habitation infection When Not In the beginning of a disease In the state or vigor of a disease In the declination of a disease The humours being concocted With what in Cholericke persons With medicines that purge Choler Flegmaticke persons With medicines that purge Flegme Melancholike persons With medicines that purge Melancholy The eight Chapter §. 1. Of Phlebotomie in generall Phlebotomie THe health of man is no lesse maintained and being in decay restored by right vse of Phlebotomie than by purging and therefore ought it not at this present time to be passed ouer in silence As concerning euery particular disease and causes of it shall hereafter particularly be mention made First one that is in in good health néedeth neither boxing nor cupping nor the letting of bloud Also the Phlebotomie is fruitlesse to such as haue so strong a nature that being ouerladen is able to expell all superfluities through naturall passages as by bléeding at the nose by the piles or hemorhoides by the flowers in women and such like to such is nothing else to be done but to ayde nature in opening of those passages that shée hath chosen to ease her selfe by But now might some man aske this question Why or for what cause is Phlebotomie vsed Whereunto may thus be answered When the aboue-named naturall euacuations haue not their course then are there foure reasons why this letting of bloud might be vsed First when bloud aboundeth as commonly in those that haue a hote liuer full veines a high colour and brownish and are not too fat and corpulent also in those that eate and drinke abundantly liue at ease and that vse meates that ingender much bloud which when nature cannot altogether digest doth smother rot and corrupt in the veines from which dangerous and deadly diseases do ensue Wherefore if phlebotomie be in due season adhibited it hath these commodities with it First that the whole bodie or the part affected may more surely by this meanes then by administration of inward Phisicke be eased For in the letting of bloud being ruled by art thou mayest draw as little as thou wilt and as much as séemeth néedfull which in purging can in no wise be done for that which is taken into the bodie that remaineth there whether it be too much or too little whether it do good or euill Furthermore Phlebotomie doth strengthen the braine comfort the sight warmeth the cold marrow in the bones freeth the inward parts of many infirmities stayeth vomiting helpeth also oftentimes the flixe or laxe cleareth the senses restoreth sleepe reuiueth the spirits because melancholy bloud is by it diminished cureth deafnesse reduceth the lost voice augmenteth the powers and vertues of all the bodie by reason that it is by this meanes rid of superfluities In the same sort also is anger delayed by it because that choler or gall is by Phlebotomie also diminished The aboundance of bloud is knowne no lesse by the thicknesse and troubled consistence of vrine than by the signes before mentioned Secondly although the bloud be not inflamed but onely superabounding yet doth it cause greeuous agues and other perillous diseases wherefore whensoeuer we find an inflammation and an aboundance of bloud presently we open a veine Also if any one euery morning about the dawning of the day doth vse commonly to sweate it is a signe of a superfluitie in the veines Thirdly where bad and cold bloud is there must a purgation precéede phlebotomie otherwise the good bloud will be drawne foorth and the thicke tough and cold bloud remaine in the veines Lastly it is profitable at sometimes to be let bloud not for any of the aforesaid causes but only that the bloud might be led or drawne from the one veine into the other For example If a woman do ouerpasse the time wherein she should haue her flowers then do we open the veine Saphea in the foote thereby intending to draw the bloud downewards Others comprehend all these particulars in these two points namely such ought to be phlebotomized that abound in bloud and for that cause are very subiect vnto sicknesse Secondly that are full of bad humors or that do abound in a corrupted masse of bloud and are diseased of all which points and how euery veine shall be opened we will more at large speake hereafter where we shall treate of euery sicknesse in particular Of the causes that prohibite or forbid phlebotomie §. 2. WE haue before shewed what persons ought to be phlebotomized Causes that hinder phlebotomie also what profite this letting of blood causeth Now we will declare what persons must for beare it and what might hinder it First Galen commandeth that no body before the foureteenth yeare of his age should be let blood but his successors the latter Phisitions will that no man should haue a veine opened before the seuenteenth yeare also those that are aboue thréescore and ten yeares old should in no case meddle with it adding that youth being hote and moist doth consume much and therefore néedeth much bloud for the sustenance of life In like sort also haue old men small store of good blood but rather great store of bad humors where the letting of blood might take away the best blood and leaue the worst behind Beside this they are weake and their strength doth dayly decay But those that are of a middle age from thirtie to fiftie may most safely vse phlebotomie for that they neither incline to the one nor to the other To those that are cold of complexion is phlebotomie forbidden as also to such as dwell in cold countries for their blood lieth déepe in their bodies is chicke and vnapt to be educed Also where there is a great paine shall it be omitted except it were in a hote ague and there shall so much be drawne that the patient do swoune to the intent the whole bodie thereby might be cooled and the heate taken away Also it is not good presently after a bath to be let blood nor after the vse of Venery nor after any long lasting sicknesse vnlesse the patient do abound in vncleane blood neither must any one that hath ouerladen his stomacke with meate or drinke and as yet is vndigested vse phlebotomy They that are constrained to much vomiting of choler in the stomacke must also forbeare it otherwise it will greatly weaken them Lastly no man shall after much bleeding at the nose or much bléeding of the hemorrhoides or piles or after great store of the flowers in women be phlebotomized for it will cast him downe and weaken him because the blood is the treasure of life At what time and in what signe a veine ought to be opened §. 3. FOr the preseruation of health it is best to be let blood in Aprill or in May When phlebotomie ought to be vsed because at that time man doth most abound in blood and it shall be done on the right side either in the hand arme or foote for in these moneths and
begin of womens termes and flowers Of the Termes or Flowers of women in generall §. 1. THat these Termes of women be called the Flowers is for this cause viz. when it is séene that a trée bloweth then is it esteemed meete and conuenient to beare fruite and contrariwise the trée vnfruitfull which bloweth not except the Fig trée So is it likewise with women that all they that haue their Termes are fit and commodious to conceiue and beare children the which they that haue not their flowers or termes can neuer more accomplish Secondly the Latinists do cal these flowers Menstrua of the moneth and thus for they euery moneth or thirty dayes returne and come againe or for that they according to the course of the Moone that is because they appeare the first quarter of the Moone in young girles the second quarter in them that be somewhat bigger the third quarter in the middle sort the last quarter in aged women Whereby all expert Phisitions do obserue in each time that each age is to haue them to wit the yong people in the new and increasing Moone the old folkes in the decrease of the Moone in fine the health of all women dependeth especially in this necessary menstruall fluxe yea all her chastitie fruitfulnesse and welfare To the contrary if they do not at all auoid do flow too much vnorderly or be lothsome of colour then do they cause all miseries inclination to venery and many kind of sicknesses like as hereafter shall be taught Wherewith it is to be estéemed for no smal work of wonder that amongst all creatures that do liue and are of the female kind except certaine Apes only women are subiect vnto this fluxe and therefore haue the Philosophers many kinds of disputations which be here too long and néedlesse to be rehearsed But of the fountaine and matter of this blood it is with one consent concluded that it is a cold vndigested and grosse matter and the blood of the whole bodie the which through the foresaid veines is gathered together in the womb and is afterwards expelled in due time as a matter hurtfull and of no vse That this matter is also cold is by this perceiued that when it passeth away the woman féeleth a great cold ouer the whole bodie this happeneth after many fashions Of the Termes that be auoided ouer and aboue their naturall custome shall be hereafter spoken of with all their appertenances The women whose Termes auoide in two or thrée dayes are ridde of them with small trouble but if they endure long then will they be thereby very féeble The first auoidance of their Termes is commonly about the fouretéenth yéere the which signifieth that then their naturall séede beginneth to ripen that the haire and breasts beginneth to grow and they that be hote of nature do then get desire of the man for that the womans Termes be none other but a naturall séede which is not yet throughly ripe and that through his superfluitie of nature desireth to be expelled This course of the Termes or Flowers abateth about the age of fortie or two and fortie yeares or endureth sometimes vntill the fiftith yéere but very seldome vntill the sixtith yéere in which time women be still méete and fit for generation yet do these Flowers or Termes of women come sometimes sooner and sometimes later according to that the nature and complexion of the bodie is full of blood strong suffereth much labour is quiet and feeble It is also a common rule with all them that haue experience in naturall things that a woman which getteth not her flowers like as some which be hot drie by nature is barren and vnfruitfull and that for those causes that are discouered in the seuenth Chapter of the barrennesse of men and women although that it chanceth neuerthelesse but very seldome that such women do conceiue and beare This is also the natural custome that when a woman hath conceiued that then her termes do tary away for this blood is prepared for a sustenance vnto the child in the mothers womb like as also after childbirth the same to that end is turned into milke notwithstanding that it oftentimes happeneth that women with child auoide their Flowers or Termes after the old custome vntil the very day of birth as we shall hereafter somewhat intreate thereof but these women do bring small spare weake and not liuing children into the world because they haue bene depriued of the most part of their nourishment It is also contrary to the opinion of many women that she shall open a veine when she is halfe gone with child in case she be not full of blood and the veines not great therefore is not the same very vnaduisedly to be done Item in this flowing or course of womens termes there is another wonderfull nature and propertie to wit that so harmefull and venimous a matter in mans bodie without any hinderance yea for a great preferment of health may be retained and expelled The common experience bringeth with it and all learned do testifie the same that these womens termes do bring innumerable sicknesses with them and haue many infectious properties namely where the same happeneth to fall there groweth no fruite spoileth the vines the Must will be vineger the herbes wither the trées drie away iron rusteth and all mettals do darken and waxe dim the same being taken make a man madde and chiefly the dogges the Bées leaue their hiues if they be annointed therewith women when they haue the same then do they darken through their breath all bright looking glasses the aire wil be poisoned with them and children as it is said bewitched Now doest thou sée thou stout high minded man what a precious matter it is that thou hast in the beginning of thy birth and what the matter is that hath thee nourished This hath caused the auncient Poets to assimulate this fluxe vnto the warres saying that Mars is no son of the god Iupiter but of Iuno onely meaning by Iuno this menstruall fluxe And truly if this hurtfull propertie be likened to the warres then is it an expert and true similitude for what doth more spoile fruites vineyards Must herbes and trées than the warres what is there which taketh away and wasteth more iron how many bright harnesses be thereby darkened where beareth madnes more mastery where are men more like to mad dogs than in the wars how can the aire be more venimed than through the stinking dead bodies Here is now sufficiently spoken of this matter now we will procéede with our medicines How to preferre and moue the Termes or Flowers in women §. 2. FOr the first we will speake of the causes whereby the termes be detained the which be outward and inward The outward causes be sore labour hunger care great satnesse agues dropsies consumptions and some disease of the wombe The inward causes be a bad complexion of heate cold dryth or of moisture whereby the vertue expulsiue
ceasing of paine diminishing of flegme dissipation of windines to prouoke hunger to withdraw and to stay rheumes and to stanch bleeding He aduiseth also to vse it in a great paine of the belly procéeding of wind as the most true and present remedie namely to fasten a great box or cup on the place pained and often to renew it for thereby is the wind maruellously drawne forth and dissipated and not only for this but for the hardnes and other accidents of the spleene but without picking or opening of the skin But note that this boxing or cupping ought not to be vsed except the patient haue first of all throughly bene purged otherwise it doth draw the superfluous humiditie which lieth deepe vnderneath outward to the skin These boxes also are not to be set iust vpon the place affected but hard by it thereabout that by them the matter might be dissipated and withdrawne As for example if a woman had too many of her flowers continuing the cups or boxes shall be set vpon her brests In too much bléeding at the nose vpon the nauell and so in more places contrary still to the course of the blood or else vpon the veines whence the cause procéedeth likewise to prouoke or moue the termes in women the cups shall be fixed vpon the thighes in sore eyes behind the necke as in many places in this booke shall be shewed Thus much for the cupping without opening the skin .. But if thou wilt open the skinne also as commonly is vsed in diuers parts of the bodie and especially in any hard tumor or Schyrrhus or other swellings with a great distention and paine In like manner when thou wilt draw the peccant matter from the infected place to another as to remoue head-ach the cups are fixed on the caues of the legs with opening of the skin which also is done if the termes or flowers in women be stayed and in such like other accidents as hereafter in this booke at large shall appeare The tenth Chapter Of the diminishing of the bloud by Horsleaches THe third meanes whereby the blood is drawne forth of the body is that blood sucking water worme which the auncient Phisitions by their experience for the helpe of man haue found out These Horsleaches are of diuers and sundrie colours some blacke some red some gréenish and of many other colous They are all of them somewhat venemous but especially those that be partie coloured with greene stripes big and liue in stinking pooles which altogether are to be auoided Others that appeare in May and most of all about noone abide in other pooles and waters where also they are taken how to prepare them for to vse hath bene shewed in the sixt Chapter Before they be fastened the place must first be well chafed with water moistened and well scratched with the nailes then take they the better hold When they are fast annoint the place with warme oyle that it coole not and if they be fixed to either hands or féete then put that part into luke-warme water whereon they be fastened but if they draw or sucke not strong inough câ—â— off a litle peece of their tailes that the bloud may passe through them for they will not leaue sucking for all that vnlesse a little salt or a few ashes be cast vpon their heads or that they be stricken on the head with a little wand or rod or that they be burnt with a waxe candle After they be falne off thou shalt fasten a boxe or cup vpon the same place to draw out the remaining bloud and venome or else moisten it with a warme sponge and if it continue bléeding cast some meale on it and lay shéepes wooll dipped in oile vpon that or some other thing as in the fift part of this booke is taught how to stanch blood Here is also to be obserued that these horsléeches do not draw the blood out of the inward parts of the bodie but onely that which lieth in the flesh thereabout so that they can onely be vsed in place of boxes and especially in blacke melancholy blood which by nature they only suck forth And this is all the difference betwéene the vse of them and of cups In the application or fastening of Horsleaches they must be put into a quill réede or cane that they take hold of no other place but where they should It is furthermore well knowne that great store of superfluous humidities are expelled by baths sweat rubbing vomiting and such like but because these things must be altered augmented and diminished according to the estate of the person great héede ought to be giuen what here and there in this booke is spoken of them The eleuenth Chapter Of the sixe things not naturall called of the Phisitions Res non naturales THe cause why we make no mention of these sixe things is for that by them a generall rule of the life is to be obserued but most of all in the time of sicknesse when euery one according as necessitie requireth is taught what order is to be kept in euery of them The first is aire to wit what aire ought to be elected what to be refused and if neither of these may be by what meanes to correct it The second is mouing or motion which is not a litle to be regarded because some diseases require much mouing others litle and some none at all The third is sléepe and watching which is of no lesse account than motion The fourth is fulnesse and emptinesse which teacheth what order is to be followed in meate and drinke as also in hunger and abstinence the meanes also to restore that which either is wanting in the one or in the other The fift the accidents or motions of the mind as anger feare gladnesse sorrow loue hatred c. which oftentimes cause great chaunge and alteration both in sicknesse and in health The sixt is meate and drinke which is méete for euery disease which vnméete Of the which in euery particular disease seuerall instructions shall be giuen this generall rule presupposed that no man diseased shall ouerlade his stomacke with meate or drinke except it were to vomit it vp againe It is also better to eate thrice a day and a little at once than but twise aboundantly If of all these things thou wilt haue a more iust explication looke in the second part of the wheesing and stopping of the breath by the which thou mayest also rule thy selfe in other infirmities Furthermore whatsoeuer might be said of the foure complexions or humors of mans body as bloud choler flegme and melancholy with their incompassed mixtures called Intemperies which are eight fold and what else doth appertaine vnto them shall sufficiently as oportunitie serueth hereafter be declared The twelfth Chapter An explication of all the weights and measures which commonly are vsed in Phisicke THere be two sorts of pounds the common pound containeth sixtéene ounces but the phisicall pound hath but twelue ounces It
this prepared Sope one pound white or yellow Saunders Roses of each halfe one ounce water Lillies two dragmes Camfere one dragme being all beaten to powder mixe them with the Sope and make it vp in little cakes drie them and reserue them for thy vse Of the paine in the head with agues and laske or flixe of the bellie §. 3. WHereas this paine of the head is oftentimes cause of diuers other maladies it shall not be amisse to describe that headache which raigned in the yeare of our Lord 1564 in Mosbach and in the whole Dukedome of the Palsgraue of Rhene at which time I compiled this present worke This paine began with a shiuering cold presently ensued an ague with a little heate but with great drithe and thirst which continued about one fortnight or more It returned vnto diuers after they had bin cleare of it a moneth or twaine and that twise or thrise togither others were intolerably troubled in the head and some so vehemently vexed with a flixe of the bellie without bloud that it could by no meanes by stayed yea they oftentimes very miserably perished with it In this headach were these remedies found very effectuall and good First if nothing do disswade from it thou shalt open the head veine especially if the patient be yong full of bloud and be of body strong and able inough to beare it Children shall then purge with easie medicines as Cassia Manna sirupe of Roses Sene leaues decocted with some cooling herbes The bigger sort shall be purged with sharpe pils and other purgations if they haue no laske withall and if nothing else could be had out of hand thou shalt make this decoction or drinke Take Sena leaues one ounce Cinnamom Annise and Fennell seedes Currans of each as much as thou canst hold betwéene two of thy fingers Licorise the length of thy finger if it be a thicke sticke take lesse of it one fig both cut small swéete Marioram Rosemarie as much as thou canst take vp betwéene thy fingers Sugar one ounce boyle them all in a quart of water till halfe be consumed of this giue to a child to drinke two ounces to an old body fower ounces to a strong body mayest thou boyle half an ounce of Sene leaues with it For women childrē to be boxed on the sholders and legs is very good or to rub their arms and legs with warme clothes downwards It is also good for them to bathe their féete in the decoction of Cummomill Roses and Betonie Wines of all sorts must be shunned in this infirmitie and all things that are hot as Spices Onions Garlicke and such like for daily drinke take two handfuls of Barly Anniséedes halfe an ounce Raisins one ounce and a halfe boile these together in a pottle of water till the Barly do burst then adde thrée dragmes of Cinnamom grossely beaten and let it boile a little so coole Séeing then this sicknesse prouoketh thirst thou maiest not altogether bar the diseased from any kind of drinke but let him take inough of the prescribed decoction with the sirupe of Roses of Violets or of Citrones admixed Thou mayest also giue him the conserue of the same flowers with the water of Endiue Succorie Borage and of Lettice for that it doth comfort the heart For his meate he shall commonly vse French Barly boiled with a hen in broth veale kids flesh or stewed Prunes and such like light meates But if a flixe or loosenesse in the bodie be adioyned to the former infirmitie the affected partie shall in any wise take great héede of such light and loosing meates and onely vse rosted veale pullets rosted and other small birds stewed Quinces or any such like thing Or if he would haue any other meate dressed it shal be done with stilled water which is made as followeth Take as much faire water as thou wilt set it on the fire and cast a good péece of steele into it being first made red hot thrée or foure times together then let the water coole and vse it as thou wilt In like sort also mayest thou prepare water of iron of gold of siluer and of flints for the same purpose thus is wine the milke of a cow and of goates also stéeled But to come to our purpose again as long as this loosenesse of the bodie doth continue thou shalt annoynt the stomacke twise a day with the oyles of Mastix and of Quinces If it be about the time of the yeare that Sloes be ripe take as many of them as you please put them into a pot and powre boyling water vpon them stop or couer them very close giue vnto the infirmed bodie three or foure of these a litle before his meate noting alwaies that in foure and twenty howers he vse not aboue twenty of them at the most Contrariwise if the bodie be bound thou shalt seeke by all meanes thou maist to loose it otherwise many vapors ascend vp into the head and there augment both the heate and the paine yea oftentimes bereaue the patient of his wittes Wherfore first of all thou shalt trie to open the bodie by suppositories which if they will not suffice vse common Clisters which herafter in the third part for the binding stopping of the bodie are prescribed Otherwise if these do not please thee vse some cooling purgation or else that purging potion aboue described There be aboue set downe many vnguents salues and waters but all are very good for the paine of the head But in this kind of head-ach this remedie that followeth is expresly described Take of the water of Lettice Nightshade and of Housleeke of each two ounces water of Camomill an ounce and a halfe good strong vineger one ounce Camfere beaten foure graines mixe them all together or take Rose water Rose vineger Melilot water Betonie water of each or of as many as are to be had what quantitie thou please wet linnen clothes in them and lay them to the forehead In this infirmitie oftentimes is both the toung and throate very raw and sore by reason of the great heate for the which looke the remedies that are set downe in the Chap. 13. § 6. of this first part for the infirmities and heate of the toung and the gargarismes for the paine in the throte in the first Chapter of the second part The sirupe of Mulberies with Plantaine Knotgrasse and Selfeheale water admired conduceth and helpeth very much likewise take the seede of Quinces and the seede of Fleawoort then take a litle sticke and tie to the end of it a little skarlet or linnen cloth with one dragme of these seedes in it steepe it in the water of Selfeheale when thou wilt cleanse thy toung rub it easily with that cloth so steeped it cleanseth moisteneth cooleth and healeth all the chops or clifts in it To comfort the heart vse Manus Christi with Pearles conserue of water Lillies Pomegranates preserued Citrons and others such like This binding water
this purpose Of the scales of the head of the beard and eyebrowes §. 7. THe Latinists do call the scales of the head Furfures which is bran well knowne of all people and are very common in al mens heads They grow there through a hot complexion and when they abound much aboue custome then were they wont to be messengers of leprosie They that haue them so excessiue do get them through a licentious life and surfetting in eating and drinking through incontinencie strong wine much vse of garlick onions and mustard whereby the blood is burnt to ashes For this must one begin with purging like as in all drie itches shall be expressed But if the person haue much bloud then is he to be let bloud if not then are to be vsed neesing powders gargarismes and boxing cups are to be set on the shoulders and necke and afterwards these things Seeth Mallowes or Venus haire in water wash therewith the head and face and alwayes rub well the head or boile fennell séed Licorice Fleawort Lupins Hollihocke rootes take out the muscilage as shall be taught hereafter and temper them with the iuice of Melons Item take Nuttrée wood or Nut shels burnt to ashes put them in the ly and wash you therwith Item take Charuill Southernwood make a lie thereof with a little vineger Item burne Hay flowers to ashes and poure ly vpon it Item take Elecampane rootes and infuse them a good while in ly Or take Storkes bill let it séeth in water and foment well the scales therewith that they be well frothed and afterwards lay the herbes on the top of it and they will weare away Will you yet haue stronger things then take the gall of a Bull Coloquint Sal Alcali Boras of each one drag Gals pils of Pomegranates and their blossomes of each one scrup and temper them together Item take narrow Plantaine Henbane séeds and salt of each a little séeth them in water and rub the scales therewith the same also doth Aqua vitae with Brimstone amongst it Heretofore in the second chapter § 1. you haue a bag for ly which beginneth Take Spica c. you may vse the same also for the scales and put therto two ounces of Orenge péels whereof some of the white is cut away For to draw the muscilage out of the séedes and rootes the Apothecaries do call the slime drawne out of all séeds and rootes Muscilagines it is much vsed in this matter and is thus prepared Take rootes and séeds chop and stampe each according to the qualitie How to make the slime or muscilage of seeds root seeth them vntil the liquor be very slimy muscilaginous this being done poure it al together into a long bag that is piked beneath and bind it hard to a staffe afterwards take two little boordes and fasten the said bag betwéene them wring it hard from aboue downewards then runneth the slime or muscilage out of it receiue it in a cleane porrenger and after this fashion wring or presse out all the slime that will come forth For to driue away Lice and Vermine §. 8. Lice THis lothsome and especially to children troublesome worme hath his most abode in the foresaid haire of the head and they do grow through moisture of the flesh or to speake properly of a grosse and moist vapor that fumeth out at the pores and through naturall warmth becometh outwardly a Louse and receiueth also a vital spirit and is altered into a litle worme with sixe feete increasing and seeking their meate in the place of their generation therefore are children and women more plagued then men that are drie by nature and be much lesse hurtfull to yong children then to full growne persons yet they haue this commodity thereby that they that haue most lice be wholly fréed from the headach Their cause The cause whence they are ingendred may be ouermuch eating and small digesture or eating of meates that be very moist as diuers fruites and especially figs and chestnuts also ouermuch carnall copulation vncleane clothes and such as are worne ouerlong Their remedies Now that one may be rid of this vermin annoint the head with the broth of Salt fish with the iuice of Alehoofe the iuice of Fumitory mixt with Vineger take Gentian and séeth it in ly and wash the head therewith Take Bay berries or if you haue them not the oile of Bay Vineger powned Bay berries burnt Harts horne seeth them together in water or ly and wash the head therewith Salues Take halfe a pound of Barrowes grease mixe and temper amongst it one ounce of Quicksiluer and one ounce of the oile of Bay Licebane and white Hellebore of each halfe an ounce Salgem one dragme and a litle vineger temper them all together and therewith annoint the head and put a kercher on the head and in the morning wash the head with lie Another Take Barrowes grease halfe a pound beaten Liuer foure ounces Wolues bane and white Hellebore rootes of each halfe an ounce oile of Bay one ounce temper amongst it one ounce and a half of quicksiluer so wel that one cannot sée it salt one drag vse a litle thereof for it is strong Item take vnprepared Coriander séeth it in water wash therewith the head and all places where there are any lice and wash the clothes in like maner it driueth away lice and fleas you may also try the same with Coriander leaues Crab-lice Against Crab-lice you are to vse all the former things They grow of a stinking matter that nature expelleth through the hairy skin as in the eybrowes beard priuities they are most plagued with them that eate many kinds of meates vse small exercises and much bathing For to consume this vncleane matter he is to be purged with Pillulae Cochiae and to vse oftentimes gargarismes with the sirupe of vineger and a litle mustard séed and to wash the place with Allume water and salt water or that wherein Stauesacre is decocted Iem take Stauesacre and Allume of each one drag beate them together temper it with hony and annoint therewith Others do take Salarmoniac Aloe and Borras amongst it and in stéed of hony vineger of Squils also the white of a rosted egge is commended for it wrapt vp in a cloth and held as hot vpon the place as may be suffered This being done thrée or foure times they will fall away Lice in childrens feete Somtime yong children haue also lice growing in their féet for them take new laid hen egs let them be sodden hard cut the white in péeces in the breadth beate then the yolks and with fine linnen rags lay it on the feet and then the white vpon it and so being well bound certaine houres the lice will créepe to the white of the egge The Lowsie euill Phthiriasis a miserable sicknesse §. 9. EVen as we haue written of the Lice so we wil adioyne thereto the Lowsie euil which
