another as long as an egge may be sod and let it coole you may take thereof the bignes of a Walnut and annoint your selfe twice a day therewith on the hands and side and elswhere if it be néedfull It is also to be noted that there is another sort of Consumption called Febris Hectica which procéedeth also of this contagion of the Lights but we will speake further thereof in the sixt part where we do treate of all other sorts of Agues as also of other witherings of the members of lamenesse and the Poxe in the fourth Chapter of this booke Of the stinking breath in Phthisis or the Consumption §. 24. OF all the former diseases and putrifactions of the Lights it is easily to be vnderstood from whence the breath hath his beginning and whence it stinketh and that it cannot be amended if the disease whereby it is corrupted be not taken away and cured whereof is spoken more at large in the first part the 13. Chapter and § 3. therefore we will speake more briefly of it for which Master Tristrams water is very good Likewise the iuice of Wormwood tempered with Vineger and the mouth washt therewith Confected Calmus Elecampane and Citron pils are also very good with their sirupes In the first part the twelfth Chapter and 1. § is a powder set downe which beginneth thus Take Sene c. Annis and Fennell séedes confected and such like do also take away the stinking breath the which also do swéet and bitter Almonds be they confected or no. But héede must be taken for the consumption that no laske or fluxe happen with it and if such do happen then is this powder following to be vsed Take Gum of Araby burnt Iuory fine Bolus and Myrtle séede of each a like much make therof a powder and minister thereof euery day as long as is very néedfull thrée dragmes at a time with sirupe of Poppie heads and Myrtles For to conclude this Chapter of the Lights we will adde hereunto certaine néedfull and necessarie things to wit the medicines which by nature voluntarily ease the Lights as Ireos Hyssope Licorice Raisins Venus haire Squils Saunders Pingles Foxelights Horehound Hony Sugar Dragagant Fenegréeke Barley Saffron Ameos Colewoort broth the broth of an old stued Cock Cherries Lignum Aloes Hasell nuts Opopanacum Serapinum Myrrha Radishes Daffodill rootes Lilly rootes Frankinsence These things following do cleanse the Lights and the Breast as Agaricus Hyssope Woodbind Sarcocolla Cassia Ireos Coloquint the confection of Diasena and the pils Cochiae These things following do strengthen and warme the breast and the Lights as Hyssope Horehound Ireos Elecampane rootes Cammomill Hollihocke rootes Currans Squils Balsam wood Myrrha Serapinum Lilly rootes Venus haire Licorice Indy Spica and amongst the compounded things are Diacalaminthum Diaprassium Diahyssopum Ireos tabulates the confection of Pingles and Looch de Pino For the cooling of the breast these things Iuiubes Sebestes Dragagant Gum of Araby Starch and white Poppy séede swéet Almonds Violets Sugar candy Mulberries Saunders Sugar c. Of the compounded things the confection Diapapauere cold Dragagant Sallads Sugar pennets and other things more that with many more are described before We must note further that although the disease of children which is called the infection of the heart be a malady of the Lights and a kind of Consumption yet for some causes it is described in this Chapter following The sixt Chapter Of the Hart the most precious part of mans body ALl they that are expert in naturall things or in Philosophie do write that the Hart is the first member that is found in all liuing bodies and in like maner the last that dieth of all other parts of a liuing body the which is very well to be beléeued for that it is a perfect fountain ofspring of life of all naturall heat and is also it selfe hoter than any other member therefore in all beasts it is set in the middest of their bodies that it might warme the bloud spread the same abroade ouer all the whole body and thereby preserue life right in the middle of the breast which is contained in this second Part of this booke The Hart hath his place in mens bodies but with his picked end tendeth towards the left side and left nipple therefore do the common people suppose that the hart lyeth in the left side Out of this springeth first the vitall spirits Spiritus vitales which with a continuall stirring and mouing preserue it and that with such force that the same being out of the body yet it forcibly stirreth and goeth vp and downe euen as one may specially see by the harts of the Salmon and Sturgeon Through which continuall stirring from this place it doth communicate his motion through all the Arteries and also the life it selfe vnto the whole body the which is to be knowen by this that when the same is infected with any impostume or with any weapon neuer so little pierced that forthwith the vitall spirits yea life it selfe must depart out of the body like as is dailie séene by the like experience of the harts of all beasts which are killed whereas the hart being found sound so soone as the same is neuer so little touched or stirred that then all warmth and helpe is taken from all other members whereupon immediatly death ensueth and is none otherwise but as if ones hart be not before harmed Item this hart is also the dwelling place of all inclinations of the mind as mirth vexation sorrow feare care hope loue hate anger malice mercie sufferance or forbearance and such like Fourthly appeare in the Hart such diuersities of affections with such a force and vertue that if the one do raigne aboue the other the same draweth such an humor vnto it as is most acceptable for it As anger draweth vnto it Cholera mirth discusseth the blood ouer the whole body and through feare and fright hasteneth it towards the hart in great sorrow and vexation it draweth the melancholicke blood vnto it c. How were it then possible to expresse all the causes of these and of other more wonderfull passions of the hart yet haue many renowmed and learned men written very amply thereof whose bookes may be read and perused Also it is certaine that all bodies which haue great harts are fearefull and faint harted for that they haue not so much heate as is néedfull for them Contrariwise all small harts which draw the heate the better togither are stout and valiant This may well be vnderstood of great and spongeous harts which are not so wide nor filled with so many vitall spirits like as are other great and compacted harts that be hot and filled with vitall spirits then can they not otherwise but shew themselues manly and couragious like as the common prouerbe saith he hath a great Hart. The Hart hath some fatnesse on the top yet in leane bodies very little but in fat bodies somewhat more the
a double quartaine a thrée double ague Galen writeth out of whom this counsell is gathered that he knew a Phisition who before the quartaine was at the highest gaue his patient Treacle wherby the same ague so increased that he died thereof When as this order hath bene obserued in this ague then do the later Phisitions teach that these things following are very fit to be vsed Take Ginger one ounce cut it small and then séeth it in red wine vntill there remaine fiue ounces then mingle therewith one ounce and a halfe of Iulep of Violets and so drinke it to wit two houres before the Ague commeth vpon you and the same will make you sweate thoroughly Item take an ounce of the iuice of Plantaine two howers before the fit of the Ague approcheth it will remoue the Ague The water of Carduus Benedictus or the herbe sod in Wine and drunken cureth the Ague The common people take the pouder of this herbe and strow it vpon a shine or twaine of bread that is soked in burnt wine or Aqua vitae and so eate the bread before the â—â—ue come Oxymel scilliticum compositum openeth all obstructions in the quartaine and tertian Agues Some commend the wine of Asarabacca rootes for this roote hath the nature of the Hellebore it drieth all inward parts and prouoketh vrine and will therefore also expell the Ague The like vertues are ascribed to the wines of Harts toong of Hyssope and of Tamariscus The sirupe of Oxysacchara is also passing good The eleuenth Chapter Of the Consumption or Ethicke Hectica THis is one of the most perillous Agues that may light vpon a man for by her hot and drie operation she drieth vp all natural moisture of mans body This Hectica is not satisfied with the hurt that it doth to all naturall moisture and vitall spirits but it drieth also all nourishing parts and all the flesh of the whole body yea the marrow of the bones also so that it may duly and rightly be called the consuming Ague This destroying heate beginneth first in the heart of the Ague which is termed Causon that is the burning Feuer whereof we haue written in the seauenth Chapter which continueth there so long vntill it consume the very sap and moisture of the heart And albeit that it doth not consume and waste all the moisture of the heart yet doth it burne and spoile the same For it fareth with the heart as with a wicke in a lampe that at the beginning doth burne bright and cleare but the longer that it burneth the harder and the more burnt the drier it waxeth where by a little and a little it loseth light and extinguisheth and albeit more oyle be poured vnto it yet burneth it not then the brighter but the flame remaineth small and slacke and the longer that it burneth the darker it is till at the last all of it goeth cleane out of it selfe So fareth it also with this Hectica with or without an Ague as plainely may appeare in very old men which are commonly said to die like a lampe or candle This is to be noted also in children that sometimes also vse to abate and fall away This Consumption namely that which is without an Ague is called of the Gréekes Marasmodes that is a Consumption and of the Latinists Senectus that is old age whereby we may call it the infection of the heart whereof we haue spoken in the second part the sixt Chapter and ninth § In like manner in the description of the Consumption in the fifth Chapter and 22. § When this Hectica spreadeth her selfe ouer all the whole bodie drying it altogether vp then is it as we haue already told called Marasmodes This sicknesse is incurable and aboue all mens helpe for that the naturall heate would quickly like a trée through very great age or in them that lie about the fire through extreame heate be dried away The causes of this Hectica are all outward things which do heate the parts of the body whereby many Agues might be prouoked whence at the last this consumption is sounded and springeth Item the hunger and thirst if they be not remedied betimes the which for the most part happeneth to cholericke and leane men who falling into a quotidian Ague are thereby lightly turned into a burning and lastly into this Ague Hectica Item the perishing of the lights may very well be a cause of this Hectica whereby is hindered that the fresh aire may not coole the heart sufficiently and there be other moe occasions whereby the heart may be inflamed We will now admonish somewhat of her signes They that fall into Tabem that is into a consumption are easily to be discerned for before that one come to féele their pulses one may sée how their eyes be sunke and fallen into their heads The apples of their eyes will be drie in this agonie and wrinkled and the flesh round about the eyes fallen away so that one may otherwhiles almost see the bones of their browes It séemeth also otherwhiles that these diseased persons face is so bedusted with drie dust as it is in them that haue gone the whole day through the dust in the heate of the Sunne Also the liuely ruddinesse and colour ouer all the whole body is vanished and gone and likewise the skin of their forehead so hardned and shrunke that they séeme to close their eyelids very badly and sléeping they lie with their eyes halfe open which can be no due sleepe but rather an ouer-great watching and the flesh in the temples of the head doth so wast away that there séemeth to be a great hollownesse To conclude there remaineth no more than the very skin and the bones so that when one seeth them naked he would iudge none other than that the carkasse were couered with a drie skin and that all the intrailes are taken out or lie hid in the breast and when as one toucheth the skinne and plucketh it hard then shall he find it through drie and it seemeth that by plucking it will follow These sicke persons haue a hard pulse and at the first touching of them doth one perceiue small heate but when you hold your hand long vpon them then may you féele the heate vnder your hand increase and diuers such like signes more Of this maladie Hectica and Tabes is a great disputation whereof here we will not make many words but will commend that matter to the learned yet neuerthelesse before we come to the cure we will briefly admonish thus much that such as be of a moist nature in the beginning of the consumption are not assailed with this Ague Hectica but they onely that be drie of nature and somewhat hot and therewith do great labour watch much and liue in carefulnesse whereby their naturall moisture is wasted and spent these presently are taken with this Ague Hectica and specially such as chafe much liue in extreame sorrow or frequent great heate
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
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
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
it Powre the liquor from it and then let it séeth againe vntill that they be thorough mellow to wit in good wine then stampe them to grout and at last put good Malmsey vnto it and so much Sugar as you please and so let it séeth well together stirring it alwaies well about Some do lay them to stéepe in a strong ley and afterwards stéepe them in water But it is not so good for that their force will be thereby much abated so that it is better to séeth them in two or thrée waters to the end that they may lose their bitternesse they strengthen the heart and the vitall spirits and therwith also the stomacke they do helpe the consumption and drie the braines Conserue of Burrage §. 8. AMongst the learned there is debate whether the name betwéene Burrage and Buglosse be exchanged but therin is no great importance by reason that both of them are of one nature to wit that the same are to be vsed in all venimous and pestilentiall Agues they do strengthen the heart and all vitall spirits they withstand all venim and all heauinesse of mind and they do also cleanse the bloud from all melancholy In fine they coole all inward parts This Conserue is made of the blew flowers as we haue taught before How Calmus is to be preserued §. 9. TAke faire perfect Calmus powre faire Well water vpon it and let it séeth together vntill it be thorough mellow and that it loose some of his bitternes afterwards make these rootes faire from the outwardmost peeles and from all other vncleannesse If so be that some do swell too thicke then cut them longwise and in case that they be too bitter then let them séeth once again in water and then afterwards lay them to dry in a sieue The Sugar is certaine times to be decocted like as is taught before vntill that all the moisture be wasted This confected Calmus is most in all his force like vnto the Ginger and especially it is very good for all debilitie of the stomack that is burthened with some cold humor for that it consumeth the same humors and besides this strengtheneth the stomack if it be taken in the morning then doth it keep folks from all pestilentiall ayre and maketh a swéet breath it expelleth water and is especiall good for all diseases of the bladder and the kidneys it forceth the stone and the grauell and it prouoketh womens termes it is warme and dry by nature and hath an especiall operation for to open all obstructions c. How Citrons are to be preserued §. 10. A Common manner to preserue Citrons in Sugar or in Hony is this that one peele off the yellow rinds and cut the white pit in round or long péeces and then to separate the sower with the séedes from it Further the same is to be boyled in a water or twaine to the end that the bitternesse come from it and therewith may be mellow and soft afterwards is boyled Sugar to be powred lukewarme vpon it and deale with them like as is taught of the Elecampane rootes This preserue is very good against all venime it strengtheneth the heart and all vitall powers it is moist and cold in the first degrée and it is very safe to be taken How Citron peeles are to be preserued §. 