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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

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

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

Francis Groyn of Lansanor in the County of Glamorgan And of Ford-Abby in the County of Devon Esq r 1698. 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 Humous 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 somthing added By Nich. Culpeper Student in Physick and Astrology London Printed by Peter Cole in Leaden Hall and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Excharge 1656. The Printer to the READER I Thought it convenient to give thee notice of some Particulars to be minded in this Book 1. That thou hast not more in the Title Page than is in the Book as is too often used by many in these times For every one of the twenty Particulars there named is distinctly treated on under that Head and somtimes much more as thou mayest easily find if thou pleasest to peruse the Contents before the Book by which thou mayest easily turn to the page in which each Head is treated on 2 If thou meetest with hard words that thou dost not well understand look at the end of Riverius Practice in English and most of them are there explained 3 Things that are here but briefly touched are much more largely treated on in Riverius Practice of Physick in English 4 For the rest of Mr. Culpepers VVorks that are yet unprinted I refer thee to his VVives Information and Testimony printed before this Book I remain Thine to serve thee Peter Cole The Contents THE Beginning Page 1 Physicks that purge the Belly Page 3 Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Page 4 Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Page 6 Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Page 9 Medicaments that soften the Belly Page 10 Things that mollifie the Belly in a Chollerick Cause ibid Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick Cause Page 12 Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholy Cause Page 14 Lenitive Clysters Page 15 Loosening Suppositories Page 16 Purgers by the Belly Page 17 When Choller Predominates what Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation Page 19 Strong Purgers Page 20 Violent Purgers Page 21 Such things as purge Flegm gently when it is predominant Page 23 Strong Purgatives Page 25 Such things as Purge Violently Page 28 A Drink Page 30 A most pleasing Pouder Page 31 A Bolus ibid Pills Page 32 When Melancholly prodominates these will Purge gently Page 32 Such things as purge Strongly Page 34 Such things as purge Violently ibid What things will purge gently when watery Humors prevail Page 40 Purging Clysters Page 46 Sharp Suppositories Page 48 For Vomiting Medicaments Page 49 What things move Vomit gently Page 49 Purging Vomits Page 51 Such things as void Flegm strongly that is predominant Page 53 Medicaments that evacuate by sweat Page 63 Medicaments that evacuate by Spittle Page 67 Medicaments that evacuate by the Pallat. Page 72 Medicaments that evacuate by the Nostrils Page 74 Medicaments that evacuate insensibly Page 77 Digesters ibid Discussives Page 79 Rubificatives Page 83 Medicines that augment necessary Matter where it is dificient Page 85 Medicaments that encrease Milk Page 86 Things that encrease Seed Page 88 Medicaments that alter the Cause of the Disease Page 90 Medicaments that prepare Choller Page 91 Preparatives for Flegm Page 94 Preparatives for Melancholly Page 97 Medicaments that allay Acrimony Page 98 Scouring Medicaments Page 101 Remedies to soften hard things Page 110 Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Page 119 Remedies that move the Courses ibid Helps for Delivery of Women Page 125 Remedies to drive out the Secundine Page 126 Remedies to open the Hemorroids Page 127 Remedies to force out the dead Child ibid Remedies that quiet the Matttr that is carried with a wrong Motion Page 229 Remedies that Root out the Cause that is offensive in the whol substance Page 231 Remedies for Worms Page 233 Remedies to break the Stone Page 237 Remedies that move Corruption Page 240 Remedies contrary to Poyson Page 245 Remedies for Symptoms that are Vrgent Page 257 Medicaments that alter a sick distemper of the whol Body and of the parts Page 268 Medicaments that alter the Head that is over-cooled Page 271 Altering Remedies for Eyes that are over-cooled Page 274 Arthritick Remedies for the Joynts that are overcooled Page 276 Remedies for the Nerves over-cooled Page 279 Remedies for the parts of breathing Page 282 Cordials for the Heart that is over-cooled Page 285 Stomach-heating Remedies Page 288 Remedies that alter the Intestines