If you feare blood-letting by reason of age want of streangth or a bad season use cupping with scarification behind the neck upon the back bone It is good also to use Frictions and Ligatures upon the legs and to draw blisters upon the Armes and Shoulders After Phlebotomy you must apply medicines that do coole the Braine and repell and hinder the humours from ascending to the head as Oyle of Roses two ounces Rose Vinegar one ounce the water of Plantane and Lettuce of each two ounces with the whites of two Eggs mingle them together and apply it to the forehead with a double cloath If that prove not essicacious take oyle of Mandrakes Roses Violets and water Lillyes of each two drachms the juice of Lettuce and Puâ—slane of each halfe an ounce the whites of two eggs mingle and apply it But here let me advise people to be very wary and carefull in the applying of these medicines by no mâ—anes apply cooling medicines in the extremity of the fit nor refrigerate and stupsie the Braine too sodainly lest by overmuch cooling you turn the Frensie into a Lethargy and make your Patient sleep his last Likewise consider from the Symptomes of the disease to what part of the head to apply your medicine having consideration to the age of your patient and season of the yeare your Wit will informe you whether you are best to apply it warm or cold If you find the inflammation extend it selfe to the skin and exterior parts use no repelling medicines for feare you drive the distemper to the Braine It is convenient likewise to refrigerate the interior parts thus take of the syrups of Violet erratick Poppys and Pomegranates of each four drachms the distilled waters of Plant Lettuce Poppy and Purslane of each two ounces mix them and make a julep for three doses This electuary is good in this case Conserve of Roses and Violets of each one ounce the conserve of Clove-Gilliflowers and water Lillys of each halfe an ounce Diamargatiton frigidum halfe a drachme with Syrup of Violets make it into an electuary give the sick the quantity of a Nutmeg once in an houre two or three as necessity shall require Having thus prepared the humours you may evacuate them by purgations but it is convenient to use the most gentle purgers you may safely administer an ounce of Catholicon in the evening drink somwhat warme in the morning it is a fine cooling and gentle purge Or you may make a decoction of some cooling hearbs and in halfe a pint of the liquor warme infuse therein a drachme of Rubarb 12. hours dissolve therein halfe an ounce of Catholicon and two drachms of syrup of Roses and make a potion Let his drink be Barly water and mingle with it the syrup of Pomegranats Lemons or Barberies By this you may know how to cure not onely Frensies but all ravings and watchings which are ingendred by Feavers CHAP. IV. Of Madnesse THe Latines call this disease Insania and Furor and the Greeks Mania we call it Madnesse In this distemper the body is much out of order and the Spirits much disquieted It cometh without a Feavour and therein it differeth from the Frensie This disease is caused somtimes of the abundance of blood flowing up to the Braine Somtimes of hot and cholerick humours or of a hot distemper of the Braine The Symptomes of Madnesse are weaknesse of the Head tickling of the Eares and shinings before their eyes watchings strange thoughts and ravenous appetite If it proceed from the abundance of blood there followeth continuall laughing objects of laughter evermore appearing before the eyes When it proceedeth from both blood and choler it causeth a dashing and fervent motion in the braine which maketh the sick irefull full of motion and bold But if the choler wax grosse the sick is more mad and harder to cure There is another sort of Madness caused by melancholy occupying the mind and changing the temperature of it Somtimes the blood is generally corrupted by melancholy and the brain hurt thereby Somtimes melanchollyblood ascendeth to the braine when the blood is not generally corrupted Somtimes inflammations obstructions and evill effects of the Stomach and Spleen may be the cause thereof There are many Signes of this distemper they which are most common are these fearfullnesse sadnesse hatred and very strange imaginations Some have fancyed themselves beasts and have counterfeited the voice of Beasts others earthen-pots and have fled from company for feare of being broken Somtimes they desire death and to make away themselves Somtimes they much dread death Some think themselves inspired with the holy Spirit and do Prophesie others fancy themselves great Philosophers If the blood be generally corrupted the body is leane pale and rough and generally melancholly They whose distemper arise from defects of the stomach or Spleen have burnings grevious inflammations and plucking of the sides are subject to be costive troubled with wind fuming to the head causing lightnesse and troublesome dreames For the cure If blood abound after the administring of a Clyster you must come to blood-letting You may open the Cephalick if that appeare not the middle veine draw as much blood as the strength of the Patient will beare you may as you find occasion open the veine in the forehead if it appeare if the sick be a woman open the veine under the Ancle you may also bleed the Hemorrhoid-veines I beseech you not only here but in all other distempers to be very carefull and sparing of your Patients blood draw not too much at a time lest you weaken nature too much in this case it is best often to bleed and in the mean time keep the body soluble either by Clysters made as the former Chapter will direct you or other convenient purges viz Take black Hellebore sliced small one ounce infuse it three days in a quarter of a pint of raine-water then boile it gently to the consumption of the third part keeping it close covered streine it out and add to the liquor two ounces of clarified honey let the sick drink halfe an ounce in the morning in a little broath or posset-drink for severall dayes together increase or decrease the dose according to the strength or debility of your patient Or take of the extract of black Hellebore halfe a scruple Syrrup of Violets one ounce mix it for one dose If the body require a stronger purgation Take of Diagridium and Lapis Lazuli of each halfe a drachme Turbith one drachm Sena halfe an ounce Epithymum Cremo-tartar of each two drachms Of Cinamon and Citron pills of each one scruple Safron halfe a scruple Let them be finely pulverized the dose is a drachme or four Scruples administred in broath or some other convenient Liquor These are convenient medicines which purge both choler and melancholly You may purge with confectio Hamech Diasenae Pillulae Indae Pill Lapid Lazuli the dose must be regulated according to your patients condition strength and
two Drachms Diarrhodon Abbatis one Drachm Salt of Wormwood and Tamarisk of each one Scruple Saffron and Amber-greese of each half a Scruple with the Sirrup of the five opening Roots make an Opiate of which let the Patient take the quantity of a Wal-nut every Merning In this case steel-Medicines are of excellent use and well approved of by Galenists as well as Paracelsians sometimes the Powder may be given alone or of it may be made several sorts of Medicines as steel-Wine Sirrups Opiates Pills and Lozenges Some infuse it in white Wine or Claret and drink thereof many wayes are steeled-Wines prepared I shall onely prescribe that which my self have found effectuall and leave every man to his liberty to prepare it as he sees good Take the powder of Steel prepared with Vinegar three Ounces the Roots of dwarf-Elder two Ounces the Root of Elicampane and Sea-Holly of each one ounce yellow Sanders and Epithimium of each one Ounce the Flowers of Camomill Broom and Rosemary of each half an Ounce it will not be the worse if you add two Ounces of Senna and half an Ounce of Rubarb the best white-Wine three Quarts Let them infuse in a Bath twelve dayes twice a day you must shake them let the Patient take two or three Ounces every Morning as long as need requireth Likewise may Pills Opiates and Sirrups be prepared of the infusion and extract of Steel But this remember that after all Medicines made of Steel must much Excercise be used to make the Strength of the Medicine go to the parts obstructed Quercetan commendeth the compound Powder of Aron to open Obstructions two Drachms taken in a Morning in some convenient Liquor for several dayes See the fourth Booke But of all Medicines to open Obstructions those made of Vitriol Tartar and Steel claime the preheminence if Dr. Dunce have not the administring thereof CHAP. LVI Of the Schirrus of the Liver THis Disease is a hard Tumor in the Liver without Pain it is either perfect or imperfect the perfect is without Pain or Sense that which is imperfect hath some Pain This is bred by crude viscous and clammy Humours sent from other parts or bred in the Liver by evill Concoction The imperfect Schirrus is caused by immoderate use of discussing or repercussive Medicines or things which by cooling and binding do thicken the Matter and keep it from dissolving The Signs are a Hardnesse in the right Hypocondrion and a great Heavinesse especially when the Breath is fetched neither Feaver nor Pain as in the Inflammation or at lest but little Pain when the Schirrus is imperfect the Face is pale and greenish because there is no good Blood produced by it The whole Body decayeth because there is no Sanguification nor Distribution of Nourishment as ought to be To the Prognostick Galen saith thus an insensible Schirrus is incurable that which is sensible is curable though with much difficulty A Schirrus turns to the Dropsy incurable sometimes it causeth the Jaundice and somtimes it cometh in the Jaundice both which are very dangerous To cure it in the beginning of the Disease you must take away the antecedent Cause as you are taught in the preceding chapter of Obstructions all the Medicines there mentioned are proper for this Riverius much commendeth these Pills following Take of the best Aloes and Gum Ammoniacum dissolved in Vinegar strained and again made thick of each half an Ounce Mercurius Dulcis well prepared two Drachms Diagridium one Drachm with Oxymell of Squills make a Masse for Pills of which take half a Drachm in the Morning for twenty or thirty dayes but sometimes rest and in the intermediate dayes make use of the steeled and other Medicines mentioned in the Chapter Likewise the Fomentation and Unguent there prescribed may be made use of to mollify this Tumor CHAP. LVII Of the Jaundice THe Jaundice is a spreading of a yellow Colour over the whole Body There is a two fold Jaundice the yellow and the black the black proceeds from the Spleen and is rare I shall here speak onely of the yellow Jaundice This Disease comes from three principal Causes First from an evil Disposition of the Liver as an Inflammation Obstruction Schirrus or Weaknesse thereof that it cannot separate the Choller from the Blood and by that means it is carried over the whole Body A second Cause is the Obstruction of the Gall which hinders its passage into the Guts and so remains in the Blood with which it is carried to all parts of the Body The Gall is obstructed either by grosse Phlegm or Choller abounding and sometimes by little stones bred therein c. The third Cause is the Malignity of the cholerick Humour which consisteth either in the great Quantity which Nature cannot regulate nor seperate from the Blood or fills the Bagg so full that it cannot contract it self to expell it Or else it consisteth in the evill Quality of the Humour which by corrupting the rest hinders their due Evacuations which Nature perceiving striveth suddenly to cast it forth as it sometimes happens in cholerick Feavers after the taking of Poyson or after the biting of some venemous Creature The Signes of the yellow Jaundice is a Yellownesse of the Body especially the whites of the Eyes and the Balls of the Checks cholerick Vomitings and Hiccoughs Lazinesse Itching of the Body and Bitternesse of the Tongue If it come from a Distemper of the Liver there preceded an Inflammation Obstruction c. If from an Obstruction of the Gall the Belly is bound and the Excrements white the Urine yellow or reddish which will dye a new piece of linnen cloth If it come from the Malignity of the Humour both the Urine and the Excrements are high coloured especially after a putrid Feaver now if the Feaver remain the Jaundice is Symptomatical If when the Jaundice appears the Feaver ceaseth the Urine and Excrements be of their natural Colour the Jaundice is critical Poyson taken and venemous Bitings the Patient can declare They who in a Feaver have the Jaundice before the seventh or critical day are in great danger the contrary if it happen on a critical day The Jaundice comming upon an Inflammation of the Liver is dangerous because the Disease commonly ends in an Imposthume if upon a Schirrus it is no lesse dangerous because that ends in the Dropsy If it come from an Obstruction of the Gall it is most easy to cure because the Passage is neer the Guts except Stones bred in the Passages be the Cause which by reason they cannot be dissolved are counted incurable For the Cure if it come from Distemper of the Liver have recourse to the aforegoing Chapters if the Jaundice be critical it needs no Cure If from the Obstruction of the Gall to cure it take away the the Obstruction which may be done by the Medicines mentioned in the Chapter Of the Obstruction of the Liver Yet least I should seem to omit any thing needfull I shall