11. TAke the péeles of Citrons which be not péeled too thin but that there remaine some of the white with it and do therewith as is said of the Orange péels These péeles be warm and drie vnto the third degrée wherfore they are but seldome to be vsed but in cold sicknesses they do helpe digesture they withstand all melancholicke humors and also all diseases which may procéed thereof How Berberries be preserued §. 12. YOu must take of the very fairest Berberries that you can get and wash the same very cleane afterwards séeth them in a sirupe of good Sugar and when the sirup is sodden short enough then cast the Berberries vnto it and let it seeth so softly a short time so that the berries do not breake and then preserue them in a glased pot They be good against all heate and all other inflammation of the bloud and especially of the stomack and liuer they comfort sicke persons in great thirst they moisten the drie toung the throate and all the mouth There is also a conserue made of this fruite and that in this manner following Take Berberries as before and seeth the same in wine afterwards straine them thorough a sleue or searce or thorough a cloth and then let it be sodden vnto a Conserue stirring it alwaies about This Confection stoppeth the bloudy fluxe cooleth the bloud which is inflamed of Cholera it obstructeth womens terms and maketh appetite to meate it is alwaies somewhat stronger than the Conserue of Raspes Otherwise hath it the same vertue or operation the Apothecaries do call it Rob de Berberis Conserue of Fumitorie §. 13. THis bitter herbe Fumitorie is very well knowne if you will make a Conserue of it then take the flowers of it and powne the same with Sugar as other Conserues and as we haue taught of Eyebright This confection is especiall good for all theÌ„ which be full of vncleane bloud and also for all them that be plagued with scurfe with the Poxe and with such like vncleannes it keepeth men in health and also from all venimous ayre Of this Conserue may fréely be taken as much as the quantitie of a great nut before that men will bath for that it expelleth out the sweat and al bad humors of the bodie therfore it is also good in the beginning of the Dropsie for that it openeth the liuer and all obstructions of the inward parts it driueth out the yellow Iaundise by the vrine and is very commodious for many other things How the Conserue of the fruite of the wild Rose tree is to be made §. 14. WHen as the fruits of these wild Roses which be called Priestpintle begin to be ripe then take as many as you please and séeth the same with red wine vnto pap afterwards wring it thorough a sieue or searse so let it séeth wel without putting any other thing vnto it with a continuall stirring about as another conserue This Conserue hath a maruellous operation for to stop the scouâ—ing or laske it is also good for all wambling of the stomack others do make it to a Conserue with Must halfe decocted wherwith they seeth it againe and cast certaine slices of Marmalade vnto it which is especiall good for a cold stomacke This Conserue is more in vse with the common people than at the Apothecaries wherfore we will speake the lesse thereof How Abricockes are to be preserued §. 15. THe skins of these Abricockes are to be pluckt off softly then powre vpon them Sugar decocted hard not ouer hot then let it stand so the space of one day or somewhat longer afterwards séeth the Sugar againe and that so
each one scruple Spermaceti one drag good Rubarbe one quarter of an ounce Camfer ten greines Sugarcandy one ounce then wring it out oftentimes and kéepe it stopt close Another Take drie red Rose leaues halfe an ounce flowers of Sage of Rosemary of Burrage and Buglosse of each one quarter of an ounce Liriconfansy one ounce a halfe Balme Citron péeles Betonie and red Gilloflowers of each one ounce Nutmegs Mace of each one drag Cardamome Cucubes of each half a drag white yellow Saunders of each one quarter of an ounce powne all these things very small then take a pint of good spirit of wine and put therein 2. ounces of Cucubes the stones taken out then cast them to the foresaid small beaten herbs and let them all stand to steepe in a warme place vntill that the wine hath drawne the vertue of these herbes vnto it the which wil be done in the space of two moneths You may also set it in the Sun all the whole Sommer straine it at last thorough a fine cloth You may also put vnto this Muske pretious stones Amber Perls Vnicornes horne and such like things for to strengthen the same therewith These foresaid vitall waters be especially good against all swouning against all debilitie of the braines and of the heart they strengthen also the sinewes the memorie they warme the chilled and bad digesting stomack wherin is much slime if they be taken fasting If one perceiue any losse of his memorie then is he to annoint therewith the forehead the hinder part of the head and the temples of the same They be also good against all lamenes of the Palsy they be also good against trembling shaking against swimming in the head and such like diseases But note that here will be too little burnt wine but one may take more In like manner you haue also in the 1. part the twelfth Chap. and 5. § a very good water of May Lillies This following is also an elixer of life and is thus prepared Take Rose-water 4. ounces water of Burrage and of Buglosse of each 3. ounces Manus Christi 1. ounce and a halfe prepared Pearles one drag and a halfe temper them all together and so giue it him that hath great heate of the head and of the Liuer and where as is great faintnesse of the heart This vitall water ensuing is very common at Augusta in Germany Take culled Cinnamom thrée quarters of an ounce Ginger halfe an ounce Cloues Nutmegs and Greines of each one quarter of an ounce Mace Lignum Aloes and long Pepper of each one drag Cardamome Masticke Cucubes Galingall and Calmus of each halfe a dragm Balme flowers sixe ounces Citron péeles thrée dragmes péeled Bayberries and Stechas of each one quarter of an ounce Rue Rosemarie Marioram Lauander Balme and Betony of each halfe a handfull Indy Spica and Beuercod of each halfe a drag steepe them all together in two quarts of Muscadel or in any other strong wine and let it stand so 10. or 12. hours space Afterwards distill it in seething water then are you to hang Muske and Amber of each fiftéene graines to wit in a fine cloth and then kéepe it close stopt This following is a very odoriferous water to be vsed for what one will Take the flowers of Spike and Lauander flowers of each one handfull Cloues Cinnamom Nutmegs Mace of each one dragme and a halfe Muske the quantitie of a pease then powre vnto it thrée pints of Rosewater and so set it in the Sunne There is yet another odoriferous water in the sixt part in the fiftéene chap. and 5. § which may also be vsed for diuers purposes Cinnamom water is also exhibited to sicke folkes for a strengthening and they are annointed therwith and is to be further vsed for many Confections Marchpanes and other pleasanties the which is thus to be made Take foure ounces of good Cinnamome pown it very smal and put it into an helme afterwards powre a pint of water vpon it and lute it close then distill it in seething water and that which commeth out first is whitish and strongest and is onely to be kept and the rest to be receiued in another glasse The 7. Chapter Of Hand waters TAke Lauander or Spikenard where out the water is before distilled and powre as much raine water vnto it vnill the helme be more than halfe full afterwards distill it in seething water and set it in the sunne it smelleth strong enough and it remaineth good certaine moneths For to make May cheese §. 1. TAke a new earthen pot wash it well with hote water rub it with Salt within afterwards make a hole in the bottome and put in a small tap then take fresh milked milke and rennet it like as a Chéese is wont to be rennetted and so let it stand from morning to euening then plucke out the tap that the whay may runne out afterwards put euery day a saucerfull of new milke with it according to that there is much or little in the pot stirre it well about and then let euery euening the whay run out besides al this you are to salt the milk a litle in rennetting of it How to make wafers of Sugar §. 2. WHat the Wafers be which are woont to be set vpon the table a nights is well knowne to all men thus for to confect them and to make them onely of Sugar is to be done Take faire white Sugar powned very small and sifted thorough a fine sieue make past thereof with Dragagant dissolued in Rosewater the which is to be stamped in a mortar to the end you may make thereof thin flat wafers this being done then is the same beneath and aboue to be bestrewed with well powned Sugar that it cleaue not too then wind them on a round stick lay them vpon a sieue to drie to wit in a warme place but not in the sun if you will you may also put Muscus vnto it In like maner you may take for it powned Sugar Cinnamom tempered together roule the same also vpon a round staffe with dissolued Dragagant the which being bound to the space of fourtéene dayes may remaine good and they are made like Cinnamom pipes Hony water Hydromel §. 3. HOny water or our course Meade do the Grecians cal Hydromel and the Latinists Aquam mulsam this water is to be vsed for many things and especially in Phisicke for two kinds of things the first if one will loose the belly or procure vomit then temper the same with two parts of old raine water and one part of Hony and so let it stand in the Sunne This Hony water is to be tempered with oyle if the cause require it and being lukewarme vsed for vomiting the other Hony water is to be sodden and vsed also for many kinds of things as we in this booke haue in many places declared The eighth Chapter For to make Iuleps IVleps are made after
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
The 10. § of the sleeping disease Lethargus Veternus Torpor ibid. The 11. § of numnesse and astonishing which is stupor and congelatio whereon dependeth tremor which we call trembling 136 The 12. § of the shaking Palsey 137 The 13. § for the resolution of the sinewes or dead palsey 139 The 14. § of the convulsion of the mouth thorough the palsey 145 The 15. § of the crampe and convulsion of the sinewes by the palsey 147 The 16. § of the Hag or Mare Ephialtes and Incubus 150 The 17. § of the falling sicknesse called Epilepsia 151. The 18. § of the Apoplexie or dead palsey 159 ¶ The 13. Chapter of the mouth and all that appertaineth vnto it 161 The 1. § of putrifactions and exulcerations in the mouth ibid. The 2. § of the swollen Almonds 163 The 3. § of a stinking mouth and breath ibid. The 4. § a gargarisme for all infections of the mouth 164 The 5. § of the pallet and the falling downe thereof 166 The 6. § of the tongue 167 The seuenth § of the gummes and mandibles 173. The 8. § of the teeth 176 ¶ The 14. Chapter of the voice 185 The 1. § of hoarsenesse ibid. The 2. § how to make a cleere voyce 186 The second part of this practise of Physicke containeth the Breast 187. THe first Chapter of the necke ibid. The 1. § of Bronchocele ibid. The 2. § if one haue something sticking in his throate 189 The 3. § when a horseleach taken in drinke remaineth sticking in the throte ibid. The 4. § of the Squinancie or swelling in the throte 190 The 5. § of the Squinancie or paine in the throte through heate 191 The 6. § of paine in the throte through Phlegma and cold taking 193 The 7. § of the vlcers of the throte 194 ¶ The second Chapter of all rheumes and defluxions in generall ibid. The 1. § of rheumes that proceed of cold 195 The 2. § of hote rheumes 201 The 3. § of rheumes with agues 202 The 4. § if the rheume would not passe through the nose 203 ¶ The third Chapter of the formost part of the breast Thorax ibid. The 1. § of womens breasts milke and of their diseases 204 The 2. § of the ouermuch growing and hanging downe of the breasts ibid. The 3. § of milke in generall 205 The 4. § of want and scarsitie of milke ibid. The 5. § against the superfluitie of milke 206 The 6. § for the clotted or congealed milke in the breasts 207 The 7. § of the hardnesse and inflammation of womens breasts 208 The 8. § of the tumor or swelling of the breasts 209. The 9. § of the impostumation of the breastes ibid. The 10. § of the canker in the breast 210 The 11. § of the fistula in the breast 211 The 12. § of the cleftes or chops in the nipples ibid. The 13. § what the haire on the breasts doth signifie ibid. ¶ The fourth Chapter of the backe in generall ibid. The 1. § of the paine in the backe 212 The 2. § of the crooked backe ibid. The 3. of the shoulder blades 215 The 4. § of the ribs 216 The 5. § of the pleurisie Pleuritis a sicknes with great pricking in the side ibid. The 6. § of the pleurisie of heate and bloud 217. The 7. § of the pleurisie of Cholera 220 The 8. § of the pleurisie of Phlegma 221 The 9. § of the pleurisie of Melancholia 222 The 10. § of the bastard pleurisie ibid. The 11. § when the pleurisie sheweth it self outwardly 223 The 12. § whē the pleurisie taketh a woman with child ibid. The 13. § rules for such as are recouered of the pleurisie that they fall not into it againe 224 The 14. § certaine seuerall remedies against the cold pleurisie ibid. ¶ The fift Chapter of the Lights or Lungs 225 The 1. § of the cough ibid. The 2. § of the rheume or catarrhe which falleth vpon the Lights ibid. The 3. § what is commodious for the obstructed Lights 227 The 4. § remedies for the cough ibid. The 5. § against all drie coughs 228 The 6. § of a moist and cold cough 229 The 7. § of an old cough 231 The eight § what is good for coughing vp of phlegme 232 The 9. § of a short panting breath 233 The 10. § of the sixe not naturall things called res non naturales whereto is also added a rule of diet for the pursiuenesse 234 The 11. § of the breast oppressed with phlegme 236. The 12. § of the right pursiuenesse with a sore olde cough through tough phlegme in the breast which is called with one word Asthma 238. The 13. § of certaine excellent things in general 240. The 14. § of shortnesse of breath through Cholera 241 The 15. § of the shortnesse of breath through Melancholie 242 The 16. § of the shortnesse of breathing or pursiuenesse through wind ibid. The 17. § of the spitting of bloud through some disease of the Lights ibid. The 18. § for a broken veine in the Lights or Breast 245 The 19. § for congealed bloud 246 The 20. § comfortable things in and after the spitting of bloud 247 The 21. § of the infection of the Lights which is called Peripneumonia 248 The 22. § of the anguish in the lights which is called Empyema ibid. The 23. § of the consumption Phthisis a disease of the Lights 250 The 24. § of the stinking breath in Phthisis or the consumption 256 ¶ The sixt Chapter of the Heart the most precious part of mans bodie ibid. The 1. § of the fainting of the heart in generall 258. The 2. § of Syncope the great swowning 260 The 3. § of the beating or panting of the heart 263. The 4. § of the panting of the heart through heate 264 The 5. § of the panting of the heart through cold 268. The 6. § of the panting of the heart through a bad stomake or appetite 271 The 7. § of the panting of the hart through frighting ibid. The 8. § of heauinesse a disease of the heart ibid. The 9. § of the griping of the heart 272 The third part of this booke of Phisicke containeth the Belly 273. THe first Chapter of the Nauell ibid. The second Chapter of the members of generation in generall 274 The 1. § of the tumors in the groyne and other such like diseases ibid. The 2. § of the priuities or secrets in particular ibid. The 3. § of the vnnaturall erection of the Yard called Priapismus and Satyrismus 275 ¶ The third Chapter of the Testicles and Cods and of sundry ruptures 276 The 1. § of the vppermost Herny or Rupture which hapneth aboue the Cod. 277 The 2. § of Ruptures that fall downe into the Cods 280 The 3. § of the Rupture through wind 281 The 4 § of the waterish Rupture Hernia Aquosa ibid. The 5. § of the Rupture thorough bloud and flegme 282 The 6. § of the fleshie Rupture 283 The 7.
