Troches Alhandal three Grains with the distilled VVater of Marjoram make them up into seven Pills of which take three at night and four in the Morning especially near the Full and Change of the Moon Or take the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo Or make use of the following Liquor Take the Flowers of Sage Rosemary Betony and Lavender of each one good handfull Castor two Drams Sugar-candy four Ounces boil these in one Gallon of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and drink thereof at any time hot for it is of excellent use to prevent the Apoplexie CHAP. VII Of the Palsey THe Palsey is a distemper wherein the one half of the Body either the right or left doth lose both Sense and Motion and then it may be called a general Palsey But sometimes it hapneth in one Member only as in the Head the Tongue the Hand and the Yard Leg c. In the Palsey sometimes Sense is only lost and sometimes Motion alone and at other times both Sense and Motion The cause of this Disease is through abundance of gross tough and clammy Humours which obstruct or stop the Sinews hindering the Animal faculty that it cannot come from the Fountain to the Members Sometimes it is caused through immoderate Cold at other times through excessive heat or inflamation or by some Schirrus or hardness in the Back bone or in the parts adjacent or in other Sinewy parts over much pressed or crushed by which means the Animal faculty cannot pass Many times it is caused through a Feaver and that principally ingendred of melancholy possessing the mind and changing the temperature thereof It is frequently caused three manner of ways sometimes of Melancholy it self and sometimes by the alteration of the Blood in the Brain and through inflammation and evil affect of the Stomack and Sides The signs of the Palsey are many as sadness fearfulness envy hatred strange fantasies or imaginations This is no acute Disease but Chronical or of long continuance and for the most part curable especially in young people or when the paralitick Member doth not become less or change his Colour for if so it is hardly curable In this Distemper his Diet ought to be slender and drying and for the first two or three days let him altogether abstain or be content with Broath made of Barley unhusked or with Mede c. after let him have Meat of good Juice and of light digestion and that well Roasted Let him eat Partridge Larks and such like Pine-nuts and Almonds Let him take of Savory Sage Parsley Fennel Hysop and Marjoram And forbear all things that are cold and moist as Fish Fruit c. and drink sparingly except of Honey and Water wherein is boiled Sage and Cinamon Or of the drink made as followeth Take Gallingal long Pepper Nutmegs Cloves and Mace of each one Dram Cardamoms one Dram and a half Ginger half an Ounce the best Cinamon two Ounces boil them altogether in three or four Quarts of running Water to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto eight Ounces of the best Sugar and drink thereof a small quantity at a time first and last In the time of Cure drink no Brandy neither any other strong Spirits of that Nature Also forbear Wine except a small quantity towards the latter end of the Cure Exercise and motion is good also mirth sleep in the night but not in the day The Cure ought to be began with Blood-letting if age and strength will permit especially where fullness abounds but it ought to be taken away with moderation least the Body should be over much cooled and also observe to open the Veins on the well and whole side and a day or two after cleanse the Bowels with the following Glister Take Sage Betony Camomil Mercury both sorts of Mallows of each one handfull Calamint and Rue of each half a handfull Staechados half an Ounce the Seeds of Ammeos and Fennel of each two Drams Cut and Bruise them and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of the third part strain it and take a Pint thereof to which add the Electuary called Benedictum Laxativum and Diacatholicon of each half an Ounce the Extract of black Hellebor 20 Grains Oyl of Rue Oris and Bayes of each six Drams Sal Gemmae two Scruples being mixed together and a Glister made thereof put it up according to Art You may make use of the Pills directed in the Chapter of the Vertigo for they are uery proper in this Distemper The next day after Purging make use of the sweating Potion made as followeth Take Venice Treacle one Dram the Powder of Virginia Snakeweed one Scruple Oyl of Vitriol well Rectified ten drops Syrup of Cowslips one Ounce Carduus Water three Ounces mix them all well together and make a Potion thereof which take in the Morning and sweat as strength will permit repeating the same as need require To comfort and strengthen the Vital and Animal Spirits especially in persons afflicted with this Disease make use of the following Cordial Julip Take of the distilled Water of Cowslips and Lavender of each three Ounces Syrup of Betony and Cowslips of each two Ounces Spirit of Lavender and Castor of each one Ounce and a half Oyl of Vitriol Rectified 20 drops or as much as will cause it to be of a sharp tast of which take one Spoonfull first and last or at any time when ill or fainty Anoint the Region of the Back with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nutmegs Nard Oyl and Oyl of Foxes of each one Ounce the Juice of Sage and St. Johnwort of each three Drams Sagapenum dissolved in Juniper Water two Drams Powder of Castor and Euphorbium of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of Wax make it up into an Oyntment Or Take the Oyl of Juniper berries Euphorbium and Castor of each half an Ounce Oyl of St. Johnswort and Terpentine of each one Dram the Water of Juniper three Drams mix them all well together and anoint the parts affected therewith for it is also of excellent vertue Or Take Oyl of Earth-worms Foxes and Castor of each one Ounce Lucatelles Balsom two or three Ounces Spirit of Sack half an Ounce the Chymical Oyl of Rosemary one Dram and a half mix them well together and anoint the Back therewith hot and the other parts affected and cover them with warm Cloths Another Oyntment of excellent use in t he Palsey and weakness of the Limbs pains in the Joynts c. Take Bay-leaves Rue St. Johns-wort of each three handfulls Camomil Sage and green Rosemary of each one handfull cut and bruise them very small then add thereto Neats-foot Oyl three Pints Caraway Seed bruised one Ounce and a half after which boil them all together over a gentle fire till the Oyl become Green and the Herbs dry then strain it and add to the strained Liquor one Bull or
third part After which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Wormwood one ounce and a half Syrup of Agrimony six ounces Being well mixed together let the Patient drink four ounces at a time twice a day first in the morning and two hours after Dinner Or let him take often of the Conserve of Wormwood mixing therewith each time a drop or two of the Chymical Oyl Or drink some drops of the Spirit in Wine first and last two hours before Dinner and two hours after Outwardly you may use the Oyl of Wormwood Nard and Oyl of Camomil mixed together making it hot Or take Nard Oyl Oyl of Wormwood and Rue of each one ounce and a half Spicknard Squinant Cinamon Cloves Mastick Wood of Aloes all made into fine Powder of each two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the best Wax make them up into an Ointment And let the Patient make use of such meats as are of light Digestion which are with all somewhat heating and let him drink Wine at Meals that is thin and hot broth wherein is boiled Sage Savory Sauthernwood Hysop Fennel and Parsly and such like In the moist Distemper of the Liver Let the Patient make use of drying Medicines as the Decoction of Sasaphras Saâ—saperilla Lignum vita and China c. and let him eat flesh well roasted and let him make use of dry Baths or hot Houses Or take Venice Treacle one dram Diaphoretick Antimony ten grains Chymical Oyl of Wormwood five drops mix them together drink it off in a Glass of Sack and sweat moderately Thus do once or twice a week Or take Dialacca Diacurcuma and Syrup of Wormwood of each one ounce mix them together and take as much as a Nutmeg at a time morning and evening for it is not onely good against the over-moistness of the Liver but very good against the Dropsie because it strengthens the Liver c. In the dry Distemper of the Liver The Patient ought to make use of moist Medicines therefore if the Body be costive take at night going to Bed one ounce of the Lenitive Electuary or of Cassia newly drawn with either of which mix two or three drops of the Chymical Oyl of VVormwood for that will strengthen the Liver You may take the powder of a VVolfs Liver well prepared one dram the distilled VVater of Strawberries four ounces Syrup of Violets half an ounce being mixed together drink it all at once in the morning repeating the same as need require The Livers of young Rooks washed in White-wine and after dried and made into fine powder as aforesaid is very profitable in such cases Or take half a dram every morning of Diamargaritum frigidum or Diatragacanti frigidi or Pulvis Haly as afore-directed for I will assure you it is also very profitable CHAP. XXIII Of the Stoppage of the Liver THe Stoppage of the Liver is a continual straightness of the Branches of the Gate and hollow Vein c. The cause of which stoppage is oftentimes viscous gross and clammy Excrements sometimes the over-plenty of Humours causeth stoppage more especially when they are tough and clammy and cannot find a free passage The Signs are known by Grief and Heaviness about the right side and stretching forth If this stoppage come of gross and tough humours then followeth heaviness with sense of pain but sometime ease and then pain again Sometimes the Patient hath a Fever and sometimes no Fever Oftentimes the breath is short and very difficult especially when the Patient goeth up a hill or up a pair of stairs or walketh fast because the parts stopped do draw the Midriff downwards and so hinders its free motion The Cure of this Distemper ought to be begun with Medicines that will cause plentiful Evacuation of the whole Body by a potion or Pills agreeable to the nature of the Distemper Therefore make use of the following Potion Take of the Electuary of the Juice of Roses six drams Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb three drams Salt of Tartar ten grains Salt of Wormwood twelve grains with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Cichory make a potion thereof which take in the morning fasting Or take Rosin of Scamony and Rosin of Jallap of each ten grains Extract of Rhubarb fifteen grains Tartarum Vitriolatum twelve grains Salt of Wormwood five grains with a sufficient quantity of the foresaid water or the distilled VVater of Fumatory make a Potion thereof which drink as afore-directed Note either of these potions may serve the weaker sort twice being equally divided Or if you please take of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they very powerfully open all manner of Obstructions and strengthens the Liver besides And after the Patient hath taken of either of the Potions or the Pills afore-directed if the Body abound with fulness open the Liver-Vein in the right Arm and draw forth such a quantity of Blood as may be thought requisite After which make use of the following Broth Take Roots of Sparagus Smallage and Parsly of each half an ounce Agrimony Maiden-hair and Hysop of each one handful Crystal of Tartar that is rightly prepared one dram boil them with a Neck of Mutton or with a Chicken and make broth therewith every morning for a week or nine days together Every second or third day you may infuse into this broth one dram of Anniseed which will keep the Body very soluble Or make use of the following Pills for they also are good to remove Obstructions Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick one ounce the Troches of Agarick one dram the Powder of the lesser compound of Senne half an ounce Aloes Rosate two drams the Powder of Steel one ounce and a half the faecula of Briony Aron and Piony round Birth-wort Madder Borax Cloves of each half a dram Salt of Mugwort one scruple Spirit of VVormwood fifteen drops the Powder of Turpentine one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Cichory with Rhubarb make them up into a mass for Pills The Dose is from two scruples to one dram Or take Filings of Steel one ounce Elicampane and Eringo-Roots of each half an ounce Senne one ounce and a half the inward Rind of Tamarisk two drams Epithimum half an ounce Cinamon and faecula of Briony of each one dram the Powder of white yellow and red Sanders of each twenty grains VVhite-wine and the distilled water of Agrimony of each half a pint being infused three days in Balneo Maria strain it and take thereof three ounces every day two or three hours before Dinner Or make use of the following Syrup Take of the Filings of Steel infused in Vinegar two ounces the middle Rind of Tamarisk half an ounce Cinamon three drams Ceterach half a handful the distilled Water of Agrimony and Wormwood of each half a pint White-Wine sixteen ounces infuse them in some warm place for six or seven days then strain it and add to the strained Liquor of the best double
Mercury Mallows Marsh-Mallow-Roots Camomile of each one handful being cut and bruised boil them in one quart of new Milk to the consumption of half after which turn the Milk with Ale then strain it and take one pint of the strained Liquor to which add the Lenitive Electuary and Diacatholicon of each six drams Venice-Turpentine half an ounce Syrup of Marsh-Mallows one ounce and a half Oyl of Lillies Dill Rue and Camomile of each half an ounce Chymical Oil of Juniper twenty drops being mixed well together give it Glister-ways for it giveth ease and causeth the Patient to void small stones as I have often seen Instead of the Glister if the Belly be not costive administer to the Patient the following Potion for it is of Excellent use Take of the Lenitive Electuary one ounce Syrup of Marsh-Mallows two ounces Cream of Tartar and Holland Powder of each one scruple Salt of Tartar ten grains with four ounces of the Distilled Water of Oaken Leaves make a potion thereof which let the Patient take all at once in the morning warm Or you may take of Cassia newly drawn and Oyl of sweet Almonds of each half an ounce Diaphaenicon two drams Powder of Rhubarb fifteen or twenty grains Liquorice in Powder half a dram Syrup of Violets one ounce with a sufficient quantity of the Distilled Water of Mallows make a potion thereof which take as afore-directed Or take of my Pills once or twice a week in which course drink small White-wine sweetned with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows Or some of the Liquors made as followeth taken with them they do much good for they cause the Stone and Gravel to be voided with much ease and also preventeth the Generation of the same Take the Distilled Water of green Walnuts and Saxifrage of each one pint the best White-Wine one quart sweeten it with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows and drink thereof a quarter of a pint first and last hot repeating the same if need require In every drought take ten drops or more of the Spirit of Vitriol and it will prove the more effectual Or you may take the Distilled Water of Pellitory and Saxifrage of each alike and sweeten it with Syrup of Violets and Marsh-Mallows adding thereto Spirit of Vitriol and take it as afore-directed The meaner sort of People may boil a good quantity of Saxifrage Couch-grass and Pellitory of the Wall in running Water and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof for it is very effectual for it mollifieth the passages and causeth the Stone to come away the more freely Holly-Berries bruised and boiled in Wine or Ale doth the same to admiration Or being dried and beat to power and a dram thereof drunk in White-wine is also very good but such that cannot get VVhite-wine must be content with Ale