blâ—dder the seeds boyled with milk and wine are gooâ— to provoke urine and against all diseases of the bladder The leaves beaten with Wine healeth the bitings of dogs Of Oranges ORanges are refreshing and are good in Feavers for to quench thirst the peele is hot and Cordiall Of Lymons LYmons are very good against hot and pestilent Feavers and the Syrup is very good to stay Feavers also the juyce of Lymons killeth wormes in the bowells Of Fruits which refresh the stomacke Of Cherries CHerries are very good to refresh the stomack and against the paine of the belly Olives OLives are also good to comfort and to refresh the stomacke Respases REspases are very good to refresh the stomacke to stay vomitings and are good against the fluxe of the belly Of Fruits which engender seeds FIgges Pine kernells Nutmegs and Pistaches are good to augment and engender seeds Fruits which are good against Poyson IVniper berries common Nuts Pepper Citrons c. are good against venome and Poyson The End of this Treatise To make Preserves dry and liquid Of Preserves which comfort the Heart Preserv'd Oranges CHoose the best Oranges that have the thickest skins cut them in quarters and lay them a soake in water five or sixe dayes then boyle them in honey syrup or sugar to the height Citron peeles preserv'd or Candied TAke Citrons and peele them and cut them into slices and infuse them in water nine or ten dayes then take them out of the water and boyle them in faire water untill they be soft then put them into Iulep or Sugar and boyle them unto the height of Sugar Candie you may Aromatize them with a little Muske or a little Ambergreece In this manner you may Candie Oranges Lymons or any other rind or peeling Of Apples TAe Apples and peele them and cut out the core and the pippins within them and cut them into quarters boyle them in Iulep or Sugar and water well and the next day boyle them againe in Sugar and put them with the Syrup into a pot Of Preserves which comfort the Belly Of Ginger PReserved Ginger or Candied Ginger is very good for the belly and against all hard humors thereof Preserv'd Quinces QVinces preserved and Aromatized as Apples are very good for the paines of the belly and to stay vomiting also against the fluxe of the belly and to strengthen the stomacke and to helpe digestion To make Marmalade TAke eight pound of the flesh of Quinces cleansed from their rinde pippins and stalkes boyle them in water untill they come into a paste then pulpe it through a sieve and boyle it to the height with as much sugar and put it into boxes There are those which boyle it but with halfe so much sugar it is very good for the fluxe of the belly taking it before meales and good against vomitings taken after meales and for the losse of appetite Preserv'd Peares PReserve Peares as the Quinces and Apples and they are very good to strengthen the heart and against the paines of the belly Preserv'd Wallnuts GAther the Wallnuts before they bee hard when they are greene pare them as the Apples and infuse them in water nine dayes changing the water every day then pierce them with a needle or bodkin in three or foure places and boyle them in water untill they be soft then take them from the fire and stick them with Cinnamon and Cloves and boyle them in Sugar and put them into a pot Preserved Cherries GAther Cherries before they be quite ripe put them into Sugar and boyle them and put them into pots or glasses Of Drie Comfits or Candies TAke the Cortex or Rinde of Citrons Oranges Lymons or any other barke or fruit boyle them first in faire water having first infus'd them then boyle them in Sugar to the height and then take them and dry them The end of this Treatise To make all manner of Fumes and Perfumes Of Perfumes and Aromatick smells PErfumes are certaine medicaments simple and compounded the which without putting in the fire will alter the head and hinder all ill smells and corruption of the aire They are also used divers wayes sometimes onely one simple medicament is used and held to the nose as the seed Nigella infused in vineger and wrapped in a cloth or piece of silke and at another time there is mixed many medicaments together and sometimes there are made Pomanders Oyntments and Bullets the ingredients which ordinarily enter into Perfumes are Muske Ambergreece Nigella Marjoram Storax Cloves Ocimum Staechados Spikenard Lavender wood of Aloes Labdanum Roses Violets Saunders water Lillies Camphor and the like You must observe that in making of Pomanders and Bullets you must put the Muske and Ambergreece the last of all the ingredients Perfumes or suffumigations for the head A Suffumigation to stay and dry Catarhes TAke Coriander seeds Roses Nigella infused in Vineger of each an ounce and a halfe Masticke Frankincense of each halfe an ounce gumme of Iuniper two ounces make them into a powder the which strow upon a chasing dish of coales and perfume the cap and clothes for the head you may make them into Trochisques with Rose water and gumme Dragant if you please Another Perfume of the same TAke Frankincense Masticke Labdanum Storax of each halfe a dramme beate them together and make them into Trochisques with gumme Dragant dissolved in Rose water A Suffumigation of a good smell to strengthen