leane more to that safe speedy and pleasant kind of curation with medecines rightly prepared then to the carelesse composition made by addition of other simples clogged with more impurities then are in that simple which they labour to correct I dare also auouch that any poore body may better commit his crasie body to be healed or helped of any outward or inward maladie by the right prepared medecines for the value of ten shillings which he can hardly spare then a wealthy maÌ„ to their deceits I would say receits for ten crownes which he may well inough forbeare Many of the ignorant sort haue counted the chymicall or Paracelsicall Phisicke dangerous and not without cause for wofull experience hath brought it into that suspition But good Reader heare me in that which He tell thee and so take thine answere for this time Some of the learned and most of the ignorant haue in generall despised theÌ„ but by your leaue after they haue heard in particular of the excellent successe attained by many of theÌ„ they haue aduentured vpoÌ„ those without knowledge experience direction and so haue made many patients to smart for it Therfore I would not that the fine fingered Phisitian should scorne to weare this pearle which is as fit for Sir Iohn Lack-latin for the laÌ„dleaper or cogging quackesaluer as a pipe for an asse or a cage for a cow The salts oyles waters extractes tinctures simples prepared and coÌ„positioÌ„s of simples coÌ„ioyned mentioned in this booke or not mentioned I meane not to make sale of as the Grocer doth or the Apothecary but I keepe them in store and meane to increase them for mine owne vse and my frends and for such as shall need theÌ„ as the learned counsell of Phisicke rules shall giue occasion The greatest part of them were prepared by Iohn Hester of Paules wharfe now deceased a man that speÌ„t much indaÌ„gered his body about such workes wherof many excellent men haue enioyed the benefite The effect of his labour hath and doth coÌ„mend him in EnglaÌ„d and other couÌ„tries which haue these many yeares made proofe of these his preparations All which as not loÌ„g since I bought of the Suruiuer so I am willing at all times to part with any of theÌ„ to salue the wouÌ„ded or heale the diseased In the meane while and for euermore I coÌ„mit thee Gentle Reader in health or in sicknesse to the protection of the Arch-Phisitian and creator of our soules and bodies who alwaies preserue vs and all that be his vnto the end and in the end From my studie in the Blackefriers the 19. of Ianuary Thy louing frend Iames Fourestier A NOTE OF SVCH PREPARED SIMples and compositions as are mentioned in this booke with other things not mentioned therein whereof there is particular vse in Phisicke and Chirurgerie and are to be had at the house of Iames Fourestier aforesayd The names of the seuerall kindes of Saltes Salts of Herbes as of VVOrmwood Mintes Carduus Benedictus Chamomill Radish S. Iohns wort Sea holy Centaurie Rosemarie Fennell Time Beane stalkes Blacke Hellebore Brionie Sage Maioram Germander Mehlote Chamepitis Hysope Feuerfew Gentian Alisanders Mugwort Fumitorie Origanum Eufrasie or Eyebright Tartar Christalline Pockwood or Lignum vitae Saltes of trees and fruticall plants as ASh Iuniper Iuie Broome Vine Saltes of spices and other things as of CLoues Ginger Cinamon Nutmegs Vrine Armoniacke of Amber Vineger Salt or Suger of Saturne Salt niter out of Ireland Alome del Plume Tartar six times calcined Sal conditum Lapilli Vrinae Salt common calcined A causticke The names of the diuers kinds of vvaters as of CInamon Cloues Nutmegs Franckincense Turpentine Waxe Honie Aqua fortis Aqua Regis Aqua Spermatis ranarum Egges Harts horne Amber Vineger distilled Spirit of wine Fragariae with spirite of wine Mans scull Pockwood Resinae pini Percepier Roses Aqua vitae of roses Sweet water Aqua vitae of Percepier Aqua vitae of Iuniper berries Aqua vitae of Turkie balme Aqua Benedicta Walnuts Annise seede Sal gumme Oyles of Herbes as of The seuerall kindes of oyles drawen by distillation or otherwise