3. Of the Rubi 414 4. Of Granates 415 5. Of the Sardis Ibid. 6. Of the Hyacinth Ibid. 7. Of the Topaz 416 8. Of the Azure-stone 417 9. Of the Loadstone Ibid. 10. Of some other Gems more seldome used in Medicine 419 11. Of Certaine Physical but not precious Stones and first of Marble 421 12. Of Chrystal 422 13. Of Gypsum Ibid. 14. Of Chalk 423 15. Of Stones found in Spunges Ibid. 16. Of Bricks 424 SECT 3. Of Metalls THe Preface 425 1. Of Gold 426 2. Of Silver 427 3. Of Tinn Ibid. 4. Of Lead 428 5. Of Brass 429 6. Of Verdegrease Ibid. 7. Of Iron 430 8. Of the seventh Metal 432 9. Of Ceruss Ibid. 10. Of Cadmia both Fossile and factitious 433 11. Of Spodium 434 12. Of Pompholix 436 13. Of Litharge 437 The third Book Of Medicaments taken from Animals either whole or in part The Preface Chap. 1. OF Mans blood Page 440 Chap. 2. Of Mummy Page 441 Chap. 3. Of goats-Goats-blood Page 442 Chap. 4. Of hares-Hares-blood Page 443 Chap. 5. Of Fat 's and first of the marrow of Harts Ibid. Chap. 6. Of Goats-suet Page 444 Chap. 7. Of Hogs-grease Page 445 Chap. 8. Of Beares-grease Ibid. Chap. 9. Of Goose-grease Page 446 Chap. 10. Of Ducks-grease Ibid. Chap. 11. Of Capons-grease Page 447 Chap. 12. Of Butter Page 448 Chap. 13. Of Foxes-Lungs Page 449 Chap. 14. Of Castoreum Page 450 Chap. 15. Of the Excrements of animalls and first of Musk. Ibid. Chap. 16. Of Civet Page 451 Chap. 17. Of Isinglass Page 452 Chap. 18. Of Oesypus Page 453 Chap. 19. Of Medicinal bones and first of a Harts Heart-bone Page 454 Chap. 20. Of Ivory Ibid. Chap. 21. Of the Unicornes-horn Page 456 Chap. 22. Of the Bezoar-stone Page 457 Chap. 23. Of Margarites and Unions Page 458 Chap. 24. Of the Sea-Navel Page 460 Chap. 25. Of the Dental Ibid. Chap. 26. of Antal Page 461 Chap. 27. Of Tortoises Page 462 Chap. 28. Of Frogs Ibid. Chap. 29. Of Crab-fishes Page 464 Chap. 30. Of Vipers Ibid. Chap. 31. Of Stincus mar or scincks Page 467 Chap. 32. Of Scorpions Ibid. Chap. 33. Of wormes Page 468 Chap. 34. Of Spanish-flies Page 469 Chap. 35. Of Ants. Page 470 Chap. 36. Of the silk-worm Page 471 The APOTHECARIES Shop An Introduction containing these following Particulars 1. OF the House and Shop of an Apothecary 471 2. Of the Instruments necessary for the Shop 472 3. Of Morters and Pestells 481 4. Of Spatula's and Spoons 482 5. Of Kettles and other Metalline vessels 483 6. Of Torcularies and Presses 484 7. Of Sieves Ibid. 8. Of Strainers 485 9. Of Fornaces 486 10. Of Stills and Alembecks 487 11. Of Tables and Counters necessary for the Shop 488 12. Of little Drawers Boxes and other Shop-utensils 489 13. Of the conservation of parts or whole of Medicinal materials in the Shop 490 14. Of Minerals and Metals that are to be kept Page 493 15. Of Such animals or parts thereof that are to be kept 494 16. Of Compound Medicaments to be kept in Shops Ibid. PART 1. Of Preparative and Alterative Medicaments The first Book Sect. 1. OF Syrups approved by use Page 498 Sect. 2. Of Syrups that may bemade at any time Page 518 Sect. 3. Of such Syrups as are dulcorated with Honey Page 529 Sect. 4. Of such juyces as are to be cocted with Honey Page 530 Sect. 5. Of Rob Bape or Robub Page 533 Sect. 6. Of Conserves Page 536 Sect. 7. Of Fruits and other parts of Plants that are to be condited and preserved Page 540 Sect. 8. Of Such Eclegms that must be kept in Shops Page 549 The second Book 1. OF Selected and approved Purgative Medicaments 554 2. Of Hieras 567 3. Of Solid Electuaries and Troches that are Purgative 571 4. Of Pills 577 The third Book 1. OF Select Cordial Powders 599 2. Of 〈◊〉 Antidotes 615 3. Of Alterative and Roborative Troches 630 PART 2. Of External Medicaments The fourth Book Of all oyls Sect. 1. OF Oyls made by infusion Page 647 Sect. 2. Of Such Oyls as may be made at any time Page 659 Sect. 3. Of Such Oyls as are made either of animals or their parts Page 664 Sect. 4. Of Oyls made be Expression Page 6â—7 Sect. To which is added an Appendix of Balsams Page 685 Sect. 5. Of Oyls extracted by distillation and that either by ascent or descent Page 674 The fifth Book Sect. 1. OF Unguents Page 690 Sect. 2. Of Cerechoths Page 711 The sixth Book TReating onely of Plaisters beginning at fol. 715. An Appendix of Certain waters made by art 733 The End of this Index An INDEX of such Diseases whose Cure is contained in this WORK Good for the Pain of the Head PUrslain 242. Laurel 268. Pellitory 261. Night-shade 345. Oxymel of Squills 526. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Venice-Treacle 626. Unguentum Populeon 691. Electuary of Fleabane 560. Hiera Picra 567. Hiera Pachii Ibid. Pil. Mastichinae 578. Pil. sine quibus 581. Pil. Aureae Ibid. Pil. Cochiae 583. Pil. Asaiaret 587. Troch Narcotici Fernelii 683. Oyl of Roses 651. Oyl of water-Lillies 652. Oyl of Mandrake 656. Oyl of Euphorbium 662. For the Weakness of the Brain and Head These following Corroborate the whole brain and head the powder for Suffumigation 214. Saffron 351. Pyony 302. Marjoran 311. Balm 317. Betony 318. Staechas 320. Sage 321. Amber-grise 405. Coral 406. Smaragd 412. Mosch 450. Honey of Rosemary 531 conserve of Roses 536. conserve of Rosemary flowers 539. conserve of Betony Ibid. conserve of Balm and Sage 539. Emplastrum de Janua 719. Troches de Gallia Moschata 634. Troch Aliptae Moschatae Ibid. Oyl of Marjoran 684. Aromaticum Rosatum 603. pulvis Dian thos 605. Oyl of Mirtles 656. Oyl of Mastich 660. To cause Sternutation or to provoke Sneezing The powder prescribed 179. Mustard-seed 292. For the Vertigo These cure the Vertigo Coloquintida 266. China-root 289. Oxymel of Squills 526. Antidotum Asyncritum 620. Venice-Treacle 626. Treacle-water 733. Electuary of Fleabane 560. Hiera Picra with Agarick 568. Hiera Pachii Ibid. Pills of Agarick 582. Pills of Nitre 589. For madness and Hypochondriack Melancholy To root out the Hypochondriack Melancholy and such like Affections use the true black Hellebore 265. Topaz 416. syrup of Borage and syrup of Bugloss 510. Antidotum Asyntricum 620 Oyntment of Roses 690. Confectio-Hamech 562. Electuary of Senna 564. Hiera Pachii 568. Oyl of Mandrake 656. For a Lethargie To cure the Lethargy use that Embroch 192. Sacculus 210. Mother of Thyme 310. Castoreum 450. Honey of Rosemary 531. Treacle-water 733. Claret 734. Hiera with Agarick 568. Hiera Pachii Ibid. Hiera Diacolocynthidos 569. Pills of Agarick 582. Oyl of Euphorbeum 662. For the falling sicknese To expel the falling sickness make use of Pyony 301. Hellebore black 265. Coloquintida 266. Pellitory 291. Pyony 301. Squills 305. Peniroyal 312. Betony 318. Misselto of the Oak 342. Coral 406. Smaragd 412. syrup of Staechados 520. Oxymel of Squills 526. conserve of Rosemary-flowers 539.
