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A89394	The compleat bone-setter wherein the method of curing broken bones, and strains, and dislocated joynts, together with ruptures, vulgarly called broken bellyes, is fully demonstrated. Whereunto is added The perfect oculist, and The mirrour of health, treating of the pestilence, and all other diseases incident to men, women and children. Also, the acute judgement of urines. / Written originally by Friar Moulton, of the Order of St. Augustine. Now revised, Englished and enlarged by Robert Turner philomathēs.	Moulton, Thomas.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2967; Thomason E1673_1; ESTC R208418	52,056	191

to speak more plain set the broken Bone before you roll up the member mix some Oil of Roses and the white of an Egge together and dip therein a soft linen cloth and lay it all over the place that it may compasse it all about and above and below it and then roll up the member but not too hard so as to compresse it draw humors causing inflammation therein nor so slack that the broken Bones separate again but alwayes remember that in measure resteth virtue Begin your roller smoothly upon the broken place going three or four times about it untill you have compassed about the sound place above and below it Wet your rollers well in Water and Wine before you use them and if the place be much afflicted with any Vehement pain or inflammation then the member ought to be wrapped about with fine Wooll or towe well carded and wet in Oxicratum or Oil of Roses Then to defend the member from accidents and to keep it together and strengthen the same lay upon the rollers a plaister or Cerecloth made of Wax melted in Oil of Roses but if there be besides the broken Bone any bruise or hurt in the flesh then do not apply any Oil or Cerecloth to it but in stead thereof Cloths dipt in red and Stiptick Wine Also to keep the member from pain and accidents there must be splints prepared to put about the broken member which splints must be smooth and equal without ruggedness or crookedness and are to be thus applyed First wet cloths in Rose-water and then lay them upon the Roller three or four times double then roll Wool or Cotton round about the splints and place them about the member about the bredth of a finger one from another and bind them gently on taking heed that you do not compresse the member nor touch any joynt if the broken Bone be neer a joynt lest the joynt do thereby become inflamed and ulcerate but make your splints the shorter and smaller if the fracture be neer to any joynt Now after this progresse if the Patient receive ease no pain inflammation or itching be fell in the fractured part then let the splints remain on and unopened twelve or fifteen dayes but if on the contrary any of the forementioned accidents happen then you must unrole the Member the third day at the furthest and foment and wash the place with warm water to put away the pain and itching It is likewise good to prevent and remove such accidents as usually attend these mischances as gangrenes ulcers inflammation itchings caused through immoderate dryness or moisture and for the most part extream pain which the Patient will quickly be too sensible of then must you speedily loose the binding about the broken place and take off your roller which being done foment and bathe the place with Oil of Roses Vinegar before and hereafter mentioned and also use Unguentum Album and Unguentum Populeon or either and do not either roll or splint up the Member again till the pain abateth and the inflammation ceaseth but only endeavour to strengthen and keep the Member together and afterwards roll it and splinter it as before and to strengthen the weakned Member this following is very good A special Oyntment to resist accidents and strengthen a broken Member TAke Camomile Mallows Balme and the Rootes thereof of each one handful Chop and stamp them very small and then take May-Butter 2 pound Doggs Grease 1 pound and a half and therein boyl the Herbs very well strain it and then Take Wax five ounces and a half Ammoniacum Galbanum of each 2 ounces Dissolve the Gum in Vinegar and strain it and then boyl it till the Vinegar be wasted away then melt the Wax amongst it then put amongst the strain'd Herbs before and when it is almost cold Take Bevercod 1 ounce and a half Oil of Camomile 2 ounces and a half Oil of Bayes 16 ounces Mix all this together into an Oyntment and reserve it as a special secret for your use And when you have occasion to use it melt a little of it and therewith anoynt the grieved place and afterwards apply thereon this Cerecloth following A Cerecloth for broken Bones Take Frankincense Galbanum of each 3 quarters of an ounce Mastick 1 ounce Wax 3 ounces Rosin 1 ounce and a half Oil an ounce Dissolve the Galbanum in a little Vinegar and then melt all together in the Oil and afterwards strain it through a Cloth and then dip your Cerecloth therein and apply it after the anoynting Another for the same Take Sallat-Oil 4 ounces Wax half an ounce Mastick half an ounce Beat the Mastick to powder and melt the Wax in the Oil and when it is almost cold put in the Mastick and temper them well together and use it as before is directed For the same Take Virgins-Wax Frankincense of each half an ounce Linseed Oil 4 ounces Melt and incorporate them all well together and dip a Cerecloth therein and use it as the other Also for the same because if you have not one Medicine in readiness I prescribe many that you may speedily apply what remedy is next at hand Take Wax and fresh Butter and melt them together and apply it Another for the same Take Fenegreek meal as much as you think good and Comphrey pound the Comphrey small and boyl them together in Water till they be as thick as grout and apply it moderately warm