Or take Pigeons-Dung and fill a large Glass therewith half full after which fill it up with the best VVhite-VVine then cover it very close and let it stand for seven days after which distill in Sand. Of which let the Patient drink two ounces at a time repeating the same as need require for it is a very Excellent Remedy to Break and Bring away the Stone and Gravel Or take Goats Blood prepared one dram VVhite Amber one scruple VVhite-wine and the Juice of Radishes of each two ounces being mixed together drink it off often repeating the same The Juice of Radishes and Mouse-Ear being drunk two or three ounces every day first and last is also very good Or take one dram of the Salt of Camomile in Radish-VVater as afore-directed Outward Medicines proper to ease the pain in the Fits of the Stone are made as followeth Take Oyl of Camomile Elder and Violets of each six drams Seeds of Dill and Camomile bruised of each half an ounce fresh Butter and Ducks grease of each two drams being boiled two or three walms strain it and add thereto the yolks of two New-laid-Eggs and beat them well together and anoint the Reins of the Back therewith Or take the Oyl of sweet Almonds and Dill of each three drams Oyl of Camomile one ounce Goose Duck's and Hen's fat of each one dram fresh Butter one dram and a half with a little Bees VVax make thereof an Ointment and anoint the Reins and Loins therewith Or take fresh Butter Oyl of Lillies and Hens Fat of each one ounce the Oyl of Scorpions compound two ounces Oyl of Sweet Almonds one ounce and an half being mixed well together anoint therewith as afore-directed Or Take Diachylon Simple three ounces Oyl of Scorpions one ounce melt them together being spread upon Sheeps Leather apply it to the Reins Plaister-ways and there let it remain for fourteen days CHAP. XXVIII Of the Ulcers of the Reins ULcers of the Reins are caused oftentimes through breaking of the Veins of the same also it is caused through putrid or rotten Inflammations and through sharp gnawing or fretting Humours carried into the Reins The Signs of Ulcers in the Reins are heaviness and pains in the Loins In the Urine there is perceived little pieces of flesh and sometimes hairs or little rags swiming therein blood and matter c. The Cure of Ulcers in the Reins caused through sharp gnawing Humours ought to be begun with such Medicines as will purge the same None more proper than my Pills for a large dose thereof will cause the Patient to vomit which will not only be beneficial to carry off viscous Humours but withal be a means the sooner to heal the Ulcers of the Reins And with the Pills the more to stop the sharp Humours Take Purslain Endive Sorrel and Mallows being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water and strain it after which sweeten it with the Syrup of Violets Roses and Water-Lillies and drink thereof as of ordinary Drink Or take the Seeds of Cucumbers Melons and Gourds being beat into Powder mix them with the aforesaid Syrups The Conserve of them are also very good which the Patient may take at any time after the viscous Humours are well purged Or take the Seeds of Fenugreek four ounces and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Spring Water strain it and sweeten it with honey whereof take a good draught first and last Or take one ounce of the best Honey new Milk hot from the Cow one pint being mixed together drink it off hot first and last for some time together Or take Raisins Barly and Liquorice of each a like quantity being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof for it is of very excellent use And when the Ulcers are well purged and cleansed which may be known by the Urine being without Dregs Moats and filthy matter c. Give to the Patient of the Medicines made as followeth Take the best Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-Water four ounces the Powder of Cinamon and Nutmegs of each half an ounce
signs of the French Pox as tumours in the Muscles and skin of the head c. Which Disease being cured ceaseth in order to which make use of the following Medicines Begin with the Glister for it will draw back the matter that causeth the pain in the head Take Nettles Bay-leaves Mercury Rue Marsh Mallows Betes of each one handfull the Roots of Pollipody one Ounce the bark of Broom and the Seeds of Carthami of each half an Ounce the Flowers of Camomil and Staechas of each one Pugil being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and take thereof one Pint to which add Confectio Hamech and the Juice of Orris Clarified of each one Ounce Hiera simple half an Ounce Oyl of Castor Rue Dill and Honey of Roses of each one ounce common Salt one Dram being mixed all well together make a Glister thereof which administer to the Patient in the morning fasting The next day it will be necessary to open the Cephalick Vein in the right Arm which will also be a means to take away the vitious humours After which make use of the following Pills Take Pills of Arabick and Pills of Faetida of each one Dram Troches of Alhandal six Grains the Chymical Oyl of Marjorum twelve Drops mix them together and make them up into twenty Pills of which take five every second or third morning six hours before Dinner Or take Extractum Rudij and the extract of Black Helleber of each two Drams Mercurius Dulcis six times sublimed four Scruples Gum Guaicum two Drams Oyl of Guaicum 〈◊〉 Scruple the Pills of Arthriticae four Scruples mix them together and of every Dram make six Pills whereof take two at night and three in the Morning twice or thrice a week Or you may take of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills of my own invention one at night and two in the morning more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient for they do not only expel pain in 〈◊〉 head caused through the French Disease but most other violent pains especially those caused by taking Mercurial Medicines for the Cure of the aforesaid Distemper and that from Idle fellows that are ignorant of the nature and quality of Mercury but much more how to dispel it when got in the head Notwithstanding taking of the Pills let the Patient apply to his Head the Plaster of Betony which he may have made up by the honest Apothecary and let him also make use of the following Liquor Take Betony three or four good handfulls the Flowers of Rosemary and Lavender of each one Ounce boil them in four quarts of running 〈◊〉 in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Candy of which let the Patient take a quarter of a Pint hot first and last Or take the tops of Rosemary one handfull Betony two handfulls boil them and sweeten it with Sugar Candy and take thereof as afore directed With this very Method I have cured many sorely tormented not only with pain in the Head alone but with corrupt and pocky matter issuing forth of the Eyes and Nostrils You may anoint the head with the following Oâ—â—â—â—ent the hair being first shaved off Take age Rue Staechas Lignum Vitae rasped oâ— each one handfull Renish Wine eight Ounces old Oyl one Pound boil these together till the Wine be consumed then strain it and if you please mix therewith a little Wax and anoint the head often with it Or take Peny oyal Wild Betony Origan Sage Savin Savory of each two Drams Bay-berries Olibanum Costus's Pellitory of Spain Caster Euphorbium of each one Scruple mix them and make it into an Oyntment Or take Venice Treacle Mithridate Câ—â—â—â— Rue of each half an Ounce with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Juniper-berries make them into an Oyntment and annoint the head therewith as afore directed CHAP. IV. Of the Vertigo THE Virtigo is a preternatural Motion of the Animal Spirit in the farther Ventricle of the Brain The principal cause of this disease â—ometh from the Brain it self being distenâ—â—â—â—â—d or evil assected or from the mouth of the Stomack or Womb c. offending the Brain and sometimes by over much drinking especially that destructive Liquor called Brandy do cause this distemper the Stomack being poisoned therewith from which windy and noxious Vapours affect the Brain causing a giddiness in the Head so that all Objects seemingly turn round the Patient being not able to stand but fall down except he laid hold on some thing to bare himself upon which Disease if not timely prevented will change it self into several other deadly Distempers as the Falling Sickness Apoplexy c. being somewhat related thereunto The Cure may be performed as followeth as soon as the fit is over and the Patient having recovered a little strength if the Body be costive or bound Forthwith make use of the following Suppositor Take Honey and Salt and mix therewith one Scruple or half of a Dram of Troches Alhandal boil them together and make thereof a Suppositor according to Art and thrust it up into the Fundament Or take the Leaves of Mercury Wormwood Betes Mallows Centaury Betony Dill Camomil Flowers of each half a handfull being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and to one Pint of the Liquor add Oyl of sweet Almonds Oyl of Dill of each one Ounce and an half Heira simple ten Drams common Salt one Dram mix them together and make a Glister thereof which put up into the Fandament according to art If the Vertigo come of a cholerick humour it will be necessary for the Patient to drink of the Liquor made as followeth three day together Take Syrup of Cichory insusion of Roses 〈◊〉 each two Ounces Distilled water of Endive anâ— Cichory of each four Ounces the distilled Watâ—â— of Wormwood three Ounces Mix them together whereof take onâ— part in the morning the rest one hour before Supper After which the more to evacuate cholerick humours Take the bark of Mirobolanes and Citrons of each three Drams being bruised boil them in the distilled Water of Cichory and Burage of each three Ounces after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Roses Solutive one Ounce Diacatholicon and the Lenitive Electuary of each half an Ounce Being well mixed and a Potion made thereof take it betimes in the morning and fast after it six hours If the Vertigo come of a crude and melancholy humour the Pills following will be very proper Take the Pills of Arabick Cochiae and Aurea of each 15. or 20. Grains Troches of Agarick ten Grains with a sufficient quantity of Honey of Roses make them up into seven Pills Which are to be taken three at night going to Bed and the rest in the Morning if need require Or Take the Pills of Inde and
of excellent use in the very fit of this Disease How to prevent and Cure the Falling Sickness Take Syrup made with the Juice of Betony and Cichory of each half an Ounce the distilled Water of Lillies of the Vally two Drams Musk twelve Grains mix them well together and take a small quantity thereof first and last with a Liquorice stick Or Take Rosemary Betony Sage of each one Ounce the Roots of Cichory and Citron Pills Candied cut in very small pieces of each half an Ounce Species Diamoschi dulcis Diambra of each one Dram and a half Misselto of the Oak or White Thorn Red Coral prepared the Skull of a Man and the Ashes of a Cuckow of each one Dram the Seeds of Peony two Drams Oyl of Cynamon 10 drops with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of Betony make it up into an Electuary according to Art whereof let the Patient take every morning fasting the quantity of half a Wallnut Or make use of the following Powder Take the Roots of Cichory and Red Mugwort of each one Dram Misselto of the White Thorn the Skull of a Man of each four Scruples Peony Seed two Scruples Red Coral prepared Unicorns Horn of each one Scruple Pearl prepared half a Scruple Musk ten Grains being mixed and made into very fine Powder let the patient take the quantity of one Dram at a time about the Full and Change of the Moon or near the approaching of the Fit in three or four Spoonfulls of the distilled Water of Lavender Or take young Swallows burn them in their Feathers altogether in a new Earthen Pot covered very close and after they are taken forth of the Pot add thereto as much Castor and beat them well together and put it into a Glass and add thereto sour Vineger and let it so stand three days after which distill it in a Glass according to Art of which precious Water give to the Patient one Spoonfull at a time every Morning forty days together and doubt not of a good success Or Take Assafaetida Galbanum Castor of each one Dram make them up into 30. Pills with the best Oyl of Amber whereof take one every third morning after which fast two or three hours Or Take Misselto of the White Thorn Peony Roots dryed and beat into fine Powder of each one Ounce the best Castor in Powder two Drams Leaf Gold one Scruple with a sufficient quantity of the best old Mithridate Mustard and Oyl of Amber in equal parts being beaten all together in a Marble Morter make it up into Pills as big as white Peas of which take three or five every day first and last for three Months together c. With this very Medicine with the use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills to keep the body soluble I cured Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton in the Year 1662. then belonging to Sir Robert Byrons Lady who Lodged at the Countess of Peterbrough's in St. Martins Lane in the Fields This Cure was perfectly affected in one Spring and Fall though some years most horribly afflicted therewith often falling suddenly down sometimes in the Church at other times in the fire c. to the great hazard of her life who ever since remains well and free from the least Symptoms of those Fits Many have been cured by opening the Vein in the Forehead called Vena Frontis and by drinking first in the Morning from two Drams to one Ounce of Vinegar of Squills Some have been cured by Vomits made with the Salt of Vitriol which may safely be given from two Grains to seven in any convenient Liquor every fourth or fifth day till the Patient have taken it six or seven times Or Take Conserve of Rosemary Betony and Lavender Flowers of each two Ounces Mithridate and Ringo Roots Candied of each one Ounce the Powder of Saxafras six Drams Castor three Drams Elkes Hoof and the Powder of a mans Skull that was never buried of each two Drams the Seeds of Gith and the Roots and Seeds of Peony Wild Rue and Pelitory of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills make it up into an Electuary and take as much as a large Nutmeg every Morning Many have received much good by Vesicatories or Blistering Plaisters applyed to the proper parts And by a Seton or Skein of Silk drawn through the Neck Others as it were past all hopes of recovery have been perfectly cured by opening part of the Skull with a Trepan some distance from the Sutures to let the evil Air forth But the last cannot be safely attempted without good advice and a very skilfull Chirurgou For the Falling Sickness in Children In the first place if need require make the body soluble with a gentle Glister or with a Supositor after which give to the Child some gentle Purge Take the Syrup of Cichory with Rubarb from half an Ounce to an Ounce or the Electuary of Diacarthamum from a Dram to two Drams Or Take the Tincture of Hiera Picra from ten drops to twenty and give to the Child in some proper Liquor as the distilled Water of Cowships Black Cherries Peony or Lavender sweetned with Sugar And take the fresh roots of Peony cut them in small pieces and hang them about the Childs Neck and bind them upon the Hand-rist and repeat them as they grow hard Or Take the distilled Water of Black Cherries two Ounces the Syrap of Peony one Ounce Pearl prepared one Dram Spirit of Rue ten drops and give thereof to the Child one Spoonfull in the fit Or take a small Mouse the Skin and the Guts taken away only the Liver Heart and Lungs remaining therein which put together in some Earthen pot close covered and burn it to Ashes then powder it very small and divide it into three parts and give one part thereof to the Child every Morning in a small quantity of the distilled Water of Beech-tree Flowers The Juice of Rue is also very good being given four or five drops at a time with the distilled Water of the Flowers of Hogs Fennel called Mathern or May Flowers In the same Water you may give to the Child the Powder of the middle Claw of the fore Foot of a Hare The After-birth of a sound Woman which is delivered of a Male Child dryed and made into fine Powder and one Scruple thereof given to a Child at a time in Black Cherry Water is a present remedy Half a Grain of Musk given in Wine or the foresaid Water twice a day will also help or take the Powder of the Roots of wild Valerian and give thereof ten Grains at a time in Milk or in any of the foresaid Waters and it Cureth Or Take the Flowers of Lillies of the Valley the Flowers of Lime-tres or Tile May Flowers of each one good handfull Lavender Flowers half a handfull Peony Roots two Ounces being cut small boil them in one Quart of Water with half a Pint of white Wine and one pound of
