Countrey-people Tetter-berries may with good successe be applied to them The root cleanseth the skin from the Morphew Leprosie all running Scabs and Manginesse if a Bath be made thereof or the juice applied thereunto A Pessary made of the root bringeth downe the courses in Women and bringeth forth the After-birth and dead Child A Bath made hereof cleanseth the Womb from filthinesse and uncleannesse The root hung about the Neck is good against the Falling Sicknesse and Convulsion The root bruised and boyled in Vineger being applyed to the swollen Genitalls of men helpeth the same A decoction of the leaves or roots mingled with Honey and the mouth and throat washed therewith cureth Vlcers and sorenesse thereof The distilled water of the root worketh the same effect but more weakly yet the water is used for freckles and spots in the face Against hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene Take what quantity you will of the green root of Brionie bruise it with Figs and apply it to the Spleen adding thereunto a little Oyle of Capers Or Take Ammoniacum dissolved in Vineger Oyntment Dialtheae or of Marsh-mallows Plaister of Melilot of each halfe an ounce Brionie root and Orris in powder of each halfe an ounce Ducks-grease Goose grease and Hens-grease of each three drams Bdellium and Galbanum of each a dram and a halfe Oyle of Orris-root one ounce and a halfe of the Mussilage of Linseede and Fenugreeke a sufficient quantity of each dissolve the gums and boyle them gently together and add thereto of Wax four ounces of Turpintine and Rosin of each one ounce and a halfe make all into a Cerat according to art Against corrupt and fretting sores in the Legs Take the leaves or root of White Brionie bruise them with Salt and Vineger and apply it Against the Gout and Sciatica Take of Brionie-root green bruise it and apply it with Hogs-grease The hurtfull Quality with the correcting means The root of White Brionie doth much trouble the Stomach head and other parts therefore it must not be given to delicate bodies nor where the spirits are low for though it have a specifick vertue for the Diseases of the Brain before mentioned yet it offends the weak The hurtfull Quality hereof is taken away in part by adding to it Ginger Cinamon Quince or such like The same is also very dangerous for Women with Child however it be given for it causeth Abortion or miscarrying These things are made of Brionie 1. The Extract thereof 2. Faeces vel Faculae Brioniae 3. Water of Brionie 4. Oyntment of Brionie 5. Vnguentum Agrippae The Dose The Dose of the root in substance is from a scruple to a dram in infusion from two drams to halfe an ounce The juice of the root is given from a dram to two drams or more in strong bodies The faeces or dregs thereof are given from five graines to twenty Cambogia see Gutta Gummi CHAP. XII De Camphora Of Camphor or Campher CAmphor is a Gum or liquor of a Tree growing in India and other places partly distilling forth of its owne accord but chiefly by incision and commeth forth clear and white without any spot therein of a very strong sent and of thin parts so that being but a while expos'd to the air both sent and substance vanisheth away The Names It is called in Latine Camphora Caphura in English Camphire Camfire Camphor and Campher The temperament Some will have it to be cold and dry in the third degree others esteem it to be hot but of this more hereafter The best kinde The best is white shining clear as Crystall not full of spots easie to be broken and brittle also being set on fire it burneth and is not easily quenched and hath also a strong sent The Duration It will keep good many years some say forty years but it must be kept from the air and in Flax-seed or Fleawort-seed otherwise it will evaporate and consume to nothing The inward Vse It resisteth putrifaction and venome therefore it is frequently used in the Pestilence contagious diseases and in Feavers It extinguisheth venery or the lust of the body Camphora venenis strenuè resistit cardiacon est Joubert de peste f. 72 Vide Thoner observat l. 3. observat 8. fol. 187. and is good for the running of the Reins as also against the Whites in Women and for the rising of the Mother being dissolved in Balm-water and so taken It cools the heat of the Liver Backe and all hot inflamations in the body The manner of Administring it It is given in Electuaries in Powders Potions c. An Electuary against the Pestilence Take Myrrhe Saffron the bone of a Stags heart or Harts-horne in powder of each two scruples and a halfe of Dittany in powder two drams of white Ginger in powder halfe an ounce of Zedorie in powder two drams and a halfe of Tormentill-roots in powder a dram of Campher in powder or dissolved in Aqua vitae two drams Mithridate and London Treacle of each three ounces with a little Aqua vitae make an Electuary Take thereof morning and evening as much as a small Nut. A powder for the Pestilence Take of Zedoary White Dittany root Gentian-root Scordium Carduus Sorrell of each two drams make them into powder The Dose is a dram in a morning in Carduus-water or in the winter let it be given in White-wine This is a good preservative in times of infection Or Take of white Sugar-Candy a dram white Ginger two scruples Camphor halfe a scruple make them in powder and give it in two or three ounces of Scabious-water or Angelica-water Or Take Angelica-root Bay-berries of each halfe an ounce round Aristolochia or Birthwort two drams Gentian-root Nutmeg of each a dram Camphor halfe a scruple make all into powder The Dose is a dram or more in Carduus-water A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Treacle called Diatessaron a dram Angelica-root in powder halfe a dram or a dram of Rose-Vineger a dram Campher three grains Carduus-water two ounces Dissolve the Campher and the rest that is to be dissolved in the water and make a potion give it and let the party sweat after it This may be given divers times if need be Note That Campher will not be made into powder alone without a blanched Almond or some other such like unctious thing which hereby will be brought into fine powder neither will it easily dissolve in cold water but by warmth it will or with any syrupe it will soon dissolve The outward Vse It helpeth pain of the head and heat thereof if it be mixed with yellow Sanders and red Rose-water and the Temples and Forehead bath'd therewith It stoppeth blood that floweth out of the nostrills if it be smelled to and refresheth the brain It is used against Phlegmous and Erysipelas or Wilde-fire also against heat or inflamations of the eyes it is good in Wounds and Vlcers to abate the heat thereof and is of much
