beaten and let it boil a little over the fire again till the Sugar Candie be melted then take it off the fire and put it up into a glasse close stopped and drinke of it three or four spoonfuls morning and evening so long as it lasteth a little warmed For Cramp or Numnesse Take a penniworth of Saffron put it into a little bag then put it into three ounces of Rosewater and stir it well in the Rosewater then take four penniworth of Camphire and infuse that in the Rosewater and being so infused and mixed chafe the place with it warm and smell to it as he bathes the place For a Cough Winde and a cold Stomack Take four ounces of good Annise-seed water mingle it with one ounce of spirit of Mint and dissolve it with two ounces of pure white Sugar candie beaten into very fine pouder set it upon a chafingdish of coals in a peuter dish and when it beginneth to walm burn it with a paper as you doe wine stirring it well together with a spoon then take it off the fire and evening and morning take a good spoonful of it first and last It will comfort the stomack and is good against cough and winde For a Cough and Consumption Take of Lungwort Liverwort Hysop Violet and Strawbrrie leaves of each one handful Licorice sliced and scraped Annise-seeds and Fennel-seeds of each one penniworth a little bruised a Parsly and a Fennel root clean scraped pithed and cut into small peeces twelve figs sliced four ounces of good great Raisins having their stones taken out boyl all these together in a pottle of clear running water till it come to three pints then put into it two ounces of pure white hard Sugar dissolve it upon the fire with the other decoction then take it off strein it and drink thrice a day of it that is in the morning about four in the afternoon and last at night three or four ounces of it at a time and it will asswage the driness and thirst and open the obstructions and stoppings of the Liver and Spleen and cause your Flegm to com away with more ease For a Cold Dropsie Take Olibanum and rost it in a Fig and apply it to their great Toe But if they be swelled in their face or head then take anew layd Egg roasted hard take out the yolk aend put into the hole so much Cummin Seed as will fill it and apply it as hot as it may be endured to the nape of the neck For the Dropsie Take a pottle of White or Rhenish Wine an ounce of Cinnamon and a pint of green Broom ashes put them together in an earthen pot eight and forty houres the Cinnamon being first bruised stirre them all often and then put them up into a white Cotten bag and let the liquor drain out of them put it up again twice upon the lees and then use four times a day of it drink it cold in the morning one hour before dinner one hour before supper and when you goe to bed at each time drink a quarter of a pint if the greif be not fully removed use a second or third pottle so made up but with most persons one pottle sufficeth For an Ague Take as much black Sope as a Wallnut and three times as much crown Sope and mingle them together then shred about a pugill of Rue and put thereto half a spoonfull of Pepper very finely beaten and with a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour or as much as shall suffice mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth and make it up into two plaisters and apply to each wrist one and keep them fast on for nine dayes together you must apply the plaisters just as the cold fit beginneth to come upon them Sweat is held by all experienced Phisitians to be very good to cure an Ague but they must be put into their sweat before the cold fit come upon them you must use this twice or thrice before the Ague will be quite cured and let them drink no other drink during their sweat but Aqua vitae and small Beer mingled together but you must not make it too strong of the Aqua vitae To comfort and strengthen the Ioynts and Sinewes â„ž Of the flowers and seeeds of Saint Iohns Wort three steep them three dayes in sufficient Wine and then seeth them in a brazen Vessell till the Wine be consumed then strain them and put to the straining as much of fresh Saint Iohns Wort stamped and steep it again three dayes and afterward add thereunto of Turpentine three ounces of old Oyle eight ounces of Saffron one scruple of Mastick 3. ss. of Myrrh of Frankincense ana 3. ii ss afterward put in the straining the space of a moneth of the flowers and seed of Saint Iohns Wort one handfull and half of Madder brayed of fine grain wherewith Scarlet is died ana. three drachms of the Juyce of Yarrow two ounces seeth them to the consumption of the Juyce with earth Wormes washed with Wine two ounces and a little Wine odoriferous For obstructions of Liver and Spleen â„ž Flowers of Burrage Buglosse Marigolds Violets Endive of each a handfull Dates stoned three ounces of the best blew Currans two ounces sweet Fennell seed half an ounce Graines and Coriander of each one drachm whole brown Watereresses nine leaves Hysop stripped downwards nine little branches of french Barly three ounces boyl all these together in a pottle of spring water till a third part be consumed then strain it and when it is strained adde of the conserve of Barberries three ounces Sirrup of Lemons and of Quinces of each three ounces this is to be taken morning and evening nine spoonfuls at a time The Flowers are to be had at the Apothecaries dry all the year For the Palsie in the head For the Palsie in the head take of the oyles of Amber Fox and Beaver and mingle them together and annoint the nape of the neck with them evening and morning chafe it in with a warm hand and chafingdish of hot coales And take of the oyle of Amber alone and with your finger put some of it every morning into your nose and take two or three drops of it and rub it into your head upon the mould thereof And take two or three drops of the same Oyle and put it into your Beer or Ale for your mornings draught especially at the change or full of the Moon for four or five dayes together Be sure to keep warm and avoid going abroad in rain misty or moist weather Oyle of Saint Johns Wort for ache and pain Take a quart of Sallet oyle put thereto a quart of flowers of Saint Iohns Wont well picked let them lie therein all the summer untill the seeds of that hearb be ripe the glasse must be kept warm either in the Sun or in water all the summer untill the seeds be ripe then
The yolk of an Egg or two Mixe all these together in a morter and so give it warm in the morning or two hours before supper and if you add unto this one ounce of Diacatholicon it will be the better Raisins laxative how to make them â„ž White-Wine three pints and a half Senuae half a pound Fine white sugar one pound Currants two pound You must infuse the Senuae in the wine in a pot close stopt and let it stand in a warm place four and twenty hours then strein it and add to the straining the Currants being clean pickt and washt and lastly the Sugar boyle all together on an easie fire untill the wine be consumed having care that you do alwaies stirr it about in the boyling for feare of burning then take them from the fire and put them up into a clean galley pot you may eat one spoonfull or two of them a little before dinner at any time A good Oyntment to keep one Sollible The gaule of an Oxe Oyle of Violets of either one ounce Sheeps â—…allow six draehms Boyle them together on a soft fire untill they be incorporated then take it from the fire and adde thereto Alloes cicaâ—…ine one ounce Bay-Salt half an ounce The Alloes and Salt must be both made into fine powder before you put them into the oyle then stirr them together untill it be cold and when you are disposed to have a stoole then annoint your fundament therewith both within side and without and if you annoint your navell therewith it will work the better Good pills to keep one soluble and they do also resist the Pestilence â„ž Alloes Cicatrine one ounce Chosen Myrrh three drachms Saffron one drachm and half Amber Greece six graines Sirrup of Lemons or Citrons so much as shall be sufficient to make the masse You must grinde the Aloes Myrrhe and Saffron into small powder severally by themselves then incorporate them together with the sirrup you may give half a drachme or two scruples thereof in the evening half an hour before supper twise or thrise in a week Rases would have you to take half a drachme or two scruples of these Pills every day without using any other preservative at all and he hath great reason so to esteem of them for Galen Avicen and all ancient Writers in Physick do hold opinion that Aloes doth not onely comfort but purge the stomack from all raw and chollerick humors and doth also purge and open the veines called Miserayick and resisteth putrefact on Myrrh doth altogether resist neither will it suffer putrefaction in the stomack Saffron doth comfort the heart and hath also a propriety