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A89394	The compleat bone-setter wherein the method of curing broken bones, and strains, and dislocated joynts, together with ruptures, vulgarly called broken bellyes, is fully demonstrated. Whereunto is added The perfect oculist, and The mirrour of health, treating of the pestilence, and all other diseases incident to men, women and children. Also, the acute judgement of urines. / Written originally by Friar Moulton, of the Order of St. Augustine. Now revised, Englished and enlarged by Robert Turner philomathēs.	Moulton, Thomas.; Turner, Robert, fl. 1654-1665.	1657 (1657)	Wing M2967; Thomason E1673_1; ESTC R208418	52,056	191

together and make thereof a Ball of the quantity of a Wal-Nut It is necessary in time of Pestilence or hot Agues to wash thy Temples and the Pulses of thy hands with Rose-water and Betony-water And to wet linen Cloths therein and lay to thy Temples Fore-head and Liver and to each Arm-hole one 4 times double Let thy Cods be alwayes freshly washed and after dipt in Rose-water let thy Cap be dipt also in Rose-water after it is clean washed and drye it in the fire and not in the infected Air. Drink every morning 9 spoonfulls of white-Wine in a sawcer full of fine Vinegar before thou go abroad out of thy house You shall understand that all the principal Members the Heart Brain and Liver have every one his proper purging place given him by nature whereby he may avoyd all infections and superfluities and clear himself thereof The Heart hath his cleansing place in the Armpits The Liver hath his cleansing place in the groyn between the Thigh and the Body The clensing place of the Brain is under the Ears at the Ear-Roots and in the Throat Then the sickness of the Pestilence cometh thus when the Pores of the Body are open then first entreth the venemous and corrupt Air which infecteth the blood and then cometh to the Heart that is the Root and ground of Life and infecteth all the lively Spirits in man whereof death insues but the Heart and clean blood seeketh to expel and fly from all that is noyous and contrary unto mankind And the Heart seeketh to expel the Corruption and venom from him to his cleansing place the Arm-hole But then somtimes that place is stopped that it cannot come out then it soon passeth to the next principal Member the Liver And then the Liver doth in his kind endeavour to expel it by his purging place the Groyn but if he be weak or obstructed that he cannot expell it then it runneth to the third principal Member the Brain which also striveth to expell and drive it out by his purging place in the Throat and under the Ears but if through the stopping of the Pores or thickness of the Venemous matter that is mingled with the blood it is hindred of this kindly course then are all the principall Members infected and overcome thereby whereupon death follows Against infection In the morning alwayes before you go abroad be sure to break your fast and wash your mouth with Vinegar wherein Worm-wood hath been boyled and afterwards hold in your mouth a bit of Zaedoary Root Citron-Peels Tormentil Angelica or Unicornes-horn Also it is good to anoynt the mouth lips and nose with this Composition following Take the Juyce of Garlick and Vinegar of Roses of each one ounce and a half Treacle 3 quarters of an ounce Beaver-Cod 2 dragmes mix them together for an Oyntment Another Oyntment to anoynt the Heart not only for those that are well but for those that are already infected Take 3 quarters of an ounce of Treacle Saffron and Canaphire of each 10 grains Juyce of Lemons and Vinegar as much as is needful to make a Salve thereof A Pomander to smell to in Summer for them that be of a hot Complexion Take Water Lilley-flowers Mynts Violets Vine-leaves Roses Mittle-seeds white and yellow Sanders Citron-Peels dryed Quinces dryed Prunes of each half a dragme Saffron and Camphire of each a scruple Gallia Muscata 10 grains make them up into a Pomander ball with Vinegar wherein fine Bolus is dissolved Another Pomander to be used in Plague-time Take Roses a quarter of an ounce red and white Saunders of each one dragme and a half Camphire Cinamon Mace and Nutmegs of each one scruple Amber Citron-Peels of each half a dragme Musk 4 grains red Storax half an ounce Laudanum 1 ounce beat them small but dissolve the Laudanum with Liquid Storax and make thereof a Pomander Care must be taken in times of infection to keep drye and comfort the Heart