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A89300	The expert doctors dispensatory. The whole art of physick restored to practice. The apothecaries shop, and chyrurgions closet open'd; wherein all safe and honest practices are maintained, and dangerous mistakes discovered; and what out of subtilty for their own profits they have indeavoured to reserve to themselves, now at last impartially divulged and made common. Together with a strict survey of the dispensatories of the most renowned colledges of the world ... Containing, ... the Latine names of all simples and compounds English'd. ... the vertues, qualities, properties, quantities, and uses of all simples and componnds [sic]. ...the way of prescribing remedies; ... the nature, qualities, and symptomes of all diseases ... cautions for the applying all both internal and external medicines. To which is added by Jacob a Brunn ... a compendium of the body of physick; wherein all the medicaments vniversal and particular, simple and compound, are fitted to the practice of physick; and these forms of remedies now before prescribed by the famous P. Morellus, ...; Methodus praescribendi formulas remediorum elegantissima. English	Morel, Pierre.; Brunn, Johannes Jacobus, 1591-1660. Systema materiae medicae. English.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2719; Thomason E1565_1; ESTC R18363	229,604	518

chiefly prescribed to dissolve from whence they are usually called discussing baggs of which hereafter CHAP. IV. Of the petty Bath THis is between a Bath and Fomentation larger than this lesser than that whose use it when a fomentation cannot cover the whole part from which it doth not differ otherwise either in matter or utility so that it is a half bath in which the sick set from their thighs their knees and leggs being lifted up Or else from the bottom of their feet up to their Navel or stomack from whence the Greeks and Latines cal it by names that signifie a setting in and if the incession be in an open stool they cal it a Vaporary which is chiefly dedicated to the affections of the lower parts of the belly and is called a SEMIOVPE or half bath because it is not a whole Bath but a bathing tub onely half ful and is COMPOVNDED of the same things a Fomentation is to double the quantity of the Apozem or to half the quantity of a bath so that there is nothing else worth marking The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a Decoction for a half bath in which let the sick set from the feet to the Navel morning and evening long from meat having first had a stool to be continued three or four dayes according as there is need warm without sweating let him stay in it about two hours the moisture being vviped off let him rest in his bed the place affected being anointed if you wil with a fit Liniment Note that in the affections of the Anus Womb and bladder chiefly the matter of the half bath may be applyed to the part affected in a bagg on which let him set The UTILITY is the same with the Fomentation but chiefly to be used in affections of the parts contained in the belly or lower region when for divers reasons we dare not bath the whole body and is most commonly to ease pain which is most usual in nephritical affections made of convenient mollifiers to help the Hemorrhoids sweld with pain the difficulty of Urine also for the paines of the leggs hips of things that mollifie ease pain in affections of the bladder and difficulty of making water 't is most admirable as also in mending the affections and distempers of the Womb either provoking or stopping the courses in all affections of the Anus to mollifie the Belly ease paines of the colick c. A VAPORARY which otherwise is called a setting over is prepared when they set not in the Liquor but the VAPOVR from whence it is called a Vaporary or suffumigation is received through a hollow stool with a hole cut in the seat setting a pot ful of the hot decoction underneath which being cold another is set hot in the place The MATTER and dose of it for the decoction is as in the fomentation to be prescribed in the quantity of a Clyster or something greater The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a decoction the steam of which let him receive thorow a hollow stool a pot being set under of the hot decoction c. The UTILITY it is used only for affections of the Womb and Anus for paine and divers distempers Hemorrhoids to provoke the courses they may also be prescribed for divers defects of the bladder See the moist Suffumigation CHAP. V. Of a Bath IT was most usual of old among the Romans for pleasure but now a dayes only used for the recovery of health and resisting of diseases what it is is manifest but it is two-fold the Aery Bath which they call a hot house of which hereafter and the watrish Bath when the parties setting in a tub are washed and this is called a Bath viz. the washing of the whole body for the most part for hot and dry distempers of the whole body seldom for cold ones for which purpose the Stove is most convenient And it is two-fold simple and compound The simple is usually only water a little warmed chiefly in Hecticks where there are lean and dry bodies which this tempers by its gentle moisture and with it also alters the distemper to