in the wounds of the Breast Veronica or Speedwell ought to have it in those about the Kidneys the Herb Strawberry must be preferred in those near the Liver Agrimony will have the precedency and so forth Mean time the Vulnerary Herbs to be used in such occasions are these Sanicle Winter-green Ladies-mantle Speedwell Orpine Mugwort Ground-ivy Strawberry-leaves Agrimony St. Johns-wort Cinquefoil Bugle Tormentil Snakeweed Avens Woodrooff c. You may make an excellent Wound-drink of these four Ingredients viz. Winter-green Orpine Mugwort and Snakeweed boiled in half wine and water but in case there be an inflammation wine is to be forborn or very little of it to be employed If any Bone be broken into splinters do not pull them out with any violence but loosen them with a good Ointment of Eggs keeping the wound open the longer Nature herself will not suffer any splinter to remain behind Now you must be ready with some good thing for blood coagulated in case any person should have been flung down squeesed beaten or fallen from a high place The right powder for this purpose is thus made Take of Terra Sigillata or Bol Armeniac Sanguis Draconis and Mumia ana half an ounce of Sperma Ceti and Rhubarbana half a drachm reduce it to a powder of which give the Patient the weight of about a ducat in wine or chervil-water Or take a good quantity of Chervil boil it in meath or flesh-broath and let the Patient drink a good draught of it warm three times a day Or let him drink a thimble full of Sperma Ceti in beer adding a little butter to it Or take of Mumia half an ounce of Sperma Ceti two drachms of Oculi Cancrorum of which the blew ones which sometimes fall from Crafishes whilst alive are the best three drachms adding to it a little Licorish and Cinnamon and some Tormentil-roots Of this pulverised give every day to the Patient mornings and evenings the weight of about half a ducat and by this means you will expel purulent matter and blood and bony splinters and sometimes even bullets lurking in the flesh not omitting other good Wound-drinks and vulnerary Balsoms Plaisters Ointments and Fomentations Again take of the red Hounds-tongue Ointment of the bigness of a great Walnut dissolve it in warm broath it expels all coagulated blood especially if you mix some Sperma Ceti with it If you have any thorns thistles bullets small shot or the like to draw out where perhaps you cannot reach them with Instruments then burn live Crafishes in a new pipkin until they be reducible to powder but burn them not to ashes This powder mix with Hares-suet and lay it on and you will find a good effect Also take the roots of the big Reed that grows in marishes dry them to be pulverised and mix Virgin-honey with it and lay it upon the part and of the same powder give the Patient to drink twice a day the weight of half a ducat in wine or in broath or in a vulnerary potion if you have any at hand The first of this I learned of the Excellent Doctor Schleer of Constance The excrement of a Gander being applied is also powerful in drawing out Iron Again Quince-wine mingled with vineger and putting some saffron and gun powder amongst it if you give it to one that hath been shot it will do him good Otherwise they make a plaister of the roots of Cumfrey Aron Polypody Juniper and dried Radishes all reduced to powder and mix it with Hares-suet and grey Diachylum making a thick Ointment of it and spreading it over a piece of Hare-skin and so laying it on This is greatly praised especially when seconded with good Wound-drinks of which Masterwort is one of the Ingredients But if you have not this at hand take a Beet and boil it in wine and lay it warm on the wound Likewise young Swallows not yet fledge burnt to powder and this powder made by acetum of Roses into a pulse and laid on does the same You ought also to be provided for the Synovia And if you proceed aright with my Wound-balsom above described and keep the wound warm you may therewith do much good Mix with it ex abundanti the red Earth of Vitriol above discours'd of This Synovia is a dangerous thing and often causeth almost intollerable pain if it be not well handled the Herb of Straw-berries and its Juyce have great vertue in this case Some make use of the White of Eggs Bol Armeniac and the like The Magistery of Allum also belongs hither for Allum mixed with vineger and clapp'd on very warm allays it also Elder-blossoms likewise used every way are effectual in the same case Employ also diligently such Defensive-plaisters as are not fatty because fat lays no hold on water To proceed to Burnings I know almost no better Salve for burning than this Take a Tench or any common Pond-fish fry one or more of them with good