them of the Clockes for the howers of the Clocks he egal always of .lx. minuts but they of the planets when the day and the night bene egal that y t sunne is in one of the Equinocts they be â—gall but as soone as the dayes longeth or shorteth so doth the naturall howers by this it is conuenyent alway for the day to haue twelue temporal houres and the night .xii. temporall howers and when the dayes be loÌ„g and the howers long and the dayes short and the howers short in likewyse the night and neuertheles an houre of the day an houre of the night both togither hath .lx. minuts as for two howers artificyals that the one leaueth and the other taketh And then take we out Planets from the sun rysyng not before vpon the sun going downe then all the remnaunt is night and about the month of DeceÌ„ber the days haue but eight houres artificials of the Clocke and they haue twelue temporals then let the eyghte howers Artificials be deuyded in twelue egall partes and it shall be twelue tymes .lx. minuts and euery part shal be a temporall houre that shall be of a fortye minutes and no mo thus in December the temporal howers of the day haue but forty minuts But the houres of the night haue .lxxx. minutes For that time the nights haue but sixteene howers artificials if they be deuided in the twelue parts be .lxxx. minuts for euery temporall hower of the night in December haue .lxxx. minuts and .xl. For an hower of the day bene six score mynutes in two temporall houres as many in twelue howers artificials that bene ech of forty minutes in the month of Iune is the contrarye in March and in September all hours be equall as is the dayes in other monthes by equall portion Thus endeth the .vij. Planettes vpon the .vij. dayes in the weeke ¶ And hereafter followeth the natures and expositions of the .xij. signs deuyded by the .xij. monthes in the yeare ¶ March hath the sign of the Ram. And is indifferent for taking of purgacion and is very good to let blood ARies is a sygn moueable hote and drye colorike nature of fyre and hath Lordship in mans head and the face and the parties longing to the head when the moone is in that sign beware of cutting in the head or in the face or in any vayn that longeth to the head Also it is perrillous in the begynning of Aryes to take any headache or any hurting in the head for it were â—â—ken of long during or else of death but it is not so perrillous in the end of it and this signe is moueable Oriental of masculyne kynde then is good to worke all thinges that is wrought with fyre and it is good to take vyages towardes the east and it is good to let blood on the arme and to bath thee and to sow seedes and to make matrymonies and to begin all good works that would soone haue ende and is euyll to doe thinges whyche thou wouldst should last long for as much as the Ramme is a beast that raungeth and casteth vp agayne the meat that he eateth tofore Therfore there then shoulde no medecyne nor passyon be taken inward whyle the Moone is in that sygne for all naturall medicines and passyons receyued in that tyme men shoulde caste them vp agayne and so it falleth in all the sygnes that bene raunging as Aries Taurus and Caprycorne and the last partie of Sagittarie In all these there shoulde no passions be geuen for dreade of casting vp agayne For this Sygne ryseth out of the Orient causeth the time to be hote and drye The man that is borne vnder the sign of Aries by kind of complexyon is Chollorick shalbe witty and wyse and deceyueable small of bones yellow of collour and kynd of heart The Sunne entreth into the sign of Aries the .xv. Kal. of March and dwelleth therein vnto the .xvj. Kalen. of Aprill And in the Month of March is .iij. perrillous dayes to take any sicknes vpon that is to say the xv.xvii and the .xix. ¶ Aprill hath a signe of the Bul and is euill for to take purgation And also euill to let blood THe Moone being in Taurus that is the signe of the Bull the which sygne reigneth in the neck the throte it is then perrillous to be ventused in the neck or catch sicknes in y e throt and much more perrilous in the beginning than in the ende this sygne is stedfaste Merydyonall that is of the South party he is cold and dry earthly and of feminine kynd and melancholy of complection it is then good to sowe seedes to plante trees and vynes for they shal redily grow and it is good to builde houses and to wed a wyfe and euery thing to do that thou wouldest haue long to indure and stably to abyde It is euill to begin battayle or to fyghte For it causeth the tyme to be colde and drye and the wynde to