the Grecians do cal Phthiriasis This is a wonderful and terrible sicknes that a man should be eaten vp with such baggage worms and so bereft of his life It hapneth that these worms do bréed of moisture of a mans flesh and begin commonly in the eybrowes and in some scabs or among some scurfe therein when they do breake of themselues or are opened Then do lice créepe out and so by little and little out of the whole body with such danger that very skilfull Phisitions haue inough to do therewith and yet neuerthelesse are these medicines following ordained for the same Take the iuice of Fumitory Borage Germander of each two ounces Mirobalam Chebuli Indi Citrini of each foure scrup blacke pepared Hellebore one quarter of an ounce prepared Agarick half an ounce Aloe three quarters of an ounce Epithymum Sene leaues rootes of Polipody of each one ounce powne all that is to be powned and temper them with the iuice if it be too soft let it dry and forme a lumpe or masse thereof take one drag and make siâ—e pils of it of the which you are to take twice or thrice euery weeke two at one time an houre before supper Prepare this ly ensuing Take Aristology Swines bread of each half an ounce of Gentian Rhapontica of each three drag Centory one quarter of an ounce seeth these things in ly and wash therewith Item take Ireos halfe a ounce Squils one ounce Centory halfe an ounce Mirtle seed one ounce Cloues three quarters of an ounce bitter Almonds foure ounces Vineger as much as is néedfull let them seeth together stopt well in a glasse in water by a soft fire about the space of foure houres afterwards wring it out wel with this oile annoint the pushes or scabs whence the lice do issue and bréed A salue Take Iuniper berries powned well one ounce of sallet oile thrée ounces of white wine one ounce and a halfe seeth them together til the wine be consumed afterwards wring it out then take two ounces of Barrowes greace Elecampane rootes rosted vnder the ashes one ounce and a halfe Litharge of gold one ounce prepared Quicksiluer one ounce and a half temper them and annoint the scabs therewith but beware of the eyelids that you do not annoint them therewith In this lousie euill is commaunded to mortifie the Quicksiluer as hereafter followeth How to prepare mortifie Quicksiluer take wild Ferne and the roots thrée M. Limons and Oranges cut in péeces of each three drag seeth them in water vntill the third part be consumed afterwards straine it through a cleane cloth and temper the quicksiluer wel amongst it There are other meanes more to kil the quicksiluer like as hath bene shewed in the other salues for Lice Of the bad sore Scurfe or Scall of the head and such like §. 10. AS through the vnnaturall moisture of the head Lice do grow so doth there come thereof bad sores or scals of the head as is séene in children which are full of moisture And although these scabs are for the most part alwayes an expulsion of nature whereby children are cléered from other accidents and noisome diseases for which cause they ought rather to be prouoked then healed neuerthelesse heed must be taken that this breaking out come not to grow old and to be changed into the bad sore or scall the which is not to be holpen in people of yeeres nor yet in yong children therefore will we here write somewhat thereof Of a Scald head THis is a detestable disease to wit the sorenesse or scals of the head with scurfe spoile and falling off of the haire with much itch stench and lothsome mishape or ilfauorednesse the one sort are drie the other are moist neuerthelesse all are to be cured after one maner At the first doth this bad sore appeare small and little but if they be not quickly looked vnto then runneth it forthwith from the one side of the head to the other vntil the whole head be ful the causes are drie burnt humors or moisture and putrified blood If it come only of Phlegma then yéeldeth it moisture whereof we wil make further mention If it be dry and old then do all the learned conclude vpon it that it is incurable and although it should heale in continuance of time and through much aduise and with trouble neuertheles must not one cease therefore And to this end are these things following acknowledged to be good for the same First it is needfull to begin the cure with a good order of diet wherein neuerthelesse there is no certain order to be made because that this disease is incident to yong children albeit somtimes also to people in yéeres wherein great difference is to be made But generally to eschue all things which maketh heauy melancholike and flegmatike bloud whereof are many instructions giuen in many places of this booke First of all a full growne man must alway apply himselfe as hereafter followeth Aboue all he must beware of strong and sharpe wines and as is said from all melancholike meate as cheese coleworts salt flesh and such like and must rather vse them that be light of digestion and make good blood as fowles that haunt high grounds rere egs Borage sweet fish of fresh waters He must also oftentimes purge according as the person is and as the sores be great and noisome If a mans age wil permit it the the patient be abounding in blood which may be perceiued by the greatnesse of the veines it is aduised to open the head veines in both armes likewise the veines in the forehead and behind the eares Neuerthelesse some do suppose that the two last mentioned veines are not often to be opened To the end one might recouer haire for which this blood is requisite vpon the places where it is red and raised and sheweth bloody are horse-leaches and boxing cups to be set and plaisters to be applied that do raise blisters whereof shall be more spoken in time If there be any disease where haire groweth there must it be shorne off twice a wéeke and alway before there be laid any salue vpon it the haire must be cleane shorne away and be also wel rubbed with course linnen and afterwards annoint it ouer with the iuice of onions or of radishes These are now the beginnings of the cure First of all must the grosse burned moisture be attenuated and prepared for expulsion the which is to be effected with Oxymel of Squils called Compositum and is described in the second Chapter § 6. for which also doth serue the sirupe of Fumitory The melancholike and flegmatike humors are to be purged with the pils Cochiae and if one haue strong folks in hand he may vse thereunto Epithymum Coloquint and prepared Hellebore yet a man is alwayes to be aduised herein by a learned Phisition And for example in a dry scall Take prepared black Hellebore one drag Sene leaues Epithymum of each one
towards the shoulder blades and ribs This place is not altogether bonie like to the scul nor of one péece but very orderly the one with the other intermingled filled with bones and muscles so that the ribs comprehend and defend behind and before the inward parts euen as it were with a bulwork And euen as this part of mans body is outwardly defended with bones euen so are also the inner parts with veines arteries and strong sinewes ioyned together and fashioned very formally thereby to take aire into it and to yéeld it out againe wherby the hart the lights and other parts should be refreshed and preserued in their estate Also the brest like as other parts of man is subiect to many kinds of maladies as partly may be séene in the description of the rheume For when these mischieuous rheumes fall vpon the brest then do they harme the lights stop the wind pipes make a man pursiue stinking breathed much coughing and anguish so that at the last they rid matter and filth with many moe such accidents whereby the lights are perished and hurt whereof afterwards more at large and plainely shall be parcelwise discouered And to follow our woonted method we will first speake of the outward parts of the Breast Of womens breasts milke and of their diseases §. 1. THe womens breasts are by nature indued with two kinds of wondrous works The first that through their meanes the new borne child receiueth his food to wit from the bloud which through naturall warmth is altered and brought into milke The second that they are a defence couer of the hart whereby when they warme them they are also in like manner kept warme of the said hart Euen as our bodie warmeth the clothes so do the clothes also kéepe the bodie warme And this commeth more to passe in women than in men by reason that their breasts are bigger by ods The substance of womens breasts is a soft flesh by nature spongeous thereby to draw much moisture vnto it Contrariwise mens brests are hard and clung together especially in them that are not ouercharged with fatnesse both of them haue their nipples in the midst of their breasts The which in women are very méet comely instruments for to giue their new borne children their said sustenance Mans milke Otherwhiles also mens brests do giue milke but this is a token rather of vnable humors than otherwise Thus to procéed with womens brests they are subiect to diuers and sundrie accidents Otherwhiles they grow a great deale too big the which séemeth not onely ill but is also sometimes an occasion of other diseases But this commeth rather by nature or inheritance and according to that one woman is fatter and corpulenter of bodie than another But by nature as it hath bene said they are vessels of milke whereby in some women it is too litle and in some too much Therefore it is very néedfull to séeke a remedie how in the one to lessen them and in the other to augment them For where milke is too aboundant there prouoketh it many kinds of diseases to wit that it doth clod and congeale in the breast whereof hardnesse heate swellings canker woormes and such like do ensue In like manner the nipples do also chop which bringeth thereby great anguish to them that giue sucke and infect the children that sucke the matter and bloud into their bodies with sundrie sicknesses Of the ouermuch growing and hanging downe of the Brests §. 2. WHen as this superfluous and ouermuch growing of the brests hapneth in hail young and plethoricall women there shall in my best opinion the nature be suffered to haue her free course least by taking them away some greater mishap be procured yet some do counsell for a sure remedie that if one annoint the breast with the gall of a Hare that then they will not grow too great Item take Barley meale and Goates milke of each a like much vineger halfe so much let them séeth well and be laid on the breast it is taken for a certaine remedie in like manner frie Mallowes in Sallad oyle and lay it ouer the breast These things following are yet stronger Take Hypocistis the pils and blossomes of Pomegranates Acorne cups and burnt lead of each thrée drag Allume Ceruse the iuice of Sloes and rosted Lentils of each one drag Snailes with their houses burnt and Southernwood of each two drag and a halfe Make a salue thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and therwith annoint the brest Item take Frankinsence Masticke of each one ounce sea Muscles one drag and a halfe temper them together with red vineger All that is taught here doth not hinder onely the growing of the Breasts but also that they be not loose or hanging downe these things may also be vsed against the falling downe of the Mother euen as in the third part shall be further declared in the description of the diseases of the wombe or mother Pilles TAke Ferne rootes Sarcocolla and Allume of each one drag Sandaraca halfe a drag make fiue pils thereof with the iuice of Ireos whereof take one and fast foure houres after it These pils do not onely consume all superfluitie but also the naturall fatnesse of mans bodie if they be oftentimes vsed Secondly he or she may if they will strew beaten Amber vpon all their meate and if you will haue it work better put the powder in wine for the wine carieth the force of it very quickly into the veines Thirdly take beaten Gals Cypers nuts of each sixe ounces Allume prepared Iron drosse of each thrée ounces séeth them together in a good deale of Tanners lie and wash therewith méetely warme and make often wet therewith the hands féet face and breast with a sponge The like are you to do also on the priuie members Or take stamped Henbane séede seeth it in wine and then lay the wine ouer the Breasts But I cannot counsell you to take this by reason of his great cold Of Milke in generall §. 3. FOrasmuch as this wonderfull alteration of the red bloud into so faire white a colour daily happeneth in women and also in beastes therefore is their force and might accounted the lesse neuerthelesse hath God ordained it for all creatures that are borne aliue for their first and most requisite nourishment Of the difference of women and beasts Milke it is not our meaning here to discourse but concerning womens Milke the yellow is alwayes better than the white so is also the same more forcible in browne women then in white In Ponto by the Riuer Astaeo it is sayd that milke in women in beasts is black But without any circumstances we will onely discourse of the Breasts of women and of the accidents incident vnto them Of the want or scarcitie of Milke §. 4. IF women that giue sucke haue want of Milke then must we search out the cause thereof This may procéed somtimes of some hote or
breast be much then teÌ„per amongst it Trociscos de Agarico or giue him the powder thereof to drinke in like manner also Rubarb with Spica of Indie with Cinnamom or Squinant according to the importance of the cause Old folkes may vse this as well as yong children How commodious the Cassia is for all sore Coughs is sufficiently declared in our Introduction But for this paine in the breast it is néedefull that it be tempered with Agarick or some other thing according to the qualitie of the sicknesse But for this is especiall heede to be taken for women with child that it be not giuen them without great cause bicause it maketh paine or ache in the belly Item take Sulphur vise two graines temper it with a little Hony and so take it in for it is maruellous good There is also to be had ready at some Apothecaries a costly compound Trociscos de Sulphure Trocisci de sulphure Adulphi or called Adulphi and is thus prepared take losinges of Cole Dragagant Sugar pennets of each halfe an ounce Ginger two scruples Licorice thrée dragmes Ireos one scruple Hyssop Nettle seede Rosemary floures Saffron and Sulphur vife of each seuen graines mixe it with Looch sanum and forme trocisces thereof take a little of it letting it melt alone in the mouth and vse it often They make also a Confection of Brimstone take Sulphur vife one scruple mixe it with fresh Butter and Muscilage of Linseede or Elecampane one ounce take thereof often and a little at once The Confection of Foxe lights that is Looch de pulmone Vulpis is aboue all other remedies Looâ—h de pulmone Vulpis for the Asthma which is a shortnes of breath very much commended for it is not only good for a sore Cough and short breath but it healeth and cleanseth all vlcers of the breast and Lights And for the consumption it excelleth all other remedies is made thus Take prepared Foxe lights the iuice of Licorice Annis séede Fennell seede and Venus haire of each halfe an ounce clarified Sugar seuen ounces and a halfe beate these togither and decocted with Sugar in the water of Folefoote leaues temper it into a confection Hereafter follow some good Potions for this shortnesse of breath Take Sebestes Figs and Dates of each fower Venus haire Violets Currans and Licorice of each one quarter of an ounce white Poppy seede one ounce Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Annis seed Fennell Agrimonie Hyssope of each one ounce 20. Iuiubes Sugar or Hony fiue ounces thrée or foure pintes of water let this séeth togither vntill the third part be sodden away straine the liquor through a cloth and put the Sugar thereto or hony and let it seeth againe vntill it be cleare IteÌ„ take 3. quarters of an ounce of Figs Dates Horehound Smallage seed Fennel Roses Venus haire Hyssope and Licorice of each fiue dragmes seeth them as before or to the halfe The common people may seeth water with hony and Hyssope as the shortnesse of breath beginneth to lessen he must lay one dragme of Agaricus in the water of Betonie and Hyssope to steepe and temper amongst it some hony of Roses and so drinke it togither Also the common Meade and Sugar water is good to drinke Another Potion Take a pinte and halfe of white wine steepe therein one handfull of Horehound let it seeth togither vntill the third part straine it and put thereto sixe ounces of clarified Hony let it seeth a little togither and scum it diligently whereof the patient is to drinke euery day two or three ounces Some do take three ounces of Hony and do melt therin half an ounce of Turpentine washt or as much Oxymel Both are good and sure A maruellous good medicine which is highly esteemed in Turky Take the liuer of a Wolfe the Milt Lights and braines salt well the braines and take of these fower of each a like much let them be dried well that they may be powned Giue the patient thereof one quarter of an ounce with a little fresh broth three daies one after another in the morning fasting and let him fast afterwards fiue or sixe houres The sicke partie must take his drinke through the Wolfes throate when this is so done they report that they which vse the same be from thenceforth fréed of it all the yeare following but if it returne not within one twelue moneth that then it will neuer come againe And if he had this sicknesse any more afterwards they aduise that one should make a lace of the Wolfes maw and weare the same all his life time on his naked bodie for thereby should he be certainely fréed of this sicknesse But to trie these things is the best way Water distilled of Elecampane or broth wherein it is decocted is very good and chiefly if it be mingled therewith Hereafter are some things described which the diseased may hold vnder his tongue without chewing as big as a beane and swallow it downe by little and little Take Looch de Pino one ounce and a halfe Sugar pennets halfe an ounce powne them together Item take Looch de Farfaria called ad Asthma as much as you thinke méete and as much powned Hollihock rootes make a hard confection thereof with prepared honie or sugar And if any do resist these weake things then shall he in the stead thereof vse Diapenidion described in this Chapter and 6. § And if it happen as it woonteth often that the sicke person by reason of this cough cannot sléepe then is he once or twice a wéeke to take this potion when he goeth to bed Take placents of Ireos one dragme the confection of Philonium Romanum halfe a scruple temper it with one ounce and a half of Hyssop water and at the same time strew on the top of the patients head this powder following Take Sandaraca one quarter of an ounce Cloues one drag Mace two scruples Roses water Lillies Violets and Poppie heads of each half a drag Lignum Aloes one scruple stampe each a part and temper them together Plaisters or Vnguents for this Asthma TAke fat Dates and Figges of each one ounce Mallowes Hollihocke leaues of each three handfuls rootes of Mallowes and of Hollihockes of each halfe an ounce cut them to péeces and boile them together into a pappe mixe Pigeon dung amongst it Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce the muscilage of Linséede and of Fenegréeke as much as is needfull for to make a mild plaister lay it warme vpon the breast the same doth also the fatte shéepes wooll Item take Comfrey rootes broad and narrow Plantaine Purslaine and Henbane choppe them small and séeth them together in the waters of Plantaine and Purslaine vntill it be thick beaten well and mixt with Pomegranate pils Acorne cups Galles and Myrtle séede which haue bene stéeped eight howers in warme water then strained out hard and powred to the rest and boiled vnto a little afterwards mingle it with
which is ordained by nature therewith to moisten the Hart that through his continuall stirring it should not be so sore dried Likewise it hath otherwhiles a thick fleshie skin which lieth round about the hart and sometimes waxeth almost as hard as a bone the which the Grecians call Pericardion and we the closet of the hart and hath such moisture in it like as it were vrine yea otherwhiles like as it were with a swéete deaw And when as this moysture commeth to drie vp like as it happeneth in them that consume or liue in great sorrow then must death follow after it Like as to the contrarie doth come to passe when there is too much of this foresaid moisture that thereby is caused the panting of the Hart and distemperature of the vitall spirits It were here too long to rehearse all the signes of a hot cold drie and moyst Hart or of a cold and drie hot and moyst cold and moyst or hot and drie all the which are intemperatures or Intemperies of which is spoken in the first part and 1. § We will also touching this recommend the Reader to Galen who hath at large discoursed of these Intemperies But I must adioyne thereto thrée things which concerne the hart whereof the hart of them that dyed of Cardiaca or swouning or their harts that dyed through poyson cannot be burnt Secondly the foolish fantasie of the Egyptians that were of opinion that mens harts do euery yeare augment one quarter of an ounce and that during fiftie yeares and that afterwards from yeare to yeare it did abate as much againe which was the cause that men could not liue aboue one hundreth yeares Thirdly that the heathen of their offred beasts and also Iulianus the Emperour that fell from Christ do maruellously seduce people and perswade that all things to come may thereby be knowne whereof we will speake no more at this present We will now procéede with our intent and treate of all the diseases and accidents of the hart and do teach thereby how the same are to be holpen and cured And albeit touching this there be many maladies and accidents described by the learned yet we wil neuertheles briefely rehearse only of the faintnes of the heart of whatsoeuer cause that it may procéede as swouning quaking and panting be it through heate or cold amongst which may be contayned all accidents and maladies which are incident vnto the hart and lastly adde thereto of the maladie which is commonly called the griping of the hart Of the fainting of the Hart in generall §. 1. EVen as the Hart is the most principall and pretious part of the bodie so doth the same declare that there is the more care and prouidence to be had for to auoyd and take away his maladies for to cure all that which hurteth it and to preferre all that helpeth and to obtaine the same thus do the learned write these common rules hereafter following First that with expedition some good meanes and counsell be vsed and had against all that might happen vnto the hart for to expell the matter which is cause thereof for that there is no part of the body which may tollerate lesse delay of helpe Secondly for other members which haue any disease there one thing is commaunded another forbidden so that thereby no hurt might happen which neuertheles is not so duly obserued as whensoeuer is giuen to one that hath the Ague Wine or Flesh which notwithstanding is clerely forbidden but this must be more strictly obserued in the infirmities of the hart by reason that it is much more néedfull for to strengthen the same as can be best and to comfort it Thirdly if any member be by nature hote and yet there striketh more heate vnto it then must a great cooling be vsed but one may not do so to the hart whereto lesse or smaller things be vsed neither yet to delay it so long before you séeke remedie to cure it as shall be hereafter declared in the eight and ninth instructions Fourthly the parts that are helpers of the motions and actions of the whole bodie must not at any hand be touched with any strong purgation so that thereby the same parts and consequently the whole body be not ouerweakened the which must so be obserued in the hart by reason that the same doth procure all actions of the whole bodie Fiftly for that the diseases of the hart are caused for the most part of bloud and winde therefore is Phlebotomy much better for it then purging but if the maladie procéede of bloud then must the Liuer veine be opened on the right side if of winde then is the Liuer veine on the left side to be opened Sixtly if that purging medicines must néedes be vsed then is there alwayes to be put thereto that which may comfort the hart as hereafter shal be taught thereby to strengthen the same and to preserue it by reason that all purging mâ—dicines are not a little contrary to the hart Seuenthly it must be narrowly looked vnto what part of mans bodie doth send these humors towards the hart causeth this maladie for to make readie the purgation accordingly and to adde the cordiall things vnto it as hath béene sayd Eightly if that the Hart haue gotten a bad hot complexion that the same must be cooled then is to be tempered amongst the cooling medicines some warming things for if nothing but only cold things were vsed then might perchance the naturall heate be quenched and the patient killed Ninthly the cause of this mixture of cold and warme things is for that cold things are commonly of no force or power without the help of warme things to penetrate to the Hart. As for example the Saffron is therefore added to the Trociscos de Camphora For that all which shall here afterwards be written of the maladie of the Hart is no other thing but a faintnes whereof the one is greater and the other lesser than another like as Lipothymia and Syncope it is néedfull to write of their differences Lipothymia is a swouning or defect of minde which sometimes is but small and sometimes great and is soone ended contrarywise Syncope commeth suddenly vpon one and that with such vehemencie that he can neither féele sée nor heare so that betwéene death and him there is no other difference then that as yet he hath some breath Notwithstanding is the Lipothymia not so little to be regarded but that spéedily helpe must be had for it for that it may quickly turne into Syncope But before all things shall euery one know that both these tremblings of the heart haue so great acquaintance with the panting of the hart that many Phisitions haue comprehended them vnder one title as the remedies described euery where do testifie the same but that they haue made many necessarie differences betweene hote and cold swounings and first to write of the foresaid small swouning or defect of minde which taketh one vnawares
is also good against all Coughes against the consumption and all those that be brought lowe through a long sicknes it bringeth againe to their former might and strength The third part of this Booke of Phisicke Containeth the Bellie THe third part of mans body haue the Anatomists who are the surueiors of the vniformity and members of mans body ascribed to the belly which beginneth outwardly from the breast and inwardly from the Diaphragma descending downewards euen to the legs This part hath outwardly these members following on the forepart the Nauel which is placed in the midst of the whole body and belly vnder which do follow both the parts of generation the which in man are the testicles or stones hanging downe in a cod behind are the raines and the buttockes which couer the fundament The inward members are the stomack the liuer the gall the kidneys the bladder the bowels and in women the mother all which are subiect to very dangerous diseases of the which we are now to write and dicourse The first Chapter Of the Nauell THe first outward member of the bellly is the Nauell which is called the roote of the belly for that nature hath formed it as the first amongst the féeding parts and also in new borne children holdeth fast in the mothers belly no otherwise then as it were a roote in the earth For like as the root of a trée draweth nourishment vnto it whereby it groweth euen so doth the nauell also which draweth the blood vnto it out of the mothers body thereby to nourish the child and make it grow Euen as the foresaid roote of a trée of all that which it draweth vnto it for food doth not driue away any thing but all that which is watery and vnnecessary for his nourishment as the gum which one séeth on a trée euen so doth the string of the nauell which sweateth out all superfluous moisture which is not good for nourishment and doth gather all the same together in the Secundina vntill the birth day the which is called of women the flood or breaking of the water All people be they yong or old may get a rupture of the nauell which swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the belly the which causeth chiefly to women a great hinderance if they be not holpen thereof like as we shall write hereafter more at large when we shall discourse of the rupture yet we will here discourse and write somewhat of certaine things for the behoofe and ease of yong children Take Comfrey one ounce stampe it well put thereto halfe an ounce of molten Waxe temper it well and then lay it vpon the nauell But if the rupture be very great then take Beares grease and therewith annoint the whole back bone of the child it causeth the Nauell to be drawne in It is found to be oftentimes good for all ruptures of the Nauell be it in people of discretion or in yoong children that the herbe Perfoliata and his séed be sodden and layd vpon the rupture and so worne or caried continually vpon the nauell vntill that thereby the rupture be cured And the same séed being also sodden in water or in wine and one drag thereof giuen to drink or stamp the herbe and the seed and giue thereof to the child the weight of one scruple and a half to eate in pap Also you shall hereafter find a plaister of Perfoliata which you may vse for this purpose A good powder Take Lupins meale halfe an ounce burnt linnen one quarter of an ounce temper them together and take therof one quarter of an ounce then temper it afterwards with wine and lay it vpon the nauell Satyros Some do write that when a man without lust of women hath his yard erected and comming to a woman the same will not swage nor relent that then it is called Priapismus Satyrismus is the erection of the priuities which is lost by copulation The cause of both these infirmities are grosse thick vapors or dampes with smal heate that they cannot suddenly spend as also abstinence from women continuall vse of Pease and Beanes and other pottages In fine if there be not speedy remedy for these causes then may insue after it as great a paine and distention of the sinewes as at the last might cause an intollerable crampe and impostume For to remedy this infirmity foure things are to be noted first that the patient beware of all such things which might cause the yard to stand and stirre vp venery what these are we will shew immediatly hereafter Secondly he must indeuour to vomit to let blood and to take mild purgations Thirdly to rub well the vppermost members and not the vndermost to hinder the defluxe of the matter Fourthly the patient must refraine womens company except it be that he haue very great lust thereto And for to cure this it is therefore aduised that first the Median be opened and afterwards cause the patient to vomit If it will not thereby amend open the veine againe and giue the patient a little of the muscilage of Fleawoort which is made with the water of Purslaine or of water lillies or bathe the members and parts about it with boyled Rue Agnus castus Cumin and such like Item annoint the kidneyes and the priuities with herbes cold of nature of which the séeds of Fleawort Campher and Poplar salue are tempered For his Sallad he must take Purslaine Endiue lettice and such like For vineger the iuice of Limons and Citrons are good in all his meates To fast much and liue onely by water and bread is very good for him but in case he will drinke wine then must it be well watered This plaister following shall he weare on the reines and the priuities so long as this sicknesse endureth Take white waxe sixe ounces melt it and wash it ten times in cold water afterwards temper amongst it halfe an ounce of small bruised Campher or weare vpon the raines a thin plate of lead full of holes and wet it often with vineger and Campher This powder following may also be prepared Take Fleawort two dragmes and a halfe Purslaine seed prepared Coriander and Lettice séed of each one quarter of an ounce Campher one dragme temper them all together being powdred small and giue euery morning one dragme thereof with the sirupe of Limons or faire water Vnder the patients shéets must be laid the leaues of Agnus castus and he must lie alwayes vpon his side But if he cannot abide to fast then is he to eate much bread of Millet and many Sallads and his drinke shall be white Wine wherein Rue Cumin Coriander and such like haue bene stéeped Also cold sirupes cold confections and such like are very commodious for him The sent of Beuercod of Campher of Saunders Roses and all cooling things are also passing good for him The third Chapter Of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry Ruptures NAture hath fastened behind the yard or secresie a