by cooling and drying up the moisture thereof it fastneth loose teeth and maketh them white and helps to breed teeth in Children the gums being rubbed therewith and some hang it about their neck of such as have the Falling-sicknesse A Powder to white the Teeth Take red Coral Brick of each half an ounce make them into powder and take some of it lay it on a course linnen cloath and rub your teeth therewith For bleeding at the Nose Take of red Coral in powder half an ounce of Bole Arminick in powder an ounce with the juice of Sheapherds purse and lint or tow make Tents and put them up into the nostrils The hurtfull quality It must not be given too often where the body is very costive or hound Of those things that are made of red Corall First Estence of Tincture of Corall 2 Chymicall oyle or liquor of Coral 3 Flores Coralliorum 4 Olium Coralliorum succinatum good in the Falling-sicknesse and Apoplexie if three or four drops be given in any convenient liquor 5 Syrup of Coral simple and compound 6 Magister of Coral 7. Salt of Coral 8 Diacorallion The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram CHAP. XIX De Cornu cervin et Ebore Of Harts-horne and Ivory THese being of some affinity I shall speake of them in one Chapter Ivory is the Elephants tooth Harts-horn is generally known The Names Harts-horne is called in Latine Cornu-eervi or Cornucervinum Ivory is called in Latine Ebor Ebur The Temperament They are cold and dry in the first degree The best kinde The best sort is the whitest The Duration They will keep good many years The inward use Harts-horn resisteth putrifaction provoketh sweat and is very cordiall It is chiefly used in the small Pox Measles putrid and Malignant Feavers and in such like diseases where sweating is needfull It is good in Fluxes of the belly spitting of blood Jaundies and paine of the bladder taken with Gum Tragacanth it stayeth the flowing of the wombe Burnt Harts-horne killeth wormes resisteth putrifaction helpeth the Collick stoppeth the Flux of the belly and provoketh sweat Ivory doth strengthen the vicerous parts stayeth the Whites in Women is usefull in the Jaundies driveth away Wormes easeth paines of the Stomack and doth wonderfully open obstructions or stoppings Some commend it against barrennesse and say it maketh Women fruitfull but it rather hinders fecundity and conception then helps it The manner of administring them They are given in Powder in Electuary in Decoction c. A Powder against the Jaundies Take Parsley-seed Nettle-seed Nutmeg shavings of Ivory Harts-horne burnt of each halfe a dram make all into powder Give halfe a dram of it at a time in White-wine or Posset drink for a week or more if need be A Powder to expell wormes Take of Worm-seed an ounce Lupines halfe an ounce Worme-wood dry two drams Harts horne burnt a dram and a halfe Make them into powder and give it from a Scruple to a dram Take of Purslane-seed and Lettuce-seed of each two drams Sene three drams and a halfe Harts horne burnt halfe an ounce of Dittany five drams make a powder thereof The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram Note that the Sene is to be infused in strong Wine Vineger one night and afterwards to be dryed An Electuary against the Flux of the Belly Take of conserve of red Roses two ounces species of Aromaticum Rosatum a dram Bole Armonack in powder and red Corall in powder of each a dram Harts horne burnt in powder two scruples with syrupe of Quinces make an Electuary Give of it as much as a small Nut in the morning before dinner and at night An Electuary against the Pestilence Take shavings of Harts-horne Bole Armoniacke Sorrell-seeds of each two drams yellow Sanders halfe a dram Saffron in powder a scruple Conserve of red Roses Conserve of Wood-Sorrell of each two ounces Conserve of Borage and Sage-flowers of each six drams with Syrupe of Wood-sorrell make a moist Electuary and take so much as a Chesnut at a time once or twice a day if need be A Gellie to strengthen such as are weake Take Harts-horne and Ivory of each one ounce boyle them in a quart of water till it come to a jelly which you may soon know by setting some to coole then strein it and add Sugar Rose-water and a little juice of Lymonds and boyle it gently a while then keep it for your use Take often seaven or eight spoonfulls of it warm The outward use Harts-horne burnt and mixed in Plantaine water is a good Medicine for Vlcers of the eyes and to stay defluxions thereof It makes the Teeth white being rubbed therewith The shavings of Harts-horne being burnt the smell thereof driveth away Serpents and venomous Creatures Being made warm in Vineger and the Gums washed therewith it easeth Children that breed Teeth The ashes of Harts-horne burnt applied to the head with Wine is good against the Scurfe and Dandruffe of the head among the hairs as Plinie saith Nat. hist lib. 28. fol. 324. The shavings of Ivory in powder being mixed with Honey taketh away the duskish spots that appear in the Visage if the face be therewith anoynted Also the dust thereof which the File or Saw doth make in Filing or Sawing doth cure the white Flawes or Impostumations breeding at the root of the Nails Plin. Nat. Hist fol. 130 The Dose Burnt Harts-horne is given from five grainâ— to twenty Magister of Harts-horne is given from halfe a scruple in any convenient liquor Ivory is given from halfe a scruple to a scruple or to a scruple and a halfe Of such things as are made of them Of Harts-horne are made 1. Magister Which is an excellent Diaphoretick for it expelleth all obnoxious and filthy humours by the pores Grulingius Florileg fol. 209. and is usefull in Feavers Pestilence Scab Dysenterie or Bloody Flux Dropsie and Stone 2. Distilled Water 3. Liquor or Spirit 4. Oyle 5. Salt 6. Burnt Harts-horne 7. Extract thereof Of Ivory 1. Ivory Burnt 2. Magister of Ivory CHAP. XX. De Costo Of Costus-root COstus is a root brought from India and Arabia as Authors say of a brownish colour having a rind on the outside The Names It is called in Latine Costus and in English Costus The temperament Costus is hot and dry in the third degree The Kinds Some make three sorts others two sorts bitter and sweet but we have but one sort that I have seen of late The best sort The best is that which hath a good sent whitish light bitter and aromatick having a rind like Cinamon but thicker not old nor worm-eaten The Duration It will keep good five or six years The inward Vse It heaâ—s the body potently expelleth wind helpeth slow concoction hinders corruption of the meat easeth the Collick comming of Wind and Flegme killeth broad Worms of the belly provoketh the Courses and Urine helps to cleanse the womb from impurity and helpeth
