matter in hand and I know my slender receipt shall be greatly suspected for the working of so rare an effect But notwithstanding being greatly incouraged by experience and reason hir good Lady and Gouernesse I will boldly proceed heerein Take on thy two good dayes euery day so much of my Potion fasting as will giue thee sixe or seuen stooles The third day which is thy fit day passe ouer as thou thinkest good for I prescribe thee nothing The fourth day take of the Water whereof I spake in the Chapter before a reasonable draught warmed early and keepe thy bed sweat moderatly fiue or sixe houres and during thy sweat drinke now and then Ale clarified warme into euery draught put three spoonefuls of the Water and one spoonefull of good wine vineger Use this order foure dayes togither If the Quartan forsake thee not in that time which I thinke almost impossible vpon thy next fit day two hours before thy cold take the like quantitie of the water as before and sweat vntill the time of thy cold be past and in thy sweate drinke Ale clarified as before also Use this order three times onely vpon thy fit dayes After thy fits haue left thee take ten dayes together of my Potion so much as will giue theâ— dayly two stooles Note that this Water being dispearsed in thy bodie by naturall heate stirred vp in sweating doth in wonderfull sort ripen and digest the matter of the quartane Ague so that it far excelleth all the preparatiues of the world For thereby alone I haue cured many without purging but it is farre better to purge For the Tertian Ague which commeth euery second day The 18. Chapter TAke of Centuary sixe handfuls Endiue twelue handfuls distill these with a very gentle fire and keepe the water close stopped in a Glasse but let the Glasse bee but halfe full for so it will keepe the better For cure first let the Patient take so much of my Potion as will giue him fiue or six stooles on his good day the next day two houres before his fit will come giue him a reasonable draught of the Water warmed well whereunto ad a little sugar and let him keepe his bed and sweate three or foure houres and in his sweat let him drinke Ale clarified and in euery draught of Ale put two or three spoonefuls of the water vse this order also the second fit and thou shalt giue the Feuer such a check that it dareth not assault the patient any more Be carefull and thou mayest cure many extreame hot Feuers with this Water euen in one fit but after the fittes bee gone purge and so shalt thou deale very orderly thou mayest make a Water of Celendine alone which will cure the quotidian tertian and quartan Agues is this sort Take this Hearbe when it bloweth and is in greatest force chop it very small and digest it in a close vessell of Glasse ten dayes in Balneo Mariae which done thou shalt find it blacke and of a very sweete and pleasant sauour then distill it with a gentle heat and when in thy iudgement thou hast halfe the Water take it away keepe it by it selfe then increase the heate of the fire and get as much more Water as thou canst These Waters are to be vsed as the others whereof I haue spoken in the cure of these agues but the first water being of the colder nature doth cure onely the Tertian the second being hotter cureth the quotidian and quartan A generall cure for all Agues The 19. Chapter TAke a good draught warmed of the Iulip for Agues one houre before your fit and keepe your Body very warme and within halfe an houre take as much also in like sort take also in the same order the third draught in three fits this cureth all Agues orderly vsed If the Patient keepe his Bed and sweate in taking the Iulip hee may be the sooner cured For the Plague The 20. Chapter THere be three speciall causes of this disease The first is the iust iudgement of GOD for the sinnes of the people And herein I consent with the Diuines that in this case the Plague commeth as it were by the commandement of God and then in vaine worketh the pollicie of Man vnto health where the power of the Almightie worketh to destroy Wherefore repentance and amendment of life is the only salue for the sore Yet withall for that we are ignorant of the determination of God I wish no man to omit such naturall meanes as he hath prouided for the preseruation of our natural bodyes least thereby he tempt him The second kind proceedeth of the corruption of the Ayre which is of two sorts the one generall the other particular The Ayre is generally infected by the distemperature of the Heauens which thou shalt know in this sort The weather is long darke cloudy foggy stifeling very hot and moyst also our bodyes faint we loath the breath we draw for it bringeth a most sensible and present offence it is hard to keepe Flesh sweete litle Frogs Todes also flies Lobchesters Wormes of sundry sortes such as commonly proceed of putrifaction doe greatly abound and to conclude the Heauens do as it were refuse to draw the corruption from the Earth but rather seeme to yeelde downe againe such as they had taken away before The Ayre is particularly infected by the sauour of dead Carcases as it happeneth oft in battaile where many are slaine and lie vnburied which infecteth