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
breathing The second Oxymel is called at the Apothecaries Compositum or Diureticum It is made in this manner Take Fennell rootes and rootes of Smallage of each two ounces the seedes of Parsley of Butchers broome of Sparage of Smallage and of Fennell of each an ounce take out the core of the rootes chop them and séeth them in a quart of water vntill they be mellow afterwards wring them out thorow a cloth and adde to the decoction sixe ounces of sharp vineger twelue ounces of cleansed honie let them séeth together vnto a sirupe This is much stronger for all vses then the former it doth attenuate all tough slimes it driueth them out of the members openeth the obstruction of the liuer of the milt and of the kidneys it expelleth the vrine and sweate The third Oxymel is made of Squils called Scyllinum or at the Apothecaries Squilliticum for this take vineger of Squils which is described before in the second Chapter § 1. against the cold paine of the head foure ounces clarified hony sixe ounces and séeth it al together vnto a sirupe The fourth is Oxymel Scyllinum compositum the which is thus made Take the roots of Smallage of Fennel of each two ounces the rootes of Parsley of Butchers broome of Sparage the seedes of Smallage and of Fennell of each halfe an ounce séeth them together in a quart of water vntill the roots be mellow vnto this decoction adde twelue ounces of vineger of Squils clarified hony 18. ounces and then séeth it to a sirupe They are both very good to attenuate the tough slimes to strengthen the stomacke and to prouoke vrine but the first is stronger to open all obstructions and is speciall good against all quotidian and quartaine agues Purging sirupe of Roses §. 7. TAke a pound of red or damaske Rose leaues put them into a pot with a narrowe necke powre thereon about thrée times so much of hote cleare water let it stand so 8. or 12. howers couered very close afterwards wring it hard out with thy hand straine the liquor cleare thorow a cloth then take againe fresh Roses as before and powre the strained liquor séething hote vpon it let it stand as before wring it out againe and do this afterwards 8. or 12. times together the oftener the better and it will be the stronger in purging Lastly wey all that strained iuice of Roses and put halfe so much Sugar vnto it and clarifie it with the white of an egge vntill it be very cleare afterwards let it seeth to a sirupe Some do stampe the Roses that the vertue might come out the better Others do make it after this manner as followeth Take red or damaske Rose leaues two pound and a halfe powre thereon ten quarts of May deaw or cleare raine water made méetly hote let them infuse together in a warme place a whole day and a night stopt very close The next day wring it out hard make the broth not séething but onely meetely hote then powre it againe vpon two pound of fresh Rose leaues let them stand and stéepe as before The third time take one pound and a halfe of Roses the fourth time one pound and so the fift and sixt time last of all after the foure last times take each time halfe a pound of Roses afterwards the liquor being strained put vnto thrée parts of it one part of Sugar seeth it well clarifying it vnto a sirupe Of one of these sirupes may be giuen to a full growne person three foure or fiue ounces at one time vnto a young child one ounce vnto one of eight or nine yeares old two ounces and further after the same rate according to the greatnesse or smalnesse This sirupe doth quench the thirst and heate in all hote agues it doth strengthen the stomacke and the hote liuer defendeth the heart from all venime and stinch therefore it is also good for the plague and looseth very gently It is also prepared with Rubarbe and other things according to the opinion of euery Phisition Barley water §. 8. IT is ordained before for the hote paine of the head to giue vnto the sicke body Barley water for his daily drinke the which is prepared after diuers maners but is commonly prepared thus Take vnto a good deale of water one ounce of péeled Barley let it séeth vntill it breake Some do steepe it two or thrée houres before in cleare water And albeit that such Barly water haue small force yet it is better than bare water when the patient is forbidden to drinke wine There are also other things moe according to the importance of the sicke person put vnto it as Masticke Barberies that do colour it like vnto wine In like manner are also hearbes rootes and all that one will decocted therein Manus Christi with Pearles §. 9. THis cordiall Sugar is very common and is made thus Take 12. ounces of the whitest Sugar seeth it with Rose water like as is taught in our introduction afterwards when it beginneth to be cold stir an ounce of prepared Pearles amongst it and make Tabulates or Manus Christi of it It is good for all faintnesse hote agues heauie fantasies and imaginations The Apothecaries do commonly not take more then a dragme of Pearles vpon a pound of Sugar because men will not go to the cost thereof Without Pearles the Apothecaries do call it Manus Christi simplex they decoct the Sugar with Rose water without putting any thing else vnto it It is made also with violet water Cinnamom water and howsoeuer that one will haue them The third Chapter The Haire of the Head EVen as we haue discoursed of all kind of paines of the head so we wâ—l now begin certaine other things of the same in particular and of that which maketh shew outwardly in the top of the head to wit the haâ—â—e the which groweth there of it selfe garnisheth the head decketh and â—ouereth it And although the same haire like as the nailes also hath no other gouernment but onely the growing and garnishing by nature neuerthelesse it hath that secret in it that thorow his colour his hardnes softnesse finenesse curling euennesse and other marks it doth sufficiently giue knowledge how the braines which lye vnder it are inclined to wit the cold warmth drith moisture as also their mixed complexions as cold and drith warmth and moisture whereby it may be knowne what humor or moisture doth most abound or whether ones haire also wil quickly fall off or not These weightie and other causes haue planted by nature in all men specially in women a carefulnesse to looke vnto and maintaine it the one with making it grow more or thicker than the other to change the colour to make it fall away to keepe it cleane from all vermine and to frée and cleare it from all defaults Because therefore that this is so greatly estéemed it is requisite to prosecute our attempted method and to write also somewhat thereof And first of all
coldnes for the which are strengthening and warming things to be vsed as Amber Frankinsence with their rinds Masticke Lignum Aloes Cloues Nutmegs Sage Galingall Calmus and Cardomome Also she must be gouerned like as hath bene sayd in the discourse of barrennesse Item there is more good for this that the necke of the matrix be often washed with water wherein Cypers rootes are decocted or with water wherein Iron drosse is sodden which is stronger Also for this may serue Masticke strewed vpon hot coales and the fume thereof receiued from below A very good salue fit for this Take the iuice of Roses of Pomegranates and Cloues of each one ounce Frankinsence Hypocistis the iuice of Sloes Mastick prepared Coriander and Iron drosse of each one drag Sealed earth and Starch of each one ounce bruse these very long in a Leaden mortar and annoint the priuities therewith oftentimes But if the infirmitie procéede of heate then are things to be vsed which be astringent roborating and cooling yet tempered with some warme things The cold things are these burnt and washt Harts horne Amber iuice of Sloes Hypocistis burnt Muskle shels Bolus burnt Gals Dragon bloud Sealed earth flowers and shales of Pomegranates Acornes with their cups the rind of the Medlar trée and the fruits Seruices and Mirtle séede of all these foresayd simples may salues plaisters and other things be prepared which are all fit for this infirmitie Of Barrennesse through repletion of the body and obstruction of the Termes or Flowers §. 7. THese women must forbeare all slimy meates as milke and all that is drest therewith also from all doughie meates pottage and old fish vnleauened bread new Chéese but old Cheese is meetely tollerable from all cold and moyst fruits Touching all other meates they may liue according to their old custome their drinke must be reasonable or meane strong white wine Concerning the medicines you must first begin with the letting of bloud opening the Basilica in the right arme and to let out foure or fiue ounces of bloud The next day following you may cause to be mixt togither Pillulae de Opopanaco and of Hiera Composita of each halfe a dragme and to make seuen pils thereof and to take them in the morning and then to sléepe one houre and a halfe vpon it and fiue houres after to drinke a draught of sugred water and then one houre after that to eate This being done this powder following is to be prepared and to be vsed foure graines therof euery mealetide in all their meats Take Cinnamome halfe an ounce Saffron one drag Spikenard two scruples Licorice foure scrup whereof make a subtile powder Immediatly after the pils they are to vse this potion sixe or eight dayes continually early in the morning Take Syrupum Acetosum compositum De Eupatorio of each thrée quarters of an ounce Mugwoort Feuerfew and the water of Elecampane rootes of each one ounce temper them togither Or take the foresayd waters alone without sirupes fiue ounces at one time Other pils Take Aloe two ounces Agaricus and Opopanacum of each one drag and a halfe Spica Mather Cinnamome Saffron and Indie Salt of each one drag Coloquint foure scrup the iuice of Feuerfew foure ounces temper all togither and set it in the sunne and stir it often about vntill it be dry do this thrice Then take the waight of a dragme and forme sixe pils thereof vse one euery thrée dayes iust before supper Also likewise one in the day time so long as they vse these foresayd potions but not when they purge The said purgation must be made thus Take Electuarium Indum halfe an ounce de Succo Rosarum one drag temper this with thrée ounces of water of Elecampane rootes After this second purgation she is one moneth long to take the waters of Feuerfew Elecampane rootes and Balme of each one ounce mixed togither before noone and against night she is to sit in this bath following Take Balme Maierom gentle white Mints Penniroyall Feuerfew and Mugwort of each a handfull small and great Camedrios Spica romana Daucus Agrimonie and Stechas of each a handfull séeth these all togither in sufficiēt water vntill that about the third part be sodden away and then put thereto Muske three graines Lignum Aloes Galliae Muscatae beaten small of each a dragme This being so prepared then shall the set her self therein and kéepe her selfe from her husband thrée dayes In the meane while she is to put into the necke of the wombe this pessarie following Take Saffron half a scruple Muske Amber Lignum Aloes and Ash keyes of each thrée graines Hares renning as much as is néedfull forme it like to Date stones and she is to weare it all the day in her body Another Take Hares renning one dragme and a halfe shauen Iuorie red and white Behen and Ash keyes of each halfe a dragme Sesely Penniroyall Nep Sauine Galliae Muscatae of each halfe a scruple being all beaten small and tempered with oyle of Spike vntill it be soft then temper therewith Muske and Laudanum of each two graines dip some wooll therein and vse it as before For the poore is onely the oyle of Lillies commended with a pessarie of Cotton dipped therein and so put vp and holden therein the space of thrée houres When such women haue purged and bathed then must they before that they come at their husbands be let bloud in the Saphena or Median two houres after supper letting out thrée or foure ounces of bloud if so be that she be any thing strong It were also very good that whē such women arise a mornings they do gird about them a lōg garment and set some fire vnder them and to strew therin this powder following that she may receiue the vapour thereof and vse a little at once A very good confection Take Doronicum Ash keyes Mugwort Feuerfew flowers of S. Iohns woort of each one dragme Balme Basill of each one quarter of an ounce shauen Iuory halfe an ounce Amber one scruple Muske fiue graines small filed Gold halfe a dragme the powder called Nere one dragme Syrup de Calaminta thrée ounces Sirupe of Citron péeles fiue ounces Sugar sixe ounces all that is to be powned powne small séeth the Sirupe and Sugar méetely thicke and when it beginneth to be cold then temper it with all the powder except the Spec. Nere Muske and Amber the which must be put in at the last Kéepe this confection in a Gally pot whereof the woman is to take immediately after her second letting bloud euery morning the quantitie of a Nutmeg and fast foure houres after In like manner also after meate the bignesse of a Beane and drinke thereupon a draught of good wine the which hath holpen many women The powder before promised for suffumigation Take Laudanum halfe an ounce Galliae Muscatae two dragmes Muske Amber of each thrée graines Lignum Aloes Opopanacum of each one dragme make them into powder and vse a
cure Take burnt lead Cypers nuts and prepared litharge of Gold of each one dragme Rosin one ounce oyle of Mastick halfe an ounce Waxe thrée quarters of an ounce first melt the Rosin with the Waxe and when it beginneth to streame then mingle the foresaid powder amongst it you may also strew the powder of Knotgras vpon it for it dryeth much and causeth great alterations Of the Clefts that are called Rhagades §. 11. WHat manner of infirmitie it is is sufficiently declared in the fifth Chapter 2. § These may procéede of fiue sundry causes in the Arsegut as of the bloudie â—lix called Dysenteria of too hard excrements of heate and drought of the Arsegut otherwhiles also of the Pyles that corrode inward lastly of some outward inconueniences that cleaue the Arsegut the signes are paine and burning and sometimes such clefts as may be séene and do yéeld a blacke greene or red stinking matter There are also two sorts the one with matter and the other without matter whereof shall seuerally be spoken First for to cure those that are without matter the partie is first of all to be purged if néede do require the same and to open a veine like as it is told of the Pyles and especially with Epithymo Polypodie and Whay by reason of the melancholick bloud also in like manner with the pils of Bdellio or with Clisters and other like purgations Afterwards when these clefts do yéeld matter then are they often to be washed with water wherein are sod Roses Polypodie and Allume and afterwards annoynt theÌ„ with this salue following Take ashes of Muscle shels and rootes of Polypodie of each two ounces leaues of the Oliue trée halfe an ounce poune them all small and temper them with oyle of Roses and if they be with inflammation then vse salue made with Ceruse and Campher and other salues that follow hereafter This following is maruellous good for it dryeth cooleth and also healeth Take litharge of Gold white lead and burnt lead of each alike much bruse it in a leaden morter with Rose water oyle of Roses and whites of Egs as much as is néedfull and with a little Campher vntill that it be wholie black annoint the clefts therewith and lay a cloth ouer them If there be no heate thereby but only a manifest drought then take Hens and Ducks grease marrow of Harts bones and Calues bones and the fatnes of Shéepes wooll of each halfe an ounce fresh Butter oyle of sweete Almonds oyle of Poppie séeds Dragagant oyle of Lillies and oyle of Peach kernels of each one quarter of an ounce Myrrhe Starch Mill dust Momy Frankinsence Mastick Dragons bloud white lead and burnt Allume of each one dragme Waxe one ounce and a halfe melt all these in the foresaid oyle and fats and make thereof a salue this salue asswageth the paine moystneth and causeth the flesh to grow Item take yellow Waxe oyle of Sesamum Ducks grease Marrow of Oxe bones the fat of Cammels feete or in the stead of them Goats suet or Hens grease and Bdellium of each a like much melt these together in Muscilage of Linséede temper them together for it is very commodious Item take Turpentine Ducks grease oyle of Violets of each two ounces dissolued Dragagant and Waxe of each one ounce pouned Dragagant two ounces temper them by the fire vnto a salue Or take muscilage of Licebane one ounce Hens grease one ounce and an halfe the yolke of a new layd egge Saffron one dragme temper them one with an other and annoynt the clefts therewith Another Take Dragagant and Gall nuts of each a like much temper them with molten Oxe suet and a little oyle of Roses vnto a salue But if the vlcers be déepe and yeeld much stinking matter then are both outwardly and inwardly sharp waters to be vsed for them and especially dresse it with the remedies that are described in the first Part and the eight Chapter of the vlcers of the Nose or strewe them with Verdigrease and powned Anacardus for to clense them But note that this corrosiue inwardly in the Arsegut is not wholly without danger vnlesse the Arsegut be drawen out by a boxing cup. Afterwards coole and heale them with white lead or any other cooling and healing salue Item take washed white lead Aloe Masticke Frankinsence and Dragon blood of each three dragmes oyle of Roses one ounce and a halfe Waxe as much as is needfull For this you may also vse the salue that was before described and made in the leaden mortar or prepare this following Take Pomegranate blossomes and the pils Mirrhe washed white Lead burnt Lead washed Aloes séeds of Roses Frankinsence Masticke Dragon blood and burnt Mussell shels of each one quarter of an ounce Oliue leaues burnt Allume Alumen plumosum Verdigrease and Litharge of Gold of each one dragme and a halfe Waxe one ounce melt this in as much oyle of Roses as is needfull to make a salue vse this often times and wash the vlcers twice or thrice a day with water wherein Gals burnt Allume Oliue leaues and Roses are decocted These are very good for all such like diseases being holden ouer the vapor or dampe of water wherein Mallowes Hollihock rootes Violet leaues and Beare foote is sodden Of the Fistula and Canker in the Arsegut §. 