held to help the Gout by anointing the grieved place with it Cucumeris agrestis Of wild Cucumer Roots or Cowcumber as the vulgar call them they purge flegm and that with such violence that I would advise the Country man that knows not how to correct them to let them alone Cinarae c. Of Artichokes The Root purgeth by Urin whereby the rank savor of the body is much amended Cynoglossae c. Of Houndstong Cold and dry being roasted and laid to the fundament helps the Hemorrhoids is also good against burnings and Scaldings Curcumae Of Turmerick hot in the third degree opens obstructions is profitable against the yellow Jaundice and cold distempers of the Liver and Spleen half a drachm being taken at night going to bed in the pulp of a rosted Apple and if you ad a little Saffron to it it will be the better by far Cyperi utriusque longi rotundi Of Cyperus grass or English Galanga both sorts long and round is of a warming nature provokes urine breaks the Stone provokes the Terms the Ashes of them being burnt is used for Ulcers in the mouth Cankers c. Dauci Of Carrots Are moderately hot and moist breed but little nourishment and it extream windy I omit what vertues Galen writes of them as being confident there was such a difference between them that our Carrots will never answer those effects or if any do 't is the wild kind Dentaria majoris c. Of Tooth-wort toothed Violets or Coral-wort they are drying binding and strengthening are good to ease pains in the sides and bowels also being boyled the 〈◊〉 is said to be good to wash green Wounds and Ulcers with Dictamni Of Dittany is hot and dry in the third degree 〈◊〉 travail in women provokes the Terms See the Leaves 〈◊〉 Of Doronicum a supposed kind of Wolf-bane I am of opinion that Serapio and 〈◊〉 and other Arabian Physitians did not intend that Root we now use for Doronicum when they wrote so much against it I shall adhear to the judgment of 〈◊〉 which is verified by dayly experience It is hot and dry in the third degree strengthens the heart is a soveraign cordial and preservative against the Pestilence It helps the Vertigo or swimming of the head is admirable against the bitings of Venemous beasts and such as have taken too much Opium as also for Lethargies the Juyce helps hot 〈◊〉 in the eyes a scruple of the Root in pouder is 〈◊〉 to take at one time 〈◊〉 Dracunculi Diverse Authors attribute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to this name it is most probable to me that they mean Dragons the Roots of which cleanse mightily and take away proud or dead flesh the very smell of them is hurtful for women with Child outwardly in Oyntments they take away Scurf Morphew and Sun-burning I would not wish any unless very well read in Physick to take them inwardly Ebuli Of 〈◊〉 Elder Walwort or Danewort hot and dry in the third degree the Roots are as gallant a purge for the 〈◊〉 as any is under the Sun which besides the Authority of the Ancient was often proved by the never dying Dr. Butler of Cambridg as my self have it in a Manuscript of his You may take a drachm or two drachms if the Patient be strong in white Wine at a tim Echij Of Vipers Bugloss or Wild Bugloss I warrant you if Authors had not differed about this herb the Colledg would have set down five or six names to have explained their meaning as they usually do where they need not I have set down the most usual name and alwaies quote the vertues to what I set down They say the root of this being carried in ones hand no venemous beast will bite him and so they say of Dragons which I forgot before so that you may walk without danger amongst Adders Vipers and Serpents but I beleeve you had best have a care you do not tread upon them this root is cold and dry good for such as are bitten by venemous beasts either being boiled in Wine and drunk or bruised and 〈◊〉 to the place being also boiled in Wine and drunk it encreaseth milk in Nurses Ellebori Veratri albi nigri Of Hellebore white and black The root of white Hellebore or Sneezwort being grated and 〈◊〉 up the nose causeth Sneezing kills Rats and Mice being mixed with their meat it is but a scurvy churlish Medicine being taken inwardly and therefore better let alone than used and yet Dr. Bright commends it for such as are mad through Melancholly Others are of opinion such harsh Medicines are not convenient for so sullen an humor and of that opinion am I my self If you will use it for sneezing let your head and neck be wrapped hot for fear of carching cold Black Hellebore Bears-foot or Christmas flower both this and the former are hot and dry in the third degree This is nothing so violent nor dangerous as the former Both Galen and Julius Alexandrinus report the roots of this boiled in Vineger to be an admirable remedy against inveterate Scabs Itch and Leprosie the same helps the Tooth-ach being held in the mouth and dropped into the ears help deafness coming of Melancholly and noise in the ears corrected with a little Cionamon in pouder it purgeth Melancholly resisteth Madness Also Pliny Absyrtus and Columella affirm that a piece of root put into a hole made in the ear of a beast troubled with the Cough or that hath taken any poyson and drawn quite through next day about that time helpeth them out of question it is a special thing to rowel Cattel withall Enulae Campanae Helenij Of Elecampane Is hot and dry in the third degree wholsom for the stomach resists poyson helps old Coughs and shortness of breath helps Ruptures and provokes lust in Oyntments it is good against Scabs and Itch. Endiviae c. Of Endive Garden Endive which is the root here specified is held to be somewhat colder though not so dry and cleansing as that which is wild it cools hot stomachs hot livers amends the blood corrupted by heat and therefore must needs be good in Feavers it cools the Reins and therefore prevents the Stone it opens obstructions and provokes Urine you may bruise the root and boyl it in white wine 't is very harmless Eringij Of Eringo or Sea-holy the roots are moderately hot something drying and clensing bruised and applied to the place they help the Scrophula or diseace in the throat called the Kings Evil they break the Stone encrease seed stir up lust provoke the Terms c. Esulae majoris minoris Of Spurge the greater and lesser they are both taken inwardly too violent for a vulgar use outwardly in Oyntments they clense the Skin and take away sunburning Filicis c. Fearn of which are two grand distinctions viz. male and foemale I suppose they intend the male here because they adjoyn some other names to it which the Greeks attributed
they stick to your Fingers like Birdlime for they ought to penetrate the parts to be mollified and therefore many times if occasion be are 〈◊〉 Medicines mixed with them Chap. 2. Of Hardning Medicines GALEN in Lib. 5. De Simpl. Med. Facult Cap. 10. determins Hardning Medicines to be cold and moist and he brings some arguments to prove it against which other Physitians contest I shall not here stand to quote the Dispute only take notice That if softning Medicines be hot and moist as we shewed even now then hardning Medicines must needs be cold and dry because they are contrary to them The Universal course of Nature will prove it for driness and moisture are passive qualities neither can extremities consist in moisture as you may know if you do but consider that driness is not attributed to the Air nor Water but to the Fire and Earth 2. The thing to be congealed must needs be moist therefore the Medicine congealing must of necessity be dry for if cold be joyned with driness it contracts the pores that so the humors cannot be scattered Yet you must observe a difference between Medicines drying making thick hardning and congealing of which differences a few words will not do amiss 1. Such Medicines are said to dry which draw out or drink up the moisture as a 〈◊〉 drinks up water 2. Such Medicines are said to make thick as do not consume the moisture but ad driness to it as you make Syrups into a thick Electuary by adding Pouders to them 3. Such as congeal neither draw out the moisture not make it thick by adding driness to it but contract it by vehement cold as Water is frozen into Ice 4. Hardning disfers from all these for the parts of the Body swell and are filled with Flegmatick humors or Melancholly Blood which at last grows hard That you may cleerly understand this observe but these two things 1. What it is which worketh 2. What it worketh upon That which worketh is outward cold that which is wrought upon is a certain thickness driness of humors for if the humor were fluid as water is it might properly be said to be congealed by cold but not so properly hardned Thus you see cold drines to be the cause of hardning But enough of this perhaps some may think too much This hardning being so far from being useful that it is obnoxious to the Body of Man I pass it without more words I suppose when Galen wrote of hardning Medicines he intended such as make thick and therefore amongst them he reckons up Fleawort Purslain Housleek and the like which asswage the heat of the humors in Swellings and stop subtil and sharp Defluxious upon the Lungues but of these more anon CHAP. 3. Of Loosning Medicines BY Loosning here I do not mean Purging not that which is opposit to Astringency but that which is opposit to stretching I knew not suddenly what fitter English Name to give it than Loosning or Laxation which latter is scarce English The Members are distended or stretched divers waies and ought to be loosned as many for they are stretched sometimes by driness sometimes by cold sometimes by repletion or fulness sometimes by swellings and sometimes by some of these joyned together I avoid terms of Art as much as I can because it would profit my Country but little to give them the Rules of Physick in such English as they understand not I confess the Opinion of Ancient Physitians hath been various about these Loosning Medicines Galen's Opinion was That they might be referred either to moistning or heating or mollifying or evacuating Medicines and therefore ought not to be referr'd to a Chapter by themselves T is like they may and so may all other Medicines be referred to heat or coldness or dryness or moisture But we speak not here of the Particular properties of Medicines but of their Joyned properties as they heat and moisten Others they question how they can be distinguished from such as mollifie seeing such as are loosning and such as are emollient are both of them hot and moist To that thus Stetching and Loosning are ascribed to the movable parts of the Body as to the Muscles and their Tendons to the Ligaments and Membranae But softness and hardness to such parts of the Body as may be felt with the hand I shall make it cleer by a Similitude Wax is softned being hard but Fiddle-strings are loosned being stretched And if you say that the difference lying only in the parts of the Body is no true difference then take notice that such Medicines which loosen are less hot and more moistning than such as soften for they operate most by heat these by moisture The truth is I am of Opinion the difference is not much nay scarce sensible between Emollient and Loosning Medicines Only I quoted this in a Chapter by itself not so much because some Authors do as because it conduceth to the encrease of knowledge in Physick for want of which this poor Nation is almost spoiled The chief Use of Loosning Medicines is in Convulsions and Cramps and such like infirmities which cause distention or stretching They are known by the very same marks and tokens that Emollient Medicines are CHAP. 4. Of Medicines making thin and thick MEdicines which rarify or make thin are such which open the pores of the skin and make them wider they are not so moist as Emollient Medicines are but of thin and subtil parts they are hot but not so hot that they should draw the matter to them or discuss it as we shall shew when we come to speak of those Faculties Such as make thick are contrary to these these are cold and stop the pores of the skin These Galen would have to be moist neither is there any difference between his Description of hardning Medicines and such as make thick 1. The Use of Rarifying Medicines is to open the pores of the skin and make them wider that so the vapors arising from Blood overheated may pass out and that was the Reason Wrestlers in ancient times came to their exercise with their Bodies anoynted that so the vapors caused by stirring their Bodies might pass out and not cause Feavers or other mischief to the Bowels by being kept in 2. Rarifying Medicines conduce much to the mitigation of pain for the pores of the Skin being opened the matter causing the pain is the easier expelled Again In swellings it is not only the plenty of humors that causeth pain but the driness hardness or stretching of the Skin therefore seeing Medicines which rarify or make thin do both loosen and mollifie they must of necessity by these operations mitigate pain Also there is much profit in the use of thickning Medicines for they make the Skin firm thereby not only the better resisting cold but also they stop too much sweating and desolution of the spirits that way which often happens to them that are weak CHAP 5. Of Medicines