the particular â—lace onely where the bodyes lie also by the euill and putrified sauour of a fennie or marish ground or such like And further by the breath and sauour of the bodyes of such as throng togither in a taynting or stifeling sort especially in some close or sluttish place as it happeneth no doubt often in London and such like Cities of great resort that many lodge together in one small roome hauing perhaps as many Beds as the place will well containe And then after one houre or two how may any of these draw fresh or sweete breath but such as his fellowes haue drawne often before as also the rancke fume of their bodyes Both which are so contrary to Nature that some and some with continuance they infect the vitall spirites and breed such corruption as bursteth out into the Plague The third kind of Plague riseth of the corrupt Humours in mans body by euill diet ingendred And these last sorts come by the permission of God like as the first by his commandement To preuent this heauie griefe first I wish one old order to be renewed which was to make Fires in all great Cities Townes in the open streets vpon certaine dayes euery yeare which no doubt doth greatly cleanse and purifie the ayre And although this order was diligently obserued by the followers of the Pope yet I thinke they did it rather of policie then of religion and therefore being good it is not to be reiected Secondly I
A briefe Treatise published by Walter Cary 1587. and now the fift time 1609. newly imprinted Wherein are to be found diuers good and speciall helpes for many Diseases And for any thing herein mentioned as heretofore I refered the patientes to M. Gray so now he being dead I referre them to M. Clapham at the signe of the Blew bell and the Vnicorne in Fanchurch streete Ecclus. 30. 15. Health and Strength is aboue all Gold and a sound Body aboue infinite Treasure Imprinted at London by W. White for the company of Stationers 1609. The Authors Verse WHo liues in health and doth despise The meane to keepe and gaine the same Let him be sicke force not his cries His follie makes him too too blame Else pinch his Pursse and teach him say This Physick's vaine away away Shall hee that 's flush and feathered Say moolting time shall neuer bee The dolefull Mew doth not he dread Who sores as hie as thou canst see Mans health is frayle Physitians loue Health got they keepe and griefes remooue Walter Cary. TO THE READER FOR that I am now fully resolued gentle Reader for sundry causes to leaue the practise of Physicke coÌ„tenting my selfe with that small portion wherewithall God hath otherwise blessed mee I haue thought it my duetie to vse some meanes whereby I may either in like or more ample sort according to my poore talent benefit my Countrie Whereupon I haue published this short worke therein reuealing diuers good and perfect remedies for many common and ordinarie Diseases My meaning was not to write of all but of those onely in the which I haue had greatest experience And though both in the description desiring to be more plaine and cure thereof I digresse somewhat from many writers yet I wish thee not rashly to condemne mee But if thou mislike any thing herein conteyned write thy minde and deliuer it to the Printer and I will be very willing by writing againe to satisfie thee or otherwise thankfully to accept thine aduise and confesse my fault FINIS The Table FOr the Head-ach Cap. 4. For such as are much bound or costiue and haue their excrementes alwayes hard and dry cap. 4. For the Swimming of the Head cap. 4. For sore and red Eyes cap. 4. For reÌ„d faces cap. 5. For the Morphew cap. 5. For those that are troubled with Biles Scabs Itches or such like cap. 6. To preuent the Pockes and Measels in Children cap. 6. For those that are full of Fleame cap. 7. For the Cough and for the shortnes of Breath cap. 7. For an Heat and a Cold cap. 7. For those who are toward the consumption of the Lunges cap. 7. For a Surfet cap. 8. For the Heart-burning cap. 9. For continuall Vomit cap. 9. For those that haue no appetite to Meate cap. 10. For those who are troubled with the gnawing of the Guttes or Stomach also for the Collicke and for Winde and all corruption which causeth Winde cap. 11. For the Rheume cap. 12. For the Yellow Iaundise cap. 13. For the stopping of the Liuer cap. 13. For the Blacke Iaundise cap. 14. For the hardnes of the Spleene cap. 14. For the Piles cap. 14. For the Greene sicknesse cap. 15. For the quotidian Ague cap. 16. For the quartane Ague cap. 17. For the tertian Ague cap. 18. For the Plague cap. 19. For the Crampe cap. 20. For Burning or Scalding cap. 21. For a Felon and Whitblow cap. 22. For a Ring-worme Tetter or such like cap. 23. For the Tooth-ach cap. 24. For the disease of English wantons ca. 25. For Wormes of all sortes cap. 26. For presumption of health cap. 27. Three stayes of health cap. 28. FINIS Of a Potion which is to be vsed in sundry cures The first Chapter IN this first Chapter I minde to speake of a Potion or Purgation which in sundrie cures as hereafter doth appeare is to be vsed And whereas Nature hath brought foorth Purgers of diuers kindes according to the diuersitie