the head TAke Trochis of Gallia Muscata a dramme Sage Marjoram and Rosemary of each a dramme and a halfe Cloves and Cinnamon of each a dramme wood of Aloes a scruple foure graines of Muske make them into a powder and use them as before Another Perfume TAke Frankincense Cinnamon and Cloves of each a dramme and a halfe Citron peele a dram wood of Aloes two scruples Mirrhe and Masticke of each a dramme Trochis of Gallia Muscata two drammes Labdanum two drammes and a halfe beate them together with oyle of Mirrhe and forme them into Trochisques Another TAke gumme of Iuniper Masticke Roses of each a dramme Cloves Storax of each three drammes make them into Trochisques with Turpentine Cordiall Perfumes A Perfume against the sincopes or failings of the Heart TAke Frankincense Mastick of each an ounce dry Citron peele halfe an ounce wood of Aloes Storax Cloves Calamint of each three drammes Make a perfume for those that have paines at their heart A Perfume to strengthen the animall and vitall spirits TAke red Roses Staechaedos Rosemary of each a dramme Frankincense two drammes Cloves wood of Aloes of each a dramme and a halfe make them into powder and make a Perfume A Perfume against the corruption of the Aire TAke red Roses Spikenard wood of Aloes Costus Rosemary Masticke red Saunders Bdellium Labdanum Olibanum Saffron of each a dramme and a halfe Dock roots Pepper yellow Sanders of each three drammes Cardamomes Cubebes Camphor of each halfe a dramme five graines of Muske put them into powder and make little
seeds Roch Allom and common Salt of each a pound boyle them together in eighteene pints of good Vineger untill it commeth to fourteene pints then straine and presse it and use it as is aforesaid If with the said Vineger compounded strained and pressed you will put three pints of Life water or Aqua vitae it will be excellent To make foure sorts of Balmes to powder and put into the parts of the body The Description of the first Balme TAke dry common salt Allom of glasse of each a pound beate them to powder in a morter then take Balme hearb or hoarie Mints Wormwood water Mints Sage Rosemary Origanum Calamint Time Costus Hortensis the greater and lesser Centory and Scordeum of each sixe handfulls all these hearbs ought to be dryed as I shewed before then put into the great morter and beaten to powder and searced so beating and searcing them untill they bee all searced then mixe with them the Allum and Salt and so use it A Description of the second Balme TAke Hysope Time Sage Lavender Rosemary Wormewood Marjoram Rue and Scordeum of each eight handfulls Ireos of Florence Pepper Ginger Pellitory and dry red Roses of each halfe a pound make them into a powder as followeth The Salt being dry shall bee powdered by it selfe then beate the Ireos pepper Ginger Pellitorie and dry Roses with the other simples beating and searcing them all to powder and when they are all searced mixe with them the Salt and the Balme is made the which use as before written A Description of the third Balme TAke Ireos of Florence Gentian Orange and Citron peeles Ginger Iuniper Berries Cyprus Nuts Benjamin Frankincense Aloes Mirrhe Cinnamon Cloves of each halfe a pound Rosemary Sage Lavender Dill Origanum Cyprus Wormewood Balme Time Scordeum of each eight handfulls make the Balme as followeth First beate well together in the morter the Ireos Gentian Orange and Citron peeles Ginger Iuniper Berries Cyprus Nuts Cinnamon and Cloves with the other simples beating them all to powder and searcing them then powder the Aloes Mirrhe Frankincense and Benjamin with a little Oyle anointing the bottome of the morter and mixe them altogether and the Balme is done A Description of the fourth Balme in case of necessitie SOmetimes one hath not the commodity to get the simples aforesaid as in Armies Townes and Castles assieged when some man of quality dyeth and that his parents or friends will have him preserved for some time to carry to some tombe of his Predecessors then one must make necessity a vertue for having emptied the three bellies as is shewed before wash them and the incisions with common vineger if you have not the commodity to make the compounded or if you have not common vineger take salt water that is salt melted in water and fill them up with this Balme following Take ashes of Willow and Lime of each a sufficient quantity fift it through a sieve and use it but if you have no Lime take Chalke and doe as before being thus embalmed rub and anoint the body over with this Linement following and keepe him in a temperate place not to hot nor to cold A Description of the Linement to anoint the body after it is embalmed TAke Oyle of Olives Roses or Spike one part Venice or common Turpentine two parts make thereof a Linement Warme the oyle upon the fire then put to it the Turpentine stirring them well together and anoint the body all over with it being warme The end of this Treatise A Treatise of Oyntments A Balme or Balsome for all wounds that are newly made TAke two ounces of Aqua vitae put it into two Violls equally divided and put into the one two drammes of Mirrhe and a dramme of Aloes in powder and let it stand untill it hath taken the colour Then put two drammes of Turpentine into the other Violl and let