haue his course nigh the earth and the skyes to flye abroade by the earth The man that is borne vnder thys sygne is by kynd of complection melancholy vnstable and vntrue white lyuered and scarce of his purse The sun entreth in the sygne of Taurus the .xv. Kalen. of Aprill and dwelleth therin vnto the .xvi. Kalen. of May. And in this month of Aprill is two perrillous dayes to take any manner of sicknesse on that is to say the .xvi. and the .xxi. ¶ May hath the signe of two twins and is indifferent to take purgacion and is euill to let blood WHen the Moone is in Gemini that is the sign of two twinnes or two children of one byrthe the which Signe reigneth in the armes and the hands of a man This signe is double bodied and occidental that is the West party and is Sanguine of complexion hote and moyst after the ayre In that time beware of cutting in the shoulders armes hands nor in that tyme vppon no vayne in those places It is good that time to treate of friendship and when the moone is in the signe of Gemini beware of letting of blood for it is euill and specially in the blumes for Gemini gouerneth them and if one take the sicknes in a house and dye all the other be in great dauÌ„ger to die of the same The man that is borne whyle the moone is vnder the Lordship of this signe he shal by way of kinde be very wise priuy and true he shal haue .iij. wiues and he shall trauayle mightye fast to purchase worshippes the Sunne entreth the signe of Gemini the .xv. kalen of May and dwelleth therin till the .xvi. Kalen. of Iune And in the month of May is three daungerous dayes that is for to saye the .vij. the xv and the .xx. Iune hath the signe of the Creuis And is good for to take purgacion and is indifferente to let blood ¶ Cancer is a signe moueable colde moyst flumatick and watrye and hath of
THE MIRROVR or Glasse of Health Necessary and needefull for euerye person to looke in that will keepe their bodye from the Sicknesse of the Pestylence and it sheweth how the Planets do reygne in euery hower of the day and nyght wyth the natures and expositions of the xii Signes deuided by the twelue Months of the yeare And sheweth the remedyes for dyuers Infirmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of Man ¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate beneath the Conduite at the Signe of S. Iohn Euaungelist by Hugh Iackson ¶ The Prologue of the Authour I Do you well to wit that thys Booke profyteth greatly to euery Surgion for to know in what signe or in what degree of the signe the sunne and the moone sitteth euery day in any of the twelue signes and not only it is profytable to Surgions but also to Phisitions and to al that vse to giue medicines or laxatiues or to vse any Bassions or cutting or letting of blood For as the Sunne passeth through al the twelue Sygnes by the space of a yeare abyding in a signe thirtie dayes righte so doth the Moone passe through all the twelue signes that in thyrty dayes aabydynge in a Sygne three score howers And as the Moone among all Planettes is next the earth in course so shee hath most effecte of working in these earthly thinges after the disposytion of the nature of the sygns that she hath her course in And therefore it is ful necessary truely to know the state the course and the nature of the moone for thereby a man may know when it is good to begin manye dyuers thinges when it is not good And also what weather is most likely to fal after the nature of the signs whether drye or moyst hote or colde there shall follow after the nature of the sygne that shee is in In dyuers coniunctions of Planets that is ioyned therewith and therefore naturally in order I purpose me to declare shortly in the sixt Chapiter the nature and the state of euery signe that shee passeth by ⸪ ¶ Here followeth the Table of this present Booke THE fyrste parte of thys Booke sheweth dyuers causes how the Pestylence maye bee ingendred Capitulo .i. The second part sheweth how man woman and chylde should preserue and keepe them from the pestilence Capitulo .ii. The thyrd parte sheweth and if it be that man woman or child be taken with the pestilence what remedies and medicines is best therfore cap .iii. After that followeth the seuen dayes with the Planets cap. iiii Howe the Planettes raygne in euery houre of the day and of the night and the fyrst is the howers of Sonday Cap. v. The natures and expositions of the twelue signs deuyded by the. xiii Monthes of the yeare cap. vi For the headach ca. vii For the aking of the head ca. viii For to spurge the head ca. ix Also for to spurge the head