reason of plenitude and fulnesse of blood breathing a veine at the Arme is very necessary for her safety In all Fevers requiring Phlebotomy let it be done in the beginning when Nature is strong and the Distemper lesse prevalent After long and wasting sicknesse take heed of blood letting In Women and fatt bodies take blood sparingly in men and lean bodies and those who have large veines take more freely If the Masse of blood be wholly vitiated and naught be sparing in Blood letting but purifie it by gentle Purgation Sweating Medicamentall Aliment and proper dyet Before ten and after sixty years age let no Veine be opened but upon urgent occasion If the Disease be great and urgent requiring large Evacuation and Nature imbecile and weake take blood at twice or thrice itermitting 6 or 12 hours distance as the skilful Chirurgeon shall see cause When Phlebotomy and Purgation are both required and the Disâ—ase seated in the Veines and habite of the body first bleed then purge but if otherwise and chiâ—fly in the stomack bowells and parts adjacent first purge then bleed If there be suppression of a wonted Evacuation and Detrimentall or obstruction contrary to the Law of Nature open a Veine to exonerate and alleviate for the present Nature will be betteer able to relieve it self for the future In Symptomaticall translations of a turgid humour aestuations and ebullitions of the blood causing a general perturbation or erratic paines restlâ—ssenesse and unquiet watchings in the night Breathing a Veine Refrigerates Allayes and checks the effrenation of humours For Anniversary and imminent Diseases arising from Plenitude and Luxuriant blood opening a Veine anticipates and prevents them In vehement Distempers requiring Phlebotomy look not upon the quallity of the blood but make detraction according to the quantity having respect to the strength of the Patient After Phlebotomy use a spare and good Diet that you fill not your Veines with crudities and ill humours 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Isiodor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Physitians ARMORY wherein you may view A Magazine of Rare Medicines Classically distributed and digested Specificly appropriated properly denominated moderately prized the full Doses in each Mâ—dicine numbred the duration of each Medicine in its full vertue justly limited Appropriation Denomination Doses Duration moneths Price   shil pence To the Braine Capital Pills 2 18 1 8 Epileptick Powder 3 24 1 6 Cephalic Electuary many 12 1 6 Catarrh Pills 4 18 1 4 Epileptic Amulet 1 12 2 0 Fuming Powder many 36 1 0 Eyes Opthalmic Water many 12 1 6 Heart Bezoardic Antidote 3 24 1 8 Cordial Tincture 3 24 1 6 Lungs Pectoral Electuary many 12 1 8 Asthmatic Pills many 18 1 6 Hectio Confection many 6 1 8 Stomack Digestive Electuary many 9 1 6 Stomack Pills 2 18 1 6 Great Elixir many 24 1 8 Emetic Tincture 1 12 1 0 Liver and Spleen Hydropic Powder 2 18 1 6 Splenetic Pills 2 18 1 6 Spleen Plaster 1 12 1 8 Scorbute Tincture many 24 1 8 Guts Discussive Powder 3 18 1 6 Retentive Electuary 2 9 1 6 Tincture for worms many 18 1 0 Pills for worms 3 12 1 6 Clyster Electuary 1 12 1 4 Reins and Bladder Nephritic pills 6 18 1 8 Roborating pills 5 18 1 6 Srengthning plaster 1 12 1 6 Genital parts Restringent powder many 24 1 8 Antivenereall pills 2 18 2 0 Expulsive powder 1 12 2 0 Hysterical powder 3 12 1 6 Feminine Pills 2 18 1 8 Womens preservative 4 12 2 0 Joynts Arthritic pills 2 18 2 0 Miscellaneous and Generall Medicines Catholic Pills 1 18 1 0 Aperitive Powder 3 24 1 6 Sudorific Pills 1 18 1 0 Haematic Powder 4 24 1 6 Purgative Electuary 1 9 1 0 Isâ—ue Plasters 4 24 1 0 Febrific Antidote 3 12 1 8 Camphire Powder many 24 1 6 Cosmetic water many 12 2 0 Generall Instructions for the Doses and Quantities necessary to be observed in the taking of any Medicine and the right Manner of keeping and preserving them from decay A Dose is the just and due quantity of a Medicine to be taken or used at once The full Dose is for men and women of strength but if they be weak and tender bodies or by experience have found that lesse will operate with them then other bodies require let such take the Doses for the age 14 prescribed I meane chiefly in vomiting or purging Medicines Observe the quantities prescribed for the several Ages and rather offend under then over the next Dose you may amend by taking a little more if the first be too weake there is no harm in that After the first Dose of any Medicine taken your own reason and ability of body will easily direct you in the next whether to keep to the same to augment or diminish for you must know the difference of bodies is such in operation that they require oftentimes a different quantity for their proportion to produce the like effect which cannot exactly be determined and appointed by the prescience of the most skilfull Physitian untill the first Experiment and tryall of their bodies Therefore slight not any Medicine if it answers not your expectation at the first but prove it farther and alter the quantity more or