butter pour the fatness upon cold water in a broad earthen part and you have an excellent Ointment against Burnings When some years since a Powder-mill was blown up and the Attendants upon the work so miserably burnt that they looked as if they had been rosted they were healed with this Ointment only a little finely powder'd Sage being mixt with it Cream and Linseed-oyl mingled together and raggs moisten'd therein put upon the burnt part healeth though the burning were made with Aquafortis for to my knowledge a certain Chymist that had thus burnt all his arm was thereby restored Or take Oyl of Elder or stale Oyl that hath been long in a burning lamp beat half as much as you take of that of the Whites of Eggs amongst it and anoint the burnt part therewith If you can get no Oyl of Elder take any other cooling Oyl as of Nymphaea Water-lillies Poppy-seeds Violets or Roses or the Oyl of Poplar-buds or of Marâ—h-marigold Flowers If you can have Quince-wine it marvailously extinguishes the burning of any shot dipping a linnen pledget in it and drawing it through the wound or left in it repeating this every twelfth hour The Juyce or Wine of Quinces must be used as it comes from the fruit without any mixture of Sugar This I learn'd from a Nobleman a great Souldier of long experience in the Wars of France the Low Countries and Hungary The Unguentum Jovis made of Henbane Vervain and Butter is also very useful for this purpose Likewise the Ointment of Calx viva which is first six or seven times to be slaked and dulcified with pure water pouring every twelve or sixteen hours fresh water upon it and decanting the former so as to leave always the Calx at the bottom which is then to be mixed with Oyl of Roses or some other cooling Oyl for an Ointment If you be well acquainted with Elder and know how to use it you may obtain out of it one of the best Cures of Burnings especially out of its
it else it will cast you into great faintness The Juyce of the Roots of blew Lillies hath the like vertue but is likewise to be used with great discretion Otherwise take Earth-worms and having wash'd them clean in Wine reduce them to powder and take of it for some mornings the weight of half a drachm in warm Broath or Wine mixing a little Rhubarb with it The Swelling of your Leggs may be removed by heating some Tiles and sprinkling them with Wine and clapping them about your Leggs to make them sweat For a swelled Groin take warm Milk wherein Calamus Aromaticus hath been boiled and sweeten it well with Sugar and apply it CHAP. VII Of all sorts of Fluxes as also the Tenasmus or vain endeavour of going to stool and the Hemorrhoid or Riles and Marisca's or sore Fundaments IN Wars and Camps Bloody and other Fluxes are very frequent caused by an irregular and ill dyet and these Distempers especially the Bloody Flux carry away abundance of Men. Where it is to be noted that the Bloody Flux is infectious and very catching Common Fluxes and Loosenesses may easily be cured Amongst other Remedies take burnt Harts-horn and take it often in Broath or pulverise Medlar-kernels and take of the powder in Broath likewise Also an Electuary made of Quinces and Sloes will cure them The same does Nutmeg and the Roots of Tormentil Snakeweed or the Roots of Cinquefoil baked in Eggs and eaten Likewise the Seed of Dock broad Plantain item Terra Sigillata or Bolus Armenus and Wheaten-bread coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red Wine and eaten Again Mastick pulverised and put into Almon-milk red Wine or Broath the weight of a drachm is good for such a Looseness especially as comes from indigestion adding a little Nutmeg or Galingal to it Oaken-leaves also or the Rinds of Pear-trees with a little Mace boiled in Wine and drunk cureth common Fluxes Again Bursa Pastoris Shepherds-Purse boiled in Steel-water with a little Coriander and drunk is also very good and so are Crafishes boiled in Vinegar and the scales beaten to powder taking a drachm of it mornings and evenings either in red Wine or in Broath wherein red-hot Steel hath been several times quenched Hawes also boiled and made into a thick Electuary and strained is beneficial if taken in the morning fasting and an hour or so before supper the quantity of a Walnut Besides take new Milk with its Cream on it quench therein divers times red-hot Pebble-stones so that the Milk may grow hot of it then mix with it two or three well-beaten Yolks of Eggs two ounces of Sugar melting in it an ounce and an halt of the Suet of a Deer or Stagg and about half an ounce of Album-graecum using it for a Clyster which cleanseth and healeth the Guts and allays the sharpness of the Blood and other corrosive humors that annoy