ca. x. For the toothach ca. xi For the ach of a hollow tooth ca. xii Also for the toothach ca. xiii Also for the toothach cap. xiiii Also yet for the toothach cap. xv For the stench in the mouth ca. xvi For stinking breath ca. xvii for ach and wormes in the eares Capitulo xviii A pretious water for poyson and specially agaynst the pestilence ca. xix for running eyen cap. xx for red blered eyen cap. xxi for eyen that bene dasuned or darke Capitulo xxii A precious water for the sight of the eyen ca. xxiii for the pinne and the web in the eye Capitulo xxiiii For all euils in the eyen ca. xxv for boyling in the eye ca. xxvi for a stinking breath ca. xxvii for a hote swolen stomacke ca. xxviii for the stomacke that aketh commeth of colde cap. xxix For to force the stomack ca. xxx For the stomack and the belly that aketh ca. xxxi For a man that is sick at the stomack or in the belly or at the hearte or head or were bitten with anye venemous beast ca. xxxii For rysing vnder the stomack Capitulo xxxiii A good playster for the rysyng vnder the stomack ca. xxxiiii For heat in the stomack ca. xxxv For brenning in the stomack Capitulo xxxvi For to auoyde flume oute of the stomack and the head Cap. xxxvii For al euils in the stomack ca. xxxviii For a disease at the heart Cap. xxxix For weakenesse of the heart cap. xl For fayntnesse of the heart cap. xli For the hart that is incōbred ca. xlii For a man woman or chylde that is broken in the bellye cap. xliii A playster to knit him cap. xliiii For that playster in May. cap. xlv For to break wind in the bely ca. xlvi For a swolen womb cap. xlvii For aking of the wombe cap. xviii For the heart breaking cap. xlix For sore sydes within cap. l. Contra telamet masculam in Oculo cap. li. For a womans pape that is sore Capitulo lii For the liuer that is corrupt and wasted cap. liii For heate in the lyuer cap. liiii Also for the hete in the lyuer of a mā that his colour is yellow cap. lv For a mannes breast that is encombred cap. xlvi For a man that hath wormes in hys belly and his body leane cap. lvii For the brest and the lunges Capitulo lviii For to auoyde and destroy flume Capitulo lix For the stone cap. lx Another for the stone cap. lxi For the Colyke Strangury and the Stone Cap. lxii For a man that is a leper and it take in his legs and go vpward cap. lxiii For a derte in a mans flesh Ca. lxiiii For a sauce flume vysage ca. lxv For him that may not holde his water cap. lxvi Another for the same ca. lxvii For to destroy flume ca. lxviii For a wombe that is hard ca. lxix For the bloody menyson cap. lxx For a mans stones that bee swolen ca. lxxi For to make one slender ca. lxxii For him that lacketh wynd ca. lxxiii For him that is costife ca. lxxiiii For a wicked blast in the vysage Capitulo lxxv For the shingles ca. lxxvi For the cough ca. lxxvii For the perrillous cough cap. lxxviii Also for the chincough ca. lxxix For the Itch. ca. lxxx For to drawe a byle from one place to another cap. lxxxi For him that pisseth blood ca. lxxxii For him that hath lost his mynde Capitulo lxxxiii Another for the same ca. lxxxiiii For him that hath the frensy ca. lxxxv For one that vomiteth to much Capitulo lxxxvi For a disease in the eares ca. lxxxvii For a man that his eares swones wythin cap. lxxxviii For synowes that shrinke after that they haue bene hurt and blede again Capitulo lxxxix For to staunch blood cap. xc For to staunch blood cap. xci For the empostume cap. xcii For spitting of blood ca. xciii For wylde fyre that is called the fyre of Hell ca. xciiii For byting of a mad dogge ca. xcv For to doe away a wen. ca. xcvi For to breake a felon in a night
from infection of the liuer than if the matter appere in y e scher beside the priuy members bleede on the foote in the same side on the vaine that is betwixt thy great toe and the nexte toe for if the botch be drawing thether And thou blede on the arme the matter theÌ„ wil draw vp agayne to the lyuer and so to the hart that is perrillous And if the botch be more outward to the syde and farther froÌ„ the preuy members blede theÌ„ on the vayn betwene the anckle and the foote the heele or else on the vayne that is vnder the ankle that is called the Sophem or else loke y t thou be soone ventused w t a veÌ„tosing best beneth the botch but that is very paynful Neuertheles in case that the vayn may not be taken or else that the vayne may not bleed it must needs be suffred in such perrill may thou be If the matter appeare in the clensing part of the head consyder wel on what syde it appeareth and bleede on the vayne or on the arme the