lesse as you find it requisite for your purpose and condition of body But let me Caution you this In Chronic Diseases that are slow of Motion and gives you sufficient time for Cure never desire strong Physick but imitate Nature which acts Gradually and gently does nothing Hastily and Violently Physick can doe nothing of it selfe but as an Auxiliary and help to Nature and if Nature does not Cooperate you must expect no benefit therefore if you go natures pace you will have Nature assisting with the meanes but if you be hasty and put all your hopes in the strength of your Physick and strive to doe as much in one day as is fit for three dayes work you precipitate Nature defame good Medicines and wrong your own body But when the Disease is vehement and accute threatning suddain death as Apoplexy Lethargie and the like then use sharp and quick Medicines because the time for cure is but short and will admit of no delay Vehementi malo forti omnino auxilio opus est What Medicines you would keep for a long time to serve for accidental occasions set them in dry places not near the ground or damp walls nor in the open ayre and they will remain in their vertue and goodnesse according to their several times prefixed in the preceding Table of Medicines The Vertues right Vse and Due Quantities of each Medicine particularly and distinctly Declared For the Head THe Capitall Pills purge and cleanse the Brain from all superfluous Humours that stupifie and dull the Rationall Faculty or obstruct and hinder the right Operation of the Sensitive they quicken the Memory open the Ventricles of the brain and free the Nerves from obstructions conducing much to the cure of all
as the greatness of the occasion requires untill the Cause be Eradicated the Flux stayed and all Symptomes allayed Women with childe may safely take it or any person whatsoever The full Dose is half the Medicine for 14 years a third part for 7 years old a fourth part Keep house for colde provokes the Flux neither eat or drink of two hours after the Medicine and then Almond Milk or Whâ—y is the best you can take which you may drink freely night or day if you be griped in the belly The Tincture for Wormes is exâ—ellent for young Children that cannot take the following Pills having the same effects save onely it purgeth not therefore give it in a little Syrupe of Rubarb or Roses if that cannot be had 2 or 3 mornings new Moon and full The Dose is 12 drops for six years old 8 drops to 4 years 4 drops to 2 years old The Pills for Wormes both kills and prevents their breeding by carrying away the putrid matter whereof they are generated clensing the stomack and bowels from filthy corrupt humors restores the stomack and complexion thereby decayed amends the ill savour of the breath and corrects many other Symptomes which wormes produce Take them two mornings together new Moon and full observing the general directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this book The Clyster Electuary is very usefull and of speedy help in all pains and gripings of the Belly Cholic Stone Spleen Costiveness Feaveâ—s pains in the head and upper parts by drawing the offâ—nding Cause downwards and evacuating it very fit for those that can take no puring Physick but this way it attracts Choler Flegme and Melancholy Use it thus Take a pint and half of Ale possâ—t half a handfull of Fennell sâ—eds bruised grosly or Annise boyle these to a plat strain it in this liquor then dissolve the Electuary put it in your Clyster bag fitted and give it warm then lye upon your back and retain it half an hour or 3 quarters if you can you may repeat it if occasion râ—quire you will find great ease and suddain heâ—p For children give but half or a third part more or less according to their age For the Reines and Bladder THe Nephritic Pills clenseth the Reins and Bladder of sand and gravel that generates the stone opens the Urinary passages and frees them from slimy or any gross matter that obstructs the Uriters they provoke Urine cool the Reins prevents the stone helps the Strangury and suppression of Urine Take them 2 or 3 mornings in a week fasting at any time of the year when occasion requires an hour after drink a good draught of White Wine and Ale then follow your business they purge not by stool but by Urine onely The Dose is 5 pills for 14 years 3 pills The Roborating Pills are very good to strengthen a weak back in man or woman to stay the whites helps the retentive facultie of the Bowels and naturall parts strengthens the Old age and weak persons Take them two or three mornings in a week in bed early sleep after them when you rise drink a glass of Mulkadine and follow your business The Dose is 5 pills for 14 years 3 pills The Strengthning Plaster is of excellent use in all strains and weakness of the back removes paine and Aches there gives strength to the Spine bone and knits a loose back it likewise helps all tumors pain and stiffnesse in any part by falls blows hard labour or colde it helps all Weaknesse Spraines and Wrenches of any joynt strengthens the Ligaments