drying and astringeÌ„t but the wild Woad is much stronger than the tame Woodcocke in gréeke Scolopax of Hesychius Varino Nemesiano in latine of Gaza Gallinago of Heradianus Perdix syluestris of other Perdix rustica or Rusticula of Niphus and Volaterranus Gallinella of the simplicists Rostrulula and Gallinacea Woodpecker Picus Martius Turbo in gréeke Driocalaptes of Arist Driocolaps of Hesych it is a well knowen bird it is mentioned otherwhiles in some dyets in this worke Woolblade or Longwoort in gréeke Phlomus or Phlonus of Apuleius Pycnitis in latine Verbascum foeminalis Lucumbra Candela regis Candelaria Lanaria at the Apothecaries Tapsus barbatus There are fower kinds of it wherof the first is the common Woolblade with the white woolly leaues and yellow flowers it is called Verbascum albifolium and in gréeke Leucophyllon The second kinde is like the former but that the leaues are blacker and broader it is called blacke Woolblade in gréeke Phlomos melanophyllos in latine Verbascum nigrum The third kinde is the wilde Woolblade it hath a long stalke with great leaues much like to the great Sage it hath yellow flowers in gréeke Phlomos agrios in latine Verbascum syluestre of the Herbarists Verbascum saluifolium The fourth kinde is most like to the first but that the flowers are white and it is called white Woolblade Verbascum album and Verbascum foemina Woolfes bane in gréeke and latine Aconitum There are sixe kindes of it the first hath round leaues not much vnlike to the lesser Cucumbers with pretie yellow floures not vnlike to theÌ„ of Doronicum The rootes are round with many ioynts the little rootes about it are very like a Scorpion it is called in Gréeke and Latine Pardalianches Thelyphonum Aconitum Thelyphonum Theriophonum Aconitum Theriophonum Myoctonum aconitum Myoctonum and Scorpion The second kind of Wolfsbane hath leaues like to the Italian plaine tree but somewhat déeper iagged the roote is blacke with many haires about it This plant is sufficiently knowne by the name Wolfs-bane it groweth on high hils and is called in Greeke and Latine Lycoctonum Aconitum Lycoctonum Cynoctonum and aconitum Cynoctonum The Herbarists do call it Aconitum Lycoctonum luteum the Apothecaries Luparia The third kinde is called of the Herbarists Aconitum Lycoctonum Caeruleum there are also thrée kindes of it and it is common in all gardens The fourth kinde of Wolfsbane is Aconitum Lycoctonum caeruleum magnum Auicenna calleth it Napellus it is a very venimous herbe The fift kinde hath yellow flowers and is called yellow Wolfsbane of the Herbarists Aconitum Lycoctonum luteum minus The sixt kinde groweth in darke and shadowie woods the stalke is about one span and a halfe in height and about the middest of the same are foure darke gréene leaues standing opposite one against the other it getteth a blacke berry vnder which many little leaues are placed each opposite to other It is called of the Herbarists Aconitum salutiferum Sigillum Christi Crux Christi Sigillum Veneris and Herba Paris It is a very holsome herbe and may be vsed inwardly very well against many diseases Many learned men would haue it to be Aconitum pardalianches but it is as like it as an apple is like an oyster By Wolfs-bane shalt thou vnderstand the yellows Wolfsbane Wormewood in Latine and Gréeke Absinthium Aloina there are thrée kindes of it The first is the common Wormewood that groweth euery where called Bathypicâ—on Barypicâ—on and Absinthium rusticum The second kinde is like to the former in leaues and floures but it is somewhat lesse and it groweth not aboue a span and a halfe in height it is also bitter like the foresayd yet somewhat more pleasant to be vsed it groweth on hilly places This kinde will neuer be greater although it grow in fertill grounds This is the same Wormewood which Dioscorides doth call Absinthium ponticum Mesues Absinthium Romanum of the Simplicists Absinthium montanum and Plinie Absinthium Italicum The third kinde is very like the great Wormewood but it hath lesser leaues and stalks then the mountaine Wormewood it groweth also somewhat higher The leaues are white and soft This groweth on sandie ditches It is called Romish Wormewood to auoyd all errours and we leaue the name of mountaine Wormewood vnto the second kinâ— This Wormewood is called of Galen Absinthium ponticum But Mesues and other authors do take the second kinde to be the true Absinthium ponticum Whensoeuer thou findest Wormewood by it selfe in any composition then is the mountaine wormewood to be taken and vsed and if that cannot be had then must you take the common wormewood that groweth in the fields and not that which groweth in gardens for the garden wormewood is not so strong neither can it performe that which the wilde wormewood doth that groweth on dry grounds Wormewood is hot in the first and dry in the third degrée Yerrow Nosebléede or Millfoyle in Gréeke Stratiotes Chiliophyllos Supercilium veneris Herba militaris and Millefolium It is a common herb it is drying and astringent Yewe Taxus Smilax Milos The end of the second Table The third Index This third and Latine Index contayneth all the Latine Greeke and other strange names of all Simples especially of those which are mentioned in this Booke as Rootes Herbs Floures Fruits Plants Iuices Gummes Woods Stones Barks Metals Minerals Earths Deere and whatsoeuer else is vsed in Physick Also all mixed and compounded Medicines as Electuaries Confectures Syrupes Iuleps Conserues Cakes Pils Salues Oyles Potions and distilled waters with their names not only as they are called by the auncient Greeke and Latine Physitions but also as they are now named amongst the common Physitions and Apothecaries In like sort also all inward and outward parts and members of the body with all the diseases that euery one of them is subiect vnto A. ABalzener Arabum Sena Sene. Abies a Firre tree Abies candida a white Firre trée Abies nigra a black Firre trée Abiga Chamaepitys small Cipres or wilde Cipres Abioten Abiotoâ— Hemlock Abortus an vntimely birth Abrotonum Sothernwood Abrotonum foemina Sothernwood female Abscessus an impostume or botch Absinthium Wormewood Absinthium bathypicron common wormewood Absinthium Italicum Italian wormewood Absinthium ponticum Wormewood gentle or Wormewood ponticke Absinthium montanum Wormewood of the hill Absinthium Romanum Wormewood Romane Absinthium rusticum common or rurall Wormewood Absinthium thalassium sea Wormewood Absinthites Wormewood wine Abuolum Plinij Pulegium Pennyroyall Acacia the iuice of a thorne in Egypt in stéede whereof we vse the iuice of Sloes Acalephe Vrtica Nettles Acalypha a Nettle Acanthus or Acantha Branke vrsine or Bearebreech Acanthus syluestris wilde branke vrsine Acantha Germanica Branke vrsine Acatalis Iuniperus minor a little Iuniper Acatera Iuniperus maior a great Iuniper Acetosa Sorrell Acetosa satiua Garden Sorrell Acetosa rotunda round Sorrell Acetosa Gallica French Sorrell Acetosa minor the lesser Sorrell Acetosa ouina shéepes Sorrell Acetum Vineger Acetum
strayner or sieue hold it ouer a dish and with a round pestell squise it thorough the strainer and all the black pith will passe thorough and hang on the outside of the strainer which thou shalt scrape off with a knife and kéepe it then set thy sieue or strainer ouer the boyling water as is aforesaid and afterwardes squise it thorough againe as at the first This worke shalt thou do againe so long till no more pith passe thorough and nothing but kernels remaine in thy strainer this prepared Cassia is called by the Apothecaries Cassia cribrata Note that when thou wilt vse this Cassia it must alwaies be new taken out of the pipes for being reserued out of the pipe presently it waxeth sower and especially in the sommer time Of this strained Cassia maist thou exhibite at one time one ounce or one ounce and a halfe in hot burning agues vnto children and women in child bed to euery of them more or lesse as they are able to beare Also if thou wilt haue this Cassia to purge more effectually then put either the blossomes or leaues of the Peach trée in the boyling water before thou hold thy Cassia ouer the vapor of it The vertue of Cassia is to purifie and cleare the bloud to quench thirst and to allay heat being taken with Endiue water also to purge the stomacke to driue out choler and flegme without any danger for it hath no sharpnesse or corroding vertue in it In like sort it is very comfortable for the brest and liuer and is very good for the kidneys being mixed with the appropriate waters that driue out grauell and beaten Licorise then ministred it doth scowre away the grauell and hindreth the growing of the stone It is vsed in a confection with Manna and it is also prepared for Clisters Coloquint Coloquint is a very bitter apple and is oftentimes sowne in gardens for pleasure sake yet it is found very seldome to be ripe The vse of that which is brought vs from Venice or other places is this and no otherwise The innumerable white kernels being cast away the rest shall be beaten very small and sifted thorow a very fine searce and so be brought to as fine a powder as possible may be when it is wet it swelleth as if it had neuer bene powdered and for that cause it is straightly charged to be reduced into so fine a dust for if neuer so little a peece should by chaunce remaine in the stomacke or guts it would easily excoriate and hurt them so that hereby the sinewes might take some harme yea lamenesse and crampes ensue of it The right preparation of it is this that followeth Take of the aforesaid fine powdered Coloquint two ounces and a halfe rub it a great while with two ounces of oile of Roses then take of the gum Tragacanth of gum Arabicke of Bdellium of each of them ℥ ss stéepe them in a litle rose water vntill they be dissolued put of this mixture vnto the beaten Coloquint and forme little cakes of it let them drie beate them small againe and fashion your cakes againe with the gum water and kéepe them On this wise prepared are they more safe than the crude Coloquint and are called Throcisci Alandali To what end they be vsed in phisicke shall be shewed hereafter This prepared Coloquint may be exhibited from ℈ j. to ℈ j. ss ℈ ij but it purgeth vehemently it draweth the tough flegmaticall humors from the head and other parts Coloquint is supposed of some to be hote and drie in the second of others in the third degrée Corrall Corrall both red and white is prepared in that manner as is aforesaid of the Pearles Coriander séede being hurtfull vnto the braine both by his hot nature by his strong smell Coriander seedes is verie profitable for many vses ye shall correct it as followeth Stéepe it the space of twelue howers in good strong wine vineger afterward euaporate or drie away your vineger from it in a warme place then it is prepared Black Coriander is the séed of Nigella Nigella seedes and is prepared as that aboue sayd Dates both swéete and sower do purge very easily especially in hot diseases great drithes Dates being prest close togither as they are brought vnto vs they are kept good a long time you may minister of them from two ounces to fower at once They néede no preparing or correcting at all for that they purge so gently and can do no harme Gems or precious stones are prepared as is aforesayd of pearles Gems Horsleaches the bloud sucking water worme Horsleaches shall be kept some dayes in fresh water before they be vsed putting a little bloud and bran into the water for their food then do they lose their venome Scoria ferri the refuse of iron shalt thou cast into faire water wash it Scoria ferri Refuse of iron and let it settle to the bottome powre of the water from it vntil it remaine verie cleane and pure afterward put it in an earthen pot that is well leaded or glassed within put as much vineger to it as will wet it onely and not ouerflow it let them stand so both togither the space of thirtie dayes in the meane while oftentimes stirring them afterward moule or grinde them on a marble as thou didst the pearles Polipodium little ferne or polipodie doth willingly grow on old wals and mossie stones Polipodie but the best groweth on okes it purgeth gall and slimie superfluities it is somwhat hurtfull to the stomacke it is therefore corrected with Annise séedes Fennell seedes Cloues Cumine seedes and is administred either with hony water or else with the water of grapes and very seldome by it selfe alone Epithymus Dodder is vsed in many profitable medicines Dodder the gold coloured and strong smelling Dodder is the best foure dragmes of it in powder or at the most six driueth out melancholie and choler It is almost neuer giuen by it selfe but alwayes admixed with other things but specially it is sodden in drinkes or potions at which time thou mayest vse one ounce at once It is put in last of all into the boiling potion The iuice of wild Cucumbers called in Gréeke Elaterium is pressed out of the wild Cucumbers the Phisitions commaund that it should not be vsed till it be two yeares old Elaterium it may be kept ten yeares togither the older it is the better and when it is moistened it is like vnto milk being put to the fire it doth presently burne It purgeth flegme water and all superfluous humidities most violently and in like sort gall and choler also It ought not to be vsed vnaduisedly or without the counsell of a skilfull Phisition for that an error might be committed in a few graines Euphorbium is a strange gum so called Euphorbium amongst all the purging simples the strongest and hottest verie sharpe and biting on the tong