when they are over-cooled Page 293 Remedies of the Matrix either over-heat or over-cooled Page 306 Remedies of Diseases in ill Conformation Page 310 Remedies of Diseases in faulty Magnitude Page 350 Remedies for Diseases in Number Page 363 Remedies of Diseases in Situation and Connexion Page 367 Remedies of Diseases in dissolved Vnity ibid TO THE READER ALL those that were famous in the Art of Physick and by taking care of the health of Man gained to themselves great Honor may be supposed to have laid the first foundation of all their glory in the Cottages of Poor Men. For since two things chiefly commend a Physitian skill to cure the sick and great charity to the Poor without which there can hardly be so much sence of anothers misery that can invite one carefully to lend his utmost help These two are so united that a Physitian can hardly be approved amongst Rich Men and Princes unless he hath shewed himself to be such a one by his frequent Practice amongst the Poor For they that abound with all those things the want whereof makes life to others not so desirable will suspect the skill of such as begin but now to Practice and who have not been emnent by many experiments and famous Cures that are divulged by the Testimony of the common People And the Physitian alone shall not easily perswade great Men to whom he may be called that he hath seriously taken care for the Disease but rather for his own gain and profit who hath not sometimes done his best endeavors to help poor distressed Men and by such a Custome learned to deal gently with those that

Catharticks and Purgatives The Belly is loosned by Physicks taken at the Mouth or cast in by Clysters or else by Suppositories Those that are taken at the Mouth are of two sorts for some of them do strongly purge the Belly and bring forth the Excrements others work more weakly which are principally to be used to keep the Belly loos that the Natural Excrements of the first Concoction may not too long be retained Strong Purgers in a Chollerick Cause Whey Clarified and so drank from three pound to eight pound within one hour space but it wil be more effectual if in the first Cup you dissolve one dram of common Salt Un-huld Barly Water drank within the time of half an hour from two pound to six pounds especially if it be boyld with Raisons and Prunes The fresh Juyce of the purple Violet from one ounce to two ounces with one cup of Barley or fountain Water The Juyce of Damask Roses drank the same way The Juyce of the Garden Gourd gently boyled with a fourth part of Ho●ey and a little common Salt drank from three ounces to five ounces All these must be corrected by steeping of Wormwood in them if a weak stomach chance to abound with choller The Juyce of Succory clarified from Three ounces to five or six ounces Common Oyl that is made of ripe Olives boyld with thrice as much Fountain Water til the moysture be consumed drank alone from four ounces to six ounces especially in the pain of the Heart The fresh Flowers of the Cherry Tree or the Peach Tree one smal handful eaten in a Sallet Musk Roses in number four Eaten in a Sallet especially if they be yet moyst with Dew Twelve sweet Prunes gently boyl'd in Honey Water You may also prepare from Prunes a * What Rob or Sapa is and how to mak several sorts thereof and the several uses of them you may easily learn in my last edition of the London Dispensatory in English Rob like to Sapa of smal Charge and very pleasant such as here followeth Take sweet Prunes one pound sweet Cods sliced three ounces Fountain Water or sweetish white Wine three pound boyl them at a gentle fire til the Matter grow thick then strayn it through a Hair Sive then boyl it again to the consistence of a Sapa of which for a Sufficient Purge give one ounce and half either by it self or with a smal Cup of Water or Broth. you may boyl it thicker like an Electuary for such as wil take it only in a Bolus but you must add a fourth part of Honey that it may last some time uncorrupted and you may give one ounce of it or one ounce and half Purgers in a Flegmatick Cause Take red Sugar one ounce in the broth of a Pullet or Water of Coriander Also take fine Sugar from one ounce and half to two ounces the same way Good Metheglin not boyled taken from eight ounces to about one pound But the windinss of it must be corrected with seeds of Annis Fennel or Coriander Sweet Wine with the third part of raw Honey from four ounces to nine ounces adding also the sweet Seeds that it may not stretch out the Belly The decoction of Fenugreek with a fourth part of Honey or else alone with Salt from four ounces to six ounces The Herb Mercury eaten like Pot-hearbs seasoned with Salt and Oyl So also is