and such like for the aforesaid remedies they are not good for this purpose but the strength is in the Mercurie alone and it is hee the must worke the feate that is he can through sweating expell the matter of the Pocks and knoweth also where to find it for which cause he must be made to be diaphoreticke that is to expell sweat by the pores for beeing brought thereto hee is so subtill in his operation against the Pocks that it is almost incredible for he leaueth no corner in the whole body vnsearched expelling all the corrupt matter that he findeth But the preparing of him I feare me wil be too troublesome for lazie Practisioners and therefore I thinke I may spare my labour yet notwithstanding I will reueale it for their sakes that are dilligent knowing that he that desireth the health of his Patient will spare no labour nor refuse any trauaile to obtaine the same and therefore I will nowe shewe you the preparing of it The preparing of Mercurie to prouoke sweat Take of Aqua fortis a fourth parte Tinne and Quicksiluer of each halfe an ounce put this together in a Glasse and sette it in a Chafingdish with warme ashes you must remember to put it into a Glasse because the Aqua fortis doth pierce through all thinges but onelie glasse you must therefore take a Glasse with a flatte or round bottome without a foote and put it therein setting it in the ashes as aforesaid in the ende when you perceiue the Quicke siluer to be dissolued take it out of the ashes and let it stand till one may say the Pater noster thrée or foure times and there will be a little sand in the bottome thē poure off the cleere putting it into another cleane Glasse and sette it againe in the ashes as aforesaid and make vnder the Chafingdish a small fire vntill you see the water be all dried or sodden out then let it bee cold and breake the Glasse for otherwise you cannot gette it out it will be so hard when you haue taken it out you must grinde it small vppon a stone and put it in a small vessell of Siluer and gylt or of golde for that is best for this purpose the said Vessell must be about the bignesse of a Spoone and so deepe that it may containe the said matter and that you may couer the saide matter with Aqua vitae the bredth of a finger This vessell you shall set in geod strong wine Vineger a little déeper then the said matter that is in the Vessel and then sette the Aqua vitae on fire that it may burne note this that your Aqua vitae must be rectified that it do not cōtaine any fleame according as I haue taught you to rectifie it in my Booke of Distillations The Aqua vitae béeing consumed you shall immediatlie poure on more and let if likewise burne away dooing this so often vntill the Mercurie with the tinne doo conuert to a certaine kind of Oyle that is thicke and fat Of this Oyle you shall take one graine mingle it with good Wine and giue it to the Patient to drink in the morning fasting and then couer him reasonablie not too warme and you shall sée that which will make you to wonder that is you shall see such aboundaunce of sweat issue frō the Patient though he be not verie warme couered that wil cause you greatlie to maruell and of this you may be bolde that he shall sweat so much as may be good and profitable for his nature and no more This you shall giue him euery daie once and whē he sweateth let him be wel dried with warme and cleane clothes and he must take dilligent heede to keepe himselfe from cold and out of the ayre and that principallie when he sweateth his diet and his drinke shall be in all respects as is afore specified in the Chapter of sweating and you shall not regard what hath béene written heeretofore by diuers concerning the not eating of salte for that they haue therein greatlie erred therefore you shall vse so much salt as shal be needfull for the seasoning of your meat to giue it a good taste But alwaies prouided you must vse measure in all things and that principallie in salt and sowre thinges because that they two béeing two much vsed are verie hurtfull to the sinewes and for that cause you must take thē mesurablie but in any wise not to vse your meate without salte for that salt is the onelie thing requisite in the bodie to preserue the humours from corrupting for in what part of the bodie soeuer the salte beginneth to lose his vertue in the same part immediatlie beginneth a filthy rotting not much vnlike to the Leprosie wherefore in any wise you shall not forbid your Patient the eating of salt for by that outwarde salt the inwarde salt which is in the bloode and in all the other parts of man must be nourished and maintained But that you may the better beleeue that there is salte in all the parts of mans bodie you shall vnderstand