12. THis infirmity commeth very sodainly into the Arsegut and albeit it hath béene accustomed like as in other the like diseases in the body to vse incision or an actuall cautery notwithstanding in this place it must be vtterly omitted that there be no sinewes hurt For it might easily thereby befall that the patient afterwards should neuer stay his ordure but against his will to let his excrements passe from him The cause of these Fistulaes may be the bad healing of the diseases in the Arsegut be it of what cause soeuer it may procéede In like manner also through vsing of the Pyles badly or any other impostume that hath not béen opened in time but that the matter was left to stinke or putrifie therein all which may cause fistulaes as is aboue said amongst the which there are some that penetrate the Arsegut others the necke of the bladder and some that remaine alwayes at a stay These are hereby discerned that either the vrin the ordure or winds passe through the Fistula Also if the Muscles be therewith infected then can he not retaine or stay his excrements but as soone as it descendeth to this place it passeth from him If then these Fistulaes be moyst and matterie and the matter sharpe and stinking and waxeth from day to day bigger then it is a signe of a depascent Fistula for the which strong remedies must be vsed to stay the same that they corrode not déeper for it hapneth otherwhiles that these depascent vlcers will consume the whole buttocks and all parts adiacent and bring a body at the last after many miseries to his liues end But if so be that this
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
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
it be pressed with the finger then doth the dint or pit remaine long after in it The priuie members do swell also a waterish scouring or laske The pulses will be slow and do beate longsome and leysurely The causes of it are bad digestion so that all the meate and drinke is at least the halfe part turned into a flegmaticke matter whereby the same cannot as behooueth the assimilated to the other parts When as then these foresaid signes be perceiued in the face and in the priuities then may the sicknesse be taken well to be Anasarca the which also of all other dropsies is most easiest to be cured because that it diuideth it selfe into all the parts of the body and for that cause may be the easier ouercome by nature For this are these remedies ensuing to be vsed First if it be a woman and that the same sicknesse is fallen vpon her and caused through retention and let of her termes or obstruction of the Hemorrhoides then is care to be had through all meanes to helpe and to prouoke them And in case that the same cannot be compassed and effected then is the Saphea or Milt veine to be opened and likewise to set boxing cups on the thighes and legs But for all other species of Dropsies letting of bloud is very hurtfull for that they haue but little bloud yet very much moisture whereby the good bloud being drawne out the water will be left behind For this is to be giuen to the patient this sirupe following for to open him like as is taught in the 4. § of the diseases of the liuer Item Trocisci de lacca are especiall good for this and afterwards he must euery wéeke be purged with pils of Rubarbe Or take these pils ensuing Agregatiuae two scruples Ammoniaci one scruple and make seuen pils of it with Oxymel The pils de Hiera de Aloe de Mezereo Foetidae de Agarico are altogether very méet for this vse It is also admonished before to vse reasonable exercise hunger and thirst More waking than sleeping is very commodious Item water bathes if one can come to them are also very good for this which be by nature warme or in the stead of them to bathe in drie baths and then to sweate well Such persons must also in warme seasons and when the wind is downe lye with their bellies towards the heate of the Sunne and let the same be well rubbed Some do aduise also that the armes and the legs must be well rubbed This confection following is very fit to purge and expell water Take Turbith halfe an ounce Hermodactili one ounce péeled wild Saffron séedes thrée quarters of an ounce Ginger Cinnamom and Annis of each one scruple Violets Cuscuta Sorrel seede of each one dragm hony of Roses foure ounces Sugar two ounces séeth the Hony and the Sugar with a litle of the water of Fumitorie vntill you may scum it when it is sodden enough then mixe the rest with it vnto a Confection Giue thereof halfe an ounce at once Another TAke one dragme of Rubarbe Annis wild yellow Rapeséede and Indy Spica of each one scruple Licorice one dragme Asarabacca half a drag Conserue of Marioram one ounce Conserue of Roses thrée ounces Miua cydoniorum and Oxymel as much as you will for to make a Confection This Confection strengtheneth and expelleth much the water Yet another Take Elecampane rootes Ireos and Gentian of each one dragme Ireos losinges one ounce sirupe of Horehound one ounce and a halfe then make a Confection therof Take thereof as often as you please it strengtheneth doth quench thirst and lengthen the breath The auncient Phisitions do aduise much for to vomit to wit at the first in the beginning of the sicknesse whilst that the patient is in state of strength but not otherwise Some do write that dried Hedgehogs flesh doth maruellously ease in this sicknesse if one take of the same one quarter of an ounce in wine The like is also reported of the Wolfes Liuer if the same be taken with Rubarb Rapontica with water wherin Wormwood is decocted Of the Dropsie Ascites §. 14. THis Dropsie some do call Ascliten and Alchiten In this Dropsie the belly doth onely swell and the legges and contrarily the vpper parts of the bodie do dry away This name is giuen to this species of Dropsies of a hyde wherein men do cary Wine or Oyle Of all other signs this sicknes is a great trouble in the belly when one clappeth or soundeth vpon it he doth heare a rumbling or a noise of water which is forcibly stirred about the which also happeneth if the sick person do turne himselfe from the one side to the other the bodie is not so swolen throughout like as in the foresaid Dropsie neither do there remaine therein any dents or pits if one presse therein with the finger The nauel doth not stand so puffed vp as in the Tympanite the pulse is féeble swift and small The cause of this Dropsie is féeblenes of the Liuer which hath not a sanguification or concoction and altereth all her moisture into water This infection of the Liuer may be caused as well of heate as of cold also of the water which is ingendred in the Lyuer that falleth downe afterwards into the lower parts and hollownes of the belly If this Dropsie do come through hote causes after any paine of the Lyuer after an Ague by swelling vp the belly beneath the Nauell euen to the very hip also if one turne the sicke person about one heareth the water he hath an intolerable thirst auoideth but litle vrine which is fierie red with some clots as it were with smal stones then is there great danger and but smal hope of life to be had For if so be that one giue to the patient medicins which do coole the heate then is the Liuer enféebled the water and wind augmented if that warme and drying things be vsed for it then doth the heate and excessiue thirst increase But not to leaue this sicke person vtterly comfortlesse and to please his friends you may vse for the lengthening of his life moderate cold and warm things like as is this sirupe following Take Endiue foure handfuls Maiden haire and Harts toung of each one handfull Fennell séede Parsly seede and Cuscuta of each halfe an ounce Spica Nardi Spica Romana of each one quarter of an ounce and Sugar sixe ounces make a clarified sirupe of it In like sort may also this cooling confection following be vsed as Diarrhodon Dialacca Diacrocoma Diatrisantalon and Aromaticum Rosatum and other such like cooling things mo Also the Wolfes lyuer like as herebefore for Anasarca is said is very highly commended for this if the same be giuen with Endiue water for it should euen as many thinke reduce the Lyuer to her right state Also for to coole the heate of the lyuer may this plaister following be made and applyed vpon it Take the iuice of Endiue of
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
bloud there is no greater veine than the Lyuer veine which appeareth none otherwise but as the body of a trée which is thickest beneath in the ground and at his beginning and besides his roote stretching foorth wide and broad and the branches aboue do spread themselues againe in many sprigs or twigs And thus it is also with the arteries wherefore the foresaid authors haue also affirmed that the Lyuer is none other thing but like to a root and fountaine of all other veines so that she doth impart her bloud first of all to the heart as to the most noble part of the bodie This is now sufficiently spoken in generall of the bloud veines whereof we will speake and discourse more at large hereafter Of the Arteries §. 2. WHereof Galen writeth thus the Arteries are vessels of the thin and clean bloud wherein are more naturall spirits or ayre more heate drith and féeling than in the bloud veines which remaine alwaies panting and beating They haue their ofspring of the left concauitie of the hart and the first branch a little off from his roote is parted in twaine whereof the one part goeth vpwards and the other downewards where in both places the foresaid bloud-veines are spread abroad with diuers small veins so that there be few arteries without veins This altogether is most diligently described by Aristotle Galen Albert and also of Walter Rijf and at last with liuely figures it is apparant to the eyes These arteries or pulse veines be by nature as is said much hotter drier thicker sensiblier and harder than the bloud veines Partly like vnto the nature of the sinewes they also receiue some bloud but it is subtiller and fairer than the bloud of the veines they be also much more replenished with vitall spirits than the veines which is also a cause of their continuall panting and mouing which hapneth so forcible that the same is outwardly felt ouer the whole bodie and especially on the hands féet temples of the head and on other places me may be séene and felt All Phisitions may déeme thereby whether the nature be strong or feeble and all according as the pulse beateth swift slow hard soft steddie or very trembling The auncient Phisitions haue bene of opinion that both these sorts of veines and especially the arteries if they be cut or chopt off could not be consolidated againe yea that the heart veines be vtterly incurable But Galenus acknowledgeth verily that the same could hardly be effected in men that be old but in young people otherwise Of women and young children doth he admonish that one should not be discouraged for that he had saith he healed inough himselfe that were wounded after that manner For this be also before many good remedies in the second part the fift Chapter and 18. § if a veine be broken in the breast or any other place which may also be vsed inwardly and outwardly for this purpose In like manner you may also vse for it this confection insuing Take Henbane séede and white Poppie séedes of each one ounce and a quarter Sealed earth and red Corall of each fiue dragmes old conserue of Roses the older the better foure ounces temper all together and take thereof in the morning and euening each time halfe a dragme and no more this is very good and also forcible for all kinds of bléeding When as now the veines do swell be it of whatsoeuer cause it will then annoint them with Treacle or Mithridate Of the Bloud §. 3. IT is sufficiently knowne that mans bodie is ioyned together of foure kinds of humors or complexions to wit of Bloud Cholera Melancholia and Phlegma but amongst these is the bloud one of the best partly for that it is the matter of the vitall spirits wherein life it selfe hath his being or for that it is to be compared with the beginning of life because it is by nature warme and moist or because it hath more vertue to nourish and to sustaine than any of the other humors In fine it is such a Iewell of nature that if the same be taken away then death doth ensue Cholera and Melancholia haue their proper places or residences in the bodie wherein they do gather themselues as we haue of late declared from which places they do also shew their power in the ingendring of sicknesses But the bloud and Phlegma are so diuided into two parts of the bodie that one cannot so soone â—pon the skin in any place but immediatly the bloud doth issue foorth and that the veins be the vessels and habitation of the bloud hath bene declared before without the which there can also no bloud be found except in the least concauitie of the heart Wherefore Albertus hath bene of none other opinion but that the veines do begin there and not in the liuer The nature of the bloud is hot and moist yea so hot that in the whole bodie there is nothing â—otten and to the contrarie nothing colder than the Phlegma Therefore this hote and moist bloud is giuen to all liuing creatures not onely for a nourishment of all members of the bodie but also to maintaine them by their naturall warmth and no otherwise For example good wood is laid vpon the fire for to warme a whole chamber with it in like sort also as the fire is abated and his burning taken away if the same be ouercharged with too much wood or if the wood be too moist also if the wood be pluckt away or too litle laid vpon it so is it with the heate of the heart that if the same be too much or too litle likewise ouerâ—old vnmeasurable hote or is too féeble When the heart shall féele these kind of diseases then will all other members of the bodie be partakers thereof It is also the opinion and censure of all learned that the bloud is the most principal meanes in the mothers bodie whereby the heart as the chiefe part of the bodie hath his beginning Concerning his nature and propertie then is this not a small miracle of nature that it hath â—n féeling of it selfe neuerthelesse it is cause of the same and of life also And it is found by daily experience that if there run much bloud from any creature that therby come swounings yea the life it selfe runneth out with the bloud Neither is the bloud alike in all men nor in all members it getteth also through age many kinds of nature In children it is thin and waterish in youth hote and sharpe in men at the fullest and best of all and in all these aforesaid very much and abundant In age there is but little thicke and blacke and clotting very sodeinly as well inwardly as outwardly vpon the bodie In like maner it is also sure that how fatter a body is so much lesse bloud hath he for that it is through the fatnes consumed as is séene that all fat hath no bloud in it Contrarily how much the leaner so much the blacker