rest through the vrine Item take the whay of Goats milke foure ounces séeth three dragmes of Spica nardi in it vnto thrée ounces and giue it him to drinke fasting Or take one ounce of the iuice of Nep. Also white Wine wherein the flowers of Rosemarie and the herbe be decocted is very méete for this Item the vineger of Squils is also very good The Trociscide Lacca or Crocoma one quarter of an ounce giuen at one time with any of the foresaid iuices be especiall good for this Item Rubarb Asarabacca Diptamus Cinnamome Agrimonie Marioram gentle Rue Myrrhe all together or each alone stéeped in Wine are very fit for the Dropsie or any other maladie In the description of the yellow Iaundise in the eleuenth § haue you also amongst other potions a very good potion fit for this beginning Take Gentian c. These things following do also expell vrine namely Hermodactili Indie Spica Licorice Cinnamome Fennell Betonie Vineger Parsly rootes Sage and Rosemarie séeth any of these things in Wine and in three or foure ounces of the same Wine dissolue one dragme of the trociskes De Lacca but aboue all other these here be very commodious Item the rootes of Nettles of Parsly Fennel Elecampane roots Asarabacca powned all together or each alone taking one dragme thereof or wine drunke wherein the same hath bene a while decocted The rootes of great Ferne boyled in Wine and drunke expell vrine very much Of all herb wines are commended aboue all other things for the Dropsie to wit wine of Gilloflowers rootes of Marioram gentle Betony Asarabacca and of Hyssope but all troubled wines are contrarie to this disease Outwardly are sundrie plaisters vsed and it is reported that they do bring foure kinds of commodities first they do supple drie expell wind and do strengthen the belly and all the intrailes like as these following are Take Coloquint Hollihocke séedes Diagridion Aloe Myrrhe roots of Mallowes and Bdellion of each one dragme and a halfe Ireos three dragmes séedes of Mallowes wild Cucumbers Cardamome and Euphorbium of each thrée drag Boreas Sal gemmae of each one quarter of an ounce Goose grease Duckes grease Calues Hogs suâ—t as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister or a salue lay this plaister vpon the belly it doth supple much The plaister of Bayberries is also speciall good for the Dropsie moreouer much mightier for it if the same be tempered with Goates dung or Cow dung If the priuities be much swollen then make this plaister following Take Annis Fennell and Comin beaten small together of each one ounce and a halfe Beane meale Ebulus the iuice of Elderne leaues and good Wine as much as will suffise lay it vpon the belly and ouer the priuities Another Take Barly meale Cypers rootes dryed Shéepes dung Borace and Bolus of each a like quantitie beate them together make a plaister thereof and apply it to the belly This plaister hath great force to exsiccate and drie the water Item take Cow dung or Goats dung and temper them with the vrine of a man child vnto a plaister Or take Oxe dung which is dryed in an ouen powne it to powder and make thereof a plaister with Wine and then lay it on the belly Another Take fat Figs thrée ounces Pigeon dung halfe an ounce Masticke and Spikenard of each halfe a dragme powne all that is to be powned and then make it to a plaister with Goates pisse Of all other salues is that of Agrippa much commended which is knowne at all Apothecaries for it is maruellous good for the Dropsie There is also another made that is Arthanita of Swines bred which is not so common For a common inunction the oyle of Cammomil and of Rue tempered together is very commodious But it is also to be noted that if so be that the Dropsie do come out of any cold occasion that then this foresaid plaister is to be layd vpon the whole belly and the cooling things vpon the Lyuer Sweating is very good for all Dropsies §. 15. IT is shewed that among other releuations and expulsions of superfluous moistures of mans bodie sweating is accounted one therefore it is very néedefull to write somewhat thereof and how that the sweate especially for Dropsies is moued We haue also written in another place of a drie sweate bath the which for the difference thereof we will rehearse here againe Take a flat tub turne the same vpside downe ouer a hote harth and make vnder this tub a small fire of Elderne wood or Iuniper wood without smoke vntill it be thorough warme When it is then hote set hoopes about it that it may be couered close then set the patient in the same tub couered euery where close yet so that his head be without Afterwards he is to rub him well to the end he may sweate well drie away the sweate and let him sit in it as long as he can abide it Item take Ebulus Beane straw of each a like quantitie séeth them together and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones as is accustomed It is also good to drinke a dragme of the powder of Bayberries with Wine and chiefly after the sweating Conserue of Elderne taken fasting before sweating after purging causeth abundant sweate and doth expell the fountaine or beginning of the Dropsie This following should be maruellous auailable for the Dropsie through sweating Take of the middlemost gréene rind of the Elder eight good handfuls Carduus Benedictus sixe handfuls Rosemarie thrée handfuls the vppermost sprigges of Elder thrée handfuls choppe all these small together then put them into a glasse and powre vpon it two quarts of white Wine then stoppe it very fast and so set it the space of fourteene dayes in horse dung and afterwards distill it in séething water whereof giue the patient one spoonfull twice a day But at the first time giue him very litle of it and if he can abide it then giue him more This hath bene tryed in a thicke fat woman that she must be laid vpon a leather bed that the sweate through this medicine hath runne so extreamely from her that it must be laden vp with dishes The great Treacle Diatessaron and Mithridate one dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with Wine or any of the foresaid waters do vehemently expell sweate In like manner is very commodious for this all that is set downe for the yellow Iaundise for prouoking vrine and expelling of grauell Certaine famous auncient Phisitions do aduise that vnto them that haue the Dropsie shal Treacle be giuen and that thereupon they should be made sweate vpon a boord in a warme Ouen hauing their head out But I cannot much approue the same The like grosse meanes like as to burie the sicke person warme in the said and other things moe there be of many men many described But I will not rehearse them all because I haue declared some that be more necessarie and tolerable Of
you must looke to your eies for they are hurtfull In Latine it is called Cucumis Anguinus Syluestris and Erraticus The Apopothecaries and common people call it a wilde Cucumber His iuice is Elaterium it is made as well of the rootes as of the leaues but it is not so forcible as that which is made of the fruite Of all medicines there is none that continueth longer good than the same for Theophrastus writeth that it hath bene found good and forcible 200. yeares it ought not be vsed vntill it be three yeares old it is hot and dry by nature for which cause Dioscorides doth place it amongst poisons It is so vehement that when a woman vseth it in pessaries it killeth the fruite But we haue written of it also in the Introduction Fleawort The Gréekes do cal the séed of this herb Psyllium the Latinists Pulicariam by reason that the séed is like to Fleas or that it hindereth the bréeding of such vermin The Apothecaries do kéepe both the Latin Greeke names It is as some say cold in the second degrée is measurably drie and moist Others do ascribe great cold vnto it wherewith this following doth agree Albeit this séed be commodiously vsed as many places of this booke may witnesse yet hath it neuertheles his venom to wit when one vseth too much therof for that it maketh the whole body cold sluggish féeble and vnapt Against this may be vsed that which is prescribed for Coriander Crowfoote the Gréekes do call Batrachion the Latinists Ranunculum that is Frogwort either because it willingly groweth as Frogs do in moist places or for that the Frogs gladly hide themselues vnder it Some call this herbe Flammulam by reason of his burning nature for being applied gréene it doth not onely excoriate the place with paine but also if the flowers lie long thereon it maketh a hard escarre The beggars haue learned this so wel that therwith they open their legs and make them sore that they are lothsome to behold to the end that thereby they may get the greater almes As much as appertaineth to the venome of this herbe it is by nature hot and drie so that it burneth not only the outward parts but also the inward parts when it is taken inward The roote dried prouoketh néesing if one hold it a good while at a tooth it drieth so much that it falleth to peeces Apiâ—strum which the Apothecaries do call Apium risus is also of the same nature We call it water Crowfoote it is with vs very sharpe but much sharper and more venemous in the Iland Sardinia Al that eate therof are depriued of their vnderstanding the sinewes of their mouth and lips are so mightily conuulsed that the patient séemeth alwayes to laugh when neuertheles he dieth whereof that vulgar prouerbe is sproong Sardinius risus which is Sardinians laughing that is as much as when one laugheth where he had more néede to wéepe Now to cure this venome you are to giue to the harmed abundance of hony water and milk to drinke and annoint the body with some warming salue or to put the patient into a bath of warme water among which oyle is tempered and in fine to vse all things for this purpose that is to be vsed for the crampe and conuulsion of the sinewes Nightshade do the Greekes call Strichinos or Trichnos and the Latinists Solanum the which name the Apothecaries haue turned into Solatrum Hereof are foure kinds described by the learned whereof the first is garden Nightshade which may be eaten amongst other pot herbs The second sort are the winter Cherries whereof we will not write any thing The third sort prouoketh sléepe The fourth sort maketh men mad and out of their wits wherefore it is called in low Dutch Dulcryut that is Maddingwort The Nightshade that prouoketh sléepe is colde in the third degree like to Opium whereof we will speake shortly but it is not altogether so colde and albeit that sometimes the root of this herb is taken for the dropsie yet notwithstanding shal the same be forborne for it hath often hapned that when one hath taken too many of the berries that he thereby is become raging and mad yea so stiffe ouer al his body as though al his ioynts were dislocated This stifnesse accustometh commonly to endure thrée dayes so that some deceiuers accustome to vse the same to bring men into a misbeléefe as Plinie writeth If one take the waight of a dragme of this roote it maketh a man lusty friendly and causeth wonderful fantasies so that they séeme to be foolish and to haue forgot all shamefastnes And such as take two dragmes thereof they wil be wholy mad raging and if one take half an ounce then wil death follow for the said Pliny writeth that the Gréeks with such like meriments haue plaid the fooles whereby may easily be noted that these two species of Nightshade ought not to be vsed for any medicine inwardly And this foresaid making mad is none other than that the Gréekes cal Doryonion which was vsed in old time for the poisoning of arrowes The taste of this herbe is like milke it prouoketh hoarsnesse it hurteth the toong by his moisture it expelleth blood by vomit driueth out matter and filth by stoole euen as they that haue the red or bloody flixe Thus before those and such like accidents do appeare you may vse these remedies following to wit that the patient take much Hony water wherein Violets are sodden and then vomit it out againe In like maner are you to vse the milke of an Asse Goates milke or new warme wine wherein Annis seed is tempered or wherewith bitter Almonds are mingled The water wherein Mussels Crabs and such like are sodden is very commodious to be drunken for it yea Mussels themselues eaten raw and likewise clisters and in fine al that may draw the venom out of the body Nesingwort is of two sorts to wit white and blacke Néeseworts the Gréekes call it Elleborus and the Latinists veratrum nigrum whereof we haue at large discoursed in the Introduction We take this herbes name of the operation because it vrgeth néesing The auncient Phisitions make much a do with it and committed many follies by it Both these rootes are in vse yet it is with them as with other things that whosoeuer taketh thereof too much it is poison and bringeth him into the perill of death These rootes are hereby knowne to be venemous when as they are digged vp that the vapor of them riseth into the face of the digger that thereby he hath great paine in the head swelleth much wherefore it must be digged vp spéedily and the digger ought to stand with his back to the wind to eate some Garlick before and then drinke a good draught of wine after it Black Néesingwort killeth horses oxen and swine and purgeth downewards White Néesingwort is not so hurtfull for cattell and purgeth vpwards The
womens termes it warmeth the backe it asswageth the paine of the same it breaketh the stone it expelleth vrine the stone grauell and the slime whereof the grauell is ingendred it increaseth womens milke it cureth sowre belchings of the stomacke it is good against all wambling and vomiting it allayeth the Cough and all hoarsenesse of the throate But aboue all is this Fennell séede commended against the darknesse of the eyes for it preserueth people from all volines on the eyes it sharpeneth the sight if one take the same morning and euening to wit after meales and cheweth the same long Coâ—â—â— doth grow much in Apulia it hath the same vertue with the Caraway It is also very good for them which be plagued with the grauell and can hardly make their water The Caraway seede is hotter and dryer by nature than the Annis or Fennell therefore it is stronger and more forcible and especially doth it warme the stomacke and all inward parts it openeth all obstructions it forceth vrine it breaketh the stone it expelleth sand and grauell it driueth out winds and it taketh away all paine and chollicke of the belly The confected Almonds are good against all diseases of the Lights and the throate against all drie Coughs and narrownes of the brest it strengtheneth all weake people and all them which do consume away The bitter Almonds do expell vrine and grauell they do dry the braines and do hinder the ascending vapors they withstand all drunkennes and be good against many diseases of the brest and of the lights The hasell nuts haue in some sort the same nature with the Almonds but they with the red shales haue an especiall operation and vertue for all scowrings and laskes and especially to staunch the bloudie Fluxe All sorts of hasell nuts be more wholesome confected with sugar than otherwise as one may see and reade in many places of this booke The Pingles be also of the same nature with the Almonds and be especiall good for all leaue folkes for that they strengthen much yet are the kernels to be layed 24. howers before to stéepe in Rosewater and then to be dried againe for they augment much humane séede Of the confected Spices Peeles Rootes and such like §. 3. THe Ginger the Cinnamom the Cloues the Nutmegs the Mace Cucubes Orange peeles Citron péeles Marioram and the sliced Licorice are likewise confected with Sugar These foresaid do kéepe all alike the properties of their natures and be especiall good in time of the Plague for that they make good breath which will not lightly be infected It is also to be noted that all that which is to be confected for phisicke must be couered very thin with sugar but onely the spices may well be confected somewhat thicker The common baked Ginger sugar is thus prepared Take one pound of sugar and seeth it with Well water clarifie it as the sugar is wont to be boyled for baked sugar and when it beginneth to be cold then mixe fiue dragmes of powned Ginger amongst it and when you see that it beginneth to be thicke then powre it vpon a stone or a table which is made fat with a little sallad oyle Yet another baked sugar Take Ginger two dragmes and a halfe Cinnamom one quarter of an ounce Cloues one dragme Mace and Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Sugar one pound séeth it and do as before You haue in like manner also in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and 20. § a baked sugar which purgeth mildly whereof one may take a quarter of an ounce at once The 4. Chapter Of preserued Fruits Flowers and other things TO the end that all Fruites Flowers Rindes and in fine all that is preserued with Sugar or with Hony be not parted from the former therefore we will in this chapter comprehend all that is preserued in Sugar or decocted as Conserues and also declare their vertues How to confect the Elecampane roote §. 1. IN the spring of the yeare is this roote to be digged out of the ground and the outtermost péeles to be cut off the roote made very cleane afterwards cut it in somewhat thicke shiues or slices this being done then séeth the same very softly in two kindes of water one after the other to the end the bitternesse may be taken away and be very mellow Then lay them on a cleane cloth to the end they may waxe somewhat drie Put them in a leaded pot and powre méetly hard sodden Sugar vpon them but that it be not too hot vntill the rootes be couered This shall stand so a day and a night then shall the Sugar draw all the moisture vnto it which as yet is in the roote and afterwards powre the Sugar off againe and boile it vnto a sirupe this being done then powre it lukewarme vpon it and do this so often as the rootes giue any moisture from them These preserued Elecampane rootes be a very good medicine for all cold diseases of the bladder They take away the piping of the breast and the shortnesse of breath They be also good against the Cough the spetting of bloud against the paine of the sides they strengthen the stomacke and the digestion They cleanse also the same from all vncleane humors they breake the stone and moue womens termes They separate also all tough phlegme of the breast they heale the vlcers of the Lights and all inward parts and especially they warme the stomacke and the Matrix To preserue blacke Cherries §. 2. TAke blacke Cherries as they come from the trée and then cut off the stalkes for two pound of Cherries take one pound of Sugar and séeth the same and clarifie it when it is then halfe boyled put in the Cherries and then let them séeth all together softly to the end the Cherries do not breake and that so long vntill that the Sugar be drawne betweene the fingers with small thréeds And when as now the broth is almost cold then put the Cherries in a leaded pot with the stalks vpwards for so they will remaine good a whole yeare And in this manner shall red Cherries also be preserued These Cherries be not onely acceptable for them that be sicke but also good for all kind of heate they moisten the dry mouth the tongue and the throate they quench thirst they make appetite and refresh debilitie The conserue of Cherries is thus prepared Take blacke Cherries as many as you please let them séeth well in wine wring them thorough a cloth or thorough an hairen strainer and afterwards let it seeth againe vntill it be thicke stirring it alwaies well about Vnto thrée pounds of this iuice put two pounds of Sugar and afterwards séeth them together to the full thicknesse There may also a Conserue of Cherries be made with spices as hereafter followeth Take of the foresaid Conserue whilst that it is yet warme one pound and temper powned Cinnamom amongst it and Nutmegges of each one quarter of an ounce Ginger and