admirable effects for the root of Peony applyed to the head or hung about the neck doth cure the Epilepsy Mint put into milk hinders its coagulation and condensation into Cheese as it hath been proved by men of good credit The herb AEthiopis if Fliny speaks true cap. 4. lib. 26. Herba Ethlopidis will pull off Iron if it be touched which Matthiolus also asserts of the herb Lunary or Moon-wort which because it wresteth off Iron shoes from travelling horses is called by the Italians Sferra cavallo The Author of Libri sanitatis doth aver with Tribius that the Bird called Pye shutting the orifice of her nest can cause the doors to fly open onely by the touch of a certain herb some attribute this vertue onely to the Bird others to the herb Theophrastus a most skilfull Herbalist makes mention of a certain herb which so powerfully provokes to Lustfull Couplation that if the Noble Author speaks true it is more than credible that Nature hath devoted this to the cold and weak constitutions as the Nymphea to the lecherous Clymenum rubrum or Pile wort Herba Ficeria hath such power in curing the Piles that whoso carries with him the root of this herb shall be preserved safe from this Disease It is scarce credible that which Josephus writes of that admirable Plant which is called Bâ—ard from Baaran a Valley of Judaea which being sprung out of the earth doth cast out a certain bright fulgur and in the night shines like a burning Lamp which cannot be touched by any unless it be first wet with urine or womans blood for otherwise who ever toucheth it presently dyed but by the afore said sprinkling it may be cradicated by which it loses its destructive quality And that which was most wonderfull it cured Mad men and Demomacks which when the Inhabitants adjoyning perceived they very discreetly tyed a Dog fast to it which incited or compelled by hunger or called upon with much struggling pulled up the Plant. Many other Miracles doth God work in this his Foot stool the estimation whereof Experience alone doth teach Yet hath he produced nothing any way noxious to Mankinde to which he hath not ordained a convenient and wholsome Remedy Contrario contrarium Deus opponit for he opposes one Contrary to another and one Dissentany to another As to the herb Wolfs-bane he hath opposed Aristoloch Long. to Hemlock Smallidge seed to Henbane Garlick to Helmet-flower Radish-seed to a Viper wilde Bugloss to Scorpions Trefoile or Jasmine the root of which doth vindicate and preserve the Bearer from bitings by Scorpions or frees him from pain that is bitten his hands also that are anointed with the juice of May weed cannot be stung with Bees or Wasps It will not be beyond our scope here to take notice of the various natures of Plants for some are green and flourish in the middle of Winter as Wolfs-bane and black Hellebor other Plants in the Equinoctial or Spring tide others in the heat of Summer and some in Autumn at which time all others are for the most or greatest part deprived both of leaves and flowers CHAP. V. Of the matter of Medicaments and whence it proceeds THE principal differences of medicinal Ingredients as well forreign as domestick are taken either from their matter or faculties From the Matter which according to Dioscorides and Galen is three-fold whereupon three general differences of Medicaments do arise to wit drawn either from Plants Minerals or Animals In the first genus are contained all kinds of Plants Medicamenta en plantis sumpta their several parts and what is deduced from them as roots barks stalks woods boughs leaves flowers fruits seeds gums rosins juices drops liquors missel-dews mosses cottens nuts In the second are contained the Elements themselves as Fire Flame Smoke Air serene or turbid hot cold moyst or dry Water pleasant salt winy saltish clammy sulphurous tasting of Nitre Brass or Iron all kinds of Earth as Bole Terra Lemnia Mellitea Chymolia Rubrica Ampelitis Erithrea Ochra Creta and in a word all Minerals which are digged out of the Bowels of the Earth as the several kinds of Stones as the Lapis Ethites Cyaneus seu Lazuli Metalla septem Judaicus as also Metals which are acknowledged by all to be seven Gold Silver Tin Lead Iron Copper and Quicksilver according to the number of the Planets whence according to the Spagyrians they borrow their names These also are improperly referred to the Minerals Bistumen Petrol all kinds of Salts Calchanth and Amber In the third genus are contained all Animals whether Integrals Medicamenta ex animalibus sumpta or In-parts Integrals as an old Cock in pottage to make the belly laxative and to nourish the body a Swallow eaten for to quicken the eye sight a roasted Lark against the Collick Crab fishes for such as are in Consumptions old Scorpions against their bitings Cantharides for Ruptures Parts of Animals as the brains of Sparrows against Stimulum veneris Hairs brain against Tooth-ach in Children Fox lungs against the consumption of the Lungs Wolfs liver against the consumption of the Liver an Asses liver against the Epilepsy the intestines of a Wolf against the Collick passions the back of Stinci marini against the stifness of the Yard Goats blood against the Stone Partridge or Kites gall to clear the eyes Cran. Human. against the Falling sickness the bone in the heart of a Hart against doting or roving Boars tooth against the Plurisy an Elephants tooth to corroborate the heart Monoceros or Rhinoceros horns to infringe Poyson an Elks hoof against the Falling sickness There are also yet many other parts of Animals whence Medicaments are assumed as Marrow Suet the fat of Calves Harts Hogs Kids Ducks Capons and Geese the milk of Women Asses and Sheep Cheese Butter Curds Cream Whey Butter-milk Hens eggs Fish-shels the hairs and other excrements of Animals which we particularly prescribe in the composition of Medicaments in our Pharmacopoeia CHAP. VI. Of the faculties of Medicaments and how many sorts there be accordingly THE faculty of a Medicament is a certain efficient cause What the faculty of a Medicine is on which its action depends Gal. l. de plenitud lib. 1. de simp whence we gather that the faculties are answerable in number to the actions as it is demonstrable in Aloes and many other simple Medicaments Aloes facultas for Aloes hath a faculty of purging corroborating the Ventricle killing and expelling Worms and exiccating the humours of the head Every Medicament therefore as to its faculty is three-fold alterative purgative and corroborative That is said to be alterative which is either internally assumed or externally applyed and so doth work a manifest mutation on our bodies and that according to Fernelius either in temperament Tertia medicamentorum alterantium in matter or form whence arise three kinds of alterative Medicaments first that which impensly heats cools moystneth
been dissolved an Apozeme for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with the Greeks comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to fervefy Apozema quid unde dicatur or decoct and an Apozeme is onely used for the thin decoction of hearbs Now the whole matter of Apozemes is from plants of whose water juleps are made and of whose decoction Apozems and Syrups amongst which there is this difference that juleps are tenuious Apozematum materia Julepi syrupi apozemata quomodo differunt syrups crasser and Apozemes in the mean all dulcorated either with sugar or honey or both and according to their different consistency more or lesse cocted The ancients used sweet water wherein they had cocted the leaves of some plants instead of Apozemes as many now a dayes do the broath of green hearbs altered with some mixture For the vertue of hearbs is as well left in chickens broath by elixation as in simple water and these alterative broaths are both cheaper and more gratefull than Apozemes yet a sicke man may use both receiving broath made of fit hearbs by the Physicians advice from a Cook that knowes nothing further than a pan or spit and Apozemes prepared with prudence and industrious Artifice from the Apothecary not for nutriment as the broath but calefaction frigefaction humectation siccation apertion or some such mutation and therefore sometimes roots or other parts of bitter or insuave hearbs are taken purged and cocted in a sufficient quantity of water being usefull for that purpose and an Apozeme made for many or few doses according to the quantity of the decoction our of the broath percolated dulcorated with sugar or honey and if need be aromatized with Sanders or Cinamon These Apozemes are not onely made in Summer while hearbs are fresh but in Winter also when either none or onely arid ones can he had though then indeed the use of syrups is more frequent which differ from Apozemes onely in coction which should be more valid in syrups that are more crasse and durable than in Apozemes in Winter and Apozemes to Syrups in Summer whereby so that syrups are Vicegerents to Apozemes it seemes two names denote one thing but in Syrups a greater quantity of sugar is requisite to wit the weight of the whole decoction in Apozemes various as sometime the third sometimes the fourth part of sugar or honey to the weight of the decoction for it is sufficient if you put to every pound of the decoction one quadrant that is three ounces of sugar or syrup or at most a trient that is four ounces But when the sapour of the liquour is very ingratefull the weight of the sugar must be augmented and when the Apozeme is made it must be despumed and purged with the white of eggs Apozemes are variously confected according to their severall purposes An opening Apozeme as to remove obstructions thus â„ž The Roots of Asparagras Butchers Broome Saccory Liquorish Raisons stoned of each â„¥ ss of the leaves of Maidenhaire Agrimony Pimpinell Topps of Hopps Mugwort of each m. ss topps of Hysop p. ij The three Cordiall flowers of each p. j. Boyle these in lb. ij ss of water till halfe be cousumed adde to the colature Syrup of Maidenhaire or sugar â„¥ iiij fiat Apozema for foure doses Another to moderate and asswage the fervour of Choller thus â„ž Of the Roots of Succory Wood-sorrell Sorrell of each â„¥ ss Liquorish An Apozeme against choller Currands of each Ê’ iij. Endive Succory Dandilyon Wood-sorrell Fumitory Lettice Purslane of each m. j. White Roses m. ss or the three Cordiall flowers of each p. j. Boyle them in a sufficient quantity of water and in the colature dissolve Syrup of the juice of Wood-sorrell or Lemmons or Sugar of Roses â„¥ iiij aromatize it with yellow SandersÊ’ ss for foure doses CHAP. VII Of Gargarismes GAROARISMES are instituted to the diseases and affections of the Mouth Gumms Palate and throat whose faculty according to Celsus cap. 23. lib. 5. is either levative or repressive or evocative Creame or milk of Barly leviate water wherein lentills or roses or black berryes or quinces or dates have been cocted represses And Mustard Pepper or such sharpe Medicaments evoke But Gargarismes in Actuarius his judgement Cap. 6. lib. 3. Method Medend should not be confected hereof without the admixtion of some sweet things least they should too much offend the gust For when the liquor hausted to the Gurgulio is again revoked to wash the whole concavity of the mouth if it be too sharp it will with its mordacity offend the gustative organs Therefore the sharp simples whereof Gargarismes are confected are either mixed with Hydromel or simple water wherein the syrup of Stecados dry Roses or other such sweet decoction hath been dissolved in such quantity as to abate much of their acrimony or amaritude To educe flegme from the brain or jawes make a Gargarisme thus â„ž PellitoryÊ’ ij Cypress root and Turbith of eachÊ’ iij. A Oargarisâ—â—â— to purge Phlegme from the Braine Elecampane â„¥ j. Tops of Origanum Hysop and Sage of each m. j. boyle them in a pinte and half of water till a third part be consumed in the colature mixe Oximel simplex â„¥ iij. fiat Gargarisma or thus â„ž Liquorish Carthamus seed an â„¥ ss Bay berryes Stavesacre of eachÊ’ iij. Mustard seed white peper an Ê’ ij Galangal Ê’ j. staechados Betony an m. ss boyle them in Hydromel pro Gargarizatu To roborate the mouth and deterge its collutions make one thus A cleanfing Gargarismâ— â„ž The leaves of the Prune tree tops of Bryers Plantaine Jewscare red Roses an m. j. balaustians tops of Mirtles of each m. ss Barley Berberies of each â„¥ ss boyle them in two pintes of water till half be consumed to the colature add the syrup of dryed Roses of mulherryes of each â„¥ ij mingle them This following Gargarisme conduces to the cure of the French disease in the throat or other part of the mouth â„ž Of Guaicum â„¥ j. Sarsaperilla Sasafras A Gargarisme for an Ulcer in the throat of each â„¥ ss lignum LentisciÊ’ iij. boyle them in two pintes of water till a third part be consumed adding towards the end of the coction LiquorishÊ’ vi Roses Sage and Rosmary of each p. j. with the colature often wash the throat Gargarismes may be used at any time especially in the morning and betwixt meales but they should be new continually for by long keeping they corrupt and rather harme than heale the mouth CHAP. VIII Of Emulsions AS one disease may be cured by many and different Medicaments so may one Medicament cure many and different diseases as the same called by the later Medicks an emulsion which may be accomodated to many uses for it conduces much to the mitigating the griefes of the heart and lungs to the conciliating of sleep to the refrigerating of immoderate heat to the asswaging of the Urines acrimony and extinguishing the ardour of the reins They