the Bowels But take heed of not stopping too suddenly the Bloody Flux or any other Laske for if you do the annoyance will remain in the Body and cause Impostumes Difficulty of breathing and other dangerous Distempers Wherefore consult with thy strength and if that be considerable make not too much hast yet keep a bridle upon it so as to be able to stop it when there is need Mean time if it be without a Fever or heat you may do much with new Milk drinking it also mornings and evenings warm some red-hot Stones having been quenched therein and some Sugar mixed with it to prevent curdling in your Stomach This Medicine was known to the famous Grecian Physitians Aetius Alexander Trallianus and Galenus himself l. 10. de Simpl. Med. facult If you add a little Album-graecum to it 't will be the better I have my self done much good with thus prepared Milk but then there must be no Fever which if there be you 'l easily perceive it by a great thirst quick pulse hot hands and little sleep c. For Bloody Fluxes are not wont to be accompanied with shaking Fevers but only with hot fits which spend more of the Patients strength in an hour than shaking Agues in several days which is to be well heeded Eggs boiled hard in Vineger and given to the Patient that is troubled either with the Bloody or any other Flux it will be stopped The Roots of Tormentil or of Snake-weed pulverised and this powder drunk in a convenient vehicle the weight of a drachm is one of the most approved remedies against these Fluxes Tormentil-roots being very powerful not only to stop them but also to take away their carching malignity The Moss that grows on wild Rose-shrubs reduced to powder and taken in Wine wherein have been boiled the husks of Acorns is an approved remedy in this case Scrape red Lead or Rudle such as Carpenters mark their lines with put it into Wine or Broath wherein hath been boil'd the broader kind of Plantain and Tormentil-roots or take it in an Egg. Hares-blood dried and taken inwardly is also a tried Medicine in this Distemper Item open a new-laid Egg take out the white and fill it up with Nutmeg or the pulverised root of Tormentil or of Snake-weed and give it the Patient to eat or put into it some pulverised Blood-stone and it will do good I have used with good success the Seed of the broader Plantain grosly beaten and rosted in an Egg against the Flux and I know it also to have been beneficially used against the Bloody Flux Take of Mummy a little Mastic Bol Armeniac Sanguis Draconis mix them together and make a powder of them and take of it in a convenient liquor the weight of a drachm once or twice a day Take Rye-biscuit and boil it in water with Coriander and the roots of Tormentil or of Cranes-bill quench some Steel in it once or twice and give of it to the Patient to drink Make a Decoction of Shepherds-purse and Meadow-sweet in water and wine and now and then drink of it Burn live Crasishes in an earthen Pipkin well-closed until they be so burnt as to be reduced to powder of which give to the Patient mornings and evenings a thimble-full or two in a convenient liquor A dried Liver of a sucking Lamb or of any other such Animal is very good in this case provided such a Liver before 't is dried be boiled in Vineger Let the Patient take a drachm of it twice a day Also the Blood of a Lamb or of a Hind both dried will have here a good effect Take a Pigeon Wood-cock or Partridge and having drawn any of them fill them with Mastic and a little Nutmeg and so rost them on a spit and whilst they are rosting baste them with red wine and so let them rost till they grow so hard as will make them pulverable then reduce them or any of them to powder and take a spoonful of it at a time in warm broath The highest Experiment in this case is Crocus Martis taken in the Juyce of
or the like and it will become a fine gray Salve curing such running Scabs as aforesaid and cooling also Inflammations If your Body be bound take Sage pulverised and mix it with grease and anoint your Navil with the quantity of a hasel-nut of it This I have with very good success advised to women in childbed that were thus bound and obstructed If you will have it stronger mix with it the Gall of a Fish or of any Animal whatsoever but then you must not give it to a woman in childbed Gromel by the Latins call'd Milium Solis pulverised and the weight of half a ducat of it taken in wine or broath provoketh urine yet must the belly be open'd first The same doth Linaria or Toad-flax boiled in wine or broath Likewise distilled water of Radishes repeating the distillation several times from other fresh Radishes Which will have the better effect if the Patient bath his lower parts in a bath made