run up to seed and if you gather them in a hot sunshine day they will not be so subject to putrifie the best way to dry them is in the Sun according to Dr. REASON though not according to Dr. TRADITION Such Herbs as remaine green all the year or are very full of juyce it were a folly to dry at all but gather them only for present use as Housleek Scurvy-grass c. Let Flowers be gathered when they are in their prime in a sun-shine day and dried in the sun Let the Seeds be perfectly ripe before they be gathered 3. Let them be kept in a dry place for any moisture though it be but a moist air corrupts them which if perceived in time the beams of the Sun will refresh the hearbs and flowers and do the Sun no harm 4. Take notice that only the Latin Names were quoted by the Colledg are to beseen at the beginning of each Simple in a different Letter the English Name together with the Temperature and Vertues were added by the Translator for the publick good 5. All the Latin Names to one Herb are not set down most of which are superfluous some ridiculons some Idolatrous as to attribute one Herb to the Virgin Mary another to St. Peter and a third to St. Paul Some blasphemous as to call one the holy Ghost another Allelujah another an Herb of the Trinity c. So in the Compositions To call an Oyntment the Oyntment of the Apostles to call one Plaister Divine another Holy a third the grace of God The Colledge might have been ashamed of it if they had ever come where shame grew but 1. The Heathen they dedicated herbs and trees to their Gods 2. the Papists they must follow their patriarks and dedicate them to their Saints Ours having not wit enough to find out a third for their wits were in print before they were born they follow the Papists as their holy Fathers as in absconding their art so in their blasphemies see how one sin ushers in another A CATALOGUE OF THE SIMPLES CONDUCING TO THE DISPENSATORY ROOTS ACANTHI Brancae Ursinae Of Bears-breech or Brank-ursine it is meanly hot and dry it helps ach and numness of the joynts and is of a binding quality good for wounds and broken bones Dioscorides saith they are profitable for Ruptures or such as are bursten or burnt with fire a drachm of the Root in Pouder being taken in the morning fasting in a Decoction made with the same Root and Water Acori Veri Perigrini vulgaris c. See Calamus Aromaticus I shall not nor dare not make a long Paraphrase about the sorts of it one of which is Water-flag or Flower-de-luce which is hot and dry in the second degree binds strengthens stops fluxes of the belly and immoderate flowing of the terms in women a drachm being taken in red wine every morning Alljum Garlick It is hot and dry in the fourth degree breeds naughty and corrupt blood yet is an enemy to all Poysons and such as are bitten by cold venemous beasts viz. Adders Toads Spiders c. it provokes urin and expels wind Alcannae Of Privet See the Leaves Althaeae Of Marshmallows are meanly hot of a digesting softning nature ease pains help bloody fluxes the stone and gravel being bruised and well boyled in Milk and the Milk drunk is a gallant Remedy for the gripings of the belly and the Bloody flux If a Feaver accompany the Disease boyl a handful of common Mallow leaves with a handful of these Roots Angelicae Of Angelica is hot and dry in the third degree strengthens the heart exceedingly and is a singular remedy against pestilence and poyson half a drachm taken in the morning fasting Anchusae Of Alkanet cold and dry binding good for old Ulcers Anthorae An outlandish root the counterpoyson for Monkshood it is an admirable remedy for the wind-chollick and resists poyson They that would know more of it let them reade Guainerius and Solerius both which lived neer the places where it plentifully grew Apii Of Smallage See the Barks Aristolochiae Of Birthwort of which are three sorts long round and climing All hot and dry in the third degree The long being drunk in Wine brings away both birth and after-birth and whatsoever a careless Midwife hath left behind The round being drunk with Wine helps besides the former stuffings of the lungues hardness of the spleen ruptures convulsions both of them resist poyson I never read any use of the climing Birthwort Artanitae Cyclaminis c Of Sowbread hot and dry in the third degree a most violent purge dangerous outwardly applied to the place it profits much in the bitings of venemous beasts also being hung about women in labor it causeth speedy deliverance See the Herb. Arundinis Vallatoriae Saccharinae Of common Reeds and sugar Reeds The Roots of common Reeds applied to the place draw out thorns case sprains the ashes of them mixed with Vinegar take scurf or dandrif off from the head and prevent the falling off of the hair they are hot and dry in the second degree according to Galen I would not have the Reader build too much confidence upon the degrees of temperature or more properly intemperature neither of this or any other Simple because most of them are quoted by Outlandish Authors and out of question the difference of the climate may somthing alter their temperature in degree I never read any vertue of the Root of Sugar Cane Ari c. Of Cuckow-pints or Wake-Robin hot and dry in the third degree I know no great good they do inwardly taken unless to play the rogue withal or make sport outwardly applied they take off Scurf Morphew or Freckles from the face and cleer the skin and case the pains of the Gout Asclepiadis vincetoxici Of Swallow-wort hot and dry good against poyson and gripings of the belly as also against the bitings of mad-dogs taken inwardly Asari Of Asarabacca the Roots are a safer purge than the Leaves and not so violent I do not much fancy any of them both ignorant people had better let them alone than be too busie with what they have no skill in they purge by vomit stool and urine they are profitable for such as have Agues Dropsies stoppings of the Liver or Spleen green sickness Asparagi Of Sparagus or Sperage they are temperate in quality opening they provoke urine and cleanse the reins and bladder being boyled in white wine and the wine drunk Asphodeli Hastae Regiae foem Of Kings spear or foemale Asphodel I know no physical use of the Roots probably there is for I do not beleeve God created any thing of no use Asphodeli Albuci maris of male Asphodel Hot and and dry in the second degree Inwardly taken they provoke vomit urine and the terms in women outwardly used in Oyntments they cause hair to grow clense Ulcers take away Morphew and Freckles from the face Bardanae c. Of
the Body of Man It doth it by an hidden quality For they not minding the whol Creation as one United Body not knowing what belongs to 〈◊〉 Influence nor regarding that excellent Harmony the only wise God hath made in a composition of Contraries in the knowledg of which consists the whol ground and foundation of Physick no more than a Horse that goes along the street regards when the Clock strikes are totally led by the Nose by that Monster TRADITION who seldom begets any Children but they prove either Fools or Knaves and this makes them so brutish that they can give a Reason for the operation of no Medicine but what is an Object to Sence this their Worships call Manifest and the other Hidden because it is hidden from them and alwaies will if they search no further after it than hitherto they have done A Common-wealth is well holp up with such Physitians that are not only so ignorant but also so careles of knowing the foundation upon which the whol Fabrick of Physick ought to be built and not upon Tradition They profess themselves Galenists I would civilly encreat them but seriously to peruse and labor to be well skilled in the Astronomy of Galen and Hippocrates I confess and am glad to think of it That all Ages have afforded some wise Physitians well skilled in the Principles of what they profess of which this our Age is not wanting and they begin to encrease daily As for others my comfort is That their whol Model will not stand long because it is 〈◊〉 upon the Sand. And if I be not mistaken in my Calculation there are searching times coming and with speed too in which every building that is not built upon the Rock shall fall The Lord will make a quick search upon the face of the Earth But to return to my purpose It is the Manifest Qualities of Medicines that here I am to speak to and you may be pleased to behold it in this order Sect. 1. Of the Temperature of Medicines Sect. 2. Of the Apropriation  Sect. 3. Of the Properties  Sect. 1. Of the Temperáture of Medicines HErbs Plants and other Medicines manifestly operate either by Heat Coldness Driness or Moisture for the world being composed of so many qualities they and only they can be found in the world and the mixtures of them one with another But that these may appear as cleer as the Sun when he is upon the Meridian I shall treat of them severally and in this order 1. Of Medicines Temperate 2. Of Medicines Hot. 3. Of Medicines Cold. 4. Of Medicines Moist 5. Of Medicines Dry. Of Medicines Temperate IF the world be composed of Extreams then it acts by Extreams for as the man is so is his work therefore it is impossible that any Medicine can be temperate but may be reduced to Heat Cold Driness or Moisture and must operate I mean such as operate by manifest quality by one of these because there is no other to operate by and that there should be such a temperate mixture so exquisitely of these qualities in any Medicine that one of them should not manifestly excel the other I doubt it is a Systeme too rare to find Thus then I conclude the matter to be Those Medicines are called Temperate not because they have no excess of Temperature at all in them which can neither be said to heat nor cool so much as wil amount to the first degree of excess for daily experience witnesseth that they being added to Medicines change not their qualities they make them neither hotter nor colder They are used in such Diseases where there is no manifest distemper of the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold for example In obstructions of the Bowels where cold Medicines might make the Obstruction greater and hot Medicines cause a Feaver In Feavers of Flegm where the cause is cold and moist and the effect hot and dry in such use temperate Medicines which may neither encrease the Feaver by their heat nor condensate the Flegm by their coldness Besides Because Contraries are taken away by their Contraries and every Like maintained by its Like They are of great use to preserve the constituion of the Body temperate and the Body it self in strength and vigor and may be used without danger or fear of danger by considering what part of the Body is weak and vsing such temperate Medicines as are apropriated to that part Of Medicines Hot THe care of the Ancient Physitians was such that they did not labor to hide from but impart to posterity not only the temperature of Medicines in general but also their degrees in temperature that so the distempered part may be brought to its temperature and no further for all things which are of a contrary temperature conduce not to cure but the strength of the contrariety must be observed that so the Medicine may be neither weaker nor stronger than just to take away the distemper for if the distemper be but meanly hot and you apply a Medicine cold in the Fourth Degree 't is true you may soon remove that distemper of Heat and bring another of Cold twice as bad Then Secondly Not only the distemper it self but also the part of the body distempered must be heeded for if the Head be distempered by Heat and you give such Medicines as cool the Heart or Liver you will bring another Disease and not cure the former The Degrees then of Temperature are to be diligently heeded which ancient Physitians have concluded to be Four in the first qualities viz. Heat and Cold of each of which we shall speak a word or two severally Of Medicines Hot in the first Degree THose are said to be hot in the first Degree which induce a Moderate and Natural heat to the Body and to the Parts thereof either cold by Nature or cooled by accedent by which Natural heat is cherished when weak or restored when wanting The first Effect then of Medicines hot in the first Degree is by their sweat and temperate heat to reduce the Body to its natural heat as the fire doth the external parts in cold weather unless the affliction of cold be so great that such mild Medicines will not serve the turn The Second Effect is The Mitigation of pain arising from such a distemper and indeed this effect hath other Medicines some that are cold and some that are hotter than the first degree they being rationally applyed to the distemper these Medicines the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and shall be spoken of in their proper places In this place let it suffice that Medicines hot in the first degree make the offending humors thin expel them by sweat or insensible transpiration and these of all other are most congruous or agreeable to the Body of Man for there is no such equal temperature of heat and cold in a sound Man but heat exceeds for we live by heat and moisture and not