which we do not use save in small quantity or intermixed with such things as temper their heat for Odoraments objected to the nose in great quantity are graveolent and hurtfull to the brain which recreate it in small quantity because their graveolency is tempered with the ambient air Maleolentia ingrata sacultatibus noâ—ia or with the mixtion of other things But maleolent things though tempered with the ambient air are averse to the brain both in quality and substance according to Galen cap. 10. lib. de instrum odorat which Aristotle also confirms whil'st cap. 24. lib. 8. de Hist Anim. he sayes that Women may become abortive at the smell of an extinguished Candle Seeing then that suaveolent Odours are consocial to the spirits and their familiar Pabulum the Physician will not onely acquire praise of the Vulgar by being perfumed but he will be better able to prescribe Odoraments both to roborate the spirits and defend sanity Now they are either described in form of an Unguent or of a Pomander or of Trochisks or of Powder An Odorament in forâ— of Powder is thus confected â„ž Calamus AromaticusÊ’ iij. Orris FlorentineÊ’ ij Storax Benioin anaÊ’ j. Roses ℈ ij ClovesÊ’ ss Mosch Amber anaÊ’ ss make of these a Powder Our later Physicians extoll an Odorament they call the * * * Damask Powder Cyprian Odour or the Violet Odour which being variously described every one calls a suaveolent or fragrant Powder or the Cyprian or Violet Powder An Odorament in form of an Unguent may be easily made if you put the above described Powder in Oil Amber and Wax that it may acquire a fit consistency Or thus â„ž Yellow Saenders Calamus Aromaticus Squinant Cinnamon anaÊ’ j. Storax Benioin Mace anaÊ’ ss WaxÊ’ iij. Ol. Moschelini q. s fiat unguento Or thus â„ž Mace Cinnamon anaÊ’ ss Benioin ℈ ij Civet Mosch Amber ana ℈ ss Camphor gr 5. with Oil of Almonds make it up into an Unguent An Odorate mass also may be made of select Aromataes whereof Pomanders or Trochisks may be formed whose suaveolence is of great esteem as â„ž Citron pill dry Cinnamon Labdanum anaÊ’ j. StoraxÊ’ ij Mace Cloves Lignum Aloes Orris anaÊ’ ss Camphor ℈ j. Mosch Civet Amber ana ℈ ss with musilidge of Gum Traganth make it into a mass of which make Pomanders or Trochisks CHAP. XXVII Of Perfumes and Suffumigatories ALL sweet Odours exhilarate the spirits but many will not communicate their scent save by fire and therefore such are set over burning coals or otherwise so calefied that they emit their odours plentiously Thus did the first Adorers of a Deity make their Incense Sacrifice thus do Physicians confect their Perfumes for sanity and thus do the Courtiers confect theirs for pleasure Yet the matter of Perfumes is not alwayes injected upon coals but sometimes put into a brasen or silver pot which the Vulgar call a Cassolet Corula Cassoleta together with water of Roses or Oranges laying quick coals under it that it may boyl and with its vapour fill and perfume the whole house A Perfume is either humid or dry and both either for pleasure or sanity the humid may easily be made and is very familiar to delicate women who being sick or taking purgative Medicaments perfume their Cubicles with the pills of Oranges Lemmons Cloves Cinnamon and Rose water mixed together and put in a Cassolet over the fire The dry ones are more frequently confected by Apothecaries at the Phyficians precept either for pleasure or profit Those who through epicurism and voluptuousness profusely spend their Fathers means most accustome delicious Perfumes Those whose spirits want refection brains roboration hearts exhilaration and bodies vindication from some extrinsecal malignity require sanitiferous Perfumes Now Perfumes help the lungs stuffed with abundance of flegm Suffitus quibus affectionibus conveniat and yet they are not convenient to all diseases and affections about the breast for Aetius cap. 144. tetr ser 3. saith that they do harm such as spit blood by opening the vessels neither yet are they convenient for those who have some dry disease about their breasts but they eximiously conduce to such as are pursy orthopnoical and whose breasts are infested with many crude humours as also to such as labour under the French disease Lues Indica suffitu nonnunquam curatur if they be duely confected of idoneous Medicaments which will abject the poyson of that distemper by frequent salivation and be exhibited after the body hath been vacuated by universal remedies And they are most frequently used in form of a pretty crass Powder as thus to roborate and siccate the brain â„ž Storax Benioin anaÊ’ j. ss Gum of Juniper Frankincense anaÊ’ j. Cloves Cinnamon ana ℈ iij. the leaves of Bayes Sage Rosemary anaÊ’ ss make of all these a gross Powder and then put a part thereof upon burning coals that the diseased may expire the suffigated fume This Perfume will stop the humour that delabes from the brain to the lungs â„ž Cypress nuts Balaustians Ladanum anaÊ’ j. RosesÊ’ ij Mirtle berries and Mastich anaÊ’ j. ss make gross Powder for Fumigation This Fumigation made after this manner doth wonderfully roborate the heart and resartiate the spirits â„ž A Cordial Fume Calamus Aromaticus Xyloaloes Squinant Cinnamon anaÊ’ j. Storax Benioin anaÊ’ j. ss Mace Cloves anaÊ’ ss Roses Marjoran ana ℈ ij Aliptae MoschataeÊ’ ij pulverize them for a fume A mass may be confected of these Powders with some dust of small coals and a fit liquor which may be formed into Pastills or Birds or Cloves which we commonly call Cyprian Birds which take fire without flame and exhale a suaveolent fume and they are thus confected â„ž Benioin â„¥ j. Storax â„¥ ij Ladanum â„¥ ss Aliptae MoschataeÊ’ iij. small Coal â„¥ ij beat all these into a fine Powder and with Gum Traganth dissolved in Rose water make them up into a paste of which form little Birds Cloves or what you please Hippocrates lib. de nat mulicb advises women whose flowers stay twice every day to receive the fume of a Suffiment through a tunnel pipe into their privities and it will move flowers To which end such must first be elected as calefy in the first or at most in the second degree afterwards more vehement may be used yet with this caveat that too sharp ones be not exhibited lest the head be burthened or the neck of the uterus ulcerated Hip. lib. de superfoetatione Perfumes are destined to deduce the vessels and to draw the uterus towards the orifice that the blood may easily profluate But seeing the cunctation of flowers proceeds from the durity and siccity of the uterus the matter of Perfumes must be received in some idoneous liquor whereby the uterus may be humectated as in Wax simple or odorate Oil Turpentine Ladanum or Gum of Tragacanthum that Pastills may be formed thereof which when use requires may be injected upon burning coals or rather
wit the Colchian another not strangulative to wit our indigenous one a third purgative and safe to wit the Syrian which in Pharmacopolies is called Hermodactyla Hermodactyle calefies and siccates in the beginning of the second degree Vires yet with such excrementitious flatulent and naâ—â—eative humidity that it makes the ventricle aversant to it especially then when the commoved humours with one conflux come upon it It draws flegm and other viscid humours even from the articles and therefore conduces much to the Chiragry Podagry and other dolours in the junctures proceeding from pituitous humours CHAP. XIV Of Turbith THE enarration of no Plant is so much controverted as that of Turbith Mesue calls it a Lactary and a ferulaceous Herb Serapio thinks it is the root of Tripoly Acluarius one while sayes it is the root of Pityussa another while Dioscorides his Alypum and the more because it is whitish Some think it 's the root of Tapsia others of Scammony but Garcias will have it a Plant different from all these For saith he it is a plant whose root is neither great nor long whose caul of about a fingers crassitude and two palms longitude is extended along the earth like Ivy. Its leaves are like them of Althea as also its flowers which are whitish or red not changing their colour thrice in a day like Tripoly as fome have foolishly credited Now all Turbith is not gummous but onely that part of the caul that is next the root which part is also most usefull the rest being too gracile and comous to be used It purges onely flegm not choler as Alypum doth which some call Herba terribilis for its flowers leaves and seeds move terrible purgations Perhaps this Herb is called Turbith from the like faculty as Turbith because turbative which the Arabians call Terbeth which name they also give to their more valid flegmagogous Simples Turbith then according to Garcias is neither the root of Alypum nor of Tripoly nor of Scammony nor of Tapsia nor yet any lacteous or ferulaceous Plant neither is the gummous or domestick the best according to Mesue however there is no Shop wherein good Turbith may not be found noted with those ensigns which Mesue gives it Whereunto also that same that Garcias depinges in other lineaments which the Arabians call Caritamion responds in faculties But which is the true Turbith is yet ancipitous That is most approved of which is some what white and cineritious easily frangible and fresh for the inveterate is imbecil and conturbates the bowels It is hot in the third degree purges by moderate traction Vires and if it be corrected educes crass viscid and putrid flegm from the ventricle breast remote parts and junctures CHAP. XV. Of Scammony BY Scammony we understand not onely the concrete juice of a certain Plant but also the Plant it self And it is a lacteous volvulous scansory and smooth Plant in leaf flower and form very like Similax in root somewhat different which in Similax is slender in Scammony crass long candid within graveolent and pregnant with juice out of which slender and viticulous branches issue which climbe up the adjoyning bushes amplexing and implicating them Its leaves are broad and acuminated like Arisaron but lesser its flowers are albid and cave like a scale it grows plenteously in fat soyl chiefly in Antioch and Syria The liquor commonly called Scammony is collected out of iâ— roots after several manners as first the head of the root is resected then excavated with a knife that the juice may run in the concamerated passage till it be brought to fit receptacles or vessels supposâ—â—ed Secondly the earth about the root is effoded and the root left in a concamerated hole whereunto the juice is profunded upon Wallâ—â—â— tree leaves therein subjected which after concretion is extracted Thirdly the root evelled is incided and the juice issuing from it is exsicced formed into lumps and preserved Fourthly juice is extracted from its leaves and caul by triture which exsiccated coacted and kept But Scammony so educed is either black or of a sal green which is the worst that is best which exudes out of the root by incision especially that which comes from Antioch that which comes out of Armenia is next out of Europe bad enough The best is nitid splendid clear like gum somewhat white rate fungous spongious easily liquescible tender friable not ponderous nor very graveolent nor yet suaveolent but like taurine glew And by how much any recedes more from these notes by so much it is worse All Scammony purges validly Vires moving the belly with labour and molestation it expurges flegm and watry thin and sharp humours and if it be too largely assumed it abrades the intestines hurts the bowels opens and crodes the orifices of the veins draws blood downwards excites the dysentery conturbates the heart liver and other intrals and subverts the ventricle it is hot and dry in the third degree It s efferous faculty may be castigated by the admistion of Aloes The correction of Scammony but better if it be decocted in a Quince excavated and roasted upon coals or in an oven with some seeds of Smallage Fennel and Dancus but the most usual correction is by the admistion of the juice of Quince or Roses Scammony thus castigated Cur Diacrydium cictum is by the Pharmacopolists called Diacrydium which they corruptly term Diagredium When it is too new it is efferous when antiquated imbecil and torminous for it moves but emoves not good diet CHAP. XVI Of Hellebor or Bears-foot ELlebore or Hellebore is either white or black There be two sorts of white the greater and the lesser the greater bears leaves like Plantain or rather Gentian but larger more veinous skrewed and complicated It s caul is strait and long emitting many branches out of which white flowers emerge It s root is cepous crass and white whereunto many fibres adhere It calefies and siccates in the third degree it educes many but chiefly pituitous humours but not without molestation it excites vomit in the Assumer and its powder adhibited at the nostrils moves sternutation Elleborine is very like that same the Pharmacopolists keep Black Hellebore is quadruple the first sort is the true Hellebore Species nigri the second Garden Pseudo-ellebore the third Dioscorides his Hellebore or Bears foot the fourth is wild Pseudo-ellebore Some adde black ferulaceous Hellebore and the great Elleboraster The true black Hellebore emits broad full smooth hard leaves Elleborus niger verus like Laurel whose ambient is incided its flowers are broad patulous first albid then purpureous in whose middle when they are ready to decide grow short husks pregnant with small seeds It s root is manifold disterminated into many black fibres and radicles It flourishes in the winter solstice and deep snows This sort of Hellebore is most usual among Medicks and should be usurped when Hellebore is put
