rheumatick humours flowing from the brain and hinders sweating It doth strengthen a weak and languishing stomack taketh away putrefaction dryeth up humidity and expelleth winde By reason of its bitternesse it killeth wormes and is put into divers cordials and Antidotes It helpeth also the cold diseases of the wombe The extract thereof is good for the fore-mentioned diseases The manner of administring it It is used chiefly in powder and electuaries A powder against a moist and cold brain Take of lignum Aloës in powder a dram of pure Sugar six drams mix them well together and take thereof every morning as much as will lie on six pence dry or in broth An Electuary for the same Take of wood Aloës in powder two scruples species Aromaticum rosatum a dram conserve of Betony conserve of Rosemary of each an ounce and a half spirit of Marjoram two or three drops make an Electuary and take morning and evening thereof as much as a small Nut. The externall use It is used outwardly in fumigations to dry up rheume and in quilts for the same purpose A fumigation thereof say some provoketh the flowers in women The hurtfull quality It must not be given to hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose is from ten grains to twenty or thirty Medicines made thereof Extract thereof Species Diaxylaloës CHAP. 44. De Manna of Manna MAnna is a condensed dew falling from the aire somewhat like carv'd Honey but in small grains like Mastaick Some will have it to be a kinde of Gum-issuing from trees but the former is more probable The Names It is called in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man quasi praeparatus cibus from the Hebrew root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Manah paravit constituit for it was food prepared by God for the Israelites or Manna may come from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mah quid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Na quaeso What is it quia nesciebant quid esset For when that dew fell about their tents every one asked each other what it was In Caldee 't is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Manna in Syriac 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Arabic 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alman in Persian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tarnagabin in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aërium mel The Septuagint translate it according to the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Man Exodus 16.31 33. but in the New Testament 't is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 John 6.31 Heb. 9.4 In Latine Manna Mel aërium Mel roris seu roscidum Mel sylvestre Manna purgatoria It is called also Tereniabin Thereniabin Trungibin Teringibil in English Manna The Temperament Manna is hot and moist in the first degree The kindes There are three kindes of Manna First that which is found on leaves and is called Manna de folio this is most perfect and good Secondly that which is gathered from bouâ—hs and trunks of trees and is called Manna ligni vel trunci but is not so good as the former Thirdly that which falls on the earth or on stones and sticks and is called Manna terrae Or Manna is of two sorts one called Manna liquida which is liquid and thin like some kinde of Honey the other is called Tereniabin which is Manna coagulated and is hard being in greater or lesser pieces Ant. Musa exam suc praedent f. 341. Tragos aromat fruct c. histor f. 108. The best kinde The best is that which is white grained like Mastick being sweet and pleasant in taste The best is called Manna Calabrensis How Manna is adulterated Manna is adulterated with Sugar-pellets and the green leaves of Sene rolled up with them or with Amylum Sene c. but this deceit is soon discerned by the taste See Levinus Lemnius herb bibl explicat cap. 3. f. 12. The duration It will keep good a yeer The time of gathering Manna Manna is gathered in Aprill and May. The inward use Manna purgeth choler gently and hot humours therefore it is profitable in burning Fevers and Phrensies it lenifieth the hoarsness of the throat quencheth thirst and easeth the cough and is convenient in the Pleurisie and inflammation of the lungs It may be given to such as are troubled with the stopping of their urine and to such as have weak Kidneys and also to such as have Ulcers therein Women with childe and children may safely take it The manner of administring it It is given in Potions A Potion Take of Manna two ounces or two ounces and a half dissolve it in four ounces of clean broth or posset-drink strain it and give it Or Take of Manna two ounces Pulpe of Tamarinds one ounce and a half dissolve first the Manna in foure ounces of Posset-drink and then the Tamarids make a Potion A Bole Take of Manna half an ounce of Cassia newly drawn one ounce with Sugar make a Bole. Tabulates or Cakes Take of Manna one ounce Cream of Tartar in powder a dram make Tabulates or Cakes thereof and give them as need requireth Schroder Pharm med Chym l. 4. f. 249. Against the Collick Take an ounce of Manna and two ounces of the Oile of sweet Almonds dissolve the Manna in the Oile and give it Note that Manna is not to be boiled for then it doth more hurt then good but only dissolved and so strained through a clean cloth casting the drosse away The hurtfull quality Manna doth not profit in intermittent Feavers nor is it safe to give it in cold diseases for in such it will more hurt then help The Dose The Dose is in children from three drams to an ounce For persons of yeers the Dose is from an ounce and a halfe to two ounces or three ounces Here note that these Doses are to be given only in broth or posset-drink for if it be given in the infusion of Sene or such like then the Dose is to be lesse These Medicines are made of Manna Electuary Diacassia with Manna Electuary Lenitive of Manna Vide Spirit of Manna Schroder Pharm Med. Chym. l 4. f. 249. Water of Manna Syrup of Manna Vide Tretag aur Med. f. 423. VVhether Manna be more convenient in hot or in cold diseases Heurnius Massaria Platearius Sennertus and some others deny the use of Manna in hot burning fevers and commend the use of it in cold diseases and in old persons now the reason they forbid the use of Manna in burning fevers is from a place in Galon de aliment facult l. 1. c. â—8 f. 120. and de sanit tuend l. 4. where he saith that Honey and all sweet things are not convenient in hot diseases and hot seasons because they are apt to turne into choler But others do approve of Manna in burning fevers and daily experience doth witnesse how usefull it is in hot diseases For my owne part I have known the use of it above twenty yeares in Frensies burning fevers c. and that with good
