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A90959	Medicaments for the poor; or, Physick for the common people Containing, excellent remedies for most common diseases, incident to mans body; made of such things as are common to be had in almost every country in the world: and are made with little art, and smal charge. This book is of admirable use for, 1. Purging medicines, for choller, flegm, melancholly, or watry humors. 2. Vomits. 3. Such things as evacuate by sweat, spittle, the pallate, nostrils, or insensibly. 4. Womens diseases. 5. Worms. 6. The stone. 7. Poysons. 8. The Head over-heat, or over-cooled. 9. The eyes. 10. The Joynts. 11. The nerves. 12. Breathing. 13. The heart. 14. The stomach. 15. The intestines. 16. And for diseases of ill conformation. 17. Or in faulty magnitude. 18. Or in number. 19. Or in scituation, and connexion. 20. Or in dissolved unity. First written in Latin, by that famous and learned doctor, John Prevotius, phylosopher, and publick professor of physick in Padua. Translated into English, and something added, By Nich. Culpeper, student in physick, and astrology.; Medicina pauperum. English	Prevost, Jean, 1585-1631.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3324A; ESTC R230757	103,568	318

The milky juyce of Sow-thistles and Dandelyon mixt with Broth and taken from two to three spoonfuls is much approved Also the Pouder of Natural Crystal is given with great profit and is held for a Secret taken in any of the said Decoctions from half a dram to a dram In a cold distemper a Decoction is good especially of the tops of dry Dill in Broth and of new Annis Seeds or Garden Cresses of Fennel of fresh Poley or Leeks boyled in Water Broths altered with Dill do spread and by a certain propriety drive it to the Breasts So do Smallage green Parsley white Chiches and all kinds of milk Trefoyl common milk-wort and Perewinkle used the same way Blood is drawn to the Paps by frequent sucking gentle rubbing and loosening Fomentations the best are made of hot white Wine Also of the Decoction of Chamomel and Dill that are green as also of mallows Lin-seed Roots of marsh-mallows if they be boyled in Wine or Water If these profit not Rubificatives must be applied until the Breasts wax red For this purpose amongst the Cretians they were wont to strike and rub the Breasts with the Leaves of green Nettles by the frequent use whereof the Dugs were said to grow so great that they would yield milk enough Amongst the cheapest Remedies these are thought to engender much milk Hens Eggs white Wine Rice boyled in milk Grewel made with fine Wheat Flower and milk or Pottage also Pottage made with fine Wheat flower and white Wine adding thereto yolks of Eggs and Butter But the meat is made more pleasant if you put Sugar in the place of the Flower Things that encrease Sperm or Seed Those Nutriments chiefly serve to augment Sperm which by a Physical force move hot and thin Vapors fit to cause erection of the Yard The cheap things are these Flesh of Ducks and Geese cooked especially with Garlick the Brains of Calves and Pigs seasoned with Pepper and Salt Beef Broth boyled with green Mints or Rochet the Juyce pressed out of the Lungs of a Ram rosted Swans Eggs fried with Butter all kind of shell Fish seasoned with Pepper the Polypus the Cuttle and Crab seasoned the same way Mushroms also seasoned with Salt and Pepper Amongst Pulse are the white Chich Pease Beans and Kidney Beans Of Fruit are Hazel Nuts Chest-nuts mad Apples seasoned with Oyl Salt and Pepper sweet Apples and Grapes hanged up for to be eaten Of Herbs is Garlick yet yong and fresh Artichoaks Asparagus Young Onions especially Scabious Rochet Clary Turneps Rape-roots Parsnips and Alizander Roots with Pepper and Salt These are thought to be more effectual the thickest Root of all the Satyriums the Pizzle of a Bull or Hart Boars stones and of Foxes and a Boar Pig that hath engendred washed in white Wine and dried in an Oven The Pouder of these may be drank mixed together or else a part in white Wine to one dram This Pouder most easie to be provided is most effectual Take the Pizzle of a Bull and Borax of the Apothecaries of each three drams the most substantial Root of Satyrion two drams Ginger and Cinnamon of each one scruple Saffron half a scruple Mingle them and make a very fine Pouder give of it in the morning and after Supper one dram in a little of the best Wine Medicaments that alter the Cause of the Disease The Cause of a Disease is peccant divers waies namely by an open and a secret quality This requires Preservatives against Poyson that is either original which is corrected by Medicaments that are cold hot moist dry or derived from the original as thick thin tough hard Hardness comes from driness and congelation so doth acrimony To these are opposed such things as make thin such as thicken such things that cut scour soften dissolve clotted matter and such as metigate which things correct the first qualities and thickners thinners and toughness that proceed from them They are wont to be called Concocting and Preparative Remedies because by the allaying of the qualities that exceed the humors are the more easily conquered by the Natural heat and if there be any of them wholly unfit to be concocted they are thus made fit to be driven out with more ease Other Remedies that take away the sharpness and hardness do not only serve to prepare the humors but to mollifie the parts that are exasperated and hardened Also those that scour away toughness do very much serve for other uses as for al foulness of the Skin and for filthy Sores and therefore they are to be numbered apart after those things that prepare the humors Medicaments that prepare Choller If Choller be thin and hot Barley is good Lettice Purslain Water-Lillies blew Violets the Decoctions of these from eight ounces to one pound or thereabouts The more effectual are the Juyce of Barberries sour Pomegranates Bastard Corinths and the Juyce of unripe Grapes wel purified which may be added to the said Decoctions from one to two ounces The last Remedy is clarified Whey with the Emulsion of one dram or thereabouts of white Poppy Seed or Garden Nightshade and great Housleek added to the Decoctions In this case we must forbear to give sweet Syrups If Choller be thick either by adustion or by the mixture of other Humors cold attenuative Medicines are good or such as are temperate as Sorrel Juyce of Lemmons Citrons Oranges that are ripe Gum Cichory green Maiden-hair Endive Strawberries Liverwort Hawkweed all the Sorrels wild Endive Sow-thistle Dandelyon four Trefoils Seeds of Melones Citruls Gourds and Cucumers of which Emulsions are made Of the said herbs are made Decoctions with flesh Broth or Water to which may be added about two ounces of the Emulsions of the said Seeds or of the Juyce of Citrons