and principal Members for which it is good to take once a week a dragme of Mithridate and Treacle in Sorrel-water and sweat after it and keep within Doors all the day after Pills preservative against the Plague Take the Pestilential Pills called at the Apothecaries Pill Ruffi 4 scruples Agarick prepared half a dragm Zedory and Angelica of each one dragm Rhabarb 1 scruple Trochisci Alhaudal 5 grains make Pills hereof with Carduns water take a dragme hereof once a week 3 hours after Supper in the morning drink a draught of the Decoction of Pease and fast 3 hours after it A Confection to strengthen and preserve nature against corrupt and Pestilent Airs Take Sealed Earth white Diptamus fine Bolus Myrrhe Wormwood Rue Scabious Pimpernel Sorrel and Zedoary of each 1 dragme Aristolochy Tormentil and Bay-leaves of each 1 dragme and a half 5 or 6 Kernels of Wal-nuts 12 new Figgs Mithridate and Treacle of each an ounce Saffron and Camphire of each one scruple Unicorns-horn prepared Pearls Bones of a Stagges Heart burnt Harts-horn and Smaragdes of each one dragme and a half Citron-seeds peeled half an ounce Mace 1 dragme pound all that is to be pounded with Syrrup of Citrons make them into a Confection and take a little hereof morning and evening in Winter in a draught of Malmsey or Muscadine and in Summer with Rose-water A Powder against the Plague Take Pimpernel Gentian Tormentill Dragon Rue Worm-wood Nut Kernels Granats prepared and Juniper Berryes of each a like quantity use it upon a tosted piece of bread or if you will you may make a Confection hereof with Treacle and Vinegar of Roses Thus far by way of prevention if one be infected The first means to be used is to provoke sweat and that both morning and evening if the Patient can abide it for which you may use this Confection A Confection to cause sweat when one is infected of the Plague Take Treacle and Mithridate of each half an ounce Pimpernel and Angelica of each 10 grains Cardamom 5 grains Camphire 5 grains Cinamon 10 grains make thereof a Confection give the Patient the quantity of a Hazel-Nut thereof in Carduus or Sorrel-water and then cover him well and let him sweat well 3 or 4 hours after if he be able If you have none of this Confection ready at hand then take a dragme of Treacle or Mithridate in Carduus or Sorrel-water A Diaphoretical Potion that expelleth the Contagion of the Plague and all Venom and Pestilent Diseases Take Rue Worm-wood and the uppermost tops of Black-berryes of each a handful Celendine a handful and a half put them into a Pot with a pinte of Vinegar and stop the Pot very close that there come in no air nor no vapour get out and then let them seeth in Balneo till the third part be consumed then strain it out and keep it close stopt give the Patient 2 or 3 ounces of this drink when he is infected and let him sweat after it and not sleep An Oil to

through Take Iron Drosse sodden in Vinegar and Myrrhe of each half an ounce Dragons blood fine Bolus Frankincense Mastick Sealed Earth and Juyce of Sloes of each one quarter of an ounce Cypres Nuts and Mumey of each 3 quarters of an ounce Isinglas 2 ounces make them all together into a Salve with Wax and Rosin as much as is needful with this anoynt the Cods thrice a day and knit it up alwayes with a Trusse A good Drink for a Rupture Take Rosemary half an ounce Cynamon half a dragme Balme-Flowers Ginger Borage Nutmegs of each half a dragme seeth these together in 7 quarts of Water till the 4 part be consumed then add thereto 16 ounces of Honey then boyl it again till the third part be consumed and use it A Confection for the same Take Frankincense Mastick Juyce of Sloes Hypocistis of each 1 dragme and a half Roses burnt Ivory parched Cummin Dill-Seed of each one drag Cypres Nuts half an ounce Steel filed small Iron Drosse decocted together in red Vinegar of each one quarter of an ounce dryed Seeds of Pomgranates one ounce beat them all small together then take Honey of Roses 18 ounces white Sugar 12 ounces Granado Wine 6 ounces Dragagant-Gum of each half an ounce seeth both of these Gums with Honey Sugar and this Juyce till it be thick when it beginneth to be cold put it into a Morter and temper the other things amongst it stirring it well together give the Patient 2 dragmes thereof in the morning and let him fast 2 hours after it and one dragme at night 2 hours after Supper Let the Patient keep himself as quiet as possible forbear much stirring and carnal Copulation and all