such time as that the Pitch do no more smell as it was woont to do and be molten againe together then let fall one or two drops vpon a cold stone and if it being cold thou canst rub it to powder betwéene thy fingers it is sufficiently prepared Turpentine After the very same manner is also Turpentine Rosine and such like things prepared Rosine Pearles shall be beaten very small and searced thorow a lawne searce Pearles Precious stones then moule or grinde them on a mortar or marble stone with rose water vntill thou find or féele no sharpnesse or sandinesse betweene thy fingers then let them drie in such a place where no dust can come at them On this manner are all other precious stones prepared Lead being burned to ashes is vsed to many purposes and it is thus to be burned Lead calcined Take as much Lead as thou wilt put it in a little pipkin stop it very close set it in a potters fornace there let it glow burne whiles his pots be a baking then let it coole if it be not calcined or burned inough lute it and set it in the fornace againe and so burne it till it be so fine as ashes Lead is also washed and prepared thus Take Lead and beate it in a leaden morter Lead washed put raine water to it and beate them both togither a good while till the water begin to be very thicke and troubled like puddle straine this through a cloth very well and let it drie in a warme place Take Bloudstone which now is in vse at the Apothecaries is the myne of Quicksiluer Bloudstone powder it and searce it finely then put it in a mortar powre cleare fresh water on it stir them well togither and let it settle to the bottome then powre away the fowle water on the top and put more cleane water to it and do as before till it be cleane washed but much better it is to wash this stone with plantaine water The preparation of Bucks bloud is this In the sommer time wheÌ„ the sunne is in the Lion Bucks bloud thou shalt then take a black bucke or he goate that is some three or fower yeares old kéepe him by himself the space of three wéekes féede him with nothing else but these herbs as Smallage which is so good for the grauel that of some for that cause it is called the hand of God Parsley Mallowes Pimpinell Iuie of the oake Paules Betony Saxifrage Saxifrage of the wall and such like herbes with their rootes Item Straberie leaues Beane huskes the lesser branches of the vine giue him these herbes one after another Thou shalt also giue him red wine to drinke but euery third day giue as much faire water as he is able to drinke Now when he hath thus béen fed three weekes togither he shall at the first full moone be killed or stucke The first bloud shalt thou let passe away and receiue that which is the middlemost or second drie this in the sunne vntill thou canst powder it or else if it cannot be done at the sunne drie it in an ouen and so reserue it in some drie place c. Those that take great delight in distillations do féede the bucke with meate and drink The distillation of bucke bloud as is before sayd onely excepted that they giue him no water at all They take ten pounds of this bloud fiue pounds of wine vineger that hath bin twise or thrise distilled one pound of salt of Radish of Cicorie Pimpinell of each of them three ounces Valerian Cichorie rootes Ginger Winter Cherries white Amber Sulphur viue that hath bin well washed in wine Cinnamom Anniseedes Fennell seede Commin seede Wilde Rape seede Parsly seede of each two ounces of the iuice of Agramonie Rue Penniroyall and of Paules Betonie of each six dragmes These things being cut somwhat small and well mixed togither they shall be put into a pot close luted and stopped and buried in horse dung for one fortnight or three wéekes then distilled in a glasse limbecke The first water that distilleth is very cleare so soone as the colour of the water altereth thou shalt change thy recipient or receiuer this iterate in changing of recipients as often as thou séest the colour of that which distilleth to change Others distill it all ouer togither into one receiuer and afterward reiterate or repeate their distillations twise or thrise till neither the tast nor the smell do offend them In the first and second distillation ascendeth also some oyle with the water which shal be let alone with the liquor and albeit the liquor do séeme nothing troubled or thicke thou shalt not regard that for it is but so much the stronger This liquor and oyle togither if it be kept close stopped remaineth good and vertuous two or thrée yeares after the first making of it Of this mayest thou giue at one time two dragmes or half an ounce in wine or meade against grauell and dropsies before meate it doth also wonderfully prouoke sweate Bolus Armenus or Bole Armenacke is a red stone or earth that is brought from Armenia Bole Armenacke This hath an especiall vertue to purge melancholie the waight of a crown at once is sufficient for it purgeth somewhat violently but if it be washed thou mayest exhibite the waight of two crownes at one time for then purgeth it gently Beate as much of this Bole as thou wilt powre vpon it Rhenish or French wine or faire water stir and mixe them well together let it settle againe powre off the humiditie or water or wine and put on fresh and stir it againe as before this do as long as thy water cometh coloured from it which will be some sixteene or twentie times after this wash it yet tenne times with rose water Some there be that do adde such things as do comfort and strengthen the hart which in very deede is not to be misliked Camfire Camfire will in no wise be beaten to powder except it be rubbed and chafed in a morter in the which morter hath first bene beaten some péece or part of an almon or almons according to the quantitie of Camfire which thou wilt prepare Caâ—â—ia Cassia which is in the pipe quill or cane is one of the best purging medicines and is sufficiently knowne The best pipes are chosen by waight in which the kernels do not rattle which is a sure signe that the pith or marrow in them is succulent and moist and nothing withered or dried It is vsed on this manner Take as many of the pipes as pleaseth thée beate vpon them softly from one end to the other vntill they rend or split asunder take out all that is in it with a knife into a hairen strainer lay it ouer a boyling pot of water that the hot vapor may come to it When the Cassia is reasonable warme take off the hairen
a half conserue of Sage two ounces and a halfe conserue of Rosemarie one ounce and a halfe conserue of Borage and Buglosse of each one ounce of the foresayd confection of life two ounces Cinnamom two dragmes preserued Chebuli halfe an ounce preserued Emblici two dragms sixe leaues of beaten gold ad as much sirupe of Betonie as may suffice This confection also comforteth the hart Calamus Aromaticus The right Calamus Aromaticus of the ancient PhisitioÌ„s as it is described in the beginning of the eight part of this present booke taketh away all cold headaches and sharpneth the wit Another conserue which is greatly commended for this kinde of headach Take Cinnamom one ounce Cubebs Mirobalans Chebuli and Emblici of each two dragms red Rose leaues red Saunders red Corall of each one dragme Cardamonie Mace Cloues Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Sugar sixteen ounces dissolue your Sugar in rose water and Lauander water boile it till it be hard and make it vp into a cake or Manus Christi What vertues the confects of Coriander Annise séedes Fennell séedes Commin séedes bitter Almonds Haselnutg and such like haue to helpe comfort and strengthen a cold braine as also how they kéep backe and hinder the fuming vapors that would ascend from the stomacke into the head is at large declared in the eight part An especiall medicine of the ancient Phisitions for the cold headache CUt the rootes of Horseradish small drie them and beate them into powder giue of this one spoonefull in wine or broth and let him sweate in his bed very well and fast two howers after it Let his meate be light of digesture as pullets and such like But I must needes mislike of this remedie for that the Horseradish is very strong and doth more harme than good to the braine neither séemeth it any way conuenient to sweate vpon Certaine wines composed for the cold headache TAke Rosemarie two M. Nutmegs one ounce dried Betonie 2. ounces Cloues two dragmes being cut very smal put vpon them eight quarts of good Rhenish wine let them so stand togither three or fower dayes For the weaknesse of the stomacke drinke a good draught of it in the beginning of thy meales but for the headach at the latter end This wine is very good for a cold and moyst braine and hurtfull for yong folkes and hot complexions Another for the same Take rootes of Buglosse one M. rootes of Cicorie halfe as many flowers of Buglosse of Borage of Roses of Rosemarie Harts tong of each halfe a M. boyle them in fower quartes of wine the space that thou maiest boyle an eg hard let it coole straine it and then take fower quarts of wine more and stéepe in it sixe Sage leaues and as much Rosemarie long Pepper one ounce Galingale one ounce and a halfe Cloues Cubebs of each halfe an ounce Cardamonie two drag Cinnamom Currans prepared Coriander séeds of each one ounce these things being well beaten tye them in a cloth and boyle them with the wine but not aboue twentie bubbles then put both wines together in a little rundlet and let the spices stéepe in them eight dayes together pressing them out once a day If this wine be too strong for thy drinking as it is most like to be then mixe other wines therewithall before thou drinke it Of other Cephalicall herbes and spices thou shalt find a description in the eight part of this booke Hitherto we haue aboundantly treated of cold headaches with their appropriate remedies internall now because that outward applications oftentimes are of no lesse effect than the inward medicines I do purpose at this present to set downe diuers externall remedies â—â—manders 〈◊〉 the cold 〈…〉 A Muske ball for the same Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Lignum Paradisi Styrax Calamita of each one drag Cloues Nutmegs Basill séedes of each halfe a drag Rose water with which a little Muske is dissolued make it vp into a ball if thou adde a small quantitie of Amber it will be the better Thou shalt find diuers sorts of these sweet smelling bals in sundrie places of this booke described These bals are made after this manner Take a warme mortar and pestell and put into it a little of the foresaid Rosewater with the Laudanum and Waxe stir them with the pestell together till they be molten then mixe the other powders with them except the Muske Amber and make it vp in bals of what bignesse thou please last of all pricke them full of litle holes but not very déepe into the which thou shalt put the Muske and Amber mixed first with Rose water then take some finely prepared Cotton wipe the mortar with it and wrap the swéet ball in it or kéepe it in a little red péece of sindal It is also good to snuffe vp some of the foresaid powder into the nose or else a little muske To perfume with all Take Frankencense wood of Paradise Mastix Nutmegs Styrax Calamita of each by it selfe or of them all as much as thou wilt Also take Frankencense Sandaracha wood of Paradise of each a like quantitie throw it on glowing coles and receiue the vapor or smoke The manner of making lyes and sopes for the same with which the head being washed the braine is comforted her moisture dried and her ouermuch cold changed into warmth for which purposes thou shalt vse these things following Take Roses Sene leaues Betonie Marioram Agaricke of each one drag steepe them in hote lye the space of foure or fiue houres others first boile them in wine and afterward mingle it with lie Take Mace thrée drag Stechas Marioram of each one drag blossomes of the wild Vine Roses of each two drag Spica one drag cut them all into small péeces put them into a litle bag and then steepe them in the ley this comforteth the head braine and memorie and helpeth also the swimming or giddinesse of the head Also take Spica halfe an ounce Lauander flowers Roses Marioram Rosemarie rootes of the blew flower deluce of each two drag cut them into péeces and being put into a bag stéepe them in ly and wash thy head with it this strengtheneth the braine all the senses and the memorie very much Also take wild Mints Nep course Marioram Hyssope Bay leaues of each sort two M. Rosemarie blossomes Stechas Gold flowers of each halfe a M. and séeth them in ly take also Marioram Sage Cammomill Bay leaues Stechas of each a M. lay them in stéepe in the waer of ly as is aforesaid Washing bals for the cold paine of the head Here followeth diuers sorts of washing bals very méete and necessarie for the cold and humors of the head Take Venice Sope halfe a pound bruise it and stampe it in a warme mortar with a hote pestell and make it somewhat moist with Rosewater or Lauander water vntill it be like vnto dowe then beate one ounce of Ireos roots Cloues Nutmegs Cinnamom Cardamonie Stechas of