in it to carry any medicine that is given therewith unto the heart but to conclude these Pills will purge all superfluous humors in the stomack and principall members and preserveth the bloud from corruption CHAP. VIII I Must here give you to understand that the infection doth oftentimes lie hidden within us without any manifest sign or knowledge thereof at the first and therefore were it good for sanguine bodies and such as do abound with bloud in the summer season to draw six or eight ounces of bloud out of the Basilica vein in the right arme which is a good meanes to prevent a further danger as Avicen witnesseth but for full and plethorick bodies it were best to purge themselves once in seven or eight daies with some easie and gentle purgation as hereafter â—… will shew you but for leane and spare bodies once in fourteen dayes will be enough at most for wisely saith Rondoletius that it is not onely the venemous and contagious ayre which we receive that doth kill us but it is the present communicating of that contagion with some superfluous humours in our bodies as in his treatise De Peste appeareth therfore now will I shew you how to purge the body Pills good to purge â„ž Alloes Cicatrine ten drachms Agarick of the whitest â„¥ iiii Myrrh Mastick of either two drachms Saffron two scruples Make these into fine powder then compound them together in a morter with so much Oximell simplex Sirrup of Lemons or of Staecados as shall be sufficient you may give one drachm or a drachm and half of these Pills half an hour before supper but for a cholerick body you must leave out two drachms of the Agarick in making of the receipt and in place thereof add two drachms of Rubarb and for the melancholie two drachms of Epithimum and give the same quantity in weight A good purging potion â„ž Raisins the stones being pickt out and washt of either one ounce Polipode of the Oak Elecampane root dried roots of wild small Sorrel Succory roots cleansed of either half an ounce Leaves of Burrage Bugloss Burnet Scabios Morsus diaboli of either a little handfull Floures of Burrage Bugloss Rosemary Violets Broom of either a little handfull Seeds of Fennell sowr Citrons of either two scruples Shaving of Harts horn half a drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of faire water untill half be consumed then strain it Take of the decoction aforesaid three ounces Rubarb two drachms and half Cinnamon half a drachm Slice them both and put them with the liquor in a close cup and so let it stand to infuse in a warm place twelve hours then strain it out strongly and add thereto one ounce of the Sirrup of Maiden-haire and so drink it warm in the morning about six of the clock and refrain from meat drink or sleep two hours after it this is good in lean and spare bodies you may for the phlegmatick body add in the infusion one drachm of Aggarick Trosciscated A purging powder for such as cannot take Pills â„ž Alloes Ciccatrine one ounce Myrrh Cinnamon of either two drachms Saffron one scruple Make them all in fine powder and give one drachm in a draught of White-wine Floures stopt how to provok them For that women which have not their naturall course oâ—… them are most prone to receive and take the infection I have here set down good Pills which I have alwaies found excellent not onely for that purpose but will also resist the danger of infection â„ž Alloes Ciccatirne one ounce Roots of Gentian Aristolochia rotunda Dittander Saffron of either half a drachm Roots of garden Madder Methridate of either one drachm Cause them all to be ground in small powder then mix it with the Methridate and some sirrup of Artemesia or Mugwort give one drachm of these Pills every morning twelve dayes togerher or untill her tearms break Issues commended against the Plague IN plethorick and full bodies I have found nothing more safer in the time of the Plague then to make them an artificial Issue either in the leg or arm for never hitherto have I known any one which hath had an Issue or Ulcer running on him that hath been infected with the plague Palmarius and Forestus doe both affirm it to be true and certain but here some ignorant people
the sick be very thirsty and dry then give this Julep to drink morning and evening which I have found very good â„ž Sirrup of Jujubes Nenuphare and Burrage of either four drachms Water of Burrage Cichore and Bugloss of either two ounces Mix them together and give the sick one half thereof in the morning and the rest at night and cause him oftentimes to lick of this mixture following Take the conserves of Nenuphare Violets and Burrage of either six drachms Manus Christi made with Perles four drachms Sirrup of Nenuphare and Ribes of either one ounce and half Mix them together and with a Licorice stick clean scrap'd and a little bruised in the end let the sick lick thereof CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne FOr that oftentimes the face and hands which is the beauty and delight of our bodies are oftentimes disfigured thereby I will shew you what meanes I have used with good and happy successe for preventing thereof which is you may not do any thing unto them untill they grow white and that they are come to maturation which when you perceive then with a golden pinne or needle or for lack thereof a copper pinne will serve do you open every pustulae in the top and so thrust out the matter therein very softly and gently with a soft linnen cloth and if you perceive the places do fill againe then open them againe as you did first for if you do suffer the matter which is in them to remain over long then will it fret and corrode the flesh which is the cause of those pitts which remaine after the Pox are gone as Avicen witnesseth now when you have thus done then annoint the places with this oyntment following Take Elder leaves one handfull Marigolds two handfulls French Mallowes one handfull Barrowes morte or grease six ounces First bruise the hearb in a morter and then boyle them with the grease in a pewter dish on a chafer and coales untill the juice of the hearbs be consumed then strein it and keep it to your use the best time to make it is in the middle or the latter end of May You must with a feather annoint the places grieved and as it drieth in annoint it againe and so continue it oftentimes for this will soon dry them up and keep the place from pitts and holes which remain after the Pox are gone Also if you annoint the Pox with the oyle of sweet Almonds newly drawn three or four times a day which you must begin to do so soon as the Pox are grown white and come to maturation it will cure them without pitts or spotts and easeth the pain and burning and helpeth excoriation Some do onely oftentimes wet the places with the juice of Marigolds in the summer season and in winter the juice of the roots will serve and by that onely have done well Mercuriales doth greatly commend this decoction following to be used after the Pustulaes are opened Take Barley one little handfull red Roses a handfull red Sanders white Sanders of either one oâ—…nce Saffron two scruples Salt four drachms Clean water three pound Boyle all together untill a third part be consumed you must oftentimes touch the sores therewith with a fine cloth wet therein and as it drieth in wet it againe this in a short time will dry them up I have heard of some which having not used any thing at all but suffering them to dry up and fall off themselves without any picking or scratching have done very well and not any pitts remained after it When the Pox after they come out do not grow to maturation how you shall help it Sometimes you shall find that it will be a long time before those pustulaes will come to maturation or grow white now here you must help nature to bring it to passe which you may well do with this decoction Take Mallowes one handfull Figgs twelve in number Water a quart Cut the Figgs small and boyle altogether untill half and more be consumed and then wet a fine soft linnen cloth therein and touch the place therewith oftentimes which will soone bring them to maturation and also ease the paine if any be Ulceration to help it If in the declining of the Pox they chance to grow unto Ulcerations which is oftentimes seen then for the curing thereof use this order here following Take Tamarinds leaves of â—…entils Mirtils budds of oaken leaves red Roses dried of either a lâ—…le handfull Boyle all these in a pottle of clean water untill half be consumed then strein it and with a fine cloth wet therein do you wash and soak the place well then wipe it dry with a soft and fine linnen cloth and then cast into the place some of this powder following Take Frankincese Mastick Sarcocoll and red Roses of either two drachms Make all these into fine powder severally by themselves then mix them together and so reserve it to thy use A very good unguent