it stand untill that the Aqua vitae hath taken the colour of the Turpentine then put them both together to use it Another for an old and new wound O Liban and Masticke of each an ounce two ounces of Verdegrece asmuch Galbanum an ounce of Turpentine and asmuch Rosin oyle of Olives a pound and halfe a pound of oyle of bitter Almonds and asmuch oyle of poppies white waxe an ounce black pitch three ounces melt your gummes and heat your oyle with the Verdegrece and straine them through a strong cloth and keepe it in a pot or boxe An oyntment for new and old wounds BEate three yolks of egges with the bignesse of a nut of washt Turpentine and a little Beane meale it will keepe but a moneth Another for Apostumes and Boyles HAlfe a pound of Turpentine foure ounces of Virgins waxe as much of Mutton suet a little milke from a woman which hath a male child and a little from one that hath a female child boyle them together untill they be thicke For to eate dead flesh THree ounces of honey put into a new pan or pipkin a dramme of greene Coppras and asmuch of Verdegrece and Allom and halfe an ounce of galls being all in powder stirre them into the honey and boyle them untill they become red For a burne VVAter of Nightshade and of Plantaine yolks of Egges oyle of Roses and Virgins waxe as much of one as of another melt them together and anoint the sore For paine in the head BEate Plantaine with the urine of the diseased and make a plaster and bind it upon the Temples For blacke and blue eyes SAlt honey and wine boyled together and the place anointed Against the swelling of the throat LEaven honey and juyce of Smalladge mixed together and made into a plaister For to stay bleeding in what place soever IVyce of Shepheards purse Masticke Oliban Bolâ— Armenic Dragons blood of each two drammes to make a plaister A washing for a Fistula upon womens Brests LOng and round Plantaine Agrimony Câ—â—ntorie and Wormewood of each halfe a handfull cut them small and boyle them in a new pot or pipkin with a quart of wine untill it commeth to a pint then straine it and wash the pipkin and put into it againe that which is strained and put to it two ounces of honey of Roses and as much Syrup of Wormewood then boyle them a little and when you will use it put a little to warme in a saucer and keepe the rest in a glasse Oyntment or unguent Martiatum TAke Baye leaves three pound Rue two pound Marjoram two pound Rosemary a pound and a halfe Mirrhe a pound the tops of Marjoram and water Mints seeds of Ocimum of each sixe ounces Butter sixe drammes Storax Harts grease Beares grease and Cocks grease of each halfe an ounce Masticke three ounces Frankincense two ounces and a halfe oyle of Nard an ounce common oyle sixe pound Waxe foure pound make an oyntment according to art It is good against cold Goutes the Palsie Sciatica and generally against all diseases of the Nerves A Stomachall oyntment TAke
if the party refuse to take the broath of Sene hee may in stead thereof take one good glasse full of laxative Ptisan of which I have written hereafter taking two houres after some thin warme broath For the poore which are solid and hard bound THose poore people which have not the Commodity to take Clysters nor broaths made with Sene as is before written let them use this remedy following Take two pennyworth of Sene that is two or three drammes with a little Anniseeds which they may have at the Apothecaries or drouguists which they shall infuse in a porringer with nine or tenne spoonefulls of water upon hot cinders the space of an houre or two then straine and squeeze it through a linnen cloath and put it into three or foure times as much broath or pottage and take it as aforesaid The manner to make Iniections INjections are made for divers diseases as Vlcers wounds in divers parts of the body as also for the diseases of the yard and matrix which are used with syringes proper for the same in the which are put waters decoctions oyles or other liquors according to the advice of the Physitian to be administred to the sioke The which Injections in composing there is great difference for the remedies of divers diseases which the Physitian ought to appoint according to the discase But I shall write of some few to content the curiosity of some persons An Iniection for the Gonorrhea YOu shall make an Iniection for the beginning with cleare milke or with Barly water warme and afterwards you shall mixe with it syrup of dryed Roses that is to say to foure ounces of liquor you you shall mixe an ounce and a halfe or two ounces Syrup Or if there be at the beginning any Inflammation you shall make an Injection in Summer with a decoction of French Barly Plantaine Betony and water Lillies and in winter with their waters also against the paine of the said part you shall make an Injection with new milk from the Cow To make Pessaries A Pessiry is bigger then a Suppositorie and is very proper for the matrix the which are made of Cotton silke or Linnen cloath in the which there are put medicaments being wrapped in Taffata silke or Linnen cloath and well tyed then being infus'd in wine water juyce or other liquor convenient is put into the neck of the matrix They are made also with hearbs flowers seeds c. bruised in a morter and wrapped