this also is sometimes added Oyl Butter or Milk to moisten the more as also in the pain of the Kidnies and Convulsion or else of Milk only for the richer sort of people to the same purpose or Milk and water or oyl alone in paines of the sinewy parts and Reins convulsion through drought pricking and stitches suppression of Urine c. or water and Oyl to the same end The Compound is made of a decoction in which are to be considered the matter liquor and sometimes the things to be dissolved in it The MATTER in relation to its quality and quantity are Roots from three lib. to 5 or 6 at most Herbs in number 10 or 12 of each M. 3 4 or of 6 7 or 8 of each a bundle seeds from 4 ounces to one pound sometimes Fruits to a pound and a half Flowers 4 c. ana P. 4 c. The Liquor as to quality and quantity is sweet or fair water q. s for a bath Sometimes there are dissolved or added to the decoction and that profitably to the various scope of the indications those things mentioned in the Fomentation in a three or 4 fold proportion so usually for the Hectical is added oyl and butter ana lib 3. white Wine lib. 4. as also sometimes at the latter end of the Dec●ction in cold affections in which a bath is very rare The VSE and FORM ℞ c. Make a Decoction for a bath which let him enter into morning and evening when the meat is gone out of the stomack or else when need requires as in paines having first been at stool warm without sweating let him continue in it from one to two hours according to his strength then after his egress from the Bath wipe off the moisture anoint the region of the Liver Reins with a cooling Oyntment which is usually prescribed The UTILITY is for outward affections of the skin as the scabbiness drought and 〈◊〉 of it c. as also for internal affections and especially a bath of fair water most convenient for the Hectical and lean people because it moisteneth and withal mends the hot distemper they are also convenient in the diary Fevers as was generally the practise of Galen for it relaxeth and openeth the pores by which that which is offensive may be easily excluded and are also good for the heat of the Liver and every distemper but especially the hot onely the moist one is usually remedied and better by the hot house as also the cold one which fitly resists the morbifical cause They are also made to heat and strengthen as generally to help Conception of Hysterical simples to procure the menses of opening mollifying simples appropriated to the Womb against obstructions of the bowels Dropsie Cholick Stone in the Kidnies weariness of relax ingmollifying things Lastly in every affection

Stavesacre Treacle-mustard Sesely Silvermontan Fruits Figs Raisins bitter Almonds Juniper berries Bay-berries Gums Mastick Ammoniack Myrrh Animal things Castor These Simples as to their use are either chewed as is usually the roots of Pellitory of Spain steeped all night in Vinegar to ℥ i. or else a powder made of the aforesaid things to ʒ iii. or ℥ s is taken with s q. of wax and made up into Troschischs as big as Lupines one of which is chewed in the mouth and so rolled up and down a reasonable while Opthalmicks or Eye-Medicines called by by the Latines and Greeks Opthalmica THey are called so in general which are used to heal diverse affections of the Eyes and are divided chiefly into three Classes The first contains the Oxidorcicks or Medicines that sharpen the sight The second contains those Medicaments that are for the inflāmation of them either in the beginning as Repellers and Anodynes or easers of pain or else in the state and declination as Digesters or Discussers the third includes the Cleansers that are used in the Ulcers Spots Suffusions and such like affections of the Eyes Oxidorcicks or Sharpners of the Sight Internal Roots Of Fennel Celendine the greater Avens Valerian Leaves Of Eye-bright Celendine Fumitory Fennel Vervain Rue Clary Seeds Silvermountain seed Rape seed Radish seed Fennel Carraway seed Clarified Juices Of Fennel Vervain Eyebright Marjoram Rue Distilled Waters Of Eyebright Vervain Celandine Fennel Rue Wine Of Eyebright On the contrary these hurt the Sight Radishes Garlick Onions Mustard and Cresses Externall Oxidorcicks or Quickeners of Sight Water of Hony if the dimnesse proceed from the thicknesse of the tunicles distilled Waters of the aforesaid sight-sharpning simples mixt together adding Gall and the Urine of a Boy under age white Wine and Hony Antimony to ʒ i. infused in ℥ iv of Water The Juices aforesaid dropped into the Eye the Juice of Rocket and of flowring Willow that which drops out at a cut in the Bark Anodynes or Easers of Pain Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort of white Poppy seeds where you would also Lenifie of Quince seed where you would also bind Waters Of Roses of pickings of Roses of Plantain Nightshade Housleek Purslain Womens milk white of an Egg beaten with water Sweet Apples roasted under the Embers or boiled in Milk juice of Apples Crums of Bread steeped and boiled in Milk adding a little Saffron to gr iv or v. White Troschises of Rhazis where there is great pain And in vehement pain Opium to gr ii in liquid Colliriums Repellers Waters Of Roses Mirtles Plantains Violets Purslain Nightshade Juices O● Quinces sowr Apples