or with Posset-drink The juice may be boiled for by boiling it loseth of its strong operation and given with Sugar syrup of Violets or in an Egg to sup up but let the pure juice only be given after it hath stood a while to cleer The Dose The juice of the root is given from six drams to an ounce and a half or two ounces The powder of the root is given from a dram to two drams Note that the roots of Ireos do not all work alike for in some climate they work stronger then in another These following are made with Ireos An extract A wine Species Diaireos simpl Diaireos Solomonis Trechisci bechisi albi Oile of Orris CHAP. 42. De Lapide Lazuli Armeno of Azure-stone or Lazul-stone and of Armene-stone LApis Lazuli or Azure-stone is a stone of a skie colour with certain veins of gold or silver in it Armene-stone differs little from the other only having some greenish spots in it They are both found in the same place or digged out of the same Mine only the Lapis Lazuli is found more frequently in the Golden Mines and Lapis Armenus in the Silver Mines also the Lapis Lazuli hath more maturity then the other The names Azure-stone is called in Latine Lapis caeruleus Lapis Lazuli Lapis Cyaneus in English Azure-stone and Lazul-stone The other is called in Latine Lapis Armenius Armenus because it was brought from Armenia but now it is found in Germany in English Armeniack and Armene-stone The Temperament Lapis Lazuli is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the second degree and dry in the third Lapis Armenus is hot and dry in the beginning of the first degree or hot in the first degree and dry in the second The difference between them Lapis Armenus is more skie-coloured and hath green spots as also sometimes black spots in it and is more brittle and sooner dissolveth Lapis Lazuli is sometimes with Golden and sometimes with Silver veins and is not easily broken The duration They will keep good many yeers without any corruption The inward use Lapis Armenius purgeth black Choler effectually from the brain and is usefull in melancholy diseases as against madnesse melancholy giddinesse of the head pains of the head Falling sicknesse Night-mare against diseases arising from fear and grief c. against the Leprosie Obstructions of the Spleen Cancer black Morphew and all melancholy diseases being twelve times washed or oftner it pureth onely downwards for otherwise it worketh upwards by vomit Lapis Lazuli is of a hot burning nature It hath a double or two-fold formall specifick vertue for by the one it purgeth melancholy and by the other it strengthneth the heart wonderfully and recreates or cheereth the spirits It avails in melancholy diseases stoppings of the Spleen quartane Ague and the Piles being taken with a decoction of Sene and Fennel-seed It cleanseth the veins and bloud from corruption and is profitable for diseases arising from fear grief and sadnesse whereby the heart is oppressed it purgeth the breast and lungs by which means it helps such as are short-breathed and stopt with flegme it drives away melancholy Fevers and preserveth from the Leprosie It brings down the courses in Women See Trallianus de Melancholia cap. 16. f. 127. Editione 1560. These are much of one nature only some hold that Lapis Armenus is the stronger in operation others say that Lapis Lazuli is the stronger in working The manner of administring them They are chiefly given in Pils and Confections Pils against Melancholy Take of Hiera picra and Epithymum of each foure scrupls Agarick and Lapis Armenus of each four scruples Scammony two scruples or a dram Cloves twenty with the juice of Citrons make a masse for Pils The Dose is two scruples or a dram Against faintnesse of the heart and sadnesse Take of Lapis Lazuli prepared two scruples of the juice of Borrage or Buglosse half an ounce of the bone of a Stags heart ten grains in powder mix them together and give it The externall use Lapis Lazuli being hung about the neck as an Amulet keeps children from fearfulnesse sharpens the sight prevents faintings in women with childe and hinders miscarrying but neer the time of their delivery it must be taken away lest it hinder the birth from comming forth It is used in medicines for to cleer the eyes and to take away the haires of the eye-lids The hurtfull quality These being taken unprepared cause vomiting and offend the stomack They are prepared by washing and by burning By washing thus bruise them and make them in fine powder wash them in fair water till the water become cleer after washing Others do thus after they are thus washed they dry them in the Sun or hot place and wash them again and so a third time or oftner if need be and last of all they wash them with Borrage Buglosse or Rose-water or infuse them in the juice of either and being dry keep them to use and when they use them they add thereto Cloves Hiera picra Sal-niter c. By burning thus take Lapis Lazuli what quantity you will burn it in a crucible then make it into powder and wash it first in common water then wash it in Rose-water or Borrage-water dry it and wash it once or twice more or oftner till the water look cleer then dry it and keep it for your use Note that being burned or washed they only work downwards The Dose The Dose being washed is from half a dram to a dram These things are made of them Lapis Lazuli washed or prepared Pils of Lapis Lazuli essence or extract of Magister Oile or liquour CHAP. 43. De Ligno Aloe of Wood-Aloes LIgnum Aloës is a wood somewhat blackish on the outside and more gray and discoloured within brought from India The names It is called in Latine Xylaloës Yyloaloës Agallochum and lignum Aloës in English Wood-Aloës or Wood of the Aloe-tree The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree astringent and a little bitter and of subtill parts The best kinde The best is that which is knobbed or in uneven pieces very brittle and breaking short somewhat black on the outside and more gray and discoloured within of a small sent until it be burned and then it yields a most fragrant odour or small also being put to the fire it will sweat out an oily moisture and that with small bubbles which soon vanish away and being put into water it will swim The Duration It will keep good many yeers The inward use It strengtheneth all the inward parts but especially the brain which it doth wonderfully corroborate and dry therefore it is useful in the Apoplexie Palsie Lethargie and losse of memory also against faintings of the spirits and cold diseases of the heart and stomack for it doth much conduce to weak livers and fainting spirits helpeth the Dysenteries or Lasks and Pleurisies It dryeth up defluxions of