of corruption in mans body some purging one humor and some another c. I haue made choyce of the best and safest to be taken in euery kind also in such sort prepared and corrected them as they shall be found very fit without all danger paine or vexation whatsoeuer to answere the necessitie of such whose bodyes of any manner of corruption require to be purged I first deuised this Potion about eight yeares since and seeing the gentle working and good successe therof with few I grew in further liking of the same And therevpon hauing giuen it to many and that in sundry diseases I found it to be of such excellencie the vertue thereof so wonderfull and so well pleasing my patienâ—es that I did preferre it before all the rest For it cureth diuers griefes of the Head also red and watering sore Eyes it cleanseth the Stomach cureth the Heart-burning it prouoketh a good appetite helpeth digestion it is good against the Rheume the obstruction of the Lunges the Cough and shortnes of breath it cleanseth those who are troubled with Biles Scabs Itches or such like it cureth the Collicke preuayleth greatly against Wind it is good in the blacke and yellow Iaundise it helpeth the inflamation of the Liuer in the Greene sicknesse it is a present helpe excellent against al Feuers and diuers other Diseases And to conclude my long experience hath so perswaded mee of the goodnesse thereof that I thinke I should do my country-men much wrong if I should any longer keepe froÌ„ them so great a treasure The vse thereof shall be declared in euerie Chapter where I intreat of the Diseases particularly I haue deliuered my Bill for the making of the same and other things vnto Maister Clapham in Fanchurch-street at the signe of the Blew-bell Unicorne Apothecarie of whose good dealing since M Grayes death I haue made very sufficient tryall It may be kept good and in perfect vertue three weekes or a month contrary to the nature of other Purgers If any man minde to carry it farre let him signifie so much to M. Clapham that it may be prouided of purpose And here I haue thought very requisite to shew the causes why I haue not published the manner of making this Potion for that I am charged by some that I haue a yearely benefite by the same and for mine owne gaine doe keepe it from the multitude which is most vntrue For as I haue a fayth vnto God the Apothecarie hath the whole profit thereof Neither is it such as that any man ought to grieue thereat 1 The first cause is for that the composition of Medicines doth properly pertaine to the Apothecarie and that it is great reason euery man haue the benefit of his owne profession 2 The second cause is the ignorance of the multitude in chosing the simples or ingredients wherin is such skill that the Apothecarie himselfe except he be of great iudgement is often deceiued 3 The third cause their ignoraunce
digest next that he eate not at anie time much in quantitie But if the matter passe the stomach with verie slight or no digestion so that a Uomit will not pleasure him giue him a draught of sacke fasting well burned putting thereto as much Trâ—acle as an Hazell Nut and Sugar as you thinke sufficient and let him keepe his bed and sweat foure houres more or lesse as you thinke good according to the strength of the patient and in his sweat now and then let him take Ale clarified with a little Mace wherein also dissolue some sugar for thus shall you make perfect digestion through the whole body of that whereof he did surfet For the Heartburning The ninth Chapter I Thinke it good togither with the multitude to content my selfe with the ordinarie name of this disease which is the heart burning although it be a disease of the Stomach and not of the Heart They which are troubled with this griefe are for the most part at ease after they haue eaten but when their meat is digested they feele a continual heate or bitternes in the mouth oâ— their stomaches they often belch and haue a continuall readines as it were to vomit In some it is of long continuance in others it riseth vpon euery light occasion especiasly by eating of fat salt and cholericke meates As touching the cure first I wish thee to marke verie diligentlie after what meates and drinkes thou art most troubled with this disease and forbeare the same for assure thy selfe that they are either very vnfit to make good blood or otherwise thy nature hath some speciall mislike thereof I wish thee also to take this for a generall rule that what griefe soeuer thou mayest helpe by good diet or abstinence in any wise take no Physicke for the same But if thy long euill diet hath laden thy stomach with hot salt cholericke humors which doe cause the heart burning then take of my Potion for three dayes euery morning so much as shall giue thee foure or fiue stooles so shalt thou cleanse thy stomach perfectly which is a very sufficient and perfect cure For those which Vomit continually after meat THere are two speciall causes of this Disease the one is when the first veines which receiue the nutriment from the stomach are stopped the other when the body is long bound and the excrement very hard so that the patient goeth scarsely once