to the fractured place For the same Take Litharge of Gold Bolus Comphrey of each 3 ounces Bean-meal one ounce and a half Beat them all together and infuse them in good Vinegar one night then Take Wax Rosin of each 3 ounces sallad-Sallad-Oil 12 ounces Incorporate them all well together on the fire and let them boyl till all the Vinegar be consumed Then when it is almost cold stir into it two ounces of Dragagant in powder that hath been well steeped in Wine and so make it into a plaister and apply it Another very good for the same and for other Ruptures Take Saffron Euphorbium Long pepper of each 1 Dram. Rosin five ounces Aquavitae 1 ounce and a half Dissolve the Rosin in Aquavitae and beat all the rest to powder and then boyl them all together till the Aqua-vitae be consumed and afterwards add to it as much Wax as is sufficient to make it into a plaister and reserve it for the use aforesaid Another plaister for the same Take Ammoniacum half an ounce Galbanum 3 quarters of an ounce Wax Turpentine of each 4 ounces Myrrhe a quarter of an ounce Dissolve the Gums in Wine and then melt them all together and when it is almost cold put in the Myrrhe and make thereof a plaister for your use But if together with the breaking of the Bone there happen any wound or flux of blood then indeavour to stanch the blood for which you may use this powder following A Powder to stanch blood in a wound Take of

Frankincense Arsenick Aluminis Succarini of each two ounces Calcis Vivi 6 ounces Mix them all together into fine powder and add thereto a pinte of Vinegar and boyl them together till the Vinegar be consumed then let it dry in the Sun or against the fire and make it again into fine powder then to 3 ounces of this powder add half an ounce of Bole-Armoniack and one ounce of Pulvis Alcamistinis and mix them all together into a very fine powder and reserve it for your use to stanch any flux of blood in a wound And when you have any occasion to use it take 4 ounces of this powder and incorporate it with whites of Egges then take a bolster of towe bigge enough to cover the place where the wound is and dip the towe in Vinegar and press it out again then spread your Medicine on the towe and after strowe a little of the dry powder upon it and apply it and after lay upon this many more little bolsters of towe as much as is needfull to stanch the blood And proceed in the cure as you do in the cure of green wounds if there be no Ulcer or inflammation or putrifaction in the Bones but if the Bones ulcerate or putrify then to resist the same use these Medicines following For putrifaction of the Bones Take burnt Lead 2 ounces Myrrhe half an ounce Aloes Opopanacum Iron Drosse Burnt Squinant Rindes of firre-Tree of each 1 dram Make them all to a powder and strew thereof upon the putrified Bone it separates the putrifaction and heals the place very much Also wash the place with water wherein Sal Armoniak hath been decocted If there be any ulcer therewith then have a care you use no Oil thereunto for Oiles bring putrifaction in Ulcers but wash the Ulcer with this Medicine following For Ulcers in broken Bones Take White-wine 4 ounces Rose-Water two ounces Burnt Allom 1 quarter of an oun Verdigrease 1 dram The White of an Egge sodden hard Bruise the white of the Egge small boyl them all together a little gently then strain it and keep it well stopt for your use and afterwards if it be too thick or too strong add some more Wine and Rose-Water unto it and use it as before is directed And afterwards lay upon the sore this plaister following A Plaister for Ulcers Take Oil of Roses 3 drams Oil of Camomile 1 dram Ceruse 1 quarter of an ounce Dragons blood Bolus of each half an ounce Camphire 1 dram Litharge of gold half a dram Tutty prepared a quarter of an ounce Coral 1 dram Make them all into a plaister with Wax as much as is sufficient spread it on leather and lay it upon the Ulcer But if these accidents happen not or at least be removed then endeavour to strengthen and Conglutinate the fractured Bones which is done by a certain Nutriment or substance that groweth out of the Bones which gleweth them and causeth to Unite and grow together This nourishment is called Callus which must be increased by all means When once it begins to grow you shall perceive it by these signs the inflammation ceaseth and the pain is abated and the member again reduced to it's natural Colour To ingender Callus let the patient use meats that are grosse and viscous and breed good juyce and that the Callus may be ingendred neither too big nor too small have respect to the dyet fomentation and plaisters If the Callus grow but slowly that there be need to increase it use plaisters that do moderately heal of which sort here be many directed in this book And on the contrary if it appear too big use Astringent Medicines a compressing ligature or binding apply also a plate of lead upon the place And use fomentations made with Oil Salt-Peter or Water and Salt made hot But if the member appear smaller and leaner then ordinarily and naturally it was before then apply unto the affected member hot attractive Medicines Let the patient use large dyet and voyd all things causing Melancholy Of eluxation of the joynts and to set a Bone put out of joynt THE Greeks call this Exarthrema the Latines Eluxatio which is asmuch as to say a Joynt writhen or started aside out of its natural place into another so that the free natural motion thereof is thereby hindred so that if the Bone be quite out of joynt then this is called an eluxation or a luxation only without a compound you may call it if you please but if it be only a little extorted and strained aside that is not properly a luxation but only a strain or wrench If the joynt be luxated then must manual operation be used to set the same and reduce it to its