not quite extinguished but if he be strong may withstand the sicknes then cut off the cause expell the matter kéepe the patient sparingly let him not vse ouer cold things Fiftly if naturall strength in the ague be very weake then must the Phisition strengthen the same coole the vnnaturall heat and with méet food comfort the debilitie of the body Sixtly the cooling of the ague is not to be effected with drying or binding things vnlesse it be when the materiall cause is expelled Seuenthly if the nature and qualitie of the ague be doubtfull then must the patient liue sparingly especially when the Ague assaileth that it may find an emptie stomack Eightly all fresh fruit are very hurtfull by reason that they will soone stinke and putrifie in the stomack Ninthly while the patient is in good strength hath bloud enough or is full of humors then first of all let him bloud and especially when as his vrine is red and thicke and when it is doubted that the Cholera wil get the vpper hand Tenthly and if so be as is rehearsed that nature be of abilitie then vse those things first which loose the bodie mildly afterwards open a veine and then purge Eleuenthly in these kind of agues there is no strong purgation to be ministred Twelfthly if by the wambling or paine of the stomack it be perceiued that the corruption falleth into the stomacke then shall you minister to the patient a vomit but if through the rumbling of the belly it be perceiued that the matter be fallen downe into the bowels then is it to be expelled with purgations Thirtéenthly those medicines that might hurt the bowels be noysome not commodious in case that the patient haue not vsed preparatiues before be it in heate or cold or in case that the corruption made not the patient starke mad or that he were in doubt to fall into a greater mischiefe Fourtéenthly as the bloud preuaileth and that a veine must be opened then is the preparation of the matter to be expected by reason that the same concerneth the other bad humors and not the bloud Fiftéenthly when the Crisis is neare hand you must forbeare to minister any medicine But if the same be vnperfect then is it to be ayded and to help nature in that which she can not performe of her selfe that is in strengthening her and in right vse of the medicines Sixtéenthly if the letting of bloud be thought méet then is the same to be done at the first for otherwise it will not do so well for when the patient is ouer weakened then might the same be a meane of his death Seuentéenthly the patient is to be purged when the Ague is weakest Eightéenthly wine bathes and fomentations are to be abstained in forcible and strong Agues and rather drinke cold water which hath great efficacie to coole the heate of the Ague but not to expell the putrified matter through the pores or through the vrine Nintéenthly when the principall parts of the bodie as the Heart the Head the Lyuer be strong and the Ague is vehement and hote then may you boldly giue the patient water to drinke yet not if he be in yeares for those are not very strong of nature Twentiethly if there be much bloud much tough slime or fleame and binding of the bodie present then first of all let the patient bloud afterwards attenuate the matter and lastly open the pores and warme them One and twentiethly aboue all things haue regard to the strength of the patient and if he be strong enough and that he haue neede of purging then is the same to be executed without any care But if his strength be small then let it alone at any hand except it be some gentle thing and after that he be somewhat strengthened Two and twentiethly if in the Febris putrida be any obstruction then héede is to be taken to open the same the which if it be caused of some humours then are they to be euacuated If those humours be tough and grosse attenuate them And if the Ague be mixt then prepare your medecines accordingly Thrée and twentiethly because the cold attracted ayre penetrateth to the heart and other inward parts let him thereby be refreshed opening all manner of windowes about him Foure and twentiethly it happeneth otherwhiles besides the grieuousnesse of the disease and the presence of diuers accidents that sometimes there are those things giuen to the patient that are hurtfull for the Ague as in the swounings in the Ague for the which of necessitie Wine and fresh broth are to be giuen to the patient wherein is to be considered that the greatest extremitie is first to be eased Fiue and twentiethly if néede require that much bloud or humours are to be taken away and that the strength of the patient will not abide it then must the same be done by little and little at diuers times and not at one time euen as is before expressed at large But if the strength of the patient will permit it then is it to be done at once Sixe and twentiethly in these forcible and vehement Agues must the Phisition be prouident and warie how to expell and purge for it is better to leaue one part of the matter in the bodie then to expell it all at one time Seuen and twentiethly the Phisition must alwaies be hold and liberal in comforting the patient for although healthfull meates bréede some inconuenience yet are they better then too much abstinence Eight and twentiethly minister alwayes vnto the patient for his mouth such things as will kéepe his throate moist that through great heate it drie not too sore the which is accomplished by the muscilage of Fleawoort the iuice of Pomegranates the muscilage of Quince kernels by Purslaine and Licorice which things also are good for to quench thirst Of common things for hot Agues §. 4. AFter the description of the common rules which are to be noted wée will nowe treate of this namely when it is found that an Ague doth approch then must the patient take fowre ounces of the water of Carduus Benedictus Item take the rootes of Cicorie cut them powne them and wring out their iuice drinke a spoonfull thereof halfe an howre before the Ague assayleth but it is to be noted that the inward heart of the roote is to be taken away Or take powned rootes of Cicorie as many as you thinke good and powre Wine thereon boyle them in Balneo and then drinke thereof three or fowre times to wit morning and euening it is also passing good for such as are swollen with the Ague Cheruell water is very good to driue away the Ague A maruellous water of the auncient Phisitions Take a spoonefull of Fennell séedes and as much Salt powne them together and let it runne through a Cearse or hairen Sieue then take good Vineger and the vrine of a man child about sixe ounces of each giue to
TAke the flesh of a rosted Partridges brest twelues ounces the rootes of white Behen the flowers of Borage Buglosse Seduary of each one dragme Saffron one scruple Mace Saxifrage of each one scruple Iacint Smaragd Saphires and Harts bones of each halfe a scruple three leaues of beaten gold fired gold halfe a dragme prepared pearles one dragme three ounces of fresh Pine apple kernels let this steepe 24. houres with the flesh in foures ounces of white wine and two ounces of the iuice of Quinces powne them all small and seeth 12. ounces of white Sugar with the foresayd liquor temper it all togither giue therof euery morning halfe an ounce and drinke thereupon two ounces of Buglosse water afterwards take before dinner and supper one quarter of an ounce of it for besides that it is good for the giddinesse it doth also strengthen all the members of the body In like manner marke that all which strengtheneth the heart whether it be hot or cold the same also strengtheneth the braine Of Phrenitis or franticknesse with an Ague §. 5. WE will now discourse of that kind of franticknesse which the learned call Phrenitis which we define thus Phrenitis is a frensie or bereauing of the wits with an hot Ague or Phrenitis is a doting and distraction or spoyle of the vnderstanding which endureth not alwayes and that assaileth one with quiuering small voyce and with an ague which doth also most procéed of some inflammation or swelling in the braines And although there be many kinds of franticknesse yet may they be deuided into two principall sorts the one which is caused of bloud the other of Cholera out of both which the third kind which is Melancholia as a mixture doth sprout and spring They that be burdened with the first kind they may adiudge all things like as they be know what it is but how to thinke of it and vse it do they know nothing at all They that haue the second kind of franticknesse they do know in their thoughts or forecast nothing at all but adiudge much otherwise of all that euer they sée then it is For both these sorts haue you a notable historie recited of Galen They which be charged with the third sort they be so distraught of their wits that they can neither discerne right nor adiudge right And now for to come to the right signes of the foresaid diseases we will rehearse these following The signes of 〈…〉 First inward Agues heauinesse of the head drought rednesse of the eyes and face paine of the head shunning of light and strong motion of the pulse Item vnquietnesse much and filthy talke drith and blacknesse of the toung tumbling vp and off from the bed their vrine white quicke and strong breathing crying out in the sléepe feare impudencie do not couer their priuities being vncouered forgetfulnesse of all that is passed terrible dreames c. And if besides the foresaid signes the tongue be red and yellow and the vnderstanding enféebled with much watching then it is a perfect Phrenitis that is franticknes with a strong Ague For this the remedie is not to be delayed but before they which do procéede of bloud do take roote he is strongly to be let bloud in the head veine euen till he swoune if nature may abide and suffer it But if so be that the sicknesse haue indured alreadie past the fourth day and setled it self then is the veine of the forehead also to be opened on the top of the nose and to be diligent for to open the Hemorrhoides the which is very requisite and sure And if so be that for some causes the opening of a veine be hindered then is bloud to be forced out of the nose or at the least to set boxing cups on the shoulders But if the cause be of Cholera then is the bodie to be purged through Clisters as hereafter followeth Take two handfuls of Lettice Barley halfe a M. Mallowes Mercurie Violet leaues of each halfe a handfull the flowers of water Lillies one ounce and a little bran séeth these together in a sufficient quantitie of water then take of this decoction twelue or sixtéene ounces put thereto Sallad oyle and prepared Cassia of each one ounce extracted Prunes fiue dragm set this Clister fasting Another Take Mallowes Blites Mercurie Violet leaues and water Lillies of each one M. let them séeth together in sufficient water afterwards take twelue ounces therof and temper amongst it Triphera Sarrecenica one ounce strained Prunes an ounce and a halfe oyle of Violets two ounces Salt halfe a drag Further to purge withall sowre Dates are especially fit for they do not onely expell the bad humors but also alter them These are thus to be prepared Take twelue ounces of sowre Dates séeth them in 24. ounces of water vntill the fourth part be consumed this decoction is to be strained through a cloth and to giue him fiue ounces thereof at once Item take thrée ounces of Manna temper it in the decoction of Prunes and giue it him in the morning But if so be that the humors be burnt then séeth with the Prunes a few Sene leaues a little Fumitorie and Epythimum of each one quarter of an ounce the roots of Polypodium one ounce and in foure ounces of this decoction temper the Manna and sowre Dates Another Take yellow Mirobalans one ounce and a half stampt Prunes two ounces séeth them together in ten ounces of water vnto the halfe or till that there remaine foure ounces ouer then giue it so Or take one quarter of an ounce of Rubarbe decoction of Prunes foure ounces beate the Rubarbe and so temper it amongst the decoction adde vnto it two ounces of sirupe of Violets let this stand together the space of twelue houres and giue it him early in the morning But if so be that the humor be burnt then put some Sene leaues vnto it Epithymum and the rootes of Polipodie of each one quarter of an ounce After the foresaid purging may the head veine vpon the hand or in the elbow be safely opened and boxing cups fixed vpon the shoulders Also to open the Saphea and to moue the Hemorrhoides if so it séeme requisite If this sicknesse be caused of bloud TAke twelue ounce of the iuices of Plantaine iuice of Shepheards purse and Rosewater of each foure ounces Vineger two ounces make clothes or two wet therein and then lay them on the forehead and so ouer halfe the head Item take Violet leaues Lettice and powned Barley of each 1. M. Poppie heads rootes of Southernwood and water Lillies of each halfe a handfull Henbane Poppie séeds and Lettice seede of each halfe an ounce Cammomill Melilot and Mallowes of each halfe an M. Séeth them all together in a sufficient quantitie of the water of Sage afterwards take a Spunge and therewith moisten from the forehead or from thence where the haire beginneth vnto the necke behind as often as you please Item take the iuice of Housléeke
rubbed them well with a cloth kéepe the moisture a good while in thy mouth Item take burnt Oister shels and Sandaraca of each half an ounce Ireos two drag Aristology Gentian and Centory of each half a dragme vse it as before It is bitter but it drieth and cleanseth much Or take one drop of the oyle of Vitriol wet the teeth with it and rub them afterwards with a course cloth this taketh away all blacknes of the teeth but it is very sharpe The same operation is ascribed vnto the oile of Sandaraca Take Allume and salt of each a like much beate it small distill it in a glasse Lembicke and rub thy teeth therewith These last three things are very strong and my counsell is to refraine them But if one would kéepe his teeth cleane then are not those things to be vsed that do change the naturall white colour of the teeth into another hew The causes are both outward and inward as the long vse of tincting or colouring meates and the continuall dressing of the same in brasse pots There groweth also a hard substance to the téeth which may be called Argoile The inward causes may be a corrupted and foule stomack which commonly doth colour them green and especially when one hath oftentimes eaten many Toadstooles The cure thereof is this if it be caused of bad meates then must the patient first of all be let blood If the téeth be pestered with Argoile then is the same to be taken or scraped off gently And because this colouring of the téeth doth only procéed of bad humors they are therefore often to be rubbed with parched salt afterwards with the dentifrices or powders that make white téeth which shal be described hereafter and rub them therewith and last of all with a peece of Scarlet dipped in hony How to make the teeth white TAke Venice glasse mole it vpon a marble stone vntill it be very small adde vnto it white pibble stones burnt in like sort poudered and Ireos of each a like quantity rub the teeth therewith Item take burnt Date stones red Corall prepared of each two drag put them mixed together in a péece of linnen cloth stéepe it in wine and rub the teeth with it this maketh them white and strong Another Take Pumice stone Cuttle bone and red bricke eg shels the white skin taken out of them prepared red and white Coral of each half an ounce Pellitory of Spaine burnt Allum of each two drag and a half Ireos two drag Sandaraea thrée drag Mastick Myrrhe of each half an ounce make them into powder and vse it for a dentifrice Item take Pellitory of Spaine burnt Allum of each two drag and a halfe Dragons blood blossomes of the Pomegranate trée of each half a drag mixe them together and vse it as before Some do vse the Cuttle bone only others only egshels they are both very good and safe How to preserue the teeth from all accidents MAny Phisitions do write that whosoeuer will preserue and kéepe good téeth he must obserue two things especially first they do commaund not to vse Milk Fish Radishes dry Figs dates sodden hony and al other meates that be dressed therewith Also to abstaine from sower and gréene apples and peares prunes Seruices Medlars Limons and Garlick all which by nature are hurtfull vnto the téeth In like maner all things that are very hot or very cold and especially the sudden change of hot or cold meates A good diet is also very commodious for this purpose vomiting as before hath bin shewed is very bad and hurtful also to bite on very hard things The téeth are alwaies to be kept cleane that nothing remaine betwéene them and stinke The meanes whereby the téeth are preserued and kept good are these to wit that you rub them often with the barke of Tamariske with the péels of Pomegranates with the rind of an Ash trée with blossoms of the Pomegranate trees or with red blossomes of the Peach trée they cleanse the téeth and confirme the gums You may also temper white Sugar with Hony and rub the téeth therewith in cold causes with the oyle of Behen in hot causes with the oyle of Roses Item take the powder of a burnt Hares head rub the téeth and gummes therewith or take Hony and Salt and burne them to ashes beaten Lupins are also very commendable with any addition Item beate Myrrhe and plume Allume into powder or temper burnt Alluâ—â— with vineger and wash thy mouth with it or else take burnt Harts horne séedes or flowers of Tamariske Cipres rootes Roses Spikenard of each one scrup Salt halfe a scrup make it into powder and rub thy téeth with it Myrrhe sodden in Wine and the téeth washed therewith fasteneth the téeth and drieth the superfluous humidity of them Chew Mastick and rub the téeth and gums with it it maketh them cleane and strong The téeth also are alwayes to be kept cleane and pure and not to pick them with an iron but with a toothpicker made of Lentiscus which is the trée whereof droppeth Mastick which is much commended for the teeth remember also to wash the téeth after euery meale The fourteenth Chapter Of the Voice WE haue concluded before in the 13. Chapter the voyce to be the last part or portion of the mouth which part is onely proper vnto all those liuing creatures that haue lungs for although fishes and some other beasts séeme to haue a voice yet it is nothing else but a noise for a true voice procéedeth of an open breast Also the voyces of all females are much lesse except the Cow then of males But it is not our intent to speake of any other voyces but onely of the humane voyce Amongst all liuing creatures you shall hardly find any thing more changeable and inconstant than the voyce For behold a man or woman from childhood euen to old age and you may easily perceiue the mutability of it and which is aboue all things to be admired that those children which speake very timely or yong begin to go very late It is also no lesse maruel that this voice being shut vp and included in something can neuertheles be vnderstood As for example put a long trunke to another bodies eare speake in it what and as softly as you please yet shal he perfectly vnderstand euery word of your saying Likewise you may as wel know one by the voice as by sight for it is most sure that if you heare one speak and sée him not you shall as well know him by his voyce as if you saw him and heard him not In like maner the voice maketh great difference both in words and in names in diuers spéeches ouer all the world It bréedeth great delight by abreuiating and extending by singing high or low soft or aloud in musick And in this it excéedeth all other parts whatsoeuer and is the only meanes whereby we may disclose and make knowne our hidden thoughts and secret
therefore are these things following to be vsed which do strengthen and warme the hart as Balme Burrage Rosemary Basill Penniroyall Marierom Wormewood and specially marrish Mints Of rootes Cipers rootes Zeduary Costus Ginger Elecampane rootes both the Béetes rootes and Doronicum Of seedes Ameos Smallage seede Annis seede Of Spices Cardamome Nutmegs Lignum Aloe Saffron Cucubes Cloues Item take Muscus Ambra Harts bones Citron pils Mastick Myrrhe Blattae Byzantiae good and pleasant tasting Wine Item take these warming confections following as Diamargariton Calidum Diacinamomum Diapliris Laetificans Dia Moschu Diambra Aromaticum Rosatum which is of a temperate nature Treacle Mithridate confected Citron pils confected Elecampane rootes and other things moe that do follow afterwards These things are of a temperate nature as Iacint Smaragdes Saphirs Rubies Perles Corrall Gold Siluer Amber Mirobalanes Bellerici Buglosse silke wormes nests burnt Iuorie Barberies Tormentill Harts bones and Saffron To coole the hart take Melon séede Pompeon séede Cucumber séede Gourd seede the seedes of Fleawort Sorrell séede prepared Coriander Pomgranats Lymons Citrons and their iuice Quinces sowre Apples Peares Raspes new and dry Prunes and all pleasant sauouring fruites water Lilly floures the iuice of the Vyne Vineger Roses Violets shauen and burnt Iuorie all kinde of Saunders Amber and sealed earth Of compounds is the confection of Diarrhodon Abbatis Triasantalon Manus Christi with Perles Diamargariton frigidum Trocisci de Camfora conserue of Roses of Violets Sirupe of Raspes Lymons Violets Roses water Lillyes Vineger and Oxysacchara and all that you shall finde written hereafter Moreouer there are hereafter set downe diuers confections that comfort the hart in heate and cold The order of life or diet for this faintnes of the Hart. A Bad stomacke is otherwhiles no small cause of this swouning for it procureth before the swouning come a heate ouer the whole bodie As soone as this shall be perceiued it is not amisse to vse for it confected Balsam wood but in the stead thereof take Tabulates of Xyloaloe which are very requisite for this Secondly he is to take euery morning one dragme of fine Treacle which must be twelue yéeres old with Rose water of the confection of Muscus Diamoschu dulcis he is to drinke of it oftentimes with Basill water one quarter of an ounce at a time but that which concerneth the stomack shall follow hereafter Fourthly this patient is to haue hanging about his neck a good Smaragde stone or at the least selected Corrall Fiftly take one dragme and a halfe of Rose buds which are not fully blowen Vine leaues red and white Behen floures and séedes of Basill barke of Frankinsence Marierom gentle of each one dragme Balme one dragme and a halfe Camfer one scruple Amber halfe a scruple Muske two graines each beaten by it selfe and being bounden in a péece of silke are to be smelt vnto oftentimes but if the faintnes be not holpen thereby and that it be feared that he will be more fainter then must those things be vsed against the swouning that are described hereafter But for the first you are to vse these cordiall waters and plaisters following Take Balme water twelue ounces Rose water Violet water the water of Willow leaues and of wilde Vine leaues of each sixe ounces burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Saunders Harts bones seeds and leaues of Basill of each two scruples Muske two graines Amber fiue graines Muscadell two ounces let all these séethe togither about one quarter of an hower except the Muske and Amber make then a péece of red Scarlet cloth wet therein one quarter of a yard square wring it warme out and lay it fower or fiue times in an hower vpon the hart A spoonge may also be laid in this water and smelt vnto oftentimes for both of them do maruellously comfort the Hart. If so be that the swouning doth not yet cease then take two ounces of this foresaid powder and temper amongst it as much Barly meale one scruple of Saffron and séeth it with good old wine vntill it be reasonable thick temper it well in a morter with foure leaues of beaten gold and one dragme of prepared Pearles spread these vpon a péece of red Scarlet cloth and then lay it on the left breast This is approoued to be maruellous good and to haue sometimes holpen such a griefe within one quarter of an hower and sustained the sicke person by his strength Of Syncope the great Swouning §. 2. THe second and sorest swouning of the Hart is called Syncope and is thus described Syncope is a distraction of all féeling and stirring of the whole body with extreme faintnes Amongst many other inward causes whereof are these receiuing of any pestilent or other stinking aire whether it be in time of the plague or of the stench of any hollow caues or of the byting of any venemous beasts as of Scorpions mad dogs and venemous fumes of mettals like as in the melting often happeneth of great feare and frighting of former diseases as of the dead palsie the pleurisie inflammation of the lights suffocation of the mother of wormes of ouer-watchings of many laskes of much bléeding of great hunger of much smarting of great paine yea also of great ioy other strong motions of the minde So that this great swouning hath great familiaritie with the dead palsie albeit there be a difference whereof we are to speake If any get the palsie then remaineth his face by good semblance but in this swouning it is like to a dead bodie For in this swouning all the blood runneth towards the Hart so that the patient remaineth without any feeling and in such an estate that no man can tell whether he be dead or liuing so that there is a common prouerbe of it That such dead men ought not to be buried in thrée daies Secondly they are like one to the other in that neither breath nor pulse is perceiued Thirdly in the palsie the patient féeleth before a heauinesse in the head but not in the Syncope neuerthelesse they accord in this that the affected partie lieth as though he were dead But in this swouning it is certaine if it come after a long panting of the hart and continueth long then it is a messenger of death and chiefly if there be Ellebor blowen into the patients nose and it doth not stir and mooue him at all The signes of the swouning to come of what cause soeuer it be prouoked are sweating and panting of the Hart a slowe and feeble pulse bleaknes of the lips and face chilnesse of the outward members numnesse of the sense of féeling and moouing where these signes appéere there a strong swouning draweth néere and there is néede of good counsell First and with spéede when the swouning approcheth or is extant then is the patient to be spouted in the face with Rose water or if that be not ready to be had with cold Well water and it will be the better if there be a little
flowers Hyssope Betony Lauender Marierom Sage are altogither very requisite To all which you may ad Miua Cidoniorum both Treacles to wit the great Diatessaron and Mithridate are very commodious for this disease For the obstruction of the cold in the Liuer be these pils following very good and especially if there be feare of the dropsie Take Indy Spica 2. dragmes a halfe Spica Romana one drag Rubarb Agaricus Ameos of each one drag and a half Cinnamom Cloues and Squinant of each halfe a drag Aloe 5. drag make pils thereof with old wine and vse thereof as often as you wil one drag at once For this obstruction are these things following especiall good Take Couchenele beaten halfe a drag make thrée pils thereof with the iuice of Limons then take them fasting as you please Some aduise that there must be tempered amongst it the herbe Centorie and then make pils of it with the iuice of Agrimonie Potions and such like WIne is for this cold obstruction of the Liuer as in that of heate not forbidden For there be sundry wines of herbes ordained for the same viz. wine of Eiebright of Auence of Betony of Harts tong Marierom wormewood Hyssope and Asarabacca and such like which be described in the last part But if it be néedfull that the wine must be tempered then prepare a water wherein Annis Cinamom Coriander Fennell rootes or any of these were decocted you may also seeth Mallowes and Cuscuta in wine and sometimes drinke thereof Of spiced wines are some described before and hereafter which do serue for the Liuer very well For which be highly commended Cleretum Aromatites and wine of Zeduary Besides the foresayd sirupes may these ensuing be vsed to wit the sirupe of Fumitory of Wormewood and Mints And if so be that the Phlegma be very tough then all the Oxymels are fit for it vsed with water meete for the purpose Of the outward Applications TAke Agrimonie two handfuls Cammomill and Venus haire of each half a handful Cipers roots Masticke Squinant Spica of each one dragme red and white Saunders Calmus and Wormewood of each two scruples burnt Iuory one scruple muscilage of Hollikocke rootes three ounces oyle of Masticke Spica and Barly meale of each one ounce and also a little Vineger then make a plaister of it with the decoction of Agrimonie The foresayd plaister is good for all hote and cold tumours of the Liuer and to be vsed at all times the plaister of Melilot the plaister of Bay berries and the knowen gray plaister Diachilon are all verie good for th is Schirrosity of the stomacke of the Milt and Liuer Item take Roses fiue drag Wormewood halfe an ounce Masticke fiue dragmes Indie Spica two dragmes a half Waxe one ounce oyle of Roses foure ounces and a halfe afterwards melt the Waxe and oyle and wash it with water lastly temper all other things beaten amongst it This plaister strengtheneth openeth the obstructions of the Liuer and the stomacke swageth the paine which procéedeth of cold maketh appetite and assisteth the digestion These oyles following are also maruellous good against all Oppilations of the Liuer to wit the oyle of Elder of Bay of Spike and of Wormewood tempered or each alone annoynted vpon the place of the Liuer It hapneth also verie well that through the obstruction of the Liuer the intrailes are annoyed For which you are to take the right sealed earth and temper it with Annis or Fennell Spica of Indy with Cinnamom of each a like quantity as the cause requireth vse halfe a drag of it at once with wine But of this shall be written more at large where we shall discourse of the guts In generall Oxymel is good for all oppilations of the liuer if there be any sharpnesse of the vrine with it amongst which some expert Phisitions do temper these things following which do take away the sharpnesse of the Vrine as Annis wilde yellow Mustard séede Siluer mountaine Mallowes Hollihocks Fleawort Dragagant and such like whereof we shall speake hereafter to wit in this third Part. The order of Diet. BEsides all the foresayd remedies it is necessarie that we do also write what diet this patient is to obserue First of all whatsoeuer cooleth and moisteneth is to be eschewed to wit all habitations which lie low by the water also the South wind All that here ensueth is hurtfull for him as Spinage Beetes Lettice Purslaine Endiue Gourds Cucumbers Pompeons as also all that is made of dough Fish also is not good for him vnlesse it were seldome vsed All slimy parts of beasts is he also to forbeare as fat Trypes c. vnleauened bread fresh fruits all pottages Notwithstanding Pease pottage broth of Lentils made with Mints Parsley Spike and Galingall be speciall good He must also refraine from drinking water if it be not tempered with wine Also all grosse wine is naught for him Butter and swines suet is also not much commended But Sallet oyle is in some respectes permitted Item all kinde of milke and all that is boyled with it grosse old flesh and all that bindeth is also forbidden For his drinke he is to vse méetely strong wine which is cleare and of a good taste and is somewhat swéete He may also vse otherwhiles good warming aromaticall wine like as we haue shewed of late Vineger Veriuice Limons and Orenges must he vse with other meates but alwayes a little and rather these The Pomegranates Cinnamom Pepper Ginger Galingall Annis seede Comin Fennell and such like odoriferous things are verie meete for him In like manner also the herbs and rootes of Parsley Hyssope Thyme Marierom field Mints Southernwood Sage Basill Costus rootes yellow Rapes and all other Turneps drest with oyle he is to vse In like sort Oliues Capers Of all flesh Hens Pullets Doues Partridges Fesants field foules and sucking Kids be very good to be eaten for they may all be drest with spice and especiall good to be drest with all meates be Parsley and wild Turneps Some do commend much for this sicknes the Vineyard Snailes and of all fruits the bitter and swéete Almonds Pistacia and Currans Of a schirrous Liuer §. 5. OF this obstruction of the Liuer it doth otherwhiles waxe schirrous and hard that one may feele the same with the hand on the out side without any great trouble to the Liuer the which maladie the learned do call Scirrum and the Greekes Schroten This disease is not to be cured but at the first for when it is waxed old then it is too late These patients do some dye suddenly and some lingringly for the Liuer cannot tollerate so strong medicines as the Milt This disease is to be remedied as here ensueth This sicke person is alwayes euerie second day to take one scruple of Ammoniacum with Oxymel made into pils If it shall be néedefull his liuer veine is to be opened and afterwards he is to purge with Manna and Rubarb
Agnus castus small Germander and bitter Almonds When as then the sicke bodie hath bene purged the Milt veine is to be opened or if the melancholicke humors do abound then is the Lyuer veine to be opened for that this melancholick humor doth mixe it selfe with the bloud Some aduise and that not without reason that Leches should be set in the fundament on the Pyle veines because that by nature they do draw out the blacke bloud For a strengthening and allaying of the heate this following is to be giuen as confected Peaches Cicorie rootes with Vineger conserue of Roses of water Lillies of Cicorie and of Violets For his drinke is allowed him otherwhiles a draught of Cherrie wine for it is as is oftentimes said altogether temperate and do moisten the dried Spléene and the inward parts Euery such patient is to beware of all sweet and grosse Wine which is shewed before in the first Part. Of the impostume of the Spleene §. 2. THis impostume may be caused out of bloud of Phlegma Cholera and Melancholia as also of winds and obstruction The outward occasions may be blowes fals great labour and chiefly by that which happeneth in the heate whereby the bloud is burned Item of grosse meates which make grosse bloud The common signes of all impostumes of the Milt are paine heauines and swelling of the left side which stretcheth it out from the bowels euen to the shoulder blade and sometimes it bringeth also with it a healing breath All the sowre humors do bring with them their proper signe like as is alreadie rehearsed and for to remedie this present infirmitie this is the right way First of all you are to let him bloud on the Lyuer veine in the left elbow and afterwards in the Milt veine vpon the left hand besides the small finger and if so be that the patient may abide it then let the bloud runne vntill it staunch of it selfe With purging eating and drinking is he to be kept like as it is said in the twelfth Chapter of the Lyuer Otherwise is this following very commodious to wit distilled water of Purslaine Maidenhaire Willow leaues Harts tong Nightshade of Smallage and of Endiue of which one wil alone or tempered together then the rootes of Capers beaten very small and tempered amongst it You may also boyle the foresaid herbs and vse the decoction of them tempered with the sirupe of Vineger The first foure or fiue dayes the Milt is to be annointed with this salue following Take oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe oyle of Cammomill and Vineger of each halfe an ounce then temper it together The second of third day temper amongst it halfe an ounce of the iuice of Nighshade The first day vse this following take oyle of Roses Cammomill and the iuice of Wormwood of each a like much annoint it very warme and lay it vpon a warme cloth Then lay this plaister following vpon it Take Barly meale powned Hollihock roots of each two ounces Roses red and white Saunders of each thrée dragmes roots of Endiue one ounce Vineger and water of Harts tong as much as is néedfull for to make a mild plaister When as then the patient is letten bloud purged and hath drunken the foresaid water certaine dayes together he is to purge againe with Cassie and with Epithymo but if the impostume be of cold which chanceth very seldome then may it be knowne for that it is very soft white and without paine But if the same be caused through Melancholia then doth the same shew it selfe hard with small paine and then may you vse that Oxymel compositum or Oxymel of Squils with water wherein the rootes of Capers Tamariscus Harts toung and such like be decocted Concerning the purging of Melancholia you shall shortly hereafter find perfect instructions Of an obstructed Milt without Ague but yet with paine §. 3. FOr this is chiefly commended the Tamariscus and yet about this Harts tong Caper rootes Hony suckles which haue altogether a maruellous power for to asswage the swelling of the Spléene In like manner Centorie Valerian and Meu or in stead thereof the rootes of wild Dill. These are the principall things which may be vsed for the foresaid disease Againe these things following are good for to warme the cold spleen as Aristologie the middlemost rinds of the Ashen trée Broome rootes Burrage Buglosse Ammoniack Rue Thyme Epithymus bitter Almonds the water of the Ash tree leaues Annis Fennell Caraway Ameos Parsly rootes the rootes of Smallage of Sperage Squils and their vineger seede of Agnus castus Lupins Bdellium and Beuercod Of the compounded things are the Confections of Diacapparis Diacalamintha Diacyminum confected Carawaies and Comin very god also And albeit that according to the opinion of Galen others this obstruction of the Milt when the same waxeth old is thought incurable yet do the successors neuertheles think that it is very curable although the obstruction of the foresaid Milt and the hardnesse of the same had continued three or foure yeares For which they do first giue things to open the spléene to wit one dragme of Mithridate water of Sage two ounces that betimes in the morning wherevpon they require one to fast foure howers after Item take Squils and Oxymel of each one ounce sirupe de Eupatorio halfe an ounce water of Valerian two ounces and a half giue it him warme in the morning Or take Maidenhaire Politrichum and Harts tong of each foure scruples Madder Broome rootes of each two scruples fresh Well water 24. ounces Vineger three ounces Licorice one dragme and a halfe séeth them afterwards together by a mild fire vnto the halfe the patient is to drinke of this potion seuen or eight dayes together euery morning foure ounces The same is good and approued Secondly it is to be considered how that this obstruction is to be opened For this it is good that one do take euery morning early one quarter of an ounce of washt Turpentine and fast fiue or sixe howers vpon it Or in stead of this that he do swallow two or thrée pils made of Galbano Thirdly if so be that this wind be caused through wind whereof we are to speake more at large hereafter then may one swallow halfe a dragme of Ammoniacum made into pils Other take Pillulas Aggregatiuas and Ammoniacum of each halfe a dragme Fourthly to the end that the bad humors may be expelled out of the Milt giue the patient one ounce and a halfe of the iuice of Horehound tempered with two ounces of Smallage water to drinke early in the morning Fiftly to the end that no grieuouser disease do strike into the Milt and that the schirrositie or hardnesse might be mollified and discussed take Hollihocke roots and Swines bred of each thrée handfuls Bdellij Ammoniaci of each halfe an ounce Centory Wormewood Harts tong and Tamariscus of each one handfull and a halfe Vineger sixe ounces séeth them all together in a