for the same purpose Take oyle of Roses vi ounces white Wax one ounce Ceruse washt in Rose and Plantaine-water one ounce and half clear Turpentine iii drachms Camphire half a drachm You must first melt the wax in the oyle then put in the Ceruse by little and little alwaies stirring it with an iron spalter and let it boyle on a gentle fire of charcoles untill it grow black but stirr it continually in the boyling for feare least it burn then take it from the fire and add thereto the camphire and lastly the Turpentine this unguent is good both to mundifie incarnate and sigillate For extream heat and burning in the soales of the feet and palms of the hands Petrus Forestus willeth to hold the hands and feet in warm water and that will ease the pain and burning and may boldly be used without any danger For to help the sorenesse and ulceration of the mouth Sometime it chanceth in this disease that there is a great ulceration or excoriation in the mouth and jawes called Aptham which if it be not well looked unto in time will grow to be Cankers now to cure and prevent the same this gargarisme is excellent good Take Barley-water a quart red Roses dried a little handfull Sumach and Rybes of either two ounces juice of Pomegranates â„¥ iii Boyle them altogether saving the juice of Pomegranates untill a third part be consumed then strein it and add thereto the juice of Pomegranates with this you must often wash and gargarise as also hold some thereof in the mouth a pretty while Also to prevent the same the kernel of a Pomegranate held in the mouth is very good and so it is excellent good to lick oftentimes some Diamoron or juice of a Pomegranate For inflammation and paine in the tonsils and throate Take Plantaine-water a pint Sirrup of Pomegranates two ounces Mix them together and gargarise therewith oftentimes being warm Another Taste Nightshade-water a pint Seeds
Paris 2. â„ž Pulverem alabastri misce cum albumine ovi pone super tempora alia loca An virgo corrupta Pulveriza fortiter flores lilii crocei quae sunt inter albos flores da ei comedere de illo pulvere si est corrupta statim minget Ut dens cadat Pulvis stercoris caprae positus supra dentem facit cadere cave alia Pro combusto cum muliere Take pouder of a linnen cloth when it is well burnt and take the yolks of eggs and mingle them well together and therewith annoint the sore and put the pouder into the hole A Drink that healeth all Wounds without any Plaisteâ—… or 〈◊〉 Ointment or without any taint most perfectly Take Sanicle Milfoil and Bugle ana p. ae stamp them 〈◊〉 a morter and temper them with wine and give the sick that is wounded to drinke twice or thrice in a day till he be whole Bugle holdeth open the wound Millfoil cleanseth the wound Sanicle healeth it but Sanicle may not be given to him that is hurt in the head if the brain pan be broken for it will slay him and therefore it is better in another place This is a good and tryed Medicine Unguentum genistae Take Flores genistae floures and leaves of Woodbind ana p. ae stamp them with May Butter and let them stand so together all night and in the morning make thereof an ointment and melt it and scum it well This Medicine is good for all cold evils and for sleeping of hand and foot Unguentum Augustinum is good for all sore legs that be red and hot Take Groundsell and Petty Morrell and stamp them and temper them with May Butter and put them in a pot fast closed and let them stand so nine dayes and then frie it over an easie fire and strein it through a cloth and put it in a box for your use Unguentum viride is good pro erectione virgae and for the mormale no ointment worketh stronger then this Take a pound of Swines grease one ounce of Verdigrease half a scruple of Sal gemmae this ointment may be kept 40. winters Valet contra cancros and for running holes it fretteth away dead flesh and bringeth new and healeth old wounds put it within the wound that it fester not Put to this ointment Pitch rosin and waxe and it will be a fine heat for old bruises swellings and Mormales Unguentum nigrum for wounds heating and burning Take a quart of oyle of Olive and boil it well then cast in a quart of red lead and stir it well with a slice and boil it till it be black and then let it cool and keep it for drawing and healing Unguentum Rubrum Take a pint of honey half a pint of Vinegar and a portion of Verdigrease boil them together and it is good for all manner of sores Contra vâ—…mitum 1. â„ž Rosewater pouder of Cloves and Mastick and drinke it hot 2. Take Mints thre ounces Roses half an ounce Mastick one ounce Barlie meal and a crust of bread tosted and this manner of Plaister apply to the stomack 3. Rutae cochleare i. bibe cum vino vel cerevisia multum valet 4. Pouder of Gilliflowers strewed on his meats staneheth immediately Note He must eat no meat whilst he casteth ut virtus maneat Fluxus sanguinis narium 1. Hens feathers burnt and the smoke thereof applyed to the nostrils stinteth it 2. A pigâ—… turd bâ—…nt and made into pouder blown into the nostrils 3. The juyce of Smallage drunk restraineth bleeding Probat 4. Succus menthae rutae mixtus curâ—…t fluxum narium Contra Sciaticam Stercora leporis temperata et calido vino applica forma empla stri dolori Fâ—…eckens of the face 1. Grease your face with oyle of Almonds bibe succuâ—… plantaginis 2. Annoint your visage well and often with Hares bloud To know if a man be a Leper or no Let him bleed and put the bloud into water and if the bloud swim above he is a Leper and if it descend he is clean For ache in the loins Take Waybread and Sanicle stamp them and put thereto Bores grease forma â—…plastri calide dolori applica For a scald Head 1. Wash thy head with Vinegar and Cammomil stampt and mingled together there is no better thing for the Scall Probat 2. Grinde white Hellebor grinde it with Swines grease applica capiti 3. Take Culver dung with Salt and a little Vinegar and stirre them well together and therewith wash thy head sanabit capitis faeditates Ad ornatum faciei Take fresh Bores grease and the white of an Egg and stamp them together with a little pouder of Bayes and therewith annoint the visage and it shall clear the skin and make it white If the Liver rot Eat raw Parsely 9. dayes and 6. dayes after eat Sage and that will cleanse that the Parsely hath wrought Note All Hearbs whose roots be medicinable are best in Aprill For stopping of the Pipes â„ž Leaves and tender stocks of Horehound stamp them and seeth them well in Butter then wring it through a cloth cool it and adde to that pouder of Liquorice and of Hysop mixe them together and keep it in a Box and when thou wilt take a spoonfull and temper it with hot wine and use it when thou goest to bed Aliud â„ž A good quantity of Hysop seeth it in half a gallon of good wine till half bee sodden away and let the sick use it first and last at evening hot and at morning cold Probat Aliud â„ž The juyce of Cinquefoil stamped and drinke a sup thereof with wine or ale and it shall clear thee of much flegm above and beneath The Plague Water TAke a handfull of Sage and a handful of rue and boil them in three pints of Malmsie or Muscadine untill one pint be wasted then take it off the fire and strain the wine from the hearbs then put into the wine two penniworth of long Pepper half an ounce of Ginger and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmeg all grosly bruised and let it boil a little again This done take it off the fire and dissolve it in half an ounce of good Venice Triacle and a quarter of an ounce of Mithridate and put to it a quarter of a pint of strong Angelica water so keep it in a glasse close stopped for your use For preservation you shall take every morning a spoonfull warm and lay you down to sweat upon it and so continue to take it twice a day untill you perfectly recover This water likewise cureth the small Pox the Measels Surfets and Pestilentiall Fevers A Cordiall Water good for the Plague Pox Measels all kind of Convulsions Fevers and all pain of the Stomack Take Sage Rosemary Rue Celandine Seabios Agrimonie Mugwort Woormwood Pimpernel Dragon Carduus benedictus Rosa solis Betonie Marigold leaves and flowers Centurie Polipodium Scurvie grasse of each a handfull