in ten dayes to the stoole In some it groweth to such extremitie that they neuer goe to the stoole but that which remayneth after digestion passeth from them by Uomit For cure take foure spoonefulles of my Potion fasting and if that worke not take more the next day and so foorth alwayes increasing the quantitie vntill it worke The next day after it hath wrought boyle a pint of good White-wine with one handfull of Parsely a quarter of an houre or better then straine it and put thereto a litle Sugar and let the patient drinke a reasonable quantitie thereof warme and keepe his bed and sweat three houres and during his sweat let him take now and then more of the same vntill he haue taken all Afterwardes let him take fasting so much of my Potion as will giue him one Stoole a day This hee must continue in such sort that he suffer not his excrement to stay long or to dry in his body but that he be alwayes soluble Note the White-wine thus prepared together with the sweating openeth the first veine and maketh good passage into the body The purging dissolueth draweth downe the excrement and some some bringeth nature to her vsuall course also cleanseâ—h the stomach of such corruption as happely is some cause of the griefe For those that haue no appetite to Meate The tenth Chapter THere are diuers causes of this Disease but I will rehearse onely two which are most vsuall The one is when the first Ueines doe not sucke which is their naturall action whereby they receiue food for the whole body and this is found in men of diuers constitutions The other is proper vnto fatte and grosse bodyes which are alwayes stuffed as it were and so full that nature seemeth contented with that she hath and hath little desire of more For cure take of my Potion euery day as much as will giue thee two or three Stooles and in few dayes thou shalt feele thy selfe exceeding hungry But if thou haue not good appetite presently after thy purging take White wine boyled in such sort as in the Chapter before is prescribed For those who are troubled with the gnawing of the stomach or guttes also for the collicke and wind and all corruption which causeth wind The xi Chapter THese griefes rise of such corrupt and slymie humours as cleaue to the inner part of the Stomach and Guts and are thus very easily to be cured Take of my Potion so much as shall giue thee three or foure Stooles a day for fiue or sixe dayes more or lesse respecting the age and body of the patient For when his Stomach Guts are cleansed hee is very perfectly cured Then learne to auoyde all windy and slimie meates whereby thou shalt be able to preuent these diseases I muse at the madnesse of such as in this case vse Pepper Ginger and other hot spices also Coriander seed or any thing of like nature for that in reason it is farre better to take away the matter of the Disease in such sort as I haue sayd then to ioyne one contrarie with another to let them both remayne These hotte thinges are fitter to warme a cold Stomach and to make it apt to digest beeing moderatly vsed then to clense it being full of corruption and good chiefly for those who are in yeares and haue naturall heat so decayed that by Arte they are forced to seeke helpe where Nature fayleth For the Rheume The twelfe Chapter FOr the Rheume I chiefly prescribe thee three Rules following for that the cure thereof consisteth more in the patientes owne good gouernment then in much taking of Physicke The first Rule Use labour and exercise for thereby thou shalt stirre vp naturall heat and consume the waterish humours which doe cause the Rheume but if the weather be such as thou canst not goe abroade either â—osse a great yarne Ball against a wall or driue a great woodden Top in some conuenient place for both these are very good exercises Use them twise a day and continue alwayes one houre but make an end an houre before meate and in the beginning as also a little before thou ende vse gentle labour that thou abate thy heat by litle and litle this is the chiefe and principall meane both to preuent cure this griefe Which dooth appeare manifestlie first for that they who labour much are neuer troubled with the Rheume next that students and such as vse litle stirring or motion of their bodies are most subiect thereto for while they sit still the outwarde partes of their
and cleanseth the Body of such corrupt humours as gather therein from time to time It is a very good preseruatiue against the Plague and may be taken from the quantitie of halfe a pint or better at one time vnto the quantitie of a quarter of a pint or lesse it is good to fast one houre after it and to vse it onely in the morning which being obserued I restraine you from no further libertie Maister Clapham the Apothecarie hath direction for the making hereof The 3. Chapter OUr Fathers long since were wont to vse a very sleight kind of Bathing Now and then they boyled Hearbes in water and therewith did bath and rubbe their bodyes towardes bed which now is greatly neglected It is a farre greater meane to preserue our health then that we should so lightly esteeme thereof For it taketh away such corruption as Nature casteth out by the