be clensed with néesing looke in the first and second Chapters of the paine in the head Of the excessiue bleeding at the Nose §. 7. THe excessiue bléeding at the nose hath diuers causes which were too long to discouer them all at this present time it only sufficeth vs to shew the inward and outward causes as concerning the outward causes of bléeding are blowes fals thrusts sore labour and the heate of the sunne all these things do open the veines and make subtile blood which is easily mooued to runne out The causes thereof can easily be perceiued and inquired of the patient The inward causes be superfluity sharpnes and heate of the blood the which is ouer all the whole body head liuer milt wombe and other places In like maner also through agues and other great sicknes through paine of the head a forcible expulsiue power and féeblenesse of the retentiue vertue in full bodies and abounding of blood is the bléeding at the nose requisite it emptieth the head and other parts In Phthisi and other sicknesses moe it is commaunded to prouoke it whereof shall be more at large spoken in other places Therfore if there be perceiued an vnburthening through this bléeding at the nose then it is a good signe of health like as to the contrary a sudden and excessiue bléeding is very dangerous and a signe of death But if this bléeding happen through any bruising of the skin of the braines then it is very hard yea in danger neuer to be holpen And whensoeuer the bléeding is aboue 48. ounces then it is a bad token and yet badder if it do surpasse it if it come then vnto twenty or 24. pound euery pound reckoned at twelue ounces then must death follow after it immediatly In like sort the signes of death are if the bléeding person be not onely of a bleake colour but also darke gréene or leady coloured An order of diet THis bléeding at the nose commeth through some causes that require alwayes a good order of life to be obserued For this purpose is this most common that those things be alwaies vsed that coole the blood and make it thicke if there be any agues with it then must light things be vsed which be cooling as Lettice Purslain Endiue small Endiue vineger veriuice Is then the bléeding strong and vehement to the end it might once be stayd vse Beanes Pease Lentils Rie Colewoorts Chéese Beefe Hares and Harts also thicke red wine all hot spices white wine if so be that they be not well watred are to be eschewed Now we will shew how the blood is to be stanched For to performe the same there be sixe kind of meanes first by the foresaid cooling things which be to be eaten these things following are to be dropt into the nose and laid thereon in like maner also vpon the forehead the iuice of Lettice of Housléeke of Nightshade corne Roses or Nettles in like maner the water of water Lillies of Cichory of Roses and Cumin water Also the herbe of Poppy Willow leaues or their iuice Item also Horstaile Shepherds purse vineger and Camfere and if it be very great néed Opium for these things altogether make thick blood that it cannot run so hastily out of the veines It is also good to irrigate his head with cold water so long continuing vntill his head be so cold that he get thereby a shiuering and shaking or trembling In fine to kéepe the head cold not to stir it much is very commodious also wet a cloth or napkin in cold water in vineger or in Rose water wring it not out too hard and wrap it so about the necke Item take the whites of twelue egs powned Allume foure ounces beate it well together wet a cloth in it and wrap it about the neck about the forehead and temples afterwards take Hares haire or the haire of a Roebuck stop the nostrill full thereof and that at the first Also it is commended that both the thombes and their armes be bound hard about the elbowes but let them not be bound too hard but being sometimes made loose to bind them againe Or make one of these plaisters take the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister lay this vpon the liuer if the blood run forth of the right nostrill The second meane to stanch the blood effected with stopping things as the iuice of Sloes red Coral Momy Aloe Horstaile Amber Bloodstones Hippocystis Bolus flowers of Pomegranats Lentils gals Sumach Shepherds purse Medlers Seruices Quinces peares and other soure peares amongst the compounded things Trocisces de Carabe Terra sigillata which foresaid things all that be of this nature do draw and shut the veines together For this are also meet these plaisters following take the iuice of Plantaine and Rose water of each two ounces vineger halfe an ounce and the white of an egge sealed earth or in the stéed thereof time as much as is néedfull for to make it méetly thick lay it vpon the forehead and the temples of the head Another Take Dragon blood parched gum parched starch roses the iuice of Sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory the blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Coral and Amber of each one drag and a half Poppy seed Purslane séed of each one drag Opium halfe a drag powne all that is to be powned thereof and with the iuice of Plantaine make it to a plaister and vse it as before This following is not much vnlike to the former Take Dragon blood parched gum the yellow seeds of Roses the iuice of sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Corall of each one dragme and a halfe Poppy séeds Purslane séeds burnt Harts horne ashes of gals Cipers nuts of each one drag beate them all small and mixe them amongst the other with the iuice of Plantaine afterwards make small cakes of it when you will now vse it then beate it to powder and blow it into the nostrils but you may vse it as a plaister for to lay vpon the forehead and temples of the head Item take well beaten Momy as much as you please mixe it with copwebs and the white of an egge dip cotton or lint in it and then stop it into the nose First take Harts bones burnt Iuory Dragon blood Verbascum powned with vineger temper the foresaid powder amongst it according to that you will haue of it little or much put it into the nose all these things stanch blood tempered together or each alone or mixe Aloe with the white of an eg vse it as aforesaid Item take the whites of foure egs well braied and tempered amongst Aloe one drag Frankinsence one quarter of an ounce Dragon blood and fine Bolus of each halfe a drag vse this yet putting therein Hares haire made wet Secondly take wel brayed whites of egs and temper Gips or plaister amongst
and some Camfere others do vse oile of water Lillies alone or tempered with others A generall rule of the outward applications into the Eares FOrasmuch as now it is of much importance how that is to be vsed which is to be put into the eares therefore we will before we run any further declare this rule following First there ought nothing to be dropt into the eares before that the body and especially the head be purged but before we come to this he may vse the fomentations bags vapors and plaisters that are to be vsed most safely for this application hath alwayes some more danger in causing some obstruction or stopping And if so be that with them nothing can be effected then is the imposition to be attempted yet the eares are first of all to be cleansed with clothes also there is nothing to be put therein which by nature is either too hot or too cold but al whatsoeuer is middle meane and lukewarme also not too much but from one to foure drops and to hold the same not aboue thrée houres in the eares howbeit neuertheles others do suppose this time to be too short for that the medicine in so short time cannot performe his operation therefore do they prescribe sixe or eight howers In the imposition shall the patient lie vpon his whole eare yet not to drop it in if so be that it be not first run out the which through néesing crying strong blowing of the nose is done And this is also to be noted that there is neuer any repelling medicines therein to be vsed to the end that the paine be not driuen to the braines Now for to come to the hot pains of the eares then take the water of Purslaine grated Gourds the iuice prest out temper them or vse each alone like as is already taught Or take the séeds of Gourds Melons Pompions and Cucumbers of each one drag and a halfe beate them and seeth them in sixe ounces of vineger vntill that two ounces be consumed straine them through a cloth and vse them like as all the other Take the iuice of Housleeke oile of Roses of each halfe an ounce and temper them or take the iuice of Roses of Housleeke of each halfe an ounce oile of Sesamum two drag temper them togither Or take the oile of Roses two ounces sharpe vineger halfe an ounce let them seeth vntil the vineger be sodden away then temper therin Philonium Romanum one quarter of an ounce and rub it in and about the eares Take the iuice of Housléeke temper it with womans milke and vse it Also you may take the iuice of Peach leaues tempered with a little vineger Item take a small glasse with a narrow neck put therein the fresh leaues of Violets halfe ful put more vnto it afterwards twenty Ants egges and then fill full the glasse with the foresaid Violet leaues stop it tight bury it the space of sixtéene dayes in the ground wherein Ants are afterwards wring them out and drop thereof into the eare and if one perceiue thereby no amendment and that the paine be yet augmented then are stronger things to be vsed for it as followeth Take Opium one scrup oile of Roses one ounce temper them together and drop a litle thereof in the eare it asswageth the paine and procureth sléepe but do this but seldome for we haue oftentimes warned you from the Opium The same may you also do with the iuice of Southernwood with the foresaid oile In like maner also garden Snailes decocted in the oile of Almonds Eyewaters may also be vsed for this which are ordained for the hot and sharp paine of the eies like as here before in the seuenth Chapter in the fourth and fifth § is declared if so be that the paine be intolerable This plaister following is very highly commended for all paine of the eares Take dry Violets and Cammomil of each one ounce temper amongst it well decocted and beaten Henbane roots with Barly meale of each one ounce and a halfe the fat of Hens one ounce oile of Cammomill as much as is néedful let them séeth thicke together and lay it vpon the eares and vpon the temples of the head when it is cold then lay another vpon it that is warme It must also not be neglected to rub the patient softly behind his eares with the foresaid oile being made lukewarme once or twise a day But if the occasion of this paine be through cold then parch first Millet and salt vpon the fire and lay it warme ouer it in a cloth and purge the patient like as hereafter shall be taught of the diminishing of hearing For to put into the eares are to be taken these things following which are extant or in readines as oile of Baies oile of Costus oile of Radish séeds the iuice of Marioram gentle the which also is good each apart or mixed and dropt therein Also oile of Rue oile of Spike of Beuercod and of Behen the eares are to be rubbed round about with the salue of Martiaton and couered with vnwasht sheepes wooll and to do this twice in 24. houres Take oile of Roses or of Egs and the iuice of Sage of each two ounces stampe therein one or two Scarabées which are of the small beasts that fly abroad in the euening with or without hornes also as many Earthwormes washt in wine seeth this by a soft fire vntil all the moisture be wasted afterwards straine it through a cloth and drop thereof in the eare euery morning and euening lukewarme two or thrée drops Item temper Beuercod with womans milke vse it as aforesaid if this help not so soone then take Ants bruse them and temper them with womans milke the iuice of Radish dropt therein the space of thrée dayes shall also take away the paine Take the iuice of Pauls betony of strawberry leaues of Sage of Housléeke of each one ounce Mastick and Frankinsence of each one drag and a halfe temper them together the decoction of Coleworts two ounces drop thereof into the eare should also take away all paines Of the order of life or diet VVHereas we haue shewed many causes of the disease in the eares yet can there no certaine order or rule be yeelded for it But one must direct him according to the quality or importance of the cause But generally whereas paine or impostume of the eares be approching then must one kéepe him alwayes sober in eating and drinking and to eschew all that which ascendeth to the head whereof is already sufficiently expressed also all that maketh wind as pottages moist fruite cheese smoked and salted flesh vnleauened bread and great fishes small or watered wine is he to drinke and to eate roast meate Comin Annise Caraway and Fennell are very requisite for all diseases of the eares which procéed through cold so also is prepared Coriander after meate Of the noise and hissing in the eares §. 2. THis disease hath many causes as blowes without wounds
pricking and shooting That which commeth of Melancholy is knowne by the great and hard swellings Of Phlegma by the whitenesse of the face and by the small paine If it be caused of many humors then is the patient heauy headed with much spettle in the mouth The paine that procéedeth of drought is thereby discerned if of windinesse then shall you perceiue much beating and stirring with it Wherefore of these inward meanes to wit of the foure humors may this impediment be caused The teeth grow hollow and ful of holes they rot the wormes do spoile them and the sinewes are weakned that at the last they fall away and are so that they may easily be drawne out How to preuent and remedy the same shall be shewed hereafter How to procure teeth in children without paine NOt without reason are we to bethink our selues how to ease the yong and tender babes of that paine and griefe which they do suffer in breeding their téeth especially if the paine continue long as it often hath bin séene that it hath continued three or foure yeeres This is for the most part caused of the debility of their nature or of wormes which do consume the moisture whereby the téeth should grow When this delay in téeth is caused through the debility and weaknesse of nature then must the child be fed with rosted birds bread dipped in brothe of flesh and such like according to the age of the child They haue also a great laske commonly with it which must be staid The mandibles where the teeth appéere are to be rubbed softly and amongst all other remedies that may be inuented for this purpose the braines of a Hare drest with the milke of a Bitch are the best If you cannot get them then take butter oile of Lillies the fat of Hens or of other birds each by it selfe or mixed all together And because that in these remedies following there be many sharpe ingredients as Orpiment Neesing wort Coperas Stauesacre Southernwood Henbane Opium and such like more of which we will make mention but little which are in no wise to be taken downe wherefore here we will admonish and shew how they ought in the greatest need with the most safety to be vsed First they are to be applyed onely to the dolorous and painfull tooth with a péece of Waxe couered about to the end it should touch but onely the place aggréeued Otherwise they might also harme the good and sound téeth The patient must also hold his mouth open and downewards that the spettle and slime might runne out neither are they to be applyed too hot or too cold If this paine procéed of cold rheumes as also of the vse of cold meates then put the patient into a warme place couer his head with warme clothes vntill he féele the warmth apparantly Afterwards annoint his head with the oyle of Cammomill of Rue of Behen of Beuercod and of Spica or in place of them with Aqua vitae thrée dayes together A hard yolke of an egge applied to the tooth is also very good and afterwards is the tooth to be washed with warme wine Or take vineger wherein Pieretrum white Mints and Marioram hath bene decocted Item take Pieretrum white Mustard séed pepper Borras and Ginger of each a like much make a powder of them and rub the teeth therewith or strew it on a litle cotton and apply it to