Lemmons or Oranges Also the Juyce of Herbs clarified may be given from one ounce to three ounces in Broth especially in the winter Time when fresh Herbs cannot be had Of these clarified Juyces Syrups may be presenty provided if an equal quantity of clarified Honey be added to them and so Boyled to the consistence of a Syrup it is mingled with the Decoctions from one ounce to two ounces Oxymel simple may supply the want of all these about one ounce being put into the Decoctions and Syrups of them al are very useful for this Humor if there be no adustion for which the best thing is Clarified Whey to about two pound with the Emulsion of the foresaid Seeds Preparatives for Flegm All these heat and attenuate and if the Flegm be very clammy and thick they cut also and scour away the same belong to Salt flegm it they be tempered with those thing we mentioned to prepare Choller Therefore if flegm exceed not in thickness and toughness these are convenient For the Head betony Germander Goats Rue Marioram Rosemary Sage Arabian Stoechas the Root of wild setwall For the Eys Celondine Eyebright Fennel Vervain For the nerves and Joynts ground Pine Juniper Berries

three drams to six drams Soldanella or Sea Coal is given in Decoction of fat Broth from one handful to two handfuls also the yong shoots are eaten as Pliny saith or the yong Tendrels Boyled like Pot-Herbs They are corrected with stomack Corroboratiues Out of this plant may be made a plain extract to be kept for use and it is very pleasant if the Juyce of the Leaves be pressed out Clarified and thickned and be made into Pills with a fourth part of Mace and Mastick or if it be made thick with a fourth part of Honey and an eight part of the Juyce of wormwood the Dose will be from one dram to two drams or thereabouts The Root of the white Vine which Mathiolus makes to be the third Kind of Clematitis Boyled from about half an ounce in wine mingled with Equal quantity of water it is corrected with temperate Stomachicall things namely with Coriander Seed or Myrtils These Purge Vehemently Ricinus of America it is taken from half a grain to a whole grain or the Seed is steeped all night in wine or else drink the emulsion of the Seed in Broth. Granum Dende of Avicennae which Mountebanks sel up and down for the Seed of Ricinus of America doth the same effect as Ricinus of America doth The Seeds of Cataputia if they be great are given from seven to ten but if smal from eight to fifteen Or else made into Pills or Bolus with Figs or taken in Emulsion with Hydromel they are very troublesome to the Stomach therefore you must drink after them Broth altered with Wormwood and Seeds of Citrons or Orenges Tithymal with broad Leaves given according to all the parts of it in the quantity and manner aforesaid concerning the other Tithymals that Violently Purge fleam Of the foresaid may be prepared a pleasant and profitable Syrup to be kept for use As Take the Roots of ordinary Flower-de-luce fresh six ounces wild Cucumber dried in the shade two ounces Roman wormwood and Origanum of each one handful pleasant white Wine two pound and an half make infusion for five hours then Boyl them at a gentle fire to the Consumption of a third part strain it then add clarified Honey one pound Boyl all again to the consistence of a thin Syrup add about the end Cinnamon or Annis Seed two drams The Dose of this Syrup will be from one ounce to two ounces at the most Presently compositions may be made thus For a Potion Take the Roots of wild Cucumber grossly bruised one dram tops of Roman wormwood one handful Seeds of Annis Fennel or Cinnamon one scruple the best Wine three ounces infuse them all night in the morning strain them to the straind Liquor add Oxymel Simple one ounce mingle them for a drink You may Leave out Oxymel if you please For a Bolus Take the Juyce of Flower-de-luce thickned three drams the tops of wormwood in Pouder half a dram Annis Seed half a scruple Figs half an ounce mingle them for a Bolus Pills Take Seeds of dwarfe Elder two scruples or the Roots of wild Cucumber one scruple Cinnamon half a scruple Pouder them and make Pills of them with Juyce of wormwood what may Suffice Purging Clysters Purgatives that are given in Clysters are used for a two fold end namely either to stirr up the Faculty Expulsive that is very dul as is used to be done in * the Sleepy Diseases are most excellently treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English Sleepy Diseases as the Palsey and Dotings and they are therefore called Tart Clysters or else to draw the Excrements from the remote parts that are ordained for Evacuation or for revulsion sake They are prepared the same way and in the same quantity as we sayd already of lenitive Clysters adding only to the Decoction for a common Clyster some purging Herbs as centaury the less or Gratiola in a Cholerick cause the sprouts of wild Saffron broom Leaves the pulp of Coloquintida bound up in a wide Cloth the Roots of Esula or sow Bread in a Flegmatick Cause the Roots of Black Hellebore in case of Melancholy the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder or the Elder Tree in a watery Cause but that they may Purge and supply the place of a Medicament to be taken at the Mouth they must not be cast in beyond the quantity of eight ounces namely the same quantity that may be also taken at the Mouth and a Clyster to Purge the Entralls must go before for so a Purgative Clyster may be held in many Hours and it is fitly actuated by the Heat of the Intestines But the quantity of Medicaments to be taken at the Mouth must be doubled in Clysters because they are not so easely brought to action by the Intestines as they are by the Stomach As for Example to pul back and to Purge Flegm such a Clyster may be made Take Leaves of Mallows Beets Origanum Chamomel of each half an handful pulp of Coloquintida bound in a Skin half a dram Seeds of Carthamus two drams Fountain water one pound Boyl them to the Consumption of half to the straind Liquor add of the dregs of Sugar or Honey two or three ounces make a Clyster Sharp Suppositories Purging Suppositories seem to have no purgative power of themselves that is to have no drawing quality to fetch the Humors from the remote parts to the Intestines but only to stir up the Belly when it is slow to expulsion by which stirring up sometimes by accident it fals out as it doth in purgatives that the excrements that ly in the Veins and distant Parts are thrust out by the Belly but not by the Medicament drawing them but only by the Expulsive Faculty awakened Whereupon sometimes sharp Clysters supply the room of a Purgative Medicine and are more safely given to any that are weak then Clysters are Sharp Suppositories are made of Honey or the reliques of Sugar boyled hard adding for every ounce of them from one grain to ten grains of Coloquintida Scammony or of both Hellebors or of the Milk of Tithymals or Esula and some Sharp Salt as Salt Armoniack or Salt Nitre for Suppositories For Vomiting Medicaments There are two sorts of these also for some only Purge the Stomach being Void of all attractive vertue and these belong to the Rank of gentle Medicaments others again evacuate the superfluities they draw to the Stomach and are Purgatives The former of themselves hardly provoke one to Vomit unless they offend some Stomach that nauseats them very much but they need some outward help to stirr them as by putting the Finger or a Feather into the Throat but the latter provok Vomit without any outward help These move Vomit gently In a hot cause Warm Water or Barley water fat Broth water and Oyl they are all given luke-warm from one pound to two pounds to those that are of ripe years but to Children from eight ounces to one pound In a cold cause that is thin the Decoction