prepared SWeet margerome Sage Time Origanum Rosemarie slowers Hysope Mintes Lauender Penyroiall Camomill flowers Nenufar grossely prepared Betonie and Camomill grossely prepared Roses by distillation Thorne apple Wormwood Oyles of seedes as of ANise Fennell Dill. Carui or Caraway Commin Mustard Oyles of fruites berries and spices as of NVttes Figges Sweet almondes Orenge peeles Lemon peeles Bay berries Iuniper berries Misselto of apples Nutmegs Cinamon Ginger Cloues Maces Pepper Oyles of trees or woods of gummes stones and other things as of LIgnum vitae Ashe Broome Waxe Honie Turpentine Tarre Franckincense Colophonie Galbanum Sagapenum Masticke Labdanum Ammoniacke Amber Iet Benzoin Storax liquide Castoreum Mans scull Butter Egges Tartar Stinking oyle of Tartar Vitrioll Sulfur Petroleum de Lateribus Deares suet Spermacaeti Wormes The seuerall kindes of Extractes of Essences as of Herbes rootes c. VVOrmwood Chamomil Sage Celandine Betonie Agrimonie Tansie Horehound Eufrasie Marygold Fumitory Henbane Chamepitis Tormentill Philipendula Blacke Hellebore Aristolochie Gentian Angelica Sauine Perwincle Carduus Bened. Feuerfew Percepier Rue Peonie Iuniper Broome flowers Hermodactiles Sena Agaricke Cnicus or bastard Saffron Rubarb Colocinthis Soldanella Laureola Aloes Polipodie Bruscus Centorie Enula campana Mellissa or Balme Ginger Muske Squilla Sarcocolla Cantarides Spicknard Zedoaria Pepper Orenge peeles A NOTE OF THE DIVERS KINDS of compositions as followeth LAudanuâ—â—anodinum Panchimagogon Amuletum Palmarij Oleum benedictum Oleum sine Mumia Tartari Oleum Heracl Rulandi Mumia vitrioli Creta vitrioli Crocus Martis Balsamum sulphuris Flos sulphuris Oleum Camphorae Essencia perlarum Flores Antimonij Mercurius Antimonij Vitrum Antimonij Turpetum minerale Quercetani Turpetum Diaph Sulphur vitriolatum Mercurius sublimatus Mercurius precipitatus Aqua Theriacalis Calx testarum ouorum Emplastrum Fodicationis Gibsons balme Petra Philosophale nostra Pillulae Aquilone Oleum Hypericonis compositum Oleum Balsami Aqua Balsami Dia Aromatico Electuario Angelica Balsamum artificiale Electuarium magistrale Aqua preseruans Magno liquore Cerotum magistrale Oleum Philosophorum de Terebinth cera Vnguentum ex Lytargirio Aqua reale Sirupo del Ebulo composit Vnguent against contractions Vnguento magno Pillulae contra morbum GallicuÌ„ Cordiale rosaruÌ„ sine sulphure Balsamus vrinae descriptione Willichij Our solutiue liquor Oyle of Nicotian Paracelsus his Vulnerarie oyle Water for the eyes Water for pinne and web Aqua Persicariae Vnguento nigro Vnguent to cause haire to grow Vnguent to clense wounds Vnguent defensatiue Vnguent stomachall Vnguent against aches and bruises Extract against all obstructions Adeps vrsi Medulla Mummiae Our composition against the strangurie Ischurie or stone in the bladder c. Balsamum Tartari Spirite of honie Spirite of Tartar Tincture of sulphur Powder to mundifie vlcers Mater Balsami A composition against burning and scalding Vigoes balme Aqua del petra Vegetab Tinctures of Spices
Spiritus tartari cuÌ„ colcothare rectificat Another water for the eyes Syrupus spinae merulae Cinamon water Vnguent de Peto Mans bloud dried Craneum humanum calcined Our composition against all feuers Our compositioÌ„ against the wormes Gumme of the roote and herbe Henbane A TABLE OF ALL THE PRINCIPALL matters contained in the Collection In the Proeme are contained these things THe dutie of an expert Chirurgian pag. 1 The generall cure of wounds 1 Why wouÌ„ds caÌ„not heale quickly 2 How to deale generally with wouÌ„ds in the head ibidem Of Woundes A Greeuous wound on the head cruel 3 A daungerous wouÌ„d cured in fiue dayes ibidem A wound on the eare ibidem Woundes in the head with the fracture of the scull 4 Concusions in the head or else where 5 Contusion quiâ—â—ly healed ibidem Wound in the head with the scull fractured ibidem To heale woundes speedily 6 Woundes by shot or launce ibid. A singular remedie for the speedie healing of woundes ibidem Wounded eye with a splinter 7 Puncture in the eye