it well and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados tyde in a fayre lynnen cloath and let it seethe a lytle whyle and then take it out of the sayde water and then put thereto one ounce of Synamon three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegges and as much of Gynger in powder And vse to drinke a good draught thereof twyse euery day something warme fyrst and last for the space of syxe or seuen dayes And then it helpes perfectlie THat Chylde wyll be deaffe that is borne when Mercurie is Lorde of the syxt house and Infortunate by an euyll aspect with Saturne chiefly if he be in the syxt house Lykewise they wyll haue great impediment in their hearing in whose Natiuitie Iupiter and Saturne be both impedite or Infortunate aboue the earth That is if they be Retrograde or Combust in euyll places Iatro THey that haue any paynes or swelling in the throate let them take a Iewes eare which is to be had at the Apothecaries lay it to stiepe in Ale a whole night and let the party drinke a good draught therof euery daye once or twyse vntyll they perceyue them selues amended A proued thing A Straunge matter and a thing followeth worthy of memorye Whosoeuer hath the Kinges Euyll and lookes vpon a certaine Byrde called Galgulus of a maruelous shape and quicke sight by and by the same byrde doth drawe to her the yallow vapors of choller heales the party perfectly through a certaine great benefite of nature But where as through a secrete gyfte of Nature she doth perceyue or smell the diseased party to come towarde her shee wyl close her eyes hyde her head vnder her wings not that she doth enuie the parties health or lothe to helpe him of his disease But because she doth greatly feare the sharpnes of the humor which the nearer the party infected comes to her the more it wyl pain her he the more eased Therfore they were wont to sel this Byrd to such as had this disease in some close thing or couered least the party should be healed for nothing The Authors hereof are Hilodorus Plutarchus Aelianus Suidas and Plynie with other And Kirannides and after him Albertus reportes that if this Byrde refuse to looke vpon the diseased party it is a token that he shall dye thereof But if he looke euen vpon him she drawes the disease to her self and then by and by or soone after she flying against the Sunne doth vomit it out of her And thus she doth both cure the sycke party and delyuer her selfe from the same through a certaine maruelous benefite of Nature But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Byrde Plynie contends that it is Icterus some do thinke that it is Chloreus or Chlorio which the French men calles Lorion and Loriot The best part of the Phisitions defends that it is Charadrius some affyrmes that it is Oriolus others say that it is Galbulus or Galbula or Chloris which Gesner lykes not And Mizaldus leaues it to the iudgement of the Doctors or learned vntyll experience shal trye the trueth thâ—râ—of Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis ORpheus and Archelaus 〈◊〉 by the report of Plynie that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with mans bloud that are fallen of the falling sycknes by by they wyll be delyuered from the traunce or â—yt or if their great todes be then next pulled or pincht THe mydle rynde of a Cherie tree stamped streyned the sayde iuyce put into a lytle whyte wyne warmed and then geuen to drinke to them that haue the stone or can not make water it auoydes the grauell or stone and makes them to make water preseÌ„tlye Use it three or fowre tymes ONe may make beyond sea Azure as followeth counterfeyt it very well Take common Azure and beate or stampe it well with Uineger annoynt therewith a thyn plate of pure syluer and put the same ouer a vessell full of vrine which set ouer hotte ashes and coales and let it be moued sturred vntyll it be lyke beyond sea Azure This is the best way Mizaldus affyrmes that he had this out of an olde written booke IF you do put quick syluer into a potte amongst seething or hotte pease the pease wyll leape out of the potte except the brym or mouth of the potte be to hyghe or the fyre to small Mizaldus sayth that this is proued BArly halfe sodde geueÌ„ to Hens to be eaten makes them laye often and their egs to be greater This is affyrmed for trueth IF any doubt or feare any thing whatsoeuer it bee and asketh thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie thereof marke and consider the Lorde or Almuten of the Ascendent whom if thou dost finde pure and safe from infortunes and he be holding the Ascendent the feare is needeles For no harme shall happen according to the feare Haly Abenragel SAuery beaten and sodden in vineger and layde in manner of a plaster to the hynder part of the head doeth merrelye awaken those that are heauy with sleepe HEre followeth the making of a pleasaunt oyle of Cloues Take of Cloues one pound which beate to powder in a brasen morter then adde thereto three pounde of Almondes scraped and beaten in a morter and when they be well myxed together â–ª sprinkle theron fowre ounces of the best white wine letting it so lye in a masse for the spare of eight dayes at the least â–ª after that stampe the whole ouer againe then put it into a new earthen panne which heate ouer the fyre so long that you caÌ„ not suffer your hand in it then put it vp into square bagges and wring the same harde in a presse vntyll all the whole substaunce of the oyle become TAke a Frogge and cutte her through the myddes of the backe with a knife and take out the Lyuer and foulde it in a Colewoort leafe and burne it in a newe earthen potte well closed and geue the ashes thereof vnto him or her that hath the falling sycknesse to drinke with Wyne and it wyll helpe him And if the partye be not healed at once then do so by another Frogge and so doo styll and without doubte it wyll heale him if he vse it This was tolde me for a sure experiment And it is also affyrmed by Petrus Hispanus A Wonderfull thyng passing all credite chaunced in the Byshopricke or Dyoces of they of Eistettence in Germany but that it was seene of dyuers credyble wytnesses A certaine husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser being tormented with cruell paynes in one of his sydes soddainly tooke holde of a nayle that was vnder the skynne vnhurt which cutte by a Surgion he tooke out the nayle yet for all that the paynes dyd not cease Wherefore the myserable man suspectinge that there was no remedye to bee had for his payne but by death hee tooke a knyfe and cutte his throate And the thyrde daye after he being â—arryed to burying there was three present one
Hempe the leaues or seedes of Mustarde the tops of sharpe Docke red Colewoort leaues and Tansey let them all seethe in a good quātity of whyte Wine after strayne all the whole put into the streyning as much Honny as shall be thought meete geue therof vnto the patient early late vntil such tyme as the cleare pocyon or drynke come forth by the mouth of the Fystula which must alwayes be kept open with a syluer Pype put into it and keepe vppon it alwayes a redde colewoort leafe It is of a wonderfull operation Petrus Hispanus And I my selfe haue proued it and it healed in such manner as is before declared It is a precious thing DRagans bounde to the priuities of a Woman in labour causeth her to be delyuered incontynent But there must be heede taken that it be quickly remoued least it drawe forth the Matrix with all Petrus Hispanus HEre followeth an excellent Oyle which maketh a fayre cullour in the face Take of Almonds scraped ten poundes of redde Saunders in powder sixe ounces of Cloues one ounce of whyte Wyne fowre ounces of Rosewater three ounces these after they be groslye beaten together let them lye in a marble Morter close couered for eyght or nyne dayes beating the same ouer once a daye then heate it all in an earthen vessell vntyll it begynne to fume and be through hotte and after that put it into a newe square bagge of lynnen cloath then put the same bagge into a presse betweene two smoothe plates of Yron something hotte ▪ for out wyll come a redde oyle wherewith Women maye annoynt theyr faces for it causeth a comly redde and bewtyfull skynne A secrete and practysed of fewe This is in the newe Iewell of Health a Booke of muche value and small pryce THe grease of an Eele and the iuyce of Syngreene mixed together of each a lyke much boyled a lytle and a lytle therof put into the deafe eare nyne nights together wyll bring the hearing agayne as well as euer it was TAke Salt Armoniacke Allom and Salt Niter of eache a lyke quantitie with a lytle fylings of Syluer let all be myxt together then put them vnto the fyre that they maye be hotte and when they shall cease to smoake then with the same powder alone or else myxte or moystened with the spettell of your mouth let Copper or Brasse be rubbed therewith and strayght way it wyll haue the cullour of Siluer SErpentes being within a cyrcle made of Byttony they can not go out of the same But rather wyll dye with beating them selues Plinius IF the Lorde of the seconde house be in the twelfth house enemyties wyll come many tymes to him that is then borne for money or through money Taisnier PLanten stampte and the iuyce wroong out put into the hollownesse of an Ulcer with a spowte healeth the same So doth Bettony stampte and applyed to a Fystula healeth it Petrus Hispanus ▪ The iuyce of Cinquefoyle doth heale the Fistula lykewise if it be put into the same with a spowte TO seperate Golde from any thing that is gylded Take Borace and temper it in water thē boyle it ouer the fyre and with the same water annoynt the thing that is gylded cast theron a lytle of the powder of quick Brymstone after put it into the fyre that it may be made red then quench it in running water you shall finde the gold in the bottome of the vessell FOr any paynes of the eares and for them that cannot heare Take a great Onion cutte a hoale therin and set it in the embers to roast then fyll it full of oyle Olyffe and euer as it dryeth fyll it vp againe tyl it be roasted well then take away the vppermost skin therof then strayne the Onion through a cloath and keepe it in some close glasse and when you wyll occupy thereof put some of it into the hole eare and let him lye on his sore eare when he goes to bedde and if he vse this nyne nyghts at the furthest it wyll helpe him Proued FOr the fundamēt that goeth forth Take the tops of redde Nettelles and stampe them in a morter then put it into an earthen potte then put thereto a good porcion of whyte Wyne and set it ouer the fyre and let it seethe tyll halfe the lycquor be concōsumed and geue the party diseased a good draught thereof something hotte to drinke morning and euening fyrst and last for the space of ten dayes And also apply the hearbes something warme to his fundament and it wyll helpe him perfectly Proued FOr eyes that be chafed and the lyddes turned vp or bleared eyes Take Arnement Honny and the whytes of Egges of each a lyke much temper them well together then take flaxe laye the same theron then applye the same vpon the sore eyes and it wyll draw the euyll bloud out of them and perfectly heale them This medicine hath bene proued IT is sayd that a Hart doth so abhorre a Ram that he can not abyde the syght of him Aristotil Plin. And other WHen fowre or fiue Planets be cōiunct or ioygned together in the Ascendent or fyrst house of any chylde that is borne that chyld wyll not lyue long Expositor doth say the King of our Cittie dyd cal me because one of his Women had borne a Son the Ascēdent was the eyght degree of Libra the terme of Mercury and Iupiter was in the same also Venus Mars Mercury and the company of the Astrologyans dyd meete together there and euery one of them dyd tell his opinion and I heald my peace The King sayde vnto me saye what thou can why doost thou not speake To whome I aunswered geue mee respyte for three dayes for if your Sonne shall passe the thyrd daye you shall see a great myracle of him And after xxiiii howres was ended the Chylde dyd ryse vp to sytte and he spake and gaue sygnes with his hande wherof the King was greatly afrayde And I sayde that he woulde speake some Prophesie or some myracle Then the King went to the Chylde and wee with him to heare what he would saye And the Infant sayde I am the Infortunate borne Chyld and I am borne to shew the losse of the kingdome of Azdexit and the destruction of the people of Almanaz And strayght way the Chylde fell downe and dyed Haly Abenragel THis following is a Secrete and proued thing for the Palsey whereof if you geue thryse in the daye to him that hath the Palsey halfe an ounce that is in the morning three howres before meate and two howres before supper and at his going to bedde it wyll helpe him thereof Take of the new and fresh brayne of an Hare broyled or fryed one pounde the iuyces of Sage of hearbe Iue and the iuyce of the roote of Acorus of each three drams of pure Cynamom Cloaues blacke Pepper of each halfe a dram Turpentyne washt with the water of hearbe Iue three ounces Sugar
the counsayle of learned Phisitions and expert Surgeons was drawne from her peecemeale and the mother dyd not onely lyue but also conceaued an other Chylde as Mathy Cornace a notable learned PhisicioÌ„ hath affyrmed who was present when the sayd Woman was cutte for the getting out of the sayde dead Chylde Mizaldus reports this IF Eeles be suffocated in wyne whosoeuer shall drynke of that wyne though they haue bene very much geuen to wyne before could scantly abstayne from the same they wyl loothe wyne and not be desyrous to drinke wine after The greene Frogges which vse or leapes about sprynges if they be suffocated in wyne workes the lyke effect Mizaldus IF Musaraneus called a Shrew I take it to be the blinde Mowse doth chaunce to go ouer any part of any Beast that part of the Beast wyll after be lame This is knowne to be true WHo so would haue a very whyte delycate skyn Let them boyle or heate Lytarge of Syluer in vinegar distylled and wash therewith theyr skynne which they desyre to haue fayre trym and whyte This I tooke out of Mizaldus IN the tyme of Traiane the Emprour a certayne man hauing a disease called the Dissury dyd pysse with much a doo a knotted Barly straw Anthonius Mizaldus hath written this And I knew a Gentleman that after his death being opened had a Pygions fether stycking in his harte which fether was shewed me by the Surgeon that dyd cutte and open him OTes sodden and the hotte fume therof close receyued on any lame members eyther armes legs or any other and then the sayde members put holden a good whyle in the same sodden Otes when they may be suffred therin and the same order vsed fowre or fyue tymes if neede be doth helpe them perfectly that be lame This was tolde me for a very trueth by them that knew it and saw it tryed THe toothe of a man hanged at the necke of the partye that is tormented with toothe ache doth take away the payne therof especially if a Beane be put thereto wherin there is a hoale bored and a lowse put therin and the same beane wrapt in a peece of sylk and then hanged about the parties neck as is before sayde Anthonius Mizaldus THe most whytest Frankensense made in very fyne powder and droonke with Wine if it be in colde wether or in wynter or in water wherin Reysens are sodde if it be hotte wether or in Sommer in the encreasing of the Moone at the rysing of the Sun at noone at the setting of the Sun doth maruelously helpe and encrease the memory And is very profytable for the brayne and the stomack Rasis is the Author hereof by the report of Mizaldus ANy parte or a peece of the bone of a Mans arme with the hyghest parte or ende of a Goose wyng being carryed or borne of them that haue the quarten ague doth cure the same Mizaldus fathers this of Geber IF one that hath the Dropsy or the Iaundise shal drink theyr owne vryne for certayne dayes together it wyl helpe maruelously Thus Hermes sayth But Benedictus victorius Fauentinus in his practises affirms for trueth and sayth it is certaynly proued that fyue ounces of the vryne of a Boye not polluted and of a sanguyne complection myxt with halâ—e an ounce of good whyte Sugar being droonke euery morning early â—asting for the space of ten daies doth helpe certaynly the Iaundyse and also so much droonk at once a month together in such order doth helpe the Dropsye perfectly STiepe a threede in oyle brimstone myxt together and compasse a glasse with that threede in the place where you would haue it broken euen or parted and after kyndle the same threede with fyre and do thus so often vntyll that place of the glasse be hotte and after compasse the same with a threede wet in cold water and it wyll part so cleane a sunder as though it had bene cut with a sharpe poynted Diamonde IF they that be swolne and are full of the Dropsy do lye three dayes and nyghts in theyr beds wel couered rounde about in sodden Barley it helpes cures them perfectly This was proued by them that came vexy swolne from Gynny And one of them that was helpt therwith reuealed it vnto me which I am content to publysh to the common commodity of many THe earnest searchers of naturall things saye and set forth that certayne woormes are bredde in the vowels or guts of the Harte they are destroyed by the eating of Serpents which the Harte doth allure with the breath of his nose to come out of theyr heale or denne and least the poyson of them should hurte him he goes a pace to some fayre Spryng of water and whyles all his whole body is therein vnto the lyppes lytle drops or teares distylles out of his eyes which at length encreaseth to a thyng as bygge as a Walnutte and are in manner of a stone and when he perceyues he hath therby auoyded all the poyson and being comd forth of the water with the rubbing of his eyes at a tree the same lumpe or Stone being a hynderaunce to his syght he gets away Which matter or Stone is a thing most effectuall against any venome or poyson Many Phisitions of great aucthority and antiquitie are witnesses herof Iulius Scaliger and Amatus Lucitanus do boast that they saw such a thing and they affyrme that it maye be geueÌ„ effectually with a lytle wine to them that are infected with the plague for by the strength and help therof so much sweate wyl come forth of the body that you would thinke the whole body wyll turne or consume into moysture with which once geuing all the poyson or venom is thrust out of the body The Arabyan PhisitioÌ„s calles this Stone Besoard And therof Alexipharmaca a remedy against venoms Bezoardica This Anthonius Mizaldus wryteth These Besaar stones being of a most excellent notable and precious vertue are now gotten in Peru in the west Indyans and found about ten yeares past in certayne kynd of Beasts that goeth in the mountaines of that Countrey which are much lyke to Sheepe or Kyds that are in the Portingal Indyas by a worthy Spanish Gentleman called Peter de Osma who killed som of those Beastes purposely for the sayd Besaar stones which he thought to finde in them but although he looked and searched therfore in the belly and in other places of one of the eldest and greatest of them yet he could find none of them neither would the Indyans tel him in what place of the Beast they were saying they knew no such Stones being loath he should know that secrete But at the last an Indian Boy of twelue yeares of age tolde him where to finde them Wherfore the other Indyans would haue kylled the Boy because the Indyans do much esteeme those Stones for they doo offer theÌ„ vnto their Gods or before their Idols as one of the most precious
swalowed downe Euax. et Alb. THe people of Astomores as Plynie reportes haue no mouth and are clad with a woolly mosse growing in India and lyues onely with smelling of Odours at their nose of Rootes ▪ and of Flowres and of Aples that growes in the woods which they carrie with them in their long iourneys to susteyne and nourish them withall least they should want wherof to smell THe powder of Stone pitch dronke in small drinke once euerie daye for the space of fowre or fiue dayes is a very good remedie for them that are brused through falling or otherwayes WHen the Sun in the day tyme and the Moone in the night in an Natiuitie is corporally conuinct with any euyll Planet the chylde that is then borne wyl be blinde And if this be in an Angle or if the Lorde of the Ascendent be with them then they wyl be blinde in their youth And if the sayd lyght so Infortunate be not in an Angle nor with the Lorde of the Ascendent then such wyll be blinde in their age Iatromath Guat Ryff THree Nayles made in the vigyll of the Natiuitie of Saint Iohn Baptist called Midsomer Eue and driuen in so deepe that they can not be seene in the place where the party doth fall that hath the Falling sycknes and naming the sayde parties name whyle it is a doing doth dryue awaye the disease quyte Which Mizaldus wrytes of the reporte of one that proued it IF you wyl presently turne Wine into Uineger cast therein salt with pepper mixt with sowre leuen and it wyll performe it quickly Mizaldus THe roote of Uaruayn hanged at the necke of such as haue the Kings Euyll it brings a maruelous and an vnhoped helpe Which is Venus herbe that hath power of the necke because of Taurus the Bull being her house Mizaldus WHosoeuer falles sicke in that yere wherein there is an Eclipse and the Signifiers of the sayd Eclipse be in the Ascendent of the Natiuity of him that so falles sicke or in the Ascendent of his Reuolucion or in the place of his Hilech or of the Signifyer of his Lyfe That disease then taken wyl be very perillous and deathly Mizaldus cum alijs GEese Ducks and other water fowles helps their diseases with wall Sage Hens with Withwind Geese with Haryth the Cranes with Sqynant the Panther with Mans dunge the Boores with Iuie the Hartes with Arthechokes the Dogges with Grasse Also Plynie sayth that the linell of Crabbes wyll kyll Bees especially if one seethe them nye vnto their Hiues For they abhorre stinking smels Therfore they followe them fiercely that smelles of stynking oyntmentes IF chyldren eate Rasins fasting that haue woorms without any other meate it wyll kyll and auoyde the woormes For as bytter things are noysom vnto them euen so is sweete thinges For with the ofte eating of sweete thinges it makes them to swel and brust IF the tender hornes of young Bucks that is couered with a thyn heayrie skyn be cut in peeces and then put into a newe potte well couered and set in an ouen or other place that is hotte whereby the same maye be made in powder and some of the same geuen with Pepper Myrre to them that are tormented with the Collick in good wine it wyll helpe them maruelouslie of the same disease Scribonius Largus PElletory of the Wall stamped and so layde to the Coddes vnder the Nauell And so vsed fowre or fiue tymes helpes the collicke and the paines of the bladder and coddes A thing often proued THey wyl be diseased in the Splene in whose Natiuitie the Moone is Lady of the sixt house being Infortunate of Saturne Or if the Lord of the Ascendent be Infortunate in the seuēth house or if Saturne be Lorde of the Ascendent and Infortunate of Mars or if Saturne bee Infortunate by any meanes vnder the earth Iatromath Guat Ryff GOordes Peares Aples Quinses Cytrins Wardens or such lyke fruite whereon you desyre to haue some pretie or other forme on the outsyde If when they haue cast the flowers begyns to haue any forme or proportion enclose them within some wood or other thing of stone or of any other thing within of what forme you lyst and tye the same fast about the sayd fruite But make not the sayd instrument on the insyde bygger then the fruite wyll be within it And when you thinke that the fruite is ful rype take the same with the fruit in it from the tree and the fruite wyll be of that fashion forme as you desyre Mizaldus IT is sayde that Alphons King of Castile gaue to certaine Mathematicians a hūdreth thousand peeces of golde which were called or sent for out of Araby Affricke and other places for the making framing of the Astronomical Tables which shewes the continuall course and place of the Starres Planets which worke is to be had euery where through his great lyberality to his perpetuall praise GAlbanum made softer and spread vpon a lynnen cloath and so applyed layde vpon a plague sore if the disease be curable it wyll so sticke and cleaue to the same that it cannot be pluckt away vnlesse it bring away the roote of the sore with it But if the disease be incurable it wyl cleaue to it Arnold de villa noua THe lytle Sparowe hath a strength vertue worthy of great maruaile For if the Sparow be condyte or well powdered with salt and eaten rawe it doth expel and driue forth the stone by the vrine and cures the disease so perfectly that the same shall neuer breede againe The Sparowes may be condite very wel if when their fethers be pluckt off that thē they be powdred couered wel with salt and so dryed eaten if you haue many sparowes they may be sodden as other byrds be And also they may be burned in a pot close couered with the fethers all and the powder of one of thē so burned with a lyttle pepper Sinamon may be geuen to them that are grieued with the stone There be which do condite them their fethers being pluckt off a lyue with Salt which is better Some do eate them rosted whole so that they cast nothing away of them but their fethers They that wyll know more hereof let them take counsayle of Actius and Paulus Egeneta Mizaldus IF any wyll make theyr handes whyte let them myxe the dunge of Sparowes in warme water and wash them therwith or let them seeth the roots of nettels in that water and therewith washe theyr handes Proued AElianus wrytes that the quylles or pennes of an Eagle myxt with the quylles or pennes of other fowles or byrdes doth consume or waste them with theyr odour smell or ayre THe rootes of Lyllies sodden in water doth take awaye the rednesse of the face if certayne mornings and euenings the same be washt and rubbed therwith This hath bene often proued BEastes that be stubborne or wylde and also Horses that wyll wynce