by cold Medicines then which are hot in the first degree are such as just correspond to the Natural heat of our Bodies such as are hotter or colder are more subject to do mischeif being administred by an unskilfull hand than these are because of their contrariety to Nature whereas these are gratefull to the Body by their moderate heat Thirdly These take away weariness and help Feavers being outwardly applied because they open the pores of the Skin and by their gentle heat prepare the humors and take away those fuliginous vapors that are caused by Feavers Yet may discommodities arise by heedless giving even of these which I would have young Students in Physick to be very careful in lest they do more mischeif than they are aware of viz. It is possible by too much use of them to consume not only what is inimical in the Body but also the substance it self and the strength of the spirits whence comes faintings and sometimes death Besides by applying them to the parts of the Body they are not apropriated to or by not heeding well the complexion of the Patient or the Natural temper of the part of the Body afflicted for the Heart is hot but the Brain temperate Lastly Medicines hot in the first Degree cherisheth heat in the internall parts help Concoction breed good Blood and keep it in good temper being bred Of Medicines hot in the Second Degree HAving spoken of Medicines hot in the First Degree it follows now in order to speak of those that are hot in the Second These are something hotter than the Natural temper of a Man Their Use is for such whose Stomach is filled with moisture because their faculty is to heat and dry they take away obstructions or stoppings open the pores of the skin but not in the same manner that such do as are hot in the First Degree for they do it without force by a gentle heat concocting and expelling the humors by strengthening and helping Nature in the work but these cut tough humors and scatter them by their own force and power when Nature cannot Of Medicines hot in the Third Degree THose which attain the Third Degree of heat have the same faculties with those before mentioned but as they are hotter so are they more powerfull in their operations for they are so powerfull in heating and cutting that if unadvisedly given they cause Feavers Their Use is to cut tough and compacted humors to provoke sweat abundantly hence it comes to pass that all of them resist poyson Of Medicines hot in the Fourth Degree THose Medicines obtain the highest degree of heat which are so hot that they burn the Body of Man being outwardly applied to it and cause inflamations or raise blisters as Crowfoot Mustard-seed Onions c. Of these more hereafter Of Cooling Medicines PHysitiant have also observed Four Degrees of Coldness in Medicines which I shall briefly treat of in order Of Medicines Cold in the First Degree THose Medicines which are least cold of all obtain the First Degree of Coldness and I beseech you take notice of this That seeing our Bodies are nourished by heat and we live by heat therefore no cold Medicines are Naturally and Per se as 〈◊〉 call it friendly to the Body but what good they do our Bodies they do it per accedens viz. by removing an unnatural heat or the Body heated above its Natural temper The giving then of cold Medicines to a Man in his Natural temper the season of the year also being but moderately hot extinguisheth Natural heat in the Body of Man Yet have these a necessary Use in them too though not so frequent as Hot Medicines have and that may be the reason why an All-wise God hath furnished us with far more Hot Herbs and Plants c. than Cold. Their Use is first In Nourishments that so the heat of Food may be qualified and made fit for a weak Stomach to digest and therefore are Sallets used in Summer Secondly To restrain and asswage the heat of the Bowels and to cool the Blood in Feavers Therefore if the distemper of heat be but gentle Medicines cold in the first degree will Suffice also Children and such people whose Stomachs are weak are easily hurt by cold Medicines Of Medicines Cold in the Second and Third Degrees SUch whose Stomachs are strong and Livers hot may easily bear such Medicines as are cold in the second degree and in cases of extremity find much help by them as also by such as cool in the third degree the extremity of the disease considered for by both these the unbridled heat of Choller is asswaged Also they are outwardly applied to hot swellings due consideration being had That if the Inflamation be not great use those that are less cool if the Inflamation be vehement make use of Medicines cold in the second or third degree Alwaies let the Remedy correspond to the just proportion of the Affliction Thirdly Sometimes the Spirits are moved inordinately through heat thence follows immoderate watchings if not deprivation of the Sences this also must be remedied with cold Medicines for cold stops the pores of the Skin makes the humors thick represseth Sweat and keeps up the Spirits from fainting Of Medicines Cold in the Fourth Degree LAstly The Use of Medicines cold in the Fourth Degree is To mitigate desperate and vchement Pains by stupifying the sences when no other course can be taken to save life Of the Use of which more hereafter Of Moistning Medicines THere can be no such difference found amongst Moistning Medicines that they should surpass the Second degree For seeing all Medicines are either hot or cold neither heat nor cold seeing they are extreams can consist with moisture for the one dries it up the other condensates it Philosophers therefore call Moisture and Dryness Passive qualities yet have they their operation likewise for moist Medicines lenifie and make slippery ease the Cough and help the Roughness of the Throat These operations are proper to Medicines moist in the First Degree Those which are moister take away Naturally strength help the sharpness of humors make both Blood and spirits thicker looseth the Belly and fit it for purgation The immoderate or indiscreet use of them duls the Body and makes it unfit for action Of Drying Medicines DRying Medicines have contrary faculties to these viz. To consume moisture stop fluxes and make such parts dry as are slippery they make the Body and Members firm when they are weakened by too much moisture that so they may perform their proper functions Yet although the Members be strengthened by drying medicines they have notwithstanding their own proper moisture in them which ought to be conserved and not destroyed for without it they cannot consist If then this moisture be consumed by using or rather over-use of drying Medicines the Members can neither be nourished nor yet perform their proper actions Such
a handful boiled in posset drink at a time Centinodium c. Knotgrass cold in the second degree helps spitting and pissing of blood stops the terms and all other fluxes of blood vomiting of blood Gonorrhaea or running of Reins weakness of the back and joints inflamations of the privities and such as piss by drops and it is an excellent remedy for hogs that will not eat their meat Your only way is to boyl it it is in its prime about the latter end of July or beginning of August at which time being gathered it may be kept dry all the yeer Ceresolium vulgare Myrrhis Common and great Chervil Take them both together and they are temperately hot and dry provoke urine they stir up lust and desire of copulation comfort the heart and are good for old people help pleurisies and pricking in the sides Caepaea Anagallis aquatica Brooklime hot and dry but not so hot and dry as Water-cresses Tragus saith they are hot and moist but the man dreamed waking they help mangy Horses see Water-cresses Ceterach c. Spleenwort moderately hot wasts and consumes the spleen in so much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known hogs that have fed upon it that have had when they were killed no spleens at all It is excellent good for melahcholly people helps the strangury provokes urine and breaks the stone in the bladder Boyl it and drink the decoction but because a little boyling will carry away the strength of it in vapours let it boyl but very little and let it stand close stopped till it be cold before you strain it out this is the general rule for all Simples of this nature Chamaepitys Ground-pine hot in the second degree and dry in the third helps the Jaundice Sciatica stoppings of the liver and spleen provokes the Terms clenseth the entrails dissolves congeled blood resists poyson cures wounds and ulcers Strong bodies may take a dram and weak bodies half a drachm of it in pouder at a time Chamaemelum sativum sylvestre Garden and Wild Chamomel Garden Chamomel is hot and dry in the first degree and as gallant a medicine against the stone in the bladder as grows upon the earth you may take it inwardly I mean the decoction of it being boyled in white Wine or inject the juyce of it into the bladder with a syringe It expels wind helps belchings and potently provokes the terms used in baths it helps pains in the sides gripings and gnawings in the belly Chamaedris c. Germander hot and dry in the third degree cuts and brings away tough humors opens stoppings of the liver and spleen helps coughs and shortness of breath strangury and stopping of urine and provokes the terms half a drachm is enough to take at a time Chelidonium utrumque Celondine both sorts Small Celondine is usually called Pilewort it is something hotter and dryer than the former but not in the fourth degree as Galen and Dioscorides would have it they say it helps the Hemorrhoids or Piles by only carrying it about one but if it wil not bruise it and apply it to the grief and from thence it took its 〈◊〉 Celondine the greater is hot and dry they say in the third degree any away used either the juyce or made into an Oyl or Ointment is a great preserver of the sight and as excellent an help for sore eyes as any is Cinara c. Artichokes They provoke lust and purge by urine Cichorium Succory to which ad Endive which comes after They are cold and dry in the second degree clenfing and opening they cool the heats of the liver and are profitable in the yellow Jaundice and burning Feavers helps excoriations in the Yard hot Stomachs and outwardly applied help hot rewms in the eyes Cicuta Hemlock Cold in the fourth degree poysonous outwardly applied it helps Priapismus or continual standing of the Yard the Shingles St. Anthonies fire or any eating Ulcers Clematis Daphnoides Vinca provinca Peruinkle Hot in the second degree somthing dry and binding stops Lasks spitting of blood and the Terms in women Consolida masor Comfry I do not conceave the Leaves to be so vertnous as the Roots Consolida media Bugles of which before Consolida minima Daizes Consilida rubra Golden Rod hot and dry in the second degree clenseth the Reins provokes Urin brings away the Gravel an admirable herb for wounded people to take inwardly stops blood c. Consolida Regalis Delphinium Larks heels resist poyson help the bitings of venemous beasts Saracenica Solidago Saracens Consound Helps inward wounds sore mouths sore throats wasting of the lungues and liver Coronopus Buchorn-Plantane or Sea-Plantane Cold and dry helpeth the bitings of venemous beasts either taken inwardly or applyed to the wound helps the Chollick breaks the Stone Cotonaria Hath got many English names Cottonweed Cudweed Chaffweed and Petty Cotton Of a drying and binding nature boyled in Ly it keeps the head from Nits and Lice being laid among Cloaths it keeps them safe from Moths kils Worms helps the bitings of venemous beasts taken in a Tobacco-pipe it helps Coughs of the lungues and vehement head-aches Cruciata Crossewort there is a kind of Gentian called also by this name which I passe by Is drying and binding exceeding good for inward or outward wounds either inwardly taken or outwardly applied and an excellent remedy for such as are bursten Crassula Orpine Very cool Outwardly used with Vineger it cleers the Skin inwardly taken it helps gnawings of the stomach and bowels ulcers in the lungues bloody flux and Quinsie in the throat For which last disease it is inferior to none take not too much of it at a time because of its coolnesse Crithamus c. Sampler Hot and dry helps difficulty of urine the yellow jaundice provokes the terms helps digestion openeth stoppings of the liver and spleen Cucumis Asininus Wild Cucummers See Elaterium Cyanus major minor Blewbottle great and small A fine cooling herb helps bruises wounds broken veins the juyce dropped into the eye helps the inflamations thereof Cygnoglossum Hounds-tongue Cold and dry applied to the fundament helps the Hemorroids healeth wounds and ulcers and is a present remedy against the bitings of Dogs burnings and scaldings Some say if you put the herb under your foot within your stocking no Dog will bark at you Cypressus Chamae cyparissus Cypresse tree The leaves are hot and binding help Ruptures and Polypus or flesh growing on the Nose Chamaecyparissus Is Lavender Cotton Resists poyson kils worms and withal take notice how learnedly the Colledge could confound the Cypress tree and Lavender Cotton together and if they say some Authors say Cypressus and Chamaecyparissus are all one and withal shew you where then tell them I thought their brain was in their books not in their heads Distamnus Cretensis Dictamny or Dittany of Creet hot and dry brings away dead children hastens womens travail brings away the after-birth the very smel