hurtfull to the stomach and liver that is hot as also bringeth gripings weakneth the body let them be given with Anise-seed Carraway-seed Cynamon Mace c. Wal-wort is not to be given but to such as have strong bodies The dose The juice of the leaves or rinde is given from halfe an ounce to an ounce or two ounces The juice of the berries from two drams to six drams The seeds from halfe a dram to a dram The distilled water from two ounces to four ounces The powder of the bark or rinde from halfe a dram to a dram Of such things as are made of them From the flowers of Elder are made these following The distilled water both of the flowers and leaves Spirit of Elder-flowers Wine of Elder-flowers Syrupus acetosus Sambucinus Honey of Elder Conserve of Elder Oile both by infusion and distillation From the berries Rob-Sambuci or Pulp of the berries Tincture Extract Wine Spirit water distilled Oile From the tender branches Conserve From the leaves middle rinde roots and Jewes-eares Distilled water Syrup Oile From Dane-wort are made the distilled water the spirit from the flowers Rob-Ebuli or the pulp of the berries Tincture or essence CHAP. 57. De Santalis of Sanders THese are woods that are brought to us from the Indies The names and kindes There are three sorts of Sanders white red and yellow The white is called in Latine Santalum and Sandalum album the red Santalum rubrum the yellow Santalum citrinum or flavum Difference betweene Brasill-wood and red Sanders They differ thus 1 They grow farre one from the other 2 Sanders is neither sweet in taste nor giveth any dye as the Brasil doth 3 Red-Sanders is more ponderous and weighty then Brasil and vvill sink in vvater 4 It is a harder and shorter grained vvood and more brittle in breaking short The temperament They are cold and dry in the second or third degree Some say they are hot the red is more cooling and binding The yellow is the best the next is the vvhite the red is least of use The duration They vvill keep good three or foure yeares or longer The inward use They are Cephalicall Hepaticall and Cardiacall that is good for the Head Liver and Heart to open the obstructions of the Liver and to coole the heat thereof and to ease the paine of the head especially the white and the yellovv They are good for faintings of the heart and paâ—pitation o beating thereof also for weak and faint stomackes which comes through heat good against melancholy and procureth mirth and alacrity They are used to stay and binde the spermaticall flux in men and women for which purpose either the powder taken in a reare Egge or mixed with other things for the purpose or steeped in red Wine and kept in a hot Balneo or in hot Embers close stopped all night and strained forth and drunk in the morning and evening both stay the Gonorrhea or running of the Reines in men and the whites in women They are good in hot diseases as in burning Fevers inflammations of the Liver and such like The Indians saith Gerarde do use the decoction made in water against hot burning Agues and the overflowing of the courses Erisipelas the Gowt and all inflammations especially if it be mixed with the juice of Night-shade House-leek or Purslane They are put in Collises and Jellies and all delicate meats which are good to strengthen and revive the spirits The red Sanders have an astrictive and strengthning faculty but are not cordiall as the other two they are used in divers Medicines and meats both for their faculty and pleasing red colour which they give to them as in savvces Pies c. The red is often used to stay defluxions of thin rheume from the head and to coole hot inflammations hot Gowts and to temper the heat of hot Agues The manner of administring them They are given in Powder Electuary and Pils A powder against the Pestilence Take of the three Sanders of each two drams Cloves and Cynamon of each a dram Harts-horn two drams make them into a fine powder and take thereof morning and evening half a dram in Carduus-Water An Electuary against the Whites in Women Take of old Conserve of Red-Roses four ounces White and Red Sanders in powder a dram and a half with syrup of Water-lillies make an Electuary and take of it morning and evening as much as a Nutmeg The outward use It is used outwardly in Catarrhes or Rheumes pains of the head against vomiting and in Epithemes and Fomentations against the intemperate heat of the Liver They are used against the Gowt and hot inflammations with the juice of Purslane and Plantain or Housleek Applied with Rose-water to the temples it giveth ease to the head-ach and keepeth back the flowing of humours to the eyes Being applyed to the breasts of Maids or Women mixed with the juice of Purslane abateth their greatnesse and hindereth their over-much growing The Dose The Dose is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Sanders Extractum gummosum Species Diatrion santalon Trosses of Sanders Ointment of Sanders Cerote of Sanders CHAP. 58. De Sarcocolla of Sarcocoll SArcocolla is a Gum of a plant growing in Persia bitter in taste and in very small pieces and powder like the small pieces of Frankincense and little bigger then Poppy-seed The names In Latine Sarcocolla in English Sarcocoll The temperament It is hot and dry in the first degree or hot in the second degree and dry almost in the same The best kinde The best is that which is new inclining to white for being old it waxeth reddish or of a pale colour bitter in taste of a porous substance viscous and easie to be dissolved in water The duration It will keep good five or six yeers The inward use It purgeth flegme both crude and tough chiefly from the brain eyes nerves joynts breast and lungs therefore it profits and avails in coughs and shortnesse of breath especially in old persons that are flegmatick also in all pains of the joynts It is thought by some to fatten the body and to increase sperm or seed The manner of administring it It is given in powder or in pils The externall use It is used outwardly against inflammations of the eyes with milk and the white of an Egg and to stay Rheumes and Catarrhes Defluxions and Rednesse thereof also against all spots in the Eyes It cleanseth corrupt Ulcers and incarnateth or breedeth good flesh also closeth up Wounds and Ulcers A fume made thereof is profitable aganist Tenesmus a disease when one is often provoked to go to stool Being mixed with Saffron and Honey it heals Scrophulaes or hard swellings called the Kings Evill in the neck after they are sufficiently drawn It is used against bleeding of the Nose or to stay the bleeding of Wounds and healeth Ulcers in the Eares being mixed with Hydromel or Water and Honey and instilled therein A powder for
a singular remedy for a stinking breath It doth conduce much to women to help Conception especially by removing obstructions or stoppings from the uterine parts The manner of administring it It is given in Powder in Pils in electuary and Trosses though it be rarely given alone by reason of its bitternesse To hasten the birth Take of Myrrhe in powder two scruples Give it in a little Posset-drink or make foure or five Pils thereof with a little Honey and give them drinking a draught of posset-drink after them The outward use It healeth wounds of the head and helpeth to cover bones that are bare and incarneth good flesh in deep wounds It helpeth a stinking breath if the mouth be washed with the decoction thereof and helpeth rotten gums and fastneth loose teeth being dissolved in wine and washed therewith it cleanseth also the filthinesse of the Eares Being used with Ladanum and Wine of Myrtles it stayeth the falling or shedding of the haire it helpeth watering eyes and taketh away the skin that beginneth to grow therein and darken the sight and helpeth ulcers of the eyes It is commended to beautifie the face and to make it smooth and youthfull to be made into an oile or rather liquour of Myrrhe which is made with Eggs boiled hard cut in the middle the yolkes taken forth and filled up with the powder of Myrrhe then put into a Glasse and set in a Wine-seller or moist place and with this liquor to wash the face A fumigation hereof comforts the braine and dryeth up superfluous humours It openeth and mollifieth the hardnesse of the matrix and a fumigation thereof helpeth conception and it bringeth downe