to the Ascendent the seconde quarter of his lyfe to the tenth house the thirde quarter to the seuenth house and the fowrth parte of his lyfe to the fowrth house And marke in which of them there is fortunate Planets and the parte Fortune and the Moone free froÌ„ Infortunate Planets and not combust Iudge that that part of the lyfe is or wyll be most fortunate Haly Abenragel IF you woulde not haue heairs to growe plucke them first vp by the rootes then vse to rub the same place with Aqua fortis dyuers times a lytle at once and it wyll staye the heair from growing there any more A woman tolde me this for a great secrete MAke a plaster of potters clay mixt with vineger the whyte of an egge and apply it to the cods of him that bleedes at the nose and streight way his bleeding wyll stay or ceasse This is a sure proued medicine and an excellent secrete GEue to a woman that suspects her selfe to be with chylde at nyght when she goes to bed a cloue of Garlyke to eate and if she feele any sauor thereof in the morning when she ryseth then shee is not with chylde If she feele no sauor thereof then she is with chylde This I had out of an olde written booke THey wyll haue weake or feeble hartes or wyll be much geuen to sounding In whose Natiuitie the Sunne is Lorde of the sixt house or Lord of the part of infyrmitie being impedite or Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff AN excellent approued thing to make them slender that are grosse Let them eate three or fowre cloues of Garlyke with asmuch of bread and butter euery morning and euening first and last neyther eating nor drinking of three or fowre howers after their taking of it in the morning for the space of fouretene dayes at the least and drinke euery daye three good draftes of the decoction of Fennel that is of the water wherein Fennell is sodde and well streyned fowretene daies after at the least at morning noone and night I knewe a man that was maruelous grosse and could not go a quarter of a myle but was enforst to rest him a doosen tymes at the least that with this medicine tooke away his grosnes and after coulde iourney very well on foote FINIS Lib. 2. ⧠The thirde Booke of Notable things FYue Egs layde in the euening in strong and tarte Uineger and taken out of the same the next morning so that you perceyue theyr shels therwith to be somthing sost else let them lye longer therin and then put or thrust them downe into the throate of a Horsse that hath the coughe hys tongue being holden all that whyle out of hys mouth wyll helpe him perfectlie of the same THe Turtle Dooue hath such a loue one to another being makes that when one of them is dead the other wyll neuer after haue any other make Aristot. IF one aske the Astrologian which part of the lande or countrey is best for him Or if one would go out of the place he dwelles in to dwell in another and doth aske into what quarter or parte were best for him to go Marke in what part of the Heauens the good Planettes bee from his Ascendent and iudge that that part where they are found is best for him but consider that from the degree ascending to the beginning of the tenth house is for the East part and from the Cuspe of the tenth house to the beginning of the seuenth house is for the South part and from the Cuspe of the seuenth house to the beginning of the fowrth house is for the West part and from the Cuspe or begynning of the fowrth house to the Cuspe of the Ascendent is for the North parte Haly Abenragel And as these quarters and partes are good to remoue vnto where the good Planets are placed euen so those quarters where euyll Planets are placed are euyll to dwell in A Certayne woman a Florentine was so pulled and gryped in her stomacke with such torments that no Phisitions coulde helpe which woman of a suddaine dyd vomytte long and croked nayles needles of brasse with waxe and lumpes of heair and at last shee auoyded out of her mouth a great fleshie peece such a one as a Gyaunt coulde not swalowe The Author hereof is Beniuenius de admirandis morborum causis But hee sayth that the sayde woman was possest of a wicked spyrite Mizaldus Which I beleeue was done by the deuyl PLynie reportes that men in auncient tyme dyd fasten vpon the gates of their Townes the heads of Woolues thereby to put away Wytcherie Sorcery or Enchauntment Which many hunters obserues or do at this daye but to what vse they know not A Mowle or a Woont enclosed in an earthen pot If you set then the powder of Brymstone on fyre she wyll call other Mowles or Woonts to helpe her with a verie mourning voyce Mizaldus IF you take an Oake Aple from an Oake tree and open the same you shall finde a lytle woorme therin which if it doth flye away it sygnifies warres if it creepe it betokens scarcenes of Corne if it run about then it foreshewes the plague This is the countrymans Astrologie which they haue long obserued for trueth Mizaldus IF a man be sicke marke his eyes when he sleepeth for if any whyte thing appeare betwixte the eye lyddes and the patient haue no great laxe nor receiued any purgation before it is a terrible and deadly sygne Aphor. Hippocr WHosoeuer is troubled with the coughe or shortnesse of breath let them drinke a good drafte something warmed of this folowing thryse euerie daye fyrst and last and one howre after dynner for the space of seuen or eyght dayes and it wyll helpe them God wylling for it is an excellent and often proued thing Take of the rootes of Enulacampana cut in small peeces of Hysop and Peniryall and also of good scraped Lyqueris of each two handfull Seethe them all in a gallon of pure and fayre water vntyll the water come to one pottell then streyne it well and keepe it in a cleane vessell close stopte or couered and vse it as is before sayde SOpe myxt with a lytle salt healeth perfectly a Fellon Uncome or other sore or swolne fynger with speede I knowe that this hath bene well proued THe whyte of an egge wall beâ—ten and mixed with the powder of Masticke helpes chapt handes if they be annoynted therewith MOwseare any manner of way ministred to Horses bringes this helpe vnto them that they cannot be hurt whyles the Smith is shooing of them Therefore it is called of many Herba clauorum the herbe of nayles Mizaldus IF a Fyrre tree be touched wythered or burned with lyghtning it sygnifies that the maister or mistresse therof shall shortly dye Seruius GAlen sayeth that he hath founde by experiences folowing the opinions of many when any shall fall sicke and the Moone then be in the sygne wherin a good Starre or planet was
Eucharius Rosenbader of Wessemburge and Iohn of Ettenstet â–ª Surgions in the presence of many which dyd cutte or open the bellye and Mawe of the sayde dead Husbandman Wherein was founde being maruaylous and prodigious a long and rounde peece of woodde fowre knyues of Steele partlye sharpe and partlye nyckte lyke a Sawe and two sharpe instrumentes of yron that was longer then a spanne and they had therin also heair rowled together as it were a round Bowle or Ball. This was layde or put in his Mawe by none other arte but onely by the crafte and subtyltye of he Deuyll This hath Iohannes Langius wrytten in the fyrst parte of his medcinal Epistles Epistol 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis Mizaldus reportes it also IN many Pondes all the water wood taken out by and by Eeles do breede if rayne water come into them for that with the dewe they do lyue and are nourished Aristo Plutarch And other IF the ryght knee of a Bull be tyde with a broade bande it wyll make him tame Aelianus LEt the partie that bleedes chawe the roote of a Netle in his mouth but swallowe it not downe and without doubte the bloud wyll stanche for if one keepe it in his mouth he can lose no bloud Petrus Hisp. IF a mad man finde ease in sleeping it is good but if his rage encrease it is to be feared Hippocrates in suis Aphor. IF the Lorde of the Ascendent or the Moone or the Lorde of the syxt house be Combust or Retrograde the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eyght house conuinct to Mars or Saturne the sicke must dye of that disease Iohannes Ganiuetus But God can restore health past all hope THis medicine folowing doth maruelouslie breake winde in the bellye Take Coomyn seede Fennell seede and Annes seede of each a like much beat them to powder then seeth the same in wyne and drinke a good draught therof fyrst last fowre or fyue dayes together you shall finde a great helpe thereby for it hath bene often proued to their great ease comfort that tooke the same TAke a spoonefull of Aqua vite and two spoonefull of the water of Arsemarte and annoynt any ache therwith twyse euery day morning and euening for the space of fyue or sixe dayes at the most and it wyll heale it for euer I had this out of an olde wrytten booke HE wyll be weake in the act of generation in whose Natiuitie Venus is ioyned with Saturne especially in the tenth or eight house or that the Moone is ioyned with Saturne in an euyll aspect of Venus or if Saturne be in the syxt or twelfth house in a moyst sygne Infortunating Venus Iatromath Guat Ryff THis folowing is an excellent medicine for the stone Seethe an handfull of Holly berryes in a pynt of good Ale tyll halfe the Ale be consumed then streyne it putting then a lytle butter to it and let the partie drinke therof fiue or sixe spoonefull and within halfe an howre after the party wyll make water if euer any medicine wyl cause it This was tolde me for a very true secrete THe learned and wise men among the Persians affyrme that if Sage be putrefied or layde to rot in horse dung whyles the Sunne and Moone do both occupy the seconde face of Leo thereon wyll breede a Byrde lyke an Owsell or blacke Byrde the ashes wherof being burned and strowed or cast into a burning Lampe wyll make the house seeme to be full of Serpentes Hermes IF the eares of Cattes be stowde or cutte off it wyl make them keepe home the better For that then the water which they can not abyde wyll drop into their eares being open And if they be gelded especially the male Catte they wyll not onely be more tamer and fatter but also thereby they wyll raunge abroade the lesse Mizaldus IT is sayde that Cockles Oysters in great thunders do vomitte and cast out then Pearles Whervpon many are founde in the sandes Mizaldus WHen any drawes nye towarde their death and that their members lackes bloud vytal heate Then Fleas and Lyse leaues them quyte or else drawes to that parte of the bodye where the sayde heate tarryes the longest which is in the hole in the necke vnder the chyn c. This is a token that death is at hande Lemnius THe leaues of Walwoort sodde with Wine doth maruelouslye mytigate the paynes of them that are tormented with the gowte if they be applyed to the place where the griefe or payne is There be that preferres and extolles with maruelous praises The iuyce expressed out of the leaues rootes therof sodden with Wine and May butter and in the steede of a Lynyment annointed styll on the grieued member That is three or fowre tymes euerie daye Mizaldus learned this of one that proued it A Ryshe dryed and put into Wyne if there be any water therein it drawes it to it The Wine left alone or together Which is good and profytable for trying of Wine Mizaldus A Notable medicine to heale lame members doeth folowe Take of oyle Olyffe Aqua vite ole of Exetor and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much myxe all together and annoynt the lame members therewith twyse euerie daye morning and euening the space of a fortnight being well rubbed before and it wyll helpe the same of a certayntie An olde Woman in Worcester shyrâ— dyd helpe many therewith IF out of one pounde of excellent Wyne with as much Salt as you can holde in your hande and the leefe of pure Wyne you do distyll a water You shall finde that it wyll be the whottest water of all other Mizaldus had this of a certaine Alchemyst IT is sayd that Hartes in Crete being stroken with Dartes enuenomed do eate of a certayne hearbe called Dyttanie and thereby the pricke or any other thyng that styckes in them is dryuen foorth Mizaldus THere was a certaine Woman great with chyld in Pago not farre from Andernacus a Towne of the Byshoppe of Cullen Desyring or longing to eate or to feede on her Husbandes fleshe and although she loued him intirely she killed him in the night being satisfied with the halfe of his flesh she powdred the rest with Salt but after when her great longing dyd cease and that she dyd repent the deede she dyd confesse it to her friendes that sought for her husbande Iohannes Langius in his medcynall Epistles Therfore it is good for the husbands to take heede whiles theyr wyues haue such inordinate longyng vppon them MAny haue bene helped that haue had fowle and leprous faces onely with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberies the Strawberies fyrst put into a close glasse and so putrifyed in horse dung Conradus Gesnerus IF at the time of the byrth of any Mercurie be Occidentall from the Sun not vnder his lyght or his beames except in Aries or Leo nor Retrograde being then in any of the
then he is lyke to dye thereof Iatromathematica M. Guat Ryff TO kyll Serpents in your dreame sygnifies victorie to see sayles of shyppes is euyl to dreame that all your teeth are blouddy it sygnifies the death of the dreamer but that the teeth is drawne out signifies the death of another that byrds enters into a house sygnifies losse to weepe betokens ioye to handle money sygnifies anger to see dead horsses sygnifies a lucky euent of thinges Artemidorus YOu shall make a Swoord Knife or any other Instrument to haue an excellent edge if you doo as followeth Put into a pounde of the vrine of a young Man as much soote as you may take in your hand putting thereto fowre ounces of the oyle of Lynne seede All being mixt together let them seethe on the fyre betwene the beating or stryking of the sword or the knife whiles it is red or burning hotte quench it in this myxture and according to arte let it be wel tempered Mizaldus IF you stampe Lupynes which are to be had at the Apothecaries and therewith rubbe round about the bottome or lower part of any tree no Antes or Pyssemyres wyll go vp and touch the same Tree Mizaldus IF Mercury being Lorde of the syxt house be impedyte of Saturne doth threaâ—â—n to the chylde then borne continuall blyndnesse and so much the more if the Moone beholde the Sunne and Saturne in that sort Taisnier RUb the leafe of a Marygoold betweene your fyngers and put the same into your nose and let it staye there a pretie whyle and it wyll bring forth aboundaunce of humors out of your head and it wyll help the rewine within a little whyle if you vse it This I had of a friende as an excellent secrete THe eating of two drams of great Reasons the Stones taken out in the mornyng fastyng doth profyte for conceruing of youth because they make better dygestion and fleame is dymynished by them they comfort the Lyuor and makes it fatte because they are friendes of the stomacke and of the Lyuor and they encrease bloud and makes it thycke and when they are taken after meate they strengthen and moystens the belly Iohannes Ganâ—uctus THe eyes be not onely instrumentes of Inchauntment but also the voyce and euyll tongues of certaine persons For there are found in Africke as Gellius sayth Families of men that if they chaunce exceedingly to prayse fayre Trees pure seedes goodly chyldren excellent horsses fayre and well lyking cattell soone after they wyll wyther and pyne away so dye No cause or hurt knowne of their withering or death Therupon the custome came that when any do praise any thing that we should say God blesse it or keepe it Aristot. in Probl. By the report of Mizaldus STop both your eares with your fyngers and the hyckop wyl go away within a whyle after Proued MAny that are borne at that tyme when the earth doth quake are alwayes fearefull in the tyme of thunder they are for the most part saynt fearfull in the time of the change of the Moone eyther they liue not long or else they be weake And oftentimes as Aristotle sayth haue Melancholicke diseases or els are out of measure Melancholicke which makes theÌ„ to be wayward â—reating seldome mery Mizaldus THere is a maruelous strength in Sperma ceti for if it be pure right it wyll penetrate go through the boxes or things wherin it is kept with a certain moysture or sweating droppes Mizaldus IF Mercury be coniunct with Saturne or in any euyll aspect of him neyther Iupiter nor any other good Planet doth beholde Mercury it doth note that they then borne shal haue an impediment in their tongue or shall stut chiefly if he be founde aboue the earth Taisnier THe rootes of Eldern sodde and streyned drunke thirtie dayes together thryse euery daye at morning noone and night doth cure the dropsy perfectly Proued IF the pappes of a woman which is with childe of two do waxe lytle she shall lose one of them and if it be the ryght pappe it is a man chylde that wyll be lost and if it be the lest a woman chylde Hippocrates in Aphor. TAke Garlyck and Houslyck of each lyke much stampe them both together and plaster the same eyther to a hotte or colde gowte and it wyll helpe or ease it maruelously This was reported to me to be excellent therfore THe Flower of oyntments called Flos vnguentoruÌ„ is made as followeth Take of Rosen and Perrosyâ— of each halfe a pounde Uirgin waxe and Olybanum of eyther a quarter of a pounde Masticke one ounce Hartes tallowe or els Sheepes tallow a quarter of a pounde Camphere two drams make your gooms in fyne powder and searce them then melt the waxe and tallowe and myxe the powders there with well and boyle them well together then streyne it through a canuas bagge into a pottell of white Wine then let it keele vntyl it be bloud warm then put thereto the Camphere and a quarter of a pounde of Turpentyne by lytle and lytle euermore styrring it well tyll it be through colde Then make it vp in rowles keepe it to your vse for the best salue for all things following that euer was made by the sufferaunce of god Wherfore esteeme of this salue aboue any other for it hath bene put in experience and substantially proued It heales wounds olde new it cleanseth very well and gathereth good fleshe It healâ—th head ache impostume in the head or in the body Swolne eares or cheekes sawsfleame in the face Synewes cutte starke or sprayned in trauell It drawes out yron and thorne it helpes venemous byting and pricking it heales all manner of botche all swelling and ache in the coddes and all other members it sâ—ases the fluxe of the Emrods and it is speciall good to make a seare cloath for all manner of griefes This was wrytten and cast into the Recluse or Anker at the Red hyll in Almaine wherewith he wrought many maruels and neuer vsed any other medicine but this This I copied out of a very olde booke and I haue proued it many tymes to be precious WHen the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent is Infortunate in his fall or combust with three other testimonies or else two It sygnifies that the sick person shall dye And it is so much the worse if he be vnder the beames of the Sunne Iatromath Guat Ryff WHosoeuer hath the griefe or swelling of the splene neuer so much hath had it of a long tyme and doth heate the endes of a payre of tonges in the fyre vntyl they be glowing and red hotte and then quencheth the same in halfe a pynt of white Wine drynk the same Wine It wyll helpe them therof perfectly This was credibly tolde me for very trueth But it is more certaine if they be so heated and quenched fiue or sixe tymes and then drunke and to take the same fowre or fiue morninges
together Which I know to be excellent the lyke vnto this is affyrmde to be most true and proued by Anth. Beneuenius IT is a great token of health when the stones or coddes begyns to ytche though the other parts of the body be weake But then take heede of Uenerius actes least you pay for your pleasure This out of Mizaldus COryander seede made in powder and mixt with Honny and unplastred vpō a Carbuncle or other grieuous byles destroyes the same quite Arnold de villa noua THe black Sea coale mixed with oyle wyl be made soft Wherwith if one annoynt Uines it wyll destroye the woormes which destroyes or eates the buddes of the Uines Seuerinus Gebelius THe goom of a Chery tree dissolued in white wine and so geuen to them that are grieued with the stone it wyll helpe them maruelously Mizaldus affyrmes that it is certainly proued IT was credibly told me for a very truth that there was a very poore woman being brought to bed of a chylde hauing many chyldren before to whome a syster of hers being rytch and that neuer as yet had any childe came to see her who sayd vnto her as followeth Ah syster syster here are many mouthes and lytle meate To whom her poore syster answered cōtent your selfe syster God neuer sends mouth but he sendeth meate After it chaunst the rytch syster to be with chylde which when it was borne had neuer a mouth So that ther was much meate no mouth A worthy rare example to make al couetous greedy carefull worldlinges to cast their whole care on the lord And not so to depend on their own prouision or worldly wealth If it were not for the great goodnes of God we should haue no more meate for our mouthes then this womans chyld had a mouth for meate But if we haue both mouthes and meate and lacke good stomacks for the same what are we the neare So that both mouth meate and stomack are not in our wylles to haue when welyst but are Gods gyfts to bestowe as he wyll HErmes sayth if in the Natiuitie of the Husband Venus be Combust the wyfe shall dye before the husbande If in the Natiuity of the wyfe Mars be Combust the husband shall dye before the wife WAter or wine wherin Walwoort is sodde if a good draught thereof be drunke euery day fyrst and last for the space of twentye dayes at the most doth perfectly helpe them that haue the dropsy It is an excellent medicine for the same CAst or instyl certaine drops of Baulme into cleare water and then with a stick labour well the water and if the water then be troubled the baulme is not perfect But if the water abyde cleare then the same is good and perfect baulme For the good and true baulme doth gather it selfe alwayes into one place And thus you may trye a true good baulme from a false and sofysticate baulme IF the roote of Pyony especialy of the male Pyony be hangde at the necke of a chylde or a boye that hath the falling sycknes it doth helpe very much Lykewise doth Pellyter and the heaire of a Dogge that is all blacke Lemnius FINIS Lib. 4. ⧠The fyfth Booke of Notable thinges A Mare wyl bring forth a Fole of diuers cullours if she be couered with a cloth of dyuers cullours whyles she is taking the Horse For such cullours as be before the eyes of of the Horse whyles he doth horse her without doubt the Fole wyll be of the same cullours The same may be proued with Dogs and other Beasts Mizaldus THe berryes of Halicacabus called wynter Cherries being stampt and the iuyce prest or wroong out of the same and then dryed in the shaddow the same if it be geuen to such as haue the stone or cannot make water and also to them that haue the Dropsie it wyll prouoke vrine or dryue forth the water and also expell the Hydropycall humors Mizaldus HOrus Apollo doth saye that a Woolfe doth feare greatly stones therfore when he is constrayned to go by stony places he treades very demurely or softly For being hurt with a very lytle stroke of a stone it breedes woormes wherof at length he is consumed or brought to his death Therfore he doth flye from a trauellor that layes wayte to stryke him with stones IF the Moone and Venus be ioyned together and both be Combust He that is then borne shall lacke a wyfe or neuer marrie Ptolomeus IF the leaues of Elderne fyrst made hotte between two Tyle stones and then applyed hotte to the forehead and the temples if any painelye there It helpeth the ache of the head maruelously This is very good and well proued HEre followeth a maruellous water to prouoke sleepe Take of Opium thebaicum and Garlicke heads pylled of each two ounces beate the Garlicke heads in a morter with a woodden pestel put therto the Opium grinded incorporate these well together that it maye be lyke a Sawce Distyll this in a Retorte with a most soft slowe fyre in ashes With this water distilled when neede shal require annoint the temples the forehead and pulses of the wrestes And beware you mynister nor vse this but vppon a great necessity as in franticke persons as you shall thinke it good THe iuyce of the buddes leaues inner rynde or of the young braunches of Elderne something warme put into the eare doth not onely breake the impostume thereof within sowre or fiue tymes but also doth maruelously helpe the deafnes This was tolde me for a great secrete and I haue tryed it to be an excellent thing in such a case TO see Moonks in ones dreame doth portēd death or calamity to see fatte Oxen betokens plenty of thinges to loose an eye or a toothe sygnifies the death of a friende or of a kynseman or some other euyll lucke to dreame to be dumme foreshewes speedie gladnes to see Oxen plowe betokens gaine to enter into waters betokens euyll Artemidorus THis following makes a soft beard and doth beautifie the chynne with a fyne heaire Take butter witstout salt the iuyce of a redde Onion the grease of a Gray or a Badger the roote of Bryony of Beetes of Radysh and of whyte Lyllies whereof make a Lynyment and annoint the chyn often therewith being shauen Mizaldus PUt vp an olde Gander into a house and let him be there three dayes without meate then cast vnto him peeces of an Eele newlie kylled then gather the dunge that comes from him after he hath eaten the peeces of the Eele which dung being layde to any impostume or swelling Is a present remedy therfore HE that sleepeth in a sheepes skynne shall see true dreames or dreame of things that be true Mizaldus THe brayne of a Wesell dryed and drunke with Uinegar doth helpe them that haue the falling sicknes Mizaldus IVpiter and Venus or the one of them in the eyght house not Combust nor Retrograde doth sygnifie the chyld then borne shall dye a naturall