one and the same and helps infirmities of the Lungues as hoarceness coughs wheezing shortness of breath c. You may boyl it in Hysop water or any other water that strengthens the Lungues Pulicaria Fleabane hot and dry in the third degree helps the bitings of venemous beasts wounds and swellings the yellow Jaundice the falling-sickness and such as cannot piss it being burnt the smoke of it kils all the Gnats and Fleas in the chamber as also Serpents if they be there it is dangerous for women with child Pyrus sylvestris Wild Pear-tree I know no vertue in the Leaves Pyrola Wintergreen Cold and dry and very binding stops fluxes and the terms in women and is admirable good in green wounds Quercus folia Oak Leaves are much of the nature of the former stay the whites in women See the Bark Ranunculus Hath got a sort of English names Crowfoot King-kob Gold-cups Gold-knobs Butter-flowers c. they are of a notable hot quality unfit to be taken inwardly If you bruise the Roots and apply them to a Plague-sore they are notable things to draw the venom to them Also Apuleius saith that if they be hanged about the neck of one that is lunatick in the wane of the Moon the Moon being in the first degree of Taurus or Scorpio it quickly rids him of his disease Raparum folia If they do not mean Turnep-leaves I know not what they mean nor it may be themselves neither the greatest part of them having as much knowledg in Simples as a horse hath in Hebrew Rapum is a Turnep but surely Rapa is a word seldom used If they do mean Turnep-leaves when they are yong and tender they are held to provoke urin Rosmarinum Rosemary hot and dry in the second degree binding stops fluxes help stuffings in the head the yellow Jaundice helps the memory expels wind See the Flowers Rosa Solis See the Water Rosa Alba Rubra Damascena White Red and Damask Roses I would some body would do so much as ask the Colledg wherefore they set the Leaves down Rumex Dock all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance and therefore stops fluxes and the Leaves are seldom used in Physick Rubus Idaeus Raspis Rasberries or Hind-berries I know no great vertue in the Leaves Ruta Rue or Herb of grace hot and dry in the third degree consumes the seed and is an enemy to generation helps difficulty of breathing and inflamations of the lungues pains in the side inflamations of the Yard and Matrix is naught for women with child An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides This I am sure of no Herb resisteth poyson more And some think Mithridates that renowned King of Pontus fortified his body against poyson with no other medicine It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and no Herb better than this in Pestilential times take it what manner you wil or can Ruta Muraria See Adianthum Sabina Savin hot and dry in the third degree potently provokes the terms expels both birth and after-birth they boyled in oyl and used in Oyntments stay creeping ulcers scour away spots freckles and sunburning from the face the belly anointed with it kils worms in children Salvia Sage hot and dry in the second or third degree binding it staies abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times it causeth fruitfulness it is singular good for the brain strengthens the sences and memory helps spitting and vomiting of blood outwardly heat hot with a little Vinegar and applied to the side helps stitches and pains in the sides Salix Willow-leaves are cold dry and binding stop spitting of blood and fluxes the boughs stuck about a chamber wonderfully cool the air and refresh such as have feavers the leaves applied to the head help hot diseases there and frenzies Sampsucum Marjoram Sanicula Sanicle hot and dry in the second degree clenseth wounds and ulcers Saponaria Sope-wort or Bruise-wort vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers and is of notable use in the French-pocks Satureia Savory Summer-savory is hot and dry in the third degree Winter-savory is not so hot both of them expel wind gallantly and that they say is the reason why they are boyled with Pease and Beans and other such windy things 't is a good fashion and pitty it should be left Saxifragia alba White Saxifrage breaks wind helps the chollick and stone Scabiosa Scabious hot and dry in the second degree clenseth the breast and lungues helps old rotten coughs and difficulty of breathing provokes urine and clenseth the bladder of filthy stuff breaks Aposthumes and cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in white wine Scariola An Italian name for Succory Schoenanthus Schaenanth Squinanth or Chamels-hay hot and binding Galen saith it causeth headach beleeve him that list Dioscorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins surely it is as great an expeller of wind as any is Scordium Water-Germander hot and dry clenseth ulcers in the inward parts it provokes urine and the terms opens stoppings of the liver spleen reins bladder and matrix it is a great counterpoyson and easeth the breast oppressed with flegm See Diascordium Scrophularia Figwort so called of Scrophula the Kings Evil which it cures they say by being only hung about the neck if not bruise it and apply it to the place it helps the Piles or Hemorrhoids and they say being hung about the neck preserves the body in health Sedum And all his sorts See Barba Jovis Senna In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue as an imparaleld Author it heats in the second degree and dries in the first clenseth purgeth and digesteth it carries downwards both choller flegm and melancholly it clenseth the brain heart Liver Spleen it cheers the sences opens obstructions takes away dulness of sight preserves youth helps deafness if purging will help it helps melancholly and madness keeps back old age resists resolution of the nerves pains in the head scabs itch falling-sickness the windiness of it is corrected with a little Ginger You may boyl half an ounce of it at a time in Water or white Wine but boyl it not too much half an ounce is a moderate dose to be boyled for any reasonable body Scrpillum Mother-of-Time Wild Time it is hot and dry in the third degree it provokes the terms gallantly as also helps the strangury or stoppage of urine gripings in the belly ruptures convulsions inflamations of the Liver Lethargy and infirmities of the spleen boyl it in white Wine Sigillum Solomonis Solomons Seal See the Root Smyrnium Alexanders of Creet Solanum Nightshade very cold and dry binding it is somwhat dangerous given inwardly unless by a skilful hand outwardly it helps the Shingles S t Anthonies fire and other hot inflamations Soldanella Bindweed hot and dry in the second degree it opens obstructions of the Liver and purgeth watry humors and is therefore very profitable in
with hairs METTALS MINERALS AND STONES GOLD is temperate in quality it wonderfully strengthens the heart and vital spirits which one perceiving very wittily inserted those verses For Gold is Cordial and that 's the reason Your raking Misers live so long a season However this is certain in Cordials it refists melancholly faintings swoonings feavers falling sickness and all such like infirmities incident either to the vital or animal spirit What those be see the directions at the beginning Alum heats binds and purgeth scours filthy ulcers and fastens loose teeth Brimstone or flower of Brimstone which is Brimstone refined and the better for Physical uses helps coughs and rotten flegm outwardly in oyntments it takes away leprosies scabs and itch inwardly it helps the yellow Jaundice as also worms in the belly especially being mixed with a little Salt-peter it helps lethargies being snuffed up in the nose the truth is I shall speak more of this and many other Simples which I mention not here when I come to the Chymical Oyls of them Litharge both of Gold and Silver binds and dries much fils up ulcers with flesh and heals them Lead is of a cold dry earthly quality of an healing nature applied to the place it helps any inflamation and dries up humors Pompbolix cools 〈◊〉 and binds Jacynth strengthens the heart being either beaten into pouder and taken inwardly or only worn in a Ring Cardanus saith it encreaseth riches and wisdom Saphyre resisteth Necromantick apparitions and by a certain divine gift it quickens the sences helps such as are bitten by venemous beasts ulcers in the guts Galen Dioscorides Garcias and Cardanus are my Authors Emerald called a Chast stone because it resisteth lust and will break as Cardanus saith if one hath it about him when he deflowrs a Virgin moreover being worn in a Ring it helps or at least mitigates the falling sickness and vertigo it strengthens the memory and stops the unruly passions of men it takes away vain and foolish fears as of Devils Hobgoblins c. it takes away folly anger c. and causeth good conditions and if it do so being worn about one reason will tell him that being beaten into pouder and taken inwardly it will do it much more Ruby or Carbuncle if there be such a stone restrains lust resists pestilence takes away idle and foolish thoughts makes men cheerful Granate strengthens the heart but hurts the brain causeth anger takes away sleep Diamond is reported to make him that bears it infortunate It makes men undaunted I suppose because it is a stone of the nature of Mars it makes men more secure or fearless than careful which it doth by over-powring the spirits as the Sun though it be light it self yet it darkens the sight in beholding its body Amethist being worn makes men sober and staied keeps them from drunkenness and too much sleep it quickens the wit is profitable in huntings and fightings and repels vapors from the head Bezoar is a notable restorer of nature a great cordial no way hurtful nor dangerous is admirable good in feavers pestilences and consumptions viz. taken inwardly for this stone is not used to be 〈◊〉 as a Jewel the pouder of it being put upon wounds made by venemous beasts draws out the poyson Topas If Epiphanius spake truth if you put it into boyling water it doth so cool it that you may presently put your hands into it without harm if so then it cools inflamations of the body by touching of them Toadstone being applied to the place helps the bitings of venemous beasts and quickly draws all the poyson to it it is known to be a true one by this hold it neer to any Toad and she will make proffer to take it away from you if it be right else not There is a stone of the bigness of a Bean found in the Gizzard of an old Cock which makes him that bears it beloved constant and bold valiant in fighting beloved by women potent in the sports of Venus Nephriticus lapis help pains in the stomach and is of great force in breaking and bringing away the stone gravel concerning the powerful operation of which I shall only quote you one story of many out of Monardas a Physitian of note A certain noble man quoth he very well known to me by only bearing this stone tyed to his arm voided such a deal of gravel that he feared the quantity would do him hurt by avoiding so much of it wherefore he laid it from him and then he avoided no more gravel but afterwards being again troubled with the stone he ware it as before and presently the pain eased and he avoided gravel as before and was never troubled with the pain of the stone so long as he ware it Jasper being worn stops bleeding easeth the labor of women stops lust resist feavers and dropsies Aetites or the stone with child because being hollow in the middle it contains another little stone within it it is found in an Eagles nest and in many other places this stone being bound to the left arm of women with child staies their miscarriage or abortion but when the time of their labor comes remove it from their arm and bind it to the inside of their thigh and it brings sorth the child and that almost without any pain at all Young Swallows of the first brood if you cut them up between the time they were hatched and the next full Moon you shall find two stones in their ventricle one reddish the other blackish these being hung about the neck in a piece of Stags leather help the falling sickness and feavers The truth is I have found the reddish one my self without any regard to the lunation but never tried the vertues of it Lapis Lazuli purgeth melancholly being taken inwardly outwardly worn as a Jewel it makes men cheerful fortunate and rich And thus I end the Stones the vertues of which if any think incredible I answer 1. I quoted the Authors where I had them 〈◊〉 I know nothing to the contrary but why it may be as possible as the sound of a Trumpet is to incite a man to valor or of a Fiddle to dauncing and if I have added a few Simples which the Colledg left out I hope my fault is not much or at least wise venial THus much for their old Dispensatory which with them is now like an old Almanack out of date Indeed had not the Printer desired it might not be and withall promised me that he would do it in a smaller print that so the Book might not exceed the former price I had left out what hitherto hath bin written having published in print such a treatise of Herbs and Plants as my Country men may readily make use of for their own preservation of health or cure of diseases such as grow neer them and are easily to be had that so by the