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
obserued and well to be remembred that in drie and hot weather they are few yet strong and bad Agues do raigne but without any sweat at all In wet weather are these agues most rife and that with sweate For so much as these continuall Agues are first of all described amongst hote agues therefore here will we admonish the Reader that we make this our discourse so much the longer to the end we might declare the matter more openly and that such hote agues as hereafter follow may thereby the better be knowne and easier cured and that especially in this § wherein shall be taught the meanes which are to be kept in meate and drinke in vomiting sléepe also what might reuiue those that are so diseased whereby they should be eased in great heate and after what order they should gouerne themselues their ague being gone The Ague that is continuall Continua §. 1. THe occasion of all such mightie Agues is the putrifying of the humors within the great veines and the cause of the putrifaction aforesaid is a stay and detaining of superfluous tough humors that are caried in the bodie the heate wherof approching to the heart enflameth the same This commonly hapneth in all such bodies that are filled with tough humors or that the veines through heate of the same are ouer dried This Ague also may ingender of venimous ayre as in the time of pestilence is to be séene Item through great cold whereby the pores be shut vp through sore labor in the hote Sun through much watching through great anguish grieuous thoughts and through a great fluxe of the belly The common signes of this mightie ague are paine of the head and great heate easily to be felt watching great thirst swift and vnequall pulse red thicke and yellowish vrine the patient rageth in his sléepe his senses are troubled and complaineth of terrible dreames If he be young and the season of the yeare be hote and that he dwell in a high and hilly countrie then are all these recited signes the likelier to be certaine and true The order of dyet in time of hot Agues §. 2. IF so be that these patients desire to be rid of these Agues then is it very néedful that they haue a good gouernment or order in eating and drinking they must haue speciall care to be fed with such meats through which they may be cooled the bloud purified and moistened whereby the heate and drought may be withstood In like manner shall the patient be kept in the beginning of his sicknesse whilest he is in strength sober in eating and drinking and encrease the same according to oportunitie In like sort with the letting of bloud if the patient be red in the face his veins full young then is he to be let bloud in a very hot ague vntill he fall into a swoune But if the patient be so weake that such forcible letting of bloud may hurt him then let it be done at diuers howers euery time a little two or thrée daies together for some are to be dealt withall more gentlier than other and require that the Saluatella vpon the right hand to wit by the little finger may be opened and that there shall about fiue ounces of bloud be let out We haue before giuen order what kinds of meate this patient is to vse that the same must be cooling and cleansing the bloud as Cicorie and Endiue with the roots water Cresses sodden in his meate and in like sort also a Sallad made of the same herbes and rootes with oyle and Vineger and there is chiefly to be put into the same Sallad Liuerwort that vseth to grow besides the water Cresses which is passing good Also the iuice of Oranges Pomgranates or Limons are to be vsed with his meate and amongst other herbes Spinage Béetes and Turneps with their leaues are excellent good Item Lettice Endiue and Parsley and mingle amongst them sometime a little Marioram Penniroyall and wild Thyme and Hyssope but once for that it is warme of nature Of fruits let him vse Damask prunes Oranges Pomegranates And of flesh let him be serued with that of Calues Hens Capons the which are to be brused eaten with the broth also make sops with Vineger mingling the yolks of egs Sugar amongst it Item Partridges Fesants field fowles and such like are not hurtfull it is also to be noted that with the flesh is to be sodden Parsly roots Cicorie roots Veriuice with a little Marioram and Hyssope Moreouer the séedes of Lettice Melons Cucumbers are passing good yet not all together but somtime of the one somtime of the other Péeled Barly sodden with Hen broth is much set by and also Hen broth alone wherin a litle bread is soked Item shiues of bread soked in water and the water powred out and afterwards the iuice of Pomegranates powred thereon and bestrewed with Sugar is very good meate for all such maladies Some are of opinion that the flesh of a Magpie is a certaine good medicine for the Ague and some suppose that young Magpies with the feathers distilled and the water of them giuen to the patient to drinke and it were not amisse that in the distilling of them there were put the rootes of Parsley and of Elecampane For these hote Agues may fountaine water be drunken or any other cleare riuer water that hath bene sodden once before or powred a good while and often out of one pot into another Or you may mingle with this water iulep of Violets or iulep of Roses and so drinke it vnsodden Barly water is a very fit drinke for al such maladies may be mingled with the foresaid Iulep Wine though very little is otherwhiles permitted and also Sugar water and sodden Hen broth the fat blowne off is very good Common rules for Agues §. 3. ACcording to the prescribed ordinance or gouernment of the life we are to shew in like manner the remedies cures But first we will declare certaine rules which in all hot Agues must be obserued that thereby for all such maladies a better order may be had kept The first rule is how to discerne easily that the patient cannot come to his health vntil the putrified matter of the Ague be purged away Secondly the eyes are to be fixed vpon that matter that ingendreth the ague that the same be prepared for purging the ague which is present be corrected and that which is to come be hindred Thirdly whē this putrified matter is to be taken away then must care be had how to open the obstructions which are the foundations of the ague for otherwise there can no good be done Fourthly if the Ague be forcible hot and the patients strength very small to resist the same that it is impossible for the patient to tolerate the violence of the ague then must the patient not be suffered to vse many cold things before that thereby the naturall heat be
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
haue bene sodden also héed must be taken that he go twice or thrice a day to stoole Twelfthly the heart must be comforted which is inflamed with this heate with cooling cordiall waters without all delay And these are the common rules which are to be obserued in this burning feuer Concerning his order of diet his dwelling place should be coole airie and be sprinkled with water and Vineger His head must be set with Vine branches Willow boughes and other coole gréene things for the same do coole and altar the ayre that by the lungs is drawn towards the heart whereby the heate of the heart is chiefly cooled Secondly euen as is expressed in the third rule if the patients vrine be red and thicke then must his Median or Basilica be opened and the same day or the day following must he vse these medicines following thereby to preuent all terrible accidents of the heart Take flowers of Burrage Buglosse and Violets of each halfe an ounce twenty or fiue and twentie Prunes séeth them all together in sufficient water till the third part be sodden away then take thrée or foure ounces of this broth and put therein Cassie and sowre Dates of each thrée quarters of an ounce Rubarbe stéeped in Endiue water halfe a dragme afterwards giue it to the patient early in the morning Item to coole and to prepare the humour make this sirupe Take great and small Endiue Lettice Purslaine Agrimony Liuerwoort sprigs of Poppie leaues and gréene Maiden haire of each a handfull Violets Waterlillies Roses and Lens palustris of each one ounce séedes of Lettice Endiue Purslaine and of small Endiue of each a quarter of an ounce séeth them all together in sufficient water till there be eightéene ounces remaining then put as much Sugar thereto and let it séeth againe and clarifie it put thereto Eâ—â—iue water Rose water and the iuice of Pomegranates of each sixe ounces burnt Iuorie red and white Saunders Camfere and white Poppie séedes of each a dragme and a halfe then afterwards seeth them all together vnto a sirupe giue thereof foure times in foure and twentie howers tempered with Barley or fountaine water And when you perceiue the next day that the ague is abated and thereby make shew as though the fourth day it would end then must you not giue the patient to eate but as necessity requireth and as the fift rule sheweth crums of white bread soaked in fountaine water are good for him Likewise Almond milke is also good for him if the same be made with Melons or Cucumber séedes You may also mingle amongst his drinke sirupe of Vineger Muscilage of Endiue of Purslaine and Melon séedes and in like manner the sirupe of Poppie heads and chiefly of black Poppies But in case there light vpon any young patient any intolerable thirst and thereby longeth to drinke cold water then must you let him haue it and that so much as he may drinke vp at a good draught and then afterwards if the thirst and heate yet continue with the patient giue it him once againe to drinke But note that old folkes haue not any such drinke Secondly good héede must be taken that none of the principall parts thereby be damnified but onely let such haue it as it is meete for Thirdly it must not be giuen at all if the ague procéede of any cold humor Fourthly it must not be ministred when the naturall strength is much decayed Fiftly if there be no great obstruction at hand Sixtly if the sicknesse be not increasing but decreasing Seuenthly it is not tolerable vnlesse the thirst and the lust to drink water be very extreme Eightly if there be any feare of any great féeblenes then must you mingle that water with the iuice of Pomegranates or with Veriuice Hen broth wherein Lettice Purslaine and Cucumbers are sodden is also very méete for him Item raw Butter milke well sugred and with crummed white bread in it is maruellous medicinable But if there come any sweate then must speciall care be had that the patient continue in it and sweate as long as his strength will abide it With the bloud must be dealt as is said in the eight rule The eight Chapter Of the Ague which is called Synochus AMongst all other continuall Agues is this also comprehended which the Gréeks call Synochus wherof we haue also spoken before in the third cha that the same groweth through the superfluitte of the bloud being mingled with Cholera The learned describe two manner of these agues whereof the one is prouoked of the bloud that is not putrified the other sort of a putrified and noysome bloud in the veines The cause of the first ague is if the partie be by nature sanguine and full of bloud and therewithall vseth daily meats that ingender much bloud as namely good delicate flesh and wine yolkes of egs and such like litle or too much lacke of exercise vapors of superfluous and ouer hote bloud that draweth vpwards and neuer findeth any issue because the pores and all inward passages are obstructed The signes of this ague are when the pulse doth beate a like strong and swift if the heate be not extreame then may it best of all be perceiued in the palme of the hand the vrine for the most part is like vnto that of healthfull persons yet the same is often red and thicke and specially in a corpulent bodie Herewith may appeare also a rednes of the bodie and of the face with a fulnesse of the veines and there is no cold nor shaking but a troublesome breathing otherwhiles they fall into a dead sléepe as it were into a Lethargus whereof we haue spoken in the first part the twelfth Chapter and tenth § Before that any do fall into this ague he féeleth first a great wearisomnesse ouer all his bodie and an itching of the nose ach of the head and in his sléepe he séeth many red and bloudie fantasies aboue all this the spéech is troublesome vnto him For this bloudie ague are described these rules following First it is the opinion of all learned Phisitions that all such patients are to be letten bloud euen vntill they begin to fall into a swound Secondly if it appeare very waterish and cholericke then must the same be cooled and thickened Thirdly if the same be too grosse and too thicke then must the same be mad subtile and thin Fourthly the bodie must after letting of bloud be well frothed that the pores may be opened Fiftly when as the letting of bloud is neglected and the patient yet strong enough then the same is to be done still yet at all times with the counsell of a learned Phisition Sixtly if the patient will not abide letting of bloud then must alterating penning expulsiue things be vsed wherby the superfluous humor bloud may be abated Seuenthly the letting of bloud and drinking of cold water worke and effect so much that you néede not vse any other things Eightly this
at the least a long time and then spet out the moisture and about the third euening let him alwayes after meate swallow a peece of Masticke Thirdly the fift night when he goeth to bed let him take a dragme and a half of this confection following Take of the confection Diapapauer halfe an ounce Frankinsence Sandaraca of each eight graines and mingle them all together Fourthly take of the confection of Loch de Pino and de Papauere of each an ounce prepared Foxe lights one quarter of an ounce Ireas two scruples flowers of Centorie halfe a scruple make a confection thereof with Vine cuict wherof the patient is to take euery morning two or three dragmes and likewise at night as much more to wit two houres after meate Also you may drinke it mingled with warme barly water or with swéete wine and so drinke it Also the patient may take of this confection into his mouth and so swallow it vp oftentimes Fiftly take two ounces of Currans a dragme of sliced Licorice Hyssope and Horehound of each two scruples yellow séedes of Roses two dragmes prepared Foxe lights one dragme and a halfe Dragagant and Gum of each a dragme melt the gum in Vine cuict halfe a scruple of Saffron white pepper fiue graines and white sugar thrice as much as all the rest do weigh make it to powder whereof let him eate a spoonefull after dinner and supper Sixtly when as the patient hath vsed ten dayes long the foresaid thrée things then let him take these things following other ten dayes Take distilled Colewort water two ounces water of blew Flower deluce flowers and of Horehound of each half an ounce poudered Elecampane rootes and Mouse eare that groweth on the mountaines of each a scruple which the patient must take luke warme early in the morning and fast foure houres after it Seuenthly take Knotgrasse Mouse eare Roses red Corall Bloodstone and yellow Amber of each one scruple Dragagant halfe a scruple Hony of Violets and Sugar pennets of each thrée quarters of an ounce afterwards séeth the Hony and Sugar till it be thicke and then mingle them with it and take thereof an houre before supper a spoonefull and againe as much more at midnight Eightly this being done you must vse this confection following Take fresh rootes of blew Flowerdeluce one ounce fresh Elecampane rootes halfe an ounce Comfrey Daisies iuice of Sloes Dragagant and Gum of each a scruple Frankinsence Masticke and Sarcocolla prepared with womans milke of each halfe a dragme Bloodstone yellow Amber Dragon blood prepared Foxe lights Centorie flowers Mirtle séede Knotgrasse Mouse eare and Brionie of each two scruples dissolue all the Gums in the muscilage or slime of Sebestes that were stéeped in warme Hony water let them séeth therein scumming it alwayes and when it is sod to pappe to wit the herbes and the rootes then straine out the iuice through a cloth and put thereto two ounces of swéete wine Currans halfe an ounce and ten or twelue Dates powne all the same very small and mingle then the Gums with the rest of the foresaid things Also halfe a dragme of Saffron powdered Saxifrage a dragme and halfe whereof giue the patient a spoonefull in the morning and halfe an houre before