Pomegranates white of an Egg. Muscilage Of Quince seed pulp of Quinces boiled in some binding Water as in the Water of stalks or pickings of Roses Discussers Decoctions Of Fenngreek Camomile Melilot Fomentations and Vapors Of the same things together with the Oxidorcicks before named Waters Of Eyebright Aqua vitae ¶ Of Fennel Celendine Rue with a little white Vitriol or salt peeter in it Animals their parts and Excrements Womans milk the blood of Pigeons and turtle Doves the feathers of young Pigeons that are full of blood drawn forth and pressed into the Eyes the gall of Fishes Gums Sarcocal fed with milk Rosins Myrrh and Frankincense Juices Aloes Verjuice where there is also a burning joined with the others And lastly Saffron Cleansers Some are gentle without biting the use of which is in the declination of Inflammations as Sugar-candy Hony juice of red Roses Antimony washed Cadmia Pompholix or white Tutty gray Tutty Skuttle-bone Pumice-stone Lead burnt and washt Others are stronger and joined with a biting the Vse of which is chiefly in Suffusions Skins and sometimes in Ulcers as gals of Fishes which are the gentler of four-footed Beasts which are moderate and of Birds which are the strongest to which add the gall of Vipers and Serpents Note that the gall of Partridges is the strongest of all and that of Hens is the gentlest Juices Of Fennel Quinces Celendine blew flowred Pimpernel Urine water of Hony compounded with the Oxidorcicks Others are the strongest of all as Vitriol burnt Verdigrease white Vitriol a liquor of which made with the whites of Eggs is excellent in the inflammation Itch and rednesse of the Eyes crude Antimony Oticks or Ear-Medicines by the Latines Auricularia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THese are Remedies that help the Hearing and are two-fold Internal and External The Internal are the Cephalical Medicines before rehearsed which alter consume or discusse the Humor contained in the inward cavity of the Ear whether they be hot if the Malady come from cold and grosse Humors or cold if the cause of the Deafnesse proceeds from hot Humors which useth to happen in acute Diseases after the Crisis the matter of the Disease being sent to the Ears External also are two-fold Hot and Cold. The Hot are these following Waters Aqua vitae simple or compounded with some of the other Cephalical things made in white Wine this cuts cleanseth digests any slimy Humor And to this purpose there are infused the roots of Radish Leeks Onions Sowbread white Hellebore Castor Saffron salt Peeter Cows gall besides the Cephalical things ¶ Crato commends Carduus benedictus infused in Spirit of Wine and then distilled for a singular Experiment See Crato Ep. 59. Decoctions made of the same things in Aqua vitae simple Vinegar or Vinegar of squils Juices Of Onions Leeks Radishes Rue Ash Common Oyls As of bitter Almonds Spikenard Distilled Oyls These following besides the Cephalical Oyls aforesaid of Sage Rue Cummin seed Carraways Fennel seed Bay berries Spike Animols The fat of an Eele that drops from it whilest it is roasting dropped into the Ear for is mollifies and relaxeth by reason of its fat substance attenuates and discusseth partly by the quality it obtains from the fire but chiefly by that it gets from Bay leaves wherewith it should be stuck full when it is laid down ¶ To these may be added the fat of an Hedgehog prepared after the same manner and Woodlice which some call Monks pease others Cheeslogs powdered and mixed with somu auricular Oyl and dropped into the Ear. Suffumigations made of the like things as are before spoken of Musk wrapped up in wool or cotten and put into the Ear. ¶ Civet is much more forcible especially if you add to it a drop or two of Oyl of Cinamon or Cloves The Cold are these Oyls Of Water-lillies Roses Violets Womens milk warm from the brest Juice or liquor of Vines which distils from the branches cut in the Spring Decoctions of Cooling things as Roses Mallows Violets Willow Lettuce Water-lillies ¶ Plantain Endive Straw-berries Purslain Odonticks or Teeth-Medicines THey are so called that strengthen the Teeth and by cleansing them from the filth whiten them these are a fit matter for Dentifrices and they are these following Of Plants the stalks of Burnet Pellitory of the wall

Cinamon bay and juniper berries eaten every other day before the time of lying in the after-birth of an Ewe dryed and given in powder Juyce of Scordium given to ℥ ss with Saffron to provoke the birth Minerals Native Borax is excellent to provoke the birth given to ℈ i. in liquor Waters of the aforesaid herbs which are usuall in the shops Briony water compound Syrups of Mugwort horehound Bettony ¶ Of the juyce of St. Johns wort of Mercury of the juyce of Scordium Distilled oyles of Castor Savin Cinamon myrrh ¶ Amb●r Mugwort Rue Turpentine Sulphur Trosc●iscks of Myrrh to ʒ i. in the forme of pils ¶ Troschischi Hysterici Externall things Oyles of Lillies Chamomill Wall flowres Stones The stone Aetites tyed to the thigh provokes the birth so doth a Loadstone held in the left hand The Gall of an Oxe pulp or powder of a wild Cowcumber and Coloquintis in Pessaries Animals Thee hoofe of an Asse fumed provokes the birth and afterbirth Stoppers of the Courses BEcause these