the courses if a Pessarie be made thereof and used It doth facilitate or hasten the birth being used to the genitals or privities with oile of white Lillies Being used with Vineger it helpeth Tetters and Ring-wormes and freckles or used with Cassia and Honey it helpeth the Gangrene and wilde fire the stinking or chafing of the arme-holes used with oile of â—ox it doth extend and mollifie the nerves that are stiffe with cold It helpes Tenasmus or a desire often to go to stoole from a cold cause A Powder for wounds in the head Take of myrrhe half an ounce of Madder-seed of Cypresse-root of Orris-root of Sarcocole of each three drams make a powder and us it as need requireth The hurtfull quality It must not be given to women with childe for it causeth them to miscarry nor to such as have very hot and dry bodies The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such things as are made of Myrrhe Trosses of Myrrhe Myrrhe depurated or cleansed Extract of Myrrhe Oile of Myrrhe CHAP. 49. De Opio of Opium OPium is the juice of black Poppie-heads being cut after they are full ripe Meconium is the juice of the heads and leaves of white or black Poppy pressed forth The names It is called in Latine Opium and in English also The Temperament Most of the Ancient writers say Opium is cold in the fourth degree others will have it partly cold and partly hot but some of the new Writers will have it to be altogether hot as Sennertus Doringius Schroderus c. Now the reasons given that it is hot are these 1. Because it is bitter now that which is bitter is hot but Opium is bitter therefore hot 2. It is sharp and biting that being put upon the tongue it bites and blisters the same and palate 3. Causeth drynesse 4. It is of a very strong smell and savour 5. It doth soone burne and flame being set on fire for the true Opium saith Plinie will burne like a Candle From whence we reason thus Omne quod citò inflammatur est calidum Opium citò inflammatur Ergo calidum That which doth soon burne and flame is hot but Opium doth soone burne and fleme therefore it is hot 6. It troubleth the minde and brings a kinde of madnesse or dotage to such as take it 7. It stirs up and provokes Venery 8. It stirs up and provokes the Itch. 9. It provokes sweat 10. It softneth hardnesse and discusseth or dissolveth swellings all which are effects of heat Now though Opium be narcoticall or stupefactive or make dull and senselesse yet this doth not proceed from its frigidity or coldnesse but this it doth by an occult or hidden quality They that desire to know more concerning the nature of Opium let them read that excellent Tract of Doringius de Opio printed 1620 and Freitagius de Opio Med. Opiat printed 1632. Also Sennertus Paralipomena fol. 347 printed 1644 and Mercurialis de morb venenosis venenis lib. 2. cap. 7. fol 59 60 61. printed 1624. The best Opium The best is that which is heavy not too thick in substance nor too thin in colour like Aloes very bitter in taste and burning of a stinking smell soporiferous like Poppie if dissolved it be yellow like Saffron 't is adulterate for it ought to be of a brownish yellowness colour being dissolved The best is called Opium Thebaicum because it comes from Thebes I much question whether we have the true Opium of the Ancient for that which we use is either adulterate or meconium It is adulterated with Glaucium which is the juice of an herb with leaves like to horned Poppy The Duration It may be kept good many years some say nine or ten years others say twenty years The inward use Opium is given to provoke sleep to ease the paine of the Iliack and Collick as also to mitigate the paine of the stone in the bladder or kidneys and to ease pain of the Gowt It cooleth inflammations agues or frensies and stayeth defluxions which cause a cough or consumption It is given in great paines of the head and to stop fluxes of the belly and womens courses It is put into Mithridate Treacle and other medicines that procure rest and ease paine The manner of administring it It is given in Pils Potions Boles Electuaries c. An Electuary against fits of the mother and paines of the wombe either with an ulcer or without an ulcer Take of the species Diamoschu amari and Diambra of each two drams Castor in powder a scruple Opium halfe a dram with syrup of Mugwort make an Electuary The dose is a dram The outward use It is used outwardly to ease the paine of the Gowt or any other paine to cause sleep and to cool inflammations being put into a hollow tooth it easeth the paine thereof Some commend it in medicines for the eares and eyes but I think it rather dulleth the sight then otherwise An oyntment to cause sleep Take of Vnguentum Populeum one ounce powder of Mandrake-root or leaves a scruple oile of Nutmeg by expression a dram oile of Violets halfe an ounce Opium a scruple make an ointment and at night anoint the temples therewith Against the Tooth-ach Take Pellitory of Spain a dram and a halfe Henbane-seed a
or in Decoction as in the Chapter of Mugwort The outward use The greene herbe bruised and applyed is good against hot swellings as Wilde-fire Plague-sores Botches and it is good also to be laid upon the bitings of mad Dogs Serpents Spiders Bees or Wasps or any other venemous creature The powder stoppeth blood at the nose being applyed The juyce thereof cleareth the sight being put in and taketh away the rednesse thereof so doth the water Being bruised with a little Hogs grease and a little wheate flower mixed therewith It cures stubborne and rebellious Ulcers if it be applyed thereto It is used against the Gangreene also The Dose It is given in powder from halfe a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof Carduus water Spirit Extract Syrupe Oyle and Conserve CHAP. 91. De Caryophyllis of Cloves The Names THey are called in Latine Caryophylli and Garyophylli in English Cloves The Temperament They are hot and dry in the second or third degree The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward use Cloves comfort the Head Heart Stomach and Liver help the Memory the eye sight and concoction and strengthen nature they break winde provoke urine and if halfe a dram thereof be taken in milke they stir up Venery or bodily Lust They are good against fainting sounding as also against the Plague and any infectious Disease against all Fluxes of the belly proceeding of cold humours strengthen the retentive faculty and make the breath sweet they stay also vomiting They are much used in the Kitchin both for sauces and sticking of meate The chymicall Oyle of Cloves is good in a Quartaine Ague in long weaknesse and debility of the Stomach for it doth take away crudity and expell winde in Fluxes of the belly and very usefull for the aforesaid Diseases if two or three drops be given in beere or wine The manner of Administring it It is given in powder and in Electuary The outward use Cloves in powder being put into the Eyes taketh away the web therein and cleareth the sight so doth the chymicall Oyle and also cleanseth filthy Ulcers especially such as are moist being put therein A few drops thereof put into a hollow Tooth that aketh with a little Lint doth ease the paine thereof They are used in sweet powders and sweet waters c. