auther Vrine like flesh broth is verie good Beginneth disgestion and norish blood Subcitrine and yellow be vrine next best Bread and flesh will wel disgest The vrine that is white and thick Is euer called flegmatick Melancholy water is white and thin The redde and grosse is sanguin Yellow and thin spring from the gall Wherein holler ruleth all The swelling and braynes bloudy Causes circles thicke with colour ruddy But when circles be thin and red Choler greene the right side of the hed If leaden circles swim on the brinke It is falling sicknesse as I do thinke When Oyle in vrine doth vppeare Resolutio pinguis draweth neare When Oyle appeare in feuers hot Dissoluing the body causeth a blot But of Periotides thou feelst no paines This Oyle Pronogstick consuming raines The grauell red declareth for euer In drie backed men duble tertian feuer When golden grauell appeareth alone It hurt the raines but is no stone When grauel is of colour white Stone in the bladder worketh spite Contentes like small threeds or hears Through heat drienesse the bodie wears Consumtion scabbe small sport and lust Is when many haires be mingled with dust In the bottom of veins or vessels great Lieth stopping matter like bran of wheat Wherein contentes are like skales of fish As appeareth in the chamber dish These signifie feuers and ethickes olde Or scabbes which the bladder do infolde White froth swimming commeth of wine The yelow froth is of Iaundise kinde Thus of vrines I do conclude With wordes of truth but meeter rude Here is also a litle of the signes of the excrementes of the belly OVr filthy dung and fex most vile The dregges of natures food When they be diuers coloured made The signes bee neuer good If the siege be like vnto the meat Newe drawen into the mawe Or fleeting with fleame or burbles great The bodie is windy and rawe The yelowe doth from choller come The greenâ— is burnt adust The black and leady be deadly signes The flesh will turne to dust The excrement that is in the iakes cast If it haue oyle or fat Consumption of body then begin The chiefest signe is that The priuie soft well compact Made in the accustomed time Is euer good and the hard is ill And thus I ende my rime Ioh. Once I fel into a great sicknes and hitherto I am skant recouered of it the surfit was so great but counsell was giuen me that I should not staie my selfe vpon the opinion of any one phisicion but rather vpon three then said I to retaine three at once requireth great charge for those men to whome liues be committed ought liberall reward to be giuen Then said my frend they are good gentlemen and no great takers What be their names said I he aunswered saying The first was called doctor Diet the second doctor Quiet the third doctor Meriman I did writ their names but yet I could not speake with them Hum. Hitherunto I haue said some thing that shall well suffice for thee to know doctor Diat as for Quiet and Mery man they lie in no phisicions handes to giue but only in Gods For small it helpeth to any man to haue honour riches fame cunning c. And in the meane time to want quietnesse and myrth which bee the chiefe friendes Tenderest nourses wholsomest phisitions most pleasant musitions and friendliest companions to nature pleasant birds singing in the branches be more happier than rauening cormorants and gréedie haukes which with paines inchaseth their preyes The quiet lambs be euer happier in their kinde than the gréedie rauening foxes wolues and lions which neuer cease vexing themselues to kill liuing thinges for their foode The poore Oister lurking vnder the rocke or sande which is neuer remooued of strong ebbes nor flouddes is farder from trauell and continuall paines than the horrible whale most fearefull to fishes The low shrubs or bushes growing neare to the ground be euer in more sauegarde than the lustie high flourishing trées spredde with pleasant braunches which bee subiect to euerie strong winde The poore boats in harbour bee in lesse perill than the rich fickle ships tossed vp and downe on the cruell flouds What shall I say but this that the miserable ragged begger called Irus was more happier in his pouertie with quietnes and mirth than was the gluttonous beast monstrous man king Sardanapalus with all his golden glorie court of ruffians and curtizans which came to a shamefull ende Diogenes I warrant you was not inferiour to Alexander in the state of happines haue left as great a fame behind him sauing that AlexaÌ„der was a more cruell murtherer than Diogenes a chast liuer In déed y e poore silly shepheard doeth pleasantly pipe with his sheepe when mighty princes doe fight among their subiects breake many sléepes in golden beds when bakers in bags brewers in bottels do snort vpon hard straw