are very near the same with the binders expounded above in the first Book Part. 1. Sect. 3. therefore the matter for such medicines is to be sought in the Table of Astringents or Binders Strengtheners of the Wombe Rootes of Snakeweed Calamus Aromaticus Costus Cyperus Galingall Leaves of Bettony Marjerome Sage which two are eminent Rosemary Baume Nigella Flowres of Marjerome Rosemary Sage Fruites Juniper Berries Bay Berries Animal excrements Musk Civet Ivory Sea things Amber Corall Ambergreece Mother of pearle Rosins Storax Benzoin Frankincense Mastick Spices Nutmegs Cloves Mace Spikenard lignum Aloes Waters of Bettony Marjerom Baume Sage Syrups of Bettony Baulme Oyles of Amber Cloves Mace Nutmeg Condites Acorus condited Walnuts and Nutmegs preserved Myrobalans and Satirion roots condited Opiates Triphera magna both with and without Opium Treacle Methridate ¶ Diascordium Alchermes Diacinnomomum Tripheia masor Species Aromaticum rosatum Diambra Diamoscum ¶ Species diacurcuma Dialacca Diagalanga Diacalaminth Dianisum Externall things Oyles of Nutmeg by expression of Nard of myrtles ¶ Oyle of Costus Mints Mastick Quinces Castor of St. Johns wort Moschaeleum Oyntments Vnguentum comitissae Martiatum Mastichinum Sumach Plasters Promatrice ad herniam of mastick ¶ Cerecloath of Galbanum Emplast Caesaris de crusta panis Diaphaenicum utrumque Metropropiolicon ¶ Note that to the best of these some adde the more strengthening provokers of the courses THE SECOND BOOK THE FOVRTH SECTION Of the Remedies of the LIMBS Arthriticall things or things appropriated to the joynts Latine and Greeke called Arthritica THey are called Arthriticall medicines which are destined to the strengthning of the sinewey and membranous parts of which the joynts are composed The Vse of which is both to prevent and cure the severall sorts of the Gout They are twofold Internall and Externall the matter of the internall things is the same with the cephalicall things whether you understand this of the hot cephalicks in a cold defluxion or of the cold ones where it proceeds from a hot cause for there is the same reason for the sinews as for the head but particularly these following are appropriated to the joynts Externall or topicall medicines for the joynts are usefull either in the beginning of the Gout as to mitigate both the heat and pain or else in the end to dissipate the reliques of the impacted matter least it turn to a stony indissoluble hardnesse The matter of each particular is this The chief Arthritical internal Medicines Roots Of Achorus Elecampain Ireos Cinquefoil Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Gentory the lesse St Johns wort Bettony Sage Woods Sassaphras which is excellent Flowers Of red Roses ¶ Sage Rosemary Stechados Animals Castor ashes of Harts horn a Man's skull Sea things red Coral burnt Spices Indian Spikenard Rosins Of all sorts especially Turpentine Juices Opopanax Conserves Of field Cypresse in a cold Cause of red Roses in a hot Cause External things mitigating the heat pain Leaves Of Nightshade Plantain marsh Mallows Henbane both sorts of Housleek Mallows Pellitory Danewort Elder Ducks meat Flowers Of Roses Juices Vinegar Phlegma or insipid water of Vïtriol whites of Eggs Vinegar with water Sal Prunellae dissolved in red Poppy water Gums Camphier Mucilages Of the seed of Fleawort and Quinces ¶ of marsh Mallow roots Pulp of Cassia Waters Of Roses Nightshade Plantain red Poppy Oyls Of Violets water Lillies Roses Oyl of Man's blood called the Elixar of Man Oyntments Unguent of Roses Populeon External things dissipating the relicts of the Humours and pain Roots Of Elecampain Sowbread Briony Coloquintis Leaves Of Mullen Cowslips field Cypresse Calamint Cresses Centory the lesse Nepe Pennyroial Danewort St Johns wort Rosins Mastick Bdellium Turpentine * Rather Roots Fruits Hermodactils Thickned Juices Ammoniack Opopanax Fuphorbium Animals Castor Fat 's Of a Cat Badger Fox Bear Serpent Oyntments Martiatum Dialthea Oyls Of Tiles Castor Turpentine St Johns wort Hony Wax Ireos Foxes Euphorbium which is to be used warily and of Elder Plaisters Of Frogs of Vigo of the Mucilages Mellilote Oxicrocum To these are numbred those which strengthen the Sinews called by the Latines Nervos Roborantia by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Roots Of Acorns Eringo Masterwort Sulpherwort or Hogs Fennel Rhaphontick Costus Woods Sassaphras Misle of the Oak Leaves Of field Cypresse Hysop Lavender Marjoram Cowslips Rosemary Sage the three sorts of Spike viz. Indian nard Celtick and Italian wilde Time Goats marjoram Fruits Anacardines Pine nuts Berries Of Juniper Kermes ¶ Bayes Spices Cinamon all the Peppers Ginger Mace Nutmegs Cloves Cardamomes Rosins and Gums Myrrh Venice Turpentine with the Powder of field Cypresse Opopanax Sagapene Animals The Brain of a Hare roasted Castor given to ℈ i. in Pils Conserves Of Rosemary Cowslips Sage Eringo Bettony Confections Treacle Methridate Confectio Anacardina ¶ Diacorum Powders Diagalanga Pleresarconticon ¶ Dianthos Diamoscum dulce Pulvis Antilyssus Waters Of Lavender Sage Marjoram Treacle water ¶ Sp. of Lavender compound of Matthias Piony water compound Aqua Imperialis Spirit of Castor Syrups Of Bettony compound of Chamepitis or field Cypresse