Ordinary Drink Take Elder-Bark Smallage Clivers Herb Robert Sope-wort Fumatory the Leaves and Roots of Pilewort of each three good handfuls Polipody half a pound being cut and bruised in a thin Cloth hang them in some convenient Vessel and pour thereto a sufficient quantity of New Beer or Ale you cannot well make it too strong of the Herbs and let it work together when fit to drink make use thereof as occasion serves and you will have no cause to find fault with me Or take the Roots of Filipendula and Pilewort of each two drams Tansie Mouse-Ear Pimpernel of each one dram Round Birthwort the Roots of Radishes and Sopewort of each half a dram Cut and bruise them and boyl them in three Pints of white Wine to the consumption of the third part strain it and add thereto of Oxymel simple three Ounces Of which let the Patient drink a quarter of a pint at a time three times a day Plaisters and Oyls proper to dissolve the Swellings hard Knots and Kernels are as followeth Take the Plaister of Frogs with Mercury spread it upon Linnen Cloth and apply it to the parts affected But be sure to purge now and then in the use thereof Or make use of the Plaister of Diachylom with Gum or the Plaister of Galbanum for they are all very good to dissolve the Tumors But the first neglect not To anoint the Tumours take the Oyl of Elder for with that alone with the use of the internal Remedies I have known many perfectly cured Or take the Oyl or Ointment made of Briony-Roots and use it as afore directed If those Sores chance to break as oftentimes they do foment the Sores with a Spunge dipt in Lime-water Or take the Roots of Briony Marsh-Mallow-Roots and the Roots of Figwort and Dwarf-Elder of each one ounce Flowers of Dwarf-Elder Camomil Melilot and Common Elder of each one handful Seeds of Annis and Fennugreek of each half an ounce Boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half or more and apply it hot to the part for the space of half an hour After which anoint it with the Ointment made as followeth Take the Fat of a Man or the Fat of a Bear Goose and Cock's Fat of each half an Ounce the Ointment of Marsh-Mallows two ounces Oyl of Lillies and Aqua-Vitae of each one ounce Mix them well and make an Ointment thereof Or when it breaks wash the Sores with Crab-Verjuice and Butter and sometimes touch the Ulcers with Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur And to heal the Sores after the Body is well purged Take Letharge of Gold what quantity you please make it into very fine Powder and with a sufficient quantity of Sallet Oyl and strong Vinegar being beaten well together apply it to the Sores Plaister-ways repeating the same as need require CHAP. XVIII Of the Asthma or Difficulty of Breathing DIfficulty of Breathing is commonly caused of a Flegmatick Humour which falls from the Head to the Lungs and stops the Winde-pipe c. And often times by watery Humors conveighed into the Lungs as in hydropical persons causeth an Asthma or difficulty of Breathing As touching the Cure of this Disease Especially in Hydropical and Scorbutical Constitutions In the first place make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they do not only make thin and cleanse but perfectly expel all tough and gross humours which for the most part ingender this Disease Or take of the choisest Agarick two drams Ginger one scruple Salt Gem three grains being grosly beaten infuse them all night in two ounces of sweet White-Wine and the distilled Water of Fennel and Wormwood of each one ounce strain it and adde thereto Oxymel of Squills half an ounce and the Electuary called Indi Majoris two drams make it into a Potion and drink it off all at once in the morning fasting Pills of Cochia and Agarick and Pills of Hiera Picra made up with Honey are also very profitable in such cases Sometimes strong Glisters will be of excellent use And notwithstanding making use of the aforesaid Medicines especially upon the intermitting days take of the following Julip for to my knowledge it is of excellent use Take the Distilled Water of Scabios small Cinamon-Water of each three ounces Syrup of Liquorish Syrup of Hoarhound Oxymel of Squills and Lohoch Sanum of each one ounce Spirit or Oyl of Vitriol twenty drops mix them well together and make a Julip thereof which take one or two Spoonfuls first and last two hours before Dinner and two hours after Or take Blew Currans one pound the Tops of Nettles two handfuls boil them in two quarts of Water to the consumption of half strain it and let the Patient drink often thereof Or take off the Syrup of Colts-foot Liquorish Hoarbound of each one ounce Oxymel simple half an ounce mix them and let the Patient take thereof often Or take the Roots of Elicampane Juniper-berries and Bay-berries husked of each half an ounce Sugar-candy one ounce being made into fine Powder with a sufficient quantity of Honey or Syrup of Hysop make them up into an Electuary of which take as much as a Nutmeg first and last c. Or take White Sugar-Candy one ounce Oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces mix them and give it as afore-directed Or take Flower of Sulphur half an ounce Cinamon in fine Powder one dram with a sufficient quantity of Hogs Fat make them up into Pills as big as gray Pease and take thereof three at a time first and last A Sea-Onion roasted and beaten well with a sufficient quantity of Honey and given to the Patient so much as a Nutmeg at a time is of excellent use Or take the tops of Rosemary Hysop of each one handful Figs Liquorish of each two ounces Being cut and bruised boil them in one quart of Spring Water to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto of the best Honey eight ounces let it just boil up again scum it and keep it for use of which take two or three spoonfuls first and last and at any other time This Method is not onely proper in the Asthma or difficulty in Breathing but for the Cough Bleeding is very necessary in this Distemper therefore open a Vein in the Fit especially if the Blood seem to abound But if the Disease be of long continuance bleed not without good Advice lest the Natural Heat should thereby be diminished and Flegm increased c. The Ointment made as followeth will also be very profitable Take Duck's and Hen's Fat of each one dram Oyl of Rue and Dill of each two drams Oyl of Orris half an ounce mix them together and anoint the Brest therewith first tubbing the same with a hot course Linnen Cloth Or take Oyl of Orris Camomil and sweet Almonds of each one ounce Hens Fat one dram the Powder of Orris and Marsh-Mallow-Roots of each one dram and a half the Meal of Fennugreek and
too long standing the pains may be eased and the Ulcers cured by the Medicines made as followeth Take Turpentine washed in Plantain-Water one ounce the choicest Rhubarb in fine Powder one ounce and a half Mercurius Dulcis two drams being mixed well together by beating them in a Mortar make Pills thereof as big as gray Pease of which let the Patient take two at night and three in the morning Or take Cassia newly drawn Syrup of Roses and Manna of each one ounce the best Agarick Rhubarb and Jallap all in fine powder of each two drams mix them together and take as much as a VValnut every morning fasting Or take Venice-Turpentine washed in Rose-water two ounces Powder of Liquorice half an ounce mix them well together and divide it into four parts of which let the Patient take every morning one part at a time fasting If these and such-like purge not sufficient make use of the Directions in the Chapter of the Ulcers in the Reins with which purge till you perceive the Urine to be clear from dregs pus or matter After which to heal and strengthen the parts Take Dragons-Blood Sealed Earth of each half an ounce Camphire one dram being made in fine Powder make it up into Pills with Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-Water whereof take three first and last Or take Powder of Juniper-berries and Liquorice of each a like and make it up into Pill with Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-VVater for they are of excellent use Or take the fore-mentioned Pills made up with Turpentine Cinamon and Nutmegs for they strengthen very much You may boil the Roots of Plantane and the Leaves of the same with the like quantity of the inward Bark of Elm in Spring-VVater and in this course drink often thereof CHAP. XXXI Of the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins OF this Distemper there are three sorts The first is VVhen the Sperm or Seed is shed against the Patients consent and for the most part is caused through weakness of the Retentive Virtue in the Vessels containing the same and sometimes through a Flux of the Spermatick Vessels which is many times watery and very thin and without any Appetite to Carnal Copulation yet sometimes it doth come forth with a kind of pleasure The second is a Nocturnal Polution through Dreams c. which men are most subject to whose Liver Reins and Seminary Vessels do abound with heat The third is a virulent Gonorrhea and oftentimes a Symptom that doth follow the French Disease VVhich Distemper is known by an issue from the secret parts not of Sperm but of corrupt and poysonous matter of divers colours which excoriates and ulcerates the Urinary passages from whence follows a very sharp and scalding heat and violent pain in making water the Patient not able to endure the erection of the Yard between the Glans and Prepuce c. often grows several pieces of Flesh much resembling Warts or Strawberries all being of evil consequence if not timely prevented or perfectly cured In order to which in the first place make use of the cooling Bolus made as followeth Take of the best Rhubarb one scruple Sal Prunella Mercurius Dulcis and Tartarum Vitriolatum of each ten grains Cassia newly extracted or the Lenitive Electuary from six to eight drams being mixed well together let the Patient take one part at night going to bed and the rest in the morning fasting Thus do every day or every second for ten days together Or take Extract of Rudii two drams Mercurius Dulcis well prepared two scruples with a sufficient quantity of the Juice of Fumatory make them up into twenty Pills which take two at night and three in the morning Or take Rosin of Jallap and Scamony prepared with Sulphur of each two drams Mercurius Dulcis one dram make them up into Pills with Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-VVater and let the Patient take thereof from one scruple to half a dram every day if strength permit Or take Rosin of Scamony Jallap Liquorice and Salt of Tartar of each two drams Mercurius Dulcis one dram make them up into a mass for Pills with Turpentine as afore-directed and take thereof from one scruple to half a dram or two scruples There are several Medicines that are compounded of crude Mercury c. which I know to be of excellent use if administred with discretion But those that are not willing to take Mercurial Medicines may in this Distemper also make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills not doubting of good success for therewith I have cured hundreds and very commonly without Astringent Medicines In the use of either of the Medicines above directed the more to ease the pains and to abate the violent sharpness and heat of Urine make use of the following Liquor Take Plantane Night-shade Mallows and Wood-Sorrel of each one handful the inward Bark of Elm half a handful boil them in one gallon of Running VVater to the consumption of half strain it and sweeten it with Honey and drink thereof three or four times a day Or take the Distilled Water of Red Roses Purstain Lettuce Mallows and Water-Lillies of each two ounces Syrup of Violets and Poppies of each one ounce and an half Sal Prunella one dram and a half being mixed together take thereof three or four spoonfuls at a time often repeating the same Or take the distilled Water of Winter-Cherries four ounces the distilled Water of the Sperm of Frogs two ounces mix them together and sweeten it with Syrup of VVater-Lillies and drink thereof as afore-directed Or give to the Patient one dram of the powder of the Troches of VVinter-Cherries in half a pint of the Decoction of the Leaves and Flowers of Common Mallows The Distilled Water of the Sperm of Frogs and thin Milk of each alike sweetned with Syrup of Poppies or with Diacodium giveth ease in a short time The Patient may drink Milk and VVater mixed together sweetened with Syrup of Marsh-Mallows or the Decoction of Mallows alone is of great profit drunk as ordinary drink Or take the four Cold Seeds and the Seeds of Quinces and White Poppies of each alike being boiled in a sufficient quantity of Spring-water sweetned and took as afore-directed is also very beneficial After you have purged sufficiently 〈◊〉 the pains abated if need require make use of the astringent Medicines made as followeth Take old Conserve of Red-Roses Venice-Turpentine washed in Plantane-Water of each half an ounce the Powder of the Bark of Black Thorn one ounce sealed Earth half an ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Pomgranates make an Electuary thereof which take as much as a Nutmeg at a time every third or fourth hour Or take of the Seeds of Hemp Lettuce and Agnus Castus of each half an ounce the Powder of the best Sarsaperilla one ounce and a half with a sufficient quantity of the Syrup of VVater-Lillies make an Electuary thereof which take as afore-directed The astringent Medicines directed in