which vayne lieth next the Cardiacle the which Cardiacle lyeth in the midst of the arme righte in the bouth of the arme or else blede on the vayne that is on the hande that is betwixt the thombe and the nexte finger or else be ventosed betwixt the shoulders But take good heede that when so euer thou haste bled of anye of these vaynes take good heede that thou sleepe not after thy blood letting of .xiii. howers If thou be riche and may well spende then it were good to haue this Pomamber euermore in thy hand hold it to thy nose that thou may receyue the sauour and smel therof for coÌ„forting of the brayne and of all other Spiritual members the which thou shalte make thus take Lapdanum pured one ounce storax calamint disolued Roses Cloues Maces of ech one three halfepeny wayght make theÌ„ in pouder that ought to be made in pouder fyue sponeful of oyle de-bay an ounce of Virgin waxe and dissolue them and when they be dissolued put all together and myngle them well vnto they be cold make thereof a ball the quantitie of a walnutte and that is called the Pomeamber the sent or the smell thereof will comforte the lyuely spyrites in man and if thou rule thee thus as I haue taught thee thou may by the grace of god and by his gouernance preserue thy selfe from the Pestylence ¶ Thus endeth the second parte of the Pestilence treatise And here followeth the thyrd parte that sheweth a man be taken with the pestilence what remedy and medicine is best therfore Cap. iij. HEre the thyrd parte of this treatise telleth what is agaynst this sicknesse of the pestylence that reigneth among the people and what medicine is best therefore Auicen in his Canon on the parte there hee treateth De dura februm there is no sicknes that falleth in kind but there is medicine in kynde for it Therfore if so be it be taken in due tyme than if thou shalte fall into this sicknesse looke that thou be letten blood as I haue told And if there be any feuer or any ague annexed thereto and the corrupt blood be drawne awaye on this bleeding as I haue tolde And the princypall members ventused the heart ought then to be comforted with good Letwers or with colde water stilled the which Letwers be these that wil withdraw vnkindlye heates as conserue of Vyolets conserue of Borage conserue of Buglos drawn with suger decoct with water of Turmentill water of Endiue Water of Roses water of Borage mingled by euen portion And then take these euery daye euery houre of the day with water of Turmentil water of Scabious water of Vyolets or else water of Endiue Also it were needefull to haue this water distilled of these herbs of Detan of Scabious of Turmentill of Vyolets of Endiue and Letise and for to drinke these mingled w t whyte wytte of Gascan or else of Rochell witte and namely the whilst that vnkindly heate reigneth Also it were needefull to haue water of Roses and Byttayne to washe thy temples withall and thy pulse withal of thy Arme and thy hands And also it were needeful to take of the last that is to say of Rose and of 〈◊〉 and put thereof in a saucer of pewter or in a siluer pece chause it of little and â—â—p a linnen Cloth .iiij. wide and were it therein And the 〈◊〉 thou arte in thy great heate of the agrie lay the linnen cloth were in the water vpon thy temples vpon thy forehead and another vpon thy lyuer Take also two other clothes lapped and were on the same wyse and laye in euerie armehole one and thys practysyng shall doe thee great ease whether thou bee curable shal lyue or vncurable and shall die But the moste nedeefull thyng of all if so he that this were in any wise aforesayde is for to drawe the botch by craft away froÌ„ the clensyng place a great space from the hart And that shall I tell the how in all my practisyng in Phisicke this .xviij. yeare I wyft it neuer fall but twyse and that was not long of the medicine And one other tyme but of other defautes the which I will not wryte at thys tyme though it will expell and vorde it And looke in the tyme of pestilence that thy codmares be alway freshlye washen and after the washing loke that they be dipped in the fyne water of Roses and on the same wyse the kerchefe that thou lappest thy heade in on nightes and let it drye by the fyre and not by the pestylence ayre And when thou layest thee downe to sleepe lay vnder thy head and vnder the ende of thy pillow that is toward thy vysage Rosemary Isope Souerayn mynts Perial Rial Lorel leaues put in thy mouth Maces and Cloues or else Nutmegges looke euery day y t thou take of fyne Treacle proued the quantity of a beane and a half Also bere in thy