Filipendula Galanga greater and lesser Master-wort Orris English and Florentine Rest-harrow Peony male and foemale Sinkfoyl Hogs-Fennell Sarsa-parilla Stinking-Gladon Tormentill Ginger Dry in the fourth degree Garlick Onnions Costus Leeks Pellitory of Spain Roots moist are Bazil Valerian and Spattling-poppy according to the Arabian Physitians Daisies white Beets Borrage Bugloss Liquoris Dog-grass Mallows Satyrion Scorzonera Parsnips Skirrets Roots are also apropriated to several parts of the body and so they Heat the head Doronicum Fennel Jallap Mechoacan Spicknard Celtick and Indian Peony male and foemale Neck and throat Pilewort Devils-bit Breast and lungues Birthwort long and round Elicampane Liquoris Orris English and florentine Calamus Aromaticus Sinkfoil Squills Heart Angellica Borrage Bugloss Carline thistle Doronicum Butter bur Scorzonera Tormentil Zedoary Bazil Valerian white and red Stomach Alicampane Galanga greater and lesser Spicknard Celtick and Indian Ginger Fennel Avens Radishes Bowels Valerian great and small Zedoary Ginger Liver Smallage Carline thistle Sullendine China Turmerick Fennel Gentian Dog-grass Cinkfoyl Parsly Smallage Sparagus Rhubarb Rhapontick Knee-holly Spleen Smallage Carline thistle Fearn male and foemale Parsly Water-flag Sparagus round Birthwort Fennel Capers Ash Gentian Reins and bladder Marshmallows Smallage Sparagus Burdock Bazil Valerian spatling Poppy Carline thistle China Cyperus long and round Filipendula Dog-grass Spicknard Celtick and Indian Parsly Kneeholly white Saxisrage Womb Birthwort long and round Galanga greater and lesser Peony male and foemale hogs Fennel Fundament Pilewort Joynts Bears-breech Hermodactils Jallap Mecoacan Ginger Costus Roots cool the Head Rose Root Stomach Sow thistles Endive Succory Bistort Liver and spleen Maddir Endive Cichory The properties of the Roots Although I confess the properties of the Simples may be found out by the ensuing explanation of the terms and I suppose by that means they were found out at first and although I hate a lazy Student from my heart yet to encourage young Students in the art I shall quote the cheifest of them I desire all lovers of Physick to compare them with the explanation of these Rules so shall they see how they agree so may they be enabled to find out the properties of all Simples yea of such as are not mentioned in the learned Colledges Apish Dispensatory to their own exceeding benefit in Physick Roots Bind Cyperus Bistort Tormentil Cinkfoyl Bears breech Waterflag Alkanet Toothwort c. Discuss Birthwort Asphodel Briony Capers c. Clense Birthwort Aron Sparagus Grass Asphodel Sullendine c. Open Asarabacca Garlick Leeks Onions Rhapontick Turmerick Carline thistle Succory Endive Filipendula Fennel Parsly Bruscus Sparagus Smallage Gentian c. Extenuate Orris English and florentine Capers c. 〈◊〉 Garlick Onions 〈◊〉 of Spain c. 〈◊〉 Mallows Marshmallows c. Suppure Marshmallows Briony white Lillies c. Glutinate Comfry Solomons seal Gentian Birthwort Daisies c. Expell Wind Smallage Parsly Fennel Waterflag Garlick Costus Galanga hogs Fennel Zedoary Spicknard Indian and Celticque c. Breed seed Waterflag Eringo Satyrion Galanga c. Provoke the terms Birthwort Asarabacca Aron Waterflag white Dittany Asphodel Garlick Centaury the less Cyperus long and round Costus Capers Calamus Aromaticus Dittany of Creet Carrots Eringo Fennel Parsly Smallage Grass Alicampane Peony Valerian Kneeholly c. Stop the terms Comfry Tormentil Bistort c. Provoke sweat Carline thistle China Sarsa parilla c. Resist poyson Angellica Garlick long Birthwort Smallage Doronicum Costus Zedoary Cyperus Gentian Carline thistle Bistort Tormentil Swallow-wort Vipers Bugloss Alicampane c. Help burnings Asphodel Jacinth white Lillies c. Ease pains Water-flag Eringo Orris Rest-harrow c. Of Roots some purge Choller Asatabacca Rhubarb Rhapontick Fern c. Melancholly Hellebore white and black Polypodium Flegm and watry humors Squils Turbith Hermodactils Jallap Mechoacan wild Cucumers Sowbread male Asphodel Briony white and black Elder Spurge great and small I quoted some of these properties to teach you the way how to find the rest which the explanation of these terms will give you ample instructions in I quoted not al because I would fain have you studious be dilligent gentle Readers be dilligent who knows but you may come to be Collegiates or as good Physitians as Collegiates before you die The BARKS which the Colledg blot paper-with are these that follow Colledg 〈◊〉 Nuts Orrenges Barberries Birch-tree Caper roots Cassia Lignea Chestnuts Cinnamon Citron Pills Dwars-Elder Spurge Roots Alder Ash Pomegranates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 green Walnuts 〈◊〉 Bay Lemmons Mace Pomegranates Mandrake roots Mezereon Mulberry-tree roots Sloe-tree roots Pine-nuts Fistick-nuts Poplar tree Oak Elder Sassasras Cork Tamaris Line-tree Frankinsence Elm Capt. Winters Cinnamon Culpeper A. Of these Captain Winters Cinnamon being taken as ordinary Spice or half a dram taken in the morning in any convenient Liquor is an excellent remedy for the Scurvey the pouder of it being snuffed up in the nose clenseth the head of Rhewn gallantly The Bark of the black