and no violent death Taisnier TAke a lytle sticke and tye about the ende thereof olde Oken leaues then cutte them something rounde and holde the same leaues in your mouth as deepe and as farre in as you may suffer it well holding the stycke betweene your teethe so hold your mouth ouer a porrenger or a dysh and there wyll great aboundaunce of humors auoyde out of your mouth and within a whyle washe in fayre water the sayde leaues on the stycke and then holde it in your mouth so againe Doo thus for the space of halfe an howre and vse this three or fowre tymes a daye for three or fowre dayes together or vntyll you haue auoyded as much waterie humors as you thinke good This is the best and the presentest remedy for helping of the rewme that euer I knewe or hearde of I had it of a Gentleman that esteemed it as a Treasure And whosoeuer proues it shall fynde it an excellent thyng MIrabolanes chebuli preserued with his syrruppe vsed daylye and eaten preserueth youth excellently well THis followinge is an excellent Gargarisme to purge the head and the brest Take of Stauesacre three drams Pellyter of Spaine and mustard seede of eyther two drams long Pepper Gynger and Aâ—lomgem of each one dram Make powder of them that are to be powdred and stampe the rest myxe all well together and put as much therof as a beane in a little lynnen cloath and tye the same fast with a threde that it may be rounde then houlde the same in your mouth champe it softly betweene your teeth and it wil bring forth water and fleame aboundantly Use this dayly vntill you thinke your head be wel purged YF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house receyued of the Lord of the eight house so that he receyue not the Lorde of the eight house It sygnifies that the sycke party shall escape without all hope Iatromath Guat Ryff EArth woormes slyt and cleansed and washt from their slymye and earthye matter halfe a dosen of them at the least and cut in peeces or chopped and a good messe of pottage made thereof with otemeale and water and so much euerye daye eaten by them that haue the black Iaundies for the space of twelue dayes or longer no doubt it will perfectly cure them therof though it be neuer so long rooted or thought to be past cure Or else a spoonefull of the powder made of them in March or any other time when you can get theÌ„ taken euery day so long in a litle draught of any drinke doth likewise perfectly cure the same This is very true and hath bene often tymes proued It hath helpt some in fowre or fyue dayes OLâ—banum which is a kinde of Frankencence in powder mixte with as much of Swines grease and boyled together wherewith if childrens heades that are full of Lyce or that are geuen to breede lyce be annoynted they shall afterwardes be free from Lyce This is better and more safe then to vse oyntments mixt with quicksyluer which is very daungerous therefore let Mothers or Nursses rather vse this WHereas euery Beast the act of generation ended or done is woont to be sadde onely the Cock reioyseth for he sheweth his gladnes then by crowing IF Mars be in the eyght house in a humaine signe or in the seconde face of Taurus or in the first face of Leo It doth shew the child then borne shall dye of yron Taisnier IT is proued by experience that to vse customablie in the dynner and immediatly before the Supper halfe an ounce of the flowre of Cassia newly drawne doth forbyd the engendring of the impostumation of the stomacke Truly I saye vnto thee that who doth vse such taking of Cassia shal be preserued from euery euyll affection of the stomacke Emperica bened WIne of the decoction of Tormentyll drunke daylye without any other drinke and the hearbe thereof sodden and euery euening plastred ouer the eyes the space of three or fowre monthes or more restoreth the syght yea to those that haue their eyes as though they dyd see and yet are blinde and sees nothing at all Petrus Hispanus ANdreas Mattheolus knewe a Woman that euery daye for a whole yeares space was greeuously troubled with the paynes of the moother which was helped verye well of that disease by drinking once a weeke at her going to bed oâ— white Wine wherein an ounce of the roote of Bryony was heated and she vsing this medicine a whole yeare in such sort she felt no more harme therof IF you wyll destroye or put away Warts cut of the head of a quyck Eele and rubbe the Warts all ouer well with the same bloud then as it runnes from the Eele then bury the head of the sayd Eele deepe in the ground and when the head is rotten then they wyll fall away I thinke the Author hereof is Iohannes Baptista Porta Mizaldus ABout the rysing of the lytle Dogge being in the Sommer an olde Cock doth lay an Egge round speckled and of dyuers cullours where of many doo thinke that the Basylike or Cockatryse doth come which is a most pernicious and venemous serpent especially if that egge be syt vpon and hatched by a Tode Which whether it be a fable or not let other iudge Mizaldus MArs in the eyght house with the head of the Dragon betokens that the chylde then borne shal die of a roape or be hangd Taisnier THe iuyce of Colewoorts put or snuft into the nosthrylles doth purge the head maruelous well and helps the auncient payne of the head Often proued BLacke sieges lyke to fylthy bloud are wonderfull euyll Whether they be with an ague or without an ague And the darker cullour they haue the woorse they bee but if these sygnes come through a Purgation they be more laudable And although they be of dyuers cullours they be not euyll Hippocrates THis following is an excellent and often proued thing for the Collycke Strangurie and the stone Take the seedes of Careaway Fennell seede Spicknarde Annes seede Coomyn seede Cynamom and Galyngale of eache halfe an ounce Gromell seede and Lycores of eyther of them an ounce and beate them all to powder and drinke halfe a spoonefull of the same powder in Ale a lytle warmed and walke vppe and downe one howre after before you eate or drinke any other thing Doo thus fiue or sixe dayes together at the least and you shall finde it of a notable operation This was taken out of a learned practysers booke besydes synce it hath bene many tymes proued YOung Chyldren whose gummes are annoynted with the brayne of an Hare doo breede their teeth easylie Mizaldus And it hath bene proued with the brayne of a Conie A Walnutte put fast into a Chycken that it fall not out in the roastyng thereof It makes that the same Chycken wyll be the sooner roasted Mizaldus IF a rounde large vessell with one hole in the toppe thereof be fylled full with
sure that she is not barren of her selfe Hidpocrates Aphor. WHosoeuer is greued tormented with the stone let them take one ounce of the rootes of Radishe cut in slyces and lay the same to stiepe in halfe a pint of good whyte Wine all night then streyne the same well and put therto of the Electuary called Lithontripon of the description of Nicholas and also Iustinum one dram myxe them with the sayde whyte Wine wherein the Radish was infused and let him that is grieued with the stone receyue all the same at one tyme and you shall see a maruelous woâ—ke thereof If neede be let him receyue the lyke quantitie thereof three or fowre dayes together This is proued to be a sure an excellent thing for breaking and auoyding the stone and grauell Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuffe A Head of Garlycke the skyns pulled off and a lytle brused layde by equall partes to the hollowe partes of the soles of theyr feete that are grieuously tormented with the toothe ache especially if it come of a colde cause and be on the neather iawe it wyll helpe them with speede by drawing the humors out of the soles of the feete I haue knowne them that haue taken this medicine and haue not ben troubled with the tooth ache of seuen yeares after THat man is lyke to haue fewe Chyldren in whose Natiuity Saturne is in the Ascendent opposyte to Venus or if Venus be in a barraine signe infortunate of Saturne or if Venus be in the house of Saturne especially Infortunate of him Iatromathematica Guat Ryff IF you rubbe or touch Wartes with the leaues of a Fygge tree the Warts wyll consume and vanish away so that the sayde leaues be buryed within the earth or grounde Some ascribes the same to the harte of a Pigion Mizaldus ELephants of all other Beastes do chiefly hate the Mowse So that if they shall see or perceyue that a Mowse hath once touched their meate that is before them they loathe the same and wyll not eate a bytte therof Plinius IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the twelfth house he that is then borne wyll dye in prison or in captiuitie Taisnier THe powder of the berries of Bryony â–ª drunke in the water wherein water Cresses are sod doth maruelously heale the Strangury IF any Woman great with chylde shall take this drinke following euery other day in the morning three howres before she eate any meate begynning the same about tenne dayes or a fortnight before the tyme of the byrth the byrth shall not onely be made more easye but also she shall bring forth her chylde without payne Take of the great Treackle one scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. barly cornes the powder of Lycquerys and the powder of Cynamom of eyther three graynes of good whyte Wine one ounce and a halfe myxe all together and make there of a drynke and let it be geuen to the Woman with Chylde in such manner as is before sayde Benedictus victorius fauentinus in his Booke called Emperica THis following wyll stoppe the bloudy fluxe Take Yarrowe and Planten of eyther a lyke muche stampe them well together and put thereto redde Wyne and streyne it well and drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last three or sowre dayes together and certaynly it wyll stay it It is an easy and precious thing IF you wyll prooue whether a Woman bee with chylde or not let her make water in a copper or brasen vessell and let a Needle lye therein a whole nyght that is bryght and cleane and if she be with chylde the Needle wyl haue redde spots on it If not then it wyll be blackish or rusty It is proued as Mizaldus was enformed IF a Crowe chaunce to eate of the rest of the fleshe wherof a Woolfe hath eaten before the same Crow wyll dye soone after Aclianus and Philes NEyther falling sycknes neyther deuyll wyll infest or hurt one in that place wheras a Bay tree is The Romaynes calles it the Plant of the good Angell c. Mizaldus WRyting Inke tempered with water wyne or vinegar wherein Woormwood hath bene stieped Myse wyl not eate the Papers or Letters written with that Inke And also cloathes wherein Woormwood is layde or wrapt is safe from mothes and if there be any there it wyll driue them awaye Diascorides THe howre of Mars is to be abhord in all thinges bothe in the begynning and when the thing is done Haly Abenragel Therefore you were best to take heede that you take no notable thyng or great matter in hande or beginne any long iourney in the howre of Mars if you can by any meanes knowe when it is But whosoeuer puttes theyr whole trust in GOD and guides theyr lyfe by the rule of his holye woorde be they neuer so symple and vnlearned hee wyll so guyde them and so instructe them that they shall auoyde all such daungers and pâ—rryllous tymes And contrarye the wycked learned yea though they know the tymes shall not haue power to auoyde them As I haue seene in many which afterwarde they dyd well consyder though to late And as I haue sayde of Mars so I say of Saturne For there is neuer a good of them both Yâ—t I doo not thinke that Saturne or Mars shewes such harme to them in whose Natiuities they are Sygnifyers or beares rule in the Ascendent but chiefly to such in whose Natiuitie they are Lords of the xii.vii.v or .viii. house But surely I haue markt it long and yet I neuer sawe any notable thing begunne in the howre of Mars or Saturne that came to a good ende Which they shall well finde that begins to set forwarde towards the Sea in Saturnes howre I speake by tryall as well as Haly doth which I shoulde not haue consydred so much but by his counsayle and proofe OXen Kyne Bullocks or Horsses shall not be troubled with any disease if you hang a Harts horne vpon them Absyrtus IF you ioyne a Lyons skyn to the skyn of a Woolfe of any other Beast it wyll make them without heayre or cause theyr heayre to fal or consume away Mizaldus COâ—ewoorts and Rew called hearbe Grace are so contrary in nature the one to the other that they ought not to be sowne nye together Fracastorius IF any Sheepe or else heayry Beasts or els Man or Woman be full of woormes in any wound or sore take of the wooll of the same Sheepe or heair of that Beast or some of the heair of that Man or Woman and hyde the same before the rysing of the Sun vnder the barke of a tree called Trembla which is a kinde of black Popler tree Do thus certayn dayes and thou shalt see the woormes fall out of the wound or sore myraculously or else they wyll dye or leaue that place There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree and also to the roote of wylde Succorye hanged at the necke in manner of
a Crosse. Which Mizaldus saw obserued in a Dog one of whose eares was almost eaten off with woormes IT is proued oftentymes by experiment that many being borne in the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone doo dye in the opposition that is in the full Moone and they that bee borne in the full of the Moone are dead in the coniunction that is in the new Moone Taisnier PUt two or three of the seedes of Oculus christi into your eye and within a whyle after you shall not feele them Whereby you wyll thinke they are not there But at the last they wyll droppe or fall out of them selues compassed about with slymye matter which hynders the syght Which if you vse thy wyll cleanse and cleare your eyes maruelously This I knowe to be very true IF one doth buye Wartes of them that haue them and geue them a pin therfore if the party that hath the Warts pricke the same pyn vpon some garment that he weares daylye or commonly the Warte or Wartes without doubte wyll demynish and weare away priuely and be cleane gone in short time This was tolde me for an often tryed and prooued thing yea and by such a one as had seene the experyence thereof Also Wartes rubbed with a peece af rawe Beefe and the same Beefe being buryed within the grounde the Wartes wyll weare and consume as the Beefe doth rotte in the ground Proued SAlt Armoniacke stampte and myxt with water doth make whyte Letters nothing dyffering from the cullour of Payer But if you holde the same Paper to the fyre the Letters wyll waxe blacke Mizaldus A Thing to be marueled at and woorthy to be remembred doth followe declared by Iouianus Pontanus A certaine Caietane Woman sayth he was marryed to a Fysher whome he dyd vse as his Wife according to the order of Marriage many yeares as Anthonius Panthormita being a friende of the same Fysher was woont to tell to the sayde Iouianus Pontanus when he was young which Woman after she had bene marryed fowreteene yeares dyd became to be a Man and suddenly there sprung out the members of a Man in the naturall place of the Woman Which being so ashamed of her condition as one that thought she shoulde be mockt or laught to scorne both of Men and Women became a Religious Woman and lyued in a Monastary where he knâ—we her the rest of her lyfe And she was buryed at Rome in the Temple of Marie to Minerua And an other Woman called Aemilia was marryed to one Anthony a Citizen of Ebula and after she was marryed twelue yeares shee was chaunged into a Man and was conuersaunt with Men vsing then the artes and trades of men in that Countreye and marryed a Wyfe This wrytes he in the tenth booke De rebus celestibus c. Mizaldus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the Ascendent or in the fyrst house it sygnifyes short lyfe to the chylde then borne Taisnier TAke the inner rynde of an Oake tree and seethe it well in fayre water and then bathe any sore olde or newe therewith halfe a dosen tymes together twyse euery daye and at euery tyme when it is thus bathed then annoynt it with Butter and Brymstone myxt well together and within nyne or ten dayes it wyll be whole God wylling A true and tryed medicine THis following wyll helpe the yallowe Iaundies with speede Take a Burre roote the greater the better scrape it cleane then take a potte of new Ale and put your roote therein and the Ale wyll boyle and let it be therein one daye and one nyght well stopped then lette the patient drynke a good draught two or three tymes and he wyll be whole certaynly Proued THe sycke is much to be feared if in the Ascendent or in the eyght house or with their Lordes there be euyll Starres or Planets But if good Planets be there It is safe inough Iatromath Guat Ryff ARystotle and Auycen do affyrme that of the round and short Egge the Cocke chycken doth come of the long and sharpe Egge the Henne chycken Mizaldus YF you put yallowe Amber into hotte melted waxe before well skymmed it wyll be then as softe as claye so that you may make thinges therof in what forme or fashion you wyll it wyll be so tractable and soft Mizaldus had this secrete of a certaine cunning Lapidary THere is nothing better to driue away Serpentes or Snakes then the smoake of olde Leather or olde shoes burned or else to bring them out of ones body before crept into them by sleeping open mouthed Wherof Marc. Gatinarica an excellent Phisition doth wryte that the lyke dyd happen to a certain man in his tyme to whome when many medicines were geuen in vaine the sayd man receiued the smoake of olde leather at his mouth by a funnell so that it went into his body and as soone as the venemous thing in his body felt the sayd smoake he came out at his fundament Which was a maruelous great Uyper to the great maruayle and feare of all them that were present SEethe the inner rynde of the young braunches of a Hasell tree in small Ale vntyll halfe be consumed and let them that haue the StraÌ„gury drinke a good draught thereof fyrst and last for the space of eyght or nyne dayes together and it wyll helpe them certainly for it neuer fayles Therefore proue it and prayse it IN the fyrst beginning of any sicknes or at the time of a question for the state of the sycke person if the Moone be corrupt or afflicted of Saturne in the three fyrst degrees of Scorpio it betokens death Iohannes Ganiuetus A Notable medicine for the Sciatica doth followe Take Oxe dung and Pigions dung of eyther one pounde and myxe them well together with one pottell of white Wine and let them boyle together vntyl halfe the Wyne be consumed then streyne it through a lynnen cloath then put thereto halfe a pounde of Honny and twelue yolkes of Egs and halfe a pound of melted waxe and myxe all together with as much barly meale as wyll suffice for the making of it in a plaster and put it hotte to the paynfull place This was proued by King Henry the fyft as the wryting dyd wytnes out of the which I had this Besydes it hath bene synce proued LEt the Phisition take heede of his fyrst visiting of the sycke in the howre of Saturne and Mars if he come to him in the howre of Saturne eyther the sicke wyll dye or else the Phisition shal haue great labour doubtes and slacknes in the curing of him Neyther shall he helpe him except it be euen to desperation or out of all hope And if he be sent for or go to him fyrst in the howre of Mars there wyll be â—hydinges and brawlings betwixt him and the sick party and small gayne The howres of Iupiter and Venus are much praysed The howres of the other Planets are indyfferent Iotromathematica Guat Ryff A Greene
one handfull the grease of a Hen one ounce oyle of Camamell and oyle of sweete Almonds of eyther a lyke much which wyl be inough to make the plaster â—atte This I knowe to be an excellent remedy in this case which I learned of Benedictus victorius â—auentinus in his booke called Emperica benedicti THis medicine following wyll helpe any paynes or weaknes of the backe Take a quart of Malmsey of Balme Neppe and Maydweede which Maydweede is a stynking hearbe hauing a flowre lyke a Daysie of eache one handfull stampe the hearbes well and strayne them well into the Malmsey or put some of the Malmsey in the stamping to them and strayne it into the rest of the Malmsey and drinke a good draught therof euery morning fasting and at night when you go to bed and within three or fowre dayes it wyl helpe you perfectly God wylling A notable and often proued medicine DRinke the iuyce of Centorie once euery morning fowre dayes together and it wyll make thee syng cleare and speake with a good voyce It cleanseth the breast maruelously Often proued MYntes doth abhorre yron as Rew doth Basyll for if Mynt be geuen to one that is wounded he wyll not easily waxe hole if Myntes be myxt with mylke and after taken from the same and the Rennet or Cheslyp put to the same mylke the same mylke wyll neuer gather together or come to crudde Florentinus in suo Georgico WHosoeuer falles sicke in the howre of Saturne his infirmity or disease wyl be prolonged or he wyll be long sycke and after wyll dye of the same sycknes Haly Abenragel FYll a hollowe toothe with Crowes dung and it wyll breake the toothe and take away the payne Petrus Hispanus GVido Bonatus wrytes a straunge thing which he founde out by the science of Astrology in the Reuolution of Henry the Emprour who had of the sayd Emprour a yearely stypende for that he was a man of famous knowledge which Emprour had many Astrologyans as well Phisitions as other in his owne house Who for a certayne yeare dyd trauell for the Calculation of the Reuolution of the sayde Natiuity of the sayde Emprour And euery one of them dyd draw out a Fygure therof a lyke and they found Mars in the same Fygure of the Reuolution in the Angle of the earth which is the fowrth house vnder the earth and they iudged Mars then to be of an euyll influence and thereby they iudged that the Emprour that yeare shoulde haue hotte Feuers of the nature of Mars And they agreed all in that opinion to the Emprour Guydo Bonatus being there had drawn the Emprours Reuolucion lykewise he fouÌ„d Mars going towards the fourth house being then of an euyll influence iudged thereby the poyson should be mynistred to the Emprour to kyll him Therfore he counsayled the Emprour that if any dyd whysper or had any priuie talke together or were found meeting or hauing confereÌ„ce together in his Court they should be apprehended Or if any should come to the Kytchin not woont or appoynted that some faythfull man of his Court should watche the same Which charge was commytted to the Maister of the Emprours housholde which being very dillygent therin espyed and founde two Knights of the Emprours Court that were very busye in talke together and had not only mutuall conference together more then they were woont but also oftentymes requyred to come into the Kytchin Whervpon the Maister of the housholde committed them to prison and then one of them called Iohannes Franciscus was sore tormented but yet he would confesse nothing So that they deuised a letter in the name of the sayde Iohannes Franciscus confessing therin the matter and shewed it to his fellowe which when he saw strayte way sayde that the sayd Iohannes Franciscus was the chiefe procurer therof entysed him to it Which vttered they had theyr desyre wherfore they were secretly executed Iohannes Ganiuetus lykewise discribes it A Certaine WomaÌ„ that vsed Mizaldus for her Phisition had a belly dyd so swell that it seemed shee was not able to carry her burthen from whome about the ende of nyne monthes there came an euyll shapen masse or peece wherevnto were two eares lyke the handles of a cuppe fastned lyke armes with feeling after that there dyd fall from her wombe a monster with a crooked byll or beake with a long rounde necke with brandishing eyes a sharpe tayle maruelous quicke of foote and as soone as it sawe any light it filled the Parlor or place with noyse and so it dyd runne from place to place but at the last the Women following it dyd smoolder or chooke it to death with pyllowes After the woman almost werryed not without great daunger of her lyfe did bring forth a Boye which was so tormented of the Monster that they had much to doo to christen it with lyfe Leuinus Lemnius is the Author IF Saturne be in the tenth house in a watry sygne and hath any dignity in the Ascendent the Chylde then borne wyll be a Shypman or a Sayler or else he wyll abyde gladly on the water and wyll delyght in fyshing Taisnier CUluer dung sodden in Wyne tyll the Wyne be coÌ„sumed and then emplastred hotte to the gowte healeth the same perfectly Use it morning euening fowre or fyue dayes together Petrus Hispanus TO restore the deaffe to hearing Take the roote of Houndstung out of the earth and make a hoale in the roote as long and deepe as you can and fyll the same hoale with Salt and couer it wel that nothing can come within it then set it in the earth againe as it was and couer it with earth and let it be there so three dayes and at the thyrde dayes ende take it vp and that which you finde therein keepe it in some cleane glasse and put some therof into the deaffe eare Let him vse it euery euening at his going to bedde vntyll he heare clearly which wyll be within a fortnyght at the furthest God wylling And when you do it into his eare let him lye in his bedde that the lycquor may enter This I had out of an olde wrytten booke Prayse it as it proues TAke two lytle peeces of good Lycqueres the bark scraped awaye of the length of a pyn and of the bygnes of two barley strawes put eyther of them into your mouth betweene your gooms and your cheekes that is on eyther syde one and so let them lye all the whole nyght Use this euery nyght for a fortnyght at the least and without doubt it wyll stop or stay the rewme For it conieales the thyn rewme into thyck fleame so that you may spyt it out This helpt one that was without all hope to be helpt TO helpe the Pocks in the eyes Take Saffern and lay it in a â—awcer with fayre water and let it stande whyles it be yallow and then droppe some of it into the eye with a sether and it wyll destroye the
Pockes and saue the sight This I had out of an olde booke WHen thou doost fynde the seuenth house and the Lorde of the same to be afflicted or Impedite in the tyme of the question for the sycke chaunge the Phisition for he shall not profyte the sicke party eyther through his owne error or through the neclygence of the sycke person or through them that be about the sycke body The house is afflicted if Saturne or Mars be therin or being beholden of theyr quartyle or opposyte Aspect and contrary if the seuenth house be well affected as if Iupiter or Venus is there take the Phisition to whome you make the questioÌ„ or whome you are determined to take for he shall profyt the syck much and he wyll quickly cure the sycke to his great prayse Therfore marke the fyrst or soddayne calling or sending for the Phisition for if at that tyme the seuenth house and the Lord therof be euyll affected the Phisition then called or sent for wyll not profyt the sicke But it followes not therefore that the sycke shall dye But the Phisition if he take him in hande shall go away without honour Therefore as soone as thou art called to go to the sycke take counsayle of thy Ephemerides and the celestiall Fygure being erected marke where the seuenth house be well or euyll affected and so thou mayst eyther refuse or take the sycke in hande Iatromath Guat Ryff PUt the powder of redde Corrall in the hoale of the toothe and it wyll fall out by the roote Petr. Hisp. AN excellent medicine and a noble restoratyue for Man or Woman that is brought very lowe with sycknes Take two pounde of Dates and washe them cleane in fayre Ale then cutte them and take out the stones and the whyte skynnes then cutte them small and beate them in a morter tyll they begynne to woorke lyke waxe then take a quarte of claryfyed Honny or Sugar and halfe an ounce of the powder of long Pepper as much of Mace of Cloaues Nutmugges and Cynamom of each one dram as much of the powder of Lignum Aloes beate all these spyces together and seethe the Dates with the Sugar or Honny with an easy fyre and let it seethe and as it seethes cast in thereto a lytle of the powder by lytle lytle and sturre it with a Splatter of wood and so do vntyll it come to an Electuary and then eate euery morning and euening therof one ounce at one tyme and it wyll renew and restore againe his complexion be he neuer so lowe brought This hath bene proued and it hath done good to many a man and woman A Noble Receyte for the blacke Iaundise Take a gallon of Ale a pynt of Honny and two handful of redde Nettelles and take a penny worth or two of Saffern and boyle it in the Ale the Ale being fyrst skymmed and then boyle the Honny and the Nettels therin altogether and strayne it well and drinke euery morning a good draught thereof for the space of a fortnight For in that space God wylling it wyll cleane and perfectly cure the black Iaundyse WHosoeuer in the fyrst nine dayes in May drinks euery morning fasting a lytle dyshe full of the iuyce of Bettony it wyll doo him maruelous much good for the gowte Which he shall perceyue the next yeare following if he lyue so long YF any that hath the Pluresie or is stuffed in the stomacke with tough or harde fleame Let him take a sâ—ruâ—le that is the weyght of .xxiiii. barlye 〈◊〉 of the powder of the seedâ—s of Nettels with the 〈◊〉 of Uyolets and swallow the same as by lycking it by litle lytle and he shal spyt out the Uyscus and tough humor easily A secrete of a Parisian Phisition GOates wyll geue much mylke if you tye Dyttany about theyr bellyes Africanus IF Saturne be in the tenth house in an earthy sygne and hath power or dygnity in the Ascendent and is Orientall of the Sunne he that is then borne wyll be a Maister Carpenter or else he wyll delyght in Carpenter shyp but if he be Occidentall he wyll be a cleanser of Welles or pyts or else a dygger Taisnier IF the griefe of the gowte or ache be too outragious Take of OpiuÌ„ one dram of Saffern three drams myngle them with fowre or fyue yolkes of Egs and plaster the same vpoÌ„ the griefe for it mightely asswageth the paines and restrayneth the corruption A Most approued medicine for the Emrods or Pyles Take two or three brycks and burne them redde hotte and put them in some pan vnder a close stoole and sprinckle them with vineger let the party grieued syt vpon the sayd stoole that the fume therof may ascend vpward to his fundament Doo thus three or fowre times if neede be and certainly it wyll helpe it IF you wyll make Byrdes drunke that you maye catch them with your hands Take such meate as they loue as Wheate or Beanes or such lyke and laye the same to stiepe in leese of Wine or in the iuyce of Humlocks and sprinckle the same in the place where the Byrdes vse to haunt and if they do eate thereof strayght wayes they wyll be so gyddy that you may take them with your handes I wrote this out of an olde wrytten booke wherein I knowe many true things was written A Present helpe for a Woman that trauelleth of chyld Take Hysop Uerueyn and Dyttany of eache one handfull stampe them small and temper them with olde Ale then straine it and wryng out the iuyce and geue a good draught therof to her that trauelleth of chyld to drinke and she wil be deliuered with speede and the chyld saued and she both so that the chyld be alyue when she drynkes it A True medicine for the gowte Take the iuyce of the flowres of Broome and the iuyce of Scali celi and Honny as much of one as of an other and seethe it all together tyll it be of the thycknes of Honny and annoynt the gowty place therwith I knew sayth the wryter hereof a good Priest in London that healed all men and women therwith for the most part that came to him And truely I wyst it neuer fayle This for the great good lykelyhood of the medicine and for the faythful affyrming I thought good to regester it among the rest IF one pound of Waxe two ounces of quicke Brymstone and as much of quicke Lyme putting therto a lytle ounce of the oyle of Nuts a Candle be made with a week of Bumbase so put into the water as soone as euer the quick Lime begins to burne it wyl moue the rest of things apt for the fyre to burne euen in the myddes of the water Mizaldus A Ram wyl not put or runne at one if his hornes be boorde through nye vnto his eares Mizaldus WHo soeuer falles sycke in the howre of Iupiter he wyll recouer his health quickly Haly Abenragel This haue I proued to be true many tymes