that the bodie of man by all Philosophers and by me also is accounted for a little worlde which was called by them Microcosmos which little world doth containe in it all such things as the great worlde dooth naturallie containe in her By which reason it must also containe salt yet not bodilie but spirituallie and that this is true a man may perceiue by this that all whatsoeuer issueth frō man is altogether salt as the teares the sweat the vrine and such like wherefore it is necessarie for the Patient to vse salt to maintaine the same as is aforesaid But concerning Vineger you shall vse as little as is possible because it is not onelie vnprofitable but also hurtfull to nature for which cause you may not vse it much the Patient must also refraine from drinking too much strong Wine and principallie from sowre Wine so that his drinke shal be of the best and sweetest Renish wine that can be gotten and he must also drinke it measurablie thus much concerning dyet and drinke And heere you shall vnderstande that by thys manner of sweating all kinds of the Pockes may be cured although they were neuer so ill yea though one had had it xxx yeeres long so that to him that foloweth this prescribed maner of curing there shall be nothing impossible pertaining to this disease but onelie that which God will not suffer to be cured wherefore I would wishe you to vse it assuring you that you shall not find anie other meanes that shall be much better then this is Thus much concerning sweating Capit. 7. Of curing the Pockes by Seege vvith laxatiue Medicines THe Doctors of Phisicke haue also herein tried all their cunning vsed diuers meanes with laxatiue Medicines that as though it were verie agreeable to nature they might by Seege expell the matter of the Pockes but because that nature diuers times chooseth other emunctories
for it is that which in the annointing performeth the action and without Mercurie there is nothing profitable in this disease ministred outwardlie but inwardlie there are manie noble remedies beside Quicksiluer which both in this and also in all other diseases are of great force so that the like hath not oft times been seene But because in this Booke we haue taken in hand to write onelie of the Pockes wee will therefore meddle with nothing but Mercurie In these two we will vse such dilligence that nothing shall be vnpossible for you to helpe in this disease if so be that you follow our counsaile Nowe to prepare your Mercurie that it may outwardlie be ministred without perrill to the Patient you shall take in Gods name of the earth wherin Mercurie groweth which is found in Dutch-land in the gold siluer Mines this earth is called in Dutch Berch ciuober of this earth you shal take the softest which is not yet hardened take twentie poundes thereof this you shall beate and put it into a Kettle poure fayre raine water thereto and let it seeth an howre long and the earth and the other filthinesse will seperate it selfe which you shall scumme off very cleane then that which remaineth in the Kettle you shall rub small and put it into a Cucurbit and sette it to distill vpon the fire with great heate according as I haue taught you in my Booke of Minerall distillations and you shall see a white iuyce arise like Milk And when you perceiue that it will drop no more then take that white iuyce and sette it alone to distill in Balneo marie and the moisture that is thereby will come alone and in the bottome of the Cucurbit there will remaine an Oyle as heauie in a manner as Quicke siluer the manner to distill by Balneo marie I haue shewed you sufficiently in my Booke of the distillation of Hearbes to which Booke I referre you for breuities sake The Oyle remaining in the bottome of the Cucurbit as afore said you shall take and vse to annoint withall as foloweth Take two ownces of the aforesaid Oyle and sixe ounces of Spike Oyle these you shall mingle together and warme them a little vpon the fire and therewith annoint the diseased parts of the Patient but those parts which are not diseased you shal not annoint therewith because it would doo more hurt then good for that there is no matter whereuppon they may worke and not finding other matter to worke vpon it would drie vppe the naturall moysture from those parts but the diseased parts you shall annoint as aforesaid in euery part or ioynt and if there be any holes or blaines you shall annoint those also in the euening when he goeth to bed and you shall couer him very warme that he may sweat and let him lye and sweat two houres long and he must not in any wise stirre himselfe because he may sweat the better the sayde time being expired you shall abate the clothes from of him and giue him warme cleane clothes