which so lately puzled the Learned Rabbies of our times the Bloody-flux or the plague in the guts as their Worships learnedly called it I cut my finger the other day and then had I got the plague in my finger by the same rule Juyce of Liquoris helps roughness of the 〈◊〉 Arteria which is in plain English called the Wind-pipe the toughness of which causeth coughs and hoarceness difficulty of breathing c. It allaies the heat of the stomach and Liver caleth pains soreness and roughness of the reins and bladder it quencheth thirst and strengthens the stomach exceedingly It may easily be carried about in ones pocket and eat a little now and then Sugar clenseth and digesteth takes away roughness of the tongue it strengtheneth the reins anti bladder being weakned being beaten into fine pouder and put into the eyes it takes away films that grow over the sight Labdanum is in operation thickning heating and mollifying it opens the passage of the veins and keeps the hair from falling off the use of it is 〈◊〉 external being mixed with Wine Mirrh and Oyl of Mirtles and applied like a plaistet it takes away filthy scars and the deformity the small pocks leave behind them being mixed with Oyl of Roses and dropped into the ears it helps pains there being used as a pessary it provokes the terms and helps hardness or stiffness of the womb It is sometimes used inwardly in such medicines as ease pains and help the cough if you mix a little of it with old white Wine and drink it it both provokes urine and stops loosness or fluxes Dragons blood cools binds and repels Acacia and Hyposistis do the like The juce of Maudlin or for want of it Costmary which is the same in effect and better known to the vulgar some Countries call it Alecost the juyce is made thick for the better keeping of it first clarifie the juyce very wel before you boyl it to its due thickness which is something thicker than Honey It is apropriated to the Liver and the quantity of adrachm taken every morning helps the 〈◊〉 or evil disposition of the body proceeding from coldness of the Liver it helps the rickets and worms in children provokes urine and gently without purging disburdens the body of choller and 〈◊〉 it succours the lungues opens obstructions and resists purifaction of blood The rest which are 〈◊〉 and easie to be had may be found in what goes before such as are hard to come by I pass by as considering it would do the Reader little good to tell him a long tale of what things are in the East Indies or Arabla Gums are either temperate as Lacca Elemi Tragatanth c. Intemperate and so are hot in the first degree as Bdellium Gum of 〈◊〉 In the second 〈◊〉 Mirrh 〈◊〉 Frankinsence Olibanum Pitch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the third Ammoniacum In the 〈◊〉 Euphotbium Gum Arabick is cold Colophonia and Styrax soften Gum Arabick and Tragacanth Sandarack or Juniper Gum and 〈◊〉 bind Gum of Cherry trees breaks the stone Styrax provokes the terms Opopanax gently purgeth flegm Because I was brief in the vertues of these before I shall supply here what was wanting there From the prickly Cedar when it is burned comes forth that which with us is usually known by the name of Tar and is excellent good for unction eithor for scabs itch or manginess either in men or 〈◊〉 as also against the leprosie Tetters Ring-worms and Scald-heads All sorts of Rozins fill up hollow ulcers and relieves the body ore pressed with cold griefs The Rozin of pitch tree is that which is commonly called Burgony-pitch and is something hotter and sharper than the former being spread upon a cloath is excellent good against old aches coming of former bruises or dislocations Pitch mollifies hard Swellings and brings boyls and sores to suppurstion it breaks carbuncles disperseth Aposthumes clenseth ulcers of corruption and filleth them with flesh 〈◊〉 heats and mollifies and that very temperately being mixed with any convenient Oyntment or Plaister it helps kernels in the neck and throat Scrophula or that disease which was wont to be called the Kings evil because people dream'd waking that the Kings of England could cure it by touching which to me is as credible as the History of 〈◊〉 and the Dragon Inwardly taken in any convenient Medicine it prevokes urine and the terms and breaks the stone it helps coughs and the bitings of venemous beasts it helps windiness of the Spleen and 〈◊〉 the sides thence coming both outwardly applied to the place inwardly taken it helps ruptures or such as are burst it softens the hardness of the womb dties up the moisture thereof and expels the dead child 〈◊〉 Judaicum is a certain dry pitch which the dead Sea or Lake of Sadom in 〈◊〉 cast forth at certain times the Inhabitants there about pith their Ships with it It is of excellent use to mollifie the hardness of swellings and discuss them as also against Inflamations the smoke of it burnt is excellent good for the fits of the mother and the falling-sickness Inwardly taken in Wine it provokes the terms helps the bitings of venemous beasts and dissolves congealed blood in the body Ambergreese is hot and dry in the second degree I will not dispute the case whether it be a Gum or not It strengthens nature much which way soever it be taken there are but few grains usually given of it at a time I suppose rather for fear it should be too heavy for the purse than too hot for the body mixed with a little Oyntment of Orrenge flowers and the temples and forehead anointed with it it easeth the pains of the head and strengthneth the brain exceedingly the same applied to the privities helps the fits of the mother inwardly taken it strengthens the brain and memory the heart and vital Spirit warms cold stomachs and is an exceeding strengthener of nature to old people adding vigor to decayed and worn-out spirits it provokes lust and 〈◊〉 barren women fruitful if coldness and 〈◊〉 or weakness be the cause impediting 〈◊〉 being smelled to is 〈◊〉 known to repress the fits of the mother a little 〈◊〉 into an aching tooth presently easeth the pains ten grains of it taken before dinner walking half an hour after it provokes appetire helps digestion strengthens the stomach and takes away loathing of meat it provokes lust exceedingly and expels wind as much Borrax or Borrace as some cal it besides its vertues it hath to sodder Gold Silver and Copper c. Inwardly given in smal quantities it stops fluxes and the running of the reins being in fine pouder and put into green wounds it cures them at ounce dressing Cambuge which out of many names which every Country bestows upon it the Colledg are pleased to call Gutta Gamba Authors are extreamly different both about its being what is is whether a juyce or not If a juyce of what and about its operation whether it work
digestion The Colledg After the same manner only omitting the Annis seeds is distilled Spirit and water of Angelica both Herb and Root 〈◊〉 Mints Sage c. The Flowers of Rosemary Clary Clove-gilli flowers c. the seeds of Caraway c. 〈◊〉 berries 〈◊〉 pils Lemmons Citrons c. 〈◊〉 Nutmegs c. Culpeper A. I would some body that knows their conditions would do but so much as ask the Colledg what the meaning of all these et caetera's is Spiritus et Aqua Absynthii magis composita Pag. 30. Or Spirit and Water of Wormwood the greater Composition The Colledg Take of common and Roman Wormwood of each a pound Sage Mints Bawm of each two handfuls the roots of Galanga Ginger Calamus Aromaticus Alicampane of each three drams Liquor is an ounce Raisons of the Sun stoned three ounces Annis seeds and sweet Fennel seeds of each three drachms Cinnamon Cloves Nutmegs of each two drachms Cardamoms Cubebs of each one drachm Let the things be cut that are to be cut and the things bruised that are to be bruised all of them infused in twenty four pints of Spanish Wines for twenty four hours then distilled in an Allembick adding two ounces of white Sugar to every pint of distilled water Let the first pint be called Spirit of Wormwood the greater composition Culpeper A. In this Receipt they have only in their new Master-piece left out According to Art and I commend them for sure it was advisedly done of them not to write of what they never had A. The Opinion of Authors is That it heats the stomach and strengthens it and the lungues expels wind and helps digestion in ancient people Spiritus et Aqua Angelicae magis composita Page 31. Or Spirit and Water of Angelica the greater Composition The Colledg Take of the Leaves of Angelica eight ounces of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ounces of Bawm and Sage of each sour ounces Angelica seeds six ounces sweet Fennel seeds nine ounces Let the Herbs being dried and the seeds be grosly bruised to which ad of the Species called Aromaticum Rosatum and of the Species called Diamoschu Dulce of each an ounce and an 〈◊〉 infuse them two daies in thirty two pints of Spanish Wine then distil them with a gentle fire according to that art which we never had and with every pound mix two ounces of Sugar dissolved in Rose water Let the three first pound be called by the name of Spirit the rest by the name of Water Culpeper A This Receipt was far different from that Angelica water which they prescribed in their last Dispensatory I could at first imagine no reason worth the quoting unless it were done to make it dearer as who should say seeing the common people cannot be kept from knowing the vertues of what we have so long monopolized into our own hands through the iniquity of the times in abolishing Kingly Government which was the only 〈◊〉 we had to lean upon yet will we to work again and leave never a stone unturned that may uphold us in our pride and unconscionable domineering and though we cannot write but it will be translated into such a language as will be in the reach 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 brain yet will we wind the business so high that it shall be out of the reach of his purse this I thought to be the plain English of it yet afterward I found that their former Dispensatory had a water called Cordial Water which here shouldered out Angelica Water and having got into its place stole its name Pray do but so much as tell what good it doth the vulgar for you to change the names of Medicines I 〈◊〉 a Rat a new trick to cheat the world A. The chief end of composing this Medicine was to strengthen the heart and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore is very wholsom in pestilential times and for such as walk in stinking airs I shall now quote you their former Receipt in 〈◊〉 former Dspensatory Angellica water the greater Composition The Colledg Take of Angellica two pound Annis seeds half a pound Coriander and 〈◊〉 away seeds of each four ounces Zedoary bruised three ounces steep them twenty four hours in six gallons of 〈◊〉 Wines then draw out the Spirits and sweeten it with Sugar Culpeper A. It comforts the heart cherisheth the vital Spirits resisteth the pestilence and al corrupt airs which indeed are the natural causes of al Epidimical diseases the sick may take a spoonful of it in any convenient cordial and such as are in health and have bodies either cold by nature or cooled by age may take as much either in the morning fasting or a little before meat Spiritus Lavendulae compositus 〈◊〉 Pag. 31. Or 〈◊〉 Spirit of Lavender Matthias The Colledg Take of Lavender flowers one gallon to which pour three gallons of the best Spirit of Wine let them stand together in the Sun six daies then destil them with an 〈◊〉 with his refrigeratory Take of the flowers of Sage Rosemary and 〈◊〉 of each one handful the flowers of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lillies of the vally Cowslips of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the flowers being newly and seasonably gathered being infused in one gallon of the best Spirit of Wine and mingled with the aforegoing Spirit of 〈◊〉 flowers adding the leaves of Bawm Feather-few and Orrenge tree fresh gathered the flowers of 〈◊〉 and Orrenge tree Bay berries of each one ounce after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 distil it again after which add Citron 〈◊〉 the outward Bark 〈◊〉 seeds husked of each six drachms Cinnamon Nutmegs Mace Cardamoms 〈◊〉 yellow Sanders of each half an 〈◊〉 wood of Aloes one 〈◊〉 the best 〈◊〉 the stones being taken out half a pound digest thêm six weeks then strain it and filter it and add to it prepared Pearls two drachms Emeralds prepared a scruple Ambergreese Musk Saffron of each half a scruple red Roses dried red Sanders of each half an ounce yellow Sanders Citron pills dried of each one drachm let the Species being tied up in a rag be hung into the aforegoing Spirit Culp Although I could have easily been brought to beleeve that the Colledg never intended the company of Apothecaries any good yet before I read this Receipt I could not conceit they willingly intended to impose impossibilities upon them I could wish the Apothecaries would desire to be certified by the Colledg A. 1. Whether the Gallon of Lavender flowers must be filled by heap or by strike A. 2. Next whether the flowers must be pressed down in the Measure or not A. 3. How much must be drawn off in the first distillation A. 4. Where they should get Orrenge leaves and flowers fresh gathered A. 5. What they mean by Convenient Digestion A. 6. Where you shal find Borrage Bugloss and Cowslips 〈◊〉 together that so you may have them al fresh according to their prescript the one flowring in the latter end of Aprill and beginning of May the other in the end of June and beginning of July