the Meat we eat and Anointed on the Stomach outwardly If you please to make a Syrup for this use Take the Juyce of sweet Prunes the Juyce or Decoction of Purslain of each half a pound Clarifie them and add to them ten ounces of purified Honey Let them boyl to the consistence of a Syrup The use of it is for a Lohoch and for Syrups Medecines that evacuate by the Pallat. The * Any that desire to know exactly the Diseases of the Head and the cures therof let them read Riverius Practice of Physicks by me translated into English Head is purged three waies By the Mouth by the means of the Channels of the Pallat namely by Ma●●icatories Cargarisms and Anointings of the Pallate For a Masticatory in a hot cause a Paper is good especially a brown Paper figs bitter Almonds or Peach Kernels Raisons a whol piece of a Pome Cicron the peel of an Orange In a cold Cause are good the Roots of Cyprus Acorus both Angelica's Gard●● 〈◊〉 Master-wort Seeds of Fennel Annis Seseli Siler montanum Grains of Juniper Bay-berries and the tender Leaves These are more violent and are fit for extream coldness the Leaves of Sciatica Cresses Water Pepper of Hors-Rhadish Garden Cresses Savory Mountain Hysop wild Penyroyal wild Rue Root of Pellitory Country Mustard seed Mustard seed Staves-acre which that they may the more easily be chewed by the Teeth they must be mingled with a little yellow Wax and so made into little Bals or Morsels For a * Those that desire to know more fully what they are and their use let them read Riverius Practice of Physick and the Physical Dictionary at the end thereof Gargarism which is proper only in a cold cause are convenient the Decoctions of Calaminth Germander Hysop Bay Leaves Lavender the greater Penyroyal wild Time Italian Spike which are partly gargarised and somtimes held hot in the mouth The most violent Gargarisms are made of the Decoction of Herbs that were set down for the strongest Masticatories and chiefly if we put some Aqua vitae in or some of the Confection Diasinapi which the Italians cal Mostarda For to anoint the Pallate which Remedies have place also alone in a cold Cause the said Decoctions are useful with honey thickened to the consistence of a Syrup Moreover Aqua vitae or common Mostards or some soft Electuary made of the foresaid things As for Example Take Bay-berries and Juniper of each two ounces Mustard seed and Leaves of Savory of each one handful Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each one dram Roots of Acorus and Master-wort of each two drams pounded and siefted Mingle all with two pound of clarified Honey Make an Electuary Medicaments that evacuate by the Nostrils Of things that purge the Head by the Nostrils some of them by their acrimony cause one to sneeze and these are very fit for a very thick Humor that is pact close in and where the Expulsive Faculty is dull Some again provoke the Humor without sneezing amongst which some may be safely used even when the Head enclineth to heat others belong only to a cold humor and head The Pouders of all the propounded Remedies for strong Masticatories if they be blown in or snuffed up into the Nostrils they cause one to sneeze The Decoction of Gith or black Hellebore the Juyce also of the Root of Sowbread Briony and Elaterium dissolved in other liquid Nasals The same is performed but somthing more gently by the Root of Sowbread cut like a Tent and put into the Nostrils and the Shel of an Orange candied Also without sneezing the head that is over hot may be evacuated with the Decoction or Juyce of Mallows or Blites especially the white Blites Leaves of Betony or Coleworts and Barley Roots of Beets put into the Nostrils especially if it be wet in warm Water also anointing the Nostrils with fresh Butter In a cold Cause Decoctions are good or the Juyce of Pimpernel Bettony Roots of white Beets the great Celondine Ivy of the wal Garden Hysop Root of Flower-de-luce that is green Marjoram Sage Tobacco The Indians also use to make Tents of a round fashion of the Roots of Sowbread or Flower-de-luce and to anoint them with Butter or Oyl and put them up into their Nostrils or else to steep them in water when they wil not use them for sneezing Moreover The Fume of the said Herbs when they are dry is very convenient especially of Marjoram Hysop Time taken through a Cane by which they take the fume of Tobacco Errhines also may be made of them As for Example In a cold cause Take the Juyce of the Root of Flower deluce made thick the Juyce of the Flowers of Ivy made thick of each two drams the Pouder of Marjoram or Time one dram Fresh Butter half an ounce mingle them for a Liniment and anoint a Ten● of Cotton to put into the Nostrils Or Take the Juyce of Blites clarified by filtring very well four ounces Agarick grosly poudered one ounce make infusion for one night strain them the next day and draw it up warm into the Nostrils and it will wonderfully purge the Head without any great Commotion Medicaments that Evacuate Insensibly The matter these are made of is of a large extent For all hot things by rarefying and turning the Humors into ayr do evacuate insensibly so do all dry things by restraining moisture and all astringent things by pressing them forth may be reckoned in the number of these but things that digest are properly so called which do by degrees turn the Humors into vapours and those that discuss and do it by heaps that dissipate also gross Humors and blistering Medicaments that do both vehemently and by violent heat remove the matter that lieth deep that is not sufficiently attenuated and draw it to the Skin Digesters Amongst these the most obuious are wormwood Dill al kinds of Smallage Chamomel stinking Chamomel Foenugreek Roots of Reeds white Lillies Lin-Seed Honey Melilot Rosemary Mallows chiefly strong Wine these may be given in Decoction Syrups or Electuaries Of the same may be made Oyls by descent and Fomentations for use outwardly to which these that follow may be added that are not to be given inwardly as the Roots or Sow-Bread wild Cucumber Daffodils the Leaves of Dwarf-Elder Elder-Tree Allum Nitre Vitriol common Salt Also outwardly may be used alone to anoint with rank Butter chiefly that which is Salt and Oyl with Salt For Fomentations the water of quick Lime the water of hot Baths sweet water that is very hot strong Ly hot Lees of Wine the mud of hot Baths or the holes in the Baths hot Sand hot Ashes with or without Bran and Salt made up in a Bag. For Plaisters Snails bruised with their Shells Old Cheese with the Decoction of Salt flesh especially Hogs flesh and beaten together for a Plaister Bean Meal made up with Wine or the former Decoctions adding if you please Oyl Oxymel or