and joints heart and liver and binde all other loose or fluent humours in the parts of the body and are very effectuall for the trembling of the heart and to stir up the appetite stay vomiting and restraineth the fury and belching of choler qualifieth the great heat of the inward parts and allayeth thirst giveth ease to those that are troubled with the Hemorrhoides or Piles by restraining the fiercenesse of choler flowing into them and for this last effect the Citrine are most used The Indies or black Myrobalans do purge Melancholy and black or a dust choller and therefore are available for the quartane Ague the Leprie and all Paraliticall diseases and they cause a good colour of the face They are brought over unto us preserved especially the Chebules and Emblicks whereof the Chebules are more used physically for such purposes as are before set downe then the Emblicks are Note that the rinde is to be used when you finde them in any receipt and not the stone The manner of administring them They are given in decoction in infusion and in powder but the decoction or infusion doth purge better then any way else yet so gently that they binde and strengthen the stomach liver and heart but given in powder they binde more then they purge A Potion against the Dysenterie flux Take of red Roses of Plantaine of each two drams of Licoris bruised halfe an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned and Tamarinds of each six drams of yellow Myrobalans halfe an ounce boile them gently in a sufficient quantity of water and Honey strain it in which steep or infuse of Rubarbe foure scruples of Spicknard half a scruple let them stand five or six houres straine it and adde syrup of Quinces or syrup of red Roses an ounce make a Potion and give it Against a loosenesse of the body Take and burne a pinte of Clarret wine with a little Rose-mary and Sugar in which put to steep all night a dram of Rubarbe a little dryed at the fire and halfe a dram of Chebule Myrobalanes which standing by the fire all night and strained forth in the morning is to be taken at two severall times a draught in the morning fasting which if it help not sufficiently the first time being renued and taken two dayes more will certainly stay the laske wholly if the malignity and sharpnesse of the humours be not too strong that scarce any medicine will cure it Parkinson in his Herball folio 248. The outward use The Citrine are used in Collyries or medicines for the eyes with the juice of Fennell or Rose-water and against the inflammations and flowing of humours to the eyes the powder thereof with Mastick or Rose-water is used in Ulcers to heale them and dry them The powder of the kernels is used against dimnesse of the eyes or to take away the web therein or the powder thereof infused in Rose-water and dryed and then infused two or three times more and dry them then make it in powder and use it The Bellerick stay the flowing of the Hemorrhoides and help the falling of the haire the affected place being bathed with the decoction thereof and the powder strewed on afterwards and it makes the haire become blacker The hurtfull quality with the corrective help Although these may be given without any danger or detriment yet they are not to be used in obstructions or stoppings of the inward parts nor where the body is much bound nor in feavers They are profitably infused in Whey or Posset-drink or in the juice of Fumitory or juice of Worme-wood adding a little Spikenard or Honey thereto That they offend not the stomach being stopt they may be infused in Oile of sweet Almonds and rubbed with ones hands and then dryed Some give them in fat broth as with the pulp of Raisons or with Honey and Raisons of the Sun boiled together Others give them with Manna Cassia Conserve or syrup of Violets Others mixe a little Scammonie with them to quicken their slow operation They may be given also with infusion of Sene Hydromel or water and Honey or with opening and diureticall things or such things as provoke urine Note that the infusion of Myrobalanes doth only purge and little or nothing binde the body the decoction there of doth both purge and binde the powder of them doth also purge and binde but more binde then purge and being dried and so given they only constringe or binde the body The Dose The dose of them in infusion and decoction is from three drams to six drams or to an ounce in substance the dose is from halfe a dram to two drams or more Of the compounds made of Myrobalanes Pils of Myrobalans extract of Myrobalans Syrup of the five kinds Myrobalanes preserved CHAP. 48. De Myrrha of Myrrhe Myrrhe is a gum or concreted gummie juice of a certaine tree growing in Arabia Aethiopia and other places of a reddish colour Stacte is the purer part of Myrrhe or liquid Myrrhe sweating out from the tree of its owne accord before the tree be cut The names It is called in Latine Myrrha in English Myrrhe The temperament Myrrhe is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is that which is pinguous or fatty reddish and cleare having some whitish veines in it very bitter and light That which is heavy and blacke is to be rejected The difference between Bdellium and Myrrhe Bdellium in sight is somewhat like to Myrrhe but may be distinguished thus Myrrhe is extreame bitter so is not Bdellium againe Myrrhe is easier to be broken and of a more quick sharp sent The duration Myrrhe will keep good many yeares Platearius saith it will keep good a hundred yeares The inward use Myrrhe is opening discussing glutinative and drying it resisteth putrefaction and is usefull in stoppings of the wombe brings down the courses and expells the childe living or dead being taken with a decoction of Lupines ane the juice of Rue It helpeth stoppings of the Breast and Lungs and hoarsenesse as also the cough and is usefull in the Quinsey Pleurisy or paines of the side in the Collick in fluxes of the belly and killeth wormes It mollifieth the hardnesse of the Matrix and is good against rheumatick distillations It taketh away the shivering fits of Agues being taken an houre or two before the fit commeth especially of Quartane Agues as if a dram or lesse be taken in Muscadine warme two or three times before the fit come and sweat after it this cured Matthiolus of a quartane Ague Mathiol Com. in lib. Diascor Cap. 68. f. 78. Pils made thereof with Treacle and Birth-wort-root are effectuall for the same purpose to take one or two at a time as big as a Pease an houre before the fits for many dayes together it is also a great preservative in the Plague or pestilence and against the venome or poison of Serpents and venomous creatures therefore it is put into Antidotes and Counterpoisons it is