Alder-tree purgeth choller and flegm if you make a decoction with it Agrimony Wormwood Dodder Hops Endive and Succory roots Parsly and Smallage Roots or you may bruise a handful of each of them and put them in a gallon of new 〈◊〉 and let them work together put the Simples in a Boulter-bag a draught being drunk every morning helps the dropsie Jaundice evil disposition of the body helps the rickets strengthens the liver and Spleen makes the digestion good troubles not the stomach at all causeth appetite and helps such as are scabby and itchy The rest of the Barks that are worth the noting and the vertues of them are to be found in the former part of the book Barks are hot in the first degree Guajacum Tamaris Orrenges Lemmons Citrons In the Second Cinnamon Cassia Lignea Captain Winters Cinnamon Frankinsence Capers In the Third Mace Cold in the first Oak Pomegranates In the third Mandrakes According to Place they Heat the Head Captain Winters Cinnamon The Heart Cinnamon Cassia Lignea Citron Pills Walnuts Lemmon Pills Mace The Stomach Orrenge Pills Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Citron Pills Lemmon Pills Mace Sassafras The Lungues Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Walnuts The Liver Barberry-tree Bay-tree Capt. Winters Cinnamon The Spleen Caper Bark Ash-tree Bark Bay-tree The reins and Bladder Bay-tree Sassasras The Womb Cassia Lignea Cinnamon Cool the Stomach Pomegranate Pills Purge choller The Bark of Barberry-tree Purge Flegm and Water Elder Dwarf-Elder Spurge Laurel To fill up another part of a Page the Colledg quote a few WOODS which are these Colledg FIrr Wood of Aloes Rhodium Brazil Box Willow Cipress Ebeny Guajacum Juniper Lentisk Nephriticum Rhodium Rosemary Sanders white yellow and red Sassasras Tamaris Of these some are hot As Wood of Aloes Rhodium Box Ebeny Guajacum Nephriticum Rosemary Sassafras 〈◊〉 Some cold As Cypress Willow Sanders white red and yellow Rosemary is apropriated to the Head Wood of Aloes to the Heart and Stomach Rhodium to the Bowels and bladder Nephriticum to the Liver Spleen Reins and Bladder Sassafras to the
only to the male the foemale is that which we in Sussex call Brakes both of them are hot and dry and exellent good for the Rickets in children and diseases of the Spleen but dangerous for women with child Filipendulae Of Dropwort The roots are hot and dry in the third degree opening clensing yet somewhat binding they provoke Urine case pains in the bladder and are a good preservative against the Falling sickness Foeniculi Of Fennl The root is hot and dry some say in the third degree opening it provokes Urine and the Terms strengthens the Liver and is good against the dropsie Fraxini Of Ash-tree I know no great vertues in Physick of the roots Galangae majoris minoris Galanga commonly called Galingal the greater and lesser They are hot and dry in the third 〈◊〉 and the lesser are accounted the hotter it strengthens the stomach exceedingly and takes away the pains thereof coming of cold or wind the smel of it strengthens the brain it releeves saint hearts takes away windiness of the womb heats the Reins and provokes lust you may take half a drachm at a time Gentianae Of Gentian called so from his name that first found it out some call it Felwort and Baldmoney It is hot clenssng and scouring a notable counterpoyson it opens obstructions helps the bitings of venemous beasts and mad dogs helps digestion and clenseth the body of raw humors our Chyrurgians use the root in form of a tent to open the sore they are also very profitable for Ruptures or such as are burst 〈◊〉 Of Liquoris the best that is grows in England it is hot and moist in temperature helps the roughness of the Wind-pipe Hoarsness diseases in the Kidnies and Bladder and ulcers in the Bladder which in my opinion is a very difficult thing to cure although curable it concocts raw humors in the stomach helps difficulty of breathing is profitable for all salt humors the root dried and beaten into pouder and the pouder put into the eye is a special remedy for a Pin and a Web. Graminis Of Grass such as in London they call Couch-Grass and Squitch-grass in Sussex Dog-Grass It gallantly provokes Urine and easeth the Kidnies 〈◊〉 with Gravel gripings of the belly and difficulty of Urine Let such as are troubled with these Diseases drink a draught of white Wine wherein these Roots being bruised have been boyled for their mornings draught if they find ease let them thank God if not let them blame me Bruised and applied to the place they speedily help green Wounds Hermodactyli Of Hermodactils They are hot and dry purge flegm especially from the joynts therefore are good for Gouts and other Diseases in the Joynts Their vices are corrected with long Pepper Ginger Cinnamon or Mastich I would not have unskilful people too busie with Purges Hyacinthi Of Jacinths The Roots are dry in the first degree and cold in the second they stop loosness bind the belly Iridis vulgaris Florentinae c. Orris or Flower-de-luce after the French name both that which grows with us and that which comes from Florence They are hot and dry in the third degree resist poyson help shortness of the breath provoke the terms the Root being