obstructions that come from thick matter that is impacted If it proceed from cold and driness things that are moderately hot and that attenuate without drying are needful of which there is notable use to dispose the Body to necessary sweating and to make the Body transpirable which is procured to drive away the internal corruptions of Feavers and to take off all Cutaneous spots Such are Baths of warm water Fomentations of water and Oyl or warm water chiefly altered with Dill Chamomel Marsh-mallows Roots of white Lillies Lin-seed the flowers of common Jasmin and wall-flowers Boyled till half be consumed Also Unction may be made with Oyl very hot first rubbing the part softly or let the Body be gently rubbed with the Palm of the Hand dipt in the same Oyl or some Spiced white Wine adding one half of the Decoction of Violets and Mallows in common water if there be a strong Feaver present Also the rubbing it self with soft Cloths taketh away the thickness of the Skin and Cupping Glasses do it more effectually with or without Scarification Also for the Amplitude or Laxity and Dilatations of the Cavities or sensible passages astringents are convenient which do so much the more forcibly thicken them as the passages are smaller The matter of astringents is of very long extent they may be reduced to three Ranks where the choice of every one for use may be easely found Some do but a little bind the use whereof principally is to corroborate the parts and they do bridle excretions which are not altogether unprofitable yet by their quantity and continuance they may weaken the strength Some do moderately bind which have a principal force to repel all Fluxes from the parts that receive them and to stay all Fluxes that are hurtful Lastly some astringents do compact the parts that are loosened and are to be used when by the force of the defluxion and vehemency of Evacuation there is imminent danger as it falls out most commonly when the matter that flowes is very thin and comes through passages that are very much loosened with the continuance of the defluxion In a cold cause let such Remedies be made choice of that bind with heat or without any manifest coldness But in a hot cause those things will help which work by cooling And of all kinds of astringents these will be most easely provided for sudden Remedies Upon a cold cause these bind a little all kinds of Wormwood but especially Sea Wormwood Egrimony Betony Coleworts wel Boyled Coriander Seed Cummin Seed torrefied the Root of long English Galingal the Hulls of Beans Mastich wood and Leaves Garden Mints dried Mastick Rice dried Rosemary Sage common Scabious Frankinsence Rosin of the Larch-Tree or Firr-Tree Boyled hard sharp Wine or any other Wine steelled The dry Pouders of those are given inwardly by themselves in sharp Wine to one dram or there abouts and something more Also Decoctions of Physick Wines amongst which the best is Wormwood Wine or made of Mastich wood or Mastich or Rosemary or Sage Also ordinary drink is profitably altered with the Seed of Coriander and Mastich and the said Pouders are strewed upon meat For an inveterate Gonorrhea without any heat of Urine the said Rosins Boyled in Rain Water or steeled water taken for many daies fasting are profitable and made into Pills to one dram with one scruple of dried Mints or the Seed of Agnus castus Also one scruple of the Pouder of Mastich taken for some daies in a rear Egg four hours before dinner will stay the same The same Pouder taken the same way if you drink a draught of wormwood Wine after it staies an Hepatick flux properly so called and Old fluxes of the Belly and vomiting also that proceeds from the weakness of the Stomach Outwardly Oyntments may be made of common Oyl of unripe Olives they cal it Omphacinum or of Oyl of ripe Olives altered with wormwood dry Mints Rosemary or Mastick wood or Mastick Or Liniments made presently such as this following is Take Mastick in Pouder one dram common Oyl one ounce Yellow Wax what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Liniment Little bags are made of Cummin Seed torrefied and Rice dried at the fire Or moist Fomentations of sharp red Wine that is altered with the said Herbs Or a Cataplasm of the shells of Beans dried Rice the Pouder of Wormwood Oyl and sharp Wine Of Mastick and Frankinsence Cerats are made adding to them Oyl of wormwood and Rosin of the Pine-Tree with Yellow Wax what is sufficient For long continuing defluxions of the Eys It is good to wash the Eyes often with the best white Wine in which Frankinsence set on fire hath been thrice quenched adding a third part of River water if the defluxion he sharp These bind Moderately Bean meal heated at the fire eaten in meats Chesnuts Avens Black Knapweed the green shells of Wallnuts Lintels well Boyled and the Juyce the Roots of Water-fern Also the Pouder of the Black Grape half ripe dried in an Oven taken one dram for many daies in Wine that is a little sharp is propounded by Septalius as a great secret to cure an Hepatick flux also it cureth the flux of Women being taken in Aromatical Wine made Physical with Rosemary Sage or Mints For the hot affections of the Jaws this doth profit singularly the Decoction or the Juyce of the green Rinds of Wallnuts for a Gargarism for which purpose a Syrup is made with Honey and the Juyce Clarified The Juyce of Lintells well Boyled taken with a little of the Pouder of Galanga or Nutmeg in the morning four hours before meat cureth vomitings and scourings that proceed from the weakness of the Stomach Avens and the Root of water Fern Boyled in Red wine or bear into Pouder is singular good against the falling out of the Intestines and the Matrix Ontwardly Mill dust added to Plaisters is good against Pissing of Blood Earth worms in Plaisters are good for the Nerves that are wounded Salt and Roch Allum put into Decoctions of Red wine are for to corroborate the parts Baths of Allum and Gip such as are in the Mountain of Grattas in the field of Padua are good to strengthen the Limbs that are distempered by long defluxions The mother of the wine hot is commended to corroborate the Joynts The crum of bread tosted and sprinkled with strong wine and with the Pouder of wormwood or Mints is good to fortifie a weak Stomach These bind strongly great Sanicle Garden dropwort especially the Root all the Cranes Bills especially Pidgeons Foot Herb Robin Mouse-ear The Decoction of these is given or the Pouder to one dram Also the Pouder of a Spunge burnt is most effectual and the inward Skin of Chestnuts Of the Juyce of Herbs and the Pouder of Roots mingled bread may be made baked so hard as Bisquet which being beaten into Pouder may be mingled with meats to be taken without loathing Outwardly Fomentations are prepared of the Decoctions