purse these maner of spyces Maces Cloues Duybybes Canel or else Cynamon and chewe thereof and eate therof all the tymes of the day ¶ And if thou be a poore man and maye not intende to the costes of these thinges Take then euerye daye fastinge myne syppes in fyne vyneger of whyte wyne or else of read wyne and drinke to them a saucer full of Vyneger or thou passe out of thy house or place Also one of the best gouernaunce of all is in blood letting for thou shalts vnderstand that a man is in spirytuall members principall that is for to say the hart the liuer and the brayn and euery one of these hath his place geuen him by kynde by the which he may auoyde al such superfluities and cleare himselfe The heart hath his clensing place in the arme hole The cleansing place of the lyuer is betwixt the thigh and the body The cleansing place of the brayn is vnder the eares
of the eare rootes and the throate Then this sicknesse of the pestilence commeth thus when the poores of a man are open then fyrste entreth the venemous and the corrupt ayre and as soone as it hath maistry and mingled with mans blood then runneth it to the heart that is roote ground of mans lyfe for to destroy mankind and for to infect and destroy all lyuely spirites in a man and so fynallye for to kill and flea him but the hearte and the cleane blood flyeth all that is noyous contrarious vnto kynd And in as much as in him is expelled all such manner of corruption and venemous from him to his clensyng place to the armehole But than for that place is sometyme stopped that it may not out and it passeth then all the principall member nexte that is the lyuer for to destroy it And then it doth as the heart doth in hys kynde And expelleth it from him to his clensing place betwixte the thigh and the bodye for it is also spared in case and stopped it maye not out but passeth the meates and the vaynes vnto the thyrd principall member that is the brayne but then he would expel it to his clensing place that is vnder the eares and it maye not in case out therfore the stopping and the sparing of the meates and poores and for thicknesse of the foule and corrupt blood and the venemous matter is moouing that is mingled therewith and thus long tyme the matter is mouing or it resteth in any place sometyme twelue howers and sometyme .xxiiij. howers and somtime more sometyme lesse after the degree and the gentlenesse the greatnesse of the sicknes corruptions and venemous that be gendred But theÌ„ at the last somtime within .xxiiij. hours it passeth not out of y e clensing place nor at no other place thorough bleding then it festures in some place and cast a maÌ„ into an ague maketh a botch in some of the three cleansing places or else nexte to them on some vaine ye shall well wit that a botche groundeth him euermore and setteth him on a vayne and letteth the blood that than it may not haue his kynde lye course by the vayne as he shoulde haue but it is infect thereby And so all the principall and spyrituall members are infect and thus sleieth men Thus endeth the thyrde parte of this Pestilence treatise And hereafter followeth the .vij. dayes with the Planets Capitulo iij. IN these seuen planets thou oughtst to know that the Sonday hath his doing vnder the Sunne The Monday vnder the Moone The Tewesday vnder Mars The Wednesday vnder Mercurye The Thurseday vnder Iupiter The Fryday vnder Venus The saterday vnder Saturne Note-well that all the true act and operation ought to be made vnder this Planet and is best it be made on his proper day of the Planet and the houre proper exempte Vnder Saturne is the lyfe edifyce doctryne and â—â—tacion comprynse Vnder Iupiter obtayn honour richesse and gay costly garmentes Vnder Mars battayle prison maryage and inimite Vnder the sunne Esperaunce Gayne Fortune and Herytage Vnder Venus Loue socyetye Lyfe louing and Pilgrymage Vnder Mercury sicknesse Mysery Death and fearefulnesse Vnder the Moone slouth euyll thoughtes and thefte ¶ Here followeth howe the Planettes reigne in euery hower of the daye and of the night And the fyrste is the hower of the Sonday Cap. v. THe fyrst houre of Sondaye reigneth Soll the seconde Venus the third Mercurye fourth Luna the fyfte Saturne the syxte Iupyter the seuenth Mars the eyghte Soll the ninth Venus the teÌ„th Mercury the .xi. Luna the. xii Saturne The hower of the Sonday night The fyrst hower Iupiter the seconde Mars the thyrd Soll. the .iiij. Venus the fyfte Mercury the syxte Luna the .vij. Saturne the eyghte Iupiter the ninth Mars the tenth Soll the eleuenth Venus the twelf Mercury The howers