ordered his Diet give him a gentle Purgation by Clister Take of Mallows Camomill Mercury and Beets of each one Handfull Polypody of the Oak an Ounce and an half Epithimum half an Ounce of the four greater cold Seeds and of Annis and Fennell of each two Drachms boil it in Posset drink to a Pint strainit dissolve therein Catholicon and Hony of Roses of each one Ounce the Oyls of Violets and Camomill of each one Ounce and an half mix all and make a Clister Then purge the Melancholy Humour by some gentle Medicine beware of a strong purge in the beginning before Concoction lest you inflame the Humours and turn the Disease to a continuall or at least to a Double or Triple Quartane Make a gentle Purgation thus Take of Fumitory Buglosse Maiden-hair of each one Handfull Polypody of the Oak Liquorish and sweet Fennell Seed of each half an Ounce boil them when they are boiled infuse or gently boil half an Ounce of Senna till the Liquor come to three or four Ounces dissolve therein Manna and Sirrup of Roses of each one Ounce for a Potion give it the next day after the Clister After purgeing open a Vein in the left Arm unlesse you find the Liver out of order then you must open a Vein in the right Arm if the Blood be black and impure draw the more Most do let Blood upon the well-day some will have it done on the Fit-day before the Fit because the Humours then begin to stirr Zacutus Lusitanus will have it done when the Moon is at the full because by the Moons Influence the earthy and melancholy Humour is made more fluid and apt to come away It is good to open the Haemorrhoids if your Patient hath been inclinable to that Evacuation if your Patient be a Woman provoke the Menstrues if they be stopped and open the Saphaena The opening of the Vena Salvatella is much approved of Likewise you must make Decoctions Broths or Juleps to prepare and concoct the Humours for which purpose these Simples are good viz. the five opening Roots and the Root of Succory Liquorish and Buglosse Bark of Tamarisk The Leavs of Burrage Buglosse Ceterach Maiden-hair Fumitory Germander ground-Pine Wormwood and Century the three cordiall Flowers of these you may make Decoctions and sweeten them with Sirrupus Bizantius or Sirrup of Maiden-hair After the use of these preparatives purge the melancholy Humour and between the dayes you purge give a Clister this observing that you often change your Medicines and continue in the course a long time for the melancholy Humour is not soon evacuated and that is the reason that so few are cured of this Disease because few will observe the Rule of the Physitian or have patience to take his Medicines Vomits in the beginning of this Feaver are commended by all of Asarum a Drachm given in white-Wine is of an excellent Faculty In the declination of the Disease Diaphoreticks may be given to discusse the reliques of the Disease the Decoction of the Roots of China Sarsa are good and Venice-Treacle hath great virtue You may anoint the back-Bone with a Liniment made of some of these Oyls viz. of Dill Camomill Orice Costus Rue Bayes and Spike in a small Quantity mixing with them Treacle Cloves Mustard Seed Castoreum and the like of these an ingenious Man may compound a Liniment to anoint the Back bone one hour before the Fit then lay him to Bed and lay hot Tyles wrapt in cloaths to his Feet and Hands and lay him in a Sweat To conclude great care ought to be had of the Spleen for in this Disease the Spleen is disaffected and obstructed The 59 Chapter will furnish you with such Medicines CHAP. XC Of the Pestilence HAving briefly treated of most Diseases that the Body of man is incident to I thought it convenient to write a word or two of the Pestilence But considering how many larger Treatises thereof are at this day extant I could have willingly omitted it but hoping my Mite will not onely be acceptable but beneficiall I thought good to epitomize this as well as the rest This Disease afflicteth Nature not onely by a bare Distemper or Heat arising from Putrefaction but also by a malignant and venemous Quality by which means it becomes popular and epidemicall Before we goe any farther know that those Feavers which we call malignant or pestilentiall vulgarly spotted Feavers are of the same kind with the Pestilence and are cured by the same means The causes of the Pestilence are either internall or externall the internall causes are immediate or mediate The Immediate cause is a Corruption of the Humours with Putrefaction the venemous Quality is bred of Corruption and from Putrefaction the Feaver is bred The Mediate causes are Fulnesse of Blood which Nature cannot master but easily turnes to Putrefaction Abundance of evill Humours is easily corrupted and putrified to these joyn Obstructions which is a great means to breed such Diseases for such Humours close shut up in the Body and having no Evacuation not Transspiration must of necessity putrify But Obstruction is not a principall cause of this Disease for the venemous Quality is received by drawing in of the Air by which Venom the Humours are changed from their naturall condition and of their own accord putrify The externall Causes are First the Air which becomes hurtfull to men first if it be not blown through with wholesome Winds as Hippocrates observeth speaking of a grievous pestilentiall year that in that year there were few Winds Secondly the Air may be vitious by putrid Exhalations as of Lakes Pools Fish-ponds or other standing Waters or from Bodyes unburied which have been slain in Battail Thirdly the Air may become hurtfull by Excesse or the praeposterous condition of the first Qualityes as Excesse of Heat Cold Drithe or Moisture of which I could lay down manifold Examples which befit not my small Volume Inequalityes of Seasons must be acknowledged as a cause when it is sometimes hot and sometimes cold sometimes dry and suddenly Moisture follows one while vehemently hot and suddenly very cold or after a violent wet and moist time a sudden and extream Drouth a hot Winter and a cold Summer Next to vitious Air is a bad Aliment and Diet when the Fruits of the Earth by a bad Temperature of the Air are corrupted or when by reason of Scarcity the Poor are fain to feed on unwholesome Diet whence the proverb came the Plague followeth the Famine or a great Plenty following a Famine when the poor gorge themselves which for want of Heat and a good Disposition of Body cannot be digested but turns to Putrefaction Add to these the malignant Influence of Saturn Jupiter and Mars in humane Signes by which the Constitution of the Air and the Bodyes of men are changed and corrupted for all Philosophers by common consent acknowledge that inferiour Be dyes are governed by the heavenly Constellations To this kind we must add
two or three Choclearies either by it self or mixed with Syrup of Myrtles dryed Roses or Syrup of Comphry and if the Flux of Bloud be very violent give a scruple of the Tincture of Corral with it CHAP. II. Of Syrups OF syrups there are three sorts syrrups made by infusion juyce and decoction syrrups made by infusion are made of flowers and such flowers as soon loose both colour and strength by boyling as Violets Roses Clove-gilly-flowers Peach-flowers c. and they are thus made Having picked your flowers to every pound add three pints of water made boyling hot put them into a Pewter-pot with a close cover and keep it hot twelve hours If you would make your syrrup very strong put in more fresh flowers as often as you please having strained it out put the liquor into a Pewter-Bason and to every pint add two pound of fine Sugar put it upon a Chaffin-dish of Coales and melt it stirring and scumming it till the Sugar be perfectly melted without boyling Secondly to make a syrrup of the juyce of an hearb you must make choice of such hearbs as are full of juyce then beat it in a stone Morter presse out the juyce put it over the fire and clarifie it that is scum it as long as any scum arise then boyle it till a quarter of it be consumed to a pint of this add a pound of Sugar boyling it to a syrrup and scumming of it You may know when it is enough if you coole a little in a spoon After this manner you may make syrrup of Wormwood simple of Betony Buglosse Borrage Chamomell Carduus Endive Succory Strawberryes Funtitory ground Jvy St. Johns-wort Mercury Mous-care Plantane Purslane Apples Raspberies Sage Scabius Scordium Housleek Colts-foot and such-like and when you have done so and would know what they are good for see the virtue of the Simples Thirdly Syrrups made by decoction for the most part are compounds though you may make Syrrups of Simples by decoction the operation is thus Take of what hearb root flower or seed you please and bruise it a little if you make a Syrrup of roots or wherein there are many roots let the roots macerate in the water twenty four houres then add the hearbs and the rest and boyle it till half the water he consumed then let it stand and when it is almost cold strain it through an hypoeras-bag without pressing to every pint of the decoction add one pound of Sugar and boyle it till it comes to the thicknesse of a Syrrup or new hony After this manner the most part of the Syrrups following are made except they be made of flowers or juyces Take this for an example Take of common Worm-wood meanly dry half a pound red Roses two ounces Indian spicknard three drachms old White-wine and juyce of Quinces of each two pound and an half steep them a whole day in an Earthen Vessell then boyle them gently strain it and adding two pound of Sugar boyle it into a Syrrup according to art This Syrup is very good for cold and Flegmatick Stomachs it helpeth concoction strengtheneth the Stomach and Liver provokes an Appetite breaks wind and is good against the Jaundise the dose is from one ounce to three Syrupus Acetousus simplex vel compositus Syrup of Vinegar simple or compound These Syrups cut Flegme and tough Humors they coole the body quench thirst and ease any stuffing in the Stomach and are good to prepare the body for a Vomit especially the first if you use it so take from one ounce to two or three in other cases take it with a Liquorish stick Syrupus de Agno Casto Or Syrup of Agnus Castus I conceive by its composition it was intended to prevent immoderate Letchery and nocturnall pollutions for without doubt it dryeth and cooleth the naturall seed thereby restraining venereall thoughts for my part I can say nothing of it by experience Syrupus de althaea Syrup of Marsh mallows This is a fine cooling opening slippery syrup good against the paines of the Stone Gravell or Chollick You may give an ounce or two it is so safe and harmlesse you cannot err in the giving of it Syrupus de Ammoniaco Syrup of Ammoniacum It opens Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and cooles the parts and helps all diseases arising from their Obstructions and heat as Scabs Itch Leprosie and such like You may take an ounce or more if you see occasion Syrupus de Artemisia Syrup of Mugwort It helps the coldnesse wind paines and all other diseases of the Womb it strengthens the Nerves corrects the blood opens the pores and provokes the Termes You may take an ounce at a time or from half an ounce to two Syrupus de Betonica compositus The compound Syrup of Betony It is good against diseases in the Head and Stomach proceeding of Cold and Wind Vertigoes and Madnesse it concocteth Melancholly and provokes the Termes The dose is from half an ounce to two Syrupus Bizantius Simple and compound It strengtheneth and freeth the Liver from Obstructions and diseases thence proceeding cures the Yellow-Jaundise cuts tough Flegm and is good against the Rickets Take it with a Liquorish stick or from half an ounce to two Syrupus Botryos Syrup of Oake of Jerusalem This Syrup is commended in the Asthma and cold diseases of the breast Coughs and shortnesse of breath Take it with a Liquoris stick Syrupus Capillorum Veneris Syrup of Maidenhaire This strengthens the Stomach and Lungs and helps their infirmities it also cleanseth the Reins of Gravel for the first take it with a Liquoris stick for the last give an ounce or two Syrupus Cardiacus a Cordial Syrup It comforts the Heart and revives drooping Spirits it is good for people in Consumptions it is of an opening quality and expels those Vapours which offend the Brain Take it from one ounce to three Syrupus infusionis Caryophillorum Syrup of Clove Gilly-flowers This Syrup is good in any Feaver Pestilential or not it strengtheneth the Heart Liver and Stomach and refresheth the Vital Parts The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce and an half It is so harmless you cannot err in the taking of it Syrupus de Cinnamomo Syrup of Cinamon It strengtheneth the whole Body and helpeth Digestion and comforteth the Stomach and Womb and cheareth the Spirits Take one ounce in a Cordial Syrupus aceto sitatis Citriorum Syrup of the Juyce of Citrons This Syrup hath a refrigerating cutting attenuating penetrating faculty it allays Choller and tempers the heat of the Heart cools the bloud and is therefore good against Feavers Pestilential or not small Pox or Measils it resisteth Poyson The Dose is from one ounce to four Syrupus corticum citriorum Syrup of Citron Pills It is of a most grateful savour and most pleasant odour it strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Heart amends the heat of them and resisteth Palpitations Faintings Swoonings it strengtheneth the Vitals is profitable in