Purstain Plantane Ambrosia Pauls Betony of each a pound Hogs blood white Wine of each four pound Garden Snails two pound dried Tobacco Leaves eight pouder of Liquor is two ounces of Alicampane half an ounce of Orris an ounce Cotton seeds an ounce and 〈◊〉 half the greater cold seeds Annis seeds of each six drachms Saffron one drachm the flowers of red Roses six pugils of Violets and Borrage of each four 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 them three daies warm and then distill them in a glass still in sand Culpeper It purgeth the lungues of flegm and helps consumptions there If you should happen to live where no beetter nor readier Medicine can be gotten you may use this Aqua Scordii Composita Page 29. in the L. Book Or Compound Water of Scordium The Colledg Take of the Juyce of Goats-rue Sorrel Scordium Citrons of each one pound London Treacle half a pound steep it three daies and distill it in sand Culpeper A. A tasterful taken in the morning preserves from ill airs Aqua Mariae Page 39. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Sugar candy a pound Canary Wine six ounces Rose water sour ounces boylit well into a Syrup and ad to it Imperial Water two pound Ambergreese Musk of each eighteen grains Saffron fitfeen grains yellow Sanders infused in Imperial water two drachms make ae cleer water of it Culpeper A. The difference between this and their former Aqua Mariae is this Here they appoint Imperial Water and before Aqua 〈◊〉 which they very subtilly have left out here any tooth good Barber so we may hold up our honor and gains Both Receipts are very costly as far beyond the reach of a poor mans purse as of his brains Aqua Papaveris Composita Page 39. in L. Book Or Poppy Water Compound The Colledg Take of red Poppies four pound sprinkle them with white Wine two pound then distill them in a common still let the distilled Water be powred upon fresh flowers and repeated three times to which distilled water ad two Nutmegs sliced red Poppy flowers a pugil Sugar two ounces set it in the Sun to give it a pleasing sharpness if the sharpness be more than you would have it put some of the same water to it which was not set in the Sun and then it will be a pretty water good for nothing Aqua Juglandium Composita Page 40. in L. Book Or Walnut Water Compound The Colledg Take of green Walnuts a pound and an half Rhadish roots one pound green Asarabacea six ounces Rhadish seeds four ounces let all of them being bruised be steeped in three pound of white Wine for three daies then distilled in a leaden still till they be dry And when you have done so I pray ask the Colledg what it is good for in truth I know not Some Waters kind country men the Colledg have plaid the men and left out in their new Dispensatory which were in their old one and they are these Mathiolus his Bezoar Water The Colledg Take of Mathiolus his great Antielote Syrup of Citron Pills of each one pound spirit of Wine distilled five times over five pound put all these in a glass that is much to big to hold them stop it close that the spirit fly not out then shake it together that the Electuary may be well mingled with the Spirit so let it stand a month shaking it together twice a week for the Electuary will settle to the bottom The month being ended powr off the cleer water into another glass to be kept for your use stopping it very close with wax and Parchment else the strength will easily fly away in vapors Culpeper A. Mathiolus is very large in commendation of this Water for quoth he four drachms that is half an ounce of this water being taken either by it self or in the like quantity of good Wine or any other Cordial Water so absolutely and speedily cureth the bitings of any venemous beasts whatsoever that although the danger of death be such that the patient have lost his speech sight and almost all the rest of his sences yet will he be rouzed up like a man out of his sleep to the wonderful admiration of the beholders which he saith he hath proved a thousand times It draws away poyson from the heart and cures such as have drunk poyson it casts poyson out of the stomach by vomit and helps such as have the pestilence A. For my own particular part thus much I can testifie by experience in the commendations of it I have known it given in acute in peracute feavers with gallant success and also in Consumptions yea in Hecticks and in Galens supposed incurabe Marasmos neither hath it missed the desired effects and therefore out of question it strengtheneth the heart exceedingly and the spirit vital It helps in the falling-sickness apoplexies and convulsion A. And then your own genius will tell you this is fittest for cold complexions cold diseases and such diseases as the heart is most afflicted in It is too hot to be taken alone and half a drachm is the most may be taken at a time Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound and an half Spanish Wine twelve pints Infuse the Cinnamon in the Wine twenty four hours then distil them in an 〈◊〉 draw out three pints of strong Waters and small as much as you think sufficient sweeten it with Sugar sufficiently and so keep it for your use Culpeper A. The vertues are the same that Cinnamon it self hath to which I refer you Mathiolus his Cinnamon Water The Colledg Take of bruised Cinnamon a pound put it into a glass still powring upon it four pints of Rose water a pint and an half of Spanish wine stop the still body close and place it in a warm bath twenty four hours then put on the still-head lute it well and distill it according to art Culpeper A. Mathiolus appoints Wine of Creet four pints and that is all the alteration A. The Authors own Judgment is That it strengthens the brain heart liver stomach lungues spleen and nerves quickens the sight resisteth poyson helpeth bitings by venemous beasts causeth a sweet breath bringeth down the terms in women and hath vertue attenuating opening digesting and strengthening A. The truth is I beleeve it prevails in cold diseases being orderly regulated in quantity according to the nature of the disease the age and strength of the patient and the season of the year have a care of taking too much of it in feavers Cinnamon Water made by Infusion The Colledg Take of Cinnamon bruised four ounces Spirit of Wine two pints infuse them together four daies in a large glass close stopped with Cork and a Bladder shaking the Glass twice a day Dissolve half a pound of white Sugar Candy in a quart of Rose water then mix both these liquors together then put into them four grains of Musk and half a scruple of Ambergreese tied up in a linnen
and an half boyl them after one daies warm digestion in a sufficient quantity of distilled Water of Peony Roots to four pouud in which being strained through Hippocrates his sleeves put four pound and an half of white sugar and boyl it to a syrup Culpeper A. It is somewhat costly to buy and as troublesom to make a spoonful of it taken helps the Falling-sickness and Convulsions Syrupus de Pomis alterans Page 62. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Apples The Colledg Take four pound of the juyce of sweet scented Apples the juyce of Bugloss garden and wild of Violet Leaves Rose water of each a pound boyl them together and clarifie them and with six pound of pure sugar boyl it into a syrup according to Art Culpeper A. It is a fine cooling syrup for such whose hearts and stomachs are overpressed with heat and may safely be given in feavers for it rather loosens than binds it breeds good blood and is profitable in Hectick feavers and for such as are troubled with palpitation of the heart it quencheth thirst admirably in Feavers and staies Hiccoughs You may take an ounce of it at a time in the morning or when you need Syrupus de Prasio Page 62. In the Latin Book Or Syrup of Horehound The Colledg Take of white Horehound fresh two ounces Liquoris Polipodium of the Oak Fennel and smallage Roots of each half an ounce white Maiden-hair Origanum Hysop Calaminth Time savory scabious Coltsfoot of each six drachms the seeds of Annis and Cotton of each three drachms Raisons of the sun stoned two ounces fat Figs ten boyl them in eight pound of Hydromel till half be consumed boyl the Decoction into a syrup with honey and sugar of each two pound and perfume it with an ounce of the Roots of Orris Florentine Culpeper A. It is apropriated to the breast and lungues and is a fine clenser to purge them from thick and putrified flegm it helps Phtisicks and Coughs and diseases subject to old men and cold natures Take it with a Liquoris stick Both this Receipt and the former Fernelius was the Author of Syrupus de quinque Radicibus Page 63. In L Book Or Syrup of the sive opening Roots The Colledg Take of the Roots of smallage Fennel Parsly Bruscus Sparagus of each two ounces spring Water six pound boyl away the third part and make a syrup with the rest according to art with three pound of sugar adding eight ounces of white white Wine Vinegar towards the latter end Culpeper It clenseth and openeth very well is profitable against Obstructions provokes Urine clenseth the body of flegm and is safely and profitably given in the beginning of Feavers An ounce at a time upon an empty stomach is a good dose Syrupus Raphani Page 63. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Rhadishes The Colledg Take of Garden and wild Rhadish Roots of each an ounce the Roots of white Saxifrage Lovage Bruscus Eringo Restharrow Parsly Fennel of each half an ounce the Leaves of Bettony Burnet Penyroyal Nettles Watercresses Sampier Maidenhair of each a handful Winter Cherries Jujubes of each ten the seeds of Bazil Bur Parsly of Macedonia Hartwort Caraway Carrots Gromwel the Bark of the Root of Bay-tree of each two drachms Raisons of the sun stoned Liquoris of each six drachms boyl them in twelve pound of water to eight strain it and with four pound of Sugar and two pound of Honey make it into a syrup and perfume it with an ounce of Cinnamon and half an ounce of Nutmegs Culpeper A. A tedious long Medicine for the stone I wonder why the Colledg affect such LONG Receipts surely it will be LONG enough before they be wiser Syrupus Regius aliàs Julapium Alexandrinum P. 64 Or Julep of Alexandria The Colledg Boyl four pound of Rose water and one pound of white sugar into a Julep Julep of Roses is made with Damask Rose water in the very same manner Culpeper Two fine cooling drinks in the heat of summer for them that have nothing else to do with their money Syrupus de Rosis siccis Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of dried Roses The Colledg Make four pound of spring Water hot in which infuse a pound of dried Roses by some at a time press them out and with two pound of sugar boyl it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. If you boyl it it will lose both colour and vertue and then who but the Colledg would first cry out against such paltry stuff I am weary with nothing this in every Receipt therefore be pleased to accept of this one general Rule It is not best to boyl any syrups made of Infusions but by adding the double weight of Sugar viz. two pound of sugar to each pint of infusion melt it over a fire only A. Syrup of dried Roses strengthens the heart comforts the spirits bindeth the body helps fluxes and corrosions or gnawings of the guts it strengthens the stomach and staies vomiting You may take an ounce at a time before meat if for fluxes after meat if for vomiting Syrupus Scabiosae Page 64. In the L. Book Or Syrup of Scabious The Colledg Take of the Roots of Alicampane and Polypodium of the Oak of each two ounces Raisons of the the sun stoned an ounce sebestens twenty Coltsfoot Lungwort savory Calaminth of each a handsul and an half Liquoris Spanish Tobacco of each half an ounce the seeds of Nettles and Cotton of each three drachms boyl them all the Roots being infused in white Wine the day before in a sufficient quantity of Wine and Water to eight ounces strain it and adding four ounces of the Juyce of Scabious and ten ounces of sugar boyl it to a syrup adding to it twenty drops of oyl of Sulphur Culpeper A. It is a clensing syrup apropriated to the breast and lungues when you perceive them oppressed by flegm crudities or stoppings your remedy is to take now and then a spoonful of this syrup it is taken also with good success by such as are itchy or scabby Syrupus de Scolopendrio Page 64. in the L. Book Or Syrup of Hartstongue The Colledg Take of Hartstongue three handfuls Polypodium of the Oak the Roots of both sorts of Bugloss bark of the roots of Capars Tamaris of each two ounces Hops Doddar Maiden-hair Bawm of each two handfuls boyl them in nine pound of spring water to five and strain it and with four pound of white sugar make it into a syrup according to art Culpeper A. It helps the stoppings of Melancholly opens obstructions of the Liver and spleen and is profitable against splenetick evils and therefore is a choice remedy for the disease which the vulgar call the Rickets or Liver-grown A spoonful in a morning is a precious Remedy for children troubled with that disease Men that are troubled with the spleen which is known by pain and hardnes in their left side may take three or four spoonfuls they