they sweat before the fit come will in twice or thrice taking rid it quite away it helpeth also digestion in the Stomach and is a good remedy for a Surfet It helpeth the Collick the Strangury and stoppings of the Urine procureth womens courses and expelleth the after-birth easeth and discusseth all inward tumours and windinesse it openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene cureth the bitings of mad Dogs and all other venemous creatures The roote taken dry or in any other drinke will abate the rage of Lust in young pâ—rsons The root being used greene helpeth such as be short breathed and be troubled with stuffings in their Stomach The root also steeped in Vineger and a little of the same taken fasting is a good preservative in time of contagion The decoction taken helpeth inward bruises and congealed blood and strengthneth the Stomach and is effectuall for the suffocation of the Mother The distilled water is good for the aforesaid Diseases especially if the roots and leaves be steeped in wine and distilled in a glasse The Dose is two or three spoonfulls at a time and doth much ease cold or gripings that come of cold or winde so as the body be not bound The said water taken with a scruple of the root in powder helpeth the Plurisie being taken at the beginning as also all other diseases of the Lungs and breast as Coughs shortnesse of the breath and such like The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction in powder Electuary Potion c. In Decoction Take of the leaves of Angelica a handfull of Angelica roots two drams boyle them in a pint and a halfe of water or Posset drinke to a pinte straine it and give a good draught thereof Morning and Evening A Potion against the Pestilence Take of Angellica root in powder of London Treacle of each a dram Angellica water three ounces wine Vineger halfe an ounce mixe them together take it and sweat upon it A Potion against faintnesse of the heart Take of Angellica root in powder thirty graines Angelica water one ounce Cinamon water a spoonfull mixe them together and give it divers times if need require The outward use The juyce or the water dropped into the eyes cleareth them takes away filmes or skins therein and helpeth deafnesse if dropped into the eares the juyce put into hollow teeth easeth the paine The roots in powder made up with a little Pitch into a Plaister and laid on the biting of a mad Dog or any other venemous creature doth wonderfully helpe them the juyce or the water dropped or tents wet therein and put into old and filthy deepe ulcers or the powder of the roote in want of the other doth cleanse them and cause them to heale quickly by covering the naked bones with flesh The distilled water applied to places pained with the Gout or Sciatica doth give a great deale of ease The root smelled to or held in the Mouth is a good preservative in the times of contagion The Dose The root or leaves are given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The juyce The extract thereof The Stalkes and roots canded Oyle Balsam of Angelica CHAP. 75. De Antimonio of Antimony or Stibium The Names IT is called in Latine Antimonium Antimonium Hyacinthinum vitrem Antimonii Stibium and Stiâ—â—mi in English Antimony and glasse of Antimony The Temperament It is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is the clearest glasse without drosse or earthy substance and of a red colour and brittle or easy to breake The Duration It will keepe good many years The inward use Antimony is a strong Medicine and worketh strongly both by Vomit and Stoole It is profitable in old paines of the head Catarrhes or Râ—umes paines of the Stomack arising from Malignant humours in the Dropsey Green-sicknesse shortnesse of breath Palsey Falling-sicknesse in the Tertian or Quartaine Ague in the French-pox Melancholly and madnesse in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene in the Leprosy Elephansy Scab Itch and foule Diseases of the skin It is most excellent in the Pestilence especially at the beginning The manner of administring it It is given in Substance or by Infusion In Substance Take of Stibium or glasse of Antimony in fine powder three or four graines of Sugar in powder two drams or halfe an ounce mixe them together and take it in a Morning fasting with Physicall observation Or thus Take of Stibium in fine powder three graines Sugar of Roses two drams or as much conserve of red Roses mixe them togther and take it as before A Bole good in the Dropsey Take of Antimony in very fine Powder three graines London Treacle a dram conserve of red Roses two drams being well mixed take it as before In Pills Take of Antimony in Powder three graines Pilula Alephanginae a scruple make Pills and cover them with leafe Gold Sed fraus honesta latet By Infusion Take of Stibium in powder three or foure graines white wine four ounces let them stand all night in the Morning poure off the clearest and give it The outward use Stibium is used in Medicines to cleare the sight and against Ulcers Festulas thereof or also to take away proud flesh in sores and procureth a cicatrice in Ulcers Being mixed with sope used it helpeth to cure Cankers and the fleshinesse growing in the Nostrills Plinie saith t stoppeth the bleeding of any fresh wound being strewed therein and singular to heale the bitings of Dogs but this I conceive is spoken of crude Antimony Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 33. cap. 6. fol. 473. A water to take away spots in the eyes and to dry up superfluous moysture Take of cleare Antimony in powder ten graines red Rose water three ounces mixe them together and let them stand foure and twenty houres then drop foure or five drops of the clearest into the eyes twice in a day The hurtfull quality Stibium is a strong and violent Medicine and brings Convulsions Cramps Faintings of the Spirits and many times sodaine death therefore take these cautions Cautions in the use of Antimony Give it onely to strong and able bodies Let it not be given where the body is much bound till a glister hath been administred Give it not to women with childe nor to weake persons nor to any that are in a Consumption or to such as spit blood or have bad Lungs Give it not to any immediately before or presently after bleeding When any doe take it let them keepe their beds while it workes and take warme Posset drinke having a care they take no cold Fabricius mentions two Matrons that after the taking of Antimony the one lost her hearing and the other became foolish Cent. 5. Obser 12. If anâ— desire to know more of the nature of Antimony let them read these following Authors Matthiol in lib. 5. Diascor cap. 59. f. 837. 838. Massar lib.