the very roote of the tooth But before you vse any other kind of remedy take héed you purge the head very wel that you draw not downe moe humors out of it vnto the téeth the which may be effected through the pils or potions which euery where are sufficiently described After purging you may vse any one of these things following Take Mastick one ounce Sage a M. beate and boile them in eight ounces of wine or vineger vntill the halfe remaine wash thy mouth therewith Item take good white wine sixe ounces temper half an ounce of Sandaraca with it boile them together vntill one quarter of it be wasted and hold it in thy mouth warme and if you adde one drag of Philonium Romanum then wil it be so much the stronger Or take of the foresaid Philonium two drag red wine foure ounces and hold it lukewarme in thy mouth Gals decocted in vineger are also very good for this purpose In like manner Betony or Plantaine decocted in vineger or water and vsed warme Pellitory of Spaine bound vp in a cloth and chewed in the mouth draweth out much slime Take Assa foetida and Frankinsence of each a like quantity hold it on the painful tooth The decoction of Alehoofe is also very good for it Likewise the conserue of Gilliflowers of Lauander of Spikenard Rosemary wine Sage wine Item take the rootes of Sperage boile them in water and wash thy mouth often therewith Others do commend Garlicke Ginger Agrimony each by it self or mixed together and so applied to the tooth Also the water of Marioram gentle should be very good for this vse In like sort M. Tristrams water which is described in the fift chapter and first § Item take white and long pepper Cucubes Saxifrage the barke of the Mulberry trée Caper rootes and rootes of Southernwood of each a like much boyle them according to the quality of the paine in water wine or vineger tempered together or each by it selfe it is very good and confirmeth the gums Pepper Pellitory of Spaine rootes of Diptamer and Licebane chewed together or each by it selfe are commonly very commodious for the toothach These remedies following are more cooling TAke a little branch of a Cherry trée scrape off the outmost rind take the yellow rind and boyle it in wine take of this decoction in thy mouth as warme as thou canst suffer it In like maner if the rheume fall into the téeth then boyle Oken leaues in wine and hold it often in the mouth it draweth out the slime very well The water that issueth out of a Vine being cut is also very good for the toothach if it be held in the mouth Yet more remedies that are approoued TAke eight ounces of wine boyle it in halfe an ounce of Esula wash thy téeth therewith thrée times in a moneth it preserueth the téeth from paine but it is very violent and dangerous to be vsed but this that followeth is safer and better Take Roses and boyle them in milke hold them a good while in thy mouth and lay the leaues to thy téeth Take Camfere the bignes of a pease boyle it in two ounces of vineger and hold it in thy mouth it is very good for al maner of pain in the téeth Item take of a Harts horne to wit that which hath bin cast off in March cut it into small péeces and boile it in well water take the decoction into thy mouth warme repeate it thrée or foure times and after the vse of it as many men suppose the paine should not returne againe
milke Whē as he cougheth vp much flegme then may he eate well of a sugred Pomegranate and so moderate himself thrée or foure dayes Afterwards whē the flegme beginneth to be white or red and to come easily then may one let him sup vp a little broth of a Pullet with a little Saffron which strengtheneth the hart and ripeneth flegme Is the matter cold then let a little Hyssope and Parsly rootes be sodden therein For a cold Pleurisie a little wine may be well afforded the which in a hot Pleurisie is not to be permitted After the seuēth day must his meate be the broth of Pullets Barley pap stued Raisins Figs Prunes that are alwayes drest with a little Saffron or Parsly rootes Sometimes also are good broyled riuer fish and rosted Pullets or Chickens permitted And when as the Ague hath cleane forsaken the patient then may he eate measurably Pullets Partridges Capons Turtle doues Pigeons Rabets rere egs vntill he haue throughly recouered his health He must also kéepe himselfe alwaies warm and to sweate a mornings he may otherwhiles for pleasure eate Raisins Figs Pine apple kernels and also two or three Dates yet he must alwaies haue regard that he kéepe a soluble bodie to this end these herbes following are to be drest and vsed as Spinage Orage Burrage Lettice Violets and Mallowes with Almond milke the which is good also for all hote coughes Shéepes féet sodden very mellow are passing good for him His bread must be wheaten or barley well baked soppes of bread and Almond milke with Sugar pennets are very méete for him Contrarily he must abstaine from Vineger Veriuice and all sowre and salt things and likewise from eating and drinking too much Also from smoke wind loud crying wrath and sorrow and aboue all is carnall copulation hurtfull Hereafter haue you yet many moe potions that serue for such hote Pleurisies Wine must be for this vtterly forborne and in stead thereof he must be cherished with Almond milke or with sugred Barley water the which for all Pleurisies is much vsed and commended And it is principally to be drest in this manner Barley water Take pilled Barley one pound wash it very cleane afterwards powre nine pound of water vnto it and let it séeth euen to the halfe then straine it through a cloth This is good for all infirmities of the breast it looseth flegme and withstandeth the Ague Some do séeth with this barly water Figs Iuiubes Currans or Licorice and such like euery one according to his owne pleasure Some do take vine Snailes out of their shels and séeth them with the Barley water which cause the tough slime in the brest to auoide and driue it out For daintie folkes you may prepare this decoction Take a Hen or a Pullet séeth therewith a good handfull of Barley vntill the flesh go from the bones straine it and temper it with the foresaid Barley water Item take white bread crums bind them in a fine cloth stéep them in Barley water straine them often thorough and put thereto as much Sugar as you please Item take pilled Barley halfe a handfull Iuiubes Sebestes of each ten or in their steade fiue Figs one ounce and a halfe of Raisins Licorice and Currans of each halfe an ounce cut all that is to be cut by a mild fire in as much water as you thinke good Or take Licorice cut small three quarters of an ounce Currans two ounces Sugar candie one ounce Barly a good spoonefull and a pint of water or as much as you will let it seeth till about the third part remaine and vse it as aboue To euery such patient is not onely forbidden wine other things but also spices Mustard Garlicke hard and old flesh Egs Cheese Milke and all that is drest therwith he must forbeare all fruites and hearbs except such as be soluble and do open the bodie In fine all that warmeth and hindereth the ripening of flegme like as all sowre and cold things do Here follow many things against the Pleurisie SO soone as the common people find not speedie amendement of the expert Phisitions then will they be incensed therewith and discontented and will go seeke for other counsell therefore are these things following very well to be vsed where there is any great heate approaching Take Corne roses one quarter of an ounce stamp them and wring out the iuice and drinke it with Violet water in the beginning of the sicknesse it is a very good remedie This following is commended for an especiall mastrie in the Pleurisie Take the red skinne out of the Hasell nut and their shales make them very drie stampe them and giue them to the patient twice or thrice a day with Carduus Benedictus water or Endiue water But if you will haue it stronger then vse the red skin alone take out that which is in the shel and leaue the shel and giue him thereof a scruple which suffiseth at one time Some do counsell for to take the water of water Lillies before the Pleurisie be full possest for a preseruation of the Pleurisie But I cannot wel agree thereto A wonderfull remedie that might be tried TAke a tooth of a wild Boare file from it two scruples and drinke this powder with Scabious water or Well water And you may also take it with two or three ounces of sweet oile of Almonds for the oyle of sweet Almonds taken with Sugar candie is a blessed medicine for the Pleurisie This is also good for it conserue of Violets and of water Lillies and both these sirupes to wit the sirupes of Endiue and Pomegranates and specially the cold Dragagant losinges which are described in the first part the 14. Chapter and 2. § In like manner the confection of Diapenidion Diapapauer and conserue of Roses and in great distresse and weaknesse Pearle sugar which is called Diamargariton Frigidum These waters following are also very good for this sicknesse as water of Carduus Benedictus of Dandelion of Leuisticum of Cicorie Violets Burrage Buglosse and all that is made with all manner of Sugar candies Sugar pennets and of Licorice And héede must alway be taken that the patient in the time of this sicknesse haue alwaies an open bodie the which may alwaies easily be brought to passe through the common Clisters and Suppositories whereof we haue here before mentioned twaine the which may be made stronger or weaker according as néede requireth Likewise it is very commodious also to giue the patient two ounces of Manna within thrée ounces of broth wherein were sodden Iuiubes and Violets And if so be that the sicknes be not too vehement and ouerthroweth the patient not too sore then may he vse these sirupes to wit sirupe of Violets one ounce sirupe of Licorice halfe an ounce Barley water wherein Violets or Licorice were sodden thrée ounces giue him this in the morning early and vse it certaine dayes one after another For this serueth also the sirupe of
Muske tempered amongst it for thereby will the naturall heate be driuen inwardly and the vital spirits reuiued Stop also his nose and his mouth a little while for if the breath finde no vent then turneth it backe and thereby quickneth the naturall heate Secondly his armes are to be bound hard and then made loose and bound hard againe The palmes of the hands and plants of the féete are well to be rubbed with rawe clothes salt and vineger to the end that the matter may be drawen from the hart Thirdly his stomacke and about the mouth of the stomacke is also to be well rubbed whereby the naturall heate may be quickened All fragrant herbes which are hot of nature are to be holden before his nose as all kinds of Spice Muske and Amber if so be that the cause of this matter be cold But for women that do fall into swouning through the suffocation of the Mother it is another case as shall be shewed elsewhere for that all odoriferous things are hurtfull to be holden before their noses A graine of Muske dissolued in Wine and then giuen is passing good And if the patient haue vehemently closed his mouth then is the same to be broken open with a wooden sticke and his toong téeth and roufe of the mouth to be annointed with Treacle or Mithridate But if the cause be through heate then must the patient haue cold things giuen him to smell vnto as Camfer Saunders Roses and such like here before expressed And of what cause soeuer this swouning doth come yet is it alway good that there be made a great noyse about the patient and that he be called vpon by his name and blow Campher in his nose or Saunders in stead thereof these are now the commonest meanes if the swouning be procured through heate or cold that are to be vsed at a sodaine Secondly all the windowes are to be set open that then the patient may be refreshed with the fresh ayre and they are to speake very friendly vnto him Also you are to annoynt his pulse nose and temples with the foresaid things and giue him all comfortable things as is before sayd that nature may thereby be strengthened and quickned An order of life for Swouning FIrst all men that are subiect to this swouning must beware of all cloudie moyst and cold ayre and shun such like dwellings must suffer no sweate vpon the head must cast off all sweatie shirts and put on cleane he must forbeare all moyst and cold meates as Spinage Béetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Cherries hasell Nuts Abricocks Cucumbers and such like but new Figs are good for him Further he must be kept from all grosse binding meates from all that is made of dough from all Fish as Eeles Tenches and all great corpulent Fish But Crabs and small Fishes which are taken in fresh waters he may eate being a little broyled He must also eschue all old and fat flesh Chéese and such like He must vse for his drinke all cléere white Wine that is not swéete or a good old mild sort of Béere he must wholly forbeare drinking of water he must not ouercharge his stomacke with eating and drinking but chew his meate well and leaue off eating with appetite He must not sléepe after meate or at least not too long He must walke well two howres before meate yea runne vp hils for that consumeth well the moysture whereof the swouning is prouoked He must specially flye all anger sorrow vexation and other troubles of the minde as is sufficiently declared before But what medicines are to be vsed for the swouning shall be héere taught the patient must as soone as is possible take these pils following in the morning betimes Take pils of Rubarb one dragme Hiera composita one scruple make nine pils thereof with Rose water afterwards giue him this drinke following 6. daies one after another Take halfe a drag of Agaricke Hermodactili and Rubarb of each one scruple Diagridij and Sal Gemmae of each two graines Ginger Squinant Spica and Annis séede of each thrée graines Hony of Roses halfe an ounce let it stéepe one whole night in thrée ounces of water wherein Woodbinde is sodden afterwards let it séethe a walme and straine it out For to make pils take good Aloes two ounces Mastick Saffron Violets and floures of Buglosse of each halfe a scruple burnt Iuorie and Roses of each three graines Diagridion seuen graines Agaricke Turbith and prepared Asure stone of each halfe a dragme stéepe it all together with Cicorie water thrée daies long and being well stopt let it dry in the Sunne or in another warme place yet stirring it often about vntill it be méetely thicke take then a dragme thereof and make thereof seuen pils whereof euery euening you are to take one pill a certaine time long afterwards a whole yéere thorow take one pill about the fift day but if the patient be full of bloud and of sufficient strength then are you after purging to open the Liuer veine in the elbow on the left side and to let him bléede about fiue ounces For to kéepe open the body you are to vse this powder Take Epithymum rootes of Polipody Thymus Harts toong and Cuscuta of each one dragme Argall and Seny of each halfe a dragme Mace foure scruples stamp and mingle it all together take one dragme thereof at the least twice a wéeke at one time tempered with a little wine or some fresh broth it purifieth breaketh winde and clenseth the hart and stomacke Item take at the least once a wéeke as much Pieretrum as the bignes of a Pease chue the same and spet the moysture out of the mouth Another TAke a good péece of white bread mollifie it in good Muscadell or Malmsey if so be that the cause of this swouning be of cold but if it procéede of heate then mollifie the same white bread in Rose water in iuice of Pomgranats in iuice of Quinces in the iuice of Citrons or any flesh broth and so eate it Also this patient may vse conserue of Roses Burrage Buglosse and Rosemary and other things moe which shall be expressed hereafter in the trembling of the hart after that heate or cold hath the vpper hand There are yet many moe confections and cordiall things prepared which are very profitable for this purpose and do remaine described before in the discourse of the cold paine of the head where it beginneth Take conserues of Betony c. Item take Pistacia thrée ounces white Sugar sixe ounces sirupe of Roses fower ounces séeds of Basill red and white Corall Roses burnt Iuory red and white Behen of each one drag Zeduary Amber and Saffron of each two scruples Iacint Smaragde and Saphire of each halfe a scruple Mace Cinnamom and Cloues of each one drag sixe leaues of beaten gold Pearles fower scruples the Pistacia stéepe being cut small thrée dayes long in Malmesey afterwards séeth the sirupe and the Sugar thicke enough and first temper
