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A80034	The poor-mans physician and chyrurgion, containing above three hundred rare and choice receipts, for the cure of all distempers, both inward and outward: together with necessary considerations before purgation; easie rules for the opening of a vein, and the manner of bleeding by horse-leeches, with a method for drawing teeth. All being of great worth, and now published for the publique good: / by Lancelot Coelson student in Physick and Astrology.	Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-ca 1687.	1656 (1656)	Wing C4884; Thomason E1666_2; ESTC R208391	66,632	176

as big as a Walnut and so use it For the Gonorrhea or Running of the Reins FIrst purge the humor with new drawn Cassia one ounce extracted mix therewith two drams of washt Turpentine and one scruple of pulvis athriticus into bole then next day saving one dissolve six drams of Confecti humach in Fumitory-water adding two scruples of pulvis Sanctus and half a dram of Cream tartar mix them and after the body is thus purged use restringing Medicines For a Gunshot if there be a Flux of blood TAke Bolearmoniack one ounce and terra sigalatum one dram and myrrh one dram pulverized fine and a dram of Vitriolum album or white Copras and this will be a stringum powder mix with this the white of egges and make it as it were an ungent and so use it two daies and then undress And then secondly take spirit revini or spirit of wine one ounce and Melle rosarum half an ounce and one dram of Aegyptiacum mix them together and put them into a poringer and heat them hot and dip in a pleget of lint and so lay it to the wound till you see the wound digested or that the wound be cleared and after it is digested use to incarnate or breed flesh Vnguentum Basilicon warm upon a pleget of lint and that is sigitrising of the wound For a Fracture in the Scull or wound in the Head TAke spirit Revinum and Melle rosarum heal and dip a pleget of lint and so lay on the wound but if the perecranium ly bare mix in some mire aloes of each about a scruple among the other medicines or if the wound be on any part of the body use the same intention if the bone lie bare do the same as aforesaid A good Medicine to destroy Heat in the Face or any other place although is be St Anthonies fire TAke a pottle of Smiths water and a handfull of Sage Elder leaves two handfuls or the green bark thereof Allum two pennyworth seeth all these together from a pottle to a pint then take it and put it into a Gallypot and let the Patient when he goes to bed anoint his face therewith and the next morning he will finde ease it will help him five or six daies Headach or Megrim the cure or a good cool water to be used for the Head if it be over hot or for any such distemper TAke Violet leaves red Rose leaves Letice and Willow leaves of each two handfuls and a little Henbane Vinegar white Poppey and a little Mandrake and distill them together in a Stillitory and so keep this water close stopped in a glass untill you have occasion to wash your head An excellent hot water for the Head if it be over-cold or any such distemper TAke Bettony Camomill Rue Savery Pennyroyall Marjerum Origanum Fennell and Elnacampana of each a like quantity and distill them also and use it as the former For a pain in the Head TAke a Rose-cake and cut it fit to lay to your forehead and wet it well in Vinegar and put thereto a good quantity of the powder of Nutmegs and the powder of Cloves and let the same be bound very hard to the temples of the Patient and this will speedily help him Another for the same TAke the juice of Rue and put into the nosthrils of the Patient and it will expell fleam cleanse the brains and mitigate the pain of the head and this hearb sodden in Wine will do the same Another to purge the Head TAke Pellitory of Spain and chew the root thereof in your mouth four or five daies at several times and this will take away the pain of the head and fasten your teeth and gums For winde in the Head TAke a good handfull of the flowers of Camomill and half a handfull of the powder of Cinamon mingle them together and make two little bags of the breadth of your ears and put both the powder and the flowers therein and bind it close to both your ears This Prob. est For Heart-burning TAke five or six corns of good Pepper and bruise them in your mouth and let them go down your throat This will help forthwith Hoarsness the cure TAke three or four Figs and cut them in the middle asunder and then put into every one of them a pritty quantity of Ginger fine beaten to powder and then rost them upon a clean hearth or upon a tilestone and let the Patient eat them as hot as he can endure them This hath cured some which have been troubled with hoarsness four or five years Headach of rheume the cure TAke one Nutmeg Cubebs Piony seed Setwell roots Marjerum Angellica roots of each two drams dry them and powder them fine and make them up with Honey into