THE MIRROVR or Glasse of Health Necessary and needefull for euerye person to looke in that will keepe their bodye from the Sicknesse of the Pestylence and it sheweth how the Planets do reygne in euery hower of the day and nyght wyth the natures and expositions of the xii Signes deuided by the twelue Months of the yeare And sheweth the remedyes for dyuers Infirmyties and diseases that hurteth the body of Man ¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetestreate beneath the Conduite at the Signe of S. Iohn Euaungelist by Hugh Iackson ¶ The Prologue of the Authour I Do you well to wit that thys Booke profyteth greatly to euery Surgion for to know in what signe or in what degree of the signe the sunne and the moone sitteth euery day in any of the twelue signes and not only it is profytable to Surgions but also to Phisitions and to al that vse to giue medicines or laxatiues or to vse any Bassions or cutting or letting of blood For as the Sunne passeth through al the twelue Sygnes by the space of a yeare abyding in a signe thirtie dayes righte so doth the Moone passe through all the twelue signes that in thyrty dayes aabydynge in a Sygne three score howers And as the Moone among all Planettes is next the earth in course so shee hath most effecte of working in these earthly thinges after the disposytion of the nature of the sygns that she hath her course in And therefore it is ful necessary truely to know the state the course and the nature of the moone for thereby a man may know when it is good to begin manye dyuers thinges when it is not good And also what weather is most likely to fal after the nature of the signs whether drye or moyst hote or colde there shall follow after the nature of the sygne that shee is in In dyuers coniunctions of Planets that is ioyned therewith and therefore naturally in order I purpose me to declare shortly in the sixt Chapiter the nature and the state of euery signe that shee passeth by ⸪ ¶ Here followeth the Table of this present Booke THE fyrste parte of thys Booke sheweth dyuers causes how the Pestylence maye bee ingendred Capitulo .i. The second part sheweth how man woman and chylde should preserue and keepe them from the pestilence Capitulo .ii. The thyrd parte sheweth and if it be that man woman or child be taken with the pestilence what remedies and medicines is best therfore cap .iii. After that followeth the seuen dayes with the Planets cap. iiii Howe the Planettes raygne in euery houre of the day and of the night and the fyrst is the howers of Sonday Cap. v. The natures and expositions of the twelue signs deuyded by the. xiii Monthes of the yeare cap. vi For the headach ca. vii For the aking of the head ca. viii For to spurge the head ca. ix Also for to spurge the head ca. x. For the toothach ca. xi For the ach of a hollow tooth ca. xii Also for the toothach ca. xiii Also for the toothach cap. xiiii Also yet for the toothach cap. xv For the stench in the mouth ca. xvi For stinking breath ca. xvii for ach and wormes in the eares Capitulo xviii A pretious water for poyson and specially agaynst the pestilence ca. xix for running eyen cap. xx for red blered eyen cap. xxi for eyen that bene dasuned or darke Capitulo xxii A precious water for the sight of the eyen ca. xxiii for the pinne and the web in the eye Capitulo xxiiii For all euils in the eyen ca. xxv for boyling in the eye ca. xxvi for a stinking breath ca. xxvii for a hote swolen stomacke ca. xxviii for the stomacke that aketh commeth of colde cap. xxix For to force the stomack ca. xxx For the stomack and the belly that aketh ca. xxxi For a man that is sick at the stomack or in the belly or at the hearte or head or were bitten with anye venemous beast ca. xxxii For rysing vnder the stomack Capitulo xxxiii A good playster for the rysyng vnder the stomack ca. xxxiiii For heat in the stomack ca. xxxv For brenning in the stomack Capitulo xxxvi For to auoyde flume oute of the stomack and the head Cap. xxxvii For al euils in the stomack ca. xxxviii For a disease at the heart Cap. xxxix For weakenesse of the heart cap. xl For fayntnesse of the heart cap. xli For the hart that is incōbred ca. xlii For a man woman or chylde that is broken in the bellye cap. xliii