Item butter and all cold and moist herbes must he forbeare as Spinage Lettice Béets Mallowes Purslaine c. vnlesse they be mingled with some warme herbes as Rosemary Mints Thyme Marioram and such like Meates that are good for him are well leauened bread not aboue thrée dayes old Brewesse of fresh flesh broth reare Egs Veale Mutton Porke Hares Item Capons Hens Phesants Partridges Ducks Doues and all other field fowles All fish fried in oile and salt fish may he vse otherwhiles c. Hard salt Chéese is also sometimes permitted All sorts of Turneps Oliues and Capers may he also vse All maner of spice may he eate drest with his meate Also Annis séed fennell séed Comin and such like All maner of sower things in his meates cannot hurt him as Vineger Veriuice Limons Orenges and such like For his drinke shall be good cleere wine or béere But if the patient can neither drinke wine nor béere then is he to vse this Meade following Take Rosemary halfe an ounce Cinnamom halfe a dragme Balme flowers Ginger Borrage Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme séeth these together in seuen quarts of water vntill the fourth part be sodden away afterwards put thereto sixtéene ounces of hony let it séeth againe vntill the third part be consumed This drinke is speciall good in the winter and if the same be not continually vsed yet may the wine be delayed with it This order is as well directed for flegmaticke humors as for the cause whereof this rupture hath his being And if the same be caused of Cholera and blood we haue thereof discoursed before The Chirurgions haue two other meanes to heale the Rupture which is by incision and with cautarisation whereof we are not purposed to write The fourth Chapter Of the Testicles or Stones SOme do name both these parts the priuities which name doth signifie more than the stones onely of men or women for that it is thought to be too grosse a terme the stones but if the matter b◠honest which is spoken of them then can the true name of them not be shamefull nor dishonest Both these small parts of a mans body were once fashioned thereto by God and nature like as is discouered whereby to continue mankind for which cause they are by good reason accounted amongst the principallest parts of mans body For how greatly mankind is depending theron it is to be séen by such whose stones be cut out who haue no beards growing do lose their mans voice and naturall heate yea are wholy vnfit for generation In fine do almost alter wholy into the nature of women we may therfore with good reason write thereof Men and women haue both of them two of these stones therfore do the Grecians call them Didymi which is Twins or Twilings In men they hang outwardly out of the body in the abouesaid cods and are of a fast fleshy substance round and somewhat long inwardly hollowish wherein they receiue the purest and cleanest blood of the whole body and for that they be hot and moist they prepare that for the full perfection of the séed Women haue the stones inward on each side of the neck of the Mother one but they are much lesse than the stones of a man and also of another fashion It is also adiudged that the right stone is hotter of nature than the left therefore the right also is sayd will ingender a son and the left a daughter It is found by experience if a man haue one stone cut out yet may he ingender children likewise they that haue three stones are very vnchast of life Of the diseases which these members of the body are subiect vnto is sufficiently discoursed in the treatise of the Cods for there can hardly come any infirmity to the cods wherein they do not suffer with them whether they chaunce to swell through wind or any other humor But chiefly yong children get lightly such diseases for which you haue this plaister following for to vse as well for yong as for aged folkes Take Lilly rootes foure ounces Linséed meale Beane meale halfe an ounce yellow wild Rape séed half an ounce Sulphur vife one dragme make a plaister thereof But before you lay on the plaister annoint the place with oile of Pepper and Saffron of each half an ounce temper them and vse it warme Another plaister Take small beaten Annis séeds temper them with well brayed whites of egs and lay warme vpon it This is approoued and found good The fift Chapter Of VVomens priuie Members THe Priuities of women make outwardly a small shew but within are much like to the priuy members of a man The neck of the Mother or Womb is in stéed of the Yard the Mother or Wombe is compared with the Cods where on the necke of the same like as is sayd the stones are fixed so that with good reason may be sayd That whatsoeuer men haue outwardly the same haue women inwardly but for honesties sake we will write no further of it But as much as concerneth the inward parts thereof and all that appertaineth thereto shall be discouered hereafter here shall only be touched certaine diseases which these parts are subiect to For which first of all the common aduise of women is against all paine of these parts be it of whatsoeuer cause that the same proceed to wit that Betony be layd to steepe in Wine and to drinke thereof Of the inflammation of the place with swellings §. 1. TAke the whites of Egs and bray them with a long péece of Allume a good space then will it be a salue spread it vpon a cloth and so apply it and when it is dry refresh it this hath beene many times approoued and found certaine Item take of the white of an egge half a nutshell full and Sallad oile stirre them wel together and therewith annoint the hot burnt place Or take the gréene and yellow barke of Elderne sticks put them in a little bag boile them in wine and lay them warme theron it driueth away all swelling as wel that which is caused of childbirth as otherwise Item take for the hot swelling of womens priuy places Consolida Saracenica Auens and Ladies mantle as much as you please powne them all together and wring out the iuice temper it with molten Capons grease and fresh butter annoint the place therewith betwéene day and night foure times at the least Of the Clefts of this place §. 2. THe Grecians do call these clefts Rhagades and are such clefts as discouer themselues with excrescence of flesh which for the most part standeth alwayes inward and bléedth not of it selfe vnlesse they be rubbed hard with the member of a man which procéedeth of inward outward causes The outward causes may be fals strokes or bignes of a mans member Also through putting in any sharp thing as Gith séed such like The inward occasions are when as any inward swelling hapneth through descent of some sharp humor which
all such dwellings yellow Rape séede baked in bread as much that there be put one scruple in halfe a penyworth of white bread is very requisite yong fat flesh not salted too much a sauce with Saffron long Pepper and tayles of Stincus prepared with good Wine all sowre sharpe doughy slimy meates must be forborne long sléepe and especially after meate doth annoy for the long sleepe immediatly after meate doth no lesse hinder venerie then surfetting with meate and drinke He is also to eschue all vexation sorrow and care But in generall these things are good for the increase of humaine séede and to recouer the losse thereof againe to wit Egs Milks Rise drest in Milke Sparrowes braines yea the whole birds Also the stones of these Beasts following viz. as of Buls Cockes Bucks Rams Bores and all their pissels Of pottages are very good that of Beanes Ciches Lupins the first bitter brothes of them cast away and the rest sugred Pease Turky or French Beanes and Wheate sodden in fresh broth and drest with Spice Annis Fennell seedes white and red Mustard séede Colewort seed and yellow Rape séede the seedes of white Sesamum Fenegreeke séede sodden with Hony in fat flesh broth Linséede tempered with Sugar and other meate and also Nettle séede Of Rootes these following are highly commended as stued Onions Garlick Léekes yellow Rapes fresh Ragwort rootes and confected Sugar or the powder thereof dronken with the water wherein Mustard seede is sodden confected rootes of Eringus confected Ginger Costus rootes Sperage Thistle rootes Radish Zeduary Squils rosted confected Asarabacca Pieretrum and Cypers nuts Of Herbes are the garden Cressis and braunches of Sperage Of Fruits hasell Nuts Pistacia Almonds and aboue all Marchpane made thereof All Spices are very commodious for this vse as Cinnamom Cardamome Galingall long Pepper Cloues Ginger Saffron For this is also very highly praysed Assa foetida the waight of one dragme and a halfe dronken in good Wine in like manner also Dragagant the pissell of a Bull or of a Hart the waight of one scruple taken also in Wine likewise the tayles of Stincus the waight of a dragme taken before meate with Wine Of things compounded you haue these confections Diamoschu Pliris Aromaticum Rosatum Diambra Dianthos Diagalanga Trionpipereon and Diamargaritan Calidum also Mithridate in like manner And aboue all other things is the confection Diasatyrion commended for it strengtheneth the stomacke This following is much vsed at Augusta Take Ginger one dragme and a halfe Almonds Pingles and Pisticia of each one ounce the kernels of an Indy Nut and Sisarum of each halfe an ounce the pissell of a Hart fiue dragmes Cynqfoyle Palma Christi one dragme and a halfe Galingall Cloues Cinnamom white Mustard séede long Pepper wild yellow Rape séede white Behen of each one dragme Onion séede Radish séed Rape seede and Ashen keyes of each two scruples the sides and tayles of Stincus thrée drag Borrage one quarter of an ounce Sugar two pound seeth it in Wine as you would make Tabulats or a confection of it This also following may be prepared Take yellow and other Rapes Onions Sperage rootes wild Mustard seede Radish seede Pingles Ash keyes rootes of Eringu◠of Satyrion swéete Costus rootes Ginger long Pepper and Cresses séedes of each a like much Also take clarified Hony three ounces to one ounce of the powder then make thereof a confection Of the same may three dragmes be taken at once tempered with Sugar pennets and new Milke One may vse outwardly Waxe made to an Oyntment with oyle of Beuercod Or take Beuercod Marierom gentle oyle of Costus of each a like much put thereto a little Muske or Zibeta and therwith annoynt the yarde with other places adioyning vnto it If you will haue a slighter then take the gall of a Beare An especiall oyntmēt Take of the great winged Ants thrée dragmes oile of white Sasamum and oyle of Lillies of each one ounce powne the Ants and put them into the oyle and so let them stand the space of sixe dayes in the Sunne afterwards wring out the oyle and put thereto Euphorbium one scruple Pepper Rue of each one dragme white Mustard seede half a dragme set this againe into the Sunne awhile and annoynt all ouer the priuities therewith Another Take oyle of Lillies two ounces oyle of Beuercod one ounce Euphorbium Pepper white Mustard séed of each one dragme Muscus halfe a scruple temper it vnto an Oyntment If so be that then the naturall heate be thereby excitated and stirred vp and other kindnesse do come vpon you then do what in you lyeth The seuenth Chapter Of Barrennesse in generall WHen as then neither in the one nor in the other as that neither in the Man nor in the Woman there appeareth any infirmitie in the parts of generation and both parties are mighty inough for the worke notwithstanding cannot come to any generation then must there be a certaine cause of barrennesse whereof there be many kinds First then concerning the Man it may be well caused through outward and inward accidents the outward are the hard meates whereto there commeth then also the vnbeliefe of Withcraft But if so be that the same proceed of inward causes then doth the same procéed of the weaknesse of the most principall parts of mans body as of the Hart the Braines the Liuer the Stomacke the Milt Or he may be too fat or too leane with many moe other infirmities which may be in the priuy mēbers that are not to be here discouered The signes of the Barrennesse of the man are these great heate which may be knowen by féeling him The woman in receiuing féeleth the great heate of the seede he hath great desire to the action and is very hairy ouer al his body and got haire very early about the priuities But if so be that cold be the cause then are these things found to be all contrary Concerning the Women the Barrennesse may be caused by drinking too much cold water by continuall vse of sowre meates by anger by feare by frighting and other motions moe of the minde which may cause all the same Item when a woman after copulation stirreth by and by leapeth runneth or daunceth too much If it proceede of any inward cause then must it be either of the constitution of the whole body or of some other infirmitie of the parts of generation If of the constitution of the whole body then shall some principal part of the body féele the same to wit by reason that the Termes are hindred or flow too much Also a woman may be too old or too yong or too fat which maketh barren If the maladie be in the parts of generation then dependeth it most in the mother or wombe which hath some vlceration or is too wide or too narrow or too much obstructed and such like The signes of Barrennesse in women are these to wit when it procéedeth of the coldnesse of
the mother then hath she her Termes very little and if they do runne yet are they not well coloured they haue also but little haire on their priuities they be by nature slow and slacke they care not much for men and are commonly of a pale colour for which doth also much helpe the long vse of meates or drinkes which are cold of nature If the Barrennes be caused through heate then hath she likewise her floures or termes very little mixt with yellownesse the woman is hasty headed crafty thirsty desirous of the man hairie about her priuie place she hath a quick pulse and black haire with other tokens moe all which dry or moyst diseases must néedes be in the mother or in the necke of the same Thirdly they are sometimes of a contrary complexion for that the séede cannot be rightly mixed or sometime also too neare like one another of complexion For an example when a cold man commeth to a cold woman or that they be both dry of nature and if in all things else they be also of like complexions one to another then is it vnpossible that the woman can conceiue There shall be moe other signes described how to know by whom the let and infirmitie commeth to wit do cast both Spermata vpon the water and that which driueth on the top is barren Item sprinkle both their vrines vpon a Lettice leafe and whosoeuer doth dye away first the same is vnfruitfull Or take fiue cornes of Wheate seuen Barley graines and seuen Beanes put them all into an earthen pot and pisse thereon let it stand so seuen dayes long and if they begin to sprout then is the person fruitfull or if they rot then is he or she barren be it man or woman Or let him pisse in a pot and let the vrine stand awhile if wormes grow therein then is that vrine barren These three last proofes do the auncient Phisitions themselues say to be vncertaine therefore we will let them rest Item make vnderneath an odoriferous fume as of Myrrhe red Storax and such like odoriferous warme things to passe into the necke of the wombe through a tunnell which being close couered round about if the woman finde that this smoke go through the body and feeleth it in her nose then is she fruitfull Another Take grosse beaten Garlick and lay the woman with her backe thereupon if so be that she féele the smell in her nose then is it a token of fruitfulnesse There are moe such like tokens which are sayd to be approoued but how that fruitfulnesse is to be furthered and holpen there are diuers remedies hereafter rehearsed out of the writings of the most famous Phisitions out of which may be chosen according to the complexion of women whether they be hote cold moyst dry fat leane oppilated or contrary by nature For to helpe and preferre or hasten fruitfulnesse §. 1. IF that fruitfulnesse be desired to be furthered and holpen then must the cause that hindreth the same be abated and taken away of which the learned do recken very many which may be contained in thrée especiall points as when a woman is to hote and too dry too cold and too moyst or hath her termes or floures too much or to little of which thrée especiall points we will now discourse Of Barrennesse through heate §. 2. ALl such women must beware of hote ayre dwellings and such like also of clothes which kéepe the parts and sinewes about the wombe too hote Also they must eschue all hote meates as Spice salt flesh strong Wine very fat meates warme herbs as Smallage Fennel Thyme Southernewood Rue long watching to lye much on the Raynes or Kidneis great labour anger heauinesse and such like motions of the minde but all that moderately cooleth that must be vsed They must take oftentimes conserue of Roses or cold Dragagant losinges and the confections Triasantali also to hold before the nose and smell to Campher Rose water and Saunders as hath bene many times told for hote sicknesses Aboue all these must the Basilica or Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and to let out about fiue ounces of bloud On the next day is this purgation to be vsed Take Elect. de Epithimo de succo Rosarum of each two dragmes and a halfe the whay of Milke foure ounces temper them well togither and take it in the morning then sléepe afterwards about one houre and a halfe and fast foure houres vpon it this being done drinke a good draught of whay and you may breake your fast one houre after Other do purge with Triphera Saracenica and Rubarb and also minister preparatiue potions mixed either with sirupes of Violets Roses or Endiue Or take the water of water Lillies foure ounces water of Mandragora one ounce beaten Saffron halfe a scruple drinke them luke warme and do this eight dayes one after another Also you may vse these pils following Take Broome flowers Smallage Parsley séede Comin Mugwort and Feuerfew of each halfe a scruple Aloe halfe an ounce Indy salt and Saffron of each halfe a dragme powne them all togither and mixe them well afterwards powre thereon fiue ounces of warme Feuerfew water close it to and let it stand and dry in a warme place do this thrée times one after another This being all done then make sixe pils of each dragme and take alwayes one thereof before supper about the second day all the while that this foresayd Potion is vsed afterwards you must take one thereof about the third or fourth day vntill that she haue conceiued After the foresayd Potions must this purgation following be vsed Take the conserue Benedicta lax one quarter of ounce de Psillio thrée dragmes Electuarium de succo Rosarum one dragme and a halfe temper them togither with Feuerfew water and drinke it warme in the morning early thrée dayes after this purgation must the Median veine be opened in the right foote to wit fiue or sixe houres after breakefast and according to her strength must be letten out fiue or sixe ounces of bloud the next day and also fiue dayes one after another filed Iuorie is to be taken one dragme and a halfe with Feuerfew water And the whilest that this Potion is by her vsed then is she in the morning one houre before that she do arise and also at night before she go to bed to sit in this bath following and remaine therein about halfe an houre Take wild yellow Rapes Daucus Balsam wood with the fruits and the séede or keyes of an ash trée of each two handfuls red and white Behen Broome flowers of each a handfull and a halfe Muske thrée graines Amber Saffron of each one scruple séeth all these in sufficient water But the Saffron Muske Amber and Broome flowers must be put into it when all the rest be sufficiently decocted and wrong out A profitable Confection Take Pistacia Pingles Eringus of each half an ounce of the swéet rootes which the Italians
little of it one time For to further the fruitfulnesse in man and woman §. 8. TAke Rapes Sisarum shauen Iuorie Sesely red and white Behen Ash keyes of each one drag Cinnamome Doronicum Mace Cloues Galingale long Pepper Rosemarie flowers Balsam wood Blattae Byzantiae Marierom gentle Penniroyall of each two scruples Balme Buglosse Citron peeles of each one scruple Indie Spike Amber Perles of each halfe a scrup Sugar decocted in Malmsey one pound make Tabulats thereof or a Confection A powder for to strew vpon the meate Take Nutmegs Cucubes and Ginger of each halfe a drag long Pepper Masticke Cinnamome red and white Behen of each one scruple stampe them togither and so vse them as is sayd Item take the stone of a Bore hog being two yeares old the pissell of a Stag shauen small halfe an ounce foure paire of Foxe stones and fiftie or threescore Sparrowes braines wild yellow Rapes Eringus rootes Satyrion confected all togither in Sugar shauen Iuorie of each thrée ounces and a halfe Cinnamome the pissell of a Bull Pingles Dates and Indy Nut kernels of each two ounces long pepper Ginger and Rosemary flowers of each halfe an ounce Seseli one dragme Nettle séed Cloues saffron Mace Galingal Cipers rootes Nutmegs Cassy wood Cucubes Doronicum field Mints Penniroyal Indy Spica Musk Amber of each one drag white Sugar refined in the water of wild Mints foure pounds and a halfe make thereof a confection this confection may be both by men and women vsed in the morning fasting and in the euening when they go to bed whereof haue bene great wonders seene Another Take clarified hony thrée ounces Linseed Greines and shauen Iuory of each one ounce Burrage thrée ounces make thereof a confection and temper therewith 24. ounces of sugar Muske and Amber of each halfe a scruple Cinnamome two graines Cloues and Mace of each one graine it is a very mild medicine It is also very good that men and women receiue euery morning a little Treacle to wit half a dragme with halfe a dragme of shauen Iuory but for such as be yong it is not so good by reason of the heate A good salue Take Galliae Muscatae Nutmegs Beuercod Hares renning Laudanum of each one quarter of an ounce oile of Spike oile of Masticke and of Mirtles of each thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue therewith these are to be vsed as the other Wine of Rosemary is also much commended for this In like maner the Morolfe wine all which are described in the last part with other moe such spiced Wines which are very fit for such ouercold and barren men and women For to make a woman fruitfull for which this serueth for a potion bath following Take Wormewood and Mugwort of each a handfull séeth them together in a quart of Goates milke almost to the halfe whereof euery morning and euening she is to take a good draught For to bathe Take wild Penniroyall Mugwort and Rue of each one handfull make a bag thereof and let them séeth in raine water bathe therein euery eight houres and alwaies about the third day a fresh bath For a conclusion in women is as it is already said the greatest cause of barrennes for that the Matrix or Womb is not cleane is ouercooled or hath some other infirmity whereof hereafter in this part shall be discoursed and taught also what is meete and fit for the same The eight Chapter Of the Raines and their paines EVen as we haue described now the outward parts before of the belly in this third part of our booke of Phisicke so doth the cause require that we ought to write somewhat of the hinder part amongst which the Raines are comprehended and that these raines are a part of the back it appéereth by all that here before in the second part in the fourth chapter and also afterwards is written therefore it is thought néedlesse to make any further mention thereof These Raines do suffer by reason of the Kidneys very great paine whē the same are vexed with heate vlceration grauel stone or other malady the description whereof yet hereafter followeth in this third part where it may also be noted and obserued what may be good commodious for the same There be commonly commended for hot paines in the raines oile of Roses Violets and yellow violets Waterlillies and Poplar buds in like sort also thrée salues following of Saunders the cooling ointment of Galeni and the Poplar salue are very good and that in all hot causes But if the paine procéed of cold then is Honywater to be drunken confected roots of Eryngus Fennell Comin Caraway be it confected or otherwise are to be eaten for they asswage much the paine Some vse also the conserues of Piony This salue following is especiall good Take blew and yellow Violets of each one ounce and a halfe oyle of swéete Almonds of Sesamum of each one dragme and a halfe fresh butter one ounce Saffron one scruple white Waxe one ounce and a halfe Ducks grease oile of Cammomill oyle of Dill of each one quarter of an ounce and a small yolke of an Egge the oyle grease and butter melt together and at the last put the Saffron and yolke vnto it and stirre it well about it swageth much the paine which is caused through the grauel stone and any thing else therefore it is called by the Grecians Onodynum euen as the Apothecaries do call it vnto this day Vnguentum Anodynum The ninth Chapter Of the Buttockes THere are two Buttocks giuen to men for their vse by nature compiled of a compact fast muscly and hard flesh and not narrow piked bearing vp like to Beasts but prety and round as well for a comelinesse of the same place as for to sit on and ease the whole body couering and defending the fundament that the same cannot be violated nor strained through sitting These foresaid buttocks do seldome suffer any other infirmity but such as be subiect to Chirurgery as wounds vlcerations fistulaes Cankers and such like Besides this is no more to be spoken thereof therfore we wil passe ouer to the Fundament or outward part of the Arsegut with his infirmities which are incident vnto it outwardly and inwardly The tenth Chapter Of the Arsegut or Fundament in generall THere haue bin some dotrels in the world who haue complained of nature wherfore she had not chosen as wel a bone or some other neather member of the body wherby she might expel the excremēts as she did this mild place of the body which grosse speech is to be scorned as a great folly for how could she haue ordained a closer fitter handsomer place thā this Concerning then this Arsgut it is a conueier of all excrements long wide and whereas it cometh to our sight with a round circle it is there shapen of a muscly sinewy substance like as are the lips of the mouth therfore hath it
the Pyles are these things following highly commended Take Mirobalani Indi Emblici Bellirici a little parched of each fiue dragmes Perles halfe a dragme temper them all togither with the iuice of Garlicke and vse halfe a drag thereof at one time with stéeled water the party is also euery morning to eate a couple of confected Mirobalans Chebuli and to fast fower howers vpon it and that during the space of ten daies or as long as the bleeding continueth A stronger Take the confection of Triphera ex parte Phenouis or de Scoria ferri of which you will one quarter of an ounce or lesse tempered in two ounces of Purslaine water Also the iuice of Yarrow may be taken for this one ounce and a halfe the same stancheth much Item take Wormewood Venus haire and Sorrell of each one handfull Sorrell séed and the séeds of Plantaine Melons Purslaine and Roses of each one dragme seeth them in fayre well water afterwards wring it out and put thereto the shales of yellow Mirobalans one quarter of an ounce red and white prepared Corall Citron séed of each halfe a dragme let it seeth to thrée or foure ounces then mixe with this decoction Syrupum Acetosum Compositum one ounce Syrupum de Plantagine halfe an ounce take this certaine daies one after another in the morning betimes For this is also good one quarter of an ounce of Galbanum dissolued in water and dronken A very commodious confection for to be taken alwaies before meat Take Butchers broome seed parched séed of broade Plantaine the iuice of Sloes and Coriander of each one scruple Amber all beaten small and Sugar which is dissolued in Purslaine water thrée ounces take thrée dragmes thereof at one time Aboue all these astringent medicines you shall finde manie moe in the discourse of the excessiue fluxe of the Termes in women also in the first part where many are specified for the staunching of blood the which are altogither good for this purpose How that the Pyles are to be opened §. 6. WHat good this bléeding of the Pyles doth cause whē it commeth by nature and of it selfe and from what sicknes it will preserue a man it is partly declared in the 5. § Likewise what this bléeding doth procure if it be staunched contrary to the old custome also what inconueniences may come ensue thereof When as this bleeding discōtinueth the Pyles do vexe the patient with great paine and extuberation then are they to be opened for to let the blood haue his accustomed course for this preserueth one besides all the recited perillous maladies from all corroding vlcers wildfire cankers madnes melancholy falling sicknes enflaming of the Lights both the kinds of dropsies and consumption And if so be that this blood be staunched then is it to be feared that all the foresaid diseases may ensue thereby therefore when any body desireth to open them then are these things following to be vsed First put the sicke body in a bath whereby the Pyles may be mollified Or in the stéed therof make this fomentation Take Marierom field Mints and Mallowes séeth them in wine and receiue the vapor thereof from beneath sitting on a close stoole méetly warme the next day after open the Saphea or the Median The Saphea is vpon the hindermost part of the foot besides the héele whereby the melancholicke blood is drawen downeward afterwards annoynt the Pyles with oyle of bitter Almonds or oyle of Nuts also a little Cotton is good for this made wet in the iuice of Onions and laid thereon This may you effect also with the Gals of all beasts although the Oxe gall be especially cōmended aboue all the rest Secondly put Horsleaches into them through a pipe whereby they may fall right vpon the Pyles for by nature they do draw out the melancholicke blood which is contrary to the boxing cups Therefore if there be boxing cups set vpon it then must they be fastened vnpickt be it on man or woman and that betwéene the priuities and the Arsegut Thirdly rub the Arsegut with Fig leaues vntill it begin to bléede in like sort may the powder of Nep of Marierom of Fleawort of Swines bred of Pepper or any other biting powder as Cantharides and Esula also Flammula may be laid thereon But if you will haue milder things then take the iuice of Centorie or water wherein a good quantitie of Mallowes be decocted Item beaten Stauesacre tempered with Honie Fourthly this is the most certaine way viz. that two or thrée pyles be opened with the Flew and to the end they may not shut suddenly together againe like as their nature is then vse this salue following Take oyle of Peach kernels of Abricock kernels or the same kernels beaten and the iuice of Garlick of each one quarter of an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue But if so be that these inward Pyles cannot be séene then must the patient be required once to strayne hard as if he would goe to the stoole Do not the Pyles as yet appeare thereby then let a boxe or cup with a wide mouth be set vpon the fundament when these haue pluckt out the Arsegut then open a veine or twayne that be fullest Fiftly vse this salue following Take small beaten Aloe one quarter of an ounce Oxe gals one ounce Vineger two ounces temper them all together put therein some Cotton or wet a cloth and rub it well therewith Item take Centorie Rapontica Stauesacre Flammula and white Néesewort of each alike much temper it with Oxe gall and the iuice of Onions let it then dry stampe it and once againe do as before Reiterate this fowre times together when you will vse this then wash well the Pyles with warme water and temper the foresayd powder with Oxe gall and annoynt therewith the Pyles Another Take two small Onions fowre heads of Garlick beate them together and temper them with the meale of Lupins and with very eager Vineger vnto a plaister which will open the Pyles immediatly Sixtly make a long suppository of Swines bread put it vp into the fundament kéepe it therein a whole night if it come out then put in another vntill the Pyles begin to bléede Also with the suppositories of wild Cucumber rootes do the like Item take Coloquint thrée drag bitter Almonds halfe an ounce sodden Hony thrée ounces and make suppositories thereof and vse another euery fiue howres so that the Pyles will then bléede immediatly Some do open these veines with hote yrons and some through Cauteries potentiall as Arsenicum and such like but because they are perilous it is better to rest with the former remedies Against the paine of the Pyles §. 7. IF so be that there be any impostume besides the paine of the Pyles outwardly on the Arsegut then must the patients Liuer veine be opened on the right hand and this plaister following laid vpon the Fundament thereby to asswage the paine Take the