and stoppings of the Urine and hath a speedy operation to cleanse the Uritories or passages of Urine from slimy flegme and stones gathered therein or the passages in the neck of the yard also to wast and consume any fleshly excrescence in the neck of the bladder or yard Galingal conduceth to Venery and help conception and is profitable for them that have cold reins and excellent for them that have cold and windy affects of the wombe It helpeth a stinking breath being boyled in wine and so taken It is chiefly good for cold and moist diseases The manner of administring them They are given chiefly in powder and decoction Against weaknesse and faintnesse of the heart Take the powder of Galingal two scruples of the juice of Borrage one ounce and a halfe mixe them together and give it with a little Sugar in the morning fasting or any other time Against a weake stomach and wind Take Galingal Pepper and Parsley-seed in powder of each half an ounce of Honey four or five ounces mixe them together and adde two ounces also of conserve of Red Roses Take the quantity of a Nut thereof morning and evening Or Take an ounce of Galingal and bruise it of White-wine a pint and a halfe or a quart boyle it till about halfe a pint be consumed straine it and drinke a draught morning and evening The outward use It helpeth a stinking breath being often chewed in the mouth and also a cold moist braine being snuffed up into the nose in powder or chewed in the mouth The hurtfull quality It must not be given in hot diseases nor to hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given in powder from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or three Of such Medicines as are made of Galingall The chiefest species made thereof is Diagalangal which helps the cold effects of the stomach and liver and helps concoction drives away soure belching expels winde and flatulent humours and also helps a stinking breath There are many other species made thereof CHAP. XXXI De Galbano Of Gum-Galbanum GAlbanum is a Gum taken from one kinde of Ferula or Fennel-giant of a very strong and stinking savour The Names It is called in Latine Galbanum in English Gum Galbanum The Temperament Galbanum is hot and dry in the second degree or hot in the beginning of the third degree and dry in the second or in the beginning of the second The best kind The best is clear a little yellowish with white pieces amongst it without filth or sticks neither too dry nor too moist of a strong savour dissolving chiefly with wine and vineger The Duration It will keep good many years The inward Vse Galbanum is profitable for all cold diseases of the wombe for the rising or falling of the Mother and all stoppings thereof it helps to bring away the birth and dead child and provokes the Courses in Women 't is usefull in Convulsions and Cramps Falling-sicknesse inward Ruptures in pains and tumours of the Spleen and Sirrhus in shortnesse of breath Cough in the paines of the side and in torments of the bowels It resisteth poyson killeth worms and is an Antidote against Venome and all venemous Beasts for saith Plinie no Serpents will come neer to them that are besmeared with Galbanum Being taken in wine with Mirrhe it brings away the dead child out of the wombe and Mola or false conception it is excellent in the Collick dissolved in wine and taken with oyle of sweet-Almonds and a little Saffron and also for the stopping of the Urine The manner of administring it It is given chiefly in Pils Pils against the suffocation of the Mother Take of Galbanum two scruples Sagapenum a scruple Assa fetida a scruple oyle of Amber four drops make Pils thereof and give them Against the paine and swelling of the Spleen and Sirrhus Take a dram of Galbanum and dissolve it in a little Vineger of Squils or Oxymel of Squils and give it Against Wormes Take a dram of Galbanum dissolve it in a little Sack or Muskadel give it with Sugar Pellets The Outward Vse It mollifieth softneth and dissolveth the hard tumours and swelling as Scirrhus Kings-evil Aposthumes hardnesse of the Spleen hard nodes of the joynts and Biles also easeth pains in the side especially being mixed with oyles oyntments and plaisters for the same purpose It taketh away freckles and spots in the face or skin being mixed with Vineger and Niter and so applyed It takes away the pain of the ears being used with the oyle of Roses oyle of Nardus or such like It cures the Tooth-ach if the hollow-tooth be stopped therewith it draweth forth thornes splinters and broken bones being spread on Leather and applyed especially if you mixe Terpintine with it It avails in the fits of the Mother or Falling-sicknesse being but smelled to or a perfume thereof on Coals also a Pessary hereof used brings away the birth and dead child and also provokes the Courses it cures the bitings of Scorpions or other venemous beast being applyed thereto It helps the Sciatica if a plaister thereof be applyed It cleanseth wounds and ulcers cures rifts of the feet and ancles especially being mixed with Gum-Tragacanth Dears suâ—t and oyle of Violets It cures scal'd heads being dissolved with honey and so applyed Against fits of the Mother Make a Plaister of Galbanum on Leather about the bignesse of the Palme of your hand and lay it to your navell The hurtfull quality It is dangerous to give it to pregnant women or women with child least they miscarry therewith neither must it be given in hot diseases Plinie saith t is not good in difficulty of Urine but Diascorides and others say the contrary The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to a dram or a dram and a halfe Of such things as are made of Galbanum Oyle Chimicall of Galbanum Galbanetum i. e. Balsamum Galbanetum seu spiritus Terebinthinae Galbanetus Cerot of Galbanum or Ceratum matricale CHAP. XXXII De Genista Of Broom BRoom is better known for it's sweeping helpe then for its Physicall use therefore I shall give you the vertues thereof The Names It is called in Latine Genista and Genesta and that because it helps the pains of the knees or quod facile generet speciemque propagat The Temperament Broom is hot and dry in the second or beginning of the third degree The Duration The flowers and seeds will keep a year The inward use The flowers seeds stalks and roots are in use but chiefly the seeds and the flowers they draw forth thick Flegme and Choller as also water by vomit and stool and that somewhat strongly in many bodies The seeds and flowers are Spleneticall nephriticall and hepaticall that is good for the Spleen Stone and Liver and draweth from the joynts Flegmatick and Waterish humours whereby it helpeth those that are troubled with the Dropsie Gout Sciatica and paines in the joynts