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull for young people and cholerick complexions they are profitable for old persons and phlegmatick and such as are rheumetick and that in the winter season The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Oyle of Cloves Extract Salt Aromaticum Caryophyllatum CHAP. 92. De Castorio Of Castor The Names IT is called in Latine Castorium and Castoreum in English Castor and Bever-cod The temperament It is hot in the third degree and dry in the second The duration It will keepe good two or three years The inward Vse It openeth discusseth winde strengthneth the Head and Nervous parts quickneth the animall spirits resisteth poyson and provoketh the Courses in Women It is most excellent in the Lethargy Apoplexy Falling Sickness Palsy Swimming of the Head in trembling of the joynts and in defluxions of the humours to the joynts in fits of the Mother and in the Collick It helps to bring away the birth and after-Birth The spirit of Castor is good for the aforesaid Diseases The manner of Administring it It is given in powder or Electuary The outward use Being smelt to it availes in the fits of the Mother and put up into the Nostrills it provokes sneesing and helps the cold effects thereof If a piece bee put into a hollow aking Tooth it easeth the paine thereof and helpeth deafnesse or Noyse in the Eares comming from colde being mixed with a little Oyle of bitter Almonds and put therein Oyle of Castor helpes all cold effects of the Braines and Nerves as the Palsie Cramps Convulsions Lethargy and such like It prevents the strong shaking of Agues if the spine of the backe be therewith anoynted before the fit come A Pessary to provoke the Courses Take of Castor in powder halfe a dram Sage in powder two drams Myrrhe and Nigella Seede in powder of each three drams with the juyce of Mercury or a little Hony make a Pessary The hurtfull quality It must not be used to very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is given from halfe a scruple to a scruple Of such Medicines as are made thereof Spirit of Castor Oyle by Distillation Extract Electuary of Castor CHAP. 93. De Centaurio of Centory The Names and Kindes THere are two sorts of Centory chiefly in use the great and the small the great is called in Latine Centaurium magnum and Centaurium majus vulgare in English great Centory the small is called Centaurium parvum and Centaurium minus in English small Centory little or common Centaury The Temperament The great Centory is hot and dry in the third degree the lesser is hot and dry in the second degree and very bitter The Duration They will keepe good a yeare The inward use The lesser Centory purgeth Flegme and Choller and provokes sweate It is usefull in the Sciatica in Agues for it openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleene helping the Jaundies and easing the paines in the side making thin both the bloud and humours by the cleansing and bitter qualities therein it helpeth those that have the Dropsy or Greenesicknesse It killeth Wormes and dryeth up rheumes A Decoction thereof also is good against the Collick and to bring downe Womens Courses helpeth to avoid the dead Birth and easeth the paines of the Mother and is very effectuall in all paines of the joynts as the Gout Cramp or Convulsions A dram of the powder taken in Wine is a good helpe against the biting or poyson of Adder or Viper The tops of the stalkes with the flowers are most in use The great Centory roots being steeped in VVine or the powder thereof given in VVine is good for such as have the Dropsy or Jaundes or are troubled with the stoppings of the Liver two drams of the root in powder taken in VVine or water helpeth those that spit Bloud or that bleed much at the mouth It is also used for Ruptures Cramps and Pleurises and for an old Cough shortnesse of Breath Gripings in the belly and paines of the Mother It helpeth the Strangury and Stone The manner of Administring them They are given in Decoction or in powder The outward use The Juyce of the lesser Centory mixed with a little Hony is good to cleare the Eyes from dimnesse mistes or cloudes that hinder the sight and is singular good for greene or fresh wounds and also for old Vlcers and Sores to close up the one and clense the other and perfectly to cure them both although they be Fistulous and Hollow the greene herbe especially being bruised and laid to the Decoction dropped into the Eares
likewise coole the Liver and blood and asswage all inflamations in the reines and bladder provoketh urine and allaieth the heate and sharpnesse thereof the same also stayeth the bloudy Flux and womens courses and helpeth the swelling of the Spleene The water of the Berries carefully distilled is good in the panting or beating of the heart and good for the overflowing of the Gall the yellow Jandâ—es The manner of Administring them The Leaves and Roots are used in Decoctions The outward Vse The juyce dropped in to foule Ulcers or they washed therewith or with the decoction of the herbe and root doth wonderfully clense them and helpe to cure them the Leaves are good to be put into Lotions that are made for soâ—â—outhes or Ulceers therin or in the privy parts or elsewhere and also to fasten loose Teeth and to heale foule gums and to stay flowing of rheume into the Mouth Throat Teeth or Eyes the juyce or water is excellent for hot and red Eyes beeing dropped therein and also for all wheales or other eruptions or hot and sharp humours into the Face or Hands or other parts of the body to bath them therewith and taketh away rednesse in the Face and spots or other deformities of the skin The hurtfull quality Strawberries are hurtfull to cold watery and flegmatick stomacks and too many eaten soon putrify in the stomach Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water or the Leaves and fruit Syrupe Spirit and Tincture of Strawberries CHAP. 108. De Glycyrrhiza of Licoris The Names IT is called in Latine Glycyrrhiza Glyzirrhiza Liquiritia and Dulcis radix in English Licoris and Licorice The temperament It is temperate in heate and moisture The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward Vse Licoris is good against the roughnesse and hoarsnesse of the throat and is helpefull for Ulcers in the bladder and by its moisture it quencheth thirst and is excellent for any dry cough to digest flâ—gme and to cause it to be easily spit up to helpe shortnesse of breath and all other griefes of the Breast and Lungs the Tiffick or Consumptions caused by the distillations of Salt humours on them it is good also in paines of the Raines Strangury heat of the Urine especially boyled with Maidenhaire and Figs. The juyce of Licoris is as effectuall in all the Diseases of the Breast and Lungs the Reines and bladder as the decoction The manner of Administring it It is given in powder in juyce and in Decoction The outward use The fine powder of Licoris blowne through a quill into the Eyes that have a Pin and Wed or rheumatick distillations into them doth cleanse them and help them The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof Juyce of Licoris Syrup of Licoris CHAP. 109. De Gramine of Grasse The Names IT is called in Latine Gramen in Enlish Grasse The temperament The roots are moderately colde and dry a little biting and of thin parts the herbe cold in the first degree The inward Vse The Medow Grasse and couch Grasse or quick Grasse are most in use and open obstructions or stoppings of the Liver and Gall and the stoppings of the Urine being boyled in white Wine and to ease the gripings of the Belly and inflammations and wasteth the matter of the Stone in the Bladder and the Ulcers thereof the seede doth more powerfully expell Urine and stayeth the laske and casting or vomiting The distilled water or the Decoction