that he may drie vp the sweate cleane in euery place and beeing well dryed take off his wette shirt and put him on a cleane shyrt well warmed then sette him by a good fire of Oken wood and dry his heade with warme clothes in the meane while make his bedde and lay on a payre of cleane sheetes well warmed then let him goe to bedde againe before it be colde but couer him not too warme but that he may sleepe quietly In the morning wheÌ„ he awaketh you shall vse as you did in the euening to witte with fire and drying and béeing well dryed of his sweat you shall apparrell him and let him washe his hands and his face in warme water and then let him eate his meat which shall be such as heere followeth First he shall eate no Swines flesh nor no salted fleshe no Hares Conies Harts nor other venison nor no Cowes flesh nor no pottage but broth made of good Mutton sodden with Borage and a fewe Beetes and with a good deale of Borâ—age other Pottage he shall eate none he shal eate good Mutton Hennes Partriges and all manner of wild foule excepting all water foules and all that seeke their liuing or swimme in the water for that their fleshe is ill to digest for a sicke man ingendering naughtie and mellancholie blood hee may also eate good young Beefe beeing newlie killed and not long salted but he must not eate much of it because it is hard of digestion for a weake stomack but of all other there is nothing better for such a Patient then good young Kiddes flesh that yet sucketh his damme with good Partriges and good young Hennes he shall not refuse to eate for that of all other meates they are best hee shall abstaine from Pepper and Ginger but in his meate he may vse Cinamon Cloues and such like also Nutmegges and Saffron he shall also abstaine from Onions Garlike Skallions and such like eyther rawe or sodden because they vexe the blood and inflame and dry vp the Liuer His drinke shall be good Renish wine tempered with water sodden with Annis seedes Barlie and Masticke of each as much as a Chestnut of this water hée shall take one part and of Wine two parts and hée shall drinke thereof vntill he be cured he shall keepe himselfe verie warme and out of the ayre within the house he shal kéepe the windowes and the doores shut this order he shall in all respects keepe with annointing sweating and diet vntil he be perfectly cured for if he do as is aforesaid he shal vndoubtedly by Gods helpe be cured although hee had it twentie yéeres if so be he haue not béen spoiled with other Medicines before Cap. 3. Of fumegation or smoking with correction of the abuse vsed therein THere is yet another way of curing the Pocks found out by practitioners for when they perceiued that of force they must vse Quicke siluer they tooke and killed it with Brimstone making Cinober thereof because it should not be knowne to be Quicke siluer for the common people perceiuing so manie to be spoiled and killed with Quicke siluer woulde not willinglie be cured therewith therefore because they might the better vse it without gainesaying of the Patient therefore they brought it into another forme vsing it also after another manner without any annointing because annointing was become odious to the Patient therfore they found out a deuice to perfume or smoke the Patient with the smoke of Cinober or Vermelion and so to cure him for they knew Quick siluer to be so subtill or piercing that they wold enforce it into the bodie at anie place through the pores or sweat holes And therfore they set the Patient vnder a Tent or Canopie naked with a Chafingdish of coales between his legges wherin they strowed the Cinober stopping him close round about the Patient then beginning to sweat the Mercurie with his whole substaunce creepeth into him in
to purge herselfe by therefore their deuices haue had no good successe for though there be manie remedies whereby to purge the bodie from his vncleannes yet not one of them is able to deliuer the bodie from this disease wherefore I would not wish anie man to purge with any such laxatiues because it is not onelie in vain but also verie hurtful for they doo not so much as once meddle or touch the matter of this disease as beeing altogether vnable to expell the same yet because they must worke beeing once receiued in they goe to worke vpon that which they ought not to meddle withall expelling that which is profitable to nature yea and béeing too often vsed or in too great a quantitie they doo expell the blood the fleshe and at last they doo melt the marrow in the verie bones expelling it also according as wee haue seene the experience thereof in those which thus haue béene purged for their flesh falleth awaie theyr cheekes waxe hollow they become leane and