of Staechados External strengthners of the Sinews Fat 's Of Vipers Foxes Stags Men. Oyls Of Tiles Wax Camomile St Johns wort earth Worms Nutmeg by expression Turpentine Foxes Vipers Costus oyl of Peeter Dill Ricininum of Rue ¶ Of Mace by expression oyl of Amber chymical Baths Those which are sulpherous nitrose bituminous aluminous and let the drippings of these fall on the beginning of the Back bone also the mud or slime extracted from them may be applied profitably to the part affected Grease Of a Goose that drips from it whilest it is roasted being filled with Frankincense Myrrh Bdellium Mummy c. Aqua vitae poured on the part helps much Fomentations and Bathings Of Mugwort Fleabane Calamint Rue Camomile Sage Dill field Cypres wild Marjoram St Johns wort salt Peeter common Salt Cataplasms Of the same Cold strengthners of the Sinews They are the same with the

Woods Roots Barks Leaves Seeds Flowers spices either fewer or more such as respect the humor or part whereby the wind is rendred more familiar to it and generally the Germans because they are pleased with it mix wormwood with it In relation to the quantity whether it be a simple purging Wine or made of more things the number of doses for which the wine is prepared shal direct you as for example a Wine of Senna is desired for twenty doses now the dose of Senna an infusion is half an ounce or six drams therefore ten ounces or fifteen of it is to be prescribed adding correctors in the proportion aforesaid If the Wine be prepared of many purgers both gentle and strong and also alterers joyned with them this proportion is for the most part to be generally observed Of the gentle sort of purgers let there be one part Of the stronger sort a quarter so much as commonly it is though you may add them to a third part or to half it matters not so you finde out the right dose of the Wine of Correctors a quarter so much as of purgers or else to a third part if the purgers are the strongest sort Alterers should be half so much as the purgers or a third part if very effectual as dryed Roots Seeds and Spices especially marking this that dryed Leaves are to be prescribed by handfuls ounces and drams And flowers by pugils and ounces also and drams THINGS that are to be DISSOLVED in respect of their quality if perhaps the taste or smel doth not please the curious palated are Sugar some certain spices especially Cinnamom which are cast into the Wine if it be much or if a smal quantity they are put into a Hypocras bag g and the Wine often poured thorow them and is made into a purging Hypocras As to their quantity for every pound of purging Wine you may add 3 ounces or 4 ounces of Sugar and two drams of Cinnamom as the Apozems Juleps Hypocrass c. are wont to be made and aromatized As to the USE in it two things are chiefly to be considered how much and when As to the quantity or dose of Wine to be drank which is not alwayes one but divers and which of whatsoever quantity of purgers or Wine you compose your Wine withal you shal thus find out and exactly define Measure your Medicinal Wine when you strain it and shift the vessels and by the measure collect the weight or else by some other means And as for example suppose it to be three pound and this was made purgative with four ounces of Senna two ounces of Polypody of Epithymum and black Hellebor of each an ounce and a half there being one ounce or an ounce and half of correctors also added over and above Now because all these infused suffice for seventeen doses they are also sufficient for seventeen times then if you divide it into so many doses you may find it out without error and the true dose of it wil be two ounces if you would purge strongly for once but if you would purge often and gently for some dayes together half that dose wil suffice As to the time when because a Medicinal Wine is usually destined for tedious stubborn and especially cold affections such as many are that have had continuance from dreggy mucilaginous humors whose causes cannot suddenly but must by little and little be taken away therefore the use of it is to be continued for divers dayes especially in the winter time to 10 15 or 20 together or every other day like the usual pils so may this also be drank in the morning or two hours before dinner but if it be not intended for this kinde of purging which is called Epicrasis but that you would give it for once to work strongly the use of it wil be the same as of your other eradicators in the morning when the indication of purging shall require or if it be prescribed instead of your purging magisterial syrup the use is the same with that once or twice in a moneth in the morning like other purgers The FORM of Prescribing may easily appear from the manner of compounding it The UTILITY as to the benefit arising from this form whether you look upon the virtues of the simples infused that are to be extracted which the Wine doth copioufly attract to it self or the conveighing them into the most intimate parts of the body by the help of its piercing spirit or whether you consider the familiarity of it with our nature which makes it be friendly received by her or its formal essence what affinity it hath by its very substance with the radical moisture heat and spirit of the solid