the Decoction of it good from four to six ounces adding Salt to it The pouder of both Hysops from two drams to four drams with Oxymel or about one measure of the Decoction of it given alone or else with Oxymel The Pouder of crude Tartar from half a dram to two drams drank in Cock-Broth or Honey and Water or in the Decoction of Hysop or Poley Rosin of the Larch Tree unwashed from three drams to five for those that are in years but give children about one dram in Bolus or Pills For this end may be provided a laxative Oxymel that is very effectual Take eared or femal Mercury two handfuls common Wormwood one handful Honey one pound Fountain Water three pound let them boyl at a gentle fire to the consistence of Honey then ad Hysop and Poley of each one handful the best Vineger half a pound boyl them again to the consistence of Oxymel and then strain them the dose is from three ounces to four ounces alone or in Broth. Also there are Pills easy to get and of smal cost Made of washt Aloes which may be given from one scruple to two drams or thereabouts And Garzias ab horto writes that if the leaves of Aloes are cut and boyled with a little Salt the Decoction drank to about eight ounces wil Loosen the Belly without any harm four or five times Purgers in a Melancholy Cause Take the pouder of Fumitory dryed in the shade about three drams in Water and Honey Or Take the fresh Juyce of the same Herb from two ounces and half to four ounces or there abouts in Clarified Whey or Broth of a Pullet So the Decoction of one handful of it is good especially with Raisons and a little Salt Tartar used as was said before The Cream of Tartar is given from one dram to three drams in Broth or some other Liquor Of Tartar and a little of the Leaves of Senna of Alexandria to stimulate it a very effectual Pouder is made and it is very pleasant It is thus made Take the best crude Tartar one dram or Cream of Tartar one dram half Leaves of Senna one scruple seeds of annis or fennel or cinnamon half a scruple fine Sugar half a dram mingle them and make a Pouder for one Dose Medicaments that Soften the Belly We must use these remedies that do not Purge strongly rather to hinder the retention of the Excrements of the first Concoction than for any other necessary and quick Evacuations and such are these Things that Molify the Belly in a Chollerick Cause These following Herbs boyld as Pot-hearbs and their Decoctions are profitable namely Sorrel Atriplex Blites Lettice al kind of Sorrel Mallows and the stalks thereof Spinach These Herbs soften more if they be boyled with Raisons in fat Broth or seasoned with Oyl and a little Salt Sweet Cherries boyled especially with their broth and sprinckled with Sugar Also Juyce of Cherries thickned with Honey from one spoonful to two spoonfuls either taken alone or with Broth. Peaches byoled and sprinkled with Sugar Sweet Apples byold Corinths without stones and al of that kind either taken alone or steeped in Clarified Whey til they swel or boyled in White Wine or Broth and sprinkled with Sugar taken one ounce or two ounces at a time Sweet Prunes raw their outward skin being pulled off or boyled in Wine and sprinkled with Sugar The Juyce of Ptisan especially made of husked Barley Barley Bread Oyle of ripe Olives eaten largely at Meals The cheif use of al these as of those that follow is at the first

course or when the Stomach is empty about two hours before Meat Medicaments that loosen the Belly in a Flegmatick cause The sprouts of Stone Sparagus boyled and seasoned with Salt and Oyl Oat-meal in Meats or Gruel Colworts cheifly those that are curled being gently boyled seasoned with Oyl and Salt Also the first Broth of Colworts wel boyled and seasoned as before Likewise the Juyce of Colworts pressed out and drank in Broth from two to four ounces Beets vsed in the same manner the white Beet is held to be more effectual then the Black or Red. The Leaves of Marigolds Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt The first Broth of Chich Pease or Lintels with Oyle and Salt The Broth of all Salt fish New Figs very ripe Dry Figs six or seven soaked in Milk or sweet Wine until they swell Some also in the spring time strew fresh Damask Rose Leaves on Figs which Leaves they often change for the space of Fourteen dayes and putting them pressed close together into a Vessel they lay them up for their use and use to Eat two or three of them before meat New Walnuts or for the lack of them dry Walnuts soked in Water until they be Soft and then Eaten with Salt Branny Bread or that which is course which is made more effectual with Raisions and Senna of Alexandria Bran alone Boyled in Broth. The Decoction of Sweet Cods Medicaments that