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A15599	The general practise of physicke conteyning all inward and outward parts of the body, with all the accidents and infirmities that are incident vnto them, euen from the crowne of the head to the sole of the foote: also by what meanes (with the help of God) they may be remedied: very meete and profitable, not only for all phisitions, chirurgions, apothecaries, and midwiues, but for all other estates whatsoeuer; the like whereof as yet in english hath not beene published. Compiled and written by the most famous and learned doctour Christopher VVirtzung, in the Germane tongue, and now translated into English, in diuers places corrected, and with many additions illustrated and augmented, by Iacob Mosan Germane, Doctor in the same facultie.; New artzney buch. English	Wirsung, Christof, 1500?-1571.; Mosan, Jacob.	1605 (1605)	STC 25864; ESTC S118564	1,345,223	940

ascribe to their Melilot wherefore it is aduised to take the great Melilot Auicennae and it is vsed at the Apothecaries The white Melilot is not common in all countries wherefore it is sowen in gardens in many places The white is called at the Apothecaries Melilotus alba and the yellowe Melilotus lutea the Herbarists do thus distinguish it from Lotus satiua they call it Lotus alba Lotus lutea as they also call the Lotus satiua and Lotus caerulea Serapio hath also his proper Melilot to wit the lesser Vitches which after the flower is fallen away it getteth little huskes like bird clawes Some do vse the lesser small Melilot that grow in medows which is something lesse than the common Melilot calling it Melilotus minor we call it the lesser Melilot Diosc calleth his Melilot that groweth in Campania Sertula Campana and Cato Serta Campana Melons Melon Melopepon and Melo Mithridate Antidotus Methridatica Methridatium and at the Apothec Methridatum It is a pretious confection against all poyson which first was made by King Mithridate and hath called it by his owne name Mewe Anethum syluestre Anethon vrsinum Anethum tortuosum and Meum some do call it Seseli Creticum but care not for them for it is the true Meum of the auncients as euery one may see and find to be without deceipt that shal cōfer it with the description of Dios Milke Thistle in Greeke and Latine Chamaeleon niger and at the Apothecaries Cardopatium some do also call it Carlina nigra Mill dust in Gréeke Polleu Farina volatica at the Apothecaries Farina volatilis Mill stone Lapis molaris of Virgil Lapis incusus Millet in Gréek Cenchros of Strabo Cenchris of Hippoc. Paspale it is euery where in Germanie well knowen is daily vsed in meates Millet of Indie it is called in Latine Melica of Plinie Milium Indicum of the Herbarists Panicum Indicum Meliga Sorghum and Saggina The Portingales call it Milium saburtum It is a plant not much vnlike to the Sugar canes and beareth a browne seede like a Lettice but somewhat sharpe It is now a dayes sowen in gardens Miscledene in Gréeke of Plinie Ixos and of Virgil Astilis of Hesichius Stear Stelis in Latin and of Virgil Viscum It is an excrescence of trées and groweth commonly on Peare and Apple trees also on the Hawthorne trée and Birch trées but that which groweth on Okes Tillet trées Chestnut trées or Hasels is commended aboue the rest in Phisicke It is vsed for the falling euill and swimming of the head Mosse in Gréeke Bryon Sphagnon Mnion and Amnion in Latine Muscus Muscus arborum and Lanugo arborum at the Apothecaries and of the Arabians Vsnea Mouse Mus a domesticall animall Mouse-eare Auricula muris The herbs that are called Mouse-eare are 4. in number although there be but one of them that is called so of the auncient writers the first and greatest kind is called of some Mouse-eare others Lungwort it groweth commonly in darke Béechen woods old wals it hath broad rough hayrie leaues that lie downe flat on the grounde and a stalke that is diuided into three or fower sprigs on the top whereof are yellow flowers this stalke being squised it yeeldeth a white milkie iuice like to the wild Lettice the Chirurgians do call it Lactaria consolida the Herbarists Pilosella maior Auricula Muris maior and Pulmonaria Gallica because it also serueth for the disease of the lights The second kinde is called Pilosella media and Pilosella or Mouse-eare by which name it is euery where knowen as also in this Booke it is called no otherwise The thirde kinde is called the lesser Mouse-eare of the Herbarists Flos Angelicus and Pilosella minor It groweth in barren groundes it hath faire white and purple flowers The fourth kinde is called the blewe Mouseare or blew Eyebright of Dioscorides Myosoris Auricula muris and of the Herbaristes Euphrasia carulea and Auricula Muris caerulea This herbe is nothing like to the former three kinds in operation and virtue for the water distilled of it is vsed for the dimnes and bléerdnes of the eies The auncient Phisitions haue onely vsed it for the bad eies But our common Mouseare is onely vsed in potions for woundes and ruptures and such like compositions notwithstanding that it hath his proper vse of it selfe Mouse of the Alpes Mus Alpinus whereof the grease is vsed against the lamenes and extenuation of the ioynts Mugwort Artemisia it is an herbe sufficiently knowen hot and dry in the second degree Mulberrie trée Morea Sycamin●● in Greeke in latine Morus and Arbor sapiens the fruit is called Morum or Mulberrie Mummye Mumia there are two kinds of it the one is digged out of the Graues in Arabia and Syria of those that are Balsamed and is brought vnto vs it is called Pissasphaltum factitium of the Arabians Mumia at the Apothecaries Mumia Serapio calleth it Mumia sepulchorum to distinguish it from this kinde following The Phisitions call it Mumia Arabum for a difference from Mumia Graecorum The second kind is onely an equall mixture of the Iewes lyme and Bitumen in Gréeke Pissasphaltum in Latine Picibitumen and of the