ibidem Another cure done in like maner 7 A squatted hand healed 8 A punctured arme healed ibidem Fiue wouÌ„ds in the breast healed 8 Of sores vlcers c. and their cure SOre mouthes healed 9 Vlcer in the vpper lippe ibidem Vlcer in the throate 10 Scald head healed ibidem Another for the same ibidem Vlcer on the thombe ibidem Vlcerated legge 11 Two putrified vlcers on the legge healed ibidem Three vlcers in the legge healed ib Old rotten sores cured 12 Vlcers in most partes of the bodie and head ibidem Scabs like the leprosie 13 A child healed that had the FreÌ„ch pockes 14 A canker cured ibidem Pockie pustules with Serpigo healed ibidem Tetters and ringwormes 15 Another ibidem Tetters on womens breasts 16 Shingles healed ibidem To breake a plague sore ibidem Scabs and itch c. ibidem Three deepe fistulaes in the breast cured ibidem Lichen or Impetigo cured 18 A great wenne taken away SecoÌ„nd part of the Collection Of the cures of internall diseases OF greeuous aches and paine in the bodie 19 Aches comming of the pockes cured ibidem An excellent vnguent to ease any payne 20 To ease the gout ibidem To cure aches coÌ„ming of heate 21 The cure of the scuruie ibidem Tumors throughout the body cured 22 Swelling of the cods 23 Another of the same ibidem The Ischiatica cured ibidem Against the crampe ibidem Against contraction of sinewes 24 A wrie necke set straight ibidem Another 25 Squinancie cured ibidem Alopecia cured ibidem To purge the head ibidem Pinne and web cured 26 An approued water for the eyes ib. Another ibidem To stay bleeding at the nose 27 Another for the same ibidem Another ibidem Another ibidem Another 28 Other wayes to do the same ibid. Spatting of bloud ibidem Another ibidem Lift vp the vuula ibidem Cure of the hicket 29 Another ibidem The falling sicknesse cured ibidem Another ibidem Iaundies cured 30 Another ibidem Another 31 Iaundies with obstruction of menstrues ibidem Windinesse in the stomacke ibid. Cough of the lungs 32 Another with stitch in the side ib. Shortnesse of breath with a cough 32 Another 33 To stay vomiting ibidem Another ibidem Vomiting of bloud with a fluxe of the bellie 34 Vomiting with a feuer ibidem Plurisie cured 35 Plurisie with spatting of bloud ibi Plurisie with inslamation of the toung c. ibidem Plurisie in a woman 36 Another for the same ibidem Diaphoretical decoction ibidem Plurisie broken with a potion ibid. Another 37 An inward Aposteme or bastard plurisie ibidem Payne in the side ibidem Payne and wind in the body 38 Expelling of wind ibidem Dropsie cured ibidem Against wormes in the stomack or else where 39 A quartaine of loÌ„g coÌ„tinuance ibi Against the pestilence plurisie quartaine 40 Swelling of the splene ibidem FraÌ„tick feuers for waÌ„t of sleepe ib. Pestilent feuers 41 Against poison or the pestilence a Diaphoreticall potion ibidem The signes of death in the plague ibidem CouÌ„sels preseruatiues c. against the plague 42 An inueterate Gonorrhea in man or worman ibidem Another 43 An Electuarie against Gonorrhea ibidem To stoppe the immoderate fluxe menstruall 44 Another ibidem To stoppe a fluxe ibidem Bloudy fluxe cured 45 Cures of the Hemorhoides ibid. Ficus in ano ibidem To prouoke menstrues 46 Another of the same ibidem Suffocation of the Matrix 47 Another for the same ibidem To prouoke vrine ibidem To prouoke vrine and to heale other obstructions 48 The first part of the supplement or Appendix c. Of paine in the head the cure 49 Of the catharre and reume in the head 50 The second cause to cure the Catharre 51 Contusion in the head 52 The healing of the white scall 53 Payne in the eyes ibidem An vnguent for sore eyes ibidem To stay spatting of bloud ibidem The description and cure of the Squinancie ibidem The description and cure of scrophulae 54 Another cure for the same 55 Another for the same ibidem Another ibidem Of Panaricium and the cure 56 Vlcers in womens breasts ibidem Of Astma and the cure of it 57 To know a confirmed dropsie 58 Against wormes ibidem Hardnes of the milt the cure ibi Another for the same ibidem Of