excesse either of meat or drink and forbear binding meat strong drink and new Wine So far of Ruptures The perfect OCULIST THE Author first beginneth with 6 precious Waters profitable both for the Eyes and other things which he thus sets down For to tell of 6 precious Waters made and sent to a Queen that somtime was in England The first Water is this Take Fennel Rue Vervaine Endive Betony Germander Red roses Maydenhaire of each 1 ounce Stamp them and steep them in white-Wine a day and a night and distil a Water of them This Water shall depart in three that is you shall draw 3 several Waters the first part ye shall do in a glasse by it self and know ye of a truth that this Water is as precious as Gold The second as Silver The third part as precious as Balme and keep these 3 parts in glasses This Water shall ye give to the Rich for Gold to mean men for Silver and to the Poor for Balme This Water keepeth the Eyes in cleerness and avoydeth the Quitery and gounde and cleereth and sharpneth the sight The second Water TO the second Water take Salgema pound and wrap it in a green Dock-leaf and lay it in the fire till it be well rosted and wax white and put it in a glasse against the air at night and at the morrow it shall be turned to white Water like unto Chrystal keep this VVater well in a glasse and do a drop into thy Eye and it shall cleanse and sharp thy sight And it is good for the evil at the heart and for the Morphew and for Sance-fleam and for the Canker in the Mouth and for other evills in the Body The third Water THE 3 Water is as followeth Take the Root of Parsly Endive Monache Fennel Betony an ounce wash them well in Water and bray them well and then steep them well in white-Wine a day and a night and then distil them This Water is more worth then Balme It keepeth a good sight and cleanseth it of all filth it refraineth tears and comforteth the head and avoideth the Water that causeth headach The fourth Water THE 4 Water is this Take Parsly-Seed Annis Caraway Vervaine of each 2 dragmes Centory 10 dragmes beat all these to powder and do it in warm water a day and a night then distil it This water is a precious water for all sore Eyes and very good for the health of a mans body or Womans The fifth Water THE fifth Water is such that with it you may do many marveylous things Take Lymel of Gold Silver Latyn Copper Iron Steel and Lead And take Litharge of Gold and Silver and take Camomile and Columbyne and steep all together in the Urine of a man-child a day and a night The second day in white-Wine the third day in the Juyce of Fennel the fourth day in the whites of Egges the fifth day in a Womans milk that nourisheth a man-child the 6 day in red Wine the 7 day in whites of Egges and upon the eighth day blend and mix all these together and distil a water of them and keep this water in a vessel of Gold or Silver The Virtues of this water is this it doth away all manner of sickness of the Eyes the Perle the Sckome of the tears and the * T is an old English word if Geofry Chaucer were here he could tell you the meaning of it T is too old for me Quiters and draweth again into their due form the Eye-lids that are bleared it slayeth the ach of the head And if a man drink of it it keepeth his visage long to be young There is no man can tell half the Virtues of this VVater The sixth Water TAKE Lapis Caluminaris and do it in the fire till it be red as a Rose and slack it in a pinte of white-VVine and do so 9 times and after grinde it and beat it small and searse it very clean then Infuse it in the Sun in Fennel-water Vervain Roses Celendine Rue and three-leaved Grasse the distilled water of them not the Herbs of each a like quantity in a Vial of glasse so that the VVater may settle cleer about 5 inches above the stone in the bottom and when you will use it stir it together and take up a drop of it with a feather and if it abide then it is fine and good then drop of it in an Eye that is watry or running or an Eye that hath a dimme sight and for the head-ach anoynt the Temples herewith it is precious for helping the sight and for ache in the head To cleer the sight of the Eyes a good Water and for itching thereof TAKE Fennel Roses Vervain Celendine and Rue of each 2 ounces and distil water of them which is good to clarify the sight of the Eyes being washed therewith according to this verse Feniculus Rosa Vervens Celedonia Ruta Ex istis fit aqua quis lumina reddit acuta Of Fennel Vervain and the Rose Herb Celendine and Rue A pure VVater is Compose That doth the sight renew Another for the same Take red Snailes and seeth them in fair water and there will arise an Oyl or fat which separate clean by it self and reserve it in a glasse and therewith anoynt thy Eyes morning and