of Marsh-mallows Melilot and the like Gromel above-mention'd taken in warm broath expels the birth And so do the blossoms or buds of Walnut-trees Crabs-eyes also pulverised and taken in warm broath likewise Issop boiled in wine and drank warm This I have inserted for the sake of poor Souldiers-wives who amongst us often follow the Camp If they have any great After-pains let them bath their lower parts in a Bath made of Dill and Camomil-flowers And the yolks of hard Eggs beaten together with some convenient Oyl Nut-oyl is the best and a Plaister made of it and laid to the belly is also very good If they have too great a profusion of blood let them take a drachm of burnt Harts-horn and burnt Ivory in a convenient Vehicle In case of a mortal wound take of pure Turpentine four ounces wash it with fresh limpid water and then dissolve it over a mild fire which done mix with it two ounces or two ounces and an half of white Wax dissolved apart To this add about three ounces of Womans-milk which is sucked by a Boy The Turpentine and Wax being somewhat cooled together must be well stirr'd and then powred on cold Vineger whence when 't is brought to a consistence it is to be taken off and made into a Plaister and so laid on Horse-tail in Latin Equisetum heals the wounds in the urinary parts the powder of it being taken in broath or Speedwel-water or the Decoction thereof being drank Gummi Ammoniac is a good discutient of hard Tumors and Knobs Tacamahaca appeaseth pain proceeding from cold being laid on the part affected To make the pellets used to be put in wounds that are to be kept open which here in Germany we call Quell-maissel take a Spunge of the finest sort put it in Whites of Eggs well beaten and mixed with Rose-water to make the said Spunge imbibe this moisture Which done bind it close together with thred and let it well dry in the Air and so convey of it into the wound that is to be kept open where it will swell again and so distend the wound If you be troubled with the Gonorrhoea take House-leek growing on old walls call'd by the Latins Semper vivum minus put it into your shoes and go bare-foot upon it anoint your loyns and privy parts with Henbane-oyl and take mornings the quantity of two big hasel-nuts of well washed Turpentine for some days together avoiding all aromatic hard and salt meat An old Experimenter hath noted That whosoever shall wash his head twice a week with a Lixivium made of Juniper-ashes his sight shall never fail him but remain good to his end nor shall that person be troubled with any vermin upon his head nor with any head-ach nor suffer any change of his hair For my part I never tryed it but it being a very plain and safe thing I thought good here to insert it Against the biting of a Mad-dog lay Assa fatida with Garlick upon the bite it will draw out the venom To free your self from the Gravel make a Decoction of Ash-wood in wine and drink of it warm once or twice a day upon an empty stomach using withall good baths Vervin also the leaves and roots beaten together and drank is very good in this case If you have a strong breath proceeding from a foul stomach infuse Wormwood and Carduus benedictus together with some Citron-peels in wine and let them boil a little therein and then drink a good draught of it mornings Chew also and swallow sometimes a little Myrrh and take now and then three or four Aloes-pills I could add many other things if my leisure would permit These which I have set down you will take in good part and though I have not tryed them all my self yet you may rest assured that such as have not been experimented by my self have been tryed by my honoured Collegues and other honest persons and approv'd FINIS INDEX A. AIr what to be observed of it in the Campy 9. Preservatives against the corruption of the Air 21 c. Animals their blood of what efficacy 45. Antonies fire how to be allayed 140 141. B. BElly the cure of the Aches and Tumors and Gripings thereof 65 66. Beer new beer causes the Strangury 12. Blood how to cure casting up of blood 54. And the bleeding of the Nose ibid. Blood coagulated how to be helped 133 145. Boyls pestilential and their cure 92 seq Brick well burnt good against a Tenasmus 87. Brimstone a good Medicine in infectious cases 41. Bread wheaten-bred coming hot out of the oven and dipt in red wine very good against Fluxes 75. The same duely prepared good in pestilential Sores 94. Bones broken how to be order'd 131. Bran good for wrenching of Limbs 131. Burning how to be healed 137. C. CArbuncles pestilential and their cure 92. Carlina good against faintness 6. Chirurgions of an Army and their qualities 14. Cold Nights how to provide against 8. Corns of the Feet