alone being taken killeth Wormes in Children especially if some Worme-seede be added to it The juyce of the whole plant being taken helpeth spitting of Bloud The manner of Administring it The rootes and seeds are given in Decoction The outward use The rootes bruised and applied healeth wounds that are fresh or greene and ease paines of the head as also in inflammations and defluxions of the Eyes Of those things that are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 110. De Guajaco of Guajacum or Pockwood The Names IT is called in Latine Guajacum Lignum Indicum Lignum Sanctum and Lignumâ—vitae in English Pockwood and Indiall Pockwood The temperament It is hot and dry in the second degree and hath a cleansing faculty The Duration It will keepe good many yeares The inward use The chiefe use of this Wood is against the French Disease for it provoketh Sweate resisteth contagion and putrifaction and cleanseth the Bloud It is good also in the Dropsy Falling Sicknesse Shortnesse of breath in Catarrhes Rheumes and cold distillations of the Lungs or other parts Coughes and Consumptions the Gout and all other joyntaches and for cold flegmatick humours for the Diseases of the Bladder and Reines and for all long and lingring Diseases proceeding from cold and moist causes it openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleene warmes and comforts the stomack and entralls and is good in Scabs Itch c. The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction of Lignum vitae Take of Lignum Vitae or Pock-wood a pound of the barke thereof two Ounces steepe them in twelve or fourteene Pints of spring water foure and twenty houres then boyle them to seven or eight pints straine it and give thereof a good draught morning and Evening and let the party sweate upon it If you adde two Ounces of Licoris or more and some Anisseede it will be much more pleasant to take The barke may be given in powder from half a dram to a dram The outward use The decoction thereof doth make the Teeth white and firme being washed therewith The hurtfull quality It must not be used in hot and dry Bodies too frequently Of such Medicines as are made thereof Extract Chymicall Oyle Spirit and Salt of Guajacum CHAP. 111. De Hedera of Ivy. The Names IT is called in Latine Hedera and Hedera arborea in English Ivy. The temperament Ivy is of diverse qualities some sharpe and hot and some moist others cold dry and astringent The inward Vse A dram of the flowers drunke twice a day in red VVine helpeth the Laske and bloody Flix The yellow berries are good against the Jandise and to keepe from Drunkennesse and helpeth those that spit bloud the white berries being taken killeth wormes The juyce of the root is good to be taken against the biting of the Phalangium or deadly Spider the berries are held by many to be good against the Plague or Pestilence being made in powder and taken in wine they being taken in wine doe helpe to break the Stone provoke Urine and VVomens courses and brings away the birth and afterbirth The manner of Administring it The berries and flowers are given in decoction or in powder The outward Vse A Bath made of the Leaves and Berries doth bring down the Courses and bring away the dead birth and afterbirth being set in or a Pessary made and used doth the like but this must be done onely upon necessity
thereof being burnt maketh the Teeth white being rubbled therewith It is of excellent use to kill the Itch Scab Morphew or any foule Diseases of the Skinne if it bee mixed with Fullers Earth and Vineger and the Skin anoynted therewith A Lotion for Tetters or Ringwormes Take of Nitre three Drams of common Salt a Dram of the distilled water of Dockes foure Ounces Vineger of Squills one Ounce dissolve and mixe them together moisten a Cloath or Sponge therein being warme and rub the places affected Or against the Itch dissolve Niter and Alume with distilled Vineger or with Water of Scabions and therewith wash and rub the places affected The hurtfull quality Where the Body is loose it must not bee given in any great quantity The Dose The Dose is from a Dram to a Dram and an half Medicines made thereof Spirit of Nitre Tincture of Nitre c. CHAP. 132. De Nuce Moscata Maci. Of Nutmeg and Mace The names and temperament THe Nutmeg is called in Latine Nux moschata and Nux myristica in English Nutmeg The Mace is called in Latine Macis in English Mace They are hot and dry in the second degree and somewhat astringent The best kinde The best Nutmegs are the heaviest fastest and such as are fullest of juyce which being pricked with a pin or needle yeeldeth an oyly juyce The largest Mace is the best The Duration They will keepe good many yeares The inward Vse The Nutmegs are used in all cold Diseases of the Head for Palsies shrinking of Sinewes and the Diseases of the Mother they stay the Laske cause a sweete breath expell winde in the stomack or belly helpe to quicken the sight stay vomiting comfort the spirits and strengthen the stomack They are profitable for the Liver and Spleen cause such as are leane to grow fat help venery and increase sperme they helpe to procure sleepe being applied to the Temples Being mixed with Venice Terpintine washed and taken it helpeth the running of the Reines They provoke Urine say some The Nutmeg being greene is preserved in the Indies and brought over the which is not so hot and dry as our dry Nutmegs and therefore very comfortable for the Head and Stomack eaten Morning and Evening or after meales Mace hath the same property but somewhat more warming and comforting and is good against Vomiting Fluxes and Spitting of bloud The chymicall Oyle of either is excellent for the cold Diseases of the Head and Stomack but must be cautelously and sparingly used The manner of Administring them They are given in powder Electuary c. The outward Vse They are used outwardly to stop fluxes to stay vomiting and to make the breath sweet The thick Oyle that is drawn both from Mace and Nutmegs are good for the Cough vomiting to warme a cold stomack and to dry up Rheume and cold raw humours therein A Cap or Quilt against the paine of the Head arising from superfluous moisture Take Galingall Calamus Odoratus and Cyperus Root of each three Drams Nutmeg and Cloves of each two Drams Betony and Marjerome of each an Ounce Rosemary-Flowers and Stoechados of each half an Ounce Powder them and make a Cap. The hurtfull quality They are hurtfull to hot and dry Bodies and to melancholy persons The Dose The Dose is from a Scruple to two Scruples Of those Medicines that are made thereof Oyle chymicall and oyle by expression of either Salt of Nutmegs Balsome of Nutmegs and Mace Nimphaea see the 69. Chapter CHAP. 133. De Ocimo of Bassill The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ocimum and Basilicum in English Basill and Bassill It is hot in the second degree The Duration It will keepe good a yeare The inward use It is good for those that are short winded provoketh Urine and the Termes in Women and brings a speedy deliverance to them in travile The seeds are used to helpe the trembling of the Heart and to comfort the same as also to expell melancholy or sadnesse A Decoction of the herbe made and taken is good against poyson and the sting of Scorpions and helpfull for those that are given to swownings and it provokes venery or lust The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in powder The outward Vse Used with Oyle of Roses or Mirtles and Vineger it is good against the paines of the Head and it is