the number of the same dayes be tye it or hang it vp and if the disease be curable the partye wyll be much recreated If not then the party wyl be sadde But if you can not fynde an hearbe that hath so many leaues put the rootes of diuers hearbs together the leaues whereof together doo perfectly make vp the number of the sayde dayes from the begynning of the partyes sycknes and vse them as before This Mizaldus had of a certaine Italyan which profest that it is true THe bloud of a Hare dryed dooth helpe and stay the blouddy fluxe or any other laske though it be neuer so sore or extreame So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fyne powder and taken in red Wyne AN easye plaster for the Gowte but not a lytle effectuall because I sayth Iohn Arderne haue often tymes applyed it as well to Women as to Men and haue taken away theyr great paynes with once applying it as well in the feete as in the knees other ioyntes But take heede it be not perceyued of the patient nor of any other but it ought to be kept more secrete and deare and let it be reuealed to none but to thy sonne or to thy wel beloued friend I do thinke it preuailes aboue all other medicines for the gowte easeth the paine sooner and it ought to lye fyue or sixe daies without any mouing of it if it can be so applyed It is made thus Take of blacke sope as much as is sufficient wherevnto adde of the yolkes of raw Egges halfe as much as the Sope and myxe them well together in a dyshe vntyll the Sope hath lost his proper cullour which done laye thereof vpon fyne flaxe and spreade it lyke a plaster and then apply it to the grieued place then take the whytes of Egs myxed with Wheate flowre and wet a lynnen cloath well in the same lay the same vpon the sayd plaster and tye it well vpon it that the plaster remoue not away of all the sayde tyme vnlesse there be some great occasion This I founde in an olde wrytten booke Which synce I haue oftentymes proued true for aches YF you seethe Barlye drye Beanes and Lycqueres cutte in peeces of each a lyke much all together in fayre water and drynke a good draught therof with some Sugar euerye morning fasting and at nyght when you go to bedde fyue or syxe dayes together or more It wyll destroye any Impostume and shall thereby auoyde or cast out the same This was taken out of a Booke of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true A medicine of smal coast and easie to be made at all tymes HE wyll be a good Phisition in whose Natiuitye Mars and Venus are corporally or by any good Aspect coniunct Euen so if Venus and Mercury be ioygned or in coniunction together Also he wyll be a perfect Phisition in whose Natiuitie Mars Venus are coniunct in the syxt house Iatromath A Uery lytle Byrde called Aegithus doth maruelously dysagree with the Asse who in thorny places doth scratche or rubbe his vlcers or sores wherby he doth destroy or breake the nestes of this Byrd wherevpon it comes that as soone as this Byrde heares the voyce of the Asse she doth not onely cast the egges out of her nest but also her young ones if she haue any do fall from the same astonyed wyth feare So that the said Byrde flyes vnto the vlcers or sores of the Asse and pryckes or thrust at them with her byll that she maye dryue him away from thence Aristotil Plin. et Oppianus IF the Lorde of the Ascendent be Combust in the fowrth house or in the eyght house it sygnifyes that he that is then borne shall dye in pryson And if he be Combust in the fyft house in a watry sygne it shewes he wyll be geuen to be droonken In the syxt house it showes that he wyll dye of a long sycknes Taisnier FINIS Lib. 8. ¶ The nynth Booke of Notable thinges FYll an Egge shell full of the iuyce of Egremony and geue it vnto the patient to drink whome you suspecte to haue droonken poyson and it wyll myghtely purge vpwarde all the poyson and with a wonder facilytie healeth the byting of Serpentes and other venemous Beastes Petrus Hispanus THis Oyle or Balme following is of a maruelous vertue against trembling and the palsey and it helpeth the memory annoynting the hynder part of the head therwith Which a most syngular Phisition kept priuie to him selfe for a tyme as a most precious secrete which in the ende reuealed it to the Author wherof the making followeth Take of Galbanum one pound in another place I haue read it half a pound of gum of Iuye three ounces these fynely beaten a parte myxe together Which after put into a glasse body with an head and distyll it in Balneo Marie After it is distylled myxe therewith one ounce of the oyle of Bayes and one pounde of good Turpentyne then let the whole be distylled and seperate the water from the oyle and keepe the oyle as a precious Balme The vse of this is that the patient vexed with the Palsey conuulcons the crampe and trembling of members be layde vpryght and the oyle temperatly hotte must be powred vpon the the belly into the hollow and bottome of the Nauell you shall see after a maruelous working that may rather be coumpted diuine then naturall and very much helpeth the palsey and strengthneth the memory vsed as before A certaine Practysioner applyed one droppe of this Oyle on the patientes forehead that had the Palsey and another on his Nauell and he incontinent arose as amased and was after one howre delyuered of the greuous payne of a wounde in a certayne place of his body and the shrunken synewes he annointed with this Oyle and the patient was suddaynly healed c. This Oyle helpeth deafenes and any sycknes proceeding of a colde cause and helpeth besydes the losse of smelling Arnoldus de villa noua I take to be the Author hereof THe Hoofe of a Beast called Alces which is a wyld Beast lyke a fallowe Deere hauing no ioyntes in his legges hath a maruelous vertue and strength against the Falling Euyll for a lytle peece therof enclosed in a Ryng and so the same Ryng put vpon the fynger next the lytle fynger so that the same peece of the Hoofe be turned towarde the palme of the hand it doth recreate them maruelous much that are fallen and immediatly makes them rise vp A lytle peece of the same bare and put in the hand by and by closed into a fyst suddainly it dryues away the disease and rayseth the party that is fallen therewith Which Lemnius sayth he proued once or twyse And Mizaldus sayth that he proued it putting in a lytle peece of the same in the left eare mouing it as scratching a lytle of one that had the falling sycknes and it had very good
successe it was coumpted for a myracle Iohannes Agricola dooth say the lyke is done if a lytle peece of the same Hoofe be hanged vppon one that hath the same disease so that it may touche the skyn I doo heare sayth Mizaldus that the scrapings or fylings therof is geuen in Polonia for the same disease The Hoofe of the ryght hinder foote is to be chosen But you must take heede of false deceyuers which sels the Hoofes of Oxen or Kyne for the true Hoofes of Alces IT is a most sure and proued remedy as well in curying of spitting of bloud as also in preseruing from the same euery day in the morning fasting to eate a scruple which is the weyght of .xxiiii. Barly cornes of Rubarbe tosted at the fyre Emperica benedicti fauentini BAye Salt well beaten into powder and syfted and incorporated or myxed well with the yolke of an Egge and so layde vpon any Carbuncle plague sore botche byle or impostume assuredly by the grace of God it wyll drawe to it selfe all the venome of the plague or the sore and breake any byle or other thing So that in short tyme the same wyl be healed A tryed thing IF the foreheade of the sycke waxe redde and his browes fall downe and his nose waxe sharpe and colde and if his left eye become lytle and the corner of his eye runne if he turne to the wall if his eares be colde or if he maye suffer no bryghtnes and if his wombe fall if he pull strawes or the cloathes of his bedde or if he picke often his nosthryls wich his fyngâ—â—s and if he wake much being a young man or â—â—ing an olde man sleepe much These are most cerâ—ayne tokens of death POttage made of the leaues and rootes of Strawberies being eaten fasting certayne dayes of them that haue the Iaundise doth helpe them perfectly This was the secrete of a certayne Moonke wherwith he got maruelous much money A Serpente doth so hate the Ashe tree that she wyll not come nye the shadowe of them And therefore shee goes farre from them both morning and euening because then they geue the longest shadowes And Pliny sayth that he hath proued it that if one compasse a place about with the braunches of an Ashe tree so that there be a fyre and a Serpent enclosed in the same the Serpent wyll rather go into the fyre then she wyl seeke to escape ouer or through the sayd Ashen braunches c. Mizaldus YF the Lord of the Ascendent be found in the twelft house he that is then borne shal procure his owne enemity Taisnier IUmper berryes are medicinable against poysons for there is none of lyke operation vnto it And Dioscorides sayth also that they do helpe against poysons and styngings of Serpents Petr. Hispanus TO trye whether precious Stones be pure or not Heate a plate of Yron on the fyre then annoynt the same with Oyle and cast or strowe on the same the powder of glasse wherevpon saye qucke buâ—ning coales and then holde the stone that you would trie a good whyle ouer the same coales that the stone maye be hotte not touching the fyre and then iâ— the stone lose his cullour he is not good or pure But if he keepe his cullour he is then perfect and right AS principall a medicine as euer was ordained for the bone ache eyther in Woman or Man in what place so euer it bee Take a penny woorth of Aqua vite and an other of oyle Debaye and myxe them well together and annoynt the grieued place therewith not by the fyre and it wyll doo awaye the payne for euer vsyng it often But you must warme the Oyntment a lytle in a Sawcer before you laye it on and chafe it well vntyll it be dryed in and couer it warme at all tymes vntyll it be hole Thus I founde it wrytten EGremony Mugwoort and Bettony both leaues and rootes stampte with olde grease and vynegar or veriuyce and a plaster thereof applyed to the grieued or sore payned backe wyll quyte put away the paynes and griefe therof So that you vse it three or fowre tymes A sure and proued medicine IF you wyll catche Mowles or Woontes put Garlycke Leekes or an Onion in the mouthes of theyr hoales or in theyr entringes into the grounde and you shall see them come or leape out quycklye as though they were amased or astonied Albertus IF the Fystula be outwarde put into it the iuyce of Culuerfoote for it healeth it If it be inward drink it and it healeth also This is true for it hath bene proued FOr them that haue surfeyted or eaten too much let them stampe Bettony and temper it with hote water and a lytle Wine then strayne it well drinke a good draught thereof morning euening fyrst and last three dayes together and it wyl throughly helpe him God wylling This was told me for a trueth THe two hornes of a Snayle borne vppon a man wyll plucke away carnall or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof I had this out of an olde wrytten booke But howe true it is I knowe not FOr all euyls of the stomacke and for them that can not eate Take an hearbe called Centory seethe it well in stale Ale when it is wel sodden then stampe it after that seethe it againe in the same Ale let there be two handfull of Centory to three quartes of Ale and let them seethe as is before sayde to three pynts then put thereto one pynt of pure Honny and boyle them together and keepe it in some cleane vessell and geue to the party grieued three spoonefull therof fasting euery daye tyll he be hole and well for it driues away all the fleame corruption from the stomacke makes him haue a great desyre to his meate within fowre or fiue dayes Often proued THe powder of Bettony put in Wyne that is a spoonefull of the powder to a draught of Wyne a lytle boyled on the fyre being drunke doth presently helpe such as haue drunk poyson before And whosoeuer drinks the same in a morning fasting no poyson taken after the same day can hurt him This is a proued and tryed medicine THe dung of a Catte dryed so myxed with strong vynegar that it may be something thycke therwith any heayrye place rubbed often tymes or annoynted in a day it wyll cause that heair wyll grow no more in that place Proued of a countrey man Mizaldus IF the Lapwing doo syng before the Uynes doo budde it is sayde that it foreshewes great plentie of Wyne Mizaldus WHosoeuer deliuers a sum of Money in the howre of Iupiter he shall receyue it againe well with gayne Haly Abenragel THis pocyon or drinke following is wonderful and very often proued of me sayth Petrus Hispanus for it kylleth the Fystula in what place so euer it be and draweth out the corrupt and broken bones Take the rootes leaues of Planten Strawbery leaues the leaues or seedes of
dyssolued in the water of hearb Iue as much as doth suffice And thereof make a Lectuary according to art and know that it is maruelous Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini TO helpe swolne legges Take Mallowes seethe them in water then stampe them well strayne them then put therto Barrowes grease frye them together vntyl it he something thyck lyke an oyntment lay some therof vpon a cloath and make a plaster and apply it to the sore swolne legge and lay a new plaster therto twyse euery day morning and euening three or fowre dayes together and by that tyme it wyll be asswaged and as small as the other This was tolde mee by a Woman that had tryed it many tymes ONe neuer hath the gowte vntyll he hath knowne a woman carnally Hippocrates ALexandrinus Iouianus Pontanus doth say that he saw a man was grieuously stung or stricken of a Scorpion which presently was deliuered helped therof with drynking of Frankensence wherein was sealed the sygne of Scorpij or of a Scorpion being after made in powder But it must be grauen in the stone of a Ryng Scorpio ascending the Moone then being there and plaste in the Angle and the Frankensence must be sealed with that seale when the Moone is in Scorpio and founde in an Angle And let it be geuen in powder as is before sayde eyther in water or in whyte wyne or in any other meete lycquor HEre ensueth the making of a myraculous Oyle called oyle Incombustyble Take of whyte Sope the best that maye be gotten and after you haue beaten it well and fyne put it into a great Retorte on which powre so much weyght of Aqua vite seuen tymes distylled ouer then set the Retorte into ashes fyxing a large receyuer to it and very well luted in the ioyntes this done make vnder it a soft fyre in the begynning and encrease the fyre by lytle and lytle vntyll all be yssued forth that wyll come Which together wyll be an Oyle and Water then drawe away the receyuer and seperate the Water from the Oyle which oyle is Incombustle and myraculous in sūdrie matters in the worke of Alkemy for this greatly avayleth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle and serueth well to incorporate with all mettalles and ceasneth such as be crude and lykewise sweetneth when they beegar This also dissolueth all paynes swellings caused of grosse and clammy humors and healeth in a manner all sortes of wicked Ulcers And in this sayth the Author I conceyued a great delight as to worke such a maistrie to see so many straunge fumes and varyeties but a more pleasure I tooke in the practyse as to see how the same auayled in euery matter wherto it was applyed By which I proue this to be a diuine substaunce and an oyle worthy of eternal memory And this was the greatest secrete with which that syngular Matheus the Hungaryan dyd so many great maruels in Padua for he heald with it the gowte the quarten ague the payne of the French disease and the drye scab on the head with sundry other griefes for which whyle he remained in Padua he was highly esteemed and wondred at And at the last in his departure from Padua he reuealed it to mee that the onely medicine which he vsed to all the griefes was this oyle and none other The making of which he fully vttered vnto mee at his departing which before he would not teach to any man And the same I haue many tymes made haue also seene such straunge practises of it that to repeate them I should scantly be beleeued Hec de secretis Fallopij TO put a Shedule or lytle wryting into an Egge lay an Egge certaine dayes in strong vynegar vntyl it be soft and wryte your name or what you lyst in a lytle peece of paper and folde the paper as harde together as you can then with a Raser cut the sayd Egge in the toppe fynely and aduisedly through the which put the litle paper into the Egge cyrcumspectly and then put the Egge into cold water and immediatly the shell wyl be hard as it was before A proper secrete THe quieter Beasts haue the lesser galles the fearefuller the greater hartes the lyghter or more leaping the more Lyuer the meryar or more pleasant the greater Splene and the greater voyce the more Lyghts Much like to these verses folowing Cor ardet Pulmo loquitur Fel commouet Iras Splen ridere facit cogit amare Iecur That is The Hart doth burne the Lungs do speake the Gall to yre doth mooue The Splene or Mylt doth make vs laugh the Lyuer makes vs looue Mizaldus CAuda Draconis in the seconde house called the house of Substaunce sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall wastfully consume and spend his goodes or sygnifyes the losse therof And that he shall come to pouerty and open mysery Haly Abenragel A Grymony is of woonderfull profyte in medicines especially against hollow woundes vlcers Petr. Hispanus And Trotula saith that though the Fystula that penetrates to the eyes is incurable yet some do wytnes that such a Fystula may be cured by Agremony alone by often vsing it eyther in drynke or in powder Filipendula is good for the same and the graines o◠lytle round things that are found in the ende of the roote Gordonius alleadgeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine for the curing of a Fystula FOr the webbe or spotte in the eye Take the great bone of the Goose wing the elder the better for though it be a yeare old it is not the woorse breake it take out the marrowe that is within it then put some of it vpon the webbe or in the spotte and it wyl breake it and saue the syght Proued THe vertues of Tormentyl This hearbe cōforteth the sight cleanseth the body of dyuers maladies the powder therof is good to clarify the syght of the eyes though one be blinde And this hearbe is drest on this manner Take the hearbe with the roote seethe i◠with whyte Wine tyl the thyrd part be sodden away and geue him that is blynde to drinke of this lycquor nine dayes in the morning colde and at night bloud warme and within that tyme he wyll recouer his syght by Gods grace But if the syght of the eye be hurte take also the hearbe and stampe it and seeth it in whyte Wyne with a lytle water put into the Wyne then laye or spreade the hearbes on a lynnen cloath bynde it vpon his eye or eyes and it brings a woonderful helpe If thou stampe this hearbe with the roote a good quantitie and put it into a lytle vessell full of Wyne and let it remaine therin three monthes Whosoeuer drinkes often of this Wyne though he hath bene blynd nyne yeares he wyll recouer his sight againe This I had out of an old written booke which doth much agree with Petrus Hispanus in this case whose minde thereof I haue mencioned in another
them it taketh them away cleane And also if Purslane be rubbed vpon them it pulleth them vp dy the rootes Petr. Hispanus FOr the Coddes that be swolne Take the powder of Coomyn seede Barly meale and Honny of each a lyke much frye them together with a lytle Sheepe suet and bynde the same as a plaster all about the Cods and it wyll helpe it Proued THis following wyll breake a Byle Botche or a Fellon Lay fyrst thertoo some posset crudde and let it not be remoued of twelue howres and that wil gather the matter together and make it tender But if once applying of the posset crudde do it not then apply therof to it twyse or thryse then take vnquencht Lyme and cast vpon it some fayre spring water and myxe the same with blacke Sope and lay to the sore a peece thereof according to the greatnes that you woulde haue the hoale of the sore and when it is brooke then washe it with whyte Wyne a lytle heated and so heale it with Butter powder of Sugar mixed together This is a sure and approued thing A Notable secrete for all incurable aches paynes in the ioyntes where euer they be Take all the whole horne that a Buck castes off the later the better cast away the scawpe take nothing but the horne cut the same in shyuers or peeces then seethe the same in a gallon of fayre water vntyll all be comd to a pynt or some thing more then cast away the peeces of the horne and then let that in the vessell stand vntyll it be colde which then wyll be lyke a ielly And when you wyll occupy therof warme some of it in a sawcer or some other conuenient thing then annoint the grieued place therwith by the fyre morning and euening let it drynk in by the heate of the fyre and it wyl helpe and heale it throughly for euer God wylling within nyne or ten dressings This is very true and well proued which a friend of mine tolde me that helped him selfe of such an ache therwith that neyther counsell of Phisitions practise of Surgeons nor yet the long vsing of the Bathes could ease wherby he spent much money in vayne vntyll a Wenche by chaunce tolde him this excellent remedy Which as she sayde a noble man of this Realme dyd learne beyonde the Seas who hath reuealed it synce to the great commodity and helpe of many FOr swolne or sore throtes a rare and sure remedy Rubbe your hand on the bare earth or ground and then therwith rubbe the sore or swoolne throote if presently you do thus three seuerall tymes the swelling payne wyll myraculously go away This was taught me by a friende of myne that dyd knowe it to be true by proofe AN excellent remedy for a great heate pricking in the eyes Fyl an Egge she l newly emptyed with the iuyce of Syngreene set it in the hotte embers and skym of the greene baggage from it and then it wyll be a water then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and put some of it into the hotte eies fowre or fiue nights together and it wyll cease the burning and pricking therof quickly Often proued HE shall scantly or neuer dye an euyll death that hath a good Planet in his .viii. house Haly Aben. A Woonderfull drinke against brusings and it helpeth such maruelously that are brused through falling Take Egremony Bettony Sage Planten Iuy leaues Rosepearslie stampe them together and mixe Wyne therto geue the patient it often to drinke tyll he be hole A true and tried medicine I thinke that Petrus Hispanus hath the same IF you burne fowre ounces of Turpentine vpon a hotte or burning plate of Yron vntyll it maye be made in powder and then myxe two drams there of with fowre ounces of the water of Saxifrage and geue it twyse in a weeke early in a morning to thâ—m that haue the stone in theyr blather and so continew it two monthes he shall not onely be preserued from breeding of the stone in the blather but also it wyll burst and dryue forth the stone bred there already This is proued and a secrete and is to be kept well in minde Benedictus victorius Fauentinus IF Lauender be well sodde in water and then strayned and halfe a pynt therof droonke dayly fyrst and last for the space of a fortnight it wyll heale them that haue the Palsey This was founde in an olde written booke AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases and chiefly for the stomacke Myxe two spoonefull of Sallet oyle with two spooneful of pure Aqua vite and drynke all the same in the morning at one tyme doo so syxe or seuen morninges together It is a notable and often proued remedy FOr the Strangury a straunge medicine Take a pynt of good Aqua composita and put a good haÌ„dfull of Iuy leaues therin keepe the vessell wel stopt the Iuy leaues wyll consume therin vse to drink of the same three or fowre spoonefuls at one tyme morning and euening fyrst last fiue or sixe dayes together and you shall see a maruelous helpe therof THis following is a proued medicine for the ache in the huckle bone called the Sciatica Take a pounde of good black Sope one pint of good Aqua vite halfe a pynt of Sallet oyle and a quarter of a pynt of the iuyce of Rew seethe them and sturre them all together ouer an easie fyre vntyll it be something thycke and that it maye be made in a plaster then spreade some therof vpon a peece of lether and apply it to the ache or payned place and let it lye thereon vnremoued three dayes and three nyghts and if the payne be not then gone then applye such an other plaster thertoo and remoue it not of so long and it wyl helpe it certainly This was tolde me by one that knew it often proued THe powder of whyte harde Sugar put into a bloudshotten eye or that is some thing dymme of syght It helpes the same and mendes the syght very well Especiallye if you put afterwarde a lytle Rose water into the eye This I haue proued dyuers tymes to be true Yea and I thinke if it were vsed it woulde consume the webbe of the eye at length HAly sayth that he that begyns to set forewarde his iourney in sayling or enters to go to the Sea in the howre of Saturne he wyll be drowned or else wyll be lost by the inuasion of Pyrates or other or else the fiercenes or great raginge of the Sea wyll throw him to the land where he shal suffer shipwrack Or else into farre Ilands he shal be caryed perhaps vnknowne to him Which of trueth hath alwayes hapned to that Shyp that then sets forewarde as the booke of Natures dyd contayne which as he hath dillygently proued and read which chiefly entreates of the iudgements of howres And the sayde Haly saith further as foloweth when a certaine shyp dyd set forth