fearing no sodaine mishap The great paines and secrete griefes that disquieted mindes doe dayly sustaine bee not much vnlike vnto the infernall tormentes that the wicked doe feele Phisicke vnto an extreame troubled minde say what they list helpeth as little as to apply a playster to the breast or head of a dead body to reuocate the spirites of life or soule againe The sicknes of the body must haue medicine the passions of the minde must haue good counsel What pleasure hath a condemned man in musicke or a dead man in phisicke Nothing at all God knoweth Oh how many men haue béen cast away by thought and most for losse of estimation and some of other affections of the minde as inordinate loue or coueting thinges that they cannot gette or obtayning those thinges that they cannot kéepe or ire of other mens prosperitie or good hap as Tully saith Ouid as fine in poetry as Apelles was in painting discribeth this vile passioÌ„ of ire with a pale face lean body scouling look gnashing téeth venom toung cholericke stomacke toung ful of poison ingrateful seldom smiling but at mischief outwardly appearing as it were quiet inwardly the serpeÌ„t gnaweth fretteth deuoureth c. These men be deuils incarnat beginning hel in this life most enemies to themselues and if they did behold theÌ„selues in a glasse in y e time of their tempests shoulde not their countenances bée more fearefull to themselues than their Ire hurtfull to others yes and perhaps make them staring mad in seeing such a diuels image therefore let wise men be of this minde First to thinke that they would haue no man be irefull against them or disdaine them euen so let them do to others Secondly let them thinke it is better to be spited than pittied for euery prosperous felicitie hath his enemie waiting vpon him The fole hateth the wise The wise man pittieth the foole wel coâ—et rather to be spited than pitied the wrech enuieth the worthie man and so
whence the veines doe spring and the stones of generation from whence the seed of life springeth but those compounded members that bee principall bee all the other members except the simple as the nose the eares the eies the face the necke the armes and legges and the braines and chiefe substaunce of our flesh bee compounded members of sinewes and couered with panacles which bee of a sinew nature but that sinewes giue féeling to all the whole bodie euen as the arteries giueth spirituall bloud from the heart to euerie member The whole body is couered with filmes and skinnes Out of the head springeth hard matter issuing from the places called the pores to purge vapours and smoke from the braine which ascendeth out of the stomacke into the head and is cleansed through pia mater called the tender couering of the braine or spirites animall And therefore as some partes of the bodie being diuided in sunder be each like vnto the other and yet called by the name of the whole as for example When the bones be broken in sunder or the flesh cut into diuerse péeces or the blood powred into sundrie vessels a péece of flesh is still called flesh a fragment of a bone is called a bone and a droppe of blood is called bloud Euen so an hande arme veyne or such like vnseparate partes beeing diuided into péeces or called by the name of péeces and not by the name of the whole part as is before But my friend Iohn to make a large description of Anatomie it were too long for mee but shortly I will say some thing And first the definition thereof is when the bodie of a dead man or woman is cut and opened and the members diuided or for the want of dead bodies to reade good bookes as Galen Auicen c. And it behooueth them that cutteth a deade corpse to note foure things First the nutrimentall members as the liuer with the veynes the second is the members spirituall as the heart with the arteries the third is the animall members as the head braines and sinewes the fourth and last be excrements of the bodie as armes legges skin haire c. Of these said members with the bones is all the bodie compounded And like as euerie trée and hearbe haue their rootes in the earth and their braunches springeth vpward euen so the rootes of mankinde haue the beginning in the braine and the sinew and branches groweth downeward in the which braine dwelleth the vertues of imagination fantasie memorie c. And these animall vertues be placed as it were heauenly aboue al the mēbers communicating their heauenly influences down vnto the heart as to a prince or chiefe ruler within the body which giueth life to euery part thereof Thou shalt consider that the hart was the first that receiued life from the spirites and shalbe the last that shall die Note also that as there be noble sences giuen to the body as seeing hearing smelling tasting