green and bruised takes away blackness and blewness of a stroke being applied thereto Imperitoriae c. Of Masterwort The Root is hot and dry in the third degree mitigates the rigor of agues helps Dropsies provokes Sweat breaks Carbuncles and Plague-sores being applied to them it is very profitable being given inwardly in bruises Isatidis Glasti Of Woad I know no great Physical vertue in the Root See the Herb. Labri Veneris Dipsaci Fullers-Thistle Teazle The Root being boyled in Wine till it be thick quoth Discorides helps by unction the clefts of the Fundament as also takes away Warts and Wens Galen saith they are dry in the second degree and I take it all Authors hold them to be cold and dry Lactucae Of Lettice I know no Physical vertue residing in the Roots Lauri Of the Bay-tree The Bark of the Root drunk with Wine provokes Urine breaks the Stone opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen But according to Dioscorides is naught for women with Child Lapathi acuti Oxylapathi Sorrel according to Galen but Sharp-pointed-Dock according to Dioscorides But which the Colledg intends I know not The Roots of Sorrel are held to be profitable against the Jaundice Of Sharp-pointed Dock clense and helps Scabs and Itch. Levistici Of Lovage They are hot and dry and exceeding good for any diseases coming of wind 〈◊〉 albi Of white 〈◊〉 The Root is somthing hot and dry helps Burnings softens the Womb provokes the Terms if boyled in Wine is given with good success in rotten Feavers Pestilences and all Diseases that require suppuration it being outwardly applied helps Ulcers in the head and amends the ill colour of the face Malvae Of Mallows They are cool and digesting resist Poyson and help Errosions or gnawing of the bowels or any other part as also Ulcers in the Bladder See Marsh-mallows Mandagorae Of Mandrakes A Root dangerous for its coldness being cold in the fourth 〈◊〉 the Root is scarcy and dangerous for the vulgar to use therefore I leave it to those that have skill Mechoachanae Of Mechoacan It is corrected with Cinnamon is temperate yet drying purgeth flegm chiefly from the head and joynts it is good for old diseases in the head and may safely be given even to Feaverish bodies because of its temperature it is also profitable against Coughs and pains in the Reins as also against the French-Pox the strong may take a dram at a time Mei c. Spignel The Roots are hot and dry in the second or third degree and send up unwholsom vapors to the head and therefore seeing God hath alootted such plentiful Remedy for those maladies this Root conduceth to the cure of I pass it by with silence Mezerei c. Of Spurge Olive or Widdow-wail See the Herb if you think it worth the seeing Merorum Celci Of the Mulberry-tree The bark of the Root is bitter hot and dry opens stoppings of Liver and Spleen purgeth the belly and kills worms boyled in Vinegar helps the tooth-ach Morsus Diaboli Succisae c. Devils-bit See the Herb. Nardi Spicae Indicae Celticae Of Spiknard Indian and Celtique Celtick Nard according to Rondetitius wonderfully provokes Urine They are both hot and dry but I let the degree alone till the Learned are agreed about it The Indian also provokes Urine and stops fluxes helps windiness of the Stomach resisteth the pestilence helps gnawing pains of the Stomach and dries up Rhewms that molest the head The Celtick Spicknard performs the same offices though in a weaker measure Nenupharis Nymphae Of Water-Lillies They are cold and dry and stop lust I never dived so deep to find any other vertue the Roots have Ononidis Arrestae Bovis c. Of Cammock or
Rad. Of the Roots of Smallage Take notice here That the Barks both of this Root as also of Parsly Fennel c. is all that of the root which is in use neither can it properly be called Bark for it is all the Root the hard pith in the middle excepted which is alwaies thrown away when the roots are used It is something hotter and drier than Parsly and more medicinal it opens stoppings provokes urin helps digestion expels wind and warms a cold stomach use them like Grass Roots Avellanarum Of Hazel The rind of the tree provokes Urine breaks the Stone the husks anp shels of the Nuts dried and given in pouder stay the immoderat flux of the terms in women Aurantiorum Of Orrenges Both these and also Lemmons and Citrons are of different qualities the outward bark viz. what looks red is hot and dry the white is cold and moist the juyce colder than it the seeds hot and dry the outward bark is that which here I am to speak to it is somewhat hotter than that either of Lemmons or Citrons therefore it warms a cold stomach more and expels wind better but it strengthens not the heart so much Berber c. Barberries The rind of the tree according to Clusius being steeped in Wine and the Wine drunk purgeth Choller and is a singular remedy for the yellow Jaundice Boil it in white Wine and drink it See the Directions at the beginning Cassia Lignea c. It is something more oyly than Cinnamon yet the vertues being not much different I refer you thither Capparis Rad. Of Caper Roots See the Roots Castanearum Of Chestnuts The bark of the Chestnut tree is dry and binding and stops Fluxes Cinnamomum Cinnamom and