wash them and swing them in a clean cloth till they be dry then shred them small and take the roots of Zedoarie Tormentill Enula campana Angelica Licorice of each half an ounce scraped and sliced then take of the best white wine eight pints put them all into an earthen pot well leaded let them stand two dayes close covered and stirre them once in the day then still them in a Limbeck with a temperate fiâ—…e it will be two dayes and a night in the still keep the first pint by it self of which you may take a spoonful at a time of the next quart take twice so much of the next pint you may give to little children a spoonful at a time Lute the still well that no aire come forth and keep it in close glasses For a Child that hath the Ague Take the Hearb called Hartshorn stamp it then mingle it with bay Salt and three or four houres before the fit come apply it spread upon a linnen cloth to the Childs wrists and when the fit is past apply a fresh one before the next fit and in a few fits God willing she shall be cured For a burning Fever Take red mints two handfull boyle them in a quart of running water to the consumption of half strain it and put thereto four or five spoonfuls of white Wine Vinegar and as much Honey boyle it to the height of a Sirrup Take of Endive two handfuls boyle it in a quart of water to the consumption of half take two spoonfulls of this and one of the Sirrup in the morning fasting and at any other time you please For the Iaundies black or yellow Take of White Wine one pint steep therein of the root of Calidon the weight of twelve pence of Saffron one pennyworth a rase of Turmarick bruise all and bind them in a fine peece of Laun and let it infuse in the Wine a night drink a part thereof in the morning one other part at noon and the rest at night To bring down the Flowers Take of Alligant or Muskadine or Clarret a pint burn it and sweeten it well with Sugar put thereto two spoonfulls of Sallet oyle then take a good Bead of Amber in pouder in a spoon with some of the wine after it take it evening and morning To stay the Flowers Take Amber Corrall Pearl Jeat of each alike grind them to a fine pouder and searse them take thereof as much as will lye upon six pence with conserve of Quinces and drink after it a draught of new milk use it every morning For the Mother Take a brown tost of four bread of the nether crust and wash it with Vinegar and put thereto black Sope like as you would butter a tost and lay it under the Navill For the Stone Take Saxifrage Pellitorie Parslie Eyebright wild Thime of each two handfuls of Raddish roots two or three steep all in a pottle of red cowes milk a night then still it make of this quantity two stillings You must take at a time nine spoonfuls as much Renish or White wine and the juice of a Lemon sweeten all with Sugar and take it fasting if your stomack be cold slice a little Ginger and put into it For a cold cough Ptissick or any defect of the Lungs Take Horehound Maiden hair Liver-wort Harts tongue Germander Hysope Agrimonie of each a handfull wash them and boil them in six pints of running water in a pipkin till four pints be consumed at least strain it and put the liquor into another clean Pipkin put thereto of the root of Ennula campana in pouder and searsed one ounce of Licorice so used two ounces of pure honie eight or nine spoonfulls boyl it till it wax somewhat thick then set it to cool Take the quantity of half a nut at a time as often as you please The best time to make it is in May For a Stitch Take of stale Ale two pints clarifie it and boyl therein of the tops of green broom a handful then sweeten it with Sugar and give thereof to the sick warm to drink Also take Beer make it very Salt put a little Nutmeg thereto and drinke thereof bloud-warm Apply upon the grief outward Fennel seed and Cammomile made wet with Malmsie as hot as can be suffered three or four dayes together Or take a tost of Rie bread tosted on a gridiron and spread Tar thick thereon lay it hot next the skin and let it lye 9 or 10 houres and if the pain be not gone at first apply it again For a Consumption Take a Leg of Veal cut away the fat and take a red Cock scald him and wash him clean then let the Cock and Veal lye in water the space of three houres seeth them with two pottles of fair water and scum it clean as the fat riseth take it off and seeth it till half â—…e consumed then put in a pottle of the best Claret wine and let it seeth together till it come to a quaâ—… clarifie it with three or four whites of Eggs let it run through a Jelly bag then set it on the fire again and put to it of Sugar a pound let it seeth a little then drinke of it warm three or four spoonfuls at a time as often as you please For the Green sickness Take an Orange cut off the top and pick out some of the meat then put therein a little Saffron rost it gently when it is rosted put it presently into a pint of white Wine keep it covered and drink thereof fasting A speciall Water for all Sores Take of running water four pints of Sage Smallage of each three handfulls of Housleek a handfull and a half seeth them together to the consumption of half then strain it take of Allum two ounces of white Copperis an ounce and a half of Camphire two drachms beat all severally into fine pouder put all into the water and let it boyle a little then put thereto of clarified Honie half a pint and let it simper a while then reserve it in a glasse close stopped Wash the sore therewith and wet a cloth therein and lay thereto if it heal too fast lay dry lint therein For the trembling of the Heart Take a spoonfull of the spirit of Tartar when you find your self troubled Or take Lignum aloes Riponticum Eupatorium red Sanders of each two ounces beat them and boyle them in six pints of fair water till two pints be consumed of the four pints that remain being strained make a Sirrup with Sugar and while it is hot put thereto of Saffron one scruple of Ginger one drachm of Musk two carets Cloves Nutmegs of each a scruple and a half keep it in a glasse close shut take thereof a drachm at a time in a little Broth or Burrage water fasting For a Flux of the Womb Take Chalke finely scraped stir thereof in whites of Eggs till it be thick spread thereof on brown paper and lay it on a Gridiron on the
Benedictus water Also so much Triacle of Andromachus description eaten every morning as a bean with a little conserve of Roses is a very excellent good preservative Valetius doth greatly commend the taking of three or four grains of the Bezar stone every morning in a spoonfull of Scabios water I cannot here sufficiently commend the Electuarie called Dioscordium which is not onely good to resist the infection but doth also expell the venemous matter of those which are infected being taken every morning and evening the quantity of a bean and drinke a draught of Rennish or White wine after it in winter season but in Summer a draught of Beer or Ale is best In strong and rusticall bodies and such as are dayly labourers Garlick onely eaten in the morning with some Butter and Salt at breakfast drinking a cup of beer or ale after it hath been found to be very good which is greatly commended by Galen who calleth it the poor mans Triacle but in the sanguine daintie and idle bodies it may not be used because it over-heateth the bloud causeth head-ach and universally inflameth the whole body CHAP. VI NOw when you have taken any of the foresaid Preservatives it were good and necessary to wear upon the Region of the heart some sweet Bag or quilt that hath power to resist venome and also to carry in your hand some sweet Pomander Nodule or Nosegay that will comfort the heart resist venom and recreate the vitall spirits as here following is specified and set down An excellent quilt or Bag â„ž Arsenike cristaline â„¥ i. Diamargaritum frigidum ℈ ii Diambrae ℈ i. You must grinde the Arsenike in small powder and then with some of the infusion of Gum Dragagant in Rose water you must make a paste then spread it on a cloth which must be six inches long and five inches broad and spread it thick then cover it with another cloth and so quilt it together which being done fasten it in another bag of crimson taffetie or Sarseâ—…et and so wear it against the heart all the day time but at night leave it off and here you must take heed that when you sweat you doe take it away for otherwise it will cause the skin to amper a little There are some writers which doe utterly forbid the wearing of Arsenike but thus much I can say that I have given this bag unto divers to wear with most happie and good successe for never did I yet know any one that hath worn this bag and used any of the Electuaries aforesaid that hath been infected with the plague but for any inconvenience or accident that hath happened thereby I never found any hitherto other then the ampring of the skin as aforesaid Another Bag â„ž Ireos â„¥ ss. Calamus aromat. Ciperus ana Ê’ i. ss. Storax Calam. root of Angelica ana Ê’ iii Cloves Mace anaÊ’ i. Red roses dried Ê’ iii Pellemountain Penniroyall Calamint Elder floures ana Ê’ i ss. Nutmegs Cinnamon Yellow Sanders anaÊ’ i. Nardi Italicae Ê’ i. Amber greece and Musk ana six grains You must pound all these in powder and then quilt them in a bag of Crimson â—…affatie as aforesaid A Pomander good in the Summer time â„ž The rind of Citrons Red Roses Nenuphare Roses Yellow sanders anaÊ’ ss. Storax liquid Benjamin ana Ê’ i. Myrrh ℈ ii Ladanum Ê’ i. ss. Musk and Amber ana six grains Powder all that