parts of our body for which cause it easily is converted into them and united with them carrying with it the virtues of those simples steeped in it I say considering all these it cannot but be to our great benefit so that whether it be to purge and seperate the dreggy humors confused with the rest of the humours spirits and solid parts it can do it perfectly by the familiarity it hath with our nature whereby it may insinuate it self and the virtues it is imbued withal or whether it be to alter divers wayes either to cleanse away the relicks of the foregoing impurities or restore the natural vigour by appropriat means or to strengthen the parts either of these are this way effectually performed through the sympathy it hath with nature and is united to it together with the Medicinal virtues it carries with it But though the benefit of Medicinal VVine be so great yet 't is not so frequently used in all regions nor at all times of the year but is most usual with them that inhabit cold Countries and chiefly in the Winter Spring and Autumn In general 't is good in a cold time of the year a cold Country and cold temper of the body c. as is specially profitable in chronical affections a cold time of the year for delicate palated persons and is prescribed against paleness of colour difficulty of breathing confirmed obstructions of the bowels and for them that are also paralytical though VVine be forbidden to them in which respect wine made of Honey would be much better in affections of the stomack and weaknesse arising from crude cold humors VVormwood-wine made purging would be excellent The Medicinal altering Wine UNder the notion of altering Wines are contained Wines imbued with divers faculties which both respect certain parts break the relikes of humors left behinde blot out the remainder of diseases and also specifically corroborate as of simple Wines are Sage wine for cold affections of the brain Hysop and Elecampane wine for the Breast and wormwood wine which is familiar to the stomack As also they which evacuate yet without a purger as Wines prescribed to move sweat break the Stone provoke Vrine and the courses as also those which excite cherish and

their quality are pulse as the flower of barley beans linseed fenegreek seed and these alone or also the powders of other things as to discuss Ireas Cummin Camomil flowers c. and these either alone or both sorts together in the aforesaid proportion 2. Or sometimes of fruits ripe or unripe as Apples Prunes Quinces c. roasted under the embers or boyled in a fit liquor and bruised adding fit powders in the quantity aforesaid as in the flux of the belly and dysentery it is made with the pulp of Quinces and astringent powders so for the eyes made of apples See Collirium 3. Or sometimes in fluxes of the belly vomiting and to strengthen the stomack a slice of bread steeped in wine and toasted hot is prescribed which being sprinkled with one ounce or two ounces of an astringent strengthening powder let it be applied to the stomack Hither belongs the crumbs of white bread steeped in milk to half a pint to which is added two yolks of eggs half an ounce of Saffron and q. s of oyl fit for the purpose and is applied for a Cataplasm in pains 4. Or as Chyrurgions do of astringent powders to one ounce or two ounces made up with the white of an egg which they lay on locks of hemp or bolsters of linnen rags and apply to parts wounded and Physitians also apply it to the belly in Fluxes The VSE and FORM ℞ c. make a Cataplasm let it be spread in a folded linnen cloth and applied And note this that t is convenient to soment the part first with the decoction in which the Cataplasme was boyled it uses to be applied once or twice a day The VTILITY they are applied chiefly to ease pain in parts inflamed or others to soften hardnesses to ripen humors and turn them to matter to digest dissolve the cause of inflammations to discuss windiness they heat rather than cool yet they are usually prescribed of astringent things to stop Fluxes and are profitably made to provoke urine of Pellitory of the wall and oyle of Scorpions applied to the bottom of the belly for they relax mollifie and empty powerfully To Cataplasmes may be referred that which is usually called a Pultis It differs from a Cataplasm in nothing else saving that that is prepared of the muscilage of things boyled to pap and this is usually made of the flowry part of things boyled to the consistence of a Pultis from whence its name And it is COMPOVNDED 1. Either of the Flower of Pulse to four ounces boyled in a convenient liquor to which afterwards are added oyls or if the scope requires grease or some other thing equivalent to oyle to three ouncess or four ounces 2. Or of the crumbs of white bread as before for an easer of pain as in the cataplasme and to ripen 3. Or of a convenient muscilage and powders and oyles but this is rather a cataplasme see before The VSE and FORME as in a cataplasme The VTILITY is cheifly for paines to digest and dissolve see the Cataplasme CHAP. XIV Of Rubifiers THese couched under the several names of Dropax Sinapismus Vesicatories and Phaenigmus differ little or nothing in form from Cere-cloths Plaisters and Cataplasmes they only differ in their effect and in general may