Simplicists Cera montana Cera terrestris Pissasphaltum natinum and Mumia natiua But as often as Mummie is named in this present worke is not the Iewes lime meant but the Mummie of the Arabians to wit Mumia sepulchrorum which is found at all Apothecaries vnder the name of Mumia Muscadine Vinum Apianum Vinum Musacatulum Vinum Muscatellinum and Muscatellum Muske Muscus Moscus Muschus it is the dryed matter of the impostume of a certaine beast which is called of the Barbarians Gazella Must in Gréeke Gleucos and Deucos in Latine Mustum and vinum Musteum the wine first prest out of the grape is called of Columella Mustum Lixiuium of Plinie Protropion This wine was woont to be inclosed in Tunnes and they well hooped to the end it should not clarifie and that it might cōtinue swéete It is called of some Vinum coactum it is called of the Grecians Aigleuces that is semper mustum It is often vsed for physick but very seldome alone Mustard in Gréeke and Latine Sinapi Napi and Sinapis There are two kinds thereof the wilde and the tame Mustard They are both of them hot and dry in the fourth degrée the tame kinde is more commended for physick than the wilde Mustard séede the white or Rocket in Gréeke Eusomus or Eusomum in Latine Eruca there are foure kinds of it the first kind is sowen in gardens and is knowne euery where by the name of Rocket or white Mustard seede this is the true Eruca and Eusomum of the auncients The second kind groweth of it selfe in the fields not vnlike the former but somewhat lesse it is called of the Herbarists Eruca syluestris with vs wild rocket The other two kinds to wit the third and fourth do grow about the water side and haue

of sicknesse hauing neither Phisition nor Apothecaries neare him or at least none skilfull in that Art might himselfe know how to prepare and vse any medicine that might serue for his disease or what he might as best and meetest send for at the Apothecaries for his purpose In like sort also may he iudge of the properties and vertues of compoūded or mixed medicines as Electuaries Syrupes Pils Powders c. and which of them in euery disease might rightly be applyed and vsed Furthermore I haue very diligently obserued and noted the iust dosis proportion or quantitie of euery medicine that is at one time to be vsed and what things are to be auoided and shunned And for this cause haue I parted it into sixe treatises or parts named and shewed diuers kinds of poysons to the end that better heeded might be taken in shunning them and if by some mischance they had bene taken inwardly how to infringe and breake the force and violence of them And albeit some things there be noted and set down in this booke which might seeme better to haue bene passed ouer in silence yet was it done to such an end that the deceits and knaueries by which the common sort of people is oftentimes illuded might be disclosed and bewrayed to teach them also to take héed hereafter of those that wold deceiue them and onely to regard those things that are grounded on reason and skill All such things as are noted with Latine names are either those that haue no English name as yet knowne or else that are not growing here in England but are commonly found at the Apothecaries The method we haue obserued in this booke is according to the customes and orders of the ancient phisical writers who diuiding mans bodie into foure generall parts to wit the Head the Brest the Belly and the externall or outward partes so also haue I diuided and cut this present worke into foure bookes The one for the head the other for the breast the third for the belly and the fourth for the outward members as at large in the beginning of euery of them shall be shewed Vnto these foure first are adioyned other foure bookes and not without cause for that the method and order I haue obserued requireth and asketh no lesse as shall be shewed hereafter The auncient Phisitions haue as is alreadie sayed for sundrie and very necessarie causes diuided the bodie of man into foure generall parts The first part containeth the head and stretcheth no further than vnto the necke the second part hath the breast vnto the midriffe or to the lowermost short ribs the third part is the belly with all that is in it euen vnto the hippes the fourth part are the outward members as Armes Hands Thighes Legs Féet c. with all their particular parts and ioynts This very same method if God of his infinite mercie giue me grace do I purpose in this my worke to follow And this may suffice to let vs sée the wretchednesse of mans nature the fountaines and causes of all infirmities and also the necessitie profite and praise of phisicke But before I procéed any further in describing of diseases with their appropriate remedies I thinke it were very meet and necessarie to giue a more clearer instruction in some points of phisicke to the end that such as shall vse this booke might haue the better vnderstanding in the preparing of medicines The fift Chapter How all manner of Rootes Barkes Herbes Flowers Fruites and such like may be gathered and kept The best time to gather rootes THe best time and most conuenient to dig or plucke vp rootes according to some mens iudgement is the haruest or Autumne when the leaues do wither and fall away Others suppose the spring time to be most méete for the same intent when the herbe doth first beginne to appeare and créepe foorth of the ground But the greatest and fittest obseruation in the gathering of them is this to note the place or ground they grow in the time when they are sappiest and fullest of iuice and the vse as either that we must néedes haue them or that we must haue them greene fresh We must indeuour also to haue them fresh new digged out of the ground to wash them cleane to separate the small haires and lesser branches from the roote to crop off the stalkes and tops to cut away that which is rotten and worme eaten All these rootes which are woodie within as