It is good against the Falling sickness Megrim Vertigo swimming and pain in the head and cleanseth the Stomach Lungs and Women after their lying in The Dose is from half an Ounce to an Ounce To these I add these following Syrups of Quercetanus which I have sometimes quoted in the former Book whose manner of preparation if rightly understood and virtues excelleth most extant Syrupus de Peto simplex compositus Syrup of Tobacco simple and compound Take of the Juyce of Tobacco four pound Simple Hydromel one pound Simple Oxymel four Ounces put them into a Glass Vessel of a fit bigness that one 4th part be full Let them digest in Balneo Mariae for the spaco of 2 or 3 days till the thickest fall to the bottome then pour of the clearest and purest of the Juyce and digest it again as before till no impurity remain therein then put to it of white Sugar two pound and boyl it to a Syrup The compound Syrup is thus made Take of the Juyce so digested as before two pound and an half Simple Hydromel one pound In which macerate for the space of 2 or 3 days these Simples following Hysop Maidenhair and Wall-Rue of each half a handful the flowers of Colts foot Staechas Violets and Bugloss of each two Pugils the seeds of Cudweed Nettles Carduus Benedictus of each one Ounce the Leaves of Sena three Ounces Agarick trochiscated one Ounce Cinamon Mace and Cloves of each one drachm then press it out strongly and let it be digestod to separate the pure from the impure add its equal weight in Sugar and boyl it to a Syrup This Syrup rightly made is of excellent use and its violent acrimonious and venemous quality is taken away yet it powerfully provokes Vomiting and is excellent against Asthma's and all Diseases of the Lungs proceeding from cold and gross Humours as old Coughs and difficulty of breathing The Dose is from one Ounce to two His Syrup of Cinamon prepared with the Spirit of Wine is thus made Take of Cinamon 2 or three Ounces or more if you please grosly bruise it and put it into a Glass Vessel pouring upon it the Spirit of Wine as much as may cover it 3 or 4 fingers cover it close and let it stand in a cool place till the Spirit of Wine hath drawn the Virtue and Tincture of the Cinamon then pour it off clear To every 8 Ounces of the Liquor add 3 or 4 Ounces of white Sugar finely poudered then put it over a fire and dissolve the Sugar then set the Spirit of Wine on fire with a lighted paper stirring it with a large Spatula and all the Spirits of Wine will fly away and the Syrup remain Or if you please a little before the spirit is consumed put it out by covering it close with a silver Bason that the Air come not at it by this means the Syrup will be the better This Syrup is of a grateful relish and a Medicine inferiour to none in Diseases of the Heart as Palpitations Swoonings c. against Weaknesse Crudities Windinesse of the Stomach The Dose is half a Cochleary His Syrup of Ground-Ivie is thus made Take of the Juyce of Ground-Ivie or Alle-hoof two pound and an half digest and purifie it in Balneo Mariae as you are taught before the Juyce being perfectly cleansed add to it of Sugar one pound of Penids 4 Ounces and boyl it into a Syrup It is a very soveraign Medicine for the Prisick Ulcer in the Lungs and for a Consumption caused by any defect in that part CHAP. III. Of Decoctions and Juyces DEcoctions are made of Roots Leaves Flowers Seeds Fruits or Barks conducing to the Cure of any Disease Decoctions principally aim at such Diseases as lye in the passages as the Stomach Bowels Kidneys Ureters and Bladder If they be made of White Wine they will last the longer and are more penetrating then if they be made of Water If you make your Decoction with Roots Leaves Flowers c. Boil the Roots first as I told you in boyling of Compound Liquors Such things as make the decoction slimy you may tye up in a Rag. You may sweeten it with Sugar Honey Sugar-Candy or Syrups sutable to the Distemper aimed at and to make it keep the longer stop it up close in a Glass or Stone-Bottle and keep it in a cool place Decoctum Epithymi Or a Decoction of Epithymum Take of common Myrabolans Chebula and Indica of each half an Ounce Staechas Raisins of the Sun stoned Epithimum and Sena of each one Ounce Fumitory half an Ounce Maudlin five drachms Polypodium fixe drachms Turbith half an Ounce Whey made of the milk of a Geat or Heifer four pound Let them all boyl the Epithymum excepted to two pound the Epithymum must boyle but a walm or two then take it from the fire and add black Hellebore one drachm and an half Agarick half a drachm Salgemone a drachin and an half steep them ten hours and straine it out It purgeth Melancholly and adust choller and is a soveraign remedy against all diseases caused by Melancholly The dose is four ounces Decoctum Sennae The Detoction of Senna This also purgeth melancholly and is good for weak people and the dose is the same with the former for the most part other purging medicines are mixed with it and in so doing you may purge any humor Decoctum pectorale A pectorall Decoction This is good against a Cough Asthma Hoarsenesse it cleareth the voice and is good against all diseases of the Lungs The dose is the same Decoctum commune pro Clystere A common decoction for a Clyster and a carminative Decoction These both serve for Clysters to them you may add Oyles Syrups purging Electuaries as necessity requireth Lac virgineum It was invented for proud Ladyes and Wenches to cleare their faces of Sun-burning Freckles Pimples and such like deformityes To preserve the juyce of any hearb or fruit take these few rules First gather the hearb when it is very dry then beat it and presse out the juyce Secondly you must clarifie It over the fire till no more scum will arise Thirdly boyle it to the thicknesse of hony and when it is cold put it up into a pot or glasse for your use This is called Rob or Sapa when you find the word Rob or Sapa simply without any relation of what it should be made know it is the juyce of the white grape I shall insert none of them nor their virtues but refer them to the virtue of the simple out of which Rob Sapa or juyce is extracted CHAP. IV. Of Lohochs LOhoch is an Arabick word the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eclegma the Latines Linctas viz a thing to be licked It is thicker then a syrup and not so thick as an Electuary It s used generally against diseases in the breast and Lungs and the manner of taking of it is with a Liquoris stick The manner of
Vlcer You must parge the Humours which flow to the part affected with gentle Medicines such as are prescribed in the Chapter aforegoing If there be Repletion or Inflammation in the part let Phlebotomy be used Evacuate the Humours by gentle purgers mentioned in the Chapter aforegoing Mercuvius Dulcis doth cleanse and heal the Vlcer Turpentine is a good cleanser It is good for the Patient to vomit often After due Evacuations you must use cleansers as the Milk of Cows Goats or Asses which are very good and cleanse with their wheyie part and heal with their cheezie but give it not in a Feaver Let the Patient drink Water and Sugar thin Hydromell or Barly Water In Hydromell if there be a Feaver boil the cold Seeds Mallows Liquorish c. Waters that spring from Allum and Iron Mines are good for they correct the Heat and cleanse the Ulcer The Decoction of China Guajacum Sarsaparilla and the like is good to dry up the Humours to purge the crude Matter in them that have the French Pox and have no Feaver nor Flux of Blood But lest the Bowels should be inflamed give cooling Broths at Night After the use of cleansers you may see by the Vrine when the Vlcer is cleansed viz. when it appeareth white and clean without any dreggy or filthy Matter then you must give astringing glutinating and healing Medicines Take of Conserve of Roses four Ounces Bolearmenick Terra Sigillata red Coral and Sanguis Draconis of each two Drachms the Seeds of Lettice Purslane and Plantane of each one Drachm red Roses and Shavings of Ivory of each two Scruples with Sirrup of Comphry make an Opiate Or you may make of it a Masse for Pills with Venice Turpentine or if that cause pain with the Juyce of Liquorish Chymists do much commend Antimonium Diaphoreticum Mercurius Dulcis Diaphoreticus To allay the vehemency of the pain you must sometimes mix Anodines with your Medicines as Laudanum the Sirrup of Poppyes and the Emulsion of the cold Seeds Outwardly foment the Region of the Kidneys thus Take of Camomil Mallows Melilot Pellitory of the Wall and Violets of each one Handfull the Roots of Marsh-Mallows and water-Lillyes of each two Ounces the Seeds of Flax Fenugreek and Winter-Cherryes of each three Drachms make a Decoction and foment the part Then apply this Liniment Take of the Oyl of Violets and Sweet Almonds of each one Ounce and an half Oyl of Roses one Ounce of the Musilage made of the Seeds of Marsh-Mallows and Fenugreck of each two Ounces Saffron one Scruple make a Liniment If the Ulcer be in the Bladder you must make an Injection twice in a day with new Milk Whey Hydromel or Barly Water with Hony of Roses to cleanse afterwards add Astringers and Driers as the white Trochts of Rhasis or of Gordonius or boil in Whey or Barly-water the Roots of Comphry Allum Mirth Tragacanth and the like CHAP. LXVI Of extraordinary Pissing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diabetes is a quick and plentifull making of Water after which followeth violent Thirst and a wasting of the whole Body The Cause of this Disease is a hot Distemper of the Reins which draweth Water violently from the Veins which causeth a great Thirst after drink which as soon as it is taken is carried to the Reins where burthening the retentive Faculty and provoking the expulsive it is soon sent to the Bladder Some attribute it to choletick sharp and salt Humours in the Kidneys which draw Water thither as such Humours which stick to the Tunicles of the Stomach in Feavers cause Thirst Others will not admit of this opinion because the Kidneys onely suffer in this Disease and that Choller and other burnt Humours are first bred in the Liver They say there is a venemous Quality bred in the Kidneys Galen himself is of this opinion that divers kinds of Poisons may breed in the Body of Man In Lybia there is a Serpent called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dipsacos which name the Greeks give this Disease from the unquenchable Thirst with which it is accompanied which Serpent if he biteth any man infecteth him with such a Poyson as begets an unquenchable Thirst The Signes of this Disease are clear from what hath been said viz. An unquenchable Thirst an extraordinary Pissing and voiding the Drink as soon almost as it is drunk and a Decay of the whole Body This Disease is deadly if it be not taken in the beginning and the Patient yong for it brings a Consumption If you judge the Patient curable you must labour to allay the hot Distemper of the Kidneys to correct their poysonous Quality to thicken the Humours which flow to them and to strengthen them First give mollifying and asswaging Clisters and purge if you see occasion as you are taught in the Chapter Of the Inflammation of the Kidneys Gentle Vomits do evacuate and draw the Humours from the Ureters If nothing forbid open a Vein in the Arm. To correct the Distemper and thicken the Humours make a Julep thus Take of the distilled Water or the Decoction of Plantane four Ounces of Lettice Poppy and Purslane of each two Ounces the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry and Quinces of each one Ounce the Sirrup of Poppyes half an Ounce the Spirit of Vitriol twenty Drops mix them and make a Julep If you will have a Medicine more astringent or binding thus Take of the Seeds of Plantane Purslane and Coriander prepared of each one Ounce the Flowers of red Roses Pomegranats and yellow Mirabolans of each half an Ounce Nutmegs half a Drachm Corall and Pearl prepared burnt Harts Horn Bolearmenick and the Roots of Tormentill of each one Scruple make them into Powder Or if you please make them into a soft Electuary with the Sirrup of Myrtles Comphry or Quinces The Milk of Asses Cows Goats or Sheep is good especially if Flints be often quenched therein Sweating is a good Remedy if it be provoked by outward means or with China Sarsa and such mild Medicines for it drives the watry Humour outward but beware of strong Medicines least they purge by Urine and encrease the Distemper Outwardly foment the Loyns with things which cool and bind as the roots of Sorrel Plantane Pomegranate-peels Sumath Seeds c. boiled in Vinegar afterwards anoint with the Vnguent of Roses Sanders and Comitissa CHAP. LXVII Of involuntary Pissing THis Disease consisteth in the hurting of the retentive Action of the Bladder Some are subject to this Distemper while they are awake which is the worst Others are subject to it sleeping onely which is not so bad because then the animall Functions are lesse excercised There are two Causes of this Distemper First the Weaknesse and Loosenesse of the Sphincter Muscle of the Bladder Or Secondly the exquisite Sense of the Bladder and the Sharpnesse of the Urine which stirreth up the expulsive Faculty with consent of the Will The first Cause is apparent in sucking Children weak people and such whose
examine the man and see if the fault be not in him It is known thus if the man be unable to raise his yard if he want Sperm if he hath a swelling in his Stones or if he have the Running of the Reins he is not fit for Venus School If the man be of an effeminate Spirit if he hath no Beard if he be long casting forth his Seed and taketh little delight in the act and the Woman in the act feeleth his Seed cold be sure the man is unfruitfull Or Causes which may make the Seed unfruitfull have preceded Prog These that conceave not by reason of tendernesse of age have great hopes to live to have better successe but if she live above forty and never conceaved she hath little reason to hope If Barrenness be caused by Fatnesse or any Distemper or Disease whatsoever if the Woman can procure Leannesse or have her Distemper removed she may conceave But if Barrennesse be caused by evill shape of the Members it is likely to continue In the cure you must endeavour that whatsoever hindereth may be removed If tendernesse of age be the cause let her wait the time in the mean while let her refuse carnall Embracements lest her genitall Members be spoiled If it be caused by Age that is incurable by weaknesse of Nature you may endeavour to strengthen the Body and revive the Spirits but it is difficult If the Body be too corpulent or too manly you must extenuate moisten and cool If any Distemper of the Womb hinder Conception labour to remove the Distemper If a hot Distemper be the cause cure it as a hot Distemper of the Liver If drinesse be the cause use a restorative Diet such as is prescribed in the Chapter Of the Hectick Feaver If it be caused hy Witch-craft next to fervent and devout prayers to god and a confident despising and slighting of Charmes and Witch-crafts let the Woman wear the Pizzle of a Wolf about her or the Adamant or Hyacinth Stone which are much commended against Fascination likewise Sea Onions Sea Holly Sagapenum Rue and St John's Wâ—rt which some call the Divell driver are of great efficacy But for the most part a cold and moist Distemper of the Womb and of the Body being accompanied with the Whites is the cause whose particular cure you may find in its proper Chapter You must purge the cold phlegmatick Humours you must make Issues in the Arm Neck or Thighs and give such things as strengthen the Womb. Some