Cicorie and of Buglosse of each one ounce three mornings togither and one of the foresayd purgations after it The Oxymel is highly commended for this sicknesse These pils following are verie forcible for to auoide water take the iuice of wild Cucumbers which is Elaterium and the iuice of Swines bread of each one dragme and a halfe Rapontica one quarter of an ounce Aloe one dragme Diagridion one scruple Pease meale Cinnamom Spica Lignum Aloes of each halfe a scruple make pils thereof with the iuice of Smallage and giue him one dragme at once thereof at the most Now for to cleanse the head you are to vse these things following which you can get as the iuice of wild Cucumbers and of Swines bread of garden Cresses Horehound tempered with womans milke and drawne vp thorow the nose and afterwards to lye downe vpon the backs These things following do cleanse the grosse Cholera which remaineth still in the head doth take away all the yellow iaundise with them For this are verie necessarie all cooling and preparatiue potions with sirrupe of Endiue and of Purslaine tempered togither and chiefly if any obstruction of the liuer be present for which this sirrupe following is also verie fit Take Endiue small Endiue Lettice Cicorie Melilot Harts tong and Venus haire of each one handfull twentie or fiue and twentie Prunes séeds of Melons of Pompeons Cucumbers of Gourds roots of Cypresse of Capers Dragon rootes of each one dragme beate them all grosse and let them séeth togither in six and thirtie ounces of water euen to the halfe Afterwards séeth in this decoction fower and twentie ounces of Sugar or Hony and clarifie it vntill there be a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Cicorie of each a handfull wild Endiue and Priest crowne of each two handfuls séedes of Melons Pompeons Cucumbers and Gourds Lacca Spiknard Wormwood and the rootes of Smallage of each halfe an ounce burnt Iuorie red Sanders of each one dragme and a halfe Roses one quarter of an ounce white Vineger thrée dragmes Sugar twelue ounces and then make a sirrupe of it Another Take Endiue Harts tong and Venus haire of each two handfuls Fennell séed Parsley séede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spicanardi Spica romana of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please make thereof a sirrupe For the obstruction of the liuer in the beginning of the 4. § there is also a confection which is verie fit for this purpose Of all drinkes which this patient may drinke there is nothing more méete for this sicknesse then the whaie of milke whereof he is to drinke euerie morning three weekes togither a good draught at each time for this whaie doth clense the bloud especially if there be mixed with it the iuice of Fumitorie And the same is also good for all itches scurffes Item that the innermost skinne of a hens gissard also a Partridge dried and beaten to pouder giue him the waight of a dragme thereof in wine or Cicorie water and let the patient fast fiue howers after it Another The innermost skinne of a pullets gissard or crop and the rootes of Auence of each a like quantitie seeth them in wine the space that you would seeth an egge and drinke thereof morning and euening and fast an howre vpon it Item take fower ounces of Gentian Fennell rootes fiue ounces Smallage rootes two ounces and a halfe wash the same verie cleane and cut them in peeces let them séeth al togither with sufficient water afterwards wring them wel out through a bag and then let this decoction boyle vntil it be as thick as hony then giue therof two ounces at each time This medicine is also especiall good for all phlegmatick Agues wherewith the yellow iaundies be mixed Item for al dropsies all paine of the Kidneies paine of the wombe for all venome and it is to be giuen them that haue an Ague with any kinde of cooling water and when there is no Ague with a little Wine Some do séeth it also with Sugar the which is best of all Item there be moreouer good to drinke for this yellow iaundies the waters of Cicorie of Sorrel and of Wormewood but the iuice of these herbs be much more forcible These herbs be also decocted togither or each apart and the decoction dronken warme Item the yellow seede of the white Lilie dryed and powdred and one dragme thereof taken is an especiall thing in this disease The same vertue hath grated Iuorie After purging and the vse of all these foresayd things then may any outward things be vsed whereby to weare away the yellownes of the body and to consume it For this is also much aduised that all yellow colours are to be fixed before the patients eyes for nature doth the easier expell the yellownesse out of the bodie Also take Endiue water and Rose water of each foure ounces red and white Saunders of each one dragme temper them lay them ouer the Liuer Item vse the Saunders salue which before in the sixt Chapter in the end of the first § is described Or take a spoonefull of good Honie and boyle the same in a little pot in hot water and stirre it well about then put as much wheaten floure vnto it as you can take vp with two fingers and temper a good deale of Saffron amongst it yet more alwayes for an old man then for a young man spread of it vpon a cloth and lay it vpon the Nauel when it is then dry take afresh againe And you are to continue this certaine daies togither to wit when the yellow iaundies be at the chief highest but one may not lye longer vpon it then vpon the other For bathing take wild Thyme watercresses Alehoofe Iuniper rindes Elderne floures let this séeth well togither and make thereof a sweating bath with hote stones Item take Mugwort Marierom wild Thyme Iuniper sprigs of each one handfull chop them small and let them séeth in two bags then lay one vpon the belly and another behind vpon the raynes and therewith let the patient sweate Also this Lie following may be vsed for the head Take Betony Cammomill and Sage of each one handfull Marierom Spica Romana of each halfe a handfull Sene leaues thrée ounces Stechas two ounces chop all small and séeth them togither in a good deale of water and make Lie thereof it will continue good a whole moneth For this hote yellow Iaundies is good al that which penetrateth cleanseth and openeth the Liuer to wit Sorrell Endiue Nightshade winter Cherries Orage the iuice of Wormewood Venus haire roots of Cicorie and Sperage Verueine and the water of the same herbs decocted in well water and clarified with Hony or Sugar and so made into a Potion And for conclusion of this heate there is good heede to be taken whether the patient be abounding of bloud and hath full veines and also hath not bin let bloud
ounces then let it seeth so long vntill that the moisture be wasted away afterwards wring it out and vse it as before Some doe commend aboue all things the muscilage of Frogs to be layd warme vnto it which is thus made Take in the Spring greene Frogs before they begin to cast their sperme take out the bowels and hang them on a thred to dry in the Sunne vntill they begin to be somewhat dry then powre Sallad oyle vnto them and let them seeth meetly well together then wring them out it is especiall good for the sinewes Item take Badgers grease and Turpentine of each one ounce Frankinsence halfe an ounce Waxe as much as will suffice for to make a salue of it Or take Poplar salue two ounces small pouned Bolus and oyle of Roses of each halfe an ounce temper them together vnto a salue This ensuing is also good for it Take foure yolks of egs Saffron one dragme oyle of Roses two ounces temper them well together and vse them as before A principall good one Take Vyne Snailes as many as you will put them into a pot and lay a tin lid vpon it afterwards whelme the same pot ouer another pot and then set it ouer the fire to the end that they may rost by little and little This being done the oyle wil drop into the nethermost pot and with this oyle annoynt the hot gouts thorowly Item séeth ten egs very hard cut them ouerthwart fill the whites with pouned Mirrhe afterwards binde thē togither againe lay them the space of 15. daies in a seller or longer then will a water drop out of it which you may annoint vpon the gout as a salue In like manner fresh Cassie is also much commended with the muscilage of Fleawort for all paine of the ioynts through heate This ensuing asswageth the paine maruellously Take the séed of Fleawort two ounces seeth it in sufficient water vntill it be very slimie afterwards wring it out very hard through a cloth In this muscilage or slime melt one ounce and a halfe of Waxe Sallad oyle thrée ounces let it then séeth a good while stirring it alwayes equally about vntill it be cold Another of like force Take oyle of Walfloures two ounces oyle of swéete Almonds and oyle of Camelina of each one ounce and a halfe Butter one ounce Saffron one dragme and a halfe white waxe one ounce and a halfe Dill séed Cammomill and Ducks grease of each halfe an ounce thrée yolks of Egs then temper them one amongst another and make a salue thereof Item take wheate bran two handfuls Vinecuict as much as will suffice for to make a poultesse of it Salt one quarter of an ounce let it séeth a little together and then lay it warme vpon it you shall hardly finde any thing else that doth more asswage the paine Item take Barly meale or Pease meale and pouned Roses of each thrée ounces white wine as much as will suffice for to make pap thereof then let it séeth a good while if you will you may also put a dragme of Mastick vnto it Some do séeth Bran in thrée parts of water and one part of vineger and so lay it vpon it and let it lye fiue or sixe howres vpon it This also ensuing is thought to asswage all paine whatsoeuer Take thrée ounces of vnripe Sallad oyle Saffron one dragme foure yolks of egs oyle of Roses foure ounces let the oyle séeth a good while and when it beginneth to be cold then temper the yolks amongst it stirring it alwayes well about afterwards Starch and Barly meale of each one ounce and a halfe and at the last Saffron if you will haue it more forcible then put Butter vnto it and Bdellium of each one dragme then stéepe them all together vntill the same be thorowly consumed and afterwards temper the rest with it Item take the crums of white bread stéepe them a good while in swéete milke and then seeth them together to pap now when it beginneth to coole then temper a yolke or two of egs amongst it and a little oyle of Roses and so lay it vpon the swelling and paine Some do temper Butter Ducks or Goose grease and Sugar also amongst it Another Take Plantaine séed and Linséed of each two handfuls séeth them very soft vntill all the water be almost gone then temper amongst it crums of white bread as much as you please afterwards stamp them well together and temper it with the oyle of Roses and when the paine is very great then is the iuice of cooling herbs to be tempered amongst it yea very well thrée or foure greynes of Opium and one dragme of Saffron like as the same may be very well done in the foresaid crums of white bread This also following is very good Take Cammomill and Melilot of each one ounce Mallowes and Hollyhock rootes of each halfe a handfull Fenegréeke meale Linséed meale and Barly meale of each one ounce cut the herbs small and séeth them mellow afterwards wring them out and stampe them well last of all mingle with the said meales oile of Roses and oyle of Cammomill of each fiue ounces or more then make pap therewith and lay it ouer the paine renew the same oftentimes Item séeth wheate meale and red wine to pap in fresh swéet milke for this is also good Beane meale decocted to pap in fresh sweet milke These foure oyles following be also commonly vsed for the gout to wit oyle of Lillies of Cammomill of swéet Almonds and of Walfloures with which we do commonly temper Cassie extracted with vineger like as before there is also mention made of the oyle of Poplar buds Or take pouned Henbane séed put it into a bag and let it warme well and so lay it vpon the paine Item in great outward paine take Cowmilke sixe ounces Opium halfe a scruple crums of Rye bread and these being well powdred as much as you please make a soft plaister of it In like manner you may also vse the iuice of Nightshade and of Plantaine being tempered all together or each apart By all these foresaid remedies may easily be marked that all these simple things following be especiall good for the hot Podagra as namely Nightshade Housleeke Lettice Endiue Mirtus Muscilage of Fleawort Vineger Rose water Bolus c. in the 16. Chapter and 4. § of the hot kidneys Of the cold gout or Podagra and of his paine §. 4. IF there be found with the paine of the ioynts neither rednes nor heate and the patient be of a cold nature and that one be cold in the féeling then may it easily be perceiued that the cause procéedeth of cold For this the patient is to prepare himselfe to purge with these potions following Take Sage Cowslips and field Cipers of each one handfull seeth them all together in sufficient water vntill the third part be wasted Vnto this decoction put twelue ounces of Sugar and then make a clarified sirupe of it If