of the Mondaye The fyrst hower Luna the second Saturne the .iij. Iupiter the fourth Mars the fyft Soll the sixt Venus the seueÌ„th Mercury the eight Luna the ninth Saturne the .x. Iupiter the leuenth Mars the twelfe Sol. The howers of the Monday night The fyrst Venus the second Mercury the third Luna the fourth Saturne the fyfte Iupiter the syxte Mars the seuenth Soll the eyghte Venus the .ix. Mercury the tenth Luna the eleuenth Saturn the .xij. Iupiter The howers of the Tewesdaye The fyrst Mars the seconde Soll the thyrd Venus the fourth Mercury the .v. Luna the .vj. Saturne the seuenth Iupiter the .viij. Mars y e .ix. Sol the .x. Venus the .xi. Mercury the .xii. Luna The howers of the Tuesday night The fyrst Saturne the .ij. Iupiter the .iii. Mars the fourth Sol the .v. Venus the sixt Mercury the seueÌ„th Luna the eyght Saturn the nynth Iupiter the .x. Mars the .xi. Sol the twelfe Venus The howers of the Wednesday The fyrst Mercury the second Luna the thyrde Saturne the fourth Iupiter the .v. Mars the syxte Sol the seuenth Venus the eyght Mercury the ninth Luna the tenth Saturn the eleuenth Iupiter the twelf Mars The hours of the Wednesday night The fyrst Sol the seconde Venus the .iii. Mercury y e .iiii. Luna the .v. Saturne the sixte Iupiter the .vii. Mars the eyght Sol the .ix. Venus the .x. Mercury the .xi. Luna the .xii. Saturne The howers of the Thurseday The fyrst Iupiter the seconde Mars the thyrde Soll the fourth Venus the fyfte Mercurye the syxte Luna the seuenth Saturne the ryght Iupiter the ninth Mars the tenth Soll the eleuenth Venus the twelfe Mercury The houres of the Thurseday night The fyrste Luna the seconde Saturne the thyrde Iupiter the fourth Mars the fyft Sol the syxt Venus the seuenth Mercury the eyght Luna the nynth Saturn the tenth Iupiter the .xj. Mars the .xij. Sol. The howers of the Fryday The fyrst Venus the second Mercury the thyrd Luna the fourth Saturne the fyfte Iupiter the syxte Mars the seuenth Soll the eyghte Venus the ninth Mercury the tenth Luna the .xj. Saturne the twelfe Iupiter The howers of the Frydaye night The fyrste Mars the seconde Soll the thyrd Venus the fourth Mercury the fyfte Luna the sixt Saturne the seueÌ„th Iupiter the eyght Mars the ninth Sol the tenth Venus the eleuenth Mercury the xii Luna The howers of Saterdaye The fyrst Saturne the seconde Iupyter the thyrde Mars the fourth Sol the fyft Venus the sixte Mercury the .vij. Luna the eyghte Saturn the ninth Iupiter the .x. Mars the .xj. Sol the .xij. Venus The howers of the saturday night The first Mercury the secoÌ„d Luna the thyrde Saturne the fourth Iupiter the fift Mars the sixt Sol the seueÌ„th Venus the .viij. Mercury the ninth Luna the .x. Saturne the .xj. Iupyter the .xij. Mars Note that Iupiter and Venus be good Saturne and Mars euil Sol and Luna indifferente Mercurye is good with them that be good euyll with them that be euill Also note well that the howers of the planets bene differente to
and suger seeth al these in good ale till it be thick and geue it the sick to drink and he shall be whole Also a good playster for the rysing vnder the stomack Cap. xxxiiii Take yeâ—ow otherwyse called milfoly red Fenel red Mints Borage Rue fetherfoy clotes leues Peritorie egrimony of euerich a like much and the grece of a barrow Hog for a man and for a womaÌ„ of a yelk Hog that is of a Sow kind and seth theÌ„ altogither in good ale and make a playster thereof and lay it to the stomack as hote as it may be suffred .ii. or three times and he shall be hole For to destroy the heate in the stomack Cap. xxxv Take fayre clere water and boyle it well and scum it and put therin shiuers of browne bread and let theÌ„ lie therin an houre till the water be almost cold and theÌ„ drink therof two or three dayes by dyuers times and he shall amend in shorte time For breÌ„ning in the stomack ca. xxxvi Take and eate greene percely and galingale without any other thing For to auoyd flume out of thy stomack and the head Cap. xxxvii Take pouder of Pelatory of spayn and pouder of comin pouder of long peper pouder of ginger mustard vineger and medle them togither and chaufe them on the fire til they wax thicke then as hote as ye may suffer put parte thereof in your mouth galking in your throte vp and down but let none enter to your stomack doe this diuers tymes spitting oute by the space of an hower and this is gargarisme For al euils in y e stomack ca. xxxviii Take ashe seede linne seede Commin of euery a lyke much geue it to the sick body to drinke wyth hote worte or else with fayre hote water For the disease at