is excellent in coughs and other cold afflictions of the lungues and breast it helps digestion expels wind and the gravel of the kidneys it provokes the terms warms and dries up the moisture of the womb which is many times the cause of barrenness and is generally a helper of all diseases coming of cold raw thin humors you may take half a drachm at a time in the morning Electuarium de Baccis Lauri Page 100. Or Electuary of Bay-berries The Colledg Take of the Leaves of dried Rhue ten drachms the seeds of Ammi Cummin Lovage Origanum Nigella Carraway Carrots Parsly Bitter Almonds Pepper black and long wild Mints Calamus Aromaticus Bay-berries Castorium of each two drachms Sagapenum half an ounce Opopanax three drachms clarified Honey a pound and an half the things to be beaten being beaten and the Gums dissolved in uine make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It is exceeding good either in the chollick or iliack passion or any other disease of the bowels coming of cold or wind it generally easeth pains in the bowels You may give a drachm in the morning fasting or half an ounce in a Clyster according as the disease is Diacapparis Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Capars four 〈◊〉 Agrimony Roots Nigella seeds Squils Asarabacca Centaury black Pepper Smallage Time of each an ounce Honey three times their weight make into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. They say it helps infirmities of the spleen and indeed the name seems to promise so much it may be good for cold bodies if they have strength of nature in them me thinks 't is but odly composed the next looks more lovely in my eyes which is Diacinnamomu Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Cinnamon fifteen drachms Cassia Lignea Alicampane roots of each half an ounce Galanga seven drachms Cloves Long Pepper both sorts of Cardamoms Ginger Mace Nutmegs Wood of Aloes of each three drachms Saffron one drachm Sugar five drachms Musk two scruples added according to the prescript of the Physitian and by adding three pound eight ounces of clarified Honey boyl it and make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. Diacinnamomum or in plain English a Composition of Cinnamon heats the stomach causeth digestion provokes the terms in women strengthens the stomach and other parts that distribute the nourishment of the body a drachm of it taken in the morning fasting is exceeding good for ancient people and cold bodies such as are subject to dropsies and diseases of flegm or wind for it comforts and strengthens nature much If you take it to help digestion take it an hour before meat do so in all things of like quality Diacorallion Page 101. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Corral white and red Bole Armenick Dragons blood of each one drachm Pearls half a drachm Wood of Aloes red Roses Gum Tragacanth Cinnamon of each two scruples Sanders white and red of each one scruple with four times its weight in Sugar dissolved in smal Cinnamon water make it into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. It comforts and strengthens the heart exceedingly and restores such as are in consumptions it is cooling therefore good in Hectick feavers very binding and therefore stops fluxes neither do I know a better Medicine in all the Dispensatory for such as have a consumption accompanied with a loosness It stops the terms and whites in Women if administred by one whose wits are not a woolgathering Take but a drachm at a time every morning because of its binding quality except you have a loosness for then may you take so much two or three times a day Diacorum Page 101. In the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the roots of Cicers Acorus or Calamus Aromaticus Pine-nuts of each a pound and an half let the Cicers roots being clensed cut boyled and pulped be added to ten pound of clarified Honey and boyled stirring it to its just thickness then being removed from the fire ad the Acorus roots beaten the Pine-nuts cut and these following in pouder Take of black Pepper an ounce Long Pepper Cloves Ginger Mace of each half an ounce Nutmegs Galanga Cardamoms of each three drachms mix them with the Roots and Honey into an Electuary according to art Culpeper A. The Electuary provokes lust heats the brain strengthens the nerves quickens the sences causeth an acute wit easeth pains in the head helps the falling-sickness and convulsions coughs cathars and all diseases proceeding from coldness of the Brain Half a drachm is enough to take at one time because of its heat Diacydonium Simple Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the flesh of Quinces cut and boyled in fair water to a thickness eight pound white Sugar six pound boyl it to its just thickness Diacydonium with Species Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the 〈◊〉 of Quinces Sugar of each two pound white 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 half a pound added at the end of the Decoction it being gently boyled and the scum taken away ad Ginger two ounces white Pepper ten drachms and two scruples bruise them grosly and boyl it again to the thickness of Honey Culpeper A. Is not this then more a Syrup than an Electuary Surely either the Colledg or I doted when we set this among the Electuaries and would not be beaten out of our follies Diacydonium Compound Magisterial Page 102. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of white Sugar six pound spring water four pound clarifie them well with the white of an Eg scumming them then take of ripe Quinces clensed from the rind and seeds and cut in four quarters eight pound boyl them in the foregoing Syrup till they be tender then strain the Syrup through a linnen cloath vocata Anglice boulter boyl them again to a Gelly adding four ounces of white Wine Vineger towards the end remove it from the fire and whilst it is warm put in these following Species in gross pouder Ginger an ounce white Pepper Cinnamon Nutmegs of each two drachms keep it in diverse bones Culpeper A. If a man void of partiality should compare this and the former Receipt together 〈◊〉 would find but little difference between them only a little Cinnamon and Nutmegs added A. The vertues of all these three are They comfort the stomach help digestion stay vomiting belching c. stop fluxes and the terms in women They are all harmless you may take the quantity of a Nutmeg of them at a time before meat to help digestion and fluxes after meat to stay vomiting in the morning for the rest Consectio de Hyacintho Page 103. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Jacinth red Corral Bole Armenick Earth of Lemnos of each half an ounce the Berries of 〈◊〉 the Roots of Tormentil and Dittany the seeds of Citrons Sorrel and Purstain Sassron Mirrh red Roses exungulated all the sorts of Sanders bone of a Stags
of Perillus viz. be forced to take them themselves they being not only to strong but also of a base gnawing nature that so they may gnaw out their ill conditions Pilulaede Eupatorio Page 123. in the Latin Book Or Pills of Eupatorium The Colledg Take of the juyce of Maudlin and Wormwood made thick Citron Myrobalans of each three drachms Rhubarh three drachms and an half Mastich one drachm Aloes five drachms Saffron half a dram Syrup of the juyce of Endive as much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. Having compared this Receipt of Mesue with reason I find it a gallant gentle purge and strengthening fitted for such bodies as are much weakened by diseases of choller The author apropriates it to such as have tertain agues the yellow Jaundice obstructions or stoppings of the liver half a drachm taken at night going to bed will work with an ordinary body the next day by noon the truth is I was before sparing in relating the doses of most purging physicks because they are to be regulated according to the strength of the patient c. Physick is not to be presumed upon by Dunces lest they meet with their matches and overmatches too Pilulae Foetidae Page 123. in the Latin Book Or Stinking Pills The Colledg Take of Aloes Colocynthis Amoniacum Sagapen Mirrh Rue seeds Epithymum of each five drachms Scammony three drachms the roots of Turbith half an ounce the roots of Spurge the less prepared Hermodactils of each two drachms Ginger one drachm and an half Spicknard Cinnamon Saffron Castoreum of each one drachm Euphorbium prepared two 〈◊〉 dissolve the Gums in juyce of Leeks and with Syrup made with the juyce of Leeks and Sugar make it into a Mass. Culpeper A. They purge gross and raw flegm and diseases thereof arising Gouts of all sorts pains in the backbone and other joynts it is good against Leprosies and other such like infirmities of the skin I fancy not the receipt much Both because of its violence and apish mixture Pilulae de Hermodactilis Page 124 in the L. Book Or Pills of Hermodactils The Colledg Take of Sagapen fix drachms Opopanax three drachms melt them in warm juyce of Coleworts so much as is sufficient then strain it through a convenient ragg afterwards boyl it to a mean thickness then take of Hermodactils Aloes Citron Myrobalans Turbith Coloquintida soft Bdellium of each six drachms Euphorbium prepared the seeds of Rue and Smallage Castorium Sarcocol of each three drachms Saffron one drachm and an half with Syrup of the juyce of Coleworts made with Honey make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. They are good against the Gout and other cold afflictions of the joynts These are more moderare by half than Pilulae Foetidae and apropriated to the same diseases You may take a drachm in the morning if age and strength agree if not take less and keep your body warm by the fire now and then walking about the chamber Pilulae de Hiera cum Agarico P. 124. in Lat. Book Or Pills of Hiera with Agrick The Colledg Take of Species Hiera Picra Agrick of each half an ounce Aloes one ounce Honey roses so much as is sufficient to make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. Very many are the vertues Authors have been pleased to confer upon this Medicine as making it universal and applying it to all parts of the body and almost all diseases in them proceed they either of choller flegm or of melanceolly nay they make it to resist poyson and Epidemicall diseases to help the 〈◊〉 dropsie and falling sickness to provoke the terms and ease the fits of the mother to cure agues of all sorts shortness of breath and consumption of the lungues vertigo or dissiness in the head to open obstructions of the liver and spleen 〈◊〉 cure the yellow Jaundice and sharpness of urine to strengthen the brain and memory and what not the truth is it is as harmless a purge as most is in their Dispensatory You may safely take a scruple at night going to bed having eat a light supper three hours before and you may safely go about your business the next day for it will not work too hastily but very gently so you may continue taking it a week together for it will not do wonders in once taking Pilulae Imperiales Page 124. in the 〈◊〉 Book Or Imperiall Pills The Colledg Take of Aloes two ounces Rhubarb one ounce and an half Agrick Senna of each one ounce Cinnamon three drachms Ginger two drachms Nutmegs Cloves Spicknard Mastick of each a dram with Syrup of Violets make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It clenseth the body of mixt humors and strengthens the stomach exceedingly as also the bowels liver and natural spirit it is good for cold natures and cheers the spirits The dose is a scruple or half a drachm taken at night in the morning drink a draught of warm posset drink and then you may go about your business both these and such like Pills as these 't is your best way to take them many nights together for they are proper for such infirmities as cannot be carried away at once observe th is rule in all such pills as are to be taken at night Pilulae de Lapide Lazuli P. 124. in the Lat. Book Or Pills of Lapis Lazuli The Colledg Take of Lapis Lazuli in pouder and well washed five drachms Epithimum Polypodium Agrick of each an onnce Scammony black Hellebore roots Sal. gem of each two drachms and an half Cloves Annis seeds of each half an ounce Species Hiera Simple fifteen drachms with Syrup of the juyce of Fumitory make it into a Mass according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth melancholly very violently we will not now dispute the story how or in what cases violent purges are fit for melancholly let it suffice that it is not fit for a vulgar use Pilulae Macri. Page 125. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of Aloes two ounces Mastich half an ounce dried Marjoram two drachms Salt of Wormwood one drachm make them all being in pouder into a Mass according to art with juyce of Coleworts and Sugar so much as is sufficient Culpeper A. It is a gallant composed Pill who ever was the Author of it I have not time to search it strengtheneth both stomach and brain especially the nerves and muscles what they are you shall be instructed in a table by it self at the latter end of the Book as also in all other hard words that puzzle your brains and easeth them of such humors as afflict them and hinder the motion of the body they open obstructions of the liver and spleen and takes away diseases thence coming Your best way is to take them often going to bed you may take a scruple or half a drachm at a time I commend it to such people as have had hurts or bruises whereby the use of their