Cassia Lignea Are hot and dry in the second degree strengthens the stomach helps digestion causeth a sweet breath resists poyson provokes urin and the terms causeth speedy delivety to women in travel helps Coughs and Defluxions of humors upon the Lungs Dropsies and difficulty of Urin. In Ointments it takes away red pimples and the like deformities from the face There is scarce a better remedy for women in labor than a drachm of Cinnamon newly beaten into pouder and taken in white Wine Citrij Of Pome Citrons The outward pill which I suppose is that which is meant here It strengthens the heart resists poyson amends a stinking breath helps digestion comforts a cold stomach Ebuli Rad. Of the Roots of Dwarf-Elder or Walwort See the Roots Enulae Of Elecampane See the Roots Esulae Rad. See the Roots Fabarum Of Beans Bean Cods or Pods as we in Sussex call them being burned the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints old 〈◊〉 Gouts and Sciaticaes Foenicull Rad. Of Fennel Roots See the Roots and remember the Observation given in Smallage at the beginning of the Barks Fraxini Rad. Of the Bark of Ash tree Roots That the vertue lies only in the Bark of the Root I suppose it to be only nicety but the Bark of the tree helps the Rickets is moderately hot and dry staies Vomitting being burnt the Ashes made into an ointment helps Leprosie and other deformity of the skin easeth pains of the spleen You may lay the Bark in steep in white Wine for the Rickets and when it hath stood so two or three daies let the diseased Child drink now and then a spoonful of it Granatorum Of Pomegranates The rind or pill cools and forcibly binds staies Fluxes and the Terms in women helps digestion strengthens weak stomachs fastens the teeth and are good for such whose gums wast You may take a drachm of it at a time inwardly Pomegranate flowers are of the same vertue Gatrujaci See the Wood. Juglandium Virid Of green Walnuts As for the outward green bark of Walnuts I suppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all and then you may take Nuts and all if they may properly be called Nuts at such a time you shall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach they resist poison and are a most excellent preservative against the Plague inferior to none they are admirable for such as are troubled with Consumptions of the lungues the rich may keep them preserved they that cannot do as they would must be content to do as they may viz. dry them and so keep them Lauri Of the Bay tree See the Root Limonum Of Lemmons The outward pill is of the nature of Citron but held not so effectual how ever let the poor Country man that cannot get the other use this Mandragorae Rad. Be pleased to look back to the Root Myrobalanorum Of Myrobalans See the Fruits Macis Of Mace It is hot in the third degree strengthens the stomach and heart exceedingly and helps concoction Maceris c. It is held to be the inner bark of Nutmeg-tree helps fluxes and spitting of blood Petroselini Rad. Of Parsly Roots opens obstructions provokes urine and the terms warms a cold stomach expells wind and breaks the stone use them as Grass Roots and take out the inner pith as you were taught in Smallage roots Prunelli Silvestris Of Sloe-tree I know no use of it Pinearum putaminae Pine-shucks or husks I suppose they mean of the cones that hold the seeds both those and also the bark of the tree stop fluxes and help the lungues Querci Of Oak-tree Both the Bark of the Oak and Acorn Cups are drying and cold binding stop fluxes and the terms as also the running of the reins have a care how you use them before due purging Rhaphani Of Radishes I could never see any bark they had Suberis Of Cork It is good for something else besides to stop bottles being dry and binding stancheth blood helps fluxes especially the ashes of it being burnt Sambuci c. Of 〈◊〉 Roots and Branches purgeth water helps the dropsie Cort. Medius Tamaricis The middle Bark of Tamaris easeth the Spleen helps the Rickets you may use them as Ash-tree Bark Tilliae Of Line-tree Boyled the water helps burnings Thuris Of Frankincense I must plead Ignoramus Ulmi Of Elm. Moderately hot and clensing very good for wounds burns and broken bones viz. boyled in water and the greived place bathed with it WOODS and their CHIPS OR RASPINGS A Gallochus Lignum Aloes Wood of Aloes is moderately hot and dry a good Cordial a rich Perfume a great strengthener to the stomach Aspalathus Rose-wood There are diverse Bushes called by the name of Aspalathus But because the Colledge have set it down amongst the Wood I suppose they mean the Tree It is moderately hot and dry stops loosness provokes urin and is excellent to clense filthy ulcers Bresilium Brassil All the use I know of it is to dye Cloath and Leather and make red Ink. Buxus Box. Many Physitians have written of it but no physical vertue of it I suppose the Colledg quoted it only as a word of course Cypressus Cypress The Wood laid