of Fennell of Cichorie of Parsly c. shall the hard and woodie heart be taken out of The biggest rootes must be split asunder and afterwards dried in the shade and in open aire And if it be moist and wet weather they are to be put in a warme place where no ill smoake cometh with often turning them vpside downe They must also be kept frée from Sunne moisture dust and smoake and be hanged vp in such a place where the wind and fresh aire may sometime come to them The lesser rootes as of Sparage Valerian Azarabacca are kept longer then a yeare and continue of like force and vertue The great and hard rootes as of Brionie Gentian and Aristologie as also amongst the lesser both kinds of Neesewort may well be reserued thrée yeares together without any let or hinderance to their vertue The rindes of the rootes being separated as is aforesaid from the innermost wooddie parts shall in like sort be dried and kept As concerning herbes it is the common opinion Herbes that they ought to be gathered within thirtie daies as from the 15. of August vnto the 15. of September But séeing that some herbs do sooner come to their full perfection and growth other some later which difference for the most part dependeth on the diuersitie of the countrie or else of the ground and place where they growe the best time of gathering them shall be either when they beare their flower or when the leafe is at the biggest and when they smell strongest and are best coloured They must bée dried in the shade or else in a reasonable warme place where neither dust nor smoke can come at them They continue not in their full vertue and strength aboue one yeare All manner of Flowers shall be gathered when they are full blowne and wide open Flowers while they be fresh and not withered not when they haue lost their smell Roses must be gathered when they begin to blowe and as yet not full blowne None of them all may be kept aboue one yeare except the flowers of Cammomil and that is by reason they be naturally drie the sweet smelling flowers are longest preserued and kept in boxes of Lentill wood Concerning Fruites Nature it selfe teacheth vs Fruites that they ought to be gathered or plucked from the trée not bruising them at such a time when they are at the ripest those that haue stones in them may haue the stones if it so seeme good taken foorth afterwards

much bigger leaues than the former whereof many leaues lye downe flat on the ground about the stalke the one beareth white the other yellow floures they are called of the Herbarists Erucae aquaticae Eruculae marinae in English water rocket Mynts crumpled Menta crispa Mentha satiua or Mintha it is hot in the third and dry in the second degrée the Greekes do call it Hedyosmum N. NArcissus in Greeke and Latine Narcissus There are three kindes of it the first is sufficiently knowne by the name of Narcissus the Herbarists do call it Rhodionarcissus and Narcissus Roseus this is the true Narcissus The second kind is very like the former but it is somewhat bigger in euery respect it is called of Theophrastus Leucoium that is viola alba and this kind is most of all vsed at the Apothecaries The third kind is like the first in leafe and roote but a little bigger and the floure is yellow the Herbarists call it Narcissus Autumnalis but this is only to be vnderstoode of the floure the groweth in haruest without any leaues The rootes of it is called Colchicum and Ephemerum as hath béen sayd of the Hermodactyles Nep at the Apothecaries Menta felina Cattaria it is vsed of diuers men for Calamintha montana because it hath the same virtues so that it may be done without any harme Nettles that do burne or burning nettles Vrtica pungens vrtica vrens Nettles in Gréeke Acalyphe Acalephe Cnide in Latine Vrtica there are thrée kindes of them first the great and common burning nettle which is knowne to all men this is called Vrtica mas or Vrtica maior The second kinde groweth not with vs but must be sowen in gardens this bringeth her séed in heads like to Flax and indéede it is not vnlike to Lineséed but that it is somewhat lesse and whiter This nettle is called of Dioscorides and Plinie Vrtica syluestris and of the Herbarists vrtica Romana vrtica Italica vrtica foemina The séede of this nettle is more fit for physick than the former and it is also more forcible It is called the Italian Romish or Garden nettle vrtica hortulana notwithstanding that beforetimes it hath béen taken for the wild nettle The third kinde is the lesser and hoter of all Plinie calleth it Cania and the Herbarists vrtica minor The seedes of all kindes of nettles are hot in the end of the first and dry in the second degree the rootes leaues do warme resolue and discusse Nettles stinking or dead nettles Vrtica iners vrtica mortua vrtica labeo Anonium there be commonly foure kinds of it they are called in Gréeke of Dioscorides Galiopsis and of Plinie Galeopsis Galeobdolon or Galephos in Latine Vrtica labeo vrtica foetida in English stinking nettles The second kind is bigger and hath yellowish floures it is called of the Herbarists Archangelica and archangelica lutea or Anonium luteum it is also a kind of Lamium although Plinie do describe but one kind of Lamium and is called the yellow archangell The third kind hath white floures the leaues are altogether like to the nettle leaues wherfore they are also called dead nettles it is called of Plinie and of the Herbarists Lamium album to distinguish it from the former Archangelica alba vrtica mortua vrtica iners vrtica lactea and Anonium album The latter Chirurgions do call it Herba panaritij this is the right Lamium Plinij and vrtica mortua dead Nettles or white archangell The fourth kind is a pretie herb not vnlike to the nettle with faire purple floures with a strong smell like to baulme it groweth in thickets and woods it is called of Plinie vrtica Herculanea or vrtica Herculea vrtica odorata also vrtica scarlata and that by reason of