a mase for Pils take thereof five small ones every morning for fourteen daies For the same Approved TAke four ounces of gray sope and bray therein the whites of two egges and put it in a box and when you have use for it spread it on a cloth double and lay it to the forehead even to the ears dress it so twice a day for five daies you will finde ease at twice dressing Megrime pain or winde in the Head the cure TAke a piece of Methridate as big as a good hazel nut and put it in your mouth and let it there melt without chawing holding your breath as much as you can and as it melts receive it into your stomack This will be present help Another for the same or for any Imposthume or Feaver in the Head TAke the roots of Pellitory of Spain one dram Spicknard half a dram beat them together and boyl them in good Vinegar then let them cool put thereto honey and mustard of each a sawcer full mix them together and let the Patient put half a spoonfull thereof in his mouth and hold it there a while then spit it forth renew it so twelve times when you go to bed drink a little down use it three daies and you will be well Lice or Scabs in childrens Heads the cure TAke red Sage chop it small and boyl it in fresh butter with Pepper powdered when it is so boyled together strain it and keep it for your use A good Medicine for the black Jaundies TAke the Gall of a Raven and dry it well and beat it to powder then take a pritty quantity thereof and temper it either with Ale or Beer and let the Patient drink thereof every morning fasting for six or seven daies together and it will presently help him Prob. est Another for the same TAke of the roots and leaves of Strawberries and eat them every morning fasting for the space of eighteen daies together Prob. est The same made into pottage or broth and taken fasting will do the same either for black or yellow especially for yellow Another for the yellow Jaundies TAke a good handfull of red Nettle crops seeth them well in a pint of Ale and

handfull of the smallest and young leaves scrape off lightly the upper rinde of the sprigs and cast it away then scrape off the second rinde which is green and reserve about a handfull of that which together with the leaves put into a pipkin with the oyl take also a few Plantine leaves and leaves of Sengreen and put them in also and adde also a sixth part of strong white-wine Vineger two or three spoonfuls of Urine about two inches of a cotton candle without the wick let all these boyl together at a soft fire stirring it now and then then strain it through a course linnen cloth and put that which you strain out into the pipkin again and put to it a little yellow wax and let it melt together still stirring it till it come to an ointment or salve which you may keep in a Vial or box when you will use it spread it thin upon a paper or linnen cloth and lay it to the place burned and let it lie twenty four hours if you do apply it in this sort presently upon the scald or burning it will take out the fire and hinder blistering and redness and healeth it in half a quarter of an hour it is also soveraign against the swelling or inflammation of the legs and also for any heat whatsoever Prob. est Doctor Matthias or the Lukatella Oyl or Balsom called Cordius Balsom THe vertues of it are many as followeth 〈◊〉 It is very effectual against the watering of the Lungs taking the quantity of a hazel nut in the morning fasting It is also good to heal a wound inward or outward being searing inwardly and applied to the outward with fine linnen cloth or lint as hot as may be indured It doth draw forth broken bones or any thing which may putrifie or fester if the brain be not touched It is good against burnings scaldings bruises or cuts It taketh away pains or griefs that proceed of moisture as Aches in the bones or sinews first anointing the part grieved and then applying a warm cloth It also helpeth the headach anointing the temples or nosthrils therewith and taking a little quantity inward It is also good against the winde chollick or a stitch in the side applying thereto warm with hot clothes a quarter of an hour It expelleth poyson and helpeth a surfeit by taking one ounce at once four mornings together It helpeth the biting of a mad dog or any other mad beast the quantity of one ounce taken in a little warm Sack It is also good against the Plague anointing the lips and nosthrils in the morning It is also good for a Fistula or Ulcer It is good for one infected with the Plague or smal Pox or Measels presently taken in hot broth a quarter of an ounce four mornings together sweating after it It is good also for worms or a canker It doth help digestion anointing the stomack and navil therewith going to bed It stauncheth the bleeding of fresh wounds laying a Plaister of lint upon the wound and tying it hard on This Balsom will do no good if any thing be applied before or between it to the wound or grief you may keep it twenty years the longer the