féeling euen so nature hath foure principall vertues first Attractiue the second Retentiue the third Digestiue the fourth Expulsiue Attractiue is that by the which euery part of the body draweth the food of life serueth the vertue disgestiue and the Retentiue doeth holde the meate vntill it be readie to be altered and changed Digestiue doth alter and maketh the foode like vnto the thing that it nourisheth as fleme bloud c. Expulsiue separateth them from the other the good from the bad Thou oughtest also most chiefly to learne the knowledge of the veines and for what sicknesse they must bée opened and what medicins either in sirups or pils thou must vse And first marke this figure of the Anatomie here present before thee with the heauenly signes because I haue not painted at large the seuerall parts of the said Anatomie The middle veine of the forehead is good to be opened against Megrim forgetfulnes passions of the head And they that be let blood of this or any other veyne must first haue their head purged with pillule Chochi Rasis or some purgation but first vse thinges to extenuate matter as syrruppe of Buglosse c. Against Leprosy and deafnes Let bloud the two veines behind the eares and vse the said pilles or els pillule Aurea Nicholai or Arabice or cōfectio Hameth minor Against replexion or too much blood or bloud in the eies flowing in the head vpon the temple veines called Artiers for they bée euer beating And vse to purge with pillule Artritice Nicholai or puluis ad epithema Hepatis Against Squinancie stopping the throte and stopping of the breath Let bloud the veines vnder the tongue And for this vse Philoniūmaius Necholai and Gargarismes pilule Bechie and oxymel Simplex Ueines called Originales open not without great counsaile of a learned Physicion or cunning Chirurgion They be in the necke and haue a great course of bloud that gouerneth the head and the whole body Against short winde and euill bloud aproching to the heart and spitting bloud Open the vaine called Cordiaca or heart veine in the arme Use thinges to extenuate as Aromaticum Chariophillatum Mesue serapium ex Absinthij in colde time serapium Boraginis hote time and pillule stomachi Agaynst palsie yellow Iaundies burning heats and apostumations of the liuer Open the liuer vein vpon the right arme Take Serapium exendiue Diamargariton frigidum Auicennie Against dropsy open the veine betweene the belly and the braunch the right side against the said dropsy and the left side against the passions of the milte but bée not rash vnlesse ye haue the consaile of one well seene in the Anothomie Use pillule Hiere cum Agarico Agaynst the stopping the secrete tearmes or fluxions of women or helping the Emerods and purging sores Open the veine called Sophane vnder the ancle Theriaca Andromachi Pillule Mastichine Petri de Ebano Within twentie houres after one is infected with the pestilence comming sodenly Open the vein betwéen the wrest of the foote and the great toe Use Serapium Cichorij and Pillule pestilentialis Ruffi Against stinking breath Open the veyne betwéene the lip and the chin Use for this Catharicum imperiale Nicho Alexandri Against the toothake Open the veine in the roofe of the mouth And first purge with Pillule Choci Rasis or with pilles of masticke Against quartens tercians and paines of the left side Open the splene veine commonly called the low veine with a wide cut and not deepe For Chirurgions nicely pricking or opening veynes with little Scarisfactions doe let out good pure bloud and still retaine grosse colde and drie earthly matter to the great hurt of their patients And albeit many more veynes might here be spoken of and their vtilities yet this shall well suffice by Gods grace to kéepe all people in health that vpon iust cause haue these veynes opened except olde men women with childe and children vnder xiiii yeares of age or men after diuerse agues For
ought to bee twise in the Moneth for the conseruation of health but that which is more doeth hurt the bodie There is another kinde of the clensing of the body by sweating as with hot drinkes warme clothes perfumes made of Olibalum brimstone niter c. There is also bathes and sweating in hot houses for the pockes scurffe scabbes hemerodes piles which hot houses haue the vertue of helping the saide diseases But if any that be of an whole temperate complexion do sweate in drie hot houses it doth them much harme as hyndring their eyesights decaying their teeth hurting memory The best bathing is in a great vessel or a litle close place with the euapuration of diuers sweete hearbes wel sodden in water which haue vertue to open the poores softly letting out feeble and grosse vapors which lieth betwene the skinne and the flesh This kinde