A playster to knit him cap. xliiii For that playster in May. cap. xlv For to break wind in the bely ca. xlvi For a swolen womb cap. xlvii For aking of the wombe cap. xviii For the heart breaking cap. xlix For sore sydes within cap. l. Contra telamet masculam in Oculo cap. li. For a womans pape that is sore Capitulo lii For the liuer that is corrupt and wasted cap. liii For heate in the lyuer cap. liiii Also for the hete in the lyuer of a mā that his colour is yellow cap. lv For a mannes breast that is encombred cap. xlvi For a man that hath wormes in hys belly and his body leane cap. lvii For the brest and the lunges Capitulo lviii For to auoyde and destroy flume Capitulo lix For the stone cap. lx Another for the stone cap. lxi For the Colyke Strangury and the Stone Cap. lxii For a man that is a leper and it take in his legs and go vpward cap. lxiii For a derte in a mans flesh Ca. lxiiii For a sauce flume vysage ca. lxv For him that may not holde his water cap. lxvi Another for the same ca. lxvii For to destroy flume ca. lxviii For a wombe that is hard ca. lxix For the bloody menyson cap. lxx For a mans stones that bee swolen ca. lxxi For to make one slender ca. lxxii For him that lacketh wynd ca. lxxiii For him that is costife ca. lxxiiii For a wicked blast in the vysage Capitulo lxxv For the shingles ca. lxxvi For the cough ca. lxxvii For the perrillous cough cap. lxxviii Also for the chincough ca. lxxix For the Itch. ca. lxxx For to drawe a byle from one place to another cap. lxxxi For him that pisseth blood ca. lxxxii For him that hath lost his mynde Capitulo lxxxiii Another for the same ca. lxxxiiii For him that hath the frensy ca. lxxxv For one that vomiteth to much Capitulo lxxxvi For a disease in the eares ca. lxxxvii For a man that his eares swones wythin cap. lxxxviii For synowes that shrinke after that they haue bene hurt and blede again Capitulo lxxxix For to staunch blood cap. xc For to staunch blood cap. xci For the empostume cap. xcii For spitting of blood ca. xciii For wylde fyre that is called the fyre of Hell ca. xciiii For byting of a mad dogge ca. xcv For to doe away a wen. ca. xcvi For to breake a felon in a night
it a good while close in thy mouth and it will take away the stench For a stinking breath Cap. xvii Take oile Doret Turpentine hony oyle Oliue Virgin wax as much of one as of another and boile them al togither make an oynment thereof vse it euery day in the patients nosethrils and let it be put into the nose euery day in the morning with tentes made of lynt scraped of fyne linnen cloth and he shall be hole For ache and wormes in the eares Cap. xviii Take the iuice of henbane put it in to thyne eares and it wil take away the ach and slea the worms in them A precious water for poyson and specially agaynst y e pestilence ca. xix Take Turmētil Scabious Golds betayne Pimpernel of euerich alike much and distil therof a water and drink it fasting euery day in the morning fyrst next your heart for it shall do much good For running eyen Cap. xx Take black snayles and seeth them in fair water thē take the grece that is on the water therewith anoynt thy eien that be watry and runneth For red bleared eyen Cap. xxi Take the iuice of Rue and pouder of commen medle them togither then take coten dip it well therein lay it thereto and anoynt the temples the browes and the lids of the eyen therewith and they shall be hole For eyen that bene dasuned or dark Capitulo xxii Take the roote of red Fenel in wynter in sōmer the leaues or else both rotes leaues and stamp them and wring out the ioyce and temper the ioice with fine clarified hony make therof an ointment anoint the eien therwith and it shall put away the darkenes it shall cleare thy syght A precious water for the sighte of the eyen Capitulo xxiii Take Smalage red Fenell Iue Veruain Betain Egrimony Pimpernel Enfrage Sauge Salēdine of euerich a lyke much in quantitye and wash them well and cleane and stamp them and put them in a fayre brasen panne and take the pouder of fifteene peper Corns fayre sareid into a pynte of good whyte wyne and put it into the hearbs with iii. sponeful of liuely honey and fyue sponeful of the water of a manchylde that is an Infante and medle them altogither