how to be cured 4. Cough and its cure 54. Crafishes burnt alive good against the Bloody-flux 80. Crafishes after a certain way prepared of great use for drawing out of the body thorns small-shot c. 135. The same fried in fresh butter allays burning 141. Crocus Martis a high Remedy against the Bloody-flux 81. Clysters and their use in the field 83. Chearfulness good in pestilential times 31. D. DAisie and its excellency 13. Diseases in an Army and their cure 18 c. Diet to be well observed in the Camp 20. Drinks how to provide in the field 7. The excess of it to be avoided 12. The danger of drinking whilst one is hot and the care to be taken in that case 12 13. Drinks in cold weather 25. Drawing out of thorns splinters c. how to be effected 135. 145. Dropsie and its cure 72. Drought how to be remedied 85. E. EGg-oyl good for Burnings 140. Elder-flowers good in the plague 24. 48. Elder-vineger good to apply to the Heart in the plague 48. Elder-roots
thy mouth with it as also spirting a little of it into thy horses mouth Besides mingling it with water it will afford thee a good cooling drink If it be very cold put some of that horse-hair that is wont to be curried out of their mains and tails into thy boots I never received on such occasions more warmth from any thing especially keeping my self dry A Hares-skin is also good for this purpose making socks of it but if it grow wet 't is naught Gather of the Wheel-grease that runs out at the nave of the Wheels and would else be lost which hath taken in some of the substance of the Iron that is about the Axel-tree witness its blackness This is a good Ointment for Horses When thou comest into the field and art to lye abroad look out for some rising ground that the Rain which may possibly fall may run away from thee And avoid as much as is possible Vallies Marishes Ditches Meadows and the like low and moist places Besides observe the Air and put up thy Tent towards the East which quarter though it be cool yet 't is wholsom But lest it should be too cool order it so that thou mayst enjoy that wind which comes from between the East and South as being one of the wholsomest of all Airs and temperate the South-air qualifying the sharpness of the Eastern Beware of the Western Wind especially that which blows from between the South and West The Air of Mid-night is wholesome enough and dry but sharp and piercing Believe it a Souldier is much concern'd in the Air nor hath Hippocrates without cause written a whole Book De Aere Aquis Locis to teach how the Air Water and Places are to be discerned and chosen Moreover look about thee for good cleer Water such as grows warm and cool again sooner than other waters and observe this mark for my sake I know water that will not boyl Pease Vetches Stock-fish Flounders c. In some Springs Iron is turn'd into Brass and great care is to be had in the choice of water for drinking But if thou canst not have Spring-water but art necessitated to use Pit or Ditch-water have a care not to drink it without straining least thou shouldst swallow Frog or Snake-spawn For I have known and had in my cure a Countrey-man who voided though not at once but at different times two hundred fifty and five Frogs and of them many in my own house in the presence of divers Ecclesiastical and Secular Persons and some of the biggest of them being dryed are still to be seen in the Repository of Mantua as also in that of Mr. Philip Hainhofer at Auspurg And there is a Cook in the Hospital of Wessenburg or Landsberg who as appeared by the event had drunk the Spawn of Serpents out of which were bred divers Serpents in his body some of which he voided by virtue of the Medicine he took amongst which there was one of the length of a Bavarian Ell. The Man hath been since in good health and continues in his service to this day Wherefore it will behoove you to spread your handkerchief over the Ditch-water and so drink through it or if you take any of it up unstrain'd quench first a red-hot Stone or Iron in it whereby the noxious quality will be destroyed Or if you lye still and can get any Oyl of Vitriol let some drops of that fall into it and you need not then fear any corruption or poyson in such water Otherwise if time will permit let it boil up and cool again and put a crust of bread into it and you may drink of it safely Those Waters that run out of stony hills and from under rocks are the best to which may be reckon'd those Springs that flow from high places and purge themselves in clear sand and pebles If thou meet with Beer or Wine take heed of excess and forbear drinking New beer that hath not yet done working or is not some days old because new beer causeth the Strangury And in