her strong and pleasant smell they are also called wood nettles vrtica syluatica Héere is to be noted that when dead nettles are any where prescribed that you must take the white archangell vrtica lactea O. OAke Quereus Arbor Iouis Oates in Greeke and Latine Bromus and Auena Oleander in Greeke Rhododendron Nerium Rhododaphne the Herbarists do call it in Latine Laurus rosea rosea arbor Rosago Oleander and Oleandrum It is a trée with greene leaues like to the Bay trée but the leaues are somewhat longer and lesser not much vnlike to the leaues of the Oliue It beareth a pleasant horseflesh coloured rose and is planted in gardens It is hot in the beginning of the third and dry in the second degrée Oliue tree Olea and Oliua There are two kinds of it the tame and the wild Oliue the tame is named as before the wild is called in Greeke and Latine Agrielaea Cotinus and olea siluestris the tame Oliue is called of Virgill Palladia arbor Onion in Gréeke and Latine Crommyum Cepa Cepe and Caepe indeclinabiliter There are many kindes of it to wit long round great and small Onions red browne and yellow the long ones are much stronger than the round and the yellow stronger than the white Plinie deuideth them into two kinds the one doth he call Cepa condimentaria and hath no head at all but the tops are only vsed and it is called Cepa pallacana The other kinde is called Cepa Capitata Amongst all onions are greatest accounted the best for meate they that are flat like Turneps they are called Cepae Africanae Next after them are the spanish onions but they are lesse longer and sharper yet bigger than any onions in this countrie There are also two kinds of them the one is red the other white but whensoeuer thou wilt vse onyon seeds in any composition then shalt thou take the seeds of our onions for that is much more fit for Phisick but the Spanish onions are better for meate Orage in Greeke Atraphaxis and Chrysolachanum in Latine Atriplex Atriplexum and olus Aureum it is a common potherb cold in the first and moyst in the second degree Orange tree Narantia malus Orange of Athenaeus in Greeke Chryseon of Nicander Nerantzion of Virgil Aureum malum and of the common people Malum Nerantium pomum Arangiae Arantium and Aurantium Organe grosse or course Marierom in greeke and latine Origanus or Origanum Conila and Cumila gallica of Apuleius There are 3. kinds of it the first is called in Spanish Dosten in latine and gréeke Origanus Heracleotica or Origanum Heracleoticum of Mesues Origanum Persicum and of the Simplicists Origanum Hispanicum because it is brought vnto vs out of Spayne but we needed not to fetch it in Spayne if we did but looke about vs heere in Germany we should find this noble herb Dosten in a sufficient quantitie heere but our nature and disposition is such that we must alwayes haue some new-fangle and to forsake that which is present with vs. This course Marierom or Dosten hath small and smooth leaues like to the common course Marierom the floures are also very like it but it groweth somewhat higher it

thoroughly and well dried or preserued and confected in honie or sugar as is taught in the 8. part of this booke Séedes are ripest and of most vertue when the fruites are full ripe Seedes and when herbes are at their full growth all dust shall be sifted or fanned from them then bound vp in paper which longest kéepeth them good Some séedes may be kept longer in their full vertue and strength others must be new gathered euery yeare but easily it may be discerned by the tast which of them hath lost his vertue and which hath not Addition For the gathering of simples and their partes there be almost as many mindes and diuersities of opinions as Authours that write of them The one will haue them gathered when they beare their flower the other before or when the leafe is at the biggest and they readie to haue flowers the third sort when they are but young and new come foorth of the ground Some do gather one and the selfe same hearbe at sundrie times as when it first springeth out of the earth when it beareth his flower and when it beareth seede adding that the first is for children and young folkes the second for middle aged and the last for old men Other some would haue the leafe the stalke the roote the flower and the seede each gathered and reserued apart affirming each part of them to serue for sundrie vses There are yet others that gather all manner of hearbes in their seuerall moneths beginning the moneth still when the Sunne entreth into one of the twelue celestiall signes saying that euery hearbe hath most vertue when it most flourisheth some adde vnto this the full Moone But howsoeuer it be this I knowe by experience that not onely the diuersitie of the time in gathering them in preparing and in reseruing them but also the manifold vses of them are iust causes of sundrie nay cleane contrarie effects and operations in them For this I haue seene that one and the selfe same Simple being gathered at sundrie times in one and the selfe same place shall purge and bind which are quite contrarie effects And therefore it is no maruell if sometimes we misse of our expected purpose and hope in not finding those vertues in the Simples that by Hippocrates Galen Dioscorides and others are ascribed vnto them seeing they are of diuers men gathered without regard of time or place prepared without care reserued and kept they passe not how nor how long I remember that as I trauelled through the Dukedome of Brownswicke I heard of a woman that was very famous in the towne there called Gosler for womens diseases but especially in staying and prouoking their menstruall fluxes with whome when I had conferred about her art I found that it was one onely hearbe but gathered at sundrie times The reason of all these opinions and sundrie operations because it is not our intent nor meaning here to recite them we will deferre them till a more fit oportunitie be offered The sixt