and boyle them ouer the fyre when it is soden strain it through a clean linnen cloth put it in a glasse and stop it well and close til you wil occupye it when neede is do thereof into the sore eyen with a fether if it be waxen drye temper it wyth good whyte wine for it is very good for the sight of the eyen For a pinne and a webbe in the eyes Capitulo xxiiii Take a curtesye of cleane claryfyed hony and as much of womans mylk that norisheth a mayde chylde and for the woman the man chylde and seeth them togyther and when it is colde put it in a Glasse and close it from the ayre and thus doe two or three days .ii. or .iii. tymes euery daye and he shall be hole For all the euils in the eyen cap. xxv Take clene clarified hony one part and more then of halfe the hony of the gal of a Hare meddle them togither in a vessel ouer y e fire but make it but luke warm kepe it in a glas but beware that y u take not to much therof in thine eyen for the quantity of a small pinnes head is ynough at once when thou goest to bed that is sufficient for .vii. yeares if a man haue a pearle or a web in his eyen be it not drye put therto some deale more of the gall then of the hony For boyling in the eyen Cap. xxvi Take May butter and pouder of comin stamp them togither and lay it on a linnen cloath to the eyen and often times renew it when the boyling is swaged take safron and womans milke and grynd them togither and drop thereof in the sore eyen and then thou shalt be hole For a stinking breath Cap. xxvii Take .ii. handful of pouder of comin seeth it in good whyte wyne from a quart till a pinte and drinke thys first and last always hote he shall be hole within .ix dayes drinking For the stomack that is hote and swollen Cap. xxviii For the stomacke that is hote and swolen take the rote of smalage and stāp it or put it in sweete wyne or in other good wine all a day a night and then let it bee passed through a a fayre linnen cloth and put it in a clene vessell and vse to drink a curtsy therof euery day fasting .viii. or .ix dayes and he shall be hole For the stomack that aketh that commeth of colde cap. xxix For the stomack that aketh that cōmeth of cold take an herb that is caled Poleo and dry benes an handful of singrin as much of this poleo put it in a vessell with fayre water let it seeth there on the fyre till the thyrde parte of the water be soden away and put therto suger of Ston and a curtesy of hony drinke it sixe dayes fasting and he shalbe hole For to force the stomack Cap. xxx To force the stomack take Canell three poys and one pois of Mastick and one poys of the paringes of Pomegarnades and half a poys of Galingale and stamp all these togyther and temper it with honey that hath ben boyled of the fyre and wel scommed vse of this as much as a Nut euery day during ten dayes fasting and he shall be whole For the stomacke and the Bellye that aketh Capitulo xxxi For the stomack and the belly that aketh take the flower of a herbe that is called Nemaham that is lyke to Mynt it hath a good sauoure take foure poys of Cosmer and seuē poys of water and seeth altogither to the thyrd part and with suger drink this fyue dayes fasting in the morning and he shall be whole And if a man be sick at the stomack or in the belly or at the heart or head or were bitten with any euill venemous beast or poysoned Cap. xxxii And a man were by the waye trauayling or in house and he had all these sicknesses and he had with him a Lectuary y t is made of fyue things to eate therof or drink therof in water three poys or foure he shoulde bee hole and he vse it fyfteene dayes fasting and when he goeth to bed least he shold not be hole of all the sicknes in his body and he drinke euery time two poys and these thinges they be Scorlogio Morre Genciana Grādorer and Zataont as much of one as of another and stamp them and strayne them and medle them with hony that hath bin wel boiled on the fyre and scummed fayre and cleane for this is called the lectuary of lyfe A good medicine for risyng vnder the stomacke Cap. xxxiii Take pepper long pepper graynes saffron ginger annyes licoris