an ounce the iuice of Smallage as much as suffiseth for to make a masse of pils These pils are good for all melancholicke accidents for the Canker for the Leapry for all incurable blacke Impostumes for all heauines of mind the quartain Ague yellow Iaundise diseases of the Milt and such like One may take a dragme at once of these pils Item take tenne dayes together the powder of Fearne rootes one dragme and a halfe augmenting it still from day to day to the waight of one dragme and a halfe Other do take of this foresaid powder one dragme and of the pils Agregatiuae halfe a drag and temper them together Item take the iuice of Wormwood foure ounces Sugar as much as you please and so vse it ten dayes one after another It is also not onely good for the Milt but also for the yellow Iaundise as also for all moisture of the Lyuer and for the dropsie Item for all hardnesse and swelling of the same being tempered with Vineger and so drunken Maister Tristrams water is also very méete for all diseases of the Milt like as be also the most of all golden waters which be described in the eight part Item take Roses and Barberries of each three dragmes burnt Iuorie Wormwood Cuscuta Licorice Mastick and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Endiue séede Fennell Annis Spica Agrimonie Opium Asarabacca rootes Costus rootes péeled Gourd séed and Cucumber seedes of each halfe a drag then make Trociskes thereof with Endiue water They be especiall good for the Milt and also for the Liuer For potions he may take of these things following what he desireth as namely both kinds of Chamedryos Harts toung Maidenhaire Sene leaues Capers rootes Tamarlske rootes of Parsley Smallage Fennell Cinnamom Licorice Currans Annis Fennell water and of Caraway wherein Thymus and Epithymus be decocted The order of Diet. THis patient is to beware of cloudie and foggie weather and of hard and grosse meates his bread must be well baked and be a day or two stale but vnleauened bread is not good for him also Annis Coriander and Fennell are to be baked in his bread All field fowles as Phesants Partridges yong and old turtle Doues Kids young Mutton drest with vineger he may eate well as also rere Egges Of all other herbs these are good for him Mints Parsly Fennell Garlick Léekes all kind of Cresses Sage Hyssope Radish Endiue Agrimonie red Pease and the first decoction of red Colewoorts He must also eate oftentimes Annis Comin Dill séed Fennell seed and the séeds of Sesamum Capers Tamarisks bitter Almonds the kernels of Peach stones and of Cherie stones for this is also good the losinges of Comin and of Annis The milts of swine are also to be eaten for the curing of the disease of the milt and also the milt of a sound horse dried and beaten to powder the waight of a dragme take of it with strong wine for it is in like maner very requisite for this purpose But if so be that there be no heate then may he chuse some of these things following for to drinke First wine is not onely permitted for this hardnes of the Milt but also highly commended Also all famous Phisitions do aduise that the patient must eate and drinke in the wood of Tamariske for they say that onely hereby many be holpen who haue gone twentie yeares with a hard Milt But if this Tamariske wood cannot be gotten then are the shauings thereof to be taken and laid in his drinke And if so be that one can continue this forty dayes together then he shall euidently see amendement Ash wood doth the same which hath also the power of the Tamariske Of Wines white wine is alwaies most commended if it be too strong then is it to be allayed with water that is stéeled or with raine water or the water of Harts toung You haue also hereafter two kinds of good wines which may be prepared for this vse Take Sene leaues Balme Maidenhaire and the rinds of Tamariske of each sixe handfuls Polypodie rootes foure handfuls prepared Coriander thrée ounces Guaiacum foure ounces eight or ten Nutmegs Cloues halfe an ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Citron pils one handfull shauings of Ash wood as much as is néedfull at the most sixtéene quarts make then an hearbed wine thereof and let the patient drinke the first draught thereof in the morning and euening Another Take the rootes of Cicorie rinds of Tamariske Harts tong and the middle rinds of the Ash wood of each one handfull powre ten pots of Must or some other good wine and vse thereof as before And all other herbed wines which may be made are at this present praised for the Milt as wine of Eyebright wine of Tamariske each made by it selfe or both together Item wine of Hyssope of Marioram and of Wormwood do warm the Milt and all inward parts the wine of Gilloflowers and of Betonie is also good for this Item the Aromaticall wine mo other spiced wins and also the wine of Asarabacca Reasonable exercise before meales is also much commended and sometimes to bath in water wherein the foresaid herbes be decocted To the contrarie he must eschue all troubled wines as Must Syder and Beere for all such do not only obstruct the Milt but also the Lyuer the Lights and Kidneys which obstructions be causes of many sicknesses For this disease is also hurtfull Swines flesh Milke Chéese Rice Starch Pease Beanes Seruices Peares Medlars Quinces Chestnuts and Peaches therefore be they to be refrained We will also note some things wherewith the sicke partie and the Milt with all other inward parts are to be strengthened Amongst which is de Miua Cydoniorum aromatica one of the chiefe Item this confection following if that heate and cold be mixed together Take Venus haire Harts tong of each halfe an ounce Ammoniacum one quarter of an ounce Tamariscus one ounce seedes of Agnus castus and of broad Plantaine Aristologie rootes Agrimony Wormwood and Squinant of each one dragme and a halfe Laudanum one dragme séed of Purslaine Sorrell Endiue and wild Endiue of each two dragmes and a halfe Oxymel of Squils sixe ounces water Lillies Violet séedes and of Mallowes of each one quarter of an ounce Sugar eight ounces Séethe the Sugar with Vineger of Squils vntill it be as thicke as hony when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire afterwards séethe it againe with vineger of Squils vntill it be as thick as honie when it is cold then mixe the rest amongst it with the water of Maiden haire Afterwards séethe it againe vntill all the water be decocted when it is then sodden and well brayed then vse euery morning three dragmes of it If you had rather drinke it then temper it with Sorrell water it is a maruellous good medicine Another Confection Take Mirobalani Indi and Bellirici floures of Burrage Buglosse Elecampane roots
them one amongst another but first of all annoint your hands with the oyle of Barberries Another Take the muscilage of Fenegreeke and of Lineséede of each one ounce the grease of Hens Geese and Duckes of each thrée ounces washt Butter Swines grease Neates féet oyle of each one quarter of an ounce beaten Tamariscus Willow leaues Harts toung the middle rind of the Ash trée Capers rootes Rue leaues and Nep of each one dragme oyle of Capers one ounce and a halfe a litle Waxe and Vineger then make a plaister or salue of it Item take an Onion cut off a peece at the top and make it hollow within and fill it with oyle of Lillies and let it rest vncouered in the ashes so long till it haue soked vp all the oyle afterwards stampe it and lay it warme ouer it All these plaisters following are also good for it as namely De Meliloto Diachilon magnum De Muscilaginibus and others Take of the plaister De Muscilaginibus two ounces Ammoniacum dissolued in Vineger and Marcasite beaten small of each fiue dragms temper it on the fire and spread it on a leather cut after the fashion of a halfe Moone and so lay it warme vpon the spléene it is very good and approued We haue promised herebefore to describe the salues of Dialthea It is also made after sundrie fashions like as we shall also teach here Take cleane Hollihock rootes eight ounces Linséede and Fenegréeke séede of each foure ounces Sallad oyle sixtéene ounces Turpentine halfe an ounce Rosin one ounce and a halfe the rootes and also the seedes shall you steepe three dayes and three nights in a quart of water the fourth day seeth them so long vntill they yeeld from them a thicke tough slime or muscilage wring them hard out and take eight ounces thereof and seeth it with the oyle vntil all the moisture be decocted Afterwards put the Turpentine Rosin and foure ounces of Waxe vnto it When all these things be molten and well tempered then take it from the fire and stirre it well about vntill it be cold The second Take eight ounces of faire sliced Hollihocke rootes Linseede and Fenegreeke seed of each foure ounces stampe them and wring them thorough as before then put vnto it foure ounces of Barrowes grease two beaten Onions one ounce and a half of Gummi Arabicum and let them seeth all together vntill that all the moisture be decocted afterwards take foure ounces of molten Waxe and then temper them together and stirre it well about vntill it be through cold The third Take faire cleansed Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces choppe it very small and powre two quarts of water into it sixe ounces of Linseed three ounces of Fenegreeke seed and three ounces of Lilly rootes then powne them all together and when they be boyled to a tough slime or muscilage then straine them thorough a cloth and take twelue ounces of it and séeth the same with 24. ounces of Barrowes grease vntill the iuice be all decocted afterwards put vnto it foure ounces of Waxe Fenegreeke meale two ounces Galbanum dissolued in Vineger Gummi Hederae and Turpentine of each one ounce But if you cannot get the foresaid Gum then take three ounces of Turpentine temper them all together as before this salue is good for all swellings for the shrinking of the sinewes for all tumors of the breasts it looseth phlegme asswageth the Cough and all stitches in the sides as also the paine in the Raynes of the grauell and is good for all extenuations The fourth and last Take fresh Hollihocke rootes twelue ounces Linseede and Fenegreeke seede of each sixe ounces Squilles three ounces Sallad oyle 24. ounces yellow Waxe sixe ounces Turpentine Gummi Hederae and Galbanum of each one ounce and a quarter Colophonia and Rosin of each three ounces powne all that is to be powned and let it steepe together three dayes in water afterwards seeth them all together and straine them thorough a cloth and then take foure and twenty ounces of the muscilage thereof and let them seeth all together on a soft fire with the foresaid oyle vntill all the moisture be decocted afterwards put Waxe vnto it and then a little of the Gumme and lastly the Colophonie and Rosin When it is boyled ynough then stirre it well about and let it coole Of the Melancholia and moisture of the Spleene §. 5. FOr as much as the Spléene as is said is the true receptacle of the blacke and melancholicke bloud therfore reason requireth that we should write of what nature the same is whereby other things may also be discerned which be incident to the Milt First we haue in the first part the 12. chap. and 8. § described many kinds of causes of Melancholy and in other places moe especially in the beginning of the former § and taught of the Milt of her beginning causes what hurt might procéede thereof to wit if the same got the masterie that there may follow not onely heauines of mind frighting and such like but also it might depriue the whole body of his liuely colour and cause also black vlcers leaprie the canker quartaine agues and such like and lastly all manner of distraction of the mind raging madnes and inhumane beastlinesse Therefore because this booke euery where maketh mention of them it is not néedfull to discourse more at large thereof at this present But we will onely describe certaine remedies which be fit for it Wherefore it is first to be noted that all preparatiue and purgatiue things are to be vsed that the matter may be auoyded through going to the stoole and not through vomiting by reason that these melancholick humors are very ponderous and heauie and will not be expelled but onely downwards Before we then come to any particular remedies we will first discouer what simples there be that do prepare these melancholicke humors and whereby the same may be expelled viz. Burrage Buglosse Thymus Epithymus Capers rootes Tamariscus Harts tong good Wine bathing in swéet Water Licorice Currans Polipody rootes grasse Chamedryos Cuscuta Asarabacca Gentian Lupines Fumitorie Calmus Spicanardi Agnus castus bitter Almonds Cicorie Rosemarie Radish séede Burnet sea Crabs and aboue all a chearefull courage or light hart The compounded medicines are Oxymel of Squils hony of Roses sirupe of Vineger Sirupus acetosus compositus de Fumo terrae and other moe But chiefly this following is to be prepared for it Take Cicorie Rosemarie Burnet Hops Cincfoile Endiue with the roots Fumitorie the rootes of Buglosse Burrage flowers Liuerwoort Chamedryos field Cipers Capers rootes Tamariscus rootes and Harts toung with the roots of each two ounces Prunes and Sebestes of each twentie or fiue and twenty Sene leaues Cuscuta Thymus wild Thyme and Fennell of each halfe an ounce Licorice Raisins Stechas of each two ounces Séeth them all together in thrée pints of water euen to the halfe adde to this decoction being strained Buglosse and the iuice of
cut it to thinne round slices and poure thereon Vinum punicum or any other good wine afterwards drinke thereof sometimes a good draught You haue also herebefore in the twelfth chapter and eleuenth § a good drinke against the grauell and the stone beginning Take Gentian c. Item take Maidenhaire Sperage Tassell leaues water Mints broade plantaine and red pease of each a like quantitie seeth them all together in water then take of this decoction fiue ounces and temper therewith two ounces of Oxymel afterwards giue it to the patient Further lay him a bed and let him sweate wel this openeth the conduits of vrine maketh altough humors thinne and expelleth them which cause the stone and the grauell Further there be diuers wines decocted and also vnsodden whereof we will discouer some Of all the most vsed are these following as the wine of winter Cherries wine of Elecampane rootes wine of Hyssop wine of Harts toong and wine of Assarabacca which is thus to be prepared Vrine of Assarabacca Take Must and to euery quart of Must halfe an ounce of Assarabacca the herbe being taken off when the roote hath bene a drying the space of two moneths Of this wine take euery euening and euery morning a good draught it forceth the vrine and the grauell it warmeth all inward parts it expelleth the Ague it is good for the Dropsie and also for the yellow Iaundies Another good Wine TAke Strawberrie leaues Pellitorie Water cresses and Gourd cresses of each a like quantitie séeth them in Wine vntill the third part be consumed then drinke thereof a meetly draught when you go to bed and in the morning when you rise This hath bene oftentimes found very good All Phisitions do conclude that all troubled and thicke Wine much and often drunken causeth the stone and the grauell speedily to grow Therefore must one alwayes beware thereof The Cherrie wine like as it by reason of the temperate nature may be vsed in all sicknesses so may the same also be occupied for this disease and especially when the Cherries with their kernels be stamped in péeces whereof it is made then doth it driue out the grauell the better We will here yet describe certaine sirupes which may be vsed with great commoditie for the grauell like as these ensuing Take the roots of Sperage of Ruscus and of grasse of each thrée ounces Harts toong with the rootes Creta marina Maidenhaire water mints Saxifrage Pimpernell and Yarrow of each one handfull red pease two ounces Vineger of Squils one ounce white Sugar and honie of each sixe ounces Lastly seeth a cleare sirupe of this and vse the same with diureticall waters Another TAke Fennell rootes parsley rootes the rootes of Smallage and of Sperage of each one handfull the séedes of parsley of fennell of Smallage of Annise of Caruway of Lettice of purslaine of small Endiue of Melons of pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers of each one ounce red and white Saunders Roses and Violets of each halfe a dragme fiue and twentie or thirtie dry prunes Harts toong Liuerwort Centorie and Maidenhaire of each two handfuls All these foresaid things séeth in sufficient water vnto the halfe and then wring them out vnto this decoction put eightéene ounces of Sugar and let it seeth againe to a sirupe and then clarifie it with the white of an egge What outwardly ought to be vsed FOr the grauell and the stone may diuers things be also outwardly vsed whereof we shall hereafter write and discourse sufficiently but we will first begin with the salue Take the fat of the kidneyes of a Weather stampe it very small and temper therewith a crusefull of the iuice of water Cresses or garden Cresses and let them seeth together this being done then straine it through a cloth and annoint you therewith In like maner is also good for all grauel and paine of the raines for the stone and the conduits of vrine and for all diseases of the bladder the precious blame or oile which in the last part of this booke is the first of all the rest that is described if one be annointed therewith For a plaister is this following to be vsed Take Hollihocke rootes with the séed Linseed figs and butter of each an ounce oile of swéete Almonds two ounces Waxe as much as is needfull for to make a plaister and then lay it vpon the kidneyes afterwards you are also to annoint the place of the raines with the oile of Scorpions and to spout some of that oile therein Item take oile of Scorpions thrée ounces burnt sponge stones and burnt Wagtailes of each 3. dragmes Iewes stone one dragme make a salue or a plaister thereof with waxe Item in the former sixtéenth chapter and the fift § is described a plaister of Radishes which may also be vsed for this purpose For this is also good a pap made of the crums of white bread decocted with wine and a little Saffron put to it Item for to lay vpon it Take Pellitorie put some Scorpion oile vnto it oile of Cammomil and some oile of Camelina frie them all together in a pan vntill it be as thick as pap afterwards put amongst it powned Saffron and then lay it vpon the kidneyes Item take Pellitorie Spikenard Spica Romana Fennell seed parsley séed wild yellow Rape séed and Assarabacca of each one handfull powne them somewhat together and put it in a bag afterwards let it séeth in wine and lay it ouer the raines Of bathing and fomenting in the grauell AL they that can come to the warme sulphure bathes may franke and fréely vse them for these be very necessary for to breake the stone But if so be that one cannot come at them then let this following be prepared Take Hollihocke leaues Fennell parsley with the rootes Pellitorie and Linseed of each one handful put them together in a bag and séeth them in a great kettle of water afterwards let it be meetly cold without putting any other water vnto it then set the patient in it euen to the nauell as long as he can abide This is to be often vsed and so long vntill that the patient do find that the stone weareth away Another take Pellitorie Lauender flowers parsley seed Fennell séed wild yellow Rape séed seeth them all together as is aforesaid and bathe therewith The bag is also to be laid vpon the kidneyes Item take the herbe Horsetaile Mallowes wild Thyme the stalkes of Rapes put them all together in a bagge and séeth them in a great kettle with water and further let it be meetly cold of it selfe and vsed as before When one hath then bathed a certaine space then are diureticall potions and salues of the raines to be vsed made of such things as are described herebefore These are now the principallest things which of the ancient and latter Phisitions are described against the grauell and the stone of the bladder also whatsoeuer else is prescribed for the infirmities of
from the application of those remedies as may séeme méete for him wherefore it is specially aduised first to delay the paine or at the least to diminish it for the which these remedies following are especially commended All gentle Clisters easie purgations and aboue all others baths of warm◠water wherein Mallowes Hollihocke rootes and Nettle rootes Gromell séeds or any such like mollifying things and Saxifrages are decocted wherein these patients are oftentimes to bathe themselues euen to the nauell Item take Colewort leaues Southernwood Rosemary pigeon dung wild Saffron séedes beaten grosly séeth them all together in water for a bath Or take Mallowes Hollihock leaues Pellitorie of the wall Southernwood Creta Marina Fenegréeke séed Hollihock séed of each two handfuls séeth them all together vnto a bath Afterwards annoint the kidneyes with the oile of Scorpions or with any of the foresaid salues With this bath may this powder following also be vsed with the decoction of pepper Take the séeds of Purslaine and of small Endiue of each halfe a dragme Dill séed two scruples Marierom halfe a scruple giue this to the patient when the paine is present Note also that these two meates be very good both for the retention of the vrine and also for the strangurie And if so be this be holpen then will the paine which is in the end of the Yard seene cease In the description of the kidneyes there may you sée many plaisters salues and oiles as that of Anodynum and others moe which are very méete for this purpose Of the stopping of the vrine through the debilitie of the vertue expulsiue §. 3. IF any one be hindered in the making of his water or that the same be altogither stopped without any swelling vlcer or paine of the Kidneyes it is then to be censured that the same should come through the debility of the vertue expulsiue against the which such things shall be vsed as are diureticall or that do prouoke vrine as these pils following Take the seeds of Smallage Saltpeter Madder great Smallage Iuniper berries Asarabacca Ameos Fennell Spica and bitter Almonds of each one ounce and a quarter Melons fiue dragmes Cantharides the heads and wings cut away halfe a dragme Ammoniacum one dragme and a halfe dissolue your gum in wine and mixe all the rest being beaten small amongst it then make pils of them of the bignes of peason giue thrée of them at one time These pills haue an especiall efficacie for to drie the bodie so that they are accounted very good for the Dropsie The Electuarium Ducis is also very good for this purpose if thou giue one quarter of an ounce of it with pease broth or wine which thou wilt There was not long since one cured with this remedie following who for the space of fiue dayes could neuer make his water first he tooke this clister Take Pellitorie of the the wal two handfuls Mallowes and Cammomill of each one handfull boyle them together then take of this decoction the accustomed quantitie and temper amongst it one ounce of Cassie oyle of Cammomill thrée ounces Turpentine one ounce Licorice one quarter of an ounce minister it warme Secondly this following was also ordained for him take Cassie and Turpentine of each one quarter of an ounce Benedicta Laxatiua two dragmes prepared Iewes stones one dragme make an Electuarie thereof with Oxymel At night he tooke two ounces of Oxymel with the water of Maidenhaire and presently after this he made water Item take foure or fiue ounces of the iuice of Pellitorie of the wall and clarifie it with the white of an egge then séeth it with sugar to a sirupe and vse three ounces thereof euery morning with the water of Mallowes or with any such like distilled liquor This done giue vnto the patient a purgation of Cassie Thirdly take Coriander séedes halfe an ounce Mallowes one handful one head of Garlicke powne them altogether and séeth them with good white wine vntill that one third part be consumed and giue him thereof thrée ounces to drinke Peach kernels and the kernels of Cherrie stones do also prouoke vrine Item preserued Pimpernell rootes Calmus and the rootes of Eringus are also very good for this purpose confected Louage séede Annis séedes Fennell séedes Caruway séedes Comin séedes and Saxifrage séedes these do expell all vrine grauell and stone Treacle and Mithridate do also cause one to make water Item the confection of Cherries with their kernels beaten in péeces and rubbe it through a strainer is also méet for this vse also halfe a dragme of dried Grashoppers is very fit and a great secret in this disease Item the stone which is cut out of a liuing bodie and vsed as before hath bene shewed in the expulsion of grauell is also very conuenient and commodious for this intent Take Tormentill Pionie Bistorta Acornes and wild Flaxe of each a like much powne them all together and take thereof in the euening and morning one dragme with wine The Spanish flies do expell vrine most violently but beware of them because they be very sharpe and exulcerate the vreters but the Grashoppers are somewhat milder Item take the rootes of Pimpernel beaten small as much as one can containe betwéene his two fingers and drinke it with wine The powned shels of Hasell nuts do the like also and the iawes of Pickerels if thou take of each of them a like quantitie But if the vrine be stopped by reason of the stone in the bladder then giue vnto the patient two small drops of the oile of Sulphur with wine or Agrimonie water or beate a Radish very small presse out the iuice of it and take halfe an ounce thereof with wine it prouoketh vrine immediatly and breaketh the stone also Item drinke in the morning thrée or foure ounces of Radish water very warme and fast two houres after it In like manner also two in the euening two houres before supper and walke after it Another Take Mallowes and Garlicke of each a little séeth them in wine vntill the third part be wasted away drinke thrée or foure ounces of this decoction at once Or take Balsamina altera and the lesser burre leaues boile them together in wine and drinke it as before Take a great Onion cut it small and Mallowes one handful boile them in wine and drink oftentimes of the decoction being warmed If a child could not make his water then take ten or twelue bitter Almonds and ten or twelue Peach kernels and two ounces of Currans stampe them all together straine them through a cloth with water like to Almond milke and giue it the child to drinke like Almond milke Amongst the herbed wines are especially commended for the prouoking of vrine the wine of Elecampane of Harts toong of swéete Marierom of Cherries of Assarabacca and of winter Cherries which are also mentioned before in the treatise of the grauell But if any one might not drinke wine at all or that he had it not
then is it by no meanes to be stayed if thereby be not feared a great debilitie Thirdly if so be that women be full of blood and this fluxe come too abundantly then is the Basilica veine to be opened thereby to withdraw the blood Fourthly in case that it be perceiued that red Cholera or any other mixed moistured were cause of this fluxe then is the same moisture or humor to be purged with appropriate medicines yet mingling alwaies amongst it some binding and comforting things Fiftly iniection is also very needfull for this disease or some such like instruments to be vsed whereby the medicine might be brought into the womb Sixtly if any astringent things may be brought into it through any instruments then may they help much better and a great deale sooner than those things that be giuen by the mouth Seuenthly because that with this menstrual fluxe not onely the vertue digestiue but also the whole bodie is weakened therfore are they to be sustained with light meate as with yolkes of egges with yong flesh and broth of the same and such like Sometimes also with water wherein the seed of Butchers broome is decocted or tempered with water of Sorrel Eightly it is also good to set great boxing cups vnder the breasts vnpickt Ninthly this fluxe of the termes is not to be stopt so long as one seeth that the woman hath her liuely colour and doth remaine strong and healthie but as soone as one perceiueth that her strength fadeth away then be all meanes to be sought for to stop it Tenthly if one desire to purge any of the foure humors and to separate it from the cleane bloud then may that best be effected by vomits for that thereby the matter is deriued to another place and stay their course that they fall not downewards Eleuenthly these women are to abstaine from all heauie labour and from all that maketh the blood fluxible and thinne By all these forementioned propositions may be clearely séene and marked that if any desire to cure or remedy this disease that these women must leade an easie life and kéepe themselues quiet They must also liue in such a place where it is not too hote nor too cold They must also eschue all thinne and waterish meates viz. from fruite except all that which bindeth in like manner also from all meate which cause any kind of heate But all kinds of rosted fowles and all that maketh grosse blood as Rice Wheate and Lentils be good for them They must also beware of ouercharging them with meate or drinke whereof the causes be declared in the seuenth rule and afterward to put in practise these remedies following according to the importance of the cause Thus for to speake first of the things which inwardly are to be vsed hath bene spoken of before and also what order of diet or gouernement of life is to be obserued But in case that any do desire any ampler declaration of it then let him looke the seuenteenth Chapter and 17. § where is spoken of the red or bloudie flixe which also is most méete for this vse But for this menstruall fluxe may this Confection following be vsed Take the Species Triasantali and Diarrhodon Abbatis of each one dragme prepared fine Bolus two scruples Bloodstone washed in Plantaine water and make tabulats thereof Or vse this powder following Take Species Triasantali one dragme and a halfe Diarrhodon Abbatis one dragme De Gemmis Frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Coriander two scruples and a halfe washed Bloodstone one dragme prepared Bolus halfe a dragme Shepheards purse two scruples Roses Corall of each halfe a dragme Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar as much as you please then make a powder of it Item take prepared Bolus one dragme sealed earth two scruples Tormentil half a dragme Bursa Pastoris one scruple Species de gemmis frigidis one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles one dragme Rubins Pomegranates Smaragdes Iacints Saphirs of each halfe a scruple Roses red Corall Saunders of each one scruple Sugar thrée ounces make a powder thereof and vse it in broth or strewed in meate The confection of the refuse of iron is also very profitable to be vsed for this disease especially if so be that the lesser remedies will not helpe Another Take conserue of Roses two ounces Bloodstone Trociscos de Carabe de terra sigillata and de Spodio of each one dragme make a powder thereof and temper them well together afterwards take euery time thereof about one dragme Take conserue of Roses sixe ounces conserue of Burrage of Buglosse and of Baulme of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce of the fiue precious stones aboue mentioned of each one scruple Cinnamome one dragme make an electuary thereof Another Take of the driest conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe red Corall one dragme Bistorta Trociscos de Carabe and prepared Bolus of each half a drag prepared Bloodstone two dragmes make an Electuarie thereof with the sirupes of Mirtles Item take conserue of Roses thrée ounces Marmalade two ounces and a halfe conserues of Burrage and of Buglosse of each one ounce prepared Bolus one dragme and a halfe prepared Pearles two dragmes and a half Bistorta one dragme Tormentill two scruples red Saunders one dragme then temper them all together with the sirupe of Mirtles vnto a confection The blacke confected Cherries are very good for this vse in like manner also the preserued Barberries Item hold a roote of Galingall long in your mouth and chew the same small It is is also a common aduice which is not to be despised that tosted bread should be steeped with red Wine and powned Nutmegs strewed vpon it and so eaten Item take fine Bolus which is well washed Masticke yellow Amber prepared Coriander and Dates of each a like quantitie then take thereof at each time halfe a dragme with a rere egge This powder ensuing is also maruellous good Take prepared Bloodstone thrée dragmes red Corall one dragme and a halfe Tormentill and Trociscos de Spodio of each one dragme shauen Iuorie burnt Harts horne of each two scruples prepared Pearles one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus halfe a dragme stampe all that may be stamped very small and strew your meate therewith Item take powned Horstaile leaues one dragme and bestrew your meate with it You may also drink of this powder following one dragme lesse or more with the water of Plantain Take of the first budded Harts horne burne them in a potbakers ouen throughly to white chalke and giue thereof one dragme or one dragme and a halfe with red wine or Plantaine water You shall also find hereafter many sundrie powders and waters to drinke described Take egshels whence yong chickens haue beene hatched and Nutmegs of each a like quantitie temper them together and drinke thereof the waight of a dragme with Vineger or Wine The part within the Walnut taken
woman with child be burthened with an Ague and that a mischance be doubted then take Barley meale the iuice of Sloes and of Housleeke as much as you please make it to a plaister with vineger and then lay it oftentimes vpon the belly this plaister doth defend the fruite from all accidents in the Ague this sayd plaister is also to be layd vpon the liuer In case that now the woman with child be assayled with pricking then haue you before in the second part the fourth Chapter and 12. § how that might be remedied stamped Crabs the iuice thereof wroong out and tempered amongst womans milke it defendeth also the vntimely birth of women and it is said that it is a sure remedy for it If so be that a mischance be feared through much wind then giue one dragme of good Mithridate with the water wherein Comin hath bene decocted twice a weeke for thereby will the fruite be preserued and retained These confections or tabulats following are to be vsed Take Pearles and Pyretrum of each one dragme Ginger Mastick of each halfe an ounce Zeduary Doronicum the séed of Smallage Cassie wood Cardamome Nutmegs Mace and Cinnamome of each one quarter of an ounce red and white Behen long and black Pepper of each three dragmes Saffron one dragme sugar eighteene ounces or lesse decocted with the water of Buglosse or water of Mints How a dead child is to be expelled out of his mothers wombe §. 11. FOr this we wil first haue remembred all that is described before in the 19. chapter and 14. § of the vnnaturall excrescence Mola in the Matrix whereof that in the second § of prouoking the termes and before of the mischances and all that is discouered of the preferring of the birth is also meete for the expulsion or deliuery of a child so that betwéene these is none other difference than that this following is ordained rather for perfect children of which women do commonly lie in within fiue or sixe moneths Now for to preuent the same are these remedies following commanded to be presently vsed but first of all you must know whether the child be dead or not to the end there be not a sicke child expelled for a dead child the which is to be knowne by this and especially if it hath bene dead two or thrée dayes First the mother doth get a great paine in the sinewes of the eyes which be Optici nerui Secondly she doth also féele paine behind in the necke stretching downeward along the backe bone because that the Matrix is fastened vnto it Thirdly shée doth féele great anguish and paine beneath Fourthly if a woman lie from one side vnto another then doth the burthen alwayes follow towards the lower side which is of all other a sure token of a dead child and that the ligaments of the secundine haue no more force to hold the dead fruite in one place Fiftly there is a great paine about the priuities and ouer all the necke of the Matrix Sixtly the thicknesse of the belly which was aboue is wholy sunken downe Seuenthly they do féele continually a cold about the priuities Eightly if one hold a warme hand long vpon the belly and féele no stirring then it is a sure token that the child is dead These be now the signes of a dead child before it begin to putrifie When it hath bene dead thrée dayes then beginneth it to stinke the woman is full of agues and getteth a stinking breath out of the Matrix runneth a foule stinking matter the belly will be heauy and stinking winds which do arise in the mother cause swelling thereof and last of all there will be foule and stinking péeces of flesh expelled through the necke of the mother When al these things be séene then hath a Phisition none other thing to do but to driue out the dead child It is also néedfull before all other things to preserue and strengthen the heart from al filthy stenches which may be brought to passe with this powder following taking the same oftentimes with broths for that it strengtheneth the vitall spirits and also the heart it doth also withstand the ascending vapors Take white Diptamus one dragme and a half Citron péeles and the péeled séeds of the same of each halfe a dragme prepared pearles foure scruples prepared Coriander one scruple Roses two scruples sugar two ounces and a halfe temper them all together to powder and vse therof about one quarter of an ounce at once Or take this following Take white Diptamus and Zeduary of each one scruple prepared Pearles and Species de gemmis frigidis of each halfe a dragme mixe them together and giue it her to drinke at thrice it withstandeth all stenches that they infect not the heart The fine Treacle doth also driue dead children out of the mothers bodies In like manner also the iuice of Verueine or the herbe stamped and drunken with wine driueth forth also the dead fruite so doth Hyssope also Take Trociscos de Gallia one dragme giue it with small white wine they expell the dead child and the secundine and make an easie birth Item take the innermost skins of the mawes of Hens or of Capons wash the same in wine drie them and powne them to powder giue one dragme or one dragme and a halfe thereof with a draught of Wine or with some broth or with Rosewater Or take Betonie and Rue with the rootes of each one handfull poure thereto one ounce of the iuice of Salomons seale white Wine one pint let it séeth well then straine it through a cloth and so giue it her to drinke Séeth Iuniper berries in Hony temper some wine with it and so drinke it together Another Womans milke drunken should also expell the dead child likewise also the precious stone Iaspis This is a common medicine which followeth hereafter Take Boreas one dragme and a halfe Cinnamom and Saffron of each one scruple stamp them togither and giue it with swéete wine or Mugwort water to drinke it helpeth much to beare easily It is also said that Linséed passeth all things to make women to be easily deliuered for if they drinke the water which is decocted therewith and put the same with clothes beneath into the bodie or bath therein then must the dead fruit auoyd Or take Mirrha as much as the quantity of a hasell nut stampe it and giue it with wine or with water of Mugwort the same expelleth much whether that the child be dead or aliue The same doth also dogges milke tempered with hony Item take one ounce of Goates milke dissolue therein two scruples of Galbanum and so giue it it expelleth maruellously Or if the woman be strong then giue her as much of the iuice of Garlicke as will go into halfe an egshel with wine or hony If from a woman through frighting or otherwise the child auoid then take a Crab stampe it and wring out the iuice and then temper it with the water