soften the Belly in a Melancholly cause Capers seasoned with Salt gently Boyled are eaten in Sallets with Oyl and Vineger The young sprouts of hops that first come forth Boyld and seasoned with Oyl and Salt they loosen more effectually if you Drink the Broth after them All kind of new sweet Grapes but especially whilst the dew yet hangs on them they are not so effectual when they are hanged up to be kept Sweet Wine drank Sawces made of the Juyce of Wine Sod that is new Wine Boyled a little To these may be referred prunes and Raisons especially in adust Melancholy Vineger is made to season Sallets and to keep the Belly Soluble after this fashion Take Crude Tartar one dram or Cream Tartar half an ounce Leaves of Senna three drams good Cinnamon or Annis Seed one dram the sharpest Vineger one pound make infusion a natural day and keep the Vineger for use Also Vineger of Currence in which Tartar hath been insused a whole night is not uneffectual Lenitive Clysters Clysters are made presently at a very smal rate to purge the Belly of one pound of Flesh Broth Oyl of Olives or Line Seed Oyle and the dregs of Sugar of each three ounces Common Salt one dram mingle them It will be Cheaper and more clensing if a Clyster be made of natural Salt Sea-Water or Mineral Water one pound common Oyl three ounces Or. Take the Decoction of Mercury Mallows Beets and Bran one pound Juyce of Colworts or Honey or Juyce of Beets two ounces common Salt one dram mingle them for a Clyster If there be need of any great Loosning Augment the Quantity of the Oyl to four or six ounces or Omitting the Oyl increase the quantity of the Decoction made with a great deal of Mallows Marsh Mallows Brank-ursin and pressed out strongly If there need Cooling the Leaves of blew Violets Pellitory of the wall and Barley must be added to the Decoction If the * what that is see my translation of Riverius Practice of Physick in the Physical Dictionary at the end of the aforesaid Book Expulsive faculty be weak you must double or treble the quantity of Salt Loosening Suppositories Suppositories made of one ounce of Honey or the dross of Sugar Boyled hard adding a little Salt to it If the Expulsive faculty be sluggish do mildly stir up the Belly to void out the excrements Also the Roots of Radish or Beets Cut into form of Suppositories and smeered with Oyl or Butter with or without Salt The same is done with the stem of the Colwort Also a Fig turned the out side inward and made like a Suppository anoynted with Oyl and Salt So Suppositories are made of Spanish Soap or with Lard or a Candle anoynted with Oyl or Butter Purgers by the Belly Those Medicaments that draw forth the excrements by the Belly and are called Purgatives and Catharticks though they hardly drive forth the Humors single but mingled together yet they take their Name from the Excrement that they most effectually purge For which reason they may be reduced to four ranks according to the diversity of Humors that they purge forth Namely to Purgatives of Choller Flegm Mellancholy and Watery or Bloody Excrements We may again divide all these severally to distinguish them the better into gentle purgatives which purge Mildly without gripings from the parts that are about the Liver into forcible Purgatives which drive forth from the remote parts and from the hollow Vein not without some trouble and Violent Purgatives or furious which draw from the furthest parts and if they be not well Corrected they do their work most vehemently and weaken the Patient With this distinction it is an easy matter for any one to make choise of Purgatives according to the different Scituation and the part that is affected and for the greater or lesser resistance of the Humor that must be purged and for the strength or weakness of the Sick that must endure it When Choller Predominates these Medicaments are Convenient for a gentle Evacuation The wood of Amara Dulcis Boyled from one ounce to two ounces with a quantity of Annis Seed or Fennel-Seed The Yellow rind of the Black Alder-Tree dried in the shade and cheifly at the beginning of the spring taken to four scruples it is corrected with some aromatical Seed and the Black Rind that is out-most and therefore it is dried Boyled and bruised al together Monks Rhu-barb or the Herb Patience of Mathiolus the pouder of the dried Root is given from one dram to one dram and an half in warm Broth with five or six grains of Ginger or Hysop Blew Violets dried in the shade are taken from one dram to two drams with the Broth of Chich Pease or garden Pease Boyled Moderately The great Bind-weed of Mathiolus Bovled from one handful to two handfuls It is corrected with such things as bind the Stomach cheifly with the Myrtle Berries Rosemary and wild Galinga These Purge Strongly The lesser Centaury in a Decoction from two drams to three drams in eight ounces of Water till half be consumed adding Liquoris or Raysons to correct the bitterness it is given in Pouder to one dram or thereabouts in the Decoction of Prunes or Raysons cheifly in Barley Water Gratiola dried is administred in Pouder to one dram in Wine or Broth altered with things that Corroborate the Stomach When it is green it is Boyled from one dram and an half to two drams some of the Succories especially being Boyled with it Petty Spurge in Pouder about four scruples drank in