both his mealetides halfe as much and let him swallow it downe by little and little This cleanseth the breast ingendreth flesh and withall damnifieth not the breath Ninthly when the patient hath vsed this confection foure dayes long then let him take nine of these pilles following to wit in the morning betimes three and thrée more before noone and also before supper other thrée more This must he continue foure dayes together or longer euen as the cause requireth Take Lungwort Knotgrasse Comfrey Daisies of each a dragme Saffron Licorice Saxifrage of each one scruple Starch sealed earth prepared Tutie and Dragagant of each two scruples make pilles thereof with the iuice of Comfrey and forme eight to a dragme Tenthly if occasion serue that the heart must also be strengthened and to quench and refresh all drouth and to coole and moisten all heate for which you shall take new conserues of Roses two ounces conserues of Buglosse one ounce burnt Iuorie Roses séeds of Endiue of Purslain and Lettice of each a dragme and a halfe peeled Melon séede Pompeon séede Gourds séeds and peeled Cucumber séeds of each fiue dragmes sugar pennets two ounces starch one ounce prepared crabs tailes as in this chapter not long ago is taught foure ounces powne all very small and mingled into a confection then when he hath vsed the pils let him take a spoonefull thereof and that in the morning early and likewise againe an houre and a halfe before both mealtides and after them halfe as much Last of al this patient must lay this smal bag vpon his left breast Take Violets waterlillies burnt Iuorie Roses red and white Corall Harts bones and Doronicum of each a dragme and a halfe the Iacinth stone the Smaragde stone and Saphire stone of each halfe a scruple pearls a dragme and a halfe thrée leaues of beaten gold and Mace one dragme and a halfe saffron a a scruple Cardamome and Galingall of each fiue graines powne each alone and then mingle them all together and lastly make it into a silken cushion or little bag But if you couet to haue the braines strengthened then looke in the beginning of the first part for the paine of the head and after that where the braines are described The twelfth Chapter Of the Ague Marasmode OF this Ague and of the nature thereof we haue in the former described Hectica made a plaine demonstration This is of some taken for to be a second Hectica In fine they are both such kind of Agues that there is smal help of man to be had against them This properly is that which the Phisitions cal Senectam that is the old age to wit a consuming of the whole body The causes of this is that the heate and the drouth get the mastery which might be caused when one is fasting and hath a cold stomacke In like maner also when one is ouerheated and straightway drinketh cold water vpon it Also the hot aire and the heate of the time may well prouoke and raise that which wasteth drieth vp and oftentimes expelleth the naturall heate whereby the body is sustained whereof the cold and drouth do follow Moreouer this sicknesse may be caused of the debilitie of naturall heate which cannot nourish the whole body and in like maner of cold vapors that ascend towards the heart and ouer-coole the same Likewise of all cold causes that lie hidden in the body as may be séene by very old folkes These are signes of this malady that it is without any Ague but with a slow pulse with an extenuation of the whole body without heate and in feeling may a generall cold be perceiued the vrine is thin white and waterish In fine there are no other
vsed in Summer This drinke following hath bene approued of many thousands Take in May the rootes of great Burs called Bardana sixteen ounces of the middle rind of the Ash trée two M. chop it smal together and distill it giue of this water to drinke thrée or foure ounces to wit when he is thought to be infected of the plague it is also wonderfull good against all biting of madde Dogges Another Take Rue Wormwood Roses and Iuniper berries of each a handfull twentie or twentie fiue kernels of Nuts stamp these all together to pap powre wine and vineger theron of each one pint and stop it right then let it séeth in Balneo foure and twenty howers this being done then straine it and of this giue euery morning fasting two spoonefuls to drinke Item take fifteene or sixtéene heads of Léekes peele off the vppermost shales and stampe them small and afterwards mixe thin white wine with them and vineger of Rue of each a good pint or a pint and a half and good Treacle one ounce and kéep it close stopt in a glasse And when you will vse it then giue therof a spoonfull or twaine to drinke in the morning betimes It driueth out sweate and expelleth venimous ayre This sirupe following is highly commended Take Citron péels rootes of Capers Verueine red Saunders and burnt Iuorie of each a quarter of an ounce Cloues Buglosse Balme Burrage Calmus of each halfe an ounce Sorrell Liuerwoort Mallowes of each thrée drag Cicory séeds Melon séeds seeds of Pompeons Gourds of Cucumbers and Violets of each 2. ounces Thymus Epithymus of Polypodie Mirobalani Chebuli and yellow Mirobalanes of each one ounce Agaricus and Rubarb of each halfe an ounce the iuice of Fumitorie of Wormwood of Danewéede and of broad Plantaine of ech sixe ounces the iuice of Quinces eighteen ounces Diagridium a quarter of an ounce white Sugar twenty foure ounces make hereof a sirupe and when it is almost sufficiently decocted then powre thereto foure ounces of the iuice of Quinces and then let it boile till his consistence This sirupe is maruellous good in the time of the plague for it drieth the body moderatly and cleanseth also the same of all superfluous humors it strengtheneth the heart the liuer and also the inward parts You may take of it one ounce and a halfe or two ounces euery wéeke with the water of Buglosse early in the morning and then to sléepe thereupon a while or at the least to lie still an howre after it Hitherto haue we described many medicines whereby the healthie in time of the plague may be preserued All these things must be vsed in good order like as these medicines following also to wit that you vse sometimes the one and somtimes the other and not alwaies one and the selfe same that nature not accustome her selfe to it and in the end do thinke the remedie to be rather a foode than a medicine so that it by that meanes cannot haue her operation The sixteenth Chapter VVhen any are infected with the Plague NOw this Chapter shall onely intreate of those that are alreadie infected with the Plague be it by what meanes soeuer they haue first gotten the same as with Agues swellings plague sore or such like Of the Ague in the Plague §. 1. THe Plague commonly commeth alwaies first with an Ague wherupon presently followeth the Tokens or Carbuncles Of the causes of these twaine hath bene spoken before whereby it hath also bene said that in the time of heate as in the Dog daies when the heate of man is drawne inward that the heart as then is inflamed through an vnnaturall manner of heate then also the outward ayre wherein we continually abide increaseth the heate and the heart is so set on fire that the heate spreadeth ouer the whole bodie and thereby quickly causeth a pestilent Ague especially if there be such humors in the bodie that are subiect to inflammation but if the bodie be not thereto inclined then can there be no cause how violent soeuer it be of such infection Of the signes whereby this sicknes is knowne §. 2. EVuen as all other sicknesses haue their certaine signes whereby they are knowne so is it with this venimous ague which manifesteth her selfe with seuen kinds of accidents whereof the first is an vnnaturall cold and shaking whereupon straight way followeth a great heate albeit the same oftentimes altereth so that sometime first the heate and afterwards the cold insueth Secondly let this happen howsoeuer it will there followeth alwaies after it a great and intollerable thirst Thirdly bitternesse and vnsauorines of the mouth Fourthly losse of appetite Fiftly heauines of all parts of the bodie with wearisomnes and sleepe Sixtly a binding of the bodie and the going to the stoole by constraint and with great stench the vrine also commeth with a great quantitie and stinketh much lastly bereauing of sléepe And albeit these foresaid signes manifest sufficiently the violence that nature suffereth it is to be wondred at neuerthelesse that at the first neither by the nature and qualitie of the ague nor by the pulse nor by the vrine this infection is to be discerned for it often hapneth that the vrine of all men so infected is very like the vrine of the sound and that the heate is also much slower and obscurer than that of any other agues and the pulse also quiet and scant to be felt Now when all these signes or any of them shall appeare or that there be a plague sore or other signes mo then all auncient and later Phisitions conclude with one consent that there is nothing more profitable and requisite than that the patient do sweate well and be delt withall as hereafter followeth By what meanes the patient is prouoked to sleepe §. 3. FIrst they ordaine these confections following whereof shall be taken the quantitie of an hasell nut Take one ounce of Treacle Pimpernell Gentian Bistorta Tormentill Sage Rue Wormwood Iuniper berries and Nut kernels of each one dragme stampe them all together and then with vineger make it into a confection Or vse this confection following called Bezoarctica one dragme warmed in Sorrell water or in water of Carduus Benedictus at what time soeuer you will and then couer him very well and let him sweate thrée or foure howers if he be able for the more he sweateth the better hope is there of his recouerie But if the patient be vnder the age of twelue yeares yet aboue fiue yeares then must you giue him halfe a dragm and further deale as is abouesaid It is also néedfull if the patient may abide it that he sweate morning and euening this confection is made as followeth Take of the best Treacle and Mithridate of each halfe an ounce Pimpernell and Angelica of each tenne greines Cardamome fiue greines Camfer thrée greines Cinnamom ten greines put them all together But if you haue none of this confection at hand then a dragme of Treacle or
Mithridate with any of the foresaid waters or take of the golden Egge which is described after two manner of waies as followeth Take a new laid Hen egge and make a little hole in the top that the white may issue out The golden Egge and the yolke tarrie within then fill it vp with good powdred Saffron and shut too the hole on the top againe with the white of the egge and egshell then rost it by a mild fire so long as the shell will hold and that it be all cleane browne This being done take off the shell and powne the inner part very small then mingle it with white Mustard séedes Diptamus and Tormentill of each a quarter of an ounce Nux vomica a dragme lastly adde good Treacle to it in waight as heauie as all the rest then temper it all together two or thrée howers together and make hereof a hard confection which men call the golden Egge and will remaine good twenty or thirtie yeares The second Take all that is before rehearsed except the quantitie of the Treacle and put thereto Angelica Pimpernell Zeduarie Camfer and good Treacle of each as much as of the other and that in waight but I thinke that there is too much Camfer and too little Treacle Whereas it is not a little auailable to know how this confection is to be vsed therefore you shall vnderstand that whensoeuer this sicknesse first beginneth with cold then must you if it be a man before that twelue howers be past giue to him the waight of a duckat to a woman as much as a Rhenish gildern wayeth and a child or boy half as much with a smal wine But if this sicknes taketh one with heate then take in the place of wine water of Cicorie or if you cannot get it then take halfe wine halfe vineger and sweate vpon it This confection may be vsed at all times against all bad humors and venime yet then must the Nux vomica be left out In the fift part the twelfth Chapter 1. § is likewise shewed how to prouoke sweate The auncient Phisitions accustomed to vse this powder following for to cause sweate take Valerian rootes thrée quarters of an ounce Gentian white Diptamus and drie Rue of each one ounce good Saffron one dragm red Corall and Mace of each a dragme and a halfe temper it and powne it all together and giue one dragme thereof with a draught of wine A maruellous oyle for to procure sweate Take a glasse bottell as bigge as you will fill the same halfe full of Elder flowers put thereon the third part of Hollihock flowers or flowers of Ebulus againe therupon a third part of the flowers of S. Iohns woort so that with these thrée things the glasse be full this being done powre thereo◠old Sallad oyle the older the better and at last stop it very close so let it stand all the Somer a sunning with this oyle must you rub the bodie very warme thrée or foure times a day It hath bene approued that this oile through the abundant sweate that it prouoketh expelleth all contagion of the Plague Here follow now Diaphoreticall potions Take Rue Wormwood and the vppermost tops of the Blacke berries of each a handfull Celandine a handfull and a halfe powre thereon a pint of Vineger afterwards stop the pot very close that there come out no vapor and then let the third part seeth away then straine it out and kéepe it close stopt and when any are infected with the Plague or in any wise poysoned then giue him of this drinke to wit two or thrée ounces and let him sweate after it and not sléepe at all The water of Geranium is also very good against all venime and therfore good to be vsed in time of the Plague whether there appeare any swelling or any other accidents or not Some also commend this composition following to be an especiall remedie and it is indéed not to be disdained Take a great Onion cut off the top and make a hole therein and then fill him with Treacle and the iuice of Rue and Vineger of each one dragme then close the toppe too againe with the péece which you clipt and cut off and fasten it with two sticks wind it in wel towe this being done rost it in the hote ashes till it be very mellow afterwards stamp it to pap and then straine it through a cloth and it will be a broth then preserue this broth till time of neede If one then be found that he be poysoned then giue him a dragm therof and hold tosted bread sprinkled with vineger before his nose that he cast it not vp againe and let him lye downe on the bed that he may sweate But it is to be noted that sléepe in sweating is forbidden and hurtfull wherfore the patient shall not sléepe till the sweate be gone that the venim hasten not towards the vitall parts afterwards he may sléepe that he waxe not impotent and weake yet he is otherwhiles to be awaked And if the age or might of the patient will permit it then ought he to be let bloud that the contagious matter which corrupteth the bloud and hurteth the principall parts might be let out and the inflammation lessened Herein do many Phisitions and Barbers dote and erre very absurdly which straight way as soone as they suppose it to be the Plague not perceiuing any signe thereof begin their cure with letting of bloud For albeit that it may not be delayed too long yet ought it not rashly to be done by reason of the former causes When the patient thus sweateth then must the same be wiped from his face with a cloth and hold before his nose rose Vineger Rose water and such like also let the ayre of the chamber be cleansed and perfumed with fire or sprinkled with Vineger but especiall héede must be taken that the sweate strike not againe into the bodie As he hath now sweat wel and is wiped cleane then must he be laid in another bed for the exchange of beds is very good for thereby they are the lesse infectious which otherwise increaseth stil more and more and is more hurtful for the diseased person Some are of opinion that the patient should not take any thing within an hower after his sweate that nature first might be able to indure and beare it the better Besides the ayring and sprinkling of the chamber it is good counsell for the rich that there be a cloth wetted in Rosewater and hanged in the night before the bed of the patient and when it is drie that it be moistened againe How to comfort those that are infected with the Plague §. 4. FOr asmuch as there are many causes in this sicknesse wherby the patient may be weakened which the disease of it selfe bringeth with it as great heate much watching thirst paine sweate such like things mo wherfore good regard must be had how the heart might be comforted