of Citron Seeds or Orange Seeds in Broth to one pound with two ounces of Oxymel The luke warm Decoction of bay Leaves to one pound The Root of Daffodil Boyled and eaten or the Decoction of it drunk in the quantity aforesaid The Pouder of the Root of bettony from one dram to three drams with Broth and Oxymel The Pouder of the Pompion Root from one scruple in the same Liquor The Decoction of Snails in hedges in water or Broth. In a cold cause and thick the Juyce of Radish from one ounce to two ounces with Broth and Oxymel Nitre from one scruple to one dram with Metheglin or fat Broth. Broth taken with Oxymel or Honey with which mingle one scruple of Ginger Hysop or Pepper Purging Vomits All those things that Purge by Vomit do also move the Belly and therefore they are then to be Chosen when nature is more enclined to Purge upwards they may be brought to three ranks as they were that Purge the Belly Some are gentle that draw only from the Parts that lie round about the Stomach and with smal trouble move the Stomach others are strong and draw more effectually from the Remoter Parts and trouble the Stomach something more Some are violent which draw vehemently and Evacuate matter that is very thick or such as is contained in the remotest Parts and cause Vomit with great forcing of the Stomach When Choller predominates these are gentle The Yellow rind of the Black Alder when it i● fresh Poyled in water or in Broth from two drams to four drams The Seed of Garden Cresses Poudered drank in water from three drams to six drams Mountain dwarf-Cherry of Gesner which Tragus makes to be Sea-Purslain swallowed down from five to eight Cherries especially in water or warm Broth drank after them The Root of Asarum draweth all most equally Choller and Flegm it is infused from two drams to five drams the substance in Pouder is given from one dram to two drams These are strong The Juyce of the Root of Mandragora from half a scruple to a whol scruple in Honey Wine and we must use it warily for it is not without danger Where Flegm predominates these Vomit gently Agarick unprepared from two scruples to two drams in fat Broth or Oxymel The Seed of Bastard Senna with Bladders is given in substance from one dram to two drams and is infused from two drams to half an ounce it is corrected with spiced Wine The Seed of Bastard Senna with Scorpion Cods doth the same The flowers of Garden Broom and the green branches steeped or Boyled from two drams to half an ounce in Broth. The Seed of Spargula poudered from two drams to four drams in sweet Wine or Broth with Oxymel These do strongly Void Flegm that is predominant The Seeds of Staves-acre about one dram an half in Pouder with plenty of sweet wine you must drink fat Broth upon it until you fal to Vomiting least if it stay too long the Stomach should be inflamed The fresh Leaves of any of the Tithymals Boyled with sweet Wine from one dram and an half to four drams The Juyce of the Leaves of Tobacco from one dram to two drams in Broth that is altered with the Seeds of Citrons or Oranges White Vitriol from half a dram to one dram in Broth. These Void Flegm Violently The Seed of the Peascod-Tree poudered from half a dram to one dram the rind of the same dried and poudered doth the same but somthing more weakly Those Medicaments that are compounded of these are almost of the same Kind as for Example For Choller Take Barley Water one pound Oyl of Olives that were sufficiently ripe two ounces Root of Asarum in pouder one ounce mingle them for a drink For Flegm Take Broth that is altered with the Seed of Citrons or Oranges one pound Oxymel two ounces Juyce of Radish one ounce crude Agarick two scruples mingle them for a drink If you please to make a syrup for a Vomit it may be as this Take the green branches of Garden broom one ounce and an half bay Leaves Tobacco Leaves of each one handful Seeds of Citrons or Oranges Grosely poudred two drams Common Water two pounds let them Boyl until half be consumed strain them In the strained Liquor infuse for twelve hours of the Roots of Asarum and raw Agarick of each three drams strain them again and clarifie it and add to it of clarified Honey one pound Boyl all at a gentle fire to the consistence of a Syrup the Dose of it is from half an ounce to one ounce in Broth and warm water Of the same kind is this Electuary which is very effectual Take the Roots of Asarum and crude Agarick of each half an ounce Roots of Betony and Pompions of each two drams Cinnamon one dram Annis Seed half a dram Pouder them to very fine Pouder and mix them with Honey clarified four ounces and make an Electuary the Dose of it is from nine drams to almost twelve drams in any Liquor that is pleasant For Melancholy and black Choller that are predominant None but strong and Violent Medicaments are convenient because the Humor being of its own nature the most heavy is something more hard to draw upwards than other Humors These cause Vomit strongly prepared Antimony the Flower the Calx and the Glass of Antimony are easily prepared but the Tincture is somthing more difficult and so is the Oyl which being precipitated into cold water passes into white Pouder not unlike to Flower All these are given in substance from three grains to six grains in a Panatella or Ptisan or some Stomach-Conserve or Aromatick Wine corrected with wormwood Rosemary and other a little astringent Stomach-remedies they are steeped from four grains to ten grains chiefly in strong Wine or wormwood Wine Of this is made a most pleasing Syrup Evacuating most easily both upwards and downwards beyond all other Antimonial Medicaments thus Take the Flowers or the Glass of Antimony one dram and an half the best white Wine one pound infuse it for two days natural strain it and add to it Honey clarified ten ounces Boyl them to a Syrup The Dose is half an ounce to one ounce and an half or thereabout taken by it self or in some pleasant drink These work Violently the prepared Root of white Hellebore or the pith pulled out and the Root steeped in Rose Vineger one day and dryed again in the shade for use in the place of Rose Vineger take Vineger of Quince which is better or some other that is altered with something that is a little astringent and cooling for the Stomach it is given from half a scruple to one scruple not in substance least the Mouth of the Stomach should suffer Convulsion but in infusion which is done two wayes the first is the way of the Antients who did stick the smal Roots of Hellebore into a Radish for one night the next day they crushed our the Juyce of