burn and not be extinguished till all its oleous and fat substance be absumed All Sulphur is not alike in colour for some is green some more luteous some cineritious and some pallid or lucid Whence we may gather That it is of more sorts then two Pliny also enumerates four some whereof are harder others fatter and others more inflammal That Sulphur whereof Alchymists tell many vain and ridiculous stories is not common Sulphur yet it is mixed though they assert that it is a principle of mixture But no more of that in this place There is a certain fat liquor very efficacious Oleum Sulphuris educed out of Sulphur yet such as may not be used imperitely lest it do more harm then good There is a powder also made of Sulphur against the vices of the Lungs whose event demonstrates its excellency That Medicament which Mesue calls Diasulphur is hence denominated Sulphur califies cocts resolves cures Coughs Vires and difficulty of breathing taken in an Egge or burned and its smoke catched moves spittle mixed with butter or swines-grease it mitigates and kills the itch erupting on the whole body and mixed with Turpentine it cures Tetters rough nails and scabs CHAP. 10. Of Amber-grise AMber-grise which was unknown to the Ancients is neither the seed of Balena nor excrement of any other Whale nor yet the dung of any Birds educated in the Isle Maldina with odoriferous herbs which dung is by the sea wash'd of those Rocks as some somniate nor yet any kinde of maritimous Mushrome eradicated by the Sea as many have asserted nor yet any thing made of Ladanum Aloes wood Storax and Civer as Fuschius credited but a certain kinde of Bitumen by storms driven from the Fountains and Chanels of the Sea to the shore where exposed to the air it speedily condenses as many things do which while they are in the water are soft and tender but eructed become dry and hard as Amber Perhaps as it is storied a great quantity of Amber-grise hath been found in a Whales belly but whilest she was alive she had got it and ingested it in the Sea for it is absurd to think that Amber should be the Whales excrement when the best Amber devoured by a Whale loses its bonity and suavity Which Simeon Sethi smelled well enough who asserting that Amber is a kinde of Bitumen flowing out of some Fountains saith That that which is devoured by fishes is the worst that can be Garcias ab Horto seems to assert That it is a kinde of odorate earth seeing there was not onely a fragment of three thousand pounds weight of Amber found in the earth but whole Islands of pure Amber and he proves the probability hereof from the infinite varieties of earth in colour and qualities and seeing in this general acception Bitumen may be called a kinde of Earth I do nor impugn the verisimilitude of his assertion especially finding it called Precious Earth Thus have I briefly related the whole history of Amber for I will neither undertake neither will my short annotations bear the discussion of such opinions as have been published about Amber That Amber which is most odorate devoid of filth perforated with a needle emits much fat succe that which is cineritious and not black is good that which is black or very candid is not good It calefies Vires resolves recreates the heart brain and principal parts refreshes the spirits cureth swoundings erects the strength exhilarates the mind and cures palpitation CHAP. 11. Of yellow Amber or Electrum ORange-coloured Amber is variously denominated the Greeks call it Electrum the Persians and Mauritanians Charabe that is catch-straw the Germans Glesum that is Glasse because it is splendent the Romans Succinum because it is the product of succe or Sea-bitumen concreted but not the succe of Pine or black Poplar as many have asserted for it is found in the deeps and upon Sea-shores concreted of the fat juyce of the Sea and Earth This matter whilest lent viscid and fat before it be obdurated and dryed catches and detains many Flies Gnats Ants and such like Insects which dye dry and odorate together with the Amber This Amber is either white or flave the white which is more odorate and lighter is good so also is the flave if pellucid and such as may be made by attrition to smell like Rosemary and attract chaff or straw It s Powder given in convenient liquor cohibits the flux of blood roborates the bowels and is good against the white fluor of the womb one dragm thereof taken in a soft Egge will stay the flux of Sperm and will help such as are tabid infested with hardness of intestines difficulty of breathing and long Coughs CHAP. 12. Of Coral COral is from its effigies hardness and native soyl frequently and not improperly called Lithodendron as if it were a Stone-tree and sometimes a Sea-shrub for Macer saith it seems to be the bough of some arbuscle for it grows in the Tyrrhenian and Sicilian Seas assurging and emitting branches like a little Tree Hence some repose it amongst shrubs others amongst stones and others amongst Bitumens but it is really none of all these but something of each It is threefold one sort is red another white and another black the first as it is of a more jucund aspect so more medicinal and more apt for Bracelets and other Ornaments The white as it is more spongious so more light and refrigerative the black is most rarely seen lesse medicinal and expetible red is the best which is alwayes understood when Coral is prescribed absolutely There is another sort of Coral of a mixed colour which is not so good the red that is best should be of a florid colour odorate like Alga ramous like a shrub very frangible not rough nor hollow or chanelled All Coral refrigerates dryes and bindes Vires it cohibits the immoderate flux of fluors and blood it cures the Dysentery represses the flux of mans sperm and the white fluors of a womans Uterus It helps such as are anhelant infested with the Epilepsie Spleenatick and heart-dolours for it roborates the brain diminishes the spleen and exhilarates the heart Alchymists extract a red oyl out of Coral which is very useful in staying blood and roborating the members of which elswhere CHAP. 13. Of Auripigmentum AUripigment Arrhenick or Arsenick Sandaracha and Risagalum differ not save in name onely All are effoded out of the same pit all are septical and acrimonious with extreme calour dissolving destroying and preying upon the principles of life Some of the later Writers call three things Arsenick for they denominate Auripigment Yellow Arsenick Sandarax Red Arsenick and Risagalum VVhite Arsenick Auripigment and Sandarax are of the same Metals and seem onely to differ in more or less coction and therefore they are both often mixed in the same glebe There are two sorts of Auripigment one of a golden colour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which
as much as silver-stone All Litharge then is the product of silver and that which is flave like gold is not made of gold as some think though it be thence cognominated Gold-Litharge for degrees and intentions of heat do not onely change the colour but intend or remit the heat and vary the name Thus Diphryges is named as though it were twice cocted which is the sibsident dross of perfect Brass cohering to the bottom of the furnace like the ashes of burnt wood when the Brass is taken away after the the affusion of water and it is as sharp as burnt Brass siccates vehemently cures rebellious Ulcers and it may be made two other wayes according to Dioscorides and Pliny Now besides these two sorts of Litharge Vires which Dioscorides makes one he enumerates other two to wit Molybditis which is made of sand in furnaces and another of Leaden plates which is the most useful and frequent Yet Christis is preferred before all which should be purged from its Lead and dross before it ingrede the Composition of any Medicament to which end Dioscorides sayes it must be burnt and washed like Cadmia but now they onely levigate it in a morter putting clear water upon it and agitating it then they cast it into another vessel and pouring more water upon it agitate it again and when it is again troubled cast it into the precedent vessel and iterate its lotion till the Lead and dross subside in the morter and all its tenuions substance be educed which they make to acquiesce till all the sincere and pure Litharge rest at the bottom which when the water is effunded they collect and levigate upon a Marble that the tongue may not perceive any asperity therein Litharge refrigerates Vires astringes represses occludes expletes cavities exterges draivâ—â— to scars and cures gallings by riding Finis Libri Secundi THE THIRD BOOK OF Medicinal Matter TREATING Of Medicaments taken from Animals either whole or in part THE PREFACE OUr Mother Nature hath produced nothing either imperfect or in vain but hath brought forth variety of Plants for the sake of Animals and several species of Animals for Plants Many of them are ordained for Food and Nutriment some for Medicament and other for Vesture One Animal is an enemy to another but all are subservient to Man For there is no Insect how vile and base soever which doth not afford some prosit to Man For the most imperfect Creatures usually afford the most perfect Remedies as from Claws Horns Excrements Blood Flesh Marroâ— Testicles and Bones Besides those very wounds which are made by certain Animals are cured by the Application of same part of the same Animal Nay indeed the whole Earth doth abound with innumerable â—endedies for the variety of Maladies What excellent Vertues do those Medicines afford which are derived from humane Bodies of which first here we intend to speak viz. Of Mumy and Man's Blood whose faculties to emblazon would require a larger Discourse then this our intend'd brevity will permit CHAP. 1. Of Man's Blood ALchymists educe a certain Oyl and stillatitious water out of Man's Blood the dogmatical onely use it to burstness in whose stead Hogs blood may rightly be substituted as Galen advises who saith Lib. 3. de Alin. that Swines blood doth so nearly accede to Mans blood that he that findes any thing in Mans blood useful for Medicine shall finde the same in Swines blood Blood is Natures Treasury generated by heat in the greater Veins of the Liver which is the prime organ of sanguification from the purer portion of Chyle through which Veins it is carried as it were along tubes to the several parts of the body for their nutrition and as long as it is herein contained it is liquid and red but when effunded it presently concretes onely the blood of Harts and Does wanting fibres concretes not but remains fluid like Milk for Hippocrates averres That blood concretes not when the fibres are taken away Now blood being the matter of the whole body according to the Philosopher the blood of man who is the rule of other Animals is fincere and thin hot and moist and the best of succes yet it is not a simple humour but participates of Phlegm and both the Biles And therefore Hippocrates saith That the four Humours are the matter of mans generation as Galen attests Lib. 2. de Temp. Blood then is an humour generated in the Liver of a temperate part of Chyle moderate in substance and qualities in colour red in sapour sweet and naturally contained in Veins and Arteries whereby it is directed to all parts Lib. 3. de Part. Animal for as water is from one fountain and original deduced into many rivulets others arising from these till the humour pervade all Regions so Nature hath directed blood through the whole body it being the matter of the whole The blood of a diseased or intemperate man must not be collected and kept in shops for the confection of any Emplaister but from some temperate and sound man if it may be had as the blood of such as are beheaded for their Veins and Arteries being cut together their veinous and arterious blood is promiscuously collected Yet neither the blood of this or any other Animal is of much value or vertue in the confecture of astrictive salves because by siccation and asservation it neither retains any of its native bonity nor yet assumes any excellent acquisititious quality CHAP. 2. Of Mumy RHasis and Avicenna contend That Mumy is an Arabick word denoting Pissaphaltum Isaac saith It is a Persian word signifying a certain liquor found in Sepultures where aromatized carcases had been long reconded one fellow calls it Cerops upon what ground I know not unless because it hath the consistency of Wax for Num with the Persians denotes Wax It is found onely in the Tombs of Aegyptian Kings and Nobles who hearing of a Resurrection made their bodies be condited with Myrrhe Cinnamome Aloes and other Spices that they might conserve them But many years after when the Souldiors in time of Wars devastated all places everting Sepulchres they found in some coffins a certain odorate and pleasant liquor of the spissitude of honey which when the Aegyptian Medicks and Philosophers judged upon good grounds to be indued with eximious faculties they believed it might work the cure of some affections and therefore they made tryal of it and found the event answerable to their opinions they restoring many to sanity thereby They then being imboldened by this experience sought this conditure in other Noble-mens Sepulchers which they inverted and exhausted yea they so much envied the happiness of the dead mens bones that they robbed poor mens coffins of their corruption which cadaverous liquor they called Mumy and gave it to the fick Nay it was of so much fame presently that they would insperge a little Salt and Alome on the carcases of such as dyed of the French disease