Chapter Of the preparation of some things for Phisicke as followeth The preparation of simples IT is also very necessarie and conuenient to knowe the true preparation of diuers and sundrie things and simples that are vsed in phisicke and to take away or diminish or at the least correct that which is and might be hurtful in them For if this should not be done they wold oftentimes by reason either of their sharpnesse or venimous nature do a great deale more harme than good Neither shall it be amisse to shew and declare the nature and properties of the principall simples and drugs in phisicke What Aloes Hepatica is Aloëpatica is the iuice of a very sappie hearbe which groweth in the countries that lie Eastward and is in tast maruellous bitter The best is that which glistereth is light cleare like a liuer without sand or grauell admixed and as yet cleauing to the skin wherein it is brought There is another kind of Aloes called Aloes Caballinum which in colour is very blacke and not vsed in Phisicke The vertues of 〈…〉 Aloes is hote in the first and drie in the third degree purgeth gall or choler and waterish flegme It is corrected two sundrie waies as followeth Hisp● 〈◊〉 Take of very fine powdered and sifted Aloes as much as thou wilt put twice as much raine water to it stir and mixe them well together let it then rest all a night that the sand stones and other filth may fall to the bottome in the morning after straine of the clearest couer it with a linnen cloath and set it in the hote Sunne or in some other warme place till it be somewhat dried then make litle rowles of it The other manner of washing Aloes is done with spices thus Take of Aloes as afore powdered and sifted six ounces of the swéet wood called Cassia Lignea Spikenard of India Asarrabacca swéet Cane Cubebes Lignum Aloes Cinnamom Xylobalsami Saffron Mastick prepared Lacca of each one ounce and a halfe Boyle all these together in a glasse or pot in water vntill all the vertue be boyled out of the ingredients and gone into the water then straine it through a cloth after this dissolue your Aloes in this water stirring it continually and at the last straine and drie it as is aforesaid This is called of the Apothecaries Aloe Lota or washed Aloes either with or without spices of this may boldly without any danger be giuen a quarter of an ounce at once To make burned Allume How to calcine Allume Take of the best Allum as much as thou wilt beate it not very small put it into an earthen pot vpon a litle cole of fire boyle it till it be thicke white and light and stir it wel in the boyling if it were not altogether drie then take it out by péeces and lay it in the hote fire and it will be dried incontinently Ammoniacum Ammoniacum and such like gums that cannot be beaten small and are very vncleane are clensed as followeth Put strong vineger vpon them and let them melt together on the fire straine and presse them through a strong linnen cloth to separate péeces of wood strawe and whatsoeuer else is with it let it afterwards boyle till it be thicke powre it out on a stone that is be-oyled and make it vp as pleaseth thée best Oile of oliues Sallet Oyle or Oile of Oliues it is oftentimes commanded to vse old oile of Oliues in place of which if it be not to be had thou shalt take one part of Oyle and two parts of water and let them boyle together easily on the fire till the Oyle become as thicke as honie and so vse it Others adde more water to their oyle but that cometh all to one end Pitch Pitch is sometimes vsed in forme of powder and is prepared on this manner Take one part of Pitch and twentie parts of water let them boile together in a great pot til

and some Camfere others do vse oile of water Lillies alone or tempered with others A generall rule of the outward applications into the Eares FOrasmuch as now it is of much importance how that is to be vsed which is to be put into the eares therefore we will before we run any further declare this rule following First there ought nothing to be dropt into the eares before that the body and especially the head be purged but before we come to this he may vse the fomentations bags vapors and plaisters that are to be vsed most safely for this application hath alwayes some more danger in causing some obstruction or stopping And if so be that with them nothing can be effected then is the imposition to be attempted yet the eares are first of all to be cleansed with clothes also there is nothing to be put therein which by nature is either too hot or too cold but al whatsoeuer is middle meane and lukewarme also not too much but from one to foure drops and to hold the same not aboue thrée houres in the eares howbeit neuertheles others do suppose this time to be too short for that the medicine in so short time cannot performe his operation therefore do they prescribe sixe or eight howers In the imposition shall the patient lie vpon his whole eare yet not to drop it in if so be that it be not first run out the which through néesing crying strong blowing of the nose is done And this is also to be noted that there is neuer any repelling medicines therein to be vsed to the end that the paine be not driuen to the braines Now for to come to the hot pains of the eares then take the water of Purslaine grated Gourds the iuice prest out temper them or vse each alone like as is already taught Or take the séeds of Gourds Melons Pompions and Cucumbers of each one drag and a halfe beate them and seeth them in sixe ounces of vineger vntill that two ounces be consumed straine them through a cloth and vse them like as all the other Take the iuice of Housleeke oile of Roses of each halfe an ounce and temper them or take the iuice of Roses of Housleeke of each halfe an ounce oile of Sesamum two drag temper them togither Or take the oile of Roses two ounces sharpe vineger halfe an ounce let them seeth vntil the vineger be sodden away then temper therin Philonium Romanum