three ounces or thereabouts of the Decoction For example In the Diseases of the nerves and Joynts from a cold Defluxion make such a Decoction Take Wood of the Bay-Tree and Box Tree of each one ounce and an half cut them smal and infuse them one day in five pound of common water add Leaves of Betony Germander and Ivy of each one handful let them Boyl at a gentle fire til a third part be consumed strain it to be drank at five Times Improper Medicaments to move sweat The Decoction of Camomel Chervil Fumitory unhulled Barley Millet Lintils lightly BoyIed Roots of Hops Cynkfoil Tormentil Leaves of common Pimpernel Scabious and Winter Gelliflowers Of these is made a common Syrup called the Syrup of St. Ambrose of one part Wine and two parts of the Decoction of Millet Other Medicaments may be suddenly made as for example in a Cutaneous effect make such a Decoction Take the Leaves of Scabious and Fumitory dry of each one handful Roots of Hops half an ounce Barley Water one pound and an half Boyl all at a gentle fire to the Consumption of almost the half and strain it out for one draught When the smal Pox appear Take Leaves of Pimpernel one handful Scabious half a handful of the first Decoction of Lintels one pound Boyl them til a third part be consumed strain it out to drink at one draught The Decoctions of these are given in greater quantity than are the Decoctions of those that are properly to cause sweat Namely from about eight ounces to two pound And you must know that sweat can hardly be procured by the help of these Medicaments unless the force of them be derived outwardly to the Skin by attracting Medicaments by the benefit whereof the pores of the Skin also are loosned and prepared for sweat therefore about an hour and an half after the taking of a potion to sweat the Body must either be put into a dry Bath or some hot natural or artificial Bath or els must be wel covered with Garments or els hot Tiles must be applyed to him or vessels ful of hot Water or the Skin must be gently rubbed or Cupping Glasses without Scarification must be applied on divers Parts as necessity shall most require Medicaments that Evacuate by Spittle Those things that unloose the Stuffing from the ways of breathing are called from their office Expectorating Medicaments all which may be comprehended under a tripple difference for some are convenient for thick spittle namely incisers and scowrers others are for thin and unsavory spittle as dryers and a little thickning others again are to temper Salt spittle and to hinder the corroding of it Therefore when the spittle is Moderately thick a * What Lohoch is see the end of Riverius Practice of Physick in English And the Dispensatory in English Lohock is needful of water and Honey or Oxymel crude Honey a Decoction of Figs Liquoris sweet Cods Raysins adding a quantity of Colts Foot Lungwort or Sc●bious for the Pouders of these Herbs may be mixed with the Oxymel to the consistence of a Lohoch or a Soft Electuary in which form the pouder of Iris is used to good profit mixt with Oxymel For Spittle that is very thick these are proper the Decoction of Oak of Jerusalem Elecampane Hatchet-Fetch Hysop Horehound Savory Time long Aristolochia the Pouders of these are mixed profitably with Oxymel for a Lohoch or they are mingled with Honey in form of an Electuary Or There is Compounded a sweet drink with Oxymel and the Decoction of the said Herbs as also by the infusion of them Hysop Wine is wont to be made and Wine of Elecampane which the Antients used Ordinarily The common people use to make a profitable Electuary of the Roots of Elecampane Boyled in Water it were better to take Methegsin or sweet Wine and passed through a Hair sieve and then mingled with twice as much of clarified Honey and Sod to a just consistence Besides these the Pouder of Brimstone doth profit well or the Flower mixt and taken with a rear Egg. The Seed of Nettles mixed in Lohochs or Aqua-vitae with a third part of Sugar made into a confection or mixt with Oxymel So the Pouder of the Lungs of a Fox taken from