pores which otherwise would happily cause Scabs Itches or such like and keepeth the body sweete from all rancke sauors of sweate Wherefore I prescribe one generall Bath in this sort and to that effect Take Rosemarie Balme Isop and Mallowes of each two handfuls boile these in foure gallons of Spring water vntill there be a third part consumed then straine and put thereto one gallon of new Milke bathe your body herewith warme by the fireâ— side two or three houres after supper It is very good to vse it foure times in the yeare at the least and in the Sommer once or twice euery month The 4. Chapter AFter your Bathing rub your body very dry with a Linnen cloth and presently vpon annoint it ouer very lightly with this Oyntment yet vse no more but that you may easily dry in Take Balme greene in the beginning of Iune or in May when you shall find it in chiefest strength and chop it very small take further very sweete Oyle and the fact of a Bucke killed in the chiefe of Sommer or that which is better the fatte of a Stagge in equall quantitie let these stand in a very gentle heate together eight or tenne houres then straine and keepe the Oyntment in some cleaâ—e vessell It keepeth the Ioyntes souple making the Sinewes nimble and plainâ— also it cureth the drinesse of the Skinne They which vse it after Bathing as before shall find themselues the stronger and more lustie For it defendeth the body from coldnesse of the ayre and thereupon auoydeth Aches of the Ioyntes and Sinewes FINIS The Hammer for the Stone So named for that it sheweth the most excellent remedie that euer was knowne for the same Imprinted at London by W. White for the companie of Stationers 1609. TO THE READER COnsidering with my selfe gentle reader how common a disease the Stone is and how little helpe the parties grieued haue by vsuall meanes in this our time and of long time haue had and also hearing it diuers times obiected that the most learned PhysitiaÌ„ can neither preuent the Stone in those who naturally are inclined thervnto neither cure it in those in whom it is ingendred I did indeauour my selfe with all studie and diligence to finde out some speciall thing which might farre excell the remedies now daily vsed for the cure of that grieuous disease Whereupon taking mine inuention froÌ„ Etius who vsed very much the powder of Goates blood for cure of the same also being further perswaded thereunto by authoritie of diuers writing of the nature of Goates blood I did draw a pure cleere liquor out of the blood of the male Goate which I haue thought good to name the Quintessence for the Stone And hauing made experience thereof now two yeares and better with diuers I thought good to publish the same to the reliefe of many which are grieued with that infirmitie and that in such sort as it shal appeare vnto the world that I rather seeke herein to benefit my Country then any priuate gaine to my selfe For wheras no man troubled with that disease can haue the helpe of the Physitian without his great charge I haue deuised that meane that any man so diseased may haue such ease with very small charge as I dare boldly auouch can not be had by any vsuall meanes Butâ— for the commendation hereof I leaue it rather to be commended by the helpe ease of those who feare feele the passions of that most terrible disease then vse any long rethorical perswasioÌ„s knowing that the good Wine needeth no Garland and that the fairest Garland can be no long credit to sower Wine And now that this my Quintessence may take the better effect I thinke it very necessarie to signifie vnto such as are inclined to the Stone and to those that are already troubled with the same First the causes of the Stone and whereof it is ingendered Secondly the difference of Stones ingendred in mans body Thirdly the vsuall way both to preuent cure the Stone And fourthly the way or meane now late deuised for preuenting and curing of the same Wherein being somewhat instructed they shall be the better able to gouerne themselues in auoyding and curing the disease as not needing the Physitians continuall counsell but being Physitians to themselues Yet I would not haue any man think that I minde to make any long or curious discourse of the Stone touching all the deepest poynts of the same as indeauouring to make the readers perfect Physitians herein but onely to shew them a superficiall knowledge sufficient to direct them in the taking of my Quintessence And thus gentle Reader haue I deuided that whereof I minde to write into foure partes wherein I will not indeuour my selfe to speake whatsoeuer may conueniently be spokeÌ„ but rather to speake nothing that may conueniently be leâ—t out W. C. The Author to those that are vexed with the Stone in verse as followeth 1 THy Siluer Gold thy pretious Stone Thy Mucke thy worldly wealth Nought helpeth now thy greeuous grone No ease it giues to Health Now doest thou lie 2 Amidst thy friendes a prisoner a peece of pining Clay Thy hope for want of heartes desire Doth fayle and vade away Thou seek'st to die 3 Thy friends eye-teares thy hearts drops blood Thy limmes and ioyntes doe quake Thy stomach vomites that is good Whose force makes bedstead shake An endlesse woe 4 Thy dolefull life is but a death And death were life to thee For paine deth cease with thy last breath But life heapes miserie Come death why so 5 What what sendes God a maladie And not a meane for ease No Physicke good No remedie This raging griefe t' appease Though Physicke faile 6 Behold a faythfull friend vnknowne To doe his Countrie good Will ease this griefe and heauie grone With water of Goates blood Then doe not quaile 7 Though dreadfull Death an actien brought This Goate thy bale will bee And though the cause be slily wrought The verdict goes with thee Lift vp thy heart 8 His harme thy hope his woe thy wealth His heart