let it séeth so long vntil that al the wine be wasted then afterwards powre Hony vpon it but not too hote to the end that thereby they be not too hard Before times these were woont to be made in this manner following Take a rough cloth and rub off therewith the vttermost parings of the Quinces or pare them very thin and then cut them in foure peeces and take out the coare within afterwards powre vpon them two parts of wine and one part of Hony which is clarified then séeth them so long vntill the skin do wrinkle then be they enough put them out and let them be cold lay them in a potte and strew some spice vpon each row afterwards powre the decoction sodden short luke warme vpon it Item take Quinces take out the coares and lay them in a pot close one to another and let them stand stewing in an ouen vntill that they be mellow so that they may easily be pricked thorough with bodkins afterwards let them be cold and then put them againe into another pot and powre clarified Hony vpon it lay some heauie thing vpon it that they swim not about then will they remaine good a whole yeare and haue the same vertue of the common Marmalade You haue also before in the description of Peares how that they shall be made close in a pot and should then be laid in a fat of Wine you may also put the same in practise with the Quinces Lay the Quinces all the winter in small chopt straw and couer them well but lay none other fruite with it and kéepe them from the ayre Other do take Flockes some Bran or Hay But the very surest is if one will kéepe them the whole yeare that they be couered in their own leaues and afterwards couer them with Lome let them drie and set them somewhere in a cold drie place There may also be made many kinds of things of Quinces viz. the sirupe Miua and oyle and also the séedes thereof be vsed and the péeles Conserue of Roses §. 33. COnserue of Roses which is ready at al Apothecaries and common in al houses is thus prepared Take red Rose buds which be pluckt in drie weather as many as you please clip them off vnder the white with a paire of sheares then lay them on a cleane cloth and one double cloth ouer them that they may be well couered let them lye so still vpon a table two or three daies that they may wither a little and afterwards stamp them in a mortar to grout and to one part of the powned Roses take two parts of Sugar and stampe them well together afterwards put this Conserue in a glasse and stop it close the space of thrée moneths in the sun yet stirre them about once euery day with a woodden spatine if so be that you thinke that they will be too hard then set them afterwards in a sellar that they relent somewhat It is here also to be noted that if so be you cannot get the right red Roses then take the Carnation coloured yea also the wild Roses of the which I haue found my selfe that the Conserue it selfe is of very good tast and moreouer very forcible in working This Conserue of Roses hath an especial vertue to strengthen a weake stomacke and to allay all cholericke humors it strengtheneth the braines it quickeneth and strengtheneth the heart it cooleth the heate and all inflammation of the inward parts This Conserue of Roses may well be tempered with Rosewater or Well water and be wrung thorough a cloth and so in all hote agues to comfort the sicke persons with it it moisteneth also the drie toung the throat the breast and the lights and especially that which is new made that which is oldish hath another nature of binding in all scourings and fluxes it swageth the paine and sharpnesse of the same c. The purging Conserue of Roses is made thus Take twelue ounces of Sugar of Roses and temper amongst it at the least half an ounce of small pouned Diagridion This conserue of Roses is also very good in sundrie sicknesses and especially in lingering diseases There is halfe an ounce thereof giuen or at the most thrée quarters of an ounce at once when as the Diagridion hath bene tempered amongst it at the least two moneths before The white Conserue of Roses is made like to the red Some do make all Conserues of Roses with Hony in stead of Sugar but this Conserue is hotter and is seldome vsed There is also Conserues made of Damaske Roses after the foresaid manner which is very pleasant and looseth mildly Conserue of Rosemary §. 34. THis Conserue is very pleasant not onely for Phisicke but the flowers and the herbe is also vsed in the Kitchin with wine and otherwise But as much as concerneth the Conserue the Apothecaries do call it Conserua Anthos and is made thus Take flowers of Rosemary which are to be gathered in the spring and in haruest powne them to pap and to one part of these flowers take three parts of Sugar and powne it very well togther then set it in the Sunne stirring it oftentimes about This Conserue is warme by nature it attenuateth also all tough grosse and flegmatick matter of the inward parts it drieth and strengtheneth the braines it refresheth the heart and maketh it merrie it strengtheneth the mortified naturall heate it expelleth the yellow Iaundise and withstandeth the Dropsie it warmeth and cleanseth the breast it maketh a good breath it driueth out phlegme and strengtheneth digestion it withstandeth all venime that might hurt the heart it taketh away the Chollicke or griping of the belly it causeth one to sweate well whereby it expelleth all bad humors out of the bodie it cleanseth the bloud hunteth away all heauinesse and pensiuenesse and strengtheneth all weaknesse To preserue the rootes of all red Beetes §. 35. YOu are to stew these rootes with a little water when they be mellow then put thereto little péeces of Horsradish and put them in a pot and strew it with Caraway afterwards powre halfe wine and halfe vineger vpon it vntill that they be well couered and then lay some heauie thing vpon them that they may not swim in the same manner may you also prepare all the rootes that serue for Sallads the rootes which are too great are to be cut ouerthwart These and such like rootes are not to be vsed for phisicke but for meate Conserue of Sage §. 36. COnserue of Sage is also made of the flowers like vnto all other it doth strengthen the stomack it openeth all obstructions it consumeth all bad humors of the stomacke it strengtheneth all members and is very good for all diseases of the head which procéede of cold it is good against all Palsies and lamenesse it is also méete for all diseases of the sinewes How Sloes are to be preserued §. 37. TAke very ripe Sloes with their stalks and put thereto two parts of Hony and
one part of wine and let them séeth so long vntill the wine be thoroughly sodden away afterwards lay the Sloes in a pot with the stalkes on high and powre the same Hony vpon it and couer it with a trencher and lay some heauy thing on them to the end that they may be couered with the liquor and then set them in a sellar Another way to preserue Sloes take vnripe Medlars ripe Sloes ripe and pared Quinces when the coares be cut out of each as much as you please if you will you may sticke them about with spice likewise also the Medlars which you shall séeth with the Quinces in Hony like as is first of all said of Sloes and lay some heauie thing on the top of it Conserues of Cowslips §. 38. THere be two kinds of these flowers whereof the one is wild and without smell which is méete for nothing but take of the yellow that smels well and cut thereof behind the long pipe and with Sugar make a Conserue thereof This Conserue is of a warme and drie nature it is very good for the head it strengtheneth and warmeth the braines it is also good for the Palsey for which cause it is also called Herba paralysis This conserue is also of all them which be inclined to the Palsey much vsed and it strengtheneth also the heart but it is perchance not much vsed for that it is a kind of Betony or of Gillowflowers which be more acceptable Conserue of water Lillies §. 39. LIkewise there be two sorts of these flowers to wit yellow and white take thereof the white and the white leaues onely of the flowers make a conserue thereof â—ike vnto all other conserues This conserue strengtheneth much and cooleth in very hote agues and also in pestilentiall agues It is also very good for them that consume away and that haue the Pleurisie It taketh away all drie coughes for that it cooleth and moisteneth the breast the throat and the dry tongue it quencheth thirst it cooleth through her cold the Liuer the Milt and all inward parts and it prouoketh sléepe All haile people and they that be cold of nature may not vse the same for that if the same be vsed too much then taketh it away the fleshly desire and it obstructeth also the spermaticall fluxe if it be heate Conserue of Violets §. 40. TAke blew odoriferous Violet flowers plucke the flowers from their huâ— and powne them to a pap Vnto a pound of flowers put two pound of Sugar and then stampe them well together and so set them in the Sunne This Conserue is cold in the first and moist in the second degrée It cooleth and moisteneth with mildnesse and it asswageth also the paine of the guts but it is not so good for the stomacke It allayeth also the cholericke heate which cometh through moisture It looseth and also taketh away thirst It may well be giuen to young children in all heate very fréely for that it is good against their pangs it kéepeth the belly open it strengtheneth the braines and the heart and it taketh away all stitches The yellow Violets are also preserued otherwhiles Conserue of the flowers of Cicorie §. 41. TAke the leaues of Cicorie flowers and make a conserue thereof like as is taught of all other This conserue is especiall good for the Liuer it openeth the obstruction of the same it cleanseth all inward parts and also the intrailes of all cholerick humors it expelleth them out thorough the stoole and withstandeth thereby all putrifying agues therefore this conserue is also to be vsed in the beginning of the Dropsie it reuiueth the weake and ouer-heated heart and also the stomacke In fine it is very good in all hot sicknesses The roots of Cicory are also preserued which are digged vp before that they begin to sprout out Being digged vp make them cleane and cut them the long way and then take the innermost hart of it Afterwards cut it in péeces the length of a finger and then let them boile well in fresh water that the bitternes may come out and the rootes may be mellow When as they be meetly drie then powre thicke boyled Sugar vpon it and if the rootes be still somewhat hard then let them boile in the Sugar vntill they be mellow and let them be cold But if that the sirupe be thin through the moisture of the rootes then séeth the same thicke againe and that so often vntill it remaine stiffe These rootes be of a cold and dry nature and they haue the same vertues with the conserue How red Cherries are preserued §. 42. REd Cherries be preserued like as we haue taught before of the blacke They haue also one kind of operation and are thus preserued Take picked red Cherries which be not brused put them in a small Oaken vessell afterwards take clarified Honie and let it seeth with a little wine vntill all the moisture be consumed and powre then this Honie warme vpon it otherwise would they break through heate This being now done then stoppe the vessell tight and lay it in a Sellar and rowle it daily from one place to another and do this the space of fourtéene daies or thrée wéekes There is also made of these Cherries a conserue as hereafter followeth Take Cherries as many as you please stampe them a little and then powre yet moe other Cherries vnto it and boile it without any other moisture all that which will remaine thicke is to be rubbed thorough a sieue to the end that there do not remaine any other thing in the sieue than skinnes and stones then séeth it in an earthen pot You may also put Sugar vnto it as much as you please and then séeth it vnto a conserue For this is no kind of Spice méete if so be that one desire not to put a little Cinnamom vnto it This conserue is very good against all drith of the mouth throat and toung if sicke persons be washed with it It quencheth thirst in all hote Agues and otherwise It is also good for all Cholera of the stomacke it maketh appetite to meate and it cooleth the hote reynes the kernels do expell grauell In Summer time is wine to be mingled with this conserue and to be vsed for sauce with rost meate If one desire to kéepe Cherries long fresh then are picked Cherries to be taken for it and to dip the same in molten Waxe viz. when it beginneth to be cold to let them be well closed in Waxe and afterwards to sement the same with Lome vntill it be throughly closed then are they to be hanged vp in a coole place and they will remaine fresh a very long time How ripe and vnripe Grapes are to be preserued §. 43. THe vnripe Grapes shall be confected like to all Barberries but you must cut euery berrie from the Cluster to the end that they may kéepe their stalkes and put therewith like as is said of the black Cherries then let them
the first part the seuenth Chapter and 4. § Vnguentum Pectorale §. 20. WHereof be two sorts described in the second part the fift chapter and fift § Pomada Pomadoes §. 21. THe manner to make this salue shall you find in the first part the eleuenth chapter and 1. § Vnguentum Pompholigos §. 22. THe preparing of this Tutie salue is described in the second part the second chapter and second § and her vertue is to be found in the table of the Tutie Vnguentum Populeonis §. 23. THis Poplar salue is rife at all Apothecaries and is very troublesome to be made wherfore is the same to be fetched at the Apothecaries it is good against all vnnaturall heats and if it be annointed vpon the temples of the head then procureth it sléepe Vnguentum Rosatum §. 24. THe preparation of this salue is described in the first part the first chapter and second § and is there also taught how that it is good against all hote paine of the head and other paines which be caused through heate Vnguentum Sandalinum §. 25. THis salue of Saunders is much vsed in effluxion of humane séede and is described in the third part the sixt Chapter and first § This and other salues be vsed for many other things which as the cause shall require are to be sought in the table The second Part of this Chapter of Sief WE haue discouered before that the Phisitions vnderstand through this Arabian name Sief all manner of fine and impalpable eye powders whereof some haue bene described in this booke Sief Album Rasis §. 1. THis Sief is vsed for all red sore and waterish eyes and is described in the first part the seuenth chapter and first § for what it is further to be vsed looke for that in the second table vpon the name Sief Sief de Fellibus §. 2. THe manner to prepare this Sief is to be found in the first part the seuenth chap. and 15. § Sief Memithe §. 3. HIs preparation is in the first part the seuenth chapter and 1. § Sief de Plumbo §. 4. THis is described in the first part the seuenth chapter and tenth § Sief de Rosis §. 5. THis Sief of Roses is described against sore eyes in the first part the 7. chap. and sixt § Sief de Thure §. 6. THis Sief of Frankinsence is set downe in the first part and seuenth Chapter Sief viride §. 7. THis Sief shall you find in the first part of this booke the sixt Chapter and first § The third Part of this Chapter of Sirupes Of the Sirupes and Iuices in generall BOth of these things as Sirups and Iuices be almost innumerable that be vsed in Phisicke to wit the iuices of fruites herbs flowers roots and such like things somtimes alone but tempred for the most part alwaies with other things according as each pleaseth as may be discerned thorough out all this Booke Wherfore it is not our purpose to gather here together such things but onely those which are most vsed but we will as much as is possible most truly expound and translate their names into English and also adioyne therewith their operations and powers First you haue in the Introduction how all Iuices are to be clarified Secondly it is also a general rule that no sower iuices as the iuice of vnripe Grapes Barberries neither wine nor vineger are to be sodden in Copper vessels for that they may get an hurtful tast but the same are to be decocted in earthen leaden pots Thirdly you haue also in the first part the first chapter sixt § how that the compounded sirupes are to be decocted Fourthly because that it importeth much that the sirupes be not decocted too hard to the end they come not to candise and that they be not sodden too thin and come not to be moldie wherfore the proofe also is described in the introduction wherby may certainly be vnderstood when as they be enough like as is also sufficiently admonished of each sirupe that they may be clarified Syrupus de Absinthio that is of Wormwood §. 