through her astringent vertue likewise it doth fasten the gummes and the téeth The old oyle is hotter than the other and hath also more vertue to digest it strengtheneth much the sight if it be annointed vnder the eyes if one can get no old oile then looke before into the Introduction how that the oyle is to be prepared Oyle of Behen §. 6. THis oyle of the rootes of red and white Behen is not verie vsuall howbeit that we do sometimes remember it in this booke Oyle of Pyrethrum §. 7. IT is an oyle which is verie hote and that is not made at the Apothecaries but onely if the same be prescribed to be made therefore we will write no further thereof Oyle of Beuercod §. 8. THe Apothecaries do make a certaine oyle of Beuercod which is made of many kinde of things for all cold diseases and especially for all diseases of the sinewes and paine of the ioynts It is very good for the Palsey and stifnesse of the necke It allayeth the cold in Agues if the backe bone be annointed with it But we will here describe that which is easie to be made Take Beuercod one ounce Euphorbium thrée dragmes Myrrha one quarter of an ounce white strong wine eight ounces Sallade oyle twelue ounces let it séeth so long together vntill the wine be throughly consumed afterwards straine it and kéepe it Oyle of Lead §. 9. THis oyle of Lead is thus made Take drie Ceruse one pound Vineger which is two times distilled one quart or more and séeth it in a narrow pot in séething water an houre space but stirre it often about and let it settle afterwards distill it through a Filter to the end the vineger may run thorough it and the oyle tarrie in it do this two or three times then set this oyle in sand and distill it slowly then will come out of it that which is faire and cleane This oyle healeth all vlcers maruellous well as we in the fifth Part the fourth Chapter and 4. § haue taught Another Take Lead as much as you please and beate it very thin then powre as much distilled vineger vpon it vntill it be well couered then will it be lead white When it is now cleane consumed then set it certaine dayes in the hote sunne or in horsedung and afterwards distill it in sand vntill that the water which distilleth do alter then set another receiuer before it and there cometh a ruddie oyle out of it Oyle of Penniroyall §. 10. THis oyle is made like oyle of Cammomill You may adiudge the vertue by the propertie of the herbe yet it is not much vsed Oyle of Purslaine §. 11. THis oyle is prepared as the oyles of other herbes but it is made very seldome Oyle of Cammomill §. 12. THis oyle is thus made Take well sauoring Cammomill as much as you please put it into a pot and powre vpon it as much old Sallade oyle vntill all the Cammomill be wel couered and then set it the space of fourtéene dayes in the sunne or in some other warme place afterwards let them séeth in a narrow pot in séething water and then put out the Cammomill and put in fresh againe and let it séeth againe then wring it out well and do this thrée times one after another and then kéepe it vntill you haue occasion to vse it This oyle is good for many kind of things it openeth the pores and sweat vents it expelleth vapors it allayeth rheumes it is good for the sinewes for all paine of the ioynts and asswageth also the paine of the guts Oyle of Capers §. 13. THe oyle of Capers is most commonly made at the Apothecaries in this manner Take Capers rootes one ounce rinds and leaues of Tamariske the séeds of Agnus castus Harts tongue and Cipers rootes of each one quarter of an ounce Rue one dragme Vineger and good wine of each one quarter of an ounce ripe Sallad oyle twelue ounces powne the roots grosly and let them steepe a whole night afterwards séeth them in an especiall pot in boyling water straine and kéepe it This oyle is especially good for all hardnesse obstructions and paine of the Spléene but you may in séething put some more wine and vineger Oyle of Costus §. 14. TAke of the verie true and good rootes of Costus one ounce Cassie wood or Elecampane rootes in stead of it halfe an ounce sprigs of Marierome gentle foure ounces oyle of Sesamum eightéene ounces and wine as much as sufficeth Let it stéepe two dayes and two nights afterwards let it séeth all together in water vntill the wine be throughly wasted which you may perceiue hereby if that you let one drop fall into the fire and that it hisse no more This oyle is of a warme nature it openeth the obstruction of the stomacke and of the Liuer It is good against all diseases of the sinewes it auoideth the growing of gray haires it preserueth the body in his naturall colour In the first Part you haue two other sorts of oyle of Costus which may also be vsed for aduantage and they be also hoter than this present oyle is Oyle of Dill. §. 15. THe oyle of Dill is made of the herbe of the floures of old oyle like as oyle of Cammomill is made This oyle asswageth all paine it openeth the pores it consumeth wind also all cold and hard swellings it taketh away the shaking of the Ague it maketh one to sléepe and taketh away all paine of the head in hote Agues if the backe bone be therewith annointed Oyle of Egges §. 16. HOw this oyle is made and what it hath for efficacie and power is taught in the first part the third Chapter and sixt § Oyle of Annis §. 17. THis oyle of Annis is made by distilling in this manner Take one pound of small beaten Annis and put it into a glased helme and powre so much water vpon it vntill the helme be halfe full but distill it the first time with a milde or slow fire in boyling water vntill it begin to be hote afterwards make a good fire vntill that the oyle and the water do go ouer together Now being distilled then separate the water and the oyle one from another with a glasen funnell for that the oyle swimmeth alwayes on the top This oyle hath a great force against the giddinesse of the head and against the Collicke and is also highly commended against the falling sicknesse if one giue therof thrée or foure drops It is here to be noted that if one will distill any such like that one is alwayes to take for one pound two or thrée pound of water Oyle of wild Cucumbers §. 18. THis oyle is not vsuall in this countrey But for what it is meete looke for that in the Table Oyle of Euphorbium §. 19. THis oyle is thus made Take Euphorbium halfe an ounce oyle of yellow Violets and good wine of each fiue ounces let it séeth so long vntill that all the wine be consumed
Hyssopo of Hyssope ibid. The 30. § Syrupus de Ireos of Ireas ibid. The 31. § Syrupus de Iuiubis ibid. The 32. § Syrup de Limonibus of Limons ibid. The 33. § Syrupus de Lupulo of Hops 767 The 34. § Syrupus de Menta of Mints ibid. The 35. § Syrup de Myrto of Mirtle seed ibid. The 36. § Syrupus de Nymphaea of water Lillyes ibid. The 37. § Syrupus de Papauere of Poppy heads ibid. The 38. § Syrupus de Persicis of Peaches 768 The 39. § Syrup de Plantagine of Plantain ibid. The 40. § Syrupus de Pomis of Apples ibid. The 41. § Syrup de Portulaca of Purslaine ibid. The 42. § Syrup de Prassio of Horehound ibid. The 43. § Syrupus de Pyris of Peares ibid. The 44. § Syrupus de Radicibus of roots ibid. The 45. § Syrupus de Ribes of Raspes ibid. The 46. § Syrupus infusionis Rosarum of Roses ibid. The 47. § Syrup de Rosis siccis of dry roses 769 The 48. § Syrupus rosatus solutiuus purging Syrupes of Roses 769 The 49. § Syrupus de rosis albis of white Roses ibid. The 50. § Syrupus sapor Regum ibid. The 51. § Syrupus de Staechade of Stechas flowers ibid. The 52. § Syrupus de Thymo of Thyme ibid. The 53. § Syrupus violarum of Violets ibid. ¶ The fourth part of this Chapter of the Species and of Losinges 770 The 1. § Species de Ambra of Amber ibid. The 2. § Species de Aniso of Annis ibid. The 3. § Species de Anthus of Rosemary ibid. The 4. § Species aromaticum rosarum ibid. The 5. § Species de Calamintha of field Mints ibid. The 6. § Species de Capparis of Caper rootes pag. 771 The 7. § Species de Caryophyllis of Cloues ibid. The 8. § Spec. de Cinnamomo of Cinamom ibid. The 9. § Species Cordiales for the hart ibid. The 10. § Spec. Diacostu of Costus roots ibid. The 11. § Species de Croco or Crocoma of Saffron ibid. The 12. § Species de Cumino of Comin ibid. The 13. § Species de tragacantha of Dragagant pag. 772 The 14. § Species Ducis ibid. The 15. § Species de Galanga of Galingall ibid. The 16. § Spec. de Gemmis of precious stones ibid. The 17. § Species Hierae simplicis ibid. The 18. § Species de Ireos of Ireas ibid. The 19. § Species Iustini ibid. The 20. § Species de Lacca 773 The 21. § Spec. laetificantes laetitiae Galeni ibid. The 22. § Species liberantes ibid. The 23. § Species lithontribon ibid. The 24. § Species de Margaritis of Pearls ibid. The 25. § Species de Mentha of Mints ibid. The 26. § Species de Moschu of Muske ibid. The 27. § Species Nere. 774 The 28. § Spec. de Olibano of Frankincense ibid. The 29. § Spec. de Papauere of Poppy seed ibid. The 30. § Spec. de Penidio of Sugar pennets ibid. The 31. § Species de Paeonia of Pyony ibid. The 32. § Species Diaphoeniconis of Dates ibid. The 33. § Species Philanthropon ibid. The 34. § Species pliris Arcoticon ibid. The 35. § Spec. de Prassio of Horehound ibid. The 36. § Species Diarrhodon Abbatis of Roses 775 The 37. § Species Electuarij de succo rosarum of Roses ibid. The 38. § Species Rosatae nouellae ibid. The 39. § Species de Seminibus ibid. The 40. § Species Triasantalum of Sanders ibid. The 41. § Species Trion pipereon of Pepper 776 The 42. § Species Diaturbith of Turbith ibid. The 43. § Species de Xyloaloe ibid. The 44. § to make strong water ibid. The 45. § Spec. Berchtoldi ibid. ¶ The 16. Chapter 777 The 1. § Decoctiones Aperitiuae Potions that do deobstruct ibid. The 2. § Decoctio Epithymi of Dodder ibid. The 3. § Decoctio fructuum a Potion of certâ—â—â— fruits ibid. The 4. § Decoctio pectoralis the pectorall potion 777 The 5. § Decoctio infusio Senae a Potion of Sene leaues ibid. The 6. § a water of mans blood ibid. ¶ The second part of this Chapter of certaine powders for meate 778 ¶ The third part of this Chap. of Trocisks ibid. The 1. § Trocis de Absinthio of Wormewood ibid. The 2. § Trocisci Adulphi ibid. The 3. § Trocisci de Agarico of Agaricke ibid. The 4. § Trocisci Alhandel of Coloquint 779 The 5. § Trocisci Alkakengi of winter Cherries ibid. The 6. § Trocisci de Berberis of Berberis ibid. The 7. § Trocisci de Bolo armeno ibid. The 8. § Trocisci de Camphora of Campher ibid. The 9. § Trocisci de Capparis of Caper roots ibid. The 10. § Trocisci de Carabe of Amber ibid. The 11. § Trocis de Chelidonia of Celandine ibid. The 12. § Trocisci de Corallis of Corall 780 The 13. § Trocisci de Eupatorio of Agrymonie ibid. The 14. § Trocisci de Lacca ibid. The 15. § Trocisci de Myrrha ibid. The 16. § Trocisci de Olibano of Frankinsence ibid. The 17. § Trocisci de Rhabarbaro ibid. The 18. § Trocisci Diarrhodon ibid. The 19. § Trocisci de Rosis of Roses ibid. The 20. § Trocisci de Santalis of Saunders 781 The 21. § Trocisci de Spica ibid. The 22. § Trocisci de Spodio of Iuory ibid. The 23. § Trocisci de terra sigillata ibid. The 24. § Trocisci de Violis of Violets ibid. The 25. § For to make writing Inke ibid. The 26. § For to make common Vernish ibid. The 27. § of Painters Vernish 782 The 28. § for to make odoriferous Vernish ibi ¶ The 17. Chapter ibid. ¶ The 18. Chapt. of all kindes of Wine ibid. The 1. § of wine in generall 783 The 2. § of sundrie natures of wine ibid. The 3. § of Must ibid. The 4. § of Wine cuict or decocted wine pag. 784 The 5. § of burnt wine or spirit of wine ibid. The 6. § of Vineger ibid. ¶ The 19. Chapt. of herbed wines and such like ibid. The 1. § the wine of Elecampane rootes 785 The 2. § Eiebright wine ibid. The 3. § Wine of whole Grapes ibid. The 4. § Wine of Auence ibid. The 5. § Betony wine ibid. The 6. § Burrage wine 786 The 7. § Wine of Asarabacca ibid. The 8. § wine of Frambois ibid. The 9. § wine of Harts toong ibid. The 10. § the wine of Hyssope ibid. The 11. § winter Cherry wine 787 The 12. § Cherry wine ibid. The 13. § Lauander wine ibid. The 14. § of Malmsey ibid. The 15. § wine of Marierom ibid. The 16. § wine of Cinnamome ibid. The 17. § Muscadell wine 788 The 18. § Wine of Gilloflowers ibid. The 19. § Wine of Buglosse ibid. The 20. § wine that purgeth ibid. The 21. § Wine of whole Grapes ibid. The 22. § Vinum punicum ibid. The 23. § Rosemary wine ibid. The 24. § Wine of Sage 789 The 25. § Wine of Clary ibid. The 26. § Wine of water Lilly
a good draught of wine vpon it then to be let bloud and thrée houres after to breake his fast againe the cause whereof is that when the stomacke hath taken a little food nature is most strong The member likewise which is to be phlebotomised ought first to be somewhat chafed and rubbed with warme clothes that the humors thereby might be drawne thither It is also not amisse to bind the member with a band for that in like sort draweth the humors into the veines It befalleth oft in phlebotomie that the blood by no meanes can be stenched or stopped for the which thou shalt find in the fift booke diuers approued remedies but for the same is the powder of calcined or burned Vitrioll very highly commended being cast vpon it If the patient chance to faint in the letting of blood let him drinke a cup of good wine for that reuiueth the vital spirits strengtheneth the heart and refresheth the blood Vse also for the same those things that do comfort the heart which thou shalt find in the second booke If the opened veine should swell and puffe vp then boyle Rue in the oyle of Oliues and apply it to the veine This also is very good to be vsed after cupping if the place should begin to rankle After the letting of bloud the patient shall forbeare sléepe at the least sixe houres and not eate in the time aboue specified that the homors now stirred and troubled in the body might be setled againe in the meane while Afterwards let him vse light meates abstaine from milke or any thing that is made thereof and then at the last commit himselfe to sléepe Lastly he is not to vse any thing either inwardly or outwardly but that might warme and comfort the body and to follow that most learned man Ioachimus Camerarius who excellently and briefly obserued these rules after the letting of bloud Prima coena die sit misso sanguine parca Lux abeat laetis aucta secunda modis Tertia sed placidae debetur tota quieti Quarta quinta sibi mollius esse volunt Balnea sexta petit mox septima colligit auras Fertque vagos circum rura nemusque pedes Octaua amplexus dilectae coniugis quae Antè fuit vitam restituisse solet That is The first day not much meate be spent The second day to mirth be bent The third day vse thy rest and ease The fourth and fift eate what thou please The sixt day bathe in any case The seuenth walke from place to place The eight mayest thou lie with thy wife and after liue thy wonted life What veines ought in euery disease to be opened §. 6. SEeing that the body of man is euery where full of veines here shall now be shewed which of them ought to be opened for the ease of any one member or for cure and helpe of any disease whatsoeuer First therefore shall be noted that phlebotomie may be vsed in diuers parts of the bodie partly as the disease requireth partly also according as the veines are apparent Amongst others there are six from the armepit downeward to the elbow with those on the hand that may be opened The first is called Cephalica the head veine the second Basilica in Latin Hepatica the liuer veine the third Mediana Cordiaca Corporalis Nigra Matrix and Communis that is the median heart corpulent blacke mother and common veine The fourth Axillaris the veine of the armepit because in the armepit it most plainely appeareth The fift on the beginning of the hand which now is no longer phlebotomised The sixt is also on the outside of the hand betweene the litle and the fourth finger which of the Phisitions is called Sceiles Splenetica Saluatella that is the spleene veine The lower parts of the body as the legs and féet haue thrée speciall veines the one Ischiadica the hip veine the other is Saphea or Saphena the wombe veine the third Poplitis the knée vein which is the iust middle veine They are the special veines that commonly are opened of which and others more we will hereafter speake at large Of the head veine Cephalica §. 7. THis veine is also called Humeralis the shoulder veine because it easeth all the veins that are aboue and beneath the necke whensoeuer it is opened This veine being opened it doth much helpe the head-ach called Hemicranâ—a madnesse and such like that proceed of an extraordinary heat It beginneth to appéere about the armpits and passeth along by the left arme To the end then that the Reader might more cléerely vnderstand and know in what infirmities this veine may conueniently be opened I wil briefly rehearse out of other places of this our booke and shew when it is vsually opened As for example in head-aches with agues heate and flures in tumors of the armepits in the paines inflammations and apostumations with other impediments of the eyes in frensies or madnesse in the night mare or hag in al accidents of the mouth and throte in all rheumes in hot agues with an infection of the lungs Here maist thou perceiue and sée manifestly that this may iustly be called the head veine Of the liuer veine Basilica §. 8. AMongst all others is this liuer veine Basilica the principallest whose name is sufficiently knowne both in Gréeke and English This being opened vnburdeneth all the parts below the necke as breast liuer c. of their superfluous bloud so that if any of these be any kind of way diseased it may by that meanes be recouered againe it taketh her beginning of the armepit veine or Axillaris and goeth downe to the elbow The diseases in the which it is vsually phlebotomised are these In tumors of the eyes in vnmeasurable bléeding at the nose in whéesing or ringing of the eares in extreme melancholy in rheumes with heate and agues and in all infirmities of the lungs in broken veines or varices of the brest in the panting or beating of the heart in great faintnesse in ruptures in bleeding of the hemorrhoides in barrennesse of women that procéedeth of heate in an obdurated and hardned liuer in melancholy in hot swellings of the stomacke in obstructions of the vrine in impostumes of the wombe in the paine of the hips in the gout in wrenchings of the ioynts in broken veines in great inflammations in the poxe and in the measles Of the Median or middle veine §. 9. THis is for the most part of all our Phisitions and Chirurgians called by the Latine name Mediana because it lieth betwéene the abouesaid veines and taketh his beginning also from them both This being opened in all infirmities doth most good for that it easeth both the vpper and the lower parts of the bodie for which cause it is called Vniuersalis the common veine and not as some suppose because it commeth from the heart Here is to be obserued that if the head veine or Cephalica should be opened and it no where appeareth in stead of it the
a half conserue of Sage two ounces and a halfe conserue of Rosemarie one ounce and a halfe conserue of Borage and Buglosse of each one ounce of the foresayd confection of life two ounces Cinnamom two dragmes preserued Chebuli halfe an ounce preserued Emblici two dragms sixe leaues of beaten gold ad as much sirupe of Betonie as may suffice This confection also comforteth the hart Calamus Aromaticus The right Calamus Aromaticus of the ancient PhisitioÌ„s as it is described in the beginning of the eight part of this present booke taketh away all cold headaches and sharpneth the wit Another conserue which is greatly commended for this kinde of headach Take Cinnamom one ounce Cubebs Mirobalans Chebuli and Emblici of each two dragms red Rose leaues red Saunders red Corall of each one dragme Cardamonie Mace Cloues Nutmegs of each halfe a dragme Sugar sixteen ounces dissolue your Sugar in rose water and Lauander water boile it till it be hard and make it vp into a cake or Manus Christi What vertues the confects of Coriander Annise séedes Fennell séedes Commin séedes bitter Almonds Haselnutg and such like haue to helpe comfort and strengthen a cold braine as also how they kéep backe and hinder the fuming vapors that would ascend from the stomacke into the head is at large declared in the eight part An especiall medicine of the ancient Phisitions for the cold headache CUt the rootes of Horseradish small drie them and beate them into powder giue of this one spoonefull in wine or broth and let him sweate in his bed very well and fast two howers after it Let his meate be light of digesture as pullets and such like But I must needes mislike of this remedie for that the Horseradish is very strong and doth more harme than good to the braine neither séemeth it any way conuenient to sweate vpon Certaine wines composed for the cold headache TAke Rosemarie two M. Nutmegs one ounce dried Betonie 2. ounces Cloues two dragmes being cut very smal put vpon them eight quarts of good Rhenish wine let them so stand togither three or fower dayes For the weaknesse of the stomacke drinke a good draught of it in the beginning of thy meales but for the headach at the latter end This wine is very good for a cold and moyst braine and hurtfull for yong folkes and hot complexions Another for the same Take rootes of Buglosse one M. rootes of Cicorie halfe as many flowers of Buglosse of Borage of Roses of Rosemarie Harts tong of each halfe a M. boyle them in fower quartes of wine the space that thou maiest boyle an eg hard let it coole straine it and then take fower quarts of wine more and stéepe in it sixe Sage leaues and as much Rosemarie long Pepper one ounce Galingale one ounce and a halfe Cloues Cubebs of each halfe an ounce Cardamonie two drag Cinnamom Currans prepared Coriander séeds of each one ounce these things being well beaten tye them in a cloth and boyle them with the wine but not aboue twentie bubbles then put both wines together in a little rundlet and let the spices stéepe in them eight dayes together pressing them out once a day If this wine be too strong for thy drinking as it is most like to be then mixe other wines therewithall before thou drinke it Of other Cephalicall herbes and spices thou shalt find a description in the eight part of this booke Hitherto we haue aboundantly treated of cold headaches with their appropriate remedies internall now because that outward applications oftentimes are of no lesse effect than the inward medicines I do purpose at this present to set downe diuers externall remedies â—â—manders 〈◊〉 the cold 〈…〉 A Muske ball for the same Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Lignum Paradisi Styrax Calamita of each one drag Cloues Nutmegs Basill séedes of each halfe a drag Rose water with which a little Muske is dissolued make it vp into a ball if thou adde a small quantitie of Amber it will be the better Thou shalt find diuers sorts of these sweet smelling bals in sundrie places of this booke described These bals are made after this manner Take a warme mortar and pestell and put into it a little of the foresaid Rosewater with the Laudanum and Waxe stir them with the pestell together till they be molten then mixe the other powders with them except the Muske Amber and make it vp in bals of what bignesse thou please last of all pricke them full of litle holes but not very déepe into the which thou shalt put the Muske and Amber mixed first with Rose water then take some finely prepared Cotton wipe the mortar with it and wrap the swéet ball in it or kéepe it in a little red péece of sindal It is also good to snuffe vp some of the foresaid powder into the nose or else a little muske To perfume with all Take Frankencense wood of Paradise Mastix Nutmegs Styrax Calamita of each by it selfe or of them all as much as thou wilt Also take Frankencense Sandaracha wood of Paradise of each a like quantitie throw it on glowing coles and receiue the vapor or smoke The manner of making lyes and sopes for the same with which the head being washed the braine is comforted her moisture dried and her ouermuch cold changed into warmth for which purposes thou shalt vse these things following Take Roses Sene leaues Betonie Marioram Agaricke of each one drag steepe them in hote lye the space of foure or fiue houres others first boile them in wine and afterward mingle it with lie Take Mace thrée drag Stechas Marioram of each one drag blossomes of the wild Vine Roses of each two drag Spica one drag cut them all into small péeces put them into a litle bag and then steepe them in the ley this comforteth the head braine and memorie and helpeth also the swimming or giddinesse of the head Also take Spica halfe an ounce Lauander flowers Roses Marioram Rosemarie rootes of the blew flower deluce of each two drag cut them into péeces and being put into a bag stéepe them in ly and wash thy head with it this strengtheneth the braine all the senses and the memorie very much Also take wild Mints Nep course Marioram Hyssope Bay leaues of each sort two M. Rosemarie blossomes Stechas Gold flowers of each halfe a M. and séeth them in ly take also Marioram Sage Cammomill Bay leaues Stechas of each a M. lay them in stéepe in the waer of ly as is aforesaid Washing bals for the cold paine of the head Here followeth diuers sorts of washing bals very méete and necessarie for the cold and humors of the head Take Venice Sope halfe a pound bruise it and stampe it in a warme mortar with a hote pestell and make it somewhat moist with Rosewater or Lauander water vntill it be like vnto dowe then beate one ounce of Ireos roots Cloues Nutmegs Cinnamom Cardamonie Stechas of
be clensed with néesing looke in the first and second Chapters of the paine in the head Of the excessiue bleeding at the Nose §. 7. THe excessiue bléeding at the nose hath diuers causes which were too long to discouer them all at this present time it only sufficeth vs to shew the inward and outward causes as concerning the outward causes of bléeding are blowes fals thrusts sore labour and the heate of the sunne all these things do open the veines and make subtile blood which is easily mooued to runne out The causes thereof can easily be perceiued and inquired of the patient The inward causes be superfluity sharpnes and heate of the blood the which is ouer all the whole body head liuer milt wombe and other places In like maner also through agues and other great sicknes through paine of the head a forcible expulsiue power and féeblenesse of the retentiue vertue in full bodies and abounding of blood is the bléeding at the nose requisite it emptieth the head and other parts In Phthisi and other sicknesses moe it is commaunded to prouoke it whereof shall be more at large spoken in other places Therfore if there be perceiued an vnburthening through this bléeding at the nose then it is a good signe of health like as to the contrary a sudden and excessiue bléeding is very dangerous and a signe of death But if this bléeding happen through any bruising of the skin of the braines then it is very hard yea in danger neuer to be holpen And whensoeuer the bléeding is aboue 48. ounces then it is a bad token and yet badder if it do surpasse it if it come then vnto twenty or 24. pound euery pound reckoned at twelue ounces then must death follow after it immediatly In like sort the signes of death are if the bléeding person be not onely of a bleake colour but also darke gréene or leady coloured An order of diet THis bléeding at the nose commeth through some causes that require alwayes a good order of life to be obserued For this purpose is this most common that those things be alwaies vsed that coole the blood and make it thicke if there be any agues with it then must light things be vsed which be cooling as Lettice Purslain Endiue small Endiue vineger veriuice Is then the bléeding strong and vehement to the end it might once be stayd vse Beanes Pease Lentils Rie Colewoorts Chéese Beefe Hares and Harts also thicke red wine all hot spices white wine if so be that they be not well watred are to be eschewed Now we will shew how the blood is to be stanched For to performe the same there be sixe kind of meanes first by the foresaid cooling things which be to be eaten these things following are to be dropt into the nose and laid thereon in like maner also vpon the forehead the iuice of Lettice of Housléeke of Nightshade corne Roses or Nettles in like maner the water of water Lillies of Cichory of Roses and Cumin water Also the herbe of Poppy Willow leaues or their iuice Item also Horstaile Shepherds purse vineger and Camfere and if it be very great néed Opium for these things altogether make thick blood that it cannot run so hastily out of the veines It is also good to irrigate his head with cold water so long continuing vntill his head be so cold that he get thereby a shiuering and shaking or trembling In fine to kéepe the head cold not to stir it much is very commodious also wet a cloth or napkin in cold water in vineger or in Rose water wring it not out too hard and wrap it so about the necke Item take the whites of twelue egs powned Allume foure ounces beate it well together wet a cloth in it and wrap it about the neck about the forehead and temples afterwards take Hares haire or the haire of a Roebuck stop the nostrill full thereof and that at the first Also it is commended that both the thombes and their armes be bound hard about the elbowes but let them not be bound too hard but being sometimes made loose to bind them againe Or make one of these plaisters take the iuice of Nightshade six ounces Rose water one ounce and a halfe Barly meale as much as is néedfull for to make a plaister lay this vpon the liuer if the blood run forth of the right nostrill The second meane to stanch the blood effected with stopping things as the iuice of Sloes red Coral Momy Aloe Horstaile Amber Bloodstones Hippocystis Bolus flowers of Pomegranats Lentils gals Sumach Shepherds purse Medlers Seruices Quinces peares and other soure peares amongst the compounded things Trocisces de Carabe Terra sigillata which foresaid things all that be of this nature do draw and shut the veines together For this are also meet these plaisters following take the iuice of Plantaine and Rose water of each two ounces vineger halfe an ounce and the white of an egge sealed earth or in the stéed thereof time as much as is néedfull for to make it méetly thick lay it vpon the forehead and the temples of the head Another Take Dragon blood parched gum parched starch roses the iuice of Sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory the blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Coral and Amber of each one drag and a half Poppy seed Purslane séed of each one drag Opium halfe a drag powne all that is to be powned thereof and with the iuice of Plantaine make it to a plaister and vse it as before This following is not much vnlike to the former Take Dragon blood parched gum the yellow seeds of Roses the iuice of sloes Hippocystis burnt Iuory blossoms of Pomegranats Bolus sealed earth bloodstone red Corall of each one dragme and a halfe Poppy séeds Purslane séeds burnt Harts horne ashes of gals Cipers nuts of each one drag beate them all small and mixe them amongst the other with the iuice of Plantaine afterwards make small cakes of it when you will now vse it then beate it to powder and blow it into the nostrils but you may vse it as a plaister for to lay vpon the forehead and temples of the head Item take well beaten Momy as much as you please mixe it with copwebs and the white of an egge dip cotton or lint in it and then stop it into the nose First take Harts bones burnt Iuory Dragon blood Verbascum powned with vineger temper the foresaid powder amongst it according to that you will haue of it little or much put it into the nose all these things stanch blood tempered together or each alone or mixe Aloe with the white of an eg vse it as aforesaid Item take the whites of foure egs well braied and tempered amongst Aloe one drag Frankinsence one quarter of an ounce Dragon blood and fine Bolus of each halfe a drag vse this yet putting therein Hares haire made wet Secondly take wel brayed whites of egs and temper Gips or plaister amongst
of Lettice of Purslaine and of Nightshade of each thrée ounces Rosewater two ounces Vineger one ounce temper and vse them as before this bringeth also sléepe with it and especially if one temper therewith two ounces of the iuice of Poppie heads cannot you get the iuice then take the distilled water it selfe if you will haue a plaister of it temper Barley meale amongst it Note also that these cooling things are to be vsed onely in the beginning of the frenzie for that if it be séene that the matter beginneth to yéeld there are other things to be adhibited as when it beg inneth to depart then take a sucking whelpe and take out the bowels and so lay it warme vpon the patients forehead or rather on the top of the forehead when the haire is shorn off Item take another whelpe the intrailes being taken out as is sayd bestrew it inwardly with Henbane séede and lay it warme vpon the head this maketh the franticke to sléepe the same do also yong Doues and Cocks opened in the backe and laid vpon the head or take the warme lights of a Weather hold it vpon the forehead when it is waxen cold make it warme againe in warme water but wring it well out and lay it againe vpon the forehead and reiterate the same oftentimes Of the dwelling of a franticke man and other remedies concerning this disease THe dwelling of any franticke persons must be temperate more cold then warme Bestrew his Chamber and bed with cold hearbes as Lettice Purslaine Housléeke smal and great Willow leaues water Lillies and Nightshade haue also clothes made wet in common water round about him plucke away all pictures out of his eyes for that they bring fantasies and troubles vnto him let honest people come amongst them to the end he may be ashamed let him smell to Roses Violets water Lillies flowers and Camfere whereof may also bags be made this is prescribed for an example how all manner of franticke men are to be gouerned now will we procéede forward But if it be feared that a man would become franticke then take quicke Brimstone and Masticke of each one drag and a halfe temper them wel beaten with half an ounce of good Treacle and giue a youth thereof halfe a drag at once mixed with Cicorie water an old body one drag with old wine He is to sweate thereupon as long as he is able to indure it doth it not helpe at one time then do it mo times but the patient is to beware of cold and wind Take Cammomill the herbe Dill Roses Marioram gentle of each one M. séeth them and make clothes wet with it and lay them warme oftentimes vpon the patients forehead Take Violet leaues Melilot Mallowes Rosemarie Bay leaues and Poppie heads of each two handfuls let them séeth together and vse it as before the conserue of Betonie of Gilloflowers and especially of Pyonie flowers is very conuenient for this aboue all other and not onely for this disease but also against all strange fantasies frightings and feare the which people haue a nights and without any cause A precious water THis is much commended aboue all things for to kéepe men in their good vnderstanding and to restore the same if it were lost take May Lillies stript off from their stalkes powre Muscadell Malmsey or any other old wine vpon them put this in a glasse and stop it fast and let it so stād certaine dayes afterwards distill it through soft séething in a kettle of water This is not onely good against the frensie but also in the dead palsey where the spéech is lost against all faintnes against all consumption it repugneth also all venime and strengtheneth the heart a spoonefull taken thereof at once These franticke persons are to be alwayes kept sober in eating and drinking as is expressed and to vse cooling things for necessitie requireth the same They must eschew wine and be content with small beere and Barley water wherein the sirupe of Violets of Roses or of water Lillies be mixed He is to eate Orgemond or Ptisane called Ptisana or any other water paps Also all other cold herbes stewed as Lettice Spinage and Sorrell yea some require this order to be kept so directly that they will not allow any other thing in the world But regard is alway to be had to the abilitie of the patient and héede must also aboue all things be taken that this patient be not made angrie nor feared and not frighted but as much as is possible to be kept with mirth For to bring the sicke to sleepe and rest §. 6. FOr that this maladie doth bring with it much vnnaturall watching therefore it is néedefull to write somewhat thereof for that is very hurtfull in the disease because it doth dry the whole body taketh away the appetite troubleth the mind contracteth the sinewes weakeneth the wits also causeth some Ague and bringeth with it other inconueniences moe as also the losse of sléepe which is a very bad signe in all hot diseases The causes why one cannot sléepe are many as anger sorrow paine heauie thoughts a full and crude stomacke hard meates as Toad estoooles Beanes Oinions and Mustard séede the which do all bring terrible dreames Also when there is an impostume in the braines great disquiet barking dogs and such like moe which may hinder the sléepe these are the common causes which do kéepe one awake But how the same is to be redressed and how that the reuiuing sléepe is to be restored shall be shewed hereafter But now to prosecute our method there be in the frensie called Phrenitis which is with strong Agues these things following prescribed If it happen that this patient can attaine to no sléepe like as it commonly chanceth in such diseases whereby the sicknesse is aggrauated then may the sléepe be prouoked wel with inward and outward things whereto these safe remedies are very méete Take womans milke of one that giueth sucke to a daughter foure ounces and a halfe the brayed whites of foure egges and white powned Poppy séede as much as is néedfull to make them to a salue spread thereof vpon the forehead and the temples Take the sirupe of Poppy heads the water of white water Lillies and oyle of Violets each alone or mixed togither and vse them as hath béen sayd Take Henbane seedes and séeth them so long in wine vntill it be thickish annoint the temples of the head the nose and eares therewith this is very strong but vse it not but onely in great need Item take Poppy séede Henbane séede of each a like much beate them small and temper them with the white of an eg womans milke and with a little Vineger vse them as before When one is come out of his naturall sléepe or enféebled in his wits then make a spunge wet in this water following and lay it warme on his forehead and on the temples of his head being waxen cold it is to be renewed