is to be powdered and then work them together in a hot morter with a hot pestell adding unto it in the working some of the Musselage of dragagant dissolved in sweet Rose water or rose vinegar and so make your Pomander Another good one for the winter time â„ž Storax liquid Benjamin Storax calamint Ladanum and Myrrh ana half a drachm Cloves one scruple Nutmegs Cinnamon of each half a scruple Red Roses Yellow Sanders Lignum aloes and Ireos of each half a dram Calamus aromaticus rind of a Citron ana four grains Amber greece Musk and Civet of each six grains You may make up this as the other before with some Musselage of the infusion of Gum dragagant infused in Rosewater A good Nodule for the Summer season â„ž Floures of Violets red Roses and Nenuphare of each one drachm Red White and Yellow sanders of each half a drachm Camphire xii graines Cause all these to be beaten in grosse powder then knit them all together in a peece of Taffetie and when you will use it then wet it in Rose water and a little Vinegar and so smell to it Another Nodule for the Winter season â„ž The dried leaves of Mints Majoram Time Penniroyall Lavender Pellemountain and Balm of each a little handfull Nutmegs Cloves Cinnamon Angelica roots Lignum aloes of each one drachm Saffron two scruples Cause all these to be infused in Rose-water and Vinegar one whole night then wet a spunge in the liquor thereof and knit it in a peece of Taffaty or your handkerchief whereunto you must smell oftentimes A Nosegay for the same purpose â„ž Hearb grace three branches Rosemary Majoram Mints and Thime of either one branch Red-Rose buds and Carnations of either three or four Make your nosegay herewith then sprinkle him over with Rose-water and some rose-Vinegar and smell often unto it Also when you suspect to go into any dangerous or infected company do you alwaies carry in your mouth a peice of the root of Angelica the rind of a Citron dried or a great Clove which must be first infused or steeped one whole night in rose-water and Vinegar CHAP. VII FOr that there is not a greater enemy to the health of our bodies then costiveness both in the time of the Plague and otherwise I have here set down how and by what meanes you may keep your self soluble which you must use once four and twenty hours if otherwise you have not the benefit of nature by custome A Suppository Take two spoonfulls of Honey and one spoonfull of Bay-Salt small pounded boyle them together untill it grow thick alwaies stirring it in the boyling then take it from the fire and if you list you may add one drachm of Ihera picra simplex unto it and so stirre them well together and when it is almost cold make up your suppositories of what length and bignesse you list and when you minister any you must first annoint it with Butter or Sallet oyle you may keep these a whole year if you put them in Barrowes mort or grease and so cover them up close therein A good Glister â„ž Mallowes Mercury Beets Violets Red-Fennell of either one handfull Seeds of Fennell Annis Coriander of either one drachm Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of Water untill half the water be consumed then straine it and keep it in a glasse close stopt untill you need for it will keep a whole week Take of the same decoction a pint â„ž Mel Rosarum or common Honey one spoonfull Oyle of Violets or oyle of Olives three ounces Salt one drachm
inner pith being taken out must be boiled whereof he must take a little at a time three or four times a day and betwixt times in taking of his broth give him three or four spoonfulls of this Julep following which doth resist venenosity from the heart and also quench thirst A Iulep to quench thirst and resist Venenosity â„ž Water of Scabios Burrage Sorrell ana â„¥ ii Sirrup of Lemons sowre Citrons and the juice of Sorrell of either one ounce Mix all these together and give thereof as cause requireth Then at night he may sleep three or four houres more and the next day being the third or fourth day of his accubet you may purge him with one of the purgations here following but in any case you must take heed that you do not purge with any strong or Scammoniate medicine because it may cause an extream flux which will be most dangerous because it will overmuch weaken the body and hinder concoction for most commonly in this disease the body of it self is subject to fluxes A good Purgation in a strong body â„ž Rad. Cichoriae Ê’ iiii Rad. Petasitis Ê’ ss. Fol. Scabiosae Card. Benedictus Pimpinellae Acetosae ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Prunorum dammas no x. Sem. Coriandri Ê’ ss. Aquae font â„¥ ix Boyle them untill a third part be consumed then strain it â„ž Decoct. col â„¥ iiii Fol. Senuae Ê’ iii Rhab. elect Ê’ iiii Spicae G. iii Infuse them together twelve hours then strain it strongly and add thereto these things Sir de Cichoriae cum Rhab. Ê’ vi Oxisacchari Simp. Ê’ ii Mix them altogether and drink it in the morning refraining from meat drink and sleep three houres after and then eat some good broth Another in a plethorick and full body â„ž Fol. Scabiosae Buglossae Card. B. ana M. i. Florum Cord. P. i. Rad. Tormentillae Ê’ iii Rad. Fenic licho anaÊ’ iiii Passularum enucleat â„¥ i. Prunorum dammas no vi Sem anis Coriandri Oxialidis ana ℈ i. Sennae Polipod q. ana â„¥ i. Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill half the water be consumed then strain it and keep it â„ž Rhab. elect Ê’ ii Agarici tros Ê’ i. Croci ℈ ss. Aquarum scabiosae Borraginis Card. B. anaÊ’ iiii Infuse these together twelve hours in a warm place then strain them strongly and add thereto Sir ros. lax Mannae Calabriae ana â„¥ i. Decoct. col â„¥ ii vel â„¥ iii Mix all these together and take it as the other before A good purgation for a weak body â„ž Fol. sennae Ê’ iii Rhab. elect Ê’ i. Sem. anis Ê’ ss. Schenanthi ℈ ss. Aquae Acetosae â„¥ v. Boyle them a little then take it from the fire and let them stand infused together twelve houres then strain it out strongly and add thereto Sir ros. lax â„¥ i. and then drink it as the other before Another gentle purgation â„ž Aquarum scabiosae Card. B. Aquae ad pestem ana â„¥ i. Rhab elect Ê’ ii ss. Cinamomi Ê’ ss. Infuse them together twelve hours and strain them strongly then add to the straining Sir ros. lax â„¥ i. Sir de limonibus four ounces Mix them together and so drink it as the other before you may either add or diminish of the Rubarb unto any of these potions as you list Now when you see the purgation hath done working then give the sick some Cordiall thing as hereafter followeth which he must also take the next morning following A good Cordiall to be taken after Purging â„ž Conserva Burrag Bugloss Mali Citri anaÊ’ iiii Confect Alkermis Ê’ i. Boli Veri Ê’ ss. Specierum diarhod abb ℈ ii Diamarga frigid Ê’ i. Manus Christi perlati â„¥ i. Sir de Lemon Ê’ iiii Mix all these together and give the sick thereof so much as a chestnut at a time you must oftentimes eat thereof if the sick be in no great heat Another good Cordiall to be given where great heat is â„ž Conservae Borâ—…g Ê’ iiii Conservae fol. acetosae â„¥ i. Bolarm veri Ê’ i. Manus Christi cum perlis â„¥ i. Sir de Lemonibus q. v. misce You must oftentimes give of this where great heat is so much as three beanes at a time A good Cordiall potion â„ž Aquarum buglossae Acetosae ana â„¥ i. Pul. diamarga frig. Ê’ ss. Confectio alkermis G. ii Sir de aceto Citri vel de Lemon â„¥ i. misce All this you may take after purging as aforesaid at any time And here you must understand that if it be in a plethorick body full of ill humors it were good that you purge him again the next day CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms often chance and how to help them FOr that in this contagious disease there are divers dangerous symptoms which do oftentimes chance I will here shew you good meanes how to help the same For lightnesse of the head through want of sleep â„ž Hordei mundi P. i. Amigd dul depilatum â„¥ i. ss. Sem. iiii Frigid ma. mund. ana ℈ i. Aqua font q. 5. fiat decoctio Decoct. col l. i. Sir de Lemonibus de Papa ana â„¥ i. ss. Sacchari perlati â„¥ i. Boyl them together a little and then keep it to your use you must often times give two or three spoonfulls thereof to drink and anniont his temples with this ointment Oyntment to provoke sleep â„ž Vnguent popillionis Ê’ iiii Unguent Alabastrini Ol. Nenuphariae misce ana Ê’ ii This oyntment is not onely good to provoke sleep but will also ease the pain of the head if the place grieved be annointed therewith For raveing and raging If the party rave then give him one scruple of the powder of Harts-horn burnt with half an ounce of the sirrup of Violets and Lemons and apply this sacculus following to the head A good Sacculus for raving and raging â„ž Florum Nenupharis P. i. Cort. Pap. Ê’ ii Santali albi Rub. Citri ana Ê’ i. Florum ros. rub P. i. Florum Viol P. ss. Florum camomil Betonicae anaÊ’ i. Shread them all small then pound them grosly and quilt them in a bagg and apply it to the head and it will help you Aphtham to help it In this contagious disease there doth chance an ulceration of the mouth which is called Aphtham it cometh by means of the great interior heat which the sick is oppressed with in the time of his sicknesse which if it be not well looked unto in time it will greatly endanger the body for Remedy whereof use this Gargarism A good Gargarism for the mouth â„ž Clean barley one handfull wilde Daysie leaves Plantalne leaves Strawberry leaves Violet leaves of either one handfull Purslane seed one scruple Quinse seed one scruple and half Licorice bruised four drachms Boyle all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill the water be half consumed then strain it and take one pint and half thereof and add thereto Sirrup of Roses by infusion and sirrup of dried