pale of colour which palenes of colour so long continueth as nature continueth vnable to clense the bloode and to ouercome the disease What auaileth it then to purge with sharpe laxatiues when it is the nature alone that must heale the disease But I knowe there be many that will say and I graunt it to be true that by purging they haue cured diuers Agues and such like diseases but though it be graunted that the disease healeth after such time as the Patient is purged yet notwithstanding it is nature herselfe which healeth the disease after that her enemies are put to flight but as for those laxatiues they doo not so forsake the bodie of the Patient but that they leaue manie reliques behind them which afterward are the causes of manie great euils also the body is brought thereby to such a custome that it doth looke dailie to be purged and therefore will not performe the accustomed digestion as it ought to doo and notwithstanding all the euils that doo ensure these purgations there is no helpe nor comfort to be expected of them toward the curing of this disease because they doo not so much as once touch it Nowe I will shewe you wherewith they haue vsed to purge to the end you may take heede of it because it cannot any thing profit you First they haue giuen the Patient of these Iuleps or Sirops and after haue purged them with the laxatiues following These are the Iuleps and Sirops Sirupus de fumo terre Sirupus acetosus Simplex et compositus Sirupus de Pomis compositus Sirupus de menta Sirupus de bisantijs de Absinthis et Epitimo de Cicorea et de Eupatoria Iulep violatum et Iulep rosatum In verie hote diseases these aforesaid Sirops they mingled with these distilled waters folowing because they might the better be receiued The waters are these Aqua boraginis Aqua buglosse Fumus terrę Aqua cuscutę Aqua melissę Aqua scholopendrię Aqua maioranę Aqua finiculi Aqua cicoreę Aqua endinię Aqua lupuli Aqua capillorum veneris Aqua eupatorij Aqua lactucę Aqua scabiosę Aqua cardo benedicti These aforesaid waters with other moe they vsed to mingle with theyr Syropes and then gaue them to the Patient to drinke to prepare the matter and afterward purged them with these laxatiues following Diasene Diacitoniton Diacarthami Agaricus Coloquintida Turbith Elleborus Confectio Hamech Electuarium Iudum Diagridiū Ezula Hermodactilus And also with these Pilles folowing Pillule cochię Pillule indę Pillule lucis Pillule artecite Pillule feditę Pillule areę Pillule de hermodactilis Pillule de lapide armeno Vpon all these aforesaid I will God willing shewe you the correction but principallie vppon the laxatiues for that the other neede not greatlie to be corrected First you shall vnderstande that it is not euill or hurtfull that the matter in the Liuer and the stomacke be first prepared and then afterward purged with these Medicines folowing which are very easie and not burtfull to be vsed These are they Diacatholicon Cassia fistula Manna rhabarbarum Aloes Polipodium Sena Epitimum Mirobolanorum fyue sorts or kinds For these helpe to lighten nature to clense the blood of all vncleannesse proceeding of meate and drinke they deliuer also from Agues if they be often vsed are hurtfull neither to olde nor young euerie man may vse them with out daunger But as for the matter of the Pockes they doe not so much as once meddle with it but let it lie still vntouched For that requireth another manner of force wherwith to be roused and driuen forth which pertaineth to the Mercurie alone for being brought to be laxatiue he can find out that which the other could not find and dooth expell that which he knoweth to be offensiue to nature not onely in this matter of the Pockes but also in all other diseases therefore I counsaile all men to vse diligence in learning to make the Mercurie laxatiue as hereafter shall be taught The correction of this that hath béene saide is nothing but this that you purge with no other laxatiue but onelie with Mercurie and to make him laxatiue you must prepare him thus First you must haue a kind of water that with extreame heate of fire is distilled of Egge-shels of this water you must take foure ounces of Quick siluer one ounce and put them together in a Glasse which Glasse you must sette in a Chafingdish or some other thing with sand and sette the Chafing-dish in or vpon the fire the Mercurie shall dissolue through the force of the water and being dissolued you shall distill of the water and poure other vppon it this you must doo so often vntill the Mercurie become as redde as blood when the water is drawne from it this Mercurie is the right Purgation to expell the matter of the Pockes by stooles The Mercurie then being as redde as bloode you shall