in powder stirring them well together till it become a fit masse for pils The Dose is from ten grains to fifteen Freitag Aur. Med. f. 337. The external use A decoction of Coloquintida made with Veniger easeth the paine of the Teeth if they be washed therewith The powder thereof with Honey applyed to the Navill killeth wormes Being infused in Vineger it cureth the Morphew Leprosie Elephansie dry scurfe and scabs if the places be often rubbed therewith A bath made of Coloquintida and the feet and other parts fomented therewith bringeth downe the Courses in Women The juyce boyled with Hogs-greese and applyed to the hip easeth the Sciatica An oyle made of Coloquintida and dropped into the ear take's away the noyse and singing thereof and is good against baldnes and falling of the hair Coloquintida is used in Glisters and Suppositories A Glister Take of the Pulpe of Coloquintida two drams Camomel flowers a handfull Anniseed Cuminseed of each halfe an ounce Make a decoction in fair water straine it and in a pint of the decoction desolve honey of Roses oyl of Camomel of each three or four ounces and make a Glister A Suppository Take of Coloquintida in powder a scruple species Hiera simplex halfe a dram Salgem halfe a scruple with a sufficient quantity of Honey make a Suppository A Ball made of Coloquintida which purgeth onely by smelling to it Take of Colocynthis and Esula or pine spurge in powder Aloes and Myrrhe in powder of each a dram with the juice of Coriander make two bals to hold in each hand one and being warmed therewith smell often to them The hurtfull quality with the correcting means Coloquintida hurts the heart liver and stomach by its strong operation it opens the mouthes of the veines whereby many times after the taking of it blood is voided both upward and downeward It also excoriats the bowels and passages of the Urine and bringeth great gripings and tearing pains Therefore it must not be given to women with child for being but applyed to the wombe it killeth the child nor to children aged persons or such as are weake neither to any that have the Plurisie Hectich Feaver or any inflamation It is not safe to give it alone but being well corrected it may be given to strong and rustick bodies It is corrected with Hepaticall Cardiacall Stomachicall and other gentle means as Tragacanth oyle of sweet Almonds Ginger or Mastich Some adde Bdellium and other astringent things But surely those things that binde make the operation of the Medicine afterwards more strong for though the binding faculty of such things may hinder the operation for a time yet it will at length bring forth and worke more violently Sagapenum is counted a good corrector of Coloquintida because of it's clammy faculty whereby it preserves the bowels from gripings The Dose The Dose in powder is from five graines to ten or fifteen These things following are made of Coloquintida First Pils of Coloquintida 2 Pilulae Alhandal 3 Extract of Coloquintida 4 Trosses of Alhandal 5 Chimicall oyle of Coloquintida 6 Oyle by infusion of Coloquintida 7 Wine and Vineger of Coloquintida CHAP. XVIII De Corallio Rubro Of red Coral REd Coral is a hard stony substance growing on the Rocks in the Sea The Names Coral is called in Latine Corallium Coralium and Coralium this Corallium rubrum in English Red Coral The temperament Red Coral is cold and dry in the second degree The best kinde The best is that which is smooth clear and red for the redder it is the better it is The Duration It will keep good ten or twenty years The inward Vse Red Coral doth dry cool and bind it strengthneth the heart stomach and liver purifieth the blood and is therefore very usefull in the Pestilence against venome and all pestilent Feavers and malignant diseases it cheares the heart and is good against Melancholy helpeth such as spit blood or that bleed at the mouth or the nose as also stoppeth the Fluxe of blood in man or woman and being taken in wine or other liquor frequâ—ntly it taketh away the hardnesse and stopping of the Spleen it stayeth the Gonorrhaea or running of the reins in men and the whites in women helpeth conception by its binding faculty and is good for the stopping of of the Urine and paines of the Stone in the bladder if the powder when it is burnt be taken in Whitewine or Posset drinke the powder taken in Wine oâ— distilled Water brings rest to such as have an Ague and is good for such as have Cramps It is much commended in the falling sicknesse or to prevent it if a Childe so soon as it is borne take ten graines thereof in black-Cherry-water or in the Mothers miâ—ke Some affirme that it causeth an easie delivery of the birth which fit doe it is by a specifick vertue for experience doth manifest it to be of a binding nature The Chymicall oyle of Coral is commended against the Falling-sicknesse in children and others as also in all Fluxes of the belly and spitting of blood The manner of administring it It is given in Electuary powder c. An Electuary against the Flux of the belly Take of red Coral in powder three drams of Marmeâ—â—â—de of Quinces two ounces and a halfe species Diamargariton frigidum two drams with a sufficient quantity of Syrup of Quinces make an Electuary take of it a little before meat An Electuary against vomiting of blood by reason of a bruise or fall Take of red Coral in powder a dram conserve of red Roses conserve of Comfry of each one ounce Bâ—le Armoniack washed in Rose water and in powder Blood stone in powder of each a dram Acacia Myrtle-Berries of each a dram Suger Pellets halfe an ounce with an ounce of Suger dissolved in Rose-water make an Electuary The Dose is three drams or halfe an ounce with red Wine in the morning and before meat A Powder against Ruptures Take of Myrtle-berries Cinamon and Nutmeg of each two drams of Knot-grasse dry halfe an ounce seeds of Plantaine and Purslaine of each three drams and the seeds of Garden Cresses a dram of red Corall a dram and a halfe make all into powder adding so much Sugar as will make it sweet The Dose is from halfe a dram to a dram in red Wine every morning or second morning for a Months space if need require A Powder against the Fluxe of the belly Take of red Coral a scruple roots of Tormentil two scruples Mirrhe a scruple Gum Tragacanth a dram Plantaine-seeds halfe a dram Dragons blood a dram trosses of Spodium a dram Bole Armoniack and Harts-horne burnt of each a dram make them into powder The Dose is a dram in Plantaine-water The outward Vse It helpeth sore Gums and Ulcers in the mouth and healeth up soul hollow Ulcers in other parts and filleth with flesh and is used in medicines for the eyes to stay the Flux of Rheume and takes away the heat and rednesse thereof