roughness of the skin and take away the the chops of the lips hands face or other parts Unguentum Potabile Page 158. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of butter without salt a pound and an half Spermaceti 〈◊〉 Tormentil roots Castorium of each half an ounce boyl them as you ought in a sufficient quantity of Wine till the Wine be consumed and become an Oyntment Culpeper A. I know not what to make of it Unguentum Resinum Page 158. in the Lain Book The Colledg Take of 〈◊〉 or Rosin of the pine tree of the purest Turpentine yellow Wax washed pure Oyl of each equal parts melt them into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It is as pretty a Cerecloath for a new sprain as most is and cheap Let it not be despised for I have known a gentlewoman in Sussex do much good with it even before their Dispensatory was ever hatched or in the Egge Unguentum Rosatum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Roses The Colledg Take of fresh Hogs grease elensed a pound fresh Red roses half a pound juyce of the same three ounces make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. The Colledge give you but a short come off in this Oyntment they love to be breife and tedious last time when they were honester they taught you how to make it which was thus The Colledg Take of Hogs grease well clensed from the skins a pound wash it nine times in warm water then as often in cold water fresh red Roses a pound mix them together and so let them stand seven daies then boyl them over a gentle fire and strain out the Roses then mix with the Oyntment the like quantity of fresh red Roses and then let them stand together as many daies then strain them out having first boyled them at the last ad juyce of red Roses six ounces boyl them over a gentle fire till the juyce be consumed then strain it and make an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. You need do no more than let it stand till it is cold and you shall see it is Oyntment alone without any further making now compare but this with what I wrote before and see if they do not love to be breife and tedious A. It is of a fine cooling nature exceeding usefull in all gaulings of the skin and frettings accompanied with chollerick humors angry pushes tetters ringworms it mitigates diseases in the head coming of hear as also the intemperate heat of the stomach and liver 〈◊〉 Rubrum Page 158. in the Latin Book Or a drying red Oyntment The Colledg Take of Oyl of Roses Omphacine a pound white Wax five ounces which being melted and put in a leaden Mortar put in Earth of Lemnos or Bole-Armenick Lapis Calaminaris of each four ounces Litharge of gold Ceruss of each three ounces Camphire one drachm make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It binds and restrains fluxes of humors and is as gallant an Oyntment to skin a sore as any is in the Dispensatory Unguentum è Solano Page 158. in the Lat. Book Or Oyntment of Nightshade The Colledg Take of juyce of Nightshade Litharge washed of each five ounces Ceruss washed eight ounces white Wax seven ounces Frankinsence in pouder ten drachms Oyl of Roses often washed in water two pound make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It was invented to take away inflamations from wounds and to keep people from scratching of them when they are almost well Unguentum Tutiae Page 158. in the Latin Book Or Oyntment of Tutty The Colledg Take of Tutty prepared two ounces Lapis Calaminaris often burnt and quenched in Plantane water an ounce make them being finely poudered into an Oyntment with a pound and an half of Oyntment of Roses Cul. A. It is a cooling drying Oyntment apropriated to the eyes to dry up hot and salt humors that flow down thither the eye-lids being anointed with it Valentia Scabiosae Page 159. in the Latin Book A famous Oyntment much in use 300. years ago The Colledg Take of the juyce of green Scabious pressed out with a scrue and strained through a cloath Hogs grease of each as much as you will beat the Hogs greas in a stone mortar not grind it putting in the juyce by degrees for the more commodious mixture and tincture afterwards set it in the Sun in a convenient vessel so as the juyce may overtop the grease nine daies being passed pour of the discoloured juyce and beat it again as before putting in fresh juyce set in the Sun again five daies which being elapsed beat it again putting in more juyce after 15 daies more do so again do so five times after which keep it in a glass or glazed vessel Tapsivalentia Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Mullen Hogs grease of each as much as you will let the grease be clensed and cut in pieces and beat it with the juyce pressed and strained as you did the former Oyntment then keep it in a convenient vessel nine or ten daies then beat it twice once with fresh juyce until it be green and the second time without juyce beaten well pouring off what is discoloured and keep it for use Tapsimel Page 159. in the Latin Book The Colledg Take of the juyce of Sullendine and Mullen of each one part clarified Honey two parts boyl them by degrees till the juyce be consumed adding the Physitian prescribing Vitriol burnt Alum burnt Ink and boyl it again to an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. These three last was stolen out of the Manuscripts of Mr. John Ardern for a Chyrurgian at Newwark upon Trent though now the Colledg have the honesty to conceal his name you may know the vertues of the two former if you view but the Simples as for the latter he quotes a pretty passage of which is like to be the 〈◊〉 because the Colledge conceales it now and did not before it is this when you are troubled with the Itch put a little Tapsimel up your fundament and the Itching will presently Cease OYNTMENTS MORE COMPOUND Unguentum Agrippa Page 160. in the Lat. in Book The Colledg TAke of Briony roots two pound the roots of wild Cucumers one pound Squills half a pound fresh English Orris roots three ounces the roots of Male Fearn Dwarffe Elder water Caltrops or Aron of each two ounces bruise them all being fresh and steep them six or seven daies in four pound of old Oyl the whitest not rank then boyl them and press them out and in the Oyl me 〈◊〉 fifteen ounces of white wax and make it into an Oyntment according to art Culpeper A. It purgeth excceedingly and is good to anoint the bellies of such as have dropsies and if there be any humor of flegm in any part of the body that you know not how to remove provided the part be not too tender you may anoint it
hot and moist Also to provoke one to the sports of Venus we use such things as stir up the veneral faculty These are hotter than those that encrease Seed yet not so dry that they should consume the Seed Take notice of this 〈◊〉 that some things dull Venus by cold and some over power her by 〈◊〉 The one of those 〈◊〉 the Seed the other makes it torped and sluggish staies the Itching For the Seed of Man is subject to as many contingents as the Man himself is It is not my 〈◊〉 here to treat of them for such things as make Seed either thinner or thicker are not properly said to breed Seed For the time when Seed should be encreased I need say nothing unless I should say when a Man hath got a prety 〈◊〉 If the Body be vicious let it first be purged let Seed be entreased before it be provoked Biting things lessen the Seed stir up the Venerial parts to expulsion cause Itching or tickling of the 〈◊〉 therefore they are good to be used a little before the act otherwise the constant use of them consumes and 〈◊〉 the Seed Observe thus much that one and the same Medicine doth not suit with every complexion for example If the person be 〈◊〉 let the Medicine be the hotter The use of these Medicines is the propagation of Mankind for the desire of Children inches many to Copulation but the pleasure that is in the 〈◊〉 ten times more Chap. 18. Of Medicines casing Pain THere is no dispute of the story but that which causeth the disease causeth the pain as also what 〈◊〉 the disease caseth the pain Yet are those properly called 〈◊〉 which is the Physical term for such Medicines which barely regard the pain both cause and disease remaining These are temperate for heat and thin for essence For seeing they are to be applied both to hot and cold effects they ought not to vary much from temperature They something excel in heat and so they ease pain because they open the pores and loosen the skin But they also cool because they let out those hot fuliginous vapors which cause the pain Such things as case pain by 〈◊〉 are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They do not take away the pain at all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cause sleep or so dul the sences that they cannot 〈◊〉 it They are administred at such times when the Symptoms are so grievous that they threaten a 〈◊〉 danger than the disease is If in giving them you fear a greater fluxion will come to the part afflicted mix some things with them which are medicinal for the disease If the pain lie in the skin let the anodines beliquid the deeper it lies the more solid let them be lest their vertue be discussed before they come at the part afflicted CHAP. 19. Of Medicines breeding Flesh. THere are many things diligently to be observed in the cures of Wounds and Ulcers which incur and hinder that the cure cannot be speedily done nor the separated parts reduced to their natural state Viz. Fluxes of Bloud 〈◊〉 Hardness Pain and other things besides our present scope Our present scope is To shew how the cavity of Ulcers may be filled with Flesh Such Medicines are called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sarcoticks This though it be the work of Nature yet it is helped forward with Medicines that the Bloud may be prepared that it may the easier be turned into Flesh. These are not Medicines which breed good Bloud nor which correct the intemperature of the place afflicted but which defend the Bloud and the Ulcer it self from corruption in breeding Flesh. For Nature in breeding Flesh produceth two sorts of excrements viz. serosus humors and purulentus dross Those Medicines then which clense and consume these by drying are said to breed Flesh because by their helps Nature performs that Office Also take notice that these Medicines are not so drying that they should consume the blood also as well as the Sanies nor so clensing that they should consume the Flesh with the dross Let them not then exceed the first Degree unless the Ulcer be very moist Their difference are various according to the part wounded which ought to be restored with the same Flesh. The softer then and tenderer the place is the gentler let the Medicines be Chap. 20. Of Glutinative Medicines THat is the true cure of an Ulcer which joyns the mouth of it together That is a glutinative Medicine which couples together by drying and binding the sides of an Ulcer before brought together These require a greater drying faculty than the former not only to consume what flows out but what remains liquid in the flesh for liquid flesh is more subject to flow abroad than to stick together The time of using them any body may know without teaching viz. when the Ulcer is clensed and filled with Flesh and such symptoms as hinder are taken away For many times Ulcers must be kept open that the Sanies or sords that lie in them may be purged out whereas of themselves they would heal before Only beware left by too much binding you cause pain in tender parts Chap. 21. Of Scarrifying Medicines THe last part of the cure of an Ulcer is to cover it with Skin and restore the place to its prestin beauty Such Medicines the Greeks call Epulotica This also is done by things drying and binding They differ from the former thus in that they meddle with the Flesh no further than only to convert it into Skin Before you administer Epuloticks let not only the Ulcer but the places adjacent be 〈◊〉 viewed lest ill Symptoms follows Chap. 22. Of Medicines resisting Poyson SUch Medicines ' are called Alexiteria and Alexipharmaca which resist Poyson Some of these resist Poyson by Astral influence and some Physitians though but few can give a reason of it These they have sorted into three Ranks 1. Such as strengthen Nature that so it may 〈◊〉 the Poyson the easier 2. Such as oppose the Poyson by a contrary quality 3. Such as violently thrust it out of doors Such as strengthen Nature against Poyson either do it to the whol Body universally or else strengthen some particular part thereof For many times one particular part of the Body is most afflicted by the Poyson suppose the Stomach Liver Brain or any other part such as cherish and strengthen those parts being weakned may be said to resist Poyson Such as strengthen the Spirits strengthen all the Body Sometimes Poysons kill by their quality and then are they to be corrected by their contraries They which kill by cooling are to be remedied by heating and the contrary they which kill by corrhoding are to be cured by lenitives such as temper their acrimony Those which kill by Induration or Coagulation require cutting Medicines Also because all Poysons are in motion neither stay they in one till they have seised