and Vinegar mixt together and spread on a Cole leafe and so applyed you must give the Cordiall every third hour and immediately after the first giving of the Cordiall you must Epithemate the heart with the Epithemation before expressed in the second Chapter of this Treatise and when that is done then cause the sick to sweat if you may and after his sweat and the body well dried then give him an easie Glister the next day parge him with some gentle pargation as before is shewed you And if by these meanes you prevail not then small hope of life is to be expected yet Petrus Forestus willeth you first to give a Glister and then within two houres after it to draw some bloud in the same side where the greif is and to annoint the place greived with Unguentum resumptivum mixt with some Oil of Cammomill and then two houres after it to give a Cordiall and procure sweat upon it and so following the rest of the orders aforesaid did recover divers CHAP. VII Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another and so to discusse him without breaking FIrst you must apply a cupping glasse next adjoyning to the lower part of the sore on that side where you would have him to be brought and next unto that glasse apply another so neer the first as you can and if that be not so farre as you would have the sore to be brought then apply the third glasse and let them all remain a quarter of an hour then takeaway the last glasse but suffer the first to remain then presently apply him again and let it remain a quarter of an hour more and doe so three or four times together but alwayes suffer the first glasse next the sore for to remain now when you have thus done then take all the glasses away and presently apply a Vesicatory to the place where the last and uttermost glasse did stand suffering it to remain there twelve houres then open the blister and lay an Ivy or Cole leafe to the place and upon all lay a plaâ—…ster of Kellebackeron or Diaculum magnum and dresse it twice a day the longer you keep it running the better it will be and at length â—…eal it up as other Ulcers are cured Now so soon as you have applyed the Vesicatory you must presently epithemate the botch with this Epithemation Epithemation Take Mallowes Violets Cammomill Dill and Mellilot ana M. i. Hollehock roots three ounces Lin-seed one ounce and a half Boile all these in a sufficient quantity of water untill halfe the water be consumed in this decoction you must wet some unwashed Wooll or Flax made clean and well beaten then being wrung out a little apply it warm to the place and renue it every hour during the time that the Vesicatory is in working and when you have opened the blister that is made thereby then onely apply this Cataplasme to the botch it self Take Mallowes Violets and Cammomill floures of either one handfull Boil them in water untill they be tender then cut them very small with a shreading knife and add thereto Oil of Cammomill and Lillies of either two ounces Barrowes mort two ounces Wax one ounce Mâ—…lt the Wax in the Oiles and then put it to the Hearbs and boile them together a little then take it from the fire and adde thereto Barly and Bean flower a handfull of either of them and so mix them altogether and apply it to the greif renuing it twice a day which within three or four dayes will resolve and discusse the botch but if it doe it not by that time then use all the meanes you can to bring it to suppuration as before is sufficiently shewed you CHAP. VIII Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain as also the 〈◊〉 of the same THe Carbunkle or blain doth first begin with a little Pustula or wheal and sometime with divers Pustulaes or wheales together with a great burning and pricking pain in the place which Pustulaes are like a scalding bladder seeming to be full of water or matter yet when you open it little or nothing will come out of it and when they are broken will grow to a hard crust or scarre as if it had been burnt with a hot Iron or Caustick with a great ponderosity or heavinesse in the place In some it comes in the beginning without any Pustula at all to be perceived but with a hard black crust or a scarre sometimes it lyeth hidden in the inward parts without any outward appearance at all as if it be in the lungs then there is a difficulty of breathing with a Cough and foul spitting If it be in the Liver or Spleen then the party feeleth a great pain and pricking in the same side if in the Kidneyes or Bladder it doth chance then is there suppression or stopping of the Urine or great pain in the making of water if it be in the Brain then a delirium followeth but howsoever it chance to come the party infected therewith hath a Fever with other accidents as before in the 13. Chapter of the first Treatise is declared if it begin with a green black or blew colour or of divers colours like the Rainbow then is it a deadly signe and so is it if once it appear and then suddenly vanish away but if it be red or yellowish so it be not in any of the principall parts or emunctuaries of the body as the heart stomack armpit flanke jawes or throat then it is laudable otherwise in any of these places very desperate and dangerous to be cured but wheresoever it doth chance unlesse it may be brought to suppuration it is deadly The cure of the Carbunkle First the Universall means must not be neglected as bloud-letting cordials epithemations sweet and gentle evacuation by purging as the time and cause requireth which before in the beginning of this Treatise hath been shewed at large and the same order which is used for the cure of a Botch is also to be kept in the cure of a Carbunkle and to rectifie the ayre of the house by strewing it with vine and willow leaves red Roses and such like as also to sprinkle the floor with Rose water and Vinegar and cause the sick oftentimes to smell unto a cloth wet in Rosewater and Vinegar is very good these things being done then use all the means you can to bring it to Suppuration for which purpose this Cataplasm following is very good A Maturative Cataplasm Take Fat Figs â„¥ iiii Mustard seed â„¥ i. ss. Pound the seed small by it self the Figs must first be cut very small and then pounded likewise and then adde thereto so much Oyle of Lillies as will suffice to make it in the form of a stiffe Pultis and apply it warm renuing it twice a day this must be continued untill the scar begin to grow loose and moveable and then apply this following to remove the scar Take unsalted butter the yolk of
an Egg and wheat flour mix them together and apply it untill the sâ—…ar doe fall away then doe you mundifie it with this mundificative Mundificative annodine Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iiii Sirrup of red Roses â„¥ i. Honie of Roses Ê’ iiii Boil them altogether a little then take it from the fire and add there to Barlie and wheat flour of each Ê’ vi the yolk of a new laid Egg and mix them altogether and apply it three dayes and then use this following Another Mundificative Take clear Turpentine â„¥ iii Honie of Roses â„¥ ii Juice of Smallege â„¥ ii Barlie flowre â„¥ i. ss. Boil them altogether saving the Barlie untill the Juice be consumed then take it from the fire and when it is almost cold adde the Barlie thereto and mixe them together and use thereof to the grief untill it be clean mundified and then incarnate it with Unguentum Basilicon and lastly sigillate it with Unguentum de cerusa decocted Sometime you shall find a little pustule to appear without any elevation of the parts adjoyning or outward hardnesse Now here to bring it outwardly you must apply this Cataplasm Take Lillie roots Onyons and sour Leaven of either one ounce Boil them in water untill the water be consumed then bruise them in a morter and add thereto Mustard seed Culver-dung White Sope anaÊ’ i. ss. Snails without shels vi in number Mithridate Triacle ana half