or forwarde in the howre of Saturne I sayde to one of my fellowes which vnderstoode some thing in this Science all these men are geuen to be lost and within a while after they all perished Thus much sayth Haly. And in beginning of long iourneys as well by Lande as by Sea in this howre I haue knowne much harme and mischiefe to follow Which although many doo not nor wyl beleeue to be true because they know neither this excelleÌ„t Science neither the proofe of these things yet many that be wise and learned and that haue payed full dearely for the prouing thereof doth thinke this no lye But if some of them dyd know the same howre and should practise some such lyke thing therein the euent thereof would teach them I thinke not to be so incredulous I know I thanke God therfore that no harme shall happen to the chyldren of God for he wyll so guyde them that neither man nor deuil nor any other thing can destroye them though in this world they maye seeme to hurt them And as he doth preserue them from harme euen so he appoynts them theyr tymes to walke in the very beginning of theyr iourneyes Assured and am fully satisâ—yed that he by his diuine prouidence makes them auoyde that howre other euyll tymes and the wicked and vngodly haue hapned of that tyme to theyr destruction Therefore for my part I attribute nothing to the tyme but all honour to God that made the tyme whose glory and power is to be extolde that foreshewes such things to man by such howres or tyme. BLack Sheepes wooll myxt and chafed by the fyre with freshe butter and the deaffe eare stopt therewith at night and thus vsed nyne or ten nyghts together it helpeth deafnes perfectly and speedely A proued thing HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite Take Galengale Cucubarum Ginger Nutmugs Cloues Cynamom of euery one an ounce fresh sage fowre ounces water that is distilled sixe times out of pure good Wine ten ounces put them all together and let them remayne so in a close cleane vessell three dayes then distyll the same keepe that that is distylled in a cleane close vessell Whosoeuer drinkes a nutte shell ful of this water euery day it wyl preserue theyr bodyes maruelously and keepe them from many diseases and bring them to olde age It is sayde that M. Gallus Phisition to Charles the Emprour vsed this water and liued a hundreth and fowre and twenty yeares Georg. Alapide deuised this water IF you desyre to haue sweete water forthwith or by and by put two or three drops of oyle of Spyke in a good deale of pure water and chafe it together in a glasse with a narrow mouth Euonymus AN excellent oyle for colde aches Take the wood of Iuie dryed cutte the wood in lytle peeces and of the berryes and gum of Iuye of each a lyke weyght let them be put in an earthen vessell boored through in the bottome in two or three places and then let an other pot be set vnder it in the earth and ioygne the bottome of the vpper potte vnto the mouth of the nether with claye or paste the vpper potte must stand wholly aboue the ground then make a fyre on euery syde and the oyle wyll distyll blacke into the nether vessell This oyle before all oyles healeth the griefes of the ioyntes of a colde cause This is proued to be a notable oyle in this case Rogerius seemes to be the Author hereof As appeares in Euonymus IF you put out the whyte of a Hens egge and fyll vp the same egge with the iuyce of Flowre deluce and myxe the yolke and it well together then warming it a lytle in the hotte ashes and so geue it in the morning to them that haue the dropsie it wyll auoyde downward the dropsie water aboue measure This is proued to be true Much lyke vnto this Benedictus victorius Fauentinus wrytes for the same cause but he appoynts the iuyce to be geuen with Mellicrate A Proper practyse to make a Capon to bring vp young Chickens Take a Capon and pull his belly bare of fethers after rubbe the naked place with Nettels then setting young Chyckens vnder him he wyl maruelously cherish them then and bring them kyndly vp And the rather if you vse him thus for a time for by that meanes he is moued the more wyllingly to cherysh bring vp and feede yea to loue them as the Hen would do naturally And the reasoÌ„ therof is for that by the pricking of the nettels he is the rather desyrous to coutch on the softe downe fethers of the young Chickins sytting vnder him This I had out of the natural and Artificial coÌ„clusions of the Schollers of Padua Translated into English by Th. Hyl. ONe Aeschilus was foretolde by an Astronomer that he should be kylled by some ruyne or something that should fal vpon him vpoÌ„ a certaine day or tyme who to preueÌ„t the same did walk abroade a certain space about the warned time would by no meanes come into any house thinking therby to auoyde that daunger vnles the heauens should chauÌ„ce to fal but marke how hard it is to auoyde Fate or Gods determined appointment about the same tyme foretold by the Astronomer an Eagle dyd flye ouer his head froÌ„ whome a stone dyd fal vpon Aeschilus head kylled him Wherby we may not onely see the mans wisdome and pollicy is not able to frustrate Gods prouidence but also that there is a maruelous certenty in the Astrological foreshewing of euents especially by directions which Ciprianus Leouitius seemes to affirme by this other notable examples And sure I am by many proofes tryals that the euents wyl assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections that is when the Signifyer coms to the very place minute of the Promissor accouÌ„pting for euery degree betweene theÌ„ one yeere euery minute about six daies if the Signifyer be to be dyrected by the dyrect Ascencions but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliquâ— AsceÌ„cions or els Intermixtim which is not very easily or soone done then they sygnify sometimes more sometymes lesse according to their swift or slow asceÌ„ding Which dyrectioÌ„s to be infallible the learned expert herein cannot chuse but affirme For that they are found as perfect by proofe as true by tryal as the breake of the day doth assure vs of the rysing of the Sunne IN Lamberge a Towne of Schlesia as IohaÌ„nes Langius wrytes a certaine Woman great with chylde did folow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feete who being taken with such a loÌ„ging or lust with the sudden sight of his bare feete that she priuely behynde his backe dyd holde his legge with her hands and out of the same pluckt a peece of flesh with her teethe Nothing regarding the crye of the poore Priest which cryed out both of God and man. IF
a certaine couering Notwithstanding all styrpes or Plants whereon Oyle is powred or effused do putrifie As Plynie reportes THe Coales of a Byrch tree made in powder put into a wounde or great sore healeth it perfectly without any other thing It was crediblie tolde me that the Muscouits vse it much esteemes it greatly A Robbyn read breast fynding the dead body of a Man or Woman wyll couer the face of the same with Mosse And as some holdes opinion he wyll couer also the whole body AN Italian through the ofte smelling of an herbe called Basyll had a Scorpion bred in his braine ▪ which dyd not onely a long tyme grieue him but also at the last kylled him Iacobus Hollerius a learned Phisition affirmes it for trueth Take heede therefore ye smellers of Basyll IF the Nauell string of a chylde after it is cut doeth chaunce to touche the grounde before it be burned the same childe wyll not be able to keepe or holde his or her water neyther night nor daye A thing verie true and well knowne A Flayne Mouse rosted or made in powder drunk at one tyme doeth perfectly helpe such as can not holde or keepe their water especially if it be vsed three dayes in this order This is verie true and often proued IT was credibly reported to me for a verie trueth that a certaine Inkeeper in Ware dyed which had a Dogge that loued him so well that certaine dayes after he mourned and sought for his sayde Maister without eating of any thing And when he could not finde his sayde Maister he layd himselfe among the hotte coales in a chymney who though he was pulled out of the fire yet he went in againe burned him selfe to death A rare straunge thing as hath bene heard of I thinke it is harde to finde a seruant so louing to his Lord as this Dog was to his Maister ASsoone as a child is borne especially a boy their ought to bee great heede taken in the cutting of the Nauell string for the member of generatiō doth followe the proporcion of the Nauell string and if it be tyed to short in a Wenche it maye be a hynderaunce to her in bringing forth her chylde Therfore it is meete that Mydwiues haue a great regarde therein This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace an excellent Phisition FOr the helping of the Coddes or Stones that bee swolne or pained The auncient learned did graue in a plate of copper the fygure of a Scorpion in the howre of Saturne the thirde face of Aquary then ascēding or rysing with Saturne and for the Gowte the Seale of Pisces and also for the helping or bettering of memory they made a Ring of pure golde wherein was closed a Diamonde vnder the coniunction of Saturne and Iupiter in Aries Hermes EGidius Herthoge wrytes a straunge maruell of a woman which caryed a dead chyld in her wombe thirtene yeares which was perceyued of many that handled her bellye but he wrytes not what successe she had therwith for whyles he wrote the same the woman was well and dyd her busynes with her husbande abrode and also at home DYtany drunke with water or wine doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delyuered yea though the chylde be dead or if it be turned contrary to a ryght course also it bringes forth the after burthen the lyke effect hath Peniryall as some affirmes And it hath bene proued as sayth Myzaldus PYgeons do so loue the Castrell that if one enclose young Castrels in a potte and stop and couer the same close and shall hang them in fowre corners of the Doouehouse it wyll procure such a loue to the Pygions of that place that for the desyre of them being so inclosed in the sayde Pottes they wyll neuer chaunge that place so much they loue the Castrelles their friendes after their death Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirmes THe Woort leafe layde on the crowne of the heade draweth vp the Vuula or the flap in the throate M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus IF a peece of fine golde or the leaues of pure golde be put into the iuyce of Lymons and taken out of it after it haue leyne therein a whole daye and the same iuice then geuen to one that is sicke of the plague with a lytle Wine and the powder of the roote of Angelica or of the decoction of the same roote it is maruayle to bee tolde what helpe it bringes them yea though they be past all hope or thought past recouerie This Mizaldus wrytes as proued IF a Man be the first that a Woman meetes after she comes out of the Church when she is newlye Churched it sygnifies that her next chylde wyll be a boye If she meete a Woman then a wench is lyke to be her next chyld This was credibly reported to me to be true But prayse it as it proues A Lytle baye Salt stamped small myxt with the yolke of an egge and applyed to a Fellon and so vsed diuerse tymes doth not only perfectly heale the same with speede but also drawes out all the payne out of the arme and ceases the swelling therof if any such be by the meanes of the same This is perfectly proued CHildren are not alwayes lyke vnto their Parēts as it maye appeare in Helides which dyd begette a Daughter of an Ethiopian which Daughter was not of the cullour of her Mother but after the sayde Daughter had a Sonne which was blacke and lyke to his grandmother So Niceus the Poet dyd degenerate in cullour from his Father and his Mother and was lyke his grandfather being an Ethyopian Which thing ought well to be considered of such that suspectes their Wiues when they bring forth chyldren vnlyke to eyther of them for it happens many tymes that the chylde is lyke to the Grandfather or great Grandfather and neyther lyke the father nor mother Mizaldus A Tode stone called Crapandina touching any part be venomed hurte or stung with Ratte Spider Waspe or any other venemous Beast ceases the paine or swelling thereof Lemnius THe iuyce of Broome myxt with the oyle of Radish or of Mustarde is a very safe remedy for the kylling or destroying of Lyse IF a Woman annoint often her Dugges or Pappes with the iuyce of Succorie it wyll make them litle round and hard For if they be hanging or flagging it wyl draw them together wherby they shal seeme as the Dugges of a mayde Mizaldus IF you shall enclose within a peece of thinne Sylke Galbanum made sofe and shall laye it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night the head of that woman hauing then no fowle nor stinking cloathes vpon it but onely couered with a Caule and a cleane or thyn Keyrchyffe without any kinde of Odors in the morning when the same are losed from her heade if the crowne of her head smell of Galbanum it is a sure token that that woman is apt to haue chyldren Hyppocrates IF
the chylde wyll be blinde but of one eye And lykewyse it wyll be if eyther the sayde lyghts be Lorde of the sixt house Infortunate And vniuersally their eyes can not escape great hurt in whose Natiuitie the sayde lyghts are impedite Iatromath Guat Ryff THis following wyll presentlie ease the paynes of the gowte Frye out the grease of Shoomakers spetches or peeces of Lether and lay some of it vpon a browne paper warming it a lytle at the fyre then applie the same to the griefe and it wyll take awaye the paines in one night I had this of them that haue proued it often to be true IF Sheepe chaunce to eate of an herbe called Knotgrasse it wyll make their bellyes swell and they wyll auoyde out of their mouthes a thynne stynking froth therfore they must be let bloud vnder the tayle next to the buttocke Columella THere is many do the thinges in their sleepe that they that be awake vse to do For they wyl walke about the house and chamber and wyll go to other folkes beddes and dare do any thing without feare Whereof there are many daylye examples But one among all the rest which was credibly told me was maruelous straunge and almost incredible Which was that two men lying in bed together the one of them being fast a sleepe tooke the keyes and vnlocked the doores and the gate of the house and so took his Bowe Arrowes and went to a wood or chase aboue a myle from thence and kylled a Bucke or a Doe and then dyd couer and hyde the same in the wood and then came home againe vnlocking and locking the gates and doores againe and layde the keyes where he had them and so went to bed The other man that lay with him being awake folowed him and dyd see all that he dyd But he would not go to bed but stayde a whyle in another place to see the ende thereof And assoone as the other was in his bedde he tooke his dagger stabbing and thrusting therwith in the bedde where the other man dyd lye and by and by after awaking sayde alas what haue I done I haue kylled him The other answered nay I am not kylled yet thankes be to god Then sayde he for I was a dreamed that I kylled a Bucke in such a place that thou dyd see me where I dyd kyl him and hyd him and thinking thou would bewray me I thought to kyll thee But I am glad sayde he that it was but a dreame Then the other sayde if it were a Dreame thy Dreame is then true For thou hast performed all the Dreame except the kylling of me Which he would not beleeue vntyll the next day when he that laye with him caryed him to the place where he him selfe tolde that he dyd hyde the sayde Bucke Where in deede they founde the Bucke kylled as he before tolde in his Dreame A maruelous matter if it were true THe Greekes and Romaines dyd keepe snowe tyll Somer in caues of the earth couered with Oken bowes or chaffe Which made Saint Austine saye who gaue chaffe such a colde strength to keepe and preserue snowe or such a hotte strength to heate and rypen vnrype Aples WIne wyll be pleasant in taste and in sauour and cullour it wyll much please thee if an Orenge or a Lymon stickt round about with Cloaues be hanged within the vessell that it touche not the Wyne And so the Wyne wyll be preserued from foystines and euyll sauor Mizaldus THey wil haue paines or diseases in their Liuer in whose Natiuitie Iupiter is Lord of the sixt house being euyl aspected of an Infortunate planet Iatromath IF shell Snayles be rosted and dryed at the fyre or in an Ouen and made in powder and a spoonefull thereof drunke in Ale at one tyme and so taken nine or ten daies together it doth perfectly helpe and cure the blacke Iaundies Proued IF you stampe earth woormes then streyne them through a cloath and then put to the same as much of the iuyce of Radish rootes and betwene the beating or framing of Swords Kniues or Daggers when they be hotte you do quenche them twyse or thryse therein the same shall cutte yron after as though it were lead This Mizaldus had of a Phisition that was cunning in that art STinking and corrupt Wine wyll be marueylouslie mended if according to the bygnes of the vessell a sufficient quantitie of cleane Wheate in a bagge be hanged in the sayde vessell and after be taken out of the same For whatsoeuer is vncleane or naught in the Wine the Wheate wyll drawe the same to it and so wyll leaue the Wine pure and cleare Pistorius THe vttermost or last ioynt of the tayle of a young whelpe after he is fortie dayes olde being wrythen of the same Dogge wyll neuer be mad Besides that his tayle wyll be thereby of a comelye lengthe Mizaldus IF you bore holes in Bay berries put into euerie hole the seedes of Artychokes and wrap theÌ„ with dung and so put them into the earth thou shalt haue so sweete pleasaunt smelling Artychokes that nothing can be of a more sweete pleasant smel Varro The same wyll happen if you do styepe seedes three dayes in sweete smelling water Mizaldus BUtter Aqua vitie and Beast gall of eache a lyke quantity mixt together And any ache or stytche annointed therwith somthing hotte euery morning and euening for seuen or eyght dayes doth perfectly helpe the same Proued ALl Wheate that is sowne in continual moyst grouÌ„d after the thirde sowing wyll become the purest Wheate that makes the synest best bread that can be made Columella GAlene saith that he knew certain men in his time â–ª that gaue the pouder of mans bones burned to them that had the falling sycknesse they not knowing of it least their minde should stande against the medicine and many was cured with the same Gesuerus hath proued it with the scull IF the lytle Nerue vnder a Whelpes tongue commonly called the greedy worme be taken away it keepes the same saâ—e after from being madde and he wyl not be geuen so much to barking after And also it is thought they wyll not be geuen to greedines after IF you pricke the head of a Leeke with a reede or a sticke sharped and put within the same the seedes of rape or of Cucumbers the sayd Leekes head wyl so swell that it wyll seeme monstrous AEtites called the Eagles stone tied to the left arme or syde it bringes this benefite to Women with chylde that they shall not be delyuered before their tyme Besydes that it bringes loue betwene the man and the wyfe And if a woman hane a painefull trauayle in the byrth of her chylde this Stone tyed to her thygh bringes an easie lyght birth but you must take it away quicklie after the byrth The same Stone as the Caldeans reportes if it be mixt with meates enuenomed it forbyds or lets that the same meate be
fowre Angles strong well affected doth shew that the chylde then borne shall be hye minded strong and famed for his strength lyberallity and shewes also that he shal be an Astronomer For Mercurie Occidental in Leo is woont to make Astronomers And Mercurie Orientall of the Sun and strong doth shew great knowledge wisedome of handy workes chiefly if hee be with the Moone or in the house of the Moone that is Cancer and if he be in a moueable sygne it sygnifies inconstantnesse both of deede and minde But in a fyxed sygne inconstancie Taisnier PRymrose leaues stampt and layd in the place that bleedeth stancheth the bloud This hath bene proued TAke black Sope and almost as much of Ginger in powder and mixe them well together then annoynt therwith any Tetter or Ringwoorme euerie day for the space of fowre or fiue daies together and it wyll heale it certaynly Proued TAke Aloes EpatcuÌ„ fowre drams Briony Mastick Myrre Asarrabaccha Scamony of each a dram myxe the same made in powder with the iuyce of FeÌ„nel and a lytle clarifyed Honny to preserue them Take a dram therof which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes at the most earlie in the morning neyther eate nor drink of three or fowre howres after If they be geueÌ„ nine dayes together they help maruelously and they are very excellent for all maner of head ache approued though neuer so loÌ„g rooted They purge al humors they bring gladnesse they are good for the eye syght they preserue the mind letting or hyndring the horenes of heayrs they helpe the swymming of the head and the migrim and heales the sounding of the eares But to the weaker persons â–ª geue the lesser quantitie Make it in fiue or sixe lytle round pyls or bals and swallowe them one after another at one tyme They are proued to be very good I founde this in a very olde written booke IF Mercurie be impedite of Saturne in a chylds Natiuitie it doth hynder the tongue But it is woorse wheÌ„ they be corporally coniunct together especially in the Ascendent or in the seuenth house and in the same sygne with the Sun Mercury being then occidentall or if Mercury be aboue the earth corporally coniunct with Saturne or els in an euyll aspect of Saturne and in a dum sygne called Signum mutum and also is Infortunate that is to saye in an euyll place Retrograde or combust and peregrene That party then borne wil haue great impediment in his toÌ„gue or else wyll be dum and cannot speake Iatromath Guat Ryff IOhannes Langius an excellent Phisition sayth that he hearde it reported of certayne Horsemen of the countrey Palentine that they dyd see in Austria a man which with barking and with swyft running contended and stryued with Dogs and was hunted of them vnhurt in the woods THe eyes of young Swallowes being in the nest prickt with an needle or a pynne so made blinde within fowre or fiue dayes after they wyl see again Which is very true for I haue proued it But howe they recouer their syght I knowe not But dyuers wryte if their eyes be hurt the olde Swallowes restores their sight againe with the iuyce of Celendin WHite Poppie and Henbane seede a litle stamped and tempered with the whyte of an egge layd to the foreheade prouoketh sleepe This hath bene often proued THis following wyll heale lame members See the Rew Rosemary of each two handful with common Oile Malmesey of either one quart together for the space of halfe an howre Then let the lame members be washt and bathed therewith but before the sayde member or geieued place must be well chafed with a hotte cloath then when it is well bathed which wyll be within halfe an howre wrappe keepe the member or place so bathed with a lambe skynne the wooll syde inwarde and do thus euerie night before or at his going to bedde three weekes at the least and he wyll be hole and sounde thereof Doctor Owen helpt one herewith and with none other thing that could neyther stand nor go but was very lame They that sawe the proofe therof tolde it to mee which was and is a man of good credite IT was a heynous offence with the Egiptians eyther wyllingly or by chaunce to kyll a Catte And Diodorus telles a pretie story therof least it might be thought to be a fable In the time of Ptolomie a league or amity being begun betwene him the Romains A certaine Romaine then against his wyl had killed a Cat whervpon the Egiptians gathered together and dyd beset the house where he was requyring to haue him to be executed for his great offeÌ„ce no whit regarding the power of the Romaines nor yet their lague or friendshippe with them When had not the King and Rulars bene they would haue drawn him out of the house and kylled him Diodorus TO keepe Harnes or any other thing made of yron or steele from rusting Let the same be rubd ouer with Vineger mixt with Ceruse or the marrowe of a Hart which is farre better then Oyle and it wyl keepe them fayre and bright IF the Lord of the second house be in the first house Fortunate the chyld then borne shal possesse Ryches without labour And by the nature of the Planet thou maist know wherby the ryches wyl come As if it be the Sunne it wyll come to him by power that is the rytches wyll happen by helpe or fauour of great men if Mars then by warres or by theft if Saturne of the enheritaunce of the dead if Iupiter of fayth relygion or of Masters of fayth or of the lawe and such lyke appertayning to Iupiter if Venus by women if Mercury by learning wisedome or marchandize if the Moone by the workes of hands or by iournyes â–ª but if the Lorde of the seconde house so placed be not fortunate and an euyll planet beholding him he shal lose all his goodes Taisnier A Notable oyle or medicine for the Gowte ioynt aches very true and often proued Take the iuyce of Sage of Aqua vite of oyle Debaye of Uineger Mustarde and of a Beasts gall of each a lyke much put them all together into a great blather and chafe it well vp and downe with your hands for the space of an howre and a halfe and keepe it then to your vse and annoynt the grieued place therwith euery morning and euening and you shall finde your selfe healed within a short tyme This is a sure and often proued thing THis precious medicine following doth preserue keepe them that takes it safe from poyson or plague Take of Iumper berryes two drams of Earth of Lemnie called of the Phisitions Terre Lemnie as much and one scruple more which iâ— the weyght of xxiiii barly cornes When you haue made them in fine powder mixe them with Honny and keepe it â—o your vse in a cleane vessell geue as much thereof at one tyme as a Hasell nutte in three