of bathing is good in the time of pestilence or feuer quarten in the end of the bathes it is good to anoint the body with some swéete oyle to molifie and make soft the sinewes And thus to conclude of bathing it is verie holsome so that it be not doone vppon an emptie stomacke palsies may come thereby or to take sodaine colde after it there foloweth an other purgation called neesing or sternutacion which is beneficial for the bodie if it be vsed vpon an empty stomacke Twyse or thrise in a morning with a leafe of Bittony put into thy nose it helpeth memory good against opilation stopping and obstructions Suppositers be good for weake people or children made with Hieria Picra and hony made in the length of a finger Scarifiyng or boxing as Galen saith applied vnto the extreme partes as the legges and the armes doth great helpe vnto the body in drawing watery humour away from the body but boxing is not good for the brest applied thereto in hote feuers is daungerous Glisters made according to arte be good for them whieh be too weake to take purgation The maner of the said glisters because they be not here to be spoken of at large I entend by Gods grace to set forth in my next book of helthful medicins Purgations venerous there be so many practicioners thereof that I neede to write no rules but this that affection lust and fantasie haue banished chastitie temperance and honestie Ioh. Plaine people in the countrie as carters threshers ditchers colliers and plowmen vse seldome times to wash their hands as appeareth by their filthynes and as verie few times combe their heads as it is seene by floxe nittes grease fethers strawe and such like which hangeth in their haires Whether is washing or combing things to decorate or garnish the body or els to bring health to the same Hum. Thou séest that the deere horse or cowe will vse friction or rubbing them selues against trees both for their ease and health Birdes and haukes after their bathing will prune and rowse them selues vpon their braunches and perkes and all for health What should man do which is reasonable but to kéepe himself cleane and often to wash the handes which is a thing most comfortable to coole the heate of the liuer if it bee done often the handes be also the instrumentes to the mouth eies with many other thinges commonly to serue the bodie To wash the handes in cold water is very holsome for the stomake and lyuer but to wash with hot water engendreth rheumes wormes and corruption in the stomacke because it pulleth away naturall heate vnto the warmed place which is washed Frication or rubbing the bodie is good to be done in mornings after the purgation of the belly with warme clothes from the head to the brest then to the belly from the belly to the thighes legges and so forth So that it be done downwarde it is good And in drie folkes to be rubbed with the oyle of camomill Kembing of the head is good in mornings and doth comfort memorie it is euil at night and openeth the pores The cutting of the haire and the paring of the nailes cleane keepeing of the eares and teeth be not only thinges comely and honest but also holsome rules of Phisicke for to be superfluous things of the excrements Ioh. The chiefe thing that I had thought to haue demanded the very marke that I would haue thee to shote at is to tell me some thing of dieting my selfe with meate and drinke in health and sickenesse Hum. There is to be considered in eating the time of hunger or custome the place of eating and drinking whether it be colde or hote also the time of the yéere whether it bee Winter or Summer also the age or complexion of the eater and whether he bee whole or sicke also the things which be eaten whether they be fish or flesh fruits or herbes Note also the complections and temperaments of the said meates hot or colde drie or moyst and most chiefly marke the quantitie and so forth And like as lampes doe consume the oyle which is put vnto them for the preseruation of the light although it cannot continue for euer so is the naturall heate which is within vs preserued by humiditie and moystnesse of bloud and fleugme whose chief engenderer be good meates drinkes As Auicen saith de ethica When naturall heate is quenched in the bodie then of necessitie the soule must depart from the bodie For the workman can not worke when his instrument is gone So the spirits of life can haue no exercise in the body when there is no naturall heate to worke vpon Without meate saith Galen it is not possible for any man to liue either whole or sicke and thus to conclude no vital thing liueth without refection and sustenaunce whether it be animall reasonable or animall sensible without reason or any vital thing insensible both man beast fish and worme trée or