Capitulo xcvii For the megrim cap. xcviii for the Morfew cap. xcix For to stop the flix ca. C. for the Canker wylde fyre and ignis sancti Antoni cap. Ci. for to make heyre to grow cap. Cii For to doe away heyre ca. C. iii. for a scalde head ca. C. iiii For the yellow Iaundes ca. Cv. for the black Iaundes ca. Cvi For wormes and heate in the hands Capitulo Cvii For the Goute ca. Cviii. For sore knees that doeth swell and ake cap. Cix For the falling euill cap. Cx. For brenning and scalding ca. Cxi Also for brenning with fyre ca. cxii To heale hurtes woundes ca. cxiii To make a Salue to drawe and to heale ca. Cxiiii For stinging of adders and Snakes Capitulo Cxv. For him that may not sleepe ca. cxvi For the Palsye cap. Cxvii A good drink for the Pox. ca. Cxviii A salue for the Pox. cap. Cxix For the gowt or the sweling of ioynts knobbes and knorres that commeth of the ach of the pox Cap. cxx ¶ Here endeth the Table ¶ Here beginneth the fyrste parte of this Booke that sheweth dyuers causes how the Pestilence may be ingendred Capitulo i. COnsydering that thys treatise is very needfull and necessarye agaynst the sicknesse of the pestilence and for a common wealth health of the Queenes liege people I Thomas Moulton doctour of Diuinitie of the order of the Frere Preachers the which for to gather moueth me for diuers causes the one is prayers of myne owne bretheren Another is cause of prayers of many worthy Gentles And another is compassyon that I haue of the poore people that was is destroyed euery day therby for defaute of helpe And the fourth cause that mooueth the most of all pure conscience for euery christen man womā is bound by the lawe of conscience and they know their euen christen in great perril or that is lykely to fal to great mischiefe to helpe them if he maye by his wit wyth his trauayle and with hys goods And these foure causes mooued me to compounde and to gather this treatise and to set it in printe so in english that euery man both learned and lewde riche and poore maye the better vnderstand it and do therafter And so euery man woman and chylde to be their own Phisytion in time of neede agaynst the vengeance and corruption of the pestilence that now is reigning with other diseases many mo and this treatise for the pestilence is deuyded and parted in .iii. partes and consequently insueth the seuen dayes with the Planets with the natures and expositions of the xii signes deuyded by the .xii. months of the yeare with the remedyes for many dyuers other diseases that hurteth and greeueth the body of man And the fyrst parte of this booke telleth dyuers causes how the pestilence may be gendred The seconde part telleth how man woman and childe shall preserue and keepe themselues from the pestilence if so the man woman or chylde be cutable that falleth therein The thyrd parte telleth the remedye helpe and medicine agaynst the pestilence In the fyrst part I say of this treatyse as I tolde be shewed dyuers causes which may be the grounde of this Pestilence that nowe reigneth I fynde by the treatinge of fower Doctoures the fower Pillers that vpholdeth holy church that is to saye S. Austē S. Ierom S. Gregory S. Ambrose where they speke of this matter they say that syn that raygneth among the people and namely that sinne that reigneth among head men the gouernours of the church and of the law is cause of the Pestylence Vengeaunce taken for synne Hereof I fynde ensample and Fygure in holy Wryt in the seconde booke of Kinges in the .xxiii. Chapyter There sheweth holye Writ openlye that for the sinne of King Dauid God sent vnto him his Prophet and gaue him choyse of thre things whether that he had leuer that GOD should sende vpon him for his sinne and of his people hunger seuen yere or else he had leauer that hee shoulde sende vpon him pursute of enemies and to be ouercome of them thre moneths or yet that he had leuer that he should sende vpon him Pestilence three days three nights And than King Dauid truly chose Pestylence so that from that tyme that he had chosen thus pestilēce or it was none of the day there was dead xxvii M. of his people And then King Dauid saw that vengeaunce was taken for his sinne by pestylence mourningly with great sorrow great compassyon of heart he cryed God almyghtye mercye and when he had done anon the pestylence seaced And for synne that raigned in the people