of better estimation and of a more secret or hidden vertue to wit Bryonie worne about the necke also Thyme Hyssope Rue and Southernwood worne likewise in the bosome for by reason of their smell they may haue some effect A capitall Vnguent TAke Marioram gentle Rosemarie flowers of each halfe an ounce Lignum Aloes one ounce beate them together and rub them well with strong wine in a mortar temper one ounce of Barly meale Starch two ounces amongst it apply this to the head being shauen it easeth the falling euill maruellously Item take oyle of Rue oyle of Pepper of each one ounce swéet Costus rootes Pieretrum Ginger Galingall Rue séeds of each one drag and a halfe mixe them all together and so apply them warme ouer both the shoulders Item take Beuercod cut small foure ounces oyle of Oliues sixe ounces Iuniper berries beaten grosly thrée ounces put a pint of strong wine vpon them couer it well and let it boyle a while with this is the patient to be annointed in the hammes in the armepits and on the pulses of his hands Also it is very good in this infirmitie to annoint the forehead with the sewet of a Stagge Indian Baulme is in like sort good for all kind of falling euils being annointed on the roofe of the mouth and albeit that it cureth not the sicknesse wholy yet will it greatly hinder his returne Vngula Alcis IT is a common error to weare a ring of this beasts hoofe on his finger against the falling sicknes I haue proued it oftentimes but with no ease vnto the patient A Confection or Electuarie for the falling euill TAke Pieretrum Costus rootes Stechas of each ten drag Agaricke fiue drag Dill séede Assafoetida Aristologie of each two drag and a halfe iuice of Squils clarified Honie of each 14. ounces boile the iuice and the honie with a gentle fire vntill it waxe méetely thicke afterwards when it beginneth to coole mixe the other ingredients with it take of this euery morning three drag and fast foure houres after it Montegnana taketh God to record that he hath knowne a thousand cured thereby This following is not much vnlike the former take Pieretrum Siluer mountaine Stechados of each ten drag Agaricke fiue drag Cardamome Assafoetida Aristologie of each one drag and a halfe iuice of Squils and Honie twice as much as of all the rest or as much as is néedefull let them boyle sufficiently and temper the other things being powdered amongst them The patient shall vse euery day of this confection one quarter of an ounce and beware of grosse meates These two Electuaries following are very good for all manner of falling euils except that which is caused of bloud take prepared Pearles one dragme Cloues Galingall Nutmegs Cucubes of each half a dragme Cinnamom one scruple Couchenell Lignum Aloes red Stirax of each halfe a scruple red Saunders Calamus Doronicum of each fiue graines Piony seedes péeled Mistleto Diptamer of each one drag Currans one ounce conserue of Roses conserue of Stechados conserue of Burrage of each two dragmes white Sugar clarified in Rose water twelue ounces make a confection of them Another Take Piony rootes one ounce Mace Indian Spike Saffron red Corall prepared Pearles of each half a dragme Cinnamom Cloues Nutmegs Ginger Pepper long Pepper Cardamome Graines of each two dragmes Licorice fiue dragmes Anacardium one ounce and a halfe Muske Amber of each seuen graines clarified Hony or Sugar twelue ounces make an electuary of them take of this the bignesse of a Nutmeg and drinke a little Meade after it It is very good against the falling sicknes the Palsey and such like other infirmities more it comforteth the braine maketh a good memory and expelleth the lethargie and al obliuiousnesse One may vse either of these prescribed medicines or this powder following take Cinnamō Cloues Galingall Nutmegs Mace Cucubes of each two dragmes blacke white and long Pepper Cardamome Annis séeds Fennell séedes péeled Piony seeds Hissope Diptamer Mistleto of each one dragme Saffron two dragms Sugar candy fiue dragmes make a powder of them kéepe it in a leather sacke and vse it in all thy meates Item take the seedes of Maiden haire halfe an ounce Mistleto one ounce Tormentill one ounce and a half make them into powder and minister two dragmes of it at once with the decoction of Piony rootes when you feare the accesse of the disease For this purpose serueth also white Mustard séedes prepared conserue of Betony the iuice the water the herbe and the flowers in fine all that is made of Betony is very good for the falling sicknesse of the head and for all other infirmities of the same So is also the conserue of Piony rootes séedes water wine of Piony and all what may be prepared thereof as may euidently be seene by the former receipts the preserued Eringus rootes are also very profitably vsed therein In like sort also Lauander Rosemary Spikenard their leaues flowers wine and whatsoeuer else is made of them we haue also mentioned of the taking of Mithridate and Treacle likewise Guaiacum is very commodiously vsed for this infirmitie After due euacuation of the body this is also much commended in the falling sicknesse take the iuice of Rue two ounces Assafoetida halfe a dragme mixe them togither and so take them Item take the skull of a sound man calcined or burnt pilled Piony seedes of each halfe an ounce Tormentill Mistleto of each two dragmes giue it to the patient as before the same doth also burnt Harts horne taken with wine as also the liuer of a Kite and dried bloud of a Shéepe the bladder of a Boare with the vrine dried in an ouen and euery day the bignes of a beane taken with Oxymel Item Rauens egs Swallowes flesh Wolfs Harts Foxe flesh either boyled or otherwise the bloud and flesh of a Wesell tempered with the vrine of a man-child Item Buckes bloud taken the hoofe of an Asse burnt and mixed with strong Vineger and so annointed about the head The liuer of an Asse taken fasting the gall of a Beare powdred the fume of Peacoks dung or otherwise vsed Partridges liuers dried and one dragme and a halfe dronken the braines of Camels or of Wesels vsed with vineger the bones of a man calcined the bloud of a Tortoise that liueth in fresh water a Cuckow put into a pipkin close stopped and burnt to ashes the stones of a Boare of a wild Boare of a Ramme and of a Beare dronken with water the braines of Sparrowes with many strange things more that are highly commended of diuers famous Phisitions but aboue all other things is the reuming of a Leueret much commended as hath béene sayd before Euery one may vse of the premisses those that he hath approued to be good but if this falling euill which very seldome befalleth be caused of bloud then appeareth it with rednesse of the face red eyes and with large veines In this case is the Saphaea to be
broome burnt Iuory Roses Saunders Ambers Mirabolan stones Date stones red Costus pils Hypocistis sealed earth fine Bole burnt Harts horne sea Muscles and al that may be made and sodden with these things But if these procéed of cold then vse Laudanum Frankinsence and her bark parched Cumin séed Cresses séeds parched Annise séeds Allume pitch Myrrhe parched salt Cipres nuts and leaues Mastick Sarcocolla Sandaraca and all that may be made with it Here now do follow some things that confirme and fasten the téeth gums and their sinewes Take garden Mints fresh Oliue leaues if they may be had of each an ounce Roses Mirtle seed Butchers broome séed wood of the Barberry trée and the fruite of the same of each halfe an ounce beate cut and boile it in vnripe wine and hold it in the mouth Water of Nightshade of Plantaine and of Shepheards purse do fasten the téeth and if in this water and vineger together you boile the blossomes of Pomegranates and Mirtle séeds then will it be the better In like maner you may boile Gals Medlars Lentils and Seruices of each halfe an ounce For this purpose serue also Cipres nuts and leaues Acorne cups and Sene leaues al together or each by it selfe decocted in wine and vsed as the former Item take Allume Frankinsence Masticke Cypres nuts Rosemary flowers of each a like much boile them together in a sufficient quantity of raine water and red wine and wash thy mouth with it very often warme Item take Harts horne salt and Myrrhe all of them burnt of each two drag boile them in hony and rub thy gums therewith within and without Item take burnt Allume halfe an ounce Rose buds halfe a handfull Bedegar red wine one pint boyle them vnto the halfe take of this being warme into thy mouth often and hold it a good while therein for it is very good Another Take Ireos Corall and Frankinsence of each halfe a drag temper it with hony of Roses to a confection annoint the teeth therewith and in the morning wash them with wine wherein hath bene decocted Sage Rosemary and Roses of each a like much Item take Allum burnt Harts horne Roses Dragon blood Acorne cups Hyppocistis blossomes and pils of Pomegranates Gals of each a like quantity boile them in strong red wine or in vineger and wash thy mouth therewith Vineger and Oxymel of Squils are also especiall good for this vse To wash the mouth oftentimes with Rosemary wine confirmeth the gums and fasteneth the téeth Of the falling out and drawing of the teeth THe last and extremest meanes for the toothach is that the téeth might either fall of themselues or be drawne out To preuent the falling of them is vnpossible to many men yet are these things following prescribed for it amongst which this that followeth is very sharpe and yet for all that very safe and good to be vsed Take the barke of a Mulberry trée Caper rootes Pieretrum the bigger and the lesser Esula red Orpiment rootes of Coloquint of each two drag put as much vineger on them as wil couer them let it so rest eight dayes and euery day put a little more vineger vnto it and vse it as hath bene said Open the gums round about the tooth as much as is possible with some kind of instrument then rub them ten times in one day with the foresaid water it maketh the tooth loose and separateth the roote Item open the gums as before annoint it with oyle wherein Frogs haue bene decocted when the tooth is very loose then take it out You may also do as hereafter followeth Take Pellitory of Spaine Scammony white Hellebore Euphorbium of each one drag beate and stéepe it in vineger open and loose the gums about the tooth and rub it often therewith it is very forcible and therefore to be the more regarded Item take Nettle séeds roots of the Mulberry trée and roots of Celendine of each a like quantity boyle them in wine or vineger this should haue the same operation with the former and it is much safer Another Open the gums and lay bare the roote of the tooth and strew Euphorbium in it this will doubtlesse loose the tooth that it may easily be taken out afterwards wash thy mouth with the decoction of Myrrhe for thereby will the place or hole be drawne together and all paine abated Take the dregs or lées of strong vineger and apply it to the tooth many dayes together afterwards draw out the tooth But if it will not stirre then rub the place with fresh butter or some other grease of birds and especially with the braines of a Hare sodden which haue a hidden vertue and operation for this purpose as before hath bene said This remedy following applied to the tooth maketh the same to fall out without any paine Dissolue two drag of Ammoniacum in vineger temper Henbane séeds beaten amongst it and annoint the tooth and the roote thereof Item take the iuice of Esula with meale make a dow of it temper it well and let it boyle a while and apply it to the tooth Of the double tooth OTherwhiles two téeth grow vnnaturally one before the other which is not onely vnséemely but hindereth also very much wherefore it must be taken away with an instrument and with applications If you will take it away by application then are you first to loose the gums from it and make a little ball of Waxe and mixe the iuice of Esula or of Néesewoort with it The same doth also the blood of a leafe frogge Or take the roote of a Mulberry trée and Pellitory of each halfe an ounce wet them in vineger and dry them in the Sun vntill they be as thicke as hony then temper them with the foresaid iuice of Esula and annoint the tooth thrice a day with it and it will easily fall out The iuice of the rootes of Nettles mixed equally with Galbanum should do the same In like manner also beaten Fig leaues applied to the tooth To make and to keepe the teeth cleane TAke Cuttle bone white sea Muscles Spuma maris Allume Aristology parched Barley Sulfer vife Cinnamom and long pepper of each a like much temper it with hony and rub the téeth often therewith Or take Argoile two drag beate it small and searce it wash it with good wine rub the téeth once a day with it and afterwards wash thy mouth in the winter with warme and in summer with cold wine This following is highly commended Take two drag of Date stones red Corall prepared thrée drag Lupins and the rootes of the yellow Flower deluce of each thrée drag beate all that is to be beaten and afterwards make a confection of it with clarified hony which must be so hard that you may make small placents or trocisces of it dry them in the shadow when you wil vse them then dissolue one of them in wine or vineger and wash thy téeth therewith euery morning when thou hast first
each one drag and séeth it with decocted swéet Wine as thicke as you desire it Or vse this following Take Cammomill Dill seede Venus haire Hollihocke séedes and Folefoote of each two handfuls Currans thrée handfuls sixe Poppie heads sixe ounces of fresh Butter xxxvi ounces of swéet sodden Wine put vnto it when all is well sodden and brayed one dragme of Saffron A good salue Take Althaea salue and Butter annoint the place therewith where the paine is and strew thereon beaten Comin and lay a warme Colewoort leafe thereon When the Pleurisie taketh a woman with Child §. 12. IF it then chaunce that a woman be in doubt of bearing the space of two moneths were brought a bed before her time and brought a dead child into the world or were much inclined to the same and so be taken with the Pleurisie she must not be let bloud but she must haue cups set on her buttockes and be picked well whereby to draw the bloud downward But women that are woont to miscarie in hast they may well be let bloud yet alwaies taking good héed to their strength But for a generall rule all women albeit they miscarie or not or that they haue conceiued are to haue the liuer veine opened But if it be not the right Pleurisie then make a bagge with warme Millet and Bran and lay it where the stitch is felt and annoynt the backe with Althaea salue But they that are not with child and haue the Pleurisie it is much counselled that their Termes be prouoked as much as is possible whereof in the fift part is very largely discoursed And the other euen as is alreadie said are to be holpen according as they be of strength by other medicines Rules for such as are recouered of the Pleurisie that they fall not into it againe §. 13. FIrst all they that be subiect to this sicknesse are to shun all dwellings and principally in winter season that are situate in the North and West and neare the water They must also forbeare all tough slimie meates and all that is made of dough Chéese Milke and such like also from vineger sowre and sharpe and all kind of tart things Capers and Sallad oyle are also enemies vnto him Item from all pottage except of red and white Pease and Beane broth which be good for him and dresse Hennes Pullets Veale and Pigeons with it All cold fruites as Apples Peares Chesnuts c. are hurtfull for him but Figges and Raisins are very méete sodden Colewoorts and all sorts of Rapes and rootes as Parsneps Parsley rootes and such like are very good for him and all Barley paps also His drinke must be thin white and swéet wine or common Béere which is very cleare To drinke water is for this streightly forbidden but if the patient desire to water his wine he may doe it yet with water that is decocted with Cinnamome or Licorice After his meale tide is he to kéepe himselfe quiet one or two houres Watching is very hurtfull for him but to sléepe long is very good and néedfull In eating he must also beware of swallowing downe meate not well chewed and of ouercharging his stomacke with meate and drinke that there follow no harme to the stomacke He must looke well to all these and that he be alwaies merrie and of a light heart Secondly he must take good héede for to haue alwaies an open bodie and before he vse these pils following he must first vse these potions Take of the water of Fole-foote fiue ounces Sugar one ounce drinke it euery morning fasting at one time The pils are thus to be made take prepared Aloe one quarter of an ounce Opopanacum Bdellium and Colloquint of each one scruple make pils thereof with sirupe of Roses sixe of a drag then take euery foure dayes one or twaine according as you are bound and in the euening one before supper A Salue TAke Asarabacca Hyssope Mallowes and Rosemarie of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sandaraca three drag Spica nardi one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud and the iuice of Sloes of each one drag Starch fiue dragms powne each apart as small as may be then temper it with Malmsey and kéepe this stopped tight Herewith are you to rub the backe bone and shoulders softly and afterwards a Foxe case bound theron And the patient must haue his veine opened on the right hand besides the little finger and let it bléede foure or fiue ounces of bloud These are the most principall meanes wherby these perillous sicknesses may be preuented but we will adde somewhat more to the rest Certaine seuerall remedies against the cold Pleurisie §. 14. FOr the true Pleurisie do serue these compounded Confections and losinges which are prepared two manner of wayes Diaprassium Diahyssopum Diaireâ—â— Solomonis Lohoch de Pino Item all that is prepared against the cold cough as confected Elecampane rootes Treacle Mithridate swéete sirupe of Pomegranates and Parsley rootes sodden in wine tempered with a little vineger and thereof drunken often Also M. Tristrams water and other moe Aquae Composâ—â—e But by reason of the ague some cooling things must alwaies be tempered amongst it For the common drinke you haue here before in the sixt § a speciall Barley water mollists crums of white bread therin bounden in a clout straine it often out and mingle some white wine amongst it Hony water quencheth thirst it prouoketh also the tough humors flegmes to auoide and it is good for all coughes Thin wine tempered with water is tolerable for this if the Ague be not too strong IteÌ„ take Cicera Venus haire as much as you please let it séeth with a little Licorice For common things these following are very good for the cold Pleurisie as Assa foetida Nettles with their séede Balsam wood with their fruites Ireos Myrrhe the right Acornes for which some do take Calmus or great Galingall and Starch The fifth Chapter Of the Lights or Lungs WE haue hitherto spoken of the outward parts of the Brest and discoursed of their infirmities now we will write of the inner parts and will begin with the Lights for that they are made as a separation betwéene the pipes of the Lungs and the Hart also as an instrument of the breath ordained of God for the vse of the bodie thereby to draw in the outward aire thereby to coole and quicken the heart and all inward parts wherewith to forme also and effect the voice and spéech in all that hath receiued life Therefore hath nature made the substance of the Lights light and like a sponge formed with many pipes wherby they might be the more méet to draw the breath out and in Some ancient Phisitions are of opinion that they were without bloud but it is not so they haue their bloud too and are full of it but as soone as it commeth out of the Brests the bodie is void thereof What great difference is betwéene the Lights of men and of Beasts
hath caught a great fal or is hard strucken or thrust and afraid of any clotted bloud then giue him euery morning and euening each time two or three ounces of the iuice of Cheruill Item take Cheruill water and Louage water of each one ounce and a halfe or two ounces drink it at a draught Or take of Rubarbe halfe an ounce Lacca one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus sealed earth of each one dragme Rubarb halfe a dragme if you put thereto some burnt Sponges it wil be so much the better make a powder therof and vse it as is aforesaid Another Take fine Bolus halfe an ounce sealed earth one dragme Dragon bloud and Spermaceti of each half a dragme make a powder thereof and giue him a dragme of it with white wine This plaister following may also be made Take Goates milke hony let them be well warmed togither then temper amongst it as much fine Bolus vntill it be as thicke as a plaister and so lay it vpon the breast it wasteth the clotted bloud If any be afrayd that through falling or thrusting he haue broken any thing in his body or feare to haue any clotted bloud within him then is he to drinke one dragme of this following with warme wine or beere Take foure ounces of the roots of red Bluglosse cut them in péeces and let them séeth in a pot of red wine vntil they be soft then take them out and beate it to pap put thereto two ounces of Spermaceti and one pound of fresh Butter let them melt togither with a smal fire and therewith annoint the place where the paine is greatest and chiefly about the breast Lastly in the middle of the spetting of bloud take one ounce of the iuice of Plantaine tēper therein two or three graines of Opium and giue it to the patient Or make these conserues following Take white Pepper and Henbane séede of each fiue dragmes sealed earth and Opium of each one quarter of an ounce péeled Hempe séede and Saffron of each foure scruples Beuercod Spica Euphorbium Pieretrum Pearles Amber Zeduary and Doronicum of each one scruple Campher sixe graines sodden hony as much as is néedful giue of this halfe or a whole dragme with one ounce and a halfe of Plantaine water tempered with halfe an ounce of wine Comfortable things in and after the spetting of bloud §. 20. FOr to kéepe nature by her might and power these confections following are to be vsed Take the flesh of Capons that are sodden with Dragagant in stéeled water sixe ounces white and red Corall Dragagant Gum both a little tosted of each one dragme and a halfe fine Bolus Amber sealed earth Mumia and Bloudstone of each one dragme Purslaine séede and Plantaine seede of each three dragmes Almonds steeped in the iuice of Quinces three dragmes Iuiubes Sebestes so drest also of each one ounce Specierum Electuarij Regum one quarter of an ounce Species of the cold Dragagant Tabulats foure ounces white Sugar and Sugar candy of each one pound and a half or so much as you please seeth the Sugar with Pullet broth and mixe all the rest amongst it and make of them morsels Another TAke Species de Gemmis which are set foorth in the description of the hart one dragme and giue it with sirupes of Apples this strengtheneth the hart and the Lights it is very good for those that after spetting much bloud be so faint harted that they seeme to haue no more pulse For conclusion for this spetting of bloud we will here present some particular things to be vsed for the same where there is neither Phisition nor Apothecary neare hand bitter Almonds with Starch are passing good for this and also for all cold coughes Agaricus one quarter of an ounce steeped in sixe ounces of Purslaine water and wring it well out and so in one day at two times taken Flowers of Pomegranates Hippocistis and prepared Corall of each one dragme with the white of an egge and Gumme tempered togither to Trocisces and so holden vnder the tongue The iuice of Quinces Centorie burnt and washed Harts horne prepared Amber Lycium sealed earth fine Bolus Myrtle seede Myrrhe or a little of all of them thrée or foure graines at one time taken with wine is passing good Likewise the iuice of Mints or of Purslaine is highly commended for this disease For this is also good the white Henbane seede but not aboue three graines at once to be taken The yellow seede of Roses white Brier and many other things moe that are aboue rehearsed amongst other compounds which are to be vsed alone are very good Of the infection of the Lights which is called Peripneumonia §. 21. THis name is as much to say in Gréeke as Phlegma which is phlegme slime or corruption of the Lights which matter infecteth the lights maketh them swell and bringeth an hote Ague with it This is caused chiefly of Cholera or of Phlegma that which falleth through the veines or out of the head into the lights and may be caused of the matter that prouoketh the Pleurisie or Squinancie and falleth into the lights And although the Peripneumonia as an impostume of the lights hapneth to breake out whereby the lights are wounded yet is it notwithstanding therein seuered from the Phthisi that this infection of the lights is rather placed betwéene the small skin which couereth the lights than in the substance of them where it can procure an exulceration where contrariwise the Phthisis which is the right consumption harmeth impostumeth and rotteth the very substance of the lights The signes of this Peripneumonia or maladie of the lights are these namely a troublesome breath as if one would choke whereby the sicke body is compelled to lift vp himself his breath is alwaies hote so that he doth alwayes cal for cold ayre This phlegme is somtimes somwhat browne and otherwhiles pure red and sometimes greene and blacke and scummy They do feele a wringing and paine in the breast that reacheth from the ribs to the backbone There is also a strong Ague commonly therewith the tongue is red and will be in time slimy and black so that when one toucheth it with the finger it cleaueth thereto They cannot lye neither on the backe nor side but must sit alway vpright the chéekes are alwayes so red as if they were painted If then these signes all or in part do appeare then is it most certaine that there is an impostume in the lights the which otherwhiles causeth such a strangling and Apnaea that the patient can get no more breath and that it cannot be thought otherwise but that the patiēt must stifle and all this without any great stitch or féeling of great heate which neuerthelesse is very great ouer the whole body The remedies for this sicknesse are that the head veine be opened and afterwards the meanes be vsed which here before in the fift Chapter in the 5. § are prescribed The remedies for this
Hollihock rootes Figs cut Linséed and Fenegreeke beaten small as much as you thinke good let this séeth all to pap and at the last temper therewith thrée or foure yolks of Egs and as much Butter as you thinke good and lay it warme vpon the place where the paine is If so be then this be caused through cold then put vnto it a litle of the rootes of Lillies Cammomill Melilot and such like And if so be that this Arsegut by reason of the impostume will hardly be put vp againe into the body then must the patient be set oftentimes in warme water and afterwards annoint the Arsegut with oile of Cammomill and of Dill which are molten with a little Waxe this swageth the paine In like sort also descendeth the neck of the Matrix in women and is in such sort to be cured like as hereafterwards amongst other infirmities of the wombe shall be written more at large Of the Piles called Haemorrhoides §. 4. AFter the foresaid falling downe of the Arsegut there commeth one disease more in the fundament the which we call the Piles and the Grecians Haemorrhoides which is a fluxe of blood and Sycoses that are Figs which the Latinists do call Ficus Figs and Mariscas All these are Accidents and Tumors which do come behind in the Fundament or in the lowermost part of the Arsegut And they do appeare by their swelling and otherwise whereof they get their name sometimes with blood and otherwhiles without blood but seldome without paine but vexeth folkes with great trouble They take their beginning from some small veines which spread themselues into the vttermost parts of the stomack and are thereof called the Pile or Emroyd veines When as these be then ouercharged with blood or any other humors then do they open themselues and expel the melancholick blood from them sometimes in great quantity whereby nature is much vnburthened and getteth great health therefore it is often commaunded for to open the same euen as hereafter shall be admonished also they bléed otherwhiles so excessiuely that great trauell is taken before they can be stopped wherof we shall speake hereafter There be also some of these veines which lie somewhat deepe vpwards and therefore are called the blind Piles These Piles are properly the Hemorrhoides like as by their name may appeare Others be without blood of the which they that make shew outwardly on the Arsegut are first of all the Figpiles by reason that in their whole substance and quantity they be like vnto figs and also are therfore called Verrucales the which are much worse than the other whose cause is only melancholick blood Other do shew themselues like to a black ripe grape so that they be called Vnales which haue their matter from blood mingled with melancholy The third are like to Mulberies red and blackish coloured wherein the blood doth apparantly excéed The fourth kind is like to the bladder of a fish which is extended very much without blood filled or stuft with melancholick humors but these sorts are seldome séene The first sort are the secret Piles which do come within the Arsegut and be very hurtfull especially those which extend towards the priuities for that through their hot tumors they hinder the passage of the vrine whereby the strangury is prouoked and especially when they do not bléed Now for to know these hidden Piles and diseases there is nothing more certaine than to set a great boxe or cup on the Arsegut without pricking the which will draw the Arsegut outward so that it may be apparantly séene how that the case doth consist within The sixt kind of Piles are the Figs a certaine excrescence vpon the Arsegut outwardly who with a little veine like the stalke of a fig is fastened to the gut formed as it were a small dry fig from thence a little bigger and is pressed downe on the top like a Fig which is called of the Gréekes Condyloma which is an excrescence of flesh for it hapneth sometimes that round about the roundnes of the Arsegut or fast besides it there do come great scabs which sometimes yet vncertaine whether it be first or last according as the patient ruleth himselfe do happen to bléede sometimes much and sometimes little These figs and swellings are tempered also with bloud and melancholy a little red outwardly and perilous ynough euen as hereafter shall be further expressed In all these Species of the Pyles the learned haue a generall rule that they estéeme them for an accident that can hardly be cured They recite nine causes of these accidents albeit we will recite but fowre First for that it is in an vncleane place and no man medleth willingly therewith Secondly for that this place is very hard to be séene Thirdly for that it is a place whither all vncleannes of the bodie doth descend Lastly for that it is a place cold by nature and therefore voyd of strength notwithstanding there be many good remedies prouided and ordained for them as hereafter followeth But before we discourse of the foresayd remedies for the Pyles Blathers Figs Warts Tumors and their accidents we will first of all shew their causes and teach how the same may be cured for which the principallest is to obserue a good dyet in meate and drinke and such like Of the Dyet IT is sufficiently declared before that the greatest cause of these accidents is the heauie melancholick bloud which is mixt with the pure bloud and perisheth the same which all other members expell from them like as it were a poyson and so falleth downewards from the other bloud into the veines openeth them through his heate and maketh them bleed This is altogether caused of a bad digestion of the stomack and other members and of all such grosse meates whereof there can be none other ingendred but melancholick bloud the which must be altogether left off as Beanes Lentils and other Pottages Item Coleworts Chéese old Beefe Harts Hares Goats salted and smoked flesh sodden Wheate Rice vnleauened bread which bring much moysture with them Also all water Fowles Eeles and other Fish without scales féete heads and all entrailes of Beasts grosse Wine Must and Béere Item all things which burne the bloud as much Mustard Pepper Garlick Onions Léekes All things which be very cold do also increase melancholie as Melons Cucumbers and such like Amongst the medicins which are contrary for this disease are Coloquint Centorie Scammonie and chiefely Aloe very hurtfull for the Arsegut for it openeth the Pyles Euen as we haue recited what is hurtfull for this disease so will we also teach what manner of dyet might be commodious and profitable for the same The dwelling of this patient must be a warme and dry place which is close and toward the South But if the house be not of it selfe fit thereto then is it to be prepared for the same with fire and fumes yet is alwayes to be eschued things which be too hote and must
then must boxing cups be set vpon the shoulders vnpickt and taken off and on The like is also to be done for continuall vomits and to set a great cup vpon the Nauell to the end thereby to draw the matter downewards And in case that the sicke body can sléepe with these cups so fastened it is so much the better There is also often times to be holden before his nose Saunders Roses and such like things for to smell vnto them Also some do counsell to take for this scowring if it continue the stalks of Tamariske being scraped cleane and to powder them then put thereto as much Harts tong as these foresayd powders the quantitie of two handfuls powring then vpon it thrée pints of wine of which wine he is alwayes to drinke his first draught sitting at the table This wine is also especiall good for the Milt or Spléene If there befall swouning then must there be giuen to the sicke body two graines of Muske tempered in wine for this strengtheneth much the vitall spirits In like manner is Hen broth and Lambe broth good for him tempered with a little of the iuice of Quinces Let the patient also haue rosted Pullets cut in péeces vnder his nose for the smell thereof doth much comfort Also let him chew Frankinsence and swallow down the same treatable At the last temper togither fine Bolus and Camfer of each one scruple and temper them with old wine and drinke it it doth coole and strengthen the stomacke All that is hitherto rehearsed is to be vsed whilest the parbraking yet endureth But if it stay and the stomacke begin to retaine the meate then is the patient to drinke good old strong wine and compose himself to sléepe Trocisci de Olibano and also take of the Trociscos de Olibano the waight of halfe a dragme which is thus prepared Take fine Bolus and Frankinsence of each one ounce and a quarter Cucubes Cardamom of each two dragmes and a halfe Camfere Gallia muscata Cloues of each three quarters of an ounce make thereof Trociscos with old wine these are especiall good against parbraking Item take the iuice of sower Pomegranats as much as you please and when it hath stood one night and the cleare is powred off then séeth it to the thicknesse of hony When it is taken from the fire and whilest that it is hot put some Mints vnto it so let it coole and then take out the herbes againe This may be vsed warme or how one will and is called at the Apothecaries Rob de granatis After the same manner you may also make Rob of the iuice of Quinces Rob de granatis For this is also requisite the sirupe of Veriuice and of Mirtles But if so be that there cannot be gotten any of the foresayd things for the foresayd sirupes then take Wine Plantaine and Rose water Now for as much as in this our methode we are come to the Laske or flixe of the belly which is commonly caused through a weake stomacke and diseased Liuer therefore it is now requisite that we discourse of all other sorts of Lasks whatsoeuer but first of all we will make a generall discourse of them Of the Flixe Laske or scowring by stoole §. 13. FIrst it hapneth often in haile people who haue a plethoricke body and do eate and drinke much that they get a Laske which commeth not often vpon them continueth not long also not otherwise then of a strong nature who séeketh to vnburthen her of superfluities like as it commeth to passe that thereby the patient findeth great ease This scowring hath no néed of any remedie vnlesse it be caused of ouergreat weaknesse for the which the same counsell is to be vsed which is prescribed against the flixe of the belly Lienteria so that at this present there is nothing more to be written thereof If so be then that this scowring of the belly be taken for a disease then is it first to be vnderstood that the same is caused through many inward members of the body and also of diuers other causes like as shal be hereafter taught immediatly that the same cannot be ascribed to any one thing And for that we should not describe this kind of laske by peece meales here and there we will now here ascribe this flixe to the stomacke as is already expressed the which if it be no euident cause of this scowring yet notwithstanding it is a great helpe to the same we will then afterwards adde vnto it all that appertaineth vnto it as the constraint to the stoole and binding of the body and all that is good for it But first of all we must here rehearse certaine rules which are to be obserued for all sorts of lasks wherof the first is that no scowring or laske is to be stayed before the fourth day if so be the patient be able to suffer the same without extreme faintnesse Secondly when you wil euer vse astringent remedies then must the same be alwayes done before meate to the end that the meate which is taken after them might be stayed vntill it were digested Thirdly this is to be noted of all binding meates of Chestnuts such like Fourthly when the laske is of heate then are the remedies to be vsed which are cold of nature and for the scowring of cold contrary remedies And because that in the cold scowring the digestiue vertue is very feeble warme things are to be vsed according to the importance of the case Fiftly if so be that there do come a cough to this scowring then are all sowre things to be forborne and all those which bind much Sixtly it is very good for all lasks to force the body to sweating and to annoint it much with oyle of Cammomill and Dill thereby to draw out the matter and to open the pores Seuenthly cups are to be set vpon the belly and kept vpon it foure houres long Eightly he is to be restrained and kept from all Fruits except Chestnuts which may bind if they will Ninthly rest and sléepe are especiall good for all flixes so is also contrariwise bad great labour other motions of the body Tenthly when as in the red or bloudy flixe the vppermost guts are excoriated then is the remedy to be ministred in at the mouth if the lower guts be perished then must Clisters suppositories be ministred beneath Eleuenthly if the excoriation of the bowels be aboue and beneath then are the remedies to be vsed aboue and beneath And that we may come to the originall the learned do name thrée Species of flixes or lasks as namely Lienteriam Diarrhaeam vnder which is contained the fluxe of the Liuer and Dysenteriam but what difference is betwéene these laskes that shall in their proper description be declared First this is here alwayes to be noted that all laskes be moued of inward or outward causes as vnhealthy meates vnruly life eating of any venimous things also heate