grinde it to fine powder and of the said powder you shall giue the Patient to drinke with good sweete Wine or other Wine that is not sowre euery morning fasting three graines or you may also mingle it with Theriacle or Metridatum and giue it him to eate euerie morning fasting and let him fast after it at the least foure howres and then shall he purge that that is néedfull to be purged and is the right matter of the Pockes and it shall not any way be hurtfull vnto him but shall clense him from all vnhealthfull thinges restoring him to a healthfull state clensing all superfluitie and leauing all the other humours of the bodie vntouched This is that that purgeth the matter of the Pockes by the stoole and there is no other laxatiue that is anie thing auailable but onelie Mercurie beeing thus prepared The Patient must be kept with meate and drinke according as is saide of the other in the Chapters going before he must also be kept from colde out of the ayre but principally from
a time and you shall vse this manner of fumigation euerie night when the Patient goeth to bedde and let him sweat euery time in such order as is afore shewed in the Chapter of annointing vsing him in al points as is there specified to wit in sweating in drying c. In this order you may fumigate or smoke without any danger if you take héed that the Mercurie doe not ascend so that you shall not onelie auoide all perrill in your curing but shall also purchase to your selues praise and thankes whensoeuer you shall vse it Thus much of fumigation with the correction of the abuses therein vsed now concerning washing Capit. 4. Of vvashing vvith water THere is yet another peece of cunning deuised by the subtill Pock-maisters which perceiued that they coulde not longer vse their Mercurie without hurt or shame and also without thanke of the Patient for the Patients perceiuing the great perils that ensued by the annointing how manie were therby spoyled woulde not anie longer trust their annointing and so fared it also with their fumigation for when they sawe the numbers that thereby were killed they feared and woulde not anie longer be smoked whereuppon the Pock-Maisters were enforced to prepare their Mercurie after another order that hee might be more secret and vnknowne that they might yet vse him for they wist wel that without him there was no cure to be wrought for as yet Guaicum was vnknowne therefore they tooke sublimated Mercurie and sodde it in Aqua vitae and wyth the said Aqua vitae they washed the Patient which is a verie subtill and forcible manner of curing and very perrilous which manner of curing I doo counsaile all men to leaue vndoone But in this manner following you shall not onely auoide all daunger but shall also haue good successe in your workes which if for the great labour and charge which is required in the preparing of your Mercurie you will not follow I would wish you to leaue washing for of all manners of curing there is none the like for force and daunger therefore if you wil not otherwise correct your Mercurie it is not lawfull for you to cure any man by washing for that they which are this way cured are in greater daunger then one man which dooth fight against two other for life and death But if you will prepare your Mercurie as heereafter shal be shewed you shall not onelie eschew all daunger which otherwise may happen but shall also performe as much as shal be requisite to the curing of this disease as much as hath béen hetherto performed by anie man wherefore flie sloth and vse diligence in preparing your Mercurie whereby you shal not onely obtaine your desire in curing the disease without feare and danger but also with great credite to your selfe and profit to the Patients In this washing besides this afore written there is yet another abuse that is that they haue washed all the partes of the body as well those that were sounde as those that were diseased then the which they could not haue coÌ„mitted a greater ouersight for by that means they haue brought the sound parts into a worse case then the diseased for Mercurie vsed in such sort is in the operation as hote as fire so that in those partes wherein there is no corrupt matter to bee dryed out there he goeth to worke and drieth out all the good and naturall moisture and thereby spoyleth the whole member Therefore aboue all things you must take heede that you doe not wash the whole parts but onely those that are diseased for the diseased parts haue matter wherein the Mercurie may worke and which is needfull to be dryed out Nowe I will shewe you howe to prepare and to vse your Mercurie but first I will shewe you those simples wherewith these Masters vse to washe which are these Mercurius