proper place which is the first intention to be used in this case And the manner of this operation must be in this manner to reduce the bone out of his socket into his natural seat extend the member decently and tenderly with the hands till you feel the Bone brought again into his proper place but sometimes the operation of the hands sufficeth not to perform this work alone but instruments and bands prepared fit for that purpose must be used as Hippocrates teacheth Hippocrates lib. de Luxatis fractis The Luxated member being well reduced again to his natural place your next intention must be to endeavour to strengthen and confirm the affected joynt and keep the Bone that it slip not out of its place again for which purpose have Rollets and Splints in readiness to bind up the member and keep it from hurt and motion But before you roll or bind up the same anoint it with Oil of Roses and lay upon it some old fine Linen-cloths wet in Oil of Roses or whites of Egges and apply them to the joynt then gently roll up the member having first wet your Rollers in Water and Vinegar mixed together then apply your splints about the joynt if there be necessity and they may be made of leather or pastboard This being done if the patient be at ease and no accidents happen open it not again in ten dayes if any inflammation happen some refrigerating Cerecloth is good to be used And to prevent and stop defluxions of humors which may chance to fall down and weaken the joynt this plaister following is very good to withstand the same Take Colophonia Pitch of each 1 ounce Galbanum Myrrhe Ammoniacum Frankincense of each 3 drams The Muscilage of Holly-hocks 3 quarters of an ounce Polypody Roots Misleden Heartwort of each 1 quarter of an ounce Wax 1 ounce Turpentine 3 quarters of an ounce Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar and then put to it the Wax Pitch and Turpentine melt them together and boyl them over a gentle fire till the Mussilage and Vinegar be consumed then temper the other things being beaten very small amongst them and then make it into a plaister Spread of this Plaister upon a cloth or peece of leather and lay

it on the grieved place Another Plaister for the same Take Holly-hock Roots 3 ounces Acorn-budds 3 quarters of an ounce Flowers of Self-heal 1 ounce and a half Sallet-Oil Oil of Mirtles of each 3 quarters of an ounce Red Wine 24 ounces Self-heal Water 12 ounces Frankincense Myrrhe of each 1 dram Deeres suet 1 scruple and a half Turpentine half an ounce Sealed earth half a dram Mumy two Drams and a half First bruise the Holly-hock roots Self-heal flowers and Acorn-budds very small and beat them to pap then add thereunto the Wines Oils and Self-heal Water and boyl all together till the Wine and Water be consumed then strain it out hard and put in the Frankincense Myrrhe Deeres-suet and Turpentine then seeth them again till the moisture be consumed then put in the Sealed-earth and Mumy and as much Wax as is sufficient to make it into a Plaister which is very good for all Luxations and broken Bones to asswage the pain and strengthen the sinewes In all such accidents as broken and dislocated Bones and joynts have a care to defend the afflicted Member from inflammation and humours that are apt to flow thereunto To prevent which a moderate dyet must necessarily be used and that not only in this but in all other distempers for health consists in mediocrity and also if need require purging and letting blood are not amisse to be used It will not be here amisse to add some remedies fit to be used for the shrinking of sinewes and withered joynts and contractures which oftentimes happen after Luxation of the joynts or fractures of the Bones which many times happens after such mischances if the same be long before they be cured A Salve very good for an extenuated or withered Member Take Cats Grease Deers-suet Bears-Grease Hogges-Grease The marrow of Neats feet Honey Doggs-Grease Badgers-Grease of each a like quantity Boyl them all together in Wine to an oyntment then strain it and therewith anoynt the place affected before the fire twice a day Another for the same purpose Take Sage Mallowes Nettles and their Roots Camomile Sprigges of Juniper of each one handful Dogs-Grease and fresh Butter of each 3 ounces Chop the Herbs small and boyl them to a grout and then strain them through a Course-cloth then put the Grease and Butter to it and seeth it again to an oyntment then reserve it for the uses before mentioned And thus have we done with the first part of Luxated dislocated and broken Bones and withered members and shrinking sinews next follows an accident many both old and young languish under namely Ruptures or broken Bellyes Of Ruptures THIS Disease is generally called in Latine Hernia although there be several causes degrees and distinctions thereof but generally is that which falleth down into the Cod. There is a kinde of Rupture that cometh about the Navel or privy parts both of Man and Woman the Rupture of the Navel swelleth and hangeth out of the forepart of the Belly for a remedy whereof these following Medicines are convenient Take Comphrey well stamped 1 ounce then melt half an ounce of Wax then mix them well together in the form of a Plaister and lay it on the Navel But if the Rupture be great then anoynt the back-bone of the party with Bears-Grease The Herb Perfoliata in English called Thorough Wax is very profitable for all Ruptures either in Children or other people if the Herb and Seed thereof be sod and laid upon the Rupture A dragm of the Decoction thereof in Water or Wine given to drink is good or the Herb and Seed stamped and the weight of a scruple and a half thereof given to a Child in Pap. The groyn and privy places be likewise subject to tumors and swellings with heat hardness and by reason of the