case this should trouble thee take a handful of Hay-blossoms boyl them in water and Urine over it drawing into thy body the warm steam thereof and anointing thy Navel several times with warm suet If thou art hot and canst not forbear drinking make water first then wash thy mouth and cool the arteries on both thy temples and those of both thy wrists and then drinking will hurt thee less If you chance to drink whilst you are hot which is so dangerous a thing that some have dyed within 24 hours after it others have fallen into consumptive Coughs others been troubled with Pains in their sides and with Impostumes c. then take of the leaves of Bellis or Daisy which grows in all meadows and pasture-grounds and is green both winter and summer and wash them clean and dress them like a Salad with Oyl Vinegar and a little Salt and forthwith eat thereof and it helps immediately as I know by much Experience But this must be used presently the sooner the better I can say with truth that in all my Practice of Physick for above 20 years I have not met with any Experiment of so quick an Operation from any herb as from this But here I must note that I have always used the Red Daisy and have not tryed the other sorts though I am apt to believe the others may have the like effect You must not eat the Flowers but only the Leaves This Experiment should be put up on all posts every where for the good of Courriers Mowers and other labouring Men that are wont to drink plentifully when they are hot and thereby spoil themselves in great numbers But to proceed as thou art to beware of excess of drinking at all times so thou art especially to forbear when thou art to stand Sentinel lest thou shouldst fall a sleep whereby thou mayst lose thy life at least thy place and thy preferment for ever Neither be fond of Gaming at dice tables c. whence are occasioned quarrels mistrusts deceit swearing and what not Avoid also the company of base women lest thou shouldst be constrained to undergo the Mercurial Salivation and with it a very lean Diet of thin broth water-gruel barley-broth prunes roasted apples and such like without any flesh-meat at all CHAP. III. Concerning the Physicians and Chirurgions in an Army EVery Army ought to be well provided with one or more able Physicians such as are not only expert in the cure of inward Diseases but also understanding in outward Cases as Wounds Burnings Luxations Dislocations Erysipelas's or St. Antony's Fires c. These Physicians ought to be no Youngsters that are lately come from Schools and Universities knowing only in Controversies and Disputations but such as are expert in the Cure of Diseases especially such as are most frequent in Armies They are also to be Men of good nature great honesty and condescension willing to take pains with
the broader kind of Plantain or in a Pulse of red Beans or Rice-broath the dose is half a dram But when the pain is very great you may then add to it some opiat Medicine as of the Trochisques de Garabe or one onely grain of Laudanum Opiatum And give the Patient now and then a little new-made Treacle or mix with it a few grains of the Confection of Archigenes for of such Medicaments a Field-Apotheque is not wont to be destitute For the Patients ordinary drink boil water and in it Coriander dried Sloes dried slices of Quinces burnt Hartshorn Mastic Nutmeg or any one of these putting to it some of the roots of Snake-weed Tormentil or such like adstringent roots Of this water the Patient may drink according as his necessity shall require The red Juyce of Quinces boiled up without Sugar is also much to be commended in this case for strengthening the bowels two or three spoonfuls of it being taken at a time and that twice a day In many places a drink is made of Sloes Pilosella or Mouse-ear and Juniper-berries infusing them all in common water and letting them ferment together This yields a pleasant acid drink allaying the violence of the Flux and quenching thirst withall The Rich may make Granat or Quince-wine But I have here undertaken to deliver such things as are parable and cheap for the poor common Souldier I am sorry that in the Field there is no conveniency of administring Clysters For though I prescribe none without great necessity yet Clysters being of great benefit in Diseases of the bowels they being to them like Plaisters I cannot but recommend in this Distemper Clysters of Milk wherein Pebble-stones have been several times quenched mixing a little of the melted suet of a Stag or Hind without any oyl or other fat I remember I had once a Patient of quality that had about an hundred stools within twenty four hours who by the use of such Clysters once or twice applied was fully