hydyous pestilence hath bene taken as was shewed on Ierusalē as telleth Vincent in speculo Historiali Eusebius telleth the same Therefore euery man in what degree or what state he be put away sinne thorough hartily sorrow and very contricion asking of good mekely mercy and forgiuenes entyrely and amending their lyfe then he putteth away the cause of pestilence that in case hys vengeance taken for sinne and sothlye sauing we ought not to deeme lightly of Gods priuities this maye be wel one cause of that hydeous pestilence that now is reigning ¶ And they say generally in thys realme and truth it is that many tokens are shewed that men likely deme that this sinne is cause in part of this pestilence as the corrupt ayre and the venime thereof the whyche was caused by a cōiunction of Saturn and Iouis the which Planets their working within fewe yeares and the malyce of thy complection and of other sinne this lefte in the ayre and beneath the which malice and venime hath his respecte and his influence more in the complection of man then of beast in as much as the working of y e cōiunction and of other sinne was more principally in the sin of mankynd then in the sin of another maner of beast But the working of other coniunctions dyuers are before hand had their working in the signes of other beastes thir influence in y e cōplections of thē And therefore the malice of the coniunctions was cause whye that the morel fell of such beast more then of other that time but this coniunction aforesayd the which was wrought more principally in the sinne of mankynd more then of any other whose venime and malice yet reigning is the cause of the corruptiō of the ayre the which ayr corrupt is cause of the Pestilence that now is reigning but neuerthelesse if so that it bee impossyble by all Phylosophers that the Elemente of the Ayre should in hys owne kynde and in his owne substaunce be corrupt or else infecte sythen it is symple and cleane is hys substance wrought without any venome or corruption Neuertheles yet by the way of vaporous fumosytyes and humors the which that are corrupt and drawen from the earth beneath by vertue at tractife of the bodies that bene aboue minged with the ayre so by accidentall cause
escape he shal liue by way of kynd a. C yere The Sunne entereth into his sygne of Sagittaryus the .xv. Kal. of Nouember and dwelleth therein til the xvi Kalen. of December And in the month of Nouember is two perrillous dayes to take anye manner of sicknesse on that is to say the .xv. and the .xix. December hath the sygne of the Gote and is euill to take purgacion and is euill to let blood CApricornus is a signe moueable and vnstedfaste of the South partye endly colde and drie Mellancholly nature of the earth and of feminine kinde hath of mans body the knees when the moone is in this sign it is good to make medicins to the knees but beware of cutting or hurting therof for dread of touching of the senowes and vaynes for it is perrillous while the moone reigneth there and greater perrill in the ende then in the beginning The man that is borne vnder thys sygne shall be wyse fayre hasty he shall haue a token in the head or in the knee he shalbe Mellancholye and he shall lyue by kynd a C. yeare as Astronomers sayth y e sun entreth in the sign of Capricornus the .xv. ka of Decēber dwelleth therin till the xvi Kal. of the month of Ianuarye And in the Moneth of December is sixe perrillous dayes to take sicknesse or any disease on that is the iii.vi.vii.ix.xv and .xvi. Ianuary hath the signe of a man sheding water and is good to take purgation indifferent to let blood AQuarius is a signe stedfast Occidental that is of the west partie hote and moyst after the kind of the ayre and sanguine of complexiō and hath of mans body the shankes vnto the ende of the ancles and when the moone is in that signe it is good to set trees and build and to wed and is euill to take sycknesse in all tymes whyle the moone reigneth there The man that is borne vnder this sign of Aquarius shalbe worshipped he shal be good and true and wel beloued haue often headach he shall haue a fall from riches but he shal be happy in the weast countrey and he shall be in perrill of water The Sunne entreth in the