1. TAke Romish Wormwood or if you cannot get it then take of the common Wormewood sixe ounces red Roses two ounces Indy Spica thrée dragmes good white wine and the iuice of Quinces of each foure and twenty ounces let them stéepe all together in an earthen pot the space of one whole night and afterwards séeth it to the halfe this being done straine it then put foure and twenty ounces of cleare Hony or Sugar vnto it and then let it seeth to a sirupe This sirupe is also especiall good for the stomacks for the liuer and for all nourishing parts it maketh appetite to meate and helpeth to digest the meat it is good for the falling sicknesse it expelleth wind and driueth out all bad humors by the vrine In the table vnder the name of Wormwood is her vertue described at large Syrupus de Acetosa of Sorrell §. 2. TAke the iuice of Sorrell thrée parts Sugar two parts let it séeth together skumme and clarifie it well vntill it be sufficiently decocted This sirupe is good for all hote pestilentiall Agues it quencheth the thirst and the inflaming heate of the heart and also of the stomacke and it strengtheneth the same Sée further in the table of the Sorrell Syrupus Acetosus of Vineger §. 3. IN the third part the 11. Chapter and 9. § is taught how that this sirupe is to be made and one may also reade her vse there Syrupus acetosus compositus also of Vineger §. 4. How this sirupe and also de Radicibus is to be made is to be séene in the third part the 11. chapter and 9. § where both their operations be described Syrupus acctosus de Cytonijs which is of sower Quinces §. 5. HEr preparation is described in the third part the eleuenth chapter and sixt § Syrupus Acetosus Diarhodon that is of Vineger and Roses §. 6. THis sirupe is very seldome vsed but for what it is good you may reade that in the table of the Roses Syrupus de Acetositate Citri of the iuice of Citrons §. 7. TAke the iuice of Citrons which is strained through a cloth without wringing otherwise the iuice will be thicke when it is cold like as pap then teeth away this iuice with halfe so much Sugar This sirupe hath the same vertue of the sirupe of Oâ—anges whereof we will speake shortly but that it is more forcible This sirupe is made thus in Cypro like as hereafter followeth Take cleare iuice Sugar halfe so much then stop it tight and set it in the sun This sirupe remaineth alwaies cleare Both these sirupes be good against all venime but especially for the Plague and all other putrified humors it strengtheneth the stomacke it cooleth the heart and all other inward parts it quencheth thirst it bringeth sléepe it stayeth all vapors of the stomacke especially if one drinke too much Reade further in the Table
Eies described 65 Eies paines remedied 66 Eie water for all paines of the eies 76 Eie powder 66 Eies blearednesse called Ophthalmia 67 Eies that be red 68 Eie salue 69 Eies full of heate remedied ibid. Eies full of blisters 70 Eie water of the Emperour Fredericke 88 Eies how they are defended on all sides 59 Eies hurt with the haires of the eyelids 64 Eies that itch and are sore 70 Eies that runne and water 71 Eies that runne of a cold cause 73 Eyes that do matter 74 Eies impostumed of externall causes 76 Eies that bake together in the sleepe ibid. Eies spotted 77 Eies before which Gnats or Flies seeme to swarme 80 Eies growen ouer with skins 83 Eies mistie and cloudie 85 Eies that sticke out as if they would fall out 86 Eies that are burned 87 Eies that haue had a blow ibid. Eies wherein something is gotten ibid. Eies that are best by day or by night 91 Eies that are blind 87. 92 Eies squintnesse 92 Eie beames dilation 85 Eie corners fistulaes 76. 79 Eie corners infections 66. 67 Eielids that will grow together 64 Eielids turned 63 Eielids with Warts ibid. Eielids chapped ibid. Eielids itching 62 Eielids swolne diuersly 60 Eielids description 59 Eie waters and other things diuersly prepared 72. 76. Eie water for running eies 71. 72 Eie salue for all kinde of running and mattering 72. 75. 76. Electuary of Calmus prepared diuersly 705 Electuary for giddinesse of the head 123 Electuarium de Psyllio 734 Electuarium Diaphoenicon ibid. Electuarium de Citro 326 Elecampane rootes confected 711 Electuarium de succo rosarum 735 Electuarium de Sebesten 362 Electuarium vitae 737 Electuarium de Manna 732 Electuaries moe 731. 733. 734. 735. c. Eluxation of the ioynts 536 Emperour Charles his prescriptions and rules in the Gout 546 Epithymus or Dodder prepared 11 Eryngus rootes preserued 717 Esula prepared and vsed 15 Euphorbium prepared 11 Euphorbium vsed ibid. Excoriation of the bladder 473 Extraction for al obstructions and binding of the body 398 399 Exhortation to the keepers of the infected with the plague 680 Exulceration in the Kidneyes 447 Exulcerations in the stomacke 376 F. FAces description 56 Faces rednesse 58 Faces pushes and heate ibid. Face how to cleere it 59 Fals blowes and bruises cause many sicknesses 684. Falling sicknesse Epilepsia 151 Falling sicknesse in children 152 Fat of mans body described 616 Fat 's of diuers beasts prepared 11 looke Marrowes Fatnesse her troublesomnesse to man 616 Feare and frighting 383 Feetes diseases how cured 526 Felon or Ancome of the fingers 525 Feuer burning called Causon 638 Fingers described 522 Fingers numbed 522. 523 Fingers numbed through bruises 523 Fistulaes causes and signes 568. 569 Fistulaes description 568 Fistula in the corner of the eye 79 Fistula in the gums 175 Fistula in the breasts 211 Fistula in the arsegut 316 To cause flesh to grow in wounds 601 Fleshes description 615 Fixe and red flixe 343. 352 Flood too aboundant after deliuerie of childe 517. Flowers how long they may be kept 7 Flowers in women looke Termes Flowers of women in generall 476 Flowers how to preferre them 477 Flowers obstruction how remedied 478. 479. 480. 482. Flowers excessiue course how to be stopped 484. Fluxe of seed through heat looke running of the raines Fluxe of seed in sleepe 293 Fluxe of seed through cold ibid. Fluxe white in women how to be remedied 488. Fomentations for the stomacke 334 Fractures of bones 549 Frensinesse 124 Frensinesse of blood 127 Frensinesse with a hot ague 125. 126. Friction in the falling euill 159 Fruites of all sortes how to keepe them fresh 725. Fruites increase in the wombe 503 Fruites weaknesse in the mothers wombe 506 Fruitfulnesse how it is caused in man and woman 300. Fruitfulnesse her signes 502 Fruitfulnesse in woman how furthered 296 G. GAlbanum plaister prepared 487 Galbanum plaister Galen ibid. Gals description 407 Gallia muscata prepared 342 Gargarismes for all infirmities of the mouth 164. Gargarisme for giddinesse of the head 123 Gargarisme for losse of speech 173 Gargarisme for rheumes 196 Generation members 274 Giddinesse of the head 121 Ginger prepared 715 Glisters diuersly prepared 709 Golden Egge prepared 669 Gloues how to perfume 521 Going il after the gout in the feete how to remedie it 547 Gout 527 Gouts signes ibid. Goutes rules that are to be obserued 528 529. Gout of the hands called Chiragra 531 Gout in the feete 540 Gout of the feete his preseruatiues 542 Gout of the feete how to preuent it 541 Gout of the feete or Podagra how purged 543. Gout of the feete which is cold 545 Gout of the feete his remedies 542 543 544. Gout of the hips called Sciatica 531 Grapes preserued 725 Gratia Dei plaister 566 Grauell sand or stone of the Kidneyes 451 Grauels increase hindered 452 To expell grauell 454 Outward remedies for the grauell 461 Grauels paine delayed 454 Grauell remedied 454. 455. c. Griping of the heart 270 Groynes swolne 274 Gumme Amoniacke looke Ammoniacum Gums of the teeth 173 Gums bleeding 174 Gums vlcer 161 Gums fistuled 175 Gums resoluing 176 Gums putrifying ibid. Gums impostumating 173 Gunpouder burning 594 Guts paine looke Bowels paine H. HAgge or mare 150 Haires description 45 Haire to make it to grow 46 Haire made yellow ibid. Haire made blacke ibid. Haire made to curle 47 Haire that it waxe not gray ibid. Haire taken away ibid. Haire drawne out 47. 48 Haire infected diuersly 48 Haires falling out preuented 48. 49 Haire on the breasts what it signifieth 211 Hands end and vse 520 Hands description ibid. Hands how to keepe them cleane ibid. Hands how to make them sweete 521 Hands that are scabbed ibid. Hands that are chapped ibid. Hand waters or lotion for the hands 521 522 523. Hardnesse of the Matrix or Mother 495 Hartburning 334 Hearts heauinesse 271 Hearts panting or beating 263 Hearts panting through heate 264 Hearts panting through a bad stomacke 271 Hearts panting through cold 268 Hearts panting through frighting 271 Hearts oppression 260 Hearts description 256. 257 Hearts infirmities in generall 258 Headach 30 Headach Hemicrania 35 Headach Congelatio 30. 136 Headaches causes 31 Headach with an ague and a laske 33 Heahach of inanition 35 Headaches Hemicraniae and Cephalaeae cured ibid. Headaches remedies ibid. Headach of the Sunne 36 Headach of drukennesse ibid. Headach of blowes or falles 37 Headach of colde ibid. Headach of colde and an especial remedie for it 39. Headaches that be old 195 Head which is cold how to purge it 37 Head broken out 51 Head broken out healed 51. 52 Heads giddinesse looke giddinesse of the head Head veines vse in opening of it 24 Head wounded 43. 54 Hearing that is bad 107 Hearing diminished 113 Healthy how preserued from infection of the plague 654 What exercise is to be vsed of them 658 How their dwellings ought to be 656 Their gouernement without doores 660 Heate of vrine looke Vrine that scaldeth Heate of vlcers
95 Noses excrescence of flesh ibid. Noses impostume ibid. Noses infection called Polipus 97 Nummednesse 16 Nutmegs preserued 717 O. OIle of Saint Iohns wort 745 Oiles for the stomack in vomiting and scouring 341. 344 Oile of Antimonie of Steele and Iron 751 Oile of Amber 741 Oile of Abrecocke kernels 745 Oile of Cammomill 743 Oile of Capers ibid. Oile of Costus 142. 743 Oile of Beuercod 742 Oile of Egs. 49. 744 Oile of Euphorbium 744 Oile of Annis seedes ibid. Oile of blew Flowerdeluce 750 Oile of Roses 749 Oile of Sulphure ibid. Oile called Hypobalsamum 143 Oile of Mandragora 741 Oile of Rubarbe 784 Oile of Marierom gentle 747 Oile of Scorpions 750 Oile of Cloues 747 Oile of Pepper 748 Oile of Rue ibid. Oile of water Lillies 750 Oile of Spikenard ibid. Oile of Elderne flowers 745 Oile of Violets 751 Oile of Nutmegs 747 Oile of Vitrioll 752 Oile of the seeds and flowers of Poppie 746 Oile of Earthwormes 530. 748 Oile of Dill. 743 Oile of Linnen cloth 746 Oile of Lead 742 Oile of Mastike 331 Oile of Foxes 212. 744 Oile of the blossoms of Walnut trees 114 Oile of Wormewood 753 Oile of Oliues 8. 742 Oile of Poplar buds 741 Oile of Iuniper berries 752 Oile of Tiles 102. 753 Oile of Quinces 331 Oile of sweete Almonds 364. 746 Oile of Lillies 744 Oile of Hempseed ibid. Oile of diuers kinds ibid. Oile of bitter Almonds 746 Oiles diuers moe to be prepared 744. 745. 746. 747. c. Oile of Copperas 745 Oyntment of Roses described by Mesues 32. Ointment in Consumption 255 Oyntments or oyles for all colde stomackes 330. Opium prepared and vsed 13 Order of diet in the Rupture 287 Order of diet in the headach of heate 35 Order of diet in a cold headach 43 Order of diet for watering and running eyes 71 Order of diet in bleeding at the nose 98 Order of diet in diseases of the eares 105 Order of diet for weake memorie 119 Order of diet in the sleeping disease 135 Order of diet in the dead Palsey 147 Order of diet in the falling euill 152 Order of diet in Bronchocele 187 Order of diet in colde rheumes 198 Order of diet in the Pleurisie of heate 218 Order of diet in the spetting of bloud 246 Order of diet in the Consumption 252 Order of diet in the debilitie of the heart 259 Order of diet in swounings 261 Order of diet in the Pyles 305 Order of diet in the paine and windinesse of the stomacke 332 Order of diet in a hardned Spleene 414 Order of diet in the inuoluntary effluxion of vrin 464. Order of diet for women with child 504 Order of diet in the Canker 572 Order of diet in the Leprosie 584 Order of diet in hot Agues 628. 629 Order of diet for them that recouer after a long sicknesse 633 Order of diet in the Plague 679 Order of diet for them that are bitten with a mad dog 699 Order of diet for giddinesse of the head 124 Order of diet for those that are pursiue 234 235. Order for them that recouer from the Plague or any lingring sicknesse 680 Order of diet for an hote impostume of the Kidneyes 446 Order of diet in falling downe of the Pallet 167. Order of diet in the Ague Synochus 641 Order of diet in hote rheumes 202 Order of diet in obstruction of the liuer 391 Order of diet for outward vlcers of the kidneies 451. Order of diet for the grauell and stone 464 Order of diet for the dropsie 407 Oxycroceum Vigonis 213 Oxycraton 753 Oxymel diuersly prepared 44 Oxymel of Squils 38 Oxysacchara prepared 94 P. PAlsey or Paralysis 134. 135. 137 Palsey through fals or blowes 144 Pallet of the throate falling downe 166. 167 Pallets description 166 Paine in the head looke Headach Paine in the eyes looke Eyes paine Paine in the eares looke Eares paine Paine in the teeth looke Toothach Paine in the ioynts looke Ioyntach Paine in the backe looke Backe paine Paine of the Pyles looke Pyles pained Paine of the stomacke looke Stomacke Paine in the left side vnder the short ribs looke Spleene pained Paine in the right side vnder the short ribs looke Liuer pained .. Paine in the Kidneyes 443 Paine in the mother through cold 494 Paine in the same through heate 495 Paine in the hips or Sciatica through heate and cold 533. 534 Paine of the Podagra or Gout of the feete 545. Paine in the Pockes of long continuance 580 Paine in the throate through Phlegma and colde taking 193 Paine in the teeth through outward causes 177 178. Palsey that is shaking 137 Palsey that is dead 139. 140 Paine in the bowels looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly looke Bowels pained Paine in the belly remedied 428 Paine in the belly of yong children 431 Paine in the Kidneyes 442. 443 Paine of retention of vrine 466 Paine of the Mother 493 Paine of the ioynts an especiall remedie 550 Paine of wounded sinewes remedied 612 Paines description 367. 368. 619 Parbraking with a laske looke vomiting Patients before whose eyes Gnats seeme to appeare what to refraine 83 Pearle of the eye 78 Peaches preserued 355. 719 Peares preserued 712 Pearles prepared 9 Pectorall potion prepared 229 Pectorall salue ibid. Pestilentiall Agues looke Agues pestilentiall Phlebotomies cause and commoditie 20 Phlebotomie forbidden 21 Phlegmes description 603. 605. 619 Phisickes commendation 4 Phisicall bookes diuision 5 Phisickes description 4 Phisickes necessitie ibid. Phisicke is a sure pawne ibid. Phisicke waights 29 Pyles called Verrucales 312 Pyles called Haemorrhoides 304 Pyles that hang farre out 312 Pyles that bleede ouermuch looke bleeding 306. 308. Pyles opened 309 Pyles their paine 310 Pils pestilentiall 662 Pils Indae prepared 413 Pils for all kinds of laskes and the termes in women 357 Pils that moue vrine 398 Pils for the plague especiall good 663 Pils of Amber 324 Pils of diuers kinds 755 Pils to preserue health 237 Pils to bind 350 Pils for the Gout of Charles the Emperor 542 Pissing of blood 448 Pissing of matter looke Matter made by vrine Pith prepared 8 Places in women described 288 Places exulcerated by copulation 289. 290 Plague 653. 654. 655. c. Plague described ibid. Plague cured 668. 669. c. Plagues causes and signes 653 Plague preuented 654 Plague sore or Carbuncle 564 Plague sore what 564. 65 whence it proceedeth ibid. when it appeareth how to be remedied 675. 676. 677. Plague sore not appearing what is to be done 678. Plaister Diachilon how made 518 Plaisters in the rheumes 198 Plaister Basilicum 565 Plaister for the headach 31 Plaister de Muscilaginibus 64 Plaister to heale the corner of the eyes 77 79. Plaister for the rednesse of the eyes 69 Plaister for watering eyes and cold rheumes 72. 74. 200. Plaister of Bayberries 329 Plaister called the Blacke plaister 567 Plaister of Falkenstone 569 Plaisters for Rupture 277 Plaister Gratia Dei 566 Plaister for wounds 598 Plaister called Emplastrum Griseum 610 Plaister Apostolicum 313 Plaister de