things there are which have a peculiar virtue to cause Faecundity and remove Barrennesse viz. the After-Birth of a Woman dried and beaten to powder and given to the quantity of a Drachm The Stones of a Bore pig and the Liver which was farrowed alone without any more in that Litter Half a pint of the Juyce of Sage taken a quarter of an hour before the Woman enjoy her Husband it is best for her to take it soon after she hath had her monthly Purgation Rejecting the multiplicity of Medicines which I might here insert I shall content my self and the Reader with one or two of the best of them and first an excellent Electuary may be made thus Take of the Roots of Eringo and Dogs Stones called Satyrion candied or preserved of each one Ounce Green Ginger candied half an Ounce Pine and Filbert kernells and Pistachios of each six Drachms one preserved Nutmeg the Seeds of Rocket and Water-cresses of each two Drachms Ashes of a Bulls Pizzle the Reins of the Sea Scinkos and Shavings of Ivory of each one Drachm Confection of Alchermes three Drachms the Powders Diambra and Diamoshe Dulce of each one Ounce and an half Ambergreese half a Drachm with Sirrup of preserved Citrons make an Electuary and let the Woman take the quantity of a Chesnut to Bedward twice or thrice in a week and drink a glasse of Sack after it Quercetanus doth much commend this Decoction following Take of the Stones of a Ram prepared with Wine and dryed the Matrix of a Hare prepared in the same manner Mace Cinnamon Cloves white Ginger and Seeds of Ammeos of each two Drachms Saffron a Drachm and an half Hazell-Nut kernells and Pistachios of each three Drachms boil them in a quart of Muscadine till a third part be consumed let her take three or four Ounces of it for three dayes together three houres before Meat then let her upon the fourth day have Geniall Embracements with her Husband Likewise externall Medicines as Pessaries Injections Fumigations such as have power to cleanse dry and strengthen the Womb may be applyed the afore-going Chapters will direct you CHAP. LXXX Of Miscarriage ABortion or Miscarriage is the bringing forth of a Child either dead or alive having not attained to the just Term of growth which it ought to have had The Causes are either externall or internall the externall causes do either kill the Child deprive it of its naturall Nourishment or loosen the bands by which the Child is fastened in the Womb. Things that kill the Child are the Stink of a Candle or such abominable Smells such things as are antipatheticall to the Womb and provoke the Courses strong purges or the Child may be killed by violent Commotions of the Mind as Anger Sadnesse Terror c. and many times things longed for and not obtained kill the Child If the Mother undergo Penury or Famine or lose much Blood the Child wanteth Nourishment The Bands by which the Child is fastened to the Womb may be loosned by violent Excercise dancing running riding being jumbled in a Cart or Coach by some fall lifting or carrying any thing which causeth a violent motion of the Belly as Coughing Sneezing Vomiting Convulsions c. or immoderate Copulation Internall causes of Abortion may be attributed to the Humours to the Child to the Womb. Humours offend in excesse or defect in excesse in a plethorick and full constitution when more Blood flows to the Womb then is requisite to nourish the Child and flows to the Veins so the Courses flowing provoke the expulsive Faculty and drive forth the Child Defect of Humours fit to nourish spring from such causes which destroy the Nourishment or draw it from the Child as long fasting loathing and vomiting up of all Food immoderate bleeding at the Nose Womb or Haemorhoids or a Loosenesse or any thing that makes the Body lean or weak The causes attributed to the Child are if the Child be over great if there be more then one for the womb overladen doth exclude the Child before the fit time likewise if the Child be dead Nature desires to be rid of it In respect of the Womb if it be any way diseased or defective that it cannot open as the Child groweth bigger or if it be moist or slack it cannot contain the Child but Abortion must necessarily follow Abortion when it happens is known there are signs preceding it which do foretell Abortion to follow her Breasts grow
and Tormentill Bolearmenick Sanguis Draconis Pomgranate Rinds Balaustians red Roses the Whites of Egs Vinegar Oyl of Roses of unripe Olives and the like If the Patient be strong and easy to vomit give a gentle Vomit to carry away the Humours in and about the Stomach soon after vomiting purge strongly Sweating Medicines are very good to discusse the wheyish Matter if a Feaver be present give Harts-horn with Carduus water In a Gout without a Feaver the Decoction of Sassafras Salsa and China may be given it is not amisse if the Heat thereof be allayed by boiling with it Endive Succory Sorrell Burrage Buglosse and the like The Waters of Bath do provoke Sweat and do readily and profitably discusse the Matter contained in the Joynts Forrestus commendeth the Decoction of the Root of the great Burdock for this purpose Likewise a Decoction of Elder Bay Leavs Sage Rosemary and such like receiving the Vapour in a sweating Tub. Afterwards come to locall Medicines Amatus Lusitanus doth commend the Milk of a Goat milked warm upon the part affected or you may make a Cataplasm with it and white bread and the Musilage of the Roots of Marsh-Mallows the Leavs of Henbane Violets and the like and if the pulp of Cassia and Venice-Treacle be added it will be much more effectuall The distilled Water of Frogs Spawn is very good against the pains of the hot Gout if the part be bathed therewith with it you may mingle the Oyl of Calves Feet or with the Flowers of Camomill Melilot Roses Mullein Mallows beaten you may bring it into the form of a Poultis Green Tobacco leavs are much commended and so is a living Whelp laid to the gouty part When the Pain rageth violently use Narcoticks as Plantane Lettice Henbane Housleek Night-shade Mandrakes Purslane and Poppy Heads but be sure you let them not ly on too long for they are inimicall to the naturall Heat and to the Nervs Some do commend this Fomentation Take Spirit of Wine well tinctured with Saffron four Ounces Camphire one Scruple boil them a little and dissolve one Drachm of Opium and bathe the pained part The Oyl of Wax is good to ease the Gout and the Oyl of Mans Bones is preferred before all other and it is thus made Take the Bones of a man fresh and unburied break them small and let them ly in Oyl till they have drunk up as much as they can then distill them in a Retort The Root of Briony and Cuckow-pintle bruised mingled with Cow dung is an excellent Cataplasm I might here fill a Volume with Receipts against the Gouts but passing by all I shall onely insert one or two out of Quercetanus his Dispensatory Take Brine Salt and the Urine of a Boy of each equall parts distill them and dip linnen Cloaths in the Water and apply them to the place affected changing them often Take green Elder Leavs and Flowers of each one pound beat them in a Morter and macerate them in Aqua-Vitae three dayes then distill them till all be dry use it as before Take of rectifyed Spirit of Wine two pound of the best Hony one pound distill them in Balneo Roris from which will come two Liquors the first waterish the second strong and sulphurous keep them by themselvs To the Foeces add of orientall Saffron whole one Ounce and an half Venice Turpetine two Ounces Castor six Drachms Tartar calcined white half a pound Salt dissolved one Ounce Phlegm of Vitriol not seperated from the Spirit four Ounces Lye made of the Ashes of Vine Branches two pound macerate them twenty four hours then distill them till all be dry keep this also by it self To the Dregs remaining pour on the former Water which you kept macerate and distill as before Lastly put all these Waters together and distill them in Balneo Roris wet linnen Cloths therein and apply it to the gowty place Riverius Lib. 10. Ch. 1. p. 378. prescibeth another which he accounts inferiour to none which penetrates into the Roots of the Disease and resolveth and attenuateth the salt tartarous and stony Matter in the Joynts and he supposeth it to be that which the aforesaid Quercetanus reservs to himself as his Master-peice to brag of it is thus made Take of â—…slaked Lime four pound slake it in River water as much as is convenient and let it stand in a Wine Cellar the space of three dayes that the Salt may be extracted the better afterwards boil it a little and strain it through Hippocrates Sleev In twenty Pints of this Liquor quench first Plates of Steel then of Copper made red hot seven or nine times thirdly ten Ounces of Vitriol calcined till it be white fourthly half a pound of Antimony melted in a Crucible fifthly half a pound of Litharge or Ceruse heated in a Crucible sixthly white Precipitate once washed one Ounce and an half lastly Erasse burnt and finely powdered half an Ounce after all this let the Water stand in a Cellar the space of 10 dayes afterwards boil it and strain it and apply it with linnen Rags To raise Blisters upon the part hath been found by experience to be very effectuall In the use of all Medicines take speciall notice which do harm or hurt for the Nature and Complexions of Men are divers and the Excrements bred in severall men are of divers kinds Hence it is that the same Disease doth much differ in severall persons and what cures one doth prejudice another Therefore the Physitian ought to have severall Medicines in readinesse and use thâ—se that Reason and his Experience doth approve of To prevent its return let the Patient bleed twice in a year viz. at Spring and Fall and purge 4 times in a year and make use of sweating Drinks and frequent sulphurous and nitrous Baths The Sciatica differeth nor from the other Gout onely in its Scituation which is in the Hip extending the pain to the top of the Buttock the Loins and Ossacrunt and reacheth down the Hip and Leg even to the Foot This peculiar Prediction belongeth to this Disease that if it continueth long it putteth the Hip out of Joynt The Cure is performed allmost in the same manner with the other Gout First open the Vein in the Arm on the same side afterwards open the lower Veins on the same side viz. Vena Poplitea about the knee or the Vein neer the outward Ancle called the Sciatica Vein if you open the Vein on the contrary side it will not do amisse bleeding the Haemorrhoid Veins by Leeches doth wonderfully help those that are Hipgouty for there is a great consent between those Veins But be not too forward to let Blood unlesse you find Blood to abound Then let the Humours be purged strongly by Pillulae Faetidae or Hermodactylls or the Powder of Hermodactylls compound but beware how you give the latter except to strong Bodyes Mercurius Dulois with Scammony is much commended and the Chymists do much esteem of
Creature which inflicted the Wound were not venemous the pain is less and the danger not so great and the Cure easily performed by ordinary Medicines CHAP. IV. Of a Wound in the Nerves Tendons Ligaments Veins and Arteries VVHether Nerve Tendon c. are wounded may be easily conjectured and how and with what weapon it was done the Patient will be able tâ— inform If a Sinew be burnt there is great pain hurt both of sense and motion sometimes a Feaver Inflammation Convulsion or raving a breach or wound of a Vein or Artery is known by profusion of bloud But whether the Vein or Arterie be wounded their proper figns must distinguish viz. the bloud black and thick with an equal fluxion sheweth a wounded Vein but if the bloud be thin and yellow and cometh forth leaping like the motion of the Pulse then is the Artery wounden The Nervous Ligaments will endure Medicines of great force If in Wounds of this nature a Tumor appear and afterwards vanish away it threatneth danger of Convulsion and Raving If a Nerve be wounded overthewart and not cut alunder it brings the move peril of Convulsion An Artery cut overthwart is sooner joyned together then if it were severed longwise An Artery cut is harder to cure then a Vein Flux of bloud is peril lous especially of an Artery for unless it be stopped it bringeth death unavoidably Swooning Convulsion Raving c. in this case is an evil token For the Cure if the Nerve be priekt begin thus If there be any weapon or any outward thing sticking in the Wound let it be removed and keep the part from in jury if you fear inflammation open a Vein Let him lye in a warm Room on a soft bed and keep the body loose by Clisters or laxative Medicines regulated according to the nature of the humour peccant Let his Diet be sparing and small Beer his Drink Let him lye as free from motion as may be let not the cold Air which is inimical to the Sinews afflict him not too hot Air for fear of inflammation Keep the Wound oren if it be not wide enough makeit wider then use such Medicines that may ease the pain and draw forth the eruginous and fretting matter Medicines which heat and dry without pain is good in this case as the Oyl of Turpetine Ireos Sage Elder or Water wherein Salt and Turpetine hath been boyled the Oyl of Earth-Worms and of the yolks of Eggs mixed or the Oyl of Roses and Turpetine or the Oyl of Turpetine and of Savine mixed or Euphorbium one drachm boiled in two Ounces of Oyl For which purpose this Plaister is good Take of the Roots of Marshmallows the Meal of Barley Beans and Lentils of eaeh a like quantity as much as you think good boil them in Lye then put to it Oyl of Roses Camomel Dill and Turpetine of each sufficient and a little Saffron so make a Plaister If the Wound will come to suppuration heal it forward and afterwards mundify it If the Nerve be cut after you have observed the asorelaid general Rules joyn the Nerve then apply this Medicine Take of Karth-worms prepared three drachms Horstail two drachms Betony and Nettles in powder of each one drachm Olibanum three drachms encorporate them with the slesh of Snails beaten and apply it four days laying on some Glutinative Unguent Take of the lesser Century Plantane Hounds-tongue Mouse ear both the Consonds Horse tail and Yarrow of each one handsal Earth-worms a pound and an half Oyl