been sodden Another for the same Take half a pinte of the Water of Knot-grasse and half an ounce of Allom dissolve the Allom in the Water and therewith wash the Teeth and Gums For losse of Speech Take the Juyce of Southern-wood Sage and Pimpernel and put it under thy Tongue or take the Juyce of Wormwood and temper it with Honey and let the Patient hold it in his mouth The voyce is oftentimes spoiled and corrupted by hoarseness or weakened by long sickness for which this Electuary which follows is very good An Electuary for losse of Speech Take Ireos half an ounce Penny-Royal Hysop Licoris of each 3 drag Dragagant bitter Almonds Kernels of Pine-apples Cinamon Ginger and Pepper of each one dragme and a half Figges Dates Currans of each one scruple red Styrax 3 scruples and a half cut the fruits small beat all the rest to powder and to every ounce of this powder add 12 ounces of Sugar make it into an Electuary with Honey or Syrrup of Hysop or if you please you may make Lozengs thereof Another for the same Take Ireos half an ounce Sugar-Candy a dragm Cinamon Ginger and Pepper one dragme Sugar 12 ounces boyl it in Hysop-Water to the thickness of an Electuary then make Lozengs thereof these are good for a Cough a cold Rheume and a wheezing breath Against Hoarseness a dry Cough and all infections of the Lungs and Breast proceeding of heat and dry'th from whence a Consumption follows Take Dragagant 1 ounce Gum Arabick 5 dragms Starch 2 dragmes Licoris Melon-Seeds Gourd-Seeds Pompeon-Seeds Cucumber-Seeds of each 1 drag Camphire 5 dragmes Sugar Pennets one ounce and a half Beat all these to powder and add to an ounce of this powder 12 ounces of fine Sugar and boyl it in Violet water unto a Confection or make Lozenges of it if you please A hot Confection for a tough flegmatick and slymy Cough so that the Patient cannot get up any thing for a wheezing and short Breath Take Dragagant Hysop of each 2 ounces Kernells of Pine-Apples Sweet Almonds Linseed of each 3 dragmes Fenegreek Cinamon of each 2 dragmes Juyce of Licoris Ginger of each one dragme Boyl them all into an Electuary or Confection as the other or if you will you may make Lozengs thereof and every night when you go to bed dissolve one of them in sweet-Wine and add half a scruple of Saffron unto it this comforts the Heart and vital Spirits A Drink for the same Take five pints of fair Water half a pinte of Honey six Figges one ounce of Currans 2 dragmes of Licorice boyl it till one pinte be wasted and drink thereof every morning fasting a good Cup full warm To make the voyce cleer an Electuary Take Cabbage-Seeds Hysop Elecampane Roots Colts-foot Roots of Flower De luce Horehound of each half an ounce Annis-Seeds Fennel-Seeds Ameos Cubebs Aristolochy of each one dragme and a half Sugar Pennets 3 dragmes Oxymel Compositum Syrrup of Horehound of each 3 ounc Pine-apple Kernells 4 ounces Saffron 1 dragme Make them all together into a Confection or Electuary with 12 ounces of Honey clarifyed take hereof about 2 dragmes morning and night in a little of the Decoction of Nettle-Roots mixing a little Sugar with it For them that speak in their sleep Take the Juyce of Southern-wood 1 spoonfull and temper it in Wine and drink it going to bed Another for the same Take the Tops of Rue and Vervain of each a like quantity drink the Juyce thereof in Wine going to bed For them that spit Bloud Take Smallage Rue Betony Mynts and Planten of each a like quantity boyl them in good new Milk and drink thereof warm For a stinking Breath Take Butter the Juyce of Moonwort and the Juyce of Fetherfew of each a like quantity temper them with Honey and give the Patient every morning a spoonfull thereof Another for the same Take two handfulls of Cumin-Seeds and beat it to powder and boyl it well in white-Wine and drink of this decocted Wine 15 dayes together every morning sweetned with a little Sugar Another for the same Take three handfulls of Cumin Vervain Mynts and Rue of each three handfulls Licoris 1 dragme Ginger and Nutmegs of each half an ounce bruise them all in a Morter then boyl them in a Gallon of white-Wine till half be wasted Drink thereof morning and evening first and last for 15 dayes together as