restored The cause whereof is that the Milk washes the bowels and clears them of the sharp humors that annoy them moreover it is healing and repairing by reason of the Pebbles quenched therein The Sugar is abstersive and helps to clean the injured places The Far sticks to the parts annoyed to defend them from being further hurt by the subsequent humors which running down over it can find no stay there and consequently cause no more hurt to those parts Yet must you not put in any greasie Fat or any Oyl of Olives because they hinder healing and all Oyl except that of Linseed Poppies Hemp and Almonds is very sharp and you will find that if any drop of Oyl of Olives should chance to fall into your eye no Juyce of Orenges or Limons is so strong as to exceed the acrimony of that Oyl But of this Oyl more will be said in the next Chapter to which I therefore refer you If you would have your Clyster yet milder and more sanative you may beat a yolk or two of new-laid Eggs and mix them with it though I have contented my self with the Ingredients before mention'd and found great benefit thereby Else you may in this case use for a Clyster the Cremor hordei mixt with yolks of Eggs beaten in it which is also very good to wash out the bowels Here is no conveniency of making much use of Apothecary-shops else many things might be prescribed to lay upon the belly and the navil as also divers fermentations and stomachical unguents You may therefore content your self with those plain and easily parable means already deliver'd and be thankful to God for them But then you are also to think upon means to obviate Symptoms of this Distemper and particularly Drought which is wont very much to torment people in this Disease 'T is true Acid things do quench thirst but they cannot be used boldly and therefore you must use them with great discretion and wariness And as for sweet things they usually increase thirst and do easily corrupt and turn into gall Wherefore give to the Patient preserved Currans or if fresh ones be in season mix a quantity of them with Honey or Sugar and give him of it to eat upon white-Bread and Butter Or plump dried Black-cherries or dried Damascene-prunes in half Wine and half Water and let him hold and squeeze them in his mouth Or if you can mingle some Almond-milk with Chalybeat-water and let him drink thereof and this is both meat and drink Or let him drink water wherein Coriander and roots of Tormentil have been boiled Or boil in water dried slices of Quinces roots of Bistorta or Snake-weed and burnt Harts-horn put into it a tosted crust of Rye-bread rubb'd with Nutmeg but let it not lye in it above a quarter of an hour lest the water should thicken and become viscous Marmelat also of Quinces Black-cherries and Sloes is proper in this case giving the Patient a slice of it to hold upon his tongue and so to swallow it down Further you must learn how to remedy a Tenasmus which is more irksome to the Patient and occasions more trouble to the Physitian than the Bloody-flux it self since it night and day painfully provokes the poor Patient to go to stool and yet to no purpose For this I have used many remedies but found almost nothing more beneficial than Fomentations of this nature following Take Potentilla wild Tansie Silver-weed Knot-grass Mullein and Oak-leaves of each as much as you please put them into two linnen bags and let them boil in Smiths-water wherein much Iron hath been quenched Squeeze out these bags between two boards and let them be held alternately to the anus as hot as can be endured Black Pitch such as is found on Larch and Fir-trees put upon a heated fire-shovel and the fundament held over it is also a good remedy and so is Turpentine used after the same manner Again take a black well-burnt Brick out of the hearth heat it thoroughly and wet it with sharp Vinegar and wrap it about with a linnen cloth and let the Patient sit on it as hot as he can endure it This was the Experiment and Remedy of old Aetius but he reduced the Brick to powder and by boiling it in Vinegar reduced it to a pulse and so put it into a linnen rag and applied it to the fundament You may chuse which you please of the two Milk-Clysters such as above prescribed would also be good but that 't is not safe with Clyster-pipes to vex the anus which is already sore enough Yet you may give a Suppository of Deers-suet mixt with some Oyl of Mullein And the grey Diapompholox or the white Camphire-unguent or the like mixt with it would not be improper in this case If there be a Falling down of the fundament then let it often take in the fumes of the above-mention'd Herbs adding to them the beaten stalks of Sloe-shrubs and those of red Roses as