Devils-bit Tobacco Parsly Burnet Plantane Rosemary Willow leaves Sage Sanicle Scabious Soldanella Vervain Dry in the third Degree Southern wood male and foemale Brooklime Angellica Briony white and black Calaminth Germander Chamepitys Sullendine Pilewort Fleabane Epithimum Dwarff Elder Bank cresses Clary Glaswort Lavender Lovage Horehound herb Mastich Mints Water-cresses Origanum Cinkfoyl hot Arsmart Poley mountain Sneezwort Peny-royal Rue or herb of Grace Savin winter and summer Savory mother of Time Lavender Spike Tansy Time Trefoyl In the fourth Degree Garden cresses wild Rue Leeks Onions Crowfoot Rosa solis Garlick Spurge Herbs moist in the first Degree 〈◊〉 Bugloss Marigolds Pellitory of the wall Mallows Bazil In the fourth Degree Chickweed Arach Daisies Lettice Duckmeat Purslain Sow thistles Violets Water-Lillies Herbs apropriated to certain parts of the body of man and so they Heat the Head as Maudlin Costmary Bettony Carduus Benedictus Sullendine Scurvy grass Eyebright Goats 〈◊〉 Cowslips Lavender Laurel Lovage herb Mastich Feather-few Melilot Sneezwort Peny royal Senna mother of Time Lavender Spike Time Vervain Rosemary Heat the Throat Archangel white and red otherwise called dead Nettles Devils-bit Heat the Breast Maidenhair white black common and Golden Distaffe thistle Time Betony Calaminth Chamomel Fennel Iudian leafe Bay leaves Hysop Bawm Horehound Oak of Jerusalem Germander Melilot Origanum Rue Scabious Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Heart Southernwood male and foemale Angellica Woodroofe Bugloss Carduus Benedictus 〈◊〉 Goats Rue Bay leaves Bawm Rue Senna Bazil Rosemary Alicampane Heat the Stomach Wormwood common and Roman Smallage Avens Indian leafe Broom Schenanth Bay leaves Bawm Mints Parsly Fennel Time mother of Time Sage Heat the Liver Agrimony Maudlin Pimpernel male and foemale Smallage Costmary or Alecost our Ladies thistles Centaury the less Germander Chamepiyts Sullendine Sampier Fox gloves Ashtree leaves Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Hore-hound Water-cresses Parsly Poley mountaine Sage Scordium Senna mother of Time Soldanella Asarabacca Fennel Hysop Spicknard Heat the Bowels Chamomel Alehoofe Alexanders Heat the spleen All the four sorts of Maiden-hair Agrimony smallage Centaury the less Cetrach Germander Chamepitys Sampier Fox-gloves Epithimum Ashtree Bay leaves Toad flax Hops Hore-hound Parsly Poley mountain sage scordium senna mother of Time Tomaris Wormwood Water-cresles Harts-tongue Heat the Reins and Bladder Agrimony Maudlin Marshmallows Pimpernel male and foemale Brooklime Costmary Betony Chervil Germander Chamomel sampier Broom Rupture-wort Clary 〈◊〉 Bay leaves Toad-flax Hops Melilot Water-cresses Origanum Peny-royal scordium Vervain mother of Time Rocket Spicknard Saxifrage Nettles Heat the Womb. Maudlin Angellica Mugwort Costmary Calaminth Fleabanc May 〈◊〉 or Marg-weed Dittany of Creet Schenanth Archangel or dead Nettles Melilot Feather-few Mints Devils-bit Origanum Bazil Peny-royal Savin Sage Scordium Tansy Time Vervain Peruinkles Nettles Heat the Joynts Cowslips sciatica-cresses hot Arsmart Garden cresses Costmary Agrimony Chamomel Saiut Johns-wort Melilot Water-cresses Rosemary Rue Sage Stechas Herbs cooling the Head Wood sorrel Teazles Lettice Plantane Willow-leaves sengreen or Housleek strawberry leaves Violet leaves Fumitory Water-Lillies Cool the Throat Orpine strawberry leaves Privet Bramble leaves Breast Mulberry leaves Bramble leaves Violet leaves strawberry leaves sorrel Wood-sorrel Poppies Orpine Money-wort Plantane Colts-foot Heart Sorrel Wood sorrel Vipers Bugloss Lettice Burnet Violet leaves strawberry leaves Water-Lilles Stamach Sorrel Wood-sorrel succory Orpine Dandelion Endive strawberry leaves Violet leaves Hawkweed Lettice Purslain sow thistles Violet leaves Liver Sorrel Wood-sorrel Dandelion Endive succory strawberry leaves Fumitory Liver-wort Lettice Purslain Nightshade Water-Lillies Bowels Fumitoty Mallows Buckhorn-Plantane Orpine Plantane Burnet Spleen Fumitory Endive succory Lettice Reins and Bladder Knot-grass Mallows Yarrow Money-wort Plantane Endive succory Lettice Purslain Water-lillies Housleek or sengreen The Womb Wild Tansy Arach Burdocks Willow herb Mirtle Leaves Money-wort Purslain sow thistles Endive succory Lettice Water-Lillies sengreen The Joynts Willow leaves Vine leaves Lettice Henbane Nightshade sengreen or Housleek Herbs altering according to property in operation some Bind as Amomus Agnus Castus sheaphards purse Cypress Horstail Ivy Bay leaves Melilot Bawm Mirtles sorrel Plantane Knot-grass Comfry Cinkfoyl Fleawort Purslain Oak leaves Willow leaves sengreen or Housleek c. Open as Garlick Onions Wormwood Mallows Marsh-mallows Pellitory of the wall Endive succory c. Soften Mallows Marshmallows Beets Pellitory of the wall Violet leaves strawberry leaves Arach Cypress leaves Bay leaves Felawort c. Harden Purslain Nightshade Housleek or sengreen Duckmeat and most other Herbs that are very cold Extenuate Mugwort Chamomel Hysop Penyroyal Stoechas Time Mother of Time Juniper c. Discuss Southernwood male and foemale al the four sorts of Maiden-hair Marshmallows Dill Mallows Arrach Beets Chamomel Mints Melilot Pellitory of the Wal Chickweed Rue stoechas Marjoram Draw Pimpernel Birthwort Dittany Leeks Onions Garlick and also take this general Rule as all cold things bind and harden as is apparant by the frost binding and hardning water and mire so