it or cure him of it it will also cure a wound inflicted by a Scorpion and so will its own body bruised and applied A Scorpion is a terrestrial Animal with a long and nodous tayl whose end is armed with a long and oblique sting perviated with a small hole through which it effunds its poyson into the part pricked it hath arms and fore-cleyes bisulcated its tayl is alwayes ready for a stroke it never le ts slip an opportunity it strikes obliquely The Masculine Scorpion is maculated on the belly and forecleys and its poyson is more pernicious the Females more milde though some write contrary There are eight kindes of Scorpions the first is white which they say is not lethiferous the second yellowish whose stroke is seconded with vehement ardour and an inextinguishable thirst the third is blackish whose stroke depraves the members of motion and makes men mad causing foolish laughter the fourth is somewhat green it hath seven knots in his tayl perpetual and great cold though in the heat of Summer follows upon its stroke the fifth is pale and livid and infects the percussed with tumours in his groins the sixth is like a little Sea Crab-fish the seventh hath greater Cleys and is very like the Crab we call Pagurus the eighth is of a Honey-colour it hath wings like a Locust and the last knot of its tayl is black Winged Scorpions are very rare with us but frequent and great in India and Aphrica with seven knots in their tayls If we reckon the variety of Scorpions by the variety of their colours some are called flave Scorpions some yellow some cineritious some green some ferrugineous some vinous some white and others fuliginous The smitings of Scorpions are farre more perillous to women then men and especially to Virgins for they are alwayes lethal to such unless they be presently helped and such Scorpions as have seven knots in their tayls are judged most cruel They procreate and sit upon Vernicles like Egges Vires and they produce a progeny which coming to perfection drives them away and thus Scorpions are said to be killed by their young ones But these things respect not Pharmacy and therefore not for my purpose CHAP. 33. Of Worms MAny small Animals are generated of Worms and Worms of many great Animals yea this progeny springs from all altered and putrid matter stones bones wood fruit cheese flesh and all things seem at first to turn into worms for mans own flesh is absumed by worms and his clothes by moths And though cold things much resist putretude yet worms are generated in the coldest snow and some are procreated of salt they are also generated in Animals daily their body abounding with putrid humours for there worms are generated where putretude resides for Corruption is their Mother I saw a worm of a palms length come out with the blood of the vein of ones arm opened They are still generated in the intestines and other parts of mans body and also in Harts heads Every Insect generates a worm except the Butterfly which is procreated of another dissimilar Insect as the Poet Et fio volucris qui modo vermis eram The family of Worms being thus ample I shall onely speak of Earth-worms which are used in Medicine for these washed in white-wine prepared macerated in Oyl and duly elixated in a double vessel afford us an Oyl very conducible in nervous affections They are also assumed at the mouth after due preparation to wit when they are washed dryed levigated and mixed with other Powders to cure Virgins pale colours Many call them the Earths Intestines others Earth-worms others Earth-lumbricks they have a long round body with neither bone eye nor ear They go so that the precedent part draws the consequent in their locomotion They are procreated of the mud of the earth and animated by the same cause that other Insects are They are destitute of eyes ears feet members and are like oblong fibres whose parts are not discriminated save by some knots and denervations a little beyond their middles Spring or Winter-showers if not glacial elicite them they are neither liberally nor copiously generated in the earth much trodden upon but frequently in fat and waste ground Vires These bruised and applied conglutinate prescinded Nerves and fresh wounds CHAP. 34. Of Spanish-Flies or Beetles THese Flyes have onely a nominal affinity with Beetles for they are often used in Medicine Beetles never Galen hath experienced them good against scabs and Leprosies and Physicians finde â—hem to provoke Urine Aristotle calls them Putrid Animals because they are produced â—f putrid matter They are procreated nourished and found in â—any shrubs as the Bramble and in many tall trees as the Ash shose that are found in Corn are versicolorate and have transâ—erse lines in their wings with an oblong body and are very good But they will be more fit for use if they be injected into an earthen vessel whose orifice is covered with a rare linen cloth and turned downwards that by the halite of sharp vinegar they may be exanimated then dryed reposed in wooden boxes glass or earthen vessels and kept for the space of two years They are mixed but in small quantity to Medicaments that provoke Urine by Galens advise who would have them injected whole but the later Writers would have their legs and wings abscinded and abjected When a Noble Matron of Paris was holden with a continual Feaver accompanied with the heat of the Reins and other grievous symptomes and had committed the care of her cure to Mr. Martin a learned and perite Parisian Medick by the perswasion of some she call'd one Rivierius a courtly Medick who feeling her pulse said If she had called him a little sooner he would have applyed a dragm of French flies to the region most affected and have presently restored her to sanity so he left the Matron grieved and her ordinary Medick astonished at his humour manners words and actions who was so far from adhibiting such a company of these flies that he applyed not one and yet restored her to health for this flie being most dry and light it is credible one weighing not above a grain what were it less then carnifice to adhibite sixty of them which weigh but a dragm to the aesture of the Reins But take this obiter not because I am incensed against the man but that I might shew that these flies are very noxious to the Bladder Reins and other parts by inducing inflammations yet very good mixed with other Medicaments in a small quantity CHAP. 35. Of Ants. PHarmacopolies are not destitute of Ants which afford an oyle commended to many received uses for it califies the generative parts being too frigid and reduces them to a better state Ants are the most laborious and officious of insects which exercise their labours not onely on the day but on the night also in full Moon alwayes treading the same pathes bringing
cibaries to their Cells and reconding them for the insuing year They hunt not after smaller animalls like Cobs but degust them when dead congest grains and bear their burthens in their mouthes Ants are either winged whose infusion yeilds the said oyle or wingless which are frequently found in dry and incultivated places sick Bears seek sanity from them There is in some regions in India where Gold is effoded a kinde of Ants equalizing Foxes in magnitude I finde also some equitant ones and others that fly the light but the Apothecary never uses such CHAP. 36. Of the Silk-worm THat glory is now given to Silk which was given to fine linen wherewith the Ancient Kings were invested and as we read in Luke 10. A certain rich man arrayed This flax was a kinde of tenuious line next in dignity to Asbestinum whereof most subtile vestments were made with which women were most delighted which according to Pliny grew neer Elis in Achaia according to Pollux in India and Aegypt and Pausanias in Greece on a tree not unlike our Poplar with willowish leaves but whether its plant be a tree or an herb it is altogether unknown to us It bears not onely leaves but line also which the People of Seres Scytia and Asiatica perite in spining draw out into small threads and make it into vestments for rich men and that which the Serians work is called Silk Asbestus is either a certain stone of a ferreous colour in the Mountains of Arcadia which being once accended can never be extinguished or else flax whereof Napkins are made that will take flame and not burn away like plumbeous Lead But we have no such by ssigerous plant nor vestments made of their Down but onely Bombycina which as Byssina of old is now called Silk which is as good for dignity in the same uses and besides accommodated to Medicinal exhibitions for Apothecaries following the Arabians dictate have an opinion of Silk Vires that it will purge blood roborate the vital faculties recreate the heart illustrate the spirits refresh all faculties and help all the spirits These are the eximious Encomia wherewith the Barbarians nobilitate the excrement of their virulent Insect But seeing any one may Philosophize and propose his opinion in the matter in hand I profess I think Silk is of small use in Medicine for it is the dry inodorate exuicous recrement of an imperfect Animal affine to Cob-webs but inept and ineffectual in mans cure It may be that that Byssinum which the latter writers call fine flax is indued with eximious faculties but no such being now fonnd nor brought to us our Pharmacopolists cannot speak of it unless they speak in their dreams And I wonder upon what reason they give crude Silk to the sick when it is tincted with Scarlet it is indeed vertuous but it borrows that faculty from its infection and therefore I had rather prescribe the dying grains alone then frustraneously spend their succe in dying Silk But let perite Medicks who have onely reason for their Law be Judges in the case These Silk-worms are little Animals excluded from small round and blackish seeds called by some egges cherished with a moderate calour animated and at first formed into Minute-worms which educated on the leaves and boughs of the Mulberry-tree after a while spin their slender webs or Silken threads whereof precious cloth is abundantly woven When they are more adult they make of themselves hoods and domicils for themselves and there in a short time they transmute themselves into white Butterflies which produce seeds or small eggs whereof other worms of the same kinde are generated But these being known to Women and Children need no further description Some Medicks use the Galls of many Animals the Liver and intestines of Wolves the brains of Sparrows the testicles of Cocks and Asells which are found under water-vessels but these not ingreding the compositions in our Shop belong not to us Thus I have in three Books by Gods auxiliation briefly and clearly composed all Medicinal matter to whom be Honour Glory and Praise now and Ever Finis Libri Tertii THE Pharmaceutrical Shop Divided into TWO PARTS The first whereof Treats Of INTERNAL and the second of EXTERNAL MEDICAMENTS By the AUTHOR JOANNES RENODAEVS Physician in PARIS ENGLISHED By RICHARD TOMLINSON APOTHECARY LONDON Printed by J. Streater and J. Cottrel 1657. To his Honoured Learned and Vertuous FRIEND WILLIAM WITHEINGS Esq Worthy Sir THe manifold Testimonies of your reall favours calls for a perpetual Commemoration and what requital can be returned but a bare demonstration where ability cannot correspond or aspire to the dignity of that Desert couched within the verge of that manifestation of affection so amply discovered And to lie dormant under so much Courtesie were to invelop my self within the Rounds of Ingratitude and in stead of Coronating your deserved Worth already bedubbed with the true Sparklings of never-fading Glory I should Adumbrate the Lustre thereof which otherwise would necessarily dispel the thickest clouds by the Satyrical Screen of Fame-defacing-Oblivion To enumerate the many discoveries and dawnings of your Vertues were to comprehend a Catalogue of the Universal Genus of Atomes within the narrow bounds of a Nutshel Neither can the weak blandishments of a Quill emblazon the least shadow of those Trophies whose Glory is founded in the true Abyss of your merited Renown Pardon this boldness SIR in presuming to lodge this Book within your Gates and in making use of your Name without your consent Let not a sinister construction obstruct a gentle remission nor a rigid apprehension hinder the thought of a venial transgression Doubtless SIR the Subject will not dishonour your Person in Patronizing it from suffering shipwrack in the tumultuous gulfs of Contradiction and Detraction but rather conclude That the rayes of your Learning being 〈…〉 the Imperfections necessarily accruing in the Alteration of the Garb will put a period to what may be objected by those whose Medulla Scientiae is nothing else but the true pourtraicture of that Livid Viper Envy whose virulency is Malevolent Censure Let such endeavor its Overture whilest your finger supports it by the Chin till it arrives with the fresh gales of your Countenance to its desired Haven with its Top-gallant streaming out the true Characters of your Honour maugre the carpings of Zoilus What need it to fear the trivial Objections of certain Augurs when its Patron is both strongly fenced with the Principles of Theory and garnished with the Robes of Integrity SIR you are not one whom infant Effeminacy youthful Delicacy or voluptuous Liberty could ever yet allure your intellect and knowledge from diving into Divine and Moral Arcana's Altius surgentes Innocentes licet comitatur suspicio Tacit. What greater Symbole of true Gentility then Goodness It is not the gawdy lustre of the Purple but the inward vertue of the Person that proclaims Greatness having alwayes observed you to entrain Humility and Integrity