in a cloath fast tyed which hath a great vertue That you must tye a little ribban at the end of the said Pessarie to tie round the thigh for feare it goeth into the matrix A pessary to provoke the monethly courses TAke the leaves of 2 or 3 handfulls of the hearb Mercury bruise them in a morter with a pestle then wrap it in a cloath and bind it fast and make a pessary the which you shall infuse a little in the juyce of the said hearb being warme and use it A Pessary to stay the monethly courses TAke the leaves of these hearbs following that is Centorie Mirth Plantain Cinquefoyle or five leaved grasse of each halfe a handfull after you have washt them and made them cleane beate them together in a morter and make Pessaries as aforesaid which you shall soake in warme juyce of Plantaine To make Ptisan Simplex to drinke ordinarily TAke a handfull of French Barly prepared that is to say washed and cleansed a dramme of Anniseeds boyle them in a pottle of river water or other good water in a pipkin or other vessell being very cleane being pretty well boyled you shall put into it halfe an ounce of good liquorish well scraped and sliced then you shall scum it and when there riseth no more scumme take it from the fire and let it coole and drinke it ordinarily Thâ—e are certaine persons which love the taste of Licorish and others that love it not therefore you may augment or diminish the said licorish or in the place of the Licorish you may put rasped Harts-horn or Ivory or other medicaments according to the advice of the Physitian To make Barly water TAke a handfull of French Barly prepared as aforesaid and boyle it in a pint of faire water untill a quarter be consumed then straine it through a white cloath and use it If it be to drinke you may boyle with it a few Anniseeds or a little Cinnamon The manner to take Bezoar stone and what it is worth a graine FOrasmuch as we treat of Ptisans simple wee may also shew the manner to take the Bezoar stone Take foure sixe eight or tenne graines or more of good Bezoar in powder the which put in a spoone and powre upon it a little Ptisan or juyce of Lymons and mixe it together and so take it Also I give you to know that the best Bezoar will cost but two pence the graine and I councell those that hold the vulgar opinion that it is good against small Pocks Measells Feavers Purples and many other diseases to buy it at the druguists two drams or halfe anounce you may have a dram for seven shillings it will serve for your family and to give to the poor seeing it costes so little The manner to make Hydromell Simplex TAke a pottle of River water or other good water sixe ounces of good honey put them into a pipkiâ— or other cleane vessell and boyle them and scum iâ— alwayes untill there riseth no more scum then take it from the fire and let it coole and take a quarter of a pint at a time To make compounded Hydromell FIrst boyle the medicaments appointed by the Physitian then straine them and boyle with them as much honey as shall be needfull To make Laxative Ptisan TAke an ounce of good Licorish prepared boyle it in a quart of water and scum it very cleane and when there riseth no more scum take it from the fire and infuse in it all night halfe an ounce of good Sene and a dramme of Fenill seeds inclosed and tyed in a linnen cloath the morning following you shall straine it and drinke a good glasse full taking two houres after a potringer of cleare thin broath If you will have the Ptisan stronger instead of a quart of water put a pint Another Laxative Ptisan TAke a handfull of French Barly prepared Rasped Harts horne and Ivory of each a pugill tie the said rasping in a linnen cloath put them in a pint and a halle of good water and boyle them and in the end put to them an ounce of good Licorish prepared then being well scummed put to infuse the Sene and Fenill seeds as aforesaid In summer you shall take a quantity of River water and put it into a pot or boule with halfe an ounce of prepared Liquorish and two drammes of good Sene and a dramme of Fenill seeds then poure it out of one pot or boule into another many
times and then let it settle and so use it If you would take this in a morning it were better to let it infuse all night and the said Ptisan would be better You may also inclose a dramme of Rubarbe cut in small slices with a little Cinnamon or as much of Agaricke with a little Ginger to infuse with it but let it be with the counsell of your Physitian A Laxative Ptisan with Sene Rubarbe and Agaricke TAke three quarters of a pint of good water in the which boyle and scum as is aforesaid an ounce of Licorish then take it from the fire and infuse in it all night a little bag with halfe an ounce of Sene and Anniseeds in the which inclose also the weight of a dramme and a halfe of Rubarbe with a little Cinnamon and as much Agaricke with a little Ginger bruised the morning following straine it and presse it through a linnen cloath and this shall be for twice taking Another Laxative Ptisan with Cassia and Sene. TAke an ounce of Licorish prepared the which being boyled in a pint and a halfe of water and well scummed untill there riseth no more scum then you shall put into it the Cassia with the seeds being drawne out of two ounces of Cassia