Steers Gall six Ounces of the best Aqua Vitae Oyl of Turpentine three Ounces boil it again two or three walms and keep it for use With which precious Balm anoint the paralitick Member twice a day How to Cure the Palsey in the Tongue First let the body be well purged with the Pills afore directed Or Take of the Pills of Assaiereth Cochia Troches or Extract of Agarick of each two Scruples with a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Sage make them up into Pills ten in number whereof take two at night and three in the Morning The next day take Mustard made with Elder Vinegar and often chew in your mouth in the same manner you may use Pellitory of Spain Mustard Seed or hold in your mouth half an Ounce of Spirit of Lavender mixing therewith one or two Grains of the Powder of Euphorbium all which have been known of wonderful effect In such cases some apply blistering Plaisters to the Nape of the neck For the Palsey in the Hands Take Elder-leaves and make a decoction thereof in strong Beer add thereto good store of Mustard and bath your hands therein hot Some rub the Hands with Camomil with good success Or anoint them well with the Oyntments afore directed and wear Hare Skins upon the parts affected For the Palsey in the Bladder and Yard When the Palsey is in the Bladder the Urine is stopped and sometimes it passeth away without the consent of the Patient So annoint the lower part of the Belly and Privy parts with the following Oyntment Take Oyl of Nard Rue Cummin of each half an Ounce Opoponax Castor and Galbanum dislolved in Butter of each a quarter of an Ounce being mixed well together use it as afore directed and inject a small quantity thereof into the Bladder warm but if the Urine be stopped then first force the Patient to make Water by putting up into the Yard a Catheter The Palsey in the Yard doth also stop the Urine the Sperme and doth hinder Copulation So make use of the same Remedies directed for the Bladder Or take the Oyl of Pepper Euphorbium and Costinum of each an equal quantity with Wax make them up into an Oyntment and anoint the Yard therewith You may anoint the Hips and Loins with the Oyntment directed for the Back and give the Patient to drink Medicines that will provoke Urine Also the Spirit of Castor or the Powder thereof in the distilled Water of Lavender is very effectual Or let him make use of the Medicines made as followeth that have power to erect the Yard Take Diasatyrion one Ounce Powder of Castor one Dram being mixed together take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time And Bath the Yard with Wine wherein hath been boiled Sage and Elder with a small quantity of Pellitory of Spain CHAP. VIII Of the Convulsion or Cramp THe Cramp is a Disease in which the Sinews are drawn or pluckt up against the Patients will Of which there are three sorts The first is called in Latine Distentio and that is when the Neck doth remain altogether without motion and not to be turned to either side but must be held upright The second is called Tensio ad Anteriora in which Disease the Head and Neck are drawn down to the Breast The third is called Tensio ad Posteriora in which Distemper the Head is attracted or drawn backward down to the Shoulders and Back The Causes of this Disease according to Hypocrates are supposed to be two that is to say fullness and emptiness of the Sinews in the body and sometimes it hapneth through the biting and stinging of venemous Creatures and the over much use of Venery more especially when it is made use of upon a full Stomack is the cause of this Disease and many times it is caused through Embecillity or weakness and by the loss and want of Blood If the Convulsion or Cramp be caused of fullness give to the Patient Diet that is hot and dry But if it be caused of emptiness his diet ought to be moist therefore let him be nourished with fat Broths and Flesh of easy and light digestion Let his Drink be small and thin Wine c. except he chance to be in a Feaver then let him make use of Barley Water and the decoction of Cinamon and let him also be provoked to sleep with Diacodium or with the Syrup of Poppies c. He ought to use no exercise neither Medicines that empty the body and let his drink be such that is frequently given in Hectick Feavers The following Glister will also prove of excellent use Take Betony Marjoram Sage Mercury wild Betony and the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Caraway and Coriander Seeds of each half an Ounce being bruised and cut small boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and take one Pint thereof to which add Hiera simple one Ounce and a half Diaphaenicon one Ounce Oyl of Rue two or three Ounces Sal Prunella one Dram mix them well together and make it up into a Glister which administer warm to the Patient After which if the body be Plethory or full let blood and that in a large quantity out of the middle Vein but take it forth by degrees and not all at once After which give to the Patient the Drink made as followeth five Ounces at a time first and last Take Betony Marjoram Sage Hysop of each one handfull Carduus Water Germander the lesser Centaury of each half a handfull Annis and Caraway Seeds of each half an Ounce cut and bruise them small and with three Pints of Mede or Metheglin mixed therewith boil them for an Hour and a half after which strain it and add thereto Syrup of Staecados and Betony of each three Ounces and take it as afore directed warm After which make use of the following Pills Take the Troches of Agarick Sagapen Pills of Faetida of each one Scruple Troches of Alhandal five Grains with Honey of Roses make them up into five Pills which let the Patient take after his first sleep You may anoint the parts affected especially the Nape of the Neck and Back with the Oyntment and Oyl directed in the Chapter of the Palsey Or bath the parts with the following Bath Take Ground-Pine Sage Betony Camomil Origan the Roots of Marsh Mallows Elicampane of each two Ounces Seeds of Faenugreek three Ounces Sulphur one Pound Alum half a Pound being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water and make a Bath thereof with which bath the Patient in the Morning before dinner and rub it well in over all his body if need require or else in the particular Member that is affected After which anoint the Nape of his Neck and Back and all parts affected with the Oyntment made as followeth Take Oyl of Earth-worms white Lillies of each half an Ounce Oyl of Costinum Turpentine of each three Drams with a
taking away that which flows to the Breast In the first place if the Liver be hot breath a Vein for oftentimes it is observed that Men troubled with a Catarrh have a hot Liver but a cold Brain but if the Liver is not hot and the Patient in Years and no great 〈◊〉 of Humours to be sent to the Brain from other parts you may well forbear bleeding And make use of the following Glister Take Origan Marjoram Betes Mallows Nercury of each half a handfull Dill Camomil â—â—d Melilot Flowers of each one Pugil Rosemary â—â—owers two Pugils Caraway Seeds half an Ounce Cut and bruise them small and boil them in a sufficient quantity of Water to the consumption of half strain it and to one Pint herof add of Benedicta Laxativa half an Ounce Hiera simple one Ounce common Salt me Dram mix them and make thereof a Clister and put it up warm After which make use of the following Potion Take the Roots of Fennel Liquorice Sparagus of each half an Ounce Balm Betony Hysop Rosemary Dill of each half a handfull Flower of Staecados and the lesser Centaury of each two Pugils Ginger half a Dram Cinamon one Dram Caraway Seed two Drams cut and bruise them and boil them in four Pints of Hydromel in some convenient Vessel for the space of two hours then strain it and add thereto Syrup of Betony Hysop Staecados of each two Ounces being mixed well together take five Ounces warm every day three hours before supper The Pills made as followeth are also good in this Distemper Take Pills of Agarick and Cochia of each half a Dram with Honey of Roses make then up into five Pills whereof take two at night and three in the Morning Or Take Diacatholicon and Diaphanicon of each half an Ounce the distilled Water of Betony and Hysop of each two Ounces being mixed together make a Potion thereof and take it in the Morning six hours before Dinner Or Take my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills one at night and two in the Morning more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient for they bâ—yond all Medicines carry off sharp salt and watry Humours so helps the Catarrh and all other defluxions of Rhume either hot or cold The day following after you have purged according to directions it will be necessary that you make use of the following sweating Potion Take Conserve of Rosemary and Venice Treacle of each two Drams the distilled Water of Juniper Berries two ounces Mix it make it into a Potion and take it in the Morning fasting and sweat as strength will permit When the defluxion falls upon the Jaws Lungs and Stomack make use of the Medicines that causeth sneesing which are made as followeth Take the Juice of Red Betes the Juice of Marjoram of each half an Ounce Virginâ— Honey one Dram Mix it together and make it warm and snuff it up into the Nostrils two or three times every Morning a small quantity at a time Or Take the Powder of black Hellebor and Sugar in equael parts being made in fine Powder snuff it up into the Nose But if the defluxion falls upon the Eyes and Nose in particular then make use of the owing Gargarism Take Sage Hysop Roses of each half a handfull Cubebes two Drams Roots of Pellitory of Spain Rocket Seed of each half an Ounce Passularum one Ounce Cut and Bruise them and boil them in Vinegar and Water of each one pound to the consumption of half then strain it and add thereto Honey of Roses two Ounces Make it into a Gargarisme and Gargle the Mouth therewith every Morning fasting And to dry up the superfluous moisture that falls from the Brain upon the Lungs Take Diambra Diamoschi Dulcis of each half a Dram Conserve of Rosemary one Scruple the best Cinamon Mace Cubebes of each two Scruples white Sugar dissolved in the distilled Water of Juniper four Ounces being all mixed well together add thereto Chymical Oyl of Aniseed ten drops the Chymical Oyl of Cinamon two drops and take a small quantity thereof first and last Laudanum is also of most excellent use given from two Grains to five going to bed likewise you may give an Ounce or an Ounce and a half of Syrup of Poppies in the manner aforesaid Blistering Plaisters rightly applyed and Issues made behind the Ears are very profitable to help distillations from the Head there are many other Distempers that spring from the Brain which here I must omit CHAP. X. Of the Eyes THE affects of the Eyes are many as inflamations or hot impostumes c. Caused of a Distillation from the Brain or of corruption of Blood mixed with Choller and oftentimes by stripes or blows and such like The Cure of some Distempers in the Eyes may be performed as followeth For inflamations in the Eyes in the first place it will be necessary if strength and age will permit to open a Vein taking forth a sufficient quantity of Blood After which let the Patient make use of the following Potion Take the bark of Mirobolans two Drams the choisest Rhubarb one Dram white Ginger one Scruple being bruised infuse them one night in six Ounces of Goats Milk then strain it and add thereto half an Ounce of the Lenitive Electuary and make it into a Potion which take in the Morning six hours before Dinner Or Take Pills of Cochiae and Aureg of each one Scruple and a half with three or four drops of the water of Fennel make them up into seven Pills whereof take three at night going to bed and four in the morning but first annoint the Eyes with a drop or two of the Oyl of Fennel Or Take the Pills called Pilulae Alaphanginae and the Extract of Rudij of each one Scruple with two or three drops of the Chymical Oyl of Fennel make them up into five Pills whereof take two at night and three in the morning repeating either of them as need shall require For the inflamation of the Eyes Take Oyl of Roses three Drams Tutia and Camphir of each one Dram with a sufficient quantity of white Wax make them up into an Oyntment and going to bed annoint the little Corner of the Eye therewith and let as much go in as a Lin-seed and close your Eyes till it be dissolved Or Take the White of one new laid Egge and as much Rose water of Camphir one Grain being mixed well together spread it upon fine Hemp Towe and apply it to the Eyes and when it is dry make it moist again with the foresaid Medicine This draweth forth the inflamation and mitigateth the pain Or Take Rose Water and Womans Milk of each two Ounces Camphir four Grains mix them together and drop thereof into the Corners of the Eyes first and last or make Lint or Wool moist therein and apply it to the Eyes going to bed Or Take of the great Flies that in the Spring time creep forth of hard Walls and
distill them of which Water drop into the Corners of the Eyes and it will take away the inflamation and redness Or Take the distilled Water of Beech-tree Flowers and make Rags moist therein and apply them to the Eyes Or Take the Water distilled from the Flowers of Hogs Fennel Garden Fennel Celendine and Elder Flowers of each a like quantity and make Jews-ears moist therein and apply them to the Eyes Or make use of the water of Hogs Fennel alone in the foresaid manner for it is of excellent use Or Take white Vitriol half an Ounce white Sugarcandy one Ounce Camphir two Drams being beat to Powder add thereto of the distilled Water of Eye-bright and Fennel of each one Pint and in a new Earthen pot being covered close let it boil gently to the consumption of the fourth part when cold put it into a Glass and keep it close stopped for use And dip a Linnen Rag therein and apply it to the Eye-lids being first shut for it is of wonderfull vertue in such cases How to Cure the Cataract or Pearls in the Eyes Take a Copper Bason which is not Tinned and spread in the bottom thereof a sufficient quantity of Salt then a quantity of Strawberries then Salt so do till the Bason be full after which cover the Bason very close and put it under ground one foot or more deep for the space of a Month then take it forth and distill it of which precious Water drop into the Eyes Morning and Evening Or take the Roots of Burr-docks Cichory and Celandine of each a like quantity bruise them and sew them up into a piece of Cloth or Silk and hang them about the Neck and when they are dry take fresh and when you are well burn the Boots Some have found good by wearing the Roots of water Pepper seven or eight in number hanged about the Neck which Roots must be gathered upon St. Batholomews day before the Sun rise Or Take Hemlock one small handfull Bay Salt two Ounces being beat well together and apply it to the contrary Hand-rist for the space of 24 hours which will take away the Pin and Web at four five times dressing Take Borau and burn it till it be very white and dry then beat it to fine Powder and with a Quill blow a small quantity thereof into the Eyes Or Take white Vitriol two Drams one Clove of white Ginger Camphir one Scruple dissolved in one Spoonfull of Aqua Vitae put them all together in six Ounces of Rose Water in a Glass well stopped up and so let it stand for three Weeks then drop it into the Eyes as afore directed and you will find it to be a very good remedy to take off the Cataract Or Take the Stone called Lapis Judaicus white Vitriol of each a like beat it to fine Powder and put it into the hollow part of an Egg roasted hard first being cut through the middle and the Yelk only taken forth after which joyn the Egg together again and so let it continue certain days in a Glass or some Earthen Vessel well glazed then strain it and add thereto a sufficient quantity of the distilled Water of Penyroyal and stop it up very close in a Glass and cover it with Past and set it into an Oven with Brown Bread and when it is cold take it forth and keep it for use and with Lint or fine Linnen Rags apply it to the Eye-lids being close shut repeating the same till the filme or spots depart Or Take Red Ants Eggs and put them into a glazed Vessel and stop it close then cover the same with Rye Past and Bake it with Brown Bread and when it is cold break the Pot and take forth the Water very carefully and keep it for use of which drop into the Eyes as cause requires for it doth not only help the Cataract but most infirmities of the Eyes For Blows in the Eyes Take the Roots of Cichory and bruise them very well and mix therewith the White of an Egge and apply it to the Eye Or take Celandine and Agrimony of each a like quantity bruise them well together and apply the same to the Eyes repeating it as often as need require This is good for most Diseases in the Eyes and abateth the pains caused by inflamations For swelling of the Eyes Take a fine Linnen Rag made moist in Wine and apply it to the Eyes and upon that another made moist in Sorrel or Rose Water For the Pin and Web. Take one Dram of the fine Powder of Liquorice Ginger half a Dram being mixed well together blow a small quantity thereof into the Eyes and it helpeth Another excellent Remedy for the Cataract Pin and Web. Take good store of Crickets which commonly are in Bake-houses c. bruise them well and strain forth the Juice and drop one drop into the Eye thrice a day and though the Patient be as it were blind he shall be restored Ear Wax put into the Eyes is also of excellent use so is the Oyl that may be taken forth of the great Bone in a Gooses Wing The Gall of a Cock mixed with the like quantity of Honey and the Eyes annointed therewith clears the sight The Gall of an Hare and the Gauls of Eles are also very good Or Take the Juice of Alehoof which is the right ground Ivy the Juice of Celandine and Field Daisies of each a small quantity and after you have clarified it mix therewith a little fine Sugarcandy and drop it into the Eyes first and last for it is not only a good Remedy for all pains redness and waterness of the Eyes but for the Pin and Web and all manner of Filmes growing over the sight The Juice of Alehoof alone mixed with two or three Corns of Bay Salt and a little Honey will effect the same Much more might be said touching the Diseases of the Eyes and the several Cures thereof which I shall leave to the skillfull Oculist Only for all Rhumes hot sharp salt and Watry Humours which deflux or fall upon the Eye s though caused through the worst of Distempers as the French Pox c. make use of my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills according to Directions Or if possible of a better Medicine which did I but know I would inform you of CHAP. XI Of the Ears THE Ears are incident to many infirmities as violent pains sound and noise deafness thick and slow hearing inflamations c. The pain in the Ears is often caused through cold taken in Journeys cold Baths also it happeneth to many through not distempers and sometimes through inflamations and many times sharp Humours coming of the French Pox c. do absolutely cause pains and pricking in the Ears The sound and noise in the Ears is for the most part ingendred of a windy Vapour or of tough and gross Humours and many times through the weakness of the Members as it often happens upon the recovery of a Disease