use them wholly or some part or excrement of them to the curation of our diseases nutrication of our bodies or instauration of our strength for Musk and Givet though excrements wonderfully roborate the heart and spirits Insects are integrally usurped such as be Spanish-Flyes Asels Worms Lizards Ants Vipers Scorpions Frogs Crabs Swallows and some littles Birds The Medicinal parts of Animals are many as a mans scull unburied a Harts heart-bone Sparrows and Hares brains Boars and Elephants teeth Frogs hearts Foxes Lungs Goats Livers Wolves intestines Beavers and Cocks testicles Hogs bladders Harts genitals Serpents skins Mans Hogs Gooses Sheeps Ducks Badgers Conies Goats Snakes and Land-Snakes fat Harts Calves and Goats marrow Mans Stock-Doves and Goats blood all Milk and all that comes of it as Whey Cheese and Butter Hens Partridges and Ants eggs Honey Wax Propolis Harts Does and Unicorns horns Elkes Oxes and Goats Cleyes Oysters Margarites and many fishes shells And seeing excrements have their Medicinal vertues Pharmacopolists must also have them in keeping as Goats Dogs Storks Peacocks and Stock-Doves dung Sheeps grease Silk Musk Civet and the hairs of some Animals And that I may briefly complect all all the simple Medicaments we have described in our three Books of Medicinal matter are necessary for a Pharmacopolist CHAP. 35. Of Compound Medicaments to be kept in Pharmacopolies VVHen the Pharmaceutrical Art was not yet reducted to an Art nor any Medicaments save a few described or digested into order then what compounds should be retained and what rejected was not determinable Nicolaus Praepositus indeed described many Medicaments some whereof he himself disapproves of others he transcribed not faithfully and others he depraved by changing something in them so that from his writings we cannot conjecture what to keep or what not Nic. Alexandrinus heaps up such a mole of Medicaments that they would rather puzzle then help an Apothecary Actuarius also Aetius and Oribasius describe many which consisting of unknown and rare Simples are found either inept or neglected as indued with no eximious qualities Amongst the latter Writers Ferneleus Sylvius and Rondeletius have diligently examined the Medicaments invented by the Ancients and have rejected some as inconcinnate others they have proved illustrated and commended as invented by riper Judgements and indued with Nobler faculties I have diligently selected the most excellent from learned men and the most approved from old and expert men and of them extracted my Pharmaceutrical shop or Antidotary orderly composed into six books wherein all the approved troop of Alterative Purgative and Roborative Medicaments are described which being used either by intrinsecal assumption or extrinsecal adhibition I have exhibited those to be introsumed if Alteratives in form either of syrupes or sapes or conserves or eclegms if Purgatives either in the form of a liquid Electuary or a solid one or Trochisks or Pills if Roboratives either in form of a powder or an opiate confection or of Pastils those to be extraneously adhibited either in form of an Oyl or an Unguent or a salve All which receipts and forms of Medicaments we have exhibited in distinct Books and Chapters described in a good method wherein all the Medicaments are contained wherewith Pharmacopolies should be furnished and guarded He shall require no more neither can he be well furnished with fewer who desires well to cure the several affections of mans body The Apothecaries Shop OR ANTIDOTARY THE FIRST BOOK Of Alterative and Preparative Medicaments Distinguished into eight SECTIONS The first whereof describes onely Syrupes selected and approved by long use THE PREFACE HOw necessary a Method is in delivering of Disciplines I think is well known to any moderately-learned man For without a method there is no certain rule neither for Learner or Teacher to walk by but with this Arts are more firmly established their Theorems more optably read and easily learned Yet you shall scarce finde two who in writing Antidotaries have kept in one rode or disposed their Compounds in one order Some preposterously propose Nic. Praepositus for their example who himself imitating one Nic. Alexandrinus out of whose Works he excerpted those his Works he calls Joan. Agricol Ammonius and M. Tatius Alpin went on Alphabetically treating first of those Medicaments which begun with the letter A then with the letter B and so he spoke promiscuously of the Antidotes Acetum Scylliticum and Amylum Sylvius Fernelius and Joubertus of the later Writers have assayed by certain Laws and Rules to establish an orderly and duly-disposed method yet they much dissent among themselves and what one of them approves another disapproves yet all think that order is best which curation prescribes for a series of words onely demonstrate We have observed this method in our Shop wherein are contained all Medicaments for the expugnation of all diseases not confusedly described but such as must be introsumed are digested in the former part of the Antidotary such as must be extrinsecally adhibited in the latter part thereof The first part is distributed into three Books the first whereof treats of Alterative and Preparative Medicaments the second of Purgatives and the third of Cordials or Roboratives Each Book is disterminated into many Sections and they subdivided into many Chapters the first whereof treats of Syrupes and first of such as are made of the first and Spring-flowers as Syrupe of Violets Syrupe of Coltsfoot and of the flowers of Peach-trees CHAP. 1. Syrupus Violarum or Syrupe of Violets â„ž of Violet flowers fresh and picked 2 lb. Infuse them eight houres in 5 pints of hot scalding water in a close * * * An Insusionpot The Author appoints an equal quantity of sugar to the infusion pot well glazed afterwards press them out and the same Infusion made hot again adde to it the same quantity as before of fresh Violets Infusing them 8 hours more and so sive times repeated adde to the Colature 10 lb. â„¥ x. of Loaf-sugar and so make it into a Syrupe The COMMENTARY Nature alone confects no Syrups but they acquire their mixtion coction and consistence by Art yet that which is made of Violets Water and Sugar onely is called a simple Syrupe in reference to the more compound which besides these admit of the seeds of Quinces Mallowes Jujubs Sebesten and the water of Gourds whose Authour they make Mesue but that I know of I never found it thus confected in him That which we call the Simple Syrupe is made in every Pharmacopoly but not alike simply confected for it is sometimes made of the succe of Violets and Sugar sometimes of the same infused and expressed twice thrice or oftener for many infuse and macerate new Violets seven times others eight and some nine But Fernelius thinks that so oft iterated infusion is needless They in vain saith he reiterate the maceration of Violets nine times for Syrupe of Violets seeing after the third or fourth infusion the Syrupe will be as efficacious as after more But I
Foxes lungs pag. 449 Frankincense pag. 381 Froggs pag. 462 463 Frontals pag. 198 Their various forms pag. 199 Fruits how to keep them pag. 146 A Frontal mitigating pain and conciliating sleep pag. 119 Fumatory pag. 334 Furnace how to be built pag. 89 Their various use Ibid. G. GAlls pag. 392 Galanga pag. 272 Galbanum pag. 401 Galens father had bitter honey pag. 101 His opinion concerning the purgative faculty pag. 12 Gargarisms what they are pag. 161 A Gargarism to purge flegm from the brain Ibid. A cleansing Gargarism Ib. For Venereous ulcers in the throat Ibid. When they are to be used Ibid. Gems pag. 419 Genitals of a Hart. pag. 454 Gentian pag. 300 Germander pag. 326 Ginger its description where the best grows its vertues pag. 270 Girasola pag. 420 Gith pag. 328 Glysters their use pag. 183 Glyster-decoction how long it may be kept Ibid. Who was their first inventor Ibid. Those that have no fats purge stronger pag. 184 A carminative Glyster Ib. A Glyster for the Apoplexie pag. 184 For the Dysentery Ibid. Goats suet pag. 444 Goats hoof pag. 161 Goats blood its preparation pag. 442 Gourds their difference pag. 241 Gold is good and evil pag. 426 Its vertues pag. 427 Gold glue pag. 399 Goose-grease pag. 446 A superstitious opinion about it Ibid. Goose-grass pag. 361 Goose-berry-tree pag. 386 Gossipium pag. 362 Gradation pag. 92 Grain what it is pag. 135 Granate pag. 415 Grass its kindes pag. 303 Vertues pag. 304 Knotgrass pag. 349 Grief what it is pag. 113 Its effects Ibid. Gromel pag. 323 Grapes pag. 385 Ground-pine pag. 326 Guaiacum its differences and vertues pag. 288 How long it should be macerated pag. 59 Gum what it is pag. 394 How gums are to be infused pag. 56 Gum-Arabick pag. 395 Traganth pag. 396 Elemni pag. 383 Ivy. pag. 403 Gypsum what it is pag. 422 H. HAEmatites pag. 419 Hare burnt is good for the Stone pag. 67 A Hare that had Horns pag. 443 Sea-Hare Ibid. Hares Blood Ibid. Harts-pizle dried its vertues pag. 16 Harts-flesh burnt expels stones Ibid. Harts tears pag. 454 Harts heart-bone Ibid. Harts marrow pag. 443 Hartwort pag. 299 Its varieties vertues pag. 300 Hemina pag. 137 Haxagion pag. 135 Hartichoak pag. 333 How to preserve their stalks pag. 345 Hellebore its kindes pag. 265 Vertues Ibid. Hemionitis pag. 236 Henbane its kindes and vertues pag. 349 Hepaticks pag. 19 Hepatiorum pag. 356 Hepatica Ibid. Herbs where they are to be kept pag. 145 Capillary Herbs pag. 150 Whence they have their name Ibid. Emollitive Herbs pag. 151 How Herbs are to be dried pag. 145 Hermodactyls used in the Shops pag. 262 How they differ from Ephemerus and Colchicus Ibid. Hiera Picra whence it hath its name pag. 111 Why Galen called it so pag. 112 The variety of descriptions thereof pag. 113 Hiera Picra Galeni or Galens Hiera pag. 567 Hiera Picra cum Agarico or Hiera with Agarick pag. 568 Hiera Pachij Ibid. Hiera Diacolocynthidos pag. 569 Hieracia pag. 243 Hipocistus pag. 391 Hippocrates Wine pag. 56 Hypolapathum pag. 253 356 Hispidula pag. 363 Honey pag. 224 The first inventor of it pag. 100 How the best may be known pag. 225 When it is to be despumed by it self pag. 84 What bodies it will preserve pag. 99 Honey of Fruits pag. 225 Bitter Honey pag. 100 Anacardian Honey how it is made pag. 78 Honey of Rosemary pag. 531 Of Mercury pag. 532 Of Raisons pag. 102 Of Roses pag. 530 Of Violets pag. 531 Hogs grease pag. 445 Hoglice pag. 204 Honeysuckles pag. 338 Hops pag. 359 Hordeat what it is pag. 164 Horehound pag. 318 Hounds-tongue pag. 348 Housleek pag. 351 Humectation is a kin to Infusion pag. 57 For what Med. it is useful Ibid. Humor that is cold and gross will be but slowly purged pag. 141 Hyachinthus pag. 415 Hydragogous pag. 28 Hydragoge Eximium pag. 565 Hydrolapathum pag. 356 Hydromel what is to be understood by its name pag. 100 What proportion of Honey to water in Hydromel Ibid. Hydromel Melicratum and Mulsum are the same Ibid. Hydromel of the country mans Ibid. Hydromel vinosum simp or simple vinose pag. 528 Hydromel Ibid. Hypercatharticks pag. 28 Hypnoticks pag. 29 Hypocaust what it is pag. 188 What must be done before going into it Ibid. Hypoplomon pag. 344 Hyssop pag. 329 I. JAsper pag. 419 Imbution what it is pag. 53 Indian Leaf pag. 285 Induration what pag. 75 Infection pag. 59 Infusion how it is made pag. 56 Its use Ibid. Insess its materials and use pag. 186 187 An Insess to asswage the pain of the reins Ibid. To allay the Cholick pag. 187 Insipid pag. 39 Insolation what pag. 71 Intinct Green pag. 77 Intybolachanum pag. 243 Intybum Ibid. Joseph had Pharmacy in great esteem pag. 3 Irrigation what pag. 192 Irrigation provoking sleep Ibid. It may be reduced to Humectation pag. 57 Iron the kindes thereof pag. 430 It is not evil in it self pag. 431 Its rust Ibid. Isinglass how it is made pag. 452 Judaicus Lapis pag. 400 Juice what it is pag. 394 How it may be kept long without putrefaction pag. 78◠How to repose them pag. 146 Juice of Liquorish pag. 392 How it is made pag. 393 Juices mixt with Honey pag. 102 Jujubees pag. 381 Julep what it is pag. 166 Its dose pag. 167 How it differs from a Syrupe and Apozeme Ibid. A Julep conciliating sleep pag. 167 Julepus Ziziphorum pag. 166 Juniper Berries pag. 391 Ivory pag. 454 Gum of Ivy. pag. 403 K. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 31 Kathareiticon Ibid. Keiri pag. 309 Kermes Berries what pag. 283 Their vertues Ibid. Their Juice pag. 284 Kings ancient care of the health of their Armies pag. 2 Kings in time past did prepare Med. Ibid. Knotgrass pag. 349 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 31 L. LAcca what it is pag. 393 Lacryma of the Ethiopian Olive pag. 383 Laddanum what it is pag. 391 Ladies Rose pag. 247 Lake of Sodom pag. 403 Lapis Bezoardicus whence it hath its name where it is generated how to know it pag. 457 Lapis Caliminaris pag. 433 Lapis Heraclius pag. 417 Lapis Judaicus pag. 420 Lapis Lazuli pag. 417 The difference between it and Lapis Armenij Ibid. Lapis Nephriticus pag. 420 Lapis 〈◊〉 Ibid. Lapis Selenites Ibid. Laranna pag. 383 Larix pag. 258 Laserpitium pag. 399 400 Laudanum pag. 595 Lavender greater pag. 286 Lead its sorts and vertues pag. 428 How to wash it pag. 54 How to powder it pag. 62 How to burn it pag. 69 Leeks pag. 307 Leopards bane pag. 330 Lemond pag. 370 How to candy their peels pag. 543 Lentisk pag. 384 Lettice pag. 241 Why so called its differences and vertues Ibid. It may be both aliment and poyson pag. 5 How to preserve their stalks pag. 545 Libisticum pag. 299 Liccorish pag. 392 Its Juice pag. 393 Lice the principle of it is fire and water pag. 217 Ligula pag. 136 Lillies pag. 250 Lilly Convalli Ibid. Limation