Honey Privatly to consume the Milk suddenly and without danger that it may not clotter in the breasts women hold these for secrets which either will not or cannot give suck the green Leaves of wall-Nut Trees carryed in their bosome A Liniment made of an equal portion of Honey and Rozin laid on constantly with a Linnen Cloath A Cataplasm of Bean Meal and Oxymel or the Decoction of Parsley or Mallows Boyled with Vineger A Fomentation of equal parts of Parsley and Vineger adding a little Saffron to it Discussives Amongst these the easiest to provide are the Seeds and Flowers of Agnus Castus by the steeping whereof is made an Oyl that is very Proper against the Cholick Garlick the Root of Both Angelicas and the Seed Annis Seed Seeds of Oranges and Citrons and the Pills of them also Calamint especially of the Mountains Seeds of Cummin Caraway Daucus Fennel Hysop Maisterwort Root the Berries and wood of Juniper Lavender the Leaves and Berries of Bays that are good for the Cholick and Pains of the Matrix Lupins Marjoram dry Mints Bazil Origanum Poley Pennyroyall Rue Savory wild Time Italian Spike Time all which are given alone or mingled in forme of a Decoction Syrup Electuary or the Pouder of them to one dram may be drank in Wine or strewed upon Meat Hitherto appertain Aqua-vitae and Old Wine which the Antients were wont to give with Pepper grosely beaten You may prepare at a Cheap Rate a most effectual Tincture whereof one or two drops drank in Broth or Wine doth powerfuly discuss winds and put into a hollow Tooth that Akes from a cold cause or but layd to it presently takes away the pain And this is it Take Black Pepper beaten grosely two ounces the best Aqua vitae eight ounces put all into a Viol of a streight Neck and keep it wel stopt eight days in a hot place and you shall have a deep Red Tincture to be kept in a Glass that is stopt fast If you will make an Hippocras Wine you may do it thus Take Seeds of Annis and Fennel of each two drams Roots of Angelica Acorus Master-wort of each half an ounce Leaves of mountains Calamint Lavender Marjoram and dry Mints of each one handful Bay-Berries one ounce Bruise them all grosely and put them into a Cullender and strain through it the best white Wine doing it so often until the matter seem to have lost its sent and Acrimony drink one or two ounces of this Wine by it self or with some other Liquor Fomentations may be made outwardly of the Decoctions of the said Herbs but most effectual are the fumes of them that rise by quenching a Fire-stone or a Mil-stone in the said Decoctions But the Decoctions are made more strong in the best Wine or strong Ly and natural brimstone waters Also a bag of Millet torrefied is very good with the Flowers of Chamomel and Cummin Seed or the Leaves of Rue by which the pains after Child-birth are mightily asswaged Some extol the pulp of Coloquintida with a third part of wormwood put into a bag This is held for a secret to dry up the water that puffs up the Belly A Plaister made of equal Parts of the Leaves of Rue and wormwood bruised and made with Honey to a Cataplasm Also a fomentation of quick-Lime quenched in brimstone water of the Baths is excellent For anoyntings Remedies may be presently made such as are the Oyls made by descent from the said Herbs For example Take Bay-berries one ounce Leaves of Rue one handful Common Oyl half a pound the strongest Wine three ounces The Berries being grosely beaten and the Leaves chopt make infusion for three hours Boyl them til the moisture be consumed then strain them To al these add a large Cupping Glass with a great Flame and set it on the part that is puffed up to which for the discussing of wind Galen ascribes a power as it were an Inchantment Somtimes also without discussing winds are drawn out of the Body by some Instruments that Chirurgious use that work suddenly So the winds are drawn forth that extend the great Intestines thrusting in after a Clyster given to void the Excrements a dry Syring and drawing it downwards Hippocrates used Smiths Bellows By the same way the winds that fil the Matrix by help of a Syring with a long thin Neck may be drawn out Rubificatives They are called Rubificatives because they make the Skin extream Red. When we have made use of digesters and discussers and cannot prevail then we must use Rubificatives as in an Old Hip-Gout and as it often comes to pass in a stubborn heavy Head-ach These are laid to the Skin Bruised and made like a Cataplasm either alone or with hot Vineger and the most usual are these that follow Garlick wake Robin Blew flower Flea-bean water Pepper Sciatica Cresses Hors-Radish wild Pennyroyal Mustard Staves-acre common Crowfoot Also a Plaister may be made by it self of Pigeons or Gooss dung or of dry Pitch melted with a fourth part of some hot Oyl as of Rue or Bays and laid often on the part and then pulled off again until the part first Waxeth red then swels a little then sinks down again for if it be let alone no longer than whilst the part groweth red it is rather to be called a heating remedy and such as helps the member to nourishment than that which Evacuats insensibly Wherefore on a cold and dry Stomach Limbs that are wasted with the Palsey it is of excellent use after due Evacuations of the Body Thus much for Medicaments that respect the matter peccant in quantity Medicines that augment necessary Matter where it is deficient Somtimes good Humors are wanting and some things that proceed from them al which are augmented of themselves by the help of Nature changing good Nutriment but they are produced by accident with the help of such Remedies as remove the things that hinder Nutriment Therefore al these Remedies that strengthen heat and that allay the distemper of the humors and of the inward parts by heating them encrease blood the Catalogue of these must be sought for amongst things that alter and for this reason those things that ingender Milk and Seed the first whereof is necessary for the Nutriment of the Infant that is born the latter for Procreation do properly belong to Nutriment because both of them proceed from blood yet improperly those Medicaments may be said to ingender milk and seed by the help whereof the blood is more easily and plentifully altered into the Nature of them both Medicaments that encrease Milk Those Medicaments are said also to encrease milk that correct the impure blood make it run and spread drive it to the breasts and draw it thither Those correct it that purge naughty humors which pollute the blood and others that allay the excessive qualities of the blood Such are in a hot distemper Barley Water and Broths altered with mallows green Knotgrass and Sow-thistles