be called Rubifiers though this name properly belong to that called Phaenigmus of all which briefly thus Dropax Dropax properly called Pication or Pitching by the Ausients to whom it was usuall is a topicall medicine in forme of a plaister seldom of a Cataplasme prepared to fetch nourishment and life into the parts or to draw forth old paines and infirmities that are hard to be cured This is Compounded 1. Either more simply of pitch to an ounce or an ounce and a half and oyl half an ounce or six drams melted together and spread on a a Leather 2 Or more compound powders that are hot in the first second or third degree being added to the simple as Pepper Pellitory of Spain Ginger the dungs of living creatures c. to half an ounce or six drams 3. Or as 't is at this day made both for the attraction and discussion of humours two several wayes 1. Of the powder of hot things spices and things of thin parts to six drams Mustard-seed and Pidgeonsdung to one ounce are made up with pitch and turpentine q. s make a plaister for the mould of the Head 2. To the same purpose 't is made of Emplastrum de Mnscalaginibus 3 ounces with one ounce of the aforesaid powders oyl of Ireos q. s make a plaister like the letter T for the mould of the head or let them be incorporate with Turpentine and make a plaister c. they commonly but amiss cal them vesicatories or blistring Medicines for they operate without blisters and 't is to be done for the most part before the blistering Medicines and sometimes after them in contumacious affections of the head to draw the morbifical causes from within digest and empty them which said use of the Dropax is now most frequent and also most profitable The VSE of the Dropax of the Antients was to apply it hot to any part the hairs being shaved off and pul it off again before t were quite cold and this was done often till the part were become red which is usually the bounds of applying the Dropax then is it to be left off and that being removed if it be to draw nonrishment or heat to the part least either should breath forth the part is to be anointed with oyle of Camomil that the pores may be shut The VSE of our Dropax is chiefly for stubborn affections of the head and t is spread on a leather like a plaister and cut in the shape of the letter T and applied to the mould of the head the hair being first shaved off from which you may easily conceive the FORME of prescribing it It may also be applied to other parts in another convenient forme The VTILITY of the Dropax of the Ancients is to nourish revive parts extennated and languishing nourishment heat and spirits being by this meanes called forth and now adayes also we imitate them profitably in parts overcool'd and paralyticall They used them also for other things to dry moyst bodyes helpe cold and rebellious affections it draws forth humors that lie deep and discusseth them t is profitable in the Palsie Catharrs and affections arising from thence Phthisis c. Failing sicknesse Head-ach and in other affections of like sort where there is need of drawing forth powerfully and therefore they were called of old 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or drawing discussers The VTILITY of our Dropax doth correspond with the latter of these and is chiefly used in cold and di●turnal affections of the head or neither parts flowing from thence for it discusseth and draweth powerfully those morbifical causes that lurk in the brain A Vesicatory The Antients had in use a Sinapisme usually in form of a

rehearsed as Sarcoticks are not to be thought so simply but are withall either glutinative or closing or else cleansing or procuring suppuration and therefore are to be temperd by the mixture of others But these following are properly called such of which note that the dryer sort are to be used to dry bodies and those that are least drying are to be applyed to moyst bodies Rootes of Cumfrey Ireos Birthwort Leaves of St. Johns wort Juyces Aloes Flowrye parts of barly vetches orobus and ervus and of senugreek ●osins Frankinsense Burgundy pitch Mastick rosin of the pine and of the sir tree pitch turpentine myrrhe Gums Tragant Sanguis draconis Sacrocall Minera's As Cadmia Cerusse Tutty both white and gray called Pompholix Lytharge lead burnt and washed Vnguents Aureum rubrum desuccativum Emplasters de betonica de gratia dei Epuloticks or skinning medicines but more properly Cicatrizers by the Latines Cicatrizantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that skin an Ulcer or wound after it is filled with flesh they should be in the passive qualities very drying that they may not only consume the moysture that flowes to the part but also that that remaines in the flesh of the Ulcer they are also of a grosse substance that they may bind and contract or draw together In the active qualities they should rather be cooling then heating and altogether without biting though there be many things numbred amongst the Cicafrizers that dry with biting yet such are convenient only for the hardest sort of bodies The Vse is plain The Matter followes Rootes of round Birthwort Tormentill Leaves of Plantaine Myrtle Pomegranates horse taile mony wort Barkes of Pomegranates Acorne cups Ashes and things burnt as wool linnen or cotten