hearb All these things be newtrified with the influence or substaunce of the foure Elementes or any of them Ioh. Well Humfrey thou knowest my complexion and disorder of my diet what remedy for me that haue liued like a riotter Hum. I know it well thou arte flegmatike and therefore it is long yer thy meate be disgested When thou dost eate fish and flesh together it doth corrupt in thy stomack and stink euen so doth hard cheese and cold fruits And olde poudred meates and raw hearbes ingender euil humors so the diuersity of quality quantity of diuers meats doth bring much paine to the stomack doth engender many diseases as thou maist reade in the first booke of Galen Inuementis membrorum cap. iiij And the Prince himselfe sayeth in 3. prim doct 2. cap. 7. Saying nothing is more hurtfull than diuerse meates to be ioyned together For while as the last is receyuing the first beginneth to digest And when the table is garnished with diuerse meates some rosted some
to idle people seeme verie painefull vnto them selues that trauell no paine but pleasure because of custome These people can digest grosse meats eating them with much pleasure and sléeping soundly after them whereas the idle multitudes in Cities and noble mens houses great numbers for lacke of exercise doe abhorre meates of light digestion and daintie dishes Marie in deede they may bee verie profitable to Phisitions But if trauaile be one of the best preseruers of health so is idlenesse the destroyer of life as Auerois writeth and Hippocrates saying euerie contrarie is remooued and helped by his contrarie as health helpeth sicknes exercise putteth away idlenesse c. But euery light mouing or soft walking may not bee called an exercise as Galen sayeth therefore tennis dauncing running wrastling riding vpon great horses ordained as well for the state of mens health as for pleasure whereunto it is now conuerted rather to the hurt of many than the profite of fewe exercise doeth occupie euery part of the bodie quicken the spirits purge the excrements both by the reynes and guts therefore it must be vsed before meate for if strong exercise bee vsed immediately after meate it conueyeth corruption to each part of the bodie because the meate is not digested but when thou séest thy water after meate appeareth somewhat yellowe then mayest thou begin exercise for digestion is then well But sicke folkes leane persons yong children women with childe may not much trauaile The exercise of dice cardes fighting drinking knauish railing of bauderie and such like rather may be called an exercise of diuels than of men And thus to conclude with Salomon quam pretiosus sit sanitas thesaurus Ioh. After painfull labor and exercise or disquietnesse of the mind there was neuer thing that hath done mee so much comfort as sleepe hath done Hum. Auicen saith that sléepe is the rest and quietnesse of the powers of the soule of moouings and of senses without the which man can not liue And truely sléepe is nothing else but an Image or brother to death as Tullie sayth And if by imagination thou didst perceiue sléeping waking weied in the ballance together there thou shouldst sée them equall in weight for Aristotle saith that man doth sléepe as much as he doth wake But this is to be considered in sléep that natural heat is drawen inwardly digestion made perfite the spirites quieted and all the bodie comforted if the true order of sléepe be obserued in sixe points First a quiet minde without the which either there is no sléepe or else dreadfull dreames tormenting the spirites Secondly the time of sleepe which is the night or time of most quiet silence for the day sléepes bee not good most chieflie soone after dinner except to sick persons or young children in their tymes conuenient Thirdly the maner of sleepe that is to eschew the lying on the backe which bringeth manie grieuous passions and killeth the sleeper with sodaine death To lie vppon the left side is verie euill in the first sleepe but tollerable in the seconde but the most surest way to make the digestion perfite is to lie vpon the right side with one of the handes vpon the breast Fourthly sléepe hath the quantitie which must be meane for superfluous sléepe maketh the spirits grosse and dul and decayeth memorie sixe or eight houres will suffice nature For like as much watch dryeth the bodie and is perillous for falling sicknes and blindnes euen so too much sléepe is as perillous for extremes be euer ill Fiftly in the time of colde feuers the patient must not sléepe vntill the trimbling fitte bee past for then the hot fit that followeth will bee extremer than any other fit and hard to helpe Note furthermore that those bodies that be full of hote inflamations sleepe not well therefore they must