one quarter of an ounce and rub it in and about the eares Take the iuice of Housléeke temper it with womans milke and vse it Also you may take the iuice of Peach leaues tempered with a little vineger Item take a small glasse with a narrow neck put therein the fresh leaues of Violets halfe ful put more vnto it afterwards twenty Ants egges and then fill full the glasse with the foresaid Violet leaues stop it tight bury it the space of sixtéene dayes in the ground wherein Ants are afterwards wring them out and drop thereof into the eare and if one perceiue thereby no amendment and that the paine be yet augmented then are stronger things to be vsed for it as followeth Take Opium one scrup oile of Roses one ounce temper them together and drop a litle thereof in the eare it asswageth the paine and procureth sléepe but do this but seldome for we haue oftentimes warned you from the Opium The same may you also do with the iuice of Southernwood with the foresaid oile In like maner also garden Snailes decocted in the oile of Almonds Eyewaters may also be vsed for this which are ordained for the hot and sharp paine of the eies like as here before in the seuenth Chapter in the fourth and fifth § is declared if so be that the paine be intolerable This plaister following is very highly commended for all paine of the eares Take dry Violets and Cammomil of each one ounce temper amongst it well decocted and beaten Henbane roots with Barly meale of each one ounce and a halfe the fat of Hens one ounce oile of Cammomill as much as is néedful let them séeth thicke together and lay it vpon the eares and vpon the temples of the head when it is cold then lay another vpon it that is warme It must also not be neglected to rub the patient softly behind his eares with the foresaid oile being made lukewarme once or twise a day But if the occasion of this paine be through cold then parch first Millet and salt vpon the fire and lay it warme ouer it in a cloth and purge the patient like as hereafter shall be taught of the diminishing of hearing For to put into the eares are to be taken these things following which are extant or in readines as oile of Baies oile of Costus oile of Radish séeds the iuice of Marioram gentle the which also is good each apart or mixed and dropt therein Also oile of Rue oile of Spike of Beuercod and of Behen the eares are to be rubbed round about with the salue of Martiaton and couered with vnwasht sheepes wooll and to do this twice in 24. houres Take oile of Roses or of Egs and the iuice of Sage of each two ounces stampe therein one or two Scarabées which are of the small beasts that fly abroad in the euening with or without hornes also as many Earthwormes washt in wine seeth this by a soft fire vntil all the moisture be wasted afterwards straine it through a cloth and drop thereof in the eare euery morning and euening lukewarme two or thrée drops Item temper Beuercod with womans milke vse it as aforesaid if this help not so soone then take Ants bruse them and temper them with womans milke the iuice of Radish dropt therein the space of thrée dayes shall also take away the paine Take the iuice of Pauls betony of strawberry leaues of Sage of Housléeke of each one ounce Mastick and Frankinsence of each one drag and a halfe temper them together the decoction of Coleworts two ounces drop thereof into the eare should also take away all paines Of the order of life or diet VVHereas we haue shewed many causes of the disease in the eares yet can there no certaine order or rule be yeelded for it But one must direct him according to the quality or importance of the cause But generally whereas paine or impostume of the eares be approching then must one kéepe him alwayes sober in eating and drinking and to eschew all that which ascendeth to the head whereof is already sufficiently expressed also all that maketh wind as pottages moist fruite cheese smoked and salted flesh vnleauened bread and great fishes small or watered wine is he to drinke and to eate roast meate Comin Annise Caraway and Fennell are very requisite for all diseases of the eares which procéed through cold so also is prepared Coriander after meate Of the noise and hissing in the eares §. 2. THis disease hath many causes as blowes without wounds

roote of Mandragora making the people beléeue that they grow vnder the gallowes of the vrine of the hanged theeues hauing the forme of a man is knowne to all men Henbane is called of the Greekes Hyoscyamus and at the Apothecaries Iusquiamus which is almost as much to say as hogs beans and that by reason that this herbe is a deadly poyson for swine if they be not presently well washed and drinke much or do eate Creuets which haue a speciall operation against this poyson This Henbane is of three kinds the one hath red flowers and blacke seede the second hath yellow flowers and yellow seedes and are both by their very cold nature venimous the third hath white flowers and white seeds and is also cold to the third degree which of the Phisitions is very aptly vsed in some causes but if you cannot get the white then take the yellow and leaue the blacke You may make of the new seede a iuice which is dried in the sun but it may not be kept aboue one yeare When you haue taken this iuice then will it make one franticke and as he were drunken but by certaine medicines the same wil quickly away You must take therefore the milke of an Asse or in stead thereof Goats milk or Cowes milke Item Hony water is very good for it if he drinke much thereof when you are weary therof then cease and then drinke againe afresh Water wherein Figs were sodden is also very good for his Cucumber seedes or Pingles sodden in wine and so vsed are good for this purpose Item wine that is somewhat salted and tempered with Barrowes grease is also not ill Item there is very commodious for it Nettle seede Cicorie rootes white Mustard seede Cresses Radishes Onions or Garlicke any one