them small togither make pils of them with the iuice of Plantaine when they be tempered with the sirupe of Mirtles then do they bind the more Item take Hypocistis blossomes of Pomegranates Butchers Broome Barberies Sorrell séede of each one dragme and a halfe Purslaine séede and Plantaine both parched of each one quarter of an ounce Dragon bloud worme-eaten Galles the iuice of Sloes yellow séedes of Roses of each one quarter of an ounce Henbane séede one scruple Opium two scruples and a halfe make pils thereof with the iuice of Plantaine and forme seauen of a dragme But note yet that they be very strong and that one must not vse many This following is more gentle Take Gum Masticke Frankinsence Amber of each halfe a dragme temper them with the sirupe of Roses vnto pils and take alwayes therof twice a day a little or much before meate according as the scowring is violent For this scowring is alwayes good all rost meate fryed Egs Rice and Lettice if it be with great heate Calues féete conserue of Rosser fruits Muske Peares before meales old conserue of Roses conserue of water Lillies Marmalade preserued Bayberies and also preserued Sloes The drinke for this patient must be stéeled water wherein Mirtle séede is decocted also Harts tong Wine drunken warme These Sirupes following are very good as namely sirupe of Mirtles dried Roses Mints also hony of Roses for it hath a mild binding and an astringent vertue like as veriuice hath also The smoke or reke of Frankinsence is also very good Milke put into Clisters when it is stéeled is commended for this purpose Note ye that all that we haue sufficiently written of before is also good for the red or bloudy flixe whereof we will shortly hereafter speake and discourse Of the scowring which proceedeth of the Liuer and Stomacke §. 16. IT commeth also verily to passe that the Liuer and the Stomacke do cause this scowring which is then very dangerous so that the dropsie called Tympanites is wont to follow it Therefore is an order made an ordained what one ought to obserue for this Wherein first it is néedefull that he forbeare all meates and drinks which be laxatiue or do in any wise molest the body as Spinage Béets Mallowes Mercurie well boyled Colewoorts and such like He must also be restrained from new wines and them that be not very old Likewise also of all sharpe salt and sower things as Radishes Onions Garlicke hard meates vnleauened bread and that which is not well baked And he must eschue fruits and specially them that be laxatiue as Figs Grapes Prunes and such like In fine for this sicknesse the patient is to be kept very sober in eating and drinking and to féede onely vpon that which is light of digestion He must also abstaine from all violent motions and that chiefly after meate from venerie much watching and anger All his meates be they soddē or rosted must be drest with Deeres sewet Secondly he must beware of many kindes of meates especially against night Thirdly before euery meale he must eate a rosted Quince peare or foure or fiue Medlars Fourthly Lentils are very haile meate for him if they be drest after this maner Let them first séeth a little in vineger after that boyle them with two parts of water and one part of vineger Fiftly euery euening he is to take three of these pils ensuing Take parched Dragagant and Gum of each one dragme Butchers Broome séede Mirtle séede Acorne cups burnt Iuorie Squinant Roses Cypers rootes of each two scruples whereof make pils with the iuice of Daisies before noone He is to vse this confection ensuing Take Marmalade without spices thrée ounces prepared Coriander and Mastick of each one dragme temper them with the iuice of Quinces and vse each time halfe an ounce or more Also once euery eight dayes take two of these pils Take Trociscos de Spodio one quarter of an ounce parched Rubarbe halfe a dragme burnt Iuorie and parched Dragagant of each one scruple Hares rennet or the rennet of a yong Goate or Kid one dragme and a halfe make pils thereof and vse them as all the rest This plaister also following is to be made and worne vpon the nauell Take two ounces of Rosin Cypers nuts one dragme a halfe Plantaine séede the iuice of Sloes burnt Iuorie Roses Irō drosse that is prepared of each one dragme Mace two scruples but the Rosin must be boyled in red vineger When it is sufficiently sodden and almost cold then temper all the foresayd Species with it spread of it vpon a péece of leather the quantitie of a quarter of a yard foure square and lay this plaister vpon the nauel downwards As often as the patient goeth to stoole he is to fume his fundament with this powder ensuing Take Colophonia Gallia Muscata and red Styrax of each halfe a dragme Lignum Aloes one dragme red Corall burnt Iuorie Sandaraca of each two scruples powne them all togither and temper them all togither Afterwards strew some of it vpon hot coales It is also good aduise that there be alwayes boyled in his meate as much Comfrey as the bignesse of a great finger Lastly he must continually weare this bag ensuing vpon his stomacke Take Mirtle séede prepared Coriander Marierom and Nep of each one handfull Mace halfe an ounce Masticke Gallia Muscata red Styrax red Corall and Sandaraca of each one quarter of an ounce Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe parched Comin half an ounce temper them vse it as aforesayd Thus far haue we spoken of this Scowring and of both the causes of it as of the stomacke and of the liuer and also how they both do come togither The third cause of this Diarrhaea is the obstruction of the small veines and are called of the Grecians Mesenterion or Mesaraeon for that as the stomacke and the entrailes haue done their duties so if these veines do not sucke out the nourishment then doth nature expel the meate in manner of a thicke pap with paine in the right side and in the bowels and so out of the body especially if one haue eaten much grosse and swéete meate before Also this scowring may be well caused of an impostume which might be about the small veines or about the vpper guts at which time is commonly perceiued an ague heate and paine which obstruction doth also procéede for the most part of grosse and tough humours For this disease vomiting is one of the best remedies Also this sirupe following is to be vsed Take the rootes of Smallage Parsley Butchers broome Sperage grasse and Cicorie of each one dragme the séedes of Smallage and of Parsley Comin and Fennell of each one ounce let this séeth well togither and wring it out and to this Colature adde halfe a pint of hony and boyle it againe and clarifie it as behoueth Giue thereof to the patient euery morning foure or fiue ounces Also the séedes of Smallage Ameos and Parsley
decocted in wine may be vsed for this being giuen the patient to drinke in like manner parched Rubarbe with wine or Endiue water This patient shall also oftentimes but at each time eate a little take euer after it some penetrating things as Diacalaminthum one dragme and a halfe before meate and halfe a dragme after meate His drinke must be likewise old white wine Also to take otherwhiles some Treacle is very commodious It is also very good that the belly be strōgly rubbed before and after noone with a rough cloth The fourth cause of this laske procéedeth from the milt the which may be knowen hereby to wit when his excrements are a blacke and darke gray if the paine be in the left side if the patient be melancholicke quiet and tractable When the matter is very sharpe and blackish then is there great danger with it But if it happen in the end of a quartaine ague or of any other sicknesse then doth it bring ease with it and is a signe of health What is fit for this you may sée hereafter where we shall discourse of the Milt The fift cause procéedeth from the braines which may be discerned by the paine of the head also by the rheume and by the slime of the mouth which after sléepe runneth out of the same is also expelled by stoole These diseases are to be cured like as all other rheumaticke diseases whereof you finde sufficient discourse in the second Part the 12. Chapter and 2. § But it is especially commended that parched Melilot shall be layd vpon the forehead Otherwhiles a bag with Cammomill and Roses and so to gouerne himselfe as abouesayd in the second cause of the stomacke The last cause is windinesse which puffeth vp the stomacke spoyleth digestion and prouoketh a scowring like as hereafter shal be taught in the description of windinesse of the stomack It is also counselled to euery such patient like as is often shewed before that he must be very sober in eating and drinking yea he must suffer hunger as much as is possible and that he exercise himselfe well before meales and vse the Confection Diacyminum or Diacalamintha which do strengthen his stomacke and let him gouerne himselfe in all things else as hath bene sayd before in Lienteria Of the Laske Dysenteria called the red Flixe §. 17. THis name Dysenteria is of the Grecians so called being an vlceration or excoriation of the Entrailes and is thus described Dysenteria is a paine of the Entrailes which enflameth fretteth and excoriateth the same so that with the matter of the scowring bloud is auoyded and it causeth much gnawing which maketh the patient to go often to the stoole Or thus Dysenteria is a scowring with an exulceration of the bowels which is increased through outward causes as heate cold drinke hard meate The causes of this noysome scowring are sharpe humors which passe through the bowels and there exulcerate the same fret take away their fatnes Item by the taking of too sharpe medicines as Diagridion Esula and Néesing woort or when too much of these hath bene taken at once Also this scowring is occasioned when the body is ouercharged with Cholera Melancholia or Phlegma of which superfluities if the expulsiue vertue be strong nature séeketh to vnburthen her selfe Likewise also when the meate in the stomacke or humours in the veines do putrifie In like manner also of great and long alteration of the ayre be it in hote ayre dry ayre or when these méete togither like as dry ayre it selfe is wont to cause Choleram Item of the vse of such fruits which do quickly putrifie therefore it is not commendable and especially that children should eate the same The signes of this red scouring or bloudy Flixe are these which do not come suddainly vpon one also before it getteth the masterie it prouoketh paine and gripings in the bowels and also round about the stomacke This scouring likewise burneth and pricketh sore whereupon doth first follow the scraping of the bowels mixed with a little bloud vntill it corrode somewhat deeper into the bowels then is the paine felt most aboue the Nauell and if so be that the disease be in the great guts then is the paine felt most vnder the Nauell Also the scraping of the lowermost guts are much fatter then of the vppermost and it doth come also in greater abundance with many moe such like demonstrations But there be discribed two sorts of Dysenteria wherof the first is here before discouered The second hath the name of Dysenteria vniustly by reason that it without scraping of the bowels and very sodainly falleth vpon one with much bloud This with good right is to be called rather an Hepaticall Flixe than Dysenteria but we will here first of all write of the right Dysenteria and afterwards of the Flixe of the liuer If we desire to preuent this red Flixe or Dysenteria then is the same to be done both through outward and also inward meanes But first we will shew what is best to be vsed inwardly for it wherefore you are first to keepe in your memory the common rules which haue bin rehearsed before in the Laske Lienteria to wit that all those things wherewith you will stay this scouring be alwayes ministred before meates for that after meate these binding medicines cause a sicke body to scoure the more For this scowring or red Flixe all expert Phisitions do vse commonly at the first parched Mirobalanes and chiefly the yellow stéeped in Plantaine water and put also vnto it parched Rubarb beaten to powder But the same must not be infused but in substance and powder like as you haue séene before in some potions for the scowring of Cholera Item take parched seedes of Fleawoort two ounces and a halfe séedes of Plantaine one ounce and a quarter Gum fine Bolus of each thrée dragmes in the iuice of Quinces defecate Or take dried Quinces beate them to powder and giue thereof one dragme and a halfe with Plantaine water once or twice a day wherewith you may also temper parched Nutmegs and the séedes of Plantaine Item take parched Gum one ounce sealed earth three quarters of an ounce fine Bolus halfe an ounce make powder thereof and giue of it one dragme and a halfe at once Item take Shepheards purse S. Iohns woort and Penniroyall of each a like quantitie make a powder of it and giue two dragmes thereof at once in the morning early with a new layd eg this stayeth the scouring euidently Burnt Harts horne washt in Rose water or Plantaine water a dragme or a dragme and a halfe taken with wine wherein a little Dragagant is dissolued is a very expert medicine if it be takē twice a day The like also of one dragme of the rennet of a yong Hare taken with wine Another Take broad Plantaine séede and Colombine séede both parched and beaten to powder of each a like quantitie and giue each time thereof two scruples
to make a powder then prepare this following Take Ginger halfe an ounce Annis one quarter of an ounce prepared Coriander one ounce and a halfe Mace Galingale Cucubes and Nutmegs of each one dragme This being beaten all small then put as much Sugar vnto it as you please This powder consumeth all wind and hindreth also the generation of other You haue also herebefore certaine grosse powders for the stomacke which be also very good In like manner do Annis Fennell seede Caraway and Comin either bare or confected and taken before meate consume all paine in the guts The sirupe of Wormwood expelleth also winds For this are also very conuenient clisters if they be made of such things as do cause wind to auoide as this following Take Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues Bearefoote and Béets of each one handfull Centorie Rapontica Calmus white Mints Marioram Southernwood Rue and Hyssop of each halfe a handfull Séeth them all together in sufficient water and take fifteene or sixtéene ounces thereof hony of Roses and oyle of Rue of each thrée ounces Hiera Picra one ounce Benedicta laxatiua halfe an ounce then temper them all together Yet this clister is to be diminished or augmented according to the abilitie of the sicke person Suppositories may also be vsed for this which are thus to be made Take Rue and Comin or Caraway of each one handfull Swines bread one roote and a halfe Boreas one dragme clarified Hony thrée ounces make Suppositories thereof Another Take Beuercod Hony Oxe gall and oyle of Violets of each a like quantitie let them séeth somewhat thicke afterwards wet a suppositorie in it bounden at a thréed and vse it as before it consumeth wind excéedingly and purgeth very much Potions and such like TAke the rootes of Smallage of Fennell and of Parsly of each two ounces Raisins the stones taken out two ounces and a halfe ten or twelue fat Figs twentie or foure and twenty Iuiubes Séeth them all together in two quarts of Water euen to the halfe and take thereof thrée or foure ounces tempered with the foresaid confection The common people and husbandmen do commonly vse slight things which they can best get amongst which may this potion following be reckoned Take fresh Cow dung about halfe an ounce temper it with good wine and wring it thorough a cloth and then drinke thereof it is much commended Other do ascribe this to sheepes dung also Chickwéede is commended for the same boyled in water and so drunken Likewise also Wormwood wine or Wormwood sodden in water also Meade being drunken is very good for this paine Wine measurably drunken driueth not only the wind out of the bowels but also out of all parts of the bodie The wines of Harts toung and Marioram gentle are also much commended for these paines in the guts and mo other aromaticall wines as of Galingall Nutmegs and Cloues Item take Species Iustini one dragme and drinke the same twice a wéeke with one ounce of Rosewater it is also good against the grauell Master Tristrams Water is also good against all paines in the guts likewise is also commended one dragme of Beuercod drunken with one ounce of Mellicraton In the meane time may outward things also be vsed for this one may take the herbes the séede and other ingrediences whereof Clisters haue bene made wring them out hard stampe them and temper them with butter with Barrowes grease and oyle of Cammomill vnto a plaister and so lay it warme ouer the belly it is very good But if one will lay any thing vpon the maladie then must the belly be warmed well before with warme cloths for this may be made also the foresaid bags of Millet and Salt or take vnbeaten Millet Oates and Fennell or Bran which you can get parch them in a panne and apply it warme vpon the paine Item Take parched Linséede sixe ounces parched Comin one ounce Bran halfe a handfull beate them all grosse and make a bag thereof then let it séeth in water or wine a good space afterwards wring it out and lay it very warme vpon it Item take the oyle of Scorpions oyle of bitter Almonds and Turpentine of each sixe ounces let them melt all by the fire afterwards temper halfe a dragme of Saffron amongst it Lastly dippe shéeps wooll in it and lay it warme vpon the griefe or take Pellitorie and powned Linseede of each one handfull powre two ounces of the oyle of Scorpions vnto it and let them be made hote together afterwards put a little Saffron vnto it and vse it as before Warme bread laid vpon the belly or the stomack asswageth the paine and is good against the suffocation of the mother or wombe Another Take Hony Butter Salt and Vineger of each a like quantitie let them séeth all together a good while vntill it begin to be somewhat tough then spread it on a cloth and bind it warme vpon the belly Item take wild Thyme Marioram Caraway leaues Cammomill Wormewood and Sage which you will cut it small and put it into a bag then make it moist with wine or water and let it warme in a pan and vse it as before Or Cow dung and Butter of each a like much temper amongst it halfe so much beaten Comin Wolfs dung is also very good for this vse a plaister being made of it For this is also good the plaister of Bayberries which is described in the eleuenth Chapter and the 5. § Item another salue also which is described in the third Part in the tenth Chapter and the 5. § Take Comin Caraway c. Or prepare this following Take Goose grease and oyle of Scorpions of each thrée ounces Saffron one scruple Waxe as much as suffiseth These oyles following are also to be vsed for this disease viz. oyle of Lillies of Cammomil of Rue of Dill of bitter Almonds of Spike of Bayberries and Elecampane rootes of Peniroyall and such like oyles which be warme of nature and chiefly if Ameos and Masticke be boyled in them The bathing and fomenting is also very profitable for this sicknesse which may be made as hereafter followeth and may be prepared according as the cause requireth The bathes of swéete waters are very good to asswage the paine and they be especially commended after the cholick and after purging and that fasting After bathing is some Troacle or Mithridate to be vsed and taken and to sweate after it For this be also good Sulphurie bathes which be warme by nature Now will we declare all the foresaid things that expell wind and consume it and especially those which may be vsed for Bathes and Fomentations viz. Rue Dill Rosemarie Fennell Chamedryos and field Cypers Amongst the seedes Annis Fennell Comin Caraway séedes of Rue Ameos and Dil séed Note ye that the patient must sit no déeper than to the breast in this bath and also may not tarrie long therein that he fall into no swound Otherwise the bath is very profitable for it openeth
such like be decocted And if so be that the place must be incarnated then take Aloe Mirrhe Frankinsence Sarcocolla Dragon blood litharge of Gold and prepared Tutia of each a like quantitie make then a salue thereof with Waxe and oyle of Roses and vse it according as oportunitie serueth And as before hath bene said cooling plaisters are to be vsed for it and to take any of the things following viz. Roses Lentils blossomes and péeles of Pomegranates the muscilage of Fleawort Nightshade Tassel fresh sliced Gourds and Saunders all these are to be tempered with barly meale and sodden to a plaister and then to be layd ouer the priuities Afterwards in the beginning of the disease the iuice of broade Plantaine is to be iniected oftentimes into the Matrix And to the end the Matrix inwardly may be perfectly mundified prepare this water following Take Gals Lentils Pomegranate blossomes Butchers broome seeds Roses and Sanders of each a like quantitie séeth them in water and iniect the decoction into the place Or take Hyssope Wormewood hony of Roses séeth the same in white wine and milke and vse it as is aforesaid When the Matrix is cleansed from all vncleannesse then is this bath to be vsed for to heale and to cause the flesh to grow Take Centorie sixe ounces Ireas Comfrey Cassie rootes and Agrimonie of each thrée handfuls Sarcocolla Gum Dragon blood Mumia Hypocistis and Frankinsence of each one dragme séeth them all together in sufficient water vnto the halfe then put thereto prepared refuse of Iron one ounce and a quarter then let it séeth awhile and waxe colde that it may be vsed for a bath Of all the former things may plaisters salues and pessaries be made for they are to that intent very méet and profitable Or if you will haue a meane and milder bath then take Mallowes Violet leaues Melilot Plantaine Lentils Fenegréeke and Colewort buds and make a bath of it In like sort sodden Allume is auailable for this purpose for this bath is generally commended of all learned men But when the ague and the most paine is somewhat past yet the impostume remaineth still which may be perceiued when the ague returneth and the paine and hardnesse betweene the nauell and the priuities continueth then are mollifying things to be vsed as these pessaries following Take Duckes grease the marrow of Harts bones Neates feet oyle Bdellium Saffron and yolkes of rosted egges of each a like quantitie dissolue them together in wine and temper therewith the bottome of oile of Lilles then dip a taint of linnen often therein and put it into the place it swageth the paine and allayeth the same But of this hardnesse we shall shortly hereafter speake and discourse somewhat more at large But if this impostume be caused through cold then doth the same happen through abundance of much Phlegma in the body and that through a continuall vse of meate and drinke whereby the Phlegma is augmented whereby such like humors do fall downe to that place and there do putrifie and rankle This impostume doth appeare with a swelling aboue the priuities neare the nauel and that with a continuall ach and yet no great paine the woman is sleepie and very lither and these signes be the more certaine if the time of the yéere and the age of the patient do agrée with them For this neither cold nor repelling remedies are méete but maturatiues and such as expell Phlegma sobrietie plaisters of méetly warme discussiue and ripening séedes laying on of Cammomil of Melilot Sauine Marierom Mugwort Linséede Fenegreeke admixed with the foresaid oiles and greases and they may also be sodden iniected Likewise for this are méet salues and plaisters which do warme moisten and ripen wherof we haue before admonished and shal againe hereafter The third manner of the impostumation of the Mother is such a bad and hard disease and is much worse than any of the former especially when it is confirmed and waxen old for then it is not to be curred but at last there commeth the canker of it whereof we shall immediatly hereafter speake and discourse at large But to do some ease for it is the place to be annointed with warme and maturatiue oiles marrows and greases of beasts and the decoction of Linseed of Fenegréeke séed and oile of Cammomill of Dill or of Lillies to be iniected Also they are to weare plaisters de Bdellio of liquid Storax and of Ammoniacum thereon and to vse these fomentations and bathes following Take the rootes of Hollihocke two ounces Cammomil Melilot Mallowes Violet leaues Linséed and Fenegréeke séed of each one ounce let them séeth well in water and of these decocted herbes shall you make plaisters with some of the foresaid greases viz. with swines grease hens and duckes grease c. Vse also this salue following Take oile of Lillies and of Elderne cony fat the fat of Quailes Neates féete oyle and oyle of Harts féete oyle of swéet Almonds and Butter of each one ounce annoint therewith the neck of the mother within and without then annoint therwith a pessary of cotton and put it therin And if so be the same do not content thée then looke into the eleuenth chapter the 29. and 30. § of the impostumes in the stomacke Item of the impostume in the liuer the 12. chapter and 7. § and 14. chapt and 2. § of the impostume of the milt where you shall find a sufficient direction for it Of the canker and vlcer of the wombe or Matrix §. 13. WHat the difference is betweene the impostume and vlcer is before in the eleuenth Chapter and nine and twentith § sufficiently declared of the impostume of the stomacke But the vlcers of the Matrix be very noisome and perillous as we haue before alleaged and so qualified that very easily they may come vnto an incurable canker for this vlcer and the canker haue a great communion one with another yet this difference is betwéene them that where the canker is there must also be an vlcer but not euery impostume the canker Thus may vlcers be holpen with the things which be ordained for the clefts of the Arsegut and of the womans places where to the contrary the canker of this place is estéemed by all learned Phisitions for to be incurable The causes of these vlcers and canker of the Matrix may be as we haue already shewed of the vlceration in the nostrils in the first part of wounds of thrusts of blowes of fals of some vncleane impostume of some sharpe humors which do excoriate and exulcerate the Matrix or the necke of the same within The canker is commonly caused through melancholicke blood which maketh a hard impostume and beginneth first onely of a small hardnesse as the bignesse of a pease or Beane and afterward increaseth the which at last filleth the veines adiacent also with melancholicke thicke and blacke bloud whereby it will be harder and greater from day to day
Iuniper of Nutmegs of Pepper and blew Floure deluce Item take a young Foxe make him cleane and chop his flesh very small afterwards distill out the water and put therein one dragme of small brused Camfer then put it into a glasse stopt well and so leaue it fiue daies in the earth where as Ants haue their abode Last of all annoint you therewith in a warme bath afterwards vse this salue following Take a yong Foxe made very cleane and burnt to ashes take therof the halfe and temper therewith one quarter of an ounce of bruised Camfere oyle of Balsam halfe an ounce Dogs grease two ounces and a halfe Snakes grease one dragme and a halfe melt these salues all together and annoint you therewith after bathing Both of these foresaid salues are to be vsed against lamenesse through heate and cold for that they be of a temperate nature and of the same nature is this also ensuing Take Rice as much as you will steepe it a day and a night in a sufficient quantitie of Goats milke afterwards distill it like as all other waters This being done distill it ouer againe and make oftentimes the lame members moist in it Of the extenuated or withered members especially §. 3. FOr as much then as we be entred into this matter therefore will we not discourse of the same seuerally Albeit this extenuation of the members may rather be named of their occasions then of the Sciatica alone notwithstanding we wil not here discourse of the consumption Hectica Apoplexia or of the Pockes but onely of the extenuation of some parts whether it be of the Sciatica or of any other cause whatsoeuer for which these salues following be good Take wild Cats grease Harts sewet Beares grease Swines grease the marrow of Neates feete Hony Dogs grease and Badgers grease of each a like quantitie séethe all together with wine vntil the same be throughly wasted afterwards powre it thorough a cloth and annoint the withered limmes with it Item take Beuercod one ounce long Pepper one quarter of an ounce oyle of Waxe of Cammomill and of Beuercod of each halfe an ounce Waxe one ounce make a salue thereof Or take Sage Mallowes Nettles with the rootes Cammomill and sprigs of Iuniper of each one handfull fresh Butter and Dogs grease of each three ounces chop the herbes and séeth them to grout that one may wring them thorough a course cloth then put the greases vnto it and let it séeth againe together vnto a salue When as now you will vse the same then are you first to go vnto a sweat bath and afterwards your selfe to be annointed before a warme fornace or fire vpon the place of the disease twice a day but you are to vse the sweate bath but thrice a weeke and do this the space of fourtéene dayes This foresaid salue is good for all scabbines The salue Dialthaea is fit for this same disease wherof there be foure kinds described in the third Part the fourtéenth Chapter and 4. § This ensuing is also very requisite Take liuing Crabs and Earthwormes of each a like quantitie dry them in an ouen and then stamp them to powder afterwards temper them with as much Swines grease and make a salue thereof For this are also good two precious Bâ—lsam oyles whereof the one is described in the second Part the sixt Chapter and 4. § and the other in the eight Part beginning Take Myrrha elected c. Item there is yet more good for this oyle of Tyles and oyle of sweet Almonds This ensuing is also accompted for sure and is many times proued Take Earthwoormes put them in an earthen pot stopt with a couer on the top that the Ants may runne in and out then set it so in the earth where the Ants abide the space of three or foure dayes and there will ingender a water of it with this water annoint the withered limmes very warme this should be certaine and approued In case also that the withered members be oftentimes rubbed with distilled Calues-gather water which is described before then shall one find amendement But if this lamenesse and extenuation be caused through heate which happeneth seldome then haue you a bath for it which shall be prescribed against the Podagra Item the salue also of Earthwoormes of Cassy and other things moe be meete for this intent therefore it is néedles to write here any further of it but this foot water following is especially ordained for it Take Feuerfew Stechados and Cowslips of each one handfull and a halfe the rootes of Eringus and Mallowes of each two handfuls Mather Hartwoort of each one handfull and a halfe Peucedanum halfe a handfull cut them all grosse and let them séeth together afterwards wash the féete and the lame hands with it You may also vse a sweate bath for that strengtheneth the lame ioynts very much Of the hardnesse of the Ioynts §. 4. THere cometh sometimes also a hard swelling in the ioynts whereby they lose their motion and bowing for which these plaisters ensuing made hard or soft are to be vsed Take the grounds of the oyle of Violets which lye beneath in the pot two ounces two ounces of the oyle of Lillies oyle of white Camelina and oyle of swéet Almonds of each one ounce and a halfe Saffron one scruple Badgers grease one ounce white Waxe one quarter of an ounce Rosin as much as will suffise Item Take the plaister of Oxycroceum Sagapenum Opopanacum and Ammoniacum of each halfe a dragme Rosin thrée quarters of an ounce white Waxe thrée drag the gums are to be dissolued in sharpe Vineger then put the plaister Waxe and Rosin vnto it If there be any hard byles with it then take Ammoniacum one ounce and a halfe Pieretrum and Euphorbium of each one dragme Saltpeter halfe a dragme make a plaister thereof with Waxe and Rosin Herewith wil we now conclude the third sort of the gout and come to the fourth sort which is the chiefest The eight Chapter Of the Gout or Podagra in the Feet THe fourth sort of the Gout as we haue admonished at the first is the wel knowne Gout of the feet Podagra in which we also containe the Gout of the hands Chiragra for that vnder these two sorts of Gouts there is no great difference but that the one doth manifest it selfe in the hands the other in the féete and this kind of Gout is thus described Podagra is a defluxion which very painefully assaileth the sinewes with heate and cold wherewith also the parts adiacent the ioynts and the legs be plagued with swelling and paine As much as concerneth the name of this disease which the Latinists haue taken from the Grecians this name Podagra is nougth else but a snare wherewith birds be catched by their séete and therefore is this disease of the Gout likened vnto this instrument for that it doth catch men by the féete and holdeth them caught therewith The Poets do also call this