in a Brasen Vessel to the consumption of half Or take a whole Pomegranate and boyl the same in wine and snuff it up into the nostrils Or take Sugar of Lead dissolved in Plantain water and syring the nostrills which will both dry and heal Or make tents of dried Gentian and put them up into the nostrils for they will dilate or open themselves Then take salt of Gemme two drams Mastick and Frankinsence of each one dram Being made into powder add thereto the juice of Celandine one ounce oyle Olive half a pint and let them be boyled to an ointment after which anoint the tents therewith putting them up as afore directed And sometimes with a feather touch the Ulcers with strong Vinegar wherein is mixed the powder of Album Graecum if after all this there remain pains in the nostrills Take oyle of Mirtles Roses of each an ounce Litharg of Gold and burnt Lead of each two scruples fine Bole Venus white Lead the powder of Pomgranate peels of each one scruple white Wax as much as is sufficient to make them up into an oyntment which annoint the part affected therewith In the cure of these Ulcers and such like in the beginning the head ought to be strengthened and dried because they often happen through corrupt humors flowing from the head to the nostrils so in the first place shave the Head and apply thereto the Plaster called Emplastrum Stephaniaion c. Or anoint the head with oyle of Roses wherein is mixed a small quantity of Roch Allum in sine powder Or take unripe Galls and Willow leaves bruised and mixed with Vinegar and apply to the head by which means the foresaid Remedies shall have the better effect For the bleeding at the Nose if strength and fulness permit open the vein in the Arm and take it forth at several times and not all at once it is also good to put the Patients feet in hot water rubbing them up and down c. and strong binding of the hand wrists and above the knees c. is also of excellent use let large Cupping-glasses be fastened to the sides if the Blood flow from the right nostril fasten the Cupping-glass upon the Liver and if from the left nostril upon the Spleen if from both nostrils apply Cupping glasses to both places you may also apply them to the Shoulders with Scarification Apply to the Forehead juice of Lettuce Sorral Plantain Sheppards purse and knot Grass with a spunge c. Or apply the Herbs bruised to the foresaid place or the distilled waters of the same with linnen Cloaths made moist therein or apply to the privy parts linnen Cloaths made moist with Vinegar or cold water blow into the Patients Nostrils a small quantity of the Powder of a Toad prepared or mix a little of the same with Paste and apply it to the Pallate with your fingers If that take no effect give to the Patient four Grains of the Powder thereof in two or three spoonfuls of Plantain water or in the distilled water of Hogs Dung for it hath been found effectual where no other Medicine would prevail Or take the juice of the leaves of Nettles a quarter of a pint at a time sweetened with Sugar for it is also a certain remedy against bleeding at the Nose c. Or make Tents with Lint and dip them in the juice of Nettles and put them up into the Nostrils Or you may burn the blood that cometh forth of the Patients Nose and blow thereof up into the Nostrils for it is also of excellent use Or take Egge-shells wherein Chicken have been hatched being made into fine Powder blow it up into the Nostrils Or take the Powder of the best Aloes and roll it up with Wool Or the hair cut off the belly of a Dog make Tents therewith and put them up as afore directed How to cure the Polypus which is a fleshy matter growing in the Nose After you have applied the forementioned remedies c. to the head and purged sufficiently Take the juice of the Cyprus Tree and dip Tents therein and often put them up into the Nostrils The juice of Aron roots commonly called Cuckow pint roots used as afore directed will effect the same The juice of Garden Dragons are also very good for the purpose aforesaid c. Or take three ripe Pomegranates the one sower the other sweet and the other between both bruise them in a Wooden or Marble Mortar strain it and boil the juice to an Ointment and dip a rag or lint therein and put it up into the Nostrils for it dryeth and consumes the matter without pain or sharpness Or take the flowers and peels of Pomegranates Shumach of each one pound Grapes that are not ripe one pound and a half infuse them in a sufficient quantity of Vinegar 24 hours after which distil it then add thereto Roch Allum half a pound White Vitriol one ounce and a half and distil them altogether the second time and touch the part often therewith but if you perceive that it is not strong enough add to the fore-mentioned water a small quantity of Orpiment and Sandarach Or take red Precipitate one scruple Honey of Roses half an ounce being mixed well together apply to the part affected with a Tent. Or take the white Ointment of Roses one ounce red Precipitate one dram mix them well together and apply it as afore directed for they are both of wonderful virtue to consume proud flesh You may also take Plantain water one ounce Spirit of Vitriol two drams and mix them together and touch the Polypus often therewith Or in the same manner use the water that the Goldsmiths separate Gold withal called the second water How to cure the putrid or rotten Ulcers in the Nose caused by the French Pox. Take Plantain water two ounces Syrup of Mulberries and Honey of Roses of each half an ounce Sugar of Lead two drams and siringe the Nostrils often therewith And often anoint the Nostrils with a feather made moist in the Ointments afore directed mixed with red Precipitate with which I have cured many Or firinge the Nostrils with the distilled water of Cucummets and strong Vinegar in equal parts sweetned with syrup of Mulberries and the syrup made with the Bramble-berries after which apply Tents dipped in the following Ointment Take Album Graecum three drams Vinegar of Squills and Honey of Roses of each half an ounce Mercurius Dulcis one dram mix them very well together and apply it as afore directed changing the same as need require Or take springe water and boil therein a sufficient quantity of the inward bark of an Elm-tree strain it and make it somewhat sharp with spirit of Vitriol and often siringe the Nostrils therewith Or wash the Ulcers three or four times a day with the water made as followeth Take Mercury sublinate commonly called White Mercury half a dram Roch-Allum one dram both in fine Powder Red-Rose-water four ounces Plantain water
twelve ounces boil them altogether in some new-glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and keep it for the foresaid use Or take Plantain water and Red-Rose-water of each one pint Roch-Allum and Mercury sublimate of each two drams Camphir one dram and a half powder what is to be powdered and boil them altogether in a glased Vessel to the consumption of the third part as afore directed which keep close stopped for use for they both dry exceedingly you may sometimes anoint the part with the forementioned Ointment or with the Ointment of Roses alone to keep the Ulcer supple c. CHAP. XIII Of the Tooth-Ach THe Tooth-Ach is caused several ways either from a flux of humours cold and flegmy or hot and watry sharp and salt c. And those humours deflux to the Membranes of the Jaws and to the holes wherein the Teeth are and to the Nerve placed in the root of the Jaw c. and sometimes the pain in the Teeth is caused through inflammation of the Gums c. but when a swelling riseth upon the Gums or Jaws the pain of the Teeth cease Much more might be said as touching the pains of the Teeth c. which here I must omit If the pain comes of hot humours open a Vein on the same-side in the Arm but if the pain come through cold bleeding will not be profitable And the day following let the Patient purge with my Pills c. and if need require apply blistering Plaisters to the neck or behind the ears which do much draw back the humours Or take of the best Aqua Vitae and Sallet-Oyl of each one good spoonful Pepper beat to fine Powder from two scruples to a dram being mixed well together drop two or three drops into the contrary ear and stop it up with black wool dipt therein and lie upon the other side This is most proper if the pain come of cold Or take of the best Opium and Bees Wax of each a like quantity and work it well together before the fire with your fingers wherewith mix a small quantity of Lint and put it up into the hollow Tooth for if the pain come of heat it will give present ease and cureth in a short time If the pain come through cold take Sugar and Pepper beat in fine Powder being melted together in a Brass Copper or Silver Ladle and made up in round Balls while hot held between the Teeth gives present ease To hinder the defluxion apply to the Temples the Plaisters made as followeth Take Gum Elemi and Mastick of each alike melt them together being spread upon Silk apply them to the Temples The Plaister called Emplastrum ad Herniam applied as afore directed Or the Plaister of Mastick is likewise effectual An excellent remedy for all manner of pains in the Teeth Take Pellitory of Spain two ounces and a half cut and bruise it small after which put it into a Glass-Vessel and add thereto one pint of the best Sallet-Oyl hot shake them well together and stop the Vessel close and let it stand in the Sun or some other warm place for 14 days stirring or shaking the same once a day after which strain it and add thereto white Vitriol half an ounce Amber five drams both in very fine Powder and put it up in the Glass again being close stopped let it stand for one week shaking it every day as afore directed and so keep it for use and upon occasion with a feather drop one drop thereof upon the aking Tooth or Gums keeping the same for a small time in the mouth and it will help Or dissolve in a quarter of a pint of Spring-water one dram of the Powder of Roman Vitriol and hold thereof in the mouth Or take the distilled water of Rosemary and keep the same hot in the mouth and it will give ease Or take red Sealing-Wax two drams Roche Allum burnt one dram mix them well together and apply it to the Teeth or put thereof into the hollow Tooth Or take the Powder of double refined Sugar and Powder of White Pepper of each alike being melted in a Brazen or Coppet Ladle make it up into small Balls and hold them between your Teeth and it giveth present ease in all cold causes CHAP. XIV Of the Blackness and Rottenness of the Teeth and Exulceration of the Gums c. BLackness and Rottenness in the Teeth is often contracted by the evil humours sticking to them which in process of time doth corrode and cause them to be rotten c. The cause is through defluxion of vitious humours c. or of filthy vapours that ascend that are ingendered of evil nourishment from the distemper of the stomach c. which corrupt the good nourishment sometimes falls or blows causeth the Teeth to be corrupt and often times by taking too much Mercury inwardly or outwardly applied to cure the Pox c. And there are many women that frequently make use of Mercurial waters to beautifie their faces or to make themselves more fair by which means their Teeth are made black and corrupt c. To make them white again Take Spirit of Vitriol and dip there in brown Paper and roll the Paper up into little Balls and rub the Teeth therewith Oyl of Sulphur used in the like manner will also cause the Teeth to be exceeding white Or you may take Spring-water and drop therein a sufficient quantity of Spirit of Vitriol or Oyl of Sulphur and so gargle the Mouth and Teeth therewith Some take Aqua-fortis and dip Paper therein and rub the Teeth therewith but you must have a care that you touch not the Gums Or take white Corral and Pearl of each two drams beat them into fine Powder and rub your Teeth therewith and they will become very white Or take the ashes of Vine-branches and rub your Teeth therewith Or take the hard Crusts of Rye or Barley bread burn them and make it to Powder and the Teeth rubbed therewith will cause them to be white To make rotten Teeth sound Take the juice of Water-Cresses and White-Wine in equal parts mix them together and rub the Teeth and Gums therewith and often gargle the Mouth with the same The ashes of Tobacco is of excellent use to cleanse the Teeth and to make them white Or take Allum white Corral the Roots of Snakeweed of each half an Ounce beat them to powder and often rub the teeth Or take Pumestone white Corral Alablaster fish Bones Tarter Orris-Roots Pebble-stones of each two Drams Cinnamon Cloves of each one dram and a half Sal-Armoniack half a dram Amber-greese and Musk of each five grains being mixed and made into fine powder rub the Teeth therewith and wash your mouth with Rose-water and Vinegar or with Spring-water and Vinegar which will serve as well Or take common Salt white Marble Pomestone white Corral of each two drams Mastick Citron-peels of each one dram Musk three grains being