comforts the Sinews and draws out superfluous moisture that relaxeth any part or causeth paine and defends it from a flux of humors Apply it to the grieved part and let it stick on three or four weeks it will restore and help you of your infirmity For the Genitall Parts THe Restringent Powder staies a Gonorrhaea or runnig of the Reines so called mitigates and asswageth paine that proceeds from any sharp or hot humor in the Privities of man or woman heales any Exulceration there takes away any itching or troublesome heat cooles much and restraines effectually the debility and weakness of the spermatick vessels Use it thus take a pint of Plantane water half a pint of White wine one paper of this powder mix them well by shaking it together in a bottle then with a Syringe inject it into the privy part morning and night you will finde great help and ease But if the Gonorrhaea be virulent and proceed from the Pox then it is requisite also that you take the following Pills to purge and clense your body from that Malignity and virulency wherewith the humors are tainted and vitiated For if you stop the Gonorrhaea and do not also take away the impurity of the Disease you retain it in the body to your prejudice The Antivenereall Pills are a specific Remedy against the French Pox to clense and purifie the body from any infection and putrid matter arising from thence they purge downward all foulness of the body and by a peculiar propriety attract the venome of that Disease The full Dose is 4 pills for tender and weak persons 3 pills is sufficient Take them 5 or six times every third or fourth day according as you finde the ability of your body and the operation observing the directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages of this Book After the first Dose of Pills if you be young and sanguine or of a hot constitution or so acquired by this Disease then let a a Veine be opened in the arme and take blood at the discretion of your Chirurgeon After purging you may sweat 3 or 4 times with the Sudorfiic Pills to purifie the blood see page 43. The Expulsive powder is an approved help for the safe delivery of Women in labour when all other meanes have failed giving strength both to the Woman and Childe and speedily procureth the birth by Gods help Give it in a spoonfull of Cinamon water at the due time for delivery and no time else The Dose is one paper The Hysterical Powder is a specific remedy against fits of the Mother very soon abates their violence disperseth the Vapours shortens the fitt and reduceth the Patient to her sense and reason Give it once or twice that day you have them in half a pint of Spring water colde For prevention take it once in a fortnight or 3 weeks in the morning fasting The Dose is one paper The Femenine Pills clenseth and opens all obstructions of the Matrix cures the green Sickness effectually and restores the complexion prevents fits of the Mother in those that are subject to it and disperseth the vapours brings the termes into their right order according to the course of Nature and purgeth women excellently Take them 3 or 4 times observing directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pâ—ges of this book The full Dose is 6 pills for 15 years 5 pills or but 4 if she be
flegmatick constitutions but if you have a Hectic Feaver or have a dry Cough or it proceeds from a sharp hot and thin rhume then this medicine is not so proper as the foregoing and this that follows The Hectic Confection iâ— very well approved for Consumption coughs and those that have a hot and dry constitution or a Hectic Feaver it cooles moistâ—ns and restores the Radicall moisture very much easeth the breast that 's pained with couging and loosens the flegme it helps a dry Cough and procures expâ—ctoration is very restorative for consumptive and leane persons Take the quâ—ntity of a Nutmeg or Chestnut as oft as you â—lease and occasion râ—quires but not soon after meat For the Stomack THe Digestive Electuary helps Concoction and closeth the mouth of the stomack reprâ—ssâ—th Fumes and Vapours that rise up to the head after meat shâ—rpâ—ns the Appetite and is very pleasant and gratefull to the stomack Take the quantity of a Nutmeg half an hour after Dinner and Supper The Stomack Pills â—ffectually clâ—nseth the first Region of the body carries away all vitious Humors and indigested matter that clogs the stomack hinders digestion dulls the Appetite and which corrupâ—s good Nutriment received prevents and cures Fluxes Gripings and paines ih the Stomack and Bowels from sharp biting Choler or flatulent Crudity Attracts and draws away all viscous slime and gross flegme that generates obstructions from whence many Diseases arise Take them three or four times Spring and Autume or at other temperate seasons if occasion require observing the directions and cautions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages The full dose is six pills for 14. years 4 pills for ten years old 3 pills The Great Elixir strengthens a weak stomack very much procures good digestion and appetite