half a dram to one dram in Wine or Metheglin to be drunk or mixed for a Lohoch Saffron drank in Wine from half a scruple to a whole scruple Sows Lice washed in Wine and infused to one dram al night in white Wine then pressed forth and drank the dregs being cast away The Rozin of the Larch or Firr Tree licked or swallowed down in Bolus for a licking Medicament it must be dissolved in clarified Honey for it will mingle very well with Honey A most excellent Balsom may be made for this purpose Take Oyl of ripe Olives for the rich take Oyl of sweet Almonds that is not rank half a pound sweet white Wine four ounces let them Boyl til the moisture be consumed then add Flower of Brimstone three ounces stirr them continually and very Softly at a gentle fire and when the Flowers are dissolved add Rozin of the Larch Tree or the Firr Tree or if it can be had the Gum of the Firr Tree two ounces and an half mingle them to perfection It may be put into Lohochs or taken inwardly with the foresaid Decoctions or with white Wine But that the spittle may come forth the more easily least the Humor that is thick should grow dry with the use of these things it is best alwaies to add some Emollients and loosners such as are for Lambitives and internall uses the Root of Liquoris the pulp of Raysons Roots of Mallows and Marsh Mallows It is good to Anoint the Stomach outwardly with Butter chiefly that which is rank either alone or mingled with the Mucilage of Mallows and Marsh Mallows An Application of a Colewort Leaf well anoynted with Putter and sprinkled with Pouder of Cummin Seed and so laid hot to the brest is much spoken of When the spittle is thin and unsavory the Decoction of round Aristolochia Iuiubes wild Plumbs Golden Rod Penniwort Veronica the Juyce of somewhat sowre Pomegranats either by it self or with a little Honey All sorts of licking Medicaments made of white starch Gum Arabick Tragant all Physical earth with Honey or Oxymel mixing a quantity of Brimstone or Mirrh or round Aristolochia or the Cream of Ptisan with some white Starch For Salt spittle the Decoction of Barley Iuiubes Liquoris Raysons sweet Prunes are convenient and chiefly in the Decoction of the Feet and Head of a Calf Kid or Lamb also of Snails and Snails of the woods Emulsons of sweet Almonds and of the four lesser cold Seeds chiefly adding the Flower of starch the Cream of Ptisan or a Panatella with the same Emulsions adding also the Emulsion of white Poppy Seed when the Saltnes is urgent the Juyce of sweet Prunes licked up Fresh Butter licked as also added to

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

Chamomel of each one Pugil common Water six pound Let them Boyl till a third part be consumed to foment and wet the Breasts of the rest an excellent Plaister may be made These that follow are proved remedies Take Turpentine often washed in white Wine three ounces three whole Eggs Saffron one scruple Yellow Wax two drams Mingle them and make a Cerate to be Spread on a Linnen Cloth leaving a hole that the Paps may come forth to be sucked Or Take Bean Meal three ounces common Oyl two ounces Turpentine one ounce two Yolks of Eggs Saffron one scruple with the Decoction of Mallows and Parsley made with Vineger what is sufficient Mingle them and make a Cataplasm Also fresh Butter washed very well in the Decoction of Mallows and mingled with the Pouder of the Roots of Mallows or Marsh-mallows to the consistence of an Unguent and laid on upon a Colewort leaf is a most excellent remedy for pained breasts and hardned by the Milk stopped in them This also is singular Take common Oyl of ripe Olives new Wax of each a like quantity mingle them then wash them wel three times in Rose water and lay them on with a Colewort leaf The same remedies serve for clotterd Milk tempered with cold and moist ingredients and with a greater quantity of Vineger Yet A Plaister of Bran exceeds them or of Barley Boyled with Vineger adding thereto a little Saffron Also a Cataplasm of Bean Meal with the Decoction of Night-shade that bears winter Cherries made with Vineger which is made most effectual if you mix the Runnet of a hare with it and fresh Butter Hitherto we have spoken of remedies to correct the manifest quality of the causes of Diseases but the hidden quality since it is venemous and is in those things that are faulty in substance it requires remedies against Malignity which we shall set down afterwards amongst those remedies that are opposite to the cause that is preternatural by the whole kind Remedies that move Preternatural Matter that lieth stil Want of motion in those things that by nature should move at certain times fals out principally when the courses are stopt or in