made impregnable against al poysons for many days This pouder is prepared three waies and first thus Take the Heart the Liver and the three first back bones of a Viper or wood Snake dry all in an Oven beat them into Pouder add the root of Maister-wort an equal part and mingle them Secondly Vipers flesh the entrals being taken out except the Heart and the Liver must be cut and seasoned eight days with Salt then put al into a Sive that is wel guarded on every side and underneath rayse a sweet perfume four or five times a day constantly casting on fire coles the pouder of Myrrh Bay-berries grains of Juniper and Cloves and when the flesh is found to smel very wel put it into a glased pot wel covered with a cover of clay and put it into a Bakers oven and let it stay there until al the substance of the flesh with the bones can be brought into a most fine pouder the new Physitians ascribe more vertue to this pouder than to the antient confections of Theriac or Mithridate Thirdly Vipers flesh being excellent wel washed in white Wine saving the Heart and the Liver must be gently dried that it may be beaten to pouder and so used by it self Besides these the poyson of mad Creatures hath certain Antidotes with which being taken for forty days together the wound in the mean while being kept open madness and fear of water is quite driven away These are Madwort the ashes of river Crabs the root of the wild rose and common Pimpernel They are given alone or mingled from one dram to two drams in white Wine they are mingled profitably with the root of Gentian Galen provides his Antidote of one part of Frankinsence Gentian five parts and ten parts of river Crabs burnt Also some report that this pouder is proved by experience to cure the fear of water given in white Wine from half a dram to two drams dayly three hours before meat Take Leaves of Polypode Rue Vervin Sage Plantain with narrow Leaves Leaves of common Wormwood Mints Mugwort betony Balm St. Johns-wort Centaury the less of each equal parts dry them in a paper and beat them to Pouder Thus far concerning remedies that oppose the principal cause of the disease from the taking away whereof the cure of material diseases must begin unless there be somthing else that is urgent and so draws the cure to it for that must be presenly taken care for neglecting the cause and the disease for a time if that urgent thing gives no delay but threatens the patient with sudden death Now these things are said to urge immediately and by it self principally the weakners of the vital spirits in all faintings and swounings but mediately and secondly all vehement pains continual watchings all immediate Evacuations from whence there is fear of the dissolutions of the spirits These things urging such remedies as strengthen the spirits must be set against them such as ease pain procure rest stay fluxes if the disease or the principal cause by reason of its violence and the weakness of the sick do sometime come to be urgent as feverish heat in an Old man and the thickness and clamminess of flegm in an exquisite quotidian Feaver they require no other remedies than such as are of themselves contrary concerning which we have partly spoken and we shall speak something afterwards in the number of remedies that alter diseases Remedies for Symptoms that are Vrgent Those remedies that strengthen the spirits do refresh them also either by accident taking away the causes whereby they are dispersed whereof we shall not now speak or of themselves by affording matter out of which the spirits may be soon ingendered and by Corroborating the inbred heat of the heart The heart is strengthened with Cordials concerning which we shall speak when we speak of Medicaments that are opposite to the disease in distemper They afford fit matter to be turned into spirits as also Nutriments that are of good Juyce and thin substance amongst which are pleasant Wine and sweet smels because they yield thin vapours next to spirits unto the heart In a hot cause cold or temperate sents must be prepared such as are made of Vineger Roses Camphir Violets Mirtils the Pills of sweet Apples and Quinses that are grown Yellow Vineger altered with these ingredients is the best making infusion for some hours or gently Boyling them also to alter the Ayr water must be sprinkled in the Chambers that is mingled with Vineger and it is good for sents to put to the Nose In a cold cause smels must be made of the flowers of Citrons Oranges Lemmons the Clove-gelli-flowers Jesamin Lillies of the Valleys Roots of Angelica Ciperus Carden setwal Leaves of Calamint of the Mountain Marjoram Balm Mint Rosemary Spik Lavender Time Citron Pills Bay-berries Juniper berries and all kind of Spices The best is made of the best Vineger or Wine altered with the foresaid ingredients Also the smel of rosted meat is excellent stuck with Cloves and Cinnamon as also Bread that is hot and sprinkled with Malligo or some principal Wine For the same purpose may Oyls be provided with no great labour from Spices and very cheap to anoint the Nostrils the heart if there be made with clear common Oyl without dregs and the Pouder of Cinnamon or Cloves a matter like to Liquid Pitch which must stand some days in a close Vessel and then be put into a Press and pressed forth Such as ease pain are threefold namely such as cure by taking away the cause of pain proper Anodynes which letting the cause alone yet asswage the sense of the part and stupefactives that wholy take away the feeling of it or else cast the sick into a sleep Those that cure belong not to this place for they are as large in extent as diseases and the causes of them by which the continuity of the part may be dissolved Proper Anodynes are Marsh-mallows sweet Almonds warm water Dill green Chamomel Fenugreek Linseed Mallows Melilot Yolks of Eggs fat Broth. Besides these for Fomentations outwardly are convenient living creatures their entrals being taken out whilst they are hot the Lungs and the kel of living creatures water and Oyl greasy Wooll Sheeps Milk and Cows Milk hot wheaten Bread moderately baked and yet hot For Unguents Hogs fat Hens fat Calfs fat Mans fat Butter Suet Mucilage of Lin-seed Mallows Marsh-Mallows Fenugreek and Oyls made of the said Herbs and Seeds Boyled in them But beside common anodines there are some others that do properly belong to some certain parts which therefore may be called specifical anodines For the pain of the Head from what cause soever this Oyl is most effectual Take the Juyce of Vervain very well purified two pound simple Oyl of Roses one pound Distil it at a gentle fire of Embers let the distilled Liquor be poured on again and distilled again and so do three times for the Juyce will mingle with the