tenderness and sensibility of those parts afflicted with great anguish and pain for which it is not besides the purpose to prescribe these following Remedies For a Tumor or smelling in the groyn or privy parts TAke Muscilage of Elecampane Roots Linseed Figges and Sebestes of each six ounces and as much Oil of sweet Almonds Litharge of gold prepared three ounces seeth it untill the Muscilage be consumed alwayes stirring it then put thereto an ounce of Wax make it into a Plaister and lay it on the place grieved A Salve for the same Take Rosin and Wax of each 1 ounc a great Onion and two Lilly-Roots stamp them and seeth them in Goats Milk then strain them through a linen Cloth and let it seeth well again then stir it about until it be cold and so reserve it for the use aforesaid If there be any open Ulcer then use this following Take Tutty prepared 1 ounce Mastick Frankincense of each 1 quarter of an ounce White Wax half an ounce Oile of Roses a sufficient quantity to make it into a Salve If the place be raw and in great anguish then anoynt the same with Oil of sweet Almonds Also take Argal and put it into a new pot and burn it till it be black then beat it small and strew it on the sore These are only for outward swellings and Ulcers if there be any inward sore or Ulceration in the conduit of the yard stoppage or inflammation then use this injection following spouting it in gently with a Syrringe Take White-Wine one pinte Burnt Allom 2 dragms and a half Verdigrease 1 dragm and a half Boyl them well together then strain it through a Cloth and inject it with a Syrringe A Salve for the same to anoynt the whole member Take the Juice of Tassels of Planten and Comphrey of each two ounces Camphire 4 Starch and Ceruse of each one ounce Litharge of Gold half an ounce Tutty prepared with Rose-water 1 dragm and a half the whites of three Egges well beaten bruise the Champhire very small then incorporate them all together in a leaden Morter and make a Salve thereof for the use aforementioned But to return to speak of the Ruptures falling into the Cods of which there are several causes and kinds one is a swelling or puffing up of the Cods through wind Another and that is most properly called a broken belly when the Rym of the belly is broken and the bowels or guts fall down into the Cod little or much sometimes in one side only and sometimes into both And another kind with is improperly called a Rupture is a swelling of the Cod with water and superfluous matter of moisture to which Hydropical persons are subject And that Disease is very well known by the swelling of the Cods But first we come to speak of the Hernia or broken belly with hapneth above the Cod the cause hereof is oftentimes in Children crying some loud-hooping-cough or extream blowing with wind in older persons as well as the former falls thrusts blows much labour or heavy burdens A speedy remedy is necessary to be sought after for this Rupture for the older it grows the more difficult it will

be to Cure Let the Patient be laid on his back and put up the bowels gently again till they come into their due place then lay thereon this Plaister following spred upon a piece of Leather and bind it hard on and apply thereto a convenient trusse A Plaister for one that is broken in the Belly Take Pitch Mastick of each 3 dragmes Frankincense 1 quarter of an ounce Hypocistis Sarcocolla Juyce of Sloes of each 1 dram and a half Blood-stone Dragons blood Aloe of each 2 dragmes and a half Birdlyme 1 dragm and a half Comphrey Galls Pomgranate Pills Fine Bolus of each 3 dragmes Aristolochia 1 quarter of an ounce Sumach Pomgranate Flowers of each 1 drag Deers suet 2 ounces Turpentine and Wax a quantity sufficient Dissolve the Gums and Juyces in hot Vinegar or Wine the rest beat small and make thereof a Plaister and apply it as before is directed Another of the same Take Pitch half an ounce White and Red Wax Litharge of Gold Ammoniacum Galbanum Mumy of each 2 dragmes and a half Bridlyme Myrrhe Cypres Nuts Frankincense of each one dragm Gypsum or Plaister of a wall Bolus Aloe of each half an ounce Mastick Comphrey Daisie Roots of each 3 dragms and a half Turpentine 1 ounce Aristolochia Galnuts of each 1 ounce Dragons blood 1 quarter of an ounce Dissolve the Gums in Vinegar and melt the Pitch Wax and Turpentine and beat to powder all that is to be powdered then make them all together into a Plaister you may increase or diminish the quantity of the Wax as the cause requires Another Plaister for a Rupture Take Cypres Nuts 2 ounces Myrrhe Cypres Roots Marjoram Gentle Galls Juyce of Sloes Frankincense Gum of each 1 ounce Dissolve the Gum in Wine then temper the rest amongst it and make thereof a Plaister and lay it upon the Rupture For the same Take Daisy Roots and flowers Wild Tansy flowers and roots Comphrey of each half an ounce Mastick 1 quarter of an ounce Pomgranate flowers Juyce of sloes of each half a dragm Hares Hair chopt small 1 dragm Birdlyme 1 ounce Pitch 2 ounces Wax five dragms Oil of Roses a sufficient quantity to make thereof a Plaister and apply it as before is directed you need not take off the trusse but once in 4. or 5. dayes and then renew the Plaister Another excellent Plaister for the same Take Dragons blood half a dragm Myrrhe Sarcocolla Opopanacum Brimstone Amber Mastick Comphrey of each 2 dragmes and a half Myrtle Seed Yellow Myrobalaus of each 2 drag Barke of Pine-apples Cypres Nuts of each 4 scruples Dragagant 1 dragm Garden-Snayls 4. or 5. Dissolve the Gum in Vinegar and add thereto as much fish-lyme dissolve in Vinegar as is sufficient to make the rest into a Plaister mix them all together and dry away the moisture by a small fire A Drinke to be used after this Plaister Take Comphrey Tormentil of each 1 quarter of an ounce Codwort Sengreen Cinquefoil Mugwort Herb