sublimatus Auri pigmentum Arsenicun Cerusa Camphier Aqua vitae These thinges if I shoulde minister in this sorte crudlie without other correction I thinke I shoulde kill all the Patients that I shoulde take in hande For by reason of the strength of the Aqua vitae the Mercurie becommeth so subtil and so fierie that it is a great wonder that they die not all that are taken in hand to be cured in this order For of all other this manner of curing is most daungerous for the Mercurie by his subtiltie and by meanes of the heate of the Aqua vitae doth performe his operation in the inward parts of the Patient with such force as manie sicke Patients haue better felt then I can describe and though this be most true yet there are some the vse it dailie as though it were good but I say that it is a secrete kinde of poyson which though it be but outwardlie applied doth yet not withstanding with great force performe his worke inwardly in the bodie for it inflameth and stirreth vppe the bloode in such sort that the Patient oftentimes falleth a bleeding bléeding themselues to death others are like to be choked so forciblie draweth this venime to the hart but peradueÌ„ture some will defend his dooings herein and say I haue holpen many therewith but I would faine heare the Patient himselfe report it yet nouerthelesse I doe thinke well that some one amongst a hundred may be cured by this meanes but I conne them no thanke therefore but rather nature which herselfe healed the disease and resisted the storme but howe manie haue they spoiled and holpen vnder the grounde before they haue cured one verilie a great number I am certaine but to auoide such a daunger and to attaine credit in this arte doo as is aforesaid leaue off your washing or els prepare your Mercurie as followeth The correction of this washing with Mercurie Take Mercurie which is sublimed by himselfe without any addition as I will teache you in the fore alledged Booke the same you shall sublime yet foure times with coÌ„mon prepared Salt then you shall poure vpon the said Mercurie good rectified Aqua vitae as I haue taught you to rectefie it in my booke of Distillations This Aqua vitae you shall set on fire with a little Paper and let it burne till it be consumed then pouré on more and doo likewise dooing it so often vntill the Mercurie doo cease to bite or eate vppon the tongue then seeth the Mercurie in Persicâ—â—ie water or in Celendine water halfe an houre long then let it be colde and poure of the water that the Mercurie be not vsed with his bodie but that his spirit his strength may come foorth and be coupled to the disease for in the spirit of the Mercurie is the vertue to cure the disease and in the bodie of it is the force to kill and spoile the Patient Therefore it is the greatest ouersight that may be to take Mercurie and to seeth it in Aqua vitae and therewith to washe the Patient for by that meanes it entereth
middle age and that as greene as is possible with the barke vpon it there is yet one thing more to be obserued and that is this the place where it groweth this and such like a man must know of thē which bring it ouer For that which groweth in S. Dominicus Iland is not good for this purpose for in hote and dry complexions it is very hurtfull because of the heate and dryth of the Country where it groweth which maketh it much hoter and dryer then that which groweth els where as in S. Iohns Iland for the Iland of S. Dominicus lieth right vnder the Equinoctiall line by reason whereof the inhabitants are greatlie troubled with heate and also the fruites of it are much hoter then in other Countries but the best Woode is found in the Ilande of S. Iohn béeing not so hote and dry as that of S. Dominicus and may therefore be vsed with lesser daunger in hote and drie diseases as hoarsenesse of the voice with shortnes of breath called Asthma and in a consumption called Ptisis these may well be cured with the woode of S. Iohns Iland which were not good to be attempted wyth that of S. Dominicus Ilande because the Patient might therby be brought to a greater drith and in the end to death For though there be some kind of men so colde and moist of complexion that they might better be cured with the woode of S. Dominicus Iland then with that of S. Iohns yet notwithstanding there are verie fewe of them and of those that are hote and drie or at the least wise hote and moist there are manie moe for that those which are most troubled with this disease are for the most part young women and young men and are for the most part not so colde of nature as they should neede such hote Medicines and cheefely such dry Medicines for by reason of the great heate they drie vp the naturall moisture and thereby shorten the life of the Patient but the wood of S. Iohns Iland a man may vse without feare in hote and drie diseases béeing prepared accordinglie in the seething and also in colde and moist diseases béeing prepared thereafter for it is not so much drying as the other and is notwithstanding as excellent in colde diseases as any other can be For the Iland of S. Iohn lieth different from the Equinoctiall line almost eyght degrees béeing in such sorte moistened with springs and Riuers that the fruites therof are much more excellent more natural then are the fruites of the other Iland In what manner this wood must be prepared shall heereafter be shewed Capit. 