pofitably applied to those that are troubled with the Lethargy the Jandise and Dropsey It is good to be put into the Eares of young Children with a little Goose-Grease to helpe them of paines thereof the juyce or seede bruised put into the Nostrills procureth neesing Mixed with Honey and used it taketh away the spots in the Face The juyce put into the Eyes taketh away the dimnesse thereof and drieth up humours that fall into them Hollerius relates of a certaine Italian that by often smelling to Basil had a Scorpion bred in his Braine who after vehement and long paines Died thereof Hollerius Lib. 1. Cap. 1. Fol. 3. The hurtfull quality It dulleth the sight troubleth a weake braine and causetth headache The Dose It is given from a Scruple to thirty or forty graines Medicines made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 134. De Nymphaea of Water Lilly The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Nymphaea and Nenuphar in English Water-Lilly The Leaves and Flowers are cold and moist but the root and seed cold and dry The duration The dryed Flowers will keepe a yeare The inward use The Flowers boyled and taken coole inflammations and all inward heats of Agues The Seedes and Rootes are effectuall to stay Fluxes of Bloud and Seede both in Man and Woman as also the running of the Reines and the involuntary passage of Sperme in sleepe and is so powerfull that the frequent use thereof extinguisheth lustfull or venerious actions the Roote likewise is very good for those whose Urine is hot and sharpe to be boyled in Wine or Water and the Decoction drunke The Syrupe of VVater Lilly or Conserve helpeth much to procure rest and to settle the Braines of Franticke Persons for it wonderfully helpeth the distemperature of the Head arising from heate The distilled VVater of the flowers is effectuall for the Diseases aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction The outward Vse The Leaves and Flowers are used in Lotions and Bathes against Heate and Inflammations as in the Frensey and Feavers The greene Leaves bruised and applied to the Back helpeth the running of the Reines The Distilled VVater used taketh away Freckles Spots Sunne-burning and Morphew from the Skin in the Face or any other part of the Body The Oyle made of the flowers as oyle of Roses is made doth coole hot tumours and the inflamations of Ulcers and wounds ease the paines and help to heale the sores Of Medicines made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound Conserve Oyle and oyntment CHAP. 135. De Olibano of Olibanum The Names
halfe a pint of Posset-drink till about halfe be consumed strain it and give the clearest in a morning against the Diseases forementioned The outward Vse Being used in Fumigations it dryeth up Rheumes and stayeth Womens Fluxes or the bleeding of Wounds the fibres or fungous substance of the root doth wonderfully stop the bleeding of Wounds or bleeding of the Nose A decoction thereof helpeth sore mouths and inflamations of the Almonds and Throat if they be washed therewith the decoction of the roots in water whereunto some Pomegranet pills or flowers are added serveth for an injection into the matrice as well to stay the accesse or flowing of humours and to cure Vlcers thereof as also to bring it to the place being fallen downe and to help stay the abundance of their courses The water distilled from both leaves and roots is a good remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venomous creature and is very good to wash any running sores or Vlcers as also Cancers in the Nose and Polypus which is a Disease in the Nose if the powder of the root be applied afterwards A decoction of the root fastneth the loose teeth and helpeth the sorenesse of the Gums being washed therewith The powder of the root strewed upon any cut or bleeding Wound stayeth the bleeding thereof The powder mixed with a little Oyle of Roses and Wax helpeth the running of the Reins if the back be noynted therewith An Oyntment to hinder Abortion or miscarrying of Women Take Oyle of Roses Oyle of Quinces of each three ounces Cerusse washed in Rose-water halfe an ounce Bistort root and red Corall of each two drams Barbery-seeds a dram of white Wax a sufficient quantity powder those things that are to be powdered and make hereof an Oyntment with which annoynt the back warm morning and evening laying a warm cloth thereon Rondelet meth cur morb cap. 63. fol. 168. Against the Tooth-ach Take Bistort root in powder Pellitory of Spaine burnt Allum in powder of each two drams make it into a paist with Honey Put a little piece thereof into a hollow Tooth or between the Teeth and it will ease the paine thereof and draw away much offensive matter from the head and parts adjacent The Dose The Dose in powder is from a scruple to a dram in decoction from a dram to two drams or three drams Of such things as are made of Bistort 1. The distilled water thereof 2. Diascordium 3. Emplastrum Coe saris 4. Emp. Hystericum Nic. CHAP. XI De Bryonia alba Of White Brionie WHite Brionie is somewhat like unto the common Vine in his leaves and branches but something rougher and whiter The root is sometimes very great long and bitter The Names In Latine Vitis alba Bryonia and Bryonia alba in English Brionie and Tetterberries The Temperament Briony is hot in the second degree and dry in the third The Duration The Root will keep good a year or more if it be gathered in a dry season and carefully dryed The inward use The root of White Briony purgeth strongly Choller Flegme and Water from the Brain Nerves Womb and Joynts it openeth obstructions or stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Womb therefore it avails much in Hystericall fits or fits of the Mother in the Falling Sicknesse Palsie Apoplexie and Vertigo or swimming of the head as also in the Gout or Shortnesse of breath It provokes the courses in Women and cleanseth the Womb provokes Urine and is excellent in the Dropsie for it draweth away water abundantly both by vomit and stoole It dissolveth congealed blood in the body by reason of falls or bruises The root is good against the biting of Vipers or Adders and killeth Worms in the body It is good in the Kings Evill the juice being taken with equall parts of Wine and Honey The foecula or dregs thereof are used for the aforesaid Diseases you may give five or ten grains of it The manner of administring it The root of White Brionie is given in powder in juice in decoction in syrupe and in electuary though every way not pleasing to the palate An Electuary of white Brionie purging the body Take of White Brionie root four ounces Turbith three ounces Agaricke cut in thin slices one ounce Ginger in powder Mastich Lonage seed bruised of each three drams macerate or steep them three dayes in two pints of Aquavitae then boyle them to the consumption of one pint straine it to which add clarified Honey the pulp of Prunes of each a pound Sugar a pound and a halfe Boyle them to the thicknesse of Honey then being cold let these things following be put in Gum Gutta in powder one ounce Diagredium six drams Anni-seed Fennell-seed in powder of each two drams Cloves in powder halfe an ounce mix them well together and make an Electuary The Dose is from halfe an ounce to six drams in white Wine or Posset drink This Electuary is excellent in the Dropsie and Gout Syrupe of Brionie simple Take of the juice of White Brionie-root in May a pound of pure Honey clarified two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe by often scumming it