and poune it put then the oile and meale vnto it this plaister hath the same operation with the other Yet one mo which is very good Take Hens grease Goose grease and marrow of Neats féete of each one ounce Muscilage of Hollyhock rootes of Fenegréeke and of Linseed of each one ounce Bdellium Galbanum and Ammoniacum of each one ounce and a halfe dissolue the gums in two ounces of oyle of Lillies and then melt them with the grease and slime Then poune 24. or 25. fat Figs amongst it and stirre them all together and lay thereof vpon the swelling For to annoynt is this following to be prepared Take Beane meale Allume Polypody rootes Swines bred wild Cucumbers Hartwort Scrophularia of each alike quantitie beaten Sallad oyle as much as is néedfull for to make a salue thereof This is a very strong salue Take well decocted Rosemary rootes and temper them with Hony Item take oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe washed Turpentine two ounces Mirrha halfe an ounce the yolks of two egs Barly meale as much as is néedfull for to make a soft plaister with it This plaister causeth all swellings to ripen Take Violets water Lillies of each one ounce oyle of Quinces halfe an ounce Starch two ounces Camfer one scruple fine Bolus one dragme make a salue thereof for to vse for all hot swellings Item take Pitch Turpentine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe Waxe one ounce Sallad oyle thrée quarters of an ounce let them melt together by a milde fire The plaister Diachilon doth also much mollifie all hard swellings In the second part the second Chapter and 7. § you haue many excellent things which also may be vsed for this purpose But if so be that these hard kind of swellings and impostumes be ripe which is thereby easily to be knowne when the heate the ague and other accidents do diminish also when the hardnes is mollified then must the swelling be opened and so kept with taints and to cleanse it well so that for certaine dayes together all the matter and corruption may runne out lay also clouts on euery time with red or any other amper wine wherein Roses and Cammomill haue béene decocted If so be that now after the healing like as it hapneth sometimes in these kinds of hot swellings there remaine some paine which kéepeth the patient disquiet then lay beaten yolks of egs vpon it tempered with oyle of Roses Or take crums of white bread and powre séething water vpon it then wring it out againe and temper them with oyle of Roses vnto a pap Item séeth Mallowes in common water stamp them and temper them with Bran and oyle of Violets to all these forementioned things are you to temper alwayes some Saffron because that it hath an especiall power in alaying of all paines Of the Rose a certaine impediment called Erysipelas §. 12. AMongst the hot swellings whereof commonly the foresaid impostumes are caused is also the Rose or Erysipelas which is none other thing but an inflammation of the skin which in this countrie we call the Rose The Latinists do call it Ignem sacrum which is the holy fire for that when the Rose appeareth in any place of the bodie then doth it come with a burning heate with an ague and with a dry rednes And to know this impediment from all other inflammations lay your finger vpon the chiefest place of the rednes wring it so easily if so be that then the place whence you lift vp your finger that you had so wrung do séeme white and in the twinkling of an eye séeme red againe then is it a sure signe of the Rose This swelling commonly assaileth one with a quiuering with heate and cold it infecteth also only the skin without piercing as other swellings into the flesh or very seldome and when this inflammation of the Rose goeth inward into the bodie then is it a very bad signe Now for to heale this infection of the Rose must héed be taken to these orders following First can not one do better then to purge this hot cholerick matter whence this swelling hath his foundation with necessarie medicines secondly these cholerick humors which be as it were a skumme of the bloud be not only a cause of this Rose by their abundance but also by their heate and inflammation wherefore it is not hurtfull for to open a vaine thereby to coole the bloud Thirdly the cooling of this inflammation may not be vsed in all places by laying on of some repulsiue things to the end that the hot matter be not repelled and driuen to any noble part as to the braines the hart c. whereby some great mischance might ensue Fourthly no cold things are to be vsed for this swelling if the bodie before be not well purged Fiftly it is not néedfull for to ripen these swellings but only to coole them Sixtly if this Rose be without any mixture of other swellings then doth it not hurt although one drinke cold water but it is rather a medicine in this disease Seuenthly when the swelling is caused of a red Cholera then is it so much the hotter therefore strong cooling things are to be vsed Eightly if so be that this swelling be tempered with an other sort of swelling then is the same so long to be cooled vntill one perceiue that the member hath gotten againe his naturall colour Ninthly if the place of the swelling begin to seeme black and browne then vse no cooling things moe to the end that thereby it come not to impostumate and ranckle And to preuent these things this is to be done first of all purge the patient for to expell the Cholera with Cassy Electuario Lenitiuo Diaphoenicone De succo Rosarum De Sebeste as is shewed at large in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 6. § But it were not amisse alwayes to adde some Rubarb vnto either of these medicines But aboue all he must beware of the vse of Scammony or Diagridion But take 24. or 25. Prunes sowre Dates one ounce and a quarter séeth them well in sufficient well water then take of this decoction thrée ounces and stéepe therein one dragme of Rubarb throughout the whole night afterwards wring it out in the morning and mingle one ounce of the sirupe of Violets with it or as much as you thinke good and so drinke it warme If this purgation be too weake then take some of the forenamed and especially De succo Rosarum and temper therewith one quarter of an ounce It hapneth also oftentimes that through the taking of any medicine paine and maruellous accidents are perceiued then is the patient presently to take warme water or this ensuing Take Annis and Fennell of each halfe a dragme Roses Violets floures of Burrage and of Buglosse of each halfe a handfull Saffron three greines séeth it together with water and drinke a good draught thereof or lay it vpon the stomack Afterwards set a boxing cup
annoynt you therewith it causeth a man to sweate Further these things following are to be vsed before one go to bed therewith to expell the sweate to wit halfe a dragme or a whole dragme of Treacle or Mithridate Item take an Onion and put good Treacle into it afterwards rost it soft in hote ashes and eate a good deale thereof then lay you in bed to sweate therewith and afterwards drie your selfe cleane with drie clothes For bathing he is to take the quantitie of a nut of conserues of Rosemary or conserue of Fumitorie both of them do expel sweate the conserue of Elderne berries is the common peoples physicke for this purpose Item take Rose water Wormewood water and Rue water of each a like quantitie and vse thereof euery morning a good draught or take one ounce of Ginger and séeth it in a pint of red wine afterwards straine it without wringing and then drinke fiue ounces thereof it causeth also to sweate well and that especially in quartaine Agues Now to the end to abate the heate then temper amongst it iulep of Violets Oxymel compositum doth also moue sweate But if one cannot sweate then take two or thrée bricke stones and make them very hot and wrap them in a wet cloth and lay first one and then another to the féete vnder the arme-pits or the sides of the patient or betwéene his legs then will the vapor cause the patient to sweate And if so be that there be a stinking sweate instant like as the stench of the arme-pits whereof we haue written in the fourth part the first chapter and the second § and in the second chapter in the third § then may one with the foresaid vse this ensuing Take white Coperas halfe an ounce let it boyle so long in a pint of water as one would seeth an egge hard or somewhat longer and wash you therewith Also the sweate will be expelled by annointing with oile of Quinces or by taking of Marmalade made with spice Of the sweate-bath and other §. 2. IT is very common that sweate is vsually prouoked by bathes which is attempted after diuers maners and must be done for many kinds of maladies as we haue declared in many places for which now that bathing is noisome and bad we haue also taught here and there as the same may be looked for in the Table The thirteenth Chapter Of the Sinewes IT is a question amongst certaine learned men whence the sinews which the Latinists call Neruos haue their beginning Aristoteles was of opinion that they came from the heart although it cannot be perceiued that there hence any should come but Galenus with his followers do say that the sinewes take their beginning in the braines and the backe-bone And this opinion is not without a foundation and sure ground because that as soone as the sinewes be inflamed with any vnnaturall heate the braines thereby are so infected that commonly these men be distraught of their wits and vnderstanding yea waxe childish and as the Phisitions name it Deliri Albertus doth reckon to be in mans bodie 77. sinewes as wel great as small hard soft and other and therein do all learned agrée that they be all of a cold nature yet the one lesse than the other and also without blood wherefore some call them the white veines Amongst these be thrée principall sorts the first which we chiefly call Neruos which is sinewes the second Tendones which be the tendones the third Ligamenta which be ligaments or binding sinewes The first sort haue their beginning in the braines of both the skins of the braines in the back-bone the which Albertus calleth the vicegerent of the braines for that they be both almost of one nature These Nerui or sinewes the which by the Grecians is as much to say as bending be by nature a little warmer and also drier than the veines or any other sinewes they are also more sensible than the arteries and of such power that they franke and fréely impart vnto the whole body all motion and féeling These foresayd sinewes are by nature so placed in the back bone and his holes which be 60. in number and that they be spread ouer the whole bodie giuing each part his sence and action so that each may adiudge what is hurtfull for him or paineth any whit They do spread themselues abroade ouer the whole bodie to wit out of the backbone as it were a spring which with many sundrie spouts or gutters is deriued hither and thitherwards in a pleasant garden for to moisten the same and to impart her water vnto it So is also our bodie naturally nourished with these sinewes and all other veines which like as is sayd receiue their beginning out of the braines and so descend euen to the féete beneath And although this dispersion be so bountifully and pleasantly performed notwithstanding there come no sinewes into the bones except the téeth neither yet in the gristles nor in the fatnesse nor in the ligaments which be the knitters of the members or ioynts therefore all these foresaid parts haue no féeling or motion neither néede they any When as now the foresaid sinewes are spread abroad euery where in the muscles or lacerts which as is sayd are instruments whereby we haue all our motion yet in other places where need requireth the other sort are to wit the tendones These be of a tight compacted substance easily cut in the length ouerthwart very hardly or scant at all When as they also like as is oftentimes admonished be wounded then are they healed with great trouble They can also abide no fire like as the sinewes do for whensoeuer one is wounded or hurt then doth the same member loose his accustomed action or will at the least be much weakened It is also much to be wondered at to wit when a sinew is hurt that then there followeth much paine and mishap after it and being hewed or cut quite asunder that then the patient knoweth not of any paine The tendones or lacerts be amongst these thrée sorts of sinewes the most hardest contrariwise the ligaments be the most softest as shall be shewed hereafter These tendones be also not so sensible as the right sinewes and be also much bigger The third sort of sinewes the Grecians doe call Syndesmos the Latinistes Ligamenta which be bonds or knitters Albertus doth call them Cordàs that is cords these haue no féeling where they hold fast in the muscles or bones but they bind onely the muscles and bones together Let this now suffice of the nature of the sinewes and they that desire to haue ampler direction thereof let them looke into Aristoteles Galenus Albertus and other Anatomici which haue written thereof very largely Of hurt and wounded sinewes §. 1. COmmonly the perished sinewes do require such remedies as are wont to be vsed for the increase of the inféebled warmth and do drie hard and draw yet without any corroding and bad propertie
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be
séeth well and stirre it well about vntill that it be strong as soone as you take it from the fire then powre presently water vpon it it will boyle together and then powre the rest vnto it straine out the herbes and then keepe it in a sellar The common vertues of these Meades be that they quench thirst It is also good for all cold diseases of the braines of the backbone of the sinewes and for all other diseases for which wine is hurtfull by his penetrating vertue and force it cleanseth and openeth the breast it taketh away the cold drie cough it cleanseth the kidneys the raines the conduits of vrine and the bladder of al cold slimie matter wherof the grauel and the stone doth grow and it expelleth also all hurtfull matter out of the guts wherefore the same is to be vsed in all diseases of the braines as in the giddines in the falling sicknesse and in lamenesse which is cause thereby In like manner it is good for them that be plagued with the Crampe and the hote Podagra The 12. Chapter THis twelfth Chapter hath no more than two sorts of compounded things as oyls and some other which be made with vineger which be therefore called Oxymel Oxycraton Oxysacchara and such like First we will write of Oyles whereof there is much declared and adde thereto for what they are to be vsed amongst which there be some first of Plants of Fruites and of Seedes as well prest as beaten out other by the addition of certaine herbes flowers rootes and other things which be decocted therewith Some are distilled and by force of the fire be drawne out of Rootes out of Mines out of Mettals and such like things and the manner of making them is diuers wherof we will write hereafter and also declare thereby for what each of them shall be good Oyle of Poplar buds §. 1. BEcause that in the making of all oyles there must héede be taken that the herbs flowers rootes and such like be not put too moist into the oyle the same must first of all be withered a little and afterwards be chopt small to the end the vertue and force may come the better out of it If you haue not the hote Sun then let it séeth in a narrow pot in hote water If so be that you renew the herbes or the flowers two or thrée times then is the oyle the more forcible And now to come to our oyle of Poplar buds Take Sallad oyle 12. ounces white wine twelue ounces fresh Poplar buds which be powned nine ounces then let them stéepe the space of seuen daies in the wine and oyle and stirre them oftentimes about afterwards boile it in a narrow pot in water vntill all the wine be wasted and afterwards wring it thorough a cloth It is also to be noted like as is beforesaid that if so be you do renew the Poplar buds two or three times that then the oyle will be the more forcible which may also be well done This oyle is very good against headach paine of the ioynts of the raines of the kidneys and against the paine of the Gout with other paines moe Oyle of Mandragora §. 2. IT is oftentimes before declared what force the Mandragora hath to wit that it causeth sléepe and causeth insensiblenesse This oyle is prepared and made in the same manner as al oyles of other rootes are made but it is very seldome vsed but when great need doth require Oyle of Amber §. 3. ALl they that delight in distillations and haue indeuoured themselues to draw out the purest and cleanest out of all things they haue also found great vertue in the oyle of Amber for which there hath bene made especiall ouens glasses and other preparations c. which were here too long to discourse but we wil onely declare her vertue vse First there is nothing more forcible against all venimous ayre if one rub a drop thereof in the nostrels In like manner the losinges are also good amongst which two or thrée drops of this oyle is tempered The same is good against all sicknesses of the head as against the Palsey and against the falling sicknes if one take it with Betonie water or with any such like water and annoint it outwardly vpon the necke but that is especially good which is distilled of the white Amber It is also very good for all diseases of the sinewes as for the cramp the lamenesse and such like it expelleth the stone and the grauell if the same be giuen with the water of Parsly it furthereth also Child birth if it be giuen with water of Verueine so doth it also if one annoint the nauell on the outside with Snakes grease and it together It is also very commodious against the suffocation of the moother if one annoint the same in the nostrils and vpon the pit of the heart The losinges wherein this oyle is baked be speciall good against all cold rheumes they strengthen the braines they be good against all swouning and heartbeating and they do also strengthen the digestiue power of the stomack In fine this oyle may be vsed in stead of the true and naturall Balme Artificiall Balme §. 