the iuice of sowre Quinces two ounces of red and white Saunders prepared Coriander red Corrall and Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Wormewood halfe a handfull wherewith you may foment and put the decocted herbs in a bag and so apply them to the stomacke Of the debilitie of the stomacke through drought §. 7. WHeresoeuer is any weakenes of the stomacke caused through drought whereof hath béen spoken at the first it causeth great thirst drought of the tongue and falling away of the whole bodie as also contrarywise they finde ease when they finde moyst things In this disease is the patient to drinke Milke and Barly water for the same do coole moysten and cause the body to increase againe In like manner he is also to be fed with moystning herbs as Lettice Mallowes and such like also with Veale Lamb Riuer fish Egs drest with Wine are also good for him for that they yeeld good nourishment Item there be very good and commodious Pullet broths drest with cooling herbs Capon waters Marchpanes and other things moe which before in the Consumption or Phthisi in the second part the fifth Chapter and 22. § and afterwards in the sixt part of the Ague Hectica are expressed all which be prepared for to moysten He shall also oftentimes bathe before meales and after meales but a good while after His drinke must be small Wine Rest is good for him and much motion is hurtfull he is further to rule himselfe in all things as for the Consumption and as is taught for the Ague Hectica But in case there strike great heate into it then vse the salue of Roses and Saunders the cooling salue Galeni oyle of Roses of Violets and waterlilies and such like But this plaister following is highly commended Take new sliced Gourds Purslaine and Willow leaues of each two ounces white Saunders one quarter of an ounce Camfer one drag Rose water as much as is néedfull temper them and lay them vpon the stomack you may lay also a bladder of cold water vpon the stomacke But this is héere to be noted that the cooling things must be laid vpon it in such manner that the places adiacent about it to wit the Midriffe the Liuer and the Milt may not thereby be harmed and lose their naturall action for which it is also aduised that when the same is perceiued that the same place be annoynted with warme oyle Of the skalding in the throate and of the hartburning §. 8. ALthough this hartburning be caused diuersly yet neuerthelesse doth the same come alwayes for the most part through heate or through ascending vapors through strong Wine dronken Spices fat meates and such like against which these things insuing are to be vsed to wit conserue of Betonie Gillofloures and the wine of both these also the first stomachicall medicine described aboue in the 5. § Item Marmalade and preserued sowre Peares Some do hang about their neck for this disease the herbe Agrimony Other do hold in their mouth the stone in the Carps head Other do eate fiue or sixe Peach kernels or bitter Almonds vpon it c. of which euery one may choose that which liketh him best Of Inappetencie or lost appetite and whereby it may be remedied §. 9. OF all the foresaid debilities of the stomacke like as also in all diseases incident vnto it the Appetite commonly is taken away except the infirmitie of the vnnaturall hunger Yea there is sometimes such loathing of meates therewith that they cannot abide to smell them The causes thereof are diuers the first is heate wherein the patient hath very small desire to eate but great list to drinke with drouth of the toong and loathing of all warme things If it be mingled with Cholera then is there alwaies bitternes with it with a wambling Or if so be that there be any Phlegma with it then doth the patient alwayes finde some kinde of brackishnes in the mouth Secondly this may also be caused through cold whereby the constringent vertue and taste of the stomacke are destroied These are the signes small thirst much spettle and other filth about the mouth of the stomacke the patient doth féele heauines or pinching Other whiles he parbraketh some Phlegma be it sweete or sower he shall feele it in the mouth All warme things are welcome vnto him cold things go against his stomacke This disease may also be well caused by eating too much cold fruit or by drinking of water Thirdly the hot Agues do also take away the appetite Fourthly impostumes of the stomacke of the liuer and of the milt which be not without an Ague These may be perceiued by swelling and paine of the same parts whose remedies are taught in the description of the selfe-same members Fiftly this is also caused through a tough slimie matter which lieth in the mouth of the stomacke and there doth take away the appetite The signes of them are these if one do cast vp againe all that he hath taken be it sower swéete hot cold like as Oliues such like And albeit they do remaine in the stomacke yet do they make great paine and dissension Sixtly there appeereth a certaine debilitie of the retentiue power in the flesh in the small veines in the muscles and other members whereby as behooueth they cannot draw their nourishment vnto them so that the stomacke may also thereby beare the lesse meate The signes whereof are these the patient is méetely desirous of meate but when the same is set before him then can he eate but very little of it Seuenthly it is sometimes caused for that melancholie very slowly or nothing at all hath his course towards the mouth of the stomack which was woont there to excitate appetite to meate which may well be perceiued hereby if he be giuen to eate sower meates by which meanes the appetite partly returneth againe The cause may also be wormes whereof shall be spoken hereafter Ninthly it may well happen for that the Melancholie too abundantly runneth towards the mouth of the stomacke whereof the signes be vomiting of melancholike humors sowernes of the mouth black colour of the face debilitie of the stomacke and hart The tenth cause is when women begin to beare whereof the signes be sufficiently knowen Eleuenthly the ouerhot time and aire may likewise cause the same like as doth also excéeding cold and much watching which causes and signes may be learned of the patient and demanded of them that do tend him Twelfely through great vexations of the mind as anger sorrow care anguish great ioy desire of Venerie which cannot be obtained as well as that which may be obtained Thirteenthly this lost appetite may be caused through any corruption in the stomack which may be perceiued through stench of the breth or through the ordure This is also otherwhiles caused by reason of the scowring called Diarrhaea with intolerable stench There be also many mo causes but the abouesaid shall be sufficient vnto vs for
is described in the first part the fourteenth Chapter and 4. § For this are also sundry pils prepared and that after this manner following Take Bdellium and Aloe which haue beene steeped the space of three dayes in Sheepes milke of each one quarter of an ounce temper them and forme pils of them vse thereof one scruple or halfe a dragme at once they will do you much pleasure Item take before supper one dragme of washt Aloe This salue following is also laxatiue if that the belly and the nauell be annoynted with it Take the salue Agrippa and the confection of Hiera of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Swines bred and Scammonie of each three graynes Euphorbium Turbith Coloquinte of each one scruple beate them all together Item take Pitch and Frankinsence of each a like quantitie cast them on hote coles vnder a close stoole and sit ouer it with the bare buttocks it looseth For a conclusion there is to be found through this whole booke how that the bodie is to be loosed and opened for all manner of sicknesses but this is onely spoken of all them who be in health and cannot go to stoole Of the strayning or vnsatiable desire of going to stoole which is called Tenasmus §. 21. FOr as much as through both the foresaid maladies as well of the excessiue going to the stoole as through binding in the bodie this strayning which the Grecians do call Tenasmus and Tenesmus may be prouoked therefore we can not omit but adde the same vnto the rest and is thus described Tenasmus is a disease or maladie in the end of the Arsegut hard by the fundament with great paine and continuall desire to goe to the stoole where notwithstanding the patient can be discharged and rid of very little or nothing at all We do call these kinds of scourings properly a straining to go to the stoole for it cometh for the most part alway with such a force that it driueth out the Arsegut and the fruit of women conceiued The cause of this scouring may be as well inward as outward cold like as when any one doth sit vpon cold stones or it is gotten of the cold ayre or in the water contrariwise also it may be caused through heate and drought Item of any sharpe rheume of the stomacke or Lyuer of corrupted meates or much moysture through the vse of much fruite through wormes impostumation of the bowels binding in the bodie swelling of the Pyles and also of any tough and subtle Phlegma The signes whereof are easily to be discerned by the report of the patient and view of the place and ordure Now as touching the remedies Clisters are best of all for it If this maladie do come of cold then make the Clister thus Take Mints Marierom Cammomill Melilot field Mints Southernwood of each one handfull decoct them in sufficient water Take of this decoction twelue or sixteene ounces oyle of Cammomill and of Lillies of each one ounce and a half then make this Clister very warme but if there come any binding or stopping with it then temper therewith Benedictam laxatiuam or Hieram picram three quarters of an ounce or one ounce The herbs and all that be decocted for this Clister stampe them all to pap and temper them with oyle of Rue and of Lillies and let it boyle a little while and lay it vpon the place where the paine is and when it is cold then lay on another that is warme doing this 3. or 4. times one after another When as then this strayning of going to the stoole is red then are you to vse this following Take steeled Cow milk or Goats milk Mutton broth or Veale broth twelue or sixteene ounces melt therin one ounce or one ounce and a half of Shéepes suet and two ounces of the oyle of Roses then temper them together vse this Clister oftentimes Item take twelue ounces of Malmesy the yolke of an Egge let them boyle togither in a drinking pot or kan in a Kettle of water vntil it be very hote then giue it afterwards vnto the patient it is a very safe remedie When all necessarie medicines haue beene vsed to this kinde of laske and yet the paine doth not diminish in ten dayes then may one vse the Clister which is described in the 17. § beginning thus Take peeled Lupins c. and that at two or three times as the case shall import If these scourings be of a cold cause then rost Millet or Panick with salt and lay vpon it or fill thrée bags with Bran let them boyle in wine or water lay one of them vpon the belly another vpon the back beneath and the third vpon the fundament as warme as may be possibly suffered and when they be cold make them warme againe Afterwards annoynt the place with warme oyle or with the salue Marciaton and sprinkle wine vpō a hote stone then lay a cloth vpon it against the burning and sit vpon it with the buttocks as hote as may be suffered Others do counsell for to foment the fundament with red Wine wherein the herbe Verbascum hath beene sodden and afterwards to sit vpon a hote Oake or Cipers wooden boord Some do commend for this a Poplar boord or if one cannot get such a one then a Firre boord and as soone as one is cold then to take another warmed againe and vsing this so long vntill he féele the warmth within the belly Then is the fundament to be annoynted with molten Harts suet or to fume it with Pitch like as not long ago hath béene rehearsed Item Holyhock rootes Linseede Fenegréeke Cammomill Melilot the vpper sprigs of Coleworts of each three ounces powne thē all together séeth them in reasonable water You are therewith to wet a sponge wring it out sit theron and lay it vpon the fundament yea to sit also in the water Item take the séeds of Plantain prepared Coriander Mirtle séede Acorne cups yellow séeds of Roses Cipers nuts of each one dragme and a halfe Gum Dragagant both parched of each one ounce beate them together and put them in a bag and séethe them with Wine then must one sit hote thereon Item seeth oaken leaues with water in a bag and hold the fundament vnto the heate of it and when it is cold make it hote againe and do this oftentimes one after another For a salue Take oyle of Roses one quarter of an ounce Saffron xv graines Shéepes sewet Deere sewet of each one ounce make a salue thereof it doth maruellously take away the paine Another Take Frankinsence Lycium Saffron Gum Opium of each one dragme vnripe oyle of Oliues Colophonia of each thrée dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for to make a salue with it the lard of a Bore and of all fourefooted beasts also the fat of all Foules is especiall good to be vsed for this disease You shall take for a plaister Hollihock rootes Linseede Fenegreeke of each one ounce seeth them
bloud he must first haue his Lyuer veine and afterwards the Saphea to be opened For his drinke the patient is to vse Hony water or to make this drinke following Take twelue ounces of peeled Barly Fennell rootes Smallage rootes and Maydenhaire of each one handfull séeth them all together in two pots of water vntill that the Barly be well swollen Afterwards take twelue ounces of Hony and boyle it all together with the foresaid decoction but scumme it well and drinke thereof If so be that the vlcer be great and that there be néede of stronger things then put Ireos Hyssope and Horehound of each two ounces and a good pints of water more But if there be but a small vlcer which hath not long continued then take Mallowes Hollyhock séeds the séeds of Melons and of Pompeons of each a like much But you must péele the séeds and giue thereof thrée dragmes at one time tempered with Meade Afterwards shall he vrge himselfe to vomit once euery fourth day Let this much suffice as briefely spoken of the vlcers of the Kidneyes Of the pissing of Bloud §. 11. FOr as much as this pissing of bloud may be caused as well of the vlcers in the Kidneyes as in the Lyuer therefore we will describe it héere in this Chapter The pissing of bloud is of two sorts the one when one pisseth faire cleane bloud the other when the same is mixed with matter or corruption This pissing of bloud commeth of inward and outward causes The outward may be caused through falles blowes strong riding insatiable venerie great labour of certaine meates drinks wounds of a concourse of melancholick humors which are wont to be driuen out through womens Termes or through the Pyles Of the inward causes are superfluitie sharpnes of humors and of the vrine winds tumors impostumes debilitie of the Kidneyes and of the Bladder then doth he féele the paine aboue the priuities and the bloud is congealed and separated from the vrine In case that the bloud be much and runneth out swiftly then doth it signifie a broken veine but if it come out slow or longsome then an vlcer but if the vrine be like water wherein fresh flesh is washed then it is of a weakened Lyuer and if so be that it do come of a superfluous bloud then is the same to be séene by the fulnes of the bodie but if it come through the sharpnes of the humors then doth the patient féele a continuall burning But before we do come to the particular remedies it is néedfull that we do make declaration of certaine common rules First if so be that the maladie be new then aboue all things is the liuer veine to be opened and afterwards if the cause require and that the patient be strong inough the Saphea is to be opened thereby to driue the blood to another place Secondly in the beginning are not astringent nor binding things to be vsed that the blood may not congeale and coole but he must first beginne with such things as do cleanse the water conduits Thirdly if this pissing of blood do come as an expulsion of superfluitie or Crisis then is it not to be stayed if it be not so that thereby the naturall powers be ouermuch weakened Fourthly whensoeuer the pissing of blood whether it be caused of the Liuer Kidneyes or Bladder is thoroughly cleansed then is the same blood to be holpen with cold and astringent things and to mixe amongst them Anodines Fiftly all such patients are to eschue great labor venery hot drinks all spices and all hote things Now for to come to the remedies of the same then it is to be considered whether this pissing of blood do procéed of outward causes which may well be perceiued by the sicke person and is also to be remedied First of all whether this pissing of blood haue continued long or not Of the pissing of blood which hath not long continued we haue hitherto spoken But in old pissing of blood one must begin according to the contents of the other rules with the clensing of the vreters which is to be done through these meanes Take Maidenhaire foure handfuls Melon séed one ounce and a halfe Sugar and honie of each nine ounces make a cléere sirupe of it and giue it with water wherein Melon séede is decocted Another which is very good Take foure handfuls of Cinkfoile Sugar 9. ounces séeth the herbes in sufficient water then wring it out with sugar make thereof a sirupe This sirupe is to be giuen with water wherein Plantaine is decocted this sirupe healeth cleanseth certainly If any one fall or be beaten whereby a veine is broken in the bodie the liuer veine is then to be opened for that thereby the blood will be drawne backe which doth run out of these places But if that the blood do auoide in abundance and that the patient be strong enough then is the Saphea to be opened the second day afterwards and to the end that the blood which lieth clotted in the water conduits might be caried forth then giue to the sicke bodie a potion wherein Fennell rootes the rootes of Smallage Dragon rootes Ireos Hissope Maidenhaire and Ciceres be sodden afterwards one dragme or one dragme and a halfe of Trociscis de Carabe may be giuen him with water wherein the seedes of Butchers broome and such like is decocted or the Trocisci de terra sigillata For this is also méete the confection of Philonium Persicum but it is not to be vsed without the aduise of a learned Phisition Some do also take thrée quarters of an ounce of the conserue of Roses and temper amongst it seuen graines of Henbane seed and two scruples of prepared Corall which may be vsed with stéeled water It is also very fit to vse otherwhiles one ounce or one ounce and a halfe of Cassie and chiefly if there be heate with it We haue spoken before of the letting of blood and therupon are to giue to this sicke person a profitable purgation of Rubarbe in substance which is beaten and not wrong out but in powder with plantaine water afterwards giue him one dragme of beaten horsetaile and one quarter of an ounce of plantaine water and strew all his meates with the same water All his flesh is to be sodden with Butchers broome séed and vnripe Grapes He is alwaies to beware of all sharpe tart and salt things and lay a plaister on the place of the maladie made of Bolus and the iuice of Sloes Aloe Lycium Vineger and Rose water If you will haue moe remedies then looke into the former § of the impostumes and vlcers of the kidneys And although al the same were caused of other meanes yet shall you find also thrée remedies méete for the same And if so be that this bléeding be caused through any sharpe meate or any composed wind then is the patient to order himselfe as of the letting of blood and taking of the foresaid Trociscis is
then may he drinke Meade or Hony water which is also very good What sirupes and other things might be vsed for the prouoking of vrine that hath sufficiently bene shewed before in the discourse of the grauell But Oxymel compositum and the sirupe of Vineger are for this vse very highly commended Clisters are of no small force in this disease but especially when they be made with Benedicta and the oile of Scorpions Amongst the outward remedies are the forementioned bathings the especiallest and the most highly commended Hereafter follow the descriptions of salues and plaisters Take a sliced Radish séeth it to pap and temper amongst it the oile of bitter Almonds and the oile of Scorpions with a little waxe then spread this very thicke vpon a cloth and so lay it vpon the priuities Item take Turpentine oile of Scorpions and of bitter Almonds of each a like quantitie and a little molten waxe then temper them together and therewith annoint the whole priuities Another Take the oile of Scorpions of Costus of Lillies of Dill and Duckes grease of each halfe an ounce Pellitorie of the wall and Saxifrage beaten of each one dragme Comin thrée dragmes waxe as much as sufficeth for a salue For this you may also vse the balmes and oiles which are described in the eight part like as shall be shewed there more at large Here before in the affluxion of the humane séede is also admonished that the nauell is to be filled with a little old suet either of an Oxe or of a Hart the which is also an expert remedie for the making of water but that is oftentimes to be vsed The oile of S. Iohns wort should also expell vrine if one be annointed warme with it If now there be any bodie which cannot make water then cut two great Onions and put a spoonfull of Caruways vnto it poure then thereon some Sallad oile afterwards frie them all together and spread it on a cloth two handfuls broade and méetly long and so lay it as before vpon the priuities as warme as can be suffered do this sixe or seuen times together it helpeth euidently Item take Pellitorie of the wall frie it in oile and so lay it warme on the priuities Some do write that the fat of Conies annointed on the priuities on the kidneies should maruellously expell vrine Likewise also the oile of Bayberries of Cammomil of Scorpions The detension of the vrine of what cause soeuer it be caused this ensuing is good for it take liue or dead wood lice lay them ouer the priuities before then plucke ouer the foreskin these Cony fat are by some very highly commended also the foreskin is to be put ouer the annointing with cony fat This ensuing is also highly commended for women when they cannot make water Take fled Goates horne and Maidenhaire of each a like quantitie make them to powder and strew them on a new hot tile put this into a close stoole and set the woman vpon it then sprinkle wine â—n the tile to the end she may receiue the vapor beneath this is to be done twice or thrice a day according as the obstruction of the vrine is great But if this maladie séeme wholy to get the maistery then take the water of picked Plantaine make Almond milke with it and drinke thereof twice or thrice a day it is also especiall good And if so be that the sharpnesse of the vrine had made any excoriation then annoint the place with the oile of Egges And if a woman with child cannot make her water then is she to take yellow Rose seeds and seeth them in wine when the paine is somewhat asswaged then giue thereof to drinke afterwards make a little oile of Lillies warme and annoint therewith the Raines and ouer all the belly Item take Sage and Wormewood of each one handfull Rie meale one spoonefull seeth them all together and let the woman sitting on a close stoole receiue of the vapor You haue also in the fift Chapter and 1. § somewhat else which is also méete for this purpose Of the retention of vrine through falles or blowes §. 4. IF the retention of the vrine come of any outward cause as of fals or of blowes then must good héed be taken if so be that therby any coagulated or clotted blood not onely in the bladder but also in any of the inward parts came to putrifie like as in the stomacke in the breast and elsewhere then may great sorrow and trouble procéed of it yea death it selfe for that there follow great faintnesse after it great weaknesse of the whole body and the pulse will be so small that one can scarse féele it And to remedie the same is the Liuer veine of the sicke person to be opened and the brused place irrigated from on high oftentimes with warme water wherein Cammomill Melilot and Roses be decocted Afterwards is the sicke person to be annointed with this salue ensuing Take Myrrhe and Masticke of each one dragme oile of Roses one ounce oile of Dill halfe an ounce Waxe as much as is néedfull But if the paine will not abate and cease and that it appeare that the bruise will come to an impostume and heate and an ague sticke vnto it then open the Saphea If the patient be bound then are milder clisters and purgations to be vsed and the patient is to kéepe himselfe as sober in eating and drinking as may be possible the space of two dayes and afterwards to diet himselfe like as one that hath an Ague is wont to do The place is to be fomented with the foresaid herbes and thereupon to annoint it with warme oile of Violets and with oile of Cammomill The bladder is softly to be wrung from the top euen to the priuities also an Oxe bladder may be filled with this decoction following laid vpon the priuities Take Mallowes Cammomill Rape leaues Melilot Violet leaues and Linséede séeth them together and make a felt or sponge wet in it and lay it warme vpon it You may also make a bath for the loines thereof putting thereto some Hollihocke rootes Onions Garlick and Colewort leaues powned all together séeth them and wring them out well then put them in a bag which hath a hole in the middle to put the yard therein and that he may lie vpon it Item take Wormwood put it in a bag séeth it in wine and wring it well out then lay it vpon the priuities as is expressed and admonish the patient that he endeuour himselfe to pisse oftentimes This ensuing is not only good foor the clotted blood in the bladder but also for all other places of the body be it of whatsoeuer occasion it may be Take Wormewood Fennell Smallage the séed of the yellow roote red Storax péeled Melon seed and Radish leaues of each a like quantity make a powder of them and giue thereof betwéene one and two dragmes with Asses milke or with water wherein Fennell rootes and the
one bathe and foment with all that which here ensueth Take Asarabacca halfe a handful Ebulus leaues one handful and a half Feuerfew Mints Mugwort Agrimony Marierom and Betonie of each one handfull Cammomill Melilot and Roses of each halfe a handfull cut all the herbes and séeth them like as hath bene taught oftentimes It is also very commodious and good to sit in warme water wherein Mallowes haue bene decocted Or take Mugwort and Sauine of each thrée handfuls Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each one handfull Fennell seeds Parsley seedes Annis Dill séedes Orage seedes wild yellow Rape seedes and Asarabacca of each halfe a dragme Cammomill Elderne flowers Rosemary and Stechas of each one dragme make a little bag thereof and séeth it in water and then sit vpon it Another Take Mugwort Sauine trée of each thrée handfuls swéet Costus roots Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Bearefoote of each two handfuls the séed of Mallowes of Hollihockes of Southernwood of Linséed of Fenegréeke of Cuscuta mustard séede of Lauender and of Siluermountaine of each one ounce and a halfe Parsley séed Fennell Dill séed wile yellow Rape seede and Asarabacca of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Elderne flowers Stechas Rosemary flowers of each one ounce séeth them as before and then sit vpon the bag For fomentation you are to vse that which followeth hereafter Take Cammomil Mugwort Sauine and Nettle roots of each one handful séeth them together in water and receiue the vapor from beneath Item take Rue Sage Southernwood and Sauine of each one handful put them together into a new pot and close it tight but leaue a hole open aboue on the couer wherein a tap may be put whilest it boyleth afterwards draw out the tap and receiue the warme vapor from beneath as is sayd before Or take Myrrhe as much as you will temper it with the iuice of Mugwort and let it drie afterward put filed Harts horne vnto it to wit the third part as much as there is Myrrhe then strew this pouder vpon a hot tile and receiue the smoke beneath but round about couer you close You may also take for it Penniroyal Rue Sauine leaues and vse them alone Item take Violet leaues two handfuls Myrrhe halfe an ounce let them séeth together in raine water and foment therewith as warme as you can abide it Take Penniroyal Nep Southernwood Rue Centory and Hyssope of each one handfull Sauine Feuerfew of each one handfull and a halfe Cinnamom Galingall of each one dragme Siluermountaine and Mather of each halfe a handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce beate them all grosse together and séeth the same in a quart of water euen to the halfe and then vse it as before this also prouoketh vrine Or take Penniroyall Marierom Sage and Mugwort of each one handfull séeth them all together for a fomentation for to fume you are to take a little Coloquint cast it vpon a hote stone and receiue the fume from beneath it greatly prouoketh womens termes but note that Coloquint is very sharpe and that the sayd well sauouring spices and other things be much safer for to fumigate withall Or take Dill Cammomill Melilot Squinant Cassie wood Costus rootes Sulphur Rue Marierom Stechas Southernwood any of all these or part of the same To set boxing cups vpon the thighes is also very behouefull and auailable Plaisters and Vnguents TAke the muscilage of Fleawort and of Linséede of each one ounce vnsalted butter two ounces Hens grease Duckes grease Goose grease and the marrow of Calues bones of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce oyle of Sesamum and oyle of swéete Almonds of each fiue dragmes Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue then annoint you therewith behind and before from the nauell downewards but not before that you haue vsed all other meanes of bathing letting of blood potions c. Item take of the confection Benedicta halfe an ounce Turbith one quarter of an ounce Nigella séed thrée dragmes decocted Hony as much as sufficeth for to make a plaister This is to be layd ouer the priuities as before If so be that one perceiueth the termes after the vse of this foresaid meanes some do aduise and that very well that this potion ensuing is to be made Take Mugwort Sene leaues and Penniroyall of each halfe a handful Cinnamom halfe an ounce Mace thrée dragmes séeth it al together in thrée pints of good wine vntill about the fourth part be wasted and this in a Canne stopt tight in séething water this expelleth the termes vnto her due time The other orderly meane for to preferre the termes is that first of all the Saphea or Median shall be opened and that afterwards a long bag is to be made and to be filled with any of the foresaid herbes which you like best and then put vnto it one quarter of an ounce of Gallia Muscata and weare it so vpon the priuities Afterwards make of one quarter of an ounce of the foresaid Gallia with the water of Mugwort nine pils and take three thereof at once in the morning early then make a pessary of the length of a finger and fill the same with pouned Mercury and put it into the place Set boxing cups also vpon the thighes and in the hams and then rub the legs downewards with warme clothes Squinant and Madder decocted also in the water of Maidenhaire and drunken are also highly commended Item take the pipes of Cassie when the Cassie is taken out and let them be well scraped on the outside as many as you will Cinnamom Mace Saffron Diptamus and Baulme of the one as much as of the other make a powder thereof and take a dragme thereof euery morning with water of Mints the same moueth them very gently But as much as concerneth letting of blood whereof mention is made before some do aduise and not without reason if in case that a woman hath not had her Termes a long time that her veine is to be opened besides her little toe and the next day afterwards on the other foote The words of Hippocrates and of his expounder Galen be true that the letting of blood and hunger do cause women with child to miscary for that thereby they say will the nourishment of the child be withdrawne Therefore good héede is to be taken in these things for that many women haue this for a custome whether they be fat grosse strong or leane that they alwayes open a veine at the halfe of their going with child like as we also haue before admonished in the first § But if one will néeds be let blood then must after the same or else without letting of blood bathings be oftentimes vsed for which is Penniroyall to be taken field mints Southernwood Centorie and Hyssope of each one handful Sauine and Feuerfew of each one dragme Siluer-mountaine Madder of each one handfull Myrrhe one quarter of an ounce stampe and choppe them all small and let them séeth