in the Cane then take it from the fire and infuse in it all night the bag with halfe an ounce of Sene and Fenill seeds the morrow morning straine it and take a good glasse full at a time That it was spoken of before concerning this who could not take neither Clysters nor Suppositories and if their bodies be very solid and that they take a good glasse of this Ptisan and it doth not cause them to goe to stoole which hapneth but seldome they may take another glasse at night about foure or five a clocke and another the next morning taking two houres after some thin warme broath Also with the advice of a Physitian one might take this Ptisan three dayes together morning and evening take two houres after some warme broath The excellency of these Ptisans MOreover I certifie you that these Ptisans are of most excellent vertue as well for the rich as for the poore for they cost but little as you see and they are of great effect serving for purging medicines and for Clysters being easie to take because of the Licorish which taketh away the ill taste of the medicaments without hindring their operation therefore you ought to pray for those that invented them and for those that gives you the knowledge of making them in your owne house with ease and yet you ought not to make them without the advice of a Physitian To make water of Cassia TAke halfe a quartern of Cassia in the Cane the which you shall open and put it with the seeds into a pipkin with a pint of faire water and put to it a dramme and a halfe of Cinnamon bruised boyle them a little then straine them and let it coole and take a good glasse full at a time you may also boyle with the said Cassia and ounce of Tamarinds and a dram or two of Rubarbe cut in small pieces One might easily by this methode make the decoctions of Guaicum Sursaparillae and others for those diseases which ought not to be divulged in the curing the which for the honour and health of the diseased needeth not so many testifyings the Physitian Chyrurgion are onely those necessaries keeping silence in their mouths The difference of these things are only for the preparation of the medicaments and the time they ought to be in infusion and in boyling which is a small matter and little paine and easily prepared To make water of Rubarbe TAke halfe a pint of water put it into a pipkin or some other cleane vessell and put into it a dram of Rubarbe cut into small pieces with a little Cinnamon bruised boyle them two or three walmes and straine them and use it You may also boyle in the said water the roots of China and Licorish raspd Harts horne and Ivory and being a little boyled take them from the fire and put into it the Rubarbe and Cinnamon to infuse Also if you will after the said ingredients are boyled and strained you may put in the Rubarbe and Cinnamon to infuse and take it not out untill the water be very faire and well coloured To make the said water of Rubarbe more purging you may put into the cloath with the Rubarbe a dram or two of good Sene. To make a decoction of Sene purgative TAke halfe an ounce of good Sene a dramme of Anniseeds infuse them all night in a quarter of a pint of water in a porringer neere the fire and in the morning straine it through a cloath and put into it the juyce of a Lymon and then put it into as much more pottage or broath and take it fasting There are those that infuses their Sene in verjuyce but it is better to infuse it in juyce of Lymons for the verjuyce is astringent and hinders the working of the Physicke but the juyce of Lymons is Laxative A purging decoction of Sene for the poore THe poore which hath not the commodity to prepare it of this fashion shall take halfe an ounce of Sene and a dramme of Fenill seed and infuse it all night in a little hot water or Ptisan and in the morning straine it and with some pottage drink it The manner to make and prepare Laxative and purging medicines of divers fashions and with little trouble TAke halfe an ounce of good Sene a dramme of Fenill seeds put them into a porringer and poure upon them a quarter of a pint of water and let them infuse all night neere the fire and in the morning straine and presse them and when it is strained mixe with it an ounce of syrup of Damask Roses and take it luke-warme fasting in the morning and two houres after take a porringer of warme broath and keep your chamber all that day Another Laxative medicine TAke halfe an ounce of Sene with the Fenill seeds being infused all night then straine it and mixe with it an ounce and a halfe of syrup of Damask Roses you may also infuse the Sene and Anniseeds in Ptisan ordinary Another medicine Laxative compounded with Syrup of Roses Sene Rubarbe and Agaricke TAke halfe an ounce of Sene a dramme of Fenill seeds infuse them and boyle them a little in a quarter of a pint of Ptisan or Barly water then straine it and presse it hard in the which being strained you shall infuse in it two drammes of Agaricke rasped with a little Ginger and a dramme and a halfe of Rubarbe cut in small pieces and in the morning boyle it a little and straine it and in the decoction which is strained dissolve an ounce of good Syrup of Damaske Roses the which you shall take in the morning and two houres after take a porringer of warme