The Compound Syrupe of Brionie Take of the juice of White Brionie-root five ounces Vineger of Squills a pound of the decoction made with Origanum dry Hyssope Lonage Seseleos Cardamomes Stoechados halfe a pound of good Honey two pound boyle them gently to the thicknesse of a syrupe Freitag aur med fol. 355 356. Both these foregoing syrupes are good in the Falling-Sicknesse Swimming of the Head and for Shortnesse of breath An Electuary for an old Cough and shortnesse of breath Take of White Brionie root in powder a dram of clarified Honey three ounces of the Lohoch or Electuary of Fox-Lungs halfe an ounce Spirit of Sulpher eight drops make all into an Electuary Take of it chiefly in the morning and evening as much as a small Nutmeg Against the Pestilence Take of White Brionie-root in powder a dram Diagredium one graine take it in the juice of Celandine and let the party sweat upon it Theod. Dorsten Botanic fol. 52. For such as have broken a Bone Take of the juice of White Brionie-root two drams or three drams of Comfry-water three ounces mingle them together and give it Continue it for a weeks space if need require The externall Vse A decoction of the root or the juice thereof taketh away Freckles or Sun-burning and all kind of Spots and Scarres So doth the Oyle wherein the roots of Brionie hath been boyled It dissolveth black Bloud and blew Marks by reason of bruises or falls and dissolveth new swellings It bringeth to maturity and breaks old Imposthumes It draweth forth splinters and broken bones and helpeth filthy Ulcers and white Flaes that grow up about the roots of the Nailes The leaves fruit and roots doe cleanse old and filthy sores and are good against fretting and running Cankers Gangrenes and Tetters therefore the beâ—ries are usually called by the
make some of it stiffe and put up into the Nose The hurtfull quality It is not safe to give the juice of Damask Roses to women with childe because it provokes their courses and the water also thereof is hurtfull to such as are troubled with the head-ach The dose The leaves and seeds are given from a scruple to two scruples The juice is given from one ounce to two ounces Syrup of Roses laxative is given from one ounce to 3. or 4 ounces The electuary of the juice of Roses is given from two drams to six drams Of those Medicines that are made of Roses The distilled water of Damask red and white Roses Conserve both of Damask and red Roses Sugar of Roses or Sugar-roset Oile chymicall and spirit of Roses Species Aromaticum Rosatum Diarrhodon Abbatis Rosata novella Syrup of Roses solutive Syrup of the juice of Roses Syrup of Roses with Agarick Syrup of Roses solutive with Hellebore Syrup of Roses solutive with Sene. Syrup of red Roses dry Honey of Roses Tincture of Roses Oile of Roses by infusion Ointment of Roses Vineger of Roses Balsam c. CHAP. 151. De Rosmarino of Rosemary The names and temperament IT is called in Latine Rosmarinus Rosmarinum quasi Rosa marina English Rosemary It is hot and dry in the second degree and also of an astringent or binding quality yet of subtil or thin parts it is best for cold and moist seasons for the age flegmatick and rheumatick The duration It will keep good a yeare or two being dryed The inward use It helpeth all cold diseases of the head stomach Liver belly and wombe A decoction thereof in Wine helpeth the cold distillations of the braine into the eyes and the giddinesse or swimming of the braine drowsinesse or dulnesse of the minde and senses like a stupidnesse the dumbe Palsie or losse of speech the Lethargie Apoplexie and Falling Sicknesse it helpeth the paines in the Gums and teeth by rheume falling into them or by putrefaction causing an evill smell from them or a stinking breath it helpeth a weak memory by heating and drying up the cold moistures of the brain and quikening the senses It is a good remedy for windinesse in the stomach or bowels as also the Hypochondriack passion and winde in the spleen It helpeth those that are Liver-growne by opening the stoppings thereof by warming the coldnesse making thin the grossenesse and afterwards binding and strengthening the weaknesse thereof it helpeth dim Eyes and to quicken the sight as also the yellow Jandise and the whites in women and the rising of the Mother if the flowers or leaves be daily taken in decoction or in powder The dried leaves shred small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken help the Cough or Tissick and Consumption by warming and drying the thin rheum which causeth those diseases The Chymicall oile is good for the aforesaid diseases if two or three drops thereof be taken in Beere or other Liquor The flowers and the conserve made thereof doth comfort the braine and heart and is good to expel the contagion of the pestilence If you steep or infuse a few Cloves Mace and Anise-seed in the distilled water of the flowers for certaine dayes and take morning and evening thereof it helpeth a stinking breath and mouth The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder The outward use It helpeth the cold diseases of the head if a decoction thereof be made and the temples and neck bathed therewith The leaves are much used in bathings and made into Ointments or Oiles is singular good to help cold benummed joints sinews or members the herb burned in houses and chambers in time of infection is good to correct the aire in them The Herb is much used in powders and quilts to dry up rheume and to strengthen the wombe The Chymical oil is good for the cold diseases of the braines if the temples nostrils and nape of the neck be anointed therewith An Epitheme for the cold head-ach Take Rose-mary Sage Camomil Melilot Betony and Bryonie-root of each a handfull Boile them in water and with a spnge or soft linen clothes made wet therein apply it hot to the forehead The hurtfull quality It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies The Dose It is gven in powder from a scruple to two scruples Of such Medi ines as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oile Conserve of the flowers Species Dianthos Balsame CHAP. 152. De Rusco of Knee-holme The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruscus Ruscum and Bruscus in English Butchers Broom and Knee-holme It is hot in the second degree and dry in the first with some tenuity or thinnesse of parts It is one of the five opening roots The duration The roots will keep good a yeer or two The inward use A decoction of the roots made in Wine and taken openeth stoppings provoketh urine and amendeth the strong smell thereof helpeth to expel gravel and the Stone Strangury and Womens courses the same also helpeth the yellow Jaundise and the Head-ach and with some Sugar or Honey put thereunto helpeth to bring away flegme and to cleanse the chest of much clammy humours gathered therein The juice of the leaves taken with Sugar helpeth spitting of bloud and cleanseth the wombe The manner of administring it It is given in decoction or in powder A Powder against Winde and gripings of the belly Take the roots of Knee-holme Anise-seed and Fennel-seed of each half an ounce make them in powder and mix therewith half an ounce of Sugar take every morning thereof as much as will lye on a shilling in White Wine or Posset-drink The outward use The juice thereof taketh away the stink of the mouth and Gums being washed therewith and the powder of the root cleanseth Wounds and preventeth a Gangrene being strewed therein The Dose It may be given from half a dram to a dram CHAP. 153. De Ruta of Rue The Names and temperament IT is called in Latine Ruta and Ruta hortensis in English Rue and Herb-grace or Herb of Grace it is hot and dry in the third degree The duration It will keep good a yeer The inward use Rue provoketh urine and womens courses expelleth all venome and poyson and is most excellent in time of the Plague or sicknesse the seed also taken in Wine is an Antidote or Counterpoison against all dangerous Medicines or deadly poisons A decoction made thereof with some dried Dil-leaves and flowers easeth all pains and gripeings in the body The same being drunk helpeth the pains both of the chest and sides as also Coughs hardnesse or difficulty of breathing the inflammations of the Lungs as also the shaking of Agues to take a draught before the fit come It killeth Wormes being boiled in Wine and Honey and taken The juice taken with Wine purgeth women after their deliverance bringeth away the dead childe and after-birth It dryeth up the milk and the