of these taken with wine and then afterwards the patient laid to sleepe euen as one that is drunken Coriander is a knowne seede called in Latin Coriandrum and in Gréeke Corion or Corianon The learned haue diuers opinions of it Dioscorides writeth that it is cold but Galenus and his followers do reiect this opinion and saith that it is hote or at least somewhat warming And albeit this seede be somewhat venimous yet may the same easily be corrected to wit when it hath bene stéeped in Vineger and is dried againe and then may it be vsed in many medicins as you may find euery where c. Take prepared Coriander c. The nature of his venime is that when one eateth too much of this séede or drinketh too much of the iuice then will the head be thereby so out of frame as if a man were drunke it maketh one hoarse and as if he were dumb or if he speake yet are they but vnreuerent words In fine it is not without great danger for it hath bene often found that after the taking of the iuice death hath followed therefore it is good counsell that you vse of this a little and but seldome yea some will correct the Phisitions that daily vse this seede for strengthening of the head by reason that it is much contrarie to the head and noysome Now to take away the venim of this séede you are first to cause the patient to vomit and that with oyle called Irinum or in stead thereof with oyle of Oliues both of them taken with the warme decoction of Wormwood Also you may fry an Eg or two in this oyle and mixe it with pickle of salt fish and so drinke it or the pickle alone well salted Hen-broth or Goose-broth In like sort sodden wine mingled with ley are very good for it Nardus seeds or Nigella séeds called in Gréeke Melanthion and in latin Nigella by reason of his blacknesse There are foure kinds of it two blacke the which by reason of their pleasant smell are planted in the gardens another which groweth of himselfe in the fields the fourth sort is yellowish and hath no difference from the black kinds The nature of them all is hot and drie which maketh them venemous when one taketh too much thereof he is in danger of death And herein is a wondrous work of nature that contrariwise it resisteth poison and in old time by reason of his pleasantnesse was baked in bread For what diseases then this seed is good that is shewed and taught in moe other places Milke thistle This roote the Gréekes cal Chamaeleonta for that the leaues do alter their colour after diuers sorts according to the nature of the ground now black and then greene now blew and then yellow and into diuers other colours In latine this herbe is called Carduus Suarius that is Sowthistle for that it killeth hogs if they eate this herbe mingled with Barley meale In like maner it killeth Rats and Mice if they eate therof and drink not thereafter immediatly The Apothecaries call this herbe Cardopatium Because that this is hurtfull to the said beasts therefore cannot it be but hurtfull to men if they eate too much thereof And the same is manifested by his nature for that it is hot in the second degrée and drie in the third yet this roote is often vsed for many things and highly commended and that most of all against the venome of the Plague There are two sorts blacke and white Milkethistle both of one nature notwithstanding there is here to be noted that the blacke is to be vsed onely outwardly The Yewtrée do the Greekes call Smilax and the Latinists Taxus This tree is well knowne he groweth prosperously in cold and shadowie places for such is his nature That he is placed amongst the venims is not without cause for it hath bene tried that if bottels be made of it and the wine kept therein a certaine time it killeth a man In like maner doth the fruite of the same tree which groweth in Spaine Moreouer it is said that whosoeuer sléepeth vnder the shadow of this trée or vpon the leaues and specially vpon his blossomes must die for that the whole body will be thereby ouercooled that a man must die sodainly His leaues are not hurtfull for the wild beasts but onely for such beasts as do not chew their cud as the swine Horses Asses c. they are killed with it It is said also that if a copper naile be strooke into his stem or body then will his venome vanish away His smoake should kill Mice And his venome will also be taken away by the same meanes that hereafter is prescribed against the venom of Hemlocke where you may séeke and finde the same Wild Cucumbers and their iuice Elaterium whereof is so many times admonished that men must deale with it warily and vse but a very little at one time except it be in grieuous sicknesses as the Dropsie and such like the Gréekes do call this herbe Sicyagrion which is wilde Cucumbers for that the same are like to the tame Cucumbers When these wilde Cucumbers are ripe and softly handled or wroong then breake they open wherfore

drying and astringēt but the wild Woad is much stronger than the tame Woodcocke in gréeke Scolopax of Hesychius Varino Nemesiano in latine of Gaza Gallinago of Heradianus Perdix syluestris of other Perdix rustica or Rusticula of Niphus and Volaterranus Gallinella of the simplicists Rostrulula and Gallinacea Woodpecker Picus Martius Turbo in gréeke Driocalaptes of Arist Driocolaps of Hesych it is a well knowen bird it is mentioned otherwhiles in some dyets in this worke Woolblade or Longwoort in gréeke Phlomus or Phlonus of Apuleius Pycnitis in latine Verbascum foeminalis Lucumbra Candela regis Candelaria Lanaria at the Apothecaries Tapsus barbatus There are fower kinds of it wherof the first is the common Woolblade with the white woolly leaues and yellow flowers it is called Verbascum albifolium and in gréeke Leucophyllon The second kinde is like the former but that the leaues are blacker and broader it is called blacke Woolblade in gréeke Phlomos melanophyllos in latine Verbascum nigrum The third kinde is the wilde Woolblade it hath a long stalke with great leaues