vse things to extenuate and to make colde as Tizantes and colde sirops or gentle purging froÌ„ the bellie and liuer or finally to haue the median veine opened according to time state and age Sixtly the chamber must bee considered that it bee cleane swéete comely clothes fit for the time of the yeare and the age of the people to kéepe the head warme is very holsom for in sléepe natural heat is drawne into the body for the braine of nature is colde moyst Windowes in the south part of the chamber be not good it is best for them which haue colde rheumes dropsies c. to lie in close lofts for dry bodies to lie in low chambers and in the time of the Pestilence often to shift chambers is healthfull lying vpon the ground in Gardens vnder trées or neere vnto stinking priuies bee hurtfull to the bodie and this shall suffice for thine instruction of sleepe prouided that thou doost not long retain thine vrine for feare of the stone and paine in thy reynes Ioh. There is nothing which I more feare than the stone for my father was sore vexed therwith what shal I marke in mine vrine Hum. Among all mortall diseases the stone is the greatest a preuenter of time a deformer of man and the chiefe weakner of the body and a grieuous enemie to the common wealth Howe manie noble men and woorshipfull personages hath it slaine in this Realme manie one which commeth of hote wines spices long banquets repletions fulnesse costifenesse warme kéeping of the backe salt meates c. The remedie whereof is in all poyntes contrarie to these causes small wines temperate béere or ale no spices but wholsome hearbs as Time Parcely Saxifrage c. Light meales most chiefly the supper no baked nor rosted thing but onely sodden meates and oftentimes to relaxe the bellie with Cassia Fistula newe drawne from the Cane with sugar and to eschew salt meates and not to kéepe the backe warme the stone is often found in yong children which commeth of the parents and oftentimes in old folke Which stones bee ingendred as I haue saide besides milke fruites hearbes saltfiâ—h and flesh hard chéeâ—e c. Now marke well this lesson following for thine vrine Ioh. That shall I gladly reade but softly and I will write thy wordes Humfrey First in vrine foure things marke Thus said Actuarij the good clearke Colour regents and contents therein Substaunce grosse thick or thin A faire light an vrinall pure Then of thy sight thou shalt be sure Colour of bright gold or gilâ—e Is health of liuer heart and milte Red as chery or saffion drie Excesse of meat in him I spie Colour greene or like darke red wine Or â—esembling the liuer of a swyne Is adustion with fiery heate Burning the liuer and stinking sweate Leaddy colour or blacke as inke Death draweth neare as I doe thinke Except the terms which women haue Or purging blacke choller which many do saue Colour grey as horne or cleare water Is lacke of disgestion saith mine
forth Only except aduersitie and extreme misery all prosperous men haue enemies let this suffice and consider what Galen saith that immoderat ireful motions cast the bodie into a cholericke heate wherof commeth feuers and all hot diseases dangerous to the bodie of this writeth Petrus de ebano The passion of the mind called dreade or feare is when the bloud and sprites be drawen inwardly and maketh the outward partes pale and trembling to this be sides pitiful experience Haliabas Galen and Aristotle do witnes the same The suddayne passion of ioy or gladnes is cleane contrary to feare For the hearte sendeth fourth the spirituall bloud which in weake persons the heart can neuer recouer againe but death incontinent as Galen saith and as we may see by experience As in the meeting of men and their wiues Children and their parentes which either by prison or banishment were without all hope euer to sée each other and in ioy of meeting the delating and spreding of the heart bloud haue cast the bodie into sowning And thus my frend Iohn I do conclude vpon certein effections of the mind wishing doctor Diet Quiet and Merie man to helpe when thou shalt néede For mirth is beloued of musicions plesant birdes and fishes as the dolphins What is mirth honestly vsed an image of heauen A great lordship to a poore man preseruer of nature Salomon saith Non est oblectatio super cordis gaudiuÌ„ c. yet I say The irefull man is euer a thrall The ioyfull minde is happiest of all Zeale burne like flames of fire When honest mirth hath his desire Loue well mirth but wrath despise This is the counsell of all the wise Ioh. I would verie faine know the natures of sorts of simples first what is worme wood Hum. A common knowne hearbe it is of diuerse kinds as Ponticum Romanum c. It is hot in the first and drie in the second degrée and it is verie bitter and