a drachm Yolks of four Eggs Mix all these together and apply it warm to the grief renuing it thrice a day this order must be continued untill you see the place elevated tending to suppuration then apply a Maturative and so proceed as next before this is shewed you and during the whole time of the cure I hold it better to use rather Poultises then plaisters because they do not so much stop the Pores but give more scope for the venemous matter to breath out When the Carbuncle doth come with great pain and inflammation how to help it You must first bath and soke the place well with this bag following and then presently apply the Cataplasm ensuing for by this means you shall not onely ease the pain and abate the Inflammation and Fever but also prevent the danger of Gangrena which may chance thereby The Bag Take Mallowes Violets Plantain Liblong ana one handfull Fat Figs â„¥ i. Hollihock roots Lillie roots ana â„¥ i. Lin-seed â„¥ i. You must shred the hearbs grosly and cut the Figgs and roots small then bruise them in a morter and mingle them altogether then put them into two little bags of linnen cloth and boil them in a sufficient quantitie of clean water untill the water be half consumed then take out one of the baggs and wring out the water a little and apply it to the grief warm and when it is cold take it away and lay on the other and doe so half an hour together every dressing which must be twice a day at least The Cataplasm Take Mallows Violets Sorrell Liblong ana two handfuls Henbane a little handfull Wrap them all in a ball together and roast them in the ashes then bruise them in a morter and adde thereto Mel rosarum â„¥ iiii Triacle Ê’ i. ss. Saffron in pouder half a drachm Yolks of five Eggs Mix them together with the rest adding some Barly flower thereto to thicken it and apply it warm renuing it alwaies before it grow dry and stiffe and every dressing you must Epithemate the grief first with the baggs aforesaid and this order must be continued untill the pain and Inflammation be gone then to bring it unto Suppuration if you adde to the foresaid Cataplasm some oyle of Lillies and sweet Butter unsalted it will be very good or you may make this Cataplasm following Take Soot of the chimney â„¥ iii Bay salt â„¥ i. ss. Yolks of two or three Eggs Mix all these together in a morter and apply it to the grief warm which must be alwaies renewed and changed before it grow dry and stiffe this order must be continued untill the â—…ore come to suppuration then to remove the scar and finish the cure doe you follow the order prescribed in the beginning of this Chapter There are other dangerous accidents which doe sometimes chance in the botch or Carbuncle which here to treat of would little avail the unexpert people because they know not the means how to execute the same but if any such thing chance then doe I wish you to seek the help of some learned Physitian or expert Chirurgion whose counsell I doe wish you to follow The End of the Second Treatise A Short Treatise of the Small Pox shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are and whereof it proceedeth FOr that oftentimes those that are infected with the Plague are in the end of the disease sometime troubled with the small Pox or Measels as also by good observation it hath been seen that they are fore-runners or warnings of the plague to come as Salius and divers other writers doe testifie I have thought it good and as a matter pertinent to my former Treatise to shew the aids and helps which are required for the same I need not greatly to stand upon the description of this disease because it is a thing well known unto most people proceeding of adusted bloud mixt with flegm as Avicen witnesseth which according to both ancient and latter Writers doth alwaies begin with a Fever then shortly after there ariseth small Pustulaes upon the skin throughout all the body which doe not suddenly come forth but by intermission in some more or lesse according to the state and qualitie of the bodie infected therewith for in some there ariseth many little Pustulaes with elevation of the skin which in one day doe increase and grow bigger and after have a thick matter growing in them which the Greeks call Exanthemata or Exthymata and after the Latines Variola in our English tongue the small Pox and here some Writers doe make a difference betwixt variola and exanthemata for say they that is called variola when many of those Pustules doe suddenly run into a clear bladder as if it had been scalled but the other doth not so yet they are both one in the cure they doe most commonly appear the fourth day or before the eight day as Avicen witnesseth What the Measels or Males are Avicen saith That the Measels or Males is that which first cometh with a great swelling in the flesh with many little Pimples which are not to be seen but onely by feeling with the hand are to be perceived they have little elevation of the skin neither doe they grow to maturation or end with ulceration as the Pox doth neither doe they assault the eyes or leave any deformity behind them as the Pox doth neither are they so swift in coming forth but doe grow more slowly they require the same
Take of Cammomil three ounces a penniworth of pouder of Cummin sewed in a Poke like a stomacher boil it well in stale Ale lay it to the side hot and when it is cold renew it again hot Contra Surditatem 1. Betonica saepe injecta tepidâ—… mire proficit contra aurium dolorem surditatem alia vitia sonos extraneos non sinit manere 2. Rost an Onion as hot as you may suffer it lay it upon the ear with a linnen cloth laid between Probatum est Contra lupum venit saepe super oculum aut pedem If it be incurable it stinketh fretteth and the wound waxeth black Take Salt and Honey and Barley ana burn them in an Oven wash the wound with Vinegar and dry it with linnen clothes and then lay on the pouder and doe so till it amend Pro Cancro Lupo Take half a pint of Juyce of Mollein and half a pint of Honey sodden to the thickness of honey and mingle with these pouders and lay on the sore Take Orpiment and Verdi-grease of either a drachm and a half juyce of Walwort a pound and a half honey a quartern Vinegar boil them altogether till it be as thick as honey lay thereof on the hole of the sore twice every day with juyce of Ribwort and drinke juyce of Avence Ribwort stamped and laid on the sore will kill it Pro Oculis 1. Lac mulieris quae masculum genuit sed praecipue quae geminos masculos genuit mixtum cum albumine ovi in lana compositum passiones lachrymas oculorum mitigat et desiccat si fronti lacrymantis imponatur proficit etiam ad oculum ictu percussum sanguineâ—… eâ—…ittentem vel epiphoras habentem vel in dolore constitutum 2. Si quis duarum faeminarum matris filiae lacte perunctus fuerit qui uno eodem tempore masculos habent in omni vita sua dolorem oculorum non habebit 3. Eyebright juyce or water is excellent good for the eyes 4. Annoint a red cole leaf cum albumine ovi quando is â—…ubitum oculo applica For Bleared Eyes Take the juyce Peritory temper it with the white of an Egg and lay it all night to your eyes quando removes lava cum succo Cornes Annoint thy cornes often with fasting spittle Or cleave a black Snail to it Take Woodsoure and lay to the corn and that shall gather out the Callum thereof and be whole but you must first cut it about with a knife Apostema 1. Gentian used twice or thrice in a week ad quantitatem pili dâ—…struit Apostema 2. Drinke water of Endive Petty Morrell with the pulp of Cassia Fistula 3. Take Scabios red Pimpernel Solsickle and Fumitorie make these into pouder and use a spoonful thereof in the morning especially in May Probatum est Pro stomacho frigido 1. Oates parched and laid in a Satchell upon a cold stomack is an approved cure 2. The crust of a brown loaf made hot and sprinkled with vinegar and laid on a cold stomack Salvabit 3. A tile stone made hot and sprinkled with Vinegar Eysell or Ale wrapt in a clout and laid to the stomack is good Pro dolore stomachi 1. Stamp Fennell and temper it with stale ale bibat tria cocleariâ—… simul Seeth Penniroyall and binde it to his Navel as hot as he may suffer it For winde or gnawing in the Belly Take Calamus Aromaticus Galingale and a little Fennel seed Cloves and Cinnamon grate or beat them together and take them in pouder or drink them with ale For the Small Pox Take Almonds and make Almond milk and take the cream thereof and hath the face twice or thrice though all the Pocks be pulled away it shall not be Pock fret Annoint oft the Patients eyes with a linnen cloth wet in the juyce of Sengreen and it will save them from the Pox For a stroke in the eye Juyce of Smallage and Fennel and the white of an Egg mingled together and put into the eye Bloudshed in the eye Five leaved grasse stampt with Swines grease and with a little salt bound to the