and Wine of each one pound and an half Vinegar sour ounces stamp them and let them infuse 7 dayes then add the Suet of a Ram one peund Pitch and Rozin of each sour ounces boil them to the consumption of the Wine and Vinegar add to the straining Ammoniacum Gathanum Opaponax dissolved in Vinegar of each 5 drachms Turpemine one ounce and an half Frankincense Maslick and Sarcocol of each three drachms Of Saffron two ounces Wax as much as needeth to make an Unguent Both these are much commended by Jacobus Weckerus If the Vein or Artery be cut you must first labour to stanch the bloud Secondly to cure the Wound First the bloud may be stanched either with or wit hs out Evacuation With Evacuation is to open a Vein on the contrary part and sometimes near the Wound and to let it fly and suddainly stop it again To stay the bloud without Evacuation must be performed by cupping with scarrifying binding and rubbing of the contrary part Secondly you must bridle the furious course of in by things that thicken cool and astonish Things which thicken the bloud are Rice Lentils Jujubees Quinces and all Stiptick Fruits Cold Water drunk or laid upon the member near the Wound doth astonish it It the Vein or Artery lye so that you may easily come at it ty the end with fine silk stitch up the Wound and apply astrictive Powders upon it and upon that lay on the like powder mixed with the White of an Egg with Stuphs This Powder is good Frankincense Aloes Terra Sigillata Bolearmenick and Senguis Draconis of each equal parts pouder them finely and with the white of an Egg and the hairs of a Hare let it be applyed Or this Take of Lapis Haemitatis one ounce Frankincense Mastich Bolearmenick Cobwebs green Galls dried Frogs Soot white wall and the Meal that lye upon the walls of Mills and Bake-houses of each two drachms Burnt Vitriol Quick-lime and Gum-Traganth of each three drachms the shaving of the skin of a Ram or He-Goat Paper-cards the hairs of an Hare and cotton torrified of each one drachm Asses dung half an ounce make it into fine powder and use it as the fermer The accidental Symptomes both of this and other Wounds you shall have in a Chapter by themselves with their Cures CHAP. V. Of Luxations and Fractures A Luxation or Dislocation is the slipping of a joint from his Natural Position and proper place into some strange and unwonted seat whereby voluntary motion is hindered A Fracture is a division or breaking of the bone the causes of the first are either outward or inward outward causes are falls strokes extension wrenching or the like the Patient is able to inform you The inward causes are filthy slimy and Phlegmatick Humours falling between the joynt as it many times happeneth in the Sciatica Causes of Fractures are things of weight falling upon the place or the Patient falls from on high slippeth or such like A Dislocation is known by these signs viz. a Tumor in the part where the bone lies a pit or cavity in the place from whence the bone is departed great pain a difficulty or deprivation of motion in that member The bone broken is easily seen but whether the Fracture be overthwart or long ways you may discern thus If it be overthwart by seeling you may discern the bone several and disjoyned the bones make a noise and crackling when you handle each side
vittue come forth of the hearbs and then strain it and reserve it for your use In this manner is made the Oyls of Roses Dill Camomil Melilot Lillies Violets c. All which for the most part are used externally some of them in Clysters they retain the virtues of the simples whereof they are made which I hope is enough for the Ingenious Searcher Compound Oyls are made in the same manner Take this following for an Example Oleum Benedictum Or Blessed Oyl Take the Roots of Carduus and Valerian of each one ounce the Flowers of St. John's Wort two ounces Wheat one ounce and an half Old Oyl four ounces Cypress Turpetine eight ounces Frankinsence in powder two ounces Bruise the root and flowers and infuse them in White-Wine sufficient to cover them After two days infusion put in the Oyl with the Wheat bruised boil them together till the Wine be consumed then press it out and add the Frankinsence and Turperine then boyl them a litle and keep it for your use It is good to cleanse all manner of Wounds especially those of the Nerves and Wounds in the head Oleum de Capporibus Oyl of Capers It openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and mollifies the hardness of the Spleen and is good against the Rickets Anoint the part by the fire Oleum Castorei compositum the Oyl of Castor compound It hath a cutting and attenuating Faculty of gross humours in the Joynts and in cold Diseases Oleum Catellorium Oyl of Whelps It is good to anoint the Limbs and Muscles that are weakned by Wounds and Bruises Oleum Costinum Oyl of Costus It prevaileth against affects of the Nerves for it strengthneth warmeth attenuates and opens obstructions of those parts Oleum Crocinum Oyl of Saffron It hath a faculty of strengthning the Nerves and the Womb distipates swelling and hardness and caseth pains in those parts Oleum de Euphorbio Oyl of Euphorbium It hath the same virtue as the Oyl of Castor both which dropped into the Ear helps the â—…ise there and cures Deafness Oleum Excestrense Oyl of Exceter It is good to anoint the Limbs of such as are lame by reason of some old Bruise Cold or Sprain Oleum Hirundinum Oyl of Swallows The Virtues are the same with the former Oleum Hyperici compositum Oyl of St. Johns Wort Compound It hath the Virtues of the two former and is very good in green Wounds Oleum Irinum Oyl of Orris It doth resolve maturate and ease pain in all kind of Tumours Oleum Majoranae Oyl of Marjarome It helps all cold Diseases of the Brain and Nerves anoint the Backbone with it for the dead Palsie anoint the Fore-head for the Head-ache Drop it into the Ears for the noise and pain therein Oleum Mandragorae Oyl of Mandrakes It is good to anoint the Temples of those that want sleep in a Frenzie It is extream cold be careful in the use of it Oleum Moschelaeum Oyl of Musk. It helps Deasness and all cold Diseases of the Head Stomach Sides Nerves and Reins and is good in the Strangury and Cholick Oleum Nardinum Oyl of Nard It hath a warming digesting and binding quality and is used with good success in all cold Diseases of the Head Liver and Womb and being snuffed up in the Nose prevails against the Coryza which is a Distillation of Humours from the Head to the Nose Oleum Nicodemi It is good to cleanse and heal Sores Ulcers Scabs Itch Small Pox c. Oleum Vulpinum Oyl of Foxes In pains of the Joynts Podagra and Chiragra This Oyl is of great use saith Sylvius Oleum de Piperibus Oyl of Pepper It heats attenuates cleanseth and openeth Obstructions therefore Physitians do use this Oyl in the Palsie Convulsion and in all cold Diseases of the Womb Neck Reins and Bladder it easeth the Gout also Oleum Populeon It is a fine cool Oyl see the Oyntment I should here set down Chymical Oyls but that I fear my book is already swelled into too large a Volume They also retain the virtue of the Simples whereof they are made but are far more prevalent and full of Spirit and are not safely used alone CHAP. XI Of Oyntments I Have in the former Books shewed you the manner of making of Oyntments and Plaisters and in regard that the way of making them is divers according to the diversity of Ingredients I shall here onely declare the Virtues and Operations of the Oyntments and Plaisters now in use and sold by the Apothecary Unguentum Album The white Ointment hath a refrigerating and drying faculty Chyrurgeons use it to allay the heat and itching in Ulcers Unguentum Egyptiacum This is used in filthy Ulcers to cleanse them and to eat off dead flesh Unguentum Anodynum An Oyntment to ease pain Is easeth pain and inflammations in Wounds and Tumours Unguentum ex Apio An Oyntment of Smallage It is also a cleansing Unguent Linimentum Gummi Elemi It gently cleanseth and filleth with flesh Ulcers not onely in the head but in any other part Unguentum Auream is accounted the best in curing Wounds cleansing the Filth and drying the Moisture Basilicon the Greater and Less They heat moisten and digest bring wounds to suppuration and cleanseth them Vnguentum ex Bdellio Ointment of Bdellium It helps the Epilepsie Palsie Cramp and all cold Diseases of the Nerves Unguentum de Calce Ointment of Chalk is good against Burning and Scalding Unguentum de Althea Simplex compositum The Ointment of Marsh-mallows Simple and Compound It hath a notable digesting quality and resolving the Humours in any Swelling and softning thereof Unguentum Diapompholigos it cools binds dryes and stays Fluxes either of bloud or humours in wounds and fills hollow Ulcers with flesh Unguentum Elunatum sine cum Mercurio The Ointment of Elicampane without or with Quicksilver was invented to kill the Itch. Unguentum Laurinum commune Common Ointment of Bays it heats and expels wind good in Aches and Sprains and kils the Itch. Unguentum de Minio The Ointment of Red-Lead it is a notable dryer and very cool it is used in Ulcers when other Medicines fail Unguentum è Necotiana The Ointment of Tobacce It is good to kill the Itch Lice and Worms it cleanseth Ulcers and Fistulas and is good against the biting of any venemous creature Vnguentum Nutritum It is good against the Itch Tetters and Ring-Worms it allayeth the itching of wounds for it is of a cooling and drying nature Unguentum Opthalmicum It is good in an Opthalmia or inflammation of the Eyes anoint the Eye-lids Unguentum ex Oxylapatho An Ointment of sharp-pointed Docks It is good against Scabs and Itch. Vnguentum è Plumbo Or Ointment of Lead It dryeth much Vnguentum Pomorum commonly called Pomatum It is good to anoint the Nose and Lips being chopped by the Wind. Vnguentum Resinum Is as good a Sear-cloth for a Sprain as most are Vnguentum Rosatum Ointment of Roses
and speak comfortably to him Let no unseemly action nor uncivil word proceed from him Let him not forsake his Patient for any cause whatsoever Let him consult with God in the beginning of all his cures and heartily give God thanks for the performance of them Let him love godliness and honesty and be an unblameable servant to God and Nature These are the principal and chief Characters by which every diseased man may make choice of his Physician of whom I shall say with the learned Fernelius Medicus remedia confert non solum ut naturae minister fed interdum ut adjutor interdum etiam ut opifex primarius A Physician doth cure not only as Natures servant but sometimes us her helper yea sometimes as the chief workman I shall not build my discourse Theorically but Practically and having in the former Book briefly desctibed the principal parts of man and the humane faculties and virtues thereon depending I shall in this Book declare the Causes Symptoms and Cures of Diseases in those parts which hinder them in the exercise of those humane faculties I shall treat of each disease simply and distinctly and leave this Aphorism to the consideration of the ingenious Simplex affectus simplici remedio compositus composito propellendus A simple Disease is removed by a simple remedy a compound Disease is expelled by compound Medicines CHAP. II. Of Diseases of the Head MAny Diseases are incident to the Head of Man I shall treat of them in order according to the places which they possesse which I shall devide into three parts First the Membranes Secondly the substance of the Brain Thirdly the Nerves which nourish the Brain The Membranes is the first pannicle within the Skull called Dura Mater or without the Skull called Pericranium which are subject to these Diseases viz. the Head-ach the inveterate Head-ach and the Megrim In the substance of the Brain which is the seat and instrument of the intellectual faculties of the Soul viz. imaginations judgment and memory are defects also viz. the depravation of those faculties as a Frensie Melancholy and Madnesse Sleepy Disease Lethargy The Ventricles of the brain are subject to many distempers as Vertigo Falling sicknesse the night Mare the Apoplexy Palsy Convulsion trembling and quaking and Catarrhs Of inveterate Head-ach â—…d the Megrim The inveterate Head-ach is called in Greek and Latine Cephalaea it is a disease of long continuance very painful and upon every light occasion invadeth the Patient with sharp fits that he cannot indure noise nor light but desireth to lye still in the dark sometime this Disease is with continuance and sometimes with intermission The Cause This Disease is caused through blood or other humors abounding or by sharp humors or vapours within or without the Scull inflaming the Head sometimes weaknesse of the Head is the Cause The Sign If fulnesse of humors be the cause of the Disease then is the Head very heavy and lumpish if the humors be sharp the pain is felt with pricking shooting if there be inflammation the Head worketh like the Pulses if wind be the peccant cause there is found distention or stretching out without heaviness or beating if two or more of these Symptomes appear together judge accordingly Note that if the pain be felt superficially or outwardly than is the perieranium grieved If it be felt within which is known by the pain at the roots of the Eys then is the grief within the Dura Mater Hemicrania or the Megrim differeth not from Cephalaea saving if in the Megrim one half of the Head is afflicted whereas in the other the whole Head by the aforegoing Symptoms you may discover the humour offending The Cure As there are diversity of Causes so there is of Cures If the Disease be ingendred of plenitude of humors and the whole boy appâ—…â—…ll it is not amiss to begin the cure with the evacuâ—… of the whole body and if age strength and the season consent open the Gephalick or head Vein If flegmatick and viscuous humors be the Cause it is good to extenuate and make thin the humors thus Take of Oximel scilliticum and syrup of Staechas of each half an ounce distilled water of Marjerom Betony and Parsley an ounce mix these and make a potion for the morning Or else make a decoction in this manner Take Mint Calamint Marjerom Betony Sage of each half a handful the seeds of sweet Fennel Annis