receiues the knife He yeeldes his blood to bring thee health His death shall be thy life And end thy smart Loe thus the Author greetes thee well Thy friend without desart He craues but thankes and so doth sell A salue for wounded heart He seekes good will giues ease of paine Good wordes for ware an easie gaine Vale. The causes of the Stone and how it is ingendred in mans body The first Chapter IT is not vnknowne vnto such as haue bestowed any time in the studie of Physicke that as well the old as the new Writers with one consent agree that there are two causes of the Stone the one materiall the other formall The materiall cause is an earthy grosse thicke and slimie humour the formall cause is the heate of mans body digesting or baking the sayd humour vntill it be hard which then remayneth in the nature of a Stone this will I make more manifest to you by a familiar example Clay of it selfe is an earthy and slimie substance which I will compare vnto the humor whereof the Stone is ingendered Also the Fire I wil compare vnto the heat of mans body whereby you may see how the Stone in ingendred For this Clay being baked in the Fire is made a Stone and looseth his nature of Clay Here also I thinke it good to note that Nature requireth alway a fit matter to worke vpon For one onely action of Nature at one time worketh diuers and very contrary effects which happeneth because of contrarietie of the matters wherevpon she worketh and not by any diuersity of her action For as by Fire Clay is made a Stone so Chalke being a Stone by Fire is conuerted into powder And as Clay by Fire is made a cast and firme substance which before was soft and easie to be dissolued in Water so Chalke being before a fast and sound lumpe is by the same fit to be dissolued in Water because of the discontinuitie or separation of his partes Whereby you may gather that this slimie humour being in mans body hath a nature very apt to be turned into a Stone and yeeldeth it selfe to the speedie generation thereof wherevnto it is naturally inclined which otherwise by so small heate could hardly bee And therefore I would wish euery man to haue a speciall care in refusing Meaâ—es and other things which are apt to breed the Stone and in vsing the contrary which hereafter in place conuenient touching the preuenting of the Stone I will not omit The difference of Stones ingendred in mans body The second Chapter I Haue according to my promise briefly spoken of two causes of the Stone Now with like breuitie I will speake of the difference of Stones ingendred in mans body which I find by experience to differ in place colour forme quantitie and hardnesse 1 As touching the first there are two vsuall places where the Stone is ingendered the Kidnies and the Bladder Unto the stone of the Kidnies the middle-aged and they that somewhat decline are most subiect And these Stones of the Kidnies are also of two sortes For they are either ingendred in the hollow vessels of the Kidnies or in the substance or fleshie partes But vnto the Stone of the Bladder Children are most inclined which hapneth for that all Children for the most part first eate often ere that which they eate before be digested Next after they haue eaten they vse violent exercise and motion of their bodyes continually whereby they force a thicker and more grosse iuice or nutriment from the stomach into the body then Nature requireth and that grosse substaunce setling in the bottome of the Bladder by the temperate heate of the child is conuerted into a Stone As in the making of the artificiall Wmes if you let them passe through the strayner gently of their owne accord they come cleare but if hastily you force them by wringing they come thicke and being setled will be full of Groundes in the bottome 2 Secondly for colour there are some Stones white some blacke others yellow some red some of ash-colour some mixt of diuers colours Which diuersitie happeneth chiefly by difference of the matter whereof the Stones were ingendred and somewhat by digestion of the Stones either by smaller or greater heat with either longer or shorter time 3 The third difference of Stones is in forme or fashion For some are round as a Ball some like an Egge some like a Pease some like a Barlie corne some sharpe some piked of diuers sundry other formes wherof I need not to speake 4 The fourth difference is in quantitie for the Stone differeth in quantitie from the bignesse of a pins head or lesse vnto the quantitie of an Egge or greater