the Gonorrhea the cure ibi Of the Hemorrhoides and their cure 60 Of the diuers sorts effects of the Hemorrhoides their cure ibi Suffocation of the matrix and the cure thereof 61 Of the rupture and the cure in the beginning 62 Another ibidem Of reteÌ„tion of vrine the cure 63 Of the difficultie of vrine and the cure thereof 68 Another for the same often prooued ibidem Of retention of vrine with stitch in the side 69 Swelling of the legges and feete their cure ibidem Of Chilblaines and their cure 70 Of cornes in the feete and to take them away ibidem Of a greefe vnder the nayles of the fingers and toes and the cure 71 Of Erisipela the cure therof ibi The cure of wartes 72 The second part of the Appendix c. Of Danewort and his vertues 73 Of Eleborus niger and his vertues 73 Of Gratia Dei the vertue thereof 74 Of Rubarb and his vse ibidem Of Tithymale and his vertues 75 Of Soldanella and his vertues 76 Of Cyperus and his vertues ibid. Of Elder and his vertues ibidem Of Tabaco and his vse ibidem Of sweet Margerom and his vertues 77 Of Persicaria and his vse ibidem Of man and the medecines taken from him 78 Of an henne and the Phisicall vse thereof 79 Of Ecles their medecinal vse 80 Of the Barbill and her vse in medecine ibidem Of Bees their medecinall vse ib. Of Frogs their Phisicall vse 81 Of Centumpedes Crickets c. their vse ibidem Of Tacca mahacca and the vse thereof 82 Of the gumme Caranna and the vse thereof
or few wordes I haue said all Now of the cure of this disease as I haue experimented the same an infinite sort of times in my life which way soeuer the cause commeth worke thou after this manner and thou shalt neuer sustaine blame or discredit When the payne in the head is confirmed and that thou canst finde no helpe by common Theorick or Practike do these things following First let them bloud on Leonichie cutting it ouerthwart and let the patient spat as much as he can Then the next morning let them take our Aromatico fasting The next day let the head be shauen and lay thereon an attractiue plaister drawing out the humiditie whereof I haue made mention in my Caprici medicinale In the end cause them to neese and hereby all the payne in the head will cease CHAP. II. Of the Catarrhe and rume in the head THe Catarrhe is a moist vapor which assaulteth the head and afterward falleth downe agayne into the stomacke where it ingrosseth and corrupteth This moisture hath his beginning of the moisture of the lungs and vntill such time as the lungs be discharged thereof the Catarrhe will continue in his force This infirmitie raigneth more in flegmaticke and melancholike bodies then in any of other constitutions Such as are troubled with it are not long liued because their lungs consume by little and little and thereupon they are troubled with the Ptisicke and consequently they perish if they be not quickly releeued I will now shew thee a rare secret to cure the same Take Pulmonaria and Sena that is fresh and new infuse them in wine and water ouer a small or gentle fire till the wine haue drawne out the vertue Then straine it and put thereunto our Quintaessence keepe it close in a glasse let the patiēt drinke thereof euery morning ℥ iij luke warme for twentie dayes together let him eate good nourishing meates for they agree well with this disease If the patient be not too farre spent you shall see your cure performed in short time In the meane while if the patient be weake you shall giue him new layd egges and good white wine If the humiditie be perceiued not to be quite expelled and euacuated then giue him our Aromatico afterward comfort him agayne with restoratiues and cordials to make him strong and no doubt by the helpe of God he shall be cured This methode of curing this infirmitie differeth from the common course that Phisitians take which would cure it with diet bleeding and mollifying liniments and causing them to spat and such like which are meanes rather to augment the Catarrhe then to diminish the same The second course to cure the descension that commeth from the head to the