sygne of Aquarius the .xv. Kalen. of Ianuary and dwelleth therein till the .xvi. Kalen. of February And in the Month of Ianuarye is eyghte perrillous dayes to take sicknes that is to say the first the secōd the iiii.v.x.xv.xvii and the .xix. February hath the sign of three Fyshes and is good for to take purgacions and is indifferent to let blood PIsces is a signe common double bodied Septemtryonal cold and moyst watry flumatick of complection and of feminine kynde and hath of mans body the feete than is it perrilous to let blood or open anye vayne in that place and if a man take sicknes in any tyme of that sign it is not right great perrill but it is good to go to counsaile to accord and to make all thyng that maye goe by water and to make a thing that shal last long The man that is borne vnder this sign of pisces shalbe a great leachour and go farre a pylgrymage he shall haue an euill hurt in his head in his youth he shall haue many maladyes he shall fal in water and escape wel he may lyue by kinde a. C. yeare and if he will haue good he must dwel in the North. The sunne entreth in this sygn of pisces the .xv. Kalē of February and dwelleth therin till the .xvi. kalen of the moneth of March. And in the moneth of February is iij. perrillous dayes to take any maner of sicknesse on that is to say the eyght the tenth and the .xvii. Thus endeth the natures and expositions of the .xii. sygnes deuyded by the .xii. monthes of the yeare vppon blood letting with y e most daungerous days for to do any thing touching Phisick And hereafter followeth the remedies for many diuers infyrmities and diseases that greeueth and hurteth the body of man For the headach Capitulo .vij. TAke Hemlock and seeth them till they be softe as pappe then laye them to the head where the paine is and let them lye all night and on the morning lay another hote playster of the same and doe so two or three tymes and he shall be whole For aking of the head Capitulo .viii. Take and make lye of Veruayn or else of Betayne of Wormewood and therewith wash thy head thrise in the weeke and it shal do thee good and take away the ach For to spourge the head Capitulo .ix. Take the Seede Stauisacre and beate it smal to powder when it is beten smal take a fine linnen cloath and put the powder therein make thereof a little ball the quantitie of a great hasell Nutte and put it to thy mouth and rol to fro betwixte thy teeth chawing holding downe thy head the space of an hower it wyll spurge thy head and thy gums and keepe thy teeth from aking Also for to spurge the head Cap. x. Take the rote of pelater of spayne and chew it betwixt thy teth to and fro a good while and it will spurge well thy head also fasten thy teeth and spurge thy gummes For the toothach Cap. xi Take Betany and wylde gordes and seth them in wyne or else in Vyneger and then put it in thy mouth as hote as thou mayst suffer holde it a good whyle in thy mouth and it will take away thy payne For the ach of a hollow tooth Capitulo xii Take Assa fetida put it in thy toth that is hollow and it will appease and take away the ach Also for the toothach Cap. xiii Take Henbane bruse it and holde it betweene thy teeth a good whyle and lay it also vpon the tooth that aketh and it will swage the payne anone Also for the toothach Cap. xiiii Take the seede of Henbane caste it vpon a Chafing dishe of Charcole fyre hold thy mouth ouer the fyre that the smoke maye enter into thy mouth and then holde thy mouth ouer a Basen of fayre cleane water thou shalte see vpon the water as it were small wormes that shall come dropping out of thy mouth also take the seede of Henbane and beate it to small powder meddle it with wax and make a litle pellet that it may be ful of powder without forth and put it in the hole of the hollow tooth that aketh and it will lightly slea the ache of the tooth Also for the Toothach Cap. xv Take the rote of Hēban seeth it in vineger til the third part be soden away with y e same wash thy mouth holde thy mouth ful a good whyle and it wil slea the tothach Also take the rote of henban hold it betwene thy aking toth and it will doe away the payne For the stench in the mouth Cap. xvi Take the iuice of Veruayn bruse it and put it in thy mouth holde