better Prob. est for all these things The way to make this Balsom Take a pint and half of Sallet-oyl and beat it with one pint of Sack Venice Turpentine one pound beat it in Damask-rose water still pouring it out till the Turpentine look white yellow wax four ounces melt it in a great earthen pot or pipkin and adde to it the former ingredients stirring them altogether till they boyl then take it from the fire put in one ounce of red Sanders then let it boyl one hour then take it off and keep it in a gallypot for your use which you may do by Plaister as well as by fommatation and tents Prob. est for the griefs aforesaid The way to prepare your Sanders is thus Take your quantity of Sanders and make paste thereof with the sharpest wine Vinegar you can get and roul it round and bake it with white bread and let it after stand a while to dry and when it is thorow dry pound it well and searce it for your use Another direction Take your Sack set it on the fire put into it the wax and let them boyl together till the wax is well melted then put into it half your Oyl but let it not boyl after the Oyl is in then take it off and let it cool and when it is cold put from it the Sack and pour in the rest of your ingredients letting them well melt but not boyl then take it off again and as it is cooling put in your red Sanders and put it up into a new vessel which was never used if you have any of the naturea Balsom put some of it therein A special good black Plaister or sear-cloth to lay to any wound or to ease any ach or swelling or to draw out any thorns approved by the Lady Grimstone TAke Sallet oyl and Neatsfoot oyl of each half a pint and put therein half a pound of red lead beaten very smal and as you strew it in a little at once stirre it well then set it on the coals of a soft fire and let it boyl till it look black then put in as much rosin as contains the bigness of an egge beaten smal stirre it well all the time it is boyling let it not boyl too fast least it boyl over drop a little upon a pewter dish and if it rowl off without hanging then it is enough and so may you make plaisters or dip in clothes without fremes for sear-clothes take Sallet-oyl in want of Neats-foot Prob. est Another for a combustion or Burning with Gun-powder TAke out the fire first by linseed-oyl and water beaten together more water then oyl Plantine water is best you may for your use dip in lane or fine Holland clothes Then take of Vnguentum album half an ounce and Vnguentum poppillion and warm them in a porringer and with a feather anoint the combustion then lay on dry clothes upon the combustion And then if any spungy flesh arise Take spirit revinum one ounce and put in seven drops of oleum vitriolum and with a probe armed with lint dip it in the medicine and wash the Ulcer therewith spreading a cloth with Vnguentum album and lay over it and so do till your cure be done A special Remedy for a weak Back TAke a new laid egge and put out al the yeolk and then take as much white amber as will lie on a groat heapt and put it into your egge with Muskedine and drink it in the morning as soon as you can and lie one hour or two after it and if you can sleep and at the two hours or thereabouts and after you have taken it take a draught of candle made with whites of egges and no yeolks A Direction how to make a wholsom mess of Broth

consumed then strain it and put into it one pennyworth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs boyl them altogether a little while beat your Ginger and Nutmegs to fine powder adde thereto also two penny-worth of Treakle four pennyworth of Methridatum and a quarter of a pint of good Angellica water keep this secret as your life If the party be infected take two spoonfuls warm and let him sweat well upon it if not one spoonfull every day is sufficient half in the morning the other at night this never failed any that took it For the Plurisie TAke a fair Pippin cut off the top and take out the core and fill it half full of the powder of Olibanum and then lay on the top again and roast it leisurely upon the embers see it do not burn and when it is enough roasted cut it in four parts with the Olibanum in it and give it to the Patient to eat and it will suddenly cause the Imposthume to break and it will cleanse it To make Oyl of Puppy which is good for any strain or bruise TAke a fat Spannell puppy if you can get one but let it be what puppy it will it must be fat and dress him as you dress a pig then take half a dose of yeolks of egges and two handfuls of Roman nettles cut very small three ounces of Venice Turpentine and three penny-worth of Saffron and beat them altogether and put them into the belly of the Puppy and sow it up and roast it and what droppeth from it save and it will become perfect oyl for the former uses A Poultis that will break a sore in twenty four hours TAke black-berry leaves and Mustard seed and beat them together till it be a Poultis Prob. est A Preparative to