binding our Apothecaries have seldom the right Acatia but instead thereof use the juyce of Sloes Accended burned Access a fit of an Ague Gout c. Accelerator in plain English an hastener Physically it is used for the Muscle that opens the passage of the Seed and Urine Acerb sowr or sharp Acetum Vinegar of Beer Acetaries Sallets or Herbs mixed with Vinegar to stir up appetite Acetum Vini Vinegar of Wine Acetum destillatum Distilled Vinegar Acetabula see Cotylidones Achor vel tinea or scald-head is a Disease possessing the musculous skin of the head or hairy scalp and eating thereinto like a Moth. Accidents something necessarily accompanying a Disease Acquires obtains Acrimony sharpness or freting of any sharp or corrosive water or humour of the body Aconite a venemous herb having a root like to a Scorpion shining within like Alabaster Acuminated sharp pointed Acute Diseases such as are sharp and violent but of short continuance Adamant A pretious stone commonly called a Diamond brought from Arabia and Cyprus It s the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth Glass and yieldeth neither to the hammer nor fire yet it may be dissolved with warme Goats-blood Adeps farness Adjacent neer adjoyning Adjection casting or adding to Adimpleates fills up Adjuvant causes such as are subservient to the principal causes Adjument help and relief Adjuncts qualities dispositions and symptomes annexed to a Disease Adjutorious helpful Admixtion mingling together Adscitious false counterfeit Adulation flattery Adust the blood is then said to be adust when by reason of extraordinary heat the thinner parts are evaporated and the thicker remain black and dreggy Adustion burning of the blood Adulterate corrupt or counterfeit Adventitious not natural but proceeding from some Cause existing without the proper body Adstriction binding or shutting up the pores of the skin Aegilops fistala lacrymalis a tumor in the great corner of the Eye by the root of the Nose Aeftuary an hot-house or Stove Affectus unimi affectionis motions or passions of the mind Affected troubled or distempered Afflux flowing to any particular part Agaric a kind of Mushrom or Toad-stool of great use in Physick it grows upon the Larch tree in Italy and is white light brittle and spungeous it purgeth phlegm and opens obstructions in the Liver Agitation shaking any liquor together in a glass Ahenum a brass skillet with a cover Ablution is exaltation clensing impure things by often infusion reducing them to purity Albation is the abstraction of Dust moths gret cleaving to a thing with a Hares foot feather spather or such like Albugo is the white spot in the Eye called pin and web Alacrity chearfulness Alchimy is an art dissolving natural congealed substances and likewise congealed substances dissolved for the more grateful wholsom safe preparing of Medicines for mans body an art which produces magisterial and essential medicines from mixed bodies Alkakengie winter Cherries the red round berries whereof are good against obstructions of the Liver the stone and divers diseases of the Kidnies and Bladder Alcolismus is an operation by calcination ribellation and other means which reduceth a matter into Allcool the finest pouder that is Alexipharmaca Medicines to resist the plague and poyson Aliment food nourishment Aliotica altering Medicines Alopecia a falling off of the hair Alumen raw Allum Alamen combustum burnt Allum Aloes Zoccatrina it s brought from India the best is clear and red like the liver it s an excellent medicine to purge choler and proper to be taken by them that are troubled with the Emrods Allantois the skin that holds the Urine of the Child during the time it abides in the womb Allauded praised commended Alteratives medicines changing the humor and temper of the body Amalgamation is the putting together solution or calcination of familiar vessels by argentum vivum Amaritude bitterness Amaurosis Gutta serena A disease in the eyes viz. when the sight is gone and no fault to be seen Ammoniac a gum like frankincense so called because it grows in Lybia where the Temple of Ammon stood Hence is also a Salt so called found in Affrick under the sand Amnios the inner skin that compasseth the Child round in the womb Amputation dismembring or cutting off the arm leg c. Amulet any thing hang'd about the neck to preserve one from inchantment Analeptica restorative Medicines Analogical answerable in every particular Anastomasis an opening of the mouths of the veins Anastomaticum Medicine opening obstructions Anatomy is an artificial cutting of the outward inward parts Aneurism a swelling caused by the breaking the internal coat of an Artery the external being whole Anfractures turning and winding Angina a swelling in the throat which hinders breathing and swallowing and yet no defect in the lungs or breasts Animosity courage stoutness Anodines Medicines to aswage pain Anorexia a loathing of meat caus'd from abundance of crude and raw humors Anthera a Compound medicine used for sore mouths Anthrax a Carbuncle coming from blood which is black thick and filthy burning exceeding hot Anthonies fire the shingles Antidote a Medicine against poyson or any medicine which serves to amend any distemper of the body Antimony a Mineral like to Lead Antimonii vitrum Glass of Antimony or Stibium Antimonii Regulus Antimony preciptiate Antinomasia a naming before or that of any sort which is most excellent as Barbary gold Orient pearl c. Anus the fundament Apertion opening Apophlegmatisms Medicines which draw Flegm from the head Apoplexy a deep steep wherein there is a total privation of sense and motion except breathing Apostema Hepatis the Aposthume of the Liver which comes from a fall bruise or being too strait laced Appellations Names Apothects an Apothecaries-shop Apozem a Drink made with Water and divers herbs and spices used in stead of a syrup A prique place where the Sun shines Appropinquating adjoyning bordering near Neighbourhood Aptha certain Ulcers bred in the uppermost part of the mouth Aqua fortis strong Water made of Copperas Allum and salt-peter Aqua Regis a Water which divides Gold made after the manner of Aqua fortis only adding sal Armoniack Aquatical Which grows in the Water Aranea tunica the cobweb coat or tunicle Arbuscle a little shrub Arceates drives away Ardent burning or heating Arid dry Aromata Spices and sweet-smelling drugs or perfumes Aromatical smelling sweet like spice Aromatized spiced or perfumed Aromatization is an artificial manner of preparation whereby Medicaments are made more sweet to the smell and acceptable to the taste and more comfortable to the heart it is done by spices commonly Arsenicum Arsenick many wayes a good healer Arteries proceed from the heart are in a continual motion quicken the body they carry the vital blood to every part of the body their motion is that which is called the Pulse you may feel it at your Temples Wrist Groin c. Arthetical Medicines proper for the joynts especially for the heart Arthritis is a pain in the joynts
plaisters being of a gentle drying clensing binding nature Lithiasis the Disease of the stone engendered in a mans body Lithontribon a Confection of the Apothecaries so called because it drives away and breaks the stone in a mans body Lithontriptica Medicines breaking the stone in the Bladder Lixivium see Lucinium Lixive Lee. Loches or Child-bed purgations and immoderate flux caused from the over-wide opening of the vessels or their tearing in hard travel Loch Lohoch or Linctus is a thick syrup or other soft substance not to be swallowed but let melt in the mouth that so it may gently slide down and thereby have the more vertue against diseases of the breast lungs and throat Longanum the arse-gut Longaevity long life or old age Lotion a preparing of medicines or washing Loture the washings or water wherein any thing that leaves a taste or tincture behind it hath been washed Lozenges little tablets made up of several things with sugar to lie and melt in the mouth taken for colds Lubricating making slippery loosening Lues a plague or pestilence Lues venerea the French pox a plague containing all diseases in one and seldom cured perfectly Lucinium lixivum lye made of ashes which is profitable in healing outwardly and inwardly the best in caustick medicines Lunacy a disease wherein the patient is distracted at certain times of the Moon Lutation is a medicine thick or thin according to the heat and continuance of the fire which exactly stops the mouth of the vessel that no vapor pass out Lutetia Paris Luxation a loosening of the joynts Lycium a decoction made of the juyce or decoction of the bramble root Lysiponium medicines mitigating pain M Maceration steeping or soaking any thing in liquor till it be almost dissolved Macerated steeped Macilent lean slender Madefaction weting or making wet Madid moist wet Magistral syrup is a particular syrup prescribed by a skilful Physitian to his patient for a particular disease Malacia Pica a corrupt appetite by reason of humors gathered about the mouth of the stomach which is the cause of longings in women Malaxation softening loosening Malcolent that hath an ill smell Malignant medicaments violent pernicious unwholsome destructive medicines Malleable abiding the Hammer or Mallet or which may be wrought or beaten therewith Mamillary veins passages from the Womb to the breasts serving to convey the menstrual bloud thither to be converted into milk Manducated chewed Manna a kind of sweet dew like sugar Mania madness a doting without a fever with raging and fury Maniple an handful of herbs flowers roots and such like things Mansuete tame Manus Christi sugar boyled with Rose-water without putting any thing else to it it may be made with violet water or cinnamon water Mandrake a forrein plant bearing yellow round Apples the root of this herb is great and white like a Parship growing in two branches like the legs of a Woman which gives opportunity to Jugglers to Counterfeit obscene beastly Images therewith the root especially the bark is extreme cold and dry even to the fourth degree it is therefore very dangerous to be taken inward it 's usually given to cast people into a dead sleep when they are to be dismembered or cut of the stone Marchasia minerals which are unprepared as silver oar lead oar c. Marchasite a stone participating with the nature of some metal yet in some small quantity that the metal cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoak the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like the metal mixed with them whether it be gold silver brass or any other Some call any stone out of which fire may be struck a Marchasite Marcid musty unwholsome stinking nasty Marcor corruption rottenness Margarites the fairest sorts of pearls Mariscus the Piles Mastick a white and clear gum of a sweet savor it grows on the Lentisk tree in the Island of Chios it 's temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature whereby it strengthens the stomach stayes vomiting and stops any issue of bloud it 's good to rub the teeth to fasten them and make them white Masticatories medicines to be chewed to bring away Rheum from malignity the venemous or poysonful quality of certain Humors and Diseases which makes them for the most part deadly Matter or Quittour the white thick filth that issues from sores and ulcers when they are on the mending hand Matrix Mediana vena the Median vein Matrix the Womb or place of Conception Maturity ripeness Measles a kind of small pox which arises from the impurities of the Mothers bloud Mechoacan a whitish root brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rhubarb it 's hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humors of what kind soever with much ease it clenseth and comforteth the liver and all inward parts Mediastinum so called because it mediateth or divideth the chest in the midst Medicamen de Turbith a purging medicine Medick Physitian an abbreviation of the Latin word medicus Medium whatever is transparent or may be seen through is called a medium to the sight principally the air as its either thick or thin also glass water horn are called mediums when question is of seeing through them Medulla pith marrow Mel Honey is laxative clensing softening and healing Melancholia a melancholy kind of madness a doting without a fever with fear and sadness Melanogogon purgers of Melancholy Melitites honyed Wine Mellifluous sweet as hony Membrane a fleshy skin a coat serving as a coat for the arteries and veins Membranous skinny substances like parchment Meninges the films or Tunicles which are the coverings or coats wherein the brain is contained Menstruous a Woman which hath upon her her monthly flowers or which belongeth to them Mercury and Mercurial purges such as are made of Quicksilver chymically prepared Mercurius Quicksilver like a seeming friend which heals and kills Mercurius praecipitatus and sublimatus Mercury precipitate and sublimate Mercurius solis mercury of gold I shall leave the description hereof to the Philosophers by the fire Mercurius Lunae mercury of silver Mercurius martis mercury of iron Mercurius jovis mercury of tin Mercurius saturni mercury of lead Mercury is a liquid substance sowr or sharp volatile penetrable airy and most pure from which all nourishment proceeds Meri Arabum Oesephagus the mouth of the stomach Mesentery the skin which holds the guts together and runs along amongst them full of fatty knobs Metra Hippocratis uterus the Womb. Metrenchyta an instrument to inject liquid medicines into the Womb. Michleta the name of a Confection so called Microcosmographia a description of the body of man Microcosmus it properly signifies a little World but it 's commonly used to signifie a man who in himself hath something or other answering to any part of the great World Mictus sanguinis is a disease of the Reins through which thin wheyish bloud is passed Midriasis is the dilatation