hot as you can suffer it Probatum For a cold and Cough Take Hysop Rosemary Planten and Radish Roots of each a like quantity and boyl them in white-Wine from a Pottle to a quart then poer out the Liquor and put the Herbs into a Morter and mingle them well together bruising them and strain them into the Liquor again then take a pinte of Life-Honey and boyl it and scum it and put thereto a quarter of a pound of May-Butter that is clarified and let it seeth together by the space that one may say the Psalm of Miserere mei Deus that is the 51 Psalme in English called in those dayes one of the 7 Penitential Psalms but now penitency is out of fashion The Psalm will not hurt you if you think it not too much superstition to read it neither will your Reading it do the Psalm any hurt at all nor your letting it alone will not alter its Religion Then strain it through a linen Cloth and take the Collature that is the Liquor or Medicine thus compounded and reserve it in a glasse Vessel close stopt And let the Patient take a little thereof first and last in a draught of stale Ale warm till it be whole for this is a proved Medicine saith my Author in Haec Verba For a Man or Woman that hath great sickness in the sides and cannot well draw their wind nor Cough for pain Take Hill-wort Alexander Parsly Lovage Smallage red Fennel Burnet Grommel of each a like quantity seeth them in sufficient quantity of white-Wine till half be wasted And let the Patient Drink thereof hot first and last For a Cough Take the Juyce of Sage and Rue and Hysop of each a like quantity of Cumin Pepper Licorice and sweet Fennel Seeds in powder of each a like quantity seeth them all in clarified Honey sufficient to make an Electuary thereof and let the Patient take thereof morning and evening Of the Tumor or swelling in the Throat called the Squinancy This is a dangerous Disease that cometh about the Troat-Boll and shutteth up the inward parts of the Throat so that thereby the breath is stopt which commonly proceedeth of grosse humours that fall from the Head into the Throat which is also increased by sleeping immediately after meals The Patient if he feel this infirmity approching ought to purge his Head well with Pill Elephanginae eat and drink but little and to eat light meats and Gargarize his mouth with Wine of Pomgranates and Barley-Water mingled together Also take Syrrup of Poppeys and Syrrup of Mulberryes

provoke sweat and expel the Venome of the Plague Take a glasse Bottle as big as you will fill it halffull of Elder flowers a third part of Holly-hock Flowers and uppermost a third part of the Flowers of St. Johns-wort filling herewith the glasse then put thereon old Sallad-Oil as much as the glasse will hold stop it very close and let it stand a sunning a whole Summer with this Oil rub the Body very warm 3 or 4 times a day it provoketh sweat abundantly Anoynt the sick Persons Breast or Heart with this Medicine following Take of the best Treacle one ounce Juyce of Lemmons and Vinegar of each half an ounce Saffron and Camphire of each one scruple mingle them together and spread them on a piece of Scarlet and apply it If a Plague-soar begin to appear with any redness and will not imposthumate then take a young Pullet pull off the feathers off her Belly then cut her open and hold it upon the swelling then shortly after take another and do as before Another to draw out the Plague-sore Take a great Onyon and roast it with Treacle therein and lay it upon the soar with a plaister of Oxicroceum and Diachilon cum Gummis Also take the common Plaister of Diachilor 3 dragmes and the Juyce of Celendine and make a Salve thereof with a little Wax or seeth Cole-worts with a little Bacon and lay it on the swelling and when you see it begin to imposthumate then use this following Take Holly-hock Roots Scabious and Mallows of each a like quantity seeth them and beat them to a Pap and make thereof a Plaister with Barrows-Grease And apply it to the swelling To kill the Plague-soar Take 2 or 3 yolks of new laid Egges and temper therewith about half an ounce of Salt pounded small and lay it on the place renewing it every quarter of an hour If the sore Corrode further take fine Bolus Dragons-blood Vinegar Rose-water and whites of Egges as much as you please lay the same Plaister-wise upon the sore When the Plague-sore is throughly killed take Scabious 4 handfuls Treacle one ounce Barrows-Grease one ounce and a half stamp the Herbs and make a Plaister