take before a Purgation the night before it is taken the dose is one dram in Diaprunis or posset-ale TAke Senna Turbith Diagredii of each three drams Epithimum Galingal of each one dram Salt gem six grains all fine searced and mixed and taken as aforesaid A Purgation which purgeth all aqueous humours TAke Rewbard Turbith Hermodactils Diagredii Senna Agarick Mechoacan Sugar of each two drams Cloves Fennell Ginger Anniseed Mastick of each one dram Saffron and Cinamon of each two scruples searce all these the dose is one dram in Succory water or Posset-ale To make Pils that purge the four humours TAke Mirabolaus and Rewbard of each four drams the juice of Egrimony and Worm-wood of each two ounces Hermodactils Agrick Coloquintida Aloes of each six drams Mastick red Rose leaves Salt gem Epithimum Annis and Ginger of each one dram searce them and mix them and compound them in a mortar with syrup of Roses to a mase for Pils the dose is one dram in five Pils taken in the pap of a roasted apple Pils of excellent vertue to purge all Flegmatick Feavers or Agues TAke Agarick Aloes Acorus Turbith of each one dram Esula half a dram Coloquintida one grain Salt gem Mastick Ginger Wormwood Lettice Raisins mundified Bdellium of each three drams let syrup of Roses be made up with these Pils the dose is two drams more or less according to the strength of the Patient if you adde these following they are good in tertian Agues Rubard two drams Spicknard half a dram Diagredii Mastick of each one dram mix these with those aforesaid the dose is half a dram more or less according to the strength of the Patient and the vehemency of the Feaver A Purgation that cleanseth the head brain and all the body of Melancholly TAke Senna six drams Ginger one ounce Bugloss one dram flowers thereof two drams infuse all in a close stopped ale-bottle of stone with a pint of whey of Goats milk boyl them in Balnea one hour and let it cool when it is boyled warm it in the morning and give it the Patient and it preserveth against all passions of the brain it also helps hearing smelling and seeing and strengtheneth all the body and doth unburthen the body of all humours that abound as choller fleam and melancholly this was the practice of Mathiolus Riolanus and Achaius For the Palsie TAke Rosemary Sage Herbmandlin of each a handfull Camomil-flowers three handfuls and with Sallet-oyl make oyl thereof as you make oyl of Roses and anoint the grieved parts therewith Purgations with Senna TAke Senna in some quantity with some Ginger in your broath for the pain of the head four drams may be given to children and to women with childe An Vnguent for the Piles BOyl in fresh butter Pilewort and Elder leaves or buds till it be a Salve make it yellow with Saffron and use it An excellent healing and cooling Plaister TAke Wax and Deer suet of each four ounces Lapis Caluminaris two ounces May butter two ounces Camphire one dram Oyl of Roses eight ounces mix them and melt them together and make your liquid Plaister A Plaister of Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline all green which cureth green wounds and old ulcers TAke Linseed oyl one pint Adders-tongue and sweet Maudline both green in May and June of each three handfuls strip forth their stalks and bruise them then boyl them in the Oyl adde thereto white-wine let them all boyl till the herbs be very soft then strain them out and put the liquor to the fire again adde thereto Rosin and Wax bruised eight ounces boyl them till all be melted still stirring it then take it off presently mix therewith Venice Turpentine six ounces liquid Storax one ounce and so it is made A gentle Purge for Melancholly and to comfort the spirits TAke the juice of old Pippins and Burradge water of each as much as will make a draught heat it seething hot then infuse therein all night Senna four drams Manna and syrup of Roses of each one ounce Anniseed bruised four drams next morning strain it and drink it warm For the Rickets a disease common to Children TAke Egremony Scabions Coltsfoot Charnill Tamaris of each one handfull one pennyworth of Maidenhair a smal handfull of unset Hysop six tops of Spermint six leaves of Harts-tongue a little Liverwort and opening roots as Fennell Parsley Succory Spergrace scrape them clean and take the pith out of them sprinkle them with wine Vinegar when you have so done slice them and about half an hour after put them to the rest of the herbs and adde licorish half an ounce Anniseed a quarter of an ounce Raisins of the sun stoned and Currants and Figs of each two ounces boyl all these in a pottle of running water untill it come to a quart and let the childe drink thereof twice a day morning and evening constant and for a time at four a clock in the afternoon if the child be hot you may boyl in it two ounces of French barley A Beer for the same TAke Tamaris two handfuls Brooklime and Scurvy-grass and Watercresses of each four handfuls Egrimony Scabions Bettony of the