to three or four ounces to which add two ounces of the distilled water of Scabios wherein have been first infused Yellow Sanders and the best Rubarb of each four scruples Manna one ounce Syrup of Roses three drams add the two latter last being mixed together make a potion thereof which take in the morning But in the beginning of this Disease you may give stronger Purges nothing more proper than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills for they above all purging Medicines carry off the salt and sharp Catarrh which is the principal Cause of such Ulcers After which make use of the following Medicine with which I have done wonders in such cases Take White-Rose-water one ounce white Sugar-Candy six drams the Yolk of one new-laid Egge new Milk warm from the Cow or made so a quarter of a pint being beaten well together let the Patient drink it all at once repeating the same morning and evening for some time together You may believe me this very Medicine is worth an hundred times the price of the Book which I freely communicate To young Children you may make use of a wholesom Womans Milk and being mixed as aforesaid will serve three or four times but the best way is still to make it up fresh so take but the third or fourth part of each Goats Milk is also of wonderful use more especially if taken as afore-directed And be assured that Milk is one of the best Medicines against the Ptisick or Consumption Another Excellent Remedy against the Consumption Take all the Blood that will be had forth of a Pig or Swine in his full strength and stir it as it is drawn forth that it may not congeal to which add the Powder of Cloves Cinamon Mace and Ginger of each one ounce Saffron and the Flowers of Rosemary of each two drams and forthwith distil it in a Glass with a very gentle fire The Dose is from three Spoonfuls to six or eight in so much Tent or Sack three times a day Or take the Powder called Pulvis Haley one ounce Conserve of Red Roses two ounces Conserve of Cowslips one ounce with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Violets make them up into an Electuary and make it somewhat sharp by mixing therewith some few drops of Oyl of Vitriol or Sulphur And take thereof first and last as much as a Walnut for it is of wonderful profit to such that are Hectick Or take Flower of Brimston and the powder of the best Frankincense of each one scruple Saffron three grains put them into an Apple the Core being cut forth and roast it after which let the Patient eat it with White Sugar-Candy for ten or twelve dayes together New strong Ale wherein is boiled Burdock-Roots Liquorish and Honey is of Excellent Use as I have often proved and the Poor may with much ease attain to this Drink The Herb Burnet made into fine Powder and White Sugar-Candy of each one dram taken often in Broth is also very good Or take White-Wine three pints Sugar-Candy four ounces the Roots of Elicampane one ounce Green Coltsfoot two ounces Violet Flowers one ounce and a half the Roots of Angelica ten drams being cut and bruised very small boil them in a Stone Bottle close stopped the Cork tied down with a piece of strong Linnen Cloth for three hours in a pot of water and open it not till it be cold after which strain it and take three or four spoonfuls first and last and at any time of the day With this very Medicine after I had gently purged a Painter I perfectly cured him in few days though he was by all his friends left for a dead man he was so much consumed and did stink that none could endure to come near him I know an eminent Physitian and several other persons that have for these many years been preserved by the foresaid Medicine taking it according to my Directions and by taking the old Conserve of Red Roses when he took not the former Sugar of Roses drunk in New Milk made as followeth is also of most admirable Use Take of the best Red-Rose-Buds the whites being cut off and dried suddenly in the Sun two ounces Double-Refined-Sugar two pounds being melted in the Juice of Roses and Rose-Water of each four ounces Being by degrees consumed put in the powder of the Rose-Leaves and mix them well together and put it upon a Marble Stone and make it up into Lozenges according to Art Natural Balsom is of excellent use for such that have Ulcers in the Lungs if you make White-Sugar-Candy up into Pills as big as Gray Pease therewith and take one fasting every Morning for some Time together CHAP. XXI Of the Pain in the Stomach PAin in the Stomach is commonly caused through corrupt and poysonous fretting Humours contained therein and oftentimes by Worms gnawing the Tunicles thereof Sometimes through sharp and salt flegm and through putrid matter sent into the Stomach from some imposthume broke either in the Brest or Liver Sharp Vapours from close corrupt Humours sometimes cause pain sometimes wind contained in the hollow part of the Stomach doth not onely cause pain therein but swelling c. If the pain of the Stomach be caused through flatulent or windy matter make use of the Glister made as followeth Take Calamint Penniroyal Rue Origan the lesser Centaury of each one handful Comin-seeds Annis Fennel and Carrot-seeds of each two drams being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of half then strain it and adde to one Pint thereof Benedicta Laxativa one ounce Diacatholicon half an ounce Oyl of Rue and Dill of each one ounce the Chymical Oyl of Juniper and Bay-berries of each seven drops being well mixed together make a Glister thereof and put it up according to Art Or take Hyppocrass and Sack of each half a pint Oyl of Rue and Aqua-vitae of each one ounce Oyl of Cinamon and Juniper of each six drop being mixed well together put it up Glister-ways Or take of the best White-Wine twelve ounces Oyl of Amber Cloves Juniper and Cinamon of each five drops mix them together and put it up warm for it giveth present ease After which Take of the Pills of Hiera with Agarick two drams Oyl of Nutmegs and Janiper-berries of each five drops mix them together and make thereof fifteen Pills of which let the Patient take two at night and three in the morning until they are all taken But if the pain cometh from sharp and Cholerick Humours or Flegm Imposthumes or Ulcerations there is no better Medicine than my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills The more to ease the pain Take Diaphaenicon three or four drams Phylonium Romanum two scruples the distilled Water of Camomil four ounces Syrup of Mints half an ounce being mixed together give it to the Patient going to Bed for this very Medicine hath done much good Or take Diasatyrion one ounce Sal Prunella half an ounce Oyl of
Cinamon three drops mix them well together and take as much as a Nutmeg every morning in Wormwood-wine or Beer repeating the same as need require If the Stomach be cold or full of viscous and tough flegm drink sometimes notwithstanding taking the Pills the Liquor made as followeth Take Pellitory of Spain two drams Gallingal one dram bruise them grosly and boil it in a pint and a half of the best White-Wine to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and drink a quarter of a pint at a time for four mornings together fasting after it each time two hours and with so doing you will have cause to give me thanks Or take Cinamon half an ounce Cardamom-seeds Cloves and Gallangal Saffron White-Pepper Bay-berries of each one dram Double-Refined-Sugar three ounces beat all these into fine Powder mix therewith a small quantity of the best Sack stirring it well together and eat thereof with a little Bread first and last c. Or take Carduus Centaury and Balm Wormwood and Agrimony of each a like quantity boil them in new Milk after which turn it with White-wine or Ale then strain it and drink a good dranght thereof hot as afore-directed for it taketh away the pain of the Stomach to admiration Or take Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon Ginger of each two drams Gallingal one dram Mace three drams Sugar one pound being all beat to very fine powder take thereof a small quantity at any time for it is very profitable Or to take away the pain of the Stomach make use of the Medicines following Take Oyl of Nutmegs Cloves and Oyl of Mace of each a like being mixed together anoint the pit of the Stomach therewith Or you may take red Mints being cut small mix them with Rye Paste and warm it in a Frying-Pan and apply it to the Stomach and when it is cold make it hot again and do as afore-directed Or take white Frankincense being spread upon Sheeps Leather apply it hot to the Stomach and let it there remain four or five days Or apply to the Stomach the following Plaister Take Bread four ounces and boyl it in a sufficient quantity of Milk with half a handful of Spermint cut small and towards the latter end of the boyling add thereto the yolks of two or three Eggs Saffron in powder one dram and apply thereof hot to the pit of the Stomach These and such-like I have often known to take away the violent pain in the Stomach And after the pain is gone take now and then a dose of the foresaid Pills lest it return again CHAP. XXII Of the Weakness of the Liver THe weakness of the Liver is caused by Distempers which are either hot cold moist or dry The hot Distemper doth not only burn up the humours which were before in the Liver but the Humours conveighed thereunto by the Mesentery-Veins The cold Distemper doth cause the crude and flegmatick humor that already is contained in the Liver to be gross and very tough and exceeding hard to be removed and the Humours conveighed to the Liver are left many times but half digested The dry Distemper doth cause the Humours to be the more dry and thick And the moist Distemper of the Liver doth cause the Humours to become more thin and watry c. The Signs of this Disease are many which I shall here omit And so come to shew the way to cure the hot Distemper of the Liver c. In the first place let the Patient make use of such Diet as will by degrees cool as Wood-Sorrel Endive Lettuce Sow-thistles and Succory being boiled in equal parts of white-wine and water strain it and sweeten it with the Syrup of Violets whereof let the Patient take as often as he pleaseth Or take Liverwort Endive and Succory of each two or three handfuls Barly husked one pound being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and keep it for the foresaid use You may adde there to some Syrup of Pomgranates or Syrup of Vinegar-Simple Let the Patient eat Raisins of the Sun Oranges Lemons and sweet Almonds and let his meat be of light digestion as Chickens Larks and Veal c. And abstain from all Meats or Drinks wherein is Honey mixed And let him make use of the Lozenges made as followeth Take Raisins of the Sun one ounce Powder of Diatrion Santalon Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dram and a half the Flowers of Endive and Red Roses of each two scruples White Sanders Flowers of Squinant of each one scruple White Sugar Double-Refined five or six ounces and make them up into Lozenges with the distilled VVater of Cichory and Endive for they much strengthen and cool the Liver Or make Pulvis Haly into an Electuary with Syrup of Violets and take as much as a Nutmeg first and last Or let the Patient take once a week one scruple or half a dram of Phylonium Romanum at night going to Bed Or take the Distilled Water of Strawberry-Leaves three Pints Liverwort one good handful bruised being boiled to the consumption of the third part strain it and sweeten it with the Syrup of Spermint and take thereof first and last and at any time for it wonderfully cools the hot Distemper of the Liver Or take the Distilled Water of Woodbind-Flowers Cichory and Sorrel-Water of each a like and sweeten it with Syrup of Quinces and drink often thereof Or take the Liver of a Calf and one peck of Sage being cut small distil them in a Glass Limbeck and drink thereof every night last going to Bed Or take Harts Tongue and Bramble-leaves of each alike being boiled in water to the consumption of half strain it and drink thereof You may also anoint the Region of the Liver with Oyl of Lillies and Roses mixed together or bath with the decoction of Roses Camomil and Quinces Or take Oyl of Quinces Water-Lillies and Roses of each alike or boil Dates and a small quantity of Wormwood in the aforesaid Oyls and make a Spunge or Wool moist therein and apply it to the part above-mentioned In the Cold Distemper of the Liver Take the Confection called Diacinamomi Diasatyrion of each one ounce Syrup of Mints half an ounce being mixed well together take as much as a Nutmeg first and last Or take of the Conserve of Sage two ounces Powder of Gallingal half an ounce make them up into an Electuary with Syrup of Wormwood and take thereof as afore-directed Or take the Roots of Smallage Parsly Fennel of each two drams Asarum Calamint Wormwood Succory Origan Agrimony Hysop Spermint of each one handful Seeds of Caraway Fennel Annis Daucus and Comin of each half an ounce Cinamon and Squinant of each three drams Flowers of Camomil and Roses of each one handful Mastick one dram boil these in three pints of the best White-wine mixing therewith one quart of Spring-water to the consumption of the
refined-Sugar one pound and a half and make a Syrup thereof according to Art of which let the Patient take two or three spoonfuls every morning fasting The following Pills are also of excellent use Take Rhubarb Senne Aloes Succatrina Agarick Jallap of each one dram Steel prepared with Sulphur half an ounce Diarrhodon Abbatis half a dram Saffron ten grains Mercurius Dulcis one dram with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Roses solutive make them up in a mass and of every dram make six Pills of which take two at night and three in the morning for fifteen or twenty days together if need require The more to strengthen the Liver and take away the obstructions of the same Take the Roots of Ground-pine and Orris the Seeds of Smallage and Annis of each two drams Asarum two drams and a half Camomile Flowers Ginger Cinamon and Carraway Seed of each one dram Red-Nettle-seed Gentian Hoarhound and Stacados of each two drams being all made into fine Powder make them up into an Electuary with a sufficient quantity of Oxymel of Squills This Medicine purgeth by Urine powerfully and hath done strange Cures You may take the quantity of a large Nutmeg at a time first in the morning and last at night the stronger sort may take more You may apply outwardly the Ointments directed in the Cold Distemper of the Liver c. CHAP. XXIV Of the DROPSIE THe Dropsie is a preternatural Collection of a thinnish Water c. There are in general three sorts of Dropsies The first is called Ascites The second Tympanites The third Anasarca Ascites is a swelling of the Belly and sometimes the Legs and Feet caused by a serous Humour and being of the Nature of Water it is cold but as it is salt it hath in it heat caused by the nearness of the Bowels and the more by the putrifaction which is gathered by long continuance from whence comes a fever and thirst namely from the stinking salt vapours which do infect the Orifice or mouth of the Stomach The Dropsie called Tympanites hath its Name from a Drum because the Abdomen is extended or stretched forth like to a Drum and being struck with your hand it sounds like it This extention is from Wind shut up in the hollowness of the Abdomen and sometimes in the hollowness of the Guts The wind which causeth a Tympany is seldom contained in the Belly alone but most commonly mixed with water as in Ascites not only water but wind also is contained Both which Dropsies have their Name of that which predominateth if more wind than water it is a Tympany if more water than wind an Ascites but if equal between both they cannot always be discerned one from the other The chief cause of wind is a raw Humour and thick whether Flegm or Melancholy which being stirred and made thin by heat sends forth thick vapours which are called flatus and are hard to be dissolved This thick raw Humour is partly in the Stomach and Guts but more especially between the Membranes of the Midriff and Guts So the more hard to be removed than from the hollowness of the parts aforesaid Hippocrates saith They who have pains and gripings about the Navel and Loins which cannot be removed have a dry Dropsie c. The Dropsie called Anasarca comes of a flegmatick Humour dispersed through the whole Body and therefore the Body is swelled and puft up and seems white from whence the Disease is called Leucophlegmatia This Flegm comes from a cold Liver which instead of good Blood produceth raw and flegmatick and when it cannot be turned into the substance of the parts leaves the raw part thereof unfit for nourishment upon them and so makes them swell from whence comes Anasarca or Leucophlegmatia this Disease in the beginning is called Cachexia c. Most Dropsies are caused through great coldness of the Liver or through other parts over-much cooled which doth bring the Liver oftentimes into the same affect The Liver is affected by the Spleen being cold and by the Stomach and Bowels likewise by the Lungs the Reins and Diaphragma and sometimes by the immoderate flux of the Hemorthoids or through the superfluity of Womens monthly Sickness but commonly through the obstruction or stoppage of the same and often through some other great affection of the Womb. And in all these the Liver is found without unnatural swelling and yet the Body affected with the Dropsie caused through the over-coldness of the Liver affected in the first place but afterward it groweth hard which may be seen in them which by drinking over-much small Beer and cold water have their Liver cooled so that the Dropsie forthwith followeth before the Liver is puft up with knotty swelling some fall into this Distemper through the loss of much Blood others after long-continued Agues c. ☞ But thousands in these days through the excessive drinking of Brandy which beyond all other Liquors commonly drunk Burns and dries up the Radical Moisture hinders the circulation of the Blood and turns it into a serous matter c. from which follows sudden death for I have not yet hardly seen an old Brandy-Drinker to receive a perfect Cure Some fall into the Dropsie after the Gout or through the violent pain of the Huckle-Bones commonly such whose Stomachs are dejected and have no good Digestion and have an evil habit of Body and troubled with the Jaundice forthwith follows the Dropsie Sometimes those who have a Dysenteria and the French Pox the Dropsie also follows The Symptoms or Signs of the Dropsie are in brief as followeth In that Dropsie called Ascites the whole Belly is swelled up and if it be but stricken there is heard such a kind of sound as a Bottle maketh that is not full of water but the other parts especially the upper parts of the Body are not swelled not puffed up In that Dropsie called Tympanites the Belly is puffed up and extended forth and being stricken it maketh a noise much like to a Tabor or Trimbrel but the other parts of the Body becomes lean In that Dropsie called Anasarca c. all the whole Body waxeth loose and as it were like to a Spunge so that it swelleth up and is like to a dead Body In most Dropsies the Feet Ankles and Legs especially upon the Shin-Bones commonly swell first sometimes the Belly and Privy Members c. so that if you thrust your fingers thereon the part will pit and leave an impression the colour of the Skin especially the Face is pale and swarthy the Urine little and thick and oftentimes very red the Breath short the Appetite dejected or altogether lost a troublesom thirst by reason of the sharpness and saltness of the humour in which the Stomach swimmeth and if not in time prevented then follows a lingering Fever c. from the corruption of the water which at length doth corrupt all the Bowels swimming therein ☞ As touching the most infallible Cure of Men