eye Pro Oculo Aure. Sint calida quae aure imponuntur frigida quae in oculo For a Venomed sore Take Lavender Marigolds Sengreen and Betonie and stamp them together and lay them to the sore To make a swelling break Take pisse and Vinegar and Sage M. i. stamped and flour and boil them together and lay it hot on a cloth to the sore For the Squinsie Bray Sage Rue and Parsely Roots and lay them hot to the throat For Biting of a mad Dog Stamp Mint and clear Leeks and lay it to the sore To breake a Botch Make a Plaister of Woodbine leaves and lay to the sore For gnawings Take Hearb Bennet and Sheeps tallow and oyle Olive frie them together and lay it to the sore place To increase Milk Pouder of Annise and the juice of the bark of Fennell root drunke If milk be thick Eat mints and boil mints in wine and oyle and lay on the breasts For Botches Wounds and Sores a salve Boil black Rosin red Lead and oyle Olive together flat emplastrum Qui bibit novem dies simul propriam urinam nec habebit epilepsiam paralysin nec colicam Venenum 1. Qui bibit propriam urinam sanabitur a sumpto veneno 2. Garlick Rue Centaury graines of Juniper valent contra venenum 3. Pouder Hempseed and mingle it with Goats milk and let them boyle a little and use this drink three dayes valet contra inflationem venenum Bubonem Felon squinanciam Pro Auribus Green Ash leaves burnt and the liquor that drops out of them impositum valet Euphorbium pounded with Oil Citron and laid hot on the eares cureth sounding of the eares tingling and Fistulaes Caput-purgium Take the juyce of Ivy and powder of Pepper mingle them together and drink it For the bloudy Flix The yellow that groweth in red Roses put into pottage and so eaten is good for the bloudy Flix Vermes Stomachi The same yellow drunk in Ale valet contra Vermes For a Felon Scabious stamped small a good quantity of Tar and greace ana temper them together and all raw lay them to the sore place For the Reines of the back Boyl your own water well scum it then take a quart of that water oyle of Bayes one ounce oyle of Roses one ounce boyle all in a pot and therewith annoint well the reines in the hot sunne or against the fire Unge renes cum nasturtio propria urina jejâ—…nus saepe juvat renes Coque mel butyrum simul unge renes coram igne Seeth Smallage and temper it with Wine and drink it fasting and you shall be healed For them that cannot goe upright for pain in their back and reines Take a fat Hen and scald her and draw her and fill her with Senâ—… coddes
fire untill it stiffen a little bind it hot upon the Navill Take Milk and set it on the fire when it seeths throw in a peice of Allum which will turn it to a Posset of the thin thereof give a Glister in the morning and at four in the afternoon A purging drink for superstuous humours for Aches in the joynts sinewes and for Agues Take Sarsaperilla Sasafrass Polipodium of each a handfull Hermodactiles the third part of an ounce Licorice one ounce cut and slice the above named and put them into a new Pipkin glassed and having a cover and put theâ—…o five quarts of spring water let all infuse four and twenty houres then put thereto of Fennell seed two ounces Raisins of the Sun stoned and picked four ounces Carduus benedictus red Sage Agrimony Maiden-hair of each a handfull put all into the Pipkin and close it with paste set it within a pan of warm water on the fire and let it boyle two houres then put thereto of Sena one ounce let it boyle again half a quarter of an hour and take it out letting it stand covered two houres then strain it without wringing and keep it in a glasse or stone bottle You must take at a time half a pint in the morning and fast one hour after it will not purge in five or six houres you may use it at any time in the year but in extream heat and in frosts A pretious Eye-water for any disease of the Eyes often proved Take of the best white Wine two little glasse fulls of white Rose water half a pint of the water of Selendine Fennell Eyebright and Rue of each two ounces of prepared Tutia six ounces of Cloves as much Sugar rosate a drachm of Camphire and Aloes each half a drachm The Tutia is thus prepared In a Crusible such as the Goldsmiths use put your Tutia and with a charcoale fire let it be made red hot six severall times and every time quenched in Rose-water and Wine mixt together the last time cast the water away and grinde the Tutia to very fine powder You must mix the Aloes with the water after this manner Put the Aloes in a clean Morter and pour upon it of the mixt waters with the Pestill grinde it too and fro and as it mixeth with the water pour it off putting more water to it till it be all dissolved To bring the Camphire to powder In a clean Morter beat one Almond then put in the Camphire and beat it to a fine powder without which it will noâ—… come to a powder Likewise beat all the Cloves to a fine powder then mix all together in a strong glasse stop it close and lute it that no air enter and let it stand forty dayes and nights abroad in the hottest time of summer and shake it well thrice a day The use Drop a drop of the water into the eye thrice a day with a black Hens Feather the infirm lying on their back and stirring the eye up and down If there be any thing grow upon the eye Take four drops of oyle of Amber rectified and mix with half an ounce of the water dresse the eye as before For any Ague Take a quarter of a pint of Canary Sack put into it a pennyworth of oyle of Spike a pennyworth of Sirrup of Poppyes and one grain of Bezar mingle these together and let them stand infused all night and exhibite it next morning to the Patient fasting For an Ague Boyle two ounces of Roch in a Pipkin in a pint of Ale about a quarter of an hour or better then give the party grieved to drink of it pretty warm some two houres before the fit cometh about half of it and what the party cannot drink at the first draught let it be warmed against the second fit and give it as before after two houres be past let the party drink as much posset drink as he can Another Take the quantity of a Wallnut of black Sope and three times as much crown Sope mix them together then shred a pretty quantity of Rue and half a spoonfull of Pepper finely beaten and a quarter of a spoonfull of fine wheat flour mingle all these together then take as much strong Beer as will make it spread upon a linnen cloth whereof make two plaisters and lay to each wrist one and sow them fast on for nine dayes this must be applied as the cold fitt beginneth to come upon them To make Pills to cleanse the backe Boyle Venice Turpentine in Plantain water then take the Turpentine and bray it in a Morter to very fine powder take the powder and mingle it with powder of white Amber powder of Oculorum cancrorum and powder of Nutmeg of each half a drachm mix them up into Pills and take three of them in a morning A Bath Take Mallow leaves Violet leaves Endive Motherwort Mugwort Rose leaves Lettice Cammomill Bay leaves boyle of all these one handfull in a sufficient quantity of pure running water and set in the Bath about an hour then goe into a warm bed and sweat awhile and when you come out of your sweat and are pretty cool eat Strawberries and Sugar this will clear the body and purifie the blood For the Cough of the Lungs and defluxions You may take sometimes of Sirrup magistrall of Scabious and of Oxymell Iutianizans of each one ounce and of Diacodium half an ounce and of Sirrup of Diasereos half an ounce Mingle these all well together and mingle with it also a drachm of pure flower of Sulphur finely searced and take of this the quantity of a large Nutmeg three or four times in a day at morning an hour before dinner an hour before supper and last at night it will cut the flegm and carry it gently away without any perturbation or violent trouble of coughing and cause quiet rest To cause a woman to have her Flowers Take of Gladwin Roots about a handful boyle them in Vinegar or in white Wine till they be very tender and after put this into a Vessel on the ground in a close stool so that the woman may sit over it very close stopped so that the heat may strike up into her body This Medicine is reported never to fail but to bring them down But you must have a speciall care that no woman being with child have this Medicine administred to her For the Cough of the Lungs Take of Coltsfoot two handfuls of Hysop and the tops of red Nettles of each one handful of Horehound and Maiden-hair of each half a handfull of Raisins of the sun having their stones taken out three ounces of Liquorice sliced half an ounce and of Elecampane roots sliced one ounce of Annise-seeds half an ounce grosly bruised boil all these together in a gallon of water in an earthen Pipkin with a gentle fire till the third part be boyled away then strein it and take a quart of the decoction and put to it two ounces of Sugar-Candie