the healing of Elephantiasis than to any of the other kinds neuerthelesse the same is méete to heale all Species of Leprosies An order of diet §. 2. FOrasmuch as melancholy is of a drie and colde nature therefore must to the contrary warme and moist things be vsed for to mitigate the matter according as the humor is waightie meane little and venemous First then concerning the ayre the patient is to kéepe himselfe in a méetely warme and moist ayre and that especially about rockes that are lying towards the East the South or towards the North and also about some springing fountaines But if the wind commeth to blow ouer some odoriferous trées or flowers then is it the better but if one cannot get such an aire and that the time of the yeare be very hot then sprinkle the chamber with fresh water wherein Violets Waterlillies and Lettice be decocted Also lay these Trociskes insuing vpon hote coales therewith for to fume the chamber Take Violets and waterlillies of each one ounce the séeds of Lettice of Endiue and of small Endiue of each halfe an ounce the seeds of Melons of Pompeons of Gourds and of Cucumbers all together péeled of each one dragme and a halfe Starch halfe an ounce Camfer one dragme make Trocisks thereof with the iuice of Lettice each about halfe an ounce in waight When the same be dried then powne them to powder and let the patient therewith fume his dwelling viz. in the morning at noone and in the euening Although now his dwellings were situated towards the North and towards cold winds yet is this fumigation very requisite for him but the leaues of apple trées or of swéet Pomgranats or of Almonds or such like decocted amongst them are to be put vnto it also all his linnen and especially his shirts are to be washed with the same water In like maner also are his clothes to be fumed Further this bag insuing is to be prepared for to smell vnto it Take sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one quarter of an ounce the flowers of Burrage of Buglosse of Basill of each one dragme and a halfe Violets and Waterlillies of each one quarter of an ounce Camfer halfe a scruple wild Vine leaues Broome flowers and Lettice séed of each thrée quarters of an ounce powne each alone temper them very well one amongst another and then bind it in a fine cloth He must also beware of all such clothes as do wring the head and the breast too hard or be too narrow The hands and the féete are in sommer with linnen and in winter with good warme shéepes pelts to be kept warme and also the head preserued from all cold Concerning his meate it should be very good that all his bread were kneaded with water of Purslaine of Lettice of Endiue or with some such like waters a little salted but meetly baked and not eaten before it be two dayes old All his flesh must be light for to be digested as namely Pullets field fowles fat Duckes Partridges Phesants Finches wood Pigeons and such like Amongst all other flesh is good for him the flesh of yong Goates Lambs Calues yong swine of yong Muttons Harts and especially of yong Conies yong house doues and Hares shal he not eate because that the melancholicke humors by them are ingendred All riuer fish which is not slimie is very good for him rather sodden than rosted All fruit that is sweete as Cherries Cresses hasell nuts Almonds Muscadell grapes and other sweete Grapes shall not onely be permitted but much rather be aduised for to vse them In like manner fresh Figs and water drunken vpon it Peaches sweete Apples and swéete Pomegranates are very good in this sicknesse but all sower fruite is to be forborne for that vineger and all whatsoeuer is sower doth harme much the melancholicke persons Walnuts Chestnuts Quinces Seruices and such must he forbeare The decoction of red and white pease and these gréene herbes viz. Spinage Lettice Beetes Endiue and Purslaine be very good for him and especially if some Fennell be chopt amongst them Item ripe Melons because they coole and moisten are not ill for him Milke is also for this sicknesse not discommended All hot spice as Pepper Cinnamome Galingall and Ginger are hurtfull vnto him for that the matter thereby is the more burnt But for to preuent the consumption this powder following is to be prepared Take Saffron one dragme Cinnamom two dragmes Mace thrée dragmes the séed of Violets of water lillies of Sorrell and of Endiue red and white Coral red and white Saunders of each one dragme powne each alone and temper them together Item he may also vse Hens grease Duckes grease Calues sewet Mutton sewet if it be not much salted for all these sewets be much better in this sicknesse than butter Léekes Garlicke Siues and Radishes are to be refrained or at leastwise vsed very seldome In like maner also salted fish salted flesh and such like The stomacke the liuer the heart and chiefly the spléene of what beasts soeuer they be is he not to eate howbeit the braines of beasts being sodden are not ill As concerning his drinke he is to beware drinking of all kind of red thicke wine and also of all white wine which is strong and ascendeth or climeth into the head but a mild white and swéete wine which is not strong And if this kind of wine cannot be had then is his wine to be tempered with good well water or fountaine water When it is cold weather then may he vse Hony water which from twentie quarts of water and one quart of Honie is decocted vnto the fourth part When the Grapes be ripe in the forepart of winter then is alwayes this wine following to be prepared Take one hundred quarts and a halfe or two hundred quarts of sweete Must and stéepe therein twelue ounces of gréene small Endiue cut very smal Elecampane roots eightéene ounces the seede of Docke and of Sorrell of each one ounce then put it all together in wine and let the wine stand ouer a yeare and be very cléere If the wine be now too strong then temper in the drinking good well water with it or let it séeth together Of this wine is he to drinke all the whole winter euen to the end of March but from the moneth of March vntill the end of the moneth of September then take Must and fountaine water of each one hundred quarts Liuerwort water Cresses and garden Cresses of each sixe ounces gréene Citron leaues twelue ounces cut them very small and let it séeth all together When this potion is cleansed then drinke it as before The patient is also to sée to it that he eate not without hunger nor drinke without thirst and and especially if his stomacke be not well framed To the contrary he is not to fast any longer than till he féeleth that the meate in his stomacke be cleane spent Many dishes or messes be not good for him
Parchment boyled to Lime and laid vpon it are also very forcible for to staunch bloud Burne a hat to ashes and strew it into the wound Dryed swines dung powned to powder doth also staunch bloud Item take Egshels and lay it so long in strong Vineger to stéepe vntill that they be very soft and then let them be hard againe afterwards powne them small and vse them as the other Mans haire also burnt and beaten to powder stauncheth much the bleeding at the nose and all other manner of bléeding The iuice of Shepheards purse stauncheth and cooleth all hote bloud In May are you to take Comfrey with the leaues and shred it small this being done distill it like other water and drop in the wound The same do the Chirurgians ascribe to Maiden milke which is in the first part the fift chapter and 1. § described Item for to staunch the bloud at the nose hold vpon the forehead a cold flint stone bloud stone Calcedonie or Carnoyle stones or put in his hand the rootes of Corne roses a man is to hang his priuities in strong vineger or a cloth wet therein and laid thereon the bléeding will cease immediatly For to staunch the bloud you may also looke into these places following as of the bléeding of the Eares in the first part the 9. chapter and 4. § of the bléeding of the gums in the first part the 17. chapter and 7. § Item of spetting of bloud in the second part 5. Chapter and 11. § to staunch the bléeding of the Hemorrhoides in the third part the 9. chapter and 4. § of pissing bloud in the third part the 16. chapter and 11. § and of womens tearmes in the 3. part the 19. chapter and 3. § Of the clotted bloud in the body §. 2. IF so be that a wounded man or one that hath taken a fall hapned to bléed inward then are all meanes to be sought to expell the same with all spéede for otherwise it must inwardly corrupt and putrifie whereby very perillous agues and other deadly diseases might ingender whereof in the second part the fift chapter and 17. § of the spetting bloud is sufficiently written The common people do aduise that in this disease one is to drinke his owne vrine whereby the clotted bloud should be expelled The same doth also the wine of Harts toung and all other vulnerall potions which hereafter shall be described This plaister following is much commended Take Goates milke and Honie as much as you please let it be very warme together and stir fine Bolus therein vntill it be a salue and bind that vpon it whereby the congealed and clotted bloud will be expelled Of the stitching of wounds §. 3. THis stitching of the wounds is committed to the Chirurgians charge according to the importance of the cause but I will onely adde this vnto it and speake of those things that do heale the wounds together without stitching Take Masticke and Dragonbloud of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence one drag Mill dust and Beane meale of each one ounce and a halfe make them all to powder and temper them with the brayed whites of Egs and Rose water vnto a pap Afterwards spread it vpon two long clouts which be somewhat strong and that are as long as the wound is lay one vpon each side of the wound vpon the whole flesh this being dry then few the wound so close together as you please the néedle not going thorough the skin but thorough the clouts onely The golden salue is also much commended called Vnguentum Aureum Mesuae which is made thus Take yellow Waxe 3. ounc Sallad oile 12. ounc Turpentine one ounce Rofin Colofonie of each one quarter of an ounce Frankinsence Mastick of ech half an ounce SaffroÌ„ a drag let the Waxe Turpentine and oyle melt together and afterwards put the Rosen vnto it and when it beginneth to be cold then temper amongst it the Masticke Frankinsence and Saffron this ioyneth the wounds together and healeth them In the first Part the 7. chap. and 10. § there haue you a water described beginning thus Take Litharge of siluer c. which is very much renowned for this purpose In like sort M. Tristrams water and other golden waters with foure kinds of Balmes which are to be found in the last part Of fresh wounds §. 4. THese forementioned things be verily the chiefest which may be vsed without any delay for all fresh wounds When as now the bloud is staunched and all finished that is néedfull to be done then are these things ensuing coÌ„mended highly First M. Tristrams water is thought meete to heale all fresh wounds which may also be done with all golden waters whether it be that one take them inward or lay them outwardly vpon them The oyle of Tyles should not onely heale but also preserue the wounds froÌ„ all putrified flesh this is also ascribed to the oyle of Linnen The oyle of S. Iohns wort is also much commended and the oyle of Roses for that they haue an astringent vertue and efficacie Likewise the oyle of Spike and oyle of Lead It is also streightly commaunded that all new wounds shall be washed with Wormwood or with Rosemarie for that both these keep the fresh wounds cleane and faire from all putrifaction and are also healing But if any one be but a little wounded so that it be not néedfull to go to a Chirurgian with it then vse this salue following Take Turpentine which is thrée times washed in wine and stirre the yolke of an egge amongst it Barly meale one quarter of an ounce Saffron 5. grains temper them together This salue is good for all paine although it be also in a finewie part it maketh flesh spéedily to grow It is also not vnlike to Vnguento Mundificatiuo This plaister following will heale the wound in 20. daies without matter and without paine Take Waxe half an ounce white Coral 3. drag Colofonia Momy of each 7. drag Myrrhe 2. drag Camfere Loadstone of each half a drag oyle of Egs as much as is néedful for to mixe amongst al the rest This salue is thus to be vsed if any one be cut or thrust if this plaister be laid vpon it within â—4 howers then shall the wound within 20. daies without any corruption or any other addition be healed If so be that then it be a thrust that goeth quite thorough then is one to haue 4. plaisters in a readines and to lay 2. vpon it before noone and 2. at after noone without putting any thing else vnto it But if so be that it be but a wound then are two enough to the end that there remaine no clotted bloud within is this powder following to be giuen to the patient take Mommy one quarter of an ounce fine Bolus and Dragon bloud of each one dragm giue thereof to the patient euening and morning the quantitie of an Hasell nut Many kinds of vulnerall potions §. 5.
well out and let the decoction be very hote that the Waxe may melt in it then put the Rose wine with the Mastick also vnto it then séeth it to a plaister and worke it very strongly with the hands but you must first annoint them with Butter This foresaid plaister is not onely good for wounds but also for all vlcers Also you haue in the first Chapter and 15. § many things which are also very méete for to cure the wounds The Chirurgians haue yet a blacke plaister nivse which is made thus Take Frankinsence halfe an ounce Momie halfe an ounce Colofonie three quarters of an ounce oyle of Egs halfe an ounce Camfere one dragme white Waxe thrée dragmes melt the Waxe and the oyle of Egs with the powned Colofony and then temper the other things powned amongst it If it be too hard adde a little Turpentine vnto it Item take clarified Honie eight ounces fine meale two ounces Linseede oyle thrée ounces fine Bolus one ounce and a halfe make a plaster thereof and lay it vpon the wounds for this also is requisit the plaister Gratia Dei. Vulnerall Salues §. 7. THere be also many kinds of vulnerall Salues prepared Vnguentum Fuscum amongst which this ensuing is one of the principallest which is called Vnguentum Fuscum and is made thus Take oyle of Violets nine ounces Waxe two ounces Colofonie one ounce plume Allume thrée quarters of an ounce Pitch Sagapenum and Gummi Arabicum of each one ounce Mastick Galbanum Ammoniacum Bdellium Opopanacum Frankinsence and Turpentine of each thrée quarters of an ounce the oyle of Violets and Waxe are you to melt and to let it séeth thoroughly afterwards temper the Pitch and the Colofonie with the dissolued gums amongst it and when it beginneth to be cold then mixe the rest with it This salue is somewhat attractiue cleansing and also heaâ—ing This ensuing is said to heale all wounds Take Turpentine thrée ounces Waxe seuen dragmes oyle of Cammomill and oyle of Roses of each one ounce and quarter Frankinsence and Mastick of each one ounce Myrrhe and Rosin of each halfe an ounce good red wine and vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce let the gum be stéeped the space of 24. howers in the vineger and wine afterwards melt it vpon the fire with the waxe and oyle then let them séeth vntill the wine be almost all wasted when it beginneth to be cold then temper the rest amongst it and worke this salue with your hands yet the same being first annointed with oyle of Mastick This salue cleanseth all wounds it causeth the flesh to grow and healeth also very much Another which is also very good Take Louage Bistorta Sage Plantaine Yarrow Elecampane leaues wild Tansie Sanicle Cinquefoile wild Béets Mallowes Betonie Agrimony Verueine and Consolida saracenica of each a like quantitie shred all these herbes and then put sufficient swéet Butter vnto it afterwards stamp all these herbs together and let them so stand certaine dayes This being done make it afterwards warme and presse it out hard and then let it séeth so long together vntill the iuice of all the herbes be consumed then put vnto it Oxe â—et Harts suet Buckes suet the marrow of an Oxe Waxe Rosin and Turpentine of each a like quantitie according to the quantitie of the Butter and afterwards melt them all together when it beginneth to be cold then put vnto it Frankinsence Myrrhe Fenegréeke meale Allume Verdigrease and Masticke being beaten small all together then stirre it much together Another which is briefer Take Oxe suet Harts suet Waxe Turpentine Hony Loâ—age Violets Betony Agrimonie and wild Tansie of each as much as you please stamp the herbes and wring out the iuice afterwards séeth it in the suets vntill it be as thick as a salue Item take Rue Sulphur Chamaeleon niger of each a like quantitie and Oxe suet as much as will suffise for to make a salue For to draw matter out of the wounds §. 8. TAke Waxe one ounce and a halfe Rosin thrée quarters of an ounce Harts suet one ounce Turpentine and Sallad oyle as much as is néedfull for to make a salue or plaister or take clarified Honie and Turpentine washed with wine of each halfe an ounce oyle of Roses two ounces let it séeth together vntill it be thicke This cleanseth the wounds of all kind of matter and withstandeth all affluxions But if there be any heate with then take in stead of common Hony Honie of Roses but temper not the same with it vntill the other be first boyled Of the Taints §. 9. IF you thinke that the wounds will heale too soone then cut a drie roote of Gentian for a taint as big as you please and vse the same in stead of a taint for when the same waxeth moist then doth it swell and holdeth open the wounds as long as you please and it is very holesome of it selfe Annoint also the taint with the salue Apostolorum or Aegyptiacum which be both very méete to kéepe open all wounds and vlcers and also to cleanse them For foule flesh §. 10. NOw these two be contrarie of the first mentioned salue the plaister Gratia Dei letteth no foule flesh grow in the wound so also doth the oyle of Tyles Item take burnt Allume and fine Bolus of each a like quantitie and strew it therein Or take Verdigrease and Trociskes de Chelidonia of each a like quantitie make a powder thereof and strew it therein For this is also very meete burnt Harts bones two parts Salt one part and vse them as before Take the iuice of Narcissus of Plantaine and garden Mints and the iuice of Rue all these iuices or those that you can get may you take and vse Item burne Birchen rinds to powder and temper it with burnt Allume or vse each alone If so be that then there grow any wormes in the wounds then temper the iuice of Rue with Vineger and drop it therein To staunch the Synouia .. §. 11. TAke the white of an Egge and put a little Saffron amongst afterwards beate them well together with a péece of powned Allume the bignesse of a Hasell nut and lay it vpon the place whence the Synouia issueth Another Take the white of an Egge and mingle therewith Allume and Salt of each one dragme beaten small and then vse it as the other Item burne Lentils to powder and strew it therein afterwards take Turpentine and Sallad oyle let them heate together and then mixe therein the burnt Lentils vnto a salue or plaister or take Hempseede powne it vntill it yéeld oyle afterwards lay it in a fine cloth ouer the disease and bind it vnto it Item take the water of the greater Pimpernell and drop it therein Item take Strawberrie leaues and apply them vnto the place Or take the fruite of Roses drie them stampe them to powder and strew it therein When a wounded member is lamed §. 12. FOr this do the Chirurgians vse this
so linked one with another and befriended that one cannot continue without the other but death must presently insue Yea there is also none other thing that giueth shape in the beginning to all liuing bodies and afterwards causeth them to increase to the houre of death but this naturall heate which is borne with vs. This is the onely cause of all working and it is knowne that all that groweth and increaseth yea also all herbes and plants wust haue their nourishment thereby and each according to the right propertie of his nature which giueth to each thing according to his néed both moisture and dreuth but how were it possible that the same may be concocted and altered for the sustenance and increase of mans bodie if there be no naturall warmth with it This naturall warmth doth maintaine all health and consumeth all bad humors it consumeth also meat and drinke whereby all inward parts do receiue their power and strength and also are made apt to do all things whereto they were created The hardned skin will be mellowed and made thin through this naturall heate all wounds and vlcers be brought to naturall matter it swageth the paine it looseth and softeneth all contracted sinewes Item this naturall heate is that which causeth the wounded head to heale and freeth it from all his heauie accidents drieth the moisture of the same expelleth all corrupted bones and taketh away the venime of all corroding vlcers This naturall warmth doth warme all frozen members it helpeth all diseases of the Matrix and priuities c. The same naturall heate doth heale all broken bones But how may that be better séene than by dayly examples which we haue daily before our eyes and as it appeareth in old folkes for it is seene that how much the naturall heate abateth in them so much the weaker and the more incurable do they waxe of all diseases and most manifestly in the dying where it is cleerely séene that how much the more the naturall heate doth abate so much the nearer is death at hand Therefore must héed alwayes be taken that it be kept in his naturall being for if so be that the same be too great or too small in any body then can follow none other but heauie sicknesses and at length death it selfe The like may be séene in the Palsie and in the Plague Therefore we wil here discouer certaine things which sustaine this naturall heat and do increase and strengthen the same and afterwards shew what is to be vsed against vnnaturall heate First there be certaine spiced wines Claret wines Hypocras wines and such like commended for it but they must be vsed with prouidence to the end that according to the qualitie of nature and of the age they may be prepared that they heate not ouermuch for that the right nature of wine is that it being moderatly drunken doth preserue and sustaine the naturall warmth and strengtheneth the powers of men The same doth also Elecampane wine and confected Nutmegs vsed morning and euening after meate The conserue of Rosemarie doth warme all those which be halfe dead But what néed is it to write so largely thereof séeing there is no sicknesse which cometh through cold described in all this booke wherein hath not bene taught how this weake natural heate might be holpen Hereafter also shall be spoken of the Phlegma and by that meanes also of cold and what is to be done for these cold diseases where further aduertisement may be sought for Of vnnaturall heate §. 1. IN all hote diseases which haue bene discouered hitherto be means euery where declared wherewith this vnnaturall heate might be quenched and slaked But we will here not onely alledge the passages where the same is taught but also declare what may be méete for it For this are sundrie things described as the cooling salue Galem the salue of Roses the salue of Saunders and the Pomade For this is also good the Poplar salue all which you may mixe as you please or vse each alone In like manner these oyles following as of Poppie heads of Roses of Violets and of water Lillies which do coole more than the oyle of Roses or oyle of Violets For an outward application take the water of Corne Roses and of Nightshade of each two ounces sealed earth and fine Bolus of each one dragme Camfer ten graines temper them all together and lay it vpon the forehead or where the heate is One may vse inwardly the conserue of Buglosse of Burrage of water Lillies of Violets of Cicorie of red and white Roses confected Cherries and conserue of Barberries Item confected rootes of Cicorie Framboys confected Peaches which one may vse in all hote sicknesses and Prunes that be confected Item fresh Cassie is very necessary in all vnnaturall and sharpe heate The sowre Dates do coole and purge very mildly and they do also quench the thirst The simple things be Lettice Endiue Cicorie and bread that is stéeped in cold water Fishes Limons Oranges Pompeons Melons sweete wine Peares Apples and Cherries c. These foresaid things are not only to be vsed in hote sicknesses but also to take them moderatly being in health in hote times There is also a sirupe made of the iuice of Oranges of sowre Pomgranates of white Roses and of Sorrell the which do coole much in time of the Plague and in all pestilentiall sicknesses which do inflame the heart and the stomacke The sirupe of Roses laxatiue doth especially coole all heate of Agues likewise also the sirupe of Veriuice of Violets of Endiue and of Vineger In like manner also Oxycraton Oxysacchara Iulep of Roses and of Violets the honie of Roses hath a méetly cooling nature therefore the same may also be vsed in hote Agues When the patient desireth to drinke in great heate then be some of these foresaid sirupes to be tempered amongst it for which the sirupe of Violets of Burrage and of Roses be the most principall if the same be tempered with well water or any cooling potion The same doth also fresh well water alone Item Barly water or Henbroth dressed with Endiue watred wine Henbroth with Sugar and Barly and the water of Larks spur drunken thrée or foure times a day these beforesaid do take away the vnnaturall heate whether it be in the Plague or in any other hot agues Take water of Larks spur and of Buglosse of each two ownces Cicorie water one ounce drinke twice thereof morning and euening it strengtheneth and cooleth also the heart in all hote things Take a handfull of Raisins stampe them to pap and powre vpon it eight ounces of water of Buglosse Cinnamome one dragme then wring it thorow a cloth and afterwards take it or giue it to drinke with Almond milke But if so be that some vnnaturall heate do assaile you without any speciall sicknesse then is this ensuing to be vsed for it Take a blacke Cockrell of a yeare old chop it aliue one part from another take the
suffice We will nowe procéede with those things that furthermore doe appertaine vnto Agues Wherefore chiefely it is to be obserued that euerie one of them by the Physitions is deuided into foure parts The first they terme Accossum which is the beginning of the Ague thereupon followeth Incrementum the increase The third is Status that is when the Ague is in the highest degree and standeth still The last part is Declinatto that is the decrease or declination of which parts of the Ague we haue elsewhere more at large giuen intelligence There hath bene also a great debate amongst the learned whether men might knowe euerie kind of Ague in one day of fower and twentie houres some thought that no man could rightly iudge of the Ague before the third day So that Galen in diuers places derideth them and confuteth their opinion with many profound reasons The simple or compounded Agues saith he are easie to be knowne but the compounded very hardly yet it is not vnpossible to discerne them in one day Many agues and most of all other maladies whatsoeuer may well be knowne the second third or at the longest the fourth day for there is no disease that in three or foure daies might not apparantly be iudged so also are all agues according to the humor into which the bloud is altered qualified and do also giue a certaine Ague of their nature If Phlegma be cause of the Ague then of necessitie will it indure very long and longer if it procéed and come of the melancholicke humors but if it ensue from Cholera then can it not tarrie long seeing it doth vehemently wast the same To conclude all easie agues are ended in foure dayes as also all violent agues can kill a bodie in foure dayes which may be séene in the pestilent feuers Thus farre haue we generally spoken of agues now will we shew the meanes and remedies for the same and will first begin with the commonest and with the best knowne amongst which the most part of the foresaid agues are comprehended The least of them all is the first recited ague Ephemera or Diaria in Latine for that the same seldom holdeth the patient not disorderly eating and drinking longer than a day that is foure and twentie houres because it is not fixed so fast in the heart but onely in the Spiritibus vitalibus which we call the Vitall spirits This ague hath no corrupt or rotten humors that can be incended or can prouoke any swelling of the outward parts To conclude this ague is likened vnto a hote ayre that quickly loseth her efficacie and power This ague is thus described Ephemera is an ague wherein the vitall spirits are incended and so spread ouer the whole bodie without any long permanence And that is a certaine token of such kind of agues that they must alwaies haue some cause going before whereby it is procured as namely wearines much watching wrath great sorrow and such like vexation of the mind Item the heate of the Sun cold great labor drunkennesse venimous ayre and heate about the priuities be it through swelling or any other occasion conuersation with sicke men or those that be diseased in the lights vse of indigestible meates and such like The tokens whereby they are knowne are needlesse to rehearse by reason that they may be perceiued and knowne of the patient thereby the better to remedie the same For amongst all others this disease is neuer more apparant than in the vrine and by the pulse for that in this ague the vrine is commonly higher coloured than accustomed and the pulse much swifter as anger also is deformed by his owne pulse Item great sorrow and a disquiet mind haue also their owne signes Also by what obseruations and how the Cholera the melancholie the Phlegma and the bloud is knowne we haue taught in their due place Those that are troubled with the agues that bréed through any swelling or vlcers they féele a continuall swift and hard beating pulse they are very hote burning with a ruddie countenance and white vrine And to conclude they are all commonly Ephemerish agues that haue the pulse equall And albeit the same sometimes be vnequall yet is it scarcely to be perceiued very ill to be These are now the most vsuall and conuenient signes of this ague which we haue said are very easie to be holpen if men looke vnto it betimes for being delayed too long then fall the diseases into agues that are worse and be of longer continuance as namely in Putridas and Hecliâ—â—s so that many by negligent delaies fall into their perpetuall destruction Therefore vse these remedies following for it first a bath whereby the pores are opened that thereby all noysome vapors might exhalate For when as they are shut vp or through exterior cold closed together then must all such infectious humors remaine in the bodie whence diuers perillous agues are caused For all those that are infected with the ague through any swelling of the priuities is the ayre hurtfull either before or after the bath but aboue all things it is in other agues to be shunned But if any one will tarie long in the bath then must he be gently annointed by the hand with Sallad oyle especially such as got their agues through labor and trauell The diet of the diseased must be such as may ingender good bloud of a light digesture Those that through the heate of the Sun or by wrath or anger are fallen into this ague they must vse cooling and moistening things if through cold warme things through watching sorrowes and cares moistening things and such as will prouoke sleepe All those that are thus afflicted may well vse wine that is small or watered for such is alwaies more fit than water alone because it expelleth water and sweat But in all these points is to be obserued the age of the patient his strength his custome of liuing the season of the yeare and the nature of the countrey and such like All those are forbidden wine that in this ague procéeding of the heate of the Sun haue a swelling of the priuities or of any other part till such time as all such inflammations be ended The like also for all such that haue their pores obstructed and be therewith strout and corpulent of person All such as through ouerwatching or through great sorrow are fallen into a small Ague must after their bathing be fed with moist meates that are light of digestion and make good bloud To those that by reason of long watching are féeble may the wine be allowed without further regard or care vnlesse they had much headach or féele great motion of the pulses in the temples of the head these common rules must also be obserued in other feauers All those that get the Ague through wrath sorrow or déepe speculation they may drinke wine well enough in like manner also the idle headed but onely when their fit or madnesse is past before which it
we will further write and make mention The causes of this quartaine Ague are euen as abouesaid first the melancholike blood time of the haruest and after that the winter for that at these seasons these humors are not onely stirred but also augmented more vehement and durable so that otherwhile they endure vntill winter whereas to the contrary the same are shorter in Sommer and the rather if the nature of the countrey be inclined that way and the time of the yeare otherwhiles is such that it ingendreth foule bloud whereby then such and other Agues are caused Wherefore good héede must be taken to all these foresayd things and in like manner whether the patient be not of a melancholicke nature and hath not vsed before to eate such kinds of meates whereof this melancholicke blood is ingendred or increased as bread of Millet Lentiles Beanes Chestnuts salt chéese salt fish Béefe Hares Harts Cabbages and such like Item all other things that inflame the blood as Garlicke Cresses pepper Mustard strong and spiced wines burnt wine and all kinds of hot spice or fruites but especially great labour trauell in the heate of the Sun long anger great sorrow and long former Agues whereby the bloud and other humors are burnt and putrified and are altered by the great heate into Melancholiam before they be expelled whereof you haue further instruction in the description of Melancholy and of the stomacke Item haue speciall care whether the Milt of the patient be not swolne or haue any other infirmitie Or whether the patient haue before had no erratick Ague for that the quartaine Ague neuer commeth alone but commonly alwayes after another Ague You must alwayes mark wel whether the vrine be white thin and waterish in these things as also in the pulse and cold doth it altogether differ from the tertian but regard not you the vomiting of the gall for that is the onely nature of the tertian ague but if you find by the motion of the pulse or otherwise after that the Ague is gone or if there be any signes of the ague then is there no doubt at all but that it is a quartaine ague Now to cure this Ague we will first of all shew you certaine rules and for the first if the pulse be forcible and beateth swiftly the water be red and grosse the patient be yong and full of bloud then shall you not omit but open the Basilica or Milt veine on the left hand but if the bloud be red and cléere then stop it againe but if it be thicke and black then let it runne and that so long as the parties strength be able to beare it Secondly if so be that the patient haue not much blood let him then not bléede at all Thirdly you must not giue to any that is taken with the Ague any strong purgation at the first by reason that all melancholicke humors are very tough and grosse and the same may not be purged in the beginning but mild purgations must be vsed and gentle Clisters Fourthly all meates and drinkes that are prepared dayly for the patient shall be laxatiue that he may alwayes haue some vacuation Fiftly against such time as the Ague approcheth the patient must at any hand refraine foode that nature thereby may worke the better on the matter of the Ague also the easier expell and withstand it Sixtly he may not bathe vntill the Ague begin to decrease Seuenthly he must forbeare all fruites by reason of their grosse moisture that lightly doth putrifie and may prouoke obstructions Eightly these patients must take héede of the cold aire and settle themselues in temperate dwellings Ninthly they that haue any obstruction in their veines are to vse such meates and drinkes that warme and moisten Tenthly because that this humor is compact and the state thereof a great while after it beginneth the patient is not to be kept ouersparingly but let him be cherished with meate that he may retaine his force and strength and expect the statum of the disease Eleuenthly for this kind of sicknes you must not giue him any ouerhot and dry things for feare that the ague be not thereby doubled prolonged and altered into a continuall ague Twelftly you are not to vse ouercold remedies because they do thicken and harden the matter wherefore â—uld meanes are alwayes to be vsed and taken Out of these foresaid rules it is easily to be vnderstood that no strong medicines are to be vsed in the beginning of this Ague except one sée that there is great store of blood at hand at which time the Median may be opened in the right arme Also if the blood be blacke and thicke as it happeneth to be of such that haue a diseased spléene then may one let it runne the longer but if it be red and cleane then must it be presently stopt The ordinance and gouernement of his life must be such that he feede not vpon any thing that prouoketh or bréedeth wind but vse all meates that ingender good blood and kéepe the bodie open and soluble and if any defect be hereof then must a mild clister be ministred Also he shall forbeare swines flesh and all meates that are slimie and hard of digestion and of all that which might make the body cold and drie His drink must be thin white wine his meate all maner of field fowles but no water fowles fish of light-digestion and not slimie salt meates and mustard may he also vse Also he may sometimes vse the confection Diatrion pipereon or Diaspoliticon and although the patient did drinke eeuery day a little pepper with water it were not amisse This patient shall not wholy forbeare from riding from walking and from baths if he hath bene accustomed to it yet is the bath not very good for him If this quartaine ague be not very strong nor yet continue long then can it not hurt if the patient vpon his frée dayes do execute his affaires and businesse But about the time as is supposed that the Ague is come to the highest state then must the patient féede very moderatly yea more sparingly than euer before keeping himselfe very quiet and annoint the belly with such things as may keepe the body open and soluble and also vse such things as prouoke vrine wherof you shall find good instruction at due time and place And as soone as one perceiueth that the humors begin to auoid then are those things to be vsed that expell melancholy and that not once but as often as néede shall require Also to prouoke him to vomit and that after meate and if néed be let him take a little black Hellebore therewith to ease and further the vomiting But they that cannot vomit must be purged Treacle is also passing good for them yet it is to be noted that none of these foresaid things may be vsed before the sicknesse be at the highest for thereby might of a single quartaine ague be made a double and lastly of