or an vnfortunate planet ther he is a deceyuer a lyar Which I sayth Haly as one that haue proued it do confirme do say if one come to coūsayl thee the Ascendent be of cōmon signes or the Lord of the Ascendent the Moone be in common signes do say that he is then a deceiuer wyl deceiue thee Therfore hearken not to him Haly Abenragell ONe knot of the roote of a Mullen geuen to drink doth binde the losenes of the bellie Proued HE that waxeth deaffe through an ague bleedeth at the nose shall recouer his hearing Hippocrate◠in Aphor. THis medicine following is proued by experience and as a certayne diuine thing doth cure euerie plurisie and doth relieue the sicke from death which ought not to be applyed vnto the sicke partie vntyll the fowrth daye be past Take of Dealtha two ounces which is to be had at the Apothecaries the oyle of sweete Almondes halfe an ounce myxe them together with which oyntment being warme let the grieued place be annointed then sprinkle vpon the annointed place half an ounce of powder of Coomin finelie fearced which done take a Colewoort leafe made hotte vpon burning ashes and annoint it with olde butter not salted and laye it hotte vpon the annoynted powdred place tying it on with cloathes that it remoue not and a maruelous affect wyll appeare vnto you in the ceasying of the paine of the plurysie and in resoluing of the matter of the impostume This remedie wyl bring honor vnto thee and great profyte vnto the sicke person And knowe that this remedie is good in any other great payne in all the body frō the head vnder Emperica benedicti victorij And also I haue seene this proued which helped one of the plurisye without letting of bloud IF a Woman with chylde haue her smocke that she weares slyt at the neather ende or skyrt thereof or not sowed there rounde about but that one syde or seame thereof be a lytle left vnclosed or vnsowed together the same chylde that she then goeth withall shal be safe from hauing a clouen or hare lyppe Yea though she chaunce to meete suddenly a Hare or though a hare doth leape ouer her or suddenly touch her Which happens to many Chyldren by such meanes as is mencioned in an other parte of this booke This was very credibly told me for a trueth Therfore I haue placed it here as worthy the name of a notable thing WHosoeuer shall vse dayly to take in a draught of small Ale a spoonful of the powder of Matfellon or Scabius the same wyll destroye any impostume within them It hath bene often proued And Anthonius Musa doth praise it for the lyke effect IF the Lord of the sixt house be in the Ascendent or tēth house it showes that the disease is open manifest if in the seuenth or fowrth house then the disease is priuy or hyd if in the ninth or eleuenth house then it is opē manifestly knowne in the other places the disease is priuy hyd or vnknowne Iatromath Guat Gryff CLeopatra the last Queene of Egipt and Wyfe to Marcus Antonius Consull of Roome a prowde Princesse and too dainty a Dame dyd drinke one so voluptuous draught as neuer any dyd before nor I thinke wyll hereafter for she dissolued in Tarte and strong Uineger the greatest and beutifullest Pearle that euer was seene in the East parte of the worlde and drunke the same at one draught to satisfye her prowde presumptuous pleasure withall Which Pearle was woorth two hūdreth and fifty thousand crownes Plinius Macrob. And other OUt of the Figge tree there comes such a sharpe vapor that if a Hen be hanged thereon it wyll so prepare her that she wil be soone and easily rosted Plut. And the lyke wyll be if the fethers be pluckt off from Fowles or Byrds the skyns pulled off frō Beasts and then layde or couered a day or two in a heape of Wheate It is confirmed by experience sayth Mizaldus THe professors of naturall Magicke affirmes that Uarueyn being taken vp or gathered when the Sunne is in Aries the Ram and stampt with the seedes of Pyonie and streyned with whyte Wine drunke doth maruelously heale them that haue the falling sicknesse Oftentimes proued sayth Mizaldus Which he had out of a verye olde booke of the seuen hearbes of the planets written to Hermes WHen any of the three higher planets the Sun is in any of the Angles the chyld then borne being a boye shal be chiefe of his brethren Or if there be any borne before him they wyll dye and he shall holde the chiefe rule in his fathers house Taisnier SAlt dyssolued in water or brine presently with his strength doth both put away the paynes and the heate of any burning whether it be with Gunpowder or with oyle pytche scalding water burning coales burning yron or by any other meanes whatsoeuer especially if it be bathed with lynnē cloathes wet or dypt in the same and a lynnen cloath therein wet layde or applyed to the place burned Lemnius TAke Salarmoniacke Roch allom Allom plume Sal gem Tartar and Romaine Uitriall of each equall partes all which seuerally made in fine powder myxe together and dissolue it in fayre cleare water then put syluer or syluer plate therein and let it lye and set it ouer the fyre that it may be very hotte and you shal see that your siluer or plate wil be maruelous whyte and fayre Mizaldus THe roote of Zedoary but be sure it be perfect and good mixt with Reysons and a lytle Lycqueris champed with the teeth and swallowed preserues them that doo so vnhurt or without daunger of the plague if they go to any that are infected with the plague or that are constrayned to speake with them that haue the plague Mizaldus THe roote of Pyonie which is the hearbe of the Sun being pulled out of the earth on a Sonday in the howre of the Sun the Sunne then being in Leo called the Lyon and the Moone encreasing in light which is from her chaunge to the full delyuereth them of the falling sycknesse that beares it vppon them Marcilius Ficinus IF at the tyme of the fyrst falling sycke of one or at the time of the question for the sycke the Moone be in the fowrth house with Mars and good Planettes be Cadent It is sygne of death Iohannes Ganiuerus LEt the Woman that trauels of her chylde or is in her labour be gyrded with the skynne that a Serpent or Snake castes off and then she wil quicklye be delyuered Trotula A Maruelous rare Secrete to drawe out the oyle of Cynamom after an easie manner which oyle preserueth the stomacke from corruption by taking of it by the mouth and applying of it to the stomack Take of Cynamom one pounde which stampe and beate finelye then myxe and impast it with the oyle of sweete Almondes vnto the forme of an oyntment then heate the same in an earthen
together and let the pacient or diseased party drinke it euery night going to bed and there wyll not ten dayes passe but the patient wyll be cured of the passion or griefe of the harte THis following is a notable tryed medicine for the gowte and for the swelling of ioynts for knobs or knots comming of the French pocks Take May butter a quarter of a pound halfe a pound of coomyn seede beaten in fyne powder a quarter of a pound of blacke Sope one handfull of Hearbe grace halfe a handfull of clarifyed sheepe suet stampe all these together in a morter then take the gall of an Oxe and a spoonefull of bay Salt and frye them all together tyll it be thycke then laye it on a woollen cloath and so apply it to the ache as hotte as it maye be suffred and let it lye vnremoued a whole weeke and then laye another plaster thereof to it and let it lye vnremoued as long then lay the thyrd plaster therto and let it lye therto as long as the other which wyll be in the whole three weekes and without doubt it wyll helpe him I haue seene it proued This I had out of a verie olde booke THere be and truly with proued successe that doo hang the rootes of Sorrell at theyr neckes for the Swyne pockes and also in lyke case of Planten Mizaldus WHosoeuer hath the bloudy Flyxe be it neuer so great nor greeuous let them drinke the wine wherin the rootes of Hollyocks cut in peeces is sodden and streined if the party haue an ague for then let the rootes be sodde in water with some Planten leaues and so streyned which is an approued sure medicine for that disease whether the party haue an ague or not A Ring made of an Oxe or Cowes horne worne or carryed vpon them that haue the crampe It puts the same away This is proued to be true of many And Mizaldus affyrmes it IF the Lorde of the seuenth house be in the thyrd or nynth house and any euyll Planet beholde him he that is then borne wyll fall from some buylding or else hee wyll dye of some thing that shall fall vppon him Ptolomeus IF you seethe Bryonie in water and vse to drinke the same It helpes and cureth them that haue the Dropsie Proued MAruelous and notable vertues of the Eybright do followe Let the leaues stalkes and flowres with the whole substaunce be distylled when it beareth flowres the water wherof stylled dropped and streaked about the eyes causeth cleare eyes sharpneth the syght and seaseth the paynes of the eyes The water dropped into the eyes an howre before night and stryked about them and drunke to the quantitie of three ounces at one tyme comforteth strengthneth and preserueth the syght especially in aged persons and in stematick complections The hearbe dried and brought to powder eaten euery day in a poâ—ched Egrere for a certain time together restoreth sight lost the water mixed with half a dram of the powder and drunk euery euening for a month or forty dayes together recouereth a weake syght THis precious medicine folowing wyll bring forth a Cankaâ— and plucke it vp by the rootes out of any sore where 〈◊〉 bee eyther in man or woman Take Bosâ—alger and make powder therof then take Bâ—rrowes or Hogges grease that is new and fresh fyrst melted and aâ—ter colde then myâ—e the powder there with very well then put therof vpon a peece of whyte lether which may couer the â—ore theÌ„ sprinckle on the sayd plaster fyne flowre of pure wheete then vpon the same spreade Honny and then put vpon the sayd Honny womans mylke and whâ—n all this is done put the sayde plaster vpon the sore where the canker is and put the neather crust of a new whyte loaâ—e vpon the sayde plaster and tye it fast vpon the same that it remoue â—â—t And in the morning thou shall finde the cankar dead on the said plaster this is most true This I coppyed out of an olde wrytten Booke LEt a woman make water in an Urinall that is â—ayre and cleane or rather newe vppon certaine cornes of Barly and set the same in a colde place for the space of eighte dayes and if tâ—e sayde Barlye cornes wyll growe agayne or bring foorth newe corne then the fault is not in the woman that shee conceaues not but rather in the man Yf otherwyse then the lette of conception is in her STampe Crystall in a stone Morter of Marble and make thereof a very fyne powder then put thereto so much of the white of an egge that you may write therewith mixte them well together with a little goome or goome water then write therewith in paper what you wyll then rubbe the same Letters with what mettall you wyll and the wrytynge wyll bee of the coullour of that mettall wherewith you rubbed them This I had out of an olde booke and Mizaldus affyrmes it withoute the Goome water THe iuyce of Lylly Rootes and Uynegar of eyther lyke much mixed togeather and the sawse fâ—eame or redde pympled face annoynted therewyth euerye euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes dooth helpe it perfectly YOu shall knowe whether the dropsye be hotte or colde by this that followeth Yf the swellynge beginne fyrst at the feete and go vpwarde then it comes of a hotte cause If the swellynge begynne fyrst in the face and goe downewarde then it comes of a colde cause This lykewise I had out of an olde wrytten Booke wherein were many things credyble CAst the water of any sicke person newly made at night on red nettels if the nettels be withered or dead in the morning after then the sicke party is lyke to dye of that disease if they be greene styll then he is lyke to lyue A Certayne wicked fellowe that kylled his Father dyd syt in coÌ„pany with his companions eating drinking ouer whose heads there was a swalowes nest with young swallowes in the same at which time the sayd swallowes made a great noyse chittering when suddenly the sayd wicked fellow got a long powle brust the swallowes nest wherby the swallowes fel down he trode on them and crushed them in peeces Being asked of one of them why he dyd so I haue good cause so to doo sayde he for dyd you not heare sayde he how they tolde that I kylled my Father Whervpon he was suspected examined and so confessed and therfore executed Plutarchus DRye a Gotes Sheeps or Neates blather make powder therof let them drinke therof with Uineger or water wheÌ„ they go to bed that cannot hold their water and it wyll helpe them Galen affyrmes this IF the Sun the Moone the Alumten or the Lorde of the Ascendent be all safe and not with the Lord of the eyght house or in his aspect without doubt the sicke person shal be ryd of his diseases and recouer the same If two of them be so he is like to escape lykewise If contrary
quicke Lyme and Brimstone of both equall porcions and then the hole well stopt that no ayre nor any thing may go out and so put into some standing water or a litle pit of water or into some cesterne full of water it wyll keepe the sayd water hotte a long tyme or for many daies Proued of many sayth Mizaldus And I founde the same also in an olde written booke HEns dunge mixt with meate that is geuen to be eaten of madde Dogs wyl take away their madnes from them As it is thought Mizaldus IF a Woorme that is founde in the grasse before it touch the grounde be hanged alyue at a womans necke that is with childe it is thought she shal keepe the chylde vntyll the due tyme of the byrth Plinius As Mizaldus sayth IF one geue any thing for Warts to them that haue them be it neuer so small a thing as three or fowre heayrs a rag of a lynnen cloath or some other thinge of no value the sooner it wyll rotte so much the better and let the party that would be ryd of the warts wrappe the same in some thing and put it into the ground and couer the same with earth againe truly as the same thing doth rotte in the earth so wyll the warts weare and consume away This is perfectly proued IF Mars be in Gemini and the Sunne in Pisces in a quartyle aspect in the daye tyme or the Moone in the night tyme it doth sygnify that the chylde then borne wyll be hangde Taisnier THey that vse to receyue three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino made in powder which is to bee had at the Apothecaries and mixt with the iuyce of Colewoorts of the bygnes of a beane shall neuer be troubled with paine in the head Petr. Hisp. A Straunge medicine for the gowte Take a good handfull of Arsemart and wrap and tye the same in a Burre leafe and laye it first in olde ashes then compasse the same with hotte embers coales so rost the same wel thē apply the same rosted Arsmart to the grieued place and do thus euening and morning for two or three dayes and thou shalt fynde a present helpe thereof This was tolde me for a great secrete and as a proued thing IF you put or stop fast within a Nutte quicke brimstone Saltpeter and Quicksyluer the same being put into a loafe of bread and then the same loafe of bread put into some hotte place where it may heate as soone as it waxeth hot you shal see the loafe of bread so leape that it wyll bee a very pretye sport to them that sees it Mizaldus had this of one that proued it A Most excellēt oyle of Saint Iohns Woort is made as followeth Infuse or stiepe for the space of three dayes the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in pure and excellent Wine then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily ouer the fire and then straine them easily then agayne put as many of the toppes of Saint Iohns Woort in that strayned lycquor as you had before and let them stiepe therin three dayes three nights as before then heate strayne them as before then adde thereto three ounces of Turpentine and syxe ounces of olde Oyle and of Safferue the weyght of xxiiii Barly cornes myxe all together and then seeth all together in a double vessell vntyll the wyne be consumed and that that remaynes put it into a glased or leaded vessel keepe it safely for your vse This Oyle is of a maruelous vertue and propertie as wel chieflye against venemous Ulcers as many other diseases and colde griefes Well knowne to many women Mizaldus IF you rubbe sleyghtly any kinde of Beastes or Cattell with the iuyce of goordes in hotte wether no kinde of Flyes wyll then hurt or molest them nor yet come nye them A thing desyred of many and very necessary for such as rydes in the hotte wether Mizaldus IF Mars be opposite to Iupiter and the one of them bee the Lorde of the eyght house it is lyke the chylde then borne shall dye by the commaundement of the Iudge Taisnier THe leaues of wylde Iuie sodde in wine and layde vpon any Cankar doeth kyll and heale the same Trotula THis water following is very precious for frantick and madde men proued very often Take of the flowres of Rosemarie of Burrage and of the rootes of Buglosse of each halfe a pounde of Saffern two drams of Quinces fowre ounces of the best whyte Wine two pintes mixe them all together and then let them stande so the space of a naturall daye after that bury the glasse body wherein all the same is in horse dung for fifteene daies and then take it out and distyll a water therof according to arte two or three times ouer Keepe this water as the Aple of your eye for it is very precious and well proued in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously and in the paine and trembling of the harte the quantity to be geuen at one time is a dram Which is the weyght of .lxxii. barly cornes If you proue it you wyll prayse it And this is in the new Iuell of Health with many other mo excellent thinges THey are not lyke to lose their senses nor their vnderstanding in whose Natiuity the Moone doth apply to Mercury eyther by coniunction or by aspect Iatromath Guat Ryff Argent SEt a rounde glasse full of water against the hotte Sunne that it maye stande fast and then holde something that is very drie and wyll take fyre easely nye to the same glasse betweene the glasse and the Sunne and it wyll set the same thing there holden on fyre Which is very straunge to beholde And the rather because fyre a hotte and drye element is procured out of water a colde and moyst element Iohan. Baptist. Porta DIdimus wrytes that Sheepe are woont to follow them that stoppes their eares with their wooll IF any doth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astrologie what he dyd see in his dreame marke the Ascendent when the question is made And if thou doest finde Saturne in the Ascendent or fyrst house tell him that he dyd see in his dreame Religious persons as Fryers Heremytes or such lyke or places of Prayer c. But if thou finde Mars in the Ascendent saye that he saw in his dreame Captaines Knights Murtherers Theeues Harnes or Battelles or such lyke If the Sunne be in his first house he dyd see Gardins Trees with fruites Golde or a king If Venus be in the Ascendent he dyd see a fayre Uirgin or some eating or drinking or one lying with a Woman or that haue things wherin they are delighted or else to playe or to walke abroade or whyte or red garmentes If Mercury be in the first house then he dyd see handsome eloquent men reasoning or Pallaces decked with Curtens and rytch hanginges or cloathes bookes or wrytings of salutation or of accoumpts If the Moone be in the first house he dyd
which is about the beginning of September or immediatly after for then through the great heate and drynes of the Sommer the earth wants rayne Mizaldus had this of one that was skylfull in such thinges Which was a maister Carpentar IF any be bytten or stricken of a Scorpion which shall eate Basyll the same daye he shall be made whole therof Aphri reports it IF any fall sicke in the howre of the Sunne he wyll haue a strong Feuer or ague And many times shall be vexed in his minde which wyll bring no small hurt vnto him Haly Abenragel THe iuyce of Coryander geuen to them that haue the falling Euyll to drinke wyll not suffer the humor to ascende into the head and it worketh great helpe to the diseased This was written in an olde booke WHosoeuer is brought weake either by some greuous sicknes or disease of long continuaunce or by woundes receyued or any other waye and thervppon haue a syege of Melancholy lyke to blacke bloud he shall doubtles dye the next daye after Hippocrates in suis Aphor. A Sausfleame or redde pympled face is helped with this medicine following Take Enula Campana fowre ounces and seethe it with vinegar tyll the vinegar be sodden in then stampe it small and then put thereto quycksyluer and brymstone of eyther fowre drams and Barrowes grease fowre ounces beate them all together and make therof a plaster and laye it to the enfected or spotted place in the face all night and on the morrowe wash it of with warme water Doo thus sixe or seuen nightes and it wyll helpe it without doubt THe fyrst seedes that the Hee or Male Pyony brings forth being round and black do maruelously recreate or helpe them that haue the fallyng sycknes If some therof be stampt and taken with Oximel scillitick which is to be had at the Apothecaries and with the syrrup of Sticados a lytle Nutmug which Lemnius doth wytnes for a very trueth WHosoeuer is stricken or hurte of any venemous woorme or other thing or else bytten of a madde Dogge Let them take heede dillygently that the same thing that dyd hurt them see them not vntyl they be perfectly whole For the Hebrew Phisitions saye that the party hurt shall then dye or els be in peryll afresh yea though they begynne to waxe whole when they see them Mizaldus ONe handful of Basyll with ten sea Crabs stampt or beaten together doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place that are nye to the same Aphri as Mizaldus sayth IF the Lorde of the eyght house be afflicted in the fowrth house it sygnifyes the chylde then borne shall dye in pryson Taisnier WIne wherin the rynde of an Ashe tree hath bene sodden drunke fasting sixe or seuen morninges together doth perfectly helpe thē that are tormented with the paines of the splene Which makes one to haue a great payne in the left syde there most griefe is after meate And if you annoynt the grieued place so long with an oyntment called Deathea euery morning and euening It is an excellent thing lykewise BEholde a syngular Oyle or Baulme drawne out of waxe and Turpentine which dryeth and mightely perseth where the same is applyed taken out of the secretes of Fallopius Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten one pounde and two ounces of new yellowe waxe that is odoriferous twelue ounces of Nutmugges and Cloues of eyther one ounce of common ashes syxe ounces beate all these wel together then put the same into a Retorte fenced with Lute of Wisedome and set in ashes and distyll it with a slowe fyre at the fyrst and after encrease the fyre vntyl all be distilled which gathered distyll the seconde tyme in a glasse body with an heade receauer putting vnto it before the distylling fowre ounces of the powder of brycke or Tyles Which dyllygently luted in the ioyntes maynteyne fyre vnder it vntyll no more wyll come then haue you purchased an Oyle of a rubyne cullour which worketh myracles in woundes especially where synnues be harmed This also helpeth any manner of rewme proceeded of a colde cause it helpeth besydes the cough by annointing the region of the breast therewith and it is also of great importaunce vnto many other griefes inuented and proued by the aboue sayde Author many tymes This excellent oyle I had out of that worthy Booke called the new Iewell of Health which many perhappes should neuer haue read in this my booke that neuer shall heare tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable thinges therein vttered A Notable and often proued plaster to destroy any impostume swelling and stytche in what place of the body soeuer it be is now described as followeth Take of the roote of Hollyocke cleane washed and cutte in peeces two good handfull and seethe the same in fayre water vntyll the sayde roote be something tender Then take out the sayde roote and put into the same water of Fenecreeke and Lyn seede of eyther one handfull something stamped or brused seethe them together vntyll the water be ropeing like byrdlime then stampe the sayd roote of Hollyock before sodde And put it therto with an handfull of Barly meale and frye them together with Bores grease or Barrowes grease and if neede be you maye take sheepe suet then laye a plaster thereof to the sore or grieued place as hotte as the party maye suffer it and let the same lye twelue howres vnremoued at the least and after applye another plaster of the same therto in such order and within nyne plasters it wyll worke the full effect It hath helpt dyssolued the Pluresy with the applying of three or fowre plasters A thing of smal cost and great vertue WHen the Lord of the Ascendēt is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house It sygnifies that the syck shal not be healed but with great expences of money or els dye And vniuersally marke what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascēdent The sycke is lyke to haue harme or hynderance by such things as that house doth sygnifie whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord or Sygnifyer Iatromath Guat Ryff EGge shelles dryed and beaten to powder and geuen in whyte Wine breaketh the stone It is a tryed medicine as one affyrmed to me SUgar especially Ualencia sugar made in pouder and put into a wound or cutte doth not onely clense all corruption from it and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it but also heales it maruelously If you lyst you may mixe a lytle fresh butter therewith wherby it wyll not be of the lesse vertue This is a sure excellent easye and a ready medicine who lyst to trye it shall finde it a syngular thing A Certaine Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London who within a yeare and a halfe after her byrth dyd begyn to eate earth stones bricke and grauell And so continued therin hauing all her delyght in eating of such baggage
also she dyd eate the woollen sleeues that were on her armes besydes that she dyd eate a gloue And on a tyme as her mother dyd feede her with mylke there chaunst to fall a great peece of soote out of the chymney into the sayd mylke which soote the sayd chyld tooke out of the dysh with her fyngers and dyd eate it most greedâ—ly She abhorred then bread butter and other such natural foode Wherby she was maruelously consumed with a fluxe and she yet lyueth hauing nothing on her but skyn and bone I sawe her in Iune 1577. She was borne in Chayrsey within two or three myles of Stanes at which tyme she was full three yeares of age IT is sayde that Myse dung with the ashes of burned Waspes and of hasel Nuts and a lytle vinegar of Roses put therto doth trymly decke a bauld place with heayrs if the same place be often tymes rubbed or annoynted therwith Mizaldus IF any Beast of the female kinde doth pisse vpon the vrine of a Woolfe newly made the same Beast shal neuer conceaue Pithagoras AEtius geues counsayle that that Dogge be buried or put into the ground in any wyse which is dead by taking his disease froÌ„ a man for it is certain saith he that daungerous and many effects the man being escaped are turned or ouerpowred into him THe troublesome or vnpleasaunt noyse of Frogges in the night wyll cease if you set a Candle burning on the bancke syde nye the water where they be Or els many lyghtes according to the greatnes of the place where they be Africanus Geopon And this was proued at Parys by the meanes of a Presydent there that therewith was troubled Mizaldus IT is the opinion of many that an hearbe called Leucacanthus that is Whyt thorne euen as the Bay tree is neuer strucken nor touched with lyghtning nor is not touched with any euyl from heauen Mizaldus ZAel sayth that he hath proued in many Natiuities where the Moone is in Virgo opposite with the Sun that the chyld theÌ„ borne hath ben drownd SIxe cloues of Garlycke stampt and strayned into a draught of Rennish Wine so drunke is a present remedy for the collyck stone the strangury An excellent tryed medicine if you take it three dayes MAke powder of the flowres of Elderne gathered on Mydsomer daye being before well dryed and vse a spoonefull therof in a good draught of Burrage water morning euening fyrst and last for the space of a month and it wyl make you seeme young a great whyle This I had out of an olde wrytten booke as proued TAke Horseleaches and burne theÌ„ to powder and myxe it with Eysell then vse to rubbe the place therwith where you would haue heaire to grow no more and there wyll no heaire growe in that place This was a secrete of a notable Practyser WHosoeuer vses to drinke butter mylke they wyll be laratiue although they be very much bound and can not go to the stooâ—e Proued THey are lyke to haue the falling sycknes in whose natiuities the Moone and Mercury do not behold the one the other Or where neither of them do behold the Ascendent and wheras in the day tyme Saturne is the sygnifyer of the qualyties of the mynde and being then in an Angle and Mars in natiuityes of the night THat young Beasts be not hurt of their fetters or that being hurt of them they may be cured Tye vnto their necks a Date stone bored through Mizaldus IF you geue to them that haue the falling sycknes this medicine or Antidote following three dayes whiles the Moone is coniunct to Iupiter it wyl helpe him Take of Mase the seedes of Pyony the rootes of the same halfe a dram the leaues of Gelyuors and of Prymroses which some takes to be the Daysie one dram stampe them and geue it to drinke with whyte Wine The party being fasting Mizaldus AS a certayne countrey man dyd sleepe open mouthed in the fieldes a Serpent crept in at his mouth and so into his body but after the sayde man cured him selfe therof with the eating of Garlyke But he enfected his wife with poyson by hauing to do with her carnally wherof she dyed which was very rare and straunge Volateranus POwder made of the stone of a Swallow geuen in drinke to them that haue the falling sycknes healeth them without doubt for it is a sure experiment Petrus Hispanus IF thou would know whether a Woman be conceaued with chyld or not geue to her two spoonefuls of water and one spooneful of clarified Honny mingled together to drink when she goeth to sleepe and if she feele grypings and paynes in her belly in the nyght she is with chylde if she feele none she is not This is very true and often proued HE wyll neuer be poore of whose Natiuity Iupiter is rular or Lorde Celi enarrant The Author of which worke is vnknowne THis following wyll take spots out of the face and bewtify the same Put seuen whole Egs in most pure and strong Uineger and let them lye therein so long vntyll theyr shelles be as soft as theyr inwarde skynnes and myxe therto fowre ounces of mustarde seede before made in powder or stampt then stampe or grinde them together and therwith let the face be often annoynted This hath bene proued and Trotula affyrmes it also for the lyke purpose GReene nettels layd in the vryne of one that is sick and so stieped therin for the space of .xxiiii. howres if after the same tyme they be taken out greene and fresh it betokens that the syck party wyll recouer of that sycknes if they be wythered it is a great token of death Mizaldus FINIS Lib. 5. ⧠The syxt Booke of Notable thinges IF you would haue any Beast or any parte of the same of what cullour soeuer he be to be turned into white shaue of the heairs smoake the same that is shauen with the fume of Brymstone and whyte heayres wyll growe there You may proue the same in flowres Mizaldus THe berryes of Whyt thorne taken with whyte Wine is of great force for destroying or expelling of the stone It is knowne by the practise or experience of the countrey men Mizaldus IN a question of a vision or dreame marke the Lorde or the Alumten of the Ascendent and the Moone and consider if thou findest eyther of them in the ninth or the thyrde house but if you finde none of them there then marke if you finde eyther of them in the Ascendent or fyrst house or in any of his Angles and if you so finde eyther of them and the same be seperate from a good Planet applyed to a good Planet It sygnifyes that the dreame is good pleasant and of a good sygnifycation and is of the condition of that good Planet to whom he applyes and the profyt or coÌ„modity of his dreame shal be of the condition of the house where he is in the figure and of the condition of