Trinity of each 2 handfulls Gariofilata Verbascum Broad planten of each 2 dragms and a half Roses Horse-tail of each half a handful Cut and bruise the Herbs grosse and put to them Aquavitae and red seething Wine of each six ounces or so much as will cover it let it so stand 14 hours afterwards strain it through and wring it out and sweeten it with Syrupe of Myrtles And give hereof from one ounce to three according to the strength of the Patient about 6 hours after the applying of the Plaister last before mentioned A Pultiss for young Children Take meal of Lupins and burnt Linnen of each a like quantity and make a Pap or Pultiss thereof with Wine and spread it between two fine Cloaths and lay it upon the Rupture A milde Plaister for Children Take Beans what quantity you please steep them in warm water peel them and let them dry again then beat them to powder take 2 ounces thereof Oaken-wood filed smal 1 oun Comphrey sodden in Wine and then beat to Pap 3 ounces Let all these be boyled together till it be thick then spread it on a Cloth and lay it on the Rupture changing it three times a day and once in the night fasten it well on with a trusse continue it 4. or 5. Weeks together till the Rupture be cured and the Skin grown strong A Drink for a Rupture Take Sengreen Consolida Saracenica red Beets Herb Bennet Fennel Knot-grass and Pauls Betony of each one handful boyl them all in Wine and drink of it twice a day morning and in the afternoon but not at night let a Child continue taking it 6 Weeks and an old body 12 Weeks Shepherds purse Sanacle and Valerian and Harts-tongue decocted in Wine and drunken are very good An Oyntment for a Rupture Take Womans Milk 16 ounces Badgers-grease Capons-grease Deers-suet and Comphrey of each two ounces the innermost rynde of a Cherry-tree cut small one ounce and a half boyl them all a little together and strain it hard through a Cloth and therewith anoynt the Rupture morning and evening Of a Rupture through Wind. In this case the Patient must eschew all such meats and drinks as cause wind as Milk sweet Wine and the like moist fruits and all moist meats And use means to expell the wind for which this Clyster following is good A Clyster for a windy Rupture Take Cumin Annis Caraway Fennel Ameos of each one dragm Rue one handful and a half Seeth these together in a quart of water till the half be consumed Then take 12 ounces of this decoction Oil of Rue and Oil of Bayes of each one ounce and a half Jndia-Salt and Salgem of each half a dragm Sugar 1 ounce and a half make a Clyster thereof and give it once a day and every morning let the Patient take a dram of Mithridate with 2 ounces of Rue-water 7 hours before meat this expels wind marvelously An outward Losion for the same Take Sulpher vive beaten 2 ounces Grains half an ounce grosly beaten seeth this together till the third part be sodden away dip a Spunge in this water being warm and lay it on the Privities renewing it 5. or 6. times a day Hernia aquosa or the watry Rupture This is an Hydropical watry humor in the Liver Veynes and pores that doth at last fall down into the Cods and is known by the swelling of the Cods and Navel for a Remedy hereof the Patient must be purged and keep an orderly dyet that thereby the water may be expelled out of the body to purge those humours take this Drink following A Drink to purge for the watry Rupture Take Agarit and Hermodactyls of each one dragme and a half Ginger one scruple Ireos a dragme Hony-Water 4 ounces then make the Hony-Water warm and steep the other things therein 24 hours strain it and drink it warm and fast 6. hours after it Another for the same Take Electuarium Indium 3 dragms burnt Copper 8 grains Water of

through Take Iron Drosse sodden in Vinegar and Myrrhe of each half an ounce Dragons blood fine Bolus Frankincense Mastick Sealed Earth and Juyce of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce Cypres Nuts and Mumey of each 3 quarters of an ounce Isinglas 2 ounces make them all together into a Salve with Wax and Rosin as much as is needful with this anoynt the Cods thrice a day and knit it up alwayes with a Trusse A good Drink for a Rupture Take Rosemary half an ounce Cynamon half a dragme Balme-Flowers Ginger Borage Nutmegs of each half a dragme seeth these together in 7 quarts of Water till the 4 part be consumed then add thereto 16 ounces of Honey then boyl it again till the third part be consumed and use it A Confection for the same Take Frankincense Mastick Juyce of Sloes Hypocistis of each 1 dragme and a half Roses burnt Ivory parched Cummin Dill-Seed of each one drag Cypres Nuts half an ounce Steel filed small Iron Drosse decocted together in red Vinegar of each one quarter of an ounce dryed Seeds of Pomgranates one ounce beat them all small together then take Honey of Roses 18 ounces white Sugar 12 ounces Granado Wine 6 ounces Dragagant-Gum of each half an ounce seeth both of these Gums with Honey Sugar and this Juyce till it be thick when it beginneth to be cold put it into a Morter and temper the other things amongst it stirring it well together give the Patient 2 dragmes thereof in the morning and let him fast 2 hours after it and one dragme at night 2 hours after Supper Let the Patient keep himself as quiet as possible forbear much stirring and carnal Copulation and all excesse either of meat or drink and forbear binding meat strong drink and new Wine So far of Ruptures The perfect OCULIST THE Author first beginneth with 6 precious Waters profitable both for the Eyes and other things which he thus sets down For to tell of 6 precious Waters made and sent to a Queen that somtime was in England The first Water is this Take Fennel Rue Vervaine Endive Betony Germander Red roses Maydenhaire of each 1 ounce Stamp them and steep them in white-Wine a day and a night and