all things very hot are drawing as is cleer by the Sun who is the Original of heat drawing up the dew Suppure Mallaws Marsh-mallows white Lilly leaves c. Clense Pimpernel southernwood sparagus Cetrach Arrach Wormwood Beets Pellitory of the wal Chamepitys Doddar Liverwort Horehound Willow leaves c. Glutinate Marshmallows Pimpernel Centaury Chamepitys Mallows Germander Horstail Agrimony Maudlin strawberry leaves Woad Chervil Plantane Cinkfoyl Comfry Bugle self-heal Woundwort Tormentill Rupture-wort Knotgrass Tobacco Expel wind Wormwood Garlick Dill Smallage Chamomel Epithimum Fennel Juniper Marjoram Origanum Savory both winter and summer and that I am of opinion was the reason in ancient times women alwaies boyled Savory with their beans and pease viz. to expel the windiness of them it was a good fashion and therefore I would not have it left however this shews that in ancient times people were more studious in the nature of Simples or at the least Physitians were more honest I mean more free in imparting their knowledg for the benefit of the vulgar at last Honesty began to leave the Earth and then Ignorance quickly stepping up in the place of Knowledg people used them a while for custom sake at last they were esteemed superstitious and quite left off I care not greatly now I am at it if I quote one more of like nature I am confident were it my present scope I could quote an hundred and that is Tansy Tansie is excellent good to clense the stomach and bowels of tough viscous flegm and humors that stick to them which the flegmatick constitution of the Winter usually infects the body of man with and occasions gouts and other diseases of like nature and lasting long this was the original of that custom to eat Tansies in the Spring which afterwards grew to be superstitious and apropriated only to some certain daies as Palm-Sundaies c. and so at last the evils of observing daies being known and the vertues of the meat absconded it is quite almost left off For my part if any think it superstitious to eat a Tansie in the Spring I
Liver and clense the blood they are in their prime in May. Fumitory Water is usual with the City Dames to wash their faces with to take away morphew freckles and Sunburning inwardly taken it helps the yellow Jaundice and Itch clenseth the blood provokes sweat strengthens the stomach and clenseth the body of adust humors It is in its prime in May and June The Water of Nightshade helps pains in the head coming of heat take heed you distill not the deadly Nightshade instead of the common if you do you may make mad work let such as have not wit enough to know them asunder have wit enough to let them both alone til they do The Water of white Poppies extinguisheth al heat 〈◊〉 nature helps headaches coming of heat and too long standing in the Sun Distil them in June or July Colts-foot Watar is excellent for burns to wash the place with it inwardly taken it helps Phthisicks and other diseases incident to the lungues Distil them in May or June The Water of distilled Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach exceedingly staies vomiting and fluxes and strengthens the retentive faculty in man Demask Rose-water cools comsorts and strengthens the heart so doth red Rose-water only with this difference the one is binding the other loosening if your body be costive use Damask Rose-water because it is loosening if loose use red because it is binding White Rose-water is generally known to be excellent against hot rhewms and inflamations in the eyes and for this it is better than the former The Water of Red Poppy flowers called by many Corn-roses because they grow so freequently amongst corn cool the blood and spirits overheated by drinking or labor and is therefore excellent for surfets Green Walnuts gathered about the latter end of June or beginning of July and bruiled and so stilled strengthens the heart and resisteth the pestilence Plantane Water helps the headach being dropped into the ear it helps the toothach helps the Phthisick dropsie and fluxes and is an admirable remedy for 〈◊〉 in the reins and bladder to be used as common drink the herb is in its prime in May. Strawberry Water cooleth quencheth thirst clarifieth the blood breaks the stone helps al inward inflamations especially those in the reins bladder and passages of the urine it strengthens the Liver and helps the yellow Jaundice The distilled Water of Dog-grass or couch-grass as some cal it clenseth the 〈◊〉 gallantly and provokes urine opens 〈◊〉 of the Liver and spleen and kils worms Black Cherry Water provokes urine helps the dropsie It is usually given in diseases of the brain as convulsions falling sickness palsey and Apoplexy Betony is in its prime in May the distilled Water thereof is very good for such as are pained in their heads it prevails against the dropsie and al sorts of feavers it succors the Liver and spleen and helps want of digestion and evil disposition of the body thence arising it hastens travail in women with child and is excellent against the bitings of venemous beasts Distil Sage whilest the slowers be on it the Water strengthens the brain provokes the terms helps nature much in al its actions Marjoram is in