also may be caused through inflammation or change of the temperament of the Liver Sometimes it is caused through Embecillity or Weakness of the Bladder that receiveth the Choler which doth not attract or draw as it formerly did the Cholerick Humour from the Liver unto him and so leaveth the Blood impure Sometimes it is caused through Obstruction and Weakness of the Vessels whose Mouths are derived from the Gall to the Liver and therefore attracteth not the Cholerick Humour And oftentimes through obstruction or stoppage of the Passages that do go to the Bowels The manifest Signs of the Jaundice are in short as followeth A Yellow Colour throughout the whole Body more especially in the Vvhite of the Eyes the Balls of the Cheeks and near the Temples are of a pale colour the Tongue seems bitter and oftentimes Hiccoughs and Cholerick Vomits also Laziness and Itching about the Body c. The Jaundice is various according to the variety of the Causes That which comes from the stoppage of the bag containing the Gall because its passages are nearer the Guts the matter cleaving thereunto is with much ease sent into them if the stoppage proceed not from a Stone for that sometimes renders the Disease uncurable because it cannot be dissolved If the Jaundice come from an inflammation and hardness of the Liver it is most dangerous for oftentimes one ends in an Imposthume the other in a Dropsie If in the latter if taken in time it is certainly cured The Cure of the Jaundice may be performed as followeth Take the best Rhubarb fifteen grains Saffron twelve grains Diaprunis solutive the Electuary of the Juice of Roses of each three drams make them up into a Bolus with fine Sugar and take it two or three times one after the other especially if the Body be of a very ill Habit. Or take my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills according to Directions for therewith I have cured several past all hopes with the use of the following Drink Take Celandine one handful the Tops of Sea-Wormwood Centaury of each half a handful the Roots of the best Madder half an ounce Cinamon half a dram Saffron twelve grains infuse them for the space of twelve hours in eight ounces of the best White-wine strain it and sweeten it with Sugar and drink it every morning three or four hours before Dinner Or take the Leaves and Flowers of St. Johns-wort the Leaves and Roots of Celandine of each half a handful the Bark of the Barbary Tree Goose-Dung Ivory of each three drams Saffron one scruple and a half tie the Saffron and Goose-dung up into a Cloth and boil them all together in equal parts of the distilled VVater of VVormwood and VVhite-wine to the Consumption of half then strain it and sweeten it with Sugar Being divided into three parts drink one part thereof every morning fasting and repeat the same Decoction if need require Or take Castile-Sope scraped very small half an ounce the best English Saffron one dram dried and rubbed to Powder mix them together and put it into three or four Pippins the Cores being first taken forth then rost the Pippins by degrees after which take off the Skins and mix them well together and take thereof as much as a large Walnut first and last until it be all taken and if need require repeat the same For I will assure you that it is a very Excellent Medicine Egg-shells dried before the fire till they are almost black beaten to Powder and the quantity of a dram given in VVhite-wine first and last with ten grains of Saffron is also very good Or dry the Livers of Rooks and make thereof Powder which give to the Patient the quantity of a dram at a time in VVhite-wine Or take the fresh dung of a Goose that eats Grass in the Spring time and dry it and make it into fine powder or the Dung of a Hen the white part thereof being reduced to powder and a dram at a time taken as aforesaid have given help in few days Or take Sheeps-Dung one handful the Bark of the Barbary-Tree half a handful and infuse them for one night in one quart of Ale and White-wine mixed together strain it and drink it off in the morning fasting This do for six or seven days together if occasion require The same virtue hath Stone-Horse Dung infused as aforesaid and to my knowledge have both done great Cures So hath Hogs Lice bruised and about forty or fifty infused all Night in VVhite-wine and strained and taken in the morning fasting for some time together Or take Album Graecum and Akorns of each two drams being in fine powder give it at at three times to the Patient in VVhite-wine A Live Trout or Tench cut open and applied to the pit of the Stomach for some time is an infallible Remedy against the Jaundice The Jaundice being as it were cured and yet the Eyes remain Yellow give to the Patient two drams of Venice-Treacle and let him sweat as strength will permit After which let his Face and Eyes be washed with the Distilled VVater of Bean-Flowers and Rose-Water in equal parts mixed together and it will cause the Yellowness to depart CHAP. XXVII Of the Stone in the Kidneys THe Stone in the Kidneys is caused through a perpetual crudity or rawness of the Stomach whereby abundance of tough gross and earthy Humours are heaped together and being of a fiery heat about the Reins parcheth the Humours and baketh them together into a Stone They differ much both in figure colour and sharpness for they are often found to be black sometimes pale or of a whitish colour The Sign of this Disease is violent pain in the Reins insomuch that the Patient can hardly turn his Back-bone there is also abhorring of Meat and motion to Vomit the Urine is made but in very little quantity and many times wholly stopped sometimes there is voided Blood the bottom of the Urine gravelly which shews some motion of the Stone from the Reins The Stones that are light smooth and round pass forth with some ease but those that are long sharp and jagged are sent forth with violent pain To help this most violent Distemper if the Body be full of Excrements make use of the following Glister Take Pellitory of the Wall Maiden-hair Mercury Mallows and Marsh-Mallows of each one good handful Water-Cresses one handful and a half Smallage Fennel Parsly and Linseed of each two or three drams Bran and the Roots of Flower-de-luce of each one ounce being cut and bruised boil them in a sufficient quantity of water to the consumption of the third part then strain it and take thereof one pint to which add Honey of Roses and Cassia newly drawn of each one ounce Hiera Picra half an ounce Oyl of Rue Camomile and Dill of each one ounce Sal Prunella one dram and a half mix them together and make a Glister thereof which minister to the Patient as need require Or take
Pills according to Art There are several other Pills made use of in this Disease not much differing from the former as those Pills called Barbarossae c. The Dose of either are from twenty grains to thirty more or less according to the age and strength of the Patient Which have been often made trial of not without good success ☞ But My Pills having not one grain of Mercury in the whole Composition doth more sweeten and purifie the Blood than any other Medicine yet found out by which means they are no less effectual in this Distemper than in the Dropsie and Scurvy c. But in that let the Patient use his own discretion And after he hath purged very well for a week or ten days together if strength will permit Let him sweat three days gently with my Arcanum Vitae or with the following Liquor the third day purge again and then sweat Thus do for twenty days together if need require Take Sarsaperilla and Lignum Vitae of each four ounces the Bark of Lignum Vitae and the Roots of China of each one ounce Burdock-Roots and Liquorice of each two ounces being cut and bruised boil them in six quarts of Running Water in a Vessel close stopped to the consumption of the third part after which strain it and take thereof one pint hot in the morning and lie three or four hours in a breathing sweat To every dose of this Liquor you may add ten or twelve drops of the Chymical Oyl of Sulphur The second Decoction of the foresaid Ingredients will serve to drink as of ordinary Drink Another Excellent Medicine to provoke Sweat in this Case Take the best Sarsaperilla cut in small pieces what you please which put in a Glass and add thereto Spirit of Sack that it may lie above it the breadth of two singers Let it so stand being covered close till the Spirit become Yellow then strain it and put it into another Glass and to half a pint of this Spirit add two ounces of Gum Guaicum in fine Powder that being dissolved add thereto one spoonful of Natural Balsom then keep it for use Whereof take two spoonfuls in Rosemary Posset and sweat as afore-directed And purge with my Pills every third or fourth day And doubt not the Cure if the Disease be not of too long continuance There are several other ways made use of in the Cure of this desperate Disease as Mercurial Ointments and Fumigations with Ciniber c. to cause Salivation Medicines inwardly given to cause the same are Turbith Minerale Arcanum Corallinum Red Precipitate Mercurius Vita and Mercurius Dulcis which is the most safest of all being well prepared and given at the beginning fifteen grains and increasing every day five grains till the Flux is sufficiently raised in which course the Patient ought not to eat or drink any thing except Posset-Drink or Mutton-Broth and such-like And after the Flux is raised he may drink of the Decoction of Sarsa China c. keeping himself therewith sometimes in a breathing sweat for Purging and Sweating is the best Cure for this Disease and most safe And to heal the Sores in the Mouth make use of some of the Waters directed in the Chapter of the Ulcers of the Mouth and and Throat For the Ulcers in the Secret Parts make use of the Waters directed pag. 84. especially the two last And apply the Powder of Album Graecum with Vinegar thereto for it doth not onely kill the Ulcers but heal You may anoint the part with the White Ointment with Camphir mixing therewith a small quantity of Mercurius Dulcis or White Precipitate in fine Powder To take away the Warts that often grow within the Fore-Skin of the Yard and Glans c. Take Orpment Quick Brimstone and Lime of each two drams the Powder of Savin half a dram mix them together and touch the Warts therewith or anoint them with Balsom of Sulphur Oil of Antimony and Oil of Quicksilver are of wonderful use in such Cases So is the Oil drawn from Mans Excrements In this Distemper You must remember to eat Meats of Light Digestion as Chickens Rabbets Mutton and Partridges well roasted For supper you may eat Raisins of the Sun stoned or blew Currans with Bread only and drink very sparingly But use as much exercise as possible for thereby many young men that have been able to indure sweating through the same as dancing playing at Tennis c. have been with the least Physick imaginable in the beginning of the Disease perfectly cured CHAP. XXXIII Of the PLAGUE THe Plague is a Disease that falleth upon many which we have had too large experience of and hath its original or beginning from a deadly putrifaction which in a very high measure doth exceed the Common Many times this deadly quality hath its beginning in our selves for it often times cometh to pass that the humours of our Bodies do so much degenerate from the natural temperature that at last it taketh unto it self a deadly venomous quality and so is forced to strive with pernicious poyson Sometimes it ariseth from external means as malignant and putrid Exhalations which are communicated to the Air and sometimes from dead Bodies not buried and from the Roots of Cabbages stinking above the Earth from standing corrupt Waters Fens and foggy places the stinking smells from slaughter-houses and Butchers Shambles doth cause Or take the Essence of Venice-Treacle and Tincture of Saffron of each a like quantity being mixed together give to the Patient one or two spoonfuls in the distilled VVater of Scabios or Bugloss every morning as afore-directed Or take Venice-Treacle Mithridate of each one ounce the Confection of Alkermes two drams the Conserve of Wood-Sorrel two ounces mix them together and take the quantity of a Walnut every morning Or take the Spirit of Sack one pint Venice-Treacle one ounce and a half Saffron two drams mix them together and let them stand close stopped for three days then filter it and keep the clear Spirit for use of which let the Patient take one spoonful every morning in the distilled VVater of Rue or Carduus Or take one dram of Venice-Treacle every morning in the distilled Water of Wood-Sorrel or alone if you find it not too hot Or take the Seeds and Bark of Citrons Zeduary Angelica Gentian Tormental Pimpernal and the Roots of Dittany of each a like being made all into fine powder take the quantity of one dram thereof in the distilled VVater of Carduus or Borrage every morning fasting Or take Juniper-Berries the Leaves of green Rue of each one ounce the Kernels of Walnuts two ounces Venice-Treacle Saffron of each two drams ten or twelve Figs beat them all well together then mix therewith a sufficient quantity of the best Vinegar and make an Electuary thereof of which take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every morning Outwardly to prevent this Disease Take Venice-Treacle one ounce Conserve of Cowslips two ounces being mixed