burnt spunges burnt a hares haire burnt tiles burnt to dust Gums and juyces Sanguis draconis Acacia Fruites of the Cipresse tree unripe gals Flowres Balaustines red roses Earths Terra Iemnia bole armenack chalke Stones Blood stone calaminaris plaster of Paris Metalline things Scalings of Iron burnt Alum lead burnt and washed powder of lead of which see Fernelius lib. 6. M.M. cap. 16. brasse burnt ceruse litharge Calcitis or white vitrioll Cadmia washed pompholix or white tutty brimstone aurpment vitriol pompholix and spodia are both sorts of tutty why he sets tutty here by it selfe I know not see Screderus in his pharmacopia lib. 3. cap. xix tutty burnt and washed antimony burnt lime washed spodium or grey tutty Animals Hearts horne burnt scutle bone Ivory burnt oyster shels burnt Sea things Corall Oyntments Ung. album Rhazis Nutritum or oyntment of Litharge oyntment of Cerusse of tutty or red lead and rubrum desiccativum Things that take away Sears which for brevity sake may be called Scar Curers Fat 's and marrowes of men asses harts the fat of the fish Thymallus Oyles of Myrrh yeolkes of egges campher orientall balsame Flowre of beanes Juyce of Ivy. Seedes of rocket mustard Minerals borax salt peeter Waters of Lilly flowres beane flowres out of which things are made divers compositions oyntments and liniments Things breeding a Calleus or hardnesse in joyning broken bones may properly be called Call-breeders by the Latines callum generantia be the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called not because they properly breed a Calleus for that is the work of nature but because they assist nature in that work such are in the active qualities moderatly hot lest they should dissolve and consume that juyce of which the Calleus is ingendred in the passives they should be drying as to the second qualities they thicken harden and bind and are either Internall as the juyce of primroses the rootes juyce or powder of Agrimony and especially the stone Osteocalla or bone glew given to ʒ i. in cumfrey water Externall things as Aloes Acacia bole armenack Mill dust Osteocalla or bone glew nuts of Cipresse Frank in sence Gum tragant THE THIRD PART OF THE FIRST BOOK Of Medicaments respecting the most common and most urgent Symptomes The Type Symptomes that are the most frequent are these following together with their opposite remedies Paine to which are opposite anodine things and Narcoticks watching Hypnoticks flux of blood stenchers of blood swounding refreshers of the spirits Anodynes by the Latines dolorem mitigantia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called which ease paine without stupisying the senses though the cause of it remain such medicines should be temperate in the active qualities much agreeable to our naturall heat but in the passives moyst either watrish or ayery of thin substance voyd of all astriction for these by their mild and gentle heat foster the heat of the part and by their tenuity of substance penetrate into the parts and by their gentle moysture relax them by which meanes the cause contained in the part by transpiration may be the easier discussed and evacuated The Matter is this which is for the most par● externall and topicall or applyable to the very place Rootes of Marsh-mallowes mallowes lillyes Leaves of Elder mallowes violets dill Seedes of Flax fenugreek wheat barly and the meale Flowres of Chamomill mellilot mullen saffron Animals their parts and excrements Warm milke new butter unsalted Oesipus yeolkes of egges flesh of animals whilest it is warme lungs of animals new killed the kell of animals also Marrowes All that are kept in the shops Fat 's and greases Hogs fat gooses hens man's Oyles Sweet oyle Olive of earthworms chamon ill sweet almonds sillies linseed yeolks of egges of dill jasimine wall flowres of sesamus water and oyle mixt together Wheat bread new baked whilst it is yet hot Crumbs of white bread Mucilages of the seeds of Mallowes fleawort marsh-mallowes fenugreek Suets of a Hart of Goates Oyntments Pectoral oyntments Dialthea unguent anodynum resumptivum oyntment of the opening juyces Narcoticks by the Latines Stupefacientia by the Greekes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are Medicines which take away or stupifie the sense of the part that it cannot be sensible of that which manes the paine The Vse of these is in the most vehement paines and they are all extreamly cold but do not stupifie so much by their coldnesse as by an occult quality they possesse Roots of Mandrake Henbane Leaves of Henbane Mandrake Poppies sleepy nightshade Tobacco Hemlock Flowres of Henbane Poppy Seedes of white and black Poppy Henbane Darnell Thickned juyces of Mandrake Henbane Opium Syrups of white and red poppy diacodium Oyles of Mandrake white poppy seed Opiates New Treacle requies Nicholai Philonium romanum persicum Philon Magistrale Pils of Cynoglosse of Styrax Laudanum and nepenthes opiatum to gr iii. iv v. Sleeping Medicines by the Latines Somnifera by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 THey are so called that procure sleep by sending mild vapors up to the head to temper the hot dry and sharp fumes that are in the brain whose Vse is chiefly when overwatchings are caused by sharp fumes such are