the harte ca. xxxix Take â—â—â—uary and seeth it in stale ale and when it is wel soden stamp it in a morter seeth it agayne with the same lycour and then cleanse it through a cloath and proporcion the ioice put therto three sponeful of clarifyed honey and boyle it well togyther agayn and put it in a boxe and giue it to the pacient euery day a .iij. sponefull fasting till he be hole and this shal doe away the glut from his hart make him to sauour his mete For weaknesse of the hearte Cap. xl Take Rose water Pearles beaten smal to powder and medle it with suger and drinke it two or three dayes For faintnesse of the heart Cap. xli Take the fyling of Gold and the pouder of the bone of a Harts heart medled with the iuice of Borage suger made in syrrope for that is very good forswoning For the brest that is incombred Capitulo xlii Take Isope and seeth it in a pottle of wyne till that it come to a quarre let the sick vse thereof fyrst in the morning and last at euen hote and at morow colde till he be hole For a man woman or chylde that is broken in the belly ca. xliii Take in May the tender croppes of herbe Osmonde and drie them with the wynde and not in the sunne and make powder therof and sacre it and keepe it drye in a bladder let the pacient drynke of y e pouder with whyte wyne euen and morrow wynter and soÌ„mer sauing in May in May drink of the teÌ„dring of the said Osmond for this drinke wil make the broken belly greene as it were new broken and the Patient must be well and easilye trussed that he or she may goe with it all day and lye with it all night till he be hole and that will be within foureteene dayes if he be well ruled for he must lye vpright as much as he may both day and night and not strayne his bellye but as little as he can And he must keepe him lax as long as he is sick and lye in his bed two howers in the morning after he hath drunk this medicine must eate no white meate till he be whole nor walke but easilye for strayning The playster to knit him Capitulo xliiii Take Polipodye that groweth on an oke the rotes thereof and pare the cleane and the rotes of Elenacampana and pare them cleane and then bete them in a morter as smal as thou canst temper it with Oyle of Bay and make it a playster thicke and lay it on a thicke cloath a good quantitie and lay it there the sick is greeued vnder the trusse from the euen tyll the morrow and on the morrow change it agayne this is for all the yeare saue in May then the leaues be better For the playster in May. Cap. xlv Take Polipone leues and the leues of Elenacampana and daysye leaues and bete them smal and temper them with oyle of bay as thou seemest best to make a plaister and lay it there the sore is euen and morrow and he shall by the grace of God be whole For to breake wynde in the bellye Cap. xlvi Take Commin Fenell seede and annis beaten in powder then seeth it in wyne and drinke it fyrst and last For a swolen wombe Cap. xlvii Take the iuice of Rue and let the pacient drinke it with wyne or ale and he shalbe hole on warrantise For aking of the wombe Cap. xlvii Take Tansye Rue Sothernwood eate them with salte he shalbe hole For the harte brenning Cap. xlix Take the crop of Fenel and chew it in thy mouth and suck the iuice therof and spet out the other parte and hee shall be hole For the sore sydes within forth Cap. l. Take Alesanders Persly Louage red fenell Smalage Burnet Gromell and seeth them in whyte wyne tyll halfe be consumed then strayne it and let the sick drynk it fyrst and last at euen hote and at morrow colde Contra telamet masculam in oculo Capitulo li. Take fenel vnset Goldes Veruayne and Betaine Aum and stampe them and temper them wyth Ale or whyte wyne and strayn it and then stampe nyne lowpes otherwyse called Cheflocks and put them in the sayd lycour and gyue it to the Pacyent to drynke nyne dayes followyng and he shall be hole For a womans Pappe that is sore Cap. lii Take the roote of Bryan that is to saye wylde Neppe and make bare al the ouer part of the sayd rote that is to say the top of the rote and make an hole therein and couer it wyth the tyle stone and put it in the earth and laye earth vpon it and let it stande so foure or fyue dayes then open it and take the iuice that ye fynde in the hole and keepe it in a Glasse and therwith anoynt the brest and it shall be hole For the lyuer that is corrupte and wasted Capitulo liii Take a good quantitie of Lyuer-worte and bruse it a little and then seeth it in good strong worte with a quantitie of Rubard and vse this medicine and thou shalte be whole For the heate in the Lyuer