Suffocation of the Lungs He spet abundance of corrupt and foetid matter and was left off by all for a dead man and at last I Cured him for three and twenty shillings though in the midst of his Cure as many have been to their utter ruine was perswaded against me and my Pills so that in plain terms he left me off for six weeks but at length begg'd me to take him again being very unwilling when he had got a pair of Spectacles to be perswaded to his Grave About the same time a Gentlewoman aged near Forty One not far from the Town aforesaid sorely tormented with violent pain in her head and great stoppage in her Stomach full of wind and exceedingly troubled with the Scurvy and Dropsie by taking three or four small Boxes of my Pills was very strangely Cured by voiding a monstrous Worm by stool very large and seven foot in length by which means she was altogether freed of that long-continued misery and withal perfectly Cured of the Dropsie Since which time she hath cured several with my Pills and many of them out of Charity The latter end of April I was called to a Person of good Quality who for the space of seven years notwithstanding making use of several courses of Physick as Salivation c. was still troubled with some violent Symptoms of the French Pox as sharp pains in the Head pus and watry matter of a stinking smell perpetually running forth of his Eyes and Nostrils who by taking of my Pills once or twice a week and by sweating with my Arcanum Vitae was perfectlie cured in twelve months time since which he remains free from all Symptoms and hath since married and by his Wife hath very lovely Children though no person thought ever to see the same Mr. John Walker Attorney living near the Royal Exchange being troubled with a violent straining and every morning subject to vomit also had Vapours arising from his Stomach which did very much offend his Head but could receive no benefit by any Medicine whatsoever until he took my Pills with which he was perfectly cured in a short time Mr. Day formerly living in Chappel-street in the City of Westminster violently afflicted with the Dropsie and full of sharp humours his Belly and Members extreamly swelled was with seven 4 s. Boxes of my Pills cured Mr. Christopher Brenam then living at the Christopher in Duffins Alley near the Mitre Tavern in Kings-street Westminster being very far gone in the Dropsie his Belly Thighs and Legs very much swelled his appetite as it were altogether dejected or lost by taking of my Pills had help in a short time But about ten or twelve months after by reareason of taking cold c. fell into a relapse and then became so extraordinary swelled and suffocated in his Lungs that he could hardly breathe so accidentally seeing him proffered to serve him and that I did not doubt but from a second use of my Pills would result a second Cure But by his Discourse I found he had an inclination to try some other means which he did accordingly and finding all attempts of that kind ineffectual himself and friends then concluded it a matter impossible ever to recover him then were my Pills their ultimum refugium with two or three Boxes whereof he was again restored to his health to the admiration of many that will testifie this to be a truth Since which time for want of a due regard to his own health he fell into a Consumption and lately expired A young Lady having the Small Pox and being recovered of the same in few months after by reason of some Obstructions had four Ulcers broke in her left Leg and could not by any means be healed until she took my Pills though it had cost her before thirty odd pounds and had drunk plentifully of the Waters too which by taking three or four Boxes and keeping the Sores clean with a Liquor I prescribed was in thirty days perfectly cured Therefore I counsel such that often drink the Waters not to be without some small quantity of my Pills and take thereof once or twice in a week though in the aforesaid course for I well know that those waters are destructive to many more especially to Hydropical Persons and such of them that have been great drinkers of Sack and Claret c. For certainly nothing can be more pernicious to them then to forsake rashly their wonted custom and fall to drinking of crude or raw Water which over much cools the Blood the very Balsam of life when by taking of my Pills it will be made sweet and soon brought to its first purity by which means the Dropsie with many other violent Diseases are cured A Gentlewoman aged near 25 being married six or seven years by reason of over-much humidity or moistness of the Womb c. could not conceive with Child hearing of my Pills she took two or three Boxes thereof which caused her to evacuate much wind and water and within three months conceived I could give an account of several others that have received the like benefit Mr. John Rives having an indisposition of Body at last fell into a Dropsie Scurvy c. But taking it in time was cured with one Box of my Pills Mris. Seawel in Well-Yard in Little Saint Bartholowmews very dangerously afflicted with that Dropsie called Tympanites her Belly extreamly swelled she had lost her Appetite and was very weak but through Gods mercy by taking of my Pills was perfectly restored to her former health Mr. John Brice Shoo-maker at the Half-Moon in Shear-Lane near Temple-Bar long troubled with an indisposition of Body and a violent pain and weakness in one of his shoulders had help by taking a Box or two of my Pills Mr. John Key now living at the Sign of the Peacock in Portugal-street much troubled with the Dropsie was cured with my Pills Mris. Anne Brinley the VVife of Mr. Alderman Brinley in the City of Worcester most horribly afflicted with the Dropsie and Scurvy her Belly Thighs and Legs extreamly swelled and almost deprived of Breath she had made use of many eminent and able Physicians who questionless used their best endeavours yet to no purpose and so left by all her nearest Relations for a dead woman But accidentally hearing of my Pills and making use thereof according to Directions forthwith evacuated abundance of Water by Stool c. her Swellings all abated in a short time and she became perfectly well to admiration This Great Cure was effected about Midsummer 1670. Since which time many more of Good Quality in and adjacent to that City have found wonderful good thereby Mris. Mary Jones the wife of Mr. John Jones now living in East Bargholt in Suffolk very far spent in the Dropsie and Scurvy and extreamly swelled all over her Head Face Arms Body Thighs and Legs and the swellings very hard her Legs were swelled above half a yard about and sometimes her Eyes
could not in any measure help himself but lay on his back in bed not able to turn therein with a weight upon his Stomach to hold down the swelling and to abate the violence of the pain expecting every hour that his Body would have broke asunder the course of Nature being almost stopped insomuch that he could not make water to give the least ease He had given himself over for death and was supposed by all that that saw him to be a dead man all thinking it useless for him to make trial of my Pills though he had by the Post sent for them but living in such great misery till they came he took two and in few hours after had much ease and received thereby the benefit of Nature he continued taking them every night two at a time for ten days then took three at a time for six weeks together after which he could go about his house and did increase in strength to help himself in all necessary occasions He took eight or nine 4 s. Boxes before his swellings were taken away by reason his Liver and the rest of his principal Bowels had received much damage before he had made use of my Pills He had at first a very violent Fever and after that a Quotidian Ague then followed a Tertian Ague attended with a suppression of Urine which was conceived notwithout good reason to be the Cause of the Dropsie He was also girt about with Stitches and almost choaked up with tough flegm his Spleen much swelled and very sore with many other infirmities too tedious now to insert By taking fourteen 4 s. Boxes of my Pills in few months was restored to his former Health September 24. 1672. I had news brought of a woman near Ipswich about Forty years of age that had not been out of her Chamber in six years by reason of great weakness and pain in her Limbs c. and by taking two 4 s. Boxes of my Pills could walk seven miles and since by taking a few Boxes more she is restored to her perfect health A Gentleman of good worth being terribly tormented with the Scurvy and withal a virrulent Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins who had for a considerable time made use of Physick especially Pills cried up for such Distempers but all proving useless he grew vvorse and began to swell both in his Stomach Belly and Privy Parts so that he concluded himself to be poysoned and imagined nothing but death to follovv but being persvvaded to make use of my Pills forthwith sent for an 8 s. Box and found thereby present ease and aftervvards for two 4 s. Boxes by which he received a perfect Cure in a short time with the use of a small quantity of the Astringent Pills directed page 199. ☞ A Gentlewoman sorely troubled with the White Flux great pain and weakness in her Back Ulcers in her Throat and Privy Parts by taking my Pills every second or third day for one month together was perfectly cured To the Ulcers she made use of the Water directed page 96. and the days she took no Purging Pills she took of the Strengthening Pills before-mentioned page 199. Mr. Christopher Pound next door to the Maiden-head in St. Johns-street very much swelled who had a great pain and stoppage in his Stomach given over for a dead man was perfectly cured by my Pills Mr. William Virgin of the Half-Moon in Bartholomew-street in Newbury violently tormented with the Dropsie c. had help by my Pills Mris. Elizabeth Rodes sorely afflicted with the Green Sickness and Dropsie received perfect Cure by the foresaid means Mris. Elizabeth Ward in Tenter-Ally in St. Tooly Street Southwark sore troubled with the Dropsie and Scurvy much broken out in several parts great pain in her Knees and Legs c. she lay exceeding weak for many months notwithstanding she had very often made use of many able Physicians but to no purpose and at last Cured in a short time with two or three Boxes of my Pills About the latter end of March 1673. Mr. Brogden at the sign of the Horse-shoe in Sheer-Lane near Temple-Bar was cured of the Dropsie with one Box of Pills Mr. John Overton living at the Cross-Keys in Grace-Church-Street sorely tormented with the Dropsie and Black Jaundice was perfectly Cured with two or three Boxes of my Pills and with a small quantity of the Powder directed page 171. Mris. Brewster of Billericay in the County of Essex by reason of taking cold in lying in c. fell into a violent Dropsie extreamly swelled and withal deprived of the use of her Limbs insomuch that she was not in the least able to help her self her Physicians and all her Friends leaving her off for a dead woman but accidentally being directed by a worthy Person a Minister of the same County not long before cured by my Pills to take thereof was also with four or five Boxes restored to the use of her Limbs and the Dropsie cured to the admiration of all her Friends A Merchants Wife of this City being for a long time troubled with a grievous pain and stoppage in her Stomach and had made use of several Medicines but found no ease thereby by making use of my Pills especially three that she took upon the 17th of May 1673. which then by vomit caused her to void a strange Worm the Body thereof square and of a grass-green colour the neck round and very white and the head blood-red who so swiftly run about the Bason that it could hardly be taken which put the Lady into a great fright and the next day she sent it to me My Counsel was that she should take more of my Pills by which she became well and free from her former pain About the same time Mr. John Phelps a Butcher living near Redriss Church being for a long time troubled with a violent pain and stoppage in his Stomach loathed his meat and was grown so weak that he could hardly stand having a reluxation and trembling in his Joints attended with grievous pain himself and friends not having the least hopes of his Life Complaining to my Brother at the Golden Fleece near to the foresaid place who presently gave to him five of my Pill that had lain up and down his house in a Box musty for three or four years which brought from him by Vomit and Stool abundance of filthy corrupt and stinking slimy matter by which means he became perfectly well in few days and as strong as ever A Person of good worth a Merchant whose Name I must here conceal through over-much drinking especially that destructive Liquor called Brandy which were the truth known kills more English-men than the Sword was most terribly afflicted this Summer 1673. with the Dropsie Scurvy Gout and Palsey having such a Reluxation and Trembling in all his Joints that he was not able to go without help had help by taking four 4 s. Boxes of my Pills and since with much joy came to my house and gave me Thanks Another person near the Strand very far gone in the Dropsie came to my house for one Box of Pills by which he was perfectly cured Not long after he fell to drink his part of Two or Three Quarts of Brandy and in few days died Therefore in kindness to all Persons that have not an utter disregard to their own safety by this Example I do caution that they do as much as in them lieth forbear the overmuch drinking of Brandy and other strong Liquors For be assured upon my long Experience that under their Conduct marcheth the Dropsie Scurvy Consumption and other mortal Diseases And were it necessary I could mention hundreds more some of which falling to their old course of drinking Brandy and sophisticated VVine have destroyed themselves that in all probability might have lived many years being perfectly cured of the Dropsie c. with my Cathartique and Diuretique Pills The wonderful Virtues and miraculous Cures effected thereby is very well known to many Noble and Honourable Persons throughout the whole Kingdom c. So let me counsel all Hydropical and Scorbutical Persons and such that are inclinable thereunto not for my own Interest but for their Welfare to make use of my Pills in time and not to be fooled out of their Lives by meer Pretenders that rail against them nor by such that the more to deceive the Patient do falsly pretend to know the Composition thereof through the wonderful goodness of God of my own Invention wholly locked up in my own Brest as yet not communicated to any my Wife excepted And that the World may know that this Great ARCANVM shall not die with me the whole Secret and true Preparation thereof is faithfully demonstrated in a large Piece of Parchment under my own Hand and Seal and safely reserved to be delivered to some honest Person or Persons that the Ages to â—â—me may through the Assistance of the Almighty God receive Benefit thereby FINIS Advertisements THe Ladies Companion or the Engliâ—◠〈◊〉 wife Wherein is demonstrated the Mâ—â—â—er and Order how Women ought to Govern themselves during the Whole Time of their Breeding Children Of their Difficult Labour Hard Travail Lying in c. By Dr. Wiâ—â—iam Sermon one of His Maâ—esties Physician in Ordinary Sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little-Britain Price bound 2 s. ☞ THe Author 's most Famous CATHARTIQUE and DIURETIQUE PILLS to well known for the absolute Cure of the Dropsie and Scurvy with all other sharp salt and watry Humours c. are sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain who is solely deputed by the said Doctor to make sale thereof which are to be had in most of the eminent Cities and Towns in England and in the City of Edenburgh in Scotland and the City of Dublin in Ireland and at his own House in the City of London And that none may be deceived in buying other Pills for his they are sealed up in Wooden Boxes with his own Seal The Numbers and Prices are as followeth The least Box containing 20 Pills sold for 4 s. The middle Box containing 40 Pills sold for 8 s. The large Box containing 60 Pills sold for 12 s. And with each Box is delivered a Printed Book of Directions with the Authors Name at length in the Title-Page