And the smaller sort of Stones are for the most part ingendred in the Kidnies and that either in the hollow vessels of the Kidnies as I sayd before which being but small the Stone cannot exceed the bignesse thereof and therefore must be small also Or else in the substaunce or fleshie partes of the Kidnies here and there dispearsed which also are seldome found to be great But the greater sort of Stones are alwayes ingendered in the Bladder for that the vessels being great will also admit the generation of a great Stone 5 The fift difference is in hardnesse For there are some as I haue often seene scant congealed or baked so that one may breake them to grite with this finger his thumbe Others somewhat harder and not easie to be broken And others so hard as they will not easily yeeld to the Hammer The Stone that breaketh gently is for the most part red or yellow The middle sort is of diuers colours The hardest white There is also a mixt kind of Stone compact of hard stones lightly knit togeather by soft Grauell and this kind is most dangerous and painefull in voyding The vsuall way how to preuent and cure the Stone The third Chapter IN the two former Chapters I haue briefely touched the matter whereof the Stone is ingendered and the difference of Stones Now I will shew the vsuall meanes both to preuent and cure the Stone which amongst the Physitians of our time are now dayly practised The Stone in those who onely feare the Disease and are not yet troubled therewith is preuented by two speciall meanes The one is by abstinence from Meates and thinges which are apt to breed the Stone Which are of 2. sortes also For either they breede in the body of a fitte matter easie to be conuerted into a Stone as Ueale Pigge Lambe Ling Greene-fish Eeles Cheese Milke and generally all very grosse slimie sweete and fatte Meates Or else they cause an vnnaturall heate in the Body and inflame the Kidnies and other partes as heating the Backe at the Fire lying much vpon the Backe also great vse of Pepper Ginger and other Spices or any thing of like nature The other by purging that humour which being in the body is not yet
digested to the nature of a Stone which is done by two meanes also Either by Purgation and lexatiue Medicines or otherwise by those thinges which beeing of a very subtile thin and piercing nature do passe sodainely through the Liuer the Kidnies and the Bladder and violently carry with them such slimie and grosse humours as they finde by the way as White-wine Rhenish-wine with such like taken fasting which being not taken fasting worke not this effect For being vsed either with or soone after Meate they hasten the digestioâ— and carry grosse and raw humours into the body whereby they worke a very contrary effect and ingender the Stone being much vsed But the Stone beeing already ingendered by the vsuall meanes is to be cured chiefely by thinges which cause the Stone to breake voyde as Saxifrage Parsely Pellitorie of the wall Gromwell other thinges infinite whereof I haue named foure good pleasant easiest to be taken There are also diuers other meanes as letting Blood Purging Glisters Uomits and mollifying or distending the narrow and strict vessels with Oyles c. wherein the Stone sticketh But for breuitie sake all these I let passe The preuenting and curing of the Stone by a new meane latâ— deuised The fourth Chapter I haue hitherto briefly touched the causes of the Stone the differences of Stones and the vsuall meanes for preuenting and curing the Stone Now I minde to shew the way both to preuent and cure the same by the Quintessence of Goates blood The vse whereof for those that are from their father and mother or either of them naturally inclined therevnto or otherwise feare the Disease and would preuent the same is to take twentie or thirtie dayes in the Spring and likewise in the Fall of the Leafe two spoonefuls thereof in a good draught of their accustomed drinke fasting and to fast one houre after it which will without all question preserue them from the disease But vnto those who are troubled with the Stone and feele now then a passion thereof I haue thought good to prescribe this order Cause foure or fiue gallons of Drinke to be brewed tunned vp in a litle vessell fit for the same and when it is new tunned adde thereto bound togeather one good handfull of Parselie and one handful of Pellitorie of the wall but for want of Pellitorie take the more Parselie though the other were better And when your Drinke being either Ale or Beere as you like best is stale enough drinke therof euery morning fasting a good hearty draught adding thereto two spoonefuls or more of the Quintessence for in great quantitie you cannot erre and fast one houre after it as before But whiles you take it vse no violent motion of your body but gentle walking or such like least the Stone beginning to breake the peeces thereof fall into the narrow vessels betweene the Kidnies and the Bladder or from the Bladder into the Yard to your great torment and this order I wish you to vse as long as you finde any Grauell to voyde But because oftentimes the Grauell doth voyde and yet not to be discerned as my