of the pupil of the eye Midrif a sinewy skin passing over-thwart a mans body and divides the heart and lungs from the stomach guts and liver lest the vital parts should be offended with ill vapors from those below Milt so term'd because it draws away the dross of the bloud Minium red lead of a cooling drying repelling healing softening and discussing quality Mineral any thing digged out of the earth Minorative lesser or making less it 's particularly used to distinguish a gentle purge from a more violent which is called eradicative pulling away the offending humor by the very roots as we say Minuates lessens diminisheth Miscellany a mixture of things without any order a Galamafry or hotch-potch of divers things mingled together Miscible apt to incorporate or mingle together Misy a kind of yellow Copper shining like gold brought out of Egypt and the Isle of Cyprus it is of a fretting burning quality as the common copperas is Mitigation abatement of pain Mithidrate a great Confection invented by King Mithridates it is of singular vertue against poyson and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken before it be six months old Mixtion or mingling of several Herbs together Modes wayes fashions and manner of doing things Mola an unshap'd piece of flesh in the mother Moles marks with children Mollition the beginning of liquation Morbus Caducus the falling-sickness Morbus spinalis the disease of the spine of the back the Rickets Morbifical matter is that which in most diseases is the principal cause of them Mordacity biting quality Mordacious biting Mother a disease of the womb incident to Women when the womb riseth with pain upward in this disease the smelling to sweet savors is evil but to stinking and loathsome smells very helpful Mortification deading of any part of the body as in a Gangrene Mortiferous Mortifical deadly or bringeth death Mucagines a mucilage a slime or juyce which is drawn either out of herbs roots or seeds by steeping in some distill'd waters or some other convenient liquor Mucronated sharp pointed Mucaginons clammy slimy Mumia a thing like pitch sold at the Apothecaries some affirm it 's taken out of old Tombs being the embalming of dead bodies others say it 's made of mans flesh boyled in pitch it 's hot in the second degree and good against bruisings and spitting of bloud Mundane clean pure Mundification is the clensing of any matter by few or many operations from that which is filthy and vicious that the most excellent may be admitted to the work in hand Muscle is an organical and dissimilar part made up of nerves flesh fibres veins and arteries Mutilated maimed Myrobolanes a fruit growing in Egypt and Syria like plumbs or damsons there are five kinds of them Citrinae Judae Cepniae Emblicae and Belliricae the first purgeth choler the second melancholy and the three last phlegm they are cooling and comfortable to nature Myrrh a gum brought out of Arabia and Assyria of colour between white and red it is hot and dry in the second degree or as some say in the third it 's often used in physick being of an opening clensing dissolving nature N Narcotick Medicines that stupifie and dull the sense of feeling they are also given to procure sleep as well as to ease pain Natural faculties the seat of them is the stomach and liver c. as the heart is of the vital and the brain of the animal Nausea is a desire to vomit with trouble and only sending and pewking forth a thin waterish humor by salivation Nausconsness squeaziness of the stomach enclining to vomit Nebula oculorum the dimness of the eyes Necromancy the art of Divining by dead bodies and parts thereof Necrosy deadness Neotericks modern Writers either in Physick or any other Art so called in opposition to the Antients Nephritica medicines proper for the cure of the stone Nephritis Renum dolor a grief or sickness in the Reins Nervalia medicines proper to the sinews Nerve is the same with a sinew and is that whereby the brain adds sense and motion to the body Nervorum resolutio or dissolutio is a dissolving or weakning of the sinews called paralysis Nicotian Tobacco Nidorous smells are like burnt salt scorched meat or fryed oyl Nigredes makes black Nigritude blackness Nitent shining Nitre salt-peter as it 's commonly used to signifie but the true nitre is found in the bowels of the earth and is very rare whereas salt-peter is artificial and common Nocivous hurtful Nocumental hurtful Nodous knotty Nude naked Nudils are pledgets or pessaries made of lint or cotton wool and dipped in some unguent and used either in wounds or sores or in diseases of the Womb. Nutrition nourishment Nutrition the mixing of moisture by little little for changing the quality of the medicine Nyctalops Lusciosus one that is pur-blind O Obdulcorated made sweet or sweetned with sugar or hony Obdurate hard Oblique flanting athwart crooked Obnoxious lyable to punishment Obruted buried covered hidden Obsolete old out of mind forgot out of use Obsonies all manner of meats used at meals Obstructions stoppages in the passages of nutrition Obtenebrated clouded darkned or hidden from the light of the Sun Obverted overthrown spoiled Obvolved wrapped up close Occult hidden mysterious Ocular Medicaments Medicines for the eyes Odentick belonging to the teeth Odors smells Odoriferous sweet smelling Odoraments perfumes Oeconomy houshold government Oedema a tumor or swelling caused by flegm and is soft white and of no great pain Oesephagus the mouth of the stomach the gullet Oleagynous oily fatty Omentum the caul or suet wherein the bowels are wrap'd which by reason of its loosness to receive humors that come from other parts it is subject to divers diseases as the Mesentary and Pancreas Omphacy unripe it signifies properly the juyce of unripe Grapes Omoplata the muscles of the shoulder-blade Operative active working Operculated close covered Ophiogenes generated of Serpents Opthalmy Diseases in the eyes Opiats are such medicines as have opium in them and are used in infectious diseases Opobalsamum natural balsom Opium the juyce of black Poppies sold dry by Apothecaries it is sometimes used in Physick to make one sleep or to asswage excessive pain but it must be corrected and given with other things and with great discretion or it may make the patient sleep till doomsday Oppilation stoppage of the brest Opopanax a sap or liquor flowing out of a plant called panax in some of the hot Countries it 's brought hither dry being of a yellow colour without and white within if it be not too stale it 's good for agues and bruises Opisthotones a Convulsion so named when the body is drawn backward Opticks the Art of Perspective or wherein the natures and differences of Seeing is handled Optick nerves so called from their action because they communicate to the eye the sense of seeing Orchal a stone like Alum used by divers in dying red Orifice the
hole or mouth of the stomach veins womb or of the incision made by a Surgeon when he lets blood or the mouth of a wound or ulcer Orgal the lees of Wine dryed and used by Dyers to make their cloth to take the colour Organs are organical parts of the body those that are ordained to such or such a particular use different from others as the foot to tread the eye to see or the ear to hear c. Oringees the roots of Sea-holly it grows in many parts of England on the Sea-shore in great plenty preserved as they are to be had at the Comfit-makers they are excellent good for such as have Consumptions or old aged people Orthopnaea a straitness of breath by stopping of the Lights that one cannot breath but holding his neck upright Orthopneical short breathing Oscitantly carelesly negligently Os Cribosum a bone full of small holes like a sieve whence it hath its name it 's placed above the nose and by it the snot and snivel that comes out of the nose is drained from the brain Otalgia pain in the ears a violent disease both in respect of the part affected viz. the inward membrane which goeth about the cavity of the ear as also by reason of the nearness of the brain Oval the shape of an egg Oxicrate a medicine of vinegar and water mixt together Oxydorcica sharp medicines to quicken the sight Oxymel simple syrup made of vinegar and hony Oxyrrhodinum oyl of Roses and Vinegar mixt together whereof medicines are made Oxysaccharum Compositum a compound syrup of vinegar and hony OZaena a sore in the nose causing a stinking breath OZylete officinarum perfuming Candles P Papulum fodder Paerinaeum the seam which runneth like a ridge between the privities and fundament both in men and women Palm the hand Palmos Palpitatio Cordis the panting of the heart Palpebra the eye-lid Palliative Cure is when a disease is not eradicated but only mitigated or covered whereby either the pain or trouble or deformity is somewhat eased and remedied to this end were wooden legs arms fingers glass-eyes invented Panada a pap made with bread Panicles Cats tails any thing that groweth round and long Pancreas the sweet-bread serves to prop the vessels lest they should break and are instead of a pillow to the stomach Panchymagogon such purgers as are universal purging all humors Pandalea a kind of paste or massapan good for a cough Panpharmacal an universal medicine Paracousis noise in the ears which comes from a praeter-natural motion of the air which is naturally contained in the ears Paralitick sick of the Palsie Paralysis the palsie wherein the loss of sense and motion is in some parts of the body by reason of the stopping of the passages of the animal parts Paranitium barbarorum a disease bred in the fingers Paraplegia the same with Paralysis Paranomasis likenesse in name Parastatae are bodies placed without the Abdomen in the Scrotum or Cod set upon the Testicles to which they are alike in nature and use Paregoricum medicines easing pain Perforated boared through Pericardium a thin skin or film compassing the heart Peripneumonia an inflamation of the lungs or lights with a vehement fever Pericranium the skin that covers the scull the hairy scalp Perite skilful cunning Peritonaeum the rim of the belly the inner coat of the belly next the guts which when it is broke the Women say the rim of the belly is burst Peristaltick motion of the guts is a motion whereby the guts press themselves together above the excrements and so squeez them out Perperously foolishly and unskilfully Permeate pass through the pores of the body Permixtion mixing throughly Perâ—icious deadly destructive wicked Perspicuous clear and transparent as glass chrystal fair water c. Perspirable the body is said to be perspirable when the invisible pores or holes in the skin are kept open so that the vapors arising from evil humors may freely breath out Perturb to trouble Pervians thin that which may be past through full of holes like the bottom of a sieve Pessary a certain medicine made like a finger to thrust into a Womans privities with a string tyed to it Pestis the plague a deadful disease venemous contagious lothsome noysome and hateful to mankind Pestiferons that which brings the plague Petrous rocky Phagadena a running canker or pock Pharmaceutick remedies all such medicines as are made by the Apothecaries Pharmacopaeia a Dispensatory or Book wherein is set down the Composition or Receipts of Medicines for direction to the Apothecary Phigethlon is an inflamation of the parts and if it become indurable it is reckoned amongst the flegmatick tumors and by Guido termed sâ—râ—phulous Philter an amorous medicine a Potion to procure love Phifiologer a searcher of Natural Secrets Phlebotomy bloud-letting Phlegm slime watrish moisture Phlegma it is used for any distilled water which hath no spirit as Rose-water Phlegmagogon purgers of flegm Phlegmon a tumor or swelling caused by bloud Phreniae veins in the liver Phrenitis or Phrenzie an inflamation of the brain and it's membranes with a continual dotage a sharp constant fever Phthisis a kind of consumption see Culpeper 's Practise of Physick Physiognomy an art to judge of ones nature conditions by his countenance and form of body Piamater a little skin that covereth the brain Pica an unnatural longing in Women Piger Henricus an instrument for distilling so called for his exceeding slowness Pillulae Cochiae Pills which purge the head Pillulae Iliacae Pills for the Chollick or pain in the small guts Pillulae Opthalmicae Pills for the eyes Pillulae pestilentiales pills against the plague Pillulae stomachiae pills for the stomach Pituitous filthy Placenta is the proper name of a sugar-cake physically it 's used for a piece of flesh in the covering of a Child in the womb Plethorick a too full habit of body or an evil constitution of the body wherein the humors offend rather in quantity than quality Pleura a membrane taking his name from the ribs which are called pleuras because it is stretched under them all except the twelfth Pleurisie is the swelling of the membrane that goes about the ribs of the internal intercostal muscles Pleureticus one that hath the pleurisie Plexus Choroides hath his situation in the forward ventricles betwixt them and the arch they are termed coroeide plegmata because they are like the chorion or membrane which compasseth the infant Plumbum philosophorum the Philosophers head a mysterious preparation Pluvial water rain water Podagra the Gout in the feet Podagrical dolor the same with podagra Podex the arse-hole Pollicitates promises assures warrants Polychrestum a medicine of frequent use Polypus a certain imposthume in the nose Polypodium a kind of herb like fern growing much at the roots of Oaks the root thereof is used to purge melancholy gross phlegmatick humors Poma odorata Apples to smell to to prevent the plague Pomada or pomata a sweet smelling salve