4. OF this artificiall Balme and how the same is made after diuerse manners and distilled we haue declared before in the second Chapter sufficiently Sallade oyle or oyle of Oliues §. 5. THis Sallade oyle is of all people so well knowne that whereas oyle standeth without any surname thereby alwayes Sallade oyle is vnderstood and it is also a gracious gift of God that people may vse the same for sundrie necessaries which were too long to discourse for how many kinds of Plaisters Salues Oyles and Clisters c. be prepared of this oyle But as much as concerneth this Sallade oile there be thrée sorts of the same vsed for Phisicke to wit one that is thorow ripe the second that which is not thorow ripe the third which is very old for that each one of the thrée hath his proper nature that which is cleane ripe is of a warme nature so that it defendeth the bodie from all cold being annointed thereon it refresheth all the members and maketh them fit for labour it suppleth all the whole bodie and the skinne it asswageth all paine of the ioynts it cleareth the sight it is good against all venime if one drinke the same often and vomiteth it vp againe so that the ancient Phisitions haue left a prouerbe behind them Wine sustaineth the bodie within and Oyle outwardly When the oyle is aboue a yeare old then doth it lose much of her pleasantnesse and the best driueth alway aboue which is contrary in Hony wherein the best doth lye alwayes vnderneath and the best of the wine is alwayes in the middle The oile which is prest out of the vnripe Oliues that is called Omphacinum the same hath power for many kinds of things and especially in Salues it is also verie méete for the stomacke
mouth against the weaknesse of the knees against the Podagra and mo other paines of the ioynts and also for all diseases of the sinewie parts Pillulae pestilentiales siue Ruffi §. 26. HOw these common pilles and other mo be prepared we haue declared in the sixt part the fifteenth Chapter and 12. § and admonished also thereby how that the same hath an excellent vertue for to preserue one from the plague and to expell all stinking humors from the stomacke Pillulae de quinque generibus Mirobalanorum §. 27. THese purge the Melancholy the Phlegma and the Cholera and do also cleanse the bloud Pillulae de Rhabarbaro §. 28. THese pils be especiall good in the beginning of the Dropsie and in the obstruction of the Liuer in like manner also in all lingering agues Looke further Rhabarbarum Pillulae de sandaracha §. 29 THese pils be seldome made and also scant vsed Pillulae de sarcocolla §. 30. THey expell the Phlegma and all sicknesses which are caused of it Pillulae de Serapino §. 31. THese pils haue an especiall power in the paine of the hips the gout of the feete and of the ioynts they be also very good for the stomack and further womens termes Pillulae sine quibus esse nolo §. 32. THese pils do maruellously purge Cholera Phlegma and the Melancholy and are especiall good for all Rheumes and be especiall good for all darke sight They are also good for the paine of the eares and for all paine of the guts Pillulae stomachicae §. 33. THese pils expell Phlegma and the Cholera out of the stomack and moreouer out of the head and they be also good for many mo diseases The fourteenth Chapter THe Phisitions and Apothecaries haue certaine conserues in vse of some fruits and other things where as they temper nothing but Sugar with it which they call Rob amongst which the commonest is the Rob de Berberis and De Citonijs that is Rob of Quinces and De Cornubus that is of Gadrises Rob Nucum that is of Nuts De Ribes that is of Raspes c. Hony of Roses §. 1. HOny of Roses is made after diuers manners like as such is taught in the first part the third Chapter and 4. § whereas his vse and vertue is declared Vineger of Roses §. 2. TAke red Rose buds cut of the white beneath and powre red wine Vineger vpon it to the end that they be well couered with it and then let them stand so the space of two moneths in the hote Sunne In this manner is also made all manner of vineger of herbes and other flowers Vineger of Rue §. 3. THis Vineger is made after the same manner as the vineger of Roses The fifteenth Chapter THis Chapter is none other but a gathering together of certaine Salues Siefs which be Eye powders Sirupes and Species which be remembred in this booke and vsed daily at the Apothecaries Aegyptiacum §. 1. VVE will now speake first of the salue of Egypt whose preparation is described in the fift part the first Chapter and 16. § Salue of Agrippa §. 2. TAke Brionie rootes twelue ounces rootes of wild Cucumbers sixe ounces Squilles thrée ounces Ireas one ounce and a halfe rootes of Ferne of wild Elderne and water nuts of each one ounce white Waxe seuen ounces and a halfe Sallad oyle 24. ounces take the rootes all fresh and let them stéepe the space of eight dayes in oyle afterwards seeth them and wring them out you are then to melt the Waxe in this decoction This salue is maruellous good for the Dropsie and all swelling of the bodie it is also good for all diseases of the sinewes it driueth out the water and if it be annointed on the outside then doth it loose the belly and is especiall good for all paine of the kidneys Salue of Alablaster §. 3. THis salue is also very seldome vsed and in this booke was it spoken of but once Vnguentum album §. 4. IN the fourth part of this booke be described fiue kinds of these white salues and therewith declared for what they be méete These white salues are so rise and common that the skinne can scarce get any disease for which the same are not vsed Vnguentum de Althaea §. 5. THis salue of Hollihock rootes is very common whereof there be foure kindes and also their vertues described in the third part the fourtéenth Chapter and 1. § Vnguentum Anodinum §. 6. THe Grecians do call those salues Anodina which do asswage all manner of paine whereof there be sundry described in this booke which you may looke for in the Register Vnguentum mundificatiuum de Apio §. 6. THis is a mundifying salue made of Smallage her preparation is described in the third part the third Chapter and 9. § Vnguentum Apostolorum §. 8. THis 〈◊〉 of the Apostles and her efficacie is described in the third part the eight chapter and thâ—◠§ Vnguentum Arogon §. 9 This salue is much vsed but is very troublesome to be made it helpeth all cold diseases of the bodie all conuulsions of the sinewes the weaknesse of the ioynts and all paine of the same Vnguentum de Artanita §. 10. OF Mesua there be two kinds of this salue described which are very seldome made they be especiall good against the dropsie they kill wormes and expell the same they loose the stomacke very mildly if one annoint it very fat vnderneath the nauell like as is wont to be done in vomiting Vnguentum de Cerussa §. 11. THis salue is described in the fourth part amongst other white salues Vnguentum Citrinum §. 12. AT all Apothecaries this salue is alwaies readie but it is somewhat troublesome to be made it driueth away the spots in the face it is good against all roughnesse against all rednes of the eyes and it softeneth all hardnesse but it is not much vsed in this booke Vnguentum Comitissae §. 13. THis salue is very good against all mischances of women it stoppeth the bléeding of the Pyles and it is also very good for the kidneys but it is very hard and troublesome to be made Salues for Scabs §. 14. SVndry of these salues are described in the first Part the third Chapter and ninth § Vnguentum infrigidans Galeni §. 15. THis cooling salue is in the first Part the first Chapter and 1. § described and therewithall also her vertue and operation Vnguentum Martianum vel Martiatum §. 16. THere are thrée kinds of them described by the Phisitions which be compounded of many things together and are also of sundry operations yet here too long to discourse Vnguentum Mercuriale §. 17. THis salue of Quicksiluer is much vsed for the Pockes and is described in the fift part the third Chapter and fift § Vnguentum Neruinum §. 18. THe description of this sinew salue do you find in the first Part the 13. chapter and 2. § Vnguentum Nihili §. 19. HEr preparation is to be found in
or Satyrium trifolium The second kinde is called redde Ragwort of Dioscorides in Greeke Satyrion Erithronicon Satyrium Erithraicum and Satyrion Erythron of Apuleius Entaticum Priapicum and Satyriscus in Latine Molorticulum Veneris Melium aquaticum Testiculus Satyri and Arrectorium The third kind is called Satyrium regium or Satyriâ—m basilicum of the Herbarists Manus Christi Palma Christi and Palma Veneris the Arabians doe call it Bucheiden and Buzeiden of Auicenna Digitus crinitus Satyrium basilicum maius mas The fourth kinde is like to the former but the leaues are ful of spots it is called of the Herbarists Satyrium Basilicum maius foemina and Lacryma Mariae The fifth kinde hath small leaues like to Saffron it beareth a faire purple flower with a pleasant smell the rootes are also like the two other small hands The Herbarists do call it Satyrium basilicum or regium minus Satyrium odoratum Amaranthus vencris Palma Christi minor Palmula Christi or Palmula Veneris The sixte kinde hath leaues like to the white Lilly but narrower and lesser it hath two kinds of flowers the one is of a darke red colour like to that of Hartwort the other as white as snow This kind hath two rootes of the bignesse of an Oliue and very swéete in taste Dioscorides calleth it in Gréeke Orchis and Cynosorchis in Latine Testiculus and Testiculus canis the Herbarists doe call it Orchis maior mas The seuenth kind is somewhat like the first but that the leaues be lesse it beareth a flower of a Chestnut colour it is called of the Herbarists Orchis mas minor The eight kind hath soft leaues not vnlike the Lilly leaues but somewhat lesse the flowers are partly of a darke red colour and partly incarnation with many white strakes the rootes are like Cockes stones it is called of the Herbarists Orchis foemina maior The ninth kind is much lesse than the former but very like the same in flowers leaues and rootes it is called of the Herbarists Orchis foemina minor Some do call it Orchis odorata or Testiculus odoratus it groweth on drie hils The tenth kind hath lesser leaues than the white Lillies the flowers are purple it hath thrée rootes much lesse than Oliues whereof two are of one bignesse and the third lesse and longer so that these thrée are like the member of a man It is called in Gréeke of Dioscorides Orchis serapias of Aegyneta Triorchis of Apuleius Serapion Yet are there thrée kindes moe whereof we haue spoken elsewhere Otherwise there is another kind of this herb which is placed with the Cynosorchis or Testiculus canis which here for breuities sake we doe omit The Apothecaries doe vse all the former kindes of Ragwort for Satyrium without any difference and although there be but a small difference betwéene all these kindes in operation yet it were better onely to vse that which hath thrée leaues like Lillies for the true Satyrium for it is the Satyrium of the auncient Phisitions to the end no error be committed All these beforenamed herbs and rootes are hote and moyst and haue an attractiue vertue Raisons in Gréeke Astaphides and Staphides in Latine Vuae passae at the Apothecaries Passulae There are thrée kindes of them in vse the first kind is the best and are called Vuae damascenae and Vuae zibebae at the Apothecaries Zibebae and Passulae damasceuae The second kind is somewhat leâ—â—e they are brought from Cypers Spaine and Prouence they are the best in vertue and operation and also in taste and are called of the Phisitions Vua passae maiores Vuae massilioticae at the Apothecaries Passulae maiores The third kinde are the Currans and are called in Gréeke Apyrine in Latine Vuae passae Corinthiacae Passulae Ciliciae Passulae Chemesinae that is Passulae sine nucleis and at the Apothecaries Passulae minores but when we find in any composition Passulae then are these to be taken The Arabian phisitions call them Kesmes Chesmes that is Raisons without stones Ramme in Gréeke Crios and in Latine Aries Rapes in Gréeke Gongyla Gongylis in Latine Rapa Rapum and Golsonium is called in Greeke Raphys and Rapys These Rapes or Turneps are of foure kindes for some are round some long some white some small some great but we néede not make any long rehearsall of them séeing they haue all one kind of operation There are certaine Turneps sowne in Lottering and in the vpper Burgundie to the end to make oyle of their séedes but this kind of Turneps is wilde and altogether vnfit for meate but the séede is more fit for phisicke than that of the tame Rapes This kinde is called in Gréeke Gongylis agria and in Latine Rapum syluestre Rapontica in Gréeke and latine Centaurium magnum Maro Maronia and of Apulcius Maronium Plectronia Pelethronia Chironia and of the Magicians Sanguis Herculis Limnestis Nessium Vnefera the Herbarists do call it Pseudoraponticum at the Apothecaries is it vnto this day falsely called Rhaponticum and Rhapontica because their vnskilfull phisitions do take it to be the same where neuerthelesse the true Rhaponticum may be had sufficiently But these blinde bayards haue so dazelled their eyes with gazing at the starres that they are blinde though they seeme to see and they do draw and hold other men into their errors The true Rapontica is a roote outwardly darke gray and lesse than the common Rapontica and spongeous also being broken it hath many white veines much like to Rubarb with an astringent taste it is brought vnto vs from Pontus This is in vse amongest curious and carefull Phisitions It is called with vs pontish Rubarbe to distinguish it from the roote of the great Centorie which we do commonly call Rapontica It is called in Gréeke Rha Rheon Rheum in latine Raponticum Rapontica Rheum ponticum Rheon ponticum of Plinie Rhacoma or Rhecoma of Celsus Radix pontica Rhapontium it is called of the Herbarists Rapuntium Rapontium Rapunculum Raponcellus Raponculus and Pes locustae it is a kinde of wilde Rapes of which there is yet another kind it groweth commonly in shaddowie woods it hath round leaues below and beareth a browne purple and hairy flower and a thicke roote it is very sweete in taste as the former also is they are both vsed in sallads and in meates The second kind is called the wilde Rapuntium the Herbarists do call it Rapontium Rapunculus syluaticus and Rapontium Alopecorum Raspes at the Apothecaries Ribes it is a kinde of Ceanothus Theophrasti which we doe call Gooseberries and they are like in euery respect but that the Raspes hath no thornes and they may be vsed in stead of the Gooseberies The Raspes are cold and drie in the second degrée Rauen in Gréeke Corax in latine Coruus Red Arsenicke or Orpiment Sandaraca Graecorum and at the Apothecaries Auripigmentum rubrum Red lead in Gréeke Sandix and Syricum in latine Minium secundarium of Vitruuius Sandaracha at the Apothecaries