successe but the best and safest way is to give it with infusion of Sene with creame of Tartar or with a decoction of prunes and Tamarinds c. Actuarius meth med f. 340. VVecher antid spec f. 222. Theod. Dorstenius de herb caet simpl med f. 285. Constantinus Afric de gradibus f. 347. Fernel meth med l. 5. f 112. Tragos hist Ind. med f. 110. Matthiol Comment in lib. 1. Diascor f. 85. VVhether the Manna now in use among Physicians be such as the children of Israel had in the. wildernesse To which I answer in the negative and that for these reasons First because that Manna which the Israelites had was miraculous and but for a time Joshua 5.11 12. Nehemiah 9.20 21. now that it was miraculous appeares plainely by that place in Exod. 16.18 And when they did mete it with an Omer he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack But our Manna has continued many yeares Secondly the heat of the Sun melted that but the heat of the Sun or fire condenses or hardens ours Thirdly that putrefied in one night when it was kept contrary to Gods command Exod. 16.20 ours doth not so but is durable and will keep good many monethes Fourthly that was hard to be ground in a Mill or beat in a Morter Numb 8.11 ours not so but soft and being put on the tongue it melts Fifthly that was nourishing ours purging Sixthly that fell all the yeare except on the Sabbath ours is gathered in the Summer CHAP. 45. De Mastiche of Mastich MAstick is a gum or a gummie rosen in small whitish graines flowing from the Lentisk-tree It is called in Latine Mastiche and Mastix in English Mastich or Masticke The temperament Mastick is hot and dry in the third degree The best kinde The best is that which is cleere splendent white and brittle and is brought from the Isle of Chio. The duration It will keep good many yeares The inward use Mastick is excellent for the stomach and doth much strengthen the same stayeth vomiting and nauseous subversions thereof and helps the retaining vertue of the stomach and brings good concoction and digestion It stoppeth the flux of the belly and profits those that spit blood and that have coughs being taken with syrup of Colts-foot or the like it stayeth the acrimonie or sharpnesse of strong purging medicines and is a good corrector of them it stayeth thin distillations falling from the braine and thikneth them especially in Fevers and preventeth the Falling-sicknesse and giddinesse of the head arising from vapours if a few graines thereof be taken after meate and helpeth also the stinking of the breath If three or foure graines thereof be taken at night when you go to bed it easeth all paines in the stomach and prevents the like for the future The powder of Mastick with Amber and Venice-Turpentine is good against the running of the reines and for both whites and reds in women Plinie saith it provoketh urine Plin. Nat. Hist l. 24. c. 7. f. 184. Oile of Mastick chymicall is usefull for the forenamed diseases The manner of administring it It is given in decoction in electuary in powder c. In decoction Take of mastick halfe an ounce boile it in three or foure pintes of water Give of the decoction often to drink of It is profitable in loosenes and fluxes of the belly .. Schroder Pharm med chym l. 4. f. 194. Mastick must not be too much boiled for feare of losing its vertue An electuary for the cough proceeding from thin rheume and against spitting of blood Take of mastick and Olibanum in powder of each two scruples Conserve of red Roses two ounces Diacodion halfe an ounce mixe them together and take thereof morning and evening as much as a small nutmeg The outward use Mastick being infused or steeped in Rose-water is good to wash the mouth withall to fasten loose teeth and to strengthen the gums or mastick heated in wine and the Gums mouth and teeth washed therewith cleanseth the corruption thereof and fastneth the loosenesse both of Gums and Teeth It is used in ointments and plaisters to mundifie and heale ulcers and sores to stay the freeting fluxes of humours to them to dry them up and to fill up the hollownesse It strengtheneth and bindeth also the parts whereunto 't is applied and comforteth the aking joynts and sinews very much it is used also in plaisters and ointments to strengthen and comfort the stomach Mastick dissolved in milk and dropped into the eyes takes away the dimnesse thereof The teeth being rubbed with the powder thereof it whitens them Being held in the mouth and chewed upon it doth dry and comfort the brain draweth flegme from the brain and stayeth the falling down of humours and also causeth a sweet breath It is used to lay the haires of the eye-lids even The same spread on Velvet or Plush and laid upon the temples stayeth the Rheume from falling down and easeth the tooth-ach It knitteth broken bones The oile of Mastick made by infusion and ebullition or boiling is mollifying comforting and binding very usefull in diseases of the Mother against all pains in the belly and stomach the hardnesse of tumours and pains of the joynts and sinews it also comforteth the brain and strengtheneth the liver and heart Against pain of the temples proceeding from vapours ascending up to the brain Take of Mastick and Olibanum in powder of each half an ounce Bole Armoniack in powder two drams with the white of an Egg and a little Vineger make a poultesse and apply it on lint or towe to the temples Against chaps of the hands and lips Take of Mastick in powder half an ounce Deers-suet an ounce Oile of Roses four ounces make an Ointment by meking the Deers-suet with the Oile and keeping it stirred when it is almost cold put in the Mastick and keep it for your use The hurtfull quality Mastick causeth belchings in the stomach against which you may eat Carraway or Anise-seed-Comfits The Dose The Dose is from five grains to ten or twelve but give not too much of it Of such Medicines as are made of Mastick Pils of Mastick spirit of Mastick Oile Chymicall of Mastick Aqua Mastichina Oile by infusion and boiling Ointment of Mastick CHAP. 46. De Mechoacana of Mechoacan MEchoacan is a whitish root cut in thin slices brought to us from beyond the Sea somewhat like white Brionie-root The names It is called in Latine Mechoacanna Mechoacana Mechoaca Mechoaca Peruviana Mechoacanum Indicum Rhabarbarum album Rhabarbarum Mechoacanum in English 't is called Mechoacan Mechoaca and Indian Bryonie Now it is called Mechoacan because it is brought from a place in the Province of New Spain called Mechoacan neere the City Mexico The temperament Mechoacan is hot in the first degree and dry in the second consisting of an airie substance and subtile parts as also of an earthy quality or somewhat binding The best kinde The