3. Howe to prepare the Drinke SEeing we haue alreadie shewed you what wood is to be vsed in this Drinke we will nowe shewe you the making or seething of it I haue seene the Phisitians vse thys drinke almost in all diseases and towards all men after one kind of order but in so dooing whether they did well or not I leaue to your consideration For how can a Shoomaker make euery mans shooes vppon one last euen so is it with this drinke which hath caused me greatlie to wonder so see that it hath been so doone by almost all Phisitians For howe is it possible for a man to finde any one thing which being ministred after one kinde of order shoulde cure all kinde of diseases considering how contrarie one disease is to another But in that we haue héeretofore said of this wood that it may be vsed in colde and hote moist and dry complexions that is thus to be vnderstoode It may be so prepared in the séething that in hote diseases it may be a cooling Medicine and it may also be prepared to be a hote Medicine in colde and Melancholicke diseases and to cure them all perfectlie Therefore when it is to be ministred in hote and dry diseases and complexions it must be sodden with greater quantitie of water then when it is to be vsed in cold and moist diseases and the disease by reason of the moisture and coldnesse of the water shall be made temperate and by the wonderfull vertue which secretlie lieth hidden in the woode it shall be perfectlie cured For in this wood is contained a certaine secrete or hidden vertue in curing diseases not alonelie the Pocks but in maner all diseases expelling by the vrine and the sweat whatsoeuer is hurtfull or contrarie to nature therefore you must dilligently consider the nature of the disease whether it be hote or cold that you may make your drinke accordinglie for in cold diseases you must vse more wood and lesse water thē in hote diseases and sometimes you must vse wine and somtimes not and sometimes the drinke must be made of the woode alone and sometimes with other additions as you shall heare more at large héereafter Nowe I will teach you howe to séeth or prepare your drinke after a better and more perfect order then of manie hath hetherto béene vsed which is after this manner You shall take of the woode béeing made as small as is possible and put it into a stone Pot which must be so bigge that it may not be more then halfe full when your woode with the other receipts appertinēt to the disease are put into it your receipts therefore beeing put into the Pot you shall set it vppon the fire to seeth in a Kettle with water and because it shall not in séething loose anie of his vertue you shall therefore stoppe the Pottes mouth so close that no ayre doo issue out for if it get vent that the ayre come foorth it doth lose of his vertue and is so much the worse Therefore you must vse great dilligence in the stopping of it for that is principallie heerein required and being close stopped you shall sette it to seeth in a Kettle of water binding it so in the Kettle that it fall not and then make it séeth keeping the Kettle continuallie so full of water that it may alwaies be higher then that which is in the Pot. In this order you shall keepe it séething at the least tenne howres but peraduenture you will thinke that it cannot séeth because it is so close stopped and hath no vent but that is not materiall for our desire is that it should boile or séeth without walloping for seething in this manner it retaineth all his vertue whereby it shall performe his operation in better order then he hath doone heretofore béeing simplie set vpō the fire to séeth with a couer of wood or stone Moreouer it may bée you will thinke that if it be stopped as aforesaide it may as well be sette vppon the fire to séeth as in a Kettle of water but heerein you should be deceiued for béeing set vppon the fire to seeth in that order it will rather burst in peeces then seeth and therefore the best way is to sette it in water as is aforesaide For as the water seetheth in the the Kittle so shall that also