thereof and refresh it often To clense the Ulcer and ingender new flesh when other accidents are past Take Turpentine washed in Scabious water 4 ounces Barly-meal one ounce two yolks of Egges Saffron Sarcocolla Mastick and Frankincense of each half a dragme mix them all together for a Plaister Lastly take Beaten half an ounce Honey of Roses a sufficient quantity to make thereof a Salve use it till the sore be perfectly whole Et Laudate Dominum A fulgure tempestate A Pestilentia fame a bello Caedibus A subitanea improvisa morte Abira tua a morte perpetua libera nos Domine Amen OF URINES IN the Judgment of Urines you must have regard to the Substance Colours Regions and Contents And these be the Colours of Waters that follow Urine white as Clay-water of a Well this Colour signifies ill Digestion a bad Stomack and a bad Liver if you see in this Colour many shining beams it denotes an Imposthume in the Milt Medicine Take Gromel Saxifrage Parsly and Sage boyl them in stale Ale and drink it Also use powder of them in thy Pottage If the Urine be white as Whey thick and little in quantity it betokeneth the flux Medicine Make Drink with white Poppy-Seeds and Lettice and use it A white Russet if it be thick in substance it betokeneth the Cholica Passio Medicine Take Water-Cresses and grinde them small and boyl them in white-Wine and drink thereof evening and morning Urine of the Colour as it were broth of flesh half sodden If it be little in quantity and fat as Oil and frothy above it betokeneth wasting Medicine Take the powder of Elecampane and Turmentil and boyl them with clarifyed Honey and make a Confection thereof and so use it Urine of the Colour of broth of flesh well sodden and thick in substance it denotes a quotidian Fever that comes of Flegme And this and all the other 5 colours are signs of bad Digestion Medicine Take Vinegar and Mustard and boyl them together and then take Treacle as much as a bean or two wash it with white-Wine and mix therewith and use it when the sickness taketh thee Urine of a yellow Colour as a yellow Apple with a thin substance and a salt savour betokeneth a double Tertian that comes of Melancholy Medicine Take Figges Licorice Hyssop Hore-hound and Elecampane and boyl them in water till half be wasted and drink thereof morning and night Colour of Urine red as Saffron if any yellow froth above it betokens the Jaundice Medicine Take Mirobalans Aloes Epatick Sene Sugar and Annis make them into powder and use thereof at night and morning Urine as pale Gold and thin in substance in a Child denotes a quotidian in a young Man a tertian in an old Man a double tertian and in a Woman a quartain Medicine Take Powder of Gete the seed of Cresses and seeds of Broom and use it in thy Pottage Of the Colour of red Gold thick in substance and shaddowing above betokens a lasting quotidian Medicine Take Satyrion-Roots Mustard-seed Pepper Annis and Cinamon and mix them with Honey to an Electuary and so use it Urine as red as a Rose and thick denotes a burning Fever Medicine Let him blood under the Ancle or on the Vein of the Arm And take Aloes Epatick 1 dragme and boyl it in a pinte of white-Wine and drink thereof a spoonful at evening and in the morning Urine as black Wine or rotten blood This in a lasting Fever betokeneth death if it be troubled fatty and stinking it betokens bursting of a Vein in the Reyns Medicine Take Osmond Savin and Gromel and boyl them with white-Wine and clarifyed Honey and use it first and last Urine green as worts and little in quantity betokens death Urine black as a Coal fatty and stinking betokens death Subrufus is like Gold Silver medly This Colour betokens a Fever and Imposthume If there be a Circle with small Bells in it as it were of rain-water it is a wind in th Head that riseth out of the Stomack Medicine Take powder of Elecampane and Turmentil and boyl them to a Confection with Honey and use it Albus like a cleer water it denotes wasting of the Spleen the Dropsie Madness pissing against ones will heat of the Liver Emrods and stopping of the Flowers Medicine Make a Drink of Gromel Saxifrage Pellitory Sage and Hemp seeth them in stale Ale and drink it When the Urine hath great contents and stink it betokeneth pain in the Reyns and the Spleen If it be bloudy and cleer and pure it denotes a Vein broke in the Liver if it be little with a strong savour and ly in Gobbets in the Bottome it cometh from the bladder If it be spotted as bloud and red the pain is in