scruple Opium five and twenty graines make all into fine powder and with the Mussilage of gum Tragaâ—anth made in spirit of wine make up little balls and put onâ— into a hollow tooth there to remain an houre The hurtfull quality with the corrective meanes Opium by all is counted a dangerous medicine and the frequent use thereof bringeth Palsies Lethargies trembling of the joynts cold sweats This you must understand of the true Opium for that which is now in use being well prepared is not so dangerous shortnesse of breath and great sleepinesse it doth much stupifie the senses and understanding and often brings death It is dangerous to give it to children women or delicate bodies Opium is corrected with Castor Euphorbium juice of Garlick or Onions also with spirit of wine vineger and sharp juices as with juice of Lemon or Citron others correct it with Breast-milk Almond-milk Butter and oile of Almonds Note that in pains of the head it is not to be used with Saffron because it offends the head but with Nutmeg The Dose The dose is from a grain to two or three but it is rarely given by it self I have known it given to ease the pain of the stone from five grains to fifteen and all in a short time for at the first five graines gave ease and that for some reasonable time then seven or eight so that the dose was increased still Opium is much in use in Asia and Africa so that if they abstain from it they think their life is in danger thereby which wants not admiration as Gartias ab horto saith especially being so narcoticall and stupefactive for such as use it much are still sleepy and drovvsy The dose among them there is from a scruple to fifty grains The Turks and Persians take it to tvvo or three drams and they thinke thereby they are more apt to performe any businesse and especially they are fitter for vvarre Verery and animosity Also Hollerius writes of a Spaniard that in the hot vveather did eat halfe an ounce of it at one time and that vvithout any hurt to the party Holler de morb intern lib. 1. cap. 6. fol. 54. But vvonderfull is that of Gartias ab horto Aromat lib. 1. cap. 4. fol 23. vvho relates of one that for divers dayes together did eat three slices of Opium vvhich did vveigh ten drams and upvvard and although he vvas sleepy and stupid yet very ready to dispute of any thing Opium hath killed many therefore my advice is to let it alone and not to meddle vvith it or else to look that it be vvell prepared Pet. Forestus in his observations mentionss a vvoman that took Opium one day and vvas found dead the next day I shal relate what I have heard of an empericall practitioner who being ill and not taking rest sent to one either Physician or Apothecary for some Opium when the messenger had it the party he had it of said There is too much for once but I hope your Master knows that the messenger brought it home and this emperick it seems took it all and wrote to this effect in a piece of paper I shall sleep so many houres and then wake but forgot to give any notice thereof after he had took it he fell into such a sleep that he was given over for dead laid forth and buried so soon as he was buried his wife thinking to finde some money looking in his chamber found this writing before mentioned whereupon she sent and had the grave digg'd up and the coffin opened where they saw he had turned himself when he waked Of such things as are made of Opium Extract of Opium Laudanum Opiatum Nepenthes Opiatum CHAP. 50. De Opopanace of Opopanax OPopanax is a Gum of a plant called Panax very brown on the outside and yellow within It is taken chiefly from the roots of Panax and not from the stalks The names It is called in Latine and in English Opopanax and Gum Opopanax The temperament Opopanax is hot and dry in the third degree or hot in the third degree and dry in the second The best kinde The best is brown without and white or yellow within bitter and of a sowerish sent and somewhat strong which being dissolved with Wine or Vineger will make it look yellow and not mixed with sticks or drosse but clean Gum. The duration It will keep good five or six years The inward use Opopanax purgeth thick and tough flegme from remote parts as from the brain nerves sensitive parts joynts and breasts therefore it is profitable for any cold disease incident to any of those parts as in the Palsie in debility or weaknesse of the sight old cough shortnesse of breath Sciatica and in other kindes of Gowt It is good for Convulsions and Cramgs as also against winde in the belly Stitches in the side hardnesse of the Spleen Strangury and difficulty in making urine It likewise discusseth the Windinesse Hardnesse and Suffocations of the Mother and bringeth down the courses and brings away also the mola or lump of flesh bred in the Wombe Being drunk with Water and Honey or Wine it helpeth the Itchings and inward soares of the Bladder It expelleth Wormes helpeth the byting of a mad Dog and is good against poysons of other venomous creatures Dissolved in Wine and given it helps the Dropsie and taken in Vineger one houre before the fit commeth it takes away the cold fit of an Ague and especially if you dissolve some of it with the juice of Smallage and Oile of Dill and anoint the ridge of the back therewith It is good after falls and bruises to dissolve any congealed bloud especially in cold bodies and where no Feaver is It is commended against the Falling Sicknesse and it dissolveth Milk coagulated or curdled in the stomach The manner of administring it It is given with Wine Honey or any convenient juice but chiefly in Pills Pils against the Palsie and Convulsion Take of Opopanax Rue Serapinum Pepper of the juice or extract of Lorage Myrrhe of each a dram Powder what is to be powdered and with the juice of Cowslip make a masse or lump of which frame Pils The dose is a dram every second or third night so long as need requireth The externall use Opopanax being dissolved with Vineger and the juice of Smallage and applied it softneth the hardnesse of the spleene and a plaister made thereof dissolveth the Kings evill and hard nodes of the joints as also any plague-sore botch or bile especially if you dissolve it in Vineger and mixe it with a little Leaven and so apply it Being dissolved in a little Vineger and applyed with the pulp of Raisons of the sun it easeth any kinde of Gowt It dissolveth hard tumours of the womb if the mouth be washed with a decoction of Vineger made with Opopanax it easeth the paine of the Teeth or if it be a hollow tooth let it be stopped with a peece of