then is it by no meanes to be stayed if thereby be not feared a great debilitie Thirdly if so be that women be full of blood and this fluxe come too abundantly then is the Basilica veine to be opened thereby to withdraw the blood Fourthly in case that it be perceiued that red Cholera or any other mixed moistured were cause of this fluxe then is the same moisture or humor to be purged with appropriate medicines yet mingling alwaies amongst it some binding and comforting things Fiftly iniection is also very needfull for this disease or some such like instruments to be vsed whereby the medicine might be brought into the womb Sixtly if any astringent things may be brought into it through any instruments then may they help much better and a great deale sooner than those things that be giuen by the mouth Seuenthly because that with this menstrual fluxe not onely the vertue digestiue but also the whole bodie is weakened therfore are they to be sustained with light meate as with yolkes of egges with yong flesh and broth of the same and such like Sometimes also with water wherein the seed of Butchers broome is decocted or tempered with water of Sorrel Eightly it is also good to set great boxing cups vnder the breasts vnpickt Ninthly this fluxe of the termes is not to be stopt so long as one seeth that the woman hath her liuely colour and doth remaine strong and healthie but as soone as one perceiueth that her strength fadeth away then be all meanes to be sought for to stop it Tenthly if one desire to purge any of the foure humors and to separate it from the cleane bloud then may that best be effected by vomits for that thereby the matter is deriued to another place and stay their course that they fall not downewards Eleuenthly these women are to abstaine from all heauie labour and from all that maketh the blood fluxible and thinne By all these forementioned propositions may be clearely séene and marked that if any desire to cure or remedy this disease that these women must leade an easie life and kéepe themselues quiet They must also liue in such a place where it is not too hote nor too cold They must also eschue all thinne and waterish meates viz. from fruite except all that which bindeth in like manner also from all meate which cause any kind of heate But all kinds of rosted fowles and all that maketh grosse blood as Rice Wheate and Lentils be good for them They must also beware of ouercharging them with meate or drinke whereof the causes be declared in the seuenth rule and afterward to put in practise these remedies following according to the importance of the cause Thus for to speake first of the things which inwardly are to be vsed hath bene spoken of before and also what order of diet or gouernement of life is to be obserued But in case that any do desire any ampler declaration of it then let him looke the seuenteenth Chapter and 17. § where is spoken of the red or bloudie flixe which also is most méete for this vse But for this menstruall fluxe may this Confection following be vsed Take the Species Triasantali and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dragme prepared fine Bolus two scruples Bloodstone washed in Plantaine water and make tabulats thereof Or vse this powder following Take Species Triasantali one dragme and a halfe Diarrhodon Abbatis one dragme De Gemmis Frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe washed Bloodstone one dragme prepared Bolus halfe a dragme Shepheards purse two scruples Roses Corall of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please then make a powder of it Item take prepared Bolus one dragme sealed earth two scruples Tormentil half a dragme Bursa Pastoris one scruple Species de gemmis frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles one dragme Rubins Pomegranates Smaragdes Iacints Saphirs of each halfe a scruple Roses red Corall Saunders of each one scruple Sugar thrée ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in broth or strewed in meate The confection of the refuse of iron is also very profitable to be vsed for this disease especially if so be that the lesser remedies will not helpe Another Take conserue of Roses two ounces Bloodstone Trociscos de Carabe de terra sigillata and de Spodio of each one dragme make a powder thereof and temper them well together afterwards take euery time thereof about one dragme Take conserue of Roses sixe ounces conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce of the fiue precious stones aboue mentioned of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme make an electuary thereof Another Take of the driest conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe red Corall one dragme Bistorta Trociscos de Carabe and prepared Bolus of each half a drag prepared Bloodstone two dragmes make an Electuarie thereof with the sirupes of Mirtles Item take conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserues of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles two dragmes and a half Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples red Saunders one dragme then temper them all together with the sirupe of Mirtles vnto a confection The blacke confected Cherries are very good for this vse in like manner also the preserued Barberries Item hold a roote of Galingall long in your mouth and chew the same small It is is also a common aduice which is not to be despised that tosted bread should be steeped with red Wine and powned Nutmegs strewed vpon it and so eaten Item take fine Bolus which is well washed Masticke yellow Amber prepared Coriander and Dates of each a like quantitie then take thereof at each time halfe a dragme with a rere egge This powder ensuing is also maruellous good Take prepared Bloodstone thrée dragmes red Corall one dragme and a halfe Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme stampe all that may be stamped very small and strew your meate therewith Item take powned Horstaile leaues one dragme and bestrew your meate with it You may also drink of this powder following one dragme lesse or more with the water of Plantain Take of the first budded Harts horne burne them in a potbakers ouen throughly to white chalke and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with red wine or Plantaine water You shall also find hereafter many sundrie powders and waters to drinke described Take egshels whence yong chickens haue beene hatched and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie temper them together and drinke thereof the waight of a dragme with Vineger or Wine The part within the Walnut taken
not only stay the fluxe in women but also expelleth the wind of the stomack and hindereth parbraking Or take Sandaraca one ounce and a halfe pouned Cypers nuts one ounce fine Bolus foure ounces Plantaine seed and Pimpernell rootes of each two ounces and a halfe Starch three ounces then make it with water wherein Akornes were decocted vnto a plaister or salue and vse it as is sayd There may also be made a bathe as héere followeth Seeth the rootes of Curcuma in sufficient water and make thereof a bath for the raynes It is also good to make a bath wherein Allume is decocted or any of these things following which one will as Mirtle séed the rinds and rootes of the Elme trée the rinds of the Oke tree Pomegranat blossomes and the péeles Akornes Medlars Lentils and such like Item it is sayd that if one do burne Ranam Arboream to ashes and the ashes worne on the neck that womens termes will be stopt thereby but it is to be proued In like manner do some aduise that the mosse of the blacke or Slo-thorne worne in ones shoes should also stop the same Item take Shepherds purse and binde it on the soales of a womans féete Others aduise also that boxing cups should be set vnder her breast vnpickt for that they draw the bloud vpwards and it is also a very good remedie for to stop therewith the flowing of the termes Likewise it helpeth also excéedingly to binde the armes hard to the end that thereby the bloud might be drawne vpwards Further this setting of cups binding and all these things that are to be put into the places admonished before be especially to be vsed if it be perceiued that through such superfluous courses women be impotent and were afraid of present falling into a swoune In like manner also it is very requisite that she smell oftentimes to cold things and vse other moe binding things which be described in the first part the eight Chapter and the 7. § For a conclusion it is to be noted whether there be heate or cold in this woman that the medicine may be ordained accordingly These be all warming things and they also which stop bloud which do héere follow viz. Frankinsence Mastick Cypers nuts Sandaraca Laudanum Mirrha Storax Annis and such like Cold stopping things be these as Camfer the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Coriander Dragon bloud Saunders bloud stone Hypocistis fine Bolus Ruscus seed Mirtle séed Gals Pomgranat blossoms the seed of Plantaine the seed of Melon of Cucumbers of Gourds of Pompeons and Pimpernell rootes c. whereby all tempered medicines may be adiudged Of the whites or white fluxe in women §. 4. THe disease which women do call the whites and the Phisitions Menstrua alba hath a great acquaintance or fellowship with the auoidance of humane séed or the running of the raynes whereof we haue written at large before in the sixt Chapter and it is also very euidently declared that such kind of fluxes be caused through hot and through cold causes which is héere also to be noted But aboue all that which is there discoursed do all famous Phisitions commend that if it procéed of heate women be first of all to be purged for which Cassie is passing good afterwards giue her euery other day one drag of Trociscos de Carabe tempered in Plantaine water or a quarter of an ounce of Triphera ex parte Phenonis tempered with a little fine Bolus The raines are to be annointed with the salue of Roses and with other things moe which be prescribed in the spermaticall fluxe There is also to be giuen her euerie second or third day one dragme of the filing of Iuorie to drinke with Plantaine water and the cold loosings of Diamargariton is she also to vse oftentimes Item Take Camphora ten graines bruse it small beaten Amber one scruple drinke them togither with Plantaine water it is a very good medicine For this is also estéemed to be a sure remedy the first buds of the Blackberrie bush and the berries thereof dried pouned drunken euery day one dragme with red wine or twise a day There may also be made a confection of the said berries when they be ripe seething the same with hony or Sugar and to vse thereof daily But in case that this disease procéede of cold whereto some do make sixe kindes of bathes which are to be vsed one vpon the other which me thinketh to be much too strong for that they take Sulphure Allum stéeled water and strong Menageges as Feuerfew Mugwoort and baiberries afterwards againe all things which be contrarie as Oken buds Knotgrasse Squinant c. Therefore will we leaue the same vnmentioned but for this must be taken the flowers of dead Nettles poudered the waight of a dragme with wine Confected Annis seed is also very commodious for this But in case that the issue be very sharpe then beate whites of egs with Rose water and make clothes wet in it and put it vp into womens secrets Of the suffocation or ascension of the Matrix §. 5. THis terrible sicknes is in many things most like to the falling euill Epilepsiae and the great swouning Syncopi because the Matrix hath great sympathie with the heart the arteries braines and with the two membranes which do couer the braines This maladie commeth to women through diuers causes and especially when there is retention of their termes or flowers yea also through the retention of their naturall seed especially to them that be accustomed to haue the company of a man and must then forbeare it as widowes and aged maidens for that in case the foresaid séed be retained then causeth it many kinds of winds in the Matrix which do compell it so to ascend that otherwhiles it oppresseth euen the Diaphragma This is then the opinion of diuers learned men in this case but Galen doth dispute against it with strong reasons that the foresaid naturall séed doth much rather cause this sicknes than the retention of the tearmes chiefly in women which also are burthened with many bad humours be full of blood and brought vp in idlenes haue accustomed to accompany with a man like as is expressed and now suddenly are constrained to want it Therefore is commonly séene saith he that this suffocation for the most part troubleth widowes He maintaineth also and that by good reason that the mother doth not ascend euen to the Diaphragma which is the midriffe and there doth abridge the breath Thus may be caused through the retention and putrifaction of the seed all manner of troublesome accidents as giddines and paines of the head madnes short breath and panting of the hart their natural colour doth alter into a yellow pale yea somtimes into rednes of the face of the eies they gnash with their téeth draw their hands féet away they do also feele that there ascendeth somewhat vpwards out of the belly and commonly then do they presse downe their belly
it fall away of it selfe whereof there be two diuers sorts discouered before in the 3. § Lastly these pils ensuing are to be vsed Take Siluermountaine Madder Penniroyal the innermost rindes of Cassie pipes Pomegranate kernels Pyony rootes and Calmus of each three dragmes Muscus and Spica of Indie of each halfe a dragme then make pils thereof with the iuice of Mugwoort of them is she to take euery day or at leastwise about the other day if she do not vse the Confection and that before supper But the same is not to be giuen if the termes be present but when they be past if you will haue them milder then put one drag and a halfe of Aloes vnto them But in case that this ascension of the Mother be caused through the obstruction of the termes and that a woman be come to her selfe againe and that it is feared that it will returne againe by reason that the cause is not yet taken away that it be certaine that this disease were caused through the retention of the termes or of the naturall seed then must diligence be vsed that the termes be preferred and moued whereof we haue before giuen a full instruction Item if this suffocation of the Matrix procéed through obstruction or hinderance of the termes then giue her one quarter of an ounce of powdred Agaricus with Wine or with Hony water for it is a sure meane for it It is also very good for the same that there be taken one dragme of the powned Agnus Castus with one ounce of the hony of Roses especially if the disease do come through the detention of the seed the Trocisci de Myrrha do also moue much Secondly the Saphea is also to be opened in the foote and afterwards one dragme of powned Betonie with the water of Feuerfew In like manner also boxing cups are to be set vpon the thighes picked or vnpicked Cut a peece of bread round like to a Dollor and set thrée waxe candles in it of the length of a finger set them so burning vpon the nauell and then whelme ouer it a glasse of a quarterne long then do the candles go out and the glasse doth draw the Mother or Matrix perforce into her due and wonted place and this hath béene oftentimes approoued Item annoint all the belly with oile of Masticke and make a pot lid warme wind it about with clothes and hold it warme to the belly Item take Beuercod and Assa foetida of each one quarter of an ounce Philonium Romanum one dragme temper them together and giue it fasting then drinke vpon it a good draught of Muscadell or Malmsey it helpeth maruellous well The same vertue hath Triphera magna the waight of a dragme and a halfe drunken with wine in the morning early Likewise is also good for this one dragme of powned Pionie seeds drunken with Hony water If the Matrix or Mother begin to ascend then is to be taken one quarter of an ounce of yellow Rape séed with the water of Mugwort For a plaister you are to take Galbanum one dragme and a halfe Bdellium one dragme Mugwort Feuerfew of each halfe an ounce oyle of Lillies one ounce dissolue the gummes in the oyle and when they begin to be cold then temper the powder amongst it with this salue they are to annoint them beneath and aboue the nauell and then to lay a plaister of Galbanum vpon it Item take Assa foetida one ounce Galbanum two ounces melt them in vineger and spread them warme vpon a leather of a quarter long then lay them ouer the nauell the Galbanum is also good vsed alone Whensoeuer you will lay any thing vpon the place of the paine then take the rootes of Louage cut them very small and put them in a bag Cometh the paine of the Mother through cold then seeth it in Wine but if it be through heate then séeth them it water and lay it on the place of the paine Could you not get these rootes then take Acorne buds it is also good Néesing and parbraking is much aduised for this but especially héede must be taken to the strength of the patient And in case that the same woman must liue without a man then is she so much the oftener to vse annointing with the odoriferous salues with the fingers beneath and vse therewith all things which do diminish naturall seede as Rue Agnus Castus and such like as elsewhere hath bene shewed Besides all these you may looke all that hath bene said before in the second § of the termes in women Of the descension and falling downe of the Mother or Wombe §. 6. LIke as the Wombe or Mother in women ascendeth so doth it also descend so that it commeth so low that she being turned about it dependeth and with a long end hangeth out of the bodie like as is wont to happen with the Arsegut wherof we haue written in the tenth Chapter and the second § The causes of this disease may be outward and inward the outward may come of fals heauy birth long sitting vpon a cold stone or in the water through hard going to stoole through strong néesing through running leaping through vse of much cold salue and such like The inward be when the bodie is pestered and full of humors which afterwards do fall euen to the wombe which do so vnknit and dissolue the bands and stayes of the same that they cannot hold the mother any longer like as oftentimes befalleth in the palsie and falling sicknesse also in vlcers and impostumes of the wombe The signes of this disease be manifest if the same be caused through any outward causes the same may be inquired of the patient her self Otherwise it is to be considered whether the woman be fat moist liue in quiet is wont to eate much fruite or much fish c. They haue also oftentimes paine about the priuie members and in the neather part of the backbone There commeth also sometimes an Ague with it retention of the vrine and hardning of the stoole Some get also much trembling the crampe and great feare without any manifest causes with many moe grieuous accidents Now in case that the descension of the Mother do yet remaine somewhat inwardly then must a Midwife behold and search her to wit then she must put one finger into the necke of the wombe or Matrix if the passage be smooth and open then is the Mother not falne downe but if she find therein any stop or let then it is a sure signe that it is descended and if so be that the Matrix or Mother continue long out of her natural place then is if vnpossible that she should be reduced againe into her due and naturall place and more vnpossible if the same depend out of the body Thus for to remedie this disease then may one choose out of these things following those which are thought to be best and most méete according to the qualitie of the
the Mother or Matrix through wind §. 7. FIrst of al each one may be wel assured which hath any vnderstanding that euery vnnaturall accident which this part in women to wit the Matrix whether it be of outward or inward causes is subiect to cannot be without paine which the Grecians do call Hysteralgian Amongst these the causes be most windes which cause no lesse paine in that place then they do in the guts whereof we wil at this present write and discourse The causes of this may be blowes thrusts and falles Item outward cold which causeth an obstruction in the necke of the mother whereby the winds be detained These winds be also caused sometimes through hard and painefull bearings or through the long vse of windie meates as Rapes Chestnuts Rie bread and such like The signes of these winds be paine in the matrix and other parts adiacent swelling vp of the belly and that the paine is now here now there To remedy this disease some famous Phisitions do aduise that the body is first to be purged through some common clisters through Cassie or through the powder of Hiera picra and that afterwards one quarter of an ounce of Triphera magna shall be taken in the morning with good wine for the same is estéemed especiall good These winds be also caused oftentimes through vomiting and parbraking Secondly take for it two ounces and a halfe of Oxymel and thrée ounces of the water of Cammomill afterwards set a common clister Thirdly foment the belly with wine wherein Cammomill is decocted Lastly may Triphera or Philonium be vsed This foresaid Philonium is very good but as is oftentimes admonished men must deale prouidently in it for the Triphera is much safer Afterwards do the famous Phisitions commaund to procéede with these things which do follow Take Turbith one dragme or foure scruples according as the woman is strong Ginger one scruple giue it her with water of Mugwort or with common well water wherein Mugwort is decocted this a very excellent medicine for to asswage all paines of the matrix If so be that one peraduenture feare any mischance because the winds of the matrix do oftentimes cause it then take Caruway séede which is stéeped in Vineger and dried againe and powdred one dragme Ameos Ginger Beuercod of each one scruple temper them together and giue one dragme thereof with wine certaine dayes together Or take Gentian the waight of one dragme with wine which easeth them maruellous much for that it expelleth not only the paine but also preuenteth that there returne no paine vnto it In the twelfth chapter and 11. § you haue a potion with Gentian and others which may also be vsed for this with great aduancement Amongst the remedies which may be outwardly vsed first is bathing good whereto this following is to be prepared Take Marierom field mints Southernwood Fennell and such like things which expell wind seeth these in water for a bath Or if so be that bathing is not méete then vse fomenting of warme wine wherein Cammomill is decocted and afterwards annoint the belly will the oyle of Elderne Item take oyle of Mastick one ounce melt therein one quarter of an ounce of Laudanum and annoint you therewith yet the oyle of Lillies and of Wallflowers passeth all Item rere sodden egges brayed well with swéete milke and some Saffron tempered amongest it and then layd vpon it are highly commended for this vse It is also sayd that if blacke Hellebore be layd beneath before the Matrix then doth it draw all moisture vnto it But the Phisitions do séeth Hellebore and make a cloth wet in the same decoction this cleanseth the Matrix from all wind without any molestation This plaister following is especially commended for all winds and swellings of the Matrix Take Bdellium and Ammoniacum of each two ounces Agnus Castus Centorie Southernwood Marierom field mints Ameos and Cassie wood of each one dragme and a halfe Turpentine as much as is needfull for to make thereof two plaisters then lay one before and the other behind Of the paine in the Mother through cold §. 8. TAke Doronicum Zeduary rootes the séedes of Smallage and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence halfe a dragme Beuercod one dragme white Sugar one ounce temper them and stampe them all together and giue thereof a spoonfull with wine In the first part and the twelfth chapter there is a remedie for the memorie to wit of a grosser powder which is also maruellous good to warme and strengthen the cold Matrix Item take one dragme of Treacle Saffron foure graines temper them in two ounces of Mugwort water and then drinke it fasting and fast thrée houres vpon it Mithridate is also very good for all diseases of the Matrix and chiefly for them that procéede of cold There is more good for this Beuercod about the waight of a dragme tempered with oyle of Cammomill and the belly annointed with it Ripe Iuniper berries eaten be also very good for this disease The first Balsam which is described in the eight part is also especially good for the same al plaisters oiles salues and fomentations which be described in moe other places may be also vsed for this The simple things which be méete for a cold Matrix be these to wit Mugwort Rue Sage Sauine tree Assa foetida Madder Iuniper Penniroyall field mints white water mints Calmus Serapinum and all that warmeth the kidneyes Of the paine in the Mother through heate §. 9. THere cometh also otherwhiles a great paine in the Matrix through heate so that there must oftentimes things be vsed which take away and dead the sences like as the iniection of Henbane seed or Poppy séed but it must be prouidently taken in hand and not to vse the same but in great heate But if you will any thing that is more weaker then séeth the Poppy heads in water and iniect the decoction therof and foment it therewith on the outside Warme swéet milk iniected also is good for this purpose Of the contraction of the Mother or the necke of the same §. 10. IT chaunceth also sometimes that the necke of the Mother is closed cleane vp waxeth narrow and shrinketh vp And for to mollifie or soften the same take Hollihocke rootes as many as you please séeth them in Swines grease or in Turpentine to the end it be a soft plaister then dip a clout in it and put it vp into the necke of the Matrix The same doth also the water wherein Hollihocke rootes be decocted In like sort also the oyle of white Narcissus Of the Schirrus or hardnesse of the Mother §. 11. OVt of these forementioned accidents of the Matrix whether it be through heate or cold cannot these parts be hardened any way but as the Spléene is hardned for which these meanes ensuing be very good Take Aloe one ounce Masticke one quarter of an ounce Galbanum dissolued in Vineger one ounce and being strained
such like be decocted And if so be that the place must be incarnated then take Aloe Mirrhe Frankinsence Sarcocolla Dragon blood litharge of Gold and prepared Tutia of each a like quantitie make then a salue thereof with Waxe and oyle of Roses and vse it according as oportunitie serueth And as before hath bene said cooling plaisters are to be vsed for it and to take any of the things following viz. Roses Lentils blossomes and péeles of Pomegranates the muscilage of Fleawort Nightshade Tassel fresh sliced Gourds and Saunders all these are to be tempered with barly meale and sodden to a plaister and then to be layd ouer the priuities Afterwards in the beginning of the disease the iuice of broade Plantaine is to be iniected oftentimes into the Matrix And to the end the Matrix inwardly may be perfectly mundified prepare this water following Take Gals Lentils Pomegranate blossomes Butchers broome seeds Roses and Sanders of each a like quantitie séeth them in water and iniect the decoction into the place Or take Hyssope Wormewood hony of Roses séeth the same in white wine and milke and vse it as is aforesaid When the Matrix is cleansed from all vncleannesse then is this bath to be vsed for to heale and to cause the flesh to grow Take Centorie sixe ounces Ireas Comfrey Cassie rootes and Agrimonie of each thrée handfuls Sarcocolla Gum Dragon blood Mumia Hypocistis and Frankinsence of each one dragme séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe then put thereto prepared refuse of Iron one ounce and a quarter then let it séeth awhile and waxe colde that it may be vsed for a bath Of all the former things may plaisters salues and pessaries be made for they are to that intent very méet and profitable Or if you will haue a meane and milder bath then take Mallowes Violet leaues Melilot Plantaine Lentils Fenegréeke and Colewort buds and make a bath of it In like sort sodden Allume is auailable for this purpose for this bath is generally commended of all learned men But when the ague and the most paine is somewhat past yet the impostume remaineth still which may be perceiued when the ague returneth and the paine and hardnesse betweene the nauell and the priuities continueth then are mollifying things to be vsed as these pessaries following Take Duckes grease the marrow of Harts bones Neates feet oyle Bdellium Saffron and yolkes of rosted egges of each a like quantitie dissolue them together in wine and temper therewith the bottome of oile of Lilles then dip a taint of linnen often therein and put it into the place it swageth the paine and allayeth the same But of this hardnesse we shall shortly hereafter speake and discourse somewhat more at large But if this impostume be caused through cold then doth the same happen through abundance of much Phlegma in the body and that through a continuall vse of meate and drinke whereby the Phlegma is augmented whereby such like humors do fall downe to that place and there do putrifie and rankle This impostume doth appeare with a swelling aboue the priuities neare the nauel and that with a continuall ach and yet no great paine the woman is sleepie and very lither and these signes be the more certaine if the time of the yéere and the age of the patient do agrée with them For this neither cold nor repelling remedies are méete but maturatiues and such as expell Phlegma sobrietie plaisters of méetly warme discussiue and ripening séedes laying on of Cammomil of Melilot Sauine Marierom Mugwort Linséede Fenegreeke admixed with the foresaid oiles and greases and they may also be sodden iniected Likewise for this are méet salues and plaisters which do warme moisten and ripen wherof we haue before admonished and shal againe hereafter The third manner of the impostumation of the Mother is such a bad and hard disease and is much worse than any of the former especially when it is confirmed and waxen old for then it is not to be curred but at last there commeth the canker of it whereof we shall immediatly hereafter speake and discourse at large But to do some ease for it is the place to be annointed with warme and maturatiue oiles marrows and greases of beasts and the decoction of Linseed of Fenegréeke séed and oile of Cammomill of Dill or of Lillies to be iniected Also they are to weare plaisters de Bdellio of liquid Storax and of Ammoniacum thereon and to vse these fomentations and bathes following Take the rootes of Hollihocke two ounces Cammomil Melilot Mallowes Violet leaues Linséed and Fenegréeke séed of each one ounce let them séeth well in water and of these decocted herbes shall you make plaisters with some of the foresaid greases viz. with swines grease hens and duckes grease c. Vse also this salue following Take oile of Lillies and of Elderne cony fat the fat of Quailes Neates féete oyle and oyle of Harts féete oyle of swéet Almonds and Butter of each one ounce annoint therewith the neck of the mother within and without then annoint therwith a pessary of cotton and put it therin And if so be the same do not content thée then looke into the eleuenth chapter the 29. and 30. § of the impostumes in the stomacke Item of the impostume in the liuer the 12. chapter and 7. § and 14. chapt and 2. § of the impostume of the milt where you shall find a sufficient direction for it Of the canker and vlcer of the wombe or Matrix §. 13. WHat the difference is betweene the impostume and vlcer is before in the eleuenth Chapter and nine and twentith § sufficiently declared of the impostume of the stomacke But the vlcers of the Matrix be very noisome and perillous as we haue before alleaged and so qualified that very easily they may come vnto an incurable canker for this vlcer and the canker haue a great communion one with another yet this difference is betwéene them that where the canker is there must also be an vlcer but not euery impostume the canker Thus may vlcers be holpen with the things which be ordained for the clefts of the Arsegut and of the womans places where to the contrary the canker of this place is estéemed by all learned Phisitions for to be incurable The causes of these vlcers and canker of the Matrix may be as we haue already shewed of the vlceration in the nostrils in the first part of wounds of thrusts of blowes of fals of some vncleane impostume of some sharpe humors which do excoriate and exulcerate the Matrix or the necke of the same within The canker is commonly caused through melancholicke blood which maketh a hard impostume and beginneth first onely of a small hardnesse as the bignesse of a pease or Beane and afterward increaseth the which at last filleth the veines adiacent also with melancholicke thicke and blacke bloud whereby it will be harder and greater from day to day