and Parstey of each half an ounce the roots of Asparagus Fennel and Parsley of each two ounces Peony root half an ounce shread the hearbs bruise the seeds slice the roots and take out the pith and boil it in a quart of water till half be consumed strein it and add of syrup of Betony compound one ounce and Oximel simplex as much and make a potion for three times take it at night two hours after a light supper the Body thus prepared you may come to purge and evacuate the peccant humours Take half a dram of Pill Cochiae the greater in the morning and keep the Chamber they which are most commendable are pills of Hiera with Agarick Take half a drachm at night two hours after a light supper take some warm broth in the morning and keep the house thus do for a week or longer in like manner you may use Pill Alephanginae and order your body as before and remember that grosse and clammy-humours will not follow a sudden purgation and therefore often purging is used that so they may be drawn out by little and little Also clisters are necessary because they cleanse the bowels and pull back those humours and vapours which ascend and annoy the head Take of Mallows Pellitorie of the Wall Endive Succorie Violet-leaves Cammomell-flowers of each one handfull sweet Fennellseed halfe an ounce Linseed Two drachmes boile them in a quart of Spring water or rather cleare posset-drink till halfe be consumed streine it out and to the decoction adde of the pulpe of Cassia Fistula one ounce Oile of Rue halfe an ounce Benedictae Laxativae half an ounce The Body being purged by discretion it is not amisse for the patient to make use of some diet drink that hath power to warme the braine to exsiccate and concoct crude humours to attenuate the grosse cut that which is tough and expell the thinnest either by Urine or insenfible transpiration You may make it thus Take of Guajacum Sassufras the Root of Salsaperilla of each two ounces English Liquoris and Cinamon of each one ounce Coriander-seed halfe an ounce infuse them 24 houres in 4 quarts of Spring-water the vessell standing in hot embers and close covered afterwards boile it gently to the consumption of halfe sweeten it with honey whilst it is hot let the Patient drink halfe a pint in the morning and dispose himself for sweat and if he drink it for his ordinary drink 15 or 20 dayes more or lesse as necessity requireth it is the better If the Patient become costive
greater Celandine six ounces Crocus Metallorum one drachm infuse it in the same water and drop two or three drops into the eye three or four times a day as long as need requireth I could insert many more Receipts of Learned and able men but I fear my Book will swell too big I shall onely insert the Ointment of Zacutus Lasitanas which he commends for drying and purging the moiffure flowing into the eyes Take of the Oyl of Roses three ounces white Rose-water nine ounces Camphire one drachm Tutty one scruple Honey two ounces the Gall of a Goat half an ounce Lupin meat half a drachm Aloes Succotrine one dram Sugar-candy half a drachm the juyce of Horehound Fennel and Rue of each half an ounce Mirrh one scruple Ammoniacum half a drachm Saicocol one dram and a half Pouder them that are to be poudered mixe them and boil them a little with a gentle fire and with the grease of a Goat or Sheep and a little Wax make an Ointment accorbing to Art anoint the Eye-brows twice in a day three hours after meat which will purg plenty of water out of the head through the corner of the eye When you have finished your Cure whether by Mâ—…es 〈◊〉 by the Needle you must keep your Patient 〈…〉 of Physick for fear of a Relapse and administer such things as threaten the head and eyes and hinder defluxion It is good to wash the head and eyes every morning with white wine wherein hath he en infused sweet Fennel seed in pouder till they smart but for other medicines to strengthen the head and eyes I refer you to the preceding Chapter CHAP. XII Of the enlarging and dilating of the straitening or contracting of the Pupilla THis Disease is called in Greek Mydriasis because too much light going in hurteth the sight hence it is that those that are thus distempered see better in a darkish place than in the light And this may be demonstrated by the natural change of the Pupilla in sound eyes in bright and obscure places For when a man is in a bright and clear place the Pupilla is contracted and made less lest the light going in too fast should dissipate the spirits so that a man going suddenly out of a very light place into a house or place more obscure at the first entry he seeth almost nothing at all the Pupilla being so lately contracted he remaining in the same place the Pupilla is soon dilated or enlarged to receive more light and then he seeth perfectly those things which before he could not Then if he go out suddenly into a very light place his eyes are dazled and he seeth not perfectly because the Pupilla is enlarged and the Light going in so fast doth dissipate and dispierse the Visive Spirits Hence you perceive that the Light ought to pass into the Eye in a moderate quantity and the Pupilla ought to be of a moderate size Hence Galen observes that they who are born with narrow Pupillas see best The Pupilla is enlarged or contracted by dryness or repletion It is enlarged by dryness which stretcheth the Uvea which maketh the form of the Pupilla larger as Leather being pierced when it is dry the hole is larger and this proceeds from Feavers and such drying Diseases which are attended with want of sleep So may the Pupilla be straitned by dryness when the Tunicle Uvea by reason of the diminishing of the humours of the Eye loseth its former extension falls together and is wrinkled and so the hole of the Pupilla is made streighter whereas in the former the Tunicle though dry holdeth its extension It is made larger also by repletion namely by vapours or wind sent unto the Eye or by the extraordinary flowing of the watry and other humours to the eye or by the swelling of Uvea it self it is distended and the Pupilla made larger So the same watry humour may work a contrary effect namely by relaxing the same Tunicle and by that means making the hole streighter The Pupilla is inlarged sometimes by Convulsion as may be seen by some Epileptick Children Sometimes a stroak or fall may cause a deflaxion into the eyes hence comes extension retension of the Spirits causeth wind and humours and that causeth distension of the Pupilla and sometimes the Pupilla is made streighter by reason of the want of the visive spirits to extend the Tunicles for want of which they are relaxed and fall together as may be seen in old men These Diseases though they are contrary yet are to be cured by the same medicines remember this that if these Diseases be of long continuance and in ancient people they are without doubt incurable But if the Patient be young and the Disease of no long continuance you must proceed with this consideration that the cure must be varied according to the variety of causes If it proceed from dryness you must refresh the body with medicines which are moist and restaurative and such you shall finde in the cure of the Hective Feaver If it comes from a humour filling the Eye you must purge and cleanse the head and whole body of that humour as you are taught in the cure of a Cataract If from Wind after due Evacuations you must labour to discuss the Wind with the decoction of Fennel Rue Dill Cammomel Red-Roses made in Red Rose Water and White-Wine and the Eyes fomented therewith If there be occasion for Astriagent Medicines to bring the Pupilla being enlarged to its former state make use of this following taught by Ryverius Take of Red-Roses dryed two Scruples Saffron Spicknard and the Bark of Frankinsense tree of each half a scruple Tutty prepared Burnt-Ivory and Acatia of each one scruple make them into fine pouder and tie it up in a fine linnen rag and hang it in three ounces of Red Rose water woen you have occasion to use it squeez the cloaih and drop the water into the eyes and wash them therewith If a blow in the eye causeth an inflammation cure it as the inflammation of the eye but if by the blow the Pupilla be enlarged without inflammation drop in a drop or two of Pidgeons blood and apply a Cataplasme made with Bean-flower and Red-Roses juyce of Plantane and Red-rose water CHAP. XIII Of the Pin and Web. THE Tunicle called Cornea sometimes loseth its colour and brightness somtimes it grows thick by driness as in old men and is incurable Sometimes gross humours are fastened to it by reason of inflamation Sometimes by resolving Medicines the thinner humours are dissolved and the thicker remain or by the use of cold medicines the humours are thickned and a white humour is contracted which is called by some Leucona by others Albugo commonly a Pin and Web. Sometimes it comes from a Sear after an Ulcer and so the Cornea loseth its transparentress Sometimes the Eye is bloud-shod and that spoileth the natural colour of the Cornea and this is called
too drying lest they thicken the humors and encrease the disease Then you must endeavor to unstuffe and cleanse the Lungs and wind pipe with the before named Lohock or of the like nature I could insert many which I omit for brevitie sake Quercetanus his Sirrup of Tobacco is very good the Tincture of dryed Tobacco as much as a pease held in the mouth and swallowed by degrees draweth abundance of flegm out of the stomack and Lungs or if you take Tobacco in a pipe it is good The juice of red Coleworts made up into a Sirrup and a little Spirit of Sulphur added to it may be taken an ounce in the Morning Or you may make Tablets of great virtue thus Take of the Roots of Elecampane and Licorish of each one ounce the Leaves of Colts foot Maiden haire Scabius and Woodbetony of each a drachm Lac Sulphuris two drams Saffron two scruples make them all into fine Powder and with the Mucilage of Gum Traganth made with Coltsfoot water make Tablets which let the Patient hold in his mouth often Platerus highly commendeth the preparation of a Cock thus Take an old Cock kill pull and draw him stuff him with these things following Fox Lungs fresh or prepared one ounce Raisons stoned and figs of each two ounces Elecampane one dram Hysop Savory Horchound Thyme Calaminth Peneroyal dryed of each one drachm The Seeds of Fenel and Annise of each one drachm Carthamas Seeds bruised and the Roots of Polypody of each half an ounce White Tartar one drachm Salt half an ounce the Yolks of two Eggs Fresh Butter half an ounce Cut and bruise them according to the precepts of Pharmacy and few them up into the Belly of the Cock boile him in a large Vessel and soe much water as will cover him and no more till his flesh come off from his bones strain it and add to every ten Pints one Pound of Hony that it may not quickly corrupt let the Asthmatick person take a Porrenger full every morning in which dissâ—lve of Manna and Cassia newly drawn of each half an ounce It will be the better if presently after he take a dram of Venus Turpetine with penids in form of a Bolus or otherwise The Patient may continue taking this Cock-broath a Moneth or longer CHAP. XXVII Of the Pleurisie and inflammation of the Lungs A Pleurisie is an inflammation of the Membrane Pleura and the internal intercostal muscles girding the sides within the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latines also Pleuritis The matter causing this disease for the most part is Cholerick blood which doth easily penetrate the Membrane but seeing other humors may cause it it is either Sanguineous Cholerick Phlegmatick or Melancholick but what ever the humor offending be Choler it hath for its Vehicle The signes of a Pleurisie according to Galen are five first a pricking pain of the side caused by a Cholerick humor in the Membrane extending it self either towards the throat or the Hypochondria Secondly a continual sharp Feaver which is either Symptomatical comming from some Sangnineous Tumor about the part or essential that is when a Feaver first invadeth the Patient and the boiling blood is expelled to those parts Thirdly difficulty of breathing because thâ— heart being inflamed as well as the rest greedily desireth refreshment and he parts inflamed cannot sufficiently distend themselves to draw in the cold aire Fourthly a hard Pulse like a Saw which is caused by the stretching out of the Membrane by which defect the Arteries are distended Fifthly and lastly an often and troublesome Cough because nature doth strive to expel those troublesome humors from the part affected also some of the matter sweateth from thence into the Lungs which causeth a Cough I might here add another signe viz. spitting of blood or bloody matter but because it happeneth not in all Pleurisies nor at all times I omit it You may partly judge of the humor peceant by the constitution of the Patient and season of the Year The particular signes are first of blood bloody spittle stretching and pricking pains full Veins especially about the Temples red Urine and the like Signes of Choler are yellow spittle a burning Feaver a hard and quick pulse the pain more acute and pricking restlesnesse bitternesse of the mouth and yellow Urine The signes that shew Phlegm are much sweet and frothy Spittle the Feaver remiss little thirst the pain heavy but not violent the pulse not so hard the Urine white and thick the Spittle black and tough the pain and Feaver moderate a dry Cough the tongue black and rough the belly bound the Urine red and darke are signes of Melancholly As to the prognostick I say This disease afflicting old men women with child Asthmatical persons or such as have had it often is dangerous If the Feaver be violent the breath fetched with dissiculty the Cough raiseth up no matter or the Spittle very bloody or very white and glutinating green tustick black much Spitting and yet the pain abates not the spitting cease and the pain continue all these are dangerous signes On the contrary plentiful vomitting Choler in the beginning of the disease blood or Choler mixed with the spittle c. are good signes The Cure of a Pleurisie consists in the revelling Deriving discussing digesting maturating and expectorating the peccant humors if the Feaver be essential seek its cure in its proper place Bleeding is a very natural remedy for a Pleurisie which you must moderate according to the constitution and strength of your Patient and the violent or remiss symptoms If your Patient spitt freely forbeare blood-letting lest his spitting be stayed and his life endangered Twice or thrice in a day or oftener as you see occasion administer cooling Juleps to restrain the heat of the boiling humors make a Iulep of Poppy water and Sirrup of Violets After bleeding prepare a fomentation Take of Mallows Violet leaves Chamomel Pellitory of the wall of each one handful the roots of Marsh mallows and Lillies of each four ounces the seeds of Flax Commin and Fenugreek of each one drachm boile them well and put them with the liquor into a hogs bladder and foment the side afterwards anoint it with this following Liniment Take of Fresh butter and Hens grease of each two ounces the Oyles of Chamomel Lillys Dill and sweet Almonds of each half an ounce The Chimical oyle of wax a scruple mix them and make a Liniment some slit a live-Hen and apply it some the Lungs or the paunch of a sheep hot others apply hot bread out of the Oven dipped in Butter Then you may make an Emulsion of blanched Almonds and the great cold seeds thus Take of Almonds blanched and steeped in Coltsfoot water one ounce the four great cold seeds of each half an ounce the seeds of Lettice and white Poppy of each one drachm beat them in a Marble morter pouring on by degrees the decoction of Barly Liquorish and Plantane a