signes to be found than age as are to be séene in very old folkes Now to come to the remedies of this kind of consumption this patient shall vse as néere as he may all warme and moist things He must often bathe himselfe in fresh warme water and vse many moystening clisters as the broth of Lambes heads of tripes of Hens and the like for these are very commodious for him because they moisten the bowels and refresh and nourish the liuer But you must put hereto neither salt nor any spice that they be not too sharp and may be held in the longer You must also take for this Clister not aboue sixe ounces of broth at once but in foure and twentie houres you are to minister thrée or foure Also the rubbing or bathing of the externall parts after meales is greatly commended and as Hony in the Ague Hectica is very hurtfull so is it in this disease Marasmode very commodious Further all light meates are passing good for him that are not slimie as fresh broth reare egges with a thinne and pleasant wine being measurably vsed and such like Item all the salues plaisters and other things which are prescribed for the Feuer Hectica may also be vsed in this sicknesse But for these diseases speciall héed is to be taken of cold and of all things as in any way consume the radicall humiditie Those that wil haue any further declaration of this infirmity let them reade that which hath bene said in the description of the consumption or feuer Hectica The thirteenth Chapter Of the long lingring Agues THe long continuing of Agues dependeth vpon thrée kinds of causes First when any one hath an outward sore which hardly will be cured Secondly if the patient or the Phisition euer mistake or kéepeth some bad order Thirdly this is also procured by some outward occasion as by the time of the yeare by continuall raine by the nature of the countrey by the vnhailnesse of the dwelling place by great care and troubles of mind But when it is knowne that there are none of these foresaid occasions then must it of necessitie depend on the fourth cause that is on a grosse tough and slimie humor If therefore you will haue remedy against the continuing of Agues then must you cure and take away the foresaid causes with their contraries For that these long continuing Agues are commonly caused by an obstruction of the liuer whereto these things following are principally good to wit sirupus Diarrhodon de Cichorio de Lupulis de Eupatorio de capillo Veneris Oxymel compositum de Bysantijs de Radicibus Item the decoction of Adiantum Harts toong Agrimony Wormewood Endiue Cicorie of all or of some of them The common pestilentiall pilles called Ruffi and Rubarbe Cassie Hiera picra conserue of Prunes Agaricus and sirupe of Roses laxatiue are also excellent good Item you must boile also Parsly roots with your meate the wine shal be mingled with water wherein Cinnamome Annis séed Coriander and Fennell rootes are sodden You must annoint the liuer with the salue that is described in the third part the twelft chapter and third § beginning thus Take oyle of bitter Almonds c. in which place you shall find many moe other remedies against the obstruction of the liuer through heate and cold For the liuer being deopilated and opened then will the long lingring Ague be easily mitigated The fourteenth Chapter Of swellings that follow after the Ague IT commeth oftentimes to passe that some haue their féete swolne after the long continuing of an Ague then vse a bath to sweate in and take one ounce of the distilled water of Cammomill flowers which hath bene drawne onely out of the yellow séedes of the flowers You must boyle in the water of this bath Sloe leaues and therewithall bathe and sweate In the bathing you shall forbeare from drinke but this bath is more commodious after some phlegmaticke Agues than after any hote Agues and what order of diet is to be obserued after a lingering Ague when the patient beginneth to recouer hath beene sufficiently shewed and declared in the third Chapter and the twelfth § The fifteenth Chapter Of the Plague THis most noisome terrible and perillous malady of the plague is called of the Gréekes Epidemia and of the Latinists Lues Pestis and Pestilentia which last name we also vse This malady is described by Galen after this manner The Plague is a sicknes that doth infect all or at the least very many men and is caused of the venemous ayre Or thus The Plague is a disease that either spéedily killeth or soone forsaketh a man And where such sicknesses get the vpper hand there distresse and misery aboundeth for it hath bene seene by experience that it hath made away men cattel and fowles of the aire yea many thousands of fishes in the waters and that not onely villages and townes haue bene depriued thereby of all their inhabitants but also great cities and countries haue by the same bene made desolate The causes of the Plague §. 1. OF the naturall causes of the Plague there are as many opinions amongst the Philosophers as there are causes that procure it as namely of venemous vapors of the earth that are infected by some earthquakes or if a countrey be hot moyst full of stenches full of lakes or still standing waters and cloyed with stench of dead bodies as it oftentimes befalleth after great wars and slaughters but especially is the aire infected as is abouesaid through sinne whereby it may diuersly be venomed Also when the aire is warme and moist and that it doth raine much in time of heate with a Southerly wind whereof we will not at this present make any further discourse but they that desire to haue any ampler description hereof may reade ouer the Philosophers and other learned Phisitions But howsoeuer this is the most certaine cause of this sicknesse that God the Lord for our manifold sinnes and wickednesse to wit idolatrie incredulitie and ingratitude hath vsed this Plague and many afflictions moe as hunger warre and shedding of blood to punish the foresaid sinnes and transgressions These are his rods and scourges euen the ministers of his wrath to chastice the wicked world as through his Prophets he hath foresaid and threatned the world and as both holy Scriptures and heathen writers testifie that it hath afterward ensued accordingly Signes of the Plague to come §. 2. FIrst it is a certaine signe that the aire is infected and that a plague is to be expected if in the end of the sommer there appeare Comets or any other impressions which men cal flakes of fire starres that fall or shoote and such like in the element which proceede of vapors that are drawne out of the earth into the aire and there are kindled whereby both men and cattell are infected Secondly when any vnaccustomed heape of beasts are séene as of Frogs Toades Grashoppers Mice and Wormes which oftentimes
haue bene approoued heretofore Thirdly when in the winter the South or East windes abound mistie or foggie weather full of vapors and glowing or drowsie and like as it would raine and yet raineth not at all these are signes that the aire is not as it should be Also if the spring of the yeare be cold and drie without raine the wind Southerly the aire foggie and lowring and standeth so at a stay eight dayes long and then altereth into warmth if these alterations often chance then is it a certaine and infallible signe that the plague is at hand In like maner also is it a sure token of the plague to ensue when in the sommer time it is hot a dayes and cold a nights Item when the sommer is not hot but gloomy cloudy and one day hot and another day cold then must we looke for a plague in haruest In like maner also if two or three dayes be very hot and afterwards very cold as it often chanceth then doth it prognosticate a plague How to preuent the Plague §. 3. THere is no more Christian nor certaine meanes for to escape this great punishment then for a man to reconcile himselfe to his heauenly Father and to pray vnto him with much contrition and heartie repentance of his sins that it would please him to withhold his threatnings and punishments for our due deserts and that we acknowledge him from the bottome of our hearts to be the right onely and true Phisition that will and can preserue vs be it liuing or dying in perpetuall health and welfare Yet notwithstanding hath he not in vaine created naturall meanes nor forbidden vs to vse them but rather all things as Phisitions phisicke rootes herbes séedes and the aires yea all that is aboue and vnder the earth for the benefite of man and to serue him therefore we ought duly to accept and receiue the same as a most godly benefite and noble blessing of so good a God and in no manner of wise to despise the same and therefore are all learned Phisitions most highly to be estéemed that haue found out so many meanes for all kinds of diseases as also for this present infection and haue reuealed and made them knowne to mankind And to the end men may haue a good instruction how this sicknesse may be holpen with the foresaid remedies there shall be obserued these thrée principall points the first whereof is for the healthy that thereby they may know what order is to be kept whereby they might be fréed from this venemous contagion Secondly we are to shew that if any be taken with the Ague or other signes with sores or biles or not at all what ought to be done to them or what is to be left off Thirdly we will speake of all such as kéepe those that are so diseased and are to minister and serue them for the which there be many approoued and famous medicines selected both by the ancient and latter Phisitions our most louing and mercifull God giue vs his gracious blessing and prosperitie to finish them First then it is generally concluded by all learned men that forasmuch as the heart requireth a sweete cleane and healthy ayre like as the body requireth meate and drinke also that nothing is more venemous noysome nor hurtfull for the same than a foule stinking ayre for thence commeth it especially if a loose and vnstayed life either in excesse of meate drinke exercise incontinencie wrath and such like be adioyned that the venemous ayre with other infections the sooner hurt the heart and inner parts and by their contagion disease the whole body and lastly bereaue man of his vitall breath How the healthy may be kept and preserued from the infection of the Plague §. 4. EVen as we haue oftentimes heretofore admonished so will we now shew by what meanes the haile and healthy may in the time of the Plague be fréed and preserued from this contagious malady therefore is it first of all néedfull to obserue a good diet in eating and drinking and further a faire cleane dwelling which must be smoked and perfumed thereby to correct and take away the corruption of the ayre For this must be vsed all fragrant things to kéepe the body loose with laratiue medicines and to comfort the heart with cordials and alwayes to take somewhat whereby all the parts of the body and the vitall spirits might be comforted and defended against the venimous aire and contagion of others that we might be conuersant withal with many moe things as shall hereafter appeare And first of the order to be obserued in diet It is passing good and very néedfull for euery bodie that wisheth to liue out of the danger of the Plague to take great héede that his bodie be not pestered with ouer many humors nor ouercharged with meate and drinke but to liue very soberly and that all such meate as he taketh must be more drying than moistening for that whereas there is an vnmeasurable fulnesse of the stomacke there are many bad humors ingendred which afterwards by this contagion very easily are infected Neither ought any bodie to eate before that he féele and find that his former meates and digested and when nature by hunger or thirst requireth food then satisfie her without longer delay for as the ouer charging of the stomack is a great cause of corruption euen so also doth an empty stomack procure bad humors It is likewise very commodious that all the patients meate be rather cold than hot in operatiō which must be dressed with sower eager things as we shal herafter instruct you more at large His dread must be of good wheate well raised baked and seasoned Of fowles the Partridges land fowles Pullets Hens Capons and yong Pigeons Item yong Weathers and Veale yet rather rosted than sodden or else if it be sodden then must it be drest with sower things And for that the Plague oftentimes infecteth all fourefooted beasts as Oxen shéepe swine and sometimes the very birds of the aire therefore great héede must be taken that then neither the flesh nor the milke of them in any way be vsed also the Magistrates ought not to permit any of the flesh of those beasts so infected to be sold Note also that in the time of the Plague all sower things are very wholesome and therefore Vineger is highly commended with all kind of meates and especially vineger of Roses or of Gilloflowers or of Framboyes Item horse radish with Vineger and Sorrell beaten for sauce Pomegranates Saint Iohns grapes or Ribes vulgaris Veriuice preserued Cherries conserues of Barberies and all sirupes that are made of these foresaid things vnripe Grapes drest with their meate new Limons and Citrons these are all very good to be vsed in time of the Plague Item for all such as haue no paine in their eyes nor ach in the head are rosted Onions or the same softened in faire water passing good but Garlicke aboue all the
to the patient at one time Another regiment when any one is infected with the Plague §. 6. FIrst these pils following are to be giuen to the patient in the morning betimes Take of the common plague pils a dragme and a halfe that are formed with sirupe of Citrons and then let the patient if the infirmitie may beare it sléepe afterwards a little the next day after shall he thrée or foure dayes after other alwaies in the morning betimes take a dragme and a halfe of fine Bolus powdered either with wine or with Rose water as the time of the yeare requireth This is a maruellous good medicine and without all danger but onely that it somewhat bindeth the bodie which may be preuented with mild Clisters which must be made of oyle onely It is not amisse for this intent to vse these confections following euery other day which strengthen the bodie and make it sound Take good Treacle one dragm prepared Smaragdes seuen greines then mingle it with wine and so giue it him But if the partie can hardly take this then let him vse one of these Sugar plates following Take Iacincts Granats Rubies Smaragdes Saphires and bones of the Stags hart of each one dragme red and white Saunders and red Coral◠of each one scruple burnt Iuorie fine Bolus prepared Pearles Sealed earth and Vnicornes horne of each foure scruples filed gold one dragme Sugar sod in Rosewater sixteene ounces make it vp into Manus Christi or Sugar plates and take two or thrée dragmes of them at one time As soone as the patient féeleth himself infected let him presently take this potion following and if he vomit not the same vp againe but sweateth after it then it is a good signe of amendement and a manifest token of health Take white Diptamus Tormentill white Corall Gentian fine Bolus Sealed earth and burnt Harts horne of each one dragme Smaragdes Camfer and prepared Pearles of each halfe a dragm Myrrhe Saffron Citron séedes of each one scruple beate all very small and take of it a quarter of an ounce Treacle a dragme and a halfe Sorrell water and good white wine of each one ounce and a halfe mixe them for a potion and giue it to the patient warme lying in his bed that he may sweate well and that as long as he may suffer it afterwards wipe him well and lay him in another bed But if the time of the yeare be cold and the Ague not very hote then may you put the more wine to the foresaid potion and contrariwise if it be hote weather and the Ague hote also then let Sorrell water be mingled therewith But speciall care must be had that the patient cast not vp the potion agine for the which it is good that there be a great cup set vnder his stomacke without opening the skin and some good sauour be holden before his nose his hands dipt in cold water or smell to tosted bread that is moistned with Vineger and such like things mo Some forbid that men in sweating shall neither eate or drinke which were somewhat indéed if the patient be strong enough but when he is féeble then haue you for this a good direction before How to purge those that are infected with the Plague §. 7. IN the end of the foresaid fift § we haue declared that purging for this sicknes is not greatly commended neuerthelesse if great néed require then is there nothing more fit than the common plague pils with somewhat tempered therwith This potion following may also be giuen him with all safetie for that it doth cleanse the bloud of all superfluities Take of the confection Triphera Persica and Manna of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rubarbe one dragme then mingle them together in foure ounces of Sorrell water Or take Cassie and sowre Dates of each thrée quarters of an ounce Confection of the iuice of Roses one dragme then temper them together with Sorrell water Item take Tripheram Persicam halfe an ounce prepared Agaricke and Rubarbe of each one dragme and mingle them as before Another Take the confection Diasena and Triphera Persica of each three dragms Confectionis Hamech a quarter of an ounce de succo Rosarum halfe a dragme mingle them with the decoction of fruits or with Buglosse water But if the patient be so féeble that you dare not giue him a purging medicine then let him haue a Clister of fresh broth or herbs with Cassy the yolk of an Eg course Sugar oile of Violets and salt For all such diseases are the Conserue of Burrage and Buglosse very commodious euen as they are also for all pestilent Agues for they are both very comfortable they reuiue the heart resist venime take away all weaknesse make men glad and cleanse the bloud We haue before in the fourth § written of other things mo that also do comfort the patient This shall suffise that we haue spoken of the beginning of the Plague we will now procéede and make mention of other accidents of these diseases and teach their due remedies Of the vnnaturall heate in the Plague §. 8. AMongst the other seuen accidents of this contagion that we haue heretofore spoken of and are alwaies permanent with the pestilent Agues there is commonly great headach adioyned Now to strengthen the head and braines haue we set downe many goodly instructions and directions in the first part the first chapter § 2. and also afterwards in the headach of heate This potion following may you vse for the same Take Tormentill burnt Harts horne red Corall and fine Bolus of each one dragme prepared Pearles halfe a dragm Camfer foure greines beate them all together to powder and then giue thereof the waight of a drag tempered with Sorrell water For this also serueth this Iulep following take the iuice of Balme of Burrage Buglosse Sorrell and of Cicorie of each one ounce and a half Rosewater and white Vineger of each thrée quarters of an ounce the iuice of Citrons or Limons halfe an ounce Sugar as much as you please séeth the sugar to a sirupe and when you will vse the same temper it with Barly water vnto a Iulep Or take Conserue of Roses foure ounces conserue of Buglosse two ounces Species Triasantali one ounce and a halfe burnt Iuorie Sorrell Melon seedes péeled Gourd seedes Citron séedes and Cucumber séedes peeled and chopt small of each one ounce and a halfe Sugar one ounce Pearles foure scruples and sixe leaues of beaten gold then temper them well together for a confection hereof may the patient vse as often as he will For this also is good the Conserues of Burrage and Buglosse of water Lillies of the iuice of Oranges and all that therewith may be made Of the vnsatiable and great thirst §. 9. THe second accident of these pestilent Agues is thirst that by little and little getteth the vpper hand so that the diseased falling into a frenzines thereby séeke to leape into the water or into
Burrage do also withstand poyon In like manner also the iuice and the sirupe of Citrons and all that is made thereof Carduus Benedictus leaues are also maruellous good against all venime it is said that Fredericke the Emperor was the first that brought the same herbe out of Gréece into Germanie for the iuice water powder and séed of it are all good against poyson Fennell seede is also much commended Sealed earth if it be right is of all Phisitions accompted for a noble medicine against all venime Peucedanus and wild Radish are also much commended Wine of Harts toung is also vsed for the same albeit the auncient Phisitions do make no mention thereof The Conserues of Elderne flowers is also very good and is accounted a conserue for the common people The Conserues of Hyssope and the wine of the same doth also contend with venime Nep Comin and Caraway are more strong than the Fennell séede Agaricus is good if a man will purge Angelica is of all Phisitions accounted good against all manner of venim and recommended by the name Laserpitium Eringus withstandeth all venim The Oleander which the Gréekes call Nerion and Rhododendron is also commended The long Hartwoort is also good Rue hath an especiall efficacie against all poyson and in like manner the séedes of wild Rue Rosemarie is also praised of some the learned write not any thing thereof Sagapenum and Serapinum is also accounted good for it Wormwood and all that is made of Wormwood is maruellous good against all venime The compounded things that are commodious against all venime shall hereafter follow An exhortation for all those that are afraid to be poysoned §. 2. AVncient Phisitions were woont to haue an old Prouerbe and to say that Venime is so proud that it dwelleth commonly in Gold and Siluer whereby they meant that great personages that eate and drinke out of gold and siluer are in greater danger to be poysoned than the common people that do eate and drinke out of earthen dishes wherefore must such high personages that are afraid to be poysoned diligently take héede of the meate and drinke that they eate and that are drest of diuers things Also they must not take too much of all swéet salt and sower drinkes and they must not eate too eagerly nor too hastily and they must at all times haue great regard of the first tast of their meate and drinke But the most surest way is that before the mealetide he take somewhat that may resist venim as Figs Rue or Nuts each by himselfe or tempered together The Citrons Rape séede Nepe or any of those that are described before the waight of a dragme taken with wine now one and then another is very much commended Sometimes also two Figs with a little Salt then againe Mithridate or Treacle and such like mo may he vse before the mealetide When any bodie perceiueth that he hath taken Poyson §. 3. BVt if one be sure and perceiue or certainely know that he hath taken poyson then must there be no long disputing what is to be done for in case the one will be long a counselling what shall be done then wil the venim in the mean time infect his bloud and other vital parts wherby the partie may be neglected and afterwards also remaine incurable Therefore must the common meanes be vsed as is said before to prouoke him to vomite cast and that through the taking of luke warme water tempered with Sallad oyle or with swéet Butter There are here and there in this booke diuers remedies expressed whereby vomiting is to be furthered which may be vsed for this purpose and you may séeke for them in the Table And as soone as the patient hath vomited then are you to cause him to haue a loose and open bodie which may soone be brought to passe with a strong Clister whreby the remaining sharpnes of the venim that might remaine behind in the stomack or in the bowels might be driuen out and expelled The signes when one is poysoned §. 4. ALbeit that the signes of those that be poysoned and the nature of the Poyson taken or the biting of a venimous beast are diuers as shall hereafter be more at large declared neuerthelesse can it not be but good and requisite to comprehend them all vnder one First they get a vehement paine in the stomacke in the belly and in the bowels paine of the Liuer the kidneys and the bladder Often they get a hoarsnesse gnawing and biting shiuering cold dumbnesse and conuulsion of the sinewes féeblenesse of the pulse the Lethargie swimming of the head darknesse of sight and a shortnesse of breath yea that they seeme to choke great thirst bléeding lacke of appetite great heat great féeblenesse of the face losse of vnderstanding of might and mo such like symptomes yet hereby cannot sufficiently be known the nature of the poyson that hath bene taken For example if any man hath taken Cantharides which are Spanish Flies he getteth diseases in the toung in the stomacke and in the kidneys the bladder is inflamed he can scarcely make water to wit without infinite paine bloud and great sharpnesse The Caterpillars of the Firre trée called Buprestes and the Salamandra do also cause the foresaid accidents Item all those that haue taken Opium do fall into a very déepe sléepe or altogether into a maladie that is called Lethargus to wit the sléepie sicknesse they get bleake spots they waxe sluggish cold and stiffe and are depriued of all their senses The like chanceth to them that haue taken the iuice of Mandragora or the iuice of Hemlocke The Henbane séed maketh men not only foolish and raging but as it were mad or as if they had taken Aconitum they be not onely choked that haue taken Aconitum but also those that do take Toadstooles Ceruse Gippes and Oxe bloud but as it is said we shall hereafter further discourse and admonish at large of this matter Here we will most of all intreat of those poysons especially that grow and whatsoeuer else procéedeth thereof and adde vnto them their Latine and Greeke names The second Chapter Of the venimous Plants and such like THe Mandragora is not otherwise called in Latin nor in Gréeke and is by good reason placed amongst the venims for that by her nature which is cold in the third degrée it doth choke one and when one taketh too much of the iuice then causeth it a sleepe vnto death It is also very drie yet may with discretion the waight of one dragme be giuen thereof as néede requireth for the learned write that if any man be too sore frighted or feared so that he must be cut or burnt then must there be giuen one drag of this roote vnto him and he shall then fall into so déepe a sleepe that he shall thrée or foure howers long remaine vnsensible in which space the Chirurgian haue time enough to do their worke But what the Toothdrawers or Mountibankes do with this
bitter Almonds or the iuice of this herbe with bitter Almonds and with wine In like maner also if one be annointed with the oyle thereof then doth it preserue him against the biting of Snakes Hares rennet is very forcible against the venome of Snakes and also for moe other things Heath Erica is much commended against the venome of snakes Harts horne hunteth them also away through his smell The round and long Hartwort the waight of two dragmes drunke with wine or tempered with vineger and layd thereon is also much commended Dogs garlicke that groweth in vineyards is also very forcible against the venome of Snakes Cleuers haue also a speciall force against Snakes and their venome if one drinke the waight of a dragme of them Melilot hath this nature also that it is sayed that there was neuer séene a Snake to haue come neare this herbe In like manner the seede of it is much commended being taken with wine Garlicke driueth away all snakes through his sauour and smell it is also very good against all venemous stingings of beasts and if one mingle it with bread and hony then may it be eaten for that intent Coleworts with Barly meale layed thereon or the iuice thereof tempered with vineger and Fenegréeke seede is also very commodious Corne mints do also driue Snakes away The dung of all foure footed beasts tempered with wine and layed thereon is also commended Crabs that are caught in fresh water and in the sea are also very commodious for this as we haue admonished in other places moe Wilde Thyme hath also great vertue for it when the leaues thereof be drunke with wine and the smoake thereof driueth them also away All pickle of sallt fish is also highly praised for this vse as hath bene taught elsewhere The rootes of Louage with Barly meale or tempered with wild Baulme and layd thereon is also very commodious Bayberries tempered with wine and drunken is good against all cold venome Eringus the waight of a dragme drunken tempered with water and layed thereon is also good A liue Mouse applied to the place hath a speciall vertue for to draw out the venome howbeit Hens Pullets and Frogges are also very commodious for it as we haue oftentimes shewed before Must drunken is an vtter enemy to Snakes so is all sodden and falsified wine How forcible Nuts be not onely against snakes but also against all venome if one vse them with Figs and Rue we haue oftentimes declared before Oleander which the Gréekes call Rhododendron is maruellous for his leaues are venome to all fourefooted beasts and yet a medicine for men against the venome of Snakes sodden with Rue in wine Earewaxe rubbed on the bitting asswageth the paine out of hand Pionie rootes whereof there are two sorts are both of them good for this purpose Pepper is for all cold poisons measurably vsed taken for a speciall medicine euen as we haue declared in other places moe Pistacies are also very good against all poison That Rue is good against all venome and against the biting of snakes we haue already said in many places The rennet of Faunes that die in their dams bellies is commended to be maruellous forcible for it For this is likewise commended the Madder Radishes sodden with water and vineger and layd thereon are accounted very good Great Centorie which is called Rapontica the waight of a dragme of it giuen with wine The water of Larkes spurres is sayed being drunken to be good against the biting of all venemous beasts if the biting be washed with it The same is also to be vsed against the Plague The iuice of white water Mints a quarter of an ounce drunken with thrée or foure ounces of wine and the biting washed therewith is much commended The séedes of yellow Rapes or Turneps and also the rootes and the herbe caried about one will preserue him from the biting of Snakes and if any body be bitten then must the séed with the grease of any birds be stamped and layd theron The séed of the common Rapes is very good against venome being taken in the stead of Treacle Salt is very good against all poison Sugar is to be tempered with oyle and layed thereon Swines bread hath a great vertue against all venome as we haue admonished in moe other places The iuice of Scabious is also taken to be very good against all venome of Snakes and Scorpions The thrée sorts of Dragons do driue away all venemous beasts if one carrie the roote about him It is also good being drunken for them that are bitten of them Léekes are also good when they are tempered with Vineger Mustard seed is to be mingled with vineger and applied thereon They flie from the fasting spettle of man and if they get it in their mouth they must die thereof Southernewood strewed on the place where the Snakes haunt or where fume and smoake thereof is driueth them away Also Southernwood is good against all venome being taken inwardly and applied outwardly Codwort which in Latine is called Aster is also for this highly renowmed Styrax Calamita as the sent thereof is very acceptable to all men so contrariwise there is nothing that Snakes may lesse abide Tamariscus is good against all poison Woodlice albeit they be lothsome wormes neuertheles they are aboue all things commended of the renowmed Phisitions against the poison of Snakes and also against all other poison If the venemous Snakes euer come to sent or smel the leaues or wood of Iuniper then créep they away they are also good against all venemous beasts Lysimachia is also commodious for all these things The iuice of Onions applied to the biting of a Snake and tempered with Hony is very good against venome The Gnats that plague beasts and men with their sting in sommer and in like manner all plants are depelled by the smoke of Pomegranate péeles and of Galbanum also by the smoke of Nardus séed and Lupins But forasmuch as through the grace of God we haue no Scorpions here in England nor in Dutchland therefore it is no great need to write much thereof by reason that all that is written against Snakes is also requisite for the same yet cannot we conceale this miracle that the Scorpions themselues are a remedie against their owne poison if the same be beaten and layed theron or if they be rosted and eaten In like maner you haue their oyle and other their vertues moe described here and there throughout this whole booke Spiders are wel knowne beasts whereof there are many sorts described by the auncient phisitions which as they do differ in fashion colour and in weauing ther webs so they do also differ in poison Albertus doth describe eight kindes of them which we haue all here in this countrey Some do liue by catching of Flies others by catching of water wormes and small fishes Some also are enemies to the Toade and Snake for that it hath bene séene that such Spiders
Phisicke This Confection should be very necessarie and helping women vnto fruitfulnes like as is also prescribed in this booke for the same Electuarium de Gallia §. 16. THis for the profitablenes and commoditie that it hath in the paine of the guts and in Phlegma and for that it is easie to be made is described in the third part the 15. Chapter and 6. § for it is not knowne at the Apothecaries Confectio Hamech §. 17. THis Confection is of two sorts and is compounded of many things and is very common at all Apothecaries wherwith the humors of the Gall especially the salt humors which cause scabbines the Leprosie the Canker and all other diseases which excoriate and inflame the skin by their sharpnesse are holpen The lesser Confection Hamech purgeth Melancholy and is also good against all frenzie giddinesse forgetfulnesse and all infections of the skin Hiera Picra simplex §. 18. THis Confection is at all Apothecaries euery where prepared and is not onely very well knowne to the Phisitions but also to the common people Take Cinnamom Balsam wood Asarabacca Spica Indica Saffron and Masticke of each one dragme and a halfe Aloe 25. drag clarified and scummed Honie thirtéene ounces make a Confection thereof But if you will haue it to strengthen rather than to purge then take washed Aloes in stead of other This Confection is very good against all rotting and stinking humors which do kéepe themselues in the mouth of the stomacke and in the bowels In like manner it is also good for all them that haue lost their naturall colour and against all inward diseases of the sight it looseth very mildly and her operation penetrateth no further but into the Liuer it strengtheneth the stomacke neuertheles that it is partly hurtfull for them that haue a hote Liuer but because of her great vertue it is much vsed Hieralogodion §. 19. THis Confection is also found at all Apothecaries the which is made out of many sundry things wherefore we will not describe the same here it is good against all old madnesse against all Melancholy against all Falling sicknesse and all other ragings or madnesse against the giddinesse and all paine of the head Item it is very good against all Palseys against all shaking and against all heart beating It is also good in the Pleurisie in all sicknesses of the Liuer and of the Spléene it prouoketh womens termes and is also good against all Gouts against all poyson Leprosie and scurfe Of this Confection may one take a dragme at once with Wine if there be tempered a little salt with it Hiera Pachij Ruffini §. 20. THe first Hiera is now of late come againe in vse amongst the Phisitions it is maruellous good for many kinds of things not vnlike to the aforementioned In this our booke of Phisicke is otherwhiles mention made of it Electuarium Indum §. 21. OF this Confection there be two sorts a greater and a lesser yet both do expell bad humors especially such as bréede wind in the stomacke and other nutritiue parts they amend also the bad accidents which arise thereby as swelling vp of the stomacke the griping of the belly paine of the kidneys and such like Electuarium Lenitiuum §. 22. THis is a laxatiue Confection which expelleth gently without any paine the phlegmatick cholericke and melancholick humors It is also good against all Agues and it is found readie at all Apothecaries howbeit that it is very seldome vsed in this our booke of Phisicke Electuarium de Lepore combusto §. 23. THere is also a Confection prepared of the burnt Hares head which is maruellous good against grauell and is described in the third part the twelfth Chapter and 4. § Laetificans Almansoris §. 24. THis pleasant Confection is now adaies made rather in Losinges than in forme of a Confection but how the Species be made that do you find described in the first part the twelfth Chapter and 8. § Electuarium de Manna §. 25. THis Electuarie of Manna is a very noble Confection wherein come many easie laxatiue things it cleanseth the bloud withstandeth Cholera and Melancholia it is very good for a hote liuer and cleanseth also the body Electuarium ad Melancholiam §. 26. THis Confection is not made if it were not that it is especially ordained and it is also but once vsed in this booke Michleta §. 27. THis Confection Michleta is prepared at all furnished Apothecaries it is especiall good against all superfluous bléeding of the Piles and against the griping of the belly and it is exceeding good in all laskes as in Lyenteria and Dysenteria It is also vsed in Diarrhaea Mithridatium §. 28. THis high renowned and very wel knowne confection hath next to Treacle the highest commendation and price aboue all other confections and compounded medicines the which of very many and diuers simples is composed together wherefore we wil pretermit her description here It is also older than the Treaâ—le was found out by Mithridates king of Pontus thrée hundred yeares before Christs birth and so named after him This foresaid Confection did the King vse against all venime and with such commoditie that when he was in greatest extremitie and had taken poyson he could not die of it Wherefore and because that the same is oftentimes ordained in this booke therefore we will briefly rehearse her vertue and vigor First it hath almost in al things the same power of the Treacle but that only the Treacle is somwhat hotter more forcible against all venim of snakes otherwise it is good against all paine of the head which proceedeth out of cold and chiefly against all melancholicke diseases and also for them that liue in great heauines without cause It is also good against all heauie fansies and madnesse and further it is also good against the Falling sicknes against the giddinesse and all old paine of the head Likewise it is a very good medicine against all running and diseased eyes it sharpeneth the sight and it is good against all sissing of the eares and against all paine and falling of the gums if the same be laid vpon it Besides that it is much commended for the squinancie it cleanseth and healeth all vlcers of the throat It is a speciall medicine for al them that be taken with the palsey and them that haue a disease in the lights as it is also for all them that cough much spet bloud and complaine of pursiuenes It is also especiall good for all cold and moist stomackes it maketh appetite it strengtheneth the digestiue vertue and maketh a good colour It asswageth all gripings all scourings and the bloudie flixe it openeth the obstruction of the liuer and the milt and it is a medicine for all inward parts it driueth also the crampe away and all conuulsions of the sinewes it expelleth the grauell and the stone of the bladder it swageth all paine and vlcers of the same it expelleth water and moneth