stomacke VSe these fiue things if you will cure this disease first our Electuario Angelica 2 Quintaessence solutiue 3 our pillulae pro descenso 4 Vnguents for the stomacke and head 5 our Quintaessence vegetable The electuarie clenseth the head and stomacke the Quintaessence solutiue euacuateth the body the pilles take away the cause of the descension the vnguents drie and the vegetable Quintaessence preserueth the body from all ill and noisome infirmities The Electuarie must be taken first in the morning of the Quintaessence solutiue you must take a spoonfull in the morning in a little broth and suger keeping a reasonable good diet and do this foure or six dayes Then take the pilles in the euening and in the meane time annoint the head and stomacke with Oleum cerae and drinke euery morning a little of our Quintaessence which if you do vse continually by the blessing of God vpon it there is no doubt but the body shall be free from many troublesome maladies There was a certaine woman of the age of 58. yeares who being greatly troubled with a Catarrhe was cured by the vse of our Aqua preseruans morning and euening and by annointing the stomacke with balsamo One that was affected with a Catarrhe and a stitch in the side was thus cured He tooke our Aromatico twise Then he tooke euery morning a spoonfull of our Quintaessence solutiue with the broth of a capon for seuen or eight dayes together and euery night when he went to bed he annointed his stomacke with oleum incompostibile and thereby was soone after cured A woman that had great payne in her head and stomack and had her menstrues stopped with losse of her appetite was thus helped First she tooke two doses of our Pillulae Angelica that done she tooke euery morning a spoonfull of Quintaessentia solurtuo with broth and suger for fiue or sixe mornings together After that she tooke euery morning one spoonfull of our Aqua preseruans whereupon in short time after she was cured A contusion in the head A Certaine man had a great fall from an horse wherewith he bruised his head most greeuously who was cured in foure dayes by annointing the place with Oleum benedictum nostrum The taking away or healing of the white scall THis noysome maladie is perfectly cured by purging the patients with our Aromatico and annointing the head with our Oleum Philosophorum Also the Artificiall balsame of our description doth the like and Oleum benedictum nostrum effecteth the same Payne in the eyes with great dimnesse of sight A Certaine man that had great payne in his eyes and was almost blind recouered his sight by letting bloud vnder the toung The next day he tooke Aromatico once after that he vsed our Quintaessence solutiue seuen or eight dayes together and euery night he annointed his stomacke with Oleum cerae rectified then was dropped into his eyes our Quintaessence for the eyes and thereof was he well cured An vnguent for sore eyes TAke rose water fenell and cufrage water ana put therein a small quantitie of Verdi grece boile it a little on the fire Then let it settle till it be cleare and powre it of With this water see that you wash Anxungia porcinae seuen or eight times and of that put a little into the eye when ye go to bed To cure or stay the spatting of bloud ONe that spat bloud was cured in ten dayes by drinking the liquour of honie morning and euening An other was healed by drinking the decoctiō of mint in vineger another by drinking of Crocus martis The description and cure of the Squinancie THis disease is a windie moisture and a suffocation of bloud as you may see by experience that such as are possessed therewith haue a great alteration or many chaunges of feuers with a swelling in the throte and many times if it be not quickly holpen it will choke them and this is the cure thereof You shall giue them ʒ j of the powder of a wild Bores tooth with ℥ iij of oyle of linseede and forthwith by the helpe of God they shal be greatly eased The description and manifold cures of the disease called Scrophulae or for unculi which some do call waxing