Patient be weak and indisposed to Vomits give often Clisters or purge the Body with this or the like Pills Take de Aloe lota three Drachms yellow Myrabolans and Rubarb in Powder of each half a Drachm red Sanders and prepared Coral of each one Scruple with the Sirrup of Roses solutive make them into a Mass give a Drachm every other or third day and if the Sick be weak give but half so much If the Vomiting be violent give two Scruples and an half of Cochie the lesse with three grains of Laudanum in the morning Then you must strengthen the Stomach with the sirrup or conserve of Quinces conserve of Roses Mastick in a small quantity sirrup of Mints Plantane water made sowr with Oyl of Vitriol c. All these strengthen the Stomach and stay Vomiting of which you may make Medicines in divers forms Foment the Stomach with a sponge dipt in Plantane water Rose water and Rose Vinegar But First boil in the water a handful of Mints Or apply this following Cataplasm Take of Marmalade of Quinces or Quinces boiled soft in Rose water or Vinegar four Ounces the roots of Bâ—stort and Tormentill of each two Drachms Mastick Moce and Nutmegs of each two Scruples Sowr Leaven halfe a pound with the juice of Mints and Vinegar make a Cataplasm and apply it If your Patient vomit Blood the Causes and Sâ—gnes you may find in the 19 and 30 Chap. and the Medicines prescribed in the 30 Chap. Of Spitting of Blood ordered by an able Head-peece may perform the Cure CHAP. XL. Of Cholera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek and Cholerica Passio in Latine is a Disease violently sending forth by Vomit Stool sharp and cholerick Humours this Disease is a symptom of the expulsive Faculty being hurt by Meats not well concocted and if the retentive Faculty be also in fault the Disease is the worse and more violent Some will have two sorts of Choller a moist and a dry A moist is that which hath relation to what hath been said The dry is more rare and cometh from a windy spirit produced in the Stomach by the fiery Heat of the Part corrupting the Meat or by Meats which are Rank and Windy and this is the opinion of Hippocrates himself Sennertus from the Hermetical doctrine addeth another Cause viz. Salt and adust Humours in the Hypochonaria which grow hot by the mixture of another Humour and demonstrateth it by the mixing of Aqua fortis and Oyl of Vitriol with Salt of Tartar which produce very flatuous Spirits So that the immediate Causes of this Disease are cholerick burnt sharp salt or rotten Humours in the Stomach Bowels Spleen Mesentery or some Nourishment of an evil Quality or some strong Medicine or Poyson taken The signes of this Disease are often and plentiful Evacuations of cholerick sharp and corrupted Humours by Vomit and Stool swelling with Wind Thirst and a Gnawing of the Stomach and Guts a Loathing which is appeased a little with cold Drink which is soon after cast up The Pulse is small and unequal Sweating with Convulsion of extream Parts Swooning and such dangerous Symptoms It is easily discovered whether the Cause come by some violent Medicine Poyson or offensive Diet. The internal Causes are known by the Quality of the Humours that are ejected If there be a continual Loathing and Gnawing the Disease is in the Stomach If a malignant Feaver be joyned it is in the Veins If it hath its original from some evil Food there is hopes that when the Matter is cast forth the Disease will end If it be very violent it is dangerous I had almost said desperate for the greater the Convulsions Swoonings and Coldnesse of the extream Parts be the nearer is Death at hand In the beginning of the Cure you may help forward Evacuations with gentle cooling and cleansing Clisters thus Take of Milk half a pint Sirrup of Violets and Lettice of each one ounce The Oyles of Roses and water Lillyes of each halfe an ounce The yelks of two new laid Eggs well beaten mix them and give it Or you make a Clister with Chicken Broth or Oxycrate It is good to open a Vein by which means the burnt and boiling Blood may be cooled revelled and asswaged but do it with discretion twice or thrice if the strength be not impaired by the first You must endeavour to qualify the sharpness of the Humours thus Take of the waters of Plantane Purslan and Mint of each two Ounces Sirrup of Quinces and dried Roses of each one Ounce Sirrup of Vinegar half an Ounce mix them and dissolve therein two Scruples of Theriack Andromachi and six drops of the Oyl of Vitriol give now and then a Spoonful But if the Patient hath someease and the Symptomes abate or appear not beware lest they suddenly return and destroy the Patient as it sometimes happeneth in this case Therefore nourish him and strengthen his Stomach with this restoring Opiate Take of the Gelly of Harts-horn made with Canary Wine four Ounces of the Conserves of Roses Burrage Bugloss and Clove-Gilliflowers of each one Ounce Confectio Alchermes half an Ounce Citron Barks and Nutmegs candied of each three Drachms the Essence of Cloves Mace Nutmegs and Cinnamon of each three drops with the Sirrup of Clove-Gilliflowers make an Opiate of which let the Patient take often the Quantity of a hazel Nut and more Mornings and Evenings To conclude the Medicines prescribed in the last Chapter against cholerick Vomitings may be useful here CHAP. XLI Of Pain in the Stomach Dolor Ventriculi or Pain in the Stomach is caused by naughty venemous and gnawing Humours contained therein the Ancients made this distinction viz. that if the upper Orifice of the Stomach which is of exquisite sense by reason of the great Nerve which it hath from the fifth Conjugation be affected the Pain is very sharp which maketh the Heart the most Noble part and near unto it sensible of the same from thence it is called Cardialgia But if the Membranes of the Cavity or lower Orifice called Pyloras be affected it is called Dolor Ventriculi or Colica Ventriculi especially if it comes of Wind. The Cause of this Disease is either Worms gnawing the Tunicles of the Stomach or Wind lodged in the Cavity of the Stomach which causeth Swelling and painful Distension or sharp and malignant Humours therein contained as salt Phlegm green and black Choller whose sharp Vapours cause Pain corrupt Matter from an Imposthume of the Liver or the Breast Diseases of the Stomach and the Parts adjoyning evil Humours from the whole Body in Feavers Choller from the Liver Melancholy from the Spleen and salt Phlegm from the Head all these may be the Causes of this Evill The external Causes may be evil and corrupt Nourishment or Meats that are too hot that breed Wind or Choller Meat taken in too great a Quantity Poyson strong sharp and deadly Medicines not well corrected Diagnostick Signes are thus taken
and the Troches of Amber of each half a Drachm with Sirrup of Comphrey make an Opiate and let the Patient take a little often Take of the Powder of Rubarb one Ounce the Troches of Sanders two Drachms mix it and give the Patient two Drachms twice a day it evacuateth the Matter and strengthneth the Bowels Both the Sirrup Magistery and Tincture of Coral availeth much and the Decoction of Juniper Berryes in red Wine is no lesse effectual If it continue long and your Patient's strength much decay give Laudanum among your other Medicines The Fume of Fleabane and Mullein taken through a hollow Chair is excellent The Conserve of Hips is good against a cholerick Flux you may mix with it such things which are astringent I shall say no more of the Cure of this Disease but refer you to the next Chapter Onely this if the Disease come by consent of other parts seek the Cure in their proper Chapters CHAP. XLVII Of the Dysentery or Bloody Flux 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a bloody Loosenesse of the Belly depending upon the Ulceration of the Intestines but it is commonly taken for every Bloody Flux the Latines call it Tormina because of the Torture the Patient endureth Galen mentioneth four kinds of Fluxes which he calleth Dysenteries The first is when any usual Evacuation of Blood as the Haemorrhoids or at the Nose is omitted or impedited or any part of the body is hurt and by that means the Blood is sent to the Intestines and voided by the Belly The second is when watry Blood is voided by reason of the weakness of the of the Liver of this I shall treat hereafter The third is when Blood mixed with Melancholy and burnt by reason of long Retention in the Liver and Spleen is evacuated and shineth The last and that which I am now to discourse on is when Blood and Excrements are mixed together and sometimes also Matter is mixed therewith and is evacuated with Torture to the Patient by reason of Ulceration in the Guts this is the proper Dysentery The internal Causes are sharp and ulcerating Humours yellow green and black Choller Salt Phlegm in the Head bred by Heat or in the Belly by putrefaction which being brought to the Guts and sticking to them ulcerateth the part The Causes external are all things which make sharp and evil Humours Meats which soon putrify Fruits which are soon rotten all things unripe the Air thus qualifyed the Winter cold and dry and the Spring very wet and ful of South Winds cause Dysenteryes in the Summer Or if the Winter be wet and full of South Winds and a dry Spring and the North Winds blow much such a Season produceth Dysenteryes Sometimes the Air is infected and produceth a contagious and epidemical Dysentery which is so infectious that the Excrements of the Sick being cast into a Privy infecteth all that sit over it The Diagnostick Signes are often and bloody Evacuations with Pain in the Belly Watching Thirsting Loathing of Meat sometimes a Feaver If the small Guts are affected the Pain is vehement like the pricking of Pins because they are of more exquisite Sense they go not to Stool presently after the Pain and the Blood is mixed with the Excrements The contrary judge if it be in the great Guts the Pain not so sharp they go to Stool presently after and the Blood swimmeth on the top of or a little mixed with the Excrements You may judge of the Humour causing this Disease by the Colour of the Excrements Age and Temperament of the Patient and Season of the year Thus the Prognosticks are made Dysenteryes caused by black Choller are deadly if it be not Critical because the Ulcer groweth cancerous be sure you judg aright between Melancholy and Blood congealed If Loathing of Meat and a Feaver accompany it it is dangerous If pieces of Flesh be voided it is deadly Much Watching great Thirst black bloody and stinking Stools without a Mixture of Humours Hiccough cholerick Vomitings Pain in the Liver and Midriff are for the most part deadly Signes If Choler or sharp Diet be the cause of this Disease it is easily cured salt-Phlegm is worse because it sticks longer to the Guts If this Disease happen to one troubled with a disease in the Spleen or the Gout it is good saith Hippocrates because the Matter is sent forth but this is rather a Diarrhae a then a Dysentery To cure you must evacuate sharp Humours you must asswage Pain cleanse consolidate and dry the Ulcer and stop the Flux To evacuate the Humours you must purge every second third or fourth day according to your Patients Age Strength Season of the year and the like Rubarb is exceeding good in this Disease given a Drachm or a Drachm and an half or two Drachms Or made into a Potion thus Take of Liquorish scraped and sliced and Raisons of the Sun of each three Drachms Tamarinds and yellow Myrabolans of each two Drachms boil them in Barly and Plantane water to three Ounces in which streined infuse a Drachm of Rubarb thin sliced then add one Ounce of the Sirrup of Roses solutive and make a Potion if you think it not strong enough add of Diacatholicon three Drachms or you may give the Rubarb in Powder in the aforesaid Decoction If the Dysentery be accompanied with a Feaver and Inflammation of the Bowels open a Vein and let the Patient bleed according to his Strength Sometimes vomiting is profitable to revell the Humours which fall from the Stomach to the Intestines Omit not vomiting if you find the Stomach very foul Especially if the Sick be inclinable to vomit for then Nature dictates the right way and ought to be imitated In the mean while you must give asswaging mild and cleansing Clisters afterwards glutinous and astringent Thus Take of the Roots of Marshmallows Butter-burr of each one handful Camomil Flowers one Pugil the Seeds of Flax and Fleabane of each two Drachms boil them in Barly water or Milk Chalybeated or Mutton Capon or Sheeps Head Broth to a Pint strain it and dissolve therein the yolks of four Eggs well beaten Oyl of Roses and Sirrup of Quinces of each one Ounce and make a Clister If the Ulcer want cleansing add Century and Wormwood to the former Decoction and to the strained Liquor add Turpentine dissolved in the yolk of an Egg the chymical Oyl of Wax of each one Drachm When there is need of more binding and glutinating make a Clister thus Take of the Roots of Comphry Tormentill and Bistort of each one Ounce Plantane Shepherds purse Knot-grasse and Mous-ear of each one handfull Pomegranate Flowers Mirtles Acorn cups and Cypresse Nuts of each one Drachm parched Rice French Barly and red Roses of each one Pugill Make a Decoction in Smiths water to a Pint of the straining add of the Juyce of Plantane and Yarrow of each one Ounce and the yolks of two roasted Eggs. Or insteed of the Juyces you may add