it were some few dayes before her child-birth for then is it very commodious as hereafter shall be shewed more at large All maner of cold all kind of stenches all sharpe and bitter meates as Capers vnripe Oliues Radishes French beanes Lupins red pease Rue white water Mints Penniroyall and whatsoeuer else might prouoke her termes is hurtful to her Contrariwise she may vse all maner of wholesome accustomed meates and drinke good red wine or méetly strong Béere for the red wine is méeter for her than the white Item ripe fruits that are somewhat astringent and that do strengthen the stomacke are very méete for her as Quinces Peares c. if she desire any other commodious meate she shall not so strictly be kept from it but that she may vse a little of it at once But if so be that she do long for some vnnaturall and vnaccustomed meate then is she to be dealt withall as hereafter in this next § that be shewed For to strengthen her serueth the warme confection of Diamargariton for it comforteth the stomacke and the Matrix For the same purpose serueth also this wine following a litle draught otherwhiles taken of it Take Ginger Cloues of each one drag rootes of Louage Spikenard white pepper of each halfe a dragme Comin Galingall Annis séedes of each halfe an ounce red Wine thrée pints Sugar as much as you please make Hipocras If the woman be hot by nature then do lay that wine with the decoction of Currans what she ought to obserue beside this may you find euery where in the discourse of conceiued women Of the strange longing of women with child §. 6. ALbeit that this disease of this vnnaturall appetite which otherwhiles hapneth to women with child of some foule or vnusuall meates as Chalke Coales Lime earth Tarre raw flesh fish and such like which is sometimes rather an imagination and an idle or vaine conceit of some vntoward women neuerthelesse the Philosophers do alleage a certaine naturall cause thereof and affirme therewith that this vnnaturall lust doth also come sometimes vpon them which be not with child yea also that men be otherwhiles plagued with it although very seldome wherefore this longing by good reason may also be reckoned amongst the vnnaturall hungers and may be called a corrupting as we before in the eleuenth Chapter haue moued somewhat thereof and haue alwayes hitherto determimed to write somewhat thereof This vnnaturall longing do the Gréeks call Cittam the Latinists Picam and Malaciam that is a desire of bad meate and is thus described Citta is a bad action of the stomack wherein the partie is gréedie to eate vnnaturall and foule things The causes of this vnnaturall desire are very bad humors and especially Melancholia which lieth in the stomacke where the same is excitating this vnnaturall longing In women with child the matter of the termes doth cause it which cometh into the stomacke and because the same is of sundrie natures therefore do they also get diuers lusts But in those that be not with child it doth come through retention of the termes when those humors happen to ascend into the necke of the stomack or by the obstruction of the liuer or the milt whereby the said melancholicke humor doth stirre vp this vnnatural longing The same bad melancholike humors may also be burnt in the stomacke as may appeare in the quartaine ague And for to remedie this disease especially in women with child must first héed be taken to their meate and drinke Rosted Lambe Hens Pullets Partridges and all kind of field fowles are very méete for her yea also otherwhiles buckes braines and shéepes braines whether they be rosted or sod Her drinke shall be good white wine After meate shall she eate rosted Peares Hasell nuts Marmalade confected Pomegranats and Chestnuts Giue her also oftentimes Marmalade with spices which you shal find described in the last part Of the confection Diantha is euery morning about halfe a quarter of an ounce to be vsed Item giue her oftentimes the Syrupum de Montha In like maner is good for her the Mina of Quinces temper them both as much as you please and take thrée spoonefuls thereof before meate It is also much aduised for this woman that she must otherwhiles incline her self to parbrake and vomit as with cleere warme water and sirupe of Vineger wherof we wil hereafter speake more at large because that women conceiued are much addicted vnto it But in case that they incline themselues to vomit then is their stomacke to be annointed with this salue following Take Masticke and oyle of Spike of each a like quantitie Vineger a little lay this plaister following vpon it the flowers of Buglosse of Baulme of Saunders Citron pils of each a like quantitie with oile of Masticke and waxe wrought together or a bag made of the foresaid except the oile of Masticke and waxe and so layd vpon the necke of the stomacke But if it happen that they at any time desired that which might nourish them and that they were detained from it or that the same could not be gotten whereby it came to passe that they were disquieted or vexed then take presently a spoonefull of Hony scrape a little Nutmeg in it and so giue it her If so be that any man or woman being not with child were taken with such vnnatural lust they are to take these things following fasting as Oxymel compositum two ounces with water of Cipers rootes or the decoction of Cardamome or take one ounce and a halfe of Oxymel of squils with the foresayd water afterwards to prouoke vomit are they to vse this Hony water following wherein Mustard séede the seede of Orage of Dill Onions and Radishes is decocted For to purge take Pillulas Stomachicas or de quinque generibus Mirobalanorum which you will one dragme whereupon these confections following are to be vsed viz. Diapliris Diamoschu and Diambra The stomacke is to be strengthened with these things following Take Acorne cups one quarter of an ounce Raisins with their stones seuen dragmes Annis thrée dragmes Mirobalani Indici Bellirici Emblici of each fiue dragms prepared refuse of iron one ounce and a quarter foure quarts of wine which is somewhat strong and as much water séeth them all together vnto the half and then straine it through a cloth and let the patient drinke it out now and then in the space of eight dayes Item take Cardamome Graines Cucubes of each a like quantitie white Sugar as much as all the rest giue thereof euery morning one dragme and a halfe with luke-warme water afterwards vse the foresayd confections and annoint the stomacke and kéepe your selfe with eating and drinking like as is said before Of the vomiting in women with child §. 7. WIth this vomiting are commonly women with child oppressed vntill that they do begin to feele the milke and about the time they were wont to get their flowers or whē the childs haire beginneth
in the morning early for a strengthening halfe an ounce of confected Calmus Likewise Aromaticum rosatum Rosata nouella and conserue of Roses tempered with powder of Masticke and with Mints water being drunken If it be needfull for to purge then is one to vse the former purgations without giuing any stronger thing This ensuing is also very commodious Take the iuice of red Mints foure ounces Agaricus one dragme let it stéepe together two dayes and two nights then temper Ginger and Roses therewith of each foure graines Manna halfe an ounce let it stand drying in the warmth afterwards make pilles thereof and vse them oftentimes for they purge the watery humors without any anguish Now for to remedie the venemous matter for which you haue hereafter thrée kinds of applications Take Roses Cipers nuts burnt Iuorie and Sandaraca of each one dragme Rosin thrée ounces but you are to seeth the Rosin in red Vineger vntill that the Vineger be spent afterwards temper the other ingredients amongst it and make two plaisters of it one quarter and a halfe of a yard long and lay the one behind and the other before vpon the place of the Mother One more forcible Take oile of Quinces of Roses and of Mints of each one ounce and a halfe Comfrey Bloodstone red Corall Sandaraca and burnt Date stones of each one dragme Waxe as much as is néedfull for a salue annoint therewith the place of the Mother and of the kidneyes both these haue so strengthened the fruit in sundry women that they haue fully borne the same which accustomed to lie in too soone of all their former children Thirdly take the water of Tassell and water of Knotgrasse of each sixe ounces water of gréene Cipers nuts or their decoction foure ounces the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie and Roses of each one dragme Frankinsence Sandaraca and Colophonie of each one dragme and a halfe the iuice of Quinces sixe ounces temper them well and make a cloth wet therein eight double and so lay it warme vpon the backe Of mischances or vntimely birthes §. 9. THis vntimely childbirth or mischance may befall at any time without any difference after that women haue conceiued as when the séede is not yet come to any perfect shape or when the fruite hath some members but yet before it come to be a perfect child or is brought into the world before the due time being not throughly borne or when it is violently or otherwise expelled And it fareth therewith as it doth with the fruits of trées when they begin first to bud and to fashion then do they hang on brittle stalkes so that otherwhiles they may be blowne off and spoyled with a small wind but being waxen greater then is there to come greater force of windes or otherwise before they will fall off lastly when they be waxen very ripe and seasonable then do they fall off of themselues In like manner doth it also happen with the conceiued séed or fruite which is at the first so weake and tender that if a woman chance to leape to fall or to labour hard the séede receiued is thereby diuers times eiected Wherefore also betwéene foure and seauen moneths she may purge most safely and vse phisicke if néede require for before the foure and after the seuen moneths must she forbeare it if possibly it may be for then it is perillous But to returne to our purpose We haue shewed before that if a woman hath retained humane séed the space of seuen dayes that it is a token of conception but if it vade or auoyd within seuen dayes then do the learned call it Effluxionem which is an effluence or running out But if so be that they detaine it any longer time and this effluence chance within fortie dayes then is it an Abortus that is a mischance and within this time of fortie dayes do most mischances happen Thus if a boy be conceiued and voyd away within fortie dayes then is there none other shape to be seene thereof but in case it be cast into cold water there doth it make shew as a small bladder and making it open then is the fruite found in it as a great Cricket with all his seuerall members and likewise also the humane member And if a maiden child conceiued chance to auoide or passe away within thrée moneths then can no direction or token be seene for that it consumeth in the water but in case that it do come to the fourth moneth then may some direction be séene thereby but it soone consumeth and passeth away for that as we haue said before the girles receiue their perfect fashion much later than the boyes as also they be borne for the most part in the tenth moneth But when they be now come both into the world the girles grow much faster than the boyes and also do come sooner to their time of generation and leaue off much sooner especially they that get many children one after another The causes of these mischances or vntimely births do the learned alleage to be of many sorts which may neuerthelesse be comprehended in foure principall articles viz. of outward causes which procéed of the conceiued fruite when the Matrix hath any kind of disease or if the humane séed be of no good disposition Amongst outward causes be these leaping running wringing and chiefly in lying together bathes anger sorrow feare trembling loud calling strong labour surfetting of meate and diureticall things as Fennell Parsley séed and all other things which expell the stone All hot spices as Ginger Galingall Cinnamome Annis and such like Item all that purgeth violently as Aloe Epithymus Coloquint Scamony and Euphorbium In like maner all scouring or laxes the bloody flixe or the fluxe of the termes The same may also happen if a woman haue any strange lust or longing which she cannot come at or get it and moe other such like causes whereof we haue spoken before whereof it is better to be silent than to disclose the same Also the conceiued fruit otherwhiles falleth downewards before her limited time whether it be for that it is sicke or dead or for that it remaineth not with the face towards the backe with the hands vpon the eyes and the elbowes vpon the knées as the naturall situation of it is Likewise also if the fruite through any disease of the parents be infected whether in the séed or otherwise wherewith also the fourth cause is approoued But if the conceiued séede find any disease in the Matrix be it whatsoeuer sicknesse or disease that it will then must the fruite inherite it This reason following is also occasion of an vntimely birth to wit when a woman is much and vnmeasurable leane conceiuing she will very seldome haue full birth but if the Mother be excéeding leane whence the fruite must sucke or draw his nourishment then will it be inféebled or diseased and constrained to passe away as hereafter shall be more ampler sayd and taught
Women which be méetly fat or leane and neuerthelesse get a mischance euery third or fourth moneth that commeth beside the former causes of some slimie waterish humours which fall downe into the veines and sinewes whereon the secundine is fastened whereby they do slacke are loose and can sustaine the burthen no longer without falling out of the mothers body By the breasts may also a mischance be perceiued for that when they be small weake and flack in women with child then is a mischance to be looked for and expected When a child beginneth to come to his perfection then hath it néede of much nourishment And if there be any disease or infirmitie there then will the breasts be small soft and slack whereof the fruite must pine and die Or she will be impatient striueth and strugleth so long vntill the secundine breaketh and the fruite falleth away Now if a woman be pregnant with two children and one breast onely whether it be the left or right came to be small and slacke then is it a signe of the destruction of the child on the same side It is also found that certaine women through stench of the snuffing of a candle or lampe haue gotten a mischance Let this suffice of the mischance or vntimely birth we will now teach how the same is to be remedied How a mischance is to be preuented or hindered §. 10. WE haue before shewed that women conceiued sometimes do get their termes whereby that weake and spare yea also dead children be brought into the world which happeneth not without great perill of their life wherefore must we writs and discourse somewhat thereof First the termes do commonly come with paine of the backbone of the belly and the priuities which be altogether signes of a mischance to come for like as we haue said thereby is the nourishment drawne away from the fruite whereby it is not onely inféebled but also vrged to passe away And to obuiate or preuent this all child-bearing women are first to beware from ouerhote cold and ouermoist aire All meate and drinke which be too fat too sharpe and to bitter shall she also eschue as Radishes Parsley Smallage Fennell Pease broth Cinnamome Saffron Galingall Nutmegs and such like spices She is also to vse oftentimes thicke red wine but she is to eschue all great exercise of going running leaping accompany of a man anger and all ouerburthening and therewith haue regard that she alwayes haue a soluble bodie and if so be that be wanting then is she to vse some meate or drinke which do loose the body as the decoction of Mallowes or Mercury or stewed Prunes Otherwise she is to leaue all clisters and other diureticall medicines But if the body be obstructed too much then is she to eate Cassie wood out of the pipes or new prepared Cassie and that especially if she haue any issue or moistnesse in the necke of the Matrix for that the Cassie doth cleanse the Cholera and Phlegma without any trouble you are also in due time to put Rubarbe vnto it yet Manna is more commended for it powned Rubarb is also to be giuen to conceiued women as it is for so it is more effectuall than if she tooke the infusion onely Item if so be that there appeare in the necke of the Mother some sliminesse or moistnesse in the last moneth then is she to vse all things rosted baked and to do such exercises before meate as shall be drying also take Pomegranate péeles powne them grosse and séeth them in oyle of Lillies and iniect that into the Mother That is the right meane for to stay the slipperinesse of the Matrix Afterwards take Masticke Mirrha and Gallia Muscata of each halfe a dragme Goosegrease one ounce dip therein vnkemmed shéepes wooll and put it into the places Hares rennet or the rennet of any other beast is maruellous good for it whether there be any heate or impostume instant Burnt Iuorie and the powder of Zeduarie tempered together and strowed on the meate doth stay also the mischance To this end is also to be séene what is written before in the ninth Chapter and third § of the excessiue termes all which is also méete for this vse But she may vse these things following as the confection of Pearles of which Auicenna describeth alwayes to eate one tabulate before meate and thereupon to drinke a good draught of wine as she may do it very commodiously betwéene both meale-tides twise or thrise a day Secondly take the water of Mints of Daisies and water wherein Cipers nuts be decocted of each one ounce Sugar halfe an ounce drinke this early in the morning all together at one draught whether it be cold or warme Thirdly take scrapt Iuorie red and white Corall Masticke Mints the inward red péeles of Chestnuts Acornes Mirtle séed and Cypers nuts of each halfe a dragme make pils thereof with the iuice of Comfrey whereof thrée are to be taken in the morning with the foresaid water before meate and that afterwards she hath taken one of the foresaid tabulats Fourthly take Cipers nuts powned Gals Mirtle séed iuice of Sloes and Hypocistis of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone Amber Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one dragme and a halfe refuse of Iron which hath bene long decocted in vineger halfe an ounce the innermost red péeles of Chestnuts one ounce thrée or foure whites of egs powne all that is to be powned and rub it all together a long time in a leaden mortar then annoint therewith the whole belly from the nauell to the priuities foure times a day Fiftly make this plaister ensuing Take Dragagant and Gumme both of them rosted and Bdellium of each one quarter of an ounce the iuice of Sloes Frankinsence Hypocistis and Sandaraca of each one dragme fine Bolus and Dragonblood of each one quarter of an ounce Wax half an ounce Paperglew dissolued in red vineger two ounces make a plaister thereof and lay vpon the priuities let it lie so and if the same must be taken off for any certaine cause then lay it on againe by and by and if there be too little Waxe and oyle of Masticke then take as much as is néedfull of it Another Take Frankinsence Masticke Dragonblood and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce Comin thrée dragmes Pitch one ounce and a halfe three small Cypers nuts Waxe and oyle of Masticke as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister spread them on a cloth and vse it as is sayd before Make also this salue following Take oyle of Nuts foure ounces Barrowes grease one ounce and a halfe three small Cipers nuts Masticke one dragme and a halfe let them seeth softly the space of fiue houres and therewith annoint the place of the Matrix which is betweene the nauel and the priuities and behind vpon the backe ouer against it It is also written that it is wonderfull good to weare alwayes a Diamond on the finger Item if a
woman with child be burthened with an Ague and that a mischance be doubted then take Barley meale the iuice of Sloes and of Housleeke as much as you please make it to a plaister with vineger and then lay it oftentimes vpon the belly this plaister doth defend the fruite from all accidents in the Ague this sayd plaister is also to be layd vpon the liuer In case that now the woman with child be assayled with pricking then haue you before in the second part the fourth Chapter and 12. § how that might be remedied stamped Crabs the iuice thereof wroong out and tempered amongst womans milke it defendeth also the vntimely birth of women and it is said that it is a sure remedy for it If so be that a mischance be feared through much wind then giue one dragme of good Mithridate with the water wherein Comin hath bene decocted twice a weeke for thereby will the fruite be preserued and retained These confections or tabulats following are to be vsed Take Pearles and Pyretrum of each one dragme Ginger Mastick of each halfe an ounce Zeduary Doronicum the séed of Smallage Cassie wood Cardamome Nutmegs Mace and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen long and black Pepper of each three dragmes Saffron one dragme sugar eighteene ounces or lesse decocted with the water of Buglosse or water of Mints How a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe §. 11. FOr this we wil first haue remembred all that is described before in the 19. chapter and 14. § of the vnnaturall excrescence Mola in the Matrix whereof that in the second § of prouoking the termes and before of the mischances and all that is discouered of the preferring of the birth is also meete for the expulsion or deliuery of a child so that betwéene these is none other difference than that this following is ordained rather for perfect children of which women do commonly lie in within fiue or sixe moneths Now for to preuent the same are these remedies following commanded to be presently vsed but first of all you must know whether the child be dead or not to the end there be not a sicke child expelled for a dead child the which is to be knowne by this and especially if it hath bene dead two or thrée dayes First the mother doth get a great paine in the sinewes of the eyes which be Optici nerui Secondly she doth also féele paine behind in the necke stretching downeward along the backe bone because that the Matrix is fastened vnto it Thirdly shée doth féele great anguish and paine beneath Fourthly if a woman lie from one side vnto another then doth the burthen alwayes follow towards the lower side which is of all other a sure token of a dead child and that the ligaments of the secundine haue no more force to hold the dead fruite in one place Fiftly there is a great paine about the priuities and ouer all the necke of the Matrix Sixtly the thicknesse of the belly which was aboue is wholy sunken downe Seuenthly they do féele continually a cold about the priuities Eightly if one hold a warme hand long vpon the belly and féele no stirring then it is a sure token that the child is dead These be now the signes of a dead child before it begin to putrifie When it hath bene dead thrée dayes then beginneth it to stinke the woman is full of agues and getteth a stinking breath out of the Matrix runneth a foule stinking matter the belly will be heauy and stinking winds which do arise in the mother cause swelling thereof and last of all there will be foule and stinking péeces of flesh expelled through the necke of the mother When al these things be séene then hath a Phisition none other thing to do but to driue out the dead child It is also néedfull before all other things to preserue and strengthen the heart from al filthy stenches which may be brought to passe with this powder following taking the same oftentimes with broths for that it strengtheneth the vitall spirits and also the heart it doth also withstand the ascending vapors Take white Diptamus one dragme and a half Citron péeles and the péeled séeds of the same of each halfe a dragme prepared pearles foure scruples prepared Coriander one scruple Roses two scruples sugar two ounces and a halfe temper them all together to powder and vse therof about one quarter of an ounce at once Or take this following Take white Diptamus and Zeduary of each one scruple prepared Pearles and Species de gemmis frigidis of each halfe a dragme mixe them together and giue it her to drinke at thrice it withstandeth all stenches that they infect not the heart The fine Treacle doth also driue dead children out of the mothers bodies In like manner also the iuice of Verueine or the herbe stamped and drunken with wine driueth forth also the dead fruite so doth Hyssope also Take Trociscos de Gallia one dragme giue it with small white wine they expell the dead child and the secundine and make an easie birth Item take the innermost skins of the mawes of Hens or of Capons wash the same in wine drie them and powne them to powder giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe thereof with a draught of Wine or with some broth or with Rosewater Or take Betonie and Rue with the rootes of each one handfull poure thereto one ounce of the iuice of Salomons seale white Wine one pint let it séeth well then straine it through a cloth and so giue it her to drinke Séeth Iuniper berries in Hony temper some wine with it and so drinke it together Another Womans milke drunken should also expell the dead child likewise also the precious stone Iaspis This is a common medicine which followeth hereafter Take Boreas one dragme and a halfe Cinnamom and Saffron of each one scruple stamp them togither and giue it with swéete wine or Mugwort water to drinke it helpeth much to beare easily It is also said that Linséed passeth all things to make women to be easily deliuered for if they drinke the water which is decocted therewith and put the same with clothes beneath into the bodie or bath therein then must the dead fruit auoyd Or take Mirrha as much as the quantity of a hasell nut stampe it and giue it with wine or with water of Mugwort the same expelleth much whether that the child be dead or aliue The same doth also dogges milke tempered with hony Item take one ounce of Goates milke dissolue therein two scruples of Galbanum and so giue it it expelleth maruellously Or if the woman be strong then giue her as much of the iuice of Garlicke as will go into halfe an egshel with wine or hony If from a woman through frighting or otherwise the child auoid then take a Crab stampe it and wring out the iuice and then temper it with the water
kind of things happen without misbeliefe and that amendment be found therby then may they be taken for approued Amongst the same things which seeme also to be like vnto the truth are Agrimonie with the rootes holden before the Matrix and immediatly after birth to cast it away to the end that the Matrix be not drawne downe Also Swines bread bounden vpon the thighs Item â—endane rootes rootes of Polypodie and of Bistorta should also be very good for it but what the Loadstone Smaragde the Eagles head Corall and chiefly if with the end wherwith it hath stood fast it shall be turned toward the Matrix may well helpe for childbirth I cannot comprehend nor vnderstand it therefore each one may hold and censure the same as he list That which followeth hereafter is more like to be true Take the rootes of Polypodie and Mallowes of each one handfull cut them small and seeth them very mellow and lay them warme vpon the priuities put also as much Mugwoort vnto it whereof a woman shall presently fall in labour and after deliuerie it is immediatly to be taken away The common people do commend to lay pouned Bayberries vpon the nauell For to further birth therby to take inwardly is much praised in time of this great néede the rinds of Cassie the vttermost being blacke scraped off the weight of three quarters of an ounce and beaten very smal giuen to women with red Wine or with the decoction of red Pease Item Saffron drunke with Wine helpeth also much to very spéedie birth and to diminishing of the paine The same doth also Cinamom drunke with wine Item take Boreas and Cassie pipes scraped well stampe them very small and temper them and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a half it is very forcible There is also good for this that which is described in the 19. Chapter and 2. § for preferment of the Tearmes like as is also that which is discouered for the expulsion of a dead child Item take Hony one spoonfull put two spoonfuls of water vnto it and giue it to drinke Fenegreeke decocted with Hony is also very good for it in like sort do the common people commend for it very highly the decoction of red Pease or Cicers drunken Take also Beuercod Asarabacca of each one dragme powned small and giue it with the decoction of red Peason In this manner also may be vsed the séede of Siluermountaine This insuing is commended for a forcible and sure powder méete for this purpose Take good Cinnamom and Myrrhe of each halfe a dragme giue it with small white Wine it is especiall good if a woman haue once snéezed or hath once vomited Take Cinnamom one dragme Saffron halfe a dragme Cassie wood and scraped Cassie pipes of each two scruples stampe it very small and giue it foure or fiue times with the decoction of red Pease Or take Myrrhe Beuercod red Storax of each halfe a scruple Cinnamom and Sauin trée of each halfe a scruple giue it so vnto women to drinke or make pilles thereof this is commended aboue all other things as this also following is Take Myrrha rootes of Costus and red Storax of each halfe a dragme Ammoniacum Sauin trée of each half a dragme stampe them very small and giue it three or foure times with the decoction of red Pease of this also may you make pils For this is also good Triphera magna one dragme or one dragme and a halfe for it maketh women not vnfruitfull as some women do falsly report but doth aduance fruitfulnes Some do aduise when a woman is past her time that her mother veine or Saphaea vpon the foote is to be opened for that the birth will thereby be the easier and it cleanseth also the child but how farre this is from the opinion of the auncient Phisitions we haue sufficiently declared before Other do aduise to seeth a Swallowes nest in water and straine it through a cloth and then to take foure ounces thereof it will accelerate the birth The fume also of a Mules fell of Comin of Colewoort stalkes of Myrrh of Mirtle of Stéeres gall which one will receiued beneath but aboue all Beuercod and Assa foetida Some say that one should giue one spoonfull or twaine of the iuice of Sloes and alleage also therewith that it is not to be taken but when a child is readie to be deliuered But we haue here many better and most apparant things When the throwes do not continue in bearing women §. 13. ALl that hath a strong odoriferous sauour as Muscus and such like is to be kept from women with child and to be taken away for that it doth hold backe the throwes and hindereth the birth or deliuerie But for to aduance birth take Betonie three handfuls Mugwoort one handfull Cammomill Penniroyall and Hyssops of each one handfull Linséede grossely beaten two handfuls cut all the herbes and fill a bag with it let it séeth well in wine and water This being done then foment with this decoction the priuities with a sponge fiue or sixe times afterwards annoynt the place with the oyle of Wal-flowers into the neck of the mother if so be that the same can be conueniently done by the Midwife whereby the woman will be stronger and the birth be aduanced especially if the child be rightly placed And if so be that this will not yet helpe then make this potion following and giue her therof a good draught euery two houres Take Betonie one handfull Mugwoort Penniroyall and Hyssope of each halfe a handfull a pint of Rhenish wine or somewhat more let them séeth together vntill about the fourth part be consumed straine it wring it out and put vnto it halfe a dragme of Saffron Amongst each draught is to be put halfe a dragme of this powder following Take of the blacke scraped Cassie pipes one dragme and make a subtill powder thereof in like sort haue you yet moe before This following wil be also much commended take white beaten Amber half a drag giue it with the water of Lillies or with the decoction of red pease it quickeneth mightily the throwes It doth also chaunce sometimes that the throwes do auoid at the mouth for which take thrée or foure skeanes of boyled warme linnen yaâ—â—e and let the woman with child receiue this vapor for thereby will the throwes fall downwards euery one may conceiue thereof what he list it is very like a grosse medicine for clownes Of the perillous and hard Child birth in generall §. 14. IT is knowne to all the world more than sufficiently how hard and sowre that some women lye in labour before that they can auoid the child and secundine so that it hapneth otherwhiles that young and strong women do die with the fruite These perils haue many occasions so that otherwhiles the women themselues or the child be a cause thereof Such anguish may also procéede otherwhiles from the Matrix or from the necke
