skales come off Pet. Hisp then rub your warts with those skales and they will be gone 159. Beat a pound or two of Hemp-seed very well then moysten it with a little wine and set it over the fire in an earthen pan well glassed till it be so hot you cannot endure your hand in it then put it into square baggs and presse the oyle out It is a very precious oyle for taken inwardly it makes men pleasant and merry valiant and hardy fierce to fight voyd of fear Outwardly by unction it giveth a comely face 160. A pint of Aqua Composita a Bullocks gall and an ounce of Pepper beaten very small and all boyled to a save cures any Sciatica ach or gout being applyed to it and changed once in twelve hours 161. Both Agrimony and Purslain are such enemies to warts Pet Hisp that they will go away if they be rubbed with the juyce of either of them 162. For Cods that be swolne without any rupture this do Take of Cummin seed in powder barly-meal and honey of each alike quantity fry them together with a little sheep suet and apply it to the Gods 163. For sore and swelled throats first rub your hand upon the bare ground and then presently rub the throat with it do so often times and you shall quickly perceive both sorenesse and swelling will quickly go away 164. Posset and curd is an admirable thing to ripen any boyle carbuncle or felon and when it is ripe there is nothing better to break it then unslaked lime mixed with black sope 165. Fill an Egg-shell newly emptied with juyce of Howseleek set it in the hot embers and take the scum from it then strain it and you have an excellent remedy for hot burning pricking eyes 166. Agrimony Bettony Sage Plantane Ivy-leaves and Rose-parsley boyled in Wine and the decoction drunk is a notable remedy for such as are bruised by falling 167. If you burn Turpentine upon a hot plate of Iron and give two drams of it at a time Em. Ben. Vict. Faventin in powder in Saxifrage water it will break the stone in the bladder also by taking it once or twice a week it keeps such safe from the stone as are subject to breed it 168. Lavender boyled in water and halfe a pint of the decoction drunk morning and evening helps such as have the palsey 169. Take a pint of Aqua Composita and put a handfull of Ivy-leaves into it and stop it close and they will consume in it two or three spoonfuls of it taken at a time is a most excellent remedy for the Strangury 170. Take a pound of black sope a pint of Sallet oyle halfe a pint of Aqua vitae a quarter of a pint of juyce of Rew boyled together till it be thick makes an admirable plaister for the Sciatica remove it not in two or three dayes 171. Take of the wood of Ivy cut it in little peices of Ivy-berries and the gum of Ivy of each a like weight let the wood be dryed then put it in a pot that hath two or three little holes in the bottom Rogeriu● Euonimus then set another potup to the brim in the earth and put the bottom of the first pot into the mouth of the last luting it round with past so that the uppermost pot that holds the ingredients may be all above the Earth then make a fire round about it and there will a black oyle distill into the neither Vessell very soveraigne for old aches and pains comming of a cold cause 172. Empty an Egge of all the white and fill up the voyd place of the shell with the juyce of flower-deluce then warme it a little in the hot embers and give it every morning to one that hath the Dropsey and it makes them avoyd the Hydropicall humour downwards 173. An admirable medicine to stop fluxes of blood in any part of the body the menstruis in women Galen any aches impediments in the back and liver it allayes the heat in Feavers and causeth sleep Take Cinnamon Cassia Lignia Opium of each two drams mirrh white and long pepper of each one dram Galbanum one dram all being beaten into powder that can be beaten make it into a masse with clarified honey and let the party diseased as before take two pills of it no bigger then a pease at night going to bed 174. Take the quantity of an Almond of a Buls gall and mix it with two or three spoonfuls of wine Wicker and let a woman that hath a dead child in her body drink it and she shall instantly be delivered 175. An excellent oyle for old wounds sores Issues Vlcers Apsius quoted by George Baker Aches paines in the back Hemorrods Gout c. Take of old white-Wine a quart old oyle three pints Carduus benedictus Valerian sage with the flowers if you can get it of each a quarter of a pound of the leaves and flowers of St Johns wort halfe a pound let the hearbs and flowers be infused in the oyle and wine four and twenty hours then boyle it in an earthen vessell well glassed or a brasse Vessell till the wine be consumed stirring it now and then for feare of burning then take it off and strain it and adde to it a pound and an halfe of Venice turpentine and boyle it again a quarter of an hour then adde to it Olibanum five ounces Myrrh three ounces Sanguis draconis one ounce let it boyle a little till the Myrrh be dissolved then take it off and when it is cold put it in a glasse stop it close and let it stand in the sunne ten dayes before you use it 176. The body of a Birch tree Mathiolus Dioscorides cut down in the spring time and laid in the fire doth yeild great store of water which water being drunke is of wonderfull force to breake the stone in the Reins 177. The smell of Bitumen Rew Mizaldus Monardus or the smoak of it burning is of wonderfull force against the fits of the Mother 178. The leaves and Barke of a Willow tree sod in Wine doth case the gout being bathed with it 179. A Diamond held to the head that akes Hollerius quite takes away the pains thereof 180. Peices of Amber tyed to the nape of the neck Mizaldus helps the watring of the eyes 181. The same hung about the neck helps distillations of the throat Mizaldus 182. Letharge of Silver boyled in Vinegar and the skin washed with it Mizaldus makes it exceeding white 183. If any great Beasts as Horses Kine c. be lame mark where the lame or swelled foot doth stand and cut up a turfe where the foot