distil a Water of them This Water shall depart in three that is you shall draw 3 several Waters the first part ye shall do in a glasse by it self and know ye of a truth that this Water is as precious as Gold The second as Silver The third part as precious as Balme and keep these 3 parts in glasses This Water shall ye give to the Rich for Gold to mean men for Silver and to the Poor for Balme This Water keepeth the Eyes in cleerness and avoydeth the Quitery and gounde and cleereth and sharpneth the sight The second Water TO the second Water take Salgema pound and wrap it in a green Dock-leaf and lay it in the fire till it be well rosted and wax white and put it in a glasse against the air at night and at the morrow it shall be turned to white Water like unto Chrystal keep this VVater well in a glasse and do a drop into thy Eye and it shall cleanse and sharp thy sight And it is good for the evil at the heart and for the Morphew and for Sance-fleam and for the Canker in the Mouth and for other evills in the Body The third Water THE 3 Water is as followeth Take the Root of Parsly Endive Monache Fennel Betony an ounce wash them well in Water and bray them well and then steep them well in white-Wine a day and a night and then distil them This Water is more worth then Balme It keepeth a good sight and cleanseth it of all filth it refraineth tears and comforteth the head and avoideth the Water that causeth headach The fourth Water THE 4 Water is this Take Parsly-Seed Annis Caraway Vervaine of each 2 dragmes Centory 10 dragmes beat all these to powder and do it in warm water a day and a night then distil it This water is a precious water for all sore Eyes and very good for the health of a mans body or Womans The fifth Water THE fifth Water is such that with it you may do many marveylous things Take Lymel of Gold Silver Latyn Copper Iron Steel and Lead And take Litharge of Gold and Silver and take Camomile and Columbyne and steep all together in the Urine of a man-child a day and a night The second day in white-Wine the third day in the Juyce of Fennel the fourth day in the whites of Egges the fifth day in a Womans milk that nourisheth a man-child the 6 day in red Wine the 7 day in whites of Egges and upon the eighth day blend and mix all these together and distil a water of them and keep this water in a vessel of Gold or Silver The Virtues of this water is this it doth away all manner of sickness of the Eyes the Perle the Sckome of the tears and the * T is an old English word if Geofry Chaucer were here he could tell you the meaning of it T is too old for me Quiters and draweth again into their due form the Eye-lids that are bleared it slayeth the ach of the head And if a man drink of it it keepeth his visage long to be young There is no man can tell half the Virtues of this VVater The sixth Water TAKE Lapis Caluminaris and do it in the fire till it be red as a Rose and slack it in a pinte of white-VVine and do so 9 times and after grinde it and beat it small and searse it very clean then Infuse it in the Sun in Fennel-water Vervain Roses Celendine Rue and three-leaved Grasse the distilled water of them not the Herbs of each a like quantity in a Vial of glasse so that the VVater may settle cleer about 5 inches above the stone in the bottom and when you will use it stir it together and take up a drop of it with a feather and if it abide then it is fine and good then drop of it in an Eye that is watry or running or an Eye that hath a dimme sight and for the head-ach anoynt the Temples herewith it is precious for helping the sight and for ache in the head To cleer the sight of the Eyes a good Water and for itching thereof TAKE Fennel Roses Vervain Celendine and Rue of each 2 ounces and distil water of them which is good to clarify the sight of the Eyes being washed therewith according to this verse Feniculus Rosa Vervens Celedonia Ruta Ex istis fit aqua quis lumina reddit acuta Of Fennel Vervain and the Rose Herb Celendine and Rue A pure VVater is Compose That doth the sight renew Another for the same Take red Snailes and seeth them in fair water and there will arise an Oyl or fat which separate clean by it self and reserve it in a glasse and therewith anoynt thy Eyes morning and

them all together then steep them in Womans milk and drop thereof into the Eye A Salve for running Eyes and for all Imposthumes and Pains Scabs Wounds and Bloud-shots in the Eyes Take Tutia prepared in Rose-water half an ounce fresh Hogges-grease one ounce Starch 3 quarters of an ounce bruise and temper them well together in a Morter then wash it three times in the Water of Night-shade and with this anoynt the fore-head the Temples and the Eye-lids both within and without A precious Water to strengthen the sight Take Rue Roses Endive Betony Vervain Maydenhair Egrimony Clevers Yarrow Eyebright Pimpernel Sage of each two handfuls Cut the Herbs small and steep them a day and a night in good white-Wine then strain them out and let the Moisture run from them then bruise them grosly in a Morter then distil them in Balneo and keep the water for your use close stopt For spots in the Eye Take Prepared Blood-stone 3 dragmes Burne Copper a quarter of an ounce Perles Red Coral of each 1 dragm Gummi Tragacant of each 3 dragmes Pepper 30 grains Washed Ceruse 1 dragme Dragons blood Saffron Amber of each half a dragme Make it into the form of trochises of a dragme apiece and when you have occasion to use it bruise one of them and infuse it in Womans milk and drop a drop thereof into the Eye Another for spots in the Eyes Take Frankincense 5 dragmes Saffron one dragm Ammoniacum Sarcocolla of each two dragmes and a half beat them all into very fine powder and make it into Trochises with Muscilage of Fenegreek then when you will use it bruise it into Womans milk and therewith