of the same In like manner the same may be well caused through some obstruction of the Matrix or through any other disease as an impostume and such like in the foresaid parts this also may be brought to passe through the rudenesse and vnhandsomnesse of the Midwife When as these foresaid reasons be declared then may the cause easily be adiudged of this grieuous and perillous child birth If the disease be of the woman then hath she had a great former sicknesse or she is diseased through hunger she may be also too young and haue conceiued before the due age or she may be too old or not haue borne before at any time in which the places will be hardly opened also if a woman be dismayed or neuer wont to beare child be also too fat of bodie and is ouercooled then can she hardly be deliuered of the child Secondly the fruit it self may cause also a grieuous labour like as is said yet without foundation that boyes be easier borne into the world than girles Item if the child be too grosse of bodie or head and therewith be very small and weake that through his féeblenesse it cannot help it self to the birth Item if the child be dead haue two heads or the like double members Item if the child with his hands and féet and not with the head doth lie in the birth place like as behooueth and as is naturall Further the Matrix may be by nature too narrow or too drie so that with no moisture the passage can be made slipperie Item if the woman before in the necke of the matrix haue had any exulceration whereby the muskles could not stretch abroad or that as yet there be some vlcer in the neck of the mother or if it cometh by the secundine then is the same so thicke and so strong that it will not breake This grieuous and very hard labour may also be caused by the stopping of the bodie If now this heauy labor do procéede of the forementioned diseases sicknesses hunger such like outward causes that may be very well perceiued of the woman The signes of a féeble or dead child are to be found in the 8. 11. § But if there be of none of all these signes any instant and if that a woman is not strong and that a child in deliuerie remaine in the birth place and cannot be brought into the world then is it a certaine signe that the afterbirth like as is said is too strong and not yet broken Thus be all perillous accidents of childbirth so ioyned to each other that all of them for the most part are cured with one kind of remedie whereof we haue written much before And because we haue especially admonished here of the secundine therfore doth our old order require that we should also discourse somewhat particularly therof But because nature obserueth this method that it first expelleth the child and afterwards the Secundina which is the secundine therefore we will also first of all write perfectly of the child and afterwards of the secundine with all which is ordained for the same Lastly we will shew and declare all that is méete for both of them When a woman cannot be deliuered of a child §. 15. THe causes of this hard and longsome childbirth are before sufficiently discouered when as then a child appeareth with a hand or a foote before which doth happē very seldome without swelling of the necke of the matrix and of the parts adiacent then take Penniroyall Mugwoort and browne Betonie of each a like quantitie hack it all together and let it séeth in milke lay it then vnder her before the birth as warm as she may abide it about the member of the child that same driueth away the swelling or set séething water vnder it when the child féeleth the warmth then doth it draw the member back againe This and the like things shold Midwiues know on whose knowledge and experience is very much depending that very renowned aduice which is discouered in the 13. § of Amber when the throwes will not continue also there is laid vnto it scraped Vnicornes horne Some be of opinion that first of all the woman should take a spoonfull of oyle with twice as much water Other do also aduise that one should séeth halfe a drag of Mace and so giue it this forceth also the secundine If that then a child will not frame himself to birth in his mothers wombe and neuertheles the throwes the right time of birth be instant then take a litle Lilly water and as much good Rhenish wine so drinke it together it will frame it self the better afterwards For this is also good the iuice of Sloes whereof we haue spoken before Another Take fresh well water and hony as much as you please temper them together without séething or skumming and so giue it to drink this quickneth the throwes paine so that she wil be the sooner deliuered of child for that the paine expelleth the child and the secundine Or take the flowers of Cypers seeth them in wine and drinke a good draught thereof this should be very certaine especially if the herbe or flowers may be gotten fresh Item take well powned Linseede seeth the same in wine giue the woman a good draught therof In like maner may she well drinke wine which is decocted with Plantaine Wine wherein Vine leaues haue bene stéeped shold also expel birth Boreas the waight of half a drag drunken with wine is also very aduancing for it as we haue admonished before A stronger Take Saffron and Pearles of each one scrup Boreas 4. scrup giue this also with hony water if the throwes come not but if so be that the throwes be instant then giue it with Mugwoort water or with swéet wine it expelleth very swiftly Now for to vse outwardly may one chuse out of these things following for a time that which one will as the séeds of Garlick Sauintrée Mugwoort S. Iohns woort Pigeon dung the horne of an Asses foote or of a horses foote Oxe dung Wormwood Rue of all which tempered or each alone also to bathe to make salues plaisters such like Item take round Hartwoort Aristologie Sauin trée and Cresses of each a like stampe and temper them all together with an Oxe gall then afterwards make a great taint moist therin and put it before into the places it helpeth much to birth This following doth also expell a child whether it be liuing or dead and also the secundine very vehemently Take Sauintrée round Hartwort Asarabacca Dragon roots of each a like quantitie powne them all together temper them with hony afterwards giue to the woman therof the waight of one quarter of an ounce with water wherein Lupins be decocted and if so be that this expell not sufficiently then take Opopanacum and Oxe gall of each one quarter of an ounce Beuercod one dragme giue it to the woman to drinke
proceedeth very seldome or also neuer through melancholy if it be not mixed with some subtill moisture then is there very litle paine with it and also litle help◠for it whatsoeuer is done vnto it for the place of this disease will be hard remaineth blacke without any rednes And it hapneth not but in old folkes about winter c. If this be caused of wind then is it swollen thicke without great paine which oftentimes remoueth from the one ioynt to the other and the patient hath vsed much meate and drinke before which do ingender wind If there be any humors mixed amongst these winds then must it be considered and passed vpon the forementioned signes whereby will very soone be perceiued what humor hath mixed it selfe amongst these winds according to which euery one may know how to dispose and gouerne himselfe Like as then hitherto in diuers places certaine common rules haue bene made so will we procéed here also whereof the first is For as much as the Goute Arthritis Podagra and such like appeare most of al in haruest by reason of the fruite eaten the whole sommer therfore must all fruits be eschued Secondly for as much as venery is so hurtfull for this disease and increaseth it very much the same is to be refrained as much as is possible Thirdly a quiet idle life sleepe by day time do hinder that the superfluitie cannot be consumed To the contrary too great stirring and exercise whereby the members be ouer heated are also oftentimes the cause of this paine of the members therefore is the same as much as is possible to be eschued Fourthly all Wine and especially strong wine is very hurtful for all them that be plagued with the Gout Fiftly all rioting and drunkennes make bad digestion whereby also the paine of the Gout is augmented Sixtly they that be hote of nature and addicted to the Gout are to refraine from all phlegmaticke meate which is drest with sundry things and also from all meate which doth make Cholera and bloud for that when these two humors come together then do they bring grosse and vndigested defluxions in the ioynts whereof then the Gout is caused Seuenthly there be some through purging letting of bloud that are fréed from this disease which may most commodiously be done in the spring of the yere Eightly the aire hurteth them much that be troubled with the Gout Ninthly all great grosse fishes and especially Eeles be hurtfull for the Gout Tenthly sucking Pigs all water fowles and old Hens are especially hurtfull to the lower members Eleuenthly milk and wine eaten together be very noysome for all members and very hurtfull for the head Twelfthly the drinke which is taken without thirst bringeth much hurt to the body Thirtéenthly like as great surfetting with meate is very hurtfull for all the ioynts euen so doth a moderate diet refresh them Fourtéenthly the going too much or wearie walking hanging downe of the legs especially presently after meate is very hurtfull for the ioynts Fiftéenthly to lie vpon the back is also hurtful Sixtéenthly anger is enemy to this disease Seuentéenthly the great sensibility of the ioints especially of the féet cannot suffer any paine The foresaid seuentéene rules are only ordained for this purpose to frée one from the Goute but as much as doth concerne the meanes whereby these ioynts are to be strengthened and preserued that the same do not receiue those defluxions whereon dependeth the principall meanes to frée one from it are in these rules following to be obserued Eightéenthly it is very requisite that the féet be often bathed in Allum water Nintéenthly Sage decocted in Béere and the same drunken oftentimes is commended as it were a very secret medicine and receipt which hath an ineffable operation in all diseases of the ioynts Twentithly Almond floure Cammomill Myrrhe Melilote and Roses be very commodious for the ioints Calmus and ground Iuie haue an especiall vertue for to strengthen all the ioints the same doth also the Indian Nut kernell One and twentithly Verueine laid fresh vpon the féet and so worne is very good for the Podagra These things following do strengthen much the sinewes The roote Behen and his oyle doth warme the contracted sinewes in like manner also Bdellium and Calmus laid vpon it with oyle of Citron péeles of Cammomill of Beuercod Cypers rootes Cassie wood and Cypers also oyle of Costus and such like oyles are maruellously praised commended for the sinewes and Centorie in clisters Item feet water made of the ashes of a Bay tree For a salue the mother of Sallad oyle is good and the dregs of the oyle of Lillies and of all other oyles which be warme by nature Opopanacum is also much commended but Pyretrum and Pepper aboue all other to warme the sinewes For this be also drie swéete bathes good or naturall Sulphur bathes After purging is Treacle and Mithridate much commended in all cold Goutes drunken with wine wherein Sage hath been decocted But as much as concerneth the curing of these ioint diseases it is not needfull to discourse any further of them bicause that we hereafter will write of this matter at length Therefore we will proceed in the name of God The fourth Chapter Of the Goute in the Ioints Arthritis THe second description which speaketh commonly of the paine in the ioints whereof we haue briefly admonished before is that which the Latinists do call Morbum articularem the Grecians Arthritim which is as much to say as the paine of the ioints or an inflammation of the ioints which procéedeth from within the bodie and the Tendones be annoyed hurt and pained In fine it is none other than a dispersed Podagra ouer the whole bodie the which at one time commeth behinde in the neck another time in the shoulder blades then againe in the back bone and in the hands in the fingers and in the elbowes the which also sometimes créepeth into the nethermost ioints as in the legs the knées in the feet and toes And although in this disease like as also in other diseases more there be many sundrie remedies sought by many sundrie carefull Phisitions according to the qualitie of the cause and place of the paine therfore is there but one generall rule to be obserued First how one shal be preserued from this disease Secondly how that the same is to be cured and taken away altogither And bicause the time of the yéere importeth not a little therein therefore is choise to be made of it In summer the matter is thus to be handled This kind of patient in the beginning of summer is to be purged with that which ensueth Take Agaricus one dragme Sugar one ounce Hermodactils one dragme and a halfe water of field Cypers thrée ounces make the water warme and stéepe the rest fower and twenty howers in it afterwards wring it hard out and drinke it warme in the morning and then fast sixe howers vpon it
disease Scrupeum Humorem which is a stonie humour for that the same will in the hands and féete alter into a stone so that the same may at last be taken out without any paine and like as we haue admonished before this disease commeth not onely in the féete but also in the hands which is called by the Grecians Chiragra which is a paine of the hands The causes of this gout are manifold to wit inward and also outward the outward may be caused through great heate which causeth the matter to melt Item through great idlenes or through great labor presently after meate Also through venerie with a full stomacke and that same especially doth cause the Podagra Also the learned do certainely affirme that no man can be plagued with the Podagra so long as he hath not yet vsed the veneriall act Galen doth also confirme the same saying that he neuer knew any man which was infected with the Gout either of the hands or féete before that he hath had to do with women Daintie eating and drinking is also a great cause of the Podagra And that all this is so we will shew an example Plinie writeth that these diseases were very strange and new in Italie in his time for which cause it is named with that outlandish name Podagra But what made them strange at that time and new but that at the same time the Romaines liued very moderately in eating drinking Hippocrates writeth that no Eunuch nor any woman as long as she hath her tearmes can get the Podagra neither yet can be bald Touching which Galen his interpretor saith that the same in the time of Hippocrates was true for that the people in those daies did méetly much labour and did eate and drinke soberly But now he saith that people do lead another life by going idle and rioting for that one doth find now adayes Eunuches which be subiect to the gout without lying with any woman at all which they do get only through their rioting and quaffing And so is it with women which do also spoile themselues through a disordred life that they get their termes very litle or not at all And to the contrarie by measurable labor by moderat eating and drinking yea by hunger and abstinence from wine the Podagra tarrieth away is left behind the which I haue séene by a citizen in my time of Landsborough called Lucas Kesselin who liuing againe according to the pleasure of the world got the Podagra again And when he was best in health then did he ride otherwhiles a horsebacke with two seruants who must lift him vp vpon the horse but when he came in pouertie and dranke no wine and liued hardly then did the Podagra seeke another lodging So that he being past fiftie yeares old was faine to trot vp and downe the countrey with a Pedlars packe on his backe ouer high mountaines for to get his liuing This hath then his originall cause for if there be no superfluous humors fallen downe into those places then would there be no paine nor griefe neither would these defluxions settle themselues in the ioynts if the bodie were not ouercharged with some superfluitie Now the meane to kéepe the bodie frée from all superfluous humors is that the bodie be kept with moderate exercise to the end the meate may be well digested Hereby appeareth now sufficiently that the gout is not caused sooner of any thing in the world than of idlenesse and excessiue riot When as now the Podagra is caused of any inward occasion then doth it happen thereby that one hauing weake legs and feete the matter whether it be bloud Cholera Phlegma or Melancholia each alone or mixed might lightly fall into them whereby it may well be vnderstood that the Podagra can be short long continuing hote or cold It is also sometimes an inheritance of the children from the parents and hath his vertue in both the seedes and is imparted vnto the children so that the goutie fathers and mothers may also ingender goutie children Now may we also write somewhat of the signes which do not onely signifie the goute of the féete or Podagra but also all paine of the ioynts If this disease be caused through bloud then doth it appeare with rednes with great continuall paine and smart the vrine is thicke and red the pulse strong and full and the paine is more in the morning than in the euening And if the patient be by nature full of bloud and sanguine then doth the same paine encrease daily The same happeneth also when the partie is young hath liued easily and if it be in the spring time The signes if the gout procéed of Cholera then is the paine sharpe the place of the paine is yellowish the vrine very red and thin the ordure is also yellow and thin the pulse is swift the heate is great and chiefly on the place of the paine as one may perceiue the same in féeling of it all which doth yéeld more assurance if the patient be young and cholericke of nature and if he haue done great labor before or if the weather be hote he hath taken much hot meat drink If this disease come of Phlegma then is the paine not very great also the part of the paine is not altered of colour the vrine is whitish and thicke the going to stoole is slimie and the bodie in féeling is alwaies cold And this manner of goute is commonly alwaies in bodies which be cold of nature and that in winter time and after a disordered life in eating and drinking In Melancholicke bodies the Gout cometh very seldome wherewith is also great paine the patient will be leane the vrine thin and crude And this happeneth commonly in those bodies which be of a melancholicke nature in the beginning of winter Sometimes this disease procéedeth through wind whereby is a great and excéeding paine the which by windy meates is increased and augmented How the Podagra is to be preuented §. 1. WHen any one doth perceiue and is assured that this his sicknes or disease commeth through heate and that the time be at hand wherein he was wont to be assailed with it then must he before whilest that he is well or in good estate if he will by any kind of meanes be fréed be purged with those medicines which expel Choleram and must refraine wine euen as all Phisitions do aduise and in stead of these vse some thin meade or drinke the decoction of Cinnamom for that meade is not onely good for the Podagra but also requisite for all infirmities of the ioynts But if this gout be caused through hote Cholera then is Barly water rather commended or water wherein Prunes be decocted Item temper fresh well water also with the iuice of Pomgranats This also ensuing may be prepared Take two ounces of Sugar one handfull of Barly Raisins one handfull seeth them together in thrée pints of water vnto the
signes to be found than age as are to be séene in very old folkes Now to come to the remedies of this kind of consumption this patient shall vse as néere as he may all warme and moist things He must often bathe himselfe in fresh warme water and vse many moystening clisters as the broth of Lambes heads of tripes of Hens and the like for these are very commodious for him because they moisten the bowels and refresh and nourish the liuer But you must put hereto neither salt nor any spice that they be not too sharp and may be held in the longer You must also take for this Clister not aboue sixe ounces of broth at once but in foure and twentie houres you are to minister thrée or foure Also the rubbing or bathing of the externall parts after meales is greatly commended and as Hony in the Ague Hectica is very hurtfull so is it in this disease Marasmode very commodious Further all light meates are passing good for him that are not slimie as fresh broth reare egges with a thinne and pleasant wine being measurably vsed and such like Item all the salues plaisters and other things which are prescribed for the Feuer Hectica may also be vsed in this sicknesse But for these diseases speciall héed is to be taken of cold and of all things as in any way consume the radicall humiditie Those that wil haue any further declaration of this infirmity let them reade that which hath bene said in the description of the consumption or feuer Hectica The thirteenth Chapter Of the long lingring Agues THe long continuing of Agues dependeth vpon thrée kinds of causes First when any one hath an outward sore which hardly will be cured Secondly if the patient or the Phisition euer mistake or kéepeth some bad order Thirdly this is also procured by some outward occasion as by the time of the yeare by continuall raine by the nature of the countrey by the vnhailnesse of the dwelling place by great care and troubles of mind But when it is knowne that there are none of these foresaid occasions then must it of necessitie depend on the fourth cause that is on a grosse tough and slimie humor If therefore you will haue remedy against the continuing of Agues then must you cure and take away the foresaid causes with their contraries For that these long continuing Agues are commonly caused by an obstruction of the liuer whereto these things following are principally good to wit sirupus Diarrhodon de Cichorio de Lupulis de Eupatorio de capillo Veneris Oxymel compositum de Bysantijs de Radicibus Item the decoction of Adiantum Harts toong Agrimony Wormewood Endiue Cicorie of all or of some of them The common pestilentiall pilles called Ruffi and Rubarbe Cassie Hiera picra conserue of Prunes Agaricus and sirupe of Roses laxatiue are also excellent good Item you must boile also Parsly roots with your meate the wine shal be mingled with water wherein Cinnamome Annis séed Coriander and Fennell rootes are sodden You must annoint the liuer with the salue that is described in the third part the twelft chapter and third § beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. in which place you shall find many moe other remedies against the obstruction of the liuer through heate and cold For the liuer being deopilated and opened then will the long lingring Ague be easily mitigated The fourteenth Chapter Of swellings that follow after the Ague IT commeth oftentimes to passe that some haue their féete swolne after the long continuing of an Ague then vse a bath to sweate in and take one ounce of the distilled water of Cammomill flowers which hath bene drawne onely out of the yellow séedes of the flowers You must boyle in the water of this bath Sloe leaues and therewithall bathe and sweate In the bathing you shall forbeare from drinke but this bath is more commodious after some phlegmaticke Agues than after any hote Agues and what order of diet is to be obserued after a lingering Ague when the patient beginneth to recouer hath beene sufficiently shewed and declared in the third Chapter and the twelfth § The fifteenth Chapter Of the Plague THis most noisome terrible and perillous malady of the plague is called of the Gréekes Epidemia and of the Latinists Lues Pestis and Pestilentia which last name we also vse This malady is described by Galen after this manner The Plague is a sicknes that doth infect all or at the least very many men and is caused of the venemous ayre Or thus The Plague is a disease that either spéedily killeth or soone forsaketh a man And where such sicknesses get the vpper hand there distresse and misery aboundeth for it hath bene seene by experience that it hath made away men cattel and fowles of the aire yea many thousands of fishes in the waters and that not onely villages and townes haue bene depriued thereby of all their inhabitants but also great cities and countries haue by the same bene made desolate The causes of the Plague §. 1. OF the naturall causes of the Plague there are as many opinions amongst the Philosophers as there are causes that procure it as namely of venemous vapors of the earth that are infected by some earthquakes or if a countrey be hot moyst full of stenches full of lakes or still standing waters and cloyed with stench of dead bodies as it oftentimes befalleth after great wars and slaughters but especially is the aire infected as is abouesaid through sinne whereby it may diuersly be venomed Also when the aire is warme and moist and that it doth raine much in time of heate with a Southerly wind whereof we will not at this present make any further discourse but they that desire to haue any ampler description hereof may reade ouer the Philosophers and other learned Phisitions But howsoeuer this is the most certaine cause of this sicknesse that God the Lord for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse to wit idolatrie incredulitie and ingratitude hath vsed this Plague and many afflictions moe as hunger warre and shedding of blood to punish the foresaid sinnes and transgressions These are his rods and scourges euen the ministers of his wrath to chastice the wicked world as through his Prophets he hath foresaid and threatned the world and as both holy Scriptures and heathen writers testifie that it hath afterward ensued accordingly Signes of the Plague to come §. 2. FIrst it is a certaine signe that the aire is infected and that a plague is to be expected if in the end of the sommer there appeare Comets or any other impressions which men cal flakes of fire starres that fall or shoote and such like in the element which proceede of vapors that are drawne out of the earth into the aire and there are kindled whereby both men and cattell are infected Secondly when any vnaccustomed heape of beasts are séene as of Frogs Toades Grashoppers Mice and Wormes which oftentimes
roote of Mandragora making the people beléeue that they grow vnder the gallowes of the vrine of the hanged theeues hauing the forme of a man is knowne to all men Henbane is called of the Greekes Hyoscyamus and at the Apothecaries Iusquiamus which is almost as much to say as hogs beans and that by reason that this herbe is a deadly poyson for swine if they be not presently well washed and drinke much or do eate Creuets which haue a speciall operation against this poyson This Henbane is of three kinds the one hath red flowers and blacke seede the second hath yellow flowers and yellow seedes and are both by their very cold nature venimous the third hath white flowers and white seeds and is also cold to the third degree which of the Phisitions is very aptly vsed in some causes but if you cannot get the white then take the yellow and leaue the blacke You may make of the new seede a iuice which is dried in the sun but it may not be kept aboue one yeare When you haue taken this iuice then will it make one franticke and as he were drunken but by certaine medicines the same wil quickly away You must take therefore the milke of an Asse or in stead thereof Goats milk or Cowes milke Item Hony water is very good for it if he drinke much thereof when you are weary therof then cease and then drinke againe afresh Water wherein Figs were sodden is also very good for his Cucumber seedes or Pingles sodden in wine and so vsed are good for this purpose Item wine that is somewhat salted and tempered with Barrowes grease is also not ill Item there is very commodious for it Nettle seede Cicorie rootes white Mustard seede Cresses Radishes Onions or Garlicke any one of these taken with wine and then afterwards the patient laid to sleepe euen as one that is drunken Coriander is a knowne seede called in Latin Coriandrum and in Gréeke Corion or Corianon The learned haue diuers opinions of it Dioscorides writeth that it is cold but Galenus and his followers do reiect this opinion and saith that it is hote or at least somewhat warming And albeit this seede be somewhat venimous yet may the same easily be corrected to wit when it hath bene stéeped in Vineger and is dried againe and then may it be vsed in many medicins as you may find euery where c. Take prepared Coriander c. The nature of his venime is that when one eateth too much of this séede or drinketh too much of the iuice then will the head be thereby so out of frame as if a man were drunke it maketh one hoarse and as if he were dumb or if he speake yet are they but vnreuerent words In fine it is not without great danger for it hath bene often found that after the taking of the iuice death hath followed therefore it is good counsell that you vse of this a little and but seldome yea some will correct the Phisitions that daily vse this seede for strengthening of the head by reason that it is much contrarie to the head and noysome Now to take away the venim of this séede you are first to cause the patient to vomit and that with oyle called Irinum or in stead thereof with oyle of Oliues both of them taken with the warme decoction of Wormwood Also you may fry an Eg or two in this oyle and mixe it with pickle of salt fish and so drinke it or the pickle alone well salted Hen-broth or Goose-broth In like sort sodden wine mingled with ley are very good for it Nardus seeds or Nigella séeds called in Gréeke Melanthion and in latin Nigella by reason of his blacknesse There are foure kinds of it two blacke the which by reason of their pleasant smell are planted in the gardens another which groweth of himselfe in the fields the fourth sort is yellowish and hath no difference from the black kinds The nature of them all is hot and drie which maketh them venemous when one taketh too much thereof he is in danger of death And herein is a wondrous work of nature that contrariwise it resisteth poison and in old time by reason of his pleasantnesse was baked in bread For what diseases then this seed is good that is shewed and taught in moe other places Milke thistle This roote the Gréekes cal Chamaeleonta for that the leaues do alter their colour after diuers sorts according to the nature of the ground now black and then greene now blew and then yellow and into diuers other colours In latine this herbe is called Carduus Suarius that is Sowthistle for that it killeth hogs if they eate this herbe mingled with Barley meale In like maner it killeth Rats and Mice if they eate therof and drink not thereafter immediatly The Apothecaries call this herbe Cardopatium Because that this is hurtfull to the said beasts therefore cannot it be but hurtfull to men if they eate too much thereof And the same is manifested by his nature for that it is hot in the second degrée and drie in the third yet this roote is often vsed for many things and highly commended and that most of all against the venome of the Plague There are two sorts blacke and white Milkethistle both of one nature notwithstanding there is here to be noted that the blacke is to be vsed onely outwardly The Yewtrée do the Greekes call Smilax and the Latinists Taxus This tree is well knowne he groweth prosperously in cold and shadowie places for such is his nature That he is placed amongst the venims is not without cause for it hath bene tried that if bottels be made of it and the wine kept therein a certaine time it killeth a man In like maner doth the fruite of the same tree which groweth in Spaine Moreouer it is said that whosoeuer sléepeth vnder the shadow of this trée or vpon the leaues and specially vpon his blossomes must die for that the whole body will be thereby ouercooled that a man must die sodainly His leaues are not hurtfull for the wild beasts but onely for such beasts as do not chew their cud as the swine Horses Asses c. they are killed with it It is said also that if a copper naile be strooke into his stem or body then will his venome vanish away His smoake should kill Mice And his venome will also be taken away by the same meanes that hereafter is prescribed against the venom of Hemlocke where you may séeke and finde the same Wild Cucumbers and their iuice Elaterium whereof is so many times admonished that men must deale with it warily and vse but a very little at one time except it be in grieuous sicknesses as the Dropsie and such like the Gréekes do call this herbe Sicyagrion which is wilde Cucumbers for that the same are like to the tame Cucumbers When these wilde Cucumbers are ripe and softly handled or wroong then breake they open wherfore