takes away crudities nauseousness and sowre belchings from off a raw stomack and fortifies it exceedingly but if the stomack be very foule stuffed and clogged with gross flegmatic humors or hot Choleric humors fluctuating and broiling upon the stomack then first clense downward with the stomack pills or upwards by vomit with the Emetic Tincturâ— afterwards strengthen with this Elixit and you will finde a great alteretion both for Appetite and Concoction To be taken in a little Sack or other Wine most agreeable to your stomack but not alone in the morning fasting an hour after and at 4 of clock afternoon The full Dose is 30 drops but for young people and children so many drops as they are years old Shake the Bottle when you use it The Emetic Tincture dichargeth the Stomack by Vomit of all Superfluous Crude and Noxious Humours that fluctuate upon the Stomack or lodge in the parts adjacent it takes away bitter and Acid Eructations and Belchings Vellications and Gripes in the Stomack from Bilious Humors very proper and succesfull in the cure of Agnes Obstructions of the Liver and Gall which causeth the Yellow Jaundice takes away immoderate thirst and heat of the Stomack by Evacuating Choller and Humours dust Cleanseth from all impurities and makes the Stomack fitt for Reception of wholesome Foodâ— make it a little Warme and take it according to the Directions for Vomiting set down in the 18 19. pages The full Dose is the whole Medicine for Men and Women of strength but for tender bodies and for the age 15 take but three parts of it Liver and Spleen THe Hydropic Powder is a peculiar Medicine that attracts all serous and watry humors from any parâ— of the body and evacuates them opens obstructions of the Liver and Mesaraick veines and is the most effectual purge for Dropsies that I know Take it in a little Posset drink or white Wine warmed fasting 2 or 3 mornings in a week and keep house eat not untill noon observe the directions for purging in the 16 17 18 pages The full Dose is one paper for the age 14. three parts of a pâ—per or but half if a weak or tender person and so proportionably to younger The dayes you purge not drink a good draught of Wormwood wine and eat some white Bisket every morning and at 4 of clock afternoon The Splenetic Pills opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen easeth their pains and carries away the obstructing humours abates their tumors and distention of the Hypochonders and softens them Very usefull and proper in the cure of the Jaundice both Black and Yellow Hypochondriac Melancholy the Scurvy and such like seated in those parts by purging away the feculent matter that subside and obstruct the vessels Take them twice or thrice observing the directions for purging in the 16 17. 18 pages of this Book The full dose is six pills for 14 years 4 pills for ten years old 3 pills The Spleen Plaster is excellent for Paines and tumors of the Liver and Spleen to disperse the Winde and dissipate collected humors and to softâ—n any scirrhus hardnesse in those parts Apply it to the pained place the hollous fide inward towards the belly and let it stick on a fortnight or three weeks But with all remember the foregoing Pills to Evacuate and empty the vessels distended and obstructed with winde and humors and to cleere the passages and Ductures as the Plaster removes agitates and drives back the offending cause The Scorbute Tincture is a specific and most certain Remedy against the Scurvy sufficiently experimented and approved To be taken most exactly and properly in Rhenish Wine and the juce of Orange every morning fasting Spring and Fall for two or three weeks also at other timeâ— of the year if occasion require The full Dose is half a spoonfull for fourteen years a third part If the body be soul forget not to purge For the Guts THe Discussive powder penâ—trates opens discusseth and expels winde and all flatulent Vapours that distend and puffe up the Belly and Hypochonderâ— helps the Cholick and iliac passion and all distempers pains and gripes from winde or cold In the Guts and Stomack Take it in warm Posset drink at any time when occasion requires If you boile a little Liquorice in the Posset drink you add to the goodness of the Medicine The full Dose is one Paper for 14 years old halfe a Papâ—r Also that a more free passage and vent for the winde may be given take the following Clyster if your body be costive or the occasion urgent and extreame The Retentive Electuary stopâ— all Fuxes of the belly by attracting and collecting the peccant humor onely that stimulates to expulsion and by and Evacuates and sends it forth whether it be sharp bilious or acide serous humours a saline irritating flegme a stinking corrupt Colliquation or Acride and Adust Melancholly having also an astringent Vertue to binde afterwards and to roborate the Retentive faculty the offending cause being removed this is the onely way to expell the cause stop the Flux and prevent danger that may ensue To be taken on a knifes point fasting three or four mornings together more or less