of Seamewes seeming to be dead which were ioynde together with theyr bylles or nebbes in anothers tayle or fundament and being warmed with theyr guttes were founde a lyue Garuas Tibellesius THe leaues of Dockes do lowse the belly makes one laxatiue But the seedes being taken do binde and are restryctiue Galen IF Wyne haue gotten any tartnes or sowrenes take a potte fylled with good water and let it be well couered then set the same potte with water in the vessell with Wyne so that the potte stande vnder or within the Wyne and at the three dayes ende if the Wyne haue gotten his former strength the water wyll smell and then the Wyne wyll lyke thee Tarentinus A Peece of raw Beefe not too thyck nor too thin being layde or stieped all the nyght before in good Aqua Composita and applyed to the temples or the foreheade without remouing all the nyght and thus doing three or fowre nyghtes doth helpe the watring and paynes of the eyes and all distyllations and rewmes that comes from the heade or brayne One tolde mee this which had often proued it to be most true as a great secrete WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte the chylde then borne wyll be mighty wyse and a great Philosopher Celi enarrant ANnoint young Swallowes with saffern soone after the old Swallowes wyll bring a stone vnto them wherwith the Dropsie wyll be cured This I had out of a booke of Secretes AN Egge layde on a Thursdaye and emptied and fylled with Salt and lo set in the fyre remayning there vntyll it maye be made in powder and then cankred teethe rubbed with the powder thereof it both kylles the cankar and the woormes that eates the teethe and destroyes them Proued for trueth THis following wyll destroy Ringwoormes Tetters and Scales in the hands Take whyte Coprose the quantity of two beanes put it into a pynt of cleare water tyll it be resolued or melted and with that water washe the place or handes tyll they be whole Proued STampe Pearceley in whyte Wine then streyne it well and drinke a good draught therof and it wyll cause thee to make water and breake the stone vse it fyue or syxe tymes This hath bene well proued THe wyse and learned men in olde tyme dyd think that a Tode put into a new earthen potte and set within the ground and so couered with earth in the myddes of a fyelde wyll dryue away Crowes or Byrds from Corne that t s sowne there But about Haruest tyme they wyll that it be dygged vp and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds least the Corne be bytter therby Plin. A Lytle peece of the Nauell string of a Chylde that is newly borne enclosed in a Ryng and so borne that it maye touch the flesh or bare skynne is a most sure helpe and remedy against the great paynes and tormentes of the collycke Mizaldus THey whose heaire of the eye browes doo touch or meete together of all other are the woorst They doo shewe that he or she is a wicked personne and an intyser of seruauntes and geuen to vnlawfull and naughty artes which Iohannes Indagnies sayth hee hath obserued in olde Women being Wytches which were ledde to be burned whose eye browes were such As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted SAturne in the nynth house doth sygnifye feares in iourneyes but more in the Sea chiefly in a waterye sygne and in Cancer the house of the Moone Taisnier FINIS Lib. 6. ⧠The seuenth Booke of Notable thinges THe water wherein the leaues of Planten that growes close to the grounde and neare the roote is sodde being droonke twyse euery day morning and euening fyrst last halfe a pynt at a tyme for the space of fowre or fiue dayes helpes perfectly all griefes and diseases of the bladder A true medicine and often proued A Notable water for breaking of the stone Take of the iuyce of Saxifrage two pound of the iuyce of Gromell and of the iuyce of Pearslye of eyther one pounde of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Nettelles and of the iuyce of Ramsens of each halfe a pound of strong whyte Uinegar ten ounces of the flowres and seedes of Broome and of the rootes of Radish of each two handfulles stampe the last rehearsed well then myxe the same with all the iuyces before mencioned and therof destyll a water with a gentle fyre of which water geue to them that haue the stone one ounce at one tyme with Oxinell Diuretycke which you may haue at the Apothecaries vsing the same nyne or ten dayes if neede be and it wyll breake auoyde the stone wonderfully There can not be a better medicine for the stone proue it when you wyll IN the Ilandes of Irelande and Orcades in certayne places there there be certaine Trees there much lyke vnto Wyllowe trees out of which coms forth certayne lytle heayres encreasing by lytle and lytle into Byrdes hauing shape of Duckes hanging vpon the bowes by theyr nebs or bylles and when they are comd to full perfectnesse they flye away of themselues and falles into the next Seas which Byrds we call Barnacles This is related by the people that dwell there Mizaldus YF one be bewytched of any put quycksyluer into a quyll and stoppe it or els into a hollowe Nut shel enclosed fast with waxe and laye the same vnder the pyllowe of the partye bewytched or vnder the threshold of the doore where he enters into the house or Chamber Iohannes Weckerus HE that shall delyuer a summe of Money in the howre of the Moone he shall haue much a doo to get it againe And at last he shall mystrust of the recouering therof but at the length he shall recouer it but not all Abablez filius Zaed BEttony stampt and made in a plaster and layde to the eye healeth a strype in the eye And if the eyes be washed wyth the water wherein Bettony is sodden they wyll be hole without dymnesse or other blemysh And if you drynke a dramme of the powder of Betony with the water of Betony it wyll brynge downe and heale the clowdynesse and blouddynesse of the eyes And if Betony be eaten it dryeth vp the teares of the eyes All this and more hath bene proued of Betony MArke on what day any doth fall sycke and number the dayes from the syxt Calendes of Iuly which is the .xxvi. day of Iune vntyll the day when the party dyd fyrst beginne to be sycke and deuyde that whole number by three and then if at the last one remayne he wyll quickly escape if two remayne he wyll be long sicke if one remayne then it is to be feared he wyll dye of that sycknes This I had out of a booke of Secretes A Maruelous cure of a Woman that was swolne done by one Iohn Ardern whose wordes thereof were these I Iohn Ardern dyd see a certaine Woman at Newarke whose whole body was suddenlye
laide to stiepe in Honny three dayes and then cast it among the chaffe and then a great sort of Pygiōs wyll resort to that Doouehouse LYn seede put into the rootes of Radyshe and by and by put into fatte or dunged earth it wyl bring forth an hearbe lyke Dragons whose taste wyll seeme lyke vynegar and Salt therefore it is maruelously desyred in Sawses for hauing this you neede neither vynegar nor Salt as one that is chiefe of the Kings gardens tolde me sayth Mizaldus FOxes being sodde and cutte in peeces and then geuen to Hens or Geese amongst theyr meate it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after for the space of two monthes Mizaldus THe seedes of Docks tyde to the left arme of a Woman doth helpe barrennes or sterilyty Africanus THe Moone and the Ascendent are generally Signifyers of the hole shyppe of the state therof and the Lorde of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sayles in the same wherof if all they be Infortunate the Shyp is broken and they that sayled in her are drownde vnlesse some one of them be receyued that is of the sayd Sygnifyers and then the Impedyment wyll chaunce in the drowning and some clymers of the Shyppe wyll escape but if all they be Fortunate all shall escape and be saued that is both Shyp and men chiefly if there be any reception Furthermore if the Ascendent the Moone be both fortunate the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate the Shyp is safe the Saylers in her are destroyed but if the Ascendent the Moone be Infortunate and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate the shyp is ouerwhelmed or lost the saylers in her are safe Haly Aben. GOates dung mingled with Uynegar bran and applyed as a plaster to a sore breast looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast It hath bene proued BEttony stampt and applyed to any wounde of the heade doth not onely draw out the broken bones but also doth heale the same with speede A Speciall medicine to strengthen the back Take a quart of whyte Wine and the pythe that runneth in an Oxe backe and halfe a quarter of a pounde of Dates and of Marygooldes Planten Bettony Pearsley rootes and Fennel rootes of all two handfulles boyle all these together vntyll the Wyne bee halfe wasted away and then streyne them through a cloath and drynke nyne or tenne spoonefull thereof euerye morning and euenyng for the space of nyne or tenne dayes and it wyll strengthen the backe maruelouslye FYue leaued grasse sod in water which water if it be droonke and gulpt vp downe into the throte is an excellent helpe for sore throtes THey are diuellysh or possest with Diuels in whose Natiuityes Saturne is Lorde of the place of the Moone and the Moone then vnder the beames of the Sunne or if Mars be Lorde of the place of the Moone opposyte to the Sunne especially in Sagitary Haly Abenragel TO keepe Beastes safe that the blynde mowse called a Shrew do not byte them Enclose the same Mowse quicke in chalke which when it is hard hang the same about the necke of the Beast that you woulde keepe safe from such byting And it is most certayne that he shall not be toucht nor bytten as is before sayde Vegetius I Heare sayth Mizaldus that it is obserued proued that a Cowe an Ewe a she Asse a Bitche a she Catte and such other domesticall and tame Beastes of the Female kinde wyll cast theyr Calfe Lambe Colte or that that they go withall if the Male by whome they conceaued be kylled whyle they went with the same Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement of nature is betweene or among them IF the nynth house begynne in a fyxed sygne or if Saturne be founde in the same except it be Aries they that be then borne shall for the most parte see true Dreames but if in a moueable sygne his Dreames wyll be without effect c. Taisnier A Notable oyntment for the head ache comming of any cause wherwith you must annoynt the pulses of the temples and all the forehead Take of the iuyce of new or fresh Camamyle fowre ounces of the iuyce of new and fresh Roses two ounces of the iuyces of fresh Rew and Bettony of eyther one ounce and a halfe of the iuyce of the rootes of Hollyock two ounces of oyle Rosate Omphacine one pound and a halfe of the best and purest Alablaster three ounces powder the Alablaster finely and put it into the sayd oyle and let it lye therein a daye and a nyght then myxe them all together and with sufficient whyte waxe make it into an oyntment which oyntment is good for any payne of the head proceeding of any matter or cause And it may be vsed at any tyme of the fytte or payne except the begynning Emperica benedicti victorij fauenti AN excellent distilled water for hearing foloweth Take of the iuyce of Bettony of the iuyce of Onions of eyther of them syxe ounces of the leaues of Rosemary stamped one handfull of the oyle of bitter Almondes three ounces and one whyte grosse Eele chopt and cutte in small peeces myxe them all together and destyll them and the lycquor which cōmeth therof keepe in a cleane glasse droppe two or three droppes therof into your eare fowre or fyue nyghts together and it wyll helpe and amende the deaffnes IT is much to be marueled at that the lytle Byrde called a Wren being fastned to a lytle stycke of Hasell newly gathered doth turne about and rost him selfe Cardanus and Mizaldus THou mayst make fayre Pictures Uesselles and many other fyne thinges with small coast and expences as followeth Seethe the barke of the Elme tree and the toppes of the Populer tree and whyles they are very hotte put thereto most pure and fyme Lyme vntyll all the same be lyke cruddes of milke Afterwards put therto the whytest marble that is well and fynely beaten into powder and searced and then cast the same in what fourme you wyll then drie them in the shadow Hieronimus Gardanus HErmes doth saye that an euyll Planet in Gancer doth threaten short lyfe and continual sycknes to the mother of the chylde then borne BRymstone stampt with Wyne and plastered ouer the Dugs or Paps of Women breakes the hardnes of them Isac WAter Myntes stamped and layde to the myds of the browe and to the nape of the necke of one that is madde wyll much helpe and relieue him But fyrst tyckle him on the browe and it wyll dyspose him to sleepe and then apply it to him as is beforesayde But if he be farre gone that it wyll not helpe him then take a Tenche and cleaue the Tenche in the myddes and so warme lay the one part to his brow and the other to the nape of his necke and without doubt it wyll helpe him if euer he shall haue helpe This I tooke out of an excellent written booke FOr burning with syre Take oyle
an easy fyre and that that shall distyll keepe in a vessell of Gold or Syluer Sylens is to be kept of the prayse of this water because it may not be bought For his vertue doth pallyfie leprous persons it heales and destroyes a pure leprie it wypes away or takes away euery spot it conserues youth it makes the eye fayre I cease to speake of the secretes of this water for because I feare least they that haue it should be puft vp with pryde Trotula de pass Mulier THis following is a proued thing for the sounding of the eares or wynde in the same Take Almonds and the kernelles of Peches and let them be cleane pylled in hotte water then stampe them and get oyle out of them and put of the same oyle with tents wet in the same into the soūding eares or otherwise grieued which tents must be made of fyne lynnen cloath and do thus with new tents euery daye once for the space of nyne or ten dayes and it wyll put away the sounding and other paines of the eares This I learned of one that came out of Spaine And I proued it to be very true FINIS Lib. 7. ⧠The eyght Booke of Notable thinges YOu shal make Vinegar by and by if you powre pure good Wine halfe sodde into a newe earthen vessell then well couered and stopte and so the same Potte set in hotte scalding water A Woolfe fyrst seeing a Man doth lyfte vp his voyce and as a vyctor doth despyse him But if he perceyue that the Man hath espyed him fyrst he laies away his fiercenes and can not run D. Ambrosius Virgil. Plato Sextus Platon And other THere is deadlye warre betweene the Hawke and the Eagle who sometymes are so fast together in theyr fyght that they are both taken or catcht therby Plynius TO take the Byrdes that eates the seedes that are sowne Seethe Garlicke that it may not growe againe for it is sayde to profyte maruelously if it be throwne vnto them for they that shall eate of it wyl be taken with your hand Mizaldus HE that takes his iourney on the Sea in the houre of Saturne he shall haue many waues and diuers wyndes which wyll cast him to vnknowen places Haly Abenragel YF you geue one of these Pylles following euerye nyght going to bed to him that hath the palsey it wyll helpe him for it is proued Take of hearbe Iue Cowslops Bettony of the flowres of Sticados arabici of each one dram let them be dryed in the shadow and make them in fyne powder then take good Turbyth one dram of the best Agarick two drams Coloquyntyda halfe a dram Gynger Salgem of eyther ten graynes good and chosen Rewbarbe one dram and a halfe Spykenarde seuen graines the powder of Hiera simplex galeni halfe an ounce Scamony prepared one dram let them all be made in fyne powder and with the iuyce of hearbe Iue make a masse of Pylles The weyght to be geuen at one tyme is one Pyll of one scruple And marke if he that hath the palsey take this ordinary Pylle not once euerie day but twyse in the weeke at the least you shall see a sudden helpe in the palsey These Pylles maye worthely bee called gloryous Pylles in the palsey Emperica benedicti victorij fauentini A Certaine man fynding or catching a Mowse dyd hyt his wife therwith on the left cheeke being with chylde who after was delyuered of a Wench which Wench had and yet hath the marke of a Mowse on her left cheeke This was tolde by a credible womā who sayd moreouer that the name of this Wenches Father was Thomas Bucknam dwelling at the tyme in Northfolke in a certayne Towne called Dysse This affyrmes my other wryting hereof YOu may turne white Wine into redde without any hurt or detryment by and by if the powder of Honny that is fyrst sod vnto a stony substaunce and then dryed so made in powder be cast into whyte Wyne and myxing it well in the same with rowlyng it vp and downe together The rootes of any kinde of Dockes eyther new or dryed put into the Wine wyll perfourme the same with lesse busynes GArlycke being stampt with Hogs or Barrowes grease and made something thycke lyke an oyntment doth maruelously helpe them that haue the coughe and haue taken colde if theyr soles of theyr feete and theyr backe bone before the fyre be annointed therewith WHosoeuer hath any fyxed Starre of the fyrst honor or magnitude in the degree of theyr Horoscope or in the degree of theyr Cuspe of the tenthe house or in the degree of the Sunne by day or in the degree of the Moone by nyght he shall possesse great rytches and honors then his Auncestors haue done of the Nature of that fyxed Starre In deede this is true if that fyxed Starre be of a small Latitude but if it be of a great Latitude his strength wyll smallie appeare in the Natiuitie of the Chylde Thus much Taisnier THis water following is excellent good to cleare a dym syght if two or three drops therof be put into the eyes at a tyme vsyng it certayne dayes together Take of the water of Uarueyn the water of Roses and the water of Fennell of eache fowre ounces whyte strong wine three ounces Tuty preparate Sugar candy of either three drams Aloes Hepatick two drams let al them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdred and put them into the waters Wine mixing all together and let them remaine and stand a whole day then streine them easely and keepe that lycquor in a fayre glasse vse it as is before said This is a precious thing for the syght and the eyes A Maruelous medicine for woundes sores Take a handfull of Arsmart wette in fayre water then laye it in the wounde or sore After burye the same Arsemart in some moyst ground and the said wound or sore wyll afterwarde myraculously heale as the same hearbe doth rotte and consume This I had of one that affyrmed it to be true I thinke it is written by Paracellus THe bodyes of drownd or dead men do fleete on the water with theyr faces and bellies vpward but dead Women do fleete on the water grouelyng or with theyr faces downward cōtrary to theyr procreation But they do not fleete or swym aboue the water out of whome the Lunges is taken c. Mizaldus THe water of Marygooldes doth helpe all diseases of the eyes and takes away all paines of the head And the smoake of the flowres therof taken or receyued by a Fundyble into the secrete partes of a Woman or else otherwyse taken doth bring forth easelie the after burthen This secrete Mizaldus dyd get of an olde Mydwyfe which had neede of his helpe otherwyse THe heade of a Gleade vnfeathered burned and so much thereof taken with water and droonke as you maye take vp with three fyngers helpes them that haue the gowte Galenus IF any come or send to thee
in the howre of Iupiter it is for no harme but rather for good Therefore doubt it not and though it should seeme to be some harme or losse at the fyrst yet at length it wyll turne to good The oftner one tryes it the truer he shall fynde it so that he be not Retrograde or Combust OKe ferne called Polipodium stampt and plastred vpon the feete of the Woman traueling of chylde causeth the byrth of the chylde eyther a lyue or dead This was tolde me for a great secrete TAke the grease of a Swyne or a Hogge and rubbe therewith the body of any that is sycke against the harte or the soles of his feete then geue that grease to a Dogge which if he eate the partye wyll escape if not it is a token that he wyll dye thereof THis following wyll helpe them that be deaffe Take a peece of greene Elme or Ashe and laye it in the fyre and receyue the water that commeth out of the endes thereof and take also a spoonefull of the iuyce of Syngreene and a spoonefull of Aqua vite and a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is redde beneathe the nauell boyle all these together a lytle on the fyre and put it into a glasse and when he goeth to bedde put some thereof into his eare luke warme and in two or three dayes he wyll be hole and heare well This is proued TO drawe out a toothe without any payne Take the goom of Iuy and greene Iuy leaues of each a lyke weyght and burne them to powder in a newe earthen potte and when it is made in fyne powder myxe it together with the mylke of Spurge and put some thereof into the toothe that you woulde haue out if it be hollow if not touch the toothe therwith and it wyll fall out but beware you touch none other toothe therwith AElianus dooth report that no sycke person of the Locrenses should vpon payne of death drynke any Wyne without the consent knowledge of the Phisition or any other geue it them without the commaundement of the Phisition IF you wyll proue whether there be any water mixed with Wyne or not put an Egge into the Wyne and if the Egge synke into it there is water myxt with it if the Egge swym then it is pure Wyne IF the scull of an aged man be hanged in a Doouehouse Pygions wyll be encreased there and wyl lyue quietly Albertus as Mizaldus doth wryte THe iuyce of Baye leaues distylled into the cares doth not permytte deafnesse nor other straunge soundes to abyde in the eares Petrus Hispanus A Question was asked of the state of a certayn person being sycke of what condition the disease was and whether they should recouer therof or not c It seemed at the fyrst syght that the party was hole for whome the question was made because the Sunne was in the tenth house and the parte Fortune in the Ascendent but many other testymonies shewed the contrary And also Mars dyd corrupt Venus Lady or Alumten of the Ascendēt and Venus also was vnder the beames of the Sunne and began to be Combust distaunt from the Sun ten degrees for Venus was in the .xxviii. degree of Sagitary and the Sun in the .viii degree of Capricorne which two degrees in Sagitary dyd sygnify two monthes being a common sygne and the .viii. degrees in Capricorne being a moueable sygne dyd sygnify .viii. dayes therfore it was to be doubted of the death of the sicke personne about two monthes and .viii. daies after the questiō was made as God would ordaine and so it hapned ryght by the appoyntment of God to whome it belonges onely to cure infyrmities griefes to raise vp the dead and to moderate the earthly bodies by the heauenly bodies and to dispose inferyor thinges by meanes to whom be glory Amen Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de vrina non visa AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones or armes or any other place of the body Annoynt the place where the payne or ache is with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fyre and let it drinke in doo thus three or fowre tymes together then at the last tyme whyle it is wette cast vpon the wette place where the ache is the powder of Olibanum which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankensence and so laye a lynnen cloath vpon the powder and sowe it fast and so let it lye three or fowre dayes vntyll it be well and whole Which wyll be by that tyme God wylling Proued ENuches that is they that be gelded be neuer balde nor gowtye Hippocr IT is a thing worthy of memory that Lampridius wrytes of Heliogabalus the Romaine Emperour who sayth he had fowre Hartes in his Charret that carryed him and so many Dogges calling him selfe Diana and fowre Tygers calling himselfe Bacchus and fowre Lyons calling him selfe Cibel and he ioygned fowre Women to his Charret as Sesostris King of Egipt dyd with fowre Kings O prowde presumptuous Prince he might ryde a good whyle in that Charret ere it woulde bring him to heauen IT is not good to burye any too hastely especially such as haue had the Apoplexy the falling sycknes and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the wombe called the moother For such may seeme to be deade and yet reuyue againe within three dayes for it was the fowrth daye after Lazarus dyed ere Christe dyd rayse him from death to lyfe least any should falsely report that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy or the falling sycknes or such lyke and therfore but in a traunce or not perfectly dead whereby the iust meryte of Christes maruelous myracle thereof myght be darkned This is the meaning of Lemnius in his seconde Booke of the secrete myracles of Nature Therefore it is very meete to know whether any such be perfectly dead or not which you may doo by holding a lytle burning candle at the parties nose whose mouth is open or else by setting some lytle cuppe or glasse full of water to the brymme vpon the sayde partyes belly or nauell for by the mouing of the flame of the candle or of the vessell with water you shall perceyue his secrete breathing and whether there be any lyfe in him or not Camillus AN approued medicine dooth follow for the shortnes of breath doth maruelously helpe the same for if halfe an ounce thereof be geuen to the patient thryse in a naturall daye that is three howres before dynner two howres before supper and about mydnyght continewing the same three or fowre dayes and no moe you shall see the diseased healed Take of Manna elect or chosen called Manna Granata two ounces the flowre of Cassia newly drawne halfe an ounce Penyedes three ounces oyle of sweete Almondes being new one ounce the Lyghts or Lungs of a Foxe fynely beaten and powdred two ounces make the rest in powder that are to be powdred then myxe all together and make therof a Lectuary