wash the Eyes this doth mundify and deer the sight For mists and clouds before the Eyes It oftentimes happens in them that have the small Pox afterwards some clouds or white spots remain in the Eyes endangering the sight thereof for which take the Juyce of Corn-roses the Juyce of Centory each apart or mixt together and therewith anoynt the Eye A powder for the same Take the dryed Juyce of Celendine 3 dragmes Ameos one quarter of an ounce as much white Sugar-Candy make a fine powder thereof and blow a little into the Eye when you go to bed Probatum With this Medicine I cured my self of a spot of whiteness that grew over the sight of my left Eye immediately after my recovery of a grievous sickness of the small Pox in October 1646. by putting a little thereof into my Eye going to bed with a piece of clean Paper rolled in form of a quill which in a short time took the spot clean away not putting the Eye to any pain Gloria Deo in excelsis Turner Another Powder much commended for the same Taste Pumice-stones Cuttle-bones prepared Sarcocolla Aristolochia red Coral Boras of each one dragme white Sugar-Candy 6 dragmes make them all into a fine subtil powder A Honey to be prepared for the mists before the Eyes Take clarifyed Honey 2 ounces the Juyce of Fennel the Juyce of Centory of each 1 ounce and a half seeth it a little and scumme it till it be cleer and drop thereof on the cloud or white spot in the Eye A Plaister for swollen and extuberated Eyes as if they would fall out Take Shepherds Purse Planten Housleek make a Plaister thereof and apply it to the Eye but if it proceed of weakness of the sinews then it is needfull to purge the Head with Hiera or pill Cochie use Gargarismes wherewith foment the mouth and lay to the Eyes this Plaister Take Juyce of Sloes Frankincense Mastick Cypres-Nuts and the Leaves of each if you can get them of each a like quantity beat them very small and mix them with the Oil of Camomil and lay it on the Eyes A Pomander for to strengthen and help a feeble and dim sight Take Rosemary Nep Marjoram Penny-royal of each 1 dragme Lignum Aloes Marjoram Gentle Mace of each 2 dragmes Muske Amber of each 2 grains Make thereof a powder and bind it in a piece of red Silk and smell often to it All odoriferous Herbs as Rosemary Lavender Gillo-flowers Roses and all sweet smelling Fruits are good for the Eyes so also doth the sight of green Fields green Trees the precious stone Smaragdus green Glasse green Linen set before the Eyes strengthen and quicken the sight on the contrary lechery and unmeasurable Venery Drunkenness sleeping on a full stomack much reading small prints or writing vaporous Meats moist Fruits dark misty weather Smoke Wind Dust Idleness and grosse Meat weakens and diminisheth the sight A Powder to strengthen the sight Take Tutia prepared 10 dragmes make it into Past with the Juyce of Marjoram Gentle when it hath stood a night and be well setled Let it drye well then beat it again and add to it Ginger long and black Pepper and Celendine of each 1 dragme sal Armoniack half a dragme all beaten small and made Moist with the Juyce of Fennel let it dry again and so preserve it when you will use it beat it into a very fine powder and put thereof into the Eye A Powder to be strewed upon the Head to strengthen and preserve the sight Take Cloves Lignum-Aloes Betony Sandarac burnt Ivory Styrax Calaminta of each half a dragme make them into powder and strew all the Head therewith and when you will renew it kemb the Head that the first may come off afterwards use twice a month before you go to sleep one quarter of an ounce of Trochises of Diambra and hold them in your mouth till they be dissolved A Water to preserve and strengthen the sight used by the Emperour Frederick the third Take green Betony Rue Vervain Celendine Eye-bright Roses of each 6 handfulls Long Pepper Cloves of each half a dragme Aloe one ounce Wood-bind and the flowers 3 handfulls Chop all the Herbs small and distill it through a glasse body drop of this Water into the Eyes and anoynt the Face therewith Another to preserve the sight Take Fenegreek Holly-hock Roots of each 2 ounces cleanse them well and boyl them in fair water by a mild fire till half be consumed then strain them out and add thereto Aloes 2 dragmes Sugar-Candy or Sugar of Roses 1 ounce strain it with Rose-water through a Cloth and let it seeth unto a Syrrup keep it in a glasse close stopt And when you have occasion use it as other Eye-waters Another for the same Take Rose-water and white Sugar-Candy of each what quantity you please And infuse them in a glasse together and let them stand in the Sun two or three dayes or more before you use it The Galls of all Ravening Birds as also of partridges of Bulls Hares Wolves Foxes and especially the Gall of a Bucke doth cleer the Eyes and sharpen the sight if any one of them be decocted with Juyce of Fennel and clarifyed Honey and dropt into the Eyes A Confection for a bad sight called Electuarium Oculiste or the Oculists