Juniper and Bay-berryes of each one drachm boyle them in Wite-Wine to the Consumpoion of half sweeten it with Honey give every second or third day three ounces in the morning If the conjoyned cause be fit to be resolved then use meanes that can mollifie attenuate disperse and sepetate such as is Diachylon Commune and Magnum Diapalma many unguents Liniments and Plaisters may be made for the purpose aforesaid which I heare omit If the matter be unfit for resolution then have you two wayes to empty it that is suppuration and incision This plaister is good to ripen it Take the roots of Marsh-Mallows and Lillyes of each one pound boyle them soft and beat them in a Morter Garlick and Onyons boyled of each three ounces the oyle of Lillyes and Buster of each two ounces Hogs grease and Goose grease of each two ounces and an half the Meale of Wheat Fenugreek and Flax seed sufficient the Yolks of two Eggs make a plaister when it is ripe open it with an instrument or ruptory of Chantharides or Arsnick If it appeare filthy cleanse it with Unguentum Apostolorum Egyptiacum or such like afterwards incarnate and Cicatrize it If it submit not to medicines it must be taken out by manuall operation which only belongeth to an expert and able Chirurgion seeing the whole cure is difficult and ought to be managed by an able brain and skillfull hand I omitt any further discourse of it it being my taske principally to instruct people of mean Capacity There are three other phlegmatick Tumors which lye under the generall notion the first is called Atheroma and is a Tumor without pain and change of colour which is a humor contained in the membraines or Nervous Coats it is clammy like sodden Meale Starch and somtimes mixed as it were with haires peeces of bones c. Meliseras is a Tumor somwhat thinner and almost of the substance of Hony otherwise agreeing with the former Steatoma is much like the two former save that the humor contained is like suet and the Tumor doth encrease and is much enlarged in processe of time the inward causes of them all are Flegmatick humors with which the body doth abound The first is thus known the Tumor is long and ridged being pressed returneth to its place again but slowly by reason of the clammynesse of the humor the second Tumor is rounder and thinner being pressed yieldeth and returneth speedily the last is hard yieldeth not to the pressing of the finger for the humor is like Suet. The first must be dealt with by corrosives and incision the second by discutients corrosives and incision the last no otherwise but by incision alone The diet preparatives and purges which are proper for Oedema are here to be used If you find the Tumor fit for resolution apply discussive plaisters a plaister made of Cyclamen is much commended Take of Cyclamen otherwise called Sowbread as much as you pleass Hogs-grease and Brimstone of each equall parts beat them into the form of a plaister If it will not be resolved consume it with eating medicines among many of this nature this following is commended Take of the Scales or flower of Brasse half an ounce of red Arsenick and black Ellebore of each two drachms with Oyle of Roses make a plaister make a deep eschar and make incision through it and apply a Caustick The Cure may be performed only by incision but the Chirurgion must beware that the Tunicle which holdeth the matter be not broken lest some part of the humor be left to the hinderance of his operation CHAP. X. Of Melancholly Tumors THe true and Legitimate Scirrhus is a Tumor hard without pain yet sensible The antecedent cause is Melancholy abounding in the body the conjoyned cause is the humor fixed in the part The first is known by the Melancholly constitution of the Patient a diet and course of life which is apt to breed Melancholly The second viz. the conjoyned cause is known by a Tumor hard and scarce yeilding to the touch in colour between red and black of dull sense These Tumors if they be timely and carefully dealt with may be cured by resolution Sometimes they become indurate and somtimes they degenerate into a Cancer Let the Patient live in a Temperate aire let him use moderate exercise and avoid excessive affections and passions of the mind let his body be kept soluble and let his meat be such as is of good nourishment and easie digesture and let him therein be moderate Let the Melancholly humors be prepared by Juleps made of the syrups of Fumitory Borrage Buglose Endive Succory Rubarb Harts-tongue Epithymum and Vinegar with their distilled waters This Apozem is very effectuall Take the root and leaves of Sorrell Borrage Buglosse and Fumitory the leaves of Maidenhaire Succory Endive Dandelion and Hops of each one handfull Balm half a handfull the four great cold seeds beaten of each two drachms the seed of Purslane two drachm Anise and Fenell of each one drachm Raisons of the Sun stoned six drachms Polypody one ounce Senna one ounce and an half Time and Epithymum of each two drachms the Flowers of Violets Borrage and Buglosse of each one pugill make a decoction in two pound of which dissolve the juice of Odoriferous Apples and of Buglosse of each four ounces boyle it againe to a pint and an half then sweeten it with Sugar as much as is convenient Clarifie it then Aromatize it with the Powder Diamargariton Frigidum and Diatrâ—…aganthum Frigidum of each one drachm make an Apozem for four Doses The humor prepared purge it with such things as purge Melancholly these simples are proper Sena Polypodium Epithemum Fumitory Cassia Lapis Lazuli and Mitabolans black Hellebore and such like Look for compound Melancholly Purgers in the next book The conjoyned humor must be dealt with by such things as soften seperate and discusse as the grease tryed out of flank Wooll Butter the oyle of Almonds Camomel Dill Lillyes c the fat of a Cock a Duck Goose Fox Bear Lyon Sow Calfe Stag Eagle Vulture Bee-Glew Wax fat Figgs Marsh and Common Mallows Lillyes Branck ursine Ammmoniacum Bdellium Galbanum Styrax Tarr Rozin and such like of which you may make unguents and plaisters This plaister of Calmeteus is of great virtue Take of fat Figgs in Number twelve boyle and stamp them Ammoniacum Bdellium Galbanum dissolved in Vinegar of each two ounces Liquid Styran one ounce the Musilage of Maâ—sh-Mallow roots of the seed of Flax and Fenugreck of each two ounces Oesipus and fresh Butter of each one ounce oyle of Lillyes three ounces with Wax as much as sufficeth make a Plaister A Cancer is a hard unequall round and venemous Tumor of a black colour hoe and painfull it is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it hath this name for these reasons first because the veins about it filled with Melancholly blood are stretched out like unto the
is from half an Ounce to an Ounce Aqua Gentianae Composita Gentian Water Compound It is a good Preservative against the Pestilence caseth pains in the Stomach and helpeth Digestion and drives out old Colds openeth Obstructions of the Liver easeth the pricking pains in the sides and is good against the yellow Jaundies it provokes the Terms and expelleth a dead Child or After-Birth The Dose is from three drachms to half an ounce Aqua Gilberti Gilberts Water This Water is a very great Cordial it strengtheneth the Heart and reviveth languishing Nature it may be taken from half a drachm to a drachm it is so costly that it is almost out of the reach of ordinary people Aqua Cordialis frigida Saxoniae It is a very cooling Water and profitable in Feavers and to allay the heat of bloud it giveth rest by sleep You may take from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Theriacalis Or Treacle Water This Water is of excellent vertue against the Pestilence and other Feavers it is a very good counter-poyson and good for those that have been bit by any venemous Creature or such as have the French Pox for it driveth forth all vitulent Humours from the Heart and is a great Cordial The Dose is from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Brioniae Composita Or Briony Water Compound This Water is Hysterical easeth the Fits of the Mother it expelleth the After-Birth and provoketh Womens Courses Let Women with Child forbear it Let those that have occasion take from half an ounce to an ounce in the Morning fasting Aqua Caponis Or Capon-Water It is good for such whose strength is decayed by Feavers or other Sicknesses it is an excellent Medicine for those that are in Consumptions or wasted by a Feaver Hectick or Marasmus Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Limacum Magistralis Or the Magistral Water of Snails It openeth Obstructions of the Lungs and purgeth them of Flegm and is very good for the Consumption of the Lungs Take half an ounce or an ounce Aqua Scordii composita Or Compound Water of Scordium This is a good Preservative against the Pestilence gives rest in Feavers and is friendly to the Stomach and Womb. Take it from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Imperialis and Aqua Mariae It strengtheneth and corroborateth the Heart and is therefore good for such as are subject to Faintings Swoonings and Palpitations of the Heart and is a Preservative against Apoplexies The Dose is from one drachm to three Aqua Mirabilis This is of admirable force and virtue to preserve the Body from the Apoplexy and all Diseases of the Nerves It is very good against the Palsie Convulsion and Cramp and is good for cold Stomachs From two drachms to half an ounce is the Dose Aqua Papaveris composita Or Poppy Water compound It is good against Surfets and Feavers thereâ—from arising it provoketh sleep cooleth the bloud and concocteth the Humours Take from half an ounce to an ounce Aqua Cinnamomi Cinnamon Water It strengtheneth the Stomach Liver Spleen Lungs Heart Brain and Nerves It cleareth the sight is an Antidote against Poyson and biting by venemous creatures and is good against a stinking Breath and nauseousness of the Stomach It is very friendly to the Womb and is of an attenuating opening digesting and strengthning virtue From two drachms to six is the usual Dose in cold Diseases you may take more Aqua Caelestis This also prevaileth against Malignant and Pestilential Feavers restoreth such as are in Consumptions comforteth the Heart and reviveth drooping Spirits It is very hot in operation You must scarcely exceed half a drachm for the outmost Dose without the advise of a Physitian In Feavers mix it with cooling Juleps Aqua Melissae Bawm Water It restoreth Memory lost it maketh all the Senses acute it strengtheneth the Heart Brain and Stomach and for those who are troubled with cold Stomachs and Brain it is a Jewel It maketh the Heart glad the Tongue nimble in those who are subject to the Palsie in that Member the Teeth white and the Breath sweet The Dose is from two drachms to half an ounce Aqua Menthae Mint Water It cools and strengtheneth the Stomach Liver and Spleen helps Concoction breaketh Wind and stays Vomiting The Dose is from one drachm to three Ordinary Aqua Vitae Annise-seed water Usquebath and such like are commonly used and most people know they comfort a cold Stomach and is good against hurt of Digestion coming from a cold cause It breaks Wind and the like Tinctures are made of any Hearb or other Simple by first bruising them and putting to them as much Spirit of Wine as will cover them three or four fingers cork it up or seal it and let it digest in a Bath as long as you see good If you know the virtue of the Simples you cannot be ignorant of the Tincture To make Physical Wines is easie Take this one for an Example Take a handful of dryed Wormwood for every Gallon of Wine stop it in a Vessel close and let it remain in steep So you may prepare a Physical Wine of any Hearb Flower or Seed whatsoever either simple or compound Physical Vinegars are prepared thus Take of Red-Rose Buds gathered in a dry time the Whites being cut off and dryed in the shadow three or four days one pound Vinegar eight Sextaries set them in the Sun fourty days then strain out the Roses and repeat the infusion as often as you please Thus may you prepare Physical-Vinegars of any Flower As the Hot Waters and Spirits are best for cold Bodies and hot Diseases so on the contrary are Vinegars best in hot Diseases and may be externally used These I thought good to add the Treatise of Distilled Waters For the preparation of Distilled Waters of this nature read Quercetanus his Dispensatory one of which I shall here insert having prescribed it in the afore going Books which is his Distilled Water against spitting of bloud Take of the Roots of Bistort Comphry and Tormentil of each one ounce the Leaves of Knotgross Yarrow Speedwel Winter Green Sanicle Shepherds Purse with its Root of each one handful of the tops of the Blackberry Bush and Mastick Tree of each half a handful the Seeds of Sumach Myrrles Plantane Barberies and white Poppy of each 6 drachms the Flowers of Water-Lillies Gourds Quinces and Red Roses of each two Pugils let them be mixed and beaten then macerated in Balneo for the space of four days in the Juyces following viz. Plantane Purslane Sorrel and Agrimony of each two pound Let them be afterwards strongly pressed out then add of the Juyce of Acatia Hypocistis of each two Ounces Terra Sigillata and Bolearmenick of each half an ounce Electuarium Diatraganthum frigidum of each two drachms Macerate them for four dayes and distil it in Ashes till it be dry Let them who are troubled with spitting of bloud or any inward Wound or Bruise take