its prime in June the distilled Water is excellent for such whose brains are too cold it provokes urine heats the womb provokes the terms strengthens the memory and helps the judgment causeth an able brain and therefore I commend it to the Colledg of Physitians Distil Chamomel Water about the beginning of June It easeth the chollick and pains in the belly it breaks the stone in the reins and bladder provokes the terms expels the dead child and takes away pains in the head Fennel water strengthens the heart and brain dilates the breast helps the cough provokes the terms encreaseth milk in nurses and if you wash your eyes with it it cleers the sight Calaminth Water hea t s and clenseth the womb provokes the terms and easeth the pains of the head distil it in May. The Distilled water of Rosemary slowers helps such as are troubled with the yellow Jaundice Asthma it clenseth the blood helps concoction strengthens the brain and body exceedingly Waters of the flowers of Lillies of the valley strengthens the brain and all the sences The water 〈◊〉 Cowslip flowers helps the palsey and thence they obtained the name Paralysis takes away pains in the head the vertigo and megrim and are exceeding good for women with child The eyes being washed every morning with Eyebright water most strangely cleers and strengthens the sight Maidenhair distilled in May the water clenseth both Liver and Lungues clarifies the blood and break the stone Hysop water clenseth the Lungues of flegm helps Coughs and Asthmaes distill it in August The water of Hore-hound helps the Cough and straitness of the breast it strengthens the breast Lungues and stomach and Liver distil it in June Carduus water succors the head strengthens the memory helps such as are troubled with vertigoes and quartan agues it provokes sweat strengthens the heart and is good in pestilences and all other feavers of choller it is in its prime in May and June Scabious water helps pleuresies and pains and prickings in the sides Apostthemes Coughs pestilence and straitness of the breast Water of Flower-de-luce is very profitable in dropsies an ounce being drnnk continually morning and evening as also pains and torments in the bowels Bawm water distilled in May restores memory when it is lost it quickens al the sences strengthens the brain heart and stomach causeth a merry mind and a sweet breath The water of Comfry sodders broken bones being drunk helps ruptures outwardly it stops the bleeding of wounds they being washed with it Wormwood water distilled cold about the end of May heats and strengthens the stomach helps concoction staies vomiting kills worms in the stomach and bowels it mitigates the pains in the teeth and is profitably given in feavers of Choller Mint water strengthens the stomach helps concoction and 〈◊〉 vomiting distil it in the latter end of May or beginning of June as the year is in forwardness or backwardness observe that in all the rest Chervil water distilled about the end of May helps ruptures breaks the stone dissolves congealed blood strengthens the heart and stomach The water of Mother of Time strengthens the brain and stomach gets a man a good stomach to his victuals provokes urine and the terms heats the womb it is in its prime about the end of June The water of Marigold flowers is apropriated to most cold diseases of the head Eyes and stomach they are in their vigor when the Sun is in the Lion Distilled water of Centaury comforts a cold stomach helps in feavers of choller which the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it kills worms and provokes appetite to victuals Maudlin and Costmary water distilled in May or June strengthens the Liver helps the yellow 〈◊〉 opens obstructions and helps the dropsie
the Body of Man It doth it by an hidden quality For they not minding the whol Creation as one United Body not knowing what belongs to 〈◊〉 Influence nor regarding that excellent Harmony the only wise God hath made in a composition of Contraries in the knowledg of which consists the whol ground and foundation of Physick no more than a Horse that goes along the street regards when the Clock strikes are totally led by the Nose by that Monster TRADITION who seldom begets any Children but they prove either Fools or Knaves and this makes them so brutish that they can give a Reason for the operation of no Medicine but what is an Object to Sence this their Worships call Manifest and the other Hidden because it is hidden from them and alwaies will if they search no further after it than hitherto they have done A Common-wealth is well holp up with such Physitians that are not only so ignorant but also so careles of knowing the foundation upon which the whol Fabrick of Physick ought to be built and not upon Tradition They profess themselves Galenists I would civilly encreat them but seriously to peruse and labor to be well skilled in the Astronomy of Galen and Hippocrates I confess and am glad to think of it That all Ages have afforded some wise Physitians well skilled in the Principles of what they profess of which this our Age is not wanting and they begin to encrease daily As for others my comfort is That their whol Model will not stand long because