speake thereof it doth also amend all debilities the infirmities of the mind and also of the braine Moreouer it strengtheneth also all weaknesse and swounings of the heart it openeth all obstructions of the Lyuer and of the Spleene and mollifieth or suppleth all their hardnesse it openeth the breast and is good against the wheasing and also against the short breath It allayeth the cough and suppleth all rawnesse of the throate it doth prouoke the tough humors to be coughed vp it withstandeth spetting of bloud and swelling vp of the veins It expelleth the yellow Cholera and the Dropsie it healeth all inward diseases and vlcers it asswageth all inward diseases where there is no heate nor ague instant if the same be taken with Wine or otherwise the same must be taken with some other distilled water Likewise it is also good for all bad stomackes it easeth the Consumption it expelleth Wormes and all windinesse of the guts also it is good against all gripings and paine of the guts it is also very fit for all diseases of the Rayns it is very commodious and helping to all them which be vexed with the grauell or the stone for that it expelleth the same it healeth all vlcers of the bladder and all conduits of vrine it expelleth vrine and womens termes in like manner also dead children out of their mothers bodies To all melancholicke which be full of anguish and pensiuenesse without cause and halfe distract of their wits is this giuen with great aduancement In fine it is very good for all lingring sicknesses as the Leprosie old Agues and chiefly Quartain Agues Wherefore it is aduised to such as are to trauell in the cold that euery morning fasting they should take somewhat thereof for that it warmeth the inward parts and defendeth them from all cold It strengtheneth also the lame members and bringeth them againe to their power and when the greatest paine of the Gout is past then is it taken with great aduantage so that it preserueth the bodie from all corruption But here is especially to be noted that this Treacle is not good for young people especially in Sommer time or when it is hote weather if so be that great néed do not require and then shall not aboue halfe a dragme be giuen at once for that it is too strong for such young natures All they that be of middle age it is good for vsed oftentimes so that it cannot here be told how much thereof may be giuen at once The commonest waight is a dragme and if so be that néed require not the same then is seldome any more to be giuen yet according to the importance and abilitie of the person the sicknesse and such like is the same to be augmented or diminished with wine or any other water Theriaca Diatessaron §. 44. THis Confection hath her name of the Grecians for that it is made of foure kinds of things namely in this manner following Take Gentian fresh Bayberries Myrrha and the right Hartwoort of each two ounces stampe all together very small with one pound and a halfe of wel scummed Hony then kéepe it well where you please This Treacle may the common people commodiously vse in stead of the great Treacle for that it withstandeth all pestilentiall Agues and all venime therefore do the people of the countrie also giue it to sicke Cattell and that with very great aduantage It is also good against all diseases of the braines of the sinewes and all sicknesses which procéede of cold as Falling sicknesses Palsey lamenesse and the Crampe it strengtheneth the stomacke and her digestiue power it openeth the Liuer the Spléene and the Kidneys therefore it is also good for the yellow Iaundise the Dropsie it expelleth windinesse and all paine of the guts There may one dragme or one dragme and a halfe be taken thereof to wit in the morning fasting but Cattell must take more of it Triphera §. 45. OF such like Confections are many kinds described of the Phisitions like as we shall shew hereafter The first is Foenonis and is the lesser It is good for all excessiue fluxes for womens termes for the bléeding of the pyles and against all debilitie of the stomacke it causeth all grosse and tough humors to auoid it amendeth the naturall colour it strengtheneth the bladder and stayeth the scourings The other is Triphera magna that is the greater The same is vsed for all cold paine of the stomacke as soone as one hath taken thereof then sweate doth breake out vpon one It is good for all melancholick women which cannot sléepe and they that haue gotten this anguish and vexation through any disease of the Matrix Likewise also for those which be burthened with any slimie matter in the Lights and for all them that spet bloud whether it be beneath or aboue and if that one leaue out the Opium then should the same be good for to aduance the fruitfulnesse of women The third is Triphera Persica which is made of many kinds of things it is good against all agues which procéede out of the stomacke and also against the yellow Iaundise which procéedeth of great heate it openeth all obstructions it amendeth the sight which is infirmed through cholericke vapors it quencheth thirst and defendeth one from all hote sicknesses The fourth is Triphera Saracenica which with her heate strengtheneth the digestion of the stomacke and of the Liuer it consumeth all windinesse of the same it maketh a good breath and is very commodious for the whole bodie it kéepeth a bodie healthie it prouoketh desire of venerie and it obstructeth all the bleeding of the Pyles whereof is from one dragme to thrée dragmes to be taken and that according to the importance of the person Electuarium vitae §. 46. THis is called a Confection of life and is described in the first part the second Chapter and first § Of Ley. §. 47. THe auncient Phisitions as they were very diligent and curious in searching out the vertues of all things thereby to withstand all diseases of mankind so haue they not omitted to search out the nature of Ashes for to discerne of whatsoeuer wood that the same be burnt which should be the most commodious and fit and they haue in truth found no small efficacie and power in them as is shewed here and there in this booke For to make excellent spice or sugar Cakes §. 48. ALbeit that these cakes may be vsed for the strengthening of the stomacke and of the head in Phisicke neuerthelesse they be more eaten of licorousnesse but for their abuse we will not omit their description First take wheate and Rie flowre of each about a pound and a halfe clarified Hony as much as is néedfull for to kneade this flowre to dough then temper amongst it these spices following all beaten small to wit Cinnamom two ounces Greines Nutmegs and Cloues of each halfe an ounce long Pepper one quarter of an ounce Mace and Galingall of
Cloues Bayberries Mace and Cucubes of each one drag the séede of Sorrell of Purslaine red and white Behen and Doronicum of each halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes red and white Corall scraped Iuorie Masticke Spica and Campher of each one scruple burnt Iuorie one dragme powne them all grosse and then powre vpon it tâ—e clarified iuice of Burrage and of Balme of each sixe ounces the iuice of Oranges three ounces let it stéepe certaine daies together stirring it oftentimes about to the end it do not stink afterwards you are to distiâ—l it in seething water then doth it first of all yeeld a water but as soone as you perceiue that it begins to get another colour and that it beginneth to drop slowly then augment your fire and receiue your oyle in another receiuer keepe it well stopt at last set it the space of 20. daies in the Sunne This oyle is somwhat ruddie and smelleth very well so that if one put a drop in a great deale of well water then getteth it a sauour accordingly This oyle doth purge very mildly if one giue halfe a dragme thereof more or lesse according to the qualitie or importance of the patient This oyle is most méetly giuen with goates milke it is also especial good against the Quartana if the patient haue gouerned himselfe well before in his order of dyet In like manner it is also good in all other Agues which the Phisitions do call Putridas it killeth and driueth out the wormes if it be giuen with Purslaine water or with wine This oyle is also especiall good giuen once euery sixe daies against the Pockes it is also good against the rheumes against the paine in the head Cephalalgia against the giddinesse and against the paine of the kidneys it obstructeth womens termes and the fluxe of humane seede It is good against the gout of the féete if once euery fourtéene daies two or thrée drops of this oyle be giuen with the decoction of field Cipers It is also very good against all running Fistulas against all vlcers and against the canker also for all diseases of the places in women and of the matrix if one iniect half a drag thereof with the decoction of Feuerfew it prouoketh also fruitfulnesse The water that commeth out before the oyle hath his vertue also for that it prepareth all humors which cause any sicknesse in the bodie if one once or twice a day take thereof halfe an ounce at each time with thrée ounces of Endiue water Oyle of Roses §. 55. AFter the common fashion is this oyle of Roses prepared and is very méete for diuers matters It is made of Rose buds as the oyle of Cammomill This oyle cooleth much and hath an astringent vertue it is good for all manner of heate of whatsoeuer occasion that the same may be caused vsed outwardly or in clisters inwardly and it strengtheneth also the ioynts which be annointed therewith like as they be ordained for it throughout the whole booke This oyle is made very seldome of white Roses and it cooleth also more than that which is made of red Roses Oyle of Saffron 56. THe oyle of Saffron is not vsed by vs but yet is prescribed in some places of this Booke Oyle of Sandaraca §. 57. THis oyle is also vtterly vnknowne it is but once prescribed in this booke Oyle of Sulphur §. 58. THis oyle of Sulphur is an Alchimisticall oyle and is made in diuers manners some do put one quarter of Amber vnto it other do put Petroleum vnto it In Italy do they take Sulphur vif and powre the vrine of a manchild vnto it so bury it in horse dung and afterwards distill the oyle out of it But after these two maners following is this oyle chiefly made Take 5. pounds of smal beaten Sulphur and temper oyle of Tiles amongst it afterwards lute the helme very tight and and at the first make a small fire afterwards increase it There is gotten out of the foresaid 5. pounds of Sulphur no more than about one ounce of oyle this oyle must with great prouidence be giuen to wit in winter time two drops with vitall waters or Malmsey and in sommer time with Endiue water This oyle doth asswage all griping of the belly whether it be in the vndermost or in the vppermost guts as also all paine of the stomacke which procéedeth of wind and cold humors the same may also well be vsed outwardly It is likewise very good annointed in the childrens mouthes when they haue the canker or any stinking vlcer in the mouth Further warts 〈◊〉 also taken away with it and it maketh the téeth white To make the other oyle of Sulphur Take Sallad oyle and powre therin a good deale of smal powned Sulphur let it stand so long vpon the fire vntill that all the sulphur be cleane melted stirring it well about then are you to quench gloing péeces of coales in it vntill the oyle be thoroughly sunken into the tyle stones This being done powne these stones and put them alone in the helme the rest that ouerfloweth and also the Sulphur is to be done away and then distill further all that is put into the helme The first oyle that cometh out of it doth appeare somwhat bleake in the helme and when it beginneth to be white then set another receiuer vnder it This oyle séemeth to guild if it be annointed vpon Iron or vpon any other thing Oyle of blew Flower-deluce §. 59. THis oyle is to be made like the oyle of Lillies but it will be somewhat strengthened through the rootes it is somewhat strong but it asswageth all paine and melloweth all swellings it is especiall good against all hardnesse of the ioynts it warmeth the Matrix driueth away the crampe and taketh away all paine and sissing of the eares lastly it doth withstand the canker of the nose Oyle of Scorpions §. 60. BEcause that we God be praised haue no Scorpions in Eugh therefore is the oyle brought vnto vs out of Italy and is made thus Take tenne or twelue Scorpions cast them in twelue ounces of oyle of bitter Almonds and so set it fiue or sixe wéekes in the Sunne afterwards straine it and kéepe it for to vse This oyle breaketh the stone of the bladder and of the rains and it driueth the same also out if it be annointed vpon the raines and vpon the priuities or if it be iniected into the bladder lastly it is also good for many other things moe c. Oyle of water Lillies §. 61. THis oyle is made as wel of the yellow as of the white water Lillies but vnripe Sallad oyle is taken for it and it is made as the oyle of Violets The oyle of the white water Lillies hath also the same vertue with the oyle of Violets but that it is somewhat colder but not altogether as cold as that of Poppy heads wherfore these oyles are commonly tempered with other oyles according to the qualitie of the disease
see Inflammation Heate vnnaturall in the plague 673 Heate vnnaturall 680 Heate of the head with Melancholy 34 Herbes roots and flowers how to preserue them 6. Herbes when they ought to be gathered ibid. Herbes and rootes how to be reserued ibid. Herbed wines prepared 708. 784. Hermodactyles vsed 12 Hickcoughes in generall 378 Hickcoughes description ibid. Hickcough of repletion and windinesse 379 Hickcough of inanition 380 Hiera logodion 732 Hiera picra prepared 731 Hipocras or Claret wine how to make it 708 Hipocras fontis 709 Hoarsnesse 185 Hony water prepared 92. 728 Hony of Roses 165 Horsleaches prepared 11 Horsleaches vsed 27 Humane seeds vnnaturall effluxion look running of the raines Humane seed increased 294 Humors melancholicke how to purge 414 Hunger Cow-hunger or Bulimos 382 Hunger called Hounds hunger 381 Hunger lost remedied 334. 335 Hunger with swouning called Syncopalis 384. Hunger vnsatiable 381 I. ILiaca passio a griping in the vppermost small guts 421 Impostumation of the gums 173 Impostume of the Matrix harde to be cured 496. An hard impostume of the Kidneyes 444 Impostumes in the nose 95 Impostumes of the stomacke of colde nature 375. Impostume of the bladder 473 Impostume of the Liuer looke Liuers impostume Impostume of the necke of the Bladder 473 Impostume of the necke of the Mother looke Mothers impostume Impostume of the Spleene looke Spleenes impostumes Impostume of the stomacke 374 Inappetencie or lost appetite how remedied 334. Inke how to make it 781 Infections of the liuer diuersly cured 395 Infection of the Plague 66â— Signes thereof ibid Infected with the Plague how to comfort 670 And what things else are to be obserued 67â— Infected how to be purged 673 Inflammation in womens places 289 Inflammation of vlcers 573 Inflammation Erysipelas 562 the signes and remedies thereof ibid. Ioynts hardnesse 541 Ioynt disease called Arthritis 529. 530. 531 Ioynt-ach or paine in generall 527 Ischia the hips Gout 531 Itchednesse or scabbednesse 556 Itch in the fundament 317 Itch of the hands 521 Iuice of wild Cucumbers prepared 11 Iuices of herbes flowers and rootes prepared 13. Iuice of Sloes prepared 14 Iulep prepared 729 Iulep of Roses how made 396 Iulep of Violets ibid. Iulep for the obstructed Liuer through heate 387. Iuorie prepared 11 K. KEepers of the infected with the plague what to obserue 680 Kidneyes description 439 Kidneyes exulcerated 445. 447 Kidneyes exulcerated outwardly 450 Kidneyes impostume 444 Kidneyes impostume through cold 447 Kidneyes impostume through heate 446 Kidneyes obstructed 441 Kidneyes paine of heate 442 Kidneyes paine of cold 439 Kidneyes paine of heate eased 442. 443 Kidneyes paine of windes 441 Knees description 525 L. LAc Virginis that is Maiden milke prepared 57. Lacca prepared 12 Laetificans Almansoris 132 Lamenesse looke Palsey Lamenesse caused by the Pockes 574. 575 Laske 343 Laske called Tenasmus 366 Laske with parbraking looke Vomiting with a scouring Laske Lienteria proceeding of choler 344 Laske Diarrhaea 347 Laske of the liuer 351 Laske that is bloudie looke Bloudy flixe Laske that is bloudie another kind 358 Laske remedied 343. 344. 347. Laurels vse 15 Lead prepared 9 Leannesse remedied 617 Leprosies description signes and causes 582 583. Leprosies remedies 584. 585. 586. c. Leprosies of all sorts what is requisite 591 Legs described 524 Legs Varices ibid. Letting of blood looke Blood letting Lice killed 50 Lice a water for them 50 Lice salue looke Salue for lice Lights description see Lungs Lights obstructed 225. 227 Limmes extenuated or withered 537 Limmes vnsensiblenesse 551 Limmes shaking or nummednesse looke Members Lips chapped 115 Lips described 115. 116 Lips trembling 116 Liuers description 384 Liuer diuersly remedied 395 Liuer of a Wolfe prepared 15 Liuer of a Bucke prepared 91 Liuers diseases in generall 385 Liuers obstruction in generall ibid. Liuers obstruction of cold 389 Liuers obstruction of heate 316 Liuers hardnesse or schirrositie 392 Liuer ouercold ibid. Liuers impostume 393 Liuers paine 385 Loathing of meate 337 Lothing of meate in Agues 631 Loch de Pulmone vulpis described 239 Loch de Cancris 254 Loch of Squils 231 Loch de Pino ibid. Loch sanum expertum ibid. Longings of women with child 505 Losinges diuersly prepared 201 Losinges for the cough and rheume diuersly prepared ibid. Losse of tasting 168 Losse of speech 173 Lousie euill 50 Lungs description 225 Lungs exulceration called Empyema 248 Lungs infection called Peripneumonia ibid. Lungs stopped 225. 227 Luxation of the ioynts 536 M. MAdnesse 124. 130. Madnesse called Mania 118. 124. Madnesse called Melancholia 124 Mad mens dwelling place 127 Mans body deuided into foure parts 605 Maidens milke 57 May cheese 728 Manna vsed 12 Manus Christi with Pearles 16. 45. Marchpane prepared 739 Markes and spots in the skin 601. 602 Marmalade diuersly prepared 721 Marrow of diuers beasts prepared 11 Matrix description 474. 475 Matrix canker and vlcer 498 Matrix vse in women 474 Matrix suffocation or ascension 489 Matrix impostume how remedied 496 Matter made with the vrine 449 Meade for the oppression of the breast 236 Meade how to make it 532. 740 Measles or the Red-gumme in children 553 554. Medicamen de Turbith 362 Melancholy 124. 130 Melancholicke humors how to bee purged 419. Melancholia hath in the body a certaine place 603. 605. Melicraton 740 Members accidents 548 Members extenuated 539 Members luxation looke Luxation Members lamed 600 Members numbed 551 Members shaking ibid. Members strained or bruised 548 Memories description 118 Memory strengthened 120 Mettals that are venemous looke Venemous mettals Methridate 733 Mezereon her description 14 Milkes abundance 204 Milke curded or clotted 207 Milkes description 205 Milke in women defected ibid. Milkes superfluitie 206. 418 Milt see Spleene Mirobalans prepared 12 Mirobalans vsed 122 Mischance in women with child 508 Mischance preuented 509 Miseries of mankind three causes 3 Miseries of mans life 1 Miseries of new borne babes 2 Miua 355 Miua Citoniorum aromatica ibid. Mola an vnshapen peece of flesh in the mother 500. Moles or markes that children are borne withal 602. Mothers canker or vlcer 290. 498 Mothers descension 491 Mothers description 288. 474. 475 Mothers impostume 495 Mothers necke conuulsed ibid. Mothers paine of winds 493 Mothers paine of cold 494 Mothers paine of heate 495 Mothers schirrositie or hardnesse ibid. Mothers suffocation look suffocation of the Matrix Mothers vse in women 474 Mouthes description 161 Mouthes conuulsion 145 Mouthes exulceration 161. 162 Mouth stinking 163 Murre described 97 Murre cured ibid. Muscilage looke Slime Muscles and lacerts described 615 Mustard seede prepared 14 N. NAiles of hands and feete described 525 Napta 603 Narcotica vsed 428 Naturall warmth of man described 607 Nauels description 273 Neckes description 187 Neesing of a cold rheumaticke head 42 Neesing what it is ibid. Neesings causes ibid. Neesing powder ibid. Neesing wort or Hellebors vse 13 Nipples chapped 211 Noses canker 94. 95. 97 Noses description 93 Nose exulcerated 93. 95 Nose obstructed 93 Nose obstructed in children
95 Noses excrescence of flesh ibid. Noses impostume ibid. Noses infection called Polipus 97 Nummednesse 16 Nutmegs preserued 717 O. OIle of Saint Iohns wort 745 Oiles for the stomack in vomiting and scouring 341. 344 Oile of Antimonie of Steele and Iron 751 Oile of Amber 741 Oile of Abrecocke kernels 745 Oile of Cammomill 743 Oile of Capers ibid. Oile of Costus 142. 743 Oile of Beuercod 742 Oile of Egs. 49. 744 Oile of Euphorbium 744 Oile of Annis seedes ibid. Oile of blew Flowerdeluce 750 Oile of Roses 749 Oile of Sulphure ibid. Oile called Hypobalsamum 143 Oile of Mandragora 741 Oile of Rubarbe 784 Oile of Marierom gentle 747 Oile of Scorpions 750 Oile of Cloues 747 Oile of Pepper 748 Oile of Rue ibid. Oile of water Lillies 750 Oile of Spikenard ibid. Oile of Elderne flowers 745 Oile of Violets 751 Oile of Nutmegs 747 Oile of Vitrioll 752 Oile of the seeds and flowers of Poppie 746 Oile of Earthwormes 530. 748 Oile of Dill. 743 Oile of Linnen cloth 746 Oile of Lead 742 Oile of Mastike 331 Oile of Foxes 212. 744 Oile of the blossoms of Walnut trees 114 Oile of Wormewood 753 Oile of Oliues 8. 742 Oile of Poplar buds 741 Oile of Iuniper berries 752 Oile of Tiles 102. 753 Oile of Quinces 331 Oile of sweete Almonds 364. 746 Oile of Lillies 744 Oile of Hempseed ibid. Oile of diuers kinds ibid. Oile of bitter Almonds 746 Oiles diuers moe to be prepared 744. 745. 746. 747. c. Oile of Copperas 745 Oyntment of Roses described by Mesues 32. Ointment in Consumption 255 Oyntments or oyles for all colde stomackes 330. Opium prepared and vsed 13 Order of diet in the Rupture 287 Order of diet in the headach of heate 35 Order of diet in a cold headach 43 Order of diet for watering and running eyes 71 Order of diet in bleeding at the nose 98 Order of diet in diseases of the eares 105 Order of diet for weake memorie 119 Order of diet in the sleeping disease 135 Order of diet in the dead Palsey 147 Order of diet in the falling euill 152 Order of diet in Bronchocele 187 Order of diet in colde rheumes 198 Order of diet in the Pleurisie of heate 218 Order of diet in the spetting of bloud 246 Order of diet in the Consumption 252 Order of diet in the debilitie of the heart 259 Order of diet in swounings 261 Order of diet in the Pyles 305 Order of diet in the paine and windinesse of the stomacke 332 Order of diet in a hardned Spleene 414 Order of diet in the inuoluntary effluxion of vrin 464. Order of diet for women with child 504 Order of diet in the Canker 572 Order of diet in the Leprosie 584 Order of diet in hot Agues 628. 629 Order of diet for them that recouer after a long sicknesse 633 Order of diet in the Plague 679 Order of diet for them that are bitten with a mad dog 699 Order of diet for giddinesse of the head 124 Order of diet for those that are pursiue 234 235. Order for them that recouer from the Plague or any lingring sicknesse 680 Order of diet for an hote impostume of the Kidneyes 446 Order of diet in falling downe of the Pallet 167. Order of diet in the Ague Synochus 641 Order of diet in hote rheumes 202 Order of diet in obstruction of the liuer 391 Order of diet for outward vlcers of the kidneies 451. Order of diet for the grauell and stone 464 Order of diet for the dropsie 407 Oxycroceum Vigonis 213 Oxycraton 753 Oxymel diuersly prepared 44 Oxymel of Squils 38 Oxysacchara prepared 94 P. PAlsey or Paralysis 134. 135. 137 Palsey through fals or blowes 144 Pallet of the throate falling downe 166. 167 Pallets description 166 Paine in the head looke Headach Paine in the eyes looke Eyes paine Paine in the eares looke Eares paine Paine in the teeth looke Toothach Paine in the ioynts looke Ioyntach Paine in the backe looke Backe paine Paine of the Pyles looke Pyles pained Paine of the stomacke looke Stomacke Paine in the left side vnder the short ribs looke Spleene pained Paine in the right side vnder the short ribs looke Liuer pained .. Paine in the Kidneyes 443 Paine in the mother through cold 494 Paine in the same through heate 495 Paine in the hips or Sciatica through heate and cold 533. 534 Paine of the Podagra or Gout of the feete 545. Paine in the Pockes of long continuance 580 Paine in the throate through Phlegma and colde taking 193 Paine in the teeth through outward causes 177 178. Palsey that is shaking 137 Palsey that is dead 139. 140 Paine in the bowels looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly remedied 428 Paine in the belly of yong children 431 Paine in the Kidneyes 442. 443 Paine of retention of vrine 466 Paine of the Mother 493 Paine of the ioynts an especiall remedie 550 Paine of wounded sinewes remedied 612 Paines description 367. 368. 619 Parbraking with a laske looke vomiting Patients before whose eyes Gnats seeme to appeare what to refraine 83 Pearle of the eye 78 Peaches preserued 355. 719 Peares preserued 712 Pearles prepared 9 Pectorall potion prepared 229 Pectorall salue ibid. Pestilentiall Agues looke Agues pestilentiall Phlebotomies cause and commoditie 20 Phlebotomie forbidden 21 Phlegmes description 603. 605. 619 Phisickes commendation 4 Phisicall bookes diuision 5 Phisickes description 4 Phisickes necessitie ibid. Phisicke is a sure pawne ibid. Phisicke waights 29 Pyles called Verrucales 312 Pyles called Haemorrhoides 304 Pyles that hang farre out 312 Pyles that bleede ouermuch looke bleeding 306. 308. Pyles opened 309 Pyles their paine 310 Pils pestilentiall 662 Pils Indae prepared 413 Pils for all kinds of laskes and the termes in women 357 Pils that moue vrine 398 Pils for the plague especiall good 663 Pils of Amber 324 Pils of diuers kinds 755 Pils to preserue health 237 Pils to bind 350 Pils for the Gout of Charles the Emperor 542 Pissing of blood 448 Pissing of matter looke Matter made by vrine Pith prepared 8 Places in women described 288 Places exulcerated by copulation 289. 290 Plague 653. 654. 655. c. Plague described ibid. Plague cured 668. 669. c. Plagues causes and signes 653 Plague preuented 654 Plague sore or Carbuncle 564 Plague sore what 564. 65 whence it proceedeth ibid. when it appeareth how to be remedied 675. 676. 677. Plague sore not appearing what is to be done 678. Plaister Diachilon how made 518 Plaisters in the rheumes 198 Plaister Basilicum 565 Plaister for the headach 31 Plaister de Muscilaginibus 64 Plaister to heale the corner of the eyes 77 79. Plaister for the rednesse of the eyes 69 Plaister for watering eyes and cold rheumes 72. 74. 200. Plaister of Bayberries 329 Plaister called the Blacke plaister 567 Plaister of Falkenstone 569 Plaisters for Rupture 277 Plaister Gratia Dei 566 Plaister for wounds 598 Plaister called Emplastrum Griseum 610 Plaister Apostolicum 313 Plaister de
is weakened so that it is not strong enough for to vnburthen her selfe of the superfluities Or that there be any maladie in the Matrix or mother to wit if the necke of the wombe be stopt and obstructed and is swolne too like as it may easily happen in the mother or in the veines of the same Now for to haue some certaine or infallible knowledge of these things there may outward causes be easily perceiued by the declaration of the patient her selfe If it come through weakenesse of the expulsiue power then is it perceiued by the heate by the thirst by the swift and strong pulse and other signes of heate But if such be caused through cold then is the woman bleake sléepie without any thirst the arteries of the pulse beate slowly and the vrine is of lothsome colour If the disease be of any inward part then doth the whole bodie declare the same through the great fatnesse or leannesse If such be caused through any of the foure humors that doth the blood sufficiently shew which therein beareth sway This obstruction doth bring to women no small sicknesse besides that as it is said they be barren for that they fall thereby otherwhiles into Maniam which is madnes into the falling sicknesse suffocation swellings and impostumes of the wombe and of the other parts adiacent vnto it slothfulnesse and heauinesse of the whole body great vnlustinesse wambling and parbraking coughing and a heauy breathing the dropsie and detension of the vrine and of going to the stoole heauines of the mind great paine of the head and at last into the gout And to remedie all these diseases therefore will we first of all prescribe certaine common rules whereof the first is in case that the Termes be obstructed in a drie bodie then must one beware of all those things that might cause either heate or dryth to the end the disease be not increased thereby The second is if in the stay or detension of womens flowers the bloud had course towards any other part of the bodie then is it aduised that the same blood be drawne out which otherwise might be spoyled Thirdly to preferre these flowres it is then néedfull that the veines be opened vnder the Matrix that the blood may be drawne downewards Fourthly there is meete for this the strong binding of the thighes and to hold the same a certaine time bounden Fiftly if the disease come for that the veines be stopt in the Matrix be it of whatsoeuer occasion that it will then is the blood to be diminished by opening of a veine and to be diminished through laxatiue medicines through abstinence through exercise and such like meanes Sixtly all strong things as Hellebore Euphorbium and Nardus séed which is wont sometimes to be adhibited from below must be but a very little and not to be holden long therein to the end that thereby the Ague nor any other anguish be caused Seuenthly all that moueth the vrine doth also moue the Termes Eightly where there is obserued no good order of diet in eating or drinking there can also no good aduice nor remedie doe any good at all Ninthly for to preferre the Termes is first of all the same to be approoued through gentle remedies and at the last through stronger meanes Tenthly all warme and well sauoring things are very meete for this if they be layed vpon the nauell vpon the priuities and vpon the parts about it Eleuenthly if this disease be caused through any vlcer impostume Ague or any other cause it is first to be practised how to remedie and afterwards to moue the flowres Twelftly in case it be perceiued that this detention of the flowres or termes doth cause any other sicknes or increaseth it then is all diligence to be had to prouoke the Termes and if fo be that the same cannot be effected then may the veine be opened in the foote and boxing cuppes be adhibited Thirtéenthly because there is a great space from the stomacke and the liuer vnto the Matrix then is the Phisicke so to be tempered that the same in so great a distance be not inféebled Fourtéenthly all that is to be put vp into the wombe is to be tied to a strong thréed that one when he list may draw it out and to the end also that through the long continuance there it bruse not the necke of the mother or cause not an Ague And to the end that we may come to the remedies for to open this obstruction therefore first of all be the causes of these obstructions to be thought vpon in case that the same be caused of some outward accident like as of too great labour great heate of too much fasting and such like then is the same presently to be preuented In hote causes are cooling things to be vsed in cold warming things which do open the obstructions In a bodie that is full of blood are the veines vnder the knees to be opened which be most necessary to people that haue not the terms and if so be that horeby and other moe lettings of blood is nothing profited then is one to come to the inward and outward remedies wherein be thrée manner of wayes to be followed which shall be here described of which each one may chuse what séemeth to be the best and fittest for it And because that it is not bad counsel to rehearse and shew the simples which may stirre vp the termes therefore we wil here discouer a good part of them and first all that be warme by nature and are weakest are these the rootes of Smallage of Fennell of Butchers broome of Sperage of Parsley of Grasse Madder Calmus Asarabacca Ireos Valerian white Diptamus and Elecampane rootes Item the séede of Ruscus Lupins séedes of both kinds of Parsley of Siluer mountaine of Sperage of Smallage of Annis of Fennell of Comin whether it be raw or confected the herbes are these Cinquefoile Mugwort wild Mints Marierom Feuerfew Harts toong Spikenard Wormewood white water Mints Iuniper wild Thyme Louage Cuscuta Maidenhaire Southernewood and washt Turpentine These ensuing be much stronger as Hemlocke Rue Centorie Laureola Sauin Euphorbium Ammoniacum Sagapenum Mirrha Opopanacum and Assafoetida the séede of Nardus Mustard séede Pepper Beuercod Colloquint blacke Hellebore Pieretrum Calmus rootes of Celandine the iuice of wild Cucumbers Licebane séedes Boras the galles of stéeres of hens and of all other beasts The odoriferous things which preferre womens termes be these Indie Spica Cinnamom Cassie wood Costus roots Ameos Muscus Spica Romana Squinant Gallia Muscata and such like They that may be burnt to receiue the vapor thereof be these viz. Opopanacum Saponaria Frankinsence Blatta Byzantia Lignum Aloes and red Storax These be now the cooling things which preferre the termes to wit the séeds of small Endiue the séede of Melons of Gourds of Pompeons of Cucumbers of Endiue of Lettice c. and other moe which shall be discouered hereafter of all which pessaries may be