late experience hath taught me I thinke it requisite here to shew the strange working of the Quintessence If you put into a cuppe of Wine a peece of light hollow soft Sugar the Wine presently entreth into all partes thereof and causeth it to fall like a sandie substance But if you put into the same cup of Wine a peece of white hard and perfect good Sugar it resisteth the Wine and suffereth onely the outwarde parts in long time some some to be dissolued So likewise if the Quintessence finde in the body an hollow soft grittie Stone it entereth presently into the same dissolueth it and causeth it to voyd in Grauell being not able to suffer the long action or working of the Quintessence But the Stone being hard long digested and hauing his substance fast and soundly compact together the Quintessence can not enter into the same but worketh vpon the outwarde partes thereof and the more strongly it abideth and resisteth the more perfectly the Quintessence resolueth the same For manifest prooâ—e thereof if in taking the Quintessence you find no grauell to voyde 〈◊〉 your Urine first mâ—de after the taking of the Quintessence in some open vessell vpon the Embers in a temperate heate and suffer it so to stand vntill all the Water be breathed away that which remayneth be perfect dry which you shall finde a grittie substance if you were troubled with the Stone And this is a very perfect tryall Now I thinke it good to note that if the Stone be great in quantitie and in the Bladder you must vse the Quintessence the longer and not looke to be cured miraculously with the vse thereof a weeke or two And against this kind specially I wish that Parsely be vsed as before for that it is a great opener and will helpe the Quintessence to passe more swiftlie vnto the Kidnies the Bladder where it ought to worke which otherwise continuing long in the stomach loseth part of his vertue and worketh noâ— so effectually But if the partie be very olde withall and hath his Kidnies and Bladder exulcerat or either of them yet chiefly the Bladder then I wish him not only to vse the Quintessence as before but also to obserue very diligently this Diet. Abstaine from all Wine Aqua vite Aqua-composita Beâ—re Ueriuice Uineger Aliger Perrie Cider Salt and salt Meates all Spices Orenges Lemmons Mustarde and all raw Fruites and generally from all thinges which cause the Urine to be hot sharpe or fretting For then although the Stone be cured yet the partie hath litle ease for that the sharpe Urine hauing accesse to the sorenesse and rawnesse of the Kidnies or Bladder wil not suffer the partes infected to heale but rather increaseth the griefe If you be troubled with the exulceration of the Bladder the manifest and continuall paine thereof will declare the same also the griefe in making water and hardinesse of making water which rather droppeth then runneth because the force expuisiue is decayed and if with the exulceration of the Kidnies then haue you paine in your Loynes But if you be grieued with either of any continuance with your Urin there voydeth often slimie corruption like the white of an Egge or filthy Blood such like I wish those who remaine in this case especially troubled with the exulceration of the Bladder not to torment their bodyes with much Phisicke For although eased yet cured they cannot be Onely I counsell them as before to remooue the Stone and to auoyde by abstinence from the thinges afore recited the sharpnesse of Urin which are the causes efficient of their griefe and that done to vse for healing of their sore Kidnies and Bladders as neere as may be a reasonable quantitie of Gotes milke euery morning fasting also the sirup of Plantine is a speciall thing in these griefes vsing one spoonefull thereof in the morning in Ale clarified And now to end this my short worke I let passe that which a number of writers set foorth of the nature of the Gote and the vertue of his bloud against the stone Only I alleadge one sentence of Fuchsius an excellent wise and learned Physitian which I finde in his Booke De medendis morbis Writing of the Stone and the cure thereof after he had shewed diuers remedies he endeth thus Sanguis denique hircinus ad calculos cùm renum tùm vesicae praesens remedium est Nam praeexistentes soluit per vrinam excernit vt alij ampliùs non generentur prohibet ac dolorâ—m sedat And to conclude Goates Blood is a present remedy both for the Stone of the Kidnies and the Bladder For it dissolueth those that are there already and voydeth them by Vrine and suffereth no more to ingender also taketh away the paine But least this most excellent Medicine should be slaundered I haue thought good to signifie that if any person hauing vsed the Quintessence in such sort as is requisite both for time and order finde not such remedie as I haue promised he looked for let him if it seeme good repaire to my house in Wickeham aforesayd where hee shall finde me readie without either penny 〈…〉 to doe what possible I may 〈…〉 cure And if by taking ought â—â—â—â—n I breake my promise let mee be rather thought a deceauer then one seeking to benefit my Countrie FINIS The Sirup of Lignum aloes Two causes the Stone