38. THere be two kindes made thereof of swéete and bitter Almonds This oyle is pressed out or beaten out vpon a powning mill like as the oyle of Lineséed is beaten out But if one will drinke the oyle then take Almonds well dried which haue a fresh and swéete taste as much as you please powne them very small and parch them a little afterwards put a Rosewater vnto it and presse it well out with a strong presse But the oyle of sweete Almonds is much vsed The oyle of swéete Almonds is good against the roughnesse of the throate of the breast of the lights and against all drought of the same Further it asswageth all paine of the ioynts it is also verie pleasant for to be occupied in all meates and good for all them which beginne to consume it maketh fat and augmenteth humaine nature it quencheth thirst it allayeth the heate of the vrine and all paine of the bladder together with all vlcers of the womanhood if the same be annointed thereon or iniected therein The oile of bitter Almonds doth asswage all hardnesse of the sinewes it openeth all obstructions it consumeth wind and all bad vapours and it is especiall good for deafnesse and all bad hearing for all sissing of the eares and it taketh also away all spots Oyle of Marierome gentle §. 9. TAke the herbe Marierome gentle foure handfuls wilde Thime two handfuls Mirtle leaues one handfull Sothernwood and Mints of each halfe a handfull Cassie wood two ounces vnripe Sallad oyle as much as will suffise for to couer all the foresaid then stop it tight and so let it stand the space of eight dayes in the sunne afterwards wring it out hard and lay fresh againe therein do this thus thrée times together This oile is speciall good for all diseases of the braines and of the sinewes and it is especiall good in bathing against all lamenesse or conuulsion of the Palsey Paralysis if the same be annointed in the eares and in the nose it taketh away all sissing it moueth womens termes and it withstandeth all venime of Scorpions Some do make this oyle onely of the leaues like as Cammomill oyle is made and it is made most so Oyle of Masticke §. 40. THe manner to make this oyle and also his vertue is described in the third part the eleuenth Chapter and fifth § Oyle of Narcissus §. 41. THis oyle is called by the Phisitions Oleum Narcissum and is made like as oyle of Cammomill is wont to be made This oyle is very good for the hardening of the womanhood or if the same be shut too close it is also vsed for the Palsey that cometh of falles Oyle of Mirtles §. 42. OF this oyle be two kinds made that which is made of the séede hath an astringent vertue wherefore it is also good for all hote vlcers and for the chaps of the Arsegut it strengtheneth the slacknesse or loosenesse of the sinewes and it stayeth sweat But that which is made of the leaues strengtheneth onely the braines the sinewes the heart and the stomacke but because that we can get no fresh they are first to be infused in good wine and to put vnripe Sallade oyle vnto it Oyle of Mints §. 43. THis oyle is made of Mints and vnripe Sallade oyle like as the oyle of Cammomill is wont to be made This oyle warmeth the cold stomacke it taketh away vomiting it maketh appetite to meate it helpeth the Consumption and it consumeth all hard swellings Oyle of Motherwort §. 44. THis oyle is very seldome vsed and is made as other oyles yet in this booke it is but once ordained Oyle of Nutmegs §. 45. THis oyle is made like as the oyle of Almonds is wont to be made that is by pressing it out Oyle of Cloues §. 46. TAke good fat Cloues half a pound powne them very small and distil it like as before in the 18. § hath bin said of Annis séed A pound of Cloues doth seldome yéeld more than an ounce and a halfe of oyle In the same manner may oyle of Nutmegs be also distilled and there is hardly more gotten out of it than fiue dragmes out of a pound both these oyles are more forcible than th◠same spices Oyle of Walnuts §. 47. THis oyle of Walnuts is prest out of old Nuts like as oyle of Almonds his vertue do we find described in sundry places of this Booke Oyle of Pepper §. 48. WE will refer the preparing of this oyle to the Apothecaries but it is good for all cold diseases of the sinews as for the palsy the cramp conuulsion of the mouth shaking falling sicknes paines of the hips and other diseases mo of the ioynts In like manner it is also good for a cold stomacke for the guts for the raines and for the cold bladder for that it warmeth it auoideth all slimines it openeth all obstructions it breaketh the stone of the bladder and also of the kidneys There is also oyle distilled out of Pepper like as is said of the Annis Oyle of Peach Kernels §. 49. THis oyle is also prest out like to the oyle of Almonds Oyle of Quinces §. 50. THe vertue and nature of this oyle and also the maner of making it is described in the third Part the 15. Chap. and 5. § Oyle of Rue §. 51. THis oyle is to be made of fresh Rue like as oyle of Cammomill is made it is warme by nature it openeth and swageth the paine it is good for all cold kidneys for a cold Matrix and for the paine of the same if the belly be annointed therewith or if one set a clister with it It is very méete for the sinewes for the crampe and it expelleth all cold humors Oyle of Earthwormes §. 52. IN the fourth part the fourth Chapter is the vertue of one of these oyles shewed and the manner how to make it But there is also another made which doth warme more doth penetrate more and strengtheneth all the ioynts Take Cāmomill Sage Agrimonie and field Cipers of each halfe a handfull Rosemary halfe as much Iuniper berries one quarter of an ounce Earthworms decocted in Wine sixe ounces white Wine one pint Sallad oyle fiftéene ounces let it séeth together vntill the wine be throughly consumed and then wring it out through a cloth Oyle of Priuet §. 53. THe Phisitions and Apothecaries do name this Priuet Ligustrum This oyle is made as the oyle of Cammomill it strengtheneth all sinewie parts and hindreth the haire to be gray Oyle of Rubarbe §. 54. TAke Rubarbe nine ounces Agaricus thrée ounces Turbith thrée ounces and a halfe rootes of Polipodie foure ounces Cinnamom and Iuniper berries of each halfe an ounce red white and yellow Saunders of each foure scruples long and round Hartwoort Gentian rootes of blew Flower deluce of Costus Asarabacca Zeduarie Ginger Galingall Elecampane rootes and Calmus of each one quarter of an ounce Tormentill rootes of Carduus Benedictus of each one dragme and a halfe Nutmegs
the Matrix Betonie wine §. 5. THis Wine is made of browne Betonie as all other herbed wines be it is especiall good against all belching and wambling of the stomacke it withstandeth the ouerflowing of the gall it is many times approoued in a cold Matrix and against all suffocation of the same it strengtheneth all inward parts it warmeth and healeth also the same it openeth the obstructions it consumeth all cold humors it expelleth all venemous matter by the vrine by the stoole and in like manner also the yellow Iaundise and if the same be oftentimes vsed then it is very requisite against the falling sicknesse against the Sciatica against the sicknesse of the lights and against the Consumption It is also very necessary against the cough against short breath and it expelleth also all agues which do come out of a foule stomacke The same power haue the red Gilloflowers like as the same be also a kind of Betonie whereof hereafter we will speake further This wines vse and operation you shall find described in other places moe Burrage wine §. 6. WE haue admonished before of the description of the Conserue and Sirupe of Burrage how there is small difference betwéene this herbe and the Buglosse wherefore also both these herbes may be taken for this wine like as we haue taught before or the iuice of the same may also well be vsed with this wine which wine doth driue away all poyson from the heart it cleanseth the blood it maketh merry it refresheth the vitall spirit it driueth away all pensiuenesse and all bad thoughts it is also very necessary for all them which do fall easily into any swouning and is of a full temperate nature c. Wine of Asarabacca §. 7. THis wine and other moe be prepared against the grauell like as in the third part the 17. Chapter and 4. § is described and you shall further find in other places moe for what it is more commodious Wine of Framboyes §. 8. THis wine is made like as the wine of the whole Grapes is made it hath the nature of the same berries it is much commended in the Plague and Squinancie but if one put none other wine vnto it then is it not very pleasant wherefore it is not commaunded to be vsed in any other places of this booke Wine of Harts toong §. 9. THere be two kindes of Harts toongs viz. the Ceterach which is the right Harts toong and the long Harts toong which is hairie about the stalkes they may be taken both together and to make this wine as all other wines it is not very pleasant of taste but it is of great force for that it openeth and strengtheneth the Spléene it is good against all poyson of Snakes and being drunke warme it asswageth all crampes and scowring of the belly it taketh away the yellow Iaundise and also obstructions of the liuer it is also very good for all them which be vexed with the stone and with the grauell it is also good against all melancholy and expelleth the quartaine Ague it consumeth all clotted blood which is caused in the brest through fals it openeth also the conduits of vrine and healeth all diseases of the same For what this wine is further meete that is to be found described in other places of this booke Wine of Hyssope §. 10. THis herbe is hot and drie by nature which vertue the wine also hath wherefore it is good for all old persons for it warmeth all inward parts it asswageth the cold and moist cough it is also good against the falling sicknesse for when the same is vsed often and long then doth it take away the same and that especially in yong folkes It is also good for the breast and the lights for it warmeth the same and consumeth all tough slimie matter and also all agues which may spring out of the same it openeth the pipes of the lights and it maketh a cleere voice for it cleanseth the breast and healeth all anguishes of the same it taketh away the shortnesse of breath and is especiall good against the Dropsie like as is admonished and described in moe other places of this booke Winter Cherrie wine §. 11. THis wine is also made like as the wine of whole Grapes it is very much vsed against the stone the grauell and is also especiall good for all them which can hardly make water Cherrie wine §. 12. VPon the riuer of Rhene and euery where else all wines which be made of red or blacke Cherries are called Cherrie wines and they make the same as hereafter followeth Plucke the Cherries from the stalkes and poune them in a stone morter with stones and all and then poure red or white wine vpon it but this wine will be very small wherefore it is prepared after another maner with whole Cherries as followeth Lay in a vessell of béechen or hasell chips as many as you please and then one part of Cherries vpon it and so further vntill it be full like as we haue said and taught of the wine of Grapes fill then the vessell ful of wine and so let it lie thrée or foure dayes then shall it be sufficiently coloured This wine is of a good tempered nature is very requisite in sommer time in great heat for to asswage therwith thirst to moisten the inward parts It openeth also the liuer it expelleth vrine especially if the kernels with the stones be broken in it for these kernels expel the grauell Some do hang spices therein which cannot be good because his nature is altered therby Looke into the table of the Cherries Lauender wine §. 13. THere is but little made at once thereof in a small vessel whereof may not be drunken long There is a long bagge hanged in it with Lauender flowers and interbastated or quilted to the end that not all the flowers fall in a heape This wine is especiall good for a colde head and for moist braines for the giddinesse for the falling sicknesse and such like diseases Of Malmsey §. 14. ALbeit that this wine be tempered neither with herbes nor with spices but by nature and of it selfe is a noble and pleasant wine which is brought vnto vs out of Grecia and other countries adiacent yet shal it neuerthelesse not be against our purpose because that the same is very much vsed in Phisicke that his power and vertue be shewed at this present looke for it in the second part in the sixt chapter and in the third part the 11. chapter and 14. § Wine of Marierom §. 15. THis wine is prepared as all other herbed wines are it strengtheneth the braines and warmeth all inward parts it is very good for all them which be inclined to the dropsie it asswageth the paine of the belly it expelleth vrine and moueth womens termes it is a very good potion for to warme the head and to strengthen the memorie as you find described in diuers places of this booke
Wine of Cinnamome §. 16. THis aromaticall wine is so called and placed amongst Claret wine whereof we haue admonished before in the eighth part in the third Chapter This Wine is to be prepared in the haruest and will kéepe good throughout the whole yeare it hath all the vertues of Hypocrasse Take one and a halfe or two barrels of Must séeth the same as we haue taught of the wine of Elecampane rootes when it is cold then put it into a cleane vessell and put thereto as many whole Grapes pluckt from the stalke as will go into the third part of the vessell afterwards make a linnen bagge and put therein two pound of Cinnamome Ginger one ounce Galingall one ounce and a halfe Pepper and Greines of each halfe an ounce Cloues and Nutmegs of each one quarter of an ounce Cucubes Cardamome and long Pepper of each one dragme Mace thrée dragmes powne all grosse and hang these herbes in it This Cinnamome wine may be vsed for all cold diseases of the head as all other Aromaticall wines are to be â—sed Item for all cold and vnfruitfull women but to the contrary all yong and hote peoplâ— and all they that be burthened with hot Agues must shun this wine as poyson Of this foresaid wine is admonished in many places of this booke Muscadell wine §. 17. THis wine groweth in Candie from whence it is brought to Venice and brought thence vnto vs and is often vsed in Phisicke like as is admonished in many places Wine of Gilloflowers §. 18. THis wine is made of red Gillofer flowers and made after the same maner as the wine of Betonie is made which hath also the same force like as both of these herbes taken to be of one efficacie and is commended in sundrie places of this booke Wine of Buglosse §. 19. LOoke for it before in the sixt § of the wine of Burrage Wine that purgeth §. 20. THese purging wines be made after many kindes of wayes like as you find them described in their places whereof you haue one for an example in the third part the eleuenth Chapter in the end of the twentith § which may be vsed for a common opening of the body Wine of whole Grapes §. 21. IT is before described in the third § wherefore we will not here discourse any further thereof Vinum Punicum §. 22. THis is no artificial wine but it is a wine which is of it self so growne without the addition of any thing vnto it It is very healthy and also good of taste The same is drunken in Germanie not onely at great feasts but also vsed for Phisicke like as is sufficiently admonished thereof in the Table Rosemary wine §. 23. THis Rosemary wine is maruellous much commended and taken for a very wholesome potion especially in al cold sicknesses It strengtheneth the digestiue vertue of the stomack it causeth appetite it fortifieth the heart the braines and the sinewes it giueth a faire pleasant colour not only drunken but also the face washed therewith it consumeth all inward putrified humors and it preserueth the body from all sicknesse If the mouth be often washed therewith then doth it make a well sauouring breath it strengtheneth the teeth and the flesh of the téeth wherefore it is also very good that all outward vlcers viz. the Canker fresh wounds and such like sores be washed therewith Further this wine is good for all diseases of the lights for the consumption and especially for all them that are rheumaticke and moyst of braines It is also good against the Palsie against the falling sicknesse against the lamenesse and against the cold Matrix it heateth and drieth the same and maketh it also méete for conception Thus if this wine must be made in haste and not be kept long then may you take Rosemary flowers Harts toong and also rindes of Thamariske of each halfe a handfull then poure vpon it seuen pots of Must and then let it so stand and worke or runne ouer and fill vp the vessell alwayes with other good wine Item take Rosemary and Harts toong lay it all a night to stéepe in wine and then vse this wine in stead of the foresaid wine if the same cannot be gotten his vertue and power is described in many sundrie places Wine of Sage §. 24. THis wine doth heale all sorenesse of the mouth it setteth fast the téeth and also the gums it strengtheneth the sinewes and all lame ioynts it drieth the moist braines which are hurt through Phlegma it fréeth from the crampe trembling and shaking and also from the falling sicknesse the same being drunken and the liuer annointed therewith or the hot vapor thereof receiued for what it is further méet that is admonished here and there in this booke Wine of Clarie §. 25. THe deceitfull falsifiers of wine haue made this precious herbe which is a species of wild Sage very suspicious so that it is estéemed hurtfull but it is in truth not so for if with this herbe as with all other herbes the wine be prepared then is it very fit for the head and for the stomacke for that it drieth and warmeth the colde moist braines It is also much to be compared with the wine of Sage and of Rosemary for his vertue and this is also the cause wherefore we make so little mention thereof in this booke Wine of water Lilly flowers §. 26. THis Wine is prepared very seldome as also it is but once remembred in this booke and that in the Consumption Tamariske wine §. 27. THis plant doth willingly grow in moyst places and to this wine is alwayes vsed the middlemost rinds it hath the same power of the wine of Harts toong wherefore they are commonly vsed together as may be séene in many places of this booke This wine may also well be drunken for to cleanse the blood with it and to consume melancholicke humors which do cause the quartaine Ague the Seuruie and such like sicknesses What vertues this wine hath more looke for that in the Table in the description of the wine of Harts toong Wine of Wormewood §. 28. ALthough that this wine hath a bitter and vnpleasant tast yet hath it neuerthelesse a maruellous great vertue and is vsed aboue all other herbed wines First of all it killeth the wormes it withstandeth poyson and it expelleth the hurtfull phlegme and if one drinke the same often it clenseth and strengtheneth all inward parts that they cannot receiue such matter it drieth the vapors of the stomack that they cannot ascend into the head it maketh appetite it openeth all obstructions of the inward parts viz. of the liuer and the Spléene and it taketh away also the yellow Iaundise which is caused therby it fréeth from the Palsey the falling sicknesse and all lamenesse it restoreth lost spéech it strengtheneth the weakened ioynts if the same be well rubbed and fomented with it and if mens or beasts wounds be washed with it then is the same
This capitall powder following may also be vsed for this Take Indie Spica Ameos Bay berries Marierom gentle of each one dragme Lignum Aloes one dragme and a halfe beate all apart and mixe them togither with fiue graines of this powder You must euery euening when you goe to bed strewe it on your head Of the beating or panting of the Hart. §. 3. THe Grecians do call this disease Palmos the Latinists Palpitatio Tremor or Saltus Cordis which is a trembling or panting of the Hart contrarie to the common custome It is caused euen as we haue taught in the beginning of this Chapter of the abundant moysture which is in the closet of the Hart. With these there may be yet moe other inward causes as the paine of the stomack vexation offence of the Hart of the Liuer the Lights the Milt or Mother Also of winde ill damps corrupted blood such like The outward causes are commonly great heate sodaine and great cold great emptines great sorrowe fright great feare and other motions of the minde Further of venime taken biting of venimous beasts pestilent Agues corrupted ayre stinking dwellings like as in prison Mines or other such like which are vnder the earth of belly wormes and all other things that vexe the Hart the which are well to be vnderstood of the patient himselfe The inward signes are these If the panting of the hart procéede of wormes then is the beating of the hart bigger before meate then after but if the same come of a bad stomacke then may it easily be marked through paine in the same place if the same be wroong Also by the wambling and vomiting If it come by fulnes of the same then is the disease most grieuous after meate but if through emptines then it is most sore before meate If it procéede of fright sorrow and such like you must vnderstand and learne that by the patient If it come of winds then it is very suddenly vpon one and soone gone away againe If it be prouoked of heate then is the pulse swift and the breath is strong and disordred If it procéede of bloud then is the vrin grosse and the pulse beateth spéedily and strong his face will be red and about the hart is alwayes great heate the patient is alwayes light harted the which is much augmented through meates that make and ingender much bloud Or if this disease be caused of Cholera then is his vrin yellow and thin the pulse beateth continually swiftly with great thirst possibly through daily meate whereby the Cholera is increased or of former paines taken If this be caused of Phlegma that appeareth by the white and thick vrin of small slow and disordred pulse the patient is sléepie faint-harted This is also woont to be caused of meates that procure Phlegma Likewise in winter time when this panting of the hart is caused of Melancholy then is the sick bodie fearefull the bodie decreaseth and falleth away and that most of all in Haruest with many moe melancholick signes that are elsewhere described This panting of the hart doth often haunt both yong and aged people whereby the occasion is hardly to be adiudged and in all such it is found that the letting of bloud hath not only eased them well but also throughly holpen them and chiefely if therewith they haue obserued a good order in eating and drinking and vse all such medicines as haue abated the bloud and other humors howbeit the same hapneth very seldome that aged people be cured thereof for that they most of all chaunce to dye of a hote Ague or of swouning and that commonly betweene fortie and fiftie yéeres Thus much for the beating or trembling of the hart Of the panting of the Hart through heate §. 4. IF by the panting of the hart there be discerned a swift pulse and an Ague then is it a signe that it commeth of bloud or Cholera the which is not without danger for it often hapneth that then they do fall into a swoune thereby immediatly remaine dead Now for to remedie this must the sick persons face hands féete and pulse veines be forthwith sprinckled and rubbed with these compounded waters take Rose water foure ounces Mints water two ounces Roses burnt Iuorie red white Saunders of each two scruples Muscus and Ambra of each two graines Vineger two ounces Malmesey two scruples mixe them all together and when you will vse thereof then stirre it well about Secondly take pleasant Wine and water of Buglosse of each one ounce Specierum Diamoschu dulci one scruple temper it and giue it to the patient warme to drinke Thirdly he shall cōtinually smell to odoriferous bags that shall hereafter be described Afterward as soone as is possible ought the Liuer veine be opened in the right arme and foure or fiue ounces of bloud be letten out but not before that the sick person hath gone to stoole The next day following he shall take this potion take sirupe of Citron pils one ounce small beaten Rubarb and prepared Agarick of each two scruples sirupe of Roses halfe an ounce Ginger and Spica of each sixe graines Sal Gemmae two graines temper them all together with thrée ounces of the water of Burrage and so drinke it luke warme and fast thereupon foure howres You may also cause him to be purged with Cassia Tamarines yellow Mirobalanes Manna and Rubarb putting to either of them some Agarick As for example you may take this Purgation following Take water of Buglosse one ounce and a halfe Cicorie water two ounces Rubarb one dragme and a halfe prepared Agarick one dragme the iuice of Roses halfe a dragme Spica one scruple Ginger fiue graines let this stéepe 24. howres in a warme place and making it hote in the morning you must straine it through a cloth and so drinke it warme and then fast foure howres after This being done he must eight dayes one after another take euery morning this drinke following Take sirup of Apples sirup of Citron pils and Oxysacchara of each halfe an ounce water of Balme and of Buglosse of each one ounce Cicorie water one ounce and a halfe temper them all together to a potion And it were not ill that he take euery fourth day one of these pils following Take Aloe one quarter of an ounce Rubarb one dragme Agatick foure scruples red and white Behen Saffron Mace and Indy Salt of each three graines make pils thereof with the iuice of Buglosse sixe to a dragme If there be greater heate approching then is it aduised that at the first euery day be taken halfe a dragme of Trociscos de Camphora with sirupe of Pomgranats dissolued and so continue foure dayes together And if this will not help then must the patient drinke new Buttermilke with all these purgations and letting blood It is also highly commended to carie a sober life in eating and drinking yet to take héede that the patient remaine by his strength We will
héere mention some moe things that are very commodious for the panting of the hart like as fragrant things which are of a cold nature as Violets water Lillies Roses all Saunders Corrall Perle Campher Harts bones Iacints Smaragdes shauen Iuorie Amber Coriander the iuice of Limons Rose water odoriferous fruites Quinces Peares Apples and their like Amongst compounds are the confection of Orange pils and their sirupe the confection of Citrons and their sirupes conserue of Buglosse Roses Violets Burrage confected Cherries and their sirupes the flowres and rootes of Cicorie confected sirupe of Sorrell Burrage wine and Cherie wine the Tabulats of Diamargariton Diarrhodon Abbatis Dragagant and Manus Christi with perles but the Phisitions do ordaine many compounded medicines as hereafter do follow The laxatiue sirup of Roses is specially commended if there be any stopping of the belly for it cooleth and diuerteth all ill vapors from the hart whereby the hart is much pained There are also made for this many confections according to the importance of the patient whereof there follow some hereafter Take conserue of Roses halfe an ounce conserue of Buglosse two ounces conserue of water Lillies one quarter of an ounce Perles Iacints Smaragdes Citron séede Sorrell séede and red Corrall of each one dragme red white and yellow Saunders prepared Coriander burnt Iuorie red and white Behen Harts bones stéeped in Rose water of each halfe a dragme filed Gold and Siluer of each two scruples Gold and Siluer leaues of each xv Sugar one ounce and a halfe beate them all small together and temper it with Rose water but not on the fire Item take the iuice of sweete Apples and of Buglosse which is cleare and setled of each two ounces Doronicum Citron pils Burrage floures Roses shauen Iuorie of each halfe an ounce Basill séedes halfe an ounce Mirtle leaues Balme Coriander Cinnamome Galingall Seduary Spike Lignum Aloes burnt silke and Saffron of each one quarter of an ounce small filed Gold and Siluer of each two dragmes and a halfe red and white Behen burnt Harts horne Mace Galliae Muscatae Amber Harts bones red Saunders of each thrée dragmes of all Mirobalans of each halfe an ounce Smaragdes Berill Iacincts Saphires Granates which be prepared of each one dragme Perles thrée dragmes Amber and Campher of each halfe a scruple Muske one dragme make a powder thereof and to euery ounce of powder put twelue ounces of Sugar dissolue the Sugar in Rose water and séethe it for to make Tabulates thereof or a confection This confection is of a temperate nature very forcible for all swouning and maladies of the hart These two next following are cooling Take conserue of Roses Buglosse Burrage of each one ounce Species de Gemmis and Rubies of each one scruple Harts bones péeled Citron seede of each 10. graines sirup of Apples as much as you desire to make it soft vse thereof in the morning two howres before meate The other Take conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce Species Triasandalon burnt Iuorie Sorrell séedes peeled Melon seede Gourd séede and péeled Cucumber séede Limon seede and Oxysacchara of each thrée quarters of an ounce Sugar halfe an ounce Perles two scruples thrée leaues of beaten Gold mixe it with the sirupe of Apples vnto a confection And if this panting of the hart come too often then giue of this powder following halfe a dragme tempered with Rose water and water of Buglosse Take red Corrall Iacinct Smaragdes and Saphir of each fiue graines small filed Gold thrée graines Perles halfe a drag temper them together and put thereto a spoonefull of white Vineger make a potion thereof Item take red Corrall Perles Iacincts and Smaragdes all together prepared of each one scrup giue therof half a drag with some kind of distilled water Restoratiue waters of Capons are very requisite for this which must be thus prepared Boyle the Capon in water wherein hath diuers times gold béene quenched chop it afterwards in peeces and put thereto flowers of Borage Buglosse Violets Roses Citron péeles Cinnamome Cloues Balme and Saffron of each one dragme If you cannot get all these then take as many of them as you can get and distill them all togither with flesh and broth in hot water and then when any body is very feeble giue him a meetely draught thereof it strengtheneth not only the Hart but the stomacke also maruellous much There is also another made with spices as followeth When the Capon is made cleane then stampe him with bones and flesh in a mortar afterwards powre it into a glasse helme Borage Balme Endiue Fennell and Rose water of each two ounces then put thereto the stampt Capon Item put more thereto the water of Wormwood and of Comfery of each one ounce Spec. de gemmis Diarrhodon Abbatis Diamargariton the cold Cinnamome Lignum Aloes of each one scrup distill them all togither as before Moreouer there is another Capon water to be distilled as followeth Take an old Capon that is made cleane put thereto fower quarts of water let them seethe well togither then pull off the skin and the fatnes and then breake him all to péeces and distill water thereof as before You are to salt this water so that it may last the better without stinking You haue also here before in the fift Chapter in the 22. § a precious water which strengtheneth the Hart woonderfull much the which may be also vsed for the same Sirupe of Apples We haue often here before admonished of the sirupe of Apples which is thus made Take the iuice of sweete and sower Apples of each fiue ounces seethe it to the halfe scumming it then let it stand two daies to settle put thereto thrée ounces of Sugar and then séethe them togither vnto a sirupe Another Take the iuice of the best tasting swéete and sower Apples of each twelue ounces séethe it vntill it be well scummed then put thereto sixe ounces of Sugar and let it séethe togither to a sirupe These sirupes strengthen the weake panting Hart preserue one from swouning and strengthen the stomacke Item take Rose water the iuice of sower Apples and water of Buglosse of each thrée ounces seethe these togither to a sirupe or to a Iulep For this is also good many kindes of accustomed sirupes as the sirupe of vineger and of Limons of Raspes Violets water Lillies veriuice Sorrell Borage and Buglosse also Iulep of Violets and Roses the which are to be found in the first Register by their names Confections and Powders for to vse inwardly TAke Species Diarrhodon Abbatis Aromatici rosati de gemmis and prepared Coriander of each thrée dragmes prepared Bloodstone one drag and a halfe Trocisci de Spodio cum semine acetosae two scruples shauen Iuorie halfe a drag Harts bones halfe a scruple prepared Pearles fower scruples Granadoes Iacints Smaragdes Rubies Saphires Corall and Roses of each one scruple Cinnamome one quarter of an ounce Sugar sixe ounces temper
and vsed as well in Cookerie as for Phisick which is no lesse pleasant than wyne it selfe For Dioscorides and other mo learned ascribed to vineger many innumerable vertues like as we find by dayly experience therefore is also the red as well as the white vineger ordained in Phisick for many kind of causes as it is also in some diseases forbidden The leese of the vineger is also otherwhiles mentioned in this booke The nineteenth Chapter Of Herbed wines and such like FIrst we will teach héere how this Wine is héere to be prepared the which is effected after sundry manners and as liketh each one best The common manner is that the herbs are to be gathered betwéene the middest of August and middest of September but the fittest time is when they beare their floures These herbs are to be dryed in the shadow or at least in a luke warme Chamber where it doth not dust vntill you will vse the same If now you will make any Herbed wyne then take a small vessell as big as you will and put therein Beechen or hasell chips into it strow vpon it a good deale of dryed herbs without wringing and afterwards one part of chips againe herbs do this so long vntill that all the whole vessell be full and afterwards fill it with Must If so be that it be strong then may you drinke of it the sooner and fill it full againe But to procure further aduise therof therfore we will adde vnto this how to make other sorts of herbed wines If one will kéepe these wines swéete then is one part of the Must to be decocted away with a light fire and that according as the Must is strong or thin Other do prepare their herbed wines by a certaine distillation with such herbs as they will themselues so that they keepe their smell power and vertue that if so be that one put but two or thrée drops of it into a quart of wine that then all the wine wil taste of it so that thereby many expences labor and trauell is spared But because that such experiments be not knowne vnto all men therefore may they vse these things following Take such herbs as you will whether they be floures or rootes which be very dry poune them and powre vpon them good burnt wine afterwards stop it tight and let it stand so astéepe the space of certaine dayes afterwards strayne them out thorow a cloth and then preserue it in a glasse When as then you will haue such wine then powre thereof whether it be much or little into it and if so be that you haue no burnt wine then take good old strong wine in stead thereof But excepting the boyling or distilling 〈◊〉 it the wine it selfe is of that nature that very shortly it draweth to it the power smatch sauor and vertue of those things which are infused therein Some suppose that one must cast into the vessell only the herbs rootes séeds floures or any thing else that one will and to powre new Must vpon it whether it be much or little according to that the wine or any thing that is in it be strong or weake Other do cast the rootes herbes and other things in it when â—he wine is a yeare old Some do take the herbes or rootes c. greene some drie Some do shred the herbes some do stamp them to powder and so hang them in a bag Each may take out of this which liketh him best Let this suffice for the making of the wines Wine of Elecampane rootes §. 1. THis wine is prepared after diuers sorts but the best maner is which also néedeth not much trouble as hereafter followeth Take Must first troden out of the Grapes and let it séeth without any smoke about it euen to the halfe it that you desire to haue it swéete In this you are to séeth Elecampane rootes which be digged vp in the spring time and cut into slices and dried on a thréed Seeth them so long in it vntill they haue lost all their bitter taste and if one will often vse this wine then are the rootes so much the oftener to be sod with new wine that the wine may abide by his power and the vessell is alwayes to be filled vp againe with wine This is a very profitable potion for the head and the braines in like maner also for to warme and strengthen the sinewes if the same be vexed with rheumes This wine is also good against al cold diseases of the lights of the brest it clenseth the same it strengtheneth all bad digestiue stomacks it refresheth naturall warmth it warmeth the sinews it openeth the passages of vrine it is good against all winds it strengtheneth the Matrix and it clenseth the same of all cold phlegmaticke moisture and it prouoketh also the termes Eyebright wine §. 2. THis wine is made of the herbe as we haue taught before his vertues are described in the first part the seuenth Chapter and 20. § and in other places moe Wine of whole Grapes §. 3. IF one will make this wine as it ought to be then take whole red or white Grapes taken from the stalkes and well clensed and put them into a vessell with chips as we haue taught before fill the white with white Must or with Ferne wine and the red with red wine Some do boile it in Must and that according to each ones pleasure as also some there be which put no chips vnto it but they do put Sage leaues vnto it and let them lie a certaine time in it There be spices also wont to be hanged therein so that the wine may get thereby not onely a pleasant but also a strong and good taste These wines are first of all very commodious for all hosts and householders so that all that which remaineth of other wines and is not drunken may be powred vnto it Such wines be very acceptable but if one do drinke too much thereof then do they hurt the head for they do distemper the braines and that chiefly in the euening after supper for that they be much subtiler and more ascending than other wines they make a bodie quickly very sleepie they prouoke vomiting against euening but in the morning they make merry and amongst all other there be none that hurt the braines more than this wherefore they are both drunken more for lust and pleasure than for commoditie of health Wine of Auence §. 4. THese odoriferous rootes do the Apothecaries and Phisitions call Garyophillata the same is to be digged vp in the spring time but chiefly in March in which time the rootes be most forcible let these rootes drie well and when they be cleansed then hang them afterwards in the wine it will get thereby a very pleasant fauour and taste which refresheth the heart and strengtheneth it openeth the obstruction of the liuer warmeth the cold and moist braines drieth and strengtheneth the cold slimie stomake it asswageth also all paine of