it is 〈◊〉 upon the Sand. And if I be not mistaken in my Calculation there are searching times coming and with speed too in which every building that is not built upon the Rock shall fall The Lord will make a quick search upon the face of the Earth But to return to my purpose It is the Manifest Qualities of Medicines that here I am to speak to and you may be pleased to behold it in this order Sect. 1. Of the Temperature of Medicines Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation  Sect. 3. Of the Properties  Sect. 1. Of the Temperáture of Medicines HErbs Plants and other Medicines manifestly operate either by Heat Coldness Driness or Moisture for the world being composed of so many qualities they and only they can be found in the world and the mixtures of them one with another But that these may appear as cleer as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian I shall treat of them severally and in this order 1. Of Medicines Temperate 2. Of Medicines Hot. 3. Of Medicines Cold. 4. Of Medicines Moist 5. Of Medicines Dry. Of Medicines Temperate IF the world be composed of Extreams then it acts by Extreams for as the man is so is his work therefore it is impossible that any Medicine can be temperate but may be reduced to Heat Cold Driness or Moisture and must operate I mean such as operate by manifest quality by one of these because there is no other to operate by and that there should be such a temperate mixture so exquisitely of these qualities in any Medicine that one of them should not manifestly excel the other I doubt it is a Systeme too rare to find Thus then I conclude the matter to be Those Medicines are called Temperate not because they have no excess of Temperature at all in them which can neither be said to heat nor cool so much as wil amount to the first degree of excess for daily experience witnesseth that they being added to Medicines change not their qualities they make them neither hotter nor colder They are used in such Diseases where there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold for example In obstructions of the Bowels where cold Medicines might make the Obstruction greater and hot Medicines cause a Feaver In Feavers of Flegm where the cause is cold and moist and the effect hot and dry in such use temperate Medicines which may neither encrease the Feaver by their heat nor condensate the Flegm by their coldness Besides Because Contraries are taken away by their Contraries and every Like maintained by its Like They are of great use to preserve the constituion of the Body temperate and the Body it self in strength and vigor and may be used without danger or fear of danger by considering what part of the Body is weak and vsing such temperate Medicines as are apropriated to that part Of Medicines Hot THe care of the Ancient Physitians was such that they did not labor to hide from but impart to posterity not only the temperature of Medicines in general but also their degrees in temperature that so the distempered part may be brought to its temperature and no further for all things which are of a contrary temperature conduce not to cure but the strength of the contrariety must be observed that so the Medicine may be neither weaker nor stronger than just to take away the distemper for if the distemper be but meanly hot and you apply a Medicine cold in the Fourth Degree 't is true you may soon remove that distemper of Heat and bring another of Cold twice as bad Then Secondly Not only the distemper it self but also the part of the body distempered must be heeded for if the Head be distempered by Heat and you give such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you will bring another Disease and not cure the former The Degrees then of Temperature are to be diligently heeded which ancient Physitians have concluded to be Four in the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold of each of which we shall speak a word or two severally Of Medicines Hot in the first Degree THose are said to be hot in the first Degree which induce a Moderate and Natural heat to the Body and to the Parts thereof either cold by Nature or cooled by accedent by which Natural heat is cherished when weak or restored when wanting The first Effect then of Medicines hot in the first Degree is by their sweat and temperate heat to reduce the Body to its natural heat as the fire doth the external parts in cold weather unless the affliction of cold be so great that such mild Medicines will not serve the turn The Second Effect is The Mitigation of pain arising from such a distemper and indeed this effect hath other Medicines some that are cold and some that are hotter than the first degree they being rationally applyed to the distemper these Medicines the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shall be spoken of in their proper places In this place let it suffice that Medicines hot in the first degree make the offending humors thin expel them by sweat or insensible transpiration and these of all other are most congruous or agreeable to the Body of Man for there is no such equal temperature of heat and cold in a sound Man but heat exceeds for we live by heat and moisture and not