the dead Palsy Take Calmus half an ounce Cowslips 3 handfuls St. Johns-wort Sage Betony Balm Rue Bayleaves of each one handful Silver Mountain Balsam-wood Balsam fruit Bazil-seed of each 2 dragms Licorice Currans Lavender Flowers Amaranthus of each one ounce Boyl all these together into a Syrrup with six ounces of clarifyed Honey and a pint of Rain-water clarifyed with the white of an Egge A Clyster for the dead Palsey Take Sage Rue Stechas Mallows Centory Mercury Bran of each half a handful Seeth them all together then take 12 ounces of this Decoction of mix therewith Hyera Logodion half an ounce Salt one quarter of an ounce Sallet-Oil 3 ounces minister it warm A Powder to strew on the Patients meat in stead of spice that hath the dead Palsey Take Cynamon 1 ounce and a half Coriander Cloves Galingale Pepper Cubebs Mace Nutmegs Saffron of each one ounce Calmus 2 ounces Coutchenel half an ounce Temper them all to a fine powder with 6 ounces of fine Sugar A bath for the dead Palsey Take Bay-berryes Juniper-berryes and Pepper of each as much as you will beat them to powder and set the Patient in a dry bath and poure of this powder on hot Irons tempered with Lavender-Water and let him sweat well with the vapour thereof then rub all the infected Members with Venice Soap till the Soap be drye And after the Patient cometh out of the bath keep him in a warm place and rub the lame Joynts hard with Deers-suet An Oyntment for the dead Palsey Cramp and cold Gout Take Squills Rue Calmus Nettle-Roots Egrimony Cowslips of each one handful Pound them all together and put to it Oil of Nuts and old Sallet-Oil of each 12 ounc Wine as much seeth these all together till the moisture be evaporated away then strain it and temper amongst it Salt-Peter Euphorbium Pepper Oil of Bayes of each one ounce and a half Galbanum Turpentine of each 2 ounces VVax as much as is needful to make a Salve thereof and keep it for the use aforesaid A Powder against the falling sickness Take Pearls prepared Harts-bones of each 1 dragm Red Coral Piony-seeds and Roots of each half a dragm Misleden one dragme and a half Amber prepared 2 scruples White Sugar one ounce Six Leaves of Gold Make them all into fine powder and take hereof a dragme once a week in Piony-water or Broth. A Clyster for the falling sickness Take Swines-bread black Hellebore Centory Daffadil of each one dragme Saffron-seed half an ounce seeth this in a quart of water till half be consumed take 13 ounces of this Decoction temper therein Hyera Logodion one ounce Oil of Euphorbium 10 dragmes Salgem one drame and a half mix them all together for a Clyster A Confection for the same Take Diapenidium 3 dragmes Pliris Arcoticon 1 dragm Diambra half a dragm Cynamon 1 dragme and a half Nutmegs Cubebs of each 2 scruples Ginger one dragm Sugar 8 ounces Make a Confection thereof with Piony VVater Lozenges for the Cough and Rheume Take white Poppey-seeds Lettice-seeds and Purslain-seeds of each one dragme Dragagant Gum-Arabick and Saffron of each half a dragme Opium 5 grains pound all that is to be pounded and make it to a dough with Syrrup of Poppey make Lozenges therof as big as small Beanes and let one of these at a time dissolve in thy mouth this is for hot Rheumes Other Lozenges for a Cough Take Pine-apple Kernels steeped a night in Rose-water and bitter Almonds blanched of each 3 quarters of an ounce Juyce of Licoris 2 ounces powder of Licoris 3 dragmes make Lozenges thereof with Rose-water they are good against the Cough and rawness of the Throat that proceedeth thereof An Oyntment for pain in the back Take Oil of Spike and Oil of Lilleys of each half an ounce Oil of Camomile and Dill of each one ounce Saffron Lavender Madder and Egrimony of each one dragme Mastick and Squinant of each one scruple VVax as much as is needful to make it a Salve herewith anoynt the back-bone A Clyster for a pleurisy of heat and blood Take 16 ounces of broth made of a Calves-Foot or Lambs-Head put therein one ounce of brown Sugar the yolk of an Egge 2 ounces of Sallet-Oil Salt one dragme and a half temper them together for a Clyster An Oyntment for Scabs and breaking out in the Legges Take the red Dock-Root the Roots of Celendine and Worm-wood and the Leaves of Laurel of each a like quantity stamp them and seeth them in May-Butter unto an Oyntment strain it and keep it in a box for use How the Body is to be Governed against Pestilential and infectious Ayres The first and principal preservation is to avoyd all that may ingender any Feaver or Ague and forbear all manner of excesse either of meat or drink eat no grosse meat no Onyons Leeks Garlick nor fruit Abstain from venereous actions for that both openeth the Pores and destroyeth the kind natural and infeebleth the Spiritual Members and the Spirits of Man Also in time of Pestilence suffer no great thirst and drink but measurably only to slacken thy thirst and drink such drinks as will abate heat as Water of Borage Endive Lettice Violets Roses Scabious Tormentil Dittany either mingled or else severally alone by themselves For if the Pestilence reigne in the heat of the Summer these Drinks be profitable especially for those that be of a Cholerick Complexion Also when you sleep either in the afternoons or at night a-bed shut your Chamber-doors and Windowes close and cast on a Pan of Coles this Powder following Take of Laurel-Leaves and Rosemary dryed and Frankincense of each a like quantity make them into powder and strow about half a spoonful hereof upon the Coales Use also to burn in thy Chamber Juniper-wood or for want thereof Ash-wood and use to cast on the fire Frankincense Storax Calamint If one be infected with the Pestilence and a sore begin to arise between the thigh and the privy Members it is a sign that the Liver purgeth out the infection in that place then bleed on the Foot in the same side the swelling appears the Vein betwixt thy great Toe And if the botch be more outward to the side and further from the privy Members bleed then on the Vein between the Ankle and the Foot If the matter appear in the cleansing place of the Head then consider well in what side it appears and bleed on the Medium Vein of the Arm or the Vein of the Hand between the Thumb and the next finger of the same side but take good heed that you sleep not in 12 hours after bleeding It is good alwayes to have in your hand to smell to this Pomander following which comforteth the Vital Spirits Take Lapdanum purified an ounce Storax Calamita dissolved Roses Cloves Mace of each three half penny weight and make them into powder add thereto 5 spoonfulls of Oil de Bay an ounce of Virgins Wax mingle them well all