much like to the great Sage it hath yellow flowers in gréeke Phlomos agrios in latine Verbascum syluestre of the Herbarists Verbascum saluifolium The fourth kinde is most like to the first but that the flowers are white and it is called white Woolblade Verbascum album and Verbascum foemina Woolfes bane in gréeke and latine Aconitum There are sixe kindes of it the first hath round leaues not much vnlike to the lesser Cucumbers with pretie yellow floures not vnlike to thē of Doronicum The rootes are round with many ioynts the little rootes about it are very like a Scorpion it is called in Gréeke and Latine Pardalianches Thelyphonum Aconitum Thelyphonum Theriophonum Aconitum Theriophonum Myoctonum aconitum Myoctonum and Scorpion The second kind of Wolfsbane hath leaues like to the Italian plaine tree but somewhat déeper iagged the roote is blacke with many haires about it This plant is sufficiently knowne by the name Wolfs-bane it groweth on high hils and is called in Greeke and Latine Lycoctonum Aconitum Lycoctonum Cynoctonum and aconitum Cynoctonum The Herbarists do call it Aconitum Lycoctonum luteum the Apothecaries Luparia The third kinde is called of the Herbarists Aconitum Lycoctonum Caeruleum there are also thrée kindes of it and it is common in all gardens The fourth kinde of Wolfsbane is Aconitum Lycoctonum caeruleum magnum Auicenna calleth it Napellus it is a very venimous herbe The fift kinde hath yellow flowers and is called yellow Wolfsbane of the Herbarists Aconitum Lycoctonum luteum minus The sixt kinde groweth in darke and shadowie woods the stalke is about one span and a halfe in height and about the middest of the same are foure darke gréene leaues standing opposite one against the other it getteth a blacke berry vnder which many little leaues are placed each opposite to other It is called of the Herbarists Aconitum salutiferum Sigillum Christi Crux Christi Sigillum Veneris and Herba Paris It is a very holsome herbe and may be vsed inwardly very well against many diseases Many learned men would haue it to be Aconitum pardalianches but it is as like it as an apple is like an oyster By Wolfs-bane shalt thou vnderstand the yellows Wolfsbane Wormewood in Latine and Gréeke Absinthium Aloina there are thrée kindes of it The first is the common Wormewood that groweth euery where called Bathypic●on Barypic●on and Absinthium rusticum The second kinde is like to the former in leaues and floures but it is somewhat lesse and it groweth not aboue a span and a halfe in height it is also bitter like the foresayd yet somewhat more pleasant to be vsed it groweth on hilly places This kinde will neuer be greater although it grow in fertill grounds This is the same Wormewood which Dioscorides doth call Absinthium ponticum Mesues Absinthium Romanum of the Simplicists Absinthium montanum and Plinie Absinthium Italicum The third kinde is very like the great Wormewood but it hath lesser leaues and stalks then the mountaine Wormewood it groweth also somewhat higher The leaues are white and soft This groweth on sandie ditches It is called Romish Wormewood to auoyd all errours and we leaue the name of mountaine Wormewood vnto the second kin● This Wormewood is called of Galen Absinthium ponticum But Mesues and other authors do take the second kinde to be the true Absinthium ponticum Whensoeuer thou findest Wormewood by it selfe in any composition then is the mountaine wormewood to be taken and vsed and if that cannot be had then must you take the common wormewood that groweth in the fields and not that which groweth in gardens for the garden wormewood is not so strong neither can it performe that which the wilde wormewood doth that groweth on dry grounds Wormewood is hot in the first and dry in the third degrée Yerrow Nosebléede or Millfoyle in Gréeke Stratiotes Chiliophyllos Supercilium veneris Herba militaris and Millefolium It is a common herb it is drying and astringent Yewe Taxus Smilax Milos The end of the second Table The third Index This third and Latine Index contayneth all the Latine Greeke and other strange names of all Simples especially of those which are mentioned in this Booke as Rootes Herbs Floures Fruits Plants Iuices Gummes Woods Stones Barks Metals Minerals Earths Deere and whatsoeuer else is vsed in Physick Also all mixed and compounded Medicines as Electuaries Confectures Syrupes Iuleps Conserues Cakes Pils Salues Oyles Potions and distilled waters with their names not only as they are called by the auncient Greeke and Latine Physitions but also as they are now named amongst the common Physitions and Apothecaries In like sort also all inward and outward parts and members of the body with all the diseases that euery one of them is subiect vnto A. ABalzener Arabum Sena Sene. Abies a Firre tree Abies candida a white Firre trée Abies nigra a black Firre trée Abiga Chamaepitys small Cipres or wilde Cipres Abioten Abioto● Hemlock Abortus an vntimely birth Abrotonum Sothernwood Abrotonum foemina Sothernwood female Abscessus an impostume or botch Absinthium Wormewood Absinthium bathypicron common wormewood Absinthium Italicum Italian wormewood Absinthium ponticum Wormewood gentle or Wormewood ponticke Absinthium montanum Wormewood of the hill Absinthium Romanum Wormewood Romane Absinthium rusticum common or rurall Wormewood Absinthium thalassium sea Wormewood Absinthites Wormewood wine Abuolum Plinij Pulegium Pennyroyall Acacia the iuice of a thorne in Egypt in stéede whereof we vse the iuice of Sloes Acalephe Vrtica Nettles Acalypha a Nettle Acanthus or Acantha Branke vrsine or Bearebreech Acanthus syluestris wilde branke vrsine Acantha Germanica Branke vrsine Acatalis Iuniperus minor a little Iuniper Acatera Iuniperus maior a great Iuniper Acetosa Sorrell Acetosa satiua Garden Sorrell Acetosa rotunda round Sorrell Acetosa Gallica French Sorrell Acetosa minor the lesser Sorrell Acetosa ouina shéepes Sorrell Acetum Vineger Acetum