hard Labour in Child-Birth or when the Secundine staieth behind as also when the blind Hemorrhoids are bread within these are remedied by such things as procure the courses help Travel drive out the Secundine and the Child that is dead and also provoke the secret Piles Remedies that move the Courses Those things that properly move the Terms do melt the Blood and open the Orifices of the Veins the matter whereof being it is of large extent Galen distinguisheth it into three Ranks Gentle the use whereof is when the Terms are diminished Mean which are more fit for the Terms that are stopt Forcible such as are used as the last remedies when other helps profit not and these are not given inwardly but in Pessaries or infusions The Chief and most Obvious amongst the gentle are Maiden-Hair Red Chiches the first Broth of them Cats-tails of Walnut Trees flowers of Stockgelli-flowers dried in the shade white Lillies flowers of Balm common Maiden-hair Cinkfoyl of these are made Decoctions and Syrups chiefly with Aromatical white Wine These remedies are counted to be the most effectual of them Take maiden-hair or common maiden-hair half a handful flowers of wall-flowers dried one ounce sweet white Wine six ounces make infusion for twelve hours then Boyl them softly till a third part be consumed strain it add Saffron three grains mix all for to drink hot Or Take Walnuts that are dry but not rank half an ounce Broth of red Chiches four ounces Odoriferous white Wine two ounces Boyl al to a third part strain them and add Saffron three grains or Cinnamon six grains Mingle them for a potion Also the frequent use of walnuts is held to move the courses by their property and therefore women make profitable Cakes and Puddings of Nuts green Parsly Leaves and Saffron To anoint the Hipogaustrium outwardly is made an Oyl of wall flowers by setting in the Sun or else of Lillies also presently an Oyl is made by descent of the Roots of white Lillies and the tops of Dill and Chamomel The Mean are round Aristolochia Mugwort all spices amongst which Cinnamon and Saffron are preferred Garden daisies double-toung calamint chiefly of the mountain both the Dittanies the Root of sword-flag Featherfew marioram Mercury Horse-mints Bazil Penniroyal savin Of which are made Decoctions Syrups Electuaries or one dram of their Pouder is given in white Wine that is spiced To these dry remedies as Pouders Bolus and Pills borax of the shops is profitably adioyned or mirrh flowers of brimstone and Nettle Seed The Decoction of Garden Daisies dried is held for a secret given in white Wine spiced Also the Decoction of Nettle Seed one ounce in white Wine So is the Decoction of the Leaves of Garden Groundsel plucked off downward in white Wine or Broth of red Chiches Also bastard Dictamni of Mathiolus either in Decoction or in Pouder and drank in white Wine Also one dram of the sowrest Leaven or thereabouts dissolved in white Wine and drank without or with a little Saffron So is the Seed of Nigella one dram with one scruple of Cinnamon in white Wine Also this Pouder is most effectual Take Borax of the shops one scruple Cinnamon Roots of round Aristochia Leaves of Savin and Dictamni of Crete or Nigella seed half a scruple fine Sugar two scruples mingle them and make a fine Pouder to take at once in the Broth of red Chiches or the best white Wine Also Physick Wine may be made whereof four ounces drank hot in a morning for some days together before the usual time the Terms are wont to come down will forciblly provoke them and it is thus made Take Hearbs Mugwort mountain Calamint Penniroyal Savin of each one Pugil Cinnamon Annis Seed of each one dram Saffron one scruple cut the Herbs and bruise the Seeds and for twenty four hours infuse them in strong white Wine two pound then Boyl them a little and strain them Outwardly the waters of hot brimstone Baths are convenient also the Decoctions of the foresaid Herbs wherewith are provided Fomentations and infusions for the matrix also fumes are made which much be used on such as are subject to fits of the Mother burning under them such things as smel sweet which may be used indifferently for others by mingling sweet and stinking things together for sweet smels do open the passage of the Matrix and stinking things do stir up the Expulsive Faculty to Vacuation For a sweet smel Spices are good Bay-berries grains of Juniper Marioram Mirrh Roots of Dog-Fennel Savory Time But for a stinking smel serve Bitumen Jeat Rue brimstone and some ordinary Gums but chiefly Asa-foetida and Sagapenum Lastly pessaries are singularly commended of Garlick Bruised with Oyl of Spik also of the Juyce of mercury or the Juyce of the Root of Dwarf-Elder made up