Oyl inseparably and in that being warm dip in a Linnen Clout to lay to the Forehead and anoint the Sutures For pain of the Teeth The Oyl of Box distilled by desent is extolled For the pain of the Chollick a sure remedy is one dram of a Mans Skull prepared and taken with one scruple of Armis Seeds in a cold cause but with Coriander Seed if the cause be hot Also the pouder of the Testicles of a gelded Horse taken to one dram after the same fashion This Oyl is exceeding good for the pain of the Hemorroids Take Fig-wort four ounces great Celondine two ounces the Sponges that grow on the sweet Eglantine in number four Seed of Agnus Castus two drams common Oyl two pound Cut the Roots bruise the rest grossly set them in the Sun for a month and keep them for use Or infuse them for eight days in a hot place then Boyl them til the moisture be consumed and make expression and after that strain them For pain of the Breast the Oyl of Lin-seed drank two or three ounces is singular For pain of the Joynts this Fomentation is approved Take Leaves of Mallows Dwarf-Elder and Plantain of each one handful Smiths Water two pound Boyl them to the Consumption of a third part press them out and strain them and dissolve in the Liquor Salt-peeter purged with Brimstone which they cal Salt of Prunella half an ounce and dip a Linnen Cloth in it and lay it hot to the part Narcoticks indeed laid to the part do stupefie but being taken or smelt to or applyed to the head they cause sleep They differ in the intension of their quality from properly called sleeping Medicaments because these by their moderate coldness and moisture procure sleep but those by the excess of both qualities bring out deep sleep and if they be used too largely they cause Carus and Apoplexy Yet there is some degrees of these Narcoticks for some are more gentle the use thereof is not so dangerous some are more violent which must not be used but upon very urgent pains and watchings The more gentle to be used inwardly are white Poppy Seed to about one dram but outwardly in Lotions the Leaves of Garden Night-shade and Poppy The more violent are Hemlock white Henbane Mandragora Opium round Stramonium Black Henbane and long Stramonium are best to be let alone by reason of the great hurt they do to the Bowels Of others are made fit sents and Lotious for the Feet and the Head but inwardly only Opium and round Stramonium may be used The Seed of Stramonium is given in substance from half a scruple to one scruple or thereabouts but infused from one scruple to two scruples it is corrected with good Wine Opium is given from two grains to five corrected with Saffron or Popper and so made into a Pill or infused in the best Wine Oriental Opium is somthing stronger than Opium of our Country but because outlandish Opium is often brought to us Sophisticated and sometimes is sold very deer it were better to make it pure of our own Country Poppy after the way that Quercitanus hath taught us Take what quantity you please of Garden Poppy Heads that carrieth a red flower so soon as the first flowers appear displaied bruise them in a Stone Morter with a woodden Pestle put the matter into a spacious Glass and pour on so much of the best white Wine Vineger til the matter be very wel wet the Vineger swim above al two fingers breadth let them digest for about fifteen daies and when the Vineger grows red intensively put the matter into a Linnen Bag and press it out strongly what is expressed let it Evaporate at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey and whilst it is yet hot cast it into cold water that it may Coagulate then take it out and wipe off the moisture But of compounds there are two that are the best and easiest to be provided of all that are found in shops The first is of Guajnerus for outward use Take Opium Juyce of Henbane Juyce of Mandragora of unripe Mulberries Lettice and of Ivy Tree of each one ounce Dissolve the Opium in the Juyces when that is dissolved wet a Sponge in it and dry it again at the Sun for fifteen daies when you would use it dip your Sponge in warm water and put it to the Nose of the Patient this Sponge will keep its vertue for some years The other serves for internal uses namely Laudanum which in two daies time may be made Thus Take the extract of Saffron one scruple the extract of the species of Diamoschu two scruples extract of Opium prepared four scruples Mingle them and with three drops of distilled Oyl of Cloves soften it The Saffron and species are extracted with Aqua vitae but the Opium with distilled Vineger Opium also is prepared if it be cut thin and dried at a gentle heat so long until it will fume no longer and being rubbed between the Fingers will crumble to Pouder the Dose of this is from about one grain and an half to five grains it easeth pains stops long Watchings and staies immoderate and sharp Fluxes Also Narcoticks provoke sleep but far more vehemently than true sleeping remedies do by so much as deep sleep requires stronger means than sleep doth whence it is that when true sleeping Medicaments will not prevail we are forced to use Narcoticks or heavy sleeping remedies now mentioned True sleeping Remedies are sweet Almonds and the Emulsions of them all sorts of Milk Garden Lettice fresh Moss of Trees Water Lillies great Housleek Blew Violets Venus Navel and smal Wine mixed well with pure Water the Exhibition of these is several Flesh Broths are altered with Lettice and Violets An Emulsion of sweet Almonds is made with the Decoction of Lettice Lettice is eaten Boyled seasoned with the Juyce of Oranges or Pome-citrons or Lemmons Decoctions are made of Herbs for Lotions of the Head and Feet Also an unguent may be made to anoint the Nostrils and the temples suddenly with Oyl thus Take these Herbs Lettice Water Lillies great Housleek Garden Night-shade of each one handful common Oyl eight ounces Boyl them at a gentle fire til the moisture be consumed press them out and strain them The Oyl of Violets and Water Lillies of the shops serve for the same use All those things serve to stop Fluxes which stay the matter that is moved with an ill motion by repelling it pulling it back intercepting it and binds up the passages therefore they belong not to this place Those things that are most proper to stay Fluxes shall be mentioned in the Catalogue of astringents There remains therefore to number up those Medicaments that drive away Diseases the use whereof is most fit after the causes that are urgent are taken away now of Diseases there are three general Heads Distemper ill Conformation and Unity dissolved Medicaments that alter a Sick distemper of the whole