being dried kéepeth clothes from wormes and mothes and the sirop thereof eaten before wine preserueth men from drunkennesse if it bee sodden in vineger it will helpe the sores that bréedes in the eares being laid warme vpon it is good to be drunke agaynst Appoplexia and Opthalmia Which is a sicknes of the eye is greatly helped with the wormwood if it be stamped and made luke warme with rosewater and laid vpon the eie and couered with a cleane pyked walnut shell the syrop helpeth the bloodie flixe it doeth helpe a colde stomacke if it be drunke ten dayes togither euerie morning two spoonefull of the syrop is good against the dropsie euerie day drunke two ounces fasting and thus saith Auicen figges cocle wormwood nitre stamped togither made in a plaister is good against the disease of the splene and also killeth wormes in the bellie vsed in the foresayde maner one dram of the powder may bee drunke at once in wine it hath manie mo goodly vertues Iohn What is the properties of Annis seedes Hum. It is much like vnto fennell séede and is called Roman fennel that is warme and swéete and hote in the second and drie in the third degrée the new séedes are the best It ingendereth vitall séede openeth the stopping of the reines and matrix being drunke with Tysants or cleane temperate wine Iohn What thinkest thou of Mouseare Hum. An hearb commonly knowne colde and moist in the first degrée as Galen saith the decoction of this hearb soddeÌ„ in water w t suger is good against the falling sickenes beeing oftentimes drunke and put a lease thereof into the nose it will prouoke sternutation or neesing which wonderfully doeth clense the veines Ioh. I woulde faine knowe what is Chiken weede Hum. Almost euery ignorant wontan doth know this hearbe but there bee of diuers kindes they be very good to keepe woundes from impostumations stamped and applied vnto them and draweth corruption out of woundes and sodden with vineger doth draw fleugme out of the head if it bee often warme put into the mouth and spit it out againe In this same maner it helpeth the teeth and sodden in wine and so drunke it will clense the reignes of the backe Ioh. What is Sorrell might I know of thee and the property thereof Hum. Thy Cooke doeth right well knowe it and all they that make greene sauce but the description I leaue to Dioscorides and Leonard Futchius not only in this hearbe but in all other and to tell thee the vertue I will it is colde and drie in the seconde degree it also stoppeth it is like endiue in propertie because it ouercommeth choller and is much commended it helpeth the yellow iaundies if it bee drunke with small wine or ale also quencheth burning feuers to eate of the laaues euery morning in a pestilence time is most holesome if they bee eaten fasting This hearbe doth Dioscorides Galen and Auicen greatly commende besides the great learned men of this time Ioh. What is Planten or Waybreed Hum. The greater Planter is the better it hath seuen great veines it is colde and drie the seede of it drunke with reade wine stoppeth the bloudy flix the rootes sodden and drunke in wine stoppeth the bloudy flix the rootes and leaues beeing sodden with sweete water and with suger or borage water and giuen to him that hath an ague either tertian or quartaine two howres before his fit proue this for thus haue I helped many it is very comfortable for children that haue great flixes agues and is a friend vnto the liuer this hearbe is greatly praised of the Doctours Ioh. What is Camomill and the operation thereof Hum. This hearbe is very hoat it is drunke against colde windes and rawe matter being in the guttes the Egyptians did suppose it would helpe all colde Agues and did consecrate it to the sunne â—s Galen saith Also if it bee tempered and streined into white wine and drunke of wâ—men hauing the childe dead within the body it will cause present deliuerance it doeth mightely clense the bladder and is excellent to be sodden in water to wash the feete the oile is precious as is declared hereafter Ioh. Hoppes be welbeloued of the beere brewers how doe the Phisicions say to them Hum. There bee which doth coole be called Lupilum those that wee haue be hote and drie bitter sower hote saieth olde herbals And Fucchius saith they clense fleugme and choller and the water betweene the skinne and flesh the sirupes will clense grosse rawe fleugme from the guttes and is good against obstructions sodden If the iuice be dropped in the eare it taketh the stinke away of rotten sores the roots wil helpe the liuer and spleene beeing sodden and drunke the beere is very good for fleugmaticke men Io. What is Sage for that I loue wel Hum. There be two kindes of sage they be hearbes of health and therefore they be called Saluia this