For a colde Lyuer take a spoonefull of the whyte water with an ounce of the water of Sage For the breast and the cough of a cold Rewme take it with the water of Isope Louathe or Fennell For the harte with the water of Buglosse Burrage or Balme For the stomacke with the water of Woormwood For the Lyghts with the water of mayden heair or Polypode For the Splen with the water of Hartstongue For the Vertigo a gyddynes of the head or the Apoplexie with the water of Pyony of Fennell or of S. Iohns Woort For the Stone with the water of Radysh or winter Cherries For the retayning or holding of the water with the water of Cresses some Pearsley or Saxifrage For the eyes with the water of Fennell or Eybright For the retayning or withholding of Menstrues with the water of Mugwoort or with water of Radysh For the too much fluxe of the Menstrues with the water of Planteyn or of Nightshade For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle or of any colde cause whereby she doth conceyue no more let it be vsed with the water of Ualeryan or Bettony Against the spottes of the face take of the water of Pympernell fowre partes of this whyte or fyrst water one parte myxe them together and annoynt the face morning and euening and drynke it twyse or thryse in the weeke with Endyue water It cures the Cankar being annoynted therewith and the Fystula if a droppe thereof many tymes put into it It helpes a colde gowte if it be annoynted therwith For the payne of the Matryx let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Feuers The Cytryne oyle hath many vertues as the oyle of Balme if any griefe be annoynted therwith The blacke Oyle is of great vertue in the gowte if it be annoynted therwith as the moother of Balme being whyte called the golden Water Gratarolus HEre followeth an excellent medycine that wyll heale olde rotten incurable Ulcers very quickly Take of Turpentyne three tymes washt fyrst in fayre spring or well water after in Rose or Planteyn water three ounces the yolke of an Eg Oyle of Roses an ounce a halfe Mercury sublymate made in powder halfe a dram let them all be myxed well together and make therof an oyntment washe the Ulcers or sores with whyte Wine then spreade some of that oyntment or salue vpon flaxe apply it to the sore and dresse it with new salue twise euery day but before euery dressing annoynt with this following three or fowre fyngers bredth about the sore Take of the oyle of Roses two ounces of Uineger halfe an ounce of the powder of bole Armoniack a lytle myxe them together and annoynt it as is before sayd And when all the rottē or putrified flesh is eaten out then annoynt the Ulcer with butter and you shall see a woonderfull effect Proued FOr the burning or great intollerable heat of the vryne Take of the seedes of Purslane of the seedes of Lettys of the seedes of Endiue of the seedes of white Poppy two ounces of euery of them of the seedes of Hēbane half a dram Sebasten two ounces Saffern one drā Licqueres fiue drams Pineaple kernels ten drams foūtaine or spring water six pound myx them all together let them be sod vntyll the consuming of the thyrde part of the water then let it be strayned Wherof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inle◠of Uyolets and the fowrth day the effect worthy of maruell wyl appeare This is proued A Notable an excellēt Balme Take of Turpētine one pound a half Galbanum two ounces Aloes cicotrin Mastick Cloues Galangale Cynamō Nutmugs Cubebs of euery one of them an ounce gum of Iuy halfe an ounce when all is well beaten myxe them together and distyl them in glasse with a slowe fyre fyrst and receyue the fyrst water by it selfe seuerally then encrease the fyre a water more reddyshe wyll come then encrease the fyre more and an oyle wyl come of a redde cullour receiue that as long as any wyll come you must chaunge the receyuer thryse This oyle hath all the vertues of true Balme for it burneth in the water and curddeth mylke by by for if one droppe of it warme be put into a pynt of mylke it wyll forthwith become curdded The fyrst lycquor is called the water of Balme the seconde oyle of Balme the thyrde Balme artificiall The fyrst is profytable against the running of the eares if two drops morning and euening be put into them dropt into the eyes it amendeth the blearednes and consumeth the teares it doth maruelously restrayne superfluous humors in any parte of the body it taketh away the tooth ache if they be washt therewith and kylleth the woormes if there be any in them The thyrd lycquor wyl suffer no venom it is an vtter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents Two or three drops thereof layde vpon any venemous byting doth make it whole strayght If thou drawe a cyrcle with this lycquor and shut a venemous Beast therin it wyl dye there rather then go out of it To be short it doth all the same things that Treacle doth but all things more effectually being powred or put vpon any Impostume within nyne dayes it healeth them and lykewise a Fistula be it neuer so euyll and also Noli me tangere All diseases bred of fleame and of colde humors it healeth if a lynnen cloath dypped in it be layde vpon the place where the griefe is It putteth away vtterly the Palsey and all trembling of members it strengthneth maruelously the Sinewes it is hotter then the fyrst or the seconde If a man put a drop of it in his hande it pierceth straight without griefe To conclude it doth many other things and all diseases rysen of a colde cause it healeth if they vse it ryght Lullius in his booke of waters But this is taken out of Euonymus IF you take the gall of an Oxe mans vrine Ueriuyce and the iuyce of Nettelles of each a lyke quantity and myxe them very dillygently together and after quenche steele red hotte therin fowre or fyue tymes together the same steele wyll after become as soft as paste This is affyrmed by the Schollers of Padua in theyr natural and Artificial conclusions c. A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague for Carbuncles pestelenticall Puslles holy Fyre and other of that kinde Take the ripe berryes of Iuy being dryed in the shaddow then stampe them and make them in powder of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn and remayne styl in the bed vntyl you haue sweat very well and after you haue sweat put on a cleane shert wel ayred at the fyre and if you may conueniently let the sheetes and the cloathes of the bed be shyfted There hath bene some healed with this
dead being layde in warme Ashes but they must not be burning or verye hotte the same Flye wyll recouer and lyue againe This is very true IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe and immediatly cut away the new springes tops and the vppermost branches of that yeere you shall haue new fresh Roses grow againe out of the same the same yeere about Mighelmas I know this to be true and for trueth I haue published it abroade THe Indians do vse the Tabaco a notable hearbe for to suffer the dreyth also for to suffer hungar and to passe dayes without hauing neede eyther to eate or drinke by any desart or dyspeopled countrey where they shal find neyther water nor meate They do vse of these litle balles which they do make of this Tabaco they take the leaues of it and do chew it and as they go chewing of them they myngle with them certaine powder made of the shelles of Cockles burned and they myngle it in their mouth all together vntyll they make it lyke to dowe of the which they make certaine lytle balles lytle greater then Peason and they put them to drye in the shadowe and after they keepe them vse them for the auoyding of hunger thyrst in theyr trauell without any meate and drinke for the space of three or fowre dayes This Doctor Monardus hath wrytten with many other woonders and notable vertues therof in his booke before mencioned intituled Ioyfull Newes out of the new found Worlde This Tabaco is a maruelous woonderfull hearbe growing in the west Indyas called the new Spaine and through the brynging of the seedes therof from thence it growes nowe both in Spayne and Fraunce WOormes and other venemous Beasts are dryueÌ„ away from any place with the smoake or fume of other Beasts of the same kinde as Rasis wrytes QUick syluer kylled burned Leade the scales of Yron or black Hellebor mixed with some pleasaunt meate that Mice loues if any Mice eate therof it wyll kyll them Mizaldus THere is a certaine Goom is brought from the firme â—â—nde of the Peru which helpes the gowte with purging the cause therof if you put of it as much as a Nut in distylled water which water ought to be the quantity of two ounces and geue the same to the patient the same partye forbearing meate vntyll the myddest of the day This Monardus affyrmes to be proued manifesting the same at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new fouÌ„d World. The name of the Goom he names not THe rootes of Roses or their slips with their knots remoued and set amongst broome wyl bring forth yallow Roses Iohan. Bap. Por. THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet wherein a lytle of the brayne of a Wesell is put or myxt wyll not putrifye neyther be eaten of Myce. Pictorius THere is a certaine Tree growing in Peru a boowe wherof if one doth hold fast in his left hand a good whyle that would knowe whether one that is sycke shall lyue or dye of that disease or at that tyme if the sycke shall lyue and escape the party that holdes the same shall shewe much gladnes If the sycke shall dye then the party that holdes the same shall be verye sad Monardus wrytes of this Tree in his sayd booke and shewes that the same was proued true by a Gentlewoman that was maruelous sad whiles shee dyd holde the same whose husbande dyed soone after accordingly A Rare and straunge kynde of fruite as great as a Nutte with maruelous rounde and harde bâ—â—cke stones in them is brought out of the new Spaine by the report of the sayde worthy Doctor Monardus whereof two or three with hotte water doth more effect for to wash and to make cleane cloathes then one pound of Sope doth wherof as well as of many other straunge and most excellent thinges you maye reade discrybed at large in his sayde booke called the Ioyfull Newes out of the new founde Worlde A Booke no doubte worthy of great estymation and commendation IF a handfull of Fygs be stampt tyll the kernelles be broken then tempered with a lytle fresh grease and so a plaster therof layde to a Womans breast that is sore as hotte as she may suffer the same it wyll take away the swelling and paine therof and if it be ready to breake it wyll breake it or else not This is an excellent and a sure tryed thing TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyue called quycke Brimstone beate it in powder and mixe the same well with as much of blacke Sope that is of the most stinking smel and tye the same in a lynnen cloath and let it hang in a pynt of strong Wyne Uinegar for the space of nyne dayes and then vse to wash any kinde of skuruynes or morphew therwith though neuer so olde or rooted being eyther on the face or on any other parte of the body with a lynnen cloath dypt or wet therin and so let the same Uinegar drye in of it selfe and do thus as long as the sayd Uinegar lastes and therwith the deformity or morphew wyl be perfectly healed And whosoeuer vses to drynke the water of Strawberyes distylled it wyll certaynly kyll the roote of any morphew that is within the body All this is well proued AN excellent preseruatiue against the Plague which was proued and vsed in the great Plague in Englande in the yeare of our Lorde 1548. For euery one that vsed it then escaped Take Aloes Hepatick pure Cynamom Myrre of each three drammes Cloues Mace wood of Aloes called Lignum Aloes Mastick Bole Armoniacke of each halfe an ounce myxe them all together and make thereof a very fyne powder wherof take early in the morning with whyte Wine myxt with a lytle water and by the grace of God you shall be preserued safe from the Plague VVeckerus IF you burne the shelles of Snailes with Styracks and then sprinckle therof vpon an Antes hyll therby they wyll be driuen forth of the grounde or place where they are TAke of English Saffern beateÌ„ in fyne powder and as much of pure good blacke Sope which when they be well myngled together spreade it vpon the fleshie syde of a peece of Leather then laye it vppon the Nauell of them whose vryne or water is stopte and it wyll procure the water to come forth and therby they shall make water within one howre This was tolde mee for a true and tryed secrete whereof I dare make no warrantyze but fauour it as you fynde it MAke lute or claye with the dregges or moother of Oyle and myxe therewith a lytle chaffe then let it lye so two or three dayes then dawbe with the sayde thycke lute or claye your Garner or rowme where you wyll laye your Corne then sprynckle the dregges or moother of Oyle al ouer where you haue dawbed and when it is drye laye Wheate therein and there shal neyther Weuell nor Myce hurt touch or
come neere that Wheate This I had out of an olde Booke And Iacobus VVeckerus also affyrmes the same WHen you first see the Cuckoo marke well where your right foote doth stande for you shall fynde there an heair Which if it be black it sygnifyes that you shall haue very euyll lucke all that yeare after If it be whyte then very good lucke But if it be graye then indyfferent It is sure that such a heair hath bene founde accordingly but what euent dyd follow therof I am yet vncertayne But this was affyrmed to mee for a very trueth It was also credibly reported vnto mee that the lyke heair wyll be founde vnder the ryght foote at the fyrst seeing of the Swallowe after they are comd at the spring tyme so that you looke after the sayde Swallowe as long as you can see her A Quantitie of Hempe seede stampt and strayned through a cloath when it is wel sodden with running water and a good draught thereof droonk last going to bed and so vsed wyll make one laxatiue and loose bellyed This is a proued thing therfore THe great Alexander being desirous that the long lyfe of Hartes might be knowne to his posterity caused golden Chaynes to be made fast vnto many Harts about theyr neckes I thinke the tyme when the same was done being exprest or marked in the same and they which were taken of the same Harts an hundreth yeares after dyd not yet seeme to be of the age of olde Hartes Mizaldus wrytes this who affyrmes that Pliny is the Author therof QUicke Lyme mixt with olde Cheese and well beaten together wyll fasten and glew strongly together broken stone vessels and also broken glasses This was very credibly tolde me for a very great secrete by one that proued it many tymes as he sayde WHosoeuer hath an extreame heate or sore burning Feuer let them vse to drinke fowre or fyue tymes in one day a good draught of the distylled water of wylde Poppy that is Papauer erraticum which growes among Corne with a red flowre much lyke the leafe of a Rose it is called of some red corne Rose This haue I tryed to be true THey in whose Natiuitie Saturne is Lord of the seuenth house are not lyke to marry before they be thyrty yeares of age or else vntyll Saturne from that tyme hath compassed the whole Zodiack which differs not much This is proued true by long experience I haue seene many whose seuenth house is Capricorne or Aquary the houses of Saturne and yet I neuer knew any of them but either dyed vnmaried or else married after they were thyrtie yeares of age And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein IF the bottom of a seething potte with meate newly taken from the fyre may be touched or felt without harme or daunger of burning then certaynly the same meate is boyled inough But if it be hotte and not sufferable then it is not sufficiently sodde This I know to be true for I haue seene the tryall thereof LAy a greene Iuy leafe in a dyshe or other vessell of fayre water eyther for your selfe or for any other on Newyeares euen at night and couer the water in the sayd vessel and set it in a sure or safe place vntyl Twelfe euen next after which wyll be the fyft day of Ianuary and then take the sayd Iuy leafe out of the sayd water and marke well if the sayde leafe be fayre and greene as it was before for then you or the party for whom you layd it into the water wyl be whole and sound and safe from any sicknes all the next yeare following But if you fynde any black spots theron then you or the party for whome you layde it into the water wyll be sicke that same yeare following And if the spots be on the vpper part of the leafe towards the stalke then the sycknes or paine wyll be in the head or in the neck or there about And if it be spotted nye the myds of the leafe then the sycknes wyll be about the stomack or hart And lykewise iudge that the disease or griefe wyll be in that part of the body according as you see the black spots vnder the same in the leafe Accoumpting the spots in the nether or sharpe end of the leafe to sygnify of the paynes or diseases in the feete And if the leafe be spotted all ouer then it signifies that you or the partie shall dye that yeare following You may prooue this for many or fewe at one time by putting in the water for euery one a leafe of greene Iuy so that euery leafe be noted or marked to whom it doth belong This was crediblye tolde me to be very certaine who affyrmed to me faithfully that it was diuers times proued for a verye trueth But because I neuer tryed it therefore I refer euery one that shall reade it to the tryall thereof BRusonious wryghtes and Georgius Fabricus affyrmes the same that the bones of Hens myxed with melted Golde doo consume the same Golde in to themselfe THe water distilled of Honny makes faire and comly cullored Heyre if it be often moystned or spunged therewith This is prooued THe rootes of Hollyockes stampt and myxt with the Grease of an olde Hogge and plastred to the Gowte healpeth it in three dayes Petrus Hispanus VEriuyce sodde vntill it be very hot and then put into a tâ—â—nen Bottell with a narrow mouth and then holden too or in the eare that the fume thereof may enter into the head it will helpe the head ache meruelously and the sounding of the eares And if there be any quick thinges in the head it wyll bringe them forthwith great speede A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head esteeming it as a precious secret but I neuer tryed it therefore as it prooues so prayse it IF one be wounded that hath the dropsye it is hard to heale him Hippocrates Therefore this is worth the marking YOu shall knowe how many dayes old the Moone is if you do as followeth especially shee being in the fyrst quarter holde before your eyes a peece of fyne Lawne and looke through it straight vpon the Moone and so many dayes old as the Moone is so many Moones shall you see or at the least they wyll seeme so many in your sight Assoone as you try it you wyll saye it is true For I haue seene the proofe thereof I Hard it tolde for a very truth by diuers persons that in a plague time in the Citty of Cullen there was a certaine woman dyed and was buryed with a Ring of golde on her fynger for the greedines whereof a couetous fellow within a whyle after she was buryed digged her Graue and opened the coffyn wherein shee did lye thinking thereby to take away the Ringe from her fynger but immediatly the sayd woman did soddainly sturre and mooue and began to syt vp which when the sayd fellow sawe with great feare he did runne
or other place or rowme wyl geue such a light in the darke as the Moone doth when she shines in a bright night Iohannes Baptist. A Peece of a chyldes Nauell string borne in a ring is good against the falling sicknes the paynes of the head and of the collyck Mizaldus BAptista Fulgosus reports that nie to Sirminū a Citie of Pamony sometymes there hath bene Tendrals of Gold found in the Uines wherof there hath bene money coynd Which many haue seene sayth Gandeut Meruba in his tyme And Alexander Neapolitanus sayth that he hath founde in Germany within Daunby Uines that dyd beare lytle nayles and leaues of pure golde which was geuen for presentes to Kings and Dukes Mizaldus IF any doeth aske thee hauing knowledge in Astronomie whether that place where he dwelles is better for him then that to which hee meanes to go beholde and if thou dost finde the Moone seperate from Infortunes that is from an euyll Planette or from an Infortunate Planette tell him that his going is better then his tarying But if you finde the Moone seperate from a good or fortunate Planet then it is better for him to tarry there styl then to go from thēce to dwel And to be briefe if one shall aske thee saying thus I must needes doo a certaine thing or I haue certayne busynesse to doo whether maye I doo it or not then marke thou the Lorde of the Ascendent and the Moone and if thou finde them seperate from euyll Planets or euyll fortunes applying to good or fortunate Planets byd him do that that he is determined to do and spare not But if thou finde them seperate from good Planets or fortunate and applying to euyll Planets byd him that he doo it not neyther take it in hande Haly Abenragell THat Woman is lyke to be barreyn in whose Natiuitye the Moone and Venus being in barreyne signes are Infortunate of Mars and Saturne Or if Saturne be in the seuenth or tenth house Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moone or if Venus be with Saturne and the Moone then in the syxt or twelfth house Infortunate Iatromath Guat Ryff THe seedes of Roses with Mustarde seede and the foote of a Wesell all together tyde in some thing hangde among the bowes or branches of a tree that beares but lytle fruite It is sayde that it wyll make that tree to beare well and to be maruelous fruitfull Mizaldus PAre the nailes of one that hath the quarteyn ague which being put into a lynnen cloath and so tyed about the necke of a quicke Eele and the same Eele put into the water thereby the ague wyll be dryuen away Geber et Alb. IF any lyst to sleepe and laye by him the braunches of moyst Hempe Gnats wyll not trouble him nor come neare him Myzaldus IF the Lorde of the twelfth house be in the twelfth house many debates and enemities wyll happen vpon the day belonging to that Planet to the childe then borne Taisnier COoluer dunge stampt and vsed for a plaster with strong Uineger and applyed to the Nauell byndeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly Macer THe roote of a Goorde tyed to the reynes of the backe of Women that is in labour or trauell of chylde doth cause speedy delyueraunce thereof But let it be taken away as soone as the chyld doth come foorth least the Matrix go out after the chylde Trotula de passionibus mulierum HEre foloweth an Electuary of a wonderfull vertue in the tyme of Pestilence this Electuary is of so great a vertue in them that do receyue it once in .xxiiii. howres that they may be sure from all euyl infections of corrupt and contagious ayres all the daye after But in them that are infect already and are taken with the Pestilence if they drinke of it but one spoonefull as shall be sayde hereafter especially after letting of bloud if it be conuenient to the patient and laye him downe and sweate vpon the same if the venyme hath not vtterlie ouercome the hart he shall vndoubtedlie recouer It hath bene lately proued that after drynking of the same medicine when the patient made his water in an vrinall the glasse hath burst in peeces by reason of the venime that it purged out This is the making of the sayde Electuary Take Cynamom elect one ounce Terra sigillata sixe drams fyue Myrre three drams Unycornes horne one dram the seede rynde of Cytron rootes of Dyptanny Burnet Turmentyl Zedoary red Currall of each two drams yellow Saunders fowre scruples red Saunders two scruples whyte Been and red flowres of Marygooldes of each one dram Yuery rased Scabius Veroincitunici seede of Basyll the bone of a Stags harte Saffron of each two scruples make a syne powder and ad vnto it of bole Armoniacke preparate two ounces whyte sugar three pound and with a syrrup of Acetositate citri make a goodly Electuary and keepe it in a glasse If the Pestilence commeth with great excesse of heate drinke it in Rose water Uineger but if you feele it colde take it in a draught of Wine and couer you with cloathes so that you maye sweate as long as is possible for without doubt it is a present remedy as I my selfe haue nowe of late proued Thus much Thomas Phayre in his Treatyse of the Pestylence THe teethe of a mad Dogge that hath bytten a man or woman tyed in leather and then hangde at the shoulder doeth preserue and keepe the partye that beares it from being bytten of any madde Dogge Diascorides by the report of Mizaldus THe Seedes of Carduus Benedictus stamped and drunke doth helpe the griefe paynes prickings and stitches of the syde and the gryping in the guts and the lower parte of the belly This is proued for trueth IF any doth sprinckle his head with the powder of the skinne that a Snake doth cast off gotten or gathered when the Moone is in the ful being also in the fyrst part of Aries the Ram he shall see terryble and fearefull dreames And if he shall haue it vnder the plant of his foote he shal be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes Cardanus WHosoeuer beginnes theyr iourney in the howre of Venus he shall haue good and profyte on the behalfe of Women or some such lyke thing Haly Abenragell IF Woormes gnawe vpon or hurt the mouth of the stomacke put Honny combes into the mouth fasting and holde them there and the Woormes wyll draw vnto the Honny and so voyde by the mouth It hath bene proued IN the fyrst beginning of any sycknes or at the time of any question for the sycke if the Moone be Orientall nye to the Sunne within twelue degrees it is sygne of death and the nearer to the Sun and in Combusyon the woorse Iohannes Ganiuetus WIth this Secrete following Benedictus victorius had alwayes good successe in passions and griefes of the harte Take of the iuyce of Buglosse cleansed or putrified at the fyre two ounces of white Sugar two drams myxe them